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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 months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c • Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday * (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) i 1 wii.l Mo. 3 Mo». 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4,00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes 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 ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. 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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 r " A LAfcY AXIN ME WHUT WINT Wlb MISTUS' COOK WHUT Got 'L.IGION HUH? MISTUS TUK ALL DE TEMPTATIONS OUTEN HER WAY EN SHE SONE QUIT I>E JOB !j— --wKS Copyright, 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate