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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOI’R.X AL. Atlanta. Ga.
The Transportation Trouble
WITH the crop-moving season at
hand, the deficiencies of freight
transportation under which the
railroads long have labored grow more than
ever disquieting. Weeks ago industrial
plants in certain regions were in danger
of having to close for want of cars to bring
them fuel or other essentials, a situation
that Is virtually unimproved. Large accu
mulations of basic commodities await ship
ment —some two and a half million tons
of steel products, for example, and a p ro
portionately important residue of last year’s
wheat. Particularly interesting is the re
port of the Geological Survey that the
bituminous coal mined in the first half of
the current year was about forty-one mil
lion tons in excess of the output for the
same period of 1919. Thus some of the
most p resslng problems of business and ,
of living are attributable in part, at least,
to Inadequate transportation. And now
loom up the great demands of the harv
estide!
In seeking the cause of the present lack
of carrying facilities authorities point out
that “railway equipment companies have
been tufning forth cars and locomotives
all this year;” that the Government “has
agreed to advance one hundred and twen
ty-five million dollars from the revolving
fund for equipment purchases,” and that
the companies themselves “probably have
raised an equal or larger amount through
the sale of equipment obligations.” Consid
er, too, that the tremendous task of mov
ing war supplies and troops has ceased, so |
that a great deal more rolling stock should
be available for commerce and industry.
Still, the car shortage has grown continu
ally more acute. Why?
Byway of partial answer a writer in
the New York Evening Post recalls that
Mr. V’tlker Hines, upon resigning as Di
rector General of Railroads predicted that
the immediate results of the carriers when
returned to private operation would be dis
appointing. ‘‘Beyond question,” the Evening
Post writer goes on to say, “he had .in
mind the fact that with the return to vhe
old competitive methods, the unified trans
portation machinery built up by the Gov
ernment would lose much of its elasticity;
that freight might again go the longest
way around; that despite congestion roads
would hold business rather than turn it
over to another company; that the average
trainload would be reduced; that there
would be a falling off in* the average
amount of freight in each loaded car.”
Whether or not all these conditions have
come to pass, it is certain that many of
the advantages of the unified policy and
administration obtaining under Federal
direction have been lost, and that in con
sequence has come impairment of service
despite added equipment, removal of war
pressure, ' and earnest effort of the part
of the carriers themselves.
Now if outright Government ownership
and • operation were the only means of re
gaining the efficiencies of administrative
unity, nevertheless we well might ask if it
would not be better to endure the ills we
have than fly to those of an adventure so
at variance with American ideas of gov
ernment and of business. But is it neces
sary to snatch the railroads from private
ownership and rob them of the valuable
impulse of individual enterprise in order to
get the economies and improvements of
co-working amongst different systems and
branches? Is there no possible plan of re
gional co-ordination that would prevent
waste and inefficiency without sacrificing
•Ke independence of the several lines or
treating an irresponsible and dangerous
monopoly?
The q uestion is not to be answ-ered
lightly; none but the most experienced and
practical as well as broad-visioned thinkers
on the subject are competent to deal with
its manifold difficulties. There is a gen
eral and justified opinion, however, that
Congress fell far short of its opportunities
and obligations in legislating on this high
ly important problem. The bill finally en
acted contained valuable provisions, it is
true, but its omissions were sorely numer
ous and were a confession of the Repub
lican majority’s inability to dispose of a
great issue in a broadly constructive way.
It is doubtful, indeed, that the President
would have signed the measure, submitted
as the dwarf fruitage of a year’s piddling
debate, had he not been under the neces
sity of choosing between it and the chaos
of returning the roads to private manage
ment with no conserving regulations what
soever. It seems commonly agreed, how
ever, that supplementary legislation will be
called for, and that one of the salient. mat
ters w ith which it will have to do’ will
oe the betterment of transportation serv
ice through more centralized methods of
administration.
Relief of this nature, however, i» 7- the
nearest many months away, and may never
come. Meanwhile, reasonable expe-
dient for coping with the car shortage
should be tried, and the most earnest co
operation between carriers and shippers
maintained. It should be borne constantly
in mind, moreover, that America’s trans
- portation needs are growing apace with
her giant industrial and commercial strides,
so that every practicable means of trans
portation, highways and waterways as well
as railways, shoul dbe developed as fast
as full-sinewed enterprise can work. They
all will he required to meet the demands
of a few decades hence; the sooner we
make them ready, the better for the coun
try’s wellbeing.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Sir flalter"s fl eed In Georgia,
SIR WALTER’S weed, which millions
of men would not part with for the
flowers of Paradise, is fast becoming
one of Georgia's staple crops; Valdosta,
Tifton, Douglas, Vidalia, and divers other
towns of the State recently have opened
i tobacco markets with extensive preparations
! and with the prospect of large receipts
from the surrounding country. At the first
: named point, is a new tobacco warehouse
which a widely traveled authority on such
matters describes as “the best he has ever
seen.” The other centers likewise have tak
en pains to provide the highest order of
facilities for handling the grower s product
and assuring him fair returns.
This is at once evidence of a remark
able increase in the output of Georgia to
bacco and an incentive to more rapid de
velopment in the seasons ahead. Eleven
years ago the amount of tobacco raised in
j this State was so inconsiderable as to re
] ceive no mention whatsoever in the Cen-
I sus of 1910. By 1916, however, production
j had reached upwards of one and’ a half
I million pounds, with a value of four hun
j dred and fourteen thousand dollars, or
three . hundred and eighteen dollars and
sixty cents an acre. In 1918 this had an
vanced to two million, six hundred and
sixty-eight thousand pounds, with a value
of one million, three hundred and thirty
four thousand dollars, or four hundred and
sixty dollars an acre. Within the last twelve
month this record, striking though it was,
has been dwarfed by new attainments; and
there are observers who forecast that with
in another year or so tobacco will rival
cotton itself as a Georgia money crop.
Certainly the establishment of ware
houses and markets for handling the prod
uct will encourage and multiply its grow
ers. A harvest that can be turned readily
into cash or used as collateral for credit
appeals strongly to farmers, particularly to
those of regions where the onslaught of
the boll weevil has stopped or greatly cur
tailed the production of cotton. No
matter how intrinsically valuable a crop
may be, there is scant inducement to raise
it if there be no means of disposing of it
with reasonable convenience and at a fair
profit. Because cotton was well provided
with such facilities, while other products
for the most part lacked them, the former
monopolized the best efforts and most fer
tile resources of the Georgia planter for
decades, and left him a heavy debtor to
other States for food necessities. Happily,
a great change has come to pass. The
packing plant, the canning factory, the
bean mill, the grain elevator, the potato
curing plant and other institutions for re
ceiving and marketing food products have
made crop diversification as profitable in
business practice as it is commendable in
agricultural theory. The tobacco markets
and warehouses are an important addition
to these lines of service, especially at a
time when a substitute money-crop for
cotton is in so many districts imperative.
Back to States Rights.
SOMETIMES chided with fogyism for
her undimming loyalty to States
rights, the South can now take cheer
from the fact that British statesmanship is
turning to that very principle 'las a solvent
for certain grave problems of the United
Kingdom. Mr. Asquith, the former Premier,
I recently declared that his experience of
I thirty years as a Scottish member of the
House of Commons had taught him how
utterly impossible it is for the central gov
ernment efficiently to administer the af
fairs of Scotland and how essential it is
for the good of the Kingdom as a whole
as well as for that of its several units that
a larger, freer measure of local self-gov
ernment be provided.
With this judgment there appears to be
general concurrence. The tasks of govern
ment have grown at once so tremendous
and so intricate that Parliament cannot
handle them with justice to either imperial
or provincial affairs. Hence there has de
veloped in the British Isles in recent years
a well-nigh unanimous sentiment for the
establishment of some sort of legislative
and executive machinery for handling mat
ters of domestic concern in the different
parts of the Kingdom—Wales, Scotland and
England as well as Ireland—leaving Par
liament free for imperial business.
On this side of the water we started out
with that method, not so much as a mat
ter of practical necessity as of , principle,
for each State of the original Union was
considered a sovereign with inviolable
rights. We have kept the form through a
long age, and have found it most expe
dient. But have we kept the spirit as well?
If the centralizing tendency continues an
other fifty years at the pace it has gained
during fifty just passed, will the fathers of
the Republic, -revisiting by chance “these
glimpses of the moon,” ever recognize their
handiwork? Assuredly there must come a
reaction if not to their precise principles,
at least away from excesses of Federaliza
tion. For as our population, alreadv well
above a hundred million, multiplies and
multiplies in its continent-wide sweep and
.„ inf ? nite variet Y of interests, the
' VI 1 b* 2 reac hed where governmental
/ y ltSGlf — now urged as an argu
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Greetings to Georgia's Press
THIRTY-FOUR years is but a min
now’s journey in the current of
passing events, and a mere ripple
on the larger tides of history. But within
that brief span the Georgia Press Associa
tion, now in annual convention at Car
rollton,has wrought a world of good for
this Commonwealth. Sometimes slowly but
always steadily, season in and out, it has
labored for the ideals that make a people
prosperous and progressive, and has play
ed a substantial part in the promotion of
every undertaking to which such ideals
give rise. It is not overestimating the im
portance of the weekly press of Georgia
and the dailies of the smaller towns to say
that without their generous efforts the
cause of good roads could never have
reached its present encouraging stage, nor
the cause of public education, nor that of
agricultural development, nor any other of
the constructive movements that have en
riched our last three decades.
Organized at Milledgeville in 1887, the
Association has grown not only in num
bers and influence, but also in the reach
of its conceptions and purposes. It has
grown with the State’s ever expanding,
ever deepening life, so that today it stands
among the chief motive powers for Geor
gia’s and the South’s advancement. Evi
dence well-nigh without end might be sub
mitted, but the single enterprise of the
“Greater Georgia” publicity campaign
launched under the administration of
President J. Kelly Simmons would be of
itself epoch-marking.
The Journal sends heartiest greetings to
each and every member of the Association
now assembled at hospitable Carrollton,
l and wishes them a happy and profitable
. convention.
The fellow who used to brag that he
I could drink it or leave it alone is now kick
*ing because he has to leave it alone.
ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE
I By H. Addington Bruce
ALL over the land young men at this mo
ment are beginning business or profes
i sional careers. They have done with
, school and college. They have taken a short
vacation after the strenuous 'period of* final
examinations.
Now they are about to start making their
j own way in the land. Few are those among,
: them who will not make the start with hopes
I high.
I For youth is essentially optimistic, youth
.is fundamentally self-confident. In its bright
' lexicon there is no such word as failure. To
! youth success is the one thing certain.
But youth too often forgets that success
depends on many things. And too often
youth forgets that it depends largely on the
definiteness of a young man’s aim and the
vigor with which he organizes his life with
that aim in view.
No young man can drift to success. No
; young man can possibly succeed if he lets
! the power that is in him lie latent, or if he
scatters it in foolish activities. Every young
man who would win must energize himself
by concentration.
Reynolds Brown once drew a little word
' picture specially significant to young inen
j starting out for themselves. Here it is:
“A pile of steel filings and shavings lying
on the floor of a foundry may be fine in
quality, they may weigh a ton when put upon
the scales, but unorganized they have little
value.
“Organize and weld them into a shaft, at
tach one end of the shaft to an engine and
the other to a screw propeller, and it will
sepd a mighty ocean liner from New York
to Liverpool in five days.”
He goes on:
“In like manner a mind, a heart, a soul, is
nothing more than a confused heap of
thoughts and wishes, impulses and desires,
longings and aspirations, until by the power
i of a purpose all these are brought into unity
and made effective in their thrust toward
some worthy fulfillment.”
That is what every young man needs to do
—he needs to organize his life.
And he cannot too soon begin the task of
organizing it. For if he delay, habits which
may make life organizing difficult, if not im
possible are pretty sure to fasten on him.
The habit of energy waste, the habit of
contentment with the mediocre the habit of
amusement craving, once gripped by these
he is well-nigh doomed. As, since the first
peopling of the world, millions of men have
demonstrated by the futility of their lives.
Always the winners are those who clearly
recognize that life is for accomplishment
of a worth while sort, and. inspired by the
recognition, subordinate everything else to
accomplishment.
They may not win fame, they may not win
wealth. But they are sure to win and hold
self-respect, the esteem of others, self-satis
faction, happiness.
And, incidentally, they may into the bar
gain win both fame and wealth.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
THE WORLD’S FOOD
By Dr. Frank Crane ,
Os the making of books there is no end,
and most of them are a weariness unto the
flesh and a borousness unto the spirit.
The average book review, yea, more than
the average, is entirely useless for the pur
pose of pointing out to you what books you
to buy, for the reason that the ac
complished reviewer seems to go upon Ana
tole France’s formula for the lecturer, “Apro
pos of Shakespeare and Moliere let us pro
ceed to talk about ourselves.”
There is one book, however, I am going
to recommend that' you buy, not borrow,
sample, nor inspect Buy. Own.
Because it is a regular genuine book, by
the four tests of Bookness.
(1). The author has something to say,
something you want to know. And this
something is solid fact. Nothing is so beau
tiful as a fact.
(2),. He says it delightfully. The facts
are so ordered as to fillip your imagination.
I have had to lay the book down a dozen
times, to follow the dreams it started.
(3). What he says enriches your knowl
edge. Something passes from him to you
that actually nourishes and strengthens your
ideas.
(4). It is not the sort of book you read
through. Such are usually valueless. It is
the kind you keep at hand, and turn to again
and again, as to a bank or a friend.
Its title does not sound attractive, for it is
“The World’s Food Resources,” by J. Russell
Smith, a professor in Columbia University.
But I assure you that behind those three
deadening words. Food Resources, Smith,
and Professor in a University there lurk won
drous skies of astounding stars, amazing
grottoes of glittering treasure and all the
adventures a vigorous and vital mind de
lights in.
The view you get of the world’s food sup
•ply gives you a grasp of current and impend
ing world problems nothing else can give.
You see food determining history, shaping
politics, deciding wars, indicating civilization,
prognosticating the future.
Here’s one sentence. “In the matter of
food supply there has been far more change
since the days of George Washington than
there was in all the time between George
Washington and Cheops who built the pyra
mids of Egypt.” What dy’e think o’ that?
And did you know that the French Revo
lution was a bread riot and that a bread
shortage dethroned the czar? that hundreds
of millions of men Sever heard of bread? that
a pound of peanuts contains more food value
than a pound of steak plus a pound of pota
toes plus one-third of a pound of butter? that
if we would stop war, quit fighting, and co
operate, the world could easily feed many
hundred times the present population? that
the sea contains food enough 'for the human
race and we have not begun to realize its
resources? that the use of sugar as food is al
most as/hew as the use of petroleum as fuel?
and that the king of starchy foods is not
wheat, but the banana?
The only reason I close is that I have
' reached the bottom of my page.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND~QUIDDITIES
The popular author entered the publisher’s
sanctum, seething with indignation.
“What’s this I hear—you want some alter
ations in my manuscript?” he demanded. “I’ve
made some libellous statements, have I?
Where? ”
“You have,” said the publisher, calmly. “Here
on page thirty-nine, you say your heroine, who
lives in Pittsburg, ‘clutched the air convul
sive! v.’ ”
“Well, what’s wrong with that?” demanded
the irate Writer.
“And then.” went on the man who objected,
“on page forty you sav the heroine went and
washed her hands. It’s a libel on the Pitts
burg air, sir.”
# * *
“Bobby, your mother tells me you are a
very bright boy. and she expects you to be a
great man,” said Mr. Blossom, as he sat in
the parlor waiting for Bobby’s sister.
“Ma never does ’spect right. She doesn’t
know what she’s talking about. She told dad
she ’spected you and my sister would be mar
ried ’fore spring, and that was more than a
year ago.” I
THE OCCUPA
TIONAL VOTE
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
-W-Y r ASHINGTON D. C., July 18.--
lA/ Senator Harding, we learn, is
YY' sure of the chauffeur vote
all over the country because
lie drives his own car with great
skill, and because he is an honorary
member of the Professional Chauf
feurs’ association of the District of
Columbia. It is understood that
Chauffeurs’ clubs will be organized
in all cities to support him.
This fact certainly ought to con
tain a suggestion for those gentle
men of political power who manage
presidential campaigns. It is evi
dent that the chauffeurs are not go
ing to support Harding because ot
his record as an executive, nor yet
because of the platform on which he
stands, but primarily because of his
record as a chauffeur. It would
seem that if a candidate could be
found who had devoted himself to
enough different occupations at one
time and another, and if these oc
cupational sympathies could be prop
erly worked upon, he would sweep
the country.
This tendency to play up facts
about a candidate which have noth
ing to do with his fitness for the
Presidency, and which is noticea
ble in every presidential campaign,
is evidence of a weakness in the
Democratic system of government
which has been pointed out by every
critic of it. This weakness is that
the average man feels more strong
ly than he thinks, and is therefore
apt to vote for the man who can
most strongly arouse his sympathies,
rather than the one who is logically
fit to serve in office. The man
who arouses his sympathies is the
one who is most like him. But this
average man is not a genius, he is
a mediocrity. Hence it is argued,
the tendency is always to choose me
diocrities for office and exclude real
ly gifted men.
You can easily think of many
facts in support of this idea. In a
presidential campaign, or any other
kind of political campaign, there
is always a great effort on the part
of each candidate’s supporters to
bring out all the homely facts about
him, which make him seem similar
to the average man. If he is fond
of babies, or buttermilk or funny
stories, if he shaves himself, or
plays pinochle—any of these things
is strongly in his favor, although
having little or nothing to do with
his capacity for running a nation.
In this copntry it is almost neces
sary that he should be of humble
origin, preferably on a farm, and
that he should hAve had a poor
education and a hard time in his
youth. These early privations are
at best of doubtful value in fitting
him for tiers Presidency, but they in
dicate that he is just like most of
the rest of us. We are afraid of
the superior man because he is dif
ferent, argue the critics of democ
racy.' We want to feel that the man
in the White House is one of us. al
though obviously what we need there
is someone a good deal different
from most of us.
A symptom of the same spirit is
the tendency of the opposition to
dig up all facts about the candidate
which indicate that he differs from
the conventional type of man. Es
pecially if he can be shown to have
done anything scandalous or uncon
ventional in his relations with wom
en, this can be used powerfully
against him. It may be said that
this is because we want a man for
President who is a model of the do
mestic virtues. We are shocked anil
science of psychoanalysis, however,
that in reality our instinctive oppo
sition to the unconventional man is
due to envy. Most of us, they say,
are consciously or subconsciously,
somewhat chafed by the bonds of
conventionality. We would really
like to be free. We envy the man
who is free. And therefore we vote
against him.
Here again, a man’s personal or do
mestic life has little to do with his
capacity as a statesman. In fact,
many greatly gifted men in all lines
have not been patterns of domestic
virtue, as any one may learn bv
reading the biographies of those who
have been dead long enough so that
biographers dare to be frank about
them.
So the critics seem to make out
a strong case to the effect democracy
is mer.ely a method of choosing
mediocrities for high office and
keeping really great men out. But a
little reflection shows that there is
another side to the question. The
average individual may fear and
envy the superior man, but he also
has a need for leadership which he
feels very strongly. Hence his great
capacity for hero-worship, which
Carlyle points out. It is evident that
once the superior man is gotten into
the limelight and demonstrated con
clusively that he has powers which
the average man lacks, then the aver
age man tends to follow him loyally
and even blindly. This tendency
could be traced from primitive times,
if there were space here. Thus the
medicine men of shamans of all prim
itive tribes are superior men who
have demonstrated their abilities and
have obtained great power. But the
witches and sorcerers, who are killed,
are individuals of the same type, who
arei overcome by envy and an
tagonism.
It takes only a glance at history
to see that many really great and su
perior men have attained leadership
and that people have followed them
blindly. Christ, Mahomet, Caesar
and Napoleon were great men, each
of whom was a law unto himself.
Each of them encourtered envp and
antagonism at first, but later rose to
power.
THE REASON WHY
HOME?
The return of the birds to their
old homes and how they find their
way back to the same spot every
year, to do which they must some
times travel thousand of miles, is
one of the most marvelous things
in nature and has not as yet been
satisfactorily determined. The near
est approach we have to a satisfac
tory answer to this is that birds do
have a memory, that they can and
do recognize familiar objects, and
that their love for the old home
causes them to fly to the north until
they recognize the landmarks of their
former habitation. In this it is said
that the older birds—those who have
gone that way before —lead the flocks
and shows the way.
There is no doubt that birds h'iye
a more perfect instinct of direction
than man. They can follow a line of
longitude almost perfectly, i. e., tijey
can pick out the shorter route by in
stinct, and this is, of course, a
straight line. They just keep on go
ing until they come to the familiar
place they call home, and then they
stop and build their nests. That it
is not memory and sight of of places
alone that guides the birds is shown
by the fact that some birds when
migrating fly all night, when there
is no light by which to recognize fa
in iliar objects.-
People of th' United States spend
$8,710,000,000 for luxuries annually,
according to Miss Edith Strauss,
head of the women’s activities di-,
vision of the department of justice
campaign against high living costs.
She classes in her luxury list such
articles as motor cars, pianos, car
pets and “luxurious clothing,” in ad
dition to tobacco, candy, soft drinks
and the like. Tobacco leads the list
of luxuries Miss Strauss has prepar
ed, and on it the male population
spend $2,110,000,000 each year. Cigar
ettes bring $800,000,000; snuff and
loose tobacco a like sum and cigars.
$510,000,000. According to her list
approximately $2,000,000,000 goes for
motor cars and their parts. Candy
makers reap a harvest of $1,000,000,-
600 and $50,000,000 is spent annually
for chewing gum. Soft drinks cost
the public $350,000,000; perfumery
and cosmetics, $750,000,000; furs,
■-".00.000; carpets and “luxurious
clothing.” $1,500,000,000; toilet soaps.
$400,000,000. and pianos, organs and
phonographs, $250,000,000. “The la
bor and capital employed .in pro
ducing these luxuries might other
wise have been turning out necessi
ties—clothes, fuel, shoes, houses,
food,” said she. “In other words,
the nation might have had more
bread if it had had less cake. And,
as is always the case, the dancer is
paying the fiddler. In this instance |
the luxury consumer is paving a
higher price for his necessaries be
cause he is abnormally consuming
luxuries.” Miss Strauss said the
statistics were collected by the treas
urv department.—Philadelphia Rec- I
ord. 1
CURRENT EVENTS
A story of the ill treatment of the
former German emperor’s brother,
Prince Henry of Prussia, by a riotous
gang of field laborers is told by the
Ost Pruessische Zeitung, which as
serts that it had the information di
rect from Prince Henry’s family cir
cle. According to the informant,
some time ago a gang of sixty men,
led by a private in a Hussar’s uni
form and wearing a big red rosette,
invaded the Hemmelmark estate,
Prince Henry’s Slesvig-Holstein
country seat, on the pretext of
searching for hidden arms. The in
vaders turned the place inside out,
but found no arms. Then the leader
said to the prince, “Come, Henry,”
whereupon Prince Henry was made
to run the gauntlet, suffering innum
erable kicks and blows. Afterwards
he was locked up in a jail at Beroa
ens-Ferde, where he was tortured
nightly. He was awakened every ten
minutes with: “Get up, Henry. Turn
on the light. Lie down, Henry," amid
the jeers and insults from his cap
tors. Many other Slesvig-Holstein
landowners have been the victims of
assault and ill treatment by armed
gangs.
The state department will take no
action in regard to the reported re
fusal of Great Britain to return the
Kentucky flag, captured by the Brit
ish at the battle of the River Raisin,
until official advices ar<» received
from London, it was announced re
cently. The department notified the
office of Senator J. C. W. Beckham
that a cablegram had been received
from Ambassador Davis in which he
had been advised informally that of
ficials of the Royal hospital at ChL
sea, who have the flag in custody,
“find themselves unable to accede to
the request to return the flag.” Mr.
Davis informed the department that
he would get an official statement
and forward it with a full report.
England’s royal family is confront
ed by the problem of a secret love af
fair of one of its members. The
story is that Princess Mary has an
unknown admirer, who has been
sending love letters.
His letters are said to contain ex
pressions of admiration and of the
deepest affection. A lighter vein runs
through them, but they are in the
main of a most ardent nature. All
the notes have been typewritten, and
there has been no clew which would
make it possible to trace the identity
of the author.
During the last week the mystery
has been deepened by the receipt, of
a gift package by the princess which
contained a handsome diamond neck
lace which has been valued at $25,000.
It is believed to be from the author
of the anonymous letters.
The princess was greatly pleased
with the jewels, but, questioned by
her mother, she said she had no idea
from whom they came. The package
bore a Holland postmark.
Rear Admiral Henry Tudor Brow
nell Harris, U. S. N„ retired, died at
Southampton. England, recently. Ad
miral Harris arrived there on the
steamer New York July 2, seriously
ill. He was born in Hartford, Conn.,
in 1845. His naval career began as
an active assistant paymaster in 1864
and he served during the Civil war in
the volunteer service until he was
honorably discharged in September,
1865. Five months later he was ap
pointed an assistant paymaster from
New York and later he became pay
master general and was placed upon
the retired list with tlx rank of rear
admiral in March, 1905. He saw
service on many vessels and »n many
parts of the world. In 1900-1 he was
with the Asiatic fleet and then for a
like term in European waters. He
participated in the North China cam
paign and in the Philippine insurrec
tion. His last active duty was as
chief of the bureau of supplies and
accounts. The home of Rear Admiral
Harris was in Washington, D. C.
More than a score of persons were
overcome by smoke and damage es
timated at $90,000 was entailed when
fire starting in a box of waste paper
in the basement of a three-story
building at 516 Nicollet avenue. Min
neapolis, threatened for a time to de
stroy the entire block. Quick work
by the fire department and two fire
walls, which turned back the flames,
prevented a serious blaze. Twenty
girls owe their escape to H. Toyne,
sixty years old, elevator operator.
Toyne. who has only one arm, made
two trips to tne second and third
floors and carried the twenty girls
to safety. He was on his third trip
to make a final inspection of the up
per floors to ascertain if there were
any left in the place, when the dense
smoke which whirled its way up the
shaft overcame him. He stopped
his car on the second floor. He was
found near his car, partly conscious,
by firemen, who carried him out.
The rat is responsible for more
deaths among human beings than
all the wars of history, according to
David E. Lantz, assistant biologist
of the bureau of biological survey,
who calls the house rat the most de
structive animal in the world.
Through the fleas that infest them,
rats are almost wholly responsible
for the perpetuation and transmission
of bubonic plague, and it has been
proven also that rats are active, al
though not exclusive, agents in
spreading pneumonia plague. Only
the prompt measures taken by the
United States public health service
against these animals prevented dis
astrous epidemics of plague in San
Francisco, Seattle and Hawaii in 1909,
in Porto Rico in 1912, and in New
Orleans in 1914. “To combat the rat
successfully is largely a building
problem. Buildings should be so
constructed as to exclude the animals
from shelter and food. When this
is done, individual and community
efforts to destroy rats will give sat
isfaction and lasting results. The
program may be regarded by many
as too expensive. Will it be too cost
ly? What do rats cost now? If half
the money now spent in feeding and
fighting rats could be expended in
wiselv planned and well-executed co
operative efforts for rat repression,
it would be possible within a few
years nearly to rid the country of its
worst animal pest, to reduce losses
from its depredations by at least 90
per cent, and to free the land com
pletely from the fear of bubonic
plague.”
Grasshoppers, which have been de
vastating farm crops in Michigan,
invaded Traverse City recently. Thou
sands of the insects swarmed through
the streets, both in the residential
and business sections. Damage to
crops by the insects has been esti
mated as high as $1,000,000.
In accordance with an act of par
liament already passed, the lord
chancellor announces that after July
15 women in England are liable to
serve on juries under the same con
ditions as men. Husband and will will
not be permitted to serve on the same
occasion. ,
The City of Buenos Ayres, in which
most of the houses are without heat
ing accommodations, recently experi
enced its second snowfall in thirty
years.
Having reduced professional shop
lifting to a minimum in New York,
the large stores, co-operating through
the Stores’ Mutual Protective asso
ciation, have begun a campaign to
clear their aisles of amateur pilfer
ers, it was announced yesterday. In
special sessions court one day last
week forty-two persons were convict
ed for shoplifting and this stands
as a record, it was said. In the ma
jority of cases th'- offenders were
women and it has been noted that not
in a single case has the high cost
of living been pleaded as an excuse
for stealing. Perhaps the reason for
this, an official of the association
pointed out, w'as because very few
are ever detected taking the necessi
ties of life. Since the first of the
year it has been estimated that 3,600
persons, a majority tfomen, have been
detected stealing from the stores.
The first American clockmaker was
Eli Terry. “If you had been upon a
dusty country road in Connecticut
rbo.tt the year 1800 you might have
seen a plainly dressed young man
come riding with a clock strapped
to ea,ch side of his saddle and a third
fastened crosswise behind him.”
That was the way Eli Terry sold his
clocks and some of the original
clocks are still running in the very
farmhouses where they have ticked
off the minutes of American history
since the days of Adams and Jeffer
son. Luther Goddard, a Massa
chusetts preacher, was the first to
make watches in America, but for
eign competition forced him to re
tire from the field, and Luther went
back to preaching.
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
COMPANY VS.JJOME FOLKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1926, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) ,
THE small boy had sinned the
ever-besetting sin of child
hood. He had spotted the ta
ble cloth. His mother reprov
ed him sharply and sent him, sham
ed and crushed, from the room.
“Why don’t you treat me like I
was company,” wailed the little cul
prit, “why don’t you tell me that it
doesn’t make a bit of difference, and
not to mention it, as you did to Mr.
Smiff last night when he spilled his
coffee?”
The mother tried to camouflage her
sense of guilt by saying sternly,
“That will do, Benny. I don’t want
any impertinence from you,” and the
balance of us kept our abashed eyes
on our plates. None of us dared look
his neighbor in the face for all of
us knew that we fell under the
child’s unconscious condemnation.
None of us could answer Benny’s
riddle; why do we not treat those
near and dear to us, those whose
happiness lies in our hands, with
the kindness, the courtesy, the for
bearance, we show to the stranger?
None of us could say why w’e are
more tender of the feelings of a
chance acquaintance than we are of
the susceptibilities of those of our
own household.
We only know that we are. and
that none of us would dream of say
ing the brutal things to outsiders
.that we say to our own families. No
woman speaks to her chauffeur or her
butler as she does to her husband.
No man hands the cook the same
uncensored criticism of her bread
that he does to his wife. No em
ployer vents his Impatience on his
stenographers and clerks in the un
bridled way he does upon his daugh
ters.
If men and women treated each
other before marriage, as they do
afterwards, there would never be an
other wedding, but they don’t. Be
fore marriage they treat each other
as if thev were company. They flat
ter each other; they defer to each
other’s opinion; they listen enraptur
ed to each other. The woman makes
the man believe that he is a hero and
an oracle in her eyes. The man con
vinces the woman that he regards
her as the embodiment of every
feminine charm and grace.
It is to get this admiring au
dience, with the perpetual glad hand,
that people marry. A man takes
upon himself a woman’s board bill
and shopping ticket to secure him
self the society of the one human
being he has ever met who can prop
erly appreciate him. The woman
comes in out of society, or business,
and goes into the kitchen so that she
may have the continuous happiness
of listening to a man whose greatest
joy is in singing her praises.
And then—Blooey! Each finds the
other took off his or her company
manners with the wedding clothes,
and that whatever virtues the other
may possess, politeness and common
courtesy are not among them.
For it is sadly true that in the
average family consideration for the
feelings of those of the household is
no more for every day use than the
best china and the hand-embroidered
doilies.
The Barrel Route
Men wishing to become famous in
stead of running for president may,
in the future, try the barrel stunt
over Niagara Falls.—Dublin Courier-
Herald. ’
More Pennies Needed
Work is to be resumed on the old
copper mines of Finland, which were
discovered in 1757 and operated in a
primitive way for 130 years.—Cordele
Dispatch.
Perhaps
The Cordele Dispatch says in a
headline: “Suffrage Caught Geor
gians.” Perhaps it was the suffra
gettes.
Why Jerger Keeps the Boor I>ocked
If one of the snobs around town of
the female species was as big as she
thinks she is the streets would have
to be widened and all the buildings
lemodeled to accommodate her. Now,
please don’t go tell her we are talk
ing about her, because it wouldn’t
be anything new for anybody to do
that. —Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
Crop After Crop
Let’s see: After the peach crop,
the tomato crop, the cantaloupe crop,
the watermelon crop, the tobacco
crop, the cotton crop, the corn crop,
the sweet potato crop, the pecan crop,
the peanut crop, the hay crop, and
the hog crop—what’s next on the sea
son's schedule of the infinite variety
of South Georgia’s growing wealth?
—Savannah Morning News. Oh, well
—vegetables, sugar cane and syrup.
Too Much for Harding
Harding announces he will stick to
the front porch. We thought the
platform was too much for him.—Sa
vannah Press.
“Not at Home”
Not that we wisn to offer, as they
say in our crowd, any surreptitious
advice, but if Governor Cox knows a
thing or two, he’ll hang out the
“Not at Home” sign when the suf
fragettes come a-calling.—Dublin
Courier-Herald.
Change of Opinion y
“How Much Do You Know?” asks
Editor Benns, of the Butler Herald,
in an editorial headline. We don’t
know much. There was a time when
we thought we knew about all that
was worth knowing, but we have dis
covered that we were slightly in er
ror.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
The Scarcity of Newsprint.
The Boston Globe thinks “the ter
rible scarcity of white paper is forc
ing all the newspaper men to run for
office.” It certainly is "terrible” if
that’s what it’s doing.—Albany Her
ald.
The Bisappointment Is General
It will be on to Carrollton with the
Georgia editors next week to attend
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
MAXIMUM returns for the
minimum of effort: Flirt
ing with a college boy, flat
tering a married man, or
marrying a widower.
“Man proposes”—but only because
woman proposes that he SHALL!
When a big, strong man breaks
down it is usually from trying to |
keep up with some weak, little worn- j
an after office hours.
Just as you are about ready to
concede that the average intelligence
of the human race is improving,
along comes a ouija board or a po
litical convention and upsets all your
theories.
It’s no use trying to corner popu
larity in this world. The women
never consider a girl worth listening
to until she gets married—and the
men never consider her worth look
ing at afterward.
Dodging matrimony is like put
ting off going so the dentist; the
longer a man defers the dreaded step,
the more nervous he gets—and the
harder it goes with him when he
finally capitulates.
No, dear heart,' there is no more
danger in leaving your husband shut
up in a dingy office with a pretty
stenographer all summer than there
is in leaving a small boy shut up in
the pantry with the jelly.
Somehow, when you see a great,
big, apparently intelligent man try
ing to babble baby talk to a little
fluffy flapper, it reminds you of a
poor old circus elephant begging for
peanuts.
Charity balls and garden fetds are
the canried-milk of humafi kindness. I
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
In proof w'hereof, take exhibit A,
wherewith m<wt of us ai - e all too
familiar,
Mrs. X is going to have company
to dinner. She goes upon an orgy
of house cleaning until everything 1
shines like a new pin. The table is
immaculate. The dinner cooked to
perfection, for Mrs. X is a master
cook when she turns her hand to it.
Mrs. X herself is charming in a be
coming frock.
But when there is nobody home
but the family, Mrs. X lets th*
house go at sixes and sevens; tlvS
table cloth is soiled, and she slams
any old unappetizing food in any old
way on the table. It is too much
trouble to put in the dash of pa
prika that turns hash into goulash,
or to give the little touch that
changes the poor meal into a good
one, just for home folks. And Mrs.
X herself is frowsy and cross be
cause she doesn’t waste her charm
ing clothes and personality on just
husband and the children.
And Mr. X* doesn’t treat Mrs. X
as if she were company, either. If
he were dining with Mrs. Q he
would praise Mrs. Q’s cooking to
the skies, and tell her how beautiful
she was looking, and he would make
himself an agreeable and charming
companion.
But at home Mr. X gobbles down,
without a word of praise, the dainty
dishes his wife may have spent
hours in preparing. He never no
tices how she looks, and he sits up
so silent and glum behind his pa
per of an evening that she might
as well be married to a stone effigy
of a grouch so far as any conver
sation is concerned. One woud be’,
about as companionable and inter
esting as the other.
Likewise consider exhibit B. When
Mrs. A meets Mr. B she puts forth
all of her feminine charms and
graces to please him. She listens
with a* tr.raptured expression while
he prose* along about what he said
to the boss and what the boss
to him; she laughs merrily over
chestnutty stories that she heard
while still in the cradle. She flat
ters him and jollies him until he
swells and beams with self-compla
cency under her manipulations.
But she does not hesitate to yawn
in her husband’s fg.ee when he
starts recounting his office experi
ences, nor does she refrain from
telling him that she has heard an
oft-repeated story a million times;
neither does she hold her hand from
stabbing his vanity in a thousand
places.
And Mr. A pays Mrs. B compli
ments that make her gurgle with
delight, while he tells his wife home
truths about her appearance that
cause her to shed bitter tears. Yet
the X’s really love each other, and
the A’s are devoted to each other
and desire each other’s happiness,
and don’t care a rap for the B’s and
the Q’s.
And so the little boy’s conundrum
remains unanswered. Why do
treat strangers so much better than
we treat our own? Why don’t we
treat those we love as well as we
treat company?
the press convention. The disap
pointment is ours that we cannot be
with them.—Oglethorpe Echo.
Editor W. A. Shackelford, of the
Oglethorpe Echo, known as “Uncle
Shack” to every member of the as
sociation, has missed but few ses
sions since its organization thirty
four years ago.
Enforcing the Speed Law
The Arabi idea may be enacted
into law. Motorists who pass through
the pretty little town of Arabi, on
the National Highway in Crisj*
county, will not forget the three
bumps across the road which en
force the speed laws there. Now
Representative Harvln, of Calhoun
county, proposes a set of bqmps sim-|
liar in character at the approach of
each railroad crossing in the state
to prevent accidents. They would
doubtless be effective.—Tifton Ga
zette.
No Boubt About It
It is all right for the Republicans
to have a front porch campaign if»
they want it. but we suspect the
dirty work will be done on the back
veranda.—Griffin News and Sun.
Back on the Job
Editor Craige, for many years edi
i tor and publisher of the Gainesville
Herald, after an absence of a few
months, has resumed charge of The
Herald. Editor Craig has made The
Herald one of the best weekly news
papers in the state and his return to
journalism was the . source of gen
uine pleasure to his many friends
throughout the state.
It Is Worth It
The Hartwell Sun has gone to
| $2.00 a year.—Commerce Observer.
Absolutely Correct
It is easier for men to spend all
they make than to make all they
spend.—Hartwell Sun.
Needless Concern
Some editors are needlessly con
cerned about the lateness with which
wedding announcements are publish
ed in their papers. A wedding an
nouncement has just about as miyjh
news value as a political convention's
notification to its nominee.—Monroe
Advertiser.
They Seldom Go Back
Presidential candidates are always
bragging about being born in a log
cabin, but we have noticed that very
few of them ever go back to their
birth places.—Rome Tribune-Herald.
And, by the way, the log cabin
business, in our opinion, has been a
trifle overworked.—Daltom Citizen.
Bet the Other Fellow Worry
Don’t, worry over the troubles of
your neighbor. The modern way is
to let the other fellow jvorrj over
yours.—Metter Advertise?.
Behind With Plowing
Only four times in the last thirty
seven years has the per cent of plow
ing done in the United States by
May 1 been more backward than thia
year. These years were 1912, 1904,
1 1903 and 1899. The out-turn of 1912
was bumper crops; 1904, large crop
yields; 1903, slightly above the av
erage, and 1899, about the average.—
Pickens County Progress.
The Macon County Citizen
Editor G. L. Walton, of the Macon
County Citizen, announces the ar
rival at his office of a new linotype!
machine, which he says makes the
Citizen shop the best equipped in that
s e c t i on.
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