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TIIE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
The Imperative Needs of
The Agricultural College
THE rapid growth and pressing needs
of the Georgia State College of Agri
culture demand an enlargement of
its plant and a substantial increase in its
maintenance fund. In the last ten years the
student enrollment of this institution, whose
services touch the very bases of the Com
monwealth’s progress and prosperity, has
grown from one hundred and ninety-eight
to one thousand thirty-seven.
Its classrooms all are crowded to capacity,
and in some instances are literally overflow
ing. Its dormitories are sorely inadequate.
Students are rooming on virtually every
street in Athens, the authorities report, and
numbers have been compelled to return to
their homes for want of accommodation or
because of the high prices of such board and
- lodging as have been procurable. It is al
ready evident that the freshman class next
autumn will be the largest in the institution’s
history; but how will it be possible to care
for all the applicants, or for the majority
of them, unless additional class room and
housing quarters are provided?
During the current scholastic year twenty
x instructors have resigned, going either
• > the farm or to other institutions or to
commercial positions, because of the poor
compensation they received from the State.
It would b eeconomy to double or quadruple
these salaries rather than permit the con
tinued losses which the teaching force cer
tainly will sustain unless better pay is vouch
safed.
These conditions should appeal to the Leg
islature’s sense of justice to the hundreds
of Georgia young men and women whose
educational opportunities are directly in
volved and justice to those great public in
terests which the State College of Agricul
ture subserves. The records show that nine
ty-four per cent of the men and women
whom it has trained are in agricultural pur
suits, increasing the production of those
things of which the world stands in ciucial
want. By answering the needs and encour
aging the continued growth of this school,
the Legislature will do a vast deal to
farming interests the attraction and the re
ward which, for the good of the State and all
its people, they should possess. It is greatly
to be hoped that every dollar of .the requisite
funds will be readily appropriated.
—.
Republican Incompetency
THE federal Department of Agriculture,
according to recent press dispatches
from Washington, is displeased, not
to say alarmed, over the retrenchment that
the Republican Senate and House of Repre
sentatives practiced at the expense of the
agricultural interests of the South in the
preparation of the agricultural appropriation
bill that was finally enacted. The estimates
of the Department were reduced by six mil
lion dollars, and Secretary Meredith, in a
statement to the public, points to sixteen
federal aids to Southern agriculture that will
have to be abandoned, as follows:
Demonstration work to aid establishment
’of general live stock industries in South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis
sippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma.
Dairy specialists in North Carolina, South
Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas and Okla
homa.
Cereal improvement field stations in North
Carolina and Tennessee.
Cereal disease stations at Auburn, Ala.;
Crowley, La., and Knoxville, Tenn.
Much work in maintaining and reproduc
ing forests in the South, where the problem
of future supplies is most acute.
Yellow pine studies in the South’s vast
areas.
Crop reporting specialists on cotton, to
bacco and rice.
Fund for eradication of pink boll weevil,
cotton’s most destructive enemy, considerably
reduced.
The South and Southwest in large measure
deprived of its market news service.
Plans for an office for inspection of fruits
and vegetables at Norfolk, Va.
Work in southeastern states on insect In
festation of cut timber and forest products,
Chadbourne, N. C., station investigating
berry and cabbage insects.
Hog cholera specialists reduced in number.
Dairy products co-operative work in Louis
iana and Mississippi.
Discontinuance of all work to develop di
rect marketing of farm products by parcel
post, expres and otherwise.
Vegetable oil crop investigations.
The importance to the South of the items
indicated by Secretary Meredith are so ap
parent that it is superfluous to dwell upon
them, except to express surprise that Repub
lican prejudice should prompt such an un
warranted discrimination against our agri
cultural interests at a time wnen the world
is crying for foodstuffs and every effort is
being made to encourage farm production.
It is impossible to estimate tne value to
Southern agricultural interests of the federal
aids that have been extended during the past
few years in increasing farm production and
stimulating the development of the cattle in
dustry. The demonstration work as a means
of aid to live stock industries in Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, North and South
Carolina and elsewhere in the South has
contributed wonderfully to the steadily in
creasing production. It is to be regretted
that the advice and aid of experts from the
Department of Agriculture in further proiuot-
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
ing this industry is to be denied the farmers I
of the South, and it is to be hoped that the [
progress that already has been made will not
suffer seriously in consequence of the dis
crimination of the Republican Congress.
The action of the Republicans in reducing
the funds available for fighting the pink boll
weevil is nothing short of an outrage.
It is not difficult to explain the prejudice
of the Republican Congress toward the South.
It is traditional and finds its answer in the
partiality of Southern people for the Demo
cratic party. In these circumstances there is
no occasion for surprise that the Republican
inspiration for economy found expression in
its appropriations for Departmental work in
this section.
The Democrats have been in power, either
in the Executive or Legislative branch of the
government, since March, 1911. During this
period, for the first time in fifty years, the
South has enjoyed its proportionate share of
the benefits of the federal treasury. South
ern Senators and Representatives have seen
to it that liberal provisions in the expendi
ture of public moneys were made for South
ern agricultural interests, and in conse
quence the development of this industry has
made wonderful strides.
But the Republicans again hold the reins
of the Legislative branch of the Government.
They control both Houses of Congress. They
aspire to control the Executive, also. They
have nothing to expect from the South in a
Presidential year, and what matters it to the
politicians, who control-the party, if the food
supply of the world is further curtailed if
they can re-establish the Republican party
in complete power?
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The Party of Reaction, and
Os Southern Antipathy
IF there was a lingering Illusion that the
Republican party as now constituted and
controlled had an iota of friendliness'for
the South or was anything more than a ren
dezvous of political reaction and spite, it as- j
suredly has been dispelled by the acts of the
Chicago convention. The first notable inci
dent in that assembly was the rejection of
most of the white delegates from Southern
districts. The committee on contests, swayed
as it was by the party’s backward-looking
elements, appeared to take peculiar delight in
squelching the hopes of those who have tried
as tactfully as they could to build up a Dixie
Republicanism within whose ranks white
citizens could feel comfortable and conscien
tious.
Time was, memorably in the days of Presi
dent Taft, when those hopes found no little
nurture. That generous and discerning
leader not only understood Southern senti
ment, but respected it, and took care that
the inbred, vital interests of Southern folk
should not be umbraged. But behold the
change which his successors at his party’s
head have ushered in! They are not merely
indifferent to Anglo-Saxon opinion in this
part of the Union, but are positively antago
nistic to it, if one may judge by their dis
posal of the delegation contests. It was right
that they should give the negro claimants
a full hearing and a fair deal. But why
should the lieutenants of Lodge, Lowden et
al. have denied the white Republican claim
ants an equal measure of justice? Why dis
criminate against the latter whenever it was
in any wise possible to give their opponents
the benefit of a doubt? Why refuse them
seats to which they evidently were entitled?
The answer is not far to find. The whip
handers at Chicago were of the Old Guard,
politicians bent upon running the convention
for their own ambitions and for the interests
to which they are beholden, reactionaries
of the fastest dye. Naturally they were on the
spy-out for delegates whom they most easily
could acquire and most readily control. How
ever that may be, the upshot of the situation
was that the rank and file of white dele
gates from the South, most of whom were
for Wood against Lowden, found themselves
as utterly shut out from their party’s deci
sive councils as if they had been the foolish
virgins of the marriage feast.
The Old Guardsmen, naving settled this
issue to their taste and advantage, proceeded
to direct the convention’s larger trend. At
every turn their influence was felt; in every
decision their bourbonism 'was manifest.
Theirs were the ideas embodied in the plat
form, with its rhetorical mask of anti-liberal
policies. Theirs were the wires that pulled
continually against candidates for whom the
majority of voters in the primaries had de
clared a preference. Theirs was the presid
ing and determining spirit from first to last.
And theirs will be a rule of flesh pots and
petty tyrants if, unhappily, the Government
is given over to Republican control.
No longer does the party of Lincoln and
Hay apd Roosevelt and Taft exist. Once
gifted with administrative skill and construc
tive ideas despite its faults and injustices,
Republicanism has sunk in these latter days
to the lowest species of political inanity.
Its control of Congress for the last two years
has cost the nation incalculably both in ma
terial interests and in prestige. It has re
fused to enact obviously needful legislation
for domestic ills and has repudiated the prin
ciples on which we took up arms in the world
struggle for democracy and justice. With
nothing constructive of its own to offer, it
has tied the hands of the Democratic admin
istration and left the country without relief.
Under pretense of “economy,” for which
it really cares as little as Falstaff cared for
temperance, it has reduced the most impor
tant departments of national service to star
vation funds and has cut the agricultural ap
propriation to a pittance that will react sorely
against farming interests in this time of un
precedented need for farm productiveness.
It has injured every part of the country,
but none so grievously as the South. Its
election to full power would be a misft rtune
to the entire nation, but to the South a mis
fortune beyond measure.
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The Trend in Germany.
THE recent German elections are inter-
nationally gratifying in that neither
radicals nor reactionaries developed
formidable strength. The Independent So
cialists, who are the party of the Left and
whose views would be regarded in this coun
try as extreme, made appreciable gains. But
•the Communists, feared to be forerunners of
Boshevism, had scarcely a hair’s weight at the
polls, while loyalists of the old regime failed
to muster anything like their expected fol
lowing. The net result is likely to be con
trol by a body of opinion whose trend will
be for the most part forward and whose mood
will be generally constructive.
It is not to bq, inferred, however, that all
will be smooth functioning in the new Reichs
tag. No fewer than seven parties will be
represented there. Out of these diverse ele
ments a coalition government somehow must
be organized, if anything worth while is to
be accomplished. Bismarck, a New York
Times observer recalls, once remarked that
wherever you have three Germans you have
at least four opinions. “With all their
genius for organization in commerce and
industry—and war,’’ the Times writer
adds, “the Germans seem to remain intense
ly individualistic in politics; it is a part of
their clumsiness in political life which such
men as Prince Buelow have publicly de
plored.” In the present situation, however,
there should be among those who oppose
both militarism and Bolshevism enough com
mon ground for effective >co-working on the
■ larger problvus and issues. Otherwise,
PERSONALITY IN SELLING
•By H. Addington Bruce
TAKE your job seriously and develop your
personality—that is one of the best
bits of advice that can be offered any
young man about to engage in business as a
salesman.
Many a salesman comes to grief for no
other reason than that he does not take his
job seriously enough. Many another fails
chiefly because his personality is negative,
colorless, undeveloped and he has been con
tent to leave it so.
To be sure, in order properly to develop
personality many, many things have to be
taken into account. Os these not the least
important is physical health.
Men of strong personality are energetic,
buoyant, enthusiastic. It is possible to have
all these qualities even when the health is
poor. It iq infinitely easier to have them
when there is a foundation of physical vigor
on which to build.
Therefore, wise salesmen who wish to ap
peal dynamically to prospective customers
conserve their health, if only for their per
sonality’s sake.
They do not waste nervous energy in
amusements that mean late hours night after
night. They display a reasonable prudence
as regards diet. . They avoid excess in any
thing.
Another important but often overlooned
factor in the development of personality is
dress.
A salesman should, indeed, be careful in
the matter of his appearance not only be
cause of the effect on others, but also be
cause of the influence his clothing is certain
to exercise on himself. Clothes, in very fact,
heln to make or mar the man.
Shabbiness and untidiness of attire tend
inevitably to lower the morale. Confidence
and manly self-assertion crumble in propor
tion as one feels that one is looking badly.
Yet over-attention to dress is as harmful
to the development of personality as is under
attention. For over-attention involves the
forming of mental habits incompatible with
vigorous thought and feeling. A “dude’s”
personality cannot be other than flabby.
The salesman eager for personality devel
opment will further give some thought to the
question of posture and bearing. It is now
a psychological commonplace that the way a
man carries himself has a profound influence
on the state of his mind.
A slouching posture promotes mental and
moral softness. An erect one fosters senti
ments of courage, determination, virile force.
It has been declared possible to make a man
brave by training him to assume habitually
the posture of bravery.
Certainly at all events it is safe to say that
slouching stunts distorts the personality,
while a good posture aids personality’s
growth.
And, of course, there must be constant ap
preciation of the importance of sincerity,
honesty and human sympathy as factors in
personality.
No man can long sway others to buy
goods or do anything else if he is insincere,
tricky and ignobly self-centered. These
trends and attitudes are bound to generate
a repelling instead of an attracting force.
They are death to personal magnetism,
that subtle quality which’counts for so much
in the winning of success in every vocation
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
DEBS
By Dr. Frank Crane
A striking, unique and picturesque scene
it was when a committee tendered the nomi
nation for the presidency of the United States
to a man serving a term in prison for violat
ing the laws of the United States.
Nothing in the coming political campaign
will be as dramatic as that.
Eugene V. Debs has for many years been
the standard-bearer of the Socialist party.
He and most of his supporters represent
that type of mind by nature and tempera
ment “agin the government.’*
Every known force is attended by opposi
tion. The universe itself is in a state of bal
ance. Centrifugal and centripetal forces hold
the planets in orbit. There is positive and
negative electricity, z In the Congress of a
thousand years from now, even as in the
witenagemot of a thousand years, there will
be what corresponds to Lodge and La Fol
lette.
Some minds are a perpetual minority re
port. Debs is one of them.
We need him and his kind. We need the
scoffers, railers, objectors, cursers and tiou
blemakers. Thersites also had his uses.
David refused to suppress Shimei. Ingersoll
did the Christian church a deal of good. The
Irish are very helpful to the British empire—•
they keep things stirred up. America needs
its Hearsts and Hillquits. The heretic, the
protestant, the rebel, the crooked stick and
the bad boy, they also belong.
The old plan, under monarchy, was to
crush the objector. Force was the original
peacemaker. It was simple and easy to un
derstand.
But like most naive ideas it was wrong.
For the reason that stability comes not from
one force predominating, but from an equi
librium.
The dream of the Czars and Bolsheviks has
been to get the State settled, down on to
solid ground. But not so is the plan of des
tiny. The State, society, all human life, is
walking a tight rope. The only safety is bal
ance. To go down on either side is to get a
bad fall.
Debs ought never to have been imprisoned.
It was not wicked to imprison him; it was
worse; it was stupid.
According to law -he ought to have gone
to the penitentiary. But the art of govern
ment is to know how and when to wink. Most
governments have gone to smash by enforc
ing the law.
Debs’ offense was a wrong opinion. To
punish an opinion is to dignify it. And Debs’
opinion was not worth dignifying. The folly
of the authorities has put him on a pedestal.
If they had let him alone he would be on a
soap-box.
The New York Legislature’s expulsion of
the Socialists, the Attorney General’s hue and
cry after the reds, the whole program of force
and repression, are childish. Such things are
mediaeval mined.
There is a simple, sane and effective way
of dealing -with the eternal heretic. It is to
let him alone.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
there will be scant hope of the republic’s
maintaining itself. Practical necessity, there
fore, and every sense of national interest
will urge party leaders to co-operate. Ex
tremists at both wings doubtless will take
the obstructionist role, but they will have no
potent body of public opinion behind them,
if the recent elections augur truly.
The world well may be gratified over this
prospect, for developments in Germany dur
ing the next few years will have important
bearing on the whole range of peace and
prosperity. Stable government is a prime
essential to that country’s economic recov
ery, and hence to its ability to meet its inter
national obligations. A Bolshevist Germany
would be even a darker peril than a militarist
Germany. Only the rule of sane and liberal
opinion will assure moral and
real freedom, which are the great requisites
of such a government as Germany needs both
for her own good and ior that of those having
to deal with her. May "the omens which now
point to that end continue to grow..
CURRENT EVENTS
The sale of the library of the late
Samuel Riker, 27 East Sixty-ninth
street, New York, two sessions of
which have been conducted at the
Anderson galleries, Park avenue and
Fifty-ninth street, was concluded
a few days ago.
Four thousand dollars was paid by
A. S. W. Rosenbach for George Wash
ington's collection of all the treaties
of peace, alliance and commerce be
tween Great Britain and other pow
ers from that signed at Munster in
1684 to the treaties signed in Paris
in 1783. This work, which is in one
volume, was General Washington’s
own copy, with autobiography on
each title page and his book plate on
the inside of each front cover.
Charles Scribner Sons bought a
fine caption of Henry R. School
craft’s work on the Indians for $l2O.
The Edinburg edition of Robert
Louis Stevenson’s works, in twenty
eight volumes, went to J. P. Horn &
Co. for $430.
The total for the afternoon’s sale
was $7,427.85. The total for the en
tire sale was $14,595.
Additional subscriptions have
brought the Princeton endowment
fund up to $7,262,192, according to
an announcement made by Henry B.
Thompson, chairman of the endow
ment committee.
There have been 8,650 subscribers.
The New York district has subscrib
ed $2,883,732; New Jersey, $905,637;
Philadelphia. $596,964; Pittsburg,
$659,295; Cincinnati, $460,950; St.
Louis, $788,398; Baltimore, $214,628;
New England, $181,836, and Califor
nia, $101,736,
The body of Lieutenant Richard W.
Thompson, who was killed April 19
at Rockaway Point, when his air
plane fell into Jamaica bay, was
found at Roxbury, L. 1., recently
by A. Kahlou while fishing about 200
yards from the scene of the accident.
He notified the Rockaway Point Air
station, where Lieutenant Thompson
was stationed, and Dr. J. F. New
berger identified the body. The body
was removed to the Brooklyn Naval
hospital foi’ burial. Lieutenant
Thompson’s father and brother live
at Raleigh, N. C. He was not a qual
ified aviator and was making his first
flight alone, which would have quali
fied him, when the accident happened-
According to a dispatch from
Strasbourg, Walter Damrosch and
his New York Symphony orchestra
had a remarkable ovation on thejr
arrival from Milan. An audience
which crowded Strasbourg’s largest
hall received each number with loud
applause and recalled Mr. Damrosch
five times after Beethoven’s "Heroic
Symphony.” It also liked John Pow
ell’s “Rhapsodic Negre” and had
plenty of enthusiasm for the "Mar
seillaise” and “The Star-Spangled
Banner.”
The Americans came from Mul
house, and some dougffboys journey
ed from Coblenz.
Fernand Baldensperger, who was
the Sorbonne’s exchange professor
at Columbia during the war, repre
sented the University of Strasbourg.
Miss Mary D. Uline, of Chicago,
headed a contingent of Alsatian girls
in the costume of the province, who
came from the Franco-American so
cial center to give Mr. Damrosch a
bouquet of American Beauties. Amer
ican flags beckoned from many win
dows when the Americans arrived,
and the people gave them a hearty
welcome.
A statement from Havana, Cuba,
informs us the Havana Chamber of
Commerce petitioned the Cuban gov
ernment to take necessary steps to
see that 400,000 sacks of sugar of
the present crop be retained on the
island and withheld from export.
The chamber of commerce explained
that unlesg this measure,was taken
the shortage of sugar in Cuba would
be very acute.
BLANCHARDVILLE, Wis., June 2.
■—(By Associated Press.)—A severe
windstorm which struck Blanchard
ville section caused a property loss
which may reach $500,000, it was
estimated. While there was no loss
of life, a hundred or more barns and
other farm buildings were wrecked.
Hundreds of cattle were killed.
Checks for SIOO,OOO are not com
mon in the morning mail. That was
why Miss Virginia C. Gildersleeve,
dean of Barnard College, had to
apologize to the graduating class
for the “somewhat shaky signature"
which adorned their diplomas.
“It took me at least twenty-five
signatures to get control of my
nerves,” she explained at an alumnae
luncheon after the commencement
exercises in students’ home. "The
check for SIOO,OOO was from the
Carnegie Foundation, to be added to
our endowment fund.”
Mrs. Edith Mulhall Achilles, presi
dent of the Alumnae association, an
nounced that the fund had reached
$132,000 previous to the arrival of
the morning mail. This, with $200,-
000, promised from the general edu
cation board, brings the fund almost
to its total of $500,000.
The Anna Howard Shaw Memorial
committee, which proposes to raise
$500,000 for memorials at Bryn
Mawr and the Woman’s Medical col
lege of Pennsylvania, was organized
yesterday at suffrage headquarters,
with Mrs. J. O. Miller, of Pittsburg,
as chairman.
Thus far 230 delegates have ar
rived for the international suffrage
congress in Geneva. They include
Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the
secretary of the navy. The confer
ence opens Sunday, with a sermon in
Geneva Cathedral by Miss Maude A.
Royden, of London.
William H. Edwards, collector cf
internal revenue in New York city,
was in Washington, consulting with
treasury officials regarding an in
crease in pay for his 800 employes.
Mr. Edwards said that his force was
in a deplorable condition and had
been badly disorganized because out
side employers were willing to pay
from SSOO to SI,OOO mere than the
government.
The collector ventured the opinion
that $1,500 was the minimum wage
upon which a single man could live
decently during these days of costly
necessaries. He also said that his
men deserved credit, for through
their work $1,000,000 had been col
lected in taxes for the government.
A school dress for spring and
fall which cost $2.87 and which was
designed, made and worn by Miss
Aline Johnson, of Boston, has won
first prize in a state-wide high
school girls’ clothing contest con
ducted by the University of Texas, it
was announced recently. There were
fifty entries.
The Standard Oil company’s sta
tion in Greely, Kas., valued at more
than $1,000,000, was destroyed by
fire recently, and efforts were being
directed toward keeping the flames
from reaching two 50,000-barrel stor
age tanks, both of which are prae
tically full.
OMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
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HEAP O* OTHER THINGS
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Copyright, 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate
THOSE WHO LIVE IN
SILENCE
By Frederic J. Haskin
W WASHINGTON, D. C., June 11.
One person out of every four
has some defect of hearing,
and about 90 per cent of deaf
ness is preventable. These two facts
show the prevalence of deafness, not
generally recognized, and also the
need for greater attention to its pre
vention and cure.
It is safe to say that the great
majority of people who have imper
fect hearing are not aware of it. The
demands on the ear in modern times
are not so great as when our ances
tors had to guard against wild beasts
and stealthy attacks by enemies. To
day, if an auto horn makes us jump
and the bell on the street car is aud
ible enough to get on our nerves, our
hearing is considered adequate for
safety, and if we have to ask a
friend to repeat a question the slov
enly speech of the friend is undoubt
ly at fault.
People who are only slightly hard
of hearing often go through life With
out evei' realizing any defect. Then,
again, deafness increases by disease
or bad treatment, such as putting
pins into the ear to clean it or
wearing an injurious hearing device.
There are about 50,000 people in the
United States who are entirely deaf.
One-third of these were born deaf,
and nearly two-thirds lost their hear
ing through disease, in many cases
through careless medical attention.
Because the ear is one of the most
mysterious and inaccessible parts of
the anatomy, treatment is difficult.
The inner ear is boxed up in bone,
which is sometimes proof against
even x-rays, so that the saying that
to study the ear of a patient you
must wait until he is dead, still holds
good to a considerable degree.
Another difficulty in diagnosing ear
troubles is the variety of causes.
Meningitis, scarlet fever, measles,
catarrh, brain fever, are a few of
the diseases apt to be followed by
deafness. Falls and shocks less often
Injure the hearing organs. And be
sides these there are cases in which
specialists and surgeons fail to dis
cover the origin of the defect.
A Strange Case
Such a case was that of one of
the princes of Spain, recently cured
in a spectacular manner. The young
prince had been examined by numer
ous court and foreign doctors and all
had agreed on two things—the boy
was stone deaf and nothing could be
done. But a spinal authority happen
ed along and thought he could eure
the prince. He paid no particular at
tention to the boy's ears but concen
trated on his spine. He said that the
spine was slightly curved to one side.
This is not an unusual defect; in
fact, most people’s spinal columns in
cline to one side or the other. But
the specialist claimed that this was
what affected the hearing of the
prince, and he explained to she royal
family in convincing and technical
language just how the glands and
canals were Influenced. He was al
lowed to manipulate the royal spinal
column and did, indeed, straighten it.
Shortly after, the child startled his
family by imitating the sounds made
by some ducks and by showing in
other ways that he could hear.
Another recent method of treating
certain kinds of deafness is to apply
air pressure to the ear cavities by a
kind of pump. Many cases of deaf
ness are due to the fact that the
tiny bones of the middle ear do not
respond to vibrations. The air pres
sure treatment, it is said, strength
ens the weak muscles, and helps re
store the efficiency of these bones.
One child born completely deaf
was treated in this way when she
was three years old, with the re
sult that some hearing developed.
This may seem to small degree of
success, but to the deaf, any im
provement in hearing power is of
tremendous consequence. To be able
to hear a shout or a peal of thun
der shows the deaf person what
sound is, and helps him in modulat
ing his voice in speaking.
Dip Reading
<n these days nearly all deaf peo
ple learn to speak by studying the
motions of lips, tongue, and larynx,
and imitating them. Deaf children
start language lessons at kinder
garten age, and learn to produce cor
rectly words which they never hear.
Because they do not hear their own
voices they sometimes speak in a
guttural, stilted manner, this man
nerism being less noticeable when
even a very little hearing is devolop
ed. gome authorities on speech
reading claim that the throatiness
of the deaf is due to the teachers
placing too much emphasis on use
of the larynx in speech, and that the
deaf can be taught to speak as na
turally as normal-hearing persons.
Speech-reading is said to be sim
ilar to learning any foreign language.
Diagrams and mirrors are used. A
few words and syllables are studied
at a time. The student watches
himself or his teacher say over and
over, "You may, they may, they see.”
Some letters are easily identified.
Others, b, m, p. for instance, are
difficult to distinguish because all
three are made by closing the lips. B
is realy made in the throat, but
when rapidly spoken, the movement
of the throat is scarcely noticeable.
Whether the person talking says
may, bay, or pay, therefore, must be
decided by the speech-reader largely
by the context. Yet on the whole
speech-reading is considered no more
difficult to master than a foreign
tongue—not so difficult as Chinese,
perhaps, though harder than Spanish
or French.
Education of the deaf has been
systematically promoted only in the
past century. Before that they were
also speechless, and were classed
with idiots as incapable of learning
to read or write. Now there are
boarding schools and day schools for
deaf children, and a few night
schools for adults who lost their
hearing since childhood, or who
never before had opportunity to at
tend a special school.
There Is a national college for the
deaf at Washington, where both the
. sign language and lip-relading are
used. Many deaf people,' however,
attend universities all over the coun
try and by sitting near enough to
the professors they manage to read
the lips. Shut off from the distrac
tions of sound, they are capable o f
unusual power of concentration, and
in spite of their handicap, often
are graduated with honors.
Besides the system of schools for
the deaf, there are institutions and
associations for the purpose of
helping them in various ways. The
most famous of these is the Volta
Bureau at Washington. After Alex
ander Graham Bell invented the
telephone, the French government
gave him the Volta electrical prize
of $10,090. Bell, who had been a
teacher of the deaf, wrote at once to
his mother telling her of his prize.
He concluded "And now we shall
have money enough to teach speech
to little deaf children.”
Dr. Bell’s Bureau
I>r. Bell founded the Volta Bu
reau to study the problems of the
deaf, and to furnish Information on
matters relating to deafness. Since
giving his prize money to start the
bureau, Dr. Bell has contributed a
million dollars toward its upkeep.
The last census showed that per
sons totally deaf now enter almost
every occupation. Farming and
trades attract most of them, though
many enter professions and a few
clerk in stores or act as agents for
commercial firms. The percentage
of those engaged in occupations is
nearly as great as with hearing per
sons, showing that thev are no long
er to be classed as objects of char
ity.
From the status of defectives and
dependents, regarded as uncanny
creatures, the deaf have by special
ized education become so nearly
normal that you may do business
with a "deaf-mute” without realizing
it. The chief impression you are
likely to carry away from a conver
sation with the deaf person is that
he watches your face with flatter
ing attentiveness. You reflect that
at last you have met a man who ap
preciates your conversational abili
ties and admires your rugged fea
tures. The deaf are usually popu
lar because they do not talk a great
deal, and are such good “li.steners.”
Militant suffragists, who began si
lent picketing of the convention in
Chicago, decided to liven things up
by 'displaying banners attacking the
Republicans. Mrs. Verner Reed,
vice chairman from Colorado on the
National Republican Ways and
Means Committee, was a picket. ,
Mrs. Leonard Wood and Mrs.
Douglas Robinson, sister of Colonel
Roosevelt, visited the lines and chat
l ted with the women.
TLKbDAY, JUNE 13, IWJO.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
JOLLY THE OLD
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
IT is a safe thing to judge a girl
by the way she dresses. Her
clothes are her shop window in
which * she displays to every
passerby the line of brains, and
heart, and general characteristic she
carries in stock.*
Is a girl sloppy and untidy in ap
pearance? Would her blouse be bet
ter for a visit to the laundry? Are
her shoes run over at the heels?
Does ner suit need pressing, and her
gloves and stockings darning?
She is lazy and trifling.* She will
make the kind of a wife who feeds
her family out of paper bags, who
wastes money, and against whose
lack of thrift her husband will
struggle in vain. By the time she is
forty she will have degenerated into
a flat slattern who lives in a frowsy
wrapper, and eats chocolate creams
all day, and reads silly novels, and
who weeps because her husband and
children like every other place on
earth better than home.
But if a girl always looks spic and
span, and as if she had just come
out of a bandbox, it shows that she
has energy, and pep, and the de
termination to achieve results, and
get there. For it takes time and la
bor to keep well groomed, and only
the woman who isn’t afraid of work
and trouble looks de luxe when she
hasn’t a de luxe pocket-book.
No psychologist has as yet ex
plained the exact moral effect of
corsets on the feminine character,
but there’s a subtle and occult con
nection between the two. The wom
an who doesn’t gird her waistline
up, doesn’t gird her mind up either.
The woman who is sloppy in dress is
invariably sloppy in her thinking.
She is never direct; concrete with a
settled purpose in life, as is the
woman who laces herself into her
straight front as the warriors of old
buckled on their coats of mail be
fore they went forth to battle. Both
of them are full of fight, and out
to win. And they do it.
Therefore, if you want a flopping
clinging vine of a woman pick out
a stylish one. She’ll be soft and
mushy physically and mentally. But
if you want a dependable, helpmate
wife who will carry her half of the
domestic load, choose ope whose
moral backbone is reinforced by
good whalebone.
Does a girl always wear a hat that
looks as if her worst enemy had
picked it out, and clothes that turn a
searchlight on her bad points instead
of throwing the mantle of charity
over them and distracting attention
from them by emphasizing her good
ones?
It shows that she lacks taste, and
tact, and the ability to make the
best of things. Such a girl always
fumbles the game of life. If her
husband I s rich she will spend twice
as much on her establishment and
get half the results another woman
will. If her husband is poor she
will never help him rise in the world,
for she will never know how to
make the right friends for him, or
to give that illusion of prosperity
that so often leads to real prosperi
ty.
And always such a woman is vain,
FOREIGN EDITORIAL DIGEST
Universal Discontent With Turkish
Treaty
> It is hard to discover who, in
, Europe, is pleased with th© Turkish
treaty. Greece, apparently, has the
best reason to be satisfied, although
' certain of the most indisputably
' Greek islands have been allotted to
5 the bigger powers. Italy is disil-
> lusioned. British opinion, both Lib
era! and Conservative, ridicules the
; pact. The French view is tersely
• summed up in the bald statement of
La Liberte:
Before the war the total of French
interests in the east was 66 per cent,
’ and that of England 8 per cent.
! The Turkish treaty grants to Eng
’ land 2,850,000 square kilometers
' (about 1,000,000 square miles) or
’ eight times the areas of Great Brit
’ ain.
i Syria, left to France, Is equivalent
t to one-thirty-fifth of the British
• share.
1 The London Nation —old standby of
’ the British Liberals—remarks acidly
’ that it is “a nice question whether
the Turkish treaty, is the worst of
‘ the series,” but that in any case “it
’ is the least likely to stand the test
; of time." Os the four salient points
(1) internationalization of the straits
. (2) aggrandizement of Greece (2)
severance of Arabic lands from Tur
’ key, and (4) subjection of the re
l mainder of Turkey to permanent al
! lied control, the Nation finds that
1 the “first three are more or less
■ fulfilled” but "the last may remain
. indefinitely on paper." Itjpoints out
• that all Turkish Turkey is in re-
I volt and that everywhere except in
i Constantinople and Smyrna the hold
: of the allies is precarious. “The
’ treaty, as Signor Nitti said, cannot
■ be imposed without another war in
1 Asia Minor, and who will wage it?”
’ The Nation also complains that the
League of Nationses left in the back
i ground, with the sole power of de
'■ termining a blockade of -the straits,
1 while the administration of the treaty
■ is left to a separate commission
1 which excludes not only the central
powers but the neutrals. Moreover,
1 “it is not edifying to find that Italy
‘ will keep Rhodes and the Dodecanese,
• while we Keep Cyprus; these are
cacially Greek lands.” Then there
' is Armenia, whose boundaries are
1 left to President Wilson's decision.
’ “But if he agrees and fixes botind
; arles, who is to drive out the Turks?”
’ the Nation asks.
The Conservative London Outlook
Is hardly less despairing. “A sta
, ble treaty,” it says, ‘is usually a
; happy combination of general prin
ciples with local circumstances. In
th® present instance, the local cir
; cumstances perhaps in any case were
, a bar to complete stability, but that
I being granted, the general principles
. actuating the settlement are equally
' shy of discovery—unless one sug
gests that the general principle was
that each of the victorious powers
should take precisely what it wanted,
. only leaving to the loser what no
body wanted, or to the League of
Nations what everybody wanted so
much that they could trust nobody
else to administer is, as in the case
of Constantinpole; or to the United
. States —which refused the gift at any
price—a territory like Armenia,
whose aspirations everybody ap
, plauded and whose administration ev
erybody repudiates, with a suspicious
unanimity that one would like to as
cribe to altruism, did not the arts
of the treaty rather emphatically
contradict the existence of that rar
est of virtues in international pol
itics at the present place and time.”
And as for the League of Nations
in this connection, the Outlook notes
that it "was originally devised as a
kind of gateway to a better world,
and a symbolic portal to a palace of
peace. It is gradually being trans
formed into a dustbin.”
One unfortunate certainty comes
out of it all, the Outlook observes
mournfully:
The rivalry between Greece and
Italy is not a matter of yesterday;
and the secular jealousy which di
vided the Roman Empire, and ranged
Rome and Constantinople against
each other for a thousand years, is
not yet extinct. Nor will the terms
of the treaty help to diminish that
ancient feud. There was a time, when
Italy entered the war, when her
rather large Levantine ambitions
seemed like to be gratified much more
generously. Those ambitious are,
perhaps, larger than she could jus
tify otherwise than on the grounds
of patriotic faith in her destiny; but
the fruition has been correspondingly
small, both on the eastern side of
the Adriatic and in Asia Minor. The
fact that Greece has been accorded
rather more than her deserts and It
aly rather less will not in the least
diminish the old tension between the
two countries, and statesmen with
Eurppean vision will do well to reck
on with this fact as a permanent ele
ment in the general situation.
Greece’s disproportionate share of
the booty is also a surprise to the
London Saturday Review. It says:
Thrace, Gallipoli and Smyrna are
pretty good wages to the power that
flatly refused to meet its treaty obli
gations to Serbia when attacked by
Bulgaria at the beginning of the war,
.and whose ambiguous attitude for the
two years caused us a great
opinionated, and pigheaded, one of
the kind who never take advice. Else
she would realize, her lack of clothbs
sense and go to a good dressmaker
who would turn her out properly.
Does a girl go to business groom
ed in flimsy finery, and jingling
beads, and bedecked in phoney jew
elry?
It shows she has no judgment, ana
can not be trusted to handle matters
that require good, hard common
sense. No woman ever climbed the
ladder f success in a b aded Geor
gette blouse and spool heeled shoes.
But if she dresses for business in
simple, plain waists, and tailored
suits and shoes that permit her to
think of her job instead of how badly
her feet hurt, it indicates that she
has intelligence, balance and the in
tention of making good as a worker
instead of using the office as a hus
band hunting preserve.
Does a girl dress beyond her
means?
It shows that she thinks more of
her looks than she does of her repu
tation. Because she sets everyone
wondering where she gets her finery,
for sometimes she pays f - her furs
and imported gowns with everything
that makes womanhood fine, and
beautiful, and sometimes she buys
them with the very life blood of her
poor old father and mother.
The poor girl who looks like a
daily hint from Paris makes a peev
ish and discontented wife, who is al
ways envying rich women and who
regards a husband as nothing but a
cash register for her to punch. The
man who marries her will spend the
balance of hU life dodging the bill
collector, and give thanks to Heaven
for merciful deliverance when she
elopes with some other simp with a
longer pocketbook than he has.
But the poor girl who wears -Am
ple frocks she makes herself, and
whose clothes are no better than
mother's, gives visible evidence that
she is a sensible, unselfish daughter,
and will make a man a good, con
siderate and thrifty wife.
i Does a girl wear more gowns
that are cut for exceedingly high wa
ter in the skirt, and whose bodices
are C In front, and V in the back
and nought under the arms?
It shows that she lacks maidenly
reserve, and doesn’t know how to
blush, and that a man need not cen
sor hjs stories over much when he
talks to her.
When a man.gives the once over tc
a girl whose charms are as frankly
displayed as a maiden’s in the slave
market, she doesn’t look like home
and wife, and mother to him.
But if a girl clothes herself in al
the seven veils of modesty he sees
in her the kind of a woman he wants
for a life companion and to whoir
he isn’t afraid to give his name.
It’s a pity girls do not realize tha
they are judged by their clothes
Especially by men. Silly clothes
make men laugh at their wearers
Extravagant' clothes scare men
Immodest clothes disgust men.
If girls Jcnew this, perhaps then
would be more sane dressing, an<
more wedding bells.
deal of- anxiety. • , . The Greeks di<
not lift a finger to help us at Galiip
oli, which nevertheless is to be glvei
to them. As for Smyrna, the onl;
apparent reason for adding it t<
Greece is that the Greeks occupied i
as soon as they could. Clever, cleve
M. Venizelos! Greek influence and in
trigue have been far too prevalent a
Constantinople.
France’s "American Folicy”
While bitterness against the Unite,
States is quite general in France be
cause of the non-ratification of th
peace treaty, there are a few Frenc'
statesmen who blame the French ne
gotiatorg rather than the Unite,
States. Such a one is M. Henr;
Frankiin-Bouillpn, formerly chairma
of the foreign affairs committee o
the chamber of deputies. During th
negotiations of the treaty M. Bouil
lon declared that the United State
would never'ratify, and he urged tli
French government not to be to
hasty about ratifying without resei
vations. Mr. Bouillon now says i
Le Matin. Paris:
Have we any right to complain o
the attitude of our associate power
Not in the least. We may deplor
its withdrawal, for the aid of Amei
ica now in settling the world’s al
fairs is more needed than ever. Bu
the Americans made their positio
clear in ample time, and we simpl
refused to listen.
President Wilson came to Franc
immediately after defeat in the ger
eral elections, after having asked th
voters to give him carte blanche t
make peace in his own way. AU it
formed men, all men of commo
sense, knew then that his signatur
would not permit him to negotiat
peace alone; and during the confe;
ence the senate on several occasior
expressed its disapproval of tl
course that was being pursued. W
had no right to ignore these fact
any more than we have a right 1
protest against the votes of a legii
lative body that has never swerve
from its opposition to the treaty.
There is the truth, hidden fro:
our people by the censorship of
government anxious above all 1
maintain a false prestige and repi
tation for infallibility.
Well, the post-armistice negotior
have apparently achieved the si
premacy of England in world a
fairs; the United States refuse i
recognize this result, and still moi
do they refuse to defend it in tl
future. This statement is not ii
tended as a criticism of our Englis
allies. They have admirably pr<
tected their own interests; we migl
express the wish that the same cou'
be said of ourselves. But that is tl
brutal and undeniable fact. Ar
that is what American public onii
ion rises against. It will not ratil
what it was unable to prevent. Wit!
out the least hostility against us,
simply means to maintain its liberl
of action for the future.
M. Bouillon goes on to say th:
France has given up all the militai
guarantees for the promise of En;
lish and American help—and tl
League of Nations. Now the Unit<
States refuses to join the league, ai
thus it becomes "an organism wit:
out power—l might almost say real
dangerous to us, because of its cor
position”—doubtless having in mil
that the Italians and Japane
have leaned consistently to the Bri
ish side thus far in all controversi
matters. The Franco-Americ;
treaty, he thinks, will not be appro
ed, and even if it were, it would n
work “without complete and perm
nent political harmony between En
land and the United States—a thir
that grows more and more hopeie
in view of commercial rivalries ar
“fifteen million Irish-American
whose leaders hold all the approac
es to power, and who have but o
doctrine—hatred of England.”
Thus, the writer says, the Freni
statesmen who sacrificed the Rhi
safeguards for vain hopes of Angl
American alliance, are to blame f
the difficut situation of France t
day. And yet, he adds:
Never was the need so pressii
for an “American policy” to suppl
ment the “European policy” whi
France is so stoutly championing.
The “Tiger” is Writing—What?
Since M. Clemenceau got ba
from Egypt he has received nume
ous offers to become contributii
editor to various newspapers—t
Petit Parisien, the Homme Lib
(which he founded), and others, ai
many of his friends have urged hi
to return to the pen.
“That is just what I am doing,”
answers. “Only I am writing f
myself. We are still too near t
events to judge them wisely. Lea
that to history."
Aux Ecoutes, Paris.
Judge Merrit W. Pinckney, wide!
known for his work in the Chica
juvenile court, died recently at 1
home in Chicago.
He was the first to obtain t
appointment of a woman, Miss Ma
Bartelme, as an assistant in t
treatment of delinquent girls.
Some 50,000 dependent and deli
quent children came before him du
ing his eight years in the juven:
court, it is estimates.