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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
The New Apportionment
THE well-founded assumption that the
new congressional apportionment will
result in constituting a congressional
district of Fulton county, as pointed out by
Secretary of State McLendon, scarcely is no
more welcome than the obvious fadt that the
reapportionment, in eo far as it applies to
the nomination of at least one Georgia rep
resentative in Congress, will vitiate the
county unit rule. The county unit will be
come useless and inoperative in the nomina
tion of a Congressional representative from
a district that is constituted of a single
county, or even two counties.
Under the 1910 apportionment, based upon
the census returns from the dech.de ending
that year, there was one representative in
Congress for every 211,877 people. This fig
ure gave to the House of Representatives a
membership of 435.
It is estimated, semi-officially, that the
1920 census enumeration will give to conti
nental United States a population of 106,-
000,000. Unless the membership of the
House of Representatives is materially in
creased, obviously itighvill be necessary to in
crease the basis of representation. If the
membership is held at 435, and this is likely,
if, indeed, the membership is not reduced,
the apportionment will be one representa
tive in Congress for every 243,678 people.
The population of Fulton county, as offi
cially announced, is 232,000, or 12,000 less
than the estimated basis of the next appor
tionment. The population of DeKalb county
is something over 44,000. If Fulton and
DeKalb were joined in a single congressional
district, the basis of apportionment would be
considerably exceeded.
It has never been the practice for the Fed
eral Government to intermeddle or become
disturbed concerning the relative population
of Congressional districts. The apportion
ment laws fix a basis under which each State
is entitled to as many representatives in
Congress as the apportionment figure may
be divided into the total population for the
State. The constitution of the districts is a
matter for the State Legislatures to deter
mine, and it frequently happens that one dis
trict will have fewer people and another
more people than the apportionment basis
actually set by Congress.
In these circumstances, it is obvious that
the Legislature, when it takes up the ques
tion of reapportionment, can constitute a
district of Fulton county, even though its
232,000 population is under the basis ac
tually set by Congress. By the same token,
the Legislature can join Fulton and DeKalb
or Fulton and any other county in a single
district, even though the combined popula
tion exceeds the figure set by Congress.,
It is apparent, however, from population
reports thus far announced that DeKalb
county will become one of Georgia’s “big six”
under the new apportionment. In other words,
DeKalb will be entitled to the same repre
sentation in the Legislature as Fulton, and,
under the county unit rule, each will be en
titled to six unit votes, or twice the number
of votes it has in the Legislature.
Obviously, the county unit rule would be
come useless if Fulton and DeKalb are joined
in a single congressional district. If Fulton
were united with any of the smaller adjoin
ing counties, the unit system of nomination
would prove even more useless and ridicu
lous. The successful Congressional candi
date would have only to concentrate on Ful
ton and capture its vote to insure his nomi
nation. The people of the smaller counties,
in such circumstances, would be disfran
chised.
The Cost of Industrial War
IF some dark disaster in the sun should
stop our industries for four-and-twenty
hours, the event would be written down
among time’s direst chapters. Far heavier,
however, in the waste it involved, than that
imaginary misfortune could be, were the ef
fects of strikes and lockouts in the United
States during the year 1919.
Economists estimate the total loss at one
hundred and forty-three million, eight hun
dred and fifty thousand days of production,
to compensate for which would require the
work of four million, eight hundred thou
sand men for a month. The Cleveland Plain
Dealer interestingly calculates that “a plant
employing a thousand workers would be able
to offset this loss in about four hundred and
fifty years,” and adds: “We cannot afford
strikes even if they are peaceful. The coun
try is now paying in part in the high cost of
food, of clothing and of house rent for the
strikes and lockouts of last year. Some
means must be found for bringing the em
ployers and the employed together before tre
mendous losses are incurred by both. The
zone of conflict can be greatly reduced if the
human side of the problem is not forgotten.”
The fundamental interests of both parties
to such issues are the same. Neither can af
ford to ignore the other’s needs and rights,
because only by working together can they
prosper and serve the country’s common
wants. Those wants, after all, are supreme
ly important. If the great body of the peo
ple be not provided for, no one group can
hope permanently to thrive. If the eye say
unto the hand, I have no need of thee, and
in consequence of the quarrel the entire or
ganism go unfed, both warring members will
pay the penalty.
There is but one preventive of wasteful
strife of this sort, and that is recognition of
the old yet ever new and vital principles of
justice, duty, human kindness and human
helpfulness.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
The Peril in Forest Wastes
A CONFLAGRATION destroying three
thousand homes would be deplored
the nation over as a disaster. But
what of the forest fires which wipe out tim
ber enough to build many times that number
of dwellings? In a single Western State last
season the losses on this score, had they been
prevented and the material utilized, would
have sufficed to house a flourishing young
city.
Fires are but one among divers causes of
the present-day forest depletion that will
prove calamitous if it continues unchecked.
Reckless and inefficient lumbering destroys
millions of trees which, in the interest of
that industry itself, as well as of the pub
lic, ought to be saved. Insect pests which
could be controlled kill millions more. Lack
of conservation and restitution policies in
the individual States is perhaps the heaviest
liability of all. The waste must be stopped
and vigorous measures of reforestation in
augurated, or the country’s every interest
will suffer, and suffer intensely.
In the burdensome and increasing cost of
lumber and other wood products, in the re
currence of soil-wasting floods, in the loss
of moisture-secreting areas, and in sundry
other ways America will pay dearly if she
goes on negletcing the forestry problem.
Comparatively a few generations ago our
center of lumber production was in the Al
leghanies. Thence it moved to the Lake
States; next to the great pine zone of the
South. Now the saws are sweeping toward
the forests of the Pacific coast. “And after
that," thoughtful observers are asking, “after
that, what?”
So great has been the devastation that
mere stoppage of the waste will not suffice
for the emergency which is upon us. There
must also be reforestration. As a practical
student and high authority points out, “New
forests must be established, by planting or
by natural reproduction, to take the place
of those which have been destroyed. Rough
mountainous lands and poor lands not suited
for agricultural crops must be put to grow
ing timber under national, State, or private
ownership.”
Obviously, this calls for thorough co-oper
ation between landowners and the Govern
ment, both State and Federal. It calls, too,
for well supported forestry bureaus in every
Commonwealth. None has better or more
urgent reasons to take up this important
task than Georgia with her vast agricultural
and potentially vast industrial interests, both
of which materially depend on forest con
servation.
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It Might Be W orse
THINK of the poor Frenchman, and
be happy, the next time it becomes
necessary to draw a check in favor
of Uncle Sam for the payment of Income
taxes. He pays three times as much in
come tax as the citizen of the United
States, and it is to be doubted whether he
complains as much. >
A Frenchman with an income of $50,000
a year—26o,ooo francs— pays to his gov
ernment income taxes amounting to $21,-
823, based on the normal rate of exchange
between the United States and France, of,
5.20 francs to the dollar. Under the pre
vailing rate of exchange, twelve francs to
the dollar, an income of $50,000 in France
is equal to 600,000 francs, and the French
man pays $30,223 to his government.
For the sake of comparison, let it be as*
sumed that the Frenchman is married, liv
ing with his wife and has three dependent
children, and that his income is derived
equally from profession or business and
from investments.
The citizen of the United States similarly
situated, with an income of $50,000 an
nually, pays to the federal government the
paltry sum of $6,407 in income tax.
The theory of taxation in France is based
upon ability to pay, and the tax on the
smaller incomes is being reduced from year
to year while it is being increased yearly
on the swollen fortunes.
When one considers the tax levy of the
French Republic, he can but con
gratulate himself that he is a resident of
the United States.
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The New Way in Mexico
THE new regime in Mexico could hardly
have given better evidence of strength
and sagacity than in its manner of
dealing with General Pablo Gonzalez, fervent
friend of Carranza and leader of a short
lived revolt against the Obregon administra
tion. A court-martial found the General
“guilty.” but at the same time left loopholes
for clemency.
As things were ordered of yore, this would
have meant at best a temporary release, with
a probability of rearrest, retrial and impris
onment, or sudden taking off, as it suited the
interest or fancy of the powers that were.
But now from the capital come Instructions
to the local Chief of Military Operations that
the offending Gonzalez be set “absolutely at
liberty,” and the order concludes with the
remark that the Government “considers it
self sufficiently strong in public opinion
not to fear that he will continue to be a
peril.”
If these words are wrought Into an actual
and permanent policy, then assuredly a bet
ter day has dawned for our troubled neigh
bor across the Rio Grande. She has had a
tragic sufficiency of government by guns and
Intrigues. A leader intrepid enough to give
government by laws a chance would be won
drously refreshing, and, perhaps, astonish
ingly successful. General Obregon, now pres
ident de facto, appears to be of that policy
and disposition. His handling of the Gon
zalez case is but one among sundry instances
of his tolerance, poise and manifest wish to
bring all factions into patriotic accord.
If he consistently pursues this course and
is given a fair measure of popular support,
he will accomplish results deserving his own
country’s and the world’s lasting gratitude.
♦
Government Aid
WE are wont to regard the United
States government as a big insti
tution of many ■’ interests, whose
chief business is aiding people, commerce,
industry, agriculture, health and public
welfare.
The activities of the government for the
general welfare include its expenditures for
the Department of Agriculture, the Public
Health Service, the Bureau of Mines, the
Geological Survey, the Bureau of Educa
tion, the Children’s Bureau, the Woman’s
Bureau and other like things. These ex
penditures are designed to make for bet
ter health and more intelligent citizenship,
better crops, better herds of cattle, better
people. They do not fail of their purpose
and they bring returns fully commensurate
with the money expended. The average cit
izen appreciates the value of the expendi
tures and has no complaint to enter. He
figures that his money, for the most part,
is well spent, and it is.
In fact, the government expends precious
little money directly in encouraging and
promoting activities of the sort mentioned.
It is estimated that only one per cent,
one cent out of every dollar received by
the government from the billions of dol
lars it collects, is expended for these pur
noses. Six per cent of the money goes for
the primary functions of the government
—legislative, executive and judicial machin-
DREAM INFLUENCES
By H. Addington Bruce
THAT dreams at times profoundly influ
ence waking life, affecting the state of
mind and even the behavior, is an in
teresting and important psychological fact
not nearly so well known as it ought to be.
Almost everybody has had the experience
of waking in the morning and feeling unac
countably happy or unaccountably depressed.
Usually this is attributed to exceptionally vig
orous sluggish action of the internal bodily
processes.
And usually, to be sure, this explanation
is correct. But sometimes, it is equally cer
tain, the puzzling mood of gladness or gloom
is directly traceable to dream influence. This
even when there is no recollection of dream
ing.
As is strikingly seen, for example, in the
case of a young woman under medical treat
ment for a nervous exhaustion, having as its
chief symptom a recurrent melancholy.
The specialist in whose care she was could
find no sufficient physical cause for this. And
his patient admitted that she had no adequate
justification for it in the circumstances oi
her life.
Hence it remained an unsolved problem,
until one day it occurred to her doctor to
question her as to her dreams. She stated
that she often dreamed, but on waking could
seldom recall what she had dreamed about.
One morning, when she felt particularly de
pressed, she was hypnotized and asked if she
could remember having dreamed anything the
previous night. Her answer was a detailed
account of a poignantly distressing dream.
Dehypnotized she was quite without remem
brance of the details of this dream. Later
investigation showed, however, that it was
a dream which often occurred to her in one
form or another, and that it was always fol
lowed by an attack of melancholia.
. Dreams, in fact, have even been known to
give rise to serious conditions of mental dis
ease.' Fortunately, they seldom have such a
disastrous consequence. The moods they cre
ate, whether pleasant or unpleasant, soon
pass.
But dreams also influence in ways other
than the creating of moods. As noted by Dr.
William S. Walsh, in his recently ,published
“Psychology of Dreams:”
“Many people have reason to thank dreams
for the restoration of the affections of their
loved ones.
“Sometimes, when one has been out of
sorts or angry, a half-wish is made that the
one with whom there has been a quarrel
be never seen again. The half-wish becomes
the instigator of a dream in which the wish
seems fulfilled.
“The dreamer is distressed by it, becomes
penitent, and strives to atone by kindness to
the person wronged in thought.”
Often, too, the grief-stricken are comforted
through dreams of their dead, and helped to
regain self-control. Or dreams, again, may
stimulate to action leading to the realization
of ambitions and ideals.
Dream influences, in short, are so many
and so varied that an entire book might
easily be written treating of them alone. And
perhaps some day such a book will be written
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Neews
papers.)
THE OPTIMIST’S CORNER
By Dr. Frank Crane
Some time ago I published in this space a
simple account coming from a girl friend of
mine telling how brave her mother was when
she fell down stairs, cut her face and had to
have it sewed up and iodined by the sur
geon.
I received letters from all parts of the
country commenting upon this, and two man
aging editors of newspapers remarked upon
the interesting character of the story.
All of which leads me to turn and ask the
editors of newspapers this question:
“Why don’t you run an Optimist’s Cor
ner?”
Os course, I know the answer, “We have
too many ‘features,’ 'departments,’ and ‘cor
ners’ now. And fresh candidates for space
come in every mall.”
True. I am not childlike enough to im
agine an editor needs anything to put in his
paper, and am well aware that his eternal
struggle is to keep things out.
But I shy my suggestion into the ring in
the belief that it is better, more interesting,
longer lived, and more attractive than the
other features in the paper.
Reasons why:
1. News is usually ugly. Murders, scan
dals, riots and fires are news. People want
to read about them. But the most perma
nent desire of people is Something Else.
They all get tired of too much tragedy, Give
them one cheerful corner.
2. Ask your readers to send in an account
of the finest, most heroic, most beautiful or
most human act they discover. Select the
best. Give it three sticksful or so. You’ll
start something. Your readers will uncon
sciously get the habit of looking for sunshine
and not gloom. And the first thing you
know you will cure the world of what’s the
matter with it, if that interests you.
3. Because it is unusual the idea will have
news value. People will buy your paper just
to read this corner. Worried business men,
sad-eyed women, grouchy agitators and poets
with the bellyache will pounce with eager
ness upon one spot in the daily news that
tastes good.
4. Ty it out on yourself. Don’t you like
to hear of something particularly decent
somebody has done? I speak not of profes
sional uplifters. I mean the unexpected—
the burglar who helps a lame dog over a
stile, the jail prisoner who refuses to go out
because he is needed by his fellow convicts,
the ’longshoreman that risks his life to save
a baby, the little woman that lies to keep
her worthless husband from being arrested,
the traffic cop who wins city-wide fame for
being pleasant, the parson who dons overalls
and lends a hand when one of his flock is
short of labor, and the politician who tells
the truth and shames the devil.
The world is full of deeds that shine like
jewels in the mud. Only we can’t see them.
We don’t look for them. And by and by we
get to believing they do not exist.
There’s too much cynicism, envy, pessim
ism, gripes, and gloom. It’s bad for us. Give
us one corner where the light shines always.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
ery, and the remaining ninety-three per
cent goes to pay the expenses incurred by
past wars and preparing against the day
of a future war.
“One cent for happiness; ninety-three
cents for misery,” suggests an exchange, by
way of comment.
That, of course, is not a fair statement
of the case. The debts incurred by past
wars were incurred that the honor of the
nation might be maintained and that the
people of today might enjoj; freedom,
health and happiness. And so it is with
respect to the expenditures f/>r the de
velopment and maintenance of the army and
navy. It is unreasonable to charge these
expenditures to preparations for future
wars, for, in fact, the money thus invest
ed is a guarantee of the peace which the
people love and to which they are entitled.
It is of course to be regretted that so
tremendous a percentage of revenues is di
verted from activities that bring immediate
returns in health and happiness, but no
one will seriously protest the millions an
nually expended for justice, order and sane
preparedness.
THE AUTOMOBILE
SLEUTH
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 22.
Steadily increasing thefts
of automobiles have brought
into existence a new kind of
detective. Professional crooks long
ago realized that stealing autos was
a branch of thievery requiring spe
cial technique and qualification. It
is only recently that detectives found
that the same thing applies to recov
ering stolen cars.
As this significant fact dawns on
the police departments of the dif
ferent cities they are creating auto
squads composed of men who will
give all their time to pursuing stolen
motor vehicles. And what is more,
they are in most cases appointing
only specially qualified men for the
job.
The expert automobile detective,
they have concluded, has to know au
tomobiles. He not only has to know
how to run them, and a good deal
about their mechanism, but he must
be on speaking terms with the dif
ferent makes, and have at the tip
of his tongue all the little features
that identify each one. There are sev
eral hundred makes of cars on the
market, and the expert auto detec
tive knows the general outline, de
sign on the hub, colors, shape of the
radiator, and other distinguishing
points of nearly all of them.
Furthermore, he has a quick eye. A
good many people can walk past a
row of cars and name every one cor
rectly. But not so many can do the
same thing if the machines are rat
tling past or are seen from a dis
tance. Still fewer can take in other
details, such as the appearance of
the driver and condition of the car,
at a hasty glance.
The auto detective cannot only per
form such feats of observation, but
he can pick out a hybrid car, that is,
one patched together from two or
more makes in order to disguise it.
While the amateur is puzzling over
the mystery of a body like a Red Ar
row, and wheels which are similar to
a Saranac, the astute detective gives
the uncatalogued speciffien one look
and remarks “there ain’t no such ani
mal.’’ And, of course, he hastens to
delve into the reason for the ex
istence of the freak.
Difficult to Locate Cars
When a car disappears from the
curb without leaving a trace of theft
the problem of finding it is about the
most difficult you can imagine. The
police department keeps records of
the numbers and descriptions of cars
reported stolen. The auto squad fixes
these in mind and If it is given no
clues as to direction in which the
cars disappeared, the members go
out in their machines or motorcycles
to watch out for cars answering the
descriptions listed and also for any
suspicious-looking rigs. Drivers of
such cars are questioned and their
machines investigated. Numbers on
the cars are especially noted, as they
are one of the most reliable means
of identification.
Every car has an engine number,
and more expensive cars have as
many as five or more numbers on
the chassis, horn, frame, generator,
starter, or other parts. When a thief
disguises a car, he changes as many
numbers as he happens to notice,
either by trying to cut out the sten
ciled figures altogether, or by chang
ing some of the figures so that the
owner will not be able to claim his
car through them. Experienced auto
mobile detectives usually have little
trouble In spotting numbers that
have been tampered with, and the
thief often neglects to find and alter
all the numbers, so that if the owner
had a record of all his numbers the
identity of his car can be proved be
yond doubt.
Wandering about town to watch
for stolen automobiles to come past
may seem a random method of pur
suing auto thieves, but Its effective
ness when followed by experts is
undeniable. Outside of the fact that
he looks contemptuously at a magni
fying glass, the auto hound is more
like the infallible Sherlock Holmes
than any other type of modern de
tective. At least, so it seems to the
bewildered owner bereft of his car.
In this city, where an auto squad
of four men has been operating for
a year, 92 per cent of 970 cars have
been recovered. This is a much bet
ter showing than was made when
the entire police department was
charged with the responsibility of
looking out for stolen cars. But 92
per cent, though unusual, is not
unique. It has been matched in gait
Lake City, Los Angeles and Seattle,
all places where special attention is
given to pursuing the auto thief
scientifically.
That the professional auto Jack
is worthy of signal interest may be
readily seen from a study of his
methods and their frequent success.
Thefts have mounted so that insur
ance companies raised their rates
several times on this form of auto
liability. The number of cars stolen
by joyriders and professional thieves
in this country is now estimated at
over 200,000 a year, and the number
is still increasing. Recoveries run
as low as 40 per cent in some places,
with 75 per cent as a reasonable av
erage for the country.
Stealing automobiles is the most
popular outdoor sport of crooks, far
outdistancing pocketbook snatching.
And owners of cars, as in the past,
still leave their cars about unpro
tected, apparently with the idea of
making life simple for joyriders, who
like to borrow cars, and for the pro
fessional, who prefers an unlocked
car to a locked one, even though he |
may be able to get away with the
latter.
How the Professional Works
Usually the auto Jack has noth
ing to do but walk up to a lonesome
looking car and give it a hasty glance
to see if the owner has tried to foil
him. Then, if the car seems to be
unincumbered by locks, he slips into
the drivers seat and in a second he
is out of sight.
If the car is locked it is more
trouble to steal, and many a thief
will pass it by in favor of an unpro
tected machine. But other burglars
are more painstaking. If a car is
worth stealing, it is worth stealing
right, they seem to think, and these
persevering ones who know the mech
anism of almost any car, and who
are friends with every protection de
vice on the market, will proceed to
illustrate just how the right turn of
a wrench or manipulation of wires
will fix a protected car so that it
will run while the owner still has
the keys safe in his pocket.
If the owner has warily removed
a small piece of the mechanism to
prevent the car from running, the
thief resorts to his service car which
a pal is running, and which is
parked nearby. This car Is just like
a garage service car, even to having
a firm name painted on it. So when
a nicely dressed gentlemen who
seems to be having trouble in start
ing his engine and summon.-. the
service car for assistance no notice
is taken. .If the well-equipped serv
ice car cannot supply the missing
part it takes the disabled machine in
tow and hauls it triumphantly off.
Work in Dread Daylight
Even the supposedly fool-proof
wheel lock, which clamps around a
wheel and is pointed on the end, has
been calmly “fixed” by a gang in or
der to take an unusually desirable
car. A car bearing this lock cannot
be run without considerable noise
and a severe jolt at every revolution
of the wheel, but the thief in this
case removed the shackled wheel and
substituted another, all in broad day
light, -with the slight protection of a
small group of assistants who stood
around so that passers-by -would not
know just what repairs were going
on.
But suppose the owner should
come out while the thieves were so
leisurely tinkering with his property?
And of course he occasionally does,
and the party disperses then and
there, sometimes the thieves taking
their departure hastily in the car. 1
The auto thief does not always ob- i
ject to the owner of a car being
present while he works. One of the
more reckless Jacks, who apparently
was bored with the monotony of
stealing unprotected cars, took a
small car from under the nose of the
driver and a policeman. The driver
got out to light his lamps as it was
getting dark and a policeman was
posted on the corner ahead. As the
owner was lighting the rear lamp
the car started off and by the time
he and the policeman had recovered
from the shock the machine was out
of sight.
There ■will doubtless always be a
Inrsre number of auto thefts, even ‘
when precautions are taken by own- 1
o:s, t>ut with the/ recently enacted I
federal law penalizing interstate |
CURRENT EVENTS
DURBAN, South Africa, June 24.
The chief of the Zulu nation, his
ringed headmen and many minor
chiefs, recently assembled in the
courthouse at Maritzburg and deliv
ered speeches of affection and es
teem for Lord Sidney Charles Bux
ton, retiring governor general of
South Africa, and Lady Buxton, who
accompanied him on the farewell
visit. There was an enthusiastic
demonstration. Chief Manzolwandhi,
son of Cetewayo, as a chief of the
royal Zulu blood, voiced his thanks
for “the beneficent British rule.”
Then Chief Mini spoke. He said:
“The Zulus gave assistance in the
great war and if assistance is needed
again they are prepared to die for
their king and country.”
Although nearly a million and
three-quarters gross tons less of
shipping are being built in the United
States today than a year ago, the re
duction in the world total under con
struction is less than 4 per cent,
says a statement just issued by
Lloyd’s register of shipping. Returns
from all countries for the quarter
ended July 1 show an aggregate of
7,720,000 tons under way, compared
with 8,017,000 at this time last year.
The Rev. O. U. Kvale, of Benson,
is disqualified as the Republican can
didate for congress in the Seventh
Minnesota district, and Congressman
A. J. Volstead, author of the prohi
bition enforcement act, is declared
to be the “duly nominated candidate,”
in a decision filed today by District
Judge Albert Johnson, who heard the
suit contesting Kvale’s nomination.
Volstead was defeated by Kvale in
the June 21 primary. Kvale was in
dorsed by the Non-Partisan league.
The aerial police got into action
for the first time at the yach trace.
Colonel Herbert Mapes, acting com
mandant of the aerial police force
of New York City, watched from the
destroyer Semmes land planes and
other aircraft persistently violating
the rules concerning the maintenance
of an alMtude of 1,000 feet and a
horizontal distance of 500 feet from
the contending yachts. They also
were flying dangerously low over ex
cursion steamers out to see the race.
Not having an airplane handy to
chase the offenders himself, Colonel
Mapes got busy otherwise. He sent
a radio to Colonel G. C. Brant, air
service officer of the department of
the East at Fort Schuyler to send out
the “cops.”
American warships are going to
sink three German sea fighters off
the Virginia coast in September.
The doomed ships are torpedo boat
destroyers that were used in the
early stages of the war against the
British and French, but did not come
out of their sheltered harbor after
America entered the war. They will
be dismantled and towed out to sea
off Norfolk to be shot at. They will
furnish excellent targets for the
American gunners, who have been
smashing targets at from 3,000 to
15,000 .yards off the Virginia capes.
The smallest and the biggest guns in
the navy have been used In the tar
get shooting and some excellent hits
have been made. Night firing has
been practiced to a greater extent
this year than usual, and the rec
ords made by various gunners are
expected to prove interesting when
they are made public by the navy
department.
Whirling winds have Immense lift
ing and carrying power. At Chris
tianso, Denmark, a waterspout once
temporarily emptied the harbor to
such an extent that the greater part
of the bottom was uncovered. Nat
urally, great quantities of small fish
and other marine organisms were
thus picked up and carried long dis
tances.
Another phenomenon of that kind
is recorded as having occurred dur
ing a violent storm at sea some
distance from Paris. When morning
came the streets were found to be
covered with fish of various sizes.
The mystery was soon solved, for a
neighboring fish pond had been
sucked nearly dry and only the
larger fish were left behind.
The Ward liner Mexico, which reach-
New York last week, was delayed
twenty-two days at Havaa, at a cost
of $2,000 a day to the line, because
the longshoremen at that port were
too busy speculating in sugar to
load that vessel or any other. Wil
liam Harry Smith, president of the
Ward line and general manager in
Havana, said that the bongestion
at that port was the worst in its
history. “These deplorable condi
tions,” said Dr. A. P. Geibm, ships’
surgeon on the Mexico, “are due to
the prosperity of the Cubans. The
merchants seemingly do not care
whether they obtain shipments of
goods. Whenever their supply of a
commodity runs low they boost its
price.”
Thomas Masaryk, president of
Czecho-Slovakia, in conversation with
American correspondents recently
said the withdrawal of the United
States from European affairs had
weakened the hand of the entente
in settling vital controversies.
The German bark Reiherstieg, now
loading oil at Pretty’s Island In the
Delaware, boldly flies the merchant
flag of the old imperial German gov
ernment from her masthead. “No
German skipper worthy of the name
will hoist the red,/ black and gold
of the new Socialist government,”
asserted Captain Wilhelm WtMtphal
“The horizontal blocks of red, white
and . black stand for order, loyalty
and a proud record of fearless sea
manship,” he continued. “What does
the new flag represent? Disorder,
untried or discredited rule, chaos,
hunger and misery.”
And the crew of the trim merchant
man is heartily with the skipper.
London’s police are faced with a
new problem because of the recent
influx of American "undesirables”
who have come to John Bull’s capital
to escape the rigors and sorrows of
prohibition.
Among the .visitors are many
"roughnecks” from New York, whose
records are well known to the police
of both cities.
One result of this to London’s un
derworld is the liveliness apparent
in the Chinese quarter, the Lime
house, where fights between Ameri
can gunmen and the yellow inhabi
have become *a daily occurrence.
The visiting bad men are plenti
fully supplied with money, a situa
tion which is not overlooked by the
C hinamen w r ho operate opium joints
and gambling houses.
At ' pukkapoo,” a Chinese gambling
game imported from San Francisco
♦ X 1 ® benefit of the new arrivals,
tne Oriental proprietors are making
large sums of money.
With the nose of her envelope col
lapsing because of the escape of gas
through rents j n the top of the bag
? aval blim P C-10. which had been
s nnn n s above the yacht race, fell
8,000 feet one afternoon last week
into Jamaica bay. The dirigible,
with eight pasengers. floated two
P?”®? to Ba , ren Is3an <i and landed
there a wreck Nob.ody was Injured.
A frantic effort to keep the ba&
aloft until above a safe landing
plaa ® hllmp 1,000 feet to
a height of 3.000. Aboard the dirigi
ble were three reporters and a crew
og five, including a wireless onera
tor. who had been sending reports
to newspaper offices. The craft was
in command of Lieutenant A W
Bva " s ° f J he Rockawav Point' Air
Station. Each of the four cockpits
held two persons. 1
FrnnnT at Mans
ornMnt ™ llbur Wright, commem
oiatlng his first public flights, and
his first public fight at Le Mans and
the pioneer work of Wilbur and his
brother Oryille. their predecessors
and contemporaries, was dedicated
bv prominent French and Americans
hl We l wh,le airplanes over
head. The monument, the gift of
n Beaurnont . is erected on
a foundation presented through
French subscriptions. it stands *in
center of the city, heside the
M i” of granite, is about
r h , h . and is the work of
Paul Landowski. The shaft is sur
sJri’vin 04 . f,pllre of a
P™ t 0 through snacc with
. . •'urinp* the enremonv the
of Chevalier of the Legion
of Honor was conferred on Commo
dore Beaumont.
commerce in stolen cars, with the '
specialist m automobile sleuthing I
coming to the fore, and with own- ,
ers gradually acquiring more caution 1
about leaving their cars unprotected. !
the losses should diminish in the .
luture A • "o'.nobile stealing is be- 1
coming a hazardous undertaking.
TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1020.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
THE WIFE WHOJLJNDERSTANDS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
THERE is no complaint oftener
on women’s lips than that
their husbands do not under
stand them. Indeed, Fi is this
lack of sympathetic comp-i’tehension
that turns matrimony into cinders,
ashes and dust to many a woman
who is married to a man who is a
model of all the virtues, /W a good
provider, to boot.
The lack of vamps an<r sirens on
her horizon, an.'! the possession of
pearls and limousines do not atone
to the wife for her husband not un
derstanding why she sFeds tears to
express joy, or nags where she
loves most, or for his bffing unable to
tell beforehand which Way she will
jump in a crisis.
It is curioUe that ~romen, who so
long for tr.il! symjfethetic under
standing themselves-, so seldom real
ize that men are potf-lessed by a sim
ilar yearning. It is very seldom
that they do so, The aver
age wife makes jt*st as little effort
to get beneath thq outer skin of her
husband’s personality as he does to
get under her’s.
The result is tre woman is to the
man merely a mAre or less decora
tive and useful >iece of household
furniture, while «he man is to the
woman only a tash register, and
marriage is a failure because they
have missed the Le thing they most
desired to flnd.iil matrimony. That
is, a divining Jove that knows the
things of one’s loul without having
to have them labeled and diagram
med.
Wives do notjjften think of their
husbands as pinir;< to be understood,
yet if you wisY. to measure how
great is a man’s desire fc* sympa
thetic comprehension you have only
to note bow readjly he falls a vic
tim to any womai who shows any
intuition into whai he has done, or
any appreciation of vhat he is. It is
significant that whe>- a married man
strays off of the straight and narrow
path he is far more a>>t to go with a
good listener than. with a peach.
Between a man’s happiness and
misery in marriage l'-es his wife’s
ability to comprehend why he is
what he is, and why he\,does certain
things. If she doesn’t. U she sees in
him only the children's father, and
a stodgy individual who is w-rapped
up in business, and Jvithout a
thought beyond the stocx market,
marriage is a failure to him. He is
desperately lonely because he real
izes he is tied for life to the woman
who doesn’t understand, and never
can understand.
What he would give his life for is
a wife who could see that his cease
less toil, so that she may live soft
and easy, is a tribute of love as fine
as can be woven out of the warp,
and woof of romance. What he
yearns for is a wife who compre
hends that in working through burn
ing summers and freezing winters,
and keeping to his task no matter
how loudly the highroad calls or
feels the wood’s temptation, a man
offers himself a daily living sacri
fice on the family altar.
Also he pines for a wife who appre
ciates that a man does not labor and
strive for bread alone, and that suc
cess is not just so much more money
in the bank. It is his crown of vic
tory, the tangible proof that he was
NEWEST NOTES IN
SCIENCE
j
NEWEST NOTES IN SCIENCE
A mould has been invented for
forming concrete posts in holes in the
ground, mechanism operated by a
crank mixing the concrete as the
mould is filled. »
A Frenshman is the inventor of a
rubber stopper with flexible projec
tions to be folded around the neck of
a bottle to afford additional security.
An inventor has supported a tent
on a square umbrella frame, each
side of which can be lowered sep
arately, while the entire device
packs in a box through which there
are holes to hold the center pole
erect.
An experimenter has succeeded in
successfully substituting crystals of
Rochelle salt for dry cell batteries in
telephone circuits to transmit and
amplify sound.
Italian manufacturers have devel
oped an abrasive method for mak
ing corks that wastes but 3 per cent
of material as compared with 20 per
I cent when they are cut.
A Pennsylvania inventor has re
ceived a patent for ready-made con
crete building parts, such as floors,
roofs, steps, etc., formed in metal
troughs easily put together.
As an improvement on the web
fingered glove for swimmers an in
ventor has patented one with a disk
of webbing surrounding the hand as
well as folding between the fingers.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
“Where’s Jackie?” asked Mr. Brown
upon his return from business one
evening.
“Gone to bed,” was his wife’s re
ply.
“Not ill, I hope?”
“No, I sent him to bed as a pun
ishment for swearing.”
“Swearing? I’ll teach the young
rascal to swear!”
Without waiting to switch on the
light, the angry father dashed up the
stairs to interview the culprit, only
to fall over a loose stair rod and
bump his chin against the edge of a
step. Instantly Mr. Brown became
very fluent, and when the air had
cleared sufficiently for his wife’s
voice to be heard from the hall she
called to him:
“Better come down now; I’m sure
Jackie has heard enough for his first
lesson.”
"I have come sir,” explained the
wild-eyed caller, throwing his he£d
back defiantly, “to have it out with
you!”
The dentist gasped his forceps,
there was a short struggle and he
stood over his victim in triumph.
“That’s all right, sir,” he replied,
looking at the weapon to see if he
had brought away anything besides
the aching molar. “That’s all right.
But I don’t want any of your jaw,
you know.”
In reply to our observation that he
and his son and namesake resembled
each other greatly, old Bill Slivers
said: “The main difference ’twixt me
an’ young Bill is, when I put in a
day at work I don’t feel much like
runnin’ ’round at nights; and when
young Bill puts in a night runnin’
’round he don’t feel much like work
in’ next day.”
The proprietor of the second-hand
shop was not so tidy as he might
have been. One day while standing
in front of the shop a man ap
proached him and said:
“Have ye any clean shirts in yer
shop?”
“Sure, I have,” answered the
clothing man, anxious for a sale.
“Lots of them,, as clean as anything.”
“Well,” said the man, moving
away, ’go in and put one of them
on.”
“Yes, boys,” continued the steeple
jack, who was telling "true” and
thrilling stories, “yes, I was working
a clock tower one afternoon about
twelve minutes to 6 when I slipped,
slid down the roof and caught on
the long hand of the clock. There I
dangled while the town folks collect
ed below. So I yells to ’em, ‘Say,
you folks, go home to your suppers,
it’ll be close to half an hour before
I drop.’ ”
An American teacher undertook
the task of convincing an indolent
native son of the Philippines that it
was his duty to get out and hustle.
"But why should I work?” inquired
the guileless Filipino.
"In order to make money,” de
clared the thrifty teacher.
“But what do I -want with money?"
persisted the brown brother.
“Why. when you get plenty of
money you will be independent and
will not have to work any more,”
reulied the teacher.
"I don’t have tn work now,” said
tbe native—”ud the teacher gave it
up in disgust.
no weakling, but a man among men;
one who has striven with worthy ad
versaries and has not been defeated,
when it was his strength against
theirs, his wit pitted against their
acumen. -<
All men long for this kind of sym
pathetic understanding from their
wives, but how many get it? How
many wives yawn in their husband’s
faces when they talk of their busi
ness at home? How many wives
voice any gratitude to their hus
bands, or even tell their husbands
that they are proud of their achieve
ments?
So pitiably few, and there are so
many hungry-hearted men, starving
for the few kind words that would
make all their work and sacrifices for
their families worth while!
Probably if men should give their
real definition of an ideal wife it
would be like the little boy's descrip
tion of a real friend, “Somebody who
knows all about you and likes you
anyhow.”
A man would prefer a wife who
didn’t have any illusions about his
being a little tin god, but who un
derstood him, through and through—
a human man full of faults but lov
able still for the goodness at the
bottom of him.
He would like her to understand
even his weaknesses and to play upon
tltem as upon a harp with a thousand
strings. He would like her to know
when to cajole him with good food
when he was grumpy, and how to
soothe him with flattery when he was
irritable, and how to jolly him into
doing the thing he knew he ought to
do and didn’t want to do. He would
like her to know when to prod him on
when he was tempted to loaf, when
to use the spur when his ambitions
flagged, when to turn a face of in
vincible courage and faith upon him
in the hour when his own heart failed
him.
A man would bless God for a wife
who had discernment enough to tell
quivering nerves from temper, and
who could distinguish between ths
utter exhaustion of body and mind,
that prostrates a man- beyond speech,
from a grouch, and 'who would not
think herself ill-used and dissolve in
a flood of tears because he did not
always come home with a gay smile,
ready to do the little sunshine stuff
about the house. Above all, a man
would consider a woman a wife
whose price was above rubies, if she
had understanding enough to realize
that a man must have some liberty
to be happy, and thaC because he
wants the society of men, and enjoys
talking to a bright woman, and ad
mires a pretty face, is no sign that
he has ceased to love his wife or has
become a gay Lothario.
It is only the exceptional woman
who has sense enough to comprehend
that a man must have this sense of
freedom or else find matrimony un- w
endurable. Those who do, and know
that it does not menace them, give
their husbands liberty and a latch-
Xey, and so keep them. The balance
lose the love they have vainly tried
to tie to their apronstrings.
The prayer of every young couple
when they get married should be,
“God, give us wisdom to understand
each other.” For in that lies the
whole secret of married happiness.
THE LILY OF THE
VALLEY ,
Should you receive a bouquet of
lilies-of-the-valley the sender pays
you a subtle compliment, for this
blossom signifies unconscious sweet
ness in the language of the flowers.
It also represents the return of hap
piness.
Lily-of-the-valley is one of the
flowers dedicated to the Virgin Mary
and is also known as Our Lady's
tears.
Died for Medicine
The ancients attributed great
medicinal properties to this plant.
A delicious, perfumed liquid was dis
tilled from the flowers, which, it is
said, was a remedy for nervous dis
orders. This liquid was considered
so valuable that it was kept only in
bottles of silver or gold.
In the Middle Ages, beauty doctors
prescribed the blossoms of the lily
of-the-valley gathered before sunrise
and rubbed on the face as a cure for
freckles. In some English counties,
a superstition is found that the per
son who transplants a bed of these
lilies will die within the next year.
Legend of Origin
The legend of the origin of this
flower tells of a hermit, St. Leonard,
who lived about 500 A. D. in the
forest of Louvain, in France. Near
him dwelt a huge dragon, and often
terrible struggles took place be
tween them. The beast, represent
ing temptation, was driven back con
tinually until it finally disappeared.
Where the combats took place, beds
of lilies-of-the-valley sprang up,
marking the place where the blood
of the holy man had sprinkled the
ground. z
* WHAT DO YOU
KNOW?
(Copyright, 1920, by the Press Pub
lishing Co. N. Y. Evening World.)
1 — In what city was the original
Bridge of Sighs?
2 What is put on glass to form a
mirror?
3 What tree is generally referred
to as denoting great strength?
4 What American president had a
family of ten children?
5 What state at one time was
called the State of Franklni?
6On what river is Washington,
District of Columbia?
7 Who built the all-metal plane
which recently broke the non-stop
flight record?
8— What country is noted for its
cameos?
9Os what country was Croesus
king?
10— Which side of a film is toward
the lens in a camera?
11— Whst famous cathedral was
started by Edward the Confessor?
12— In what city will the final try
outs for the Olympic games be held?
Answers to Questions
1, Venice; 2, Mercury; 3, oak; 4,
William Harrison; 5, Tennessee; 6,
Potomac; 7, Larson; 8, Italy; 9,
Lydia; 10, emulsion; 11, Westmin
ster; 12, Boston.
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