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4 THE TR!-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 monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wli.l Mo. 8 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday2oc 90e $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .00 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 v»ed for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing jt 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 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. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIOJ BE TROUBLE BOUT BIS HE A! BIZNESS O' (SIBN FOLKS "friendly- criticism' Dey so liable t' turi ROUN' EN <5 IB You A FRIENDLY 5>US* IN BE EYE.’ ism Copyright, 19ZO by McClure