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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOUR.X AL. Atlanta, Ga.
A Foolish Proposal for An
Outworn Project
A MORE needless and altogether un
warranted resolution could hardly be
imagined than that introduced in
the Georgia Senate "Wednesday proposing to
inject into the next State Democratic pri
mary the oft-settled and. outworn issue of
moving the capital to Macon. Surely the
proponents of this plan must see its folly
and unfairness. To drag such a matter into
a forum crowded with vital questions and
submit it to only a part of the electorate
having no authority to decide it, would be
arrant trifling. The sole result would be en
genderment of ill feeling between those who
oqght to be working heartily together for
the common weal.
The Constitution of Georgia prescribes
one method, and one only, by which it can
be amended. It specifies that a proposed
change, such as a removal of the State’s
seat of government, first shall be “agreed
to” by two-thirds of the members both of
the House and the Senate, and then shall be
submitted to the voters—not in, a party
primary, but in a general election. The fath
ers of the Commonwealth saw far and well
when they raised this safeguard against
rash adventures in changing the fundamen
tal law. They rightly reasoned that an
amendment of ample merit could secure, in
time if not at first, the assent of two-thirds
of the General Assembly, and then be prop
erly referred to the people. Some there are
it would seem, who would abol
ish this bulwark of representative govern
ment and launch us upon an unbounded sea
of swelling referendums. So long as the
State’s Constitution stands, however, its
mandates must be respected and its prin
ciples upheld.
Yet, in utter disregard of those principles
and mandates, nursers of the capital-removal
scheme now propose that their project be
revived from the limbo to which the Legis
lature time and again has consigned it and
be submitted to the voters in the autumn
primary. To what purpose? Regardless of
the result of such a referendum, the author
ity and responsibility in the matter still
would rest with the Legislature, and not un
til both the House and the Senate by a two
ihirds majority had "agreed to” the pro
posed change in the Constitution could an
Amendment be legally submitted to the peo
ple’s consideration. Why is it that our friends
the' Removalites persist in seeking extra-
Constitutional methods? Why will they not
take the course which the advocates of oth
er Constitutional amendments pursue? Why
will they not make their fight upon the*
grounds and within the lines which law pres
cribes, instead of resorting to shifts and
stratagems like that they now advance?
A Highly Important • Matter
For Georgia's Schools
URGING the adoption of Superintendent
Brittain’s recommendation that coun
ty school superintendents be elected
by popularly chosen boards rather than di
rectly at the polls, in the heat and tangle of
politics, the Savannah Morning News well
says that these officials should be “skilled
men, chosen not for their political prom
inence (or prowess), but for their knowl
edge of the task they undertake; politics is
not good for schools.”
The wisdom of this view, long evident to
close students of educational affairs, is ap
pealing more and more strongly to the
thoughtful rank and file. Many who once
felt that democratic principle required the
election of county school superintendents
along with those who make laws and per
form functions of a distinctly representative
nature, are coming to see that these two
types of public service are quite different;
and that while it is to the people’s interest
to choose the one by general ballot, it is
just as emphatically to the interest to leave
the selection of the other to men especially
commissioned for the purpose.
The qualities and attainments that make
an efficient superintendent of schools are as
likely as not to make the poorest sort of a
politician; indeed, the best school man, as a
rule, will have a sharp aversion to politics,
and certainly will begrudge every moment
that it takes from his professional duties.
Yet, If his tenure depends on the adroitness
with which he can please all men at all
times, how can he be steadfast in the diffi
cult paths of his work and true to its higher
leadings?
Or can she majority of us, ingrossed as
we are in demands of the farm, the office
and the shop, competently judge of the fit
ness of an applicant for a position that re
quires highly specialized training as well as
native capacity? Surely a board of citizens
expressly assigned to this task and giving it
persistent thought and effort can do better
by the schools than the hurried mass of us
compelled to choose without special investi
gation and ofttimes amid a labyrinth of per
sonal and petty politics. It is the good of
the schools, after all, that is supremely im
portant. Any plan that militates against
their best administration and the best ob
tainable results for the children, ie a bad
plan and ought to be abolished.
It is greatly to be hoped, therefore, that
the General Assembly will see fit to place
the selection of county school superintend
ents within the province of boards or com
missions, themselves elected by the people,
and to leave such boards free to seek the
best man regardless of narrow county lines.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
The Purpose and Progress
of the Latest Fling in War
IT is like old times, this reading of bulle
tins from the battle front. A battle front
there is, and a stormful one, notwith
standing that the gune of Flanders have been
silent these many months and the treaty of
peace accepted by every capital of Europe.
War has broken out again.
The Turkish Nationalists, under the fiery
and resourceful leadership of Mustapha
Kemal Pasha, months ago defied the terms
of the Versailles settlement, to which the
Government at Constantinople bowed, and
brought about in Asia Minor a situation that
gave the Allied Council anxious concern.
The insurgents not only made readjustment
and reconstruction in Anatolia next to impos
sible, but also threatened to raise, soon or
late, a storm against Constantinople itself.
Countervailing measures of a vigorous ria*
ture were needful—imperatively so. But
just what should they be, and to whose exe
cution entrusted? After much indecision
and fumbling the Entente—that is to say,
France, Britain and Italy—took the line of
action w'hich, from the outset, seemed to
most observers the obviously right one: they
assigned the business of subduing Kemal and
his menacing cohorts to Greece.
It was an adventure which the mistress of
the Aegean heartily welcomed and for which
she was well circumstanced and prepared.
On June the 22d last she launched upon her
commission, with a forecast from Premier
Venizelos that three weeks would see it
roundly performed. Oversanguine though he
may have been, the/campaign certainly has
moved with speed and effectiveness. Its
first objective, which now may be considered
almost, if not altogether, attained, was to
clear northern and western Asia Minor of
the Turkish revolutionist forces and so re
move the menace to Constantinople. This ac
complished, the enforcement and administra
tion of the treaty’s terms for that quarter
of the East will be greatly simplified.
Th initial stroke of the Greeks was to ef
fect a union of their forces dispatched from
Athens and those sent up from Smyrna. The
former, having landed at Panderma, on the
Sea of Marmora, moved on a southwesterly
line, while the former pressed northward.
Between these contingents, comprising thir
teen army divisions, lay the enemy’s coun
try, the pivotal point of which was the town
of Baliserki. There the Turkish Nationalists
mustered for their strongest stand, while the
Hellenic forces drew together. The outcome
is described in the official report to Athens
as “a crushing defeat” for Mustapha Kemal’s
army, of which “only scattered remnants suc
ceeded in fleeing to Brusa.”
Brusa thus becomes the next Greek ob
jective. That it will be taken is considered
altogether likely; in which event the enemy
will be driven into the country’s rugged in
terior and reduced to guerrilla warfare. To
what length or with what vigor the Greeks,
as representatives of the Powers and of civili
zation, would pursue him thither is doubtful.
Having put an end to the threat against Con
stantinople and having gained control of the
i ail way to Bagdad, they probably will rest
content, leaving Kemal’s cause to die of in
anition. Certainly the achievement of those
two ends will be of capital service in the
pacification of the Near East and will add
much to both the security and renown oi
Greater Hellas.
Something About Georgia
GEORGIA, the largest State this side
of the Mississippi and most versatile
in all the Southeast, offers opportu
nity to wise operators in many lines of en
deavor. Long known as the “Empire State
o' the South,” she is yearly gaining in pres
tige and assuming leadership in scores of
progressive movements. She is a distinctive
ly American State, being among the thir
teen Colonies and having one of the lowest
percentages of alien population. Among oth
er things, it may be said of Georgia:
That she was the first Southern State to
sign the Constitution.
That she was the first State to declare for
free schools, Richmond Academy being the
first free school established.
That the University of Georgia was the
first State university in the Union.
That William Longstreet, a Georgian,
made the first successful trip with a steam
boat.
That Dr. Crawford Long, a Georgian, dis
covered the anaesthetic properties of ether.
That the cotton gin was invented in Geor
gia.
That Georgia was the first State to ship a
bale of cotton to England.
That Georgia established the first orphan
asylum in the United States.
That Georgia.was the first State to char
ter a female college—Wesleyan, in Macon.
That a Georgian made the first sewing ma
chine.
That Georgia was the first to have a rural
free delivery mail service.
That Georgia was the first State to make
cotton seed oil.
That Georgia has the largest tobacco plan
tation in the world.
That Georgia produces more than one
million tons of cottonseed a year, and in
1917 had seven thousand, one hundred and
eighty cotton oil mills whose products to
taled $52,000,000.
That the acquired total cotton by-prod
ucts revenue is in excess of $72,000,000.
That Georgia has lost none of its mills
nor appreciably decreased its production
since 1917, while values have steadily ad
vanced.
That Georgia contributed a greater pro
portionate number of volunteers to the
Spanish-American war than any other
State.
In almost every county Georgia’s hun
dreds of cotton mills and thousands of oth
er manufacturing enterprises tell to travel
ers the story of industry and consequent
prosperity, and it is no wonder that intelli
gent tourists are amazed at the magnificent
farm homes along the highways with all
modern conveniences, including electric
lights and waterworks in dwelling and barn.
Grazing quietly in the green pastures are
cattle that are the center of interest at
every fair, and much attention is being giv
en to the breeding of hogs and live stock,
on any well regulated plantation.
Georgia abounds in practically every prod
uct necessary to make life happy and profi
table, and the hundreds of thousands of sat
isfied citizens in city and country mear tes
timony to the greatness of the queen of the
Southeast.
Gorgas, A World Benefactor
THERE has passed in the death of Wil
liam C. Gorgas, formerly Surgeon
General of the United States, a bene
factor to whom divers nations are indebted
and to whom millions of people owe health
and life. Os all Americans wno have illumin
ed his profession, numerous and achieving
as they have been, perhaps none save Dr.
Crawford Long, discoverer of the anaesthe
tic uses of ether, has contributed so richly
to the sum of human good.
The progress of modern medicine as dis
tinguished from modern surgery has been
chiefly upon lines of prevention, and has
found its stanchest allies in prophylaxis and
sanitation. In these fields General Gorgas
was a beneficent Napoleon. To the genius
with which he warrfed against yellow fever
and malaria, the world largely owes its de
liverance from the one and its prospect of
ultimate emancipation from the other. It is
said that at first he was skeptical of the idea
I of those maladies being transmitted through
i certain species of the mosquito. True
scientist that he -was, however, he yielded
readily and loyally to facts. Moreover, he
mustered the facts into an epoch-marking
conquest. Finding Havana a city of pests, he
left it a world resort for seekers of health.
Finding the zone of Panama through which
the canal was designed to run uninhabitable
by workmen from the States, he left it
cleansed and salubrious, thereby making the
great waterway possible.
In the World War his services were given
to humanity. On the Western front and in
far Serbia alike, he moved with saving pow
er. The Kings and Governments of Europe
paid him homage, and multitudes to whom
even his name was unknown blessed the
Heaven whose kindly minister he was. Some
thing of the scope of the international work
to which the great soldierphysician was de
voting himself appears in the statement of
the President of Peru. “General Gorgas’
death,” says he, “means a great loss to hu
manity and especially to Peru, which was
fortunate enough to secure his invaluable
services in the direction of the fifteen mil
lion dollar sanitation project recently in
augurated. To us the death of this noble serv
ant of civilization is not only a keen person
al loss, but also a heavy loss to the nation.”
So feel the hearts of lands far distant from
his own. Truly the world was his parish,
and he its wondrous friend.
BE SINCERE
By H. Addington Bruce
It is told of a candidate for public office
that, in the course of an address which was
winning him loud applause, he was seen to
turn and wink at a friend seated near him
on the platform.
From the moment of this wink his address
fell comparatively flat. He wondered at the
audience’s changed attitude. He wondered
still more wh.ia election day came and he
was soundly beaten at the polls.
Yet the explanation was simplicity it
self.
Rightly or wrongly, his audience of voters
had interpreted that wink as a sign of in
sincerity. And the balloting was consequent
ly certain to go against the winking one, if
for no other reason than that people will not
knowingly intrust an insincere man with the
conduct of public affairs.
It is the same in all professions, in al!
walks of life. Insincerity repels, sincerity
attracts. And the insinecre are soon or late
relegated to the obscurity and ignominy they
deserve.
Nor does one have to betray his insincerity
by winks or nods or shrugs of the shoulder.
It shows itself subtly through his face, his
words, his general bearing, no matter now
guarded he may be.
Quickly suspicion crystallizes ii/to certain
ty, The spoken or unspoken verdict is:
“That man is a sham. He is only talking
for effect. He does not mean what he says.
He is out for himself, first, last, and all the
time, and only for himself.
“He cares nothing for you or me. He does
not care whom he hurts, so long as be ‘gets
there.’ Look out for him.”
The very handshake of the insincere is
enough to put others on guard. Always it
is either a clammy handshake or an offen
sively ardent one. In either case it sets the
nerves on edge.
And the eye of the insincere is a telltale
eye. There is in it no gleam of honest en
thusiasm, of genuine sympathy, but a lack
lustre, calculating, selfish hardness that re
flects unerringly the heart beneath the smug
exterior.
The effort to simulate sincerity is too hard.
No insincere man is capable of it for any
length of time or on all occasions. And once
self-betrayal occurs a penalty is certain, the
heavier the longer it is delayed.
All who would really succeed in life need
to keep this in mind. Especially should it be
remembered by the soung man launching oa
whatever career he has chosen.
Let him, in anything, pretend what he does
not believe, and he is doomed to a place
among the laggards. Insincerity he will find
a crushing liability, just as sincerity will
prove a wondrous asset.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
THE WASTE-BASKET
By Dr. Frank Crane
Steady, old chap! Get a grip on yourself!
You’re going to need all your strength of
character. ,
I know how you feel I’ve been there
myself. I sympatize with you. But —do it!
Do it now! Take your courage in both
hands—and do it!
Throw it away! Into the waste-basket!
There! Now you’ll feel better. Go on and
forget it!
You see, you were holding that paper in
your hand so long, deliberating whether you
should keep it or not, that I feared you were
going to add it to your already mountainous
pile of junk.
Os course, you might need it some time.
You now have shelves, cases, pigeon-holes,
packages, envelopes, filing cases, and cornira
full of truck that has ben accumulating for
years, stuff that you thought you might want,
and never did want, and if you did want it,
didn’t know where you had put it.
You are clogged.
Your mind is like your desk drawer. It is
constipated, cluttered, hence fevered and in
effective.
Eliminate!
Use the w’aste-basket more. Keep your desk
clean, and it will help you keep your mind
clean.
If your table is burdened and you don’t
clear it up because you don’t exactly know
where this belongs and that, remember there
is one grand place where everything belongs,
a place devised for the health of your soul
and the joy and peace of your days—the
waste-basket.
Like the horse-leech’s daughter it contin
ually cries Give! Give!—Feed it!
For what grist you cast into its hopper
comes out ae the sweet, clean grain of con*
tentment.
Neglect of the waste-basket results in ag
gravating the habit of indecision. And in
decision spells inefficiency.
Begin by promptly consigning things to
the and you will learn how to
get rid quickly of bores, bums, and beggars,
how to turn down decisively a proposition
that does not interest you, how to step out
of a business where you are losing money,
how to refuse to eat what you don’t like,
go where you don’t want to go and read
what you don’t want to read, how to say
“Yes” at once and “No” immediately, in
short, how to decide rapidly and smoothly to
do what you ought to do and to decline to
do what you should not.
For almost all decisions turn, not upon
certainty, but upon a preponderance of prob
abilities. You must be p, skilful weigher.
And the way to cultivate the habit of de
cision is to decide.
And the little fairy that will help you do
this, if you will only use it, is
THE WASTE-BASKET.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane,)
«,
“Morning, stranger," began the talkative
parity as he settled himself in the only vacant
half seat in the smoker, “and what state
might you be from?” x
“Oh,” replied the stranger wearily, “it
doesn’t matter now. One’s as dry as an
other.”
CURRENT EVENTS
According to news gathered from
London, the massive chair, made of
copper, which natives believe was
given by the late Queen Victoria of
England to an Ashanti chieftain and
Us»d by him as his throne, has been
discovered in the midst of a jungle
far from human habitation in the
Gold Coast colony, West Africa. Ac
cording to native legend, it was
placed over the grave of the chief
tain, who had occupied the chair
when alive.
In their superstition they believe
he still sits upon his old throne in
spirit at certain times, and for this
reason they have never tried to move
the chair, which, they declare, has
now rooted itself in the ground, says
a dispatch to the Daily Graphic.
A Gold Coast surveyor first stum
bled across this curiosity. A search
party returned to the spot and found
the jungle so dense that the natives
had to hack a path with cutlasses
through the undergrowth.
In spite of inquiry, no confirmation
of the native story as to the his
tory of the chair has been obtainable,
and how it came to be in the jungle
remains a mystery.
John Jardine, 75 years old, New
York architect, who planned several
Carnegie libraries, recently commit
ted suicide, by shooting, at a farm in
Morristown, N. J., at which he was
boarding.
Jardine, who was vice president of
the St. Andrews Society when An
drew Carnegie was president, was :-
member of the firm of Jardine, Kent
& Jardine, of New York. He is sur
vived by a daughter, Mrs. Dudley
Cook, of this city and a son in Cali
fornia.
According to news gathered from
Washington suppressing for obvious
reasons the name of the sender Sen
ator Harding’s office gave out this
letter from a man at Rochester, Pa.:
“Dear Mr. Harding—lt is not my
intention to owe a president of the
United States anything except my
admiration and good will, therefore.
I enclose my eheck for sl. Some
years ago in your private office at
Marion I borrowed the $1 for rea
sons you may imagine. It helped
at a time when work was scarce
and money scarcer. I am pleased* to
note the " lender en route to the
White House.”
Seven British citizens, one Japa
nese and one American comprise the
municipal council of the International
Settlement of Shanghai as a result
of the recent election by the taxpay
ers here. Sterling Fessenden, of a
local law firm, is the American mem
ber, Dr. S. A. Ransom, the one other
nominee, having been defeated. Only
883 votes were cast, the smallest
number since 1013.
Under a body composed of sixteen
foreign consuls the municipal council
of Shanghai governs a community
of about three-quarters of a million
people, of whom about 25,000 are for
eigners. Vigorous efforts of Chinese
residents within the settlement
boundaries, who pay roughly 85 per
cent of the revenues, to obtain repre
sentation on the municipal council
have thus far failed, although the
question again is to come up for de
cision in the course of the year.* The
right of foreign residents of the set
tlement to vote in municipal elections ,
is determined by the payment of
taxes on property.
The first vote to be cast for a
woman sor x the Democratic presiden
tial nomination came recently from
the Kentucky delegation, when Chair
man Stanley cast it for Miss Laura
M. Clay, a prominent suffragist of
the delegation at San Francisco.
So far as convention observers
could remember, it was the first
vote cast for a woman in a con
vention of either of the two great
parties.
Later one Kentucky vote was cast
for Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, an
other member of the delegation.
A train on which the Prince of
Wales was traveling was derailed
near Bridgetown, West Australia,
recently. Two of the royal
coaches were thrown off the tracks,
but nobody was injured.
•A. dispatch from Mexico City states
the forces have crushed the revolt
in the state of Chiapas, led by Col
onel Samado and Malvador G. .Soto
mayor, both of whom have been exe
cuted. The Insurrection lasted but
one day.
Trying to find a place in which
to establish a home worthy of a
fortune of $40,000,000 is the bother
some task of Mr. and Mrs. Camp
oell, of Aberdeen, Scotland. They
made the money out of plantations
they acquired several years ago in
Java; they sold out some time ago
to the government of Java for a sum
close to $50,000,000.
After touring northern Canada they
went on to California. y
t gr ° wn and manufactured 1
in Manitoba by the Netherlands
sni? n d + an Flax company brought sl.-
gium * ln the ° pen market ln Bel
n^i Amerlcan ~ Dr - Harlan, of Phila
delphia, was once ruler over the
brave and stalwart Sikhs of India
ana was also governor under Ranjit
In n fß2- th n e t Sllkh king of the Punjab,
in 182a, at th® time of the first Bur-
I?! 3 ® Y ar ’ Hr. Harlan enlisted with
the British forces in their campaign
against the natives. After the cam
paign, however, he was discharged,
which offended his sense of justice
and moved him to take the side of
th .e lndian Pences in their conflicts
with the British.
..Hanjit who had confederated
the Sikh states into a single national
ity under his power at Lahore, ap
pointed Dr. Harlan governor of the
province of Gujarat in 1827. Dr. Har
lan ruled there for ten years, when
he resigned and made for Kabul, in
Afghanistan; where Dost Mohammed,
the Ameer, was preparing for war
with the British. He soon came to
stand high in the Ameer’s opinion,
but Dost Mohammed failed to take
the advice of the American, and the
British defeated the latter’s troops
and entered Kabul,—Detroit News.
Frank Klague, a federal employe
of Valparaiso, Ind., owns three his
torical documents for which he has
just refused an offer by an eastern
historical society of $1,500. The doc
uments are reports made by Thomas
Jefferson to George Washington,
while the latter was president, and
dealt with the middle west terri
tory, which was then .an unsettled
region.
One of the reports deals with the
northwest territory and one with the
navigation on the Mississippi river.
Jefferson made a survey of this ter
ritory, which afterward became a
part of the country through the
Louisiana purchase.
The documents are of a bulky char
acter, in Jefferson’s own handwrit
ing, and are legible, although the
ink has eaten into the paper in some
places.
Mr. Klagus’ wife obtained the pa
pers through her grandfather, a New
York city publisher, who had obtain
ed the reports for publication, and
they had never been returned, com
ing down through the generations of
the family.
The grave of Theodore Roosevelt
on Sagamore Hill was smothered on
the Fourth of July in flowers placed
there by patriotic pilgrims. Oyster
Bay villagers led in the decoration
of the grave, and to their tributes
were added those left by the hun
dreds of automobilists who halted
their machines at the cemetery gate
and -walked reverently to the grave.
Lieutenant Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt attended the Oyyster Bay
celebration, the chief 'feature of
which was a pageant portraying the
various periods in American history.
There was a parade, patriotic sing
ing and speeches, the whole celebra
tion being organized by a commit
tee of which Mrs. Nelson Doubleday
was chairman.
Red Cross nurses will have to fly
in airplanes to use the new equip
ment in the army for caring for the
wounded.
An airplane ambulance has been
developed, tested and pronounced
successful, according to an announce
ment from the war department at
Washington, and is to be put into
operation ready for use along the
Mexican border and in other sections
where land transportation facilities
are limited because of poor roads or
lack of railroad equipment.
The new flying ambulance was
completed recently at the army ex
perimental station at McCook field,
Dayton, 0., and flew from there to
Billing field, In Washington. A new
fuselage designed specially for the
transportation of the sick or wound
ed is used, the announcement says,
GEM THIEVES
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN
WASHINGTON, July 6. —The Ca
ruso gem robbery, which has been so
widely and efficiently advertised, has
attracted attention to the fact that
thefts of jewels are greatly on the
increase. In New York, where a sys
tematic campaign of robberies seems
to be well under way, it is believed
that an unusually clever band of
crooks is at work, with a master
mind disposing of the stolen goods.
In other cities, on trains, at country
houses, the story of disappearing val
uables is the same.
There ire two types of jewel
thieves operating now. One is the
professional yegg works in a
gang and uses the latest pethods.
He is only a distant relative of the
old-fashioned safe-cracking burglar
who didn’t mine! waking up the
neighborhood aqd counted on luck
and speed to get him away. Nowa
days, if he must crack safes, the pro
fessional crook makes a study of
combinations, or carries an acetylene
drill which will noiselessly put a
hole in the side. But on the whole,
cracking safes and jimmying win
dows is frowned on by burglars who
deal in precious stones and objects
of art.
Each crime is planned down to the
last detail, even though it takes sev
eral week or months. Most often
the yegg obtains a position as butler
or chauffeur at the house to be
robbed. Recommendations carefully
forged are accepted by the house
hold, and the new servants, who are,
by the way, usually model domestics,
take as much time as is needed to
study the plan of the house, habits
of the people, and the vulnerable
spot in the protection of valuables.
The Servant Trick
Then some day when the owner of
the jewels is out, paste duplicates
are quietly substituted in the process
of dusting the boudoir, or as the em
ploye is on his way through the
house on an errand. The pseudo-ser
vant slips off before the cry is raised,
or stays on long enough to prove an
alibi by a fellow “servant” when de
tectives are called in.
The other type of jewel thief is one
that is becoming even more prev
alent than the common yegg. This is
the hard-up and unscrupulous mem
ber of high society who is living »e
--yond his or her means. He is far
more desperate than the regular
burglar, for if his true financial con
dition should become known he would
have to drop out of that particular
circle where life seems to him so
desirable. „ _ , .
The gentleman burglar, and his
counterpart, the lady jewel thief, are
the result of a disregard for honesty
bs a cardinal virtue, combined with
unbelievable carelessness on the part
of owners of precious stones.
Most men who own valuable gems
keep them locked up so that they
are at least safe from social pirates,
but women who wear jewels get used
to hiding them in peculiar places or
even to dropping them into a drawer
From the bride with her S2OO soli
taire to the dowager whose jewels
are valued at $200,000, there is a ten
dency to trust too much to provi
dence and the police department to
keep the treasure safe.
And then when a detective is called
in to get back the stolen goods-, the
accusation is again made that the
public is at fault because it will not
co-operate with the sleuths. People
still seem to think that a de 4® ctl ,
as a supernatural being, should pick
out the criminal unerringly without
pestering their friends who were on
the ground when the theft occurred,
because obviously their friends could
know nothing of the burglars’ tricks.
The Guest Thief
Mr. Morgan Bradford, head of a
well-known detective agency, says
that the prevalence of jewel job
beries by guests is not even duply
’ realized, and that the victims are the
I last people to be convinced. This, he
says, is what makes life hardest for
de .A woman employs a sleuth
to recover her SIO,OOO breastpin,
stolen out of a dresser drawer dur
ing a dinner party. He comes and
quizzes the servants and questions
her as to how many people saw her
drop it in the drawer. Only two of
her friends, she tells h m and she
is indignant when he insists on their
names. He looks them up, and finds
that one of the young women has
only a small income, as money goes
in that strata of society., that she
is in debt and that she made a short
trip to New York the day after the
party. Yet when he reports this
to the woman who employs him, she.
as likely as not, refuses to allow
him to question her friends, as it
would be an insult. So the detective,
having followed other clues to no
purpose, has to give up the job, and
the amateur burglar continues her
social career with her honesty un
questioned—-as she had foreseen.
This sort of thing, Mr. Bradford
says, happens all the time. It ac
counts largely for the estimate that
of all the jewels reported as miss
ing, only about one-fourth are re
covered.
These amateurs rarely if ever re
sort to burglars’ methods. There
is no business of entering windows
at night with flashlight and black
cambric mask. Thefet for them is
made ridiculously easy. Time and
again they have heard their host men
tion carelessly the fabulous cost of
this bit of bric-a-brac, or of that
necklace, and so when chance sooner
or later leaves the guest alone and
face to face with the object of value,
it is unobtrusively stored away, and
the incident is closed.
A Curious Case
An interesting case of this sort
happened in Washington during a
reception given by a wealthy man,
well known in society. One of the
guests was a popular youth whose
Chief drawback to happiness was his
small income. This young man was
I alone in a parlor when he was seen
by a detective to finger a tiny Japa
nese carving. Presently he slipped it
in the coat-tail pocket of his dress
suit. The detective informed the
host, who begged that nothing be
done.
providing space for two litter pa
tients, a medical attendant and a pi
lot. Great importance is attached to
the use of the flying ambulance be
cause of the speed with which
wounded men can be given medical
attention,
A dispatch from Paris relates that
Louise Favier, a well-known French
aviatrix, broke the world’s altitude
record for women by reaching a
height of 6,500 meters (21.325 feet).
Accompanied by Lieutenant Bossoij
trot, who recently broke the world’s
Yecord for continuous flight in the
airplane Goliath, Mlle Favier in
thirty-five minutes reached the
greatest altitude ever attained by a
woman.
Trial of a suit brought by Edward
P. Morse, Jr., against the Morse Dry
Dock and Repair company, of Brook
lyn, N. Y, of which his father, Ed
ward P. Morse, is the active head, to
recover $427,000 alleged to be due
to him for work done for the com
pany.was begun before Supreme
Court Justice Faber, in Brooklyn.
The younger Morse alleged that his
father, for the company, agreed to
give him 2 per cent of the net prof
its of the company as compensation
for his work as assistant general
manager. He told the court that he
devoted all his time to the plant, but
that the contract as to his share in
the net profits of nearly $23,000,000
earned during 1916, 1917 and 1918
was repudiated by his father. The
elder Morse asserted that the agree
ment was for a share of the “dis
tributable profits,” not the net prof
its, and that the son received $33,000,
all that he was entitled to.
Australia is about to mint square
pennies and half pennies of nickel.
These will go into circulation with
the present copper coinage of which,
it is understood no more will be mint
ed.
So far the only peoples to attempt
to use square coins are those of Brit
ish dominion. India has had a square
2-anna piece since 1918; Ceylon, a
square 5-cent piece since 1910, and
the Straits Settlements a square cent
since last year.
The action of the Melbourne Mint
officials is probably dictated by the
fact that square ’coins leave less
metal in the sheets from which they
are cut and they pack better when
boxed.
SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
USE TACT WITH CHILDREN
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
THERE is no one so stupid as
not to realize that it is tact
that lubricates the wheels of
society, and makes it possi
ble for us to live on pleasant terms
with our fellow creatures.
Without the exercise of diplomacy,
nations could not maintain their
entente cordial. Without the use of
policy, lawyers, and doctors would
lose their clients and patients, and
merchants their customers. None of
us have dealings, if we can help
ourselves, with those who are blunt
and rough, and who thrust unpalata
ble home truths down our unwilling
throats.'
We turn from them to those who
are suave and gracious, and who
sugar-coat so tastily whatever pill
they administer to us that we gulp
it down easily, and ask for more.
Recognizing thus the value, of di
plomacy in the outside world, it is
a matter for perpetual wonder that
so few people think it 'worth while
to install this friction-saving device
into their family circles. Somehow
they seem to think that while tact is
the proper dish to set before com
pany, it is too good for daily home
consumption.
Thus you rarely see a husband and
wife who use the slightest policy in
dealing with each other’s little pe
culiarities. They never put on their
kid gloves when they come to han
dle a delicate domestic situation.
Rather they get out their brass
knuckles, and go for each other's
weak spots with the sure knowledge
that experience has given as to
where the other is most vulnerable,
and where a blow will hurt most.
As for children, perish the
thought that parents should con
descend to use any tact in coping
with them, or take the trouble of
getting around the angles of little
Johnny and Mary’s disposition in
stead of bumping into them, with re
sults that are unpleasant to all con
cerned.
Somebody has said that there is
a delicate way around every diffi
culty. Certainly it is the circuitous
route that leads most surely to a
Child’s consciousness, and one “do”
is worth more than a thouand don’ts”
to any boy or girl.
For this reason no child should
ever be corrected in public. If John
eats with his knife, or Mary spots
the tablecloth, don’t call their atten
tion to their lapse in good manners
before strangers. Wait until the
psychological moment comes when
you are alone, and John and Mary
are in a mood to hear reason, and
then recall their offenses; and in
sheer gratitude to you for having
spared their feelings they will mend
their manners. Ten minutes’ quiet
talk at bedtime will work more ref
ormation in any child than ten years
of incessant nagging.
There is no better way to em
phasize a child's faults than by for
ever fretting at them. Tell John a
hundred times a day that you don’t
know what will become of him be
cause he is so careless, and he will
begin to take a pride in scattering
One Glass Too Much
We do not wonder at Bryan kick
ing on the lack of a prohiibtion plank
at San Francisco. The resolution
committee seems to contain a Glass
too much for the commoner.—Savan
nah Press.
A Pertinent Query
Do you happen to be one of the
forty-seven thousand Democrats rep
resented in the national convention,
or are you one of the hundred thou
sand not a look-in?—Colum
bus Enquirer-Sun.
They Should Be Notified
They have made it against the law
in Valdosta for kids to drive auto
mobiles. The main trouble about
these laws is that kids never seem
to hear about ’enL—Savannah Press.
Fine Jersey Cattle in Georgia
The Jersey cattle breeders of
Georgia have banded themselves to
gether into one of the livest and most
aggressive stock breeders’ associa
tions in the country. Many people
do not realize that there are more
than 400 owners of purebred and reg
istered cattle in Georgia at the pres
ent time. It may also be news to
others that Georgia leads all of the
other southern states in the number
of Jersey cows producing above sixty
pounds of butter in thirty days, un
der proper feeding and climatic con
ditions.— Way cross Journal-Herald.
Give Vs Sugar
Cuban cane growers, sugar mill
owners, brokers and? exploiters, claim
ing to control 2,180,000 sacks of un
sold sugar, Shave formally announced
that none of it will go on the market
until the wholesale price is boosted
to twenty-four cents the pound.
Meantime, the American fruit crop is
crying for sugar. At least the re
public of Cuba is ungrateful.—Au
gusta Chronicle.
Clinch County News
Judge W’. V. Musgrove has pur
chased the Clinch County News, while
Flem C. Dane succeeds Folks Hux
ford as editor and manager. Mr.
Dane is thoroughly familiar with
all the duties of the various depart
ments and will doubtless issue a
weekly newspaper that will be a cred
it to its owner and editor. There
can b© no doubt that he will make
a success of the News if accorded
the patronage that it deserves.
Familiar With Values
A girl may not enthuse much over
the man, but it’s no trouble at all to
go into raptures over the engage
ment ring.—Griffin News and Sun.
* A Vanished Dream
And now perish one of our fondest
dreams of reducing the H. C. L.
Blackberries are reported as selling
at $2 a peck.—Washington News-Re
porter. /
Information Wanted
What we do not understand about
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
A WOMAN may have the cour
age to mount a platform and
snout for liberty—but she
hasn’t the courage to do ft in
a last year’s hat.
Husband’s motto: When in doubt,
deny everything.
Life is a fascinating motion-pic
ture drama. Fate writes the scrip—
but you are your own “director”!
A woman’s id ch of “economizing”
is to rip up something useful, in or
der to make something ornamental
—a man’s, to do something he needs,
in order to buy something he
ought’nt to have.
Every man is merely a composite
reflection of all the women he has
known; his mother, his sister, his
wife—and the ten or a hundred girls
who have tried to remodel him.
Men claim to have infinitely more
foresight than women—but there
was one of them who thought to
look for the towel before he got his
eyes full of lather.
The mere act of marrying a wom
an, and handing over his freedom,
his name, and all his bachelor com
forts in return for a kiss, is the
most sublimely unselfish deed of s
man’s life—and sometimes the only
one.
An eligible bachelor is a body ot
vanity completely surrounded by I
women. An ineligible bachelor is a
mass of obstinacy, entirely sur
rounded by suspicion. A confirmed
bachelor is a collection of habits for
tified on all four sides .by eterna 1
vigilance.
In a man’s mind, all women are
divided into three classes; those he
has kissed, those he can’t kiss—and
those who keep him wondering.
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
things about, and make a cult of
carelessness.
Be forever at Mary for being so
awkward, and she will become so
self-conscious she will be forever
falling over her own feet, and so
butter-fingered she will drop every
thing she touches. Sigh continually
over Jane’s terrible temper and Jane
will become convinced she has some
sort of divine commission to be tem
peramental and indulge in rages.
On the other hand, you can diplo- j
matically represent to John that as t
clever a boy as he is must realize
that he can never achieve his ambi
tions in life unless he becomes an
expert in detail, and you will make of
him a stickler for order. Instead of
criticising Mary, flatter her and thus
you will give her the self-confidence
that will make her sure of herself
and she will bear herself like a
goddess.
Make Jane see that a woman drunk
on anger is every whit as disgusting
a sight as one drunk on liquor, and
she ■will get her temper under control. t
Oh, there are many ways of manag
ing children, but going at them with
a bludgeon isn’t one of them.
There are many parents who actu
ally call down the course of failure
on their children by destroying their
faith in themselves. To impress on
a girl that she is homely, is to give
her a shrinking and self-deprecatory
air that makes her carry herself 25
per cent off of her looks instead of
25 per cent above her looks, as the
self-complacent beauty does. To in
culcate in a boy the idea that he is
dull and lacks energy, is to slay his ..
courage and initiative before he ever •
has a go at life, and make him settle
down among the second-rkters with
out trying for a first place-
We should never forget that chil
dren, like grown-ups, unconsciously
live up to their blue china, and try
to be what their parents expects them
to be.
Therefore, we should say “Do” to
a child instead of “Don’t.” We
should seize on whatever is best in
him and develop that, and balance
will grow to meet it.
If you want a child to do any one
thing well praise it for its efforts in
that line. I know a mother whose
sons’ are noted for their exquisite
manners, and she confided to me the
secret of her success in raising gen
tlemen instead of boors. When they
were little chaps she said, “I never
missed the opportunity to pay them
the broadest compliment whenever
they stood in a lady’s presence, or
opened a door for one, or used the
right forks. I made them think I
thought them Lord Chesterfields, and
they had to make good on their repu
tation.”
Another mother I knew developed
a taste for reading in her little daugh
ter by continually asking her what
she thought about certain books. The
girl thought her mother considered
her literary, and she had to read to 1
justify her mother’s opinion of her.
All of which proves that the jolly
is mightier than the hammer, espe
cially with children.
this country is how it can produce
so many profiteers and so little ot
everything else. —Savannah Press.
LOVE THE MASTER KEY
Love is the master key of life. It
is the plus sentiment which adds
value to everything. Intellect is
cold and hard without it. Wisdom
lacks something without it. It is
the humanizing, sweetening life
elixir, without which life would be
warped, sordid. selfish.—Madison
Madisonian.
RECORDING THE REAL CITIZEN
We are going to see who are the
real citizens of Vidalia in the way
in which the board of trade is sup
ported.—Vidalia Advance.
WISE WORDS FROM “UNCLE”
SHACK
Georgia stands fourth in road
building. If she will manage to
stand as well in road maintenance
we’ll have some good highways.—
Oglethorpe Echo.
NEW DRIVE SUGGESTED
It looks like Atlanta ought to start
a campaign to move Macon into the
state capitol.-—Pickens County Prog
ress.
REPUBLICANS AND BUSINESS
Most of the Republican campaign
managers seem to be very unbusi
ncss-like men. The idea of all tha*
money being spent by their subordi
nates without their knowing any
thing about It.—Franklin News and
Banner.
ATTRACTIONS GALORE
With the legislature meeting in
Atlanta she will have something else
to attract folks during the next fifty
days.—Cartersville Tribune-News.
ADDITIONAL PROOF NECESSARY
You can’t prove that you have
massive brains, simply by brushing
your hair straight back from your
forehead.—Forsyth County News.
.Why Get an Education?
Bill'Biffem remarks in the Savan
nah Press: “What’s the use of hav
ing an education? When you get
sense enough to teach school in Geor-,
gia you don’t get any money and
yet everybody blames you because
the state is broke.”—Tifton Gazette.
Don’t All Speak at Once
Does anybody with a throat like
a blotter remember what happened a
year ago yesterday? (July 1.)-—Dub
lin Tribune.
Fifty Fer Cent Worry
The hottest man you’ll find is the
one who's worrying most about the
heat. Weather discomfort is about
50 per cent worry.—Albany Herald.
Fussing Over Platforms
Political conventions make so much
fuss over platforms one not acquaint
ed with such matters might get the
notion that they really mean some
thing.—J. D. Spencer in the Macon
Telegraph.
Abe Would Be Astonished
Abraham Lincoln said that he was
for the man who wishes to work. If
Abe were here now we might be able
to point out to him the man who
wishes not to work and at the same
time wants the biggest pay envelopes
on payday.—Dalton Citizen.
About twenty persons were buried
alive when dugouts at San Pedro
de 108 Pinos, near Mexico City, caved
in recently.
Up to 1 o’clock in the morning
ten bodies had been recovered. The
victims were- members of the Third
cavalry regiment and their fami 1 ies.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
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Copyright, 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate