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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-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. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $3.00 59..>0 Daily 16c 70c 2.C0 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 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. W’alton. 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 uaed 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 JOURN AL, Atlanta, Ga. 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. • 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 / 1 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