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"Why Business Men Are Urging
Senator Smith s Re-election
THERE is much significance in the
spontaneity and earnestness with
which leading men of affairs in Geor
gia are urging the re-election of Senator
Hoke Smith. Regardless pf their bygone
connections in are for him at
this juncture because,’as they declare, the
State and the Democracy need him at
Washington. They view the situation from
the vantage point of cool business observ
ers and in the light of forthcoming issues
that will touch the vital interests, the treas
ured traditions of Georgia and the South.
The fact that they may have differed with
him most pronouncedly on certain questions
in the past does not blind them to the senior
Senator’s distinguished service in behalf of
business and agriculture and education; it
does not keep them from seeing what he
has done for his constituents, what he has
gained for the Commonwealth, and how im
perative it is that Georgia shall have ex
perienced and able representation in the
Senate in the crucial times -which loom
ahead.
"It is sound business policy," writes Mr.
J. K. Orr, "to retain tried and efficient
men. Those States have had most Influence
that have kept their Senators longest in
service. Senator Hoke Smith is conceded to
be one of the six biggest-brained and most
forceful men in the Senate today.” This is
not the praise of a partisan, but the judg
ment of a practical watcher of events, a
captain of industry whose devotion to the
State has been repeatedly and substantially
proved. "Securing the Federal Reserve Bank
for Georgia against all sorts of odds,” he goes
on to argue, ‘‘was of itself a Herculean
task. At a hearing given in Atlanta it was
evident that the leaning of the committee
was toward Richmond and New Orleans.
The masterful address of Senator Hoke
Smith won the praise of even our com
petitors. It was generally admitted that this,
with the untiring work of the Senator In
/Washington, won for us over the larger
city of New Orleans. Who can measure the
financial preeminence given this State and
section by having the Federal Reserve Bank
In Georgia?’’ And Mr. Orr’s businesslike
conclusion is that “strictly for the 'best in
terests of the State, *Georgia should keep
Hoke Smith in the Senate.”
"Strictly for the best interests of the
State,” —a meaningful phrase! Some there
are whose votes are governed by the inter
ests of factional politics or persdpal animus,
by prejudices and hates, by quest of priv
ilege for a clique or class, by: the oldest of
grudges, by the newest of isms and fads.
Happily, however, these are a minority. The
ballots of the rank and file are controlled
as a rule by what they conceive to be
best for the Commonwealth. Bias and pas
sion rhay mislead them for a season, but
when the record is complete and the issue
plainly drawn, they will vote, for the most
part, with the same reasonableness that
they bring to bear upon their own daily
affairs. So it is that leading citizens, some
of. them among the senior Senator’s warm
est opponents in the Presidential prefer
ence primary, are now arguing cogently
for his re-election.
.. Witness the statement of Hon. J. E. Shep
pard, of Americus, formerly a Legislator
from Sumter county and one of the influ
ential men of South Georgia: “While I
supported Palmer in the recent" primary, I
wish earnestly to approve the letter of Mr.
Orr urging that Georgia keep Hoke Smith
in the Senate. Senator Smith is the eaual
as a debater of any man in the Senate, and
has prepared and secured the passage of
much constructive legislation of great value
te his constituents. The national Democrat
ic platform, in its claim of credit for the
party, names four measures which were the
work of Senator Smith.” Yet, Mr. Sheppard
adds, amidst those great legislative labors
the Senator has slighted no smallest in
terest of his constituents: “He has been
able, faithful and tireless where they were
concerned. Geergia needs him in the Sen
ate. The Democratic party needs him; and
a majority of the men I meet, who voted
for Palmer, will vote to keep him there,
no matter who else are candidates. We
really feel he should have no opposition.”
Equally impressive is the statement of
Hon. John N. Watts, of Shellman, who earn
ed high distinction as State senator from
the Eleventh district and whose opinion
carries weight throughout that region of
Georgia, “I was very much against Sena
tor Smith’s entering the Presidential pref
erence primary,’’ he writes, “and I voted
against him; but we need him and must
have him in the Senate. . . Whether the
Republicans win in the national contest or
not, we are sure to have a revival of Jhe
old Force Bill menace. . . It is important
to Georgia and the South to have expe
rienced men of ability and of proven inter
est in this vital question of suffrage sure
to come to the front in the next Senato
rial term. As an active Palmer supporter
I beg those who were associated with me
in the contest, br with whom I affiliated,
to consider the importance to ail of us of
keeping in the Senate this man of proven
ability and strength.”
•Such is the attitude of thoughtful, prac
tical-minded Georgians in every clan of the
party and every district of the State. They
stand not only for justice to a useful pub
lic servant, but, above all, for protection of
the State’s vital interests. Their judgment
found particularly forceful expression in a
’'Scent utterance of Colonel William L Peel.
THS ATLANTA TH! W-jpjaLY JOURNAL.
Speaking out of his experience as one of
the foremost figures in Southern business
and finance, Colonel Peel says:
I recall that when the Federal Reserve
Banking bill was before the senate, and
when it was known that it would take eight
months to put the banks into operation af
ter the passage of the bill, Senator Smith
raised the point that no provision had been
made for an increase of currency during
this time, and that the preparation of the
member banks to turn over to the reserve
banks their subscriptions and deposits from
reserve centers would contract the currency
and cause financial trouble. He prepared
the amendment extending for twelve months
the life of the Aldridge-Vreeland act, by
which banks could issue their notes for cir
culation, and he also carried in his amend
ment a reduction of the tax on these notes,
so that the banks could afford to issue
them. His plan was adopted, and the banks
issued four hundred and fifty millions <-of
currency, which carried the country through
with an ample currency, until the Federal
Reserve Banks were in operation, when the
issue of Federal Reserve Bank notes furnish
ed the currency necessary to supply the de
mand. But for this amendment by Senator
Smith to the original bill we could scarce
ly have escaped a panic.
“His fights for cotton markets did much
to save the price of cotton during the
world war, and those in every line of oc
cupation were benefited by it. We need him
in the senate.”
These spontaneous testimonials from men
of clear foresight and iitrge affairs have
but one prompting and one purpose. They
are prompted by the senior Senator’s rec
ord, which all may read, of definite, sub
stantial and truly historic service to Geor
gia and her people. What he has done for
the business, the agriculture and the edu
cational interests of his and,his coun
try are so plain that even his bitterest
critic must recognize them, and so impor
tant that no fair-minded man can deny
them praise. Thus it becomes simply a
matter of good judgment' and workmanly
patriotism to seek the re-election of such a
Senator.
“The State needs him,’’ says the business
man.
“The State needs him,” says the farmer.
“The State needs him,’’ says the labor
ing man.
“The State needs him,” says the friend
of public education.
That is the argument for keeping Sena
tor Hoke Smith at Washington; and a force
ful argument it is.
The State University' s •
Imperative Meeds
IT has been nineteen years since the
University of Georgia received an ap
propriation for dormitories, and almost
as long since this chief cornerstone of the
State’s educational system was granted a
dollar for building and extension of any
kind.
In that full period the Commonwealth
has grown and prospered in every field of
material endeavor. Her farms have waxed
continually more productive, her industries
more varied and efficient, her commerce
wider and more profitable. There is more
money within her borders today than ever
before, and more opportunity. Over all the
earth, no land is more favored, no people
more fortunate.
Yet her university, oldest of all State
universities and in goodly traditins sur
passed by none, stands a* beggar for the
necessaries of subsistence. This is a fact
to challenge every Georgian’s pride—the
well-nigh incredible fact that so great and
useful an institution should be starved in
the bare essentials and dishearteninglly
hampered in its ideals of service. No citi
zen can afford to i gnore such a situation,
and assuredly no alumnus of the historic
school can stand indifferent.
Despite handicaps and limitations the
University has done all the while substan
tial and splendid work for the people, con
tributing to the progress and enrichment
of every field of the common interests. But
the point has been reached where a gifted
chancellor and loyal faculties no longer can
make one dollar do the work of ten. More
buildings there must be, more equipment,
more endowment, or the institution will
cease to be itself.
The critically urgent needs, such as an
increase of instructors’ salaries and en
larged dormitory facilities, should be pro
vided for by the Legislature without de
lay; and then the alumni, supported by a
patriotic public, should press a million dol
lar endowment campaign to an early goal.
This is a cause that involves the State’s
broadest and highest interests. Let it be
treated accordingly. >
Lucky Carroll County \
THE Carroll County Trade Board has sent
to the members of the Georgia Press As
sociation a most kindly and compliment
ary letter, expressing Carroll county’s ap
preciation of the editors and their thirty
fourth annual convention.
We are sure the letter would flatter any
Georgia editor did we not know that all of
them who attended the Carrollton conven
tion can speak with equal sincerity of the
pleasure and benefit they derived from
their three days’ yislt in a county of such
interest, such prosperity and such whole
souled hospitality.
Georgians who have never been to Car
rollton, who have never heard her proud
history, who have never beheld her thrifty
farmlands and partaken of her bounteous
plenty and experienced the warmth of wel
come Carrollton’s people extend to the
stranger within their gates, have much to
learn before they can truthfully say they
know the full glory of Georgia’s achieve
ments and the full depth of Georgia’s
riches and generosity.
Few Georgia counties can boast a past
of more genuine historical significance.
Named after Charles Carroll, of Carrollton,
reputed to be the wealthiest man who sign
ed the Declaration of Independence, Car
roll county was long known as the “Free
State of Carroll” because of its great size.
Originally it was 100 by 40 miles square,
but the county gave generously of its soil
to create new counties, until today she
well deserves the title of the “Mother of
Counties” because of the half dozen or more
carved from her one-time boundaries. The
home of General Mclntosh, that celebrated
Creek chieftain who secured for the Uni
ted States the treaty ceding all Indian lands
west of the Chattahoochee; the county
which furnished more troops to the Con
federacy than she had voters; the county
that sent a thousand of her sons to serv
ice in the world war, Carroll has main
tained from early colonial days her repu
tation as the land of pretty women and
brave and gallant fighters.
Today her sons and daughters ar6 still
achieving a splendid name for her in the
realm of agriculture, commerce, education
and progress of every kind. With seventy
five per cent of her 6,000 farms owned by
prosperous white farmers, with many mod
ern grammar schools and three institutions
of higher learning, with three newspapers,
twelve banks, four cotton mills and any
number of other humming industries, Car
rollton is as fortunate today in her enter
prising and sterling citizenry as she was,
so many years ago, in the hardy pioneers
who first laid the foundations of her great
ness.
IN RAINY WEATHER
By H. Addington Bruce
WHEN the days are dark and clamp you
feel “out of sorts.” You incline to
a gloomy state of mind. You declare
yourself poor company for anybody.
Os course you do—unless you are an ex
ceedingly exceptional person.
But does your depressed and irritated at
titude give rise to conduct in keeping there
with? You may say that you feel like hurt
ing somebody. Do you translate that feel
ing into'action?
You do not. Unless, .again, you are most
exceptional. You may splutter and fuss
more in rainy weather than in fine, yet you
are far less likely to engage in a serious
quarrel, with blows following words.
Also, no matter how depressed you feel in
rainy weather, you likely to commit
a crime of any kind than when the sun is
shining brightly.
This statement, I am aware, is contrary
to popular belief. But it is based on ex
haustive statistical researches, which leave
no doubt that crime, particularly crime in
volving violence, is of more frequent occur
rence on pleasant days /than, on unpleasant
ones.
Contrary to popular belief, too, it has been
statistically shown that suicide is a fair
weather phenomenon, decreasing as weather
conditions become unpleasant.
As accounting for this and for the greater
frequency of crime and general misconduct
on fine days, E. G. Dexter, authority on
weather influences, has suggested that bad
weather so devitalizes people as to lessen all
tendencies to energetic action.
In support he cites not merely the greater
prevalence of sickpess and death in rainy
weather, but also the interesting fact that
mental efficiency is adversely affected when
the sky is heavy with rain clouds.
Bank clerks, for example, make more
errors on gloomy days than on bright ones.
In which connection Mr. Dexter notes:
“I/have heard that the depressing effects
of a severe London fog are such that in the
Bank of England certain sets of books, an
error in would prove cumulative and
disastrous in its results, are locked up, and
the clerks put at work less important during
such weather.”
Still, knowing how weather acts on bodily
and mental processes, it is entirely feasible
to prevent its action in some degree.
Men can exercise unusual care in doing
their work during rainy weather. They can
take special pains to husband their energy—
as by eating prudently, avoiding needless
energy wastes in their leisure hours, etc.
And, most important of all, they can de
liberately cultivate cheerfulness, making it
so habitual that its vitality-raising influence
will come into play even on the gloomiest of
(Copyright, by the Associated News
papers.)
By Dr. Frffnk Crane
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.) .
Germany is finding it no fun to pay the
piper. »
It was a mad dance and a riproarious
frolic to smash Belgium, burn and blast
Northern France, glut the marshes of Russia
with dead bodies and send the ships of all
nations to the bottom of the sea. A grandiose
program, and pleasing unto national vanity,
but expensive.
And now she pays.
And whines.
For the storm of hate she loosed on the
world she receives into her l)osom hate
again, for they that sow the wind must reap
the whirlwinci.
She proclaimed the sovereignty of Might,
and she now feels the edge of that steel she
oxalted, for with what measure we mete it
shall be meted, unto us.
It is bitter for her to give up the Ruhr
district, the heart of her commercial su
premacy, but was it not bitter for the people
of Lens to see their mines flooded and
blasted? "-k
It is hard to have to pay all that money
"a indemnity, but that reflection should have
ccnrred to Jier when she was levying tribute
In Brussels.
A great and industrious people like the
Germans should not be destroyed by vast
xcs to pay war debts. True, most true, so
ue that she ought to have seen the horror
id crime of destroying a nation when she
uined Austria-Hungary and the Balkan
fates, dragging them down into the vortex
’ her devouring pride, when she kindled
the flames of anarchy in Russia and of
blood-thirsty cruelty in Turkey.
Her children are starving and her widows
moaning. Lor that all must pity, but we pity
also them that went down in the Lusitania,
and the homes in France, Italy and Great
Britain where a crape-hung picture has re
placed a son.
Crime is expensive.
Criminals are pitiable.
But there’s a difference between our pity
for the victims of a bloody burglar and the
'compassion we feel for said burglar when
he is laid by the heels and brought to Jus
tice. Thus Kipling:
Before we loose the word
That bids new worlds to birth,
Needs muskwe loosen first the sword
Os Justice upon earth.
Or else all else is vain
Since life on earth began
And the spent world sinks back again
Hopeless of God and Man.
For agony and spoil
Os nations beat to dust,
For poisoned air and tortured soil
And co’d. commanded lust,
And every secret -woe
The shuddering waters saw—
Willed and fulfilled by high and low
Let them relearn the Law.
That till the end of time
Their remnant shall recall
Their fathers’ old, confederate
Availed them not at all.
SMILE AWHILE
BY LEE KINGSTON
“I dreamed I dined on sturgeon served
up in malmsey wine,” said I, “I'll see a sur
geon, no Freudian stuff for mine. He’ll find
the true condition of liver, lungs and lights,
he’ll fix up their position, if that’s what
ails me nights.”
The doc took, with a hammer, reflexes of
my knee. “Your brains,” he murmured,
“stammer. Lo, come and dine with me.”
He carved a juicy chicken with broad and
gleaming blade; it made my pulses quicken,
the skill that man displayed. And yet amid
his plying that knife with gesture free. I
paled to note him eyeing me so appraising
ly.
I had to shake and shiver what time he
carved that chick, his eyeballs probed my
liver, I grew exceeding sick. He seemed to
deem that pullet too small with which to
deal, he longed to get my gullet beneath
his shining "steel. He grimly carved those
portions which make a chicken good, I
dropped in wild contortions, I left that neigh
borhood.
And now, awake or dreaming, beneath the
yew trees’ shade, I see the ghostly gleaming
of that there doctor’s blade.
The surest way of making a sensible
bathing suit immodest is to make it illegal.
Our Hard-Working
Words
By Frederic J. Haskin
V- -r ASHINGTON, D. C., July 26. —
i / In that clatter of the tongue
| and scratch of the lead pen
cil that goes on from the
time one is born to the day of his
last slow ride, wnat word of all
those in the dictionary, do you sup
pose, he uses the greatest number
of times? Would you like to know
the word that is the second favor
ite. the one that is enunciated third
most frequently, and the one that
occupies fourth place among verbal
tools?
This unusual fact has recently
been determined. Folks use the
word the twice as often as any
other. Next to it is and. Then fol
low of and to. Since all of us are
egotists the little pronoun J. is the
fifth word in use and occurs one
third oftener than the pronoun you.
A, in, that, for, it, was, is, will
and as appear in order.
In- eliciting the above facts the
statistician has disproven - the widely
accepted theory that he is a dull and
tedious individual who may be de
pended upon to for his enum
erations some obscure and technical
subject in ■which the average run of
men and women are not interested.
Here is one man of .tables and aver
ages who is human.' He was, during
the world war. Colonel Leonard P.
Ayres, attached to- the office of the
chief of staff. He is now Mr. Ayres,
director of education for the Russell
Sage foundation.
Save These War Figures
At the close of the war Colonel
Ayres compiled for the war depart
ment a statistical summary which
showed at a glance what had hap
pened during those months of
conflict. His summary showed, for
instance, that the total battle'deaths
in the recent war were greater than
the deaths in all wars for a hundred
years before; that Russia suffered
most, despite her withdrawal; that
Germany lost thirty-two times as
many men as the United States;
Fraqce twenty-eight times as many,
and Great Britain eighteen times as
many. In this war fifty-three men
in 1,000 were killed in battle in a
year, while in the Civil war thirty
three in 1,000 were so killed, and in
the Mexican war fifteen in each 1,000.
Thus the death rate in battle dur
ing the world war was highest of
all wars.
Colonel Ayres further reported that
during the Mexican war 110 in each
1,000 men died of disease, and that
sixty-five in each 1,000 men were
lost from the same cause during the
Civil war. But during the world
■war the loss from disease was only
nineteen in each .1,000 men, so that
tlje late conflict scored a great suc
cess through making a science of
cleanliness.
Now the man who compiled these
vital figures has been counting the
words people use. The ten next most
used words are have, not, with, be,
your, at, we, on, he, by. They are
all little fellows, who, like Peter
Pan, never grow up.
Colonel Ayrqg, in his study of edu
cational problems, developed the
theory that the words in the spell
ing books should be those which peo
ple use in that most common form
of writing which appears in the let
ters they transcribe. Spoken words
do not need to be spelled. Few peo
ple write anything other than busi
ness and personal letters. Would it
be possible, he asked, to find out
what words were used in this sort
of writing, and to make sure that
they were in the spelling books?
Few Words Are Used
He went to a dozen different or
ganization which received typical
letters, and got great packs of them
for statistical analysis. He tabu
lated letters running into more than
300,000 words altogether. The sur
prising fact altogether. The sur
about 2,000 different words were
used in all this correspondence. A
man with a vocabulary of 2,000
words could have dictated those let
ters from thousands of people, writ
ing on hundreds of subjects. Yet the
child in the elementary grades stud
ies about 12,000 words, anda desk
dictionary contains 25,000. ■ Many of
these words are so rare that the av
erage individual never uses them.
The practical thing would seem to
be to learn the used words first. To
find out those words was the object
of this queer statistical compilation.
Half of the bulk of the letters
written by the people is made up of
a simple list of fifty words, all of
Which are of one syllable, except the
modest participant, any. Three hun
dred WQrds constitute three-fourths
of the rpace in the letters we write,
and a thousand of them do 90 per
cent of the work. In the first 200 of
most frequently used words there are
but a half-dozen of more than one
syllable.' They are nearly all home
ly words of Anglo-Saxon derivation.
They are such words as when, time,
some, any, can, what, send, them,
more, week, night, they, good, say,
could, make, write, thing.
If you run along the list of Colonel
Ayres’ words you find at the bottom
of the eight columns the following:
men, came, matter, separate, tenth,
push, concern, and the thousandth
word, in the frequency of its use, is
wreck.
Even were the language reduced to
the simplicity of the thousand words
most frequently used, there are few
people who can spell them all cor
rectly. Among them, for instance,
is judgment, and it is surprising how
many individuals there are who prof
ligately spend an unjustifiied “e” on
this stout number of the dictionary
family. Os the thousand recommend |
is the word most frequently mis
spelled. Allege is another of the
willing workers which often proves
/an orthographical stumbling block.
The word-statistician wanted to get
exact information as to which of his
most used words were hardest to
spell. There seemed but one way to
tell, and that was to give them to
folks to try and record the result.
Children in school were the readiest
material- available for conducting
these experiments so the thousand
were sent to eighty-six cities where
7(5,000 children furrowed their brows
over them, did the best they could,
and unknowingly made a record in a
new field qf investigation.
The Hardest to pell
The words were arranged in three
columns in accordance with the dif
ficulty of spelling them. The three
just given were, placed in the column
of those hardest to spell. The next
hardest column contained two words
-—decision and principle. The third
column contained sfeven words as fol
lows: immediate, convenient, re-
celnt, preliminary, disappoint, espe
cially, annual, and committee. In
the fourth column were the words
organization, emergency, appreciate,
sincerely, athletic, extreme, practical,
proceed, cordially, character, sep
arate, February. In the fifth column
appeared the list of words next most
difficult to spell as follows: princi
pal, testimony, discussion, arrange
ment, reference, evidence, experience,
session, secretary, association, career,
height.
These are typical of the every day
words used in current correspond
ence which vex most people. These,
according to the word-statistician,
are those which should appear in the
spelling books, and which should be
mastered before the child is inflicted
with that multitude of more diffi
cult words that are a kill-joy to
youth.
An American traveler testifies to
the cleanliness of the Japanese. He
had made his way into a tea house
in a remote Japanese village and
was half famished. A geisha girl
ushered him into a spotless, airy
s room and brought him a cup of
unsweetened tea.
As he could speak no Japanese, he !
tried to explain by signs that he (
•wanted a full meal, but the girl, i
though she smiled politely, failed to |
understand. So the traveler thought
he would resort to another means.
He took out his note book and pen
cil, drew a fish and an egg, and
handed the drawing to the geisha.
This time she laughed delightedly,
clapped her hands, and ran from the
room. The traveler was pleased. He
waited contentedly for his meal. Five
or ten minutes passed. Then the
door opened and two attendants stag
gered in with a portable bath, brim
ful of hot water, and a cake of
soap.”
fDoes your wife believe what the
ouija board says?” a husband was
aksed.
“Yes,” replied Mr. Meektone, “if
my wife sets her head on a ouija
board it’s going to say what she be
lieves —or nothing.”
I CURRENT EVENTS
It will be just about ten years
from now before the last drop of
whisky is drained from government
warehouses If withdrawals are con
tinued at the average rate of the first
four months of national prohibition.
But if withdrawals continue. to' be
made as they were during March and
April it is safe to figure that the last
barrel fill be rolled out of the ware
house in less than six years. During
April there were 755,554 gallons of
whisky removed- from warehouses in
the United States on legitimate cer
tificates, according to data compiled
by the bureau of internal revenue.
In 'January, the first month of na
tion-wide prohibition, withdrawals
amounted to 282,033 gallons; in Feb
ruary, 246,989 gallons, and in March,
765,944 gallons, a total for the first
four months of the year of 2,049,520
gallons.
January 1, 1920, fifteen days before
nation-wide prohibition became effec
tive, receipts were oustanding against
the government for 57,498,1236 gal
lons supposedly stored in ware
houses. Whisky stored in other than
government warehouses is supposed
to have brought the total up to ap
proximately 61,485,148 gallons. At the
average rate of withdrawals so far
ten years will see the withdrawal of
ۥ1,485,600 gallons. Withdrawals on
legitimate certificates during March
this year amounted to 500,000 gal
lons more than withdrawals during
arch last year, when only part of the
country was affected by prohibition.
But unless fraudulent withdrawals
lon forged permits are completely
| stopped, the supply on hand is
I doomed to even a shorter period of
I existence.' While no statistics are
i available as to total withdrawals on
bogus certificates during any month,
| federal prohibition enforcement of
i ficials admit that forgery of permits
| has been one of the biggest prob
' lems with which they have to deal.
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
When toba&no first reached Eng
land it was enjoyed in common by
both sexes. In the seventeenth cen
tury, according to John Ashton, “it
was not only usual for the women to
•join the men in smoking, but in Wor
cestershire the children were sent to
school with pipes in their satchels
I and the schoolmaster called a halt in
their studies while they all smoked
■ —he teaching the neophyte.” Scotch
women used to enjoy a pipe the
same way as they enjoyed a pinch of
snuff. One of the compilers of the
“Statistical Account of Scotland,”
published in 1791, records that “The
chief luxuries in the rural districts
are snuff, tobacco and whisky. Tea
and sugar are little used, but the
use of whisky has become very
great.
“The use of tobacco may almost
be said to be excessive, especially
among the female sex. There is
scarce a woman by the time she has
been taught to spin but has also
learned to smoke. Smoking seems
to have been introduced as an anti
dote to rheumatism and ague. The
favorable alteration with respect to
these diseases has only produced a
greater avidity for tobacco’.”—De
troit News.
The estate left by William K. Van
derbilt is belieyed to have a value
of between $50,000,000 and $100,000,-
000. He, with his seven brothers
and sisters, received specific gifts of
stocks and bonds worth $10,000,000
under the will of his father, Wil
liam H. Vanderbilt, and the residuary
estate was divided equally between
William K. Vanderbilt and his elder
brother, the late Cornelius Vander
bilt. William H. Vanderbilt died in
1885, leaving an estate the exact
value of which never became public.
Estimates ran as high as $300,000,-
000. He was the possessor of the
bulk of the fortune left by Commo
dore Vanderbilt. Cut up into eight
shares of varying size, the Vander
bilt fortune took a different course
from that of the second greatest
American fortune, that of the Astors,
I the bulk of which has steadily pass
ed from the head of each branch
of the house to the eldest son.
A table of statistics showing the
result of enforcement of the Vol
stead law in Greater New York from
January 16, when it became effective,
to July 1, was made public recent
ly. It was contained in a report
made to Federal District Attorney
Francis G. Gaffey by Assistant Fed
eral Attorney Henry D. Mildeberger.
It shows:
Total number of cases since
Jonuary 16 1,214
Total number of defendants.. 2,266
Total number of trials 22
Total number of convictions. . 10
Total number of pleas of
guilty 648
Total number of jail sen-
tences 28
Total number of informations
filed 1,259
Total amount of fines col-
lected $66,393
New York’s public utilities and
fuel consumers in general will have
at least $10,000,000 added to their
coal bill this year. This statement
was malie by John W. Lieb, vice
president of the New York Edison
company and acting Public Service
Commissioner Alfred M. Barrett in
their testimony before the senate
committee on reconstruction and pro
duction, at its hearing -pn the coal
situation. It was supported by rep
resentatives of other public utilities.
The increased coal bill is ascribed
directly to the advantage taken of the
coal crisis by coal operators in sell
ing spot coal at greatly Increased
prices.
Downer’s Grove, the oldest village
in Illinois, situated a few miles out
side Chicago, voted on the question
whether cigarettes are menace to the
community or merely instruments for
the early removal of the wicked from
this vale of tears. The voters re
pealed the ordinance passed last
June which prohibited the Sale of
Cigarettes. Out of a population of a
trifle over 2,000, 503 cast their bal
lots against the ordinance, which was
doufrte the vote in favor of upholding
the ordinance. One hundred and
eighty-eight women voted on the.
proposition, and their vote was 94 for
and 94 again st.
An industry in which millions are
invested and from which a great
food supply of high importance is
drawn, Is doomed to extinction un
less the consumption of salmon can
be balanced by artificial propagation,
says Prof. John N. Cobb, director of
the college of fisheries of the Uni
versity of Washington and formerly
the representative of the United
States bureau of fisheries in Alaska.
He says that efforts in that direc
tion have thus far fallen short and
that the salmon will commercially
be in the class with the buffalo un
less something Intervenes.
With the jade for ornaments in
creasing in price from five to six
times what it was previous to the
great war, it is interesting to know
that the largest known block of jade
in exisence is in the American Mu
seum of Natural History in New
York city. The big stone looks to
the average observer to be about as
large as that' famous piece of rock
they keep under an elaborate arch
at Plymouth, Mass., the famous Ply
mouth Rock upon which the Pilgrims
landed. The actual size is seven*
feet in length by four in width and
its weight is three tons.
Holdup men operated' in Chicago
one day recently in droves. All day
the police wires were kept busy with
reports of robberies. Twenty-five
holdups was the official count for
the day. The most daring daylight
robbery in months occurred when
five bandits in an automobile swoop
ed down on the Twenty-third street
branch of the Hart, Schaffner &
Marx Clothing company, making off
with SIO,OOO in pash, one-half of the
weekly pay roll.
Harry Andrae was sentenced re
cently in Chicago to hang October 15
for the murder of Thomas O’Donnell
in a hold-up. Richard Wilson, his
associate in the crime, will hang the
same day with five other men con
victed of various murders.
One man is under sentence to
hang on October 14, making eight
for the two days.
The summer issue of the New York
City telephone directory, now being
distributed, is two and one-half
inches thick and weighs almost five
pounds. The familiar hole punched
through one corner, by means of
which the book could be hung on a
string, is missing.
SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
FORM GOOD HABITS IN YOUTH
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.)
ARE you teaching your children
to form good habits while they
are young?
Nothing is more important.
Good habits are a crutch to lean on;
a prop to weakness; a brace to the
wobbly; an understudy of all the
cardinal Virtues, and an ever-present
help in times of trouble.
It is a bromide to say that we
are all victims of our habits, but it is
one of the eternal truths whose im
portance we cannot overestimate.
For we don’t often really reason out
our course of action in life. We
are mostly guided by our impulses,
and these are simply the sum of our
habits.
We are courteous, and polite, and
considerate to those about us, or we
are rude, and brusque, and overbear
ing according to whether we ac
quired the habits of good manners
or the habits of a boor in our youth.
A.nd we are hated, or loved accord
ingly. /
Inasmuch, then, as habit functions
automatically in us, and, to a large
extent, takes the place of both in
telligence and conscience, how vital
that children should have cultivated
in them this mysterious faculty that
will be a good angel to them, guid
ing them into the right road, and
steering them away from the pit
falls of life!
For the habit of modesty hag kept
more girls pure, the habit of self
control has kept more boys sober and
moral than all the ten.' command
ments.
The right habit is a guarantee of
success.
Once I asked a very famous man
the secret of his achievements. “I
owe everything that I am to the
habit I acquired in childhood of
sticking to a thing until it was done.
My father instilled that into me from
the cradle,” he replied.
“If it was a game, I had to play it
out to the end. If I began a book
I had to read it through. If I start
ed to a place I had to go to it. No
matter how trivial the matter I un
dertook I had to see it through. That
habit became so ingrained in me
that I can’t break it. I have got to
finish what I start. I can’t give up,
, and so I hold on, and work on, after
i other people get discouraged and
i.quit, and nine times out of ten just
i that last final spurt of effort is the
i one thing needed to carry me on
I to the goal.”
! This man’s tip is worth taking.
| Try it on your little Johnny the
I next time he starts to build a block
j house, and gets it half done, and
drops that for his marbles, and dis
i cards them in two minutes for his
choo-choo train.
And what is laziness but a bad
‘ habit? What is industry but a good
habit?
Teach your child to wohk while it
is young, fill in its days with some
useful employment, and it will form
a habit of industry that is un
breakable, and makes idleness in
tolerable.
Any child that cannot have the
habit of industry fastened on it for
life by the time it is ten years old
• has need of the nearest hook worm
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
OH DEAR! A woman never can
express her true opinion of a
man—not even on his tomb
stone!
It takes a lot of actual cleverness
to write a brilliant and effective
love-letter—but it takes a lot of
actual brains to refrain from writ
ing one.
When a couple are matched but
not mated, they are as lonely and
ineffectual as two left-hand gloves.
Three men are necessary to every
charming woman’s education: one
who teaches her to love; one who
teaches her that she is lovable; and
one who teaches her how to inspire
love.
Os course, I am only a poor, weak
woman—but it looks to me as though
the noble ambition of each political
party is to “save the country”—from
the other party!
As a man grows older, you never
can tell whether he will begin doing
the things at which he used to be
shocked or begin to be shocked at
those who do the things he used
to do.
A wise woman is one who knows
exactly what a man means, when
she knows that he is saying a lot of
things that he doesn’t mean.
If every gentleman were as polite
as his chauffeur and every lady were
as courteous and considerate as her
husband’s stenographer, there would
be fewer romantic triangles of the
drawing-room-office-garage variety.
A man’s first love is always an
“angel”—perhaps that’s why it so
seldon happens that he has the cour
age to marry her.
Some husbands are forever "turn
ing over a new leaf” —and then blot
ting up the page.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
Genius is invariably absent mind
ed. A famous Scotch professor was
no exception to the rule. He had re
turned from a long walk and his feet
were sore and tired. He was told
that the best thing to do was to
bathe them in hot water. This he
promptly did. In the ordinary course
of events he proceeded to dry his
feet. He dried one and then put it
back into the water. Then he dried
1 the other foot, which he also dipped
in the basin. This went on for somd
time. Then he began to get puzzled.
“Good gracious,” he muttered at last.
“I never knew I had so many feet.”
After many years of parting, the
old school chums chanced to meet
again and spent an interesting hour
exchanging reminiscences.
“But," began one suddenly, “you
say you are in the grocery business.
I thought you wanted to go on the
stage?”
“So, I did,” confessed the other
sheepishly; “but —er —I* found out I
wasn’t suited for it.”
“A little bird told you, I suppose?'
The other man hesitated and his
face slowly flushed.
“Well, no, not exactly,” he said:
“but they might have been birds if
they had been allowed to hatch."
Quick wit is indispensable in the
vaudeville performer. Witness Beat
rice Hereford, on an occasion when
she was giving an entertainment.
The audience was at close attention
when a large black cat meandered in
front the wings, sat down in the
center of the stage and began, cat
fashion, to make itself clean.
“Sh! Sh!" came promptly from
Miss Hereford, a ripple of laughter
arose. “Scat! This is a monologue,
not a catalogue.” And the feline de
parted amid the applause of the spec
tators.
A teacher was reading to her class
when she came across the word ’Un
aware." She asked if any one knew
the meaning. One little girl timidly
raised her hand and gave the follow
ing definition, “ ‘Unaware’ is what
1 you put on first and take off last.”
A woe begone specimen of the
tramp tribe made a call at a rural
residence to ask for aid. The door
was opened by a woman of angular
proportions, severe demeanor and un
certain age and temper.
Having speedily ascertained the
object of the unexpected visit, in
raspy tones she observed: “I shall
not give you anything. If you had
been wise you would not have coihe
here. Do you know who I am?”
The weary wanderer replied that
he had not the pleasure of know
ing.
“Well, I’m a policeman’s wife, and
if he were in he would take you,
and very quickly, too.”
The tired tramp looked at her
quietly and a minute, and then re
plied: “I can quite believe you, ma’am
If he took you he’d take anybody.”
expert. It is merely a matter of
directing its energies in the right
channel, and parents certainly have
committed the unpardonable sin
against their sons and daughters'Mf
they fail to do this, and let them
grow up to hate work instead" of lov
ing it. x
Do you desire your children to be
come rich and prosperous? If so.
you have only to cultivate the habit
of thrift in them while they are
young. Wasting money is a bad
habit just as saving is a good habit.
And the one means poverty, and the
other means riches Teach children
to take care of cneir pennies and
they will know enough not to throw
away their dollars.
Saving can be made just as inter
esting to children as as
was proven during the war when
thousands of girls and boys put the
money they had been throwing away
on candy and soda water into thrift
stamps and so formed, let us hope, a
habit of thrift that will make their
whole future happy and more pros
perous. •
Teach children habits of accuracy,
to do whatever they do properly.
The difference between highly paid
work and poorly paid work is the
difference in the quality of the work.
The difference between the man with
the ten thousand dollar salary and
the man -with the one thousand dol
lar wage is the difference between
efficiency and inefficiency.
It takes just as much labor to
cook a mean dinner as a good one.
The girl who spells every other
.word wrong, and makes a failure of
her letters pounds the typewriter
just as many hours a day as the
private secretary does. So the peo
ple who never learn to do anything
well escape nothing but the reward
that goes to the accuracy that can
be depended upon.
Doing things slap-dashedly, hit
or-miss, any old way, is nothing but
a bad habit, just as doing them prop
erly is a good habit. Cultivate in
children the pride of craftsmanship,
and the love of turning out a good
job for the job’s sake and you have
put the guide to success in their
hands.
For the whole world is on a still
hunt for efficient people whose work
can be relied upon—dressmakers
who can fit, stenographers who can
spell, carpenters whose work holds
together, doctors who don’t guess
what ails you, lawyers whose ad-\
advice is sound, and when we find V
them we pay them joyfully what
ever they ask, and sing their praise
in the market place.
Teach children Jiabits of ofder and
promptness. the habit
of self control, them the
habit of smiling Instead of whining,
and you will have given them an
armor that will be proof against the
slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune, and that ■will enable them
to win out in the battle of life.
It isn’t enough to break children
of bad habits. You must fortify
them with good habits that they
will instinctively fall back, upon in
the crisis of their fate.
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
Commendable Faith
We can’t help but admire a preach
er who has enough faith in his con
victions to have a series of revival
services in weather like this. Think
of meeting the devil on his own
grounds and in his own climate.-
Dublin Tribune.
And Then They Didn’t Bite
The skeleton of a man recently
was found on the banks of the Flin'
river, near Bainbridge. Probably thi
poor fellow died while waiting foi
lish to bite. Examination showed he
had not cut his wisdom teeth.—Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun.
Perhaps snake-bite remedy was ’
no.t out of style in those days.—
Savannah Morning News.
South Beads in Auto Gains
A report says that the southerr
states show the largest proportionate
gain in automobile registration this
year. This is attributed to the heavy
shipments of cotton during and since
the war, which have put the soutl
in strong financial condition and en
abled cotton growers to use motoi
power for transportation.—Waycross
Journal-Herald.
Sentiments of An Eligible
Nowadays any poor fool can get
married, but it takes a good diplomat
to stay that way.—LaGrange Re
porter. ■
A Recreant Dover
A young man in Wyoming drove
two miles before he discovered that
his sweetheart had fallen out of the
buggy. Love-malting in that state
must lack some of the ardor that
characterizes it round here.—Harm
County Journal. ' t'"’
Right! It could not have happened
tn Georgia.
It Can’t Be Concealed
Selfishness always shows on a fel
low, like the yellow jaundice.—Hart
well Sun.
Primary Money Wasted
An editorial says that "three
fourths of the money spent in pri
maries this year has been wasted.”
This information probably came di
rect from Proctor.—Moultrie Ob
server.
Notice to Debtors
Be sure you are right and then
settle the count in full. —Thomasville
Times-Enterprise.
Why Is Ttills?
The cost of living in the west im
pressed Georgians more and more as
they traveled through the great cen
ters along the Pacific. Eating bills
are hardly 60 per cent of those in
the south. One can hardly believe
it without being shown, but, never
theless, it is so. A 50-cent break
fast in a high-class hotel and in the
cafeteria can be made up as fol
lows: Pot of coffee (two cups), pork
and beans (California grown), half
grapefruit or cereal, ham and eggs
and butter and hot brown toast. It
comes in quantity sufficinent for any
person. Measure that with a south- 1
ern breakfast of the present time and
figure for yourself.—Cordele Dis
patch.
One Dollar Per Beat
Another evidence of the high cost
of everything is the report that a
woman in the east was fined a whole
dollar the other day for beating up
her husband. —Cavannsih Morning
News
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