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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 11.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wtt.l Mo. 3 Moe. 6 Mos. 1 Xr. i Dally and Sunday2oc 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 I Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 The Tri-Weekly Journal is -published . on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. 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 uaed for addressing your paper aliowa 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 <*lVe the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bets. Remittances should be sent by postal order or 16 Address all orders and notices for this Department to 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.) a 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. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS ! WEN A LIE 6IT OUT OH A MAN ME ALLUZ WANTEF? KNOW HOW IT STARTED, BUT WEN DE TruF 6it out he mos' l Em Ginally study Bout row T z STOP ITff j— aM CeprrUM. toaopy McClure Newspaper Syn Skate