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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) IWk.lMo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. 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IN their movement to redress the grave injustice done the South in the omission of Confederate names from the Arling ton memorial amphitheater, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and other lead ers in this high effort merit full-hearted sup port from the common country. For it is not the South alone hut all America that would be wronged if in a building designed to honor the' nation’s warriors from the days of Lexington and Concord to Chateau Thierry and Argonne Wod there should be no ref erence to the heroes who fought beneath the Stars and Bars. Their valor, their genius, their knightli ness, though peculiarly sacred to Southern folk, are the heritage of all America. Their achievements are the marvel of all readers of history, abroad as well as here, and are still the basis for essential military studies throughout the world. It is not simply the sentiment of the Soutjj but the judgment of informed and thoughtful minds everywhere that history holds few soldiers the peers of Stonewall Jackson, and no character more noble than Robert E. Lee. To omit names like these from a shrine of the republic’s soldiership would be egregiously foolish as well as unjust. Indeed, it seems inexplicable, save on grounds of a strange misunderstand ing of Congress’ spirit and purpose in pro viding for the memorial, that the commission charged with selecting names for entablature should have failed to include representatives of the Confederate armies. In this day and time, when two generations of Southern youth, sons and grandsons of Confederate sires, have swarmed to battle under the Stars and Stripes and given their lives by gallant thousands in its defense, we cannot conceive of a sectionalism so churlish and ignorant as to deny the Old South’s chieftains their sim ple due. The astounding fact is, however, that the memorial amphitheater has. been construct ed and dedicated, with never a tablet or line to those deathless names. Naturally the Daughters of the Confederacy and other pa triotic institutions in the South, together with unnumbered individuals, are protesting; and just as naturally multitudes of right-minded, right-hearted Americans in other regions share the feeling. It is beautifully significant and altogether appropriate that Representa tive Sherwood of Ohio, a distinguished veter an of the Union army who fought in more than thirty battles and who is now eighty four years old, has introduced in the House a resolution calling for rectification of the wrong which has been done the South and the common country. A similar measure has been introduced in the Senate- by Senator Overman, of North Carolina. The matter is being urged with the ear nestness of deep conviction and high pa triotism; and it should continue to be urged until justice is forthcoming. Better Times Are Pro mis ed South O] the Rio Grande. IT is a frequently observed and highly en couraging circumstance that the leaders of the new movement in Mexico are manifesting careful regard for the lives and interests of foreigners. This policy is the more noticeable and refreshing because of its rarity under the fallen regime. Carran za was never friendly to Americans and sel dom so to any others who came to cast their lot with his country, unless they bore the stamp of Berlin. In the war’s crucial pe riod, when other Latin American republics were taking a gallant stand with the United States for justice and democracy, he was undisguisedly pro-German. This was but one exhibition of the short sightedness and perversity which character ized hik administration and brought Mex ico’s affairs into so grievous a tangle. Wheth er the fault lay yith Carranza himself or with his associates or in the temper of the times (and it must be admitted that these were greatly to his disadvantage) the fact remains that the years of his rule were al most as barren of progress as were those of the internal war and confusion from which he rose to power. There was no encourage ment to the country’s liberal and construc tive minds to cooperate with the so-called Government at Mexico City, nor was there any responsiveness in that quarter to the good will of the United States. Constructive undertakings, if lucky enough to get even a start, had to fight their way against sand blind politics. Banditry went uncontrolled and well nigh unchallenged by the Federal authorities. Foreign investors, even those of the worthiest and most substantial type, had scant assurance of bare justice, much less a heartening friendliness, from the powers that were. From such a regime next to nothing was to be hoped for, and assuredly nothing to rejoice in was forthcoming. While it is yet too early to gauge the strength of the newly mustered forces or to predict how well their several leadings will accord, nearly all reports agree that the prospect is distinctly brighter than it has been for many a day or for many a year. So informed and conservative an institution as the National City Bank of New York declares concerning the outlook: “It is safe to say that in spite of difficulties which may follow the attempts of the reactionary ele ment to maintain itself in power, the even tual condition of Mexico will certainly be better within six months than it has been in many years. Mexico has a patriotic and highly educated group of citizens rea- THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. lize that no nation lives to itself alone, and that if Mexico is to prosper and develop it | must take its place among the other nations . that extend a hospitable hand to outside en- j ergy, ideas and capital. This is plainly the group who are directing the revolt against the selfish and mediaeval policies of Car ranza and his backers, whose chief sport consisted in baiting foreign enterprise and capital and of placing all possible obstacles in the way of any enterprise which was not for their own particular benefit.” If the patriotic and constructive forces make common cause, times incomparably better than those of the last turbulent dec ade may be expected south of the Rio Grande. The clouds will not clear in a day, nor the heritage of long misrule be overcome with out years of wise and loyal effort. But with the safeguards and incentives of even fairly efficient government, provided it be it the same time just, a country so wondrously en dowed as Mexico is certain to prosper and to take her place among the friends of liberty and light. The United States is abundantly recom pensed for having been patient and sympathe tic with the trials of this unhappy neigh bor. Now that a friendlier order of things is promised across the border, we can well afford to continue a magnanimous policy. An Interesting Suggestion for The Democratic Nomination. WHEN a newspaper as great, as well poised, and as free from political op portunism as the New York Times suggests a candidate for the presidency of the United States, the country is sure to listen with uncommon interest. For in this nation serving Journal which, while Democratic in disposition, is independent of all parties, the public recognizes an exponent of America’s soundest and, In the long run, most influ ential thought. The Times, as any observer will grant, is not given to chasing band wagons or to tippling on sudden enthusiasms. It thinks before it writes, and writes what it really thinks. Naturally, then, tliera will be a deal of consideration over its recent editorial urging upon the Democrats, “the name of a man” "whose distinguished ability and stand ing are attested by the high honors he has already received from the party, a man who is qualified not only to pass the tests and challenges of a trying cam paign, but to discharge with credit to himself and with advantage to the country, the duties of the Presidency. We mean John W. Davis, at present Ambassador to the United States at Lon don.” Those qualified to judge agree that Mr. Davis is among the ablest and altogether most admirable Americans of the time, pro found in his understanding of the nation’s laws and institutions, devoted to her high est interests and honor, an executive of ex traordinary grasp, a thinker of extraordinary breadth apd penetration. A West Virginian by birth, he graduated from Washington and Lee University, was admitted to the bar in 1595, and in his twenty-sixth year be came a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. In 1910 he was elected to Con gress from the First West Virginia district, being the first Democrat in fourteen years to carry that steel-ribbed Republican strong hold. His record in the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congress is at once brilliant and His was a notable part in the great legislation of those years, and rarely equalled is the ease with which he found favor and Influence among his colleagues, from the newcomers to the grayest veterans. Mr. Davis resigned from Congress to become Solicitor General of the United States. In 1918 he was chosen as American commis sioner to arrange for the exchange of war prisoners and for the amelioration of their treatment. Soon afterwards he was appointed to the Ambassadorship he now holds, the most distinguished and important place in the nation’s diplomatic service.’ Thus experienced in the nation’s domestic and foreign affairs, he impresses the Times as a candidate sure to command great strength in his party, even beyond the lines of his party;-as a man who, if elected, would bring to the executive of fice high qualifications of character, learning, cultivation, long experience in public affairs, full knowledge of the pro cesses of the Government and personal qualities that have won for him the friendship, confidence and admiration of all with whom he has been associated. We express an opinion widely shared in this country when we say that John W. • Davis is a great man, a great American, a great Democrat. The Democratic paity would immensely strengthen itself in the confidence of the country by giving its nomination to a man of his mental sta ture, his statesmanlike amplitude and qualification. Thoughts like these were rising, no doubt, in many minds before the Times articulated them so cogently. In the dissensions and weakening compromises to which the Repub lican party seems fated, keen observers see large hopes and large opportunities for Democracy, provided a leader to whom the rank and file of Americans can confidently turn is nominated at San Francisco. The suggestion of John W. Davis in this connec tion will at least arouse high interest. The Immigrant Tide Turns Toward These Shores Again. AFTER ebbing to a mere trickle in the last year of the World War our im migrant tide gives signs of rolling strong again. Arrivals at the port of New York recently aggregated upwards of ten thou sand for a single week, at which rate a twelvemonth’s total would exceed half a mil lion. This, of course, is far below the pre war average, which in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1914, reached one million, two hundred and eighteen thousand, four hun dred and eighty. ' Those figures are not likely to be approx imated in the near future, even though we should loosen restrictions to their old lax ness. Five summers of fighting and four winters of beggarly feeding served to reduce the sources whence America’s immigrant flood was wont to'pour. It is not improbable, moreover, that several European govern ments would prohibit departures if the out flow became as heavy as in years gone; for whereas aforetime each emigrant meant sim ply one mouth less to feed, each now means one less pair ot hands to work or to help supply the yawning tax till. Authorities be lieve accordingly that insofar as excess’ in numbers is concerned, our immigration prob lem will be much simpler than hitherto. Nevertheless, there is need of well consid ered measures against the admission of un desirable aliens, of whom multitudes are said to be awaiting a chance to sail for these shores. Surely, our recent experience with anarchistic and morally irresponsible types should make us exceedingly careful in the future. Nor should we ever go back to the short-sighted policy of admitting immigrants by hundreds of thousands and millions re gardless of whether the country is able economically to assimilate them and to ab sorb them politically. This is not to imply that the gates should be shut against those who will add to the nation’s productiveness. If there is one out standing material need in this country totjay it is the need of willing and capable work ers. For lack of hands nearly all industries IF YOU FORGET By H. Addington Bruce FREQUENTLY the question is put to me: “What can I do to improve my mem ory? It is treacherous even in regard to important business matters. Details which I ought to remember slip entirely out of my mind, often at serious cost to me, and always at great embarrassment. “There must be away by which I can over come this unfortunate tendency to forget. Can’t you offer a helpful suggestion?” The most helpful suggestion I can offer to those whose memory for business details is weak is to advise them to cultivate a keener interest in their work. Special causes for forgetfulness are, of course, present in certain cases. Some people are forgetful because they are chronically over-fatigued. Others because their brain is poisoned by over-eating. And so forth. But, generally speaking, when a man for gets business matters which he should with out fail remember it is a pretty sure sign that he is not as interested in his work as he might be. Memory power, understand well, is largely dependent on the degree of attention paid to whatever is to be remembered. And atten tion varies directly with the degree of interest felt. Besides which, interest leads not merely to the paying of attention, but to frequent thinking about the things to which attenion is paid. This has a direct and determining in fluence on memory development. As was long ago pointed out by the psychologist Wil liam James: “The ‘secret of a good memory’ is the secret of forming diverse pnd multiple associations with every fact we care to retain. But this forming of associations with a fact, what is it but thinking about the fact as much as pos sible? “Briefly, then, of two men with the same outward experience and the same amount of native tenacity, the one who thinks over his experiences most and weaves them into sy s termatic relations with each other will be the one with the best memory.’’ Obviously, when interest in one’s work is weak, or comparatively weak, there will be scant forming of association links in the mind through attention and reflective thinking about the business details it is important to remember. The mind will busy itself with other things. And if interest in those other things is keen, a surprising memory power for them may re sult, contrasting strangely with the weakness of memory for business matters. Thus, for example, we see many men dis playing almost incredible memory power for the “records” of baseball teams and players, of aspirants for pugilistic honors, of “six-day” bicycle riders. Yet these same men may be quite unable to carry in their minds price lists, business appointments, etc. If then, you are among the habitually forgetful of things having to do with your businss, examine yourself closely with re spect to the interest you feel in that busi ness. If you find —as you are likely to find —that your interests in it is pale and thin, at once set about cultivating a genuine en thusiasm for it. Otherwise all training methods will fail to overcome the memory weakness for which, at bottom, you are yourself responsible. With real interest lacking appreciable memory im provements can never be achieved. (Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News papers.) POPULAR FRENZY By Dr. Frank Crane There is a notion that lingers in the back of many minds, like snow in shaded places in May, that progress comes through “lead ers,” that the world is lifted up by its super men. As a matter of fact, it is pushed up by its common men. Trust the people, believe in the people, give the people a chance to get what they want —this is the only highway to the mil lennium. The idea that the people don’t know what is good for them, that they need to be ruled, protected, managed, whether by a Solomon or a Trotzky, a landed gentry or a proletariat, leads to the ditch of monarchy, caste and eventual ruin. The fundamental principle of democracy is that the people are to be trusted, just as the basic idea of Jesus’ religion was that humanity is to be trusted. The great law of growth is that men are developed by responsibility and by showing them that you have confidence in them. To think that God believes in me does more to make a man of me than to think I believe in God. The only way to make a people worthy of self-government is to give them self-govern ment. The only way to teach a boy to swim is to throw him in where it is deep. Learning to swim, and not going near the water, is a crazy notion. From the beginning “wise statesmen” have vapored about “safeguards” against the peo ple. , In England the house of lords was a great check upon the “folly” of the people, until the commons had to arise and hew the -old humbug in- order to get anything done. Ever since the foundation of this republic a certain class of alleged statesmen have been fearful of popular frenzy and busy erecting bulwarks against it. The very bedrock principle of this repub lic is that if you let the people alone, give them a chance; establish freedom and let them work out their will in their own way, you will get the surest equity. “Popular frenzy?” When did this people in a nation-wide enthusiasm ever do an un righteous thing? It was “popular frenzy” that instigated the Revolution and made this country a na tion in defiance of precedent; that crushed secession and liberated the slaves; freed the coming generation from the saloon incubus; elevated women to citizenship. What re form, what forward step in civilization, ever originated in a- senate or a king’s council? When did the Magnificent Ones ever free a slave or right a wrong until they were kicked to it? The one utterly incorruptible body is the whole people. (Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.) ’ ♦ If anybody complains of this sunful sea son, professing a desire for cooler days, he ought to be consigned to some such ’frozen inferno as Dante saw on his inspection of fickle and ungrateful souls. Give us warm weather, and more of it! are handicapped and operations of vital im portance to the public are sadly curtailed. Nowhere is labor shortage felt more dis tressfully than in the South, whose agricul ture is really suffering for want of tillers and helpers. For several years the farmers of this region have watched with ever increas ing anxiety the approach of seed and harvest times, and have borne the burden of sum mer cultivation with more and more diffi culty. Today the problem is critical; • but unless there is somehow an increase in the number of available hands, it is hard to see how relief will come. Other regions and oth er vocations face similar perplexities. It is of the utmost importance, therefore, that foreign workers of a dependable character be admitted in as large a number and for as long a period as the country’s economic needs and political interests will warrant. INVALID ANIMALS By Frederic J. Haskin NEW YORK, May 22.—T0 the person who is fond of domes tic animals, one of the most interesting places in New York is the hospital and clinic of the New York Women’s League for Animals, down on Lafayette street. This institution is run by the same methods as hospitals for human be ings, even to the operation of a huge, brilliant red ambulance, which brings in several injured patients, mostly horses, every day. New York probably has more do mestic animals in proportion to its population than any other city in the United States; and certainly no oth er city is a more hostile environ me'-- them. Go for a walk in any section of Manhattan in the eve ning, and you find whole battalions of people, gently leading their pre cious toy dogs. Stay home and at tempt to sleep, and you are kept awake by the raucous voices of many cats in the ckyard. The horse is still a conspicuous factor in the city’s delivery service, despite the increas ing use of motor trucks. That the crowded conditions of the city are hard on the health of do mestic animals is shown by the work of this hospital, which treated ap proximately 10,009 animals during the past year. In addition to this, about 14,vu0 animals, received at the shelters established by the league in two city parks, had to be humanely put to death. Dogs Suffer Most Most of the animals treated at the hospital are dogs. Skin diseases and intestinal disorders, which are al most entirely the result of unwhole some city life, are the chief causes ot invalidism in dogs, while a large number are brought in with dis temper. Ruptured eyes are also com mon, and fractured limbs, usually the result of automobile accidents, are everyday occurrences. One such victim was brought ten derly into the clinic by two little boys while the reporter was visit ino the hospital the other day. The clinic, by the way, resembles most hospital clinics, with immaculate white walls and furniture, a case containing dangerous-looking surgp cal instruments, and a glass-covered table for the examination of the pa tients. The little boys carefully lift ed their dog, a rather poor specimen of fox terrier, up on the table, and gazed anxiously at the white-gar .nented veterinary. “Do you think he’ll live?” asked the smaller one, his lip quivering. The veterinary did not answer, but began making an examination of the dog, after muzzling its mouth with a gauze bandage. “Got a fractured leg,’’ he said at length, “and his back is probably hurt . . . can’t tell just yet . . . here you boys hold him like this while I fix his leg.” With one of the boys holding the dog’s neck, the other his uninjured hind leg, and the young lady from the front office grasping him gently but firmly across the ribs, the vet erinary proceeded to bandage the in jured leg with splints. “Now,” he said, turning to the boys, “you’d better leave him here for a few days. He may have an inter nal hemorrhage, and if so you’ll lose him. If he doesn’t, he ought to get along all right.” A Cat With a Cold xhe next case, brought for exami nation in a large valise, was a big maltese cat, with a U.<l case of laryn gitis. The owner, a middle-aged, kindly-faced woman, was very much worried because the cat had not bee,: eating as mUch as usual. "Yo,u probably feed the cat too much,- said the doctor, after jnaking an examination. “It would be much healthier if it were not so fat. What do you feed it?” “Meat and fish and bread,” replied the woman. “Cut out the bread,” said the doc tor, and gave her a box of pills to be fed the cat at stated intervals. “One of the chief causes of ill health among city-bred animals,” de clared the doctor, “is that they are fed the wrong kind of food. Many people think, for instance, that dogs should be fed only a little meat, whereas meat should be the principal item of canine diet. A dog is es sentially a carnivorous animal, and does not thrive as a vegetarian. Pork, of course, is out of the question for dogs, but almost any other meat will do. As a supplement to a strict ly meat diet, dog biscuit is the next best thing. A mixture of beef and dog biscuit is what we feed the dogs here at the hospital. A few fresh vegetables, Such as carrots and spin ach are all right occasionally, but potatoes should never be fed to dogs or to cats. Too starchy. And corn is too hard to digest, although some cats are very fond of fresh corn.” Leaving the clinic, we went down stairs and took a look at the re ceiving station, where the ambulance rolls in from the street with its sick patients. One of these, a horse with a bad case of colic, was in a padded cell in one corner of the room, this being necessary because the intense suffering through colic often causes horses to become vio lent and to kick their stalls down. A Horse Condemned to Die Most of the patients, however, are taken up to the second floor on an elevator and thoroughly examined in the operating room. Foot trouble and nail puncture are the most com mon complaints, while frequently in these days of the high cost of feed, cases of plain starvation are discov ered. One interesting case which came to the hospital not long ago •was that of a big gray horse nearly thirty years old, without a blemish and still in serviceable condition. His owner had worked him for more than twenty years and then retired him to a life of ease, in favor of a motor truck. But the prevailing high prices necessitated retrench ments in the man’s expenses. Un willing to commmit the horse to the uncertainties of a sale, he brought him to the league to be humanely de stroyed. In the cellar underneath the hos pital is the death room, where home less and hopelessly diseased animals are brought and mercifully put to death by electrocution. This is such a quick and painless method, accord ing to the secretary, that “you can not even hear the animal whimper. There is only a thud, and then it is all over.” Before electrocuting a homeless animal, the league first endeavors to secure for it a home. About fifty dogs were placed in country homes by officers of the league during the past year. One of these was a little bull terrier which had spent the two years of its unhappy life in a cel lar. The owner, for some reason, refused to release it to the confines of the backyard, so the league bought the dog and placed it in an excel lent home, where it has a wide lawn to romp over and many cats to chase, far out on Long Island. In addition to the impressive ust of prominent philanthropists who support the free relief to animals administered by the league, many dogs and cats and horses contribute to the welfare of their species. Their contributions are collected through a dog’s, a cat’s and a horse’s brigade, whose membership dues are a dollar a year. Thousands of animals are now enrolled in these brigades, and many of them, belonging to wealthy families, contribute much more than their membership dues to the sub scription boxes of the league. QUIPS AND QUIDDIES Muriel, aged four, was taken by her governess to have her tea with an aunt. Presently she began to eat a piece of very rich cake. “Oh, I just love, this chocolate cake!” she exclaimed. “It’s awfully nice.” “Muriel, dear,” corrected her gov erness, "it is wrong to say you ‘love’ cake, and I’ve frequently pointed out that ‘just’ is wrongly used in such a sentence. Again ‘awfully’ is quite wrong. Now, repeat your remark, please.” Muriel obediently repeated: “I like chocolate cake; it is very good.” "That’s better, dear,” said the gov erness, approvingly. “But it sounds as if I was talking about bread.” protested the little girl. Father —That young roller comes here too often; I want it stopped. Daughter—l’m sure, father, 1 do all I can to discourage his visits. Father —Nonsense! I haven't heard you sing for him once.—Boston Transcript. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1920. DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON Working Girls Have Best Chance to Marry ' The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer BY DOROTHY DIX z , t-v-t E business girls have one , • • \A / consolation even if we I V y do have to earn our own ' bread and butter and jam," said a young woman the oth er day, “and that is that we have practically cornered the matrimonial market, and get the first option on most of the good things in the marrying line. “And let me tell you that is no small thing in these days when men are scarce, and shy at the al tar anyway, and when husbands have passed into the luxury class. “You may suppose that the rich girl who has nothing to do but doll herself up, and look pretty, and sit on the family pedestal would have the best chance to marry. Far from it. Cinderella the Typewriter Queen, has got the Fairy Princess left at the Old Maids’ home when it comes to husband snaring. And not only can the working girl mar ry oftener and quicker than the rich girl, she can marry better. “As a matter of fact no other girl has such a poor chance of making a really good match as the wealthy society girl. She is handi capped by her money, for men of honor, and independence and pride fight shy of her because, for one thing, they cannot bear to put them selves into the position of a hanger on and pensioner of their wives. “Then the kind of men who are going to be the famous professional men and the big business men of twenty years hence are not hang ing around drawing rooms, and yachting and poloing just now. They are grubbing away in offices, and wearing cheap clothes and counting pennies, and the rich girl never has any more chance of meeting them than she has of being introduced to the Nawab of Jepore. “That leaves the matrimonial field pretty much to the Papa’s Son boys, who are not much, and the rich wife hunters, who are not many. Perhaps it is because the million airesses’ choice is so limited in hus bands, that very rich girls so often give up trying to find a man and marry a title. “On the other hand, the poor girl who works for her living, works shoulder to shoulder -with the com ing men. She knows which ones have ability, and energy, and ini tiative, and which have in them that mysterious something that takes a man out of the ranks and sets him at the head. That’s what I mean by saying she has the first chance at all the good things. “As to her ability to marry be ing greater than the rich girl’s, that is obvious. What’s the good of fishing in a stream where there are no fish? “The working girl is where the fishing is fine. The rich girl is sit ting high and dry in a parlor chair, without a minnow being in five miles of her. All she can do is to cut bait, and pray for a miracle to hap pen that will send some poor fish her way. Which doesn’t always hap pen, there being discouraging times for the supernatural to occur. "Now every woman knows there are two difficulties in getting a husband. The first is to find your man. The business girl does this by the simple expedient of prose cuting her search where men con jugate. She is where she sees scores of men every day, where she comes in contact with them in her work, and where she gets to know them, and they get to know her. Tn this way she establishes a cordial ac quaintance with men who are too busy or too bashful to ever call upon a dressed up society girl with whom they would have to be formal and on their p’s and q’s. “Why. I know a dozen women who are now riding around in their CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST An open letter has been sent to . David L. Walsh, of Massachusetts, by J. D. A. Morrow, vice president ' of the National Coal association, ! replying to the senator’s speech In the senate of recent date, in which I Senator Walsh alluded to what he characterized as “excessive profits” of the bituminous coal operators during the war. Mr. Morrow denies the charge of profiteering and quotes from official government statistics to show that Mr. MacAdoo's report, which the senator quoted, only cov ers about 6 per cent of the entire number of operators. It only includes, says Mr. Mor row, the “fortunate 392” of a total of 7,000 separate coal producers. “It says nothing of the other 94 per cent," the letter says, “some 6,600 operators who admittedly made less than 15 per cent. “Further, with regard to alleged huge profits in 1917, the United States Geological survey report on coal production for 1917 shows that the total output of bituminous coal in 1917 was sold by the operators at an average price of only $2.26 per ton at the mines, out of which all operating expenses, fixed charges and taxes had to be paid before any profit In the midst of public cheers at falling prices in nearly every sec tion of the country, the Depart ment of Labor issued official fig ures to show that the cost of liv ing •took a jump in the month from March 15 to April 15, and on the latter date was at the highest point ever recorded —and going up. The cost of twenty-two of the principal food articles increased an average of 5 per cent during the month* in fifty-one cities. The in crease. was the largest in any single month since the United States en tered the war and consequently for all time so far as history records. The cost of living was 5 per cent, higher on April 15 than the previous high peak January 20. Prices in April this year, ac cording to the labor department fig ures, were 16 per cent higher than in April a year ago. and 116 per cent higher than in April, 1913. Po tatoes advanced 34 per cent, sugar 8 per cent. Milk. eggs, lard, navy beans and prunes declined. Hides are stored in California warehouses “by thousands.” and are selling at decidedly lower prices than in 1919, according to an announce ment made public by Mrs. Edward F. Scanlon, president of local branch of the State House Wives’ league, which organization has been investigating the leather industry in an effort to discover why shoe prices are high. “Members of the league, delegated to make this investigation have made a personal canvass of the leather of the fSan Francisco) Bay district, and the findings are Startling.” Mrs. Scan lon said “The finest grades of hides which brought 70 cents a pound in 1919 are selling today for 40 cents. We have made a careful study of the different elements that make up the retail price of shoes. We find that the labor cost of a pair of shoes never exceeds $1.80.” The privilege of wearing army uni forms and use of military titles, ac corded during the war to officials of c- Stable and social organizations, was withdrawn at Washington by the war department. Secretary Baker in a letter to the American Red Cross, Y. M. C. A.. Y. cilW. C. A.. National Catholic War Council. Jewish Welfare board. Sal vation army and American Library association, .asked that use of the uni forms and titles be discontinued. He expressed appreciation of the work, of the organizations during the war. The marriage of Miss Priscilla Alden Thorp, a randdaughter of the late Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, to Arthur Calvert Smith of New York citv took place recently at the home of the bride’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gilbert Thorp, 115 Brattle street, Cambridge, Mass. The bride was graduated from Rad cliffe in 1919. Mr. Thorp. who served as a captain of infantry over seas, was graduated from Harvard in 1914. The ceremony was per formed by the Rev. Samuel M Crothers of the First Parish in Cambridge. Miss Margaret W. Thayer, of Cambridge, was maid of honor. Mr. Edward Hunting Smith of New Haven, Con., brother of the bridegroojn, was best man. own limousines, and with money to burn, who are married to just that type of man—splendid fellows, with hearts of gold, but so shy they would never have summoned up courage enough to pop the question to any woman, if they hadn’t work ed wuh her and gotten to know her that way. “The second difficulty of catcii ing a Husband is getting near enough to him to cast your lasso without scaring him off. Let a. man that a woman is camping on his trail, and he beats it to the tell timber. That’s where managing mothers, who gush over men and tell them how sweet and amiable Marie is and how domestic Susan is, fall down. The stupidest man sees her fell designs upon him and sidesteps them. “But business furnishes a giri with a perfect alibi for always be ing about, and it also any intentions she may have u;w»- a man’s single blessedness. He is suspicious of the society girl who must marry for a meal ticket, s.r.d afraid to trust himself in her vi cinity. "He’s off his guard. however, where the business girl is concern ed. She’s got a perfectly good job, and shows herself capable of hold ing it down, and doesn’t have to get some man to pay her bills. So he feels safe with her. and for gets that no vamp on earth has any such magic to conjure with as propinquity, and that no other spell is so potent to draw two people together as a vital interest _in the same thing. • “Os course no man ever expects to fall in love with the woman with whom he worked. Oh, dear no. If he expressed himself on the subject be forehand he would probably say the business girl isn’t his type. He prefers something more feminine more—eh—clinging, and domestic, vou know. He isn’t looking for a first-class stenographer, or a crack erjack secretary, or buyer, or sales woman for a wife but for a home maker. “Quite so. And strong in the be lief that the business woman has no attraction for him outside of her efficiency as a worker, he treats her as a good comrade, one who always understands a fellow, and who inva riably says the right thing—the soothing word when he’s irritable and his nerves are on edge, the en couraging word when his courage falters; the comprehending, pitying word when things go wrong: the exultant word of praise when he pulls off something good. “And she’s so capable. And so en thusiastic. And so Interested In all he is doing. Talking to her is like talking to his best man pal—only a fellow can say things to a wom an he can never say to a man. Per sonal things. “Somehow this girl who knows him so well, and who knows and is interested in the things he cares most for makes all other girls seem pretty poor company. “Then it comes over him some day what it would mean if he should lose the companionship that has come to mean so much to him—- and if the girl feels the same way about it; it’s all over but sending out the wedding announcement. And the marriage is nearly' always a happy one because the couple knew each other’s peculiarities and angu larities of disposition before marri age instead of finding them out afterwards. “Oh, it’s no trouble for a business girl to get married. That’s why so many girls who don’t need to go to work are hunting jobs—and hus bands.” Dorothy Dix articles will appear In this paper every Monday, Wed nesday and Friday. Word received here from St. Louis states that in a signed confession, Dick Smythe, chum of Horace Wal ton, who was killed after robbing an Illinois Central train of $105,000 near Chicago last Saturday, said that he had been engaged by Walton as "bus iness agent,” and knew of the plans for the robbery, federal officials an nounced. Srjythe’s duties, according to the confession, were to assist Walton in the disposal of bonds and other loot obtained in his robberies. No salary was stipulated, but Smythe was told that he would be paid liberally. Walton had Smythe look up rail road time cards for him and attend to other preliminaries. Smythe is nineteen years old. Walton was twenty-two. According to advices received at Washington, Dr. Rritsjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, probably will head the organization to be set up by the League of Nations for the pur pose of repatriating 200,000 German, Austrian and other war prisoners still held in Russia. Reports to be submitted to the league council at Rome this month say that unless these jnen are res cued from their prison camps In Si beria before next winter few are likely to survive. They have been In captivity for five years. Dr. Nansen was mentioned during discussions at Paris last year of steps toward sending food relief to the captives. Word has reached Washington that he already has been asked if he would be willing to serve as the agent of the league in at tempting the repatriation. He had considerable' experience with food questions during the war, having headed the Norwegian mis sion sent to the United States in 1917 to negotiate for needed supplies for his own country. Word has come to us from Dublin that Countess Georgia Markievicz, Sinn Fein member of Parliament, whose whereabouts has long been a mystery, made a theatrical reappear ance, clad in a commandants uniform recently at an open air meeting in Croker Park in memory of the mem bers of the Irish Republican Parlia ment who were executed after or killed during the rebellion of 1916. The countess delivered an address, in which she appealed for suport for Irish industries. On March 12 the police raided the residence of Mrs. Demann de Valera, wife of the Sinn Fein leader, in search of the coun tess. The police barracks in Gormans town, a village of County Meath, near Balbriggan, were attacked and burned Sunday morning. iAIBONFS MEDITATIONS STo'-KEEPUH say a man 5 whut brinks i>at AR 1 WIL’D-CAT LIQUOR IS | ! CRAiY HITS t>E TRUF-ATTEH HE T>RINK 1 IT, HE is’! y — ’ jIMW 111 mull// * - regag,." Copyright, 19 zo by McClure Newspaper Syndic**