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Why Cox's Nomination
Unites .the Party
A SALIENT and peculiarly happy aspect
of Governor Cox’s nomination :s its
harmonizing influence on nis party. In
retrospect it is plain that of all the names
proposed at San Francisco his alone afforded
firm rallying ground for Democrats of every
clan. Not that the others lacked merit and
appeal, for rarely has a convention had so
rich a range of talent to choose from. But
in that “unbossed battle,” as the long, free,
history-making tug of four-and-forty ballots
has been called, one personality stood forth
unique in general fitness and advantage.
His record, his character, his very tempera
ment, his full-sinewed and unencumbered
Democracy commended the Ohio statesman
to all workmanly elements in his- party, re
gardless of who their first preference may
have been, and finally swept a stubborn
deadlock into a hearty union.
Thus we hear Democrats who in the con
vention were hotly opposed, and who per
sonally may be at implacable odds, joining
in pledges of stanch support to the chosen
leader. Admirers of the Administration and
critics of the Administration are equally cor
dial, soft-pedalling Easterners and rough
riding Westerners mutually pleased, and all
manner of Yorks and Lancasters agreed
when they come to speak of James Middle
ton Cox. “Accept my heartiest congratula
tions and all the support I can give in the
campaign,” Secretary Baker, of the War
Department, telegraphed immediately the re
sult was known. “I send my sincerest and
heartiest congratulations to you,.” wired
Senator Reed, adding that the event brought
to thousands “a thrill of delight which is
prophetic of victory in November.” Consid
ering the fusillade of hammers and tongs
which the senior Missouri Senator encoun
tered at Frisco, one admires all the more
warmly a nomination that enables him and
a Wilson Cabinet member to stand on com
mon ground and fight for a common faith.
If, as some observers report, Administration
forces were against Governor Cox in the con
vention, assuredly no echo to that effect
lingers in the White House. “It was a stra
tegic and wise nomination,” commented Sec
retary Tumulty; “of course Cox is going to
be elected.” And the President himself sent
greetings: “Please accept my hearty congrat
ulation and cordial best wishes.” But what
about W. J. B.? Well, if for the nonce he
gits in tdhrs, who doubts that ere the persim
mons fall he will be the Great Commoner
again?
Nowhere is this spirit of Democratic accord
for the battle ahead more happily manifest
than in Georgia. The Presidential prefer
ence primary in this State was exceedingly
elose in its results, none of the candidates
winning a majority of the county units, and
all three being within a few thousand of one
another in popular votes. In such circum
stances the pulse of conflict naturally ran
high, and when the national convention gath
ered at San Francisco contesting delegations
from Georgia were found knocking for ad
mittance. It were worse than useless now
to rattle dead bones and tell over the tale
of the regular delegation’s unjust rejection.
The significant and essential fact is that the
larger objectives at which that delegation
aimed were vindicated in the convention’s
ultimate acts. Especially significant and
jleaeing to some hundred thousand Georgia
voters is the fact that the chief lieutenant of
the Cox forces at San Francisco, Mr. E. H.
Moore, national committeeman from Ohio,
made a valiant fight for the delega
tion elected by the Georgia Democratic
convention. Thus out of shartqst rl
valrly has come union for the party’s and the
country’s good. Senator Hoke Smith, long
an admirer of the Ohio Governor, has ten
dered him whole-souled support. The Geor
gia friends of Attorney Generay Palmer
have done likewise. And Mr. Watson also
has pledged “the full power of whatever in
fluence I possess.” So does the eve of the
campaign find traditional Georgia renewed in
stanchness and redoubled in vim, no cohort
missing from the battle line, no Achilles sulk
ing in his tent—a united Democracy, fit and
keen for the fray.
These evidences of party concord in the
State and throughout the country are con
firmed when we look into the causal circum
stances of the Cox nomination. Republican
papers speak of the selection of the Buckeye
Governor as purely a “political expedient.”
There is about as much truth in this ap
praisal as in the charge that he is a cham
pion of “liquor interests,” the fact being
that his one reverse at the Ohio polls came
largely in consequence of his strict enforce
ment of prohibition statutes. Expedient his
nomination undoubtedly was, both in the fact
that he hails from a pivotal State whose elec
toral vote he probably can swing against
jlardisg, also an Ohioan, and in the fact that
he is free from certain handicaps which
marked the other aspirants. But such as
sets, useful as they are, could not in them
selves have nominated him. Had he been
merely a resourceful politician, merely a con
venient compromise, he would not be the
nominee today. For Ly its whole drift and
bearing the Democratic convention showed
its demand for merits deeper than these;
showed its perception of the time’s higher
exigencies and of the nation’s larger needs.
It would have been as difficult to have nomi
nated a reactionary at San Francisco as it
was impossible to nominate a progressive at
Chicago. Granted there were backward
looking, pettifogging elements; the impor
tant fact is that whereas in the Republican
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convention they were its very essence and
flow, in the Democratic convention they were
but bubbles on the liberal tide. The same
spirit that produced that convention’s un
evasive, broad-visioned, constructive plat
form demanded an unevasive, broad-visioned,
constructive candidate; and because he com
bined with his general availability these su
preme qualities, Governor Cox was nomi
nated.
True harmony comes only from the satis
faction of basic needs. It is thus easy to
see why the choice of this leader brings con
cord to his party’s ranks; he satisfies Democ
racy’s basic principles and Americanism’s
basic ideals.
The Whole World's Problem
Is Georgia' s Opportunity
IF “two-legged animals without feath
ers,” as a crusty and sapient Scot
once described the human species,
there are now one billion six hundred and
seventy-five million eight hundred and thir
ty-four thousand six hundred and fourteen
opening their mouths to be victualed. We
do not vouch for the the last six digits. It
is two years since the statisticians —those
“learned and authentic fellows,” as Shake
speare called them —made an official reck
oning of the world’s population. Meanwhile,
there may have been considerable change in
. the hundreds and thousands. Howbeit, we
leave the pertinacious and time-honored
i reader to adjust such differences, and our
selves pass on to consider the billion six
hundred and seventy-five million more or
less lusty appetites which a none too well
harrowed planet is called upon to appease.
The question is nothing if not practical, and
timely to the point of being almost pain
fully imperative. For true as it is that man
is vastly more than a creature of pots and
skillets, so long as he tarries on this bank
and shoal of time he must eat. In Heaven
there may be no need of breakfast and din
ner, no hot cakes and syrup, no black-eyed
peas and lemon pie—though we devoutly
trust there will be. Certain it is, however,
that if we are to function at all in our houses
of clay, we must have a snack now and
then. And as there are a billion six hun
dred and seventy-five million of us asking
for butter as well as for bread, and feeling
rather rum unless we get a bit of sugar,
too, the question of how it is all going to be
provided becomes capitally urgent. It is the
question, indeed, that has been most insist
ent and most widely perplexing since Adam’s
brow first beaded with sweat.
Especially insistent and perplexing it i«
today, because for years our human family’s
consuming mouths have been multiplying
faster than its producing hands. When men
now in their latter thirties were in kilts,
the earth’s total population was some two
hundred and forty million less than today,
and a great era of agricultural expansion
was at its prime. In the nineteenth cen
tury, a historian recalls the United States
west of the Alleghenies was converted from
a wilderness intp bountiful fields: “Argen
tina and Northwestern Canada were added
to the food-producing area;” and at the
same time, through the penetrating coloniz
ing and genius of certain European peoples,
aided by new means of communication, the
food resources of Asia became generally
available. Thus did supply keep a liberal
pace with demand. But in the Twentieth
century what do we find? No western fron
tier beckons in America; no conquest of
new continents goes fruitfully forward; no
marked increment in man’s fund of food
stuffs brings cheer. Yet there has been
added to the world in the last few decades a
population outnumbering two nations the
size of ours.
This accounts for many a wrinkle which
these latter days are scribbling on the house
wife’s brow, and for many an anxious
thought in the chancellories of Europe. It
accounts, in part at least, for Bolshevism
and a legion of lesser vagaries. It is the’
whole world’s problem. It is the spe
cial opportunity of regions Jike Georgia
and Dixie, where millions of fertile acres lie
fallow, and empires of opportunity await the
plow. ‘ f
Theodore and Franklin
| iHE similarity and familiarity of their
*1 names are not the only striking
marks of resemblance between the
late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, Democratic vice presi
dential nominee, and their public records.
They were distantly related and these ties
were strengthened when Mr. Roosevelt mar
ried a niece of the former President.
The Roosevelts—Theodore and Franklin
—won their political spurs in New York,
though through different party affiliations.
The late President was a dominant, though
discordant factor in the Republican politics
of his State long before he entered the
White House as Chief Magistrate. The vice
presidential nominee, though yet a young
man, has been active and influential in
the Democratic politics of the Empire State
for several years. He has been a thorn in
the side of Tammany most of the time,
thoroughly progressive and entirely inde
pendent.
Theodore Roosevelt, everyone remembers,"
was particularly obnoxious to Senator
Platt’s sway in New York. Platt was the
Republican boss for many, many years, and
it was Platt’s fear and detestation of
Roosevelt that resulted in his (Roosevelt’s)
nomination for the vice presidency by the
Republican national convention, in 1900, as
the running mate of the lamented McKin
ley.
Platt thought to consign Roosevelt to
obscurity and oblivion by nominating him
tor Vive President, but his plans failed dis
mally. Roosevelt became President and
dominated the affairs of his State and the
nation during his term of office. He con
tinued the dominant personality in his par*
ty until the day of his death.
Franklin Roosevelt has been no less of
fensive to Charles F. Murphy and Tammany-
Hall. He has never been able to unhorse
Murphy in the politics of New York City
and State, but he has made the Tammany
chieftain watch his step.
The nomination of Roosevelt at San
Francisco, however, did not proceed from
any purpose or disposition to relegate him
to oblivion. His record, progressive spirit,
independence and virile manhood dmae him
an outstanding figure among the delegates,
and he was their unanimous choice be
cause the militant Democracy recognized
in him a personality calculated to lend
strength to the ticket. Murphy and Tam
many Hall accepted him with good grace
because Murphy and Tammany want a na
tional ticket that will help them locally
next fall.
There is still another coincidence respect
ing the Roosevelts of New York. Theodore
served as assistant secretary of the navy
before his nomination . for the vice presi
dency, though he had retired from that of
fice prior to the Republican convention that
named him. Franklin is now serving as as
sistant secretary of the navy and has held
that post since the first election of Wood
row Wilson. His record during the World
War is a record of notable achievements
that reflect credit upon his capacity.
♦_
When a man says he is burning with a
desire to save the country, he means that he
is tired of working for a living.—Fargo
Courier-News.
NERVOUS CHILDREN
By H. Addington Bruce
THERE are many, many causes for nerv
ousness in children. But, as parents
cannot be reminded too often or too
emphatically, the great cause is unwise train
ing in tne home.
A child born quite free from neurotic taint
may readily be rendered a nervous weakling
if the parents do not rear it right. And
innumerable are the nervous weaklings whose
miseries and inefficiencies may justly be at
tributed to the way they have been brought
up.
“In the little life which the child leads,”
as the specialist Cameron rightly points out,
“a life in which the whole seems to us to be
comprised in dressing and undressing, wash
ing, walking, eating, sleeping, and playing,
it is not easy to detect where the elements
of nervous overstrain are. Nor is it, as a
rule, in these things that the mischief is to
be found.
“It is in the personally of mother or
nurse, in her conduct to the child, in her ac
tions and words, in the tone of hey voice
when she addresses him, that we must seek
for the disturbing element.
“The mental environment of the child is
created by the mother or the nurse. That is
her responsibility and her opportunity. The
conduct of the child must be the criterion of
her success.
“If things go wrong, if there is constant
crying or ungovernable temper, if sleep and
food are persistently refused, or if there ie
undue timidity and fearfulness, there is dan
ger that seeds may be sown from which nerv
ous disorders will spring in the fi-ture.”
And:
“The conduct of the nervous child ie de
termined to a great extent by suggestions
derived from the grown-up people around
him.
“Refusal of food, refusal of sleep, refusal
to go to stool, only become frequent or habit
ual when the child’s conduct readily dis
tresses the nurse or mother, and when the
chilij fully appreciates the stir which he is
creating.”
All of which means, to put it in a word,
that parents need to make as careful a study
of the business of child rearing as they make
of the business of earning a livelihood for
themselves and their children.
Some parents do this—but comparatively
few. That is why neurotics are to be found
all about us.
Most of those who fail to master child
nuiture, as all should, fair not because of
lack of love for their children and interest
m their future, but because they do not know
how to get the information they must have
for really effective training and safeguarding
of their children.
Yet this information is available to every
“O(ly in handbooks written by specialists in
the study of child development. Every pub
lic library of any worth contains these books.
They may be bought at little cost.
And to all who would make use of them
and who write me in the care of this newsl
paper, inclosing a stamped and self-addressed
envelope, I will eend a list of some of the
mJ S th nd m ° helpfuL Thoughtful pe
™saJ ° f ? eSe ’, and ocnscie ntious application
, pnn< nP les they lay down, may mean
the saving of your child from a life of woe
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
THE MAN THAT WOMEN
VOTERS WANT FOR PRESIDENT
~ . By Dr. Frank Crane
in g Whit kin I H Ok l ahOnia Writes me describ
ing wnat kind of a man she thinkq tho
Women Voters want for President
h ° ae ° D ?T° n ls as good as another, even
better, and I take this cue to tell what seems
to me the Women Voters want
mo^eSeT^ o^ 011 ? 611 iS being more and
wUe,X « ,s a
r “‘ e ”° re than
the Women Voters want for President—•
A man who is more Patriot than Partisan
lated’by 11 pl?ty ** * puppet manipu
yho Promise s little, or nothing ex
-0“ “a
A man who does not pride himself on
being a Conservative, a Standpatter or a Re
actionary. v
Nor a Radical, Revolutionary, nor Agi
itator.
Just a plain, honest man that will try to
execute the will of the people.
A man that can get along with people, an
Executive that can work in harmony with the
Legislative and the Judicial branches of the
government.
A man that it does not take a great dea»
of money to elect.
A man who believes in enforcing the laws
including Prohibition.
A man who will not become egotistic, but
will retain his democratic simplicity.
A man who is not afraid to say what he
A man in favor of Woman Suffrage.
A man wholly committed to the idea of a
League of Nations, of keeping faith with oui
Allies, and of America playing a manly, fear
less, and generous part in international af
fairs.
A man opposed to race prejudice, espe
cially toward Negroes or the Orientals.
A man who will do his utmost to promote
a good understanding between America and
Great Britain and her colonies, realizing that
in the hands of the English speaking states
lies the peace of the world.
A man who will not curry favor with the
Labor Organisations, nor Wajl Street, nor
the North, nor the South, nor any other class
or section, but will keep his eye always on
the welfare of the Public.
A warm-hearted, genial, courteous man.
Not a blatherskite nor a poser.
A Business Man, who will regard running
the U. S. A. as a. Business, which he is to
make pay, yet which he is to manage for the
snefit and happiness of the people in it.
a who will cut out Inaugural Balls,
State Dinners, Parades, Society, and all fol
de-rol, as much as possible, and consider him
self as our Chief Hired Man, appointed to do
a certain job with as little nonsense as pos
sible.
In short, a man as honest and gentlemanly
is Washington, as brave as Jackson, as hu
ian and full of common sense as Lincoln,
t Silent as Grant, and as warm as Roose
?lt. (I mention only dead ones.)
T'.-f- — th ore any such man?
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Paragraphs
Bergdoll is enjoying life, liberty and the
happiness of pursuit.—Greenville Piedmont.
The sdge who said that “talk is cheap”
never hired a lawyer to talk for him.—Co
lumbia Record.
Again we suggest—nay, we insist —that we
country editors must strive to be meek. —
Washington Post
Anyhow, if they’d let Vice President Mar
shall write the platform, the humor in it
would be less unconscious.—Kansas City
Star.
CURRENT EVENTS
A wireless dispatch received from
Moscow at London, says Japan has
agreed to recognize the Far Eas
tern Russian Republic on condition
that it shall have complete political
and economic independence of the
Russian Soviet government and that
it guarantees to be a democratic
form of government.
The dispatch adds that the foreign
minister of the republic has declared
that these conditions are acceptable.
A Reuter dispatch from Stockholm
today quotes Mrs. Phillip Snowden
and Dr. Guest, members of the Brit
ish labor delebation which went to
investigate conditions in Russia, as
declaring that in their view Soviet
Russia could teach Western Europe
nothing. Socialish, they predicted,
would prevail in Great Britain long
before it would in Russia, the mes
sage adds.
His execution fees are mounting up
so fast that John Hulbert, Sing
Sing's switchman will, for the first
time, be obliged to pay an income
tax this year.
Hulbert, it was learned recently,
has earned S9OO for services at six
executions so far this year. In ad
dition, he earns a fair salary at his
regular employment of engineer in
another state prison.
Last year was a dull one for the
executioner. He had only two execu
tions and he got less per case than
he does now. which is $l5O per
capita. Several more executions are
scheduled for this year, so his fees
alone may exceed $2,000.
A dispatch from Verdun relates
the first stone was laid recently,
the fourth anniversary of the Ger
mans’ deepest advance, for the mon
ument to be erected at Verdun in
honor of the soldiers who fell in the
victorious battle for the defense of
Verdun. The ceremony occurred in
the presence of detachments bearing
the colors of all the French army
corps. Former President Poincare,
Marshal Petain and Andre Lefevre,
the minister of war, were present.
June 23, 1916, marked the turning
point in the great struggle for pos
session of this notable strategic
point in the battle line, wnere the
heroic poilus hurled their historic
defiance at the Germans, “They shall
not pass.’’
Information received from San
Francisco states that leaders among
progressive Chinese from all por
tions of North America gathered in
San Francisco in the first great na
tional convention of the Chinese in
this country devoted to the purpose
of establishing a better understand
ing between Chinese and Americans
and cementing the friendship be
tween the two peoples.
The convention is under the auspi
ces of the Chinese National Welfare
Society of America.
President and Mrs. Wilson enter
tained informally at luncheon recent
ly Ambassador and Mme. Jusserand,
who sailed for France to spend the
summer. It was the first time since
the president was taken ill last Sep
tember that a member of the diplo
matic corps had been entertained at
the White House.
Soon after receiving the news that
the Democratic national convention
had adjourned until 8 p. m., San
Francisco time, the president, with
Mrs. Wilson, went for an automobile
ride.
In the Bay of South Alesund a
v iking ship has been discovered, and
is now being examined by experts,
who declare It just as valuable as
the famous “iceberg shij.’’
The “iceberg ship’’ mentioned in
the Copenhagen dispatch probably
refers to the remains of a Viking
ship which was discovered some
years ago imbedded in the ice by
some Iceland fishermen off the coast
of Greenland.
A more perfect specimen was dis
covered in 1880 in a tomb mound at
Gokstadt, near Christiania, of which
the dimensions are given as: Length,
seventy eight feet; beam, sixteen
feet seven inches; depth, five feet
nine' inches, with high stern and stem
and sixteen oars on each side.
Both ships are said to date from
the ninth century, and it was in ves
sels of this class that the Vikings
crossed the Atlantic 500 years before
Columbus discovered America.
Traffic accidents in New York
state during June reached the highest
number on record for a similar pe
riod, according to the figures com
piled by the National Highway Pro
tective society, which show that 187
persons were killed by automobiles,
wagons, trains and trolley cars. This
number of fatalities exceeds by six
ty-eight the deaths reported from
similar causes in June, 1918.
Automobiles were the greatest men
ace to life in New York City. They
caused the deaths of sixty-two per
sons, while no fatalities were caused
by trolleys or wagons. In the cor
responding month of last year fifty
seven persons were killed by motor
cars, seven by trolleys and four by
wagons.
Five persons were killed at grade
crossings last month, an increase of
two over June of 1918.
Fines aggregating approximately
$40,000 were collected in the traffic
court during June, which proved to
be a record month. In the same pe
riod the court handled 4,741 violations
of automobile ordinances. Seventy
five motorists were convicted and
sent to jail for from three to twenty
days. During the month 1,159 speed
ers were convicted as first offenders,
eighty-two as second and seventen
as third offenders.
During an electrical storm recent
ly a bolt of lightning struck Samuel
Frothingham’s house, the Poplars
of the Stuckbridge road, Lenox,
Mass., occupied by Spencer P. Shot
ter and Miss Isabel D. Shotter, of
New York.
The bolt passed through the dining
room and into the den where Mr.
Shotter was sitting. It made a hole
through his coat and then entered
a tank of goldfish, killing eight of
them. It vanished via the telephone
wire.
The bid of SBOO,OOO for the former
Geyman liner De Kalb, made by the
American Ship and Commerce corpo
ration, was accepted recently by the
shipping board at Washington.
The offer of $3,000,000 for the
great liner Leviathan, made by the
United States Mail Steamship com
pany, still is under consideration.
More than 2,000 croupiers and
other employes are on the pay roll
of the company which operates the
famous gambling casino at Monte
Carlo.
The barn owl, when she has
young, brings a mouse to bier, nest
about every twelve minutes, As she
is actively employed at both evening
and dawn, and as both male and fe
male hunt, forty mice a day is a
low computation for the total cap
ture.
An interesting event in the early
history of the Cherokee nation, as
found upon the records of that na
tion while in existence east of the
Mississippi river, was the establish
ment of a national newspaper. While
“The Cherokee Advocate,” which was
issued at Tahlequah in September,
1844, was the first newspaper in the
old Indian territory, and in many
ways an interesting publication, it
was preceded by quite a number of
years by “The Cherokee Phoenix.”
The first mention made of this paper
was in 1826 when the national com
mittee and council, in regular session
in New Echota, the capital of the
nation in Georgia, took action con
cerning the establishment and opera
tion of a newspaper designed to be
the national journal. A sum of money
was appropriated with which to .de
fray the expenses of having types
cast in the characters of the alpha
bet completed by Sequoyah in 1823,
and for the purchase of a printing
press and other necessary materials.
If American women contemplate
following the standards of dress set
by the French fashion makers for
fall wear they will have to bedeck
themselves in an abundance of bright
colors, even to the extent of appear
ing garish.
Mlle. Juliet Nicol, one of the pas
sengers who arrived here recently
from Havre, on the Fr meh liner La
Lorraine, said the forthcoming styles
for women'u wear as decreed by Paris
will compel women to outrival the
peacock.
“Paris hats,” said Mlle. Nicol, “are
to be larger than ever, and will be
trimmed with veils that reach to the
knees. The new gowns have an
abundance of color and will be trim
med with plenty of ribbon.”
CLEVELAND
COAL
By Frederic J. Haskin
CLEVELAND, 0., July 12.
Cleveland is again preparing
to go into the coal business.
A new fuel official has been
appointed by the mayor at the sug
gestion of the city council, and ar
rangements are being made for the
establishment of a municipal coal
pile, to be opened for the benefit
of the pqblic on September 1. When
the cold weather comes and the price
of coal soars above sls per ton, as
everybody predicts it will, Cleveland
is going to furnish coal to house
holders at cost, plus the expense of
delivery.
Cleveland is within eighty miles
of one of the largest coal mining
districts in the country, and yet it
is now suffering from an acute poal
shortage. The reason advanced by
coal dealers is that the railroads will
not provide enough cars to transport
the coal from the mines. They also
claim that strikes among the miners
have prevented a normal production
of coal which will result in an actual
shortage during the coming winter.
This seems to be considered suf
ficient excuse for immediately treb
ling the price of coal—at least by
the coal dealers. But neither the
city authorities of Cleveland nor
the United States attorney general,
Mr. Palmer, agrees with them.
Indeed, the latter disagrees so
forcibly with the coal dealers that
he has ordered a state-wide investi
gation of coal prices and the prose
cution of operators who are charging
more than $2.79 a ton for the bi
tuminous product. ► According to him,
the wholesale and retail dealers in
coal are guilty of circulating delib
erate propaganda concerning a coal
shortage in order to boost fuel
prices.
Says Dealers Exaggerate
“The production of coal has been
hampered," he admits, “but there is
no serious shortage. Dealers are
publishing exaggerations in the hope
of creating false prices. More coal
was mined during the first four
months of 1920 than during any sim
ilar period in the history of the
country.”
In ordering prosecutions under the
Lever act, Mr. Palmer explained that
during the month of April, with the
production cost of coal at $-.79 a
ton, operators sold their product at
$3 and $4 a ton. Since then, the
price has been forced as high as $f
and sll a ton. Indeed, if Mr. Pal
mer only knew it, the price of coal
in Cleveland and Cincinnati is much
higher than that.
Cleveland, moreover, is not cheered
by Mr. Palmer’s sanguine belief that
the investigation of coal prices by
the agents of the department of jus
tice, however ruthless they may be
with ‘Reds,’’ is going to result in
bringing coal prices down. The coal
dealers are for the most part Amer
ican citizens, in absolute accord
with the American system of gov
ernment, which fundamentally
not object to free profiteering.
Anyway, Cleveland is no *
any chances. It is going about the
solution of the fuela
own way, with apologies to the local
coal dealers. It is preparing to have
a coal yard, to fill it with about 6 -
000 tons of coal, and dispose of it
fruffallv in small sacks or m one-ton
loads It the'most to individual fam
ilies. In taking this important step,
the city authorities hasten to add
that they have no unfriendly feel
ings toward the local coal dealers
that is, the local and legitimate coal
dealers. “We are not in business,
declares one of the city fuel ® x P
“to disorganize any industry. Our
object is not to run in competition
with legitimate dealers, so Jong a
they run their business honestly. But
when the situation becomes so se
rious that it affects public health we
are going to be right there with our
pile of coal. We will not see any
suffering in Cleveland.”
The Three-Cent City
This municipal antipathy to pub
lic suffering, it may be added paren
thetically, originated several years
ago during the administration of
Mayor Davis, according to the fuel
official who explained the Cleveland
coal pain to us. It was this mayor
who started the historic movement
for three-cent sandwiches, three-cent
carfare, and three-cent telephone
calls in Cleveland—started it and fin
ished it. He acutally made the three
cent standard so popular here that a
special appeal by the People of
Cleveland was made to the Unite®
States treasury for the minting of a
three-cent piece of the same conven
ient size as the nickel.
Although this was long ago, the
effect of this municipal Interference
in the cause of low prices is still
felt. When prices begin to rise, and
rise too precipitately, the people of
Cleveland have away of turning to
the city hall and saying, “Well, Why
don’t you do something?”
Hence, this is not the first time
that a mayor of Cleveland has or
dered the establlshmeot of a munic
ipal coal pile. The first one was
created three years ago when the big
war shortage of coal occurred and
the municipality decided to buy coal
direct from the mines for its own
use Utnil then, each separate de
partment of the city government had
arranged for its own supply of coal,
but at this time a coal commission
was created to buy coal for all pt
the departments, thereby saving, as,
it later transpired, hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. Some of this sav
ing was due to the fact that the un
loading of the coal from the cars
was done with prison labor, and the
city used its ash trucks for delivery
purposes.
Sold Coal During War
As the householders of Cleveland
at this time were suffering from the
double calamity of a coal shortage
and influenza, the city authorities de
cided that they would simply in
crease their purchase of coal and
sell it to everyone who needed it.
They sold it at cost and had the ash
trucks deliver it whenever possible,
while the poor people, who flocked
to the coal pile by the hundreds, car
ried it away in small sacks slung
over their backs, or on sleds or in
children’s wagons.
Whether or not the situation will
be sufficiently desperate by Septem
ber 1 to warrant such proceedings
is a matter which cannot be fore
told. Cleveland does not particularly
want to go into the coal business,
and it hopes it won’t have to. But
it is prepared for the worst.
NEWEST NOTES OF
SCIENCE
An lowa man Is the inventor of
a work bench clamp to hold auto
mobile radiators of any size or shape.
An extensive deposit of goal, in
some places 233 feet thick, has been
discovered in North Manchuria.
An ornamental holder has been de
signed to contain a milk bottle and
enable it to be used as a pitcher.
The Brazilian and Peruvian gov
ernments will maintain a chain of
radio stations across South America.
An airplane engine with twelve
cylinders has been invented which
makes more than 2,000 revolutions a
minute.
A new Belgian law prohibits the
manufacture, sale or keeping in stock
of matches containing phosphorus.
According to French investigators
rubber is subject to microbe attacks
unless kept in perfectly dry air.
A Minneapolis inventor’s adjusta
ble road scraper has been designed
to serve equally well as a snow plow.
The blade and its cover in a new
safety razor are held in place by a
magnetized handle so they may be
easily removed for cleaning.
Scotch experts have found that the
African baobab tree yields a fiber
that is one of the finest paper mak
ing materials to be found.
A mixer for asphalt or concrete
has been added to a steam roller.by
a Pennsylvania road builder, being
operated by the same engine.
An inventor has patented a fly
swatter consisting of a metal plate
notched across its surface to hold
rubber bands that act as cushions.
TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
PARTNERS IN GUILT
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer .
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
THE Chinese, who are the most
logical people on earth, have
a comprehensive way of deal
ing out justice. When a crime
is committed they not only punish
the wrong-doer but every one who
could, or should, have prevented it.
Thus, not long ago, in a report in
a Shanghai newspaper of the court
proceedings, there was an account of
a crazy man, who had suddenly de
veloped a homicidal mania and kill
ed two people. The maniac was put
in an asylum and every member of
his family, even to remote cousins,
and the entire population of the vil
lage in which he lived, were fined be
cause they knew the man to be men
tally unbalanced, yet had taken no
measure to protect the public against
him.
In another case a youth was con
victed of having robbed his employer.
He was sent to jail, and his father
sentenced to a severe flogging for
having reared a thief, and for hav
ing neglected to instill the principles
of honor and honesty in his son.
We of the western sxorld might
well adppt this Chinese system of
administering justice For no man
sins by himself alond, and we are
all more or less responsible for the
evil done by those about us.
No one will deny, for example, that
we are all accessory before the
crime of the political corruption that
curses our country. We pay taxes
that should make every road in the
state a velvet-spread boulevard, and
every city Spotless Town. Then we
sit supinely down and watch road
commissioners . and aidermen steal
millions, while we bump along over
the ruts and unmended highways,
and have our children sicken and die
of city fifth.
We make our politicians grafters
because we make it perfectly safe for
them to loot the public treasury, and
we are just as much their partners
in guilt as is the servant girl who
leaves the door unlocked so that
burglars may come in and help them
selves to the family silver.
We deserve to have to pay the
taxes under which we groan. We
deserve more. We deserve to serve a
term in stripes by the side of the
men we have encouraged in their
thievery by our neglect of our duty
as citizens. For we could prevent
the plundering of the public funds
if we would take the trouble to do so.
In domestic life the Chinese sys
tem of justice even more adequate
ly makes the punishment fit the
crime, and fastens the guilt on the
real criminal. Because when a man
or woman goes wrong, or falls in
life, nine times out of ten he or she
could truthfully say: “This is nay
parents’ fault. They are to blame
more than I.”
I have never seen a boy standing
in a felon’s dock without thinking that
his father and mother should be
standing beside him, and that they
are more responsible than he was.
They let him grow up with an un
governed temper and in some moment
of rage he committed murder. Or
they never taught him to control his
appetite, or deny himself anything
he wanted, and so when he lacked
the money to indulge himself in what
he desired, he stole to get it.
The father was absorbed in busi
ness. The mother in society or clubs,
and they left the boy to grow up
on the streets and learn his code of
conduct from hoodlums. Neither fa
ther or mother ever took the trou
ble to get acquainted with the boy,
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
Hi’s Departure
Somehow It seems a bit dull since
the Honorable Hi Johnson went into
a state of Innocuous desuetude.—Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun.
Training’ for Police Force
That ex-service man in Arkansas
who has been asleep for two moitths
probably is Jn training for a job as
policeman.—J. D. Spencer, in Macon
Telegraph.
Political Splinters
Maybe you’ve noticed that some
times a man who thinks he is presi
dential timber is hardly more than
a splinter.—-J. D. Spencer, in Macon
Telegraph.
Good Time In Prospect
After canvassing the situation and
conferring with all parties concern
ed, it is thought best to postpone the
Eleventh district press meeting till
the second Monday in August. We
cannot meet in July, as the state
convention meets in that month; so
it is agreed that August is the best
time to do the occasion justice. We
want all the editors to remember
that while we had to put the meet
ing off. and perhaps disappoint some,
we are going to make up for lost
Mrs. Solomon Says:
By HELEN ROWLAND
Being The Confessions of the
Seven-Hundredth wife
(Copyiight, 1920, by The Wheeler Syndi-
WIO is .this, my Daughter, that
cometh sighing as the
wind through the Cypress? ’
Who is this, that greeteth
thee with the mien of a pallbearer
and the face of a martyr?
Who is this, that claspeth tliine
hand for comfort, and gazeth into
thine eyes in, search of sympathy?
Do, it is he, the lonely husband!
Yea, it is he, the “Summer Wid
ower,” whose wife hath left him with
only the cat for company and the
ouija-board for diversion.
Yet, behold how subtle he hath
gro’yn with the years.
For, once upon a time, he cele
brated his wife’s departure with joy
ous feasting and loud huzzahs, cry
ing:
"My wife’s gone to the country—
Hurray! Hurray!"
Once he boasted of his “freedom”
and bragged of his iniquities.
Once he went forth boldly, in
search of gayety and adventure, ar
rayed in his sportiest vestments and
his gaudiest cravats.
But the damsels of the city turned
away their heads and smiled, saying:
“Poor simp! He is a schoolboy
who hath just heard the bell ring for
recess. He yearneth to get into mis
chief. He longeth to break all the
rules. But why shall we waste time
upon him, when the land is full of
Eligibles? He is giddy wish his own
conceit! His ‘nerve’ is exceeding
great!’*
But the Summer Widower of 1920
is wise to his own folly.
He goeth amidst the multitude,
sadly and softly as one that is great
ly afflicted. He seeketh out the ten
der-hearted damsel and telleth her of
his “loneliness.” He leadeth her unto
the pink tea room and diseourseth of
his empty Use.
He speaketh sweetly of his wife
as of one dead and departed.
He praiseth the damsel’s “charity
in consenting to have pity upon him.
He pleadeth with her to be kind
to him. , .
He reveleth in his own misery,
and greatly enjoyeth his sufferings.
Yea, he is so sorry for himself.
And 10, she that was moved to
smiles by his boastings is moved to
tears by his pleadings; she that was
adamant is softer than drug store
ice cream on a July day.
She permitteth him to hold her
hand! , ~
She melteth as a starched collar
at a graduation dance.
For, behold, he hath discovered
that the way to a woman’s heart is
not a highway, where the Conquering
Hero cometh with the blowing of
trumpets and the fanfare of a brass
band; but a Secret Way, through her
compassion.
Verily, verily, every woman yearn
eth to "mother” some man.
And he that hath succeeded in win
ning her sympathy may be assured
that in time her heart will follow
after it!
Then, beware of the Summer Wid
ower, my Beloved.
For he goeth softly—and is wise!
And it is met that the Lonely
Husband be pitied—but not that he
be petted! \
Selah.
to be his friend and confidant ®
to instill in his youthful soul tho
high ideals of principle that keep
lad straight through the temptatio
of life, and so he became a crimjn
I never see a drab of the stre<
without thinking that it is 1
mother from whom we should dri
away our skirts, and not her, pc
soul. If her mother had inculcai
modesty and purity in her, if. l
mother had taught her strength, a
virtue, and ingrained into the j
fiber of her soul that feeling I
makes a woman hold her chaU
above her life, no man could > £
driven her to the streets.
But her mother was weak and ca
less, or she was frivolous and va
She taught her daughter indirect
if not directly, that dress was
rmoat important thing in the wo
Ifor a woman, and that she nr
have finery no matter how she g°t
and so the girl was hanSiy to bla
if she sold her soul for a yard
chiffon.
Or she let the girl go about hf
clothed and her modesty perish
for modesty can only exist when
is covered by the seven veils
reticence. Above all, the girl’s mot
nevqr warned her that a woman
always in more danger from here
than she is from any man. And
the girl fell, and her sin is on
mother’s head.
I never see an unhappy homo,
hear of a divorce that I do not th
that the real co-respondents t
should be named in the suit, are
parents on both sides!. They h
brought their children up to be s
ish, with no idea of owing a d
to anyone but themselves, and w
they find out that matrimony >c
sists of more bills than blllii
more cooking than cooing, they h
not the courage to endure the sa
flees it demands.
If mothers would prepare ti
daughters for wifehood by teaci
them to be thrifty managers
good housekeepers), and that n
riage means a woman buckling
and doing her duty, no matter 1
hard it may be in the estate i
which she has called herself; an
fathers would teach their sons 1
it is a solemn thing for a mar
take a girl’s life into his hands,
he doesn’t fulfill all his obligat:
to her just by feeding and clotl
her, but that he must do all in
power to really make her happy, '
marriage would cease to be a fail
It is the parents who wreck t
children’s domestic happiness by
fitting them to be good husbt
and wives.
And it is the parents who are
sponsible for the failures of the ]
weaklings who have not the gri
stand up and fight the battle of
and so are conquered by fate. Mo
and father couldn’t bear to see J 1
ny and Mary work and so they
them grow to become lazy loa
Mother and father hadn’t the h
to hear Johnny and Mary cry,
so they let them develop into ,
cowards who gave up in the fad
every difficulty, and became i
sites that hung onto the strong
stead of standing on their own
And Johnny and Mary have
right to curse mother and fa
for what they are.
We are all partners in guilt v
things go wrong, and we may
pray, as did the little priest w
ever he heard of anyone commit
a crime: “May God forgive you
me for that man’s sin.”
time when we get ’em here. We
going to have a good business n
ing and lots of entertainment. —hi
vine Herald. ~
• A Good Platform
San Francisco is farther 8
from Washington, geographic
than Chicago, but the dlstanc
shortened considerably when
compare the length of the two
platforms—the Democratic is lo
and stronger and smoother than
Republicans, Savannah Mor
News.
It js also saner, higher, bro
bigger, safer and better.
A Bi< Job for Harding
And so Harding is to interprei
platform in his speech of accept
It's a big job to handle in one i
speech.—Americus Times-Recorc
An Attractive Exhibit
, The banks of San Francisco h
gold exhibit of a million dollan
the Democrats. It was all in twi
dollar pieces and its weight wa
800 pounds. The coin was loane
the occasion by the federal rei
banks.—Cordele Dispatch.
Perhaps He Saw Champ’s "He
Anybody notice how the N
News reproduced Champ Clark’s
ture yesterday, with the donke
the ready-to-kick attitude?—D
Courier-Herald.
McAdoo Didn't Do
McAdoo wouldn't do becaus
couldn’t do.—Griffin News and S
Dublin Has Hecorda
We’re proud of Dublin. In
winter it s the coldest place lr
world and in the summer—
there’s but one place reported
any hotter.—Dublin Tribune.
The Calvos Will Bo There, •
We are looking for Johnny ]
sill, Jim Williams, Johnny J
Bill Sutlive, Otis Brumby, Dave ■
fort and all the balance of thM
billies and gopher hunters atl
rollton. —Exchange.
We’ll be there, Buddy. And I
forget that we will be looking
some calves at Editor Thomal
barbecue.—LaGrange Reporter. 1
H’oll “IWt” ’Bm Again I
Governor Cox has licked thJ
publicans three times for govi
of Ohio and he believes he canl
’em for the presidency. Here’s!
ing he can and will.—ColumbuJ
quirer-Sun.
Walton County's Papera I
The Social Circle Press, reel
launched by Rev. J. D. Winch!
a Baptist preacher-printer, seen
be enjoying deserved patronage!
cial Circle is an enterprising ■
and the Press should receive th!
eral support of all its citizens. ■
ton county now has three new
pers .the Walton Tribune, the J
ton News and the Social Circle ■
Henry County Weekly I
The Henry County Weekly,!
lished at McDonough, has ma<M
first appearance under the jnaH
ment of W. A. Clements and Bl
Elliott. The old standard of fl
lence Is being maintained, whi!
doubtless appreciated by the I
friends of that popular little wfl
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