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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
Justice to Georgia Demands
the Ablest Senator Securable
IN a cogent discussion of the Senatorial
race the Pike County Journal declares,
after stressing the importance of
Georgia’s having able representation dur
ing the next six momentous years:
“There is a man whom many of us
have been bitter against that can
measure up to the requirements. He
has been tried and found to be one
of the ablest men in the Senate, and
the author of the most constructive
legislation since the war of secession.
While many of us have opposed his
policy In part, yet we must remember
that thousands upon thousands have
been in agreement with him • * ♦
This man commands as much respect in
the Senate as any there, and is at the
forefront of all important legislation
before.that body. We sincerely believe
that tor the good of the party we
should have an able man to represent
us. that all animosities and dislikes
should be laid aside, and Hoke Smith
returned to the Senate. We do know
that he Is one of the ablest men in
the Senate, and we can’t afford to
have any other kind during these peril
ous times.”
This strikes to the heart of the matter.
Georgia’s basic interests demand the most
efficient Senatorial service to be procured.
Issues of great practical moment are pend
ing .'and others equally important are in
prospect—issues touching the vitals of
business, agriculture,) industry and all oth
er realms of common concern. The prob
lems to be solved, the pitfalls to be guard
ed against, the opportunities to be grasp
edTand utilized call for the highest order 1
of -competency. It would be perilously fool
ish to entrust such duties to a reckless
hand or to one utyiracticed and without
distinctive strength.
No such Senator, it will be granted, could
have produced the useful and beneficent
legislation which Hoke Smith has pressed
to enactment, or have averted the dangers
which he has put to rout. No such Sena
tor.eould have protected the cotton grow
ers’’ right against all manner of hostile
influences. No such Senator could have won
a Federal Reserve bank for Georgia over
keen and powerful contestants. No such
Senator could have initiated and secured
the passage of the Agricultural Extension
Act and those other epoch-marking meas
ures in behalf of education and progress,
which Hoke Smith has to his credit. No
such Senator could meet the needs of the
years ahead with the experience and skill
and effectiveness of him who is now at
the helm.
Common sense and patriotism alike coun
sel the selection of the man best qualified
for- the office and best able to serve the
State and her people. By every reasonable
consideration, as the Pike County Journal
contends, Hoke Smith is that man. Where
fore in justice to Georgia petty factionism
should be put aside and loyal forces all
united the common good.
Will that increased Pullman rate, to go
into effect next month, apply to the tips to
porters?—Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch.
• .
Decatur s Remarkable Growth
THE remarkable increase in Decatur’s
population, amounting to more than
one hundred and forty-nine per cent,
CTrings hearty gratification to Atlantians as
k well as to her own enthusiastic citizenry. The
■ two communities have so many interests in
I common and long have been so cordial in
B their neighborliness that each feels a vital
share in the other’s good fortune. It is evi
dent, moreover, that a large number of the
nearly four thousand inhabitants added to
Decatur during the t ast decade went thither
from Atlanta; and certainly all comprehen
sive reckonings of Atlanta’s population must
take that of the DeKalb county capital, now
numbering six thousand one hundred and
fifty, into account.
Decatur’s growth to this goodly figure is
attributable to her rare advantages as a
home center. Healthful climate, clean skies,
spacious environs, efficient municipal service,
educational facilities of the highest order,
and a social atmosphere unexcelled commend
the town to the most discriminating judg
ment. It is characteristic of the community’s
spirit that at a recent referendum on a bond
issue for building a new high school and
extending the waterworks not one vote was
cast against the constructive measure. Such
an attitude toward civic and social interests
is the unfailing omen of continued progress.
The same census announcement that tells
of Decatur's increase credits a gain of one
hundred and ninety-four and seven-tenths
per cent to Manchester, forty-one and six
tenihs to Brunswick, twenty-one and eight
tenths to Thomasville, and substantial incre
ments to other Georgia towns. All these ad
vances reflect prosperity and enterprise of
which the State may justly be’proud.
Still, we can’t see where a man who’ pays
thirty-five dollars a quart has any reason
to kick at thirty cents a gallon for gaso
line. Can you?—‘Houston Post. Sure—gaso
line Is such a poor drink.—Nashville Ten
nestsean.
LOST—A small coin purse containing $5
gold piece and an evening gown. Call 149.
—Peabody (Kans.) Gazette.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Putting Human Afrfaeal Into
Rural Life and Labor
ANEW and fertile idea on the rural
labor problem has appeared.
In the summer of 1918, when war
emergencies had sorely depleted the ranks
of plow boys and harvesters, experiments
in mustering city hands to the farmer’s
help proved to be for the most part de
cided failures. In portions of the West, it
is true, substantial aid was given by town
folk; but the majority of these probably
had done former service in the wheat fields;
if indeed they were not to the manner
born. All too often the city volunteers who
were expected to save the crops and usher
in another Arcady turned out to be either
so short of breath and stamina or so ab
surdly inefifeient that the farmer heaved
sighs of relief when they left—as ninety
per cent did, before their first fortnight
was out. Why so great a failure? One stu
dent of the matter answers: “The spirit
of adventure was soon lost under the hot
sun, when the novelty wore off; the dif
ference between city and country life was
too sharp and sudden; the extra field help
crowded the house and made work harder
for the farmer’s wife.”
It is by averting these conditions as far
as possible that the new idea bids for
success. And highly successful it seems to
be in New York State, where its origina
tors have established twenty-two of thejr
so-called “farm help camps,” and have
saved, one and a half million dollars' worth
of vegetables and fruits. Under this inter
esting system those enlisted for the sum
mer’s emergency season are not quartered
on the farm but in village camps some
distance away, and are taken to and from
the fields in automobiles. Good food, well
prepared, with standardized menus, good
sleeping accommodations, social evenings.
Sunday gatherings and entertainments to
relieve monotony” are salient features of
the plan.
Among all the hundreds of workers thus
recruited in the summer of 1919 there was
not one quitter. Moreover, ninety-seven per
cent of them, notwithstanding lack of ex
perience, proved satisfactory helpers; they
labored in good earnest, and they were
teachable. Most remarkable was the fact
that at the close of the season, every work
er expressed a wish to re-enlist for the
ensuing year, and about one-fifth of them
planned to take winter courses in agricul
tural schools. Writing in the Nautilus mag
azine, Mr. Brown Landone says of this
unique enterprise: “Changing a ninety per
cent failure to a ninety-seven per cent suc
cess was the result of idealizing a plan of
action;” and as evidence of the profitable
ness of the procedure he points out that
“for every dollar spent in camp equip
ment, one hundred and thirty-seven dol
lars’ worth of food was saved, and that
for every one thousand spent, one hundred
and thirty-seven thousand was saved.” The
distinctive element of the plan lies in mak
ing farm work and farm life worthwhile,
not merely in monetary compensation, but
also in point of human appeal. Good food,
clean and comfortable housing, a dash of
recreation —these are the touches that tell.
Is it not thus, moreover, that thousands
can be won back to the soil, not for a
season only but as regular producers, help
ing to solve the grave problef of inadequate
food supply? To the extent that rural
living is served by good roads, good
schools, circulating libraries, domestic con
veniences and is made socially agreeable, it
will hold its own ranks intact atnd draw
more largely upon urban populations. True
it is that we can never make life better
merely by making it easier, nor solve its
acrid problems by coating them with sugar.
But we can work at least to relieve the
gray tedium that takes the heart out ,of
youth and to widen the opportunities which
every growing spirit demands.
The Valley Association
THE ideas and aims of the Mississippi
Valley Association are characteristic
of that spirit of liberal co-working
which thoughtful citizens and alert com
munities see more and more clearly to be
the motive source of prosperity and progress.
The Association, as described by itself, is
“a volunteer general organization, formed
of. zones and sub zones, of the people of
the twenty-seven States lying within the
Great Basin, between the East and West
mountain ranges, Canada and the Gulf for
the purpose of massing the strength ’ and
influence of all sections behind each sec
tion in the solution of those problems
which now stand in the way of the attain
ment of economic freedom by each sec
tion and by the region as a whole.”
As means to this end the Association is
working for the development of waterways
and terminals, for equitable transporta
tion rates, and for governmental policies
that will tend both to conserve and utilize
the region’s natural resources, particularly
those of stream, forest and soil. It is also
heartily concerned with improving rural
conditions by better roads and more ade
quate markets. Every province of produc
tion, agricultural and industrial alike, en
lists the Association’s keen interest; indeed
its efforts in behalf of transportation and
commerce are put forth primarily to secure
freer outlets and deeper incentives to
production.
Such an organization is worth much to
the South and the Middle West, and in
ultimate results to the entire country It
affords a broad base and leverage for that
co-operation without which no region, no
community, no business can prosper and
grow. Every merchant and manufacturer is
materially concerned in the development of
transportation and terminal facilities. by
water, rail and highway. But how can the
great energies required therefor be mobil
ized and brought effectively to bear un
less there is ’ co-operation of the most lib
eral and far-reaching character. Every farm
er and every producer in whatsoever field
is materially concerned in the development
of markets and related branches of serv
ice. But how can such enterprises involv
ing as they do vast stretches of territory
and all manner of different undertakings
be pressed forward without widespread’
thoroughly organized co-operation 9 lt is
upon this sound principle that every com
munity should support a chamber of com
merce or board of trade, and every State
some similar institution of wider scope It
is upon this principle, too, that the Mis
sissippi Valley Association purposes to serve
the common needs and interests of a great
group of States. 8
Editorial Echoes.
A\ho can remember the old-fashioned
grocer who sent candy for the children
when father paid his monthly bill?—Canton
Daily News.
As the number of motor cars in the edi
torial profession increases, the less you
read about jay drivers and the more about
jay walkers.—Kansas City Star.
There is always something to worry
about. Frinstance, Harding being elected
President might turn out to be unsatisfac
tory to Col. Harvey, after all.—Greensboro
Daily News.
THE SOCIALLY UNSTABLE
By H. Addington Bruce
n /|ARY D is a girl in her late adolee-
|\/| cence. She has ambitions to win a
*• ’■“ place in the theatrical world, shining
as an emotional “star.”
But she has no conception of the hard
work this will demand of her and the pa
tience with which she must struggle to at
tain her heart’s desire. She seems to think
that life should grant her whatever she
wishes without much effort on her part.
Her school record has been sadly disap
pointing to her parents. It is not so much
that she lacks ability as that she chafes un
der discipline and insists on doing what she
wants to do, regardless of consequences.
Having an undue craving for excitement,
this has led her into serious indiscretions.
It has even brought her into trouble through
grave moral delinquencies.
Efforts to reconstruct her character
through summer camp influences have failed.
She has, for that matter, been expelled from
two camps because of “her vicious attitude
toward rules and conventions.”
So a doctor has been asked to examine
Mary and advise her parents as to what they
ought to do with her. He finds her neither
feeble-minded nor insane, but of a person
ality misdeveloped through faulty home
training.
It is perhaps not too late to “stabilize”
her. But the girl obviously presenting a
problem too difficult for her parents, where
shall she be sent to receive the needed train
ing? That is a question the doctor is puz
zled to answer. It is a question other doc
tors are puzzled to answer when confronted
with similar problems.
Wherefore there is point to a suggestion
recently made by a New York physician, Dr.
L. Pierce Clark, writing in the Medical Rec
ord:
“In the ordinary sense these socially un
stable persons are not ill, as are praecox and
manic depressants; they require an entirely
different system of care. Their needs are
more nearly allied to those of the feeble
minded, but here, again, the intellectual and
moral habit training is quite different. Their
greatest need is character building.
“Practically no such institutions exist that
provide the proper community environment
and ethical training, combined with the
amount of restriction suited to the Individual
need. It is one of the greatest demands of
our times.
“While trained psychiatrists should be at
the head of such an Institution, it must em
brace teachers and trainers in all lines of
human activities and interests. Its morals
should be high and worthy of the fullest ac
ceptance and co-operation of the public and
the interested relatives.
“Until such an institution is established the
great problem of the care, training and pro
tection of the socially unstable will not be
adequately met.”
And, Dr. Clark might have added, society
will continue to be burdened by unemploy
able men and women, to be harassed by de
linquents, and to be afflicted by deficients'
who might more or less readily be converted
into useful citizens adding to the wealth and
prospertiy of the nation.
I commend his suggestion to all philan-»
thropists of large means, and to all legisla
tors -who really have at heart tbeir country’s
velfare. 'V
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
WARMING THE WATER TO
DROWN THE KITTEN
By Dr. Frank Crane
There is a kind of person that is harsh
and cruel in the important things, and kind
and gentle in the little things that do not
matter.
Shakespeare speaks of “the mildest man
nered man that ever scuttled ship or cut a
throat.”
Many a tyrant has been good to his folks,
any many a political boss who robs the com
munity right and left is careful to return
your lead pencil.
Doubtless the Prussian officers who
burned Belgian homes, shot down women
and mutilated little children, always punc
tiliously arose when a lady entered the room,
and never failed to bring a sack of sugar
plums for the baby when they visited their
cousin’s family.
There are fathers who buy daughter dll
the new hats' she wants, but mercilessly re
fuse to let her follow the dictates of her own
heart and nature in the big things that make
her happiness.
And husbands who cover an unyielding
selfishness with profuse affection; and
wives who are kind as you please and win
some, but lazy, trifling and wasteful, and
will never be anything else.
There are Church people whose creed,
when they dare state it, is little less than
monstrous, who believes in a God incredibly
vindictive, a salvation as unbelievably pro
vincial and captious, and a punishment that
implies a Deity far more bloodthirsty than
any one has ever conceived the Devil, and
yet who are gentle and gracious enough
when you meet them at a picnic.
Also there are employers who, as a mat
ter of principle, allow their shopgirls wages
so small that they are driven through hun
ger to shame and tragedy, yet always give
pennies to the beggar on the street corner
and never tip the waiter less than a dollar.
If we could only get our gentleness, kind
ness, consideration and good manners into
our fundamental creeds, our basic principles
and our deepest beliefs!
Some one. said of Mark Twain’s mother,
who was fiercely unyielding in the harsh
conclusions of her orthodoxy, but very gen
tle and human in her actual human relations,
that “if she had to drown a kitten she would
warm the water.”
(Copyright, .1920, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDITIES
From giants the conversation had turned,
naturally, to dwarfs, and the various accom
plishments of the various Tom Thumbs had
been related at length. Then the club liar
hustled in.
“All those dwarfs you’ve mentioned are
right enough,” he declared, arily; “but none
of them can compare with a stunted speci
men I once came across in the wilds of Cen
tral Africa.”
The audience began visibly to dwindle.
“Now, he was short, if you like,” con
tinued the club liar, speaking rapidly. “I
know you are a set of unbelievers, so I will
not venture to give you his height in actual
inches; but I will tell you this, friends—
that that man was so short that every time
his corns hurt him-r-”
“Well?” queried the only member of the
audience who remained.
“Every time his corns hurt him,” repeated
the narrator, “he fancied he had a splitting
headache!”
A small boy who had scratched his name
on the paint of a standing motor car had
been cuffed by the motorist for his pains.
His wailings had attracted a crowd, through
which his father elbowed his ■way, exclaim
ing in furious tones:
“Who struck my boy? Show him to me—
show me the man that struck my boy.”
The motorist stood up. He was six feet
two in his socks and forty-nine inches around
the chest. “I did,” he said.
“Serves him right,” saief the man, touch
ing his cap, ".and I’ll give the kid another
beating when I get him ho£S?.„”
THE RISE IN FUR
NITURE
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 7.—-The
American home without its
conglomeration of furniture Is
a difficult picture to imagine,
but the furniture situation indicates
that we may yet see a reversion to
the Japanese style which considers a
few mats and a tea table adequate
equipment for housekeeping.
Just now, the retailers say that
they cannot supply fast enough the
demand for twin beds and fl.oor
lamps at prices several times
rates. But, as we cut deeper into
our timber reserved the prices will
rise still further, until we reach a
point where even the most rashly ex
travagant buyer will balk. Then
there will doubtless come a fad for
simple housekeeping, which we can
only hope will take a more rational
form than the overall episode in the
clothes reform.
Furniture dealers are getting stock
ordered a yeai' or more ago, and the
manufacturers have begun to recov
er from their difficulties with
labor and embargoes. The consumer
derives no financial gain from this
•lessening of the tension. He profits
only to the extent that he can now
spend his money if he likes. During
the war, so far as furniture was con
cerned, that privilege was limited by
the shortage of stock, but now he Is
led around to look at “period” furni
ture, pieces which he is told repre
sent the Chinese influence, and other
exhibits pleasing to the eye and tag
ged with startling prices. Furniture
is skyrocketing with a speed that
would surprise even persons cal
loused to price shocks.
A manufacturer entertained a con
vention recently »by explaining that
a dressing table of cheap oak be
fore the war sold for around $3.98.
He said that last year the same
dresser brought $12.50, and now it
would be tagged at least $25. The
$3.98 dresser is gone, and there is
nothing cheaper to take its place. In
fact, even the $25 article is not plen
tiful. A number of manufacturers
of the so-called cheap furniture—the
straight oak bedroom and library
sets—have stopped making this
grade because at its new price level
it is not popular.
The man who sees a cheap grade
bureau marked $25 argues thus:
“That’s a good deal to put into an
ordinary and not too well-made piece
of goods. Guess I’d better pay $lO
more and get something that will
look high class and last longer.” At
least, that is how furniture dealers
say customers reason. The dealers
hold that it is impossible to sell very
cheap furniture, that they have tried
selling it at cost, and the public,
with its rising standards, refuses to
give it a glance.
The demand now, they say, is for
mahogany, with walnut as second
’’choice. Mahogany requires careful
usage and regular rubbing and pol
ishing, but its wearing qualities,
coupled with its aristocratic appear
ance cause It to be regarded as a
good investment. Banks use it lav
ishly, for woodwork and furnishings
in the offices of executives, and a
good deal df the furniture for or
ganizations less pretentious than
banks is also made of mahogany.
To be sure, when you look with
awe at a massive dark red desk you
are probably not feasting your eyes
entirely or. imported wood, but on a
combination of mahogany and gum.
Until a few years ago the red gum
was regarded as a weed tree, unfit
to be used for furniture material be
cause it warped and twisted. Then
a firm found away of overcoming
this'difficulty, and now every manu
facturer of mahogany pieces knows
some secret process of treating gum.
Gum is used for legs and other
parts of a piece where the grain or
the mahogany would not show any
way. Gum takes the same polish
as the mahogany top, and no one
but a connoisseur would detect the
difference. Manufacturers claim that
to make a piece of furniture of solid
mahogany is as great a waste of
valuable wood as it was for the
Cubans to lay solid mahogany rail
road ties, which they did until the
extravagance of it was explained to
them.
Mahogany Is shipped to us In large
quantities from the tropics where
it is apparently plentiful. Our do
mestic hardwoods, on the other hand
—hickory, maple, walnut, ash and
others —are being turned into tables
and sideboards so fast that they are
rapidly reaching extinction. The for
est service varns the country that
for every four feet of timber cut,
only one foot Is being replaced by
new growth.
Black walnut, for instance, has be
come so scarce that the government
had to advertise for it, and hunt out
single trees, when it was needed for
gun stocks and airplane material.
Even then it could not be obtained
in anything like sufficient amounts.
As black walnut is one of the best
woods for furniture, there is a sub
stantial fortune for the patient in
vestor who will plant a grove of
these trees and wait forty years for
them to grow large enough to be cut
profitably.
Planting more timber is the only
way to offset the huge inroads'made
yearly into the supply. Our virgin
forests of hardwood have shrunk
back from the coasts and lumber
centers to inaccessible regions where
the mills cannot follow. Transporta
tion of lumber is rapidly becoming
a large item in furniture prices.
Besides transportation, labor is an
other big factor in turning the $3.98
bureau into a $25 article. Employes
at these factories claim that in the
past they have been paid lower than
workmen in other industries. Since
the war, however, their wages have
increased about 50 per cent more
than have the wages in any other
industry, so that any discrepancy
that existed has been practically re
moved.
Wages of men in the lumber mills
have advanced to a point where many
find it convenient to work a few
days and then knock off long enough
to spend their r.j&ney in the nearest
city. The demarid for their services
is so great that they know there is
no danger of being out of work when
they want it.
An item which affects only cer
tain pieces of furrtiture is the glass
for udtrors. A piece of glass which
used to cost about $4 now brings sll,
and the price is still rising. It. seems
that there have been six big manu
facturers who supplied the furniture
trade with mirrors. Recently they
have been able to handle’ only 80 per
cent of the demand, and now three
of the six companies have decided to
make glass for automobiles instead
of house furnishings. There will be
no room for doubt as to the bad luck
of breaking a mirror if you have to
buy a new one.
Any reader who expects to buy a
piece of furniture in the next few
years will be glad to know that there
is at least one thing that has a
tendency to keeping down the price
of house furnishings. This is stand
ardization. You remember how'the
government got the shoe manufac
turers to cut down the number of
styles they produced. Well, the fur
niture makers decided on a similar
plan.
In the old times manufacturers had
to bid for contracts, and the retail
ers had to bid for public favor, by
continually offering novelties in fur
niture. The extreme styles which
were the result of this system re
quired extra planning and extra la
bor, and then the stock could rarely
be sold out before the style changed.
But when the lumber shortage be
gan to be really felt, and labor be
came scarce, not enough furniture
could be produced to meet the de
mand. This turn in affairs proved
a charter of independence for the
furniture business, since it was no
longer necessary to cater to caprice
in order to drum up trade. Instead
of turning out a dozen styles of beds
or desks, all more or less freaky, the
manufacturers agreed to simplify pat
terns and to cease striving for va
riety.
This has meant a lull in the vogue
in Chippendale chairs with their com
plicated legs, and in the other elab
orate kinds of period furniture. In
their stead makers favor such pat
terns as the Queen Anne style, which
is simple and still has the desirable
period effect. There are so many
different factories that even with
patterns cut down to one-fourth as
many as before the war, there is
still a great variety of stock on view
in any large furnishing store. i
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1920.
| CURRENT EVENTS I
New York has 400,000 people who
need a place to live, according to re
cent statistics, meaning that the
city is short just 102,170 apartments.
One year from next December the
number of home seekers will be in
creased to 520,000 or more unless
building operations are pushed on a
wholesale scale, the experts figure.
The same authorities claim that 40,-
000 out of 100,090 families will be
evicted from their premises by court
action unless remedial legislation is
passed by the state assembly.
Gotham is apparently badly fluster
ed about its predictment.
Japan, with a population increas
ing at the rate of 600,000 a year, is
worrying its food supply even more
than other countries.
Japan has ample living space for
its people but cannot produce enough
for them, particularly rice. The
government Is said to be losing $20,-!
000,000 a year importing rice from
Indo-China in spite of utlizing every
square foot of ground on the island
of Formosa and in Corea. In For
mosa, 2,900,000 Chinese laborers are!
used in cultivating the grain crop.|
There is still a dangerous short
age of coal in the country, according
to the report es the United States
Geological Survey for July, which
shows that the output of soft coal
for the month fell 1,523,000 tons
short of the tonnage mined in July,
last year. The certainty of a short
age Is strengthened, the report in
dicates, by the fact that shipments
so far this year total only a little
more than 6,814 tons as against 13,-
188,000 tons for last year.
The decrease last month is attrib
uted to the miner’s strike in the Illi
nois district.
Two of Germany’s most formidable
battleships, the Helgoland and the
Westfalen, which were allocated to
Great Britain under the peace treaty,
surrendered at Rosyth, England, last
week, after steaming from their
hiding place, Kiel, ■ during the war.
The Regensberg, another Hun dread
naught, surrendered to France at
the port of Brest at about the same
time.
A woman, Mrs. Harriet May Mills,
of Onondaga, has been nominated
for secretary of state of New York
on the Democratic ticket selected at
the party’s recent convention at
Saratoga Springs.
The new German government is at
this very moment trying to lay the
foundation of the intertional spy sys
tem, which proved so invaluable dur
ing the war.
Not daring, at the present to in
vade the allied countries themselves,
the German government is sending
the first spies to neutral countries,
where they are not so carefully
watched.
Proof was found by the capture of
a confessed agent. .
Porto Rico has a rat population of
2,500,000 —two to each inhabitant—
and it costs the island $15,000,000 an
nually to support them.
This is the estimate of Major G.
M. Corput, of the United States pub
lic health service, chief quarantine
officer for Porto Rico.
Each rat, according to Major Cor
put, consumes provisions or dam
ages crops and property to the ex
tent of $6 monthly.
Unless the membership of the
house of representatives is increased
from 435 to at least 500 to meet the
Increased population shown by the
1920 census, ten states will lose one
or more representatives, according to
Representative Siegel, of New York,
chairman of the census committee,
which will frame the new apportion
ment bill. Those states are:
Indiana, lowa and Missouri, which
will lose two congressmen each, and
Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland,
Nebraska, Vermont and Virginia,
which will lose one congressman
each.
Mr. Siegel explains that if the
house membership is retained at its
present figure, it will be necessary
to increase the population basis in
each congressional district beyond
the 211,000 or major portion thereof
now fixed. If this is done, he says,
the ten states named will lose one
or more of the present districts be
cause their populations have not in
creased in proportion ‘to those of
other states.
Watches and jewelry are to be
transported to Paris by a newly es
tablished aerial service, and from
Paris to London by the present com
mercial air line, to avoid the trouble
some delays of the present rail serv
ice.
The fiftieth anniversary of the
establishment of the Third republic
will be celebrated on September 4
next, and will be observed as a na
tional holiday. The program of the
celebrations has not yet been drawn
up, but officials have expressed the
wish that they be organized on an
elaborate scale and surpass the fetes
of July 14.
flamingo, characterized as the
Bird of Beauty and Mystery," will
be saved from extinction by an or
der in council issued by the govern
ment of the Bahama Islands, the Na
tional Geographic society announced
today.
Complete protection is given the
birds which nest in the marshes of
the islands.
It was estimated that since 1901
the cumber of the birds on the
islands had been reduced from 20,000
to about 7,000 by sponge fishermen,
who killed them for food.
A bundle of manuscripts and let
ters belonging to the Duke of Marl
borough, relating to expeditions pro
jected against Canada and Nova Sco
tia in 1707, were sold at auction here
today for 950 pounds sterling. At
the same sale a second folio Shake
speare realized 150 pounds.
A single wolf has been known to
kill in six months 15 head of cattle
valued at $5,000. In the spring of
1919 a mountain Hon was killed in
Wyoming, which in one month de
stroyed SI,OOO worth of live stock. In
less than three months six coyottes
slew 300 sheep in Texas, valued at
$3,200.
They live high, these marauders
of the western range. A yearly es
: timate of the loss in New Mexico
showed that 3 per cent of the cattle
or 34,000 head, and 165,000 sheep
had gone to feed predatory animals.
This means some $20,000,000 worth
of live -stock. Remember also that
before poisoning campaigns were
planned, rodents, such as prairie
dogs, squirrels and rabbits ate $150,-
000 worth of food crops and the de
predations of* house rats even, ex
ceeded a total of more than $200,-
€OO,OOO. You can see what a hole
even the small animals gnaw in the
national food supply.
With 38,954 flights and a total of
70,000 passengers carried during the
first year of civil flying in England
there was tut one fatal accident.
Announcement of this, made at the
international air show, caused much
comment and led Controller Gene:**
of Civil Avit.ticn Major General Sir
R. K. Skyes to say. .
“We have conquered the air.
Henry Stewart, seventy-three
years old, passed through St. Johns,
New Brunswick, recently, on nis
way home to San Diego, Cal., after
a walking tour that began in Feb
ruary. He says he has walked more
than 74,000 miles over America, Eu
rope, Asia and Africa since starting
out as a long-distance pedestrian ten
years ago.
The town of Jordan, in Garfield
county, Montana, often, referred to
as “the most exclusive county seat
in America” because of its supreme
isolation, is now in touch with the
world by means of a wireless teleg- [
raphy station. A pioneer citizen re- (
cently passed the government radio
examination and has set up a station.
Jordan is an old “cow town” and
the prairies that surround it for a
hundred miles or more in all direc
tions are bare of railroad tracks or
wires.
German East Africa, one of the
possessions the Kaiser lost when
he tried to acquire more, has been
provisionally re-named the Tangan
yika Territory by the British colo
nial office.
The regular army is approximately
95,000 short of the maximum
strength of 297,000 permitted under
the army reorganization bill, which
became effective July 1. On July 29
the strength of the forces was 187,-
197 enlisted men and 15,364 officers,
as against the authorized strength
of 280,000 enlisted men, including the
Philippine scouts and 17,698 officers.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
"THOU SHALT NOT KILL”
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wneeler Syndicate,- Inc.)
ARE you a murderer?
You’ll say you are not.
What, you who are. a re
spectable citizen and an up
holder of law and order, commit the
foul deed for which low-browe<J
felons are hanged!
What, you with your high ethical
sense, taoke a fellow creaturet’s life!
What, you who sicken at the very
sight of the red stain on a bandage,
dip your hands in human blood!
The idea is so preposterous it is
amusing.
Nevertheless, are ..-m a murderer?
You may never have shot a man,
■or stabbed a woman, or. choked a
child to death, and yet you may daily
kill the thing that alone makes life
worth having to those about you. To
slay the body is not the worst crime
you can commit against an individ
ual. It does not take long to die.
■ The agony is over in a few minutes,
but the spirit dies hard, and when
you kill that you have to do it by
slow torture.
Therefore, I hold that the mur
derers who slay their victims quick
ly with shot or knife .are a million
times less cruel and deserving of
punishment than those other mur
derers who break the hearts, and
crush the souls of those whose hap
piness lies in their hands, and whom
they doom to suffering through
•long years.
“Thou shalt not kill,” is the first
of the commandments God gave to
man for his guidance, but it does not
mean merely that we shall not take
human life. It means that we shall
not kill love, or faith, or hope, or
ambition, for when we do wd slay
something far more precious than
life itself.
So I arraign you Mr. Good Man
at the bar of conscience and ask you
again, ARE you a murderer?
Have you killed the joy of living
in your home?
When you married your wife was
a gay, high-spirited girl, bubbling
over with' laughter. She sang all
day long, just because she was so
filled with gladness, and because
she found the world so bright, and
beautiful, and happy. Have you
made of her a quiet, sad-faced wom
an whose eyes know tears eftener
than her lips do smiles? Have you
killed her joy in living?
When your key rattles in the latch
of an evening when you return
from work, does sudden strained
silence fall upon the house? Do the
children hush their prattle and stop
their play? Does everyone in the
household cringe when you speak, as
a whipped dog does when it expects
a blow, because experience has
taught' them that you always blame
and never praise? Have you killed
the joy of living for your children
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
They Should Receive Pay
If some newspapers were to re
ceive reasonable pay for the thrift
propaganda they have been publish
ing without charge they could buy
thrift stamps and practice thrift.—
Cuthbert Leader.
How Oranges Grow
During the, season just closed
three trees near Miami, Fla., yield
ed 5,237 oranges. That is a large
number of oranges, but when you
figure them at wholesale at less
than a nickel each it is not much
money. Still, 5,237 --oranges from
three trees, or 1,746 oranges per tree
isn’t very bad in our opinion.—Gwin-
nett Journal.
The Marietta Journal
Judge Newt A. Morris, for a num
ber of years owner of a majority of
the stock ,of the Marietta Journal
Publishing company, has disposed of
same to twenty-five business and
professional men of Cobb county.
David Comfort, editor and manager
of The Journal, is one of the best
known newspaper men in the state,
and under his continued management
the new organization will doubtless
prosper as never before. The Jour
nal is generally considered one of
Georgia’s brightest and newsiest
newspapers.
Atlanta's Advantage
Atlanta has a curb market in op
eration, and cabbage and water
melons and other such substantial
things which the New York "curb
market” knows nothing about.—Ma
rietta Journal.
Bob Martin Loses Out
Bob Martin is no longer the cham
pion. He’s married. Columbus
Ledger.
A Good Negro Gons
The negro race lost one of its
greatest men whemJJishop L. H. Hol
sey died in Atlanta. He was wise
in counsel and safe in leadership of
a people who needed wise guides,
sane teachers and real exemplars.
Bishop Holsey could preach a good
sermon and raise as fine celery as
any man of his race in the south—
and those two accomplishments in
dicate the kind of man he was.—Sa
vannah Morning News.
Beating th* H. C. X>.
Maybe if we let the several heat
ed campaigns now on have full sway
we cs,n get up enough warmth to
carry' us through the winter with
out having to buy any of that fif
teen-dollar-ton coal. Or maybe we
will not suffer so much from being
forced to do without it.—Oglethorpe
Echo.
Fay Up and Forget It
Very few men are as easy on re
membering what they owe as they
are in what is owed them.—Thomas
ville Times-Enterprise.
Distance Bends Belief
Telegrams state that a talking
machine was plainly heard from an
airplane many miles at sea. Every
avenue of escape seems to be clos
ed.—Atlanta Journal.
Well, there is some consolation in
being many miles from them when
they are squawking, isn’t there?—
Dalton Citizen.,
• Oratory Then and Now
They are saying that oratory is
not effective as it once was. We are
not getting the "once was” oratory
these days.—Conyers Times.
How Is That For High?
It all depends on who gets the
“hi” in Ohio.—Americus Times Re
corder.
Blowouts of Villa
Villa has been “bottled up” be
for, but in this instance, it seems
that he blew out the cork.—Dublin
Courier-Dispatch.
South Georgia Tobacco Market
Tifton, Lyons, Douglas, Cairo,
Valdosta! The tobacco market is
opening with booming prospects in
all those south Georgia towns and a
dozen others. Next year the tobacco
market will be in many a south
Georgia town as important as the
cotton market. Item by item the
"Infinite variety” of the money crops
of the south Georgia farmers is be
ing added to till there will be di
rectly a crop for every month in
the year that will spell millions to
the makers of the crop.—Savannah
News.
The Census Line-up
DeKalb county pushed Floyd coun
ty out of the fifth place in the state,
and Muscogee, passing Floyd, re
tains the sixth place that is already
held. Laurens county ran Floyd a
tight race for seventh place.—Co
lumbus 'Enquirer-Sun.
Fanners Without a Fann
The only trbuble with the back
to the farm movement is that the
man who wants to get out of the
city hasn't the farm.—Gwinnett
Journal.
We Don’t Know
First Jack Johnson surrenders;
then Villa gives himself up. What’s
the matter with Mexico, anyway?—
Rome News.
Because Look* Are Deceiving
In a time when a man can see all
he’s getting before he gets her, where
do all the cases for divorce come 1
from?—Macon News.
“Little daubs of powder,
Little drops of paint,
Make almost any girl
Look like what she ain’t.”
so that their one idea of happiness
is to get away from home?
What say you, Mr. Good Man? Do
you plead guilty or not guilty?
Are you a murderer Mrs. Good
Woman?
Have you killed*your husband’s
love?
He was mad aboUt you when ho
led you to the altar. When he look
ed at you his face wore the look of
one who worships at the shrine of
his saint. Is that look still, in his
eyes, or has he grown hard, and
cynical, and dillusioned, one of the
mftn who sneer at love, and say
that marriage is the great endur
ance contest?
Have you been small, and mean,
and nagging, too poor a thing for
any man to worship? Have you kill
ed love with selfishness and greedi
ness, or starved it to death througn
neglect?
If your husband’s love is dead you
have murdered it. Your hands are
red with more than his life blood,
and all the perfume of Araby shall
not sweeten them.
Are you murderers, fathers and
mothers? Have you slain the am
bition in your children and killed
their faith in themselves?
The -bookish boy who wanted to
be a lawyer and whom you forced
into the grocery business because
you had planned for him to carry on
the firm. When you look at him
struggling hopelessly with unsuc
fully along in an occupation for
which he has no aptitude and for
which nature never designed him. do
you ever see the ghost of the chief
justice you murdered in him?
An dthat strange, beautiful, bril
liant girl of yours, with her won
derful gift of mimicry, who was
crazy to go on the stage, and whom
you kept at home because you believ
ed a woman’s place was at the cook
stove and washtub. She’s old. and
worn, and bitter now. Have you no
compunctions of conscience when
you think of her talent that you
strangled? Do you not know that
you murdered her far more cruelly
than if you had choked her to death
in her cradle?
And stand forth and answer to th*
charge of murder in the first de
gree, willingly, knowingly, with
malice aforethought, all ye who ar*
blankets and killjoys, who lie in
wait to stab hope to death with
raven croakings, who slay our self
confidence until our ability to
achieve things perishes of inanition,
who stab us to the heart with cruel
speeches, who poison us with sus
picions of those we trust and who
kill all that makes life sweet and
■beautiful.
You are murderers all. Repent ’
your crime. And reform.
Mrs. Solomon Says:
By HELEN ROWLAND
Being The Confessions of the
Seven-Hundredth Wife
(Copyiight, 1920, by The Wheeler SyhM-
VERILY, verily, my daughter,
an interesting man is the no
blest work of woman—yea of
many women!
For, what man knoweth any of
the graces of life or acquireth th*
subtleties of love-making until som®
woman hath instructed him therein?
And what man’s sentimental edu
cation is “finished” until he hath
loved and been loved < by several
women?
Yet, alas, what profit hath a
woman of all her labors? For, 10.
every woman spendeth her djys In
the training of husbands for other
women! And there is rift gratitud*
in men!
Behold, the moment one damsel
hath taught a callow youth how to
part his hair, and to speak when
he is spoken to, he straightway has
teneth off to impress another dam
sel with his knowledge and hi*
"aplomb.”
One damsel teacheth a man th*
gentle art of flirtation—and the mo
ment he hath acquired the rudi
ments thereof, he is upon his way,
seeking to practice them upon an
other damsel.
One damsel leadeth him to the en»
chanting spot upon the beach, or th*
romantic corner of the garden— and.
upon the next evening he tenderly
leadeth another damsel thereto.
One damsel polisheth his finger
nails—and straightway he departeth
to hold afiother damsel’s hands,
hands.'
One woman polisheth his manner*
and instructeth him in the art of
ordering a dinner—and another wom
an receiveth the Invitations to hi*
dinner parties.
One woman teacheth him that h*
possesseth a heart—and before sh*
hath half-finished, he is off offering
his heart to another woman.
One woman spendeth ten years in
making a man of him—and another
woman taketh ten minutes to mak*
a fool of him.
One wife saveth his pennies— and
the next wife spendeth his dollars.
Verily, verily, all the days of her
life, every woman runneth . a “char
ity bureau” for the benefit of other
women!
For, alas, whatsoever woman lead
eth a man in the way he should go,
it is always the “next woman” wno
profiteth by her good works.
And no woman reapeth the re
ward of her own labors, but every
woman garnereth the fruit of som*
other woman’s labors.
For this is her Consolation: that
each woman, in her time, is "next."
And, have I not many times said
unto thee, that a man’s heart is life*
unto a public telephone upon Satur
day afternoon, or a barber shop upon
Sunday morning, wherein the cry i*
always “next?”
Yet, I charge thee, let no woman
hope to receive thanks, from those
men, whom she hath rescued from
darkness and callowness!
For, verily, verily, every man fan*
cyeth himself a perfect work of na
ture, and he believeth that the Lord
made im as he is!
Selah.
Dame Fortune Is Fickle
When good luck strikes a man
it’s always a wonder why it hap
pened to hit him when there ar*
so many better men sitting around
waiting for it.—Coumbus Enquirer-
Sun.
Good luck seldom strikes the fel
low whS “waits,” but it will meet
the man who goes after it on mid
dle ground.
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