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Is the Sub-Committee Seeing
The Light oj Real Democracy?
THE subcommittee of the State Demo-
cratic Executive Committee, after
proceeding thus far upon the modest
assumption that whatsoever things it binds
in Its own intimate circle shall be bound
upon the Convention’s rank and file and that
whatsoever things it looses for its own good
pleasure shall be adjudged irrevocably un
done, has taken at least one sober second
thought. It has decided to call the full com
mittee into session on May 16, two days
before the Convention, presumably to con
sider certain issues over which the subsection
hitherto has claimed complete and unshak
able jurisdiction. Can it be that the authors
of Rule Ten are growing skittish of the task
enforcing, or trying to enforce, arbitrary reg
ulations and minority verdicts upon a sover
eign body of Georgia Democrats? Let us hope,
for the sake of good humor and good sense,
that this is indeed the case, and that the full
Committee will give its troubled subsection
that frank and chastening kind of advice of
which the sage of old declared, “Faithful are
the wohnds of a friend.”
Certainly this Committee, including keen
and distinguished lawyers, not to say veteran
and wary politicians, knows that neither in
its entirety nor through a special group has
it power to control the forthcoming Conven
tion or right to usurp any of the Convention’s
functions. The Committee’s business at this
juncture is to make up a temporary roll of
the Convention as fairly as it can upon the
face of the primary returns and to file a list
of the contests which have come to its notice.
There its authority ends. For it to presume
to make up the Convention’s permanent roll,
or to decide pending contests, or to prescribe
the rules by which the Convention shall set
tle differences and reach conclusions is ab
surdly audacious.
None can know better than the committee
that as matters now stand it is uncertain
wheher Mr. Palmer or Mr. Watson has the
plurality of county unit votes; for in the case
of a number of counties, involving in all some
twenty-six unit votes, there are contesting del
egations for seats in the Convention, and not
until those issues are adjudicated can the per
manent Convention roll be written and the ex
act status of the candidates be determined.
One faction may assume that to Mr. Palmer
belong the contested counties on which the
outcome depends; another faction may as
sume just as confidently that they belong to
Mr. Watson; and there are a few contests rais
ed by friends of Senator Smith, though these
could not decisively affect the situation. But
the crux of the matter is that until these
doubtful points are settled, authoritatively
settled, it is sheer speculation to say what the
result of the Convention will be. Partisans
for Mr. Palmer are claiming, as though it
were a foregone conclusion, that the Conven
tion’s entire vote is his under the terms of
Rule Ten. But if the pending contests, or
even a certain number of them, should be de
cided against Mr. Palmer, then he would lose
the Convention’s entire vote under the terms
of Rule Ten. The power to make that mo
mentous decision rests, of course, in the Con
vention, not in a committee.
However, the contests may be settled and
whoever is finally accredited with the plural
ity of county unit votes, the standing of all
three candidates will be remarkably close—
closer, perhaps, than any previous result in
the nips and tucks of Georgia politics. The
Journal believes, therefore, that the most
equitable procedure would be to allow each
candidate such a proportion of the delegation
to San Francisco as he has county unit votes
in the State Convention. Thus the candidate
having the largest number of county units
would control the largest number of national
delegates, and so on to the third and last.
This allotment would be fair not only to the
candidates, but also to the counties and to the
electorate, giving to each group of voters in
the recent primary representation which oth
erwise they would never have.
The Passing Carranza, and
The Present Revolution.
CARRANZA has been tottering so long
that his fall brings no surprise and,
save for a few satellites, we imagine,
no regret. He was too inflexible, too blind
ly stubborn, fcr the changeful yet ever
exacting tasks of his position. Mexico has
had worse rulers but none so testy and
wigoted.
Early in his administration he conceived
the idea of flouting the United States, not
withstanding that he owed his opportuni
ties for a useful Presidency largely to the
forbearance and good-will of the Washing
ton Government. Instead of doing his part
to foster friendship between the two coun
tries, he seized every occasion to inflame
ignorant prejudice on his side of the Rio
Grande and to provoke popular resentment
on this side. Instead of cooperating with
American authorities to eradicate border
trouble, he made their tasks as difficult
as he could, thus strengthening the outlaw
elements that were defying his own
regime. During the World War he was
manifestly pro-German, even after the ma
jority of the republics of this hemisphere
had ranged themselves on the side of the
Allies, drawn thither by every counsel of
democratic interest and by every Instinct of
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
humanity. Had circumstances in any wise
encouraged him, he doubtless would have
given our enemy material aid and support
after we had entered the conflict, and by
that course would have done his own coun
try incalculable disservice. ’ It was inevi
table that one having so little insight and
foresight should lose his footing and go
down.
What may come of the new revolution
is yet hardly to be conjectured. Eithei’
Obregon or Gonzales, both aspirants for the
Mexican Presidency, would make in all
likelihood a better governmental head than
the petulant egotist whom they have sent
packing—better, that is to say, if either
would yield peacably to the other and cast
his influence for concord. It remains to be
seen, however, whether there will be an
orderly adjustment among the divers fac
tions or internal warfare like that which
followed Huerta’s expulsion. In any event
the United States, while taking due steps
for the protection its own nationals and
for the common interests of civilization,
can well aford to await with patience and
sympathy the developments of the present
situation, in the hope that they may lead
to happier days for the southern republic
and happier relations for all concerned.
Keep the Roads Repaired.
SAYS the Tifton Gazette, in congratu
lating the Commissioners of Tift
county on the purchase of a tractor
and heavier auxiliary machinery for the up
keep of highways: “The county has spent a
great deal of money in building roads, but
not enough in their maintenance. A road
constructed at considerable cost has been
allowed to disintegrate while the convicts
were building others.” With the new equip
ment, the Gazette adds, established roads
can be kept in good condition while new ones
are being built.
The importance of such conservation can
not be over-emphasized. Thousands and
millions of dollars of highway funds have
been dissipated through lack of an adequate
repair system for the roads on which they
were expended. In thse days of heavy and
continuous traffic the best built roads will
give here and there. Breaks which are small,
almost unnoticeable at first, widen under
the stream of Vehicles and the wear of
weather until soon there is a serious
breach. To discover these initial tears
and give them the saving stitch in
time, the French maintain a system of high
way inspection more thoroughgoing than
that of railroads in this country, and the
economy is such that America, with her re
puted business efficiency, well might adopt
the plan.
Now more than ever before it behooves
Georgia to look carefully to the upkeep of her
highways, because a vast deal more money
than ever before is being invested in them.
This year there is available for road con
struction and improvement more than twelve
and a half million dollars; and in recent sea
sons forty-six counties have voted an aggre-r
gate of nearly seventeen million dollars of
bonds for highway betterment and exten
sions. With so muc hinvolved, it would be
inexcusably negligent not to keep the new
road beds in constant repair. Tift county, in
acquiring machinery for this purpose, sets a
commendable example.
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Every boy knows several men whom he
intends to whip when he grows up.
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Getting and Spending.
THE Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer Sun
strikes close to a rock-bottom truth
when it says: “Too many people are
undertaking to reap where they do not
sow. There are too many consumers and
too few producers. We know that the per
capita circulation of money is greater, per
haps, than it has ever been in the history
of the nation. But that fact does not get
us anywhere when we are confronted by
under-production. It doesn’t matter how
much money a man may have with which
to pay for something, if that something is
not to be had.”
It is high time for us to cease think
ing in terms of greenbacks and silver and
gold, and to think in terms of services and
gods. Indeed, one well might go further
and say that the fundamental need is a
quiet pondering of that message which
Wadsworth phrased so wonderfully for his
own fevered generation—
T he world is too much with us, late
and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste
our powers;
Little we see in natui-e that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, k
sordid boon.
But apart from this higher and more hu
man aspect of the situation, the most pru
dential wisdom, the commonest of common
sense bids us take more thought of sub
stantial and less of artificial values.
People cannot prosper on money. They
cannot subsist on money. Money is a mere
symbol, valueless unless there be goods and
services for it to represent. Those who pro
duce and serve are contributing to the real
wealth of the nation. Those who merely
seek and consume are but making more
difficult the problems of the time.
No, Cordelia, the cloak of friendship and
the mantle of charity are not made from
the same piece of cloth.
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Speeding the Tick's Departure
EORGIA’S progress in cattle raising and
J its allied industries is notably quick
ened by such work as Cook, Mitchell,
Bei i ien and Colquitt counties are doing in
tick eradication. Realizing that this pest
must be eliminated before substantial prog
ress can be made, the farmers and officials
of that region are co-operating heartily with
the state and federal supervisors. Some thir
ty-five dipping vats are being constructed, so
that there will be ample opportunity for own
ers of infected cattle to give their stock fre
quent and regular treatment. It is expected
accordingly that by the end of the year those
counties will be tick-free.
What this will mean to them may be judg
ed from the fact that the South has made
more progress in cattle-raising and dairying
during the ten years of organized work
against the tick than during the whole fifty
years preceding. Wonderfully rich in nature’s
fundamentals for this branch of animal hus
bandry, Georgia will progress therein as
markedly as in hog-raising as soon as the
wasting and really ruinous parasite which
heretofore lias preyed upon her cattles is ex
tirpated; and extirpated it will be when the
methods now pursued in Cook, Mitchell, Ber
rien and Colquitt have been duly tried in all
counties. The majority of them, if we re
member aright, have already rid themselves
of the pest, and soon the entire State will
be free.
Thenceforward Georgia should develop
rapidly into one of the nation’s great beef
producing and dairying centers. Authorities
say that in this and neighboring States cattle
can be raised more cheaply than in any
other part of the Union, except, perhaps, in
distant areas of the West, so that uncommon
ly rich rewards await those who enter this
field of enterprise, ■well prepared and devel
op it with vigor and efficiency.
TO PREVENT STAMMERING
By H. Addington Bruce
STAMMERING is an affliction that handi
caps hundreds of thousands of people.
It is an eminently preventable affliction.
And its prevention rests chiefly with those in
charge of the upbringing of young people.
For stammering usually begins in early
childhood, and usually after a period of per
fectly normal speech. There are few stam
merers who have always stammered.
There are not a few who stammer because,
when they were little children, their parents
foolishly allowed them to imitate playmates
or older persons who stammered.
The children themselves thought it “funny”
thus to imitate the unfortunate. Their silly
parents may have thought it “cute.” At any
rate, they did not promptly put a stop to the
imitating.
And presently, to their own dismay and
their children’s lasting sorrow, they found
that it had developed into a fixed habit of
speech.
Other stammerers owe their trouble to
parental neglect to train them to speak slowly
and distinctly.
Os excitable, overenthusiastic temperament
—in other words, of a neurotic diathesis, as
doctors put it—they spoke in childhood tor
rentially and breathlessly. Words tumbled
from their lips so fast as to interfere with one
another.
After a while —perhaps following some
emotional shock —they suffered from a defi
nite speech defect. Their utterance remained
explosive, but now it exploded only with the
effort and strain that are characteristic of
stammering.
Emotional shock itself is held by many
present-day authorities to be the chief cause
of stammering. This belief is borne out by
statements obtained from numerous stam
merers.
“My stammering,” a typical report will run,
“began when, as a little boy, I was suddenly
awakened in the night by a noise I could not
place.
“My mind was full of ghost stories I had
heard from an old nurse. Thinking the noise
must have been made by a ghost, I shrieked
for help. When help came I was found in a
panic, almost unable to speak. Ever since
that time I have stammered.”
The protecting of children from needless
frights, safeguarding them from distressing
sights, avoiding tales that may give rise to
fear-inspiring ideas—these are, indeed, pre
cautions every parent should take on general
principles. They may be vital to the preven
tion of stammering.
And as a further indispensable precaution
training for courage and for emotional control
should be begun by all parents while their
children still are very young.
For emotional strains of some sort are
bound to be experienced soon or late. And
when these come, if the children are both
emotionally uncontrolled and of a nervous
tendency, stammering is all too likely to re
sult with or in the place of other neurotic
symptoms.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
DESTRUCTION VERSUS
CONSTRUCTION
By Dr. Frank Crane
Here are two news items which appeared
in the daily press the same day.
As the brilliant arc light is formed by
bringing together two highly electrified
points, so if you will juxtapose these two
items they will shed a dazzling illumination
throughout your mind, for they are highly
charged with significance. To use Schiller’s
phrase, they are inhaltschwer, which means
there is a lot in them.
ITEM 1. Secretary of the Navy Daniels
at an executive session of the Senate Naval
Affairs Committee urges sufficient appro
priations to launch a naval building pro
gram on the Pacific Coast so as to mset
the warlike preparations which the Japanese
are making.
Japan is said to be heavily fortifying the
Caroline, Mariana and Marshall Islands, re
cently got from Germany. On one of these
she is preparing a veritable Gibraltar. She
is also increasing her fighting ships and air
planes.
To meet this menace we are asked to ap
propriate ten million dollars as a starter to
ward improving the naval base at San Fran
cisco, creating a submarine base at Los An
geles, fortifying Guam and Honolulu, and
cleaning our gun and whetting our snicker
sail generally.
Look, as Hamlet said, on this picture and
then on
ITEM 2. The same day is reported a
meeting of business men, scientists, publi
cists, and the governors of four states, (Ste
phens of California, Campbell of Arizona,
Davis of Idaho, and Bamberger of Utah) at
Los Angeles, to consider one of the most gi
gantic engineering problems ever conceived:
The reclamation of the Colorado River
Basin.
That means to change a large portion of
the earth’s surface from desert to garden.
The development (by dams) of 100 mil
lion horse power to use for factories, rail
roads, and the like, thus saving 100 million
tons .of coal a year, and possibly as much
fuel oil, thus being a step toward solving the
problem of what we are to do when the oil
gives out.
It means giving labor and homeland to
thousands.
It means adding tons to the world’s food
supply.
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
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QUIPS AND QUIDITIES
The other day a negro went into a drug
store and said:
“Ah wants one oh dem dere plasters you
stick on yoah back.”
“I understand,” said the clerk. “You mean
one of our porous plasters.”
“No, sah, I don’t want none of yoah porous
plasters. I wants de bes’ one you got.”
As the man and the maid strolled through
the picture gallery she stopped before one
exhibit.
“Oh, how sweet!” she breathed.
“I wonder what it means?” questioned the
young fellow, as he eyed the pictured pair
who clung together in an attitude of love
and longing.
“Oh, Charlie, don’t you see?” the girl
chided tenderly. “He has just asked her to
marry him and she has consented. It’s love
ly! What does the artist call the picture?”
The young man leaned nearer and eyed a
little label on the frame.
“I see!” he cried, “It’s printed on this
card here—‘Sold!’ ”
“Your narrative is too highly colored,”
remarked the editor, returning the bulky
manuscript. “In what way?” inquired the
disappointed author.
“Why,” replied the editor, “in the very
first chapter you make the old man turn
purple with rage, the villain turn green with
envy, the hero turn white with anger, the
heroine turn red with confusion and the
coachman turn blue with cold.”
“Oi’m that thirsty,” said Pat, “if Oi had
a bucket av beer Oi’d drink the whole av it,
barrin’ the sup Oi’d lave for yez, Moike.”
“Faith,” replied Mike, “Oi think we might
say ye’d lave the half av it, seein’ there’s no
chance av ye get*tin’ the bucketful.”
THE CROP OUTLOOK
By Frederic J. Haskin
'r-L'r ASHINGTON, D. C., May B.
\A/ Remarkably unfavorable
y \ weather combined with a
shortage of farm labor make
the outlook for food production in the
United States this year perhaps the
worst the country has ever faced.
This is the gist of an interview
with Leon Estabrook, chief of the
bureau of crop estimates of the de
aprtment of agriculture.
Mr. Estabrook says that from now
on weather will be the decisive fac
tor. If it is favorable we need not
worry; we will have enough to eat
and a small surplus for export. If
it is fair, we will probably have just
about enough for our use. If the
growing season is markedly unfavor
able, the United States may for the
first time in its history fail to pro
duce enough foodstuffs for domestic
consumption.
There are, Mr. Estabrook explains,
three main factors in agricultural
production—the farm acreage, labor
and weather. As a result of a labor
shortage and unfavorable weather
conditions, the acreage planted in the
United States this year is below nor
mal. Thus all three factors are ad
verse to large production.
The chief unfavorable weather con
dition so far is a late spring. The
season is from two to five weeks late
all over the United States. A late
spring in one section of the country
is not unusual, but a late spring all
over the country does not occur once
in twenty years.
As a result of this late spring,
with much rain, plowing and plant
ing have been delayed in almost every
section. Oats in Maryland and Vir
ginia, for example, should have been
planted about March 15. For the
most part, the land in which they
should have been planted has not
even been plowed. The land has been
too wet for plowing. It would not
“hold up a horse,” and besides if
land is plowed when too wet, it com
pacts and cannot be cultivated. As
a result of these conditions, many
farmers in this section will not
plant any oats at all.
Cotton has suffered in much the
same way. An early planting of cot
ton is necessary, not only because
cotton needs a long growing season,
but also because the crop must be
matured early to escape the ravages
of the boll weevil. In the more
northern cotton states it has been
impossible to plant the crop at the
right time, or even to plow the
ground. The result is that some
farmers will not plant cotton, and
that some crops will grow up late at
the mercy of the boll weevil.
These are merely examples. Many
other crops are equally threatened by
the late season. The thing needed
above all is a warm period without
rain. Farmers say that it has rained
every Friday for months. A couple
of rainless weeks now would be a
Godsend.
The rain will be needed later. If
this late spring is followed by a dry
summer, it will be a catastrophe, be
cause the young plants, started late,
will be unable to resist drouth.
Aside from the lateness of the sea
son, many farmers are forced to
plant less this year than last because
they cannot get labor to help them
in planting and plowing, and they do
not see much prospect of getting the
necessary help in harvest time. The
tendency, as shown by reports com
ing to the bureau of crop estimates,
is for the farmer to plant just what
he can handle comfortably with the
help of his family. The fact that
prices of farm products are showing
a tendency to fall (without the ulti
mate consumer getting any of the
benefit) is also discouraging the
farmer from large planting. Prices
of hogs, for example, have fallen 25
per cent, although pork has not fall
en nearly that much. And the farm
er is told that prices of foodstuffs
are going still lower. Therefore he
is not enthusiastic for large plant
ings.
But the shortage of labor, next to
the late season, is the chief factor
in keeping down the acreage. There
are several causes for this short
age. One of the most immediate is
the great activity in road building.
In almost every section of the coun
try roads are being built by federal
aid, and farm labor is turning to
the roads. A hired man on a farm
makes from $65 to SIOO a month and
his board. The road gangs offer
him from $4 to $5 a day. The work
man prefers the larger cash return.
Industry in the cities is also
draining the farm labor supply, as it
has always done. A very usual
thing these days is for a young man
raised on a farm, and having some
aptitude for tools, to go to the city
and become a mechanic. He makes
from $7 to sl2 a day, which is more
than a whole family can earn on a
farm. Besides this, he has more
amusements and more opportunities
for education and progress.
The draft took about two million
young men from the farms. While
they were gone, the old folks, the
women and the children pitched in
and worked as the farm population
of this country never worked before.
They were aided by volunteer farm
labor from the cities to some ex
tent. They not only kept the fields
planted, but increased the total farm
acreage about ten per cent.
Now, with no price guarantee
and with prices for farm products
falling, the farm people are not go
ing to make any such heroic efforts
again. And the young men are not
coming back to the farms. Discharg
ed from the army, they are staying
in the cities .finding places in in
dustry. All of these factors com
bine to make the labor shortage real
ly acute. The bureau estimates
that the farm labor supply of the
country as a whole is thirty per
cent less than normal.
The only crop upon which an esti
mate in figures can be placed is the
winter wheat crop. This, of course,
is the most important one.
The United States needs about 650,-
000,000 bushels of wheat for do
mestic consumption. This is the
amount that we must produce if you
and I are to get our regular rations
of bread and butter.
The winter wheat crop alone last
year was 732,000,000 bushels. This
year it is estimated that it will be
483,100,000 bushels.
The spring wheat crop last year
was 209,000,000 bushels. It cannot
be estimated this year yet, but it
will certainly be smaller. It is evi
dent that if the spring wheat crop
is as much below normal as the
winter wheat crop, our production of
wheat will scarcely be what we need
for home use. It is also evident that
a very unfavorable season might
make production considerably less
than domestic need.
The danger of shortage of bread
stuffs is practically abolished by the
fact that we have a carry-over from
the bumper crop of last year of
about 100,000,000 bushels. But it is
clear that the United States has
passed the day when its food pro
duction is vastly more than its
need.
At the root of the matter lies the
fact that the farmer, despite many
claims to the contrary, is not mak
ing enough money to keep him on
the farm. He cannot make inter
est on the money invested in his
land and also a fair wage for him
self. It pays him better to sell the
land, invest the money at six per
cent, and himself get a job in a fac
tory. This would be the expedient
thing for a considerable percentage
of all farmers to do. Habit and de
votion to the soil are all that keep
many of them on the job of food
production.
The prices of foods stuffs are
high enough, as all will agree, but
farmers are not getting a large
enough share of the money. Bette r
methods of distribution, involving
fewer middlemen and less waste, sav
the experts, are necessary to insure
maximum food production in Amer
ica.
ANALYZING ABILITY
Do you think you are a musical
genius? If so you will be interested
in the studies of Dr. Carl Emil Sea
shore, who has found that bjyapplied
psychology he can analyze anyone’s
aptitude for music. Your sense of
touch, of harmony, of pitch, may all
be separately studied and appraised.
Applied psychology is really the rev
olutionary science of the age. It be
gan by studying criminal and other
abnormal persons and has already
greatly changed the attiture of so
ciety toward them. But its possibili
ties of help to the normal individual
are just beginning to be developed.
Soon, no doubt, the prospective stu
dent of any occupation, from writing
sonnets to running a steel lathe, will
be able to get a reliable expert opin
ion ua bia tor the
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
HUNTING A HUSBAND
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DLX
I HAVE received a letter from a
woman who says:
“I am thirty-five years old. I
am well born, well educated, well
off financially and good enough look
ing. I think I am like the woman in
Balzac's story who only needed a kiss
and a love letter to make her beauti
ful.
“But I never had a beau. No man
has ever even looked at me a second
time. I have never even danced with
a man or gone automobiling with a
man who wasn’t old enough to be my
father, or young enough to be my
kid brother, for I live in a little New
England village in which, in my rec
ollection, there has never been a
single eligible man in my class of
society. As the young men grow up
they all go away to seek their for
tunes.
“I frankly want to marry. I am
domestic in my tastes and the only
career that appeals to me is that of
wife and mother and home maker.
BUT I AM THIRTY FIVE YEARS
OLD. My hour of grace is almost
over. If I don’t marry in the next
year or two my fate as an old maid
is sealed. It is already signed, sealed
and delivered so far as my opportun
ities in my home town are concerned.
Therefore, as I am strong in the be
lief that heaven helps those who help
themselves, I have been thinking of
advertising in a matrimonial journal
for a husband.
“What do you think of it? Do you
think I will have any chance of es
tablishing an acquaintance in that
way with some man who might make
me a suitable husband?”
I certainly do not. If marriage is
a lottery even if entered into by a
man and woman who know each
other, and had an opportunity to
study each other, what sort of a long
shot at happiness is a woman taking
who marries some stranger that she
identles by his wearing a white car
nation in the lapel of his coat? She
hasn’t got even a hundred to one
chance of winning a prize.
She doesn’t know what sort of a
past the man has. She doesn’t know
whether he has got a dozen other
wives that he met in the same in
formal way, scattered about the
country. She doesn’t know what sort
of people he springs from, nor what
stains are upon the name she is mak
ing her own and will give to her
children, and anyone who could be
guilty of such folly should be locked
up somewhere in a padded cell where
they will be safe until they come to
their senses.
There is just one thing that a
woman can be sure of in the husband
she gets through advertising, and
that is that he is the sort she doesn t
want; for no man who hasn’t some
serious defect of mind or body, or
who isn’t an out-and-out adventurer
needs to get a wife that way. Heaven
knows women are not so particular
about the kind of husbands they
marry, and any man who is half way
decent can pick out some woman he
already knows for a wife and lead her
to the altar.
No one need smile, however, at tne
woman who wants to get married,
and in her search for a husband is
driven to the desperation of adver
tising for a nice, gentle, quiet nian
who is willing to work in double
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CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
Five hundred pages of “Mademoi
selle de Maupin,” a French classic by
Gautier, published in 1836, but re
garded by the New York Society for
the Suppression of Vice as “obscene,”
were read by Justice McAvoy and
the members of the jury recently.
The reading formed a part of the
trial of the suit brought by Raymond
Halsey, of New York, against the
society for $5,000 damages for false
arrest. Mr. Halsey was arrested at
the instance of John E. Summer,
head of the society, after the latter
had bought a copy of the book from
him. The bookseller was acquitted
and later won SI,BOO damages. The
appellate division reversed this de
cision.
There were only one or two audi
tors in the court room aside from
those on duty. F. V. Valentine, at
torney for the plaintiff, read the book
aloud, while the members of the jury
and Justice McAvoy followed him in
the copies before them.
Mr. Valentine made no pretense at
artistic recital. He read in a dreary
monotone, while the jury followed
listlessly. One giggle an hour was
about the rate of the jury’s respon
siveness to the humor of the book.
The court attendants were seemingly
asleep from about the three hun
dredth page.
Twenty-three persons were injur
ed, sixteen of them so severely they
were taken to a hospital, when a
crowded Fifth avenue bus overturn
ed on the upper West Side, New York
City, recently.
The driver of the bus, according
to the police, in trying to avoid col
lision with a heavy motor truck,
swerved toward the curb, striking
the truck a glancing blow. The bus
then toppled over on the sidewalk.
The majority of the injured were
women.
The Argentine government does
not contemplate limiting or prohib
iting the exportation of wheat at
the present time. Alfredo Demarchi,
minister of agriculture, declared
when his attention was called to the
heavy export movement which
threatens to exhaust the exportable
surplus before the new crop is
ready.
The price of wheat has risen to 27
pesos a ton, a new record figure.
The government is negotiating with
the millers to find a means of re
ducing the cost of bread.
Woman suffrage was revived in
Delaware when the state, senate
adopted a resolution of ratification.
11 to 6. After rejecting a substi
tute offered by Senator Gormley, pro
viding for a referendum at the next
election on the subject, the senate
adopted the resolution of Senator
Walker, ratifying the Susan B. An
thony suffrage amendment. Senators
Brown and Paliner, both of Sussex
county, were the only Republicans
who voted against ratification, while
Senator Price, of Smyrna, Kent
county, was the only Democrat to
support the resolution.
The vote follows: For ratification:
Senators Robertson, Highfield, Wal
ker, Richards, Pool, Allee, Handy,
Bennett, Long and President Pro-
Tern. Short, Republicans; and Price,
Democrat —11. Against: Senators
Gormley, Latta, Hollett and Murphy,
Democrats; and Brown and Palmer
Republicans—6.
There was a big demonstration by
women suffragists in the senate
chamber following the announce
ment of the vote.
American battleships were kept
on this side of the Atlantic during
the war as a reserve force in be
half of the allies in the event that
the German fleet should escape from
its base and reach the high seas de
spite the British blockade. This pol
icy was agreed among the allies and
fully understood by Great Britain.
This was the statement recently of
Admiral William S. Benson, retired,
before the senate subcommittee on
naval affairs that is investigating
the charges of Rear Admiral Sims.
Admiral Benson was chief of naval
operations at the navy department
during the war.
“It would have been ill-advised to
send battleships to the other side
unless absolutely necessary,” Ad
miral Benson declared. “The object
in keeping the fleet on this side was
not to defend the coast from attack,
but to hold in reserve a force that
could meet the German fleet in case
it broke through and drove the Brit
ish from the seas.”
A dispatch from London states
that a great number of Russian bour
geoisie who fled from south Russia
to Asia Minor perished during ft
storm in the Black sea, according to
a wireless dispatch from Moscow.
Fourten ships laden with refugees
were lost.
Hunters are searching for two wild
bears which invaded the village of
Chelsea, on the Hudson river, not
far from Poughkeepsie, and caused
a panic while the people were re
turning from church. Residents
were frightened from the streets.
The bears walked leisurely along I
the road and disappeared into the
.swamp- T »
harness, and will stand when
hitched.
Since we all admit that marriage
is the proper sphere for woman, and
the one in which she finds her own
highest happiness, and is most inw
ful to society, we should encourage
her on in the husband hunt instead
of berating her for going out on ta»
chase. Nothing could be more idiot
ic and inconsistent than our attl«
tude in this matter, and if we onlir
had enough intelligence to aboliaM
the foolish convention that prevents
women from openly seeking her
mate we should not only have more
marriages, but happier ones.
For women know what they want
in a husband, and if they had their
choice they would get it. It is only
because they have to take any thine
that is offered to them that
make what appears to us to be such
poor selections.
All honor, then, to the woman
who wants a husband and has the
courage to seek one instead of sub
mitting tamely to fate and ending
her days in the Spinster’s Retreat.
I would remind such a one of two
things. The first is to use judg
ment in selecting her hunting
ground. Just as there is no use in
fishing in a river in which there are
no fish, or beating a bush in which
there are no birds, so there is no
profit in seeking a husband in places
where the only men are dotards, or
beardless boys.
At present tne happy hunting
ground for husbands is in the busi
ness world. There are two reasons
for this. One is that when a wom
an is in business she is where the
men are thickest, and where she has
an opportunity to meet daily and
hourly men of every conceivable
type. Any business girl knows a
hundred times more men than the
most popular society belle does, and
has therefore that many more
chances to catch one.
Secondly, in business a girl has
a man off his guard. When he visits
a girl in her home, or takes her out
to parties he knows that he has en
tered into the domain of the man
hunter, and that the traps are set
and have been baited especially for
him, so he is wary and suspicious.
But with the business woman he
feels safe, and so he strolls merrily
along, careless and unconcerned, un
til she gets her pot shot into his
heart, and bowls him over.
I would also remind the woman
who wants to marry that men are
like children, indifferent to the
things they have and with which
they are familiar, but taken with a
new toy. Thus it is that the girl
who is a wall flower at home is
rushed when she goes to a strange
place, and that no infrequently a
woman who has been regarded as a
hopeless old maid makes a highly
desirable match when she goes on a
visit to her sister.
The moral of all which is, if you
are not appreciated at home, go
where the men have better taste.
There is nothing like a change of
partners.
But don’t advertise for a husband.
It’s not romance, you will get but
black regret.
Dorothy Dix’s articles will appear
in this paper every Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday.
It is not only wicked to swear, but
it is so needless, and a woman can
put all the rage and contempt that
any possible circumstances could call
for into the simple and perfectly
moral exclamation: O you!
New York officials of the Postal
Telegraph company stated the com
pany would welcome a suit by the
government to recover $2,123,392
which Postmaster General Burleson
told congress represented the amount
earned by the Postal system during
federal control over the compensa
tion awarded by him.
Mrs. Frances Scoville-Mumm. a
native of Kansas, died at Neuilly,
France, Monday. She had undergone
an operation.
Mrs. Scoville-Mumm, wife of Wal
ter De Mumm, French wine grower
of German birth, had her American
citizenship restored in October last,
after the immigration committee of
the house of representatives at
Washington had by a unanimous vote
recommended adoption of a resolu
tion to repatriate her.
She proved she had not lived with
De Mumm for several years.
A resolution to appeal to the
American Legion to change its con
stitution to the extent that it may
recognize the Service Star Legion as
self-governing and independent was
taken at a special meeting called in
Toledo, 0., by Mrs. Robert Carleton
Morris, national president of the
women’s organization.
Under present ruling of the con
stitution, women relatives of service
men may band together only as an
auxiliary of the American Legion to
be governed by its law-s. One of
these prohibits the auxiliary of the
American Legion from nicluding In
its membership any woman whose
male relative is not a member of
the American Legion.
Mrs. Morris announced that To
ledo chapter is the first to take this
step, but declared that other chap
ters throughout the country will be
expected to take similar action.
Following news that a representa
tive of a French manufacturer of
wooden shoes is on his way to Pitts
burg with samples of wooden foot
wear not only for men, but for wom
en as well, young women of that city
are discussing animatedly whether
feminine Pittsburg shall give, a help
ing hand —no, foot —in the move
ment to reduce the high cost of look
ing pretty, by wearing the kind of
shoes that most Americans never
have seen except in pictures of
Dutch windmill scenery. As advanc
ed information is to the effect that
the shoes will cost $1 a pair there
is a strong current of sentiment in
their favor. Students of the Penn
sylvania College for Women are en
thusiastically for adoption of the
shoes.
News from London relates that
twelve to fourteen airplanes will be
taken on the Terra Nova, the ship
which John L. Cope will fit out for
his expedition to the South Pole.
“It is not without realization of
limitations of the use of airplanes
that we have included them in the
equipment,” said Captain Wilkins,
who commands the air wing.
“There will be two pilots in each
machine, except on the single’-seater
scouts. The fusilages will be so con
structed that they can be used as
sledges.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
So we Folks don' need
A FRIENDLY hani>
HALF EZ BAI> EZ. I>EY
NEEDS SOMEBODY'S
GOOD, FRIENDLY FooT.’
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