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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST- Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W-.l Vo. 3 Mot. 6 Mos. 1 Sr. Daily and Sunday..... 20c £Jc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily • 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.30 Sunday’ 7c 80c .90 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents panted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY. Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. 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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- IHE ATLANTA T.d- »* r.mibl JOURNAL. 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. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS IKUNL Bob AX me how ah reckn a lawyuh FEEL TAKIN' EVY’ CASE 'come long, Good en BAD, BUT AH SPEC* HE SORT O' MO D 'FI ED WID DE FE&! Copyright, 192.0 by McClure Newspiper Syndicit®