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A Cheering and a learning.
SCOUTING the idea of a financial panic’s
befalling the United States, Mr. John
Fletcher, vice-president of the Fort
Dearborn Bank of Chicago, reminds the
down-mouthed that with only five per cent
of the world’s population we have twenty
• four per cent of its agricultural production,
forty per cent of its mineral output, and that
we manufacture thirty-five per cent of its
goods. If these facts do not reassure, he
bids them take note that our natural wealth
exceeds two hundred and twenty-five billion
dollars, which is one hundred and forty-five
billions above that of England, who comes
next; that our trade balance towers to the
height of five billion dollars; that “our for
eign-placed securities amounting to some
eight billions have been repurchased in this
country,” that our associates in the war are
indebted to us to the amount of some ten
billion dollars; that half the gold of civili
zation is here; and that American bank de
posits exceed those of the rest of the world
by many billions.
But, says this keen and cheerful observer,
with all these resources and buttresses of
prosperity, there undoubtedly is cause for
concern —not for alarm, but for thoughtful
and vigorous effort. The real trouble, as he
sees it, is simply this: “There is a premium
on idleness.” Nature’s bounty and money’s
strength can never make up for a slackening
of human energy. There must be steady pro
duction if economic balance is to be main
tained; and there must be due exertion of
. man power if production is to be steady in
its flow. A world emerging from the most
wasteful of wars cannot be kept up on half
handed or half-hearted work.
Nor can all the prosperity of this, the
earth’s most favored land, suffice our needs
if we fail to render the services and to pro
duce the goods on which our common wants
depend. Services and goods, after ( all, are
the only forms of material wealth that ulti
mately count; without them business would
cease to function and the social order itself
break down, regardless of how many bil
lions of money lay in bank or how much
treasure in the earth. Possibility of a finan
cial panic in the United States is virtually
precluded by the Federal Reserve system it
self, that tower of strength which kept us
secure in the world-rocking storm burst of
1914 and which assuredly will prove no less
notent in these better guarded days. But
this will not prevent industrial ills, it will not
prevent hardship and loss and suffering i
production of the great necessaries falls be
low the country’s needs. Idleness m such
time is unpardonable.
America's Large Interests
In China’s Development.
AMERICA IS deeply interested in the
formation of an international bank
ing group to finance the Chinese
Government in certain large
for national progress and development. \, hile
details of the transaction have not yet been
given out, it is said that the amount of the
proposed loan ranges abound a quarter ot a
billion dollars, the major portion of yUQ
is to be used in railway construction and bet
terment. In consequence of these improve
ments, it is predicted, “North and South
China will be drawn closer together, and vast
undeveloped resources of the interior, which
are c/ almost unbelievable value, will be
tapped.” , .
Authorities say, indeed, that there are few,
if any, other regions of the earth altogether
eo opulent as China is in those basic ti ens
ures of which civilization is now specially in
need. In the important item of coal, the
great republic of the East could supply a
large part of the entire world’s needs for a
thousand years to come. Rich in divers other
minerals and vastly rich in the essentials of
agricultural production, she stands out as a
potential supply base to which the eyes of
all mankind well may turn. But these latent
stores cannot be duly developed and turned
into the channels of world commerce until
the country is provided with better transpor
tation facilities. With an area one and a
half times as large as that of the continental
united States and a population approximately
four times larger than ours, numbering
about ninety-three persons to the square
mile, China has only some thousand miles
of railroads compared with two hundred and
sixty thousand miles in this country.
The transportation service which the in
ternational loan is to establish will quicken
a thousand springs of sleeping enterprise and
bring China closer to all the world. Rail
roads will encourage the etxension and im
provement of highways, and these, in turn,
the use of motor vehicles. Isolated districts
will be linked to busy centers and stirred by
the currents of progress that are moving so
marvelously in those parts of China where
creative education has entered. Not only will
fresh sources of natural treasure thus be
made available for international commerce,
but there will be also an intensive upgrowth
of modern industries within China, calling
for all manner of machinery and equipment,
as well as for financial sinews. Naturally,
too, the demand for foreign manufactures
will multiply as the country develops in outer
connections and inner prosperity.
In the fertile trade opportunities thus
awaiting cultivation the United States has the
advantage of a long record of disinterested
friendship for China. But American manu
facturers and merchants cannot afford to de
pend upon that happy tradition alone. If they
are to meet their competitors they must un-
•Erm ATLANTA TKI-VVsfilfiKJjY JOURNAL
derstand Chinese wants and tastes and cus
toms and character. In a singularly interest
ing booklet on the subject, the Guaranty
Trust Company of New York, points out that
“three basic elements govern Chinese busi
ness—personality, education and honesty.”
Regarding the first, your representa
tive in China must be a man of educa
tion and tact. The quality of aggres
siveness which makes for success in the
United States must be toned down in
dealings with the Chinese, a dignified
race, who abhor the breeziness of a cer
tain type of salesmen. On the other hand,
they have a profound reverence for a
man of learning, and, if lie is familiar
with their customs, business relations
will proceed smoothly and profitably.
The same authority reminds us that his
commercial honor is an outstanding fea
ture of the Chinese character and that he
“demands an equally high standard of the
foreigner.” Indeed, “one deviation from ab
solute integrity on the part of your repre
sentative would probably destroy your busi
ness in China. At the same time the Chinese
merchant is altogether ‘liberal in his deal
ings.’ He is ‘tenacious as to all that is
material, with comparative disregard for
trifles, never letting a transaction fall
through on account of punctilio, yielding to
the prejudices of others wherever it can be
done without material disadvantage.’ ”
Where so much of opportunity, both for
profit and for service is involved for Amer
ican business, it is taken for granted that
the Washington Government approves the
plan to muster the financial aid needed for
China’s development, provided, of course,
her freedom and sovereignty are not threat
ened or compromised. This point, it is un
derstood, has been duly guarded in the new
consortium of international bankers formed
to assist the Government, and through It
the people, of China in procuring the facili
ties needful for the development of their
wonderous resources. If so, American in
terests doubtless will take a leading part in
this great and useful» enterprise.
Fixing German Indemnity
Furthers Reconstruction.
S a step toward economic reconstruc-
Ation the decision on the long sus
pended matter of German indemnity
is of far-reaching importance. The amount
which the Allies are said to have agreed
to demand is of less moment than the
fact that they have agreed at all so that it
is possible to end an uncertainty which has
hampered the vital processes of readjust
ment not in Europe alone, but throughout
the war-shaken world. ’
As long as Germany was in the dark on
this question, which her taxes and
earnings for long years, if not for decades
to come, no considerable progress could be
be made in the readjustment of her busi
ness affairs nor in the shaping of those
fiscal policies which form so grave a part oi
her new Government’s tasks. The results
of this dubious marking of time have been
no less unfortunate for Allied interests than
for Germanys’, for not until the latter are
placed upon a responsible and productive
basis can the former be duly secured and
the work of rehabilitation go forward apace.
A half-idle Germany cannot pay adequate in
demnities, nor can a Germany of sullen
bondsmen. The people who so unhappily
put their trust in Prussian militarism and
went down with it into the valley of dark
est defeat must be given opportunity and en
couragement to recover power of prodction
and get back into the channels of world
trade, if they are to raise the vast sums
which even the most lenient judgment as to
reparations will require. But as long as the
amount remained unfixed, conjecture rang
ing all the way from forty to one hundred
and fifty billion in terms of American money,
next to nothing could be done in the way
of stabilizing economic relations between
Germany and the world.
The delay is ascribable to sundry causes,
not the least of which Is the failure of the
United States to ratify the peace treaty in
one form ’or another dnd lend at least moral
support to the League of Nations. Assuredly
it is a matter of deep regret on the busi
ness side alone, not to speak of humanitar
ian concerns, that our Government, though
having billions of American bond money in
volved in European debts, still has no repre
sentation in the settlement of many and
many a policy which in one way or another
affects, not only those credits but our entire
economic future as well. The sooner this
condition is remedied through an adjustment
of the differences between the President and
the Senate on the treaty, the better will it
be for all parties at interest.
Meanwhile, it is reassuring that the Allies
have agreed upon a definite indemnity. The
sum is reported unofficially to be about thir
ty billion dollars. That is something more
than the most cautious of British counselors,
outside of Governmon circles, advised, but it
is much less than what most authorities
were proposing just after the war. Discus
sion of the figures now given, however, must
await the official announcement. It is great
ly to be hoped that there will He no further
delays; too much is at stake for the world’s
peace and prosperity.
As to Packing Farm Products
IN commending Texas shippers of fruits
and vegetables for the new care they are
taking in packing their products, the
Houston Post truly says: “They could
scarcely engage in a reform with greater pos
sibilities of profit. It is a matter of com
mon knowledge that Texas products measure
up in quality to those of Florida and Cali
fornia, yet the bad methods’of packing have
given shippers in other states an advantage
in securing the right of way in the big mar
kets. It is as important to have products
graded, assorted and uniformly put up in
neat, standard-sized packages as it is to have
quality in the product offered.”
This idea has made substantial progress
in Georgia in recent years and has added
largely to the State’s agricultural income.
Long ago, indeed, the Fruit Exchange gave
national distinctiveness and enhanced value
to the Georgia peach crop by taking care to
grade and pack it according to well conceived
standards*. Pecan growers followed along
he same line, much to their advantage and
!o that of their industry. The State Mar
ket Bureau has done good service in encour
aging the adoption of these methods in the
shipment of any and every kind of farm prod
uct. In truth, there is no more important
phase to the far-reacning function of farm
marketing than that made up of sorting,
grading and packing. It is largely by at
cnding properly to these matters that the
rower builds up a reputation for quality
nd service, and realizes the best profit on
:at he has to offer.
EDITORIAL ECHOES
The only thing done well in this country
at present is the public.—Greenville, (S. C.)
Piedmont. ,
A few months teach a child to walk; a few
more raises in the price of gasoline will
teach adults to walk. —St. Joseph News-
Press.
A presidential year is generally referred to
as an “off year,” and as we listen to the poli
ticians we are impressed with the accuracy
of the description.—Columbia, S. C., Record.
THOUGHTS ON TELEPATHY
By H. Addington Bruce
EXCEPTING by those who cling stub
bornly to the waning materialistic
view of man and the universe, the ac
tuality of telepathy is no longer in question.
That mind can communicate with mind
through other than the recognized organs of
sense is now accepted as an established fact
even by many among our most eminent sci
entists.
But to accept telepathy is one fhing. To
understand its mode of working is another.
Such savants as Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Wil
liam Barrett, Professor McDougall, firm be
lievers in telepathy, confess themselves re
duced to conjecture when asked to explain
the process by which telepathic messages are
transmitted and received-
At first thought wireless telegraphy would
seem to offer a satisfactory analogy, so far
as the explanation of telepathy is concerned.
In wireless telegraphy, as is well known,
a powerful instrument sends through the air
vibrations which so act upon another instru
ment, propery attuned, as to cause sounds
interpretable into intelligent language. Simi
larly it might be deemed possible that in
every human being there exist brain centers
so organized as to be capable of sending and
receiving “thought waves.”
But against this simple explanatory theory
several objections present themselves.
In the first place, it is hard to imagine
any “brain center” powerful enough to gen
erate “waves” capable of traveling with in
telligible distinctness for any greater dis
tance. For, as scientists have long since
proved:
“All radiant forces when freely diffused
through space diminish in intensity as the
square of the distance increases betweeen the
source and the receiver. As a thousand feet
apart the intensity is a million times less
than one foot apart.”
Yet there are on record well authenticated
instances of telepathic action between people
half the world apart. To attempt to account
for these on a “thought wave” theory would
indeed appear to be futile.
Besides, it is not symbolic bounds that are
transmitted in telepathy as in wireless teleg
raphy, but words, ideas and feelings. Nay,
in telepathy there is sometimes a vivid pres
entation of entire scenes occurring hundreds
of miles away. To explain such ‘presenta
tions as a product of “thought waves’* is
veritably to attempt the impossible.
So that the scientists who accept telepa
thy as proved are more and more coming to
the opinion recently voiced by Sir William
Barrett.
“It is difficult to conceive how an idea or
impression can be telepathically conveyed
except by the direct influence of the trans
mitting mind on that of the percipient, an
operation which suggests an excursive action
o fthe mind, or soul, or subliminal self;
indeed, one can speak of excursive action in
a process which is probably independent both
of matter and space.”
■ Which, of course, is as certainly guess
work as is the “thought wave” theory. Only
it does seem to be gueswork somewhat more
closely fitting in with the puzzling facts
which still challenge explanation.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
FANNIE HURST
By Dr. Frank Crane
Fannie Hurst, a well-known writer, re
cently has come into newspaper notice by
announcing her marriage to Jacques S. Dan
ielson, a pianist and composer. There is no
newspaper story, of course, in an ordinary
marriage announcement; but this was ex
traordinary for the reason that it was not
publicly made until the fifth anniversary of
the wedding.
Miss Hurst, professionally speaking, or
Mrs. Danielson, suburbanly speaking, took
this occasion to declare some of her ideas
re marriage which are worth thinking over.
For these five years the two have main
tained separate studio apartments, have
averaged two breakfasts a week together,
have never given an accounting one to the
other of the time spent apart, and now make
declaration that their arrangement works,
and that they are perfectly satisfied.
Miss Hurst says she was led to this be
cause “nine out of ten of the alliances I
saw about me were merely sordid endurance
tests overgrown with the fungi of familiarity
and contempt.”
She did not desire to subject her marital
bliss to the strain' of over-familiarity, wran
gling over social engagements, one dragging
the other out and the other going yet hating
it, and so on.
In other words, this couple made another
attempt to solve the old problem of a bal
ance between personal liberty and domestic
ties. How well they will succeed remains
to be seen. We wish them luck.
Miss-Mrs. Hurst-Danielson, however, calls
attention, by this publicity, to a real point
of inflammation' and sepsis in married life.
For there are undoubtedly many couples
who have grown to hate each other simply
because of enforced over-intimacy.
Many a fine woman has been ruined by
having her personality drowned in a mo
lasses ocean of bourgeois sentimentality.
Her husband lives for her, loves her, works
for her, does everything in the world for
her, except the one thing that would keep
her love alive—that is, go away and let her
alone once in a while.
And many a genuinely good fellow has
:oen irritated into going wrong by too stren
uous and constant a dose of uxoriousness.
The golden mean is hard to find. Every
married pair is seeking it. It is a most deli
cate problem, to be worked out almost en
tirely by the personal equation. “Strait is
the gate, and few there be that find it.”
Here’s hoping Fannie has.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
•Johnny recently paid his first visit to his
aunt’s farm in England. The little boy had
not been there long before he came running
to her in great excitement.
“Aunty,” he exclaimed, with the air of
one imparting grave news, “I don’t think
this is a very nice place!”
“Why, what makes you think that, John
ny?” was her amused reply.
“Well, aunty, the public houses must open
very early,” was the startling rejoinder.
“Nearly all your hens have the hiccups al
ready this morning.”
“Supposing I give you your supper,” said
the tired looking woman, “what will you
do to earn it?”
“Madam,” said the wanderer, “I’d give
you de opportunity uv seeing a man go t’roo
a whole meal without finding fault wid a
single t’ing.”
The woman thought a minute and then
told him to come in and she’d set the table.
He was very affable and free with his
opinions, was this young Englishman, but
that was about all he was free with. To the
man who had carried his bag to the country
side station he had given one whole penny.
Notwithstanding the forlorn look on the
man’s face, he still continued to chat in an
easy manner.
“I shall never forget,” he continued, “the
splendor of the scenery when I was in Switz
erland. It was an education to see the sun
rise, tipping the little blue hills with gold—”
“Ah!” interrupted the man who had toiled
with his bag. “Them ’ills was luckier- than
me, weren’t they?”
WHAT TIME IS IT?
By Frederic J. Haskin.
ZION CITY. 111., May 15.—This
little town, forty miles from
Chicago, may fairly be taken
as a vision of the future in
America. While the nation at large
has made only n beginning in the
conquest of vice by abolishing alco
hol mor° or less completely, and
making a few vague threats against
tobacco, Zion City, ever since its
foundation, has prohibited not only
tobacco and liquor, but also pool
rooms, movies, and various other de
vices which tend to distract the mind
of man from righteousness and sal
vation. As Zion is, so are the proud
cities of Chicago and New York to
become. Zio.n City may fairly be call
ed the moral model and capital of
America.
Most of us, who are thirty years
old or more, remember the days
when John Alexander Dowie founded
Zion City, and in 1903 led the hosts
of his faith to New York to regen
erate the fallen city. In 1906, Dow
ie was suspended from the church
he had founded. He was charged
with misuse of investments, tyranny,
polygamous tendencies. ■ and some
other things. Since then, the public
at large has heard comparatively lit
tle of Zion City, but it still lives and
thrives under the leadership of Wil
bur Glenn Voliva, who has succeed
ed to the post of general overseer of
Zion. He is regarded as an excellent
business man and a powerful exhort
er with a special gift of invective.
The town manufactures lace goods,
electrical supplies, office, milling and
baking supplies, and candy. At the
last census it had a population of
nearly 5,000. .
Good Morals and Bad Roads
The moral perfection of Zion City
is generally admitted and admired,
but it has a certain physical imper
fection which has recently brought
it into conflict with many of its
neighbors. This imperfection is the
mile p- ■> half of highway which
passes through the city. It is a part
of the road from Chicago to Milwau
kee, which is an excellent road ev
erywhere except along this stretch
through the town of the Golden Rule.
There it is as the roads of a century
ago, full of bumps, hollows, and deep
an.l treacherous mud holes.
The motorists who pass through
Zion are bitterly resentful of this
road. They have even talked of boy
cotting the Zion City industries un
less the roads are repaired.
The feeling against the road
through Zion has reached the point
where it can only be expressed ade
quately In the same strong language
that Voliva uses in the pulpit.
A year ago the general wrath of
th > motorists came to a head in the
Illinois state legislature in the form
of a resolution Introduced by Mr.
Shurtleff, calling for an investiga
tion of Wilbur Glenn Voliva and the
Christian Catholic Apostolic church.
On April 22 of this year, the Illinois
supreme court decided that such an
investigation was illegal, and this
was regarded by the Zionists as a
great victory over the devil.
lacked the Legislature
The Saturday afternoon after this
triumph was the occasion of a great
celebration. There was a parade
through the streets, with much sing
ing and shouting and waving of
Am erican flags and the blue, white
and yellow Zionist flags. A huge vol
ume of sound made by horns, drums,
human voices and the beating of tin
pans, rose to the heavens over Zion.
This last celebration of the Zion
ists is also the occasion for a lit
tle rejoicing among the motorists.
There are rumors that now that Vol
iva has triumphed over Satan and
Mr. Shurtleff, he will Improve the
roads just to show that there are
no hard feelings. It. is even said
he intimated, when the investigation
seemed imminent, that if he were
spared the expense of being invs
tigatd he might be better able to
afford to make his thoroughfares
more seemly. Citizens of Zion, when
questioned about this, give various
answers. One said that the roads
could not yet be improved because
there was not enough money in the
town treasury. Another said that
■work was about to be begun upon
the roads. God willing, because at
last the town could afford it. Still
another seemed to think, that the
state had better pay for the im
provements, since the roads were
mainly used by outsiders who add
ed little to the pure and exclusive
atmosphere of the village. But the
general feeling is that the supreme
court decision has brought a double
blessing to humanity in these parts:
it has defeated the devil and made
certain a smooth thoroughfare to
Milwaukee.
Only Chimneys Smoke
If this is the case Zion will prob
ably be visited by a greater num
ber of tourists in the future. These
tourists should take warning. When
they enter Zion they had better
mind their p’s and q’s. If they are
caught smoking pipes, cigars or cig
arettes. or chewing tobacco, they will
be arrested and fined twenty-five
dollars each, and the fact that they
are American citizens will be no
protection. And as for having alco
holic beverages concealed about them
—the sad fate of the two trucks from
Milwaukee is too well known to be
repeated here. But it will be re
peated as a warning nevertheless.
These two trucks, careening .over
the troubled terrain of Zion, arolused
the suspicions of an officer of the
law. They were stopped, their
contents were investigated, and beer
was found —gallons and gallons of
beer bound for wicked Chicago! It
was all promptly emptied in the
sewers of Zion and the devil suf
fered another knockout blow.
Zion is a town of little frame
houses, and a row of small stores.
The Zion Home, a hotel, is a huge
yellow edifice, and the administra
tion building opposite is of the same
hue. The home of the late John
Alexander Dowie is the most preten
tious dwelling in the place. It is of
bright red brick with many angles
and sharp projections. Its beetling
and irregular roof of vivid green
tiles is decorated in a zigzag design
of raw brown and yellow.
The Shiloh tabernacle is, of course,
the main objective for sightseers.
It is a huge white shed and stands
a short distance from the village. It
seats nearly seven thousand people
and it is generally pretty well
filled. It contains one of the larg
est pipe organs in the world. Its
walls are decorated with designs
made of crutches, canes, hot water
bottles and stretchers which used to
belong to invalids and cripples who
are said to have been healed in the
faith. These designs are varied by
some in swords and guns relin
quished by converts to pacifism, and
surgical instruments, Masonic em
blems, and cigars given up by doc
tors, lodge members and smokers re
spectively, who have been led to see
the error of their ways.
There is always' a caretaker in the
building who will show you around
very courteously and answer youri
questions to the best of his ability
—and he will not fail to point out
to you the advantages of becoming
a convert to the creed of Zion.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
Peaks lak de harder
Some folks fights
I>E MO' WUSSER.
DEY GITS LICKED. 1
MllF3lb<'
Copyright, 1920by McClure Newspiper Syndicate,
THURSDAY, MAY SB,
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
OUR LOVED AND LOST
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
IT IS the custom to speak of our
dead as those whom we have lost.
People will tell you with broken
voices of friends whom they have
lost through death. A stricken-faced
woman will go suddenly white as she
speaks of the husband she lost on the
battlefield in France, or through some
dreadful disease. A mother will
mourn the babe she lost on whose
grave the grass has been green for
thirty years.
But we make no greater mistake
than when we think of the dead as
lost. It is life, not death, that robs
us of our beloved. Death seals them
to us forever and forever, beyond all
possibility of loss.
There are no friends closer to us
than our dead friends. We may see
their faces no more, but our souls
are in constant communion with them,
and they are the friends whose love
and loyalty we never question.
Does some piece of good fortune
come our -way? Our first thought is if
only John and Mary were alive, how
they would rejoice in our success.
We see how their eyes would shine
with joy in our joy. We hear their
hearty congratulations that have in
them no spice of malice or envy, as
those of. our living friends so often
have.
Does misfortune lay our heads Jn
the dust? I “Ah,” we cry, ‘‘if only Jonn
and Mary were here to sorrow with
us in our grief, to bind up our w’ounds
in the healing intment of their sym
pathy! We should not weep alone if
only death had spared the friends on
whom we could count without fail.”
Do we need help? We call the roll
of our living friends with doubt. It
is to the memory of the dead that we
turn with certainty. We should not
have asked o John in vain. Mary
would not have withheld the helping
hand. We should not even have had
to ask them for assistance, for their
love would have divined our want.
Nothing can come between us and
our dead friends. Their hearts are
knit to ours with a bond that
stretches from time to enternity, and
that nothing can break.
The friends whom we have lost are
those from whom we are separated by
indifference,, by treachery, by self
seeking, or greed, or some unworthy
act that has killed our love for them,
and made them far more dead to us
than if they were buried in the grave.
The friend whom we have lost is
the one who poisoned our little mom
ent of triumph by some petty peal
ousy. The friend whom we have lost
is the one who callously passed us by
when our hearts were wrung with
grief, or who turned his back upon us
when w r e cried to him for help in our
need. , , x ,
The friend whom w’e have lost is
the one who forgot old times, and
old ties, and old favors when he
made money or achieved some place
of power, for the man or woman who
move from Poverty Flat to Easy
Street are often farther away from
•us than the distance between the two
worlds.
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
Approximately 40,000 men, women
and children took part recently in
the “Jeulah” or “Redemption” pa
rade that marked the close of the
extraordinary convention of the
Zionists’ organization of America.
The marchers carried banners with
inscriptions of gratitude toward the
San Remo conference for awarding
the Palestine mandate to Great
Britain.
Full-bearded octogenarians linked
with school-boys in the long march
from Rutgers Square to Columbus
Circle. Nathan Straus marched
with his son and afterward declared
that the parade was a “wonderful
success.”
White-haired women marched, car
rying banners and placards bearing
Biblical quotations referring to
Palestine. Jewish members of the
A. E. F., wounded in service and now
patients in base hospitals, rode in
several large buses. Jewish sur
vivors of the “Lost Battalion” and
a division of soldiers -who fought in
the Jewish Legion in Palestine were
cheered by crowds that lined the
streets. Jewish officers of the A. E.
F. acted as marshals, directing the
parade from horseback. The chief
marshals were Joseph Burdoness
and Dr. Simon Rothenberg.
Supreme Court Justice D. Bran
dels reviewed the parade. The march
ers included members of trades un
ions, professional organizations and
men and women from all walks of
life. A half holiday was declared on
the east side and In many Jewish
shops and places of business in hon
or of the day.
Word received here from London
states that two kings with their
queens—the sovereigns of Belgium
and Great Britain—were among the
distinguished personages who at
tended the wedding of Lady Cynthia
Curzon, daughter of Earl Curzon, the
foreign secretary, and Lieutenant
Oswald Ernald Mosley, M. P., in the
Chapel Royal.
The affair was one of great splen
dor, outrivalling anything of a simi
lar nature in London in recent years.
Besides the royal personages there
was a host of diplomats and other
prominent people present.
An additional notable touch was
lent to the occasion by the fact that
the king and queen of the Belgians
had come in an airplane on Saturday
from Brussels for the express pur
pose of attending the wedding.
They were week-end guests of Lord
Curzon. _____
At the afternoon meeting of the
field workers of the Inter-Church
World Movement at Cleveland, John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., announced that
he would duplicate his previous gift
of $250,000 to the fund. This sum
makes a total of $6,500,000 given by
the Rockefeller family to the citizens’
fund of the Inter-Church and the
Baptist New World movement.
Another gift was by a man whose
name was not announced. He said
he would give all that, he had In the
world—a piece of timberland.
Dr. S. Earl Taylor, general secre
tary of the fund, who serves with
out pay, said that he would give
another SI,OOO. Other secretaries
made similar pledges.
PARIS.—So good is the French
crop outlook for this year that agri
cultural experts believe the wheat
harvest will come close to meeting
the nation’s full requirements for
the following year. This improve
ment, as compared with last year, is
due in some degree to the increased
use of motor-driven farm equipment.
According to official figures, more
than 12,350,000 acres have been sown
with wheat. The department of ag
riculture estimates that this should
produce 26,000,000 bushels, leaving
only about 3,700,000 bushels to be
imported. aLst year the home crop
was so small that 13,000,000 bus -els
had to be imported.
The bumper crop is expected to
save France no less than 6,000,000,-
000 francs, and may even have a no
ticeably favorable effect on the ex
change situation.
The battleship Oklahoma left Nc./
York recently for Key West, to be
held for immediate service in Mexi
can waters.
A full war-strength crew of 1,800
men and a landing force of 100
marines were aboard.
Spokane, Wash., ranking as the
, forty-eighth city of the country in
1910, had a decrease of 198, or 0.2
per cent in population in the past
ten years, and now has 104,204 peo
ple, the census bureau announced to
day.
The Washington city thus became
the first of the cities in the class
of over 100,000 thus far announced
to show a decrease. Newport, Ky„
and Joplin, Mo., both cities of the
30,000 class, are the next largest
cities which have shown decreases.
Between 1900 and 1910 Spokane’s
population increased 183,3 per cent.
Chico, Cal., whose census returns
were announced today, shows an in
crease of 5,122, or 136.6 per cent
over 1910, The present population
is 8,872. .
The friends 'Whom we lose are
those who show the yellow streak
under the stress of life; who turn
traitor; who prove dishonest, and
who shatter our ideals of tkem.
Those whom we have once loved and
honored and can no longer love and
honor we have, indeed, lost though 1
they still be living,, but the noble
dead we never lose. They are part
and parcel of our lives until the vefly
end.
No one would underestimate the
misfortune of the wife whose hus
band is taken from her by death. To
be bereft of the strong arm that sus
stained her,. and the tenderness and
love that enfolded her is truly a
sorrow’s crown of sorrow to a wom
an.
But the woman w'ho has known a
good man’*? love and faith, and who
can count over the happy days of her
life with him, and live in the bless
ed memory of the joys she has
known, can never really lose her hus
band even though he has passed be
yond the veil. Though unseen, he
abides ever with her. His wisdom
still guides her. His presence hov
ers about her fireside, and she has
only to send her thoughts after him
into the far country to which he has
voyaged, to summon him back, and
to hear once more the caress of his
voice, to see the love light in his
eyes, and to know that dead or alive
he is still hers.
The woman who loses her husband
is the wife whose husband tires of
her, who ceases to care for her, and
whose heart strays off after another.
The woman who has lost her hus
band is the fat, grizzled common
place old wife who sits alone of
nights, eating her soul out in impo
tent jealousy, as her husband phil
anders with girls young enough to
her granddaughters, and spends on
them the money sheh slaved in the
early days of her wifehood to help
him make. She is a million times
more to be pitted than the widow
who weeps above the coffin of a
faithful husband because she has
lost both husband and her respect
for him. She has not even a me;ji
ory to console her.
And the mother whose children
grow up to be selfish and cruel and
neglectful, who show her that they
consider her a burdeniand that she
is unwelcome in theft’ homes—are
not these more truly lost to her than
the dead babes whose clinging 'arms
she can always feel about her neck
and whose warm little mouths are
forever in memory clinging to her
breast? Many and many a time thv
only child a mother has left to hen
is the one that lies in the little
mound in the churchyard.
Happy those who are only separ
ated from their loved ones by death,
tor they shall never lose them.
Dorothy Dix’s articles will appear
in this paper every Monday, Wed
nesday, and Friday.
Unless federal officers experience a
change of heart there will be an
other blasted romance at Ellis island.
A board of special inquiry excluded
Anna Sherbetdjian, an Armenian
woman who was rescued from the
harem of a Turkish official by Harri
Yazzmajian, a wealthy rug merchant,
and brought to this country with
him. She had expected to marry
Hampirsoon Terekelylan, a Philadel
phia merchant.
The literary test proved too much
for Anna.
The prospective bridegroom ap
peared before the board and offered
to marry her. Wealthy Armenians
plan to appeal the case.
For more than half a century the
burial vault of Governor Morris, in
the yard of St. Ann’s Church of Mor
risiar.a, has remained unchanged ex
cept for the debris which has collect
ed along the entrance, the rust >n the
iron pickets and the hinges of tne
door and the climbing roses which in
a few more weeks will bloom across
the grave of the famous old soldier,
statesman and diplomat.
Governor Morris is credited with
writing the final draft of the consti
tution of the United States, the docu
ment which has been amended no
less than eighteen times since Mor
ris, as secretary of the constitutional
convention, dried his quill and called
it a good day’s work.
A movement to care for the his
toric churchyard of St. Ann’s, where
are burled not only Governor Morris
but many other members of that il
lustrious family as well, has been
started. Senator Peter A. Abeles has
introduced a bill into the New York
state senate which will provide a
yearly appropriation of SSOO for the
improvement find care of the burial
lot of Governor Morris, including the
construction of a memorial tablet
and flagstaff in the churchyard. It
is understood that Senator Abeles
introduced the bil at the suggestion
of James L. Wells, state treasurer,
who is one of the vestrymen ot St.
Ann’s church. Mr. Wells has been
interested for many years in preserv
ing this historic bit of property.
B-th be a'cl S,.n; :or Abeles are con
fident - hat the e’propriation will t>e
’j*cvlrlel Tnry point ouf at
p-esent t! ere is nothing to denote
who is buried li the Governor Mor
ris vault, and •-« whole property ts,
in fact, badly in need of improve
ment and maintenance.
Declaring that profiteering had
taken a new form in the medical
profession of whisky prescription
writing, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley in his
address at Washington as retiring
president of the United States Phar
macopoeia! convention, advocated leg
islation to prohibit physicians from
writing more prescriptions for whis
ky and brandy than ‘ they wrote in
1914.
“The physician is the leading of
fender in the illegal sale of liquor.”
Dr. Wiley said. “The pharmacist is
only doing his duty when he fills
prescriptions for whisky and brandy.
If the .writing of such prescription
is abused the medical profession must
accept the greatest part of the criti
cism and blame.”
Dr. "Wiley opposed the placing of
whisky and brandy back into the
pharmacopoeia, from which they were
removed ten years ago.
A rare Persian rug, "beyond
price,” containing within its weave
a love story as entrancing as any
ever written and carrying , associa
tions of the greatest hlstor.- inter
est, is the gift to the people of the
United States on behalf of the peo
ple of Armenia. The gift is made
by the owner of the rug. Thomas ±l.
Kullujian, and is considered the re
sponse of Armenia to the gift of a
replica of the Liberty Bell.
On this rug, the premiers of
France and England and President
Wilson stood while they signed the
Treaty of Versailles. Generals
Pershing and Foch stood on the rug i
when they received their swfrds
from the French government in j?er
sliing stadium during the intf.r-Al
lied games. The first men “aduct
ed from San Franmsco manned over
the rug as they lett for their camps
Many notables, including most o- the
crowned heads of ' the world, have
stood and trod on the rug, until, Mr.
Kullujian says, it is “beyond price.”
He has refused offers of amusement
syndicates to rent or buy the rug.
Cigars are gaining in popularity
abroad, according to export figures
given out in New York, which show
that during February 6,284,000 more
cigars and cheroots were shipped out
of the United States than in the
same month of 1919. On the other
hand, 90,169,000 less cigarettes went
abroad. There were 9,496,000 cigars
and 1,330,235,000 cigarettes exported.
According to information from
Berlin, the depreciation of the mark
has dealt a stunning blow to Ger
man science, Emil Abderhalden is
quoted as having made a statement
to that effect. Emil Aberhalden, is
food expert and professor of physiol
ogy at the University of Halle.
“Large numbers of German scien
tists engaged in research work are
facing the failure of their plans,’
says Abderhalden. “Prices of in
struments, chemicals and so on have
L en increased several hundred per
cent, and so the means of research
cannot be kept at the same Jevel as
in peace times.”