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VIIE TRI-WEEKLY JOURN AL, Atlanta. Ga.
The Result of the Primary
WHILE it is too early at the present
writing to venture an assured and
complete statement of the results
or a precise and adequate judgment of the
character of Wednesday’s primary, the re
turns thus far indicate that the voters have
spoken in extraordinary numbers, and, on the
Senatorial contest, with emphatic decision. In
common with all who hold to democratic
methods, regardless qf their sometimes dis
satisfying harvests, The Journal bows to the
popular verdict and wishes the winners, one
and all, terms of high serviceableness to the
Commonwealth.
We do so the more cheerfully because of
unruffled faith in the convictions for which
we stood throughout the campaign, and be
cause, looking back over the stressful and
heated weeks, we find The Journal’s record
unsojled by any word of slander or abuse
for the candidates it opposed, and unshamed
by any blow below the belt. We believed, as
we still do with unchilled earnestness, that
the best interests of Georgia required the re
election of Senator Hoke Smith, and that for
the general good of us all, factionism
should have struck its churlish colors and left
the lines of consistent Democracy undivided.
We are gratified to have fought for that be
lief full-heartedly. »
Those thousands of thoughtful citizens
who supported Senator Smith have the se
rene consciousness that they voted for the
ablest, the most achieving, the most useful
Senator that Georgia has known within the
memory of men now living. The pygmies of
personal and factional hate may draw such
satisfaction as they can from knowing that
at last, after years of harassing and misrep
resenting him t they have deprived the State
of Hoke Smith’s services. But long after lit
tle men with little minds are forgotten the
<ood which this statesmanly thinker and doer
nas wrought for his people, the richer fields
of opportunity he has opened for the man
behind the plow, the wider paths of educa
tion he has blazed for the child and the
youth of rural and industrial by-ways, the
forces of prosperity which he has turned
with their tides of gold to Atlanta and Geor
gia and the South—all these will live in the
oublic mind and rear him a memorial of un
lying gratitude in the public heart.
The Journal again congratulates the win
ners in the primary and trusts that each will
meet worthily and well the responsibilities
which come to him. The opportunities which
lie before Georgia are too abundant for any
bodings of ill and the duties to be done by
good citizens are too manifold for any nurs
ing of malice. Let us each and all dedicate
our deepest faith and heartiest strength to
►he upbuilding of this beloved Common
vealth.
Oh, here’s a wondrous story: There
wells in many a house an able-bodied voter
ho dares not face a mouse.—Louisville
‘ourier Journal.
No Bread Pines
IN at least one field of the future, fore
casters tell us, there are no disquiet
ing omens. Employment, they pre
dict, will be, as a rule, steady and plenti
ful the winter through, notwithstanding
certain untoward evidences. There will be
no need of bread-lines such as winters prior
to the war so frequently brought, and no
"'bbing of that prosperity which comes from
every man’s having an available job.
This is the prospect as seen by officials
of the Federal Labor Department’s employ
ing service; and it is the more cheering in
contrast with earlier appearances. As a re
sult of industrial suspensions during the
summer, multitudes were thrown out of
jobs—twelve thousand in the Cleveland dis
trict, for example—fifteen thousand in
Maine, and twelve thousand on the Penn
sylvania'railroad. In the building trades as
well there was considerable though not
extensive unemployment, in consequence of
curtailment of operations, which was as
cribed to discouraging costs of material and
labor. For the most part, however, these
conditions were sporadic rather than gen
eral, and In notable instances they are dis
appearing, or are being counteracted. It
seems, for example, that the twelve thou
sand men dismissed from the Pennsylvania
railroad are being absorbed by Western
lines; some of the industries which sus
pended in the summer are resuming; and
finally there are many worthwhile ’ jobs,
though not to the liking of lazybones, which
in recent seasons have gone begging. So it
is, according to the gist of reports from
the Labor Department’s field agents through
out the country, that the coming winter
gives promise of employment for nearly all
who are willing to work.
The happy significance of this outlook
is hardly appreciated as it should be, be
cause the extraordinary demands of the war
period put the whole industrial order of
things into unprecedentedly high gear. But
look back to the jobless Decembers and
hungry Januaries of pre-war times, when it
was not infrequent for tens of thousands
to be In enforced idleness. It means a vast
deal to the country’s prosperity and peace
of mind to be assured against such condi
tions in the season just ahead. Some un
employment is to be expected, for undoubt
edly the abnormal state of affairs brought
about by the war, is coming to an end. But
industry will continue its hopeful music,
an! the nation’s barns will be cheery with
golden harvests.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Linking Sufifrly and Demand
FROM divers parts of the country
come reports of fruits and vege
tables going to waste or decay in
the fields while city consumers are paying
somewhat from regi~- to region, there is
high prices. Although explanations may vary
the never failing common factor of inade
quate or inefficient distribution —a state of
affairs harmful alike to those who harvest
and those buy.
Distribution is one of the least studied
yet most important functions of economic
life. The farmer is besought produce
more food, and the consumer to conserve;
but what are all their efforts worth if
meanwhile millions and billions dollars’
worth of necessaries ar being lost through
want of proper channels between sources
of supply and demand? It profits a grower
nothing to know merely that somewhere
consumers are seeking for what he has to
sell. It is of no comfort to a perplexed
housewife to know merely that somewhere
there is an abundance of the commodities
which she cannot procure except at purse
breaking prices. until the paths from
field to pantry are more numerous, more
direct and more regular, can such troubles
be relieved.
This means, concretely, that transporta
tion facilities must be improved by the
construction of more and better highways
and by the intensive development of rail
and motor service; that more attention must
be given to municipal markets and kin
dred institutions; and that producers must
avail themselves the aids of organiza
tion—such, for instancj, as those afforded
by the Georgia Fruit Exchange. Steps like
these would not solve all the hard-pressed
consumer’s problems, nor invariably assure
the puzzled producer a fair return; but
they at least would remedy the
glaring defects in distri ution, and to that
extent would be a nation-wide boon.
One half the world doesn’t know why the
other half lives. —Baltimore Sun.
Lignite in Lieu of Coal
IF all proves true that is claimed for a re
cently discovered process of treating lig
nite, we may yet find happy deliverance
from the jaws of purse-devouring coal prices.
Lignite, of which there are vast deposits in
the United States, is partly carbonized vege
table matter having a fuel value intermedi
ate between peat and coal. Because of its
crumbliness and its large content of soot and
dirt, this substance hitherto has been but
sparsely used for producing heat and power.
It seems, however, that Mr. Roy N. Buell, of
San Francisco, has perfected a method of
eliminating these objectionable qualities so
that the residue is a fuel of the highest
grade.
In its account of this interesting develop
ment, the United States Consular Report sets
forth that the Buell method purges with lig
nite of soot and other undesirable matter by
suction, and reduces the moisture anywhere
from twenty-five to forty per cent. Still
more important, “under an exhaustive test
the boiler efficiency of the fuel was eighty
per cent and the furnace efficiency seventy
eight per cent.’’ That conservative men who
have looked into the process are impressed
by its commercial as well as scientific im
port is indicated by the fact that an Austra
lian syndicate has established at Victoria an
extensive plant for producing lignite fuel. It
is added that there are huge supplies of the
mineral in the United States—notably in
Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyo
ming, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon and
California —heretofore left unmined because
of the great superiority of coal.
s If the "Buell process” fulfills the expecta
tions of its promoters, the results may be
of far-reaching industrial importance, and in
directly of great service to the rank and file
of over-burdened coal consumers.
A wage award, son, Is a narrow strip be
tween two strike threats.—Syracuse Herald.
The Truth About Sovietism
THE hair of the dog of Sovietism seems
to be the cure for its bite. Certainly,
most of the distinguished and men
tally balanced radicals who visit Russia with
high hopes of seeing a fairly just if not Uto
pian order of things, return in bitter disil
lusionment. Hear the testimony of Herr
Dittman, former Socialist leader in the
Reichstag, who, with other delegates, re
cently came home from a sojourn in a Bol
shevist colony near Moscow.
“Sovietism,” he reports, “is no form of
government and no good to anybody.” The
Germans in the colony, ardent though they
were to join it, are desperately qager to get
out.. “Idleness, sickness and starvation are
prevalent.” Instead of brotherliness there
is bickering, and instead of glorious “equal
ity” a dreary dragging out of mediocre lives.
To cap the wretchedness of it alt “The bread
is indigestible, and a pound of butter absorbs
a week’s wages.”
Similarly disappointing were the impres
sions received by the renowned English com
munist, Bertrand Russell, whose frank ac
count of what he found in Bolshevist Russia
has done much to open the eyes of the reck
lessly inclined in his own country and on the
continent. As a governmental experiment,
he declares, Lenine’s regime and its under
lying ideas are a manifest failure, judged by
principles of human freedom and equity and
by actual conditions among the people. A
little clique rules the country’s millions
special privilege makes a mockery of com
mon rights; labor is conscripted and ofttimes
virtually enslaved; production is stagnant,
and enterprise dispirited or dead; and where
the folk are happy, it is because they are
ignorant. Bolshevism is a failure politically
and economically, and a tragic failure so
cially and morally.
There is this cheering aspect, however:
give Bolshevism a chance be seen, and it
will disgust the reasoning observer- give it
rope and it will hang itself. That it gained
a wide reach and a tight grip on revolution
ary Russia is not to be denied; and so far as
the outsider can see, it is still that country’s
dominant form of politics. Equally appar
ent, however, and more significant, is the con
demnation which it brings from competent
judges. both within Russia and from with
out—judges who approach it with minds
open if favorably disposed—and the dislike
to use the mildest term, in which it is held
by the peasant mass. As that condemnation
grows and that dislike wanes in courage, Bol
shevism’s doom draws near.
From the outset it was wrong in principle
and grossly insensible, if not actually hos
tile, to the best promptings of the human
spirit. Inevitably, therefore, it grew worse
and worse in practice, more and more a fail
ure as seen through the eyes of the world’s
common sense. So must end every political
or social adventure that essays to redeem the
lot of men by merely increasing or reappor
tioning their messes of pottage.
Apples Bring High Price—headline. A
characteristic not peculiar to apples.—Knox
ville Journal and Tribune.
According to Candidate Debs, the pen is
mightier than the porch.'—Minneapolis Jour
nal.
Revised Grammar: “Voter” is a noun of
common gender, either masculine or feminine.
—Mitchell (S. D.) Gazette.
ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILD
By H. Addington Bruce
YOU have a child who is by no means
doing so well in school as you would
like. Nor in the games outside of
school does he keep up with other children.
He is, in fact, somewhat stupid at his books
and somewhat awkward in his movements.
This you regretfully acknowledge to yourself.
And you feel poignantly his evident infe
riority.
But, however poignantly you may feel it,
above’ all things try to prevent your child
from feeling it poignantly himself.
His stupidity may be only a passing phase.
He may be one of the type developing slowly
intellectually, yet of truly robust, perhaps
potentially brilliant, mind.
The great Darwin, remember, was account
ed a dullard in his youth. So was many an
other who won lasting frame.
And the awkwardness you deplore may be
but a transient weakness in motor control,
out of which your boy will grow, or which
he can be helped to overcome by careful
training.
If, however, consciousness of his present
stupidity and awkwardness is forcibly im
pressed upon his mind the likelihood of his
becoming other than stupid and awkward is
appreciably lessened. Nay, the likelihood
then is that he will forever remain both stu
pid and awkward.
i For, forced to recognize himself as an in
ferior, he will despair of ever being anything
blse. Self-confidence, initiative, creative ef
ort will be paralyzed in him.
Still worse, bitter sentiments may be en
ndled in his heart, making him an anti
<al being, so that all his life he will get
~ badlv with his fellow men.
Manifestly, this will sorely handicap him
in the earning of a living. It may even
make him a criminal. Or, depending on the
circumstances of his life, it may cause him
to break down nervously, perhaps mentally.
Our jails, our neurological institutes, our
hospitals for the insane, our poorhouses, teem
with people who are social incapables solely
or largely because in early childhood they
were forced to feel hopelessly Inferior.
So you see how important it is to give your
stupid, awkward little boy every encourage
ment possible.
Do not make the mistake of trying to spur
him by reproaches and ridicule. Be tender
with him always. Help him over the rough
places, and be quick to praise him whenever
you honestly can.
If he has any special natural aptitude or
aptitudes—and he is pretty sure to have —
search for these and sedulously cultivate
them. Thus he will be given the compensa
tory joy of knowing that he excels in some
thing, and thereby will come mitigation of
the pain of failure in other things.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
BELIEVE NOTHING YOU
CANNOT USE
By Dr. Frank Crane
There has been a deal of talk disputatious
about what to believe.
Extremists on one side have contended
that we should believe nothing we cannot
prove, that we should stick to demonstrable
facts.
One the other hand extremists have gone
so far as to assert that there is no virtue
at all believing what w-e can prove, but that
the saving faith is in what we cannot prove,
or even comprehend. Still further, that the
greatest credit should go to those who “be
lieve because it is impossible.”
Both extremes are wrong, and for the
same reason: to wit, that they mistake the
nature of faith and its purpose.
This is the nature of faith: that we shall
thus be enabled to use these forces.
Hence the way out of the diclculty, the true
and practical rule, is this: to believe only
what we can use.
Not only what we can prove. We can use
many things we cannot prove.
As for those things that are of no use,
we would best “hang them up”—that is,
leave them as open and unsettled questions.
If at any time we can use them, we can
take them down and believe them. So long
as we cannot use them, they make no mat
ter. Let them alone.
For instance, take one article that under
lies all creeds of decent folk, that the forces
of Good are stronger than those of Evil.
This means that God is good, that the
universe is so ordered that goodness brings
happiness, and that it never pays to do
wrong.
This is entirely usable. It cleans the
mind, strengthens the will, gives health to
the emotions, and induces contentment. It
actually produces more human satisfactions
than money, fame or anything else men
strive for.
Hence it is sound to believe it.
Take, on the contrary, some such question
as whether Jonah was swallowed by the
whale, or the location of heaven, or the issue
between the Homoousians and the Homoiou
sians. These are matters that cannot con
ceivably affect one’s growth or welfare in
any way.
Then why bother?, Neither believe nor
disbelieve them. Leave them for those who
have the leisure and the inclination to argue.
The credo that our dead live on undenia
bly ennobles and invigorates our life. It is
usable. Hence we believe it.
Most of the non-usable questions wither
and die after a while. They are neither
proved nor disproved. People simply get
tired of them.
The usable elements of creed live on for
ever. The conviction of immorality, for ex
ample, is stronger now than five thousand
years ago.
It has never been “proved,” as we prove a
chemical fact, nor disproved, and never
will be.
But it will be believed as long as it con
tinues to feed human beings with idealism,
heroism and beauty.
With this simple rule, therefore, you can
find the essentials of your creed. The rest
you can let alone.
Solomon was a pessimist because he be
lieved so many things he did not use. Jesus
was an optimist because He used all He be
lieved.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
“That young lady is very striking.”
“A handsome girl.”
“But I never see her doing any work
around.”
“She’s valuable, however. When the other
side has a pretty witness, we find her very
useful as a counter attraction.”
As the Londoner sat in the village inn,
drinking a modest pint and chatting with
the local residents, he got on the subject
of married life. He advanced the opinion
that true happiness was more often to be
found in the peaceful country than amid the
turmoil of a town.
“Well, I ain’t so sure about that,” said one
old chap. “But Ido know as I sat last night
and held my old woman’s hands for two
hours by the clock.”
“There!” said the visitor in triumph.
“That upholds my argument and shows how
much you love her!”
“Love her!” gasped the old chap. “Why
if I’d ’a* let go she’d ’ave scratched my bloom
i in’ eyes out!”
THE RENT STRIKE
IN WASHINGTON
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 6.
The feverish hunt for homes
at a payable figure, just now
going on in almost every
large American city, has attained a
special intensity in Washington. With
sweet accord the landlords have sud
denly raised the rents on Washington
apartments from 20 to 100 per cent,
with an average in the neighborhood
of 50 or 60 per cent.
The immediate result is an im
mense emotional upheaval, varying
all the way from mild irritation to
tragic despair. There are some per
sons whose rent has been raised from
SIOO a month to S2OO, and to whom
this means nothing more than post
poning the purchase of a new car.
And there are others whose rents
have been raised from sl2 a month
to S2O, and to whom this means tak
ing food away from the baby.
Every afternoon when the newspa
pers' come off the press there are
apartment hunters ready to grab
them and eagerly to search the for
rent columns. Some of these are
prosperous-looking chaps who get
into cars and dash off to have the
first look at the more desirable offer
ings. But there is also the woman
with one baby on her arm, and a
child of five by the hand, who wea
rily boards a trolley on the same
quest, and who will be too late if the
apartment is relatively a good bar
gain.
A Dramatic Situation
The situation here is especially
dramatic because the Ball rent act
is still pending in the supreme court
with the betting about even as to
whether it will be sustained or not.
Some rent laws have been declared
unconstitutional, but on the other
hand a law almost exactly like the
Ball act was recently sustained. The
Ball act, in brief, establishes a rent
commission which has power to de
termine what is a reasonable rent
for a given property. Unless an ap
peal is noted, this becomes the rent.
If an appeal is taken In ten days by
any party to the complaint, the mat
ter goes into court, but the court
can only decide points of law. Thus
it may hold that not all evidence has
been adduced, and may compel more
evidence to be taken. The rent com
mission makes another finding, which
is final.
This act has been declared uncon
stitutional by the lower courts here,
and is pending in the supreme court
with the prospects that it will be
decided there by the first of Decem
ber.
In this situation, the tenant who
believes that he is being mulcted has
the basis upon which to make a fight,
and thousands of them are making it.
They have formed an organization
known as the Tenants’ Protective
League of Washington for this pur
pose. The league, which has a mem
bership fee of $2, gives free legal ad
vice, and legal services for half the
usual attorney’s fees. It has an ar
rangement with a bonding company
by which any of Its members can be
bonded, who wish to refuse to get
out of their apartments.
By making use of the services of
this league, a tenant in Washington
may stay in his apartment at the old
rent, and defy his landlord, usually
with considerable success. When he
receives the notice to get out within
3 0 days, he simply pays no attention
to it. The landlord then goes into
court to get a writ of eviction. One
of the league attorneys appears and
notes an appeal. This means that
the case cannot be decided until tne
constitutionality of the act has been
pessed upon by the supreme court.
Legal Delay Helps Tenant
If the supreme court holds the
act unconstitutional, then the writ
of eviction can be issued, and the
tenant can be put out. But th-t is
about all that can happen to him,
according to the attorneys for the
league, and it is not apt to happen
for a long time. Here the well
known delays of the law. which us
ually benefit the stronger party, are
on the side of the tenant. Cases of
this kind are piling up so fast that
many of those being filed now will
not be reached for a couple of years,
during all of which time the tenant
will be enjoying the use of the apart
ment at the old rent. Furthermore,
these attorneys say that no action
for the additional rent, which the
tenant refused to pay will be effec
tive unless the landlord has refused
to accept the old rent, which is paid
by the tenant to the bonding com
pany. hTe total cost of thus noting
an anpeal and resisting eviction,
provided the machinery of the league
is used, is about $69. In the event
that the Ball act is sustained by
the supreme court, and the tenant
wins in the action for a writ of evic
tion, he wil get back all but $27 of
this money.
Os course the landlord may com
bat in various ways the desire of
the tenant to stay In the anartment.
He mav cut off the heat, the light,
the gas' or the telenhone service, and
perhaps if he is ingenious he may
find other ways of annoying the
recalcitrant. Various cases of this
have occurred. Usually. however,
this sort of guerilla warfare is car
ried on bv landlords (and more often
by landladies) who own a single
building each and live in it. Thus
a case is reported of one woman
with a babv thirteen months old who
refused either to get out or to pay
the advanced rent. She could not
find another place to go and she
could not find the money to pay
more rent. The landlady promptly
cut off the gas, so that the woman
could not cook anything.
A Vindictive Landlady
Another landlady took all the fur
niture out of a furnished apartment,
from which the occupant refused to
move, except a single chair. This
she herself occupied, and announced
her intention of staying there until
the tenant had vacated.
If such a spirit were more general,
rent profiteering would soon be a
broken industry. Here, as usual, the
ultimate consumer loses out because
he is afraid or unwilling to fight,
and because he will not organize ana
go-operate with his fellows.
ICE CREAM’S HISTORY
Ice cream was used first by the
ancients to make iced drinks. These
served to solace Alexander of .Mace
don during the heat of his Asiatic
campaigns. Trace of this ls f oj”jd
in a recipe supposed to have been
left by him, known as-macedoine.
The first process of freezing ice
cream was mentioned by Marco
Polo, who visited Japan in the thir
teenth century and brought back
tales of water and milk ices which
were among the delicacies then
known to the people of the east. In
the sixteenth century Catherine de
Medici introduced frozen fruit juices
and water ices from Italy to France
Later her son employed a special
cook to invent new kinds of ices
and a shop was installed where ice
cream was sold to the aristocracy.
Louis XIV of France, at a gor
geous banquet, laid before each
guest a gilt cup containing what
seemed to be a fresh egg colored as
eggs are at
A RADIUM SALE
Radium being incomparably more
costly than gold naturally has to be
carefully guarded, and a special
safe for this most precious of
metals is possessed by the British
Radium Corporation.
The safemaker had, like Caesar at
Alesia, to face his defences both
wavs. To defv burglars’ tools he
had to have walls of steel, and to
keep the radium emanations from
escaping he had to construct an in
terior cage’of lead, lead being prac
tically the only metal not penetra
ble by the rays
Another difficulty to be overcome
was the construction of a door that
would prevent the loss of emana
tions when it was opened. Valves
are fixed in the door, through whicn
tubes of mercury can be passed for
the collection and storage of the em
anations —New York Sun.
GREENBACK’S MAKE-UP
The materials that go to make up
American paner money a r e gathered
together from all parts of the world.
Part of the paper fiber is linen rags
from the Orient. The silk comes
from China, or Italy. The blue Ink
is made from German or Canadian
cobalt. The black ink is made from
Niagara Falls acetylene gas smoke,
and most of the green ink is green
color mixed in white zinc sulphite
made in Germany. The red color in
the seal is obtained from a pigment
imnorted from Central America.—
Detroit News.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1920.
CURRENT EVENTS
Expenditure of $1,000,000 a year
for the protection of American for
ests against the $30,000,000 a year
fire loss was advocated here by
Charles Lathrop Pack, president of
the American Forestry association,
in addressing a conference of forest
ers, timber land owners, paper pulp
men and lumbermen. He also urged
a $2,000,000 a year appropriation for
the acquisition of forest land by the
government for the purpose of grow
ing timber to replace “our rapidly
disappearing supplies.”
Mr. Pack spoke before the meeting
of the Society for the Protection of
New Hampshire Forests.
Two hundred war veterans, trained
at public expense, will enter upon
their new duties as teachers when
the public schools of Ontario open
next month.
Entry of ex-soldiers into the teach
ing profession is regarded with great
favor by the education department,
which has been lamenting the fact
that the male school teacher has late
ly been fast disappearing.
When a seventh son is born in Ar
gentina the president of the republic
becomes his godfather, according to
custom. Recently a seventh male
heir was baptized with a brilliant
church ceremony at which the rank
ing officer of the Argentine army rep
resented President Irigoyen, who now
has a large family of godsons.
Old members of the Sac and Fox
Indian tribes are making prepara
tions to hold their annual green corn
dance. The ceremony will be held
on the Greyeye farm and will last
three days.
Hundreds of bushels of green corn
have been stored in the tribes’ grana
ries to be served as an offering. The
dance is held to give thanks to the
Great Father for a plentiful yield.
Komahtokemah will be master of
ceremonies and has called all of his
followers to be present.
Next to cotton, more puonds of jute
are manufactured each year than of
any other fiber. The jute Industry
dates from 1824 when the East India
company shipped some samples to
the Dundee flax manufacturers for
experimental use. The Dundee in
dustry progressed rapidly and soon
it practically controlled the world
market for manufactured jute.
ROME, N. Y.—Home brewers are
making the hop growing district of
Central New York rich. There is a
greater demand for hops—the flavor
ing ingredient of beer—than ever be
fore and the greatest crop per acre
in the history of the industry is now
maturing. It will run more than
2,000 pounds to the acre, and $1 a
pound is freely offered. A hop crop
costs 25 cents a pound to produce,
so that an acre will net about $1,500.
Some growers have 100 to 200 acres,
and the big growers look for a
profit for the season of from SIOO,OOO
to $200,000 ’each.
Notwithstanding the fact that
Charles Ponzi, whose get-rich-quick
scheme has startled the world, has
been called everything from a petty
thief and crook to a million dollar
artist, there still are people who
have firm confidence in his integrity
and his financial ability.
There came to him this week from
New York a certified check for
$85,000, drawn on the Chase National
Bank of New York and signed by
the president of a steamship corpo
ration of that city. Accompanying
the check was a letter which said:
“To assure you of the confidence
we feel in you will you kindly invest
the amount of this check in our be
half?"
soar In Hungary, the American dol
lar being quoted at 250. Even at this
Foreign exchange continues to
price it is not obtainable, as all
supplies in the local market have
been bought up.
A statement by the finance minis
ter indicating that a levy on capital
was considered resulted in an ad
vancing market, and there are ap
prehensions that Hungarian money
will be converted into state bonds.
Statistics recently furnished by the
director of agriculture in Mexico give
284,942,883 kilos as the wheat crop
of 1918, and 387,522,320 kilos as the
returns from 1919, an increase of ap
proximately 35 per cent. It is esti
mated that the 1920 crop will yield
•106,898,436 kilos, or an increase of 5
per cent over the 1919 crop.
Members of a party of leading
grain men and bankers who traversed
the three prairie provinces of Canada
this month reported on their return
home that if the crop of 1921 pro
duced as much money as the crop of
1920 promised to do the three prairie
provinces will in two seasons yield
a sufficient sum to pay the national
debt of the Dominion.
One of the bankers Interviewed
was Mr. George H. Prince, chairman
of the board of the Merchants’ Bank
of St. Paul. He estimated the value
of the western crop at a billion dol
lars, and said that only about 15 per
cent of the tillable area of the prov
inces was under cultivation. The
wheat crop of the year, he thought,
would be 250,000,000 bushels and the
area under crop he was informed
was 29,000,000 ascres. Mr. Prince an
ticipated that the United States
would aid materially in financing
western Canada, and that very large
quantities of wheat raised here would
bemilled in Minneapolis.
Aluminum consumed in the United
States during a recent year amounted
to 79,129,000 pounds. The production
in 1884 was 150 pounds.
The natives of Sumatra were
greatly excited recently when the
Dutch governor forbade them to kill
tigers under severe penalties. It was
hard to convince them of the neces
sity to protect the terrible man-eater.
The most important Industry of
Sumatra is growing oil palm trees,
and it was threatened by the increase
of wild boars, which prefer the fruit
to all other food, killing the trees
with tehir tusks. The more tigers
killed the more wild boars there
were. The tiger likes wild boar
meat better than any other, although
it kills also cattle.
Under such circumstances, the
government decided to protect the
tiger to save Sumatra’s main in
dustry.
The police announce that 100,000
political refugees are living in Vien
na. The majority of them are
Ukrainians and Russians, wtih many
Italians and Hungarians.-
Among the legislative proposals to
be submitted in the forthcoming ses
sion of parliament in Australia will
be a bill to remove the disqualifica
tion against women offering them
selves as candidates for parliament.
The fight in Nashville which
brought victory for the cause of
women’s suffrage in A ™ e U. c a
National Woman’s party $12,000. It is
announced by the leaders of the cam
paign. This amount was paid to
workers at the Tennessee capital and
for “ammunition” in the way of lit
erature and the like. As the funds
are not all in hand, the suffragists
are now busy getting subscriptions
for the balance needed.
Six hundred passengers traveling
on the Denver and Rio Grande rail
road were recently marooned for a
dav or so, when seven miles of track
and several bridges were washed
away by a great storm that
the countryside in the vicinity of Sa
lida, Col.
The little island of Malta, a Brit
ish possession in the Mediterranean
sea, was severely shaken last week
by an earthquake. Many buildings
were damaged and the population
was thrown into a panic.
Hundreds of thousands of people
were forced to walk, hundreds of
thousands of others paid enormous
prices foe. conveyances, several peo
ple were killed, scores were injured
and 4,500 policemen were put on
guard duty during the strike of street
car men in Brooklyn last week.
About 10,000 trolley workers who
had agreed to abide by a federal
judge’s decision on the wage advance
quit their jobs when the award did
not suit them.
Russia’s soviet government has
bought twenty-six locomotives from
Germany. The Bolshevik! officials
tried to buy them in America, but
were unable to do so for lack of
trade agreement between the two
countries.
While canteloupes were bringing
2 cents a piece at the New York
public markets last week, patrons of
restaurants were paying 40 cents for
them.
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
MARRYING MOTHER
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
THE young man was raving to
me about the charms and
graces of his fiancee.
“She seems a miracle of per
fection,”’ I said, “but what sort of
mother has she got?”
“Oh,” he replied airily, “her moth
er is about everything I object to in
the female sex, but then, you see, I
am marrying the girl. I am not
marrying her mother”
“Ah,” I said sadly, “there’s where
you are making a fatal blunder, son.
You are not only marrying the girl’s
mother, but you are marrying her
mother, and her mother’s mother,
and her mother, and all of her fe
male ancestors all the way back to
Eve.
“And I am not talking about hered
ity, either, though the call of the
blood seems stronger in women than
it does in men. I am talking about
the environment in which a girl is
reared, and which moulds her char
acter into the form of whatever
ideals and principles her mother
cherished.
For the mother makes the home,
and all the plastic years of her life,
the little girl is shut up within the
confines of the home. Her mother is
hen oracle and what her mother
teaches her by word of mouth and
example is ingrained into every fiber
of her being. A mother and daugh
ter are far more intimate than a
lather and son ever are. A mother
influences her daughter far more
than a father influences a son.
In every family there are certain
traditions and precepts that are
handed down from mother to daugh
ter through generations, and these
form the code of the women of that
family—a code whose laws are as
unbreakable as the law of the Medes
and the Persians.
Home and early influences put no
such indellible stamp upon a boy as
they do upon a girl. You often see
a man who is no more like his fam
ily than if he had not a drop of their
blood in his veins, and who thinks
and acts entirely differently from his
father, but a girl nearly always runs
true to form What her mother Is,
she becomes, what her mother made
her she stays.
Therefore, son, give mother the
once-over very carefully before you
propose to mother’s daughter. Also
cast an appraising eye on mother’s
husband. For as mother is, the girl
will be, and as mother’s husband is,
so will be your fate unless some mir
acle happens.
Maud may be all that your fond
est fancy craves. She may be pret
ty, and dainty and sweet and ap-
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
Hard on Moonshiners
Judge Hammond is so hard on
folks convicted of makng real corn
whisky, what would he do with any
one who attempted to conterfeit it?
—Augusta Chronicle. Who’s been
making real corn whisky in Judge
Hammond’s circuit?
Time Waits For No Man
Among the things which have lit
up recently is the town clock in the
tower of the courthouse. Aiderman
Mecommon deserves credit for this
progressive deed. The next thing in
order is to top the trees so that the
clock may be visible from all points
of the compass.—Monroe Advertiser.
Poor Standard of Judging
You can seldom tell the quality
of the brains by the noise of the
tongue.—Forsyth County News.
Intensified Love
A New York woman under arrest
for murder says she killed her hus
band because she loved him. It must
certainly be a treat to have some
body that fond of you.—J. D. Spen
cer in Macon Telegraph.
Plenty of Hoorn at the Bottom
Headling: Sugar Price Apt to
Keep Sliding; Well, there’s plenty
of room at the bottom.—Vienna
News.
“Peace Without Fighting”
We of course are in favor of uni
versal peace, but we are not an ad
vocate of the United States licking
the whole world in order to bring It
about.—Forsyth County News.
Three Articles of Faith
Three things you should not fail
to do: First, say your prayers at
night. Second, boost your home
town and county. Third, pay your
subscription to your home paper.—
Dahlonega Echo.
Extension of Jurisdiction
There is acertain legislator In
Georgia who should have his juris
diction extended to Florida. The
sexes are bathing together in the
moonlight at Pablo Beach.—Savan
nah Press. How about Tybee?
The “Plains of Miller”
Stretching away on the plains of
Miller even a casual lover of nature
notices the glorious beauties of the
gorgeous autumn.—Miller County
Liberal.
Cotton Crop in Candler
Farmers say that the rains have
practically ruined the cotton crop in
this and adjacent counties. Yet the
market continues poor, the price of
fered for the staple being below cost
of production. Therg appears every
year less and less connection be
tween condition of the crop and the
price.—Metter Advertiser.
“Peanuts, Five a Bag
The peanut crop for this year is
estimated at 39,000,000 bushels. This
ought to be enough for the peanut
parchers.—Butler Herald
Practicing What They Preach
The Cordele Baptist church prac
tices what it preaches. It raised
the pastor’s salary to $4,000 last
Sunday.—Thomasville Times-Enter
prise.
Wanted: A Watermelon
It does look like some fellow
would bring us a good watermelon
before the season is over. A man
cafi’t eat this year’s crop next year,
Buddie. Bainbridge Post-Search
light.
It is a wonder that a "prominent
and influential citizen of one of the
rural districts” has not presented
Editor Griffin with a watermelon. He
will please respond at once.
An Ideal Night
Last night was one of those kind
of nights that you love to sit around
the house with your feet up on the
mantel smoking dollar cigars.—
Thomasville Times-Enterprise
You may be correct about it, but
how did you make the discovery?
Conyers as a Cotton Market
Conyers has for years been the
best cotton market in this section.
Last year more cotton was shipped
from Conyers than from any other
point on the Georgia railroad be
tween Atlanta and Augusta. Much
cotton was shipped in, then re-ship
ped. The truly splendid market here
is a great attraction. Buyers in oth
er towns admit that the prices usu
ally paid for the staple in Conyers
are always some higher than market
quotations elsewhere. Conyers
Times.
Ladies Ara Invited
Come right on out into the politi
cal arena, ladies, but please leave
the rolling pin at home.—Albany
Herald.
World War Results
According to figures compiled at
Washington the world war decreased
th population of the world 35,000,-
000. What a sacrifice on the altar
of ambition of one nation and one
man.—Lavonia Times and Gauge.
A HoT Old Time
One swallow doesn’t make a sum
mer, but several ts the sort that are
dealt out on the speak-easy plan will
produce the hottest sort of an old
time —Savannah Morning News.
Hogansville News Suspends
The Hogansville News, .launched
in April with Percival P. Smith as
editor and manager, has suspended
publication. The suspension was
doubtless the result of the constant
ly increasing cost of production.
Hogansville is a progressive little
town and it is hoped that it will
some day have a newspaper that
will weather all conditions.
. . sD‘Ud.Dt,t.bSim,a -v$ un un un u
pear so amiable that the proverbial
butter would not melt in her mouth.
But all the same, look at Maud's
mother. Is mother sloppy, and
slouchy, and thriftless? Is he*
house always in contusion? Cie
tne parlor sofa need sweeping under?
Are the curtains crying aloud for
soap and water?
Don't marry Maud unles you want
to live in the same disorder and
dirt, for Maud has been brought up
to be lazy, shiftless and untidy,
and she will always think you are
an unreasonable crank if you de
sire a well kept house.
Is Maud’s mother wasteful hnd
extravagant? Does she live beyond
her means? Be sure that she haa
taught her daughter that clothes
are the most important thing on
earth to a woman, and that she must
have them, no matter how she gets
them. In her very cradle Maud was
taught to worship the great god—
Appearances, and when she marries
she offers up her husband as the
sacrifical goat.
And look at Maud’s father. Is
care-worn and hump-shouldered?
Has he got that deprecating, hope
less, furtive expression of a hen
pecked man—the man who is afraid
of his wife? If you don’t want to
understudy him, beware of leading
Maud to the altar. She has been
taught that a husband is good for
nothing but a bill payer. She has
been so used to making a door-mat
of her father that she will not even
know that a husband has a right to
be regarded as a household orna
ment.
But if Maud’s mother is an In
telligent, open-minded woman; ( if
she is a good housekeeper and a
thrifty manager; if she is good
natured, tolerant and sympathetic,
and if her husband looks happy, con
tented and well fed, go along and
marry the girl without fear.
Such a mother teaches her daugh
ters to be good wives, and to do
their ..duty. They will know how to
cook, sew and get the worth out of
their husband’s money; and, above
all, they will treat their husband
with tenderness, consideration, and
respect, as they have been taught to
treat their father.
Don’t marry a girl, son, under the
fatuous belief that you can make
her over to suit your ideal. Her
mother beat you to that job by some
si or eight or ten years and you
can t undo her work any more than
you could make over a jug that a
potter had shaped.
The only safe thing In matrimony
is to pick out the kind of mother
in-law you like and marry the girl
she has reared.
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL >
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
THE tightest thing on earth is
the lock on a millionaire'®
cellar door; the loosest thing
Is the cork in a' poor man’s
last bottle.
A woman can endure a man's
cruel deception; but telling her the
cruel truth is hitting her below the
vanity-belt.
Nothing makes a girl so hopeful
—or a married woman so cynical—
as to watch a moving picture actor
make love in the thrilling way, in
which every woman fondly dreams
of being “loved.”
Before marriage, when a woman
speaks to a man in an undertone, he
calls it "cooing”—after marriage, .»
“nagging.” *
The percentage of “love that
makes the world go ’round” appears
to have decreased in proportion to
the percentage of alcohol in the
things that used to start it going
that way.
A woman will forgive a man any- J
thing on earth, except for failing to
admire her, when she wants him to;
a man will forgive a woman any
thing on earth except for insisting
on admiring him, when he doesn't
want her to.
The average woman’s idea of "re
forming” a man, seems to be to
make life so dull for him, that ho
loses his last drop of Interest in It.
A lot of people appear to live in
this country, just in order to have
the right to abuse it and call it
names—and a lot of people appear
to keep on living with each other
for the same reason.
A CAMEL’S MENU
In Australia the offspring of th®
camel, owing, no doubt, to the Clim
ate suiting its characteristics bet
ter even than that of the land of it®
origin, are more hardy than their
parents.
The camel has great ability to <
withstand fatigue, manage on a min
imum amount of water and carrie®
heavy loads, five hundredweight be
ing no exceptional burden for him to
bear for many miles without tiring.
In the districts in which the camel
is used it is not an uncommon sight
to see one of those animals harness
ed to a car and being driven in ex
actly the same way as a horse.
Camels do not thrive on rich
grass, but grow fat on dead leave®
from the gum tree, spinifex or por
cupine grass and mulga. These
seem to be great delicacies, and th®
more thorny the better they are ap
preclated.—Detroit News.
NO “HI COST” HERE
At Tengschow, in the Province of
Shantung, China, in the mission
school, a girl may have three meal®
a day for $lB a year. Steamed corn
bread and raw turnips that have
been kept In brine and then chopped
quite fine compose the regulation j
breakfast almost ail the year. For
dinner there is usually millet cooked
dry like rice, and some hot vege
table. Twice a week the vegetable
is cooked with fat pork instead of
bean oil as usual. Supper is the
same as breakfast. To the Chinese
student the menu is said to be high
ly satisfactory.—Detroit News.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
STO-KEEPUH SAY EE ‘
AH'S GOT p's ESS ION
O' DIS HEAH HAWS AHS
GOT NINE P'INTS IN
DE LAW BUT HE AIN'
SAY HOW MENNY P'INTS
DE MANS GOT WHUT i
DONE RAISE z /M
W/1 W
Copyright, 1920 by McClurt Newipaper Syndicate