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The Pervasive and Dominant
Idea on the Senatorial Race
THERE is a vast deal of significance
in the unanimity with which the
non-factional elements of the Geor
gia press are hammering home the idea
that this is no time for doubtful experi
ments with the State’s Senatorial interests.
Too much is involved, they insist, to dis
pense with an able and experienced public
servant and turn over the matters which
he can handle so well either to an unskill
ed tyro or to a headlong radical. A typi
cal view among the multitudes to this ef
fect is that of the Jesup Sentinel. Regard
ing the situation with an eye single to the
public good, that well poised paper declares:
“It is not a question of honoring
Senator Hoke Smith, in returning him
to the senate this time, but of show
ing that Georgians regard the welfare
of their state and nation too highly to
risk any but their ablest man in that
place where the greatest and most
complex problems in the history of our
nation must be worked out in the next
five years. At this time, while we are
living in the period of reconstruction,
when new and important laws are
necessary to be enacted, which
laws will control the business and agri
culture interest of this state and the
south for the next twenty-five years,
due to great changes which the recent
war has brought about in the very
fabric of our civilization —we
need an experienced man more than
ever before in the history of our state
—and one who will be able and capa
ble of working out great problems, as
our senator.
(As for Senator Hoke Smith) his
Judgment is of high order; his untiring
energy and his persistence is prover
bial in Washington—and the results he
has' obtained while there stand out to
attest his ability and efficiency as a
lawmaker.”
This is the conclusion of dommonsense
and practical patriotism. It is the judg
ment of minds that see more importance
in safeguarding the State’s essential and
urgent interests than in rattling the dead
bones of factionism. It is the attitude of
citizens who think it of greater moment to
conserve the bases of agriculture and busi
ness and promote as far as possible the
common sources of prosperity, than to
plunge into adventures of petty or destruc
' tive politics.
It is vastly significant, we say, when an
idea springs up spontaneously in mind af
ter mind, takes hold of calm thinkers by
hundreds and thousands, and spreads with
the quiet yet irresistible power of the
morning’s light. Nothing but truth has this
high potency. While the feudists shout their
appeals to passion and prejudice, the rank
and file of reasoning voters are consider
ing far different, far soberer themes. They
are asking who of the three candidates is
best qualified by virtue of ability, expe
rience and established Senatorial influence
to serve the State and the nation? And
looking fair-mindedly into the records of
the three they find but one answer. They
see the proved serviceableness of Senator
Smith contrastd on the one hand with Gov
ernor Dorsey’s inexperience and lack of
achievement, and on the other with Mr.
Watson’s dangerous radicalism. Is it to be
wondered in these circumstances that the
verdict of a thoughtful press and a
thoughtful citizenry grows mord and more
nearly unanimous?
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A Billion for Reclamation
WITH his characteristic keenness for
discerning and expressing issues
which are at once pertinent and far
reaching, Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the
Democratic candidate for Vice President,
aroused much enthusiasm in the West by
his vigorous advocacy, in the course of a
recent address at Spokane, of larger meas
ures of Federal aid for reclamation. “I
could not help thinking,” he said, “as we
came down the river today of the pity of all
that water running away to the sea, un
used. It is not a problem for Washington
and Idaho alone; it is a problem for the
whole country. Reclamation is a subject so
huge that it is not a million dollar a year
proposition. We must put a hundred mil
lion a year into it for ten years.”
That is an exceedingly moderate sum, if
we consider the nationwide and lasting bene
fits it will purchase. Wherever carried out,
the reclamation of waste lands and the de
velopment of latent resources, make for the
prosperity of the entire country. Who can
measure the present good of that far-sighted
statesmanship that sent Lewis and Clark
across the continent, that encouraged the
building of railways to the Pacific, that ac
quired the imperial, though then generally
despised, treasures of Alaska—the states
manship that saw the wisdom of spending a
penny in the present to secure vast riches
for times to come?
As the entire country is profiting today
from those sagacious investments, so will
it profit through the years and ages ahead
from a liberally pursued policy of conserv
ing, reclaiming and developing our natural
resources. The goodly results of well ad
vised expenditures for this purpose in Wash
ington State will not end in the West, but
come rippling eastward as far as Georgia;
while similar projects in Georgia will not
limit their blessings to the South, but re
dound to the common country’s welfare.
Any rightly conceived plan of reclama
tion must take this region largely into ac-
count, for herein are immense stores of
latent wealth of which the whole nation has
need. In Georgia there are approximately
eight million, and in the South some fifty
million, acres of swamp and wet lands which
if duly drained, will afford farm sites of
rarely equalled fertility and productiveness.
The billion-dollar reclamation fund, of which
Mr. Roosevelt speaks, could be advisedly
spent upon this one field of resources, for it
is conservatively reckoned that through
drainage the value of these now well-nigh
worthless Southern lands would be raised to
five billion dollars.
While these matters call for unstinted
Federal aid, they should have the generous
attention of State Governments as well. It
would be not a mere expense but a highly
profitable investment for Georgia to under
take the reclamation of her millions of acres
of swamp lands and to stimulate individual
enterprise in kindred spheres of development
and conservation. The increase in taxable
values, to eay nothing of vastly multiplied
powers of production, soon would repay the
State a millionfold for the required finan
cial outlay and would stand as a permanent
source of enrichment.
Federal Aid For Education
SO dependable an observer as Dr. George
D. Strayer, professor of educational
administration at Teachers’ College,
Columbia University, declares that the
foundations of our democracy are imperil
ed by an inadequate and ofttimes inefficient
system of public schools. “Democracy is los
ing ground,” he says, “because it is not
living up to its ideal. The promise of de
mocracy is a chance for everyone to make
good. Its motto is equality of opportunity.
But we fail at the very point where it
should begin—in the schools. Our children
get neither a proper nor an equal start in
education for life.”
How disquietingly true this is, a glance
at the census figures on illiteracy and as
sociated subjects will show. Approximately
one among every seven of America’s popu
lation is still illiterate, while one among
every four cannot read the language in
which is written the Declaration of Inde
pendence. Authorities say, moreover, that
upwards of a million children in rural dis
tricts are taught by untrained and sorely
incompetent young persons who themselves
have not gone beyond the elementary
grades.
The remedy for these and related ills,
thinks Dr. Strayer, lies in the enactment
of the Smith-Towner bill, of which Geor
gia’s senior Senator is the helmsman. Thia
measure provides for the establishment of
a national Department of Education, whose
Secretary shall have a seat in the Presi
dential cabinet. Among the specially im
portant and practical interests of the De
partment will be illiteracy, immigrant edu
cation, public schools, particularly those of
the districts, and "the preparation
and supply of competent teachers.” An an
nual appropriation of one hundred million
dollars is proposed.
Touching the anxiety expressed in a few
quarters that the bill might tend to trans
fer educational control from the States to
the Federal Government, Dr. Strayer em
phatically declares that there is no such in
tention or likelihood. The measure does not
require “uniformity of pains or methods”
in the several States. Rather,
It allows each State to organize, su
pervise and administer in its own way
the various educational facilities ex
tended under the act. It imposes only
two conditions upon the States which
desire to share in the benefits. One is
that such State require a legal school
term of twenty-four weeks, compulsory
education between the ages of seven
and fourteen, and the English language
as the basic language of instruction in
the common schools. The other condi
tion is that each State provide a sum
equal to that which it receives from
the Federal Government for the promo
tion of educational opportunities.
Supported as it is by the nation’s best
educational thought and by leading civic
organizations throughout the country, the
Smith-Towner bill is expected to become a
law at the next session of Congress; at
least, that is the earnest hope of all who
realize how imperatively it is needed.
Leaders in Army Enlistment
Atlanta ranked first among the cities
of the nation and Georgia ranked
first among the States in the num
ber of recruits enrolled in the United States
army during the month ended July 31, an
nounces the Recruiting News, published by
the recruiting branch of the army.
There is a world of significance in this
fact. Not only should the people of Georgia
feel a just pride that the young men of their
State are contributing such a record share
to the nation’s defense in peace as well as in
war, but they should feel thankful such is
the case. More than evidence of Georgia’s
patriotism, it means that Georgia is benefit
ing where she needs to benefit most, educa
tionally. •
The new army is one of the greatest forces
in the country today for eradicating illiter
acy and ignorance. It is a great free public
institution in which raw citizenship is made
finished cltizenehp and the untaught become
the educated. To quote from a recent state
ment by General Shanks, commander of
Camp Gordon:
“Under the present system, in addition to
military instruction usually given in the
morning hours, every soldier has an oppor
tunity to attend one or more of the practical
or technical courses which fit the young man
upon his discharge from the army to go back
to civil life possessed of a trade or vocation
that will prove of greatest advantage to him
in his subsequent life. In addition to a gen
eral educational course in elementary studies
for those whose educational advantages have
been limited, there is a wide field of selec
tion In vocational work. Our army trades
and vocational schools fill a long-felt want
and hope to solve one of our greatest na
tional problems. During the first year the
plan has been in operation, more than 105-
000 soldiers received instruction in one or
another of these courses. These plans con
template turning back into business channels
annually thousands of young men trained as
tractor and automobile mechanics, road and
bridge builders, telephone, telegraph and
radio operators, linemen, carpenters, build
ers, agriculturists, dairy farmers, animal hus
bandry experts, bee-keepers, stenographers,
typists, barbers, cooks, bakers, printers, pho
tographers, painters and business account
ants.”
The practical results of this army training
are not far to seek. Major B. M. Bailey, At
lanta recruiting officer, has in his possession
hundreds of letters written to him, at his
own request, from recruits enrolled in Geor
gia and sent elsewhere to army educational
centers. Before they entered the army, many
of them could neither read nor write’ The
mere typography of their letters is evidence
of the first water of their improvement,
while the views they express go further in
showing the outlook in life the army has
opened to them.
More, these same boys are sending their
letters into Georgia homes, some of them
barren of any “book learning” whatever, and
implanting there the same seed of ambition
and desire for education that later will bear
rich fruit for the State.
Georgia should and does appreciate this
wonderful work the army is doing, and in
it the recruiting officers should have the full
and earnest support of every Georgia® with
the best interests of his state at hearts i
RACE SUICIDE
By H. Addington Bruce
BY race suicide is commonly understood
an insidious sapping of national
strength through voluntary limiting of
births. But this is only one means whereby
a people may commit race suicide.
Another, and equally certain in its disas
trous consequences, is by a lowering of pub
lic ideals, so that pleasure and amusement
come to occupy a disproportionate place in
the popular consciousness.
This is a frequent, though not at all inevi
table, result of the accumulation of wealth.
As the riches produced by effort increase
there is a natural tendency among all classes
of society to relax effort. Everybody craves
entertainment, and the craving grows as en
tertainment devices multiply.
So larger and ever larger crowds desert
their work to flock to gladiatorial combats,
bull fights, baseball games, and moving pic
ture shows, or to go rushing about the coun
try in automobiles. Work may even be re
garded as an unpleasant nuisance, to be evad
ed by concerted action.
But the wealth level, to say nothing of
the sustenance level, cannot be maintained
without work. Nor does it suffice to endea
vor to prop the wealth level by a system of
flat money that both permits and promotes
a perpetual raising of wages and interest
rates.
For money must command commodities if
it is to be wprth anything. And the supply
of comodities steadily decreases as work di
inishes. True national wealth then becomes
less and less, no matter how impressive the
money showing, and may reach the vanishing
point if anti-work ideals persist.
Though it never does reach the vanishing
point. Either national sanity returns, or the
nation is overborne by a more vigorous peo
ple untainted by the mania for pleasure and
ease.
Race suicide, still further, may be accom
plished through a prodigal wasting of nat
ural resources. Thus, for example, Sir Pat
rick Geddes largely accounts for the passing
of the ancient civilizations of the Mediterra
nean:
“It is everybody’s obvious interest to cut
down trees, so for the sake of immediate
gain the interest of the future is sacrificed.
Under the great maritime civilizations, from
the Phoenician to the Venetian, the country
was recklessly stripped of its forests.
“The peasant, too, did it to make a clear
ing, the shepherd to find grass. Then came
the torrential rains of every autumn ano
spring, the soil was washed away,’ and the
slopes were completely denuded. So that now
we find barren rock where once was fertile
soil.”
Is history, I wonder, repeating itself?
Certainly we of today are hardly conspicu
ous for the conservation of our forests and
other natural resources. And certainly there
are signs that craving for amusement and
distaste for work are becoming national
traits.
Is race suicide, consequently, something
more than a matter of academic interest to
us? The question would surely seem worth
asking.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
A MATRIMONIAL TEST
By Dr. Frank Crane
A class in sociology at the Ohio State Uni
versity recently registered the preferences
of its members, including boys and girls, for
those qualities desirable in a husband and
a wife.
Probably more young folks, as well as
their mammas, their cousins and their
aunts, are studying this than any other
problem, not excepting the League of Na
tions and Woman Suffrage.
Hence I made up a list of qualities my
self, and just for fun, submitted them to
about a dozen young people I know, and got
their estimates, which I herewith pass on to
the reader. Try this list out on your friends
and discover—-Oh, several things!
Te desirable qualities are graded thus:
Absolutely essential 10
Very essential ... '. 9
Highly valued 8
Valued 7
Valued, but not highly ... 6
Indifferent .. . 5
And on down to 0
That is, for instance, Comradeship, if
marked 10, would Indicate that you posi-
tively would not marry one who would not
be a good comrade. If 9, it would mean
that while important, you could get along
without it. And so on.
Here is the average marking as given by
the friends I examined.
The first figure is for the man, the sec
ond for the woman.
Business ability 9*7
Same race • • • 10-10
Same nationality 6-0
Good family 6-7
Affection ..9-10
Intelligence ... 10-8
Desire and love of children ... 9-8
Comradeship 10-10
Domesticity ... .■...! 7-9
Good taste 7-8
Optimism 6-7
Harmony of tastes 7-7
Keenness (Quickness) • 8-6
Dancing 1-1
Card playing ............ 0-1
Strength 8-8
Religion 6-5
Sincerity ... 10-10
Fairmindedness . .= 10-9
Education 8-9
Sympathy 8-9
Cheerfulness 9-8
Loyalty 10-10
Thoughtfulness 9-9
Fame 7-0
Decision 9-8
Good health 6-9
Personal charm 8-9
Pretty face 0-8
Same age 5-7
Same height 4-5
Strength of will 8-6
Interest in partner’s work 7-9
Refinement 8-9
Dignity 7-6
Humor 8-7
Executive ability 6-6
Love of music .8-9
Love of art 7-8
Love of literature 5-7
, Neatness 6-9
’ Honesty • 9-9
Industry 9-4
Good temper ...... • 7-8
Self control 8-9
Economy .. . . 6-8
Frankness ..... ....7-6
\ Discretion ... . 7-8
! Money 6-2
Patience • .- .......... 7-8
Liberality 8-8
These are the estimates as averaged
from the answers given by about a dozen
people of both sexes.
Suppose you and your June-spice test
one another.
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Hunger striking is one of the effective
devices to sustain the Irish stew.—Colum
bia (S. C.) Record.
The states may have to enter into agree
ments for the extradition of fugitive mem-
Lber* of legislatures.—-Omaha World Herald.
EXPOUNDING
THE SCENERY
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col., Aug.
30.—1 t used to be a strain
on wind and limb to get over
these mountains and see the
most spectacular of the scenery, but
nowadays the strain falls on the
pocketbook, the imagination and the
ear drum.
All of these pressures are applied
by the highly organized and opulent
gentlemen who conduct you in auto
mobiles over the wildness that gave
so much of toil and danger to our
forbears.
These conductors of sightseeing
parties charge you a good, steep
price, and in order to give you a
money’s worth, they liberally throw
in an unbroken stream of conversa
tion. You see the Rock mountains
now in the same way you see China
town or Coney Island. But the
mountains.call for more imagination
than the city. In the Garden of the
Gods, for example, which looks to
the uninstructed beholder like a sort
of celestial stone quarry, strewn with
huge red monoliths, you are called
upon to see camels, porcupines, mush
rooms, Indians and Oriental architec
ture.
The Cave of the Winds has its own
special guides and its own special
admittance charge, adding another
dollar to your trip ticket. Here the
sightseers are collected and separat
ed into small groups, each guide tak
ing about a dozen persons through.
Although the system is efficient, oc
casionally two or three guides and
their parties get crowded into . the
same part of the cave at once, so
that it is difficult to tell which part
of the spiel you are supposed to be
listening to. Is the particular forma
tion you are looking at a battle
ship, or is it the elephant the other
guide is talking about?
A Little Luray
The Cave of the Winds is merely
another Luray on a much smaller
scale. It contains the same sort of
stalactite and stalagmitic ornamenta
tion in the same beautiful rainbow
color combinations. It lacks the
small lakes, creeks and spring of
Luray, but there is an opening
through which drippings from the
nearby cliff are supposed to flow—so
slowly that they barely dampen the
rocks. It is the slow flowing of this
water over the iron, sulphur and cop
per deposits in the rocks that causes
the forming of the stalagmites, ac
cording 'to the guide, who declared
that it required one hundred years
of this tedious process to form one
inch of stalagmite. So the great days
of the Cave of the Winds will be in
the future.
As in the Virginia cave, desperate
efforts have been made to find appro
priate names for all the conspicuous
formations. There is an Inverted
Frying Pan, a Pige’s Head, a Minia
ture Battleship, and a large Slice of
Breakfast Bacon. These are lighted
up with electric lights, carefully
placed about the walls in contain
ers resembling ordinary dustpans, if
you are going in for the interpreta
tion business. The floor of the cave
is carpeted with a rubber covering,
designed to keep the visitors from
slipping, but eveTy once in a while
some careless person disregards
this protection and skids rapidly over
the rocks. Bridges have also been
built at certain places to facilitate
climbing, so that old ladies and
babies can make the trip in safety
and comfort.
“Our first visitors used to make
the trip by ladders and torches,” said
the guide in explaining the various
precautions, “but now you folks get
it easy with electricity and stairs.
This room we’re in now is called Re
ception Hall, because the early vis
itors used to leave their visiting
cards here.
“This,” he announced, leading the
way through a tall, wide portion of
to cave, “is Lovers’ Lane. Notice
hnw pasv it is to travel. On the
right is the largest stalagmite in the
cave, thirty-six inches long. We
have to put it in a wire cage, not
because it is dangerous but to keep
it from being broken off by tourists.
through *l'^.d™
come to Diamond Hall.
monds are principally on the
This is the original home of tne
Shredded Wheat Biscuit, which you
win see on the left. Also a group of
Chestnut Burrs.
“Next we come to Findley Hall,
named for a Colorado geologist. If
vou will stoop down you can get a
view of our baby elephant.
it is a Shriner’s temple, and the
Veiled Madonna. On the ceil l .
we go out you will see the Irish
man’s clay pipe.
-Here is the bridal chamber—is
there a minister in the party? Jhis
ma?riaiTs° S lnto e the ground. Several
marriages have actually been per
formed here. Over there is Lot s
wife who turned to rubber and then
Hi salt And next to Dante’s In
ferno, although why it should be so
close to the bridal chamber I never
could see.
The Hairpin Superstition
“Here at the end of our trip is a
collection of hairpins—not stalag
mitic but real wire ones—tor tne
benefit of old maids. Any old maid
in the party is asked to leave a
hairpin. This generosity will bring
her luck in getting carried If
any members of the party are al
ready married and want s diver ,
leave a hairpin not on the wall,
but on the ceiling. Don t be em
barrassed by the
There aren’t any on th® ceiling y
but this is a, good time to start
the collection.” .
b t« y m S»
a small baby with them placed the
youngster on a large, cold, stalag
mltic rock, but he refused to enter
the spirit of the thing and had to
be hurried from the cave, loudly
protesting.
According to the last words of
the guide, the Cave of the Winds
was discovered by two small boys
in 1886 The parents of the boys are
said to have been greatly disap
pointed that the cave did not contain
a gold mine, which, figurarveiy
sneaking .it does - today. It is es
timated that 1,000 persons visit it
every day/which attendance at sl.l
a he y ad institutes a very satisfac
tory revenue. The Cave of the
Winds” is a title based on a slight
draught, which may be felt at one
end.
The Inevitable Curio Shop
Connected with the cave, of course,
is the usual curio shop. Its tem
perature seems to be hovering
around 140 degrees after the cool,
damp atmosphere of the cave, so that
it holds only the fleeting attention
of the tourists. At its door the
rubberneck wagon was waiting, and
the party was soon seated and on
its way, the chauffeur taking up the
business of interpreting the land
scape where the guide in the cave
le "See that square hole in that cliff
over there.” he said, as the car slid
clumsilv down the hill. That s
•Peter’s Gate —as close as you 11 ever
get there.” _ , ~
The Garden of the Gods is reallv
a park containing many weird
shaped, red rocks. It used to be a
worshiping ground for Indians, hut
later was owned by a prominent Col
orado family who gave it to the city
of Colorado Springs. Just before
reaching the foremost of the garden
rocks, however, the rubberneck wag
on climbs a small hill to a tiny
nnyiiion which has on sale a view of
the Great Balance Rock—the only
one of its kind in existence. The
rock does not balance any more. if.
indeed, it ever did. but the tourists
are compensated by a look through
high-powered telescones and the
nresence of a gorgeouslv dressed
Pueblo Indian, who is ready to war
whoon and dance at the slightest in
dication on the of the visitors
that they would like and remunerate
it.
Like the Cave of the Winds, the
Garden of the Gods has been stock
ed and populated by the vivid imagi
nation of the tourist guides. Several
rocky Indians are supposed to be
'here in company with Punch and
Judy, a lion, a camel, a porcupine
and a bear. A Chinese temple and
a Mandarin’s house were also point
ed out by the guide. All these
things a tourist with enough imagi
nation may see.
SA'i'vxii/AY, bEr'ii'.niß.ijjß 4, 19-0.
CURRENT EVENTS j
The annual state-wide convention
of Georgia Gideons, the organization
of traveling men who combine evan
gelism with business, meets in Rome
on Saturday and Sunday, September
11 and 12.
Word of welcome relief from sky
high shoe prices comes from New
England. Fred A. Howard, a chem
ist and scientist of Massachusetts,
is reported to have invented a solu
tion which will double the life of
leather. He is a veteran in the shoe
making game.
Two prominent political names fig
ured in the Atlanta news of the
week. John Holder was fined sls
in police court for “idling and loiter
ing.” Hiram Johnson was announced
as an actor in an amateur musical
comedy. However, it happened that
this John Holder was a negro and
that Johnson was a fictitious
character.
A seat on the New York stock ex
change, left vacant by the death of
a member, sold for $90,000 last week.
. A famine in bananas in Valdosta,
thriving metropolis of Lowndes coun
ty, in south Georgia, was broken last
week by the arrival of a carload of
the popular fruit.
Savannah, Ga., has started to raise
a fund of SIOO,OOO to advertise its
wonderful facilities as a part avail
able for Latin-American, South
American and Eruopean trade.
Atlanta’s building program hustled
along at the rate of more than $1,000,-
000 a month during the first eight
months of this year. Statistics show
that the total of building permits is
sued up to the latter part of Au
gust stood at $10,000,000— topping
all previous records.
A new mineral substance, resem
bling asbestos, has been found in
an eight-foot vein, near Coaldale,
Nev. Officials of the federal bureau
jpf mines have indicated their inten
tion of sending experts to study the
material. Experiments have
the new substance is excellent for in
sulation and is also a goodpolisher
for diamonds, rubies and other pre
cious stones. It will also serve as
soap, being so gritty it will cut
crease. It is also said to be fire
proof. Although resembling asbestos
it is said to be too light for as
bestos.
The bulletin of the International
Institute of Agriculture, giving es
timates of the 1920 wheat crop, says
Hungary reports 930,000 tons within
the treaty frontiers.
No definite estimates have been re
ceived from other countries, but the
crop is reported to be good in Bul
garia, Denmark, France, Serbia, Lux
embourg, Holland, Rumania ana
Sweden; average in Germany, Czech
oslovakia, Poland, Scotland and Ire
land, and below the average in Eng
land and Wales.
If the Socialist ticket should win
in the fall election there yould be
no difficulty about getting, Eugene
Debs, candidate for president, out of
the Atlanta penitentiary, Seymour
Stedman, the vice presidential candi
date, announces. j ,
“If the Socialists have a majority
in the electoral college I can be in
augurated president in Debs’ stead
and can then, by virtue of my office,
pardon Debs, restoring him to his
rights, including his right to be pres
ident. Or the inauguration can be
held in Atlanta penitentiary and
Debs can pardon himself.”
Owing to the strike of all munici
pal employes, including grave dig
gers, no burials took place at Sara
gosa, Spain, recently. The clergy of
the diocese placed its services at the
disposal of the authorities, and
funeral ceremonies began later.
The Scottish national dry cam
paign was opened last week and will
continue to the end of the year.
The 1,000 voting areas through
out Scotland are concerned, though
250 voting areas already are dry,
chiefly owing to the action of the
landed proprietors.
If 10 per cent of the citizens de
clare for a ballot it will be taken
in due course on three options—no
licenses, fewer licenses or no change.
Millions of rats are overrunning
Abertillery, England, and neighbor
hood. While the congregation was
leaving a Baptist church in Tillery
street on a recent Sunday an army
of rats ran among them. One woman
collapsed.
All means have been tried to keep
flown the plague. Traps, poison,
shooting, dogs and cats have been
used, but the rats have not only sur
vived, but also thrived. The medical
officer of health. Dr. Bailie Smith,
says the rats are of two kinds—
brown and black.
The black rats as a rule keep to
the sewers, but the brown rats climb
anything—telegraph poles and rain
and gas pipes. They swarm every
where. It was suggested to the
Abertillery district council that ex
per rat destroyers should be em
ployed, but the local staff having
stated that they could do better than
the experts, the matter has been left
to them with discretionary power to
call in help if necessary.—lndianapo
lis News.
According to the census taken on
January 31, 1920, the republic of Aus
tria in its present territorial limits
has a population of 6,067,430. Com
pared with the corresponding figure
for 1910 the census of 1920 shows
a loss of 227,209, or 3.6 per cent. The
city of Vienna alone, with a popula
tion of 1,832,005 in 1920, shows a
loss of 189,493, or 9.3 per cent. Ten
other cities with a population of 20,-
000 or more each have gained 20,140,
or 4.3 per cent, while the smaller
cities of the country districts show
a loss of 57,856, or 1.5 per cent.
The Vienna Arbelter-Zeitung of
July 3, 1920, estimates the number
of Austrians killed in battle at 160,-
000 to 180,000, and -places the total
loss due directly or indirectly to the
war at 814,461.
The National Board of Farm Organ
izations announces that a national
organization of the Co-operative Farm
Borrowers of the United States, with
headquarters in Washington, was
under way. The new organization
will represent 4,000 farm loan asso
ciations organized under the federal
farm loan act.
The movement Is due to the crisis
facing the federal loan system, the
activities of which, it is claimed, are
paralyzed because of litigation pend
ing in the United States supreme
court.
The association is to be organized
"on a voluntary basis by local farm
loan associations which are <to be
formed- into state unions as soon
as conventions can be held. A na
tional convention will be called as
soon as ten state unions have been
organized.
Another attempt by Henry Sulli
van of Lowell, Mass., to swim the
English Channel from Dover to
Calais ended in failure this week.
Sullivan started on the swim at 5:40
o’clock and was In the -water for
eighteen hours. Owing to the rough
sea he was forced then to abandon
his attempt when only three miles
off the French coast.
In 1913 Sullivan swam to within
six miles of France, starting from
Dover.
To say “please” in telegrams the
people of Canada spent $1,000,000 a
year and the people of the United
States more "than ten times that
amount, according to J. G. .Davies,
superintendent here for the Great
Northwestern Telegraph company.
He arrived at this conclusion from
study of thousands of telegrams
that have passed through his hands.
The Rev. Francis W. O’Brien, of
Greenwood Baptist church, Brook
lyn, formerly of Bath, has presented
to this city an old key said to be the
key to the safe once thd property
of Maine’s first governor, William
King. It is of brass, six inches
long and fitted an oaken safe that
was bound with iron. The safe be
came the property of J. D. Robin
son of Bath, who found the key in
question. This he presented to the
late C. A. Hooker, who was a col
• lector of historical articles. The
latter gave the key to Dr. O’Brien,
who at that time was pastor of the
church Hooker attended. Now the
key returns to Bath for permanent
safekeeping.
Returns from the cranberry-grow
ing districts of Carver, Plymouth and
Wareham, the portion of Massa
chusetts which produces the largest
part of the crop, confirm earlier re
ports indicating that the coming crop
will be a light one and that the
shortage will be much larger than
was -anticipated a fortnight earlier.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
THE NAKED TRUTH
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
I KNOW a woman who indulges
herself in brutal candor. Show
her your new hat and she will
say, “It’s a very pretty hat, but
it is ten years too young for you.”
Take her to ride in your new car, and
she will tell you that it goes very
well for a moderate-priced machine,
but that it doesn’t compare with the
gorgeous limosine of the Moneybags
in which she was out last week. Ex
hibit your Idolized child to her, and
she will ask you if her eyes aren’t
a little crossed, or if he isn’t small
and undeveloped for his age.
And when you turn away hurt, an
gry and outraged, she will say with
an air of injured virtue:.
“Well, I’m perfectly truthful.
There is no hypocracy about me. I
always say exactly what I think.”
Now this woman, and thousands
like her, actually account it unto
themselves for righteousness when
they go about wounding the sensi
bilities of people, taking the pleasure
out of their possessions, and filling
them with fear and dread and de
spair because they do it in the name
of truth.
It seems never to have occurred to
them that very often, just because a
thing is the truth, is the one impera
tive reason why it should never be
spoken. You may tell a clever man
that he is acting like a fool, but
never a stupid man, who acts like a
fool because he really is one. ■ You
may call your host’s teri thousand
dollar automobile' a Tin Lizzie, but
never his flivver. You may say to
sweet-and-twenty that her frock is
too youthful, but when fat-and-forty
has blown in the savings and scrimp
ings of months on a flapper outfit,
you may not tell her new clothes
merely emphasize her age and stout
ness.
The truth hurts, therefore the
more a thing is true, the more care
ful we should be about saying it, un
less it is absolutely necessary that it
should be said. This is not to advo
cate lying. It is only a plea for the
suppression of the gratiutlous
truths that stab like a dagger and
serve no useful purpose.
If. for instance, the woman quoted
in the beginning of this article, were
asked whether she thought her
friend’s hat too young for her, she
would have been bound to give an
honest answer, but that question was
not put to her. She could, with per
fect truthfulness have said that she
thought the hat beautiful, and with
held her personal opinion as to its
appropriateness to the wearer. Thus
she would still have remained .Vera
cious Jane, and refrained from
wounding and spoiling her joy In her
hat.
Inasmuch as none of us hold, a di
vine commission to regulate the lives
of our friends, or censor their pos
sessions, it is not often that we are
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
Sixteen to One on Dove
American Beauty Must Relinquish
Love or Church—head in Atlanta
Journal. Place your money, gents,
it’s a safe bet.—Dublin Courier-Her
ald.
No, Did You?
Did you ever notice that a fellow
who is popular with the girls picks
out the ugliest one in the bunch
when he gets ready to settle down 3
—Waycross Journal-Herald.
3. B. Was Burled Alive.
Can It bq possible that J. Barley
corn was buried alive?—Savannah
Morning News.
A Needed Invention.
Our idea of an invention that will
be of real service to humanity is an
instrument that will enable one to
tell a good watermelon from the
outside.—Rome News.
Spying Over the Moonshiners.
Pittsburg police , are taking what
crapshooters think is an undue ad
vantage of them by spying games
out from airplanes. The sports of
that city are said to have a habit
of gathering in wooded sections and
indulging in Sunday games for high
stakes, and the police in airplanes
break up the fun. Modern inven
tions are playing parts on both sides
of law enforcement. Note that booze
is being shot under the water across
Lake Michigan In torpedoes, which
are picked up by boats after their
force is spent. But the stuff the
projectiles are loaded with doesn’t
have the explosive qualities of Geor
gia moonshine.—‘Tifton Gazette.
A Joyous Occasion.
Barnesville celebrates the creation
of Lamar county Friday with pub
lic exercises and a fine, old-fash
ioned Georgia barbecue that brought
together thousands of homefolks
and visitors. Barnesville has won
a very meritorious victory in the
creation of a new county, of which
it will be the county seat, and it
was fitting and proper that the peo
ple of that community should re
joice over their deserved good for
tune.—Griffin News.
In the Bight Place.
A man’s heart and pocketbook
have both got to be in the right
place for him to accomplish things.
—Carey Williams in Greensboro Her
ald-Journal.
New Idea of “Preparedness.’'
Many have descended safely four
miles in a parachute released from
an airplane, it would appear rea
sonable to expect passenger airships
to carry a full supply for the use of
travelers.—Brunswick News.
Bow to “Eire Up.”
Four per cent of alcohol with
is said to be one excel
lent fuel for automobiles. And an
American citizen steamed up on that
combination has been known to step
some, too.—J. D. Spencer in Macon
Telegraph.
law of Supply and Demand
With sugar at thirty cents during
canning time there is little wonder
that the people want to know why
it came down so suddenly after all
the fruits and berries had rotted on
the trees and vines.—Thomasville
Times-Enterprise.
A Beal Increase
“True that Lyons has not Increased
much in population in late years but
the quality of citizenship has im
proved. Most all of its mean ne
groes and sorry whites have -moved
away. The few negroes -who have
stayed here are of the better class
and there are no -sorry white trash
in the town. So it is better to have
a select class of citizenship than a
large conglomeration of the scuAi of
creation.”—Lyons Progress.
Dead Timber
Uncle Simon Peter Richardson, one
of the old-time Methodist powers
among the preachers of north Geor
gia, once said that the best protract
ed meeting he ever held resulted in
the addition of not one member but
In the lopping off of a lot of dead
timber.—Savannah Morning News.
Elections in 35 States
Thirty-five states of the United
States will this fall elect governors.
There are several scattered ones
whose governors hold over, either
being elected every other year, in odd
years, or being elected for a longer
time than two years, with the elec
tion years falling in other than pres
idential election years. The states
which do not have the gubernatorial
complications along with their na
tional politics this fall are Pennsyl
vania, Virginia, New Jersey, Ken
tucky, Alabama, Mississppi, Louis
iana, Wyoming, Oregon, Oklahoma,
Nevada and California. —Savannah
Morning News.
Decrease in Baby Carriages
Falling of the demand for baby
carriages is no indication of a re
duction in the birth rate. Baby has
merely taken to the gas wagon like
the rest of the family.—Rome News.
*
forced to tell them brutal truths.
Generally we can preserve the amen
ities of the situation without doing
violence to our consciences by deal
ing in glittering generalities. We can
praise the view from a house with
out saying that the house itself is
furnished in atrocious taste. We can
say that Jones is a good, honest man
without adding that he Is an intol
erable bore. We can emulate the ex
ample of the old bachelor, who was a
truthful James, who, when shown a
new baby, always exclaimed in tones
of the deepest conviction, “Well, this
IS a child,” a cryptic remark in
which the proud mother read the
most fulsome praise, which remained
a fact that nobody would, dispute,
and committed the speaker to no
personal opinion on the baby’s looks.
As for people justifying their bru
tal candor by claiming the right to
say exactly what they think, as well
might they arrogate to themselves
the privilege of Indulging any other
impulse unchecked. All of us see
things that other people have that
we covet, but we do not forcibly grab
the desired article and make it our
own.
There are times when we simply
ache to commit assault and battery
upon the persons of our friends, but
we restrain ourselves. Probably there
are not a husband and wife in the
world who haven’t; had a moment in
which they could joyfully have mur
dered each other, yet uxorcide is a
comparatively rare crime.
Law, decency, convention have
taught us to restrain our hands. Why
should not the same restraint be put
on our tongues? Why have we any
more right to go about robbing peo
ple of their piece of mind, and their
harmless conceits, than we have to
steal their jewelry or their automo
biles?
Why have we any more right to
wound with our tongues than we
have to wound with a knife or gun.'
Why is it not as great a crime to
slay the happiness of a man or a i
woman as it is to kill their bodies?
And did you ever notice this? —the
people who make such a fetish of
speaking the truth, and the whole
truth, are never strong for anything
but unpleasant truths. If there is
anything wrong about you, their in
growing sense of candor compels
them to tell you of it, but they never
feel bound to mention your virtues,
though they outweigh your faults ten
° Perhaps it is because truth so oft
en arises as a shield behind which
malice and spitefulness get in their
deadly work, that most of us fight
shy of the individual with a reputa
tion for frankness and choose as our
companions those who dilute truth
with a little of the milk of human
kindness.
MUSICAL ROCKS
IN PENNSYLVAINA
A few miles from Pottstown, Pa.,
or about forty-five miles from Phila
delphia, are to be found the only
musical rocks in this country if not
the whole world. They are strewn
over half an acre on the top of a
hill overlooking tlie Schuylkill valley,
some lying loose, some being Im
bedded deeply in the ground, some
weighing several tons, and some
small enough to be picked up and
carried away in the hand.
They are a uniform dark brown
color, showing unmistakable traces
of iron, and never collect either moss
or lichens as most rocks do —neither
do any wild plants or weeds grow
near them. When struck with a
hammer or other metallic instrument
they respond with a clear, resonant >
note like a bell. The larger the rocx
struck the louder and clearer ths
bell note, the ringing of the big
rocks being heard quite plainly across
the valley.
A musician after a little practice
is able to produce the notes of the
scale on them in a manner similar
to the xylophone. When small rock®
are carried away and struck else
where they refuse to ring, and this
fact leads many to believe that the
ground underneath the rocks 1®
formed like a huge sounding board,
while the loose masses of granit®
have been cunningly arranged by the
hand of Nature to refract sound in
such away as to produce the ring
ing notes. —Detroit News.
TRICKS OF THE
GAMBLER! STRAOE
Many ingenious contrivances have
been devised by gamblers to victimize
their dupes. Such simple devices as
loaded dice, marked cards, etc., are
hardly ever employed nowadays, but
improvements on all these older
methods have been devised. Electro
magnets will cause dice to turn to
any desired numbers, when the cur
rent is thrown out. What are known
as “holdouts” are utilized. These are
mechanical contrivances, concealed in
the sleeve, which by a very slight
pressure will Instantly shoot out the
required cards into the gambler’s
hand recede again into the sleeve.
A small, but ingenious “hold-out” is
that known as the “bag.” A small,
sharp point is stuck into the wood,
on the under side of the table; a
small clip attached to it holding the
aces or other cards, which are grad
ually abstracted during the course
of the play. A slit in the coatsleeva
will enable the gambler to insert in
his sleeve several cards! which can
be abstracted under cover of the arm
at the desired moment. Cards ar®
frequently marked by the expert gam
bler during the course of the play,
so that at the end of a few hand®
he knows practically every card in
the pack, from the slight thumb-nail
impressions made upon the cards as
handled. Small mirrors have been
employed, worn either in a locket
ring which is swung round to the
inside of the palm and opened, thus
reflecting the cards as dealt, or in- .
serted into the bowl of a pipe, which J
is carelessly laid on a table, and
the cards dealt over this, so that
their reflection is seen in the mirror
as the cards are dealt. By means
of such devices, and skilled manipu
lation, the expert gambler so ar
ranges things that he invariably wins. ,
Leslie’s Weekly.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
DEY WUZ SECH A BIG 1
FUNEAL AT MAH CHU'CH
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DEYS A BIT O' WASHIN’
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Copyright. 1920 by McClore Newspaper SyndKate.