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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) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Moo. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. D*ily and Sunday2oc 9Oc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Dally 16c 70c 2.00 4.0 d 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 '1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY. Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. 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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 Copyright, by McClure Mewipaper Syndicate,