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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
The Best Cotton.
THE pre-emminence of American cot
ton, as announced by the Federal De
partment of Agriculture, in news dis
patches from Washington, is one of those
things that properly may be classified as
gratifying, though not surprising. The Gov
ernment has made an exhaustive survey of
the most promising regions outside the Uni
ted States for the production of cotton, and
this survey has convinced the experts in
Washington that the South has a practical
monopoly of cotton cultivation on a profit
able basis. The announcement is reassuring
in view of the well-known fact that, foreign ,
consumers of American cotton have been (
looking the world over for a source of sup
ply that would relieve them of the necessity
for buying their staple in American markets. (
The Department of Agriculture attributes
the pre-emminence of American cotton to '
three factors:
1. The quality of cotton produced in this
country.
2. The need for cotton with the staple and
other characteristics of the American pro- 1
duct.
3. The increasing world consumption.
Before the war slightly more than one
third of the American cotton crop was used
in home consumption, but under the stress
of war conditions, and conditions now ex
isting, the home consumption has increased
materially, until American spinners today
are using more than half the crop. The pro
portion may be expected to decrease, how
ever, as the mills of Europe are rehabilita
ted.
The increased home consumption of Amer
ican cotton prompted the nations of Europe,
particularly Great Britain, to search for oth
er desirable regions for the production of
cotton. The British spinners were alarmed
over the possibility, of idle looms through
their inability to obtain enough American
cotton to keep them going. It was this appre
hension, no doubt, that prompted the Brit
ish government to exert every to
stimulate cotton production in Egypt, where
for several years it has steadily declined.
Next to the American staple, ■’ Egyptian cot
ton is the best cultivated anywhere in the
world.
It is, as we remarked, gratifying to learn
that American leadership in the production
of cotton is not likely to ever be challenged,
but this fact, we repeat, is not news to
Southern cotton farmers and American mill
men, who have long realized and appre
ciated the superior character of our South
ern product.
Liberty Bond Prices.
THE decline in the market prices of
Liberty bonds, far from disposing the
owners of those securities to sell,
should determine them to hold, and to buy,
if their resources warrant it. Os all the
factors in the downward trend, none will
prove permanently depressing, so say the
most competent observers of investment in
terests. Liberty bonds are as intrinsically
valuable today as when they were issued, and
are growing fundamentally more valuable,
notwithstanding surface ups and downs.
They are still incomparably, safe, their in
terest yield and ultimate redemption being
guaranteed by all the wealth and power and
integrity of the nation. They are still ex
ceptionally profitable, being exempt from
taxation and bearing liberal interest for so
iron-clad a security. Regardless of the tem
porary decline, therefore, it is contrary to all
underlying and controlling facts in the case
to think of Liberty bonds as worth a penny
less than par.
As for the causes of their depreciation, an
able student of the matter puts first of all
the prolonged high cost of living. Many
small holders, we are told, have been con
strained to sell their Liberty bonds because
their incomes have not grown apace with the
advancing costs of necessaries. Further,
some corporations that were large subscrib
ers to the Government issues, finding it need
ful to procure money for their business, have
deemed it a better policy to sell their bonds
than to borrow at the high rates prevailing.
Still another fact bearing appreciably upon
the Liberty bond market is the new issues
of United States Treasury certificates yield
ing five and five and A quarter per cent.
Bond dealers also say that the pending “Sol
dier Bonus” bill figures rather potently, in
that it may require another large offering
of Government securities.
All these influences, however, do not af
fect the Liberty bond’s basic value nor in
any wise diminish its larger advantages as
an investment. The multitude of loyal men
and women, approximately twenty million in
all, who bought these bonds in war time and
are holding them for future profit will reap
in due season if they are but patient and
firm. Present prices for the bonds are keen
ly inviting to the buyer; many and many a
dollar will be made by those who take ad
vantage of the existing market. But this as
suredly is no time to sell, except under most
imperative reasons.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
The Kaiser's Responsibility.
ATTEMPTS to exculpate the former
Kaiser from responsibility in the
ruthless U-boat warfare, which prov
ed occasion of America’s entrance into the
war, are put completely to rout by a paper
recently unearthed in the files of the Ger
man Foreign Office. Dated “General Head
quarters, January 9, 1917,” and marked
“Strictly Secret,” the document runs in this
wise:
I order the unrestricted submarine
war to be started with full energy on
Feb. 1. You must make all necessary
preparations immediately in such away
that this purpose is not prematurely
recognized by the enemy and the neu
trals. The essential plans of operations
are to be submitted to me. A copy of
this is to be handed to the Imperial
Chancellor. WILHELM I. R.
There assuredly is no profit in piling up
indictments against a king of sheds and
patches. To William Hohenzollern the clas
sic pun, “Strip majesty of its externals, and
you have merely a jest,” is peculiarly appro
priate; and a plucked goose may well be left
alone. But the U-boat onslaught of 1917
figured so fatefully in the World conflict, and
will figure so largely in the verdict of his
tory, that it is well to keep the record clear.
The Kaiser was not alone in responsibility
for that desperate and lawless adventure, and
probably was not its prime mover. But his
at last was the royal prerogative of saying
whether it should or should not be under
taken. Hence the interest and importance of
the official order which, remarkably enough,
had its first publication, not in Germany or
Europe, but’ in the United States in the col
umns of the New York World.
In the light of that document no'lurking
place is left for the claim that it was over
the Kaiser’s protest that submarine piracy
was inaugurated and carried on. It was his
personal command that launched the ruth
less campaign, and had the outcome been
different, he doubtless would have courted
the responsibility which he has sought to
evade.
Courage in Farm Troubles.
A WISE course in the troublous condi
tions now confronting American farm
ers is suggested by Secretary Meredith,
of the National Department of Agriculture,
when he t writeb in the current number of
World Outlook: “Maintain economically
efficient production on such acreage as avail
able capital, equipment and labor permit.
Speculative plunging in single-crop agricul
ture, always dangerous, is peculiarly so at
this time.”
That is just the policy which foresighted
farmers in the South adopted during the war
period and which they now mean to pursue
with special care. Production must be effi
cient if it is to be at all profitable. The
time is passed when a planter could trust to
luck and make a living; thoughtless ways
now lead straight and swift to calamity.
Materials and equipment are so costly, and
labor so high and scarce that it requires the
energy and skill to bring a seed-time
to a worthwhile harvest. Effort must be in
tensive and be reinforced by all that science
has to offer. Crops must be diversified and
well chosen. And assuredly no part of the
country knows better than the South that
“speculative plunging” in single field of pro
duction is peculiarly dangerous.
Despite its manifold problems, however,
farming now offers peculiarly rich opportu
nities to diligent hands and resourceful
minds. Particularly in the field of food pro
duction are there goodly rewards; and while
inadequate facilities for marketing and inef
ficient methods of distribution still keep the
grower from his rightful measure of profits,
conditions in this respect are steadily im
proving. So, then, amid all the perplexities
to which a sorely belated spring has given
rise. Southern farmers take courage from
knowing that theirs is land of rare bounty
and theirs a life-work of high promise.
The Great American Game
THE great American sport—the great
est American show—is now under
way.
We do not mean baseball. We mean pol
itics. Politics is the great American show —
and this year it certainly is bigger, if not
better, than ever. Better, too—regarded
strictly as a show. What chance has Barnum
& Bailey to maintain the slogan adopted so
many years ago?
“The greatest show on earth”—that’s pol
itics.
What chance have the movies and their
three-cornered vamping contests, competing
with the impassioned fervor of these hun
dreds of robust and well-lunged patriots, all
bent with pop-eyed earnestness on saving the
country?
What melodrama is half so mellow as the
mellifluous melody of the perspiring states
man as he stands upon the rostrum, “dis
cussing these issues” before the people?
'What tragedy upon the boards can com
pare with the dull detonation that marks
the explosion of a carefully nurtured presi
dential boom?
And what comedy can be as funny as the
whole situation, when you look at it merely
as a situation?
“The greatest show on earth” —and
breathing space will be at a premium for
the Chicago and San Francisco conventions;
and the poor downtrodden railroads will takq
a long stride toward their pristine afflu
ence as they transport the eager thousands
to one or the other city—or both.
Politics is the great American show, and
the press is its billboard. Politics is the
science of exigencies; the least exact of all
the sciences. Politics is the natural im
pulse of a forensic people, who love to “dis
cuss these issues,” whether the issues have
anything to do with anything concerning
the persons who discuss them, or whether
the persons discussing them understand the
issues, if any, which they are discussing.
Politics is the great American show. They
do not have such shows in other countries;
at I’east on so large a scale. Once every four
years the big show comes ’round. This year
it certainly is bigger and better than ever,
as the billboards say.
Certainly it is bigger.
A furrier was showing a coat to a lady
customer.
“Yes, ma’am,” he said. “I guarantee this
to be genuine skunk fur that will wear for
years.”
“But suppose I get it wet in the rain,”
asked the lady, “what effect will the water
have on it? Won’t it spoil?”
“Madam,” answered the furrier, “I have
only one answer. “Did you ever hear of a
skunk carrying an umbrella?”
THE LAW OF SERVICE
By H. Addington Bruce
NOT long ago a manufacturing company
of international renown held a con
vention it invited, as prinicpal speak
er, the head of what is perhaps the biggest
business school in the United States.
The topic assigned to him was salesman
ship, and no doubt it was expected he would
detail for his expert audience novel meth
ods in disposing of goods. Instead, he vir
tually confined himself to discussion of a
single business principle, which he thus- set
forth:
“There is only one kind of stuff out of
which the foundation of lasting business suc
cess can be built, and that is confidence.
“There is only one sustaining power of
the bedrock and foundation of a building
(th eearth), so there is only one sustaining
power of confidence and satisfaction, and
that is excellence of service to the other
man.
“When we trace successful business to the
heart of it we always find this one concept—
service. It is the fundamental law of life.”
I do not know what the expert audience
who listened to this address thought of it.
But I do know that, particularly in these
days of social turmoil, addresses like it can
not too often be given wherever workers of
any kind are met together.
For the law of service is not merely vital
t obusiness success. It is vital to human
welfare in the mass as in the individual.
And if discontent and unrest are wide
spread today—as they undeniably are—it
is largely because millions of men and wom
en foolishly ignore this vital, basic law of
service.
Not to serve but to get is their motto.
Big profits, big wages, short hours, little
effort are the ideals by which they chart their
lives.
'Eborybody’s doinjj it, so why shouldn’t
I? they unanimously demand in self-excuse
The best answer to which is the manifest
stress and misery the “getting easy” policy
hhs imposed on the world.
And, indeed, even the most ardent practi
tioners of “getting easy” know full well tnat
lite is strangely lacking in satisfaction to
them. As it is bound to be, since the law of
eervye applies to mur. more than the win
ning of business success.
Man is so constituted that he cannot have
peace of mind unless he possesses the con
sciousness of contributing to the common
good. This because man is a gregarious
animal, with the herd instinct strongly de
veloped in hiii.
And presicely as the thwarting of any
other instinct causes feelings of dissatisfac
tion, so the thwarting of the herd instinct
the service instinct, brings with it the pen
alty of a great discontent.
Think this over, as applying to yourself
and your work.
Is excellence of service—loyal, honest
service—your guidig principle? Or “easy
getting ? if the latter, you may write your
self down a sure loser, no matter how lux
urious your home, how fat your bank ac
count.
For that matter remember, too, that the
more admirably you serve the more you are
likely to get. If you are one of the multi
tude forever changing jobs or forever vainly
awaiting promotion, failure to serve as you
should serve may be the very thing that
chiefly keeps you back.
(Copyright, 1920, by’ The Associated News
papers.)
A DAY OF THE RICHEST YOUNG
MAN
By Dr. Frank Crane
Follow th© world’s richest young man one
day.
Consider John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and his
doings on April 5, 1920.
As one of the workers in the .missionary
campaign of the Interchurch' Movement, a
combination of many religious organizations
for the purpose of raising a vast sum to pro
mote co-operatixe welfare work all over the
world, he arrived on the above date by spe
cial car at the railway station at Baltimore,
Maryland.
We was whisked in an automobile to the
City club—where he made a speech for his
cause before 500 Baltimore business men.
A day of activities followed, concluded in
the evening by a banquet in Washington
where former Secretary of Stafe Lansing pre
sided and many government officials' and
other notables were present.
What was he trying to do? He was doing
his part in an effort to unify the work of
the churches, and to make Christianity more
efficient by co-operation. As, for instance, he
said:
“I don’t know of a thing else than the
teachings of the Carpenter of Nazareth that
will set this world right. The golden rule must
be put into effect in business life to insure
the safety of business and the happiness of
our people.
We must get efficiency into our religion.
That is the purpose of the Interchurch Move
ment. We are going to try to survey condi
tions throughout the world and through this
movement thirty denominations "will dis
cover what they must do to be efficient. Force
has failed to rule this world; diplomacy has
failed; now we must organize the power of
love and see what it will do to set the world
straight again.”
Let us not here discuss the ethics of the
Rockefeller fortune, or the uses of Protes
tant churches, or any other economic or so
cial problem; let us for a moment not try
to say anything clever, bitter, or deep; but
let us simply note the difference between
this day’s action of the chiefest of our rich
young men and those of other days.
In other times the favorite of fortune
would have been (1) building a huge country
house wherein to play and to be waited on
by an army of servants, (2) killing things,
pheasants or peasants, (3) organizing his
retainers to go out and loot among his neigh
bors, (4) straining every effort to achieve
distinction at the court of the king, (5) build
ing huge barracks where men and women
could withdraw themselves from the work of
the world and wait for death, (6) accumu
lating mistresses and wastrel companions,
spending his days in bed and his nights in
drunkenness and lewdness, (7) and alto
gether following the best traditions of the
rich in making this world a harder place to
live in, spoiling and dirtying it for simpler
and better folk.
That the darling of destiny is disposed to
be decent and wants to help, is not that
something?
The world may be as bad as they say, but
when we look at its richest young man we
must believe that it is better than it was.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Andy, a negro porter at a Broadway theater,
belongs to a lodge. The other night the lodge
met to vote on the question of changing rooms,
but Andy wasn’t there. We met him on Broad
way and he said the organization was to. have
new quarters.
“Did you vote for a change?” we asked.
“1 wasn’t at de meetin’,” replied Andy, “but
I voted by peroxide.”
* * *
A very small boy sat on a doorstep weeping
bitterly.
“What’s the trouble, my little man"?” asked
a kind-hearted passer-by. “Have you lost your
mother? ”
“No,” wailed the boy, “she’s not lost. But
I got to wait for her, an’ I don't want to be
parked here all night.”
I Showing Congress the
World. - *
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, April 28.—“ Tour
the Orient in style for $1.25
a day,” is the alluring Invi
tation presented to congress
by the Pan-Pacific Union. Congress
has not been at all backward in ac
cepting the proffered hospitality.
“You plan the trip, and we will take
it,” 136 representatives and senators
promised.
So the Pan-Pacific Union asked
the war department for a transport
to carry the party, and wired the
Oriental governments to dust off
their temples and prepare for com
pany. The governments responded
that their desolate shores would be
honored by the radiant presence of
the Americans, and thjy would gladly
furnish free rides on their best rail
roads and banquets with speeches in
the town halls.
With this summer vacation in pros
pect, 136 congressmen are settling
down to hard work so as to finish
their dhores in time to catch the
boat at San Francisco on July 5.
Congress has always gone off on
so-called “junketing trips” with an
apologetic eye toward the public, for
the people who vote have occasional
ly piped up to ask, “Who pays the
bills* when congress travels?” This
disconcerting question has been
brought up in connection with the
proposed trip. But . this time, it
seems, congress has an almost com
plete alibi, so far as expense to this
government is concerned.
The distinguished party is going to
pay its own way to San Francisco.
A good many of the members were
going there anyway for the Demo
cratic convention. As soon as the
convention is over, the vacationists
will go aboard the Great Northern,
which will be waiting in the San
Francisco harbor.
COST OF EDUCATING CONGRESS
MEN
The ocean trip is the one weak spot
in the junketer’s armor, for that it
where the public pays. To be sure,
each traveler must hand over $1.25
a day for his meals, and at least two
of the prospective party have decid
ed that they are not going to eat
anything over that amount aboard
ship so as to be as little trouble to
the nation as possible. But for fuel,
running expenses, and wear and tear
on the transport, the government, of
course, pays. But this does not cost
each of us more than a fraction of
a cent, and most people are -wailing
to contribute to this extent in order
to have congress acquire culture by
foreign travel.
When the party touches foreign
shores, the problem of feeding and
amusing it is up to the government
there. From plans already made, the
traveling congressmen will have a
sumptuous time.
Mr. Alexander H. Ford, secretary
of the Pan-Pacific Union, is responsi
ble for the idea of taking congress
to the Orient. Mr. Ford, who has
for years been in close touch with
conditions in the east, is firmly con
vinced of the importance of a broth
erly feeling between nations border
ing on the Pacific. With the idea/of
promoting good fellowship,’he talked
to members of congress one night,
and showed pictures of the Far East.
He wound up a vivid and enticing
account by inviting congress to come
and see for itself. Some of his
listeners accepted then and there.
“And then,” says Mr. Ford, “I
had to go out and make good my
promises.”
The result of several weeks of
strenuous preparation is a trip which
might make even the anti-junketmg
forces in congress waver in their n
delity to economy.
Mr. Ford says his party will first
sail for Hawaii, and spend several
days in and around Honolulu.
Hawaii is not flustered over this
honor, as every two or three years
she appropriates $60,000 to entertain
a group of congressmen for two
weeks.
Congressmen Like Local Color
In these past visits she has pret
ty well gauged congressional char
acter. She has found that the Amer
icans have definite, preconceived
ideas of what Hawaii should be like,
and that while they like to be sur
prised, they don’t want their illus
ions shattered. Hawaii arranges for
them to see the picturesque, fantas
tic side of tropical life, gives them
broken doses of native cooking, and
byway of the surprise element,
calls their attention to the thorough
ly up-to-date business district of
Honolulu, which might be a part of
any progressive city in the United
States.
There will be a pageant in Hono
lulu with people from every country
of the Pacific in native dress and
carrying the flags of their nations.
There will be a banquet, too, out un
der the trees. Each congressman is
to be at a table with three other
guests, and each guest will be of a
different race. The courses will in
clude dishes of the different Pacific
countries, with a Hawaiian pig bak
ed in the ground specially featured..
This Hawaiian dish is prepared by
digging a hole three feet deep and
putting the pig, stuffed with sweet
potatoes, in it. Round stones, red
hot, are placed ‘around the pig, and
it is covered over. In an hour or
two, It is dug up and carried direct
to the table on the shoulders of na
tive servants. This is a favorite
Hawaiian delicacy.
Ohilo Fie
Another kind of Hawaiian cooking
will be offered when the party visits
the volcano of Kileauea. Ohilo ber
ries, sacred to Pele, the goddess of
the volcano, grow only in this re
gion. It is customary to toss a few
of these sacred berries into the cra
ter to propitiate the goddess. But
congressmen being special guests,
the natives will risk offending Pele,
and make some ohilo berry pies,
which are supposed to be the most
delicious pies ever eaten.
The meal at Kileauea will be made
still more interesting by cooking it
over the volcano. This is done by
letting the pots down by steel cords
into cracks near the crater’s edge.
From Hawaii, the transport will
sail to the Philippines, stopping off
at Guam for the delegation to visit
the fortifications there.
While in the Philippines, the party
will be divided. Commercial organ
izations at Manila will take charge
of members of the foreign relations
committee to show them Philippine
trade and industrial conditions.
Menibers of the military affairs com
mittee will be carried off to look at
forts, while the rest of the party
will probably be sent up. to the big
health resort at Bagio to cool off.
From the Philippines the delega
tion will go on to spend- a week in
China and another In Japan. China
has promised to show the guests the
grave of Confucius, and the sights
Os Hongkong, Canton, and Shang
hai, and even to extend the hospital
ity of the palace at Pekin in a big
banquet.
Japan will take over the party at
Korea and carry them down through
the country by train to spend a day
at Seoul, the capital. Then she will
escort them to Fusan; Osaka, the big
manufacturing city; the old capital,
Kioto; and the new capital, Tokio.
"here the oriental sightseeing will
end, and the “Great Northern” will
steam for Seattle, as the Canadian
government is going to show the con
gressmen a few sights of the north
western Rockies, before they sepa
rate. The whole trip will ta.ke about
two months.
Arguments Barred
There will be no violent arguments
over the United States policies _ to
ward Shantung, Korea, or the Philip
pines, if Mr. Ford can help it. The
congressmen are to be guests of the
Pan-Pacific Union, and that organi
zation, which is very like the Pan-
American union, has cut two words
out of its vocabulary—war and
peace.
These two subjects are never dis
cussed, the idea being that if a gen
tleman approaches you with a bolo
and an unpleasant expression, you
simply smile and divert his attention
by” discussing the chances of a storm
or the price of bananas. Trade, in
dustry, and education are the topics
by which thte Pan-Paciflc Union
hopes to bring together the nations
bordering on the Pacific. These are
the matters in which congress is sup
posed to keep its eyes fixed on its
eastern to.ur.
Mr. Ford quotes Carlyle’s saying:
“You never hate a man you know.”
He expects congress to get acquaint
ed with the Far East through its
economic situations, and he feels
sure that acquaintance will mean
friendship.
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
PRISONERS OF LOVE
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
Once upon a time I was invited
to help celebrate the fourth birth
day of an idolized only child. Said
a doting aunt to the little one:
“My darling, this is your birthday
and I want you to be perfectly hap
py, so you may have anything, or
do anything you wish, no matter
what it is. What do you want most?"
The little girl thought a long time,
then she replied:
“I’d rather walk around the block
without anybody holding my hand
than anything else in the whole
world.”
There spoke the poor little prison
er of love. Not a moment of her life
but some watchful eye had been
spying upon her. Not a movement
had she made that had not been di
rected. Never once had she been
permitted to stand alone, or go out
alone, and, baby as she was, she re
sented it. Baby as she was, she felt
her fetters. Young as she was, some
thing in her soul cried out that
freedom is the most precious gift
in the world, and that no amount
of affection on the part of one’s
jailers, no gilding of the bars can
ever make a prison anything but a
prison.
The mistake that these parents
made is a very common one among
fathers and mothers. They make
prisoners of love of their, children.
They bind and fetter their children
hand and feet with their affection
until the children either sink into
hopeless and supine life-termers, or
else they break brutally away from
their jailers and their jail and flee
from them to the uttermost parts
of the earth.
And in either case, they break
their parents’ hearts, and they won
der why it is that Johnny and Mary
have never had any more ambition
and initiative, and have never
amounted to much, or how Johnny
and Mary could have been cruel
enough to go away and leave them,
even if they have made such a suc
cess in South Africa and New York.
And they jiever dream that their
over-love, which kept them from giv
ing their children a particle of lib
erty, furnishes the answer to both
questions.
There is no tragedy in life greater
than the inability of parents to re
alize that their children grow up,
and this is responsible for the
breaking tip of so many homes. Un
til Mary is fifty years old mother
thinks of her as a toddling infant
whose hand she must hold as she
walks around the block. Until John
is gray-headed and stoop-shouldered
father considers him a witless babe
whose every move he must direct.
That is why sons are not willing
to go into business with their fa
thers. Father will never grant them
any authority, or have any respect
for their judgment, or think that
they have a right to anything but
a little pocket money as their part
of the profits of an undertaking. As
long as Mary stays at home, mother
tells her how to make a cake every
time she attempts one, though Mary
may be the queen cake-maker of the
village, and mother selects her
clothes and tells her when to go to
bed and what is good for her di
gestion and, generally, when to get
off and on.
Os course, fathers and mothers
keep their children prisoners through
love. They know that there are
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
A cablegram was sen to London,
offering to loan to the international
horse show, to be held in 'June, a
duplicate of the famous Deadwood
coaches common in the west many
years ago and exhibited more re
cently by the late Colonel William F.
Cody (Buffalo Bill).
The offer was in response to an
advertisement printed in London pa
pers.
The coach in Concord, N. H., which
is owned by the original makers, is
believed to be the oitly one of its
kind now available.
According to a dispatch from Ber
lin, the Deutsche Zeitung says the
German government Is preparing a
note to France, in which a demand
will be made for withdrawal of the
allied troops from Frankfort and
other recently occupied districts. The
demand will be based, says the news
paper, on ground that German troops
in the Ruhr region have been reduced
to the peace treaty stipulations.
General von Watter, commander of
German government troops in the
Ruhr district during recent commun
ist disorders there, has resigned, and
his resignation has been accepted, ac
cording to advices from Berlirt.
The war department at Washington
has undertaken a campaign to. en
courage horsemanship, and to that
encLwill have annual competitions in
eacn of the seven divisions of the
army, the secretary of war having
granted the necessary permission.
Trophies in the form of plaques will
be given for general horsemanship,
care of horses, equipment, feeding,
etc. The Remount association, an in
dependent organization, is endeavor
ing to advance interest, both mili
tary and civilian, in the breeding of
American horses for riding purposes,
and is now assured of the co-opera
tion of the army in this connection.
The first national convention of the
American Woman’s Legion will be
held in Washington, D. C., May 13,
14 and 15, it was announced recently,
all women relatives of men who took
part in the war being invited to or
ganize locally and send two delegates
for every twenty-five members.
Amelioration of condition of the
wounded soldiers, reduction of illit
eracy and participation in the cam
paign of Americanization were named
as objects of the legion.
President Wilson’s letter to Tonett
bhouse, delegate-at-large from Kan
sas to the Democratic national con
vention, is only one of several re
cent incidents that have confirmed
the opinion of leading Democrats
that the president expects to be the
candidate of his party.
Theer can be no other logical in
terpretation of his insistence on the
League of Nations as the dominant
issue of the campaign.
Mr. Wilson’s declaration in his
letter that this is “a year of excep
tional opportunity and duty” for
Democrats clears the way for him
to accept a third-term nomination as
a matter of duty.
The president’s health is all that
intervenes. What that will be in
June no one can foresee.
A dispatch received here from San
Remo makes known the statement
of Signor Nitti: “You will have war
m Asia Minor, and Italy will not
s ®na a soldier nor pay a sin-
gle lira. You have taken from the
Turks their sacred Ctiy of Adrian
ople, said Signor Nitti. "You have
placed their capital city under for
eiSii control; you «iave taken from
them every port and the larger part
of their territory, and the five Turk
ish delegates who?- you will select
will sign a treaty vhich will not
have the sanction of the Turkish
people or the Turkish parliament.”
According to a statement issued at
Marlboro, Mass., smoking and chat
ting periods have been introduced at
a local shoe factory in an effort to
increase efficiency.
Several ideas eliminating unneces
sary processes have been adopted,
and other suggestions aimed at time
•paving are being tried out. Some of
the operatives, it is said, did not
take kindly to the experiments and
were wondering dubiously what the
next short cut would be.
It came in this unexpected an
nouncement: “Production must be
increased. Quality must be improv
ed. Operation will be suspended
twice daily to allow operatives to
rest.”
During these periods, which be
gin at 10 in the morning and 3 in
the afternoon, the power is shut
off and the wheels stop.
The latest news from Constanti
nople states that five hundred
French troops are reported to have
been killed in the evacuation of
Ursa, in the northwest part of Meso
potamia. Details are lacking.
American relief workers. among
whom was Mrs. Richard Mansfield,
are all reported safe.
dangers beyond the prison walls,
and that their young ones are safe
within. They know that the road
of life is rough and full of pitfalls,
and they cannot bear that the little
feet should stumble, and the little
body be bruised by falls, and so
they hold their children’s hands in
theirs and will not let go.
What they forget is that we only
learn by experience. We only get
strength by exertion. We only de
velop our judgment by using it. It
is only by falling and getting hurt
that a child learns to walk carefully.
It is only by standing alone that it
learns to take care of itself. It is
only by making mistakes that it ac
quires wisdom.
Better a thousand times to take
the knocks and bruises of life, to be
scarred with them from head to foot,
than to have been kept in cotton
wool, protected from every rough
wind that blows, doomed to perpet
ual babyhood by the over-love of
foolish parents. It is a luckier and
a happier fate to be a ragged news
boy, running the streets and living
by his wits, than to be a rich boy,
led by the hand by adoring parents
and never permitted to cross the ave
nue alone for fear of getting run over
by a milk cart. And the poor boy
has a better chance in life of success.
Think of. how few of the rich men’s
sons you have known who have been
equal to carrying on their father’s
business. They had been the pris
oners of love so loiig, that when their
jailer died they were like those cap
tives in the Bastille who sat still in
their cells after the doors were flung
open, knowing not what move to
make, bewildered with a liberty they
did not know how to use.
And among the most pathetic pris
oners of love are those victims to
their hearts and their consciences,
who have let their parents shut up
portunity away from them on the
other side of the wall. Mary had a
most desirable offer of marriage, but
mother wept and begged her not to
leave her and father, and Mary was
too devoted a daughter to buy her
ow happiness by making her parents
unnappy, so she said goodby to love,
and doomed herself to a lonely and
purposeless old maidenhood.
Tom had a splendid opportunity to
go into business but father couldn t
run the farm or the village store
without him, so he stayed on, and is
drudging 1 out his life for a. pittance,
and nobody even pins a good conduct
medal on Tom’s breast, for father is
so happy to have Tom always bound
to him, that he doesn’t realize Tom
isn’t equally hilarious about being
bound. For, after all, there is a
difference between being jailer and
prisoner. ... .
Perhaps we are all prisoners of
love, for the silken cords of affection
bind us more securely than could
iron bands. But, oh, dear and be
loved jailers, be merciful to us, and
some time set the prison door ajar
a little so that we can see out to
freedom! _ ..
Det us sometimes walk around the
block without holding our hands!
Dorothy’s Dix’s articles will appear
in this paper ever Monday, Wednes
day and Friday.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syn
dicate, Inc.)
John F. Kramer, prohibition com
missioner, has instructed the gov- '
ernment’s supervisors at Washing
ton to be careful in issuing permit
books to physicians for prescriping
whisky. He advised that when a phy
sician asked for more than one book
a quarter the supervisor should take
steps to ascertain the reason. Each
book contains 100 prescription per
mits.
Mr. Kramer said: “A number of
physicians have written to me stat
ing it as their professional opinion
that not more than 100 permits for
whisky should, on the average, be
issued to a physician, in a single
year. There was a case in which one
physician issued 475 prescriptions
for whisky in a single day.”
The commanding officer of the
army aviation base at Chanute field,
Rantoul, 111., has agreed to send an
airplane to assist in locating packs
of wolves in the region northwest of
that place.
The request was made by farmers,
who complained that blizzards this
spring had driven a large number of
wolves into their sections.
Doubt is expressed that wolves
could be seen from an airplane, but
the commanding officer at Chanute
field decided to make the trial.
The output of the Bellveu Cotton
Mills, of Hillsboro, N. C„ will be
doubled with the addition now being
added of 200 looms and 6,000 spin
dles.
One of the relics of former days,
when all of south Texas was an un
broken ranch region, has just pass
ed away by the burning of the ranch
house owned by H. B. Crosby, situat
ed near Three Rivers. This building
in its time was perhaps the finest
ranch home in all that region lying
between San Antonio and the Gulf.
It was built forty-seven years ago
by John Campbell, who is well
known to all of the old time cattle
men of Texas. He hauled lumber
far across the country from St.
Mary.
The residence was a two-story
structure with many large guest
rooms. Notwithstanding the long
distance that the' lumber had to be
hauled, there was no stint of this
material in the erection of the
building. That it was most substan
tially constructed is shown by the
fact that at the time it was burned
it was in practically as good condi
tion as when it was first built.
Political picketing, often of the
peaceful sort, and more often with
running epidemic in Washington
again and thousands of tourists who
make the national capital their mec- -
ca all year round again see bands ot
women slowly parading about the
streets bearing banners with a wide
variety of inscriptions.
Seemingly, every cause which
wishes to impress its demands, argu
ments or protests on “the powers
that be” ultimately adopts the pick
eting system which was first intro
duced in the capital by a branch of
the woman suffragists about ten
years ago.
The latest to adopt the method are
women espousing the cause of Irish
freedom and they have directed their
protests against the British embassy.
Their campaign has caused some
what of a flurry because it is not
without its international aspect.
The British embassy, for instance,
is foreign territory: whether the side
walk in front of it is American ter
ritory no one has essayed to decide.
Moreover, there is a federal law
which penalizes any person who “as
saults- * a diplomatic representative
of a friendly power.
Whether picketing of the embassy
is an annoyance to the British diplo- ,
mats, and whether an annoyance is
an assault within the technical mean
ing of the law is an additional ques
tion.
Then there is involved the ques
tion of preserving public peace, for
disturbances often grow out of the
picketing.
Often some woman passerby ex
presses her disagreement with the
banners the pickets bear by ripping
them to bits and the pedestrian and
the picket have a scrimmage, wit*,
sometimes regular old-fashioned
hair-pulling. The police patrol clangs
up, both parties to the quarrel are
hustled off to station house. Relief
pickets immediately arrive. The po
lice court gets another case.
Personnel of the picketing forces
furnishes an interesting study in hu
man nature. They are women, ap
parently from all walks of life.
Many bear evidences of breeding,
education and social position. Oth
ers are women who appear to be of
the opposite types.
The Quitman Manufacturing com
pany, of Quitman, Ga., lately sold
two mills to W. R. and H. E. New
ton, of Forsyth, Ga. The price is
said to be ?250,000.