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Business Has a Vital Stake
In Forest Conservation
IF the tw'o hundred and seventy-six
thousand manufacturing establish
ments in the United States, nearly
one-fifth are largely if not entirely dependent
upon forests for the raw material necessary
to continued operation. The billions of cap
ital thus invested and the tens of thousands
of persons employed have as material a stake
in the conservation of forests as in the pro
tection and upkeep of the manufacturing
plants themselves. The stockholders of these
concerns as -well might be indifferent to fire
insurance protection for their investments as
indifferent to measures for preserving forests,
for there the very source of productiveness
and prosperity is involved. Persistent rav
age or waste of woodlands and failure to re
coup their vanishing treasure means decline
and death to a host of these industries, and
misfortune to the business and human in
terests they support.
Already do we feel In daily affairs the
pinch and penalty of forest destruction. Is
it to be wondered that costs of building ma
terials have gone up and up and up when
the center of lumber production, once Ideated
in States along the Atlantic, has moved far
ther and farther West until now it is trending
swiftly to the slopes of the Pacific? High
prices of lumber at this moment, it is true,
are attributable in part to transportation de
ficiencies and to an extraordinary demand for
all kinds of building material. But the under
lying cause is to be found in the almost con
tinent-wide trail of depleted and neglected
forest resources.
Conditions will grow steadily worse and
penalties ever sharper unless conserving and
restoring measures are adopted. The cost of
building a house is burdensome today, but
it -will be well-nigh prohibitive a few genera
tions hence if careless cutting of timberlands
goes on and no steps are taken to provide
new growth. The paper problem is critical
today for newspapers, and for almost every
institution to which the public looks for edu
cation through the printed word; but it will
grow desperate beyond measure in the years
ahead, iX neglect of the basic sources of wood
pulp production continues. Grim as they all
are, these dangers are hardly to be compared
to the agricultural losses which are inevi
table soon or late if ruthless deforestation,
with its fatal effect on rainfall and flood con
trol, is unchecked.
Seeing that the vitals of industry and the
future of flood-supply itself are thus involved,
no State, least of all one whose industrial
and agricultural interests are as extensive as
Georgia’s, can afford longer to ignore the
forestry problem. The Federal Government
has much to do in the reservations which it
controls; and the utmost possible pressure
should be brought to bear upon Congress for
adequate appropriations to this essential field
of national service. But the States have their
peculiar and important responsibility. The
more watchful of them are doing extensive
work in conserving, restoring, developing and
utilizing forests; New York and Pennsylvania
are spending millions thus, and in the Mid
dle West as well far-reaching efforts are
under way. Cities also have enlisted, and
are providing for the future pleasure and
profit of their people through the establish
ment of municipal forests and tree nurseries
The beginning and base of all such efforts
is an adequately financed forestry bureau, an
institution which most of the progressive
States already have, but which Georgia re
grettably enough, is without. The forestry
department of the State University is doing
excellent service as far as its funds and its
legal scope allow. But there is manifest need
of a thoroughly equipped and fully empowered
bureau to promote Georgia’s interests in thi«
immeasurably important field of public serv
’c„e; “i. 18 *? 0 be hoped tha t a bill to this
D ? e^ an \ Ong u the earliest measures
adopted at the forthcoming session of the
General Assembly. '
♦.
The Water-Power Bill Heralds
A Great Era of Development
THE Senate’s passage of the water
power bill as reported from the con
ference committee and as accepted by
the House brings a welcome end to a con
troversy which has dragged stubbornly- on for
a decade and blocked urgently needed devel
opments. The exact provisions of the meas
ure as finally enacted are not before us; but
in purpose and policy they are substantially,
we assume, those described by former Secre
tary Lane when, in urging Congressional
action more than a year ago, he declared:
"This bill would enable the Govern
ment to control, under proper leasing
methods, our flood waters, our innumer
able streams, our public lands, and the
waters that flow through them. For ten
or twelve years there has been no (con
siderable) hydro-electric development in
the United States ... I want to make
a survey to show what power possibili
ties there are, how power can be gen
erated and distributed to industries,
towns.an?! railroads, with money saved
and an - assured supply of power obtained.
The way >for the United States to de- •
velop is for the country to take the work
into its own hands. Free the resources,
keeping hold of them by supervision and
regulation, so that they cannot be wast
ed; and then educate our people so that
they can know what splendid opportuni-
ties there are and what reasons for hope
they have.”
To these wise words there can be only the
heartiest assent. The welfare of industry, of
commerce and of agriculture itself is ma
terially bound up in the proper utilization of
our latent water power. In the single item
'of conserving coal and the labor required
for mining and hauling it, water power de
velopment can effect colossal economies. Au
thorities say that we are using about three
fifths of our coal to produce motive power,
while 80 per cent of our available water
power goes to waste. They say that at least
one hundred thousand laborers now engaged
in handling coal could be released for other
work, and that more than two hundred mil
lion dollars’ worth of railroad equipment sim
ilarly employed could be diverted to other
services, if there had been normal water
power development during the last ten years.
Such testimony indicates the vast and im
perative need of turning to practical account
these now dissipated resources. The new
law, it is to be hoped, will encourage con
structive enterprise, while protecting public
interests, and thus open the way to that
larger era of prosperity and progress which
the rightful use of American water power will
vouchsafe.
Make the Okefinokee Swamp a
National Reservation.
THE movement to make the Okefinokee
Swamp a national forest and game
preserve is given substantial impetus
by the report just submitted to the De
partment of Agriculture by scientists mak
ing a biological survey. As pointed out in
this report, the Okefinokee is the second
largest swamp in North America, being ex
ceeded only by the famous Everglades of
Florida, and is the third largest body of
primitive timber left standing in the United
States.
A year ago the Georgia Legislature pass
ed a joint resolution commending to the
attention of Congress the rare wonders of
Nature to be found in the Okefinokee, and
urging its purchase by the federal govern
ment as a forest and game preserve. Pub
lic-spirited citizens of the city of Waycross,
a few miles distant from the swamp, have
had under way for two or three years a
movement looking to the preservation of its
forests, its game, its fish and its many na
tural wonders by government purchase.
Millions have been expended by Congress,
and rightly so, in perpetuating the natural
wonders of this great country. The Yellow
stone National Park, the many smaller parks
in other Western states, the marvelous wat
ers of Hot Springs, the virgin forests of
the great Northwest and the Appalachian
mountain range, are treasured possessions
with which the American people would not
part for any price.
No less wonderful in its own way is the
Okefinokee, an immense expanse covering
seven hundred square miles, half-submerged'
in water, cloaked in a "forest primeval,
impenetrable and somber, shrouded in mys
tery, the paradise alike of the huntsman,
the fisherman and the scientist.
Tll6 government ought to acQUlre it and
priervl it untouched tor all future genera
tions.
♦-
A To ice Fro m 1820.
IN December, 1820, nearly one hundred
years ago,' Daniel Webster made a
speech from Plymouth Rock and his
subject was "Our Country in 1920. The
occasion was the two-hundredth anniversary
of the landing of the Pilgrims and in his
speech the great Webster conjured before
him the unborn generation that would be
running the country one hundred yeais
11611C6. *
It was the wish of Webster that the peo
ple of 1920 should understand the appre
ciation of the people of 1820 of the bless
ings of liberty and good government which
had been handed down to them by their
f etthers
"We would leave,” said Webster, "for
the consideration of those who shall occupy
our places, some proof that we hold the
blessings transmitted from our fathers in
just estimation; some proof of our attach
ment to the acuse of good government and
of civil and religious liberty; some proof
of a sincere and ardent desire to promote
everything which may enlarge the under
standings and improve the hearts of men.
"And when from the long distance of
one hundred years they shall look back up
on us . . . they shall know at least that
we possessed affections . . . which meet
them with cordial salutations, ere yet they
have arrived on the shores of being.
"Advance, then, ye future generation. We
greet your accession to the • great, inheri
tance which we have enjoyed. We welcome
you to, the blessings of good government
and religious liberty.”
There is no question, from the speech, of
Webster’s implied faith that the people of
1920 would cherish and keep the heritage
so much treasured by the people of his own
time, and although there have been abuses
good government is a blessing no less en
joyed and appreciated today than it was one
hundred years ago.
The Great Southern Market.
IF great earning power means great buy
ing power, the South of a surety is one
of the world’s peculiarly fertile mar
kets; just how fertile, and how varied, ap
pears in a little book of marvelous facts re
cently compiled and distributed by the
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
In twenty-odd pages is told, so that he who
runs may read, the story of an empire of
production and of its purchasing capacity.
For the very reason that she is so bounti
ful and versatile a producer, the South is a
versatile and bountiful purchaser. How
could it be elsewise when nearly one-half
of the nation’s total agricultural output, hav
ing a value of more than fifteen billion
seven hundred and ninety million dollars,
comes teeming from her rich acres? How
could it be elsewise when her mineral pro
duction exceeds annually one billion three
hundred and fifty million dollars, and when
her manufactured products yield a yearly in
come above six billions? Consider, too, that
her exports amount to upwards of one and
a quarter billion dollars, her bank deposits
to more than four billions, and that the
sources of this vast wealth, though as yet
scarcely skimmed, are being developed with
ever increasing vigor.
In the light of these attainments and pros
pects, who that is interested in trade culti
vation can overlook this most fertile of
fields? Certainly none will who even scans
that striking booklet, "The Great Southern
Market and Your Product.” In gathering
and scattering abroad this wonderful harvest
of facts, the Association has done valuable
service not to the South alone, but to the
common country as well; for no manufac
turer, no merchant, no investor, no oppor
tunity seeker can read this booklet without
being grateful for its message.
The Socialists are asking President Wil
son to free their candidate, Debs. All they
have to do is to elect him and he can pardon
himseIf.—BRATTLEBORO REFORMER.
EYE STRAIN WARNINGS
BY H. ADDINGTON BRUCE.
YOU go to a motion picture theater in
quest of entertainment. You find the
pictures shown really entertaining.
But, you tell me, when you come out of
the theater you notice that your eyes are
strangely tired, and sometimes your head is
aching. You blame the "movies” for this,
and perhaps have made up your mind to
keep away from them in future.
What if the trouble is not so much with
the "movies” as with your eyes themselves?
What if the tired feeling in them is a warn
ing that you ougtyt to consult an oculist?
This is a possibility which you certainly
should take into account. Consider, with
reference to yourself, the following state
ment by an official of the United States Pub
lic Health Service:
"It is safe to say a person may a
picture play lasting about an hour and a half
each day without straining th i eyes or expe
riencing any discomort, provided the eyes
are good and there are no hidden defects of
vision.
"In this connection it may be pointed out
that employees of motion picture playhouses,
who spend a large part of the day looking at
the pictures, do not seem to be troubled with'
their eyes any more than the average indi
vidual.”
For the matter of that, attendance at a
regular theater may similarly serve to pro
vide a warning that all is not right with the
eyes.
There are people who experience uncom
fortable eye sensations after watching a three
or four-act play. During the play itself they
perhaps appreciate that it is an effort for
them to see the faces of the actors with any
distinctness, even when seated fairly close
to the stage.
Their inclination may be to attribute this
to aulty lighting. And possibly the stage
lias been lighted badly. But if similar sensa
tions are experienced whenever one goes to
the theater, the likelihood is that the eyes
■.ire at fault, not the stage lighting.
So, too, tiredness of the eyes after attend
ing a game of baseball or football may well
be a warning of ocular weakness. It is cer
tain to be such a warning if the tiredness
always develops, no matter how favorable the
ighting conditions for watching the game.
Further, of course, a warning of eye strain
s to be found in any dimming or blurring
if vision, however slight, experienced in read
ng ordinary sized print.
It would seem unnecessary to mention this.
But the fact is that thousands of people dis
regard this surest of eye strain signals until
they perhaps do their eyes serious injury.
They may even experience throbbing head
aches after a couple of hours of reading—or
writing, or sewing, or doing other close
range work with their eyes—without sus
pecting that the headaches are symptomatic
of eye strain. So that it is well to empha
size the suggestion:
"If fatigue, eye ache, headache, or other
abnormal sensations are habitually felt after
steady use of the eyes for even a compara
tively short time, it is a safe rule to have an
examination of the eyes made by a compe
tent eye specialist.”
The wearing of spectacles is, no doubt,
aoro or less of a nuisance to the one who
■as to wear them. And conscious or uncon
“:oug prejudice against spectacles is perhaps
largely responsible for the inattention so
commonly paid to eye strain warnings.
But if spectacles really are needed the
sooner one recognizes and accepts the inevi
table the better it will be for the general
health, as well as for the health of the over
burdened eyes.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
WHY HE WANTS MORE PAY
By Dr. Frank Crane
When your hired person comes to you with
a demand for higher wages, it may be well to
know what is pushing him.
Here it is. It is compiled from a long re
port of the Industrial Conference Board as
published in the daily press.
It costs the American citizen 95 per cent
more to live this year than it did in 1914,
quite aside from individual taxes.
It costs 21 per cent more to live this year
than last. >
It cost 7 per cent more in March, 1920,
than in November, 1919 i
The board received replies to questions
from 200 dry goods stores in mtie s
reported increase in prices o clot^^ r S J"nt
1914 the lowest advance being p
and D JrVng h uVVast 2 12 P mo C n?hs clothing cost
has gone up per cent (an
000.000. .Her
making all deductions). ..
Since 1914 percale has advanced from i
cents a yard to 39 cents, or 422 per cent
Muslin underwear has only O one p
Pe othe n r t advances: Overcoats, 230 per cent;
women’s coats, 204 per cent; men s union
suits 211 per cent; overalls, 24 7 per cent,
men’s work shirts, 228 per c?nt;
shoes, 209 per cent; womens kid gloves, 21
cr cent.
Since November, 1919, an average advance
of 25 per cent or more in gingham, knit un
derwear, women’s s tockipgs, coats, globes
and hats.
Same period, 17.9 per cent increase in
costs of all clothing.
Foodstuffs, 100 per cent increase over
1914.
January, 1920. sugar cost 224 per cent
more than in 1913; potatoes 21S per cent
more. ...
Reports from 352 agencies m laß cities
to the board show average increase in rents
49 per cent over four years ago. Eight per
cent of this since last November, and 22 per
cent since March a year ago.
Fuel, heat and light, during the four years,
have made about the same advance as rent,
4 9 per cent.
In 106 out of 148 cities car fares have
been raised, ranging from an extra charge
for transfers jn New York to 140 per cent
flat rate at Fall River.
Furniture and other housefurnishings
have advanced in cost, organization dues,
church demands, insurace and medical care
have shared the general rise.
And all this is why your employe is ask
ing for ,a raise in wages.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
As the motor bus rattled and roared on
its way the small solemn youngster stared
unflinchingly at the old gentleman who sat
opposite him.
Annoyed by the child’s fixed gaze and
hoping to make him stop staring, the old
gentleman winked at. the boy.
But he felt even more embarrassed when
the youngster turned to his young and pretty
mother, and said, in shrill and clear tones:
“Mamma, wink at that man!”
A company had opened a new swimming
bath in the place and as a compliment sent a
free ticket to the mayor. The worthy man
was pleased, but he began to wonder when
another ticket arrived. Sitting down he
wrote to the bath proprietor as follows:
“Gentleman: Your first ticket I received
as a compliment. Your second strikes me
as suggestive. If you send me a third I
shall take it as a personal insult.”
GHOSTS IN
COURT
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, May 27.—A man
is accused of beating his wife
to death, and Is brought be
fore a high tribunal for trial.
Judge and jurors and audience sit
and listen in respectful silence while
the ghost of the dead woman testifies
that she herself procured the iron bar
with which she was killed, that she
had intended to kill her husband with
it, and that he had great provocation
to kill her.
This sounds like a story of olden
times. It might have happened in
any of the gredt ages of superstition
when men believed in the supernatur
al even more than they did in the
natural. Back in the ’ seventeenth
century, for example, our ancestors
used to throw an accused witch into
a pond to determine whether she was
innocent or guilty. Still earlier there
were trials by combat, in which th’e
accused fought for his life. In either
case, the appeal was to the super
natural. It was believed that the
supernatural would intervene to
save the innocent or destroy the
guilty. Go still farther back to prim
itive times, and you find men still
more in awe of the supernatural. The
flight of birds, the clouds of the sky,
the voice of thunder are all to him
the mandates of unseen beings. He
walks in constant terror of innumer
able ghosts. His life is a thing of
fear.
Old Tears Still With Us
Civilization is supposed to have
freed man from these ancient fears,
but it has not done so. The fear
is still latent in us, waiting for a
chance to express itself. For exam
ple, the incident related above hap
pened, not in the middle ages or in
a fairy tale, but in the supreme court
of the District of Columbia a few
days ago. The dead woman’s mother
restiged that she had gone to several
mediums, had conversed with the
ghost of her daughter and had so got
ten the daughter’s story of what hap
pened. Still more astonishing, she
testified that an assistant United
States attorney had advised her to
consult med’ums. When you take
this in connection with the fact that
the supreme court evidently listened
to th* ghost conversation as part of
the testimony, you cannot blink at
the conclusion that a ghost has been
admitted to a court of justice in the
United States. The supernatural has
come again to play a formal and. rec
ognized part in the affairs of men in
a country which calls itself civilized.
Os course, the whole question of
spiritualism is here involved. There
arc many intelligent and sincere peo
ple who believe that the existence
of ghosts who can communicate with
us has been proved. « Sir Oliver
Lodge, a scientist of reputation, is
one of them. He proceeds by a proc
ess of elimination. He says there
are certain phenomena which cannot
lie explained in any way except as
communications from the dead. Near
ly all other scientists disagree with
him They say these things can eas
ily be explained in other ways. At
best Sir Oliver Lodge has advanced
an interesting hypothesis.
But, whether it be true that the
dead survive and communicate with
the living or not, the question is
arising more insistently every day as
to how much reliance we should place
on the advice of these ghosts. Not
only have thousands of persons all
over the world accepted the belief
in spirits, but they have added to
that belief a faith that spirits are al
ways wise and truthful and that they
are practically omniscient.
Are Ghosts Bailable?
But is there any reason for this
latter faith? If a notorious liar does
and departs for that limbo where
communicative spirits live, is there
any reason to believe that
there become a paragon °f truthfu
ness’ Will death make a fool wise,
■"'» w««°’’ih k e '?e is « cer
tain placer deposit ot gold
has been the grave of many ior
tunes. One man alter another has
tried to get this gold, and all haxe
failed. Finally along came an in
ventor with a most ingenious and
expensive plan for getting the gold.
He had absolute faith m it. It ap
neared that he was in communica
tion with th e ghost of his dead sis
ter and that she had imparted this
ulan to him and had told him it was
sure to succeed. He spent every
cent he owned and could borrow on
the P?an and lost it.all The ghost
was wronjr. Very likely if the sistei
had been alive she would have given
j h ust the same advice, and very likely
this man "would have replied th.
women know nothing about mining,
and would have kept his "
his pocket. But since his sister had
been translated to the spirit worl ,
he reasoned in some obscure man
ner that she had there, become an
exnert on hydraulic mining. rhe
event indicated that he was mistaken.
Tn deed there seems to be absolute
ly no reason to believe that ghosts
are any more truthful or infallibl
than human beings, and be T®g
in spirits would only keep this in
mind a great and growing burden
of trouble would be saved the h -
man race. Consult the record of
the Society for Psychic Research,
upon which the whole argument for
spiritism is based. You will find
little evidence that ghosts kno
more than human beings or are more
Smhful. and not a »«le evidence
that thev are picayune and some
times malevolent, like the living. Is
it not well, therefore, to take the
communications of your’ dead friends
and relations with a grain °„- sa
the same as you take those of tl e
living?
Cousin Robert from the country,
had come to dinner, and little Ethel
had been allo-wed to sit up as a great
treat. .
Now, Ethel is one of those chil
dren one meets nowadays who hear
a great deal too much for their years,
and moreover, who don’t believe in
the saying about children not being
heard. You can’t stay near dear lit
tle Ethel without hearing quite a
lot.
Which all gets one with the story
of the night when .Cousin Robert
came to supper.
•‘Do have another helping of the
pot-pie, Robert!” said Ethel’s mother,
after Robert had already caused two
platefuls to disappear.
“Well, Cousin Mary, I think I will,
since you are so pressing,” replied
the guest. , .
“You win. mother!” exclaimed
Ethel suddenly; and mother, caught
napping, turned to her with a smile,
and asked:
“Win, dear?”
“Yes, I heard you say to father
this morning that you bet a dollar
that Cousin Robert behaved like a
Pig!”
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
M>SS LUCY SAY Yo' OLE
CLOES signifies Yous
FIGHTIN' DE HIGH COS' o'
LIBN , BUT SHUCKS.’ AHS
GITTIN' SO AH LOOKS
LAK OLE HIGH COS' IS
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, Copyright. 19ZO by McClure Newspeper Syndicate.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
HOW TO AVOID BEING A BORE
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
While listening to the tedius con
versation of some dull and stupid in
dividual did you ever experience a
chilling ot your extremities, accom
panied by a gone feeling at the pit
of your stomach, as you suddenly
wondered if you were as great a
bore to other people as he, or she,
is to you?
It is a fearsome thought and one
calculated to blanch the cheeks of
the boldest, for there is not one ot
us who, in our secret souls, would
not rather be arraigned at the bar
of public opinion for any crime, from
murder to chicken stealing, rather
than to be charged with being a
bore.
Moreover, the mischief of the mat
ter is that we can never really be
certain whether we are bores or not.
We may believe, and trust, and pray
that we are not bores, but we can
not positively know. We cannot
make a personal test for we are all
spell-binders and fascinating to our
selves.
Nor can we accurately gauge our
reaction on others because conven
tion has taught us to do the Spartan
boy stunt and smile, and smile, and
appear diverted while our very vitals
are being gnawed by the tedious, and
we are suffering incredible agonies
of ennui.
We have even been taught to
camouflage our sentiments so well
that "when at last,* in answer to our
fervent, silent petitions to heaven
for deliverance, the bore finally rises
to depart we urge him, or her, to
stay longer, and to come again and
repeat the torture.
Therefore, unless people actually
yawn in our faces, we have no means
of knowing whether they are weary
unto death of us, or are hanging
enraptured on our words.
This being the case, the only safe
thing to do is to regard ourselves
with suspicion as one who might,
could or would become a bore, and
to take ever} possible precaution
against being innocently betrayed
into becoming one of these dread
scourges of our fellow creatures.
The first, and one of the most im
portant, prevention measures to be
taken is to make short visits, and
to administer our society to our
friends and acquaintances in broken
and homeopathic doses. Perhaps in
this one thing is comprised the whole
of the law and the prophets as re
gards not being a bore.
For human nature is so constituted
that it can stand almost anv afflic
tion for a short time. It is only when
the suffering is long drawn out that
it breaks down nerves and becomes
unendurable
Hence as long as we stick to the
pop-in-and-pop-out method of calling,
we need never fear but what we
will be welcome guests. The individ
ual every one dreads to see is he
who stays and stays and proses
along until you feel like screaming
with boredom. Brevity is said to be
the soul of wit. It is certainly the
secret of popularity, and first aid in
the prevention of boredom.
It is literally true that anybody
can be entertaining for half an hour,
and nobody is brilliant enough to
be entertaining for three hours on a
stretch. One’s own experience abun
dantly proves this. Think of how
merrily the first part of a dinner
party goes, and how drearily the last
part! Remember how you chattered
away at high speed with Jones for
the first hour of his visit, and what
hard going the second hour was to
find something to talk about! Recall
how interesting you thought Mrs.
Smith was when you first knew her,
and how dull you consider her now!
Apply this hardly-won information
about others to yourself. Don’t feed
people your society, but always keep
them asking for more. Condense
whatever you know that is amusing,
interesting and unusual into one small
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
Th© first train run in the State
of New York was put on exhibition
recently in the east gallery of the
main concourse of the Grand Cen
tral terminal, New York City. It
consists of the “De Witt Clinton,’
the most famous engine in America,
its tender and three of the stage
coach cars that carried passengers
eighty-nine years ago.
The “De Witt Clinton” was built
at the West Point foundry and made
its first trial trip from Albany to
Schenectady, August 3, 1831, cover
ing the seventeen miles in one hour
and forty-five minutes.
The “De Witt Clinton” without its
tender weighs 9,420 pounds, the ten
der weights 5,2340 pounds and each
of the three coaches weighs 3,420
pounds. The “De Witt Clinton” is
twelve feet ten inches long and its
height, to the top of the steam’ dome,
is eight feet five inches. The ten
der weighs 5,340 pounds and each
The coaches are fourteen feet long.
When the sun set recently be
tween 10,100 and 15,000 Dunkards, in
annual conference on a farm twelve
miles east of Logansport, Ind., ob
served “feet washing” as they un
derstand it was taught by the
Christ.
This service followed members
participation in the “Lord’s Sup
per.”
Members of the order greeted on
another with the “holy kiss.”
An lowa firm has become the pos
sessor of Nebraska’s highest priced
hog. Uneeda Orion, a Durco Jersey
boar, was sold by Edgar Taylor, of
Norfolk, to Suder Bros., of Wesley,
la., for SIO,OOO
Prohibition was blamed for all the
social unrest, and resolutions were
passed to support political candidates
who favor legislation opposed to the
eighteenth amendment, at the sixth
annual state convention of the Con
necticut Trades Union Liberty league
in Waterbury, Conn.
Delegates were present from
Waterbury Central Labor Union,
New Haven Trades Council, Meriden
Central Labor Union, New Haven
Typographical Union, Danbury Hat-
Finishers, Waterbury Bartenders’
Union, Danbury Bartenders’ Union,
Meriden Brewery Bridge
port Brewery Workers and New Hav
en Brewery Workers.
A dispatch from Berlin states that
six canal boats, containing American
frozen meat in refrigerators, reach
ed Berlin recently from Hamburg in
tow of a tug. They left Hamburg
ten days ago, manned by volunteer
crews, protected by Hamburg and
Berlin police as a precaution against
possible attack by the striking river
boatmen.
The latest victims of Chicago la
bor feuds is John Kikulski, head of
the Stockyards Labor council, who
was in a hospital suffering from
wounds regarded as probably fatal.
He was beaten and shot On his way
home from a labor meeting.
A dispatch from Washington
states: The nomination of George W.
P. -Hunt, former governor of Arizona,
to be American minister to Siam,
which has been held up pending in
quiry by the foreign relations com
mltte, was confirmed by the sen
ate.
According to a statement from
London, fifty armed and disguised
men raided stores of the Anglo-
American Oil company and the Shell
Motor Spirit company at Athlone,
Ireland, recently carrying off gaso
line valued at SSOO, according to a
Central News dispatch. All ap
proaches were strongly guarded and
the raiders escaped unmolested, it
is said.
A dispatch from Rome informs us
the dirigible airship R-34, which in
1919 flew across the Atlantic from
England to New York and back, had
a trial flight and probably will at
tempt soon a flight from Rome to
Buenos Aires.
The airship has a capacity of 50,-
000 cubic meters of gas, and instead
of a basket carries an aluminum
compartment capable of accommodat
ing 100 passengers. If the trip iS
made, the pilots will be civilians.
The R-34 was built for the Brit
ish army. A dispatch from London
in December said that a combination
of aviation firms was credited with
the intention of acquiring the R-34
and her sister ship, the R-39, and
that a weekly airship service to
America was contemplated.
compact bomb, and having hurled
it into the conversational midst, beat
it away from the spot. So shall you
gain the reputation of being enter
taining, and be sought for for dinner
parties. And, at any rate, people will
forgive you, even if you do not sOhr
tiliate if you are not a stayer and
long-winded.
The second precautionary measure
against becoming a bore is to avoid
the monologue habit. There are none
whom we hate and dread so much as
those who get the floor and keep It,
while they listen enraptured to the
sound of their own voices, while all
the balance of us sit on pins and
needles waiting for a chance to break
in and try out our own vocal or
gans.
Never forget that conversation is
never a one man, or one woman per
formance, be the talker ever so
learned or have so interesting a
thing to relate. The conversation that
every one enjoys is a game of give
and take in which each has a share,
for his opinion is as dear to the
dull man, and he likes to air his
views as well as the brilliant man
does his. i
If you would not be a bore do not
be a conversation hog any more
than you would be a road hog. Give
way to the other fellow. And don't
forget that in any popularity contest
the medal always goes to the silent.
The monologist hasn't a look in.
Finally, if you would avoid being
a bore refrain from talking about
yourself, and your family. This
takes courage, and an amount of
heroic self-sacrifice that few peo
ple are capable of, but it’s the price
of keeping out of the class of those
whose society makes us very very
tired.
Os course we are so thrillingly In
teresting to ourselves, and every
thing that happens to us is so much
more important than any other
earthly happening that we never
really understand how it is possi
ble for other people not to hang
with baited breath on thte details of
Johnny’s croup, or the last bulletin
from the front in our perennial con
flict with the cook.
Still many things exist in nature
that we never comprehend, and we
may accept it as a fact that no other
human being except our mother takes
more than a casual and languid In
terest in our personal affairs, and
that the surest way to become a
champion bore is to discourse about
them to others.
All of us know people who neve’ 1
see us if we see them first, because
well we know that if we meet they
will fix us with their glittering eye
while they maunder on and on about
what wonders their children are, or
what paragon of a car they have got.
or what phenomenal sweet peas they
have grown, or inflict upon us every
detail of whatever business they are
in, and what they said to the boss
and the boss said to them.
And while we writhe In the
clutches of such bores we marvel
that they do not know how much
•nore wonderful and interesting are
our children, and our sweet peas, and
our business, and we just wait for
a pause in the talk to chip in with
our story, and to qualify in the
bore race.
For it takes great wisdom for us
to realize that Smith is more inter
ested in telling about his forty mile
railroad trip to Squeedunk than he
is in hearing about our trip around
the world.
But when we reach the point
where we put the lid on our own
personal experience, and invite oth
ers to tell us the stories of their
lives, we are past all need of wor
ding over the danger of being a
bore. We have become a listener,
and no sympathetic listener was ever
a bong. He, or she, is the one ab
sorbingly interesting companion of
whose society we never get enough.
Information has reached here that
thousands of women and children
carried out a food demonstration in
front of the residence of the civil
governor of Madrid. “We want
bread, we are hungry," was the cry
raised at first by hundreds and then
by thousands. The same words,
roughly written on newspapers
pinned to broomsticks were held
aloft by many of the women.
The police tried by arguments to
get the crowd to disperse. The
women, however, became more and
more angry, and finally stopped all
traffic in one of the chief arteries of
the capital, throwing their bodies in
front of street cars. Two motor cars,
the drivers of which insisted on tra
versing the thoroughfare, were
stoned.
Eventually, about 6 p. m., the
crowds were dispersed, after the
civil governor had promised that bet
ter supplies of bread would be avail
able later. The total amount baked
recently in the capital amounted to
only 50,000 kilograms. The usual
daily consumption of bread In Madrid
is 350,000 kilograms.
A rider aimed at President Wil
son’s recent veto was attached to
the sundry civil appropriation bill by
the senate finance committee. It pro
vides that no new government publi
cations shall be Issued without con
gressional authority.
In reporting out the bill the sen
ate appropriations committee recom
mended a total of $440,213,000 for
governmental activities covered by
the measure. This was $308,655,000
less than appropriated for the same
purposes last year, and $598,462,000
less than estimates submitted by
executive departments.
Increases made by the senate com
mittee included $4,436,000 for inland
and coastwise waterways, $2,000,000
for the customs service and $1,500,-
000 for enforcement of the prohibi
tion act.
According to dispatches from
Honolulu the banking groups In the
international consortium which have
arranged to advance funds for the
rehabilitation of China, must dis
play toward each other great pati
ence and tolerance, with the welfare
of China the one principle in view.
Thomas W. Lamont, the New York
banker and American representative
in the banking group, told the cham
ber of commerce in an address here.
Mr. Lamont said the Japanese gov
ernment had insured the internation
al bankers that it did not desire to
set up fresh political claims In Man
churia and Mongolia.
Mr. Lamont arrived recently afte”
an investigation in China and Japan
in connection with the consortium
and departed for San Francisco in
company with Frank A. Vanderlip,
also a New York banker, who have
been visiting the Far East.
The senate bill providing for the
vocational rehabilitation of persons
crippled in industry was passed by
the house and sent to the president.
Under the bill the federal govern
ment and the states would share
the cost, the state authorities ’to
have direct charge of the work un
der federal supervision.
Hungary will sign the peace treaty
presented to her by the allies, it was
indicated in Budapest. Count Al
bert Apponyi, who strongly opposed
acceptance of the treaty, has resign
ed from the peace delegation.
On motion of Chairman Lodge,
foreign relations committee, the
senate at Washington without a rec
ord vote refused to recede from its
amendment permanent war-time
passport regulations. .The diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill then
went back to conference, although
the house refused to accept the
amendment.
King George V. is richer by $52,575
since a jury in the supreme court
brought in its verdict against Ernest
Harrah & Co. The king, as head of
the British government, was plain
tiff. The verdict upheld I.ls claim
that the defendants had broken a
contract to supply 25,000 tons of
scrap iron to Great Britain in 1917.
King George asked for damages
amounting to $175,000. The defend
ant contended that the shipping situ
ation was such in 1917 that It was
unable to make shipments regularly
and that later, when the market
price fell, the British government re
fused shipments. Both sides ap
peared dissatisfied with the verdict
and gave notice of a probable ap
peal.