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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga.
Little Flings at the Commoner.
WALKER W. VICK, one time Atlan
tian, who is managing Governor Ed
ward I. Edwards’ campaign for the
Democratic Presidential nomination, has
launched a broadside at William Jennings
Bryan. Mr. Vick doesn’t like Mr. Bryan,
and there is a reason. His attack isn’t sur
prising in the circumstances. It lends, for
one thing, the necessary color to the pre
convention settings. The Democratic Na
tional convention wouldn’t be regular if
Mr. Bryan were not a storm center.
Mr. Vick indulged in a lot of uncom
plimentary language concerning Mr. Bryan,
saying among other things:—“William Jen
nings Bryan In 1920 is the same destruc
tive force, with much lessened accent on
the word ‘force,’ that he has always been.
No party has ever been cursed with a
self-seeker of his peculiar and ingenuous
fanaticisms. That personal profit and
aggrandizement are always paramount
should be obvious to the most uninitiated.
To those of us who really know him, that
he has any legitimate following is a sad
commentary upon human intelligence.”
The Washington Star cautions Mr. Vick
about the intemperateness of his language
and reminds him that a certain other Gov
ernor of New Jersey, on a memorable and
momentus occasion at Baltimore, found the
services of Mr. Bryan anything but ‘‘de
structive.” The Star remarks, also, that Mr.
Vick has underestimated the strength of
Mt. Bryan’s following, and assures him
that it is both ‘‘considerable and remark
able,” considering that it has never been
fed or nourished by federal patronage.
Mr. Vick is a fine gentleman and a loyal
friend, but in his attack on Mr. Bryan his
partisan zeal got the better of his political
judgment. In this connection, the Star well
remarks:
“If Mr. Vick’s line is the line of attack
qn Mr. Bryan which the wets intend to pur
sue at San Francisco, Mr. Bryan will be
aided rather than injured. He did not de
stroy the Democratic party in 1896. When
he took it over it was a wreck.
Mr. Bryan built the party up again, but was
never able under his own name to land it
a winner.”
The Star Is correct concerning the cam
paign of 1896. Mr. Bryan did not wreck
the Democratic party, and the persons who
today are loudest in their condemnation of
him for his failure to win in 1896 and sub
sequently are the ones who did their utmost
to prevent his success.
Granted that Mr. Bryan will not dominate
the Democratic convention at San Francis
co, Mr. Vick or any one else who thinks that
he -will not prove a big factor will realize
their mistake if thy live to read the returns
from the San Francisco meeting.
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The Trade Fleet and the Flag.
THE Merchant Marine bill which with
the Presient’s signature has become
at last a law wisely provides that
the great cargo fleet built and acquired un
der war pressure shall be sold or leased to
American interests only. This safeguard
against the vessels passing to other flags and
leaving us again in the predicament of 1914,
when more than ninety per cent of our over
seas commerce was dependent on foreign ton
nage, does not mean that they are to be sacri
ficed to unreasonable bids as if mere junk.
The Emergency Fleet Corporation, under
whose supervision the vessels were built, will
be liquidated before they are finally disposed
of; but superseding it will be a permanent
Government agency, “the United States Ship
ping Board,” authorized to hold them until
satisfactory prices are forthcoming. ,
This board is to have highly important
and hitherto unperformed functions touching
the nation’s ocean-currying trade. Composed
of seven commissioners with six-year terms,
it is “broadly charged with such duties rela
tive to the foreign trade of the country as
the Interstate Commerce Commission is with
internal commerce.” It is cheering to know
that this element of American interests, so
long neglected to the nation’s detriment and
peril, is to receive some measure of compe
tent attention. The new law, whatever its
inadequacies may prove to be, is at least a
stride in the right direction.
The Drainage Congress.
The eighth annual meeting of the Geor*
gia Drainage Association will be held in
Macon on June 22, at which reports will
be received from practically every county
in the State that has completed drainage
projects during the past year. In Walton
and Newton counties the progressive farm
ers have participated liberally in a co-op
erative movement to reclaim vast areas of
swamp lands that have been serving no
useful purpose, with the result that hun
dreds of acres that only a few months since
were uncultivatable are now beautiful with
growing grain.
Farmers and others interested in drain
age should visit the Jack’s creek drainage
district in Walton or some other immense
project that has been prosecuted to com
pletion at a cost less than the profit of
the crop produced thereon the first year.
*ln every part of Georgia, there are thou
sands of acres of swamp lands in every
county that could be reclaimed and ren
dered arable, thereby increasing the pro
ductiveness and agricultural importance of
the State.
The principal object of the Macon meet
ing is to arouse interest in the work of
.drainage and promote the cultivation of
lands that are not being utilized for pas
turage or any other profitable purpose.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
The Folly of an Embargo ou
H igh way Build in g.
I 1 N its cogent and timely protest against
the idea of an embargo on the freight
movement of road-building materials
md machinery, the State Highway Board
>f Georgia rightly argues that such a step
would aggravate the very trouble it pro
poses to relieve. The more inadequate rail
road facilities are for the ever-increasing de
mands of traffic, the more encouragement
here should be to the construction of high
ways and other adjuvants of transportation.
The more probable it appears that the car
riers will be unable to handle the oncoming
props and at the same time meet other re
sponsibilities, the more speed there should
be in improving and extending the roads
along which trucks and wagons can roll.
This is the positive remedy for freight con
gestion and its consequent ills, whereas the
proposed embargo is at best but negative and
as applied to highway materials actually
destructive.
The problem of distribution is in many
respects now the capital problem in our
economic affairs. Burdensome prices are
attributable in large measure to lack of
efficient means and methods in getting com
modities from the producer to the consumer.
The handicaps under which industries
have labored in recent years and the embar
rassments with which so many lines of mer
chandising have had to contend are marked
ly traceable to delays and shortcomings in
distribution. Os late years these deficiencies
have grown until now they are not only
a tribulation to business but a menace to
production itself.
The remedy will consist largely, of course,
in improved and amplified means of trans
portation. The railroads should be aided by
every rightful expedient to build up and
build out to the demands of the time. But
they must also be supplemented, especially
at this critical juncture, by increased high
way service. It is greatly to be hoped, there
; fore, that the Interstate Commerce Com
! mission will give no countenance to the
petition for an embargo on road-building
materials and machinery, an embargo which
if granted would stop a vast amount of
urgently needed construction and injure the
country’s vital interests.
Across the Pacific by Air.
THE Atlantic having been crossed by
three different types of aircraft and
all the Old World continents having
been similarly spanned, aviators burning
for new realms to conquer now turn their
gaze to the Pacific. There adventure looms
vastest, and incomparably rich with glory
and peril. The shortest suggested route,
—save one byway of Bering Sea, which
may be dismissed as unfeasible and unin
spiring—sweeps seven thousand eight hun
dred and eleven miles.
An airman starting from San Francisco
would face at the beginning an unbroken
flight of two thousand and ninety miles to
Honolulu—approximately as great a distance
as that of an entire trans-Atlantic air voy
age from Canada to Ireland. From Hono
lulu on, several courses have been pro
posed, one being described as “all-Axneri
can.” This would lead from the Hawaiian
to the Midway Islands, thence to Wake Is
land, to Guam, to Yap (our nation’s one
territorial acquisition from the World War)
and thence to Cebu, Manila and Hongkong.
In sketching this and four other possi
ble routes Commander Westervelt, of the
United States Navy, and Mr. H. B. San
ford, an aeronautic engineer, point out that
any path over the Pacific will be subject,
on some of its stages, to violent weather
in every season. These authorities, indeed,
consider airplanes practically out of the
question for this purpose, and, while ap
proving dirigibles for certain months, re
gard seaplanes as best suited to buffet the
changeful wind and surge. At its safest the
undertaking would be extremely riskful,
not .only because of the immense spaces to
be spanned and the danger of typhoons
but also because of the difficulties involved
in descents and landings. For instance,
“the sea about the Midway Islands,” it is
said, “is often rough, and facilities for re
ceiving seaplanes are limited, while Wake
Island is subject to severe storms.”
Os all deterrents to an actual launching
forth upon this exploit, however, danger
is the least—indeed, quite negligible. Prop
er auspices and support being given, eager
aviators would beg the chance. Already
preparations by an officer of the British
Flying Corps are reported under way. His
plan, it seems, is to start from Australia
and fly to San Francisco byway of the
widely scattered islands. If it is true that
he intends using an airplane rather than a
dirigible or seaplane, his adventure will
be the more hazardous and. according to
Commander Westervelt’s ideas, virtually
fated to failure.
However, recent progress in aviation con
sidered, flight across the Pacific now ap
pears much more probable than that across
th;e Atlantic did two or three years ago.
It was on June the fourteenth last that
Alcock and Brown in a Vickers-Vimy bomb
ing machine winged away from Newfound
land, and at ten o’clock the next morning
descended upon the Emerald Isle. Shortly
before them a United States navy seaplane
had made the pioneer trans-Atlantic air
voyage, and shortly after thqm the R-34,
a British rigid airship, sailed from east
Scotland to America, and returned. Since
then several famous flights have been
made, notably that from Cairo to the Cape
and from Italy to Japan. Now it is the
Pacific that challenges and lures. Who
doubts that it also will yield its vastness
and peril to the birdman’s prowess?
The World's Largest City.
N EW YORK is now beyond challenge the
largest city of the world. With five
million, six hundred and twenty-one
thousand one hundred and fifty-one souls,
according to the new census, the American
metropolis outnumbers most of the States of
our Union, equals the population of several
European countries, more than doubling that
of Norway, and exceeds what hitherto has
been its sole rival, London. The claim for
nearly a decade that New York City proper
was “at least greater in population than the
City and County of London” now runs: “Cen
sus figures for the five boroughs, combined
with those thus far given out for cities and
towns of this population zone, indicate that
the Metropolitan District has passed deci
sively beyond the count for the City, the
County and the Outer Ring of London.”
It is truly an amazing phenomenon, this
incorporation of upwards of five million six
‘hundred thousand persons—more than the
total population of the United States in 1800
and nearly twice that of Georgia today, Amer
ica is heartily proud of this gigantic daughter
of the east with her marvels of industrial and
commercial power, her vigor and genius, her
incomparable wealth of human interest. But
tiie New York World candidly reminds its
Community that cities “do not live and thrive
by the census alone.” • With them as with
'■•• lies, “mere mass does not mean strength.”
“There has to be discipline, co-ordination, co
■ an immense waste of
power; New York, it appears, grows in all
particulars save these.” Wholesome admo
nition this is tor the great majority of Amer
ican cities. In the new decade, it is to be
hoped, they all will give more thought to
quality.
SAFEGUARD YOUR CHILD
By H. Addington Bruce
DESPITE the splendid work of Children’s
Year infant mortality remains one
of the most serious of national
problems. It would be difficult to overes
timate its seriousness.
In 1919 a quarter of a million babies died
in the United States from preventable dis
eases, most of them before they were a year
old. Many more, needlessly stricken by dis
ease, survived to go through life crippled or
otherwise handica >ped.
Appreciation of the gravity of the situ
ation thus created has led to the introduc
tion of a bill in congress to provide for the
establishing of a Federal Board of Maternity
and Infancy. Child conservation will be the
great object of this board, and it should
mean much to the future of the nation.
Whether it will mean much depends
chiefly, however, on the willingness of par
ents to avail themselves of its child-safe
guarding facilities and to apply for them
selves the principles of efficient rearing of
children. There must zealous parental
co-operation if the infant death rate is to be
appreciably reduced.
And up to the present, it must regretfully
be added, many parents give nothing like the
thought they should to the care of their chil
dren. In proof whereof is the appalling
death list of children perishing from such
causes as:
Failure to provide digestible and nourish
ing food—food really suited to children.
Neglect to take necessary precautions to
prevent food from spoiling or becoming con
taminated. Many mothers even lack knowl
dge of how to take proper care of milk in
the home.
Failure to dress children properly, espe
cially during periods of extreme cold and
extreme heat.
Disregard of infants’ requirements in point
of sunlight and fresh air.
Lack of cleanliness in the home.
Neglect to summon medical aid at the first
sign of illness in children.
Poverty, of course, makes it impossible,
or next to impossible, for many parents to
care for their children properly. And the
problem of poverty is undoubtedly closely
linked with the problem of infant mortality.
But even very poor parents could accom
plish much if they would only make a study
of their children’s needs. Among the more
prosperous there is no excuse whatever for
neglect to learn and meet these needs.
If, then, you who read these lines happen
to have a little child of your own, and if you
have to confess that you are rearing that
child in a haphazard, hit-or-miss fashion,
begin to educate yourself without delay.
There are many excellent child-rearing
handbooks available at little cost. You may,
in fact, obtain helpful information at the cost
of not more than a postage stamp, by writ
ing to your state board of health or by ad
dressing the Children’s Bureau at Washing
ton for a copy of its publication, “Infant
Care.”
Talk to your doctor. Seek advice at the
nearest children’s hospital. Leave nothing
undone to broaden your knowledge as to the
safeguarding of your little one.- Especially
is this desirable at the present time, the eve
of the heated months of summer, so danger
ous to every child.
(Copgright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
AN ADVERTISEMENT
By Dr. Frank Crane
The United States of America is the big
gest business concern that is, or ever was, on
the face of the earth.
It is composed of over a hundred million
partners, among whom the average of busi
ness ability and respect for law is higher
than in any other group of people in the
world.
It is not well managed, because it is a na
ticyi, and no nation is managed well, on ac
count of the traditional nonsense inherited
from the days of monarchies. Some day na
tions may be run as business concerns; at
present they are run like college fraterni
ties or women’s leubs.
But) the United States is better off than
any other nation. Its government is the
most secure because it is the most easily
changed, and the people in it have the final
say so.
More people have a little extra money now
than ever before. They are buying many
things they don’t want. They are investing
millions in wiltl-cat concerns.
If you have any money, it is the purpose
of this advertisement to tell you the best
possible place to invest it.
But the Liberty bonds, Victory bonds or
War Savings stamps of the U. S. A. Some
of you bought them during the war and are
chagrined now to see they have fallen in
market value.
Many are selling them to spend in luxu
ries or to invest in private concerns.
But remember that these government se
curities, though their market value is less,
have as much real value as ever.
All that was said during the war about
their absolute security is true today, and al
ways will be true.
Their market value is off a bit simply be
cause so many foolish people are selling
them.
A Wall street correspondent says: “The
security back of the Liberty bonds has not
been impaired in the slightest degree, and
if held to maturity there is no question they
will be redeemed at par. Buyers at present
prices are assured of an exceedingly attrac
tive interest yield. The idea underlying the
issue of all the Liberty bonds was that the
people should purchase them as an invest
ment rather than as a speculation, and as an
investment they are as good today as they
were on the day they were put out.”
You can buy these bonds now to net you
a yield of 6 per cent.
If you do not know just what to do with
your money; if you are confused and in
doubt, buy the. U. S. A. securities.
Keep what you have. Do not sell. They
are bound to go up.
If we have a panic, tjiese bonds are the
securities that will neve? be injured.
They are the safest securities known.
Buy U. S. A. securities. Don’t sell. Keep
what you have. Some day you will be glad
of it.
(Copyright. 1920, by Frank Crane.)
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QUIPS AND QUIDITIES
One of Strickland Gillilan’s stories in his
“Sample Case of Humor” deals with the age
old theme of the inability of some English
people to appreciate the American joke. An
English girl was present when this conundrum
was asked: “How do you make a Maltese
cross?”—the answer, of course, being, “You
pull its tail.’’ The English girl didn’t smile.
Finally she said: “Well, of course, it’s because
I’m English and all that, but really I can’t see
any similarity between at Maltest cross and a
pullet’s tail.”
“Is there an amendment to the constitution
of the United States forbidding a man to
kiss his wife or anybody else’s wife?” I asked
the man iyho had just returned from a two
years’ crilise in the South seas.
“Not yet,” replied the cynical citizen.
“Did she say she would be yours?”
“I don’t know what she meant. She mere
ly said “Glub-giub.”
“Good heavens! Were you choking her?” i
“No. I proposed right in the middle of i
a pathetic movie end discovered ®he was cry-
LOST MONEY
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, June 7.—ls you
subscribe to the philosophy
that one man’s loss is an
other man’s gain, to whom,
do you suppose, does the profit
accrue when you forget to take your
package of bills from its hiding
place in the parlor stove before
lighting the fire in the fall? If you
drop a dollar bill and it blows into
the gutter and is never recovered,
who profits? If you fall into the riv
er and drown and your remains take
their place permanently in Davy
Jones’ locker, who is to the good to
the extent of the modest roll in your
vest pocket?
The answer to one and all of these
questions is, Uncle Sam. Every
piece of paper money that goes out
from the treasury and fails to re
turn, profits the government to the
extent of its face value. If it is a
gold or silver certificate the metal
which was placed in the treasury for
its redemption is never called forth.
If it is a federal reserve note or a
national bank note, the securities
that have been deposited as a guar
antee at the time of its issue, or their
equivalent, remain in the treasury.
So is there solace to the patriot who
so loses his wallet that if it is not
found by another its contents are
applied to the expenses of govern
ment. , . . ..
At the treasury department it is
impossible to determine from the
records just how much money has
gone out that will never return.
There are, however, certain facts
available upon which to base an es
timate.
Shinplaster Profits
During and immediately following
the Civil war the government issued
about $370,000,000 in fraction cur
rency, called at the time shinplas
ters, of denominations below a dol
lar Now, sixty years later, there
are still $15,000,000 worth of them
unredeemed. It is believed that
much of this money was buried with
men who died in battle. The bills
were of such small denominations
that they were carelessly handled.
Anyway, the government profited to
the extent of $15,000,000 from the
shinpiasters that were lost.
Between the dates of 1 862
1887 the government issued one-dol
lar United States notes to the amount
of $188,000,000 and then dl^ c 0
iied them. It has been thirty-three
vears since any of them were issued.
In 1907 SIO,OOO worth of them came
in for redemption In &° of
fhose Tolla? bms a thathave not come
back and it does not seem probable
that’they ever will. Nine-tenths of
1 per cent of them were lost. If the
pxnerience of these dollar bills be
taken as typical it may be esi ’m at ed
that nearly 1 per cent of the aoiiar
Hills nut out never return.
There was an issue of two-dollar
ft “»n ™ ™
the bill the more careful is its pv
“rooted to the
amount of $1,350,000.
Eight Million Dollars Profit
From figures available it is esti
mated that bills of larger denomina
tion are less frequently lost. Prob
ably not more than three-tenths of
1 per cent of them fail to retu:~..
Taking it all together it is estimated
that, aside from the shinplasters
that were lost, there have been about
$8,000,000 worth of paper m 0^ y that
went out from the treasury and never
came back. These were United
States notes, and gold and silver cer
tifi ln at lddition to this there are the
■hills nut out by the national banks.
The federal government guarantees
this money, and to it and not to the
bank of issue comes the profit from a
hili that is never presented for re
demption The national banks have
about a third as much paper money
in circulation as is issued by
trpasurv and it is probable that the
government lias made three or four
million dollars out of lost national
currency Is so new
a thing in the monetary life of the
nation that none of its issues may
vet be written off as lost, r eaerai
Reserve banks have a stp P e^°" s
amount of currency J?°xDeri
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Amounts of it that will never come
hack There are some three billions
of federal reserve paper now m ex
istence If one-half of 1 per cent of
that money never returns, which
seems a reasonable percentage, th.
government will find itself m pos
session of a velvet frojn lost money
of that variety aggregating
000,000.
Fixes Fill Federal Coffers
Certain occurrences have added
materially to the government’s profit
on money that never comes back for
redemption. There is an item on the
books of the treasury deliberately
charging off a million dollars as de
stroyed in the Chicago fire. The
treasury admits that it profited to
tnat extent. It undoubtedly saved
itself the necessity of redeeming
much more than a million. Wherever
there is a fire of any considerable
size there is sure to be a direct prof
it to the government on burned mon
ey. The San Francisco and Balti
more fires were directly profitable t>
the government. When the Titanic
went to the bottom of the Atlantic
unknown amounts of currency went
down with it. There was American
raner money in the strong boxes jf
the Lusitania when the German sub
marine sunk her and there was
American pa r *r money in the pock
ets of most of the people on board.
The same was true of many ships
that went to the bottom during the
world war. All of this that remains
tmrecovered is profit to the govern
ment.
When the Chicago fire occurred and
subsided, many people scrambled
through the embers to find the safes
io which their money had been put
away. With impatient hands these
safes were opened to see the condi
tion of the contents. In many in
stances this haste was expensive.
Flames were not able to penetrate
these safes to consume the contents.
Being airtight there was not enough
oxygen in them to create a blaze. B”*
in many of them there was still
heat. When air was let into these
safes they burst into flame and the
contents consumed. Had they not
been opened until they were entirely
cooled the contents would have been
intact.
Burned Bills Redeemed
By the time the Baltimore and San
Francisco fires came, such safe own
ers as ks had acquired more wis
dom. Ample time was given for
them to cool off. In most cases it
yvas found that the paper money ,r-.s
dried and lifeless but still intact.
Much of it went back into circula
tion. More of it was replaced by
the government with new money
Even when little but ashes are left
the government will redeem burnt
money if the bills are still recogniz
able. Such bills, carefully packed in
cotton batting that they may not be
ground into a powder, are ’still as
good at the treasury as though they
were in the original form. They will
be identified and reissued.
As illustrating one phase of Bel
gium’s industrial recuperation, Con-'
sul Doughten at Brussels states in a
report to the department of com
merce that the eighteen furnaces in
the Belgian glass industry are turn
ing out monthly from 1,800,000 to
2,000,000 square feet of glass. De
spite the fact that nine-tenths of this
production is exported, Belgian glass
works are unable to fill numerous or
ders which are being received now
from all parts of the world. The
lighting of more ovens is under con
sideration, and this will doubtless be
done as soon as the necessary fuel is
received.
The exportation of plate glass is
also considerable. Many countries
are buying it, but France is taking
the largest tonnage, especially for its
devastated regions. Prices are going
up. since raw materials have been
appreciably increased in price. In
stemmed ware, good prices are being
quoted and there is also a question of
a rise, wages just having been in
creased. Exportation is active and
has reached 75 per cent of the pro
duction. The -work day, which had
been of nine hours, was reduced to
eight hours beginning April 1. as the
. uil of an agreement between
workers and employers.
CURRENT EVENTS
Two hundred Vienna children from
6 to 14 years old left recently for
London via Rotterdam. In England,
they are expected to be better fed
than is possible in Vienna. They are
mostly children of the socalled “brain
workers,'* such as teachers, profes
sors, physicians, authors and musi
cians. Further departures of parties
of children are to follow.
Many thousands of Viennese chil
dren have already been sent to Swe
den, Denmark, the Netherlands and
Switzerland and a number also to
Italy, but the British benefaction
finds the greatest interest here, since
every one feels that this means—
more than even resumption of diplo
matic or commercial relations —the
return to those friendly relations
which always existed between Eng
land and Austria before the war.
Announcement was made in At
lantic City, N. J., to officials of the
third Pan-American Aeronautical
convention by officials of plans that
have been made by which 500 aero'-
planes for carrying mail and express
will go into immediate service in the
United States, and .of orders to be
filled before the end of 1923 that will
bring 2,000 planes into the service.
The new enterprise has $15,000,000
capital, and orders from commercial
houses all over the country sufficient
to keep all the machines busy for
six months, the announcement said.
The country has been laid out into
ten zones. The first will shortly be
launched on regular schedules be-'
tween New York, Cleveland and Chi
cago. The headquarters have been
established in Cleveland. One zone
will be developed at a time.
“It will cost less to establish an
aerial transport system around the
world than it would to build a rail
road from New York to Chicago,”
said Col. John D. Carmody, United
States air service, in charge of the
army delegation attending the con
gress. “That estimate is based on
actual figures.’’
The center of the upward move
ment in the value of the mark lies
in New York, declares the Deutsche
Tageszeitung, a Berlin newspaper.
The newspaper asserts that more
than a million marks’ worth of Ger
man twelve-month treasury notes
have been taken up in the United
States, and declares that not even
Germany’s shattered power of pro
duction has been able to shake Amer
ica’s faith in the ultimate recovery
of German exchange.
The newspaper further says that
the foreign financial world evidently
has come to the conclusion that the
United States will impress upon
Great Britain and France the neces
sity for an adjustment of their repa
rations claims to a figure within Ger
man means.
The Post urges that the time now
has come to take up the question of
the stabilization of the mark and the
fixing of the relation of the paper
mark and the gold mark.
Shoes with uppers of leather made
from the skins of sharks and por
poises will soon be on the market
if tests now being made by the
United States bureau of standards
in co-operation with the National
Boot and Shoe Manufacturers’ asso
ciation shall prove their durability
as compared with those of calfskin
and cowhide.
The state senate at Boston re
fused to pass over the governor’s
veto the bill fixing the alcoholic con- i
■ tent of beer at not more than 2.75 •
per cent.
The vote was, yes 14, no 22.
Before the measure went to the
governor the senate was recorded
26 to 6 in its favor.
The Delaware legislature adjourn-/
ed without ratifying the Susan B.
Anthony Federal suffrage amend
ment. There was a test vote when
Representative Lyons attempted to
force the house into committee of
the whole to consider the suffrage
ratification resolution. Mr. Lyon’s
motion was lost by 24 votes to 10.
After being defeated by the lower
house the resolution was passed by
the senate on May 5, but, fearing a
second defeat, suffrage advocates
succeeded in preventing it being sent
to the house until last Friday.
President Wilson had telegraphed
three Democratic members of the
Delaware legislature urging that ev
ery Democrat vote for the suffrage
amendment.
“May I not, as a Democrat,” the
president said, “express my deep in
terest in the .suffrage amendment and
my judgment that it would be of
the greatest service to the party if
every Democrat in the Delaware leg
islature voted for it?”
Long years of friction with their
neighbors in western Canada, and a
feeling that the Dominion govern
ment has not kept faith with them,
has led some 8,000 Mennonite settlers
of Manitoba and Saskatchewan to
seek homes in the state of Missis
sippi.
Provincial educational relations
have been the chief source of conten
tion between the authorities and the
Mennonites since the latter were
practically invited to enter Canada
as immigrants upward of twenty
years ago, with the guarantee that
they would not be called upon for
military service in contravention of
the tenets of their faith. This
pledge has been kept by the Domin
ion government, but the provincial
governments demand that the Men
nonites comply with the laws of the
country in all other respects, includ
ing education in the English lan
guage and payment of public school
assessments.
The colony which is now seeking
new homes, comprises the strictest
of the Mennonite sect, living in com
plete subjection to their bishops and
eschewing intercourse with all out
siders, whose influence they consider
contaminating.
Western Canadian newspapers ex
press the opinion that, though the
Mennonites have in all matters been
peaceful people, except for their
passive resistance of the school laws,
the country will not regret their de
parture, as they cannot be assimilat
ed into full Canadian citizenship.
The Lake Placid inn was almost
destroyed by fire recently. It had
opened for the season on Memorial
day, and about a score of guests es
caped when the alarm was given.
The inn -was a rambling three-story
frame structure situated on a com
manding height between Mirror Lake
and Lake Placid, New York, and had
long been a popular resort.
There are two trees in' the United
States that own themselves and the
ground on which they stand. One
of these is an oak at Athens. Ga., the
other a sycamore at Coney Creek,
Ky. The former stood on the land
of Colonel W. H. Jackson, who in
his old age recorded a deed as fol
lows:
“I, W. H. Jackson, of the county
of Clarke, state of Georgia, of the
one part, and this oak tree—(giving
the location)—of the county of
Clarke, of the other part, witness,
that the said W. H. Jackson, for and
in consideration of the great affection
which he bears said tree and his de
sire to see it protected, has conveyed
and by these presents, does con
vey unto the said tree entire posses
sion of itself, and the land within
eight feet of it on all sides.”
The sycamore at Coney Creek owns
itself and thirty-six square feet of
ground by virtue of a deed from
Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, duly
recorded in Knott county, Ky., which
contains the following paragraph:
“The said tree is conveyed, in con
sideration of the value of itself, as a
resting place for the weary under
the shade of said tree, and the said
tree and the said terra firma are to
belong to themselves absolutely and
to each other for all the purposes
for which Nature and God intended
them, among which is the purpose of
the soil to nurture and feed the tree,
and that of the tree to shade, grace
and beautify the said terra firma.”
Teachers at a meeting which was
to have been addressed by the min
ister of education at Kingsway hall.
London, many of them women, made
a hostile demonstration against Sir
Cyrill Cobb, chairman of the educa
tion committee of the London county
council, and the meeting broke up
in disorder.
When Sir Cyril Cobb ascended the
platform to preside the hostile dem
onstration began, and when he at
tempted to sp.eak, he was) met witn
shouts of “Sit down!” and hissing,
the opposition finally developing into <
a monotonous chant of “We don’t ;
want Cobb!” (
Many are the wells that the ’
farme r s are just now digging, oi 1
have just finished digging, in British '<
South Africa, for the severity of the j ’
recent drouth has compelled a wide- I >
SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
KEEP YOUR MENTAL FIGURE
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
I GET innumerable letters from
stout women of middle age ask
ing for some reliable recipe for
reducing, so that they may re
gain their girlish figures.
Alas, I know no way in which this
miracle may be accomplished. If I
had a formula that would remove
even so much as ten pounds of su
perfluous avoirdupois from a stout
body—and keep it removed—l would
be lending money to Mr. Rockefeller
for all that a woman hath will she
give to be slight and willowy.
Nor is it without reason that wom
en regard fat as the bane of their
existence. It is the sign and seal
that middle age oftenest sets upon
them. It is the curse that takes the
style out of clothes and makes a
Paris creation look dowdj 7 beside the
hand-me-down of some slim flapper.
It is that which takes the bloom off
of beauty, and the grace out of
movement, and causes a woman to
walk like a ton of bricks.
No wonder, then, that women hate
to grow stout, and attribute all of
their troubles to it. No wonder that
when a woman at middle age sud
denly awakens to the fact that her
husband has grown more or less in
different to her, and that people gen
erally exhibit no wild desire for her
society, that she beats updn her
breast and cries out that nobody
loves a fat woman, and forthwith
dashes forth in search of some meth
od of melting her too solid flesh.
Perhaps the reason that growing
stout is such a catostrophe to wom
en is not so much an increasing belt
measure as a decreasing hat meas
ure. For sad to say, about the same
time of life that a woman loses her
physical figure, she is apt to lose
her mental figure. She not only gets
fat in body, but fat on the brains.
Most young girls are sprightly.
Their wits are as nimble as their
heels. They are receptive to new
ideas. They are alive to fresh points
of view. We like their society be
cause they are interested in life,
because they are adaptable, because
they are cheerful and bouyant. They
are willowy and elastic in mind as
well as body.
The middle-aged woman, on the
contrary, is frequently a deadly, dull
companion, because she has become
opinionated and prejudiced. It would
take a surgical operation to graft a
new idea on to the fixed opinions
she already has. and her processes
have become as stiff as her joints.
She has let herself go. She never
reads anything but sloppy novels.
She doesn’t try to keep up with the
times. She has no interest in any
thing outside of her small circle, and
she is positive that everything is
wrong that she didn’t do when she
was a girl.
Worse still, she is apt to degen
erate into a whiner. Her conversa
tion is a melancholy recital of her
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
THE world is never the same to
a girl after some man has
gazed into her eyes and told
her that she looks like Mary
Pickford or Pearl White.
It isn’t until garl has ’vied doing
everything under the sun she can
think of to charm men that she dis
covers that the only way to fascinate
them'is by doing nothing at all.
Can anybody remember the day
when a man kissed a girl for love,
excitement, or curiosity, instead of
just as a favor —and when a girl
said, “How dare you!” instead of
“Go on!”
The average man’s idea of a
“sweet, feminine woman” is the kind
who would rather choke in the right
corset than breathe in, the wrong
one.
A man’s “ideal wife” is one who
can run marriage like a jitneybus
and furnish limotisine comforts on
a trolley-car income.
The beauty shop is a woman’s
sentimental garage, where she ob
tains a fresh supply of hope and
patches up the broken /tires of her
vanity, for the last stretch in the
love-chase.
Love fits a woman’s heart like a
Editor Pat Griffin, of the Bain
bridge Post-Searchlight,. who is also
owner of four other progressive
weekly newspapers, business man
and member of the legislature from
Decatur county, recently resigned
the office of state prohibition in
spector, as it interfered with his du
ties as editor and Statesman. Oper
ating one weekly newspapers under
existing conditions is a man’s sized
job, and many Georgia editors are
wondering how Pat gets away with
five.
Editor John F. Shannon, of the
Commerce News, in commenting on
the pending divorce involving young
Jay Gould and his wife, remarked
that “love in a cottage is better than
hell in a mansion.”
Renowned artists are searching for
the world’s most beautiful woman in
France, but they will have to Visit
Georgia to find her.
Good roads lead to good towns.
The Savannah Press says that “the
cost of living seems to be as ambi
tious as ever.” So does the cost of
dying.
The man who talks about Georgia
can always interest his audience.
A Baltimore man had five barrels
of whisky stolen while he was at
church. Another argument for stay
ing away from services.—Butler
Herald.
The proposal to divide Georgia into
two states is not meeting with unan
imous Indorsement.—Columbus En
quirer-Sun.
Few jokes do.
The sweet girl has the stage.—
Madison Madisonian.
And it may not be long before
some lucky fellow has the sweet girl
graduate.
Marriage licenses may not have
spread tapping of the earth for
water, and besides, many a farmer
has decided to take time by the fore
lock and prepare for other drouths.
And where the wells are being dug,
new windmills are becoming part
and parcel of the Sputh Afrlctffi
landscape, and a considerable pro
portion of the new windmills are
coming across the ocean from the
United States, which follows natur
ally from the fact that for some
time past the South African farmer,
scanning the advertising columns or
his journal, has been reading about
windmills “made in the Unitea
States,” and how superior they are
to windmills made anywhere else,
and how particularly well adaptea
to “his” farm in South Africa.
Something more than $300,000 the
farmers of British South Africa
spent in 1919 for American wind
mills; and at the same time the
farmers of Argentina were looking
to the United States for windmills
and bought about as many of them.
One hardly thinks of the United
States as providing the world witn
power to pump water, yet one might
reasonably say that whereever the
wind blows round the world it oper
ates an American-made windmill.
The statistics of the industry in
1919 show windmills exported to
at least fifty different countries ana
to a total value of over $1.000,00b.
Even Belgium purchased SB3B wortii.
-—Christian Science Monitor.
Geologists assert that
of the presence of petroleum near
Matamoros, Mexico, are excellent.
One hundred and ninety-seven thou
sand acres of land in this consular
district are under lease by an Ameri
can citizens for the purpose of de
veloping petroleum. Drilling has al
ready begun.
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
various illnesses, and the trouble slue
had raising her children, and her
husbands lack of appreciation of her,
and the worries she has had. with
servants.
You may never have thought of
it before, but consider how few and
far between are the jolly, alert, and
alive, middle aged women you know,
how few are interesting and inter
ested, and good to talk and listen
to.
Now considering that Heaven
doesn’t turn out many women who
are understudies to the Venus de
Milo, or her present rival in female
puchritude, the Living Skeleton, isn't
it about time that the fair sex real
ized that it is more important to
kep their mental figures than their
physical ones?
For the one can be done, and the
other can’t. No woman can keep
perpetually young and beautiful, but
any woman can keep herself inter
esting and an agreeable companion,
And that’s what counts after forty.
If women would spend as much
time and labor massaging the kinks
out of their tempers as they do the
wrinkles out of their faces they
would get more results. Nobody—
and assuredly no husband —cares
whether a woman who is always
sweet and amiable, and reasonable
has crows feet at the corners of her
eyes or not. Nobody ever knows, be
cause all they see is the beautiful
soul of her.
Nor does it matter whether a
middle aged woman is a perfect
thirty-six or an imperfect fifty-six,
if her gown covers a heart that is
full of sympathy and love for all
humanity, and of understanding and
friendliness. The woman who has
always palled with her husband, who
has known how to make excuses,
when things .went wrong, and has
cheered him on in times of discour
agement, doesn’t need to worry over
her belt measure. After all, you
can’t really measure life with a
corset string.
Women can keep themselves In
teresting. They can keep out of
ruts. They can keep cheerful, and
refrain from telling hard luck
stories. They can read, and travel,
and cultivate an Interest in other
people, and when they do, it does not
make any difference whether they
are fat or thin.
A middle aged woman should be at
the most fascinating time of life
because she is old enough to have
acquired poise; she is old enough to
have a wealth of experience behind
her; she is old enough to have
learned to take a humorous instead
of a tragic view of most things,
and she is still young enough to
look with interest at the closed door
of the future.
But she is only an agreeable com
panion if she has kept her mental
figure. The woman who has grown
fat witted is a bore from whom we
all pray heaven to deliver us.
glove; but It fits a man’s heart, like
his clothes, always loosely enough
for him to turn around in, and look
so love.
Kissing the June bride Is carrying
gold to the Yukon —but if you will
save your kisses and compliments
for a few years, she may welcome
them as manna in the wilderness.
Made In America: The finest bath
tubs. the most beautiful shoes, the
quickest marriages, the best hus
bands —and the happiest divorces in
the world. ,
When a man kisses you, blush,
sigh, scream, struggle, or yield; but
never laugh—unless you want him to
stop.
A temperance lecturer recently
burst into the office of the editor of
a local newspaper, and, with an an
gry frown, thrust a marked copy of
the latest issue of his paper before
him.
"I am told you wrote this notice
of my lecture on ‘The Demon
Drink,’ ” he remarked sternly.
“I did,” was the calm reply.
“Then perhaps you’ll be good
enough to explain what you mean
by stating that the lecturer was full
of his subject!”
increased in cost, but the June bride
is just as dear as ever.—Savannah
Morning News.
She’s worth the price, too.
The Jackson (Miss.) News, com
plaining of the dearth of baby car
riages on the streets of the Missis
sippi capital, says that it appears
to be bad form there to possess a
baby.—Rome News.
Other cities, we have heard, are
similarly afflicted.
Glancing over the various ex
changes that come to the grand old
Telegraph we get the impression
that the interest in the presidential
conventions is almost, if not quite,
as great as that excited by the
Demsep-Willard scuffle at Toledo
some little while since.—Macon Tel
egraph.
With the name of the winner more
in doubt.
You should teach the boys and
girls how to swim. If you have not
the time have somebody
else teach them. —Columbus En
quirer-Sun.
Too busy to instruct the boys, but
anybody should be willing to give
the girls a few lessons.
Editor Ralph Meeks, of the Cal
houn Times, and W. E. Lightfoot,
until recently linotype operator on
the Times, have purchased the Cov
ington News from Jack L. Patterson,
of which they assumed control on
the first of June. Mr. Lightfoot being
in charge. Editor Meeks is one of
Georgia’s most popular and able
young newspaper men and his many
friends wish him well in his work
of expansion. Meeks and Lightfoot
will doubtless give Covington one of
the brightest and best weekly news
papers published anywhere in the
state.
Evidently Editor John H. Jones,'*
of the LaGrange Reporter, is in fa
vor of sufficient hotel accommoda
tions to render “reservations” unnec
essary-
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
Some Folks takes all!
DEY TROUBLES T’ DE
LAWD, EN RUNS T' DE
DEBIL Wll> ALL DEY
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Copyright, 1920 by McCfure Newspaper Syndicate