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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 monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c (Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) ? 1 Wfe.l Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. I Daily and Sunday2oc 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and 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. Qoyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac- Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this labei, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. 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. ♦ Every boy knows several men whom he intends to whip when he grows up. e 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. < 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.) > 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 ■ 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.’ WEP Copyright. 192.0 by McClure NewepeperSyndfcete