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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mall Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mob. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20e 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 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. 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Issues That Point Forward, Not Backward, Are Supreme the average Georgia Democrat, interested in principles rather than in the personalities of politics, A" considers the forthcoming Presidential pri mary he sees quite clearly that the issuee with which the party and the country are now most concerned point forward, not back ward. He sees with reference to the Peace Treaty, for example, that the all-important question is not what ought to have been done a year ago, but what ought to be done now; . not a regretful “what might have been,” but a resolute facing of facts with a view to discovering the best course for the future. ~ Only thus can the party win, and only thus will'it deserve to win. For any organization or any man that thinks more of the water which has passed under the bridge than of the living currents of present duty and right ’’ will fail in service and in leadership. This is a truth of capital importance to i Georgia voters because it is the pivotal point in the contest which the April primary is to decide. That contest is essentially one of ideas rather than of men. There will be heady partisans, of course, who will seek to make it otherwise, appealing to preju dice and factionalism, forgetting large issues in little personalities, losing sight of what is involved for Democracy and for America, and losing, alas, the good temper and good sense of their normal selves. But these, The Journal earnestly trusts and believes, will be but a handful amongst the thousands who will think the issues calmly out for themselves, vote as their -judgment directs, and go on living as neighborly human beings with no desire to imitate the cats of Kil kenny. But the very fact that it is ideas rather than men, ideas of national and world-wide import, that are pitted one against the other makes the contest all the more sharply de fined and all the weightier in the respon sibilities it brings to the voter. For if one of these ideas should prevail—that one which binds the Democratic party to dogmatic in sistence upon the Peace Treaty’s being ac cepted precisely as the President first sub mitted it, or not at all —It would foredoom the Democratic party to defeat. Or, if we can strain imagination to the point of con ceiving the election of a Presidential candi date on such a platform, it would mean still further delay and confusion in the establish ment of peace, and a death blow to our hopes for the League of Nations. The simplest consideration of public opinion and national needs will show that no candidate could win with a policy like this—not even so highly esteemed a gentleman as Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer. The American public is no respecter of per sons when common sense and conscience con vince them that a leader, howsoever exalted and beloved he may be, is on a mistaken , L and dangerous course. Mr. Wilson himself, whose constructive achievements have lost not a jot of the people’s admiration, could not carry the public with him to the point of letting the Treaty and the League be wrecked, rather than concede certain needful reserva- ; tions.’ The fact is he did not carry the ma jority of his own party in the Senate when this question came to a crucial test; and it is peculiarly significant that not one Demo cratic Senator from a doubtful State —a State, that is to say, where there is a con siderable independent vote—took the posi tion that peace should be indefinitely de ferred and the League covenant rejected al together, rather than accept the modifica * tions necessary to secure a ratifying major ity. Twenty-one Democratic Senators, voted for the Treaty in the only form in which it stood a chance of passing, voted for a speedy and honorable peace, voted for well advised international co-operation to prevent future wars, voted for the best interests of their country and of the w’orld. We do not mean to imply that they con sidered these reservations in every instance essential or well advised. But they knew that without reservations, there would be, in so far as America was concerned, no Treaty, no League, no peace, no return to normal conditions, no co-working to repair the war’s dark ravages and heal its grievous wounds. Moreover, they were assured that these reservations would be accepted by the Allied Governments, Lord Grey having spoken unmistakably to that effect; and well aware they were that their own country’s broadest thinkers, men like Mr. Taft, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Bryan, the presidents of the leading universities and publicists generally, .. including the stanchest friends of the League of Nations, urged the passage of the Treaty upon these, the only procurable, terms. Were those Democrats wise or un wise in facing realities instead of burying their heads in the ostrich sands of pride and partisanship? Were they right or wrong in looking futureward to the issues with which Democracy will have to deal and to the prob lems which America will have to grapple, instead of backward to designs and theories which events had proved impossible of ac complishment? To answer this is to decide the chief issue in the Georgia Presidential primary, and to determine to an important extent what poli cies shall prevail in the San Francisco con vention. A Chicago paper assures us that “the 25- cent sock is again on the market.’’ Men with only one leg may be interested in this Announcement.—Portland (Ore.) Telegram. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Our Increasing Farm Falues. ILATING on the fact that Georgia I farm lands have more than dou bled in value in the last five D years despite the boll weevil invasion, the Augusta Chronicle truly says that if cotton had remained the only money crop this goodly increase would not have come. “One other crop as good as cotton would have held the Georgia farm at its old production value; but the Georgia farmer has proved to the world (and, what was harder, to him self) that he can make as much money out of any one or two or three or half a dozen other crops as he can make from cotton. In that fact undoubtedly lies the basic reason for the enhanced valuation which the last five years have brought and also for their waxing prosperity. So long as Georgia was regarded as an all-cotton region, the market for her farm lands was naturally restricted. Many rural homeseekers in the North and the West who would have come to this State had they known how varied and abundant were the resources awaiting de velopment, could not be interested because they took it for granted that only a cotton farmer could prosper here. Mistaken as that notion was, our old one-gallowsed plan of agriculture made it the almost inevitable inference of those who judged from afar. Seeing that with all our plenteous acres and long growing season we nevertheless spent millions of dollars in buying foodstuffs from distant quarters, they could but conclude that we did so as a matter of necessity. But when the record began to change, when the news went forth that Georgia was com ing to be one of the country’s bountiful corn producers, that her vegetables were among the earliest and most highly prized in the great markets, that her production of swine was exceeded by only two States, while in all fields of animal husbandry she was forg ing swiftly forward—when these and divers other evidences of her rich resources for crops other than cotton kept coming to the country’s attention, something of the real worth of her farm lands dawned upon inves tors far and wide, and upon her own peo ple as well. There have been other factors, it is true, in this remarkable increase of Georgia farm values. The mounting prices of agricultu ral products, especially foodstuffs, and the mounting costs of production have played a considerable part. The fact, too, that most of the arable lands in the public domain have been disposed of, thus reducing the available supply of cheap agricultural sites, has had its effect. But it is chiefly to crop diversification, with its opening of fresh and wonderful opportunities, its employment of sound and scientific methods, its improve ment in the fundamentals of our agricultu ral life —it is chiefly to this that we owe the doubled valuation, together with the prosperity and independence which recent years have brought to pass. Macon-Brunswick Highway I ■yHE meeting at Hazlehurst of the State Highway commission was an oc- • casion of more than usual interest to the progressive citizenry of Southeast Georgia who have united in promoting the construction of the so-called Macon-to-Bruns wick highway. Hazlehurst is about midway between Macon and Brunswick, along the line of the proposed highway, and the meet ing of the commission there enabled its members to get first-hand information re specting the strength of the sentiment that has been developed by the Macon-Brunswick Highway association, which recently was or ganized at Brunswick. The Macon-Brunswick Highway association originated at a joint conference of the Brunswick Board of Trade and the Glynn county commissioners. The organization committed itself to labor unceasingly for the construction of a modern highway between Macon and Brunswick via Hawkinsville, Eastman, Mcßae, Lumber City, Hazlehurst, Baxley and Jesup. The State Highway Commission, in a commendable spirit of co-operation, agreed to meet with the members of the association at Hazlehurst, and the joint conference was the result of this agreement. The counties along the route of the proposed highway were well represented at the conference, and it may be accepted as certain that the move ment will receive a stimulus and encourage ment that will be well deserved. The proposed highway is entirely feasible and conforms with the provisions of the state highway law, which recognizes the county seat to county-seat plan for Georgia’s sys tem of highways. Practically the entire route of the highway is within the Eleventh congressional district, which, under the ap portionment of highway funds, will receive half a million dollars for its share during the current year. Truman Newberry s Course Truman H. Newberry heeds the ad vice and respects the wishes of his Republican colleagues he will resign I his seat in the United States senate, and re tire to an inconspicuous place in private life pending his appeal to the higher courts on his conviction at Grand Rapids of con spiracy to violate the election laws. The general public is not so much interested n Newberry’s course as are the leaders of the Republican party, who regard him a distinct liability in this presidential year. Republican senators are more respectful and considerate of Newberry than House members were of Victor Berger, whose con viction was accepted as sufficient reason for his immediate expulsion. Members ~>f the House gave no thought to deferrt-- ac tion against Berger pending the result of his appeal. The verdict of the jury that convicted him, coupled with his defiant at titude, furnished all the grounds required to result in an overwhelming vote for his expulsion. Newberry faces a prison term because he has been convicted of conspiracy in con nection with his election to the Senate. Berger was not charged with any election ir regularities or frauds, but was convicted of espionage. At the present time, a committee of the Senate has under investigation charges against Newberry which involve the alleged practices that have been declared criminal by a jury at Grand Rapids. The commit tee has shown no disposition to expedite its investigation, and it is unlikely that the inquiry can be concluded before the presi dential and congressional elections next fall If Newberry persists In his announced de termination to retain his seat, his Repub lican colleagues apprehend that his course will prove a political liabilty in the elec tion, and they are therefore anxious for him to retire gracefully. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS Sims says Berlin knew of troop sailings be fore they started. It also heard from the troops after they got there.—Columbus Citi zen. Census figures showing Milwaukee has grown 22.3 per cent need cause no alarm. They refer to population only, not to alco holic content.—Memphis News-Scimitar. CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST Poetoffice clerks and federal employes at a meeting in Chicago which was addressed by Federal Judge K. M. Landis voted to send a petition to congress urging restoration of the $240 bonus in effect during the war and also asking that an additional bonus of $240 be granted to employes whose salaries are less than $2,500 a year. Judge Landis told the men that the aboli tion of the $240 a year bonus was a “rank injustice.” He advised them to get out of public service if they could, and said, “as long as you remain a federal employe you will be served with every form of injustice. There are some gentlemen, and I’m not criticising congress, who think it is economy to keep the wages of federal employes at the lowest possible point. That’s not economy—it's in sanity.” Other speakers declared federal employes had received no wage increase since 1914, except an ’inadequate bonus” of $240 a year. The Peking government has instructed the Chinese minister at Washington to notify the American state department that the policy of China is to reconcile the north and south factions in China by negotiating with Japan on the Shantung question, according to a Tokio wireless message picked up here by the Japanese cruiser Yakumo. The Peking government considers the unity of China a more important question than the immediate settlement of the Shantung ques tion. According to a dispatch from London blame for the troubles in settling the Turkish prob lem was laid to the United States by Lord Curzon, foreign secretary, in explaining the peace conference’s negotiations to the house of lords, “The difficulty in framing the treaty is largely due to delay. And America is re sponsible for the delay,” he said. Lord Curzon is quoted as adding, however, that the peace conference hoped that when the new states were set up in Asia Minor the Unit ed States “would help materially in assisting the new Armenia.” Moore troops and Royal Irish constabu lary have been sent to Cork, Ireland, and empty houses at strategic points have been occupied by the military and police forces. The Sinn Fein organization is maintaining secret watches and guards to protect its lead ers, some of whom are reported to have re ceived threatening letters similar to one de livered to Thomas Mac Curtain, lord mayor of the city. The inquest on the body of the murdered Lord Mayor Mac Curtain was resumed immediately. There was a large police guard. It was announced on behalf of the attorney general that all facilities would be given for the fullest investigation. President Wilson and officials of the State and War Departments at Washington have under consideration possible steps to be taken by Major Gen. Henry T. J. Allen, commander of the American Army of Occu pation in the Coblenz area, in connection with the British and French commanders, in the event that present disorders, in the neutral zone beyond the occupiied area do not cease. Secretary of State Colby said that this matter was under consideration, but he was not prepared to make any announcement. Gen. Allen is operating under the provi sions of the armistice, while the British and French commanders are governed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty. The neutral zone, however, was created under the arm istice, and under certain conditions Gen. Allen would have authority to advance into that region. So far as known here no dis orders have occurred in the neutral zone opposite the American occupied area. According to a report from Oruro, Bolivia, there was a great demonstration here against Peru. The escutcheon of the Peru vian consulate was dragged through the streets and demonstrations were carried out before the homes of Peruvians and also be fore the offices of La Patrla, a pro-Peruvian newspaper. SAILORS’ SNUG HARBOR—By Frederic J. Haskin NEW YORK, March 25. —After you have visited Grant’s Tomb; inspected the tombstones of Trinity church yard; bought several expensive articles you didn’t want, and never will want in Green wich Village; dined at Fraunces’ Tavern, and gazed dizzily at the island of Manhattan from the supreme heights of the Woolworth building, you must negotiate Sailors’ Snug Harbor. You may not wish to, but your friends, who, being New Yorkers, have never seen it themselves, insist upon it. No New York sightseeing debauch is complete without it, they assert, and so glowing are their ac counts of its remarkability that your curios ity is fully aroused and prepared for anything by the time you embark for Staten Island at the South Ferry. Riding on a New York ferry, especially at this season of the year, is always an ex perience in itself. The day which the re porter chose was warm and sunny, so that there was a mad rush for camp stools on the forecastle (if a ferry may be said to possess a forecastle, and everyone settled down for a nice, sunny view of the harbor, which is ever-inspiring. Two Italian moth ers spread a lunch on a couple of camp stools, coveted by other passengers, and gathered their numerous offspring about them, prepared to have a pleasant picnic, while a fat, florid gentleman motioned to the inevitable boot-black to come and shine his wide, shapeless shoes for him, as he leaned languidly back against the side rail. No sooner had the ferry started and turn ed in her course, however, than most of the passengers rose to their feet, a look of amazed discomfiture on their face, and de parted, shivering and indignant, to the warm interior of the cabin. “Thought it’d be too cool for ye,” muttered the bootblack at the back of his retiring customer, as he stopped to rescue a remnant of the Italian lunch, which had been swept from its moorings by an icy blast. By this time the Italian pic nic had moved to a sheltered' nook on the other side of the boat, and was showeri g cordial greetings on the Statue of Liberty’, now plainly in view. “See the Lady?’’ cooed one of the Italian mothers to the small infant in her lap. “That’s the Statchu of Liberty. Wave your hanny to the Lady, like a good boy.” In view of the widely heralded sight-see ing charm of Sailors’ Snug Harbor, the re porter expected to have most of the passen gers of the ferry with him on his trip, since there was a wide scattering of cameras among them, but upon alighting from the street car, which carried him from the ferry to his destination, he was the sole applicant for admission to its gates. This is obtained from an old tar with a battered nose, who sits on the small house attached to the front gate and sees that each visitor writes his name in the Harbor’s register. “Go right up the walk to the Central Hall,’’ directed this ancient seaman affably, “and a guide will take you through.” A whole guide for one lone visitor seem ed an extravagance, but economy is not a necessity in this home for aged sailors. It has plenty of money. The visitor had been promised beforehand that he would find the inmates receiving their food from silver platters, and even the hogs provided with News of the death in Honolulu, of Colo nel Samuel Parker, former prime minister of Queen Liliuokalani, was received by cable here, from San Francisco. Colonel Parker bon vivant and courtier of the old Hawaiian monarchy, was widely known throughout the United States, having spent much time in Washington and having attended several Republican national conventions as delegate from Hawaii. He was first married to a princess of the royal family of Hawaii. He was often re ferred to as the “King of Hawaii.” He leaves a large estate, the principal heir of the Parker estate is Richard Smart, a six-year-old great grandchild, now being educated in San Francisco, for whom the $6,000,000 Parker ranch of the Hawaiian Islands is being held in trust. The resi dence of the estate, valued at millions will go to five children of Colonel Parker, now living in Honolulu. Word reached here from London that Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist, died in that city very recently. Mrs. Ward, w'ho won her fame and wealth by her writings, existed in a literary atmosphere. She was a granddaughter of Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, a niece of Matthew Arnold,, and the wife of a man who was a tutor at Oxford, an art critic, a leader writer for the London Times and the editor of “Ward’s English Poets.’’ Born in 1851 she moved always in a sphere of intellectual distinction. The works which flowed from her ready pen were, “The Marriage of William Ashe,” “The Mating of Lydia,” and others. The world war inspired her to write “Eng land’s Mission.” “Towards the Goal,’’ and “Missing.” President Wilson, made his first trip out of Washington recently, since he was taken ill last fall. Accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, and Rear Admiral Grayson, his physician, he drove into Virginia as far as Alexandria. No etops were made, and the president was away from the White House less than two hours. A poll just taken to test sentiment of twenty-six murderers in Sing Sing prison, according to prison attaches, found everj’ con demned man in favor of abolition of capital punishment, but all opposed to remedial leg islation proposed to punish first degree mur der. The slayers are all bitterly opposed to life punishment in solitary confinement, they said. This was suggested as a substitute for killing murderers, at the legislative hear ing on the bill to abolish the electric chair. “We’d rather walk to the chair and be burned,” said one, “than stay in solitary for life.” Frank Kelley, who killed Katherine Dunn in Brooklyn; John Flannigan, the Manhattan bandit, and other prisoners approved the re mark and denounced solitary confinement. Whate every slayer in the deathhouse fa vors, instead of the chair, for a capital of fense, iea sentence of from twenty years to lite in prison without the obnoxious isolation. This would free a slayer who behaved and performed his work properly, in fifteen years. Report from London states the house of lords, by a vote of 93 to 45, passed the sec ond reading of a bill introduced by Baron Buckmaster, proposing important divorce reforms. The bill, which is based on the majority report of a royal commission, extends the grounds for divorce to cover, among others, three years, desertion, habitual drunkenness and cases in which a sentence of death has been commuted to life imprisonment. After a powerful and impassioned speech by Baron Birkenhead, the lord chancellor, who supported the measure in behalf of the government, the second reading was carried despite the opposition of the Episcopal bench, the Catholic peers and the high Anglican church peers. The bill has not yet appeared in the house of commons, but is said to be almost cer tain of being carried when it gets there. copper-lined troughs, and, while he was grievously disappointed on these points, the extraordinary comfort and expert equipment of the institution almost made up for these lacks. The front view of the Harbor shows eight large buildings of a sort of weatherbeaten yellow brick, the Central Hall being distin guished from the others by an impressive white-pillared portico, above which flies a particularly clean American flag. These, however, are only the beginning of an in stitution, which is entirely self-supporting, from its bakeshop to its power plant, and from its laundry to its farm. The guide who volunteered to show the reporter over the huge estate was a tall, slightly bent old seaman, who spoke with a delightful Irish brogue. He wore the blue uniform and cap of a sea captain, which is the uniform worn by all the inmates, and he carried in his hand a long, thin, nervous cane. With his coattails flapping in the still March breeze, and with this cane, held firmly in the middle and pointed authorita tively toward some distant spot, he looked very much like the great figure he painted himself to be in the remote days of his youth, when he had “bossed’’ his own sail ing vessel. The eight main buildings of the Harbor are all connected, so that, as the guide pointed out with some pleasure, it was un necessary to go out-of-doors to pass from one to the other, but for the same reason it was hopelessly confusing to the sight seer. Somewhere in this vast connected men congregate by the hundreds (there are large and very good assortment of books; huge living room, with a great fireplace and comfortable leather easy chairs, where the men congregate by the hundreds there ire seven hundred altogether in the Harbor) smoking theii 1 seaman’s pipes and reading their newspapers, and a dining room, con taining long, narrow mess tables, set with fine linen and thick white chinaware. At tached to this is a serving room, in which the food is received by elevator from the kitchens below and placed in huge contain ers on a steam table. On the floor of this room, also, are tremendous tea and coffee urns, which look as if they might be the cap tured loot of Jack, the Giant Killer. The capacity of these urns is taxed several times a day, because ancient seamen consume cof fee almost as often as babies consume milk. Besides the kitchen on the lower floor, there are numerous workrooms, where many of the inmates have their private workshops, spending their time in making tennis nets, weaving curious foreign-looking baskets, and doing odd carpenter jobs. One man’s busi ness is to restore all of the crumbling chairs of the institution, for instance. The men are not required to do any work at all; their activities are entirely voluntary, and their products are bought by the Harbor for the same price that would be paid to outsiders. The only requirements of the Harbor are that a seaman must be sixty years old upon his entrance to the institu tion, and that he must have sailed at leat five years in an American ship. All he has to do, after he is once in there, is to attend the chapel services occasionally, and the rest of the time enjoy the many comforts and luxuries bequeathed to him by the founder of the Harbor, Robert Richard Randall. TLES DAI, MARCH 30, 1920. THE TRI-WEEKLY EDITORIAL DIGEST A National and Non-Partisan Summary of Leading Press Opinion on Current Questions and Events THE DEMAND FOR SIMPLER TAXES “Not one man in a hundred can sit down and intelligently fill out his income tax blank without consulting an expert,” declares the WHEELING REGISTER (Dem.), and there are thousands of people in the United States who will be glad to indorse this testimony. Consequently the recommendations of Secre tary of the Treasury Houston that our system of federal taxation be simplified, meet with general approval, though there is disagree ment as to the precise methods to be sub stituted. One of Mr. Houston’s most important rec ommendations is to remove the excess profits tax altogether and to establish in its place a flat tax of 20 per cent on undistributed earnings. Furthermore, the same rate of taxation would apply to corporations, part nerships and individuals indiscriminately. “One well known partnership,” the NEW YORK TIMES (Ind. Dem.) quotes Mr. Hous ton as saying, “paid $1,125,000 more taxes that it would have paid if the business had been incorporated, and there are many ex amples of the reverse effect in burdens on corporations.” Mr. Houston, then, would make it Impossible for a business to affect its taxation status by incorporating, or refusing to incorporate. “If we can’t have lower taxes, at least let us have a simpler taxes and less objection able taxes,” urges the ARIZONA GAZETTE (Ind. Dem.), but there are many that be lieve a reduction is possible at the same time. The WHEELING INTELLIGENCER (Rep.), calling attention to the striking fact that “the head of every family is paying, directly or indirectly, $550 annually in taxes,” be lieves that "rigid economy at Washington can reduce at least a portion of this,” and the FLORIDA TIMES-DEMOCRAT (Dem.) says: “The important thing is not a reduction of taxes, but a reduction of expenditures. It would be the height of folly to reduce taxes until the expenditures of the government are cut to a reasonable figure. . . . What changes hav<e occurred in conditions that make it necessary for the United States to spend more money than it spent six years ago? The war is ended; its activities are finished—why keep on the payrolls of the government men and women whose services were needed while the struggle was in prog ress, but are not needed now?” The NEW YORK TRIBUNE (Rep.) agrees that “the immediate and fundamental need at Washington is to eliminate deficits and balance the government’s accounts. It will be time thereafter to simply and reduce taxa tion or to consider proper additions to oui normal peace expenditure.” But in the face of the demand to reduce taxes by issuing more bonds, the FARGO COURIER-NEWS (Non-Part. League) prefers “not to decrease taxes, but to increase them to a point where they will meet expenditures,” since a bond issue “increases still further the inflation of the currency, raises a little higher all prices and makes more probable a final financial crash.” Yet one measure for increasing taxes seems to be unpopular. That is the proposal of Chairman Fordney, of the ways and means committee, to remove the exemption of $2,000 allowed to heads of families on their income computations. “It ie doubtful,” says the NEW YORK GLOBE (Ind.), “if such a measure will be tolerated by public opinion.” For, says the GLOBE; “The principle that great wealth should pay not only a greater sum, but at a greater rate than small wealth is fixed in the law and in the popular consciousness. It is no argument against the principle that it tends, though ever so slightly, to equalize wealth. The income tax may, in fact, be used, if oc casion ever arises, to prevent that dangerous accumulation of Wealth in a few hands that has ruined more than one Demcoratlc state. . . . It is a weapon that in ordinary times should be used sparingly, but one that should be kept intact for all emergencies.” The WICHITA EAGLE (Ind.) calls the suggestion the “rawest taxation proposal ever put into words in all the history of taxation.” It means, says the EAGLE, “if a man makes only $75 a month and has a family of eight, tax him exactly the same proportion of his income as you levy against Henry T. Doherty, billionaire bachelor bank merchant.” And the CANTON NEWS (Ind. Dem.) adds: HAPPINESS By H. Addington Bruce (Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News papers.) CHANCING to pass a millionaire’s pal ace you perhaps whisper to yoruself: “I know I should ne happy if I were rich enough to have a homp like that.” Or, reading in the newspapers of the coming of some celebrity from distant shores, the thought may occur to you: “To be as famous as this man would sure ly bring happiness to anybody.” Yet again, as the telegraph sends far and wide tidings of the election of a candidate to high office, the idea may intrude: “How happy it would make me to have the power that will be his:” If fancies such as these do beset your mind, I urge you to dismiss them as decep tive. Riches, fame, power, never iof them selves bring happiness. They may, indeed, be productive of un happiness. They are certain to be thus pro ductive if gained ignobly or put to unworthy uses. For then, no matter what satisfaction the consciousness of wealth, of renown, of in fluence, may give, there will be a gnawing discontent. In every man there is an in stinctive urge, a ‘‘categorical imperative,” to ideal behavior. The reward of obedience to .his urge is happiness. And happiness can be won in no other way. Recall Hamerton’s saying: “The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.” And ponder with this the words of a more recent philosopher, Frank Constable, as found in his curiously difficult yet spiritually most stimulating book, myself and Dreams.” “Happiness refuses to be caught. When pursued it cries, ‘I am not to be caught; 1 am a servant of duty; I follow duty. You catch duty, then I will serve you.’ ” Or, more concretely, again from Consta ble: “World conquerors have had their hours of glorious life when success has crowned rheir personal ambition. But these hours ire not worth the conquerors’ past ages of ratal conquest, if all have been passed in ■ife for personal success. "Such men are not happy even in the mo ‘ e"' victory. Or, if sense of victory can be read as happiness, the happiness is evanescent. It begins and ends in personal achievement and its crowded hour of glory. “The soldier, on the other hand, who, un known to fame, has fought for duty and re turned home maimed perhaps for life, carries with him for all his future on earth a higher level of happiness from the undying feeling of duty fulfilled.” Herein, assuredly, the secret of happiness lies. Thus alone may happiness be attained. Poverty, obscurity, even ill health cannot defraud of happiness the man or woman who follows duty’s urge. But neither can riches, “If members of the house want to know just how much attention the people are pay ing to their deliberations in Washington, they may be able to learn something by ad vocating the removal of the $2,000 exemp tion on incomes. It will create a political issue that will be understood by practically every voter who is earning his own living.” Nevertheless, such papers as the PHILA DELPHIA RECORD (Ind. Dem.) declare the “chief reason” for the complicated na ture of our taxes “is that the provision of a revenue is not the only purpose of the tax laws,” but that they were designed “to pen alize wealth and secure a more equitable dis tribution of property. . . . The prime pur pose of the tax laws should be to provide the necessary revenue, and not to accomplish certain sociological ends.” But actually it hasn’t worked that way, says the LOUIS VILLE POST (Ind.), for “this war taxation in time of peace works directly in the interest of the large taxpayers, and it adds enor mously to the cost of living. The time has come to curtail, if not to abandon, the ex cess profits tax.” Whether any tax revision can be under taken during the current session of congress is doubtful. “Many members are anxious to go home, especially as this is a campaign year,” observes the NEW YORK JOURNAL OF COMMERCE (Ind.), “and they do not wish to work for several months upon an amend ment of the taxing law,” and the SIOUX CITY TRIBUNE (Ind.) notes that “both par ties consider taxation changes a subject loaded with dynamite, and the politicians don’t care to play with explosives on the eve of a national election.” But “the time to act is now,” declares the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS (Ind.); “obstacles will not melt away of their own accord.” Furthermore, if our legislators do not act before June, the FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM (Ind. Dem.) thinks “the president can be depended on to call them back in special session in the very midst of the national campaign. He is not going to permit the solution of impor tant problems to lie over until after the elec tions if he can help it.” FROM FARM TO CITY Inquiries by the federal department of agriculture go to show that in this state within the last year 35>,000 men and boys left the farms for work in the cities, while the reverse movement was only about 11,000. The recent federal census indicates, it is said, a general shifting of population from west to east in the past ten years, as well as a general movement from country to city more rapid than theretofore. After more than a century of progress westward, the center of population is now turning back eastward. These are facts of extraordinary import. The country for many decades has had an increasing proportion of population living in cities. But this has proceeded slowly 1 and broadly and largely out of scientific progress in agriculture by which a given amount of labor applied to the land has been made vastly more productive. Lately, however, it has apparently been proceeding with un paralleled rapidity and on so sweeping a scale as even to affect the urban populations of the west in favor of the east. It is not a natural tendency. Its causes are of an arbitrary character. It is a prod uct of the war and of those inter ferences with t)ie competitive control of In dustry growing out of the economic neces sities of the wjr and of government action compelled by those necessities. But It is here now in the fulness of its consequences, and the problems it imposes as affecting a tolerable life in the cities and their feeding are now beginning to impress themselves with overwhelming weight in many directions. Immediate remedies will have to be found as the sheer force of circumstance compels. But no general and effective remedy can be found short of removal of restraints upon competitive industry imposed by w> con ditions, whether imposed by government or by capitalistic combinations or by an undue growth in the power and exactions of or ganized labor in the cities. —NEW YORK WORLD (Dem.) THE WORST KIND OF INFIDEL By Dr. Frank Crane (Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.) As far back as Solomon men who under stood know that the worst thing that can happen a bad man, a cheat, a sneak, or a rogue is to succeed. It is well to remember that the end of every hog is the slaughter house. Sooner or later the butcher gets him. The worst kind of an infidel is the man who loses his belief in the value of being straight, clean, true, and kind. You may doubt the New Jerusalem and the bad place, you may be a skeptic about Gabriel and Jonah and Mrs. Eddy and Our Lady of Lourdes, and possibly you may worry along and be a tolerably decent sort of man; but if you fall into a belief in the omnipotence of skulldruggery, chicanery, and bluster, you’re sure tn a bad way. Put away all this manner of talk. It’s bad. It’s worse than bad,i it’s , weak. “There’s no use being honest; it’s the smooth rascal that gets there. If you want to get on in this world you must bluff. The fellows who do good work are not those who hand out the con. Life’s a confidence game. The bunco man is king.” In a sense there’s some truth in that. But success is not everything. A man has his life to live. He has to keep a face that he is not ashamed to look at in the glass while he is shaving. He has to keep a mind and a memory that will let him sleep. He has to keep a mouth fit to kiss his wife with. And, most important of all, he has to keep eyes that are not afraid to look in to the eyes of his children. And, more than that, he wants to feel glad while he’s doing it. The half of hon esty is lost if it doesn’t make you feel good. “Godliness with contentment is great gain,’’ says the good book. And the fact is that discontented godliness is half rotten. When you sit down to a game of cards, or of chess, or of dominoes, in order really to enjoy yourself you want to resolve two things—first, to try your best to win, and second, to look pleasant, act pleasant, and, as near as human frailty will permit, to feel pleasant, if you should lose. And the game of life and love and busi ness needs about the same attitude of mind. Go in to win! Get to the head of the class; sell more goods than any other sales man; .make more money than any of your relations; marry the girl you want! But suppose you lose? It is then you are discovered. If you sulk and are sore, if you begin to give reasons why you reaMy were the one that should have succeeded, if you decry the winner, why, you are small. That’s all—just petty and mean. But if you bob up smiling, bear no malice, wish the best man luck, and don’t pout, then, ten to one, you are a better man than the victor. * fame, nor power bring happiness if life has been a doding of duty, a defying of the dic tates of the soul. A