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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH FT. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wfc.l Mo. 8 Mor 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Dally and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .00 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early • delivery. It contains news from all over the world brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. 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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 OcL Copyright, 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate