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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) , 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Moi. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Oailv and Sunday2oc 9Oc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 <-50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY. Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall, Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac- Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label ueed for addressing your paper shows the time roar 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 ns your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. . We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or te Address all orders and notices for 'this Department to 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? — 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. 4 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 PLEASURE IS LAK A HEAP O* OTHER THINGS -- DE EES' WAY T' Fin' it is t' Stop look in' fu h it! j J ' SS|? 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.