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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ■ ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months ... ... 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) IWk.lMo. 3 Moo. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday2oc 90c S2JiO $5.00 $9.50 Dally 16c 70c 25)0 4.00 7-50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains'Hews 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. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton; M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jenninpa, We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label uaed for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot; enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. 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 THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. 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 HAMBONE’S MEDITATI| kun'l bob wanter Knl EF AH PON' LAK T' J A FIGHT ONCE EN | WHILE --WELL, AH Del pervidin* it Ain't I S Hootin'- SCRAPE fl I Copyright, 19>o by McClure Nowtpopor