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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) I IWtlMo. 3 Mob. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. D*Uy and Sunday2oc 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 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 contwfhs 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. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling • representatives. “ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In- ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should b e sent by postal order or registered mail. \ Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. 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 THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. 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' WWk 1920 McClure Newspaper Syndicate