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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., o NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Poatoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four, months .. 50c* Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 WH.I Mo. 3 Mo». 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70e 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 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 tribiitors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. ■sjents 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 uaed 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 sare to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. A 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'.’, _._ _ i Copyright, F 320 by McClure N.wwp.r Syntflctb.