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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga.
The Significance of Air Mail
Between Atlanta and Gotham
The official call for bids for an air
mail service between Atlanta and
New York, byway of Columbia,
Raleigh and Washington, brings within hail
ing distance of one’s work-a-day imagina
tion an event which hitherto has haunted
the outlying deep of dreams. “Some day,” we
have been saying, “our letters of urgent im
portance will be sent and received by fleet
Mercurites of the sky.” But we scarcely ex
pected the wonder so soon, and above our
own housetops.
According to the Postal Department’s
specifications, the new service must begin
not later than November the 15th, next,
must compHse at least three hundred and
six round trips a year and be prepared to
carry fifteen hundred pounds of mail on
each trip. Leaving New York City at 7
a. m. (Eastern time) the mail plane will
reach Washington at 9:40, Raleigh at 1:10
p. m. # Columbia at 3:55 and Atlanta at
6:55. This schedule allows for a stay of
twenty minutes at each stop, and cuts the
railway time in half. On the northbound
flight, planes will leave Atlanta at 5:30
a. m., reach Washington at 2:25 p. m.,'
and descend at New York just three hours
later. Although the air-route postage is
not yet decided upon, it is expected to be
a rate that will give the time-saving a
practical appeal to business correspondents.
The Atlanta-New York line is one of
several which the Government is moving
definitely to establish, bids having been
asked for like service between Cleveland
and Detroit, Pittsburg and St. Louis, and
New York and Chicago.
. These cheering .evidences of an aroused
■ aeronautic interest in the Uiyted States,
where such enterprises have lagged sorely
of late, are reinforced by the plans of four
Army airmen for a pioneer flight from
New York to Nome, Alaska. This exploit,
whose launching is set for the current
week, will mark a chapter in American
aviation more notable than the great trans
continental flight of recent seasons. Not
only the formidable distance—eight thou
sand, nine hundred and sixty miles—but"
also the stormful hazards of the unex
plored way will make the adventure an ob
ject of world-wide and historic interest.
“The vast stretches of the Canadian Rock
ies,” we are reminded, “and the wilder
ness of the Interior of Alaska, have never
F before been the field for a similar test
r of skill and daring. The difficulties to be
overcome are, in a real sense, of the same
kind that faced the continent-conquering
frontiersmen of the eighteenth and early
Nineteenth centuries —the same perils that
come to those who venture into an im-\
perfectly known wilderness.”
A particularly useful result of the flight,
if it is successful, will be its demonstra
tion of the feasibility of air postal service
between Alaska and the States. The Army
aviators expect to compass the nearly nine
thousand miles from New York to Nome
in fifteen days, including stops for rest
and ordinary repairs. This will represent a
reduction of at least a fortnight in the time
required to reach Alaskan centers from
most points in this country by present
means of communication. What this gain,
when 'wrought into mail deliveries, will
mean to the increasing communities of
Americans who are building and produc
ing in that farthest northland of our flag,
is easily imagined.
In promoting such interests the Army is
doing work of a substantial as well as
splendid nature. Man’s future lies largely
in the air. and they who chart the aerial
ocean and bring its wondrous uses into
our daily life are leaders in deed and
truth.
Georgia' s Gain and Lach
REJOICING as we do in Georgia’s
wondrous strides toward agricul
tural independence in recent years,
we should not forget that a vast deal re
mains to be done ere the goal is reached
and the resources so rich about us are duly
developed. Touching the present status of
food production, the Fort Valley Leader-
Tribune points out that we are importing
Into the State each year approximately one
hundred and fifty-seven million dollars’
worth of materials which easily could be
raised from the State’s own fertile acres.
This means, as the Leader-Tribune says,
that our volume of agricultural wealth is
x reduced from seven hundred and fifty mil
/ to six hundred million dollars, and
that we pay distant regions a tax of sixty
dollars per capita for food crops which
. Georgia soil could bring forth in brim
, ming abundance. As for food animals:
Ours is a natural live stock state.
The number of hogs has increased in
six years by nearly one million head,
a tribute to the value and importance
of the educational work promoted
primarily through the agency of the
Extension Division of the Georgia
State College of Agriculture. A silo
and twenty-five acres in grain on ev
ery farm would wipe out our feed
bills for live stock. If the money spent
for food stuffs outside the state was
kept at home we could easily have
schools, roads, orderly towns and vil
lages, and educational Institutions su
perior to any now found in the Union.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
The matter again resolves itself into
education along the right lines. The
present generation of boys and girls
must be given the right type of voca
tional instruction in agriculture and
home economics.
That the indepnedence and prosperity
here pictured are altogether attainable, who
can doubt that has watchd Georgia’s prog
ress in the last decade? From humble be
ginnings in animal she has
forged to a place of national note, and
from obscurity as a grain grower has be
come one of the country’s largest harvest
ers. Diversification has wrought wonders
with her soil as well as with her bank ac
counts. The old tyranny of cotton is gone.
A new era of manifold production has
dawned. We need but to use its opportu
nities to go swiftly and richly forward.
War Troubles the Treaty Did
Not Settle
IT is easy to start a war, difficult to
stop it, and impossible to escape Its
sequent burdens and perplexities. A
year and eight months have elapsed since
the armistice, and a full four seasons since
the benediction of peace itself. Yet, Amer
ica has no defined relations with the late
enemy, and a far from satisfactory status
among her tr ends. As for the European
principals, they are in divers uiuertaiiUies
if not perils Consider the one item of
German indemnity.
Even if the problem of col'cvting ’s
solved there remains the debated, ano deli
cate question of dividing it. The general
impression '(has been that France was to
receive fifty-five percent, England twenty
five, and the minor Allies the remainder,
that being the plan agreed upon last win
ter by the chief counselors. But now
France and England are construing this
decision differently. “Dses France’s fifty
five percent,” it is asked, “mean a percent
age of the total indemnity, or merely a
ratio to England’s twenty-five percent?”
France holds that she should receive fifty
five pfennig of every mark paid over by
Germany; England that for every twenty
five pfennig she herself gets, France shall
get fifty-five. Thus, under the English con
struction, if the Allied Supreme Council de
cided that only half of the fund coming
from Germany should be apportioned as
reparation, France’s part would be much
less than fifty-five percent of the total. And
what would be done with the remainder?
“That is the question,” writes a keenly
watchful American correspondent at Paris,
“which many European statesmen are won
dering about. Is it to be distributed among
the minor Allies, not in the ratio of war
losses, but on the basis of emergency needs
that may develop later? Italy is dissatisfied
with her present allowance. Will it be
increased later with the aid of England’s
vote? Is Belgium, by a similar arrangement
going to have a larger part of the Ger
man payments than had been foreseen?
And Serbia?” The problem thus twines it
self into sundry forms and over a wide
range of national and international inter
esis. Indeed, there is scarcely a country in
Euiope whose fortunes it Joes not involve,
one way or another; and certainly it
touches America, with her great loans to
the Allies.
How the matter will be resolved, only
time can tell. The broadly significant fact
is that the troubles of war do not cease
with truces and treaties, but project them
selves incalculably, branching into all man
ner of knotty questions and striking their
long-lived, aggressive roots into the fur
thest reaches of peace. Herein lies a pecu
liarly practical and urgent reason for in
ternational co-working to preserve concord;
for, a war once started, there is no pre
dicting its limits and involutions, no imag
ining its legacy of ills beyond the battle
field.
Can Villa Be Converted?
IF the new regime in Mexico can turn
Villa the bandit into Villa a supporter
of orderly government, we should not
be squeamish over the methods of the con
version. The letter of the law would re
quire, of course, that this picaresque ad
venturer be hanged, if not quartered and
boiled; for of all roistering rogues who
have harried the border country and made
them dens in the hilly fastnesses beyond,
he is the boldest and baddest and bright
est.
So markedly, however, does Villa possess
the first and last as well as the middle
member of these qualities that he rises
above the ordinary rascal’s plane into a
certain * romantic aura not unlike Robin
Hood’s. So at least does he appear to
many a Mexican of his familiar trails and
hauntsr nor can it be doubted that over
thousands whom the usual authorities con
trol with extreme difficulty, if at all, this
hard-riding chieftain wields an almost mag
ical influence.
Suppose, then, the new powers that be
at Mexico City can make Villa an ally of
peace and law. Is it not behooveful to all
concerned that they do so? Had Carranza
been tactful just -when the revolution of
which he was the titular head and Villa
the military brains reached its culminating
and hence most critical stage, the sub
sequent story of Mexico jnight have been
far happier. The most casual of readers
can hardly have forgotten the extraordinary
talents which in those days Villa revealed
both as a strategist and an organizer. H%
himslef, however, was not great enough to
master the situation; and others were not
skillful enough to employ him for his coun
try’s good Instead of its ill.
Carranza’s successors appear to grasp
this fact and to be fairly on the way to
utilizing the resources of one who is much
too able and much too influential to be
left a bandit. They have effected a truce
with Villa, it seems, and are discussing
terms upon which his past can be can
celled and his future insured. It is not a
very dignified role for the new adminis
tration, but it may prove to be a very use
ful one. At least, it will give definite status
to a Mexican who, for his country’s and
his neighbors’ good, must either be put in
the way of peaceful citizenship or put out
of the way once for all.
Trade With the Soviets
IN lifting the embargo on trade with
Soviet Russia the United States Gov
ernment in no wise guarantees the se
curity of commercial transactions with that
country or accords political recognition to
the Lenine order. It merely permits any
one in America, who so may wish, to cast
his bread upon the darkly uncertain waters
of a Bolshevik sea.
Whether such an experiment will reward
or ruin those who try it is left to in
dividual judgment. It is interestingly ob
served by a writer in the New York World
that “sending goods into Russia for sale
is much the simpler and safer half of
the trade process; there should be no
trouble at all in getting them inside the
boundary—no more trouble than there
would be after that in merging them into
the public stock for the use of the pro
letariat dictatorship; the trouble would
come in getting back a valid equivalent
which would hold good outward bound
clear beyond the Soviet border.”
Now that trade prohibitions are remov
ed, however, the apologists for Lenine can
not argue that his “government” is han
dicapped by the policies of a “capitalistic”
America. He and his fellow adventurers
have unobstructed opportunity, as far as
the commercial side of the situation is
concerned, to attract alb the foreign goods
and friends they can under their «theory
and practice of doing business. It remains
to be seen, however, with what readiness
a world that prizes sane and honest deal
ing will respond.
Sovietism broke Russia’s good faith,
dragged her honor down, and has kept
her in hunger and wretchedness. But there
is reason to hope that her disillusionment
and deliverance are on the way.
THOSE ARTERIES
By H. Addington Bruce
YOU have reason to suspect—perhaps you
have been specifically informed by your
doctor —that your blood pressure is
considerably higher than it ought to be. This
means, as you know, an abnormal condition
of the arteries, with possibly serious conse
quences unless the blood pressure is brought
down.
And as a first and vitally important step
toward bringing it down, you should reso
lutely refuse to worry over the knowledge
that it is too high.
If you do let this worry you, your blood
pressure is sure to go higher still. For worry
is a notorious offender in raising arterial
tension.
Which means, of course, that besides con
trolling your emotions in the present emer
gency, you should make it a point to culti
vate a habit of emotional control under all
circumstances.
Stop worrying oyer business problems, if
you have been worrying over them. Stop
fretting and fuming over disappointments and
inconveniences sure to be experienced from
day to day. Train yourself to confront life
calmly.
Train yourself, too, to relax at frequent
intervals both mentally and physically.
Forget your work when you leave your
place of work. Don’t hurry to it or hurry at
it. Hurry, remember always, is a first cousin
of worry, and itself affects the arteries un
favorably.
Recognize, if you have never done so be
fore, that play has as necessary and legiti
mate a place in life as work.
Consequently, choose some form of recre
ation that will really be of interest to you—
giving preference to a recreation that will
take you out of doors.
Exercise in the open you must have, though
not violent exercise or exercise so long con
tinued as to exhaust you. And, weather per
mitting, you should take some exercise every
day, whether you feel like it or not.
Increasing your allowance of play and ex
ercise, decrease your allowance of food. Over
eating is itself responsible for many a case
of high blood pressure. Beware particularly
of eating too much meat. Try to get along
altogether without meat or meat soups. And
dispense with sweets.
If the clothing you wear fits you tightly in
tiny respect, have it made looser at once.
This is a most important point, especially as
regards the fit of shirt neckbands, collars and
neckwear in general.
More than one case is on record of a de
sirable drop in blood pressure being effected
by the simple device of giving the neck freer
play.
Finally, keep In frequent touch with your
doctor, so that he can post you as to the
progress you are making in pressure reduc
tion, and advise as to any special precautions
it may be needful for you to take. Your case
may have features making such precautions
imperative.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
THE MAN OF MYSTERY
By Dr. Frank Crane
Persistent reports continue that- the Czar
is still alive. He bids fair to take his place
as the star in the great melodrama of Miss
ing Men, the modern successor to the Man
with the Iron Mask, the disappearing Arch
duke of Russia, the heir in the Tichborne
Case, and Charlie Ross.
Whatever may be the judgment of insig
nificance passed upon him during his life,
now that he is in limbo, he promises to be
inviting material for the writer of mystery
stories and newspaper canards. After all it
may be better to be king in the realm of im
agination than to be Czar of all the Russias.
The other day the American freighter,
Governor John Lind, hove into the port of
New York. What material freight it car
ried was not stated in the news, but in some
mysterious way it was loaded to the guards
with the bales of fancy.
Investigating reporters invaded the stoke
hole, chasing the rumor that among the
oilers, stokers, bo’s’ns, and messboys were
really the late Czar of Russia and a number
of the members of his suite.
Just as a fancy touch it was also reported
that jewels worth anywhere from $200,000
to were concealed on board.
All the way over the Russians were the
subject of conversation among the American
members of the crew. They were good-na
tured and answered pleasantly when they
were addressed as Count, Duke, Prince, or
even Your Highness. Even the messboy,
when he was asked if he were a Duke, re
plied “Sure ” What better evidence could
be desired?
As the Governor Lind lay alongside the
pier a reporter got on board, and spying a
grimy figure who looked not unlike the late
Mr. Romanoff, asked one of the crew who
it was.
“It is the Czar,” was the reply delivered
with impressiveness.
“Are you a member of the Romanoff fam
ily?” asked the reporter.
The distinguished oiler in soiled overalls
stroked his beard with a horny hand. “I
really wish you would not ask me that,” he
said in a quiet voice.
“Say, Czar,” said the newsgatherer, as he
pointed toward an imposing-looking member
of the engineer force, “is that the Prince?”
The refined member of the crew addressed,
looked solemnly in the direction indicated.
“Really,” he said, “I think he is.”
“Did you bring over any family jewels?”
came'the next question.
The round-eyed 'audience from the stoke
hole moved involuntarily forward.
“A few,” said the bearded oiler.
“They are worth considerable money?”
suggested the questioner.
“I don’t know —” At’ this point the pier
superintendent ordered the visitors off the
ship. With a wave of his hand the distin
guished oiler departed to his job below decks.
If the newspaper reporter can do as well
as the above with the Czar legend, what can
not be done with it in the hands of a future
Dumas or O. Henry?
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Our idea of the height of suspicion is em
bodied in the report that the allied represen
tatives have a slight mistrust of the motives
of the German contingent at the peace con
ference.
What has become of the old-fashioned
man who used to be considered a hot sport
because he had his shoes made to order and
paid as high as $8 a pair for them?
CURRENT EVENTS
Jamie Gonzales, one of the first
Cubans to take up flying, was killed
instantly recently when his airplane
fell in the outskirts of Havana. Gon
zales, who was 26 years old, formerly
was" attached to the Cuban Aviation
corps.
American Independence Day was
celebrated by the Hungarian govern
ment and people at Budapest. An im
rnence throng paraded to the Museum
Gardens, where the cabinet ministers
attended, a celebration of mass In
the open air.
Children presented a banner and
flowers to the American officials as an
expression of gratitude for their re
lief work.
A message from Budapest relates
that the minister of education has
issued a ruling that only 25 per
cent of high school students may be
Jews. At present 50 per cent of
these students are Jews.
President Wilson has made no
plans for leaving Washington this
summer. He has told Admiral Gray
son, his physician, that he has no
desire to leave, feeling more com
fortable In the White House than he
would at some distant place.
The Mayflower is at the navy
yard, subject to the president’s or
ders. and can be used whenever he
wants to take a trip to Chesapeake
Bay or the ocean. The president
also has automobiles in which he
may spin into the suburbs.
A message from London relates a
conference of delegates representing
900,000 miners, assembled at Leam
ington recently, adopted a resolution
demanding that the government
concede an advance in wages of two
shillings daily and imediately re
duce the recent addition of 14
shillings per ton to the price of
domestic coal.
Proposals for a five-day week and
to give the executive committee of
the Miners’ Federation power to call
a strike without a ballot of the
members were defeated.
For the present there is no threat
of a strike, but the action was In
tended to strengthen the policy of
forcing the government into nation
alizing the coal mines.
John D. Rockefeller was eight
four years old a few <_ays ago. He
passed the day on his estate in the
Pocantico Hills, receiving such
friends as anually visit him on the
anniversary of his birth. No
special plans were made for the
observance of the day.
A cable from Paris Informs us
the court of appeals upheld the de
cision of the lower courts granting
Frank Jay Gould a divorce from
Edith Kelly Gould.
Mr. Gould obtained a divorce from
Edith Kelly Gould in Paris in 1919.
Later Mrs. Gould attempted to have
the decree annulled on the ground
that the French courts were with
out jurisdiction owing to the fact
that she was a resident of the Unit
ed States.
The court in that case overruled
her plea and sustained the decree
granted to Mr. Gould. The case was
then carried to the court of appeal
with the result that the previous
rulings in Mr. Gould’s favor have
been sustained.
A dispatch from Washington
states that only one bid for the
former German passenger ship Von
Steuben was received recently when
tenders on the vessel were opened
by the shipping board. It was for
$1,500,000, from F. Eggena, of the
Foreign Trade Development Cruise.
Action on it was deferred.
The vessel is sought for a round
the-world cruise to stimulate Ameri
can foreign trade. The Von Steuben
was the former German commerce,
raider, Kronprlnz Wilhelm, of 14,-
907 gross tons.
The first settlement with a rail
road company, of all claims aris
ing out of Federal operation, was
announced recently by the railroad
administration at Washington
which has agreed to pay the
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Rail
roads $1,600,000 in cash, the sum
remainin'; after balancing claims of
the railway company against the
government and of the government
against the railway company.
Dumb for three years as the re
sult of shell shock, Trooper W. Hart
suddenly recovered his speech in
Ont., in the
excitement of a bowling match. He
was playing with the Davisville mil
itary hospital team.
A dispatch form Paris tells us
that the government has assured, the
chamber of deputies that 500,000
francs will be given to the ministry
of liberated regions out of the 20,-
000,000 francs propaganda fund. It
was pointed out that propaganda
was particularly desirable in the
United States to show the task
ahead arid encourage “a new out
burst of general solidarity with
wounded France.”
There is a reluctance on part the of
some German farmers to surrender
their firearms, due to “the legitimate
desire to protect their homes against
marauders,” Minister of Agriculture
Braun said to a “Tageblatt” repre
sentative. He added, however, that
a number of farmers have been
“storing arm s deliberately for sub
versive purposes,” but he said these
were not as numerous as generally
believed.
“If the people will only keep their
heads,” Herr Braun said, “I do not
believe there will be any organized
outbreak in the near future. The
rural situation at this time inspires
confidence.”
In a speech in the hpuse of rep
resentatives at Tokio with regard to
anti-Japanese movements in the
United States, Representative Itsu
jiro Uehara asked why the govern
ment did not insist upon the law
ful rights of the Japanese instead of
prohibiting the sending of picture
brides to America.
Foreign Minister Uchida replied
that he was taking the utmost meas
ures to cope with the situation, but
that the prohibition upon picture
brides was inevitable
The citizens of Hiroshlna, from
which many of the emigrants to Cal
ifornia come, have decided to send
an open letter to the people of Cali
fornia protesting against the sug
gested land laws and other anti-
Japanese legislation. 1
That the remote ancestor of the
American Indians may have lived in
Spain in prehistoric days is indicated
by some very remarkable discoveries
of rock paintings that archeologists
have made at El Bosque, in the hilly
country north of Alpera, a Spanish
town about half way between Al
besete, situated in the plains of La
Mancha and Alicante, on the Medi
terranean. Anthropologists also say
that these discoveries throw a fresh
light upon the life of prehistoric man
in southwestern Europe during the
Magdalenian period of the great ice
age.
These Palaeolithic tribes, when not
compelled by the rigob of the climate
to find their dwelling in caverns
where they obtained protection
against both the intense cold and
the attacks of ferocious animals,
lived under rock shelters on the sides
of valleys.—Detroit News.
An official statement by the su
preme council from Spa, Belgium,
says:
“The conference assembled at 11
o’clock to examine the Turkish treaty
reply. The conference agreed it was
impossible to modify any of the prin
cipa clauses as requested by Turkey,
but appointed a small expert commit
tee. empowered to consult with the
military authorities, to draft a re
ply.
’ The reply will deal with certain
minor points on which the Turkish
memorandum has established a rea
sonable case, and will require sig
nature of the treaty within ten days
after presentation of the reply.”
Strikes and lock-outs in the Unit
ed States in 1919 numbered 3,371
and Effected more than 4.000,000
workers, according to a review is
sued recently by the department of
labor at Washington. Approximate
ly one-half of the strikes occurred
in five states —New York. Massa
chusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Illinois.
It is a strange fact that the eggs
of sea fowl are almost conical in
form, so that they will only roll in
a circle. As many of them are laid
on the bare edges of high rocks this
provision of nature prevents them
from rolling off.
CLEVELAND
LOOKS AHEAD
By Frederic J. Haskin
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 10.—
Cleveland is a city of mu
nicipal foresight. It believes
in looking on the optimistic
l side of life and seeing things not as
'they are, but as they will be in the
future.
Thus when the recent census fig
ures were published, showing Detroit
to be leading Cleveland by several
hundred thousand population, Cleve
land merely shrugged its dignified
shouders, cleared its throat signifi
cantly, and said: “Wait and see
what happens in the next five years.”
This remark is typical of Cleve
land’s attitude toward most of its
shortcomings. Not that it has more
than other cities, but it gives one
the impression of just having discov
ered them. Everything in Cleveland
is just in the process of being sur
veyed or has just been surveyed, and
as it will be several years before the
recommendations resulting from
these surveys are acted upon, Cleve
land naturally looks to the future for
perfection. In fact, many of the citi
zens of Cleveland have looked in this
direction so often that they have
come to take the future Cleveland
for granted.
For instance, one of the things that
Cleveland likes to boast about is its
famous group plan of public build
ings. This group, as qveryone will
tell you, includes the Union Pas
senger Station, the City Hall, the Li
brary building, the Federal building,
the Municipal auditorium and the
County Building, extending in a neat
and orderly plan from the fringe of
the business district to the shore of
Lake Erie. Well, so much has been
said and written concerning this daz
zling feature of the city that a few
months ago a city planning expert
arrived from Belgium for the sole
purpose of inspecting it. With some
reluctance, a small delegation from
the chamber of commerfce led the
Belgian gentleman down the street
and showed him the city hall, the
courthouse and the massive steel
skeleton of what is some day to be
the auditorium.
Still on Paper
“But the library and the station?”
inquired the city planning expert,
consulting an ancient pamphlet on
the beauties of Cleveland.
“We regret to say,” explained the
delegation, "that they are stilj in the
form of blue print.”
Since this incident occurred, the
bond issue for fifteen million dol
lars which was to be raised in order
to build the station has been rejected
by the people of Cleveland in favor
of a large number of new hospital
beds, and the group plan appears to
be farther from completion than
ever. Nevertheless, it is accepted
as a reality by Cleveland.
Os course, this municipal futurism
is better understood when you con
sider that Cleveland’s slogan is
“Tell the World About Cleveland!”
Unfortunately, in order to make the
world liseten, you have to have some
thing interesting to tell, so Cleveland
cannot be blamed if it turns to the
future and uses its imagination.
Cleveland’s past is not of the ro
mantic or lurid variety which the
world prefers to read about. It was
quietly and peacefully founded by a
man named Moses Cleveland, who
was head surveyor for the Connecti
cut Land company, which acquired
most of northern Ohio at the price of
forty cents an acre. We are told
that one acre in Cleveland today is
worth $2,000,00, but we don’t know
which acre is referred to.
The influence of the early Con
necticut Puritans still predominates
Cleveland, which continues to take
itself and the world very seriously.
In the outlying farming districts,
moreover, there are villages which,
to all appearances, might have been
brought along by the Connecticut
Land company in its journey west
ward, so identical are they with
those to be found in Connecticut.
A City of Dignity
However, it was the Standard Oil
company and not Connecticut which
made Cleveland what it is today, al
though neither the Standard Oil
company nor the people of Cleveland
will admit it. The officials of the
former tell you that it was the com
pletion of the Ohio Canal connecting
Lake Erie with the Ohio river as
early as 1843 which started Cleve
land on the road to becoming a great
industrial city, but the people of
Cleveland will tell you that they had
the elemc- of success in them from
the very beginning.
Be that as it may, Cleveland to
day is ponderous and dignified, as
befits its close affiliations with the
Rockefeller family, and just a trifle
heavy. It does heavy things. It
builds st .el \ ships along Its lake
front; It manufactures machinery,
and assembles automobile parts. It
also leads the world In the produc
tion of nuts—of the purely Indus
trial variety—bolts, wire goods, steel
forgings, hardware, job printers’
presses, gray iron castings, tele
scopes, plumbers’ fixtures and vac
uum sweepers. It also turns out
more women’s ready-made clothing
than any other city, with the excep
tion of New York.
But Cleveland’s greatest pride is
its success as a host to innumerable
conventions. As a meeting nlace, as
the chamber of commerce so truly
says, Cleveland calls louder to you
than any city of Its size in the coun
try. Nothing pleases Cleveland—es
pecially the hotels and retailers of
Cleveland—more than to have a
whole association of haymakers, or
pipe manufacturers of confectioners
or lawyers or homeopathic physi
cians descend upon it five or six
hundred strong.
Nowhere Is the badge of member
ship more admired or respected. No
where have so many special facili
ties been assembled as a lure to the
convening public. We forget what
the seating capacity of all the hotel
lobbies, halls and auditoriums Is, but
it is quite astonishing. And It may
be added with all due fairness to
Cleveland, that its hotels are excep
tionally attractive —nuite, in fact, the
most attractive feature of the city-
Besides which, Cleveland possesses
unique amusement facilities for con
vening visitors within easy walking
distance along its principal streets.
One of these Is a shooting gallery
of the good old type found at sum
mer resorts, where the person who
hits the bull’s-eye three times in
succession is rewarded with a pair
of socks of the thirty-five-cent va
riety. Another is a miniature circus
held In a moving picture theater,
which consists of everything from
a mournful calliope and a blood
sweating behemoth to a pink lemon
ade and peanut stand.
Add to these attractions a large
assortment of cafeterias and the lar
gest collection of dairy lunch rooms
ever assembled in captivity and you
will understand why Cleveland con
siders itself an ideal convention city.
How the National Democratic and
National Republican parties ever
came to choose San Francisco and
Chicago for their convention sites
this year when they could have met
in Cleveland is quite bevond the com
prehension of Cleveland’s leading cit
izens. However, both parties wlil be
given another chance; for with its
eye as ever on the future. Cleveland
has already extended a cordial in
vitation to each party to hold its na
tional convention in Cleveland when
it meets to nominate 1 a presidential
candidate in 1924,
A Bristol publisher named Arrow
smith many years ago received some
stories from India, with a letter
which made the publisher imagine
the writer had too high an opinion of
himself. He therefore rejected the
manuscripts, and regretted his act
on the day of his death, because the
young man happened to be Rudyard
Kipling.
Another publishing house has the
record of having declined Stevenson,
Barrie, Kipling and Crockett! In
fact, Stevenson had no light task in
selling "Treasure Island.”
Rider Haggard has said that
“Dawn” was sent back to him six
times before it found a publisher.
W. W. Jacobs had a similar expe
rience with his wonderfully amus
ing “Many Cargoes.” He tried it
all around London until another hu
morist, Jerome, took pity on him and
ran the stories in a magazine he
was at that time editing.
“East Lynne,” both as a novel and
play, has been a perfect gold mine,
yet was rejected by no less a person
than George Meredith, when reader
for a well known publishing house.
J. J. Bell actually had to publish
“Wee MacGregor” himself. He got
an accomplished artist to draw the
famous cover and became his own
publisher, with excellent results io
himself and the public.:—Kansas
City Post.
THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1920.
DORQTHY DIX TALKS
Are You Good Company For Yourself?
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
> z said a small boy to me
• • the other day, “but I’d hate
yJj to be my Aunt Maria and
always have to live with
myself.”
And I thought of Aunt Maria, and
many another one like her, gloomy
and pessimistic, warped in soul and
suspicious of disposition, always
chewing over the! cud of bitter
thoughts, and I piiued them for the
company they must? keep.
For the one human being on earth
from whom there is no possibility of
escape is ourself. We can avoid our
enemies. We can flee from our dis
agreeable friends and acquaintances.
We can put many miles between
ourselves and depressing members
of our familes. We can divorce our
husbands and wives when we can no
longer endure them, but there is no
way of freeing ourselves from our
selves. Our personality is an Old
Man of the Sea, fastened upon our
backs, from which no magic can
deliver us. We are doomed to bear
ourselves company from the cradle
to the grave.
How unfortnuate, then, the lot of
those whose ego is not a pleasant
person with whom to live! How im
portant to cultivate those graces of
mind and heart that will secure us
congenial companionship in our
selves, and enable us to be never
less alone than when alone!
Think of what a horror it must be
to have to live with yourself if you
are grumpy and grouchy and filled
with a deep dark suspicion of your
fellow creatures! Think of what it
means never to see the world except
through green and bilious eyes, nev
er to taste life except to find it
gall and wormwood on your lips!
Consider the poverty of those who
believe in nothing that is good and
sweet; who receive no love because
they give none; who miss friendship
because they trust no one; who have
nothing but their own hard, cruel
thoughts for company!
Wouldn’t you hate to be a grouch,
and have to live with yourself?
Or, think what it must be to have
to spend year in, and year out, with
a melancholy, pessimistic individual,
who believbs the worst of everything,
and never sees anything but despair
and failure, and the blackness of
midnight evrywhere!
Think of what it must be never to
rejoice in the sunshine, never to bub
ble over with joy and laughter, never
to thrill with hope, never to vision
success dancing just before you down
your pathway, but always to go with
bent head, in sackcloth and ashes,
expecting the dangling sword over
your head to fall!
Wouldn’t you loath having to live
with yourself if you were a pessim
ist?
Or, think what it would be to be
one of those who are filled with envy
and jealousy, and who eat their
hearts out in bitter repining because
someone else has more of the good
things of life than they!
Think of a woman who hates all
other women who are younger and
more beautiful than she, or who are
more admired by men, or have finer
establishments, or more gorgeous
clothes. Think of a man who be
grudges every other man his suc
cess! What bitterness, what heart-
A New Revolution
The average fashion magazine pays
so little attention to fat women that
it’s a wonder they don’t start a revo
lution. Thomasville Times-Enter
prise.
Cooties In Our Midst
The first issue of The Cootie, pub
lished at Dalton monthly in the in
terest of the ex-service men, of the
Seventh congressional district, offi
cial organ of Dalton Post No. 12, the
American Legion, has made its ap
pearance, carrying live reading and
advertising matter.
A New Model
Ralph Meeks and W. E. Lightfoot,
the new owners of the Covington
News, have placed an order with the
Mergenthaler Linotype company for
a Model 14 for December delivery,
which will replace the Model K. that
has been in use in The News com
posing room for a number of years.
A Preacher-Editor
Rev. Mr. Lundy, of the Stilesboro
circuit, is proving himself almost
as good an editor as he is a preach
er. His church paper is attracting
no little attention among those for
tunate enough to receive a copy.—
Cartersville Tribune-News.
A Strain, on the Eyes
Bare legs will be permitted in At
lanta’s public swimming pools, but
the one-piece bathing suit will not
be approved until the number of op
ticians In the city has been increas
ed. —Rome News.
Facts About Factories
The’ statement is frequently made
that there were no factories south
before the civil war. As early as
Mrs. Solomon Says:
By HELEN ROWLAND
Being The Confessions of the
Seven-Hundredth Wife
(Copyiight, 1920, by The Wheeler Byndl-
MY i daughter, consider the
wives of Babylon, how they
dress.
For all the houris of Solo
mon’s harem were not arrayed like
one of these. And every one of them
thinketh herself a SIREN!
Go to, ye Simple Ones! How long
will ye continue to pin your faith
upon a chiffon frill, and to waste
your substance upon near-pearlg and
cloth-of-gold and foolish “heart
bait?” ’
For 10, it is never the little brown
wren in all-wool, but the Bird of
Paradise in allsilks, that figureth
as leading-lady in the divorce court.
And, no husband’s heart hath ever
yet been held a silken corset-string!
Behold, the sex-appeal becometh
louder and louder, every day.
And the masculine response be
cometh feebler and feebler.
It hath come to pass that more
and more silk hosiery is displayed
season by season —yet the number
of divorces keepeth pace therewith.
Lo, a man who once would walk
a mile to look upon a pair of pretty
ankles, will not so much as glance
up from his paper, to gaze upon
fifty silken ankles displayed half
way to the (cnee. »
For these are his portion, today,
yesterday, and forever.
And all silk stockings look alike
to him!
Yea, the women of Babylon have
forgotten that it is not through his
eyes, but through his imagination,
that a man falleth in love!
How then shall a wife hold her
husband’s devotion, in a world full
of Loreleis and temptations?
Verily, verily, there is but one
way in all the world to hold any
man to thee, for life, my daughter
—even to make thyself a necessity
unto him.
For, whether a man’s wife be his
backbone or only his rib; whether
she be his spur or only his hitch
ing-post, his inspiration or only his
sedative, his foot-stool or his head
rest, he will cling unto her, so long
as she is the one woman in all the
earth whom he needeth.
But she that ceaseth to make her
self a “necessity,” and entereth into
competition with the luxuries, shall
scon find the world filled with
younger and mofe fascinating "lux
uries.”
Velily, verily, every woman may
pcradventure be a siren—but not un
to her own husband!
Go to, yet Matrons of Babylon!
Let squabs and flappers and debu
tantes follow after beauty cures, and
emulate show-girls and milliners’
mannikins.
But as for you, it’ signifieth, not,
whether ye are clad in allsilk, or
in all -wool, or in calico, or in cloth
of-gold.
•x For, have I not said unto you that
a man looketh upon his wife for the
last time upon the day of his wed
ding?
And forever thereafter he only
listeneth unto her!
Selah.
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
; burnings, what futile pangs of rage
tear at them like so many vultures,
feasting on their very souls.
Wouldn’t you hate to be one of
those who must go through life
chained to the green-eyed monster?
Think of a woman who is whining
and complaining and dissatisfied and
that nothing in the world ever suits,
—a woman whom God Almighty has
not been to please, and w?.9
finds the weather always too hpt or
too cold, or too wet or too dry—»
woman whose husband and children
should always have done the thin®,
they didn’t do —a woman who frets
at her servants, and berates her
dressmakers and whose whole life
is a turmoil over trifles!
Think of never knowing a minute’s
peace, and calm, or the joy of pure
satisfaction in the society of some
one dear to you, or the possession of
some coveted article, or being in
some desired spot! ,-m
Wouldn’t you hate to be a worriet,
and have to live with yourself, ariji
get on your own nerves as badly, as
you get on other people’s?
Think of the suspicious people who
are always looking out for slights,
and who see offense in every casual
careless word and look and wht>
brood over it until it obsesses them!
Think of a morbid vanity that is air
ways on the. watch to see if just the
due amount of respect is paid to it.
and the adulation offered it that it
thinks it deserves, and that suffers
torments when a heedless- world
passess it by! Think of a person,
starving for praise, and whose only
meat and drink is self-pity.
Wouldn’t you hate to be a man or
woman with an ingrowing egotism,
and have to live with yourself?
Think of the stupid people who
never read anything, who have never
seen anything understandingly, who
have no entertaining thoughts to keep
them amused ad diverted, who can
not spend hours—fascinating hours
—in trying to Sherlock tHe
minds of their acquaintances, so a?
to find out why they married the peo
ple they did, or chose the occupation
they follow, or acted as they did
under some great circumstances!
Think of those who cannot find the
best part of life in books, who have
no card of admission to the glori
ous fellowship of history and tp
mance, who in their evil hours can
not find forgetfulness of all their
troubles in the nepenthe of litera
ture!
Wouldn’t you hate to be one or
those poverty-stricken creatures
with empty garrets for heads, who
have to live with themselves?
It is worth considering, this sub
ject of what sort of company we
are going to be for ourselves during
life. For we cannot shut the door
upon ourselves as we can upon other
bores. We cannnot say "not at
home" as we do when the doleful
pessimist or the gloomy grouch
We have got to live with ourselves,
so we do well to see that we have
cheerful, agreeable, and interesting
people to have about the place! J
(Dorothy Dix articles appear In
this paper every Monday, Wednesday
and Friday). *
1811 the Bolton Cotton mill was built
on Upton creek, nine miles southeast
of Washington, Ga., while the Geor
gia Manufacturing company, of Ath
ens, was built in 1827. In 1850 Geor
gia had 1,522 factories whose prod
ucts were valued at $7,082,075. but
most of these were destroyed during
the war. The value of the state’s
factory products for 1918 (the fig
ures for last year have not been
made public) was $340,037,831.63. —
Pickens County Progress.
It Does Make a Difference 1
The follow who declares ‘it’s so«
hot to work” finds the temperatU'S'?
pleasant for playing baseball ane
fishing.—Cuthbert Leader.
This Editor Needs Bread
We see by an esteemed contempo
rary that a young lady in this town
kneads bread with her gloves 6n.
What of that?, The editor of this
paper needs bread with his coat on,
he needs bread with his trousers on;
in fact, he needs bread with all his
clothes on. And if some of his
debtors don’t pay up pretty quick,
he’ll need bread without anything
at all on. If the climate of Grady
Is a Garden of Eden. —Cairo Mes
senger.
Advise the Groceryman
Bruce Barton says preachers
should trust newspaper men more,
and an editor asks why he didn t
give the advice to the groceryman.—
.Royston Record.
Willing to Hug
A Detroit marriage license has
been granted to Charles E. Hug and
Mary Willing. She must be. —Doug-
las County Sentinel.
THE HOUSEWIFE’S
■ SCRAPBOOK
If you use flour for thickening cus
tards mix the sugar and flour well
together before adding the liquid and
you will get a smooth paste instead
of a lumpy mass, as is frequently
the case when stirring it into the
flour alone. Have the paste thin
enough to run easily to avoid lumping
when it is poured Into the boiling
milk.
Palms will grow nicely Indoors if
the leaves are sponged once a week
with lukewarm water to which a little
milk has been added. Then stand the
plant for two hours in lukewarm
water deep enough to completely
cover the pot.
Fit a ‘newspaper Into the drip pan
of your gas stove. It can be chang
ed each day when cleaning the kitchen
and is much less trouble than wash
ing the pan each time.
If aluminum ware is cleansed with
steel wool and soap it will always
look bright, but If you must polish
It use a mixture of ammonia and
borax and apply It with a soft cloth.
Rinse in several waters.
The Doctrine of “Election”
A Baptist has never yet been
president nor has a senator been se
lected to that job from that body.
If Warren Harding gets there he
will have smashed two precedents,
a very dangerous thing for an old
line Republican to attempt to do.—
Exchange.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
EE You Boos' Yo' Town
Too SCAN LOUS HIGH
Yous LIABLE T' Git
it up whah Folks
CA/NT SEE IT A-TALiJJ
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