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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta, Ga.
Counting the Cost of the
Greatest of Wars.
NUMBERING the sands of the seashore
or 'counting the stars of the sky
could be little more difficult, one
would think, than reckoning the cost of the
World War, with its tremendous tolls upon
every province of economic and human con
cerns. At last, however, are coming esti
mates comprehensive anti authentic, notably
those in Professor Bogart’s masterly work on
the subject, recently published by the Car
negie Endowment for International Peace..
The total cost of the conflict, according to
this authority, is three hundreds and thirty
seven billion nine hundred and eighty mil
lion five hundred and seventy-nine thousand
dollars. A sum so gigantic is beyond
imagination’s grasp. Only by taking an item
of it here and there fbr comparison with
lesser and familiar peaks can we conceive in
. any wise what this stupendous mountain of
war costs means.
Consider, then, that its American quota'
alone —twenty-two billion six hundred and
twenty-five million two hundred and fifty
two thousand dollars—is nearly twenty times
our pre-war debt and “almost enough to
have paid the entire'expenses of the United
States Government frpm 1791 to the outbreak
of the World struggle.’’ From the moment
our nation entered down to April, 1919, its
expenditure averaged a million dollars an
hour, “and was eufficient to have carried on
the Revolutionary War for a thousand years
at the rate of disbursements during that con
flict.” To this, add upwards of forty-four
billion for Great Britain, approximately
thirty-six and a half billion for France, twen
ty-two and a half billion for Russia, more
than forty billion for Germany and so on
through the belligerent list. The aggregate
grows beyond conception.
These expenditures, however, represent
only the direct costs of the war; costs, that
is to say, chargeabl.e to the prosecution of
hostilities. Almost ’equally as great is the.
indirect cost, in which Professor Bogart, ae
quoted in Current History, includes: “Eco
nomic losses resulting from deaths attributa
ble directly or indirectly to the war, the
value of property damaged or destroyed, the
loss in production growing out of the trans
fer of men from civil to military pursuits,
expenditures for war relief work, the toll up
on (neutral nations, and the like.” Most dis
tressful and tragic among these indirect costs;
is that of human life. Such losses, of course,
are not assessable in monetary terms; but
taking from four to two thousand
dollars as the social value of each of the
war victims, which assuredly is a moderate
basis, the total estimate exceeds sixty-seven
billion dollars, divided about gvenly between
soldiers and civilians. Touching this poign
ant item. Current History says:
“Official and semi-official reports of
both main and minor belligerents prove
that 9,998,771 men of all nations made
the supreme sacrifice. The death toll of
all the wars fought during the preced
ing one hundred and twenty-five years,
beginning with the* Napoleonic war of
1790 and ending with the Balkan war of
1912-13, was only about tfne-half as
great. The percentage of dead estimated
by various statisticians from the ‘prison
ers or missing’ list of the War
would bring the tragic figure ui\to 12,-
990,570. Before one can recover from
the shock occasioned by so many deaths
among the very 'flower of the world’s
manhood, one learns that to the deaths
of soldiers must be added ten million
more (at the lowest) to cdver fatalities
among civilians, directly or indirectly at
tributable to the war. Famine and cold
Cook hundreds of thousands of civilian
lives; Spanish influenza, attributed di
rectly to the war, caused six million
deaths. More than four million Arme
nians, Syrians, Jews and Greeks were
massacred while the war raged. One-
of the civilian population of Poland
was wiped out; two million Russian non
•combatants perished; Rumanian deaths '
numbered eight hundred thousand; Ger
many lost eight ' hundred thousand
civilians; Austria and Serbia nearly one
million.”
As for property losses, conservative esti
mates give seven billion dollars to Belgium,
ten billion to France, about three billion to
Italy, two billion to Serbia, Albania and
Montenegro, and from one to two million
dollars to eight other countries. Ocean ship
ping losses amounted to a little less than
seven billion dollars. Losses in production,
caused by the diversion of some twenty mil
lion men from basic industries, approximated
forty-five billion dfllars.
To what end were, these countless treas
ures and this priceless blood poured out? For
good will nations be paying interest on
war debts for half a century? Wherein will
come compensation for the sacrifice of
wealth and power which, had it been
mustered z to kindly tasks, would have
made the world apother Eden? An
swer is not yet to be given. As
suredly it were worth all the sacrifice if
the freedom and right which militaristic Ger
many threatened „ are indeed vindi
cated, and the peace which she trampled
down is made secure. But what if the good
liest fruits of victory are *lost for want of
wise and friendly co-working in the seasons
ahead? What if those four years of terrible
combat, which we trusted wer» war against
war, prove to have been but seed-times for
bloodier harvests? By some plan or other
the liberty-loving, righteous-minded nations
of the earth must act together for the pres
ervation of peace and justice, or those bil
lions of wealth and millions of lives will
have been spent in yain« -V' ' l ; ~-
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Not a Genius.
LEADERS of the Republican party have
discovered that a great man is really
out of pldce in the Presidency, and
frankly plead this discovery byway of
mitigating the disappointment caused by
the nomination of Senator Warren G. Hard
ing, whose talents they admit are but so so.
Senator Harry Nayv, of Indiana, states
that the Republican \ nominee is “not a
master mind,” and another prominent .Re
publican Senator remarks that he (Hard
ing) “is not a genius.” These candid, com
ments are not tinged with regret. Rather,
they are in complacent vein as if > x his
“orneriness” were an asset to Senator Hard
ing for the duties of the supreiAe office for
which he has been nominated.
As the Republican leaders put it, the
country wants a President of mediocre
type who “will seek advice and listen to
reason.V Tliis is a jiew tack for the Republic
an party, 'tar different from its attitude
when it had great draw from.-
Obviously, as the New York/ Times re
marks, “the present " effort is to make. it
out that the truly desirable qualities in a
president are mediocrity shot through with
good 4 nature’ readiness to take advice from
m«c_ wiser than he, and. a general disposi
tion to ‘gat on’ jwfith everybody and to hope
that all will turh out sot the'best.”
The New York Times thinks that there
is something to be said in extenuation of
the present Republican tiew off the Chief
Magistracy. “The American Presidency would
not be an entire failure without a man of
towering intellect and massive character.
One of that kind cannot bs. caught ’ every
four years. And Presidents may be useful
even if they are not brilliant. There have
been several of that kind on the roster. An
able Cabinet and the support of strong men
in Congress may do much, to make up for
lack of bold initiative and sustained en
ergy at the head of the Government. All
this may be conceded without in the least
going over to tire opinion, so to
cherish)when one thinks of Senator Hard
ing, that it really doesn’t make a great deal
of difference who is President so long as
he is honest and friendly and means well.”
It is an odd commentary on the Republic
an party for its leaders to ibfelittle the
Presidency, and a sad one upon the candi
date the party named as its leader at Chi
cago. Senator Harding is “not a genius,” he
has not a “master mind,” and nobody would
object to these truly frank estimates of the
man if they did not reflect so little respect
for the great office to which he aspires as
the candidate of the very men who entertain
for it such light regard. t
The mere fact that Republican
driven to the expediency of apologizing for
their candidate, evidence a willingness to
bplittle the Presidency doesn’t minimize the
great office. They are only shutting their
eyes to the facts and giving no heed to the
heavy responsibility that the President of
the United States must bear during the next
four years. There are responsibilities which
are his and his alone—responsibilities that
he cannot evade. He must make decisions
involving questions of vital national policy
—matters of the gravest importance that
call for the highest abilities that ban be se
cured, The Treaty of Peace, the League of
Nations, Mexico, questions of taxations, the
railways, shipping, labor, reconstruction,
government expenditures are a few of the
large subjects that will command his at
tention.
The of Laws.
WHETHER or no it is true, as the
fathers of the Republic held, that
the best governed is the least gov
erned people, it is certainly untrue that the
more Jaws we write upon the statute books
the better and safer will nation or city be.
Most men find it rather arduous to keep
up with the Ten Commandments; how, then,
shall they give heed *to ten thousand
minor Dont’s? Herein, of course, lies the
need and nurture of the lawyers, those
happy souls and mighty helps in time of
trouble, whonj. Dan Cahucer described as
seeming wiser than they are. But lawyers,
aSter all, were made for the \country, not
the country for lawyers; so that it is hard
ly fair to go on piling code upon code, like
Ossa upon Pelion, merely to give that pro
fession more food for interesting and lucra- -
tivp controversy.
It seems, indeed, from the layman’s
point of view that we well might spend a
hundred years or so trying to disentangle,
understand and even enforce a few of the
statutes we now have, before making addi
tional ones. Yet we hear the lately adjourn
ed), Congress boasting that it enacted more
laws than any of its predecessors; apropos
of which the New World exclaims: “How
many bales of good sheepskin and tons of
print paper have been put to the waste of
preserving the elaborate and dreary futili
ties which the lost motion of de
mocracy functioning with only an eye to
the quantity of laws.”
Quantity regardless of quality or use or
common sense —that all too often seems the
legislative goal. The least of the unliappy
results is that to which Shakespeare’s saga
cious Duke of old Vienna referred:
“We have strict and most
biting laws
(The needful bits and curbs to head
strong steeds)
Which for these fourteen years we have
let slip;
Even- like an o’ergrown lion in a cave,
That goes not out to prey: Now,, as
w fond fathers
Having bound up the threat’ning twig
of birch,
Only to stick it in their children’s
sight
For terror, not to use, in time the rod
Becomes more mocked than fear’d: so
our decrees,
Dead to infliction, to themselves are
dead,
And liberty .plucks justice by the
- nose.”
Dead-letter laws may be harmless. But those
which from their very number and inept
ness are jidt consistently enforcable, yet
stand with ever menacing lash—these as
suredly are fraught with ill. They breed
confusion, if ntJthing worse; and the like
lihood is they will breed disrespect for that
law whose seat is indeed in justice and
wisdom.
Multiplicity of .statutes besorts well
enough with a governfnent like that of
HAienzollem Germany; but in a democracy
something is supposed to be left to the in
dividual sense of right. Democracy has been
well defined as “organized self-control;”
and that it must be, or inevitably it will
go bankrupt and pass into the receivership
of absolutism. But how can self-control de
velop in a jar of goldfish, or self-discipline
among hot hquse prisoners? How can cit
izenship grow equal to problems that call
for original thinking and to responsibilities
that call for moral stamina, if every ques
tion, whether of the conscience or the col
on, is to have ready-made, forthright
legislative answer?
♦
The Cost f o f High er Living.
EIGHT billion, seven hundred and ten
million dollars were 1 x spent by
the American people on luxuries and
non-essentials during the last year, accord
ing to Treasury experts who have made a
Careful survey of tax returns and other
sources of information to which they have
access. This expenditure has been made
f ■ 1"
/ WHAT HYSTERIA IS
By H. Addington Bruce
r'rxO the popular mind hysteria is essen
tially a condition of excessive emo
tionality. “Hysteria! laughter,” “hys
terical weeping,” are phrases of familiar
usage and commonly thought to comprise all
aspects of hysteria.
Actually as every psychologically trained
man is aware, attacks of uncontrollable
laughter or weeping are by no means char
acteristic of hysteria.
They may occur as incidental to hysteria,
though most hysterical patients, as a matter
of fact, neither laugh immoderately nor weep
immoderately. Their behavior is usually nor
mal enough except in one important respect.
That respect is in their unusual readiness
to accept and extraordinary ability to* re
spond to suggestions received from their en
vironment and the occurrences of life. So
that one of the best, if also one of the brief
est, definitions of hysteria is that given by
the specialist, Hurst:
“Hysteria is the condition in which symp
toms are present which have resulted from
suggestion and are curable by psychother
apy.”
A person, for example, is thrown from a
skidding automobile. There is a momentary
loss of consciousness—perhaps no loss of
consciousness whatever. The. force of the
fall, moreover, has been broken by the vic
tim’s 'landing in a heap of cut grass by the
wayside.
But, instead of promptly picking himself
up, the person thus thrown lies motionless.
He complains that his back hurts frightfully;
that he fears he is paralyzed.
Urged to walk, he insists he cannot mj>ve
his legs. Panic-stricken companions exclaim,
“He must be paralyzed.”
Medical examination sjiows no organic in
jury. Yet the paralysis continues until some
physician is found skillful enough to convince
the sufferer that his inability to walk is
wholly the result of self-suggestion of the
idea of paralysis, reinforced by the sugges
tive exclamation of those who were in the
automobile with him.
This is a typical case of hysteria. And in
like manner any person of temporary or
chronic abnormal suggestibility may develop
disease symptoms of almost any kind, from
convulsive attacks to blindness, deafness and
mutism. There are even hysterical epilepsies
and hysterical tumors.
Or, instead of developing symptofns of
physical disease, the abnormal suggestibility
may lead to a mental canfusion of fictions
with reality.
Often it happen, as everybody knows, that
grave accusations are lodged against inno
cent persons, especially accusations of bodily
assault. When the falsity of these is proved
there is likely to be profound indignation
against the accuser.
The latter may not have bee nanimated
by malice at all. Hysterical suggestibility
may have caused a real inability to distin
guish between what actually happened and
what the hysterical one imagined to have
happened. , '
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News?
papers.)
*
THE GREATEST COMMON.
DIVISOR
• By Dr. Frank Crane
The recent National Republican Conven
tion was a question in political arithmetic:
“.Find the Greatest Common Divisor.”
Answer: Warren Gamaliel Harding.
He is the G. C. D. of Lodge, Johnson,
Poindexter, Wood, Lowden, the feeling that
the people want somehow a League of Na
tions, hatred of Woodrow Wilson, desire to
please Gompers and the votes he will drag,
fear of pleasing thfem too much, anxiety to
keep in touch with Big Business and its com
forting contributions, fear of offending the
radical minded. For the greatest number
that will divide all of these without a re
mainder is W. G. Harding as aforesaid.
He is a large, smooth citizen. And h„e -is
a belonger.- x z
You know what he thinks'without having
to ask him, because bethinks exactly what
any gentleman occupying hife geographical
and political location ought to "think.
He is tame. He will not run awa£ with
the buggy, as the drivers were always afraid
Roosevelt would do. He will not shy, kick,
bolt nor balk. 'When he told to “giddap”
he will trot briskly, and when he is" told to
“whoa” he will stop. Where he is hitched
he will stand. He is a stander-pat and a
stayer-put.
And that is not altogether a bad thing,
nos to be noted superciliously.
A democracy does not want brilliant and
opinionated leaders. It wants servants. It
wants -safg/men, even if they are accused of
being mediocre.
This republic in its- nominating conven
tions hag deliberately turned down its Henry
Clays, Daniel Websters and James G. Blaines;
and Theodore Roosevelt would never have
been President except for the death of Mc-
Kinley. No convention manipulated by Mark
Hannasb and Boies Penroses would'ever have
let him in—at first, for his re-election was
another story. .
The truth is that Ruling, the business of
being IT, whether king, presidlht, bishop or
pope, is secohd-class business. Men of first
rate power aird original genius seldom are
chosen. The ablest preachers in the Method
ist denomination are not elected bishop, <he
greatest minds in the Roman Catholic hier
archy have not been among the popes, the
presidents of the United States have not been,
with few exceptions, great, statesmen, 'and
there has not been a king in Europe for §fty
years that could earn $1,200 a year in Keo
kuk, lowa, if strapded there without recom
mendations.
The modern era does not want leaders.
Past eras have had them and they usually
played smash. We want x rulers who will
run along and be good.
In fact, we want government to do as lit
tle as possible. We don’t want a president
who will “do Wilson did, and
see what happened.
In a democracy the people get, not what’s
best for them, but what they want. '
They want the Greatest Common Divisor.
The Republican Party offers us a very
nice one. ,
V A political party exists and functions so?
just one end, to get votes.
The Republican platform was constructed
with that purpose in view. Anybody can
make it mean anything he wants.
And upon that pedestal stands the ora
torical figure of America’s Greatest Common
Divisor, Warren Gamaliel Harding.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
the subject of a public and warn
ing by the Secretary of the Treasury.
There are twenty-five million families* in
the United States, according to -estimates of
it he Census Bureau, so that the average per
family expenditure for luxuries and non-es
sentials was three hundred forty-eight dol
lars, oi’ nearly a dollar a day.
When one stops y to consider the capital,
labor and energy expended in the produc
tion of things unnecessary for which there
was so pronounced a demand, it becomes
a bit less difficult to see why the cost of
living soars higher and higher. If this capi
tal, labor and energy had been applied to
the production of- clothing, food, shoes,
dwelling houses and other necessities —if the
people had eaten more bread and less cake
—the chances are that there would be less
cause for complaint at the high cost of liv
ing. . ~ .
HUMAN PROG
RESS HAS ENDED
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
Although you'may never have
suspected the fact, you are
a finished and perfect prod
uct of evolution. The next time you
have a cold or a bunion or a tooth
ache, or your mechanism"'is other
wise on the blink, comfort yourself,
if you Can, with the reflection that
-you are Nature’s masterpiece.
All of which is away of saying
that, according to J. W. Gidley,
paleontologist of the national mu
seum, mpn'fe anatomy has reached a
stage wherd it will probably never
change any more—or at least not for
about 1,000,000 years. Neither in
body nor in mind has man made any
real progress in that time. It is
only his culture—the accumulated re
sult of all the efforts of many gen
erations—which really changes, and
which makes man appear to change.
The popular 'idea that man is devolv
ing is all wrong. Biologically speak
ing, human progress ended 1,000,-
000 years ago. <
According to theories of evolution,
if- an animal eats nothing but grass,
his teeth will in time be modified in
shape so that they are efficient for
nibbling, but they will probably not
be much good for 'tearing flesh. In
the same way, a bird that does not
its wings will in a few geologic
ages lose all power of flight. But
this principle holds good only so far.
When an animal has become special
ized and/adapted to his environment
as far -as his structure will permit
without endangering the balance
necessary to existence, he usually
stops changing and finally, it is sup
posed, loses power of development.
There is a difference of opinion as
to whether man has reached the
point where he is best adapted to his
surroundings, or whether he will con
tinue to evolute. Mr. Gidley says
that man’s present mechanical ar
rangement is permanent. He refutes
the suggestion that man’s jawbone
will shrink and his teeth drop out
because he eats more soft foods and
does not chew so vigorously as his
cave-man ancestors. Man knows
enough about chemistry to under
stand what Jiind of foods are neces
sary to insure health, and there is
little prospect of his jaw disappear
ing on a balanced ration.
Our Toes Are Safe
Nor does Mr. Gidley think we need
worry over the prophecy that our de
scendants’ heads will be all brain—
not by present indications. (
We have been further warned by
some men of science that our toes,
all except the big one, are already
useless from lack of exercise, and
that eventually they will grow
shorter and disappear altogether
like the horse’s long discarded toes.
This fear, too, Mr. Gidley regards
as groundless, for while the muscles
of the shorter digits are not partic
ularly flexible, in modern shoes, yet
we do use them in balancing.
Statutes of the old Greek gods and
athletes show that they poised them
selves on the-iaside of the foot, a
method which gave both the appear
ance afid feeling of lightness. Had
the Greek ideal persisted, the outer
toes of man might by now be almost
atrophied, probably to the improve
ment of human posture.
If such a change were taking
place, and a few scientists insist that
it is, we would not be aware of it,
so slowly does nature progress. For
instance, it took the horse a few
million years to grow hoofs which
he needed for speed. As the horse
was not built for fighting, he had
to be always poised on the tips of
his four-toed feet ready to escapte
when an armored dinosaur or a
megatherium came lumbering on him.
If you go into almost any big
museum, you can see the bones of
t'} 6 .horse’s foot at different stages
of his development. Geologists have
unearthed the bones of horses that
lived t,000,000 years ago. These
horses were about the size of a dog
and had four toes. Before that it is
believed that there must have been
wYro Tl ? re e million years later, there
J? 6 ™ only three, and the middle digit
had by that time become large and
resembled a hoof, while the bones
oi the toes on each side had short
ground.ntU they did not reach the
Man a Weak Animal
Because he specialized in speed,
the horse can now run as fast as
an hour, while man
at his swiftest can make only about
twenty. Man is not a specialized ani
mal. it has been pointed out to
h>s confusion that a flea can jump
1,000 times its height, whereas ' a
inan needs a \pole(jto go only twice
his six feet. In proportion to his
size, the man has not as much lift
ing power <as an ant; he cannot walk
so fast as a fly. He has not learned
to see in the dark like the cat.
it is lucky for the man Uiat
his ancestors did not concentrate on
beating the mowkeys at tree athletics
or the horse at. foot racing. If they
had, we should not today be much
farther advanced than the animals
we might have emulated.
Man’s progress is supposed to be
due to his use of his brain, and the
fact that he developed two hands and
two feet x instead of four of one or
the other., -The oldest clues to an
cient man so far discovered are part
of a skull, a thigh bone, and two
teeth. These were' found in Java,
and, judging by the stratum of soil
in which they were lying, geologists
decided that the man lived 500,000
years ago. Pithecanthropus, as the
scientists called the antique Java
nese, was a fully developed man,
though wijh ape-like features.
The Javanese man of 500,000 years
ago is a mere modern compared with
some of the animals whose skeletons
have been dug up and classified. Six
million years ago in the age of
reptiles, flourished the armored dino
saur, which, to most people, is the
symbol of prehistoric times. But
even the dinosaur is young as the
age of the world goes. Dr. Walcott,
of the Smithsonian institution, esti
mates that animal life started on
the earth 41,140,000 years ago. Some
,wl»ere between then and the very re
cent Javanese gentleman, man got ills
start. *
rather Pithecanthropus
Science is still looking for the an
cestors of Pithecanthropus, but it is
not looking for a missing link be
tween man and the modern monkey,,
because anthropologists do not think
man is descended from apes. Dar-'
win is often misquoted on this point.
What Darwin said was that man and
apes evolved frorft a common ances
tor. Some scientists hold that there
were probably a number of early
animals which branched off from the
unknown ape-like ancestor and that
any one of them might have develop
ed into a superior being,. but" that
somehow all except man failed to
make the most of themselves, or be
came the specialized beings of the
jungle.
Mr. Gidley explains that in the
far-off times man was not the husky
giant we imagine, but a smaller crea
ture, that he lived in trees and used
his hands to cling by, and his voice
for vague chatterings. Then flor
some unknown reason, possibly be
cause the forests disappeared through
some change of climate, this prehis
toric man came down from his trees.
He was curious, and so he picked
at things and examined and explored.
Then he showed his fellow citizens
his remarkable discoveres, thus .de
veloping communication, w’hich is
one of the greatest aids to progress.
His fellowmen, crude as they were,
profited to some extent by the re
searches of the early investigators.
Gradually intelligence grew, grunts
and squeals were organized into
-speech, and in the course of 1,000,000
years or- so, the superior creature of
today was -evolved.
This is the story of man as pieced
together from the bones that science
has dug up and the bones) it hopes
some day to find. It is to most
Scientists\the only plausible theory,
though there are still some people
who hold out that seeing is believ
ing -and that when they see the ani
mal that* man descended from they
will put more faith in evolution. ■>
Meanwhile, if man has no imme
diate prospect of growing a third
leg or a second crop of hair, he
is said to be changing in another
way. Professor Gidley says that the
tendency is for the rates of the
earth to blend as civilization spreads.
The Bushmen and Igorots may in
the next few aeons develop into de
sirable mates for races now far in
(advance of them in civilization, and
finally, in the course of the next
million years, it is thought possible
.that all the races of the earth may .
CURRENT EVENTS
According to news from Say Paree,
Comtesses, marquises and shopgirls
worked behind counters of the Trois
Quartiers, one of the largest depart
ment stores in Faris, to aid the fund
for rebuilding the devastated regions
which is being-collected under aus
pices of the French-American com
mittee for the devastated regions.
The owners of the Trois Quartiers
gave all the profits from the two
days’ sale to th# fund. By noon on
Tuesday a line of tourists awaiting
a chance to enter the stofe was so
long that special police service was
necessary to divert traffic from that
vicinity.
Leaders of society gayly donned
aprons and rumpled costly coiffures
with pencils, while official sales slips
jingled against gold bracelets. Mean
while tourists were invited to spend
their money to aid the French war
sufferers. *
Among the women who sold goods
to aid the fund were Marquise de
Nioilles, Comtesse du Luart, Mmes.
Edgar Stern. Jean Stern, Henry de
Sincay and Comtesse de VieJrCastel.
A statement given put at Washing
ton relates that governmental expen
ditures from July 1, 1919, to May 31,
1920, amounted to $20,775,535,858.
Expenditures were heaviest during
September, when $4,475,937,701 was
spent ,and lightest in ..November,
when $611,301,764 left th'e treasury.
Exclusive of $1,503,047,752 expenfl
ed by the treasury, $951,224,703
charged to federal control of rail
roads and the transportation act of
1920 was the largest single item of
departmental expenditure.
The navy department stood third
in disbursements for the period, with
a total of $723,717,269, and the de
partment of labor last, with $5,064,-
246. White House expenses were list
ed as $6,702,830 and congressional at
$17,681,120. Payments on the public
debt amounted to $14,846,554,373.
Ten thousand five hundred and
twenty-seven immigrants arrived at
New York in one week. The W’hite
Star liner Baltic, from Liverpool ana
Queenstown, landed 1,335 steerage
passengers at Ellis Island recently.
Os these the majority were Irish
girls, who are here, not as servants
but as stenographers, office and fac
tory workers.
The immigrants .cominfe to the
country now are of a higher standard
than those who came in the old days.
Forty-five undesirable immigrants,
half of whom were of the enemy alien
and radical classes, brought to the
Ellis Island station from the far
west, were put on outgoing ships for
deportation to various European
countries. t
A dead man’s club, composed .ex
clusively of ex-service men now liv
ing but listed officially as killed in
action overseas, is proposed by Wil
liam Wirt, of Akron, Ohio. He sug
gests the club adopt this slogan:
“We may be dead but we won’t lie
down.’" \
Wirt is having a hard time to
convince the government he isn’t
dead and buried in France. • His
name now is being chiselled from
the memorial bronze■ tablet erected
here in a memorial building. Wirt
estimates there are nearly 2,000 ex
service men now living whom the
war department records show were
killed and buried overseas.
A statement from Washington in
forms us that appointment of Ma
jor General John A. Lejeune as ma
jor general commandant of the ma
rine corps, to succeed Major General
George Barnett, was announced re
cently by Secretary Daniels.
General Lejeune commanded the
famous Second division when it
broke the German line in the Meuse
fArgonne offensive and the secretary
said his appointment to command
the marine corps wa;s in line with
the policy of the department to re
ward officers who served with distinft*
tion during the war.
General Lejeune will take charge
‘of the corps next week.
Science is working on a machine
which will tell whether you are lying
or not. Prof. H. E. JBurtt, instructor
•in psychology department of the
Ohio State university at Columbus,
is perfecting the apparatus and reg
istering his datu to establish this
possibility.
The subject under observation has
his z blood pressure and his inhaling
and exhaling registered. Burtt is
trying to determine the exact ratio
between inhaling and exhaling when
the subject is lying.
The breathing and blood pressure
of the person is more .rapid when he
is prevaricating; Prof. Burtt says.
According to news from Reno, Mrs-
Madeline Force Astor Dick, .wife of
William K. Dick, arrived tnere re
cently and leased a residency.
Gave Up must Fund of $5,000,000
to Marry Second Time
William K. Dick married Mrs.
Madeline Force Astor four years aft
er her first husband. Colonel. John
Jacob Astor, went down-with the Ti
tanic. Four months after that trage
dy the present Mrs., Dick gave birth
to a son, John Astor. One of the
provisions of the will of her fqrmer
husband stipulated that she would
lose a trust fund of $5,000,00(5 In'the
event of her re-marriage.
Despite this, she married Mr. Dick
at Bar Harbor on June 21, 1916. So
ciety commented upon the sacrifice
for love of the bride in relinquishing
the trust fund.
In May, 1919, Mrs. Dick gave birth
to another son. '
Treasury officials at Washington
expedited payment of $35 to Michael
McGarvey, an employe of the Brook
lyn navy yard, for a new set of false
teeth, which congress decided he was
entitled to as result of an accident
in which he was struck on the head
by a heavy board and the other set
of teeth demolished. President Wil
son approved a bill for payment of
the claim.
A reward of SIO,OOO “with no
questions asked” was offered at East
Hampton z N. Y., recently for recov
ery of thq $500,000 worth of jewels
stolen from, the boudoir of Mrs. En
rico Caruso.
The announcement was made by A.
C. Bennettf representing a Manhat
tan insurance company.
“We will pay the reward for the
return of, or information leading to
the recovery of all of the jewelry. A
proportionate reward will be paid for
any piece returned,” he said.
The last of the famous houses as-
with the name of President
Garfield disappeared recently at
Long Branch, N. J., when fire de
stroyed the sjiore cottage where the
president spent his last days. The
blaze is believed to have started from
spontaneous combustion. The house
was owned by the Fidelity Trust
company. Fred Sells, a New York
broker, rented the place recently and
was to have moved into it.
• After Garfield was shot, in Septem
ber, 1881, his physician ordered him
u> have sea air. When he expressed a
preference for Long Branch Charles
G. Francklyn, then owner of the cot
tage, offered its use. Garfield died
there, ‘ember 19, 1881.
A wire from Galveston, Texas,
gixes out this statement:
Emphatic prohibition of a proposed
mass meeting of called by
the city commission has been an
nounced by Brig. Gen. W. F. Wol
ters, commander of Texas National
Guardsmen.
The announcement followed unan
imous adoption of a resolution by the
city commissioners protesting
against the “usurpation of civil au
thority by the military,” through the
placing of Galveston under martial
law on June 7, because of heavy
freight congestion due to a strike of
coastwise longshoremen. The reso
lution called upon residents to meet >
and express their sentiments Monday
Hight. General Wolters declared “no
such congregation would be permit
ted.” x
A member of the Galveston police
force was arrested by the military
recently. “Military reasons’ ’was the
only cause given.
A disease diagnosed by State offi
cials as anthrax during the last week !
have caused the death of $2,000 |
worth of live stock belonging to a
farmer living near Beatrice, Neb., it
was learned. Steps to check its !
spread have been taken. |
be merged into one composite type.
It is an exciting thought—until we
reflect that none of us will be here
to see tjie world citizen of A, D.
1,001,920. ? ..„2.
SATURDAY, JUNE 26, l»20.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
WHAT HAS LIFE TAUGHT YOU?
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
THERE is an old saying to the
effect that experience is a
V hard school but fools will
learn in no other,
Alas and alack, mpst of us are
such dolts, that we do not even profit
by experience. In vain does life try
to teach us wisdom. We refuse to
learn our lesson even though it is
beaten into us with blows and
cudgeling and tears.
In all the vagaries of human na
ture there is nothing stranger than
this, that we so seldom let the past
be allighl of warning to our feet. We
go on stumbling into the same old
pitfalls,’ and making the same blun
ders, and repeatihg the same mis
takes ydar after year though for ev
ery one we have had to pay with bit
ter suffering and unavailing regrets.
“I have made many mistakes in
my life,” said a successful man to
me once, “but they have been fresh
mistakes, every time. I have never
made the same mistake the second
tifne.”
Which is, perhaps, the difference
between the wise man and the fool.
He learned, from experience. Most
people don’t.
And it isn’t because we have for
gotten the' agony we have gone
through, or that we fail to see the
red flag of danger that experience
flaunts before our eyes. It’s because
we are the victims of a sort of fatal
optimism that persuades us that
this time some sort of a miracle
will be w’rought in our behalf that
will preserve us from the logical out
come of our folly.
On forty occasions before we may
have had painful proof of what our
outraged stomachs thought of a com
bination of cucumbers, and ice cream,
and watermelon, but that doesn’t
keep us from blithely feasting on the
deadly mixture, and being surprised
when we have to call in the doctor
later on.
A man will break him Self down by
overwork but instead of letting his
experience teach him to
his strength and his health, the min
ute he gets out of the sanitarium,
he plunges right back <jito the
Vortex of business and wrecks him
self again.
A woman 'will buy something at a
bargain sale that she doesn’t want
and for which she has no earthly
usi because it has been marked down
from $1.50 to $1.47, and then she will
wonder whv she did it and bemoan
her’' wasted mohey. But a hundred
such experiences never teaches* her
to walk by a special sale of flum
mery without even turning to look
back. She always does the Lot’s
wife act, no matter how many times
before she has been salted.
And why are most households a
dark and bloody domestic battlefield
with husband and wife m a never
ending scrimmage, except that people
simply refuse to learn anything from
experience.
During the first couple of years
after a young couple get married
there is .some e’xcuse for there Being
little conflicts between them, and
for the domestic machinery to creak
sCnd groan from time to time. \
You cannot take any two people,
especially a male and a female per
son—who come of different blood,
who have,had a different training
and environment and look at every
subject, ibpm politics to pie, from a
different angle, and expect them to
merge into a harmonious whole at
once. They have got to get acquaint
ed with each other and find out what
each one thinks; they’ve got to get
the real life measure, not the court
ing measure, of each other; they have
got to find out each other’s little
peculiarities and weaknesses and
prejudices and bigness and littleness.
It takes a little time to make these
personal explorations into the char
acter of your life partner, but once
having diagrammed each other’s per
sonality, any husband and wife can
get along together and any domestic
plant can be run-on oiled ball-bear-
The i cost Os high living is one
thing that is hurting this country.
There are too many in the silk shirt
and silk stocking brigade. Too many
poor people trying their best to keep
up with those in better financial cir
cumstances. —Adel News.
We have always been an apprecia
tive admirer of silk stockings, but
see no reason why the wfearers of
silk shirts should try to "keep with
the Joneses.”
The women who are\playing tennis
and golf to reduce their flesh are re
minded that the same results are to
be obtained less expensively by cul
tivating the garden.—Adairsville
Respectfully submitted to the
thoughtful consideration of the mem
bers of the heavyweight division.
It is possible to tell a man by
the company he keeps, but not by the
automobile he drives.—Dalton Cit
izen. |
But sometimes his company can’t
prevent his presence, in which event
it would be unfair to make the com
parison.
• Work hard—but don’t work your
self to death just to make a living.—
Henry County Weekly.
. Just work hard to make a living.
Vice President Marshall says what
this country needs is a good 5-cent
cigar.—Gwinnett 'Journal.
Mighty good Democracy, we say.
This country is long on hauling
people and short on hauling goods
commodities. Which is equal to
saying more trucks and fewer auto
mobiles would help.—Commerce Ob
server.
Sounds good, but we meet a lot of
editors on the road, and they are not
usually afoot.
With the Georgia Press meeting
only one month off the scribes are
beginning to dream and talk of the
good timesthey expect to have in
Carrollton. C. A. Meeks, publisher of
the Carrollton Free Press, says great
preparations are under way looking
to the entertainment of the news
paper element.—Commerce Observer.
We hear that the aforesaid element
is also making some considerable
preparations for the coming event.
An Atlanta newsboy is reported to
have saved $25,000 in five years. This
sounds like profiteering, or—.—Cuth
bert Leader.
It sounds like pluck and self-sacri
fice to us. _
Complained" that many families al-
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WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
ings if only the party of the first
part and the party of the second ,part (
have intelligence enough to learn a
little from experience.
It doesn’t takes a woman long to
find out that her husband has a
naive vanity about posing as the
head of the house; and that he hates
to be asked where he is going, and
that certain subjects have the same
effect upon him that a red flag has
on a mad bull.
How more than stupid of her, then,
not to ask his opinion on every sub
ject whether she takes it or not;
not to refrain from nagging and
not to clamp the lid down, good and
tight, on the topics that are anathema;
to him.
But instead of learning life’s little
lesson that would assure them, de- i
Voted husbands and peaceful homes,
the great majority of wives learn
nothing from the experience of a,
hundred fights that have left their
hearts wounded and scarred and they
go along precipitating the rows that
will end in a banged door shut be- z
hind an angry husband and a pillow
wet with unnecessary tears.
Nor is there any man of ordinary
intelligence who hasn’t found out
within six months after marriage
exactly how* to work his Maria. He’s
ascertained that it isn’t safe to
admit to ever having particularly
noticed another woman evgn if she’s,/
homely as sin and 100 years old;
that it’s \ diplomatic to call ones
wife's temper, nerves, and that she
will her husband anything
so long as he tells her fat is be
coming, and she grows more beau
tiful with age.
But liow few men in their
dearth bought knowledge of femini
ty and get therefor wives who eat
out of their hands and celebrate tjieir •
virtues in the market place? No.
They go on ignoring their experience
of how to manage a woman, and ex
pect her to be reasonable and sensl-,
ble, and mourn because she is not.
Perhaps, though, the most inex
plicable failure to learn from experi
ence is furnished by those people
who have made the trip from wealth
to poverty, and badk again, and who
gaily hit the toboggan slide for the
second descent.
There Is no blinking the terrors
of poverty, and to wione are they so
horrible as to those who nave been
usedlto affluence. To have been nur
tured in the lap of plenty; to have
known the freedom land independence
that a full pocketbook gives; to have
never worn anything but good clothes
and had good food, beautiful and cul
tivated surroundings; to have al-r
ways had “everything that goes with
evening dress,” as Kipling puts it.
Then to wake to find one’s self
penniless, that all of one’s money has
slipped through one’s singers?; to be
tortured with anxiety as where
the next meal is to come from, to \
have to wear shabby clothes whose
very touch irritates one; to be
doomed to the hell of dirty, sordid
surroundings, what suffering can be
greater—What fatb more cruel?
You would think that the men
and women who had once had money
and lost it would be perfect misers,
afraid to spend a cent, if luck again
smiled upon them, but in the great
majority of cases no such thing .hap
pens. .
Those who have wasted their sub
stance the first time, turn spenders
again and throw It away the second .
time as carelessly as if there was
no black memory of want in the
back of their heads to warn them
that money has wings. Those who
have gambled away their fortunes«
on hair-brainefi schemes or trying ■
to break Wall street, take another f
turn at the wheel of chance.
They have learned nothing from
oYnPriPTirA
Experience is a hard school, but;
fools will learn in no other. We may ,
well take this to heart. What has»
life taught you? Are you one of
the fools who never learn —or the
wise man who never makes a mis
take the second time?
low their chickens to overrun their
neighbors’ yards. If this continues
a lot of families will have chicken
for dinner quite soon.—Forsyth Coun
ty News.
You said a mouthful, editor.
The Manilla Bulletin is “informed
that the high cost of living is going
to fall. It always has—on the con
sumer.” And this time it has come
pretty near to crushing him.—Colum
bus Enquirer-Sun.
Well, when you crush the consum
er, don’t you crush the .living out of
old high cost, too?
Speaking of the of fate, did
'you see by the papers that a cloud
burst came near washing Milwaukee
off the map?—Macon Telegraph.
Probably there was no other way
to make the Milwaukans take water.
A New Jersey man his married
his son’s widow, according to a dis
patch. What kin is he to himself?—
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Wonder if he isn’t his own son-in-,
law?
Reflections of a
Bachelor Girl \
BT HBIiBX ROWLAND
. (Copyright,, 1820, by the Wheeler Syn
dicate, Tnc.)
LOVE doesn’t make A man blind
—it merely dazZles him so,
that he can see himself sup
porting a Hudson-Bay-sable
wife on a near-seal salary.
Some women can discover enough
grievances in half a year of married
life to keep a man apologizing for
the rest of his existence. #
Oh yes, nearly every man knows
exactly how to rule a wbman—if she
would only let him. <
According to Paris, everything a
woman has on should weigh not more
than seven ounces*—and doubtless,
the brain. of a woman like that
would not add mo. a than an eighth
of an ounce to the total.
Love, like any other comedy, Is
staged in three acts. In th' first, the
man makes a fool of himself; in the
second, the woman makes a fool of
herself: and in the third one of them
makes a fool of the other.
Marriage is the end of all a girl’s
doubts, problems, and troubles; but
It isn’t until after the wedding that
she discovers which end.
A man’s anger, like a cigarette,
burns itself out and goes up in
smoke; a woman’s simmers, and sim
mers, and simmers, and* then boils
over in tears.
Most husbands seem to think that
a woman’s, vanity should subsist for
ever on the memory of three months
of intensive courtship and half a
rr.e ith of honeymoon.
. Almost any straight path of devo
tion will lead to a woman’s heart.
It’s this wobbling from hope to cold
fear, and from adoration o self
preservation that makes the way sc
long and dangerous for the average
man. *
When a woman stops powdering
her nose and curling her hair, it’s a
sign that she has nothing left to live
ror.
TEN COMMAND-
MENTS OF HEALTH
1. Walk in the open air.
2. Keep a contented mind.
3. Breathe deeply of pure air.
4. Enjoy innocent amusements,
5. Get plenty of sleep each night,
6. Give your body and soul plenty
of sunlight.
7. Eat: healthful, plain food—and
just enough of it.
8 Associate with companions who
will benefit you.
9 . Give your body plenty of pure
water, outside and inside.
10. Do unto others as you wist
them to do unto you.