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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 WU.I Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. Ur. Daily and Sunday2oc 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 <.50 Sunday "c 30c .90 175 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con 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- 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 used for addreasiug your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. la ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old a« well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. i l We canr.ot enter subscriptions to begin with baca num bers. Remittances should b e sent by postal order or registered mail. . . . Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. 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 THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. 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. > 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. » 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 Copyright, 1920 by McClure Hbw»p«p«r SyncHM ...