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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 months . .....SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday ! (Sy Malt—Payable Strictly in Advance) S 1 Wts.l Mo. 3 Mob. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. f Bunday 20c 9Oc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 fitfUy 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac- Jennings. \ye 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 be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. 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 THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. 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.) • - 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 EN AH SUTNV GwINE DO M. A H B Es' !! y 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, ®