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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL i.— ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matfer 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 « (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) : 1 Wli.l Mo. 3 Moe. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. : Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.» $5.00 $0.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .00 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con ~ tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. 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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 - Copyright, 19Z.0 tty McClure Newspaper Syn<flo®~