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Putting Patriotism
Above Partisanship
IN a highly significant statement touching
the Georgia Senatorial race, Dr. O. B.
Bush, of Pelham, member of the Legis
lature from Mitchell county and heretofore
a stanch adherent of Governor Doreey, as
well as a pronounced opponent of Senator
Smith, declares that in the present cam
paign he will vote and work for the Sena
tor’s re-election.
In giving the reasons and motives that
constrained him to this step, Dr. Bush
brings to light an interesting bit of recent
History. He was one of about a hundred
of the Governor’s tried friends invited to a
political conference at the Executive man
sion on last Saturday. Now, according to
the inspired report of what developed on
that occasion, those called into counsel were
unanimous in soliciting the Governor to enter
the Senatorial contest. Not so, says this di
rect and candid witness. On the contrary—
“ The action of the conference was
seventy-six to twenty-five, and a num
ber of those present expressed the opin
• ion that the Governor could not carry
their counties.”
The grounds on which Dr. Bush opposed
the Governor’s entering the race are espe
cially worth considering because it may be
fairly assumed that they represent the judg
ment, not alone of the dissentients at the
Mansion conference, but also of a multitude
of others who are disregarding past politics
for Georgia’s vital future interests. Says
the gentleman from Mitchell: “I did not
think he (Governor Dorsey) should run. I
have always been a friend of the Governor’s
and his warm supporter, but
“The race in my section is between Sen-
Ss-.ator Hoke Smith and Thomas E. Wat
son, and- the votes the Governor gets
will simply help Tom Watson. I have
never cast a ballot for Hoke Smith, but
shall do so in the coming primary,
and actively support him. There are a
number of reasons why I shall take this
course.
“I believe that Senator Smith is the
hest qualified man, by reason of his ex
perience and ability, to serve Georgia
and Georgians in the Senate at this
time. He is certainly one of the big
gest men in the United States Senate,
and his position on committees in the
senate will enable him to be of vital
value to Georgia in handling the prob
lems immediately ahead of us.
“I also believe the race is between
Senator Smith and Tom Watson, and for
this reason I hope all loyal Democrats
may lay aside past political prejudices
and unite on Senator Smith.
“I shall do everything within my power
that is consistent and right to help
bring about his re-election.”
Here Speaks sound judgment as distin
guished from prejudice, and patriotism as dis
tingiushed from factional politics. Here stands
a citizen, honored and influential, who never
before has opposed Governor Dorsey and
never before has supported Senator Smith.
Every impulse of a purely personal or par
tisan nature would dispose him to encour
age the Governor’s ambition and to join the
interests behind the latter’s candidacy. But
he sees the issues of this momentous cam
paign as involving vastly more than any
man’s political fortunes and dreams. He
?ees the need of the party, the welfare of the
State, the right of the people of Georgia to
the most efficient and most fruitful Sena
torial service they can secure. And in the
light of these largest considerations he sees
his duty as a citizen. Not to support the
ablest candidate, the most experienced and
best qualified to get results for his con
stituents would be, in the opinion of this
practical and patriotic observer, recreance
to the highest interests of the Common
wealth.
That Senator Hoke Smith is the best
qualified, the most experienced and the al
together ablest of those in the contest, will
be readily granted, we believe, by anyone
who studies the situation in its broadest as
pects and bearings. Hie record itself proves
his rare effectiveness in initiating and press
ing to enactment legislation of a construc
tive and serviceable character. Every in
formed and fair-minded observer knows that
the rural, educational and business interests
of Georgia are profiting today,- and profiting
richly, by Senatorial measures of which Hoke
Smith was the author and by hard won bat
tles in which he was their intrepid and re
sourceful champion. The Agricultural Ex
icaaion act, together with those providing
for vocational training and for the rehabili
tation of our wounded soldiers and victims
of industrial accident, are recognized, not
simply in the South, but the country over,
as landmarks in useful and humane legisla
tion. The National Democratic Convention
at San Francisco, in reciting the party’s
salient services and urging its soundest
claims to the nation’s continued confidence,
saw fit to refer directly to four laws which
Georgia’s senior Senator had launched and
steered to passage. The workingmen of this
State who have read the record know the
firmness and vigor with which he has stood
for their rights; and surely every farmer
knows the long, hard, victorious fight he has
made for theirs and Georgia’s threatened in
terests.
In the light of such a record is it not
natural that thinking citizens like Dr. Bush
and a host of others now speaking out
should urge Senator Smith’s re-election and
should deplore ap incident that can tend only
to divide the loyal Democratic vote. Co-
THE ATLANTA x .. ... ... JvJKNAL.
gently does Dr. Bush argue on this point
when he declares: “I have always been a
friend of the Governor’s and his warm sup
porter, but the race in my section is between
Senator Hoke Smith and Thomas E. Watson,
and the votes the Governor gets will simply
help Tom Wateon. . . . For this reason I
hope all loyal Democrats may lay aside past
political prejudices and unite on Senator
Smith.” This, we believe, is the conviction
and will of thousands and tens of thousands
of Georgians who love their State with mind
as well as heart, and who will vote for her
largest welfare as the logic of this time de
mands, regardless of battles gone.
South Atlantic Ports in
American Commerce
ADMIRAL BENSON’S recent statement
that it will be the Shipping Board’s
policy to encourage the equitable de
velopment of all the country’s ports rather
than a continuance of the monopoly which
one or two North Atlantic outlets heretofore
have held, has put certain Eastern interests
in high dudgeon. From New York partic
ularly come cries of protest. That the coun
try should wish anything better than to have
the bulk of its ocean bound commerce cram
med through the congested channel of a
single region seems altogether presump
tions, to those who have been profiting
by that situation. The country, however,
greets the Admiral’s announcement with en
thusiasm, and believes, moreover, that after
a while the Northeastern Interests them
selves will rightly appreciate the wisdom as
well as justice of the course he has outlined.
The liberal and logical view of the matter
is taken by the Manufacturers’ Record, pub
lished at Baltimore, when it says that al
ready that city and "Philadelphia ‘"have, felt
the magic Inspiration of open competition
and both ports are rapidly coming into their
own.’’ Further:
“There is no disposition to deprive
New York of her proper share of busi
ness. There is plenty for all. and in
the nature of things New York is likely
for many years to retain her supremacy
as the leading port. But that city is no
longer to be the recipient of special
favors. She will have to stand on her
own bottom.”
The day is passing, indeed, when any city
or any interest can thrive on special favors.
Justice is the only rule under which abid
ing prosperity is possible. This is not to
say that natural or inherent advantages can
be or should be discounted. Cities, regions
and countries, like men, are entitled and
obligated to make the utmost of their tal
ents, being careful only not to covet or tram
ple down the rights of others.
But the practice of discommoding and
even penalizing industry and commerce
merely to keep the tides of foreign trade
pouring through a traditional gateway is
too inefficient, too unfair, too inimical to
the nation’s largest interests to be tolerated.
In directing its influence to the development
of other Atlantic ports than those of the
Northeast, the Shipping Board is taking the
course which common sense long has coun
seled and which now is imperative in the
light of our war-time experience. From the
earlier to the latest stages of the European
conflict, and especially during the period of
America’s participation, the custom of
crowding exports through New York was a
grave hindrance and ofttimes a danger to
national interests. The fact is our expedi
tionary forces could never have been main
tained if the Government had not diverted
a portion of the congested business to the
South Atlantic.
From that beginning has grown a move
ment of immeasurable promise to ports
Ike Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah,
Brunswick and Jacksonville; not to them
alone or to them chiefly, but to the common
country. Thanks to the utilization of their
commodious, ice-free harbors and excellent
facilities, exporters in the Middle West are
enjoying economies and manifold advantages
which were denied them when inequitable
freight rates forced them to ship altogther
byway of Northeastern lines and Northeast
ern outlets. To see to it that these and
other Southern ports have a fair deal in the
matter of tonnage and tariffs is the least
that the Government can do in justice to the
entire nation.
The Size of the German Army
IN the midst of a meeting of radicals at
Munich it was suggested to the leading
speaker that a general strike such as he
was advocating would bring bitter suffering
to women and childrren, and death to many
innocents. Nothing daunted, the agitator
coolly replied that “in a fight to the finish by
the proletariat a few thousand human lives
could claim no consideration; that the Home
Guard could easily be overcome; and that
the army fortunately was to be reduced to
one hundred thousand .men.”
This and like remarks by extreme So
cialists are being quoted by the conserva
tive German press in support of its conten
tion that if the army curtailment required
by the Allies is carried into effect, the na
tion will be swept into terrible chaos. It
is not many months since the present Gov
ernment shook from serious revolts in di
vers parts of the country; and the intima
tion is that other and graver disturbances
may come this winter. Poor nourishment
is telling upon the mentality of the people.
Burdensome and even crushing prices keep
their faces to the earth. Shortage of raw
materials and lack of credits for importing
them are said to hold numbers of indus
tries idle, and so add unemployment to
the factors of discontent. In such an at
mosphere inflammatory notions, like those
the Russian Soviets are eager to propagate,
find it easy to strike a light. The danger
is they may start a conflagration.
That the German Government should be
allowed military forces adequate to cope
with these contingencies cannot be denied.
Nor can the Allies be imagined as ignor
ing the reasonableness and rightness of this
general claim; for without a Government
capable of maintaining order and disposed
to carry out contracts, Germany will be not
only an irreclaimable debtor in the matter
of war indemnities, but a menace beyond
measure. When it comes, however, to' the
definite extent to which her claim for an
army shall be recognized, differences and
difficulties arise. The destruction of ma
rauding Prussianism, which assuredly was a
salient purpose in the Allies’ high struggle
and sacrifice, demands the destruction of
the vast military machine. To leave a
nucleus from which another group of Hin
denburgs and Ludendorffs could develop
another German juggernaut would be ex
tremely hazardous. Yet to leave the sober,
capable and constructive elements of the
country at the mercy of Red radicalism
would be no less inimical to Europe and to
the world than to Germany herself.
The practical question thus becomes,
what numbers of soldiers will suffice for
the nation’s urgent domestic needs? The
Treaty of Versailles says one hundred thou
sand; the German Government says twice
as many. The Allied counselors have as
sumed perhaps that it would be better to
err on the side of too few than too many,
inasmuch as outside forces could be sent
into Germany to deal with a volcano which
her own powers could not quench. That,
however, would be a costly and precarious
mission. The all-important and all-desirable
thing now is that Germany shall work out
her own salvation from radicalism and mil
itarism alike. Whatever hinders or dis
heartens that great task is to the entire
world’s disadvantage. It is to be hoped,
then, that the army issue which has risen
in this connection will be settled on liberal
and far-sighted lines.
MODERN PSYCHOLOGY
By H. Addington Bruce
THERE are several important differences
between the psychology of today and
the psychology of only a few years
ago. Chief among these is the fact that
while the old psychology was content to de
scribe mental processes, the great aim of
modern psychology is to account for them
and to explain human behavior.
Psychology, that is to say, has become far
more dynamic, far more practically helpful,
than it used to be. Its scope has increased
enormously. As some one has well said, it
has become the general science of how to
live.
Also, with its growing recognition of the
many factors conditioning human behavior
and causing deviations from the normal, it
has on the one hand linked itself more close
ly with other sciences, and on the other hand
has emphasized the importance of reckoning
with individual variations in the psychic
make-up of men and women.
“This,” in the words of Professor J. Mc-
Keen Cattell, as given at a recent meeting
of the American Philosophical Society, “has
made possible the applied psychology which
was of such service to the nation in time of
war, and will prove of increasing value in
education and industry.
“Indviduals can be selected for ,the work
for which they are fit, and can be placed in
the human and physical environment in
which their reactions are what we want.
“By co-operation with other sciences it is
also possible for psychology to change the
environment, and behavior can be controlled
more effectively by a change in the environ
ment than by a change in the constitution
of the individual.”
But industrial and moral improvement are
only two of many practical aims of modern
psychology. Indeed, it offers substantial
contributions to every phase of human ac
tivity, of systematized human behavior.
Thus, it helps physicians in the manage
ment of the sick. It helps the sick to help
themselves back to health. It helps lawyers
in the preparation: and handling of their
cases. It helps clergymen both in their pul
pit efforts and their parochial labors.
It has a very special message for parents
anxious to rear their offspring aright. It
lightens the burden of the school teacher.
It makes it easier the task of those whose
business it is to correct the abnormal be
havior of the deficient and the delinquent.
Executive heads it assists in the manage
ment of employes. It points out to salesmen
means for favorably influencing prospective
customers, so that a doubtful buyer may be
turned into a certain one. The writer of ad
vertisements can draw from it many a valu
able hint.
All this because psychology has wisely
shifted its main concern from description to
analysis, from inner mental states to their
outer expression in behavior. And, it is safe
to predict, what it has already achieved Is
slight compared with what it will achieve in
the years to come.
It is really the youngest of the sciences.
Yet, for myself, I regard it as the greatest
of the sciences.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Assoicated News
papers.) •
A CAPITALIST
By Dr. Frank Crane
One of the stories that should be added to
the Gospel according to the United States of
America is that of Mary Elizabeth, the maker
of the candy which bears her name. I no
ticed the other day the announcement of her
engagement to be married. I never saw her
in my life, but I wish her much joy—that
she may live a hundred years and have scores
of children.
Her real name is Evans. When her grand
father, who was a judge in Syracuse, N. Y.,
died, the family was in need of a good deal
of money. Little Mary Elizabeth was the
oldest of four children. She wanted to do
something that would add to the family in
come. Like a sensible person, she deter
mined to do that thing which she could do
best. In her case it happened to be making
candy. As she could make better candy than
any other girl she knew, ehe began making
home-made confectionery, and sold it on or
ders. When she was fifteen years old her
business had grown into a candy kitchen of
which Syracuse was proud. She continued
doing the thing that she liked and could do
well, and she prospered. She has now an ex
tensive business manufacturing candy and
is one of the marked figures in the business
world.
It is not hard to account for her success.
Her career illustrates two great principles:
(1) Do what you like best to do, and (2)
Do what you can do better than anybody
else.
Mary Elizabeth is a good representative
of the Capitalistic Class of this country. She
worked hard, used her brains, saved her
money, and now probably has a fbw dollars
in the bank and owns a bond or two.
In other words, her career illustrates what
sheer bunk the talk about the menace of
Capitalism is.
All progress is the accumulation of capital.
We usually think that only money or
things with money-value can be capital.
But learning is capital.
The apprentice learning how to run a lo
comotive is storing up skill-capital.
A man’s reputation is his moral capital.
Dstroy all capital, or redistribute it, and
■he very first thing labor would do would be
to begin anew to create it.
For the very purpose of labor is. to make
capital, as the business of bee& is to make
honey.
Therefore, instead of picturin gto yourself
the Capitalist as a gentleman with a huge
abdomen and side whiskers, think of the
Capitalist as this plucky little girl fighting
her way forward, making a success of her
lelf and giving employment to many workers.
And you’ll be nearer the truth.
Anyhow, I cast my vote for any girl that
"is sense enough, or whose folks had sense
ugh for her, to pick out, stick to and
ortise a name as wholesome and sweet as
. '■■'v Elizabeth.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDITIES
He had been fishing, but with bad luck.
On his way home he entered a fish store and
said to the dealer: “Just stand over there
and throw me five of the biggest of those
trout!”
“Throw ’em? What for?” asked the
dealer, in amazement.
"I want to tell the family I caught ’em. I
may be a poor fisherman, but I’m no liar.”
A celebrated mathematician despised poets
and poetry. A brother professor, anxious to
convert him from this unfortunate dislike,
handed him a volume of Tennyson open at
“The Charge of the Light Brigade.” “Half a
league, half a league, half a league,” read
the mathematician aloud, then, dashing the
bopk to the floor, he exclaimed, impatienty:
“Well, if the fool meant a league and a half,
why in thunder didn’t he say so!”
Mrs. Solomon Says:
By HELEN ROWLAND
Being The Confessions of the
Seven-Hundredth Wife
(Copyright, 1920, by The Wheeler Syndi-
I NEVER felt bo foolish In my life,
as I do In this summer's
clothes!
Arms as bare as a wash-lady’s,
skirts as short as a ballet-dancer’s,
stockings like mosquito-netting, ul
tra French heels—whew!
I don’t BLAME that band at the
San Francisco convention for play
ing “Oh You Beautiful Doll!’ every
time a woman stepped onto the plat
form!
Isn’t that what every mortal wom
an looks as though she yearned to
be?
Os course, we don’t—at least,
most of us don’t!
We only want to be pretty, and
refined, and charming—and a little
bit comfortable.
And yet,
Every time I catch sight of myself
in the mirror, I feel like saying,
“For the love of art! You silly,
funny-looking FLOATING RIB!
“Don’t you know that you wilt
never be able to convince a man that
you have a real brain, so long as
you cover it with ear-puffs and a
Paris cartoon?
“Don’t you know that no woman
will ever teeter up the path of SUC
CESS on heels that threaten to throw
her on her nose, and toes that are
cramped together like a package of
figs?
“Don’t you know that no woman
will ever take a real step up the lad
der of Progress, in a skirt so tight
that she can scarcely step opto a
street car or into a taxicab?
“And that no woman will ever be
able to keep her mind on anything
serious—and on the latest fads in
hosiery, at the same time?
“Don’t you know that no woman
will ever be FREE, so long as she
cringes like a slave to the whims of
every tryannical French fashion-de
signer?”
Good heavens!
A woman who would not permit
her own husband to dictate to her
for an instant, will allow a little
Paris modiste to bully her, every six
weeks, into changing the cut and col
or of every garment she wears!
She may have the courage to
mount a soap box and shout for her
presidential candidate or her political
convictions—but she hasn’t the cour
age to do it in a last season’s hat!
She may snap her fingers in the
face of Time and Fate and Mrs.
Grundy; but she hasn’t the temerity
to snap her fingers in the face of a
“French milliner”—from Cork!
And that is why Man doesn’t
UNDERSTAND her!
And why he thinks it thrills and
flatters her to be called a “beauti
ful doll.”
For, whatever a man’s weakness
es, he never wastes his time, his
energy, and his blessed gray-matter
on CLOTHES!
If he graciously allows the tailor
to put an extra button on the cuff
of his coat, he fancies he has made
a lot of concession to “style.”
What is all this chatter about the
“emancipation of woman?”
The only thing from which wom
an needs to be "emancipated” is cold
fear!
Not the fear of Man—but the fear
of the tailor, the dressmaker, the
milliner, and the opinion of every
OTHER woman!
And just so long as she permits
herself to be juggled about from
season to season, like a rag-doll, by
the Tyrants of Fashion,
She may expect that “Oh-you
beautiful-aoll" attitude.
That “There, there, now!” atti
tude.
That “isn’t-it-cute-to-see-it play
ing-with-the-pretty-little-politics” at
titude!
From Man!
He’s not a mind-reader.
He simply takes her for what she
APPEARS to be.
"Oh You Beautiful Doll!”
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRtSS
The Editor’s Bargain Counter
About one dozen firms are want
ing to give us shares in gold mines
for advertising. A nursery firm
will send us a 25-cent rosebush, for
only $5 worth of advertising. For
S4O worth of advertising and S2O
cash we can own a bicycle. The
wheel sells at just sl2. For run
ning a six-inch advertisement for
one year we get a gross of pills.
Wonderful opportunity to “clean up.”
We’ll say it is.—Rome News.
Drop in the H. C. B.
Here’s another indication that the
high cost of living is on the wane:
Good rye liquor is quoted down in
Augusta at $36 per gallon less than
it was two months ago.—Washing
ton News'-Reporter.
Joe Will “Come Back”
Back in the country of his birth,
Editor Joe Lawrence, of the Ashburn
Farmer, feels the pull of South
Georgia strong. A postcard written
at Glasgow July 17, says: “I just
got here from London. Have also
been to Liverpool, Dublin, Belfast
and other cities. Tifton will com
pare favorably with any of them in
up-to-dateness and have not seen
a newspaper that will rank with, the
Gazette in ‘pep’ and virtue.”—Tifton
Gazette.
A Reversed Position
Solomon’s Proverb, "Behold a man
who is diligent in business. He shall
stand before kings,” is as true now
as when it was uttered thousands
of years ago.—Baxley News-Ban
ner.
Still we have known men who had
rather sit behind four kings than
stand in front of them.
Community Spirit an Asset
Every community has its spirit.
With some it is one of honor and
integrity and progressive intellec
tuality. With others the spirit of
greed, gouge repression and retro
gression predominates. The first at
tains its aim in life, while the lat
ter aims no higher than that which
it attains. We of this community
have our choice. We can progress
with the march of time, or we can
procrastinate while time marches by.
This is an age when men do things,
or they do nothing. There is no mid
dle of the road course. The man
who has the will to grasp his op
portunities also has the power to
make them. That is what we should
do.—Hartwell Sun.
Death Was Preferable
No wonder the ex-kaiser’s son
killed himself. With such a disrepu
table old daddy the young man must
have concluded that hell would be
a much better place.—Commerce Ob
server.
A One-Word Speech
A woman can make a speech of ac
ceptance with one word, while Hard
ing must have used a hundred thou
sand.—Rome News.
HAMBONES MEDITATIONS
SOME FOLKS CALLS
dey-se'f ’independent*
WEN DEYS JES' STRADDLIN'
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CURRENT EVENTS
Automobile thieves stole 31,349
machines in nineteen representative
American cities in 1919, an increase
of 5,736, or 22.4 per cent over the
previous year, according to figures
compiled by the National Automobile
Dealers’ association, with headquar
ters in St. Louis.
One ray of sunshine found In the
statistics lies in the fact that more
than 74 per cent of the stolen cars
were recovered, even though this per
centage is slightly lower than that of
1918.
St. Louis was the only city of the
nineteen which showed any decrease
in thefts. This is attributed to
stringent law enforcement. Neither
Atlanta or any other southern city
was included in the list of cities
given out.
American doughboys stationed in
Germany have started a boycott
against German merchants who adopt
profiteering tactics, according to the
Ameroc News, a newspaper published
by the American army of occupa
tion.
Robinson Crusoe’s island not only
exists in reality, but is known to
the well-informed. Moreover, there
is a plant afoot to convert the scene
of the shipwrecked mariner’s adven
tures into a summer resort.
The island of DeFoe’s famous story
is Juan Fernandez and a Chilean pos
session. The government of that
South American nation, it is reported,
is now contemplating the establish
ment of a national park there, with
hotels and other attractions of a
summer resort. The place is of extra
ordinary natural beauty. Crusoe’s
cave will be featured as one of the
wonders of the Island.
An airplane surpassing in size any
machine that ever flew is now under
construction in England for experi
mental use as a troop train. While
the capacity of the huge aerial trans
port is not announced it is under
stood that it will accommodate a
complete fighting unit —including
light artillery.
The only wild monkeys on the Eu
ropean continent are doomed to ex
tinction. They are the historic apes
of Gibraltar, sometimes known as the
Barbary apes of Gib. By edict of
the British commander of the great
fortress the monkeys must go. Just
how their extermination will be car
ried out is not stated and various
opinions have been advanced that the
project may fall through, as many
governors in generations past have
ordered the banishment of the
monkeys.
How the Banderlog ever establish
ed themselves in the fastnesses of
the rocky mountain of Tarik is
shrouded in superstition. One legend
holds that they came from Morocco
through a secret tunnel under the
straits, while another version has
it that they were imported by the
Moors.
City, state and federal prohibition
laws to the contrary, 197 defendants
among the 278 cases tried before
City Recorder Johnson in the At
lanta police court one day this week
were charged with disorderly con
duct arising from overindulgence in
the forbidden spirits. The figures are
said to constitute a new record.
When arrested in Columbus, Ga„
recently, a one-legged negro was
found to have a pint of moonshMie
liquor and a live chicken concealed
in the end of his unused trouser
leg.
On the sixth anniversary of Ger-
I many’s declaration of war a crowd
of 25,000 people assembled in tke
Lustgarten, Berlin, last Sunday, ana
declared their intention of never g»-
ing to war again. Hundreds of war
cripples particnpated. The scene was
vastly different from the wild dem
onstration staged at the same place
and by many of the same people
when the kaiser threw the world into
disorder.
Louisville municipal officials are
beginning to worry about getting
enough coal to heat the city’s pub
lic schools next winter. With ordi
nary requirements of about 8,000
tons a year, not one bid has been
made by mine operators although
sixty-three concerns were invited to
make prices on the season’s tonnage.
So critical do authorities in the
Kentucky metropolis consider the
situation, they have delegated a rep
resentative to go to Washington in
the hope of enlisting governmental
aid. No pronounced alarm at the
prospect of idle school buildings
next term has so far been reported
among Louisville’s younger genera
tion, however.
Mount Katmal, in southwestern
Alaska, the most restless and power
ful of North American volcanoes,
has awakened once more and is in
violent eruption, according to word
from officers on a steamer that re
cently returned from a voyage in
northern waters.
A sullen pall of smoke from the
belching mouth of the huge crater
now spreads gloom over a radius of
forty miles and is a disquieting re
minder of the fearful eruption eight
years ago.
The Huns have been forced to re
turn to Brussels and Louvain price
less works of art that were sent to
Germany as part of the loot stolen
from Belgium. Under a provision of
the peace treaty the restoration of
Belgium’s lost treasures was made
compulsory and replacement has
now begun.
Six wings of the famous Van Eyek
triptych, “The Adoration of the
Lamb,’ removed from Brussels to
the Kaiser Frederich museum, Ber
and six wings of the triptych,
The Last Supper,” seized in Lou
vain are among the first of the art
works restored.
A Florida Inventor, Robert Pent
land, of Jacksonville, has solved a
problem that has baffled scientists
for centuries in devising a perpetual
calendar. By means of hi s unique
device, any date desired, from the
beginning of the Christian era up
;° ,9, Present day and on beyond
to infinity, can be ascertained by
rotating a circular disc.
The calendar, according to ad
vice recived by the designer’s friends
in Atlanta recently, Is fully protect
ed by patents. Cable dispatches not
h,a
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
In the sweet silence of the twi
light they honeyspooned upon the
beach.
“Dearest,” she murmured, trem
bling, “now that we are married I
I have a secret to tell you!”
“What is it, sweetheart?” he asked
softly.
“Can you ever forgive me for de
ceiving you?” she sobbed. “My—my
left eye is made of glass.”
"Never mind, lovebird,” he whis
pered gently; “so are the diamonds
in your engagement ring!”
Tired Tim sat in his cell, listless
and despondent. “I tell ye I ain’t
done nothin,’ ” he declared to the
prison chaplain. “I ain’t hurt a fly!”
“Come, come!” remonstrated the
chaplain. “People don’t get im
prisoned for nothing, you know.
What was the charge against you?”
“I couldn’t make out—bless my
buttons, if I could," responded Tired
Tim. “S’far as I could learn, they
put me in here for fragrancy.”
“Yes, Jack and I are engaged,” said
Doris to her friend Ethel. “Do you
know, our first meeting was quite
romantic. I was walking in the park
one wet afternoon when he stepped
up and offered me his umbrella.”
"I see,” said Ethel; “he was
caught in the rain.”
“Father, what is a retainer?” ask
ed the boy.
“What you pay a lawyer before he
does any work for you, my son.”
“Oh, I see. It’s like the quarter
you put in the gas meter before you
get any gas.”
The nervous bridegroom was call
ed upon to make a speech at the
wedding breakfast.
Putting his hand on ' his bride’s
shoulder, he hesitatingly remarked:
“Ladies and gentlemen, this thing
has been thrust upon me.”
The governor of Maine was at the
school and was telling the pupils
what the people of different states
were called. "Now,” he said, “the
people from Indiana are called
’Hoosiers,’ the people from North
Carolina ’Tar Heels,’ the people from
Michigan we know as ‘Michiganders,’
Now what little boy or girl can tell
me what the people of Maine are
called?” “I know,” said a little girl.
“Well, what are we called?” asked
the governor. “Maniacs.” |
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
MARRY A SPELLBINDER
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
THE chief thing that is the mat
ter with matrimony is dull
ness. It is the husbands and
wives who are bored to death
with their life partners who jump
over the bars in search of affinities
and soulmates. Most family spats
are nothing but the Instinctive ef
fort of married people to infuse a
little ginger and pep into a situa
tion that has grown unbearably flat
and stale.
It is only too sadly true that when
we see a couple devouring their food
at a restaurant in a silence so thick
you could cut it with a knife, or
poring over the prehistoric jokes
in a theater program between the
acts at a play, that we do not need
to be a Sherlock Holmes to deduce
the fact that they are husband and
wife.
Nor is there anything more pitiful
than the paucity of conversation in
the averar' circle. It ranges
from fa-n finding, and nagging,
and bills and children, back to fault
finding, and nagging and bills
and the children, and stops
band and wife find each other’s so
ciety we may judge by the way they
brighten up when a third party drops
in. It is as if somebody had snapped
on the electric light in a dark room.
With the stranger they begin to dis
cuss politics and fashion, to tell
stories, and make jokes, but they
had nothing to say to each other.
Now of all the tragedies of matri
mony none is so common, or so ter
rible as this- one of boredom. The
crowning disillusionment of romance
is to awaken to the fact that one is
tied for life to a dull and wearisome
husband or wife. An interesting
sinner one might forgive, or even re
form, but the individual who simply
makes you tired, and in whose face
you yawn, is hopeless.
The Importance of selecting a mate
who will be good company for the
forty or fifty years they expect to
spend together is never impressed
Upon the minds of the young. They
are told to look out for morals, and
the health of those they contemplate
marrying, and to find out if a young
man can make a living and a girl
can make bread before they tie up
for keeps, but no one warns them
to ascertain on the safe side of the
altar whether the party of the other
part is going to prove an interest
ing and congenial companion, or a
wearisome bore.
Yet this is, in reality, the pivot
upon which all domestic bliss turns.
A man may be a model of all the
virtues, but if he is dull and prosy,
without an idea above the price of
salt codfish, his wife will find mat
rimony dust and hashes in her teeth,
and pray for death to end her
martyrdom if she happens to be a
bright and clever woman with a
wide outlook on the world.
A woman may be a household
angel, and worship her husband with
a double-dyed devotion, but if she is
THE STEALING OF PLATINUM
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31.
Recent platinum losses and sensa
tional recoveries have attracted at
tention to the fact that platinum
stealing is being conducted as an
extensive business throughout the
United States.
Two men are held now for con
nection with thefts of platinum val
ued at nearly $200,000, and while one
of these men is regarded as a mas
ter mind of the game, it is believed
possible that other men equally dar
ing and methodical are at large, con
cealing stolen metal which they dare
not offer for sale at present.
Platinum is a fairly easy ma
terial to steal, and up to now it has
not been very difficult to dispose of.
Jewelers use, about 25 per cent of
the platinum produced, and dentists
20 per cent. The rest is absorbed
by Industries and laboratories, and
these are the sources which have
been tapped by the thieves recently.
Chemical laboratories, however
meagerly financed, find it necessary
to have some platinum retorts and
crucibles, because the platinum re
sists acids and melts only at an ex
tremely high temperature. The ves
sels cost about SIOO apiece, as plat
inum sells these days. This is prac
tically the value of the platinum con=,
tained, as the workmanship is of
negligible expense, i
When platinum containers cost
only one-fifth as much as now, that
is before the war, chemists left them
unprotected on their work tables. In
fact, it is only since thefts became
so alarmingly numerous that pre
cautions have been taken. Most
laboratory workers now take care
that all platinum in the form of
laboratory ware or lump metal is
locked in a safe when the shop is
closed.
Uncle Sam a Victim
The trusting dispositions of the
bureau of standards chemists were
first awakened to the need for spe
cial safeguards for platinumware
when SII,OOO worth disappeared in
March. The department of justice is
still working on the case, but if it
has any clues it has not mentioned
them.
Yet there is a fair chance that this
metal will be located eventually.
Platinum now sells at around SIOO
an ounce. It is five times as val
uable as gold, and compared with
gold and other metals there is not
a great deal of it in the country. The
location of large amounts of the
metal are pretty well known to as
say offices, chemists and manufac
turers, who use platinum, so that
when a stranger drops in on a big
firm and offers to sell 200 or 300
ounces of highly refined platinum,
the official approached is more apt to
call in a detective than to jump at
the offer. Since the big platinum
robberies an unidentified vender of
even small amounts of platinum
would almost anywhere be regarded
with distrust.
The platinum thief is clever, but
to continue successful he needs, be
sides, cleverness, a knowledge of
metallurgical chemistry, of plati
num production and of the market.
If he makes the slightest slip, be
traying ignorance of the business,
be is under suspicion.
The master mind, referred to
earlier in this story, who is now
held in Nashville, Tenn., was caught
by such a slip which led to in
quiries. This man gave his name
as Carter and tried to sell 280
ounces of platinum to a New Jer
sey firm. The firm’s suspicions were
aroused, and it called in detectives
to investigate.
How Carter Was Caught
Carter’s story was that he had
obtained the metal by mining an un
registered claim in Ontario. He said
he was a Canadian, and he gave
the name of his hotel near the mine.
This account lacked the ring of
truth, because Carter’s voice and
manner were southern, he wore a
belt with the initials H. H. B. on
it, and no hotel of the name he gave
was found in Ontario.
But all of these were minor dis
crepancies. The condemning item
of his account was that he got 280
ounces of platinum from a placer
mine In Canada. Canada only pro
duces some twenty-five ounces of
platinum in a year, none of it in On
tario.
Here science and the government
took a hand. It was thought possi
ble that part of the 280 ounces taken
from Carter could be identified as
the stolen government platinum.
Analysis showed, however, that Car
ter’s metal was of a higher degree
of purity than the government labora
tory ware.
The next step was to find the
owner of the 280 ounces. In the
past fifteen months 585 ounces, rep
resenting eleven thefts, have disap
peared from college and government
al laboratories, and have never been
recovered. But none of these lots of
platinum seemed to fit in with the
mysteriouns 280 ounces, so far as
analysis could determine, and Carter
stuck to his Canadian myth. As the
government holds a large amount of
platinum for use in manufacturing
sulphuric acid, it was suggested that
a census of the metal at government
munition plants be taken. The cen
sus revealed no losses.
was discovered about that time
silly and ignorant, with a conversa
tional gamut that only reaches from
the kitchen to the nursery and around
the block, he will find nothing but
misery in his home if he chances to
be an intelligent man.
For, while we abstractly admire
goodness, we don’t find it contains
many thrills unless it is flavored up
with other qualities. It is like a
bread and butter pudding that re
quires a spiced sauce to make it
palatable.
On the other hand, most of us are
willing to condone almost any fajlt j
in those who interest and amuse us.
and this explains why the husbands
and wives who are dull saints are less
loved than are t?irv who are cheer
ful sinners. You remember that in
Shaw’-s play the erring Mrs. George
was always taken back and for
given by her husband because sue
was so entertaning after each of her
little excursions from the domestic
fireside.
Os course, youths and maidens will
laugh and scorn the suggestion that
they will do well to find out before
marriage whether they interest eacn
other or not. They know they do,
and prove it by saying that they
spend hours together without weari
ness. Billing and cooing is no test
of one’s conversational ability. No
body ever wearies of flattery. Any
one can listen entranced for weeks
while someone tells how beautiful
and wonderful they are, but that line
of talk ends at the altar. It forms
no part of the daily domestic menu. *
Therefore, the young man contem
plating engaging in the prolonged ,
tete-tete of matrimony is. wise if he
cuts out the love talk long enough
to find out whether the girl he fan
cies can talk interestingly upon a
thousand topics, whether she known
enough about the news of the day to
discuss it intelligently; whether she
can discuss with him the books he
loves, and, above all, whether she is >
one of those ddlightful women whom
Stephenson described as “good gos
sips” who can’t go down the street
without collecting a budget of gay
and entertaining news. Let no man
ever forget that it was Schezerade
who wove a story that lasted a
thousand and one nights who kept
her husband’s interest after he had
tired of and cut off the heads of all
the good and beautiful wives who had
bored him.
And, oh, girl, turn a deaf ear to
Romeo’s wooing, and harken unto
him when he discourses of politics
and tells stories, and marry him or
not according as you find yourself
sitting fascinated on the edge of your
chair as you listen, or yawn behind
your hand.
For of all qualities that the per
fect husband or wife can possess
none is equal to being a spellbinder.
Married life is long, and when you
are tied to a bore it is longer.
Dorothy Dix’s articles appear reg
ularly in this paper every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
that the platinum used at the Jack
sonville, Tenn., power plant con
tained practically the same alloy as
the unclaimed platinum. This ap
parent coincidence, coupled with the
fact of Carter’s southern accent, and
the discovery that a hotel of the
name he gave as a Canadian house
was located in Tennessee, led the
government sleuths to find out if he
ever worked in the Jacksonville
plant. A visit to the plant showed
that an H. H. Brown —remember the
initials on the belt—had been salvage
foreman at Jacksonville and had left
his job several months before, rather
mysteriously, i
There the case stood, until Brown,
alias Carter, unconsciously cleared A
things up by writing two letters to
his wife from the New York jail,
where he then waited trial. The let
ters were held up by the New York
district attorney, who thougth they
had to do with drug traffic because of
references to “the stuff” and “SIOO
an ounce.” To the police who had
worked on the platinunm case the
letters were the last link in the chain
of evidence attaching the crime to the
Jacksonville plant, for they gave the
name, phone number and address of
the man at Jacksonville who had
worked with Brown. In the letter,
Brown instructed his wife to go to
this man and get $20,000 worth of
"stuff” for which she could get SBS
or S9O an ounce. The proceeds she
was to send to New York as bail
for Brown. She never got the let
ters and, confronted with accumulat
ed evidence, Brown revealed the mys
tery of the 280 ouncees.
His accomplice at the plant, who
was the chief chemist, had been as
signed the job of converting over 2,-
000 ounces of platinum to platinum
sponge—a porous state of the metal.
He was then to seal it up in 25-ounoe
aluminum cans and place it in the
accounting house vault. There were
eighty-eight of the cans, and the
platinum thieves had filled eighty-six
of them with mercury and dirt, so ,
that the weight was the same as if
the platinum was inside. One was
filled with a liquid. The last can, as <
in the story of All Baba and the
forty thieves, was properly filled.
This container, holding the right
amount of platinum, was placed
nearest the safe door, so that when
it was examined in the census, the
contents of the safe were reported
correct.
Brown gave this information, but
his chemist associate, now in the
Nashville jail with him, maintains
innocence. The 280 ounces which
Brown had in two water bottles is
all of the 2,200 ounces which is lo
cated. Probably the chemist will ex
plain eventually.
This is the biggest theft of P»tJ
num of all the recent hauls, and it
is arousing the most Interest. But
the other thefts, many of them rep
resenting as little as a hundred dol
lars, mean a great deal to the schools
and organizations whose work must
be hampered by the loss.
A committee on platinum recovery,
composed of Dr. W. F. Hillebrend,
chief of the chemistry division of
the bureau of standards, and other ’
noted chemists, has been appointed
by the American Chemical society.
Dr. Hillebrand has already put forth
a suggestion to the effect that a law
is needed requiring that every gram
of platinum be registered, possibly
with the internal revenue bureau.
Then none of the metal could be sold
or bought without its status being <
accounted for. x .
Protection against platinum thefts
is not sought by scientists so much
because of the high price of the
metal, as because it is scarce and so
greatly needed by science and indus
try. It is necessary in manufactur
ing electric light bulbs, munitions,
contacts on automobiles, telephones,
and other electrical instruments.
Russia, the great source of supply,
stopped sending us platinum when
the war began, and so far as the
future goes, it is reported that the
Russian resources are not far from
exhaustion. Colombia sends us a
small amount, and we produce some
in the west for ourselves. The de
mand far exceeds the supply, and as
chemists and manufacturers realize
this only too well they are demanding
some kind of protection for what lit
tie platinum they have.
The pretty cashier was so busy ad
miring herself that she took an un
reasonably long time to count out
change to a hurried customer. "Good
heavens, how vain you are!” he ex
claimed irritably.
"Indeed, I’m not.” she answered
sweetly. *T an not think I’m half
as pretty as I really am.”
Said the little yellow duck to the
little red hen:
“I haven’t sold an egg since I
don’t know when. Business for me
is a losing game, but you seem pros
perous just the same.”
Said the little red hen to the little
yellow duck:
"Business isn’t always a matter of
luck. You work as hard and produce
a line of eggs that are as good as
mine. Your merchandising methods
you need to revise. If you want to
be successful you must advertise*
Don’t wait for buyers for you, bur
tell your story the way I do.”