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Business - Minded Georgia
Backs Senator Hoke Smith
OPEN-MINDED observers cannot fail to
be impressed by the steadiness with
which the State’s business interests are
aligning for Senator Smith’s -re-election. By
•‘business interests” we mean not only lead
ers in industry, merchandising and finance,
but that great body of citizens whom expe
rience has schooled in practical judgment
and has taught the importance of depend
able service.
One who has no concern for the Common
wealth’s prosperity, no stake in the coun
try’s progress and welfare, no just apprecia
tion of men who get things done as dis
tinguished from mere agitators and critics,
is naturally swayed by prejudice or passion.
Such a one does not see wherein the efficient
public servant is superior to the sensational
politician, nor why the trained hand and
seasoned mind are more to be trusted in of
fice than the well intentioned though incom
petent novice.
. But the producer and the conserver, the
man whose daily interests, whether in field
or factory or shop or behind counter and
desk, are affected by the kind of representa
tion he has at Washington, is usually care
ful of his political investments. He looks
into a candidate’s record, and if he finds it
fruitless or mediocre or a mere froth of
agitation he is not disposed to sink his bal- 9
lot in such a lottery.
-Especially careful is he at the present
juncture, for he knows that the next six
years will be momentous with tests q,nd prob
lems that come home to men’s “business
and bosoms.” He knows that regardless of
whether the Democratic or the Republican
party wins in the election this autumn,
Georgia will need the strongest Senator, she
can secure—strongest in native ability, in
experience, and constructive skill, in practi
cal knowledge for meeting difficult situa
tions and achieving useful results.
As these capacities all combine in Senator
Hoke Smith, it is but natural that the weight
of Georgia’s business judgment should be
found swinging decisively to his support.
The merchant and the commercial traveler
as well as the farmer, the banker and the
captain of industry as well as the wage
earner, have studied the record of this pub
lie servant and have found therein act
upon act, accomplishment upon accomplish
ment that have benefited their State and aid
es! their own substantial interests.
■ They have, found not only that he
fought effectively and against gravest odds
to protect the cotton grower’s imperiled
rights, but also that he secured legislation
and' institutions which have added beyond
measure to Georgia’s commercial and finan
cial prestige. They have found that in ad
dition to his fruitful efforts in behalf of
agriculture and education—efforts culmi
nating in measures which bear his name and
which the National Democratic Convention
at San Francisco pronounced historiche
cid invaluable work for the development of
Georgia ports and Georgia industries.
They have found him a friend
to workingmen, a tireless laborer in
the cause of prosperity and progress, a Sen
ator who knew whither to turn and what
to do when called upon for service, whether
by an unknown constituent, or in some great
emergency involving the common interests.
They have found him, in short, a doer, a
builder, a bringer-in of harvests. Naturally
we say, the State’s soundest judgment
counsels the re-election of this tried Sena
tor, especially at a time when it would be
dangerous folly to entrust such duties to
either wild or fumbling hands.
Thus it is that many who have opposed
Senator Smith in other contests and dif
fered sharply with him on other issues are
now urging his retention in office because
as practical men they know that the inter
ests of the Commonwealth so require. Scores
and hundreds are speaking out
to this effect; and tens of thousands, if one
may judge by the visible tide of
opinion, have reached that same determina
tion.
If paper clothing becomes popular in
America, the old style of striking a match
will have to be eliminated.
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Our Strength in World Trade
FOREIGN trade figures continue to at-
test the strength of America’s com
mercial position. For the latest fiscal
year, on which reports now are being re
ceived, merchandise exports from this coun
try amounted to eight billion, one hun
dred and eleven million, one hundred and
seyenty-six thousand dollars—not far short
of a billion more than the export value
of the preceding twelvemonth, and some
three and a quarter billions more than that
of.. 1916. Imports totaled five billion, two
hundred and thirty-eight million, seven hun
dred and forty-six thousand as against ap
proximately three billion in the 1918-1919
period. Thus the year’s trade balance in
our favor was little less than three billion
dollars.
While it is true that much of this vast
volume of exports is attributable to condi
tions which had their rise in the war and
to that extent were abnormal, nevertheless
it should be remembered that readjustment
and rehabilitation have been going vigor
ously forward in Europe since the winter
of 1918, so that the greater portion of our
shipments thither during the last twelve
month represents steady, peace-time busi-
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ness. During that time, moreover, we have
been meeting a good deal of revived and
vigorous competition In other markets, no
tabljr in Latin America. While the war was
in progress and immediately afterward, we
had no rivalry In that region. For commodi
ties and credits alike South American in
terests which formerly looked to Europe
were turned of necessity to the United
States. The result, of course, was an un
precedented growth of our commercial deal
ings with them. But the significant and
assuring fact is that after Europe’s return
to the field with sturdy and resourceful ef
forts to regain lost business, the United
States still holds her own. Competition
will wax keener, it is true, and will be
better equipped in the season’s ahead. Only
by unremitting energy and ever-improving
methods can we maintain our ground in
Latin America or elsewhere.
We have the advantage,' however, of a
substantial merchant marine, which we
sorely lacked, before the war, and of great
ly widened banking facilities as well. It
may be expected, therefore, that th?
strength of the country’s present position
in world commerce, on which her prosper
ity so vitally depends, will be conserved
and increased Americans but develop
their opportunities.
♦
The Victory Over Typhoid
NO MORE brilliant or beneficent vic-
tory was ever won than that which
the United States army has scored
over the deadly legions of typhoid. Among
four million American soldiers in the recent
war, there were only a thousand and sixty
five cases of the malady, or about twenty
six hundredths per thousand; and only
one hundred and fifty-six deaths, or thirty
nine thousandths per thousand/
The significance of this record, made amid
all manner of environments and under
stresses apt to try the hardiest constitutions,
becomes apparent when compared with that
of other times. In the War Between the
States, for instance, there were upwards of
eighty thousand cases of typhoid in the
Northern army alone. In the Spanish-Amer
ican war there were twenty thousand seven
hundred and thirty-eight cases out of ap
proximately one hundred and eight thou
sand, officers and men, the deaths number
ing one thousand five hundred and eighty.
In the Franco-Prussian war, sixty per cent
of the German army’s mortality was caused
from typhoid. Indeed, from the days of
Achilles to Caesar, and on to Napoleon, and
fairly into the present century, these view
less bacteria have slain their tens of thou
sands, where thousands fell by sword and
gun.
It was in 1908 that the medical depart
ment of the United States army entered
upon a thoroughgoing investigation of the
methods of typhoid preventives. Colonel F.
F. Russell, following his official visits for
this purpose to London and Berlin, returned
with invaluable ideas of -his own as well as
those gathered from the foreign laboratories
and clinics. These ideas were promptly put
to test in a number of voluntary vaccina
tions. The results were so conclusive of
the feasibility and efficacy of the treat
ment that in the course of a few years
thousands had taken it of their own will;
and at length it was made obligatory upon
all persons in the service, as well as upon
recruits. Something of the importance
of that order may be inferred from the fact
that whereas in 1901 the ratio of typhoid
cases in the American army was more than
nine to the thousand, in 1918 it was only
thirty-hundredths to the thousand—that is
to say, virtually negligible.
Writing in the latest number of Current
History, William H. Cole, who spent twen
ty-two months of the war period in the
Army Medical School in the manufacture
of typhoid vaccine, gives an interesting ac
count of how the preventive process works.
“It has been found,” he points out, “that
the introduction of a foreign protein into
the blood-stream of an animal causes the
formation of a substance in the blood which
destroys that protein or neutralizes its harm
ful effects. This phenomenon furnishes the
basis for the production of artificial im
munity from bacterial diseases.” Just this
is the principle in typhoid vaccination. “The
foreign protein thus introduced,” Mr. Cole
continues, “whether it be a bacterial ex
tract or a live or killed suspension of the
baetgria, is called an ‘antigen,’ and the sub
stance produced in the blood is an ‘anti
body.’ The formation and distribution of
the antibodies render the animal immune to
the disease caused by the corresponding bac
teria. If at any time the system is affected
by the bacteria the antibodies destroy them,
or neutralize their poison, and the disease
is prevented.”
To this discovery and its utilization mul
titudes of civilians, as well as soldiers and
sailors, owe immunity, from perils beyond
measure. So widespread indeed is the cus
tom of vaccination against typhoid becom
ing, that it will not be long ere enlighten
ed persons will no more think of omit
ting this preventive than of failing to
summon a doctor in cases of serious ill
ness.
“Atlanta bootleggers use kegs,” says a
news story. But they were used to elude
arrest, not as containers. The bootleggers
haven’t gone in the wholesale business—yet.
The Georgia Wat er melon
ONE scarcely knows whether to re
joice or repine over the news that
long trainloads of watermelons are
being shipped from Georgia. It is good
to know that an abundance of the delecta
bles are being harvested, and that the grow
ers are prospering upon exports to mar
kets far and wide. But then is it not
melancholy to think of these nonpareils of
natures sweet succulence, these innocent
yet all potent tempters for which another
Adam would quit another Eden, and not
repent—is it not lamentable, we say, to
think of them being whirled away by thou-
No n rth? and tenS ° f thousands t 0 the distant
There is cheer, it is ttrue, in the con
sciousness that we share these glorious
measures of the soil with our brethren of
Is minSt nate - cllmes ’ sendi ng them forth
as ministers of grace to cool the parched
dS 63 SHU 6 ” Ot a Poor
leaves the th e Very waterm elon that
is w? S ‘. here 1S just one le ss for
We cannot eat them all, of course
is nZ hint° e nf nOt WiSh that he could? Ther ®
The nivmni f ?r ° SS eXCeSS ln that desire,
with Ol . y ™ plans as well could be charged
with gluttony for endless quaffing of the
“JoT/ a ? T, "’„ eatfig of “alerle'Vn
!<="<a l "S? a „”“SF Ic a£,air: “ *’ transce ”’
X L Xe B ”°"’ " W 6 rlght,y remem
“that womankind had but one rosy
mouth y
That he might kiss them all at once
from North to South.”
But what if watermelons had but one
luscious heart, that we' might taste them
all at once from Dade to Chatham!
A “wet” candidate wins out in Virginia,
but the hope continues to be forlorn.
An economic boycott usually boycotts
any effort at economy.
That fellow Cantu must have come from
Anfu.
Curtis Barrett
THE heart of patriotic Georgia spoke
in the challenge which Curtis Bar
rett, who fought as a private under
the Stars and Stripes in France, flung to a
politician’s aspersions upon the officers of
our overseas army and upon the American
Legion. It was at a Tom Watson meeting
in Barnesville that this courageous young
Georgian, a brother of President Barrett, of
the Farmers’ Union, raised his dignified bu-t
crushing protest.
A speaker, it seems, had brought sundry
baseless charges against the army command
and had recklessly attacked the character and
motives of the American Legion. Mr. Bar
rett, himself a Legionaire and a soldier of
nearly two years’ experience in the fighting
zone, had listened carefully and with heroic
self-control to the stream of defamation.
At last he arose, asked if he might have a
moment to reply, and having been given
permissiop, he coolly said:
“Your statement, sir, is a wilful and
deliberate misrepresentation. In war
you would be guilty of treason; in peace
you are guilty of unmistakable cow
ardice.”
There was more to the reply; there was
citation of fact; there was argument; there
was appeal to patriotism and honor.' But
the significant and heart-warming thing is
that a young Georgian, without bluster or
rudeness, called a politician’s calumnies to
book and completely silenced them. Too
long has the State’s loyalty been reflected
upon, too long has her tolerance been abused
by a few stirrers up of prejudice and dema
gogy. The entire Commonwealth is indebted
to Curtis Barrett for his bold, timely trumpet
note.
THE FOOD WE EAT
By H. Addington Bruce
FOR long I have been seeking a really
good diet to recommend to the many
inquirers alert to the importance of
eating for health. At last I have found one
in the recently published -“The American
Home Diet,” by Professor E. V. McCollum
and Miss Nina Simmonds, co-wokers in the
School of Hygiene and Public Health of
Johns Hopkins University.
Most diet books err either through “fad
dishness” in their choice of foods or through
overemphasis of dietary technicalities. Busy
housewives, however conscientious, have lit
tle use for, and are little helped by, elabo
rate mathematical tables of food values.
Nor can they grow enthusiastic over a diet
book that would rigidly limit the family pro
visioning to a narrow selection, or that would
urge foods requiring unusual time and labor
for their preparation. ♦
The McCollum-Simmonds book avoids these
faults. It makes a point of trying to simplify
kitchen problems, while at the same time
giving all the really necessary information a
woman should have to enable her to arrange
menus at once nutritious and satisfying to
the appetite.
Indeed, Professor McCollum and Miss
Simmonds have so much at heart the easing
of the housewife’s burden as to offer menus
of their own for the entire year. Though,
to be sure, it must be said that in so doing
they have laid themselves open to some criti
cism.
Their menus are most attractive, there can
be no doubt as to that. But"they have hardly
taken sufficiently into account the present
high cost of living. To adhere closely to the
menus they offer would be beyond the means
of most people.
StiH, close adherence is not imperatively
needed. What is neded is appreciation of
the importance of combining foods scientifi
cally, so that a proper supply of all vital food
elements shall be’secured. In this respect
the McCollum-Simmonds all-the-year-round
menus are most suggestively helpful.
That is to say, they supplement concretely
the general knowledge to be gained from the
test of the book itself —a general knowledge
happily conveyed in the simplest of language
and including all essential points in dietary
teaching.
In addition, particular attention is paid
to the feeding of children and to the proper
handling of food for children. This is a fea
ture of the book that cannot be too highly
praised. „ '
Every year hundreds of thousands of little
ones perish from malnutrition and from food
poisoning. Ignorance, more than anything
else, is responsible for their deaths. Pro
fessor McCollum and Miss Simmonds, accord
ingly, would enlighten mothers on matters
regarding which many sadly need enlighten
ment.
All mothers, sa far as that goes, will find
in their pages much which every mother
should keep* constantly in mind. Though
theirs is by no means a book for mothers
only. It is addressed to every wojman keep
ing house.
And I heartily wish it might be in the
hands of every housekeeping woman. I know
of no more soundly educative book of its
kind.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
' MOTHER
By Dr. Frank Crane
It has been written about, and told, and
sung, and acted, and preached, and related
in stories, and rhymed in poetry, all over
and over again, until you’d think the world
was weary of it, but it isn’t.
I refer to the Mother theme.
For Mother is not only the oldest, it is
also the newest word in the language.
It strikes a little deeper note in the heart
of men than even Wife.
The woman who bore him lies just a bit
closer alongside a man’s everlasting soul
than any other man or woman can creep.
It’s Nature.
It’s the cryptic cogency of instinct.. *
It is the unanswerable argument of blood.
For any bther person can let you go, if
you are bad enough, but your mother can
not let you go.
She stands by.
You may flout her and forget her, outrage
and mistreat her, but deep in her soul you
can never be anything else but her baby.
She never forgets you as that wonderful
little life that grew in her body, and lay on
her breast, helpless in her arms.
We can forget her, and do, those who have
done us favor, but we cannot forget those
who have called out our fiercest fires of love
and sacrifice.
There is a story I heard told the other
night—l think it is an old one, and has been
done into a song, but old or new, sung or un
sung, it’s a piercing story of tragic beauty.
It is of a man who had become infatuated
with an evil woman who was very comely.
So great was her beauty that the Tn" ”•
mad over her. And he swore to her in the
excess of his passion that for her there was
nothing in the world he would not do.
Then the evil-hearted woman smiled, in
her lust for power, and proposed a horrid
test, so that her pride might be stated by
the knowledge that she could make a man
do anything.
“If you love me so much,” she said,
“prove it, by bringing to me your mother’s
heart.”
So the man, Insane from heat of his in
fatuation, slew his mother, and cutting out
her heart ran with it to the evil woman.
And as he was running, and carrying the
heart of his mother in his two hands, it hap
pened that he etumbled and fell.
And as Gie fell the heart cried out and
said:
“Have you hurt yourself, my boy!”
(Copyrigt, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
SIX OF THE
FORTY-EIGHT
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
CHICAGO, Aug. 3. The Com-
mittee of Forty-eight whose
convention to form a third
party was held here recently
seems to have failed in its project,
but its members assert that they are
still going to maintain their organi
zation and work for Americanism, as
they Interpret that much-used and
abused word. Since we are to have
the Forty-eight with us, still striving
in their official capacity for govern-'
mental reform, it might be of inter
est to know something more about
them than their numerical quantity.
Amos Pinchot, J. A. H. Hopkins,
Charles H. Ingersoll, Prof. Durand
and forty-four other liberal-minded
Americans, met in St. Louis in 1918,
all brought together by a common
feeling that the two old parties had
failed to keep up with evolution by
refusing to respond to the historic
and economical tendencies of the
times. They called themselves the
Committee of Forty-eight after an
other radical group of men In our
early history who In pre-revolution
ary days formed a Committee of
Thirteen made up of such men as
Washington, Jefferson, Paine, etc.
They carried on such an extensive
campaign by mail that when they met
here last month they had 100,000
members.
One of the most notable character
istics of the delegates to this conven
tion was their leanness as compared
to the double-chinned type of- dele
gate which is so predominate in the
conventions of the older parties.
This might be explained by the fact
that a nervous, active, and therefore
thin, man is more likely to think and
be discontented with his lot. For
the same reason, perhaps, the mem
bers of the Committee of Forty-eight
lack the sagging jowl, the pouch un
der the eye, and the manner of glassy
smoothness peculiar to the ordinary
politician.
Loan and Hungry-like
This alone should show a shrewd
statesman that they were not the
type to follow the beaten political
path. Shakespeare saw the same
connection between leanness and re
bellion when he had Julius Caesar
point out that “yon Cassius has a
lean and hungry look,” and might
therefore be expected to make trou
ble. Not that the Forty-eight In
tended to make trouble. They were
simply a group of earnest citizens
who felt that there was something
lacking In our political life, and that
the proceedings of the two old par
ties in convention this year had had
the effect of flabbergasting all good
men and true who were meekly ral
lying round as usual. And so they
determined to rally round no longer.
J. A. H. Hopkins, who might be
called the prime mover of the Com
mittee of Forty-eight, was one of the
outstanding figures at their conven
tion, ✓ Mr. Hopkins was a delegate
to the 1912 national convention of
Republicans, and a leader In the
Roosevelt revolt. He was treasurer
of the Progressive campaign commit
tee. In 1916 he came to the conven
tion expecting to nominate Roose
velt again, and when Roosevelt re
fused the nomination hard words
passed between them. Then Mr. Hop
kins campaigned for Woodrow Wil
son, with whom he afterwards be
came disillusioned. As he had tried
every known political party without
feeling satisfied, there seemed to be
nothing for him to do but to start a
new one. Hence the Committee of
Forty-eight.
It may be of interest for those who
think that the Committee of Forty
eight is copxposed of Socialists, en
vious of other people’s worldly goods
to know that Mr. Hpkins is a very
wealthy man, both through' his own
work and money he inherited from
his father. His business is insur
ance, and his home is in Morristown,
N. J. However, money seems not to
be the main interest in his life. He
has refrained from using the money
he inherited, and lately he has given
up taking an active interest in his
own business, preferring to give all
his energy to the new party plans.
Mr. Hopkins Is Handsome
Mr. Hopkins is a valuable asset
to the Forty-eight in another way
besides being a hard worker and en
thusiast. He will be a great help
to them in attracting feminine votes.
Not altogether because he has been
called the handsomest man in Amer
ica, but because he was one of the
first men in the east to come out
in support of woman suffrage.
Charles H. Ingersoll is another in
teresting Forty-eighter. He was the
poor farmer'boy who conceived the
idea that everybody ought to have
a watch, and has now inaae this con
venient possession possible to the
most poverty-stricken by his manu
facture of cheap timepieces. He
used to be a Bryan Democrat, and
he is still a single tax supporter.
Personally he is a simple, likable
man, who retains his simplicity in
spite of his great wealth. He is a
chunky and absent-minded human
who is more than likely to appear
at a formal banquet in a baggy
business suit. His habit of rising
early caused much dismay among
the other Forty-eighters who were
often aroused from their slumbers
at 6 a. m. to lend him a safety ra
zor. Mr. Ingersoll, in his excite
ment, forgot to bring his safety to
the convention, and had to borrow
one from the Pullman car porter on
the way here in order to present a
pleasing countenance to Chicago. The
most remarkable thing about this re
markable man, however, is that al
though he operates six factories dur
ing these troublous times he has
never had any labor disturbances
among his men.
Another* well-known Forty-eighter
is Amos Pinchot, a wealthy and lib
eral-minded lawyer. Mr. Pinchot
supported Roosevelt in 1912, and like
Hopkins, was much disappointed
when Roosevelt failed the Progres
sives in 1916. He also became a
Democrat, and in due time a disap
pointed Wilsbn man. He is another
lean and lank and long individual
of much nervous energy and unusual
culture and charm.
An interesting thing about the
Committee of Forty-eight is that
about half of its members are wom
en, and women of widely different
types. There is Mrs. Ina P. Wil
liams, of Yakima, Wash., for in
stance. Mrs. Williams was an ac
tive supporter of woman suffrage in
her state. She was a member of the
state legislature, and later ran for
congress. She is an active club
woman, is interested in a farmers’
paper, and is a member of the Wom
en’s Card and Label club, an organi
zation whose members will buy only
union made goods.
THE REASON WHY
What Is a Totem Pole For?
Before people had individual names,
the savage people who lived in clans
or tribes referred to themselves in
the name of some natural object,
usually an animal which they as
sumed as the name or emblem of the
clan or tribe. These names never
applied to one individual more than
another, but only to the clan or tribe
so that everyone in a tribe which had
taken the “wolf” for its emblem was
known as “Wolf.” Later on they be
gan to distinguish individuals by
giving them additional charac
teristic of the indiviaual, such as
“Lonely Wolf,” “Growling Wolf,” or
other names. The name of this ani
mal was then the emblem of one
tribe. They, therefore, placed this
emblem upon their bodies, their
clothes, utensils, etc. Through this,
these emblems also became at times
idols of worship, and so they erected
poles upon which their emblems were
engraved. The fvord totem is a
North American Indian word, mean
ing “family token.” The tribes called
themselves after animals from which
they believed themselves descended.
From the Book of Wonders. Pub
lished and Copyrighted by the Bu
reau of Industrial Education, Inc.,
Washington, D. C.
An echo from the courts.
Plaintiff’s Counsel —Your honor,
unfortunately in this case I am op
posed by the most unmitigated
scoundrel —
Defenaant’s Counsel —My learned
friend is such a perverter —
Judge—Will counsel kindly confine
their remarks to such matters as are
in dis*"' 1 ' —
CURRENT EVENTS !
While still startled by the sudden
news that the roulette wheel and all
the other familiar devices for flirting
with the goddess of chance had been
banned by government decree at all
gambling palaces within 100 kilo
meters of Paris, people of the city
learned that steps were on foot to
put an end to the ancient and pic
turesque custom of settling affairs
of honor by duels.
Abolishment of gaming was recent
voted by the senate at a night ses
sion. Almost simultaneously, several
deputies introduced a measure seek
ing to prohibit the duel. The law
would punish duelists by fine and im
prisonment, and would hold equally
responsible any one who acted as a
second or who' published accounts of
any affair.
Ralph De Palma, famous Italian
speed king, was among a contingent
of foreigners who became citizens of
the United States this week by
swearing allegiance before a federal
judge in New York.
De Palma came to American when
he was ten years old and has been
under the impression that he was
an American citizen. His father, it
developed, had failed to take out his
final papers. The hero of the track
is thirty-seven years old.
Dispatches from Copenhagen state
that an expedition will soon start
north in search of members of the
exploring party of Roald Amundsen’s
who have been missing since Octo
ber, 1919. A sea captain who recent
ly rescued the crew of a Russian
vessel from an ice berg will head
the rescue party.
The practice followed by merchants
of San Antonio, Tex., in scattering
handbills from airplans over the
neighboring city of Austin may lead
to the stationing of aerial policemen
by the latter municipality, according
to an Austin official.
The emmissaries of the San An
tonio merchants drop their cargoes of
literature advertising their wares
without landing in Austin, it is
stated, thus rendering it impossible
for the Austin authorities to inter
fere with the distribution.
Leadville and Goldfield in their
dizziest days were tame in compari
son with Constantinople of today, ac
cording to reports telling how the
Turkish capital has become the end
of the trail” for all the Balkan
states and everything west of Suez
on the Mediterranean
The city now combines all tne
frenzy of a mining town andla world
seaport, travelers say, with Cau
caslon oil men, miners, sheep and
cattle kings, Greek war
Syrian merchants and soldiers and
sailors of a dozen nations spending
their money for champagne and the
various other attractions offered.
Fees of'ssoo a day to one
$250 a day to another, and $50,99 u
flat to a tiiird were paid for the de
fense of William Bruce Lloyd, Chi
cago’s millionaire radical, and the
nineteen other members of the Com
munlst Labor Party of America who
were found guilty this week of con
spiring to overthrow the government
of the United States. The defendants
were sentenced to pay y. arloua +
and to serve penitentiary terms
ruTitririßf from one to five years.
The trial began May 10. Fifty-two
court days were occupied in select
ing a jury from 1,534 veniremen. The
prosecution cost the state about $3,-
50.0 a day.
Potatoes *f e reported rotting on
the ground in the producing areas
on Long Island due to glutting of the
New York market by shipments from
New Jersey and elsewhere. Buyers
are offering only $1.50 a bush
el and the prices is being
generally refused. *Meanwnile> nouse
wives and restaurant patrons
are paying the old-time scale. Cab
bage and string beans are in about
the same class as potatoes, it is re
ported.
An average of nearly three per
sons a day were killed by traffic in
New York during the month of July.
Automobiles brought death to sev
enty-two, trolleys killed thirteen
and wagons killed two. Fatal high
way accidents throughout the state
totaled 205 for the month.
The Iroquois, an American steam
ship, is expected to arrive at Chi
cago this week, and will be the first
vessel to reach the city from the
Pacific via the Panama canal. The
Iroquois left Seattle on June 1 for
its 10,000-mHe voyage.
Mexico will pay more than
030,000 pesos—about $500,000 in
American money—to the soldiers
who are. now disbanding from Villa’s
former army, an official of the Mex
ican government announces.
The former rebel chief has asked
Provisional President de la Huerta
for schoolbooks, pencils, chalk and
similar supplies, for use in establish
ing schools in his part of the coun
try. He says that any money sent
him for this purpose will be wel
come.
Compulsory military service has
been abolished in Germany by a bill
recently passed by the reichstag.
This was one of the provisions of
the peace treaty and the Huns de
layed so long in carrying out their
agreement that stern pressure was
brought to bear upon German rep
resentatives at the recent Spa con
ference.
Ohio now has five nominees on
five tickets in the presidential and
vice-presidential primaries. In ad
dition to Governor Cox, Democratic
standard bearer, and Senator Hard
ing, the Republican candidate, the
Rev. Aaron S. Watkins, of German
town, is prohibition candidate; Max
S. Hayes, of Cleveland, is the Farm
er-Labor party’s choice for vice
president: and Richard C. Barnum is
the Single Tax party’s nominee for
the same office.
Three of aspirants for high
American ofices are editors and
publishers, the fourth is the head
of a book publishing company and
the fifth is a Methodist clergyman.
The Single Taxer Is probably the
tallest of the five. He stands six
feet eight inches high.
In 1917, the cost rose to more than
! SBOO,OOO, the report showed, due to
’ the fact that the nation’s statesmen
did more talking that year than
usual. Upwards of 1,500,000,000 print
ed pages were devoted to recording
many miles of oratory and the like
during the last three years congress
has been in session.
Four years’ strenuous service with
out a bite of meat or a drop of tea
constituted the experience of many
Czecho-Slovak soldiers who stopped
recently at Honolulu while on their
way home after fighting almost con
tinuously since the war began at a
salary of $1 per month.
“Glass eyes while you wait” can
now be obtained In London, says the
London Daily Mall. Today ex-sol
diers can sit for a perfectly copied
eye, as a man sits for his portrait
—and they can have eyes whose pu
pils dilate in the evening as a hu
man eye does. The patient can sit
beside an artist—for he is nothing
e ] se —who in less than an hour,, with
glass tubes and blowlamp, molds the
complete eye—faithfully copying
from the human model the exact
color of the white, the small. red
veins and the delicate blends of color
in the iris.
“There are thousands of men in
London, particularly ex-soldiers,”
says the principal of one of the large
studios in London, “who are wearing
ill-matched and often very uncom
fortable glass eyes simply because
they do not know they can be made
to order. I have made an eye in
twenty minutes, but the average time
is something under an hour.”
The “Congressional Record,” the
government publication that reports
everything said in the senate or the
house of representatives in Wash
ington, cost the country $537,640 last
year, a report from the government
printing office states.
A cheese eight and a half feet
wide by six and a half feet high
and requiring the use of 120,009
pounds of milk has been made at
West Martinsburg, N. Y., for exhibi
tion at the state fair at Syracuse
next month.
The cheese is the biggest ever
made in New York. It is too large
for a freight car and will be trans
ported to the fair in an auto truck.
The lieutenant governor and the
commissioner of agriculture of New
York recently visited the place wh%re
it is being made in order to in
spect the operation.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1920
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
OUR FRIENDS’ ENEMIES
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
* (Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
WHY do women who are oth
erwise well bred and ob
servant of the amenities of
life, carry their private
feuds into general society?” asked a
woman the other day.
“They do, you know,” she went on,
“and it’s one of the afflictions of ex
istence against which I always rebel
because it is so unnecessary, and so
brutally selfish on the part of those
who are not willing to deny them
selves the pleasure of indulging their
petty spites, no matter how much
annoyance it causes other people.
“Personally, I have gotten so tired
of acting as a buffer between ladies
who are out for each other’s false
hair every time they meet that I feel
like retiring to some desert solitude,
and doing the hermit act the bal
ance of my days. While, as for giv
ing a hen luncheon, or an afteroon
at bridge, I am worn to such a frazzle
trying to arrange my guests so that
they will not commit murder upon
the persons of their next neighbors,
that I swear every time I do it that
I will never submit my nervous sys
tem to such a strain again. As a
matter of fact, the difficulty of rec
onciling the Irreconcilable does keep
me from doing a lot of entertaining
that I would do if I didn’t have to
worry so over who could be asked
to meet whom without fighting.
“There are about a dozen women
with whom I am on terms of more
or less intimacy, and all of whom I
like, for one reason or another, but
they seem to have the same effect on
each other that a red flag has on
a mad bull. The minute they meet
they go for each other, hoof and
horn, or else they sit up in a frozen
silence that sends the convivial at
jnosphere down to zero, and nips my
poor little party in the bud.
“Os course I know well enough the
reason for all of these vendettas.
Mrs. A dislikes Mrs. B because Mrs.
B’s son doesn’t pay her daughter any
attention. Mrs. C hates Mrs. D be
cause Mrs. D didn’t invite her to a
big reception. Mrs. C can’t abide
Mrs. F because one of them is a
Cnristian Scientist and the other a
Presbyterian and the wife of a doc
tor. Mrs. G and Mrs. H fell out
over the Red Cross work, and Mrs. I
and Mrs. J are at dagger’s drawn
since the time they both ran for
president of the Browning club.
i “And so it goes, and I’ll say that
settling the comity of nations 1® no
more delicate nor diplomatic a job
than placing these women so they
will not rub elbows with their dear
est enemies.
"Now I have no -objections to my
friends disliking each other if they
want to, and get any pleasure out of
it. I believe that the psychologists
have discovered that hate is a stimu
lating emotion that is almost as en
joyable a® love as a sensation, and
does us good to feel. So my women
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
Doubtful Democracy
Miss Myrtilla says the world may
be safe for Democracy, but after
reading that an ordinance has been
proposed in Detroit to make it un
lawful to drive an auto with one
hand, she has her doubts about it.—
John D. Spencer in Macon Telegraph.
Will Fry a Nice Trout
The wedding of Miss Anlce Trout
to Mr. Will Fry was an event of no
little interest to their warm friends.
—Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
Dike All Other Mayors
"Mayor on hunt for bathing
beaches,’ says the Philadelphia Pub
lic Ledger, in referring to Mayor
Moore, of Philadelphia. Surely the
Quaker City mayor would, pot have
much trouble in accomplishing his
purpose if he would take a trip to
Savannah.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
A Popular Faragrapher
The man who washes un on his
employer’s time is not usually the
same one who is offered a chance of
promotion.—Four Exchanges Simul
taneously.
On Modesty and Morals
The surest way to make a bathing
suit immodest is to make it illegal.
—Atlanta Journal.
Right. These are matters of con
vention and not bearing on modesty
and morals.—Savannah Press.
Present Style Offerings
Present styles are a still further
step toward the "freedom of the
seas.”—Dublin Tribune.
Another Fellow Had a Key
Os course a man named Goodhart
had no chance in an Atlanta election.
—Tifton Gazette.
Killing a Dead One
The Chicago woman who shot a
man because he refused to kiss her,
wasted at least one bullet in plug
ging a dead one. Thomasville
Times-Enterprise.
Common Knowledge
The Douglasville Sentinel sagely
remarks that “any girl 'knows a
skirt had better be an inch too short
than an inch too long.”—Madison
Madisonian.
While the Sun Shines
It looks good to see a farm haul
ing up pea vine hay or turning it un
der. —Elberton Star.
Sir Thomas Won After All
Anyhow, Sir Thomas was hugged
by one of the prettiest young ladies
in Brooklyn, and that's worth mak
ing the trip across for. —Sylvania
Telephone.
A Pertinent Query
What do you think of a man that
will sit in the men pew at church
and sing "Shall We Gather at the
River,” and at the same time be
winking at another man’s wife?—
The Grumbler in Swainsboro Forest-
Blade.
Back to “Seasoned Hickory”
And it wouldn’t be a bad idea for
you folks on the farms to be ar
ranging for wood to burn this winter.
It looks like the coal situation is not
going to be relieved in the south in
time for this winter.—Eatonton Mes
senger.
Bnt They Always Come Back
The census reveals the fact that
there are 7,510 more women than
men in Atlanta’s population. That
may come cl the fact that when a
fellow goes to Atlanta with a view
of locating and sees the sights go
ing on the streets he gets numfuz
zled and returns to the tall timber.—
Oglethorpe Echo.
The Prodigal Son
The young man who squanders his
money has many companions, but
few friends. Men form friendships
for those whom they can respect, and
no one respects another who dissi
pates his substance in riotous liv
ing.—Griffin News and Sun.
Suppose He Had Kissed Her
Loftis, the Chicago mail order dia
mond dealer, fell dead while trying
to kiss a girl. A "diamond in the
rough,” so to speak.—LaGrange Re
porter.
Good Outlook in Treutlen
The crop conditions in Treutlen
county have taken on a brighter as
pect within the past few days and
the outlook is good.—Soperton News.
Or Blind, Perhaps -
A man who does not take note of
a pretty girl is getting old.—Harris
County News.
Let TBm Have It
Railroad men are to have an in
crease of $600,001,000 in wages. Let
’em have it. The railroads want an
increase in freight and passenger
rates. Let ’em have it. If there is
any one left who hasn’t had an in
crease, let him have it. We can
stand one anywhere except in this
office.—Griffin News and Sun.
Good Por Bartow County
Every one of the representatives
from Bartow are against capital re
moval. —Cartersville Tribune-News.
Itn titling “Gentle” Wild
The Atlanta Journal says L. C.
Gentle is the father of twenty-six
children at fifty-six years of age.
pals are ’• elcome to go to it, for all
of me, but I insist that I shouldn’t
be made the victim of it and have
my parties ruined by it, and that
when they indulge In their feud or
gies they should do so in private.
“It seems to me that no matter
how much a woman disllkbs another
woman she should be enough of a
lady to bury the hatchet when she
meets her in another woman’s house,
and that the most elemental good
breeding should make her camouflage
her feelings and act as if she found
her fellow guests congenial. Cer
tainly she owes that to her hostess.
Even savages respect the bread and
salt that much, but I often have
my women friends say to me when
I ask them to luncheon, ‘Oh, don’t
put me next to Mrs. So and So, X
! can’t bear her.’
“Ndr is this all. The favorite in
door sport of half my women friend®
is abusing the other half, which puts
me in a painful and embarrassing
position. I don’t want to be in an
eternal argument with the traducers,
yet if I am not, I feel myself a
traitor. To sit silent and hear a
friend accused of faults she does
not possess, or derided for little pe
culiarities she may have, but which
are no more than surface blemishes
on a fine character, makes you feel
that you are a yellow cur, yet you
do not wish to quarrel with the
woman who is venting her spleen
for some grievance against the other
woman, and who is, in spite of it, *
good woman herself.
“Certainly those of our friends
who undertake to pick out our other
friends for us and edit our invita
tion lists are guilty of a great im
pertinence, and they commit an un
pardonable breach of good manner®
when they criticize to us those whom
we have selected as our intimates,
for In doing so they impeach our
taste, our judgment and our sens®
of propriety.
“Yet who escapes the candid friend
who says, ‘I don’t see how you ean
stand that Mrs. X. She come® of
such ordinary people,’ or ‘Dear me,
what can you see In Mary Jones.
She gets on my nerves,’ and you
have to bite your tongue to keep
from saying that the reason YOH
don’t like Mrs. G or Mary Jones is
because you haven’t enough heart
or brain to understand them. For
we pick out friends as we do our
clothes —for many reasons and dif
ferent wear. Which is a thing most
of our friends don’t understand, and
never can understand.
“But all the same our friends’ ®n
emies are a great and ever present
source of trouble in society,” fin
ished the woman, "and I wish some
body would impress on women that
they should sing their hymn of hat®
as they say their prayers—in priv
ate in their closets, instead of foist
ing them on the innocent bystand
ers.”
Dorothy Dix’s articles appear reg
ularly in this paper every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
GENERALLY speaking, men
may be divided into thre®
classes —bachelors, husbands
and widowers. -Bachelors ar®
a commodity, husbands a necessity,
and widowers a luxury—especially in
the gentle art of love-making.
Every time a woman reads a news
paper account of a Lothario’s esca
pades, she sighs and looks at her
husband suspiciously; every time a
man reads one, he smiles to himself
and looks a little envious.
In ancient Arabia, the formal an
nouncement of divorce was, “Begone!
For I will no longer derive thy flocks
to the pasture!” But the modern
American formula Is "S’long! I do
hope you’ll like the climate of Reno."
Which, to say the least, is much
more polite.
Men may guess how a woman man
ages to get into this year’s evening
gown—but It will always be a deep
mystery to them how she manages
to keep it on.
There are almost -as many little
ready "advisers" anxious to tell you
what is the matter with your motor
car when it balks, as ther are to
tell you what is the matter with your
husband when he is fractious.
Persiflage: Before marriage, an
impertinence in frills. After mar
riage, a slam with its collar off.
In these days of feminism a hu®-
hand is of no Importance whatever!
until you have tried living your
whole life withqut one. Then you
may find yourself wistfully wonder
ing if even a dead or divorced hus
band isn’t better than none at all.
Why wives are so dull: Before
marriage, a man greets a woman*®
attempts at witty repartee with a
laugh; after marriage, he greet®
them with a grunt.
It’s, a wise child that knows Ha
own mother—ln a 1920 bathing suit.
That’s enough to run Gentl® wild.—
Savannah Press.
No Volunteer® Wanted
Some folks had trouble in liquidat
ing estates, but not the Cleveland
lad whose uncle left him 60 barrel®
of XXX. Hi s trouble will be to
soldify his fortune under existing
statutes of alcoholic limitations.—
Macon News.
Final Evidence of Victory
And now comes Levi P Reeves de
claring that Cox is a sure winner.
That settles it, once and for alL—■
Cartersville Tribune-News.
WelTsaid
Regulate the girls and the bathing
suits will take care of themselves.—*
Carroll Free Press.
Nabbing the Boose
Federal agents In Toledo seized
SBOO,OOO worth of booze en route to
Canada. They must have nabbed a
whole wagon load.—Waycross Jour
nal-Herald.
A Divided Sensation
New York papers didn’t give a®
much publicity to the Leßoy trunic
mystery as such stories often get in
Gotham, because they had to shar®
It with Detroit.—Rome News.
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