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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY. Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months 75c .Four months -50 c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mo«. 6 Mos. 1 Vr. Daily And Sunday2oc 9Oc $2.50 ' $5.00 $9.50 Dally 16c “Oc - 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. / Agents wanted at every ‘postoffice. Lib eral jcommission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man* ager. ' / , The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. 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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- HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS Ckun'l 808 BIN HAD ' 'somebody learnin’ '|M ■ SHOW T’ DANCE , BUT' i SHUCKS’! --WEN PAT MUSIC STAHT DEY'D HATTER LEARN ME MOW T' STAN' ST_n_L.'’, !®j wB LJw McClureNewvttetSyndltM* 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.