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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as. Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-VVEEIKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wfc.l Mo. 3 Mob. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20e 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 10c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday •••*•••••••••• 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for earl}' delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. • \ The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. "Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac- Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label used for addressing Vour paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscript ions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to 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 »§lead^ 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