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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL , 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 monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 wit.l Mo. 3 Mot. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Dally and Sunday2oc 90c >2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Dally 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .00 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man . r ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. 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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.” • . • ' lAMBONE’S MEBITtfiMI r i » ' ! ryM' Hits funny Ipahson's BOY - - IME SPORTIN' LEG BRITCHES WabiV TOWN PE PAH SONS ;OLE MAN* BUf WEN; 6IT IN JA£L , PEN ITiF cowrignt. 1920by McCtara