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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-Weeklv SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months ; 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 Sunday •••••••••••••• <c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac 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. Remittances 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 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.