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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Xr. Daily and Sunday2oc 00c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.30 Sunday 7c 30c .90 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 label 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 gife the ronte 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. 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 ! s yste rm 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. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS DE OLE 'OMAN SHO IS j HAHD ON ME -- SHE AiN* NEVUH ZACLY HAPPY LESSN AH'S 6WINE T* CHU'CH ER 6W!NE T* WORK- r-~‘ 1 ' ill Copyright, 1920 by'McClure Newspaper SyndlsaW 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 r 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.