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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 months.sl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c x Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mo«. 6 Mo«. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday2oc 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 ftaily 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 oSiea. 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. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac- Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label u»ed for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to 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. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS > EF some folks wvx 1 T* PAY VP ALL DEY | • PEBTS , HIT BE tfio USE'n <s wine T I>E PoS-OFFICM Tall H r ■ S1 — — Copyright IS2O by McClure Newtg|g»|£M*