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4 the tri weekly journal ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months -75 c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mo«. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Dally and Sunday2oc 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 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 travejing representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac- Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling • representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label used for addressing your paper (hows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at leaat two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. 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' DE QUESTION ! J w 1 19X0 McClure Newspsper Syndtests 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.”