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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE .TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months Six months Four months Sue Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) » 1 WK.I Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 So.OO SD.7>O Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 i. 50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY. Circulation’ Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. 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 uaed for addressing 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 all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. The Farreaching Import of the IF a ter Paw er Bill. PASSED in the glare of the oncoming political conventions, the national water-power bill has aroused scant comment. But it is far and away the most notable achievement of the present Con gress; as David Lawrence remarks, “long after the excitement over the Presi dential campaign has died away, this meas ure will be developing new communities and building new cities in the valleys of the country, more water will be available for irrigation and arid lands will be yield ing crops.” For ten years bills looking to the utili zation of the power latent in American streams have been in controversy. That a vast deal of wealth was going to waste and public interests suffering in conse quence, was commonly agreed. But differ ences over the terms upon which these resources should be unlocked to individual initiative appeared irreconcilable. There were conservationists who seemed to forget that capital would never enter this field of de velopment unless given opportunity for fair and dependable profits. There were Gov ernment ownership theorists who objected ’to turning the task over to private enter prise. There were monopolisms who, if they could, would have left the public’s rights altogether out of account. At last, however, common sense and common patriotism have evolved a measure which js generally ac ceptable. It provides that a commission composed of the Secretary of *War, the Sec retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, shall decide what water-power sites may be developed, whether the con struction of dams will interfere with the river’s, navigability or otherwise react against the common interests, and what the companies shall pay the Federal treas ury. After a period of fifty years the private companies will be bound to relin quish their grants and developments if the Government then wants the property; though in that event, of course, they will be compensated for their investment. It is predicted that as a result of this encouraging and at the same time safe guarding legislation there will be launched within the next few years numerous enter prises of farreaching industrial and agri cultural import. The earliest development probably will come in those regions of the West where manufacturing interests have lagged for want of convenient supplies of coal and where farming has had to wait upon irrigation. But in due time the en tire country will feel the stimulus. Partic ularly rich are the water-power resources . of the South, whose latent “white coal” is capable of driving a whole empire’s ma chinery. In this section, moreover, the de velopment of power and of navigation will frequently go hand in hand, so that a dou ble blessing will ensue. It has been repeat edly pointed out, for instance, that construc tion of the locks and dams and other im provements necessary to utilize the Chat tahoochee’s now dissipated power would vir tually suffice to make he river navigable from Atlanta to Columbus, or at least would carry preparation to that end so far that it could be completed with little expense and delay. It is to be expected, therefore, that Georgia and neighboring States will share richly in the common country’s benefits from the new conservatin bill and that new realms of industrial and commercial pros perity will be opened to them. - City Folks Should Help. REMINDING the planters of this spa cious Commonwealth, where a new crop can be raised for three seasons of the twelvemonth, that especially rich rewards await the production of foodstuffs and that accordingly they should exert their utmost energies to that end, the Co lumbus Ledger adds: ‘‘Meantime the business man ought to cooperate with the farmer in ef forts to relieve as far as possible the labor shortage situation. There are many ways in which town and city dwellers can help, and there should be no hesitancy. Conditions '- and that everyone aid in raising food.” The Ledger here touches a most vital spot of the production Self inter est and humane regard alike urge the farmer to bring forth the greatest harvests of food that industry and skill can win x.’om a fertile soil. But at the outset he is handicapped as never before by lack of help, and will continue so unless others cooperate to furnish relief. Machinery can do much to offset a labor shortage, and a few years hence the tractor and other useful contrivances will doubtless have re duced to a remarkable extent the number of hands required for planting, cultivating and harvesting. But at this juncture ma chinery Itself is difficult to procure, so extensive is the demand for it. What the farmer needs is prompt help for the emer gency weeks of this truly critical year. That urban interests and organizations can materially aid is shown by the expe rience of Western communities, where in the most pressing seasons of farm work lown and city folk have dropped every thing to help their rural neighbors. In Georgia and the South there should be at least an organized effort on the part of commercial and civic bodies to render time ly service. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. His Revised Fiew of the South THE editor of the Putnam Patriot, which ie published in Putnam County, Conn., recently has returned from a tour of the South that was to him an eye-opener. He writes: “Years ago, during the days when the South was still under the torpor produced by the Civil War, when the atmosphere cre ated by George W. Cable, Thomas Nelson Page and Hopkinson Smith was yet a truth, some merry drummer coined a famous par ody on “Dixie.” It ran something like this: “ ‘Away down South in the land of cot ton, “ ‘Bum hotels and. business rotten— etc.’ ” The jingle sprang into Instant popularity because it was so brimful of truth, accord ing to the Putnam Patriot’s editor, and this picture of the South lingers in the mind of many a Northerner. But the Connecticut scribe now laments that the author of the quoted parody cannot be resurrected and taken “a-marching through the South in 1920.” As he sees it, “one conclusive fact that a single voyage of vision demonstrated clearly was that the New South —and it is as times painfully new as contrasted with the old—is very rapidly forging ahead of the Old North in many di rections and that we of New England, in our century-old complacence, are losing many .....j Ox progress which the Southerner of the second generation since the War has gained and benefited by in a single decade of commercial and industrial revival.” “Bum hotels” and “rotten business” are as much of a memory today in the South as is the Ku Klux Klan, according to the ob servant New Englander. The “colonade fronted and rocking-chair veranda” type cl hotels that formerly sheltered the traveler, has been replaced by hostelries, modern in every detail and affording unsurpassed serv ice. The narrow trails through the red clay hills and sand beds that formerly served an inconsiderable traffic have given way to good roads that “carry the wheels of a per centage of automobiles that is astonishing.” “The South has learned, too, a fact which we are rapidly forgetting in our Northern cit ies,” remarks the Putnam Patriot. “That is the necessity for the high maintenance of public works. Those who remember the grass grown streets of the old South can but be astounded at the miles of excellent pave ment that have been built and are being splendidly maintained in the principal South ern cities. Above all, the South appreciates fully the value of municipal cleanliness and order. These are lessons which we in the solidarity of our years of comfortable prog ress are prone to forget. The South has changed. It is advancing by leaps and bounds. It is losing the old atmosphere of the novelist and cavalier. It is, however, developing an American quality which hai its basis on all the tradition of the past.” The editor of the Putnam Patriot is right. The South has changed, though her devotion to the “brave days of old” is deathless. No section of the country has shown greater de velopment or more real progress in the last two decades. The comme/cial and indus trial awakening has been general, and the spirit of civic pride manifest on every hand. Black Coal and White Coal. IT will be seven thousand years, savants say, before America’s coal supply, at the present rate of consumption, is ex hausted —an assurance which the Birmingham Age-Herald to remark that while it is gratifying to learn that we are in no imminent danger of a fuel famine, “the prospect of seven thousand years of coal strikes is appalling.” Abundance of riches yields scant comfort if we are blocked from using them. Billions of tons of coal will not warm one’s little fin ger on a freezing December night, unless the miner has done his part betimes and freight trains have run in season. It is to be hoped that ere a thousand years have lapsed we shall have evolved a more sensi ble method of settling industrial differences than that of punishing the innocent public as well as both parties to the controversy while adjustments .are being sought. Mean while, the losses and perils are enormous when the supply of a commodity on which depends production and distribution and sub sistence itself, is cut off. In recent winters we have felt the pinch of such a situation and have had inkling into how calamitous it would be if prolonged. But there is one class of communities that can regard mining troubles and coal famines with little or no anxiety. We mean those whose wheels are turned and industries fed by water power. Not only are they independ ent, but their skies are dean and their pros perity over-brimming. “White coal” is to be America’s great power-provider in the years ahead, and it will be an important prob- as well. The Unsung Candidate. THERE are more aspirants for the Presidency of the United States than Horatio dreams of in his political philosophy. Out in Michigan the Honorable W. G. Simpson rings the welkin with the lusty art of one who sought the nomina tion four summers ago and who probably will be seeking it four summers hence if, as his more cautious clansmen now appre hend, he fails meanwhile to win the White House. Out in Illinois, the Honorable Wil liam Grant Webster (whether a descendant of the warrior or the statesman whose name he honors, the record saith not) is discuss ing the development of his second cam paign for the nation’s Chief Magistracy. Mayhap a fickle public has forgotten that he was ever before in the lists; and pos sibly there are benighted citizens' who do not know even now that he purposes to be' their next President. But was not the vul gus populi always slow in detecting unla beled genius? East as well as West hope springs eter nal in the born candidate’s bosom. Consider the Honorable Samuel Harden Church, an as pirant of whom the New York Evening Post tells us: “Mr. Church has the support of the Cameron (Mo.) Sun and the Kingston (Mo.) Mercury. He had a striking recep tion recently in the Brekinridge (Mo.) op era house, and photographs are §xtant of the log cabin in which he was born. He is now a Pennsylvanian, and the fact that political observers think the . Knox boom will come to nothing is doubtless connected with Mr. Church’s appearance in the con test.” May they never wax sophisticated, these hitchers of their wagons to the stars, who, after all, are the most delightful and the least harmful of the political species. As long as the philosophers have racked their, brains for an adequate theory of laughter none of them, from Aristotle to Bergson, has hit the matter off so happily as the Columbia Record sage who dryly remarks: “Man ie the only animal that laughs, but looking at some men it’s hard to understand how some of the other an imals can keep from laughing.” LEARN BY DISCUSSION By H. Addington Bruce MANY; many centuries ago a very wise Greek taught that men should daily exercise their minds in discussing with other men subjects concerning which various beliefs werfe possible. It was his theory that by such discussion not only would argumentative skill increase, but there would be a general gain in knowl edge, question and answer in the discussion serving to separate truth from error and to bring out the facts not previously taken into account. The soundness of this theory he demonstrated by practice with groups of friends and pupils. So that it may truly be said this wise Greek gave to the world one of the best of educational methods. But the world has failed to utilize it as it might and should. Especially in these latter times has educa tion by discussion fallen into disuse. To some extent it is practiced in coliegee and universities, though as a rule professors prefer to harangue their students by the lec ture method. And in sundry public and semi public gatherings discussion is an interest ing and helpful feature. But how seldom do men when they meet in private life really discuss anything. In the main they are content to exchange idle gossip, to pass news of no particular im portance from one to another, banter and jest. Or, if they do touch on subjects of some significance, they usually approach these with prejudiced minds. They have biased atti tudes, preconceived ideas, that make clarify ing discussion impossible. They may be willing enough to impose their ideas on They are not equally willing to receive corrective or modifying ideas. So that at the end of what they may per haps call a discussion they part with their vision unexpanded, their minds exercised a little, if at all. Happily, this is not true of all men. There are not a few sincerely anxious to profit from discussion and willing and able to scrutinize themes of discussion from different points of view without making snap judgments or losing their tempers. It is among these that one must range one’s self if really seeking self-improvement. And, overcoming one’s own prejudices and opening one’s own mind, it is surprising how much may be learned from discussion even with the violently dogmatic. More than this, the example of patient habitual open-mindedness is sure to affect the dogmatic for good in some degree, bo that, little by little, education by discussion will ’ become more and more prevalent and more generally beneficial. Which is a consummation devoutly to be wished, most of all in these days of thorny social, economic and political issues, days wt(en the survival of civilization itself may be said to be in the balance. (Copyrigt, 1920, by the Associated News papers.) SHALL AMERICA BE THE GREAT PROFITEER STATE? By Dr. Frank Crane The supreme effort of enlightened states manship should be to apply the ethics of the individual to the nation. The eternal war is of the world sou against Machiavelli, the gist of whose teach ing is that while the individual is bound by conscience the State is bound solely by self interest. That theory found its perfect flower in Germany and brought on the war. It is not yet dead. It animates a large group of American politicians today, who re pudiate our position during the war, that America had a duty toward humanity, and insist that America’s sole duty is toward her self. . . Secretary of State Colby, in a recent ad dress at a banquet in New York, preached a sound gospel. He defined Americanism in the only way that can prevent it from be coming as bad a stink in the nostrils of the world as Germanism. He emphasized the selfishness of isolation in prosperity. The policy of looking out for Number One and letting the rest of the world go to the devil, is not only immoral, but short-sighted. The profounder truth is that whatever is immoral is bad policy. The wicked greed of profiteer Nations slays them as surely as the gluttony and ego tism of the individual slay him. “The world,” he said, “is really at the brink not of a great disaster, but of utter dis aster. Let us not be profiteers upon our geographical position. “Possession implies stewardship. Power implies responsibility and there rests upon this great and powerful republic, blessed above all lands, fortunate beyond the dreams of the men who founded this country, there rests upon it a reciprocal duty to the world, a duty that we should undertake happily, soberly, responsibly, to administer our wealth, to apportion our power in great works of modest succor and relief to those who are less fortunate. “Let us give of our political power, of our political experience, of our commercial strength, of our pecuniary power, to the suc cor and relief of this sorely afflicted world. It is not only our duty us human beings, but it is the only enlightened policy.” What Mr. Colby said, in this speech made upon an occasion to stimulate private charity, ought to be said not only in every pulpit of the land, but also should be said in the po litical hustings, in our national legislative bodies and from the chair of the President. This is the real, underlying political issue: Shall America be great according to Machia velli, or according to the best known ethics of the individual applied to the State? (Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.) The King of Self Conceit. THERE is no surprise in the report that the former Kaiser counts confidently upon being restored to power and glory. To shake so leviathan an egotism as his requires more than the engulfment and disgrace so a world war. But one scarcely can Imagine the Ger man people or even the Prussian mili tarists countenancing a suggestion of Wil helm Hohenzollern’s return. The court cir cle must have found him insufferably bor ing in the days of his pomp, and the pro letariat now would find him a sorry show. For the sake of romance, it is a pity th iscast-out sabre-rattler has none of the stuff of heroism. He might at least have furnished the novelists with plot material. But, alas, he is a most uninteresting vil lain, and little in all things but self conceit. “Gimme a hamburg steak, gimme a ham burg steak, gimme a hamburg steak,” ex claimed an excited young man at a lunch counter. “What’s the matter, young feller? Shell shock?” inquired the waiter. “Shellshock, nothing. I used to be a j company clerk and always made out our I reauisitions in triplicate.’* Mrs. Solomon Says: Being the Confessions of The Seven-Hundredth Wife BY HELEN ROWLAND Copyright, 1920, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate. HIW sayest thou, my daughter? Is the way of a bachelor ail roses and kisses and con quests? Nay, verily! For, as surely as a wedding followeth a Reno divorce, so surely will the day come, when damsels shall say of him, “He is well-preserved!” And while he scorneth to choose a wife, saying, “There are always as good fish in the sea, as ever were caught!” peradventure he is letting the bait grow stale. And the buds of Babylon are not collecting an tiques! - Now, there dwelt two youths In Babylon, And they were called “Homely” and “Comely.” And the , heart of a certain damsel was di vided between them. But I counseled her, saying, “Os two lovers, choose thou the one that proposeth! For a promise on the lips is worth two in the eyes.” Therefore, when Homely had pro posed three times, and Comely had broken three engagements, the dam sel heeded my words, and married Homely. And her friends breathed freely and said, “Thank heaven!” Yet, in the hours of dreams, she could not forget the way in which Comely’s hair curled about his fore head. And when her husband track ed mud In the house, she wept, thinking herself a “blighted being." For < woman must “suffer,” in or der to be perfectly contented. Now, it came to pass, after seven years, that the woman returned to the home of her youth. And there, she came upon Comely. But at sight of him she covered her eyes, and turned away her head in sorrow. For 10, he had gone the way of all bachelors! Yea, verily, Comely, the Heart breaker, having no wife and no wor ries and no responsibilities, had wax ed fat, until h,e resembled a kewpie. From high-living he had acquired a bright ruddiness, and, one by one, the hairs had departed from his head, until his forehead was a shining light. And, behold, as time passed, the damsels who had trembled at his ap proach, began to titter at his coming. And those who loved him became fewer and fatter, and his flirtations more expensive. For, it requireth real orchids and real diamonds to make a bald-spot fascinating. But, Homely, the Married Man, be ing overworked, had preserved his figure, and was called “distinguish ed looking.” And his wife rejoiced in her heart, saying: “It is well, it is well! For a thing of beauty is not a boy forever! “And peradventure it Is better to marry a man first and put the frills on afterward than to wait for an ideal and accept a remnant!” And thereafter when Homely com manded her, she said “Yes, dear." And when he was grouchy she smiled and comforted him. And all the world marvelled at her devotion! For, behold, she had learned that happiness, for a woman-, consisteth not In marrying her “ideal," but in idealizing that which she hath mar ried. Selah. CURRENT EVENTS In place of her coal mines destroy ed by the Germans France is turning for power to her water resources, Maurice Casenave, chairman of the French high commission to the Unit ed States, informed the New York section of the Societe de Chimie In dustrielle. Great sucess had marked the French effort to replace coal by water power, Dr. Casenave said, and added: “The total water power available in France is calculated at 13,000,- 100 horse power a year. Before the war only about 700,000 horse power actually was obtained from this source. Before long we hope to get 5,000,000 horse power. This would mean that France would no longer be tributary to any foreign power.” He said that his country was re lying on cahals rather than rail roads for transportation of potash, due to the German destruction of French lines of communication, and said that exportation of potash to this country, while not now great, will increase gradually. In introducing Joseph H. Choate, general counsel of the Chemical Foundation, Inc., Dr. Marston T. Bogert, who presided, said that this country will never be safe without a synthetic dye industry, since chem ical warfare, now so important a branch of war, depends upon it. “The chief argument against the bill now pending in congres is to protect the American dye Industry is that Germany is down and out and must be helped to her feet,” he said. “That lie is fostered by ev ery German with the interests of his country at heart.” According to information received for Constantinople the Armenian patriarch has received a letter from Adana saying that the Armenians there held a meeting • May 2 at which protest was made against the alleged failure of the French to supply adequate protection for the Christians in Cilicia. Word reaches us from Tokio which states that a feature of the financial depression in Japan is the increase of dishonored bills in the Tokio clearing house, reports showing that those dishonored in April amounted to 178,000 against 68,000 in March., May figures show a daily increase over those of April. Th<? number of bills dishonored in Osaka is three times that in Tokio. Under the caption, “Who Lost the War,” the Berlin Vorwarts publishes two documents signed by Field Mar shal von Hindenburg and General Ludendorff, former quartermaster general, dated October, 1918, asking the German government to make peace immediately. Ludendorff’s re quest was dated Oct. 1 and that of von Hindenburg Oct. 3. “They say they were stabbed in the back by the Socialists,” says the Vorwarts, which then asks the ques tion, “Who lost the war.” The British Empire Steel corpora poration, a recent merger of steel and Shipping interests bapitalized at $500,000,000, has been incorporated under the laws of Nova Scotia, it was announced. Its registered of fice will be at Sydney, N. S. Writing of accidents to persons employed in industrial plants, Dr. C. Widmer says in Therapie der Gegen wart (Berlin), that the inbred ex perience of countless ages enables us to sidestep injury unconsciously, and only when we focus our con sciousness on the reaction to the oc currence is injury liable to result. Emperor Yoshihito, of Japan, suf fered a physical and mental collapse about April 1, according to “The Honolulu Pacific Commercial Adver tiser,” quoting a source unofficial but considered authentic. The ad vices said the emperor was suffer ing from locomotor ataxia or a sim ilar disease. Plans for establishing a regency have been discarded, the Adver tiser’s informant said, • because it would reveal the real condition of his health. A new and delicious edible vege table for the American table, pre pared in the same manner as aspa ragus, according to the bureau of pant industry of the United States department of agriculture, is the ten der sprout of the bamboo plant. Ne buchadnezzar, jocularly asserts the department, deserves no credit for is grass-eating expoits as natives in the Far East were eating grass in the form of edible bamboo sprouts long before the autocrat of Baby lonian royalty hit upon the simple rfiethod of reducing the high cost of living. “It probably is news to most Americans to learn that there are several bamboo plantations of un doubted value already established in Georgia and Louisiana,” says the writer. “Bamboo, according to scientists, is not a tree, but a giant grass. It grows like asparagus, the new plants forming from the origi nal roots. The bamboo sprout shoots up at the incredible rate of a foot a day, and when mature has a stem four inches in diameter and fifty feet high. It requires no cultivation. The grown timber has an infinite number of industrial uses owing to i the light composition of the wood THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1920. DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON A YOUNG man asks me to giv-* him a few tips on how select a wife. The best advice that I can offer any youth contemplating matri mony is to go off to some quiet spot and have a heart-to-heaYt session •with himself and honestly try to find out wfiat manner of man he real ly is, and what he aspires to be and to do in the world. With this data in hand it is easy enough to pick out the right girl, Instead of one who will keep a man wondering to his dying day what made him do it, and where the fool killer was when he led the lady he did to the altar. ‘‘Know thyself” is never such . good slogan as when a man is choos ing a ’ife partner, for the trouble with most unhappy marriages is merely that they are misfit mar riages. The wife who drives one man to drink would have lifted an other into the Seventh Heaven of connubial bliss. She who rasps the nerves of one husband at every turn woutd make a soothing and congen ial tfbmpanion to another. Atid these uncongenial marriages are more the men’s fault than the wdAen’s, for men do the picking and choosing, and it is their poor judg ment, and lack of knowledge of what they need, and .what will suit them in the wife line that keeps Reno < n the map, and the divorce court busy. Therefore, son, when you think about marriage, don’t waste any time worrying over the girl. Worry over you: M!f a little. Consider your own character, disposition, finances, am bitions and prospects and let this knowledge be a lamp to your feet when you go a-wooing. SujJDose, for instance, you are of a nervous, irritable disposition, with a temper that is hung upon a hair trigger and liable to go off at any moment. Can’t you see that matri mony for you will be nothing but a park and bloody battleground if you marry some beautiful slender crea ture with thin lip, and quivering nostrils, and lovely auburn hair? Whereas it will be one grand sweet song if you have gumption enough to pick out for a wife some plump, placid maiden with oxlike eyes and a nice, fat laugh. Woman for woman, the two girls may be equally models of all the virtues, but the high-strung one will keep you always up to concert pitch, while the good nature of the other will poultice your sore nerves and soothe them, :nd her optimism will be a perpetual tonic to you. With one you will live scrappily. With the other happily, for there is not room but for one set of nerves, and ore case of dyspepsia in any house. Suppose when you look into your own soul you admit to yourself that while you are not in the least vain, or egotistic, still you can not deny that you are a man of most unusual ■intellect, and of a judgment as pro found that it is entitled to respect on every occasion. Will you find happiness if you marry some opinionated young per son who is firmly convinced that she is the latest incarnation of Mrs. Solomon, and who considers that a wife’s place in the home is to rule the roost, and tell her husband iust where he gets off—and stay off. I trow not. You know plenty of men who wipe their feet on the door mat be fore they dare to enter their own domicile, and who jump every time their wives speak to them. Can you see yourself qualifying in the hen pecked brigade, and following meek ly in wife’s wake? Then why not pass by the snappy WASHINGTON, D. C., June I.—-A bill to prevent lynching is now on the house calendar. The bill may not be considered before congress re cesses, but eventually It stands a good chance of becoming a law. For the first time In our history, congress seems really determined to have lynching put in the same class with murder and treated accordingly. Eighty-five people werb hanged, shot or burned at the stake in the Civilized United States last year, and this year similar atrocities are ac cumulating. In the past thirty years 3,500 persons have died at the hands of infuriated mobs, and not more than a half dozen of the offenders were ever fined or imprisoned. When Chinese, Mexicans and other foreigners know that they are in danger of death by violence if they offend the people of their neighbor hood, it is no wonder that abroad, America has a reputation of being a land where life is beset with hazards. Ever since the days'when Tory sym pathizers were tarred and feathered and then ordered to salute the Co lonial colors, lynching has- been named by foreigners as one of the typical American sports, like bull fighting in Spain. America, they say, is a wild country. It makes a treaty with another nation in which Its people in America are promised the same protection of law as the Ameri cans have. But if those people come to be disliked for their religion or nationality, they are quite likely to be seized by their neighbors and put to death. As one witness before the judiciary committee of the house remarked: “It is not surprising that Mexico refuses to get excited over the fact that a few Americans are killed tn her revolutions. Was not a Mexican subject hung by Americans in Cali fornia and another in Texas in 1893? Or to come down to recent times, were not twenty-five Mexicans lynched in one state in 1917, and two more last year, and nothing was done to bring the persons responsi ble to justice? This witness said that when in Turkey he heard a Turk deliver a lecture on America in which pic tures of lynchings were used to show that America is not a civilized na tion. Unfortunately, these accusations that Americans lapse frequently into a state of barbarity are fully sup ported by facts. Since 1831 we have paid out over SBOO,OOO to Mexico, China and European countries for at tacks on their subjects bj r American mobs. The state department now has before it unadjusted claims for deaths of Italians, Austrians, Greeks and Japanese. The usual procedure is for the Italian ambassador, for instance, to call our attention to the fact that three Italian workmen were hung to tree in a certoin state. The state department waits several months and then expresses its sorrow and ex plains that the United States gov ernment leaves responsibility for such affairs as lynchings i~ the hands of the state governments. But to show that the United States is willing to do the right thinng, we offer the Italian ambassador a thou- and its long, tough fibers. It can be used for barrel hoops, ladders, trel lises, etc. It is a valuable crop. In 1902 the leading Japanese growers estimated an annual profit of SSO an acre from the sale of the edible sprouts and grown timber. Present conditions would warrant a much larger profit. An acre of bamboo will produce about 1,00 3 edible shoots each spring and will continue the production for forty of fifty years without being renewed. Whether a suit of clothes is an in divisible unit, or whether it is sus ceptible of being treated as a collec tion of pants, coat and vest, and these articles sold separately was one problem which the commissioner of taxation in Ottawa, Canada, was called upon to settle in connection with collection of Canada’s new lux ury taxes. It was contended that a $45 suit, now officially a luxury, might be disposed of piecemeal, thus evading a $lO tax. The commission er decided, however, that the dealer would have to collect the tax on the total selling price. CHOOSING A WIFE The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer BY DOROTHY DIX A LAW AGAINST LYNCHING BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN girl who runs everybody ar.S. »*“- erything in Her vicinity, and whea* parents tremble before her, and es pouse the timid little maiden who believes all men are oracles, and rule by divine right, and who will be perfectly sitting at your feet gathering up the pearls of wis dom that drop from your lips. And you will be happy, too, for one un questioning admirer is as much as any of us get in life. Suppose you are a poor young fel low with your fortune to make. To achieve success means that you must live plainly, and economize while you are getting a start. Do you think that you will stay long in love with a fashion plate girl, no matter how stunning she looks, if she wastes your money, and keeps you in debt, and thwarts your ambitions? The argument over money is a two-edged sword that can cut the bond between a hus band and wife quicker than anything else on earth. But if you marry a girl who is willing to work and economize and put every ounce of her own energy and ambition in your career—who thinks it fun to build your fortune with you, then you have got a wife for keeps, for she is business partner as well. You will be happy and contented with such a woman for there is no stronger tie between two people than to be vitally interested in the same thing. Nor do any husband end wife ever bore each other when they can talk over the state of the stock market or gro cery trade together. Suppose you have dreams of be ing a great lawyer, or a famous doctor, or of filling some big po litical office. Then look beyond the girl’s pretty face, and try to see what is in her head. The time will come when your wife’s brains will mean more than her complexion to you, for you can camouflage a complexion but there’s no known substitute for good, hard horse sense. Do you think it will help you on as a lawyer to be tied to an ambition less woman who weeps and thinks herself neglected every time you want to study of an evening instead of holding her hand? Will it in crease your practice as a doctor to have a jealous fool for a wife who imagines you are making love to your female patients? Will it help you to win elections to have a tactless blunderer of a wife who mhkes ene mies where she should make friends? Rather not! So if you wish to be happy and successful though mar ried, choose the cleverest, and most ambitious woman you know, no mat ter if she is as homely as sin. in preference to the peach who is con tent to do nothing but just hang on the tree. I am saying nothing against the woman without ambition, or the nervous woman, or the high tem pered woman, or the bossy woman. There are men whom they would just suit. There are easy going men who don’t want a wife who Ls not contented to stay put, just as they are. There are men who- de light in working themselves to death so that their wives may be gorgeously dressed. There are shift less men who need a high tempered woman to prod them along. There are even men who like to be hen pecked. It’s all a matter of taste. I'm only urging you, son, to find out in which class you belong before you marry, and to pick out the girl accordingly. Dorothy Dix articles will appear in this paper every Monday, Wed nesday and Friday. sand dollars or so to console the families of the dead. Other provisions further secure the safety of prisoners, notably one which allows a prisoner to demand a transfer from state to federal jurisdiction if there is danger of an attack on his person. Inability of states to cope with lynching is na tion-wide. Even where states have their own laws against mob at tacks, and even when lynchings are announced several days beforehand, sheriffs and governors stand aside and declare themselves helpless. This failure of the states is the main reason whv'the federal govern ment has at last concerned itself with the lynching proposition. The chief obstacle in the way of congressional legislation is the pos 'sibility that a national anti-lynch ing law might be found unconstitu tional. The house judiciary commit tee decided this question to its own satisfaction before it reported the bill favorably to be placed on the calendar. Maintenance of order is ordinarily regarded as a state mat ter in Which congress is not author ized to interfere. But the judiciary committee points out that the four teenth amendment to the constitu tion, which provides equal protec tion of the law for every one, also provides that “congress shall have ■power to enforce by appropriate leg islation the provisions of this ar ticle.” Laws similar to the anti-lynching bill which have been declared con stitutional were quoted by members of tiie committee. Mention was also made that, such authorities on con stitutional law as ex-President Taft, Attorney General Palmer, and Charles Evans Hughes, former jus tice of the United States supreme court, have urged congress to take federal action, and that evry presi dent since Benjamin Harrison has expressed himself strongly In favor of a national anti-lynching law. One side of the lynching evil which is not touched in the proposed law is of great consequence to the nation. This i-i the effect of mob outbreaks on the people who take part. Respectable citizens are con verted into screaming fanatics and devise and carry out tortures which in a normal state of mind they would shudder to read about. Some of the atrocities which have been carried out are unprintable. Yet spectators come from miles around as to a picnic to view burnings and hangings with the same curious de tachment that they would watch a cat with a mouse. There have been many attempts to bring the people of the country to an understanding of the brutalizing effects of mob ac tion. The recognized fact that the community gets a bad name and trade suffers has not cut down the lynching figures. A federal law with a determined government back of it seems the only remedy. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS DE Goot> book tell You T' Love Evy-BODY BUT DEYS SOME FOLKS WHUT JE$ Z NACH'LY AJNT NO-BObY, Copyright, 1920 by McCl_>r« Newspaper Syndicato.