Newspaper Page Text
4
T TRI WEEKLY JOURNA
A'lV„.,xA, 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 51.50
Eight months . >I.OO
Six months 75c
Four months 50c
Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday
(By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance)
1 W .l I'Orf 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr.
Daily nnd Sunday 20c £3c sllsO $5.00 $0.50
Daily i6c 70e 2.00 4.00 7.50
Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.35
The Tri-Weekly Journal is published
on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and
is mailed by the shortest routes for early
delivery.
It contains news from all over the world,
brought by special leased wires into our
office. It has a staff of distinguished con
tributors, with strong'departments of spe
cial value to the home and the tarm.
Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib
eral commission allowed. Outfit free.
Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Jfan
ager.
The only traveling representatives we
have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles
H. W’oodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr.,
W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac-
Jennings. We will be responsible for
money paid to the above named traveling
representatives.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
The label uaed for addreaslug your paper ahowe the time
uur subacription expires. By renewing at least two weeks
>efore the date on this label, you insure regular service.
In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your
>lrt an well as your new address. If on a route, please
_dve the route number.
We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num
bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or
•egistered mail.
Address all orders and notices for this Department to
VUE TRI-WEEKLY JOURS A.L. Atlanta, G*.
To Those Who Really Wish
To See Mr. Watson Defeated
GEORGIA Democrats who feel the im
portance, to the party and to the
State, of defeating Thomas E. Wat.
con In the forthcoming Senatorial primary
are wondering why Governor Dorsey’s itin
erary of speeches is directed so largely to
counties where the race admittedly lies be
tween Mr. Watson and Senator Smith. The
Governor’s tacticians can but realize that
this course, while adding not a whit to the
strength of his owu candidacy,' will work,
insofar as it is effectual at all, to the aid
and comfort of the Watson forces. Sup
pose, for instance, that in a community of,
say, five hundred voters, two hundred are
now for Senator Smith, two hundred for
Mr. Watson, and the remaining one hun
dred in part for Governor Dorsey and in
part undecided. Even if the • Governor wins
the entire one hundred, it will profit him
nothing; but it will prove exceedingly help
ful to Mr. Watson by bringing about that
very division on which he relies for elec
tion.
Curiously enough, these tactics are em
ployed time and again, in county after
county where competent and candid observ
ers freely declare that the defeat 01 Mr.
Watson will not be accohaplished except by
a union of loyal Democrats in support of I
his one formidable* opponent. Senator Smith. I
Strangely enough, moreover, the activities
of the Governor’s campaign are concen
trated, not again Mr. Watson, whose war
record was an affront to State and nation
and whose policies are altogether destruc-1
tive, but against Senator Smith, zealous and ,
potent worker for the winning of his coun-,
try’s cause, seasoned and tireless builder in
the service of his Commonwealth. For the
radical who fought every measure of mili
tary and, for the most part, of economic'
importance' from the day of our break with
Germany to the hour the last shot was fired,
these bitter factionisfs have only an indif
ferent glance or a knowing smjle. But for
the Senator who supported those measures,
one and all, and whose colleagues so valued
his counsel as to create a special place for
him on the military affairs committee, for
him these factionists have nothing but preju
dice and denunciation.
Nor v can the conclusion be escaped that
their prime purpose in thrusting a third
candidate into the contest between Senator
Smith and Mr. Watson will be achieved if
only they can defeat the Senator. The peril
of Watsonism, the prestige of the State, the
Interests of agriculture and business and
labor, the ideals of concord and progress
all weigh as nothing aginst petty hate in
the minds of these political feudists. While
broad-visioned men are considering how
Georgia best can be served and how the
election of a dangerously erratic candidate
can most surely be prevented, these nursers
of a lame and hoary grudge are concerned
chiefly with their spite against Hoke Smith.
That is why they are sending Governor Dor
sey into counties where *the race is admit
tedly between the Senator and Mr. Wat
son and where every vote diverted from the
Senator becomes in effect a vote transferred
to Mr. Watson. That is why they leave a
real menace to the State unchallenged and
muster their crumbling forces against the
one candidate with whom the battle for se
curity and constructiveness and loyal Democ
racy can be won.
Happily for Georgia, however, the main
hosts of her stanch Democracy are not so
blinded by passion and prejudice that they
cannot see where civic duty and public in
terests He. They look upon the Senatorial
race with eyes ot discerning patriotism and
unclouded common sense. They behold on
the one side an" agitator whose every im
pulse is for tearing down and whose elec
tion would fall like a killing frost upon
Georgia’s prosperity and well-being; on the
other side, a statesman of experience and
power, whose dominant delight is in build
ing up and whose recorc is packed with
evidences of his usemli e-- to the State. Be
tween these two, pusher in against his own
better judgment (and against that of his
wiser, more disinterested friends) is the
candidate of insen-ate factionlstn. The in
herent weakness of his position and the ex
tremely fragile nature of his record in the
Executive office make Governor Dorsey’s
candidacy but a broken reed to those who
are looking in earnest for a sword where
with to win against Watsonism. Their very
•instinct warns them in so crucial an issue
against preferring inexperience to prac
ticed ability and against dividing their
strength when united effort is imperative
ly needed.
Not as a partisan or a traditional sup
porter of Senator Smith, but as' a wise
watcher of events, solicitous only for Geor
gia’s well-being, that veteran Democrat
and honored citizen, Maj. Joseph B. Cum
ming. of Augusta, summed the situation un
answerably when he said: “The call of the
Senate is for the best statesmanship that
the country affords, men of proved ability,
men broad-minded, mei of strong char
acter, - men of experience in large affairs.
It is the negation of reason. the abdication
of judgment, lightly to regard the Senate of
the United States as a place to which to
send .almost any- kird of fellow that wants
to go there, albeit he may be narrow and
superficial, mediocre-and inexperienced and
generally small and indifferent; or a man,
though able and gifted, radical in his views,
extreme in his prejudices, violent in his
denunciation of those who differ from him,
blinded by passion.” Choosing by this sound
standard, Georgia Democrats whose concern
1m for the ablest representation of their
inn ArtJA.iiA iru- wmruikjjx wvunnah.
btate and the certain defeat of that dan
gerous spirit which Mr. Watson embodies
will not be deceived by a side issue of fac
tionism, will not waste votes on a futile
and sinking adventure; but will rally where
the tides of real battle roll, will grasp the
one means with which true Democracy can
win, will muster in victory-bringing ranks
behind the candidacy of Senator Smith.
Widening Cotton Credits
THAT is a cogent plea made by the
current number of Commerce Month
ly for standardizing the quality of
cotton warehouse receipts so shat they will
be more widely acceptable as bases of cred
it for financing a crop of national and
world-wide importance. “Under present con
ditions,” says this authority, “the financing
of the primary marketing is undertaken
chiefly by banks which are located in the
immediate community, or which are in close
touch with the local situation. In a word,
cotton financing is, localized.” How much
better for all interests, if the burden, instead
of being centered upon a limited number of
banking houses, were distributed over the
country! Nor is this in any wise unfeasible;
for “with standardized warehouse receipts,
issued by responsible warehousemen, banks
could safely undertake to execute xaccept
ances on their security, and these accept
ances, readily saleable in a general discount
would afford the cotton industry a
more adequate participation in the credit
resources of the country as a whole.”
In Georgia, it is gratifying to observe,
substantial progress in this important mat
ter has been made. The Federal Warehouse
Act and the Uniform Warehouse Receipts
law afford advantages which the State’s
business and banking leadership' has been
prompt to recognize and earnest to en
courage- Whatever additional expenses may
be thus entailed are far out-balanced by sav
ings on insurance and gains in credit fa
cilities.
Light in Germany
A REGENERATED Germany is coming
surely to pass, if a majority of her
people share the view expressed in
a recent issue of the Berliner Tageblatt by
Walter Schucking, a liberal member of the
Reichstag, and evidently a thoughtful as well
as ardent patriot. Recalling that six years
have elapsed since Wilhelm the Second took
leave of hie family in the castle of Count von
Stein, in Nassau, to join the army, tte re
marks that this point of departure “was ob
viously chosen because of the tradition which
associated it with that great enemy of Napo
leon, who, after years of exile in Russia,
crossed the Rhine and led his army to vic
tory in France.” Wilhelm the Second, this
level-looking critic and one-time subject of
the former Kaiser, declares, “was more suc
cessful in such artful tricks than in matters
of public policy.” As for the Potsdqm as
sertion that the war was forced upon Ger
many, “future generations will throw up
their hands in astonishment at the stupidity
of the statesmen” who conceived and cred
ited idea. And note especially this keen
observation:
“Had Von Bethmann-Hollweg in the
spring of 1913, instead of proposing the
jxpenditure of billions for an increased
irmy, suggested rather an international
disarmament congress in Berlin, the
orld’s history would perhaps have
ken a different turn, and even had such
<. conference been without result, the
zorld’s opinion of us would have been
?ry different. Our so-called ‘real poli
;kers’ believe even now that they may
’.ligh at the League of Nations project
/hich'we took to Versailles in 1919, as
f the plan were worthless, and as if mil
ions of hearts would not have turned
o us from every part of the world if wc
ad made such a proposition in 1913
.jven during the war, at the time when
■ve were at the pinnacle of our military
.uccess, the effect would have been tre
.nendous if we had given the world our
Assurance of right and of a lasting peace
■ nstead of demanding material guaran
tees. Instead of which enthusiasin for
right only developed in Imperial Ger
many when might began to disappear.”
If, we say, this unclouded point of view is
attained by the rank and file of the people
of Germany, that nation’s rebirth is assured,
and her growth in moral power and prosper
ity is a conclusion foregone. The Reichstag
member whom we have quoted finds ijiuch to
condemn, it should be said, in the Treaty of
Versailles and in what he considers the “in
justice” of the peace terms. But the more
significant fact is that he sees the genesis
of the war in so clear a light, and the tragi
cal blunder of them who brought it on. Such
perception «is the beginning of national wis
dom and national progress.
When the Geese Fly
THE advent of autumn, with its frosty
dawns and purple twilights, in time
past, has been the signal for the south
ward flight of birds, millionaires and that
other sun-loving species, ragged of plumage,
but as wary of winter as any tanager or oil
king, the hobo.
Were the approaching September in keep
ing with Septembers of yesterday, we should
expect shortly to read in the newspapers* that
a flock of wild geese has been sighted over
East Point, that Palm Beach is preparing
for the gayest season in its history, and that
Frisco Red, who gave neither residence hor
occupation, has been arrested on a charge of
vagrancy.
The wild goose will fly, and Florida's
tourist season will wax gay as Of
that we have no doubt. B&t the case of
Frisco Red opens opportunities for specula
tion. We clip from an article in the New
York Sun and Herald, quoting Lieutenant
Colonel Emil Marcussen, head of the Indus
trial department of the Salvation Army for
states west of the Mississippi:
"The day of the dormitory, or more ac
curately, the ‘flop house,’ has passed.
kjjnd of men who used to come to us seeking
free beds or glad to get them for a dime, now
ask for private rooms. Our Working; Men’s
Palace in Chicago has 571 beds. Three years
ago we would have found ten or twelve men
in the Palace with bank accounts. Last
month there were 312 men in the hotel who
carried bank books. As for the industrial
hornet, they used to contain many young
men who ceased to be producers and who
had to be made over, sometimes by a long
and painstaking process, into good citizens
and wage-earners. Today there is hardly an
able-bodied man in any industrial home in
the United States. The men who are there
•are nearly all permanently disabled to some
degree, or they are convalescents from hos
pitals who are unable to do an ordinary day’s
work. These men are not only able to take
care of themselves, but even to save a little
from their earnings.”
Does this not certify the passing of Frisco
Red? Colonel Marcussen credits prohibition
with the change. Whatever the cause, we
dan but feel, in these days when more pro
duction is the cry -on every hand, that the
Colonel’s statement is gratifying. Frisco
Red was an interesting character, picturesque,
droll, a happy inspiration for writers of ad
venture tales. But we can well afford to
relegate him to the limbo shared by Dick-
Turpin, Captain Kidd and other shadows
rogues who live today only on the printed
5a ze.
When Scribe Meets Scribe
THUS writes the Dayton, Ohio, News,
concerning the acceptance speech of
a certain candidate for the Presi
dency:
“We hope the speech will be widely
read in America. In no better way can
the people of the nation be afforded an
opportunity to study the candidate and
observe more clearly how completely he
is out of harmony w-ith progressive
thought in this country.”
And thus writes the Marion, Ohio, Star,
concerning the acceptance speech of a cer
tain other candidate for the Presidency:
“To the careful reader, it is neither
inspiring nor convincing. Its chief defect
is in its general tone. The speech is not
the dignified utterance on# would na
turally expect from an aspirant to an
office so exalted as the Presidency. There
is much of merit and thoughts and sug
gestions of good purpose but the speech
as a wfiole, as we have stated, is mar
red by its tone. We sincerely hope that
every one of our patrons will give it
careful reading.”
Now observe that the Dayton News is
owned and directed by Governor Cox, and
the Marion Star by Senator Harding. Such
are the amenities of the Fourth Estate in
the dog days of politics.
*
CHRONIC FATIGUE
By H. Addington Bruce
AGAIN and again I am asked by corre
spondents to account for their being
troubled by a continual feeling of
tiredness. I can only answer by rerferring
the inquirers to their physicians for a per
sonal examination.
For chronic fatigue may be a danger sig
nal warning of the presence of some internal
growth.
It may likewise indicate that a general
weakening and poisoning'is in progress from
some so-called focal infection. Intestinal,
tonsillar, dental infection, etc., may so under
mine the system as to cause fatigue to be
continually felt.
More often,, fortunately, chronic fatigue
arises from causes less sinister and readily
remediable by the fatigued person himself.
A faulty diet may produce chronic fatigue,
through malnutrition. Overeaters of meats
and sweets and undereaters of the vitamin
containing foods-—fresh fruits, fresh vegeta
bles, and milk—are particularly likely to
suffer in this respect.
So are neople who deny themselves a due
amount of exercise in the open air and ade
quate ventilation of working and sleeping
quarters.
Chronic fatigue is notoriously a symptom
of oxygen hunger. The simple device of
sleeping with wide open hds been
known to cure not a few puzzling and stub
born cases of chronic fatigue.
Wrong working methods may likewise
breed persitent tiredness. Those who not
merely work overlong, but who also hurry
and worry about their work, need not be sur
prised if they feel tired most of the time.
And, on the opposite, those who make it
a point to avoid work as much as they can
are equally liable to experience chronic fa
tigue. Idleness tires if only because it com
pels an unending and exhausting search for
really satisfying occupation.
Many people, still further, are chronically
fatigued simply because they are unhappy.
Domestic discord, social isolation, great per
sonal disappointments of any sort, may de
velop fatigue-producing toxins of astonishing
virulence.
So may jealousy, anger, hatred, and any
other disturbing mental state. In many a
case of chronic fatigue, in fact, the essential
requisite to a cure is the gaining of peace
of mind. <
>AII of which surely affords a satisfactory
explanation of the impossibility of answer
ing with any certainty at long range the
question, “What makes me feel tired all the
time?”
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
THE GREATEST THINGS IN
THE WORLD
By Dr. Frank Crane
The greatest sin—fear.
The best day—today.
The biggest fool —the boy that will not go
io school.
The best town—where you succeed.
The most agreeable companion—one who
would not have you any different from what
you are.
The greatest bore—one who will not come
to a point.
A still greater bore—one who keeps on
talking after he has made his point.
The greatest writer—one who tells you
what you already know.
The greatest deceiver—one who deceives
himself.
The most beautiful woman—the one you
love.
The greatest nation, the best church and
the finest family on earth —mine.
The greatest invention of the devil—war.
The greatest secret of production—saving
waste.
The best work—what you like.
The greatest play—work.
The greatest comfort—the knowledge *hat
you have done your work well.
The greatest mistake—giving up.
The most expensive indulgence—hate.
The cheapest, stupidest and easiest thing
to do—finding fault.
The greatest trouble maker—talking too
much.
Theat greatest stumbling block—egotism.
The most ridiculous asset—pride.
The worst bankrupt—the. soul that has lost
its enthusiasms.
The poorest wretch —the one that has no
dreams.
The cleverest man —one who always does
what he thinks is right.
The most dangerous person—the liar.
The most disagreeable—the complainer.
The best handwriting—that you can read.
The best teacher—one w’ho makes you
want to learn.
The best woman—one who doesn’t know it.
The best man —one who obeys the best
woman.
The best part of anybody’s religion—gen
tleness and cheerfulness.
The meanest feeling of which any human
being’is capable—feeling bad at another’s
success.
The most important thing to learn in school
—how to make a living.
The most important training—training in
democracy.
The one thing greater than the U. S. A.—
huiiftnity.
The only flag better than the Stars and
Stripes—the Blue Flag (Humanity).
The greatest need—common sense.
The best gift—forgiveness.
The thing that costs less and sells for jfiost
—politeness.
* The greatest puzzle—life.
The greatest mystery—death. *
The greatest thought—God.
The greatest thing, bar none, in all the
world—love.
(Conyrizht. 1920. by Frank Crane.)
UNLOCAL COLOR
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
SANTA FE, N. M., August 28.
Greenwich village has invaded
the far southwest.
This is no mere catchy sen
tence based on a few instances; it
is a literal statement of fact. In two
or three New Mexico towns, and at
large in the surrounding country,
there are probably more people of
the type called Bohemian ' than any
where else in the United States, ex
cept in the vicinity of Washington
square in New York and that of
Tooker Court* the home of the Dill
Pickle club, in Chicago.
And these strangers have come
boldly in their proper parts. They
have not, to any considerable extent,
taken protective coloration. Here are
to be seen short-haired women wear
ing sandals and far-away looks, and
the men with the Ibng hair who
<Jream the long dreams and paint the
pictures that look not like the
scenery and write the poetry where
of the meaning is known only to
themselves and God. • , .
It would be unfair, however, to’
give the impression that the arty
folks who have come here are all or
even mostly dilettantes and eccen
trics. Both in Santa Fe and Taos
are men and women of real ahiove
ment. Mary Austin spent a» winter
here and wrote an excellent novel,
and there are a dozen artists in the
state of considerable attainment.
One of the most interesting of these
is Gustave Baumann, who has with
great success revived the little
known art df making color prints by
hand from wood cuts. He paints his
pictures in water colors, makes a
wooden plate for each color in the
composition and prints perhaps a
hundred copies, which are in de
mand.
But limits of space make it im
possible to recount the separate
achievements of the many artists
who have found inspiration and con
genial homes in this theoretically
I wild and uncouth country. The fact
of the matter is that probably more
of real artistic and intellectual life
in proportion to the population is
centered in northern New Mexico
than anywhere else in the United
States. Boston is an Intellectual fos
sil and New York is an intellectual
prostitute. Chicago makes a flam
boyant and self-conscious effort to
be and certainly some good
things come out of it;; slums ••>• u
alleys, but Pork there sits somewhat
heavily on Poetry.
The Hacks Are Here
True, the man who paints prima
rily for the embellishment of calen
dars and the fattening of his own
purse is not unknown in these parts,
nor is the chap who hastily manu
factures local color into bad maga
zine fiction. But in the main the
artists and writers who come here
are sincere folk who are trying to
get away from the noise and strain
and greed-provoking atmosphere ot
the cities, and to find a new inspira
tion. The artists especially have
been successful. A number of ve”y
substantial and worth while repu
tations have been made here by men
whose work in other places attracted
no attention.
Nor is it hard to understand what
the artists find here. Certainly one
of the essentials of artistic produc
tion is an atmosphere of leisure. It
is hard to give yourself up unre
servedly to dreams of beauty which
probably will prove unprofitable
when you are surrounded by people
engaged in a desperate and feverish
hunt for money. But down here a
large part of the population is Mexi
can, and the Mexicans refuse to get
excited or hurry up. They Impart
an easy and leisurely tone to exist
ence.
Even the gringos feel this influ
ence to some extent. Undoubtedly
New Mexicans as a whole take life
much more easily than New Yorkers.
And the actual cost of decent liv
ing is not high here. You can have
a cool and quiet room in an adobe
house and a saddle pony and some
thing to eat for an amount that
W’ould buy you only a precarious and
sordid existence in one of our cen
ters of so-called civilization. Here
are none of the costly fleshpots that
so often induce the young intellec
tual aspirant in New York to become
a high-priced hack of the big pub
lishing enterprises. Here, if any
where, he can be poor without los
ing health and dignity.
In this country, too, is natural
beauty, unspoiled and in great va
riety. The greater part of New Mex
ico remains a wilderness because
there is not enough water in the
state to convert it into anything
else. In the East the artist who de
rives his inspiration from nature
hunts diligently for unmarred bits of
country, but here the parts that
show any effect of artificial change
are few and small, here is unlimited
wilderness free to the feet of men.
It is not hard to iamgine how a man
defeated and confused by the com
plex life of cities might come out
here and sit down under a tree and
find himself.
Where the Past Is Present
No doubt, the rich historical as
sociations of the country have much
to do with its charm for the cre
ative mind. In most of America
change has trampled back and forth
across the scene in such a frenzied
struggle that all trace of the past
has been wiped out. But here the
past, in a sense, lives side by side
with the present. The Pueblo Indians
still live almost as they did centuries
ago. and the high-perched cliff
dwellings of their pre-Columbian an
cestors are still here almost intact.
The life of the Spanish folk in many
parts of the state is unchanged, too.
For tliose imaginations that like to
rogm backward through the years
this country is rich in inspiration.
It has become the favorite hunting
ground of archaeologists, and it
holds a great opportunity for the ar
tist in words who ftan tell its long
and varied story.
For all of these reasons there is
an unmistakable tendency toward
the formation in New Mexico at a
cultural center. The number of ar
tists, writers and scientists who
come here year by year increases,
arid still more significant is the
growing number of those who es-*
tablish permarient homes here. The
buying of adobe houses, many of
them more than a century old, and
re-fittlng them as modern dwellings
without changing their outward ap
pearance, has become quite a local
industry. Some charming effects
and some startling ones have been
produced. Here, for example, is the
residence of a post-impressionist ar
tist. From the outside it looks ex
actly like the home of a poor sheep
herder or woodcutter. But step in
side the hallway, and you are met
by walls tinted in violet and wood
work painted a midnight blue, with
the light filtered through violet cur
tains. The reception room, no less
astonishing in its color scheme, is
panelled with great pictures of New
Mexico scenery as it looks to the eye
of a post-impressionist.
Bocal Color Books Pale
Thus New Mexico, famous for its
local color, is getting a dash of im
ported color which rather outshines
all the indigenous hues. The history
of New Mexico has been one long
costume party, from the days of the
early Spanish conquerors, who toiled
and sweated across the deserts clad
in glittering steel, down through the
fringed buckskin times of the trap
pers and. the cowboy epoch of silver
spurs and bearskin chaps and wide
sombreros. But many of these in
vaders have gone the historical na
tives several better. Some of them
feel inclined to revive and perfect the
native costumes, while others have
ideas of their own. Thus a certain
artist here, who is a product of Rus
sia byway of * Greenwich Village,
goes in for a- heavy cowboy style. If
a man from the cattle range rides
into town wearing an extra fine pair
of chaps, this fellow trails him
around and will not let him rest un
til he has parted with them —prob-
ably for twice what they are worth.
But another painter from the east
fancies himself in knickerbockers
and golf stockings and a cute little
Alpine hat with a green feather.
The time has come when the Indians
have cause to stare almost as much
as they are stared at. The sight
seeing is no longer all on one side.
English manager (at rehearsal to
the leading lady)—'‘Ere, Miss Morti
mer, you mustn’t talk like that to
the duke. You mustn’t say: “Wot
are you a’doing?” You’ve got to
speak English. You must say: “Wot
are you
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1920.
CURRENT EVENTS
*
Daylight saving laws saved the
state of Ohio $4,658.27 last year, ac
cording to the report of the board
of administration. This sum was
saved on the electric light bills in
state institutions.
Every man in the village of Huerta
Pelayo, Spain, in the province of
Guadalajara, has decided to emigrate
to the United States, according to
the town clerk, who appeared at the
American consulate -with twenty-five
companions to secure vises for pass
ports. The families of the emigrants
will follow as soon as the men are
settled in America. The number of
emigrants from every village and
township of the Province of Sala
manca is increasing daily, recent
strikes in the mining districts hav
ing caused large parties of workers
to decide to leave the country.
The Socialists are trying to raise
$150,000 for the campaign in New
York state this fall, it was an
nounced recently at a meeting of
the party’s state finance committee.
About 350 delegates from labor or--
ganizations attended the meeting and
said that at least SIOO,OOO could be
raised from the organizations alone.
The volcano of Popocatepetil, in
Mexico, has been showing signs of
activity, luminous smoke being vis
ible above its crater and ashes fall
ing on a neighboring town.
Herbert Hoover has directed the
American Relief association, of
which he is the head, to spend $500,-
000 in caring for war refugees in Po
land, in addition to sums necessary
to continue feeding 1,000,000 Polish
children, the Armenian committee
for the defense of Poland announced
last night.
In the Egyptian department of the
British museum is a wooden doll
which was found in the sarcophagus
of a little royal princess who died
three centuries before Christ.
A slow, graceful step, named “The
Wesleyan,” has been evolved by the
National Association of Dancing
Masters, in the hope that it will re
ceive approval of the Methodist
church.
The public has had too much jazz
and is turning towards more natural
music, said Paul B. Klugh, presi
dent of the music industries cham
ber of commerce, addressing the
dancing masters.
The Spanish government will per
mit experiments in tobacco cultiva
tion and will inspect the seeds and
plants and supervise the disposal of
the crop.
Agents of Chicago packers, experi
menting at a Pennsylvania tannery,
have succeeded in making men’s
clothing from the hair from
slaughtered steers.
The population ot Berlin has de
creased 178,000 since 1910.
Albert M. Cameron, a Boston
nurse, received a bequest of $5,000
in appreciation of faithful services
in the will of William Campbell
Cricks, who died in August. The
widow receives the residue.
Complaint was made-recently by
the New York Federation of Agricul
ture, that conditions in New York
City were unfavorable for the mar
keting of the state’s apple cr*p. The
specific complaint is in regard to the
marg in in profit taken by the deal
ers. It is asserted that the growers
realized only 1 cent a pound on ap
ples which sold in the city last week
at wholesale for 2 to 3 cents a pound.
A new Belgian law prohibits the
manufacture, sale or keeping in
stock matches containing phos
phorus:
Forest fires have been raging in
Montana, California and Idaho, high
winds in places nullifying the work
of weeks of defensive work.
Yellow fever is increasing in Vera
Cruz, Mexico. Stagnant-water near
the city is being covered with
petroleum to kill mosquitoes.
French harvests now being gath
ered are proving deceptive. There
are plenty of sheaves, but the yield
of grain will be light.
Trunk line railroads of the United
States incurred a deficit of over 15
million dollars on June operations
says a report made by the inter
state commerce commission.
Carol, crown prince of Rumania,
is now visiting in this country. He
is' inspecting industrial plants and
colleges.
Returns from a recent Kansas
state wide primary show that J. B.
Willard, Democrat, and former
mayor of Topeka, who advocated
beer and light wines, won the nomi
nation for congress from the First
district.
Asphalt was first used as a road
material in Paris some 50 years
ago, but has attained its greatest
usefulness in America.
Spain irrigates only 6 per cent of
its cultivated land, but the irrigated
sections produce about one-fourth
of the country’s crops.
Thirty-three aliens under war
rants of deportation arrived at
Ellis Island immigration station re
cently from Cleveland, Chicago and
other cities of the central west.
Importation into Norway of arti
cles of luxury such as automobiles,
diamonds, laces, paints, pianos and
phonographs are forbidden by a gov
ernment order just made effective.
Since 1899 the United States has
produced 7,700,000 automobiles.
The town of Westover, in Ger
many, still enforces an old ordi
nance which forbids anyone to walk
in the street with a lighted cigar.
Diamonds have Increased 160 per
cent in value, and emeralds 300 per
cent during the last few years, while
rubies have decreased.
Rents are lower in Portland, Ore.,
than in any other city in the coun
try, according to an article in the of
ficial organ of the Building Man
agßrs and Owners’ association of
lortland. The article says:
“The average rate in Portland Is
sls a month unfurnished and S2O to
S3O a month furnished, while for the
same accommodations in Eastern
cities from $45 to SIOO in charged,
beattie and San Francisco average
unfurnished and S3O to
S4O furnished. Dos Angeles and Van
couver, B. C., rates are higher.”
This year’s cotton crop in Mexico
will probably reach 234,000 bajes
a s a maximum and 175,000 bales as a
minimum.
The remarkable decrease in Ja
pan s beef supply since the embargo
on the exportation of oxen from
Shantung became effective last
March has caused considerable con
cern, according to “The.. Japan Times
and Mail.” As there now seems to
be some prospect that this may be
lifted, the Japanese department of
agriculture and commerce is taking
steps ,to encourage importations of
cattle by erecting sheds for keeping
such cattle at Osaka, Nagoya and
other points. «
Following the conversion of silk
cartridge cloth into wearing apparel,
high explosive shell cases into lamps,
cocktail shakers and other articles of
use or decoration, wartime airplane
tity of propellers from the govern
for home decorative purposes. A
company recently purchased a quan
tity of propellers fromthe govern
ment, and is now offering the single
blade type at $35 and the double
blade at SSO. Clocks are mounted
in the shaft aperture of the propel
lers to give them a useful purpose.
Through “The Honolulu Star Bulle
tin.” it is learned that pineapple
packers in Hawaii consider this year
to be the biggest year the industry
has ever known. It is anticipated
that 6,000.000 cases of pineapnles will
be packed during the year, daily de
liveries already averaging about six
ty-five cans is on hand.
In May England imported 158,446
clocks from Germany, and during the
period of the five months of this year
759,2179. In the same five months’
period England purchased from the
United States 190,259 clocks: from
France. 11.882; and from other coun
tries. 150.977. During the past five
months England bought 114.422 gold,
136,262 silver and 798,209 other
watches, or more than a million in
the aggregate, besides 381.925 cases
A series of violent earthquakes
visited the southern region of Chile
this week, causing considerable
alarm, but so far no property dam
age has been ascertained. No fatali
ties have been repaet-tL
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
MEN AND THE BEAUTY CULT
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
HERE’S a problem that keeps I
me guessing, as it does nine
tenths of the other women in
the world, the remaining one
tenth being the pictures who have no
personal interest in solving the
conundrum.
The riddle is this: Why do men
lay so much more stress on beauty
in women than women put in good
looks in men? Why do men rate
beauty as the greatest asset that a I
woman can possess, while women put
good looks at the bottom of the list
of qualities they admire in men?
Nobody will contend that it is be
cause men possess a finer, or more
highly developed aesthetic sense than
women have. -On the contrary, the
average man is color blind, and cares
nothing for aostract beauty.
In proof of this, observe his
clothes. .Hideous tubular garments,
crowned by a hat patterned either
after a stove lid or a chimney pot.
And, unless forcibly restrained, he
will deck himself out in passionate
hues that sUrear at each other and set
the beholders’ teeth on edge. Nor is
the average man sensitive to his sur
roundings. As long as the springs
are good, and the cushions soft, he
can be as happy on a magenta couch
or a peacock carpet in a yellow room,
as he could be in one in which every
tone blended into its mate.
It is tne feminine love of abstract
beauty that expresses itself in clothes
of exquisite materials, shapes and
colors. It is the woman who cannot
live witnout beautiful surroundings
who makes the artistic home, and cul
tivates the flowers.
The indifference that the majority
of men display towards beauty in
general, makes their insistence upon
physical beauty in woman all the
more inexplicable. Perhaps they,
themselves, cannot tell * why good
looks attract them more in a woman
than any other thing, and why home
liness repulses them, though it be
overlaid with a thousand attractions
of mind and character.
The first question a man ever asks
about a woman whom he has never
seen, is concerned with her appear
ance. He always wants to know
whether she is pretty or not. Never
whether she is intelligent or amiable
or a good talker, or companionable.
And any little fool, or shrew, with
a pink and white complexion and
yellow ear muffs, and a willowy fig
ure, can marry whom she pleases,
’while the cultivated, big-hearted, big
souled girl with a sallow skin and a
nondescript nose, and stringy
straight hair which she never learns
how to comb, never gets in tele
phoning distance of a proposal from
any man, and, at last, has to espouse
a career.
If it were only the fool men who
married the fool girls for their
looks, it would "hot matter, but so
It Happened
In September
■
Sept. 3, 1783-—Treaty of Versailles
cigned. This ended the American
and restored peace be
tween Great Britain and America.
Sept. 5, 1774—First constitutional
congress met in Philadelphia.
Sept. 6, 1757—Lafayette, French
friend to American colonists, born.
Sept. 6, 1901 —President McKinley
shot ,by assassin at Buffalo.
Sept. 10, 1818—Perry won famous
Put-in-Bay victory over British on
Lake Erie.
Sept. 14, 1847—City of Mexico cap
tured by American army under Gen
eral Scott.
Sept. 17, 1796—Washington made
farewell address.
Sept. 19, 1881—President Garfield
died from bullet wound inflicted by
Sept. 21, 1784 —First dally newspa
per in United States, the American
Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, is
sued.
Sept. 22, 1862—Negro emancipation
proclamation issued by President
Lincoln.
Sept. 26, 1531—Balboa, Spanish
pioneer in America, discovered Pa
cific ocean. *
Sept. 28, 1850—Congress abolished
flogging in naval and merchant
ships.
Sept. 29, 1915—First telephone mes
sage across continent, from New
York to Mare Island. California.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
"He looked me straight in the eye,”
declared the witness, "and—”
“There, sir," interrupted the law
yer, you’ve flatly contradicted your
former statement.”
“How’s that?” inquired the other.
“You said before that he bent
his gaze on you. Will you please
explain how he could look you
straight In the eye with a bent
gaze?”
Harry and his Araminta strolled
lovingly over the green and perfumed
meadow prating playfully of love. In
the course of their enchanting per
ambulations they chanced upon a
bull and a skittish one at that. “Oh,
cried Aramnita to her valiant swain,
"he’s making straight for us. What
shall we do?”
"Here,” roared the resourceful
Harry, "don’t stand there doing noth
ing. Come and help me to climb
this tree.”
Two youths wore spending a holi
day at the seashore. "Say, Tom,
asked one, "how do you teach a girl
to swim?” .
"That’s easy,” replied Tom. You
take her gently down to the water;
then you put your arm around her
waist and whisper, ‘Darlin,’ don’t be
frightened.’ ” ‘ ,
“Oh, come off! returned Dick,
"she’s only me sister.”
"Oh, your sister! Well, if that s
the case, just push her in.
With a horrified start John Spooks
awoke from a sound sleep and lis
tened.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Yes; there is was again. It was
no dream! .
“Good night!” he cried. ‘My
heart! I never knew before that I
had one!”
Thump! Thump! Thump!
“Evelina,” cried the unfortunate
man to his wife, "my heart's bad!
Run round to the chemist’s and get
me some medicine. Oh, this is hor
rible!”
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Spooks, lying on his back, felt his
whole body rebound with the terrific
force of the pumping.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
The very pictures on the wall
seemed to sway dizzily with the vi
bration.
The agonized man could stand It
no longer. Leaping up in bed, -he
grabbed «the pillow to his heart to
smother the sounds of that awful
thumping, and found that his alarm
clock had been under his pillow
ticking harshly.
He had shoved it under there
when it had started to ring two
hours before.
Clouds
(From the American Poetry Maga
zine)
When as a child I watched the
drifting clouds,
I saw not vapor in the air upheld;
I saw the ships that tropic winds
propelled.
Ships filled with treasure, manned by
pirate crowds,
I saw processions cross the magic
sky
Os mounted errant knights in
quest of fame,
I saw the Red Men stealing on
their game
Among the cloudy forms that floated
by. •
Those happy days have slipped away,
how fast!
I would that I could call them
back again,
And picture with Imagination’s
pen
As when a child I watched the
clouds drift past,
But Care has come, and Fancies
disappear,
And clouds are only misty atmos
phere WAYNE GARD..
obsessed are even the cleverest men
by this beauty cult, that they, too,
fall victims to it, and wreck their
lives by tying themselves to pretty
dolls who lose their only charm as
soon as the paint wears of’ and their
hair begins to get mangy.
That is the tragedy of marrying
for beauty. It is the one worst bet
in all matrimony, because it is bound
to lose out in the end. A few short
years—a spell of illness —the inev
itable strai’n of caring for a family—•
and your beauty’s roses 'are num
bered among the roses of yesterday.
What then has the man to sustain
him through all the long pull of do
mestic life, if ail that he married
a girl for was her good looks?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Hence the prevalence of divorce, for
when th’e beauty’s complexion and
figure are gone, hex- wand of enchant
ment is broken, and she has no pow
er to hold her husband. Yfet men,
otherwise sane and sensible, go on
gambling their life happiness away
on the turn of a hair that is bound
to go gray, and *a dimple that is fore
ordained to become a wrinkle. And
the plain girls, who would keep a
man interested and entertained all
his life, and make him a thrifty and
happy home, and who would be bet
ter looking at fifty than they are at
twenty, swell the ranks of the old
maids.
There is no more pathetic a thing
on earth than that the women who
could make the best wives and moth
ers so seldom get the chance to do it.
The very fact that men pick out
their wives by their looks, and with
out reference to their other quali
fications, and while women consider
a man’s -heart and brain, and soul,
of more importance than his profile
or his figure, is the best possible
reason why women should be given
the right to pick out their mate*
and pop the question.
If a man was intelligent and In
teresting, no woman would turn him
down because his hair was getting
a little thin on top and he was de- *
veloping a. bay window, for some
little snip of a boy with ambrosial
curls, and a straight front figure,
and a head that was solid bone. Nor
would they prefer an ox-eyed movie
hero looking creature whose sole ac
complishment was to wear good
clothes, to a regular he-man with
hands like hams, and freckles on his
face, and squint eyes, but who had
gotten out and done things.
It takes men to commit the su
preme folly of marrying for beauty,
Women have more sense, aid when
women propose, we shall have mor*
rational marriages and more happi
ness in marriage, unless the men all
say “no” when a homely woman
pops the question.
(Dorothy Dix articles appear reg
ularly in this paper on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.)
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
But Georgia Has Mor* People
Georgia has one automobile for *v
ery twenty-two people. But florlda
beats us; she has an auto to every
seventeen people.—Savannah Press.
“A Negro in the Coal Bin
Coal mine operators declare that
the average price per ton at the mine
is $3.26 for soft coal. Retail deal
ers declare that they are paying from
$9 to sll a ton at the min.e. Th*
ebon hued critter who used to hid*
in the wood pile now has his place
In the coal bln where because of his
color he will be even more difficult
to find. Meantime, consumers will be
asked to pay from sl2 to sls a ton
for coal in this section.—Rome News.
Cotton Crop Bat*
There’s only a week of August
left, and the fact that only a few
bales of new cotton have straggled
Into the market emphasizes the late
ness of the crop.-—Albany Herald.
Waycross is Humping
With all the roads In South Geor
gia in perfect condition, and all of
them leading to Waycross—Wr.tch
us grow.—Waycross Journal-Herald.
Women Expert Marksmen
The number of men who have been
killed by women during the past
few months proves that the marks
menship of the women is improving.
—Dawson News.
“Smoking Some”
The United States consumes 1,40#
cigarettes a second.—Cairo Messen
ger.
Which proves that "It pays to ad
vertise.”
Up to the Bawyer*
Maybe a lawyer can understand
why Bolshevik Martens is put under
SIO,OOO bond to keep him from es
caping from this country while th*
hearing is under consideration to de
port him, but a fellow without legal
training can’t get it at all.—Ex
change.
Gallant Johnny Jone*
Johnny Jones up in LaGrange, who
is running for senator, has turned
the editorial page of the Reporter
over to a woman. Johnny was *Ver
the gallant.—Savannah Press.
Perhaps Johnny foresaw that
woman suffrage was about to win
recognition.
Gentlemen, Meet the Eadie*
Well, ladies, the country is your*,
—Dublin Courier-Herald.
No Ptomaine Polson
There is at least no danger of pto
maine poisoning in the brand of
canned political speeches turned out
at Marlon.—Savannah Morning News.
The Elder Goes Gunning
While Elder John L. Harris was
coming from Blue Spring Monday
he saw a big fat ’possum run acros*
the road just this side of the With
lacoochee turnpike. Elder Harris
tried to get a shot at the ’possum,
but it managed to escape in th*
bushes. He came on to the city,
however, and when near Well*
street, on Hill avenue, he saw a var
mint run across the street in front
of his car. He thought it was a cat.
but threw his auto lights on It and
found that it was a ’possum. Th*
animal climbed a small tree and
looked down on the elder with a
grin of satisfaction. Mr. Harris got
out his gun again and shot the crit
ter, taking it back to Blue Spring,
where his family have a cottage,
and they will enjoy a ’possum din
ner this evening.—Valdosta Time*,
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
DE ‘OMAH 'LOW WEN
SHE DIE SHE GWINE
COME BACK HEAR EN
H A*NT ME, BUT DA'S
ALL RIGHT—SHE CAINT
’SKEER ME NO WUSSERN
SHE T>O NO Wil, y— ——
I ~
<l, ovO JI
CopyrisF.t, 1920 Mctt w *« w »p ewf .
n-: