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»HE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
A Fair and Practical Test for
The Senatorial Candidates
IT 18 plain that the drive on Senator Smith
is crumbling down to those bitter expo
nents of revenge who have always hated
him and always will, who acknowledge noth
ing to his credit, and who intend to harass
him as long as he continues in public life.
It is also plain that the people’s unpreju
diced* common sense is forming that conclu
sion which was inevitable from the beginning
of this campaign, the conclusion stated in
such exact language by the Americus Times-
Recorder —that “the demonstrated ability of
Senator Smith to serve his people is an as
set too valuable to be sacrificed to faction
ism.”
Never before in American history have
problems of such stupendous magnitude pre
sented themselves to the Congress of the Unit
ed States. As the war was fought upon a
scale unapproached in history, so the prob
lems arising out of the war are without par
allel.
In the next six years the Congress will
be called on to solve the problem of the
relations between capital and labor; the
problem of railroad transportation, which is
given merely a temporary and experimental
Status by the transportation act returning the
roads to private operation with a guarantee
of earnings to cover two years; the problem
of enlarging our merchant marine and ex
tending our trade in foreign markets; the
problem of increasing farm production; the
problem of reducing the cost of living; the
problem of paying our huge war debt and cut
ting government costs to lighten taxation;
the problem of establishing peace in the
World and preventing future wars.
In the light of these facts, what sort of
men do we need in the Senate? Do we need
ability? Do we need experience? Do we
need influence? Do we owe our country as
well as ourselves the obligation of contribut
ing our best fitted men to the solution or
these stupendous problems which involve the
progress or decline of the American republic?
Not only from the standpoint of the Na
tion’s interests, which have great weight with
all good citizens, but more especially from
the standpoint of Georgia’s interests, and the
Interests of the South, are the people con
fronted with a solemn responsibility in mak
ing their choice of a Senator on the eighth
of September.
It is a deplorable fact that Republican
hostility toward the South is at high tide.
One of the principal causes of- Republican
rancor against President Wilson and the
Democratic administration is the prominent
part played by Southern men in Congress and
the President’s cabinet.
Suppose the Republicans, in the next
twelve months, launch a systematic effort to
deprive the South of the many substantia)
benefits which it deserved and has obtained
from Democratic legislation? Which one of
the candidates for the Senate will have the
greatest strength to resist such an effort?
Will it be Governor Dorsey, or Mr. Watson,
or Senator Smith? -
Suppose 'the Republicans attempt to re
organize the Federal Reserve system and take
away from the South those great res
ervoirs of financial credit—in Dallas, Atlan
ta and Richmond—which have tided us over
a period of unprecedented depression and
which will Insure us in the future, if left
alone, against agricultural impoverishment
and commercial stagnation? Which one ot
the candidates for the Senate will have the
greatest strength to resist such an effort?
Will it be Governor Dorsey, or Mr. Watson,
or Senator Smith?
Suppose the Republicans undertake legis
lation adverse to the Interests of Southern
cotton growers, whoip they constantly char
acterize as “profiteers” because the growers
Insist upon a reasonable margin above the
cost of producing their staple? Which one
of the candidates for the Senate will have the
greatest strength to resist such an effort?
Will it be Governor Dorsey, or Mr. Watson,
or Senator Smith?
Suppose the Republicans press the pend
ing resolution by Senator Moses, of New
Hampshire, a confirmed South hater, to ‘'in
vestigate” the question of negro suffrage in
the South? (This resolution being intend
ed as the basis of an effort to reduce the
representation of Southern states in the Na
tional House.) Which one of the candidates
for the Senate will have the greatest strength
to resist such an effort? Will it be Gov
ernor Dorsey, or Mr. Watson, or Senator
Smith? *
In’this connection it ought to be remarked
that Senator Smith, as chairman of a sub
committee of the judiciary committee, to
which was referred the Moses resolution, has
held it blocked since the day of its introduc
tion.
Were the farmers of Georgia, or the mer
chants of Georgia, or the bankers of Georgia,
or the manufacturers of Georgia, called on
to employ the services of a man to represent
them in Washington in matters affecting
their vital interests, which taken in the ag
gregate are the interests of the State, and
were restricted to a choice among these
three, which one would they choose? Would
it be Governor Dorsey, or Mr. Watson, or
Senator Smith?
These are some questions which the men of
Georgia are asking themselves as they con
template the political situation. The answer
is plain rnd irresistible.
The drive on Senator Smith is crumbling
down to the exponents of revenge who have
always hated him and always will, who ac
knowledge nothing to his credit, who intend
to harass him as long as he continues in pub
lic life. j|who would sacrifice the interests
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
of Georgia and the South to gratify their
vengeance.
Governor Dorsey’s entrance Into the race
was an ill-advised mistake —a mistake
against the pleadings of unselfish friends
who thought more of him and more of Geor
gia’s interests and more of Democracy than
they thought of revenge upon Senator Smith.
That is why the effort to divide the true
Democracy of this proud commonwealth is
breaking down and going to pieces. That is
why the choice of reasoning Georgians on .the
eighth of September, unswayed by passion
and unswerved by hate, will vindicate the
judgment of the Governor’s real friends.
A Governor Fights the Tick
GOVERNOR PARKER, of Louisiana, is
being widely and warmly commend
ed for his vigorous policy on the en
forcement of that State’s cattle dipping laws.
In some parishes, it seems, officials charged
with the administration of these statutes, on
which the conquest of the wasteful and de
structive cattle tick depends, have been
shamefully remiss, winking at transgressors
and failing to lend the campaign any sup
port whatsoever. It seems, also, that through
petty politics some of the Inspectorships have
fallen into the hands of men utterly incom
petentn, in consequence of which the dipping
process has occasionally proved injurious or
even fatal to the cattle treated. The Gov
ernor Intends to see to it, in the first place,
that the incompetents are replaced, as far as
possible, by well-qualified men, and in the
next place that delinquent officials who per
sist in conniving at violators of the law are
impeached. With these evils out of the way,
it may be taken for granted that in Louis
iana, as in other States where local preju
dices once grew rank, the truly beneficent
nature of the “dipping” system will come
rightly to be appreciated, and the work ot
eradicating the tick move forward apace.
There is no work of larger iifiport to the
South’s live stock interests. It is a matter
of official record that In the first ten years
of organized effort toward getting rid of this
parasite, Georgia and her neighbor States
made more progress in cattle raising, dairying
and allied industries than in the entire halt
century preceding. Naturally one of the
world’s peculiarly favored regions for cattle,
the South can easily become America’s chief
source of beef and diary supplies, when the
cattle tick has been eradicated from her
herds—but not before. This pest is as de
structive in its way as is the boll wetvil, and
to the aggregate more costly. Its extirpa
tion means the swift and virtually unfounded
development of a wondrously enriching in
dustry. Governor Parker is doing his State
a valuable service in his policy on this mat
ter, and is setting an example that enlight
ened communities throughout the South will
applaud.
Farms for Georgians-To-Be
4 < T\ RAIN Georgia” might well go
IJ along with “Advertise Georgia”
as a slogan that can play an im
portant part in building up the state’s agri
culture and Industry, ’ developing the state’s
prosperity.
While we are proclaiming Georgia to the
nation as a land of opportunity and inviting
the people of other states to come to Geor
gia, it is fitting that we should busy our
selves at home in efforts that will prepare
for the new arrival the homestead for him
to buy, the land for him to till, the chance
for him to make good.
In discussing the “Advertise Georgia” cam
paign, the Adel News, published in the heart
of South Georgia, aptly says:
“Georgia, with its nearly three million
people, is truly the Empire State of the
South. It is rich in agricultural re
sources .and yet its possibilities have
hardly TSeen realized by the most ob
servant of our people. Not many states
have as great manufacturing possibili
ties, either. We need to let the world
know just what a great state we have.
There is room here for thousands of
good citizens and we ought to advertise ,
Georgia so that the waste places may be
built up by progressive people from
other states. There are thousands of
acres of as good land as can be found
anywhere that ought to be in cultivation.
And there is room in Georgia for double
its population without crowding any
body.”
The News is voicing 'the sentiments of
practically every other newspaper in Geor
gia in urging the “Advertise Georgia” idea.
It sees, too, the necessity for such work as
the Georgia Drainage Association is doing in
reclaiming thousands of acres of swamp land
in South Georgia and many acres of wild
lands in the mountain counties, all of which
can be converted into fertile farms for Geor
gians and Georgians-to-be.
An Interesting “Straw" Vote
THE "straw ballot” in politics is by no
means an infallible indication of the
public mind, but often it does show,
where conducted by reliable and painstaking
methods, which way the wind is blowing.
Os such a type is th6 ballot of the New York
Evening World on the presidential race, con
ducted in the form of a "slogan contest.”
The World asked its readers to send In
their choice of slogans for both Harding and
Cox, and offered prizes of various sums for
the best slogans. Recently the contest was
closed and the ’World announced the eight
winners, giving at the same time the tabu
lated statistics* on the number of slogans
submitted.
The statistics show that forty thousand
slogans were submitted by more than five
thousand men and nearly four thousand
women in all parts of the country, some of
them sending in more than one slogan.
“While many of the slogan writers expressed
no partisan preference and hundreds of
others admitted they were in the throes ot
irresolution, best defined as ‘on the fence,’
nine thousand two hundred and six of them
stated their choice with seeming candor,”*
says the World.
Os this number, the World announces that
four thousand eight hundred and twelve were
for Cox and four thousand three hundred
and ninety-four for Harding, giving the Dem
ocratic nominee a majority of four hundred
and thirteen votes. Interesting side lights
on this total are furnished For instance,
three hundred and thirty-one Democrats an
nounced they intended to vote for Harding,
while two hundred and fifty-seven sworn Re
publicans stated they would cast their bal
lots for Cox. Not only were two thousand
seven hundred and forty-six men for Cox as
against two thousand five hundred and sev
enty-one men for Harding, but the majority
of women also favored the Democrats’ stand
ard-bearer. Os the women expressing pref
erence, an even two thousand were for Cox,
while only one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-three were for Harding.
New York City went for Cox in the World’s
ballot by four hundred and thirteen plurality.
New York state, outside the city, casting tut
a few over one thousand votes, gave Harding
the narrow plurality of seven. Harding got
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Mas
sachusetts by narrow margins in each state.
Cox had pluralities in Connecticut, Ohio and
California. Kentucky split between them,
and the compilation of votes in thirty-nine
other states put Cox in the lead.
In the World’s results there is little, per
haps, that, is convincing of anything, but at
least they give the “figurers” something to
figure about.
UNREASONABLE DISLIKES
By H. Addington Bruce
TALKING one day with her physician, a
young woman confided to him that she
had an unreasonable dislike, almost
amounting to a dread, of ugly people.
"I know It is wrong for me to feel this
way,” she stated, "but I simply cannot help
it. I cannot bear to be in the company of
any one who is exceptionally plain looking,
"For some reason it makes me nervous
even to see such a person. And if I cannot
make excuses and get away it is almost im
possible for me to avoid being boorish and
rude.
"You can Imagine that this often produces
an embarrassing situation. I do wish I
could overcome my hatred of the ugly. But
I have tried in vaiji. I suppose it is some
peculiarity born in me, for I have had this
feeling as long as I can remember.”
The physician, who happened to be a med
ical man with psychological training, prompt
ly corrected her, explaining:
"Such dislikes and dreads are never inborn.
They are acquired. And usually they are
acquired in early childhood.
"When you were very little it is altogether
pmfoable that something occurred to you of
a distressing nature, associated with a person
with an ugly face. You have forgotten the
occurrence itself, but the dread thus inspired
has persisted.
"That It should persist is proof both that
you were greatly disturbed by the occur
rence in question and that, though you can
not consciously remember it, you actually
have a vivid memory-iipage of it in the
depths of your mind-.
"And, oddly enough, if you could recall it
the likelihood is that your unreasonable dis
like would no longer trouble you. If you
wish, I will try to help you recall it. This
can be done by what is known as psycho
analysis.”
Gladly consenting, the young woman found
the psycho-analysis procedure bringing to
light many long-forgotten experiences of her
childhood. None of these, however, seemd
to have any bearing on her detestation of the
ugly.
But suddenly, with poignant keenness,
there welled up the memory of a long-forgot
ten fright, when a relative had playfully
appeared to her wearing a false face. She
not merely recalled, but actually seemed
again to live through, the terror then expe
rienced.
Also, as indicating that here was really
the origin of her dislike of ugly faces, she
found that this had lost its force with the
remembrance of the early shock.
As in her case, so in countless others.
Multitudes of people, as everybody knows,
have some pet aversion, some unreasonable
dread. Without knowing why, one person
“hates” dogs. Another is made morbidly ir
ritable by the mere sight of a cat, and Is
perhaps thrown into a paroxysm of fear if
the cat approaches her.
There are people with extreme food dis
likes. Foods highly esteemed by the great
majority may become objects of abhorrence
to them. Or abhorrence may attach to a
certain flower or color.
In almost every case, there is reason for
saying, a thorough psyoho-analysis would
bring to light forgotten experiences, usually
of the first years of life, accounting ade
quately for the seemingly unaccountable and
irrational dislike.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Asosciated News
. papers.)
NOT SO LONG AGO
By Dr. Frank Crane
Don’t forget—
That once it was thought as outrageous,
dangerous and revolutionary to give all male
citizens the ballot as it is now deemed by
many to give the vote to women.
That once trial by fire, and torturing wit
nesses in court by the most inhuman de
vices, was as generally believed in and ac
cepted as absolutely necessary, as gloomy
penitentiaries, filthy county jails, hanging
and electrocution are now.
That once it was universally agreed to by
public opinion that it was a requisite of pub
lic morals and the safety of the State to
torture those who did not acknowledge the
State religion, and to burn them alive. There
may be some religious fanaticism today, but
look back!
That once half-witted old women and
queer men were imprisoned, burned or
pressed to death under a heavy stone for
witchcraft.
That while we now criticize our rulers
freely the time is not so far passed that
men were severely punished for lese majeste,
and it was worth one’s life to attack the
reputation of a king.
That while some of our plutocrats are ar
bitrary and intolerant, it was not so many
generations ago that nobles in Europe were
riding down peasants, debauching 1 the
daughters of the poor, and were gay and
festive about it.
That while laborers today have their hard
ships and often feel wronged, the laborer or
yesterday was a slave with no rights at all.
That while the Interchurch movement and
the League of Nations seem to be travelling
a rough road, never before in history have
the sects even tried to get together, or the
nations made any practical attempt to stop
war.
That while the high cost of living is an
affliction, it was not so long ago that the
great masses In every nation were under
fed, underpaid and entirely dependent upon
what the privileged classes chose to give
them.
That while any good man who acquires
prominence is fiercely attacked, our fathers
poisoned Socrates, burnt Joan of Arc ano
crucified Jestfs Christ.
That while we have our lynchings, drunk
en brawls, riots and other forms of violence,
the civilized world’s favorite amusement
once was gladiatorial games and throwing
captives to the wild beasts.
That while our system of public schools
is far from perfect, there were no public
schools at all in your great-great-great-grand
father’s day, and it was considered a menace
to the state to educate the poor.
And altogether that while things look
bad, they have been a deal worse, they ar.
better than they were, and they will certain
ly be better still tomorrow.
, . ,
Editorial Echoes.
And, speaking of “peace by resolution,”
we could have had more peace some time
ago if we had had more resolution.—Colum
bia Record.
Jimmy Cox may be running for president,
but the village "constabulls” don’t want
him, by heck, to run so goldarned fast.—
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Still it’s a bit early to expect sugar to get
back to the old war prices; tljere are still
some fruits to be canned.—Marion Star.
Who doesn’t need an increase of pay to
help him pay his share of the increased pay
for everybody else?—Boston Herald.
Horee racing is one industry where it is
right to get more money for less time.—
Memphis News-Scimitar.
It looks as if the Sick Man of Europe will
soon have to take up his bed and walk.—
Norfolk Virginian Pilot.
THE PREACHERS
OF CIMARRON
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
GIMARRON, N. M., Aug. 27.
The idea that a preacher must
be a rather solemn and digni
fied person, wearing a Prince
Albert coat an expression of in
effable Godliness, is sharply contra
dicted in act and word by the divine
who cares for the few hundred souls
in this town, and a few thousand
more scattered over the several thou
sand square miles of his wilderness
parish.
The Rev. Gilbert B. Traveller calls
himself a frontier preacher, and lives
and dresses up to the part. He has
no church as yet and no plans for
building one. fie is first going to es
tablish a community center where
his parishioners can have feasts, see
movies, read books, play games and
incidentally hear the word of God ex
pounded by a young man who Loks,
talks and rides like a cowpuncher.
The regular garb of the Reverend
Traveller consists of a flannel shirt,
a pajr of khaki trousers, high-heeled
riding boots and an enormous felt
hat. He spends most of his time
riding from one mining camp, ranch,
or cow camp to the next. For this
purpose he has two fine saddle
horses, whch are spotted black and
white, and are as like as two peas.
The preacher can be recognized a
mile away by the unusual color
schemes of his mounts, for which he
has refused SSOO. He has also a
good car for reaching such points as
are accessible by road. Incidentally,
he lives In one of the best brick
houses in town, and has an attractive
wife and a large family of little
Travellers.
Few Bora, Bone Die
A circuit rider is supposed to hold
services when he can get together
enough people, and also to marry
couples, bury the dead, christen the
babies and comfort the bereaved. The
Reverend Traveller performs all of
these functions as much as possible,
but that, it appears, is not very
much. In few of the places that he
strikes are there enough people to
justify a formal sermon. Worse yet,
when these people get married they
go off to some large town to have it
done. It appears that they seldom
have children and never die. This
makes the conventional duties pf the
circuit rider very light, but he makes
a Jot of duties for himself. He acts
as a sort of general friend and coun
cilor to all and sundry, and this in
terpretation of his clerical functions
seems very acceptable to'the’people
of Cimarron, for the preacher is
popular.
Furthermore, he does not allow
his religious duties to become a
borq, He carries a rifle as well as a
Bible when he rides the trails, and
although he is looking primarily for
souls in need of salvation, he has a
quick eye for a bear or a coyote. In
the hunting season he brings home
now and then a wild turkey or a deer.
And when the Lord’s business is slow
he cuts a willow pole and snakes a
mess of trout out of some stream.
He holds strongly by the Idea that
there is no reason why a preacher
shouldn’t have a good time.
Mr. Traveller, it should be added,
is only thirty years old and wears a
grin which causes him to look still
younger. He grew up in the beef
business and knows horses and cat
tle at least as well as he does the
Scripture. That is one reason he 13
so welcome at ranches, and round
ups. He can throw a rope just as
well as he can throw the fear of
hell into a sinner.
Perilous Preaching
If you imagine that Reverend
Traveller has a sinecure you have
only to listen to the story he can tell
you of his predecessors in this par
ish. In the course of the fifty or six
ty years that this country has been
settled, there have been several
preachers here, all of them, like the
Reverend Traveller, Methodists, but
not all of them so well fitted for
their jobs. None of them -stuck.
Several of them left very hastily,
and at least one of them was speeded
straight fltom here to heaven by un
grateful members of his flock.
The earliest of these P lol l*® r
divines was here back in the six
ties, when Lucien B Maxwell, the
famous land baron, who was sketch
ed in a previous Haskin letter,
maintained his little kingdom on
the Cimarron. Maxwell had a daugh
ter of whom he was so fond that ne
would not let anyone marry her. He
used to meet all suitors with a gun.
But a young army captain made love
to Virginia Maxwell through the
window of her bedroom on moon
less nights. Finally she passed down
her toothbrush and a few other
things and climbed out after them
and the two eloped. They hunted up
this one and only preacher and wish
ed upon him the hazardous job of
marrying them. He performed the
ceremony in the mill at dead of night
and speeded the couple to Fort
Union where the old man couldn t
get at them. He therefore went aft
er the preacher with a rifle and a
burst of language not really fit for
clerical ears. But the 'preacher
stood his ground and told the irate
Maxwell where to go as well as a
preacher could tell him. What be
came of this preacher is not known,
but Maxwell did not have the nerve
to shoot him.
The Murdered. Minister
One of his successors who came
to Cimarron after Maxwell had left
was not so fortunate. The great
Maxwell land grants had then been
sold to a syndicate of British cap
italists and there were stormy times
tn Cimarron. A number of squat
ters and miners had taken up claims
on land which the English company
claimed, and a regular little war
was started by the effort to put off
these alleged trespassers. Four men
who were hostile to the grant com
pany were mysteriously killed. This
preacher, whom we will call Smith,
more nerve than judgment. He
loudly and publicly asserted that he
would find out who was guilty of the
crimes and would have the murder
ers indicted. A couple of days later
his body was found in the canyon
with a bullet hole in the back.
He did not, however, die in vain,
for he had been a welMiked man,
and a mob of two thousand formed
to avenge him. They lynched a
Mexican who was said to have been
paid to do the job, and they were
about to lynch an attorney for the
English compnay when the United
States troops interfered. That at
torney still lives near here, a man
of seventy-five, and he can tell you
a hair-raising story of how it feels
to have a rope around your neck and
over the limb of a tree.
WHAT DO YOU
KNOW?
1. What country defeated the
United States Olympic relay bicycle
team?
2. What dangerous disease of the
esophagus is claimed to be caused
through furs?
3. What French engineer first at
tempted to cut the Panama Canal?
4. Who, according to Greek myth
ology, opened the box that contained
the troubles of the world and allow
ed them to escape?
5. What is the lever called in a
locomotive which controls the en
trance of steam In the cylinders?
6. What kind of hair Is used on a
violin bow?
7. What American poet was known
as the “Children Lover?”
8. In what Arizona city have ex
tensive observations of Mars been
made?
9. What famous boy character In
veigled other boys into painting the
fence for him?
10. Os what country va.> the fa
ther of Napoleon 111. king?
11. How many principal chords
are there in a key of music?
12. Os what was the tip of the
first friction match made?
Answers to Questions
1, Belgium: 2, Anthrax; 3, De Les
seps; 4, Pandora; 5, Throttle; 6,
Horsehair: 7, Longfellow; 8, Flag
staff; 9, Tom Sawyer; 10, Holland;
11. 3; 12, Phosphorus.
Y. MT C. A. Man (overseas) —Now,
if you don’t study French in a class
you’ll speak the language the way a
New York dago speaks English. You
don’t want to do that, do you?”
Hardened Doughboy—That’s the
way a foreign language ought to be
spoke!—Standard Chaparral.
CURRENT EVENTS
The first bathtub in the United
States is said to have been installed
in Cincinnati December 20, 1842, by
Adam Thompson. It was made of
mahogany and lined -with sheet lead.
At a Christmas party he exhibited
and explained it, and four guests
later took a plunge. The next day
the Cincinnlta papers devoted many
columns to the new invention, and
it gave rise to violent controversy,
according to a writer in the Detroit
Free Press. Some papers designated
it as an epicurean luxury, others
called it undemocratic, as it lacked
simplicity in its suroundings. Medi
cal authorities attacked it as dan
gerous to health.
During the same year the l legis
lature or Virginia laid a tax of S3O
a year on all bathtubs that might be
set up. In Hartford, Providence,
Charleston and Wilmington special
and very heavy water rates Were
laid, on persons who had bathtubs.
Boston in 1845 made bathing unlaw
ful except on medical advice, but
the ordinance was never enforced,
an<j in 1882 it was repealed.
President Millard Fillmore gave
the bathtub recognition and respect
ability. While vice president he
visited Cincinnati in 1850 on a
stumping tour and inspected the or
iginal .bathtub and used it.
The largest and most powerful
battleship in the new Spanish nayy,
the dreadnought Alfonso Trece, wi.ll
arrive in New York this month. This
ship is the first of its sisters to
visit America since the Vizcaya
came to New York just before the
Spanish-American war.
The department of agriculture
tells the people of this country that
experiments in Louisiana show that-
Chinese and Japanese bamboo may
be grown there and that the culti
vation of some varieties may be
profitable.
Mention is made, for instance, of
Phyllostachys pubescens, which one
may eat as a salad when the shoots
are six or eight inches above the
ground or which may be used for
timber later as the ’’shoots” reach
a height of from sixty to seventy
feet in three weeks.
The bamboo, we are fold, may be
used in building operations or for
telephone poles or spars, hence it is
recommended as a source of wealth
to those who live in -Southern
iana. It may be profitable to them,
but folk? in the north feel that the
Louisiana residents will find it more
profitable to continue to raise sugar
cane and th® price of sugar.
Fifteen million German people are
destined to die out in the course of
years because of privations during
the war and inability to settle in
new lands through loss of the na
tion’s colonies, according to a Berlin
professor. This Hun hygienist is a
rabid member of the "Junker” party,
which still idolizes the ex-kaiser.
Quite a storm of protest was arous
ed last week when the New York
state superintendent of prisons or
dered that “The Sing Sing Bulletin,"
a newspaper published at th® institu
tion for twenty-one years, must be
discontinued. The paper was origi
nally begun under-the name of “The
Star of Hope” and was widely read
all over the country. In general, it
resembled “Good Words,” the publi
cation issued by the inmates of the
Atlanta penitentiary.
So much public sentiment was stir
red up over the superintendent’s ac
tion that the governor started an in
vestigation. At present it seems
likely that the order will be with
drawn and the prisoners allowed to
get out their paper.
Instead of letting its volcanoes
spread fear and destruction over the
countryside, Italy is now working
out a plan for transforming the heat
of these natural furnaces into indus
trial horsepower.
Somebody in America is killed ev
ery thtrty-flve minutes, day and
night, according to a report issued at
a recent convention of the National
Safety council in Atlantic City. The
danger is constantly increasing, the
report went on to say. Three times
as many people meet death in auto
mobile accidents as lose their
lives ii) all the mines, factories, rail
roads and other industries of the na
tion, the statistics showed. The pre
diction that there would be 10,000,-
000 machines in this country by the
end of the year was made at the
convention.
Prizes for moving picture stories
showing modern farming methods
have been offered by the department
of agriculture in France.
South America is buying all the
American silverware it can get Its
hands on. There has been an enor
mous increase in the volume of busi
ness done down below the Panama
canal and Uncle Sam is taking care
of a profitable line of trade formerly
handled by England and Germany.
The Philadelphia mint, which is
the largest money factory in the
world, turned out the enormous to
tal of 501,000,000 coins during its
last fiscal year.
The American naval department
has officially denied rumors that
some inventive geniils has designed
a torpedo .boat that is able to leave
the water like a flying fish and jump
over logs, other boats and any other
obstruction. It is admitted that some
civilian is supposed to be working
on such an acrobatic war vessel, but
as yet the navy men know nothing
about It.
The Canadian Pacific railroad has
given jobs to 18,330 veterans of the
world war. Os these, about 7,000
had left the road to volunteer for
fighting in France All told, upwards
of 11,000 employees volunteered, of
whom 1,100 were killed and 2,000
wounded. Every man who volun
teered was given six months' pay.
Telephones to the number of 600,
000 were added to the Bell system in
America last year, the head of the
company recently announced. This
was the greatest growth in the his
tory of the business and was record
ed in spite of the fact that the Bell
company is more than 200,000 tele
phones behind in filling orders.
English airplanes transported 76,-
000 people last year with hardly any
accidents, and only one death.
When the department of justice
recently announced that the names of
all Americans would be published
who appeared to be “slackers” ac
cording ot the selective service rec
ords, it looked as if the figures show
ed a good many cases of apparent
disloyalty. When the statistics are
analyzed, however, the fact is estab
lished that of the 24,000,000 Ameri
cans who were called upon to regis
ter, less than one-half of 1 per cent
have been found chargeable with
wilfull desertion. In other words,
more than 99 out of 100 Americans
did their duty.
Kentucky’s 1920 population will be
in the neighborhood of 2,390,000, if
estimates based on census figures
covering forty counties are correct.
According to this prediction, Georgia
will have a lead of something like
500,000 souls over the Bluegrass
state,
Seventy-flve-cent gasoline within
two years was predicted by a pro
fessor at the Case schools, Cleve
land, in a recent address.
Mrs. William Rockefeller, wife of
the Standard OH magnate, left $3,-
312,630, according to a recent ap
praisal made by the New York au
thorities. Some of her personal prop
erty represented diamond and pearl
necklaces, brooches and other jew
elry, worth as high as $30,000 to
$40,000.
A Chinese bank, the first ever es
tablished in America, will open for
business in New York by the first of
the year, it is reported after a visit
by financiers from the Orient.
Spain’s total expenditures in Mo
rocco from the beginning of the year
to July 1 amounted to 58,000,000
pesetas (about $9,000,000). This
amount included the cost of military
operations and the civil administra
tion.
The largest individual shipment of
gold to South America in some time
left New York this week on the
steamer Santa Elisa of the Grace
Line. It consists of $3,155,000 of gold
bars consigned to Callao, Peru. It is
understood that the metal is going
for Peruvian government account,
and will be used in the reserve be
ing accumulated in process of read
justing the country’s currency sys
tem.
AUGUST 31, 1230.
DOROTHY_DIX TALKS
BABY VAMPS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler. Syndicate, Inc.)
GIRLS, are there no more fresh
faced, clean-faced young girls,
with the dewy sweetness of
early morning upon them,
and God’s own roses blooming in
their cheeks?
It has been my luck to Twice cross
the continent this summer, and to be
in many cities and pleasure resorts,
and everywhere I have seen the same
shocking and grotesque sight—young
girls, still in their teens, who were
gotten up like Jezebels.
Little young girls with noses like
mashmallows protruding from faces
so heavily calsomined with powder
they were as stiff as masques. Lit
tle young girls’ cheeks as frankly
painted as any scarlet woman’s. Lit
tle youug girls with lips that were
purple smears of grease paint. Lit
tle young girls with ey* built
out with gobs of tlje way
Anna Held used to do hers when she
sang, “I Can’t Make My Eeyes Be
have.”
Now I am no prude who objects to
paint and powder on principle. On the
oentrary, I think it a kindly and mer
itorious act for every woman to
make herself as easy on the eyes of
the beholder as she can. I se eno
especial virture radiating from a
shiny nose. I even honor and respect
the woman who touches up her hair
when it begins to fade, and substi
tues artificial roses for the ones of
which time has robbed her.
That is a case of art for art’s sake,
and the result often justifies the
means, but when a silly flapper
paints herself up like a circus wagon,
she sins against both nature and art.
Believe me, little sisters, no girl
ever commits a greater blunder tnan
she does when she falls to realize
that youth and naturalness are the
greatest charm any woman ever has,
and she has them for sueh a little
time that she is a three-ply idiot if
she .fails to make the most of them.
Perhaps if you knew that the thing
that every mature woman envies vou
is a skin that doesn’t have to be plas
tered over with cosmetics, and eyes
that do not need to have shadows
penciled under them to make them
bright, you would not be so eager to
hide your freshness under the arti
fices of age.
Youth just of Itself is entrancing.
The satiny, smooth skin, the color
that ebbs and flows with every mo
tion, the eyes that look with shy,
wondering artlessness upon life, en
dow a young girl with a sibtle fasci
nation no older woman possesse.
All of this you throw into the dis
card when you put on your hand
made complexion. No blush can pen
etrate a layer of adamantine “liquid
white,” warraned not to come ofl or
crack, nor can any made up eye look
unsophisticated. Nenther is any man
set dreaming of the sweetness of a
young maiden's first kiss when he
can plainly see that the said diss
will be flavored with lip salve.
Furthermore, my dear, the girl
WITH THE GEORGIA
• PRESS
A B«al Campaign
Still, there are some fellows after
the vote of the summer girls who
conduct front, porch campaigns—al-
most exclusively—and win out. And
their slogan is, “The Union Forever—
One and Indissoluble.”—Savannah
Morning News.
Chickens and Eggs in Grady
The chicken and egg business in
Grady county amounts to quite an
item during the twelve months,
but if a bit more care and attention
was devoted to this business, Cairo
might very easily join the sections
that ship these products by the car
load. Some people increase their
flock without Increasing the care and
feeding and fail in results. It is the
same story of being able to get
something for nothing, but where
properly managed the farm flock of
hens can be made one of the most
profitable departments of the farm.—
Grady County Progress.
But They Seldom “Go”
There is always a bunch of sour
faced scalawags in any community
who never want to see the bright
side of anything—always planting
thorns where roses should be and
tearing down when they should be
building up. They always look better
going than coming.—Soperton News.
The Editor Xg Ordinary
We keep marriage licenses both at
the ordinary’s and at the Nugget of
fice and are prepared to wait on
those desiring to marry upon short
notice, either day or night, and if
they wish the knot tied we can do
the job to perfection. Come on now
before the rush begins. Both vocal
and instrumental music will be fur
nished if desired.—Dahlonega Nug
get.
No Busier
The change from government con
trol hasn't made it any easier to
open a car window.—Rome News.
Politic* In Savannah
A Savannah aiderman has resigned
to maintain his self-respect and dig
nity. A rather remarkable statement
to make and not understood outside
of that city.—Brunswick News.
Circumstances alter cases, even for
a doctor.—Savannah Morning News.
Th* Moon Shines Bright in Bryan
So numerous have been the raids on
moonshine stills in this county by
revenue officers the past month that
one of the county’s leading products
is getting scarce. Something like
twelve or fifteen well equipped stills
were destroyed in Bryant county dur
ing the nujnth of July.—Pambroke
Enterprise.
Don't Diversify, Boys
Many a young fellow has learned
with some sadness that one crop that
will not bear too much diversifica
tion is of the sweetheart variety.—
Monroe Advertiser.
Expensive Courtesy
It costs Americans $10,000,000 a
year to say “please” in telegrams, ac
cording to reports from Winnepeg.
There’s a reason; telegrams are a
request for something.—Augusta
Chronicle.
NEWS NOTES IN
SCIENCE
An East Indian scientist has in
vented a machine which he contends
proves that plants feel pain by re
cording their nerve shocks and re
action.
A New York inventor’s night ad
vertising scheme consists of pro
jecting pictures or text with a stere
opticon against the beam from a
searchlight.
The governments of Argentina
and Paraguay have signed an agree
ment for the establishment of a
wireless telegraph service between
those countries.
To aid night fishing a tiny electric
lamp has been designed to be fas
tened beside the bait, an insulated
cord providing current from dry bat
teries.
Germany is maintaining regular
aerial passenger service among sev
eral cities their being three or four
daily expresses between Berlin and
Hamburg.
After two years of work a New
Jersey factory has completed a geo
metric lathe on which the Mexican
government will engrave plates for
its pr’per money.
Natives of a province in India
have succeeded in breeding egrets in
captivity and obtaining their slum
age four times a year without injury
to the birds.
An irrigation dam in New South
Wales which will Impound about 35,-
380,000,0 cubic feet of water, back
ed up in a lake forty miles long,
will cost $3,680,000.
An Indiana inventor has brought
out automobile goggles which use no
glass and are open directly in front
of the eyes, yet afford protection
against wind.
Brazil has a mine from which gold j
who makes up, puts herself in the
same class, so far as looks go, with
the woman of forty, since all drug
store beauty comes in similar pack
ages. This is supreme folly, be
cause the young girl lacks the poise,
the social sense, the of
men that the older woman has. The
young girl’s one best bet was just
her freshness, and she chucked that
away when she went in for the baby
vamp stuff.
And you make another terrible |
mistake, girls, when you pose as be
ing worldly wise and wicked. Why.
your greatest charm is your inno
cence. Those of us who have seen
so much sorrow, so much? sordid
ness, so much that hideous and rot
ten in life, those of us who have
known so many blighting disappoint
ments, love you because you have
known only the white things and the
bright things, and because your
faith in all that is good and true is
still unsullied.
A young girl who has gon« wrong
is the saddest sight on earth. A
young girl who is wise and disil
lusioned, and pessimistic, hurts
every one who see her. She is like
a soiled dove, or a lily that has been
trampled in the dust.
I know it is the fashion now for
young girls to curse. They don’t
say, “Oh Piffle” now when they stub
their little toes. They come put
with good round oats that would
make a ’longshoreman green with
envy. Don’t do It, girls. It may
sound smart to you and the callow
crowd you are with, but it sounds *
blasphemous to other people.
You see we have spent ages in
weaving a halo about girlhood. We
have attributed to it everything that
is pure, and sweet and innocent and
lovely, and we cannot bear to have
our ideal smeared over with paint,
or shattered with a big, big D.
The young girl who looks as if she
had been reared on the street In
stead of in a refined home, and who
curses and swears like a truck
driver —she isn’t the kind of a girl
we hope our little daughters will de
velop into or our sons to marry.
Just listen to me a moment, dear
little flappers, you who are so igno
rant and don’t know what you are
doing; if you want to be admired,
if you want men in especial to ad
mire you, and if you want to catch a
good husband, go home and wash
your faces. Throw your make-up
boxes out of the window, and be just
the simple, sweet, fresh natural
young girls you really are, for you
are not as bad as you are painted.
Don’t make us have to depend for
our ingenues on ladies of forty, who
are wearing white muslin and blue
ribbon, and aping the artlessness
that you despise, and the world finds
so alluring.
(Dorothy Dlx articles appear rwu
larly in this paper every Monday,
Wednesday ahd Friday.)
\
AS A WOMAN
THINKETH
BY HELEN ROWLAND
BY HELEN HOWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by The Wheeler Syndi-
* cate, Inc.)
THE illuminating correspondence,
between a happily married
pair.
Dear Old Darling,
So glad to hear that you are well
and happy—but not too happy—with
out me.
Today, the water was fine, and 1
went in swimming.
Swam- and swam and SWAM —a!
most out to the raft!
" (Don’t forget to send me thos l
bathing shoes, you promised to gc
me.)
A lady paid me the most wonder •
ful compliment this morning.
She said, *’Oh, look at that YOUNG
lady, SWIMMING!"
Wasn’t it sweet?
After that, I fairly floated!
By the way, Dear, don’t forgi t A
to see about the new electric fixture*
—and be sure to have the carpenter
fix that door to the pantry.
And, oh, yes, don’t forget to pay
the fire Insurance!
The weather has been simply su
perb, .and I expect to go in bathing
agaiir tomorrow.
Don’t forget to have Della take
the rugs up on the roof and sun
them, to keep out the moths.
Don’t get overheated, and catch
cold. (Your cough medicine is on
the top shelf.)
And don’t forget to send your din
ner clothes to the cleaner’s—and your
blue suit, and the whits flannel
trousers.
Don’t forget to go to see Mother,
once in a while.
Don’t set yourself on fire smok
Ing in bed.
Dont’ eat too much green corn—
vou know what the doctor said about
it.
Don’t forget to feed “Klttums,’
and water the ferns, and close the *
windows, when you go out, every
morning. w
Don’t forget* to order the coal. 1
Don’t forget
Your loving
WIFIE.
Dear Girl: *
Everything’s all right—This is n
sizzling hot day—You’re lucky to be
out of Town —Miss you so much—
Have a good time—Don’t take anv
bad money—This is an awful pen—
Forgive haste—Bye-Bye—
Your devoted
TOM.
And yet,
BEFORE they were married,
He wrote her*“perfect classics,'
and quoted reams of Browning,
And SHE wrote him “Prose Poems ’
That would have made Amy Lowell
pink with envy!
Ah, me!
From Romanticist to Realist,
From Idealist to Materialist,
Is but a step—
The little step from the church
door to the altar! »
and silver have been taken almost
continuously since 1725, arsenic be
ing obtained from the residuous sand
in recent years.
Two lowa inventors have patented -A
a triple brush to be inserted in. a
milk can, then expanded and turned
by a crank on its handle to thor
oughly cleanse the can.
An automobile trailer for baggage
invented in England is supported by
a single wheel the other end of its
frame being attached to the rear
corners of a car.'
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
WEN A MAN MAKE HE
LIVIN’ GAMBLIN’ <4E
ain't gamblin'--he
GIN'ALLY GOT A SJ4O
THING —/
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