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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoft'ice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wli.l Mo. 3 Mos. C Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c §2.50 §5.00 S 9-50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and she farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we 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 u»ed for addressing your paper shows the time ' your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks i 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. Georgia Democrats IFill Not Tqlerate Convention Bolters. WHEN members of a faction threaten to bolt the forthcoming State Dem ocratic convention unless they are allowed to dominate it regardless of the majority’s opinions and rights, they are in dulging in silly yet potentially harmful talk. This convention, it is to be assumed, will be Democratic in principle and procedure as well as in name; assuredly it must be so if it is to speak and act for the people of Georgia. It will be composed of delegates representing the three candidates in the re cent preferential primary, or, to‘put it more exactly, representing the counties and the voters who declared themselves for one or the other of those candidates. Thus, on the face of the returns, (though it should be re membered that there are several contests pending, which only the Convention can decide) the Palmer delegates will represent fifty-three counties and a popular vote of 48,041; the Smith delegates, forty-six coun ties and a popular vote of 45,344; and the Watson delegates, fifty-six counties and a popular vote of 52,129. The county unit votes of the three candidates are: Palmer, 144; Smith, 110; and Watson, 132. (While these figures may be subject to certain al terations, they are unquestionably accurate enough for the prupose of the present argu ment. Sqch changes as may result from the settlement of pending contests could serve only to strengthen the point which we are making.) In a convention at all democratic or in any wise considerate of common rights each of these groups will be seated and each • will have its say. This is so obviously the just and reason able /course, particularly in as close a con test as that of April the 20th proved to be, that one w T ell mifeht expect it to be adopt ed without controversy. Unhappily, however, there are murmurings and churlish threats. A certain arbitrary and really meaningless pronouncement of a sub-section of the State Democratic Executive Committee, known as “Rule Teh,” is fished forth in support of the claim that the Convention should be governed, not by the majority of its dele gates, but by a small minority. According to “Rule Ten” (which has about as much pow er in Democratic principle and precedent as the rules of tiddledy-winks have on the movements of the solar system) “The dele gates to the National- Convention shall be chosen from the friends and supporters of that candidate for. president receiving the highest county unit vote.” A glance will show how preposterously unfair it would be to apply this fiat of a few subcommitteemen to the situation that will obtain in the ap proaching State Convention. Os the one. hun dred and fifty-five counties represented in that Convention, only fifty-three at the out most will have Palmer delegates; and of the 145,514 voters represented, only 48,041 will have Palmer delegates as their spokes men. Yet, according to the sub-committee’s interpretation of Rule Ten, all the other one hundred and two counties and all the other ninety-seven thousand-odd voters should be utterly ignored or at best treated as mere figureheads. The extraordinary argument advanced for this over-reaching proposal is that Mr. Palmer has the highest number of county units. Even that claim is but a half truth; for out of the total three hundred and eighty-six county unit votes in the convention only.one hundred and forty-four are claimed for Mr. Palmer. This, be it granted, is ten more than that of the sec ond candidate, and thirty-two more than that of the third; even so the difference is inconspicuous. But by what standard of rea son or right can it be contended that the two hundred and forty-two county unit votes NOT for Mr. Palmer—an excess of one hundred above what he received—should be disregarded 'in the Convention’s procedures and decisions, should be thrust aside as though they were ciphers and as though the tens of thousands z of Democratic citizens whom they represent were political non-en tities? If a sub-committee impose such a rule upon the delegates of a Democratic convention, then it could assume any power, howsoever tyrannous, and enforce any edict, howsoever absurd. It could abolish the Con vention altogether, and that is virtually what it proposes to do in nullifying the ma jority of the convention votes. It could even take unto itself authority to name the Geor gia delegation to San Francisco, and that is substantially what it proposes to do in its plan to make up the permanent roll of the State convention, deciding in advance con tests for county delegations and usurping other farreaching powers which only the Convention itself can rightly exercise. It is foregone that no great Convention coming from the people and charged with the peo ple’s recently uttered will can ever be man acled by the arbitrary rule of a sub-com mittee which represents nothing more than the opinion and interest of some half a dozen individuals. Certainly no Convention that surrendered its own and the electorate’s rights to any such dictation would be true to the traditions of Georgia Democracy or mindful of the party’s welfare in these days of crucial test. Yet the rumor is afloat that certain fac tionists are disposed to break away from the accredited Convention and set up pre tended authority for themselves, unless the Convention will suffer them to exercise the discriminatory and oppressive power of “Rule Ten.” The Journal cannot bring itself to believe that any considerable number of delegates are of this unreasonable inclina- THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. I tion. But it is to be regretted that there is !so much as a syllable of such ill advised | talk. No discerning friend of any candidate will countenance this reckless suggestion, and assuredly no thoughtful friend of the Democratic party will countenance it. In deed, we can imagine no swifter way to bring a candidate’s cause into popular condemna tion and no surer way to undermine the interests of the party itself than the rash course which some of the sticklers for “Rule Ten" are reported to be contemplating. The State Democratic Convention soon to meet, will be a sovereign body, answerable only to the dictates of reason and fair play. It will choose its own officials, settle its own contests, adopt its own rules. Its membership will be divided more closely amongst the three candidates than was ever perhaps the case in Georgia’s entire politi cal past. Whether the measure be counties, or county units, or popular votes, the dif ferences are exceedingly small. In these circumstances, as The Journal sees it, the fairest procedure would be to give each can didate such a proportion of the delegation to San Francisco its he has county unit votes in the State convention. Thus the candi date controlling the largest number of coun ty units would have*the largest number of national delegates, and so on to the third and last. In recommending this plan, The Journal can hardly be said to speak other wise than impartially since the candidate whom it supported in the late primary would thus receive the smallest allotment of dele gates. In any event, however, it will be for the State Convention itself, not for a sub committee, to decide the course to be pur sued, and we have faith in the Convention’s discernment to see and courage to do what i is just and right. ♦ Reviving River Commerce. ' PROGRESS toward a resumption of riv er commerce in the United States was impressively illustrated in the recent arrival at New Orleans of one of the Gov ernment built towboats with steel barges bearing a big cargo from St. Louis. In its comment on this beginning of a new freight service between the two great cities, the Houston Post remarks that under railway competition river traffic on. the Mississippi has been dwindling until in recent years it “reached the lowest ebb in the history of that waterway since civilization was intro duced along its shores. The old time river packet, which carried both freight and pas sengers, is not likely to return, but the barge line offers one of the best means row available for expediting traffic. For the movement of heavy freight, such as coal grain, machinery, cotton and all other com modities shipped in bulk, the barge method of shipment is easy and cheap, and with the present delays in rail traffic is perhaps the quickest way of moving freight for long dis tances.” These observations, in the main, are true of the entire country. Transportation needs have grown so much more rapidly than transportation service, and industrial devel opment has struck so gigantic a stride, that every channel for moving freight must be brought into use. Railroads must be im proved and in some instances extended; high ways must be built strong and far for motor truck lines; and rivers, must be turned again to the great purpose which they served in the earlier days of American commerce. There will be ample traffic for all three if the present rate of expansion continues. No part of the country has better reason to be interested in river development, both for navigation and for water power, than the South. Singularly rich in natural re sources of this kind, Georgia and her neigh bor States should look definitely to their utilization. The Chattahoochee river between Atlanta and Columbus, is capable of produc ing hydro-electric power sufficient to pro vide steady industrial employment for up wards of a million persons. Happily enough | the situation is such that the same system of locks, dams and improvements needful to make this latent power available would serve also to render the stream permanently nav igable. As far back as 1916 Government in vestigation showed that the towns and cities adjacent, to the river had an aggregate freight tonnage of approximately twelve and a half million, a large part of natural ly would move by water if facilities were provided. The counties in this zone produced during the year in question more than half a million bales of cotton. A number of the towns are textile centers and supply-points for extensive areas. Qualified observers say that the territory is already amply able to support a line of river transportation in ad dition to railroads and highway “feeders.” Plans for the Chattahoochee’s development were being pressed vigorously forward be fore the war. If conditions were favorable then, they are far more so now. Wherefore, it is to be hoped that this sound enterprise will not lack renewed initiative and sup port. South America in the Garden. WHILE waiting for the rains to abate and the 'mushy soil to become work able a philosophic gardener has been hobnobbing with history on the origin of the favorite vegetables which he and thousands of other hope to harvest despite a cantankerous season. It is to South Amer ica, he reports in an article in the New York Sun and Herald, that we are chiefly in debted. There corn was first grown, some where in the northern part of the continent, or perhaps in Mexico. Montezuma’s palace, according to legend, consumed some seven million bushels of the grain each year; and Columbus in one of his letters, speaks of having seen eighteen miles of cornfields. From South America, too, sprang the sturdy Irish as well as the delectable- sweet potato. The former appears to have flourished in Peru long before the Christian era. “The Spaniards found it in Ecuador,” and took it to Spain, whence it traveled to Italy and to France and Belgium, crossing the channel in time to save Ireland from many a hard winter.” Particularly interesting is the story of the tomato. When first grown in Peru this now liberal and lusciqus bit of creation was a mere midget of its destined self. “Even the Inca never saw anything that approached the glossy Gargantuas which bloom in red ink on the pages of the seed books. Constant cross ing by a thousand Burbanks of the various kinds of small tomatoes has resulted in the modern giants; but when the commuter plucks the first three-pounder from his groan ing vine he should remember the Peruvians who kept its ancestors alive and ambitious.” Though we commonly think of the Hub bard squash as being as native to New Eng ’ land as Bunker Hill itself, research shows • that “its seeds have been found in the an ’ cient tombs near Lima.” Red peppers flamed : beneath the South American sun long ages ’ before they were taken into the graces of European cooks and doctors; and there like ’! wise the navy bean is supposed to have had L its genesis. Our gardens are debtors in - deed to versatile South America. ! ’ Editorial Echoes. j British Shut Up in Constantinople-- Head line. But the Turks haven’t shut ud. —-AR- : KANSAS GAZETTE. i Milk has fallen a cent a quart in St. Louis, s but we fancy this is the result of the spring i rise in Missouri creeks.- —HOUSTON POST, f C The troubles of draft dodgers are by no t means ended. They are just getting into the - war now.—CANTON REPOSITORY. Freight From the South. CERTAIN defenders of the unfair and unreasonable practice of trying to cram the larger part of the conti nent’s ocean-bound commerce through a few overcrowded North Atlantic ports have contended that if shipments are made to Southern ports, cars must be sent back empty “through lack of return cargoes.” How insupportable this position is in fact appears from a letter to the Manufacturers’ Record from Mr. C. H. Markham, presi dent of the Illinois Central railroad. “It goes without saying,” he writes, “that as a representative of a system which serves the ports of New Orleans and Savannah, I am in favor of any fair rate adjustment that will put our • Southern ports on an equal ity with the North Atlantic ports, and we have a peculiar interest in the movement of export business through Southern ports for the reason that the tonnage of South ern production is so much larger than the Southbound tonnage as to constantly re quire sending of empty cars into that sec tion. It will be seen, therefore, that any increase in export business in times of car shortage is a matter of special interest to shippers of cotton, lumber, rice, sugar and other Southern products.” The railways of the South Atlantic and Gulf States are virtually a unit with those of the Middle West in bearing witness to the feasibility and rightfulness of letting traffic which naturally tends to Southern ports take that course instead of forcing it, by means of arbitrary freight rates, into the congested channels of the North east. ♦ DAWNS By H. Addington Bruce SUNSETS, with their sublime color effects, have true inspirational value, as multi tudes can testify from unique personal experiences. So have dawns, though far fewer take opportunity to profit from their contem*- plation. Dawns, in tuth, often are more subtly ex alting than any sunset. The soul expands as they grow in radiance from their first faint flush of rose or gold or silvery gray. They bring to the discouraged- a benign suggestion of waxing, not waning, power. They give new heart for undertakings that may seem desperate. They confirm the am bitious in their resolutions to progress. To this creative and recreative impulse I can bear witness from dawns I myself have watched. I am reminded of it, too, by an uncommonly beautiful passage in Violet Tweedale’s recent and most extraordinary book, “Ghosts I Have Seen.” “We have been many wonderful dawns this winter,” Mrs. Tweedale notes, “and I have used them eagerly as a cleansing of the war-weary mind and distracted soul. In such ethereal apparitional dawns one walks with the Eternal, and all temporal things fade away. “Such daybreaks always rouse in me the urge of wider thought, for the broad day of the mind. Out of the limitless beyond comes the certain knowledge of a something un imagined, lying just outside human thought. “There is a wine of happiness in tranquil daybreaks, and an aloofness from life that urges one to seek that which is beyond com prehension. The draught exalts the soul and quickens it with unquenchable fire. “Again, there is an amnesty in such dawns, a glory of release from the house of bondage. In the great silences life as we know it is re mote, and the immensity is a magic that draws the soul, fusing it in a strange passion, so that ■ whatever fulfilment our existence holds is summed in that hour of solitude. This, if you please, is the rhapsody of a mystic. But all of us, if we would know reality, if we would achieve our highest possi bilities, need to think and feel in some degree as the mystics think and feel. And not the least of the gifts that excep tional dawns bestow on us is the mystic thrill they send to us and through us. The most matter-of-fact, the man dominantly of the market place, gains a saving sense of the verity of the spirit as he beholds God at work in the making of such a dawn. . Even in the cities the purifying, re-energiz ing inflow from dawns may be experienced to some extent. But it is in the open spaces of the country or across the reaches of the sea, with the wide horizon apprehensible, that dawns have greatest power to heal, to strengthen, to reconstruct. So that the vacationist from the city cannot too eagerly avail himself of the chance to use his holiday dawns for the broadening of his vision, the enlarging of his personality. To miss this chance may mean to linger in modes of thought where life is only half Jived and true success perpetually delayed and frus trated. Make trial yourself this summer if hitherto you have let dawn after dawn pass unheeded. (Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News papers.) THE’ AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME Bv Dr. Frank Crane The American Academy in Rome is an or ganization formed for the purpose of culti vating American genius. It is based on the theory, which one hesi tates to put forward these days, that a nation needs Beauty as well as Utility, Taste as much as Money, and Artists as well as Bricklayers. Advance in culture comes by folding mod ernity back upon the antique. The past is not a huge mistake, it is the greatest of teacheis. Each generation mounts higher by standing upon the shoulders of the preceding genera tion. . _ In all the world is no teacher like Rome. It contains the wrecks of three civilizations. It is a museum of dead ideas. It is the mother of civilization. The American Academy in Rome, now cele brating its twenty-fifth anniversary, is well established and is backed by Americans ot distinction. . , „ . . It is trying to raise a million dollar fund. This will be invested in youth, in genius and in ability which are better than banks and oil wells. Those who have money and are inclined to encourage art would much better put their money into the red blood of aspiring youth than into the gray stones of museums. The Academy does not propose to help all students, as we commonly understand the meaning of the word. It helps those w r ho have already acquired a preliminary educa tion-and technique; to these it offers the op portunity to become masters. In other words, it is to help those who have helped themselves; to encourage those who have already demonstrated their powers; and this is the best charity. No country in the world needs genius more than the United States, and none neglects it more. We should make things easy for the artist. It is good doubtless for the merchant to strug gle with privation and fight his way through poverty to success; but it is liable to extin guish the spark in the artist. He should be removed from physical hardships and given favorable environment. This the Academy aims to do. It sends young artists of promise, who have demon strated their caliber, to Rome, the best of all artistic atmospheres. It is worthy of the support of all those that have vision. (Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.) ROADS OF THE FUTURE By Frederic J. Hasten WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 4. There are many indications that the next few years will be in the United States one of the greatest road-building epochs ever seen anywhere. Most of the presidential candidates seem to have spoken in favor of a fine national sys tem of roads, that being a thing that is perfectly safe to indorse, and one that can be nAade to appeal to any au dience. If it is some organization of militants and Imperialists that the candidate Is addressing, then roads are necessary for military reasons; the farmers are to be the great bene ficiaries if they are listening; while the ultimate consumer is assured that the products of the country will flow to his very door in an un ceasing stream when there are good truck roads. The manufacturer knows that the growth of the great auto industry and all its Innumerable accessory industries is dependent upon good roads. Here is something that all can agree about, and certainly it is true that the road building in this country nearly all remains to be done. We have good macadam roads in many parts of the United States, but they are not adequate in two ways. In the first place, they do not join to form the great trunk lines from one part of the country to another which are the essential frame-work of a good national roads system,, and in the second place, they are not built well enough to stand the strain ot the great and growing heavy truck traffic. This fact is fully realized by T. H. MacDonald, chief of the United States biireau of public roads, who states that our whole national road system must be rebuilt with the heavy truck especially in mind. W LO £ AT E TRUNK SYSTEMS MacDonald says that the first thing to be done is to make a survey of the roads of the country, determin ing just what traffic goes over each class of road, and fixing standards of construction for each class. It is generally agreed that a trunk sys te'P of paved roads is the only thing which, in the long run, will serve the purpose. Such roads, made of fitted stones, will be expensive to build in the first place, but not nearly so ex pensive to keep up once they are built. Every highly organized civill zation has foifnd such a system of paved roads a necessity, from Rome on down. The western European na tions, being small, found it a compar atively easy task to build adequate road systems, but in an enormous country like the United States, it is another matter. * There was little Interest in roads in this country for a long time. It was assumed that the railroads were all-sufficient. The automobile brought the first impetus to road building, and now the heavy truck has brought a still greater one. For it has been discovered that the rail road does not displace the highway, even for heavy freighting, just as it has been discovered that the railroad cannot economically be allowed to displace the canal and river traffic. Real economy and efficiency are gained by co-ordinating all of these means of transport, letting each function in its proper sphere. The war department has given a push to road-building operations this spring by turning over some 27,000 inotor vehicles built for war purposes to the various state road departments for use in road building. At present the states are not given title to this equipment, and it can be used only on roads which are being built, in part by federal aid, but this is ex pected to be remedied by legislation. The state will then be able to turn over some of the equipment to the counties. ROADS STIMULATE TRAFFIC The completion of trunk lines be tween east and west and north and south will perhaps stimulate pas senger traffic by highway almost as as wil] stimulate freight traffic. For the number of persons who travel from one part of the country to another by motor vehicle is undoubtedly Increasing at a great rate. And this “touring” is no longer solely the sport of rich men that it used t o be. For example, if you hire a jitney in Miami, Fla., in January you are surprised to learn that the driver of it is a native of sdme place in Connecticut. He has come south with his wife and several children every year for five years, returning north in the summer.. By following the travel crowds, both he and his wife are easily able to get remunera tive work and at the same time es cape the extremes of heat and cold and see something of the world. Nd'-’ are such perapatetic families at all rare. , A strong evidence of the increase of the auto-nomad of modest means is the great boom which is going for ward just now in auto-camping equip ment. A great number of devices have been put on the market by which a flivver may be converted in a few minutes into a sleeping chamber, while cooking outfits, stoves and other household paraphernalia for the motorist are also available. These devices are multiplying at a great rate, and agencies for them are springing up everywhere. American ingenuity is really applying itself to the task of converting the automo bile into a complete home, at least in warm weather. With rents rising the way they are, it is no wonder that even poor men find it expedient to take to the road and live like Arabs wherever they can find room to pitch a tent. If you think this class of modern nomads is a myth, go to Florida in the winter or the Rockes in the summer, and will see them by the roadside everywhere. And a very happy, healthy lot they look. too. WE ARE WANDERLUSTERS After all, Americans are all sprung from a wandering, pioneering stock, and probably most of us are not with out a certain hankering to take the road and see what is somewhere else. Then, too, there is so much seasonal work in the United States that the man who is able to go where he pleases cah make money more easily than the one who has to stay in a cer tain place. The individual who seems to be losing out in this great development of highways and highway travel is the horse. As the good roads advance he retreats. Until a couple of years ago it was often pointed out that de spite the great increase in the use of motor vehicles, horses were just as numerous in thiSco untrj r as ever, but this is no longer true. The horse population is now in for a big drop. As Dr. G. H. Rommel, of the department of agriculture points out. the breeding of heavy draft horses in this country has fallen off about 40 per cent in the past few years, and that of light horses 50 per cent or more. The immediate reason for this is that, while the price of nearly everything else has doubled or more than doubled, the price of horses has increased very litle, if at all. The farmers simply cannot af ford to raise horses at the current prices. It takes just as much feed to produce a 1,500 pound horse as it does to produce fifteen hundera pounds of beef or mutton, and the horse takes about five times as long to mature. Hence it pays better to raise the beef and mutton. The horse is being speeded on the downward path by a very open and deliberate propaganda against him carried on by the truck manufac turers through their trade papers. “The Almighty never designed the brute for traction,” one of these state’s editorially. “He was probably cre ated for food. Often we find him still so regarded. But the cunning and greed of man converted the horse into a beast of burden, and for this im piety the world is still paying the penalty.” The writer might have added that by this impiety it was made possible to carry civilization westward before the truck was invented, and also by this impiety is it made possible to handle great herds of cattle so that editors of trade papers can eat beef, and beef about fair competition. The horse is undoubtedly filling a smaller and smaller niqhe in the scheme of things, but he is still safe frqm the slaughter house. THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1920. DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON PARASITIC SONS The World's Highest Paid Woman Writer Among my acquaintances is a fam ily which consists of a mother and her three daughters and one son. The girls are all in business, and every Saturday night turn in their unopen ed pay envelopes to their mother. That supports the family. There is no other income. The son, a big, husky young fellow with plenty of intelligence, who is ten times as able to work as his sis ters, and .who could earn twice or three times what either one of them does, works only when the spirit moves him. Which is seldom. He doesn’t have to work. He doesn’t really need to because whether he works or not, he is sure of three good meals a day, better than his sisters get, for mother saves up the tidbits for him; a good place to sleep, and a little pocket money for which he can always stand mother up. The sisters are naturally very much outraged at this state of af fairs, but when they protest against it, and tell their mother that they do not feel called upon to support a lazy loafer, even if he is their brother, the mother turns upon them in fury and demands to know what sort of stony hearts they have that they be grudge their poor brother a bite of food and a place to lay his head. Then she weeps and says that she will never turn her own son out of her house and shut her door in his face; that as long as she has a crust she will divide with him, and give him her last penny. So the scene ends, and when the parasitic son comes in mother cooks him up something extra to make up for the way his mean sisters treat him in not being willing to support him. Then she gives him the last of the housekeeping money and runs an account with the grocer, which the girls will have to pay in the end. “And what are we going to do about it?” inquire the girls. “We love our mother and hate to hurt her, but wo feel that it is neithei 1 right nor just for three frail, delicate women to have to support an able-bodied man, and be able to lay up nothing for the future because all of their excess earnings go to pay for his excesses.” Os course it is neither just nor right either to the girls, or to the boy for that matter, for their mother to take their money to keep him in idle ness, but how anybody is going to get justice out of a woman where her idolized son is concerned is a problem far beyond my poor ability to solve. Biologists tell us that mothers can jiot help loving their sons better than their daughters and having a differ ent feeling towards them. It has something to do with a boy inherit ing more from his mother than his father. Anyway, they say that it is a fixed law of nature, and the mothers cannot help it, poor things, since loving is not a matter of voli tion, but of some mysterious attrac tion that we can neither understand nor explain. Perhaps this accounts for the case cited above, and a hundred similar ones that each of us can recall, in which a mother who was a good wom an, and really loved her daughters dearly, neverthless sacrificed them without a pang of compunction to their brothers. CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST The village of Canarsie, on the shores of Jamaica Bay, has in the last two weeks been alarmed by a series of burglaries, and unless the thieves are halted the residents fear they will be forced to wear olottHng made of seaweed. The entire population is in a state of uncertainty, awaiting the next nocturnal visit, of the marauders, who have taken, besides jewelry and cash, every article of clothing they could lay their hands on. In one case they left a resident with only the pajamas he was sleeping in. Thfe victim had to go to business in over alls. About twenty homes have been broken into. One family, father, son and daughter, had their entire street attire carried off, and were compelled to remain indoors until neighbors lent" them clothing. Indignation is strong at the 80th Police Precinct, which has a full quota of police reserves. The mem bers of this organizatzion are won dering how the robberies could have occurred while they, heavily armed, patroled the village. The police be lieve the robberies the work of drug addicts. s On Ames Lane, no fewer than four homes were entered in one night. Residents say they have seen an au tomobile prowling about the village at night. The clothing and Valuables taken are valued at more than §30,000. News from Amoy. China, states there has been fierce fighting between factions of the southern troops in the Anhai district, and the city of Anhai has changed hands three times in the last week. The soldiers are looting the country. It is reported that more than 1,000 persons have been killed. Hundreds of the inhabitants of the Anhai region are fleeing to Amoy. It is probable that the Anhai faction will march against General Chen. Alleged evidence purporting to show that the marriage of Maxine Wayne Dempsey to Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, at Farmington. Utah, in October. 1916, was in violation of the Utah divorce laws and, therefore, invalid, was made public by the bureau of investigation of the department of justice in San Francisco. Temporary restraining order against the- executors of the estate of Lillian Nordica, the prima donna so prano, was issued yesterday in New ark. N. J., by Vice Chancellor Baces. The order restrains the Fidelity Trust company of Newark and the executors, E. Romayne Simmons and Robert S. Baldwin, from disposing of the jewels of Mme. Nordica, now in a vault of the trust company. The jewels were inventoried five years ago at $206,632, it is said, and have doubled in value. The rule to show cause and the re straining order were granted on the application of George W. Young & Co., Inc., which h,olds an assignment from the singer’s husband, George W. Young, of his claim to the jewelry. Acording to information received from Pekin, seven bodies, four of them said to be those of members of the Russian imperial family, ar rived in Pekin from Harbin recently, and were buried in the Russian ceme tery, outside the city wall. The whole proceeding was surrounded with the greatest secrecy, even the Russian legation receiving scant in formation of the circumstances. The bodies were declared to be those of Grand Duke Serge Michaelo vitch. Prince Ivan, husband of Prin cess Helene, daughter of King Peter of Serbia; Prince Igor, brother ot Prince Ivan; Grand Duche.js Eliza beth, a sister of the late empress, and three servants who shared the fate of these members of the imperial family when, it is alleged, they were killed and their bodies thrown into a coal mine near Perm. The discov ery of their whereabouts was said to have been made by a commission ap pointed by Admiral Kolchak last summer. It is believed the transfer was brought about by General Dietrichs, the Kolchak commander, it being hinted that King Peter co-operated in the arrangements. A dispatch from Paris states the chamber of deputies adopted clauses of the new tax bill imposing a tax on business turnovers, which, it is estimated, will yield a revenue of 5,000,000,000 francs. There will be some exceptions, such as sales of bread and brokerage, particularly stock exchange transactions, which are otherwise covered. The entire list of exceptions has not been de termined. A flood of amendments to except certain necessaries was stopped by Frederic Francois-Marsal. fiflnance minister, who declared: “There is a necessity that dominates all others. It is that of enabling France to honor her signature.” BY DOROTHY DIX Did you ever know of a widow with money whose boys did not get the bulk of the fortune? Isn’t it the boys who go off to college and buy racing cars, whUe the girls stay at home and economize because mother can not deny her darling sons anything, but she can say “no” fast enough to the daughters. Haven’t you known a mother to rob even an In valid daughter of the last cent of her inheritance to pay a scrape grace son out of trouble? You have often. The mothers of working girls, one would think, would be peculiarly ten der to them, for the girl who toils all day long and then lays every cent of her earnings in her mother’s lap, is making the most marvellous and beautiful offering ever laid on and altar of filial devotion. She is giving her life, her youth, her beauty, all the playtime and joytime of exist ence to keeping soft, warm and comfortable the mother who bore her. Surely you would think that a sacred trust, but it is not sacred to mother if her boys are unprincipalled enough to want it. She hands it over to them without a murmur. What are the girls’ weariness to he if they can pay for the boys’ good time? What are the odds if the girls are killing themselves earning money be hind stuffy counters, or in dark of fices, if the boys are fed with it, and can take life easily? Os course, mother doesn’t put it this way to herself. Se says the boys are hungry and must be fed. They need money and must have it. But the bald truth is, she is willing to sacrifice the girls if necessary for the boys’ comfort, for that is the result of her taking her daughters’ earnings to support worthless sons in their loafing. It is a pity that mothers can not realize that when they let their sons graft on their sisters, they are doing the boys are far greater wrong than they are doing the girls. There is one thing that no manhood survives, and that is parasitism on a Woman. A man may climb up from any other pit, but whenever he sits down idly and lets some woman work to feed and clothe him he has descended to the last depth of degradation and there is no hope of his ever being rescued. It is for a mother who has a son, to see that he is saved from being this contemptible weakling by rais ing him up to feel that he must take care of his sisters, not that thev must support him. And if he is curs ed by lack of energy, and a yearning for self-indulgence, she should force him to depend on himself by refus ing to shelter and feed him. For even the laziest will work rather than starve. As for a mother taking her daughters’ money to give to a para sitic son. it is a dishonest thing to do. The thin pay envelope of the working girl is a trust of honor that mothers should use wisely and well for the girls’ individual behalf and benefit. Dorothy Dix’s articles will appear in this paper every Monday, Wednes day and Friday. (Copyright, 1920, by The Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) Information received from Wash ington recites an additional tax on tobacco will be one of the five sources of raising revenue for the payment of the proposed soldier bonus, ac cording to Republican house leaders in charge of the legislation. The amount of the proposed addi tional tax upqn tobacco and tobac co products has not yet been made known. The other sources of raising the money with which to pay soldier bo nuses, it was said, will be a tax on sales, a tax on real estate transfers, a tax on stock exchanges and a general increase in income tax. Proposals to license meat packers and to create a commission to en force laws affecting the Industry were rejected by the house agricul ture committee at Washington. With these eliminations agreed upon, a subcommittee headed by chairman Haugen was appointed to draft compromise legislation for the regulation of the packers. Princess Nadeja Vassilievna Trou betskoy, who has been called “the most beautiful Red Cross nurse in the world,” was quietly married in Washington in St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal church to Captain Wallace Strait Schutz, of Milwaukee, who served in France with the One Hun dred and Twentieth field artillery. The bride, who served throughout the war with the Red Cross on the Russian front, has been a nurse in the naval hospital for the last three weeks, and doctors and nurses from the hospital were among the few guests at the ceremony. Miss Sara H. Cox, head nurse at the hospital, was the maid of honor and the best man was Paul N. Ku der, of Milwaukee, a business asso ciate of Captain Hchutz. The prin cess was married ‘in the uniform of the Russian Red Cross. The couple left for a honeymoon in Canada prior to taking up their residence in Mil waukee. According to dispatches from Par is the chamber of deputies passed a bill prohibiting the export of works of art whic.h the state considers form a part of the national artistic patri mony. An export duty was placed on oth er ancient objects of art of 50 per cent ad valorem, plus 50 centimes per 1,000 francs for objects valued up to 100,00’0 francs and of 101) per cent for those valued over 100,000 francs. In a statement made at Washing ton Attorney General Palmer an nounced that investigations by the d<epartment of alleged fraudulent war contraicts have uncovered illegal transactions involving millions of dollars. Millions will be saved for the government through civil and criminal prosecutions now completed or under way, the attorney general declared. “Questionable vouchers unearthed in one class of contracts alone,” Mr. Palmer said, “have resulted in with holding payments by the government amounting to approximately §4,420.- 000. These contracts, under inves tigation for months, affect a very restricted area. Warrants were issued recently for six of the leading theater ticket brokers in Chicago, charging them with defrauding the government of approximately §IOO,OOO in war taxes during the last year. Two of the six are women. One, Mrs. Florence Couthoui, operates ticket agencies in most of tiie Loop hotels and is the agent for more than half of Chica go’s theaters. The steamers Yale and Harvard were sold recently by the navy de partment at Washington, rd agents for a Los Angeles syndicate, whlcn will put thdm hack on the Pacific coast rup, on which they were op erating wlm® pMi-ejhased by the mW. The price for both vessels was sl,- 755, 000. Universal military training was Indorsed at Washington by the Con tinental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, an amendment to make such training voluntary instead of compulsory be ing lost for want of a second. There was a scattering of “noes,” but no call for a division was made. Copies of the resolution will be sent to the house and senate military committees. Mrs. George Minor, of Waterford, Conn., was unanimously elected pres ident general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, succeeding rMs. George Guernsey, of Kansas. Frank Richardson, of Edgartown, Martha’s iVneyard, hunting on the shore of Senekontacket pond, and seeing waht he thought were three seals playing in the water, killed one, and found that it was an otter weigh ing t hirty-seven pounds and worth more than §IOO.