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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL I ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST- Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) ' 1 Wk.l Mo. 8 Moe. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 9Oc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes ton 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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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. < 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. a 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. J!AMBONE’S MEDITATIONS pahson say do goot> T' DEW VMHUT USES YOU SPITEFUL , BUT EF AM WUZ T' L>° PAT HATTER KISS DE OLE 'OMAN EVY J>AY H BOL Copyright, 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate