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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta, Ga.
K ill There Be Two Mexicoes?
THE spread of the revolution in north
ern AJexico strengthens the possibility
of, that region’s breaking permanently
away from the old federation and forming
a distinct republic. Sonora’s secession is a
manifest and but feebly challenged fact.
There have been bold and stubborn revolts
in that quarter in times gone by, but none so
substantial as this appears to be. Some sev
en years ago a band of adventurous doc
trinaires succeeded in setting up a Socialist
republic on the Lower California peninsula
and in maintaining it for five months. A har
dier fling was that of William Walker, a San
Francisco newspaper man who in 1853 led
an expedition of filibusterers who landed in La
Paz, proclaimed an independency, got Sono
ra itself under sway, and held their grip
till the Central Mexican Government had
placed a formidable army in the field against
them. This was the same Walker (the “Gray-
Eyed Man of Destiny’’ he was called), who
fell a few years later before a firing squad
in Nicaraugua after a brief tenure as that
country’s President.
But the present situation in Sonora seems
to be of a character quite different from
those roistering escapades. It is not of out
side origin, but altogether internal in both
motive and development. Behind it and be
neath it is the discontent of a people desper
ately tired of Carranza’s misrule and deter
mined to set up a Government of their own.
They have the resources and the capacities
for that enterprise; why, then, they argue,
go on paying tribute to the senile dictator
ship at Mexico City? It was foregone that the
fire thus kindled and fed should light simi
lar ambitions in neighboring States. Sinaloa,
Nayarit and Chihuahua all are aflame, or
soon will be, if we may credit consistent re
ports from sundry sources. Defections from
the Carranza ranks have been noted at
divers points. It is significant, indeed, that
thus far the revolutionary movement has
widened ripple-like with little or no blood
shed, so spiritless is the Carranza element.
If the trend continues thus and no com
manding figure rises to hold the federation
intact, is it not likely that we shall have two
Mexicoes, a Northern and a Southern? Or,
mayhap, a more numerous splitting up of the
now ill jointed nation? Touching the former
possibility, the El Paso Herald observes that
Northern and Southern Mexico have little in
common aside from language, and views the
prospect of division with much satisfaction.
This “may be the beginning of the end of
Mexican troubles,” that paper suggests; for,
the new republic in the north, being well
disposed to our country, “might serve as a
sort of buffer State between the American
and Mexican frontiers.” That assuredly
would mollify if not remove old vexations as
far as this side of the border is concerned,
and might also improve conditions on the
other side. Half a Mexico in peace and good
order would be better by far than the strife
torn and well-nigh lawless “Union” which
has darkened the stage, with but few inter
missions, since the passing of the elder Diaz.
Opulent in mines and oil fields, the northern
Slates would go prosperously forward if once
given stable and enlightened government. As
much may be said for the southern regions,
for their natural resources afford splendid
material for wealth and progress. It is quite
conceivable, moreover, that a Government
which directed its energies wholly to that
section of the country, being freed from de
mands and perils in the distant north and
west, would prove equal to the task and be
come truly efficient. Certainly Mex ; co is in
need of intensive administration, and that
would be much easier, in many respects, if
the fields of responsibility were narrowed.
At this point, it must be admitted, comes the
danger of fierce contention between the two
Mexicoes which we are imagining, contention
over boundaries and related issues. But if
the seceding States kept their present de
marcations, as doubtless they would, this
problem would be greatly simplified.
In any event conditions could not be much
worse than they threaten to become under
the present makeshift which goes by the
name of “Central Government” at Mexico
City, nor indeed much worse than tuey have
been during the larger part of Carranza's
“Presidency.” The most which that cantan
kerous egotist has managed to do in foreign
relations has been to prove his pro-German
ism during the World War and his petty
spleen toward the United States. Effort af
ter effort of the Washington Government to
befriend his country he has repulsed with no
pretense to common courtesy; and instead
of doing a patriot’s part to bring about a
better understanding of the United States on
the part of ins people, he nas played the
demagogic game of appealing continually to
ignorant prejudice. Wretched as his foreign
policies have been, they are little worse than
his domestic administration. So long as a
regime like his continues there will be no
reasonable hope of Mexico’s emergence into
the light of peace and opportunity.
It is natural, then, that the present revo
lutionary movement, uncertain though its
consequence is, should be regarded rather
comjilacently by onlookers who wish to see
Mexico’s foreign relations stabilized and her
internal affairs established upon a basis of
law and freedom. That the United States will
pursue a course of non-interference in the
issue which Sonora and its northern neigh
bors have joined with the Central Govern
ment is to be taken for granted. But it can
hardly be questioned that in the minds of
the majority of Americans this neutrality
will have a decidedly benevolent glance for
the insurgents.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
A Million-Doll ar Endowment]
For the State University
THOUGHTFUL citizens throughout the
state and the South will be cordially
interested in the movement recently
projected at an alumni conference at the Uni
versity of Georgia to raise a million dollars
for the endowment of that institution and
to press its just claims for more liberal
treatment in Legislative appropriations.
These ends must be attained if the Uni
versity is to meet the ever-increasing de
mands upon its service and play its right
ful part in the Commonwealth’s life and
upbuilding. How better can they be sought
than under the leadership of the loyal
alumni, of whom there are more than six
thousand?
These men, residing in every county
and representing every field of endeavor,
have a most inspiring opportunity to carry
the University’s cause to the hearts of the
rank and file. Theirs is the privilege and
obligation of speaking out as sons of the
institution that has been in very truth a
“fostering mother,” not to them alone but
as well to the highest interests of their
State and their people. Once awaken the
public mind to the real meaning and mis
sion of the University, and there will be no
difficulty in procuring ample funds for its
upkeep and development. Once let a loyal
citizenry understand just what this seat of
education and service signifies to Georgia,
just how essential it is in the march of pros
perity and progress, just how rich and mani
fold are its potential gifts for farm and fac
tory and office and home, and never again
will it go begging for justice in endowment
and appropriations.
But as matters stand the University is
grievously handicapped in the work which
it is so eager to do and of which there is
urgent need. It has been nineteen years
since it received an appropriation for dormi
tory building, and fourteen years since it
received a dollar of public funds for build
ing of any kind. This is unfair to the faith
ful laborers in the State’s chief educational
establishment; •it is unfair to the youth of
Georgia and to the future whose builders
and leaders they must be; it is unfair to
every interest and every ideal of the Com- j
monwealth.
The Journal believes that a well conceived I
movement to remedy this unhappy and alto
gether unnecessary condition ot affairs will
meet generous response. At a time when
the people of Georgia are thinking more
intently than ever before upon the material
and human import of education they as
suredly will not stand indifferent to their
own State University if its needs and merits
are brought home to them. The alumni of
the University • who recently gathered at
Athens and laid the base of a campaign for
this purpose are entitled to full-hearted co
operation, not only from their comrades
throughout the State, but from good citi
zens all, and particularly from these whose,
official capacity, either as members of the
General Assembly or holders of other pub
lic trusts, gives them special influence and
responsibility.
It will be a great day for Georgia when
the cause thus furrowed comes shining to
harvest. Let every loyal heart and hand
nelp to speed the consummation.
The Crisis of the School.
RARELY is American leadership summon
ed to so important a conference as that
which the United States Commissioner
of Education has called at Washington for
May the nineteenth and twenty-first to take
counsel on the urgent school problems that I
confront every State and almost every
community in the nation. Not teachers alone,
but business men, farmers, labor officials’,
members of school and college boards, and
representatives from every field of the coun
try’s common interests are bidden to this
meeting. The Secretary of Interior well says,
in appealing for co-operation from* all States,
counties and cities, “The emergency in educa
tion arising out of the present and prospec
tive shortage of teachers is of so great im
portance as to justify the calling of a na
tional conference.”
In truth, it is a question of national de
fense, a question of saving the life-stream
that renews and preserves and keeps vigor
ous the republic’s basic institutions. There
cannot be a free America unless there is an
educated America. Oligarchies can get along
without schools for all the people, but democ
racies cannot. Democracies are doomed if
they neglect the vital business of training up
citizens who not only can read and write and
function efficiently in material affairs, but
who also can judge between demagogisra and
statesmanship, between truth and error, and
who, after judging, have moral sinew to do
the right.
In the United States we depend mainly
upon a public school system for the earliest
and fundamental steps in this all ’inportant
training. Yet we have been so remiss in sup
porting that system, so short-sighted in pro
viding funds for its improvement and ex
tension and salaries for its teachers, that its
service is grievously impaired throughout the
Union and in some instances is threatened
with collapse. A multitude of teachers have
been forced out of their chosen profession
to seek a living wage, and in hundreds of
communities, rural and urban alike, school
facilities are sadly inadequate to the ever
increasing demands on them. The time has
come when America must remedy these condi
tions or suffer heavily in consequence. It
is well that there shouM be a national con
ference on the emergency and that the sev
eral States should work heartily together in
solving their common problems. But the need
and the duty come home at last to each Com
monwealth, each county, each city and town,
and last, of all to each home and each citizen.
Unless there is an awakening at these local
and individual centers, there will be little
progress in the larger effort. Let every Geor
gian look earnestly into the school interests
of his own community and lend full-hearted
support to undertakings in their behalf.
Mr. King's Appointment.
THE appointment of Hon. Alex C. King
to the United States Circuit Court
for the Fifth district, embracing the
States of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana and Texas, will be greet
ed with hearty approval wherever those
high elements of intellect and character that
make for an ideal judiciary are prized. By
temperament and training alike Mr. King is
admirably qualified for this great field of
public service. As an advocate at the bar,
even his keenest moments of argument and
pleading have been notable for a poise and
fairness that are truly judicial, and for a
breadth of vision which only the truth-seek
ing and truth-loving'mind commands. With
these characteristics he combines rich knowl
edge and profound comprehension of the law.
There was nation-wide satisfaction when
he was selected some two years ago to suc
ceed Hon. John W. Davis, now ambassador
to Great Britain, as Solicitor General of
the United States. He has filled that office
with distinction, handling case after case in
away that has meant much to the welfare
of the nation and its people. His appoint
ment to the bench of the Circuit Court for
the Fifth district is to fill one of the two
vacancies caused by the death of Judge Don
A. Pardee and the resignation of Judge Rob
i ert L., Batts. The other appointee is Judge
j Nathan P. Bryan, of Jacksonville, a former
DISCIPLINE AS A CURE
By H. Addington Bruce
a TOO often neglected factor in both the
Z-X prevention and cure of many func
"x tional nervous and mental troubles is
what my friend Dr. L. E. Emerson terms
“objective, impersonal discipline.”
This is discipline having as its purpose
the formation of orderly habits of thought,
constructive interests, altruistic as contrasted
with self-centered trends.
The time to begin applying it is in early
childhood, and the home is the place where
it should first be applied. The means where
by it may most successfully be applied is al
ways through example, rather than precept.
Children, to be sure, need to bo informed
through precept of the habits, interests, and
trends it is important for them to acquire.
But, as educators have urged from time im
memorial, precept is worse than useless it
example does not reinforce it.
into a home where the parents fail
to set examples of self-control, earnestness,
promptness, industry, self-forgetfulness, and
you need not accept for a moment any claim
they may make as to disciplining f heir chil
dren efficiently.
The children you will find selfish as the
parents are selfish, lazy as the 4)are,its a?’e
lazy, egotistically bent on amusing them
selves as the parents are egotistically bent.
Let the years pass and crisis develop in the
lives of children thus reared. »
Because they lack the resistive power that
true discipline bestows, because psychically
they are weaklings, whatever their physical
strength, nervous maladies then find them
easy prey. Accustomed always to think ot
themselves, they yield to a panic of self-pity
at the first touch of the ills their lack of dis
cipline has invited.
Now they are indeed badly off. And they
are certain to remain badly off unless and
until, through the recreative influence ot
some clear-seeing physician, friend, jr even
casual acquaintance, they gain the discipline
that should have been given them in the
distant years.
Consequently it is an assured fact that
to many nervous patients the chief value ot
sanitarium atmosphere provides an effective
course in “objective, impersonal discipline.”
All unconsciously it inspires them—as they
have not been inspired outside its walls —to
healthier modes of thinking, desiring, and be
having. And in proportion as it does this
they draw closer to that happy day when
they can once more mingle in society and
can function in society far more worthily
than they ever befoi’e have done.
In fine, one may safely say that nine times
out of ten lack of discipline is at the bet' on,
of functional nervous and mental break
downs. Which, of course, means that nine
times out of ten the blame for such break
downs really rests with parents or guarUans
who did not discipline as they should.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
THE OVERALL CLUB
Bv Dr. Frank Crane
»pHE OVERAL CLUB is a step in the
right direction.
x It is the common sense of the
people asserting itslf.
Railing at profiteers is profitless for
they are only human beings, doing what
every one of its is doing all the time, to
wit and namely: Asking as* big a price
as we think the customer will pay. And
so long as the buyer goes on paying, the
sellex - will go on asking.
It is simple, natural law, and you can
no more stop it by passing laws in the
state house, or screaming in the newspa
pers, ox- indulging in profanity on the
street comets than the w. k. Mrs. Part
ington could sweep back the incoming tide
of the sea with her petulant broom.
The only way to thwart the hog mer
chants is to quit buying anything at a hog
price.
I want to join the Overall Club, and
will consider' it the proudest .moment of my
life when my wife and other managers will
allow me to walk down the street in blue
jeans.
But that is ony a starter. What’s the
matter with an anti-jewelry club? Can’t
we organize something to make the woman
whose fingers are covered with diamonds
realize that she is vulgar, and that decent
people resent her company?
And while we’re at it, why not strike
against the whole tribe of Spoilers, all
those that use their money for luxury and
display, who enjoy the money with which
fortune has favored them, not to help any
body, not to encourage thrift and culture
and simplicity, but to hurt everybody, to
arouse envy, to stimulate extravagance, vul
garity, and every cheap and nasty senti
ment?
If only some movement could be set go
ing to boycott the hotels that charge you
$lO. not to furnish you a bed on which to
stretch youx- weary body but for the priv
ilege of stopping in the- same house with
some millionaire packer oi’ movie star, and
bragging about it when you get home to
Kokomo!
It is not wicked perhaps—for you can
do as you please with your money—but,
oh! if we could only make people see how
disgustingly vulgar it is to pay $1.75 for a
microscopic lambchop simply because we
are ashamed not to do as others do.
A concerted movement toward the Simple
Life, if it were headed by social leaders of
distinction, and taken up by Alumni
and Alumnae of the colleges, would do
more good than all the laws legislatui'es
could pass in a generation.
What are universities for. anyway, if not
to lead us out of the bog of wretched vul
garity into the ways of culture 9
(Copyright, 1920, by the .Associated News
paper.)
QUIPS AND QUIDITIES
After looking at all the rugs in the store,
the customei' decided that she thought she
liked the pink one with the purple roses best.
“But I’d like to see it in my room,” she
said. “I suppose you’ll send it upon ap
proval?”
“Well, madam, it’s —er—hardly usual,’’ de
murred the proprietor. “But in the circum
stances, perhaps—” •
The customer’s five-year-old daughter, who
had stood silent during the long inspection,
now tugged violently at her mother’s skirt.
“Oh. mamma,” she piped in hex’ fatally
clear treble, “hadn’t you better warn him to
be sure and get it there in time? Our party’s
tombrrow, you know.”
After having been fined $5 and costs the
ex-pxisoner addressed some rather strenuous
language to the judge and then ran. with
all his might. An officer captured him and
brought him before the justice, who fined
him $lO more.
“Had you been chas" n an 1 refined in your
language,” said the justice, “you would not
have been chased and refined.”
United States Senatoi’ from Florida, who
highly merits the new honoi’ bestowed upon
him.
It is expected that Senate confirmations
of these appointments will soon be forth
coming, and that Mr. King, who for the last
two years has resided in Washington, will
again make his home in Atlanta. That as
suredly is the wish of his fellow townsmen
and fellow Georgians, who congratulate both
hinx and the country upon his. prospective
elevation to the United States Circuit bench.
Divorce in England
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, April 26.—The
news that a bill to make divorces
easier and cheaper has passed its
second reading in the British parlia
ment by a large majority, and will,
in all probability, become a law, has
aroused new interest in this delicate
subject. Gilbert Keith Chesterton has
published a book on the subject in
which he attacks divorce as a “super
stition” and upholds the religious
view that marriage should be an in
dissoluble bond, and urge that the
laws governbing it should be
founded upon experience rather than
upon spiritual ideal.
That new English law is decidedlly
liberal, for England; yet it cannot be
said to be the work of liberal forces.
In 1909 a royal commission on di
vorce was appointed, and after three
years of study and deliberation it
made a report, advocating more lib
eral divorce legislation. It is upon
this report that the present bill is
based. Naturally, the royal commis
sion was anything but a radical body.
Venerable churchmen were members
of it, and it spent much time and ef
fort trying to decide what Jesus
Christ really thought about the sub
ject. This is distinctly a conserva
tive viewpoint from which to ap
proach the matter. The more liberal
thinkers, while admittingg that
Christ was a great law-giver in His
time, hold that social conditions have
changed so much that His opinion on
a purely social problem cannot be any
longer regarded as final.
The present divorce law in England
is illiberal in the extreme. In order
to get a divorce from her husband,
a woman must prove both adultery
and cruelty. As in this country,
great numbers of divorces are gotten
by collusion. It is usual to prove the
adultery charge by a confession or by
manufactured evidence. The charge
of cruelty is more difficult. It is
held that prolonged desertion is
cruelty. It is therefore usual for a
couple seeking divorce to separate.
After a certain length of time the
wife then brings suit “for restitution
of conjugal rights,” of which one is
always reading in the newspaper ac
counts of divorces in British high so
ciety If. after fourteen days, her
husband does not return, the charge
of cruelty is considered proved, and
the divorce follows in due course.
In this way persons who have suf
ficient money have been long accus
tomed to get divorces whenever they
wished, but it is a long expensive
process, highly remunerative to the
lawyers. As in this country, so in
England, it is the poor man who finds
it impossible to get a divorce and the
man of moderate means who finds it.
difficult. There are many cases or
persons saving and scrimping or
years in order to free themselves
from an intolerable marriage There
are many other cases in England, as
in this country, of persons who have
separated, but are unable to get a di
vorce, and contract free unions, al
though they would Pr eter g o C f
A great and increasing numbei ot
“judicial separations” are granted in
England, and these, too, are produc
tivf of many extra-marital relations
In this way the severe divorce lay -
tends to defeat the marriage law. ine
need for reform has become especial
ly pressing in England since the war
which created a great many cause
for divorce. , .
The new British measure. Is de
signed to make divorce cheaper and
to give the sexes equal or in
itiative. In addition to this it great
ly broadens the causes for which di
vorce may be obtained. It proposes
the granting of divorce for adulterj,
crueltv, desertion for three years, in
curable insanity after five years
confinement, drunkenness found to
be incurable after three years, ven
ereal disease, or imprisonment tor
life after commuted death sentence.
It is evident that the most radical
feature of this measure lies in the
clause which would allow divorce
after desertion for three years. I his
means in effect that a couple may
separate for three years, and, after
this period of probation, get a di
vorce upon prof f the separation.
The debate on the measure brought
out the fact that divorce and mar
riage are regarded still as largely re
ligious questions. The question was
not argued primarily on practical
grounds. Just two points of view
were represented—that which re
gards marriage as an indissoluble
union on religious grounds, and that
which holds that Christ did not so
regard it. The Catholic church holds
the former view. The Church of
England, on the other hand, holds
that according to Matthew, Christ
distinctly made an exception, saying
that divorce should be granted for
adultery. This, of course, ig purely
a theological question upon which a
layman’s opinion is worth little. The
more liberal of the Protestant di
vines hold that since Christ made one
exception, it is logical to hold that
He would have made others when
they were obviously necessary. One
of these advanced prelates goes so
far as to say that the teachings of
Christ are to be taken as highly
spiritual ideals rather than as rules
of practice. He points out that
Christ also hade us turn the other
cheek when we were assaulted, but
that few live up to this injunction.
It remains a high, though somewhat
neglected ideal of magnanimity a
self-control. .If we enacted it into
statutes, self-defense would be a
crime and no action for damages
would stand. Christian ideals are by
no means disparaged, he argues, but
statutes, which are matters of prac
tice. must always represent a com
pr >mise with the ideal.
The divorce situation in this coun
tr- differs from that in England in
that we have a different divorce law
in each state, and that the national
congress has never legislated on the
subject, except in regard to the Dis
trict of Columbia. The absurdities
and injustice arising from this situa
tion have been pointed out again and
again; the need for a uniform di
vorce law has been proved to all and
sundry; but nothing has been done
about it and there is no good pros
pect that anything will be done.
There is a strong religious sentiment
in this country against liberal di
vorce laws, and a strong states
rights sentiment against national
legislation on the subject. These two
elements make of divorce a subject
which congress will gladly neglect
as long as it can, just as it neglect
ed the prohibition and woman suf
frage issues for forty or fiftv vears
and met them only when it had 'to do
so.
There are forty-nine divorce laws
inthe United States, and forty-two
different causes for which divorce
may be granted. A man may be
married to one woman in one state
a.»d another woman in another state
The discrimination against the poor
man, and indeed against all except
the really rich man. is more marked
here than in any other country in
the world. Mary Pickford can go to
Nevada and get a divorce as easily
2iLX. 0U J can go to a picture
shoTi. For the rich, divorce Is .. -
Iy a matter of desiring it. For the
por it is almost unattainable and it
is a difficult business for anv one
to A tick h’s job and can
not go west for six months. The in
justice of this situation is obvious
It is one that Christ would sureb- not
have indorsed. Whatever the
grounds upon which divorce is to bo
granted, they should surely be the
same for all. it will he interesting
to note whether the efforts to make
divorce a just and equable thin— j n
f-ng’and will bring anv revival' of
the effort to make it so in this couii-
14OW~’TO~SAY~ 11
“Iscvely”
“Did you enjoy the play?” ‘ Yes
I. had a lovely time.” The person
uno used the word “lovely” in this
sense did not know, or fo/got that
•lovely” should be used only to de
scribe something which is adapted lo
or worthy of being loved—that Is. of
inspiring of the highest esteem’ of
which the human being is eapaM. .
The word “lovely” means, according
to the Standard dictionary, “possess
ing winsome, charming, lovable, as
‘a lovely face.' ”
The word “lovely” has. therefore, a
distinct and valuable place in Eng
lish diction, and should not be de
based by use in connection with
common or ordinary matters, vi
trifies. Instead of “lovely,” in mo: .
cases some such words as attractive,
agteeable. pleasant, enjoyable should
be employed. Here is correct use oi’
“lovely:” “She's adorned amply that
in her husband’s eye she looks
lovely." • I
SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1020.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
THE IDEAL HUSBAND ANO WIFE
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY’ DIX
“What constitutes an ideal hus
band or wife?” asks an artless young
thing.
Dear child, the ideal husband or
wife is a dope dream. As the old
farmer said when viewing a hippo
potamhus for the first time, “Thexc
ain’t no such an animal.”
A man’s ideal wife is a creature
such as never was on land nor sea.
She is a woman who nevei gets be
yond thirty, no matter how many
vears she may live. She is always
young and beautiful, and never
ber girlish figure. Time and expeir
ence neved plough wrinkles on hoc
face. Age never frosts her hair, nor
withers the roses in her cheeks.
She is always beautifully dress
ed in something clinging and fluffy
and pink, that never gets ruffled,
nor mussed, no matter how much
work she has to do, and that has the
faint odor of violets clinging to it
even if she has just come out ot
the kitchen and has been cooking
corned-beef and cabbage, and her
hair is beautifully combed with lit
tle curls at the nape of her neck
and on her forehead, notwithstand
ing the fact that she has gotten uj.
and prepared breakfast for the
family.
She is always in a sweet, lovely,
and amiable mood no matter if she
has a jumping toochache, and a P al Ji
in the back, and has been up half
of the night walking a sick baby.
She never has nerves, or gets cranky,
or is contrary, or afflicted with the
ether shortcomings of her sex.
She is a reasonable woman who
doesn't stay awake at night to see
how late her husband stays out, nor
complain that it is lonesome to be
left alone. Neither does she be
grudge her husband his golf or think
that he might better expend the
money that golf balls, and caddies
and club bills cost, on buying shoes
for his family.
On the contrary, she realizes that
a man needs diversion, and that it is
a relief to him to get away from
business and family cares, so she
urges him to amuse himself and
not to think of her because she has
all the pleasures of staying quietly
at home, and the excitement of
nursing the children and taking the
baby out in his perambulator.
She is a domestic and home-keep
'ing woman, but she shines in so
ciety 4 when he chooses to take hex’
forth. She’s a wonderful cook, but
she never smells of the kitchen. She
never wants to go out of an eve
ning except when he proposes it.
She has the most excellent judg
ment, but she always defers to him
in every matter.
Above all, the ideal wife is a
miracle worker who never annoys
her husband by asking him fox’
money. She keeps a splendid table
on next to nothing. She is always
beautifully dressed in clothes that
make the neighbors rubber, but she
never spends anything on them. She
is never sick, or has a doctor’s bill,
and thus proves the truth of the
old adage “that two can live as
one,” provided a mas has the luck
to get an ideal wife.
The woman’s ideal husband is
equally entitled to a place in the
freak museum as is a man’s ideal
wife.
A woman’s ideal husband is a per
petual lover, a man who can go on
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
Information received from Paris
relates large quantities of arms and
munitions were discovered by French
cavalry entering Hanau, east of
Frankfort, according to the Temps.
The material was labeled “Army of
the West.” Numerous plans relat
ing to maneuvers also were found,
purporting to cover military opera
tions against France through the
zone occupied by the American army
at Coblenz.
Two hundred and fifty cannon have
been discovered at Koenigsberg,
East Prussia, by the interallied com
mission, according to advices re
ceived here.
The rivers and harbors bill was
passed by the senate at Washing
ton after it had been amended so as
to make the total $24,000,000 as
against $12,000,000 in the house bill
and $20,000,000 recommended by the
senate commerce committee.
The measure, which was approved
without a record vote, now goes to
conference, where a sharp fight is
expected. Both the senate and the
house agreed to the general prin
ciple of a lump sum appropriation
rather than specific grants for the
various projects. No new work was
authorized.
At the request of Senator Reed,
Democrat (Mo.), Senator Harrison
sought early in the day to amend
the bill so as to make the total
$27,000,000, but this was defeated,
26 to 28. Senator Harrison then
proposed $24,000,000, which was ac
cepted after long discussion, the vote
being 34 to 22.
No decision as to where the sum
mer White House will be established
has been made yet by President Wil
son, and it was stated that it prob
ably will be the middle of May be
fore any move is made toward qlos
ing the executive mansion here for
the summer.
Since it became definitely known
that the president would not use the
home of Charles R. Crane, at Woods
Hole, Mass., there has been no in
timation from the White House as
to which of hundreds of homes that
have been offered is the most
favored.
It is expected, however, that
eventually some establishment in
the northeast section will be selected
by the president on the advice of
Admiral Grayson, his physician.
According to news received from
Washington, Representative Charles
A. Nichols, Detroit, collapsed at his
home here, while at dinner with his
mother, and died within a few min
utes. Death was said to have been
due to heart failure.
Mr. Nichols was elected to congress
from the Thirteenth Michigan dis
trict in 1914. having previously serv
ed as secretary of the Detroit po
lice department for,several years.
He was unmarried, and was forty
four years of age.
News from Seville, Spain, relates
that Varelito, the famous bull-fight
er, after having been congratulated
by Queen Victoria following his bri’-
}; an Performance in the ring, sent
the Queen a bouquet. Thereupon tne
queen predented him with a platinum
scarf pin studded with brilliants ar d
sapphires.
The totem poles are going. These
quaint monuments of a vanishing
nice that have made the coast of
British Columbia and southern Al
aska famous are fast wasting under
“■be influence of wind and weather.
Once the designing and construct
ing of totem poles flourished among
the Haida;; and to a lesser extent
among the T.-mpsean Indians. This
was long befoi., -he white man in
vaded the Pacific .PV’thwest
Real totem poles witn the historv
of tribes and families carved into
their odd structures are no longer
made and each year secs some of th“
cider ones disappear.
Some are still standing in their,
original positions in the village of
\v itwanga, on the Skeena river. Som,e
of these are said to be 2)0 years
old.
The break between Frank H. Hitch
cock and Colonel Cooper, Proctor,
New York, over management of Ma
lor General Leonard Wood’s cam-'
paign, instead of being patched up,
was further widened and no settle
ment of the controversy is looked
tor until next Sunday, when Colonel
Proctor will confer with General
Wood in Chicago.
A difference of opinion over cam
paign methods which has existed so”
a long time is becoming more acu’e
and triends of General Wood are be
coming concerned over possible harm
ful effects it may have upon his
campaign. It was admitted today by
iriends of General Wood that the
trouble may reach such a stage with- ■
111 , a I ' ? ' v days that, if not ii.:medi
ately chceke-.1, it may even get be
yond General Wood s ability to bring
ibout harmony.
Ge-. s’ood sid-'s in the con
v' ?. . .-•• ; i ;,ir. Hitchcock, accord-
ing to the latter’s friends.
handing out soft talk «or j-awr*
at a stretch and, wtio will tell her
after she is old and fat and grizzle
headed that she is the most beautiful
creature in the world, and that- she
could make her fortune in moving
pictures if David Griffith, or Ince,
I or some director who is on a still
i hunt for female pulchritude could
I only see her.
: He is a man who is slushing over
j with romance, and yet a marvelous
I business man, a man who can talk
I sentiment with one hand and make
! money with the other, so to speak,
| for while she desires a soul mate,
and one who yearns after the higher
I'ife, she also wants a limousine and
! somebody who can make her exceed
ingly comfortable in this sordid
lower life where a woman requires
i good clothes and new hats to hold
; her own.
He must be a masterful man, stern
| and commanding to all the balance
;of the world, but a piece of puttv
in her hands, that she can twist
around her finger. HA must be cold
as ice to others, yet a seething vol
cano to her. He must never be sick,
nervous, tired or grouchy and cross
he works at the office nervous(sc
through in his business, or how hard
i he works at the office, but he must
| always come home cheerful and
i buoyant and optimistic, and ready
I to jump into his dress qlpthes and go
l out and spend the evening at some
j place of amusement with his wife.
I . He must always praise her cook
ing when she has a good dinner, but
when she stays out late at a matinee
or a bridge game, he must be equally
charmed to eat out of a can and a
paper bag.
He must take an interest in his
home, and be willing to go without
cigars to buy new parldr curtains,
but he must not dream of such a
thing as having a room for himself,
or a closet, or even one single soli
tary hook in a closet that is his in
dividual property.
He must be willing to give up all
his old friends when he gets mar
ried and perceive that they had a
bad influence over him and especially
that his old women friends were—er
—well—er—not exactly nice and to
substitute his wife’s friends for them
and he must be glad to have his
wife’s family perpetually occupying
the guests room, and not to raise a
scene about it when He is forced to
write his people that it isn’t con
venient to have them come just now.
And he must call his wife’s tem
per nerves and always be grateful
to her for marrying him, and make
public acknowledge that she has been
a noble, uplifting influence in his
life and that marriage has been his
salvation.
A close-up view of a man’s ideal
wife would show a composite pic
ture of Mary Ann. Lillian Russell,
Hetty Green and Theda Bara regis
tering complete domesticity, fadeless
beauty, a pocketbook with a Yale
iock on it and an inexhaustible line
of fascination.
A woman’s ideal man would be a
cross between a matinee hero, Mr.
Rockefeller, and Job.
And. neither man nor woman could
endure his or her ideal for a week.
Dorothy Dix’s articles will appear
in this paper every Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday.
("Copyright, 1920, by The Wheelex-
Syndicate, Inc.)
Maria L. Sanford, professor
emeritus of the University of
Minnesota, who was’ in Washington a
day or so ago, attending the conven
tion of the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution, died unexpectedly at
the home of Senator Nelson, Minne
sota, where she was a guest. Miss
Sanford was one of the leading wom
en educators of the country. She was
born at Old Saybrook, Conn., eighty
three years ago and was president of
history at Swarthmore college from
1871 to 1880. . ‘
The Samoset mills, of Talladega,
Ala., controlled by New England man
ufacturers, are to have improvements
costing $1,000,000. This will add to
the cloth production of the company's
Highland City and Chinnabee plants.
This includes a two-story 300x132
foot weaving mill to be equipped |
with 500 automatic looms for mak
ing cotton cloth. There will be a
plant for dyeing cotton products.
Other structures will include 100 cot
tages for mill operatives.
Two bills, designed to bar ,the
Socialist party of America, as now
constituted, from the official election
ballot, were passed by the assem
bly at Albany, N. Y. The votes on
each was eighty-three to fifty-six.
The bills were favorably acted on
over opposition of the two party
leaders, Simon L. Adler, Republican,
and Charles D. Donohue, Democrat
One of the bills sets' up a series
; of qualifications fir members of the
I legislature and other public offices
! and provides for their disbarment
from such office on conviction or
! failure to meet the qualifications,
i Advance resignations of candidates
for member of assembly is one or
I the chief disqualifications. Another *
1 disqualification is support and ad
vocacy of principles, doctrines and
I policies which might violate the con
stitution of the United States or the
! state of New York.
The other measures gives the at
torney general the right to petition
the third appellate division of th
supreme court for a proceedings to
supreme court for a proceeding to
I determine if a political organization
i does advocate policies and doc- <
I trines which if carried into es
! feet would violate the constitution
| and further provides that if such a
I political party is found to advocate
such principles or policies it must
be barred from the ballot.
Chicago aidermen unanimously ap
proved a plan for converting the
$1,000,000 municipal pier into a huge
summer hotel during the Republican
national convention. The pier extends
. a mile into Lake Michigan. From
j 18,000 to 20,000 persons could be ac-
I commodated for indoor or outdoor
■ sleeping.
Threatened profiteering during the
j convention gave rise to the sugges- 'f
tion for the use of the pier.
According ;o information given
! out at Washington, Assistant Attor
i ney General Howard Figg, in charge
! of the cost of living campaign of
. the department of justice, had two
long secret sessions with a score of ;
sugar refiners recently. With prac
tically’ the entire nation short of
sugar and the price soaring to a
greater extent than in the case of
any food commodity, the results
of the conference were not made
known.
Requests for information from the
department on the .ground that the
people were vitally interested in the
subject of sugar, were met with the
statement that something of public
interest may develop shortly.
Sugar men who attended the con
ference offered no comment except
io say it was the understanding of
those who attended that Mr. Figg
would give out any statement, it was
thought proper to make.
According to a statement made in
London by’ Lord Dews. - .'
returned, from Central Alrica. in gi - ,
ing an account of his travels there, i
said the increased cost of living in >
the district he visited was reflected
in the highest price for wives paid
by the natives.
Whereas a fine, sixteen-hands-high
wife cost four spearheads in pre
war days, she now costs eight spear
heads, I.ord Dewar said, and in the
cattle districts the price of a wife
at present is eight rows, instead of
four.
General John J. Pershing will
traverse the Panama canal in a sub
marine chaser, the Panama canal
military authorities have announced.
His trip will be the beginning of
a detailed program which has been
arranged for his stay of six days
on the isthmus.
Ernesto Tisdel Lefevre, president
of Panama, will give a dinner in
honor of General Pershing, the de
partment commander a reception and
the Shriners of the Masonic organi
sation an entertainment and ban
quet.