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Fair Play, Not Foolish Talk,
Is Needed, for the Convention
IN the State Democratic Convention which
meets in Atlanta on May the 18th next
to name delegates to San Francisco, the
will of the majority will be the seat of de
cision and control.
This is so obviously, so necessarily true of
a convention resting in democratic principles
and representing a democratic people that a
statement of the fact ordinarily would be
quite superfluous. Curiously enough, how
ever, this axiom has been challenged. In cer
tain quarters the claim is made that a
minority of the forthcoming convention will
have a right to select all the delegates to
San Francisco; regardless of the preferences
of the majority. Aiid unless this minority
can have its way, the rumor runs, some of
its constituents will be for bolting the con
vention and setting up an isolated order of
their own. The Journal cannot believe that
thoughtful men will lend a moment’s en
couragement to such counsels of rashness and |
danger. Bolting has never found < favor I
among Georgia Democrats; and if adventured
in this critical year, upon no ground of rea
son or equity, it would be certain to find em
phatic condemnation.
The sole pretext on which it is argued that
a minority of the convention will be author
ized to name the entire delegation to San
Francisco is a rule adopted by a sub-section
of the State Democratic Executive Commit
tee —“Rule Ten,” as it is called. This arbi
trary regulation is construed by some of the
Palmer contingent as entitling the support
ers of the candidate who has the highest
county unit vote to exclusive control of the
convention, despite the fact that those sup
porters represent hardly more than one-third
of the counties, less than one-third of the
popular vote and only about thirty-four per
cent of the county unit vote constituting the
convention. That is to say, under “Rule Ten,”
as thus construed, the delegates representing
two-thirds of the counties, two-thirds of the
popular vote and some sixty-six per cent of
the county unit vote, should have no more
potent or respectable part than *to sit as so
many sawdust dummies or rag dolls while
the minority took charge, named every dele
gate to San Francisco and summarily decided,
according to its own special opinion and in
terest, the most momentous matters with
which the Democracy of Georgia and of the
nation is concerned.
Now, if a sub-section of the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee is so minded it
can write down whatsoever notions may enter
its head, and call them a “rule.” It can de
clare that three is less than one, that democ
racy means lording it over the many by a
few and that a minority vote shall control
in the State convention. But the rank and
file of Georgia Democrats and of their rep
resentatives who are to foregather in Atlanta
on May the 18th will no more submit to such
a rule than they would bow down to a totem
post or run their business by a ouija board.
They would consider it not only servile, but
silly to renounce their plainest rights simply
because a few sub-committeemen “armed
with a little brief authority” happehed to
put forth a “rule” that is utterly prepQster
ous. This same sub-committee, it has been
intimated, may presume to dictate the per
manent roll of the Convention, notwithstand
ing that in the case of certain county dele
gations there are contests which only the
Convention itself can decide. Indeed, if the
sub-committee is to be judged by its attitude
(and we say this with only the friendliest
regard for its personnel), it has lost sight of
the fact that there are such things as con
vention powers and popular rule. It began
by denying Georgia Democrats the right to
vote on Herbert Hoover; it ends by denying
that the great majority of them have any
rights at all.
It is hardly to be imagined, however,
that this strange doctrine will prevail with
a convention fresh from the people and
morally accountable to the people for a
just disposal of the important matters be
fore* it. It is hardly conceivable that a
sovereign body will play slave to a commit
tee which it can make and unmake, or will
wear the yoke of a rule which runs coun
ter to every instinct of democracy. This
convention, it is to be assumed, will choose
its own officials, settle its own contests,
adopt its own rules, ana refuse to surren
der the rights of its majority to a small
minority. On what basis the delegation to
San Francisco will be made up, The Journal
does not essay to forecast. To our own way
of thinking, as we have said before, a fair
procedure would be to give each candidate
such a proportion of the delegation as he
has county unit votes in the convention.
This would seem to be the one broadly
equitable plan where the difference be
tween the v«tes of the three contestants is
so remarkably small.
However the matter may be adjusted,
there is no excuse for any faction’s threat
ening to bolt because it cannot dominate
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
the convention’s majority. Such talk is un
worthy of any Democrat having a mind for
fair play and a sense of loyalty to the par
ty’s interests and honor. It will be repu
diated, we believe, by the rank and file of
the delegates regardless of candidates and
particular interests. In this year of great
test the thought of liegeful Democrats one
and all should be of concord and co-working,
not of factionalism and bolting. The bolter
will serve no better purpose than that of
gratifying his momentary ill humor and com
forting the party’s foes. He will have no lot
or part with the great majority of Georgians
who are Democrats upon principle, not
merely upon the changeful fortunes of per
sonal politics.
Let the approaching State convention be
governed first of all by jiuMce and by a
sense of the grave responsibility resting up
on its members. That is the only spirit in
which it can rightfully proceed, and the
only spirit out of which harmony can be
drawn and sustained.
The Basic Importance oj
Bonded Cotton If arehouses
SO useful a movement as that seeking
to bring cotton warehouses into the
bonded system provided under the
United States Warehouse Act merits the
hearty support of mercantile and banking as
well as agricultural interests. In a recent
letter on the subject the Georgia division of
the American Cotton Association points out
that while many seem to labor under the
impression that much expense and complica
tion are involved in entering this system,
just the contrary is true. “It is exceedingly
simple and inexpensive,” the Association
writes, generously adding: “A letter to us
will bring a man to you» who will explain
how easy it is and what great good can
come to our people through its adoption.”
Well constructed, well equipped and duly
bonded warehouses are among the most
valuable assets that any cotton-growing
State or district can possess. Lack of such
facilities has resulted in the loss of millions
and billions of wealth. Cotton dumped along
unsheltered streets or railroad sidings and
left exposed to the wear of weather and
the hazards of fire deteriorates to such an
extent that a conservative authority has es
timated that the amounts thus wasted each
year would provide an adequate fund for
building and maintaining superb highways
throughout the South. Os all farm products
cotton is most important as a basis for
credits; yet it is of all farm products the
most carelessly handled. While improve
ment in this matter has long been called
for, it is imperatively needed in a time when
the value of cotton is so high and the pros
pective shortage so great.
It is not sufficient, however, that storage
places be well built and well served. If the
grower and all others concerned are to be
protected as they should and if the credit re
sources of cotton are fully to be realized,
the warehouses must be bonded. It was for
this very purpose and to serve these very
interests that the United States Warehouse
Act was passed. The appeal of the Georgia
division of the American Cotton Association
for unanimous enlistment in this system is
reinforced by similar letters from Mr. T. R.
Bennett, State Superintendent of Banks, and
from the Federal Reserve Board. It is great
ly to be hoped that the response to these
good counsels will be prompt and Statewide.
Serious Crop Curtailments.
IT is not in Georgia alone that untoward
weather and shortage of labor have pui
farmers disturbingly behind. The trou
ble appears to be almost countrywide. So
great is the difficulty in getting help, re
ports the New York Times, that numbers of
planters l‘have resigned themselves to grow
ing only what they produce by their own
work, and the surplus of many others over
personal requirements will be cut down se
verely.”
The most auspicious skies over the weeks
and months ahead could hardly offset the
delays and curtailments already witnessed.
Early in the year it was evident from fore
shortened sales of fertilizers, seeds and oth
er essentials of preparation that t)ie amount
of planting would be appreciably less. This
was altogether natural in view of the aver
age farmer’s inability to secure adequate la
bor or to pay its price even if it could be
found. Here we have a peculiarly striking
example of the need of economic re-balanc
ing. When conditions reach the pass where
our supremely important industry lags and
limps because out of a population of up
wards of a hundred million not enough
hands to perform its simplest tasks can be
obtained at a reasonable wage, then assured
ly there are misadjustments or dispropor
tions somewhere.
The planter, however, has the cheer of
knowing that such crops as he does raise
this year will command in all likelihood un
usually good prices. The shortage in the
wheat expectancy would be of itself enough
to stiffen the market for all food staples
when there is a lean year for that basic com
modity other harvests, though abundant, be
come proportionally more valuable, and be
fore the influence nas spent itself the whole
range of larder prices is affected. Obviously
then, it will be to the interest of the grower
to produce all that he can. And just as obvi
ously it is to the interest of the public to
piactice diligent food conservation.
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Our Reminder From Mexico.
A SINGULARLY interesting report from
the Mexican situation is that which
tells of Carranza’s .employing air
planes to bomb certain towns held by the
He - is a PP aren tly unable thus
ai to get a formidable military force under
way against his insurgent countrymen; and
! f d ® ve J°» ments continue on their present
tl . end ’.! lls P° si tion ere long will be desper
ate Meanwhile, however, he seems to be
making rather effective use of aircraft which
he acquired, it has been suspected, from
Germany.
The circumstance is of interest to Ameri
cans lor the reason primarily that if we were
called upon to establish an air patrol of
the Mexican border, or, under pressure of
imperative events, to go further, we should
be sorely unequal to the task. Recent testi
mony before Congressional committees in
dicated, indeed, that the aeronautic prepared
ness of the United States is at almost as low
an ebb toda yas when the punitive expedi
tion under General Pershing was sent in
pursuit of the Villa bandits. After all the
urges and opportunities of the World war, we
find ourselves little if any better equipped in
this vital particular than we were six or
. seven years ago. Yet, had Congress heeded
the plainest counsels of foresight and com
mon business judgment, we should now have
a highly creditable air fleet, one to be de
pended on in any probable emergency. For
at the close of the war we were beginning
to make substantial progress in both the
materiel and the personnel of aviation. We
had an excellent nucleus which, at an ex
pense comparatively slight, could have been
upbuilt and made a potent force, not only
in national defense, but also in the progress
of peace-time aeronautics. But Congress
wrangled while the great opportunity died.
So it happens today that while Carranza,
the bankrupt dictator, can muster flying ma
chines against a revolution, the richest re
! public in the world cannot provide an air
! patrol for even one of its borders.
TEACH SPEAKING
By H. Addington Bruce
THE recent official criticism of a certain
city school system to the effect that it
is markedly deficient in teaching its
pupils to speak might justly be made of most
school systems. And it is a serious defect,
particularly in a democracy.
For, as the report containing the criticism
points out:
“Os the two phases of language work—
oral and written composition—oral speech
and conversation are the more important to
the majority of the children of the public
schools. The best gift with which we can
send children into active life is the ability
to talk intelligently and entertainingly.
“To stand on one’s feet and tell what one
knows is as valuable as it is rare, for in a
country like ours, governed by the people,
the power to express thought -can hardly be
overestimated.
“People convene in caucuses, mass meet
ings, church meetings, school meetings, com
mercial club, country conventions, etc., to
confer upon question of vital interest to the
individual, the family, and the state. How
often at such meetings a person who has in
telligent and well defined views is compelled
to remain silent because he has not acquired
the art of speaking upon subjects with which
he is perfectly familiar.”
And the greater pity of it is that those who
can speak readily because of a perhaps in
born facility for oral expression too often
have not merely an imperfect but a preju
diced familiarity with the subjects on which
they speak. Yet because they can speak
readily, while their betters sit in a tongue
tied silence, they are able to infect others
with their faulty, possibly mischievous, ideas.
Even for reasons bearing on the welfare
not of the state but of the individual, spe
cial attention should be paid in every school
to the teaching of oral expression.
Inability to speak well may in later years
prove a serious obstacle to the earning of a
livelihood. There are some vocations—nota
bly the ministry and law—in which an in
ferior speaker is virtually doomed to a career
of obscurity and poor pay.
In many others the power of expression
confers distinct advantages over one’s com
petitors. More than one traveling salesman,
for example has achieved success largely
through ability to talk fluently, forcefully,
and convincingly. Whereas more than one
salesman, because of inability thus to talk,
has been forced into some less congenial vo
cation.
For the matter of that, ineptness in speak
ing may debar a man from even getting a
chance to show his ability for work which
he really could do well. Employers, not un
naturally, tend to be unfavorably impressed
by men who apply for employment in a halt
ing, awkward way.
Fortunately, it is never too late to learn to
speak well, as thousands of adult students of
oral expression have demonstrated in their
own person.
But this does not lessen the responsibility
of the schools, does not excuse their failure.
The mere fact that so many adults have to
attend special schools of expression or study
mail courses in expression only emphasizes
the inefficiency of most schools for children
so far as the teaching of speaking is con
cerned.
And until boys and girls are more generally
trained to speak effectively it is safe to say
that democratic ideals as well as personal as
pirations must to a large extent remain un
realized and thwarted.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
A CANNED CAMPAIGN
By Dr. Frank Crane
Are the party managers getting ready to
tie the can to the candidate, or put the can
in candidate, or can the candidate, or some
thing?
News comes that the speechifiers have
been talking into phonographs and gesticu
lating before movie cameras.
Senator Lodge will tell, on a disc which
can be fed to any talking machine, just what
he did to Article X and why.
Leonard Wood and Hiram Johnson will
make a few red-blooded remarks on red
blooded Americanism and may furnish a
thrill to come between Mack Sennett’s Bath
ing Beauties and Bill Hart’s gun play.
William G. McAdoo is reported to have
poured into the phonographic hopper some
observations on the subject of taxation cal
culated to make the liveliest tax dodger
come around and pay up his income tax.
A. Mitchell Palmer will put a halo on all
who fit in the war to make the world safe
for the Democrats, and H. Hoover may tell
how he fe dthe Belgians and now ought to
be allowed to feed the office seekers.
Maybe Mr. Hearst will be exhibited as he
stands protecting this people from the men
ace of British power and Japanese guile;
and Mr. Gerard will be seen chasing the kai
ser into oblivion.
And so on.
Victor Hugo describes a man pointing to
a book and then to a cathedral, saying,
“This eats that,’’ meaning that printing was
the death of architecture. More truly might
one say that the Spellbinder, the silver
tongued Orator and Mouth Artist, is being
devoured by a number of rodents.
The newspaper is killing him. Why trou
ble to hear a man in a stuffy hall when you
can read his speech more comfortably next
morning at the breakfast table?
Why go see a president, king, or candi
date, and be shoved around by a mess of
proletariat and bourgeois, when you can sit
comfortably in a movie and see the celebrity
as shown in the enterprising Ikey Einstein
News Service film?
And why attend the political mass meet
ing, breathe vitiated air, sit with a garlic
odor on one side of you and stale tobacco
on the other, and listen to a candidate who
desn’t know either how to make a speech
or how to quit, when you can have his “rec
ord” run for yon on the talking machine at
home while you read the paper and think of
something else?
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes,
The anthracite miners have declined a 15
per cent raise; if they don’t want it per
haps they could pass it along to the con
sumer.—PHILADELPHIA NORTH AMERI
CAN.
The soldiers will get their bonus, and
congress will bone us for the money.—CO
LUMBIA RECORD.
Well, we see that scientists who know all
about atoms and molecules have decided that
the smallest thing there is is the quantel,
whereas we had supposed it was the cami
sole.—GßAND RAPIDS PRESS.
President Wilson has slipped one over on
the landlords’ trust by sending Charles R.
Crane to China as minister and getting his
house at Wood’s Hole, Mass. But not every
body can get houses that way.—WICHITA
BEACON.
No one cares for a mandate for Armenia.
There are no oil wells in Armenia.—SYRA
CUSE POST STANDARD.
Excessive politeness seldom has anything in
common with the truth.
THE DADDIES OF
DOLLARS
By Frederic J. Haskin
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WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3.
Filed away in pigeon-holes in
a vault of a government build
ing in Washington are certain
metallic plates, which, if they could
be dexterously removed from their
resting places by a master crook,
would probably constitute the richest
haul that it would be possible for
such an individual to make in all the
world.
These objects are the steel plates
from which the currency of the
United States government is printed.
The possessor of the master plate for
the ten thousand dollar bill, for ex
ample, should be in a better position
to enrich himself than if he could
steal the largest package of those
bills already in existence. He would
be confronted with the mere task of
counterfeiting paper and ink, where
upon he would become a privately
operated United States Treasury.
These plates from which the money
of the United States is made are in
a huge vault in the Bureau of En
graving and Printing in Washington.
That bureau some years ago built
for itself a factory which is con
sidered a model. One of its pur
poses was, of course, security, and
in the interest of this security, it
took great pains in the construction
of the holy of holies in which should
rest plates from which its money
was made.
There is probably no vault in the
world that is more scientifically built
or more thoroughly protected from
robbery than is this plate-vault of
the government’s money factory. It
Is located in the basement of the
great building, and its doors are so
stupendous that, but for their deli
cate hinging, it would require a team
of horses to open them. Once closed
it would be a first class task for the
Explosive Division of the Ordnance
Department to work its way through
the highly tempered steel and into
this vault if it were given a week to
perform the task. When this doo
is closed for the night, there is no
man in the world who can open it
until the time lock has ticked off the
hours to the time set for its release.
Despite this virtual impenetrability
many other safeguards are thrown
around this plate vault of the Treas
ury Department. The vault is al
ways heavily guarded. A watchman
may stand upon the bridge which is
in front of the great door to this
vault and watch all sides of it with
out changing his position. He can
look down the aisle in one direction
and, because of an arrangement of
mirrors at each corner, his vision
will run entirely around the vault
and he will see himself at his post.
Likewise he can look over the top
of the vault and around it in that
direction. So this single watchman,
throughout the night, is able to as
sure himself by a mere glance that
no one is near this mausoleum of
money.
Every master plate from which
every piece of currency that the gov
ernment has ever printed since its
beginning is deposited in this great
vault. There one may see the master
plate from which came the first dol
lar bill that the United States ever
issued There may be seen every
master plate for every piece of paper
money of every denomination that
this government has ever issued.
There may be seen the plates from
which the stamps are made and those
that have produced the Liberty and
Victory Loan Bonds that have called
forth the billions from the pockets
of America.
This business of making plates
from which to print the money of
the government is in itself an in
dustry of no mean proportion. It is
housed in the wing of the great
building beneath which is to be
found the plate vault. The best
artists of America compete in mak
ing pictures to embellish the backs
of the bills that the government
prints for use as money. Engravers
transfer these paintings to the steel
from which the sacred plates are to
be made. Weeks are spent in cut
ting a given picture into a piece of
soft steel. One engraver may have
spent a life time upon the specialty
of letter upon this steel. Another
may do nothing but scroll work,
while still another specializes on the
heads of individuals whose pictures
appear on the money. The soft steel
plate moves from one to another of
these artists until it eventually
emerges in perfect form. From it is
made a master plate and from the
master plates are made the requisite
number for use on the presses in
printing the government’s money.
Since there is no other agency in
the nation which is authorized to
•print money, there is no private in
dustry from which this money fac
tory of the government may learn
lessons that are to its advantage.
It has been necessary that if should
stand alone and develop its own
methods and its own devices. In this
way it has produced many industrial
novelties which are to be seen no
where else. There is, for Instance,
a, device for measuring the hardness
of these steel plates, for they must
be very hard to stand long runs and
giro the clear printing which is
necessary. One would suppose that
the hardness of this steel would have
to be tested by attempting to cut it
with a file or some such tool. As a
matter of fact such a method would
be crude and ineffective. There is a
method of accurately measuring its
hardness without so much as scratch
ing it.
The device which does this work is
a glass tube some two feet long,
upon which is etched a scale of Inches
like that on a ruler. At the top of
this tube is held a little weight in
the form of a cartridge. It is about
the size of the cartridge of a
twenty-two rifle. This little metai
cartridge has a diamond at its tip.
This tube with its cartridge is
placed upright over the steel plate
the hardness of which is to be
tested. A spring is touched which
releases the little cartridge which
drops upon its diamond nose upon
the steel plate. When this diamond
hits the steel it rebounds. The dis
tance it will leap back up the tube
accurately measures the hardness of
the steel. Upon striking the hardest
of the plates that are to be manu
factured here the cartridge will jump
four times as high as it will when
striking the soft plates that are just
from the engraver. The quick eye
of the tester watches the little cart
ridge to see how high it climbs and
instantly knows the degree of hard
ness of his plate. Unless it is just
right for the delicate task of print
ing the nation’s money .it is sent
back to the furnace rooms where it
is heated and tempered and retem
pered until its consistency is what it
should be.
From the master plate it is neces
sary to make considerable number of
the printing plates, which are soon
worn out in the printing of money.
These duplicate plates must be
checked in and out with infinite cars,
so that it is Impossible for anyone
to spirit one of them away for the
purpose of counterfeiting. When
these duplicates show any degrees
of wear they are loaded on a truck
and carried across town to the Navy
Yard under heavy guard. There they
are put in a retort and melted down.
Two hundred thousand pounds of
these plates are melted down every
year.
THE USE OF "ONLY”
In speaking, the proper placing of
the word "only” in a sentence, in or
der to convey the meaning intended
to be conveyed, is not so important
as it is in writing. That is because
the mind grasps the meaning of the
speaker quickly and the impression
passes quickly. But in writing, the
improper placing of “only” causes, or
should cause, adverse criticism.
For example, do not say or write,
"He only lent me a dollar” when you
mean to say, "He lent me only a dol
lar.” In the first case the meaning
is that the dollar was lent only, not
given. But if you mean that the
sum lent was one dollar, and no more,
say "He lent me only a dollar.” The
difference in meaning, it will be seen
readily, is expressed by the placing
of the world "only.”
Some years ago a critic showed
that a short paragraph containing
several "onlys” might have any one
of about 5,000 meanings.
(Copyright, 1920. by the Wheeler Syn
dicate, Inc.)
SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
TELLING THE TRUTH
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
Os course it is one of the things
that isn’t done. It simply isn’t. It
can’t be done. Telling the truth. If
we started out in the morning and
attempted to speak the truth for one
single day, we would end up in the
hospital by mid-afternoon, and prob
ably spend the balance of our lives
on crutches, because we had been so
maimed, and so roughly man-handled
by those whose vanity we had of
fended.
And we would be poor, forlorn crea
tures, without a friend on earth. No
body ever knew even a moderately
veracious person, who was popular
in society, or one of those lucky in
dividuals at whose coming every eye
brightens, and everyone begins to
purr.
Besides which nobody has the cour
age to speak the truth. There have
been heroes who have led forlorn
hopes, for nobody was ever foolhardy
enough to hope that anybody would
ever be grateful for being told the
particular facts in his, or her, indi
vidual case.
Yet, can you think of any one thing
that would work such an immediate
and wholesome reformation as for
each of us to be handed a nice, large,
solid chunk of truth about ourselyes,
and thus have our attention directed
to some particular weakness? This
would giv? us a chance to correct it,
for most of our faults are the faults
of ignorance. We are so blinded by
our own egotism that we do not know
that we possess them, and we’d lop
them off quickly enough if we had a
searchlight on them. Particularly so
cial sins.
Wouldn’t you like to be the truth
teller with a steel helmet and a gas
mask, a coat of chain armor on and
an aeroplane to make a quick get
away in until the offended parties
had had time to cool down and realize
that you were doing it for their
good?
There’s a boy I know. Such a nice
young chap. So handsome, clever and
agreeable, and with such charming
manners. An up-and-coming youn
man, too, because he’s just full of
energy and pep, and fairly eats his
work up. Some of these days he is
going to be a big man, but he must
have had a capeless mother because
she did not teach him how to hold
his fork. He grabs it as if it were
a harpoon, and he was going to make,
an attack on a deep sea whale. No
body could see this boy eat without
having his stock go down fifty per
cent in their estimation.
How I wish I had the courage to
tell him .the truth and advise him to
take a few lessons in table etiquette.
It would be worth a hundred thou
sand dollars to him, but I shall never
dare even whisper to him that table
cutlery is an appliance of luxury and
not a weapon of offense and defense.
There’s a young girl I know. Real
ly a pretty, sweet nice girl, with
plenty of gray matter just above the
hair mattresses over her ears, This
girl greatly desires to be admired by
men and to make a good marriage,
but somehow she’s made the mistake
of thinking that the way to attract
the attention of men is being loud
and brazen and fast-appearing.
So she dresses herself in the most
extreme styles. She paints her fresh
young face, shaves and dyes her eye
brows, pretends to be a sport and
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
According to a private cable dis
patch received in New York, from
Paris, David Balasco, the famous
playwright, and producer, arrived
there from London, where he had
passed, several days seeing the Eng
lish productions and conferring witli
English managers. English pro
ducers gave a dinner for him in
London, in a united effort to induce
him to take a theater of his own in
London. Mr. Belasco withheld his
decision, but the spirit of cordiality
expressed by all present delighted
him. The dinner was the climax of
a series of welcomes extended to
him every night he was in London,
which was about ten days. He was
feted by many notables, and, express
ed himself as having a Royal Good
Time.
Evidence offered by the customs
Service that whisky is being smug
gled across the borders in great
quantities gives no great shock to
the members of the house approp
riations committee. ’ They have re
fused to allow a penny to the serv
ice to check the flow.
Two million dollars was the sum
requested,, the custom service stat
ing that 1,000 men additional were
wanted to guard the borders. The
mounting cost of prohibition, for
which at least $6,000,000 had been
previously voted, has reached the
point where the congress leaders
think it is time to call a halt.
The Sundry Civil Bill was* report
ed recently with only SIOO,OOO ap
propriated for prohibition enforce
ment. This goes to the department
of justice for prosecuting the cases.
Word received here from London
states a revolution has occurred in
the republic of Azerbaidjan, and the
old Mussavat party government has
been overthrown.
The dispatch adds that power is
now in the hands of the Azerbaidjan
provisional military revolutionary
committee and that Baku appears to
be in its hands.
The dispatch says the committee
has appealed to Moscow for assist
ance against the allies.
Azerbaidjan, lying in the eastern
Caucasus region and Including parts
of Armenia and Persia, has an area
of about 40,000 square miles.
It cost the United States more
than $5,000,000 to operate the Chica
go, Rock Island and Pacific railway
last year, accooding to the annual
report of the line, made public in
Chicago recently.
The government guaranteed a re
turn of $15,500,254.57, based on earn
ings prior to federal control, but
earned a profit of only $10,789,357.86,
the balance being made up by the
treasury.
Shipyard workers of the northwest
who got s2l a day during the war
prefer to loaf rather than work now
for $lO a day. This is one of the
reasons for a pine lumber famine
that is imminent in the opinion of J.
H. Carlyle, Everett, Wash., who owns
several thousand acres of pine tracts
in the northwest.
"We are facing a shortage of pine
lumber because of three facts,” he
said. "The principal supply of the
south is exhausted, much of the
northern wood has been destroyed
by fire and the New England states
are running short.”
Word reaches us from London that
"direct action” has had a signal vic
tory in Bristol, where ex-service men
of the entire tramway system walked
out as a protest against the con
tinued employment of women con
ductors.
Violent rioting took place. All the
cars running were smashed and the
passengers driven out, the ex-service
men overpowering the police. The
tramway company finally capitulated.
The men are now not only demand
ing the substitution of men in all
pre-war jobs where women took their
places, but where they* had pre
war employment they are insisting
on their pay being raised to equal
that of men in similar work.
As a result of an agreement made
several years ago, the body of Dr.
Joseph Simms, a famous anatomist,
who died recently at the Hotel Em
pire, New York City, has been turn
ed over to the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in the interest of
science. His brain and heart will
be weighed and the brain analized.
Legal authority for such disposal of
the body was granted Dr. Simm’s
widow.
Dr. Simms, who was almost eighty
seven at the time of his death, was
one of the several men who are un
der agreement to leave their bodies
and brains to the College of Physi
cians and Surgeons, where Dr. Ed
ward Anthony Spitzka is a demon
strator. Dr. Simms agreed that his
brain ■ should be used for scientific
purposes, but provided that D.
Spitzka. must do the dissecting hint
self. which proviso Dr. Spitzka car
ried out. v
brags about how much she can drink
and how much money she lost on the
races, talks about women having a
right to live their own lives and the
slavery of conventions, and then she
wonders why she seldom has a beau,
and when she does he is sure to be
one of the undesirables.
How I would like to tell her the
truth and say, “Quit being a Silly »<Z
tle goose, pretending to be something
you are not. You are no sport.
You’re not even a tin horn sport, and
you don’t give a life-like impersona
tion of one. Besides, they are not
the sort of women that men marry.
Myway. If you would put on
docent clothes, wash the paint off
your face, and babble about the in
ifocent simple things you really
know, and let men know that you
help mother with the housework and
make your own clothes, you’d be as
attractive to men as you are unat
tractive now.’’
But I shall never tell her, and she
will go on trying to fit the wrong
key into the door of the hearts of
men, and she will never know that,
her folly did her out of a good hus
band.
And there is a woman. Such a
nice, good, kind woman and she has
such a nice family. Really extraor
dinary clever and good-looking chil
dren. You never get a chance to for
get that. Mother is a perpetual mo
tion talking machine with one record
on it, that she grinds out unceasing
ly. Mary’s beauty. John's intellect.
Susie’s talent, George’s achievement
in athletics. Their clothes, their
beaus, their illnesses, every slightest
detail about them; over and over and
over again. The same tale a million
times.
How I would like to tell her the
truth, and say to her, “My dear wom
an, y.ou are not only making yourself
the champion bore of the communi
ty, but you are doing your children
an irreparable injury. You are rais
ing expectations of their perform
ing miracles, and no matter what
they do everybody will think they
are failures because they won’t come
up to your press agentry. Nothing
human could. Besides, you are 'prej
udicing everybody about them be
cause we are all so tired of hearing
about Mary, John, Susie and George
that we feel like screaming if their
names are so much as mAntioned.”
But I shall never tell her the truth,
and she will go on her devastating
way, afflicting the patient listener,
and queering her children to the end
of the chapter.
And the middle-aged woman who Is
always talking about how young she
is and saying that she married when
she was a mere child, and the indi
vidual whom everything reminds of
something else, and the man who
always tells you the funny stories
out of the humorous papers, and all
of those who think they recite and
sing and can’t, oh! what a peaceful
world this would be if we could only
tell them to can it, forget it, to get
off of that stuff forever, but we can’t,
for somebody might retaliate by tell
ing us the truth, and then where
would we be?
Dorothy Dix’s articles will appear
in this paper every M onday, Wed
nesday and Friday.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
The New York auxiliary of the
Southern Industrial Educational as
sociation, of which Mrs. Algernon
Sidney Sullivan is president, Is
starting a drive to raise funds to
carry on their educational and indus
trial work in the mountains of the
south.
Miss Caroline T. Burkham Is chair
man of the committee in charge of
the drive,- and among those assist
ing her are Mrs. Henry W. Chappell,
Mrs. J. Lowrie Bell, Mrs. William
B. Heeds, Mrs. Frederick W. Rhine
lander and Mrs. Henry R. Sutphen.
Statistics taken during the war
show what a high percentage of il
literacy prevails among the moun
tain youths who fought so bravely
in France. Today the illiterate
white voters are said to outnumber
the illiterate negro voters by 277,-
000.
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw is treas
urer of the organization and Mrs.
Juan Ceballos is assistant treas
urer.
According to a dispatch from Bom
bay, extremely distressful and pa
thetic scenes were enacted in the
train wreck on the Oudh and Rohilk
hand railway east of Delhi recently,
when 150 passengers were either
killed or burned to death. Only a
ffew of the large number of women
and children on the trains escaped
burning, while there were only three
survivors of three Hindu marriage
parties.
As a result of the collision the
gas installation caught fire and the
flames spread rapidly. The unin
jured Indians fled terror stricken to
the jungle. Those remaining watch
ed helplessly while the screaming
victims slowly roasted to death. The
medical arrangements aboard the
trains were totally inadequate to give
necessary assistance.
According to a dispatch from Par
t,he Congress of French Railway
M orkers voted to call an immediate
general strike unless the following
demands are accepted; Nationaliza
°f the railways, re-employment
strikers removed on account of
the February strike, abandonment of
judicial prosecutions and recogni
tion of the national union.
The congress has appealed to Pre
mier Millerand to intervene in the
case of the dismissed men, but he re
tused to do so. The congress calls
upon the people of France to uphold
its decision in the interest of the re
public. The date and charter of the
_tiike will be determined if and
when the demands are refused.
£ es ° lu . tio h appropriating $400,000
ir> r P artlc |P at, on by the government
in the celebration of the 300th an
niversary of the landing of the Pil
grims at Provincetown and Ply.
mouth, Mass., was adopted by the
house and sent to the senate.
. Appointment of a commission to
join with state organizations in pro
moting the celebration and the issu
ance of celebration postage stamps
were ordered by the resolution. Os
the funds appropriated SIOO,OOO
would be for improving the Pilgrim
Monument grounds at Provincetown
and for erecting memorial tablets
n« arb y Places on Cape Cod, while
$300,000 would be for restoring
Plymouth Rock to its original rest
ing place and erecting memorials
at Pilgrim burial grounds.
Since the milling of copra was
commenced in the Dutch East Indies
in 1913, the amount available for ex
port has decreased, although not in
proportion to the increase in the
amount of cocoanut oil. Such of
these products as were not sold to
the mother country vzere largely pur
chased by the United States and
Japan during the years 1916-1918.
but the partial figures given for 1919
show that European countries are
again entering the market as pur
chasers.
Elimination of the middle man In
the grain trade “in order to increase
the producer’s emolument to a fair
profit, and at the same time reduce
the cost of living.” is the object of a
plan for a huge combination of ce
real growers being worked out by
the National Growers’ association in
convention at Kansas City. Repre
sentatives of virtually every wheat
raising community in the United
States attending the convention vot
ed unanimously to form the combi
nation.
The tentative plan provides for lo
cal co-operative marketing associa
tions, with headquarters in the mar
ket centers. Ownership of stock in
the terminal marketing associations
will be limited to the farmers join
ed in the local co-operative associa
tions.
District or terminal marketing or
ganizations, in turn, will be merged
into a national marketing association.
These organizations are intended to
be the channels through which all
products of America’s farms will
reach'the ultimate consumer. 1