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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURNA ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly s SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.5(1 Eight monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mo». 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90e $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .00 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac- Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label uaed for addressfug your paper shows the time vour subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should b e sent by postal order or registered mail. . „. r. . . * Address all orders and notices for this Department to 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. a 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.) o 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 'JU. 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 H A PPI NE S t Copyright, 1920 by McCfure Newspaper Syndicate