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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., S 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 months SI.OO Six months «....» 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mop. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Dally and Sunday 20c 9Oc 32.50 (5.00 39.50 Daily 18c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .00 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. , It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The lebel used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you Insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If. on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. 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