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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA. GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.5(1 Eight months Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 WK.I Mo. 3 Moi. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday2oc 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9..>0 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7-50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early 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 address! ug your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you 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 subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address nil orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. 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. * / 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 Boss AX ME , SUNDAY EF ALL DEM FOLKS 'LONGS T' MAH CHU'CH -- WELL, AH FIGGUHS BOUT RALF OB- 'EM 'LONGS T' I>E CH I! CH , EM TOTHER HALF, DE CHUCH 'LONGS T' as/ MPmi OIOIRr 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 -r-l -—.' offi-'e.