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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
. Admiral Benson s Policy of
.Fair Play for Ports
THAT is a capitally important policy |
whole, and particularly to the South >
which Admiral Benson announced when he I
declared, in an address at Washington this :
week, that the Shipping Board, in order
ing steamship service under the new trans
portation act “proposes to break up the
monopoly held by a few Atlantic ports.
Instead of the arbitrary diversions of ship
ping which have prevailed all too frequent
ly in the past, to the detriment of com
merce and industry, there will be “serv
ice maintained at American ports with a
view to relieving congestion of railroads
and bringing goods to the seaports nearest
the point of consumption.” Further,
“Monopoly of shipping heretofore
held by large seaports has retarded the
development of the merchant marine.
The bad facilities for the loading and
discharging of vessels, and the spirit
of indifference of many commercial
interests have done much to curb the
proper growth of the shipping inter
ests of this country. By logically
spreading shipping, the spirit of com
petition will be aroused among the
various seaports of this land to the
advantage of all.”
It is for precisely this principle that the
ports of Georgia, Florida and the Caro
linas have so earnestly contended, often in
the face of hard discouragement but now,
,it seems, with a promise of their reward.
They have insisted that where distance, des
tination and other essentials are such as
to make them the natural outlet for export
shipments, they are entitled to all the busi
ness which their superior advantages can
attract and to equitable treatment in the
matter of freight rates and tonnage.
So reasonable and just a claim, it would
seem, would never have been gainsaid. The
tact is, however, that certain railway and
shipping monopolists of the North Atlan
tic fought this appeal for fair play to the
limit of their influence and resources. They
fought the rate readjustment, put into ef
fect under the Federal Railroad Adminis
tration, whereby manufacturers and mer
chants of the Middle West were enabled
to route their foreign-bound cargoes along
Southern lines and through Southern ports
instead of being compelled to take the long
er and more expensive way which led over
Northeastern roads to Norttheastern ports.
Those same monopolists, moreover, were
churlishly opposed to allowing Southern
ports a rightful quota of the merchant ma
rine, either before or after the Govern
ment took that Interest in charge.
This ungenerous and short-sighted policy
was the more reprehensible because of the
harm it did the common country. The at
tempt to cram the greater part of the con
tinent’s outgoing commerce through one or
two North Atlantic ports resulted in con
gestion, delay and loss which, in the war
period, grew to proportions so alarming
that the Government was constrained to in
tervene. Then It was that the availability
and usefulness of Southern ports, with their
spacious, ice-free harbors and facilities for
prompt service, became generally apparent.
A new era In American shipping thus be
gan. Gateways like Wilmington, Charleston,
Savannah, Brunswick and Jacksonville have
been gaining more and more of natioal
business recognition. Given a fair deal, they
will wax continually in service, not only to
the Southeast, but - to the common country.
AdrMral Benson voices the judgment of
broad-visioned business observers every
where when he declares that the “spread
ing” of shipping amongst the various ports,
instead of congesting it into one or two,
will work to the advantage of all.
Jefferson s Decalogue
It was ninety-five years ago that Thom
as Jefferson wrote his “Decalogue of Can
ons for Practical Life.” Thus spake the sage
< ' of Monticello: •
I—Never put off till tomorow what
you can do today.
2— Never trouble another for what you
can do yourself.
3—Never spend your money before you
nave it.
4— Never buy what you do not want, be
cause it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
s—Pride costs us more than hunger,
thirst and cold.
6—We never repent of having eaten too
little.
7—Nothing is troublesome that we do
willingly.
B—How much pain have cost us the
evils that have never happened.
9 — Take things always by the smooth
handle.
J9 — If angry, count ten before you
speak; if over-angry, count a hundred.
Here are commonsense and kindly wis
dom to appeal alike to Democrats, Repub
licans, non-partisans, suffragists, anti-suf
fragists, drys, wets, mugwumps and what
not. “Old stuff,” you say? Yes, but its
practice in daily life would make a new
America and a new world.
Search warrants, it is observed, are being
used to hunt for liquor. Why not call in a
few rumhounds to trail it down?—Provi
dence Tribune.
Ohio is the mother of presidents, but she
cannot have twins.—Minneapolis Journal.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Georgia Training School
For Delinquent Boys
NO better cause ever appealed to a Legis
lature for encouragement and support
than that embodied in the Georgia
Training School for Boys. Established in
Baldwin county for the care of delinquent
and neglected youths, this institution, since
the first of the current year, has been in the
charge of a Board of Managers, whose re
port of its work and needs was recently
made public. Even a cureoi-y reading of the
facts therein set forth will convince thought
ful citizens that so redemptive and safe
guarding a function as the Boys’ Training
School performs—redemptive for individuals,
safeguarding for the whole Commonwealth —
should be liberally sustained and upbuilt.
Expediency itself, apart from humanita
rian interest and duty, would counsel this
course. It is cheaper, incomparably cheaper,
to prevent crime than to pursue and punish
it. Every dollar the State spends to make
productive citizens out of friendless, vagrant
or incorrigible boys means hundreds saved
for the public treasury later on. In the lad,
howsoever ill-raised or misguided he may be,
timely and efficient training will check pro
pensites which in the man have become grim
chains of fate. The habits, the motives, the
ideas, the very brain cells of youth can be
wrought into character that will serve hu
man society, instead of harming or burden
ing it, if only the task be 'taken duly in hand.
And if that all important task be neglected
in the home—as sometimes, pathetically
enough, it is—should not the State, for self
preserving reasons, if none higher, see to it
that the saving work is done, the protective
barriers raised?
It is to just profoundly practical as
well as noble purpose that the Georgia Train
ing School for Boys is dedicated—a purpose
stated with beautiful concreteness by the in
stitution’s Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Orian
W. Manson, in this wise:
To train a “delinquent” or “neglect
ed” boy to make a good citizen; to teach
him honesty, truthfulness, obedience,
thoroughness in work, good manners,
and cleanliness in body and mind; to
teach him a trade sb that he will be
an asset instead of a liability to the
State; to give him the education pre
scribed for the youth of Georgia through
the course of study arranged by the
State Educational authorities. Through
text-book, practice, and example, to
teach him to reverence the laws of his
community, country and his God, and to
regard the Bible as the guide for happi
ness in this life and the great eternity
to come.
Now if the General Assembly is not duty
bound to provide adequate funds for a cause
like this, there is no such thing as Legisla
tive obligation. More funds there must be,
if the school is to shoulder its present re
sponsibilities and meet those crowding ahead.
In his admirable report as chairman of the
Board of Managers, Colonel F. J. Paxon
points to the significant fact that whereas
on January 1, last, there were ninety-six in
mates in the institution, on June 1, there
were one hundred and thirty-seven, “while
the maximum capacity for housing, training
and care is one hundred and fifty-five ”
Within a fortnight or so, at the present rate
of increase, the number of inmates will have
reached the limit beyond which no others
can be admitted—a truly distressful pros
pect, as it means that youthful offenders
against the law, who ought to be sent to the
Tiaining School, must be flung in with hard
ened criminals or cast utterly adrift. The
least, therefore, that the Legislature in good
conscience can do is to provide means for
expansion to meet the institution’s pressing
demands. Especially urgent is the need of
ten cottages to supplement the present dor
mitory; a local water-supply system, which
can be installed for about a thousand dol
lars and which, will do away with water bills
amounting to twelve hundred dollars a year
a laundry, an infirmary, and dentistry ‘serv
ice; and more adequate facilities for teach
ing industrial and agricultural crafts, as well
as common school subjects.
The total amount required for these and
other essential improvements is less, far less
than neglect of the Training School’s mission
would cost the State in a single year or a
single month. For who can measure the so
cial and civic cost of suffering a boy’s char
acter to grow into grooves and bonds of
crime, when by due discipline and friendship
it could be made into a force for good serv
ice, and into an image of things divine? The
School’s Board of Managers are warmly to
be commended for their ijaselfish zeal in
this noble work’s behalf. Surely, their ap
peal for Legislative support will not go un
answered.
♦— .
Substantial Highway Work
THE substantial character of Georgia’s
highway building is attested by the
w ap P rova l which the Federal Bureau of
P. u one Roads has given to plans of the
State Highway Board for improvement and
construction representing a million, one hun
an!? f a^ d ®* ghty_two thousand, one hundred
and fifty-three dollars. Since some forty
per cent of this amount is to come from the
National treasury, the Bureau was exceed-
C p ar + V UI in < looking into the specifica
tions of the projected work, as indeed it al
ways is, before warranting procedure. The
E? t? 1 ? examined this instance
includes the betterment of one hundred and
eighteen miles of roads and the construction
of .. t ' vel J e bridges ’ The communities in
which this work is to be done and by which
a portion of the expense will be borne have
the satisfaction of knowing that expert en
gineers have inquired into all items of the
contracts—designs, materials and labor
and have approved them. The know, more
over, that the work will be done under the
ible supervision of the State Highway Board,
inus the taxpayers are assured of a solid
return upon their investment, and the trav
eling public of highway service that will out
last a winter’s rain.
This is what organized, co-operative meth
ods of roadbuilding have done for Georgia,
m the days when it was a rule of every coun
ty for itself and the mud-devil take the hind
most, one rarely could tell in advance what
the resuit of an expenditure for highways
would be. Some excellent roads, it is true
were built at that time, but only in the rich
er and more progressive districts; and they
as well as the poorer and sluggish were
sorely handicapped by lack of comprehensive
inter-county highway systems. Not until the
plans and operations of the many score com
munities were correlated into something
ike a harmonous whole; not untl purely lo
cal effort was supplemented by State aid and
supervision, was it possible for the individual
county, much less the Commonwealth, to get
adequate results. The present highway laws
enacted after long effort and over mistaken
opposition, have meant a great deal to Geor
gia’s prosperity and advancement. But they
are short of what they should be. The prin
ciple of State aid should be given more sub
stance, and the principle of State supervision
more thoroughness. We are moving in the
rteht direction, but we need to move faster.
Vv here hundreds of thousands are now spent
for roads, millions must be spent. Where
passably good highways have satisfied us,
only the best that money and skill can pro
duce will do for the years ahead. This is the
route of economy, and this the route of pro
gram.
The Poles are in full retreat. Does this
mean another big loan for America? —Wich-
ita Eagle. F,
MENTAL POWER
By H. Addington Bruce
xtOU are not progressing as you would
Y desire. You recognize that this is
due to some mental shortcoming on
your part.
Perhaps you are held back by being un
imaginative. Perhaps your memory is weak.
Perhaps you reason poorly.
Whatever the shortcoming you recognize
its presence. You deplore it. But also you
fear that it is incurable, representing a handi
cap placed upon you for all time by an un
fortunate heredity.
Banish this vicious idea from your mind.
It is miserably false. There is much that you
can do to improve yourself in every phase
of mental power, if only you will earnestly
set about the job of self-improvement.
For, let me say to you as emphatically as
I can, it is not the qualities you inherit to
much as the way you cultivate these qualities
that determines the range of your mental
power.
It is a safe wager that many of the men
you see about you, and whom you envy for
their success, began fife with less native tal
ent than you possess.
But the training given them by others, or
self-training, has enabled them to use more
efficiently than you the mental resources
which actually are more limited than yours.
So they have gone ahead of you.
Profit from their example.
Stop bemoaning your sad lot. Shake your
self free from the shackles of the delusion
that nothing can be done to mend matters.
They can and should be mended.
Long ago the psychologist, William James,
demonstrated that a good memory “is not in
compatible with the possession of only a
middling degree of physiological retentive
ness.” True of memory power, this is like
wise true of attention power, of imagination,
of judgment, of reasoning in general.
You can improve yourself in all of these,
much as you may doubt the fact. It is a ques
tion chiefly of honest effort, working under
wise direction.
And there are plenty of wise directors
available to you, in these days of public edu
cation through the printed word. Masters of
mind training have written books which will
greatly hblp you, and which you can procure
at little cost.
Ask your local librarian to list for you a
few really good books on mental culture.
Or,' if you prefer, write to me in care of this
newspaper, inclosing a stamped and addressed
envelope, and I will send you such a list.
Do not continue in your hopeless, helpless
attitude. There is much, I repeat, that you
can do for yourself. Make a beginning.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
THE SOPHISTICATED
By Dr. Frank Crane
I would add to the Litanj’ these words:
“From sophistication and all sophisticated
ones,'good Lord, deliver us!” f
I love to enter a shoe store and meet the
urbane salesman who knows what I want
better than I do. He smiles in a pained way
at my suggestions. He tries, oh, so hard, to
restrain his contempt when I indicate my
depraved He remarks, in hopes it
will reduce me to a proper silence, that he’s
been in the shoe business for twenty years.
Finally he gets me so cowed that I walk
away in footgear that is killing me, and that
I have to give to the janitor eventually, even
because Mr. Knowitall insisted that the shoes
couldn’t possibly hurt. He got me so scared
at length that I was afraid to tell him they
did hurt.
Occasionally you meet the religious
Knower. The woozier and crazier his sect
the brighter burns his lamp of certainty. He,
too, has that smile, that blighting, withering
smile of divine restraint.
I must not omit the carpenter who knows
precisely how you want your shelf put up.
You have almost to stand over him with a
cocked revolver to get him to do what you
want. And when he goes away he leaves you
crushed under the consciousness of your
utter ignorance of what’s what.
Let me not omit the waiter in the restau
rant who is pained beyond words at the ab
surdity of your order; the head waiter who
seats you where you don’t want to sit; the
clothier who will force a suit of clothes on
you that you don’t like, unless you make a
scene; the physician who refuses to listen to
your symptoms, who pats your arms as if
you were a two-year-old, and who impresses
you with the fact that you have nothing to
do with the case, it is his business, you are
only the man who is to take the medicine
and die; and the boy who listens with ill
concealed impatience to your fool advice, you
being nobody but a father; and the girl, who,
of course, respects you as a mother, only you
don’t understand.
You meet once in a while, too, the Know
ing One who has read your articles, or heard
your lecture, and who assumes as a matter
of course that you are insincere, and con
gratulates you that you have fooled them all
—Except him. I confess I hate all famil
iarity with public personages.
Why in the world is it assumed to be some
thing to make one chesty because he knows
the Pullman conductor, or the theater ticket
agent, or the orchestra leader in a restaurant,
or an actor, an aviator, a senator, a criminal,
a policeman, or any other of the spot-light
ers?
And yet I do confess to a certain awe in
me when a friend with me speaks familiarly
to one of these herders of the human crowd.
For I know none of them. lam one of the
cattle. I step lively when the guard on the
elevated railway yells at me. When the head
waiter holds up his finger I follow it, hypno
tized, to the darkest corner of the dining
room.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
William Dean Howells was talking about
the American novelist, new style and old.
“A novelist of the new style,” he said,
“pulled up his Rolls-Royce on Fifth avenue
one afternoon and hailed an old-stvle novel
ist, who was just coming out of the public
library.
“ ‘Well, Bill,’ said the new-style novelist,
“have you had any press notices lately? I
had thirty-seven this morning—nine about
my divorce, six about my new car. three
about what I like for dinner, two about my
105 suits of clothes, five about my lost
$2,000 bulldog and twelve about the funny
anecdote I told the Prince of Wales during
his New York visit. Now, how about you,
Bill? Any press notices today?'
“ ‘Only one,’ the old-style novelist an
swered meekly. ‘Only one, Bob. Only a
review, which said that my new novel was
well written.’ ”
The proprietor of a drinking place in a
southern province of the Philippines married
a native woman whom he pronounced the
ideal wife. As Fritz dispensed his wares he
informed his customers with mathematical
certainty that his wife was “the bestest
voman in de vorld.” No one disputed till a
Scotchman insisted upon knowing why she
was. The question rather disturbed the
mental processes of Fritz, but in a moment
or two he answered confidently, “Vat I
dinks, she dinks.”
The Scotsman was not quite satisfied.
“What does she think?” he continued.
“Noddings,” replied Fritz with his usual sto
lidity.
THE LIZARD AND
HIS LIZ
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 22.
This is a semi-scientific monograph
on a specimen of humanity so far
little known to science. We refer to
the curb lizard, a species which tn
this town may be studied under un
usually favorable conditions, as the
atmosphere around here seems to
stimulate its growth.
"Lizard,” as you may know, is a
general term for a weary youth who
is always to be found leaning against
something or somebody. Thus, there
are lounge lizards, dance lizards—
feminine, dance lizzie—beach lizards,
and, as in this story, the curb lizard.
"The curb lizard is indigenous to
the pavements around drug stores.
It eats anything, expensive things
preferred. Its widespread occur
rence at this time is due, in part at
least, to the housing shortage which
has robbed the youth of our cities
of its parlor sofa rights. In the
stress of war exigencies, parlors have
been rented, sofa and all, to the
highest bidder, and in the resulting
confusion boys and girls betook
themselves to the parks and streets
to swell the crowd of lizards and
lizzies.
The curb lizard, you understand,
ranges from seventeen to twenty-one
years, a period of life when a quiet
evening in his own room with a
good book is not the boy’s idea of
pastime. A little later he will set
tle down to a married existence, or
drift off with an older and wilder
gang, but, at the lizard stage, the
boy with no airp in life except pleas
ure finds the most enjoyment on a
street corner "watching the dames go
by.”
The Several Tribes
The curb lizards are divided into
groups according to the location of
‘•he lamp post or drug store wall to
which they are accustomed to cling.
In this city the groups have organized
and selected club names and presi
dents. There are the Cake Eaters,
Sand Box Boys, the Order of the
Dirty Spoon, Canal Lizards, Moon
gazers, and the Porkers.
The Cake Eaters 'naturally came to
be so-called because they were so
adept at stoking up on cake and
other eats, at dances. They are proud
of their reputation for extraordinary
capacity, and can be distinguished by
their air of sad boredom which is
only shaken off when cake or other
rations are placed before them.
The Sand Box Boys haunt the sand
pile in a local playground. Here they
hang out —we use the lizard language
occasionally in this monograph be
lieving that our fellow-semi-scien
tists will be sufficiently acquainted
with it —and while propping them
selves against a convenient tree the
Sand Box Boys lamp the lizzies who
skirt it past them.
The Porkers are the most true-tq
type of the numerous branches of
the curb lizard family so far discov
ered in these parts. There are about
150 Porkers in this city. Their na
tive element is the sidewalk on F
street, Washington’s Fifth avenue.
Here at any time small groups of
them may be found gracefully draped
over a trash box or around a lamp
post.
They wear the latest and most
startling styles, not so much with
the idea of expressing their souls in
unique dress as with the ambition to
lead the fashion. Just now, the high
est type of. Porker is surrounded by
the following assortment of outer
garments: One hat of any kind so
long as it is too big or too little.
The bow should flop aimlessly at
the back. The coat is very short
waisted. Brown is the favorite color,
with checks a close second. Only
one button must be fastened to give
the proper half-dressed look. Trous
ers are of the blunderbuss pattern,
too tight at the knee and too floppy
at the ankle. The sailors wear em
that way for convenience in scrub
bing decks, but with a civilian, vanity
and not utility is the one plausible
explanation. „
The Lizard Described
The necktie may be an almost in
visible string or a large portion of
scrambled sunset silk. Shoes are
usually of the English dreadnaught
variety, a trifle more conspicuous
than the now obsolete gunboats. The
costume is completed by a cigarette,
a poker face expression, and, now and
then, a moustache that seems to be
struggling desperately with a bad
Some of the most esthetic curb liz
ards augment their manly beauty by
carefully applied rouge and powder.
We have it from a young woman ac
quaintance that she knows a lizard
who has his eyebrows pulled and
keeps his hair electrically waved.
We are also reliably informed from
another source that the members of
the Pork organization use only the
best cosmetics, and swear by certain
unusual brands of perfume.
The appearance of the curb lizards
is always strange, and they them
selves are aware of this. Yet they
wear their exotic haberdashery with
bravado and manage to look as if
they felt perfectly natural. They
realize that the public at large does
not understand their attitude toward
clothes. From their explanations we
doubt if they understand it them
selves. •
THE JOURNAL’S
LETTER BOX
Editor Tri-Weekly Journal,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir: As I have been a silent
reader of your paper for a number
of years and read many helpful sug
gestions from same, I wish to write
and state some facts that I have
gained through actual experience,
that might be of interest to some of
your many readers. One thing that
seems to be paramount in the minds
of many southern farmers, is just
how to control the boll weevil. In
reading most of the agricultural pa
pers and government bulletins we
find quite a lot of different opinions
set forth. While one will say plow
deep, fertilize heavy, cultivate often,
another will advise spray and pick
up forms and burn, etc. Now, what
is the use of all this and at the same
time allow these mature weevils to
go unharmed? I have taken great
pride in my garden and truck patches
for a number of years and have never
found but one way to successfully
control any insect which attacks veg
etation and flies at night, and that
is “The Light Method.” For in
stance, in the spring of the year
when these pests become quite num
erous. I take a wash tub and place
in middle of garden or truck patch
and fill about half full of water.
Then pour in three or four spoonfuls
of coal oil and hang a lantern di
rectly over the tub and about eight
een inches above the water. These
insects are attracted to the light at
night, fall into the tub and die. Now,
I merely mention this in a very small
way. but I honestly believe if this
method was put into practice ins.- the
cotton belt of the south on a large
scale it would almost do away with
the boll weevil. Say where parties
have the Delco or Lally light system
or can connect a wire to the city
and employ 50 to 100 lights in order
to save a cotton crop, especially at
the prevailing price it seems to me
it would be worth trying out. Hop
ing to hear from some of the read
ers who have tried the above method,
I remain.
Yours truly.
J. E. PINION.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
The doctor’s wife was entreating
her husband: “George, dear. I do need
a new fur coat to go with my new
suit this coming winter.”
"I can’t promise you that for
sure,” returned hubby hesitatingly,
“but I’ll look over the list of my
patients and if there is one with an
appendix. I’ll get him.”
Young Mr. X was much enamored
of the pretty widow, Mrs. Y, and he
was ardently wooing her at a private
tete-a-tete at her home. Suddenly she
jumped to .her feet, exclaiming, “Good
heavens! My husband!”
“Y-y-your husband! Why, isn’t he
dead?” inquired the excited suitor
“Oh, yes. he’s dead, all right, but
I hear him the table leg.”
“Freddy, do you know what became
of that piece of cake that was left
on the tray?" asked mother.
“Yes, mother,” replied Freddy in
the sweetest of tones, “I gave it to
a little boy who was so awfully hun
gry.”
“That was good of you, who was
it?”
“It was me, mother.”
CURRENT EVENTS
*
Although isolated for thousands of
I years, anthropologists assert the Es
kimo has developed mentally and
physically to such an extraordinary
degree that he can teach every race
many things. He developed theories
long ago that modern men are begin
ning to think about only now. He
has outstripped other races in that
he makes himself the playmate and
the educator of his own children. An
orphan among the Eskimos soon finds
a home and is given the best of care
and education.
The Eskimo regards honesty as
paramount. He will never misrepre
'sent facts, and although he may want
to dispose of an article badly he
will rather depreciate It than run the
risk of over-praising'. A man who
lies or deceives another is severely
punished.
An Eskimo will not permit a fel
lowman to need for food or cloth
ing, once he has enough for himself
and his family. aWr, to the parka
hooded men of the north, Is unknown.
They decide differences by staging
dance-duels and out-singing each
other, and old men act as judges to
decide winners. In this way honor is
satisfied. Brutality is unknown. In
combating nature, fighting the wal
rus, the whale and the bear with
primitive weapons, the Eskimo dis
plays unusual coolness and plans his
way out of danger with extreme self
possession.—Detroit News.
English as commonly written to
day certainly seems to have lost
the purity and strength that it had
a century ago. Then such masters
of the language as Cobbett, Coleridge,
De Quincey, or Hazlitt were journal
ists as well as poets or essayists,
and their leading articles lost noth
ing of effect on the public from
being literature.
The arrival of the age of steam,
electricity, and cheap postage was
followed by a change, not for the bet
ter, in the popular style of speak
ing and writing. “Say what you have
to say as briefly and quickly as pos
sible, and don’t .bother about fine
ness of expression” became the gen
eral rule and practice.
The new millions of readers de
manded that their reading be ex
pressed in the language of every day
speech. The obligation of compress
ing conclusions about important mat
ters into one thousand words, or few
er, is death, in the end to style. The
literary form favored is in touch
with the turned-up trousers fashion
of wearing one’s clothing. It is free
and easy and crammed with linguistic
atrocities. Plural subjects are polyg
amously wedded to singular verbs,
and Lindley Murray turns in his
grave on account of the death of
grammar.—Spokane Spokesman.
Imagine an oil well within a mile
of Manhattan! Commander Cleland
Davis U. S. N. (retired), of Engle
wood, claims oil in large quantities
flows under the Hudson River bed,
on the Jersey side, approximately op
posite the 130th street ferry. Com
mander Davis has applied to the de
partment of commerce and naviga
tion for permission to prospect for
oil and make borings at his own ex
pense in the river bed from Engle
wood Park, one and half miles south.
Legislation making all Mexico dry
is being .prepared for presentation to
the next congress at the office of
Provisional President de la Huerta,
says the newspaper “Universal.”
“The provisional president has de
cided on this step,” announces the
newspaper, “as a means of accom
plishing the regeneration of the In
dian and halfbreed races, which are
great consumers of alcohol.”
The prosperity of the sugar in
dustry was indicated recently in ths
declaration of two large extra
dividends. The Federal Sugar Re
fining company ordered a distribu
tion of $5 a share in cash as well as
the regular quarterly dividend of
1 3-4 per cent on the common stock,
payable August 2 to holders of rec
ord July 13. The regular quarterly
dividend of 1 1-2 per cent on the
preferred stock was declared, also
payable August 2.
The Cupey Sugar company declared
a dividend of 17 per cent on its sl,-
000,000 common stock. This is the
second dividend by the company. The
first of 3 per cent was paid last
February. The directors' voted the
regular semi-annual payment of
3 1-2 per cent on the preferred
stock, all dividends being due Aug.
2 to stockholders of record July 15.
All weekly immigration records at
Ellis Island since the war were
broken last week. It was announced
today that 13,161 aliens had been in
spected, including 11,161 steerage
passengers. From 600 to 1,000 for
eigners still await inspection. Nearly
all ships landing immigrants dur
ing the week brought a larger per
centage of men than of women and
children. “We have had no such im
migration rush as this since the
summer just preceding the outbreak
of the European war,” Superintend
ent Baker said. “Os course, in the
pre-war days it was nothing to talk
about when he had 13,000 or 15,030
a week. There is abundant evidence
that immigration would go even
higher than before the war if we
had the ships to carry the immi
grants.”
Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the
joint distribution committee of Amer
ican Funds for Jewish War Suffer
ers, received a cablegram yesterday
confirming officially the report that
Dr. Israel Friendlander, professor of
Biblical literature at the Jewish
Theological slminary here, and Dr.
Bernard Cantor, associate of Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, of the Free syna
gogue, were murdered in Ukrainia
‘July 8.
The murder of Dr. Friedlander and
Dr. Cantor was the first reported
here last Saturday. » Mr. Warburg
heard Sunday from the Jewish news
agency at Warsaw that the report
was true, but hoped for better news
until he received from the Warsaw
branch of the joint distribution com
mittee Wednesday a message confirm
ing the first report.
A dispatch from Berlin states the
memorandum dealing with Germany’s
ability to pay the indemnities de
manded, which the government hand
ed to the peace conference recently
to be used as a basis for the dis
cussions of the question at Spa,
sets forth that Germany’s national
wealth before the war was $52,250,-
000,000, whereas her wealth now is
not more than $23,750,000,000, from
which foreign debts of from $1,900,-
000,000 to $2,375,000,000 must be de
ducted.
The memorandum declares that
Germany's economic recovery cannot
be brought about until she recovers
financially, and it maintains that the
present peace treaty jeopardizes her
financial recovery.
A statement issued from Wash
ington says: Guided entirely by radio
compass signals, the naval seaplane
F-5-L left Norfolk recently and flew
ninety-fivp miles on a “bee-line” to
pick up the battleship Ohio at sea
with no knowledge at the time of
taking the air of the vessel’s loca
tion.
The seaplane then navigated its
return to Norfolk entirely by radio
compass.
Navy department officials to whom
the flight was reported said it was
the first time radio compass appa
ratus had been used to direct air
craft to a ship_.
Now that machines for digging po
tatoes are in common use, the next
step is to provide automatic means
for loading them into sacks. An Ohio
inventor has just developed such a
mechanism, in the shape of a three
wheeled trailer, which attaches to
the back of the digger, according to
“Popular Mechanics’ Magazine.” The
front wheel has a caster mounting en
abling it tofollow the digger in turn
ing at the end of a row. An ele
vated inclined screen receives the
digger. The sacks are hung on four
hooks at the rear, their bottoms
supported by a small platform.
According to a dispatch from Paris
discovery of large deposits of phos
phate iii the Moroccan hinterland
may soon make France the great
phosphate producing country of the
world.
The Moroccan deposits are report
ed by Professor Louis Gentil. of the
Sorbonne, as being almost inex
haustible. One hundred miles inland
from Casablanca there is a moun
tain plateau forty miles long and
twenty-five miles ’ wide which is a
veritable storehouse of phosphate. A
railway is to be built to this moun
tain and monopoly has been given
to the Moroccan government for the
sale of the phosphate.
France already has huge potash
deposits in Alsace.
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
HONOR WHERE_HONOR IS DUE
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer ; :
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
AT the time of the new moon
in September the Hindus hold
a solemn feast at which they
pay honor to the tools witb
which they have supported them
selves during the past year.
The farmer gathers together all of
his plows, and spades, and scythes,
and after having placed them upon a
spot that has been previously puri
fied, he prostrates himself before
them, and offers them at sacr’lfce.
The mason pays the same homage to
his trowel and square; the carpenter
to his hammer and axe; the butcher
to his cleaver; the fisherman to his
nets; the writer to his pen.
The women, likewise, assemble
their domestic utensils, their jugs,
and pots, and brooms, and embroid
ery frames, and rice mills and wor
ship them in a similar fashion, for
during this period the instruments
with vzhich one has earned livelihood
are considered to be Household Gods,
worthy of the deepest reverence.
I think that there is something
very beautiful and touching in this
custom, for surely there is some vir
tue in the tool that shapes Itself to
our hand so that , with it we can
create beauty and work, that we can
cause' to bring forth fruits from the
earth, rear habitations for man, and
add to the joy and comfort of life.
Surely we owe some gratitude to the
instrument, unconscious though it
be, that stands between us and our
loved ones and want and poverty.
Personally, I know that 1 never
pass a certain battered old typewriter
without giving its dingy cover a lov
ing little pat. For my particular
Household God has showered untold
blessings upon me, and deserves at
least a. ton of incense burnt before it
as a slight token ofi my gratitude.
And 1 often wonder tnat a man can
sell the store or office in which he
has made a fortune. I should think
that to him it would be a holy spot,
the place where dreams come true,
and that he would fall down and kiss
its very threshold. Perhaps the rea
son that so many men who have
made money in a business, lose it as
soon as they leave it, ts because the
Household Gods are jealous gods, and
punish those (Who are faithless to
them.
Certainly the Household Gods re
ward true worshipers. Every time
it is the man who loves the tools
with which he works who makes the
big success. It is the man who lays
all that he has of mind and heart
and body upon the altar of his pro
fession who is given the great re
ward. He who sacrifices most to his
calling, reaps most.
This idea of worshiping the tools
with which you work will not appeal
to many women. They can see how a
great artist might worship her
brushes, or a great actress her grease
paints, or a great writer her pen,
but .when It comes to kowtowing to
To What Class Do You Belong?
Are you a producer, doing some
thing worth while, or are you just
talking about production and letting
the other fellow produce what you
consume? —Marietta Journal.
How Much Did You Dose, Bob?
We are not going to knock, but we
wish the boys would cut out betting.
It makes us nervous.—Winder News.
A Bit of Pathos
The decision of the supreme court
on the liquor question still leaves
the thirst.—Butler Herald.
A Good Prescription
Lavonia has two soap factories
running on full time, according to
The Lavonia Times. We know some
other places that may not need the
factory, but they “sho do’ need the
soap.—Maysville Enterprise.
Past Program in Winder
Two runs and three fights is not
so bad when the stakes are high and
the provocation great. Winder
News.
It has been said that “a good run
is better than a bad stand” any day.
Depends Upon the Inducement
Tell us frankly what are we to do?
If you remain single they say you
are afraid to fight and if you marry
they infer that you’re trying to get
free hired help.—Dublin Tribune.
New Kind of Profiteering
If it gets generally circulated
around in Georgia that Lowden paid
SIO,OOO for seventeen votes in this
state somebody is going to prosecute
him for profiteering. No man has
the right to boost the price of votes
that way.—Savannah Press.
Ellijay's Invitation
One of our city friends writes us
to know if it’s possible to get any
good old-fashioned country butter,
such as he ate when a boy. We ad
vised him to move to Ellijay, where
he could have all the joys of real
living.—Ellijay Times-Courier.
Everything’s Going Up
It is said that women’s shoes will
be prettier than ever and just as ex
pensive this fall, and just as soon
as we see our friend Jack Patterson,
who is absolute authority on all mat
ters feminine, we shall be ready
either to confirm or deny this rumor.
—Marietta Journal.
Meet us at Five Points at car
boarding time any afternoon.
An Effective Remedy
The Macon News views with alarm
the new wave of homicide that seems
to be sweeping the country in the
past few months. If more of the
murderers were hanged there would
probably be fewer murders commit
ted.—Griffin News and Sun.
Boy, Page the Doctor!
If anybody knows of a recipe that
will give relief to a person who has
been foundered by consuming too
much chicken, please send it by
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
AT this capricious season of the
year, a man’s “I-love-you” is
worth about as much as a
Bolshevist “I-O-U."
“Beware the Greeks most when they
offer gifts”—a woman most, when she
offers platonic friendship.
Warning a man against a danger
ously fascinating woman is about as
effective as telling a small boy the
•'cherry-tree” story, and then hand
ing him a hatchet to play with.
Nowadays, when a man makes up
his mind to marry a girl, he doesn’t
pursue her—he merely stops run
ning. |
Where is the man who used to car
ry his wife’s picture in the back of
his watch, where he could see it?
Gone, gone, dear heart, with the girl
who used to carry her money in her
stocking, “where nobody could see it.”
The way of the transgressor, as a
general rule, is to blame it on a wo
man—either the pne who “drove” him
to it, or the one who “lured” him to
it
Today’s daughter doesn’t play with
dolls and plan to grow up and marry
and have four children. She goes to
the movies and plans to grow upland
be a “vamp” and have four husbands.
Most of the unhappiness in mar
riage is caused by the terrible life- !
long effort to be happy in somebody I
else’s way.
The secret of social reford may I
not lie so much in holding women
up to the standard of angels as in
holding men up to the standards of
women.
An egotist is a man who goes
through life paging himself.
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
a cooking stove, or a sewing machine,
or a perambulator—why .that’s an
other story.
They cannot see themselves knock
ing their foreheads in the dust before
the gas range or the light running
domestic.
Yet of all women In the world, no
one has more reason to offer up her
heartfelt thanksgiving to her house
hold gods than has the purely domes
tic woman.
In the first place. If she will only
let them, they cast about her a
halo that can only be compared to
the *—... forming effect of pink mos
quito netting over a basket of green
peaches. There is no other such al
luring background for a woman fr*
her own home. The dullest woman is
Interesting at the head of a well
spread dinner table. The homeliest
woman becomes a Madonna when
surrounded by her children. Insig
nificant women become personages
when they are at the head of a
household.
To the married woman, her tools
are her salvation, for with them she
keeps her husband and her home
safe. Age comes to her. Her beauty
fades. Her figure loses its lightness
and grace. Perhaps her mind does
not keep step with her husband’s
for walking the colic and rearing
babies is no developer of wit and
persiflage. It does not matter, (J she
is past mistress in running a house,
and a good free hand cook.
After a man is middle-aged he fs
shy on romance, but strong on com
fort. He is fussy about his eating.
He wants his familiar chair, and
the light just so on his paper, and
a hoihe that runs on ball-bearings
without friction, or blowouts or skid
ding, and if a woman will provide
him with that he will never find out
that she has gotten fat, or has false
teeth, or that she misses all the
points in his best stories.
It’s the women who live in hotels,
and boarding houses, or who feed
their husbands out of paper bags
who lose out and get divorced. You
never hear of a man getting up and
leaving a well kept home, and a
wife who is a good cook and man
ager going to Reno.
No. A gas range in a woman’.'
hands is a thing to conjure with, and
the spell it lays upon a man is one
he rarely attempts to break. A broom
is a fairy wand that she has only
to use properly to turn the most
wandering old bachelor into a John
sit-by-the-fire who cannot be tolled
away from his own clean hearth
stone. Comfort and order, these be
white magic by vzhich a wife holds
the heart of her husband secure
against the arts and wiles of vamps
and sirens.
Well may women worship their
cooking stoves, and mops and pails,
and brooms on the festival of the
household gods, for there is power
in them.
wireless to Rush Burtin, of Lavo
nia. Over at Bold Springs yesterday
we saw him pulling the meat off of
chicken bones just like a man shuck
ing corn.—Commerce News.
Cause of “Unrest"
Mdke a careful estimate of the idle
labor in your community; consider
the inefficiency of labor employed;
calculate the short hours devoted to
work and you won’t be surprised at
the dissatisfaction and unrest of the
times. We contend that there is
plenty of labor if it were put to
work, and if every man would do
an honest day’s work.—Commerce
Observer.
The trouble with “labor” is that
it seems to be constitutionally op
posed to “functioning."
Just Call Him “Jim"
“James’ is a good name for a can
didate for president to answer to
About 20 per cent of the twenty
seven men who have served this na
tion as chief executive were named
Jim somebody. The list starts with
James Madison, and then in order
come James Monroe, James K. Polk,
James Buchanan, James A. Garfield.
At this distance from November it
looks like James M. Cox is standing
as close to the front door of the
White House as anybody else on the
outside of that handsome cottage.—
Southwest Georgian.
Tish Tale from Baxley
A seven-and-a-half-pound trout is
the record creek catch in Appling
this season. It is absolutely true. We
did not catch the fish, but we saw Its
head, and its mouth was large enougn
to hold a big man’s fist. Dan Minchew
was the lucky fisherman.—Baxley
News-Banner.
We would like to see Dan on his
return from a trout pond, if he
catches ’em that size in a creek.
Ideas and Income
A man with a wheelbarrow income
should not entertain limousine ideas.
—Commerce Enquirer-Sun.
Opposed to Female Scrapping
The Atlanta Journal has a column
headed, “The Housewife’s Scrap
book.” We have not read it be
cause we do not believe in teaching
wives pugilism.—Savannah Press.
Vamping
Why do women with these darn:
lustrous eyes want to get so devil
ish close to you and peer right into
the depths of yoqr soul? Can this
be what these giddy things call
vamping?—Dublin Tribune.
In one corner of the Cave of the
Winds in Colorado, which is visited
yearly by scores of tourists, lies a
large pile of hairpins, combs, bar
ettes and hair ornaments. This had
its orign in the superstition that the
unmarried woman who left a hair
pin or hair ornament there would be
married within a year. Another su
perstition is that if a girl tosses a
coin to the bottom of a well in
Ramona’s Wedding Place, in Cali
fornia, it will bring her a husband
within the yeas. The result is that
the bottom of the well is covered
with coins and already a small for
tune has accumulated.
Some one removed the French flag
hoisted recently over the French
embassy in Berlin, in honor of the
anniversary of the taking of the Bas
tille. M. de Marcilly, French Charge
d’Affaires in Berlin, formally pro
tested to the German government.
The French flag was raised during
the morning. Several mobs which
gathered were easily dispersed, but
shortly after noon some one entered
the embassy, climbed to the roof,
removed the flag, and disappeared
with it. Another flag was raised,
and there was no further incident.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
Pde" PROJ I GAL DAUGHTER
ALLUZ GOT MO' SENSE
DAN T' ADVUHTISB
SHE AIN' BIN HAT>
[No SENSE!! r
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Copyright, 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate