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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOUR NA L ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday; Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months .». $1.50 Eight months• • •»SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk 1 M<>. 3 Mot. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily au<l Sunday2oc OOc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily I6e 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 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 ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. 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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 €•1,485,600 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 HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS MISS LUCY AX ME WHUT KIND O J 'OMAN WOULD AH SELECT OUT EF FIXIN' T' GIT MA'lEl> ER- Gin BUT LAW, MAN ’ ues' Gimme one wit> a EASY TEMFERTURE EN WHUTS HARMON I OUS.' %. <• ipRsRJk < (Ul ’' vK F /G<> Copyright. 1920 by McClur? ftampaper SfcaxOcate.