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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 months 75c Foui - months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday ! (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) IWk.lMo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c <oe 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. 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Georgia's Waxing Prosperity IN the course of a well warranted tribute to the resources of Fulton’s fertile neigh bor just across the Chattahoochee, the Cobl County Times remarks that while the farmers of that region are enjoying the largest prosperity of their lives, “they have not yet scratched the surface of the stores of wealth which lie in their soil.” For, “With purebred stock upon their pas tures, with the best seeds and with up-to date methods of farming, the can pack the banks of the county with their profits. And they don’t have to depend on cotton for this prosperity. Corn, wheat and live stock thrive coo well in Cobb for us to trust to the uncertainties or the cotton crop and the activities of the boll weevil < and worm. Vegetables, strawberries, fruits can be sold at excellent prices.” While Cobb county has its particular ad vantages and is distinctly one of the garden spots of the South, the general conditions which the Times has described prevail in the > greater part of Georgia, making the State a veritable empire of agricultural opportunity. Unquestionably, too, the rich veins of soil treasure which weave their network from the mountains to the sea are yet hardly more than touched. It is only of late years that science has been given a fair chance to show what she can do byway of developing these re sources and diversifying their products. The fetters of an all-cotton system have but recent ly been struck off, and the State’s wondrous possibilities in t nimal husbandry but recently realized. The progress of the last decade in these fields, heartening as it is, marks a mere beginning of the achievements that are to be. No longer a land of a single crop, and that a precariously uncertain one; no longer a land dependent upon distant markets for food sup* ply and upon crude or antiquated methods for solving its soil problems and developing its soil wealth; but a land of multiple harvests, filling the four seasons with plenty, and of all the aid and quickening which science can giye,—Georgia will wax in prosperity as never before and in serviceabieness to America and the world. The Tale of the U-Boat.s NO aspect of the war, during its prog ress, was so shrouded in secrecy as that pertaining to U-boats, their num ber, their scope of operation, their fortunes and their fates. The British Admiralty dis covered much, but for good reasons kept reticent. The German Admiralty knew much, but likewise divulged little, even to its own public. Occasionally there would break through the veil some such romantic epi sode as the voyage of the U-2 3 which in the spring of 1915 sped from Wilhelmshaven to the Dardanelles, where it sank the battle ships Majestic and Triumph; or some such dark crime as th’e assault on the peaceable Lusitania; or some such marvel of nauti cal prowess as that of the cargo-carrying submarine which swam the Atlantic depths and bobbed suddenly up in an American har bor with its precious dyes and chemicals. But apart from these striking incidents, the world was left largely to conjecture how many U-boats were being built and sunk, what their dimensions were and their de signs, whether they were making serious headway or were being subdued. Much light on these questions is shed from a recent report of the German Admiralty to the Berlin commission charged with in vestigating war responsibilities. Piecing this information to that previously acquired by the British naval authorities, the Ameri can Review of Reviews presents in its cur rent number an interesting summary of the latest disclosures. These controvert the idea that at the beginning of the war Ger many had a swarming fleet of U-boats in readiness. In fact she had but twenty-eight, and in those her sea lords placed no great faith. Admiral von Tirpitz, it seems, “had repeatedly expressed his skepticism as to the value of submarines” and most of his associates “still hesitated to spend large sums of money on an untried weapon.” The largest of the 1914 U-boats was of six hun dred and seventy-five tons, and none of them mounted guns. “It was not until the third year of the war that the thousand-ton mark was reached.” . The Engineer, a London publication, from which the last quoted re mark is taken, adds that in 1917 was launched the gigantic U-139, having a ton nage of 1,930, mounting a pair of 5.9 inch guns and carrying a complement of eighty three. Further, “During the final year of the war the output of submarines com prised a variety of types, and a month or two before the armistice a new and huge Drogram of submarine construction had been drawn up by Admiral Scheer. No fewer than four hundred and thirty submarines were being built or were on order at the date of the armistice.” It was thus by degrees that Germany came to stake large hopes on a sea wea pon which she first took up as a dubious experiment. From a total of thirty-one sub mersibles completed in 1914, she advanced to sixty-two in 1915, ninety-five in 1916, and to one hundred and three in 1917. In the ten crucial months of the following year, she turned out eight-one; but, as the records show, many times that number were then under construction or had been or dered. Evidently, it was the intention of the German Admiralty to press ruthlessly on with its U-boat-campaign, despite the heavy losses from Allied guns and bombs and nets. I THE ATLANTA TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL. Near the end of the year 1917 the undersea craft were being destroyed more rapidly i than they were being built. Apparently, however, they would have been mustered for a redoubled onslaught had not Hinden burg’s lines cracked and broken. First and last, Germany launched three hundred and seventy-two U-boats, carrying among them some four hundred mounted guns, nearly fifteen hundred torpedo tubes, upwards of twenty-three hundred mines, and eleven thousand, six hundred and sev enty-three officers and men. Tnough dis playing great tenacity and at times great courage, the U-boat adventure was fated to defeat by the same law that brought an empty and inglorious end to Prussianism’s fling on land. No nation can defy, save for a season, the statutes of civilization, hu manity and the moral order. Against these the mightiest and most cunning contrivances are but as dust against the wind or sparks against the stars. ♦— Urban and Rural Growth. GRATIFYING as census increases are generally considered by the towns and cities to which they apply, the Columbus Enquirer-Sun sensibly remarks that if our centers of population grow at the expense of our farms, ‘‘it will not be long before we shall be shown that such growth is not as profitable as it would be otherwise. The city must have something in the coun try to back it up. The farm can be pros perous without the city, but the city cannot be as great as it would be unless farms are yielding their abundance.” Urban and industrial development, which commonly go together, cannot be too rapid if there is corresponding advancement on the rural side. The trouble • and danger come from lack of balance and co-function- Ing between these two great provinces of en deavor. A progressive town, with a market for diversified crops and a citizenry duly ap preciative of the value of good roads, good schools and liberal co-operation, is a rich asset to the country about. It is from such towns, indeed, that much of our agricultural progress has drawn its chief incentive • nd sustainment. But when the town is mainly a sapper of rural strength, offering .ittle or no service and showing no neighborliness in return, its growth in population profits the common interests nothing. In fact, this is not so much growth as it is swelling. It is a congestion of quantity at the expense of quality, an unhealthy misadjustment of production and consumption, a forerunner of ill to things urban as well as rural. In Georgia we are in the main happily free from such conditions. Our farms and smaller communities still predominate in population, while our towns and cities as a rule are cordially concerned in the welfare and upbuilding of the surrounding country. Hold Your Liberty Bonds LIBERTY bonds are not worth, intrin sically. a penny less toda? than they were when their owners bought them as an act of patriotism and of good business. They are still the soundest securities in the world, and they will yet prove to be among ! the most profitable. All the resources of the United States Government, all the wealth and power and good faith of the American people are still behind these pledges that supplied so many of the sinews of war. The fact that their present market price is below par is merely a passing consequence of generally disturbed financial conditions If one is compelled at this juncture to sell his Liberty bonds he does so, of course, at a disadvantage. But if he has means where with to buy Liberty bonds he is indeed for tunate. As the Pensacola Journal interest ingly sums the situation: ‘‘When an ex perienced investor finds some of his favorite securities selling below what he first bought them for, does he sell the lot, and turn to something else? Not at all. He buys as many more as he can at the lower price in order to “average his cost.” He does this, be cause he always desires the book values of his securities to be close to the actual mar ket values, so that if forced to sell at any time, his loss, if any, will be small. The present prices of all issues of Liberty bonds offer the most favorable opportunity for averaging cost. A hundred dollars . worth bought at par, another hundred bought at s9l and you have two bonds costing only $95.50 each. Long before maturity date you will be able to sell either or both at a profit.” Only imperative need should constrain one to part with his Liberty bonds at this time. For every owner whom emergency forces to sell, there are thousands who can hold to their securities, and all who do so will reap the reward of steady judgment and farsee ing patience. This is the counsel of the country’s ablest financiers; it is the counsel of patriotism; it is the counsel of common sense. Let none be deceived by transient depression and part with a birthright for a mess of pottage. - 4 The Treaty's Only Hope O'JE of the few constructive notes sound ed in the dreary aftermath of the Treaty’s wrecking is from the New York Times, which declares: “The Senate, we are sure, has learned much in these months of strife. Certainly the President must have learned something. Confronting as we do at this hour a great peril, let animosi ties be laid aside, let both departments of the treaty-making power join in an effort to put the Treaty and the League Covenant into effect. Reservations there may be and will be . . . but to say that the great instrument of liberty and peace cannot be saved would be indeed a counsel of despair, unworthy of a nation which cherished the as piration of ending a World War in away to make its repetition impossible.” This is an all-worthy hope which the coun try shares and which can be realized if facts are faced and wisely dealt with. The prin ciples and main structure of the Treaty can yet be ratified so that America may take her proper.place among the upholders of inter national peace and justice. But this cannot be accomplished by the President alone nor by the Senate alone. It cannot be accomplish ed by partisanship nor by unbending pride of opinion. It can be accomplished only by an earnest union of purpose on the part of the President and the Senate to bring about a reasonable settlement. Had there been «uch a union of purpose heretofore, the Treaty would now be in effect; not indeed in pre cisely the form in which it cairte from. Ve rsailles but in substance and essentials. This is not an issue to be fought out by stump speakers in a prolonged and bitterly partisan campaign. It is an issue to be work ed out in cool and patient counsels by men more concerned over serving a principle than over carrying a point. If this spirit takes charge of the situation, we may yet have a Treaty worth while; otherwise we never shall. *. The water supply has been cut off in Ber lin. Supposing that were to happen in the United States!- —-Detroit News. President Ebert manifests one character istic of the true democrat. He holds on tight to his job.—Chattanooga News. ♦ The German troops had a clash with the workmen. That German army is deter mined to beat somebody.—Columbia State. CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST From the dust of more than 1900 years a studious modern Roman has rescued a pen-portrait of Jesus Christ. It was drawn in one of the letters that Publius Lentulus, who was a Roman Pro-Consul In Palestine and knew the Saviour in Nazareth, wrote to a friend in Italy. “There has appeared here a man of strange virture,” Publius Lentulus drote. “His disciples call Him ‘The Son of God.’ He cures the sic kand raises the dead to life. He is a very handsome man and worthy of all our attention. His hair is blond and covers His shoulders in* separate curls and is parted in the middle, after the fashion of the people of Nazareth. His fore head is smooth and serene, without marks or wrinkles; His countenance is pink; His nose is well formed; His beard, of the same color as his hair, is parted in the middle.” The advent of Christmas brought the let ter quoted to the. mind of an old profes sor in Rome. He translated it into modern Italian and sent it to some of his learned friends as a historical curiosity. It seems to verify the belief that the Saviour had a very light complexion - and light hair, as many old artists depicted Him. Expert antiquarians and students of his tory pronounced the letters of Publius Lentulus to be entirely genuine. For cen turies they were forgotten save by students of Latin and ancient Rome. Net earnings of the American Tobacco Com pany for 1919 amounted to $15,922,687, a de crease of $1,574,046 compared with the pre vious year. This left $31.83 applicable to dividends on each share of the common stock, against $33.42 in 1918. Total sales amounted to $146,023,730, an in crease of $1,553,662. The company’s total in come of $18,722,128 shows a decrease of $312 - 633. Though scores of towns have this winter voted “dry” for the first fifties in' decades, the town of Newbury, Mass., shattered all records recently when it cast a “wet” ma jority for the first time since it was incor porated 285 years ago. The vote was: Yes, 51; no, 45. Last year, - which was closer than the average, it was: yes, 50; no, 74. Paris reports the yacht belonging to Na poleon 111, which for some time has been a pontoon has been sold to Marseilles for 130,000 francs. It will be dismantled. This yacht bore the name of Eagle, and upon it Empress Eugenie sailed to inaugurate the Suez canal. Subsequently the boat passed into private hands and was renamed the Rapid, and it is now known as the Swallow. According to a dispatch from Adana, Asia Minor, the Armenians here have closed there shops and informed the French that they will send armed Armenians to the relief of Hadpin, northwest of Marash, where the Turks are reported terrorizing the populace, if the French do not dispatch troops there. The village of Romlo and Yerebaker have been overrun and the Armenian inhabitants have flew to Hadjin. A telegram from Miss Edith Colt, of Cleve land, Ohio, one of the American relief work ers, says all is well there, but that the popu lace expects to be cut off from communica tion shortly. Both the French and the Turks say the Americans will be safe in Hadjin. - ■ (• Advocates of the abolishment of the death penalty for capital crimes overwhelmed oppo sition at a hearing before the joint codes com mittees 'of the legislature at Albany, N. Y. on the Boylan-Pellett bill, which would do away with the electric chair. The abolition measure, according to Sen ator Boylan, who introduced the bill will be reported later. That there is little chance of it being enacted into law is indicated by the fact that while the hearing was going on men in the state architect’s office were pre paring plans for a new death house at Sing Sing prison. Scores of officials of civil and humanitarian interests appeared before the committee in favor of the Boylan-Pellett measure. Only one person, James Holl Long, representing the Massachusetts. Civic Alliance, appeared in opposition. Women took an active part in the hearing. One suggestion made was that the pardon power, now vested in the governor, be trans ferred to the court of appeals. FEVER AS A CURE By H. Addington Bruce IT seems incredible to be told that a fever is sometimes .a blessing in disguise. Yet every once in a while incidents occur in medical experience indicating this unmistakably. Even fever-causing diseases of fatal possi bilities may, when mild, have beneficial rather than baneful effects. Impressive instances in proof have been reoorted in connection with the terrible influenza epidemic. Take, as an illustration, a singular case re cently communicated bv a French physician, Dr. Demaye. It concerns a young man of twenty committed to a hospital for the insane because of an attack of mania. This attack had followed a violent quarrel with a friend. For weeks the irrational ex citement thus caused continued. When at last it subsided the unfortunate young fellow passed into a state of melancholic apathy, with marked enfeeblement of intelligence. He had no idea of where he was. All day long he would sit mutely inert, interested in nothing. Thus he continued for a year, by which time all hope of his ever regaining men tal health was abandoned. Then he fell ill of influenza of the gastro enteric type. It was not a severe illness. At no time did his temperature rise above 100.4 degrees. He was convalenscent. And coincidental with his convalescence the attendants saw to their surprise that he had > gained mental vigor. His apathy left him. He could reason calmly and coolly. Within a month he was discharged as sane. Compare an observation by another, phy sician: “A very stupid young man, who could not be made to comprehend even the relation of an adjective to a noun, happened to become affected with a fever. A few days later he was able to speak Latin without too much thought, and in conversation developed ideas such as never came to him before.” Cases like these arc, of course, difficult of explanation. Probably the theory nearest the truth is that offered by Arnold Lorand: “What characterizes fever is an elevation of the blood circulation, an augmentation and acceleration. High temperature and a quickened pulse are its most important distinguishing features. “A greater flushing of the tissues with blood in fever may be considered a useful arrange ment of nature to meet the invasion of the tissues by minute organisms or any other harm ful substance. “When, therefore, in patients affected with mental diseases, associated with depressive symptoms, an improvement of the thinking power is observed, this can very well be at tributed to a better flooding of the brain cortex with blood.” There may be in this curious phenomenon of fever cure an important hint for treatment of certain types of insanity. At any rate, it raises a question which medical investigators will doubtless make earnest effort to answer. . (Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspapers.) Historians of the Hawaiian Islands assert that a Hawaiian monarchy was the first gov ernment in the world to put absolute prohi bition into effect. Kamechameha the Great, first king of United Hawaii, in 1795, after having con quered all the other islands, issued an edict imposing prohibition. Its penalties were drastic. An offender was stripped of his property, real and personal, and was driven from his village clad only in a loin cloth. In later years foreign nations forced liquor on the Hawaiians, and its sale was general in the islands until the great war, when, with the opening of the army training camps in the islands, prohibition went into effect. Word from London stares that sunken treasure worth 50,000,000 pounds has been raised since the war began around the Brit ish Isles. The Restorer and the Reliant, two salvag ing vessels that were bought by a British concern from the American navy, have a new device, an oxyacetylene flame, which is worked under water for cutting holes in the isdes of submerged vessels. Each ship has twenty-five electric pumps, capable of pumping 1,000,000 gallons of water an hour, and carries two divers, search lights, line-throwing guns, electric welding plants, rock drills and Stner accessories. Each diver is equipped with a, telephone. The Restorer last year recovered 1,000,000 pounds in gold from the Laurentic off Lough Swilly, and both vessels are now operating off Newhaven, on the channel coast. The ascendancy to power of the old pro- German Nationalist party in Turkey, which has resulted in the present crisis, is described for the first time in confidential reports re ceived in Washington from Constantinople by Professor der Hagopian, of the Armenian national delegation of the peace conference. Copies of the reports have been submitted to the state department. The Nationalist party was supposed to have been crushed by the operation of the armis tice terms, but its present movement under the leadership of Mustapha Kernel, the famous defender of the Dardanelles, is de scribed as rivaling that of the “Committee of Union and Progress,” which in 1908 de throned Sultan Abdul Hamid and proceeded to the systematic repression of the alien races in the Divan-Cushion Empire. According to reports from Bucharest, it is understood that the Hungarian Royalists lay revolt in Germany to the allies. One of the leading Royalist party is quoted as saying: “The recent uprising demonstrates conclu sively the allies are going on the wrong track in suppressing natural inclinations of peo ples. We will have to wait the result of the movement. “Sooner or later the German people will doubtless restore the dynasty to the place where it legally belongs.” That Socialist re publics are incapable of surviving in coun tries where for centuries the people have been accustomed to monarchies. John Kelly, fifty years old, said to be the shortest man in Illinois? is dead ot apoplexy at his home, Macomb, 111. Kelly was forty-four inches in height and weighed 150 pounds. In his younger days his legs were doubled-jointed, enabling him to move as rapidly backward as forward. Kelly used a stepladder when harnessing his horses. The Italian government, according to advices to the department of commerce, is overlooking nothing in its plans for smoothing the way for prospective American tourists. A big influx of American sightseers, it is held, would go far toward rectifying the present exchange dif ficulty and because of the premium on the dollar. Americans would find prices in Italy but ft little higher than before the war. New hotels are planned for various sections and official attention is being given to train schedules. A French decree prohibits the exportation of raw, green and dry hides and skins; raw fur skins and prepared hides and skins of horses, calves and heifers (vachette), tanned, tawed oi - curried, except under special license from the ministry of finance. Exception is made with respect to foreign hides and skins that are certified to have been imported with a view to re-exportation. THE DISEASE OF INTENSITY By Dr. Frank Crane It is good to be in earnest. But the dan ger to intensity is that it is likely to make us narrow. Everything in this mundane sphere has its drawbacks. Cows have lumpy jaw, horses pink eye, hogs cholera, men appendicitis, every organism has its peculiar disease. As the poet says: “Fleas have other fleas to bite ’em, And so on ad infinitum.” Hence, as aforesaid, intensity often runs to narrowness. Whoever knows all about something rarely knows much of anything else. Expertness is bought at the price of all-aroundness. I know a man who understands everything about autmobiles, and can fix any gas engine in creation with a pair of nippers and a screw driver; and he couldn’t tell you whether Bot icelli is the name of a cheese or a violin. Some women are so virtuous, in the com monly accepted meaning of the term, that there is but One Virtue, that they are petty, mean and unbearable in all other ways. So there are men so temperate they are offensive, and so honest they are indecent. There is a diseased patriotism, which in its single aim to be loyal, becomes selfish, intolerant and hateful. Sometimes religious conviction is so in tense that it gives no helpful light and heat, but just burns., I often think of that motto of Socrates, “Nothing too much.” And of the Frenchman’s quip, “Our vices are our virtues carried to excess.” Os course, on the contrary, there are those so broad they are exceeding thin, so gentle they are mushy, and so tolerant they are quite willing to discuss the advisability of burning up an orphan asylum. Once President Grant removed a postmaster from office in North Carolina. When the sen ator from that state remonstrated at this interference with his perquisites, and asked the President why he the man, Grant replied: “Oh, he was too unanimous.” The fact is that life is very much like walk ing a rail of the railroad; it is hard to keep one’s balance. What everybody needs is a little of some thing else. Efficiency generally lacks par allax. This narrowness has many names and shapes. We call it selfishness, intolerance, bigotry, fanaticism. It undoubtedly smells as sweet by one name as another. Youth is impatient with age and old peo ple are harsh with young; religionists de nounce scientists and the latter pooh-pooh right back at them; alas that everything en thusiasm must have its seamy side, and that •men fighting for a noble cause must use the same bitterness, violence and intolerance other men use in fighting for lust and loot! (Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.) THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1920. THE TRI-WEEKLY EDITORIAL DIGEST A National and Non-Partisan Summary of Leading Press Opinion on Current Questions and Events “If Admiral Sims is right,” says the DE TROIT FREE PRESS (Ind.), “not even the war department with all its blundering was as slow about utilizing its resources as was the navy department.” It had been assumed that the Navy’s part in winning the war was accomplished with efficiency and dispatch until the charges of Admiral Sims burst on the country like a 14-inch shell and started people wondering whether the war was won in spite of the Navy rather than because of it. “But Germany was beaten, anyhow,” Mr. Average American is likely to say. “Why no,t be satisfied with, that? Why try to unearth scandals?” To this the PITTSBURG PRESS (Ind.) replies: * “We are not so secure from the possi bility of future war but that it is the part of prudence to understand just where we fell short this time and adopt precautions to prevent a repetition of the blunders ot which Admiral Sims complains.” The substance of the Admiral’s complaint is that the Navy Department tried to direct the strategy of the campaign from Wash ington, and that instead of co-operating with the Allies in a common plan against the enemy it pursued an individual plan of its own. His “three basic charges,” acocrding to the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS (Ind.), are: “That during the early period of the war the navy department violated fundamental principles of warfare and thus caused need less and costly prolongation of the fighting; that the policies of the department during the last half of the war were identical with those recommended by him and rejected during the first six months and that the department either did not have suitable plans when the nation entered the war or else did not make use of them in a timely manner.” “A painful picture of confusion and de lay,” the NEWS comments, and the SEATTLE TIMES (Ind.) puts emphasis on the Admi ral’s opinion that these conditions “cost half a million lives, $15,000,000,000 in treasure and 2,509,000 tons of shipping.” The SAN ANTONIO LIGHT (Ind.f thinks all this “sounds bad for Daniels,” and it points es pecially to the original policy of the secre tary in keeping our warships in home wa ters because of the submarine menace, whereas: “The department should have understood enough of naval strategy to know that the damage they could inflict on this side ot the ocean was negligible compared with what they could do on the other side, and that the best way to keep them from our coast was to conduct euch a forcible offen sive against them that they would have been obliged to remain on the other side of the Atlantic.” “And it turned out,’’ adds the BUFFALO EXPRESS (Rep.), “that after we sent our patrol boats to those European waters, we had no more trouble from submarines off our own coast.” The NEW YORK TRIB UNE (Rep.), however, calls attention to a Daniels telegram to Sims, saying that “the future position of the United States must in no way be jeopardized by any disintegra tion of our main fighting fleet,” and it thinks this “boldly indicates that, instead of co operating whole-heartedly for the prompt defeat of a common enemy, we were to con serve our main fighting fleet intact for post bellum conditions.” “In this,” thinks the TACOMA NEWS-TRIBUNE (Ind.), “the navy’s head seemed to fear the English navy as much as he feared Germany. However, as the CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER (Ind. Dem.) remarks, we should “hear the othej - side before finally condemn ing the one department of the government reputed ‘ready’ for the German peril in 1917.” “Admiral Sims judges the navy by its failure to reach a standard which was in fact unattainable,” says the SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN (Ind.), and “allows too little for the natural and inevitable slowness and indecision of democracy in the first stages of a war. It is in the last stages that de mocracy is apt to shine.” The DAYTON NEWS (Dem.) reminds us that “the appro bation of the Allies followed America’s naval services,” asks “Why need Admiral Sims consider our part so insignificant and poorly conceived?” It appears to the MEM PHIS COMMERCIAL APPEAL (Dem.) that “the egotism of the admiral has run away I CLIPPING THE FLAPPER’S WINGS—By Frederic J. Haskin NEW YORK, Marchh 21—The day of the overjoyed, overdressed dear young thing, full of sentiment and illusion, is drawing to a close. “Gladness” and glad rags are going out of fashion. According to Miss Jane D. Rippin, national director of the Girl Scouts, within the next ten years women are going to abandon all creative attempts at illusion, and live a peaceful, thrifty existence, like men. They a’e going to wear plain business suits and severe hats, adjure high heels and cosmetics and exercise a restraining influence on their exuberant gladness, espe cially while at work. Miss Rippin herself is doing all that she can to bring this admirable reform about. “Every day,” she says, “we are teaching the girl that her body* isn’t a Christmas tree on which to hang a lot of ornaments. The young scout becomes accustomed to the wearing of her own simple uniform and sees its value. Os course, she cannot wear it always, but she is taught that the next best thing is a plain one-piece dress with a felt. Her scout shoes are big and broad with low heels, and she knows the dangers of high heels. As for cos metics, every one of our girls comes to know that girls who wear artificial things on their faces have artificial things in their characters.” By taking them while they are youn , this way, and inculcating in them a wholesome re spect for grim and, even occasionally homely reality, it is hoped that the “too-glad” outlook can eventually be stamped out. Miss Rippin is aided and abetted in this useful campaign by various women’s clubs, including the Wall Street club, the Irene Thrift club, an organiza tion of chbrus girls,, and A. Mitchell Palmer, whose interest is in squelching not so much gladness as extravagance. While the campaign is invading even our drawing rooms, with the idea of clothing them a little more fully and less fancifully, it is particularly directed at the modern working woman. Young women who wear distracting clothes to the office, and who monopolize business telephones for protracted, mirthful conversations with their various acquaintances, and who insist upon joyfully vamping the boss when the poor man is anxious to get through the dictation and out to his golf, are not ex pected to occur in the future. The Wall Street club is taking these species of gladness under its wing in the hope of definitely saddening them. Miss Elizabeth Sibley, p.-esident of the or grmzauon, has Aery decided views on the sub ject, which she confidently expects to impress upon thousand; of young women employed in the Wall street district du“ : ng the coming year. “Not everything that it is necessary to know if one is to succeed in a business office is taught in preparatory schools or business courses,” declares Miss Sibley. “There are questions of dress and deportment which are ,most important. Older women who have gone Did Mere Luck IT in the War with any discretion or judgment that he may have possessed,” and that the whole discus sion “has resolved itself into a political at tack upon the present authorities.” As for “what might have happened” if the Sims advice had been followed from the be ginning, this “is quite beyond the mind of man, to eay,” declares the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL (Ind.). “Our. naval participation in the war,” says the ARIZONA REPUBLI CAN (Ind. Prog.), “was not vital. The Brit ish navy had proved itself to be sufficient. There were no naval operations since some time before our entrance into the war that would have given opportunity to our capital ships . . . We probably could have done no more toward ending the war quickly if we had had every American battleship and cruiser in European waters from the spring of 1917.” Further, the NEW ORLEANS STATES (Dem.) attacks Admiral Sims’ statement that if the Navy Department had taken his advice from the beginning as to convoys it could have put 1,000,000 men in France by March, 1918, before the German drive began, forced Germany’s surrender July 1 instead of November 11, and saved 500,000 lives and $15,000,000,000 treas ure.” “If we had tried to do what Admiral Sims now says he wanted,” says the STATES “we would have put in France by March 1 an army of 1,000,000, the bulk of it entire ly green and only fit for cannon fodder; and if this army had been put behind the front to support the British and French when the tremendous German drive began on March 1, the chances are that instead of 500,000 al lied lives being saved, several times as many Americans as were killed in the war would have been sacrificed and the war prolonged a year longer than it was.” The CHARLESTON NEWS AND COU RIER (Dem.) comment son the effort of “Admiral Sims” sympathizers ... to get Mr. Hoover to say that the navy depart ment did not come in strongly enough,” but “very properly and cbrrectly Mr. Hoover re plied that he did not consider himself com petent to testify regarding technical naval and military matters. With respect to the navy department’s course he said he sup posed ‘everything was done that could be.’ ” “It is a safe assumption, at least,” con cludes the KNOXVILLE SENTINEL (Ind. Dem.) “that the naval authorities did what they believed to be for the best . . . We are at a loss to understand the use for Ad miral Sims’ thrilling post-mortem as to what might have happened and what* narrowly escaped happening, but didn’t.” TURNING SHIPS INTO HOMES That bombastic announcement by an emi nent individual whose name is now lost in obscurity, about bridging the Atlantic ocean with wooden ships as a preliminary to win ning the w - ar against Germany, typifies the sort of wildly imaginative theorizing which characterized much of the reckless expendi tures for ships, airplanes and the business ot war preparation generally. As we now know, billions of dollars, were wasted in such fool schemes as the proposal to build thousands and thousands of cheap wooden ships. The Idea was to scatter the contracts for these ships promiscuously along tne Atlantic and gulf coasts, along the 2,000-mile stretch of the Pacific, and to give orders for ships at every lakeside town that wanted a piece of the huge three-billion-dollar emergency fleet enterprise. Several hundreds of these wooden ships were actually built, and some of them are seaworthy, but others, as it seems, are just junk on the shipping board’s hands. Philadelphia is discussing a plan to utilize about thirty of these discarded ships as hotels for workers, or to remodel them as depart mental houses for families. Baltimore is in urgent need of homing facilities, and no City has a better water frontage for anchoring useless ships in deep mud and making houses of them. Roofing the upper deck would be simple, cutting windows and doors in the first, second and third deck levels would also be comparatively easy. There are eleven dis mantled wooden ships now in the Patapsco, but by putting in an early claim Baltimore may possibly obtain a half-hundred Tnore. There would be some poetic charm about such a home, and Baltimore needs a quick supply of homes. —BALTIMORE AMERICAN (Rep.). through the stage of office work, which these girls are just now entering, can give them a word or two of advice, which we feel should be of some value.” As it is, conditions are so shocking, accord ing to Miss Sibley, that one woman, the head of a large banking house, recently became so embarrassed at the diaphanous attire of the other feminine workers that she raised all the windows in the office and then tactfully sug gested that the girls put on their coats so that they would not take cold. At the recent convention of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women here, where the subject of dress reform re ceived a great deal of discussion, Mrs. Christine R. Kefauver, supervision inspector of the Bu reau of Industrial Hygiene of the New York department of health, created a mild stir by her assertion that “many a wife becomes unduly susp’cious of her husband it he has in his employ a gill who dolls up. like a fashion model.” In her opinion it was up to the mod ern ousiness girl to suppress her glad appear ance in order that the boss’ wife might rest in peace ;.nd comfort. Mrs." Kefauver is not especially interested in the welfare of the boss’ wives, except in so far as they interfere with the success of business women. “The business woman may not realize it, but it is not fair to herself to dress for the office in unsuitable clothes,” she says. “The dme has come when entering business with a woman does not mean merely the filling of a gap between school and marriage. It means as much today to a- girl as it does to her brother. She must therefore avail herself of every op portunity to make it a success. What would we think of a man who wore a dress suit tc the office in the morning? And yet women go into offices in gowns suitable for tea or din ner.” If the present reform campaign were con fined to the dress and manners of office work ers, one would not attach so much importance to it, but even chorus girls have become in fected by the desire to be sober-minded. It is not unusual to find whole companies of chorus ladies diligently knitting while waiting for the cues in the wings; while one *co|rmany playing here in New York has organized the Irene Thrift club, which is an organization for promoting the wear of sensible, muslin lin gerie. These girls have repudiated all friv olous apparel of this type, and have espoused the coarse, practical and economical garments of their grandmothers’ days. Thus, with even the stage developing an antipathy to frivolity, the future holds much hope for the extinction of gladness. With so many reforms under way and gathering furious momentum, there will soon be nothing left to be glad about. , Yes; there would be much hope for the weary in the future were it not for one disquieting posibility. Suppose every body went right on being glad, anyway?,