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The Democratic Party s
Opportunity to Win
THE Democratic convention at San Fran
cisco this week faces an inspiriting
opportunity both for national service
and for party success. It faces an epoch bui
dened with pressing problems and a country
eager for leadership. If Democracy will but
show itself wise enough to interpret the is
sues of the time and courageous enough to
meet them, the decisive forces of American
citizenship will muster to its support.
Leadership of this character is now the
more needful and the more expedient .because
the Republican powers that be have fallen so
egregiously short of a great party’s obliga
tions. The Chicago convention, ruled as it
was by backward-looking elements, produced
a platform quite appropriate to the political
doldrums of some thirty years ago, but as ill
suited to these changeful and momentous
days as a barnacled oyster boat would be for
mid-ocean surges or the duties of a man-of
war. As for the candidate, agreeable gen
tleman though Senator Harding is, his
stanchest promoters do not pretend that he
is other than one of their party’s lesser
lights, in no wise comparable to Root or Taft
or Hughes; honest, good-natured, handsome
and conservative —yes, very, very conserva
tive—but chiefly notable for his acceptability
to .politicians who take their law and gospel
from Wall Street. In such policies there is
no light for these troubled times, and in such
puppetries no leadership. In vain does any
great group or liberal interest of the people
look to the Republican organization for guid
ance or sympathy or assurance.
It is Democracy’s privilege to answer these
disappointed hopes and provide bread of
where the party of Harding and Pen
rose and Lodge offers but a stone. The
obvious and only cue to the San Francisco
convention is for a platform that will hearten
the Liberals and for a candidate who will
rally them. It is to them alone that De
"mocracy can look for support in those doubt l
ful and pivotal States where Presidential
elections are won and lost. Moreover, it is
to the Liberals of both parties, as distin
guished from Radicals and Standpatters, that
the country can look for a happy solution of
Its present problems and for prosperity with
peace. The best prop of the Bolshevist and
the most dangerous fuse to war is he who fails
to see that the world of today is not the
world of Mark Hanna’s time nor the world
of 1914. We must think forward and go
forward, or we shall go down. We must
recognize the fresh obligations of American
government and American citizenship, must
realize the larger duties which this republic
owes the cause of international justice and
peace, or we shall fail as citizens and fail
as a nation. The Democratic convention will
do well and wisely to the extent that it trans
lates this principle into definite policies and
pledges, not evading practical issues as the
Republicans did, but grasping them resolute
ly and with genuinely Democratic purpose.
A convention imbued with this spirit can
hardly err in its choice of a •candidate. The
list of availables includes such achieving and
dependable men as William G. McAdoo (in
case he is not indeed self-eliminated), Gover
nor Cox, of Ohio; Ambassador Davis, Secre
tary Meredith and Senator Glass. But
whether the nominee be one of these or some
one now unconsidered, the party, acting true
to itself and to the country, can take courage
and go forward with the confidence of one
that truly serves.
The Growth and the F uture
of Georgia s Food Industries
THERE is appetizing food for thought in
the announcement that Georgia has
nine packing plants, sixteen velvet
bean mills, fifty-seven canneries, one hundred
and seventy-three flour and grist mills and
one hundred and seventy-seven vegetable oil
mills. These figures from Commissioner
Stanley’s latest annual report of the State
Department of Commerce and Labor bear
witness to the growth of a peculiarly im
portant and still pioneer field of our indus
try.
The Commonwealth’s prosperity in its
fresher aspects and larger reaches depends
mainly upon the encouragement of food pro
duction. To the extent that Georgia becomes
self-sustaining in cereals, meats and the basic
vegetables, her agricultural wealth, which is
the foundation of other kinds, will be de
veloped and conserved. But an all important
prerequisite to steady progress in such pro
duction is means for marketing the output
conveniently and profitably. Without these
facilities the farmer will have scant induce
ment to raise crops other than cotton; with
them, there will be liberal assurance of di
versified agriculture and its enrichment of the
State’s whole economic system.
Hence the significance of the increasing
number of industrial plants through which
food harvests can be marketed to the ad
vantage of the grower and all others con
cerned. The value of the cotton crop itself
has been immensely enhanced by the utiliza
tion of its food elements in cottonseed oil
mills. In his pregnant sketch of the State’s
industrial development Professor Joseph T.
Derry, assistant commissioner of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, points out
:hat for the twelvemonth ended July 31, 1918,
these mills expended upwards of fifty-six mil
lion dollars for cotton seed and wages, and
turned forth oil and by-products to the value
of nearly sixty-five million dollars.
Potentially more important are the indus
tries having to do with food crops. Among
the more recent of these, and especially val-
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liable, is the potato curing plant and cannery
—thanks to which, millions of bushels of
sweet potatoes that hitherto would have
spoiled or gone to waste or have been sacri
ficed in a glutted market can be preserved
and made to yield full value. The conse
quent gains will bulk large in the State’s agri
culture and business; for with soil and cli
mate singularly well suited to growing the
delectable and increasingly popular tuber,
and with facilities for holding and market
ing the crop evenly throughout the year,
Georgia can make her sweet potato patches
veritable mines of prosperity.
It should be remembered, however, that
the wealth-conserving, wealth-creating indus
tries of this nature are still at their infant
stage. Gratifying as it is that Georgia has
attained third place among the swine-produc
ing states since her packing house service was
begun, careful observers remind us that her
resources in this and kindred fields have
scarcely been touched. Encouraging as it is
to see the number of flour and grist mills
grow to an average of more than one for every
county, those who know best tell us that the
State’s production of wheat and corn and
other grains is but a meager fraction of what !
it can be and should be. The canneries have
multiplied remarkably in recent years, and
have greatly stimulated the raising of vege
tables and fruits. But fortunes upon for
tunes are yet to be made and saved through
this industry.
Here is a Commonwealth, the largest east
of the Mississippi, having an .area as great
as England and Wales together, blest with
unexcelled riches of soil and sun, capable of
producing virtually every root and Iqaf and
fruit that goes to feed mankind, virtually
every animal and harvest that dines or
clothes him. Yet this empire of natural treas
ure and opportunity now numbers its grain
mills and packing plants and canneries by
only tens and fifties! Time will come when
they will be numbered by hundreds and by
thousands.
One Hundred Millions of
Georgia Wealth
THE startling yet conservative estimate
comes from the State College of
Agriculture that Georgia lost last
year, through crop and animal wastes, the
sum of one hundred million dollars. A fire
or flood that destroyed so vast an amount
of wealth would be deplored as an unfor
gettable calamity. The loss is none the less
serious because it happens to be distributed
over twelve months and hundreds of farms;
it is less sensational, but at last it comes
home to every citizen and leaves poorer
every interest of the Commonwealth.
Six million five hundred thousand bushels
of sweet potatoes, approximately half of the
State’s total yield, spoiled for lack of suit
able storage. And with the decay of those
tubers, nine million seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars sank to dust. The actual
and potential loss on the eorgia corn
crop is estimated at upwards of forty-five
million “This statement,” the au
thorities add, “may seem anomalous to many,
but the fact is that we do not need to in
crease our acreage to raise one hundred
million bushels of corn instead of 69,890,-
000 as we did last year. By careful seed
selection, by thorough preparation, cultiva
tion and fertilization, by eradicating smut
and other diseases, we can raise a much
larger crop and save many millions of dol
lars that annually go out of the State for
corn to feed live stock and for human food.”
To these losses add that of some three and
a quarter million dollars through hog chol
era; five million through the cattle tick;
upwards of twelve million through underfeed
ing of milch cows and other cattle; six mil
lion two hundred and ninety thousand dol
lars through short lint cotton; more than
eight and a half million through improper
grading of cotton; and six million through
failure to grow varieties of cotton whose
seed will yield the highest percentage of oil.
Then top on sundry millions for wastes and
deteriorations in the peanut and tobacco
crops, and we have the enormous total of
$100,672,832 —more than eleven times the
State’s gross revenue.
Now, it is not to be argued that this
wastage can be stopped altogether. But sup
pose half of it were stopped, suppose a tithe
of it were saved, suppose even one-hun
dredth part of it were prevented. Is not a
million dollars worth conserving?
The Mule Refuses to Pass
Notwithstanding numerous edito
rials and special articles on “The
Passing of the Mule,” and “Exit
the Horse,” the mule has not “passed,” nor
the horse made his exit. They still hold an
honorable position in the scheme of things
from which they oan never be entirely dis
lodged. While they are not used as exten
sively for some purposes as in past years,
the latest estimate of the United States De
partment of Agriculture shows that there
are 21,109,000 horses and 4,995,000 mules
on American farms, an increase in the last
decade of 1,276,000 horses and 785,000
mules. This does not indicate the immediate
repudiation of the “farmers’ best friend.”
It should be noted, too, that during the nine
pear period ended June 30, 1919, this coun
try exported 1,149,763 horses and 376,836
mules, which are not included in the Agri
cultural Department report.
In Georgia, despite tractors and other im
proved agricultural implements, tens of thou
sands of mules and horses are performing
the same effective services for which they
have long been valued. The raw-boned hack
horse of former years has been almost en
tirely supplanted by taxis, it is pleasing to
a
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Short Cotton Crop Predicted
Reports from practically every county in
Georgia indicate that the farmers are sev
eral weeks behind with their work on ac
count of the almost incessant rainfall of
the past five months, and in several sections
the boll weevil is making his presence ap
parent.
While Georgia cannot hope to produce a
normal crop of cotton this year, a satisfac
tory price is in prospect and even at this
late date there are other crops that may be
planted with profit.. This is not a one-crop
State.
In many counties south of Macon peanut
and pecans are being given careful atten
tion, and north of that city cattle and hog
raising will yield a rich profit. In Southwest
Georgia and many counties in South Geor
gia the famous “razor back” variety of
swine has been succeeded by pure-bred
Duroc Jersey, Berkshire, Poland China,
Hampshire and other breeds popular and
beautiful at the Southeastern and other
Georgia fairs.
Some counties are beginning to manifest
an active interest in stock raising, and if it
should become apparent that cotton can no
longer be produced, Georgia farmers will
not be dependent upon other States for
subsistence.
That Savannah man who disappeared, tak
ing with him nothing in the shape of wearing
apparel but two collar buttons, should be
moderately easy to locate.
Why is it that the statisticians never have
given us data on the effect of the prohibition
wave on the lemon peel market?
Poor old Burleson finds it difficult to woo
public approval, even when he proposes a
modification cA the prohibition laws.
MURDERERS
By H. Addington Bruce
gjyEARY visaged, undersized, a typical [
V/y product of the slums, he slouched
’ ’ slowly through the drizzling rain.
It was late at night and he had been drink
ing hard —the drinking of one who would
drown misery. Now he was making his way
to the dismal quarters he called home.
His thoughts were bitter. He had lost his
job. He was always losing his job, as was,
after all, the natural thing in the case of a
man quite without education and born short
in brain stuff.
But if he was essentially an unemploy
able, this did not make matters any better
for him, his wife, and their little child. He
shivered, though not with cold, as he
slouched along.
Then his eye caught sight of an open first
floor window. Why will people leave first
floor windows open late at night?
He hesitated. Looking up and down the
street, he could see no one. Cautiously he
approached the house. A quick spi'ing, and
tie <vas through the window.
He found himself in a drawing room,
faintly illuminated by a street light. Warily
he went to work, questing for something he
could turn into money.
He had never robbed before. Desperation
had impelled him now. And, being a nov
ice, he bungled so that he was overheard.
“Hands up!” came a sudden command
from the owner of the house. Because he
was desperate he did not put up his hands.
A heavy poker from the hearth gave him a
sufficient weapon. He struck only once.
The householder fell without so much ,as
a groan—to move no more. The drink
driven, poverty-driven burglar leaped from
the window—into the arms of a passing po
liceman. A little later they hanged him for
murder.
Into this same street an automobile
turned. At the wheel sat a highly educated
gentleman. It was his own car, and he was
taking three other highly educated gentle
men for an evening drive. ‘
The party was going nowhere in particu
lar, byt they were going there in a hurry.
In so much of a hurry were they that the
driver did not sound his horn as he turned
into the street. Nor did he slow down.
By a regrettable chance an old lady was
stepping off the curb at that moment. Every
body agreed that it was most regrettable.
The gentleman motorist paid the funeral
expenses—but did not spend a day in jail.
Not long afterward a delivery truck in
vaded the street, guided by a grimy but ex
travagantly paid chauffeur.
Like the gentlemari motorist, he knew the
traffic regulations. He was equally aware
of the danger to others if he did not drive
carefully. But he, too, was in a hurry. The
price this time was the life of a tiny girl.
And the truck driver complained because
he got six months.
Yet were not these two more truly mur
derers than the miserable, mentally defective
amateur burglar? And does not justice de
mand that they and their numerous ilk be
treated as he was treated?
Public safety demands it also. Hang,
electrocute or imprison for life a few speed
maniacs who kill, and sanity in automobiling
would soon be infinitely more in evidence
than it is today.
Assuredly the need for it is urgent.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
THE MIRACLE WORKER
By Dr. Frank Crane
I have seen magicians on the stage make
roses grow out of dead pots in a minute,
and bring huge bowls of water and goldfish
out of empty handkerchiefs; I have seen in
the moving picture shows, beautiful women
emerge from smoke, and cots leap from men’s
mouths, and knives and forks dance without
hands to move then I have read in story
books of fairies making coaches and four out
of pumpkins and genies building a palace ovir
night; 1 have heard of saints’ bones curing fits,
and the prayers of holy men restoring sight to
the blind; but none of these, no witch nor
wizard, prophet or prestidigitator, fairy god
mother, djinn, spook or spr.te, Ithuriel nor
Mephistopheles, can equal what love can do.,
Nothing comes upon my soul so like a
tempest of sunshine as to see a boy and a girl
with that light in their faces.
Don’t smile superior! Don’t look wise and
cynical and talk of the sex instinct, and thus
reduce the whole affair to mud. Os course
we are all made of the dust of the ground;
the Bible and science both say so; but did
you never hear of that other statement the
Bible adds, and of which science knows noth
ing, that “God breathed into the dust and it
became a living soul?”
1 say to you that I know of nothing more
marvelous, more to be gaped at, wondered and
adored, in this area of human flesh, than to
see a dark and -sodden man-soul arise from
its sensual wallow, shake off its deepest-rooted
cravings, burst through its despair of goodness,
holiness, and all high aims, and suddenly stand
up a man, and walk like a god and amaze the
observant angel watchers from the skies, and all
because a woman-thought has moved in upon
his heart.
Wliy, men and Women, we climb by each
other up to God. Forget the mud, where the
lily roots; think of its nodding message, its
pale and melting whiteness, its fragrance as
of Paradise.. Forget the flesh; remember the
miracle.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Dr. Butler Apologizes
DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER is
sorry for what he said concerning the
defeat of General Leonard Wood and
the nomination of Senator Warren G. Hard
ing at the Chicago convention. He has made
public apology for his words, which he ad
mits were unbecoming and unwarranted. He
attributes his outburst to the “strain, tur
moil and fatigue” of the convention, before
which he himself was a candidate.
Dr. Butler’s apology, in the form of a
telegram to Colonel William Cooper Proc
ter, angel of the Wood campaign, follows:
“I am convinced that my words spoken
under the strain, turmoil and fatigue of the
Chicago convention, and in sharp revolt
against the power of money in politics, were
ah unbecoming and unwarranted, and
that I should—arrd do—apologize to each
and every one who felt hurt by what I
said.”
In addition to the telegram to Colonel
Proqter, Dr. Butler also addressed apologies
to a score or more other prominent Republi
cans who publicly resented his attack upon
General Wood’s candidacy and who were
among the contributors to the Wood pre
convention campaign fund.
In publicly apologizing for his words. Dr.
Butler does the manly thing, but in so doing
has injured immeasurably his chances of
winning the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor of New York, for which he is now an
aspirant.
At least the New York Tribune, in its news
columns, asserts that Dr. Butler’s “unbecom
ing and unwarranted” attack on General
Wood has punctured whatever was left of
his boom for Governor, and that “those
who used him at Chicago for a stalking
hore will have to revise their plans.”
The same article remarks that Butler’s
friends are now striving to save him from
political oblivion. z
NEW LAWS ON
INSANITY
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN
NEW YORK, June 25.—The kill
ing of Dr. James W. Markoe,
a prominent New York physi
cian, in St. George’s church
here several Sundays ago, by an es
caped lunatic, has created widespread
agitation for the amendment of the
state insanity laws with a view to
preventing the occurrence of another
such tragedy. A committee Os the
New York Neurological society,
headed by Dr. Charles L. Dana, is
now at work on a program of defi
nite reforms, covering the ’ whole
system of procedure in insanity
cases, and it is probable that the
conclusions of this committee will
be embodied in a bill to be introduc
ed into the state legislature next
fall.
The inadequacy of the present
laws is demonstrated by statistics
recently gathered by the Brooklyn
Neurological society, which show
that from 75,000 to 125,000 insane
persons are at large in the state of
New York, while another possible
10,000 are free to come and go in the
state of New Jersey. All of these,
of course, are not to be regarded as
dangerous or necessarily fit subjects
fdr an institution. Probably the ma
jority are harmless. But unques
tionably a large number come under
the category of “border line” cases—
persons who may go for weeks at a
stretch without evidencing the
slightest sign of abnormality, but
who are likely to lapse into insanity
at any moment.
Under these conditions, a blame
less life is no longer any protection
to a man. You may have an irre
proachable past, a sunny disposition,
a host of friends and not an enemy
in the world, and yet here in New
York you run about the same chance
of violent death as a desperate crim
inal. If a taxi doesn’t do the work,
then a lunatic is apt to. You never
can be certain from one day to the
next that someone isn't likely to
come along, take a dislike to the cut
of your garments or the way you
comb your hair, and suddenly be fill
ed with an irresistible desire to shoot
you.
The lunatic who killed Dr. Markoe
gave as his excuse the fact that he
had a painful headache. A few
months before that, another lunatic
had suddenly become violent in the
lobby of a New York theater and
slashed three women with a knife be
fore he was manacled. But the po
lice court records are full of such
cases, and have been for years. They
will doubtless continue to be until
society ceases to regard insanity in
the light of a crime and recognizes
it as a disease, the same as small
pox or tuberculosis.
Experts Should Decide
This is the chief object of the
campaign now being carried on by
New York neurologists. They want
the laws amended so that in the fu
ture the final decision as to a per
son’s insanity, and as to the course
to be pursued in cases of insanity,
shall be determined by a competent
board of medical experts, and not,
as under present conditions, by a
judge, who is seldom an authority
on insanity, and to a jury of laymen
who usually know nothing whatso
ever about it. They want the luna
tic taken out of the hands of law
yers, and turned over ,to competent
doctors.
For years, the medical profession
has persistently advocated such a
course, but always it has been op
posed on the grounds that no man
can be deprived of his liberty with
out due process of law. Theoreti
cally, even a raving maniac may be
Entitled to his hearing in court be
fore being sent to an institution.
The popular superstition that, with
out this provision, it would be easy
to railroad an alleged insane per
son to an institution, has always
raised an obstacle to any reform.
Yet, from, the medical viewpoint, it
is quite as ridiculous for a person’s
sanity to be passed upon by a judge
and jury as it -would be to have a
judge and jury determine whether
or not a person should be operated
upon for appendicitis.
Delirium is easily recognized by
laymen, but there are some types of
insanity which are very apt to es
cape the untrained eye of the jury.
For Instance ,the basis of the lay
man’s decision is usually whether or
not the accused is capable of recog
nizing the enormity of his offense,
yet every neurologist knows that
many patients who have the finest
sense of right and wrong suffer most
from morbid obsessions which run
counter to their moral principles.
“I know of two patients,” says one
New York neurologist, “both accused
of murder, who had pursued their
vocations uninterruptedly up to the
time of the deed and for some time
afterwards —in fact, until the arrest
occurred. They had -in no way
aroused suspicion among their
friends and business acquaintances.
Each man had planned the crime in
all its details, and each had taken
elaborate measures to conceal his
identity as the perpetrator. Each
appeared mentally healthy, yet in
vestigation proved that both were
paranoiacs, each believed himself or
dained to commit the murder, and
each had a bad family history.”
A man of this type might appear
perfectly sane to a lay jury. Indeed,
according to Dr. Dana, of the New
York Neurological society, it has be
come practically impossible to com
mot a paranoiac. “By that, I mean
that the commitment of a paranoiac
has become little more than a farce,”
he says. “For the past twenty years I
have not committed one such patient.
It is no use. The average American
jury lets him right out.”
This statement is corroborated by
Dr. Walter Timme, also a member of
the New York Neurological society,
who says that for this reason, many
of the best men in the profession
will no longer take commitment
cases. “It is like this,” he says.
“We are credited and authorized by
law to commit patients we think are
insane. This is done both to protect
the patient and to protect society.
But the patient, after being commit
ted, may obtain a writ of habeas cor
pus, carry his case before a lay jury,
and be released. He may then turn
around and sue the doctors who pro
nounced him insane. As we all
know, this happens very often.
Jury System Is Bad
“It would be far better to do away
with the jury system and have com
mitment cases submitted to a com
mission of experts—medical men of
unquestioned standing in their pro
fession; not a group of political ap
pointees, but a commission appoint
ed by scientific societies. Such a
commission composed of men who
know and • understand something
about the disease would be far bet
ter qualified to weed out those who
properly need medical care than any
court or lay jury could hope to be.’
Dr. John F. W. Meagher, president
of the Brooklyn Neurological society,
who is joining in the campaign for
the amendment of the state laws,
also has some disquieting remarks to
contribute on the present situation.
“We want the legislature to inves
tigate the state insanity laws.’ he
says. “We claim that these laws as
they now stand are both unjust to
the patient and constitute a menace
to society. There is no limit upon
the number of times a patient may
be committed to an institution and
set free. He may get out of a hos
pital every time he is sent there,
provided he has funds enough to pay
the legal expenses. Is such a man
fit to be at large?
“Fortunately most judges are be
coming very sensible in dealing with
insanity cases. They frankly admit
that they are not qualified to diag
nose various types of insanity and
prefer not to assume the responsibil
ity for committing a patient. But
they are not all like that. I know
from personal experience of one
judge, who, in the face of the testi
mony of medical experts, asked a
patient. ‘Are you insane?’ and when
the patient answ’ered, ‘No.’ discharged
him without going any further into
the mfttter.”
A carload of aliens listed as un
desirables and anarchists recently
received from Oregon, California
Idaho and Illinois, were deported qp
outgoing vessels from New York.
About forty more from the same ter
ritory are to go next week, it was
stated at Ellis island.
CURRENT EVENTS I
According to a statement given out
in Washington naval authorities are
considering the advisability of
mounting 18-inch guns on some of
the newer capital craft.
An experimental 18-inch gun,
which would fire a projectile having
a diameter of a foot and half, has
been designed by the navy’s ordnance
experts, and it is understood that the
construction of an experimental
weapon of this kind has been begun.
Naval officials were very ’•etictnt
when asked about the new gun.
Ordance experts declined to au
thorize any statement whatever, say
ing that when a new weapon of
larger calibre had been tested they
would be ready to talk. When Sec
retary Daniels was asked whether
18-inch guns were being constructed
oy the navy, he said:
“I can say nothing except that
experiments are being made in the
matter of a gun of larger than 16-
inch calibre; but we have given no
orders yet for the construction of
such a gun.”
The latest American dreadnougnts
are armed with main batteries of
16-inch guns. It is understood to
be the plan of the naval experts, if
the 18-inch experimental gun stands
the tests, to recommend that wea
pons of this class be mounted on the
projected battle cruisers.
Is the bicycle industry, long de
pressed by competition of the "fliv
ver,” seeking an oportunity to stage
a “come back?”
This is the view of observers in
the capital, who say that, with “gas”
at 38 cents and likely to go to sl, the
psychological moment has arrived
for inaugurating a “ride-a-bike”
movement somewhat similar to the
recent overalls campaign.
Clever effort has ben made to get
President Wilson himself to lead the
procession for economy in locomo
tion.
For several days rumors were
afloat that the president was going
to take up bicycling again for his
health.
In an effort to obtain better fitting
uniforms for American soldiers,
more than 100,000 men in the army
have had their measure taken, the
war department announced at Wash
ington.
The measurements were said to
form the most comprehensive survey
ever made for tailoring purposes and
will be made available to the cloth
ing trade.
Measurements showed that the
big-chested soldiers came from
western states, while the smallest
chested men were from the eastern
department.
One of Luther Burbank’s recent
triumphs is the stoneless prune.
This has an unprotected kernel, with
the flavor of an almond/
Miss Mabel Ebert, Detroit, quali
fied as the champion long distance
bride recently, when she was mar
ried by radio to John R. Wakeman,
a sailor aboard the U. S. S. Birming
ham, 1,000 miles off the coast of Cal
ifornia.
A barefoot children movement was
started in East Orange, N. J., by
Charles R. Steele, a New York insur
ance broker, who hopes to help bring
down the price of shoes. Dr. Ed
win C. Broome, superintendent of
schools, said he favored the plan.
All college events in New York City
will hereafter be “covered” by inter
nal revenue agents. The Polo grounds,
where the deciding game of baseball
in the series between Yale and
Princeton was played, was carefully
watched.
John B. Quigley, assistant to
James Shevlin, federal prohibition en
forcement , director, said that he did
not mistrust the boys, but that the
bootleggers were getting so bold or
late as to solicit the sale of their
wares among minors.
The bootleggers, said Quigley, were
operating quite generally among
crowds, if they thought it safe. A
number of these bootleggers are from
New Jersey, he declared.
A petition for a writ of habeas cor
pus was presented in the federal
court in Kansas City, Kan., by at
torneys for thirty-nine negro prison
ers held in Leavenworth, Kan., fed
eral penitentiary. They were impli
cated in the Arkansas riots.
Judge John C. Pollock took the
case under advisement.
The hearing was held in chambers.
President Wilson’s appreciation of
the fact that the Knights of Colum
bus’ statue of Lafayette, to be pre
sented to France in August, will con
tain ja bas relief of Mr. Wilson, was
expressed in a letter received from
Joseph P. Tumulty, the president’s
secretary, by Jams A. Flaherty, su
preme knight.
Fifty-two head of pure bred hogs
—Duroc Jerseys, Poland Chinas,
Chester Whites, Berkshires and
Spotted Polands—have been col
lected in Decatur, 111., from the mid
ale west and will be shipped to New
York. There several Berkshires will
be added to the lot and it will be
shipped next week to South America
tor exhibition purposes by the
Swine Breeders’ association of Amer
ica.
Alfonso Cordoba, 35 years old, said
to be wanted in New York to answer
charges of anarchy was arrested -n
Los Angeles on a charge of criminal
syndicalism. His arrest followed a
search of eighteen months through
out southern California by city,
state and federal officers, it was
said.
According to information from
Paris American Ambassador Wallace
the members of his staff and repre
sentatives of all the allied govern
ment have been invited to attend the
unveiling of a bas-relief to Edith
Caveli in the Tuileries Gardens. The
American Red Cross will send a
group of nurses in field uniform un
der Major H. S. Todd, of New York,
and the French government will be
represented by Andre Honnorat
minister of public instruction, and
Mme. Honnorat.
The bas-relief intended to' ex
press the veneration of the allied
governments for Miss Caveli, was
erected by public subscription organ
ized by the Matin. It represents
Miss Caveli lying on the ground
after having been shot, with the
suggestion of smouldering ruins in
the background. The bas-relief cov
ers the entire wall of one of the
buildings on the garden terrace.
According to a statement from
Pans arangements for the world’s
first aerial derby are rounding into
shape. Nine additional countries,
bringing the total of nations to thir
ty-mne, have joined the world board
of commissioners .for the epochal
event.
Rules for the first great race of
the clouds prepared bv the Aero
Club of America, will be considered
by the Federation Aeronautique
Internationale at Berne in Septem
ber. The contest will be conducted
under the regulations finally adopt
ed at this international conference
Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Italy, Peru
and Turkey are the latest countries
to enter the event.
According to a report received at
Washington by the National Catholic
v\ elfare council, a skeleton washed
Up at Meyers, 111., by a recent flood
in the Mississippi river is thought to
be that of a member of the band of
missionaries who descended the river
with La Salle in 1679.
The skeleton, minus the head, was
found lying on a rock slab, where
i< had been buried long ago, and re
mained undisturbed until the en
croaching waters gradually wore
further and further into the soil
until it was uncovered.
With the bones were found crosses
and prayer beads. One of the silver
crosses is stamped "Montreal.” Other
crosses and wristbands were
stamped “R. C.” and “N H ” The
rosary beads were of ivory. The
bones and relics were sent to a col
lege at Canton, Mo.
, The torpedo boat destroyer Satter
lee broke all American records for
speed in her standardization trials
off port the port of Rockland when
she made a mile at the rate of 38.257
knots The best previous record of
0<.04 knots was held by the destroy
ers Dent and Wickes.
On her five top speed runs the Sat
terlee averaged 37,272 knots, and the
maxixmum revolutions were 486.04 j
per minute. She also established a
new record in her class for horse
power, developing a maximum of 31,-
223. The Satterlee. built by the New
port News Shipbuilding and Dry
Dock comnany, has been in commis
sion for six months.
TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1920
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
TEAM WORK i
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
DID you ever consider the val
ue cf team work In the
family?
Os course we all know that
no one man, no matter how marve
lous a player he is can win a foot
ball game by his own efforts alone.
It takes the whole team, playing
as a unit, pooling their united skill
and strength, and with no thought
but for the common success to put
the ball over the goal.
Precisely the same thing is true
of families. The reason that so
many households are bankrupt in
purse and peace and happiness, is
not because the individual members
of it lack merit, but because they
have not learned to do team work.
So they fail.
Not long ago a Hebrew friend of
mine who has made a great for
tune, said to me:
“The reason we Jews succeed so
often is because our families stick
together and work together. When
you see a father and mother and a
house full of children all striving
for the same object you may be
very sure they will attain it. Per
haps at first they don’t make such
money individually, but the aggre
gate earnings of the whole family
amounts to a respectable sum, and
using it as a whole it gives them
a working capital that enables them
to branch out into a bigger busi
ness, that eventually makes them
all rich, whereas no one member of
the family could alone have ever
saved up enough money to have
started out in business for him
self.
“I owe my success entirely to
family team work of this kind. My
two brothers and myself had each
only a few hundred dollars, but we
pooled our capital and started a
little cloak and suit factory. One
brother stayed in the work room,
and saw there was no loafing
among the work people, and that
the -work was properly done. The
other brother did the buying and
kept the books. I went on the road
and sold the goods. In every de
partment you see we had someone
who was vitally interested in get
ting the very best results for the
least money. Also we had absolute
honesty in every department, and
such service as you give yourself
you cannot hire anyone else to
give you; so of course we made a
success. We couldn’t miss it work
ing together that way, but if each
one of us had gone off by himself,
as you gentile families do, we
would all still be poor men.”
A family doing team work—that
is a commonplace secret of success,
isn’t it? Yet it is one thalt almost
invariably wins out. You rarely see
a united family that isn’t a pros
perous family. It is the house di
vided against itself that falls.
You can even narrow down this
assertion to the individual family
and say that when a poor young
couple get married and start out
In life together, whether they will
become well off and happy, or be
poor and miserable depends, nine
times out of ten, on their ability
to do team work, and especially on
the wife’s ability to do team work.
No man, who isn’t a financial ge
nius. can make any headway against
a wife who is wasteful and extra
vagant and bitten by the mania to
live beyond their means. Nor can
any map succeed who has a peev
ish, fretful, selfish wife who thinks
of nothing but her own pleasure,
and who stands in her husband’s
way by refusing to go to live in
some place where fortune calls him,
or who kills his ambitions and par
alyzes his energy by always oppos
ing every new scheme, and throw
ing a wet blanket over every fresh
enterprise.
But when the wife keeps up her
end of the game by providing her
husband with a comfortable, cheery
home where is’ is fitted and cor
setted and braced up for the next
day’s fray; when the wife is will
ing to economize and sacrifice so
that the money may go back into
the business instead of into fine
clothes and automobiles; when she
is just as interested in her hus
band’s affairs as he is, and as
keen for success, why that couple
can’t fall—they are doing too good
team work.
And it takes team work to make
a happy home as well as a pros
perous one. This will be startling
news to a lot of men who seem to
think that making a happy home is
exclusively a feminine occupation,
like having babies.
People are always telling women
that they should try turning a
smiling face upon their husbanus
Governor Coolidge says the coun
try is in greater need of perform
ers than reformers, which, we take
it, is a very strong argument in fa
vor of the election of a Democratic
house and senate as well as a Demo
cratic president next November.—
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Your ideas are logical and here’s
hoping that you succeed in executing
them.
If the weather continues favora
ble, the Thursday half-holidays will
enable the boys to catch up with
their fishing. And they say the war
mouth perch are biting.—Daily Tif
ton Gazette.
There’s one thing commendable in
a war-mouth perch. When he bites
he sure does bite. He also excels
at the dining table.
New York is making Atlanta jeal
ous as a young thing that sees his
sweetie down town with some other
fellow, over this Elwell sensation.—
Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
Oh, well, don’t worry, we’ll spring
NEW MAP OF AN
AREA IN GEORGIA
A topographic map of parts of
Screven, Jenkins, and Burke counties,
Ga., has just been published by the
United States Geological survey, de
partment of interior. This is one
of the areas mapped by the geological
survey in co-operation with the war
department as part of the national
defensive program set by the gen
eral staff in 1917.
Except in the swampy areas the
country is rolling, and in some places
it rises 200 feet or more above the
“low grounds.” It is rather heavily
timbered with gum pine and in the
swamps with cypress. The soil, a
light, sandy loam that rests on clay,
raises fair crops of cotton and some
corn. Most of this area is rather
sparsely settled, the inhabitants num
bering about 100 persons to the
square mile. The roads are numerous
and are fairly good in dry weather.
The summers are long and hot, but
the winters are short and mild, with
very little snow and ice.
The area is drained by Beaverdam
Creek and Ogeechee River and their
tributaries. In the summer and early
i nthe fall, when the smaller streams
have ceased to flow, the Ogeechee is
narrow and sluggish, wandering back
and forth across a swamp a mile or
two wide, but when the water rains
begin the river overflows its low
banks and spreads over its valley
floor.
The quadrangle is named from Mil
len, a town of 2,500 people, which is
a place of cotton mills and cotton
gins and the northern terminus of the
Georgia & Florida railroad. From
Millen the Central of Georgia rail
way runs southeastward to Savannah,
northward to Charleston, and west
ward to Atlanta, Macon, and Colum
bus. The Savananh & Atlanta rail
road runs across the northwest corner
of the area, through a small town
called Sardis. Four or five miles north
of Millen is the site of old Fort Law |
ton. which was used as a prison camp j
by the Confederates during the civil j
war.
The scale of the map is about an
inch .to a mile, and the heights of all
parts of the area above sea level are :
shown by 10-foot contours. Copies of ‘
the map may be bought for 10 cents |
from the Director of the United ;
States Geological Survey, Washing- I
Von, D. C. i
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
and be entertaining and bright and
chatty and wear pretty gowns and
so on.
As a matter of fact, no woman
alone and unaided can make a happy
home any more than she could move
a glacier. She might grin like a
Chesire cat and monologue along
until her tongue wore out and be
as beautiful as a houri and look
like a fashion plate and she wouldn t
raise the domestic temperature o
the home one degree, or diffuse
one ray of real sunshine or joy if
the husband was sitting up glum
and grouchy or if he was .stamping
around the house finding fault with
everything.
It takes two people laughing to
gether to register mirth. It takes
two people to carry on an agree
able conversation. It takes two peo
ple giving the best that is in them
of kindness, and tenderness and con
sideration, and geniality to make a
happy home. No woman living can
puli off the stunt alone and no man
need expect to marry such a miracle
performer.
One of the reasons that women
lose ihterest in domestic life, and
get slack about their cooking and
the way they keep their houses,
is because so few husbands do
team work. They never notice what
the wife does. They never praise
her management. They gobble down
a dinner she has spent hours in
cooking without so much as saying
that the sauce was worthy of a
chef, or the salad such a work of
art it should have been eaten on
one’s knees. No wonder the woman
gets discouraged.
If the husband would only de
: team work and show some interesi
in his home; if he would discuss thf
best way of meeting the H. C. ol
L., with her instead of growling
over the bills; if he would displaj
some real interest in rugs and thril
: over wall paper instead of saying
i “Oh, get what you want —I dor?
know or care,” it would put nev
pep into his wife and he woul<
reap rich results in better dinneri
and a better managed house, so
women dote on talking things ove
and a husband whom she coul<
make a real companion of woul<
fill any wife’s cup with bliss.
The place where team work 11
; families is most needed, howeve
and where the lack of it is mos
i disastrous is in rearing children
It takes both father and mother
standing shoulder to shoulder t
do that properly—and—alas, in nor
: few households do you find thi
desirable condition of affairs?
Sometimes there Is practically n
father, only a man who, pays th
bills. Father is too muclj engrosse
with business to get acquainted wit
his children, or to try to guld
them, or to decide anything abou
their fates. He leaves that to thei
mother, and no matter how fine
woman she is, she is incapable o
filling the bill and being both motl
er and father to them. Childre
need a man’s experience of th
world, a man’s outlook, a man’
firmness, a man’s protection in th
development of their characters, an
in starting them in life, otherwis
God wouldn’t have bothered to mai
fathers, and if they miss this the
start handicapped, as is proveri b
the fact that so many widow’s chi
dren go wrong and amount to notl
ing.
Sometimes a man tries to do hi
duty by his children and is balke
by a weak silly mother w r ho cannt
bear to see her darlings discipline'
Father tries to curb a boy’s ei
travagance, mother scrimps tl
housekeeping allowance to give hl:
money. Father tries to protect tl
foolish girl from a bad man. Motl
er secretly connives at their mee
ings because the girl weeps. Fath<
tries to teach the children obedienc
and respect for authority and son
sense of duty. Mother pities the
when they are denied anything ar
connives at their disobedience ar
sides with them against th dr fatl
er, whom she unconsciously te.achf
them is a tyrant and a brute.
What is the result—the hoodlum
the wayward sons and daughter
the lazy, undisciplined, uncontrolL
youth of the day who bring the
parents’ heads in sorrow to tl
grave.
Whenever a father and miothi
disagree as to the wisdom of son
particular course with their chi
dren, they should do so in privat
They should present a united fro
to the youngsters. There should 1
no appeal from Caesar to anothe
It is only ,by this kind of tea
work that family discipline can I
enforced, and children successful
reared.
a real sensation a little later in tl
year.
Wonder • if William Jenninj
couldn’t be kept away from th
Frisco convention. Columbi
Ledger.
Not without violating the cor
mandment against committing mu
der.
The death of Mr. Fred Weaver,
Bowersville, caused much sorro
riniong the people of that sectic
The traveling men will miss him sor
ly, as he and his splendid wife n
one of the best hotels in Georg:
noted for its air of genuine hospits
ity, delightful viands and' excelle
service.—Madison Madisonian.
Fred Weaver will be missed by i
who knew him. The Bowersville h
tel was noted for fresh country pro
uce of all kinds and other edibl<
that have never yet failed to delig
the appetite of a weary traveler.
The Kimball house is running tr
to form. All three of the canc
dates for the governor’s place ha
already opened headquarters there.
Hartwell Sun.
So has the Georgia legislature.
A cablegram says that Fren
railroads need American experts. T
impression is growing ehat Arne
can railroads also need them.—C
lumbus Enquirer-Sun.
Experts can accomplish little wi
so many “restless” amateurs pu
ing the wrong way.
The press boys are going to m<
at Carrollton this year and as c
county officers election comes
that day it will hardly be probal
that we will be able to carry o
our threat to attend.—Thoms
ville Times-Enterprise.
You and T. S. Shope, of the D:
ton Citizen, can threaten to attel
the press convention oftener al
make good fewer times than an]
body else in Georgia. It will
to your advantage to have tl
county primary postponed.
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