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Loyal Democrats Will Unite
On Smith to Defeat Watson
AS the Senatorial contest draws to a
close, right-minded citizens are more
than ever concerned to see the situa
tion as it actually is, whether or not it be
to their personal liking, and to do their duty
in the clear light of realities, regardless of
the dust and passion of factional politics.
They wish to know as nearly, as competent
and candid observation can tell them, what
likelihood there is of Mr. Watson’s winning,
for they feel to the depths of their civic con
science that his election would be a stagger
ing blow against the State’s prosperity and
peace and good repute. They are vitally in
terested, therefore, in the comparative
strength of Senator Smith and Governor
Dorsey, since in present circumstances it is
plain that of these two that one who has
the surer prospect of victory should receive
the support of all who see the momentous
duty of defeating Watsonism. There are
other considerations of high importance—the
candidates’ comparative ability, for instance,
as measured by their achievements, their ex
perience, their influence, their general quali
fication for service. And if it appears in the
light of thoughtful inquiry that he who holds
the stronger hand against Watson is also the
abler, the more experienced, the more serv
iceable, then assuredly he should be given
the undivided vote of loyal and reasoning
Democrats.
These principles being granted, let us look
squarely into the facts to which they apply.
How stands this Senatorial contest, with its
far-reaching import to Georgia’s material
welfare and good name? It may as well be
conceded at the outset that Mr. Watson is
dangerously formidable. Dislike that fact as
deeply as one may, still both frankness and
expediency demand that it be faced. None
who is alert to the perils and duties of this
day can have failed to be impressed by the
throngs that have flocked to hear the Mc-
Duffie candidate in Fulton and adjacent coun
ties and by the feverish emotion which his
candidacy has kindled. That hundreds have
entered his audiences out of curiosity and
have gone away convinced of his unfitness for
the Senate, is to be assumed. But ask any
keen observer how this man is running.
And almost invariably the answer will be,
“He is running strong.” Not only in the
district of which Atlanta is the center, but
throughout the greater part of Georgia, this
disquieting state of affairs is recognized by
the citizen who is mindful of public interests
and who is seeking the surest means for their
protection. The mere-possibility of Thomas
E. Watson’s winning the race that would
make him Georgia’s representative in the
United States Senate for six critical years is
enough to arouse every thoughtful voter’s
anxiety and to purge his mind of all factional
folly that would contribute to so disastrous
an event.
It is obvious that the greater the division
of loyal Democratic votes, the greater the
possibility of Mr. Watson’s election. Those,
therefore, who feel how imperative it is that
he be defeated will no more think of wast
ing their ballots on an ineffectual candidate
than soldiers, with the enemy upon them,
would use pea shooters and pen knives when
machine guns and bayonets were available.
Those who are more concerned for the wel
fare of the State than for the fortunes of a
political faction, and who would rather see
three million Georgians well served in the
national Senate than play the game of a few
score embittered feudists, will do their ut
most to solidify and strengthen Democracy’s
ranks for this crucial test, not to divide and
weaken them.
The decisive question, then, for practical
and patriotic citizens is this: Who can carry
the day against Watsonism and, when elected,
better serve the State —Senator Smith, who
wag first in the field and whose ability stands
proved by years of incomparable service, or
Governor Dorsey, who was thrust into the
contest as a third candidate, against his own
good judgment and that of his more disin
terested friends, and whose record in the
Executive office is, for the most part, one of
barrenness and . mediocrity? Who is the
more likely to call forth and concentrate the
thoughtful enthusiasm of those on whose
votes the verdict of. Wednesday’s primary
depends—Senator Smith, who has fought and
won momentous battles for the farmers of
Georgia and the South, who has originated
and pressed to enactment epoch-marking
measures for education’s advancement, who
has stood ever vigilant and ever effective in
behalf of business and industry and the in
terests of the rank and file? Or Governor
Dorsey of whom that veteran Democrat and
nestor of the Georgia bar, Major Joseph B.
Cumming, dispassionately remarks, “There is
hardly enough known of him to enable the
formation of an. estimate, favorable or un
favorable?”
The truth of the case is so clear and the
way of duty so plain that a wayfaring man
though a factionist cannot err therein if he
but open his eyes. What might have been
confidently predicted in the premises is now
made manifest in the whole development and
conclusion of the campaign. Senator Smith,
as the stronger of Mr. Watson’s opponents—
stronger in achievement, in experience, in
native ability and, therefore, in public opin
ion—is the outstanding champion of 'loyal
Democracy and sober civic thought, while
Governor Dorsey’s candidacy, impotent in it
self, serves- only to sap strength from the
party’s winning front. It is conservatively
reported that in at least one hundred and
twenty-five counties the contest is squarely
between Senator Smith and Mr. Watson.
Where Governor Dorsey figures to any con-
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siderable extent in those counties, it is not
as an invader of the ranks of Watsonism,
but only as a diverter of votes which other
wise would go solidly and effectively against
the great menace of the hour. Let no Geor
gian who would safeguard the State against
destructive radicalism be deceived — a vote for
Governor Dorsey will be half a vote for Mr.
Watson. On the other hand, every ballot that
is cast for Senator Smith will make Watson
ism’s defeat that much surer, that much
more overwhelming, and at the same time
will assure our beloved Commonwealth all
the advantages which an experienced, able
and faithful Senator can secure.
The Last Unit of the A. E. F.
IN a tiny paragraph well-nigh buried un-
der the avalanche of news in the pa
pers of August 31, “finis” was written
to one of the most glorious chapters in
American history.
“Washington, D. C., Aug. 31. —At the di
rection of Secretary of War Baker, the A. E.
F. headquarters, the last unit of the organi
zation was mustered out today without cere
mony.”
And so the American Expeditionary Force
is no more. With a simple scratch of the
pen it passed, as needs must, and, so far as
any official knowledge is concerned, is dead,
forgotten.
But no pen will ever touch the immortality
of the A. E. F. in the hearts of the American
people. For them it can never die. First
it lives in the memory of two million young
Americans who wore the khaki and the over
seas cap, who knew the pain of loneliness and
the pang of parting, the suns and fog of
France, the misery of interminable marches,
the vermin and filth of the trenches, the de
lights of box-car travel, the shock of battle,
the morass of the Argonne and the flaming
wheat fields of the Marne. They were the
A. E. F., an all-embracing term that meant
always something more than regiment or di
vision, whether in the S. O. S. or the front
lines. They were the A. E. F., and to them
those three letters will ever summon pictures
only they can understand.
So, too, the rest of us, though we may
never share that memory with them, will
place the A. E. F. along with Washington’s
ragged continentals, along with Lee’s Army
of the Potomac, along with the men who
stormed Stony Point and the men who fought
at Chancellorsville and the men who faced
fever and mauser bullets at San Juan and El
Caney. American immortals, they are a gal
lant company with other gallant companies
that will live forever on the pages of Ameri
can history.
Save the Yams
SAGE advice to the farmer is given by
the Tifton Gazette in a recent edito
rial on “Potato Curing Houses.” Says
the Gazette, anent the statement of some
growers that they are going to “let the
hogs gather the crop” rather than take the
trouble of housing it until prices are high
er on potatoes:
“This would be another mistake,
equal to that of letting peanuts stay
in the ground. That portion of the crop
that can be used to advantage by feed
ing to hogs would be well invested that
way. But for the balance, it should be
gathered and if the market is not sat
isfactory, put in a curing house and
hold until the pric' goes up after
Christmas. Last spring sweet potatoes
sold as high as $3.50 a bushel. Things
are coming down, and no such price
may be expected next year, but before
the summer is on, they will be selling
for a price that will repay growing and
handling.”
The Gazette adds that, with the price of
cotton unstable and rains threatening the
crop, no farmer can afford to allow any
thing that will bring money to go to waste.
Potatoes, even at their greatest abundance,
bring a fair price, ano with the growing
popularity of the sweet potato in the north
and east, and the tendency to make it an
all-the-year-round” crop, the growers
should be well repaid for their yield in
the long run.
He Needs A Nluffl er
YOUNG Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
is treading on dangerous ground, if
the New York Tribune correctly re
ports his recent speech at Banger/ Maine,
in which he is quoted as criticizing Gover
nor Cox for indorsing the plank in the
Democratic platform praising America’s
part in the war.
“Does he (Governor Cox) not know that
it is not considered customary or in good
taste, to praise your own achievements, and
it was the Republican party that fought
the war? There was not a male representa
tive of the close official family of the na
tional Democratic administration who, to
the best of my knowledge, was, during the
war, within the range of a gun fired by the
enemy. We can at least give them this
credit—they did not use their influence to
be sent where the danger was sorest.”
These words, which the Tribune attri
butes to the young Colonel, are not the ex
pression we had looked to hear from the
brave son of a brave father. The charge of
immodesty he flings at the Democratic nom
inee should not have been followed in the
same breath with the inference that cer
tain Republicans, including, we presume, a
Roosevelt, not only fought “in” the war, but
“fought the war!”
Even on the ground that he spoke in the
heat of political passion, that phrase is not
easily forgiven. We do no 1 know the iden
tity of the mysterious “they” whom Colonel
Roosevelt described as failing to "use their
influence to be sent where the danger was
the sorest.” He cannot bt referring to that
son of a Democratic cabinet officer who
gave his life in France. He cannot have in
mind that boy of a former Democratic
speaker whom he knew personally as a gal
lant soldier of the American Expeditionary
Force. He surely does not mean the thou
sands of sons of Democrats, brothers of
Democrats, and Democrats themselves, who
went as he did through the Argonne wil
derness and the St. Mihiel victory.
Yet, “The Republican party fought the
war,” asserts young Colonel Roosevelt. Does
he need a history? If our recollection serves
aright, there was nothing in the require
ments for admission to the officers’ train
ing camps to make a candidate tell how
he voted in the last election. If our mem
ory is correct, there was no amendment to
the draft law limiting its operations to
Republicans. Unless we have been misin-r
formed, there were not only a few Demo
crats, but probably any number of So
cialists, Prohibitionists, Farmer-Laborists,
Populists, no doubt a smattering of Anar
chists, in the divisions under General
Pershing.
“Who won the war%” is not a new
question. Heretofore, it has been the gen
eral impression that it was won by Allied
Armies that included, among other forces,
two million young men from over the seas,
men of every state and every section, men
of every blood and every ancestry, men of
every religious faith and every political
creed, not two million Republicans nor
two million Democrats, but two million
Americans all.
But the general impression, according to
Colonel Roosevelt, who was there and
knows, is all wrong. The Republicans, he
says, fought the war. He is not immodest;
he is amazing. He de sn’t need a history;
what he does need is a nurse and a muf
fler from Republican headquarters.
TO POOR SLEEPERS
By H. Addington Bruce
INSOMNIA continues to be one of the
great medical problems of our day. This
is borne in upon me by the number of
inquiries I receive asking for help in the
conquest of sleeplesness. And, unfortunately
it is by no means always possible to render
such help through correspondence, for in
somnia has many causes.
Still, there are certain general suggestions
beneficial in the great majority of cases.
This because most insomnia is a product, not
of serious conditions of organic disease, but
of faulty bodily or mental habits.
Many people, for instance, sleep poorly be
cause of eating the wrong kinds or the wrong
amounts of food. The undernourished are
prone to sleep poorly. So are those who
overeat or are partial to foods that tend to
cause intestinal poisoning and nerve irrita
tion.
Excessive indulgence in meat, sugar, salt
tea, or coffee is a frequent factor in pro
ducing sleeplessness. The elimination of a
single favorite food may be found sufficient
to effect a cure.
Or sleeplessness may develeop as a symp
tom of hunger. Early morning wakefulness
is often thus caused. For which reason those
who wake too early may be helped to fall
asleep again by drinking a glass of milk or
eating some crackers as soon as wakeful
ness comes.
The matter of bed-covering and ventila
tion of the bedroom is of prime importance
in many cases.
Some people are wakeful because they are
afraid of fresh air and do not permit an am
ple supply of it in their sleepihg quarters.
Wholly psychic causes of sleeplessness
must also be taken into account.
Many insomniacs—l am tempted to say
most —create their insomnia by self-sugges
tion. Wakefulness for a few nights gives
rise to the fear that wakefulness may be
come chronic. Then it does, indeed, tend
to become chronic.
Here the needed remedy is a strong coun
ter-suggestion to the effect that one can and
will sleep readily. This idea fully accepted
may banish insomnia as by magic.
Worry over anything is notoriously sleep
disturbing, if only because worry causes ten
sion both of mind and body. When tension
of any sort is present, sleep is gained with
difficulty.
Herein we find a valuable hint for in
somniacs. Cultivate the art of mental and
physical relaxation.
On going to bed relax your muscles, let
ting the bed support you rather than hold
ing yourself tensely in it. Close your eyes,
breathe slowly, assume the posture of sleep,
no matter how wakeful you feel.
And turn your thoughts from problems and
cares of the waking life. Think of some
thing pleasant that has occurred to you or to
some friend of yours during the day. Build
castles in Spain.
You may say that you cannot do this, that
the unpleasant holds you much too firmly.
But you can always sidetrack unpleasant
thoughts and substitute pleasant ones, if
only you will make an honest effort.
Finally, whatever course you take to re
gain sleep, do not take the easy course of
drugs. These can never truly cure insomnia,
and they may merely add a drug habit to
the habit of sleeplessness.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
A FAMOUS VICTORY
By Dr. Frank Crane
Not a victory of one nation over another,
not the triumph of red uniforms over blue,
nor of a striped banner over a starred, not
any slaughter of thousands of peasants who
had no desire to kill the peasants who were
drawn up in array against them.
Nothing of the sort. But a real victory,
9ver a real enemy, by a real general with
rains.
And a Japanese, to boot
I refer to the victory over Yellow Fever
y Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, of Rockefeller In
titute.
Yellow feve<- is a real enemy. It is deadly,
’eacherous, efficient. It has slain its tens
■f thousands. It has devastated entire cities
nd depopulated states.
One of its strongholds was Guayaquil,
cuador.
In 1918 a commission, headed by Dr. A. I.
'ondall, of Northwestern University, set sail
r South America. It was kindly received
the authorities and physicians at Guaya
;. The preliminary work was done, pre
-w.g the way for the work of Dr. Noguchi
“Then,” says Dr. George E. Vincent, presi
nt the Rockefeller Institute, “with the
/ O€ * of patients who were in the early stages
n the disease, Noguchi infected guinea pigs,
hese fell ill, showing symptoms which re
mbled those of men suffering from yellow
“Attempts to transfer the infection from
. another by means of mosqui
r Finally Noguchi was
’ible to cultivate from the blood a minute,
delicate, thread-like, spiral organism—half
way between a microscopic animal (microbe)
and a microscopic plant (bacterium). To
this he gave the name ‘slim spiral, the jaun
dice maker.’
“His discovery enabled him to prepare a
serum. This has been administered in a
number of cases with apparently favorable
effect. Furthermore, a vaeqine can be made
which apparently protects non-immunes
against infection.”
The experimenters arrived in Guayaquil
when the disease was at its height in Ecua
dor. They now report no cases at all in the
capital since June, 1919, and the Vincent
bulletin concludes:
“The public has proclaimed its deliver
ance from a menace which had never been
absent since 1842. General Gorgas’ ambi
tion to write ‘the last chapter of yellow
fever seems no utopian dream.”
And this I rank as a victory of more sig
nificance in history than Waterloo or Tra
falgar.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes
The Dayton News and Marion Star are
making the covenant a scrap of paper.—
Columbia (S. C.) Record.
The White Housing problem is the only
housing question that received the atten
tion of political platform makers.—Green
ville (S. C.) Piedmont.
Ponzi, it is said, will be able to pay half
his debts. A lot of us rated more solvent
than Ponzi would be glad to be able to do
as much..—Omaha World Herald.
The bear that used to walk like a man
now runs like a rabbit.—Columbus (O.)
Dispatch.
If there is no shortage just talk about
one and it will serve the same purpose.—
Jacksonville Florida Times Union.
Editor Harding has decided to abandon
the old front porch and to increase his
circulation.—Little Rock Arkansas Ga
zette.
Anti-Prohibitionists
Organize
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 2. —
An association for the pur
pose of fighting federal
prohibition has been or
ganized in Washington under the
title of the Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment.
Such an organization seems the
logical and orderly expression of the
opposition to national prohibition. It
is certainly more desirable, even from
the standpoint of a dry, that the
antagonism to prohibition should ex
press Itself in this way. rather than
in indivdual acts of lawlessness.
This association proposes to fight
prohibition by seeking to get a bal
ance of power in each congressional
district, and so influencing congress
to repeal the Volstead act and ulti
mately the prohibition amendment. It
favors local option and believes that
intelligent regulation of the liquor
traffic in accordance with local con
ditions and opinions is desirable.
Since the Anti-Salodn league has
been given the widest publicity in
its fight on the liquor traffic, it
seems only fair that the existence
of this organization for those who
oppose prohibition should also be
made known to all who are interest
ed. Its address is the Munsey build
ing, Washington, D. C.
This organization takes the view
that prohibition accomplishes much
good and that it deserves dignified
treatment and serious consideration,
but that the present prohibition laws
are improper and dangerous. It
points out that conditions vary lo
cally and that any law which enables
the residents of one section to say
what those of another section may
eat and drink is fundamentally un
fair and in violation of the princi
ples of state and individual rights.
It further sets forth the claim that
. the present prohibition laws are un
popular with the majority of voters,
and-were passed through the efforts
of a highly organized and efficiently
working minority.
For Repeal of Volstead Act
The first object of the organiza
tion is to have the Volstead act re
pealed, and to have legislation pass
ed in its place which will leave the
enforcement of the eighteenth amend
ment, so long as it remains in force,
to the people of the several states
/under the concurrent clause. Its ul
timate object is to procure the repeal
of the prohibition amendment.
The association is nonpartisan and
nonsectarian and both men and wom
en are eligible to membership. Brew
ers, distillers and all others who
have made their living from the
liquor trade are Ineligible to voting
membership, so that the association
may not fairly be accused of a fi
nancial interest in its work. It is
further provided that no officer of
the association shall be salaried, and
that money shall not be paid for
lobbying nor to any official.
This association does not ask a man
to pledge himself to vote under any
and all circumstances only for can
didates who oppose prohibition; but
it asks him to sign a statement of
his attitude on the question, and to
vote for anti-prohibition candidates
as often as possible. It does not
seek to form a new party or to de
stroy any man’s present party af
filiation.
The main activities of the assoc a
tion will be directed to the forming
of local organizations and the re
cruiting of members. It will exert
its influence chiefly by the simple
expedient of bringing to the atten
tion of candidates and of party lead
ers the number of voters in given
districts who have affiliated them
selves with the movement against
prohibition.
The prime mover in the organiza
tion is William H. Stayton, president
of the Baltimore Steamship com
pany. He has obtained the indorse
ment of a long iist of prominent men
for his association, among them two
former United States senators
Weeks, of Massachusetts, and Sauls
bury, of Delaware.
Does Prohibition Work?
The activities of this organization
should certainly bring into Q 1 ® open
the arguments against prohibition.
Marty of these are heard in private,
but few of them seem to get into
the public prints, so that they are
not subjected to critical examination.
There is the old claim, for example,
often heard, but not made by this
association, that prohibition has not
worked. A. wet and a dry can de
bate this question all day and reach
no agreement. Many sections of the
country can be pointed out in which
prohibition has undoubtedly worked
great good. While it is hard to find
a city or a section where no con
siderable illicit business in liquor
is done, there are many places where
•he consumption of liquor has been
greatly reduced, and with it the
number of arrests for drunkenness
and other evils. The wet can reply
to this evidence by pointing to nu
merous sections where drunks are
as numerous as ever, and where an
enormous illicit business is/ done,
with the attendant evil that liquor
is sold without any regulation. As
a result of this, all sorts of poison
ous concoctions get into circulation,
and a large criminal business with
large profits is organized. Thousands
of persons are making easy money
cut of illicit liquor sales, who never
.committed a lawless act before.
Those who favor some form of lo
cal option claim that this varying
success of enforcement is the best
proof that local option is the logical
form of prohibition. They claim that
most of the places which are really
almost dry now were equally dry Be
fore the national amendment became
a law, while most of those whicn
were then wet are still wet. In other
words, they say that neither this law
nor any other law can be enforced
except where it has the substantial
indorsement of public opinion.
Is Boocze Hard to Get?
The dry is very apt to rebut all
this by the assertion that even where
law enforcement is most difficult a
great many persons are unable to get
alcohol because of the prohibitive
price. Against this may be brought
the fact that the manufacture Os
liquor in homes, which is undoubt
edly a growing practice, is much
cheaper than the buying of it was
even before prohibition. Distilled
liquors, especially, may be made very
cheaply, and inexpensive stills are
publicly advertised and may be ob
tained by anyone.
Certainly a threshing out of this
question of whether national prohi
bition really prohibits is the thing
most needed. The law will after all
stand or fall in the long run more
on its practical results than on the
theoretical considerations involved.
Whatever else it may accomplish,
this association affords an opportuni
ty, which should be welcomed by. all.
including the prohibitionists, for
those who oppose prohibition to show
their strength and epurage. If they
have a majority, it is right and de
sirable that they should come for
ward and prove the fact.
First American Horse
Only 16 Inches High
The first horse that roamed the
plains of America was just sixteen
inches high, acording to Prof. Henry
Fairfield Osborn, considered the most
eminent authority on the subject.
Thousands of these horses grazed
together, some 2,000,000 years ago,
throughout America’s vast west.
The first horses may have had five
toes, the professor says, but the fos
sils of the earliest horses, found in
the bad lands, have but four toes.
Later the horse lost another toe,
and today he is walking on the naii
of what was once his middle toe.
If the leg of the present day horse
is dissected there will be found two
splinters of bone above the hoof,
on either side of his leg, beneath the
flesh.
While the horse first graze in
America, the species died out here,
and our modern horses are descended
from old world stock.
The first of them to arrive in
America were brought to Mexico by
the Spanish conquerors, and caused
great fright to the people of Monte
zuma, who thought they were super
natural monsters. —The Detroit
News
Our Most Papular Product
No matter how much fault some
alien parasite living off this country
finds with American houses, food,
customs and government, he never
seems able to find any fault with
American money that gets into his
hands.—Toledo Blade.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1920.
CURRENT EVENTS
Owing to the scarcity of labor in
the vicinity of Otwell, Olive Rhoades,
winner of the ploughing contest at
Oakland City, called five of her girl
friends to help Peter Himsel, owner
of the largest farming interests in
Pike county, to thrash his wheat
crop. Besides Miss Rhoades, Louis
Clark, Verda Dempsey, Maude and
Helen Harris and Edna Gray assist
ed. Mr. Himsel. The girls helped load
and unload the wheat wagons and
also drove the wagons from the field
co the threshing machine.
The proposal to manufacture
porcelain coin to the amount of
60,000 marks for the German repub
lic has been abandoned. Some al
ready had been produced at the
Meissen manufactory and were disks
of terracotta color, unglazed and un
milled, but of faultless artistic im
print. Experts of the Reichsbank,
however, advised the government,
against their adoption, mainly on
the ground that they would be un
wieldly in the pocket or purse, could
not be easily distinguished by touch
and could not be counted with exist
ing counting machinery.
One of the most important points
raised in opposition to their use was
that they might be imitated without
particular dinfflculty, except for a
degree of hardness which could only
be ascertained by tests by experts in
porcelain.
The Missouri river is rapidly be
coming unpopular with attorneys in
this portion of the state. The river
is rather restless by nature, and by
changes of channel has wiped out
and built up farms bordering on it
from time to time.
In two instances the river, by sud
denly diminishing the acreage of
the farms while under contract o’
sale, caused law suits that went to
the state supreme court for final ad
judication of the fine points in
volved. The court is about a year and
a half behind in its docket, and
while the appeals slumbered there
the river changed its course again
and has restored the ancient acre
age, together with a few dozen acres
1° , boo } of rich alluvial silt Now the
half dozen attorneys have no law
suit left at all.
The Red Cross ‘‘children’s ship”
Yomei Maru, with 770 boys and girls
of polyglot nationality rescued from
the wilds of Siberia after two vearw
separation from their parents during
the war, now on a 20,000-mile jour
ney to Petrograd, arrived at New
York last week from Vladivostok
zone 11 ’ San Krancisco al »d the canal
The children landed at Fort Wad«.
unm ’thp at v n IS, f there ’•emaln
cargo. Yomel Maru unloads her
_-T? en they L wlll be taken aboard
home. ’ b ° Und f ° r France an( t
a 2U ar ,. of tiherty,” dedicated to
th American soldiers who fought
T? h o e vrt i ba t t « tle Os Long Island in the
Revolutionary war, was unveiled by
the governor of New York in Brook-
I? 1 * week. The guns of the
United States battleship Utah boom
ed out a salute in honor of the
new monument.
Louisville, Ky., spends about SIOO,-
000 a day for bread and meat, ice
and coal, and other essentials of life,
according to a recent estimate. As
this is leap year, the 1920 outlay
will reach $36,000,000.
On its last cruise from Europe to
America the Mauretania, one of the
world’s greatest floating palaces,
transported a small city of people
across the Atlantic. 'When the huge
vessel docked in New York last week,
1,525 passengers were aboard, to say
nothing of several hundred members
of the crew.
About 6,000 Americans and Ital
ians, the latter of whom had returned
to their native land to visit relatives,
are waiting for ships to carry them
home from Italy. A big shortage
of vessels has left this small army
practically stranded over there.
The Prince of Wales, the young
chap who made so many American
friends on his recent visit to this
country and Canada, sailed from
Honolulu last week, bound for Pan
ama. Tracey Matthewson, a Georgia
photographer, is with him. King Al
bert and Queen Elizabeth, of Bel
gium, sailed also last week for Bra
zil.
In order to help New York apple
growers get a fair price for their
bumppr crop of 40,000 carloads, peo
ple of the state, especially in New
York City, are being urged to ob
serve an “apple pie week” and to
use as much of the frujt as possible
In other ways. New York will pro
duce one-fifth of all the apples
raised in America this year, but at
present the market offers only about
$1.50 a barrel, which is said to be
below the cost of production.
The fatal epidemic of cholera that
has been sweeping Korea has brought
a total of 9,000 cases and 3,000
deaths up to date. Fighting the
plague is made much more difficult
by the superstitions of the people.
A typhdon travelipg at the gait of
ninety miles an hour, swept over
Manila last week, doing considerable
damage to buildings and to vessels
plying the waters near this part ot
the Philippine Islands. v
Even though sugar keeps heading
down toward old-time prices, the ex
perts figure that the world is still
more than 2,000,000 tons short of that
commodity. The reason for the
deficit, they say, is because every
body in the world is eating more
sugar in some way or another.
Everybody on earth averaged using
87.6 last year—twelve pounds more
than the year before.
Farmers of Dutchess county, New
York, are all excited over the pros
pects of becoming millionaires in oil.
Evidence of oil have been discov
ered in several places and three
farms have already been leased at
high figures by promoters. Seven
shafts are being sunk in the hop®
of tapping a reservoir that may
make the county rich.
The recent discoveries of two
sunken Hun U-boats off the coasts
of Spain and Italy goes to show that
life under the waves was frequently
as perilous during the war as It
was for voyagers on the surface
Divers stumbled on the two ill-fated
submarines. They will be raised.
Tobacco growers from Ohio, In
diana and Kentucky at a recent meet
ing in Lexington, Ky., voted down
the proposal of skipping their 1921
crop. Prices far below the cost of
production last year had started a
widespread agitation in favor of the
proposition. The planters, however
decided to organize a burley tobac
co growers’ association for the pur
pose of protecting mutual Interests.
Arthur T. Walker, the secretary
of a New York railroad magnate who
inherited the tidy sum of $50,000,000
when his employer died recently, may
lose his fortune. A nephew of the
deceased multi-millionaire has filed
notice that he will bring suit in an
effort to break the will.
King George, of England, has
started a suit in the United States.
His majesty entered a plea in the
New York federal court last week
seeking to have an accounting made
of commissions paid a brokerage
firm that had bought 2,000,000 rifles
for Great Britain from an American
arms concern.
Such a hullabaloo was raised over
the order stopping publication of
“The Sing Sing Bulletin,” the news
paper printed for many years at the
New York penitentiary, that state
officials got busy and had the ban
lifted.
A German professor has written
a book named “The Three Wars that
Are Coming.” He refers to the “Ig
nominious peace” of Versalles, pre
dicts that England will fall out with
her allies, that France is destined
to be thrown aside and crushed ana
that Germany will rise up as su
preme among the world’s peonies.
Reports reaching this country about
the volume do not say just what fate
the Huns have prepared for the
United States.
Twenty-seven alleged gamblers
and a truckload of “crap” outfits and
faro layouts fell into the hands of
the New York police last week when
they staged several raids in Sara
toga Springs, Where the racing sea
son was in full swing. “Touts” have
been reaping a harvest of dollars
in “steering” strangers on “inside
bets” that never win, it Is claimed.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
A MAN’S IDEAL WOMAN ‘
’ The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
THE must be beautiful, prefer
ably tall and slender, though
an occasional man leans to
what was once called the “pocket
Venus,” and is now spoken of in tne
vernacular as the "cuddle pup”’ size.
No matter what her height or weight
“however, she must have a peaches
and-cream complexion, Cinderella
feet, large ox-like eyes, and hair that
curls.
Furthermore, the beauty of i
man’s ideal woman must be of the
adamantine kind that can stand the
kicks and euffs of fate without get
ting its paint scratched off, or being
dented. For the ideal woman never
grows scrawny or fat. Her halt
never gets grizzled or thin. She
never grows old, for she has not
only tasted the waters of the
Fountain of erpetual Youth —sne
has pickled herself in them.
A man’s ideal woman is always ex
quisitely dressed in soft filmy things
of delicate, paste*! shades and he ■
hair is waved and curled in that,
artlessly artful way that only re
quires a couple of hours to do, if
you are a quick worker. A man may
be a tightwad who howls with
agony, as if she had gotten his life
blood, every time hi® wife strikes
him for a hand-me-down frock, but
none the less his dream woman Is
always clothed in Paris creations.
He may expect his wife to cook
and scrub, and wash, and tend baby,
but he never looks at her bungalow
apron and work-roughened hands
without thinking how different she Is
from his • ideal, and that, somehow,
a woman ought to be able to be a
good cook and look like a lady love
at the same time. ’
A man’s ideal woman is the cling
ing vine. She is as spineless as a
shoe string, and all she asks of her
husbannd is to be permitted to cling
to him, echo all of his opinions and
have no mind of her own whatever.
But she must be able to reverse
roles and become the sturdy oak if
necessity demands a helpful energet
ic, capable woman in the family.
Also the clinging vine, even in her
llmpest moments, must have deci
sion of character enough to deal with
a family of self-willed children and
fight profiteering tradesmen to a
stand-still.
In a word, a man’s ideal woman is
a flowering vine which festoons it
self gracefully about him in public,
and so calls attention to his strength,
while in private he expects it not
only to stand alone and avoid be
coming a burden upon him, but to
prop him up
In Intelligence a man’s ideal wom
an knows just a little less than he
dees. She follows at his heels like
his dog and devours hungrily and
gratefully whatever bones of his
thoughts he throws to her. And she
gazes reverently up Into his eyes and
takes her cues from his looks, con-
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
Improved Highways
Says the Albany Herald: “The
building of paved roads in the south
has a good start, in spite of the high
cost of construction, apd that means
that the good work will continue. A
paved road is an argument to which
there is no answer.” The Herald is
right about the matter, and we are
glad to note that Spalding Is building
miles of paved highways and having
a part in the south’s great work.—
Griffin News and Sun.
A Newspaptr Family
R. O. Majors, who has been With
the Lanier County News, will leave
Sunday morning for Claxton, Ga.,
where he will be editor and publish
er of the Claxton Enterprise. His
father, T. A. Majors, is editor of the
Willacoochee Times; his brother,
Jack Majors, Jr., is editor of the Bu
ford Advertiser, and his brother, R.
E. L. Majors, is with the Americus
Times-Recorder. Lanier County
News.
Republican Spondulix
The Republicans have plenty of
money with which to cover their
shortage of principles and sound
ideas. Thomasville Times-Enter
prise .
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
The sanitary inspector knocked
sharply at the doolr and it soon
opened.
“How many people live here?” he
began.
"Nobody lives here,” answered the
daughter of the house; "we’re only
staying for a short tibe.”
“But how many are here?”
'Tm here. Fathers’ gone for a
walk and mother is—”
"Stop! stop!” exclaimed the man
Impatiently. “I want to know how
many are In this house.
How many people slept here last
night?”
“Well, you see,” was the reply,
"I had the toothache dreadful and
my little brother had the stomach
ache and we all took on so much
that nobody slept a wink.”
Then the inspector said he would
call again.
"Six years ago,” said Smithson, “I
made up my mind that I was smok
ing too much. It didn’t seem to af
fect my health in the least, but I
thought It a foolish waste of money,
and I decided lo give it up."
“A very sensible idea," remarked
Brownlow. K
“So I thought at that time. I
reckoned up as closely as I could
how much I had been spending each
day on cigars and tobacco. That sum
I set aside each morning and start
ed a banking account with it. I
wanted to be able to show exactly
how much I had saved by not smok
ing.’’
“And how did it work?” Inquired
Brownlow.
“At the end of six years I had a
thousand dollars in the bank.”
“Good. Could you let me—”
“And a few days later,” interrupt
ed Smithston, “last Tuesday, In fact
—the bank failed. You haven’t got
a cigar about you, have you?”
It was during the cross-examination
of the young physicians that the
counsel made his disgraceful remraks
touching the improbability that so
juvenile a practitioner should thor
oughly understand his profession.
“You claim to be acquainted with
the various symptoms attending con
cussion of the brain?” asked the
lawyer.
“We will take a concrete case,” con
tinued the counsel. “If my learned
friend, counsel for the defense, and
myself were to oang our heads to
gether, should we get concussion of
the brain?”
The young physician smiled. “The
probabilities are,” he replied, “that
counsel for the defense would.”
“Old Glory” Is Oldest Flag
(From the London Chronicle.)
It is not a little singular that the
oldest flag belongs, comparatively
speaking, to the newest nation. The
United States adopted its present col
ors 140-odd years ago (June 14,
1777), and the only change in it
since has been the addition of new
stars for every new .state added to
the union.
The stars and stripes were, of
course, taken from the arms of Gen.
George Washington, the shieh. of
whose family is depicted on monu
ments in Brinton church.
The Union Jack, in its present
form, dates only from 1801, while the
French tricolor was adopted in
1794. •_
The Same Old Error
Another bit of circumstantial evi
dence supporting the charge that the
Russian Red army is directed largely
by German officers is the fact that
the Reds are repeating so many of
the characteristic blunders of the
German militarists.—Chicago Daily
News.
vinced that he is the real fountain
of all wisdom.
No nam c..n ever Imagine him
self marrying a woman who is clever
er than he is. or has better judg
ment, or who is more widely in
termed and a clearer thinker. Very
often he does, but this is only when
the woman is so supernaturally clev
er that she knows enough to conceal
from him how clever she Is.
A man’s ideal woman is always a
domestic creature whose dearest am
bition is to make a prize angel food
in her community. She may have
been a society butterfly, or a fashion
plate, or a prize private secretary, >
or a successful professional or busi
ness woman, but a man never visions
her, in his mind’s eye, as continu‘ng
to take any interest after marriage
ir the thing that was her whole in
terest before marriage.
His ideal woman joyfully gives up
evc»—?hing for the privilege of cook
ing things the way he likes them,
and would rather turn out a batch
of bread such as his mother used
to make than to write a sixth best
seller or pull off a big financial deal.
But while she spends her life in
the kitchen, she never smells of the
cook stove, nor does her conversation
run to recipes and the price of
butchers’ meat. And, somehow, in
the establishment presided over by
the ideal woman there are no bills
to mar the sweet serenity of domes
tic life.
Perhaps clothes grow on the back
of the ideal woman as feathers do on
hens. Perhaps the ideal woman is
a conjurer who can wave a magio
wand over the gas range and pro
duce a luxurious meal out of thin
air. At any rate, the woman a man
seek in the smoke of his pipe never,
never says, “John, the grocer says
that if you don’t pay,” etc., etc.
The ideal woman is never sick, nor
nervous, nor frazzled, worn out and
cross. She can be up all night walk
ing a sick baby, and appear sweet
and smiling and radiantly good-na- I
tured at breakfast and look as fresh
and spic and span jis the stenogra
pher who is waiting for a man in
his office. But the ideal woman
knows by intuition when a man’s
stomach is out of order «.nd he is
dyspeptic and grouchy; and she can
distinguish between temper and
nerves, and instead of getting angry
when he behaves like a spoilt baty
she kisses and coddles him and hur
ries up the dinner.
The ideal wife is an' adoring wor
shiper who never gets jealous. Sh®
is a slave who hugs her chain. She
gives her husband freedom to wan
der but stays put herself. And sh®
is the champion forglver of the uni
verse.
A composite portrait of her would
show a picture of Lillian Russell,
Theda Bara, Hetty Green and Pa
tient Griselda.
And there isn't any such person.
FAMOUS AUTHOR
HAD TROUBLES
That famous authors not only hav®
had serious struggles with publishers
to,get a start in their profession, but
have had some of what the world
now considers their best works re
jected by certain firms, is recalled in
some literary anecdotes now going
the rounds in England.
A British publisher named Arrow
smith many years ago received som®
stories from India, with a letter
which made the publisher imagine
the writer had too high an opinion
of himself. He therefore rejected
the manuscripts—and regretted the
act to the day of his death, for the
aspiring young author happened to
be Rudyard Kipling, and the stories
some of the famous “Tales from th®
Hills.”
Another publishing house has th®
record of having declined Stevenson, ‘
Barrie, Kipling and Crockett. Steven
son’s “Treasure Island” was said by
the publisher to be too cold-bloodedly
murderous for any self-respecting
person to read, which recalls the re
mark* of the publisher who rejected
W. S. Gilbert’s “Tale of the Nancy
Bell” as too cannibalistic.
Rider Haggard has said that
“Dawn” was sent back to him six
times before it found a publisher.
W. W. Jacobs had a similar ex
perience with his wonderfully amus
ing '/Many Cargoes.” He tried it all
around London until another humor
ist, Jerome, took pity on him and ran
the stories in a magazine he was at
that time editing.
“East Lynne,” both as a novel and
a play, has been a perfect gold mine,
yet it was rejected by no less a per
son than George Meredith when read
er for a well-known publishing house.
J. J. Bell actually had to publish
“We MacGregor” himself. He got an
accomplished artist to draw the fa
mous cover and became his own pub
lisher, with excellent results to him
self and the reading public.
SUGAR FROM SAWDUST
NOT FOR TABLE USE
The recent announcement that
sugar can be produced from.sawdust 1
is true, but it will not help the house
wife, for the kind of sugar which
can be so produced is not the sam®
kind as the ordinary “table sugar,
the “cane sugar” or even the best
sugar” of the breakfast table. It is
glucose, an entirely different sub
stance chemically, and will not help
for a long time to come, if ever, to
relieve the sugar ranine.
I This is the announcement of the
New York State College of Forestry
at Syracuse, N. Y., through Dr. Loui®
E. Wise, professor of forest chem
istry of wood, who says:
“An important sugar can be pre
pared from sawdust by hydrolysi®
with acid, but it must not be con
fused with the sugar of the break
fast table. This sugar prepared from
wood is dextrose or glucose and is
Identical with the sugar obtained by
acid treatment of starch. The sugar
is not identical, however, with su
crose, commonly termed ‘cane sugar’
or beet sugar.” Glucose is, however,
widely used commercially, and is an ♦
important foodstuff, being the prin- ,
cipal components of corn syrups and
the like, and has distinct nutritive
value. As sucrose cannot be prepared
from glucose, either commercially or
in the laboratory, there is little pros
pect that such a synthesis will b®
an accomplished fact in the near fu- »
ture.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
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