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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 WS.I Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Sr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 59-50 U»,lv 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 <..>o • M-wsdav •••••.•••••*•• 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. 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Let Justice Prevail in The State Convention AN outstanding responsibility of the State Democratic Convention which meets in Atlanta next Tuesday to se lect the Georgia delegation to San Francisco will be the settlement of certain contests in volving about twelve counties and some twenty-six county unit votes. This undoubt edly is the Convention’s prerogative and duty, no Executive committee or subcommit tee having jurisdiction in such matters either by precedent or by right. Moreover, Judge Walker, by continuing a restraining order already granted, has enjoined the com mittee from any interference with the State Convention’s selection of Presidential dele gates. We cannot believe that the commit tee’s members will seek to violate this in junction; but if they did, their action would be. void. The contests are highly important because not until they are decided can it be said for a certainty who holds the Convention plurality. For all three candidates the re sults of the primary were remarkably close, there being on face of the returns a difference of hardly more than thirty-odd unit votes be tween the highest and the lowest. It is appa rent that no probable readjustment will alter the relative Standing in so far as Senator Smith is concerned, though several counties not officially credited to him are claimed by his friends. Between his two opponents, Mr. Palmer and Mr. Watson, however, the coun ties and votes for which contests are pending are such that a few changes would materially affect the outcome. Hence the seriousness of the Convention’s responsibility in this adjudication. There is but one rule by which the con tests should be judged, the simple rule of reason and' fair play. The candidate to whom the evidence shows , the questioned votes belong should be awarded them, re gardless of partisan or personal considera tions. Each case should be decided upon its own merits, without reference to ulterior ends or political fortunes. Not one vote to which Mr. Palmer is entitled should be de nied him. Not one vote to which Mr. Wat son is entitlea should be denied Mr. Watson. Not one vote to which Senator Smith is en titled should be denied Senator Smith. First, last and always let justice be done, no matter whom it helps or hurts. Proceeding upon this principle, the Convention will have a minimum of discord and will emerge from its difficult problems clean-handed and ap proved. Otherwise it stands in peril of be coming hopelessly entangled, anil of sowing resentments that will yield the party many a harvest of thorns. Touching the interests of Thomas E. Wat son. The Journal’s readers will bear witness that never in the last fourteen years has this newspaper been tound accordant with, the policies of the gentleman from McDuf fie. Back in what now seems an almost antedeluvian past, the storms and changes of the crowded interval being remembered, Mr. Watson upon one occasion was found accordant with policies of The Journal; we mean the campaign of 1906. Necessarily that was a short-lived relationship; Mr. Wat son would not tarry with us, and we, of course, would not go with him. Some said' we transgressed in even so brief a conjoining. Howbeit, from that long-gone day to this our distance from him has been as great r j that of which the Psalmist spoke in saying, “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgression from us.” Especially marked has been the difference between Mr. Watson and The Journal on na tional issues incident to the World War. Virtually everything we have advocated, from Selective Service to the League of Nations, he 4ias Nor can we now concur in the clean bilTwhich a leading Palmer or gan, granted him on the morning after the April primary. Ingratiatingly and with pol itics aforethought, our contemporary, which had been vehement in abuse of Senator Smith, declared: “While Mr. Watson disagreed with the Democratic administration concern ing the League of Nations, his voice and pen have been consistently arrayed in be half of every measure necessary to sus tain the national honor and to support our soldiers in the war with Germany!” We frankly marvel at the acrobatics of a mind which while supporting a Wilson cabi net member for President can bring itself to this indorsement! It is worth recalling, moreover, that in 1912, in the primary pre ceding Mr. Wilson's first nomination, the loudest trumpeters in the Palmer ranks to were leagued with Thomas E. Watson .—r.-mst the great statesman who became President despite their bitter efforts to crush him at Baltimore. They can but re member those \days and that alliance when they enter the Convention in Atlanta next Tuesday to meet again him with whom they then bargained and whose orders they nim bly obeyed. We hope they will relish the renewed acquaintance. Having had no such affiliation with Mr. Watson as these gentlemen sought and sus tained as long as they could serve their political ends thereby, and having no pot of its own to boil at the forthcoming State Con vention, The Journal feels that it can speak impartially of the contests awaiting settle ment. We differ as emphatically as ever before with Mr. Watson’s views on the. up permost issues of the time; we censure as emphatically his attitude toward certain great war measures; we regret as deeply that he was ever brought into the Presidential primary—and in all likelihood he would not have been, if enemies of Hoke Smith had THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JUUKSAL. not published the false report that the Senior Senator had held a Kimball House confer ence with Reed, of Missouri. But one’s antipathy to Thomas E. Watson cannot al ter the fact that two/and two make four, or suspend the commandment, “Thou ehalt not steal.” If upon full and fair investigation it should develop that he is entitled to coun ties which have not been credited to him, then the Convention would have no honora ble alternative but to correct the mistake and give him his due. Having been admit ted to the primary and having received up wards of fifty-two thousand votes, he should be given a scrupulously fair deal in the con vention. This is incumbent upon all dele gates, regardless of whom they personally are for. It is incumbent upon them primar ily as a matter ot political integrity. There is the further and cogent consideration of polit ical expediency. As well wishers of the party in this Commonwealth and throughout the country, no participants in the Convention can afford to leave Thomas E. Watson any ground whatsoever for charges of injustice. Much less should they give the more than fif ty-two thousand votei-s who supported him at the polls any cause for grievance. We have nothing to fear for Georgia Democracy as long as it walks uprightly: let us see to it that its ways are ever above suspicion or reproach. These are the convictions, we doubt not, of the great rank and file of delegates who are to foregather in Atlanta next Tuesday, whether they come as supporters of Mr. Pal mer, or of Senator Smith or of Mr. Watson. Some players of politics there may be who in the heat of the game and the pursuit of coveted spoils will forget that honesty is the best policy; but for the most part, we believe, there will be a disposition to deal fairly to all concerned and to work out a solution that will make for the good of the party and the honor of the State. Certainly, this is the spirit and purpose which thoughtful Demo crats all hope will prevail. Progressive P 7 ar chousing. Georgia bankers and warehouse own ers are showing a most commendable public spirit in the movement to place cot ton warehouses on a uniform basis by means of the United States warehouse act. Recently the State Superintendent of Banking, Hon. T. R. Bennett, addressed a letter to the State banks of Georgia request ing them' to use their good offices in bring ing to the attention of their local' warehouse owners the great advantage of bonded ware houses as distinguished from non-bonded warehouses. Immediately there came a gen eral response. Now it developes that the bankers of Bu ford in Gwinnett county, Lexington in Ogle thorpe county, and others, are going so far as to organize companies to build ware houses which will be bonded under the terms of the -federal law. In other words, they are not only interested to the extent of being ready to assist in bonding their local ware houses; but further than that, are taking the lead in building additional warehouses to supplement the storage facailities already in existence. Superintendent Bennett’s letters show that the movement is well under way already in more than fifty counties, which certainly is a most encouraging start. The probabilities are that bonded warehouses will be estab lished in a hundred counties by the opening of the fall season when the farmers begin to gather their crop. In today’s issue of The Journal is published a notice by the otton Warehouse Company of Atlanta that they are applying for bond under the of the federal act. As pointed out by Superintendent Bennett and others who are co-operating in the bond ed warehouse movement, the conditions im posed by the federal law are not difficult to comply with. The rate of premium for' , the bond is quite moderate; the require ments as to construction of the warehouse are not at all difficult; the book-keening involved is nothing more than the book-keep ing involved in 'fne conduct- of almost any ; smaJl business. The inspections made by the federal inspectors: are not in any sense med dlesome, but are merely such inspections as any warehouseman would be glad to have made. . „ . , , A very strong point in favor of bonded warehouses is the lower rate of fire ance which they can obtain. Recently the Southeastern Underwriters association, as a means of encouraging warehouse owners to bond themselves, authorized a general re duction of 25 per cent in fire insurance rates for bonded warehouses. This is an item worth considering from the warehouseman’s stand- P From the farmer’s standpoint, al! argu ments favor the bonded warehouse. The standard receipt issued by a bonded ware house is a much better class of collateral for a bank loan than the non-standard receipt issued by a non-bonded warehouse. A bankei handling bonded warehouse receipts is abie to carry a much larger volume of loans. His bonded -warehouse receipts are approved without further investigation by State bank examiners, whereas it may be necessary in certain cases for State bank examiners check up the actual cotton covered by non bonded warehouse receipts. A bonded re ceipt therefore, enjoys the same recognition as the very highest class of inking secur ity. It places the farmer s loan on a strictly business basis. . In „ Tor rasp Whether the farmer is given a lov.ei rate of interest or not, these other advantages and benefits are all on the side of the bonded warehouse. The interest rate is likely to come when the waie Iwuses are bended. Efforts already are un derway in that direction. But the main thing now is to'get the warehouses b°nd. and get the advantages over and abo<e the consideration of interest rates. The 801 l Weevil Menace. THE cotton (jrop is late in Georgia, likewise is late all over the cotton belt. The weather has been unfavor able. Planting has been out of the The bloom and the boll on the cotton w be necessarily late. The elements have play ed into the hands of the boll weevil. The menace of this pest was never more P l ® B ' ing. It is a matter of far more importance dhan the average person realizes. borne farmers themselves are deceived, biu they are not many, only those who m past hate been favored by the absence of the weevil. Except for the boll weevil the lateness ot the cotton crop in Georgia and elsewhere would be a matter of little consequence more a question of inconvenience than any thing else. But the boli weevil is a parasite that thrives only on the cotton boll. Ex perience has developed that the most effica cious means of circumventing the weevil is through the early maturity of cotton. The weevil is propagated by summer showers arid cloudy skies, and if the cotton has not ma tured in the meantime he makes a harvest on the unopened bolls. With the cotton crop four or five weeks late, owing to unavoidable circumstances, the menace of the weevil is obvious. “We are certain to have very little cot ton this year unless something is done to meet the situation.” writes a traveling sales man, who has been all over the cotton belt. The Journal’s correspondent commends a recent editorial warning against the weevil menace, and adds that “every remedy known and every agency possible should be used to meet the acute situation that con fronts Georgia and other States of the cot ton belt. The remedies recommended by the Department of Agriculture should be re sorted to without ’stint, for even so the late crop is going to suffer irreparable damage through the ravages of the boll weevil.” YOUR USE OF WORDS By H. Addington Bruce JS your vocabulary extensive or narrow ly limited? Whether extensive or lim- • ited, -have you a clear understanding of the words you used? And are you careful to use them with due regard to their precise meaning? These are not academic questions. Jhey are questions of practical significance to you. Men and women who use words carelessly are at a disadvantage both rtl business and social intercourse. Their lack of word power, handicaps them seriously in several ways. This chiefly because it prevents them from communicating their thoughts effec tively to other people. As a consequence, no matter how able tjiey may be, they are sure to be underestimated by others. 'And, indeed, their carelessness in speak ing is likely to have a damaging effect on their ability itself. As one language au thority rightly warns: “Realize the prime importance to you— for its effect on your mental development—- of an accurate knowledge of the meaning and use of words and of the possession of a large vocabulary. “Words are necessary aids for consider ing and solving mental problems, and the more right words you have to call things by the more competent you are to consider those things. Word-building is inseparably connected with thought building.” If, on reflection, you feel you must admit that your vocabulary might well be larger than it is and that your mastery of even your present vocabulary is not wh,at it ought to be, for your own good make a systematic effort to grow in word power. As a first means to this end buy a dictionary and a good book of synonyms. Do you know what the word “synonym” means? If not, look it up in the dictionary. Make it a point to look up in the diction ary every word of uncertain meaning to you. And consult the book of synonyms whenever in doubt as to the usage of a particular word to express the meaning you have in mind. For example, “abate,” “lessen,” “dimin ish,” “decrease” may now be used by you as identically applicable. Your books oL synonyms will give you the discriminating grasp you should possess by their usage. To enlarge and refine your vocabulary no less than for general cultural development you will also find it helpful to devote at least half an hour daily to the reading of some master of style—such as Hawthorne, Stevenson. Ruskin, Emerson, Goldwin Smith, F. W. H. Myers. Read these slowly, thought fully, and for inspiration as well as instruc tion. At times, too, read them aloud. Reading aloud has a peculiar virtue in the way of developing a keen word-sense and facility of expression. And, fully as helpful to you as anything suggested above, make it a frequent practice to set down in writing your own thoughts. With the dictionary’s aid study and re vise what you have written, in order to se cure greater clarity and ease in presenting your ideas. Emphatically I agree with the assertion: “Frequent use of the pen in original com position is one of the most practical means of developing vocabulary, diction and style.” Finally, keep as much as possible in the company of those who speak well. Like breeds like, and their influence will uncon sciously strengthen in you both the wish and the power to be yourself a good user of words. (Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News papers.) ♦ SHALL METHODISM BE A CHURCH OR A SOCIETY By Dr. Frank Crane The Methodist Episcopal church holds its quadrennial general conference at Des Moines this May. The Methodists comprise a evry large part of the citizenry of the United States. They have always been deeply in earnest, combin ing a sound common sense with great enthu siasm, and their influence upon the commu nal life has been wholesome. This general conference is its supreme law making body. It may be compared to our national congress. Its book of discipline may be said to resemble the constitution. It is about as hard to alter the disciple as it is to amend the constitution. The senti ment must be immense and the process slow in both cases; and the reactionaries have the decided advantage. One question will come up at this general conference which affects the very character itself of the church. There is a provision in the discipline which prohibits certain acts, as dancing, card-play ing and theater-going, and directs that those indulging in these amusements be expelled. A considerable element in the church has always opposed this rule as being unwise, but it has been retained owing to the powerful conviction among the church people that no action should be taken that might be con strued as “compromising with worldliness or “lowering the standard” of righteousness. It is to be hoped that this conference will remove the obnoxious paragraph, and for this reason: The organization if it calls itself a church ought to be a church, not a society. A church must be universal in its scope, a society may be limited. This prohibition might have been useful so long as the organization was merely an order, or a brotherhood, a group inside of th£ church, which is exactly what Methodism originally was, a society of certain members of the Established Church of England. Now, however, if. has taken its place beside other organizations—the Episcopalians, Ro man Catholics, Presbyterians and the like— in friendly competition for the service of Christianity. The language of Mr. Wesley, its founder, was “the world is my parish.” This being true, the petty regulations about dancing and card-playing, applicable to the English working class and to the pio neer Westerners of America, where Method ism made its start, become absurd when ap plied to Japanese, Chinese, Norwegians, South Africans and Russians. What might have served a good purpose in a restricted, disciplinary order is entirely out of place in a church. People are born into a church. It is un fair to tell them to get out if they don’t like it, unfair to them and to the institfition. A church, coterminous with the world, has no right to make a test of membership of anything but principles. Rules are for groups which mature persons join and resign from at will. (Copyright, 1920.) by Frank Crane.) QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES A teacher of English in one of our col leges describes a money lender as follows: “He serves you in the present tense, lends in the conditional mood, keeps you in the subjective and ruins you in the future.” He was the last survivor of the ancient type of idiot who found it difficult to ad dress the ordinary soldier otherwise than patronizingly. When a touchy English pri vate of a provincial regiment bungled with his kit into the same compartment of the train the condescending one masked loftily: “Where are you going, my man?” The soldier gathered up his trans, made for the corridor, and replied: “Next door.” WHAT TIME IS IT? By Frederic J. Haskin vt t ASHINGTON, D. C., May 13. \'i/ The answer is that scarcely y V anyone knows just what time it really is. It is a curious fact that in this country, where nearly everybody car ries a watch, very few know the time or how it is determined. This is emphasized by the great confusion which attended the day light saving experiment, and by the still greater confusion •which has been caused in some states which have tried to keep daylight saving after the rest of the nation has drop ped it. The daylight saving law saved us a little daylight, caused a great many arguments, and then perished. But it also visited a boon upon this country of which very little is known. The law provided that the United States should be divided into five standard time zones, and that the limits of these zones should* be defined by an order of the interstate commerce commission, and that all interstate common carriers should conform to those zones. The Time Line The interstate commerce commis sion is still at it. That is, the lim its of the zones were fixed some time ago, but various localities are not satisfied with the time they have been given, and are petitioning the commis'sion to change the lines. The state of Idaho, for example, is cut in half by one of the zone lines. It is half in Pacific time and half in mountain time. It wants the line changed so that the whole state will be in mountain time and the cas eis still pending. Other such objections to the time zones are brewing. It will be some months or possibly years before everyone is satisfied, but all are agreed that the new time zones are vastly better than the old ones, which sometimes made local time dif fer by more than an hour from sun time. In order to understand this busi ness it is necessary to go back a lit tle. In the first place, you must real ize that the need for accurate time, and for a definite and fixed relation between the local times of different places came only with the develop ment of rapid transportation. Back in the early part of the last century it did not matter much what time it was. There were scarcely any watches, and only a few clocks, most of which were made of wood. They were not wonderfully accurate. Now the correct time, or sun time, at any place, is based upon the fact that it is noon at that place when the sun is due south. Hence, in the old days, clocks were set for 12 o’clock when the sun was at its highest, or what the people thought was highest. Each locality had its own time, and there being little trav el between localities, everybody was happy. The History of It But when the sun is at the high est point in Ohio, it is still an hour from noon somewhere out in the Da kotas. With the spread of railroads these differences of time had to be adjusted somehow. Accordingly along in 1884, when both railroads and watches had become common, and our own continent had just been spanned by rails, twenty-six of the principal nations of the world met and agreed to take the meridian at Greenwich, England, as the prime meridian and to calculate all time by that. Now the sun moves (ap parently) toward it" etting at the fate of fifteen deg. of longitude in an hour. Therefore, by marking the world off in meridians of fifteen degrees each, zones were established in each of which the time should differ by an hour from that in the next zone. Five of these lines cut the United States, those of 75, 90, 105, 120 and 135 degrees of longitude west of Greenwich. They divide the United States into four main time zones, known as the Eastern, Cen tral, Mountain and Pacific zones. The naval observatory in Washington de termines the correct time, and flash es it to the various zones. Thus there is both national and world agreement as to what time it is. But this does not provide each town with ' the correct time, by any means. The railroads are at once the determining and the disturbing factor. They made accurate time necessary, and to their convenience the changes of time must be adjust ed. It is self-evident that they cannot run on constantly changing time. Your time ought to change gradually as you travel east or west. A town five degrees of longitude farther west than a certain other town ought to have time twenty minutes slower in order to have exact sun time. ’Too Many Tinies If each town actually had sun time, the local time would not correspond to the railroad time, for the railroads are bound to agree on certain points at which they will change time. They realize that in crossing the continent they have got to gain or. lose a cer tain amount of time, and their only object is to make these time changes with least possible inconvenience to themselves. In the past the railroads determin ed each for itself at what point it should 'change its time. Thfey disre garded almost completely the stand ard time divisions based on the prime meridian at Greenwich. What they did regard ivere their own operating divisions. It was bad, they said, to have the train crews changing their watches in the middle of a run. Someone might forget to do so apd cause trouble. So the “time breaking points” were always at the ends of operating divisions. This resulted in confusion in two ways. In the first place, different railroads ran into the same towns on different times. In the second place, because the railroads disregarded the standard time divisions, railroad time was nowhere near sun time. The first confusion was very se rious sometimes in the early days of railroads. Some towns in this coun try have as much as five different times at once. But such confusions as that were eliminated as the rail roads learned to co-operate better. The conflict between railroad time and sun time, however, remained a serious matter until the recent defi nition of the zone limits by the com mission. El Paso was one of the most unfortunate cities in this re spect. Certain roads found it, con venient' to carry central time as far west as El Paso. It was possible to go from Savannah to El Paso with out changing time, and when you got to El Paso you would have to change your watch two hours. El Paso Happy Roads going west from El Paso did not operate on the same time as some reaching it from the east. Thus there were several railroad, times in the town, an(i none of them conform ed to sun time. If the local inhabi tants had chosen to live by central time, in order to conform to cer tain railroad schedules from the east, they would have been nearly two hours off sun time. The people of El found this even more confusing than you do, if possible. They welcome the new arrangement which places El Paso defnitely in its proper time zone and compels interstate carriers to “break time” before they reach there. Certain other towns have also been made happy. Cleveland used to have three times—local time, railroad time and steamboat time. In other places, the changing of the old time lines has caused dis content and some hardship. Wher ever this is the case, the commission holds a hearing and tries to decide, the matter on its merits. It required ten thousand miles of travel and mil lions of words of testimony to fix these time lines. You would have to look at them on a map, to appre ciate the job. They are very crook ed lines, looping this way and that to include various towns in the time zones they prefer, and to cohform to the convenience of the railroads. But they are not nearly as crooked as they used to be. They are triumphs of the art of compromise. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS Do you remember when there were wooden sidewalks on Main street and we used to give our old clothes to the Salvation Army Wichita Eagle. Ejgle. i Senator Knox says the whole na tion is in’ a toil and ferment. We haven't seen much toiling going on, but he is right about the fermenting. —Dalls (Tex.) News. TCfiSDlir, MAY 18, lUSSV. DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON DANGER AHEAD, LADIES The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer BY DOROTHY DIX LISTEN, sisters, all ye whose husbands drive their own au tomobiles. The court has ruled that it is no crime for a man to beat his wife when she laughs at him because he stalls hts engine, find can’t make the pesky oid thing go. ■ A Missouri doctor and his wife re cently went out for a pleasant spin in their car. Presently something went wrong with the spark plug, or the armature, or the feed pipe, or the electric what-you-may-call it, or some of the other million thing-a majugs with which the little insides of automobiles are so liberally sup plied. Anyway, the doctor got out and put j up the hood and poked and pried around, and jammed this, and jabbed that, without results. His made fun of him, and he dragged her out of the machine and beat and' kicked her, whereupon the lady had him arrested, when the aforemen tioned facts were elucidated. But in stead of sending the husb» nd to jail the judge dismissed the case, and handed down this momentous de cision: “As a rule,” said he, “I do not in any sense condone wife beating, but it appears that in this case the as sailant suffered great provocation.” This ruling of the court calls at tention to a strange phenomenon of masculine psychology which every observant woman must already have noticed, and that is the strange ef fect that driving an automobile has on a man’s disposition. No one has ever attempted to explain it, so far as I kpow, but the effect of sitting behind the steering wheel of a ear appears to be precisely that of the evil spirit which turned the amiable and kindly Dr. Jekyl into the cruel and Brutal Mr. Hyde. Any kind of a car will do it. men exhibiting the same curious metamorphosis of char acter whether they are driving Rolls Royce or Fords. When automobiles were first in vented they were called devil wag ons. Perhaps this was because we had an intuitive knowledge of the malign influence they were destined to have upon the tempers of men, and that, like some fabled genii of old. they were to have the power of changing lamb-like gentlemen into roaring lions going about seeking whom they would devour. Whatever the reason, it is indis putably true that the man driving a car and the man at home are tw.i entirely different beings. Sitting in his own library, or on his own front porch, a man may be the most pa tient and long suffering of human be ings. He may be thoroughly house broken. the kind of a man who calls his wife "mother,” and asks her ad- I vice, and .lets her pick out his clothes, and* go’ with him when he buys a new hat. The moment be takes his seat in a car, however, he is a changed creature. He, who was a loving husband and CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST Whether or not the squatty little home on Farmington avenue, Hart ford, Conn., with its “ugly roof”— quoting the Hartford real estate speculators who want S3OO',DOO for the property that was sold to them for $55,000 —is saved as a shrine to one of this country’s greatest hu morists, the move by the Society of Connecticut Artists, which has now reached nationwide scope, has given birth to a Mark Twain renaissance and reminiscence. Libraries through out New England report increased in terest in his books, while apparently every one who ever saw him or heard him or met him is popping up with “brand new” anecdotes —the very lat est being a traffic officer on one of Hartford’s main corners who mourns the fact that nobody seems to men tion the great practical charity of the alleged cynic. But the saving of the home is now virtually assured. The storm of pro test against destruction of the birth place of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn that was born of a bit of newspaper publicity has swept the country un til it has enlisted the efforts of Phi lander P. Claxton, United States commisioner of education. He hopes to designate a “Mark Twain week” in every school in the land, during which teachers will tell of the life and books of the humorist, and per haps instill in the minds of Ameri ca’s children that poets and heroes and humorists are more precious to us than gold. In Hartford Mark Twain lived a “happy residence” among such friends as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Dudley Warner, Charles Hop kins Clark and others. He even tried to bring Thomas Bailey Aid rich and Howells here, claiming that in a few years Hartford would be a suburb of both Boston and New York. Out in the “ugly roofed house” where Hartford speculators intend to build the “Mark Twain apartment” were born many of that famous and (immortal troop of boys conceived in his own experience and mothered in his brain. According to a statement made at Washington the senate adopted the house resolution prviding for the apopintment of a commission to arrange for the tercentenary cele bration at Plymouth, Mass., of the landing of the Pilgrims, and ap propriating $400,000 to be used for that purpose in connection with, a similar amount to be appropriated by Massachusetts. Under the reso lution, which now goes to the presi dent, the commission is to consist of seven members, three appointed by the president of the senate and four by the Speaker of the house. In acknowledgment of attentions shown the Belgian royal party during their stay in this country last Octo ber, J. M. Nye, secret service opera tive attached to the party from the state department, received from King Albert an autographed picture of the Belgian monarch. The photograph is in a silver frame surmounted by a miniature crown. The inscription reads: “To Mr. Nye, in memory of a won derful time in America and with grateful thanks for Jiis affectionate care.” Mr. Nye accompanied King Albert and his suite on their tour of the country as the special representative of the department of state, charged with the safety of the royal visitors. Additional taxes amounting to $267,260,000 have been assessed against big corporations in the last nine months as a result of an audit of their tax returns. Internal Reve nue Commissioner Williams informed congress recently in asking for sl,- 300,000 to pay the expenses of this work. He said that the audit had not yet been brought up to date, indicating the possible recovery of additional sums. Dr. Pasticci, a noted chemist of Rome, Italy, has discovered a meth od of cheaply producing liquid hydro gen. It may be used in driving auto mobiles, one gallon being sufficient for 250 miles. It may also be uti lized in railroad locomotives and in the engines of ocean steamers, he declares, according to dispatches from Berlin. A disnatch from Washington states that bills authorizing the treasury to coin special 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hun dredth anniversary of the admission of Maine and Alabama to statehood were signed recently by President Wilson. ______ Twenty-four hours as Mayor of Fayetteville with a hostile board of aidermen was enough for Mayor Charles Rankin, and after holding the office once around the clock he handed in his resignation. Rankin charged that the board of aidermen had taken over all of his functions. Fish freezing is now being un dertaken in Japan for the first time. Tiie tremendous rise in the cost of living is causing Japanese officials and business men to give serious at tention to conservation of the food supply, and the establishment of three’of these refrigerating plants is a striking example of how effective ly they are handling the problem. The capacity of each of these plants is about 5,000 pounds daily. father, snaps and snarls at his wom enkind if they so much as venture an opinion about the rate of speed they are going. He, who never makes a move in business without getting his wife’s good, hard, horse sense on the trade, looks bloody murder at her if she reminds him that a certain road is shut off for repairs, or that the Blue Book says that you turn to the left instead of the r>sht to to Squeedunk. As for making suggestions to a man who is trying to diagnose the case of a temperamental machine that has suddenly stuck, or enter ing into pleasant and cheerful con versation with one who is changing the tire of a wheel —well, that is something that no sane woman ever does-a second time. It makes her shudder to her dying day to recall the short, sharp, ugly word that her erstwhile chivalrous and devoted husband flung x at her, and the baleful look that accompanied it. That is why, when you see a ear in trouble by th« roadside and a grim, perspiring man with “damn” written all over him tinkering with it. you will also observe that the ladies of his party are gathering wild flowers, or are gazing raptly at the view, or 'otherwise communing in silence with nature instead of helping the toiler with his task or sustaining him with their presence. Safety first. . s But just as the automobile has a deteriorating influence on the char acter of men, it has an uplifting one ■ on that or women. In a few brief years the motor car has done more to teach women self control, and pa tience and humility, and especially to hold their tongues, than all the mor alists and preachers have effected in all the centuries. Indeed, it is not too much to claim that the auto is raising up a generation of women who are as meek as Patient Griselda, who have learned not to speak until they are spoken to when they are out riding with their husbands, and who have achieved the supreme grace of being able to refrai nfrom audible criticism when hubby finds out that the reason the machine won’t go is because it is out of gas instead of having broken some vital part. The attitude of a man when driv ing a car, and also the sane and safe attitude of the woman towards the man under the existing circum stances. being matters of common knowledge, it Is hard to feel any sympathy for the wife whose hus band beat her up for laughing at him because he couldn’t make balky machine go. Courage is one thing. Foolhardiness is another. Any wom an who gets funny with a man who is monkeying with an automobile does so at her peril and deserves the consequences. Dorothy Dix’s articles will appear in this paper every Monday, Wed nesday and Friday. According to a statement issued at Washington congress was asked by Governor Harding, of the federal re serve board, to settle the controversy between reserve banks and. state banks as to par collection of bank In a letter to Chairman Platt, of the house banking committee. Gov ernor Harding asked for legislation which either would compel the uni versal adoption of par clearance or would authorize both members and non-members of the reserve system to charge collection fees. The present law, Governor Harding said, was inadequate and had caused difficulty because reserve banks had been obliged to adopt, drastic methods to make collections of checks drawn upon non-member banks opposing par exchange. Mystery over the prolonged ac tion of the senate committee on for eign relations on the nomination of Henry Morganthau, New York, to be ambassador to Mexico was partly cleared recently. Republican mem bers of the committee have decided that the nomination shall not be confirmed for the present. Their ex planation is that it would be unwise to send a new ambassador to Mexico while the country was in its present turmoil. , , - Coincident with knowledge of the decision a report was circulated that. Mr. Morganthau intended to ask President Wilson to withdraw his name from the senate. The nomina tion has been before the committee for more than six weeks. . Mr. Morganthau, however, friend said, has felt for some time that the delay has taken on the nature of a personal fight. Former Speaker Cannon w-as eighty four years old recently. Members of the house gave the Illinois represent ative an ovation when Representative Mondell, the Republican leader an nounced that it was ‘Uncle Joes birthday anniversary. Messages of congratulation were received by Mr. Cannon, Chauncey M. Depew of New York, who recently celebrated his eighty-sixth birthdaj, sent this message: pitrhtv- “I beckon you on to the eigntj sixth milestone which I am for you. It is a beautiful journey and glorious position.” Arrangements have just been made which assure the removal or the body of the statesman, James G. Blaine, early this summei, from Rock Creek cemetery in Washington, w h ‘® r . e burial took place m 1833, beauti ful spot on the crest of Winthrop Hill, overlooking Augusta, Me., and the valley of the Kennebec. The body of Mrs. Blaine will al»o be taken' there, and presumably that of a son, Walter Blaine, who is buried beside his parents in Wash ington. Because wood is a poor conductor of electricity, John Eagan’s artificial leg will have to be unstrapped when he goes *o his death in the ele p tric chair at Sing Sing. Eagan’s conviction for murder was upheld by the court of appeals. Eagan’ will be the first man with a wooden leg to die in the electric chair. Dr. John Dill Robertson’s munici pal reduction plant, Chicago, 111., where fat women gather to work oft their surplus tissues in an eight week’s campaign, ended iks second week a few days ago, witir an aver age net loss of 8.3 pounds per pupil. Mrs. Hulda Solberg, who tipped the scales at 224 a week ago, has wasted away to a trifle under 212, her net loss of 12 1-2 pounds setting a rec ord for the class. Dr. W. A. Riddell, of Toronto, Canada, announced that he had ten dered his resignation as deputy minister of labor in the Ontario gov ernment and had accepted a position in the international labor office of the League of Nations. , Dr. Riddell will have charge ft ,’je immigration and employment ®ec tion, and will probably make nis headquarters in Geneva. His resig nation takes effect next weoi- He sails from New York on May 15, to be in Geneva to attend the seamen s conference next month. Niagara Falls is not the greatest cataract in the world. The greatest cataract is said to be on the Ignazu river, which partly separates Brazil and Argentina. The precipice over which the river plunges in 210 feet high, that of Ni agara being 167 feet. The cataract .s 13.123 feet wide, or about two and a half times as wide as Niagara. It is estimated that 100,000,000 tons of water pass over Nia.gara in one hour. A like estimate gives the falls of Igna-zu 140,000,000 tons. After the Democratic conference at Albany. N. Y„ Judge Samuel Seabury issued a statement in which he characterized the resolutions adopted by the delegation an ‘‘ab surd evasion coflnceived by a group of artful dodgers.” •‘The Democratic conference,” he said, “dodged «V*ry Issue before the countr a ridiculous and ’•'heUTlea’ address about the need for universal disarmament in order to reduce the high cost of living. A gathering never convened more under the control of Tammany Hall than was the *»ie here.”