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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 S'o. 3 Mo». 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday2oc £)c $2.50 $3.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday *••••••••••••• 7c 30c .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 wanted 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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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