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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-Weeklv SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months < 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mot. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Dally and Sunday2oc 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 <.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 early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con t'-’butors, with strong departments of spe ’ cial value to the home and thd 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 uaed for addreaslug your paper shows the time your rabscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, yon 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 subscriptions 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. 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 HAMBONE’S MEDITATIO| PEY AI KIT BUT <JES-’| ONE THING WUSSER'nI HEAHIN* A MAN CUSSIII HE KIN-FOLKS , EN Pal WEN HE STAHTS J BRAGGIN' ON EKA I! 1 Copyright, 1929 by McClure Newspaper Syndic®