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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, -6a.
The All Important Issue In
= the Senatorial Campaign
THE Georgia Senatorial race involves
vastly more than the political for
tunes of'any candidate. Its issues are
incomparably greater than the prejudices of
any faction. The duties which it brings to
the voter are unspeakably higher than the
animus of any partisan interest. It is a
challenge to intelligence and patriotism, a
call to them who prize the State’s prosper
ity, a trumpet summons to all who cherish
her good name.
" Thus it is that the majority of Geor
gians are conceiving the campaign, despite
adroit efforts to lead them away from ques
tions of large import into sensational noth
ings or outworn feuds. They are realizing
that as business men and farmers, as
workingmen and investors, as taxpayers and
loyal citizens they have a definite and a
weighty stake in the outcome. Studying the
situation, they see that their own and the
Commonwealth’s interests require efficient
representation in the Senate, representation
such as only talent, experience, prudence
and unswerving integrity can give. They
see that an unskilled or a reckless hand
might easily play havoc where great oppor
tunities are in the balance or where subtle
dangers are to be coped with. And they
are deciding accordingly that regardless of
factions, prejudices and partisanships, the
interests of the State demand the re-elec
tion of Senator Smith.
This is the thought that rings over and
over through the practical-minded press
and in the daily speech of multitudes of
reasoning men. Especially forceful is the
expression given it by the Athens Herald
in recent editorial comment. Says that
newspaper:
As lovers of peace and harnaony
and as citizens of a commonwealth
whose future progress will be meas
ured by the extent of its association
with the great trade arteries of the
world througu the development of
southeastern ports; whose status among
the states of he union as a political
entity- depends upon sound manage
ment and skillful, experienced states
manship in the United States congress,
surely you cannot give consent to vot
ing for any other than Senator Hoke
Smith. Have his arduous labors in be
half of education and agriculture
through the origination and enactment
of the agricultural extension bill, fed
eral vocational bill, soldiers’ rehabilita
~ tion bill, cotton futures bill and bureau
of farm markets been in vain? Shall
Georgia deprive itself of such states
manship by allowing prejudice and per
sonal enmity to hold sway?
These are the logically decisive ques
tions, and reason can find but one answer.
A Senator whose record of usefulness is so
plain and abundant that his bitterest foes
cjmnot gainsay it, whose prestige and es
tablished friendships at Washington wield
extraordinary influence, whose experience
and insight will be more than ever valuable
to Georgia and the South in the troublous
days that loom ahead—such a Senator as
suredly merits the support of citizens who
value good service. Some there may be
who are for reckless experiment, and some
whose thought is fettered to a factional
past. But the reasoning rank and file;
those who, having eyes see, find having
ears, hear; those who care little for mere
politics but care intensely for Georgia—
these are mustering in ever growing num
bers to the senior Senator’s re-election.
Where Governor Cox Scores
THE partisan and keenly observant
New York Evening Post is impressed
by the fact that whereas Senator Har
ming has but skimmingly mentioned the
financial and economic problems with which
the next Administration will have to deal,
Governor Cox has given definite indications
of what he thinks can be and ought to be
done.
S “Mr. Harding’s remarks on the Federal
Jleserve,” the Evening Post points out, “sug
gested only that he had read the Republican
platform without in the least understanding
what it meant. ... Os the problem of taxa
tion, the people learn only that “I believe
the tax burdens imposed for the war emer
gency must be revised to the needs of peace’’
(which nobody has doubted) and should be
revised “in the Interest of equity and distri
bution of the burden”—which it would re
quire some boldness to deny. Governor
Cox, on the other hand, shows his practical
insight into the further possibilities as well
as present uses and past achievements of the
Federal Reserve system, and suggests plans
at once conservative and just for reducing
the onerous taxes and lightening the burdens
which a Republican Congress has done noth
ing whatsoever to relieve.
On all the important questions of the time
do less than on economics and finance, Sen
ator Harding is vague and timorous, while
Governor Cox is definite and outspoken. The
difference comes partly from the personalities
of the two men, but largely also from the
parties and principles which each represents.
It is as natural that a party of reaction and
obstruction should be impotent in the face
of great problems as that a party of prog
ress and construction should have a prac
tical plan.
THE ATLANTA* TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Some Salient Factors In
Our Foreign Trade
IT is significant and cheering that more
than fifty per cent of our imports and
more than forty-four per cent of our
exports are being carried in American ves
sels. A few years ago nearly all our over
seas commerce was dependent on foreign
bottoms—a condition that threatened divers
interests with disaster in the early stages of
the world war, when the European carriers
who had been serving us diverted millions
of tons of shipping to military purposes.
Under the stimulus of sharp necessity, the
growth of our merchant marine has been
phenomenal, and important beyond measure.
Without the facilities thus afforded, we
should be hopelessly disadvantaged in the
keen trade contest upon which the world is
now launching; and unless we continue de
veloping them, along with selling and bank
ing facilities, we shall scarcely hold our own
in foreign markets. As abnormal war condi
tions subside, the unexampled excess of ex
ports over imports which has marked our
trade records of late years must decline.
The downward trend is already apparent, a
favorable balance of more than four billion
dollars in 1919 having fallen to approxi
mately three billion for the latest fiscal year.
Authorities point out, moreover, that if it
were not for extraordinary sales to Europe,
which necessarily will decrease as production
there grows back to normal, our imports
now would be much in excess of our exports.
A survey by the Guaranty Trust Company,
of New York, shows, for example, that “from
three other grand divisions —South America,
Asia and Africa—the United States bought
products to the value of a million dollars
more than it sold to those markets, and our
purchases were of commodities which we
shall need in constantly increasing amounts
in the future.” Especially significant is the
fact that in the last fiscal year we
upwards of one and a quarter billion dollars
worth of food commodities, including vege
tables, fruits, nuts, breadstuffs, coffee and
tea. At the same time, it was agricultural
product that made up the chief item in our
more than eight billion dollars’ worth of
exports—food, $1,984,414,684; and raw cot
ton, $1 331,566,797. (These figures, it
should be said, are for eleven months.) Evi
dently it is upon the productiveness of the
farms that our trade balance, with its
weighty bearing on the nation s prosperity,
largely depends.
Evidently, too, there must be resourceful
and diligent effort on the part of our mer
cantile and industrial exporters, if American
interests are to be maintained in the high
tide of competition now beginning to swell.
Were they dependent, as aforetime, upon for
eign bottoms for carrying their merchandise,
they would be sorely handicapped. But with
a goodly and growing merchant marine un
der their own nation’s flag, tfyey have one
of the chief instruments of power and chief
inspirers of confidence.
Candidates Cox and Harding wiH con
duct their campaigns mainly by speeches,
but Candidate Debs has decided to stick to
the pen.—Columbia Record.
Sovietism as Seen by a Friend
BERTRAND RUSSELL, the renowned
English Radical, went to see Soviet
Russia, not as a hostile critic but as a
warm friend to Communism. On his return,
after extensive observation, he reports the
Bolshevist system as “internally aristocratic
and externally militant, the Communists dic
tatorial, lacking in consideration for the
common people, such as their servants,
whom they overwork.” Plutocracy and privi
lege are in evidence from the largest to
the smallest matters. “Only persons of some
political importance can obtain motor cars
or telephones, ‘permits for railway journeys
or for going to theaters, or permits to buy
goods at Soviet stores at prices about one
fiftieth of what they are in open market.”
Some six hundred thousand disciples of
Lenine are ruling one hundred and twenty
million Russians, while "the six hundred
thousand themselves are under the of
despotic circles and cliques. “If the Bol
shevik! , remain in power,” Mr. Russell pre
dicts, “their Communism will fade and they
will increasingly resemble any other Asiatic
government.” Lenine admitted that the
peasants “are against and from the
generously fair report we learn that:
No conceivable system of free elec
tions would give majorities to the Com
munists in either town or country. Va
rious methods are therefore adopted to
give victory to Government candidates.
In the first place the voting is done by
show of hands, so that all who vote
against the Government are marked
men. . . . No candidate not a Commun
ist can have any printing done. ... He
cannot address any meeting because all
halls belong to the State. The whole
press is, of course, official. No inde
pendent daily is permitted.
Such Is the liberty of Bolshevism, which
Trotzky now prophesies will dominate all
Europe within a year. Such are the virtues
of the Red creed that hopes to convert the
world.
French railroads need American experts,
says a cable. Then they are in the same
boat as American railroads.—Harrisburg
News.
A Flight Around the World
IF the flight around the world projected
by the Aero Club and the Aerial League
of America comes happily to pass what
kingdoms will be left for mortal aviators to
conquer? The adventure as planned is royally
ambitious and impressive. A total distance
of twenty-two thousand, two hundred and
seven miles will be traversed, the way gird
ling boldly over continents and sea's.
Winging away from New York, the Amer
icans will make for Seattle, covering two
thousand, nine hundred and twenty-nine
miles. Thence they will launch upon the
supremely and perilous part of the voyage—
across the Pacific to Yokohama byway of
the Aleutian Islands. The ensuing stage
will he to Shanghai, one thousand, two hun
dred and sixty-six miles; then on to Bang
kok, Siam, two thousand and ninety-five;
thence to Karachi, India, byway of Rangoon
and Delhi, two thousand, five hundred and
sixty-three. Magical names next spring into
view Bagdad, Greece, Rome, the distances
being fifteen hundred and twenty-three miles
to the haunt of the good caliph, and eight
een hundred and seventy-six from there to
the Eternal City. To the coast of Ireland,
byway of Paris and London, will consume
a thousand, five hundred and twenty-eight
miles. Then a westward flight of one thou
sa.nd, eight hundred and seventy-five miles
will take the incomparable voyagers to New
Foundland, whence over a final lap of eleven
hundred and twenty-five miles they will reach
their starting point.
They “will,” we say, for who doubts that
soon or late, by one course or another, this
dream will make itself wings of shining fact?
. put a girdle ’round the globe in forty
minutes. cried Shakespeare’s airy spirit.
will 6 h^ e n S ? 1 !i ed l t ViatOr but forty days, .and
will ne not do likewise?
Farmers are begging for cars—that is
to say, freight cars. They already have the
limousines.—Minneapolis Journal.
Why Coal Is High
Is this why the price of -poal has grown
well-nigh back-breaking? “At the end of
July the production of bituminous coal this
year had reached 302,727,000 tons, an in
crease of 44,500,000 over the amount mined
up to July 31, 1919. Anthracite production
so far this year totals 50,575,000 tons, com
pared with 47,307,000 tons in the corre
sponding period of last year.”
These figures from the latest official re
ports appear to indicate - that prices have
risen in scandalous revolt against that once
potent and respected ruler, Supply and De
mand. The distributors ind small dealers, it
seems, are sts helpless as the consumers,
their charges being determined sit the mines.
But what of those who sit at that prolific
source and fix costs that mean hardship to
industry and suffering to human lives?
TO .GAIN SELF-CONTROL
By H. Addington 6 nice
THE man who appreciates that he is short
in self-control, and has a real desire to
overcome this deficiency, should begin
by schooling himself to,meet calmly the small
vicissitudes of life.
Not only does the old maxim, “He who is
master of himself in little things will be mas
ter of himself in big things,” hold true, but
only through self-mastery in little things can
self-mastery in big be assured. ‘And each
passing day offers opportunities for the neces
sary schooling in self-control.
Between dawn and nightfall, day after day,
something vexatious and annoying is bound
to occur.
The train may be late, the postman slow
in delivering the mail, the Cook may burn the
toast or ruin the bacon.
Mud may be splashed on one’s clothes by
a careless driver, the wind may bear away
one’s hat, a lubberly lout may bump into one
turning a corner.
A tardy stenographer may delay the office
routine, business papers may be strangely
missing as the result of a clerk’s negligence,
the usual golf game in the afternoon may be
prevented by a protracted conference.
To the self-controlled happenings like these
are of no particular moment. Certainly they
do not call for ejaculations of surprise, and
disappointment should not cause fussing and
fuming.
These are precisely the effects they produce
on persons of scant control. And it is by
training one’s self to meet such occurrences
calmly, to refuse to allow them to stampede
one into a fever of anger or anxiety, that the
foundations of self-control may most surely
be laid.
Day after day, the first thing on awaking,
the uncontrolled should say to themselves
with emphatic reiteration, even if necessary
going to the (ength of putting their assertion
down in writing:
“I know that something is going to occur
toddy calculated to annoy me. Sctoaething
always does. I will not let it catch me una
wares, will not let it draw from me expres
sions, or even'indications, of irritation, wor
ry, or fear.
“Whatever happens I will maintain a <jalm
demeanor. I will not snarl or frown or show
an uirdignified uneasiness. I will recollect
that I have put myself on guard against my
self, and will behave accordingly.”
In the case of the uncontrolled, it must
frankly be added, it is impossible that this,
good resolution will be kept to the full from
the outset. There are sure to be slips from
time to time.
But, persevering, the conquest of the triv
ial will soon or late be complete. And it
will be found that in conquering the trivial a
degree of control has been gained really fit
ting one to meet manfully the severest of
tests.
Whereas, by endeavoring to secure self
control in critical emergencies without first
acquiring control in merely vexatious situa
tions, no headway whatever can be made.
The old habits of control deficiency will per
sist, kept alive by the foolish fretting over the
trivial.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated
Newspapers.)
RELIGION AND* DRUNKENNESS
By Dr. Frank Crane
With the man who gets drunk I can sym
pathize, though I was never drunk in my
life. But I know what he wants.- It is that
elevation above the pettiness, cheapness, and
commonness of the daily grind. It x is the
time when the old clock strikes thirteen. It
is the moment of let go and don’t care.
For most of us how cramped life is! There
are moods when we hate the bars of com
monplace that hem us in. We loathe the
dining room furniture and hall carpet. We
appreciate Mary McLane’s outbreak of fury
against that row of toothbrushes in the bath
room. We are tired of Bill Stubbs and his
profanity; and just as bored with Deacon
Chadband and his side whiskers. We long
to strip off our respectability as a garment
and go in swimming with bad boys. We re
volt at clothes, with a Greek passion for
nudity. We would rather fight than eat.
This is the soul-state that drives men to
alcohol. The only salvation for us who have
these spells is to find some other form of
intoxication. Blessed is the man who can
get drunk on politics, poetry, romance, fish
ing, hunting, problems, religion. No relig
ion can permanently appeal to the race un
less it have this strange power of inebria
tion. The apostles on the day of Pentecost
were accused of being full of wjne; then
Peter stood up and said:
“Ye men of Judea, these men are not
drunken, as ye suppose; but this is that
which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And
it shall come to pass in the last days, saith
God, I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh;
and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, and your young men shall see vis
ions, and your old men dream dreams.”
All through the ages, from the Hebrew
prophets, the “speaking with tongues” in
apostolic days, and the ecstasies of Francis
of Assisi and Catherine of Siena, to the
“high jumpers” and shotuing Methodists and
taegro camp meetings of our times, this stim
ulating, quickening function has inhered in
religion.
It is present also in heathen religions, in
the Greek revel, the oriental frenzy, the Ber
serker rage, the Indian dance.
Whoever cuts the tonic, intoxicant quality
out of religion has cut out its heart.
We may need morality, but we don’t want
it. We want high life. We want to dream
dreams and see visions and prophesy.
And the kind of religion that will ulti
mately prevail will provide for an intoxica
tion with righteousness. It will be a flame,
but not of sensuality, as the Greek, nor
blood lust, as the Aztec, but will be the rais
ing of kindness, justice, love, altruism and
hope to a white heat.
It will be the clean fire of the Infinite.
Ever the highest cry of the soul is: “My
cup runneth over!”
, (Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
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Remember the long ago when the little
girl looked forward to young ladyhood and
the time for putting on long skirts?—Nash
ville Banner.
DENVER’S
TUBERCULOSIS
PROBLEM x
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
Dsnver, Colo., Aug. 15.— a
campaign to induce persons
having tuberculosis and no
funds to stay away from Den
ver is now being vigorously waged
by the health authorities here. Leaf
lets explaining why such persons
are much better off at home are be
ing scattered broadcast throughout
the country by the Denver Anti-
Tuberculosis society, and physicians
in every state are being asked to
co-operate in checking the perpetual
rukh of indigent lungers for the
Queen City.
A few years ago, the United States
public health service, which made
an investigation here, estimated that
at least 400 tuberculous persons
without funds come to Denver every
year, and that the number is in
creasing. This is due to the mis
taken idea, still widely prevalent in
the east, that climate alone will cure
tuberculosis, when, as a mat
ter of fact, climate is an unimpor
tant factor compared to rest, out
door sleeping and good food. And
of these latter facilities Denver has
practically none to offer free of
charge.
Many health seekers come here, of
course, with the idea of maintaining
themselves by doing light work, but
to find such work, or work of any
kind for a person with active tuber
culosis, is practically impossible. The
demand is always many times great
er than the supply. Hence, the av
erage case proceeds about like this:
A lunger arrives with from S6O to
SIOO in his pocket. He is unable to
find work, so he seeks a cheap lodg
ing house and economizes on food
in order to make his small capital
last as long as possible. In this
way he may manage to eke out
a misearable existence for two
months or more, at the end of which
time he is much worse than when
he came and farther than ever away
from work. With his money gone,
he is thrown upon the charity of
Denver, which must either take care
of him or send him home.
In addition to these pathetic cases,
nearly every train brings one or two
persons who are in the last stages
of tuberculosis, for whom there is
no possible hope of recovery, but
who have spent nearly all their
money in a frantic last attempt to
reach Denver before it is too late.
For these unfortunates, about to die
and in need of immediate hospital
care, Denver also has practically no
facilities.
Accomodations Are Few
There is no state nor municipal
sanatorium here. The best that the
city has to offer its own tubercular
victims is a few beds—thirty-five
or so—in the county hospital, used
chiefly for the far advanced cases
and the dying. Several private in
stitutions care for patients at rates
ranging from S4O to $l6O a month,
with very few beds at the low fig
ure, and there are also many cheap
tubercular homes, accommodating
patients at from $lO to S3O a week,
but these latter are without medical
care. They usually consist of old
fashioned houses, to which several
sleeping porches have been hurriedly
attached and crowded with beds.
For the care of persons without
funds there are a few very good in
stitutions which doubtless ably met
the situation some years ago, but
which are now hopelessly inadequate.
Among these are two free Jewish
sanitariums, with a capacity of 150
beds each, which accept only a small
percentage of Gentiles. Patients de
siring to enter these must apply
from their place of departure, and
await notification before coming
to Denver. The waiting lists are al
ways an d it is usually months
before an applicant can be admit
ted.
There is also the Craig Colony, a
small institution housed in tents on
a level, shady stretch of ground lo
cated on the outskirts of the city,
and maintained by tag days and other
forms of public subscription. This
colony, established by an early Den
ver lunger named Craig, is for in
digent tuberculous men.
Among the better pay institutions
is the Agnes Memorial Home for
Tubeculosis victims, built by Senator
Phipps to the memory of his mother,
where patients are cared for at rates
ranging from sl3 to S3O a week. This
is acknowledged to be one of the
finest tubercular sanitariums in the
west, if not in the entire United
States. It specializes in training
persons with tuberculosis how (to
take care of themselves, and each pa
tient is discharged at the end of a
year upon the supposition that he
or she has obtained all the benefit
the sanitarium has to offer.
Various small sanitariums with
moderate rates are also maintained
by church organizations of Denver.
There is the Oaks Home, an Episco
pal institution, and the Evangelical
Lutheran Church supports a house
full of tuberculous patients at rates
ranging from $45 to S6O a month.
The Dutch Reform Church has a very
attractive, spotless sanitarium, too,
reminding one of the far-famed
qualities of Dutch cleanser. Its rate
is extremely moderate, being only $6 a
week, but it accepts only the afflict
ed members of its own denomination.
Denver Is Unprepared
From this brief outline of Denver’s
tuberculosis facilities, it may be
seen that the city is in no position
to receive the large number of im
pecunious tuberculous persons who
insist upon coming here. It isn’t that
Denver is inhospitable. It is just
that it is unprepared. As the health
authorities point out, if climate alone
could save these sufferers, Denver
would welcome them, not only for
humanitarian reasons, but because of
the debt she owes to the tuberculous
who have come here with sufficient
funds to regain their health and who
have helped to make her what she is.
Many authorities agree that a cure
is facilitated by adding a favorable
climate to the essentials already
mentioned —good food, rest and prop
er care—but these should be obtained
first. There are many free sanitari
ums providing them in the east, so
that the easterner contracting tuber
culosis is fleeing his best chance of
recovery when he passes up his home
facilities and stakes his all on the
Colorado sun and altitude.
That the Denver climate has fall
en down on its job in eradicating the
disease is evidenced by recent statis
tics gathered by the Anti-Tubercu
losis society, which show that the
percentage of cures is much larger
in Pittsburg than it is in Denver.
Moreover, Denver is now facing the
disquieting fact that its own native
death rate from tuberculosis has in
creased 20 per cent during the past
few years.
URGE SOLDIERS BACK TO FARM
What has become of the’ American
youths who left homes and farms in
cities and in the country district
when the call to arms came, and who,
though not reported killed or nu ß ?-
ing, have failed to return to their
homes? This is the question that the
Salvation Army is being called upon
to solve almost daily in every section
of this country.
If statistics issued by government
departments at Washington are to be
believed, less than 5 per cent of the
boys who left farms in America to
enter the war have returned again to
the soil. Os course the majority of
these youths have returned safely to
this country, but the lure of the big
cities has proved too attractive to
them.« Thousands of farmers, trou
bled over the present situation with
farm help almost impossible to ob
tain, have turned to the Salvation
Army for help.
The Salvation Army, in so far as it
can do so, is urging the return of,
men to the farms. This is being done
through the various soldier clubs and
hotels which are still being) main
tained at army posts and demobiliza
tion points, and also through its close
associations with many men who
have been discharged from the serv
ice but have not yet returned to their
homes. „ . ,
With the formation of county ad
visory boards throughout each coun
ty in the states, the Salvation Army
is leaving no stones unturned to lo
cate these men and to do all in its
power to induce them to return to
their former homes. —Houston Post.
Experts - predict that there will be
1,000.000 would-be auto owners in
the United States on January 1, 1921,
who are still without a car. It is
estimated that about 2,000,000 new
machines will be turned out this year,
but that 3,000,000 people want them.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1020.
CURRENT EVENTS ;
A hair-raising demonstration of
the efficacy of a new aircraft fire
proofing compound was staged at
Atlantic City, N. J., a few weeks
ago by two American airmen, late of
the Lafayette Escadrille. Each of
the men first donned a special flying
suit and metal helmet, both of
which had been painted with the
compound. Mechanics then sprayed
each) with gasoline. Meanwhile the
plane, which also had been painted
with the preparation, was similarly
drenched with gasoline. Pilot and
passenger climbed into their cock
pits. As the engine was started, a
torch was applied to airmen and air
craft. Roaring forward over the
airdrome, then, like a flaming,
smoking comet, the plane rose into
the air, and for five minutes horri
fied the spectators. At the end of
this time the flames died out, and
the plans was brought to earth.
Careful inspection having heen
.made, airmen and airplane were
found to be unharmed except for a
coating of soot.
A delegation of* 125 boys from
Texas farms arrived in New York
last week, in company with a group
of bankers and business men from
the Lone Star State, while touring
the country in search of knowledge
along progressive agricultural ines.
After seeing all the sights of
Gotham, including Chinatown, Grant’s
tomb, the Great White Way and the
aquariam, the young Texans pro
ceeded to Washington, where Sec
retary of Agriculture Meredith
made them a speech.
National prohibition iA here, as
everybody knows, yet eight months
after the •drough descended, 160 solid
carloads of liquor were shipped from
Louisville between May 5 and July
26, according to railroad officials at
the Kentucky metropolis. Further
more, from August 6 to August 14
thirty carloads were shipped. The
average since May has been about
four cars a day, it is reported. Most
of the consignments of wet goods go
to New York and other esdaern cities,
it is said.
The danger of wild animals in the
United States may not seem to be
very great, but the government
nevertheless, employs a force of 500
men to fight them and spends im
mense sums every year in the cam
paign. The fighting forces are or
ganized under the bureau of biologi
cal survey of the agricultural de
partment. Last year 32,000 wild
animals were killed under their di
rection. The force of skilled hun
ters are constantly employed in the
work. This warfare, it is estimated,
saved at least $5,000,000 worth of
stock on the farms throughout the
country last year. In a single sec
tion of Colorado seventy-five miles
in diameter it is reported that twen
ty-five sheep a day were killed by
coyotes.v The loss of cattle, colts,
pigs and sheep in the Far West
due to wild animals amounts every
year to tens of thousands of dol
lars.
The gigantic treasure that Amer
ica gave ti). the winning of the war
is vividly summarized in the speech
Governor Cox delivered at Camp
Perry last week. Comsider some of
his statements:
“The cost of the United States
was more than $1,000,000 an hour
for over two years. The total ex
pense of $22,000,000,000 was almost
equal to the total disbursements of
1 the United States government from
1791 to 191 Sf. It was sufficient to
have run the revolutionary war for
more than one thousand years at
the rate of expenditure which that
war involved. The army expendi
tures alone, so experts claim, ap
proach the volume of gold produced
in the United States from the dis
covery of America up to the out
break of the European war.”
The.once famous battleship lowa,
which played no small part in the
destruction of Cervera’s fleet at San
tiago, is being prepared at the Phila
delphia Navy Yard for what naval
officers say will be one of the most
unique target experiments ever at
tempted. / ' x
Proceeding unmanned, but under
her own steam and controlled by
radio, probably from seaplanes, the
old seafighter will become the ob
jective of the big guns of the At
lantic fleet superdreadnaughts in
Chesapeake Bay late this summer.
This will be the first time that Amer
ican warships have used a moving
craft for a target except in actual
war. //
The A. E.zlK—that immortal crew
of fighting Americans who wrecked
the kaiser’s (dreams —will be no more
on August 31. At the end of this
month the last unit of the American
expeditionary forces ceases to exist:
Headquarters for the great arm that
crosses the ocean to fight in France
will be transferred and General Per
i shing will remain in charge in Amer
ica until he retires to private life, in
line with his recent announcement.
On his staff will be all of the officers
who guided the destiny of the world’s
greatest combat troops during the
war.
An inconspicuous young secretary
to a New York railroad magnate
woke up one morning last week and
found that he had inherited the com
fortable little sum of $50,000,000.
He was Arthur T. Walker, and' he
had been looking after the clerical
affairs of the late Edward F. Searles,
the man who figured prominently in
building up the Union Pacific rail
road. The lucky secretary has been
practically unknown to New York
previous to his arrival as a full
fledged multi-millionaire.
Victor Hoffman, an Australian
sailor, has failed to make Uncle Sam
pay him $135,000 which he claitned
was due him because he and a num
ber of seamen were interned here
during the war after their vessels
were seized by the American govern
ment. A federal judge in New Or
leans dismissed his damage suit last
week. Hoffman felf* that the United
States should pay him and his com
panions for the time they had lost.
The judge thought otherwise.
The United States is, now short
something like 5,000,000 dwellings
and apartments, meaning that up
wards of 25,000,000 people are living
in makeshift homes today. So says
a report just issued by the chief en
gineer of the United States housing
corporation. It may take five or six
years for some of the big cities to
catch up with the demands. Build
ing work has been slowed down tre
mendously by railroad strikes, in
ability to get steady labor and other
conditions.
Brazil has invited 2,500 German
immigrants to come to South Amer
ica and make their homes there, the
Brazilian government paying all
traveling expenses. .In response to
the invitation, a 428 Huns sailed from
Hamburg last week. If it is or
dained that Germans must come to
this side of the Atlantic there will
probably be few Americans who will
lament the fact that they are head
ing 1,000 miles or so south of the
U. S. A.
To fight this years’ invasion of
grasshoppers, farmers out In Kansas
are spreading poisoned bran mash on
a community basis. At some cen
tral point, committees prepare the
mixture of bran, syrup and arsenic
that later proves to be a deadly dish
for the hungry enemy, and the gov
ernment is lending big army trucks
in hauling the materials. Demonstra
tions on mixing and applying are
conducted regularly.
If you own any stock in the Stand
ard Oil company, of New York, you
are probably due to participate in a
big "melon cutting.” It is reported
in Wall street that the concern will
sopn increase its capital stock, from
$75,000,000 to $225,000,000, and that
stockholders on record September 10
will be given a 200. per cent stock
dividend.
New York’s first bale of 1920 cot
ton arrived in the nation’s metropo
lis last week. It came from Georgia,
of course, and had been shipped from
Savannah. At auction on the New
York Cotton Exchange it brought
$1.30 a pound, and the buyer donated
the proceeds to charity. When this
valuable bale arrives at Liverpool
it will again be auctioned.
All the Reds are not in Russia and
the United States. Down in Buenos
Aires last week a business-like
bomb was exploded at the door of
I the criminal court where eleven an
[ archists, accused of plotting a com
i munist revolution, were being tried.
Quite a panic followed but no one
l was seriously hurt.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
TRIAL DIVORCE
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
tttE were discussing the case of
\A/ the Smiths, who were dl
y y vorced a year or two ago
with much laundering of
soiled linen in public, and who have
just remarried.
“It is very common for people who
have divorced each other to remar
ry,” said a famous laVvyer, “and it
would occur still oftener except for
the morbid dread most men and
women have of appearing ridiculous.
They think their friends would laugn
at them if they went sneaking back
into the same matrimonial fold out
of which they have broken with sucn
a tale of cruelty, and heart break, and
general woe.
“I am convinced that the feeling
that brings a young couple together
and that is made up of the dreams,
and faith and romance and high hope
of youth makes a bond between them
that never quite breaks. It may wear
pretty thin, and get frazzled in
places, but you can patch it up so
that it will hold to the end.
“I am /also certain that when the
average husband and wife quarrel
and fall out they are not really out
of love with each other, as they think
they are. They are merely tired of
each other. They have gotten on each
other’s nerves instead of each other's
hearts, and what they need is a tem
porary separation instead of a per
manent divorce.
"So when a wife comes and bedews
the end of my desk with her tears,
and tells me how cruel her husband
is to her, and how he neglects her,
and how she suspects that yellow
headed, stringy stenographer of his,
though goodness knows what _any
body can see in that made-up crea
ture passes her comprehension, and
will I please get her a divorce from
the brute.
“And when a pale, grim-fa Ced man
asks me to apply for a divorce for
him from a wife whose nagging and
fretting he can no longer endure, and
who admits, under cross-examina
tion, that he does think he would
be happier with a younger woman,
why, I say to them:
" 'Certainly. I think It would be
highly immoral for two people to con
tinue to live together who feel to
ward each other als you do. I will
take the case, but only upon the con
dition that you separate for a year,
and hold no communication, either
by speech or letter "with one another.
You must do just as I say, and If
at the end of the year you still' want
the divorce I will arrange the matter
as quickly and with as little pub
licity as possible.*
“Then, if the husband is rich, I
send the wife to Honolulu or Japan
for a year, and I see that she does
not get nearly as much money to
spend as she has been in the habit
of having. If the husband is a poor
man I send the wife back to live on
her own people, and she gets only
the small amount of money that she
would have as alimony from a di
vorced husband earning the salary
hers does.
“Nine times out of ten before the
year is over the warring couple have
made up their difference and have
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
Cartersville Needs * New Hotel
Cartersville does need a hotel—or
its present one completely rebuilt.
That much is certain.—Cartersville
Tribune News.
Cartersville’s board of trade
should go after It at the rate of
about $6,000 a minute.
Who Owns the Car
Never judge a man by his appear
ances. The man with the biggest
goggles doesn’t always own the ma
chine.—Savannah Press.
Work Only When Broke
Horses will not work until they
are "broken,” apd-Jots of men will
not work until they are broke.—
Cedartown Standard.
Well, a fellow doesn’t need money
when he isn’t broke, does he?
Mrs. Jiggs for President
When women come into control
will they use the rolling pin as the
emblem of all parties?—Americus
Times-Recorder.
Clayton Tribune to Suspend
The Clayton Tribune announces
that it will suspend publication this
week, the suspension being caused by
its inability to meet current expenses
due to the present high cost of paper
and other expertses. Th© Tribune fig
ured that the average cost of produc
ing a weekly newspaper is $5 a year
for each subscriber.—Butler Herald,
The Tribune is one of 2,800 news
papers that have been' forced to sus
pend publication on account of the
high cost of print paper, printing
machinery and the disrupted labor
conditions.
Fay More And Get ’em Longer
“Others can do as they please,”
says the Galveston News, “but per
sonally we would rather pay a dollar
more for a summer coat and get one
long enough.”—Columbus Enquirer-
Sun.
, Curb Market in Augusta
The curb market at Augusta for
products from the surrounding farms
has won attention throughout this
section. The market Saturday was
again well attended, both by buyers
and sellers.—Augusta Chronicle.
A. J. Majors Retires
A. J. Majors, for several years
editor and proprietor of the Milton
Advocate, has disposed of the paper
to a local stock company. Mr. Ma
jors has been in the newspaper busi
ness in Georgia for years, and has
a multitude of friends who hope that
his retirement from the publishing
game is merely temporary.
Ws’ve Noticed This
Not every man who can talk the
loudest has the biggest brain.—
Swainsboro Forest-Blade.
But Will - She?
The girl who can dance ten miles
in an evening can certainly shimmy
the dishes through hot water for fif
teen minutes.—Thomasville Times-
Enterprise. '
The “Weaker Sex” Wine
The weaker sex is so strong that
it gets what it wants whenever it
wants it.—Thomasville Times-Enter
prlse.
Johnny Jones on the Stump
Editor John H. Jones, of the daily
and weekly LaGrange Reporter, can
didate for the state senate, has ap
pointed Mrs. John R. Sterling to act
as editor-in-chief of the Reporter
until after the primary. Editor Jones
has made announcement that he will
not use the Reproter for the purpose
of advancing his political interests.
“Perfect Thirty-sixes” Disappearing
The dressmakers of New York are
bewailing the fact that there is a
shortage of models who are “perfect
thirty-sixes.” Girls will get fat.—
Bainbridge Post-Searchlight.
Nature’s Peculiarities
Another proof the cussedness of
nature may be found in the fact
that an airman may fall 20,000 feet
from his airplane without getting a
scratch, and then go and stumble
over a root and break his neck.—Dub
lin: Tribune.
Evidences Favors the Girls
Some statisticians ought to find out
whether divorces . are more frequent
just before leap year than at any other
time. One would think that many
would draw off old ties when they
are about t» have the privilege of
Selecting new ones.—Brunswick
News.
At a recent meeting of the new
stockholders of the Marietta Jour
nal Publishing company officers were
elected as follows: E..P. Dobbs, pres
ident; John P. Cheney, vice president;
David Comfort, secretary treasurer.
Board of directors: M. L. McNeel,
L. B. Robeson, E. P. Dobbs, John P.
Cheney, David Comfort. Bernard
Awtry, a former well-known news
paper editor and publisher, succeeds
David Comfort as editor. Under the
management of Editor Comfort, The
Journal was recognized as one of
Georgia’s best weekly newspapers.
taken their household goods out of
storage and set up a new home, which
generally is a happy one, for they
have had a lesson that they are not
likely to forget.
“There are many reasons why peo
ple who get divorced in haste repent
at leisure, and would like to have
their decrees absolutely nullified if
they could. Os course, the main rea
son is the children. Almost any
kind of a father and mother are bet
ter than none at all, and no man can
listen to his babe’s cry fori . its
mother, and no mother realizes her
boy’i heed* of a father, without feel
ing that they had better have stood
anything than orphaned their chil
dren.
“Then absence draws a sponge
over the peculiarities and faults in
others that Irritated us. We forget
the little ways that aggravated us,
and remember only the kind and
gentle things, as we remember only
the good of the (dead.
"The - man who had thought him
self bored to death with domesticity,
and who had pined for freedom from
matrimony, finds out that marriage
has ruined him for the gay life.
After a month of club cooking his
digestion is on the bum, and he pines
for home-made bread, and somebody
to worry over him when he has the
headache. And he ascertains that,
there is no particular fun* in staying
out late when nobody cares whether
you do or not.
“And he’s scared to death at the
thought of having to marry the af
finity that he thought he wanted to
marry when he knew he couldn’t
marry her. ,
“As for the woman; she also makes
a few wholesome discoveries. One
is, that her own people, who urged
her not to stand her husband’s treat
ment, and egged her on to the divorce
court, turn a cold shoulder to her
when she takes their advice and
comes home to them to be supported.
They were lavish with their pity, but
when it comes to dividing their
money with her, that’s another story.
“Likewise, the woman finds out
that if matrimony Is no picnic, 1
divorce Is no elyslum. The divorced
woman has no such settled estab
lishment She is neither maid, wife, 1
nor widow, yet she has the privileges
of none. And, anyway, a man is a
handy thing to have around • the
house, especially about the first of
the month. Also freedom when
coupled with the freedom to make
your living, Isn’t what it Is cracked
up to be.
“For these and a million other rea- |
sons, most men and women regret the
divorce they have rushed into In the
heat of anger. And they would glad
ly go back to the one whose faults
they know, rather than get accus
tomed to a brand-new set of pecu- 1
liarltles in a stranger, If they" had
the nerve to face their friends*
laughter.
“And that Is why I advise all war
ring couples to try a year’s absence
cure before they go to a lawyer.
Railroad tickets are cheaper than
divorce. And less messy.” «
Dorothy Dix articles appear regu
larly in this paper every Monday*
Wednesday and Friday.
Mrs. Solomon Says:
By HELEN ROWLAND
Being The Confesslona of the
Seven-Hundredth Wife
(Copyright, 1920, by The Wheeler Syndi-
BE glad, my daughter, rejoice
and be glad!
Give thanks that thou llv
est in the day a thousand
follies— the day of sweetness and
light, and moving pictures, and base
ball, and cabarets, and phonographs
and golf, and motor cars!
The day of a thousand playthings
for grown-up "children!"
For, behold, every wife possessed
a grown-up baby!" ,
Not the kind that feedeth upon
porridge, but the kind that feedeth
upon flattery.
Not the kind that howleth
through the >ight—but the kind that
arlseth and howleth at a baseball
game.
Not the kind that must be nursed
through the measles—but the kind
that requlreth to be nursed through,
blues and grouches and dosed with
soothing syrup.
Not the kind that spattereth the
tablecloth and shattereth its toys,
but the kind that filleth the house
with smoke and ashes and cigarette
stumps, spattereth soap all over the
bash room, and leaveth Its clothes
wheresoever It droppeth them.
Not the kind that must be sung to
sleep—but the kind that must be
cooed to and diverted and kept
awake, after dinner!
Yea, verily, verily, every man is a
Peter Pan—a thing of fancies and a
boy, forever!
Therefore, if thou wouldst be a
happy \ wife, I charge thee, when,
thou weddest, waste not thy sub
stance upon laces and lingerie, and.
baking tins and embroidered linens;
>but fill the closets of thine house
with toys, with dime novels and with,
comic magazines, with golf sticks
and phonographs and fox-trot rec
ords; with picture puzzles, and aulja
boards and tennis balls and fishing
tackle.
Seek not to acquire a knowledge of
literature, and a business, and of pol
itics, but to acquire knowledge of
the newest dance steps, and the lat
est popular songs, and the favorite
movie stars and the brightest vaude
ville jokes.
Aspire not to reform thine hus
hand, neither to “uplift” him, but to
entertain him!
For behold, when a man weddeth.
he is not looking for salvation, but
for recreation; he is not seeking con
version, but diversion.
"And a little ‘reformer’ is a deadly,
thing.
Go to! When thou laughest at the
prattle of a babe, and pretendest to
.play "pat-a-cake,” doth it not adore
thee?
Likewise, when thou laughest at a
man’s wit and pretendest to enjoy
his games, he shall call the blessed
and praise thine “understanding.”
For, every man’s vision of a per
fect made is not a soul-mate, but a
playmate. ‘She weareth not a halo*
but a cap and bells!
And an ideal wife is one that
knoweth how to be a mother to her
own husband.
Verily, verily, the woman who
hojdeth sway over a man’s heart for
ever is she who keepeth him eternal
ly amused!
Selah.
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