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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six mopths 75c Four months . 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (Bv Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wlt.l Mo. 3 Moe. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 ?®.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7e 30c .90 1.75 3.25 . The Tri-Weekly Journal is published i on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free.. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall, Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac- Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should b e sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to 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.