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The Heavenly Yam, a Bringer
Os Unbounded Prosperity.
LET the sky rain potatoes!” Sir
John Falstaff once exclaimed m
exuberance of spirits. The fat
knight was not more enthusiastic than the
goodly company from divers parts of Geor
gia and the South who gathered around an
Atlanta table Tuesday evening for a “Sweet
Potato” dinner. Having devoted the morn
ing and afternoon to business sessions, the
chief object of which was to organize for
effectual marketing of the Dixie yam, these
delegates were apt for the feast awaiting
them. But it is doubtful that they, or the
guests they graciously invited, were pre
pared for so rich and varied a menu of
the toothsome tuber. A delicious, a delect
able revelation it was —a banquet that well
might have rained from the’ heavens, or
have been let down from the firmament
sheet-wise to a particularly deserving saint.
They say that one hundred million bushels
of sweet potatoes were raised last season,
for the most part in the South. But if
even the fragments of such a dinner as
was prepared by the domestic science de
partment of the State College of Agricul
ture and served to this convention could
once be tasted up and down the United
Sattes, one hundred million bushels would
not begin to supply the demand of a sin
gle region, much less of the entire coun
try. Happily, the sweet potato is becoming
known to many and many a table in the
East and North and West which till but
lately knew little or nothing of its deli
ciousness and high nutritive value. The
larger and richer part of the market, how
ever, remains to be developed. This will be
done when growers, warehouse men and
dealers rightly organize to conserve thpir
common interests and to press forward the
popularity of the wonderful article
of food which Southern soil can produce
in well-nigh measureless abundance.
It was -with this very end in view that
some one hundred and sixty men, repre
senting eleven Southern States, convened
in Atlanta Tuesday and formed an associa
tion -which, if good beginnings are borne
out, will prove as serviceable and as
widely important in its field as the Fruit
Exchange has in its own. In the days be
fore the orchardists of Georgia organized
to meet by cooperation problems which
were overwhelming to the unsupported in
dividual, the State’s peach crop was of
minor account in the totals of commerce
and frequently was quite profitless, if not
a heavy loss. But so soon as well planned
and well coordinated methods were applied
to matters of crating, packing, shipping,
selling and to other phases of distribution,
losses began to grow less and profits larg
er until today Georgia’s is recognized ev
erywhere as being the best advertised, the
best marketed and the most remunerative
peach crop in America. The same results
can be obtained for thq sweet potato crop
if equally efficient methods are pursued.
Thanks to the modern curing plant, there
is no necessity of any appreciable part of
the sweet potato yield spoiling or deter
iorating, and no need of its being dumped
upon an over-stocked and low-priced mar
ket. Furthermore, the canning plant can
take care of any residue which is not suit
able for storing. If, then, the growers and
others interested organize to avail them
selves of these opportunities and to develop
new markets, the sweet potato will become
one of the mainstays of Southern prosper
ity and will add millions of dollars to
Southern wealth.
Hence the farreaching import of Tues
day’s convention, with its crowning feast of
yams. The Georgia Association, the Geor
gia Federation of Farm Bureaus, the At
lanta Chamber of Commerce, the South
Carolina Development Company, the Lou
isiana State University Extension Depart
ment, the Tennessee "Tri-County Associa
tion of Sweet Potato Growers” and all oth
ers, including many representatives of rail
ways and manufacturers, who gave their
encouragement to this initial movement are
warmly to be commended. They have pio
neered the way toward a new empire of
agricultural treasure. They merit, and un
doubtedly will receive, the hearty support
of all who have a will to pull for the com
mon prosperity.
Foreign Interference.
THE report of Senator Fall’s subcom
mittee that investigated conditions
in Mexico and formulated certain
recommendations is no more calculated to
please the people of Mexico than it is to ap
peal to the spirit of fairness of Americans
generally.
Among other things, Senator Fall’s report
declares that:
"Mexico shall change Article 130 of the
Mexican constitution.”
“Mexico shall change Article 27 of her
constitution.”
“Mexico shall change Article 33 of her
constitution.”
The Republic of Mexico is a free and in
epdendent state, and the constitutional pro
visions to which the Fall subcommittee noted
objections and entered demands relate to the
internal affairs of that country.
Article 130 concerns preachers, teachers
and missionaries. The Fall subcommittee
thinks it should be rewritten so that Ameri
cans may enter Mexico and teach and preach
any sort of doctrine that pleases them, irre-
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
spective of the wishes of the Mexican people
and regardless of the laws of the country.
Although we are not fully informed as to the
underlying reasons for Article 130 of the
Mexican constitution, it is our impression
that it was drafted with a view to bringing
about a separation of Church and State, a
doctrine that appeals to Americans.
Article 27 deals with property, land, wa
ters, mining rights, oil concessions, etc., and
reserves to the Mexican government the right
to exercise power over these things similar
to power enjoyed by every free state over its
own soil. The Fall subcommittee demands
that this provision be changed so that Mexico
cannot exercise control or place limitations
upon the rights of property acquired by
Americans except where the limitations are
written into the original deed of convey
ance, lease, contract or other instrument.
Article 33 confers upon the Mexican Presi
dent the right to expel foreigners in certain
contingencies. The Fall subcommittee ob
jects to the provision and wants it changed
so that the right of expulsion will not vest
in the President of Mexico.
Although the recommendations of the Fall
report may have been conceived in a sincere
desire to benefit the Republic of Mexico, we
are persuaded that their operation and en
forcement would further the exploitation of
Mexico by private American capital and in
tensify the antagonisms that already have
been engendered.
But aside from the probable effect of the
recommended changes in the Mexican con
stitution, the fact is that the United States
has no right to tell the people of Mexico what
sort of constitution they must have. The
American people would not tolerate any at
tempted interference by Mexico or any other
nations with its internal affairs. What -would
the United States say if Mexico or any other
nation should inform us that our prohibition
amendment must be repealed, or that any
other provision in our corietitution was un
satisfactory? It isn’t difficult to imagine
what the American people would say.
The Fall report was a mistake —another
tribute to the muddling and interference of
the United States Senate with America’s for
eign relations. The effect of the Fall report
on the twenty or thirty republics of Central
and South America is not calculated to in
crease their regard for the United States.
What assurance have they that the United
States Senate will not frame similar demands
upon them? The Fall report will make more
difficult the efforts that are being put forth
for a better Pan-American understanding
and a new world era of good will and peace.
Highway IFork tn 37 States.
Thirty-seven States have authorized the
expenditure of $625,641,729 in the im
provement of public highways during the
next five years and legislation contemplat
ing the issuance of good roads bonds in
the sum of $391,253,800 is pending with
little opposition expected.
Texas, the largest state in the union, oc
cupies the lead with bond issues aggregat
ing $88,708,000, the other states in con
secutive order being Pennsylvania, Califor
nia, Illinois, Michigan, Alabama, Georgia
and North Carolina.
One of the largest single projects is pro
posed for Illinois, necessitating the expen
diture of $4,463,511 in the construction of
150 miles of highway from East St. Louis,
HL, to the Indiana line as part of a Na
tional highway.
The projects in Georgia provide for the
expenditure of $15,375,000, which amount
is merely the initial investment that is be
ing planned, enthusiastic interest being
manifested in a number of progressive coun
ties not yet in a position to adopt definite
action.
Spalding, one of the most progressive
and prosperous counties in the State, has
recently completed paving the Atlanta-
Griffin-Macon division of the Dixie high
way from the Henry county line on the
north, to Griffin, a distance of eight miles.
Work is in progress on a continuation of
this improvement from Griffin to the Pike
county line on the south, a distance of
about five miles, which will give Spalding
thirteen miles of paved highway. Other high
ways radiating from Griffin will be paved
in the course of time in pursuit of the
"county-site-to-county-site” policy, which is
in favor throughout the State.
The next five years will witness a rev
olution in the work of highway improve
ment in many States and it is extremely
gratifying to know that Georgia, which
leads in many worthy enterprises, is one
of the pioneer advocates of the construc
tion of permanent highways.
Georgia's Rural lUeekhes.
NO State in the Union can show a
greater number of bright and influen
/ tial weeklj r newspapers than Georgia,
whose editors seem to be engaged in a per
ennial contest to produce one hundred per
cent perfect publications. While the peo
ple of Georgia are consistent readers, refus
ing to limit their attention to any class of
periodicals, many would rather be denied
access to any other literary visitor than the
rural weekly published back home.
It is the weekly newspaper that makes the
direct appeal to the hearts of the busy men
of the city, many of whom were reared
down on the farm. No other newspaper
comes in such direct personal touch with its
subscribers, sympathizes with them so keen
ly in seasons of sorrow, and rejoices with
them when they are glad. As an advertis
ing medium the rural weekly is the direct
connecting medium between merchant and
customer and one that no wise business man
can afford to ignore.
In years agone the editor of a weekly
newspaper was usually the proprietor of a
few pints of type, an inadequate cylinder
press, a few dilapidated imposing stones and
and a rickety job press.
But today modern plants have been in
stalled in almost every office and the week
y editor is a citizen to be reckoned with
in the prosecution of every worth-while en
terprise. The rural weekly is no longer a
job-shop side line, but is recognized as a
■-ommunity asset and should receive the lib
■ of nil the citizens.
Lawyers, physicians and other professional
and business men of the cities find time
-j <-.er tue rural weekly while con
.g their morning mail, before placing
> an obscure corner to be carried home
o the appreciative wife and other members
•’ iho family. The rural weekly is like a
”■ --"o. and is read with eager in
terest by thousands of successful men who
have never entirely forgotten the singing
i:!'- ; flowers and babbling dfoorb
A Timely Suggeston.
Commenting on a much neglected indus
try, the Moultrie Observer, one of Georgia’s
ably edited daily newspapers says: "One
who has studied the cattle business in all
the Southern States, and studied it from
many angles, tells The Observer that the
money in cattle business is made in rais
ing them. There is not any big profit in
feeding them and finishing them, though it
has been proven that there is money in
this too, when the feed is raised at home.”
7he waste and pasture land in practical
ly every county in Georgia -will provide am
ple feed for the "cattle of a thousand hills.”
and it is interesting to know that through
out the State more attention is being di
rected to cattle breeding, which is a pleas
ant and profitable occupation.
YAWNING
By H. Addington Bruce
YAWNING has been variously described
as a physiological indication of fatigue,
a sign of a disposition to sleep, and
an expression of hunger for oxygen. It is
all of these things.
Also it is on occasion much else.
It is at times a symptom of physical dis
ease. Before the onset of a fever there may
be an irresistible tendency to yawn repeat
edly. More commonly such a tendency oc
curs to victims of dyspepsia, gastralgia, or
other disorder of the digestive tract.
Everybody knows that, after eating an
unusually heavy meal, yawning is likely to
develop. This means nothing in particular.
It merely serves to notify the yawner and
all who see him that he has been dietetical
ly indiscreet.
But if the same phenomenon invariably
occurs after eating, no matter how carefully
one has chosen one’s food and partaken of
it, then the persistent yawning may be a
warning that a doctor should be consulted
with reference to possible stomach condi
tions requiring medical attention.
Or persistent yawning may mean not that
the stomach is out of order, or that one has
been eating unwisely, but that one is breath
ing bad air.
Air deficient in oxygen is bound soon or
late to bring into play the muscular mech
anism of yawning. Experiments have shown
that animals put to death by asphyxiation
always yawn excessively before death en
sues. Human beings likewise yawn as the
air they breathe grows staler.
To check the yawning, then, and safe
guard the health, all that is necessary is
improved ventilation. Which suggests that
persistent yawners will do well to study the
air conditions of their homes and working
places.
On the other hand, persistent yawning
may occur in the absence of fatigue, diges
tive disorder or impure air. Then the yawner
may have reason to suspect that his yawn
ing is expressive of a character defect more
than anything else—expressive, in fact, of
sheer laziness.
Yawning, however, may equally announce
a high degree of mental activity. For it has
been observed that yawning often follows
prolonged concentration of thought.
Finally, yawning naturally occurs when
ever the circulation has been appreciably
slowed down, as by sitting or lying for any
length of time.
Virtually every animal yawns on awaking.
This has led an old friend of mine, Dr. S.
S. Curry, to suggest that people should de
liberately yawn when they awake, as an exer
cise to be taken before they get out of bed.
"The yawn,” Dr. Curry observes, “is a
stretch of the lungs, as the stretch is a yawn
of the muscles.
"Now, the stretch is activity of the exten
sor muscles. And it is the action of the ex
tensor muscles upon which health especiallj’
depends.
"Since nature has provided the stretch
seemingly as the antidote for abnormal po
sition, and especially abnormal position dur
ing sleep, in one’s program of exercises it
would seem most necessary to center around
some careful and scientific use of stretches.”
In this suggestion of yawning as an exer
cise there may be a hint of no small value
to all craving health improvement.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
THE FAMILY BUDGET
By Dr. Frank Crane
"What,” says a letter which lies upon my
desk, "is a just method of dispensing the
family income? The husband’s earnings are
also the wife’s earnings inasmuch as she re
nounces the opportunity to earn her support
for the sake of spending her effort on the
care of the family.
"Can the husband dispense the income
himself without the direction of the wife, or
vice versa?
"Should the husband suffer the humilia
tion of handing over to the wife the salary
intact?
"And the wife be humiliated with gifts
from the husband or forced to beg from him
for necessities with coquettishness or tactful
handling, thus destroying frankness between
the two?
"Will the budget prevent the injustice of
the husband and curb the extravagance of
the wife?
“Is the budget an account of where the
dollars have gone or where they are go
ing?
"Will the budget shut off the graft of the
in-laws?
"Can a bank account in the name of hus
band and wife be successfully operated?
"If the budget system were better under
stood and more commonly in use would there
not be more women willing to marry poor
men?
"More women willing to assume mater
nity rather than shirk it, more men unhar
assed in their homes, more families doing
team work, more families united in peace
and happiness?”
Most of this woman’s questions answer
themselves.
I might add a few questions myself ana
pass the buck to the reader.
Why not have democracy in a family?
Why not have a family council at least
once a week? Where father, mother, and
the children should talk over receipts and
expenditures and all pull together intelli
gently?
Since money is at the bottom of three
fourths of family heart burnings, attack the
money problem frankly, constantly, and as a
unit.
Why train children and wife to obedience
and dependency when any moment by the
death of the head of the house they are lia
ble to be thrust into responsibility and com
pelled to use their own judgment?
Why not depend more on love, frankness,
open dealing, confidence, loyalty, and intel
ligence, and less on the egotistic passions and
prejudices?
Why leave your wife and children a hun
dred thousand dollars and no training
wherewith to take care of it?
In short, why work so hard to get money,
and neglect the business of conserving it?
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
County Fairs a Valuable Asset.
A county fair, revolving around an agri
cultural department, is the principal asset
of any progressive county and it is pleas
ing to know that many Georgia counties
are contemplating holding fairs this fall,
in which the promoters deserve and should
receive the liberal co-operation of all the
people.
No other State in the union offers more
lucrative opportunities for diversified farm
ing than Georgia and there are various
garden products that should be displayed
in every fair in the State in splendid abun
dance, together with agricultural, live stock,
cattle, swine, art and other similar exhib
its.
Improved farm implements and machin- I
ery and business and manufacturing de- i
partments are always interesting and any j
county now holding successful fairs would ,
be glad to offer information and advice to ■
those who have them in contemplation. |
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
A drawbridge on the state highway
between Searsport and Belfast, Me.,
collapsed recently, dropping a four
ton truck into the water.
General Pershing, who is on a
motor tour of Maine, was to have
passed over the bridge about the
time the colapse occurred, but he
was advised of the break and di
rected to reach this city by a detour.
Charles M. Foster, owner of the
truck, and Ralph Libby, both of
Bangor, escaped by jumping when
the draw gave way. Filins, said to
be valued at $50,000, were lost with
the truck.
A dispatch from Genoa states that
preparations are being made both
by the government and the munici
pality to receive in a feys several
hundred delegates who will meet in
Genoa for the International Seamen’s
Labor conferences.
According to the newspapers, one
of the most important delegations
will be that from the United States.
The American delegates, however,
will be present only as observers.
A gift of $20,000 from the West
inghouse Electric and Manufactur
ing company, bringing total up to
$27,000.50, and thus swelling the
$2,000,000 endowment fund to a new
mark of $1,304.2366.07, was reported
by Dr. Frederic E. Sondern, presi
dent of the New York Post-Grad
uate Medical School and Hospital.
Other large gifts were $2,500 from
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Benjamin, $2,000
from W. D. Thornton and SI,OOO
from Charles H. Sabin.
Dr. Sondern announced that it
would be the goal of the endowment
committee to raise an average of
SIO,OOO a week throughout the sum
mer months to insure a provisional
expansion of the institution’s work.
A dispatch from San Salvador,
Salvador, states that J. Andres
Urtecho, a prominent engineer, has
teen nominated for the presidency of
Nicaragua in opopsition to the Lib
eral party. Members of the latter or
ganization hope to receive encourage
ment for their candidate from Wash
ington, where a delegation of Liber
als has been sent. Should this en
couragement be withheld, however
the Liberals, it is said in dispatches’
will vote for the re-election of Gen
eral Chamorro.
An appeal for immigrant labor to
solve the farm help problem has
been made to Commissioner Fred
eric A. Wallis by Jerry Dunn, spe
cial immigration inspector in St.
Louis, On behalf of the western
states. Mr. Dunn called upon Com
missioner Wallis recently.
“It seems a pity,” he said, “that
there is no provision of the law
which might turn the tide of immi
gration from the cities to the coun
try. There is a distressing need of
farm hands. Not a day passes but
I receive requests from wheat pro
ducers asking for help and seeking
to find out if there is not some way
by « labor can be turned into
the nelas.
“The lure of high W’ages and high
life combined with shorter hou r s has
turned the stream of labor away
from the rural districts, even though
h ° Ur is being P aid
fll J b ® superintendent of mails at
J 1 Postoffice denied a re-
I l or L tbat . there had recently been a
decided increase in the number of
parcel post packages reported stolen
T po r ed tbat parcel p d ost man
by the load was being stolen from
the postoffice stations as well as en
route and that these thefts were
C °Th l l ltted tem Porary employes
The superintendent said that so
far as he knew it had been about
two months since any arrests of con
sequence were made for robbing the
» arcel , Post mails. At that time
several chauffeurs, who had beTn
given temporary jobs had 2?®
7 at ; robbing the mails, he said”
been a a there had
i, iA a . hlgr increase in the noqtai
thefts in the last few years but
added that in some sections of the
city the mail has increased 500 ner
cent over two or three years ago and
gettimJ’ a tYr ie ? t iT as had difficiflty in
the work 6 rlght Sort of men to do
fr^ C °c to information received
from Canada the “farmers’ Govern
wm? °v Ontari ° has come end
leglsla a tu J r°e Ur n n ft nent ° f the Provincial
lb,, Ur ? T a , f ter a session in which
ne Y United Farmers’ party had
things largely its own way. Through
Y lth a sma ll labor group
ioritv n? e ™’ PartJ l constituted I ma P
°t- on ? or two members over
the combined opposition of the old
1 in ® Conservatives and the Liberals
Opposition to the new party during
the session was characterized by a
spirit of give the farmers a chance ”
and only once was there a serious
light over a government measure. In
this case, a bill to provide benefits
tor superannuated public servants,
the party was divided against itself.
Those in touch with the political
situation in Ontario expect a more
spirited opposition to the farmer-la
bor coalition at the next session.
When Queen Victoria, an English
princess, was a bride it was with the
greatest difficulty that she could be
coaxed to go to a bull fight. And then
she went because she felt it to be her
queenly duty and as an adopted
daughter of Spain. At the Plaza de
Toros her majesty would turn her
head away when the horses were led
to their certain doom and when the
bulls received the coup de grace.
But time and familiarity have
worked wonders. At the gala bull
fight in Seville recently the queen,
dressed in white and wearing the
mantilla and the “manton de Ma-
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
The Dawson News is of the opinion
that those newspapers that are ex
cited about making two states out
of Georgia have a lot of paper and
ink to waste and the News isn’t far
from right.—Dalton Citizen.
Mary Pickford was so overcome
with the weeps and other things a
few days ago that she couldn’t re
sist Doug Fairbanks’ wooing and is
already wed.—Thomasville Times-
Enterprise.
And our curly-haired Mary is
realizing for the second time that it
is far easier to marry than it is to
stay married.
Over in South Carolina they re
cently asked for a? 35,000 appropria
tion to install a hot air system in
the capitol at Columbia. That’s ex
travagance—just run a line down
from Washington.—Hartwell Sun.
The man who ciimbed the wall btapk
into the penitentiary because he
found he was not able to contend
with the high prices, had something
to fall back on, but the rest of us
simply have to stick it out and help
feed him. —Elberton Star.
Senator Newberry does not indi
cate any Inclination to stand by his
conviction. —Columbus Enquirer-Sun,
Will he hold the Ford?—Wichita
Falls (Tex.) Record.
If he continues to scatter spark
lers he may.
The bunch at Washington frequent
ly tells us that thrift and hard work
by the people w-ill settle all difficul
ties in this country. Yes, and we
also need some thrift and hard work
and brains at Washington.—Dawson
News.
Evidently Editor Rainey is of the
opinion that any rule ’ applicable
in Georgia is not entirely cut of or
der in Washington.
Where are we going?—Hartwell
Sun.
If you are undecided, come to At
lanta.
Some people around Greensboro
should put dimmers on their neck
ties. —Herald-Journal.
And they should also be fined for
violating the “cut-out” ordinance.
The man who never makes a mis
take hasn’t been around this part cf
the country for a long time.—Swains
boro Forest-Blade.
Editor Paul T. Harber, of the Com
merce Observer, has accepted an in
vitation to deliver an address in Bos
ton soon. “A prophet is not without
honor save in his own country.” But
Paul was honored with the presi
dency of the Georgia Press associa- *
tion for two years and made a good i
one.—Lavonia Times and Gauge. |
As president of the Georgia Press
association, Paul Harber established ’
stcnjprd tu-p will he of be-e'tt I
:■ ■ long as ; t is ’Jned. Kel’y I
Simmons, of the Telfair Enterprise, 1
nila,” a large decorative shawl, evi
dently was pleased with the proceed
ings. She laughed and applauded;
she did not turn her head away. And
as a convincing act of gracious ap
preciation she tossed her white hand
kerchief to Gallito, the famous torea
dor, who was the hero of the day.
That handkerchief will be a precious
heirloom for generations.
Betting on horse races and base
ball games would be prohibited un
der a bill introduced in the lower
house of the legislature. The meas
ure is said to be the first of a series
planned to regulate racing in Louisi
ana.
Seven trunks belonging to Mme.
Bela Kun, wife of the former Com
munist dictator of Hungary, have
arrived at Lugano, Switzerland. Their
owner is now in the tiny republic of
San Marino, having been expelled
from Italy, charged with having car
ried on a bolshevik intrigue in that
country! She is awaiting permis
sion to come to Switzerland, which,
it is said, probably will be granted.
The first fruit of the decision of
the United States circuit court of
appeals affirming the constitutional
ity of the Lever act was a verdict
of guilty in the United States court,
Syracuse, N. Y., against Weeds &
Co., Inc., clothiers, accused of prof
iteering.
The court imposed a fine of $31,-
000 on the firm. Gordon H. Smith,
general manager of the company, who
was jointly indicted and tried With
it under the Lever, act, also was
fined $31,000.
The fines were imposed by Judge
Martin T. Manton, who wrote the
opinion of the circuit court of ap
peals for this district and in which
Judges Hough and Ward concurred.
Judge Manton said that the only
thing which saved Smith from a two
year prison sentence under the law
was the fact that Smith was not fi
nancially interested in the business.
The defendants -were found guilty on
seven counts of an indictment charg
ing conspiracy between Smith and
the company to exact excessive prof
its on the sale of clothing.
The bureau of navigation of the
navy department has eliminated from
the new navy recruiting pamphlet
the name of Admiral Sims.
“I knew nothing about the matter
until advised that a story had been
published stating Sims’ name had
been eliminated from the pamphlet,”
Secretary Daniels is quoted as say
ing.
"Whoever took the action did right.
This is not because the pamphlet
speaks of naval heroes from John
Faul Jones to Admiral' Sims, but be
cause the ironclad rule is not to men
tion the names of living officers in
such publications or to name ships
of the navy after officers still living,
no matter how eminent. The same
action would have been taken if the
names of Admirals Benson, Mayo,
Rodman or Wilson had been used in
stead of that of Sims.”
Toledo is sheltering a Russian
count in overalls, it was learned re
cently.
He is Count Constantine Rachin
sky, one of the many noblemen of
Russia whose place and fortune were
swept away .n the overthrow of the
old regime in the tide of the Bol
shevik revolution.
The count’s father was killed by
soldiers during the first revolution in
December, 1917.
Count Rachinsky is working in an
automobile manufacturing plant,
learning the various parts of the
automobile.
According to a dispatch from Vi
enna, British Minister Lihdley told,
your correspondent that the credit of
Austria has been practically agreed
to be furnished by th© neutrals,
Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden,
Norway, Denmark and Argentine
jointly with th© entente powers, ex
cept America, which has already fur
nished her quota of 200,000 tons flour
supply.
Regional headquarters for Ohio of
the Erie railroad announced that old
employes are returning to work as
new men, following the railroad
labor board’s refusal at Chicago to
hear their claims.
Conditions on the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie, which was worse hit by
the railroad strike of any of the
roads entering Youngstown, are
showing marked Improvement, ac
cording to company officials. Seven
switching crews are at work clear
ing the congested yards. Interchange
with the Erie and New York Central
is said to be almost normal.
Bow Lun, a Chinese
57, living at 379 Third avenue, Brook
lyn, was the first person overcome
by the heat here this season. Be
was discovered insensible by a pat
ron and was taken to Kings Countjf
hospital.
A statement from Baton Rouge,
La., says the house by a vote of 93
to 17 adopted the resolution propos
Ing an amendment to the state con
stitution providing equal suffrage.
The resolution was caled up by op
ponents of the ratification of the
Federal suffrage amendment, but
most of the federal ratificationists
voted for the state measure.
Discussion of the budget in the
chamber of deputies in Paris
brought out the announcement that
the pari-mutuel betting in France
thus far this year has totaled nearly
600,000,000 francs, of which the
government gets 10 per cent.
It is proposed to increase this tax
to 11 per cent for the support of
agricultural development work.
was a wonderfully qualified editor
■ Co succeed him.
Though the Republicans do not
propose to say aye or nay on the
wet-or-dry question in their plat
form, there’s Beveridge to be promi
nent on the platform.—Savannah
Morning News.
“It seems that the ayes have it."
The advancing cost of overalls
may keep us out of the Overall club,
but we are already a charter mem
ber of the “Wear ’em Longer Crowd.”
—Tifton Gazette.
For thirty-five years Editor John
L. Herring has been setting eVaTh
ples worthy of emulation and there
is no doubt that he has a large fol
lowing throughout the state.
Here’s an urgent invitation to the
many who know just how to run a
newspaper to drop in and tell us how
to do it without any white paper.—
Oglethorpe Echo.
The folks to whom Editor W. A.
Shackelford Is referring are numer
ous and should rush to his assistance
at once.
The government says the cost of
living dropped six-tenths of a cent
in February. It must have dropped
one day when we were not at home. —
Elbert County Times.
Haven’t you heard about it since
your return?
Among the every-day nuisances is
the man who examines the addresses
while standing at the postoffice bov,
keeping a long line of people waiting
to get their own letters. —Dawson
News.
And what about the lady who de
posits her parasol in front of one
section while reading a letter In front
of another section of boxes?
The Savannah Press figures it that
“the trouble with Mexico is the Mex
icans.” We were pretty certain some
thing -was the matter.—Columbus
Enquirer-Sun.
The average farmer in Wilkes is
planting as much cotton as of yore.
Most of ’em admit they are gambling
with the weevil. —Washington News-
Reporter.
Present prospects indicate that
they will ascertain that their oppo
nent is holding a high hand this
year.
The Cordele Daily Sentinel, I. P.
Cocke and G. P. Christian, editors
and publishers, has suspended publi- ;
cation, after appearing regularly for ;
a year. Editors Cocke and Chris- ‘
tian are experienced newspaper men. '
but it developed that the Cordele I
Daily Dispatch, which absorbed the ;
Sentinel, is adequate for the present ’
needs of that progressive little city, j
A Boston bacteriologist has made j
the discovery that in fifty years from !
now people will be too civilized to i
kiss. Even now it is slightly dan- 1
gerous at times. 1
THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1020.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
THE BLESSING OF WORK
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
NONE of the other false doc
trines of the day is doing so
much harm as that which is
teaching the unthinking that
work is a curse.
We hear nothing in these times of
the dignity of labor, nothing of
pride in fine craftsmanship; nothing
of the deep and abiding peace that
fills our souls when we are employ
ed on some worth-while task that
calls for every energy of our bodies
and minds.
On the contrary, from every side
there arises a loud and insistent de
mand for less work and more loafing,
for a six-hour day and a five-day
week. Every strike has for its main
object the cutting down of the
amount of labor to the least possible
amount that can be given in return
for the pay exacted, and thus is
work put into the category of the
misfortunes that are the sad lot of
those who are born out of luck.
There could be no more pernicious
ideal held up before the young than
that idleness should be the goal of
their desire, and that they should
begrudge every minute given to
work. Such a theory of life is not
only the death knell to ambition and
achievement, but to all real enduring
happiness.
No man who labors with his eye
on the time clock, and who counts
the hours he gives to his work; no
man who looks upon work as a pen
ance ever gets one inch higher than
the level on which he started. No
six-hour a day worker ever rises
from obscurity and poverty to pow
er and place. It is eternally true
that the successful men are those
who, "while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night.”
We shall have no more wonder
stories of poor boys who became
great statesmen, or millionaires and
powers in the land when we have
convinced the youths of that coun
try that work is a curse, and that
they show their superior cleverness
in side-stepping it as far as possi
ble.
For the difference between those
who fail and those who achieve is
the difference between the man who
does as little work as he can, and
the man who does as much work
as he can. The extra timeihe puts
in on his task, the extra effort he
makes, the enthusiasm with which
he goes about his work is the margin
of success.
The young man who does his day’s
stint and no more, who has no In
terest in his work except in so far as
it affects his pay envelope, will stay
at the bottom of the ladder to the
end of his days. The youth who
will climb to the top is he who
gives his days and his nights to his
work without grudging, and who
thinks that the most exciting amuse
ment on earth is selling goods, or
making shoes, or whatever it is that
he is doing.
And work is the only road that
leads to contentment and happiness.
We must have something to think
about, something to do, and if we
have any intelligence at all It must
THE CITY OF
DOCTORS
By Frederic J. Haskin
BALTIMORE, Md., June 9.—For
anyone desiring to study the
modern doctor in all his nu
merous forms and activities,
field in America. Not only are there
somewhat ,-iore doctors here than
in any other American city of like
size, but there are more different
kinds of doctors. The modern tt*-
dency toward specialization, which is
steadily narrowing the field of the
old-fashioned general practitioner, is
here seen at its best. And here, too,
is found at its best the modern or
ganization of doctors, which sup
plants the old-time doctor with his
little bag of pills and instruments
by a large plant with expensive
equipment and elaborate personnel.
The chief reason for this gathering
of advanced medical men is the pres
ence of Johns Hopkins university,
which is not only one of the largest
medical schools in the country, but
has the reputation of harboring more
of the genuinn© spirit of scientific in
quiry and less of the mere commer
cial Intent than any of the others.
Instead of manufacturing so many
general practitioners a year, and
scattering them over the country,
Johns Hopkins produces chiefly spe
cialists and research men, and a
great many of these choose to re
main here so as to keep in touch
with the best of medical thought
and facility. The patients come to
them from all parts of the country.
Hardly a through train stops here
without letting off a few sufferers,
usually some of them on stretchers.
Baltimore’s reputation as a place of
last resort for the afflicted is steadi
ly growing. They come here even
from New York and Philadelphia.
For one thing, the services of spe
cialists here is to be had for less
money than in the greater cities, ana
for another thing, there is closer co
operation between the Baltimore doc
tors, who form a sort of loose or
ganization about Johns Hopkins.
Advance of Surgery
The city is especially famous for
its surgery, and the science of pre
paring the patient for the operation
has been carried to very high devel
opment. The administering of anaes
thetics has become a specialty to
which many men devote themselves
exclusively. It Is more and more re
alized that the giving of anaesthetics
is a serious matter, and the tenden
cy is to use as little of the drug as
possible and still keep the patient
out of pain. Local anaesthesia is
used more and more. It has been dis
covered by C'rile that if a local anaes
thetic like novocaine is applied, so
that no pain-shock reaches the brain,
even though the patient is con
scious, there is no bad after effect,
while if the patient is made wholly
unconscious but no local anaesthetic
applied he will nevertheless show
all the effects of shock upon awaken
ing. In the case of a weak patient,
this effect of shock is an important
factor. Therefore, the best practice
is to use both the local and the gen
eral anaestheites, and as little as
possible of the latter.
A modern operation is a harrow
ing spectacle to a layman, because
often not enough of the general
anaesthetic is used to keep the pa
tient from struggling and groaning.
He really feels nothing, but he looks
and sounds like a man in agony. In
the case of a large incision in the
abdomen, for example, just enough
ether will be used to keep the pa
tient from rolling off the table, while
novocaine will be applied to each
successive layer of tissue through
which the knife must go. This is a
slow process, but worth all the time
it takes. In many of the internal or
gans there is little or no sensation
as long as none of the adjacent
nerves are touched. This is especial
ly true of the brain. There is no sen
sation in brain tissue. When the sur
geon has sawed open the skull in a
brain operation, he often works oh
that organ while the patient is under
barely enough anaesthetic to keep
him still. The layman has an exag
gerated notion of the vulnerability of
the brain anyway. A wound througn
the brain is seldom fatal unless one
of the great blood vessels is cut.
The patient then dies of internal
hemorrhage. Many men shot clean
through the brain during the war are
still living.
Mysterious Maladies
To Baltimore come many patients
suffering from mysterious afflictions
which have baffled doctors elsewhere.
Such a patient is apt to become a
pilgrim going from one specialist
to another. It is an expensive and
discouraging process, but apt to prove
less expensive and discouraging in
the long run than endless meddling
by doctors who do not know what
is the matter.
The mysterious disappearance of
large quantities of alcohol intended
to be used at the torpedo station at
Newport for mechanical purposes led
to the posting of an. order announc
ing that henceforth the supply will
be mixed with wood alcohol and will .
be poisonous.
be something worth doing that gives
tangible results. That is why the
most cheerful people you ever meet
are the busy people who are ab
sorbed in their occupations.
You never hear them complain
that time hangs heavily on their
hands, or wondering what they will
do next, or see them yawning and
gaping around. They find the days
too short for all they have to do,
they have a vital interest in life that
takes up their thoughts, they are
planning, scheming, building,
their wits against others, and they
have the perpetual excitement of see
ing their labor translated into terms
of real creation.
It is only the workers who are
happy. Think it over and try to re
call a single loafer who is not morose
and pessimistic, or an idle man and
woman who 4 s not pevish, and dis
contented, and who do not eternally
imagine that something is the mat
ter with their livers, or their lungs,
or their nerves. You will not be able
to remember a single bouyant opto
mistic individual who isn’t busy.
There are not many constitutions
strong enough, to stand idleness.
When a man retires from business
after having worked like a dray
horse for forty or fifty years he signs
his death warrant. So does the busy
mother of a family when she gives
up her house, and goes to live with
her children. The old people could
have worked on for ten. or fifteen
years, perhaps more, but they haven’t
the strength to stand the arduous
task of killing time. The epitaph on
many a rich old man’s and woman’s
tomb might well be, “Died of Idle-
Work is a necessity to happiness
and health, and the first aid to beinj
good. Satan still finds stunts foi
Idle handsi to do, and if people ar<
not legitimately employed they wii
be viciously employed. The sons am
daughters of the rich are not inhe
rently any more inclined to
from the straight and narrow pati
than are the children of the poor, bu
the poor have the safeguard of worl
to keep them in. the fold, and out o
the Sunday supplement.
The man whose whole thoughts arl
centered on doing the kind of laboi
that raises him to the head clerkshifl
or the foreman of the shop doesn I
have to seek excitements outside o|
his own home. The woman who haj
to cook and sew and wash for fl
household of babies isn’t w orrymfl
over whether she married her atnnitj
or not. She’s got something better t|
do than vivisect her own emotion!
and hunt for thrills.
The work that accomplishes some!
thing in the world; that makes a maj
and woman feel that they earn theil
way as they go; the work that drivel
and forces a man and woman to brinl
every talent of mind and body inti
play is the greatest gift that can fall
to the lot of any human being.
And when we teach the young thafl
it is a misfortune to have to worifl
and to despise work, we are bringing
down the curse of curses on theil
heads.
I Mrs. Solomon Says:
Being the Confessions of The
Seven-Hundredth Wife
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Copyright, 1020, by The McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.
WHO is this, my daughter, vh
is this, that entereth th
tabernacle pale and tremt
ling, and emergeth then
from covered with blushes an
pride and confusion?
Who is this that rusheth wildi
forth from the house, bearing thrt
grips and a bundle of umbrellas 1
one arm, and a girl in the other?
Who is this that dedgeth old shoe
and bouquets and persecutors, an
shaketh the rice from his collar wit
murmurings and mutterings?
Who is this that unwindeth hin
self from white satin ribbons, tea
eth down placards; and curseth a
bachelors with the curse of pity?
Lo, it is the June bridegroom!
Yea, it is he, the dreamer c
dreams and vower of vows, who se
teth said upon the sea of matrim*
ny, and embarketh upon the grei
voyage of discovery!
Behold, many things shall he di
cover, which he doth not now su
pect.
Yea, verily, he shall discover tin
the price of one evening’s diversic
will pay for a ton of coal, and thi
the money squandered upon a be
of Perfectors would have bought
pair of candlesticks and a pott<
palm.
He will discover that good chai
are not meant to be sat upon, ar
that the parlor divan is no place f*
a man’s feet.
He will discover that not all
woman’s hair is attached to n
head, and that her hats and frocl
do not grow upon her, but come
flower boxes with bills affixed.
He shall discover that he ha
acquired the right to have his bu
tons sewed on and his hose darne
but hath lost forever the right
choose his own amusements and ru
his own goings and comings ai
staying out at night.
He shall discover that, by wea
ing an overcoat for three seasor
and having his hats blocked ai
pressed, one may soon be able to a
ford a new Turkish rug for the drat
ing room.
He shall discover that not all tl
days of a man’s life are holiday
but that there are such things
“cleaning days,” “moving days
“rent days,” birthdays, family reu
ions and anniversaries.
He shall discover that many of h
cherished opinions of himself we
merely illusions —and that to be “u
derstood” is not always flattering
the soul.
He shall discover that the lltt
love-spots of courtship, and ti
quarrels of matrimony no more i
semble each other than an Api
shower resembleth a storm at sea.
He shall discover that matrimoi
is not a safety-vault wherein am:
may deposit a woman and leave h
until he happpeneth to think of ht
again, neither a hitching-post whe
he may tie her until he is ready
go home evenings.
He shall discover that theory is ;
excellent thing—until it cometh
running an automobile or a woma
but that he who attempeth to co
quer these, requireth much practi
and the sporting spirit of a gam
ler.
And Ic, my daughter, when he ha
discovered all these things, th
shall he make the greatest and mo
startling discovery of all.
Yea, then, shall he discover th
he is a married man!
Selah.
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