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Another Neutral Newspaper
Swings to Senator Smith
THE most significant comment on the
Georgia Senatorial race is from those
newspapers that have watched and
pondered before speaking out. Theirs is the
ripest judgment, and the soundest, for one
word of sober second thought weighs more
than columns of intemperate chatter.
Among the more recent and influential
papers to pass from an attitude of reflection
to earnest championship is the Walton
News. In the preferential primary last spring
the News remained neutral as between Sena
tor Smith and Mr. Palmer, for the reason,
lit seems, that it was then impressed, though
iot convinced, by some of the criticism with
which the Senator’s inveterate foes were as
sailing him. In the beginning of the present
contest the News continued quietly observ
ant, studying the candidates x and the is
sues. At last it speaks its mind, and in this
wise:
“Since we have had time to reflect
and investigate, we have reached the
conclusion that the major portion of the
fault-finding and charges were ground
less, that they were misconstructions, if
not misrepresentations of his (Senator
Smith’s) position by designing politi
cians who have for many years been bit
terly against him and who have sought
in spite of the I record, which is by far
better than it is bad, to defeat him. We
have made up our mind to support him
again, wholly upon the ground that we
regard him, just at this stage of history,
as the most logical man for the place,
a man capable and experienced.”
The impressiveness of this opinion is in
the process by which it was formed. It is a
product of fair-mindedness as opposed to
-prejudice, of thoughtful patriotism as op
posed to heady factionism. If the editor of
the Walton News had been content to swal
low the propaganda of Senator Smith’s ene
mies with never an effort to determine its
falsity or truth, he might now be aligned
with those that have comforted the cause of
Thomas E. Watson by thrusting in a third
candidate whose only effect is to divide the
▼ote of the State’s loyal Democracy. But he
was not thus to be duped. He went to the
record for evidence on the charges which
incurable feudists have been flinging against
the senior Senator, and found Instead a mul
titude of services to the Commonwealth. He
tracked the slanders home, and found them
leading invariably to the imagination of
some reckless foe. He pinned the gossips
down to facts, and found their only stock in
trade to be idle or malicious inventions. And
iben as a reasonable man, as a citizen mind
ful of Georgia’s best interests, he refused to
join the adventure of an embittered clique
■ o destroy the usefulness of a valuable pub
lic servant.
His ease is broadly typical. Hundreds and
‘housands who have thought this matter
< trough will second his wise counsel:
“We would Insist that those who have
been so bitter against Senator Smith
weigh their position on the scales of his
record in toto and see if most of the
tirades against him are not founded on
newspaper propaganda, which is not al
ways a safe guide for public or private
opinion—a propaganda that feeds of
personal hate, not on vital facts. . . .
The News shall use its influence and
cast its vote for Senator Smith, confi
dent that in this day of stress and
strain he is best qualified to give us the
service that the conditions of the coun
try demand.
This, we say, is the typical judgment and
purpose of those who have looked most
thoughtfully into the Senatorial campaign
and who have sought guidance in the light
of the State’s broadest well-being rather
than as blind conscripts of a faction or as
credulous followers of a propaganda of hate.
At all times it behooves men to use their
heads, especially when their great common
interests are involved and when a rash de
cision would cost their country dear. Such a
time, such a question confronts Georgians
today, the highly practical and highly im
portant question: Shall the State retain the
services of a constructive and result-getting
Senator, or shall it displace him for either
a radical adventurer or a novice without in
fluence? Surely there can be but one answer
for them who rightly see and really think!
The American Type
IS there a distinct and stable "American”
type, or merely a hodge-podge of widely
gathered races in the United States? By
way of answer the New York Times reports
some interesting conclusions fropa recent in
vestigators. Remarking that in one sense
we all are immigrants, "even, including the
Indians,” the Times insists that neverthe
less “after a certain residence here, and a
surprisingly brief one, newcomers have a
way of falling in line, provided only they
are of a racial stock that finds our temper
and institutions congenial.”
This provision is decisively important, pre
supposing, as it does, a certain national tem
perament to which some immigrants seem
fundamentally akin and others just as deeply
alien. As to the historic source of this tem
perament there can be n-o doubt. It is Anglo-
Saxon, though the term as here used com
prises all strains and cultures of northern
and western Europe that are common of par
entage with "English” civilization. Thus Mr.
Rossiter, who engagingly treats the subject
in the Atlantic Monthly and from whom the
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Times pertinently quotes, counts as "Anglo-
Saxon in their traditions and sympathies,
and very largely so in their blood” the de
scendants of Scotch and German immigrants
who came to the United States sixty years
ago or earlier, as well as the English and
Canadians who have arrived more recently.
The total, he finds, is barely less than fifty
five million in a white population estimated
at ninety-four millions. "The American na
tive stock outnumbers the entire combined
population of England, Scotland, Wales and
Canada, and is thus the greatest Anglo-Saxon
element in the world.” A highly interest
ng parallel appears in certain figures from
a recent study by Professor E. H. Ross, of
the University of Wisconsin. At least one
fourth of our present population, he calcu
lates, is descended from the twenty thousand
Puritans who reared their altars in an Ameri
can wilderness. Another authority, Mr.
Charles W. Gould, is quoted to the effect that
of the Americans of today more than forty
million can trace their descent on both sides
to Colonial days.”
It is this community of traditions and
fundamental faiths, this great common his
toric background that gives the American
temperament its quality and tone. Largely,
too, it is this that makes one immigrant sus
ceptible to Americanization and another in
different, if not antipathetic. Our rural dis
tricts and small towns are, as a rule, over
whelmingly Anglo-Saxon, but in the great
cities and industrial centers the foreign ele
ment is pronounced, numbering in New York
City as high as seven hundred and eighty-six
in every thousand of the white population.
The least "foreign” and the most "Ameri
can” part of the country is the South. In
Massachusetts thirty-one and five-tenths per
cent of the population is foreign born; in
Virginia, only one and three-tenths. In
Rhode Island, thirty-three per cent is for
eign born; in Georgia, less than one-half oi
one per cent. In Minnesota, twenty-six and
two-tenths, and in California, twenty-four and
seven-tenths are foreign born; in Tennessee
and Alabama, only nine-tenths per cent, and
in North, Carolina only three-tenths. It is
in Dixie, if anywhere, that Americanism
all-dominant.
The Al addins of the Farm
TT is good to see that the South, in com
mon with other agricultural regions, is
availing herself more and more widely
of power of machinery for the farm. In the
course of natural progress this step was cer
tain to come, but it has been greatly has
tened by the critical shortage of labor.
Hundreds of farmers have been compelled
to adopt the time-cutting, muscle-saving de
vices which modern invention has provided,
or else abandon the soil. In some districts
the emergency has grown almost as grave as
in England during the latter half of the
World War, when the ranks of the tillers
were reduced to a point where one man was
left to do the work of five or ten. The island
seemed in peril of famine. But a host of
tractors, equipped with giant headlights, so
that they could be operated by night as well
as day, from America and
set to the tasks of food production. The re
sult was a series of harvests, such as the
country never reaped in the most plentiful
times of hand labor. The cultivated acre
age was largely increased, and with it the
yield. A like story is told of many parts of
the United States. In the South power-driven
machinery bids fair to solve problems which
otherwise would wax overwhelming.
The services of such machinery are not
limited to labors of the field, but extend to
all aspects of rural life—economic, domestic,
social. Whether it be the pulling up of
stumps, or the drawing of water, or the
lighting of the family reading table on a
winter’s night, the task has its ready Alad
din in some motor mechanism. The trip
to market is shortened; school and church
are made far more accessible, and the visit
ing of neighbors much easier; household
drudgery is lightened, and. time allowed for
tonic recreation. It is not simply upon rural
labor, then, that motorized machinery prom
ises to exert so potent an influence, but also
upon farm life. In the end, this human side
of the equation will be far and away the more
important, for it will tend to hold and to
draw more men and women to the prime
sources of production.
( An Independent Egypt
Afar happier political fate than they
ever could have hoped, had the
World War ended differently, has
come to the people of Egypt. Under the
agreement reached between their peace mis
sion And the British authorities, they are
vouchsafed substantial self-government, to
gether with valuable economic advantages.
Britain retains the privilege of garrisoning
the Suez' canal zone and reserves "priority
in certain treaty and military contingencies.”
But Egypt’s independence is to be recognized
and also her right to enter into diplomatic
relations of her own with other Governments,
During the war a large element of the
Nile-land natives influenced by subtle propa
ganda, sided with Turkey and her Prussian
bosses. There were far-reaching conspiracies
to drive Great Britain from the Near East,
and to make Turco-German power in that
region supreme. These intrigues and adven
tures came ultimately to naught, though at
times they grew highly ominous and were
continually disturbing until the last stage
of the war. If they had succeeded, however,
what now would be Egypt’s lot?
No doubt she would have been delivered
slave-like to Turkey as a reward for the
latter’s help to Germany. Her virtual own
ers, however, would have been the Hohen
zollerns whose eyes long had coveted the
rich Nile valley. She would have had no
more freedom, no more identity as a nation
than she herself alloWed subject peoples in
the ancient days of the Pharaohs. More
than that, her economic welfare and devel
opment probably would have been retarded,
or made altogether a matter of selfish for
eign exploitation.
It is in keeping with the historic Anglo-
Saxon attitude toward the weaker races that
Egypt’s independence, as far as substantial
freedom is concerned, should now be recog
nized and that she should be aided along
the path of progress.
t
As Hoover s Herald Sees It
BEAR n mind that the Washington (D.
C.) Herald is a politically independent
paper and is owned by Herbert Hoov
er. Then ponder this recent utterance from
its editorial mind:
Senator Harding in his speech ac
cepting the Presidential nomination
followed the open advice of Senators
Johnson and Borah and the secret de
sires of Senator Lodge and /tame out
root and branch for scrapping the Cove
nant of the League of Nations with or
without reservations or interpretations.
The advice of party leaders like Mr.
Taft and Mr. Hughes and Senators Colt,
Lenroot, Kellogg, and McCumber, and
r the practical example of Mr. Root, now
working for high ends with a commis
sion of the League, he seemingly rejects.
On this, as on other basic issues, the Re
publican candidate stands with the forces of
obstruction and reaction. He draws away
from the best elements of his own party, its
only progressive elements, and leaves the
forward thinking American no reasoiiable al
ternative but support of Governor Cox. To
that leader, happily enough, the country’s
liberal and constructive thought can turn
with confidence. He is for peace with honor
and security, a peace guaranteed by interna
tional co-working in which America shall
take a part, without in any wise forgetting
her Constitution or hazarding her sovereign
ty. As for domestic issues, he has a definite
and constructive programme, where Sena
tor Hording has only evasive talk.
Editorial Echoes.
Uncle Sam is advertising for saxophon
ists to play for the army of occupation.
Another horror of peace.—El Paso Times.
Already the milliners are smiling over
the time when the girls will bet hats with
each other on elections.—Dayton Daily
News.
People persist in traveling, in spite of
the strenuous efforts of the railroads to
make them want to stay at home.—Tacoma
Daily Ledger.
If Uncle Sam really wants to, know why
those large woolen plants in the east have
closed down, maybe it Is on account of the
price of cotton. News.
Church attendance has been made com
pulsory for the policemen of Wilmington,
N. C. Now the poor tired watchmen of the
night can get all the sleep they want.—
Nashville Banner.
The Poles are like some crap shooters.
They want to quit when the Reds are
winning, but they want to keep on shoot
ing when they are winning.—Florida Me
tropolis.
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“RETIREMENT FOR AGE”
By H. Addington Bruce
A LL over the land are men and women
holding various public and semi-public
positions who know that, at a certain
time in the not distant future, they will be
automatically forced to retire to private life
because of having reached a specified age.
•How many of them, I wonder, have given
any thought to the question of how they will
occupy themselves when the inevitable time
of their retirement comes?
(Not a few/ it is to be feared, are rejoicing
in the idea that they will then not have to
occupy themselves at all. They look forward
to spending their declining years in a well
won, efofrtless leisure. To this end they have
year by year been laying aside a part of their
earnings.
One is loath to undeceive them. But the
plain truth is that a' wholly effortless leisure
is usually a wretched leisure, and is besides
a leisure dangerous to the health of body and
mind alike.
It is, in fact, a commonplace of everyday
observation that again and again former of
ficeholders "go to pieces,” as the phrase is,
soon after their retirement for age. This
even when* they have seemed both mentally
and physically vigorous at the time of relin
quishing office.
The natural assumption is that, without
knowing it, they have worn themselves out
by devotion to duty. In a certain percent
age of cases this assumption no doubt is
sound.
But unexpected breakdowns also come to
numbers whose public duties have never
made any particularly exacting demands on
them. Yet, freed from all work, they speed
ily collapse.
Study their histories and It will generally
be found that they are devotees of the ef
fortless leisure idea. At all events, they are
people who have gone into retirement without
taking care to provide a substitute for the
work which has so long given them mental
occupation.
And, no matter how old one may be, oc
cupation of some sort the mind must have if
health is to be maintained.
That is a psychological truism, so vital that
none can afford to ignore it. Least of all
can those afford to ignore it who have been
accustomed to do a definite work and to do
it with regularity. \
Wherefor the wise officeholder, confronted
with the certainty of ultimate retirement at
sixty or sixty-five years of age, will make it a
point to develop some special interest or in
terests outside his work.
He will cultivate a hobby of some sort—
music, art, literature, golf, it matters not
what —so interesting to him that he will be
able to devote himself to it enthusiastically
when his working days are done.
Otherwise retirement is pretty sure to
mean for him boredom and discontent, and
may further mean aches, pains, and a gen
eral ill health seemingly inexplicable, but
actually due to an inactivity against which
nature revolts.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
' GOD’S THUMB
By Dr. Frank Crane
At a meeting in New York the other day of
the committee to choose an idea for a War
Memorial, one idea was suggested which
overtops all others by the boldness of its
conception, the dignity and fitness of its
nature and by the continuous use and beauty
of its ministry nqt only to this generation,
but to all ages. ’
It is the proposition to erect a War Me
morial upon that bold and rugged promon
tory which lies between the Hudson River
and Broadway, and terminates south of the
Dyckman Street Ferry.
This remarkable conformation, about the
width of a city block and perhaps a mile in
length, is linked with American tradition by
its name, Fort Washington.
The poets have given it another name on
account of its striking shape. They call it
God’s Thumb.
The plan for utilizing this as a permanent
stimulant to the 1 ideals of the country, by
making it a public reservation, and by adorn
ing it with the most conspicuous examples
of the art and architecture of the world, and
of dedicating it to the soldier dead of the
Great War, is so immeasurably beyond any
thing else that has been proposed that it
seems almost too much to hope that there
can be found among city officials sufficient
vision, courage and concord to carry it out.
The details of the proposed memorial
stagger the imagination. Here on this
Thumb of solid granite thrust out into the
Hudson, furnishing a natural base two hun
dred feet high, there might be clustered tem
ples from China, Japan, Persia, Egypt and
Europe, and among them that amazing Bahai
temple designed by Bourgeois, the most
beautiful and original work of architecture of
modern times.
Here would be a real League of Nations,
for East and West, Past and Present, would
be leagued by their most exalted, dignified
and enduring sentiment.
Upon the nail of the Thumb could be con
structed a monument expressing the creative
genius of the world’s greatest artists.
And in this favorable environment there
might be a School of Art whither the youth
of all the world might go up.
Fortunately this land is procurable. Na
ture herself has marked it as the logical spot
for a memorial compared to which the famed
places of the past, the Acropolis at Athens,
,he Forum structures at Rome, the Taj Mahal,
Saint Peter’s, or the Pyramids, would be
overshadowed.
And not in grandiose and boastful splendor,
but in genuine majesty and beauty, setting
forth the very best and noblest ideals of
which America Is capable.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
SHEPHERDS OF
THE DESERT
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
Albuquerque, n. m„ Aug.
24. —This city is headquar
ters for one of the greatest
wool-growing sections in
the world, and incidentally for one
of the most picturesque of Amer
ican industries.
The whole southwest is character
ized by a striking contrast between
an old, crude civilization, which is
dying out and a new and modern
one, which is explosively alive. This
modern current of life has trickled
in along the railroads somewhat in
congruously and with surprising re
sults, like water let into a desert by
means of an irrigating canal.
But a few miles back from the
railroads, the leisurely, picturesque
life of the old Spanish-Indian re
'glme goes its way little disturbed.
So Albuquerque is a thriving town,
much more metropolitan for its size
than a similar town in the east, and
as thoroughly American as chewing
gum. But within a day’s ride of
it are Mexican villages, where
witchcraft is still practiced, and
where they still thrash grain as in
biblical times by driving a flock of
goats around the threshing floor.
A Business of Contrasts
This contrast is no where better
seen than in the sheep business. Its
commercial machinery of buying and
selling and insuring, centered here
in Albuquerque, is as modern as
Wall street. It is carried on by
shrewd and worried-looking men who
drive enormous distances in high
powered cars, watch the stock mar
ket with keen intensity and take
frequent trips to New York and
Boston. But the actual care of the
sheep is in the hands of Mexicans,
who carry on their trade as it was
carried on for generations before the
railroads and gringos came.
A change is coming slowly in this
end of the business, too. The ten
dency is to raise more feed for the
sheep, build more shelters and more
fences, improve the breed and take
better care of the stock. But change
is coming slowly. For the most part,
the sheep are still raised on the open
range as they were 100 years ago.
For this work, Mexicans are indis
pensable, and their methods and
habits are as unchanging as the
mountains.
The sheep -ange is 'mqst of the
state. Part of it is public land,
part of it is in the great Spanish
land grants and part under the
forest service, but altogether it is
a stretch of mountain and desert
and mesa-land, unfenced, untamed
and untamable. To realize the sweep
and emptiness of it you must see it.
There are many high points from
which you can look across 100 mi’es
of wilderness and see nothing that
you can certainly identify as the
work of men.
Following the Herds
The sheep are ranged in the
mountains during the summer, and
are driven down to the barren-look
ing mesa-lands when the first snows
come. They are brought together
once a year for shearing and dipping
at some headquarters. The rest of
the time sheep herders (never call
ed shepherds in this country) follow
them across the range. It is com
mon for these men to be away from
home for six months, and they have
been known to stay for eighteen
months. They are lazy fellows, but
they know sheep as well as they
know themselves, and they have one
great virtue—they will stay with the
hefd. These men are not usually
inspired by any great loyalty to their
employers, but they are inspired by
a loyalty to the sheep which is al
most instinctive. They are of peon
stock and no doubt in the old days
the peon who deserted the sheep
fared badly. There was a whipping
post and cat-of-nine-tails waiting for
him at best, and a load from a mus
ket at worst. For practical reasons
he would rather die with the herd
in a blizzard than come home with
out it. Thus loyalty to the sheep
has become almost a race trait with
the Mexicans, and one of inestimable
value to the gringo capitalists who
own the sheep and take down the
profits. The sheep herder gets his
bacon and beans and, perhaps, S4O
a month.
The Organization
The organization of a sheep outfit
is as exact as that of an army. The
owner of all the sheep is known to
his employes as El Patron (the
boss.) The sheep are divided into
small herds, and in charge of each
three herds is a sort of superior
officer or overseer, who proudly
bears the title of Caporal. In imme
diate charge of each herd is a chief
herder knows somewhat grandly as
the Mayodomo, and he has an as
sistant herder knpwn as the Ayu
dante an da cook and packer called
Campero. Each of these officers
treats his immediate superior with
a certain deference, and is proud of
his own authority. The Caporal is
directly responsible to the Patron
for the sheep in his charge and he in
turn holds the Mayodomos directly
responsible. He accepts excuses no
more than did Napoleon.
When everything goes well the
life of the sheep herder on the range,
especially in the summer, is not a
hard one; but all sorts of danger
menace these troops of blatting fool
ish creatures, who are worth so
much money and perish so easily.
Drought wipes them out, storms
overwhedm them, coyote wolf and
mountain lion hang on the flanks of
the herd and take regular toll.
A Race With a Storm
Weather is their worst enemy, and
nowhere is the weather more incal
culable than in New Mexico.
Throughout most of the state, for
example, it is safe to leave the herds
in the rich mountain range until
October; ;snow seldom falls before
November. But a few years ago,
winter came a month ahead of
time, and a deep wet snow fell like
the' hand of death on hundreds of
herds that were among the mountain
tops, separated from the lowlands
by deep canyons where the drifts
piled up higher than a man’s head.
Most of these herds that were more
than a day’s drive from safety per
ished to the last sheep. But there
was one young Caporal, who had his
herds several days’ drive into the
mountains, but •who saw the storm
clouds coming, and started just be
fore the storm broke with all three
of his herds and all six of his men,
in a desperate drive for safety. Soon
the storm overtook them, and they
moved through a phantom world of
white sheep and white wind-driven
snow. Five days and five nights the
young Caporal kept his men and his
sheep on the move. The men wanted
to quit and the sheep wanted to lie
down, but he gave in to neither.
Half of the sheep fell dead from ex
haustion, making a trail of their
bodies all the way from timberline
to desert, and the other half arrived
at the lowlands with every bit of
wool nibbled off their backs by
their starving fellows. ' The men
were staggering and half blind from
fatigue, and loss of sleep. But the
Caporal' had saved half of his herds
where Others had been wholly lost,
and he had lived up to the one high
principle of his life —to stay with
the herd.
Many of these Mexican herders
are as picturesque as you could
wish. Often you see one clad in a
long ragged cloak and carrying a
long crook of his own manufacture
who looks like a figure out of the
Bible. Some of them even carry
sling-shots, like that with which
David slew Goliath.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
The mother’s heart sank as she en
tered the abode of her newly married
daughter and found the young wife
in tears —floods of ’em.
"What’s the matter, my darling?”
she demanded anxiously.
"Oh, Edward is a brute —a brute!”
wailed the girl—for she was only
that.
"Why do you say so?” asked
mother, her temper rising at the
thought of the unhappiness which
this man had brought upon her
daughter.
“He —he came home late for sup
per last night, and—and I scolded
him a little.”
"Quite right, too!" agreed the older
lady. “And what did he do?”
"Oh, mother, he —he —”
Her voice failed her.
"Did he—did that callous wretch
dare to strike you?”
“Oh, worse than that, mother! He!
just sat there and —and yawned!” I
SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 11)20.
CURRENT EVENTS
Dr. Manuel Gondra was inaugu
rated president of Paraquay last
week. Diplomatic representatives of
nearly all the American republics
attended the ceremonies.
President Wilson has not decided
whether he will live in Washington
after he leaves the White House
next spring. Last week it was re
ported that he had bought a home
there but it developed later that the
deal had been made by his physician
and that the president was not in
volved.
Six employes of the United States
Cigars company, a concern that has
stores all over the country, includ
ing many in Georgia and the south
eastern states, were made directors
of the firm at a recent meeting in
New York. This was a reward for
long service and is In line with the
company’s policy of giving its work
ers a voice in running the business.
Thirteen hundred dairymen in the
vicinity of Kansas have joined in a
co-operative association which is
selling 9,000 quarts of milk every
day to consumers of the city. The
members of the organization sub
scribed block? of stock ranging from
SIOO to SI,OOO and bought a big dairy
company for $140,000.
The little Awn of Paita, Peru, is
to be burned to the ground and
rebuilt to wipe out the horde of
rats there that are spreading the
bubonic plague. In this community
of 1,009 houses there has been at
least one death from the scourge.
The survivors are now living in
tents outside the town. The Peru
vian government will build a new
city of rat-proof houses after the
rats have been exterminated.
Germany is recovering some of her
pre-war trade, especially in toys,
with England, much to the concern
of British interests, according to
reports received by the department
of commerce. Owing to the exchange
rate German toys undersell British
and English products and manufac
turers have asked the British gov
ernment to take steps toward check
ing such imports.
Both freight and passenger reve
nues of tfie railroads increased last
March as compared with the same
month of 1919.
Figures made public by the inter
state commerce commission show
freight revenues of $323,611,189 last
March as against $254,807,102 the
same month the year before, and pas
senger revenues of $92,195,155, com
pared with $88,227,130 in March,
1919. .
Doubledeck auto buses, similar to
those in use on the Fifth avenue line
in New York city, helped save War
saw from the soviet menace. Just
as taxicabs were used at the vital
moments to save Paris in 1914, dur
ing the battle of the Marne, so the
buses of Warsaw hauled troops to
the front at the hour of this city’s
peril. The soldiers they carried
were thrown into the foremost lines,
where the danger was greatest.
Information gathered by the army
administration shows that more ar
tillery ammunition .was expended in
one month of the world war than in
the entire periods of the American
civil war, the Franco-Prussian war
and the Russo-Japanese war.
In the civil war the expenditure
of artillery ammunition was 5,000,000
rounds, in the Franco-Prussian war
$17,000 and in the Russo-Japanese
954,000 rounds. In ertie month of
the world war 12,710,000 rounds-'were
fired.
The few fire horses in Manhattan
still in the fire department service
were mustered out with brief formal
ities last week. Motorized equipment
has won a complete victory, and the
faithful fire horse has gone into his
tory, and with him much of the ro
mance of fire fighting. Fire Chief
John Kenlon, with other department
heads, were on hand to witness the
last eager tug of the horses as the
harness drops upon them, and will
see them led away after the last
trial run to other stables and no fire
duty.
BUENOS AYRES.—Street car con
ductors in Buenos Ayyes are now able
to sit down while not collecting fares.
The “city fathers” passed an ordi
nance some time ago requiring the
street car companies to install hinged
seats attached to the platform struc
ture of all cars for the exclusive use
of the conductor.
This equipment has made its ap
pearance and the "guardas,” as they
are called in Spanish, are. enjoying
the novelty of sitting down while
rush-hour passengers on the plat
forms stand up.
Italy is devising means to allevite
the beet sugar shortage. She has
been urged to put more bees at work
producing honey.
Italy in 1917' had almost 67,000
miles of railways, and at regular in
tervals along the lines are little
houses where the railvzay employes,
signalmen, track walkers and repair
men live. The manager of the Nt
tional Institute for Agrarian Assist
ance recently recommended that they
each receive a hive of bees. In con
formity with the suggestion the ex
periment is to be begun at once on
the lines in the province of Rome,
end if successful it will be extended
to all the railways of Italy.
Drunk and disorderly seagulls the
other day furnished Venice with
amusement until the effects of the
brandy wore off. The seagulls ac
quired their “jag” when Tom Carri
gan emptied a cask of brandied cher
ries on the beach. The gulls took
a fancy to the cherries and in a few
minutes no cherries remained. Then
the fun started. The brandy fur
nished the gulls with all the ex
citement they needed, and for sev
eral hours they played dead, tum
bled over each other and wabbled
along the beach when they tried to
walk. Hundreds of persons on the
beach watched the antics of the
gulls.
High rents have well nigh made a
floating city of Hartford, Conn. Hun
dreds of families, unable or unwill
ing to meet the increased . entals
asked by their landlords, built for
themselves houseboats and anchored
them along the banks of the Con
necticut river. And so well do they
like the free and easy life they have
led during the summer months, with
out the worriment of the approach
ing rent collector, that many are
thinking of turning them into per
manent homes. The East Hartford
bank of the Connecticut is lined with
these houseboats, some of which
shelter two families. Each family
figures to save between S4OO and
SSOO a year on rent alone, and the
saving on living costs under this
plan is also a big item.
A new way to get rid of toothache
has been discovered by Mrs. Teresa
Kweder, fifty years old. of Mount Wi
nans, who made the contribution to
the science of dentistry without ever
having taken a course at a dental col
lege. Mrs. Kweder had an aching
tooth. She couldn't sleep, and all
the home remedies she knew afforded
her no relief. Finally she told her
husband if the tooth didn’t stop ach
ing she would "shoot it out." It didn’t
stop, whereup Mrs. Kweder lost na
tience and made good her threat. She
got a pistol, placed it to her jaw and
pulled th; trigger.
The tooth went out, so did the bul
let, leaving a bad wound under Mrs.
Kweder’s eye. She was v.ken to St.
Agnes’ hospital, where physicians are
doing everything possible to save
the sight of her eye.
John Alexander, alias John La
Granch. a Russian, and, according to
the police, an anarchist and chief
agent of German communist propa
ganda in the United States, was run
down after a three-year search, and
placed under arrest here.
Alexander was the editor of Der
Kiassen Kampf (The Class Strug
gle), has been enjoying Uncle Sam’s
hospitality since early in 1915. when
he fied from England to avoid mili
tary service. He had previously fled
from Germany, the country of his
adoption, for a similar reason. He
had just become comfortably settled
in New York and prepared to dissem
inate his radical propaganda when
Uncle Sam upset his plans by enter
ing the war himself.
Alexander found himself in a quan
dary. If he disclosed his nationality
and his status he would be interned.
He decided to proclaim himself an
American citizen and seek exemption.
He was placed in class 5. Later, how
ever, he was advanced to Class Al.
That meant he would have to fight.
He fled from New York and found
sanctuary at Mountain Veil, in the
Adirondacks. He remained there until
after the armistice was signed.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
THE TOUCH OF NATURE
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer ■
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
. z /nr\HE reason that I like the
• • I business girl better than
1 the stay-at-home girl, is
because the business girl
is seldom a grafter and the stay-at
home girl nearly always is,” said a
young man in discussing the ever
interesting girl proposition.
“The girl who has never done any
work except to work papa, feels that
she has a perfect right to dip her
hand as deeply into every mascu
line pocket book as she can. To her,
man simply exists to be exploited by
woman, and a beau is a poor simp
mercifully ordained by an All Wise
Providence to supply her with taxis,
and flowers and tneater tickets and
little dinners and suppers.
“When you take that type of girl
out, you are b.-wKrupt for the next
month, and press your own trousers
and dine at a lunch counter. She
can think of more ways to spend
money in a minute, than Coal OU
Johnnie could in a month. She al
ways wants to go to the most ex
pensive places to eat, and Invariably
orders the things that are out of sea
son and whose prices make you won
der if she is under the misappre
hension that you are a millionaire in
disguise.
"Ask her to go to the theater with
you and she says she is so anxious to
see some play whose tickets are in
the hands of speculators, and that
cost you a fortune to buy. And she
naively suggests that if you are go
ing to send some flowers that or
chids are her favorites, and you have
to haul her back and forth in a taxi,
for she gets paralysis in her lower
limbs and can’t walk a step when
ever there’s a chance to hold a man
up for a ride.
"Oh, the stay-at-home girl is no
cheap skate whenever somebody else
is paying the bill. She goes on the
principal that this may be her last
opportunity at a good thing and she
had better get the most out of it
while the getting is good. And I’ll
say she’s wise, for not many of us
are foolish enough to give even the
prettiest hold-up artist a second shot
at us.
“On the other hand, the girl who
earns her own bread and butter does
not regard men as her foredestined
prey. She looks upon them as broth
ers and comrades, and instead of
wasting their money, she tries to
help them save it. Invite a business
girl to lunch, and nine times out of
ten she will suggest some cheap lit
tle place she knows of, and she will
look twice at the price of a dish be
fore she orders it.
“Ask her to go to the theater and
she will pretend she prefers the mov
ies, or say ‘Let’s go up in the gal
lery,’ and she won’t near of taxis
The street cars are good enongh fo\
her. You,never spend more than yo%
should when you go out with a busi
ness girl, and if you develop symp
toms of extravagance, she will lec
ture you on thrift, as if she was old
Ben Franklin himself.
THAT’S A FACT
BY ALBERT P. SOUTHWICK
In 1837 was the suspension of the
United States bank. New York City,
followed by that of the state banks.
Great panic ensued.
In 1842, on July 4, water was let
into the reservoir at Fifth avenue
and Forty-second street (where the
public library now stands), and New
York City had pure water for the
first time.
On May 10, 1849, the Astor Place
riot, New York City, occurred, with
150 wounded and a small number
killed.
James Harper, of Harper & Bros.,
publishers, was mayor In 1844.
On December 16, 1835, began near
the foot of Malden Lane, New York
City, "the great conflagration,” de
stroying 648 houses (including the
custom house and the Merchants’
Exchange) and $18,000,000 In proper
ty. These direful facts are in
scribed on a tablet at No. 80 Pearl
street.
Jenny Lind, "the Swedish nightin
gale,” first appeared in New York
City on September 7, 1850.
In 1851 the Hungarian patriot,
Louis Kossuth, arrived in the United
States on December 5.
In 1298, on July 22, was the battle
of Falkirk, when the Scots under
Wallace were defeated with great
slaughter by the English under Ed
ward I.
On this day, in 1589, Henry 111
of France was assassinated.
In 1704, on July 22, Gibraltar
(Gobebal Tarik, "the mountain of
Tarik”) was taken by the English
under Sir George Rooke, and has
been in possession of England ever
since. The date July 24 is given by
some authorities.
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
We Will Soon Know
Can a woman cast her first vote
without giggling? You can search
us, but we are going to find out. —
Albany Herald
Mowing ’Em Down
They say that a person is killed in
this country by automobiles every
thirty-five < minutes. Savannah
Press.
Buttermilk As a Vote Getter
We had a friend to tell us yes
terday that he never realized what
a good drink buttermilk was until
the country went dry. We don’t
claim to be an authority on drinks,
but buttermilk will get our vote ev
ery time. —Waycross Journal-Herald.
"Raising Everything”
A gardener is a man who raises a
few things; a farmer is a man who
raises many things; a middle man
one who raises everything.—Frank
lin News and Banner.
Money In Tobacco
Merchants m every town where
they have tobacco warehouses claim
that money is much more plentiful
now than it usually is in the fall of
the year. We have no tobacco ware
houses, so we will have to take their
word for it.—Waycross Journal-
Herald.
Ma Versus Pa
Now, then with Ma voting one way
and Pa voting another way, a house
divided against itself may fall out.
—Savannah Morning News.
A Timely Suggestion
Wouldn't it save time and ex
pense if the daredevils who go over
Niagara were to use coffins instead
of barrels?—J. D. Spencer in Macon
Telegraph.
A Satisfied Citizen
"Good health, a clear conscience,
a charming wife and a chance to
work for my living. What more
could I ask?” That was the reply
of a well-known American when
asked what he wanted most in the
world, and as he had all those, he
could not see the need of asking.
It is such as he who makes leaders
of men—the kind of men who are
needed in this time of upheaval.—
Griffin News and Sun.
Delayed Information
A woman is not blind to a man’s
mistakes, but sometimes she does
not mention them until after she
has married him.—Brunswick News.
“Going Up"
See by the papers where dealers
don’t expect the price of gasoline to
go up, which leads us to conclude
that, as heertofore, the increase in
price will come unexpected.—Dub
lin Courier-Dispatch.
Believing the Housing Situation
When houses are built with the
avidity with which people build mo
tor cars, the housing situation will
be relieved.—Rome News.
Washington News-Reporter Expands
The Washington News-Reporter,
Will W. Bruner, managing editor
and publisher, has secured the en
tire upper story of the building that
it has been occupying since Septem
ber, 1919. Under the able editorial
and business management of Will
Bruner, the News-Reporter has be-
“Now I am no tightwad, neither
are any of my friends. We like to
spend money in giving girls Pleas
ure, but we don’t like to feel that
we are being held up. Neither do
we like to spend more than we can
afford, for we all want to get on in
the world, and we are perfectly
aware that to rise an inch above
where we are, we must save money.
As a matter of simple fact, we can
not even hope to marry and set up
a home for any woman if we waste
all that we make as we go along
feeding grafting young women on
chocolate creams and joyriding them,
around in gasoline chariots.
'“Hence our gratitude to the busi
ness girls who are willing to go
about with us and enjoy simple pleas
ures, and not make the cost of
feminine society prohibitive as the
stay-at-home girls so often do.
“I suppose the reason that the
business girl is so much more merci
ful on our pocketbook than the stay
at-home girl is,- is because she works
for her money just as we do, and
knows how hard it comes, and how
much sweat and thought and anxiety
goes into the making of every dol
lar, while the domestic girl is under
the impression that greenbacks grow
on trees, and all that a man has to
do is to pull them off.
“It’s the touch of nature that
makes the sexes kin. You remember
Dickens says in one of his novels
that no man who reads ever looks
at the back of a book with the same
expression as does the man who can
not read.
“It’s the same way about money.
Nobody who has eVer worked for n.
dollar ever feels the same way about
it as do those who have never earned
one but have always had what money •
they needed given them. You have
to work for money to know that it
means travail of body and mind, and
opportunity, and freedom, and self
control, and the ability to take pun-,
ishment, and a million other things »
that the poor brainless idiot who
throws it away never sees in it.
“And that makes me wonder if ths •
new generation of women who nearly
all are learning some way of mak
ing money, won’t make a hundred
times better wives than the old-fash
ioned women who never had a cent
except what they cajoled out of their
husbands, and who carried their
■grafting to the petty larceny point
where they went through tneir lords'
pockets as they slumbered.
“The woman who has made money
won’t be extravagant. She has a
wholesome respect for a bank ac
count. And she will be reasonable
and see why a man must save in the
present in order to be able to spend
in the future.
“Perhaps just understanding about
money, speaking the same financial
language, is going to do more than
we even dreamed of, to make hus
bands and wives understand each
other—and that is the main thing in
making a happy home.”
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
JUDGING from the way In which
the modern divorcee hastens
from the court room to the al
tar, apparently, a burnt child
loves the fire.
The widow's might, in these eTete
days, is nearly all expended in t y
ing to appear as sophisticated aid
worldly-wise as the average do!. 1-
tante.
When a woman waxes poetical, s. he
finds so little to rhapsodize about in
man, that she goes straight to her '
looking glass for inspiration, and
then writes love songs to herself.
Summer fiction: Those long, ‘‘l'ni
so-lonesome - without-you - wish-you- .
were-here-am - thinking -of - you - al- ’
ways” letters that every mail train
carries from the city to the waiting
wives at.the seashore.
A woman knows that she must be
good all of the time; but a man seems
to fancy that he can reform between
the last dose of medicine and the last
breath, and leave a bequest to his
cook or his grandmother and get as
much credit for it as though he had
“worked” his way into heaven, in
stead of just ‘‘paying” it.
There are only three things, which
the scientists can’t, and the psychics
won’t even try, to explain, in this
miraculous age—death, hay-fever,
and a happy marriage. -
In a flirtation a woman never
knows what a man suspects about
her, and a man never even suspects
what a woman knows about him.
Life does not become actually dull
to any man, unless he loses his last
ounce of curiosity about women.
This is the time of year when only
the hardiest flowers and flirtations
still survive the turbulent, torrid
season.
In the fall, a young man’s fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of—escape,
come an interesting semi-weekly
that compares favorably with any
newspaper published in Georgia.
Alpharetta Free Press Improves
Editor George D. Rucker, of the
Alpharetta Free Press, has been
spending the past few weeks'install
ing a Model 14 linotype machine and
will soon be in a position to give
Milton county one of the biggest
weekly newspapers in Georgia. The
editor of the Free Press is a news
paper man, banker, postmaster and
farmer, but he finds time to run a
newspaper that is worth reading.
“Scratching” the Ballot
“Bill Biffem” says he sees where
the Albany Herald wants to know if
a woman can cast her first ballot
without giggling. He doesn’t know
about that hut he is quite sure that
she cannot do it without scratching.
—Savannah Press.
Good Words for Ponzi
Ponzi bo doubt had his faulty,
but he never made us pay ?75 for a
cotton suit of clothes because wool
got scarce.—Waycross Journal-Her
ald.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
AH SHO DON' NEVUH
BET ON NO 'LECTIONS
CASE EF MAH MAN LOSE
IT ME BAI>
'NOUGH 'DOUT LOSIN'
MONEY ON '|M , TOO 1 .!
copyright, 1920 by McClure Newepeper SyMteel*.