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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 Wtl Mo. 3 Mog. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday2oc 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Dally 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 frep. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mat- Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS ' The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Bemittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. The Business Trend IN every effort to discern the trend of the country’s economic conditions it should be borne in mind that they are in a state of transition—for the better, it may be, or for worse, but certainly chang ing. The fact is, as Vice President Sisson, of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, recently observed in a public address, busi ness is never at a standstill. “It is either rising or falling,” he said, and byway of evidence recalled the notable fluctuations of American business since 1873. In that year there was a distressful financial panic, fol lowed by a business ebb on to 1879. For the next two or three years business im proved, but in 1883 and 1884 it went down ward again, and in 1885 it was pronouncedly low. Then, from 1886 to 1890, it ascended and reached a high level. But from 1890 to 1896 it suffered an appreciable decline, only to recover and wax prosperous from 1897 to 1-902. During the next few years there were only slight changes, 1906 marking a gener ally vigorous condition. But in 1907 and 1908 reverses were felt, after which came a slightly upward curve. Down again went the scales in 1910 and 1911, and the ensuing two years were “low.’’ Then came the war, shock, soon succeeded by exceptionally stim ulating conditions. From 1914 to 1920 Amer ican business has moved upward with giant strides. But what of the present and the fu ture? Is this transitional stage to eventuate in times more satisfactory, or less so? Today we are keenly aware of high living costs, scarcity of necessaries, high production costs, restricted credits and heavy taxes. The first two of these conditions, prices and supplies, are obviously connected, and both are affected, of course, by the rate and the cfest of production. This does not mean that eVSry instance of burdensome prices is thus to be accounted for; it does not exclude the idea of profiteering and certainly not the fact of extravagance. But it does admonish us to study each problem of this nature in the light of reason and realities rather than impatience and misinformation, as we are all too prone to do. It .s proper, too, to observe that the so-called "excess profits tax,” ill contrived as it is now generally acknowledged to be, bears heavily upon the rank and file and adds considerably to the cost of living. Some authorities argue, indeed, that the in come tax system itself must be revised if impairment of industrial vigor and fruitful ness are to be avoided. As to production, a most potent factor in business tendencies as well as in prices, it is plain that whatever restricts or retards its normal processes is bad for the country’s common interests. Some retardments are be yond human control, as when untoward weather conditions prevent the planting or maturing of wheat, cotton and other basic crops. Others, one would think, assuredly could be averted by the exercise of common sense and fair-play.. The recent railroad strike is estimated to have cost the roads alone three million dollars a day, most of which the public will have to make up, besides enormous losses, direct and indirect, to busi ness at large. One authority has reckoned that the strikes of 1919, many if not most of which were unauthorized by responsiole leadership, imposed an aggregate loss of sev en hundred and twenty-five million dollars upon labor, in the item of wages, and one and a quarter billion dollars upon industry. The loss to the general public was incalcu lable. Whatever their cause or nature, re straints and interferences in production are peculiarly unfortunate at a time when the world’s stock of needments has been de pleted by the most wearing and wasteful war of history. Energy, skill, thrift, stability and the spirit of co-operation were never more valuable, either to the individual or to the world than in the stressful present. All these conditions must be taken into ac-‘ count if we would get a fair idea of the business trend and prospect. By bringing to bear upon each of them as best we may the counsels of common sense, •neighborliness and patriotism, we shall be doing much to unravel the perplexities of the day and to z secure a prosperous future. Whatever the temporary turn of the scales and swing of the pendulum may be, we have the assur ance of a land singularly blest in all the fun damentals of good fortune. We have, more over, the safeguards of the soundest bank ing and currency system the nation has ever possessed—a system that virtually precludes the possibility of financial panics. Thus for tified, the people of America need have no misgivings for the business future if they will but make the most of their bountiful op portunities and stand true to their obliga tions. For a Prosperous Autumn SPEAKING from abundance of informa tion and friendly solicitude, the Geor gia State Bureau of Markets advises the planting of foodstuffs as the safest agri cultural investment now to be made. While present prices on cotton are tempting, it says, “the hazards against that crop are greatly increased.” Wherefore, “Every farmer should weigh well the possibilities. We believe every food crop will bring fair prices. Plant corn, pea nuts, velvet beans, field peas, sugar cane and sorghum. Raise hogs and cattle. So divide your crops that a misfortune to any one product will not seriously affect you? entire year’s work. It is not too late to plant any of these crops. Diversify, remove the incubus of a one- * • THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. crop plan. It will result in more con tentment to your soul and more money to your bank account.” The wisdom and foresight of this counsel, if consistently applied, will mean a secure and prosperous autumn. Untoward weather has delayed spring work to such an extent that cotton is likely to be unusually late in maturing. This means extraordinary risks, against the boll weevil in southern counties and against blighting frosts in the north. That there will be a profitable market for all the cotton produced is not to be gainsaid. But with the chances of production so uncer tain, it would be exceedingly ill advised to stake the farm's hopes upon this crop to the exclusion or curtailment of foodstuffs. The pronounced shortage in winter wheat is but one among many indications that the future market for grain; and other food sta ples will be highly advantageous to the grower. Out of the rich diversity which Geor i gia soil and climate afford for such crops the planter can make sure of ample success and rewards in several fields, even though he fail in others. Herein lies the special aptness of the Market Bureau’s advice to present con ditions. In any circumstances good judg ment as well as agricultural science calls for crop diversification. But in the peculiar dis . ficulties and uncertainties now upon us any I other policy w r ould be altogether rash. The Good Roads Bond Issue. THE county commissioners of Georgia through their association are render ing the state a fine constructive serv ice by informing the people of the details of the bill now pending in the Legislature to amend the Constitution so as to provide for a great bond issue .to build highways. Georgia’s highway program consisted of .two parts. The first part consisted of the bill increasing the scale of motor vehicle licenses and setting aside the proceeds for highway construction, and the/ bill creating a Highway Commission. This part was passed by the Legislature in 1919. The High way Commission has been hard at work for several months. Composed of good men combining technical, business and legal experience, it has mapped, out a sys tem of trunk highways linking together the counties of the state. It is ready to proceed on a great scale when thq second part of the highway program goes through. The sec ond part consists of the bill .amending the Constitution so as to provide for an issue of highway bonds to be retired with the pro ceeds of the motor vehicle licenses. This second part of the legislative program was introduced at the session of 1919 and progressed substantially toward passage. There being no haste about it, however, in view of the fact that Constitutional amend ments are not to be submitted to the people until the general election of 1920, the Leg islature allowed it io go over as unfinished business, which allowed the people twelve months to study and discuss its provisions. The highway commissioners through their association have had Mr. Frank Reynolds, it man well posted on all details of the high way program, making speeches for several months, explaining to the people exactly what it means and the reasons why they should support the Legislature in passing the bill and should vote for its ratification when the referendum is taken. The increased scale of motor vehicle licenses will produce in 1920 a revenue of nearly $2,000,000. As the number of motor vehicles increases from year to year, the rev enue will increase. Motor vehicle owners are willing to pay the increased license when they know the money is going directly into highway construction. Which would be the better business pol icy—to spend $2,000,000 a year on highway construction, thus progressing slowly to wards the ultimate goal of a state-wide sys tem of trunk roads connecting all county seats; or to issue $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 of bonds, build the trunk line system in two or three years, and use the motor vehicle license money to pay the interest and sink ing fund? That is the sole question raised by the pending Constitutional amendment. That the people of the state will at once perceive the advantages of the latter plan is reasonably certain if they understand the facts. A big bond issue will enable the State to construct its highway system at once without delay, and the present generation will get the ben efits of it, while future income from motor vehicle licenses will pay the interest and sinking fund without a dollar of ad valorem taxation. Motor vehicle owners generally speaking are bound to favor the bond issue plan of immediate construction, as against the other plan of year-by-year construction, inasmuch as they will enjoy the pleasure and profit of riding on the roads which they are paying for. Georgia is in fact as well as in name a most wonderful empire. Her mountain re sources of forest, mine and water power; her almost unlimited agricultural possibili ties; her splendid sea front furnished with harbors inviting the development of a great ocean trade; her diversity of soil and climate; her unmixed strain of Anglo-Saxon citizen ship—what more could a State or a Nation have to make it great? When a highway system is added to these, then will commence an era of development the like of which no other State in the Union has -ever experienced. Already fourth in agricultural output, Georgia’s produc tion has only commenced. The time is not distant when the value of the products of her farms and orchards will far surpass in value and variety the richest State on the North American continent. No other investment will pay such divi dends as $50,000,000 invested in highways. Increased land values alone will pay the entire cost of the highway system in five years. The Legislature ought to pass and the people ought to ratify the Constitutional amendment. It is & business proposition which should riot be rejected. The Scarcity of Farm Labor. Farmers Complain that short hours and high wages have attracted thousands of. la borers from the farm to the city. The worker, with-more or less justice, replies that the farmer demands sixteen, hours for a day’s labor, provides unattractive and disagreeable sleeping quarters, and offers no form of recreation beyond an occasional cock fight in the barn yard. The fact that there is an element of truth in the contention of each makes it apparent that both should seek a basis of mutual agreement, for in no other way can the problem be solved satisfactorily. “Short hours, high pay and easy work in the cities have not only kept outside labor away from the farms, but it is taking the farmer’s children and even the farmers themselves to the cities and leaving the farms sadly undermanned,” writes an Illinois far mer, who adds that “the result will be that in a short time city labor will have its pockets full of money and nothing in its stomach.” There is a good deal of truth in what this Illinois farmer has to say, and there is in his statement a fact that is designed to bring the farmer and the laborer together. The man with an appetite, and nothing in his stomach, is very likely to seek to go where he can get plenty to eat in exchange for what he has in his pockets. MAN AND MACHINERY By H. Addington Bruce ONE hundred per cent employment, ‘di minished production, decreased effi ciency, increasing discontent. Thus a business man the other day summarized the labor situation. He was inclined quite evidently to attrib ute what he described as a truly alarming state of affairs to “socialistic agitation.” He spoke of growing “class antagonism” and de plored “the unreasonable hostility of labor to capital.” But there is one factor of which he made no mention, yet which is .perhaps chiefly re sponsible for the widespread unrest among the workers. It is a distinctly psychological factor and.is found in the restrictive influ ence exercised by our machine industrialism on a fundamental human instinct. Every normal man, no matter what his social status, has an inborn urge to creative self-expression. He cannot be happy, he can not even feel at ease, unless in some way this urge is gratified. And formerly every man had in his work a means for gratifying the creative impulse. In the days before the invention of the steam engine and the growth of the factory system every worker* was, and felt himself to be, a creator of whatever his industry produced. If he were, let us suppose, a shoemaker, he had scope for true creation through every stage of the making of a shoe. Contrast the shoamaking process of today, as described by Andre Tridon, for example, in his “Psycho- Analysis:” “The men and women employed in mod ern shoe factories, who simply release a lever a hundred times a day, stopping or starting some electrically-driven machine tool, per form day after day monotonous tasks of a fragmentary character. “Not one of them sees more than a part of a shoe. Those who assemble the parts had no share in the producing of those parts.” This means a thwarting, a blocking, of’tlie instinct for self-expression. A similar thwart ing is found in every industry where the in vention of machinery, has promoted special ization of labor. \ But, as psychologists are well aware, trou ble results when an instinct is denied all real ization. Especially must this be true of so fundamental, so insistent an instinct as the creative urge. And as machinery has more and more multiplied the ranks of those blocked from self-expression have grown. Which is one of the great reasons social unrest has increased with the passing of the years. Os course, we cannot revert to the days of handwork. Modern industrialism has come to stay. But we can and we should encourage and assist the workers in machine industrialism to find ways of satisfying their vital need for self-expression in the hours when they are away from the machine. Today most workers merely “kill time” during their leisure. They engage in amuse ments which have no creative value what ever, hence which leave them as dissatisfied as their monotonous, specialized w|jrk. But some, the truly fortunate, take up hobbies that permit them self-expression as their work does not. We see these lucky ones perhaps cultivat ing little gardens, in the cool of the evening, perhaps playing some musical instrument, perhaps developing a 'gift for painting or writing, perhaps taking part in constructive social work. In their hobbies they are happy and con tented—as those without hobbies can never be, no matter what their wages, if their daily work itself is instinct-thwarting. There is a hint here for employers and em ployed alike. Its acceptance, I am persuad ed, will go far to bring the industrial peace which we manifestly and sorely need. (•Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News papers.) THE HOSPITAL By Dr. Frank Crane (Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.) The medical profession is simply the best intelligence of the race applied to the sub ject of health. It is common sense addressed to physical welfare. It is fact versus hocus-pocus; truth ver sus fiction; experience versus fancy; noon day versus twilight. At least that is what it ought to be, strives to be. That is its ideal. It does not attain it, of coprse; for an ideal attained is no longer ap ideal. We criticize regular doctors, and pooli pooh their pretensions (until we get sick) just as we cry out against legislators, gov ernors, and all others who have public re sponsibilities, because that is our favorite American indoor sport. We don’t mean it. The hospital is the physician’s workshop. That is all it is. It is merely a place where he can work to best advantage, as a mechanic can work better in his shop with all his tools about him, and a cook can produce better meals in her kitchen than over a camp fire. If it is worth while having a medical pro fession at all it is worth while having a place where they can do their best. That means that a city’s hospitals are the measure of the city’s intelligent regard for its life. The enemies of the hospital are selfish ness, callous indifference, ignorance, and su perstition. The peanut-souled citizen who is well and does not want to disturb his *peace by think ing about sickness, will not assist the hos pital. The fakers, frauds, patent-medicine graft ers, and other vultures that profit on the miseries of their fellows, do not help hospi tals. The faddists, monomaniacs, religio-philo sophic cranks, and all those who put their peculiar superstitious obsession above their reason, do not favor hospitals. N|it every physician who has carefully pre pared himself for his life work, who has studied what the wisest have learned before him, who has learned at the feet of the most skilful, who has sworn loyalty to truth and seeks honestly to practice his art in away to be of the most benefit to men, every physician in fine that wants to do his best, wants a hospital, for that is the best of places in which to do it. And an intelligent and sane community wants a hospital because it wants those who are set apart to care for its health, to do good work, the best possible work, under the best possible conditions. QUIPS AND* QUIDITIES An optimistic Colorado farmer, on seeing some clouds floating by, remarked: “Well, I guess we are going to have some rain.” “Aw!” said his pessimistic neighbor, an ex-railroad man,, “those are just empties coming back from lowa.” “That feller at the next table is a lucky guy,” observed Uncle Timseed, indicating a heavy, two-handed feeder who was filling his face with mashed potatoes and peas, using his knife for a trowel. “He come into money from both sides o’ the family an’ got all kinds of it.” “Yes,’ assented his city nephew, “he cer tainly looks as though he had been born with a gold knife in his mouth.’ CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST Dr. Frederick H. Millener, foremost wireless telephone expert of the country, is listening to catch signals that the people on the planet Mars may be hurtling across a space of millions of miles to the people on the earth. Mr. Millener is stationed at a lonely farm house in Omaha, Neb., where none of the ordinary el’ectric currents around a great city can in terfere with hl’s work. Dr. Millener is surrounded by the apparatus of the most powerful wireless receiving station in the world. His intensifiers will magnify even the faintest com motions among the waves of the air until they break as a storm upon the apparatus, which will make a permanent record of them and per mit their study at the leisure of the scientists. The planet Mars is closer to the earth just now than at any other time of the year. Dr. Millener’s instruments are tuned to a 300,000- meter wave length. A 20,000-meter length of wave is an extremely long one for wireless use on the earth. And it is by the extreme length of wave that Dr. Millener expects to decide whether any signal which he may record is from the earth or from out in interplanetary .space. Wave lengths used on the earth are a known quantity. Waves of other lengths, according to Dr. Millener, may come from another planet. According to news received from Washington an investigation into the causes of friction between whites and blacks in the United States and of the “increasing discontent” among the negroes would be authorized un der a bill introduced today* by Sena tor Spencer. Republican, of Missouri. A commission of nine members, three of whom would be negroes, and an annual appropriation of $50,000 is proposed. Information received from Ottawa, Canada, states that a bill proposing that dealers in German or Austrian goods be required to advertise that fact, passed its second reading in the senate after considerable debate. The penalty for violation is six months’ imprisonment or SSOO fine, or both. The main purpose of the bill is to protect persons who ob jected to purchasing German goods. Among the latest news events got ten direct from Washington it is said that Secretary of the Navy Daniels accepted from Major J. E. Wrench, secretary of the English Speaking union, a check for $30,000 to be used for the erection of a monolith in New York harbor to commemorate the part American naval forces played in the Dover patrol during the world war. Those present at the presentation ceremony were Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, Ronald C. Lindsay, coun sellor of the British embassy; Major General Bethel, military attache, and Admiral Niblack, chief of naval intel ligence. In handing the check to Mr. Dan iels, Major Wrench said that it rep resented “the good wishes of the British people to the great American navy.” Mr. Daniels, in accepting the gift, dwelt upon the co-operation and good fellowship of the American and British navies during the war. The monolith to be erected in New York harbor will be an exact copy of the obelisk already in course of erec tion on the cliffs of Dover, in Eng land, and near Ca.pe Blanc, in France. At a meeting of the National Academy of Science at the Cosmos club. Washington, D. C., Dr. Charles D. Walcott, president of the acad emy, announced that the institution will erect a building as its home and headquarters here to cost $1,400,- 000. Carnegie corporation of New York made possible erection of the build ing through offering to the National Academy $5,000,000 to build the structure and endow the national For More Than Forty Years Cotton Growers have known that POTASH PAYS More than 11,651,200 Tons of Potash Salts had been imported and used in the 'United States in the 20 years previous to January, 1915, when shipments ceased. Os this 6,460,- 700 Tons consisted of KAINIT which the cotton grower knew was both a plant food and a preventive of blight and rust, —with it came also 1,312,400 Tons of 20 per cent MANURE SALT which has the same effects on Cotton, but which was used mainly in mixed fertilizers. I Shipments of both Kainit and Manure Salt have been resumed but the shortage of coal and cars and high freight rates make it more desirable to ship Manure Salt, which CONTAINS 20 PER CENT OF ACTUAL POTASH, instead of Kainit, which con tains less than 13 per cent actual Potash. MANURE SALT can be used as a side dressing on Cotton in just the same way as Kainit and will give the same results. Where you used 100 pounds of Kainit, you need to use but 62 pounds of Manure Salt, or 100 pounds of Manure Salt go as far as 161 pounds of Kainit. MANURE SALT has been coming forward in considerable amounts and cotton growers, who can not secure Kainit, should make an effort to get Manure Salt for side dressing to aid in making a big Cotton Crop. Muriate of Potash 50 per cent actual Potash, has been coming forward also, —100 pounds of Muriate are equivalent to 400 pounds of Kainit or 250 pounds of Manure Salt. These are the three Standard GERMAN Potash Salts that were always used in making cotton fertilizers and have been used for all these years with great profit and WITHOUT ANY DAMAGE TO THE CROP. The supply is not at present as large as in former years, but there is enough to greatly increase the Cotton Crop if you insist on your dealer making the necessary effort to get it for you. DO IT NOW Soil and Crop Service Potash Syndicate H. A. Huston, Manager 42 Broadway New York research council provided that the academy should furnish a site and submit satisfactory building plans. Friends of the academy contributed a fund for this purpose and a site in Potomac park, opposite Lincoln memorial, has been purchased. The national research council was organized in accordance with an executive order of President Wilson in May, 1918. and has brought to gether all research organizations In the country. The anti-dumping idea has taken strong hold on Canada. The Canadian legislation which prevents merchan dise being sold in her markets at less prices than in the country of produc tion is well known, and has perhaps been applied most frequently to un suspecting American firms that sent goods across oqr northern border. Byway of showing impartiality, Canada has now notified England that Canadian securities are not to be dumped upon the Canadian mar ket either, no matter how profitable the state of exchange may make the operation for British holders. At about the same time. Canada added freight cars to the articles she wants to keep at home. The list already in cludes wood plup of which we stand in dire need at a time when our quadrennial political campaigns are coming on apace. Opportunity enough, congress is considering send ing an American mission to treat with Canada for the purpose of lib erating more material for newsprint paper. Tailors in Springfield,- Mass., who have been asked to make alterations in suits purchased by a large local insurance company for its employes in an effort to meet living costs, have refused to touch the suits, it was announced recently. The 165 employes to be supplied therefore will depend on home help in fitting. The 165 suits are all that could be obtained of a big con signment sent to this country by the British government to be distributed through big corporations. The suits were made for returned British sol diers. Charged with attempting to mo nopolize the growing and sale of Hawaiian pineaples. Swift & Co. and Libby, McNeil & Libby. Chicago, and Libby, McNeill & Libby, Honolulu, were cited by the federal trade com mission at Washington to answer comlamts of unfair competition and of acquiring competitors’ stock con trary to provisions of .the Clayton act. The averments assert that the companies acquire control of five competing pineapple concerns in Hawaii. .According to a statement from Wasnington, coinage of half dollars, commemorating the centennial anni versary of the admission of Maine and Alabama a s states and the 300th anniversary of the landing of the Filgrims, are authorized in bills passed unanimously by the house re cently and sent to the senate. A half million coins would be pro duced m observance of the landing of V™ A?A ,s S ims at Plymouth Rock and 100,000 for each of the state cen tennials. Sugar will certainly soar high above the present lofty prices, while prices on all foods will almost sure ly be increased. Such was the mes sage of E. F. Bushnell, secretary of Austin Nichols & Co., as the spokes man of the food products division of the American Manufacturers’ Ex pert association, at the regular monthly luncheon, New York city, in the Hotel Pennsylvania. Decrease! production in foods, said Mr. Bush nell, is responsible for the increased prices. “We have the machinery in this country to increase our production.” he said, “if only labor and capital would get together. So long as TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1920. DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON Be Your Own Good Fairy The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer BY DOROTHY DIX Do you remember how, in Peter Pan, Maud Adams would come down to the footlights and in that thrilling voice of hers ask, "Do you believe in fairies?” And the whole house would shout back at her: “Yes!” A belief in fairies is r very beauti ful and lovely thing, and an agree able and innocuous pa»Uwie if in dulged in for an hour or so occasion ally in the twilight, but it becomes a very dangerous and mischievous faith if one tries to make a working proposition to it. And this is what women do. Nine ty-nine per cent of the women in the world still believe in fairies, and they are sitting around waiting fpr their fairy godmother to come along and pull off some more Cinderella stuff, and change their pumpkins into lim ousines, and their hand-me-downs into Paris confections, and transport them from their own gas ranges to scenes of princely splendor. And they expect all of this change to come about through some touch of magic wand, and* without calling upon them for any labor or effor*:. Now tl# days of magic are ' not past. Many a woman who began lite as a kitchen drudge passes on to riches and splendor. There are still fairies and fairy godmothers, and con jure, but they work in a different way in these times, and we call them by different names. The other name of the good fairy used to be luck. Now we call her pluck. Nowadays a woman does not have to sit around wishing for a good fairy. All she has to do is to get up and be her own good fairy. Let’s see about it. The first thing that the forlorn maiden used to ask her fairy god mother for was beauty, and imme diately the ugly duckling was turned into a beautiful swan. Her carroty hair became gtjjden, her pug nose straight, her sallow complexion bloomed with lilies and roses, and her snaggled teeth were converted into peatls. Some miracle! ‘ The modern woman can practical ly work this same metamorphosis in herself whenever she chooses.’ She can give light and luster to hair by brushing it. She can make over he? complexion- and her figure by diet and exercise, and a lovely set of teeth are simply a secret between her and her dentist. Moreover, a woman’s looks are largely a matter of clothes. Any young girl, not a monstrosity, is a dream in white chiffon, and what shade, color and line will camouflage in the way of defects is beyond all human guessing. The second gift that the distrait maiden asked of her fairy godmoth er was a husband. 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I. in these days when the husband sup ply_ is so far below par. Not so. The girl who wants to marry is stilt, be?- -Jbst match maker_ hwt must depend upon hersen, and get out and look up the kind of a man she wants, instead of sitting •in the corner sucking her thumbs waiting for the fairy prince ,to happen along. v There is no use in angling in a stream in which there’ are no fish nor is there any use in fishing for a viJiale with a fly, nor attempting to harpoon a brook Hout. So the woinan who is her own matrimonial good fairy goes out into business where men are plentiful, and she finds the bait that is most alluring to'the poor fish that she desires, and before he knows is she has land ed him. The third gift that a maiden asked of her fairy godmother was money, so that she might adorn herself in glad raiment and ride in a coach and tour. The woman who is her own good fairy doesn’t waste any time in wishing for money nowadays. She goes out and earns it, for she has found out that if women put in half the time, and the labor, and the en ergy in working that they do in want ing things they could buy them for themselves. The fourth gift that the maiden asked of her fairy godmother was happiness. The woman who is her own good fairy bestows this upon herself. She fills her life full of so many interests that there is never a dull moment in it. The days are too short to do all the thifigs that she has planned to do, and there is al ways something exciting to look for ward to in tomorrow. She has found out that there is no happiness save in unselfishness, and so she does not try to drug herself into a state of sensuous bliss with riches, ease and softness. She finds happiness in being of service to oth ers, and doing a worthy work in the world. She loves and gives herself. She broadens her mind and her heart. She possesses her soul ,in calm and peace, for she knows that if we find happiness at all we must find it in ourselves. No one can can give it to us from the outside. No circum stances of life can assure it. And that is all there is to the fairy business. It is pluck and not luck that wins out in life. If we win what we want we must be go-getters, not stay-wanters. Nothing is so fu tile as to sit with idle hands wish ing for the good things of the world, and believing that somehow, some way they are going to be dropped from the clouds into one’s lap. Noth ing comes that way but envy,, jeal ousy and bitter disappointment. Yet that is the way many women spend their lives wanting things they might have if only they had the en ergy to go after them. Eating their hearts out in dreary waiting for some miracle to come and change their lots when they have the magic wand in their own hands that would work the miracle if they only had spunk enough to wave it. Believe me, sisters, the only per fectly reliable fairy godmother that any woman ever has is herself. So don’t wait for your good fairy any longer. Get on the job yourself. Dorothy Dix’s articles will appear in this paper every Monday, Wednes day and Friday. (Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler , Syndicate, Inc.)