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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 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.00 Daily 16c ’7oc 2.00 4.00 ‘->0 Sunday * c 36c .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 deliva.’v. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with/Strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY. Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are b’. F. Bolton; C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall, Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your now address. If on a route, please give the route number. We canr.ot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. Golden Georgia. A PTLY likening present-day Georgia to the Golden West of 1849—a fron tier glorious with opportunity—the Telfair Enterprise adds that no shadow of uncertainty lies on the path of the prospec tor in the agricultural and business resources of this Common'wealth. He is assured, abundantly assured, of taking out gold “in proportion to his energy, labor, capital, or all three.” The very heart of the New South, Georgia is at once a highly developed and a 'wonderfully virgin field of. opportu nity. Ranking fourth among all the States in total farm output, third in' production of meat, second in cotton, and first in the de lectable peach, she still has more than half of her fertile acres unplanted and unhar rowed. A single Georgia acre, intensively cultivated, has yielded as much as four thou sand dollars a year; and, as the Enterprise adds, “profits of three hundred to five dred dollars an acre are rather common.” If examples are wanted, consider these: Georgia is, indeed, a field of oppor tunity. As high as $4,000 a year has been made from an intensively culti vated Georgia acre. Profits of S3OO to SSOO an acre are rather common. A Colquitt county man began farm ing ten years ago, when he was twenty, with no capital. He now owns a 500- acre farm, makes 200 bales of cotton, 50 tons of hay, plants 28 acres in.sweet potatoes, supplies cream from 25 cows to a creamery in Moultrie, sells 100 head of hogs to the packing plant and 15 beeves.- A Chicago man went to Fort Valley a few years ago and went in debt to the. amount of $7,500 for a farm. Eight years later he wrote a friend he had paid off the debt, pur chased over $2,500 worth of live stock, and had built farm houses and bought implements to the amount of $2,000. A Baldwin county farmer began a few years ago as a farm laborer and today he lends $15,000 a year to his neighbors. Story after story of the wonderful achievements of farmers who started in Georgia -without anything at all could be iecounted; some of them too glowing to seem possible. In common wjj.h a large element of the daily and weekly press tire Telfair Enter prise is doing the State excellent service in drawing attention to opportunities of which Georgians themselves are not duly ap.precia tne. Whether measured in terms of agri cultural, industrial or commercial resources Georgia is one of the world’s richest re gions. Let every available force of enter prise and education be turned to her devel opment. 1 fr German Science Wane*' SCIENTIFIC research, once devoutly followed and richly endowed in Ger gaidv ?o? n ?n h S f Sid t 0 have fallen t 0 a be S the war “ThP r Countl 7 since the close of tne nai. The German scientist,” writes a re cent observer, “always underpaid, finds it no longer profitable to experiment on a mere ?ies a unrtPr S rn hat * in many private laborato ries under Government patronage, work has been abandoned.” It is added that the ever ca?s in se?vp P t riC T ° n instruments and’chemi and tn da ™ pen individual initiative and to sharpen the pinch of the eiperiment fL S PU 7k ’ rhese while good as far as they go, can hardly account for the °/- 1 an - lnterest which is nothing if p£h? ear n ly lndGpenden t of the loaves and fishes One cannot imagine Lister going on a. strike’ because of the dearness of test tubes, or Helmholtz leaving his laboratory to cobwebs because of poor pay. Is not the decline of science in Germany to be set down more truly as an effect of th«t general disappointment and depression which followed the collapse of the nation’s puffed up materialistic efficiency? German science, unhappily, was so beholden to German im perialism that when the latter lost its feet the other lost its head and heart. Science for its own sake is admirable; serving for hu man freedom and progress, it is more ad mirable still; but slaving for an oppressive and evil order, it sinks to a mere black art, destined to lose at last the way that is truly scientific, the urge and the light of the quest for truth. Science as represented in its great evangels and explorers is no more materialistic, in the darkening or deadening sense, of that term, than reason and knowl edge a?jd the high passion to know are ma terialistic; on the contrary it moves as a great emancipator of the human spirit. Co pernicus, Gallileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Dar win, James, Lodge—how marvelously have they widened and enriched the outlook, the inlook and the uplook of mankind! German science has lost for the nonce its lance and plume largely because it essayed to be GERMAN science, rather than simply science. Fettering itself to chauvanism, to pride and prejudice and greed, to a theory of life as bigoted as false, it inevitably miss ed the reach and vision with which science at its best is endowed. Maybe we were over estimating the stature and stamina of Ger man science in the years before the war, when we looked with wonder upon its mechanistic achievements and its impressive recipes for “efficiency.’’ Laborious and prodigiously pa tient in research it unquestionably was, and its fruits from these virtues alone have made the world its lasting debtor. Originative it rarely was, nor spacious of mind. Its chief deficiency, perhaps, was the chief deficiency which those qualified to speak lay to Ger- man education in general—an overlooking and undervaluing of the human element. ‘The Germans,” wrote a keen observer years ago, “know more about psychology than any other people on earth, and less about human nature.” Was it not this same hard formalism, this exalting of the letter to the impoverishing of the spirit, that marked Prussianism through and through, making even its military talent of an Inferior order? From Von Moltke to Hindenburg and Ludendorff, German gener als, with few exceptions, trusted implicitly to plans and hardly at all to inspirations. Not one of them true to his type could have testified as did Foch, who said at the con flict’s close: “I do not call it a miracle, but in a supreme moment clear vision is some times given a man compelling him to certain measures of transcendent impor tance. I believe I had such vision in the battles of the Marne, on the Yser, and on ’ March the 26th. 1918. The victorious decision came from the supreme divine Will.” Efficient thinking, it has been said, depends upon knowledge about the subject in mind, persistence in following paths that promise results, readiness'to abandon them when they become mere ruts, and, above all, . a certain discernment or divination in lighting upon the problem’s salient feature or clue. Os these essentials the first is most easily acquired and the last most distinctly a gift. It was the great gift of Foch, as it was of Stonewall Jackson; and as it has been ol all the world’s leaders and lifters, whether in action or in art or in science. It is a gift that thrives on liberty and on taith in things not seen; tyranny and materialism are its Sahara. May we not expect, then, that the Ger many of tomorrow, if she grows in freedom and insight, as we all trust she may, will re vive her zeal for science, a more generous zeal and a more fruitful science than ever her past has witnessed? Let Road tffork Continue. * Sa means of curtailing non-essential industries in the hope of diverting *•labor to the farm, Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio rail road, is credited with suggesting to Secre tary of War Baker the advisability ot sus pending the construction of public highways. It is hard to believe that Mr. Willard means to classify road construction as among non essential industries; yet if he is correctly reported, no other conclusion is possible. It would be almost, if not quite, as appropri ate to suggest the suspension of railroad work of all kinds as to urge the suspension of highway construction, or even its curtail ment. The importance and advantages of good roads aj-e so obvious and so generally ap preciated that it is superfluous to dwell upon them. Every intelligent person knows that the farmers require improved highways to get the products of their farms to the cities, and everyone realizes that without this aid the transportation system of the country would collapse. Improved highways are the rails and roadbed of vehicles other than railway cars and engines. Without them these modern and highly useful agen cies of transportation would be rendered practically worthless. “Those who kept in touch with the le markable services "ot this nature during the war period and the days of railroad conges tion and the recent railroad strike, all real ize that highway transportation proved it self a most helpful auxiliary to the railroads,” remarks the Manufacturers’ Record, of Bal timore, in discussing Mr. Willard’s reported suggestion to Secretary Baker. Furthermore, with the farmers being urged to increase production it is obvious that better high ways will be required for the movement of his products to the markets, and “for this "reason alone it is vitally important that road building should not in the least be inter fered with, but should, on the other hand, be stimulated to the greatest possible de gree as one of the most essential undertak ings in the country.” The railroads, as every one knows, are wholly incapable of meeting present day traffic needs. They cannot perform nor be expected to perform the impossible. The country is confronted by a transportation crisis that is becoming more evident every day. The country must turn more and more largely to highways and waterways in the years ahead. Instead of curtailing road work throughout the country, every possible facility should bj> used to aid and speed up highway construction arid river improve ment. Road building has been developed to a scientific basis in this country. The day is gone when only common labor, such as is adaptable to the farm, is used in highway construction. Skilled labor, for the most part, is required to build the permanent roads that are gaining favor in the United States, and if Mr. Willard’s reported sugges tion were adopted we seriously doubt whether it would accomplish the end for which it is urged. Relatively few of the men engaged in road-building would return to the farm. Showing Dixie io New York. AS an agency for advertising and pro moting the development of the South the Southern States Industrial Expo sition, which opens in New York City on July 15th and continues through September, merits the full-hearted encouragement it is receiving. The exposition will be held at Bronx Park. This attractive show place, we are told, will be converted into a veritable Dixie Highway along •which will be grouped in classified order the best of the staple and manufactured products of the Southern States. The holding of such an Exposition in the nation’s metropolis w’here Southern resources will be displayed for the inspec tion and information of six million people, is a great dnd seasonable enterprise offer ing a rare opportunity to Southern indus tries. New York City being the central market place of the earth, it is hardly necessary to stress the importance of an exposition of the South’s resources and activities woven into a fabric of impressive achievement for the inspection and study of thousands of men from all parts of the world who are seeking locations for industrial plants and others who are looking for new trade con . nections. It is understood that many progressive Southern concerns, equipped to handle na tional and foreign business, have arranged for displays at the Southern Industrial Ex position. They regard the exposition as an unusual agency for effectively advertising and displaying what the South grows and makes. Unquestionably, the enterprise of fers a fine opportunity for pointing the way to new and greater business advantages for Dixie. In an American election we count the re turns. ■' In Mexico thej’ count the remains.— El Paso Herald. As Roosevelt’s political descendants, in title, Johnson and Wood are apparently en gaged in heir-splitting.—Norfolk Virginian- Pilot. If the waste product from sugarcane mills can be utilized for making newsprint, how much will that increase the price oj sugar?- Boston Globe. HAITUAL OFFENDERS By H. Addington Bruce’ MORE and more as research into crime and criminals extends it becomes certain that physical or mental ill health is a dominant factor in the making of many a delinquent. Particular!) is this true in the case of so-called habitual offenders. In fact, so frequently has .disease been found a determining element in the develop ment of the habitual offender that persistent delinquency should be regarded as a signal not for summary sentencing to longer prison terms, but for ordering a rigorous examination by physicians and medical psychologists. The habitual offender may be a normal man or woman, fully responsible for the offenses committed. But the chances are all in favor of abnormality of some sort being present, and usually abnormality of • sort calling for ex pert curative or. custodial treatment. In especial the habitual offender is likely to be found mentallj defective. Let me cite a few facts recently assembled by the national committee for mental hygiene: . ' “Twenty-seven to 30 per cent of the inmates of state prisons throughout the country have been found to be feeble-minded. Thirty per cent of the inmates of training schools, re formatories, workhouses, house of refuge and the like have been found feeble-mnided. “Os three hundred habitually immoral women examined by the Massachusetts vice commis mission, the mental defect of So per cent was so pronounced as to warrant their legal commit ment to an institution for the feeble-minded. “Reports of studies of various groups in connection with the municipal court of Boston showed that 58 per cent of the chronic and habitual drinkers were found feeble minded; 25 per cent of the individuals arrested for lar cepy were found feeble-minded; 30 per cent of vagrants were found feeble-minded. “Os 502 cases studie 4 by the psychopathic laboratory of the police department of New York, 58 per cent were reported to be suffer ing from some nervous or mental abnormality. “In a study of mental defect in Georgia, 34 per cent of -the inmates of the county jails examined were found feeble-minded; 17J4 per cent of the male inmates of the state prison were found feeble-minded, as were 42 4-5 per cent of the women inmates of the state prison farm.” Also it has been established that in numer ous cases habitual offenders are the victims not ot mental defect, but of< mental disease and functional nervous disorders of a character impelling them to anti-social behavior. Others suffer from physical ailments markedly affect ing their power of self-control. Even such a seemingly trivial trouble as dental disease may have a pernicious effect on the behavior. Several cases are on record of habitual drunkards —one a man arrested ninety times for drunkenness—cured of their dipsoma nia by the extracting of abscessed teeth. So that it is the part neither of justice nor of social wisdom to dispose of habitual offen ders by the easy method of hurrying them back to jail. Always they should be given the benelifof physical and mental examinations. . And 1 am happy to be able to add, this is becomin'- increasingly the rule. Though it still is far frqni being the universal rule. (Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspapers.) THE DEAD HAND By Dr. "Prank Crane I on’t ask others to follow me, but I wish to state some radical conclusions which rea son and experience have brought me. As you think and think of things, sometimes you see bottom, you feel that you have found ulti mate rock. One of these bottom and rock truths that for the last few years has been steadily rising from obscurity and taking form and substance in my mind is this, al lowing, of course, a certain per cent of error alloy to be found in every generalization: “That all endowment, except that of the state itself, is wrong.” There may, as I say, be error, in this state ment, but, so far as I have been able up to the present time to follow the theory into its particular bearings, I have found no place where it breaks down. Os course, we exclude any consideration as to whether or not it is practical to abolish endowments, for no reasoning can be honest that is tainted with any consideration of use fulness or expediency. When we think we must as konly one question: )What is true? It is only when we do that we ask: What is possible? Pure reason, therefore (and that always means in the end the firmest justice and the kindest humanity), it seems to me, strikes right at the root of the question, and de mands that no man have the right to control* money or property of any kind after he is dead. This would abolish, first, inheritance. All your economics, your capital and labor wrangles, and your other efforts to bring about any semblance of justice among men, are mere scratchings on the surface. The central, fundamental and root of injustice is or one child to be born into the world to privilege of any money kind. The only an swer to this that seems of weight is that it will take away the motive of energy from men, because now men work for their chil dren. To which the reply is, that to work so that one’s children have an unearned (by them selves) advantage over other children is an unsound and unrighteous motive. It is a variation of personal egoism. It is anti-al truistic, hence immoral. The very basis of any true state is that each child born shall have an equal chance with every other child. It may be visionary and millennial and all that, but it’s true, and it makes no differ ence to a truth whether it is used now or in a million years from now; it remains true all the time. * Americans think oldiworld hereditary cas tles, kingships, and nobilities are cruel and wicked: they think aright; they don’t half realize how rightly they do think till they go to the Old World and see; but Americans have only half removed the curse as long as they legalize the w’orst and most potent form of irrational privilege, the control of money by the dead hand. (Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.) QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES “What do you think about my engage ment to Harold?” asked Gwendolyn. “I think,” replied her father, “that I am getting to be the senatorial branch of this family. My advice and consent are consid ered only when it’s too late for them to make any difference.” And to think that these costly pommes de terre were carelessly spoken of in other days as “spuds.”—Boston Herald. Perspiration rolled down his brow as he desperately chewed his pencil and stared va cantly down at the blank sheet of paper be fore him. It was the final examination of his senior year at college. To fail in it meant that he could not graduate; that he would be disgraced; that his whole life would be ruined. Shudders involuntarily passed through him as he realized that he was a rank failure. The paper of the man on his left lay in vitingly before his eyes. But he did not glance at it. One could plainly see that he was struggling valiantly against temptation and, though the effort was heartrending, he would sacrifice everything for the sake of honor. No, he would not copy from the man on his left. The man on his right knew more. WHO WILL FILL THESE BIG JOBS? By Frederic J. Haskin , NEW YORK, May 19. —Wanted by» Big Business: Young men who are capable of earning from $15,000 to $35,000 a year. While this announcement hag not yet appeared in the classified col umns of our prominent dailies, it is an idea which Is advanced at every large business convention occurring here, and one that is being given wide circulation by rotary clubs. There is a demand for resourceful, enterprising men,'capable of .striking afield and the sky is the limit in salary. The truth is that Big Business is in a pathetic plight. Never before has it suffered from such an acute shortage of high-priced experts. Never before has the top of the American industrial ladder been so empty of eligibles. The gap is so large, in fact, that it is even pre dicted that our industries will have to stop expanding unless the brains and executive ability needed to de velop them are somehow produced. In its terror of such a calamity, Big Business has recently approach ed the universities and offered to endow whole sections of them if they will only turn out the kind of ability that is needed. Just what this ability is has been only vague ly set down, but it is understood that various industries are collabor ating in the compilation of a list of specifications for the types of men needed, and this will be distributed among educational Institutions. LIKEABLE MEN Heading this list, undoubtedly, will be personality. This is the principal requirement in a high priced man, and most of the trouble lies in the fact that there is not nearly sufficient personality to go around. The man of great personal magnetism, with the ability to make others like him and to exert an in fluence over them is the man for whom American industry is now in the market. • “The ability to handle men,” said John D. Rockefellei' some years ago, “has become just as “much a market able commodity as is sugar, and I will pay higher for it than anybody else i nthe world.” Well John D. was a pioneer but today finds him self surrounded by competitors, all bidding high for the same qualities. Another urgent requirement of in dustry is technical skill, supplement ed by creative ability. It wants technical men, with ideas; men who are capable of improving upon old methods and of developing new proc esses. These are the principal needs, but several others will doubtless be sub mitted to the universities, .which have announced themselves willing and anxious to co-operate with in dustry in supplying the kind of training it wants. This arrange ment was discussed and agreed up on at a recent conference held in Philadelphia under the auspices of the Technology Clubs associated, which was attended by representa tives of more than a hundred corpor ations throuhout the country and of more than three hundred educa tional magnates been so chummy. It was at this conference that Dr. Hollis Godfrey, president of Drexel institute, conceived the specifica tion idea. SPECIFICATIONS WRITTEN “Educational waste has been go ing on for centuries,” he declared, “because there never has been a definite statement or specification written by industry of the specific knowledge required to meet Its needs The colleges and industry have been working along different lines. It Is here proposed to carry out a plan of co-operation to eliminate that waste by giving industry an opportunity to state its needs’ and the colleges an opportunity to state their capaci ties te meet these needs.” . This challenge was eagerly ac cepted by many of the corporation magnates present, who immediately began pouring a mournful account of their unobtainable requirements into Dr. Godfrey’s sympathetic ear. “First of all,” complained the pres ident of a great shipbuilding corpora tion, “the colleges do not teach a man how to sell himself. Too often tney turn out sliding rules rather than hu ,man beings. Their graduates are highly trained technicians. They know their own jobs, but they don’t know how to handle men. - “Not a thing is done in the col leges, for example, to teach a man whom to slap on the back, whom to take by the arm when he meets him in the corridor or walks down the street with him. I believe that this ability represents about 99 per cent of- what is necessary for the success of an executive, and knowledge of detail represents the other 1 per cent. Sell Yourself “It all simmers down to the ability to sell one’s self to the head of the corporation to get a job, and to the men working under one, to hold it. The maintenance of proper relations with subordinates makes all the dif ference in the world. If one knows enough about human relationship to make men trust him and believe in him, they will work for and with him. This personal co-operatiqn may mean a difference of 10 per cent in production and this may turn losses into handsome profits. All the tech nical training in the world will not do it without a knowledge of men and human beings.” In a word, what is needed in the colleges is a course in human rela tionships, or- possible, one on the eti quette of back-slapping. In addition to knowing the technique of his pro fession, (he college graduate of the future must cultvate the art of good fellowship. In order to gain his diploma in this course, he must pass the personality test. A brief glance at the great indus trial and commercial world which centers about New York does seem to show that all of the top-notchers have well developed this essential ability to handle men. Among our personal acquaintance, for example, is a man who is holding a $30,000-a --year job in a large steel plant. Be fore the way he was an office execu tive earning $3,000 a year. While holding this position it was noticed by his colleagues that he did very little work, and they used to “rag” him concerning the ease with which he drew a “pension.” One day, one young man, waxing more mirthful than usual over the situation, suc ceeded in arousing the office execu* five’s wrath. The Power of Direction “If you were a man of any percep tion whatsoever,” he declared coldly, “you would realize that it requires a great deal more ability to make people work for you than to do the work yourself.” X The potency of this remark was proved a short time later when American industry began its tremen dous war expansion, during which the demand for trained office execu tives became clamorous. This man was quickly grabbed by a shipbuild ing concern at a salary of $7,500 a year, and since then he has been fairly leaping up the industrial lad der. Another case in point Is the head of a large automobile corporation here, who declares that he does much less work now at $50,000 a year than he did when he was struggling along for $5,000. And to listen to his con versation you would imagine that he earns his salary by having as good a time as possible. It gives you the impression that his chief occupation is playing golf, lunching at the Lotus club, and dining at the Plaza and Biltmore with the firm’s employes, and the rest of the time he apparent ly passes in consultation with his tailor, adding to the ever-increasing grandeur of his appeal. In fact, to a newspaper person who has to make himself agreeable to all sorts of cranks, it sounds delight fullv simple—this business of filling a $15,000-job—but there must be a great deal more to it than appears on the surface: otherwise, the colleges would not be so bewildered as to what it is that American industry and commerce want. “You look very sad, little boy,” said the old lady. “Can I be of any help to you?” The little boy who had been read ing stories of the kind usually found in “penny dreadfuls.” struck an at titude and exclaimed: "Hist, woman! Thou canst be of signal service to me, an’ thou wilt. See’st yon tobaccy store across the way? Take this bronze coin and bid the scurvy knave within to supply thee with two cigarettes and a match! Be secret and betray me not or thy life shall pay the penalty! I .will await thee here. Begone!” DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON Parental Vanity The World’s Highest Paid , Woman Writer BY DOROTHY DIX THE ultimate expression of hu man vanity and egotism is the desire parents have to make their children replicas of themselves in body, mind and soul. If you want to hand out a choice tid bit of flattery to any father and mother, all that you have to do is to tell them that their little Johnny and Mary are heir living images. They simply gulp it down and ask for more. Father will puff out his chest, and beam with joy as he opines that he guesses that Johnny is a chip off of the old block, and mother will bridle and smile ar;d say that Mary certainly does look like her baby pictures. Yet father may be bald-headed, and knock-kneed, and bay-windowed and homely enough to stop the clock, and mother one of the sandy-haired, freckled-faced, pug-nosed, slab-sided ladies who are hard on the eyes, and constitutionally unfitted for the vamp business. • You would think they would sue any one for libel and defamation of character who would accuse their helpless son and innocent little daughter of even remotely resem bling them, and that the least that the slanderer of defenseless infants ■would get off with would be assault and battery. But nothing of the kind happens. Instead of the ugly and malformed hoping and praying their children will look like anybody else on earth but themselves, they are tickled to death to have Johnny inherit their spavined legs, or rabbit upper lip, or protruding teeth, and for Mary to have wished on her invisible eye brows, and a sal eratus biscuit com plexion. Parental self-conceit even goes a step farther, and gloats over chil dren reproducing their very faults and vices. How often you will hear a father boast that he can’t control Johnny because Johnny takes after him in being determined to have his own way at any cost! Or mother will say with pride that Mary has a quick temper just like she has! If the children copy their parents’ weaknesses all is forgiven them. It is only when they strike out on original sin lines that father and mother bring them to book. It is to parental vanity that we owe the perpetuation of hideous Christian names, generation after generation. If father had parents who were cruel enough to saddle him with some name that makes him shudder every time he hears it—he doesn’t say this outrage shall go no farther. I’ll stop it right here. No. He brands his oldest son with it, and never forgives his daughter-in law if she refuses to continue the curse on her first born. How any man or woman could af flict a poor little, helpless infant with their own harsh, hard, ugly, unmelo dious name just to gratify their van ity is something that passes compre hension. They do it, however, and no prob lem is more difficult for a humane young couple to settle than how to protect their offspring from being christened Heprebiah, or Maria, or Ephriam, or Jeremiah without mortal ly offending the grandpa and grand ma whose egotism demands that the baby be sacrificed on the altar of their vanity. It is parental self-conceit that is responsible for nine-tenths of the friction between fathers and moth ers and children. Parents are de termined that their children shall have the same outlook on life, the same tastes and desires and ambi tions that they have. Unfortunately, nature doesn’t always run a family in the same mould, and it not infre quently happens that instead of be ing little understudies of their papas and mamas, Johnny and Mary are cast for exactly opposite roles. CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST The cost of food up to May 1 had risen to 145 per cent above the pre war level, and there is a prospect of its going still higher, said Charles A. McCurdy, minister of food, in an official statement issued in Lon don. Mr. McCurdy, however, declared the price of food in England was still lower than in France, Italy and Sweden, and still it was not much higher than In the United States. According to a statement issued from Budapest, Hungary’s new money, which will bes Issued soon by the Austro-Hungarian bank, will be the most beautiful in Europe. It will be washable and durable, and it will be almost impossible to counterfeit. Bills of larger denominations will be printed on silk paper closely imi tating United States money, the fab ric for the bills being obtained from silk wall paper stripped from old palaces throughout the country. In view of the lack of precious metals, the government proposes to issue small bills, which will be printed on tanned pigskin. The $104,000,000 legislative, execu-, tlve and judicial appropriation bill was passed unanimously by the house at Washington after it had been redrafted by the appropriations committee to meet the objection that led to its veto by President Wilson. The president, in his veto message, held that congress s<mght by a •rider to interfere with executive functions in giving the joint congressional committee on printing supervision of government publications. The bill now goes to the senate. One thousand cases of whisky, said to be worth $125,000, was seized by Federal officers at Delaware, near Columbus, 0., and brought to Columbus. Drivers of seven motor trucks on which the liquor was load ed, exhibited papers purporting to show that the whisky had been shipped from Frankfort, Ky., to Sum mit Hill., Pai Investigation of the papers is to be made here. Many lives are reported lost and millions of dollars damage done to property in numerous outbreaks in China because the soldiers have not received their pay, according to a London Times dispatch from Pekin. Japan has ceased to furnish funds, and the Chinese government com plains that it is without resources to pay the troops. Draped with the American flag. 154 coffins containing the bodies of soldiers, sailors and marines who died overseas, arrived recently on the navy transport Nereus, which docked at the Supply Base, foot of Thirty-fourth street, Brooklyn, N. Y. The bodies were those of 102 sailors, twenty naval officers, thirty enlsted marines and two marine of ficers. Syracuse newspapers recently pub lished the following announcement: “On account of a shortage of print ers the three Syracuse newspapers are compelled to issue editions great ly reduced in size. “A newspaper’s' first duty is to its readers, and therefore the aim is to publish all the news and features. By necessity all display advertising must be eliminated. The newspapers will publish onlj' classified adver tising now standing in type, death notices and legal advertising.” The shortage of printers is due to the fact that they are quitting their posts after their demand for a week ly bonus of $8 was refused. They are bound by contract not to strike. After providing for an appropria tion of $40,000,000 for the army air service, an increase of about $13,- 000,000 over the house bill, the sen ate military committee, at Washing ton, ordered the annual army appro priation bill favorably reported to the senate. As finally agreed upon, the bill carries $418,919,141, an increase of $42,153,317 over the house measure. No changes were made by the com mittee in the house provisions relat ing to the national guard. An appro priation of $10,210,000, an increase of $2,000,000 over the house bill, was provided for the ordnance depart ment. The appropriation for the military intelligence bureau was in creased from SIOO,OOO to $400,000. Then you hear wild lamentations about ungrateful and unflllial chil dren, and children who are disap pointments to their parents, and par ents beat upon their breasts and cry out that their hearts are broken, while, in reality, it is only their van ity that is wounded. Father simply can’t stand it that Johnny won’t go into the hardware business when he had planned for Johnny to be a hardware king ever since Johnny was in pinafores. He tiftnks Johnny a young idiot and r.u account because the boy hasn’t inher ited his head for trade, and the fact that Johnny has talents of his owu doesn’t in the least atone for his lack of business ability. “If my son isn’t a rubber stamp of me, he’s bound to be all wrong” is the conclu sion that parental vanity offers to the average man. And when you hear a mother sigh and say that her daughter has been such a disappointment to her, nine times out of ten all that is the mat ter with the girl is that she isn’t the exact counterpart of what mother is, and mother’s self-conceit is hurt. Perhaps in her youth, mother was a fluffy ruffles girl, whose mind was cut on the bias and ruffled in the middle, and whose idea of bliss was unending parties with pink chiffon dresses, and beaux two deep hanging around her. , . Some freak of fate has made this canary bird hatch out an owl. Her daughter cares nothing tor looks, or clothes. She loathes parties, and she was elected an* old maid in the cradle by the unanimous vote of every man she ever meets. Her only interest is in serious things. Her happiness in study and work. An admirable girl. A model char acter. Yet her mother could forgive her every frivolous sin easier, than she can the girl being different from herself. For to mother’s mind the<re is but one perfect type of what a young girl should be, and that is to be the sort of a gh’l she was. And what is all of this cry about children not taking their parents ad vice, except that father’s and moth er’s bump of conceit has gotten hit. Every father and mother feels per fectly capable of settling their chil dren’s fate for them. They would do this by the simple rule of having their sons and daughters do as they did, notwithstanding that they have made no conspicuous success of lite, and have not been distinguished for the soundness of their own judg ment. ■ ~ The reason sons are so seldom willing to wonk for father or go in to business with him is because father’s vanity will not let him ac cept a suggestion from his-own child. The reasons mothers and daughters in-law fight like cats when they try to keep house together is because mother will not agree to any new methods. She is so supremely and egotistically sure her own way ot doing things is the only infallible W Parents make their vanity a stand ard ethics. They decide conduct by their own inch rule personal meas ure. Mother doesn’t know what girls are coming to when they do things she never did and wear clothers she never wore when she was a girl. Father is sure, all the boys are headed for perdition be cause he didn’t act as they do when he was young. And mother and father forget m their self-complacency that they do not know it all —that to each generation comes a new standard, and that, as a matter of fact their children do not admire them quite as much as they admire themselves, and would not b£ exactly like them ii they could. . ~ . “Vanity—of vanities, sayeth the preacher, all is vanity. And there is no vanity so monumental, so com plete, so’ all encompassing, as the vanity of the old. Dorothy Dix articles will appear in this paper every Monday, Wed nesday and Friday. The Rev. George Jones, of Camer on Terrace, L. 1., one of five men still Hving who took part in the charg -> of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in the Crimean war, told his recollections of Florence Nightin gale in a talk at an observance of the centenary of Florence Nightin gale at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. The Rev. Mr. Jones, who is 85 years old, said that he was ill in a hospital near Balaclava when he first met the famous nurse. She took care of him, prayed for him and convert ed him to Christianity. It was under her influence, he said, that after the war he became a preacher. “She went from cot to cot with a word of cheer for each soldier,” he said. !‘She wrote uetters home for us. She prayed with us. We often wondered when she got any sleep. She was worshiped. The men would kiss her shadow on the wall. I have her picture on my desk and I often take it down to gaze on it. I shall neve* forget her.” The board of estimate accepted the proposal of Mrs. Isaac L. Rice and family, of New York, to erect and present to the city a million dollar stadium,' athletic field and play ground to be the Isaac L. Rice Me morial in honor of Mrs. Rice’s late husband. To overcome objections of persons who are opposed to the erection of buildings on park prop erty the board decided to acquire for the city a site adjacent to Pel ham Bay park, the original proposal having been to erect the memorial in that park. The board named Comptroller Charles L. Craig, Henry Bruckner, president of the Borough of the Bronx, and F. H. La Guardia, presi dent of the board of aidermen, as a committee to confer with the Rice family regarding plans. Henry B. Herts, architect of the memorial, said he believes enough of the memorial can be completed to make it feasible to open it to the public next Labor Day. Seizure by internal revenue agents of all material “designed to be used in the manufacture of alcohoic liquors” has been ordered b S. R. Brame, Federal Supervising Prohibi tion Agent for the Southern division at Roanoke, Va. Mr. Brame’s orders stated that "not ony are materials such as sugar, grain, molasses and malt in gredients to be seized, where suf ficient reasons exist for the belief that they will be.used in the produc tion of illicit alcoholic iquor, but that suspicious shipments also are to be detained.” HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS 'LOW HE hate |T' PREACH A WEEK-El> ■MANS FUNE'AL , CASE HE CAINT SAY MUCH Good BOUT 'IM z BUT DEY S SOME FOLKS HITS JES' A PLEASURE T' PREACH dey fune'al!! / A \\ V - i&W Copyright, 19?j»i;y McClure Newspaper Syndicate