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A Platform Worthy of a Great
Party and a Great People
IN striking contrast with a shuffling and
reactionary Republican platform, stands
Democracy’s declaration of faith and
purpose put forward at San Francisco —busi-
nesslike, far-visioned and strong with the
blood of truth. Where the party of Penrose
Raiding evades or seeks to becloud, the
Democrats come boldly to grips with issues.
Where the former looks backward, hungering
for its fleshpots of old, the other goes
straight forward—aware of a new age, a
changed world, a hazardous present to shield
and serve, a vast future to destine for good
or for ill.
Only a rare union of practical and lofty
statesmanship could have produced this
Democratic pronouncement; only a record of
highest integrity and usefulness could give
forth this sterling ring. On the homeliest of
domestic matters as well as on those of world
wide concern, the San Francisco platform
has the drive of sympathetic understand
ing. To the people of Georgia, for exam
ple, it comes with a message as timely
and direct as though written expressly for
them and their Southern neighbors. Touching
the fundamental interest of this region, it
declares:
“It was a Democratic congress in the
administration of a Democratic president
which enabled the farmers of America
for the first time to obtain credit upon
reasonable terms and insured their op
portunity for the future development ot
the nation’s agricultural resources, we
pledge prompt and consistent support of
sound add effective measures to sustain,
amplify and perfect the rural credits
statutes and thus to check and reduce
the growth and course of farm tenancy.
Not only did the Democratic party put
into effect a great farm loan system of
land mortgage banks but it passed the
Smith-Lever agricultural extension act,
carrying to every farmer in every sec
tion of the country, through the medium
of trained experts and by demonstration
farms, the practical knowledge acquired
by the federal agricultural department
in all things relating to agriculture, hor
ticulture and animal life; it established
the bureau of markets, the bureau or
farm management and passed the cotton
futures act, the grain grade bill, the co
operative farm administration act and
the federal warehouse act. Meanwhile
the Republican leaders at Washington
have failed utterly to propose one single
measure to make rural life more tolera
ble. We favor such legislation as will
confirid to the primary producers of the
nation the right of collective bargaining
and the right of co-operative handling
and marketing of the products of the
workshop and the farm and such legisla
tion as will facilitate the exportation of
our farm products.”
Similarly heartening to Southern commerce
and industry in their contention for a square
deal for South Atlantic and Gulf ports is the
pledge ‘to stand for equality of rates for the
ports of the country, to the end that there
may be adequate and fair facilities for the
mobilization of products for shipments.” As
to improvement of highways, a matter pe
culiarly vital to States like Georgia: “The
Federal Road Act of 1916, enacted by a
Democratic Congress, represented the first
systematic effort of the Government to build
an adequate system of roads. It has result
ed in placing the movement on a substantial
basis in every State and in bringing under
actual construction more than thirteen thou
sand miles of roads. We favor a continuance
of the present Federal aid plan under exist
ing Federal and State agencies.” So, too, as
regards the development of inland water
ways, reclamation of waste lands, the up
building of the merchant marine, and other
enterprises for internal improvement ex
cepted, the platform is progressive and prac
tical.
Foremost among the duties of the San
Francisco convention, only the nomination
excepted, was the framing of a plank on in
ternational questions, particularly the League
of Nations. Here lay a critical test, of the
party’s good judgment as well as its good
faith. Had it spoken evasively or double
tongued as did the Republicans, it would
have forfeited the respect of right-minded
Americans. On the other band, had it de
clared for stiff-necked adherence to the very
letter of the League plan brought from Paris,
-insisting upon this or nothing, then undoubt
edly it would have alienated many thought
ful citizens and, besides, wouia have doomed
th* hope of the covenant’s adoption by the
senate. In what the convention actually
did. however, there is no shadow either of
equivocation or of bigotry. “We advocate
the immediate ratification of the Treaty,”
runs the key clause on this question, “with
out reservations which would impair its es
sential integrity; but do not oppose the ac
ceptance of any reservations making clearer
or more specific the obligations of the United
States to the League associates.” The latter
assertion, known as the Walsh amendment
and wisely accepted by the platform s de
signers, is reinforced by the additional state
ment that “all our duties and obligations as
a member of the League must be fulfilled
in strict conformity with the Constitution
of the United States, embodied in which is
the fundamental requirement of declaratory
action by the Congress before this nation
may become a participant in any war.” Sure
ly no reasonable “reservationist,” who is sin
cerely for a ilan of international co-work-
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
ing to prevent war, would ask more than
this; and surely no practical-minded friend
of the League idea would grant less.
The country now knows precisely where
the Democratic party stands on this great is
sue; nor can it reasonably doubt that Demo
cratic victory in the coming election will
mean the speedy establishment of a stable,
honorable and thoroughly American peace.
But of the Republican party, only this is
known: that it has treated the transcendent
issue of war and peace, involving our own
and every nation’s dearest interests, as a
political shuttlecock; that it has* evolved no
constructive idea and declared no definite
purpose; that it has obstructed and quibbled
and pettily schemed; and that not unless its
deadening clutch upon the Government is
broken will the overshadowing problems se
quent to the war be solved with wisdom and
honor.
Not even in the most urgent of domestic
matters has Mr. Harding’s party shown either
i capacity or disposition to act constructively
| and for the public good. Well does the San
! Francisco platform condemn the failure of
I the present Republican Congress “to respond
I to the oft-repeated demand of the President
i and the Secretaries of the Treasury to revise
existing tax laws.” Further:
“The continuance in peace ’times of
taxes devised under imperative neces
sity to produce revenue for war pur
poses is indefensible. The Republican
Congress persistently failed, through
sheer cowardice to make a single move
toward a readjustment of tax laws
j which it denounced before the last elec
tion and was afraid to revise before.the
next election. We advocate tax reform
j and a searching revision of . the war
I revenue acts to fit peace conditions.”
: That this promise will be duly fulfilled, if
: popular support is given, is assuredly to be
expected of the party that has produced
since 1913 more legislation of economic
value to the common interests than the Re
publican organization so much as conceived
through all its decades of power.
In its entirety the platform is one of which
Democrats may be proud and to which in
dependent, progressive voters can rally with
a will. It is a product of liberal thought,
broad sympathies and untrammelled discus
sion. Some things which some delegates
wished inserted were left out, and some
things which others wished omitted were
put in. But there was no dragooning, and no
dodging; all issues were squarely met and
fairly settled on the convention floor. More
over, such differences as there were con
cerned matters of detail or methods, for the
most part, rather than broader reaches of
policy and obligation. No duty was side
stepped; no principle was sacrificed. An
honest, high-minded declaration it is, worthy
of a great party, a great people, and a mo
mentous time.
An LL.D, of the Soil
DEAN SWIFT reports a savant of Brob
dingnag as holding that “whoever
could make two ears of corn to grow
upon the spot of ground where only one grew
before, would deserve better of mankind, and
do more essential service to his country,
than the whole race of politicians put to
gether.”
It is in the spirit of this generally acknowl
edged but too sparsely practiced wisdom,
that Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario,
has conferred the honorary degree of LL.D,
upon Seager Wheeler. Mr. Wheeler’s notable
achievement is not in letters or art, not in
science as that term is usually taken, and
certainly not in politics. He is a farmer, a
“small” farmer, as we would say, owning
some one hundred and fifty acres and lead
ing a delectably simple life. But within his
little realm he has thought and wrought so
effectively that all the great Northwest is
his beneficiary. He has brought the produc
tion of wheat up to eighty-two bushels an
acre and “has developed its varieties to such
an extent that the Canadian farmers have
made millions of dollars on his efforts and
researches.”
In honoring such service Queen’s Univer
sity honors herself, and sets a goodly example.
Georgia, it is pleasing to observe, has been
liberal of late years in recognition of agri
cultural talent. Banks and business houses
and railway companies have provided sub
stantial prizes for special attainments by the
boys and girls of the corn, pig and canning
clubs. One of the excellent units of the state
University, moreover, is the College of Agri
culture, whose degrees are coveted distinc
tions and whose worth to the Commonwealth
is beyond measure. Still, much remains to be
done in giving the creative tiller of the soil
his rightful meed. Work like his and like the
scientist’s shoul dbe ranked, along with the
artist’s, in the forefront of appreciation. The
producer, the explorer, the inspirer—are not
these the flower and happiest fruitage of our
humanity?
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A Better Wheat Prospect
THE outlook for the staple grain crops,
which earlier in the year was anything
but cheering, has grown distinctly
brighter. “Winter wheat,” runs a recent re
port, “promisee to be above five hundred
million bushels, and spring wheat tn Mon
tana, the Dakotas and Minnesota is doing
well.” The acreage curtailment of wheat,
amounting to some fifteen or twenty per
cent, appears to have been offset in large
measure by an extension of corn, “which has
a good stand, plenty of moisture at this time,
and is well advanced.” It is thus expected
that the net harvest result, if no disaster be
falls, will be plenteous, giving us about as
much grain, the carry-over included, as we
last year.
By no means does this imply, however,
that the need for thorough-going conserva
tion is past. Relieved though we are of the
distressful leanness threatened some months
ago, general conditions of food output and
supply are still far from normal. Europe’s
harvests this year promise to be larger than
at any time since 1915; but at that, they will
lack a vast deal of being adequate. In the
United States, the failure of production to
keep pace with growth of population—a ten
dency marked for the last two decades—
contends. While rejoicing, therefore, in the
brightened prospect of the coming crops, we
are admonished to remember that economy
is still needful, and, above all, that only a
continued as well as liberal increase in food
production will reach the root of the prob
lem.
Peaches by Airplane
IT is in no wise extravagant, if we may
judge from tendencies elsewhere, to
look forward to a time when Georgia
peaches will be shipped to their Northern
markets by air instead of by rail. Thus a
plane-load of delectable Belles or’Elbertas,
red-ripe and brimming with nectar, would
leave the orchard at sun up and be served
at New York tables on the evening of the
same day.
Enterprise of this sort is being developed
in England with goodly prospects. A London
dealer of conservative type is quoted as say
ing: “Aerial transport of perishable goods,
particularly choice fruits, such as oranges, is
in sight. There should be a big difference
between the luxury market value of, say, an
orange picked when ripe and served in Lon
don before it has ‘gone off,’ and an orange
picked when unripe and allowed to mature,
so far as it can, during its slow transit by
THE INSANITY PROBLEM
By H. Addington Bruce
'tt TRITING in the North American Review
; y y more than ten years ago, I called at-
I ’ tention to the rising tide of mental and
i nervous diseases in the United States. As I
I then pointed out, the population of state hos
i pitals for the insane had grown from barely
■ 40,000 in 1880 to more than 150,000.
j The tide continues to rise. There are now
i at least 200,000 inmates in state hospitals, with
i probably as many mentally diseased persons be
ing cared for in private institutions or in their
homes.
Meantime, as a means of helping to check
the increase in insanity as well as to insure
humane treatment of the insane, the national
committee of mental hygiene was organized,
thanks chiefly to the enlightened zeal of Mr.
Clifford W. Beers. Out of this numerous state
societies and committees have developed, to
gether with similar bodies in Canada.
And undoubtedly many men and women have
been saved from insanity thrpugh the work of
the mental hygiene associations. Which, how
ever, only goes to emphasize that something
more is necessary if the problem raised by in
sanity is ever to be satisfactorily solved.
That something, it is safe to say, is syste
matic study of the causes of insanity, followed
by remedial action to remove those causes, so
far as their removal is possible.
Os course, a good deal is already known as
to causes. If this were not so, the activities
of the mental hygie’rte, societies could not have
had the good results they have had.
But that not enough is known is evident
from the continuing increase in hospital popu
lation. And the lamentable fact must be added
that systematic study of the causes of insanity
is almost non-existent in the United States even
today.
The various states make large appropria
tions for the care of the insane. Necessity and
a growing humanitarian sense have driven them
to this. None provides, as all should, for re
search that will tend to lessen the occurrence
of insanity.
In New York more than $8,000,000 a year
is appropriated for the custody of the 38,000
insane in that state. A beggarly $25,000 a year
is annually provided for the Psychiatric institute,
where much work besides research has to be
Yet is has been estimated (by Horatio M.
Pollock) that SIOO,OOO a year might well be de
voted by the state to the study of a single type
of insanity—dementia precox—which more than
any other helps to crowd New York’s hospitals
for the insane.
In Illinois, according to Dr. Bayard Holmes,
not a cent of state funds can be spent for re
search, “despite a double-headed psychopathic
institute.” Massachusetts, a state noteworthy
for its care of the insand, only has “a few
workers who steal time from service for broken
investigation.”
Everywhere the story seems to. be the same.
Everywhere there is lack of provision for “po
tent, concentrated, and unburdened resea.ch.
And everywhere the story will probably con
tinue to be the same until the public awakes
to the importance of spurring the authorities
to action which should have been taken long
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspapers.)
A PROGRAMME OF SELF
EDUCATION
By Dr. Frank Crane
There is hardly a young man or young
woman who reads these lines who cannot
give himself or herself a good general educa
tion. All that is needed is a determined will,
unflagging courage, and self-discipline.
Every one of them wastes time enough in
four years to secure advantages equivalent
to a college course.
Here is a program. Follow it, or as much
of it as you can. Put in an hour or two
every day at it. And it will - do you more
good than a million dollars. Go to the library.
Get books of primary instruction and study:
1. Some language, as Spanish or French.
2. History of English Literature.
3. History of the United States. Some
good book on the Constitution and Govern
ment, History of Politics.
4. Text-book on Economics. (Read “Prog
ress and Poverty.”)
5. Ancient History. History of Greece.
Os Rome. Os Europe in the Middle Ages.
History of England.
6. Composition. Text-book on Grammar
and English Construction. Practice writing
daily. ,
7. The Bible, together with History of the
Jews and the Life of Jesus.
8. Selections of Classic Literature, espe
cially Greek and Roman. Selections from the
French, German and English Classics. Use
translations. Take these along during your
vacations.
9. History of Art. Frequent the Museums.
History of Music. Hear as much good music
as possible. History of Architecture.
10. Read text-books on Botany, Physics,
Zoology, Entomology, Chemistry, Geology.
Ask your librarian, or High School princi
pal, or Y. M. C. A. educational director, etc.,
for more detailed information.
Don’t be discouraged that this list seems
formidable. Attack in detail. Always have
your book with you. Pucsue your studies as
a fad, a fancy. Get all the fun you can out
of it.
Get the habit. It is just as easy to get as
the magazine or novel or movie habit.
Be intelectually curious. Seek to know
everything. Keep your mind open, alert.
And it will mean money in your pocket,
power in your personality, culture, the com
panionship of the best, freedom from cults
and mob manias, and altogether richer and
fuller life.
(Copyright, 1920, by Fran cCrane.)
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QUIPS AND QUIDITIES
A famous Scotch minister of the last
century was very absent-minded, and many
amusing stories are told of this awkward
failing. On one occasion he had arranged
to preach in a certain church a few miles
from Aberdeen. He set out on a pony in
good time, but when near the end of the
journey he felt a desire to take a pinch of
snuff. The wind was blowing in his face, so
he turned the head of the pony around, the
better to enjoy the luxury. Pocketing his
snuffbox, he started the pony without think
ing to turn it in the right direction, and he
did not discover his error until he found
himself back in Aberdeen, at the very time
when he ought to have been preaching seven
miles.
An accusing glitter in her bright blue
eyes, Mrs. Monkton faced her husband.
“What is this long, dark hair on your
coat, Henry?” she demanded.
“Oh—er—a horse hair, my love!” stam
mered Henry, hoping for the best.
“Most likely!” sneered the good lady.
"And, no doubt, you got it in a motor car?”
“Exactly, my dear. The seat covering
was worn through, and some of the stuffing
came out.”
sea or rail.” In the same way, divers prod
ucts of soil and sea would become ten or a
thousand times more delicious to palates far
away from their source. The North would
taste of the true Southern paradise, and
distant inlanders get the real savor of the
brine.
Surely, there is no region of the globe of
fering richer material for such traffic than
Georgia.
CURRENT EVENTS
American construction companies
will be asked to undertake the work
of building new public highways in
volving the expenditure of approxi
mately $7,500,000 in the Republic of
Panama.
J. E. Lefevre, Charge d’Affaires of
the Panama legation at Washington,
has just received instructions by ca
ble from the president of the Repub
lic to get in touch with the larger
construction concerns in the United
States and ask them to send repre
sentatives to Panama.to discuss plans
for the road building program which
is to be inaugurated in the imme
diate future.
It is estimated that the program
worked out by Panama officials in
volves an annual expenditure of sl,-
000,000 and the sum of $1,500,000 will
be available to begin the work after
July 1 of this year. Four or five
years will be required to bomplete
the work mapped out.
Mr. Lefevre will go to New York
within the next few days to confer
with heads of the various companies
which are interested in the work.
Sarcoma cancer apparently has
been cured by treatment with an elec
tric needle, physicians at the Wo
men’s Homeopathic hospital in
Philadelphia, announced recently. The
patient was Henry Ayres, seven years
old, of Carney's Point, N. J. The boy
was brought to the hospital May
25 with cancerous growth behind the
right eye. The eye was removed and
treatment was begun with the elec
tric needle.
“The treatment is known as electro
coagulation,” said Dr. Robert Kropp.
"We applied the needle to all sur
rounding tissues, sealed the blood
vessels and apparently have pre
vented the spread of the sarcoma
cells which cause the disease to be
carried from one part of the body
to the other.
“As far as we know this is the
first time the electric needle has
been used in treating cancer. It is
apparently a success and we expect
to discharge the boy within a few
days as cured.”
The dream of the alchemists of
the middle ages, who toiled over
alembics and retorts in the hope of
transmuting base metal into gold,
may become true in this modern age.
Prof. Frederick Soddy, of the
chemistry department of Oxford
university, in says it is
quite possible to make gold from
mercury or lead. Here is his formula:
“To get gold from mercury, expel
from the atom of mercury one beta
particle which will make thallium;
then one alpha-particle, which will
turn the thallium into gold. To get
gold from lead, expel from the atom
of lead one alpha-particle, which will
turn it into mercury, and proceed as
before.”
Investigators are already at work
testing the method. It sounds easy;
but what will be the result if men
learn to manufacture gold? The
jewelry adornments of women, now
so precious, will be changed into
baubles without value.
In a statement given out in Chi
cago: The Baptist Northern conven
tion closed recently. By a vote of
690 to 1,422 the delegates refused to
censure the Rev. J. W. Brougher,
of Los Angeles, for marrying Doug
las Fairbanks and Mary Pickford by
dropping him as a member of the
executive committee, but adopted a
resolution urging more uniform di
vorce law to do away with “the scan
dal of easy divorce states.”
The resolution also urged the Bap
tist ministry “to hold rigidly to the
Scriptural standards regarding di
vorce, and that they"**carefully avoid
any action that would weaken the
influence of minister and church in
regard to this matter which all the
church seeks to promote.”
A dispatch from Paris relates that
only four pieces of the jewels of
the late Gaby Deslys, which brought
$560,780 at auction, passed into the
handp of private individuals. Paris
jewelry firms bought the rest of the
dancer’s gems.
Among the four articles sold to
Gaby’s personal friends is a belt and
clasps made entirely of American
gold coins. With the money value
of the belt and clasp amounting to
$377 in American gold, which at pres
ent exchange rates ought to have
brought at least S9OO, the price paid
by the anonymous buyer was SB2O,
while the four articles so purchased
brought a total of $3,000.
A new model of machine gun, oper
ating by centrifugal force and us
ing no explosive, is being secretly
tested by army officials and other
governmental experts at the bureau
of standards in Washington. The
weapon is said to have a capacity
of 11,000 shots a minute against the
500 or 600 of the present types of
explosive gun.
The great advantage of the cen
trifugal gun, army experts say, will
be in its noiseless operation.
The .gun consists of a rotating
barrel, approximately one-half inch
in diameter, attached to motor-driven
shafts, the speed of which is under
instant control. By varying the
speed of the driving shaft the oper
ator controls the range.
At a distance of six inches from
the muzzle of the gun the projectiles
have penetrated seven inches of pine
wood.
London’s welcome proved too much
for Mary Pickford. On a doctor’s ad
vice she has gone to the country for
a few days to avoid the crowds at
the Ritz hotel, which now must seek
another spectacle until Monday, at
least. Douglas Fairbanks, looking
down to the crowd, said:
“I knew I had married the world’s
sweetheart, but I did not know I
was to honeymoon with all the
world.”
Mary, who is nervous as a result
of yesterday's mobbing, and her
husband, are spending the week-end
with the Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland at Sutton Court, Guil
ford.
Today in order to leave the hotel,
Douglas was compelled to carry his
wife through the crowd to a wait
ing automobile, while a dozen con
stables held the people back until
the car started.
The treatment of women in Egypt
is the darkest phase of Egyptian life,
say G. N. Barnes, of London, and
member of parliament, who has re
cently returned from a tour of that
country.
The men in Egypt, said Mr. Barnes,
so far as sex relations were concern
ed, thought themselves the lords of
creation. They could divorce their
wives at will, without whim or rea
son, and it was not uncommon for
a man to have three wives.
“In many houses,” continued Mr.
Barnes, “I never saw a woman, and
you can take it from me that the
position of the women*in Egypt is
absolutely one of serfdom and de
pendence. They spend their lives in
miserable hovels, in working in the
adjoinirig fields or in getting water.
“They are the serfs of the men
and as much beasts of burden as the
donkey and the camel. A people
which uses women folk in that way
are destined to be a subject race
and do not deserve to govern.”
An attachment for $25,000 against
the property of General Emiliano
Chamarror president of Nicaragua
and former minister to the United
States, was signed by supreme court
Justice Tierney in an action by
Henry Klrchman, Jr„ in a suit for
breach of contract. The facts of the
claim were not Stated in the papers
filed with Sheriff Knott.
The attachment was served on
Charles Breen, assistent secretary of
the banking house of G. Amsinck &
Co., which is said to hold funds be
longing to the president of Nicaragua.
An experiment to show the bullet
proof property of a special kind of
glass manufactured for banks was
given in the shooting gallery at po
lice headquarters for the benefit of
bank representatives and interior
bank architects. Bullets were fired
from revolvers at distances varying
from three to six feet, but the glass
was not punctured. It merely crack
ed.
The glass is made in three layers
and is three-quarters of an inch
thick. Its thickness does not impair
the transparency. It was regarded
by those who attended the demon
stration as an important advance in
its field.
Mrs. T. G. Winter, of Minneapolis,
was chosen president of the General
Federation of Women’s Clubs at the
recent election, it was announced at
the biennial convention at Des
Moines, la. , .. <
THE MELLON
MYSTERIES
By Frederic J. Haskin
PITTSBURG, Pa., June 30. —If
you think that the solving of
million-dollar mysteries is
confined entirely to detective
stories and the movies, you should
visit the Mellon institute, of Pitts
burg, and see how it is done in real
life.
That is the institute's business —
solving the various mysteries which
baffle and obstruct the path of
American industry. That is what
the Mellons, Andrew W. and Richard
8., the well-known Pittsburg bank
' ers, founded and endowed it for.
While the institute is operated as a
part of the University of Pittsburg,
and is often mistaken for one of
thd university’s buildings, it really
leads an Independent life, with its
own separate bank account, its own
board of directors, and its own fel
lowship system.
Working in its many splendidly
equipped laboratories are experts,
sent to it from all, parts of the coun
try by manufacturers and corpora
tions who are anxious to improve the
quality of their products, or to dis
cover newer and cheaper processes
for making them. Every kind of
commercial product, from soap and
cement to oleomargerine and glue, is
exhaustively studied here, often with
million-dollar results.
Each manufacturer pays for his
own particular line of experimenta
tion by endowing a fellowship
(sometimes two or three) in the in
stitute upon the understanding that
he shall receive exclusive title to any
results obtained. That is, any new
processes invented by the scientist
selected for the fellowship are the
property of the manufacturer. It is
also agreed that the nature of the re
search shall be kept absolutely quiet,
unless the manufacturer or corpora
tion interested permits it to be made
public. Hence, many of the most in
teresting problems being worked out
at the institute are clothed in dark
est secrecy, and the visiting public
is merely permitted to smell the ex
periments that are going on. To
most of the laboratories, however,
one is given free access and gracious
ly allowed to ask as many questions
as one likes.
Wandering thus inquisitively about
the various laboratories of the insti
tute the other day, the reporter came
upon a young man bending tenderly
over a box containing numerous glass
jars of peanut butter. Upon ques
tioning him, we found that the box
and not the peanut butter was the
cause of his solicitude. The box was
made of fiber board, and the young
man was a fiber board fellow.
It seems that some years ago the
fiber board industry, was losing
money because it could not prove
that its fiber board product made
just as strong a container as wood.
The railroads held that all corru
gated fiber board boxes used as con
tainers for freight shipments must
meet certain specifications—that is,
the fiber board used in their con
struction had to have a certain min
imum thickness, and it had to pass
a specified bursting test. This burst
ing test was made with a machine
called the “Mellon Paper Tester,”
which was not particularly designed
for testing corrugated board, but
which was used for lack of anything,
better. The results were unsatisfac
tory, and consequently the railroads
refused to permit anything weighing
more than ninety pounds to-be ship
ped in fiber board containers.
So the fiber board industry found
ed a fellowship at the Mellon insti
tute, with directions to prove, if pos
sible, that fiber board would stand
up under much heavier loads.
He Found the Answer
“And we have,” said the young
man, running a finger over the
heavy corrugated lining of the fiber
board box, although we had to in
vent a new machine to do it.” He
pointed to a queer looking apparatus
on a nearby table. “That’s our new
Webb paper tester, indorsed by the
United States bureau of standards,”
he explained. “It shows that fiber
board can easily stand up under 100
pound shipments, and even heavier
ones.” •
Besides contributing this impor
tant invention, the fiber board re
search men at the institute have dis
covered several substitute materials
to be used in the manufacture of
fiber board,, which are much cheaper
and just as good as the ones original
ly used. For instance, in place of
the former expensive cambric tape
used in sealing the joint of a cor
rugated fiber box, a new tape, half
paper and half cloth, has been de
vised which costs just about a frac
tion as much and answers the pur
pose eually as well.
Sometimes the results obtained
from the research at the institute
are not so satisfactory to manufac
turers, but q,t least they are grati
fied to know the truth. For example,
not long ago, the manufacturers of
butter substitutes endowed a fellow
ship at the institute, in the hope of
proving false the charge of physi
cians concerning oleomargerine and
other vegetable outters —namely, that
they did not possess the important
vitamines contained in butter. The
scientists engaged on this work have
not been able to refute this charge,
but they have proved that butter
substitutes are as good as butter, if
the lost vitamines are replaced by
some other item in the diet, such as
milk and green vegetables. It is al
so possible that before they finish
their work they may succeed in cap
turing an elusive vitamine or two
and injecting it into the recipe for
butter substitutes.
The quest for important indus
trial secrets is a long and tedious
business, often requiring years of
research work to demonstrate 'what,
in the end, appears as a simple,
common sense fact. Months of pre
liminary investigation must often go
by before the research man even
starts his work on a new process.
Thus, as one of the directors of the
institute points out, patience is a
cardinal virtue in the manufacturer
who wants to profit as much as pos
sible from research work. The world
was not made in a day, although to
look at it anyone might think so,
and industrial mysteries are not
solved in a week or two. This state
ment ig rather humorously corrobo
rated by a manufacturer endowing
a fellowship at the institute for
some dental research work. What
was wanted was a new dental cement
which would fulfill the requirement*
laid down by a prominent dentist,
dean of one of the large medical col
leges.
Workers Cannat Hurry
“After signing the contract for the
research,” this manufacturer says,
“I expected in two or three weeks
that chemist assigned to our
undertake e would begin to show
signs of li>*. But when I went out
to the laboratory about a month
later to find out what progress he
was making, where do you suppose I
found him? He was squatted in the
library, surrounded by a stock of
books that he couldn’t see over.
“He told me he hadn’t the remot
est idea in the world whether or not
he was going to be able to pro
duce a material even as good as oth
ers already on the market, much
less fill the large order we had given
his chief, but he also told me to go
back to my desk, look as pleasant
as possible, and sit down and wait.
“We waited, and we proceded t >
wait all during the first year. At
the end of that time, since the fel
lowship was terminated and we had
paid our money, we had the privilege
of taking our choice of two cements,
developed by our chemist, neither of
which was worth manufacturing.
“Our board of directors discussed
the situation for two or three days.
We looked at it from every angle,
with the, result that we decided to
stick. We faced a big loss anyway,
which would never be anything but
a loss if we quit. And we were 12
months nearer the solution of our
problem. So we blindfolded the
treasurer and cut for a new deal.
“Then we proceeded to wait for
several more months, and finally,
incredible as it had come to seem,
our waiting was rewarded. One day
our chemist came tearing into my
office with his hair fairly standing
on end, and shouted, ‘l’ve got it!’
And he had—a new dental cement
which beat all of the products of its
kind on the market. But that day
was one year, seven months and two
days from the day we signed Up for
the research.”
Mrs. George S. Stillman and Ho
bart C. Chatfield-Taylor, Chicago,
author, were married in New York
recently in St. Bartholmew’s church.
The bride is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George H. Barbour, Grosse
TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
AS A WOMAN THINKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
I KNOW a great many happy,
contented wives and mothers,
and I know a far greater num
number of querulous, dissatis
fied, complaining ones.
I know many alert, alive, jolly,
optimistic business women, and I
know a legion of peevish, dis
gruntled, whining women who are
always knocking fate because they
have to earn their own bread and
butter.
Yet the lots of the happy and un
happy women, of the contented and
discontented, are precisely the same.
Both have certain joys and per
quisites. Both have certain cares
and burdens to bear.
The whole difference between them
lies in the point of view from which
they look upon life. To one wom
an the work which she has been
given to do in the world seems big,
and fine, and worth-while. To the
other her daily task is loathed
drudgery which she performs with
out interest or inspiration.
Consequently, one woman is hap
py, and the other miserable though
they walk side by side down the
same path. For as a woman thinks
so is she.
Take the case of the married wom
an. To the average woman the holy
estate is a vale of trials and tribu
lations in which she has to learn
humility and self-control; where she
meets iip with disillusionments and
hardships of which she never dream
ed, and is called upon to perform
labor, and make sacrifices of which
she would have believed herself in
capable.
She finds that instead of being a
romantic hero who is a combina
tion of Job and Sir Galahad and Mr.
Rockefeller, her husband is a poo.’
weak human man with a dyspeptic
stomach and raw nerves. Also, that
instead of having money coming to
him on wings, he earns it painfully
by the nickel so that she has to
squeeze every penny to get the most
out of it.
Likewise, she ascertains that in
stead of being pinfeathered little
angels, always rosy and smiling and
ready to be kissed, children are
mostly brats who need to be spank
ed and have their noses wiped, and
that they are prone to measles, and
mumps, and raiding the jam closet
Certainly the wife and mother of
an ordinary family has a strenuous
life of it, and whether she is a
martyr, or the blessed among wom
en, depends upon her point of view.
If she loves her husband and chil
dren better than she does herself
she gets pure joy out of it. There
is nothing menial in the hours she
spends over the cook-stove, pre
paring the food that gives them
health and strength. Nor is there
anything sordid In the pinching econ
omies with which she manages her
household, for she is helping her man
build up his fortune.
And there you are. Husbands are
dull or fascinating, children are
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
A Belshazzar Feast
Speaking of things that sound good,
how about a dinner of fried chicken,
hot biscuits, mashed potatoes, ten
der string beans, onion dressing.
Country Gentlemen corn and a black
berry dumpling? If you can stand
that in this day and time and get
away without serious stomach trouble
you are immune to any bad effects
from more than enough of good
things. Thomasville Times - Enter
prise,
No Flace for an Editor
Judge Bengemine Gillis has had a
shelter erected over the front of his
meat market to keep the shining rays
of the sun from spoiling his smiling
countenance. The judge says that
only a selected few are allowed to
lounge around this luxurious spot,
and that the editor was not Included
in the preferred number. But we
should worry, for we’ll stand at a
safe distance alone to be sure that
we are in good company.—Soperton
News. __
A Dubious Condition
And Glass has it that “the con-
JULIUS CAESAR,
WORLD CONQUEROR
BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE
Julius Caesar started out with the
modest intention of making himself
master of the known world. And he
did it. He was the son of an im
poverished old Roman family and
with a reputation for dissolute liv
ing, After dabbling in politics and
warfare, plunging into .many dissi
pations and undergoing a series of
dime-novel adventures he came to
this decision to master the world.
And he wasted no more time before
starting to put it into effect.
In looks he did not suggest any
thing very heroic. He was little,
thin, bald, hook-nosed and was sub
ject to fits of epilepsy. But he had
a flamnig ambition and a genius that
overbore all obstacles.
First building up a powerful po
litical faction at Rome and putting
himself at its head, he turned his at
> tention to the swarms of babarians
in nearby countries who were for
ever clashing with their Roman
neighbors.
Among these were the Gauls
(French), the Helvetii (Swiss), the
Belgians and the Germans —a mighty
horde of fierce and hardy men.
With a small army of Roman vet
erans Caesar set forth to subdue
these barbarians. For eight years
he battled against them—conquer
ing them in open fight and by strate
gy and by diplomatic skill.
He crossed the English channel
with his legions and made Britain a
Roman province. Nothing could
withstand his advance.
This unbroken string of victories
and conquests and annexed territory
an! wealth made Caesar tne idol of
tne people. But the same successes
stirred up against him a host of
political enemies, who envied his tri
umph and who feared his ambition,
j Caesar’s own son-in-law, Pompey,
I was at the head of this hostile fac
[ tion. Pompej had seized the reins
‘of power at Rome, and he feared
’ less Caesar might tear them from
; his hands.
So Pompey wheedled and threaten
ed and bribed the Roman senate —as
Caesar began his homewjjul march—
to bid the conqueror resign his com
mand and to come home as a pri
vate citizen.
Should Caesar refuse to obey and
to submit himself to this cruel dis
grace, sentence of death or of exile
was to be passed upon him.
Caesar got word of the order just
as he reached the Rubicon river,
which formed the boundary of Ro
man soil. If he should obey he must
leave his veteran troops here and
go on to Rome, humbly, as a mere
servant of the senate to yield him
self into the hands of his enemies
and to see his career smashed for
ever.
Sht uld he disobey he was an out
law. Should he lead his legions
across the Rubicon into Roman ter
ritory it would be an act of war
against the senate.
His whole future hung on his act.
He took his choice of the various
evils and decided at once on his
course of action. He crossed the
Rubicon with his army and bore j
down upon Rome.
Pompey and his other foes, at
news of the popular hero's approach,
fled for their lives. And the Roman
people received Caesar with open
arms.
Nothing henceforth could oppose
him. He continue!! his conquest of ;
the known wor’d. In a very few ,
years he had male good on his soar- i
ing ambition. He was master of the j
cH-ilized earth.
It is thought nt might have gone;
a step further «nl have given him- i
self the title of king—changing ‘
Rome from a republic to an absolute
monarchy, with himself as its ruler.
But the dangers of assassins cut
short his career before he could
wreck its glory by this unpopular
act. I
burdens, or God’s own gifts; mak
ing a home is woman’s noblest
sphere or domestic slavery just
the individual woman thinks it is.
And similarly, making her own liv
ing is a career or a curse according
to a woman’s point of view.
The only difference between pleas
ure and work is our mental attit'.vi*
towards them. Golf is sport because
you have to pay out money for the
privilege of playing it. Hoeing pota
toes is work because you have to
hire somebody to do it for yoy.
A woman is having a regular pic
nic when she spends time and money
turning over lovely goods in a sln»i>i
or trying on imported frocks and
hats to see how she looks in them.
But she regards herself as a poor
unfortunate when she is hired to
handle pretty things in a store, or
serve as a cloak or hat model.
In reality there is no other such
fun as work. It’s the big game that
calls into play every faculty that one
possesses that keeps one strung up
to concert pitch all the time Jaecause
its stakes are real. You sire not
playing for counters. All you have
and hope for is staked on the out
come of your effirts.
Some women take this outlook on
earning their own living. They are
the bright-eyed, wide-awake, jolly
business women who have an Inter
est that never palls in their job.
There is always something new fr
them to find out about the thing they
are doing; there is always something
exciting happening in the way of
some new trade; they are always
looking ahead, building for the fu
ture; they are always striving to
wards some new goal.
The work may be hard. They never
notice it, so keen are they on re
sults. They do th® same things day
after day, but they see a myriad
new faces to even the most familiar
act. The hours are long. They are
all too short for what they wish to
acompllsh. They are classed as
working women. They glory in it,
for it means that they are not dolls
or parasites but capable human be
ings able to stand on their own feet.
They look with pity on the poc(-
lackadaisical creature who leans list
lessly against her counter, or sheds
tears all over her typewriter, and
laments because she has no man to
support her and has to earn her own
bread and butter. Still more do they
pity the woman who finds no inter
est in her work, who gets no thrill
out of the sacred joy of Independ
ence, and knowing that she has real
ly earned the contents of her pay
envelope, and is of some use in the
world, and so justified in living.
As a woman thinks, so is she,
Happy or unhappy, lucky or unlucky.
The' man she Is married to is a king
or a boor, justxas she sees him. Her
work is worth while or not, as sh«
visualizes it. What a pity every
woman can’t put the good thought
on herself and see her lot through
rosy glasses!
vention cannot afford to be either wet
or dry.” And he’s right. Not as
long as the rest of the country isn’t.
—Dublin Courier-Herald.
But Zb It Fair?
If it’s nice and fair for the men
to smoke cigarettes, why condemn
the women who make a practice of
the same thing? There are not two
standards of morals. AU are to ba
governed alike.—Walton
Some of 'Em Would
Another reason Why there Will be
not wet plank in the platform is that
Democrats will refuse to be respon
sible for a “woman, wine and song”
slogan.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Attention, Mr. Game Warden
The seining season opens July 1,
but there have been so many viola
tions of the fishing laws that there
are comparatively few fish left for
those who abide the law. Our people
need awakening to the necessity of
respecting the law, which was for the
benefit of all.—Sandersville Progress.
Solomon Made Her Famous
The Queen of Sheba got .her beauty
naturally, and it didn’t take news
paper sensationalism to make het fa
mous for it.—Thomasville Times-
Enterprise.
Education Does and It Doesn’t
There perhaps has not been a time
In our history when an education
seemed to count for as little in life
as It des now. Still it is our opin
ion that there has never been a time
when an education really counted
for as much. These are the problems
with which we have to combat in
educational work.—Lavonia Times
and Gauge.
No Belief From Bepubllcans
There is sad disappointment in
store for the person who expects any
relief from present conditions
through the Republicans, should they
come into control March 4, next. The
Republicans are hungry, and they
will wait long and move slow before
they do away with thousands of
useless federal offices created by the
Democrats during the war and still
continued two years after the fight
ing ceased. Instead of reducing z the
number of soft job holders the hun
gry Republicans are likely to in
crease them. —Lyons Progress.
Entitled to Bun
Not only the nominee, but every
delegate and visitor who perspired
through that grueling June conven
tion was entitled to a chance to
run for president, or some other lofty
reward.—Macon News.
He’s Anxiously Waiting’
McAdoo is willing. Certainly he
is, and he is really expecting a call,
too.—Columbus Ledger.
Platform Making
Some planks in a platform sug
gest their usefulness in the making
of a political coffin.—Rome News.
Tractor Versus Automobl*
Many of the agricultural farm
journals are saying that there would
be a lot more money in the bank to
Friend Harmer’s credit if he were
buying tractors instead of automo
biles. However that may be, it is
more than likely that he would be
in a far better position to buy and
support automobiles a few years
from now, if he would buy a tractor
now and start getting wholesale pro
duction from all the farm land pos
sible.—Cobb County Times.
. Keeping Abreast of the Times
If anyone would keep abreast with
what is doing and what will be done,
read the home paper.—Covington
News.
dAMBONE d MEDITATIONS
1 PAH SON 'LOW DAT 'AR •
FRESHLY-AAA'IED COUPLE ’
Ain' look so happy ;
WEN FOLKS THbWIN' RICE
AT 'EM. DIS PAWNIN',
BUT SHUCKS.' DAT WANT
NO RICE — HIT WUZ-
BLACK-EYED T
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