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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
Fair Play and Common Sense
On Hoover Issue in Georgia.
IT doesn’t take a supporter of Herbert
Hoover to recognize the right of Geor
gia Democrats to vote for him if so they
wish, in the coming Presidential primary.
It takes simply a fair mind and common
sense. Here, for example, is Editor Hugh
Rowe, of the Athens Banner, who declared
for Palmer long before the issue of the peo
ple’s right to an unfettered choice in this
matter was precipitated. Loyal though he
is to his first preference, Mr. Rowe neverthe
less characterizes the action of the rule
makers of the State Executive Committee 'as
"an outrageous piece of petty politics.” The
Committeemen, he explains, are his friends,
for whom he has the warmest personal re
gard, but
‘‘They have made a serious mistake,
and it has done the party no good.
Hoover sentiment is very strong here
(in Athens and Clarke county), and the
people resent the action of the sub
committee. We ought to have a meet
ing of a whole State Executive Commit
tee, and let them hear from a delega
tion of Democrats representing those
who wish to place Hoover’s name upon
the ballot, and decide the question as it
ought to be decided. Although, as I
say, Palmer is my choice, I believe in
_ fair play. If the Democrats of Georgia
wish to choose Hoover as their prefer
ence, let them do it. They are entirely
capable of exercising a sound political
judgment. If they are not, then we
ought never to have any primary or any
election.”
Speaking as he does from the viewpoint
of one who is partisan to another candidate
but impartial where right and justice are
concerned, Mr. Rowe voices a . State-wide
conviction which the Executive Committee,
opt of respect for Democratic principle and
in fairness to the Democratic rank and file,
cannot afford to ignore.
It is highly significant, moreover, that so
traditionally Democratic and rarely cultured
a community as Athens and Clarke county
should be so pronouncedly for Hoover.
Judge Andrew J. Cobb, a scion of one of the
noblest families in Southern history and as
honored a jurist as ever served on the Geor
gia bench; Mr. Harry Hodgson, a business
leader of the highest order of ability; Mr.
Thomas J. Shackleford, distinguished both
as a lawyer and in the realm of affairs; Mr.
Frank Shackleford, his brother, equally well
known and esteemed, and a host of other
citizens of this quality, declare themselves
emphatically for the nomination of Herbert
Hoover by the Democratic party and
keenly resentful of the rule which would rob
them of their rights at the polls.
As in Clarke county, so throughout Geor
gia, the soundest, the strongest, the most
truly representative opinion to be found is
overwhelmingly for the voters right to un
restricted expression. Surely, the State Ex
ecutive Committee will no longer gainsay so
earnest an appeal in so just a cause.
The Massacre at Marash.
THE Turks’ vehement denial of the mas
sacre at Marash and their sugges
tion that a United States commission
be sent over to investigate finds a pat an
swer in the diary of an American relief
worker of unimpeachable character who saw
for himself the incidents in the dispute. Ac
cording ts» this eyewitness, the Rev. C. T.
S. Crathern, of Boston, whose story was re
cently given to the press of this country, ‘‘the
American hospital was Bombarded and as
saulted; the American flag was fired on; an
American orphanage was burned, and the
eighty-five Armenian girls whom it sheltered
after their release from Turkish harems were
in asaacr ed. ”
Turkish officials pictured the Americans
at Marash as ’’drinking their chocolate and
enjoying themselves —all safe, even their
poultry.” But if we are to credit the testi
mony of one of that very company, theirs was
anything but a leisureful or picnic-like ex
perience. Rather, “they were taking care
of refugees, feeding them, nursing the sick
and wounded, giving shelter to tortured fu
gitives who had seen members of their fami
lies massacred before their eyes and in flat
violation of Turkish promises.” In the New
York Times’ summary, from which we have
quoted, it is added:
“The French sent a relief column
which apparently beat off the Turks for
the moment, but was not strong enough
to hold the town. So the retreat began,
and thousands of Armenians followed it.
A thousand of them at the very least
starved to death on the way or died of
exposure in the snowstorms. Armenian
estimates put the dead as high as 15,000
or 20,000; French official figures set the
number at only 5,000.”
Evidently the Turk is the same today that
he was yesterday, and as he will be so long
as he has dominion over defenseless Arme
nians. It is almost unthinkable that the re
sponsible European Governments, admonished
by this latest massacre, will leave the red
handed persecutors in a position to commit
further atrocities.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
New Hampshire Democrats
Choose Hoover for IFinn ere
THE Democrats of New Hampshire
who tramped through snow to elect
Hoover delegates to the San Fran
cisco convention are evidently satisfied with
the Great Doer’s democracy (notwithstand
ing that in that State just as in Georgia he
declined to put on the politicians’ label)
and are evidently convinced, moreover, that
his nomination will be their party’s surest
stroke for victory in the forthcoming Presi
dential campaign.
This in any circumstances would be sig
nificant in a region whose Democrats, fac
ing as they do a most potent Republican op
position, must always be upon their mettle.
In 1912 they carried their State for Mr.
Wilson, polling thirty-four thousand, two
hundred and three votes against the Repub
licans’ thirty-two thousand, nine hundred and
twenty-seven, and the Progressives’ seven
teen thousand, seven hundred and ninety
four. In 1916 they scored again with forty
three thousand, seven hundred and eighty
one votes against the Republicans’ forty
three thousand, seven hundred and twenty
five. Those were famous victories, breaking
an even longer line of defeats for the De
mocracy of the Granite State than for that
of the common country. It was with peculiar
keenness, therefore, that our party colleagues
in New Hampshire considered the needs and
opportunities of the campaign for 1920. They
knew that only the strongest candidate ob
tainable could stand against the powerful and
more than ever determined enemy in their
Commonwealth —the strongest, that is to
say, with all classes of voters, particularly
with the Independents. They knew, further
more, that as New Hampshire was to be
among the earliest States holding Presiden
tial primaries, her verdict would be await
ed with extraordinary interest and would ex
ert, no doubt, extraordinary influence.
But there was still another circumstance
that made these Democrats especially alert
and careful. We mean the candidacy of Gen
eral Leonard Wood, a native pf New Hamp
shire, who was indorsed overwhelmingly by
the Republicans of his home State and who
now bids fair, many observers think, to win
the nomination of the Chicago convention.
Imagine, if you can, Georgia’s having a dis
tinguished and nationally popular son of
Republican affiliation. Imagine his running
foremost among the contestants for that
party’s indorsement for the Presidency.
Imagine, moreover, that the political bal
ance of power in Georgia was so uncertain
that a few thousand or even few hundred
votes might tip the State either f Ol
against Democracy. We Democrats would be
exceedingly cautious about whom we back
ed for our party’s nomination, would we
not 9 This precisely is the situation in New
Hampshire, where in the abundance of their
caution and zeal the Democrats have de
clared for Herbert Hoover.
Nowhere is this sagacious action more
heartily appreciated than among the rank
and file of Democratic Georgians, who are
appealing for the right to cast their ballots
in the April primary as their own judgment
of what is for the party’s and the country’s
best interests directs. Even those who are
not personally or definitely for Hoover are
insisting that as a matter of simple justice
to the voters his name should be allowed on
the ticket. He has not asked this in Geor
gia any more than he asked it in New
Hampshire. But the sense of fair play and
wise policy is just as keen among Democrats
in Georgia as among Democrats m New
Hampshire; wherefore it is urged in this
State, just as in that State it was granted
without question, that citizens be permitted
to vote their choice without interference or
restriction. This is evidenced in the vir
tually' unanimous voice of the State press
and in petitions like that from the repre
sentative Democrats of Savannah, among
them Hon. Pleasant A. Stovall and men who
ordinarily are opposed in politics. In fact
every expression of public sentiment which
has been forthcoming bears witness to the
demand of Georgia Democrats for unfettered
rights in the approaching primary.
From Chairman Flynt’s recent statement
that the Georgia Democratic Executive Com
mittee has no wish to be arbitrary, the peo
ple are encouraged to believe that this J'lght
will be granted them. They ask for nothing
more than justice, and in fairness to itse
the Committee should be content to give
nothing less.
Fair Pay for Our Defenders.
NO ASPECT of the many-sided problem
of natonal defense has been so in
excusably neglected by Congress as
that concerning adequate pay for the of i
cers and men of the napy and the regular
army. Those who give themselves day in
and day out, year after year, to the vital y
important tasks of keeping their country
prepared against war are entitled assuredly
to as fair a standard of compensation as
that prevailing in civilian vocations of a less
exacting and, for the most, less responsible
nature. ,
It scarcely need be said, however, that no
such parity now obtains. While the wage
and salary scale of virtually every line of in
dustrial and commercial employment has
been raised, not once only but several or
many times, in recent years, that of United
States army and navy officers has remained
by comparison well-nigh stationary. We re
fer to officers particularly because, as the
New York World cogently puts it: “They
have devoted years to professional educa
tion, are married, or at an age when they
should marry, and ought, for the good of
the country, to stay long in the service; yet,
unless they have private means, how can
they with the present scale of pay?”
Army and navy officers cannot be made
to order at a moment’s notice any more
than chemists can, or teachers or bankers
or engineers. It is the continuous training
and service, for which they forego civilian
opportunities, that make these officers, and
for that matter the men themselves, invalu
able to the nation when drums of emergency
begin to roll. By every considerattion of
expediency and fairness, therefore, they
should be vouchsafed salaries that will war
rant their remaining with the colors.
IF horn First to Thank for
Our New Animal Husbanryd
OF all the four-footed aristocrats ex
hibited at the recent international
hog and cattle exposition at Chi
cago, none carried off such a number and va
riety of prizes as those from Georgia and
neighboring Southern States. In the so
called “fat” classes alone, in which the South
had relatively few entries, fourteen high
awards were won by the Heretords. Short
horns, Aberdeen-Anguses, Berkshires, Hamp
shires and Duroc-Jerseys from this region.
A remarkable showing is this when wfe re
flect that five or ten years ago, in the larger
part of the South, animal husbandry was
an Infant and weakling industry. Georgia
spent millions upon millions of dollars in
purchases of pork and beef products from
the West. Such hogs as we had were mostly
the pioneer “razorbacks,” and such cattle
as were lucky enough to escape the tick had.
as a rule, no ancestry to boast of and little
pride of posterity.
That these conditions have been so speed-
MR. HURST AND THE COONTIE BERRY —By Frederic J. Haskin
MIAMI, Fla., March 7. —A few miles
from this town is a factory which is
said to be the only one of its Kind
in the world. It makes a high grade ot
starch out of a common weed which grows
all over the country and in every vacant
lot in the town, and which was long re
garded by most people not merely as use
less, but as a positive pest.
This factory is owned by one man, who
invented his own process, built a large part
of his own machinery, and does a large
part of his own work. He has perhaps the
most absolute monopoly in a monopoly-rid
den republic. He maintains his monopoly
by keeping his process of manufacture an
absolute secret. He will tell you anything
about himself and his factory, except how
it works. His name is A. B. Hurst, and he
is a big, gray-haired man, very good-natured
and having more fun with his little factory
than a boy with a new sled. •
The coontie berry, sometimes known as
the comte berry, upon which Mr. Hurst has
founded his fortune, is a small shrub, us
ually less than a foot high and decorated
with large bright red berries, having very
tough skins. If you pull up this plant, you
are surprised to find that it has a very large
root, resembling a sweet potato and seeming
out of all proportion to the size of the plant.
The scientific name of this plant is Zamia
Floridana, and it is a species of arrowroot.
It grows literally all over the sandy pine
barrens of the east coast of Florida. You
can walk ten set from the road anywhere
and find a specimen. Mr. Hurst has an enor
mous supply of raw material to draw upon,
and he gets it for next to nothing. He pays
farmers’ a very small sum for the right to
cart away the coonties on their lands. Starch
is made from a similar plant which is cul
tivated in the West Indies, but as far as
could be learned, Hurst is the only man who
has made a success of utilizing the wild
one.
This coontie is very well, or rather badly
known to the natives, because it is the nat
ural enemy of the turkey. When the white
men first moved into these parts, they were
surprised to discover that there were no
wild turkeys on the east coast, although the
interior and the west coast country were
full of them. The reason for this they dis
covered when they introduced domestic tur
keys. A domestic turkey would get along
fine until he came to his first coontie plant,
which would necessarily be soon after his
arrival. H ewould then pause and scru
tinize those bright red berries with a glad
dened eye. He would seem to feel sure that
they were food of a very desirable sort.
In just a few minutes he would have filled
his crop with the big, luscious-looking fruit,
and for a time thereafter he would enjoy
a sense of personal well-being and content-
THE DUCTLESS GLANDS
By H. Addington Bruce
MORE and more the attention of the med
ical world is being turned to the action of
the thyroid, adrenal, and other gland
of internal secretion. Steadily the belief is
growing that in them lies the key to many un
solved problems of health and disease.
Certainly a number of old-time difficulties
and perplexities of medicine have already been
wholly or partly cleared by research into the
workings and influence of the ductless glands.
Thus, the discovery that cretinism is asso
ciated with a deficiency in thyroid secretion
has had important practical consequences.
In cretinism there is subnormal mental and
bodily development. Also there is abnormal
development. Cretins are not merely dwarfish,
but they tend to have unwieldy bodies and
heads disproportionately large.
Nothing could be done for them in former
times. Today remarkable curative results, men
tal and physical, are reported as following the
administration of extract of the thyroid gland
of animals.
Which has given rise to a suspicion that fee
ble-mindedness other than that found in cre
tinism may in many instances be the product
of some glandular disorder.
Proof or disproof of this awaits further re
search. Similarly with the theory that glandular
disturbances may be responsible, at least in part,
for the mental diseases paranoia and dementia
There’’ seems to be no doubt, however, that
such disturbances often contribute to the devel
opment of epilepsy. Marked improvement in a
number of epileptics has been recorded as a
sequel to treatment with glandular extracts..
Improvement amounting to a positive cure is
likewise attributed to glandular extract treat
ment in numerous cases labelled “neurasthenia.
Ivo Geike Cobb, the English specialist, says:
“Adrenal extract often is of great benefit to
those patients who are weakly, debilitated, with
a low blood pressure and constant fatigue.
And when it is a question not of raising the
blood pressure but of lowering it, as in arterio
sclerosis, thyroid extract has been found “ e *V"
ful. Thyroid, again, has a distinct usefulness
in promoting convalescence and “fattening up
patients —“if used in minimal doses,” as one
physician warningly remarks.
Further than this, general benefits to heath
have so frequently been observed in glandular
extract treatment that some enthusiasts are ad
vocating it as a means of postponing old age.
“We are only beginning to realize, exclaims
Bcdley Scott, “how much senility depends on
internal gland insufficiency.” And Cobb af
firms j
“Even the organic changes which we are
accustomed to regard as inseparable from mid
dle and old age may be remedied or averted
by the employment of organic extracts.
“By their prompt use there can be small
doubt that many derangements may be righted
before they can become diseases.
May future medical developments bear out
this' hopeful view! . ± J WT .
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspapers.)
ily transformed bears striking witness, first
of all, to the South’s wealth of resources
for livestock raising. Only a land rarely en
dowed by nature could have progressed in
less than a decade from one of the most
backward to one of the most advanced of
America’s hog and cattle producers. But
there is something behind this impressive
record other than a long grazing season and
a bounty of native forage crops. There is
something more also than proximity to the
country’s great consuming centers and some
thing more than superior transportation fa
cilities. There is an aroused and efficiently
directed interest in the minds of thousands
of farmers who aforetime gave almost no
heed to the wonderful opportunities for ani
mal husbandry lying about them.
It is largely our educational institutions
and agencies that we have to tnank for
this aroused and ever increasing interest.
Theirs was the trail-blazer’s stride and the
kindling touch. Back in the days when it
seemed virtually impossible to break the fet
ters of an all-cotton system of agriculture
and when advocates of diversification were
looked upon as well intentioned but unprac
tical theorists, the colleges and commissions
and pioneers kept working for the larger
and sounder plan. The goodly change now
manifest, together with the prosperity which
has come and the still richer store that lies
ahead, is attributable in the first instance
to those who had the vision to plea! the
new cause when it was so poorly appre
ciated and to those who had the sagacity
then to practic’e it.
ment. But this would not last long, for he
would soon begin to weaken.
Not that the coonties poisoned him. Ac
cording to the most reliable accounts, the
whole trouble with them is that their outer
integument is capable of resisting all the
mechanical and chemical agents which a
turkey’s gizzard can bring to bear upon them.
They do not aford the bird any more nour
ishment than so many marbles. They oc
cupy the bunker space, but do not deliver
the fuel value. After a few days, the turkey
who has eaten coonties dies of starvation
and disappointment.
Mr. Hurst is, therefore, not only making
use of a hitherto useless plant, but he is
avenging the turkey, and making the east
coast of Florida safe for him.
Mr. Hurst used to be an orange-grower,
but he lost heavily in the great freeze in
1894, and resolved there and then, as he
put it, “to go into some business that didn’t
depend on the weather.”
He got interested in making starch by
working for a company which was trying
to manufacture it out of the West Indian
Cassava. While so engaged he saw a speci
men of the root of the coontie, and realized
that here was a rich and abundant source
of starch, if only away Could be found of
getting at it. He went to work at finding
this way. The way proved much longer and
harder to find than anyone would have be
lieved possible. There was an abundance of
starch in the coontie, to be sure, but there
were also a great many other things. The
difficulty was to make a starch free of all
impurities on a commercial scale. And Mr.
Hurst took no chemists or engineers into his
confidence and formed no connection of any
kind. His was the cautious, secretive meth
od of the countryman. He intended to work
the thing out for himself and to be sole
owner when he succeeded. He spent all of
his own money and borrowed all the money
he could. He invented machines that no
body would try to make, and he made them
himself. He scored failure after failure.
But he had the creative mind and the single
ness of purpose that goes with it. The mak
ing of starch out of coontie berries became
the one object of his existence. Finally, after
he had worked more than twelve years, and
spent $93,000, mostly borrowed, he had the
satisfaction of seeing a perfect yellow starch,
almost impalpably fine of grain and pro
nounced by government chemists as abso
lutely pure. He now produces three thou
sand pounds a day and all of it is bought
in advance at a very good price by one of
the great biscuit companies. They use it in
certain products to which they wish to im
part special keeping qualities. Mr. Hurst
expects soon to take out a trade-mark and
to put his product on the market in little
packages for household consumption.
WHAT IS A GINK?
By Dr. Frank Crane
There are terms in all languages for stu
pid, dull people and for egotists, terms us
ually borrowed from the lower animals, as
donkey, goose, owl, pig, mutton head, and
the like; but for the peculiar combination of
cantankerousness and cussedness found in
the kind of people I have in mind there is
no word; so we have to invent. Hence, Gink.
It, is absurd, irritating, impossible; conse
quently it is suitable.
A Gink is a person who does not consider
human values. Anything weighs more with
such a one than being obliging. A Gink
is often poliie; then he is meanest. To
him a rule, or a custom, or number, or any
dead thing is of more value than a human
being.
Keep track of the Ginks of all kinds you
meet during the day, adn then make a cal
culation of the enormous human energy con
sumed by encountering these clods on the so
cial and business highway.
The janitor will not sweep up the litter
on the back porchway, which you made by
opening a box that came today, because this
is Saturday, and he only sweeps Fridays.
Then there’s the business man who keeps
you waiting fifteen minutes while he finish
es his cigar, so that you will think he is
rushed with important affairs.
And don’t overlook the physician who is
discussing baseball in his private office with
an acquaintance while half a dogen suffer
ing patients are sitting funerally in his wait
ing room. But when you most desire to
brain the said physician is the time when he
stands around and quibbles over a point ot
professional etiquette or “ethics of the pro
fession” while your child is sick unto death
in the other rooin.
To the Ancient and Dishonorable Order of
Ginks belong also the officers of institutions
who observed all kinds of red tape while
people are in need or in peril.
Some day you want a check cashed in a
hurry. You go to the bank, stand in line at
the paying teller’s window, and finally in
your turn present your paper. The teller
looks at it. ' Then some clerk in thb next
cage speaks to him. He goes away and con
verses pleasantly with his fellow clerk while
you wait on pins and needles. When he is
done talking he returns, and after inspecting
his finger nails slowly counts you out your
money.
A woman of my acqauintance, my wife,
to be exact, once woke one of these Bank
Ginks up. She had received her money ?J»d
stepped aside. Counting it she saw that the
Clerk had made an error.
“Excuse me,” she said, “you made a mis
take in giving me my money, .
“You’ll have to fall in line, ma’am,” said
a policeman.
And the Icerk said, “We never rectify
mistakes after the money has been taken
from the window.”
“Very well,” was her reply. “Only you
gave me $lO too much!”
That was different. Clerk Gink and
Policeman Gink immediately climbed down
from their high perches and became human
and courteous. They allowed her, kindly,
to rectify the error.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS
Mexico will expel Jenkins, says a head
line, Lucky Dog!—Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch.
The treaty is only a year old, but it has
already lost its teeth. —Philadelphia North
American.
The phrase “it goes without saying” was
not coined for congressional use.—Nashville
Tennessean.
Chairman Hays says Republican financing
this year is to be “an open book.” Pocket,
check, or both?—Greenville Piedmont.
The vision of Little Mary weeping in a di
vorce court is in truth a moving picture.—-
Chicago Post.
The Turks are masacreing Armenians
again, which indicates a gradual return to the
pursuits of peace.—Columbia Record.
A Maine girl has been left SIOO,OOO by a
newspaper man to whom she was kind.
Moral: Be kind to newspaper men.—Sioux
City Tribune.
A new Chicago paper announces that it is
going to publish no crime or scandal. W’on’t
it print any local news at all?—Lansing State
Journal. ‘
SATURDAY, I.LAIA 11 U, HLI3.
THE TRI-WEEKLY EDITORIAL DIGEST
A National and Non-Partisan Summary of Leading Press Opinion on Current
Questions and Events
How Government Peters Out
The distemper that is doing this country
more harm than all its other afflictions put
together is besotted partisanship. Except in
public life, men consider and usaully agree
upon matters of the ufmost importance with
out giving a thought to political associa
tions. In congress a committee made up of
three Republicans and two Democrats may
be depended upon to divide three to two on
the simplest proposition.
We had a painful example of this the
other day in the reports on the aviation
service. Now the senate naval sub-commit
tea gives us a dreary repetition ot it in its
findings on the war medal controversy. We
shall have the same thing, no doubt, from
the scores of investigations that have been
in progress for months past. Where party
ism is uppermost, facts are as hopelessly in
dispute as conclusions.
This is the disease that is paralyzing gov
ernment at a time when there is desperate
need not only of good citizenship and wise
statesmanship, but of common sense and
common honesty. It is holding up the peace.
It is delaying reconstruction. It is prevent
ing the reform and reduction of expenditure
and taxation. It is exposing our industry
and commerce to serious perils. On the ques
tion of what is black and what is white our
legislators vote three to two with the ex
pectation that the issue will finally be set
tled at the presidential election.
No great nation can prosper or progress
under such a system. Somewhere and some
how men must be found who will be at least
ordinarily intelligent and at least commonly
self-reliant. Representative government
which is so fixed and hardened in partisan
ship as to be incapable of decision, incapable
even of agreement on any subset, is no gov
ernment at aII.—NEW YORK WORLD
(Dem.)
The Supreme Court’s Protection of Property
What the supreme court has decided in
holding that it is unconstitutional to tax
stock dividends is simply that if a man owns
a dollar bill and splits it into two silver half
dollars or into four quarters or into ten
dimes, or divides it as many times as you
please, he has not a penny more and not a
penny less than when it was in the single
dollar bill.
Stock promoters and gamblers have made
the mistake themselves or have led gullible
investors into the mistake of thinking you
could multiply the value of a property by
multiplying the certificates of stock covering
that property. But no clear brain, whether
on the supreme court or anywhere else, ever
made such a mistake of reason and of fact.
You might as well say that you could in
crease the value of a property by changing
the color of the ink in which the stock cer
tificates were printed. The late James J.
Hill, in fact, said after the Northern Securi
ties decision that it couldn’t make any dif
ference to the stockholders, as to what they
really owned, whether the supreme court
told them they must have five yellow tickets
worth two green tickets or two green tick
ets worth one red ticket representing exact
ly one and the same thing.
If a stockholder with one share of stock
in a company holds a one-thousandth part
of all the plant, equipment, cash, good will
and other assets of that company he will own
exactly the same proportion, and therefore
exactly the same value, of that property,
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
The famous Moulin Radet, one of the two
remaining wind, mills which for centuries
have crowned the Montmartre in Paris, is
to be removed to make room for the con
struction of new houses. As this will inevi
tably ruin the picturesque spot, from the
artist’s standpoint, the painters are in de
spair, and lovers of old Paris are endeavoring
to get the authorities to consent to the mill
being moved to another site instead of being
pulled down.
In the seventeenth century the hillside and
top of Montmortre were covered with wind
mills. The number finally dwindled to two,
the Moulin de-la Galette and the Moulin
Radet. For many generations the artists of
all countries have sought out the Montmar
tre for the purpose of reproducing these mills
on canvas. The section was a favorite one
with American tourists and artists.
Field Marshal von Hindenburg's candi
dacy for the presidency of Germany is
strongly urged in an appeal that has been
issued in Berlin.
The appeal, according to the Morgen Pos*,
is the outcome of an agreement between the
German Nationalist party and the People’s
party.
The Lokal Anzeiger states it has knowl
edge that the field marshal would accept
a nomination.
William Bross Lloyd, of Chicago, million
aire sergeant-at-arms of the Communist
Labor party, and fifteen other Communists
must stand trial on indictments recently re
turned charging them with conspiracy to over
throw the government by force. Judge Oscar
Hebei denied a motion to squash the in
dictments.
K Thirty women of Evansville, Ind., are In
cluded in the group of deputies appointed
by Noah Riggs, township assessor of Pigeon
township, who sarted recently to take this
year’s assessment. . It is the first time in
the history of Vanderburg county that wom
en have been employed in this kind of work.
A dispatch from Constantinople states that
all Americans in Aintab, where disorders oc
curred early in February, were safe on Feb
ruary 15, according to a courier, who has ar
rived from Asia Minor. The situation in Ain
tab has become quiet and Armenians and
Moslems have retired to their own quarters.
The American commission for relief - in the
Near East has reestablished communication
with Marash, and is sending in supplies. No
arrests have been made so far as a result
of the murder on February 4 near Aintab of
James Perry and Frank Johnson, American
Y, M. C. A. men.
Switzerland’s record for charity since the
war is a subject upon which newspapers in
Geneva comment with much pride, the belief
being expressed that was a great effort
for so small a nation.
Since the armistice was signed Switzerland
has sent out 250 carloads of food, clothing
and medicine, costing 3,500,000 francs, this sum
being raised by voluntary subscription.
Each month there is an average of 43,000
children, mostly from Vienna, Budapest and
Berlin, in Swiss hospitals.
According to a report from Washington,
D. C., assiment of General Tasker H. Bliss
as governor of the United States Soldiers’
home here, effective April 30, to succeed
Lieutenant General S. B. M. Young, has been
approved by Secretary Baker. It is the cus
tom, it was said qt the war department,
to assign the senior retired officer to this
duty.
whether his and everybody else’s shares are
multiplied by two or divided by two —it
doesn’t make a particle of difference which.
—THE SUN AND NEW YORK HERALD
(Ind.)
There is . now a pretty kettle’ of fish to
cook. There are, of course, millions of taxes
to be refunded, but that may not iet the
treasury out. Some have sold their stock
dividends to pay their tax, and may ha.va in
curred a loss for which they may think
treasury should be held. The treasury may,
perhaps, recoup by re-examining the accounts
when the tax is refunded, and asking for a
profits tax instead of an income tax. There
is a multiplicity of cases arising under the
dates when stock dividends were earned, or
declared, or realized by sale of the stock
dividends, and into that morass the boldest ,
will not venture without the guidance of the
court. Guidance by the treasury or congress
is discredited as to two statutes, and there
are more existing and to be enacted.—NEW
YORK TIMES (Ind. Dem.)
The Secret Treaties
In the Shantung case Mr. Wilson recog
nized the vaidity of a secret treaty. In the
Fiume case he asserts that he is standing
out against the validity of another secret
treaty, as a matter of principle. But Great
Britain, France and Italy are aware that the
American argument as to secret treaties was
definitely abandoned when Japan was al
lowed to succee'd to German rights in Shan
tung.
It would be better for all concerned If it
were admitted that Italy acquired concrete
rights under the treaty of London, and that
these rights have to be taken into account
in the Adriatic settlement. The dispute over
Fiume has been aggravated by poor diplo
macy. Nothing of vast importance is at stake
in the haggling over Italian-Jugoslav claims
which should long ago have been compro
mised, but which have been allowed to dis
rupt allied unity and to delay the peace which
Europe so much needs.—NEW YORK TRIB
UNE (Rep.)
Demobolizing the Payroll
Washington at last reports progress toward
the demobilization of the army of govern
ment employes hanging on since the war.
The high record in the capital was 117,000,
compared with 37,000 before the war. It is
now down to 102,000 and as a result of the
slashing of appropriations by congress 40,000
more will be out of the government service
by July 1. Even then the payroll at Wash
ington will be nearly twice the number be
fore the war, but some of these are held by
closing up war work and others have been
added by new peace-time creations.
The country is to be congratulated on the
fact that congress has reached the point of
not only refusing to increase the number of
jobs, but actually to make a good beginning
toward bringing the federal service back to
something near its pre-war status. With the
emergencies arising out of the war ended,
there is no good reason why there should not
be an approximate return to the normal gov
ernment expenses before 1916. When it is
figured that the government bill on the con
trary is three and a half times what it was
in 1916, excluding the sinking fund aud in
terest on our war debt, there seems to be
room for a great deal more retrenchment
and reform. The billion dollar reduction in
expenditures promised by Chairman Mondell
is not too much to ask.—PITTSBURG DIS- I
PATCH (Ind.)
One of the most interesting institutions of
learning on this continent King's college,
Windsor, Nova Scotia, suffered a short while
ago by fire the destruction of its historic
buildings, the financial loss being estimated
at $200,000. This institution has held an
honored place both educationally and histor
ically. It is the oldest colonial university in
the British Empire, and its traditions and
customs are patterned closely after Oxford.
It is not a theological school, but a univer
sity with the usual faculties and with its
courses open to all. The loss of the build
ings is a staggering blow. ,
Latest dispatch from Paris states that a
formal call has been issued by the Allied Su
preme Council for an extraordinary meeting
of the Executive Council of the League of
Nations to be held at Paris this week when
the question of sending an investigating
committee to Russia under the control of
the league will be considered. A London
dispatch says-the commission, which it is ex
pected the League of Nations’ Executive
Council will decide tq send Russia, will con*-
sist of ten members, it is 1 understood.
France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and Bel
gium will supply five members, each select
ing its own representative. The council will
decide which of the smaller nations shall be
represented by the commission.
Acting on an appeal by Arthur J. Balfour
as president of the Council of the League of
Nations, the board of governors of the League
of Red Cross Societies, in session at Geneva,
passed resolutions declaring for extension of
voluntary relief work among starving and
diseased populations of Central and Eastern
Europe provided essentials of food, clothing
and transportation be previously assured
these people through governmental action.
The resolution, which was introduced by
Henry P. Davison on behalf of the board of
governors of the league, read as follows:
“We, the delegates forming the general
council of the league, assembled in confer- *
ence, fully conscious of the unparalleled dis
tress in stricken districts of the world ahd im
perative need of immediate and comprehen
sive action, declare ourselves in full sympathy
and accord with the suggestion made by Mr.
Balfour.
“Therefore, be it resolved, that, on assur
ance from the League of Nations that food,
clothing and transportation will be supplied
by the government, the League of Red Cross
Societies shall at once formulate plans for im
mediate extension of voluntary relief within %
affected districts and shall appeal to the peo
ple of the world through the Red Cross or
ganizations for doctors, nurses, other neces
sary personnel, medical supplies and such
money as may in their judgment be required
for operation, calling upon the various coun
tries through Red Cross organizations.”
The Chamberlain hotel, situated on gov
ernment property at Fortress Monroe, Old
Point Comfort, Va., was destroyed by fire a
few days ago. The fire started on the ground
floor and the flames spread so rapidly that
inside of two hours the structure was a
mass of ruins. The loss of the Chamberlain
hotel, known to tourists from all parts of the
world, and where many brilliant social tunc
tions were given in honor of army and navy
people, will be greatly deplored. It was
valued at $2,000,000.
Mrs. Pothuis Smit, a Socialist, will be the
first woman member of the upper house of
the Dutch parliament, having been elected to
that office by the North Holland provincial
legislature at Haarlem recently. Mrs. Smit
defeated the only male candidate by a mar*
gin of two votes. Women have for some
time held seats in the second chamber.