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The Democratic Nominee
THE nomination of Governor James M.
Cox, of Ohio, as Democratic candidate
for President is exceedingly disappoint
ing to the Republican party. All things con
sidered, he is the most formidable opponent
Harding could have, and the most available
leader for the country’s liberal rank and file..
His hailing from Ohio and holding so
strong a vantage ground in the confidence of
that great Commonwealth is in itself a fact
of prime political importance. Always a po
tent factor in national campaigns, the Buck
eye State is especially so at this juncture.
Fourth among the States in population and
fourth also in electoral votes, of which it has
twenty-four, it is certain to be one of the de
cisive' battlefields. A candidate could well
afford to lose six States like Arizona or X er
mont, if at the same time he could gain Ohio;
but losing that mighty fortress and one or
two like it, he would be hard-pressed to win
at all. Significantly enough, the Republicans
have never won a national election without
Ohio; the Democrats swept.it in 1912, and
it was a saving tower to them in 1916. Nat
urally, then, when the Chicago convention
turned to that critically important State for
its nominee, Democrats also looked thither
especially s<nce they had in the Chief Magis
trate of Ohio one of their party’s ablest and
most achieving leaders. Competent opinion
has held from the outset that Governor Cox
U < • -v” h ”, State against Senator Hard
ing, and thus deal one of the master strokes
on which victory so largely depends. This
consideration was strongly in the Governor’s
favor from the beginning of the San Fran
cisco balloting, and figured potently, no
doubt, in his nomination.
Far more important, however, than mere
expediences of this nature are the command
ing character and record which the Ohio
Governor presents —his sterling integrity, his
grasp of great affairs, his broad sympathies,
his dynamic quality as a doer of constructive
deeds, his democracy, his Americanism. The
lite story of James M. Cox is one that does
his country credit and wins the heart of all
who admire the courageous, the faithful and
the serviceable in men. Bred on a farm and
cast early upon his own resources, he worked
and ofttimes struggled for the things which
come, unsought to youths whose lines are
Liter, in softer places. For his education,
for his start in life, for his advancement
along the first untried paths of business and
professional investment, he worked and
strove and won, with no other aids 'than a
strong mind, a stout heart, an unswerving
honesty, and the true friends which those
virtues grappled to him.
It was upon the success and distinction
thus earned that he was nominated and elect
ed, as a Democrat, to Congress from the
Third Ohio district in 1910, and re-elected
two years later. His record in that capac
ity made him the logical Democratic can
didate for the Ohio Governorship in 1912.
In an epoch-marking campaign, which did
much to carry his State for Woodrow Wilson,
he overwhelmed the Republian machine, and
proceeded to carry out his pledges for bet
ter and more efficient administration of
Ohio’s afafirs. So thoroughly did he succeed
that in the following election he was fought
with unprecedented bitterness by the reac
tionary powers he had antagonized, and was
defeated. But in 1917 he “came back,”
mustering not only the Democratic and In
dependent vote, but also that of a consid
erable Republican element that was weary of
its party's unprogressive and unconstructive
ways. Rarely has there been enacted within
a single administration, whether State or Na
tional, so great and fruitful a body of need
ed laws as were written upon statute books
under the leadership of this Democratic
Governor—laws for the protection of onest
business against unscrupulous adventurers,
for the development Os rural resources and
opportunities, for justice to workingmen, for
the amelioration of prison conditions, and the
promotion of the common weal.
A great reformer he has proved himself,
but always with sane and constructive ideals;
a great liberal—a friend to the “plain peo
ple,” as Lincoln called them—but never a
truckler to ignorance or greed, never afraid
to stem a tide which demagogues would bow
to. In choosing an American of such charac
ter and capacity the Democrats have done
veil for their party, and well for their
country.
Why Not Settle Our Issues
Like Reasonable Beings?
WE frequently find ourselves on one
side or the other of an issue, scarce
ly knowing how or why, and then
proceed to muster wherefores for staying.
Temperament, prejudice, association, self
interest, class-interest, almost anything but
♦reason itself, easily sways us; but rarely
do we approach debatable matters in the
mood commended by my Lord Bacon,
“neither to reject nor take for granted, but
to weigh and consider.” Yet, a little quiet
considering will ofttimes discover truth and
bring concord where wars of words be
cioyci, and sharpen differences.
Never was reasonableness ( more needful
than amid the problems of present-day
America. Prejudice will not solve them, nor
ignorance, nor indifference, but only minds
which are open, straightforward and stur
dily in earnest. All too often those most
materially concerned rest content with no
tions preconceived or thrust upon them.
The railroad question, for example—how
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many business men have given it thought
beyond some narrow aspect touching their
particular affairs? “How many, we won
der," the Baltimore Sun aptly asks, “have
given fair consideration to the Plumb
plan? To our mind that plan is a bad
one; it would result in a deteriorated
transportation service and increased costs.
But it deserves consideration. It is a
straightforward, intelligently presented plan
for a solution of a problem.” Yet, the Sun
goes on to point out, the business rank
and file have taken scant pains to learn
even what it is, much less what it sig
nifies: “Their attitude may not have been
that of the United States Chamber of
Commerce members who, at their Atlantic
City convention, hissed a representative of
organized labor who said something they
considered disagreeable, but at any rate, it
has been apathetic.” Will it be surprising,
in such circumstances, if the railroad
question becomes a tug of war between ex
tremists, while the great body of the peo
ple—merchants, farmers, manufacturers,
the public, in short, who have most at
stake-—stand impotently by?
It is impossible, of course, to look care
fully into the countenance and credentials
of every project or idea that hails us on
the highway; scores indeed, are not worth
a wink’s notice, being but old beggars or
impostors tricked out in new garbs. Hav
ing only twenty-four hours a day for life’s
multitudinous claims, one needs must pass
many ajn inviting challenger by and stand
an inglorious neutral on many a ringing
field. Einstein’s theory of relativity, the
function of adrenal glands, Miss Amy Low
ell’s sallies into the New Poetry, the effi
cacy of lime as a remedy for tomato wilt,
the feasibility of the referendum in Czecho
slovakia, the authorship of the Epistle
to the Hebrews, the surest of the seven
proposed air routes across the Pacific, the
best of the budget plans suggested in
Congress, the import of tidings from the
rich shadows of psychic research—amongst
these and a host of other appealing issues,
one must content himself with a hearty
alliance here and there, an original judg
ment now and then, praying to be de
livered from cock-sureness and taking the
word of his betters, for paths he cannot
explore. But whether the question demand
ing an answer of us has to do with the
covenant of the League of Nations or the
projected charter for the -city of Atlanta,
or whatnot, let us deal with it, not as
creatures of mere instinct and emotion,
but as beings with reason whose decisions
have power for good or ill.
The Admirable Work of the
’Frisco Convention
ALL in all, the San Francisco conven
tion has written one of the most
admirable and auspicious chapters
in America’s political history. It has pro
duced a platform that meets the issues of
the time squarely and with the outlook of
liberal statesmanship. It has chosen candi
dates worthy of such principles and fitted
to muster the country’s forces of progress
and construction.
Where the Republicans evaded and
floundered, the Democrats have come
straight to grips with those questions of
national and international moment on
which the future’s chief interests will
turn. Where the party of Penrose and
Harding lobks back to a dead past, hoping
to revive old privileges and plutocracies,
the party of Cox and Franklin Roosevelt
looks to the living present with its mighty
problems and mighty inspirations. In the
platform made at Chicago there is next
to nothing to enlist the loyalty of forward
thinking men, because there was next to
nothing of human sympathy and vision in
the minds of them who designed it. But
the platform which comes from San Fran
cisco has the ring of a heart-born declara
tion promises are made to be
kept.
As for the nominees, the contract is
equally striking. Senator Harding, as the
country well knows, is of the Old Guard
Republicans and a pillar of the particular
group that has proved most obstrucitve in
the present Congress. Moreover, if we may
take the freely expressed judgment of his
own party’s leaders, he is without dis
tinctive ability, a good-natured gentleman
who can be depended upon to take advice.
Governor James M. Cox, on the contrary, is
one of the great dynamic personalities of
the time, a man with a record of high serv
ice and a spirit of Americanism at its ener
getic best, a liberal in the sanest sense of
that term, an unfailing friend of the rank
and file, an unswerving upholder of law and
order. Likewise his associate on the ticket,
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, has proved his
rare administrative capacity as Assistant
Secretary of the Navy and his power as a
constructive thinker. He will appeal both to
the conservative East and to the progres
sive West, and make the Democratic ticket
doubly worth voting.
Georgia, a Land of Honey.
THE advent of the Georgia Bee Keep
ers’ Association draws attention to
one of the State’s uniquely interest
ing and potentially important enterprises.
At the initial meeting, recently held in
Atlanta, were about one hundred apiarists,
all enthusiastic and duly appreciative of the
value in working together for their com
mon advantage. Informal discussion brought
out the fact that between one and a half
and two million dollars’ worth of honey is
produced and marketed in Georgia an
nually, and that the sale of bees them
selves yields a goodly sum.
With so substantial a beginning, the
industry is certain to grow apace and
reach large proportions. Nowhere this side
of the Elysian fields could it find fairer
and richer resources. Early springs, long
summers and lingering autumns, brimmed
full of blossoms up to winter’s frostiest
breath, conspire to make this Common
wealth a very Paradise for the buzzing
honey-brewers. Nor could one think of an
apter time for turning this latent treasure
to account than when sugar holds present
prices and sweets of all kinds are in ever
growing demand. In America the per cap
ita consumption of sugar has multiplied to
such an extent as' to absorb almost the en
tire world’s increase in production, and in
far distant countries, where a few decades
ago candies and cakes were luxuries for
the very rich, the mass of the people are
clamoring for them. The practical bearing
of all this upon the golden hives of Geor
gia is too obvious for comment.
The State’s bee industries, rightly fos
tered and promoted, will take rank along
with those of the orchardist, which were
in their Infancy not many years ago, and
will mark another rich achievement in
diversifying our sources of prosperity. The
Journal wishes the Bee Keepers’ Associa
tion the best of good fortune in Its timely
undertaking.
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The state treasury has “only” $19,767
over its obligations. If we had that much
surplus, we’d go out and proudly push
people off the sidewalk.
Birmingham is asking for a census re
count. Go to it. A good sport never “takes
the count” as long as there is a fighting
chance remaining. ,
TO STOP WASTE
By H. Addington Bruce
RIGHTLY accused of being a wasteful
pople, we shall forever be a wasteful
people until those of us who are par
ents make it a point to educate our children
in thrift.
This was the thought that flashed into my
mind when I happened to glance out of a
back window early the other morning.
Standing, upside down, on the little stretch
of grass I call my lawn was a child’s veloci
pede. It had evidently been there all night—
in a pouring rain.
It belonged to some one of the numerous
small boys in the neighborhood. Just to
which one it belonged I do not even now
know. But I do know that its little owner
could not have received the training in thrift
that his parents should have given him.
And I very much fear that unless some
body else-—or the dire hand of poverty—be
gins soon to impress certain important truths
on him he will grow to be a typical waster
when he reaches adult life.
For that matter, to be sure, poverty itself
might not suffice to teach him thrift. I
know, and you know, not a few poor people
who are notorious wasters.
No. There must be, in the homes of well
to-do and poor alike, specific education
against wastefulness if wastefulness is ever
to be abolished. The sooner parents who call
themselves patriotic appreciate this and zeal
ously give their children the needed educa
tion the better for the children and for the
land their parents profess to love.
The small boy who left his velocipede to
the destructive action of an all-night down
pour is only one of an alarmingly large num
ber of similar juvenile wasters—both boys
and girls.
You see them everywhere, thoughtlessly
ruining their clothes, their books, their play
things. Their motto seems to be, “There is
plenty more where this came from.” Unre
buking parents unwittingly confirm them in
this belief.
Were they taught that thoughtlessless
brings penalties, that destruction of their be
longings means personal loss to them, they
might at first feel hugely aggrieved. They
probably would.
But the habit of thrift —the supremely in
valuable habit of thrift —would little by little
become as truly a part of them as the habit
of waste is otherwise sure to become. In the
end they would be tremendous gainers.
As in the end would be the nation, now
so greviously afflicted by the wasteful ways
of myriads of its people who in their own
childhood were infected with the baneful
“Plenty more” idea.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
THE EASIEST WAY
By Dr. Frank Crane
An Inmate of a state prison writes me that
he is to take part in a debate on the subject:
“Resolved, That America is hypocritical and
Americans profiteers, and that America is for
the capitalists only.” He wants me to give
him some ideas upon the subject.
To ordinary, sane minds, of course, the
very statement of the question is absurd.
The majority of Americans are not hypo
crites, profiteers, nor capitalists. Neither are
they saints and Sunday Scool superintend
ents.
Tey are human beings.
As such they will run good and bad, the
same as the average scope of human beings
in any other country. Perhaps a little better.
There are two kinds of statements which
you may well doubt. One kind is the state
ment that any gi-oup of people are all good;
the other, that they are all bad.
The poison element of the resolution that
is to be debated in the state prison, however,
is the intimation that the hypocrites and
profiteers are typical in America. That such
persons do exist is beyond doubt. But they
are exceptions and not the rule.
The average American is honest and wants
to do the fair thing. Precisely as the aver
age woman everywhere is decent.
The small mind when it gets over-heated
is apt to read its own ideas into ths world.
The man who has been betrayed by a woman
thinks all women treacherous. If he has been
swindled by a church member, he jump to
the conclusion that all church members are
rascals. If he has been browbeaten by an
employer, he concludes that all employers are
tyrants. If he has been overcharged by a gro
cer, he assumes that all grocers are thieves.
This is not logic. It is a mild and com
mon form of insanity.
Another statement in the resolution is that
America is for the capitalist only. The ab
surdity of this, of course, is apparent to the
average person.
For those who are below the average, it
may be stated that the thing called “capital
ism” is a good deal of«a bugaboo.
\ The capital of the United States is not
owned by a few rich men. It is made up of
the savings of very many men in moderate
circumstances.
Capital is a hlessipg. Without it there
could be no civilization. The object of thrift
is to make capital. The aim of every working
man should be to become a capitalist. Who
ever has saved a dollar and put it in the sav
ings bank is a capitalist,.
Every healthy man is able to earn more
than he consumes. If he saves his surplus
and makes it work for him he is a capitalist.
And it is this surplus that makes the prosper
ity of the country. Those in charge of the
finances of great business sometimes do
wrong; but, as a rule, they are quite as
straight, as honset and as public-minded as
the man who works for three dollars a day.
Perhaps more so. For their position and
their responsibilities enable them to see bet
ter the advantages of co-operation.
In conclusion, it may be stated that in all
probability the inmates of the state prison
are very much like the people of the outside.
Some are bad and some are good.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)
—♦
Editorial Echoes.
How can you expect to buy a cigar for
five cents with vegetables as high as they
are?—Bridgeport Post.
So far, the presidential campaign, con
sidered as a whole, seems to have exhibited
all the sound and fury of a game of check
ers.—Anaconda Standard.
For the Democratic nominations: Glass,
of Virginia, and House, of Texas. Platform:
No stone throwing.—-Syracuse Post-Standard.
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Trade journals announcing next fall’s
styles in men’s clothing say they are to be
bulit on rather “sober” lines; but why rub
it in?—Salt Lake Herald.
A Toledo man says that outside of a res
taurant an oyster will live twenty years.
Under those conditions a man will live
longer than that, even.—Kansas City Star.
Mr. Volstead was affirmed by the supreme
court, but reversed by his constituents.?
Dallas Morning News.
Bryan not only met his Waterloo but
came near meeting his Light-Beer-And-
Wineloo, J „ u . .
CURRENT EVENTS
According to information from
Washington President Wilson has is
sued an executive order to the effect
that enemy aliens desirous of leav
ing the United States no longer shall
be required to obtain a permit from
this government prior to departure
unless the secretary of state so or
ders. The text of the order was made
public at the state department today
as follows:
“By virtue of the authority vested
in me by ‘an act to prevent in time
of war departure from and entry
into the United States contrary to
the public safety,’ approved May 28.
1918, I, Woodrow Wilson, president
of the United States of America,
hereby amend executive order of
August 8, 1918. ‘governing the issu
ance of passports and granting of
permits to depart from and enter the
United States,’ by the following pro
visions:
“1. Hereafter persons who by any
statute or proclamation may be de
fined as hostile or enemy aliens, and
who desire to department any port
of the United States for any desti
tination, shall not, unless the secre
tary of state so orders, be required
to obtain a permit of this government
prior to such departure. Such per
sons will be permitted to depart upon
presentation of passports issued, re
newed or vised by representatives of
their respective governments within
one year prior to the proposed date
of departure, accompanied by certif
icates of compliance with the income
tax law.
“2. No passports or permits to de
part from or enter the United States
shall be required of persons traveling
between points in the continental
United States and points in New
foundland, and St. Pierre and
Miquelon islands; provided that the
above exception has no application to
persons traveling en route through
the countries named to or from the
United States.
“WOODROW WILSON.
“The White House, June 27, 1920.”
Jeddah, selected for the meeting
between Lord Allenby and the king
of the Hedjaz, Is a spot that should
appeal to every member of the hu
man race who possesses a spark of
filial affection, for just outside the
city walls of Jeddah is the tradi
tional tomb of Eve.
A Turkish turban of the largest
size contains from ten to twenty
yards of the finest and softest mus
lin.
Three noted English women—
Queen 'Ann, Elizabeth Inchbald and
Harriet Lee—died on the first day
of August.
The smallest circular saw in prac
tical use is a tiny disk less than the
size of a silver quarter which is em
ployed for cutting the slits in gold
pens. These saws are scarcely thick
er than ordinary paper and revolve
about 4,000 times a minute. The high
velocity keep them rigid notwith
standing their thinness.
The greatest Zeppelin ever con
structed, the L-71, built in 1918 by
the Germans for the purpose of
bombing New York, was surrender
ed to the Pulham airdrome at Lon
don recently.
Recent dispatches from abroad
have described the supr-Zeppelin
L-71 as being 300 feet longer than
the Zeppelins which carried out
bombing raids on London during the
war. The airship was said to have a
cruising radius of 12,000 miles with
a speed of 100 miles an hour. The
Germans delivered the L-71 to the
British in compliance with the terms
of the peace treaty.
WASHINGTON, July I.—The Chi
nese foreign office has expressed to
the American legation at Pekin its
profound regret for the killing of
Dr. W. A. Reimert, an American mis
snonary, by General Chang-Ching-
Yao’s troops at Yochow, in the prov
ince of Hunan, several weeks ago.
In reporting this to the state de
partment today, the legation said the
Chinese government had ordered a
thorough investigation.
Because of the loss of the prov
ince of Hunan to the smithern forces
in China, General Chan-Ching-Yao
was deprived of the offices of mili
tary and civil governor of Hunan
by presidential mandates dated June
13 and 20, as well as of his military
command.
America has succeeded Germany
as the seat of educational accom
plishment, according to the Very Rev.
James A. Burns, president of Notre
Dame university, who addressed the
closing session of the Catholic Edu
cational association recently, in the
Hotel Commodore. He said that stu
dents, because of the war, were com
ing here from all over the world. A
resolution in opposition to the Smith-
Townsend bill, which would place all
denominational institutions under
federal confrol, was adopted. An
other resolution praised the Knights
of Columbus and other organizations
for their war work.
Improvement of the trade balance
of the United States with every im
portant geographical division of the
world was shown by the report of
the department of commerce for the
month of May.
t 0 Europe in May totaled
$383,000,000 and imports $92,000,000,
leaving a favorable balance of more
than $200,000,000, an increase of
$37,000,000 over the balance of April.
South America’s favorable balance
was reduced to $5,000,000, against
$29,000,000 in April, exports last
month aggregating $58,000,000 and
imports $63,000,000. Exports to In
dia were $76,000,000 and imports
$106,000,000 and this .country bought
$138,000,000 in goods from North
American countries, selling in return
goods worth $152,000,000.
Less than twenty-four hours after
his release from Blackwell’s Island,
Thomas Tobin, flfty-two years old,
to the Police as the “Wonder
Kid, a veteran pickpocket, was ar
rested on a Forty-second street
crosstown car. Detective Coy, of the
pickpocket squad, told Magistrate
len Eyck in the Yorkville court later
he had seen Tobin put his hands into
tne pockets of two fellow passengers.
According to the police, Tobin has
been convicted sixteen times in four
teen different states as a pickpocket.
Magistrate Ten Eyck sentenced him
to six months in the penitentiary.
A dispatch from Washington re
lates the Congressional Medal of
Honor was conferred upon Lieutenant
Herman H. Hanneken and Corporal
William R. Button, both of the ma
rine corps, for “extraordinary hero
ism’ displayed in leading the force
which killed the Haitian bandit chief,
Chariemange Peralte, near Grande
Riviere, Haiti, last October. Presen
tation of the medals was made at
the navy department by Major Gen
eral John A, Lejeune, the new com
mandant of marines.
As recounted in the official cita
tion, Lieutenant Hanneken and Cor
poral Button, disguised as natives,
on the night of October 31 led a
small detachment of gendarmerie
through a series of outposts flung
out to protect the bandit and finally
reached his headquarters. They were
discovered by the chief’s bodyguard,
upon whom Hanneken opened fire
with two revolvers and Button with
a machine gun. The next morning,
after the detachment had successful
ly driven off attacks by several hun
dred of Peralte’s follewers during
the night, the bandit chief and nine
of his bodyguard were found dead
at the scene of the first encounter.
Action probably will be taken by
the navy department within twenty
four hours in the matter of Rear Ad
miral Benton G. Decker’s recent at
tack on Secretary Daniels and As
sistant Secretary Roosevelt, it was
said by Acting Secretary of the Navy
Coontz.
Admiral Coontz declined to indi
cate what action he expected to be
taken, but said the matter had been
referred to Secretary Danels, now in
San Francisco.
Admiral Decker, commandant at
Key West, charged Daniels with hav
ing “intentionally and deliberately”
misrepresented certain • facts in his
testimony before the senate commit
tee investigating naval affairs, and
a’leged that Roosevelt was sacrific
ing the efficiency of the navy for
poi.tlcal ends.
Presentation was made recently by
the National Geographic society to
the federal government of another
tract of 130 acres in Giant forest
containing more of ’ mammoth and
venerable sequoia trees which make
this area the scenic heart and nat
ural shrine of Sequoia National
Park, Cal.
Wanted: A Sherlock
Holmes
By Frederic J. Haskin
NEW YORK, July 3.—A wealthy
sportsman who is a man of
many flirtations is found
seated in an armchair of his
house with a bullet hole through his
brain. The wholetown is agog. All
of its detective brains are at work on
the problem, and all of its best news
paper talent is following them and
recording their every move. Yet
after weeks" ->f hard work, scarcely
to be excelled for thoroughness, no
arrest had been made when this was
written.
The mystery may be ultimately
solved, bpt if it is not, it will take
its place as one of a long list of un
solved murder mysteries. It is true
the police capture a large percentage
of murderers, but it is also true that
the total number of such mysteries
which are never-solved is very large.
And of these unusolved murder mys
teries you will note that a great
many of them have one thing in com
mon: they are not murders commit
ted for the purpose of robbery. This
means that they are not the work of
professional criminals, but of normal
and ordinarily lay-abiding men who
have been driven to crime by some
high passion such as jealousy, re
venge, or outraged honor.
These facts suggest that, while
our police and detective systems are
effective in catching professional
criminals, they are often helpless
when confronted with the work of a
man who is a criminal only by
chance. A study of modern detective
methods tends strongly to bear out
this idear. If you study these meth
ods you will find that they are noth
ing like the methods of the detec
tives of fiction, such as Sherlock
Holmes of Conan Doyle’s stories, and
the Dupin of Poe’s “Murders in the
Rue Morgue.” These imaginary gen
tlemen worked by logic. They de
pended for their success upon a grasp
of motive and character. They
worked out what Is popularly called
the personal equation. And these
fiction detectives were no doubt
based to some extent upon detec
tives who had worked in real life
before the development of crime de
tection as a science.
Foe as a Detective
These fiction detectives have been
much ridiculed because, it is said,
such methods as they used are not
used by real detectives. It is true
that they are not used by modern
detectives, but it Is not so certain
that they could not be so used. Poe,
in his famous story, “The Murder of
Marie Roget,” took a famous murder
mystery which happened in New
York, changed the name of the girl
and removed the scene of crime to
Paris. He then wrole his story, us
ing th# facts of the crime just as
they were, and hemade out a very
convincing case to the effect that all
of the detectives were working on the
wrong clue. He also pointed out
very convincingly what was proba
bly the right clue. He showed that
the detectives were wasting their
time in almost indiscriminate ques
tioning of persons who had been near
the scene of the crime, and in the
investigation of the scene itself and
the articles found there. He showed
that by studying the girl’s character
and associations, by constructing a
picture of her life, the man who had
killed her could bedlscovered if at
all.
If Poe were alive, the El-well mur
der would furnish him with precise
ly another such opportunity. For
fyere again the detectives have been
buzzing busily about the scene of
the crime. They have discovered
priceless facts as that Elwell bought
a paper just before he was killed,
that he paid a taxi driver 75 cents to
take him home, and that he had re
moved his false teeth when he was
shot. They have compiled a cata
logue of his flirtations. But, as far
as one can judge by reading the
newspapers, they have failed to
study the man’s life as a whole. With
a view to discovering the points of
contact which co,uld have given rise
to such a crime of violence. This is
the thing that Sherlock Holmes or
Dupin would have done, as soon as the
scene of the crime had definitely
failed to yield a promising clue.
No doubt it Is highly presumptive
to sit in a chair and tell other peo
ple how the thing ought to be done.
But is Is everyone’s privilege to
speculate about a great crime, and
we are going to have our fling at
it,
AS A WOMAN
THINKETH
BL HELEN ROWLAND
THE GIRL MEN HATED
Copyright, 1920, by’The Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.
THE other day,
I met a “sweet (?). old-fash
ioned Bachelor Girl”—
You know the sort I mean—
The kind who wears her brother’s
collars, flaunts a latch-key, bobs
her hair, walks with a stride of
sneers at marriage, poses as a "man
hater.”
And babies about “living her own
life!”
The last of an extinct species—the
Girl men hated!
Whew!
I never before realized hoyr anti
quated, how mld-Victorian, how ut
terly obsolete that type had become.
What a revelation these political
conventions have been!
Not that they’ve taught us any
thing about politics—except that
they v re something like a three-ring
circus, with a monte game on the
side—
But that they’ve taught us so
much about her own sex.
They’ve shown us, thank Heaven,
that Woman can be a figure in the
world, and at the same time a
WOMAN.
That she doesn’t have to be a blot
upon the landscape in order to “get
into the picture,”
That she no longer needs to POSE,
in order to prove that she has a
brain.
That the little head under a mar
cel-wave and a rose-wreathed hat
may be doing as much logical think
ing as the bald-pate under a pana
ma ,
That the woman can climb the lad
der of political success in an accor
dion-pleated skirt as well as in a
pair of bloomers:
That she can insert a plank in the
party platform as gracefully and
deftly as she can put a patch in
Hubby’s pajamas,
And can stand up for herself and
for her opinions without standing all
over a man’s toes, or pitting her
foot on his neck,
That she is, at last, SURE of her
self—
'So sure, that she doesn’t have to
pretend to *be something that she
ISN’T!
That she doesn’t have to go around
making a noise, like a small boy
whistling in the dark to keep up his
courage.
That she is neither a “menace” nor
a beautiful bluff!
That presence of MIND doesn’t al
ways indicate absence of BEAUTY.
That she has developed a sense of
humor, a sense of honor, and a lot
of common sense.
Without losing one atom of her
vanity and feminity.
That she no longer has to wheedle,
coax, or bully men—but merelly to
“reason" with them—
In short, that men are neither
demi-gods to be worshipped.
Nor “demons’ to me annihilated,
But just nice, ordinary, likeable,
lovable, "mere” people, like our
selves!
Farewell, “sweet. (?), old-fash
ioned Bachelor Girl!”
You have gone forever.
To join the “old-maid,” the "New
Woman.” "the mollusc." the howling
“militant.” and the "climbing vine,”
And all the other antiquities.
In life’s Museum of pre-historic
specimens!
Women no longer has to be any
thing—except a WOMAN’
Senor Manuel Gondra, president
elect of Paraguay who will arrive
by the Munson liner Huron, from
Bueros Aires, will be greeted down
tiie bay by a party headed by William
Wallace White, consul general of
Paraguay in this city, and will go
immediately after landing to Wash
ington to see his wife and his baby,
son, born last week.
Srnor Gondra is still Paraguayan
minister to the United States. He
will give up his portfolio and sail
soon for his homeland to be inaug
urated on August 15.
THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1920.
. DOROTHY DIX TALKS
WHAT WILL SHE DO?
BY DOROTHY DIX I ?
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer '
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
ONE of the perplexing questions
raised by the slaying of so
many young men in battle is
the superfluous woman
problem.
In England the women now out
number the men eight to one. On the
continent the preponderance of fe
males over males is probably just as
great, and even in our own country
the war disastrously upset the equi
librium of the sexes.
There are, therefore, a vast number
of women whom Fate has debarred
from following the usual occupation
of their sex—wifehood, and mother
hood. They cannot hope to marry
and thus find work for their hands
in making a home and an outlet for
their emotions and aspirations and
energies in rearing a family.
Neither can they look to any man
to support them, for when the oak
is felled the dining vine goes down
with it and mw. perish, or else find
somehow the strength to stand
alone. Its days of parasite are over
in a world in which there is nothing
left for it to fasten upon.
So the question of what thpse
women are to do to keep from being
a danger to themselves and society
is a very real one. For they are
young. They have lived their lives,
and are not ready to meekly accept
the drab existence of the old maid
who retires to the Spinsters’ Re
treat, or become an annex to some
body else’s family, and fills in her
days with sweetly romantic musings
on what might have been, and
dreams of the golden-haired children
she never had.
No. These young women are full
of pep and go. They bubble over
with health and energy. They want
the best that life can give them, and
if life has taken away from them the
chance of husband and home and
child it must offer some substitute,
some spiritual and mentaly and phys
ical escape valve. Otherwise the
pent volumes of feminine unrest and
energy will become as much of a
menace to the country as a dammed
mill race in flood time.
And the problem is how to find
this outlet.
I think it will be found in work,
and only in work. That is the one
panacea for grief, for disappoint
ment and blighted hopes, for the
longing that eats the heart out in
unavailing regrets. That is the one
thing that makes the individual life
worth living. Men have long known,
and applied the work cure to their
own soul sickness. Now let them
apply it to women. In mercy to her.
Open every door of opportunity to
her. Urge her to go into business.
Give her worth-while occupation.
Give her work that will use up her
strength. Give her interesting work
that will absorb her every thought.
Give her the work that pays.
Let her use up her creative in
stinct in calling new policies of sales
manship, new ways of doing things,
•new inventions into being. Let her
mother, nurse and coddle her feeble
business enterprises into healthy
growth. Let her put into office man
agement the feminine order and sys
tem and omniscience as to where
everything is, that she would have
put in keeping her house in apple-pie
order.
In a word, let these millions of
women espouse careers instead of
husbands, and have business suc
cesses instead of babies. Perhaps
the one may seem a poor substitute
A Suggestion to Georgia
The fine catfle and hogs greeting
the eyes of the Georgians going
west suggest, like the excellent west
ern farming, that stock raising,, hog
and cattle ■ raising might have its
unmistakable meaning for prosperity
and great wealth in Georgia. If one
must judge from the vast areas de
voted to that kind of farming in the
west, it is easy to say corn, grain,
hay, hogs and cattle will add mil
lions to the wealth of south Geor
gia.—Cordele Dispatch.
Shannon Favos the Way
There is one thing about Editor
Shannon that commends him tb us—
he always apologizes when he starts
to tell a fish story. This shows he
still sas a consience.—Alpharetta
Free Press. But “Uncle” John never
fails to interest his audience.
The Time to Speak
A Dawson young man calling on a
young lady remarked that the clock
was slow. “Yes,” she remarked, “it
wants to be a bachelor."—Dawson
News.
Note the Difference
An Alabama man has been sent to
the penitentiary for fifty years for
stealing goods amounting to $609 on
charges of burglary and grand lar
ceny. If he had been a $50,000
bank defaulter he would have re
ceived two years and a lot of flow
ers.—Walton Tribune.
An Explanation in Order
Speaking of bathing suits, it is
our opinion that the fellow who said,
“there isn’t much in ’em” should be
made to explain what he meant. —
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
A Good Suggestion
May we be allowed to hope that
the wozen or so domlngoes engaged
to pray for the San Francisco conven
tion will slip in a word here and
there for the people at large.—J. D.
Spencer, in the Macon Telegraph.
Swat the 801 l Weevil
Remember that every adult boll
weevil killed before eggs are laid,
means hundreds of thousands less
weevils later in the season.—Cedar
town Standard.
Adding to Prosperity
There is nothing that will add
more to the permanent prosperity of
the state than the drainage of swamp
lands. Georgia has thousands of
acres of swamp lands that ought to
be drained and put to work raising
food supplies.—-Jackson Progress-
Argus.
Tuning Up for the Convention
See by the papers where already
there is a great deal of “Bickering”
going on about the coming press
convention. As we understand it,
the “Simmons” has gone forth to
“Camp” at Carrollton, which is to
“Harber” the gang this year, and
which has “Nevin its life had the
press bunch. Those editors having
a wife are not to "Tucker” away,
but bring he r along. There will be
plenty of ice cream “Cohens” and
other things and their fair sex can
not be di-"Spencered” with. The
single ones unless we’re mistaken,
may even set their caps for a “Duke.”
—Shepper, in the Dublin Courier-
Dispatch.
“Howell” we know that “Herring’’
and “Bacon” will be included on the
menu and that "Comfort” will be all
around. “Woodall” attend if they
could to hear “Sousong” and othe r
“Carrolls.”
Deserved Fropoganda
Speaking of propaganda, there is a
lot of it that the average modern girl
holds in reserve around the family
dinner table, when, as a matter of
fact, that would be the place of great
est safety for its release. —LaGrange
Reporter.
Warning to Republicans
The other day in Stewart county
while in a plum orchard a negro man
was killed and his son wounded by
the accidental discharge of a shot
gun they had along. This should be
a warning to all not to hunt plums
with a gun.—Cuthbert Leader.
McDonough Faper Has New Owners
Wiley A. Clements, expert lino
type operator and ad and job com
positor, and B. S. Elliott, for many
years a prominent educator, have pur
chased the Henry County Weekly,
published at McDonough, succeeding
J. A. Fouche, who was recently elect
ed clerk of the superior court of
Henry county. The Weekly has been
published continuously for about
forty-six years and is a live, progres
sive paper that will be enjoyed un
der the able management of its new
owners. Professor Elliott will per
form the duties of editor, while Mr.
Clements will operate the new lino
type machine and direct the affairs
of the composing room.
“Early to Bed” in Clayton
The town council of Clayton. Ga.,
has passed a curfew law, not allow-
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
for the other, but it Is a condition,
and not a theory, that confronts us,
and under the circumstances the hus
bands and babies are an impossibili
ty, where the business success is not.
Even bread is not to be despised
when there Is no cake.
Nor is this Hobson’s choice for
the superfluous woman as bad as it
appears. Theoretically, love is the
only incentive to marriage. In real
ity girls marry for many things be
sides the grand passion. They marry
to get emancipation from the petty
tyranny of their parents. They mar
ry because they want a home or
their own that they can furnish as
they please. They marry oec&ase
they want an individual pocketbook.
Most of all they marry because the*'
are bored with having nothing deft
nite to do, and want to be about th
business of life. ,
All of these things the successfu.
business woman secures to herselt
far more than the married woman
ever realizes them, and, as a plain
matter of fact, her life is fuller o"
happiness, than that of any women
except those who have drawn the
headliner prizes in the great matri
monial lottery. .
The truth is that we have thought
of women so long in terms of domes
ticity that we are lost when we try
to conceive of them in any other
aspect. Our minds are in chaos
when we attempt to come out of the
kitchen and nursery, and visualize a
multitude of women who are not
cooking husband’s dinner, and darn
ing little stockings, and wiping little
noses.
Os course the difficulty in the way
of the superfluous woman’s accept
ing her husband-less fate philosoph
ically and making the best of it, isi
that she will have to first get over
the false teaching she learned at her
mother's knee. The curse of women
is that their emotions have been de
veloped at the expense of their rea
son, and that they have thought It
a credit to them to have more heart
than* head.
The result is that women put an
undue value on sentiment. They
must revise their estimate of love
and marriage as factors in happi
ness, and take the same rational
view of them that men do —a thing
to enter into joyfully if it comes
their way, and do without cheerfully
if Cupid falls to knock at their door.
But one thing the superfluous
woman problem should impress on
the minds of parents and that is the
necessity of providing their daugh
ters with some definite way of mak
ing a living, not only for the sake
of money, but to give the girls some
interesting occupation in, life, some
thing to think about and do, for
Satan finds even more work for idle
women’s hands to do than it does for
idle men’s.
Not for generations can a father
count securely in handing over his
daughter to some other man to sup
port. No girl is sure of getting mar
ried in these days. It’s a long shot
with the odds against them in the
husband-snaring game, for there
simply aren’t enough men \to go
around.
(But the girl needn’t mind if she
is self-sustaining. She can do for
herself as well as the average hus
band can do for her, and she has the
consoling thought that a good job le
better than a bad husband, and that,
anyway, the working woman is
never the superfluous woman. The
world needs her.
Ing boys under seventeen years of
age on the streets after 9 o’clock al
night.—Dahlonega Nugget.
Must Be a Moonshiner
We heard a man say this week that
his work had been so pleasant thai
he had enjoyed it just as much as ii
he had been on a vacation. Interesi
in one’s work, no matter what kinc
of work, is what takes the drudgerj
out of it.—Dahlonega Nugget.
A Fleasing Difference
The difference between a states
man and a politician is in the sac
that statesmen can keep their mouths
shut—Tallapoosa Journal.
Fretty Good Gas
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun opines
that if Rome’s gas supply runs ou
we might borrow a little hot air fron
Atlanta. Thanks, friend. If the At
lanta hot air could help us as it has
Atlanta we want a big supply of it.—
Rome News.
One Is Enough.
Many are “nominated,” but onl;
one is chosen. —Columbus Enquirer
Sun.
“Some Stunt”
It is some stunt to be preslden
through two terms and then be th
only Issue in the next ’ campaign.—
Americus Times-Recorder.
A LITTLE VENEER NEEDED
Many preachers are complainin
about the limited salaries they re
ceive. But what more cafi they ei
pect when congregations are force
to listen to the unvarnished trut
about themselves? —Griffin New
and un. <
WANTED: A WATERMELdN
It shouldn’t be long now before w
receive our first complimentary wi
termelon of the season.—Harvey ]
Haralson, in the Conyers Times.
RIVAL POETS
Fellow gave Ernest Camp, of th
Walton Tribune, a gourd and h
promised to write a poem on th;
gourd. Now, if some fellow wi
come along and give us a gourd lik
that filled with apple brandy, we wi
show that Walton man somethir
about poetry that he never dreamt
of and at the same time make ol
Byron and a few more of his ilk tui
over in their graves in envy. Bi
if a guy can write fioetry over £
pmpty gouard, we are willing to co:
fess that he can go some.—Bai:
bridge Post-Searchlight.
COMMENDING THE CRACKERS
The Atlanta baseball club is to 1
commended on its strong star
against the Little Rock club, as
the participation in games of pla;
ers with blemished records.—Green
boro Herald-Journal.
Approximately 600 iron puddler
members of . the Amalgamated Ass,
ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Worl
ers, did not report for work at tl
plant at Gerard, O„ of the A. J
Byers company.
The company announced that tl
bar mills would be kept running o
stocks now on hand for two week
after which 500 bar workers will t
made idle.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATION
PAHSON SAY wen I>E ole
'OMAN STAHTS LOW-RAT IN
ME,JES' STRUGGLE WIT
MAH TEMPUH, BUT LAW
ME’ TAINT MAH TEMPUH
AH STRUGGLES WH> —Hlri
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