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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
A Business Man Suggested
For Governor of Georgia
A REFRESHING and wholesome sign it
is when the public, seeking to fill
positions of governmental trust,
turns to sure-handed, broad-sighted men of
business. Time was when service of this
nature was considered the peculiar if not
exclusive province of so-called professional
men, or rather of one particular set within
that class—the followers of what Falstaff
termed “old father antick, the Law.” Nor
was it required that the political aspirant
know much about law, if he had a ready
tongue, an oily palm, an air of self-impor
tance and an eye for the main chance. Our
first President, it is true, was a surveyor,
and Georgia’s first Governor pre-eminently a
philanthropist and man of affairs. For the
most part, however, the business men
(amongst whom we include all those en
gaged in a productive as distinguished from
a merely consumptive and loquacious life)
have been so absorbed in practical problems
and so averse to limelight that they have
played an all too minor part on the political
stage.
But happily a change seems coming to
pass; not that business men are seeking of
fice, but that office is seeking business men.
Up in Gordon county, for example, citizens
have projected a movement to put Felix
Jackson, of Gainesville, into the race for
Governor of Georgia. Mr. Jackson is a busi
ness man of the highest American type—
energetic, constructive, liberal, sound in
judgment, progressive in spirit, unwearying
in workmanly patriotism. Reared in Gor
don county, living first at Fairmount and
later at Calhoun, he went to Texas while
still a youth and launched upon a notably
successful business career. Merchandising,
banking, ranching and other fields of enter
prise claimetT his effort, and in each of
them he not only made a mark for himself,
but also contributed to the advancement and
prosperity of community interests? Thor
ough Georgian that he was, however, Mr.
Jackson found his heart wandering back to
old scenes and old friends so continually
that at last he returned and settled at
. Gainesville, where since-he has resided. In
that city and district he has stood always
ready to co-operate for the common good,
investing with an to public needs, as
well to personal interest, and lending him
self unstintedly to every deserving cause.
When America entered the war, Mr. Jack
son, having tendered his services to the
Young Men’s Christian Association, in whose
affairs he had long been a generous worker,
was sent overseas. The Y. M. C. A. officials
and military authorities at the front were not
slow to perceive his capacity for initiative
and administration; they assigned him the
highly responsible post of regional director
of the Association’s Work in the Rheims sec
tor.
It is a cheering sign, we say, when the
public turns to business men of this type
for governmental service. Whether Mr. Jack
son will accede to the request of his friends
or with what impetus a campaign in his be
half will go forward, if undertaken, The
' Journal .dpes not know, its interest in the
matter being simply that of an observer and
welcomer of wholesome tendencies in the
Commonwealth’s life. But we do know that
the probleins of government today are
largely problems of a business nature; that
an ounce of common sense and fair play
will go further than a pound of polit
ical theory and fine promises in han
dling the public’s affairs aright, and
that never did the sage of old sperik
more truly than in saying, “Seest thou a man
diligent in business, he shall stand among
rulers.” It is ruleu of this character—
straightforward, dependable, efficient, sin
cere—that public office needs; and it is just
this kind that the people are coming more
and more to prize.
Will Germany Dissolve?
ONCE knit together with thews of
steel, the German Empire now shows
signs of breaking asunder, if we may
accept the view of the Leipziger Volkszei
tung. “Everywhere,” says that observer,
“tendencies towards separatism are seen,”
especially in Bavaria and in the Rhine coun
try. “Berlin today, in a manner of speaking,
means nothing to Munich.” The idea of in
dependent Rhenish States “tied loosely to
the Empire,” or altogether disparate, “is
not dead.” Pronounced and widespread
among the “burgeois mass” grows dis
position to regard the confederation as
“something which has been tied to Prussia
only by bad luck and a common language.”
It is not to be wondered that a union in
whose design and development the military
impulse played so important a part should
weaken in time of disaster for its war-like
ambitions. Prussia’s was' the shaping and in
forming touch in the processes that made a
comnact empire of some twenty-five, for the
most part petty, political entities; and hers
was the all-dominating spirit from 1871 on.
The kingdoms of Bavaria, Saxony and Wurt
temburg became, in imperial affairs at least,
her virtual satrapies, notwithstanding that
in things commonly counted worth while
they were far her superiors. As for the
divers duchies and principalities, they kept
little more than a romantic legend of their
former selves. But when it turns out that
the Prussian motive leads to calamity, in
stead of to the world power and glory it
promised, what is there to induce these sev-
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
eral German States to remain subservients?
■ Were they not born as free as Caesar and
l fed as well?
Besides resentment toward Prussian ar
rogance and failure, South Germany and the
Rhine lands have a notion of how advan
tageous it would be could they escape some
measure of the war debts which bear upon
Germany as a whole. In the event of a split
up, each new State or group still would have
to pay its part of the indemnity required by
the Allies' but there would be the chance
to cut certain gordian knots of internal in
debtedness which elsew’ise will pinch for dec
ades to come. Another factor making for
separatism works along lines to cleavage
between Roman Catholic and Protestant ele
ments. Also between industrial and agra
grian interests there are conflicts which in
some instances go to strengthen the sepa
ratist drift.
Despite such influences, however, it is
hardly probable that there will be a rever
sion to pre-Bismarckian days. For while
the empire of Prussia’s making was of the
very stuff of her militarism, and hence likely
to shrivel and crack with that militarism’s
undoing, there is nevertheless a German
economic empire which has evolved from a
natural, far-reaching community of interests
and which, therefore, has a reason and a
right to live on. It was largely the forma
tion of the Zollverein, or Customs Union, of
1834 that gave a practical basis to subse
quent efforts for German unification. The
commercial advantages of that step led easily
to plans for political cohesion; and if the
impulse then initiated had taken the form
and trend of a peaceable industrial ambi
tion instead of military greed, the chances
are that Germany would have attained to a
power and prosperity more splendid and cer
tainly more lasting than anything her war
lords dreamed of.
The economic and ethnic reasons for a
German federation are still vital, and should
find a more favorable soil for growth, now
that the militaristic folly has been squelched.
The probability, then, appears to be that
while Prussia’s dominance will be thrown off
and the better genius of the other States as
serted, there will remain an eWipire, consider
ably loosened, perhaps, but at essential
points still cohesive.
Republican "Harmony ’
IT must be apparent to all who have read
the exchange of “pleasantries” between
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, of New
York, and General Leonard Wood that
the aftermath of the Chicago convention is
not so harmonious as Candidate Warren G.
Harding, Chairman Will H. Hays and other
leaders wpuld have the public believe. The
General concealed his disappointment at the
loss of the nomination like the man and sol
dier he is, and was among the first to con
gratulate the nominee. But it seems that
insult was added injury when Dr. Butler
came forward with a public statement chang
ing that a “motley group of stock gamblers,
oil and mining promoters, munition makers
and other like persons” had backed General
Wood’s campaign for the nomination.
It is not surprising that this outgiving of
Dr. Butler should bring a heated retort from
General Wood. Says the General: “This
action of Nicholas Murray Butler is an at
tempt to ingratiate himself with certain ele
ments which exercised a determining influ
ence at the convention, and to possibly ex
plain his own political weakness. Tt is a
self-seeking, cowardly attack, made under
cloak of an alleged public service which was
never intended nor rendered. I regret to
make a statement of this kind, but it is nec
essary in this instance to denounce a lie.”
Colonel William C. Procter, the Cincin
nati soap manufacturer, was the chief con
tributor to General Wood’s pre-convention
campaign, and certainly he is none of the
things that Dr. Butler describes in his at
tack on General Wood. He is not a stock
gambler, nor an oil or mining promoter, nor
a munitions maker.
The Indianapolis News, one of the most
influential Republican papers in the middle
west, remarks that the Senatorial opposition
to General Wood’s nomination was not in
spired by patriotic motives, and everyone
knows it. The News concurs in the view of
Colonel Procter that “the senatorial influ
ence, the same element that has prevented
the ratification of the peace treaty, was re
sponsible for General Wood’s failure to ob
tain the nomination.”
“The men who nominated Senator Harding
knew just what they wanted,” adds the
News, “and they set about in the most busi
ness-like way to get it. The job was done by
a ‘few tried’ men meeting in the early hours
of the morning, men who desired primarily
not so much the defeat of General Wood as
the nomination of their own candidate, who
was picked six months ago. Butler cannot
cloud the issue with his wild charges. What
they sought was a partnership between the
Senate and the White ‘House, with the Sen
ate the senior and dominating partner.”
The New York Tribune declares that Dr.
Butler, who was a candidate for the nomi
nation, told two New York delegates, who
didn’t take his ambitions seriously, that their
failure to support him on the first ballot
was the only thing which stood between him
and the nomination. “The public was pre
pared to sympathize with Dr. Butler as the
victim of a great illusion and of overconfi
dence in the New York leaders who made
ducks and drakes of hisxboom,” remarks the
Tribune. “Hardly anybody supposed that his
campaign was anything but a smoke screen
behind which the anti-Wood politicians were
operating. But general credit was given him
for sincerity and innocence.”
The Tribune accepts Dr. Butler’s attack on*
General Wood, however, as indicating that
he was fully aware of the anti-Wood manipu
lation and was a party to it. Dr. Butler has
been the spokesman and apologist for the
Republican old guard for many years, and it
appears from the comment of the Republican
press respecting his attack on General Wood
that he proposes to continue in his former
capacity.
Speed Up Highway Building
THERE is widespread relief from the
news that the Interstate Commerce
Commission is not contemplating an
embargo on shipments of highway building
materials. (
The proposal by certain Eastern railroad i
executives that such an embargo be resorted
to as a means of alleviating freight conges
tion was frowned upon from the outset by
practical observers having the country’s
common interests at heart. Inadequate rail
transportation is a reason, not for hindering,
but for expediting the construction of
highways capable of sustaining heavy traf
fic in all seasons. That the railroads should
have generous co-operation in meeting pres
ent problems, goes without saying; and the
more essential should have preference over
the less essential commodities in transport.
But to halt the shipping of highway mate
rials at this juncture and thereby stop • the
construction of sorely needed channels of
distribution would injure the public without
in any wise helping the true interests of the 1
carriers
America’s industrial development is so
rapid and the consequent flow of commerce
so continually increased that every means
of transportation must be upbuilt—railroads,
highways, waterways and air routes. The
speediest relief from present traffic conges
tion is to be obtained, of course, by provid
ing needful equipment for the railroads and
by improving and expanding the highway
HEALTH EDUCATION
By H. Addington Bruce
THE need for systematic health educa
tion in our public schools is rapidly be
coming appreciated everywhere. Defi
nite programmes are being formulated, and
in many places the stage of actual instruction
has already been reached.
Now comes a suggestion from an authori
tative source that if the best results are to
be obtained, health teaching should not
merely accompany but should also precede
education in the ordinary subjects of the
school curriculum. Says Dr. W. C. Braisted,
surgeon general of the United States navy,
writing in the New York Medical Journal:
“We forget the pitiless logic of youth. The
lad or maiden who has for five, ten, or fif
teen years been goaded to study grammar,
mathematics, languages, on whom there has
been exerted insistent pressure to acquire
mental attainments, cannot be persuaded
later that a subject kept in the background
is the one of paramount importance.
“We cannot expect the young to believe
that hygiene, physiology, and health are mat
ters of prime importance, that their parents
and teachers really esteem them as such,
when everything else has come ahead of these
subjects.
“Let us begin the child’s education by
teaching him health before everything else,
first in point of time, first in importance.”
And, more specifically:
“What I propose is to go back of the three
•’s and begin all education by instilling into
knowledge ‘of the human machine and the
the child before he can read or write some
knowledge of the human machine and the
laws that regulate its upkeep.”
It may be objected to this suggestion that
iit assumes, on the part of parents, know
ledge which too few parents possess. For,
I obviously, it is with home teaching that Dr.
Braisted’s plan of health education would
have to begin.
But this is no real objection. If parents are
themselves ignorant of health laws they can
readily acquire the information necessary to
enable them to instruct their children. And
the parents, too, will profit from their study
of health handbooks.
There is, however, another and more se
rious objection. Unless parents give their
children health education in a really common
sense way there is a danger that they may
make the children morbidly solicitous about
their health.
It will never do, for example, to overem-'
phasize disease possibilities, or to try to
frighten children into living hygienically.
This, in fact, is what some parents do to
day. With the result that we see children
growing to manhood and womanhood neu
rotic weaklings, perhaps afflicted with ab
normal dreads of contracting this or that
disease.
What parents should do is to stress the
rewards of rigtit living rather than the pen
alties of wrong living, and to teach by ex
ample as much as by precept.
If they themselves live hygienically the
children will tend unconsicously to hygienic
W a.y s : Thus the need for specific instruction
will be appreciably lessened.
With these reservations a hearty indorse
ment of the Braisted plan of home education
in health may be made. Childhood, the age
of greatest impressionability, is assuredly
the age when every effort should be made to
imprint on the mind health-conserving ideas
and to form health-conserving habits.
THE HOUSE SHE WANTED
By Dr. Frank Crane
“Few know what they want,” said I.
“Well, I know what I want,” said she.
“What?” said I.
“Why,” said she. “I want a House. I’ve
ived in a Flat all my life. I want a House.
Four Walls. Space. Yard. Room to breathe,
scream if I want to.”
“Do you know just what'kind of a House?”
said I.
“Exactly,” said ehe. “I’ve dreamed it all
out, piece by piece. There are certain ele
ments essential. Want to hear ’em?”
“Sure,” said I. “I always like to listen to
anybody that has not a vague honing, but
wants some definite thing.”
“Then,” said she, “listen!
“Item: Trees. Big, old, thick, leafy trees,
with grass under ’em.
Item: “Water, a brook, a river, or lake
or ocean, some sort of water I can see heaven
reflected in, and children can paddle in.
‘ltem: Fireplace. Big enough to burn
logs. No toy grates. No gas contraptions.
Great, whopping fireplace, with seats by it.
“Item: One big room. I want it too big,
not just big enough. I want the sense of
largeness. Not cluttered up with furniture.
“Item: Sunlight. Big windows, down to
the floor, and up to the ceiling, whole side
wall a window. I don’t want to live in a
cell with air holes in it. Windows, windows,
windows, all over the place.
“Item: Heat. I’ve been all my life fight
ing accursed janitors and their men higher
up, the rental agents, who turn off the heat
in May and September. I want a heating
plant of my own, that I can run by the ther
mometer and not the almanac.
“Item: Mirrors. Big ones. I hate dinky
looking glasses, little snippy pieces of framed
glass over a dresser or mantel. I want big
mirrors where I can see my hat and my shoes
at one eye-swoop. Every door ought to be a
mirror; the last thing before you go through
a door you want to see how you look.
“Item: Lights. Electric. Lots of ’em. Every
where. Not high upon walls and ceilings, but
right where they will shine directly on your
book wherever you sit down to read. I loathe
chandeliers and ceiling lights. No light
should be Intended only to illuminate a room;
it should illuminate an object, a picture, a
statue, a table, and these objects should give
light to the room.
“Item: Closets. Large ones. Lots of ’em.
Also Nooks, Trunk Rooms, Attics, so that
the Superfluous shall be always out of sight.
“Item: Roof room. High place, made liv
able, where I can see the sky. What a waste
of roof space in the world!
“Item: Cellar. Full of things to eat. Dry.
“Item: But why proceed?”
“Are you sure this is what you want?”
said I.
“I am,” said she.
“Then,” said I, taking a roll of a million
dollars from my pocket, and peeling off a
handful, “here’s five hundred thousand dol
lars. Go and get it.”
“Sir,” said she, “I thank you.” "
“Don’t mention it,” said I.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
*
Well, Hows This One?
To Ye Editor of Ye Editorial Page of Ye
Atlanta Journal.
Kind Sir: As mortar between bricks so
is the paragraph between learned editorials.
Your page is dry as dust. Why not try it
now and then?
YE BORED READER.
systems. In the latter field there are well
nigh measureless possibilities for motor
transportation with its important services
and economies to agricultural as well as to
business interests. The cost of marketing
crops, from the largest to the least, will be
greatly lowered, and the producer and con
sumer alike correspondingly helped, when
the facilities of highway transportation are
duly developed.
Such construction, therefore, should be
given full-sinewed encouragement at all
times, especially when the railroads are in
so critical need of supplementary service.
THREE BILLION
SNEEZES
By Frederic J. Haskin
ty r ASHINGTON, D. C., June 18.
The time for the annual hay
V V • fever sneezefest is approach
ing.
Togged in close-fitting goggles to
protect their eyes, with cotton filters
in their noses, and with lips tightly
closed against invading irritants,
the old guard of the hay fever fra
ternity are already preparing to do
battle with the flowers that bloom
in the summer and fall.
Os course they know that they will
be unsuccessful in their resolve not
to sneeze once this year. They know
that they will soon be saying, “It’s a
beaudiful hording,” instead of talking
in their usual bell-like tones. They
even foresee that their eyes will be
puffed up like a frog’s, and their
noses will be red, and their faces in
general will suggest traces of vio
lent emotion. But they prepare to
suffer with the dignity befitting one
who is afflicted with an aristocratic
ailment.
For the high character of hay
fever is now universally acknowl
edged. Doctors who have studied
the disease most carefully testify
that it attacks only the super-aes
thetic. It is a malady of distinction,
and one which you can well afford to
cultivate, if you don’t mind being
thoroughly miserable while display
ing your superiority.
When hay fever first became pre
valent, about the time of the Civil
war, sufferers went f about sneezing
and weeping and weighted down with
a sense of appearing ridiculous. Hay
fever was then a joke and a mystery.
Now that science takes it seriously,
the million or more people who
sneeze, at the mention of weeds are
coming to glory in the idea that
they are souls apart, endowed with
hypersensitive noses and perilously
high-strung nervous systems.
Aristocratic Ailment
Some of the H. F. V. (which stands
for hay fever victims) claim to be so
delicately balanced that they lose
their equllibrim completely if a stalk
of ragweed sprouts within half a
mile. Others go them one better by
looking at an oil painting of golden
rod and daisies.
It is a well established fact that the
exciting cause of hay fever is the
pollen of any of a hundred or more
plants and grasses carried about on
the wind. Because the wind cannot
be depended on to carry each grain
of pollen to the right flower to pro
mote fertilization, a great many ex
tra grains are produced, so that some
will be sure to fulfill their purpose.
Thus, in the case of ragweed, it is
estimated that several million grains
of pollen are scattered on the wind
for every grain which lands on a
ragweed plant.
These straying atoms of pollen
sometime travel five or six miles on
the wind. They are in the air we
breathe. Ninety-nine people in a
hundred have them in their nasal
passages, and the membrane is effi
ciently proof against irritation, so
that no harm is done. But in the
hundredth nose the mucous mem
brane is extra-sensitive. The poison
enters the membrane and starts an
irritation. Meanwhile the possessor
of the hundredth nose is getting
wireless messages to his brain about
a violent conflict in his nasal pas
sage. He sends back an order not
to surrender, but by this time the
attacking enemy is reinforced by
some more pollen grains and defeat
is inevitable.
Susceptibility to hay fever is a
mystery. Some people respond .only
to ragweed; others to the pollen of
corn and rye. A great many think
that goldenrod is their particular
nemesis, but science has showed that
the pollen is so heavy that it can
not be blown any distance by the
wind, and that, therefore, goldenrod
can cause a hay fever spasm only
when the pollen is inhaled from the
plant itself. As few hay feverites
ever allow themselves to come with
in this danger zone of goldejirod, the
plant’s evil reputation is obviously
undeserved.
Weeds to Blaxna
Some people are victims of hay
fever from" childhood. Many, how
ever, develop the disease later, some
as late as fifty years of age. One
reason for this seems to be the fact,
just mentioned, that different people
are susceptible to different plants.
Thus, people whose noses would not
think of having hysterics over field
grasses or honeysuckle, and who are
invulnerable to the deadly cockle
bur, may suddenly be laid low if they
travel to a different section of the
country where the air is loaded with
different pollen poisons.
Once the malady attacKs you, the
doctors say that you will most likely
have it every year at the same time
for the next decade or so. Or course,
you may be able to avoid it by seek
ing out some weedless place, or if
you know what plants are antago
nistic to your eyes and nose, you have
simply to spend your summers where
those particular plants are unknown.
The majority of H. F. V.’s icspond
violently to numerous plants. Some
of them seek refuge on the high seas,
cr on the top of a mountain peak,
in the heart of a city, or in the
depths of our few remaining virgin
f crests.
A few resorts, notably those at
high altitudes and on the sea coast,
do seem to be comparatively free
from wind-borne pollen. Up in New
England, the H. F. V.’s have a le
treat which they claim is completely
organized against the disease. At
the boarding houses of this ■ village
the dining tables and parlors are
bare of flowers. Not even artificial
flowers bloom here, for the power
of suggestion is strong, and, then
too, artificial flowers are great col
lectors of dust. No dancing is al
lowed in the hotels lest dust start
some one sneezing and bring on an
epidemic of kerchoos. The swiftest
growing weeds scarcely get their
leaves above ground in the neighbor
hood before they are destroyed.
A Sneozeless City
In this specially treated atmos
phere the convention of the hay
feverites meets yearly. There is a
good deal of fun, for the delegates
can see the humor of hay fever—as
exemplified in their fellow delegates.
The main purpose of the convention
is, however, serious. Talks or reme
dies are given, and experiences are
exchanged. Persons supposed to be
cured testify for the benefit of the
rest, and others immediately rise to
say that they tried the same thing
for years and it is a failure.
There are about eighty cures on
the market, ranging from the really
beneficial to the dangerous. Some of
the, remedies with the best records
for ■'“cures” contain enough cocaine
or morphine to make drug addicts of
the persons taking them. For this
reason the hay fever brotherhood al
ways advises members to take noth
ing without first consulting a re
liable physician.
The most important development
in treatment of hay fever in recent
years is the pollen toxin. About fif
teen years ago, a German scientist
named Dunbar inoculated horses
with the toxin from grass pollen,
and from the counter poisons which
developed he obtained a serum, which
he found to be beneficial in prevent
ing hay fever and in arresting irrita
tion in persons already suffering
from it.
Since then, Dunbar’s experiments
have been carried further, and toxins
have been produced from various
combinations of pollens. In some
cases these toxins have cured the pa
tient for the entire season. Then
again, no improvement occurred, pos
sibly because the toxin was com
posed of the wrong pollens for that
particular case.
Hay fever statistics are vague but
impressive. Members of the Hay
fever association estimate that there
are now at least 1,000,000 hay fever
sufferers in this country, and that
during the sneezing Season, averag
ing forty-two days, they sneeze on
an average, seventy-six times a day
each. Equipped with these undis
putable estimates the statisticians
proceed to show that these organized
sneezers produce 3,192,000,000 sneezes
every year. Luckily for the United
States, the sneezers have not or
ganized to the extent of agreeing
to set off their seventy-six daily
sneezes at regular times, fine rever
beration of a million simultaneous ker
choos would surely bring out sky
scrapers toppling down about our
ears and deafen the country with
their resounding echoes.
CURRENT EVENTS
OKMULGEE, Okla., June 9.—Geol
ogists will study the huge meteor
which fell and burned itself out
near Okmulgee, Okla., recently, after
lighting the skies over several south
western states. Hundreds of per
sons in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas
and Oklahoma watched the meteor's
flight, reports received here said.
Scores of motor cars clogged ,tne
roads leading to where the burning
mass fell.
Cohsiderable apprehension among
the people living near Fort Smith,
Ark., was caused. They thought the
meteor fell near Red Oak, Okla.,
about twenty-five miles distant. A
number of persons In automobiles
went from Wilburton, Okla., and
near-by towns to Red Oak to give
i aid.
Tulsa, Okla., reported that when
■ the meteor passed over that city It
» appeared to be within a few hundred
yards of the earth and that the lower
i and heavier portion, of a greenish
■ blue color, was followed by a long
. wedge-shaped tall. As it approached
> the earth, the report stated, the head
> apparently split into four parts but
remained together as a mass. During
, the last few seconds of the fall the
southern sky was lighted with a
I blue-green flash.
C. B Smith, an astronomic author
ity at Muskogee, said he believed the
meteor was thrown off from a de
stroyed planet between Jupltg” and
Mars, as it appeared to travel from
west to east.
According to. a dispatch from
Paris it is anonunced that France
and Belgium have agreed upon the
principles of a military alliance. Gen
eral Maglinez left Paris for Brus
sels this afternoon, bearing with
him a preliminary draft of an agree
ment drawn up by Marshal Foch
and himself. French and Belgian ex
! perts will begin next week to work
out the details.
The general lines of the alliance
are given as follows: aviation, en
gineering, artillery, ca,valry, infantry
and staffs will choose one delegate
each for each country. The alliance
will be strictly an alliance of de
fense. It cannot involve Belgium
in any colonial war. Its purpose is
the defense of the Bfelgian and
French frontiers.
The treaty will have a duration of
from five to fifteen years. Belgium
will conserve her absolute Indepen
dence and will have to respond to
no outside call for men, arms or
material. Belgium promises to main
tain under arms an army of a size
somewhat superior to that she had
before the war.
The French and Belgian go vest
ments have been working out some
such alliance for the last nine
months. Its purpose is, of course,
the unity of the two countries
against a possible repetition of Ger
man aggression.
A cable from Geneva states Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Catt was unani
mously re-elected president of the In
ternational Woman Suffrage Al
liance at the morning’s session of
its congress here. She has agreed
to accept the office, it was announc
ed, despite her declaration in a
speech that she felt compelled to re
tire.
Mrs. Josephus Daniels and Mrs.
Stanley McCormick of the American
delegation, and Lady Astor and Maud
Royden, of the English delegation,
declared they were especially pleas
ed at Mrs. Catt’s decision to remain
in office and warmly congratulated
her for her devotion to duty, despite
her age.
At the evening’s session Mrs. Dan
iels spoke, bringing a message of
sympathy to the congress from
President Wilson, who appointed her
America s official delegate. She re
ferred to an address by Wilson in
September, 1917, when he said wom
en were greatly helping in the war
ana that he depended on thir partici
pation in future councils.
xi. War lifted women out of narrow
thoughts and selfishness,” Mrs. Dan
iels added. “Women must aim
straight and keep their nerves steady
on entering political life. They must
fight against drugs and drink and
help to rebuild the broken world.”
Princeton University conferred the
degree of doctor of laws on Sir
Auckland Geddes, the British Am
basador, recently at the 173 d annual
commencement exercises. The throng
which filled Alexander Hall rose and
cheered when Dean West placed the
hood, over the shoulders of the Am
bassador. J .
In his speech of thanks Geddes re
ferred to President Hlbben’s state
ment that American universities
owed a debt to England for culture,
it would little become me,” said the
ambasador, ‘if I had not told you to
day that the debt be.tween the coun
tries is not from this country to the
old country, but it is from the old
country to yours.”
In a statement issued at Washing
ton it is said the British objections I
to the enforcement of the new Ameri
can merchant marine bill, which 1
Premier Lloyd George indicated in
parliament as likely to be the sub
ject of formal representations to the
state department, are understood to
p ® bas ® d Principally upon two sec
tions of the measure.
One prohibits the carrying of mer
chandise in other than American
ships between American ports via a
foreign port. This would stop the
F ar rJ ag ? T *? f freight between points
I? tbe U s ( ited States and Alska over
the Canadian railroad lines or in Ca
nßude sklps ’ now a business of mag-
The other section directs the presi
dent to terminate, as soon as that
® aab ® do ? e > all treaties which re
trict the right of the United States
to impose discriminatory duties upon
poris gn entering American
*J ell Gate channel is being fur
rowed deeper by government order.
Ihe contract has been awarded to
Jersey Ship Building and
Dredging company. Charles D Pul
Can Mi e R£ esiden _t of the companl, and
, Bjron Reed, coast guard
nr^iMi nder ' yesterday supervised the
preliminary work of marking the
temporary ship lanes with guide
notified an r d t ? hippln K companies were
°f the new chart.
The channel will be deepened to
forty-five feet for a distance which
W qid derW H ter route taken
by the West Side subway as it head*
Ea r st C ßi r ve k r. Str€et ’ Br ? oklyn - in the
n+uLJI ell P ate ’ off Hallett’s Point
?hour S tL na . S Fryin P Pan
J l ®. als ’ t h ® depth will be thirty-five
Paretto B poTnt en f>, Riker ' s Island and
* the new depth wlll b ®
Miss Wilder Hast, Louls-
Xl U M« one 2 f the American delegates
at the conference of the Internation
al Women’s Suffrage Alliance, at Ge
neva. Switzerland, sent a cable to
Louisville, announcing that Lady As-
Fn»i^ eat ? r l ta,n ’. wln entertain
English and American delegates to
at the Beau
Lady Astor was one of the Lang
horne sisters of Virginia, who were
famous on two continents for their
oeauty and wit. Her activities in
Eng'and since her entry into parlia
ment have Interested women
throughout the world.
Lady Astor is the official represen
tative of Great Britain at the confer
ence, through approintment bv Llovd
George and Mrs. Josephine Daniels,
wife of the secretary of the navy, is
America’s official representative
through appointment by President
Wilson.
A disnatch from London gives out
this information: The king has
conferred knighthood on Herbert
Louis Samuel, high commissioner of
Palestone.
Sir Herbert will proceed to Pales
tine on June 20.
Herbert L. Samuel has held many
high positions in the British gov
ernment. He has been secretary for
home affairs, chancellor of the
Duchy of, Lancaster, postmaster gen
eral and president of the local gov
ernment board. He was British
special commissioner to Belgium in
,1919. t
Fear that better conditions in the
American mercantile marine service
may lure British seam?n away from
British to American vessels was ex
pressed at the annual meeting of the
Mercantile Marine Service associa
tion at Liverpool.
W. C. Bridgman, parliamentary
secretary to the board of trade, said
a poster was being nut up in all the
ports of the United States offering
every conceivable temptation to the
British sailor to leave the British I
service and to join the American. '
TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR
MOTHERS-IN-LAW
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
First: Thou shalt not dwell in
the same house with thy daughter
in-law, for many miracles be pos
sible but not that a man’s mother
and his wife should live together in
peace.
Second: Thou shalt vamp thy in
laws so that thou shalt find favor in
their sight and peradventure they
shall come to even love thee.
Third: Thou shalt purge thy soul
of jealousy far bitterer than gall,
yea, bitterer than gall and aloes is
the cup that the green-eyed mother
prepareth for her lip.
Fourth: Thou shalt not tell thy
son’s wife nor thy daughter’s hus
band of their faults for rdther would
they take a serpent to their bosoms
than a mother-in-law who turneth a
searchlight upon their shortcom
ings.
Fifth: Tx.ou shalt hold thy tongue
from utrtrlng advice to thy in-laws,
though it choke thee to do so, and
preserve thy fingers from meddling
in their pies.
Sixth: Thou shalt not spy upon
thy daughter-in-law’s ice chest, nor
thy son-in-law’s habits.
Seventh: Thou shalt remember
that the jolly is mightier than the
hammer when dealing with thy in
laws.
Eighth: Thou shalt brace up thy
son and daughter to do their duty in
the holy estate, instead of regarding
them as martyrs because they have
discovered that,' verily, marriage is
no picnic.
Ninth: Thou shalt smite upon the
cymbals and sing songs of joy be
cause thy children love their hus
bands and wives better than they do
thee, for this proveth that they have
found peace and happiness in mat
rimony.
Tenth: Thou shalt treat thy
daughter-in-law and thy son-in-law
as thou wouldst have some other
woman treat thy son and daughter
when they become her in-laws.
Are these hard sayings, O woman
who is, qualifying for the most dlf
ficlt role on earth? Believe me,
they are only good sense, and good
feeling, but they contain the whole
of the law and the prophet on how
to get along with the stranger who
is about to come Into your family,
and on whom so much of your future
happiness must depend.
For in the conflict between moth
ers and in-laws, it Is the mother
who, in the end, loses out. She
loses if her child sides against her,
and is alienated from her. And she
doubly loses out If she makes dis
cord between husband and wife, and
breaks up a home, and so wrecks
her son’s or daughter’s life.
It is, therefore, of the utmost Im
portance to every mother with mar
ried children to preserve what diplo
mats call the “tntente cordiale” with
her in-laws, and the only way this
cat disastrous expedient of ever try
he disasrous experimen of ever Ty
ing to live together.
It is so much easier to admire peo
ple whose every weakness is not con
tinually thrust upon our notice!
There is so much less friction when
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
In about a month editors from all
over the state will be packing their
toothbrushes and paper collars and
heading for Carrollton, to attend the
annual session of the Georgia Press
association. Carrollton is planning
the time of their lives for the Geor
gia editors, but Carrollton will have
to excuse us if our thoughts turn oc
casionally back to Monroe, where we
were so splendidly entertained last
year.—Cobb County Times.
While it Is generally conceded that
the Monroe meeting was the most
profitable and pleasant In the history
of the association, there is no reason
why the Carrollton session should
not be just as good.
Mr. Bryan probably encountered a
brand-new sensation at the Chicago
convention. We refer to his deliber
ately going to a session of national
politicians wthout having some gid
dy person nominate him.—Duluth Tri
bune.
It’s the letter “H” again for the
Republicans. Harrison was beaten
by Cleveland, Hughes by Wilson and
Harding? The man to beat him will
be named at San Francisco.—Savan
nah Press.
Lavonia needs at least a half dozen
new business houses. Who will be
' patriotic enough to help supply this
demand? Yes, and twenty dwellings
could be rented before September 1.
Somebody get busy and help the
town grow by erecting some build
ings.—Lavonia Times and Gauge.
Editor Rush Burton has supple
mented this advice by purchasing
the Lavonia hotel and may decide
to build a few blocks of business
houses and dwellings when the fall
advertising business opens up.
This is a mighty good time for
our people to begin to talk more
about hog and hominy. The intoxi
cation from a bumper crop and high
priced cotton is not going to last
always and it is a mighty good time
to sober up before it is too late to
plant food crops.—Lavonia Times
and Gauge.
Mighty good advice form expert
authority. Plant food crops and reap
something to eat.
If the country press is swallowed
up by twenty-five-cent paper and
other high costs, it will set back
rural America fifty years. Think of
blotting out the schools, the churches,
the rural routes, the telephones, and
you can Imagine what would happen
if the weekly newspapers are crush
ed by the profiteers. It is the duty
of every reader and every business
man to throw his loyal support be
hind his home paper in the present
Crisis.—Jackson Progress-Argus.
Editor Doyle Jones did not over
estimate the value of the country
press in the above paragraph. A
newspaper is the principal asset of
any town, especially if it is one of
those 100 per cent publications like
the Progress-Argus.
In this issue of the News we re
produce a very complimentary arti
cle regarding the weekly newspapers
of Georgia, taken from that bright
afternoon daily, The Atlanta Journal,
of last Wednesday. What is said of
the Georgia weeklies in this editorial,
we are trying to live up to, as our
frends will surely testify.—Walton
News.
It was such weekly newspapers as
that published by Editor E. A. Cald
well and Ernest Camp, of Monroe,
that suggested the editorial.
If the good friends of the News
who haven’t even shown us a dollar
since last year, will only call and
renew their subscriptions, we might
talk more about going to the press
convention at Carrollton. Who’ll be
the first to come and bring or send
the “mon?”—Walton News.
As Editor Caldwell’s absence would
be a great disappointment to his
many friends, here’s hoping that his
“S. O. S." will receive an immediate
and liberal response.
The noisiest political farmer has
the tallest weeds in his cornfield
and the fewest potatoes in his hills.—
Dawson County Advertiser.
Talk makes an excellent fertilizer
for weeds and grass.
After seeing a hog on the Elm
wood stock farm place worth $5,000
and at the same time investigating
our immediate pecuniary resources
we figure we’re a pretty worthless
cuss anyway.—W. E. R„ in the Dub
lin Tribune.
Perhaps you have a brighter fu
ture than the hog, which should
mean something on account.
We do not believe the Chicago
platform caused last Monday’s ad
vance of a cent a gallon in the price
of gasoline. There’s nothing in the
platform that's strong enough to
lift a gallon of gasoline.—Albany
Herald.
Don’t have to lift the price, man,
it soars like the larks of Scotland.
There are certain Streets in At
lanta in which you cannot park your
our little ways and peculiarities do
not come in hourly conflict with
some one else’s little ways and pecu
liarities! So many people are so de
lightful for an hour and such bores
if we have a day of their society!
This applies to all humanity, but
it goes double for in-laws whose lik
ing for each other almost invariably
depends upon how little they see of
each other. Hence, wise is the moth
er who keeps her own home, or goes
to live in a boarding house, or the
Asylum for Lone Females when her
children marry, rather than become
that bone of contention, a mother-in
law on the hearthstone.
Another long step towards getting
along with in-laws could be taken
by mothers if they would refrain
from being jealous of the man their
daughter marries, and the girl their
son marries. It is strange that so
.many mothers indulge in this silly
form of jealousy, because every wom
an knows from her own experience
that the love one gives one’s mate,
and the love one gives one’s parents
are two entirely different passions
that bear no more relation to one an
other than milk does to champagne.
Indeed, so far from marriage tak
ing children’s love from their moth
ers, it heightens it, for it is only
after men and women take upon
themselves the serious business of
life that they realize what a moth
er’s love, and sacrifice and unselfish
ness really means and they appre
cia’te her at her true worth.
Yet in spite of this knowledge, it
is mother jealousy that, makes women
eternally find fault, and nag their in
laws until they make enemies Os
those whom they should have made
friends.
Finally, remember, O Mother-in
law, to treat your in-laws as you
would have some other woman treat
your children.
When your daughter marries, you
pray her mother-in-law won’t live
with her; that her mother-in-law will
be cordial and affectionate and take
her to her heart instead of keeping
her at arms length; that her mother
in-law won’t go snooping around the
garbage can measuring the depth of
the potato parings; that her mother
in-law won’t think a young girl
should have no pretty clothes or
good times, but just be content to
be a domestic drudge.
And you pray your son’s mother
in-law will not settle herself upon
him, and that she won’t think all a
man is good for is to make money for
an extravagant wife to spend; and
that she wont’ nag and fret him, and
object every time he lights a cigar
ette, and tell him how bad every
thing he likes Is for his digestion.
And you pray the mother-in-law
your children get will be wise, big,
gentle-hearted, forbearing women
who will be towers of strength in
every time of trouble, and real moth
ers to their adopted as well as their
own sons and daughters.
Well, just answer that prayer, for
your own In-laws, and your sons’ and
daughters’-in-law mothers will arise
and bless you.
automobile. These pedestrians are *
demanding a lot.—Savannah Press.
ready for your next
visit to the city, Billy, and will be
mighty glad to greet you.
Editor Brown Tyler, of the Con
yers Times, says of the editor’s job’
~“8 ahard life, mates; a hard
li fe . Well, Brother Tyler, the plow
handles are still open to all who will
take hold of them and walk therein.—
Madison Madisonian.
Grab the handles and go to it,
Tyler.
Enrico Caruso’s Long Island home
was robbed of $500,000 worth of
jewels last week. Such are the mis
fortunes of the rich.—Walton Trib
une.
If you don’t quit Issuing such a
prosperous newspaper the burglars
may pay your home a call.
Some of the western weekly news
| papers have raised their subscription
| price to $5 per year on account of
the increased cost of production. The
chances are that the Georgia week
lies will have to raise their subscrip
tion price or go broke, as at the
present quotation the price of paper
is just about two cents a sheet,
which does not include the printing.
• —Sandersville Progress.
There are few weekly newspapers
in Georgia that are not worth $5
per year 4-and the above observation
from one of the best informed edi
tors in the state is timely and worthy
of consideration.
It is said that a grasshopper con
sumes in a day ten times its weight
in vegetation, which goes to show
that the grasshopper is an exceed
ingly active animal.—Rome Tribune
Herald.
Maybe his heavy eating is respon
sible for th e high cost of living.—
Dalton Citizen.
We hope the publication of the
above paragraphs will not cause an
advance in the price of vegetables.
The speed demon Is a menace to
civilization. The sooner the speed
fiends are thinned out the better for
everybody. Greensboro Herald-
Journal.
The thinning out process occurs at
“grade crossings” with tragic fre
quency.
Some men are so low down t
they were to stoop over and walk
on their hands they could pass off
for a dog.—Carey J. Williams In the
Greensboro Herald-Journal.
But a good dog is worth some
thing to his owner.
Our office force was very much
perturbed this week to learn that
the fourth of July comes on Sunday
this year. What a pity!—Lavonia
ximes and Gauge.
That being true, they will in all .
probability attend a picnic on Mon
day.
A gossip Is the most dangerous
person in any community. They are
responsible for many murders,
wrecked homes, broken marriage
vows, blasted friendships/ neighbor
hood rows and blighted lives beyond
number. All gossips are not wom
en, either.—Ellijay Times-Courier.
A poisonous snake is more honor
able than the average gossip.
Either people are mightily dissat
isfied with things, or else we are
going ahead with a big jump—or
both —if one may judge by the
number of local bills from Cobb
county which are to be introduced
at. the next session of the legisla
ture. There are about twelve or
thirteen.—Cobb County Times.
Make, it twelve if you want any
of them to pass.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
DE MAN WHUT AL.LUZ
TAKES THINGS EE J>EY
COMES OIN'ALLY HAS
T' TAKE WHUTS LET'.’,
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