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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta. Ga.
Human Nature Learns Slowly
A STRANGE cry it is that comes from
certain industrial centers in New
England where mills have suspend
ed. “For mercy’s sake start up again,”
appeal the mayors of the towns concern
ed, “and save us from having to establish
soup kitchens and bread lines for the un
employed.”
Now the Interesting aspect oi the sit
uation Is that within a short ride of these
silent factories the fields, If not alto
gether ripe for harvest, are at least beg
ging for laborers, and the latter are piti
fully few. As the Boston Transcriut re
ports it: “Farmers are paying five dollars
a day for workmen for a day of eight
hours, and lodging and feeding the men.
Yet in many instances they are unable to
get any help, although -willing to take men
heretofore unskilled in farm work.’’ Os
one district it is related that a farmer,
hard pressed for hands, drove into town
and personally solicited men who were
without jobs to return with him to work.
But not one could he persuade to do so.
"Soup houses,” the Transcript laconically
observes, “are for those who cannot get
work, not for those who will not work.
Though It would be presumptuous for a
distant onlooker to pass upon the merits
of this or any other particular situation of
the ,kind, there can be no doubt of a gen
eral and imperative need of farm labor on
the one hand, and, on the other, of a gen
eral disinclination on the part of idle men
ter this field of service. Work for work’s
sake Is an Ideal rarely attained save by
the gifted artisan and the true artist. But
work for a living’s sake and from a sense
of duty is a standard assuredly within
reach of most of us. Yet how often In these
squeamish times do we hear of worthwhile
jobs going begging because they do not
suit a silken taste, and of able arms
hanging unproductive because they cannot
find a fortune in a day’s pay!
- Well, we can not expect the demorallza
' tions of a World War to cease of a sud
den, nor the sons of this complex Twen
tieth century to develop a keen appetite for
Arcadian simplicity. Few of us, after all,
are of that heroic fibre which courts the
line of greatest resistance and counts it
better to add even a mite to the
welfare than selfishly suck its honey. The
brother who works grudgingly three days
a week in order that he may loaf■ th
other four is of human clay, that is all, a
pretty poor sort of clay, be it granted,
sort that is certain to crack and go to
-pieces under the stress of days yet to
come. But the majority will learn in time
though it may take iron experience to drive
the lesson home, that work is a‘ P”™ I ®’’®’
not an Imposition, and that rights having
no meaning apart from duties.
One may hope, indeed, if he be s a
born, that a golden age will come when
palms which now clench in anger or writhe
in disgust on being offered the plow han
dies for an honest living, will turn wil
lingly to the farm and learn how infinite
ly better a producer is than a parasite.
Taxes That Tell Prosperity
GEORGIA’S payment of forty-two mil
lion, six hundred and sixty-five thou
sand, -seven hundred and ninety-two
dollars to the Federal tax till for the
twelvemonth ended June 30 last bears im
pressive witness to the State’s productive
strength. Os this huge total all but a■ n“ s '
cellaney of approximately eight million,
nine hundred thousand represents income
and profits taxes, or tribute straight from
the lap of prosperity. Everything considered,
the record compares favorably with that of
more populous and more extensively de
veloped regions. Less than two generations
ago the State whose sinew and enterprise
poured these millions into the national
treasury lay crushed by war. With such
powers of recuperation and progress as she
has evidenced, especially in recent years,
to what goodly attainments will she not go
within another generation, or another dec
ade ?
The South as a whole makes a remark
able showing. From the eleven States of
this section the returns amount to seven
hundred and one million, four hundred and
thirty-seven thousand dollars. This is more
than three times the capital investment of
all the cotton mills in the Union in 1880,
and little less than the nation’s total ex
port values in tha,t year. It speaks eloquent
■ly of Southern resources that so vast a
yield of income and profits taxes should
flow from a region whose natural wealth
is in the dawn of development and whose
busiest centers are still frontiers of oppor
tunity.
The collections for the entire country,
aggregating five billion, four hundred and
ten million, two hundred and eighty-four
thousand dollars, overtop the tallest record
in the- Government’s history. Indeed, they
are nearly seventy-rfive per cent greater than
the total of taxes paid in either of the
war years, 1918 and 1919, and are said
to exceed the highest official estimates.
Evidently the tides of American prosperity
have, deepened and widened as never be
fore. Evidently, too, conditions are ripe
and urgent for tax revision, to the eftd that
this prosperity, now shared by the rank
and file, may not be penalized to the point
of discouragement and danger.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
The Volcano in Germany
THE reasons given by the German
authorities against the Allied de
mand that their army be reduced to
a maximum of one hundred thousand men
may or may not be sufficient to support
the main contention; but they are exceed
ingly interesting as evidence of the coun
try’s internal condition.
If order is to be • maintained, those
authorities argue (and without it, they
add, steady work and increased production
will not be possible) the Government must
have at its disposal at least two hundred
thousand troops, which is about the size of
its present army. This would seem to be
a very large number of soldiers for mere
ly keeping domestic peace. But the Ger
man spokesmen go on to point out recent
occasions requiring military intervention. It
took forty-five thousand men to restore
order in Berlin in March 1919, they say;
thirty-three thousand to bring Munich to
normal in April 1919; nineteen thousand
in Hamburg the following July; and for
ty thousand in the Ruhr district. Thus in
the space of a few months upwards of one
,hundred and thirty thousand troops were
called to emergency duty in divers parts
of the country, while vigilance against pos
sible outbreaks were needed in as many
other troublous centers. Were precautions
relaxed, it is insisted, disorders would flame
forth far and wide.
If conditions really are so, then Ger
many is perilously unsettled —perilously for
Europe as well as for herself. Dr. Gessler,
Minister of War in the present Govern
ment, goes so far as to liken her to "a
mighty volcano that has by no means be
come extinct.” Declaring that certain
classes r among her people still hope for an
eruption that will either destroy the re
sults of the revolution or carry them fur
ther and establish Sovietism, he goes on
to argue:
Those circles, who aim at the over
throw of the present government and
the German ideal, are only awaiting
the moment when our army shall be
reduced to such an extent that they
may have reasonable hope of success.
Only the fear of a strong armed force
restrains them. Any considerable retire
ment of officers and men weakens
therefore not only the government in ■
power but strengthens the opposition
forces. If Germany, and therewith the
whole of Europe, is not to be thrown
into a state of chaos, means must be •
taken to prevent the fire of discon
tent from bursting into an all-devour
ing flame. Our police force is not suf
ficient for the solution of this prob
lem. The police stand first in keeping
order. But behind them must stand the
strong force of our army.
Besides these consideration, it is urged that
a further reduction of the army would add
portentously to the ranks of the unem
ployed, who already are numerous to the
point of danger.
. After due allowance for designed ex
agerration, it seems evident that affairs in
Germany are still far from stable. The sea
sons just ahead will be critical for the
swaddling republic and momentous for all
Europe and the -world. Bolshevik propa
ganda undoubtedly is at work in the late
empire of the Hohenzollerns; undoubtedly,
too, retainers of the fallen monarchy are
busied in its behalf. While the devil of
Prussianism and the witch /of Bolshevism
thus ply their arts to win the nation’s soul,
economic conditions make for grave unrest.
Industries hampered by lack of raw mate
rial, workingmen worn by the strain of
war and reduced to the hardest of living
conditions, taxpayers sweating and all but
breaking under the burdens which their
militarist- masters brought upon them—all
this is conducive to anything but content
and social steadiness.
More important, then, than the size of
the German army is the capacity of the
German national character for going
through the whirlpools and quicksands of
this dark stage of its history. What will
be the outcome? A revolution more terri
ble than that of Eighteenth century
France? Or coalition with the Russia of
Lenine? Or a clinging to democracy and a
constructive working out of the time’s
grim problems? Upon the answer which
events bring to pass in that quarter the
whole world’s peace and prosperity will
largely depend. •
’ Lucre in Politics
THE non-partisan and ever temperate
New York Evening Post is moved to
observe that owing to the revela
tions before the Kenyon committee, “the
Republicans are rather on the defensive in
the matter ~of extravagant campaign financ
ing,” and that to such charges the “short
and conclusive” reply must be “Publicity.”
Whether or not it be true, as some watch
ers of the political game have ventured to
assert, that the interests behind Mr. Hard
ing are prepared to spend as much as one
hundred million dollars in the effort to
elect him, it cannot be gainsaid that Re
publican outlays of this kind have been ex
ceedingly large in former contests—far
larger than on the Democratic side—and
that in the recent primaries they were so
Gargantuan as to shock many of the G. O.
P. brethren themselves. Nor can it/ be de
nied that such tendencies, if permitted to
grow, will become deeply demoralizing and
at last pollute the very springs of govern
ment. Legitimate and needful expenses run
regrettably high in a national campaign—
or, for the matter of that, in every arena
of present day politics. But in justice to
all concerned, especially to the electorate
and to the country, there should be reason
able bounds to this lavishing of lucre in
quest of office and influence.
The one effectual check is publicity; not
publicity at the close of the campaign, after
the streams of money have gone their
beguiling way, but at frequent and regular
Intervals in the midst of the drive. Daily
statements may not be requisite, but as
suredly weekly ones are. The public should
know, as the contest develops, upon what
resources and with whose support each par
ty Is proceeding. This would be not only
enlightening to the plain people hut also
wholesomely influential upon the lords of
the political war-chest. The latter are all
honorable men, of course, but naturally lia
ble to wax reckless In ambition for their
candidate and cause. If they know that to
morrow they must give the country an
itemized, full-spoken accounting of both re
ceipts and expenditures, will they not be
disnosed to moderation?
The Democrats have called for unreserved
and continuous publicity in such matters
Their opponents, if heartily for frankness
with the people and for politics above sus
picion. cannot Ignore this challenge. Up
right dollars are never afraid to look the
public full in the face.
Tw® fellow members of a club were having
an indignation meeting of their own.
Both* had had domestic strife and now they
were comparing notes.
“ A r en ’* wo P en the limit?” growled the first.
We husbands don’t know anything at all and
our wives know everything! ”
“Well,” granted his companion in misery,
reluctantly, “there’s one thing my wife admits
she doesn’t know.”
“What on earth is that?”
“Why she married me! ”
The Wealth of the South
APROPOS of the South’s excellent
showing in the Federal income tax
receipts, it is interesting to observe
that of the nation’s total agricultural pro
duction last year this region’s part was al
most a half, or, in of money value,
six billion, four hundred and twenty-seven
million, six hiindred and seven thousand
dollars. These figures become the more
meaningful when, upon analyzing them, we
find that cotton accounts for little more
than a third of the vast aggregate. The
larger portion represents food staples. Ap
proximately a third of the hogs and near
ly a third of the beef cattle raised in the
United States last year were in the South.
In farm production of all kinds, only three
States in the entire Union outdistanced
Georgia.
In mineral wealth and other essentials
of great industrial development the South
is wondrously endowed. Her coal reserve,
estimated to be one-fourth of the whole
country’s, exceeds that of all Europe; and
her iron ore is. one-third of the country’s
total. From her forests comes more than
one-half of the lumber hewn in the United
States. In her streams is energy sufficient
to develop nine million horse-power. Her
coast line is three-fifths of that of conti
nental United States. Where else are the
basic sources of agriculture, of industry
and of commerce exclled?
TO SPEAK WELL
By H. Addington Bruce
TJDAY I am going to call on another man
to address you—Grenville Kleiser, ac
complished teacher of written and
spoken English. Mr. Kleiser hat? published a
little book, "Something to Say and How to
Say It,” of value to any one who would excel
either in public speaking or in private con
versation. I like it so much that I want to
pass on to you a few of the hints it contains.
Here they are:
The most approved type of speaking today
is conversation enlarged and occasionally in
tensified to suit the circumstances.
In addressing an audience talk to them as
you would to any one of them singly—clearly,
sincerely and conversationally. Do not allow
your earnestness to carry you into an unduly
high key. Guard against the faults of exag
geration, loudness and haranguing.
You can make your daily conversation
serve the practical purpose of comparing your
preconceived ideas with those of other men,
of correcting your opinions when they are
erroneous, or clarifying your thoughts in the
process of clothing them in suitable language,
and of broadening your general mental out
look.
You can learn much from others by being
an intelligent listener.
While you are speaking your mind is giv
ing out ideas; when you are listening to
pthers you are in the mental attitude of re
ceiving ideas. You will find the art of in
telligent listening a valuable aid in accu
mulating a stock of ideas. v
Conversation, moreover, offers frequent
opportunity for correcting in yourself faults
of speech which may have come to your at
tention, such as slovenly articulation, care
less punctuation, monotony of tone, hardness
of voice, or high pitch.
These and similar faults can be quickly
eradicated by giving careful attention to your
manner of speaking in daily intercourse.
Remember, too, that it is chiefly in your
daily speech with others that you form un
conscious habits of expression. There
fore it is in your daily speech that you should
establish the desirable habits of clearness,
directness, deliberateness, conciseness, pleas
antness, dignity and self-control.
For speech-making the principal source of
material is that of reading, especially of good
books. ,
As a methodical beginning you should se
lect half a dozen really worth-while books,
and write out a definite plan for reading
them, making a strict pledge with yourself
to carry out your plan faithfully. As you
follow this method of regular and systematic
reading, the way will open gradually to larger
and more productive fields of literature.
And it will be of great practical value to
you to read daily from the dictionary.
It is not sufficient merely to examine the
definitions of selected words, but to read the
book in regular order, much as you would
any other book. Many of the most success
ful public speakers formed early ifi life the
dictionary habit.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
ENVY
By Dr. Frank Crane
When you find a human emotion that is
bad you can trace its path through the busi
ness world, as also, through the social, edu
cational or religious world, by the waste and
ruin it causes, as a tornado.
One of the constant products of the human
animal is Envy.
Envy is feeling bad because another suc
ceeds.
It is the concentrated essence of the cuss
edness of mankind.
Like all things devilish, it has many dis
guises, and never shoXvs its own proper ugly
face.
. A good proportion of the Reforms that
claim to protest against injustice is sheer
Envy.
There are, undoubtedly, many sincere ad
vocates of revolution, but the business has
a fatal attraction lor the disgruntled.
Envy clogs the wheels of business.
Whoever rises above the commons in the
struggle of life is a target for a thousand poi
soned arrows.
To many envy-smitten minds the fact that
a man is rich is prlma facie evidence that
he is some sort of a scoundel.
Envy crucified Jesus and poisoned Soc
ates, and there never has been a man since
who excelled in goodness ‘or wisdom that
snarling human hounds have not wanted to
bite.
If you are a woman, your very beauty is
an offense and your virtue an insult, and "be
thou chaste as ice and pure as snow thou
shalt not escape calumny.”
As Love is the geatest thing in the world,
Envy is the smallest. As Love is the zenith
of the soul, Envy is its master.
John D. Rockefeller is probably doing
more with his money to promote the welfare
of the race than any living man. He prob
ably has as many sins to answer for as I, but
that is not why the average sour-ball hates
him. His outstanding sin is his success.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
"This thrift expert gives some good ad
vice.”
"How’s that?”
"He says every time we earn a dollar we
should save half of it.”
“Umph! What aye you going to do if you’ve
ilready spent $1.50 by the time you’ve earn
-3d $1?”
"Yes,” she said, "I have an uncle in the
Klondike gold fields. We got a letter from
him last week and he asked particularly
about me. I know from the manner he
wrote that he intends making me a hand
some wedding present.”
The young man took the hint and spoke up.
Mrs. Solomon Says:
By HELEN ROWLAND
Being The Confessions of the
Seven-Hundredth Wife
(Copyiight, 1920, by The Wheeler Syndl-
MY DAUGHTER, there i s a
place where all the ’BORES
of the world are gathered to
gether!
Lo, it is the Summer Resort, the
Kingdom of ennui and bluff—the
Land of skimmed milk and artificial
hone j’!
Behold, there wilt thou find the
pests and the poseurs, alike.
There wilt thou find the Profes
sional Optimist, in all his glory.
He goeth about wearing a mad
dening smile and a Pollyanna ex
pression. He seeketh to scatter
sweetness and light in dim romantic
corners, where darkness and soli
tude are preferred. He interrupteth
the piazza repartee with platitudes,
and oreaketh into the flirtation, with
sermonettes on “cheer.”
He saith: “It’s a beautiful world!”
He is as welcome as a pet mos
quito.
There wilt thou find the Amateur
Humorist.
Lo, he “ducketh” the timid ladies
in the water, and grabbeth the
ankles of the fearful damsels be
neath the waves. He putteth sand
in the shoes of the un/Vary, and
• splattereth the hand-made complex
ion of the hotel beauty.
Year, he is SO funny.
There wilt thou meet the self-ap
pointed Society Sponsor. .
She draggeth the seeker of soli
tude from his lair, and introduceth
“EVERYBODY unto everybody else.”
She presenteth the damsel to her last
year’s “discard” and the divorcee
unto her ex-husband, without mercy.
She is exceeding KIND!
There wilt thou find the “Woman
Tamer”—even the hewer of hearts
and drawer of glances, who poseth
upon the piazza in stunning white
flannels and a bored expression.
He chatteth idly of hi s “yawt” and
his mota-chair.” He sitteth afar
and “sizeth up” the damsels, and
permitteth the prettiest of these to
LOVE him.
He is so irresistible.
There wilt thou encounter the
Human Newspaper. \
She ariseth at dawn, and peepeth
around corners, that she may miss
nothing. She spreadeth the scandals
free of charge. She keepeth tabs
upon the goings and comings and
flirtings of the damsels, and ap
pralseth the matron’s diamonds. The
cooings of the newlyweds, and the
quarrels of the lon,g-married do not
escape her.
She is so efficient.
There wilt thou meet the Wily
Summer Widow, who snltcheth the
most attractive man, and bearing
him off in triumph.
And the din?hg-room pest who
monopolizeth all the waiters, and de
mandeth the best table, near the
ocean window, and the best cut of
the melon. f
And the "Angel Child” who filleth
the air with howlings, and covereth
the piazza chairs with stickness; and
the pet arm-hound, that barketh and
yippeth throughout the night, and
getteth under the feet by day; and
the quartet of “Gay Bachelors,” who
torment the ears with motor-horns
and the nostrils with gasoline, and
fill the nights with -laughter and
song and poker-parties!
Verily, verily, th® summer resort
is a place where a man will resort
to anything for amusement, a damsel
will resort to anything for atten
tion, and a sane human being would
cheerfully resort to murder!
Where a woman spendeth half her
days making herself alluring—and
the other half in searching for
something to “lure.”
Where the moon shineth upon the
beach, inviting lovers to bask in its
radiance and there is no one to
LOVE!
Where the ozone induceth sleep
and the revellers drive it away!
Where there Is no peace, no rest,
and no escape from BOREDOM!
Yet, each year, do we forget th4
torments and the horrors of the year
before, and gird up our loins and our
wardrobe-trunks for another season
of “recreation!"
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
Sewing- for Hubby
Someone asks the Progress what
has become of all the nice girls that
did so much knitting and sewing
during the war. Well, a lot of ’em
are now sewing on their husband’s
buttons.—Adairsville Progress.
Hurry to Hazlehurst
Upon second thought Hazlehurst
is even a better town than we had
imagined. Tie to it.—Hazlehurst
in cw s.
Has It on other Candidates
At any rate Debs’ campaign ex
penses ought not to give him any
concern.—Dalton Citizen.
Wilson and Rucker
President Wilson is a bigger man
than we are in some respects, but
he is not as good a prohibitionist
as we are. —Alpharetta Journal.
“Uncle” Jim Corrects an Error
The editor of this paper has been
misrepresented by a certain man in
endeavoring to quote some remark
we made on the streets about prof
iteers. Here’s what we have said,
and, we are willing to say it several
times more if it becomes necessary:
“Hell is going to be so full of these
derned profiteering hogs and politi
cal scoundrels that the only chance
for the common sinners will be to
go to the woods and have a picnic
and tip the light fantastic toe to
the tune of Casey Jones.”—Greens
boro Herald-Journal.
In other words, there will be no
accommodations in hell for newspa
per men.
Duties of a Postmaster
The only feature about being a
postmaster in a small town is that
you can read the post cards. —Henry
Cotinty Weekly.
A postmaster resigned in a certain
Georgia town some years ago be
cause he didn’t have time to read
the post cards.
Odds Against the Farmer
Politics, excessive rainfall and the
boll weevil—what chance for the
farmer this year for a crop, and a
crop failure it should be remember
ed hurts the farmer less than it
does the people in the towns. —Walk-
er County Messenger.
Think for a Minute
Think a minute! What man does
the most for this community as a
whole? Think again! Why is it you
do not do as much? —Forsyth County
News.
A Sure Way to Stop ’Em
We are opposed to and
lawlessness. It is an awful <hing
to take the life of a human being.
But there’s but one thing will stop
robbers of express trains in broad
open daylight, when one man enters
the car and holds up the entire force
and robs the safe of money and val
uables and that is to shoot down
the robber on the spot. Kill a few
of them and others will take warn
ing.—Commerce News.
A Wise Selection
Vidalia has organized a board of
trade and our old friend Editor J.
W. McWhorter, is a member of its
board of directors. —Madison Madi
sonian.
quips’ and quiddies
Taffy one day came across Pat,
who was breaking stones on the side
| of the road, and said:
I “Is it by the yard you’re paid
| for those stones?”
1 , “No,” said Pat, "but by the stone.”
| “If so,” said Taffy, “how many
stones would go to make a yard?”
“None,” said Pat; "they all have
; to be carried.”
“To look at me now, mum, you
' wouldn’t think that I used to be in
| public life,” said the tattered visitor,
i “Dear me!” exclaimed the sympa
! thetic housewife.
i “Were you a member of congress
■ or something like that?”
! “No, mum. I was train announcer
I in one of the largest railroad sta
l tions in the country.”
CURRENT EVENTS
Characterizing articles appearing
in The New Haven Journal-Courier
as "miserable, contemptible and un
justified,” Judge Charles J. Martin,
Saturday, found Arthur J. Sloane,
managing editor of the paper, guilty
of contempt of court and sentenced
him to ten days in jail*. Execution
of the sentence was suspended, how
ever. The charges of contempt of
court grew out of articles published
in The Journal-Courier July 14, 15,
16 and 17 concerning liquor raids in
New Haven some ten days ago and
their subsequent disposition.
The timid housewife who has been
making raisin wine and other home
brews with one eye on the brewing
jar and the other on the front door
in fear that a prohibition enforce
ment officer might appear, need have
no further qualms. /The internal
revenue bureau rendered a decision
Saturday which practically lifts the
ban on "home brews for home con
sumption,” which may contain more
than one-half of one per cent of al
cohol. Nevertheless, the home brews
must be “non-intoxicating.” The
Internal revenue bureau holds that
“non-intoxicating” as laid down in
the Volstead act means non-intoxi
cating in fact and indicates thereby
that some drinks that contain more
than the prescribed one-half of one
per cent, while they may cheer, will
not inebriate.
New York is a'city of ups and
downs. There are 22,423 elevators
moving up and down in buildings in
this borough from morning until
night. After 6 o’clock in the evening
such traffic on the Isle of Man
hattan is greatly reduced because
the great system of lifts in commer
cial districts is closed down. The
great pressure of business has made
it necessary to keep more lifts in
operation now in buildings below
Chambers street than before the
war. For the purpose of lifting folks
from the street level or the subways’
level to the tiers and tiers of offices,
apartments and hotel rooms spread
over Manhattan there are 11,122 cars;
5,955 cars carry freight exclusively;
3,830 lifts come to the sidewalk level
and are known as sidewalk elevators,
and there are 949 homes in Manhat
tan which are equipped with private
elevators.
Surrounded by children who
shrieked their applause at the doings
of what they thought were movie
actors, a gang of automobile ban
dits assaulted and robbed William
Fowler, cashier and paymaster of
the Borden Milk company, distribut
ing plant at No. 400 East Twenty
ninth street, New York, of a tin box
containing more than $9,000. It was
not until John Lewis, eleven, was
clubbed on the head by one of the
gang that the children and women
watching the robbery realized a hold
up was taking place and gave the
alarm.
R. W. Williams, commissioner of
internal revenue, has discovered what
he thinks is the boldest case of de
fiance of the law that every con
fronted an enforcement officer. In
the foothills of the Virginia moun
tains a clever negro moonshine dis
tiller prospered for years before the
nation went dry. He manufactured
a good brand of corn whisky and sold
it for $8 a gallon up to the time the
Eighteenth amendment went into ef
fect, when he learned that his rivals
boosted the price of “good corn” to
55 a quart. He did not know what
caused the rise but got the impres
sion some “new law” had some
thing to do with It. Thereijpre. to
keep pace with the times, he posted
on the side of his little still house a
notice saying: “To all of my custom
ers an’ friends: Because of de new
law my licker will be ?18 a gallon
from dis tiime on.”
A baby was born to Mr and Mrs.
H. M. Willard, of Sunbury, Pa. The
other day an engine tire fell on the
father’sJfoot, injuring a toe. Then
a boy hit his son with a brick, par
tially crushing the boy’s toe. A four
year-old daughter was hit in the face
with half a brick and suffered a bad
gash. The next day the son with the
injured foot stepped on a wire nail
with the other one, and it went
through the instep. Otherwise the
course of family life at the Willards
has beep without incident.
When vouchers for the continued
pay of Stewart McMullin, ex-high
wayman and prohibition enforcement
agent, who is waiting trial in New
York, charged with the murder of
Harry Carlton during a liquor raid
last March, are presented to the
treasury department at Washington
they will not be honored except to
cover thirty days’ pay This will cov
er a month’s leave, to which he is en
titled with pay, although unable to
perform his duties. McMullin has
been in the Tombs since March 12,
and, according to authentic informa
tion reaching the World, has re
ceived his pay in full from the local
prohibition enforcement office.
What may prove to be a serious
blow to Aniferlcan automobile manu
facturers who are shipping large
numbers of cars to Europe is the re
cent action of the Italian and French
governments with regard to automo
bile restrictions. The Italian govern
ment has just issued a decree pro
hibiting manufacturers of motor ve
hicles in that country from selling
more than 10 per cent of their prod
ucts in the Italian market, according
to the advices received by the de
partment of commerce at Washington.
This order releases 90 per cent of the
Italian output for export trade.
Directly resulting from the decree
of the Italian government, and to
prevent the flooding of French mar
kets by Italian automobile products,
France has prohibited the importa
tion of all foreign cars. Cable re
ports have it that Switzerland is con
templating taking similar action to
that of the Paris administration.
Making her first voyage since con
version into an oil burner, the Cunard
Line steamship Aquitania arrived
in New York recently in command of
Captain Sir J. 'f. W. Charles. She
brought 356 first cabin, 781 second
class and 1,306 steerage passengers.
The highest day’s run was 576 knots,
or an average of 22 knots an hour.
W. A. White, inventor of the oil sys
tem installed on the Aquitania, was
aboard and prpnounced the venture a
success.
Ella A. Boole, of Brooklyn, State
President of the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union, announced yes
terday she will run as the Prohibi
tion Parry’s candidate for United
States senator. In a letter to Wil
liam H. Burr, chairman of the party,
Mrs. Boole accepted the designation
made at the recent Syracuse conven
tion and discussed only prohibition
and the League of Nations.
Premier Lloyd George, addressing
the house of commons on the Polish
crisis today, said that Great Britain
and France would arm and equip the
300,000 volunteers recently raised in
that country, and intimated that
Marshal Foch would be sent there
later.
The Tiger’s Eye, a diamond which
Is on exhibition in London, is caus
ing no little excitement among deal
ers in gems and connoisseurs. Lon
don papers refer to it as the largest
of diamonds except the Koh-i-noor.
It weighs 61 1-2 carats, is worth
$150,000 and is of golden amber hue.
Experts declare it to be a perfect
specimen. It was found by Captain
Thomas Leach, a British army of
ficer, in South Africa. It is so large
that the owner has found it to be
unsalable. He derives revenue from
it by placing it on exhibition, says
the ’New York Evening Sun.
The New York Stock Exchange an
nounced recently that it has taken
out a group insurance policy for the
benefit of its employes with a life
insurance company, the amount of
the policy being $1,000,000.
The insurance is available to em
ployes who have been with the ex
change for six months or more.
The policy has a disability
clause, which provides that if, be
fore reaching the age of 60. an em
ploye is totally disabled the full
amount of the death policy will be
paid to him in sixty monthly in
stallments. This would amount to
STS a month on r SI,OOO policy.
Thousands of South Beach. S. 1.,
bathers came out of the water re
cently covered with an oil and tar
mixture which caused than to use
rnny forceful expletives. Ordinary
cleaninsr processes failed, and kero
sene r-’on was being sold by the gal
lon. This was effective in removing
the mixture. The mixture is said to
have been discharged from the tanks
of oil-burning vessels.
THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS';
BOY, PAGE THE NEW MANI' .i'r
BY DOROTHY DIX •• .'-‘W
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) ' ■
ONE of the troubles with the|
world now is that we have got
a new woman but we have got
the same old man. Conse
quently, this modern Eve and pre
historic Adam are naturally unable
to hit it off together.
Hence the falling off in the sale of
wedding rings, and the prevalence of
divorce, and the sounds of mutiny
and insurrection when two bold
young creatures, with different the
ories of life and opposite view
points, are rash enough to adventure
forth together on the stormy sea of
matrimony.
In the last twenty-five years
women have as completely changed
in every way, as if the leopard had
shed his spots. The girl of today is
no more like what her mother was at
her age than if she belonged to a
different species of beings. She no
more thinks as mother thought, or
holds mother’s opinions, or has the
aspirations mother had, or dreams
the dreams that mother dreamed,
than she wears clothes out after the
fashion that mother wore when she
wa s a girl. The modern girl has de
veloped a natural waist mentally as
well as physically, and she couldn’t
compress her ideas into mother’s
tightly-laced eighteen-inch belt meas
ure even if she so desired. Which
she doesn’t.
But mien, so far as women are
concerned, have not altered. Grand
pa’s shoes still fit them, for they
stand pat on the woman question
just where they have always stood.
Os course there may be an excep
tion, here and there, to this rule, but
the great majority of men have not
changed an lota.
Their ideals of the perfect wom
an, their opinion of what a woman
should think and feel, their view of
woman’s proper attitude towards the
lords of creation, are precisely those
that have been handed down from
father to son ever since the dear old
cave days.
This brings about a situation that
is tragic for both sexes. It is tragic
for women because men utterly fail
to understand their motives,' and
their reasons for wanting to do the
things they are trying to do, and it
is doubly tragic for men because it
drives them into making such fatal
blunders.
For instance, men, still true to the
ancient masculine theory that fem
inine brains are only palatable when
they are scrambled, fight shy of the
clever girl who is well-informed,
capable, axid independent. The mod
ern man, like Grandpa, is still true
to the theory that the ideal wife is
the clinging vine. Bo he goes hunt
ing pathetically around for some
soft, dishraggy maiden, without an
idea in her head, and with no desire
to do anything but sit at his feet and
ask him what he thinks she thinks.
In these days of intelligent, alert,
well-educated women this species is
becoming so rare that the poor, dear
man is driven into marrying an idiot,
and then he wonders that domestici
ty is so dull, and why he can find
no companionship at Home.
If men could only get over their
hereditary fear of intelligence in
women, and if they would pick out
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 24.
The government sooth-sayers, proph
ets of the future, revealers of things
that are to be, are just now coming
to the end of a stressful season. They
have again been asked to give the
aswer, far in advance of a normal
revelation of the facts, to th© vital
nuestion: “How much food will Amer
ica contribute to a hungry world?”
They are the men. who operate the
bureau of crop estimates of the de
! partment of agriculture, and it is no
small task to tell in advance the
likely yield, year by year, from all
the farm lands in the United State!.
The government, month by month,
as the season advances, compiles all
the information that it can get, and
from that information draws the best
conclusions that its experience and
wisdom make possible as to the
amount of wheat, corn, cotton and
other crops that are to come from
the soil. It gives this information
to the Wall street brokers, to the
dealer, the consumer, the farmer, to
everybody. It does this, that the so
phisicated among the 100,000,000
not have an advantage over the un
sophisticated; that markets may not
be juggled on false information;
that whoever buys or sells these
staples may have the facts upon
■which to base a judgment of their
value.
Every month during the spring and
summer the bureau of crop esti
mates issues a statement, in which
it reviews the crop situation, and
figures from these facts what the
yield should be. It finds out as near
ly as it can how many acres have
been planted to the different crops,
and the conditions under which the
crops are growing. It compares the
acreage and conditions with similar
reports from past yetrs. It reaches
the conclusion that the logical yield
under the circumstances should be
this figure or that. It shows how
the estimate compares with the crop
of last year, and with the crop of
the average year. This is necessary
because the consumption of a product
like wh-eat is constant,., and a yard
stick must be furnished by which to
measure prospective prices.
An Army of Reporters
It is an infinitely difficult thing to
find out in April, for instance, just
how .many acres have been planted in
wheat between Maine and Oregon.
The department, however, has about
215,000 reporters. Each of these is
a man who is close to the soil in his
community. Each makes up a state
ment, in which he estimates that the
acreage in his community is normal,
10 per cent above, 15 per cent below,
or whatever he believes it to be.
Three estimates come in from every
community, and the average of these
three is likely to be a nearly correct
estimate. If this estimate is too
high, it is likely to be counteracted
by an estimate from another com
munity which is too low. The aver
age of all estimates from all sources
is likely to be quite close to the
facts.
With the acreage determined as
nearly as possible, the department
asks for reports, month by month,
on the condition of the crop. Is it
normal, or better or worse than nor
mal? Its 215,000 reporters send in
details on this subject. Acreage and
condition being determined, the crop
probabilities are figured out.
The man in a township having a
bumper crop or a poor one, might
conclude that the nation would be
overfed or starved, according to his
prospects. The county agent might
draw different conclusions from his
outlook. The field agent represent
ing a great state might register
gloom or optimism according to his
fcights. But the individual reckon
ing of any one of these is' on too
narrow a plane. Even the prospec
tive yield of this most productive
of nations might be counteracted by
world conditions.
So the reports form the townships
must be combined with bounties,
counties with states, state with the
nation. The whole program must
be repeated every month. Judgment
and knowledge must be applied to
the process at every step. And it
has to be done on schedule time.
The bureau must not go far wrong
because the crop will sopn be har
vested and .the actual figures re
vealed.
The Estimates Are Close
For twenty years the estimates
have, on the average, been within
1 1-2 per cent of the crop. Thirteen
times the department has under-es
timated the crop, and seven times it
has over-estimated it.
When the estimates are ready for
announcement an event of impor
tance is staged. The government
announcement of the probability of
a poor yield of cotton or a good
yield of rice will have a definite in
fluence on the market —will send the
price of a particular staple up or
down. If an interested party knew
the facts in advance he could make
a fortune. Therefore, on announce
ment days, the workers in the bu
reau in Washington must bring their
lunches because they are locked in
until the figures are finally announc
ed at a quarter after two in the aft-
ESTIMATING THE CROPS
BY FREDERIC J..HASKIN
the smartest women they e*n Sa*
for wives, it would do more tna*
any thing to take the curve •*t-et
matrimony.
The fool among women tv
ing are. So is the woman who «»-
joys being a parasite. The' erytijjl
need of the day Is for a new *M*
who will realize this, and whs wffl**
willing to accept hie wife on; w
own plans and deal frankly and ■on*
estly with her, as he WottldTAMij*
another man. What the modern’wi>-
man desires la a lasband wbem'bK*
will not have to tweedle, .or MJ***
or work, but who will regsrd her ,**
his partner, having certain, rigntp, of
her own, and equally entitled to shore
with him in all the prerequisites-of
life as she shares in its pains.-- ; U
Another need is for a new',WM
who is big enough and brave epenig*
to break the bonds of custom Mi*
vention that tie a woman’s hands sift
er she is married, and. force lhetinto
menial labor, no matter how quali
fied she is to do the brai* ■ wara
that is paid so much bettelr. V"
A man feels himself disgraced."o*l
that it advertises hhn as aftdlpra,
if his wife goes on with her, busbi'M*
or profession after she is marHOd.
The woman may love her wofkaa*
be miserable without it, . Bhq> teg*
need the money it will bring in. fifc
may sicken her very soul'M JOWV*
congenial, highly paid prof«M|oael
employment to become a • kitche*
drudge. ;
No matter. Because there-*!*:.-*
moss-grown theory that the PMOW
thing is for a man to keep hia Wife
in supposed idleness, the; wonncK'iise
to do all her labor in the - privacy
of home to have her husband’s galM
pride. "" " „V” '
Other times. Other conditions—*
financial, social— women hava.epovgd
ed these theories. Women have ad
justed themselves to the new'condi
tion. Women recognize that if. Chopin
are to marry while they are yMrtt*
enough to really love; 'the wl*M
must add to the family exchequer; -*t
They are willing to do their' wit
They want to keep on with - the oc
cupations for which they hava:
themselves. They recognise• the sen?
nomic waste of a SSO-a-week enk»
woman becoming a $lO cook. but’ iha
men still cling to the' ’ ToeeilfM*
theory that the married woman .mtrst
not work out of her home— ey»* it
the theory deprives her of ever hav
ing a husband and a home atalL
It is because women aso-forward
looking, and men are backwar.drlohk
ing in their relations to each other
that there are so many elaehee Bjg
tween the sexes, and vo much trieMd*
between husbands and wives, and th»
question is, Will men change to ms*t
the new situation? •
Will a man develop who vylll SM
In woman a human being
self, loving freedom and Independence
claiming the same rights Inmarrioga
that he has? That is the only
of matrimony. For the world goM
on. Women will never turn back,
and men must catch step with tne*t
for the worward march if they- MO
to go together.
Boy, page the now man! , . Z
ernoon. All telephones are dises**
nected. The sealed reports Lftutn
various stattes have been
for days. They are brought by;j«e
clal messengers from the pootodfo*
and are locked in the safe wit*rlkelr
seals still unbroken. On the LJMm
day they are carried tn state to* s*•
office of the crop estimator.
they are opened by the ’ board- ea
which the secretary himself Id Mt?
ting, and the computers set to WUrtl
making up the averages.
About twelve years ago a member
of this crop estimate board conspir
ed with a confederate to tip infor
mation in advance that they might
profit in the market. Bitting ini' *
locked room with the secretary us
agriculture and his he
managed to send forth the signals;
This was done by raising or- lowdr?
ing a curtain. At a certain point J*
the window the curtain inditattd'ap
average crop of cotton. When t*n*su
it meant the crop was above rimp
average, and when lowered that/ it
was under the usual yield. This eode
was quite simple, and it worked.
large sum of money was cleaned up;
but eventually the ruse was discov
ered and its perpetrators were
posed and proescuted. .. -
News Xs Kagerty AwutMd i
At a Set moment the secretary of
agriculture and Leon M. Betabrook.
chief of the bureau, ootne dqw*-
stairs with the monthly" MtmMtft*
Reporters for the various press /asso
ciations, newspapers, and brekeraMb
houses are waiting tensely -for - the
word. Telegraph and telephone
ncctions are already made to X«W
York, Chicago, New Orleans,.’ SM.
London. The word is given. tM
copies are grabbed and the*se*Mß*ls
against time begins. Around ’ ticket*
In a thousand offices, in stock , ex
changes all over the world, are many
individuals waiting nervously •-for
this information. Fortunes are ssMb
and lost on it. It -speeds .men am*
women on the road to wealth a*
brings about their impoverishment.
Once in the last few years the rs
port was a half minute lato because
something got the matter" with ■ tk'e
multigraph at the department. A*,
anxious crowd was waiting .. about
the cotton exchange in New Orieahst
One of the receiving telegraph e*-
erators leaned over to another an*
asked him what he thought the'flw
ure representing the estimate Ip
bales would be. The telegrapher
wrote his guess on a piece of-paper.’
A broker, craning his neok,. sa#<tMrt
figure. He thought it was onaittlftt
the operator had just received; aq*
he hurried onto the floor -of -the-steely
exchange and played his supposed in
formation. His mistake cOst-hirnl'a"
lot of money. . X -
“I saw your mother aping tw-*
neighbor as I crossed the street,”
said the lady caller to her f|Kl<hd>
little son. ‘'Do you know; when
will be back?” ,
“Yes’m,” answered youthful Jimmy.
“She said she’d be back just
as you left.” ’ . ’. .Z7L7-
“What! You here again?" ;„J«-
clalmed the judge. “Dfon t IUwB
you the last time that yo*" sffonW
not show your face Here any .mers.f*”
“I know it. yer honor/'/rettrfiped
the culprit. “That is true and-I Mid
so to the coppers, but it didfCtlmeCSb’
no difference. They wouldn’t IM’-ba*
go.” • . • '
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