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Shattered Precedents
THE nominations at Chicago and San
Francisco upset the traditions of
American history and disregarded the
precedents of American politics. War heroes
received little or no consideration as pros
pective candidates at either of the conven
tions. Former Ambassador Gerard, comment
ing on the nominations, remarks that he is
wholly unable to understand that both par
ties ignored those who had been responsible
tor the condufet of the war. The Republicans
nominated a Senator and the Democrats
named a governor. The World War is
the first in the history of the United
States that has not produced a successful -j,
Presidential candidate.
George Washington, the first President,
was commander-in-chief of the American
armies in the struggle for independence.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who j
succeeded General Washington, in the order j
named, served on the committee that re
ported the Declaration of Independence, and
Jefferson was the author of that immortal
document, so that it is fair to rate the first
three Presidents as products of the Revolu
tionary War.
James Monroe was the first President
elected after the War of 1812, with the
prosecution of which he had been intimately
identifed as Secretary of State and Secretary
of War in the intervals between 1811 and
1817. Monroe also had served with distinc
tion as a colonel in the Revolutionary War.
The real hero of the War of 1812, how
ever, did not reach the White House until
1828*. Andrew Jackson was the popular idol
of the American people as a result of his
war record. He failed of election to th®
Presidency in 1824 when the election was
thrown into the House of Representatives,
but was elected four years later and again:-
in 1832. , . ..
General Zachary Taylor, the ™iig candi
date in 1848, was a hero of the Mexican
waV He defeated Senator Cass. Another
Mexican war leader was a Presidential can
didate in 1852. General Winfield Scott was
nominated by the Whigs, but was defeated
by Franklin Pierce, who had also been a
general in the Mexican campaign
The Republican party, in 1868, turned t
the War Between the States for its cand -
late, and nominated General Ulysses S. Grant
who had Wn commander-in-chief of the
Union armies, although he had been a Demo
crat all his life. He was re-elected in 1872
Rutherford B. Hayes, elected m 1876, and
Garfield, who succeeded him in 1880, botn
had served as generals in the Union army.
The gallant Winfield Scott Hancock was de
feated by Garfield.
Benjamin Harrison had been a general and
William McKinley had been a major in the
Union army in the War Between the States.
Theodore Roosevelt was a product of the
Spanish-American war, and there is no
doubting that his initial popularity with the
people was due in part to his participation in
the Battle of San Juan hill.
But the campaign of 1920 —the first
since the World War armistice —finds no
soldier or war hero as the candidate of either
of the great political parties. In view of
history and tradition, it seems singular, as
Mr. Gerard observes. Both parties overlooked
the soldiers who actively participated in the
stirring events on the western front and
also the civilians who were con
nected in an authoritative way with the war
administration. Yet both parties boasted
of any number of soldiers and civilians who
were conspicuous in the conduct of the war.
What is the reason for the political disre
gard of the heroes of the World War? The
men who helped to shape the course of events
at Chicago and San Francisco were not nov
ices at the game of politics, and being what
they were it seems certain they were fa
miliar with vote-catching qualities of war he
roes. Why, then, did they turn from the
abundance of “war timber” that was avail
able and s.elect candidates who were far re
moved from the battlefields and remotely
connected with the civilian conduct of the
war?
It is suggested in some quarters that there
was nothing in the conduct of the war, either
at home in America or abroad on the fields
of battle, that inspired excessive enthusiasm.
The suggestion, however, is not borne out by
the facts. Certainly, the political wisacres
at Chicago and San Francisco had not for
got the waves of enthusiasm that swept over
America as the reports came in from Can
tigny, St. Mihiel, Balleau Wood and Chateau
Thierry. There was an abundance of zeal
and pride everywhere manifested in the ac
complishments of American arms in these
bloody and stirring clashes with the com
mon foe.
The Summer s War in Georgia
VALUABLE advice touching one of the
weightiest wars Georgia was ever
called upon to wage is given in
Dr. Soule’s cogent article, presented else
where in these columns, “Fighting the 801 l
Weevil With Calcium Arsenate.” Coming
from so tried a leader and distinguished
an authority as the president of the State
College of Agriculture, the assertion that the
boll weevil can be controlled is of itself high
ly important.
Many summers have ripened since this de
structive pest crossed the Mexican border to
American soil and moved disastrously east
ward. Its advance through Texas was a
very Sherman’s march for that region's staple
crop. A new, strange enemy it was, with
which the planter had no appreciable means
or knowledge for coping. The study of
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early-maturing and wilt-resistant varieties of
cotton in this connection had not begun; ex
periments looking to the discovery of chem
icals that would lay the invader low had not
been launched; crop notation and kindred
safeguards now familiar had not been sug
gested. Farmers stood bewildered and help
less, while weevil horde upon horde crept
onward, bound for the fields of Georgia.
By the time the enemy had reached the
southermost counties of this State much had
been learned regarding his habits and the
imperative need of diversifying the crops of
territory which he had entered or was ap
proaching Still, however, no direct method
of combating and destroying him had been
found. And at the time this was truly fortu
nate; for enforced diversification; with its
far-reaching and beneficent effects on every
phase of agricultural affairs, profited the state
a vast deal more than if a weevil cure had
been devised forthwith and the one-crop
tyranny continued unbroken. But now that
the lesson has been learned and a world
shortage of cotton makes it exceedingly de
sirable that this fiber be raised, the assur
ance that an effective weapon for destroy
ing the boll weevil has been discovered is
capitally important.
“The use of calcium arsenate, under ex
pert management,” writes Dr. Soule, “has
proved practicable and profitable in con
trolling the boll weevil.” Conservative as the
statement, it is none the less significant.
Failure to procure the highest grade of the
chemical and to apply it with due frequency,
thoroughness and according to official direc
tions ■will not bring satisfactory results, Dr.
Soule is careful to warn. But with proper
diligence and caution the use of the pre
scribed substance will prove distinctly worth
while. The season is at hand when boll
weevils must be destroyed, or millions of dol
lars’ worth of cotton will vanish into their
maws. Prompt and vigorous action upon the
lines pointed out by Dr. Soule will win sub
stantial victory.
The Folly and the Cost of the
Capital-Moving Scheme
THE House committee, to which Ma
con’s representatives themselves
chose to refer the latest device of
their capital-moving ambition, has reported
adversely. This is not at all surprising, in
view of the unfairness and childish folly of
what they asked the legislature to do. Hav
ing failed at divers expedients to put
through a Constitutional amendment —ths
one and only means whereby their purpose
can be legally accomplished—and having
tried sundry other shifts to no avail, they
came in the present instance to the unjust
test and absurdest proposition of all.
They proposed that the General Assembly,
bound though it is to represent the sovereign
people of Georgia, not simply a single party
or clan, should submit to a mere fraction of
the electorate (presumably for a determin
ing decision) a question involving the vital
interests of all citizens and all taxpayers as
well as a change in the State’s fundamental
law. Nothing less than a general election
in which all qualified voters could partici
pate would suffice for a referendum which,
if decided and acted upon as the Removalites
wish, would cost the taxpayers of Georgia
between five and ten million dollars.
Yet the Macon representatives proposed that
so momentous an issue be tossed into a sum
mer’s politics and settled in th® September
primary. “Settled,” that is to say, if by
chance the vote should be in their favor, for
then undoubtedly they would call the re
sult a “solemn mandate” from, the people;
whereas, if disappointed therein, would they
not just as certainly resume their agitation
from a new angle and by fresh stratagems?
Not only was the means by which they
proposed to decide the matter unjust, and
in its ultimate bearings unconstitutional, but
the very form of the question which they
wished submitted was calculated to mislead
and was out of keeping with the facts. . The
following alternative, as they designed it,
was to be printed on the ballots:
(a) For removal of the state capital to
Macon and accepting the tender made by the
city of Macon and the county of Bibb of the
gift of $3,000,000.00 and the site known as
Tattnall Square (16 acres or more, valued at
$1,000,000.00) for capitol and mansion pur
poses.
(b) For retaining the capitol and mansion
in the city of Atlanta, and making the neces
sary repairs, purchasing the necessary land,
erecting suitable annexes, and acquiring a
new governor’s mansion; and directing the
general -assembly at its next session to ap
propriate such sum of ihoney as may be neces
sary for expenses incident thereto, as may
be incurred.
Under this statement of the case, the voter
would be called upon to choose between re
moving the capital to Macon, where grounds
would be donated and new buildings pro
vided without a penny’s cost to the Common
wealth, and retaining the capitol in its pres
ent seat, with the necessity of improvements
which would call for extensive drains on the
public treasury. That is to say (as the Re
movalites would have it appear), transfer the
capital to Macon, and it will cost the State’s
taxpayers nothing; keep it in Atlanta, and
it will cost them fortunes.
Now so much as a glance into the facts
and probabilities of the situation will show
that just the reverse is true. The talk of Ma
con’s “gift of three million dollars” has
about as much foundation as a day dreamer’s
castles in Spain; and as for the “one million
dollar site,” the projectors of the scheme do
not even propose to give the State an unquali
fied title to the land. The only imaginable
means by which this cloud-capped “gift of
three million dollars” could be produced is a
municipal and county bond issue. But the tax
able values of Macon and Bibb county com
bined are not sufficient to authorize, under
Constitutional requirements, a bond issue of
that amount. The county now shoulders a
recently incurred bonded debt of one and
a half million dollars, and the city has its own
extraordinary obligations. These communities,
highly prosperous though they are, could not
if they would assume an additional burden of
three million dollars; and there is reason to
believe that the sound judgment of their
Voters would reject any such proposition even
were it made legally possible for them to ac
cept it. Thus when we come to the realities of
the case it is evident that there would be but
one source for meeting the enormous cost
of moving the capital, and that would be the
purse of the State’s taxpayers, one and all.
The proposition reduces itself, therefore,
simply to this: shall the citizenry of Geor
gia, whose schools and every public institu
tion are suffering grievously for funds, be
saddled with a debt of many millions of dol
lars merely to gratify a notionate ambition?
Or shall the capital remain where it was Con
stitutionally established a little more than
forty years ago by a vote of the people and
where it can be improved to meet every need
without additional tax levies, indeed without
taking a dollar from the treasury’s income?
It is a matter of common knowledge that the
present Executive mansion site could be ex
changed, or otherwise disposed of, so as to
procure not only a desirable residence for
the Governor, but a capitol annex as well.
And it is a matter of common knowledge
that fruitful steps to this end would have
been taken long ago and all needful improve
ments made, had it not been for the ob
structive tactics of those who are seeking to
transplant the capital to Macon at a tre
mendous cost to the State.
The House committee acted wisely and
with patriotism in disapproving the latest de
• vice by which the Removalites hoped to ad
vance their adventure. Governed by reason
; and fair play, the House can but concur
lin the adverse report. Surely it is time to
turn from this wasteful and childish affair
to matters of constructive moment.
IF YOU FEEL BLUE
By H. Addington Bruce
YOU confess to a despondent state of
mind that is becoming almost chron
ic. You insist that you have every
reason to fqel blue —business cares, family
anxieties, miscellaneous worries.
But despondency will never help you to
deal with these effectively. It will only tend
to multiply your problems and your perplex
ities by clouding your judgment, fatiguing
you, and otherwise lowering your working
power. Besides, if you are entirely honest
with yourself, you may actually find that
you have more reason to feel optimistic than
pessimistic. Have you ever tried the Du
bois system of day-by-day self-examination?
It is very simple, and it was invented for
the benefit of persons tormented, precisely
like you, by gloomy trends and dire fore
bodings.
Every evening, the last thing before going
to bed, make a tabulation of the day’s occur
rences with reference to their effect upon
yourself. In one column set down the hap
penings that have troubled you, in another
the happenings that have been in any way
to your advantage.
You are pretty sure to find the latter
outnumbering the former. Especially will
you find this the case if you apply to the
troublous happenings the tert, “Was I really
justified in feeling troubled by this?”
It may further be of great help to you to
supplement this moral self examination by a
physical examination made by some good doc
tor.
Often it happens that persistent despond
ency has its origin in an unsuspected bodily
defect, or in an unhygienic living habit that
lowers the physical tone. By a kind of re
flex action the moral tone is then unfavora
bly affected.
Some people, for example, feel blue be
cause, without appreciating it, they are poi
soning themselves through a faulty diet.
Others feel blue because they do not eat
enough to be nourished properly.
Failure to exercise regularly is another
common cause of despondency. As a result
of non-exercise there is both a poisoning of
the system and an unhealthy slowing of the
circulation of the blood.
This causes disagreeable sensations and a
nervous weakness that may readily have de
spondency as its chief symptom. Things in
general seem in a bad way because the one
to whom they so seem is physically not in the
best of ways.
There may be nervous weakness due to
wrong methods of doing one’s work, with a
resulting overfatigue, or nervous weakness
due to failure to work at all. Idlers are
notoriously addicted to the blues.
As is not surprising. For today it is known
that idleness has a singular capacity to dis
turb the whole bodily organism, particularly
the circulation of the blood and the action
of the nervous system.
Or the victim of chronic gloom may, all
unawares, be suffering from eyestrain,, dental
disease, foot trouble, or other seemingly triv
ial maladjustments. With these corrected,
the attitude to life may immediately and
incredibly be changed.
Therefore, study yourself morally and 1-et
a doctor study you physically if you habitu
ally suffer from the blues. You need not thus
suffer and you should not thus suffer.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
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COOKING
By Dr. Frank Crane
When General du Pont, Mr. Daugherty,
Howard Mannington, L. W. Henley, Henry
L. Stoddard and Jess W. Smith arrived in
Marion the other day to discuss the political
situation, say the news dispatches, they en
tered the Marion Club, hungry for breakfast.
Marion is a city of homes and breakfast is a
sacred meal. Club life here does not begin
until later in the day, when business men
drop in for luncheon and dinner. Conse
quently there is no arrangement for serving
breakfast at the Marion Club.
When Jess Smith wants breakfast he
craves it, and he returned from a reconnal
sance in the club kitchen with loud lamen
tations that food was there, but no chef.
What’s the use of a man being a hotel
owner if he can’t cook? General du Pont
asked, as he pulled off his coat and rolled
up his sleeves. “Show me the kitcchen. The
rest of you keep out and set the table.”
In a few minutes there was steam from the
coffee pot, ham and eggs were sputtering in
the pan, and flapjacks flew through the air.
Later General du Pont staggered through
the kitchen door with a breakfast tray bal
anced on his palm and a napkin hung over
one arm.
“Come and get it,” announced the General.
And they did.
All of which leads, to remark that the man
who does not know how to cook be he mil
lionaire, prince or bishop, misses a lot.
The preparation of food is one of the sim
ple, primal joys of existence.
Eating is fun, but cooking things to eat,
setting the table, brewing coffee, making
biscuit, and putting up the chairs have a
subtler appeal.
Tere is no unfortunate wretch on earth
who deserves more sympathy than the poor
duffer who is compelled to resort constantly
to restaurants and hotels. He must take
what the haughty waiter brings him. He
cannot have one lamb chop; he must order
three because three is “an order.”
He acquires indigestion, diabetes and ner
vous prostration because by and by he eats
only in a state of fury, whereby men dig
their graves with their teeth.
He is overcharged, snubbed and sneered at
by the gentleman from the Waiters’ Union
who brings him his food.
He never gets what he wants when and
how -he wants it.
He goes to an early grave bullied, taxed,
starved and buttled to death; he passes out
unwept, unhonored and unstrung.
Give me a frying pan, a hunk of bacon and
a loaf of bread, “and thou beside me singing
in the wilderness,” and I will laugh to scorn
all the Frenchified monstrosities that ever
glared at -a hungry victim through the eye
less sockets of a bill of fare.
Mr. du Pont, when you said, “Show me
the kitchen,” and afterwards, “Come and
get it,” y<Su said a mouthful. I’ll forgive
your dollars. You have sense.
Still, I think I could show you a few tricks.
Do you know how to fix round steak, for
instance, so it will be as tender and taste
as good as spring chicken? Do you know
the secrets of beaten biscuit? Can you do
things with toasted cheese? I speak ‘of deep
matters. As Einstein said, “Only half a
dozen living men probably can understand
me.”
(Copyright, 1920. by Frank Crane.)
*
City and State lose SIOO,OOO by eligibles
failing to qualify for the ballot, but this
doesn’t compare with the loss to Georgia of
more than forty thousand citizens who might
be voting for better conditions.
That Augusta gentleman who offers to
marry any young lady worth SIOO,OOO and
return half of the money if he is dissatisfied
possesses the same brand of modesty as that
displayed in a circus poster.
Coal companies are blamed for “invisible
profits.” Usually, the fuel profits are star
tingly apparent.
It doesn’t seem quite sportsman-like to try
to blame all the social trouble in the world
on a little thing like a girl’s bathing suit.
FIGHTING BOLL WEEVILS
WITH CALCIUM ARSENATE
BY ANDREW M. SOULE,
President of Georgia State College of Agriculture.
The boll weevil is in our midst. In
many places he is doing serious dam
age. This is affecting our farmers
in various ways. Some are pessi
mistic, others indifferent. Some are
making a vigorous fight against his
depredations and others are sort of
drifting with the tide. In meeting
the onslaughts of this pest, action
must be our watchwrod. In no oth
er case is eternal vigilance more like
ly to be rewarded with success. We
need now to be actuated by the same
spirit with which those Georgia boys
enlisted in the marines and in the
regular army met and hurled back
the victorious advance of the Ger
mans at Chateau Thierry. It is a
fight to the death with a most
formidable and persistent foe; but
the rewards are certain and will well
repay the effort expended. Let us
be up and doing, therefore, for we
have a battle to fight and a victory
to win. In making this fight, we
should use every agency at our com
mand. Therefore, let us be diligent
in picking up and destroying squares.
Every pair of weevils eliminated
means the destruction of a host of
descendants.
In this connection it is well to
remember that squares may be punc
tured by other insects than the boll
weevil, such as the cotton square
borer and other incidental caterpil
lars and insects. Even under nor
mal conditions a considerable per
centage of the squares set on by the
cotton plant shed off. In Georgia
this may even reach above 25 per
cent of all those set on by the plant.
Hence, all the destruction one may
witness in a field may not be due
to weevil damage. This is said by
way of information and encourage
ment to the faint-hearted.
In many parts of Georgia there
is a good stand of cotton. Most of
the fields that I have seen are clean
and the plants now grow vigorously.
It is true that the crop is late, but,
under existing conditions, there is an
opportunity to concentrate the effort
and energy of the plantation work
ers on the fight against the weevil.
Whenever there is a 10 to 20 per cent
infestation, begin the use of calcium
arsenate. This stage is determined
by counting the number of punctured
or fallen squares out of each hun
dred as you come to them in the
field. Dusting before the period in
dicated will not likely pay. After
the stage advised has been reached,
dust every five days or at most
once a week until from five to six
applications have been made. Use
about five pounds per acre at each
application. The dusting should be
done early in the morning or late in
the evening when the dew is on the
plants. Hand dusters should be
on the one-horse crop and power ma
chines of approved type on larger
areas. There may be difficulty in
securing power machines, but there
seems to be an abundant supply of
hand machines. The hand machine
is not so efficient or so economical
in the use of material, but it is in
finitely better than nothing at all.
It is of the utmost importance that
every part of the plant be dusted.
Competent supervision of careless or
indifferent labor is of the greatest
importance. The landowner should
stay in the field to see that dusting
is properly and effectively done. Be
economical in the use of the poison
for the cost of the material is a
great item of expense. Poisoning
alone is not likely to prove effec
tive. Remember that all other con
trol measures should be utilized. As
PUTTING DETROIT ON THE SEA
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
DETROIT, Mich., July 15.—Hav
ing gained a gratifying vic
tory over its neighboring
rivals in the recent census re
ports, Detroit, with all the ambitious
fervor of the newly rich, now seeks
■new worlds to conquer. Having out
stripped Pittsburg and Cleveland, it
is anxious to become pals with Paris
and London. Having risen rapidly in
the national esteem, it now craves in
ternational ’ recognition. In other
words, Detroit wants to become an
ocean port.
Ever since the Great Lak® cities
were little children, they have been
hankering for an ocean outlet, but
it was not until Detroit took the
helm and began steering the legisla
tive machinery that the idea began to
appear feasible. Now fifteen different
states are backing it, to say nothing
of the southeastern Canadian prov
inces, which are eager to see it put
through. ,
Viewing the positions of Buffalo.
Toledo, Cleveland, Detroit and Chi
cago on the Great Lakes, it may be
difficult for you to ee how they can
ever be on very intimate geographi
cal tersm with the Atlantic oceanffl
but it is the simplest thing in the
world, once the Detroit board of
commerce explains it to you. All
that will have to be done will be to
remove a few miles of rapids from
the St. Lawrence river by building
a couple of dams, thus converting
the river into a series of lakes and
establishing an uninterrupted chan
nel of navigation from Duluth, at the
end of Lake Superior, to the Atlantic
ocean.
This, however, is not the immediate
problem. So far as the engineering
part of the scheme is concerned, that
may be taken for granted. The pres
ent struggle is with the Canadian
government and with our own gov
ernment—to make them realize the
value of this project to the rest of
the world, and to get them to ap
propriate the necessary millions of
dollars for its fulfillment.
Call a Congress
To discuss and devise ways and
means of doing this, the Great Lakes-
St. Lawrence Tidewater congress is
to meet in Detroit •on July 22, at
which delegates from Canada as well
as delegates from all of the fifteen
interested states will be present. Mr.
Herbert Hoover has also been Invited,
probably to lend an air of economy
to .the enterprise, although what Mr.
Hoover will say when he strikes the
higher cost of living in Detroit will
doubtless be worth hearing. Sena
tor Townsend, of Michigan, known
as the father of the lakes-to-the
ocean movement; Medill McCormick,
of Illinois, and Major General Lan
sing H. Beach, chief of engineers,
United States army, are other distin
guished Americans who will attend.
However, there are no special
qualifications for admittance to the
congress Any one who is interested
in the project and feels that one of
the great desires of his life is to
sail straight through the Great Lakes
to the sea. will be cordially received
as a delegate by the Detroit Chamber
of Commerce. Manufacturers who
would like to ship their goods by
such a direct route, instead of mak
ing two or three changes in trans
portation, will be most welcome. Ask
for Mr. Tom Munger. He will tell
you what to say.
Mr. Munger helped Detroit prepare
its argument for a straight passage
lakeward to the ocean, and he knows
of more reasons why there should be
such a convenience than any one else
in the world. Although very young,
with all the tremendous energy and
enthusiasm of youth, he occupies the
dignified position of secretary of the
inland waterways committee.
Greatness of Middle West
“This region,” Mr. Munger inform
ed us, “has one-third of the country’s
area and population, produces from
one-half to seven-eighths of its prin
cipal staples, cotton and tobacco ex
cepted. The heart of the continent
provides the surplus of wheat and
other grain, of cattle and meats and
dairy products and the principal min
erals. To be statistical, it produdes
75 per cent of the wheat. 65 per
cent of the corn, 100 per cent of the
flax.”
But we cannot remember all the
numerous things this region does
produce as much as 60 and 74 and
85 per cent of. Mr. Munger told us,
but after a while we began to get
a trifle bewildered, and came up for
air only at the mention of the rail
roads.
“This region requires adequate
transportation facilities to move its
products.” Mr. Munger was saying,
•especially grain. The railroads are
not now and have not been for years
able to carry the load in season.
They could not increase their facili
ties to carry' it without enormous
cost and. if they did. the equipment
and improvements sufficient to move
this material is poisonous to men
and to work stock, handle it carefully
and keep it properly protected when
in storage. Animals should, of
course, be kept out of cotton fields.
The use of calcium arsenate under
expert management has proven prac
ticable and profitable in controlling
the boll weevil. Many people will
no doubt fail to secure satisfactory
results and will be disposed to place
the blame elsewhere than on them
selves. A review, however, of the
situation will in nearly every in
stance show that the trouble has
been due to failure to carry out in
structions carefully and accurately.
In this connection, a word of warn
ing is proper. Remember that only
the highest grade of calcium arsenate
should be used. It should not con
tain less than 42 per cent of ar
senate pentoxid and not more than
75 per cent of water soluble arsenic.
The density should be from 80 to
100 cubic inches per pound. If the
material contains less than 40 per
cent of arsenic pentoxid, it is doubt
ful if it will be sufficiently toxic to
effectively control the weevil. If it
contains more water soluble arsenic
than is indicated, the foliage will be
burned and the cotton plant injured.
Remember that as the quantity of
water soluble arsenic pentoxid in
creases, the greater the damage from
its use will be. This point cannot
be emphasized too strongly. Avoid
danger and damage to your crop by
safeguarding this point. It must be
in the form of a very finely divided,
dry powder to be applied success
fully.
There is much low-grade calcium
arsenate on the market. Its use is
to be avoided as it will prove waste
ful, unprofitable and even injurious
to the cotton crop. According to
reports furnished this institution by
the government laboratory at Tal
lula>., La., 234 samples of calcium
arsenate from Georgia have been
tested therein. Os this number, 124
were found to be good and 110 un
satisfactory. This shows that there
is a tremendous amount of unrelia
ble calcium arsenate on the market.
No doubt many of our farmers have
bought a good deal of this material
already. They should have it tested
befpre using it. This is a matter
of the utmost importance. We con
sider it the duty as well as the
privilege of this institution to call
this mater to the attenion of our
cotton growers. If the large quan
tity of low-grade material on the
market is used as extensively as now
seems probable, unsatisfactory re
sults will follow and loss and dam
age will be the outcome instead of
profit and success. Reliable com
panies handling and distributing this
material will, I feel sure, be glad to
guarantee the quality of their prod
uct. Farmers should not buy from
firms that will not do this as there
is too much at stake.
Samples of calcium arsenate will
be tested by Dr. B. R. Coad, in charge
of the government laboratory at Tal
lulah. La. He is the man who orig
inated the plan of poisoning the boll
weevil with calcium arsenate. The
information and advice he gives rel
ative to this subject, may. therefore,
be regarded as thoroughly reliable.
This institution has two cotton ex
perts in its employ; namely, Profes
sors R. R. Childs and F. C. Ward.
They will be pleased to adyise our
farmers free of cost relative to the
purchase and use of calcium ar
senate. i
the crops would be idle much of the
year. - The west must look elsewhere
for relief. .
“The St. Lawrence route is the
answer. It will give Western pro
duction free road to market. It will
do more. It will create new produc
tion. Cheap transportation will re
veal opportunities now below the
horizon of profit. A thousand miles
of ocean highway in place of a thou
sand miles by rail; a saving of 500
miles in actual distance to northern
Europe; the eliminations from cer
tain routes of two transfers which
often equal in cost the entire line
haul. , ,
“The west is hurt. Its yearly losses
by delay, by embargo, by spoilage,
by interruption of industry, are
enormous. If 10 per cent of its wheat
missed its market —as it might—to
say nothing of a total breakdown
one year’s loss would be more than
this whole job—the St. Lawrence
route —costs.”
Only Sixty Millions Needed
It is estimated that the cost of
drowning out the rapids in the St.
Lawrence river and operftng it for
navigation throughout its entire
length will be only $60,000,000, so far
as this country is concerned. We
say “only sixty million” because this
is not a large sum compared to all
the money which has already been
spent in improviging the Great Lakes,
spent i improving the Great Lakes
Superior to Lake Huron; millions in
connecting waters between Huron
and Erie, and Canada is now spend
ing more than fifty millions in im
proving the Welland canal between
Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Can
ada will also be asked to contribute
fifty millions for the St. Lawrence
route, making the cost of this project
altogether a (lundred and ten mil
lion dollars.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
Midnight—and all so still. But
hush-bark! What was that? Was it a
faint, stealthy sound from below?
The young husband and wife
clutched each other in awed dread.
Could it be that there were thieves
—burglars—in their dear little
home?
Then the husband’s sense of duty
roused him.
“I must go down and tackle them!”
he breathed, in a voice as firm as he
could manage.
“No. no!” she pleaded breathless
ly. “It’s dangerous; they might be
armed!”
“But there Is all our silver in the
dining room,” objected the man, as
he drew on a dressing gown.
“Let them take everything,” she
replied, with a sob. “What are they
compared with the risk to you? Your
life is more precious to me than
anything else. If you were killed, I’d
die of a broken —”
“Listen!” His voice was tense. “I
can hear them opening that tin box
in which you put your new hat!”
“Oh, go, go, John!” she wailed.
“Call the police! Go down to them
at once, the brutes! My poor- hat!
Hurry, John! What are you loitering
for?”
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
PE OLE &MAN DONE
TOL ME PONT LET PE
HAWGS EAT UP HER
CHICKENS WHILS' SHE
OFF VISITIN’ PIS WEEK
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Copyright, 19 2.0 hy McClure Newspaper aynfiicate.
, JULY 20, 1920.
TUESDAY
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
DON’T CODDLE_YOUR FAULTS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
z z KNOW I have a beastly tern
• • I per. Little things irritate
I me and when I get into a
rage I say things that stab
my wife to the heart, and that terri
fy the children, and make the cat
take to the cyclone cellar.”
“I am sorry for my poor husband
because I know that I am outrage
ously extravagant, but when I see
lovely things I can’t help buying
them whether we can afford them or
not.”
"No one loves me. I really haven’t
a friend in the world. People are
afraid of me because I'have a sharp
tongue, and say sarcastic things, but
I can’t resist making a witty speech
no matter whom it hurts.”
These are some of the common
confessions of faults with which we
are all familiar. .There isn’t a day
when we do not meet men and wom
en who coollly vivisected their own
characters, and unerringly diagnose
the fatal weakness that is sapping
their lives and robbing them of hap
piness and usefulness, but who calm
ly accept' the situation and make no
effort to cure themselves.
They know with absolute clearness
and surety what ails them spiritual
ly, but they do not try to eradicate
the trouble. Yet, if any one of these
same people even suspected that they
had a cancr that was eating at their
vitals and poisoning their blood,
they would not hesitate to have it
cut out, though they risked death in
doing so.
Men and women who know they
have tuberculosis, or diabetes, or any
dangerous disease of the body are
willing to spend their last cent and
undergo any treatment, no matter
what sacrifice and suffering it en
tails, to get rid of it.
Sickness of the soul they regard
lightly. They may know that they
are afflicted with an abnormal
growth of selfishness: that their
tempers register a hectic tempera
ture half of the time; that their
tongues are cankered by bitterness;
that everything goo.d and generous
in them has atrophied, and they have
hardening of the heart, but they
perform no major surgical operations
on their characters.
They lop off no brutalities of con
duct or speech. They take no heroic
remedies to reduce their spleen, nor do
they quicken their heart action into
normal by stimulating it by showing
a little love to those about them.
So much more stress do we put on
our physical health than we do on
our spiritual. Yet, when al! is said,
our happiness depends upon the well
being of our souls more than it does
upon the well-being of our bodies
Now, it would be bad enough if we
sinned through ignorance and were
so besotted by self-conceit that we
could not perceive that we had a sin
gle defect concealed about our per
sons. But whmat excuse can be of
fered for us when we sin knowingly;
who we recognize, our eaknesses yet
make no effort to brace up: when we
are aware of our faults yet make no
attempts to overcome them?
Yet. that Is precisely what nine
out of ten ’people do. Instead of
using the knowledge of their faults
to exterminate them, root and
branch, they regard their defects
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
Tlife aerial expedition to Nome,
Alaska, and return by four airplanes
of the United States Army Air Serv
ice, started from Mitchel Field,
Mipeola, L. 1., at,lo o’clock Wednes
day morning. The flight is approxi
mately 9,000 miles, and is being
made for the dual purpose of estab
lishing an aerial route to the’ north
west corner of the North American
continent and also to make a photo
graphic survey of the inaccessible
areas of Alaska. The- expedition will
be in command of Captain St. Clair
Street, who will pilot airplane No. 1.
With, him will be Sergeant Edmond
Henriques, as observer, photographer
and mechanic. The crews of air
planes 2, J! and 4 will be: Lieutenant
Clifford C.' Nutt, sfecond in command,
with Second Lieutenant Eric H. Nel
son; Sec'dnd Lieutenant C. H. Cum
rine, photographic officer and pilot
and a mechanic, and Second Lieuten
ant Ross Kirkwood, with Sergeant
Jos’eph E. English. The route will
be as follows: Mitchel Field to Erie,
350 miles; Erie to Grand Rapids, 300
miles; Grand Rapids to Winona,
Mich., 310 miles; Winona to Fargo,
N. D., 320 miles; Fargo to Portal, N.
D., 290 miles; Portal to" Saskatoon,
Sask, 280 miles; Saskatoon to Ed
mondton, Alta, 300 miles; Edmonton
to Jaspar, Alta, 200 miles; Jaspar to
Prince George, B. C., 200 miles;
Prince George to Hazelton, B. c., 220
miles; Hazelton to Wrangell, Alaska,
210 miles; Wrangell to White Horse,
300 miles; White Horse to Dawson,
AS A WOMAN
THINKETH
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Seen Througn a Bridal Veil
(Copyright, 1920, by The W heeler Syndi
cate, Inc,)
HE Bride has gone!
The Little Bride, light-
- | hearted, radiant, debonair,
Has gaily stepped upon her
hip of Fate, today.
And set sail for ■ the Port of
Heart’s Delight, and the Harbor of
Eternal Love!
What does she see, I wonder, as
she looks out at Life, with those
young eyes of hers?
What does she hope to find, at
the end of her Rainbow of dreams?
What does LOVE mean to her,?
Does it mean the transient glamor
of the wedding-day, the perfumed
rapture of the betrothal kiss, a mo
mentary flash of glory-—like the
rose-tinted sunset.
Or does it mean the quiet, steady
radiance of an alta-fire —the peace
ful glow of consecrated candles?
Does it mean the thrill of achieve
ment, of conquest the glitter of a
wedding-ring
Or the perfect fulfillment of a
divine destiny?
Is it a rosy dream of an eternal
honeymoon, in starlit gardens sweet
with heavly incense
Or is it a quiet pleasant vision of
a lamplit room, an open-fire, mono
grammed silver, bright new dishes,
and piles of snowy hemstitched
linen,, proudly displaying HIS ini
tials in evry corner?
Will it inspire her to sit and
dream of Him, all day, to spend
long hours at her Igoking-glass
making herself more radiantly beau
tiful for his eys; to live only for
his compliments and kisses
Or will it bring her down to sane
reality, make her forgetful of self
and of her petty vanities, and
prompt her to concentrate on econ
omy and cooking, and on all the
dear delightful, tiresome details of
making a man COMFORTABLE?
Willit goad her into foolish jeal
ousy, and into asking suspicious and
searching questions, every time he is
late for dinner
Or will it fill her with such com
plete and satisfying confidence, such
sublime faith, that though he never
came at all, there would be no
question in her mind, whatever?
Will it make her exacting, criti
cal, capricious, arbitrary, demand
ing a prety and expensive para-.
Bite,
Or will it make her kind and
thoughtful, generous, and forbear
ing?
What does she seek
Thrills, adoration, and the blind
ing mist of love’s rapture,
Or heartease, and the quiet, gen
tle hand-clasp of perfect under
standing?
Wild uncertainty—or sweet secur
ity?
Eternal courtship—or life-long
companionship?
Worship—or comradeship?
Ah, Little Bride, so gaily setting
sail upon your Ship of Fate.
Unless love is BOTH of these,
It is not Perfect Bove-
Yet, they are as far apart, and as
different.
As Purgatory and Paradise
And you, alone, must find your
own Paradise.
You, alone, must seek the pot-of
gold,
At the end of your rainbow of
dreams!
You. alone. know what LOVE
means—to you!
with affection, and even with pride.
A man will tell you that he is al
ways stone broke because he never
can save money. It slips through
his fingers. Or he will say that he
hasn’t the faculty of getting along,
that he is always the one
laid off in the in which he
works when they cut clown the force.
He recognizes his weakness, but he
doesn’t try to conquer the fault that
is ruining him. He doesn’t let the) I
knowledge that he has the natural
inclination to be a spender make him I
doubly careful to cultivate thrift.
Nor does he face the fact that be
cause he is temperamentally ineffi
cient, and has no inborn aptitude for
business, is a reason for his working
doubly hard and putting an extra
punch into his job in order to suc
ceed
We hear women bemoaning their
slack housekeeping, and their lack I
of any domestic bent. They com- I
plain that their servants waste and
steal; they admit that their houses I
are always at sixes and sevens, and I
their families poisoned by bad food. I
But they take their regret for I
being failures as wives and mothers I
our. in talking about it, because it is I
lots more comfortable to deplore a I
weakness than to fight it tooth and I
nail.
You would think that a woman I
who realized that she was a poor I
housekeeper would have a heart-to- I
heart interview' with herself and I
say, “That inasmuch as I am not I
one of the ladies who are born with I
the stew-pot in one hand and a cas- .]
serole in the other, here’s where I ]
outwit nature by getting busy with I
the cook-book, and a budget and pull I
off the scientific housekeeping stuff- I
1 am not going to let any fault I ]
knew about ge‘ the better of me.” I
But she doesn’t. She coddles her I
laziness and shiftlessness and ex- I
pects her poor unfortunate family to I
sympathize witn her instead of de- ']
spising her for her weakness. Nor I
is she alone in this. Think of the I
narrow, prejudiced people you know ■
who admit teat they are narrow and I
prejudiced, and who shut themselves I
up in the wails of their own little- I
ness and never broaden out.
Think of the people who are never ]
on time for anything and who ex- ]
cuse their dilatoriness by saying, ]
“Oh, well, you know I am always ]
late.”
Think of the people who never do ]
anything just right and who say ]
carelessly that they know that they I
are hit-or-miss workers.
Why, in Heaven’s name, when peo- ]
pie know their faults don’t they cor- ]
rect them? Why doesn’t the slow ]
individual always start an hour ]
ahead of schedule? Why don’t the ]
blunderers make a fetish of accu- ]
racy? Why don’t the prejudiced ■
force themselves to .look on every ]
side? \ -
The truth is In dealing with oui ■
weaknesses we should be doubly on) ■
guard. Just as the man who can - ]
not drink in moderation should never ]
touch liquor, so we should never dal- M
ly with out weakness, for in this way, ]
an dthis way only, we can turn our ]
faults into virtues and our weakness ]
into strength.
250 miles; Dawton to Fairbahks, 275
miles; Fairbanks to Ruby, 240 miles;
Ruby to Nome, 300 miles.
King Alfonso, of Spain, partici
pated in a game of polo at the Roe
hampton club, near London. The
team on which the king played won
by a score of 9 goals to 5. Alfonso
scored 3 goals and Prince Henry,
third son of King George, shot 2.
Other members of the team on which
the Spanish monarch and Prince
Elenry had positions were W. S..
Buckmaster and Lord Wodehouse,
Their opponents were Earl Beatty,
Lord Wimborne, Colonel C. D. Miller
and E. B. Horlick. The game was a
fairly fast one. Among the specta
tors were the Queen of Spain, Dow
ager Queen Alexandra and Princess
Beatrice.
LONDON. —Santeri Nuorteva, whol
recently arrived in England as the
emissary of L. C. A. K. Martens,
Russian Bolshevik representative in
the United States, will be deported.
Nuorteva was admitted to England
by mistake, it is stated. He was
carrying a “diplomatic passport”
signed by Martens and the alien of
ficers at Liverpool failed to notice!
the true nature of the document.!
Nuorteva immediately got into touch!
with members of the delegation ofl
Leonid Krassin, the Bolshevik min-l
istfer of trade and commerce, his ob-l
ject being, according to the authori-|
ties, to induce the delegation tol
finance Martens in his litigation withl
the United States department of jus-1
tice and otherwise asisst Martens!
financially., Nuorteva brought a let-1
ter of introduction from Canadian!
bankers. As soon as the authorities!
found Nuortfeva they issued a de-|
portation order, which will be exe-l
cuted shortly. Nuorteva claims Rus-|
sian nationality on the ground that!
Finland, where he was born, was al
Russian possession at the time o£|
his birth.
Property on the east side on
Broadway between Forty-fourth andl
Forty-fifth streets, New York Cityl
is worth $13,713 a front foot, ac-|
cording to a report filed in the su-l
preme court recently in behalf of th J
minority stockholders of the New!
ork Theater Corporation.
America )s not obligated to assistl
the European allies in militarvl
measures they may undertake if thel
Germans refuse to accede to the all
lied demands for coal monthly. ill
was said authoritative in Washing-!
ton recently. Belief was expresecj
that America would lend only moral
support to efforts to coerce Ger-j
many. The American army on th J
Rhine, consisting of 15,000 men, in
concerned only with the terms oil
the armistice, it was pointed out, asl
America did not become a party tn
the treaty of Versailles, violationil
of which ‘ brought the threat of ocl
cupation of the Ruhr. The positiorl
the American, forces would occupjl
has not been determined, but in somJ
quarters the view was held that thexl
might be relieved if hostilities werJ
renewed.
In Colorado Springs there Is a hosl
pital for birds, and it is conducted
by an old gentleman named Dr. Will
liam W. Arnold. The main buildinfl
of the hospital is a shed of modes]
size, with a bent roof and walls o]
wire net. It is in effect a big cage]
apd for protection against hot su]
artd stormy weather curtains o]
striped awning stuff are so arrange]
as to let down.
His fees? Not a penny. His skil]
and care are bestowed free of charge]
Birds lodged at the hospital unde]
treatment or while undergoing eon]
valescence are boarded without ex]
pense. When a patient dies there i]
a little funeral, attended by childrei]
as mourners.
The doctor’s patients are mostlfl
wild birds, but frequently peoplfl
take to him sick or injured canaries]
parrots and other cage pets. An ail]
ing rooster or a hurt duck readilfl
claims his attention.
Here ait £gures, gathered frorfl
the Merchants’ association, steam]
ship companies, stevedores, railroa]
companies and other reliable author]
ities, showing the estimated losse]
due to robbers of freight cars, pier?]
steamships and trucks: Silk—Los]
since January 1, 1918. estimated con]
servatively at $3,000,000 for the Nev]
York port district. Recoveries hav]
totalled $1,750,000.
Railroad Losses —-$6,000,000 at thiH
port. New York Central loses abou]
$2,000,000 a year in robberies.
In 1914 railroad losses throughoufl
the United States by robberies werl
$10,000,000: in 1917, $30,000,000;
1918, $38,000,000; this year,
present rate, $40,000,000. IM
One group of forty-eight men. inH
dieted a few days ago. is accuse®
of thefts totalling $1,500,000.
The Merchants’ association atto>®
ney charges that petty grafters a|
piers get from S4O to S6O a day.
The “rake-off” in thefts is spliß
this way: 75 per cent to the flnanß
cier of the “deal,” 15 per cent to thß
actual thieves, and 10 per cent t®
those who handed out the necessar®
tips as to location of goods, etc, ®