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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-Weeklv SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months;sl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W...1 Mo. S Mo». 6 Mob. 1 Xr. Daily and Sunday2oc 99c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.30 Sunday •••••*■• 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our 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. 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How Workmanly Patriotism Chooses a "Senator ONCE upon a time the citizens of a great State were galled upon to se lect a lawyer to represent them at the nation’s capital in certain highly im portant interests, matters involving their farms and factories, their highways and ports, their stores and banks and schools, their common prosperity and well-being. For this unusually responsible commission three men were proposed. One was erratic and given over to the sensational, a head long adventurer incapable of co-operating In constructive tasks, bent ever upon tear ing down and kindling fires of strife. An other was a novice, as far as the grave duties were concerned, and moreover was entangled with interests of a narrow and bitterly partizan nature. The other was a man of seasoned wisdom and Os ripe expe rience in the very matters to be dalt with, a constructive personality with established position and influence among those with whom he would have to do in representing his clients, an attorney and counselor whose Ability stood proved by an alfnost unex ampled record of efficient service. Which of the three, think you, was chosen? The people of Georgia are called upon to select as United States Senator the candi date who by virtue of ability, experience and demonstrated worth is best qualified to serve their momentous interests. They have too much at stake as business men and farmers, too much at stake as bread winners and taxpayers to settle this quesf tion upon the shifting sands of factionism or prejudice or upon any ground less sure than reason and justice. A South Georgia citizen, writing to the Albany Herald, aptly declares: “We should go about our politics as about any other important business, and not make the political field a brawling place that leaves even the victor in such a state of mind that he is hardly fit to' handle dur affairs impartially.” Far from yielding to passion in politics, aspecially where the matters involved are □f such import as in the forthcoming Sena torial primary, men should summon their coolest and keenest and highest judgment to the issues. They should be not a whit less businesslike than in weighing the prob lems of office or shop or field; not a whit ess watchful than in making an invest nent; not a whit less patriotic than in re sponding to a call to their country’s col ors. Some there are who would have us lecide the contest in the temper of politi. ■;al feudists, subordinating our great in terests and duties as citizens to the pet tiest of partizan impulses. But this is not the attitu&e of the thinking majority. It !■ not the attitude of that well-poised and happily numerous element of the State press for whom the Albany Herald speaks when it says byway of comment on its correspondent’s timely remark: Senator Smith has proved his ability. He is capable of dealing with big pub lic questions and is a forceful factor In national affairs, despite the rather amusing insistence of some of his en emies that he no longer has influence in the senate. The truth if that he has great influence, and that is one of x the Irrefutable arguments against Geor gia’s casting him aside while under the . Influence of the hot factionalism now raging in the state. No southern state has a more influential representative In the congress than Senator Smith. We do not approve all that he does, and when that is' the case we do not hesi tate to express our disapproval. But we refuse to lose sight of that greater in terest which z lies in the fact that Sena tor Smith can serve Georgia more ably and efficiently than any other man for whom the senator m ight be displaced. This is the view of practical wisdom. It is the view of practical patriotism. It is the view which every thinking citizen would take if called upon to select the ablest ot three lawyers to represent the Stat’s common interests at Washington. The people of Georgia know that Senator Smith has served them with unfailing efficiency anfl that of the candidates now before them he is preeminently best fitted to serve them in the momentous times ahead. They cannot afford to displace constructive abil ity for pell-mell radicalism, nor seasoned kill for rambling inexperience. How to Beat Bolshevism THE wisest observation yet made touch ing the menace of the Russian situa tion is packed into a paraphrase of one of the tritest of sayings: “Give Bolshevism rope enough, and it will hang itself.” Not by trying to crush it from without, but by letting it destroy itself from within is the really sagacious treatment for this evil. If Lenine and Trotzky can hold the Russian millions behind them, they will be potential ly dangerous to Europe and to the world. But without that base of support and propa gation the Soviet duumvirs will be of scant influence beyond the borders of their own unhappy land. Nor is their doctrine itself likely to become very infectious unless it gets a permanent hold on the vitals -of Russia. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Anything, therefore, that will strengthen those adventurers at home should be care fully avoided by the onlooking world, while everything that will tend to weaken them there should be given free course. On this principle it is obvious that what ever smacks of aggression against Russia should be discouraged, and that as far as possible no policy should be pursued out of which the Bolshevist leaders could make pla'usible excuses for their failures and wrongs. The Russians, like any other peo ple, will unite instinctively against an invad er, and as a matter of course will follow such leadership as is readiest and most promising. Thus it was that the Polish invasion proved to be a saving piece of good-fortune for Len ine and Trotzky at the very time when in teernal affairs were waxing peculiarly inaus picious to them. Their inefficiencies and in justices were growing ever more manifest to the rank and file. Popular attention was focused upon domestic ills, and popular in terest was centered upon ways and means for remedying them. That being the public state of mind, it was only a question of time as to, when the Bolshevist oligarchy would fall. ’But, when the news flamed forth that a foreign army was marching against them and was more than one hundred miles within their country, the Russian masses naturally lost thought of internal wrongs and were borne away by the more vivid, more power ful emotion. That Poland felt justified, as a matter of self-protection, in striking at the Soviet, regiriie may be readily granted. But unhappily enough, it was a blow that •strengthened that very regime by rallying to its standard the patriotic impulses of the Russian mass. Such an error, let us hope, will not be repeated. The interests of democracy and of civilization itself require that the plague of Bolshevism be purged from Russia’s life, lest it spread contagion to others. But only Russia herself can administer the cleansing. Only the Russian people can dispose of the Lenine-Trotzky crew as wisdom and justice demand. It will not hasten their discern ment of Bolshevism's onward corruption to place them on the r defensive against outward aggressions. They will have no eye for the oppression and graft which weighs upon them at home if their minds are fixed upon seed ing perils abroad. But leave the Bolshevist regime to itself, deprive it of the support ot war-time emotion, force it to attempt sober, constructive work, give it free rein for its folly, and it will go plunging to its ruin. What Is Efficient Teaching? TEACHING should make its way to a place among the "exact sciences,” thinks a writer in the Chicago News, who apparently is echoing certain “efficien cy” theories that have emanated from the University of Illinois. Precise measure ments, definite scales, standardization are the ideals to which this clickingly calculat ing reformer would have teachers 'turn. “Measurement in education,” he avers somewhat vaguely, “has two functions. It defines the precise educational objective; it exhibits the exact degree in which that ob jective has been reached in individual cases.” Further; “In elementary schools in particular there are exact processes to be taught —arithmetic writing spelling, read ing. composition—which can be stand ardized- to a high degree. There can be set up an objective standard by which all work can be judged, so that there need no longer be reliance on the « teacher’s opinion—a vague ‘good’ or ‘very good,’ a prejudiced ‘poor,’ per haps—but the teacher’s definite meas urement of work. She would become in this sense an educational measurer or accountant.” To the layman’s innocent ear this is the veritable chattering of a Gradgrind. That teaching has its psychotechnic side and can profit much from- efficiency systems is not to be doubted. The classification of pupils probably can be carried into a far richer variety of types than the merely normal, sub-normal and sup’er-normal which have proved useful, -indeed beneficent, and for which we have scientific measurements and standards to thank. How helpful, for in stance, it would be to ascertain by meads of established tests, as distinguished from haphazard observation and inference, a pu pil’s stronger and weaker points in mental functioning, his temperament, his tastes, his aptitudes for the divers paths of life-work. There seems scarcely a limit to the service which science with her keen eyes and scru pulous balances can render in such spheres. But when the great art of teaching loses that warm creative touch by which all art is characterized, when it becomes a cold process of producing certain ponderable re sults, certain mechanical or intellectual ef ficiencies, it is no longer worthy the noble name of education. It hardly deserves to be called instruction. It is dehumanized and impotent for vital needs. The objects of teaching are to impart knowl edge, to develop abilities, and to arouse in terests. The first of these is important; the second is more important; but most impor tant of all is the third. “Knowledge and ability,” it has been well said, “are disposi tions, but interests make them active.” It is in this last and supremely significant realm that character and ideals are chieflly fostered; and it is there that teaching must prove a living art,'not merely a cal culating science. The great teachers, from Socrates on, have been great inspirers; not that they were continually homilizing or dripping su gary precepts, but because they knew where of they taught, because a message burnt high in their hearts, because a spark leap ed forth from them to kindle and create. This Is a standard to which teaching may well aspire; and if this be 'lacking all effi ciency else is but the grinding of dead wheels in dead grooves. * Whence This Sum, and Whither? TRULY, if somewhat tartly, the New York World yemarks that “although the Harding campaign is bankrupt in principle, it has unlimited money.” Con servative estimates place the amount at some fifteen million dollars. Now, it may be with perfectly upright intentions and by methods unspotted from the world that the Republican to apply this colossal sum. But are not the voters enti tled to know its sources and destinations? Fifteen million dollars would supply the public school needs of mahy a State; it would multiply five or ten times the endow ment of -most American colleges and univer sities; it would develop vast industries; it would maintain great charities. If politicians and special interests choose to pour out these swelling funds in the service of their ambi tions, that, of course, is their right. But surely they cannot object to telling the na tion whence the millions flow and whither they are found! Caesar divided Gaul into three parts. The Republican collectors of campaign lucre di vided the United States into districts so nu merous that not a procurable dollar could escape. Gigantic purses were employed be fore the Chicago convention, three million dollars having been spent in the interest of a single aspirant to the nomination. But that was a mere “prologue to the omen com ing on.” A marionette candidate having been chosen and a reversible platform con trived, -the toll gatherers fared forth with a resourcefulness that would have Mark Hanna himself to shame. Well, its phucity in principles being con sidered, the G. O. P. cannot be blamed for its assiduous quest of what some observers are so unkind as to call “boodle.” “Put not your trust in money,” counseled the genial Dr. Holmes, “but put your money in trusts.” The Republican powers that be have done both. Every party to ite taste; but surely Mr. Harding’s directors should be willing, to say where they got the fifteen million and how they are spending it! FAITH AND HEALTH ■ - By H. Addington Bruce YOU are a nervous and mental wreck, or definitely on the way to nervous and mental wreckage. You appreciate this and have put yourself under a doctor’s care. But you feel that he is doing you little good. You are beginning to despair of ever being well again. Listen: “The surest' foundation of mental health is faith in things unseen—the sense that God is in His heaven and all’s right with the world no matter what appearances may be.” And listen further: “Judging from the recent results of micro scopic inquiry one may suppose that every condition of illness, 'functional* or ‘organic,’ including nrvous breakdown in all its varied forms, is accompanied by abnormal states of nerve cells and nerve fibres in the brain or elsewhere. “This is, of course, the position of the materialistic school as to the physical bases of disease, and one may readily admit it. And to do so really widens rather than nar rows the possible scope of treatment through mind from the scientific point of view. “Assuming that neurasthenia, hysteria, and other functional disorders are associated with structural damage, then, in the light of admitted successes of mind treatment, does not this very circumstance prove that thought, suggestion,’ ideas can and do actually react on the tissues of the nervous system? “And f drectly on the nervous system, why not directly or indirectly on other organs?” These are not the words of a “divine heal er,” long in enthusiasm but short in scientific training. I quote them from a recently pub lished book, “The Problem of Nervous Break down,” written by an English physician ot unimpeachable orthodoxy, Dr. Edwin Ash. And I commend them to the ill in general, not the nervously and mentally ill only. They preach a gospel that has been borne out by experience in generation after generation ot mankind. Not that it follows that reliance for res toration should be placed solely in “things unseen.” As the wisest advocates of spirit ual healing have long insisted: “God works by many means to cure—by drugs, by surgery, by water, sun, and air, as well as by faith and prayer. But always it is God who cures, >no matter what the means employed.” This is the essential thing to keep in mind. And as faith in God's power to cure increases, so, you may be sure, the likelihood of a cure being wrought is itself Increased. Whereas a doubting of God, a yielding to despair, must necessarily lessen the chances of a cure, if only because of the harmful effects which despair exercises on the vital resources. Hope, believe, trust —no sounder advice can any doctor give to his patients. Through hope, belief, and trust many a miracle has been wrought in the past, is being wrought today, and is certain to be wrought in days to come. (Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News papers.) A GOOD TIME COMING By Dr. Frank Crane la there a Good Time Coming? Let us not argue nor orate, but look at the facts. Statistics issued as coming from the bank ers, give us the following items: The United States is the richest country in the world. The bank deposits in the United States ex ceed by billions the combined bank deposits of the whole world outside of this coun try. We have more actual cash than any other nation. Our national wealth at the time of the Civil War was about seven billions; at pres ent it is two hundred and twenty-five bil lions. In a jingle year we produce by manufac ture and agriculture more than the entire national wealth of France. England’s wealth is only eighty billions, as against our two hundred and twenty-five billions. Os all the wheat of the world we produce twenty-two per cent. Os all the oats of the world, thirty-five per cent. 1 Os all cotton, sixty per cent. Os all the corn, eighty per cent. Os all the horses, twenty-five per cent. Os all the cattle, twenty-seven per cent. Os all the hogs, forty per cent. And of the world’s dairy products, twenty five per cent. One-half of the world’s pig iron is taken from the earth in the U. S. A. Fifty per cent of the world’s copper. And sixty per cent of the world’s petro leum. Besides this we produce twenty-five per cent of the total production of woolens of the earth. Twenty-five per cent of the linens. Twenty-five per cent of the cotton cloth. Forty-five per cent of the paper. Twenty-five per cent of the glass. Thirty-six per cent of the shoes. And fifty per cent of the steel prbducts. That is to say, of the total products of the globe, we contribute one-quarter (twenty five per cent) of the agricultural supplies. Over one-third (forty per cent) of the min eral products, and One-third (thirty-four per cent) of the manufactured goods. And we do this, having but five per cent or one twentieth of- the world’s population. If we go bankrupt in this situation It can only be by the most egregious folly. Almost all the bugabood when scrutinized disappear. We are not going to have a bituminous co,hl famine, when the figures of the Geo logical Survey show that for the last seven months we produced more coal (302,777,000 tons) than during the corresponding period of last year (258,277,000 tons). Anthracite coal production for the first seven months of this year, 50,575,000 tons, amounts to 3,268,000 tons more than for the corresponding period of 1919. Highways are improving, the Government (State and local) having spent $638,000,000 this year on roads and bridges, and auto trucks are markedly relieving railroads in short hauls. The railway situation and car shortage is getting better daily. Mexican conditions are better than at any time since Diaz. The secretary of agriculture says that this year’s crops will be record breaking. Dun and Bradstreet give reassuring re ports of general business and banking af fairs. And besides this, our Federal Reserve Banking System caq absolutely bar a panic. All this is not rhetoric nor campaign mat ter. It is fact. I (Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.) BRAND-NEW AN TIQUITIES By FREDERIC J. HASKIN COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 22.' —The great and only industry in Colorado Springs is the entertainment of tour ists. A few bricks and brooms are made somewhere within the city limits, but suCh small enterprises fade into insignificance beside the large and highly organzed business of soling nature to the public. Colorado Springs itself Is not spec tacular, but it is attractively located at the base of the mountains; is famous for its healthful climate, and is the most comfortable habit in the Pike’s Peak region, which also in cludes Colorado City, Manitou, and a vast stretch of gorgeous scenery. Where the original supply of scenery runs short, moreover, a new supply has been provided by various scenic production companies, so that there i s enough to keep the sightseer busy as long as his money holds out.' Among the principal points of in terest in this region, for example, are the historic ruins of the Ancient Cliff Dwellers, located at Phantom Cliff Canon, at Manitou. These are not original. In scattering our soutn west with their mysterious dwell ings, the ancients failed to foresee the future tourist demand of this particular area and neglected to build here. But a few enterprising twentieth-century business men have. They have reproduced as ac curately as possible the cliff dwell ings of the Mesa Verde National park, at an alleged cost of SIOO,OOO, and are now gathering large returns on their investment by exhibiting the new-made ruins at the price of $2.00 a glance. Upon climbing the steep roau lead ing up the canon, either by motor, burro or foot, the tourist first be holds an adobe Indian dwelling of the type built by the present-day Pueblo Indians, it consists of two floors, connected not by stairs but by crude wooden ladders. The first floor contains the inevitable curio shop, with some unusually interest ing Indian relics, and the second floor is occupied by a Pueblo Indian family, which is employed by the scenic production company to In dianite the atmosphere and amuse the tourists. Here the visitors are organized in to sightseeing parties, »if they are not already so organized, and con ducted by a guide—a young lady of pedagogical appearance, carrying a small switch for a pointer—to the nearby cliff dwellings, built under the overhanging ledge of Phantom Cliff. There are eight curious houses in all, connected with small, crumbling passageways apd per forated with tiny, mysterious win dows and doors. They are built of stone. According to the guide, the only difference between these mod ern ruins and the ancient ones is the plaster used on the walls. The ancients used some sort of an adobe mixture for mortar, which could not be analyzed by the reproducers, so they were compelled to use cement. The Guide Holds Forth “The cliff dwellers,” says the guide, holding up the expedition for a brief historical spiel, “were a pre historic people whose origin is un known. They left these traces ot their existence in Colorado, Utah. Arizona and New Mexico. Archaeol ogists have solved many of the lead ing mysteries concerning this long vanished people, but many baffling features are still to be explained. “Notice the small size of the doors and windows. These lead us to be lieve that the cliff dwellers were a pigmy people, probably not more than two and a half or three and a half feet in height—an assumption which has been borne out bv several skeletons recently excavated. “On the wall of this first room, you will see on example of their ancient hieroglyphics. These have never been translated. The rock con taining them, by the way, is original, having been brought here with the rest of the materials. “This,” continued the guide, as she led the party through a small pass ageway, “is the milling room, where they ground their meal. You will see by the specimens on the floor that they used stone implements, living in the Stone Age. Over here is a niche in the wall, evidently used to hold their implements, showing that they were orderly.” QUIPS AND QUIDDIES She was a "daily shopper” for one of the city department stores. Her companion, an elderly man, was say ing: “Well, anyway this work will fit you to be a good wife. You’ll know how and where to buy.” “Oh, yes, I’ll know where and how to buy, all right,” said the girl. “But I guess if I do marry I’ll never have as much money to spend as I’m spending now.” "Well, that’s the same kind of a position I’m in,” said the man. “I married so that I’d have a wife to sew bqttons on my shirts. And nowa days I can’t afford the shirts.” A nervous neighbor returned from his first driving lesson boasting of his easy mastery of the new car. To please him several of his family con sented to ride with him, and things went well until they reached a go'od country road, when a car coming up behind them honked its horn. The startled driver jerked his wheel to the right, running down a steep bank, then to the left, heading into a fence, and to the right again, luckily bring ing up in the road. “Dad, what in thunder are you try ing to do?” demanded his breathless son. "Why, son” replied the new driver calmly, “I was just practicing to turn out for teams.” Jack owned a German made watoh. Recently it refused to run, so Jack took it to the jeweler. He made a post mortem examination, and when Jack called for the verdict his watch was handed to him with a piece of crepe tied to it. “No hope,” was the mournful ver dict of the jeweler. “What’s the matter?” asked Jack, alarmed. “Found a cockroach inside.” “That’s what plugged up the works, eh?” “No,” replied the jeweler. “The cockroach had been keeping the thing going, but he died at his post.” The stranger approached the Washington policeman outside the Union station and observed: “Say, I want to go to the White House.” “Now, look here,” the officer re sponded peevishly. “You’re the ninth candidate that’s come bothering me today, and it ain’t a bit of use. I’ve always lived right here in ths Dis trict of Columbia, and haven’t got a vote.” —Judge. Johnny startled his mother by asking, suddenly: “Mamma, i's there hair .oil in this bottle?” “Mercy, no, dear,” she exclaimed. “That’s gum.” “Oh!” said Johnny. Then after a short silence, "Perhaps that’s why I get my hat off.” “Back to the Fann” (Ohio State Journal.) The department of agriculture esti mates that the shortage of labor on the farms today is only 15 per . cent as compared with 26 per cent four months ago. After going from bad to worse for six years it is encour aging to find at last some indication that a "back tij the farm” movement is under way. A slackening of industrial activity in the cities has resulted in some un employment and workers have turned to the country. Many other work men attracted to the cities by high wages hive discovered that the cost of living was propbrtionately higher and they have begun returning to the farms to receive relatively better pay than they have been getting in factories. The man in the city get ting from SI,BOO to $2,000 a year cannot begin to save the money that a man on the farm can save with “$75 a month and found.” The year 1920 threatened to be a starvation year, but happily the prophecies of food shortages seem unlikely to be fulfilled. Weather con ditions have been ideal for enormous crops and the farmers have been able to get the help they needed so badly. The readjustment of labor tion is only just starting . and the “back to the farm” movement is only a feeble one just now. But there is reason to believe that since it is un der way it will continue until there is a better balance between city and country producers. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2«. 1930. CURRENT EVENTS Floods that recently inundated Saghalln, Island, a Japanese posses sion, drowned 400 people, destroyed crops and swept away hundreds of houses, according to reports from Tokio. Kansas figures that she has saved her people more than $500,000 to date by the state publication of •school books, which are sold to school patrons at much lower prices than before. For instance, it is ex pected that SIOO,OOO will be saved within three years on a geography alone. Two big steamships from the West Indies docked at New York last week and unloaded the biggest ton nage of bananas ever received there. A great crowd watched the unload ing of the tropical fruit and sma.ll boys were willing to dive in the water for floating bananas. Seven officers of the street car men’s union who called ttfe strike, in Denver were sentenced recently to ninety days in jail f<£r contempt by Judge Greeley W. Whitford in district court. The judge found, them guilty of calling the strike in violation of an injunction. American gold coins are becoming a thing of the past In Spain. Jewel ers and goldsrniths are getting all they can put their hands on for use in making jewelry. Old goldpieces contain more pure gold than does European money and as a result thousands of coins are now land ing in the melting pot. The Quaker sect of the world Is holding a convention in London —the first gathering ever assembled since the foundation of the faith, nearly 400 years ago. About 1,000 men and women delegates are there, many of them wearing the old-fashioned ap parel familiar to all readers of early American history. On the mission of trying to find out what America was 12,000 years ago, a party of Swedish scientists arrived at New York this week. They will visit Lake Champlain, Canada, the northwest and New England. These regions were in the path of the great glaciers of olden days, and the experts will determine what sort of men first lived on this continent by study of geologic formations and in other ways. William Jennings Bryan has. sold his handsome winter home in Ashe ville, N. C„ for $30,000. When the famous Nebraskan bought the land and built the place several years ago he expected to make it his abode for his declining days. -Mrs. Bryan’s 11) health is said to be the reason for the sale. Texas sheep men are in hopes of receiving about $1,000,000 from the government pretty soon. The sum represents an amount they say they are due owing to agents of Uncle Sam putting too low a valuation on wool during the war. The federal bureau that is handling the matter seems inclined to award them the money. The whipping post, 'chains <nd other drastic features for the pun ishment of convicts have been abol ished at the Kentucky state prison by Warden W. R. Moyer, who recently assumed charge there. The whip ping post had been an institution al most continuously for sixteen years. The prison will be governed by kind ness, not brutality, from now on, the new warden declares. China is going to make a good cotton crop this year, according to reports from the Orient. Not so long ago there were rumors that worms were damaging the crop in some sections but this danger has apparently passed. Chinese news papers say that if the fine weather continues the prospects are highly favorable, except, possibly, In the Shantung and Chill provinces. If your name is Smith, you can safely count on having something like 13,999,999 naanesakes in the world, statistics show. According to expert estimates, theer are 7,000,- QOOO men on earth who belong to the Smith family and it is generally believed that there are the same number of women of the same name. This army of Smiths is greater than the combined populations of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The G. O. P. has suffered a set back, even it was not of a- political nature. While a group of members of the United Republican club, of Brooklyn, were enjoying a card game at their headquarters a few nights ago, four‘masked bandits ap peared, lined the Harding supporters against the wall at the point of re volvers, went through their pockets and departed with about $5,000 in money and jewelry. The government of the Bahama islands has taken steps to protect the flamingo, that long-legged, bril liantly-hued “bird of mystery and beauty,” as he is sometimes called. After trailing the flamingo to his habitat in the island marshes and taking moving pictures of hts daily life, the experts found that the num ber of birds had been reduced from 20,000 to about 7,000, and it was thought best to adopt measures that will prevent extinction. Italy is preparing to send 800,D00 immigrants to America. Many of them are men who had settled here and went back to help their native country fight the Huns. The Italian government figures that it is a good investment to send its people to this country as they usually send back a large part of their savings. This practice, they believe, is about the same thing as manufacturing prod ucts, exporting them and getting cash payment in return. Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who once thought he was going to run the world, and who almost got away with it, is now beginning to figure where he is going to get enough money to live on. The ex-kaiser’s once fab ulous riches have dwindled to a few hundred thousand dollars, and a tight-fisted treasurer looks after the money for him. Wilhelm can’t draw a dollar without the guardian’s con sent. Mr. Hohenzollern’s sons are said to be continually “broke,” but when they call upon father for help he is forced to turn them down. Georgia was among the twenjty states and territories of the union that produced gold in 1919. The geo logical survey reports that this state tied North Carolina in turning out forty-eight ounces of the precious metal. The big outputs came from the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states, although a little was mined in New England, in the south and in the Mississippi valley. . California led with 840,758 ounces; Colorado came second with’ 470,990 ounces, Jhd Alaska was a close third with 437,131 ounces. South Dakota ranked fourth with 254,820 ounces. Maine, Missouri, South Carolina, Vermont, • Texas and Wyoming were among the states where an unimportant amount of gcfld was mined. Arthur T. Walker, the New York secretary who fell heir to the $50,- 000,000 estate of a big railroad magnate, is not yet quite an Ameri can citizen. He was born in Canada and although he has Jived here most of his life his naturalization process has not been completed. The un expected making of this, new-multi millionaire has set all New York to talking. The newspapers call him “the man of mystery,” because he so religiously avoids reporters, dodges photographers and generally with holds all information about himself. Sudden riches have not altered his daily life in the slightest. Employes of the Western Union Telegraph company in all parts of the country are receiving today their share of a $2,000,000 bonus which wasrpaifi by the company to aid them in meeting the increase in the cost of living. Each employe received 54 per cent of his or her January salary under the plan. The payment is made from earnings of/the com pany over the first six months of 1926. The next payment will fall due on February 15, next, when each employee will receive his share of a percentage of the company’s earn ings during the second half of the year. Directors of the company agreed upon this high cost of living bonus last March. In February, 1921, each employe of the company will receive a percentage of his July, 192). salary. DOROTHY- DJX TALKS ARE YOU ONE OF THESE? BY DOROTHY DIX The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer (Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, inc.) N)W there be five different va rieties of the masculine bore, each more deadly and to be avoided than the other. The first among these social ca lamities is i the Man Who Talks About Himself. He is the puffy gentleman, always among those present, who has a sixty-lnch chest expansion and a five and a half hat band. And he is the happiest, cheeriest thing on earth, for he is always lost in joyous con templatipn of that marvel of perfec tion—himself. And he is bathed in a glow of self-righteousness, for he feels that he is doing a noble and altruistic thing in telling you how great and wonderful he Is and per mitting you to admire him. The Man Who Talks About Him self has only one topic—Himself. But that is inexhaustible. He never wearies in telling you of the most insignificant tales of his life. He will spend hours discoursing io you just why he eats, oatmeal for break fast an dtakes his steak medium done, and when he begins on the thrilling serial of what he said to the boss and what the boss said to him, it is a continuous performance which nothing save some untoward accident can stop. ' The Man Who Talks About Him self sees all lif© in terms of his own ego. The most important thing that happened in the Great War was his buying a Liberty Bond. Talk about the masterpieces of literature, and he hauls out of his pocketbook and reads to you a letter signed by Vox Populi that he wrote to some news paper. Speak of great artists and he tells you that he painted the house white with green trimmings. Refer to some frightful catastrophe that has wrecked cities and slain thousands, and he breaks in with an account of the time he sprained his big toe. Prudent people flee at his ap proach, and he attributes it to envy and jealousy of him, and that no man murders him is the signal tri umph of civilization over our nat ural impulses, for any jury would acquit the slayer on the ground of justifiable homicide, committed in self-defense. Close akin to the Man Who Talks About Himself is the Man Who Rides His Hobby. Sometimes he is a stamp collector. Sometimes he Is an amateur pho tographer. Sometimes he is a stu dent of the Ancient Aztec Ruins. Sometimes he is a prohibitionist, or a ritualist, or a spiritualist. Some times he plays golf. Sometimes he is a motorist. It doesn’t make any difference. The*minute you get in his society, he mounts his hobby and drags you up beside him, and you are off through desert wastes of talk that make you pray for speedy death to come and mercifully end your suf ferings. Who cannot recall desolate eve nings spent in looking over collec- WITH THE GEORGIA z PRESS Joys of th* Editor Paper is costing many times as much as it used to. Within the past three months It is estimated that 300 daily papers and 1,200 weeklies have surrendered to the sheriff’s execution. All of which gives you an idea how we enjoy life.—Butler Herald. Stick to Your Job The time is not far distant when the man who has a good job will appreciate it and hold to what he has. Time was s when nobody cared anything about a job and nobody wanted to work. Unless all signs fail the country is regaining its bal ance, and common sense, hard work and industry will once more be at par.—Jackson Progress-Argus. Exodus of the Hegro** One would think there is some propaganda being spread in this sec tion from the number of negroes who have expressed themselves as getting ready to go to northern cities to learn automobile business. The labor question will become more acute than ever If the proposed ex odus is as general over the state as it is in Cobb county.—Marietta Jour nal. “Oui jagrains” The many friends of Mrs. Rhonas A. Davis, who died Tuesday at her home at Ocean Beach, Will be pleased to learn that her condition has im proved considerably.—New London (Conn.) Telegraph. “Grapevine” news is wlel known to newspaper men, but the foregoing could scarcely be put in that class. It seems that the proper way to class it, as suggested by the Dublin Cour ier-Dispatch. would be to call it a "ouijagram.” Columbus Enquirer- Sun. Happy Is Baxnosvllle Barnesville, the largest to\vn in the state that is not a county seat, is now happy. When the people in the fall approve the action of the legis lature, Barnesville will be the capi tal of Lamar county.—Savannah Morning News. Two Kinds of Fools They're going to forbid cranks go ing over Niagara Falls in barrels, but they still rerrnit some people in autos to beat the train at a railroad crossing.—Douglas County Sentinel. Happy Is the Guy Happy is the guy who makes good on his own initiative. —Macon News. Girls Wot Hard-Hearted "Is the modern girl growing hard hearted?” asks an eastern minister. We think not. Look how good she is to the mosquitoes.—J. D. Spencer in Macon Telegraph. They Know More About “Babe” Some people are dumb when asked about the League of Nations but they’ll talk an hour about Babe Ruth. —Rome News., Honoring Distinguished Georgians It’s a cheaper way than any other to rear a monument to a distinguish ed Georgian—to create a county and name it after him. Monuments on the map endure. Lanier, Long, Brantley and Lamar have been thus honored recently.—Savannah Morning News. What Do You Know About Thin? Inconsistency, thy name Is not woman, but “the public.” Five ne groes go north and we shriek about the labor shortage .and one army sergeant will recruit over 200 white men in months in one district, in time of peace, and we applaud their patriotism.—Dublin Courier-Dispatch. Lookout, Atlantiaus “Joy riding” in Cobb county by Fulton county citizens has got to be expensive work since the special deputy has been on the job.—Cobb County Times. And Perhaps Two Georgia has never had a second run-over primary, but the indications seem to be they are almost sure to have one this year.—Albany Herald. * Editor Bose Ran for Ordinary Having tried the political game just once too many times we feel sad when we read of an editor plung ing into the “great unknown depths of sllrpe and trickery.”—Winder News. Hitting the Bull’s Eye Don’t laugh at the man who speaks of the automobile as being "in the barn.” He probably had a horse and carriage before you ever thought of mortgaging the house to get a flivver. —Brunswick News. That’s Only the Beginning It costs more to get married in Georgia these days just like it costs more to do anything else.—Thomas ville ’ Times-Enterprise. “Intensified” Patriotism. There are men so all-fired patriotic they will go forty miles to hear a political speech, but would not go ten yards to attend a meeting to help the community. This kind of, spirit is what keeps us behind in educa tion, schools, churches, good roads and other worth-while movements. — Jackson Progress-Argus. tions that meant absolutely nothin* in his young life, and of turning over millions of stamps, or photographs, every one of which he could have be dewed with his tears of boredom. Who has escaped the religious or philanthropic fanatic who fixed him with a glittering eye and maundered O’’ lor hours and hours about his ravorite theme? Not one. For the Hobby Boro, like the poor, is always with us, and unlike the poor we can not give him a dime and buy free dom and surcease from his tongue. Third among masculine bores is the Man Who Beliew*s Aimself a Humorist. The most obnoxious form of him is found in what is known as the Village Cut-Up. He is the youth who thinks it is funny to play prac tical jokes, and who drops ice cream down young men’s collars, and turns mice loose in a ball room, and who achieves his greatest triumphes at weddings, when he pins signs read ing, “We Are a Bridal Couple, Be Good to Us,” on the bags of a couple just starting out on their honey moon. Anything that makes another look ridiculous, or that embarrasses an other, is the Village Cut-Up’s idea of a joke, and it is to escape this pest of provincial communities that many people move to large cities. They fall from the frying pan fire, however, for the urban variation of this type of boor is the perpetual story teller, whose jokes all have whiskers on them, and who tells you, as a humorous adventure, that ha* happened to himself, the funny story you read in the morning paper. The fourth among bores is the Man Who Thinks He Is a Fascinator. He is generally a sap-headed youth, or a doddering grandpa that no wom an would look at except as meal ticket, or a purveyor of theater seats. Probably dozens of women have snubbed him and insulted him, but nothing has shaken his fath in his charms, or his belief that he has only to throw the handkerchief apd the entire female sex will scramble for it. He makes love to every wom an he meets, and asks her if she isn’t afraid to trust herself With him, and she yawns behind her fan and thinks that the only danger she is in is that of being bored to death. The fifth among bores, and perhaps the hardest, of all to endure, is the Failure Who Knows It All. He has never succeeded himself, but Jie is a headliner in handing out advice to others. He has never been able to make a living, bue he caA tell the secretary of the treasury how to run the financing of the United States. He hasn't got judg ment enough to make a corner grocery a success, but he knows exactly what should be done about the League of Nations, and he spend* his life making people tired telling them all about everything. Do you qualify in any of these five classes of bores? Think it over. Dorothy Dix’s articles appear reg ularly in this paper every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Mrs. Solomon Says: , By HELEN ROWLAND Being The Confession* of the Savan-Hundradth Wife (Copylight, 1920, by The Wheeler Syndi- e HOW long, oh thou Foolish Ona, wilt thou continue to cry out against the Vanity of men? For, verily, verily, I say unto thee a little VANITY is more potent than a New England con science! f And though vanity may be the cause of many a man’s sins, it !■ likewise the source of most of hi* virtues.- » Go to! Is it not vanity that causeth him to shave his chin, and maketh his kisses endurable? Is it not vanity that maketh him to resist gluttony, lest he lose hts waistline and his fatal charm? Is it not vanity that prompteth him to cultivate the arts and graces, so dear to thine heart, lest he be called “dub” amonst men, and writ ten down a "boor” amongst women? Is it not variity that drlveth hhn to the polishing of his boots and his finger-nails and the pressing of his garments, that he may appear “prosperous?” Is it not vanity that driveth him to hard work and great achievement, that the world may say of him, “Lo, he is a SUCCESS!”? Is it not vanity that maketh him to be scrupulous In the payment of his debts lest he be called' “four flusher,” and inspireth him to be generous with his moneys, lest he be termed “cheap-skate” and "tight wad?” Is it not vanity that inspireth him to acquire knowledge, lest he b* named “ignoramus?” Is it not vanity that maketh him to adorn his wife In jewels and fine raiment for the confusion and ad miration of the multitude? i Yea, even Tils morality and up» rightness may peradventure, be in spired by vanity, that he may hear himself acclaimed, “worthy * amongst the righteous. Go to! Was it was not the vanity of Napoleon, that drove him on to victory? And the vanity of Dio genes that caused him to be truth ful? And the vanity of Hercules that • inspired him to feats of strength and courage? Yea, verily. And the vulnerable spot in Hercules, as in every man, was NOT his heel, but in hie vanity! Then, I charge thee, seek not to shatter thy Beloved’s vanity. For this is the softest spot in a man’s make-up; and without it, NO woman can lead him in the way in which he should go. Verily, verily, through his vanity, a man may be flattered unto heaven, whereas nagging driveth him to per dition; and coercion rolleth off his soul, as water off a mackintosh. ‘ For, a man’s conscience may be lost or mislaid. It dependeth upon his digestion. It sleepeth on the job. But his VANITY taketh no holi days. It worketh day and night, without ceasing. It is self-starting. And, so long as a spark thereof still liveth, there is HOPE for him! Selah. “Th* Things You Can’t ■•*” The things you can’t see are about the only things worth seeing, if you’ll just think a minute, —La- Gran ge Reporter. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS r~ —-—■ FOLKS USETEI? KMOCK DOWN >E PRICE O' STUFF T' (SIT PE BIZNESS, BUT NOWADAYS DEY Boos' DE PRICE CASE ptY IS GITTIN' DE BIZ'NESs/j <cepy»tghi. wzobif McCiuM Hmrtwpw Syndqim