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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-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 Mo». 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday2oc 90c ?2.30 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes, tor 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 tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We' will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label tiaed for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription 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 cnnr.ot 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. 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- > 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? * f 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.) * 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 Copyright, 1920by McClure Newspaper Syndics*