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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
Constructive Democracy vs.
the Party of Obstruction.
THE case of constructive Democracy
against' the quibbling and reaction
ary party of Harding and Lodge
found a highly effective statement in Homer
Cummings’ keynote speech before the Dem
ocratic National Convention, a statement so
eloquent with truth as to merit a place pe
culiarly in its own in the pages of American
history. Speaking as temporary chairman of
the great council now gathered at San
Francisco, Mr. Cummings reviewed the
peace and war time services of the Demo
cratic administration in both its executive
and legislative aspects.
Turning to the record, written so large
and plain that none can gainsay it, he
showed with what fruitful results Democracy
has labored for the country’s welfare through
these last seven eventful years; how it has
abolished old evils, vindicated rights long
denied, and strengthened all the bases of
the people’s prosperity; how it has removed
"the extravagances and inequities’’ of a
tariff system devised for the patronage of
special interests,, and has established a non
partisan tariff commission through which
rates can be intelligently and fairly made;
how it instituted, over the opposition of
Republican leaders, the Federal Reserve sys
tem, thereby enabling America "to with
stand the strain of war without shock or
panic" and ultimately making our country
"the greatest creditor nation of the world.”
He showed how this preeminently construc
tive administration "freed the farmer from
the deadening effects of usurious financial
control,” and how through the Smith-Lever
bill it created fresh and incalculably help
ful forces of agricultural progress. These
and scores of kindred achievements in peace
he set cogently forth; and then —
"We fought a great war, for a great
cause, and we had a leadership that
- carried America to greater heights of
honor and power and glory than she has
ever known before in her entire his
tory. . . . Through the hands of a Dem
ocratic administration there have pass
ed more than forty billions of dollars
and the finger of scorn does not point
to one single Democratic official in
America. It is a record never before
made by any political party in any coun
try that ever conducted «i war.”
No less plain and indelible than this
Democratic score of service is the Republi
can record of pettifoggery and obstruction.
Since winning control of the House and
Senate in the election of 1918, upon prom
ises of efficient and productive" work, the
’Republican organization has done nothing
but carp and confuse and undermine It has
been peculiarly careless of the nation’s hon
or and peculiarly indifferent to the public
welfare Sterile of constructive ideas itself,
it has blocked Democratic Yrthns for the re
lief of crucial needs. As Mr. Cummings
succinctly puts it:
Twice the president went before con
gress, since the termination of hostili
ties, calling attention to needed legisla
tion. He urged the passage of Idws re
lating to profiteering; measures to sim
plify and reduce taxation; appropriate
action relative to the returning soldiers;
the passage of a resolution concerning
the constructive plans worked out •in
detail by former Secretary Lane, and
the measures advocated by the secre
tary of agriculture. He suggested that
-the congress take counsel together and
provide legislation with reference to in
dustrial unrest, and the mutual rela
tions of capital and labor. After more
than a year of sterile debate, our coun
try has neither peacq nor reconstruc
tion. Barren of achievement, shameless
in waste of time and money, the record
of the present congress is without paral
lel for its incompetencies, failures and
repudiations. Are the American people
so unjust or so lacking in" discrimina
tion that they will reject the service of
a party which has kept its word, and
/ place trust in a party which merely re
news the broken promises of a previous
campaign?
There can be but one answer, as The
Journal sees it —and that an overwhelming
repudiation of the party of Harding and
Lodge—if the San Francisco convention
proves worthy__of the attainments upon which
ifstands and of the duty to which it is sum
moned. It is inevitable that the delegates
there foregathered from every corner of the
Union should differ on some questions, and it
is rlgnt mat mere snouid be the utmost free
dom of thought and expression; no "Old
Guard” dictation has any place in Democratic
councils. But cn the outstanding, all impor
tant issues of the time, there assuredly can
be no irreconcilable differences among the
party’s thoughtful sookesmen at San Fran
cisco. Instinctively they will stand together
on Democracy’s great legislative and execu
tive record of the last seven years, and will
follow the cue of those noble ac'i’.cvemen.’a
in proclaiming a policy for the future. Log
ically, they will call for a retention of the
liberal and constructive spirit which has
ruled at Washington under the Democratic
regime, and for an untrammelled application
of that spirit to the problems of reconstruc
tion now pressing upon us. Logically, too, they
will choose a candidate qualified, in point
of character and ability, to bear aloft the
standard of a party whose face is set for
ward, whose hands are the hands of a build
er, whose soul is dedicated to humanity’s
good. So poised and so led, Democracy will
deserve success and, we have will
: win it.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
The Georgia Contest at. the
Frisco Convention
THE gameness and good temper with
which the regularly chosen Georgia
delegates to the Democratic National
Convention have taken their rejection at the
hands of the credentials committee of mat
body is highly to their credit. From the day
of their arrival at San Francisco and at every
stage of the contest they faced unfair and ex
ceedingly difficult odds. Far in advance
their cause was prejudiced by the insidious,
wide-reaching propaganda of enemies back
home.
For all that, they made a virile and sports
manly fight, and one which in fairer circum
stances could not have failed to carry the
field. Both the evidence and the law of the
case were cogently on their side. It was
plain that they, and they alone, were com
missioned by the State convention to repre
sent Georgia at San Francisco; and by every
precedent of the party, by every ruling of
the courts, in so far as they have passed
upon such issues, delegates thus chosen are
entitled to recognition. These facts and con
siderations assuredly would have proved con
clusive with the credentials committee but
for the haze of prejudice and opprobrium
with which certain interested politicians in
this State had contrived to invest the minds
of those having the power of decision at
San Francisco. But the Georgia regulars,
having made their fight in away worthy of
their cause, accepted the result, as The Jour
nal’s correspondent reports, “with the smile
of good losers.”
This by no means implies that they do
not deeply resent the unsportsmanly tactics
employed by elements of the opposition in
Georgia—tactics which were used in the pri
mary itself with indefensible malice.
They • regret that the credentials com
mittee did not sb- perceive the facts as to act
in keeping with equity and in the interest
of party concord. The Journal regrets es
pecially that a plan was not worked out
whereby each of the three candidates from
the Georgia primary would have had repre
sentation in the National Convention propor
tionate to the number of county votes he won
at the ballot box and held in the State con
vention. That would have been • pust for
all concerned and would have made for a
harmonious future.
We take it for granted, however, that the
regular Georgia delegates will return with
as zealous a devotion to their party’s true in
terests as they took with them to the Pacific
mast, resolved to strive more than ever ear
nestly for fair-play and uprightness in the
Democracy of Georgia and to work full
neartedly for the triumph of Democracy in
:he nation.
The Invariable Pena Ity of
Neglecting Agriculture
AMERICA’S continued well-being de
pends largely upon wider realiza
tion of the truth recently empha
sized by President Wannamaker, of the
American Cotton Association, in a letter to
the Manufacturers Record. Neglect of agri
culture, he pointed out, “from the time of
the downfall of Nineveh and Babylon, or
the building of the Pyramids, through all
the decades until today, should indicate tc
every thinking person that the only mate
rial foundation upon which civilization can
rest is agriculture, and that the destruction
of agriculture means the destruction of
civilization.”
Present conditions sharply admonish us
to profit by these repeated lessons of his
tory. No age of the past has prospered and
kept secure without due attention to the
interests of the farm. The only lasting con
quests, said a sage of France, are those
made by the plow. Industry, commerce, fi
nance and the innumerable pursuits of
"business” find their common foundation
and basic sustenance in the soil. How, then,
can Americans expect good business in
times ahead, how can they hope for a hap
py solution of economic and social prob
lems if they neglect this fundamental, all
important source of prosperity?
For years the output of important farm
products in this country has failed to keep
pace with the growth in population. Par
ticularly has this been true of food animals
and of a number of the staple vegetable
props. Is it to be wondered that prices for
food needments have gone up and up and
up? Some products no doubt are unwarrant
ably inflated after they leave the farm and
before they reach the consumer. But so
long as supply continues inadequate to de
mand, high prices are inevitable. So long
moreover, as agriculture does not receive
its due portion of interest, labor, skill and
invested capital, the country’s entire eco
nomic system will suffer.
The South s Third City, And
its Remarkable Growth
K TLANTA warmly congratulates her
sister city Birmingham upon having
attained to a population of one hun
dred and seventy-eight thousand, two hun
dred and seventy—figures which represent
a gain of some thirty-four per cent over the
returns of 1910 and which give the Ala
iama metropolis third place among the
cities of the entire South, the Georgia cap
ital remaining second and New Orleans
first.
Birmingham’s growth during the decade
bears impressive witness to her vigor and
talents. Ten years ago, with an area of fif
ty-two square miles, she numbered 132,685
souls, while Atlanta, with twenty-six square
miles, numbered 154,839. Thus Birming
ham has increased by 45,485, and Atlanta
by 45,777, their respective areas remaining
virtually unchanged. Atlantians who have
felt that the United States census did not
do their city full justice (and certainly
there is good reason to believe that her in
corporate and immediately suburban popu
lation together is in the neighborhood of
two hundred and fifty thousand) may gather
satisfaction from the news that today At
lanta not only maintains a lead of 22,346
over progressive Birmingham, but also has
gained within the decade one hundred and
ninety-two more than has Alabama’s great
industrial center.
That both communities have thriven and
developed so remarkably is striking evi
dence of the South’s fertile resources. As
friendly rivals each has watched the other’s
upbuilding, pleased and spurred on by ev
ery ’ competing and achieving stroke. After
ten years they both loom larger and more
prosperous, their relative rank the same,
their distinctive interests still dominant,
their mutual gocd-will still hearty. This, we
say, is a most significant tribute to the
strength and richness and promise of our
Southern country.
For apt, good-humored satire, the action of
the Georgia teachers in expressing sympathy
for the state legislature’s lack of funds is in
a class by itself.
The Kansas bachelor who promises to
get married if he is made governor has
been stung by the political bee good and
strong.
Mr. McAdoo can hardly claim to b’e a con
scientious objector should he be drafted.
More Shifts for the Southeast
THE announcement by Admiral Benson
as chairman of the United States
Shipping Board that additional ves
sels are to be allocated the pirtj of the
Southeast comes as oeculiarly welcome news
to all who realize the growing commerical
importance of this region’s ocean gateways.
Highly gratifying, too, is the creation of a
distinct shipping district for the Southeast,
with Savannah as its headquarters. Hith
erto in the Norfolk district, the Carolinas,
Georgia and Florida now are to have the
advantages of an administrative system all
their own. »
Admiral Benson stated the logic and the
justice of the situation when he said, in his
letter to Senator Harris: "I should like to
assure you that we shall at all times give
our thoughtful consideration to the requests
of the South Atlantic ports for the assign
ment of tonnage to protect their increasing
volume of business.” It means a vast deal
to the interests of .the nation, as well as
of this territory, that the policy here e.jun
?iated is at last to have due play. For years
the ports of the Southeast were denied their
rightful quota of ocean tonnage on the pre
text that they could not supply cargoes, even
if ships were assigned them, and at the
same time were denied their rightful share
of export traffic on the ground that they
could not provide the requisite ships, even
if cargoes were assigned them.
This vicious circle, however, has been
broken; and, once given an opportunity to
prove themselves, the ports of Georgia, along
with Jacksonville. Charleston and Wilming
ton, are performing a more and more serv
iceable part in the commerce of the South
and of the common country.
THAT WOOD ALCOHOL
By H. Addington Bruce
THE fatal consequences of drinking wood
alcohol are now pretty generally appre
ciated, by reason of the many tragic
deaths tjiat have occurred since the prohibition
law went into force. But too few appreciate
that even the external use of wood alcohol
may have most serious consequences.
As is clearly and most impressively illus
trated by the strange experience of a Boston
man, reported by Dr. Leon E. White.
When first seen by Dr. White this unfor
tunate man was almost totally blind. And it
seemed impossible to account for his blind
ness, which had set in with startling sudden
ness a few days previously.
None of the usual causes of sudden blind
ness was found present. But there were signs
that the blindness was the result of poisoning
of some sort.
At once Dr. White began questioning his
patient closely as to unusual occurrences
duaing the few days before the onset of the
blindness. Nothing of significance was brought
to light until the patient stated that he had
been suffering from a pain in the chest and
had been rubbing his chest with some . alcohol
given him by a friend. He added that he still
was using this. '
The alcohol was promptly analyzed' and dis
covered to be of the wood variety. Discon
tinuance of itsr»S£ was followed by a return
of vision in a few days.
But had the patient continued to use it
total and lasting blindness might have- been the
result. For when wood alcohol does not kill
outright it too often destroys the sight forever.
And, as this instance shows, one does not
have to take it internally in order to experi
ence its dread effects. Os course, though,
these are more certain and the amount re
quired to produce them is smaller if taken
internally.
The drinking of a single teaspoonful of
wood alcohol has been known to blind for life.
So that the official warning of public health
agencies cannot be too faithfully heeded:
“If you value your eyesight or your life
never use wood alcohol, denatured alcohol, or
medicated alcohol for drinking purposes.”
Also, bearing in mind instances like that
narrated above, never rub into your skin wood
alcohol or compounds containing it. When
you buy a liniment make sure that it is free
from wood alcohol. If your druggist cannot
give you this assurance, choose something else.
There are few deadlier poisons. Valuable for
fuel, as an illuminant, and in certain manufac
turing and chemical industries, its use should
indeed be rigidly restricted to these purposes
by law. social consc ence and common prudence.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspapers.)
IS VIOLENCE THE WAY OUT?
By Dr. Frank Crane
John Hayes Holmes has written a book
with the above title. It will be a good docu
ment to put into the hands of those who
have more or less passionately conceived of
the present industrial confusion as a fight
between Labor and Capital and have attached
themselves to Labor’s side.
Because Mr. Holmes’ mind is not unbiased.
He has taken Labor’s side with considerable
heat.
This will render the book very useful
reading for the Debs-Jack London-Upton Sin
clair type of person. And it will do him
good, because its main contention is not only
true, but the author has glimpsed the ever
lasting truth which will eventually solve all
things. To wit: that violence always does
more harm in the long run to the cause that
uses it than to that cause’s opponents.
This, of course, is the whole meaning of
Jesus in a nutshell.
But Mr. Holmes has glimpsed this truth
only as Moses saw as it were the hinder parts
of Jehovah.
He still regards Capital as a vast, menac
ing somewhat, and Labor as a great Cause,
and the whole world-wide shindy as a Class
battle.
This is nonsense, but nonsense which obfus
cates the vision of probably nine-tenths of
the world. It is the Great Delusion.
The truth is that capitalists, laborers and
all are just human beings, and only as they
realize that fact will they find any “way
out.”
All reasonings that assume the reality of
class end in the same cul de sac.
Most laborers and capitalists would be fair
if they would only let themselves be human
beings, get together, si4 down and talk it
over, and forget the ancient flapdoodle class.
Class to Class, nobody ever got anywhere
but to destruction; Man to man, miracles are
worked easily.
What our author says of the folly of vio
lence is true: it cannot kill ideas; it cannot
stop reforms; it solidifies opposition; and
kicks worse than an army musket, reacting
to harm its user. No truth has more abun
dant historical proof than “They that take
the sword shall perish by the sword.”
But Mr. Holmes’ apostolic soul cannot see
that violence is a by-product of class.
Running a government by two artificial
classes, or political parties, is the most
wasteful and stupid thing imaginable.
Trying to come to an industrial under
standing by the whoop-la of labor agitators
on the one hand and a vicious effort to sup
press opinion on the other is about as bad.
Men don’t hate each other. They hate
each other’s class. They don’t shoot at each
other, they Shot at each other's uniforms.
Brisk British bombardment may have a
hastening effect on Turkey’s reply to the
peace proposals.
The chief difference between a San Fran
cisco summer and an Atlanta winter is that
it doesn’t get foggy here.
THE ART AND
STRATEGY
OF ADS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN
NEW YORK, June 26.—You'have
doubtless heard a great deal
about the science of advertis
ing; but the ad that really
captivates you—the one that sends
you downtown to a store or sets you
to scribbling a check —-is primarily a
work of art manipulated by a master
strategist.
This reflection is prompted by an
inspection of what is doubtless the
finest achievement for newspaper ad
vertising that America has yet pro
duced. It is a sort of text-book on
advertising by the newspapers, for
the newspapers and of the newspa
pers. Six of the country’s leading
'dailies set their best advertising men
to the making of this book and these
men devoted a large part of their
time to it for a year. The book is
in two parts. One of them sets forth
the strategy of advertising appeal,
and the other, printed on newspaper
and in newspaper size, shows ideal
ads of every kind of commodity.
These enterprising newspapers pro
pose to place this book in the hands
of every one of their advertisers, so
that each of them shall always have
at hand an artistic and effective
model for any kind of ad he wants
to publish. The object is to get the
advertiser better results for the
space used, to show the public more
attractive and interesting advertis
ing pages, and to establish the news
paper as an advertising medium of
the highest quality.
This book, of course, is not intend
ed for the general public. It is a
book for circulation strictly within
the trade. But there is nonetheless
a great deal in it that will interest
the general public. .
It will interest you, for example,
to know that in 1919 no less than
$800,000,000 was spent in this country
in advertising, and that newspapers
got just about half of it—that is,
about as much as all other mediums
put together. It will also interest
you to know that there are 1,195,029
merchants in the United States,
which means that about one in every
hundred of us is trying to sell some
thing to the res"t of us, and usually
through this powerful medium of
advertising.
Now this great machine of distri
bution, which supplies nearly all of
your wants, is far from working per
fectly. A majority of these million
merchants never make good. Watch
any little corner store. You will no
tice that it changes hands again and
again. One man tries a grocery
store, runs it until his capital is ex
hausted, moves out and mtkes room
for a cigar store. That, too, runs for
a while and a delicatessen steps in.
Most of these men do not- go bank
rupt; they simply fail to get a large
enough share of the trade to keep
them going and have to sell out.
All of these failures and quasi
failures represent waste. And, in the
opinion of the experts, they repre
sent avoidable waste. These men
fail because they do not understand
their business. And one excellent
proof that they do not understand it
is found in the ads which they send
to the newspapers. These ads are
often ill-timed and ill-designed; they
neglect every principle of the art and
strategy of advertising. It is pri
marily' to help these little fellows
that this advertising book has been
gotten out. The secret of success
for them is a quick turnover of
goods, and a qqick turnover can un
doubtedly be achieved by effective
newspaper advertising.
Nearly all newspapers nowadays
are forced to give each of their cus
tomers less space than formerly be
cause of the shortage of paper, and
that makes the effective use of space
more important than ever before.
There is no room here to discuss
all the problems of art in advertising
that are discussed in this book—the
use of white space and of borders,
the question of atmosphere, the
uses of humor and of suspense, the
value of continuity. All of these
are considered, and all of them are
illustrated by sample ads which
prove a newspaper ad can be a thing
of beauty.
More interesting to the average
T-eader is the strategy of advertising.
You have no idea how closely the
astute advertiser watches events and
how quickly he seizes upon any op
portunity which they offer. When the
barbers ' struck in a certain city, a
safety razor manufacturer nut full
page ads in the papers of that city
by telegraph. Robberies, elections,
fires, strikes, fads, storms, all create
simi’ar opportunities which the ad
vertiser may seize to his profit if he
is wide-awake. Here, of course, the
newspaper is supreme as a medium
because an ad may be published the
same day it Is written.
The habits of the people—what
they do on each day of the week —are
also the subject of close study by the
advertiser who knows his business.
Monday is wash day almost every
where. and is therefore the day to
advertise washing machines? soaps,
soan powders, arid all other things
that wash day brings into use. Thurs
day is generally the cook's day out
all over the United States. It is,
therefore, the day of days to ad
vertise ready-cooked and easily serv
ed foods of all kinds. Friday is nav
day, which gives it value for all kinds
of advertising. More and more in
all parts of the United States it Is
becoming a shopping dav. The know
ing advertiser never fails to make a
special bid for his share of your pat
ronage on this day. It is also, of
course, the dav of days to advertise
fish, fresh, canned and dried.
Wednesday is concert and matinee
day, which suggests many things.
Saturday, frowned unon by advertis
ers because it is followed by* the
great Sunday disnlay ads. has been
found an especially profitable adver
tising day in manv cities because so
many people go shopping on Satur
day night.
Sunday is a day of the very first
importance. It is the day when the
family gets together, wh'erf there is
much leisure and much talk. It i
therefore, the dav of days to adver
tise whatever calls for a family con
sultation before it can be bought. On
this da-’ the make of the new car
will be considered, the color of the
wall paper in the sitting-room will
come in for discussion, it will be de
cided whether to install hot water o
steam heat in the new house, and
whether to buy willow or mahogany
furniture. On this day the daughte
of the house will make her bid for a
nbonoyranh. and the impending need
for a baby carriage will be brought
to the attention of paterfamilias. The
advertiser who does not studv the
Psychology of Sunday in relation to
his advertising is behind the times'.
In all of this advertising which
appeals to special days, the news
paper is again obviously supreme. No
other medium can compete with it at
all. It is also supreme in its appeal
to local conditions. For example,
the truck manufacturer who can sell
five-ton vehicles in Chicago, which is
flat, will find the one-ton truck his
best bet In Denver. Bathing suits
are selling In Florida when furs are
the center of feminine interest in
Massachusetts. Tn a word. it is
pretty obvious that the highest ad
vertising efficiency is obtained bv a
cfireful study of the time, the nlace
and the people. It is this which ex
plains the ranid rise of the newsrv>-
ner and its dominance as an adver
tising medium. It is not. however, a
cut-throat competitor of other me
diums. It realizes that all advertis
ing is complementary.
Furthermore, by making its adver
tising appeal thus responsive to con
ditions of time, place and circurii
stance. the newspaper is fulfilling
its prime function of giving' the peo
ple the news. The want-ads, with
their daily guides to those who seek
emn’ni’ment and homes, are already
recognized as an important part of
the daily news. The display ads are
coming to be hardly less valuable as
guides telling you where to get just
what you want at the very moment
you want it.
According to news from Washing
ton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New
York, assistant secretary of the
navy, is likely to be placed in nomi
nation at San Francisco as an admin
istration candidate for vice president.
Mr. Roosevelt has been closely iden
tified with the administration, hav
ing made what is regarded as a good
record in the navy department dur
ing the war. He has not been sub
jected to thp criticism that at times
has been hc-ned upon his chief, Sec
retary Daniels. , i . ~
CURRENT EVENTS
For the first time since its erec
tion a decade ago, the Woolworth
building in New York—tallest office
structure in the world —is to be en
cumbered by a mortgage.
It has been announced that heirs
of the late F. W. Woolworth, found
er of a chain of 5 and 10-cent stores,
had arranged to borrow $3,000,000 on
the structure to provide ready funds
to meet state and federal inheri
tance taxes, which total $8,000,000.
The Woolworth building, 792 feet
high and covering nearly an acre ot
land in lower Broadway, returns an
annual income of $1,550,000 and is
valued ’by federal experts at $lO,-
000,000.
According to information received
from London great propaganda is be
ing conducted in Great Britain for
higher wages for the clergy of the
Church of England. In England the
vicars and bishops and tfie two a'reh
bishops are government employes and
are paid out of tithes and tax reve
nue. It is now being shown that the
income of many of these clergymen
is not only insufficient for them to
live properly, owing to the rising
cost of living, but that they cannot
afford to die.
Each vicar is furnished a resi
dence, his vicarage, free of rent, but
the law requires that this vicarage
must be in perfect repair when va
cated. Vacation may mean either
transfer, resignation or death. Where
dilapidation has set in owing to the
vicar's impoverishment, the bill for
repairs is of course high, as some
vicarages are of size and pretentious
ness out of all proportion with the
community served.
A parson has just died, leaving
$4,000 insurance to his widow. Upon
the vacation of the vicarage the
house was thoroughly rehabilitated,
and the widow was supplied with a
bill for $7,500, which took all of the
insurance money and necessitated
the sale of nearly all her personal
property.
The engagement is announced of
Mr. Frank W. Getty, of the London
staff of the New York Times, and
Miss Loro Bara, sister of Miss The
da Bara, actress. The engagement is
the termination of a rapid romance.
Mr. Getty met Miss.Bara aboard the
steamship Vestris when returning
here from a vacation at his home
in Winchester, Mass. They arrived
in Liverpool recently.
In some parts of Austria, and espe
cially in the hilly country toward
Hungary, there exists the extraordi
nary custom of eating arsenic, one
of the most deadly poisons. The-e,
however, the peasants are so accus
tomed to its use that they are able
to take huge quantities without any
harm, and they assert that the re
markable beauty of their women folk
is entirely due to constant drugging
with arsenic.—lndianapolis News.
Secretaries Daniels and Payne will
go to Alaska next month to study
conditions relating to their respec
tive departments. While the itiner
ary has not been decided it is un
derstood the cabinet officers will
spe®d at least a month in the terri
tory They will leave Seattle Julv 8
on a destroyer.
Secretary Daniels will go primarily
to study the availability of govern
ment coal lands for operation foi
naval use, an appropriation of sl.-
000.000 for that purpose having been
included in the last naval appropria
tion.
Secretary Payne will study numer
ous questions involved in the devel
opment of Alaskan resources and in
dustry, particularly in relation to
Recommendations recently submitted
rWffiim by an advisory committee of
officials of the interior department.
According to a paper on behalf of
bird protection published by the
State Horticultural Society of Kan-
? as - bird Population of that state
is 25b,000,000, which every year eat
enough insects to fill 480 train* of
fifty box cars each—24,ooo cars of a
minimum weight of 24,000 pounds to
the car. These insect trains would
be long enough to reach from Okla
homa to Nebraska. Reduced to
pounds, it is figured that the birds
of Kansas every year eat 576,000,000
pounds of insects. It is hard to con
ceive the dollars and cents value of
the insect'eating birds to the Kan
sas farmer.
Frederick Gimble, first vice presi
dent; Joseph J. Dowdell, general
merchandise manager, and Charles
JJ. biawter, buyer, of New York
jointly indicted with Glmbel Bros
inc., on a charge of Lever act viola
Ȥlead^ d . not S uilt r when ar
raigned in federal court. They were'
allowed two weeks in which to
change their plea or make anv mo
tion counsel might desire. Mean
er tinued. baU ° f ?I ’° oo each was
Probably the most famous of all
Uelorus Jack,” a grampus
which regularly piloted ships into
Pelorus sound, New Zealand, and was
tlnally, after about thirty years’ serv
ice, protected by a special act of par
liament in 1904.
To imitate daylight for color com
parisons an English artist has in
vented a concave reflector covered
with a checker-board arrangement of
blue, green and purple squares to be 1
placed above an electric sign.
Germany is having a boom in mar
riages. A recent copy of the Lokal
Anzeiger contains 175 matrimonial
advertisements, and new fellowships
and clubs, of which the object is to I
promote marriage, are springing up
everywhere.
The weaving of a genuine cashmere'
shawl of ordinary pattern occupies
three weavers for three months and
the more elaborate and costly, from
twelve to fifteen months.
Peasants in the Swiss mountains
use horns, often as much as eight
feet long, to converse with one an
other from a distance.
It is not generally known that a
hen, when setting, turns her eggs
entirely around once a day.
A report, credited to an authorita
tive source, reached New York from
London recently that Lady Hadfield,
the American-born wife of Sir Rob
ert Hadfield, ironmaster of Shef
field, is living in Nevada. When
seen in London Sir Robert refused
to confirm or deny the report. When
the cabled report was laid before
George W. Wickersham, brother of
Lady Hadfield, in his office at 40
Wall street, he said:
“I have no comment to make.”
Lady Hadfield was Miss Frances
Bett Wickersham, and is a daughter
of Colonel Samuel W. Wickersham,
of Philadelphia. In 1894 she was
married to Sir Robert, who was
knighted in 1908 and raised to a
baronetcy in 1917. They have no
children to inherit their exterisive
country seat in Sheffield, or their
London residence in Carlton House
terrace.
The 'Near East relief, formerly the
committee on Armenian and Syrian
relief, with national headquarters at
1 Madison avenue, announced recent
ly that $15,395,362 had been raised
by the organization between July 1,
1919 and June 15,1920. A report
on the status of the fund was made
at the semi-annual meeting of the
executive committee at the Down-
Town club, and the remaining as
sets amount to $1,964,562. The lat
ter sum has been appropriated for
the next six months’ program.
Henry Morgenthau resigned from
membership in the executive commit
tee, on account of official duties, and
Dr. John H. Finley, commissioner of
education of the state of New- York,
was elected to succeed him. Judge
Abram I. Elkus, former ambassador
to Turkey, also was elected to mem
bership in the executive committee.
The announcement of the relief or
ganization further says:
“The executive committee also
voted to continue the efforts being
made to induce the United States
government to accept Armenial gov
ernment bonds in payment of sup
plies sent to Armenia in the summer
of 1919, ‘on the same basis that gov
ernment bonds of other nations were
accepted by the liquidation commis
sion in large amounts in payment of
similar supplies transferred in other
nations.’ ”
The protective measure adopted by
the government for the benefit of
the seals in American waters has
been entirely successful, as indicated
by the great number of animals seen
to be migrating to the Arctic seas.
The migration was three weeks ear
lier than usual, and an unusually
large number of animals were noted
on their way to the north.
THURSDAY, JULY 1, l»20.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
PAYING THE PIPER
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
/zTTTHAT’S the matter with
• • \/\' matrimony?” asked a man
| V despairingly, after we had
listened to a harrowing re
cital of the domestic squabbles of a
young couple in whom we were both
interested.
“Here’s Jim and Bess who start out
married life with every thing in their
favor—youth, and health, and intelli
gence, and enough money to live on
comfortably, and crazily in love with
each other. I’d have sworn that that
marriage was a sure-thing—success
—couldn’t fail —yet, here they are in
five years, fighting like Kilkenny
cats, and both of ’em wishing they
had the courage to beat it to Reno.
“What has happened to disillusion
ize them with the holy estate? What’s
the matter with matrimony, anyway,
in these days that so few people seem
to have nerve enough to endure it
with fortitude, to say nothing of
considering it a ‘heaven on earth’
where they lived happily ever after”
as in the story books.
"There’s nothing the matter with
matrimony,” I replied, "it’s the same
good, old reliable institution it was
in our fathers’ and our grandfathers’
and our great grandfathers’ time. The
trouble is with the people, and what
is the matter with them is that they
are no longer willing to pay the price.
“The average young couple get
married thinking they can welch on
Cupid and it can't be- done. Hence
these tears and criminations and re
crimination and the sound of connu
bial fetters being rended and broke
and homes wrecked.
“Youths and maidens have an il
lusion that matrimony is a free picnic
where all that they have to do is to
dance, and feast, and make merry
with the good looking and joyous
companion whom they have picked
out for mates. They are too ig
norant to know that there is nothing
gratis in this w’Orld—not even love—
and that instead of the holy estate
being a cheap pleasure resort we are
required to give up’ everything we
posses for a pass through its doors.
“And so when matrimony presents
its little bill to them they are unpre
pared for the staggering price they
are asked to pay, and howl to Heaven
that they won’t be mulcted that way
and they’ll go to the divorce court
first.
"Perhaps our fathers and mothers
didn’t enjoy paying the matrimonial
piper any more than we do, but at
any rate they seem to have realized
that the debt would have to be liqui
dated for when they married they
settled down, and accepted with a
good grace the responsibilities of a
family and bowed their necks to the
matrimonial yokes.
Young people nowadays, especially
the girls, don’t look upon getting
married as a settling process, but as
a liberating one. If they are rich
girls it faces them from parental au
thority and the eye of chaperons. If
they are poor girls it relieves them
from the necessity of earning their
own living and ’ keeping working
hours. In both cases it gives them
for the first time in their lives a
chance for a little fling on their own.
“Hence the idea of turning their
back upon gaiety, and for wearing
pretty clothes, and giving in ten
times as much to a husband as they
ever did to father, and working fifty
times harder in a kitchen than they
ever did in an office does not appeal
to them. It isn’t what they expected
to pay for their wedding rings.
If a girl told the truth she would
admit that what she demands of mar
riage is all that she lias plus the
love and support of a husband who
will always be flattering and cajol
ing her and never too tired or busy to
take her out of evenings.
A correspondent in a country
weekly says: “J. J. King was at
church Sunday, seemingly fully re
covered from the mule kick he re
ceived sometime ago, but he is still
shy.—Madison Madisonian.
No man has even known to entire
ly recover from the kick of a mule.
The Savannah Press asks: “What
is intoxicating?” Editor Johnny Jones
says he will put a pretty girl and a
moonlight night against anything
that he knows of.—Walton Tribune.
And many there be who will back
Johnny’s judgment to the limit.
People who generally complain of
the restriction of the liberty of
speech are the ones who are playing
for the support of the uneducated.
The man who conforms to the law
need never have any fear that the
law will molest him. The law is
intended for the man who willfully
breaks it.—SandersviHe Progress.
Many people are unable to distin
guish between "free speech” and
“fool speech.”
Now that Jackson has voted bonds
for School Improvement, why not get
Mrs. Solomon Says:
Being the Confessions of The
Seven-Hundredth Wife
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Copyright, 1920, by The McClure News
paper Syndicate.
MV daughter,’ hearken unto the
Revolt of a Bachelor, who
perceiveth his Peril and
walketh warily amongst
women.
“Help! help!” cryeth the Bachelor.
“Now is the hour of my confusion!
Now is the season of mien eternal
vigilance!
“For 10, to all the world conspireth
to lead into Bondage, and to fasten
a ball and chain upon my feet!
“Behold, one by one, I witness the
downfall of my friends; and they
seek to lure .me with them, and to
"I am arrayed in a long-tailed coat,
“I am arrayed in along-tailed coat,
and decked with a foolish flower, and
made rc lead frilly damsels down the
white-ribboned aisle, and to sit be
side fluttering dowagers at the bridal
feast.
“Lo, I dare not clasp a maiden’s
hand, lest there be a HOOK within it;
I cannot permit her arms to encircle
my neck, lest she place a YOKE
thereon.
“For, this is the season of folly
and flirtation and silly sentiment,
when even the moon and the waves,
and the perfumed winds, and ALL
the elements are banded together for
a Single Man’s undoing!
“Go to! Go to! Ye Snares in Petti
coats, ye Temptations in Tulle and
Talcum!
“Ye may lead me beside the blue
waters in broad sunlight, but ye can
not lure me into a canoe, by moon
light!
“Ye may babble unto me of ART,
or • Suffrage, or Dirigibles; but ye
shall not talk unto me of LOVE, and
tell me of your soulyearnings.
“Ye may cover me with scorn or
with pearl-powder, when I dance
with you; but ye shall not anoiijt me
with violet extract and hyacinth sa
chet, that ye may mark me for your
OWN.
“Ye may hold my hands—but
ye shall not read the lines thereof;
neither shall ye MANICURE them,
for I am wise to all your little
“stunts,’ and I know the end there
of.
“Yea, by ‘ THESE things fell the
Benedicts!
“Oh, ye match-making matrons, I
will bring you ices, and sit beside
you between dances, and hearken
unto your servant problems; but
think not to talk to me of your
daughters. For I shall not listen!
“Verily, verily, all my words shall
be discreet, and all mine actions cau
tious and self-restrained.
“I shall insulate my vanity against
you, and put my sentiment away in
camphor, and my affections in cold
storage until the season of the Love
moth hath passed.
“Yea, though I mav lose my heart
an hundred times, I shall NOT lose
my head!
“Therefore, waste not your wiles
and your smiles upon me, for ‘Pre
paredness’ is my slogan, and my
motto is:
“ ‘Give me one more year of liberty
—or give me death!”
Selah.
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
She wants to be as free as an un
married woman to come and go. She
wants the thing smoney buys though
married to a poor man. She wants
to live in idleness, and to make v.e
sacrifice of her individuality. She
only wants the kind of children who
are born in embroidered French mus
lin and blue ribbons and golden curls
and who never howl with colic or
get dirty.
There is no such graft in marriage
as she hoped to find. To most women
marriage means adapting themselves
to crotchety husbands. It means sac
rifice. It means labor that is never
done. It means staying at home and
made-over clothes and few pleasures.
It means washing ilttle faces and
walking sick babies and hearing les
sons and living in a bedlam of noise.
That’s the price a woman gener
ally has to pay for wifehood and
motherhood, and it is because so
many are not willing to pay it that
there are so many disgruntled women,
and so many miserable homes. They
thought, poor simple souls, .that
somehow they could get the \best
thing in the world wthout giving any
return for it
Nor are men any more willing to
pay the price of matrimony than
women. A man thinks that he can
enjoy all the freedom of his bachelor
days and just superimpose a home
and wife on top of that as a cook
puts a fancy merangue on top of a
pie. He wants to come and go as he
used to without tears or reproaches
from wife; he wants to stay down
town for little games with the boys,
without scenes at home; and to take
old women friends out to tea and
lunch without arousing the green
eyed monster in his spouse’s breast.
He also wants to spend his money
on himself as he used to, for his idea
of matrimony is as false a one as
the girl’s. He has visioned it as a
place where a young and beautiful
wife, always exquisitely dressed ajid
in an angelic temper, waited in a
vine-wreathed cottage—that was run
on air—to welcome him after his
day’s work was done—in case he felt
like coming home.
He finds that the marriage bond is
forged of chilled steel and that he
is chained as tightly to his partner
as ever any other two prisoners were
and that no criminal has ever got
more of a life sentence than he. He
finds that marriage reduces the av
erage man to little more than a wage
slave, who spends his life toiling
for doctors and grocers and butchers
and tailors and dressmakers. He
finds that even the best of wives
have their days when they are nerv
ous and cross and unreasonable, that
children can be demons and brats as
well as seraphs.
The loss of freedom, unending
work, self-sacrificed; that is what
a man must pay for matrimony and
many a one defaults on the promis
sory note he has given a girl in the
days of courtship.
In the meantime there stands mar
riage; offering just what it always
has to men and women who are wil
ling to pay the price—a devotion
that never fails. Loyalty that sticks
through thick and thin, and good and
evil days. Tenderness like the ten
derness of God. The cling of babies’
arms about the neck. Price in stal
wart sons and lovely daughters. The
renewal of your life in your chil
dren’s life. The serenest, purest hap
piness that ever comes to a human
being.
But you must pay the price, for
life is the inexorable debt collector
that exacts the last farthingf for ev
erything she gives
You cannot have your wedding cake
and eat it, too. You must pay the
price.
busy and build a new hotel, canning
factory, steam laundry and other en
terprises?—Jackson Progress-Argus.
“Why not?” Jackson needs all the
improvements enumerated, especially
a new hotel.
With the price of ice going up ev
everybody realizes that summer must
be here.—Henry County Weekly.
Temperature and ice usually be
come ambitious to rise in the world
at the same time.
Very few women are satisfied with
the way God made them.—Hartwell
Sun.
Nobody blames some of them for
rendering first aid to nature.
The Gainesville Herald heads an
Interesting political editorial, "Re
publican Hope in Georgia.” It is not
generally supposed that the Repub
licans have any hope in Georgia. Cer
tainly they have no “white hope.”
Most small towns where there is
a paper published has from one to
a half dozen men who can run the
paper better than the editor can. If
there is one in Hazlehurst that would
like to try his hand in running a pa
per please come forward as we want
a vacation.—Hazlehurst News.
Editor Middle evidently knows his
home town, but the entire aggrega
tion of six should not accept his chal
lenge at the same time as he only
owns one paper
Safety first is the motto of the
editor of the Sevierville, Tenn., Vin
dicator. The editor of the Vindica
tor says he "expects to say nothing
about any candidate that he cannot
take back if it become necessary.”
Fair enough.—Macon Telegraph.
That editor should be a politician
instead of a newspaper man.
If Edwards can’t supply a plank for
the platform, he might be /satisfied
to furnish a foot rail.—Rome News.
Yea, Bo!
One communicant in the New York
/Times boils it down in a signed and
dated and addressed note: “When
the times demanded a man who stood
for something, the Republicans,
standing for nothing, selected a man
who had never stood for anything.”—•
Savannah Morning News.
He may have to stand for defeat.
It is questionable whether they
fear Bryan’s tongue or his reputation
most in the Frisco convention.—•
Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
After all, his tongue is his reputa
tion.
Jesse Mercer and Walter Coleman
are both at work in Georgia as em
ployees of Uncle Sam trying to in
duce the people to observe the pro
hibition law. If these gentlemen are
as efficient in this sphere as they
were in the newspaper business, they
will soon have this state as dry as
a bone. —Commerce News.
Note the soaring price of liquor.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
WEN A MAN 6 ITS A
NOTION IN HE HAID
HE TIAHED O' LIBN,
HIT AIN* LONG TWELL
EVY-BODY ELSE GITS
TIAHED HE
A Av '1
Qppyri|ht,l92o by McClure Newspaper Syndicate