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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six montns 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Moe. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Dailv and Sunday2oc 90c $2.30 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 7L* Tri-Weekly Journal is published 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. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Tbe label uaed for addreasi ug your paper shows the time vour subscription expiree. 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 "eld as well as ybur 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 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 -SSU?on Cen “ Z '” B ~ WiU <iomand de - cen - > ♦ 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. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS Qvoney-proud Folks is || ALLUZ REACHIN' UP * BUT DE QUALITY FOLKS Don' hAIN' REACHIN’ I DOW N !! ~ /w ® Os Copyr«ht 19ZO by McClureMewepepet SyeOcetu