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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta. Ga.
Putting the “Orchard Test to
The Senatorial Candidates
IT will be commonly agreed, we assume,
< that a fairway to judge candidates in
the United States Senatorial campaign
’.ow developing in Georgia is by what has
been called the orchard test —that is, “By
heir fruits ye shall know them.”
What has he done? is a more searching
question, than what does he say? It goes
Jeeper into character. It is at once practical
and profound. Promises may be abandoned
or forgotten; they may be thwarted or ren
dered meaningless by the whirligig of time.
But performances stand firm as the hills of
Habersham; they are the evidence which life
itself leaves ever in its wake, the untwistable
truth of what the man has thought and
■ willed. Criticism is largely a matter of
• _ words and points of view. But deeds are
living things, positive realities. And who,
after all, is the wiser and more useful to the
-- world —he who stands aloof from the heat
r and burden of the day, pointing to the errors
of others and seeking to snlatch the plow
lines from their hands? or he who goes for
t ward as best he can, blundering at times, it
may be; misunderstanding and misunder
stood, but who nevertheless labors earnestly
on and brings the harvest home?
For its own part, The Journal has no con
" 'em whatsoever with the personalities of
his Senatorial race. Nor do we expect the
V rank and file of a thoughtful citizenry to be
-. .mpelled by motives other than a wish to
" net for the soundest interests of Common
wealth and country. But we are intensely
joncerned, as we believe every loyal Geor
gian to be, that the State shall have the
;bleet representation procurable, to the end
- that her traditions may be borne aloft and
I’Lsr people’s welfare subserved. If the object
*c were merely to play out a game of pygmy
---politics, we could afford passions and preju
dices and all manner of things irrelevant.
But the business before us is infinitely more
\ serious than a political game. It involves
-<~~a choosing that will make for Georgia’s good
or ill through years to come, and that will
**' affect favorably or unfavorably the practical
interests of each and every citizen. Does it
---not behoove us, therefore, to view the cam
naign, not as impulsive factionists, but as
ru.jusiness men and farmers, as wage earners
nd investors, as citizens with vital stakes to
T : protect and solemn duties to discharge, as a
people who judge thoughtfully and justly,
aying greater store by useful deeds than by
critical or clever words?
To appreciate the importance of “the
“i >rchard test” at this juncture, suppose there
■ - were no regional Reserve bank in Georgia to
- day, no system of rural credits, no Federal
aid for vocational training, none for the re
habilitation of our wounded soldiers and vic
tims of industrial accident, no assistance to
farmers such as the Agricultural Extension
■ act affords, no safeguards to the cotton
grower against unscrupulous speculators.
y Think what these constructive and protective
measures have meant to Georgia’s prosperity,
and then remember that her senior Senator
is the author of them every one. Consider,
too, that the reduction of the normal income
tax rate is a result of his effort in the Sen
nate Finance Committee; and that the freight
tariff equilization, whereby Savannah and
Brunswick, together with the other South At
lantic ports, were given a fair deal and an
opportunity to develop their rich resources,
came largely in response to tne arguments
which he presented before the Railroad Ad
ministration and the Shipping Board. Con
sider, too, that the parcels post, the Federal
aid road plan, the national merchant marine,
the Government nitrogen plant, with its im
portant bearing on the production of cheaper
fertilizers, all bear evidences of his counsel
and support. Consider, finally, that for five
years and against odds well nigh overwhelm
ing, Senator Hoke Smith fought for fair play
for the cotton producer, and won his battle.
Some say that he waxed too zealous in this
cause, but whtf will deny that he did it all
for what he conceived to be Georgia’s and
the South’s best interests? Suppose that
fight had not been made. Suppose the de
pressing and sometimes designedly hostile in
fluences that flung themselves repeatedly
against the cotton grower’s rights had not
been resisted and beaten back. Would all be
as well with Georgia as it Is today?
Such are the fruits by which the senior
Senator is known, such the evidences of his
ability and devotion. Are services like these
worth retaining? Or shall the helm be given
*. over to untried and reckless hands? The
situation, we repeat, is all too serious for
political fiddling. It is an occasion for sober
judgment, for a thrusting aside of all motives
save those that look' to tho Commonwealth’s
greatest good. And this assuredly is the at
titude of the thinking rank and file, if one
may so inter from the host of citizens (among
them numbers of his sharpest opponents in
times gone) who now are urging Senator
Smith’s re-election. Some of these doubt
-*-■ less will differ with him in the future as in
the past, on certain policies; but they know
. nevertheless that for effective talent and ripe
experience, for vigilance and industry, for
long-tried, full-sinewed serviceableness, the
State does not afford his superior, nor the
present Senatorial campaign his equal. For
the good of Georgia, therefore, and of De
.knocracy as well, factional and personal poli
tics should be put aside. Fitness for office
and usefulness to the State and nation should
be made the one standard of judgment. And
"’•by that standard, as borne out in his record
of fruitful service, Senator Hoke Smith de
serves re-election. • .»JT
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Stupid Or Clever?
THE editorial antics of the New York
Tribune and The Sun and New York
Herald appropos the ambiguity and
evasiveness of Senator Harding, their pres
idential candidate, are no more confusing
than they are amusing. No Imagination is
required to picture the alarm that Repub
lican leaders must feel in consequence of
the violent difference that rages daily be
tween these great metropolitan dailies con
cerning the meaning and intent of the ut
terances of the Republican candidate.
Senator Harding has both of them and
everyone else guessing as to where he
stands respecting the League of Nations.
His speech of acceptance offered him a
splendid opportunity to relieve the country
of its doubt and misgivings of the Repub
lican party on this great question, but the
opportunity escaped him. His speech cloth
ed his personal position in a veil of even
more doubt and obscurity than the Repub
lican platform.
“Everybody knows already where Hard
ing stands on the Wilson treaty and the
Wilson League,’’ declared the Sun and New
York Herald. “He isn’t going to fiddle with
it; he isn’t going to touch it. That’s final.”
Evidently the rock-ribbed Republican
Tribune does not believe or agree with all
that it “sees in The 1 Sun, “for with equal
positiveness the Tribune assures a com
plaining subscriber that “nothing in the re
cent speech of Mr. Harding” warrants the
assertion that “the Presidential candidate
of the Republican party has repudiated the
League principle.”
Although Senators Johnson and Borah
and other bitter-enders have detected in
tlw Harding speech a repudiation of the
League, tho Tribune knows better, and
points with p ride to the fact that “Mr.
Harding who voted twice for entry into the
’League begins his speech by denying any
desire to hold aloof.”
Commenting upon the dispute between
the Tribune and the Sun, the New York
Times observes that “it is not for the likes
of us' to meddle in this high dispute of
learned Republican interpreters of Hard
ing’s words. We might remind them, how
ever, of Lord Coke’s definition of the three
different degrees of certainty, in writing.”
The Times 4nvites attention to Sir Fred
erick Pollock’s explanation: The first de
gree, “certain to a common intent,” means
that “the sense is clear to a man of fair,
ordinary intelligence; the second,” certain
to a certain intent in general,” means that
the “words are plain even to a stupid man;
the third, “certain to a certain intent in
particular,’’ is another way of saying that
''the meaning is “so precise and exhaustive
that a clever man cannot read it in a
•wrong sense if he tries.’’
As The Times observes, the controversy
between the Tribune and the Sun is fully
covered by Pollock’s explanation of Lord
Coke’s definition of the degrees of the cer
tainty of writing. It is for the parties to
the controversy so decide which is the
stupid man and which is the clever.
♦
' To the Rescue of Poland
DESPERATE though her predicament, it
is hardly conceivable that Poland
will pass under the yoke of Soviet
Russia. Neither the Allied Powers nor the
group of newly risen republics can brook an
event so perilous to their common democracy
and civilization. As the frontier defense of
those political and social ideals against which
the wild tides of Bolshevism are turned, Po
land must be preserved, whatever the cost.
Her own rights give her title enough to na
tionhood and liberty, while her importance
to the security of western Europe and of
sane, free government everywhere would
make her destruction a world disaster. Let
the barrier she lifts be swept away, and
there would be no predicting the bounds of
the Bolshevist flood.
It is relieving, then, to learn in news dis
patches from Paris that France and Great
Britain will hear to no Soviet demands that
involve the disarmament of’ Poland, or a
change in her system of government to con
lorm to Russian theories, or her acceptance
of a boundary line less favorable than that
provisionally drawn by Premier Lloyd
George, or the use of her territory “as a
bridgehead in any sense between Germany
and Russia.” It has been assumed that any
or all of these demands, and perhaps others
more destructive of Polish sovereignty and
safety, would be made by Lenine and his
crew. Their military successes, which were
indeed decisive and far-reaching, have greatly
emboldened them. If by any means they can
crush or cripple the chivalric little nation
that stands rock-like against their propa
ganda, undoubtedly they will do so. And
as the situation now appears, only Allied in
terference can prevent them.
Blundering as' the past policy of the Gov
ernments at London and Paris may have
been in this matter, it seems that they now
are alert to the danger and are preparing
for action as decisive as events may call for.
It is reported, for instance, that large stocks
of munitions from the Allies are moving to
ward Warsaw from Danzig and from Ruma
nia and Czechoslovakia. “These supplies,”
the dispatches relate, “were for the most
part originally intended for the use of Gen
eral Denekine, but were delayed on the way
until too late to be available for him. The
munitions being sent from Danzig, however,
were shipped recently for the especial use
of Poland.” Equally interesting is the infor
mation that Finland, Rumania, Hungary and
other of the smaller States born of the war
are eager to make common cause against the
Bolsheviki, preferring this course to the ne
cessity of encountering the enemy single
handed later on. Certain it is that all
real democracies, whether in Europe or else
where, have reason to resist, by such means
as they best can employ, the lowering Soviet
menace. *-
e
A Ho use to Put Ones Head In
HE Who hath a house to put his
head in, hath a good head
piece.”
The wit of King Lear’s jester’ turns to
grimmest truth in these days of dwelling
dearth. The struggle for existence has be
come largely a quest for a domicile, the price
of which shall leave purchaser or tenant a
dollar or so for raiment and food. Happy
the fox with a hole, and the bird that can
boast a nest!
The statisticians have ’osen picking at the
problem of late, and have brought out some
interesting albeit comfortless facts. Federal
investigators report that in 1919 there was
a shortage of one and one-third times a nor
mal year’s building. The value of the per
mits issued in 1919 in some one hundred and
fifty cities amounted to $1,281,000,000, as
compared with about four hundred and thirty
millions in 1918, and eight hundred and
sixty millions in 1913. But between the
earlier and the later date, costs virtually
doubled. Another Government bureau reck
ons the number of houses which the country
lacks at four hundred and fifty thousand—
an exceedingly conservative figure, some es
timates ranging as high as eight hundred
thousand or a million.
Everyone knows, of course, that
try was put far behind in its normal build
ing operations during the war; but why does
tne slack continue? Or why is it taken up
so slowly? The high ocst of both materials
and labor Is but part of the explanation of
fered. A more serious factor now is the in
adequacy of transportation. To get mate
rials delivered at any price, that is the
problem.
Somehow or other, we suppose, the knot
will be untied; knots generally are untied if
they are Important enough to hold attention
—or else some Alexander cuts them. But
meanwhile the pinch is “mighty” painful.
THE MANIC-DEPRESSIVES
By H. Addington Bruce
VISIT any hospital for the insane and you
are sure to find among its inmates a
number afflicted with a strange form
of mental disease known as manic-depressive
insanity.
The victims of this disease alternate be
tween outbursts of maniacal excitement and
attacks of profound melancholy. They pre
sent a sad spectacle and one which impresses
the non-medical beholder as being singular
in the exteme.
Yet actually manic-depressive insanity is
but an exaggeration of a condition widely
found outside of hospital walls.
In fact} alternation between gladness and
gloom is among the commonest of life’s phe
nomena. And there are thousands of per
fectly sane people who swing back and forth
between the two In away that is truly re
markable.
One day these people are “in the seventh
heaven of delight,” as the phrase is. An
other will find them “plunged to the depths
of despair.”
They may thus alternate without obvious
reason for their strangely changing moods.
Or reason for the alternation may be seen
in the chance occurrences of their everyday
lives.
They become tumultuously exhilarated at
any little happening which gives them pleas
ure. A slight reverse will suffice to shift
them into the depressed state, when they are
as sad as before were glad.
Which indicates, of course, a great lack of
emotional control. It also suggests that, if
anything should occur to weakexy them physi
cally or to shock them physically, they might
themselves become victims of manic-depres
sive insanity.
And, as a matter of fact, it is out of their
ranks that the deplorable army of the manic
depressives is chiefly recruited. As noted by
the neurologist, Drysdale:
“Very frequently the manic-depressive pa
tient has long exhibited manifestations of ab
nomal excitability, accessions of unprovoked
anger, defiance to discipline, defective voli
tion, and pronounced emotional reactions.
“These oftentimes are the forebodings of
a future mental disruption. And inasmuch
as the treatment of a manic-depressive dis
turbance is essentially in preventive measures,
such warnings should not be permitted to
continue, unheeded.”
From which it follows that the chief thing
needed to lessen the occurence of manic-de
pressive insanity is to train the emotionally
uncontrolled to gain greater control of their
feelings. So that they will react unduly
neither to occasions for joy nor occasions for
sorrow.
This training may be achieved even in the
case of persons jof advanced years, as medical
specialists are constantly demonstrating. But
it is most easily done in childhood. And be
cause of the possibly dire outcome of emo
tional extravagance, it behooves every parent
to undertake it.
The. first display of excessive emotionality
should be recognized for what it is—a danger
signal of grave import. Ignored, it is certain
to impair efficiency and destroy peace of
mind. In the end it may destroy the mind
itself.
ROUND STEAK
By Dr. Frank Crane
Somebody named Johnson, a name with
most excellent vibrations, writes me and
says that in spite of rumors he has heard,
to the effect that I have a hired hand or two
to write my stuff, he believes that I honest
ly wrote all by myself an article which some
time ago appeared over my name, in which
I stated I could cook round steak so that it
would taste as good as fried chicken and
be as tender.
“If you are not bluffing,” he says, “you
could do a world of good to many house
keepers and stag clubs if you would print
your recipe. The writer has worn the outer
coating of enamel off his teeth in a vain at
tempt to make himself believe that round
steak is as tender as chicken. Give us a
hand, pal.”
Hence, being called, I lay my cards down,
face up, on the table, to wit, namely and as
follows:
Have the butcher cut you a round steak
thin. A little thicker than a lead pencil.
He will insist on cutting it thicker, saying
it will be juicier and so on. Draw your re
volver and compel him to obey you. Don’t
have the steak too thick.
After cutting the steak from the piece,
have him separate in into portions, each
about the side of your hand. Don’t try to
cook the steak all in one piece. It must be
in small sections, just as fried chicken is
best when each joint is cooked separately.
Have the butcher then take his sharp knife
(which is much better for the purpose than
any knife you have at home, because he
knows the art of sharpening and you don’t)
and criss-cross each piece, on both sides, mak
ing a network of gashes. Don’t cut clear
through. Gash shout half way through. And
on both sides, don’t forget. So that each
piece will be in tatters, almost ready to fall
apart.
Put in the frying pan plenty of good sweet
lard. Don’t use butter. It will burn. Don’t
fry in deep fat, as with doughnuts, but plen
ty of fat, as with fried chicken.
Rub each portion of the raw steak in flour.
Rub it in good.
Drop into the hot skillet.
Cover it with lid. Keep covered. This
cooks it through and makes it tender.
Fry till a golden brown, turning once in
awhile. You notice the process is exactly
as with fried chicken, Southern style.
After you lift out the meat, put in flour,
let it scorch a bit, then pour water and milk
mixed into the hot grease and meat parti
cles left in the skillet. Just how much, .you
will have to find out by experiment. Let it
boil up and boil down, keep stirring, until
you have gravy of the right consistency.
Flavor according to taste, with salt and
pepper, before cooking.
If the result is not good it is because you
have not followed directions.
Round steak not only is cheap, but it is
all good meat, with the minimum of waste,
and properly cooked it TASTES better than
any part of the beef.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
AS THE SPARKS FLY
The humorists of the country are to re
port the national conventions for the news
papers—but the politicians don’t see the
joke.
Some of the brethren do not seem to
consider the rail wage award a real wage
award.
♦
“Do you know, Henry,” asked Mrs. Figgus,
newspaper in hand, “that every time you
draw you breath somebody dies?”
“Well, I’m sorry,” returned Mr. Figgus,
“but if I stop drawing it I’ll die myselt”
WHEAT, THE
HUNGER KILLER
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 30.
There has been so much
famine in the world of late
that the public will appre
ciate the assurance that there is to
be plenty of focM for everybody aft
er the present crops are harvested.
Wheat is the cornerstone of the
food structure of the non Oriental
world, and the supply of it deter
mines largely whether western na
tions are to be well or poorly fed.
Most of the wheat is raised in the
northern hemisphere, and the crop
is at present so far advanced that
reliable estimates of it can be made.
And it is certain the wheat crop Is
to be abundant. From Mandalay to
Sascatchewan, from Finland to Col
orado, the reports are unvaryingly
excellent as the thrashing season
rapidly approaches.
The United States is the greatest
wheat producing country in the
world. Her position- is now more
clearly without a rival than before
the war when Russia was an active
competitor in all markets.
The United States is to have a
near-bumper crop. During the five
years that preceded the war period
the average crop here was 687,000,000
bushels. During the war, under the
stimulant of government encourage
ment and high prices, the average
annual yield was 822,000,000 bushels.
The latest forecast of the ’crop now
being harvested made by the bureau
of crop estimates, is 810,000,000 bush
els. So it becomes evident that we
are to have a war-time yield to meet
a peace-time need.
The Farmers Make Good
This crpo is a magnificent accom
plishment. Throughout the wheat
belt the fields are yielding sturdy
average acre returns, crops that are
not unusually heavy but are general
ly good and uniform. Early in the
season there were varying influences
mitigating against a heavy yield,
but conditions have continued to im
prove right up to the harvest sea
son and the forecasts have grown
constantly more optimistic.
The contribution that the United
States will this year be able to make
to the wheat rationing of the world
is estimated as follows: The crop
will be 810,600,000 bushels. To this
should be added 150,000,000 bushels
Jield over from last year. This is
twice the average holdover as there
were difficulties in transportation
and difficulties in financing Euro-'
pean purchases. Thus we will have
960,000,000 bushels on hand.
The normal home consumption of
wheat Is 560,000,000 bushels. Eighty
million bushels must be held to plant
next year’s crop. \Thus we promise
to have 310,000,000 bushels of wheat
for export. This is more than half
as much wheat as our own people
consume. It is a splendid contribu
tion to the world supply. Before
the war our average export was 105,-
000,000, and the average war-time
export was but 240,000,000 bushels.
So we are doing handsomely this
year.
In Canada the wheat crop promises
to be better than it has been for
years. Hardy Canadians have been
pushing into the prairies of the
northwest, around Medicine Hat, Cal
gary and Moosejaw, battling six
month winters and forty-below tem
peratures. When crops were good,
profits were large, but there have
been bad seasons. For the past three
years there have been mostly crop
failures, and the suffering has been
intense. But Canada promises to
contribute 100,000,000 bushels of
wheat for export this year. .
In Argentina, where the harvest
season is December and January, the
last crop was fairly good, and there
is still an unexported balance. India
gathered a good crop in March and
April. In Australia it is now winter,
and heavy acreages are being seeded
There was a great accumulation of
wheat in Australia when the war
came to an end, because there were
no ships to carry it.
The latest reports from
universally encouraging. In * rance
and Spain there are bu'mper cropl
and Prussia reports S ood VnJnr'
While there Is an absence of Infor
mation from the rest of Germany
there is the assurance that the
thrifty Hun is raising food for his
own use. Czecho-Slovakia has a good
crop Rumania, banner wheat coun
try of the Balkans, will make a fine
showing. Only Italy has a crop that
is below the average, and Algeria is
alone in being rated poor.
Filling’ the Empty Barrels
The demand of late has been from
these countries, from the armies,
and the unreconstructed peoples that
live within their borders. There will
be more than the normal demand un
til the flour barrels in all the gro
eery stores and the bins in all tne
homes are filled. But Europe will
now produce a good part of the
wheat that it uses, and the rest of
the world will find its responsibili
ties lightened. .
In the background of the wheat
situation there always lui*ks the
shadow of Russia. The far-reach-
Ing steppes of that great country
are the only region over which the
American prairies have no advantage.
lowa can be duplicated a dozen times
to the north of the Black sea.
The door of exit for wheat from
Russia has been closed for six
years. When Turkey took her place
beside Germany, Russian wheat stop
ped coming through the Dardanelles.
When Russia became a land of chaos
the wheat of the plains ceased to
flow even to Odessa, Moscow, and
Petrograd. .
There is a lack of reliable infor
mation as to what has been going
on in Russia. The country Is so vast
that it is difficult to see it In per
spective. It would be unwise to
draw conclusions with relation to the
whole wheat supply from a report
on a portion of Ukraine as big as
Pennsylvania., or after" taking stock
In a port like Odessa. When Brit
ish reports say that there are vast,
stores of wheat in Russia, the fact
must be borne in mind that Britain
is a buyer of wheat and would like
to drive the price down.
Russia Will be Slow
But It is improbable that the Rus
sian peasant has stopped growing
wheat. It is likely that he has good
ly stores of it in reserve, but if the
nations were to resume trade with
Russia today it would be a
time before this wheat reached the
market. Odessa would have to pre
pare for handling It. the railroads
running Into the country would have
to be re-established, and the lethar
gic peasant would have to be aroused
to the chance of disposing of his
grain. Therefore Russian wheat will
not figure in the market of the pres
ent summer.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
Herbert Corey, the war corrsepond
ent. was talking about the beggars of
different lands: “I have met. said
Mr Corey, “begerars of every descrip
tion—shy beggars, blustering ones,
old beggars, robust ones—but the
most remarkable beggar of the lot
was a man whom I never met, yet
whom I never assuredly will forget.
AH I saw of this beggar was his hat
and chair. The chair stood on a
corner of the Rue St. Lazare in
Paris. The hat lay on the chair,
with a few coppers in it, and behind
the hat was a placard reading, ‘Please
don’t forget the beggar, who Is now
taking his luncheon.’ ”
Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Mon
tana, and his secretary were return
ing from a late session of the sen
ate one night byway of the merry
-go-round motor that runs through
the subway. This queer, though re
puted to be luxurious, motor car
makes more noise than an airplane,
and in the clatter and noise one
usually sits with closed eyes until
whizzed through to the other end.
On this particular occasion, how
ever, two deaf mutes, utterly uncon
scious of the din, sat conversing
easily on the front seat. Senator
Walsh watched the(r fingers fly,
fascinated. Leaning over to his sec
retary, he yelled in his good ear:
“Miles, they’ve got it on us, after
all, haven’t they?” But in a few min
utes he followed it up gleefully
with: “Say, Miles, where’d they be
in the dark, though?”
Mrs. Newlywed was speaking very
proudly to her caller of their new
house and told of its ventilation.
“I don’t think your modern dwell
ing has anything on our old-fash
ioned frame house in that respect,”
returned her called.
“Every night we lock the cat In
the .cellar and let her out of the >
Z.ttiv in the morning. i
CURRENT EVENTS
What he says he believes to be a
“fraud proof” will has been made
and filed in the office of the clerk
of Polk County, la., by Theodore
Mantz, a Des Moines lawyer, Mr.
Mantz dictated hls will Into a talk
ing machine and had It recorded in
wax.
At the end of the dictation C. H.
Miller, a lawyer, and H. W. Brandt,
a court reporter, testified into the
machine they were witnesses to the
“making” of the will and spelled
tneir names out In full as the wit
nesses. The record then was put on
a machine and reproduced the
voices. Being pronounced correct by
Mr. Mantz he took it to the clerk’s
office, had the box containing it
sealed In wax- and filed.
Between grasshoppers and the
Non-Partisan league, a third of the
spring wheat crop is in danger of be
ing seriously damaged, if not de
stroyed. It was the plague of
grasshoppers. In the last analysis,
that caused the defeat of Asle J.
Gronna for renomination to the
United States senate.
The seriousness of the business in
bootlegging whisky between Canada
and tlje United States is disturbing
the provincial and Federal authori
ties.
The Royal Northwest Mounted
Police are taking a hand in the sup
pression of the bootlegging, but so
far without much success. In Que
bec and New Brunswick, all along
the border, there is a well organized
bootlegging business, and apparent
ly little effort is being made to cope
with it. That there is an enormous
profit In rum running is evident
from the prices paid. Whisky has
jumped 100 per cent within the last
six months. A bottle sells now for
$5 to $8 in Canada, and fancy prices
are said to prevail in the states.
It was election day at Sing Sing
prison last Tuesday and the “or
ganization” ticket won by 1,200 to 86.
The Mutual Welfare League cabi
net was returned to a man, with
Jeremiah Sullivan re-elected serge
ant-at-arms, the most powerful of
fice at the disposal of the prisoners
in the selfgovernment plan. The
contest was betwteen the “organiza
tion” and the “insurgents.” A prison
official reported that “the election
passed off in a quiet and orderly
manner.”
Reviewing the political situation
in a speech in the Reichstag Dr.
Walter Simons, foreign secretary,
said: “With America we are still In
a state of war and the end will not
come until March, 1921. Never
theless humanitarian efforts are be
ing made in America for German
children and young mothers. Large
numbers of milch cows are to be
brought to Germany.”
Philadelpphia has a talking clock.
Instead of striking the hdurs and
half hours, it speaks them right out.
Time to get up, time to get up!”
shouts the clock at 6 a. m., and
Mrs. Vincent Pinto and her daughter.
Rose, hustle out of bed at their
home, No. 1624 South Eighth street,
dress and begin to get breakfast.
Breakfast is ready/’ warns the
clock an hour later, and Mr. Vincent
Pinto and his son Joseph hurry
downstairs to the table, where
mother and daughter have break
fast ready. “Time to go to work!’’
the clock soon warns Mr. Pinto and
II 1 . 8 . 80 ?- and at 9 informs Mrs.
I into it’s the hour to do her mar
keting. And so through the day the
clock speaks, finishing its work at
II p. m., when Mr. Pinto’s voice,
deep and stem, can be heard say
ing: ‘Time to go home, young
man- It’s 11 o’clock. Time to go
home. ’ Then Miss Rose’s young
man gets his hat.
Lese majeste is a much cheaper
commodity under a republic than it
was under imperial Germany. At
Liepnitz an ex-captain has just been
sentenced to pay a fine of 100 marks,
for charging Herr Ebert with drunk
enness. The district attorney in
prosecuting the case demanded a
two months’ jail sentence for the of
fender.
Great Britain’s expenditures on
naval and military operations in
Russia from the time of the signing
of the armistice with Germany No
vember 11, 1918, to March 31, last,
amounted to 55,973,000 pounds ($279,-
865,000), according to a parliament
ary paper issued recently.
It remained for the poor old Poto
mac river to furnish the first “man
eating shark” of the 1920 season. A
Washington newspaper recently pub
lished a first-page story of an 8 1-2-
foot wolf of the sea, caught at
Piney Point, Md., which is a consid
erable distance up the Potomac, but
where the water still is salt. A doc
tor in the fishing party, according
to the account, removed the shark’s
teeth and presented them as souve
nirs to the other members of the
party.
The soviet government is offering
a reward of 2,000,000 rubles for the
head of a man claiming to be Czar
Nicholas II of Russia .according to
information received by the Jewish
Correspondence Bureau today. The
advices say the claimant, who is in
Siberia, has raised a considerable
following. In accounting for hls
escape from the hands of the Bol
sheviki he asserts it was a servant
impersonating the Czar who was kill
ed at Yekaterinburg, where the Czar
and his family are understood to
have been executed.
Five hundred aliens of the 566 or
dered deported during the first six
months of this year by the depart
ment of labor still remain in this
country through inability of the de
partment to obtairf transportation
for aliens destined for Russia. As
sistant Secretary Post, in a formal
announcement recently, reported that
2,820 anarchist and kindred cases
were acted upon by the department
of labor between January 1 and June
30, 1920. Os these, 2,202 cases were
dismissed and 72 ordered for rehear
ing. There were still 445 cases in
which no departmental action had
been taken at tfie close of the fiscal
year. Countries to which deporta
tions have been effected since Jan
uary'l and the number of aliens to
each, follow: Germany, 8; Hungary,
8; Jugoslavia, 12; Italy 8; Austria,
8; Galicia, 2; Czechoslovakia, 1;
Lithuania, 1; Poland, 1; Rumania, 2;
England, 2; Scotland 1; Ireland, 1,
.and Canada, 1.
The largest steamship in the ex
cursion fleet which steamed from the
Battery down the harbor to Sandy
Hook during the recent yacht races
for the America’s Cup was the 8,000-
ton Ward liner Orizaba. She car
ried 450 passengers at $25 a head.
The big steamship, which maintain
ed a speed of 20 knots across the
Atlantic when carrying troops dur
ing the war, was advertised to have
accommodation for one thousand
passengers and would'have got them
easily had word of the surprise she
had in store been whispered through
the city. Shortly after the yachts
had started on the first leg of the
race, white-jacketed stewards went
round the promenade deck of the
Orizaba and called out the magic
words: “The bars are open now. Give
your order, gents.” At first this was
taken to mean ginger ale, soda
water and other non-cheering bev
erages, but it was quickly demon
strated that it meant cocktails, gin
rickeys Scotch and rye highballse and
champagne. And the champagne,
which was the most expensive liquid
refreshment on the ship, sold for $9
a bottle.
A life jacket, silent remembrance
of the tragic sinking of the Lusitania
five years ago. and bearing a strand
of faded blond hair, was picked up
recently in the Delaware river. The
name of the ship the Germans tor
pedoed still remained, clear and dis
tinct. on the wave-beaten canvas,
which has been adrift on the seas
throughout three years of war and
two of peace. The life jacket, which
was found by two railroad detectives,
was covered with slime and seaweed,
with one arm-stran broken. On one
side were the words “life belt” and
on the other, in large black letters,
the inscription “Lusitania.”
In the zone foreign office a letter
was received Inquiring about a bond
which the soldier had purchased. His
letter was rather incoherent, and the
officer was unable to identify the
case. So a letter went back to the
soldier asking for more information,
and incidentally whether it was a
converted bond. “Naw. the bond
wasn’t converted,” wrote back the
soldier, “and I don’t want It messed
up in religion either. You just send
it o'i to me like ’twas.”
TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1920
-DOROTHY DIX TALKS
THE EXTRAVAGANT WIFE
- ' BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer ”
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Tne.)
zzTTT HAT shall a man do with
• • \/\ / a wife whose extrava
y y gance is ruining him?”
asks a correspondent.
“I am no tightwad,”
goes on the writer of this letter, “I
want a wife to dress well and live
well. I desire to give her every
luxury that we can possibly afford,
and I make her a generous allow
ance that should coves any reason
able woman’s needs, but she throws
money away as if it grew on trees,
and as the result I am always in
debt and hounded by the bill collec
tor. _
“I am a young man, ambitious to
make a place for myself in the
world, and I know that I have it in
me to succeed. I had already got
ten k, good start towards my goal at
the time of my marriage, but I have
gone steadily backward ever since.
To get anyhere in business you
must show that you not only know
how to make money but to save it.
Opportunity knocks in vain at door
of the penniless man. Big firms do
not select the employe who is be
ing dunned for his rent, to manage
branch offices and factories.
“Twice since $1 have been married
I have had chances to start in busi
ness fop myself in concerns that
have proved highly profitable, but
it took a few thousands to go in,
and my wife had blown in my sav
ings on an automobile that she had
badgered me into buying. Three
times have inferior men been passed
over my head by the firm for which
I have worked for years, and sent to
China and Japan to take charge of
the offices there, and I know that
the reason that I am sidetracked is
because of the shabby men in blue
with their coat fronts bulging with
papers, who thrust unpaid millinery
and dressmaker and beauty parlor
accounts at. me every time I step out
of the door.
"I know as well as if it had been
put in words that my firm thinks
that a man who cah’t live and keep
out of debt on the salary I get, is so
poor a financier that he isn’t to be
trusted to handle big affairs. And
I can also see the big men looking at
me in a puzzled way, and wondering
what has happened to me, how I
have lost my morale, why I, who
used to be thrifty, have gotten to
be shiftless, and fallen into the
hands of bill collectors, why I, who
used to be on my tip toes, am down
hearted and discouraged.
“And I can’t tell them that all that
is the matter with me is that I am
married to an extravagant wife.
“I have endured this for five
years, hoping against hope that I
could cure my wife of her vice,
arguing with her, pleading with her,
but all in vain, and I have come to
the conclusion that the buying and
wasting habit is just as incurable as
the dope habit. And unfortunately
there is no law to restrain a wife
from throwing away her husband’s
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
That Is To Be Thought About
If all the harpers after justice got
it in full measure they would prob
ably refrain from talking for the
same reason that Debs does.—Thom
asville Times-Enterprise.
Good. Morning, Governor Bailey
Former Senator Bailey, of Texas,
appears to have "come back.” He
may not have done so as strongly
as he desired, but he has “come
back” just the same.—Columbus En
quirer-Sun.
Getting' Ready for Tybee,
Editor Brown, of the Cordele Dis
patch, we take it, ifc preparing for
his annual visit to Tybee. His pa
per carries a long editorial against
separating the bathers by sexes.—
Savannah Press,'
Facts in the Case
The report that Villa has been
bottled up appears to have been
slightly exaggerated. What really
happened, perhaps, was he got an
other bottle.—John D. Spencer, in
Macon Telegraph. »
A Risky Commnatlon
A peach of a girl with a heart
of stone is a risky combination for
marital ties.—Americus Times-Re
corder.
Back to the Farm
When we read the agricultural
papers we yearn for the farm.—
Butler Herald.
Running the Government
If the fellows who have charge
of the government had as much
sense as the fellows who stand
around and talk we would have a
very fine government. Hartwell
Sun. ,
“Circumventing” the Rain
Editor Jim Nevin, of the Atlan
ta Georgian, as well as a number of
other editors have suggested , a
change of dates for the annual
meeting of the Georgia Press as
sociation. Rain has worked havoc
with the plans for the past several
years as the meetings are held about
the same time in July bf each year.
It has been suggested that June
would be a better month for weath
er, and we hope the Executive com
mittee of the association and the
people of Washington can arrange
another date for the 1921 meeting.
—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
July seems to be a “wet” month.
The meeting was held a week later
this year, but the weather con
tinued unfavorable. The' last week
in June has been suggested to the
executive committee.
A Brilliant Star *
We are going to organize a min
strel troupe and put on Billy Sut
live, of Savannah, as leading lady.
Walton Tribune.
Taking Up the Collection
About the only time some Doug
lasville men begin to economize is
when the collection box gets around
to them.—Douglas County Sentinel,
is fast coming when all the country
around wHI be dotted with peach
trees and when Augusta will be a
great peach center.—Augusta Chron
icle.
They’re Natural in Georgia
Parisian bathers are painting dim
ples on their knees. They should be
drowned on the spot.—Columbus
Ledger.
The Twenty Dollar Suit
There is some explanation in the
thought that the twenty-dollar suit
of a dozen years ago now sells for
one hundred and twenty fifty-cent
dollars.—Savannah Morning News.
Joluill y Jones
■Editor Johnny Jones, of the La-
Reporter, showed his loyalty
to the Georgia Press association by
detraining a t Carrollton with a tick
et to Asheville, N. C., where the
Southern Publishers’ association was
in session, in his pocket. The wel
come that he received doubtless
compensated him for rendering a
decision in favor of Carrollton.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW
V. at was tne nationality of
LrOUatn?
2. Who obtained the apples of Hea
perides for Hercules?
3. From what light opera is the
song, “Tell Me, Pretty Maiden?”
4. What German philosopher was
an authority on agriculture?
5. What state is known as the
“Poppy State?”
6. What were the first ten amend
ments to the constitution called?
7. Who recently won the world’s
open championship in golf?
8. What poem contains the line
“Talk Not of Wasted Affection,” etc.?
9. In what year was the Boxer
Rebellion?
10. What are boats called which
are used in the canals of Venice?
11. Who is considered the founder
of the present pemocratic party?
12. What does “Oklahoma" mean?
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
1, Philistine; 2, Atlas; 3, “Floro
dora;" 4, Goethe; 5, California; 6, Bill
of Rights; 7, Duncan; 8, “Evange
line;” 9, 1900; 10, Gondolas; 11, Jef
ferson; 12, Red people. ,
money as there is to prevent het
from buying drugs.
“Now, I am not willing to spend the
balance of my days toiling like a
slave to enrich jewelers and cabarets
and complexion specialists. I want
to- have something better to show
for my life work than a closetful of
imported dresses and hats. That is
one side of tbe problem. The other
is my wife, who buys, and buys,
and buys. What shall I do about
it?”
My advice to this man, and every
other man who is married to a woman
who is not willing to live within <
his means, is. to get up and leave '
her. Divorce her. Get rid bf her
just as he would of any other busi
ness partner who was ruining the
firm by reckless extravagance.
I believe in every man being both
generous and just to his wife. I be
lieve in a family spending a liberal
amount of its income as-it goes along,
instead of pinching and scrimping
every penny for some future day of
splurge that none of them may live
to see, but It is just as much a
wife’s business to save her husband’s
money, as it is his business to earn
it, and if he doesn’t do this, she has
defaulted on her part of the marriage
contract and should be made to pay
the penalty.
A man is a weakling and a fool
who lets his .wife ruin his life by
her extravagance, and sell him into
bondage to milliners and dressmak
ers, and it speaks volumes for the
hearts of men and nothing for their
heads that there are so many of these
poor, pitiful domestic slaves
There is no justification for the ,
man’s folly because h e is making this
heroic sacrifice for a woman whose
very conduct shows that she has no
particle of affection for him, and that
she is as hard as stone, ana cal
lously indifferent to his sufferings.
Certainly it can flatter no man’s, van
ity to realize that he is merly a shop
ping account and a meal ticket to '
his wife, and that she is perfectly
willing to work him to death to pro*
vide her with a fashionable addresg
on her visiting cards, and a near
pearl necklace.
Every man should explain hls finan
cial affairs in detail to his wife. He
should tell her just K exactly whai
they can afford to spefyd. He should
make her understand why they must
economize in order that he may en
large his business, or start In bush
ness for himself, or realize som«
other plan of advancement.
And if she refuses to do her part
and insists on living beyond their
means and running him in debt, il
is up to him to take the first train
out for Reno.
A wife who loves a bargain sale
more than she does her husband is a
good riddance.
Dorothy Dix’s articles appear regs
ularly in this paper every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
AS A WOMAN )
THINKETH
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Who Killed “COOK ROBIN?*
(Copyright, 1920, by The Wheeler Syndl- 1
cate, Inc.) •
SHE has gone, forever!
The patient, cheerful, bus
tling, comforting, old-fashion
ed cook!
The mald-of-all-work, who slept ir
the little freezing attic room, sat
in the old rocking chair without anj
spokes in the back, ate what wa:
left from the dinner table, and work
ed fourteen hours a day.
“Hotne,” without her, has becomi
nothing but four walls and a vac
uum-cleaner!
And now.
In voices, choked with tears ant'
restaurant food,
Everybody is asking, drearily,
wearily,
“Where are the maids of yester
year?”
“Who killed Cook Robin?*
John declares, between sips, ol
cold canned soup, that Mary did it—
Mary, who expected thp cook to dt
everything!
Mary, who scolded her sharplj
when she broke a dish, and neve
had any mercy on her when she hat
a headache—
Mary, who called her to aaswe)
the door-bell, when her arms wen
in the wash-tub, and her hands ful
of soap—
Mary, who expected her to per
form miracles—and treated her llk<
a menial!
I wonder!
Mary vows that John did It.
Mary sighs bitterly, that a womar
may devote her life to “art,”
And make her husband llvs in ;
studio, and feed him on dellcatessei
stuff, for years—and he’ll endun
it without a murmur.
And think her “wonderful!”
But that the moment she makei
up her mind to be a “sweet, devoted
wife”—
The moment John discovers that
“home is his heaven"—and deter
mines that it shall be just like heav
en—
The trouble begins!
Mary declares that the legend svei
the kitchen door, should read:
“All ye who enter here, leave hopl
of pleasing any man behind!”
That a husband expects a house t<
be run by magic!
He orders' dinner for six o'clock—
and expects the cook to keep It hot
and palatable until half-past eight
And, when it comes on the tabl<
—does he ever smile and tell th<
cook how wonderful she is?
Nay, verily.
His comment runs something liki
this: , . _
"Well, is this all we’ve got foi
dinner?"
"Great Scott! Btew, again?”
"Why do we have so many Trier
things? Can’t we have something
broiled for a change?"
“Can’t you teach that mechanic
not to put those hot dishes on. th«
mahogany?"
“Ye gods! Do you expect me
eat all this stuff? I’m not an
anaconda!”
"Well, professor,” inquired th(
young musician, "how do my eomposb
tions please you” . .
"Why, I think," responded the oldej
man, "that they may perhaps bi
played when Mozart, Haydn, Men
delssohn and Meyerbeer have beei
forgotten.”
“Really?” exclaimed the jrounj
musician in ecstacy.
“Certainly, but not till then,” re
marked the other.
HAMBONES MEDITATION!
some folks calls
EEY-SE'F t •INDEPENDENT*.
WEN DEYS JES' STRADDLIN'!
DE QUESTION IJ
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