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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
The South's Vital Interest
In the Drainage Congress
MATTERS of farreaching import to
Georgia and the South will be con
sidered today at the conference call
ed to make preliminary plans for the At
lanta convention of the National Drainage
Congress. Os all bodies seeking to develop
and conserve America’s natural wealth none
is doing more substantial service than this
great Congress by its impetus to the recla
mation of swamp lands; and assuredly none
is of wider value to the Southern country.
Within this region lie same fifty million
acres which now are well-nigh worthless be
cause they are bogs or are frequently sub
merged, but which if duly drained would
afford, with their incomparable fertility,
farm sites of the most valuable kind. In
their present condition these millions of
acres would fetch, if salable at all, only a
few dollars each —ten dollars at the out
most. Reclaimed, as for the most part they
could be at a reasonable cost, they would
be worth not less than a hundred each. Thus
the wealth of the South in these lands
would be increased from five million to five
hundred million dollars, while the gain in
agricultural productiveness would be be
yond all measure.
4>s a potent force for bringing this recla
mation to pass, the National Drainage Con
gress is of great significance to Georgia and
her neighbor States. Something of the im
portance of the national session to be held
in Atlanta next autumn is indicated by Dr.
Joseph Hyde Pratt, State Geologist of North
Carolina, who says in a letter to Judge Newt
Morris, vice-president of the Congress: “It
is not only going to assist us in actual
drainage of our swamp areas, but also will
be a great advertisement in calling at
tention to the agricultural value of
these reclaimed lands, and thereby at
tracting to the South a desirable class of
settlers.” In Georgia alone there are nearly
eight million acres of swamp and over
flowed lands, most of which are transform
able into flourishing farms. Compared with
its richly creative results, the cost of this
reclamation will be inconsiderable. Accord
ing to estimates by Dr. S. W. McCallie, Geor
gia State Geologist, to whom the Common
wealth Is lastingly indebted for his splen
did labors in behalf of drainage, me cost
would be less than twenty-seven dollars an
acre in the Piedmont section, and in the
Coastal plain, where the large size of the dis
tricts reduces the average, only three dol
lars and ninety-three cents an acre. ' This
means that for a relatively small sum vast
potentialities of production can be brought
into play. It means that when the facts
concerning these lands are widely known and
rightly appreciated there will be a rush for
their acquisition and development. It means,
too, that the National Drainage Congress to
be held next November in Atlanta will be
invaluable to Georgia and the South as a
means of giving those facts emphasis and
publicity.
As the precursor and preparer of the
national meeting, the conference held today
is highly notable. It brings to the city men
of leadership from divers parts of the South,
and also the president of the Drainage
Congress, Mr. Edmund T. Perkins, of Chi
cago, the honor guest of the occasion. The
distinguished visitors, one and all, are
heartily welcome, and are assured of At
lanta’s and Fulton county’s earnest coop
eration in plans for the success of the No
vember convention.
The Party of Sectionalism.
THE action ofi the Chicago convention in
taking steps to curtail Southern repre
sentation in Republican national con
ventions is a matter of small concern to the
people of the South; save only as it reflects
the well-known desire of the Republican par
ty to curtail the South’s representation in
Congress. It is evident that the Republicans
iYj abandoned their hope of breaking the
solid South, and have embarked boldly on a
course that is designed to lessen her in
fluence in the affairs of the nation.
Southern people generally have no direct
interest in the conventions of the Republican
party. It is of no consequence to them
whether the South has much or no voice
in the nominating conventions. The South
has never received just consideration from
the Republican party, and probably never
will.
The fact is the Republican party is a
national political organization in name
only. It is not representative of all sections
of the country. It never has been. Its
leaders have no interest or sympathy for
all sections. It is a party of sectionalism.
If the plans to curtail Southern repre
sentation in Republican conventions will put
an end to the pernicious activities and in
fluences of Republican politicians from the
North among the ignorant and gullible
element in the South to whom they appeal,
the action of the convention, to this extent,
should be welcomed.
Under the rule adopted, the Republican
national committee is authorized to fix a
limit—five thousand or seven thousand five
hundred votes —below which a Congres
sional district can have no delegate. Such a
rule will operate materially to reduce
Georgia’s representation in Republican con
ventions, for there are few, if any, districts
in the State in which the Republican presi
dential candidate polls as many as seven
thousand five hundred votes.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
z'f Southerner Honored In the\
Department oj State.
THE President’s appointment and the I
Senate’s confirmation of Mr. Nor
man H. Davis as Assistant Secre
tary of State is a source of keen satisfac
tion to all who have followed his distin
guished record of national service, and espe
cially to his wide circle of friends m Geor
gia and the South. Early in the war Mr.
Davis put aside his large business interests
to become one of Secretary McAdoo’s vol
unteer and highly valued aids in the rrreas
ury Department. His grasp of international
finance and general conversance with the
European situation made him a particularly
competent advisor on loans to the Allied
Governments and matters of like Import.
Authorities credit him with what has been
pronounced “the best bit of financiering
done in Europe during the war.” As the
New York World relates it, “He was sent
on a mission to Madrid to see what he could
do with Spanish exchange, which was then
strongly against us. He visited the King;
the Cabinet arranged to borrow two hun
dred and fifty million pesetas; and exchange
immediately went back to normal.”
Shortly after this he was sent to Paris
as special representative of the United States
Treasury, and while serving in that capacity
was designated, along with Herbert Hoover,
to represent the United States on the newly
established International Food Council. Mr.
Davis was also made a member of the Su
preme Economic Council, being associated
with Bernard M. Baruch, Edward N. Hur
ley, Vance McCormick and Herbert Hoover.
As the American member of the Allied
Armistice Commission he accompanied Mar
shal Foch and others on the historic con
ference that brought hostilities to a close.
As American Finance Commissioner and of
ficial financial advisor for the President and
for the United States delegates to Versailles,
he participated in sessions of the Supreme
War Council and also of the Peace Confer
ence. His, indeed, was an important part
in the framing of the Treaty’s financial pro
visions. The distinction of his work was
reflected in his subsequent appointment to
membership on the Reparations Commission.
On his return from duties abroad, he was
assigned the responsible task of winding up,
as far as was practicable, the United States
Government’s foreign fiscal affairs, in which
capacity he acted as Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury. It was from'' this post that
he was called to the assistant Secretary
ship of the Department of State to succeed
Mr. Frank L. Polk, lately resigned. Though
eager to return to private, life and resume
the personal business interests which he so
long had forgone, Mr. Davis deferred to the
President’s earnest wishes and accepted the
State Department appointment. A rare
honor it is, and one of which he is alto
gether worthy.
Among America’s war workers and war
winners there was a Quiet, unassuming, un
heralded group of men who gave freely and
with cheerful sacrifice talents without which
the Allied victory might never have been
won and certainly would have been ladly de
layed. Executives, engineers, scientists, stu
dents of big business problems, doers of big
business deeds they were; men refreshingly
free from the cult and cant of politics, finely
indifferent to those outward shows which
many covet as “honors,” wishing only to do
what they could for their country, and car
ing for no reward save opportunity to serve.
If the inner and larger history of our part
in the World War could be written, a most
engaging chapter would have to do with
those keen minds and loyal hearts, those
masters of difficult tasks, those business
diplomats, of whom Norman H. Davis, native
Tennessean and Southerner to the core, is so
admirable a type.
Science Exalts the Corncob
DESPISE not the day of the corncob.
From this one-time uninteresting bit
of matter, chemists are now extracting
furfural, or furfuraldehyde, which is an im
portant dye base. It appears, moreover, that
whereas previous laboratory methods of ob
taining this liquid involved a cost of up
wards of fifteen dollars a pound, it is pro
curable from corncobs fpr fifteen cents a
pound. Some time ago the cob’s profitable
ness as a source of cellulose was discovered;
and how many million pipes of peace has it
provived a comfort-craving world! But its
dye essence is valuable beyond measure, and
should give America’s war-bo»n industry a
pronounced impetus and advantage.
So does science gather treasures from the
humble, and remind us ever and again that
there is no unimportant atom in the uni
verse. It was not very many years ago that
cotton seeds, now a staple contribution to
the world’s food supply and a yielder of
yearly fortunes to the South, were dumped
out as troublesome rubbish. A use there is
for all things, could we but discover it—
even for the weeds and gnats and insuffer
able bores of our planet. As William S.
used to say:
O, mickle is the power of grace that
lies
In herbs, plants, stones and their
true qualities:
For nought so vile upon the earth
doth live
But to the earth some special good
doth give:
Nor ought so good, but, strained from
that fair use,
Revolts from true birth stumbling on
abuse.
Page Baron Munchausen.
MICHIGAN grasshoppers have taken it
into their doughty heads to rival the
frogs of ancient Egypt or even the
boll weevils of modern Georgia. Swarms of
the stout-hipped insects, whose sound was
a burden to the author of Eccelsiastes, be
sieged a flying freight train in the Wolverene
State with such vehemence as to stop the
wheels on their tracks and compel the crew
to get out and fight for the right of way.
So at least writes a veracious correspondent
from Lansing, who interestingly adds that
the grasshoppers “have reached thus travel
ing size?’
We live in a marvelous time, an age whose
daily incidents put the skeptic to shame and
bid us be not surprised at whatsoever won
ders come to pass. “Travelers ne’er did lie,”
said Shakespeare, “though fools at home
condemn them.” Carping spirits have ques
tioned the verity of certain reports touch
ing our Southern boll weevil’s puissance:
how. for example, a weevil of the stronger
breed would swoop in upon a cook stove and
having overpowered the good wife of the
farmhouse, would fly off with her crackling
skillet of eggs and bacon; or how a company
of these remarkable parasites, which have
cost the cotton belt so many millions of
dollars, would seize a milch cow, bear her
bellowing to some lonely marsh, devour her,
hide and hoofs, and then impishly tinkle her
bell for the calf to come.
Such history, we say, has been doubted by
unexpansive minds, even in this wondrous
Twentieth century; and some not to the
Georgia manner born have been so unkind
as to charge deliberate falsehood to our
rural press for reporting news of this na
ture. But now that Michigan, a coldly un
imaginative Commonwealth, has produced
her train-stopping grasshoppers, let the crit
ics of these faithful Georgia scribes give
truth its due.
THE MALADJUSTED
By H. Addington Bruce
NOT long ago I stood in a factory and
watched two men at work. They were
manipulating similar machines, com
plex affaire needed at a certain stage in the
manufacture of a universally hsed article.
One man, wiry, keen-faced, carried out the
mechanical processes involved with remarka
ble dexterity and rapidity. The other, large,
stolid-looking, was noticeably slower and less
certain in his movements.
“Every week,” the factory superintendent
commented, standing at my elbow, “the first
of these men draws almost twice as much
pay as the second. They are paid by piece
work, at the same rate, and their earnings
depend entirely on their ability.-
As we walked away I could not help won
dering what the second man thought about
while, day after day, he worked by the other's
side.
I wondered, too, if it had ever occurred
to him that he was maladjusted to his job,
and that it might be worth his while to study
himself with a view to finding work for
which he was better fitted, and work which
he consequently could do with greater sat
isfaction.
Then, in imagination, I saw similar situa
tions in factories and stores and offices all
over the land. And I asked myself what the
ultimate cost must be, in terms of mental
stress to the maladjusted envy, rancor,
gloominess—as well as in needlessly dimin
shed output and therefore needlessly high
prices to consumers.
This problem of maladjustment to one’s
vocation is, to be sure, by no means a new
problem. It is as old as the first beginnings
of conjoint effort by mankind.
But certainly there neve? was a time when
a solution of it was more urgently needed
than is the case today.
Increased production and lower prices the
world must have. “Speeding up” will by
itself not suffice to this most necessary end.
There must be a wiser selection of workers
for the different jobs that have to be “speed
ed up.”
Else workers and product alike will suffer
from the straining labors of the maladjusted.
And in the long run society in general will
be worse off than it is now.
Though, to be sure, ibis not surprising that
maladjustment is widespread. Vocational
guidance and systematic study of natural apt
itudes were virtually unheard of until recent
years.
But we have them now, and we should pro
mote them by every means at our command.
And in the colossal task of fitting jobs to
workers every labor element should co-op
erate —the employers as well as the em
ployed, captains of industry, heads of labor
unions. All in the end will benefit thereby.
If only all could speedily be brought to
realize this!
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
♦
MONEY WASTED IN POLITICS
By Dr. Frank Crane
While the country is shocked over the enor
mous sums expended in the business of getting
somebody nominated and elected president of
the United States, few of us understand how to
interpret the fact.
The real explanation is that it means the
high cost of partisanship.
It means that the process of picking rulers
by means of political parties is about the most
wasteful method conceivable.
Our election is practically a war. We wish
it so. We love a fight. To the Anglo-Saxon
mind no process of reaching a conclusion is so
satisfactory as a scrap.
You may select the honor graduate of a
school by a written examination, the superin
tendent of your factory by his record, a wife
for her good looks or ability to cook, and a
salesman by his success in bringing home the
bacon, but when you undertake to choose a
president you must model your procedure upon
a dog fight or a horse race. Or a war.
And war is waste. Competition is waste;
Contention is waste.
Nobody but the chief statistician in hell can
compute the horrific waste of the late war,
wherein the nations were trying to determine
which was IT by slugging; nor the waste of
life and money in the bitter struggle between
organized labor and capital. Yet precisely this
is the method of party politics. It is a system
by which we get not 2 per cent results from
the energy expended.
It is estimated that before either conven
tion was held, as shown by the testimony be
fore the senate investigating committee, some
twb or three million dollars was spent in ad
vancing the interests of the several candidates.
Before the election is over, in all probability,
$25,000,000 or $30,000,000 will have been spent.
This does not go for bribing. Comparatively
little of it is spent for corrupting voters.
Neither is big business trying to buy up the
government. Most of such talk is due to our
malicious delight in scandal.
What becomes of the money, then?
It is simply wasted in sheer, fatuous, non
sensical machinery. No one who has not seen
the political machine at work can imagine the
stupendous pow-wow over doing nothing.
First, there offices rented, cam
paign headquarters, with laige clerical staff,
typewriters, mimeographs, dictaphones, tele
phones, and what not. Reams of stationery is
printed, most of which is A num-i
ber of “managers” are employed vßio fly about!
the country at $lO a day and expenses and
“report” stuff that can be found in any news
paper. Literary men are hired to write Saharas
of articles and prepare folders. Foolish and
useless full-page advertisements are inserted in
publications. And so on and so on.
There is no business known among human j
beings where more is spent and nothing is got
than the business of running a political party.
For, when it’s all over, what has been ac
complished? Nothing! The people are not
corrupted nor fooled. They vote as they please.
They get their information from the daily press,
which goes along anyhow and which no party
has succeeded in permanently subsidizing.
Briefly, at least four-tfifths of the money
spent in elections in the United States is
wasted. It is not stolen. It does not get any
body anything. It is poured out to a lot of
campaign workers who excel all the busy work
ers of the world in hustling activity that does
not amount to a hill of beans.
But it’s a great game!
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
The Georgia Cantaloupe
Cool and delicious, delightful and re
freshing, invigorating and enticing, of na
tion-wide fame—enter the Georgia canta
loupe, which has no paragon on earth. The
crop is short this year, but already a lim
ited number of appetizing specimens are ar
riving daily from South and Southwest Geor
gia.
As the first course at breakfast the canta
loupe satisfies every demand of the most
discriminating palate, being equally popu
lar with every member of the family. Its
annual advent is always anticipated with
pleasure and its arrival greeted with zestful
gratification. Pass the cantaloupe, please.
“These are the days that fry men’s soles,”
remarks the Greensboro Daily News. But I
how they make the cotton grow! With what
lusciousness they brim the melon! With
what gold do they endow the corn in a thou
sand valleys! Let the sun shine to his hot
h-eart’s content, provided only he gives way
now and then for a saving shower.
CONVENTION PSYCHOLOGY
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14
A certain hostile critic has
said that we select our pres
idential nominees in the
same way that we execute some of
our criminals—by mob action.
That is unfair, of course, but it
is certainly true that the ‘crowd
psychology” plays a large part in
our national conventions, and in
some instances the dominating- part.
There are three main factors in a
convention —first, the crowd o dele
gates, alternates and spectators;
second, the little group of astute,
wire-pulling leaders; and third, the
mass of the people in the back
ground.
That the actual convention in ses
sion is a mob, actuated by mob
principles and motives, there can be
no doubt. Gustave Le Bon, the
French psychologist, first pointed
out that a crowd has a psychosis of
its own in which the minds and per
sonalities of the persons who make
it up are completely submerged; and
since the publication of his book, the
theory has been much elaborated and
discussed, so that nearly everyone
has now heard something of crowd
psychology. Crowd emotion would
be a better term for it. When a cer
tain emotion, whether of fear, en
thusiasm, pity or hatred, seizes sim
ultaneously upon a large number of
persons gathered together it be
comes like a fluid for which every
mind is a receptacle filled to the
brim. Men who in ordinary circum
stances would not feel this emotion
at all are, when in a crowd, com
pletely carried away by it. A man
can no more retain his individual
mentality in a mob than a drop of
water can retain its identity when
it falls into a river. That is why
kindly and respectable citizens,
caught in a lynching mob, become
bloodthirsty friends, brandishing
weapons; why brave men in burn
ing theaters often become merely
frightened animals; why dignified
end restrained gentlemen jump out
of their seats and throw away their
hats when Babe Ruth knocks a home
run in the ninth.
Conventions as Shows
It Is the chief defect of our na
tional conventions as means of
choosing nominees, and their chief
virtue as spectacles that they are
good illustrations of this mob
psychosis. With delegates and spec
tators, who form a homogeneous
mass of humanity, they include
many thousands and are far too
large for any intelligent delibera
tion. This is recognized by the lead
ers, who never resort to reason.
Orators are chosen for their reson
ant voices and their “eloquence,”
and even so they are not much re
lied upon, for their words are usual
ly intelligible to only a small par*
of the gathering. Brass bands, or
ganized yelling, waving of flags
marching, sudden display of ban
ners and pictures, singing—in a
word, noise, rhythm and spectacle,
varied by sudden and startling ges
tures—are the means used by the
leaders in trying to make this huge
animal, the piob, go which way they
want it to go. The means are in
essence the same as those used to
make a flock of sheep cross a bridge,
or to get a swam of bees into a
hive, or by cowboys to hold a bunch
of cattle together in the face of a
thunderstorm. They do not appeal
to intelligence or reason in the
least: they appeal to the primitive
emotions which actuate all living
things in masses. •
Nevertheless intelligence and
reason are presnt at the conventions.
They are present in the shape of one
or more little groups of leaders who
keep themselves disdainfully clear
of this sweating, yelling mob, and
who hope to master it and drive it.
They have already chosen their can
didate, and thev do everything pos
sible to scare or lead the herd in
his direction. They are like a small,
but determined man trying to ride
some huge half-tamed beast, uncer
tain every moment whether they are
riding or being run away with.
Sometimes there are two groups,
each trying to make the unruly crit
ter go its own way, but usually the
brains are pretty well centralized
and the struggle is between these
organized * brains and the fugitive
impulses of the mob.
ECow Leaders Work
Sometimes of course a convention
meets with enough delegates pledged
to one man to insure his nomination.
Then it is a perfunctory affair. In
other words, when the critical point
in the balloting is reached, the lead-
Reflections of a
Bachelor Girl
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920'.)
SOMEHOW, it’s awfully hard for
a man to watch his wife curl
ing her hair and powdering her
back—and, at the same time, to
to think of her as a “citizen.”
It isn’t so much love of the woman
a& love of a fight that inspires a man
to battle for the heart of a girl who
doesn’t love him, rather than to
marry one who does, and be happy?
Love doesn’t fly out of the window
when poverty comes in at the door,
but When MONEY comes in at the
door —especially if it’s the wife’s
money.
No man ever doubted that he could
tame a “man-tamer,” once he mar
ried her—and no woman ever doubted
that she could break a “heart
breaker,” once she landed him.
Somehow the only comfort a wom
an gets out of married life is the
consoling thought that she isn’t a
spinster.
i A man is never happy in a love
affair—because the moment he thinks
he has a woman “just where he
wants her,” he begins to wonder if
he wants her there.
A woman will forgive a man more
readily for being seen at a prize
fight with another mart, then for be
ing seen at a prayer-meeting with
another woman. Well, I should SAY
so!
Nowadays, a hero is a man who
dares to admit that he is not having
a gay and delightful time while his
wife is away in the country.
Yes, Charmiin. always try to
be the “guiding star” of a man’s life,
but never deceive yourself by fancy- j
ing that you are the whole solar !
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An official statement issued by the
navy department says that after the
recent occupation of Nikolaievsk,
Siberia, by Japanese marines the lat
ter also captured the fortress.
Ten Japanese, who escaped the
massacre on March 12 of 300 Japa- •
nese nationals, including women, and
children, by the Bolshevik!, it was
learned after the arrival of the
naval forces, were killed about May
25.
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ers manage immediately to start a
stampede in the direction they want
the convention to go, and their man
is soon nominated. But if this does
not happen at once, and the conven
tion seems far from agreement, this
great uncomfortable mob becomes
very restless and may start a run in
any direction. It is this condition
which gives the “dark horse” his
chance. Often he is a hand-picked
“dark horse’” and his dramatic coup
is carefully prepared by the leaders.
But not always. In 1896, for exam
ple, the leaders did not wapt William
Jennings Bryan in the least. He was
a man little known and what was
known about him did not recommend
him to Tammany Hall. When he got
up to deliver his famous speech, he
was unknown to - most of the dele
gates w’ho looked at him. Yet he
stampeded the convention in his own
favor, and got the nomination. Why?
Because he had a wonderful reson
ant voice and a gift of sonorous
phrasing. Because the delegates
were weary of strife and ready to be
swept away by any emotion. The
thing which won the day for Bryan
was his famous “crown of thorns
and cross of gold” metaphor. It
was nothing but a mellifluous meta
phor. There was no logic in it. He
was defending bimetalism, which had
long since been proved an unsound
theory of currency. His appeal was
emotional, but was even more ryth
mical. If Bryan had had a squeaky
voice, and had expressed the same
idea in academic language, he would
have gotten nothing but hoots. He
controlled the convention in the 'same
way that a cowboy controls a bunch
of steers by singing a lulliby to
them.
An Umbrella Nearly Did It
Equally primitive was the device
which nearly won the nomination for
Blaine in 1892. Mrs. Carson Lake,
whose husband was a confidant of
Blaine, stood up in the gallery and
began to open and shut a white um
brella, thus catching and holding the
eyes of the convention, while sup
porters began to chant the rrythm
"‘Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine.”
Steadily the rhythm grew* in volume
and enthusiasm. Jt was carrying
Blaine into the nomination and Into
the presidency as surely as the reg
ular wash of the waves carries a
boat to shore. But Mrs. Carson Lake
did not realize her importance to the
moment. She saw her husband down
on the floor of the convention and
thought he was beckoning to her.,
She went to join him. Without her
white umbrella, the chant and
Blaine’s hope of the presidency alike
collapsed
In 1908 the Republican convention
was almost stampeded for Roosevelt
by the very same trick, deliberately
repeated. A capitol elevator man op
erated the umbrella in this case, and
the chant was “Four, four, four years
more.”- This demonstration also
reached large proportions, but it col
lapsed because a certain band Which
was hostile to the colonel refused to
•play.
By such chances are political des
tinies controlled and the leaders of a
great nation chosen. The convention
is supposed to represent a large part
of the American people, but it really
represents its own primitive mob im
pulses, more or less controlled and
directed by its leaders. Yet the will
of the people is in a sense represent
ed. The Inchoate, half articulate wish
of the people is to some extent pres
ent in the mob, ai)d to some extent it
controls and conditions the efforts
of the leaders,
Our national conventions were not
always the thrilling spectacles of
mob spirit run riot that they are
now. Before the Civil war they were
relatively small gatherings, held us
ually in a theater, and few specta
ors wre admitted. Some very earn
est and intelligent discussions of
slavery were held at national con
ventions in the years just before the
was—such discussion a would be im
posible in a modern national conven
tion. The convention that nominated
Lincoln in 1864 wa a small and orderly
one, and so was that which chose
Grant in 1872. The convention that
nomlnaed Blaine at Chicago in ’B4
was the first to be held in a coli
seum or "wigwam” as it was then
called, and the first to develop the
typical mob character, with its thou
sand delegates and alternates and
more than ten thousand spectators.
The national political convention as
a deliberative body perished in the
excitement of that gathering.
WITH THE GEOR
GIA PRESS
Ralph Meeks, editor and publisher
of the Calhoun Times, is also presi
dent of the Covington News Publish
ing company, in which enterprise he
is actively and influentially inter
ested.
The LaGrange Reporter, whose
able and popular editor has long
been considered an expert judge of
such drinks as coffee, under the cap
tion, “The Coffee Branch in Journal
ism,” makes the following reference
to the editor and publishers of tiie
West Point News, for many years
owned by W. Trox Bankston:
“West Point now has one of the
most creditable weekly newspapers
in the state. Both the publishers and
the peapie of West Point are to be
congratulated. But that is not all
one may say about the enterprise of
Editors Coffee. They are growing in
journalism. Their last venture Is
the purchase of The Bessemer Week
ly, a newspaper of Bessemer, Ala.
In their announcement of the pur
chase, Messrs. Ewell and Guy Coffee
state that they will develop a large
printing establishment for Bessemer,
and, knowing them as we do, we i
venture the assertion that they will
carry out that purpose in a manner
which will gain for them the hearty
appreciation of the Alabama town.
Atlanta is some big city—over
200,000 population, and still growing
daily.—Madison Madisonian.
Generous comment by friendly |
neighbors will make Atlanta grow i
still faster. i
The farmer has worked fifty years ;
to improve conditions by political ac- ■
tion, and he is pretty nearly where he ■
started. But. by co-operation he can i
make startling changes in a year or
two at most.—Adairsville Progress.
Which proves conclusively that co
operation on the farm is more bene
ficial than politics at the country
store.
Bland W. Adkins, who recently re
vived the Weekly Bostonian, is mak- 1
ing a splendid success of the paper, i
He deserves and should receive the;
liberal support of all the progressive
people of Boston and surrounding
trade territory.
“Somehow or other our garden
doesn’t grow to suit us,” says. Editor
Duke, of the Griffin News and Sun.
Possibly you do not work to suit
yqur garden.—Columbus Enquirer
Sun.
It takes work to make gardens
grow, Duke: grab a hoe and go to it.
Some of our ex-presidents would
doubtless object to being elected to
a similar position in Mexico.—Thom
asville Times-Enterprise.
Still, any well informed man would
rather be an ex-president in Mexico i
than to be president.
How Do You Say It? | ;
"ELDER” AND "OLDER”
The former word, “elder,” should i
be used when one refers to members I
of the same family; thus, “My elder !
brother left for Europe today,” not. 1
“My older brother.” But “older’ I
should be used in referring to mem- j
bers of another family, and in refer- ;
ring to objects. Thus, say, “He is |
the older of the two brothers,” and •
“This table is older than that chair,” <
not "elder.” The same rule is ap- I
plied to the words “eldest” and “old- ;
est.” One should say, if he has more i
than one brother. “My eldest brother (
left for Europe today,” not “My old- ;
est brother.” "This chair is the old- i
est of the three,” not the "eldest.” !
When direct comparison is made ■
between two persons, use “older.” as ■
iq the sentence, “My mother is older ;
than my father.” But when the com- ’
parison is not made directly, use this ;
form: “My mother is the elder of my (
parents.”
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler I
Syndicate, Inc.) 1
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SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
MAKING THE BEST OF THINGS
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
ALL of us, recognize, in theory
at least, the wisdom of making
the best of a bad bargain. Un
fortunately, however, not many
people are philosophical enough to
apply this common-sense remedy to
their problems when they find them
selves in an unpleasant situation.
Yet there is no other magic more
potent to turn defeat into victory,
and Change the cup of wormwood and
gall into one flowing with milk and
honey. For when we cease to rebel
at our lot, and set about extracting
all the joy possible out-of it, we
have conquered fate.
Old Man Trouble packs up his
wares in his little kit-bag and flees
from the face of the individual who
can like what he has got if he can’t
get what he likes.
It may be conceded that not many
of us get a particularly alluring bar
gain in life. Heredity, environment,
chance wish on us many things we
would not have chosen for ourselves
if we could have dickered with des
tiny for our place in the sun. But
the vital matter to us is that the
trade, such as it is, is made, sign
ed, sealed, and delivered.
We are bound by it, and it rests
with us whether we go bankrupt
over it by grouching over its unfair
ness and our general lack of luck, or
whether we make the best of it, and
wring happiness and success out of
it.
The gentle act of making the best
of a bad bargain is one that women,
in particular, should devote them
selves to acquiring. It is not a
spontaneous talent with the fair sex.
In the contrary woman's natural bent
is to cherish her sorrows, and cod
dle her grievances, and to generally
extract every drop of misery that is
possible out of every situation.
TJiat is what gives us so many
disgruntled and peevish and discoh- 1
tented women. Their trades in life
have not turned out to be all that
they fondly anticipated, and they
have not the wisdom or the courage
to make the best Os their bad bar
gains.
Yet in that lies their only salva
tion. A woman, for instance, will go
about with the air of a martyr com
plaining that she is unhappily mar
ried because her husband does not
/Understand her higher nature, and
sympathize with her soul flights. She
despises him for a groundling be
cause his chief interest in life is the
grocery business, and his most thrill
ing topic of conversation the price
of eugar.
From her point of view she has
made a disastrous matrimonial ba.-
gain, but will she And any profit in
welching on it? Will she make a
better trade next time if she re
turns her commonplace business man
to the divorce bargain table, and
picks out a literary or artistic mate(
Observation answers emphatically
“no.” She will find that no man is
flawless or meets all the require
ments of any woman. One is quite
as likely to be dissatisfied with a
No. 3 husband as a No. 1 inasmuch
as one can’t go on snapping spouses
indefinitely, it is just as, well to
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
A dispatch from London states that
an endowment of 20,000 pounds
(nominally $100,000) for a professor
ship of United States history has
been given to Oxford university by
Viscount Rothermore, former secre
tary of state for air forces. The gift
is made in memory of Lord Rother
more’s son, who was killed in the
great war,
According to information received
from Shangai definite agreement
upon terms of peace between north
ern and southern China has been ar
rived at between Wang Yih-Ting,
northern plenipotentiary peace dele
gate, and the southern leaders, Wu
Ting-fang, Tang Shao-yl, former pre
mier of the Pekin government, and
Dr. Sun Yatsen. Although peace
delegates of both sides have been
here for nine months they met for
the first time in formal conference
recently.
Wang Yih-ting, who is a former
minister of the Ulterior, went to
Hangchow to confer with a promi
nent northern leader, and the south
erners announced that the Shanghai
peace conference will reopen imme
diately upon his return.
Word from Geneva hag reached here
stating that immediately preceding
the formal opening of the woman
frage congress the American delega
tion met and elected Mrs. Stanley
McCormick, of Boston, chairman, and
Mrs. Jacob Bauer, of Chicago, secre
tary.
A resolution was adopted urging—
in fact, insisting—that Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt reconsider her refusal
to serve again as presidentof the In
ternational Suffrage Alliance. Mrs.
McCormick said:
"If we give up the presidency the
result ■will be that America practi
cally will drop out of this interna
tional organization. I think it is
high time the women of Atnerlca as
sert themselves and take their proper
place in international politics. The
men of America are washing their
hands of world affairs.”
Reductions in the wholesale prices
of various styles of shoes of from
25 cents to $2 a pair were announced
by officials of three of the largest
shoe manufacturing establishments
in St. Louis.
The companies announcing the re
ductions are the International Shoe
company, the Hamilton-Brown Shoe
company and the Brown Shoe com
pany.
A. C. Brown, president of the Ham
ilton-Brown company, asserted that
“tight money” and the resultant dif
ficulty met by retailers in borrow
ing was the chief cause of the cut.
Samuel Gompers emerged from the
Michigan Central station and started
for a cab. The only ones in sight
were operated by a company employ
ing non-union chauffeurs. Just when
it began to look as though he would
have to walk, a touring car with a
union cauffeur drew up.
“Son,” said Gompers climbing in,
“I am glad to see you, very glad in
deed to see you. You’ve saved me a
long walk.”
“You wouldn’t have walked would
you?” asked the driver.
“Well,” said Gompers, “I am a bit
old and my legs are short, but I am
not so old and my legs are not so
short that I’ll ride in a ‘rat’ cab—■
not if I see it first.”
The three men who stood guard
by turn with matrons over Mrs. Hat
tie Dixon, the woman prisoner in
the Sing Sing death house at Ossi
ning, N. Y., were assigned to duty
elsewhere and Warden Lewis E.
Lawes announced that henceforth
the woman’s only guards would be
women.
Other women condemned to death
in this state have been under mas
culine as well as feminine guard for
fear that desperation might give
them strength to overcome the ma
tron and make an attempt at escape
or suicide. The-expense of main
taining Mrs. Dixon, the sole occu
pant of the woman’s death house,
will be about |poo a month.
An American, notorious as a smug
gler, was arrested by Mexican au
tholties in Juarez in connection with
the alleged smuggling of ammuni
tion to Francisco Villa, thp bandit.
He later was released. Mexican au
thorities announced eight Mexicans
also were arrested at various points
between here and St. Helena in the
Big Bend District in connection with
what they said was a widespread
plot to supply Villa with munitions.
There were many smart lunch
eon parties at the Blackstone hotel
in Chicago in honor of notables at
tending the Republican national con
vention.
Among those observed were Sen
ator Truman H. Newberry, of Mich
igan; Miss Lolita Armour, Colonel
William B. Thompson. Mrs. Gifford ,
Pinchot, Mrs. George Vanderbilt, ;
Winthrop Aldrich, Vice President
Marshall. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman,
of New York; Governor Whitman, of !
New York; John Barton Payne, Nich- |
olas Murray Butler and Mrs, Nich- !
olas Longworth.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander H. Revell ■
entertained at dinner tonight for I
Judge and Elbert N. Gary. Among |
make, up one’s mind to make tha
best of marriage, early as late.
Probably there is not one divorce
out of a score that would not be
prevented by this simple expedient.
If only a woman would dwell on
her husband’s virtues as
ly as she does on his faults! IF
only she would think how comfor
table he made her instead of bow
he bored her! If only she woaru
say to herself that if her husband
wasn’t all her girlish- fancy painted
him, at least she didn’t have to go
out and earn her own living, she
would realize that her bargain
wasn’t so bad, after all, and she
might dry her eyes and try to be
as good a sport as he is, for per
haps, he, too, reflects -»■ times that
Cupid is a gold brick artist who
unloads some pretty raw deals on
man, as well as women.
Another place where women might
well make the best of a bad bar
gain is in dealing with their chil
dren. It is a beautiful,- and a pa
thetic, and a tragic fact that moth
ers lose their chance to help their
children through not being able to
see them as they really are. They
always behold their offspring as
paragons of loveliness, and phenom
enons of intellect, and so ahe home
ly grow up with no cultivated
charms to offset their ugliness, and
the dull with nothing done to sharp
en- their wits.
Suppose a mother had enough
gumption to see that her daughter
•was a bad bargain, socially speak
ing. Suppose the girl was plain of
face and figure, one of those un
fortunate maidens who are hard on
the eye. Do you not think such -a
mother would study the girl to find
out what redeeming quality she had
that could be developed so aS to
atone for her lack of looks?
Do you not think she would teach
the girl that women who are not
in the living picture class must
cultivate their heads and their heels,
and that they must make them
selves so agreeable, so entertaining,
they must dance so well, and do
everything so cleverly that men
will hever notice whether they are
peaches or lemons?
Suppose, even, the girl Is worse
than homely, and that she super
imposes shyness, and awkwardness
to her lack of pulchritude. She is
a hopeless bargain socially, and It
her mother would secure her happi
ness and well being in life she
nflist see to it that her daughter is
prepared for whatever career hei
inclination turns to, and is prop
erly started in it, .
Marriage is not likely to come tc
such a girl. If it does, well and
good. If it doesn’t, also well and
good, for her mother has prd ir
her hands the means to an indie
pendent, useful, and interesting lift
by making the best of her.
The real secret of success anc
happiness lies in accepting things
as they are, and turning them t<
our good instead of fretting be
cause they are not to our liking
In a word the philosopher’s atom
is found in merely making the bes
of our bad bargains.
; their guests were ex-Governor am
Mrs. Charles 8. Whitman, of Nei
York: Jacob M. Dickinson and Mr
and Mrs. Theodore W. Robinson.
One of the smartest affairs cf th
week was the dinner given by Mi
and Mrs. Marshall Field 111, at thel
apartment, 1200 Lake Shore Drlvr
for their house guests, Mrs. Vincen
Astor, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Butlei
Miss Mary Kare, Sumner Gbrard an
Charles E. Marshall, all of New Yorl
A possible cure for leprosy, whlc
has proved successful in forty-elgh
cases under treatment in the He
waiian Islands, was announced b
, the United States public health tsem
ice. The cases upon which the hop
of a cure is based all have been o
parole for almost a year, and in tha
time there has been no sign of r«
currence.
The chief factor in the new trea
ment is a discovery by Prof. E. I
Dean, head of the chemical depar
ment of the College of Hawaii. Pro
Dean succeeded, after many exper
ments, in isolating the active coi
stituent of chaulmugra oil. The uj
of the oil in the treatment of lej
rosy has been known for sever;
years, but its continued adminlstn
tion never had been feasible. T1
result of Prof. Dean’s work has bee
designated “ethyl ester," and appeal
to have none of the disadvantage
and all of the beneficial qualltie
of Chaulmugra oil.
The public health service Is coi
ducting a thorough study of ti
treatment. *
With the release from Ellis Islai
of Gemma Melia, the only woman a
rested in the department of justl
raids in Paterson, the liberation
the entire Paterson group of ana
chlsts, for one cause or another, hi
been accomplished.
Gemma Melia, according to hi
lawyer, is a “philosophical anarchist
in that she holds anarchistic belie
but does not countenance violent
She has been held at Ellis Island f
several months under heavy ball an
because of her admissions, was co
sidered by agents of the departme:
of justice as subject to deportatic
under the act of October 16, T9lB.
Senator Robert M. La Follette,
Wisconsin, was operated upon at £
Mary’s hospital, Rochester, Mini
for removal of the gall sac. T
operation was successful, but it w
more serious than anticipated.
An official bulletin issued aftß
the operation said Senator La F<l
lette’s condition “is good and he I
resting as easily as can be expectefl
It was announced later that Sen!
tor La Follette’s condition was vl
tually unchanged, and that there hl
been no unfavorable developments.!
ONTARIO, June 3.—A success®
operation in “pachydermic exodtfl
tery” was accomplished inGueifl
Onatrlo, recently, although all tl
subject nkew about it was that fl
ter it was bver, he was minus I
tooth weighing one ounce short ■
a pound.
What actually happened was tlfl
a veterinarian yanked a throbbifl
molar from the jaw of an elephfl
belonging to a circus showing hefl
The patient beast had evinfl
considerable discomfort for sofl
time past, and not until\ a day I
two ago was -it discovered that fl
trouble was due to a decayed toofl
which, in addition to causing grfl
pain, was .preventing the huge fl
imal from eating or drinking in cofl
fort.
While the Hungarian peace treafl
was being signed at Versailles tfl
stores of the city of Budapest wfl
closed, the street and steam railwafl
stopped running, work ceased in ■
offices, and the church bells
tolled as a sign of mourning.
A welcome rain fell during paracfl
ip protest against the treaty, and fl
Is noped that the promising harvfl
of Hungary will be saved. It is esfl
mated here that if the
reaches 25,000,000 quintals (abefl
92,000,000 bushels), of which one-iifl
can be exported, the exchange sitifl
tion will be removed.
“The potentates of the earth fl
cruel to us, but God has not forgfl
ten Hungary.” said Count Albert
P On y s - n ,
The parades were peaceful.
sands of refugees from the lost prefl
inces participated in them.
Further arrests were made by
partment of justice agents in
nection with the theft of Jaatlwr fl
ued at over $1,000,000 from piers ■
Jersey City and Brooklyn. The fifl
arrests were made last
and Janies Chapman, who was
posed to be the head of the
pleaded guilty and was
four years in the federal prison ■
Atlanta.
The agents arrested John ■
Jacques train dispatcher for BB
Erie railroad, living in Newark,
recently arrested John
raptain of a lighter, of West
York, N. J., and Harry Haugan,
1-2 Clinton street, ana Harry
mon, 109 Division avenue, both fljj
Brooklyn. Jacques was held in
000 bail by United States Comnfl
sioner McGoldrick. The others
held in SIO,OOO bail each.