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The State Convention.
THE Presidential Preference Convention
held in Atlanta on Tuesday was or
ganized in accordance with Democrat
ic precedent and proceeded upon the princi
ple of majority rule. Called to order by the
chairman of the State Democratic Executive
Committee, it elected as its temporary chair
man a Democrat of high distinction and life
long allegiance, Hon. Zebulon Vance Pea
cock, of Pulaski county. For permanent chair
man it chose the president of the Georgia
Senate, Hon. Samuel L. Olive, of Richmond;
and for permanent secretary, the clerk of the
Georgia House of Representatives, Hon. E.
B. Moore, of DeKalb. It would be difficult,
indeed impossible, to find a more stanchly
Democratic group of presiding officers. For
delegates-at-large it chose men of promi
nence locally and in the nation; for National
Committeeman, a sterling business man and
party leader; and for district delegates
men who measure well up to their im
portant responsibilities. Moreover, the
convention was conducted, on the parlia
mentary side, according to the practices
of the Georgia General Assembly, which are
recDgnized as models of reasonableness and
fair play. In determining larger matters of
policy the Convention naturally took counsel
of its own constituents and followed the
will of its majority; this is what Democratic
conventions have done from time out of
mind, and what they probably will continue
to do. Not seeing fit to surrender its right
of self government and independent thought
to the State Democratic executive commit
tee or subcommittee, it ignored "Rule Ten,”
as any convention acting under the plan of
majority control would have done regardless
of the particular issues and individuals con
cerned. Whether one liked or disliked the
men composing this convention, whether one
approves or disapproves the personnel of its
selection of delegates and of a National Com
mitteeman, whether one sanctions or con
demns its resolutions regarding national af
fairs, one must admit that in organization and
procedure it was altogether within the par
ty’s law and that, therefore, its choice of
delegates to San Francisco is incontestably
the mandate of the Democratic party of
Georgia.
The Journal regrets certain omissions in
the resolutions touching national issues. For
our own part, we have stood from the be
ginning and still stand full-heartedly for a
League of Nations, believing that only by
some such co-working of the world’s moral
and material forces can a stable peace and
international justice be secured. We were
for the League just as the President origi
nally submitted it, until all the evidence
and all the logic of events convinced us that
without reservations the covenant could never
obtain a ratifying majority in the Senate.
Then did The Journal, along with the great
majority of the stanch friends of the League
idea, plead for the acceptance of reserva
tions, even the so-called Lodge reservations,
as the one means of saving the whole benefi
cent plan from rejection. And the Treaty
would have been ratified long ere this, we
are convinced, had it not been for obsti
nate refusal to yield a point in order to
gain a principle. Moreover, the convention
might well have voiced approval of the great
constructive record of the Democratic Admin
istration, a record never surpassed and rarely
equalled in American annals, and have re
joiced in the Administration’s magnificent
work for the winning of the World War.
It was hoped, and rightly so, that away
could be found to place a due proportion of
Palmer meif on the delegation to San Fran
cisco. The places were open to them. But
when the convention leader of the Smith
forces proposed that each of the three can
didates be given representation among the
national delegates in proportion to their
respective strength in county unit votes, the
offer was rejected by the Palmer leadeis, who
contended for the entire delegation under
“Rule Ten.” It is regrettable, we say, that
away could not have been devised for plac
ing a due number of Palmer supporters on
the delegation. Yet, how could this have
been done when the Palmer group refused
the places offered them? „ x a
When all is said, the important fact stands
out that the work of the convention on the
more essential matters involved represented
beyond question the views of til® majority 0..
the voters in the preferential primary. Cer
tainly this is true as regards the obnoxious
"Rule Ten,” by which a committee having no
mandate from the people and no real au
thority beyond that of making certain gen
eral primary regulations, sought to forestall
and completely fetter the action of a sover
eign body. The most significant vote in the
entire proceedings of the convention was that
which repudiated this tyrannous assumption
and which, in so doing, clearly voiced the will
of Georgia Democracy. Nor can an impar
tial observer fail to see the convention s fair
ness in the matter of contested seats. ( This
was notably manifest in the case of the Chat
ham county delegation, which was heartily
accredited, the Smith forces voting in its
favor, despite the action of the credentials
committee in rejecting it. Cn the question
of resolutions, the Watson delegates voted
solidly for those to which we have referred,
the Palmer delegates solidly against them,
while the Smith delegates divided, some being
for the resolutions as drawn and others, who
represented the senior Senator’s own views,
being for a cordial acknowledgment of the
Administration’s constructive achievements.
The obvious fact is, however, that the rank
and file of those composing the convention
voted each his own convictions. We may
differ with them, but we cannot deny their
right of free expression.
Nor can it be denied that the net results of
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
the convention represent the majority’s judg
ment fairly arrived at and fairly embodied.
The delegation thus chosen to go to San
Francisco is the only delegation entitled to
represent Georgia Democracy. It is to be
regretted that the Palmer forces did not take
a reasonable and sportsmanly view of the
situation, instead of denying the majority’s
right to govern and moving to send a con
testing delegation to the national convention
in June. We cannot believe that that con
vention will so far ignore precedent and
equity and democratic principle as to give a
moment’s countenance to such a contest. If
unhappily it should, it would injure the cause
of Democracy in Georgia, and injure it be
yond reckoning, without in any wise serving
the party’s national interests. The simple
fact is, as every disinterested onlooker should
know, that these issues would never have
risen, or at least would have been speedily
and amicably settled, had not a little group
accustomed to boss Georgia politics for its
particular advantage insisted upon putting
its selfish wishes above harmony and com
mon justice. From that small and really in
considerable element comes the loudest wail
about "steam rollers” and “political trades.”
The San Francisco convention, we assume,
will not be cozened by this invariable cry of
a defeated minority.
—♦
The Farm Tabor Shortage;
How Can It Be Remedied?
THAT churlish weather is by no means
the only factor in the curtailment of
farm planting appears in the de
crease of some twelve million acres in win
ter wheat. Thus in the grain zone, no less
than in the cotton belt, scales of operation
have been drastically reduced, while in al
most every region and every branch of
agriculture there have been sharp rescissions.
The prevalent reason for this state of af
fairs is an extraordinary shortage of farm
labor. Allured by war-time wages at cen
ters of industry and commerce, multitudes
of rural workers forsook furrow and field,
and have never returned. Unable to com
pete with these puffed and padded rates
of pay, the farmer, as a rule, can procure
only the meagerest help for seed time and
harvest and for the most urgent intervals
of cultivation. Is it to be wondered that
he cuts his planting to the pattern of these
circumscribed means? Or can it be doubted
that unless he is given some sort of relief
the production and supply of agricultural
necessities, which of all material necessi
ties are most important, will be grievously
lean?
In its ultimate aspects 'the problem sug
gests sundry solutions; but its imperative
present is what now must be considered.
There is a rural problem which only
good schools, good roads and domes
tic conveniences will solve. But there is the
other and altogether crucial question of how
to get enough farm labor to make crops in
the season now upon us and how to prevent
empty barns next autumn. “The only thing
that remains to be done,” thinks the Manu
facturers’ Record, "is a vigorous attempt on
the part of all authorities, of all industries,
of all individuals to turn back the tide of
migration from the fauns to the cities and
towns.” And the same observer remarks
that productive efficiency and integrity must
be raised to the point where "it will not
take two men to do what one man did in
the years before the war; in no other way
can so effective a move be made to remedy
the evil of depleted farm labor and inevitably
higher prices and greater scarcity of food
products.” x
Those who urge speedier help than such
readjustments are likely to afford, suggest
that it would be an excellent thing for high
school and college students to give their
vacation period to farm services, and for
city dwellers generally whose time is not
wholly absorbed in essential occupations to
end themselves as far as practicable to the
assistance of the adjacent country’s farmers
during emergency weeks. That such a plan
is not unfeasible, as it at first might appear,
is evidenced in the thoroughgoing success
with which it was worked out in certain
Western States in the war years. With
chambers of comemrce, market bureaus,
agricultural schools, county demonstration
agents and farmer committees co-operating,
many and many a harvest which otherwise
would have failed for lack of labor was
brought bountifully to fulfillment.
Such methods, it scarcely need be said, are
but makeshifts. Yet makeshifts are incom
parably better than nothing when our fun
damental industry is imperilled for want of
hands to sustain it through its critical stages.
Would it not be well for Georgia communi
ties to organize effort upon this line?
The Freight Congestion.
THE country-wide freight congestion,
with its ill effects upon commerce
and industry, can have no perma
nent relief, the carriers insist, until addi
tional equipment is provided. How extensive
and urgent is this need appears from the
statement that at least two hundred and
twenty-six thousand new freight cars and a
proportionate number of locomotives are re
quired to handle the present volume of traf
fic at all satisfactorily.
Mere patches and makeshifts will not fill
so great a gap. A modicum of relief is af
forded .in the action of the Senate Commit
tee on Interstate Commerce extending the
period within which the roads may repay
their loans from the government’s three hun
dred million dollar "revolving fund.” But
obviously there must come an end to this
mode of operation. The Government, as the
New York Journal of Commerce observes,
cannot create capital, but "can only borrow
it from those who own it.” This the roads
themselves can do, provided their securities
are adequate and their resources sufficient
to pay interest rates inviting to the investor.
While the stronger roads are grappling the
problem as vigorously as they can, the weaker,
the Journal of Commerce goes on to point
out, "cannot do much to improve their phy
sical condition until the situation of their
credit is materially strengthened.”
Years ago clear-visioned students fore
glimpsed much of what has come to pass in
traffic affairs. Seeing that industry and de
velopment were going forward at giant
strides while growth of transportation facil
ities kept a pygmy’s pace, they argued that
soon or late we should be facing serious em
barrassment unless this discrepancy was rem
edied. The sudden pressure and heavy wear
of war tasks hastened the event. Under the
tremendous strain of the 1914-1919 period
equipment which long had been growing in
adequate for this busy continent became crit
ically insufficient. So it is we face today
a problem which must be solved with the
utmost expedition, in justice, not simply to
the railroads, but chiefly to the vast indus
trial, commercial and agricultural needs
which are involved, the vast public interests
which are at stake.
Owing to the grain famine in New York,
it is said that horses are being fed rolled
oats. It is not stated whether they roll
their own.—Mobile Register.
High school and college boys who are
wearing overalls should not overlook the fact
that denim is the garb of the University of
Hard Knocks.—Fremont Tribute. ,
MIND AND MEDICINE
By H. Addington Bruce
IN discussions for the benefit of medical stu
dents planning to set up as general
practitioners a singular omission is too
frequently made by their professional ad
visers.
The prospective physicians are rightly
urged to familiarize themselves with mod
ern diagnostic methods. The importance of
laboratory training is duly impressed upon
them. Ability to make regional examina
tions, to practice minor surgery, and perform
emergency operations, is emphasized as pie
requisite to their success.
And all such advice is undeniably excel
lent.
But not often enough is it so much as
hinted to the budding medicos that, for their
own good and the welfare of their patients,
they should make it a point to master the
fundamentals of psychology, particularly the
psychology of the emotions and the psychol
ogy of suggestion. This for two chief rea
sons.
The first is found In the well-established
fact that the great majority of people seen
by the general practitioner are more in need
of mental reconstruction than they are of
medicine.
Many come to him suffering from chronic
headaches, backaches, insomnia, indigestion
and divers other disease symptoms which
are the product of faulty thinking rather
than of any specific bodily disease. Even
truly alarming symptoms may be thus
caused. As Dr. Hugh T. Patrick recently
remarked, in the course of an address to
the Chicago Institute of Medicine:
"To speak of the hyperacidity and gastric
distress of financial insufficiency, the dys
menorrhea of domestic disharmony, and the
tachycardia of industrial futility may sound
incongruous. But sometimes that is what
they are.”
Pills and powders will do sue’ patients
little good. Yet the physicians ignorant of
the subtle effects of emotional states on the
health of the body is apt to put reliance in
pills and powders precisely because he fails
to appreciate the real source of the disorder
he is called upon to treat.
And should he appreciate it, he will still
be helpless if he has failed to acquire, either
intuitively or through systematic study,
knowledge of how to aid his patients to wiser
thinking. This is the second chief reason
for the study of psychology by doctors.
To tell a patient with an emotional dys
pepsia, "Your trouble is imaginary; forget
it,” is a method still fashionable with many
physicians. It only costs them patients with
out doing the patients one whit of good.
Whereas the physician fortified by psy
chological insight can and will guide his
"imaginary invalids” to the health-restoring
haven of sound thinking and emotional con
trol. With the well warranted result that
his reputation will steadily grow and his
sphere of beneficent influence steadily ex
pand.
By all means, therefore, let the doctor who
would achieve the largest possible success
make a study of psychology. Today he cart
readily do so with the help of text-books
written with the needs of physicians special
ly in view.
And should any doctor or prospective doc
tor reading this desire to procure such text
books, I shall be glad to assist him in select
ing them. A letter to me in the care of this
newspaper, inclosing a stamped and address
ed envelope, will bring to its writer a list
of some of the best psychological works for
physicians.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
FAITH
By Dr. Frank Crane
Faith is perfectly practical.
Almost everything real and believed in
aptique days is just as real and believable
today, if we properly define it.
Every god was a symbol of an idea, every
superstition the twisted image of a psycho
logic truth, every creed, however fantastical,
contained a seed of verity, and every custom
was a trait of our eternal nature.
So when we read of a faith that removed
mountains, an orientalism meaning the
formance of the seemingly impossible, that
healed the sick and raised the dead—we un
derstand what?
Simply that men early in the history of the
race discovered that they, by using forces
above themselves and incomprehensible by
themselves, could accomplish the impossible.
The universe is full of forces that we under
stand not one whit. . We cannot tell what
they are nor why. But we can use them.
And that’s what faith is—using what we do
not understand.
Nobody in creation knows what electricity
is, yet we can turn it on and off; nor gravi
tation, yet its pul is our standard of measure;
nor the complicate reactions of chemical af
finity, yet our lives depend on them.
Now the use for reliance upon, and confi
dence in a power we do not understand is the
gist of faith.
The great spiritual leaders have done in
lie realm of spirit what the great inventors
lave done in the field of natural laws.
When Moses said "Thou shalt not kill, thou |
.halt not commit adultery, thou shalt not
car false witness,” he blazed the trail for
juls and marked the pitfalls quite as much
t Jenner showed the way of health by vac
cination or Pasteur and Koch by their dis
coveries. All were poets, poietes—makers—
men who "gave to airy nothings a local habi
tation and a name.”
When Jesus told us to love our neighbor
s ourselves and to do as we would be done
y, He uncovered the great dynamic of so
al evolution, and nidicated the line of prog
-1 out of barbarism into co-operative civili
sation precisely as Watt, Stevenson, Morse
and Edison helped men to a “faith” in steam
and electricity which insures their dominance
of matter.
The supremacy of man in physical fields
by his learning the laws of, and his use of,
a mysterious forces that impregnate mat
sr. And the triumph of man’s spirit is in
is learning the laws of, and his use of, those
vzs, just as real and as accurate, that sway
juls, and make their happiness, and, if
roken, bring them misery.
Faith is simply finding out the facts and
'rces of the universe and going by them,
'’aether these forces and facts be moral,
mental or physical. And "the just shall live
:y fa’th.”
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS
In the old days a poor appetite was a cause
for complaint. Now it is one for thanks. —-
The Texarkanian.
Nothing shows the scarcity of unskilled
labor at this time more than the lack of
candidates for vice president.—Dayton Daily
News.
Uncle Joe Cannon advises young men
against taking more than one small drink
a day. The question of acquiring it.he leaves
to their own resourcefulness. —Toledo Blade.
One is not surprised when a millionaire
who got his money dealing in cold storage
eggs develops a fondness for collecting an
.ti^ugft.—'Roclj Island Argus.
BLOCKADING EUROPE’S
PLAGUES
By Frederic j. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17. —
To consider measures for
making America proof
against the plagues of Eu
rope, Dr. Hugh Cumming, surgeon
general of the public health serv
ice, has called a conference of health
officials from the different states to
meet here this month.
So far, the United States has prac
tically escaped the war diseases now
sweeping Europe and Asia. Dr. Cum
ming and other health experts hold,
however, taat happiness over this
fact should .be tempered with cau
tion. When plagues exist anywhere
the only safety lies in building bar
ricades between them and *our own
shores.
Every port of the United States is
thus protected against European
germs. Quarantine rules form the
barbed- wire entanglements and the
mine fields. United States health of
ficers in European ports form an
intelligence corps which keeps this
country informed as to the presence
and strength of this enemy which is
no respector of covenants of peace.
Steamship lines are tightening up on
health requirements applying to their
passengers. But with it all we are
not invulnerable, and unless a hy
giene and disease prevention cam
paign is waged with infinite care, a
very few war germs may slip past
the health inspectors and find con
genial homes overe here and multi
ply with disastrous swiftness.
Typhus Fever
The diseases most feared by the
public health service are typhus fever
and beubonic plague., especially the
latter. Typhus fever, carried by
body lice, better known as cooties,
thrives where sanitation is poor and
dirt is plentiful. In southern Europe
water and clean clothes are so un
believably scare that conditions are
ideal for the deadly cootie to do its
work. But over here, the public
health service points out, soap and
water are an institution, and as such
are our best home protection against
typhus. There are, despite soap con
sumption on Saturday nights, cooties
at large in this country, which shows
that our boasted cleanliness is not
all that it might be. But ours are
healthy cooties and so are compara
tively harmless.
The United States escaped the war
cootie largely through the thorough
ness of the war department. Sol
diers returned from Europe, and
their uniforms as well, were put
through numerous purifying cere
monies, beginning in Europe, con
tinued on board the transports and
intensified during debarkation and de
mobilization in this country. As a
result, men just back from a disease
infeSted continent were scattered all
over our country, and not a case of
typhus was ever reported as a result
of their coming.
The nearest home of the typhus
carrying cootie, and probably a more
dangerous source than Europe, so far
as the United States is concerned, is
Mexico Revolutions in Mexico pro
duce on a small scale a similar sit
uation to that which now exists in
Europe. Fighting makes it necessary
that soldiers concentrate in camps
and cause civilians to abandon normal
living, thus creating conditions under
which typhus spreads.
The Mexican Menace
Frequent epidemics of typhus in
Mexico are a constant source of
worry to our border states. Several
thousand Mexicans cross and recross
the line every month, and while
health officials are at hand to “de
louse” them every time they come
in, a few undoubtedly get over with
out this formality and proceed to the
mining and lumber camps of the
west, carrying their cooties with
them.
Typhus infected cooties, once set
loose in a country, so distribute
themselves in trains, cars, theaters
and homes that literally nobody is
safe. Moreover, recent figures show
tour out of five cases of epidemic
typhus to be fatal. An apprecia
tion of these two facts will cause
the citizen to agree with the pub
lic health service and the war Re
par tin ent that the typhus cootie can
not be too completely barred from
immigration into the United States,
j plague, the other main
death dealing disease abroad, is more
common in the United States than
typhus. The plague is primarily
a disease of rats, caught by them
from fleas, carrying the infection.
Many Mediterranean ports are now
reported as being infected by rats
suffering from plague. These in
iected rodents are carried from one
country to another o n ships, where
they get ashore and start new out
breaks. If an infected flea gets a
human being the disease is trans
mitted to him. In view of increased
activity in trade, the health officials
are much worried over the prospects
of ships carrying plague infected
rats into our ports.
RAT DISTRIBUTION
It is estimated that there is one
rat to every person in the world,
but the rodents do not seem to be
equally distributed. New Orleans,
for instance, has more than its
share, and, for six years, has been
lighting plague because of them. In
-t <. ,ie ‘■iiiipaign has destroy
ed oyer 1,310,000 rats in that city.
Os these, 496,537 were examined in
laboratories and 353 were found to
be infected. San Francisco also
ha s carried on a war with rats and
with ground squirrels. The latter
animals in addition to rats, arc now
known to be carriers of plague.
Bubonic plague is not so danger
ous as typhus, the death rate being
approximately twenty-five per cent,
but a similar disease caljed pneu
monic plague, recently ap'peared in
Manchuria with a death toll of nine
ty per cent. This deadly complaint
attacks the lungs and is something
like influenza, though it is an en
tirely different disease. It is so
far confined to China.
The east is ( 'said to have been the
origin of a good many of Europe’s
epidemic diseases. China and Japan,
because of overcrowding, have long
had their pest diseases, but Europe
an countries kept them out by watch
ful quarantine. During the war, how
ever, men from all parts of the
globe met in Europe, bringing as
one doctor said, their diseases with
them. The armies did not suffer so
much as did the civilians from these
conventions of germs, for they were
inoculated, and vaccinated and
otherwise protected. Then soldiers
and refugees went back to their
homes and except where precautions
were taken, as by this country, they
carried diseases with them.
Lax governmental conditions in
Europe are having their effect on
the condition of immigrants reach
ing the United States. Before the
war,, immigrants from Russia, for
example, came to this country by
way of Germany, and were sent
through quarantine stations at Bre
men, or Hamburg. Now, this filter is
removed, and we get at our ports
from Russia a higher percentage of
persons suffering from infectious
diseases.
EUROPE DISEASE RIDDEN
There are no reliable figures on
the number of people in Europe and
Asia suffering from plague. Oc
casionally an isolated figure is given
out, like that sponsored by Mr.
Davidson of the Red Cross, which
stated that there are now about 250.-
000 cases of typhus in Poland and
in the area held by Polish troops.
More often the announcement is
simply that “in Rumania tubercu
losis is spreading in an alarming
manner, making its appearance ev
erywhere, in the cities, and in the
country districts.” Europe is not
anxious for the facts to be too def
initely known, but the general situa
tion is well understood.
There is a dearth of medical sup
plies and doctors —one doctor to
100,000 people is a conservative esti
mate in some sections. There is too
little food and this has resulted in
widespread war edema, pellagra, and
other malnutrition diseases. There
are no adequate quarantine meas
ures, so that smallpox and typhus
patients in some places go about
spreading clothes, and new clothes
are expensive or not available at
any price. The causes of European
diseases are well enough known. It
is the remedies that are lacking.
If typhus, or any other war dis
ease should break out in this coun
try, it is believed that our govern
ment health organizations and our
comparatively robust population
would be strong enough to with
stand the attack. At the same time
it is just as well to remember that
the mysterious flu carried bff a
million Americans, and that the
more hygienic and healthy a person
is the less susceptible he is to in
vading germs. _...
SATURDAY, MAY 22, l»20.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
WHO WRECKS THE HOME?
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
< RE women more avaricious
/\ than men?
Are women greedier than
men?
Do women care more for the flesh
pots than men?
Are women more responsible than
men for the increase in divorce and
the decrease in matrimony?
A wealthy bachelor answers all of
these questions with an emphatic
“yes.” He says that woman marry
for money, and that they not only
regard matrimony simply as a meal
ticket, but they demand that it shall
be a meal ticket at a fashionable
restaurant with a smart cabaret, or
else, they quit. He further deposes
that no man with a $5,000 income
can afford to take unto himself a
wife, and says that the reason that
he, and many other unmarried men
he knows, don’t get married is be
cause they can not» find any sweet
domestic young girls who are will
ing to lead the simple life as their
mothers did.
It’s a delicate job to settle off
hand whether women or men are the
home wreckers. To a dispassionate
observer it seems more a question of
individuality than sex. Sometimes
a good man gets a selfish, shrewish,
extravagant wife who makes his do
mestic life a hell on earth.
Sometimes a good woman marries
a brute who turns their home into an
earthly purgatory. Sometimes both
husband and wife are self-centered,
egotistic, intent only on their per
sonal pleasures, and then there is
the sound in that establishment of
crashing china and breaking vows
as they fight it out.
Matrimony has its saints and its
martyrs, • and its victims of both
sexes, but, take it by and large, there
are undoubtedly more women than
men who deliberately and conscious
ly and conscientiously try to make
their marriages a success, and to do
their duty in the holy state.
Men are apt to think that they
have done everything that can be
expected of them towards making a
happy home when they pay the bills,
and that no reasonable woman could
ask for anything more than a wed
ding ring to keep her in a perpetual
state of bliss.
As for the charge that women
nowadays marry only for money,
why, this is the first time in the
whole history of the feminine sex
when a woman doesn’t have to mar
ry for a living. She can make quite
as good a one for herself as the aver
age man can offer her. Dear grand
mama may have looked artless, but
she knew she had to marry her
bread and butter, for in her days the
only honorable work for a perfect
lady was working a man.
Concerning the charge that women
care more for the flesh pots than
men, perhops the sexes break even
there. It is the curse of our civili-
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
According to a statement from
Berlin, minimum imports needed by
Germany for the year ending July
31, 1921, are given in a memorial to
the Reparations Commission as fol
lows:
Food and fodder, 5,500,000 tons;
fertilizer, 300,000; coal, 2,000,000;
mineral oils, 550,000; ores and met
als, 8,500,000; wood, 2,500,000; raw
textiles, 500,000; hides and leather,
150,000; miscellaneous, 1,500,000.
This amounts to 21,500,000 tons, as
compared with nearly 73,000,000 tons
in 1913.
The memorial points out the bane
ful consequences any reductions
would have on tne working popula
tion, as the workers in the above
industries number 8,500,000, who,
with their families, represent one
sixth of the entire population. The
memorial places the total tonnage
needed to import these materials at
13,600,000, or about one-quarter of
that of 1913.
Germany’s pre-war mercantile ship
ping amounted to 4,000,000 tons for
this particular transport, and there
fore at the same ratio for the 1921
imports about 1,000,000 tons of Ger
man shipping would be needed. After
the fulfillment of the Peace Treaty
Germany will be left with only 300,-
000 tons, and she would be obliged
to engage 700,000 gross register for
eign shipping. This, the memorial de
clares, Germany in her present re
duced circumstances would be un
able to do.
A suit to test the power of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
over subordinate local unions was
filed in Pittsburg by Local No. 321,
which has among its members 429
striking employes of the Pittsburg
and Bake Erie Railroad.
Testimony to determine whether
a preliminary injunction should be
issued to prevent W. S. Lee, presi
dent of the brotherhood, from can
celling the local's charter was taken
and the side of the brotherhood was
heard later.
Members of the local testified
that the charter was cancelled with
out the grand lodge giving them an
opportunity to be heard. Almost all
the union members have beneficial
certificates in the order which, they
testified, were forfeited If the order
of suspension were allowed to stand.
The “Iron Parliament,” which is to
regulate the whole of Germany’s
production, sale and foreign trade in
iron and steel, has now been formal
ly constituted. Its headquarters are
at Dusseldorf. The law establishing
it provides that the regulation will
be drganized into two groups—one
for pig iron, ferro-manganese and
ferro-silicon, and the other for half
finished goods, railway material,
form and bar iron, rolling mill prod
ucts. plates and tubes.
The “Iron Parliament” will consist
of seventy representatives of pro
ducers, traders and consumers. In
each of these groups, employers and
employes will be equally represented.
Chicago’s dream of twenty years
came true recently when the Michi
gan avenue link bridge over the Chi
cago rjiver was opened. Ten thou
sand gayly decorated motor cars
swept over the $16,000,000 structure,
which connects the north and south
boulevard systems of the city, after
Mayor Thompson had cut the silken
red, white and blue ribbons stretched
across the north leaf.
The Michigan avenue bridge is the
only one of its kind in the world. It
has an upper and a lower bridge,
which may be operated separately or
together. Statistics concerning the
huge structure are: Clearance from
face to face of piers, 220 feet;
length of span from center of sup
ports, 256 feet; length from end to
end of movable parts, 340 feet;
weight of structure, about 10,000
tons; weight of machinery, including
four 105 horsepower motors, about
500 tons; weight of steel, 4,000 tons
Senator Lodge’s resolution declar- I
Ing the senate’s opinion that the
Northern Epirus, including Corytza,
the Twelve Islands of the Aegean
sea and the western coast of Asia
Minor, should be awarded to Greece,
was adopted at Washington by the
senate without discussion.
According to dispatches from Gen
eva, the popular majority in favor
of adherence by Switzerland to the
League of Nations, in the referen
dum held recently, was 93,720. The
vote in favor of the proposition was
414,600, and the vote against it 320,-
880.
Five queens now are staying in
England. They are Queen Mother
Alexandra and Queen Mary of Eng
land. Queen Victoria Eugenie of
Spain, the former Queen Amelie and
the former Queen Augustine Victoire,
wife of former King Manuel, of Por
tugal.
"Word received at Washington
states that the Georgian ministry
have informed the Allied commission
in Tiflis that Georgia will resist the
Bolshevist advance to the utmost. All
foreign • representatives have decided
to remain at their posts, the state
department was advised today. The
Georgian government, as a precau
tion against Bolshevik activities, has
mobilized all men more than twenty
five years of age and formed a coun
cil of defense. .
zation that what used to be luxuries
have become necessities, and that
our love of comfort and east is
stronge rthan our love of romance.
Blink, the crude fact as we will,
it is nevertheless a fact, that when
we have to pay the price of poverty,
and shabbiness and everlasting seif
denial for love, and the possession o”
a mate and children, and home, we
balk at the bargain. And men balk
more than women do, for men care
less for love, and children and home
than women do.
The bachelor with an income that
enables him to go in good society and
live in luxury does a little figuring,
and ascertains that what is plenty
for one is scant rations for two, to
say nothing Os a possible four or
five.
He has his pretty rooms, artisti
cally furnished. He can afford a lit
tle car, perhaps. He belongs to a
good club. He dresses well. He Is in
demand for, dinners, and theaters,
and week-end parties in the homes
of the rich, for the man who is not
tagged by a superfluous woman is a
jewel above price to hostesses.
If he marries all of this must be
sacrificed. He must live in a small
flat, oi- a suburban cottage. He must
furnish it cheaply. His wife must be
a domestic drudge. She must dress
shabbily, as he must. He will be
asked no more to the fine homes
where his bachelorhood was his card
of admission.
Such being the case, Is It any won
der that he takes a long, lingering
look at the, cakes and ale of his sin
gle estate before he gives them up?
And then decides to hang onto
and let matrimony go.
But when the bachelor doesn’t
marry it isn't fair to lay the blame
on the girls, and say that they de
mand too many luxuries. No man
really considers the woman when he
makes his decision to stay unwed.
He is considering his own tastes and
comforts. He is thinking of his own
back and tummy.
Far more women would take the
/•isk of poverty for the sake of love
than men, but they never have the
opportunity to show that they put
sentiment above an automobile, and
would rather go clothed in romance
than in silk attire. Men don’t give
them the chance. The men don’t pro
pose and, after all, it is they who
settle the matrimonial question. The
most sentimental and least grafting
girl in the world.can’t drag a man
to the altar against his will.
No. Bachelors must find some bet
ter excuse for staying single than
that girls won’t marry any man who
isnt’ rich. I dare, and double dare,
any one of them to put the matter to
proof by proposing to the next nice
young woman he fancies—but doesn’t
ask to marry him.
Dorothy Dix’s articles will appear
in this paper every Monday, Wednes
day and Friday.
Evidence which the authorities say
involves more than 10,000 persons in
New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
states in violation of the national
prohibition law was gathered in a '
raid recently on the Tropical Food
Products company.
Hundreds of cases of malt, several
barrels of hops and thousands of
prescriptions said to give instruc
tions on how to make home brew
with a high alcoholic percentage were
confiscated by raiding prohibition
enforcement officers. Books of the
company, in which are said to be re
corded the names of thousands of
persons who have purchased home
brew outfits, also were taken.
The net income in 1917 from the
great estate of the late Marshall
Field, of Chicago, was 54,425,912. The
net income from that same estate,
with its accumulations in 1919, was
only $2,772,000, which was the sum
left after a federal income tax of
$3,000,000 had been paid.
Emma Goldman, radical leader de
ported to Russia with Alexander
Berkman and others on the soviet
“ark” Buford, has found it difficult
to acclimatize herself in the land of
her birth and is “homesick” for the
United States, according to a letter
from her to Dr. Ben L. Reitman, long
her friend, made public in Chicago.
The letter was dated Moscow, March
the Bth.
“I miss America. I lived there
thirty years, you know,” said Miss
Goldman. “However, if I could at
least hear from those dear to me I
left behind it would not be so diffi
cult.”
Her lack of knowledge of the Rus
sian language and unfamiliarity with
“the new and strange situation” had
kept her from becoming active in so
cial work, she wrote.
“It is very difficult for one of my
age to acclimatize one’s self in a new
country even under the best condi
tions in normal times." , said the let
ter. “But Russia, bled white by over
four years of war and starved by the
blockade, is not a place where one
may hope to take root easily.”
According to news from Budapest
the trials of communists charged
with excesses during the Bela Kun
dictatorship have been delayed by
the elopement of Yolanda Szamuely,
widow of Tibor Szamuely, who com
mitted suicide on the Austrian fron
tier when detected in an attempt to
estape from Hungary last August.
The widow, who was an impor
tant witness, fell in love with a
Rumanian officer who is said to have
aided her to escape when she was
imprisoned. She waS a member of a
noble family, which disowned her
when she became a communist and
married Szamuely, who was known
as Bela Kun’s' executioner.
Word from Tokio reaches us that
the emperor will decorate Colonel
Charles Burnett, military attache of
the American embassy, with the
Third Class of the Order of the Ris
ing Sun, it was announced recently.
President Herr and Vice President.
Osborne, of the Westinghouse Elec
tric company, will be awarded the
Third and Fourth Class of the same
order.
The condition of Dowager Queen
,Alexandra, who is suffering from a
bronchial cold, is causing anxiety,
says the Star, a London newspaper.
The newspaper cites the fact that
Alexandra is now seventy-five years
old, and declares that such a cold
must be considered a serious matter
to a person of her age.
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