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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 SUBSCRH V TJON PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 7,,c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wls.l Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c ?2.50 s>-00 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 <«*’O Sunday ‘ c 30c 175 8-23 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. 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 Iqast two weeks before the date on this label, yqu insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscript ions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should b e sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and not! ces for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURN AL, Atlanta, Ga. 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 ME. j ' it HSIf v - , 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.