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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURN AL, Atlanta. Ga.
Thinking Georgians Unite
On Smith to Beat Watson
AS the Senatorial contest develops it be
comes increasingly evident that the
race is between Hoke Smith and
Thomas E. Watson. This is but natural in
view of the striking antithesis which these
« two present in purpose, in policy, in tempera
ment and in record. The one is interested in
‘ things useful and constructive, in the security
of business, the progress of agriculture, the
upbuilding of industry, the advancement of
education, in the substantial rights and wel
fare of the rank and file. The other is in
’ terested primarily in political adventure, in
arraying class against class and section
against section, in tearing down where others
seek to construct, in invoking hatred and
strife where others plead for good will and
co-working. Senator Smith has been fight
ing Democracy’s battles from the perilous
depths of Reconstruction up to this high hour,
never failing, never tiring. Mr. Watsop has
been hating the Democratic party for the
last forty years. Senator Smith supported
every war measure put forward in the coun
try’s struggle with German militarism, and
V through wise counsel and zealous labor has-
• tened the dawn of victory. Mr. Watson pe
rsisted those measures, turned a hostile hand
against the cause for which the nation was
pouring out her dearest blood, and urged a
course that would have made America’s name
a byword and a hissing for the ages.
£ It is natural, we say, that with two such
fundamentally opposite characters, two such
radically different records in the field, the
contest should lie between those two, regard
less of the effort to inject irrelevant issues
and minor candidates. It is natural, more
over, indeed inevitable, that open-minded
-Georgians who prefer substance to sensa
tionalism and think the wisdom of their Re
public’s fathers to be better than Bolshe
vism’s rage should turn to the support of that
candidate who stands out as the strong cham
pion of their interests, the candidate who can
WIN for the prosperity and the honor of the
State. There are scores of good Democrats,
be it granted, who in point of patriotism and
native ability might well bear the standard
of Georgia’s loyal hosts in this momentous
campaign. There are educators, jurists and
ministers, there are business men and big
brained artisans, there are captains of indus
try and captains of agriculture who would be
well worthy, in point of character and
thought power, to lead. But need it be said
that those qualities alone do not suffice in a
contest so crucial as this, nor for problems
such as a United States Senator, especially if
he is from Georgia and the South, has await
ing him. It is not a simple question of who
is worthy, but also a question of who can
win against the adroit and dangerous Mr.
Watson, and of who best can serve the Com
monwealth.
These are the considerations that give de
cisive weight to Senator Smith’s appeal for
the support of all who wish to see this bat
tle won for Georgia’s material interests and
good name. His is the experience, his the
lorcefulness, his the strategic position re
quired for the great task in hand. It is easy
to see why advocates of Mr. Watson would
favor the thrusting of other candidates into
the race and smile complacently at a sunder
ing of the true Democratic vote. But it well
nigh passes understanding why any who wish
for Mr. Watson’s defeat should ever have
counseled such division, should ever have
forced a third candidate who obviously can
not be elected and who can only sap strength
from the party’s critical battlefront. One
motive and one alone explains that blunder,
the motive of blind malice which certain po
litical feudists ever have, and doubtless ever
will, hold against Hoke Smith. All that he
has done for Georgia weighs nothing against
their petty grudge. All his services to agri
culture and business and education, all his
talent in originating useful laws and his skill
in pressing them to enactment, all his labors
of patriotism in season of war and his work
for disabled soldiers since the armistice, his
strength and integrity of character, his val
uable friendships and influence at Washing
ton, his high worth to the party and the Com
monwealth, all count for nothing in the eyes
of them who cannot see for petty hate.
So It is that they go on abusing Senator
Smithy doing their utmost, even though un
wittingly, to weaken the sinew and split the
vote of the State’s true Democracy. Judged
by their tactics, they are not trying to defeat
Thomas E. Watson; they are interested solely
in defeating Senator Smith. They would
hazard the State’s birthright of honor to feed
upon pottage of factional revenge.
Happily, however, the rank and file of
Georgia’s citizenry have hearts less bitter than
this, and better balanced heads. Many of
them have differed with the senior Senator
on issues gone by, but they are not therefore
incapable of thinking now in terms of a vital
present instead of a dead past, and in the
broad interest of their State instead of nar
row factionism. They see the contest as it
really is, that it lies altogether between Sen
ator Smith and Mr. Watson, and that the
common welfare imperatively demands a
union of loyal forces behind the cause for
which the senior Senator stands. This is the
view of unprejudiced, practical patriotism,
and the view that must prevail for Georgia’s
sake.
A newsdealer in Newark has just died,
leaving one hundred and eighty-five thou
sand dollars, which would indicate that edi
tors are on the wrong end of the game.—
Burlington News.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Pay for Disa bled Soldiers
FURTHER assurance that disabled war
veterans taking Vocational training in
Atlanta, and possibly all in Georgia
and the south, will get an increase of S2O
a month in their allotment from the gov
ernment, is contained in the current issue
of the American Legion Weekly.
Hope that the increase would be granted
was expressed to ex-service men in At
lanta recently by Senator Hoke Smith, who
was instrumental in framing the vocation
al educational bill who fought hard
against the amendment of Senator War
ren limiting the full compensation to vo
cational students “residing in congested
centers of population where maintenance
and support is above the average and com
paratively high.’’
Within the past few weeks Senator Smith
was informed that the vocational board,
in interpreting the amendment, had de
cided to give twenty dollars a month in
crease to students in communities where
the cost of board and lodging was forty
five dolars a month or over, ten dollars
a month increase where the average cost
was between forty and forty-five dollars a
month, and not to give any increase to
students living where the cost of living
was less than forty dollars a month.
The Senator’s prediction that Atlanta and
many other southern communities will fall
in the “forty-five dollars a month” class
is borne out by the article in the American
Legion Weekly, -which states that the vo
cational board, getting its information in tele
grams from the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A.,
the American Legion and other authoritative
sources in all parts of the nation, has begun
to classify the different communities with a
view to giving tbe extra allowance on the
August pay check.
“As this is being written,” states the Le
gion’s correspondent, “telegrams are
pouring into the board from its division a.
offices, recommending this city and that, one
training center and another, for the full
twenty dollars monthly increase. To be ex
act, on July 26, just five days before August
Ist pay day,, 13,842 vocational students in
twenty-three vocational training centers had
been designated as entitled to the monthly
increase of twenty dollars in their allow
ance, and such progress was being made that
the auditor of the board stated that, in all
probability, 25,000 students of the 38,662
disabled men drawing compensation, in all
but the most isolated places of training,
would get the twenty dollars increase on the
August Ist payroll.”
Atlanta, states the Legion Weekly, in nam
ing over a list of cities, is certain to fall in
the class where the high cost of living de
mands the full increase. The designation of
a city in a certain class also takes in all
towns, cities and institutions within com
muting distance of the place named.
The Legion Weekly predicts that so many
training centers will fall into the “forty-five
dollars a month class” and that men living in
those not included will raise suhc protests if
they are not given the full increase, the board
eventually will issue a blanket order giving
the increase to every man, no matter where
he lives.
It is to be hoped that the Legion Weekly
is right, for The Journal agrees with Senator
Smith that no man who was disabled in the
war and is now seeking to rehabilitate Glim
self should be excluded from any sum the
government can afford to allot him while he
is studying to put himself again on his feet,
independent and self-supporting.
,/ “Slogans are born (> not made,” says a Chi
cago booster. But that doesn’t simplify the
problem of getting rid of slogans much. —-
Kansas City Star.
Light Effects on Plant Life
DISCOVERIES recently made by the na
tional Bureau of Plant Industry show
that light exerts a more peculiarly in
teresting and decisive influence on plant de
velopment than hitherto has been supposed.
Too many hours of sunshine, it appears, may
prove as unfavorable as too few, not neces
sarily as a matter of temperature but
through the effect of the light itself. On
the principle thus worked out it is said that
the flowering and fruiting of divers plants
can be hastened or retarded, and brought to
pass in any season if the light is properly reg
ulated. Thus violets can be made to bloom in
midsummer by keeping them in the dark ex
cept for the number of hours of daylight to
which they are accustomed in early spring;
and in the same way flowers and vegetables
which ordinarily must bide autumn’s com
ing can be Induced to much speedier matur
ity. That it is light, not temperature, which
controls in these cases is proved by experi
ments in which special care was taken to
keep the temperature for the plants in the
dark enclosures as high as for those outside.
Dr. W. W. Garner and *Dr. W. A. Allard,
to whom the country is indebted for these
interesting and potentially valuable findings,
point out that “spring flowers and spring
crops happen to be spring flowers and spring
crops because the days at the season of their
flowering and fruiting have the proper num
ber of hours of light.” Likewise the flow
ers and crops of summer require a longer
light period, and those of autumn a shorter
one. It appears, moreover, that “a length
of day which is unfavorable to reproduction
may be favorable to growth,” under which
condition the plant will vegetate luxuriant
ly but bring forth no fruit. Where the
length of day is favorable both to vegetative
growth and to reproduction we have the
“ever bearing” types. An experiment with
soy beans is thus reported: “For the test
plants the day was shortened by several
hours; that is, they were exposed to the
light only from ten o’clock in the morning
to three o’clock in the afternoon. They were
first placed in the dark house on May 20.
Control plants, otherwise treated exactly
like the test plants were, were left exposed
to the light from dawn till dark. The first
blossoms appeared on the dark-house plants
on June 16. No blossoms have as yet ap
peared on the plants that were left in the
light all day. These plants require a short
day and a long night for flowering and seed
bearing. In tests with other plants just the
opposite was found to be true. The plants
that were left in the light all day did not
grow luxuriantly, but produced flowers and
seed, while those that were kept in the dark
a part of the day made abundant growth, but
made no seed, or else were greatly retard
ed in producing seed.” Here again the scien
tists observed that, except for extremes of
heat or cold, temperature seemed to exert
relatively little influence. “Plants kept in
the dark for a part of the day underwent,
in midsummer, the changes that in nature
com 6 in the fall and that always have been
attributed to lower temperatures”—this be
ing the case even when the temperature for
the darkened plants was higher than that out
of doorr.
Delvings and discoveries like these seem
to fix tha mind of man as a sovereign over
nature, youngest of her children though he
is. He rises superior to her seasons’ man
dates, lengthening or shortening the lite
cycle of her plants and bringing them by a
thousand wondrous ways to the will of his
royal art. Yet, after all, it is as the old
king said to Shakespeare’s Perdita when they
talked of grafting flowers:
“This is an art
Which does mend nature, —change it
rather;
But the art itself is nature’s.”
STAR GAZING
By H. Addington Bruce
IT was an exceptional night for stars —
no clouds, no moon, an air briskly crisp.
High overhead hung Vega, with Altair
to the south, Arcturus sinking in the west,
Capella rising low on the horizon in the
northeast. Two young people, standing in
the open meadow, feasted their minds and
their souls in a study of the constellations.
You could hardly see them from the road,
their pocket-light ocacsionally flashing in
firefly semblance as they turned it on their
sky map.
Along passed two farmers, homeward
bound. One voiced his puzzlement at the
figures in the meadow, questioning his com
panion as to what they might be doing.
“Doing?” came the contemptuous response.
“They’re staring at the stars. That’s all
they’re doing. Foolishness!”
The young people, hearing, smiled to them
selves. They could afford to smile. Foolish
ness their star gazing might seem to the
farmer. To them it was a source of joy, of
inspiration for finer thinking and nobler do
ing. ,
As in truth, star gazing will prove to all
who undertake it, not as a mere watching
of twinkling pinpoints, but as a means of
gaining a clearer understanding of the world
wherein we live, a broader vision of the uni
verse of which our world is but a tiny frag-
“If you doubt God, go look at the stars,”
is a bit of advice that any religious-minded
thinker might well give. Also go look at
the stars if burdened with worries and cares.
For, as one star lover has exclaimed from
the heart:
“When earthly troubles oppress us there Is
nothing like astronomy for belittling moun
tains to their original molehills.”
Conceit is put in its proper place by a
course of star study. The petty achievements
of which men often are unduly proud are
seen in truer perspective through contempla
tion of the wondrous firmament God has
wrought.
How wondrous it is! How incredibly lofty
and profound. How eloquent, despite its eter
nal silences.
You gaze at the single star Capella. That
is, you thing you are gazing at a single
star.
Actually, astronomers inform you, you are
beholding two stars, millions and millions of
miles apart, yet so far from you that their
light seems to come as from one star only!
Then you let your eyes roam to all quarters
of the compass. Everywhere stars shine down
upon you, vast spaces betwen each star,
however thickly they may seem to be clus
tered. And beyond them all are other spaces
—spacer unimaginable, unknowable.
Your soul grows as you look. Your heart
reaches out and upward. Life and the uni
verse and the supreme Director of life an£
Maker of the universe acquire an ever more
significant meaning to you. You are gaining
an education you need—an education every
one needs.
So, let none of us sneer with the farmer,
“Foolishness!”
Let all become star gazers, looking up, up,
studying the lessons written in hieroglyphs of
gold—lessons that will help the learner to
pass happily through his span of earthly ex
istence and to prepare worthily for the phase
of which the heavens in their majesty give
assurance.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated
Newspapers.)
HOW TO COMBAT BOLSHEVISM
By Dr. Frank Crane
Just now the world is confronted by the
menace of Bolshevism.
The Bolshevists have the largest army in
the world.
They are actuated by an emotional force,
a fanaticism that is stronger than any pa
triotism opposed to it.
1920 is alarmingly like 1914.
Then it was the Central Empires motivized
by insane race-pride and imperialism; now
it is a mad horde who are not opposed to
any nation but to all nations.
It is impossible not to sympathize with the
Russian masses. They have been for genera
tions subjected to the most cruel tyranny of
history. That the people at last arose and
overturned can but somehow gratify our
sense of poetic justice.
But the revolt has got out of hand. It has
been taken advantage of cleverly by a group
of mad Mullahs astride the wild horse of
theory. Seizing the reins of power, the Bol
sheviki, a small minority, marshal the hordes
of Russia to overthrow the civilization of the
world
How shall we combat it? Two or three
truths of common sense are apparent amid
the general confusion.
1. If the Bolshevik! are wrong the most
effective way to prove it is to give them a
chance to work out their theories in Russia.
If wrong they will collapse; if right they will
succeed, and if they should happen to be
right we have no desire to oppose them.
2. Force should not be used. Russia
should not be attacked; at least no more
than is necessary to prevent aggressive con
quests by her. Bolshevism is an idea. No
body but a fool thinks force can stop an idea
3. We should set our own house in order.
The thing that directly and constantly favors
Bolshevism is Class. All efforts to stiffen
Class consciousness, to wage Class war and
to appeal to Class hate should be combated.
4. A combination of Employers and Capi
talists to “fight” Labor, or an organization
of Laborers to “fight” Capitalists is plough
ing the soil and sowing the seed of Bolshe
vism, whose very life blood is Class fury.
5. The essence of Democracy, the soul of
Americanism, is that all men are numan.
Our salvation consists in getting Capitalist
and Laborer to realize that, to get together,
to emphasize co-operation, to drop the fool
notion that violence ever gets any man or
class of men what they want.
6. More attention should be paid to re
organizing industry on a co-operative basis,
to realizing the primacy of the human factor
in business, to the cultivation of mutual un
derstanding, and to a proper detestation of
strife.
7. The summary use of courts, the reli
ance upon laws prohibiting strikes or profi
teering, the transfer of great industries to
government control, the dependence of labor
upon its power to stop industry or destroy
property, and the hostile repression of la
bor’s efforts by guns and militia are all of
a piece of folly.
There is but one way out. It is to Get To
gether. If we don’t we shall certainly “get
ours.”
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes
But what use was it for Prezemsyl to
stay out of the dispatches if Przasnysz had
to butt in?—Houston Post.
In one campaign we heard of ‘the full din
ner pail.” A full gas tank would be popular
now as a slogan.—Pittsburg Gazette Times.
Medical authorities advise boiling the
water, but local wets want to know what to
boil in it—besides a raisin.—Chicago (News.
There is this in favor of putting on a
record by Mr. Harding or Mr. Cox. You
don’t have to roll the rugs up so the young
people can dance. —Grand Rapids Press.
CURRENT EVENTS
Gasoline is so scarce In America
that the Standard Oil company has
contracted to buy 50,000 barrels daily
from a Mexican company for a pe
riod of two and one-half years.
Farmers in the neighborhood of
Atlanta sold more than SIO,OOO worth
of vegetables, chickens, eggs, butter,
hams and other country products one
day last week at the curb market
established as a municipal .enterprise
not long ago.
An aerial railroad, forty-five miles
long, is. under construction in the
Northern Andes, South America, for
the purpose of connecting two towns
in Colombia that are now almost in
accessible because of the steep and
dangerous mountain trails.
If you are planning a trip to Japan,
'it would be well to get started in
the next week or two. After Sep
tember 15, the steamer fare from
the Pacific coast to the Isle of Nip
pon will be boosted 20 per cent, mak
ing the trip cost S3OO.
It cost Great Britain $267,300,000 to
pay for its military operations in
Russia from the date of the armi
stice to last March, according to a
recent announcement of Lloyd
George. Now that the Bolshevik!
are trying to gobble Poland, how
ever, England has stopped sending
troops there.
Thirty-five vessels, aggregating
272,150 deadweight tons, were com
pleted for United States Shipping
Board account in July. Thirty-three
of the vessels were of steel and two
of wood. For the first two weeks
of August eleven vessels aggregating
60,775 deadweight tons were com
pleted.
Raynaud’s diseace, a rare ailment
that affects the extremities, brought
death to a dentist of Yonkers, N. Y.,
last week. He was the sixth victim
to succumb to the strange malady in
the history of the country, doctors
say. The hands and feet of a suffer
er from Raynaud’s disease become
white and cold, then congested, and
finally, gangrenous.
Jean Parmentier, leading figure in
financial affairs of the government
of France, arrived in this country
last week. He told prominent New
Yorkers that his country was on a
sound money basis and that every
dollar of money loaned by America
would be repaid. He may arrange
another loan of $125,000,000 or so
before leaving.
Out at Longview, Texas, cotton
farmers recently adopted the plan of
paying 25 cents a gallon for squares
infected by the boll weevil. When
2,000 gallons had been brought in,
however, it was found that only
about 30 per cent of them had been
attacked by the weevil. After they
were burned the offer was with
drawn.
The United States army is today
scattered over the face of the
earth. Out of a total strength of
203,870, units in continental United
States comprise 153,000; in the
Philippines, roughly 20,000; Ger
many, 15,690 Hawaii, 4,600; ;ana
ma, 4,350«; Porto Rico, 1,500; China,
1,500; Alaska, 890; France, 138, and
England, 13.
Nearly 100,000 American farmers
have purchased approximately 3,000,-
000 acres of land in Western Can
ada since the beginning of the year,
according to a Winnipeg dispatch to
to the Calgary Daily Herald, which
goes on to say that thousands more
are expected during the harvest sea
son to inspect the famous wheat
belt and purchase land on which to
settle next year.
Up to date 3,667 returned men, out
of a total of 18,257 for the whole of
Canada, have been placed on the land
as settlers in the Winnipeg district
by the soldiers’ settlement board. The
loans approved in the Winnipeg dis
trict have been represented at $12,-
247,732, the total loan for the Do
minion amounting to $72,236,142. A
new branch of the soldiers’ settle
ment work is in helping the settlers’
classes of domestic science.
Sir James Eric Drummond, secre
tary general of the League of Na
tions, has purchased the National
hotel, one of the largest in Geneva, for
the League of Nations. The staffs of
the member nations will be housed
in the hotel.
The site of the league's head
quarters has not yet been chosen.
Several international bureaus are
meeting difficulties in finding quar
ters, as the city is overcrowded and
rents and living costs are mounting.
People of the United States are
spending more than $1,000,(100 a day
for coffee. The import valuation of
coffee entering the country in the
last fiscal year was more than $300,-
000,000, and when it is considered
that this import valuation is the price
in the country from which ifnported,
it is quite evident that the added cost
of freight, roasting and distribution
to the consumer will bring the total
above $365,000,000, compared with
two-thirds that sum two years ago.
More than half the vessels enter
ing and leaving American ports to
trade with other nations are under
the American flag, it was announced
yesterday by the United States ship
ping board in making public a sur
vey for the first six months of 1920.
The restoration of the American
flag on the seven seas has proceeded
rapidly the last year. This is shown
by the fact that in 1919 only 42 per
cent of the net tonnage clearing in
export trade was American and only
51 per cent entering in import trade.
A bit in advance of its figures on
business conditions throughout the
country, the United States Chamber
of Commerce has let out information
that the demand for baby carriages
has fallen off just one-half in the
last six months.
A number of reasons are suggest
ed for this stagnation in the baby
buggy business. Housing conditions
are poor nearly everywhere. Domes
tic servants, to act as chauffeurs for
the infant riders, are few and far
between. The cost of baby car
riages has gone skyward along with
everything else.
More cattle are being dipped in
Texas at the present time than ever
before in the history of the state,
according to W. A. Wallace, chair
man of the live stock sanitary com
mission.
"We are breaking all previous
records each month," he says. "The
people become educated to the neces
sity of dipping their cattle and the
benefits that are to be derived from
tick eradication, instead of escaping
in every way possible through some
loophole left when the tick eradica
tion law was recently amended, as
some officials were of the opinion
they would, they are co-operating
with the commission in every way
possible."
The story of the U-58 ends with
a touch which is characteristically
German. It was one of the sub
marines which were surrendered to
the allies at the signing of the armi
stice. Its first visitors, on this oc
casion, were the Americans; they
were eager to read its logbook, and
to find out just what happened on
this final voyage. The book was on
board, and it contained a record of
the U-53’s voyages, from the day that
it was commissioned, up to the day
that it was surrendered. Two or
three pages only were missing; the
Germans had ripped out that part
which described the encounter with
the American subchasers! They were
evidently determined that we should
never have the satisfaction of know
ing to just what extent we had dam
aged the boat; this was the only
revenge they could take on us.
Among candidates for places in the
ranks of new millionaires are the city
marshals in Queens and Brooklyn,
whose incomes from the disposses
sion of families and piling their
furniture in the streets have been
ranging from SIOO to SSOO a day,
according to the best estimates avail
able. ’
These earnings have been reaching
the maximum figures in the last few
days, as evictions have been more
numerous than in any similar period
since the tide in the war between
landlords and tenants began to turn
in favor of the landlords.
The marshals receive $7 for each
dispossess warrant they serve. The
only work the marshal has to do is
to see that the furniture of the
evicted one is not hurled out of a
window, but is carried downstairs
with more or less care and placed
on a sidewalk. Some of the mar
shals now travel in automobiles and
sit fanning themselves while the
“smashers” make the proper clean
up of the furniture.
PICTURESQUE
PUEBLO
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
PUEBLO, Col., Aug. 20.—Many
cities, like people, seem to ac
quire sudden prosperity only
at the expense of :heir dispo
sitions, but not Pueblo. Although an
important industrial metropolis, bur
dened with the responsibility of sup
plying a tremendous variety of man
ufactured articles to the rest of the
world, Pueblo is as informal, as un
pretentious and as friendly as in
the days when it was but a tiny
trading post—and almost as pictur
esque. , ,
Pueblo’s main street is the only
one we have encountered in our west
ern travels which can anywhere near
ly compare with the stirring brand
of western thoroughfares occurring
in the movies and in some of our
most popular fiction.. Even it is
rapidly succumbing to the modern
influence of five-and-ten-cent stores,
Victrola shops, movie palaces, inter
ior decorating parlors and soda
founatin lunch rooms, but a few
traces of the bold, bad west of old
still suivive. Among the most thrill
ing of these are dozens of funny,
little pawnshops, whose windows
contain not the usual assortment of
discarded jewelry, but a formidable
collection of high-class revolvers,
daggers, bowie knives and “jimmies.”
Apparently it is as easy to buy
a dangerous weapon in Pueblo as
it is to be attacked with one in
New York, and yet Pueblo has never
yet had to be quieted down by visits
from the state militia. These stores
cater chiefly to the Mexican popula
tion we are told, the Mexicans being
particularly fond of carrying val
uable weapons, although they are
generally quite peaceful. Thus, while
the stock is largely ornamental, it
gives Pueblo a father reckless air,
especially since a few of the shops
are in direct and sinister line with
impressive undertaking establish
ments.
The appearance of a large num
ber of men in khaki shirts, breeches,
and boots, some of them on horse
back, suggests a mining atmosphere,
but in reality many of them are
foremen and superintendents of
plants producing nothing more start
ling than bricks or saddles. And'
many of the Mexican Don Juans w r ho
stroll gracefully up the main street
on Saturday nights, wearing broad
brimmed, black felt sombreros re
calling Spain of the sixteenth cen
tury, are laborers in the local steel
Plant. ... .
A Western Pittsburg
For Pueblo, in spite of its exotic
touches, is a typical American in
dustrial city, containing over 190
factories and proud of its recent
name, “The Pittsburg of the West.
This is usually an amazing piece ot
news to easterners whose idea of
Pueblo’s industrial or geographical
status is distinctly visionary. Gee,
whiz! This is a regular town, ex
claimed a New Jersey manufacturer
who happened to change trains here
about year ago. “And I always tnougt
it was an Indian village.” As P n
make up for this Injustice, this
manufacturer has now opened n . c
tory here and become a confirmed
Puebloite. , . ,
Pueblo owes its spectacular indus
trial rise to its admirable location,
which is in a basin on the eastern
foothills of the Rockies and on both
sides of the Arkansas river. It is
not only surrounded by the richest
agricultural country in the state of
Colorado, but it is also in the vicin
ity of large coal and oil fields,
and provides the nearest, cheapest
downward haul from the gold, cop
per and iron mines. As a strategic
railroad point, with five trunk lines
stopping at its back door, it has be->
come the greatest receiving and dis
tributing center west of the Mis
sissippi. In other words, it is the
logical point for receiving raw ma
terals, reducing them to the smallest
bulk in the form of manufactured
articles, and shipping them out again.
Most of the city’s growth has oc
curred durin gthe past ten years, in
which period the population has in
creased 57.8 per cent, while scores of
new factories have been added. Pu
eblo now has the largest steel plant
west of Chicago. It is a great smelt
ing center. It has a giant flour mill,
with a storage capacity of 500,000
bushels of wheat, which ships flour
to every part of the globe, a large
shipment recently going forward to
Egypt. • /
Where Saddles Are Made
Two large saddle houses are lo
cated here, which specialize in the
western saddle, and distribute It not
only throughout the west, but in
South America, Mexico and Canada.
Pueblo tents and awnings are shipped
over an equally wide territory, while
one tent and awning firm manufacture
a patented waterbag, known as the
Desert Waterbag, which is famous
in all parts of the world where there
is a scarcity of water, being greatly
in demand in some parts of South
America and Africa.
Pueblo Is also the greatest bread
distributing center in the west —a
prestige which it acquired during the
warr~when many bakeries within the
radius of hundreds of miles were
compelled to drop out of existence
because they could not keep pace
with the government regulations.
Evidently the bakeries of Pueblo
could, for they are now supplying
the surrounding territory, including
parts of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona,
Texas, Kansas and Wyoming with
bread, rolls and doughnuts. In fact,
so conspicuous is the bakery atmos
phere in Pueblo that the smell of hot
raisin bread and doughnuts will be
associated with a visit here.
Yet with all its industrial responsi
bilities, and we have mentioned but
a few of them, Pueblo Is extremely
good-natured and easy-going, with a
great capacity for enjoying life. It
seems to be filled with a boundless
enthusiasm for everything. In the
evening, when the band plays in the
park and most of the population is
present, this general exuberance
bursts forth in the form of loud and
prolonged applause. After each musi
cal number, the automobiles parked
in the vicinity of the band stand press
their horns and keep up a constant
din until the leader of the band bows
his acknowldgment and gives the sig
nal for another encore. Sometimes,
if the tune is a popular one, five or
six encores are demanded before the
audience relents and permits the band
to drop its Instruments.
If you ask the Puebloites, they will
tell you that their energy and cheer
fulness are due to the almost per
petual sunshine, which by actual
record occurs on an average of 350
days a year. “You see,” said one of
them in propounding this theory, “the
sunshine has to escape somewhere,
and so it turns us all into natural
Pollyannas.”
They Used to Have Liquor
But it may also be that Pueblo’s
pleasantness is an inheritance from
its past—a past which hardly seems
possible in this year of our Lord and
the eighteenth amendment. For Pu
eblo has always been famous for its
good spirits. It was here, during
the mining days, that the redoubtable
Jack Allen had his popular estab
lishment and brew which tradition
says was made from alcohol, chili,
Colorado tobacco, Arkansas water, old
boots, rusty bayonets, soap weed and
cactus thorns. The chief charm of
this liquor was that “it cut like a
three-edged file as it went down.”
At this time, one of the frequent
visitors at Jack’s was a certain
prominent Colorado lawyer, who,
while extremely talented, was, un
fortunately, in the habit of getting
drunk every time he was needed. “On
one occasion,” declared the old-timer
who told us this incident, "when he
had an important case he evaded his
client, who was keeping close watch
on him, and succeeded in getting to
Jack’s before breakfast. After search
ing for several hours, the client
found him asleep in a stagecoach
along the river bank The client
thought for a few minutes, and then
an inspiration came to him. He per
suaded the employes of the coach to
pull it out into the middle of the
river and leave it there, hoping that
his attorney, thus imprisoned, would
become sober in time to try the
case.
“But it didn’t work,” continued the
old-timer. “The old boy woke up
after a while, and got a farmer who
was driving his ox team across the
ford to come to his rescue, and the
client never did get his case tried
by that lawyer.”
The most tragic event in Pueblo’s
history was also due to the conviv
iality of the early pioneers, -who in
sisted upon clebrating Christmas and
forgetting their homesickness by get
ting drunk on the 25th of December,
1854. Pueblo then consisted of a
trading post, located where the Santa
Fe depot now stands. By noon of
TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1920.
DOROTHY DIX TA t K
ARE YOU ONE OF THESE 7 I
BY DOROTHY DIX OHI
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer;* |*
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
NOW there be five varieties of
the female bore, each more
deadly than tho ether.
The first is the Woman
Who Has Seen Better Days. You
meet her everywhere, but she chief
ly abounds in business offices and
boarding houses. Within five min
utes of your first meeting with her,
she has told you that she never
expected to come to THIS, and after
you have known her twenty-five
years, she is still telling you the
same thing.
She is a phonograph with one
record, and it never occurs to her
that no human being except herself
aares a tinker's d»mn about her
pedigree, of the riches her family
used to have, or is interested in
any “has been” stuff. All we care
for is the now-present.
The Woman Who Has Seen Bet
ter Days never learns to do her
work properly, because she thinks
that would put her on a level with
the plebeian woman who is having
her best days in earning a good
salary. And if she keeps boarders,
she feels that you should not ob
ject to the coffee being as weak
as dishwater, because it is poured
out of Great Grandmother’s silver
coffee pot. About which, and the
splendor in which she was reared,
she orates endlessly.
The second among bores is the
Woman Who Tells You Her Trou
bles. She keeps her tears on tap,
and turns them on at every oppor
tunity. She comes to see you and
weeps on your breast until you
are sodden with salt water. She is
like some uncanny bird that lives
by feasting on its own heart, and
she forces you to' partake of her
hideous meal.
She tells you tales of the horri
ble brutality with which her hus
band treats her, but she goes on
living with him. She relates piteous
stories of her childrens’ ingratitude,
but she continues to cherish them.
She bewails her poverty. She la
ments her bad luck. She bemoans
her ill health. She is on a perpetual
orgy of melancholy, and she forces
every one who knows her to drink
her cup of sorrow, and she is nev
er so happy as when she has cast
a wet blanket over any festive oc
casion, and made everybody present
long for a dose of cyanide of po
tassium.
The third greatest among bores
is the Woman Who Pretends To Be
Young.
She’s a kittenish little thing of
some fifty odd summers and heaven
knows how many winters, but she
sets the clock back every year, lays
a heavier hand on the rouge pot
and the hair dye bottle. She giggles
and simpers, and shimmies, though
you can hear her poor old bones
cracking as she dances, and she says
“we girls,” and teases herself about
men young enough to be her grand
sons.
When she refers to anything that
happened farther in the past than
ten years, she always says, “I
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
Sweet Potatoes in South. Georgia
W. Y. Mardre, of this city, who has
been shipping potatoes to the At
lanta market for several days, got
off two more cars of Porto Ricos this
week, one car being shipped from
this place and the other from Dixie.
The prices are holding up well for
the early variety and those who can
possibly do so are digging them as
fast as they mature. The rain ot
this week will be of great benefit to
the growing spuds and the crop
promises to be even better than was
first expected.—Weekly Bostonian.
Nashville Herald to Improve
Editor Sweat, of the Nashville
Herald, has sold a half interest in
his paper to a practical printer from
Quitman. They are expecting to put
new energy into the business and
issue a better paper than Nashville
has ever had.—Pearson Tribune.
An Awful Tragedy
The church was killed thwn the
hour arrived. It was decided not to
wait for the delayed party. Word of
the accident was not received until
after the weddington breakfast.—
Washington Times.
It is impossible to figure out just
what happened, but it is a foregone
conclusion that there was an awful
tragedy.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Good Crops in Walton
In view of the glowing prospects
we have for crops, everywhere in
Walton county, and at time when the
community has had and is still hav
ing its times of refreshing with fam
ily reunions, barbecues, etc., we
should be exceedingly happy—
srengthened in the belief that ours is
the best country on earth. —Walton
News.
And of ths Husbands, Too
Think of the wives today who re
gret the speech of acceptance.—-
Brunswick News.
Free Publicity in Thomasville
If there is any grown-up in Thom
asville that never has had his or her
name in the paper, please come
around and let us get it there tomor
row.—Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
"TSarmarks” of Genius
And there are those who think that
genius consists of half-closed eyes
and a mop of unkempt hair. Thus
when you see a person with that gen
eral make-up you can safely figure
that he is advertising his best fea
ture. It’s the inevitable encounter
of inspiration vs. perspiration all
over again.—Dublin Tribune.
Ty Cobb at the Bat
A report says that Ty Cobb is go
ing to stump the country for the
Democrats. We wouldn’t be sur
prised to learn that the Republicans
have hired Charlie Chaplin to do the
same act for them and thus portray
the G. O. P. platform as it really is—
an uproarous comedy.—Waycross
Journal-Herald.
AU Aboard for Florida!
The new passenger rates are be
ginning to be felt. Want ad. in De
troit newspaper: "Going to Florida.
Will share freight car with another
going there.” —Brunswick News.
For Better Pastures
"Pasture day” at Thomasville is
. being attended by hosts of farmers
who are deeply interested in the best
method of pasturing cattle and who
have been carrying on so ™ e
experiments. It is one of the c “? e t
advantages of Georgia in the matter
of stock raising that we can pasture
our cattle in the open practically ail
the year, while the middle west has
to rely on feed. But there is still
more room for determining just what
is the best kind of pasture. —Macon
News.
It was the same old story—-two In
experienced men in a small sailing
boat, and a sudden squall.
One of them, Jim, was just taking
a drink from a bottle when the boat
capsized. The other man, Tom,
clung to the bottom of the craft all
right; but Jim, handicapped by the
bottle, was a good deal knocked about
in the seething waters.
After a time his strength began to
fail him, and, swimming with one
hand and holding the bottle high
with the other, he shouted despair
ingly: . ..
"Tom, I’m afraid I can’t reach the
Tom shouted back: “Well, Jim, if
you can’t, throw the bottle!”
this fateful day, the seventeen men
who occupied the post were in such
a cordial frame of mind that when a
band of wanderinf Utes happened by,
they invited them in to partake of the
festival. The Utes accepted, and then
turned on their hosts and massacred
them. Only' one man lived to tel!
the tale, and he died shortly after
, wards.
barely can remembfeiililQ ftUOllf
such a tiny girl at the time it
pened.” And she'>f-invvriW£V shU
variably informs’ ytM Urn*
simply nothing but a child when
married, and leausfjfoil [ftginfer
she and her oldest child are
tically twins.
There’s only one thing .on,,
more afflicting ( han tNr
less chatter of a sfxtJA'iV ye*r ■Jj|
girl, and that is the l '
sixteen-year-old r I,
out by the worrian'<s?
understudying Sixteen?" 7 'J
The fourth HS
Woman Who |
She is one of the jpejffts
ure resorts an#.,
gets in her fatal
pie who do not knoty, sher,
Bradstreet, an<j
She talks grandly about
position, and says,
is foolish 'or peppje
her as the Queers, .off r .Society, ■!
Speedunk, where she 1 li&£ WttiiW
does have to be Sx>ine yArb.ithr,
there, or else all, Sptta,
people would be '^ditfilgin.r And ■
course as she bejbhgs .to, oite; ar tH
Old Families, l and , Giaq. !“SuM
Social Advantages. ( nftß' l Vfc, AfA ■
And then she refers casually B
her Gold Ball. TFWoiju/Tbid iarAbuß
ler, and second'ihaiVWd
and such a thing happened wheß
she was out 4iK4l»f u&wsiSl-d— nc|
was it her IntfrtMW'FtttftfiF Car l
no, not that either* It rmust hav®
been the Rolls-^tfif* I
Or perhaps she has written si
story that got itt al mngiziriT or a’
picture that somebody sibrtightpl 01
she got a bit i ofi.ribbejM frerriwßec
Cross work*; andihaJaa, jEaauawvei
hear the end qfh after .eadbb&HSßient
And the worst, of the! brag®tng)4>ore
is that you; not p. only .ha<y*-ritob lis
ten, you hav(., to pglvfldh«sbhh®ri«lad
hand, and thus sikot? hera wMcji is
like making k.majlMßufWth,ih!t-fag
gots for tfiAofireeenirfßhiqjßifcto-to te
be roasted. vlsja
The mosj. akd th<
easiest to rSttftrto so
human, is ihe JWftm Wte rfy^ 9X ©.lka
About Her ( Childrei^, flß daoedß oi
® he .. is a . WlfoW fiiPerfiwiner
tv ft
is so touching W^& rl telf-shnira«
tion, that
teeth and enaufA if in' nafienceJi*
Chief among,'the 'tnings, That 11 rec
oncile us td .ths •.‘shprtn’ess •fef life,
are the fertiale' infest?so-
.. _T /booia. bns vsubiX
ularly in this pauer^enrl ihfcmday,
Wednesday,, n ol noil
. ■ y>v easlrmari a at JT ''
** ice yam nov
Mrs.
Being The
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(Copyright, 1920,eHJ
qua Jon Hlw *rel ae b
""" Avd WITb MIIJSB! —
HOME flatter£tAW>fe c6'n\flM I t'4ind
home
which will outlast all tbo
baby ribbon_m
There are man MfJ a
woman would gladly' dromZnS hus
band if she did cer
tain that some oftffir Afpmfihwvoulcl
come right along yfclfifiafc/V).
The price of al Xbyte la
usually in inverse lM£lJ.j(s\\tS,/vaiue;
but most men rate.,4i, HaltlUri wduldi
a motor car, according,’ to Hirelar(|
time they had gettfin|ds it, VaqA'-lhl
sacrifices they have to maker! el
to keep it. • I | |i I
Alas, why is it tlta Bi.
of “rejuvenating”, nev®* corit-i/tfej®
cultivating a lot. of.nraw asfirxtmfl
and enthusiasms, but Ini reliiVjAwM
lot of his old sins and
Don’t fancy your husßaad’B
dead because he lnsistefc\on
you highly-colored “fairvtW irfkJß
stead of the simple, trutrffj
would take all that
woman he didn’t love. V IS!
It is awfully
man to propose to a gir),
is no moon, and she is
her prettiest frock. Jt
one of its purplest motfi'en\g^ T|M Kg
In a flirtation, the man
deceiving himself, and ends by
ceiving the woman; the woff»n-l .j
gins by deceiving the
by deceiving nobodylf**' f
Somehow, just as a bachelW,
decided to dedicate ihlA,
to one woman, another, .girt
along and intertup.tßjhinfc .
Most men fall in love, through SIM
eyes—and out of ft' throbghXipwM
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QUIPS AND ASUIDDIwI
The christening*had gbne
didly and even the ,Tery I <jUW’#e
“star” had behaved ; beaut if ullr;
though the name he had receivitl.
“Reginald Homer,”- would seem, td
sufficient justiflchtibh/fbr a,
In the vestry., 'of. Die Hngiwh
church afterward; the
was making the usual entries. Whin
writing down the. ••
paused thoughtfully. T?" IKiH’W
“Strange,” he thought, afc
called the original Homer. thd KtdAt
Greek poet. “It’ s a curlotlh aaihe'wr
the son of a navvy.” ' .", &
Then he turned to the proud ’Wi
ther r-nojvATUtwMg
“Your favorite
pointing to the namd. ....,,
“Poet, sir, repeated the wWh
a surprised look. "Poet, air? Lor',
no; I keeps pidgins!”
r-A
It had been a hatd task and had
taken the whole of his. -aft-
ernoon, but now it waa aoeompUafted,
and Mr. Urbsub viewed. lt, with Re
light. r i :t - cz t ocrv
Little cared he for the- fact*'t3»at
he had crushed his thumbnail .TyCth
the hammer, that he hai^^PW.fk' jjot
of paint over is best trousers >and
that the job had cost twice- wfiati a
carpenter would have
clothes post was now etegted. *and
he retired to the house a "prq'u4. A#d
happy man. ■->
Ten minutes after he returned to
feast his eyes once more jUpop his
triumph, but, to his horror, fife post
now lay prone upon the lawq„-
“You pushed it, did you?” he yelled
seizing his youthful heir. . £1
"No father,” said the boy. *‘A spar
row perched on it ajjd over it went
I saw him do it.”
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
pZ>E MAN V/HUTS ALLUZ.!
DE LAS* ONE AT WORK:
EVY MAWNIN' IS GINALtV
DE FUS' ONE AT DE PAY
WIN DO V/ ON A SA'PAY ,
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