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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
The Determining Stage of
Georgia s Highway Work
THE road-building program, based upon
laws enacted at the 1919 session of
the Georgia General Assembly, is of
capital importance to the Commonwealth’s
every interest. Duly carried out, it not only
will effect large savings for agriculture and
business, but also will create fresh oppor
tunities and develop great fields of resources
now latent. Under this program the State
has, for the first time in her history, a com
prehensive, coherent policy of highway im
provement by which all the counties, singly
and collectively, will benefit, and by which
the millions of money applied to this purpose
will yield proper returns. It is highly essen
tial, therefore, that the General Assembly
be prepared to take any steps needful to pre
serve these plans, should it turn out that the
legislation behind them is at all lacking in
constitutionality. If such defects there be,
they are of a purely technical nature, sus
ceptible to speedy cure by the law-making
power. It is greatly to be hoped that no
complication will rise; but if so, all haste
should be made to press through a re-enact
ing measure.
Georgia is at the adolescent stage of good
roads development —a time of hazard as
well as growth. Wonderful though the prog
ress she is making, without the right plans
and supports it will not be of a sustained
and ultimately fruitful character. As Mr.
W. R. Neel, State Highway Engineer, point
ed out at the recent meeting of the Georgia
Automobile Association, a thousand and
twenty-eight miles of road are now under
construction or contract, with some work
undertaken in every county from the moun
tains to the sea. It is gratifying, too, that
in recent seasons county road bond issues
have been voted to an aggregate of approx
imately seventeen million dollars. More
money, more labor, more enthusiasm than
ever before are being poured into this basic
enterprise. The State is catching her stride
in away that bids fair to place her among
the foremost of the nation’s road makers.
But let no one imagine that what has been
done thus far will suffice, or even itself stand
secure unless still more money, still more
labor, still more enthusiasm and skill are
mustered to the mighty task.
To this end the proposed bond amendment
to the - Constitution must be ratified; the
hands of the State Highway Commission
must be upheld; full advantage must be
taken of offers of aid from the Federal Gov
ernment; expertness and breadth of vision
must be emphasized. And if unhappily it
should appear the laws originally passed for
this purpose are in a.ny wise unstable, the
Legislature should take speedy steps to
strengthen them, for Georgia will go back
ward in road construction should she cease
to go vigorously forward.
That she should ever return to the old
planless way of building roads for individual
jounties alone, without regard to inter-re
lated needs and to the larger good of the
Commonwealth, is not to be supposed. The
minds of all competent observers found ex
pression on this point in the remark of Dr.
Strahan, chairman of the State Highway
3oard, at the Automobile Association’s dinx
ter. “Counties and townships,’’ said he, “are
oo small to supply the key to the problem
of road-building in Georgia; our purpose is
to open the doors from room to room, so
that all the people of our State may come to
know one another.”
It is by this policy of correlating and co
ordinating the road work of all counties and
all districts, and by this alone, that the
smaller units will receive their due and the
widest interests at the same time be sub
served. The great progress and promise
of our highway work today lie largely in
the fact that this is its guiding principle.
Let us see to it that no narrower view or
lesser aim is ever taken.
Promoting Georgia
THE appeal of the Georgia Association
for a large sustaining membership to
carry forward its excellent plans for
the State’s upbuilding should bring hearty
and wide-reaching response. There is not a
constructive enterprise now afoot or in mind
that will not benefit from the aid and in
fluence of this organization; moreover,
there are certain general fields of opportu
nity and need which it alone can duly serve.
For example, at the meeting of the As
sociation’s directors held in Macon this
week ifs systematic support was pledged to
the work of reclaiming swamp lands, of se
curing a large attendance at the Atlanta
session of the National Drainage Congress
next autumn, of bringing about the estab
lishment of a State forestry department, of
improving ryral schools, and of other un
dertakings now in the fore. The Association
is also giving valuable assistance to plans
for placing the sweet potato industry on a
basis that will protect, encourage and re
ward the producer as never before, and thus
•jring out the latent wealth of the wonder
ful Georgia yam.
As a region of vast virgin resources and
pioneer opportunities, dur - Commonwealth is
particularly in need of broadly cooperative,
well directed effort to develop its treasure
paths and bring them to the notice of the
investing world. A responsible and vigorous
institution devoted to this purpose and pro
vided with needful funds can accomplish a
great deal for the Commonwealth as a
whole and for its every field of interest. In
its movement to that end the Georgia Asso
ciation merits liberal encouragement.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
I Eleven Thousand a Minute
PERSONS opposed to international co
working for the prevention of war
should be pleased to learn that in
ventors are testing out a new type of ma
chine gun contrived to discharge eleven thou
sand shots a minute. As an instrument of
flesh-ripping, bone-crushing, wholesale slaugh
ter, this will be far more efficient than the
gun of the recent war, which could fire only
some five or six hundred shots a minute. It
seems, moreover, that this latest death-dealer
operates without the faintest puff of smoke
and so noiselessly that its location would be
virtually undiscoverable. “As devastating as
a hurricane and as stealthy as a snake!’ its
projectors exclaim in admiration.
This is but one among sundry devices which
red-armed Mars is preparing for the tens of
thousands of youths to be sacrificed in the
next great grapple of nations—a conflict cer
tain to come if no world-plan for preserving
peace through processes of orderly justice i«
set going. A poison gas incomparably more
terrible than anything of the kind employed
up to Armistice Day, 1918, is said upon high
authority to be ready for use the moment an
other war begins. But why stop at poison
gas? the experts are coolly inquiring. Why not
bring disease into play? Science doubtless,
in time, can devise means for inoculating
vast numbers of people with the virus of. say,
cholera or the bubonic plague. Thus civilians,
including women and children, could be laid
.low, along with the men at the front; and
in a fortnight or so entire countries could be
converted into charnel houses. So incalcula
ble, indeed, are the possibilities along this and
kindred lines that a keen observer has writ
ten: “If these foolish peace cranks do not
interfere, the next war may rid the earth
pretty well of the majority of its human
parasites; whole nations probably will be
wiped out in a night, vast territories reduced
to the peace of death in less than twenty-four
hours; there will be no surplus population
left to worry us; the survivors will inherit the
earth and start out afresh to make it a de
cent place to fight in.”
It is possible, hpwever, that the “peace
cranks” will make headway despite the Re
publican party and Senator Reed. It is pos
sible that ..some effective system of interna
tional co-operation, into which the United
States can enter, will be instituted, notwith
standing the difficulties which the foes, and
some of the friends, of that plan have placed
athwart its path. If so, the champions of
the eleven-thousand-shots-a-minute machine
gun will be grievously disappointed, and the
specialists in battle by disease-germs may
have no chance to prove their prowess. Still,
there will be a modicum of compensation in
the fact that many and many a youth will
be spared his biearthside and his country.
More About Slesvig
1 s? '
TIE impression so widespread in Ameri
ca that the successive plebiscites in
the two Slesvig zones have settled def
initely the boundary between Denmark and
Germany is wrong. The action of the plebi
scites must be approved by the Allies before
the boundaries become effective. Moreover,
the Danish minority in Middle Slevig has
protested the result of the recent plebiscite.
The plebiscite in North Slesvig resulted fa
vorably to Denmark, and all of the territory
included in that province will be awarded au
tomatically to the Danish government. The
cities of Haderslev, Aabenraa, Tondern and
Sonderborg are situated in North Slesvig.
The majority in Middle Slesvig voted to join
with Germany.
The treaty provides that the Allies shall
determine the new frontier according to the
outcome of the vote in the plebiscites, but
“taking into account the particular geograph
ical and economic conditions of the localities
in question.”
The minority in Middle Slesvig has invoked
this clause In the treaty, and argues that the
“particular geographical and economic condi
tions” of their province require re-annexation
to Denmark. The Allies have the unques
tioned right to revise the decision of the
popular vote in either of the provinces, but
it is assumed that the result in North Sles
vig will not be disturbed. , '
There Is doubt as to the attitude of the
Allies respecting Middle Slesvig in view of
the protest of the defeated minority of its
inhabitants. ’ If the protest against the re
sult of the plebiscite in Middle Slesvig came
from the Dahish government there would be
less uncertainty as to the attitude of the
Allies, but coming / from the defeated mi
nority there it is a close question.
The situation for the Danish minority in
Middle Slesvig is far from enviable, more
especially if their province should be hand
ed back to Germany. Their national rights
are guaranteed by the treaty, but they
were guaranteed also by the treaty of 1866.
The guarantee meant nothing to them. The
Germans disregarded their rights. In the
electioneering campaign previous to the plebi
scite it is reported the Germans manifested
an ugly mood. The Danes were terrorized
and have good reasons to fear and protest
against the return of their province to
Prussian rule.
\ *
Constructive Electorates
THE spirit of progress and construc
tion now astir in Georgia is rarely
revealed so strikingly as in the vote
on Decatur’s bond election for waterworks
and school improvements. That the issue
would be authorized, provided the rank and
file of registered voters could be aroused
to the importance of going to the polls was
taken for granted, the cause being so mer
itorious. But the most sanguine supporters
of the proposition could not have expected
what actually came to pass. Not only did the
voters turn out in unusually large numbers,
taking time and pains for a duty which all
too often is passed by; but of all the ballots
last not one was against the bonds. It was
i unanimous verdict for progress, an ex
raordinary proof of patriotism.
This, cheeringly enough, is coming to be
he Georgia way of doing things when pub
ic welfare and advancement are concerned.
Lt is not often, indeed, that municipal oi
county bonds are voted without single nega
five voice, but repeatedly of late Georgia
electorates have assumed obligations of this
kind with no considerable dissent. Some
years ago it was next to impossible to pu
through such bond measures in this State
That they are ratified now in town aftei
town and county after county, is attributable
not merely to a less stringent law on the
subject, but chiefly to an awakened and en
lightened community conscience. The people
are minded as never before to tax them
selves for the betterment of schools, high
ways and other departments of public serv
es- lyhat fairer omen for the Common
wealth could we wish?
A danger values her knee at $50,000 in a
suit filed for personal injuries. .Wonder
what price a shimmy expert would put on
her shoulders.
Lloyd-George says that Great Britain is
through with diplomacy that gets nowhere,
but whoever heard of British diplomacy of
that Ibrand.
♦
Abraham Lincoln was nominated in just
twenty-six words, but it took a page or so cf
solid type just to brief the panegyrics about
Messrs. McAdoo, Cox, Edwards, Owen, Pal
mer and the of the giants of today.
COLLEGE FAILURES
By H. Addington Bruce
ABOUT this time of year many parents
are experiencing pangs of disappoint
ment because of the failure of their
sons to pass college examinations.
The not unnatural tendency is to put the
entire blame on the sons and accuse them
of laziness or stupidity. This is seldom
quite just.
If a boy really is lazy, his laziness often
is due to conditions of bodily health, which
his parents long since should have corrected.
Or his laziness may be merely a bad habit,
acquired by imitation of the parents them
selves.
People too frequently fail to appreciate
that if they do not show their children an
example of industrious activity the children
are hardly likely to be rarvels of industry.
Ease-loving, pleasure-seeking parents are
pretty sure to have ease-loving, pleasure
seeking children.
Nor, if a boy is industrious enough yet
fails to pass his examinations, is it safe to
jump to the conclusion that he must **be
stupid? 1
Nervousness may account for his “flunk
ing.” There are plenty of bright boys, who,
so to speak, go all to pieces nervously when
they enter an examination room..
The remedy, of course, is to train such
boys in nerve control. For which purpose
it may be necessary to call in the services
of a nerve specialist.
Or, again, a boy may fail in college ex
aminations not because he is essentially a
dullard, but because his type of mind is such
that the purely intellectual work of college
does not appeal to him.
He may be, for example, like the son of a
friend of mine, who was much chagrined by
reason of his boy’s repeated failures in class
work and examinations.
At my suggestion he finally sent the boy
to a nerve specialist. The latter, testing him
psychologically, found that he was distinctly
manual-minded rather than intellectual.
“Send this lad to a technical school or
let him start work in a factory,” was the
advice he gave. “He is built for the h-an
dling not of books, but of tools, and should
do well in any mechanical pursuit.”
A prediction, I may add, amply borne out
by future events. Studying and working
with machinery, the boy proved to be as
bright as he had formerly seemed dull. ‘
So that parents who have college failures
on their hands should not be hasty and lav
ish in their reproaches. Rather they should
recognize that their boys present a problem
calling for conscientious efforts at solution.
M. 3626
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
THE MULE
By Dr. Frank Crane
I have always had a friendly feeling for
the He does the world’s hardest work,
and yet is the most ill-treated of animals.
It seems to be human nature to abuse and
brow-beat the merely useful, and to pamper
and glorify the merely ornamental. Else why
are the gilded dames in the cabarets fed on
orangeade at a dollar a glass, while the wash
women and scrub-women get a dollar a day?
• Also why is friend mule, who raises the
crops, hauls the loads, and wins the wars
of the world, treated with ridicule and nasty
gibe, while ladies nurse worthless, do-less
and superfluous chow dogs?
Why work, anyhow? See what you get!
Harvey Riley, superintendent of govern
ment mules for more than thirty years, has
written a mule book, which is “mighty in
teresting reading.” It explains a lot of
things.
For instanqej why does a mule kick? Sim
ply to protect tkiink'elf, which is an obedience
to the first law of life. If he is properly
broken in and kindly treated he will not kick.
(Note: maybe.) t
Few animals respond to kindness better
than the mule. If his man-master will not
spring at him nor shout at him, nor strike
him, nor otherwise frighten him, he will be
more easily managed than a horse. Most of
the mule’s cussedness is due to the cussed
ness of the man who has charge of him.
This is what Riley says, anyway, and he
ought to know.
Here are some don’ts for muleteers. Don’t
break the mule in too young; he ought to
be at leasf six years old before he is used
for heavy work. Don’t use a thin, wiry bit,
else it will split his mouth. Don’t rein a
mule up; he will do more work and live long
er if he is allowed to carry his head in nat
ural position. Don’t drive a mule on a trot;
he is built for pullting, not speed; let him
walk. Don’t hurt a mule’s ears; they are very
sensitive. Don’t cut the ‘hair on a mule’s
heels. Don’t wash the mud off a mule’s
let it dry and rub it off with straw. Don’t use
blinders; their only use is to prevent him
from seeing the driver’s whip. Don’t stable
the mule at night so that he cannot lie
down. Don t fail to .curry and rub down
the mule every morning. Don’t overload
this causes balking.
the , SetS out of jt anyhow is his
board and lodging. And where can you find
a better servant on those terms?
The mule is the most valuable beast of bur
den in the world. He is entitled to our most
merciful treatment. 1
And if a mule acts up, don’t use a club on
him; use it on the driver
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
Katie was evidently feeling embarrassed
about something and she blushed nrettHv
she told the sister of her fence ifetfeewfetj
hke to buy a birthday present for him.
„ You know him better than I do,” she said
so I came to you to ask your advice ”
ingl y eS? ’ Said her future sister-in-law inquir-
“What,” went on the blushing Katie
“would you advise me to get?”
“Oh, I don’t know,” replied the other girl
carelessly. “I could only advise you in gen
eral terms. From what I know of him I
should say he would appreciate something
that he could pawn easily.’’
Little daughter was certainly glad to have
her father back home in England after he
had been in France for two years, working
all the way from eight to twenty-four hours
in a hospital, rendering valuable aid to the
injured while hearing the hum of German
“air cooties” high overhead.
Daddy noticed daughter giving him the
once over several times. Finally she seemed
to have resolved the thing in her own mind
She was worried because daddy did not have
any medals pinned to his coat. “Daddy,”
she lisped, “why didn’t you fight in a war
where they had medals?’’
♦—,
Editorial Echoes.
In other days in the heat of political ex
citement a movement toward the hip may
have been a warning of danger. Now it may
arouse hope.—Pittsburg Gazette Times.
The return 'of warm weather enables one
to keep his mind off the hole where the coal
pile ought to be. —Detroit Free Press.
‘lt is said the only way to tell a banker
from a barber in New York is to ask the
individual if he is out on a strike. If he'
is not, then he is a banker. —Sioux City
, Journal. m
SUBWAY
PHILOSOPHY
By Frederic J. Haskin
NEW YORK, June 28. —The sub
way is a wonderful vehicle
of rapid transit, no doubt, but
it is also the most terrible
instrument in the world for impress
ing upon man his own unspeakable
and precarious insignificance.
Here is a long, greedy gullet swal
lowing with noisy, ill-mannered speed
an endless string of closely packed
capsules. These capsules go down
this roaring throat of the city into
its troubled bowels, where they dis
integrate like quinine capsules in a
human stomach to produce various
changes.
And you, the subway rider, are one
tiny grain of the medicine of which
there are hundreds of grains in each
of the thousands of capsules that
endlessly course down this hard, dry
insatiable throat. If you were' lost
on the way, it would not make the
slightest perceptible difference to this
huge organism which is the city. If
the whole capsule of which you are
such a tiny part were to go astray,
it would not make much difference
except that the way of other capsules
might be temporarily blocked.
And when your capsule disinte
grates and sets you free in the fer
menting insides of the city, you are
of even less calculable consequence.
You are as one of the bacilli among
the millions that swarm in the hu
man colon. A drop in a bucket of
water, or one grain of salt in a
pound, is a thing of individuality and
importance by comparison with you.
Much has been written about how
little a man feels when he is alone
in a wilderness such as the Rocky
Mountains - or the Fainted Desert.
This is because the writers have usu
ally gone from the city to the wilds,
and therefore have been acutely con
scious of their new enviroment, but
not aware of its ultimate effect. As
a matter of fact, if you stay in the
wilds you grow to feel bigger and
bigger. Stand on a hilltop and you
seem to be the very center of the
universe. You are, for the moment,
the entire human race, and every
thing else falls away from your feet
and cringes before you in the per
spective of distancefl. Your individ
uality expands here just as inev
itably as it contracts in a city. That
is why the visitor to a far corner of
the country finds so many “quaint
characters.” It is only away of
saying that in a country where there
is plenty of room, men are not all
alike. Each has developed in his
own way. Each has his own point of
view, however crude, and his own
battles, however vicious, and dares
to wear own kind of hat.
William Bonney was born on the
East Side of New York, and if he
had stayed there he would have been
a common thug and pickpocket, with
no fame outside of police records.
But he went to the Far West and
became “Billy the Kid,” one of the
most famous killers in the history of
American banditrv. slaying twenty
one men by the time he was twenty
one years old. Books and plays have
been written about him. He is fa
mous. He was nothing but an East
Side gunman turned loose in a wil
derness w-here he had room to ex
pand and to develop his marvelous
talent for homicide.
Personalities Are Bearce
In New York personalities run
around one to the hundred thousand
of population, and those few are
mostly importations. As you go up
ward in what is commonly called the
higher social scale you think you
are finding real people, but you soon
find that you are mistaken. You find
a millionaire with a house on Fifth
avenue, a place on Lond Island, and a
yacht. You say,- here is a man who
had his way of the city. But he is
only one of hundreds or thousands
that have exactly the same things and
use them in the same ways. He
shows no more individuality or imag
ination in the way he spends his
millions than an east-sider does in
the way he blows in a dollar at
Coney Island on Saturday night. Each
of them is only ope of a class, oper
ated according to strict rules and
regulations.
-The number of classes or Types is
enormous, but the number of indi
vidualities increadily small. One
East Side Jewess is so like another
that you can hardly tell them apart.
So of all the .other types. After a
little experience,, you can spot them
afi on sight. . x
This disease of uniformity infects
deeply even the arts where individ
uality is supposed to be of the es
sence of the thing. One musical
comedy on Broadway is similar to
another, and the plays are almost
all of a uniform and similar badness.
The movies grind out endless films
who are endless reptitions of the
same ideas With minor variations.
The song writers write songs which
are nearly all echoes of each other.
The artists paint pretty girls who
differ in the color of their hair and
eyes, but not in the incredible vacuity
of their expressions. The magazines
manufactured here are of several
classes, but those of the same class
contain always in effect the same
stories. The same hero and the same
heroine eternally caper and osculate
through their pages. They are as
like aS the couples that spoon on the
benches along Riverside drive. It. is
the city of inevitable similarity. If
you don’t fit into a ready-made class,
there is no place for you here, and
if you do, your movements are as
easy and inevitable as those of a
ten-pin ball coming back to balk
line.
There are a few who resist this
incessant friction, tending to reduce
them all to the same shape and size
as pebbles are ground and rounded
in a stream. There are a few real
writers, a few real artists and a few
real personalities in all lines. But
most of them got their growth be
fore they arrived here, and most of
them periodically depart for other
regions where there is more room,
more of the oxygen of (human in
dividuality.
The Protest of the Few
Quite a number there is, too, of
those who madly react against this
demand for a meaningless uniformity.
Here, for emaple, is a man who re
fuses to wear a hat or a coat. A
poor way to assert his personality,
but away none the less. Every otie
makes fun of him. The newspapers
sneer at him. The human pack turns
on him as wolves turn on a bob
tailed wolf. But he defies them and
walks bareheaded and coatless down
Broadway. And there are other men
who wear their hair long, and some
who effect strange garbs. There are
all sorts of freaks. They represent
desperate, almost insane, rebellions
against the grinding of the mighty
machine that seeks to turn out all
men according to one pattern.
You can diagnose the whole dis
ease sitting in the subway. These
folk, you say, are all different. Each
o f them has his own hopes and fears
and purposes. But as a rpatter of
fact, each has only the hopes and
fears and purposes that are proper
to his class. Here is a man contem
plating murder, but he is one of a
large class of criminals and not at
all lonely or unique. He has his
friends, who are fellow criminals.
Look at these faces in repose.
There are two types. There are
perfectly f blank, vacant faces—the
faces of. men and women who move
apathetically in their little grooves.
And there are faces stamped with
fear, worry, avarice, and some with
placid good nature and animal con
tent. But rare indeed is the face
marked by conscious intelligence:
rare the observing, considering eye
of the man who contemplates and
understands life as well as lives it.
And what docile herd animals these
people are. They axe jammed and
crowded and pushed about. They
tread on each other's heels and toes
and knock each other’s hat askew.
But they neither laugh nor curse.
They have nothing but resignation.
They are domestic animals being
driven to work.
And man. mark you, is by his
birthright a fierce and proud animal.
He is the only mammal that has
killed and tamed every other mammal
on earth. He is a fighting, carnivor
ous creature. Nothing that Walks the
earth can master him. * But his own
civilization has mastered him. It
has made him as docile, as easily
driven or led as a sheep or a cow.
In his pride of victory over Nature
he created a giant, the city. And
the giant laughed at Him and picked
him up and swallowed him down
its subway. Look at him as he goes
slithering helplessly down that long
meaningless gullet, and you see him
in his ultimate degradation.
CURRENT EVENTS
Railroad transportation east of the
Mississippi river is again on the
verge of a breakdown. This state
ment was made by one of the high
est railroad officials in Washington
This official declared that as a re
sult of the continuous “outlaw”
strikes, car congestion, car short
age and labor shortage every large
railroad operating in the east is
faced with complete paralysis.
“Never before in the history of rail
roading has the situation been so
critical as it is today,” he said. “We
are doing everything within out pow
er to met conditions, but until
there is some unexpected change, no
man can say what will happen.
“The only hope we can see is a
prompt decision on the part of the
railroad labor board in connection
with the wage demands of the em
ployes. Despite the assertions of
leaders of the brotherhoods that the
men will be satisfied with the an
nouncement that the wage decision
will be made on or before July 20,
we daily see evidence that the men
will not be satisfied until the board
speaks.”
Information received from Wash
ington states that Secretary Payne
has revoked the interior department
regulation limiting oil-leases to 4,-
800 acres on land in Oklahoma own
ed by members of the five civilized
tribes but under government control.
The regulation is no longer neces
sary, said a department announce
ment because “the danger of monop
oly is eliminated” since only 15 per
cent of the land originally allotted
to the Indians remains under federal
control.
Revocation of the regulation, it is.
stated, is expected to result in large
income to the Indians.
In a message from San Francisco
it is aid the arrival of Eamon de
Valera, “president of the Irish re
public,” begins the campaign which
prolrish leaders, representing var’-
ous factions of the independence
movement, will conduct for some
sort of declanation in the platform.
As things look at present, they may
get some sort of declaratic. But that
is about all. And there is a good
chance that they will not get even
that.
The international joint commis
sion appointed by the governments
of .the United States and Canada to
investigate and report on Lawrence
river, and thus open up a deep sea
route to a large part of the middle
west, will hold public hearings be
ginning October 15 in New York city,
it was announced by Irving T. Bush,
chairman of the exceutlve commit
tee of the chamber of commerce of
New York state.
Since March 13, when the coast
wise longshoremen at the port of
New went on strike, total
losses in commerce, in wages to long
shore, harbor and railroad strikers
in and near New York have been
about $8,196,000.
These figures were compiled re
cently from estimates furnished by
leaders of the merchants’ fight
against the tie-up and by leaders of
the unions.
In the period since March 13 there
have continued on strike in this dis
trict 6,000 longshoremen of the coast
wise lines. Since April 1 there have
been out 5,000 “outlaw” strikers and
about 2,4)00 workers of ferries and
tugboats and lighters. ,
The wage losses have been com
puted at $2,196,000.
It is said that praetically all of
the men who have persisted on
strike have secured other employ
ment. Coastwise longshoremen, rail
roads and some harbor boatmen have
taken jobs as dep sea longshore
men.
Morris Meth, manager of the
Clover Farms Milk Company, Inc.,
depot at No. 431 East 164th street,
Bronx, N. Y., was fined SSO for mis
branding milk by Magistrate Harris
in the Municipal court recently.
Health Inspector Lyons testified
that February 26, after he had re
ceived many complaints from moth
ers he found in the depot 120 quart
bottles which bore grade A stamps,
but contained grade B milk. Lyons
testified also that the labels were
stamped Thursday, but the milk had
been bottled Tuesday. Most of this
milk, Lyons said, was destined for
infant’s milk stations, and mothers
had complained that it made their
babies ill..
Meth said he had misbranded the
milk rather than disappoint custom
ers. The prosecuting attorney ar
gued that Meth should get a jail sen
tence, but Magistrate Harris decided
that the evidence had not shown
Meth’s act was for gain, so he would
impose a fine. Meth paid.
A representative of the Clover
Farms company said Meth bore a
good record. Inspector- Lyons said
he had never before February 26,
received any complaints against the
milk company.
According to a dispatch from
Stockholm, the ever-increasing prices
of coal and the huge freight changes
now quoted greatly influenced the
Swedish parliament to start electri
fying the Swedish state railways.
The amount granted for this purpose
was 23.000,000 krone as a first in
stallment, and the line which is first
to be electrified is that between
Cothen and Stockholm.
It is expected that next year the
parliament w-ill grant means for sim
ilar work on the big trunk lines of
Malmo-Stockholm and Stockholm-
Boden.
King Alfonso arrived in Barcelona
at 9:25 in the-morning, June 27. He
was welcomed at the station by the
local authorities and senators, mem
bers of the chamber of deputies, rep
resentatives of Industry and com
merce and a great throng of towns
people, who acclaimed him.
The king is occupying the captain
general’s residence. Numerous houses
and the principal monuments in the
city are decorated with the Spanish
and Catalan colors in honor of the
visit of Alfonso.
Labor conditions for farms are bet
ter in Idaho now that at any time
in the last three years, according to
a statement by George B. Albert, of
the state employment bureau, at Des
Moihes.
He said reports from Kansas and
Nebraska were that those states had
all the labor needed.
The change in the situation is due
to men returning to the country after
being dropped from factories, Mr.
Albert asserted.
News gathered from Paris relates
the jewels of the late Gaby Deslys,
the famous French dancer and ac
tress, who died February 11, were
placed on exhibition here today, pre
liminary to their sale on June 28
for the benefit of the poor of the
city of Marseilles, as provided in
Mlle. Deslys’ will.
According to connoisseurs, the col
lection comprises the finest assort
ment of pearls ever seen' in Paris.
Although diamonds, rubies, sap
phires, emeralds and other precious
stones are adequately represented,
they are not <«quite so conspicuous,
the dancer’s hobby having been
pearls.
One necklace contains fifty-seven
pearls valued at several million
francs, and there are two pendant
pearls, weighing 109 grams each, be
ing absolutely the same in size and
weight. Another pearl, black in col
or, weighs 140 grams, while there
are seven other pearls weighing from
70 to 100 grams each. All the pearls
were selected and matched with ex
quisite taste.
James S. Alexander, president of
the National Bank of Commerce in
New York, was notified recently that
King Victor Emmanuel 111. had con
ferred upon him the Cross of Cheva
lier of the Crown of Italy in rec
ognition of services rendered to
Italy in connection with her finances
during the war. This decoration is
the third received by Mr. Alexander
from foreign governments in rec
ognition of his financial pervice dur
ing the war. In January, 1919, he
was made by France a Chevalier
of the Legion of Honor, and last
April he was created a Knight Com
mander of the Order of Leopold 11.
by King Albert of Belgium.
A dispatch from London states
the - strike of wireless operators,
which threatened to bring shipping
activities to a virtual standstill, has
been called off. This action was tak
en as a consequence of meetings of
the Association of Wireless Tele
graphs held at London, Liverpool
and other ports.
The wireless leaders declare they
have obtained guarantees of fair I
treatment. ‘
SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1020.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS *
TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR
DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
First:
Thou shalt not abide with thy
husband’s people, for better is a
two-by-four flat alone than a palace
with thy in-Uws.
Second:
Thou shalt not enter thy husband’s
family with a chip upon thy shoul
der, and thy loins girded for fight:
Rather shalt thou come therein as
the Dove of Peace, seeking a roost
ing place.
Third: ,
Thou shalt not regard thy moth
er-in-law as thy hereditary enemy,
but shall strive to win her heart,
even as thou strivest to win her
son’s.
Fourth:
Thou shalt not forget the debt
thou owest the woman who went
through the pangs of hell to give
thee a good husband, neither shalt
thou hold thy hand from repaying
it.
Fifth:
Thou shalt not strive to alienate
thy husband from the mother who
bore him, or begrudge her one jot
or title of his affection.
Sixth:
Thou shalt not wear the look of
an early Christian martyr when thy
husband visiteth his mother alone,
or speaketh apart with her.
Seventh:
Thou shalt ask thy mother-in
law’s advice, and sit at her feet and
learn wisdom, for she hath taken
the Ma degree in the University of
Life, which maketh the M. A. of a
college graduate bride to look as
foolishness.
Eighth: /
Thou shalt speak words of love
and appreciation to thy mother-in
law, for the heart of the woman
who hath given her son to another
woman is sore and aching in her
breast.
Ninth:
Thou shalt not forget that thou
showest thy husband the quality of
thy love by the way in which thou
conducteth thyself to his mother,
and if thou art tender and loving
to her he will arise and bless thy
name, and esteem thee a wife whose
price is above rubies, yea, above
much fine gold, and sirens shall
vamp him in vain.
Tenth:
Remember that the day cometh
when thou also shall sit among the
mothers-in-law, and even as thou
hast treated thy mother-in-law thy
daughter-in-law shall hand it to
thee.
These simple rules are guaran
teed to cure the most acute case or
mother-in-lawitis with which any
bride may be afflicted, for this pain
ful complaint yields to gentle means
when drastic measures fail. So try
it, young wives, you who are up
against the tear-soaked problems of
the ages—that of maintaining peace
ful relationship with your husband’s
mother.
Begin by giving mother-in-law ab
sent treatment. Never go to live
with her. So shall you keep friends
by keeping off of each other’s lit
tle peculiarities. When a young man
pops the question to you, and inci
dentally mention's that he is going
to take you to live with mother,
and that she will love you like a
daughter, say “Nay, nay, Augus
tus,” to him.
Tell him that yeu will wait until
he can build a nsst of his own for
you, but that you are wise to the
fact that no two womeii can love
the same man, and try to run the
The Dude or the Cane?
When a walking stick is lost by a
young man with a solid ivory head
he does not find it again unless he
advertises.—Fort Valley Tribune.
Avoid the Crush
Prices are not coming down with
a rush; they want to give you a
chance to “stand from under.”—
Henry County Weekly.
Banner Year for Farm Clubs
This ought to be a banner year for
farm . clubs in Butts county. These
agencies are doing a great work in
helping to increase the food supply.
Beyond all doubt these clubs have
demonstrated their worth and they
should hai-e the co-operation and sup
port of all classes of citizens.—
Jackson Progress-Argus.
A God-Favored Section
Any fellow who’ll sell out and
leave this God-favored section of
the world, even, we might say, and
go elsewhere is a little “off.” The
Piedmont section is the place to
live, and Hart county’s in the midst
of it.—Hartwell Sun.
Capital and Labor
Fellow wanted to know the posi
tion of this paper on the labor and
capital business. Well, Hiram, we
give it to you right off the bat. We
Mrs. Solomon Says:
Being the Confessions of The
Seven-Hundredth Wife
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Copyright, 1920, by The McClure News
paper Syndicate.
MY daughter, there is subtle
creature, which walketh
abroad in the land of free
women.
Lo, it adorneth itself in a “nobby
suit, and a glowing hat-band, and
its tan shoes are shining lights upon
the highway.
And wheresoever it goeth, it fol
loweth after squabs, pursueth flap
pers, and its name is called, “Mash
er.
Now, the wise men of Babylon
gathered together and took counsel
among themselves, saying:
“Behold, w*e shall exterminate this
thing! Yea, we shall select twelve
perfect blondes of the city, and set
the mash traps .And they shall lure
the Masher to their sides, and lead
him before the high priests for judg
ment. And the fool shall be punish
ed according to his folly"
Then, I questioned them, saying:
“Wherefore, O sages, do ye choose
only blondes as bait for your traps?
For doth no man ever look senti
mentally upon a brunette?”
And the wise men shook their
heads and smiled, saying:
“Nay, daughter, for a brunette
must be exceeding beautiful, in order
to draw the glances of men; but a
blonde need be only a blonde!
“Lo. a comely, dark-eyed damsel
aroUseth a man’s fears and sus
picions, and at sight of her, his heart
cryeth, ‘vamp!’
“But there is something about yel
low hair, which disarmeth him and
weakeneth all his fortifications. And
he can no more resist following after
it than a kitten can resist following
a string, or a puppy resist chasing
a rubber ball or a small boy, pur
suing a military band.
‘Go to! Hast thou no observed, O
daughter, that in novels and in mo
tion-picture play&, all the sirens and
adventuresses posses midnight hair
and roving black eye? Whereas, all
the angelic heroines and persecuted
saints are fourteen-carat blondes?
“Lo, Cleopatra, the dusky beauty,
may have made fools of a few men.
“But it was Helen of Troy, the
dizzy blonde, who caused two na
tions of men to make fools of them
selves and of each other for her
sake!
“For, in his tjme, a man may have
loved many brunettes, but he must
always have a blonde in his llife!
"Go to, a dazzling brunette may
walk seven city blocks without arous
ing more than two glances of ad
miration; but a baby-blonde cannot
take seven steps without causing the
fluttering of hearts.
“And a greater flurry in Wall
street hath been caused by the pass
ing of. a blonde, than by a fall in
the stock market.
“Verily, a red parasol waved in
the eyes of ‘EI Toro’ is not more
potent than a blonde head in the
eyes of a (Masher.
"And a little peroxide is a miracu
lous thing!”
Selah.
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
same house without coming to na
each other, anfl that you are n<
fool-hardy enough to undertake s
experiment that only a couple <
she-angels could pull off.
Having put a prudent and likab
distance between you and mother-i
law, put th# good thought on he
Keep your mind fastened on
virtues instead of going on a
hunt for all of her faults. Sup#o
she is overflowing with an insatiab
curiosity that makes her go pokir
and prying into your cupboari
and garbage can, and ask you wh
everything cost. Just remember th
the old have no interests in life e
cept through their children, a'
that the smallest thing that co
cerns her John is of more impc
tance to his mother than the ri
and fall of nations.
Suppose mother-in-law is que
and crotchety and narrow. Keep
mind that she didn't have your a
vantages when she was young, a
that, after all, there must be son
thing very noble and fine in t
woman who has raised up a boy
be the sort of a gentleman yo
husband is. For it’s a boy’s moth
who grounds him in his prlncii
of truth, and honor, and honesty, a
chivalry.
Then apply to mother-in-law
emolument made of equal parts
love and appreciation. It’s wonderl
how it works, and softens up t
most stiffnecked old lady. Ask 1
advice, whether you take it or n
Get her to explain to you her mei
od of rearing children, and putt!
up fruit, and making pie crust.
Let her see that you admire h
and have an affection for her, a
that you are grateful to her :
having bestowed on you the g£e
est gift one woman can make i
other—a good husband.
Follow this treatment up x*
small doses of sympathetic und
standing. Let mother-in-law see
you realize that it is hard for 1
to have some other woman co
first in the heart of the son, v
has been all the world to her
twenty-five or thirty years.
Above all make her know that j
do not mean to take him from h
Encourage your husband to go
see his mother, and leave them al<
together often. There must be
much a mother wants to say to 1
boy only. After all when a n
takes unto himself a wife he does
cease to he a son. you know, thoi
a great many silly brides seem
think so.
If mother-in-law shows signs
developing a rising temperature, f
begins to talk wildly about y
using your best china every day,
buying a new gown, quiet her do
with a little of the bromide of
soft answer instead of getting hu
about it; and telling her to mind .
own business. Later on you’ll kr
just hoW she felt when you
vour son’s wife wasting the moi
he has toiled so hard to make.
Apply these remedies for
mother-in-law trouble ad lib, as
doctors’ prescriptions say. And es
cially apply larger quantities
love, '•nd. patience, and sympathy
the situation. <
If the shock of finding out t
she really has a daught<er-ln
who wants to be friends with 1
and who shows her some affect
and appreciation doesn't kill mo
er-in-law with surprise, you i
have the old lady so hypnotised
.will eat out of your hand, and
lleve you to be the marvel of
ages.
believe that labor Is entitled to
fair compensation, capital to a ]
interest on investment and the p
lie to protection from unfair
croachments of either. That is
policy and If you know of a be
one, help yourself to it.—Bainbri
Post-Searchlight.
Llvan Things Up a Bit
You can’t keep j oiing people c
tented in a town where there
nothing doing after 8 p. m., and
when some little amusement t
pens to come along in 'the sr
towns the old fogies are ready
cry out “improper and out of pla
for the young folks to attend. 1
young crowd is pretty sure to le
a community where there is no
cial life except funerals.—Spri
field Herald.
Restoring Joy to Life
Taking the joy out of life—i
some one is always doing it;
the "villian” who swooped d<
with one vast swoop and capti
about ten cases of genuine red HI
from the sheriff’s office this w
knows how to put the joy bac
Coffee County Progress.
Good for Thomas County
Thomas county’s paving will
completed before any other stn
on the Dixie Highway and while
but a two-mile stretch, it will s
something that will grow to
everlasting credit of this sec
and its ultimate profit.—Thon
ville Times-Enterprise.
Timely Advice to the Legislate
In a recent issue the Albany I
aid, Henry M. Mclntosh, editor,
fers the subjoined timely advic<
the Georgia legislature:
“We hope the Georgia legisla
will profit from , experience and
some of the important business
the calendar disposed of early in
present session. That is the only
to avoid congestion and confit
in the closing hours, when impor
matters fail of passage because tl
is no time in which to handle tht
Coining from one of the ah
editors in Georgia whose knowlc
of political affairs is extensive,
above suggestion is worthy of
thoughtful consideration of
members of the legislature who
past years have resorted tq
silly subterfuge of violating
integrity of the clock by turning
hands back to delay the passins
time. If the legislature will s]
up in the early days of the ses
there will be no necessity for
fusion and talk of an “extra
sion” during the closing days.
14b Profiteering There
There has been an average
crease of 100 per cent in the cos
living in this country since Dec
ber, 1914, and the cost of much ofß
material used in the production I
newspaper has advanced as mucl
200 and 300 per cent. But there!
not been an increase of 100 per I
In the price of this paper, or in I
cost of anything this office produ!
No profiteering in this shop.—Grß
News and Sun. I
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