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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta. Ga.
A Sane, Non-Factional View
On the Senatorial Race
WHEN a Democrat and a Georgian of
Editor Henry Mclntosh's calibre
speaks out on a matter of moment
to the State we shall all do well to Be
tel. A keen observer, a careful thinker, a
veteran in service to the Commonwealth, he
has earned the respect and. inalienable good
will of all camps and schools of Georgia
politics. He has made his paper, the Albany
Herald, a power in public opinion as well
as In civic enterprise, a leader of thought
as well as a,builder of prosperity. This he
has done, not by furious drives against
those with whom he found himself at is
sue, nor by extravagant claims for those
with whom he was allied; but by clear
sighted, fair-minded, earnest discussion. He
has the rare virtue of tolerance for ideas
opposed to his own, and of holding fast
to convictions without bigotry or bitter
ness. He has the excellent habit of meas
uring men by-their worth to the people’s com
mon interests rather than by personal or
factional bias. So it .is that in the heat of
political contests his judgment has been
peculiarly influential, not alone with his
immediate readers but with all sections of
the State press that value disinterested
and patriotic thinking.
Mr. Mclntosh now speaks out on the
Georgia Senatorial race, with his usual de
liberateness and insight. “The Herald,” he
writes in a recent issue of his paper, “has
not always been a supporter of Senator
Smith, and has more than once differed
with him; but this paper has never per
mitted these differences, nor differences it
has had with other public men, to embit
ter it or lead it into factionalism.” Re
calling that in the Presidential preference
primary last spring, the Albany Herald
“strenuously opposed” the senior Senator,
Editor Mclntosh remarks: “We indulged in
no personal vituperation. We therefore have
no occasion now for making retractions,
nor is it necessary that we should offer
an apology for supporting him in his can
didacy for another term in the United
States Senate.” Then comes this cogent
statement of the case as reduced to its ele
ments of serious public concern: '
“Viewing the situation and the issues
present and prospective, from a sane and
patriotic standpoint, without any other
object or purpose than to serve our
* State’s best interests, we can see no rea
son for wanting to retire Senator Smith
from the senate in favor of any other
man now in the race. In point of ability
and real statesmanship he towprs above
them all, and Georgia hasn’t a man to
day who could measurably fill his place
in the Senate. He has originated and
been directly and actively connected with
more constructive legislation than any
man Georgia has had in the senate since
the Civil War and is recognized as one
of the biggeet men the south has had
in the senate during the present genera
tion. To retire euch a man from the
• senate in this crucial time of the world’s
history would be worse than political
folly.
These are not the words of a factionist,
they are not the words of a partisan; they
are the deliberately formed conviction of a
cool, clear mind whose deepest concern is
for the welfare of Georgia and her peo
ple. Because of Senator Smith’s ability and
experience and serviceableness, because of
all that he has done and all that he yet
can do for the Commonwealth, because of
his incomparable fitness for the tasks and
hazards that loom ahead, he should be re
tained at his present post of usefulness.
Such is Editor Mclntosh’s argument, and
an argument it is that cannot fail to strike
home to thinking Georgians.
The Allies Ready to Pay
SIGNIFICANT and highly creditable to
France and Great Britain is the an
nouncement that those nations stand
prepared to cancel the five hundred mil
lion dollar joint loan ‘ which they made in
the United States prior to this country’s
entrance into the war and which matures
next October. Those who are informed say
that the holders of these bonds doubtless
would have granted most heartily an ex
tension of the loan if that had been re
quested. But no such Indulgence is asked.
Strained though they have been and still
are by their colossal war burdens, the
honorable debtors are ready to pay.
This is especially notable in the case of
France because she has reckoned upon
German indemnity to meet her tremendous
obligations abroad and at home —indemnity
not a franc of which yet has been forth
coming. She counted upon reparation funds
for restoring a part, of the vast wreckage
which Hindenburg left in his ruthless
wake. But she has been compelled thus
far to rely solely ppon her own tax and
credit resources for these huge tasks of
rehabilitation. Notwithstanding the stress,
of it all, however, she is ready to take up
a quarter of a billion of her securities in
America. And Great Britain also, with her
own millionfold burdens, is ready. This
should be interesting and enlightening news
to any who have doubted the wisdom and
■ safety of our Allied loans.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL,
On Getting Used to War
AS far as fighting goes the war be
tween the Poles and the Bolshevists
finds the public in a state of what
psychology would call, in its pedantic jar
gon, “negative adaptation.” Years of roar
ing and flame on the fields of Europe
have Inured us to military sensations some
what as noises of street or factory, when
heard day after day, leave us undisturbed,
if not indeed unconscious of them. We are
interested to see the outcome of the Po
land affair; we watch more or less cu
riously the diplomatic moves and blunders;
we sympathize with the gallant, though
perhaps Injudicious, nation that is making
a last stand. But of the fighting itself, we
know next to nothing and care not a whit.
This is extraordinary, and significant be
yond measure. Imagine such a war six or
seven years ago. How the correspondents
would have sped to the front! How the
cables would have tingled and the head
lines glared! And how eagerly we would
have drunk up the bulletins! But now the
events of a truly momentous battlefield stir
us scarcely more than the nursery tale
fight between the gingham dog and the
calico cat. True, there may be no very
brilliant generalship in play, and little fuel
for heroic feeling in the advance of a be
whiskered .horde of Bolsheviki. Still, a
border scrimmage of Mexican bandits or a
tribal war of Hottentots would have pro
duced columns of newsprint seven years
ago. We have supped full of battles, and
have no appetite for their terrors. “Pride,
pomp and circumstance of glorious war!”
Othello called it. But today there is more
impressiveness in the ripening of a wheat
field, more fervor in coming to grips with
the grim-visaged cost of living. And what,
after all, is so dull as excitement grown to
excess? f
The end of the trouble in Poland Is not
yet; -all manner of unpleasant contingen
cies are bristling there. Another European
war, another World War is not impossible.
A long series of red struggles, or even a
lapsing/back to war as mankind’s normal
state is not inconceivable; indeed is not
improbable, if we fail to establish some
plan of international co-worklng in place
of the old order of intrigue and jealous
rivalry. Our civilization is a fragile thing.
It cannot withstand the shock and strain
of man’s primordial instincts unless it
avail itself of his highest urgings and prof
it by his visions. In the very stages of his
tory through which we now move we may
be determining whether the human race is
to slip back into barbarism and jungle
darkness, or *
“Move upward, working out the
beast,
And let the ape and tiger die.”
How shall we secure this better part un
less we utilize in the affairs of nations as
of individuals, those impulses and aptitudes
which draw men together and persuade
them *te subordinate clashing ambitions to
the more important common interests? How
shall we soften strife save by justice, how
lessen war save by co-operation? The
statesmanship that brings this principle in
to world practice will have written a most
hopeful chapter in human destiny. But if
the other path—the old path of endless
suspicions, plots and hates—is held to, wars
inevitably will wax more frequent, and af
ter a while will be accepted as the regular
order. Men will grow adapted to’slaughter
and indifferent to blood as they do to the
unceasing voice of the clock on the stairs.
We are so made that we must attend to
our higher leadings, or we shall become
unaware of them. We must live out, man
to man and nation to nation, the humanita
rian duties and divine faiths which we pro
fess, or we shall lose them altogether, and
with them lose progress and hope.
A Once Discouraging Riddle
Receives a Cheering Answer
THE improvement in American crop
prospects during the last two months
is one of the year’s chiefly impor
tant and heartening events. The eve of
summer found agricultural conditions the
country over exceedingly discouraging. A
belated and unfavorable spring had delayed
planting to such an extent that even the
most enterprising and best equipped farm
ers were sadly behind. Moreover, in the
principal wheat zones there had been an
acreage curtailment which, together with
the untoward season, threatened- to cut
the harvest to a distressful degree. The
logical forecast accordingly was shortened
production, higher prices, harder times.
But nature sends her radiant as well as
gloomful surprises. As summer advanced,
fields and gardens waxed luxuriant. Vege
tation took a richer green from the very
fact that a chill spring had held early
leafage in check and had forced an uncom
monly deep, strong root growth. x Thus it
was that week by week of warm skies and
quickening showers so improved the pros
pect that today all fears of a lean autumn
have vanished. We speak, of course, of
food staples; cotton’s fate seems still unde
cided. The curtailment in wheat acreage
will be more than counterbalanced by boun
tiful yields and by the increase in corn
and other grains. This means much to live
stock Interests. It will enable thousands of
breeders to sustain and expand undertak
ings which otherwise would have been ren
dered Impossible by prohibitive costs of
feeding. Thus every phase of the larder
problem, which looked so forbidding two
months ago, begins to brighten.
It would be error to assume, however,
that all is cloudlessly auspicious. There
remains the serious matter of inadequate
transportation for this abundant produc
tion; and it is yet to appear whether cred
it facilities for carrying the divers crops
wHI be ample. Great harvests will not
bring that full measure of prosperity ex
pected of them unless their producers’ in
terests are. duly cared for. We all want
lower prices on foodstuffs, but none can
afford a drop so sudden and extreme as to
injure the men who raised these crops at
unprecedented costs of labor and materials.
Competent observers say that in the case
of many commodities a ’liberal yield will
make it possible at once to increase the
profits of the producer and decrease the
prices to the consumer, provided transpor
tation and credit difficulties do not bring
the market to confusion.
It is reasonably to be hoped that these
problems will find adjustment. The impor
tant and highly reassuring fact now is that
gray omens of dearth have changed to
signs of golden plenty. Sixty it
seemed inevitable that America’s surplus of
food for exportation would be cut to a
pittance, if indeed her domestic supply was
not sorely reduced. Thus it is of world
wide significance that as summer ripens to
ward a close the outlook turns rich and
cheering. Many a home, which elsewise
would have ached from hunger, will be
fed; many a back that would have come
near breaking under the burden of living
cost£ will feel the stress grow lighter.
From the earth beneath and from the
heavens above has come the answer to a
riddle which ten weeks ago bewildered the
keenest human minds and disturbed the
stoutest hearts.
YOUR PROBLEMS
By H. Addington Bruce
FEW people appreciate how many and va
ried are their personal problems. Asked
to list these, most would be content to
<set down such problems as:
Keeping well.
Earning a living.
Securing a good education for their children.
Amusing themselves in their leisure hours.
Living a good life, according to the dic
tates of their conscience and the laws of the
land.
This would about exhaust the list of per
sonal problems, as recognized by the great
majority. Exceptional are those who would
extend it, as all should, to include such prob
lems as:
Securing an efficient government.
Keeping public officials alert to their duties.
Insuring Justice and honesty in the admin
istration of laws.
Insisting on measures that will promote
public health.
Opposing measures that tend to national
disharmony by. conferring class privileges, mak
ing class discriminations, etc.
Maintaining peace and prosperity through
good will and fair play in international rela
tions.
Blocking all attempts to exploit the ignor
ant and the unfortunate, and lessening the
numbers of these fry co-operating to make pub
lic education more effective.
It is because most people fail to recognize
in every one of the above a distinctly per
sonal problem that every one of them remains
an urgent public problem. Yet each is as truly
a personal problem as the earning of a living
or keeping well.
Indeed, the latter problems are intimately
and indissolubly linked with the former.
Governmental’ inefficiency makes it harder
for the individual to earn a living, and at
times may make it impossible for many in
dividuals to earn a living. Individual health
necessarily suffers when due. regard is not
paid to public health.
Class discrimination means social turmoil,
and social turmoil inevitably reacts to the hurt
of all individual citizens. Criminals are made
through exploitation of the ignorant and the
unfortunate, and as criminals multiply the wel
fare of every citizen is endangered.
And everybody knows what happens to the
individual when war results from any narrowly
selfish policy that lessens good-will and strains
the relations of nation with .nation.
No; it will not do to consider these as
other than personal problems. It will not do
to go, day after day, giving them not the
slightest thought. They concern every citizen,
and it is every citizen’s duty, if only for his
own good, to study them as earnestly as he
studies what he calls his “private ’affairs.”
Else his “private affairs” will themselves be
studied to comparatively little purpose, as he
suffers from mtoward public conditions which
he has left entirely to others to manage or
mismanage according to the state of their in
telligence and of their hearts.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspapers.)
PEANUTS
By Dr. Frank'Crane
I tfing the Peanut.
It tastes good.
It is easy to raise.
It is cheap.
It is nutritious.
It is a substitute not only for cheese and
meat, but for butter and other fats.
The Peanut, of cool climes, together with
the Cocoanut, of warm zones, could come
nearer feeding mankind than all cattle, yea
all sheep and swine.
The Peanut, permit me to bludgeon you
with the club of science, contains per pound
mor< protein than a pound of sirloin steak,
plus more carbohydrates than a pound of po
tatoes, plus one-third as much fat as a pound
of butter. Bring on your foodstuff that can
beat that!
While you pay seventy cents a pound for
your roast beet to the bandit who hides be
hind the counter at the delicatessen shop, and
anywhere up to thirty million dollars a cut
for the same at the gilded den of thieves
where they take your money away from you
to music, you can get a sack of Peanuts for
five cents from the street peddler.
The Peanut keeps well in any climate, and
is good eating when the steak has spoiled,
the potatoes are rotted, and the butter is
rancid.
Every Peanut is hermetically sealed in Na
ture’s own sanitary, dust-proof, automatic
covering, and you can crack it with your fin
gers.
The Peanut can be taken directly, without
feeding it to animals and getting your nutri
ment by eating flesh and drinking blood.
The Peanut crop has grown faster than any
crop in the world’s history. In 1910 there
were 800,000 acres in Peanuts in the United
States; watch it grow; in 1916 the acreage
was estimated at 1,000,000, in 1917 more
than 2,000,000 acres.
Yield per acre is about thirty-four bushels
of nuts in the shell; a good yield is sixty
bushels, including a ton of good hay.
A bushel of Peanuts yields a gallon of oil.
An/acre of land can produce twenty bush
els of wheat, forty bushels of oats or forty
bushels of Peanuts; that is, one hundred and
eighty-six pounds of digestible protein in the
Peanuts, as against one hundred and forty
nine in the oats or one hundred and fifty
four in wheat. In fats it will yield three hun
dred pounds, while from the oats sixty-one
and from the wheat but twenty-four pounds.
The United States Department of Agricul
ture urges the use of Peanut meal, mixed
with corn meal and wheat flour, for griddle
cakes, biscuits and muffins; also its use as a
cereal and in cakes, puddings and soups, and
as a substitute for meat.
Cotton is king, said the South. And Corn
is king, answered the North. But the day
of kings is passing.
And perhaps the lowly Peanut, five cents a
bag, is going to do its part in making the
world safe for democracy.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes
The rush of the League of Nations to
the rescue of Poland reminds one of the
slow and stately tread of a Bostonian go
ing to pay his last year’s poll tax.—Boston
Transcript.
Jazz is the language of the sole.—oTledo
Blade.
A Goshen, Ind., cave man won his title
by caving in four* of his sweetheart’s ribs.
—Harrisburg Evening News.
The trouble with ultimatums is that they
are so seldom ultimate.—Nashville Ten
nessean.
Looks as if it might become cheaper to
stay at home than to go visiting under
the increased cost of traveling.—Toledo
Blade.
We (iaw the meanest man yesterday. He
gave his little nephew a nickel and told
him to take it and go “buy something.”—
Kansas City Star.
Another good rule for the heated term
is not to let other people’s political views
pester you, however much yours may pester
them.—Houston Post.
UNCjLE SAM’S
TRAFFIC
PROBLEM
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 10.
The visitor to New York is
always warned against the
hazards of crossing a street
without the personal assistance of a
policeman, yet the records show a
greater number of accidents per cap
ita in Washington than in perilous
New York.
From the beginning of its history,
the national capital has always held
the reputation of being a collection
of parks and marble buildings, the
whole enfolded in a languid southern
atmosphere. For over a hundred
years this description was more or
less accurate.
Then, suddenly, war tore some
100,000 stenographers and newly
made officers from their peaceful
homes and landed them in the thick
of the battle at the administrative
front. The onrush of volunteers from
New York, Pittsburg, and all points
west, jammed the capital to its ut
most capacity, and the city began to
know what heavy traffic really was.
By the time suitable traffic regula
tions were worked out and put into
effect thje shooting was about over.
Since then Washington has recovered
a little of its old-time tranquillity,
but it will never be the same.
Washington as the war left it is
full of traffic cops, street signs, park
ing regulations, and rules for-cross
ing a street. It has a crowded busi
ness section, and its circles, which
Major L’Enfant laid out to be emer
gency forts, have become modified
race tracks, around which automo
biles scoot in rapid succession, while
pedestrians await a slack moment on
the curb, or run the gauntlet by hop
ping in and out among the vehicles.
A new idea for making life on the
street safer is put across every few
weeks. Yet pedestrians continue to
be jay-walkers, many autoists fail to
stop at points where passengers are
leaving street cars, and accidents
moifnt.
TOURISTS ARE CARELESS
The city’s traffic troubles are
largely due to the character of its
population. Flocks of tourists are
perpetually wandering about with
their eyes lifted to the dome of the
capitol, and their brains buzzing with
plans for meeting a favorite states
man.
Then, there is official Washington
—the ambassadors, cabinet officers,
congressmen and political figures.
These people with their families are
always coming and going. Traffic
rules are fairly similar all over
the country, and in the larger
foreign cities, but Washington has
Ideal peculiarities which some digni
taries never learn until they are
about to leave it. Infractions of the
law committed by foreign diplomatic
representatives are called to the at
tention of the state department. Only
home-grown officials are subject to the
laws. -
Publicity is given to accidents as
a warning to the people, and the po
lice department has started a cam
paign to teach the children caution.
In the office of Captain Albert Head
ley, of the city traffic department,
there is a map of the city all dotted
over with numerous colored pins.
The map is the -captain’s own idea,
and each pin shows where a street
accident occurred. A red pin means
the death Os an automobile passenger
or driver; a pink pin means a pedes
trian killed. Yellow means injury
to the driver; white, injury to a pe
destrian; green, damaged property;
and black, no serious consequences.
"These pins show traffic i accidents
only for the past four months,” Cap
tain Headiey explained. "From the
map 1 we can tell where accidents are
most frequent. Then we study the
cause and try to remove it.
Turn to th* Bight
“Washington has so many acute
angles, due to avenues that run di
agonial to the streets, and motorists
coming together at these angles are
apt to collide before they take ac
count of each other. Then, there
are circles, with six or eight streets
running into them, all pouring ve
hicles into the space around the cir
cle. At one time, vehicles would go
in any direction around these cir
cles. Now, of course, they must bear
to the right, and even then the cir
cles are real danger zones,
“As Scott Circle, for instance, a
few blocks from the White House,
there is a roadway 65 feet wide
around the circle. An ordinance pro
vides that vehicles are to keep to the
outside of such spaces, close to the
curb of the streets bordering the cir
cle. But the temptation to take a
short cut leads motorists to use any
part of the 65 feet, so that people
on foot are in danger every step of
the way across.
"At this • particular circle, the
pedestrian had such a hard time of
it that we put out posts with chains
between them. Six of these chains
rhdiate like spokes of a wheel from
the circle 25 feet into the road. They
force the motorist to keep within the
40 feet left at the outside, so that
the person on foot has a smaller dan
ger zone to cross.”
Captain Headley has found that
too great width of street is as con
ducive to accidents as too little. On
a street over 100 feet wide, as many
of the avenues are, a driver can be
50 feet from thy curb, and still be
on the right side of the street. When
traffic is heavy and vehicles are
spread out this way, crossing the
street is made unnecessarily hazar
dous for the pedestrian.
Washington has narrow streets,
too, where vehicles traveling both
ways are likely to get into a jam.
But the narrow road is an easier
problem. Washington copied Bos
ton, Pittsburg, and Philadelphia, by
making her narrow downtown thor
oughfares “one way” streets.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
Former President Taft said at a
dinner in Chicago: “If we don’t
take warning from this war—if we
don’t devise some means to have
no more wars forever —we deserve
to be extinguished, wiped out. Good
ness knows we have had enough
warnings. I am reminded of a story.
It’s a story about two men who
died and knocked for admission at
the gate of Paradise. St. Peter ad
mitted the first man without send
ing him to a term in purgatory on
the ground that he had been mar
ried. The second man, perceiving
this, stepped up with a confident
smile. ‘I have been married twice,’
he said. St. Peter frowned and
pointed sternly straight downward
■with his forefinger. ‘We want no
fools in Paradise,’ said the saint.
Taffy one day came across Pat,
who was breaking stone on the side
of the road, and said:
"Is it by the yard you’re paid for
those stones’”
"No," said Pat, "but by the stone.”
"If so,” said the Welshman, “how
many stones would go to make a
ya “ None,” said Pat; "they all have to
be carried.”
“How much shall I charge Mr
Spotcash for this last suit Os his?”
asked the tailor’s clerk, as he hesi
tated in making out the account.
"Fifty dollars, same as last time?
“Ah,” muttered the man of snips
and seams. “Let me see. It s that
gray stripe, isn’t it?”
“Yes,” replied the clerk.
"And he always pays up promptly
and never haggles?”
“Best paying customer we have,
said the clerk, enthusiastically.
“I don’t think any price was men
tioned,’’ mused the tailor. "Oh, well,
charge him $75.”
It was a happy day for Algy when,
after a courtship of many years, he
sat at the wedding breakfast beside
tils wife.
Unfortunately he was of a very
shy temperament, but on this mo
mentous occasion his nervousness
was painful to behold. The long ta
ble was lined with the usual large
number of admiring and criticizing
friends, one of whom rose to propose
the health of the bride and bridge
groom. But the climax came when
the bridegroom rose to respond.
“In this —er —this—er —most suspi
cious—auspicious occasion,” he jerkdd
out ,"I feel —a long and embarrassing
pause—“l feel too full for words.”
Having concluded this brilliant bit
of oratory, he sat down again.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, l»20.
CURRENT EVENTS
Alexander Berkman, whose anar
chistic ideas made him a guest at
the Atlanta federal prison until re
cently, has been given a job by
Messrs. Lenine and Trotzky, over
in Russia, along with his feminine
colleague, Emma Goldman, another
celebrated waver of the red flag.
When Berkman left the Atlanta
prison he rewarded Uncle Sam’s
hospitality by bitterly denouncing
penitentiary ‘officials and America in
general. When the pair were deport
ed not long ago they put up a des
perate legal fight to stay in the
country, whose government they
claim is all wrong.
Their work in the home of the
Bolshevik 1 to to tour the country
getting up exhibits for a museum of
the revolution.
While tobacco growers of Georgia
and the southeast are enjoying ex
cellent prices at the opening of the
season, planters of Kentucky, Ohio
and Indiana are agitating the ques
tion of cutting out their 1921 crop
of white hurley because of a de
pressed market. This burley is used
in making cigarettes and high-grade
cigars. Sentiment is about nine to
one for skipping the next crop, it
is reported, although there are a
few advocates in favor of pooling
the leaf next year. Opponents of
the litter plan predict that it would
revive all the terrors that “night rid
ing” brought ten years ago.
To escape the sweltering heat
that has made New Yorkers mis
erable of late, nearly 1,000,000 men,
women and children visited Coney
Island and other popular resorts in
that neighborhood last Sunday. The
approximate figures were put at
800,000 by the authorities. Out of
this multitude, only one drowning
was reported. The figures seem all
the more impressive through the
fact that when several thousand
bathers invade one of Atlanta's pub
lic pools on a hot Sunday it looks
as if the whole town had gone
swimming.
A $1,000,000 plant is under way
on one of the Aleutian islands, off
Alaska, for the sole purpose of han
dling whales like an American pack
ing house handles hogs That is,
it will convert every bit of whale
anatomy into something to use or
something to eat, with the excep
tion of the squeal—if a whale can
be said to maintain a squeal.
Hunters in airplanes will scour the
ocean for the big game and the big
fish will be speared from the air.
Motor boats will tow the carcasses
to the packing plant. The steak will
be canned and shipped to Japan,
where it is a great delicacy. The
oil will be purified and sold. The
bones will make fertilizer. The in
testines will be tanned and made
into kid gloves. The milk will be
condensed. The hides will become
sole leather.
Heretofore, whaling vessels after
spearing the big spouters have
taken aboard only the oil and the
milk, leaving all that remained for
thez sharks. ,
General Kuropatkin, who will be
remembered as a first-class “retreat
er” during the Russo-Japanese war,
is now in command of the Red forces
controlling the Caspian sea and ad
vancing upon Teheran in a cam
paign against Persia.
On August 26, a new American
theatrical record will be set up when
“Lightnln,” a play about a village
"sot” will begin its third calendar
year of continuous performances in
New York. Frank Bacon, who wrote
the play and portrays the leading
pdrt, is now described as the “great
est dramatic marathon runner of the
world.”
The georgeous and bespangled of
ficers of the Mexican army are be
ginning to find some things about
democracy that are not altogether
welcome. The nation’s secretary of
foreign relations has recently recom
mended that all varieties of generals,
ambassadors and similar moguls dis
card their epaulets, tassels, gold
braid, gilded spurs, purple trousers,
crimson cutaways, and Incidental
flamboyant trappings. The staid
American frock coat, sombre black
in color, is suggested as a substitute.
Six years after Germany ruthless
ly invaded Belgium in order to strike
France in a hurry, she has under
gone a change, of heart about the
rights of a neutral nation. The Ger
man government today threatens to
fight if the allies attempt to send
troops across her borders in an ef
fort to help the Poles. The German
foreign minister made this declara
tion on the floor of the Reichstag a
few days ago.
The voters of all states in America
except eleven will elect governors
this fall. The only states that will
not choose a chief executive are
Oregon, California, Nevada, Wyom
ing, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississip
pi, Alabama, Kentucky, Virginia,
Maryland, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey,
Lowell, Mass., went without cold
drinks and refrigerators were use
less recently when a big fire com
pletely melted about 50,000 tons of
ice stored in five nearby warehouses.
Tlje Panama Canal was used last
year by 2,478 commercial vessels
which paid gross tolls of $8,800,000,
meaning a profit over operating ex
penses of $2,150,000, according to a
government report covering the fiscal
year ending June 20 last. This is
five times the previous surplus rec
ord.
Mrs. Harry Perelstein, of New
York, recently scoured the neighor
hood for children’s clothing and cots
when she got a cablegram from her
husband saying that he was bringing
back nine orphans from the Ukraine,
in Russia. The newspaper got hold
of the story and when the traveler’s
steamer docked he was met by a big
crowd of relatives, friends, photo
graphers and reporters.
He had only one orphan with him.
However, it seems that the cable
company had mixed up his message.
Production of war paintings, now
greatly in demand by historical so
cieties and collectors, has been halted
by a patriotic strike of the artists’
models in the Montmartre, tlhe Latin
quarter, who refuse to pose as Ger
man soldiers. They have issued an
ultimatum that they will not pose as
Germans, wear German costumes,
simulate German kultur, or invoke
the spirit of Germania in any form.
The artists are frantic, for they
had seen the tide of their fortunes
swelling with a rush of orders from
persons and societies who desired to
perpetuate on canvas 'the memories
of certain incidents or battles of the
great war.
A new counterfeiting “industry’*
has followed in the wake of prohibi
tion, it seems.
“This industry," says Chief Mo-’
han of the treasury secret service,
"is the counterfeiting of the strip
label revenue stamp that goes over
corks—or that used to go over the
corks—of whisky bottled in bond.
Those engaged in the manufacture
of whisky are prepared to use these
counterfeit stamps, and we have ar
rested three gangs already for doing
it.”
Said to have been born 144 years
ago, the year the Declaration of
Independence was signed, on a spot
which is now a government reserva
tion and which he still calls home.
Domingo Jacinto, chief of a tribe of
Digger Indians, was one of the spec
tators at a celebration, Laguna
mountains, California. Adgpmpanled
by his daughter, a granddaughter
and a great-grandson, he evinced
keen interest in the program.
He is said to be older than the
pines and other trees which make
Laguna Mountains resort a play
ground for the residents of Imperial
and San Diego counties. Although
feeble, he can walk, see and hear
with difficulty.
When Chelmsford, Eng., was giv
ing a wireles telephone demonstra
tion to Denmark recently, the ex
perimental station on Signal Hill,
Newfoundland, picked up the sounds
and heard, without interruption, the
words uttered by H. J. Rounds, the
manager at Chelmsford, who was
talking with the operator in Den
mark.
Sixty-two persons, thirty-two of
them children less than fourteen
years of age, were killed by automo
biles in New York during July, ac
cording to the records of George P.
Le Brun, secretary in the office of
the chief medical examiner. Nine
teen were persons more than sixty
years old.
Classified employes ever the entire
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
THE TIE THAT BINDS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, I no.)
Every time we go to a big church
wedding somebody with a melting
tenor voice sings "Blessed Be the Tie
That Binds,” and we look at the
radiant bride and groom, and swal
low hard at the lumps in our throtes,
and hope to goodness that the knot
will hold this time, and it 'won’t be
one of the one-out-of-twelve snarls
that the divorce courts are called
upon to untangle every year in this
country.
And it sends us home wondering
what is this tie that binds a man
and a woman together so that they
are really one.
Men think that it is made of beau
ty. A man believes that he will
love a woman, and be faithful to
her in thought and deed, as long as
she is easy on the eyes. His fancy is
snared by a pretty face and a
lissome figure, and he is convinced
that he will never weary of them.
He feels that life can offer him no
more enduring joy than just the con
templation of that peaches and (cream
complexion, those golden curls and
that straight-front figure.
Very often he married the object
of his admiration only to find that
the tie that binds him to it is made
of pack thread. He comes to know
that a msfti cannot live upon scenery
alone, that a woman may be a liv
ing picture and the dullest and most
boring of companions, and that the
whitest and softest skin may cover
the blackest selfishness, and th£
hardest heart.
No woman who has merely physi
cal prettiness to recommend her ever
holds a man even until her good looks
vanish, and that is a catastrophe that
is bound to happen in a short; time,
at best. As well might you seek to
anchor an ocean liner in a storm
with a gay silken thread as to try
to bind a man to a woman with just
beauty alone.
Women think that the tie that
binds is made of romantic love. They
put their faith in palpatatione and
thrills. If a girl sees a man through
a pink haze of sentiment that dis
guises him so effectually that he
looks like a little tin god to her; if
she has chills and fevers and hectic
flushes at his approach; if she won
ders where mother keeps the rough
on rats every time she suspicions
that he has taken another girl to
thp movies, she is convinced, beyond
the shadow of a doubt, that she en
tertains a passion for him that noth
ing can dim, and that the years will
only make stronger.
Alas, no other dangerous malady
is so easily cured as romantic love.
It yields to simple home treatment,
self-administered, in from thirty to
sixty days. Sometimes sooner. The
bride who had expected to spend the
balance of her life listening to her
husband conjugating the verb to
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
Absolutely Correct
The military experts may never
agree on who won the war, but the
public knows the profiteers won aft
er the war.—Dawson News.
Xn Demand
The French girls want American
husbands. There are maidens in ev
ery town in America with the same
longing.—Augusta Chronicle.
Georgia's "First Bale"
The first Georgia bale of cotton
was sold In Savannah last Thursday
at $1.20 a pound. If all the cotton
raised in the state could command
that price there would be such an in
crease in the number of automobiles
there would not be space enough left
for them to pass each other on the
public roads. —Sandersville Progress.
LaGrange Passes Many Cities
The population of Thomasville is
8,196, an increase of 1;469, or 21.8
per cent over 1910. Thomasville is
almost exactly the size town Albany
was in 1910, the difference in the
figures being just six. Brunswick
jumps from 10,182, ten years ago, to
14,413, a gain of 4,231, or 41.6 per
cent. Brunswick and Albany are two
of the large number of towns in the
state which LaGrange passes under
the new census, among others being
Athens, Waycross, Rome, Griffin,
Valdosta, Americus, Gainesville, Cor
dele and Dublin. Albany ranks elev
enth among the cities of Georgia.—
Albany Herald.
Progressive Diving
So live that when your summons
comes to join the chamber of com
merce you’ll jump at the chance,
happy to improve your own condition
as well as that of your fellowman. —
Rome News. .
Cotton Playing a Minor Part
Cotton will play but a minor part
in the affairs of this section this fall.
There is but little planted around
here. The farmers of this section
have found that peanuts, sweet po
tatoes, syrup, velvet beans, etc., pay
a better return for their efforts and
there is no element of chance in
planting therti. Then, too, the corn
and meat crop of this section is one
of importance. It is not likely that
cotton will ever be an Important
crop in this section again.—Boston
Bostonian.
3 Mo Respect for Warnings
"Lloyd George Warns Soviets,"
says l a headline. But It seems that
the soviets do not believe in warn
ings.—J. D. Spencer in Macon Tele
graph.
Changing the Program
With railroad fares going up,
Harding’s managers must decide that
its cheaper to send the candidate out
than bring audiences to his front
porch.—Savannah Morning News.
system of the Virginia Railway and
Power company will have a share
in the future profits of the com
pany, net profits to be distributed
on a fifty-fifty basis between the
company and the employes. Presi
dent Thomas S. Wheelwright an
nounced in making public the details
of a profit-sharing plan which is
placed in effect as of August 1.
Employes in Richmond, Peters
burg and Norfolk will share alike in
the new plan.
Net profits for the six months
ended June 30 aggregated $195,015,-
580, the distribution of which will
justify an increase of 6 per cent in
the wages of all classified employes.
Robert McGill, secretary of the
Winnipeg Grain Exchange and re
garded as one of Canada’s foremost
grain trade experts, declared here
that farmers in western Canada
would obtain from $3 to $5 for their
wheat this year.
"The only wheat Europe will be
able to buy will be that from North
America and Argentina,” said Mr.
McGill. “Rumania will have none
to spare. India is prohibiting ex
port. Australia’s acreage has been
considerably reduced and there is no
prospect of shipments from Russia.
"The acreage planted to wheat in
western Canada this year is slightly
smaller than last, but a larger crop
is expected because of unusually fav
orable weather and soil conditions
during seeding and growing time.”
In view of the extreme scarcity
of office space in the financial dis
trict, J. P. Morgan & Co. have de
cided to make the old Mills build
ing, at 11 to 31 Broad street, New
York, over into a thirty-story sky
scraper. This will entail raising the
old structure twenty stories at an es
timated cost of $4,000,000, and will
be one of the largest, if not actually
the largest building of'its kind ever
undertaken.
The former German Emperor Wil
liam is greatly worried about the
low exchange rate of the German
mark.
Recently, In the hope of securing
quarters for some of his staff, he
priced a number of houses In the
vicinity of Doorn.
The prices have been quoted in
Dutch guilders, but William, reduc
ing everything to marks, has thrown
up his hands and called the prices
preposterous.
love, finds out that he mostly dis
courses about bills, and the high
cost of living, and how different his
mother’s biscuits are from hers.
Instead of a barbered and powder
ed and perfumed lover, she has a
husband who is unshaven and un
shorn, and grumpy and grouchy at
times, and noting these things, ro
mantic love flies out of the window,
and unless the tie that binds her to
the man she has chosen is stronger
than sentimentality—unless it is
made up of some quality more en
during than looks and soft speeches
—why th* woman packs her trunk
and goes back to mother, or begins
to look about for some other man,
about whom she can cast the mantle
of her fancies.
Convention says that the tie that
binds a man and a woman together
is made up of the law and the church.
Wrong again. You may tie a man
and a woman’s bodies together and
force them to live under the\ same
roof, but no human agency can fet
ter a soul or constrain it. Nor does
the reading of a marriage ceremony
over a couple, or the mumbling of
a priest, make a man and woman
husband and wife in the real sense
of that relationship.
We all know husbands and wives
whose marriage bond clanks as they
move amongst us as does the ball
and chain of convicts fettered to
gether. We all know lonely men and
women who live out dreary lives with
wives and husbands who sit across
the table from them in flesh, but
are millions of leagues away from
them in spirit.
The tie that binds is not even
duty. That holds outwardly with
many conscientious people, especial
ly when there are children to be con
sidered, but it is a fetter that cuts
into the marrow of one’s being and
that makes a fester that poisons
whole of life. It is not what we
mean when we sing, “Blest Be ths
Tie That Binds,” at a wedding.
The tie that binds, that hardens
and hardens as the years go by until
it becomes like a bond of steel that
nothing can break, is made up of
sympathy, and understanding, and
appreciation. Age may come and
beauty go, romantic love may perish,
hardship, and sickness, and anxiety,
and poverty may be portion of the
man and woman who have undertaken
the journey of life together.
It does not matter. They will pull
through safely if they are bound to-'
gether with a bond whose strands are
made of companionship, and trusted
and tried loyalty, and a comprehen
sion r that never fails.
That is the tie that binds. That
is the tie that every man and woman
should set their hands to weaving
on their wedding day.
(Dorothy Dlx articles appear In
this paper every Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.)
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL t
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
A WOMAN is usually expert at
picking out goods that won’t
run, shrink, fade or frazzle—
but she is not always so lucky
in picking out that kind of a husband.
Apparently, the more a chorus girl
sees of men the better she loves
‘Poms” and "Pokes.”
Marriage is a medley, composed of
"Love’s Sweet Song,” Lohengrin, lul
labies, jazz tunes, and battle hymns,
with a Lorelei refrain running
through it, which utterly spoils th* (
sweet silence of bachelor reveries
and maiden meditations. f
A man’s idea of the highest proof
of his devotion to a woman is hfs ir
resistible Impulse to make love to
any! other woman who happens to re- w
mind him of her. f
I
Probably, what the serpent really
whispered to Eve, on that fatal day,
was that apples were good for re
ducing the figure.
The vital problem that confronts a
girl, at this moment, is not the fall
campaign, but the question of wheth
er to stay out and get a sunburned
nose.playing golf, or to stay in and
keep beautiful, while she gives some
other girl a chance at the only eligi
ble man at the summer resort.
What most mystifies a man about a
woman is her seeming diabolic in
genuity in answering his "unanswer
able” arguments, and disoovering his
“reason” for doing things, when A
didn’t know he had any. •
A man can fool a lot of womwi 1
some of the time, and some womep
a lot of the time; but what makes a
pessimist of him is his discoveeL
that he can’t fool the same woman,
the same way, all of the time.
The difference between a nail and
a husband is that a nail must be
driven in and coaxed out, while a
husband has to be driven out, morn
ings, and coaxed in, again, evenings.
Professor Serge Voronoff, the
French surgeon who made the first
successful transplantation of intestl
tial glands from an anthropoid ape
to the body of a man, performed his
celebrated operation for the first
time in America at the American
hospital in Chicago last week, using
thyroid glands.
Founr hundred of Chicago’s fore
most physicians and surgeons
watched the transference of glands.
Two dead dogs were used.
‘‘My operation today was more la
the way of a demonstration,” said
Dr. Voronoff, "My work is still ex- |
perimental. I have performed sev
eral operations which have (been
successful in restoring vigor t 0 old ,
men." He will leave Chicago Wed
nesday for New York to hold *
large clinic at Columbia university.
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