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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mob. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday2oc 9Oc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published . on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is, mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. 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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. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS i ah. 'clare T' goodness- 1 JES* CASE AH DRAPPED A CRACKED DISH EM BROKE IT DIS PE OLE 'OMAN TURNT IN* EM BROKE A BRAN NEW! GRAVY-BOWL OVER MAM MAIDj 19ZO*yMcChae r