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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 monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday > (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 AVk.l Mo. 3 Mos. C Mos. 1 Yr. Baity and Sunday2oc 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Baity 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published 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. 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Putting Georgia Democracy In a Ridiculous Position J F there is any significance in the fact that j a H the Democratic constituenceis which thus far have voiced a preference con ce-.-ning the Presidential nomination, either through primaries or in the appointment cf delegates, are pronouncedly for Herbert Hoover, then he is far and away the likeliest prospect now on the horizon of the San Fran •c:co convention. The Democrats of New Hampshire, casting about with unusual care for the strongest securable candidate to pit against General Leonard Wood, a native of their state and a probable Republican nominee, voted overwhelming l.v for Hoover. The Democrats of Cal ifcrnia. appreciating the peculiar exi gencies of the coming campaign and seeing that Hiram Johnson, a native Californian, might be on the Republican ticket, likewise have united upon Hoover as the one man who, in their opinion, can lead the party to victory. The Democrats of lowa, realizing that only a nominee capable of carrying the : independent vote can win either in that re- I gion or in the country at large, have selected , Hoover as pre-eminently qualified. In New Hampshire the choice was made directly at ! the polls. In California and lowa the dele- 1 gates, though not under explicit instructions, I are avowedly for Hoover as • the undeniable preference of the voters whom they repre- i sent. So stands the record for the Demo- | cratic rank and file who thus far have been given the right and the opportunity of de claring their will, without hindrance or dicta tion. on this most vital question of the partv’s affairs. . Who. then, can maintain that, the Demo crats of Georgia are not entitled to vote, in their approaching primary, on this man who i obviously leads in Democratic the people have spoken and who certainlyl will figure as a major force in the San Fran cisco convention? Professional politicians, ' more interested in manipulating party ma chinery than in ascertaining and executing party sentiment, may as they will Mr. Hoover’s steadfast refusal to bandy and barter with them. But they cannot in reason or jus tice deny the voter’s right to free expression. They can offer no tenable excuse for a rule which says to Democratic Georgians, “You shall vote upon only such names as we see J fit to place on the ballot; you shall not vote on Herbert Hoover, no matter what convic tions you hold or what petitions you make.” That position is not only the height of unfairness, but the height of absurdity as well. Here is the most typical American of his day, a national figure and a world figure, the one name that has evoked substantial enthusiasm as a Democratic suggestion for the Presidency, the one name that has mus tered a following from the rank and file and j given promise of notable strength in the na- i tional Democratic convention. This great minded, great-hearted American whose every ■ utterance on current issues rings true to the | principles of Jefferson and whose life itself i bears eloquent witness to his democratic . spirit; this unpretentious but wonderfully ■ able doer of big deeds, who seeks no office I but is sought after by thoughtful voters ■ throughout the Union; this abhorrer of what I is either reactionary or radical and upholder j of all that is liberal; this man of the hour, ! who is good enough a Democrat, not only for the party in New Hampshire and California and lowa, but for thousands of Georgians as well, Georgians of as discriminating a , political judgment as Judge Andrew J. Cobb i and representing all regions of the Common-' wealth from the mountains to the coast—he it is whose name the rule-makers of the State Democratic Executive committee presume to say the people of Georgia have no right to vote on. Such a position, we say, is preposterous. It 1 amounts to ignoring and denying, not only the plainest rights ot the voter, but also the plainest facts of the Democratic situation. It puts the Georgia division of the party in the ridiculous attitude of overlooking the only nomination prospect which has aroused in terest in the country at large, and the one which, as matters now trend, is most likely to materialize into a convention choice. Our State Executive Committee cannot plead in justification that Mr. Hoover would not avow to them that he was a Democrat. He has stone no more and no less in the case of Georgia than in the case of New Hampshire, California, lowa and every other State where the question has been broached. Repeatedly he has declared that he is not seeking the nomination, and that, therefore, he will have nothing to do with his name being entered in preferential primaries. But just as per sistently, nevertheless, the nomination ke’eps seeking him, and wherever Democratic voters b»ve been consulted so far, they have de clared unmistakably for HooVer. Politicians who for purposes of their own are bent upon eliminating him in spite of the popular will, have sought to create the impression that while he would not sanction the use of his name oh. the Democratic bal lot in California, he consented to its use on the Republican ballot. There was never a shred of truth to this piece of gossip, but to set it permanently at fest, Mr. Hoover, in an interview with The Journal’s Washington correspondent, has issued an explicit denial, in the course of which he says: “I have not authorized the Republi cans of California to use my name on THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. their ballot. I have told both the Demcr crats and Republicans of that State that I was not a candidate for President. I have used almost every negative expres sion in the English language trying to i make this plain in California and every where else. Should I authorize my name on any ballot, naturally I would become a candidate, and I am not a candidate in either party. Some of my Republi can friends in California informed me they desired to run me. Some of my Democratic triends did the same thing. I wrote a letter to a Democratic friend, telling him I would not enter that party's primary, and 1 told a Republican who came to see me that I would not enter the Republican primary. lam informed that certain Republicans in California want to place me on the ballot anyway. But if my name goes on anywhere it will not be with my authorization. It will be because I cannot help it.” Nothing could be franker or more consis tent than Mr. Hoover’s attitude, and noth ing could be plainer than the wish and the right of Georgia Democracy to pass upon him in the coming primary. The very fact that with all his ability and prestige and i readiness to render public service, he will not enter upon a course of self-seeking to obtain public office, commends him to a na tion that is weary of political selfishness and intrigue. It is obvious, moreover, that where as his well-known convictions preclude his nomination on a Republican ticket, his whole hearted support could be counted upon for a platform of genuine democracy shaped to the great issues and great needs of the day. He urged the election of a Democratic Con gress in 1918, and assuredly he would bear aloft a Democratic standard in this equally crucial year of 19 20 should it be committed to him. The people of Georgia see all this as clearly as do their party colleagues in New Hampshire or California. They see that it is not a question of Mr. Hoover’s indiffei ence to political preferment, but a question of their own earnest desire for a Presidential nominee who will make the party a winner at the polls and a worthy instrument of na tional service. Above all do they see that they are entitled to vote their conviction re gardless of the prejudices of seven iule niakers. It is the public’s demand that tle State Executive Committee revoke the arbi trary restrictions which a Sl jb-section of its members has thrown around the Geoigia bal 10t an insistent demand and an inescapable duty. Making Smoke Into Treasure. THE more and more urgent problem of fuel conservation can be solved to a great extent, thinks Interstate Commerce Commissioner Robert W. Wool ley, by coking raw bituminous coal, utilizing the sundry by-products and burning the resi due in furnaces and stoves. Writing in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Mr. Woolley supports this opinion with an interesting array of facts gathered in the course of his notable researches into the matter of fuel economy as one of the important questions of trans portation during the war. It appears at the outset that the coking process, if generally adopted, would increase the available coal supply forty or fifty per cent, “through the use of low grade ores, now regarded as of negligible value.” Gains of this nature could be augmented still further, it seems, by mixing, the immense culm banks, hitherto regarded as sheer waste, with vola tile coals of the anthracfte region and cok ing the combination at the banks or mines near Northern and Eastern industrial cen ters. Specially striking is the estimate, based upon figures carefully collated for the Smith sonian Institution, that if the entire annual output of bituminous coal, worth ordinarily about $2,142,000,000, were coked, the re sultant would be: $2,062,866,41)0 worth of coke, $3,213,000,000 worth of by-products, and a saving of some three and a half bil lion dollars’ worth of natural resources which, under present methods, are wasted or lost. As to the particulars of this far reaching conservation we are told; The an nual gasoline supply would be increased 4.8,- 624,110 barrels, or nearly twice our total production for 1917. The total gas supply would be increased 3,672,000,000,000 cubic feet, worth $367,200,000, which could be piped for consumption. Through recovery of light oils and twelve gallons of tar per ton of coal, 7,344,000,000 gallons annually, worth $3 67,200,000, we should become the leading dye and chemical producers of the world. The 18,360,000,000 pounds of ammonia sulphate -—thirty pounds per ton of coal—produced annually would so augment our fertilizer supply as to increase vastly our agricultural production. Production of toluol would be greatly increased. I-inally, by extracting all these treasures from the coal before turning it over to the consumer, the smoke nuisance, that evil genie of the American city, would be made forever captive. Imagine the delectableness of a smokeless Atlanta! This alone is ample to commend Commissioner Woolley’s idea. The Bible Confer 'ence. ONE of the most important Bible con fei ences in the history of the south m . Will begin in Atlanta, Thursday, March 18, at the Baptist Tabernacle, and will continue until March 28. Among the religious leaders in attendance will be Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, of London, who aroused deep interest in Atlanta on pre vious visits here to attend sessions of the conference which were held yearly at the Tabernacle until their interruption by the war. Dr. Len G. Broughton, while pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle, established the annual Bible conferences as a permanent part of the cnurcn. program. His plan, in which he met with entire success, was to bring here each year leading Bible students of this country and of England for a series of lectures which w’ould extend over a week or ten days. The yearly conferences had become thoroughly established when the war made it necessary to abandon them in order that the church might give its full support to necessary war measures. A year ago, however, the Rev. John W. Ham resumed the plan of a yearly Bible con ference, and this year has arranged for six sessions daily throughout the conference, with six Bible leaders of national reputation in at tendance. In addition to Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, the speakers will include: Dr. W. M. Evans, of Los Angeles; Dr. George W. McPherson, of New York; Dr. Jasper C. Mas see. of Brooklyn; Dr. John Paul, of Wilmore, Ky., and Dr. Len G. Broughton, formerly pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle, and now of Knoxville, Tenn. The conference will draw to Atlanta peo ple from all parts of the south, and will fur nish an opportunity for Bible study such as the city has seldom enjoyed. No slacker charge could be brought against the French during the war and none can be brought now, for the cable dispatches say they are even “eager to pay taxes.”—Cheyenne State Leader. TAMING THE EVERGLADES—By Frederic J. Haskin. PALM BEACH, Fla., March B.—Crossing the everglades used to be a thrilling and dangerous adventure; now any tourist can do it in two days on a comfortable boat. The glades used to produce nothing but alli gators and magazine stories; now they are producing sugar cane, corn and garden truck. This means that one of the last great Amer ican wildernesses is about to be tamed. True, only a small fraction of its area, which is about the same as that of Connecticut, has been made habitable for men. Fifteen thousand acres is an estimate of the area now under cultivation, and about three thousand people live in the Ever glades. including two thousand in Morehaven, the glade metropolis. But the drainage canals' which are to pierce the watery heart of the great swamp are almost completed. The wateri is receding steadily, the area of farm land creeping farther in. There is a part of the glades, perhaps a fifth of the whole area in the far southern end, which will probably never be drained because it is too low. This will remain as a memento of what the glades were, and it should by all means be made into! a state or national reservation. For the glades as a whole are doomed. The glades are certainly one of the most stubborn and resistant wildernesses on the face; of the earth. Within thirty-six hours of New York by rail, surrounded for a long time by, populous and cultivated territory, with some; of the most fashionable resorts in the United States within a few miles, the Everglades have: remained almost unexplored until quite recent-j ly, and even now there are parts of them that no white man has ever seen. A seeker after contrast could hardly do better than to spend a day or so at Palm Beach in one of the most luxuriously civilized settings in the United States, and then go ten miles west, into the wilderness of the saw grass and palmetto, where bear, deer and alligators still abound. Hunters, fishermen, Indians, explorers and naturalists have traversed the glades for a good many years without in any way changing them, but now an individual has invaded their sacred, silences who brings change in his wake. This individual is the Florida Real Estate Man, than whom there is no more belligerent, imaginative and indomitable representative of his übiquitous species. A Florida real estate agent can sell you a pile of sand or a puddle of water with out half trying. He can take you out and show you some of the wildest and dreariest Spots in i creation, and by the sheer power of the spoken; word he can make you see that same desert; blooming with orange blossoms and green with; corn. When traveling in Florida it is always; well to keep the fingers crossed and make a resolution not to sign anything. But the real estate man is not supreme in the glades. Os its drainable lands there are about two million acres in private ownership, but nearly a million and a half are still owned by the state of Florida. The state is doing: the work of cutting the primary drainage canals,: and a settler can buy land direct from the state. To understand this work of drainage you must know .that the glades are not a swamp in the usual sense of the term. They consist of a great shallow limestone basin Wevated a dozen feet above the sea. This basin is filled with clean fresh potable water by innumerable springs in its bottom. The water is always IRRESISTIBLE LOGIC By Dr. Frank Crane Gut’of the dirt and dust and wrangle and general scramble, incident to the collapse of idealism at the close of the Avar, and the springing into vigor of every sordid and contentious impulse, a few things stand out “fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and ter rible as an army with banners.” First: The people of the United States, the great mass of the intelligent commons, they who one day will reward and punish all their public servants according to their doing or their undoing of their will—the people are overwhelmingly in favor of one thing, and that is that such a horrible, stupid, cruel and criminal thing as the late j war shall not happen again, if there is any 1 honorable way to prevent it. Don’t forget. That is the one main issue , before not only the United States but hu- j manity, just now. Two: The League of Nations is an at tempt to prevent future wars. It can only be defeated by showing us some better way. It cannot be permanently shelved because it is imperfect. It cannot possibly be as bad as the Old Order of rival armaments. Three: The people of this country are not vitally interested in Senator Lodge, or Hitchcock, or Woodrow Wilson, or any other man and his ambitions or personal feelings. Neither do they care a hang about the suc cess of the Democratic or Republican party. They want peace established, commerce re sumed and further possibilities of war pre cluded. Four: The people are entirely out of pa tience with the actions of the politicians. They want to know “what mysterious in fluence is blocking the way to agreement be tween forces separated by a margin so nar row?” If the hope of humanity, the honor of America, and the whole higher gain of the war is to be lost, in order that some partisan advantage may be gained bv any group of men, the people will sooner or later find it out, and visit upon those who have betrayed them their full contempt and wrath. We went into this war for just, one pur pose, to stop war by licking that Prussian militarism which was war’s chief proponent. And we do not propose to be cheated out of what we Avon. Come, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Lodge, Mr. Hitch cock, and the rest, rise up, be Statesmen, not Partisans, get together, ratify the Treaty and give us some kind of a League that will furnish an honorable working agreement with those nations by whose side we lately fought the common enemy. That's all we ask. (Copyright. 1920, Jjy Frank’ Crane.) QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES T gSGd Htti r^ glish b °y suddenly tnvi nowhere ’ darted toward the taxi which the man in a hurry had just summoned and politely opened the door waked carefully closed the door and But the man in a hurry had no loose change. Moreover, his overcoat was tightly buttoned and he would have to squirm con siderably to get at his money. Therefore he gazed stonily ahead at nothing and ig nored the expectant child. he T ha e d ? s < t?uS t ! r u kne 7 fr ° m experien ce that sourlj? k hopeless case and he smiled . “Nearest poorhouse, cabby,” he called to the driver as he darted for another cab. 1 She was a professor’s wife and she was Protid of her hubby. One day when: about him " eSeS CaHed ’ She told them a ” ( “He’s a wonder, is my husband,” she saidJ Just at this minute he is in the laboratory conducting some experiment. The professor: expects to go down to posterity—” \ B-r-r! Crash! Rattle! Another B-r-r from the direction of the laboratory. “I hope he hasn’t gone,” said one of the visitors anxiously. Mr. Sophtie—Well, Willie, your sister has given herself to me for a Christmas present. What do you think of that? Willie —That’s what she did for Mr. Bunker last year and he gave her back before Easter.j I expect you’ll do the same. slightly moving. For this reason there are scarcely any mosquitoes and the region is quite healthy. The state began the work of primary drain age in 1906, and it will be completed now within a few years. This work consists in cut ting a number of outlets through the rim of the basin, so that the ivate. can flow into the sea. But the cutting of these primary canals does not thoroughly or completely drain any of the lands. In order to do this, laterals and sublateral canals must be cut, and this work devolves upon those who buy the land. The state law favors the individual settler in search of a home rather than the develop j ment company and the speculator. It provides that if anyone wants to buy more than 320 acres of land in the glades, he must make a bid and the lands must then be advertised and sold to the highest bidder. No real estate oper ator likes to buy land that way. He goes to all i the expense of making an investigation of the lands, and then someone else perhaps outbids him and takes them away from him. The 1 chances of getting theip at a bargain are slim. The individual settler who wants less than 320 i acres, on the other hand, ca . buy from the state at the assessed value of the land, which j is from $35 to SSO an acre. The trouble is that the individual settler ■has rather a hard time draining his lands. They can be most conveniently drained in lots from ten thousand to fifteen thousand acres. The man Avho takes up a hundred acres may have difficulties. It is said, however, that if he takes lands on one of the canals he can drain them fairly easily. There is also a provision of the state law by which the settlers can band together to form drainage districts. The settlement of the glades is said to be proceeding slowly, despite the great richness of the black muck which is left exposed by the receding water. It appears that when the land is first drained, it is impregnated with acid, and will kill some crops. The average settler does not seem to understand this. The land should be allowed to lie exposed to the air for a year or so before it can be safely culti vated, except in a few crops of no great value. No doubt settlement is slow also because the amount of capital required to put a hun dred acres of the glades under cultivation is considerable. When a man has to pay the 1 state fifty dollars an acre for the land, and ; then dig lateral canals and put his land under ' the plow, he has a considerable investment to ; make. None the less, those who have done i the thing right, now have splendid and profit j able farms. One of the most interesting products of the little patch of the glades now under cultivation is sugar cane. The Floridians claim that it l grows there much better than in Louisiana. The : cultivation of it only began five years ago and iis rapidly spreading. If the shortage and at tendant high prices of sugar continue, it is quite probable that the greater part of the Everglades may be converted into a giant sugar bowl for the United States. The individual who probably witnesses with least joy this taming of the Everglades is the Seminole Indian. The glades have long been his home and his hunting ground. When they are gone, he, very likely, will have to go, too. CAMPS AND CHARACTER —♦ — By H. Addington Bruce SUMMER still is a long way off. But already many people are talking over plans for a country life during the heated months. Especially is this true of people with growing boys and girls, whom they are anxious to take out of town even at inconvenience to themselves. . To such people I would suggest that they seriously consider the desirability of sending their children to good summer camps, instead of accompanying them to summer hotels or farm boarding houses as they have ordinarily done. Certainly summer camps offer advantages for the young which no hotel or boarding house can give. They are particularly to be recommended in the case of children showing character defects which the parents lament but which they feel at a loss to correct. In fact, a properly conducted summer camp for boys and girls is essentially a school for character training. Hardening the body and improving the physical health through outdoor games and exercises, the summer camp equally improves the morale and gives the psychic hardening every child should have. The timid return from it with then- timidity gone. Often children who have been down right cowards delight their parents by an astonishing conversion to fearlessness. The disobedient child learns in a good sum mer camp Avhat obedience means and why it is necessary. Discipline tactfully enforced, and reinforced by the example of other chil dren, works marvels in curing the headstrong. The selfish, too, learn greatly needed les sons. Not only do camp rules make against selfishness, but camp traditions emphasize the value of generosity, self-denial, mutual give and-take. For that matter, the social sentiments in general are developed through the daily inti mate intercourse with the other children in camp. As one well acquainted with the sum mer camp for boys puts it: “The chief value of camp to the boys, as contrasted with however favorable a set of family-vacation circumstances, lies in the stimulus of the group, a thing that no amount of private tutoring, elaborate equipment, in dividual liberty, can take the place of.” True of good camps for boys, this holds no less true of good camps for girls. In both also, the prime virtues of honesty, industry, and thoroughness are fostered. And, happily, it need not cost much to send a boy or a girl to a first-class summer camp —first-class, that is to say, in point of influ ence on character. Some of the best camps in this respect are within the reach of parents of limited means. If you are interested, your child’s teacher, the family doctor, your clergyman, ought to be able to inform you as to some good camp near home. Or question neighbors who have sent their children to summer camps. Thus you can obtain the personal indorse ment you ought to have before you incline to any given camp. After this, write to the camp authorities for specific information as to rates, regulations, and so forth. Don’t act in a hurry. But do act if you feel that you have a child who might signally benefit from camp training. (Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News papers.) PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS Oil City authorities arrested a man for working. They apparently concluded that he was mentally unbalanced.—Steubenville Herald-Star. Prohibition agents are being furnished with real guns and ammunition. Evidently those who violate the law' will be more than half shot.—Detroit Free Press. Perhaps if the country really wanted to be “dry” it wouldn’t require the expenditure of $50,000,000 a year to keep it that way.— Columbia Record. The landlord having raised the rent, now can the tenant raise it? —Buffalo Times. Every time sugar is introduced into it, the debate in the house grows bitter.—Greens boro News. j TUESDAY, MARCH Iff, 1920. THE TRI-WEEKLY EDITORIAL DIGEST A National and Non-Partisan Summary of Leading Press Opinion on Current Questions and Events The Red Tape IT r orm in II 7 ashington. “Out of the mouths of cabinet officers, safely resigned and therefore no longer to discipline, cometh truth.” Such is the Em inent of the WASHINGTON HERALD (ltd.) on the searching diagnosis of governmental ills made by Franklin K. Lane as he relin quished the interior portfolio. “Too much red tape” is the substance of ex-Secretary Lane’s answer to the question, “What ails Washington?” capital, he says, “is a combination of political caucus, drawing room and civil service bureau,” and he continues: “It is rich in brains and character. It is honest beyond any commercial standard. It wishes to do everything that will promote the public good. But it is poorly organized for the task that belongs to it. Fewer men of larger capacity would do the task better. Ability is not lacking, but it is pressed to the point of paralysis because of infinitude of details and an unAvillingness on the part of the great body of public serA r ants to take responsibility. Every one seems to be afraid of every one. The self-protective sense is de veloped abnormally, the creative sense atro phies.” While Mr. Lane “does not say so in so many Avords that the government has become bureaucratic,” the NEW YORK WORLD (Dem.) thinks “that is the name of the thing which he describes and condemns. . . . These are the symptoms of stagnation and dry rot that indicate the presence of bu reaucracy as unfailingly in America .as in Russia.” The IDAHO STATESMAN (Rep.) asserts that “instead of overstating the case, he rather understates it, but he certainly hit the nail on the head when he declares that ‘fewer men of larger capacity would do better’ than the poorly organized army of officials Avho now have in hand the conduct of the government’s business. . . . Oils man who has the courage of his convictions and will take a chance at making a mistake is better than ten men who adopt the policy of inaction and let matters drift because they dread the responsibility of making a decision.” A great cause of the trouble is, according to the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER (Rep.), that “in order to prevent possible fraud or error we have constantly thrown safeguards around action until red tape is choking all men save those with courage enough to dis regard it, and apparently there are few such in Washington,” and. following up the same idea, the GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS (Ind.) declares that “what America needs to learn in governmental policy is to pick a good man and tell him to go to it.” The fact that office does not carry with it respon sibility and opportunity, adds the DETROIT JOURNAL (Ind. Rep.) “is one reason why strong, vigorous men like Franklin K. Lane chuck $12,000-a-year cabinet jobs to enter positions in the business world where there is some outlet for their energies.” The remedies suggested by Mr. Lane have the indorsement of the BOSTON POST (Ind. Dem.), which summarizes them thus: “That greater power of discretion be given to public servants, quicker promotion or dis charge, a sure insurance on disability, and salaries for higher officers twice as large as those noAv given. Above all. the man at the top should be free from details and able to devote himself to questions of planning policies to be followed.” It seems to the DALLAS NEWS (Ind. Dem.) that this means cabinet officers should have a larger “grant of confidence from the president who appoints them.” But this is “a matter Avhich could hardly be touched by law,” since congress could confer no inde pendent authority on cabinet officers with out subtracting from that which the con stitution gives the president.” The NEWS suggests, however, that: CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST Sixty-six alleged radicals Avere taken in raids on meeting places in Aki;on. Ohio, ac cording to a late dispatch. Federal opera tives, city police, deputy sheriffs and indus trial police took them in custody, headed by H. W. Kage, department of justice. The men are members of the Industrial Workers of the World, Communist party, Russian Union and Bolsheviki, Chief Kage said. Bitter attack on President Wilson for his stand on the Adriatic problem characterized an address made in ProA’idence, R. 1., be fore a state meeting of the Sons of Italy by F. H. La Guardia, president of the Ncav York board of aidermen. “The last spiteful note of the president on the Adriatic questions shows that he represents not the justice-lov ing American people, but rather the selfish arrogrance of himself,” he declared. “Med dling and muddling in the affairs of other nations is not the will of the American peo ple, and President Wilson’s action in so do ing is unforgiveable.” The St. Louis Retail Druggists’ Associa tion has asked congress to enact a law pro hibiting dispensing of intoxicating liquors by pharmacists on a physician’s prescription. Such legislation is desirable, it was explained, to prevent “undesirables” from entering the drug business. The druggists urged that government agencies be established Avhere such liquors may be sold for legitimate medi cal purposes. The convict industries at Sing Sing prison. New Y’ork, according to a report just com pleted, show an increased earning power of 25 per cent. During the last six months of the fiscal year just ended, the industries yield ed a profit of $60,000. In the same period a year ago the profits amounted to only $4,800. Colonel Louis A. LaGarde, Medical Corps, U. S. A., retired, died recently of an apolectic stroke on a train en route to Washington from Chicago, where he attend ed a meeting of examiners. The body -was brought to Washington by Surgeon General W. C. Braisted, who Avas accompanying him. Colonel LaGarde entered the service in 1876. It Avas his recommendation, made long after study of gunshot wounds, that led to adoption of the heavy caliber auto matic pistol now used by the army. Two American liners sailed a short time ago for Europe with full passenger lists, but very little cargo in their holds, the latter con dition reflecting the cut in imports, due to the exchange situation. The Mongolia, which left for Hamburg at 3 o’clock, had a passen ger list of nearly 100 per cent German-speak ing people. There were 1,000 in the steer age who paid SIOO each for the passage, the highest for that class of accommodation in the history of Atlantic travel. These, and 150 cabin passengers at an average of S2OO each, made the company’s receipts $130,000. Instead of having 12,000 to 13,000 tons of cargo in her holds, as normally, the Mongo lia had nat more than 3,000 tons, mostly pig iron and lubricating oil. Thera were no foodstuffs. She goes to Hamburg only on this voyage. The steerage contained Ku- : manians, Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, ' Bohemians, Poles, Slavs, Croatians, Jugo slavs, Czechoslavs and Turks. The second American liner to leave was the St. Paul, bound for Southampton, and “Perhaps the end could be accomplished in some measure by making members of the cabinet also members of congress for debat ing purposes. If that were done, a president _n choosing his cabinet Avould feel impelled .o get the strongest men he could draw about him. for it would be upon them that he would have to depend for the defense et administration in congress and for the ad vocacy of the measures and policies which he projected.” But such a reform would presuppose a congress Avilling to inaugurate it, and this is up to the people, thinks the FORT WAYNE JOURNAL-GAZETTE (Dem.) “They have the power to send real constructive forces to congress, and they too often send sticks; and whenever an effort is made to rid a de partment of dead timber, the hue and cry is made that the civil service is being attacked to wicked politicians.” The SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS (Ind. Dem.) has much the same thought, and says: “The general public has suspected for a long time that a score or so of first-class men could accomplish more in the way of con structive legislation in a few weeks than a congress composed of several hundred ‘prac tical’ politicians usually accompishes in a continuous session of several months. In fact, there has been a general impression that if a group of business men could be substi tuted for the whole aggregation of political misfits that make up a portion of the na tional law-making body, the sessions would be very much shorter and the useful work done very much greater.” The PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER (Ind.) likewise suggests that we “try the ex periment of putting men trained in practical business in charge of the very practical busi ness of making business efficient,” and the WASHINGTON POST (Ind.) reminds us that the late Senator Aldrich “once declared that if the executive departments of the govern ment were conducted on approved business principles a saving of $300,000,000 a year could be effected.” The POST adds that if this estimate of years ago was accurate, “a saving of at least twice that much would be possible noAv.” But many are skeptical of any practical re sults flowing from Mr. Lane’s criticism. The CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL TRIBUNE (Rep.) thinks “red tape is a necessary evil of a republican form of government,” and the KANSAS CITY STAR (Ind.) believes that even were Mr. Lane’s suggestions accepted, there would remain the “feeling that there is no use worrying over efficiency, that Uncle Sam will foot the bills.” The DEROIT FREE PRESS (Ind.) frankly opposes giving depart ment heads "any new leeway in the expendi ture of public moneys.” It points out that “during the war some of the department and bureau heads had the sort of liberty Mr. Lane suggests, and the result was the wastage of billions of dollars.” Italy and the League “There can be no League of Nations with out Germany and Russia, and there can be no peace without the League of Nations,” de clares the CORRIERE DELLA SERA (Milan), and this view is upheld bv the ECO DI BERGAMO. The POPOLO ROMANO adds that the league “cannot exist without thfe United States.” An article in the REVISTA POLITICA E PARLIAMENTARE (Rome), however, ex presses the opinion that “the league is mere ly the successoi’ of the peace conference” and will exist only long enough to wind up the affairs which the conference did not finish. plan to put Fiume under the control of the League of Nations is condemned by the IDEA NATIONALE (Rome), which says that w’hile “the supreme council may have ceased to exist, the league hardly exists at all.” commanded by Captain Arthur R. Mills, commodore of the fleer. This Is her first voyage since May, 191 S, when she turned over on her side at Pier bl, North river. Nine thousand organizations of Catholic Avoinen, each with more than a hundred mem bers. would be merged into one association to be known as the National Catholic Women’s Council, under plans outlined by Bishop Joseph Schrembs, of Toledo, at the initial I session in Washington. D. C., of a conference i of Avoinen members of the Catholic church. The council, Bishop Schrembs said, would have the support of the Catholic hierarchy. “Our aims are to co-ordinate the women’s i societies and to establish a central directing : agency,” Bishop Schrembs said. . “Another I purpose is to solidify and unify the work of Catholic women throughout the country.” While the United States continued to pile ; up a trade balance against Europe in Jan uary, South America, Asia,-.Africa and Mex ico increased their against this country. Figures made public in Washington, D. C., by the Department of Commerce show that for the month imports from the Soutn American republics, Asia, Africa and Mexico exceeded exports to those countries by $220,- 437,983, increasing the total balance for the seven months of the fiscal year ended with January to $665,156,801. Brazil and Cuba had the largest indi vidual trade balances against the United. States for January of about $15,000,00*) each, Avhile Argentina and Japan had ap proximately $7,000,000 each and Mexico about $6,000,000. Statement from Budapest tells us that Ad miral Horthy’s salary as regent of Hungary has been fixed at $609,000 a year. After his election the national assembly sent a deputa tion to escort him to the chamber, where he took the oath and was presented with a draft of the law creating his office. Addresses which eulogized him as having saved the i nation from ruin were delivered. j Good crop prospects throughout France I are reported by the Journal Officiel, which j states that the condition of the tilled fields i was as good in February as it was a year ; ago. The 1920 Avinter Avheat crop is fore- I cast as likely to be about the same as in : 1919, while some improvement in the barley and rye harvests is expected. According to a dispatch from Constanti nople, in view of the gravity of the situation, the cabinet resigned a few days ago. The sultan has called upon Marshal Izzet Pasha to form a new cabinet. Izzet Pasha is a partisan of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the leader of the Turkish Na tionalists. His designation as head of the new cabinet is regarded here as a triumph for the Nationalists over the sultan and the more conservative leaders. The retiring cabinet was formed last Octo ber, headed by Ali Riza Pasha as grand vizier. Izzet Pasha is a former commander-in-chief of the Turkish forces and was minister of war in the cabinet of the fall of 1918 that asked peace from the allies.