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A “Perfectly Safe” Candidate
From Wall Streets View
HOW Wall Street regards the Republi
can nomination for the Presidency is
indicated by the quiet yet significant
comment of that careful observer, Stewart
P. West. Writing from the center of New
Pork’s financial district, he points out, that
whatever stimulating effect the choice of a
"conservative” at Chicago was likely to have,
was being anticipated in pcivioua advance in
stocks, so that there was no immediate re
action to the announcement of Senator
Harding’s nomination. But it was none the
less obvious to a practiced glance that the
news was keenly gratifying to those special
interests which hope for no favors from a
Democratic Administration. There was not
more published opinion because, as Mr.
West explains, “there was no desire to ad
vertise the fact that Harding was just the
right sort of candidate from the point of
view of “Big Business.” But—
If there had been any doubt on this
subject, it would have been dispelled
by the way the nomination was brought
about. Actually, whatever was said in
a few houses to the effect that by no
means the strongest man had been put
up, there was in secret practically una
nimity that the Republicans had chosen
a candidate who, in the opinion of large
business and financial interests, would
be classed as perfectly “safe.”
Now, nobody with his wits about him will
deny that an important qualification for a
President or for any other in high authority
is that he shall recognize all rightful in
terests of business, big and little alike,
4£all have : a mind to encourage enterprise
and initiative, to protect lawful investment,
and to keep the springs of our national
prosperity secure. But there is a world of
difference between this sort of conserva
tism which is only another name for com
mon justice and common sense, and that
near-sighted, knee-crooking, dollar-adoring
conservatism which spends all its pains up
on a single class and a single region, to
the neglect if not positive injury of the
’ country’s rank and file. It is just this sort
of “conservatism” that gives the radical
fuel for his fire and breeds all manner of
economic distempers, from wild speculation
to ruinous panics. Had the United States
Government continued under the control of
those Wall Street powers whose test of a
candidate is whether or not he is “perfect
ly safe” for their particular interests,
America could never have withstood as
sturdily as she did the financial shock of
the World War; could never have mustered
her resources as efficiently as she did for
’hr victory,bringing blow in the strugglge;
could never have reached her present stage
of readjustment without a serious or even
calamitous financial reaction. For it is a
matter of common and vivid recollection
that the very forces now rejoicing in the
Republican nomination of a “perfectly
safe” candidate, opposed to their utmost the
Democratic program of banking and cur
rency reform and. virtually all the other
constructive measures which stood, and still
stand, a saving bulwark against the might
iest tides that ever beat against the naion’s
financial strength. It was Democratic vis
ion, Democratic initiative and business sense,
that saved the wise acres of Wall Street
from the folly of their own conceits.
We do not mean to identify Senator
Harding himself with any sinister interests.
But the significant fa|t already juts out
that his nomination by the Old Guard of
Republican reactionaries brings altogether
complacent smiles to a clique which once
could rule or ruin the country’s business,
but which for these last seven years has
had to obey instead of dictate the laws.
Few Americans, we take it, upon sober sec
ond thought will wish to rush a return of
that oligarchy to powqr—least of all those
Americans who value economic security and
freedom. /
The Importance of Ohio in the
Presidential Campaign
WHEN the Republicans turned -to Ohio
for their Presidential nominee it
was foregone that Democrats would
look in that same direction. The Buckeye
State, always politically important, is pe
culiarly so in this year of tense strategy
and narrow margins. Fourth among the
States in population and fourth also in elec
toral votes, of which it has twenty-four, it
is recognized by both parties as one of the
decisive battlefields. A candidate could well
afford to lose Arizona, New Mexico, Neva
da, Wyoming, Vermont and Delaware, if at
the same time he could win Ohio. But los
ing that vantage ground, he would profit
little though he gained a number of rein
forcements like New Hampshire, or Florida,
or Oregon. Whenever, in a national con
test, the Republicans have lost Ohio, they
have lost the election. The Democrats car
ried it sweepingly in 1912, and without
its support they could scarcely have won
in 1916. Naturally, then, they are consider
ing, as one of the major problems of the
forthcoming campaign, how to keep Ohio in
line—especially since the opposition has
chosen that State’s senior Senator, Hon.
Warren G. Harding, for its highest honor.
The situation is rendered the more in
teresting by the fact that the Democrats
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
themselves have in Ohio one of their par
ty’s distinctively able leaders, a statesman
highly popular in his own Commonwealth
and favorably regarded throughout the
Union. We mean Governor James M. Cox.
Twice elected to the Chief Magistracy of his
State, over the most determined and re
sourceful efforts of the Republican ma
chine, he has to a rare degree those virtues
that strike straight home to American
hearts and heads. He was reared on
a farm. As a youth he worked in a
printer’s shop. He taught a country school.
He became a newspaper reporter. His cub
bing season over, he acquired editorial con
nections with the Cincinnati Enquirer. Ris
ing steadily, in 1898 when he had just
turned twefity-eight, he bought the Dayton
Daily News, and five years later the Spring
field Press-Republic. In 1909 he was elect
ed to Congress from the Third Ohio dis
trict, and was re-elected two years later.
Then came the great stroke of his career. In
the campaign of 1912 when Democracy was
storming Republican strongholds long con
sidered impregnable, he led an epoch-mark
ing fight in Ohio and in winning the Gov
ernorship did much to carry the State for
Wilson —the State of McKinley, Mark Hanna
and Taft. He is now serving his second,
though not consecutive, gubernatorial
term, and appears to be more than ever
firmly entrenched in the confidence of his
fellow Ohioans, regardless of partisan
lines. Particularly strong is his appeal to
independent voters, who not only trust his
integrity but also admire his liberal and
constructive policies. Careful observers who
know Cox and Harding and Ohio, are of
the opinion that the Governor, as an oppon
ent of the Republican Presidential nominee,
would sweep the State’s four-and-twenty
electoral votes easily into the Democratic
column.
So it is that the outstanding Ohio Dem
ocrat is widely discussed as one available
for first or second place on his party’s na
tional ticket. “McAdoo and Cox,” or “Cox
and McAdoo” is a frequently heard sugges
tion. Also the name of Hon. John W. Davis,
now United States ambassador at London
and certainly one of the ablest Americans
of his time, is favorably mentioned. Nor
can it be doubted that Herbert Hoover still
stands well to the fore of his country’s
admiratoin, nor that thousands in both par
ties would welcome the opportunity to vote
for him. There will be more eligibles to
choose from at San Francisco than there
were at Chicago; eligibles, that is to say,
in the larger prerequisites of a Presidential
candidate—in ability, in attainment, in
understanding of the times, in sympathy
with what is forward-reaching in the minds
and hearts of the American people. No
unprejudiced and candid onlooker, we as
sume, would ’deny that in all these essen
tials William G. McAdoo measures much
above any of the contestants for the Re
publican nomination. And Mr. McAdoo
though of Southern birth, now hails from
New York, which has forty-five votes in
the Electorial College. With those forty-five
plus Ohio’s twenty-four fairly assured them,
and with some one hundred and eighty
from the South and bordering States, the
Democrats would have high omens indeed of
victory. We do not essay to prophecy con
cerning the San Francisco nomination. But
this much is certain: the Importance of Ohio
and New York should not be overlooked in
plans for Democratic victory.
What Is Americanization?
IN the midst of much pretentious but
ignorant talk about* Americanization it
is refreshing to hear so frank and sen
sible a comment as that by the Finnish
journal Paivalehti, published at Duluth,
Minnesota. Says that observer: “The man.
is a good-for-nothing who at a moment’s
notice' can forget his past, his kin, his
people, and without a sigh change his
views of life and ways of thinking, even if
he is aware of all the opportunities the
newcomer finds here.”
In such a character there would not be
depth enough' for the seed of Americanism
to find rootage and nurture, howsoever
carefully they might be sown; the blood of
loyalty cannot be stirred and thickened in
a human turnip. Yet we too often wax im
patient with immigrants because they are
not readjusted and re-made over night. We
ask them to shake off breeding and birth
as mere dust of the soles, and to think
in terms which, to them, are utterly for
eign. If this be our attitude we would bet
ter shut the gates against newcomers al
together—and assuredly restrictions should
be more cautious than hitherto. American
ization is not the work of a moment or of
a month, but of years—the fruitage of ed
ucational effort and influence.
Its best teacher is the loyal, thoughtful,
sympathetic American to the manner born.
Its worst enemy is he who, though native
to our country’s blessings, babbles against
her institutions and laws, or flouts her
guarantees of common justice. “The inspi
ration and mainstay of unrest among im
migrants,” our Finnish contemporary de
clares, “are socialistic and communistic
newspapers published in English, which
preach sedition against the Government and
preach doctrines contrary to American
ideals.” Further: “Profiteering arouses dis
content and a revolutionary spirit against
existing conditions; where there is cause of
discontent, there is discontent; when causes
cease, effects cease also.” A seasonable re
minder, this, and one which Americans may
apply profitably in dealings one with an
other as well as with the strangers with
in their gates.
Shortest, and Best
In a highly interesting table of compar
ative distances the Manufacturers’ Record
show® how much more advantageous it is
for shipers in the Central West to route
their export cargoes through Southern out
lets than through those of the overcrowded
North Atlantic. It appears, for example, that
there are nine Southern ports nearer to Den
ver than New York ie, the nearest represent
ing a gain of some seven hundred miles.
Likewise Kansas City can save between four
hundred and five hundred miles of rail
transportation on ocean bound shipments by
using Southern rather than Northeastern
paths.
It is one thousand and fifty-two miles
from St. Louis to New York, and little more
than nine hundred miles from St. Louis to
Savannah. Georgia ports present a distinct
advangtage, but only as regards distance, but
also in point of general service and accom
modation. They and their Southern neigh
bors are never locked in ice, are never ocn
gested, are never beset with any of the grave
difficulties which have throttled commerce
at North Atlantic terminals. Surely, there
should be arbitrary system of freight rates
to deprive the common country of these ad
vantages.
The Tift on Experiment Station
The Georgia Costal Plains Experiment
station, established at Tifton about a year
ago by the Legislature for the benefit of
the farmers of that region, Is already re
garded as one of the State’s most valuable
institutions.
The experiments of the first year were
confined largely to wheat and oats, eleven
varieties of each being subjected to scien
tific tests and information published for
the good of the planters, who are showing
their appreciation in many ways.
Despite the scarcity of labor and build
ing materials and other serious handicaps
OUR CHANGING SELVES
By H. Addington Bruce
WE marvel at the phenomenon of so
called secondary personality. We
deem it one of the strangest things
imaginable that a man can literally lead two
lives, in the one displaying most attractive
traits, in the other descending perhaps to
the basest villainies.
And most of us are under the impression
that such a happening is something quite
apart from normal experience, a fantastic
oddity entirely in a class by Itself.
Yet this is a mistaken impression. Sec
ondary personality is actually but an exag
geration of what occurs, with Varying fre
quency, in all of us.
Often it happens, for example, that we
wake up in the morning with feelings, de
sires and points of view radically different
from those with which we went to bed.
We come downstairs depressed, sullen, irri
table, as the case may be. We are not good
company for anybody. We manifest, in fine,
a personality wholly unlike that of our usual
good-natured self.
Our friends recognize tfee change in us.
Wonderingly, regretfully, or perhaps jocosely,
they inform us that we certainly are in a
queer mood.
Now, between these slight, transient
changes of personality called moods and the
profounder Jekyll-Hyde changes there is in
reality a difference not of kind, but merely
of degree. The latter are only moods ac
centuated.
And, indeed, in not a few cases of second
ary personality it is possible to trace the
evolution of the second self through a history
>f recurring and gradually increasing moodi
rons.
Making no adequate attempt to conquer
the moody tendencies, surrendering little by
little to the disquieting emotions involved,
the way was cleared for a pathological altera
tion under the stress of some sudden shock,
some illness, or some accident.
Which suggests that failure to keep one’s
emotions well controlled, over-readiness to
yield to one’s feelings, may make any per
son a potential victim of secondary person
ality.
Certainly, at all events, emotional insta
bility prepares the soil for the development
of moods into permanent and far-reaching
character changes, well described in the
words of Morton Prince, one of the foremost
authorities on personality problems:
“One or more sides to one’s character may
vanish, and the individual may exhibit a sin
gle side on all occasions. Or the ethical sys
tems built up and conserved by early peda
gogical, social and environmental training
may cease to take part in the mental proc
esses and regulate conduct. Or, again, the
ideas which pertain to the lighter side of life
and its social enjoyments may be lost."
The obvious moral feeing:
Cultivate control of your emotions and
keep an eye on your moods. And if you find
moodiness becoming a paramount trend, con
quer it lest it transform you into an inferior,
an unpleasant, perhaps an unbalanced self.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
SOMETHING HUMAN
By Dr. Frank Crane
As we go down the ways of this busy age,
the thing that makes us stop and wonder,
the thing that is like the discovery of hid
treasure or a pearl of great price, is Some
thing Human.
I have juet seen two whopping human
treasures. One is the writing about Mexico
by Ibanez, a wonderful piece of journalism,
of which I may speak later.
The other is a moving picture entitled
“Humoresque,” based on a story by Fannie
Hurst. .
The intense humanity of it is emphasized
by the fact that it is all about people who
live in a world entirely different from any I
have known. Something human appears all
the more human when it is Japanese, or Hot
tentot, or Eskimo. Then it is brought home
to you that these people, so different in their
environment from yours, are, after all, blood
of the same blood and spirit of the same
spirit.
The characters in this movie are taken
from the Ghetto. They are all Jewish. In
this story we are thrust into the midst of this
little world, as close and clannish as ever a
little world was, and our hearts are melted
within us at the realization of our common
humanity. •
The real star of the play is the Jewish
mother, performed by Vera Gordon, who is
not etarred at all on the program, and of
whom I have never heard. I have no hesi
tation in saying that it is the most remark
able and appealing characterization I have
ever seen upon the screen.
She is the incarnation of what, after all,
is the most interesting type in all the world
—a mother. She is the most perfect repre
sentation of motherhood I have ever seen.
All the strong currents of mother feeling, af
fection, fear, tenderness, apprehension, gloat
ing, pride and joy stream from her face in
an overwhelming tide.
While I have never had the acquaintance
of any lady of the Ghetto, I had the feeling
as if my own mother had enveloped me in
her personality.
The art of the thing ie unconscious. Some
how the spectator feels that neither the
writer of the play, nor the director of the
film production, nor the actors themselves
really intended to do the smashing thing
they have done. They were intent upon tell l
ing a story and making good pictures and
developing the love scenes between the boy
and girl, and showing the trials of a strug
gling artist. But all these are by the way.
It is the simple, naive, child-hearted Jwish
mother that walks away with the whole per
formance.
For, after all, it is the mother who is the
one universal figure. It is the mother who
is the real League of Nations. It is in moth
erhood that there is neither Jew nor Gen
tile, Greek nor Barbarian, bond nor free.
There are manner of tongues, customs,
tastes and divergencies among human beings,
but the one strong red cord that binds them
forever together ie Motherhood.
And this is the truest, deepest business of
the theater: to reveal to us our humanity,
to show us strange types, and how, after all,
they are not strange at all.
Here is the real hope of mankind: that
underneath all our differences, our struggles
for precedence, our race hates, our clashing
selfishness, our clamant competitions, our
wars and rumors of wars, our contests of
classes, our angry diputes of labor and capi
tal, oru envy, superciliousness and provin
cialism —underneath all these is the mother’s
lap, around all these are the mother’s ever
lasting arms.
Most books are written, most plays are
tinkered up. Once in a while a story is born,
not made. “Humoresque" was born, and
don’t forget that the greatest figure in it is
the Jewish mamma.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Director Starr is well pleased with recent
results and expects to operate on a more
extensive scale in the futurg, making ex
periments with the crops new being grown
in South Georgia as well as with many
new ones to the production of which the
soil of that section seems to be adapted.
One day a circus parade passes the White
House, and the next the supreme court says
the president does not have to pay income
tax.—Kansas City Star.
OUR UNSPEAKABLE SPEECH
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
CHICAGO, 111., June 12.—The
ladies of Chicago are out to
save our language. English
in America, it appears, is de
generating frightfully. We are in
danger or becoming absolutely inar
ticulate. But not If those storm cen
ters of militant culture, the wom
en’s clubs, can help it. The Illinois
Federation of Women’s clubs already
has an American speech committee,
and it has launched a movement, or
perhaps we should say, initiated an
endeavor, to purge our national
speech of the horrors of slang, bad
grammar, and slurred pronunciation.
There are many who hope that the
ladles will deal mercifully with
slang. It is by slang that our lan
guage grows and becomes our own.
By its slang you may surely know
that it is a live language. As for
grammar, if the ladies can do any
thing to drive it into the academic
confines where it is supposed to stay,
they deserve applause. Some of the
popular changes in the school book
grammar are logical and effective,
to be sure, but many are merely slip
shod. And a certain amounf of agree
ment in grammar is undoubtedly a
help to human intercourse.
As to pronunciation, all one hun
dred per cent Americans are back of
the club women. Let us by all
means learn to open our mouths and
speak out. Let us park our chewing
gum before we begin to converse.
Let us give our great language the
full melody of its sonorous cadences.
Comprehensible Train Announcers
Think of having a bell hop page
you, a train announcer call trains,
an elevated guard ask you to step
lively, all in dulcet and understand
able tones. The morale of the whole
nation Would move up several de
grees, nerves would relax, smiles
would appear, courtesy would
abound, and everything would be
sweet and lovely.
The better-speech movement has
already accomplished much in the
one year in which it has had the help
of the Illinois Women’s clubs. The
idea is t. get the schools, churches
and big stores to co-operate with the
clubs in a well-organized campaign
against slangy and slovenly diction.
The campaign is usually introduced
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
The snowstorm on Mars announced
by Professor William H. Pickering,
of Cambridge, Mass., as having been
seen by him from the Harvard ob
servatory stationed at Mandeville,
Jamaica, is probably a movement of
carbon dioxide gas, according to
Professor Edward Skinner King, of
the Harvard astronomical pbserva
tory.
"It may have been rather start
ling to the unenlightened,” declared
Professor King, to learn of a
snowstorm on the much-discussed
planet, but snowstorms of this kind
are really quite an ordinary thing
there. The gas has a white appear
ance and moves like whitecaps. It
is termed a ‘snowstorm’ by astrono
mers as a matter of convenience
purely. At certain times the ‘snow
storms' are seen near the pole areas
of the planet, and,” as Professor
Pickering said, ‘‘it probably was the
‘first of the season.’ While it is
supposed to be carbon dioxide gas,
its actual composition has not been
positively determined.”
Ordination of women in the min
istry of the Methodist Protestant
church is provided for in a change
in the discipline adopted in Greens
boro, N. C., recently by the general
conference of the church at its ses
sion here. There was little opposi
tion.
According to a dispatch from Lon
don Herr Wustrow, German consul
at Tabriz, Persia, committeed suicide,
according to a dispatch from Te
heran, while the consulate was be
ing besieged by a crowd demanding
the surrender of Persian bolsheviks,
who is was alleged were being har
bored in the building. When the
crowd appeared the consul refused
to comply with their request.
Sharp fighting then ensued, in
which machine guns were used. It
was during the disturbance that Wus
trow committed suicide.
Word from Washington that the
supreme court had held national pro
hibition and the Volstead act consti
tutional did not excite convention
delegates in Chicago. Most delegates
said they were glad the question had
been settled.
Leaders said there never was a pos
sibility of injecting the liquor issue
in the platform of campaign and
now that the court has acted it was
out of the way, they added, for a long
time.
A baby girl was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Dougal Herr, of Caldwell, N.
J., three weeks ago. The parents
were unable to decide on a name,
so they determined to wait several
years and name the child accord
ing to her traits and temperament.
In filing the birth certificate with
the town clerk they gave the name
of the child temporarily as "Itsa
herr” (It’s a Herr.)
Mr. Herr is an attorney with an
office in Hoboken. His wife is a
niece of Lindley M. Garrison, for
mer secretary of war.
The Harrodsburg Democrat and
the Anderson News made consid
erable noise over the fact that Mrs.
Margaret Banks, of Lawrenceburg,
had just finished a quilt of 1,050
pieces. They’ll have to .dust their
glasses and come again. Miss Nancy
C. Lester, of Stowart, Ky., has just
finished piecing a quilt containing
6,436 pieces. She has previously
made several quilts with 1,100 pieces
in them. —Harrodsburg (Ky.) Her
ald.
County Judge MacMahon, Brook
lin, N. Y., criticized civil marriage as
an "unholy consummation of a sa
cred contract and a desecration of
the sacraments.”
He made the statement in postpon
ing sentence of Joseph Venito, 1794
Shore Road, Brooklyn, who had been
found guilty of bigamy.
One of Venito’s wives was in court
and said’she had been married by a
city clerk.
Los Angeles, with a population of
575,410, has outgrown San Francisco,
and is now the largest city west of
St. Louis, as well as the metropolis
of the Pacific coast. It also has
passed Buffalo, tenth city in 1910;
Milwaukee, Washington, Newark,
Cincinnati and New Orleans. Its in
crease in ten years was 256,282, or
80.3 per cent.
San Francisco’s population an
nounced tonight, is 508,480. Other
California cities reported are, Passa
dena, 45,334. Fresno, 44,616, and
Stockton 40,296. Everett Mass, now
has a population of 40,109; Pensaco
la, Fla., 34,035; Saginaw, Mich., 51,-
903, and Chillicothe, Mo., 6,525.
Bread lines again appeared
throughout Madrid, Spain, recently,
the bakers being unable to obtain
sufficient flour to provide for the
population’s needs.
El Socialista declares the bakers
cannot be blamed for the shortage on
this occasion, as the fault lies with
the authorities for not making ar
rangements for proper distribution.
Stonehenge, the prehistoric group
of huge stones near Salisbury, in
southern England, is now being set
in order for the first time in its my
tery-shrouded existence of 3,000 or
4,000 years. A single stone was
straightened in 1901, it is true, but
a thorough overhauling was made
impossible by lack of funds. Hap
pily, says Popular Mechanics, Stone
henge is now owned by the govern
ment. Artillery ranges and subter
ranean mine experiment stations
were established on Salisbury Plain,
and close enough to jar the remain
ing uprights and ponderous lintels, or
crosspieces. This vibration has af
fected, in particular, one of the
trilithons that once formed part of
the outer circle. The crosspiece
moved outward and was lately a
menace to visitors.
The district supreme court at
Washington granted to the several
large packing companies an extension
of sixty days in which to submit a
plan for divesting themselves of
activities held not to be allied
the meat business, in keeping with
the agreement of December 18, 1919,
with the department of justice.
by holding a Better Speech Week.
During this week posters made by
the artists and school children of
the town appear in prominent places,
bearing such slogans as "Good Eng
lish Can Never Die. Don’t Try to
Murder It!”’ "Better Speech for
Better Americans,” "Poor Speech
Means Poor Wages.” Ministers aid
the campaign by making addresses
on the subject. Shop keepers urge
their employes to respect their
mother tongue. And of course the
schools are most active. The chil
dren sign pledges promising to
speak the language beautiful, they
give alleorical plays showing the aw
ful fate of slang slingers, they or
ganize “Do Without" clubs, in which
each member agrees to do withoqt
some such pet expression as "Say,
listen,” or “Some kid,’ or “Aw, cut
it out.” In one town where the
school children were allowed to fine
all offenders against grammar their
activities netted them thirty dol
lars in one day.
Children Prefer Bad Grammar
Mrs. Katherine Knowles Robbins
says that wonders can be done by ap
proaching children in the right way.
But one must be very careful not to
approach them in the wrong way.
It is a strange but true fact that cor
rect speech is looked upon as sort of
a disgrace among the young. The
boy who eschews slang and respects
his vowels and "ing’s” usually has
his life made a burden by his school
mates. The girl who used a cultivated
accent is usually regarded as a
prude. It is the jazzy maiden with
the loud voice and the jargon of the
streets who • • popular with her con
temporaries.
"Our young people are using the
language of the underworld,” says
Mrs. Robins, “and it’s effect upon
their characters is far-reaching and
serious. Cheap, vulgar language soon
induces a cheap, vulgar attitude of
mind. It is but a step from laxity
of speech to laxity of morals. Think
of our grandmothers mentioning the
shimmy for instance.” Mrs. Rob
bins shuddered and changed the
subject.
News from Washington relates
that Secretary of War Baker assur
ed General Pershing that no objec
tion to the general’s retirement from
active service will be raised by him
or President Wilson. Mr. Baker’s let
ter to General Pershing says;
“I have received your letter of
June 7 with regard to the possibility
of your relinquishing military duty
within the next few months. I am
happy to note that you are planning
to aid us in the reorganization con
templated by the recent act of con
gress, the importance of which, of
course, is very great. In this work
your knowledge of the qualifications
of officers wil ibe Indispensable, and
as the single list for promotion is a
project which you earnestly recom
mended to congress, it will help us
all to have your aid in instituting it.
“Your military life has been ac
tive and exacting, your services to
the country entitle you to choose
with the utmost freedom the ac
tivities and Interests to which you
should devote your time, and should
you adhere to your present wish
to retire, I feel quite sure the presi
dent will meet your wishes whenever
expressed. Both the country and the
president will know that should any'
emergency arise after you have re
tired, your country’s call will find you
ready to respond.”
Large numbers of former Ameri
can soldiers, finding conditions in
America unsatisfactory, are return
ing to France seeking employment,
and finding work for them is provid
ing a serious problem for officials of
the American Legion in Paris. Some
have taken places as laborers at com
paratively small wages, and legion
officials say that "doughboys” should
be warned not to return to France
unless they are well provided with
money to defray expenses while find
ing jobs, which are scarce at pres
ent.
“Since early in March,” said Ar
thus W. Kiping, adjutant of Paris
post, American Legion, "there has
been a steady stream of discharged
American officers and soldiers com
ing to France. Many of these men
are without money, they have small
prospects of finding work and their
knowledge of the French language is
rudimentary. Efforts are being made
to induce these men to return to
America, but some refuse to do this,
and the legion has been forced to
organize an employment service,
which has succeeded in finding places
for ninety-five men in the last forty
days. The return of Americans
under present conditions is inad
visable.”
Plans for celebrating the six
hundredth anniversary of Dante’s
death in September, 1921, are now
under way, it was announced at a
meeting of the Dante League of
America at the National Arts club
last evening. Historical pageants
and possibly motion pictures depict
ing the life of Florence in Dante’s
time will be shown here and in oth
er cities. A committee for raising
funds has been appointed.
Gathering potato bugs by the
bushel has been discovered as an
interesting pastime for those pa
tients in the Fulton State hospital
Who are suffering from dementia
and need to be taken out for exer
cise. They delight in the work, and
equipped with tin cans and sticks
ifthey go down the rows cleaning
i them up in great style. On one thir
ty-three-acre patch of potatoes they
got nine bushels of bugs in two
days. The bugs this year are so
large that Paris green does not kill
them and the only safe way to get
rid of them is to gather them and
burn them. —Warrensburg (Mo.)
Star-Journal.
Since May 1 there has been de
tained in quarantine at this port
Ciriaco Garcillan, of Spain, a victim
of leprosy. This fact became known
recently when the immigration offi
cials at Ellis Island received an
order directing that Eliza Garcia
Garcillan, wife of the afflicted man,
be deported with her husband.
Garcillan and his wife lived for a
time in New York, but where or
how long the authorities would not
make public. Recently they sailed
;° r 5* a y ana and upon arrival there
tne Cuban health authorities found
the man was suffering from leprosy.
They were not allowed to land and
returned to New York under Cuban
deportation orders on the steamship
Monsterat, arriving on May 1.
TxrvT arC u^ an -I s fifty-three years old.
When his wife learned that she could
accompany her husband back to
Spain she cried. "I would not care
to live here with my husband sent
to die in Spain,” she said. "I want
to *?F o J vlt h hlm and if need be die
with him. The couple were placed
on a steamship which is to take
them back to their native land.
The discovery of the signature of
William Shakespeare, scrawled 314
years ago on the wall of the “haunt
-ed gallery” of Hampton Court, has
just been made in London. Shake
speare authorities pronounce it
authentic.
The disclosure was made when
Ernest Law, the court antiquarian,
was directing the renovations. On
the wall of the old retiring room
he found, after cleaning it, the let
ter “S,” followed by illegible letters,
concluding "kespeare,” and beneath
the rough sketch of a hand and the
date 1606.
It is a matter of history that the
Shakespeare company visited the
palace at the date set down, and
played "Hamlet” before the then
King Christian, of Denmark. The
company dressed in the "haunted
gallery,” near the great hall where
the play was enacted.
The gallery, according to ancient
tradition, is haunted by the ghost
of Catherine Howard, one of Henry
VIII’s six wives, who was imprison
ed there. History tells that she es
caped from confinement while the
king was praying in his private
chapel, and that her flight was dis
covered by the court guards, who
dragged her screaming to the king,
interrupting his devotions.
It was long said that Catherine,
nightly walked the gallery, shriek
ing.—Toronto Globe.
THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
WE ONLY REAP WHAT WE SOW
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
THE reason that many people
are so disgruntled with life is
because they expect to reap
where they have not sown.
These same individuals would send
in a hurry call for an alienist if they
saw a farmer preparing to gather
in a rich harvest from a field that he
had neither tilled nor sown. They
see nothing unreasonable, however,
in demanding that they, themselves,
should enjoy all the good things of
life without their having done any
thing to earn them.
We have a common example of this
in the men and women all about us
who are failures. They rail at fate,
and curse their luck, and talk about
pull, and favoritism, when the plain
truth is that they are cheaters who
are trying to reap where they have
not sown.
They have never planted the seeds
that eventually flower into achieve
ment. They have not honestly striv
en. They loafed, and idled, and turn
ed quitter when the long, hard pull
came that requires putting your back
and your mind and your soul into
your job.
There is no use in telling these
people that every successful man and
every successful woman is merely
reaping what they have sown in hard
work, in long hours, in faithful per
formance of duty in the face of dif
ficulties.
They do not want to win success
that way. They want some miracle
to happen so that they may enjoy
the fruits of labor without having
to labor. And the miracle never
comes off.
Other people want to gain in the
harvest of love without having
earned love. They want to be loved
without ever doing anything to earn
love.
Not long ago a man complained
bitterly to me that his wife and chil
dren never showed him any affection,
and that he felt an outsider in his
own home.
This man had been a hard and ty
rannical husband and father. Never,
after he married her, did he show his
wife any tenderness. He rarely
spoke to her except to find fault.
He was stern and cold to his chil
dren. He never petted and caressed
them even when they were babies.
He never talked to them, or took
them on jaunts, or made any little
treats for them. He never showed
them that he had any love for them,
and they grew up in such deadly fear
of him that even when they were
men and women they were silent and
constrained in his presence.
Such a man has no right to expect
his family to love him. He had
never sown love, and tenderness, and
kindness, and he could no more reap
a rich harvest of affection than could
the farmer gather in the wheat from
the field he had permitted to grow
up in thistles.
Very many people are like this
man. They do not realize that un
less they are lovable they can not
hope to be loved. They go their sel
fish and self-centered way through
life, trampling over the rights of
others, inconsiderate of the feelings
of others, ignoring the joys and sor
rows of others, and yet expect to
have affection showered upon them
in spite of their having done noth
ing to merit It.
You often hear men and women, es
pecially old men and women, bewail
ing their loneliness and lack of
friends. Yet in all their long lives
they have done nothing to win
friendship, or bind another heart to
theirs.
They never held out a helping hand
to anyone in need. They never put
aside their own pleasure to weep with
those who mourned, or rejoice with
A Million More Tarins Than in 1910
The Oglethorpe Echo, after a care
ful survey of the census returns, has
arrived at the following result:
An increase of 1,009,000 in the to
tal number of farms in the United
States probably will be shown in
the agricultural census now being
taken in connection with the general
census, officials say. Approximate
ly 6,000,000 seperate farms were list
ed in the 1910 census. Increasing
the number of farms should tend
to decrease food prices, agricultural
officials say.
Prediction that the rural popula
tion would show a big migration to
the cities is not supported by cen
sus returns so far tabulated. Pop
ulation returns have been announced
for about 900 towns and cities. A
study of the 1920 returns as com
pared with the 1910 returns for
most of the cities show that their
AS A WOMAN
THINKETH
BY HELEN ROWLAND
I SIGH TO BE A “LADY”
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.)
ALL my life,
I have yearned to be a
“lady!”
Oh, dear, no! I don’t mean
merely “well-bred,"
Or fashionable, or “smart,” or
“modish,” or "chic,” or "polished.”
I mean a "lady" in the sweet, old,
rococo, 1860 sense—
The sort of “lady” that every little
girl dreams of being, and that every
little boy dreams of marrying—spine
day—-
The sort that reminds one of lav
ender, and lilacs, and old lace,
And has "charming MANNERS,”
and a "gracious” smile, and a "queen
ly” presence, and soft, white hands
and illusions and dignity and re
serve—-
And all those things, so fascinat
ing—to MEN!
I wish I could "greet” my friends,
instead of just hailing them.
I wish I could “sweep” into a
room, Instead of just breezing in.
I wish I could "glide” about, in
stead of rushing about,
And could "preside” at a dinner,
instead of merely "entertaining,”
And had a “vocabulary,” instead
of just a jargon of slang and popular
idioms, and musical comedy "lingo.”
I wish I could be “polite” in
crowded street cars, and “courteous”
in a mob, and could do the “After
you-my-dear-Alphonse”—oh, there I
go!
But, alas, I’m Today’s Daughter!
And I must do as Today’s Daugh
ters do!
Bring me the rouge-pot, and anoint
me with brilliantine and patchouli!!
Cover me with pearl-powder, and
array me in my backless evening
gown!
Pull out my eyebrows and let my
finger nails shine like unto electric
lights!
Doll me up in Paradise . feathers
and deck me in near-pearl earrings.
For, if I disdain these things—then
shall I blush unseen and forgotten,
In a world of dazzling women,
Where a matron must outshine her
granddaughter, a debutante must out
dress a show-girl.
And you cannot tell a working girl
from a society bud, nor a society bud
from a Broadway star!
Heigh-ho! It takes TIME to be a
“lady!”
And we’re all too busy—we Daugh
ters of Today—trying to be dazzling,
or smart, or chic, or original, or
stunning—
Too busy banting, and massaging,
and marcelling, and golfing and mo
toring, and keeping up with the very
"last word,” the very "latest wrin-
To bother with MANNERS, or eti
quette fFunny old world!),
Or ANYTHlNG—except using the
right beauty cream and the right
fork.
And yet, there is nothing so at
tractive to men, in all the world,
As a "lady!”
Oh, yes, I sigh to be a "lady.”
But. I’m Today’s Daughter,
And I dwell in the eternal fear of
being “twenty minutes late!”
I WANT to be a “lady,”
But I haven’t the TIME!
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
those who were glad, and so when
the time came when they hungered
for human companionship, and affec
tion, they ached for it in vain. They
had failed to sow the seeds of friend
ship and so when they came to reap
their field it was barren.
We are called upon to listen ta no
tale of woe so often as that of the
wife who wails that her husband has
grown indifferent to her, that he has
ceased to care for her, or to enjoy
her society and that he is at home
as little as possible.
Nine times out of ten the woman
who tells you that she has lost her
husband’s love is so unattractive that
only a man who was a miracle of
faithfulness could have retained any
sentiment for her. She has allowed
herself to become physically unallur
ing. She has ceased to comb her hair
and powder her nose and her clothes
look as if they had been pitchforked
at her.
Worse still she has grown dull and
stupid as a companion. She never
reads. She has never anything bright
and interesting to talk about. She
whines and complains and when her
husband comes home it is to a dreary,
ill-kept house, and to have to listen
to a peevish, fretful, discontented
wife grouching because she has to
worry over children and servants,
and can’t have everything rich women
have.
Why should such a woman ever
hope that her husband will find hex
attractive. What is there about her
to intrigue any man’s fancy? What
is there in a home that is the abode
of all the glooms to draw a tired
man to it after his hard iay’g work?
Such a woman is too lazy and
shiftless and selfish to take the
trouble to keep her domestic garden
plowed and seeded, and worked, and
it is her fault when the heartsease
are choked out by the weeds.
Because her husband loved her
once, she thinks he will love her al
ways, no matter how unkissable she
becomes. Which is a fatal error.
Love is not a perennial that renews
itself year after year. Rather it is
a one-day flower that has to be
planted anew every morning in a
man’s soul if a woman wants to keep
herself perpetually adorned with it.
If a wife wishes to reap constancy
in her husband she must sow the
seeds of charm, of agreeability, es
personal Interest from which con
stancy grows.
This truth, that we cannot reap
where we have not sown, is , one
that parents should impress with
peculiar earnestness just now upon
their children, for the young have
grown Impatient of the old, slow,
plodding method of winning success,
and are hunting for some short cut
to it. And there is none.
Boys and girls are not willing to
put in the labor, or take the time
to learn how to do their work thor
oughly. They demand big salaries
that they cannot earn, and they
change from occupation to occupa
tion, and position to position, seek
ing the mythical Job with no work,
short hours and a fat pay envelope,
which they never find.
They should be made to under
stand that before they can command
high pay they must be able to do
good work. Before they can hold
responsible positions they must be
fitted to fill the places of authority.
Before they can command they must
have submitted to authority them
selves. Tn a word before they can
reap the harvest of success they must
have tilled the soil and sown the
seed in sweat of-soul and body.
For that is the law of nature— we
cannot reap where we have not sowfl
•—and the law never changes.
population did not Increase as fasi
during the decade just ended as ir
the decade from 1900 to 1910. Th*
increase in 1900-11 was 29.4 ]
cent while the increase during
1910-20 decade was 24.8 per cent
These comparisons indicate that th*
drift of population from farms tc
city has not been as alarming as
were supposbd.
Census returns also show that ths
populations of big cities are not in
creasing in as great proportion ai
cities of the second class, coni'
prising communities of less that
100 per cent, according to the 192*
returns. Few cities of the firs'
class so far announced increase*
more than 25 per cent.
Complete census returns for 192(
will show at least 100 cities in th<
100,000 or better class, it Is estimat
ed. In 1910 the United States on-1?
contained 51 cities of 100,000 oi
more.
“Borne Town Stuff”
The editor of the Americus Times-
Recorder, the popular publicity me
dium in Sumter, one of south Geor
gia’s wealthiest and most prolific
counties, offers the following advice
to the readers of that excellent news
paper:
"Blow your home town’s horn.
"Let your bugle be heard arounc
the world. What would this town bi
If folks didn’t have something tc
say for it? The good effect is cu
mulative. Ii! one says things louc
enough and often enough things wil
begin moving our town’s way. It hai
proved true in the past; it will provi
doubly so now.
"Some towns excel In one thing
Some excel in others. All, it is saf
to say, excel in some things. Pla;
'em up. Maybe it’s railway facili
ties, and that means convenience ii
shipping. Maybe it is schools. Par
c»nts are always on the lookout, whei
they move, for good schools. Mayb
it is a pure water supply. Mayb
your town excels in its sanitary ar
rangements. Maybe there’s chea
fuel to be had. Or water power. O
low tax rate. Or it may be a town o
natural good habits. Or it may boas
of its excellent amusements.
"Paved streets, efficient City ad
ministrations, complete sewerage,
growing park system, a boulevar
plan, a civic center, the center g
a farming community—why, Jus
good people will give a tip to th
friends of the town for something I
talk about.
“The man who boosts his town is
good citizen. He need not brag
simply tell the truth. Tell folk
why the old home town, with it
rows of shady trees, its up-to-th<
minute homes, fine kept lawns and i<
sleepy Sunday morning church bet
is a fine place to live. It will Intel
est them —and, if nothing else, it wil
result in yourself being more hapfi
and most contented.”
HAMBONE'S MEDITATION
You >on' hatter be
shootin’ T' BE
Fightin' fuh Yo* life
de s e days!!
Cocrrntfit, 1920 McClure M«ww«P—Wwl