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A Record of Prosperity
And How to Enhance It
THE last five years have been the most
prosperous in the history of the New
South, and they have been also the
most progressive in Southern agriculture.
The latter fact explains-the former. Rooted
as it is in industries of the soil, the whole
business life of this region flourishes or
droops according to the fortunes of the farm.
Manufacturing, it is true, has become a
vital member of our economic body; and
there is hardly a form of productiveness,
whether of loom or forge or mine, but adds
its tribute to the stream of Dixie’s wealth.
Still, the heart of it all is agricultural, so
that if we find the distinctive tendencies of
our farming in the five thriving years just
behind us we shall hate discovered the main
elements in our heightened prosperity.
Consider, then, the fact that whereas
from 1910 through 1914 the acreage de
voted to cotton in ten Southern States was
forty-five per cent of that given to all crops,
from 1915 to 1919- it was only thirty-nine
per cent; and for the year 1919 itself, only
thirty-six per cent. These States —Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mis
sissippi, North and South Carolina, Okla
homa and Texas —supply approximately
ninety-five per cent of America’s cotton out
put. Cotton has been, until rather recently,
their sovereign hope in things agricultural
—not only their chief “money” crop but a
virtual autocrat, requiring the’ greater part
of their labor and minimizing if not ex
cluding other lines of staple production.
Thus it was that these States fell far short
of self-sustainment in the mattei' of food
stuffs and spent the profits of their cotton
for importations of grain, meat, hay and like
necessaries. Thus it was, moreover, that
their soil, drained by an unbroken success
ion of exhausting cotton yields, began to
decline. Had this state of affairs continued
a decade or so longer, not only the flow
but the very springs of our prosperity would
have been threatened.
It is of the utmost importance, there
fore, that between 1914 and 1919 the cot
ton acreage decreased from forty-five to
thirty-nine per cent of the total, and in
1919 to thirty-six per cent. This was ac
complished by a corresponding increase in
other crops and by remarkable expansions
in animal husbandry. The agricultural
change is shown in the following table from
Commerce Monthly, the percentages given
being for five-year averages and for the sin
gle year 1919:
Crop 1910-14 1915-19 1919
(per cent of total)
Zotton 45 39 36
Corn 41 3 9 38
Wheat 5 7 8
Oats 5 77
Hay 3 5 6
Other crops 1 3 5
Total ... 100 100 100
This breaking away from cotton tyranny,
-his new emphasis upon food production is
the outstanding event of the decade in the
South’s agriculture, and hence the most po
tent fact in her economic life.
But this happy reconstruction has just
begun. The prosperity of the last five years
is merely a token of richer bounties that
will come if diversified farming, with the
stress on food production, goes forward
apace. Now more than ever before necessity
urges and opportunity beckons the South
to lay larger store by food crops and an
imal husbandry. This she must do to avert
boll weevil disaster; and this she will do if
she follows the plainest guides to fortune.
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The Do min ant Politician In
The Chicago Convention.
APOTENT figure in the forthcoming
Republican National Convention—
the prepotent figure, many observers
think—will be Senator Boise Penrose, of
Pennsylvania. A politician of the sturdiest
and at the same time astutest type, con
trolling the seventy-six delegates from his
own State and influencing as many more
byway of an entente cordiale, knowing
the convention’s depths and shoals, its
winds and currents and myriads possibili
ties with the thoroughness of a veteran
mariner in such waters, he may well play
the determining part in the Republican
Presidential nomination.
His own first choice, it appears, is his
colleague Senator Knox. The two are old
allies and personal friends. Senator Knox,
the story goes, once remarked, “If Senator
Penrose had not been so absorbed in po
litical detail, he w’ould have made a states
man of the highest rank.” It is to the lat
ter’s “absorption in political detail,” how
ever, that Knox, who has never fancied the
bickerings and bowings of electoral politics,
owes his toga. So, at least, say the knowing
ones in Pennsylvania, who recall in this
connection the furious muckracking of
1912 when Penrose, speaking in the open
Senate charged that “former State Senator
William Flinn, of Pittsburgh, had offered
him and Israel W. Durham.one million, or
even two million, dollars if they would sup
port Flinn for the seat in the Senate made
vacant by the defeat of Senator Quay—
which offer, Senator Penrose said, was de
clined, the honor going to Philander C.
Knox.” The incident is noteworthy as show
ing Penrose’s predilection for the highest
i nr, .muajita rm-wjcjVjnLX
grade of political material in carrying out
his designs. He is a “boss,” but a “boss”
with discriminating taste as well as shrewd
judgment. Moreover, he can -wield the lance
of reform as well as the club of control,
if he will. It was but recently that he led
a successful campaign for municipal reform
in Philadelphia, arraying and directing the
very “Progressives” whose arch enemy he
so long had been. Above all, however, Sen
ator Penrose is devoted to the Republican
organization. Loyal to the point of self-ef
facement where the fortunes of the G. O.
P. are at stake, he will yield personal
preference for party advantage, and go far
in compromise to secure harmony.
In the light of these characteristics, what
is likely to be his course as the dominant
hand in the Chicago convention? His will
be the task very largely, it is expected, of
reconciling -antagonistic groups and forging
them into an efficient machine for the com
ing campaign. Obviously, then, he will not
stand persistently out for Senator Knox if
party interests require the abandonment of
his own choice. Just as obviously, however,
he will direct his influence to the support
of the conservative as distinguished from
the radical forces of the convention. In
deed, he would be out and out for “stand
patism” of the straitest sect if the situa
tion allowed, for of all the Old Guard none
was ever less of a true Liberal than he.
The sharpest clash probably will come
between his clan and that of Hiram John
son, though there promises to be some
vigorous tilting as well with the ranks of
General Wood, who will enter the conven
tion with the largest body of expressed
popular sentiment behind him.
To bring about a workable compromise
among these contrary elements will be
Senator Penrose’s problem—a problem ren
dered peculiarly difficult by his party's ut
ter lack of constructive purpose and moral
stamina. It is a mere political game that he
is to play; but for that very reason it is
doubtful that his match will be found in
the Chicago convention, nor will it be very
surprising if he manipulates the nomina
tion to Senator Knox.
A Significant Movement In
Decentralizing Government.
WHILE the tendency in the United
States in recent decades has been
toward centralization of power and
responsibility in the Federal Government,
in Great Britain there has been growing up
a sentiment for a larger measure of local
control. This has been specially manifest in
the more and more clearly defined inde
pendence of the overseas dominions. Cana
da, Australia and the others are today not
only self-governing in matters of internal
concern but even in foreign affairs are
endowed with clearly articulate voices of
their own. Never before was the individual
ity of the great Empire’s components so dis
tinctly recognized, nor was their union of
heart ever more warmly knit.
This process is now at work in the United
Kingdom itself, where plans are being con
sidered for instituting separate legislatures
in England, Wales and Scotland, in addi
tion to establishing home rule in Ireland.
A year ago the House of Commons voted
well-nigh unanimously that local law-mak
ing and administrative bodies were need
ful to take from the shoulders of the Im
perial Parliament a portion of its over
whelming mass of details. There was ap
pointed accordingly a commission, composed
of members of both nouses, which recent
ly submitted two reports which, though dif
fering on particulars, fully agree on essen
tials. The general character of these is
Indicated in the powers which it is pro
posed to vest in. the new legislatures and
which, as summarized by the New York
Times, include:
1. Regulation of internal commer
cial undertakings, professions and so
cieties, advertisements, amusements,
auctioneers, building and loan societies,
licensing markets and fairs.
2. Order and good government—-e.
g., betting, charities, police, poor law,
prisons, etc.
3. Ecclesiastical matters.
4. Agriculture and land.
5. Judiciary and minor legal matters,
coroners, county courts, criminal law
(procedure and definition, punishment
of minor offenses), law of inheritance,
intestates, estates, land eonveyancy and
registration, minor torts, trustees.
6. Education, primary, secondary and
university (except Oxford, Cambridge
and London).
7. Local government and municipal
undertakings, county council and muni
cipal bills, corrupt practices, fire bri
gades, harbors (except naval harbors),
- guardians, local legislation (private
bills, gas, water and electricity under
takings), municipal government (in
cluding local franchise), roads and
highways.
• 8. Public health, preventive meas-
ures, contagious diseases, hospitals,
housing, insurance, national health,
lunacy.
The powers here proposed are broadly
similar, it will be observed, to those ex
ercised by State legislatures in this coun
try, though at some points the British pro
gram would transfer to the local govern
ments authority and duties which in Amer
ica have passed from the States to the
central government. The movement is high
ly interesting as illustrative of the reac
tion which almost inevitably will follow
over-centralization. In this case it is an al
together sober and practical reaction. The
British have no traditions and theories
about States’ rights as many of us on this
side of the water have, but they see plain
ly enough that their Imperial system will
not continue to function unless it is re
lieved of some of the responsibilities which
decades and centuries have piled upon it.
There Governmental efficiency calls for de
volution, just as here it has seemed to de
mand more and more Federalization. The
question naturally occurs, may not we
likewise find at length that practical ex
igencies demand a harking back to the lo
cal government ideas of the Republic’s
fathers?
Forsaking the Furrows.
AVAILABLE farm labor in the United
States, according to reports from the
national Department of Agriculture,
is twelve per cent less than one year
ago. This is for the country as a whole. In
some regions the shortage is much more
pronounced; Massachusetts, for example, has
suffered a decrease of twenty-five per cent
on one thousand representative farms, and
in parts of the West there has been a steep
decline. In the South the situaticn is se
rious enough, though on the whole not sc
acute as elsewhere. Authorities do not hesi
-1 tate to say that unless the problem of farm
help is simplified, it will gravely impair the
nation’s productive powers at their most
vital point.
Whither have the thousands of hands
gone who were in the field and furrow a
year ago? A partial answer appears in sta
tistics which show that within this period
there has been an accession of thirty-seven
per cent to the number of employes in the
automobile industry, fifty-five pei- cent to
those Tn the clothing business. eleven per
THE DRUG PROBLEM
By H. Addington Bruce
I HAVE lately been reading a book which
doubtless will have, and certainly should
have, a wide circulation—Charles B. Towns’
“Habits That Handicap.” It is a book of sound
information and earnest warning regarding one
of the most serious problems of today—the
problem of drug addiction.
Many people imagine that in the United
States this problem has already been largely
solved by the enactment of so-called anti
drug laws. Actually, as Mr. Towns insists from
long and seaching inquiry, drug addictions are
on the increase rather than on the decline.
“It is conservatively estimated,” he informs
us. “that there are now in America approxi
mately a million and a half victims of habit
forming drugs alone- .< to mention the devo
tees of rum, headache powders, ether, and fla
voring extracts.
“Probably 2 per cent of all practising phy
sicians and thousands of nurses and druggists
are addicted to narcotics. And the ranks of the
drug victims are being added to at the rate
of an additional hundred- thousand new recruits
every year.” t
Also, as helping to explain why drug addic
tion is so common:
“It is the 'American type' of individual—
highly nervous, constantly living under pres
sure, always going to the full limit or even
beyond—who is most prone to physical or nerv
ous disorders that lead to the habitual use of
drugs.
“A surprising number of us are hypochon
driacal by nature, prone to ‘take something’
when we feel badly. . . . And no combination
which allows the physiological effets of a drug
to become manifest is less injurious or less
habit-forming than would be the drug itself
taken alone.
“This is true of every ‘elixir,’ ‘cough medi
cine,’ ‘tonic,’ ‘sedative,’ ‘narcotic,’ or ‘hypnotic’—
no matter how prettily panelled their con
tainer, how beautifully they may be colored,
or how pleasantly they may have been made
to taste.”
That is to say, drug addiction in most cases
is not a matter of deliberate resort to mor
phine, cocaine, etc., as a means of stimulation.
It is a product of unwise use of drug-contain
ing medicines for the relief of mental or
physical pain.
And, in large measure, the mental or physical
pain for which habit-forming medicines are
taken is itself a product of faulty habits of
thinking and living—habits which breed nerv
ousness and the insomnia, dyspepsia, headaches
and backaches of nervousness.
Consequently, the correct solution of the
drug problem is not by anti-drug legislation
alone. Supplementing the anti-drug legislation
there must be public education—such as Mr.
Towns aims to provide i. the present book —re-
garding the habit-forming possibilities of many
drugs now commonly thought harmless.
And still more there is needed public edu
cation regarding ways and means of getting
the moral poise, mental outlook, and nerve con
trol, for lack of which arise the depressing and
painful conditions tending to the habitual taking
of drugs. Without education to this end the
drug, problem is sure forever to plague and
perplex us.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspapers.)
HIGH PRICE OF VENGEANCE
By Dr. Frank Crane
One of the highest priced commodities on
the market is Vengeance. It has not been
affected by the post-war advance in the cost
of everything, for it has always been expen
sive.
And, a curious thing, high-priced luxury
though it be, the fool poor indulge in it
quite as much as the fool rich. What soul
so destitute as to deny itself the luxury of
its little retaliations.
Just now the Allies and the U. S. A. (the
latter insists upon the distinction) are on
the way to pay roundly for the pleasure of
Vengeance. Far be it from the writer to say
a word against hating the Germans and Aus
trians, for that is the tardy test of patriot
ism, so simple, too, and so easily applied;
and deportation or worse awaits those ■who
use the command, “Love your enemies” for
anything else than Sabbath consumption;
but attention may be called to the following
considerations:
Pursue the policy bf hate and hostility
toward the population of Central Europe,
visit the (Sins of the Junkers upon their
dupes and victims, the common people, and
you will—
1. Promote all those passions that breed
wars, keep alive the seed of a future war,
and produce the maximum amount of un
happiness and violence possible between the
two parties.
2. Prevent the prosperity of the German
people, which alone can enable them to pay
what they owe us.
3. Prevent industrial co-operation between
Germany the allied nations, which would
make Germany a world asset instead of a
world liability, and discourage schemes of
future vengeance.
4. Keep alive Junkerism, Militarism, dis
eased nationalism.
5. Drive Germany and Austria into the
arms of Russia, thus building up and
strengthening a vast political, sentimental
and industrial menace to Western Europe
and America.
The eternal mistake the world goes on
making is that the ethics of the state are
different from the ethics of the individual.
They are not; they are the same.
If it pays, in the long run, for one man
to forgive his enemy, forget grudges and re
turn good for evil, it pays a million men,
or the nation, just a million times as
much.
Os course, if you believe that forgiving
enemies is slush and bosh, why, that is an
other story. Enjoy yourself. Get your ven
geance. But it sure comes high.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Lord Tomnoddy was very much in love
with Fluffy Flipflop, the famous revue star,
and announced his intention of asking the
lady to marry him the following night.
“And you think she will say ‘yes?’ ” asked
the father, amiably.
“Oh, I don’t know,” said the love sick
youth. “She's so beautiful and fascinating
1 feel I can never hope to win her love!”
“Oh, rot!” said the father, encouragingly.
“Lots of other men have succeeded. Why
shouldn’t you?”
cent to paper manufactories, and from ten
to ninety-three per cent in the divers
branches of the textile industry. In all tnese
and other urban occupations the call of
high wages, short hours and town life has
drawn multitudes from rural labor.
Mere complaint at this state of affairs is
bootless. So long as human nature remains
as it is, men will leave the seemingly hard
er for the seemingly easier way. although
in the long run they rue the exchange. Soon
or late there must be a return to the farm.
The present production of food will not
suffice for an ever increasing population,
and the glamor of high wages will fade
when it is realized that they erve chiefly
to increase the cost of bread and meat.
Excesses and disproportions all balance
themselves in the course of time, and so
at last will this one.
It is none the less important, however,
that everything feasible be done to make
farm life attractive to the rising generation
and rewardful as well. Better schools, bet
ter roads, more domestic comforts and more
social satisfactions —these will prove draw
ing powers of great force and will hasten
a truly constructive solution of many oi
the stubbornest problems of the time.
What Every Man I
Thinks About
Women
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, inc.)
EVERY man thinks that wom
an’s place is in the home —
but'that she’s awfully lucky
to have a man offer her one.
That woman’s "sphere is marriage
—but that she should never think
about it, except in the beautiful ab
stract, until some man mentions it
to her.
That woman was “made for love”
•—but that it is "unwomanly” and
unreasonable for her to love any man
until he asks her to.
That woman’s first duty is to be
beautiful—but that she should scorn
to resort to any of the little first
aids to beauty if the Lord didn’t
make her that way.
That she would cultivate her mind
—and then be content to concentrate
it all no what to feed a man for din
ner.
That she would have a sweet,
abiding faith in men—bin never take
one of them seriously in a sentimen
tal affair, until he tells her to.
That she should have beautiful
ideals —-yet consider them all fulfilled
when she succeeds in marrying a fat
little man with a bald spot, a double
chin, and a passion for pinochle.
That she should be indignant when
a man tries to kiss her —and disap
pointed when he doesn’t.
That she should languish when he
doesn’t propose to her —and drop
dead with astonishment when he
does.
That she should dream of the com
ing of her Prince Charming—but
never go out and grab the bridle of
his horse, when she sees him riding
straight past.
That she should yearn and yearn
and yearn for a husband —but never
make the slightest effort to capture
one.
That, when she promises to "love
and honor” a jnan, she should go
right on doing/ it, automatically, no
matter what he does to discourage
her.
That she should tie a man to her
forever.—by giving him all the rope
he wants.
That_she should agree with all a
man’s opinions, approve of all his
ways, and applaud all his jokes—yet
never flatter him or deceive him.
That she should regard marriage as
a matter of blind luck, a husband as
a heaven-sent blessing, and spinster
hood as her own fault.
That she should play the game of
life like a "dead game little sport,”
gracefully, skillfully, successfully—
with all the cards stacked against
her.
That she should be able to swim
without going near the water, to
cook without lighting the fire and to
dance through life like a dryad—with
a chain ball attached to her an
kle.
And then —and then —when she
does all these things.
He wonders "why the Lord made
her such a human paradox!”
THE FORTUNE"
TELLER
By Frederic ! Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 30
The fortune teller is a fat
pale woman with the alert
and wary eyes which be
longs to men and women and other
animals that live by wit and cun
ning. She is a curious being, half
fraud and half fanatic. The method
by which she peers into your future
is an absurdly simple trick, easily
analyzed and easily defeated. And
yet beyond a doubt she more than
half believes in her own supernatural
powers.
She tells you that she is a prophet
like the prophets of old and especial
ly like Daniel, and that she has three
angel guides who tell her of the fu
ture, and through whom she com
municates with the dead. Her voice
rises dramatically and her green
eyes roll as she tells you how the
secrets of the universe are revealed
to her power. Then her voice sinks
to a weird low tone as she tells you
that she has enemies, not less than
fifty of them, and that they are
fighting her through the black astral
with evil suggestion. Through the
black astral they are able to hover
about her unseen'. She hears them,
in her room at night; they move
furniture and rustle curtains. She
feels the cold wind of their passing
and the faint disturbing shock of
their evil suggestions. But is she
afraid of them? Not she. She re
peats a certain formula and hurls
into them with all the force of her
mighty will her own counter sug
gestion and they are confounded and
fly away moaning.
A silly old woman, you will say,
with a touch of paranoia taking the
form of persecutional delusions. True
enough. Then why write a story
about her? Because she is a part of
almost every American community,
a factor in our national life. There
is a demand for such as she, and
all kinds of people make it. This
woman, for example, claims that so
ciety women and members of con
gress are among her patrons. She
may lie about this, but certain it is
that taxicabs and automobiles bear
prosperous and intelligent-looking
people to her door, and they pay
from $2 to $5 each to listen to her
strange rigamarole. She is full
brother to the medicine man of the
red savage and in essence exactly
the same thing as the voodoo woman
of the Haitian negro. She has no
more place in civilization than has
cannibalism. And yet she is one
of many here in Washington, one
of thousands no doubt in the whole
country. And America, high and
low. black and white, troops to her
door. She exists in many forms,
from the primitive gypsy appealing
to the lowest types, to the so called
scientific palmist land occult psy
chologist, who stir a. savor of science
into their broth of savagery to make
it appeal to a more sophisticated
taste. She is the visible proof that
we have not after all traveled so far
from the spook-haunted jungles of
primitive life. She is the cloven foot
of the satyr projecting grotesquely
from under our neat garments of
c i v i 1 i zation.
A blooded Shropshire lamb, one of
President Wilson’s flock of sheep,,
slipped Into the White House execu
tive offices recently and made an
unannounced call on the clerks there.
The animal finally was ejected,
but he had not had his full of hu
man companionship, and took up n
station immediately in front of the
entrance to the offices, keeping the
White House policemen busy con
voying callers,
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
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Copyright. 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate ’
THVKSnAI, JISB 3, nwii.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
! TRY IT ON THE DOG
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
* TIMID and bashful* young girl
/\ moaned to me the other day
Al, that she never knew what to
say to people.
To which, I replied:
"My child, there’s just one infal
lible rule for dealing with your fel
low creatures. It’s a very old rule,
and it >s called the Golden Rule, and
it works just as effectually conver
sationally as It does ethically.
"Do unto others as you would have
them do to you, and say to them the
kind of things you would like them
to say to you.
"When in doubt try out your lit
tle speech on yourself. If it sounds
good to you be sure it will sound
equally well to Mary, or Sally, or
John or Tom. If your words bring
a kindly glow to your own heart,
and make the day seem brighter anu
cheerier, do not doubt that they will
have the same happy effect on any
one else to whom you hand out that
optimistic line of chatter.
"All humanity, my dear, is -cut off
of the same bolt of cloth, and while
we may be made up in different de
signs and different patterns, down at
bottom we are of the very same weave
and woof. The thing that pleases
one pleases all. The thing that
soothes one, soothes all, and con
versely, the thing that irritates one
and hurts and wounds one, wounds
all.
“That is why it is always safe to
take your own little self as a prgtty
leliable guide in deciding what you
shall say, and refrain from saying, to
other people.
"Suppose, for instance, we take
the matter of what is called ‘plain
speaking.’ A great many people pride
themselves upon saying exactly what
they think, no matter how brutal it
is, or how much they hurt another
by so doing.
"If you have a new hat they will
tell you that it is ten years too young
for you and that you look like a Ig
ure of fun in it. If you sing out
of tune they call your attention, and
everybody else’s attention to it. If
you are ill, they tell you how badly
you look, and how sallow your com
plexion is.
"Do you suppose that these peo
ple would ever make such cruel
speeches if they tried them out first
on themselves? They would not.
For you will observe as you go
through life that the very people who
show the least regard for the feel
ings of others, are the most tender
of their own.
"Therefore, my dear, before you
tell Mary that blue makes her skin
look like a pumpkin, or Sally thdt
she dances as if she had learned to
two-step in a school of correspond
ence. just think how you would like
it if Mary and Sally spoiled your
pleasure in your new frock, and made
you afraid and ashamed to ever get
on another ball room floor.
“If you will, you will keep silent
about your friends defects, and in
stead you will say something nice
that you can truly say to Mary about
her lovely fan, or to Sally about the
way she does her hair. You can be
pleasantly honest as well as un
pleasantly so, you know.
“Leave the criticising to others.
You are not ordained by Heaven to
run the world and supervise your
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
Prince William of Sweden, who ar
rived in New York recently after
traveling through Central America
incognito, sailed for Europe on the
steamship Adriatic, which carried 2,-
420 passengers.
The prince was escorted to the pier
by Olaf H. Lamm, Swedish consul
general at this port. His name did
not appeal on the passenger list.
Many theatrical persons were on
the Adriatic, among them Mr. and
Mrs. E. H. Sothern, Elsie Janis, Marc
Klaw, Edgar Selwyn and Jesse L.
Lasky.
Jimmy Wilde, of England, world’s
flyweight boxing champion, sailed
with his wife after a seven months'
tour of the country. Sheriff David H.
Knott was another passenger.
Senator France (Rep., Md.) urged
in the senate that congress stay in
session and "mercilessly strip from
the executive every one of those
enormous powers which were con
ferred for the period of the war.”
"By denying peace, for which the
representatives of the people have de
clared,” said Senator France, “the
president in effect arrogates to him
self, in violation of the constitution,
the power to declare for war.”
It was the kaiser’s power to make
war which alone made him an em
peror instead of a president, the sen
ator continued, adding that President
Wilson had assumed a like authority.
President Wilson nominated Mrs.
Annette Abbott Adams, of San Fran
cisco, now United States attorney for
the northern district of California, ds
first assistant attorney general.
/Mrs. Adams will have charge of the
enforcement of tax and customs laws,
the war risk, pure food, quarantine
and" Adamson acts and also will have
supervisory control over federal
prisons. Activities of the department
in connection with the Volstead pro
hibition act, formerly In charge of
Mr. Frierson, will be transferred to
another assistant, according to At
torney General Palmer.
Mrs. Adams will be ordered to
Washington from San Francisco im
mediately upon confirmation of the
nomination. . -rxrii
The president also nominated Wil
liam C. Frierson, of Chattanooga,
Tenn., now an assistant attorney gen
eral as solicitor general of the United
States.
By a vote of 6 to 3 the senate agri
culture committee ordered a favoi
able report on the McNary bill pro
viding for an export embargo on
sugar.
Those supporting the bill were
Senators McNary, of Oregon; Capper,
of Kansas: Kenyon, of lowa, and Nor
ris, of Nebraska. Republicans, ana
Harrison, of Mississippi, and Ken
drick, of Wyoming. Democrats. Sen
ators Smith, of Georgia; Smith, of
South Carolina, and Ransdell. of
Louisiana. Democrats, opposed it.
Before taking final action the com
mittee amended the measure so that
it would not affect sugar sent to
the United States by foreign coun
tries or their nationals to be re
fined. Earlv senate consideration or
the bill is planned by Senator Mc-
Nary.
To prevent a constant time mix
up caused by the courthouse clock
running on central time and the city
of Chillicothe. Ohio, running on "day
light-saving” time, a third hand will
he added to the dial of the court
house clock. The new hand will be
nainted gold and will indicate the
time by daylight-saving schedule.
The old hands are painted black.
Although council legislated "day
light-saving” time, the county com
missioners refused to change the
courthouse clock.
The third hand was the compro
mise.
Herbert Louis Samuel will as
sume his duties as high coirunis
sioner in Palestine July i, according
to an announcement made by the
Jewish correspondence bureau. He
will leave for Palestine June 20.
The authorities in Palestine have
appointed a new council for the com
munity of Jerusalem. It will con
sist of six persons, Jews, Moham
medans and Christians. Each sect
will have two representatives.
The president of the council is a
Moslem, Raghcd Biz Nashahili. and
the vice president is David Yellin.
president of the Hebrew academy.
At attempt to enforce the United
States prohibition regulations on the
American passenger steamer Martha
Washington led to disorder on board
that vessel when one of the ship’s
officers endeavored to take from a
coal passer a bottle of whisky al
leged to have been in the man’s pos
session.
According to message from War
saw Lieut. Harmon C. Rorison, Wil
mington, N. C., a pilot in the Kos
ciusko aerial squadron, has been
missing since he began a flight un
dertaken to obtain a report concern
ing the Bolshevik lines on the south
ern front in the Ukraine, sever*’
days ago. Polish military- authori
ties believe he either was shot down
or forced to land inside the 801-’-'"’ik
-’-'"’ik lines.
friends’ taste. Never forget that the
hammer is a hideous implement in
any woman’s hands and that nobody
loves a knocker.
“When you are tempted to be
smart and sarcastic try out your
sharp speeches on yourself. You
can’t be so superhumanly vain and
conceited as not to know that you
have pecularities and weaknesses
about which any wag could be funny
if he or she chose you as a target
for ridicule,
“Can’t you see yourself writhe as
the shots strike home? Can t you
feel your face flame as you hear the
laughs at your expense Can’t you
feel the dull, hopeless misery that
makes you want to go off and hide
yourself and die, as you realize that
the people whom you thought admir
ed you, are making a mock of you?
“Ridicule is the cheapest form of
wit. Even a fool can use it, but no
human being would ever appjy it to
another if he had first applied it to
himself.
“When you feel grouchy, and com
plaining, and as if tht» world h{Jl
used you ill, try telling your troubles
to yourself before you tell them to
anybody else.
"Do you enjoy hearing the litany
of other people’s woes? Is it your
idea of passing a pleasant hour to
listen to all the piker annoyances
that have befallen some friend? Do
you feel cheered and uplifted after
some girl has wept all over your
fresh blouse because she has had a
quarrel with her best beau?
“You do not. You would go far
to avoid the troublemonger. You
could scream when you are called on
to hear over again for the millionth
time all about how Caroline’s moth
er doesn’t understand her, and how
Myrtle's boss brutally criticised her
spelling, and how jealous Maud’s
fiance is, and fresh details of Katie’s
warfare with her landlady.
"Well, then, just reflect that other
people enjoy hearing about your pri
vate worries just exactly as much as
you do listening to the illiad of their
woes. Each of us have troubles
enough of our own, without having
those of our friends dumped on ns,
and it’s a brave and gallant and hu
man thing to bear our own loads in
silence.
“Finally, my dear, recall the things
people say to you that make you
feel as if the sun had suddenly
burst through the clouds, the things
that.cheer you, that brace you up,
that make you think that life is
worth while, and that give you the
courage to go on.
"A jolly little story; a word of de
served praise; a little sympathy and
understanding, a warm ’thank you’
for some favor done; the recalling of
something worth while you did in the
past; an inquiry after some one near
and dear to you: perhaps just some
one remembering some taste or habit
of yours.
“If these things make you happy,
and they do, why, just pass them
on to ther people. If you will, you
need never be at a loss to know what
to say. Just try your conversation
out on yourself and If it makes a
hit with you, it has all the elements
of general popularity In it.”
Dorothy Dix articles will appear In
this paper every Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.
Lobar pneumonia caused the death
of Joseph Auditore, wealthy steve
dore contractor, according to the re
port of medical examiners who con
ducted an autopsy on the body re
cently in th© Kings county morgue.
The report was made public by Dis
trict Attorney Harry E. Lewis, of
Brooklyn, N, Y. It says:
“The body of Joseph Auditore was
exhumed apd an autopsy performed.
It showed that he died of lobar pneu
monia, involving the entire right lung
and lower lobe of the left lung. All
the chest organs, upper abdominal
cavity, were adherent, due to ex
tensive inflammation and specimens
were taken for microscopical exami
nation and chemical analysis.”
The results of the microscopic arid
chemical tests will be known in
about ten days, the physicians said.
Five large fur concerns have con
ceded the demands of the strikers
for a forty-hour week and equal dis
tribution of work, ft was announced
recently by Morris Kaufman, presi
dent of the International Fur Work
ers’ Union of the United States and
Canada. He said the firms are Re
villion Freres, A. Jaeckel, H. Jaeckel,
C. G. Gunther and CJiarvey. The
Associated Fur Manufacturers, Inc.,
declined comment on Kaufman’s
statement.
Kaufman said that as a result of
this settlement 1,000 men will return
to work soon. He declared the strike
had spread to out-of-town shops.
Howard Gould, son of the late Jav
Gould, of New York, is seriously ill
in London. He recently underwent
an operation for appendicitis.
Mr. Gould is a brother of Mrs. Fin
ley J. Shepard, of New York, and
George Jay, Frank Jay and Edwin
Gould.
Mr. Gould is the third son of the
late Jay Gould. He shared equally in
the $6f>,000,000 estate of his father.
He married Viola Katherine Clem
mons, an actress, in 1898, notwith
standing his family’s opposition. She
obtained a divorce about nine years
later. Mr. Gould has been noted as
a yachtsman.
A dispatch from Mexico gives out
this information. Efforts are being
made by the war ’office to obtain
details of a clash between forces of
the government and those of Gen
eral Villa, reported to have taken
place at Valle de Allende. Early
accounts said the rebels lost three
dead and six prisoners.
More than a dozen women have
applied to the state-city employment
bureau at the Cincinnati city hall
for work as farm laborers, following
word that farmers in this section
of the state are confronted with a
serious shortage of help, it was an
nounced today.
The United States is in no danger
of exhausting its coal supplies in
the near future, for about 7,000 years’
supply is available, S. M. Darling,
of the bureau of mines, told the
twelfth annual convention of the In
ternational Railway Fuel association
in Chicago.
Departure from Sydney recently
of the White Star liner Megantic for
Liverpool byway of New Zealand,
the Panama canal, the West Indies
and New York recalls her historic
forerunner of. 1854. This vessel, the
Golden Age. was a wooden paddle
wheel steamer, belonging to the New
York and Australian Steam Naviga
tion company. The intention of the
company was to run six vessels "via
Panana,” the Panama railroad, cap
italized at $7,000,000 being the con
necting link on the then undivided
isthmus with the West Indian Royal
Mail Steam Packet company, running
from Southampton.
The Crimean war, yellow fever on
the isthmus and other causes con
spired to defeat the company’s plans.
The Golden Age was commanded by
Lieutenant D. D. Porter, of the
United States navy, who afterwards
became famous as a Union admiral
during the Civil war.
The Golden Age left Melbourne for
Panama via Sydney and Tahiti May
5. 1854. She reached Sydney on May
11 with 300 passengers. Her cargo
included a consignment of gold dust
and she reached England in sixty
six days.
President Wilson transmitted £5
congress without recommendation an
offer of J. Pierpont Morgan of the
gift of his London residence* as an
American embassy building. Mr.
Morgan asked for prompt decision
by the government, saying that he
did not want a residence to stand
unoccupied while there was such
scarcity of housing in London. The
residence fronts .on Hyde Park, and
was used by Mr. Morgan’s grandfa
ther and father.
The president sent congress a let
ter from Secretary Colby saying that
the residence was desirable and con
venient, although not large enough
both for the ambassador’s residence
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