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Governor Cox s Great Speech
IN Governor Cox’s speech accepting the
Democratic nomination sturdy common
sense and statesmanly ideals march side
by side. It is the utterance of a man at
once high-visioned and keenly practical. Can
ny with insight into problems of business and
politics, it is also warm with human sympa
thy. A plain speech, a frank speech, and elo
quent with heart notes, it oompasses the
questions of the day as only a true Liberal
could and reveals a personality that will take
stronger and stronger hold on the country’s
interest and affection.
“We are in a time,” the Governor says,
“which calls for straight thinking, straight
talking and straight acting.” Such is the
character of his address. His mind moves
directly and voices itself in terms unequivo
cal. Unlike his opponent, who talks with
the confusion and skittishness inevitable in
the Republican position, he drives right to
the heart of issues. It is curiously signifi
cant that Senator Harding’s discussion of the
League of Nations pleased so bitter an enemy
of the covenant as Hiram Johnson and so
avowed a friend of it as William Howard
Taft. The Senator, it would seem, is rarely
gifted in the art of concealing his ideas.
That, however, is not the kind of talent
America needs or wishes. The issues of this
time are not to be evaded, nor its responsi
bilities shunned. “Straight thinking, straight
talking, straight acting,”—these only will do;
and it is these that Governor Cox brings to
bear.
Touching the uppermost question of our
foreign policy,, he declares emphatically
against a separate peace with Germany, in
volving as that would a desertion of our
soundest interests as well as our broadest
obligations. “It would be,” he says, “the most
disheartening event in civilization since the
Russians made their separate peace with Ger
many, and infinitely more unworthy on our
part.” The Republican proposal, boiled to its
essence, is that we should stay out of the
great league of peace, along with Russia, Ger
many, Mexico and Turkey. What says Gov
srnor Cox? “As the Democratic candidate, I
favor going in.” This, of course, is but a
restatement of his party’s platform, which
declares: “We advocate immediate ratifica
tion of the treaty without reservations which
would impair its essential integrity, but do
not oppose the acceptance of any reservation
making clearer or more specific the obliga
tions of the United States to the League as
sociates.” No one professing allegiance to the
declared principles of the Democratic party
and its Presidential nominee can consistently
hold any other view.
The Governor does not rest, however, with
simply stating that he is for League mem
bership with safeguarding reservations. He
gives a clear concept of what he means by
“safeguarding;” and in this connection he
shows thorough and sympathetic understand
ing of the idea of the Democratic Senators
who stood for clarifying provisions. “First,”
he points out, “they wanted to make sure
hat its basic purpose was peace and not con
troversy; second, they wanted the other
Powers signing the instrument to understand
our constitutional limitations beyond which
the treaty-making power cannot go.” Fur
ther;
“We hear it said that interpretations
are unnecessary. That may be true, but
they will at least be reassuring to many
of our citizens, who feel that in signing
the' treaty there should be no mental
reservations that are not expressed in
plain words, as a matter of good faith to
our associates. Such interpretations pos
sess the further virtue of supplying a
base upon which agreement can be
reached, and agreement, without injury
to the covenant, is now of pressing im
portance.”
Equally straightforward and constructive
are Governor Cox’s pronouncements on mat
ters of domestic moment, such as the repeal
of war taxes, the cutting away of conditions
that make for profiteering, the utmost pro
tection of the rights of free speech and free
issembly, the introduction of a budget sys
:em into Federal finance with a view to elim
nating every dollar of needless expense, the
working out of equitable and friendly re
ations between employers and employees in
.he great fields of labor and capital, the
mcouragement of all legitimate business in
toth internal and foreign trade, the discour
igement of crooked or oppressive dealing
vherever found, the upbuilding of the coun
ry’s educational system, the development of
igricultural interests and the enrichment of
’ural life, the making of a prosperous, free,
ligh-minded nation. On these and related
mbjects the Governor speaks with the defi
liteness of long executive experience as well
is with the earnestness of one whose heart
s with America’s rank and file. He pleads
'or “a change from the old world of yester
iay where international intrigue made the
people mere pawns on the chessboard of
war,” and for “a change from the old indus
trial world where the man who toiled was
assured of a ‘full dinner pail’ as his only
lot and portion.”
A true Democrat, a true American, has
spoken in this acceptance speech, in words
that cannot fail to quicken the nation’s
thought and stir its heart.
Mrs. Catt probably regrets that she has
only nine lives to give for the suffrage cause.
—Nashville Banner.
“We must not abridge the freedom of
speech,” said Mr. Harding. And thereupon
abridge it by stringing out his ac
ceptawe to 8,000 words.—Nashville Banner.
THE ATLANTA I.A ..JOURNAL.
Smith or Watson—Which?
THE Senatorial race in Georgia presents
the voter a choice between fruitful
statesmanship and barren agitation, be
tween forces that construct for the common
good and those that recklessly tear down for
selfish ambition. On the one side is a pub
lic servant of proved efficiency, a builder
by nature and by training, a man who has
made every interest of the Commonwealth
the richer for his work at Washington. On
the other, is a political adventurer —brilliant,
cunning, erratic, destructive. Between these
two lies the contest; between them the peo
ple must choose. It will be Senator Hoke
Smith, or it will be Thomas E. Watson.
Which of these do the State’s welfare and
honor require? That is the question.
There are efforts, we know, to inject ex
traneous matters and becloud the situation
with factional feuds; efforts to divide the
thoughtful, loyal Democracy, whose support
trends naturally to Senator Smith, and to
divert a section of it to a third candidate,
mistakenly put forward against the interests
of party concord and public welfare. This,
however, is merely incidental to the main
i ßaue — a flank movement which, if persisted
in, will draw away certain elements that
otherwise would stand united, and to that
extent will aid the cause of one conceded to
be the party’s foe. But the frontal contest,
the decisive battle remains between that rec
ognized foe of Democracy, that always de
structive figure, and the Senator who stands
for re-election on a record of incomparable
service and capacity for continued useful
ness to the State.
Which of these shall it be —the builder
or the destroyer, the statesman or the agi
tator? Senator Smith has been an unswerv
ing Democrat from the grim days of Recon
struction, w-hen he asserted the party’s faith
and the integrity of the ballot, even in the
teeth of Federal bayonets. Mr. Watson has
professed to be a Democrat when caprice or
ambition so disposed him, but for the most
part he has been by his own acknowledge
ment the party’s enemy. Senator fimith is
the author of legislation from which every
farmer, every business man, every laboring
man, every child and every household in
Georgia is prospering—constructive legisla
tion written large and luminous in the na
tion’s history. What single service of this
nature has Mr. Watson rendered? Senator
Smith supported every war measure, placing
his utmost influence and loyalty behind our
soldiers at the front. Mr. Watson opposed
them with all the bitterness he could muster,
urging a course which, had it been followed,
would have lost the war to Prussianism and
have stained our flag with everlasting dis
• honor.
It is between these two that Georgians
are called upon to choose. Who that knows
the traditions and character of this Com
monwealth can doubt what the answer will
be?
A City Man Bows to the
Farmer
The dominant place in American life oc
cupied by the American farmer is tellingly
designated in an address delivered recently
before the Commercial Club of Chicago. At
this meeting of business men, the speaker
was discussing "The Essentials of Commu
nity Building.” He summed up the question
in this fashion:
“The good community today has good
schools, because the people must be intelli
gent before they can be good citizens. It
has good churches, because the community
must have good morals, or it will never
progress.
“It has good merchants and good lawyers,
who will treat their customers intelligently,
and who will keep their clients out of trou
blq. That it must have good shipping facili
ties goes without saying.
“And it must have good farmers.
“The farmers are the bulwark upon which
all industry must rest.
“We city folks must realize that the farm
er looms up as among the biggest and best
customer today. With the advent of the mo
tor car, every day is market day for the farm
er. And he is no longer satisfied with what
is cheap and shoddy. The farmer today
wants and demands the best.
The buying power of the average farmer
has irfcreased from $1,600 to $3,400 a year in
the last four years. The average buying
power of the city man is S9OO a year. Fifty
two per cent of the population of the coun
try is engaged in farming.
“Nearly seventy billion dollars are invested
m agriculture. That is more than any three
other industries. And, yet we sometimes ig
nore the farmer.
“Some people today accuse the farmer of
being a profiteer. Yet the farmer gets only
what he can for his merchandise; and sells
it for less than one-half of what it appears
on the general market for. It is he who
should ask, who is the profiteer.
‘‘The good community today is the one
that recognizes these facts, and makes it pos
sible for the farmers to trade there. It has
good roads so that farmers can easily get
, ha ® good merc hants who are offer
?. g the farme . rs their best in both merchan
dise and service.”
U. S. Pofiulat ion Now 105
Millions.
Who is Mr. J. A. Hill?
Why, he’s the chief statistician of the cen
sus bureau.
And what has he done now? ybu ask.
He’s the fellow who put the fig in figures
—and to prove it he tells us that there are
105,000,000 persons in continental United
States. He bases his calculations on the com
bined population of 1,406 cities and towns.
The increase since 1900 is placed at about
13,000,000, showing the growth of the coun
try has not kept pace with the previous dec
ade. Almost complete cessation of immigra
tion during the war, the influenza epidemics,
the return of aliens to their native lands and
deaths of soldiers abroad are reasons for the
.low growth. Here are some figures which
or the basis of comparison are interesting:
Country. Population.
China 400,000,000
England .34,045,290
British Empire 435,000,000
France 40,000,000
German Empire as it was in
1913 65,000,000
Ireland 4,390,219
Italy 35,000,000
•Japan 75,500,000
Scotland 4,760,904
United States 105,000,000
Philippines 9,000,000
Hawaii 191,909
Alaska . . . 64,35 6
Porto Rico 1,118,012
*
Gertrude is four years of age. She faces
the world fearlessly, looks it squarely in the
eye, and if it doesn’t behave exactly to suit
her she tells it things. Her mamma had
gone away the other day and left Gertrude
in the care of her grandma, and, after a
clash of wills, Gertrude had been put into
a room to remain for a specified length of
time. “If you stir out of that room before
I tell you you may,” cautioned her grandma
severely, “I am going to spank you.” Ger
trude stood with arms akimbo for a moment,
and then retorted in a tone of finality:
“Well! When you spank me you will find
that business is certainly beginning to pick
up in this neighborhood.”
LAZINESS AS A HABIT,
By H. Addington Bruce
HERE are two brothers.
Both go to bed about 11 o’clock at
night. Both are in good health.
The workaday activities of both are closely
similar.
But one brother rises at the stroke of six
every morning. He shaves and dresses
briskly. He takes a short walk outdoor.
And he has ample time to look through the
morning paper before breakfast at 7:30.
The other brother, likewise waking at six,
turns over in bed, and falls asleep again. It
is after seven before he crawls grumblingly
out of bed, and usually it is nearly eight
when he puts in his appearance at the break
fast table.
A doting mother excuses him on the
ground that “James really needs more sleep
than John does.” Perhaps she is right.
But the likelihood is that the difference
between the energy of John and the laziness
of James is chiefly a matter of habit.
John rises at six, not so much because
his constitution impels him to do so, as be
cause he has consciously or unconsciously
trained himself to get out of bed as soon as
he wakes. ,
Habit determines likewise the briskness
with which he shaves and dresses. Habit
sends him outdoors to benefit from the fresh
morning air.
If James could only be persuaded to fol
low his example for a while, if every morning
he would force himself to arise at six and
adopt John’s before-breakfast routine, it is
safe to predict that soon he would not have
to force himself to do so.
Whereas, on the opposite, if John were to
resolve to stay abed until seven for a few
mornings, he would presently find himself
developing a habit of late rising singularly
akin to that now so deplorably evident in
James.
So with energy and laziness in other hu
man activities. Again and again habit is
the determining factor.
Men may work eight, ten or twelve hours
a, day because they are so interested in their
Work that they want to work eight, ten or
twelve hours. But often it is habit rather
than desire that keeps them hard at work.
And, even if desire to work be present as
a result of intense interest in the work, it
is entirely possible to undermine this by
establishing a habit of stopping work early.
It needs only a few days or shorter work
ing activity to make it more “natural” to
stop work at three or four than to continue
working until five or six as formerly.
Whereas, on the contrary, the man accus
tomed to stop work at three or four, may
find it just as “natural” to work longer, if
for a period he force himself to work longer.
■Little by little his voluntary increased
devotion to work will, through habit, become
involuntary. Then he will automatically
persist in the longer working day, without
effort, without giving the matter a second
thought.
Just as the energetic John rises at six be
cause it is his habit to rise at six, so will
the whilom work-dodger acquire a work habit
that makes continuance at work easy for
him.
I commend these facts to the considera
tion of all who have to confesss themselves
lazy. They can unfailingly cure their lazi
ness—unless, perchance, it is rooted in ill
health—if only they will for a time force
themselves to the effort necessary to estab
lish the salutary habit of greater activity.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
NATURE AND TIME, THE
HEALERS
By Dr. Frank Crane
In a play advertised the other day ap
peared a line by the author, who thought
he had said something clever, but really had
said something shallow, “Why didn’t God
make health catching instead of yellow
fever?”
The only answer to which is: He did.
All diseases by and by run out, else the
race would long ago have been exterminated.
Even under the worst conditions cholera,
typhoid and the hookworm cease.
Health never ceases.
Babies are born just as bouncing and lusty
today as in Noah’s time.
Give the old earth time enough and she
will spin a web of ivy over every ruined
wall, heal all scars, and knit and spin and
smooth away until the last wound is healed,
the last repulsive object is made beautiful.
Nature runs the original Beauty Parlor.
These reflections are caused by reading
the report brought back from France by
Hugh Fullerton, of the Long Island Agricul
tural Experiment Station, on behalf of the
American Committee for Devastated France,
of which Miss Anne Morgan is the head.
“The French agriculturists believed that
the devastated areas would never again
be productive,” he said. “I went over
two months ago convinced that this was
not true, because I had had experience in
tearing up Long Island soil with dynamite
ind had found the subsoil fertile. It is an
old axiom of agriculture that the subsoil
cannot be productive, and the French gov
ernment, acting on this premise, had con
demned large portions of what used to be
the most productive areas of France.
“In company with Miss Morgan and repre
sentatives of the French government I visited
one of the worst bits of the Aisne war zone.
It was ‘Red Monkey Plateau,’ which was
taken and retaken eighteen times. Not a
trace of cellar wall remains to tell of its vil
lages, and the soil was overturned to the
depth of two to five feet.
At the foot of the hill the French ex
perts were still maintaining that nothing
could grow there. When we reached the top
we found ourselves wading knee deep
through the richest red clover I have ever
seen. The leaves were as big as silver dol
lars. Alfalfa covered the deepest holes.
“I will say this for the French- They
were prompt to admit their error. Within
two days the order condemning this territory
was revoked. Four thousand people re
turned to their old homes in one day.
. J? appears that the Plowing done by the
3hel 13 brought to the surface the deep soil
which contains valuable materials of which
the top soil, used for generations, had been
depleted. Riding through France, one can
trace the lines of the trenches, now filled in
and planted, by the richer, darker green of
the wheat growing in the deep-plowed soil.”
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes.
The Sinn Fein are reported to be making
dry the towns they gain control of in Ire
land. From this distance that has the
aspect of enemy propaganda.—THE BUF-
The third party emblem should be the
dodo.—Nashville Tennessean.
1
A woman can make a speech of acceptance
with one word. —Cleveland Press.
What is a man to do? He is under sus
picion if he ships a trunk and he is under
suspicion if he carries a dies ssuit case!
Detroit News. >
AN EVALGENIST
OF ART
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 4.—The ex
tension department of the
Chicago Art Institute is
about to give the Back to the
Farm Movement more substantial
support than all the famine alarm
ists put together. And how? Simply
by making the farmers’ daughters so
chic that the hired man will never
yearn for Broadway.
Mr. Ross Crane, head of the ex
tension department of the institute,
is about to start upon his yearly pil
grimage of spreading art and cul
ture in the rural districts, and this
time, in addition to his demonstra
tions of the home beautiful, he will
give the rural ladies a few pointers
on woman beautiful. That is, he and
Miss Evelyn Hansen, dress demon
strator at the Wisconsin State Nor
mal School, will give a series of
talks illustrated by dress exhibitions
on living models, in which they will
endeavor to teach their fair au
diences how to bring out their often
only too latent charms.
The extension department of the
art Institute is really a very serious
ahd most praiseworthy organization.
Three years ago Mr. Crane evolved
an idea which was so big and so
obvious that one wonders why no
one ever thought of it before. It
was simply that since a great part
of the population of the country was
unable to visit the few big art mu
seums in the cities, art should be
taken to the people. The result of
this happy thought was the exten
sion department of the institute, the
only thing of its kind in the country.
TAKES ART ON THE ROAD
Every year Mr. Crane with three
or four assistants and about a ton
of material, sallies forth to the hin
terlands of culture and there pro
ceeds to make life more beautiful
for the natives. It is a fact worthy
of note that these people who have
been geographically deprived of
beauty are more appreciative of good
art when it is brought to them than
is many a superior-feeling metropol
itan. They are so enthusiastic about
Mr. Crane that many towns have
sent for him two or three times. He
has lectured all the way from
Texas. to Winnipeg, leaving a trail
of beauty in his wake. Little Rock,
Ark., and Fort Wayne, Tex., Indiana,
have alike been brightened by his
presence. His work has become so
popular that he has had to send
out a second group of evangelists
with. Hunt Cook as the leader and a
duplicate ton of material.
This ton of material is probably
the reason for Mr. Crane’s great suc
cess. With it he dramatizes his
talks on be utlfying the home, and
thus makes a much greater impres
sion upon his audience than if he
merely lectured. His equipment con
sists .of about twenty good modern
paintings, the three walls, flreplace,
doors and windows of a model room.
He puts this room up on the plat
form of the auditorium where he is
lecturing, and proceeds to show the
expectant townsfolk and neighboring
farmers how to furnish it pleasingly
and inexpensively.
When the curtaoin goes up the
room has nothing in it but a fireplace
and one picture. Using the picture
as a keynote for his color scheme
and the fireplace as his center of in
terest, Mr. Crane creates an artis
tic and homelike room with ma
terials and furniture borrowed from
the town’s merchants. Needless to
say the merchants are glad to lend.
A BOOM FOR LOCAL TRADE
Man-- an eager home-maker rushes
to their shops the next day to buy
rugs of a less flamboyant' design,
hangings that have some remote re
lation to the color of the walls, and
chairs that seem to have been made
to sit upon rather than to torture
the eye. Thus we see how beauty
and commerce can be made to go
hand in hand, certain lofty souls to
the contrary.
In fact it is one or Mr. Crane’s
objects to bring trade and beauty
into harmony. He wants to influ
ence manufacturers and merchants
to make and sell beautiful things no
less than he wants people to choose
beautiful things for their homes. Ac
cording to Mr. Crane art isn’t some
thing that you hang up on the wall
in a frame, or seek out in a museum
with the aid of a guide book.
“Art is not an abstraction," says
Mr. Crane. “Unless you show peo
ple how art makes itself useful in
their lives they are not going to ac
cept it as anything more than a
luxury. Art is really a necessity,
you know, and the surest way to
make the world realize it is to show
people how their homes are more
comfortable when they are beautiful,
and how their businesses are more
profitable when they make useful,
beautiful things.”
America is just beginning to real
ize the value of beauty as a vital
part of life. The first years of our
life as a nation w’ere too much oc
cupied with the building up of our
country, the mere cultivating of the
•wilderness, to give us much time to
concentrate upon the finder but none
the less necessary side of living.
As a result, our sense of beauty
seems to have suffered. The weird
Italian villas, the frenzied scroll
work on our furniture, the gilded
pine cones and hand-painted roll
ing pins in the whatnot, all testify
to the vague yearning for beauty
which the last generation felt and
was sc helpless to express. And
some of us are just as helpless, if
not so unrestrained.
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
CALL no man wise until he has
made a fool of himself over at
least one woman—nor hope
essly foolish until he has made
a fool of himself over two women.
Os course, a bachelor- apartment
lacks all those little home comforts
of which a man dreams —but then,
again, it lacks so many of those lit
tle Discomforts, of which he never
dreamed I
A man begs a woman for “the
plain, unvarnished truth;” when in
reality he wants it sugar-coated,
scented, and spiced to suit his van
ity—and even then he can only swal
low half of it at a time without chok
ing.
In the social swim there is many
a fish who started out in life as a
porgie, and is breaking its heart in
the effort to finish as “filet-of-sole.”
To a woman who is watching her
first baseball game it looks, some
how, as though both sides were
playing against the umpire.
Woman may be free, but we are
not yet equal. A girl may have al
most as many pockets as a man,
nowadays, but she hasn’t half the
vocabulary with which to express
herself, when she has to go through
every blessed one of them in order to
find something.
Men have been classified as “what
women marry.” They have two feet,
two hands, and sometimes two wives
■—but never more than one collar but
ton or one idea at a time.
Men will be boys! And the man
who marries nowadays is looking,
not for a soul-mate but for a play
mate, not for a guide to heaven, but
for a guide to amusement.
Farming a Big Business
The busines sos farming in Geor
gia last year amounted to $750,000,-
000. It’s a big business, all right,
and there are many chances for
Tosses. It takes good common sense
on the farm as well as in any oth
er business. —Senoia Enterprise-Ga
zette.
Express Company on the Wane
The express companies are losing
their usefulness. They say they will
not transport human bodies and the
law has stopped them hauling spir
its—Bill Biffem in Savannah Press.
Fisherman’s X»uck
Fishing parties seem to be in or
der now, as we understand that two
gentlemen of Dahlonega spent one
night recently, near the banks of a
certain stream, but caught no fish.—
Dahlonega Echo.
CURRENT EVENTS
BERLlN.—Greater Berlin, with
its latest additions, claims to be the
largest metropolis on earth. Its
area is officialy given as 877.66
square kilometers (337.77 square
miles), compared with greater New
York, 840 square kilometers (307.8
square miles), Paris’ 480, London’s
303 and Vienna’s 275 square kilo
meters. Greater Berlin now em
braces eight townships, fifty-nine
villages and twenty-seven rural es
tates.
According to figures made public
by the department of statistics, 1.-
015,883 immigrants entered Brazil
during the twelve years ending De
cember 31, 1919. Os this number
only 2,062 were North Americans,
while there were 34,246 Germans and
28,293 Japanese. Portuguese led
with 386,686; Spanish second. 212,-
7323; Italians third. 65,709 and Rus
sions fourth with 50,632.
Babe Ruth, the mighty slugger of
the New York American league base
ball club, pounded out his fortieth
and forty-first home-runs last
week in a game with Detroit. The
“Bambino" hag set his heart on
clouting fifty circuit smashes this
season and if he does it, which
seems likely now, he will set up a
record probably destined to stand
forever, unless he breaks it him
self. Ruth hit twenty-nine home
runs last year. Public interest in
his sensational work rivals that of
the presidential campaign and Geor
gia’s own baseball marvel, Ty Cobb,
is practically in total eclipse.
Packing unruly prisoners in ice
so as to cool their refractory spirits
was a practice in vogue at the state
reformatory for women, Bedford, N.
Y., according to disclosures brought
out at the recent investigation held
in New York in connection with
prolonged riots at the institution.
The first Spanish warship to visit
i Cuba since the war of the ’nineties
was given a cordial welcome in Ha
vana recently. The vessel was the
Alphonso XIII and it steamed into
the harbor almost twenty-two years
to a day after American "Jackies”
blew Cevera’s fleet out of the wa
ier.
Official statistics just issued show
that 1,362872 men of France gave
their lives to halt the Hun. If
these fallen fighters were to form
in single file with less than a stride
separating each, a ghostly column
more than 800 miles long, stretch
ing further than from Atlanta to
New York, would pas s in review. If
they were to encarrfp, twenty-seven
bivouacs of the dead” as big as
Camp Gord would be needed. To
match this roll of death America
would have to lose 400 regiments at
full war strength.
Cubans of all ages and classes of
life have contributed SIOO,OOO to the
Roosevelt Memorial fund and a
check for that amount was turned
over to the sponsors recently. Four
specific laws have been passed by
the Cuban government in honor of
America’s former president.
A petrified fish, about fifty feet
long, has been discovered incased in
the rocks in Garfield county, Utah,
' ab ° u t seventy miles east of Pan
guitch, by Sheriff James Goulding, of
Garfield county, and T. W. Smith, of
Salt Lake, who have been prospect
ing in that section. Four years ago
near the same spot the fossil remains
of a giant lizard were found. Gbuld
ing and Smith have offered their find
to the University of Utah.
Mme. Bella Hartmann, young wid
ow of an Austrian officer, has been
sentenced at Lindau to pay a fine of
50,000 marks and serve one month in
jail, for smuggling. It is said she
defrauded the Berlin and Vienna au
thorities out of more than $3,000,000
by means of a small army of em
ployes at Lake Constance who used
six automobiles, three motor boats
and other paraphernalia in their
illicit business.
High cost of living has never hit
Madagascar, Kendall K. Kay, former
California newspaper man, reports.
Best prime beef sells for 3 1-2 cents
and rice for 1 1-2 cents, he said.
Pineapples can be had for 1-2 cent
each and big lobsters for 2 cents.
Like his cousin of opposite politi
cal faith who preceded him as as
sistant secretary of the navy and
as candidate for vice president,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, running mate
with Jimmy Cox on the Democratic
national ticket, is not a believer in
race suicide.
T. R. was the father of five chil
dren—one girl and four boys—and
strenuously advojy.ted idrge fami
lies for others.
Franklin D. is likewise the father
of five—also one girl and four boys.
Whether the parallel in political
preferment is to continue, remains
with the voters in November to de
cide. But on the standards of good
citizenship and patriotism laid down
by Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt meets the ffiSjor specifi
cations of his distinguished relative,
the late president.
Paris has 40,000 sabres for sale.
The clanking swords that the
city’s jaunty policemen have worn
for cenraries have been banned by
government decree. In their stead,
American magazine pistols, or “au
tomatics,” will now be the style.
The Parisian constabulary are loath
to sheathe their trusty blades, re
port has it, and are surrendering
thei rside arms reluctantly, even
though it is admitted that the sub
stitute weapon gives the gendarmes
a better chance in the event of a
tussle with their ancient enemies,
th® Apaches.
A monument to Magellan, the ex
plorer who discovered the straits
that now bear his name, will be un
veiled in Punta, Arenas, Chile, next
November, justifour hundred years
since the valiant voyager earned his
place in history. Punta Arenas, at
the extreme lower tip of the South
American continent, is the southern
most city in the world.
Aerial mail service between Lon
don and Paris has proved so suc
cessful that schedules have been ex
tended to include two trips a day
each way.
Practically every day now, Presi
dent Wilson may be seen riding in
an open auto in Rock Park, or on the
Virginia highway leading' to Mt.
Vernon. The latter is his, favorite
ride. The president wears a little
stiff-brimmed straw hat which he
holds tighly with his right hand. He
looks much older than a year ago;
the lines in his face have greatly
deepened. He still does only about
10 per cent of a normal day’s work.
The cost of living, and particu
larly the cost of food, continues to
mount. Figures gathered by the
department of labor show that on
June 15 last the average family ex
penditure was 2 per cent higher than
on May 15; in May the expenditure
was 2 per cent higher than in April;
and in April the expenditure was
5 per cent higher than in March.
Since January of this year the fam
ily expenses have increased 9 per
cent. The cost of food since 1913
has gone up on an average of more
than 10 J per cent.
Under authority established by
law the state of North Dakota has
engaged in the creamery business
by leasing a plant at Werner, which
will be operated on a co-operative
basis under direction of the Com
missioner of Agriculture and La
bor.
Dairy Commissioner J. J. Oster
haus is establishing three stations
for the collection of cream for the
plant in Mercer and Dunn counties.
Farmers will be paid the market
price for their cream, and at the
end of each season the profits will
be pro rated back to them on the
basis of the cream supplied.
Field workers have already 'been
sent out to interest farmers in the
keeping of fine dairy cattle and to
encourage them to form organiza
tions which may obtain state aid
under the provisions of the cow bill,
which provides for loans to purchase
pure breds.
Italy’s wheat crop has proven a
disappointment and the nation faces
the prospect of going hungry unless
heavy importations of the cereal are
received, according to a statement
made by the Italian food commis
sioner recently. t
It is feared that embargoes at Ar
gentina and Inqia would make it
difficult for Italy to secure the 30,-
000,000 quintals of wheat needed to
give the people bread. A conference
of allied powers has been called to
consider the emergency.
1’ 10,
DOROTHY iDIX TALKS
PARTNERS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
WE have long recognized that
marriage is a partnership in
which a njan and woman en
ter into a life contract to
pool their money, their labor, their
intelligence and good will and strive
together for the common good of
the firm.
Heretofore woman has been a si
lent partner in the concern. Her work
was all done on the outside of the
store or office, or factory. All that
she had was invested in the busi
ness, but she had no voice in its
management. Generally she was
kept in complete ignorance of what
it was doing. Nature might have
endowed her with extraordinary fi
nancial ability and executive effi
ciency, but she never had a chance
to use her talents. And she shared
In only such of the profits of the
firm as the senior partner chose to
give her if it succeeded, while she
went down into bankruptcy if it
failed.
The entrance of so many clever
and capable women into the business
world, and especially the marriage of
so many men to these aforesaid
clever and capable women is begin
ning to change this left-handed mat
rimonial partnership into a real part
nership in which a woman is not
only a man’s wife, but his business
partner as well.
Formerly when a man married a
highly-trained business woman he
dumped her down into a kitchen
where, she was miserable, and where
he ascertained that being a cracker
jack stenographer does not neces
sarily make one a good free-hand
cook, nor does a lightning calculator
enable one to always have meals on
time.
Now, when he espouses the effi
cient secretary who leaves her em
ployer tearing his hair when she
gets married, or when he leads to
the altar a prize buyer, or a head
saleswoman, Mr. Wiseman, instead
of wishing the gas range and sta
tionary washtubs on her, invites her
into his office, or sets up a little busi
ness with her. The result is the
woman is happy and interested in
doing the work she has fitfed herself
for and likes, and the man prospers,
and matrimony becomes a grand
sweet song, with two people work
ing shoulder to shoulder for the
same end.
So universally successful have
teen these firms of husband and wife
that they seem to offer a solution
of many of the social problems of
our day. They provide an outlet for
the energies of women, for one thing.
It is having nothing worth while to
do that makes women peevish and
naggy and discontented, for the time
has gone by whan a woman with
brains in her head can find sufficient
occupation for a life time in punch
ir g holes in cloth and filling them up
again, and going to pink teas and
bridges, and realizes her highest am
bition in winning the blue ribbon at
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
Close the Door, Please
"The Republican party has had
one streak of good luck, anyway,”
says the Houston Post. “La Follette
has repudiated it.” But which way
is he now headed? It is to be hoped
he isn’t coming our way.—Columbus
Enquirer-Sun.
Politics a Side Show
The lack of interest in politics
this summer is all taken up at the
beaches by these Annette Kellerman
bathing suits.—Americus TlmCs-Re
corder.
Ho Use to Dare Fate
Comes now a Massachusetts judge
who says a husband has the right to
regulate his wife’s dress. He also
has a right to go over Niagara Falls
in a barrel, but few husbands, as
you’ve probably noticed, are taking
advantage of the privilege this sea
son.—J. D. Spencer in Macon Tele
graph.
He Was No Dawyer
Men who try to lay down the law
to their wives probably wonder how
Solomon lived so long.—Columbus
Ledger.
How Did This Happen?
Cox wants a strict accounting of
campaign funds. Yes, Dayton’s the
home of the cash register.—Three
Exchanges.
Why Waste Time?
As usual, the first thing the Geor
gia legislature did when it met in
Atlanta this year was to bring up
the capital removal question. Enough
time is wasted every year discuss
ing this question to get through some
legislation that would be of some
good to the state. —PePm broke Enter
prise.
Selling Hogs at Fitzgerald
Thirty Fitzgerald hogs the other
day sold for $6,000. Extra fancy
hogs? Probably; but if one hog
raiser near Fitzgerald can raise extra
fancy hogs many other farmers near
Fitzgerald and in every other sec
tion of the state can raise extra
fancy hogs—hogs that will fetch on
the market S2OO apiece. Why not?—
Savannah Morning News.
Agriculture in Grady
Grady county is strictly an agri
cultural county and whatever serves
to increase the production of the
farm products is going to add to the
potential wealth of the country.
Therefore, it follows that any agen
cy that is effective in bringing about
better farm methods, thus increasing
the production per man power, is
just truly adding to the growth of
the county as the agency that brings
in more population. Particular ef
fort needs to be directed to clearing
our farms of stumps and the in
creased use of implements that will
result in greater production from the
efforts of the individual worker.—
Grady County Progress.
The Progress has sounded the
“keynote” of the campaign for im
proved farms. The dead trees and
stumps should be eliminated, so that
corn and peanuts may have more
space.
Attention, Autoietfl I
If one wants to see the difference
between property and personal rights
demonstrated let him stajid on a
corner and watch how suddenly a
driver can bring his . r to a stop
to prevent mussing it with another
car, and how impossible it is to do
the same thing when a pedestrian is
in the road.—Dawson News.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
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i>LYs lots o' folks
STARTS FUM DE GROUN*
UP BUT EF YOU SPECTS
T’ (SO VEY HIGH You
BETtuh dig down en
EX-CAVATE Fo You STARTS.’
C’PyfigM, 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
the church bazar for the angel food.
Many a ma- who has a wife who is
hard to endure as a domestic part
ner would find that she was an In
valuable asset as a business partner,
if he took he.- Into his office, or store
and gave her the big constructive
work that her body and mind cry
aloud for.
Also the organizing of the firm of
Benedict & Co. will enable thousands
of young people to marry who other
wise would be compelled to remain x J
single. It is all very well to say .
that a man should be able to support
the woman he marries. Under pres
ent economic conditions the average
man cannot afford the luxury of a>-
idle wife before he is middleag~,
and by that time he is so 38c Sir his
ways, and case-hardened in selfish
ness that he is not fit to marry.
But there Is no reason why any
capable, industrious young couple,
who are willing to work together,
should not organize a business and
matrimdnlal partnership while they
are young enough to have the blood
running red in their veins, and the
wings of romance hovering over
them.
Moreover, the business partnership
will come nearer to solving ths
divorce question than anything else.
The reason so many couples drift
apart is because they have no com
mon interest to hold them together.
The man Is absorbed in his business,
of which the woman knows nothing.
The woman’s days are filled with
dress, with society, with clubs of .
which the husband knows nothing. -•
They are so little ip touch they
haven’t even anything to talk abSut, •
and they are so bored at home they V
seek affinities abroad.
But the married couple who are
business partners have the strongest
of all bonds tying them to’gether.
They have a vital, mutual interest. . 1
They speak the same language. They 1
have something they can endlessly
discuss together, and you will find
no husbands and wives such chums, i
or so united, as those who work to
gether.
The business partnership of a hus
band and wife also eliminates strife
over money from the matrimonial
partnership. There. Is no fight over
every penny with a tightwad hus
band, nor any ruining of a generods
man by extravagance when the wife
shares equally with the man in the
profits of the firm, and knows exact
ly what they can afford to spend,
and just why they can’t buy a car
or do over the house this year.
They used to say that whenever
a man lived over his store he always
got rich. They say now that when
ever a wife works with her husband
they become rich. The idea of the
domestic business partnership is only
new to us in this country. They
have practiced it for centuries in
France, and it is what has made the
French bouregois the most generally
prosperous people in the world.
So here’s wishing all the firms of
Benedict & Co. luck. )
THAT’S A FACT
BY ALBERT P. SOUTHWICK
Congress ratified the Constitution,
framed by the convention of which
Washington was president, on July
14, 1788, and it went into operation
on March 4 following.
On this day, in 1789, was the de
struction of the Bastile, prison
house, in Paris, France. This July
14 is the Frenchman’s Fourth of
July.
In 1798, on July 14, congress
passed the famous act for the punish
ment of sedition against the United
States commonly called the “gag
law.” (
On July 14, In 1853, Commodore *
Matthew Hale Perry landed in Ja
pan and delivered to the imperial i
commissioners a letter from Presi
dent Fillmore. The Crystal Palace
in New York City opened the same
day.
The longest line of railroad in the
world Is the Union and Central Pa
cific, consolidated, 1,866 miles.
Texas has the largest number of J
counties of any state and Delaware *
the least (3). •
In 1636 land about the present
Harlem of New York City was pur
chased of the Indians.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW
1. In what state are the earliest
cherries of the season grown?
2. What general is the military
adviser of England on the supreme
council?
3. What is the meaning of the
name centipede?
4. What was the name of the Amer
ica’s cup defender in the last races,
which were held in 1903?
5. What is a canoe called which >
is made from a single log?
6. What is the nationality of the
poet Alfred Noyes?
7. From what country do most A
cloisonne vases come?
8. What is the most popular climb
ing rose?
9. What former mistress of the
White House is given credit for hav
ing made ice cream popular in this
country?
10. What sea is joined to the Med
iterranean by the Suez Canal?
11. What projection is generally
used in making a flat map of the
earth?
12. What Is the value of a notrump
trick in bridge whist?
Answers to Questions
. L California 2, Wilson; 3, 100 feet:
4, Reliance; 5, dugout; 6, English; I.
Japan; 8, crimson rambler; 9, Dolly
Madison; 10, Red Sea; 11, mercatoft
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES I
Mrs. Perkins and Mrs. Johnson ■
had met on the street and were dls-t* ■
cussing the frailties of their mutual H
friends when Mrs. Johnson’s little
daughter, who was interestedly re- I®
garding Mrs. Perkins’ new spring
chapeau, suddenly burst out: “Moth
er > I” "? ush - darling,” said the
mother. "Mother"— "Will you be
quiet!” “Mother, Mrs. Perkins’ hat ®
doesn t make me laugh.” ■
A clerk went to work for acer- ■
tain firm in Manchester, England
and as the offices were situated some H
distance from the center of the city H
the workers were provided with a
midday meal.
The new clerk was a huge man
and had an appetite of correspond- I
ing magnitude.
During his second week with the I
firm he said to his neighbor at the lii
table after the first course: “I won- |H|
der what we shall have for sweets
today.”
His fellow worker replied: "Oh ■!
rice pudding."
“Yes," replied the clerk, “but we’ve I
had rice pudding every day for over r
a week.”
“Well,” w£s the reply, “I have only L ?
been here fight years and we have | f ®
had rice .pudding every day, so I I
guess it’s rice pudding today."
THE JOURNAL’S 1 ■
LETTER BOX
Editor of the Tri-Weekly Journal: K®
For the benefit of our farmer I
brothers, will you please print this ’
letter. I notice that word is going I
the rounds that the cotton crop ig I
good. That will not do for this sec- IH
tion.
I have been through Warren, Green I
Taliaferro and part of Oglethorpe, K®
Jackson and Clark counties, and the IK
weevil and shedding are awful. There
can’t be more than half a crop made. Bi
The weed is small in most places IK|
and two weeks’ r ain in July made too Mai
much weed in many distiicts. ’
The way I see it, there can’t be I
much doing as many have quit pick
ing up squares. There are so many
the farmers are out of heart. '
Yours truly,
W. P. TABOR. ■
Barnett, Ga., R. F. D. No. 1. S
August 6, 1920.