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Shall War or Civilization Be the
Goal of the World?
IT Is a grim saying, but certainly not
far from the truth, that if civilization
does not abolish war, war will abolish I
civilization.
Your parlor optimist will argue that
while the day can never dawn when na
tions really will beat their swords into
plowshares, still as time goes on, they will
do much to soften the cruelties and hor
rors of battle. It is visionary, he argues, to
expect any sort of international co-working
to do away with war, but a great deal
can be done toward mitigating it when it
comes. Wherefore, he concludes, let- us cease
efforts at prevention and apply our benevo
lent interests to palliating the disease it
self. z
Comfortable as this belief may be to him
who holds it, your frank militarist knows,
howsoever humane he himself may be, that
war is and can be nothing less than what
Sherman called it; and • that, far from sea
soning its gajl with mercy as the play un
folds, it will wax more bitter, more des
olating, more terrible. Writing in a recent'
issue of the Journal of the Royal United
Service Institution, of England, Major Gen
eral Swinton declares: “I imagine from the
progress that has been made in the past
that in the future we shall riot have re
course to gas alone, but will employ EV
ERY FORCE OF NATURE THAT WE
CAN. The final form of human warfare, as
I regard it, is germ warfare. I think it will
come to that; and so far as I see, there is
no reason why it should not, if we mean
to fight."
Just so. If men mean to slash one an
other’s weasands through, why split hairs
ever mere details of the performance? If
they mean to launch upon a vast adventure
of disemboweling one another, why scruple
over the precise gestures to be used, if
only they are effectives ones? What mat
ters it whether an explosive bears foul or
fragrant odors when it is to be employed
in blowing human bodies to red bits? In >
war the one great practical objective ever |
was and ever will be TO KILL. No shining
tournament or knightly combat but stark I
slaughter is warfare’s substance and sum, j
whether it be waged in jungle deeps with I
tooth and claw, or with marvels of science
of heaven-chiming spires. Indeed,
the more scientific it becomes the deadlier
it grows, its very refinements sharpening
its inflictions. Wolf fangs could not com
pare with the raveninggs of poison gas.
And if authorities like General Swinton
are correct, poison gas will not compare
with the engines and terrors of destruction
yet to come. Not as a Prussian, not as an
advocate or apologist for ruthless war
fare, but simply as a competent and candid
observer, he declares: "The Napoleons of
the future will endeavor to wipe out their
opponents en masse, and in the nature of
the case they will make no discrimination
between the fighters and the noncombat
ants. Entire communities and large parts
of nations may be destroyed.” If t-his ap
pear scarcely thinkable, reflect that less
than ten years ago resort to such methods
and devices as Germany initiated in the
late war would have seemed well-nigh un
imaginable. The Hague Conferences repeat
edly had emphasized the humanitarian ob
ligations resting upon every belligerent, and
through specific agreements to which Ger
many was a party had forbidden "the use
of poison, the killing of wounded, the de
nial of quarter, pillage, unwarranted requi
sitions in conquered territory, and the use
of weapons designed to cause superfluous
injury.” Yet hardly had the Kaiser’s legions
crossed their frontier before these humane
inhibitions were going the way of scraps of
paper.
The Prussian idea of war is repugnant to
civilization; but it is the logical idea of
war, the idea that inevitably will prevail if
war continues. One cannot consistently hate
Prussianism without hating war, nor con
sistently condone war without condoning
Prussianism. The two are virtually synony
mous. Each turns to brute might; each
abandons what is distinctively and progres
sively human. There have been righteous
wars, none more so than that upon which
America embarked in the springtime of
1917; but war within itself cannot be oth
er than savage and destructive of the fair
est fruits of man’s hard journey up the
aeons. He must choose between his impulse
to destroy and his ideal to build, between
the voices of his shadowy past and those of
a dimly omened yet divinely possible fu
ture. By some means or other he must go
forward without war, or he will go back
ward without civilization.
The Need for a System of
National Highways
THE next logical step in the develop
ment of the American good roads
movement will be provision for a
system of national highways. It is not many
years since road building was a task left
mainly to Individual counties. Here and
there larger units of cooperation could be
found, but few States did more than ex
tend aid, and that in rather skimping meas
ure, to local undertakings. But about two
decades ago, when motor vehicles were
coming into general use for business as well
purposes, the need for long-
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er and better coordinated highways than
single communities could establish grew ap
parent.
Then came plans for inter-county roads,
and after a while for Statewide systems
constructed and maintained under the su
pervision of boards acting for the Common
wealth as a whole. Simple and sensible as
this now seems, it met with divers objec
tions as its several steps were first pro
posed. It would be an infringement upon
county rights, said some; it would lead to
unhappy complications, said others; it would
be overburdensomely expensive, still others
protested. But all now agree that it is only
through the co-working and correlating
made possible by the State highway system
that the interests of the counties can be
duly conserved, endless complications avoid
ed, and a vast deal of waste prevented.
Has not the growth of the conditions
which brought all this to pass now
reached an extent that demands a national
system of highways? Traffic needs and
problems certainly have gone beyond the
power of the individual States so supply and
solve them. Commerce, industry and agri
culture all require highway facilities which
nothing less than the country’s combined
resources can provide. This is evidenced in
all regions and in sundry forms, nowhere
more markedly than in the community
of trade interests now developing between
the South and the Middle West. Interstate
roads connecting the production and distri
bution centers of these sections will be
imperatively needed in a future not remote.
The initiative and cooperation of such agen
cies as chambers of commerce and shippers’
associations can do much in a pioneering
way, but at last there must be Government
power, Government funds and supervision
if the herculean task is to be completed.
The present plan of Federal aid for
State and county road construction affords
a useful base from which to develop a na
tional highway system. The business of ex
pending and accounting for the funds ap
propriated for this purpose has established
between State and Federal authorities just
the relationships which are needful for still
larger co-laboring.
Better Days in Mexico.
MEXICO’S tranquility since the pass
ing of the Carranza regime is ren
dered the more reassuring by her
new Government’s announced policy on the
petroleum industry. With firmness for na
tional rights it combines fairness toward
foreign interests. Legitimate investments of
outside capital are pledged fpll protection;
constructive enterprises, regardless of
whence they come, are welcomed; a rule
of reason and a reign of justice are pro
claimed.
Just how substantially these promises
will be fulfilled, only events can tell. But
even clement professions are a relief from
the curmudgeonly manifestoes which of late
years have been coming from the Mexican
capital. It does mean something, and it may
mean much, that control of that country’s
affairs has passed into hands that are
friendly instead of hostile to the United
States and liberal rather than churlish to
ward investors from aboad. If the threat
ened confiscation of holdings which citi
zens of this and other countries had ac
quired in Mexico is indeed to give place
to equitable and safeguardihg treatment, a
better day is dawning.
Singularly rich in natural treasure of
the kind which the world now urgently
needs, Mexico will grow prosperous beyond
measure, provided she procures the neces
sary capital. That is the philosopher’s stone
without which her natural resources will
avail her but little. In the matter of pe
troleum, for example, it appears that while
she has a capacity for the production of
some six hundred million barrels a year,
her output has been limited to hardly more
than a tithe of that amount.
A stable and upright Government will
change this stagnation in£o vigorous and
fruitful activity; will invite and encourage
all manner of constructive investments; will
insure a broad, sound economic foundation
on which national progress and prestige
will certainly rise.
The Legislature's Problem.
ATLANTA heartily welcomes the mem
bers, each and all, of the Georgia
General Assembly. The session for
which they are foregathering is a highly
important one. Along with the State’s
growth and prosperity have come respon
sibilities which only the wisest legislation
can meet. Peculiarly pressing just now is
the fiscal problem. Almost every institution
in the service of the Commonwealth re
quires an increased appropriation to carry
its burdens and to live up to its opportuni
ties. These needs must be supplied, or the
people’s material interests will suffer. It is
not economy to stint the funds for public
education or for public health, or for any
other field of public welfare. By some means
or other these vital enterprises must be
maintained, or there will be general retro
gression and injury.
Obviously, however, the present prospect
of the State’s finances must be improved
if there is to be anything like adequate
response to these numerous and deserving
claims. The statement of the problem is
easy, but its solution demands the keenest
and most resourceful business sagacity. That
it will be taken up by the Legislature
promptly and with earnest purpose, goes
without saying; and as the session pro
gresses and divers proposals are threshed
out, effective measures probably will be
forthcoming. Certain it is that no more im
portant matter of the kind ever called for
attention in Georgia, nor one from the
proper settlement of which the people could
derive more substantial benefit.
♦
A -New Republic's Guide
AMERICAN influence on the war-born
nations of Europe is interestingly il
lustrated in the new Constitution of
Czecho Slovakia. In framing their system
of Government the people of that country,
formerly a northern segment of the Austro-
Hungarian empire, followed the spirit and,
in lage measure, the very phraseology of
our own charter of political rights and
procedures. At certain points, however, they
have taken a cue from France, and in the
matter of election laws have adopted rath
er a complex plan of proportional repre
sentation in order that the German and
Magyar. minorities may have no ground for
complaint.
It might have been supposed that a peo
ple just emancipated from monarchy and
dwelling in a peculiarly restless and change
ful region of the world would be highly
radical in designing a Constitution. As a
matter of fact, however, they were distinct
ly conservative. They clung to the principle
of representative as distinguished from di
rect government—an example which many
Americans would do well to ponder. "The
scope of the referendum,” says an account
of their parliamentary “is limited
to a single emergency: if a ministerial
measure is lost in both houses, the Gov
ernment may appeal to popular vote. This
eliminates the critical alternative, dissolu
tion of Parliament or resignation of the
Ministry.” It is noteworthy, too, that mem
bers of the Senate are elected for eight
year terms, and must be in age above for
| ty-five. Members of the lower legislative
THE PSYCHO-NEUROSES
By H. Addington Bruce
I AM asked by a correspondent to make
clear the difference between neuras
thenia and psychasthenia, and to ex
plain what is meant by the psycho-neuroses.
To take up the latter query first, I may
well begin by quoting the definition given
bj r the editors of the Seale Hayne Neuro
logical Studies:
“A psycho-neurosis is a functional disor
der which depends upon abnormal action
and reaction of the nervous system.”
You are suffering, let us suppose, from
frequently backaches, combined with not in
frequent headaches. You have been to va
rious doctors, none of whom has found an
adequate cause for these symptoms of dis
ease.
You have been prodded, thumped, tested
in innumerable ways. X-ray pictures of va
rious parts of your anatomy have been taken.
Specimens f your blood have been examined,
always with negative results.
Your eyes have been pronounced O. K.
Your teeth are found free from alveolar ab
scesses. Your sacro-iliac is all it ought
to be.
Finally you consult a nerve specialist, who
says to you frankly:
“The trouble is not so much with your
body as with your mind. For some reason
or other you have fallen into the deplorable
habit of unconsciously or subconsciously
thinking too much about yourself, your com
forts and your sensations.
“By so doing you have disturbed the work
ings of your nervous system. You have made
yourself psycho-neurotic. There is just one
course for you to adopt. Turn your thoughts
to something outside yourself, distract your
mind from your aches and pains, and they
will cease troubling you.”
Pressed to be a little more specific, he
may say that you are a victim of neurasthe
nia, and, in the language of the inventor of
that term, the neurologist Beard, may elab
orate:
“Neurasthenia is a functional disorder of
the nervous system, characterized by feeble
ness and instability of nerve action and ex
cessive sensitiveness and instability, local
and general, direct and reflex.”
But now, suppose you have neither aches
nor pains, and instead suffer from unreason
able dreads, inability to .think vigorously,
perhaps a tendency to unaccountable and
uncontrollable attacks of weeping or laugh
ter.
In that case, finding no organic cause for
this strange mental state, the specialist will
pronounce you a psychasthene. And he may
explaine, with the Seale Hayne experts:
“Psychasthenia is a functional disorder
characterized by inability to co-ordinate
mental processes, especially those set up in
response to the stimuli of ordinary life,
which results in inability to regulate the
ideas and actions in a logical manner, and
in more severe cases in obscessions and emo
tional crises.”
By “emotional crises” is meant the attacks
of weeping or laughter already referred to.
These you have perhaps been accustomed to
call hysterical. They are not that. They are
spychasthenic attacks.
Hysteria, the third and strangest of all the
psycho-neuroses, is very differently consti
tuted. It is so important that it may well
be reserved for discussion by itself.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
TO YOUR TENTS, O ISRAEL!
By Dr. Frank Crane
The same law, says the poet, moulds the
star that moulds the tear. The chemic af
finities and physical attractions that operate
among molecules operate among mountains.
All force is rhythmic. None is continuous
and uniform. The wind blows in gusts, the
blood circulates in throbs, the seasons come
and go, and the waves rise and fall.
Even so with the sweep of vast spiritual
laws. The centuries also are rhythmic. His
tory has tides like the sea. Evolution is by
waves. Progress goes forward two steps and
retreats one. The universe breathes like a
sleeper.
There has been an advance of civilization
since Caesar, but it has been punctuated by
many a retreat.
We are witnessing no wthis process.
The war, with its gigantic menace, called
forth the enthusiastic idealism of mankind.
All the world swept forward to repel the in
vasion of organized barbarism.
The United States never knew a higher,
purer peak of idealism than in 1917.
The dullest shone. The grossest vied with
the finest to cast their lives, their fortunes,
their all into the sacrifice.
For a moment we glowed with the white
heat of heroism. For a day we ascended
into ratified atmosphere of pure devotion to
humanity.
We embraced the exalted ethics of Jesus
and were ready to "save the world.”
We were brothers to all, to the British,
the French, the Russian, the Italian.
The President of the United States uttered
the hot and glorious resolve of a hundred
million people when he proclaimed that we
were ready, to our last man and dollar, “to
make the world safe for democracy.”
Woodrow Wilson’s first visit to Europe was
the tip of the peak, the highest point of the
wave of our generous emotion, when it broke
into spray.
But it was too much for us. The force
spent itself. It surged backward. We fell
again .into grossness.
Now we define true Americanism in terms
of the most shameful selfishness. Our Al
lies, for whom the other day we were will
ing to die, can go hang.
Partisanship rages. The light has gone
from Uncle Sam’s face and we behold a sneer.
Whereas we saved, we now spend in wild
est extravagance. Labor grabs. Capital
profiteers. Politicians snarl.
“The war’s over,” said a doughboy, when
the armistice came, “now let’s go home and
fight.”
To your tents, O Israel!
+
The up-to-date definition is: Convention,
a gathering that provides a “vent” for “con.”
—Greenville Piedmont.
♦—
That Massachusetts man who has invented
a machine to teach reading should now get
busy on one to teach typewriters to spell.—
Muncie Star.
♦—
Talk of bolts reminds us that there are al
ways lots of “nuts” in politics.—Columbia
Record.
branch, or Chamber of Deputies, are chosen
for six years, and must be above thirty. All
men and women who have reached twenty
one years may vote for Deputies, but voters
for Senators must be at least twenty-six.
There are three leading parties: the So
cial Democrats, to whom belongs the pres
ent Premier and whose followers are de
scribed as "advanced Markians;” the So
cialists, a .more moderate group; and the
National Democrats, mainly burgeois. With
out a goodly measure of common sense,
stability and patriotism on the part of its
leaders, the new republic could not have
weathered the storms of its beginning and
reached its present stage of prosperity and
strength. That its future may be equally
propitious, all friends of freedom earnestly
trust. , i
PROFESSIONAL
MOTHERS
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 19.
The principle that a child
deserves a good living' and
a good education whether its
mother is married or not, and that
it is the duty of the state to enable
the mother to provide these things,
received an impressive indorsement
the other day when the state confer
ence on mothers’ pensions in Ohio
passed a resolution favoring the ex
tension of the mothers’ pension law
to mothers of illegitimate children.
This radical principle jvas not in
dorsed without heated discussion. A
woman delegate asserted that the
mother of an illegitimate child is an
abandoned creature who does not de
serve the help of the state, and some
what the same point of view was
expressed by others; but the day was
carried for the unmarried mothers by
Judge Frank W. Geiger, of Spring
field.
“How about the babies?” he de
manded. “The real purpose of the
pension is to protect the children—
the illegitimate child needs this pro
tection as much, or very much more,
than any other.”
He went on to say that the mother,
in such a case, also needs the help
of the state, and that the state should
grant it. This is a startlingly new
principle in American law and social
custom, but an old if somewhat neg
lected one in Christian ethics. Judge
Geiger took the same attitude toward
the unwed mother that Jesus Christ
took toward a woman in somewhat
similar circumstances.
Admittedly, however, it is not the
humanitarian value of compassion for
the woman, but the practical and
economic value of justice for the
child which is back of the growing
movement for the granting of pen
sions to mothers. Although few
Americans realize it, pensions are
now granted to mothers, under va
rious circumstances, by a majority
of the states in the union. Only one
of them so far has included un
married mothers in these benefits,
but the tendency plainly is to ex
tend the aid to them also.
Against Our Traditions
The growth of the mothers’ pen
sions movement is a striking exam
ple of how a practical need makes
itself felt and is answered despite
all theories against it. For the
theory of American government is
absolutely individualistic. That is,
we are all taught to believe that in
this country opportunity is equal fpr
all, and that anyone who will work
can make a good living, bring up
his children in health and comfort
and give them a good education.
In practice this theory seems not
to work perfectly. In the old days
when there were not so many people
in America, nearly everyone got
enough to eat and probably most of
them got such education as the
country afforded. But of late it has
become increasingly apparent that
many thousands of American children
get neither enough to eat nor a de
cent education. In the slums of our
great cities children die like flies of
malnutrition and neglect. In many
rural districts they die almost as
fast of hookworm, malaria and other
diseases that spring largely from
poverty, and in some rural districts
the children get no education worthy
of the name. One of the results of
these conditions was seen when the
draft brought forward thousands of
young men who were undernourished,
diseased, ignorant and even illiterate.
It is self-evident, of course, that the
state cannot afford to go on (raising
that kind of men any more than a
farmer can afford to raise mangy,
stunted and diseased live stock.
It has always been recognized, of
course, that some parents would be
unable to care for their children and
that some children would be born out
of wedlock and that the state had a
certain responsibility for such un
fortunate children. The recognition
of these facts created the orphan
ages, orphan asylums and like insti
tutions which dot the country. But
these places do not fill the bill. The
child has no home life, no proper free
dom. He is not given the living and
the education which he deserves, but
merely a makeshift substitute, the
acceptance of which he often regards
as a disgrace.
Charity Fails
The efforts of private charity have
likewise proved inadequate, and so
have the attempts to solve the prob
lem by placing children in homes.
Despite these measures, the enor
mous waste of child life has gone
on. The system of pensioning moth
ers with state funds has gained
headway because it has, to some ex
tent, met the need when everything
else has failed. One state after an
other has adopted it, and everywhere
it has accomplished good. The laws
are all different and few of them
are drawn by experts. Few of them
provide really adequate pensions,
and still fewer make any adequate
provision for the administration of
the law by competent persons. Yet
mothers’ pensions have triumphed,
and it has been a purely practical
triumph. It is against all American
tradition for the state to pension
mothers. It is a purely socialistic
measure. Washington and Jefferson
and the rest of the pantheon of
American political gods never in
dorsed it. But it saves child life,
keeps the homes intact, keeps wom
en from taking to the street in sheer
desperation, and, therefore, it has
triumphed again and again in con
servative legislation where common
sense is stronger than devotion to
tradition or fear of social theory.
The dangers of granting pensions
t ■ 'others are self-evident. There
is obvious danger of fraud and waste.
There is also an obvious temptation
for office-holders to use such pen
sions as a means of building up
their constituencies. Yet those who
have had experience in administer
ing these laws say that the practical
are not as serious as they
look. The growing participation of
women in politics and public serv
ice will probably be a stimulus both
to the passage of such legislation
to its proper administration.
Motherhood as a Profession
This whole movement is really a
step toward the recognition of moth
erhood as a profession, which is of
great value to the state. It will, in
a probability, lead to more syste
matic education of women for moth
erhood, so that when the state in
vests money in children it will be
sure of a return. As it is, most wom
en go into marriage without the
slightest training or preparation for
the difficult occupation of raising
children. The proper motive for
marriage in this country is supposed
to be romantic love. The typical
American girl does not regard mar
riage and motherhood as the diffi
cult and responsible business which
they are; she regards them as a
great emotional adventure. There
are two inevitable results. In the
first place she is bitterly disillusion
ed. In the second place she has no
training for the only dignified and
truly creative occupation which is
open to the average married woman
—that of raising children. If she is
intelligent and adaptable and has a
real liking for the business, she may
adjust herself and make a success
of raising a family. But often the
children suffer for her ignorance,
and often she regards them primar
ily as a nuisance.
According to advices from Mexico
Dr. Jose di Gabriele, the Italian re
ligious zealot who was crucified oy
the Indian inhabitants of Tequizslflan,
Oaxaca last Good Friday, arrived re
cently in Mexico City, en route to his
home in Pachuca, apparently little
the worse physically, but still har
boring his beliefs.
Di Gabriele appeared in Oaxaca
early in Dent, proclaiming himself to
be the Saviour, and so worked on the
superstitious and ignorant Indians
that they crucified him, using railway
spikes to nail him to a rude cross. He
was taken down the next day and
survived his ordeal, being viewed by
thousands on Easter.
News of the crucifixion reached the
capital of the state, Tehuantepec,
and the governor ordered Di Gabriele
brought there. A great procession
followed the cart in which he was
transported. Dater the mayor of Te
quizistlan, who acted as the Roman
centurion, and four other principal
figures in the crucifixion, were arrest
ed.
A case suspected of being bubonic
plague has been discovered in Mex
ico City, according to the Democrata
, today.
CURRENT EVENTS
According to a dispatch from As
cot Heath, England, the royal pro
cession In semi-state was revived at
the second of the Ascot races since
the end of the war, which was at
tended by a notable gathering of so
ciety. The display of fashionable
gowns worn by the women present
was unusually brilliant.
King George and Queen Mary, who
are entertaining a large party at
Windsor castle during the week,
drove upon the grounds in an open
landau drawn by four horses, with
postillions and outriders. They
were attended by other members of
the royal family and the royal house
hold, who followed ki seven car
riages. y V
All drove over the famous private
turf road, nearly four miles long,
ffom the gates of Windsor to Ascot.
Word from Washington states the
government is willing to purchase
silver provided terms of the Pittman
act are complied with, Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury Leffingwell
told representatives of a number of
silver smelters. The director of the
mint is required by’ the law to pur
chase at $1 an ounce silver produced
ftom American mines and reduced
by American smelters.
Lloyd George, Britain’s prime
minister, is an able French scholar,
and the story of how he mastered the
language is not without interest.
The death of his father had left the
family penniless and the future
statesman was brought up in the
family of an old uncle, who was a
shoemaker in a little Welsh village.
There was no opportunity of learn
ing French in the village, and yet
young Lloyd George considered a
knowledge of French necessary to
his future success. The way he got
out of the difficulty was for his old
uncle and himself to sit for hours
laboriously spelling out of an old
French dictionary and out of a gram
mar the rudiments of the language.
The New York Times correspond
ent was informed at the office of the
sugar commission in London that an
American embargo on exportation of
sugar would not materially affect
the supply of sugar brought to this
country.
It was said the amount of sugar
imported this year from the United
States would be equal to one week’s
ration for each person in the whole
country, apart from the amount re
quired for manufacturing purposes.
According to news from Geneva
the International Women’s congress
closed recently with a garden party
given by Professor Eugene Borel, a
well-known international jurist and
professor of international law in Ge
neva university. Lady Muriel Paget,
who. addressed the delegates, having
just arrived from the Balkan dis
tricts, declared that unless food and
medicines were sent immediately to
some of the many fever-stricken re
gions in Czecho-Slovakia and else
where most of the population would
perish in six months. She said the
only food the people had was bread
made from straw, earth and some
flour which cost 100 kronen per kilo
gram. In her opinion the most prac
tical solution of the food question
would be a system of worldwide ra
tioning whereby countries which had
enough food should ration themselves
strictly, so that countries lacking
food might have an adequate supply.
Joaquin Sorolla, of Madrid, Spain,
the widely known artist, has complet
ed for the Hispanic society of New
York a series of paintings on Span
ish subjects ordered by Archer £.
Huntington, founder and president of
the society. The work has taken four
years of incessant labor, and repre
sents scenes in Galicia, Sevilla, Ex
tramadura, Aragon, Navarra, Valen
cia, Quipazcoa, Tataloni and Castile.
The canvases are of large size,
were painted from life and depict re
gional dances, festivals and gather
ings typical of various districts
throughout Spain. Senor Sorolla,
with his family, is going to New
York this summer, taking with him
this work and about thirty portraits
of leading contemporary figures in
art, politics, science and literature in
Spain. These works are valued at
1,000,000 pesetas.
Word from Copenhagen reaches us
that Knud Rasmussen, the Danish
explorer, and Peter Frenchen, his
cartogropher, are preparing an expe
dition to visit the northern most
American Esquimaux.
Ras ussen declared that the ex
pedition probably would be the long
est one he has ever made. He plans
to take provisions enough to last five
ye"- but considers it more likely
the trip will last seven. Fourteen
men will comprise the party.
The rapid spread of women’s ac
tivities in the United States, signal
ly manifested at the Republican Na
tional convention last week, was
comented on by leaders now at
Des Moines, for the fifteenth bien
nial of the General Federation of
Women’s clubs opening shortly. They
said they felt that the women were
in a fairway of achieving through
the ballot the enlarged measure of
activity they had sought for years.
A solid week’s program of subjects
that women of America are concern
ed. in has been laid out for the con
vention. The woman’s standpoint
characterizes the program, which has
“Americanism” as its keynote. An
entire session is given to thrift. Im
portant conferences will be held on
conservation, education, civics, com
munity service and on the broader
aspects of music, art and literature.
Postal authorities, co-operating
with the department of justice, are
on the eve of obtaining indictments
of several scores of individuals and
firms on charges of using the mails
to defraud investors in various stock
swindling schemes, chief among
them being the sale of worthless oil
stock Postal agents from various
parts of the country have testified as
to the result of investigations made
in areas where many of the victims
of the swindling schemes live.
Word from Paris reaches us that
Italy’s claims on reparations paid by
t 1 e Central Empires, including pen
sions, has been fixed at 60,600,000,-
000 lire (normally about $12,120,000,-
000), according to Rome dispatches
to newspapers here.
Announcement is made in Mon
treal by the Canadian Wheat Board
that it is the market for 250,000 bar
rels of spring wheat flour at $14.30 a
barrel, in jute bags, delivered at
seaboard.
This is the first business in this
direction for some months, and
though the' order for only half the
usual quantitv the board has been
buying it will help to keep mills
busy and tend to relieve the short
age of bran and shorts. It indicates,
also, that the board has disposed of
all stock on hand.
A dispatch from London states
that Major General William G.
Gorgas, former Surgeon General of
the United States army, has been
obliged to abandon his mission to
West Africa, where he was going for
the purpose of investigating sanitary
conditions. Other members of the
party, headed by Brigadier General
Robert E. Noble, U. S. Army, will
proceed thither on June 30.
General Gorgas recently suffered a
stroke of apoplexy, which affected
the left side. When he had partially
recovered he was visited by King
George, who conferred the Order of
Knighthood on him. Since then,
however, complications have develop
ed and the condition of General
Gorgas remains serious.
He will probably return to the
United States as soon as he is able
to travel.
The - Foreign Office at Paris au
thorized the statement recently that,
notwithstanding published reports to
the contrary, Ambassador Jusserand
would return to Washington to re
sume his ambassadorial duties after
his present vacation in France.
It was added that the French gov
ernment was entirely satisfied with
his services and had no reason to
suppose that another man would ;
better represent France.
A dispatch from Madrid gives this
information: Alfonso Prince of the
Austrias, son of King Alfonso, who ’
Monday took oath of allegiance as an '
infantryman, has been promoted to a
cornoral.
He dined with the soldiers of his '
regiment on the grounds of King Al- I
fonso’s country house. Thousands of
soldiers now members of the regi- '
ment, together with 400 former offi
cers and men of the body, were
guests 'of the king and queen, and the
ordinary palace fare was provided;
for the entire party.
THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
THE CHAPERON QUESTION
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
A WOMAN, who is the mother
of daughters, asks me how I
stand on the chaperon ques
tion.
Frankly, I don’t stand at all. I
am sitting astride of the fence, and
I don’t know on which side to
alight. It looks so un-American and
so much like the slave-of-the-harem
business on one side, and so dan
gerous and full of snares on the
other side.
No one will deny that every young
girl not only needs some older wom
an to look after her, and protect
her, but she also needs for it to be
generally known that she has a
guardian who is keeping tab on
her, and all with whom she associ
ates. So far the chaperon is all to
the good.
It -should not be forgotten, how
ever, that a watch dog can keep
friends as well as enemies off of
the premises, and that while a
chaperon may possibly keep undesir
able men away from a girl, she can
most certainly cut them off from
eligible ones. '
Here’s a case in point that has
just come under my own observa
tion. I have been at a summer ho
tel where there were many mothers
and daughters. One mother was the
conscientious chaperon who is al
ways on the job.
She never took her eagle eye off
of her daughter day or night.
Wherever the girl went Mother tag
ged her. If daughter played golf,
mother sat where she could com
mand a view of the entire links. If
daughter was asked to go automo
biling, mother assumed that she was
also invited and crowded in. If
daughter was laughing and talking
with a crowd of boys and girls
mother joined the group. If daugh
ter was having a tete a tete with a
young man mother turned the duet
into a trio.
The girl was just the common, or
garden variety of girl—pretty
enough, bright enough, sweet and
sensible t and attractive enough to
have joined in with the balance of
the young people and had a good
time, and perhaps have one of the
nice young men fall in love with her,
if she had been left to herself, and
to go it alone a little.
But she had no stupendous fasci
nation, no ravishing beauty to en
able her to carry the handicap of
mother, and even run in the popu
larity race, to say nothing of win
ning out. No one’wanted to be bur
dened with the society of mother,
and so, as it was impossible to have
the girl without mother, the gir’
was simply left out.
I overheard some young chaps
planning a little party they were
giving. The question of asking the
girl was discussed. “I wish we
could,” said one youth, “but if you
do the old lady will come along and
I’m not going to be the goat who
has her wished on him.” “Nor I,”
“Nor I,” chorused the others. So
the girl was left sitting with moth
er on the hotel veranda, when the
laughing, merry throng drove off.
a victim of tod much chaperon.
Furthermore, mother will chap
eron her into the Old Maids’ Home
for she proudly boasted that she
never permitted her daughter to go
to the theater without her and
that she ho.d never received a gen
tieman caller alone.
Now among the 400 who may need
chaperons more than the four mil
lion do and where expense need not
be considered it may be well for the
chaperone to accompany a young
couple everywhere they go, but the
average youth in business does well
if he has the price of two theater Or
opera tickets, or can buy a lunch
for two. It puts him entirely out
of the running if he has to drag the
girl’s family along with her. So the
girl with a chaperon is perfectly safe
from being invited to see improper
plays. Or proper once, either, for
that matter.
Now Is there any danger of the
girl whose mother always helps her
entertain her beaux ever being
pestered much with masculine so
ciety. When American boys go to
see a girl they want to see her, and
not her mother, and they want to see
her out of ear shot of her family.
Foreign men appear to be able to
make love before a third party, but
it is an accomplishment our men
have not yet acquired.
Young people in this country ob-
Carrollton is preparing for the
meeting of the Georgia Press asso
ciation in that enterprising Town in
July. First of all, the trade organi
zation there has offered cash prizes
aggregating nearly S2OO to citizens
for the best and most effective gen
eral cleaning up. “Spick and span”
and “neat as a pin” will be expres
sions which the editors may as well
get out and furnish up for use in
their write-ups of the Carroll county
capital.—Savannah Morning News.
Advance notice indicate that Car
rollton will present the attractive ap
pearance of a pretty girl on Easter
Sunday.
A woman objects to the use of
the donkey as the Democratic em
blem. The only improvement that
we can suggest is to fit a side-saddle
an him.—Savannah Press.
Which would be entirely out of or
der, as the ladies discarded the side
saddle along with other impediments
to horseback riding several years
ago.
Albany is building many dwellings
in spite of the high cost of construc
tion. There is no prospect that
building costs will get lower any
time soon, and the man who wants
to build is going ahead with the
work. —Albany Herald.
Building makes any town grow.
The voters of Dooly county are to
be asked in the near future to vote
a local school tax. If they know
how much the citizenship of the fu
ture in old Dooly depends on better
schools, they would never cast a
vote against a school tax. We hope
Dooly joins the school tax counties
in this vote. Several strong efforts
have been made to secure this school
advantage in the past.—Cordele Dis
patch.
. Any county that will submit local
taxation for school purposes to a fair
test will be gratified over the result.
If we were asked to select a man
for president, we should say we
don’t know him, but we would like
a man who will give us peace, re
duce the high cost of living, and
make a man work six days a week
for an honest living. There are some
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
Boss TELL ME T' KEEP
MAH NUN! ON MAH
WORK BUT LAW,HONE.Y,
AH t>oes--hit3 MAR
BI6GES'
Copyright, 192.0 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
ject to the chaperon being always
on duty, not because they want w
do anything, or say anything
is in the slightest degree objection
able, but because an older P er ??„ n
makes them self-conscious. The i“'
tie silly jokdls at which they laugh
the juvenile badinage in whicr
they indulge, the teasing they fin®
so amusing, falls stillborn ana dead
before the cynical eyes of age. They
can’t do it and not feel like asses.
Shall, then, the young girl b
given her head, and go her ow
sweet will as she lists? Heaven so”
bid! Girls are foolish creatures an<
they need all the protection an<
guidance their mothers can giv<
them, but this is all the more es
fective if it is tempered with com
mon sense and discretion.
A mother, for instance, certain!
.fails in her duty if she does no
know where her daughter is ever;
minute of the time, and is not per
sonally acquainted with every youn
man with whom she associates. Bu
if the girl is going to a suitabl
place it surely isn’t necessary so
mother to do the shadow act afte
her. Nor is it obligatory on her t
thrust her society perpetually on
young man whom she has Investigat
ed and found out to be moral an
upright and with a good record.
“Be sure you are right then g
ahead,” Davy Crockett gave as
motto, “Be sure they are all right--
then let them alone,” would be
good slogan for chaperons.
Personally I have always fel
that most of a mother's chaperonin
should be done long years before I
is needed.
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It should begin in the cradle an
continue by little beds, and at moth
er’s knee when baby lips lisp prayer
to God to make them good littl
girls. If a mother does her par
then, if she Instills into the littl
girl’s heart a love for purity, an
the white things of life, if the motl
er ingrains in the very fiber of he
being a rock-bottomed virtue that n
passion can shake; if the mothe
teaches the little girl strength an
courage and to hold her honor abov
her life, then she won’t need an
watching when she’s grown.
And if mother has intelligent
enough to realize that ignorant
never was and never will be inn<
cence, and she erects danger signa
before the various pitfalls ini
which the unwarned stumble, the
indeed, mother may cut out tl
dragon act. Her work has been dpi
in time, instead of too late.
For when all is said a girl’s re:
chaperon must be in her own hea
and brains. No woman was ever su
cessfully watched. If she had it !
her to jump over the bars, sooner <
later she did it. Nor can anyoi
really protect another. They mu
do that for themselves. The:
comes an hour when the watchde
slumbers; a place where the mo
anxious mother can not follow h
daughter and woe be then that gi
who has not been taught to tai
care of herself and who does n
know how to guard herself again
danger.
In considering the chaperon que
tion, we may also give due recogr
tion to American institution ai
American ideal, both feminine ai
masculine.
Our girls are brought up dlfferen
ly from other girls. They are n
harem born, nor convent bred, n
provincially educated. They are
the thick of life from infancy. Whl
their hair is still in pigtails they a
as worldly-wise as foreign girls a
when they marry. Independence ai
self-reliance are their heritage a:
they actually do not need as mu
chaperoning because they are so jol
well fit to look out for themselvi
Also, there are not many Amei
can men, thank God, from whom
nice, sweet, pure American girl nee
protection.
But about chaperoning. Well, t
always a safe rule to do in Rot
as the Romans do. If you Ifve in
community where a girl is suspicio
ed of being not just “nice” if s
isn’t watched, trot around after yo
daughter like Mary’s little lamb—
was it the sheep dog?
Otherwise, quite other wise. B
whatever you do for your gro'
daughter, don't forget to teach yo
baby daughter how every girl can
her own chaperon.
other little things we might enum
ate, but these come first.—Elbert
Star.
Editor Skelton has issued the mi
satisfactory platform that has be
published and his name should
given careful consideration at i
San Francisco convention.
Just because a widow wears wet
Sun” 0 Slgn she ’ s * reen - —Hartw
„ N< ? r t that 3he 13 stni Pining 1
her late husband.
Mrs. Solomon Says
BEING THE CONFESSIONS O
THE SEVEN-HUNDREDTH WIF
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Copyright, 1920, by the McClui
Newspaper Syndicate.
■n /r Y daughter, hear now 4
j\ /! summer girl’s petitl
which is every maide
prayer!
“Oh, make me a man’s ides
cryeth the damsel, “for now
proacheth the harvest season
hearts, when the wise virgins six
garner husbands!
“Make me all things that a m
desireth—even the mirror, which I
flecteth his image, glorified, magi
fied and deified!
“Make me as the moon, whl
beameth down upon him with ten]
allurement, but keepeth her distar]
and hideth behind a cloud of ml
tery.
“Make me like the pet kitten, whl
accepteth her petting as a matter)
course, but never getteth upon I
nerves by demanding ‘more,’
“Make me like his cigarette, wh|
is cold, until a man lighteth 1
flame, bright and glowing whilJ
lasteth, and easily tossed aside, wj
the fire is out. 1
“Make me as the sofa cushl
which adorneth the house, receivl
many confidences, sootheth the we]
head, bendeth itself to the mJ
and keepeth its own counsel.
‘Make me as the briar pipe, whl
exalteth his spirit, comforteth ]
nerves, inspireth his sweeij
dreams, may be left at home when]
departeth in search of diversion, 1
is always there when he returnJ
“Make me as the dictaphone, wh|
receiveth all his words, repeat]
them as oracles, and never answer]
back!
“Make me like the phonogrJ
which delighteth him with sw|
music and pleasant chatter, but rl
be “shut up” at his will.
“Make me the humble umbra
Which shieldeth him from the w|
and the rain and the storm, and m
tecteth him when the sun beat!
down upon him—but may be ‘stooa
the corner’ when it is not wanted!
“Make me as the hot-water botl
which cometh to his aid in timeJ
suffering, yet doth not follow ■
about urging him to wear his oxi
shoes, and asking continuously!
he loveth it.
“Yea, verily, verily, give me I
voice of a dove, the eyes of a hoi
the smile of a Pollyanna, the blil
ness of a well-trained butler, !
sweetness of pink ice cream, the a
'bition of a doormat, the faith ol
collie dog the patience of Grisei
the originality of an echo, the xl
dom of the sphinx, and the mystl
of a ouija board, that I may!
all things that a man requirethl
one woman!
“And when thou hast endowed I
with these virtues, oh fate, lead I
among men, wheresoever thou a
and I shall take my choice!
“For, all men will be unto me]
one man—and that one Wax!”
Selah.