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A Fair Deal in Credits for the
Automotive Industry
Y OTHING could be more alien to the
rightful purposes of the Federal Re-
’ serve Act or in sharper conflict with
business wisdom and fair-play than a singling
out of the automotive industry for drastic
restrictions of credit. For the sake of the
principle involved, as well as the vast practi
cal interests at stake, it is greatly to be hoped
that the Federal Reserve Board will in no
wise countenance, much less recommend, any
policy to this effect. A rumor is abroad,
however, that the regional banks have re
ceived suggestions, if not explicit instruc
tions, to cut automotive credits to the bone
and marrow, leaving the development, indeed
the very life, of this great province of in
dustry and commerce helplessly crippled.
That responsible heads of the nation’s finan
cial affairs should take such a position is
almost unthinkable; certainly, it could find
no support, but only condemnation, from the
discerning rank and file.
The only conceivable justification for re
fusing needful credits to this or to any other
sound and legitimate business, as long as
funds therefor are available, would be to
protect the essential against the non-essen
tial and to check the extravagance which
breeds inflation and dangerous instability.
But assuredly no competent judge would as
sign motor vehicles and machines to that
category. The most casual observer knows
that motor trucks are as essential as railway
cars, and that tractors are as functionally im
portant as plow horses or farm wagons in
the country’s productive life. Nor is it meas
urably different with the passenger car, that
indispensable means of modern travel and
communication. Theoretically, of course, the
doctor could revert to the dozing Dobbin or
his ancestors, the commercial traveler to the
dirge of the country “hack” and the farmer,
who now saves priceless hours and gains all
manner of advantages by his automobile, could
go back to the Arcadian jog of ox-cart
or mule. Theoretically, we say; but if in
fact the automobile and its kindred ma
chines were suddenly whisked out of our
daily life and labor, what an aching hol
lowness there would be! What gaps In busi
ness and social currents! What failures to
function and connect!
Years ago—a very grandsire’s past, it
seems, though really but a score or so of
summers—the automobile was regarded ae
a luxury for the few. Today it is a neces
sity for multitudes, a source of livelihood for
two million American workers, the foremost
promoter of good roads, the banisher of soli
tude and loneliness from unnumbered farm
steads, the bringer of rural health and free
dom to families once pent in cities, the foun
dation of the world’s largest second indus
try. There is scarcely a field of the coun
try’s productive interests that does not profit,
one way or another, from the manufacture
and sale of automotive machines. Particu
larly generous is the South’s share of these
benefits. For, as a writer in the Memphis
News-Scimitar points out, even if there were
not an automotive factory, assembling plant
or sales agency in the South, still the auto
mobile manufacturer would be one of her
best patrons. For example:
“The cushions in the cars are padded
with cotton. A good portion of the
leather comes from the South; more of it
would be used if more cattle were pro
duced here. The wheels and bodies are
• manufactured from the choicest hard
woods in the South. . . . Automobile tops
are made of cotton and cloth and a pat
ented preparation, some of the ingre
dients of which are produced in the
South. The upholstery, mats and car
pets are made principally from cotton.
The tires alone require more than three
quarters of a million bales of cotton an
nually. The gasoline that provides the
motive power comes from Southern
wells. The chassis of the automobile is
made of steel, and the largest mills in
the country are located in our neighbor
ing State of Alabama.”
It is pertinent to add that some of the most
substantial and promising of automobile
manufacturing plants, as well as numerous
agencies and assembling quarters, are estab
lished in the South, and that Atlanta is the
center of the great industry for this region.
To hamstring the credit sinews of a busi
ness with which the common interests are
thus vitally bound up, merely because per
sons here and there are extravagant in
buying automobiles, would be as unwise
and unfair as to stop the grinding of grain
because certain foolish damsels squander
their pin money on cream tarts, or gluttons
now and then gorge themselves on hot cakes.
Let the £7odigals be rebuked as severely as
common sense and public conscience can ap
ply the rod; but let not the rights of a great
prosperity-breeding industry be trampled
down in the process.
A Trio of Useful Bills
ENACTMENT of three special bills
now before the Legislature looking
to thv protection and promotion of
the livestock industry in Georgia will be
of truly incalculable worth to the Com
monwealth. The first, and in some respects
most important, is intended to safeguard
loans on cattle and thereby make credits
for cattle purchases more widely available.
The second provides for the registration of
distinctive marks or brands and for more
adequate penalties in cases of conviction
for cattle theft—a needful supplement to
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the loan bill. The third contemplates the
control or elimination of sheep-killing dogs.
The fact that these measures, as recent
ly revised, have the approval of agricul
tural leaders throughout the State and the
earnest indorsement of that alert body of
prosperity-builders, the- Georgia Associa
tion, should make for their speedy pas
sage. The latter two are so obviously es
sential that the wonder is they were not
put upon the statute books years ago. As
for the bill facilitating cattle loans by mak
ing the collateral sufficiently secure, it sim
ply applies to the needs and opportunities
of this State a principle which long has
been practiced to the advantage of other
regions and without which progress for
the cattleman of small means is virtually
impossible.
Whatever heartens and advances live
stock interests in Georgia is of fundamen
tal value to the people. For it is through
the growth of such interests that diversified
agriculture will be sustained, lands now
waste and idle developed, and all manner
of latent resources brought richly into use.
It is greatly to be hoped that the pending
bills for this purpose will pass.
A Reassuring Forecast
ANXIOUSLY awaited both at home
and abroad, America’s July crop
reports are decidedly cheering. The
prospect now is for a wheat yield which,
though not up to the brimming bounty of
last year, will be far more liberal than
was hoped a month or two ago. Nine hun
dred and ten million bushels Is the fore
cast, or about thirty million less than in
1919. The corn yield is estimated at 2,-
780,000,000 bushels, as against 2,917,000,-
000 last season; and rye -t 82,000,000
against 88,500,000. For oats and barley the
outlook is unusually promising—one bil
lion, three hundred and» twenty-two mil
lion, and one hundred and ninety-three
million bushels respectively.
Colorless as the figures may appear to
us who eat our daily bread with scarce a
thought of whence and how it comes, to
the watcher of world needs they are so
many rainbows of reassurance. Millions of
lives in far off lands will be nourished or
pinched, lifted up or left to drift in mis
ery, according to the fullness or dearth of
American harvests. Likewise our own pros
perity will be measured largely by this
same standard. A severe wheat shortage,
such as was feared early in the spring,
would have accentuated an already painful
cost of living and have tangled still tighter
the gordian knot of our economic affairs.
But the present crop augury, while it does
not promise a reduction in food prices, at
least clears the future of many fears.
It is to the farms, after all, that we
must look for the chief sustainment and
encouragement of our common life. Let the
tidings from that quarter be good, and
nine times out of ten business will move
with confidence and vigor. But when the
lean kine haunt our dreams, then it is that
prosperity grows doubtful and all things
less secure. So long as Georgia turns duly
to account her wondrous resources for di
versified food production, she need have no
anxiety touching her material welfare.
The Sfia Conference
THE attitude of the Allies in the Spa
conference has been one of reason
able conciliation, joined with firm in
sistence upon the Treaty’s basic terms. To
Germany’s plea that it was virtually impos
sible at present to cut her army to the speci
fied minimum, they have granted a time ex
tension to January 1, 1921. To her argu
ments touching coal deliveries to France and
Belgium, they have replied with a substantial
reduction in the monthly amounts originally
called for.' As to reparations, they are mani
festly disposed to temper absolute justice
with common sense and considerateness.
At the same time they have made it plain
that temporizing and evasion will not be tol
erated. Concessions in matters of detail are
not to be construed as abandonment of the
major conditions of peace. Failure to live up
to the essentials of her contract will lay Ger
many liable to renewed and extended mili
tary occupation; and the Allied Premiers have
taken pains to emphasize that previous inti
mations to that effect were by no means
bluffs. The Treaty of Versailles is a practi
cal document, drawn to accomplish certain
fundamentals of justice and security, which
the political regime east of the Rhine now
seems squirming to get around. Enforced
the compact must be, or become another scrap
of paper.
It is to be hoped that Germany’s wiser
jounselors will see the situation in the light of
their own country’s and the world's common
interests, and will act accordingly. “The
measure of her progress in establishing work
ing relations with her European neighbors,”
it has been truly said, “will be the honesty
of her intentions in the near future.” Evi
dences of bad faith at this juncture would be
grievously chilling if not disastrous to the
growth of constructive good-will. The inter
ests of all concerned require that Germany
get back to a basis of normal production as
speedily as possible, and that trade relations
between her and the outside world be re
stored as soon and fully as may be. But
processes to that end will be checked and
overturned if she shows herself not to be
depended upon in the peace contract.
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
The usual crowd was gathered round the
usual motor car and.the usual goggled one
was endeavoring to right matters in the
usual way.
“Hallo!” suddenly cried the voice of a
new arrival. “What’s the matter, Hobbins
—car turned turtle?”
Hobbins smiled with expressive sweetness.
“Oh, no; not at all, old chap!” he replied.
‘These kids here wanted to see how the ma
chinery worked, so I had the car turned up
side down just to please them.”
The doctor was giving an informal talk on
physiology.
“Also,” he remarked, “it has recently been
found that the human body contains sul
phur.”
“Sulphur!” exclaimed the girl in the blue
and white blazer. “And how much sulphur
is there, then, in a girl’s body?”
“Oh, the amount varies,” said the doctor,
smiling, “according to the girl.”
“Ah!” remarked the girl, “that’s whv some
of us make better matches than others.”
“Do you go to bed very early, Mrs. Peck?”
inquired Tommy.
“Yes, Tommy,” replied the lady. “When I
feel tired; but why do you ask?”
“Why, you would not go to bed early if
you were married to my father.”
“Oh, Tommy, you funny little boy. Why
not?”
“ ’Cause my father told my mother yester
day that if he were your husband he’d make
you sit up.” /
Father was standing before the open fire,
lecturing his son and heir on the necessity of
thinking twice before speaking once.
“Father!” exclaimed the boy in the mid
dle of the talk. The father held up a warn
ing finger. “Think again before you speak,
my son, and then I will answer you.” The
boy pondered for a full moment and then
said: “Father, I have thought twice, and
now I am quite convinced that your coat-tails
are on fire.”
DRUGS AND HEREDITY
By H. Addington Bruce
THERE is a widespread notion that the
child of an alcoholic, of a morphine
addict, or other “drug fiend,” is fated
by heredity to become a “drug fiend” him
self. This notion is perniciously false.
It has been the means of promoting the
downfall of many a man who, aware of the
skeleton in the family cupboard, has been
driven by self-suggestion to become a slave
to some drug as his father had been before
him.
“What is the use of resisting the craving
I have inherited?” he has consciously or
subconsciously asked himself. “I must be as
my father was, because I am his son.”
If he would only stop to think, he would
appreciate that were this heredity doctrine
sound almost all the people he knows would
be drug enslaved. For there are compara
tively few whose ancestry is completely free
from a taint at least of alcoholism.
The true situation has recently been well
stated by a leading authority on the drug
problem, Mr. Carles B. Towns. Writing in
his “Habits That Handicap,” Mr. Towns vig
orously affirms:
“I want to go on record, once and for all
time, to the effect that—all the old grannies
in the world to the contrary notwithstanding
—there is no such thing as inheriting the al
cohol or drug habit.
“A man’s father and mother—and all his
relatives, back to Brian Boru or Julius Cae
sar—might have been drunkards, or opium
smokers, or cocaine snuffers. But this doesn’t
constitute the slightest reason in the world
why the man himself must inevitably be a
drunkard, a ‘hop fiend,’ or a cocaine user.
“For the drug addiction, like any other
addiction, is an acquired trait. And acquired
traits cannot be transmitted.
“This does not mean, however, that a man
may not inherit an unstable nervous system
from ancestors who had systematically poi
soned their organisms.
“A man who has a father whose cells were
thoroughly saturated with ‘booze’ and tobac
co, could, and probably would, inherit a de
fective nervous system. But he could not
inherit a craving for drugs or drink.”
Which suggests, of course, that a man born
of a parent addicted to alcohol or morphine,
may .be so constituted that he is in special
need of training in moral control.
But given that training—or training him
self, in later life—the nervous weakness
which might impel him to seek relief in some
drug will no longer harry him.
As has been demonstrated In countless
cases. Often enough, assuredly, to justify
the emphatic reiteration that there is no fa
tal heredity to drugs, only at worst a neu
rotic predisposition which may be totally
overcome.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
OTHERS
By Dr. Frank Crane
The wrongs I ought to be hot over are not
those done me, but those I have done others.
The bitterest tears in the world are not
mine, but those I have caused.
I am not afraid of punishment for my sins;
it is the sins I have caused in other people
that scare me.
The most selfish of mortals is not selfish.
One way or another he borrows his joys and
griefs.
The king could have no glory and pride
were there no subjects. The millionaire
would not enjoy his millions if there were no
poor. The very breath of life to the famous
person' is the exhalation from the multitude
of the inconspicuous.
Most of our satisfactions are those we
think other people suppose we have. And
most of our wretchedness is rented. We have
very little feeling, pleasant or unpleasant, in
fee simple.
The most heartbreaking thing about a
penitentiary is not the prisoners in it, but the
wives and mothers around it.
Going to the devil might be much more
satisfactory if one could go alone. But he
must always drag others down with him.
And I never could see much to be desired
in escaping everybody and getting into
heaven alone. To get others into bliss, how
ever, even if one missed it one’s self, might
be worth while.
Willy-nilly we are tied up to our kind.
Their veins and nerves run through our
flesh.
The supremest sufferings are vicarious.
The highest joys are epidemic.
It has never seemed to me that the old
theologians understood psychology—who
made the wicked to suffer in torment from
hell’s flames; that might be bearable; in
tolerable anguish would be to sit in heaven
and watch it.
Here’s the idea, in a poem by Ina Cool
brith:
O Soul! however sweet
The goal to which I hasten with swift feet —
If, just within my grasp,
I reach, and joy to clasp,
And find there one whose body I must make
A footstool for that sake,
Though ever and for evermore denied,
Grant me to turn aside!
O howsoever dear
The love I long for, seek, and find a-near—
So near, so dear, the bliss
Sweetest of all that is,
If I must win by treachery or art,
Or wrong one other heart,
Though it should bring me death, my soul,
that day
Grant me to turn away!
That in the life so far
And yet so near, I be without a scar
Os wounds dealt others; greet with lifted
eyes
The pure of Paradise!
So I may never know
The agony of tears I caused to flow!
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes
The mosquito that bites one of our up
to-date girls is liable to die of painter’s
colic.—Nashville Banner.
Times have changed since the days when
Mr. Bryan ran for president. An editor
never had a chance then.—Nashville Ban
ner.
Reduced to simple terms, the race this
year is between two printers to see who
shall preside at the “pi” counter.—Kansas
City Star.
If you get coaled now you’ll not be cold
next winter? —Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont.
Mr. Bryan will now divert his energies
from rocking the boat to rocking the can
didates. —Columbia (S. C.) Record.
Perhaps all of Russia’s troubles can be
traced to the “she” in Bolshevist.—Dur
ham (N. C.) Sun. (
Europe should make up her mind that
the United States cannot keep her in the
style to which she was accustomed before
the war.—Toledo Blade.
Have you noticed the scarcity of flies
this year, or are you boarding somewhere
on a farm? —Boston Globe.
CURRENT EVENTS
According to a message from Cal
gary, American sportsmen may be
interested in learning that Alberta
has arranged to do its share toward
the protection of migratory birds, In
cluding wild ducks, geese, plover and
so on, and has established seven large
sanctuaries where the wildfowl will
not be molested.
The size of these safe retreats may
be estimated from the fact that one
of the smallest is Buffalo Lake in
the heart of one of the finest wild
duck shooting areas in the world. The
shore line of this lake measures over
115 miles.
A dispatch direct from London
states that the mutiny of the Con
naught Rangers in India, as a symp
tom of the state of feeling aroused
among Irish regiments in the British
army by the Carsonian domination
of Ireland, has excited considerable
alarm. Ever since the armistice the
war office policy has been to send
Irish regiments to distant stations,
and there is an unusually large pro
portion of them at present in India,
Egypt and Mesopotamia.
The public is waiting for-the facts
of the Indian trouble, as so far only
an official account has been pub
lished, together with a dispatch from
the Reuter’s agency, which is vir
tually officially controlled. The pro
longed concealment of the truth
about Amritsar by the Indian govern
ment makes the public here sceptical
about Indian official statements.
According to a dispatch from
Paris the chamber of deputies voted
an additional indemnity of $4,000 a
year for cabinet ministers and $3,-
000 for secretaries of state in recog
nition of the increasing cost of liv
ing. The vote, which was taken by
the raising of funds, was almost
unanimous.
The Italian liner Fernando Pelas
cano, formerlv the North German
Lloyd liner Koeing Albert, arrived
from Genoa and Napies with 336
cabin and 1,810 steerage passengers,
who were taken off at quarantine for
observation. She brought 500,000
plaits of garlic, consigned to an im
porter on the east side, near Mulber
ry street.
The steamship also brought 3,000
tons of fruit, including 2,277 barrels
of cherries in brine, which were for
merly bottled with maraschino to be
used in making cocktails.
Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to
the president of the United States,
has within the past few months been
placed in the same embarrassing posi
tion as Woodrow Wilson as to the
means of making a livelihood when
he leaves the White House next
March. Both are suffering from the
number and kinds of jobs offered.
They are flooded with tenders of
flattering salaries. Tumulty, like the
president, is not wealthy and cannot
afford to idle away the remaining
years. It has taken all of the com
paratively small salary received as
secretary to the president to fur
nish a comfortable home in the cap
ital for his large family. Just what
he will do after March 4 next Mr.
Tumulty professes not to know. He
has received numerous bids from pub
lications for his services. Lawyers
have offered him partnerships and
the presidency of several great busi
ness establishments is among the al
luring offers. One great publishing
house, it is said, has offered an at
tractive figure for a book of memoirs.
The state of health of Deschanel
president of France, has revived talk
in the parliamentary lobbies of the
necessity of taking measures to meet
the possibility of a prolonged inabil
ity of the president, through illness,
to discharge the duties of his office.
Immediately after the accident which
befel the president recently it was
proposed to create the office of vice
president, which does not exist under
the French constitution, but the idea
■was abandoned, as President Des
chanel’s period of convalescence then
seemed likely to be short.
Soldiers arriving in San Francisco
recently on the transport Madawaska
brought with them 223 Russian war
brides. They came from Vladivostok,
and were taken care of by the Red
Cross officers until their husbands
could get leave to find them homes.
The women, attired in picturesque
colored silk and muslin gowns, with
their hair worn in the Russian style,
across the forehead and caught with
large jeweled combs, brought many
vistors to the lobby of their hotel.
Some of the brides are little more
than children, from their appearance,
several of them are beautiful and all
of them attract more than a casual
glance through their apparent delight
in the customs of the strange land
to which they have followed their
husbands. Many of them have chil
dren. “I not speak English,” said
all of them upon being addressed,
but all can give their names both
in Russian and English, and after
them the words “eighteen years old.”
Harry S. Harkness, of New York,
who died on January 23, 11919, left
total assets of $14,471,752, according
to the appraisal of his estate filed
by the deputy state comptroller.
Mrs. Florence S. Harkness, his
wife, in whose favor he had his last
will made the day he died, and his
former wife, Mrs. Marie M. Cowan;
who says she is the sole beneficiary,
have been engaged in a legal strug
fle over the estate.
The net estate, according to the
appraisal, is $8,928,413. Real estate
is appraised at $1,524,229, the prin
cipal holding being Speedway park,
at Sheepshead bay.
Other items in the appraiser’s re
port are: Cash, $454,636; personal,
$125,990; contents of apartment at
270 Park avenue, $6,467, and stocks
and bonds, $12,611,648.
Great Britain and Japan have no
tified the League of Nations that
they have prolonged their treaty al
liance for a year, according to the
London Daily Mail, at the same time
pointing out that the terms of the
treaty are in accord with the prin
ciples of the league.
The reason for the prolongation of
the treaty, according to the Mail, is
that Great Britain has not yet had an
opportunity to consult with the do
minions regarding a revision of the
treaty, which is necessitated by the
elimination of German influence in
the Far East.
Negotiations for a prolongation of
the alliance between Great Britain
and Japan have been in progress for
some time. Dispatches have asserted
that it was planned by the two na
tions to revise the alliance in order
to make it conform with the provi
sions of the League of Nations. Con
siderable opposition to the continua
tion of the treaty has been express
ed by the Australasian newspapers
and likewise in China feeling against
it has been somewhat strong. The
Chinese government protested against
a renewal of the compact without
China being consulted.
Four liners arrived in New York
recently from European ports with
7,132 passengers, the largest num
ber in one day since the war com
menced in August, 1914. The list in
cluded 852 first cabin, 1,435 second
cabin and 4,745 steerage. In addition
there were 631 first cabin, 67 second
cabin and 186 third-class passengers
from South American ports, making
the grand total of 8,016 passengers
for the day. The first liner to come
up the harbor was the Cunarder Im
perator, from Southampton and Cher
bourg, which had been held in quar
antine since Sunday afternoon to dis
charge 943 steerage passengers who
were taken to Hoffman Island for
typhus observation.
The Jewish Welfare board has re
cently sent a representative abroad
to France to complete the task of
photographing the graves of. Amer
ican Jewish soldier s who lie buried
overseas. Colonel Harry Cutler,
chairman of the Jewish Welfare
board, who is also a member of the
War Memorials Council recently ap
pointed by the secretary of war to
supervise the work involved in the
proper care of the soldier graves
that will remain overseas and to
take up the many problems relating
to permanent memorials for sol
diers.
Spanish goldsmiths and jewelers
are gathering all the American gold
coins they can get for the purpose of
melting them for the manufacture
of jewelry. As a result these pieces
of money are rapidly disappearing
from the market and going into the
melting pot, as American coins con
tain more pure gold than those cur
rent in Europe, which are generally
eighteen carats fine.
Exchange officials who a few
months ago displayed American
coins in their windows are now de
clining to sell them and are offer
ing paper dollars instead. Gold
coms of other nations may still be
obtained, hut pre-war rates are be
ing charged.
CHEMICAL
CRIMINALS
By Frederic ]. Haskin.
CHICAGO, 111., July 13.—There
may soon come a time when
criminals will be treated and
cured as sick persons, accord
ing to Dr. Madeleine A. Hallowell,
former medical director and superin
tendent of the New Jersey State In
stitution for Feeble Minded. Her
talk on defective delinquents was
one of the most interesting features
of the four days’ convention recent
ly held here by the National Con
ference on the Education of the Tru
ant, Backward, Dependent and De
linquent Children and the American
Association of Public Officials of
Charity and Correction. 4
This convention was called for the
purpose of organizing a national
council of public welfare to have
jurisdiction over the various reform
organizations throughout the coun
try. Like most reform conventions,
they meet with the idea of organiz
ing the patient human race a little
more, but, unlike most, they were
neither sentimental nor indignant
over its deplorable shortcomings.
They simply turned the cold, clear
light of science upon them. They
were a group of psychiatrists, physi
cians. criminologists, and practical
educators, so earnest and so advanc
ed in their work that one almost
felt tempted to be a criminal for the
sake of their scientific and improving
care.
But, according to Dr. Hallowell,
you are not likely to be a criminal
if your ductless glands are all right.
This is hard to understand, as the
average person is hardly aware that
he has ductless glands living their
mysterious and sinister lives inside
of him, and even doctors have not
arrived at more than a vague under
standing of them. Nevertheless,
criminologists and physicians are
working more and more on the the
ory that morals have a closer rela
tionship to physiology than most of
us realize.
Hold Glands Responsible
“It is like this,” said Dr. Hallo
well. “One person who flies into a
rage will not even think of murder
ing the one who has provoked him.
Another person will think of murder
but will have enough self-control to
refrain from it. A third person who
has been angered will lose all sense
of control and commit murder. Later
he will be unable to understand what
has happened to him to make him
do such a thing. The different ways
in which these people are affected by
anger are simply due to a quantita
tive difference in their chemical re
actions to the emotion of anger.”
When people feel anger or fear
or some other strong emotion the
chemical composition of the blood
is always changed. Among certain
criminals and feeble-minded this
chemical reaction, or change in the
degree of alkalinity of the blood, is
different from that of normal hu
man beings. The alkali in the blood
comes from the secretions of certain
ductless glands, particularly the
thyroid gland, the excessive growth
of which often causes goiter, and the
suprarenal gland above the kidneys.
It is believed that these people can
be brought back to normal by giv
ing extracts of the dried glands in
which they are deficient.
Dr. Hallowell says that so far they
have not been successful in their
attempts to reform the erring by
treating their wayward ductless
glands, but that they have every ex
pectation of obtaining results in
time. The experiment is still in its
infancy. For a long time, of course,
they have treated feeble-minded pa
tients by the same methods with
very marked results.
Three Types
"From the pathological stand
point,” says Dr. Hallowell, “feeble
mindedness can be divided into
three categories: The formative or
organic type in which the structure
of the brain cells has developed ab
normally due to some inherited con
dition; the traumatic type in which
the structure of the brain cellsl has
been injured due to some shock or
lesion before or after birth; and the
functional type in which the struc
ture of the brain cellsl is complete,
but* they do not react normally to
apparent sensations. That is, the
nervous system and the brain are
perfect structurally, but are prevent
ed from proper functionation by
some extraneous cause.
“The first two types must be re
garded as hopeless because it is im
possible with our present limited
knowledge to supply brain tissue or
to restore that which has been per
manently injured. The feeble-mind
edness of the functional type, how
ever, is due largely to the chemical
condition of the body. When this
condition is treated by giving ex
tracts of the deficient glands the pa
tient is often very much improved.
Since it has been learned that manyi
criminals have an abnormal chemi
cal condition of the blood caused by
the same glands whose deficient
functioning causes certain kinds of
idiocy it seems only logical that they
might be Improved by being treated
in the same way.”
A State Duty
“The protection of the moral in
tegrity and the conservation of the
mental virility of its citizens' are
primary and inherent functions of
government,” says Dr. Hallowell.
“The state is socially responsible for
the ills that menace society, an
their final elimination must be un
dertaken as a public duty. Feeble
mindedness has always been recog
nized as a social plague, but not until
modern science revealed the extent
to which it threatens the welfare of
the state were we, as a people, will
ing to face it as a great social prob
lem. Modern social service has de
veloped a philosophy of public ac
tion towards the socially unfit that
is based-not alone on sentiment but
also on science. We have today, at
least, a scientific method of ap
proach to the problem of mental, de
ficiency that fully warrants our es
tablishing a comprehensive program
for the adequate provision for and
protection against mental defec
tives.’’
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
EVE’S first complaint, when she
tasted the apple: “Great heav
ens! I’ve nothing to wear!”
Adam’s first growl, when he
had finished the apple: “Great scott!
Is th it all you’ve got to eat?”
Thus descendeth the honeymoon,
today, yesterday, and forever!
A woman’s love is never quite dead
until the day on which she can sit
down and reason logically with a
man about it.
Some men are so credulous that
they actually believe that a woman
carries a pink parasol in order to
keep off the sun, wears a one-piece
bathing-suit to swim in, and smiles
because she is happy.
A man laughs when he thinks his
wife amusing; a woman laughs when
she thinks that her husband thinks
he is ar-using.
The woman who marrie a lazy
man may be pited; the woman who
marries a faithless man may find sur
cease from sorrow in divorce; but
the woman who marries a man with
a teasing sense of humor has nothing
' to look forward to for the rest ot her
life but the laughter of the gods.
Somehow, it’s awfully hard for a
girl to fall romantically in love with
a man while he is carrying an um
brella and wearing overshoes.
Man was made from dust —but
there are some mornings -when his
wife darkly suspects that the dust
must have gotten a lot of gravel
mixed in it.
When a man falls in love with a
girl, he covers her with a rose
tinted isinglass, through which all
her charms become radiant, and all
her faults are softened and blurred.
A bad reputation, an undesirable
huband, and a cheap umbrella are
the hardest things in the world to
lose.
SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
CULTIVATE GRACIOUSNESS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, In<:.) "Ln
NOT long ago a man, who was
the father of five sons, died
and in his will he gave many
instructions as to how his
boys should be brought up. Among
other things, he said:
"I wish to lay particular stress
upon my sons’ being taught gracious
manners. Boys are not liable to
realize how far social qualities count
in life. No man is likely to go far
in the world unless he is popular
with his fellow men and women, and
Knows how to get on with them.
Tactful coaching in youth makes al’
the difference in this respect, and
although I do not want the boys to
make a too conscious effort to be
popular I do want those concerned
with their training to keep an eye
on this part of their education, and
to see to it that they acquire that
suavity of demeanor that will make
them pleasing to those with whom
they come in contact."
I do not know how much money
this father left his boys, but I am
sure that the most valuable bequest
he made them was this advice about
acquiring the fine art of gracious
ness.
For graciousess is a letter of
credit that the whole world honors
at sight; it is the magic that opens
every door; it is the charm that
makes friends, and disarms enemies,
and that causes every one to lend a
helping hand up the ladder to its for
tunate possessor.
What we vaguely describe as per
sonal magnetism, or a winning per
sonality is nothing more, nor less,
than graciousness, the ability to do
the nice thing in the nice way, and
to say the pleasing thing in the
pleasing way.
Without graciousness even the vir
tues become as dust and ashes in
our teeth, and kindnesses to us are
an offense against us.
Haven’t you had people do you a
good turn in such an insulting way
that you hated them for it? Haven’t
you had people give you things with
such an ungracious manner that you
longed to throw their gifts back in
their faces?
And haven’t you had people refuse
you things with so charming a man
ner that you went away sorrier fc\
them because they couldn’t oblige
you, than you were for yourself be
cause you didn’t get what you had
asked for? That’s the difference be
tween graciousness and ungracious
ness. ‘
There are people who cannot give
you a pocket handkerchief without
making you feel that you are a pau
per; who never do you a kindness
without making you realize that It
is a great sacrifice for them: who
cannot associate with you without
patronizing you; whom you never
spend an hour with without their
wounding your feelings or hurting
your self-love in some way. They
may be at heart really good, kind
men and women, but their brusk and
brutal manners makes them enemies
Instead of friends.
A New Semi-Weekly
The Eagle Publishing company,
Gainesville, Ga., I. M. Merlinjones,
president, publishers of the weekly
Eagle, has recently installed a lino
type machine and will at an early
date begin the publication of a
semi-weekly paper. There are now
three weekly newspapers in Gaines
ville, the other two being the Her
ald and the News.
Jack WiU~Bo There
Question: Will Jack Patterson es
cape the daily grind of his work
on The Atlanta Journal to attend
the press convention in Carrollton.
Answer: Editor J. J. Thomasson’s
big barbecue. —LaGrange Reporter.
Fair warning to Editor Thomas
son.
Regulating “Moonshine”
Some of the brethren are com
plaining that while the legislature
talks of regulating the quality of
the moonshine made in Georgia it
is grossly neglecting its duty in
not fixing the price of white light
ning in reach of the average thirst.
—Savannah News.
Sufficient Reasons
By the way, has anybody found
out just why the Democratic con
vention was held in San Francisco,
—Savannah News.
Probably to adopt a platform and
AN ECONOMICS
PRIMER
BY DANIA KYSOR
I—Money
I
There is a demand for money; it is
needed to carry on business.
There is a supply of money; gold,
paper money, etc.
Money has value; it has purchas
ing power.
II
The value of money can change;
its purchasing power is sometimes
greater, sometimes less.
When the value or purchasing
power of money is high, one dollar
will buy much in commodities; that
is, prices of commodities are low.
When the value or purchasing
power of money is low, one dollar
will buy less in commodities; that is,
prices of commodities are high.
Summary
High value of money means low
prices of commodities.
Low value of money means high
prices of commodities.
111
The value of money is determined
by (1) the supply of money and (2)
the demand for money.
As the volume of business in
creases, the demand for money in
creases.
If the increase in supply is pro
portionate to the increase in demand,
then the value of money remains un
changed.
An over-supply of money decreases
its value.
An insufficient supply of money in
creases its value.
Illustration
During 1915 and 1916 the United
States received from foreign coun
tries $1,090,000,000 in gold.
This increased the supply of money
enormously.
The increased volume of business
due to war orders increased the de
mand for money consdierabiy, but
not in proportion to the increase in
supply of money.
Prices of commodities rose.
IV
The demand for money is increased
by an Increased volume of business.
Illustration
The volume of business in the
United States in 1800 was much
smaller than the volume of business
in 1900. Therefore the need for
money in 1900 was much greater than
the need for money in 1800.
The demand for money is decreas
ed by the use of credit instruments.
Today some business transactions
are carried on by the use of book
credits, some *vith checks, some with
promissory rotes, bank drafts, etc.
If none of these credit devices
were used, that is, if every purchase
were paid for in cash on the spot,
the need for actual money would be
much greater.
Credit is thus a substitute for
money.
Bank credits, transferable by
checks, are in use in enormous quan
tities daily.
If these checks were eventually
paid in money they would represent
a demand for money. But nearly all
of them are deducted from
one credit balance and added to an
other.
Summary
The demand for money is (1) In
creased by an increased volume of
business, and (2) decreased by the
use of credit instruments.
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
They are the sort of people who,
while they are relieving your needs,
deliver you a lecture on your lack
of thrift; who feel It their sacred duty
to tell your of your weaknesses and
shortcomings, and who take credit to
themselves because with all your
faults they love you still.
The gracious man Or woman
not give you half so much, but
they do it with a sympathy that
warms the very cockles of your heart;
they make you feel that they consider
it a privilege to know you instead »
of Impressing on you that it is an
honor for you to know them, and
ydu never go from their presence
without in some subtle way having
your opinion of yourself somehow in
flated.
The brusk people have to fight,
tooth and nail, for everything they
get. We hand the gracious all they
desire on a silver salver. We go out
of our way to he]y them, for we all
do favors for the people we like that
we wouldn’t do for those we don’t
like.
How important, then, to teach chil
dren graciousness, which in its last
analysis is simply the art of getting
along with our fellow-creatures with
out friction.
To do this begin by teaching chil
dren to always speak in a pleasant
tone of voice. Never let them acquire
the habit of snapping or snarling, or
replying in a surly manner when
spoken to. It is just as easy to ac
quire an agreeable voice as it is a
disagreeable one, and the one wins t
at least, a hearing, while to the other
every listener turns a deaf ear.
Teach children how to get along
together without quarreling. Teach
them how to lose, how to be good
sports, how to play the game. Teach
children how to give and take, and
not to whine and fight when another
wins.
Teach children to be appreciative
of what is done for them. Teach them
to thank every one who does a kind
ness to them, and to show a proper
gratitude for every courtesy. Take
the trouble to make them write let
ters of thanks to people who send
them presents, and notes of congrat
ulations and condolence to their ac
quaintances who have joys come to
them, or sorrows befall them.
Teach them to consider the feel
ings of other people, and to avoid
saying the things that hurt and stab
just as they would refrain from phy
sically wounding other people. Go
even farther than this, and teach
them to say pleasant and kindly
things to people. There are just as
many men and women starving for
a few kind words as there are hungry
for bread.
“It isn’t what he said, it was the
nasty way he said it,” complained
the hero of the song, of his enemy.
Teach children the pleasant way in
stead of the "narsty” way if you
want them to succeed in life.
(Dorothy Dix «ir tides appear in
this paper every Monday, Wednes
day and Friday.) I
I name nominees.—Augusta Chroni
cle. ’
Some New Fartlots /
Probably the third party movement
will serve to get the names of some
men in the newspapers who have
been heard of before. —Columbus En
quirer-Sun.
The Way of Politicians
Once upon a time Senator Harding
compared Theodore Roosevelt to
Benedict Arnold. But that was when
Roosevelt was leading the Bull
Moose and Harding had enough re
spect for him to believe he would
remain true to his new party. Now
he is caressing the former Bull Moos
ers and paying tribute to ths depart
ed Roosevelt. Such Is the way of
politics and politicians.—Rome News.
Attaining Fame
That Massachusetts schoolboy whe
won a state-wide bread-making con
test no doubt will grow up to be a
famous man milliner if he doesn’t
fall down and cut a blood vessel on
the mirror in his vanity box.—-
Johnny Spencer in Macon Telegraph.
“A Fair Exchange”
People are cbming to America from
Europe to get something to eat, and
Americans are going to Europe to
get something to drink. It’s the
new balance of trade. —Cincinnati
Times-Star. - •
We have often heard that a fair
exchange is not robbery,” and we as
sume that the exchange tn this par
ticular is fair enough.—Columbus En
quirer-Sun.
First to Score in Georgia
Anyway, Cox and Roosevelt were
first to score in Georgia. Tuesday
morning the Georgia legislature
unanimously indorsed the Democratic
nominees.—Winder Nowa
Wise Advice
Thirty-six dollars pays ntne weeks
board at the Fifth District Agricul
tural school, according to an ad in
this issue. It is a cheap way to
care for him whether he learns any
thing or not. —Winder News.
A Difference of Opinion
These French bachelors Who are
now being taxed by their govern
ment will never believe that the
successful end of the war Jhade
France truly free.—Baxley News
and Banner.
Speaking for the Fish
Fishing is certainly interesting to
the fishes.—-/Royston Record.
Douglasville Husbands
If you’d believe some Douglas
ville women about the only things
their husbands do around the house
is eat, sleep and wind the clock. —
Douglas County Sentinel.
An Interesting Query
Why is it that tax assessors so
seldom let the “payers” off with
figures that meet with the approval
of the poor tax payer?—Cairo Mes
senger.
Why is it that the tax payers
return their property for taxation
at figures that so seldom meet the
approval of the tak assessors?
“Where Ocean Breezes Blow.”
And it is astonishing how much
one can see in a remarkably short
time at a summer resort these
days. Indeed, the “scenery” is
splendid.—Eatonton Messenger.
Editor Gordon Callaway is spend
ing a few days at Tybee.
Georgia Peaches Are Best
California has Georgia beaten in
grapes, cherries and cantaloupes, but
the peaches are far behind the
Georgia product in flavor and gen
eral excellence —Cordele Dispatch.
HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS
£F You Boos' Yo' Town
-Too SCAN LOUS HIGH
Yous liable t' 6tr
■it up whah Folks
tCA/NT SEE IT A-TALL.\
—US'
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1920 McClure Newspaper Syndicate