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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Price*) Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W-.l Mo. 8 Moe. C Mos. 1 Yr. Dally and Sunday2oc 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 80c .00 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes tor early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. 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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 —/ Copyright, X 920 by McClure Newipiper Syndicit#