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Airplane Mail Service From
Atlanta to Gotham
THOSE once hazy hopes of airplane mail
between Atlanta and New York have
materialized into promises of passenger
carriage as well. Bids covering both branches
of service have been received by the Postof
fice Department; and as they meet official
specifications and are within the figures al
lowed by Congress, acceptance and a contract
doubtless will follow. The Department’s in
terest, of course, extends only to the mails;
but the successful bidder, Mr. Alfred W. Law
son, of the Lawson Airplane Company, of
Milwaukee, tells The Journal's Washington
correspondent that he is constructing ma
chines powerful and spacious enough to carry
ten passengers, as well as fifteen hundred
pounds of postal matter.
There will be daily service, Mondays and
holidays excepted; while the time of the trip
of about eight hundred and fifteen miles, will
be twelve hours, which is appreciably less than
half that required for the journey by rail.
Leaving New York not later than 7 a. m.,
Eastern time, the southbound plane will
reach Washington, if the schedule is carried
out, at 9:40 a. m., and .resume its flight at
10 a. m. It will arrive at Raleigh at 1:10
p. m„ and after another interval of twenty
minutes will be up and away to Columbia,
which it is due to reach at 3:55 p. m. Thence
iifs course will lie straight to Atlanta, upon
whose landing field it will descend at five
minutes to seven. For the northbound trip
the schedule will be: Leave Atlanta not later
than 5:30 a. m.; arrive Columbia 8:10 a. m.;
arrive Raleigh by 10:55 a. m.; leave Raleigh
11:15 a. m.; arrive Washington by 2:25 p. m.
Leave Washington 2:15 p. m.; arrive New
York by 5:25 p. m., Eastern time.
It is but a matter of time, and sooner per
haps than is usually reckoned, when this
route will be extended to Jacksonville and
the stations of call made more numerous. At
least, this is reasonably to be inferred from the
well proved success and advantages of the
air mail lines which the Postoffice Depart
ment itself now operates between Washington
and New York, and between New York and
Chicago. The latter recently has been ex
tended to San Francisco, so that across the
vast rivers and mountains and illimitable
plains, where generations were spent in blaz
ing the trail of the pioneer,‘‘the aerial mail
carrier now scuds in less than sixty Lours.
Who doubts that ere long this route from sea
to sea. will be crossed Dy another from the
Great Lakes to the Gulf? Already ± rmy
fliers have demonstrated the feasibility of
air mail transmission to Alaska, and far
sighted business men are looking forward to
such service between the States and South
America.
The wings that eo long slumbered m hu
manity are unfurling in earnest at last; and
as they wax in strength, ali channels of com
merce will throb with a mightier rhythm, all
the heart-tides of civilization lift up a vaster
music.
The Fount of Bimini
PROHIBITION, although comparatively
new to the world, has caused history
to repeat Itself with respect to a tiny
island off the east coast of Florida, Bimini
by name, which is rapidly becoming cele
brated, or notorious, as you will, the length
and breadth of these parched United States.
Little was known of Bimini until America
went dry. Then, being more closely situated
to Florida than any other West Indian island,
it became such a mecca for the thirsty that
a million dollar corporation was formed, it
is said, to convert the Bimini wilderness into
a liquified and luxurious paradise.
But Bimini, it seems, has a better claim
to fame than prohibition has given it, for
this is the island that, years ago, was reputed
to contain the Fountain of Youth for which
Ponce de Leon and many another adventurer
searched throughout the seven seas.
The legend of the Fountain of Youth was
one of those engaging mythical products of
romancers dwelling in the long ago, when
the world was such a strange and fairy place
that almost any wild tale of its wonders "got
by,” as we slang it nowadays. Thus, the
Fountain of Youth story was attributed to
one Sir John Mandeville, though, as a matter
'of fact, he himself was a myth. Whoever
the creator of the Fountain tale was, he stole
in from Marco Polo, says the New York Times,
who, in turn, declared he got it from another
dream personage, Prester John. The story
was credited from the twelfth century to the
sixteenth, and, no doubt, is still credited in
some parts of the world.
jnnn Ponce de Leon appears to have been
one of those who believed it most sincerely
and whole-heartedly. Therefore, when there
fell from the lips of North American savages
brought to the Old World from the New, cer
tain fantastic phrases which Juan fondly in
terpreted as relating to the Fons Juventis,
he sought and obtained permission to go in
search of the water that would renew his
youth and to annex the land for Spain, when
he should find it.
Bimini was his goal. He reached the
island, according to historians, explored it
from end to end, but found no fountain.
Transferring his search to the mainland of
Florida, his efforts were equally futile there.
Ponce de Leon died a broken-hearted man.
• What would he say, we wonder, could he be
hold today the mecca Bimini has become for
the modern Ponce de Leons seeking to re
store their flagging, jaded selves in deep
draughts of stronger waters, and gaining, like
Ponce de Leon —shall we say?—nothing for
their journey but death in the end?
THE ATIxANTA TLI-V, l.jr-.IA JOLRNAL.
Georgia s Tobacco Crofa
THE rapid rise of Georgia as a tobacco
growing state, demonstrated in the
reports of successful seasons in a
score of south Georgia counties, directs atten
tion to some interesting figures recently an
nounced by the United States Bureau of Crop
Statistics concerning this mighty American
industry.
In 1919, according to the bureau, there
were one million nine hundred and one thou
sand two hundred acres of land in the United
States planted in tobacco, while the produc
tion from the crop of 1918 totaled one bil
lion four hundred and thirty-nine million
seventy-one thousand pounds. The United
States exported during 1919 leaf tobacco and
tobacco products valued at more than two
hundred and fifty million dollars, nearly three
times the value of tobacco imported into the
country.
The total value of the American tobacco
crop of 1919 is not given, but some idea of it
may be gained from the fact that the greater
part of it was consumed in the United States.
In other words, the two hundred and fifty mil
lion dollars from exports, comparatively
speaking, was but a small slice of America’s
tobacco wealth. For instance, of the fifty-five
billion cigarettes manufactured in American
factories in 1919, the people of the United
States smoked thirty-nine billion, sending
much less than half that number out of the
country.
The United States government collected rev
enue on tobacco that reached the tremendous
total of two hundred and five million dollars
during the year. The state of North Caro
lina contributed more than any one section
of the country; nearly a third of it, in fact.
Tobacco growers of Georgia will await with
interest the complete report of the Crop Bu
reau. But even keener interest will be dis
played in the Bureau’s report on the 1920
crop when it is prepared next year. Georgia
is making such strides in the tobacco indus
try that another five years may see the Em
pire State contesting North Carolina for the
tobacco crown.
Where Bismarck Once Ruled
GERMANY without a Government seems
almost as unthinkable as Hamlet
with the Prince left out. Yet, if re
ports are true, that once most governed realm
beneath the sun, where Prussianism worked
with machine-like efficiency, now has little
more than the skin and shadow of responsible
rule.
"There is a German Government,” writes
William Ivy, Paris correspondent of the Con
solidated Press, “but it exists merely be
cause nature abhors a vacuum. It has practi
cally no authority. It cannot collect taxes.
It does not control its own army. It lives
on the sufferance of all parties, from red to
black, and does not dare take a step that
would be unpopular with any one of them.”
Months ago it pledged disarmament in com
pliance with the Treaty of Versailles; but it
has hung back from taking the first definite
step toward carrying out that policy, lest it
provoke mutinies and uprisings. It promised
to furnish France and Belgium certain quan
tities of coal, but before it could proceed "had
to arrange with the allies to bribe the
miners.” To such flabbiness has executive
authority fallen in the home-land of the Iron
Chancellor, the chief seat of the doctrine that
man was made for Government.
A highly unfortunate state of affairs it is,
for the Allies as well as for Germany her
self. What likelihood is there of indemnity
payments, with no power capable of collecting
taxes? What assurance of any treaty pro
visions being observed, with no heads to be
held responsible? And'if the nation’s Con
structive elements cannot organize in some
effective political system, what will prevent
a crumbling into virtual anarchy? As for
Germany’s own interests, the more difficult
her economic and social problems, the greater
her need of a strong, stable, skillful Govern
ment. Present conditions are (largely the con
sequence of thrusting masses who were bred
to autocratic or bureaucratic rule into the
sudden responsibilities of self-government.
Naturally, they are wanting in that organized
self-control which is the prime essential of
democracy. It is greatly to be hoped, how
ever, and not without reason, that the peo
ple’s sober sense and practicality will show
them the way to a working out of their grim
problems.
When Tomatoes Were Pi son
WHAT has become, a reader rises to
remark, of the old-fashioned man
who was wont. to declare that "to
matoes is j ison?”
The very voicing of that question reveals
a romance of the vegetable kingdom that
rivals any miracle of science—the rise of the
tomato from a position worse than obscurity
to the dinner tables of the most careful of
dietitians. We marvel at times on the prog
ress civilization has made, when we observe
that our grandsires knew neither the tele
phone, the phonograph, the wireless nor half
a dozen other modern inventions; but do we
ever stop to think that, not so many genera
tions ago, tomatoes were banned because they
were “p’ison?”
They were not un' “*o then. People grew
them in flower gardens along with roses,
phlox and hollyhocks, because they were so
bright and gay. "Love apples” they called
them, but no fru" of Ede was forbidden Eve
more rigidly than the tomato was the maids
and men of that day. It was pretty, admitted
their mentors, but, also, it was "p’ison:”
History does not tell us the name of that
heroic and blessed person who flouted super
stition, took his life in his hands and was
the first to consume a “love apple.” Per
haps he was starving in some wilderness
where it was a case of "love apples” or death.
Mayhap he was some blighted swain 4 who
vowed life was not worth the living* and
was furiously disappointed when, having de
voured a peck of the “p’ison,” he suffered
not even the stomach ache. Whoever he was,
he deserves a glowing epitaph for every salad
served in this enlightened age, when, though
we may continue to regard the victim of a
swallowed orange seed as the subject of an
immediate operation for appendicitis, we at
least have advanced far enough to plant 8 5,-
000 acres yearly in tomatoes, drive the wheels
for 2,000 tomato canning factories and make
such states as Indiana and New Jersey mil
lions from their tomato harvests.
The Statesman Speaks
THOSE statesmen who think that one
must be stentorian to be profound
should study a recent utterance of
Mexico’s new President, General Obregon.
“I would rather teach the Mexican people,”
said he, “the use of the toothbrush than
how to handle a rifle. I would rather see
them succeed in schools than upon the bat
tlefield. I prefer any day a good elec
trician. machinist or carpenter or farmer to
a soldier.”
Here we have a philosophy of govern
ment and an attitude to life that are truly
worth while. President Obregon might
have assumed an air of political pomposity,
with swollen chest and pounding fist; he
might have boomed tributes to the battle
smoked flag, along with sly shots at his
opponents; he might have dealt in solemn
dissertations upon freedom and brotherhood,
social progress and popular rights—mag
nificent absti ; actions to which all reach
forth, yet which are never really grasped
save as homely experience in uplifted and
quickened lives. But instead, he talked sim
ply of toothbrushes, and schools and good
workmen; or, if you will, of health, educa
tion and service.
If Mexico can be Inspired to appreciate
these goods and these virtues at some
thing like their true worth, then she will
grow into freedom and prosperity and
progress as naturally as the grain of corn,
quickened by sun and shower, ascends and
expands into the full ear. But there can
be no freedom without service, no general
contentment without health, no progress
without education. Mexico’s ills, like those
of the rest of the world, have come largely
from the fact that she has striven for
shadows instead of substance, and has taken
the nostrums of mere mountebanks instead
of scientific and moral truth.
The theories which one holds are ex
ceedingly significant if they lead to more
abundant life; otherwise they are but husks
and east winds. So, too, it is not the impos
ing speech that makes statesmanship, nor the
impressive constitution that makes good gov
ernment, but the faculty for seeing and pro
moting what is best for human life.
WEAK HEARTS
By H. Addington Bruce
THE medical verdict, “Your heart is dis
eased,” naturally tends to create feel
ings of panic. Most people, indeed, re
gard a diagnosis of heart disease as equiva
lent to a sentence to early death.
It is far from being necessarily that.
Everything depends on the character of the
disease that has attacked the heart, and still
more on the mental attitude and the inode
of life adopted by the person whose heart
has been attacked.
Even a slight heart disorder may speed to
a fatal termination if its victim becomes ob
sessed with the fear that it will soon end
fatally. Whereas, a grave disease of the
heart may be resisted for many years, if the
will to live is strong and sane living habits
made the rule.
Medical men themselves do not always suf
ficiently appreciate this. As Wightman has
recently observed:
“The medical fraternity is overwhelmingly
impressed with valve sound murmurs. Yet
many people live to a good old age and never
lose their heart murmur.
“I have in mind now a case who, at the
age of twenty-nine, was warned to be very
careful because he had a mitral lesion. He
subsequently died of cancer of the stomach
at eighty-three.”
Hence optimism is justified, but not reck
less optimism. Those with weak hearts ob
viously need to manage their lives different
ly from men and women with hearts unim
paired.
They need, of course, to avoid physical ex
ercise of any exhausting sort. But this is
not to say that they should avoid physical
exercise altogether.
On the contrary, regulated exercise under
the supervision of a competent medical man
is today a recognized adjunct in the treat
ment of weak hearts. Even hill climbing
may find a place in this.
And, avoiding physical over-exertion, care
should also be taken to avoid mental over
exertion, and especially emotional wear and
tear. One of the first measures a heart
should take is to cultivate emotional control.
The matter of diet is of importance. Heart
patients need nutrition, yet they cannot af
ford over-nutrition. On this point again com
petent medical advice should be sought.
In general, heavy meals have to be fore
gone. The heartiest meal of the day ought
to be eaten at noon. And even such mild
stimulants as tea and coffee must be used
in the greatest moderation, in some cases
must be prohibited.
Plenty of fresh air should be admitted to
he home, and particularly to the bed-room.
And plenty of rest is an indispensable.
“It is really miraculous,” says Cabot, with
reference to a specially grave heart condition,
"what rest can do, without anything else at
all, for the rheumatic types of heart disease
after compensation has failed. A person who
has seemed to be at death’s door may re
cover and live for many years, provided he
can rest.”
This applies to heart patients in general.
Rest is in truth one of their greatest helps.
(Copyright, 1920 by The Associated News
papers.)
GET RICH! GET RICH!
By Dr. Frank Crane
There has been considerable confusion in
the advice we have received about money.
On the one hand the Sunday school books,
and third readers, and all literature prepared
for the guidance of the young, solemnly as
sure us that the way to rise and become a
J. P. Morgan ie to be industrious, pious, and
temperate. By observing the ten command
ments and the golden rule we will be blest in
basket and store.
On the other hand, the same literature
warns us of the danger of riches. One oi
Mr. Carnegie’s books informs us how peri
lous is a great privilege.
So, then, we are to bend every energy to
get money, and when we get it we are to
know that it is a curse and a snare to the
soul. A man is to work all his life to get
that which will ruin his children when he
hands it out to them, tl looks much like
the old song:
You’re damned if you do,
And you’re damned if you don’t,
You’re damned if you will,
And you’re damned if you won’t.
I shall proceed to unravel this hard knot.
To do this all that is necessary is to get an
accurate definition of what riches are.
We have one unfailing test of all human
values—Death. The practical use of death
is to show what is worth while in life.
When a man dies his soul goes down to
the sea and steps into a little boat, to go
to a distant island. His real riches consist
in those things he can take with him in his
boat. He can take but two things—his tastes
(character) and his friendships. All else
is trash.
Now go and take an inventory of your
riches. Count over, in other words, your
genuine friends. Maybe you will need the
fingers of both hands on which to enumerate
them; possibly the fingers of one hand will
suffice.
When you get to the island your friends
will be there. You will want only them, and
you will have them; so you will be a rich
.nan over there. And if you have good sense
you will likewise be a rich man here and
now.
Make no mistake, when once we under
tand what true wealth is we recognize the
everlasting truth that poverty is a curse. And
that it is, whether it be wants unsupplied or
supplies not wanted.
There is a rational way and a fool way
of curing poverty. The rational way is to
recognize that the world is full of magnifi
cent supplies and to try to develop in the
poor man a better kind of wants—i. e., to
change his low thinking into high, to re
place his love of mud and its by-products
by a love of the spirit and spiritual qualities.
The fool way is to heap upon the soul, al
ready oversupplied, a mass of money, houses,
drapery, fancy balls, golf balls, and high
balls. Such a wretch has not riches—riches
have him, and usually choke the life out of
him.
So get rich, get rich, get rich! Poverty
is a curse. Woe to the poor! But be care
ful that you know what wealth is and what
is poverty.
Jesus Christ is commonly supposed to be
the wisest and greatest man ever born of
woman. He lived thirty-three years and ac
cumulated —eleven friends. So don’t be dis
;ouraged.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
THE PIANO IN
THE MAKING
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. B.
The whole story of the piano
from the primitive mono
chord of long ago which
yielded music to a cunning skill,
down to the modern player-piano
with its 88 notes and its records
which put the music of the world
at the disposal of anyone who has
the price, is told in the Worch col
lection of pianos which has been in
stalled in the National Museum
here.
This collection of 145 instruments
is of interest to everyone who lis
tens to music with pleasure, for it
shows how much we owe to the
generations that have gone before
us. The piano, which is a common
place fact in the life of almost every
modern, is one of the most intricate
and artificial of all man’s achieve
ments. It is not an invention, but an
evolution and toon as long to grow as
modern civilization itself. First, no
doubt, men sang and whistled. And
then they learned to multiply and
enrich the vibrations of breath by
blowing through pipes. And then
someone discovered that there was
music in a stretched string, and
out of this grew the harp. The pi
ano is a harp, marvelously com
plex, and mechanically manipulated.
The exhibit is so arranged as to
give a comprehensive idea of how
The modern piano came into being.
Starting with the more remote
members of the family, such as the
clavichord, hammer clavier, spinet
and harpsichord, the collection
ranges in almost unbroken sequence
up through the various .stages of
evolution until the modern piano
is reached.
Mr. Hugo Worch, a piano mer
chant of Washington, is the donor
of the collection. For over 30 years
he has been searching the civilized
world for links in this evolutionary
chain, and the quest still goes on
The Old-Time Makers
The older instruments were large
ly experimental in character, each
individual maker working more or
less independently and putting a deal
of his own personality into his cre
ations. The keys of the earlier in
struments were of wood, instead of
ivory, as in the present day, and
several of the specimens have black
keys with white sharps. One of the
instruments bears the name of the
maker and the date of manufacture
on a large brass plate.
In these times, the purchase of a
piano was something of an event.
The early master of the art was
often a proud and temperamenta
person. The would-be purchaser of
his wares sought him out and beg
ged to be allowed to own one of
these matchless instruments. The
maker would take his time consid
ering the matter and if he was
agreeable, a contract was signed in
which the prospective buyer agreed
to allow him to set the price, style
and date of delivery. It was a slow
business, for every part of the work
was done by hand. Finally, when the
task was completed and the instru
ment safe in his possession, the new
owner would make a great feast to
which all the notables were invited
to view this eighth wonder of the
local world.
These ancestors of the piano were
made in many different styles,
ranging in size from the tiny to the
immense. Some of the models on
exhibition look almost like a child s
toy, while others are great unwieldy
affairs which would almost fill the
floor of a modern sitting room.
In the first stages of their de
velopment both harpsichords and
pianos were made with side levers
instead of pedals. Both instruments
were profusely ornamented. One ot
the harpsichords in the Worch Col
lection has its cover filled With
paintings depicting pastoral scenes.
But one should have a deal of rev
erence for these old instruments It
was on and for the harpsichord that
the elder Bach composed his match
less music. He had no respect for
pianos. .
Beethoven a Piano Pioneer
Beethoven was the first of the
famous composers to take kindly to
the piano. He used one of the famous
Stein instruments, manufactured by
Nanette Stein, of Vienna, who in ad
dition to being one of the first busi
ness women of her day and genera
tion, was a great friend and admir
er of the composer and did much to
make his last years happy and com
fortable. 2 x .
The piano was coming into its own
late in the eighteen century, and the
Worch collection has a number of
specimens of the instrument dating
from about 1775. The oldest upright
in the collection is one made by
Stein, of Vienna, in 1788. There are
also a number of early English
pianos, among thbm a Broadwood
Grand made in 1730, and an upright
from the factory of Stoddard &
Southwell which bears the date of
1800.
The history of these early instru
ments is somewhat uncertain. Mr.
Worch picked them up wherever it
was his good fortune to find them,
and he has been unable for the most
part to trace out anything with ref
erence to their former owners.
The oldest American piano in the,
collection is a five-octave square,
made in Philadelphia in 1775. It was
not until after the revolution that
American manufacturers began to
take- up this work and apply them
selves to it seriously. The first in
struments produced in this country
were divided in principle between
the German and English models. For
America is inventive along mechani
cal rather than along esthetic lines,
and the American improvements to
the piano have been for the most
part in the mechanical direction.
Even to this day, European instru
ments have a much greater degree
of individuality than our own. Amer
ica aims at quantity, and our inven
tive genius has been exercised rather
along this line than that of improv
ing the individual units of produc
tion. For where the European fac
tories have turned out one piano,
ours have made a dozen or maybe
a hundred, and Instead of being a
mark of distinction in America to
own a piano, it is thought that a
home is not properly furnished with
out one.
First Uprights a Century Old
The Worch collection does not in
clude any of the more modern inno
vations such as the pianola or player
piano, which are of distinctly Amer
ican origin. It is confined to the
aristocrats of the family.
Shortly after the revolution, there
grew up a keen rivalry between the
manufacturers in various cities, and
from this time on we have instru
ments from New York, Boston, Bal
timore and Philadelphia. For the
period from 1775 to 1840 there is an
almost complete collection of Ameri
can Instruments. The first upright to
make its appearance in this country
was from the shop of Hawkins, of
Philadelphia, and bears the date or
1801. This instrument forms one
of the most interesting parts of the
collection.
One of the curious pianos shown
is the "harp-piano,” which was made
somewhere around 1850. Nothing Is
known of the maker, not even his
name being remembered. It is a
square piano surmounted by a full
size harp, and serves to link the
modern instrument with Its remote
ancestor. For the piano is simply the
harp with keys, springs and other
innovations. Perhaps the oldest in
strument in the collection is an Ital
ian clavichord which dates back to
the fifteenth century. It is a curious
looking affair, much smaller than
the modern piano, and having yellow
keys.
The exhibit brings clearly before
our minds the steps by which our
mastery of this first of the arts has
come to pass. For the early instru
ments lacked both the tone and the
range to give a full interpretation
of our musical feelings. Speaking of
thpse old instruments, an early
writer described the tones they
made as “a scratch with a sound at
the end of it.” Both the harpsichord
and the spinet have only four or five
octaves each, and these for the most
part are in the upper register. But
they served, and in looking at these
old instruments, with their yellowed
keys and quaint ornamentation,
there comes a feeling as of other
days. In the mind’s eye there is a
vision of powdered hair and knee
breeches, of high-born dames and
courtly gentlemen dancing the min
uet. And the pianola with its pingling
jazz seems far away-
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1920.
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
Seeing ’Em in Atlanta
A story emannating from Atlanta
tells of a gigantic whipsnake, 27
feet long, that wound itself around
the throat of a mule, and choked it
to death. We’ve never seen a whip
snake, but, ‘salrite, 80, thev do grow
out of all proportion when the
“shine” gets the best of you. Ex
perience is the best teacher we
know of. But It comes out of At
lanta. —Donalsonville News.
“God’s Country” Growing
This section of eGorgia is becom
ing better known every year, and as
it becomes better known it is attract
ing more settlers. In spite of the
large movement of colored families
to the north during the last few years
southwest Georgia's population has
increased materially. Many more
have come in than have gone out. —
Albany Herald.
Auto vs. Wheelbarrow
Whoever it -was who said that high
prices are in part due to the fact
that one person in every fifteen is
running a motor car and one in every
1,500 is running a wheelbarrow ar
ticulated our idea of a shotsack full.
—Johnny Spencer, in Macon Tele
graph.
“Working Overtime”
The political machinists’ union is
working overtime. Probably that
accounts for the need of “more
money.”—Savannah Morning News.
Boosting Two Fairs
The Bainbridge Post-Searchlight,
E. H. Griffin, editor, is preparing a
sixty-page edition to be issued at an
early date, the principal purpose of
which will be to boost the Tri-County
fair at Bainbridge, and the Seminole
county fair at Donalsonville. The
edition will also carry many columns
of interesting information concerning
south Georgia.
The Greater West
There’s plenty of room out in some
sections of the west. ' One Texas
county has a population of sixty
seven, and its neighbor a total of
just thirty-seven In area they are
not small counties, either, so there’s
plenty of room for folks who feel
that they are crowded where they
live.—Albany Herald.
There is also some available space
in Georgia for good citizens.
How Lies Speed ,
Truth walks leisurely along while
lies fly in airships.—Madison Madi
sonian.
Babe Buth’s Example
What’s the stern papa going to
say when he tells his son he’s head
ed for a reform school and is in
formed that Babe Ruth graduated
from one?—Americus Times-Re
cofrder.
We have known stern ppas who
would not allow young son to talk
back to dad.
Swat The Gossip
Os course we don’t know much
about it, but they tell us that now
and then “Old Miss Gossip” gets
tremendously nerved in these parts.
If there is any one thing any town
for community needs less than any
other, it is this busy old trouble
maker.—Walton News.
Shortage of Babies
One United States crop of vital
importance shows a falling off—the
baby crop is short for the last year.
—Savannah Morning News.
Automobile Law in Italy
In Italy autmomobiles cannot be
used betwen 8 p. m. and 8 a. m., and
on Sundays. Now, let some would
be remembered politician spring
that law In this country—Gwinnett
Journal.
Evidently the Italian law-makers
do not believe in staying out late at
night or leaving home early in the
morning.
WHAT DO YOU
KNOW?
1 Who was sent by Pope Gregory
the Great to convert the Saxons to
Christianity?
2 Who was supposed to be the
father of Romulus and Remus?
3. In what poem does Shelly la
ment the death of Keats?
4. What was the occupation of
Emerson before he went to Concord
to write?
5. What Is an Instrument that
increases the intensity of sounds
called?
6. Who lately broke the women’s
loop-the-loop record?
7. What was the nationality of
Hans Andersen?
8. In what book does Dante give
his famous description of hell?
9 -, In what city are the remains
of the three wise men supposed to
be?
10. Who first used the term
' D reen-eyed monster” for jealousj ?
11. How many feet have shrimps
got?
12. What is the national flower of
Persia?
Answers to Questions
1, St. Augustine; 2, Mars; 3, Ado
nais; 4, minister; 5, microphone; 6,
Miss Brom well; 7, Dane; 8, Divine
Comedy; 9, Cologne; 10, Shakespeare
(Othello); 11, ten; 12, rose.
FACE YOURSELF
We are so terribly afraid of mak
ing a false step often that we refuse
to do even that which we c-in. We
cannot bear the thought that some
one is going to criticize us, possibly
ridicule our method or action.
Il’s a good thing that Columbus
was not imbued with this self-con
sciousness. Else America might
have remained in the unknown much
longer. How fortune that Marconi,
Bell, Edison, Burbank, Nansen and
Livingstone never allowed the
thought of a possible false step to
keep them back from achievement.
Else how much narrower the scope
of modern knowledge and utilities
would be.
Mistakes? We all make them. Some
of us are better at hiding the ones
we make than are others, but each
one of us has happenings in life
which bring hot blushes as the
thought comes to the times when we
have not measured up to what we
might have measured.
The only deliberately foolish thing
is the not owning up when the mis
take becomes evident, the trying to
bluff it through, the putting on of a
false front to hide the ruin behind.
Os course we do not have to take the
whole world into our confidence. As
long as we are sincere with our
selves the rest does not matter so
greatly.
We are not on the path to true
growth and to the making of all we
can of the place where we are until
we can sit down and face ourselves,
alone, and recognize our own errors
and mistakes of judgment, and then
firmy resolve, and carry out the re
solve, that we will do our best to
right them. Our friends will respect
us all the more for a wise change of
front. What others say we do not
need to take to heart.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
“Brakeman, are you positive this
train will stop at Gary?”
Fully half a dozen times the fussy
old lady had asked the question, and
the man began to lose patience.
“Now, look here, madame,” he re
plied finally, “this is an express to
Gary, and if we don’t stop there then
you’ll be in the biggest smash-up
you ever heard of I”
Willie, why were you disobedient
to your Aunt Jane?”
“I wasn’t disobedient, mother.”
“Yes, you vjjpre. Haven’t you been
swimming this afternoon?”
“Yes.”
“Didn’t I hear your Aunt Jane tell
you not to go swimming?”
“No; she didn’t say that at all.
She only came to the door and
shouted, ‘Willie, I wouldn’t go
swimming.’ And I shouldn’t think she
would. What would folks think it
they saw a woman like Aunt Jane
swimmiuK In th* week’”
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
"Ten Thousand Bolshevik
Troops Reported Moving on Geor
gia from Persia,” said a headline in
a New York paper last week. This
item would no doubt stir up quite
a commotion in the Empire state
were it not for the fact that the
“Georgia” referred to is many
thousand miles distant from Dixie.
In this connection, it might be re
membered that a desolate land sit
uated at the last outpost of civiliza
tion in the Antarctic Circle is
known as “South Georgia.”
American investors, large and
small, showed their lasting faith in
the future of the French Republic by
over-subscribing the new $100,000,-
000 loan asked to help Uncle Sam’s
valiant ally meet its half of the
French-Anglo loan of $500,000,000,
which matures next month. Within
less than one hour after the sub
scription books were opened in the
office of J. P. Morgan & Co., in
New York last week, a nation-wide
response furnished more than the
amount needed.
After a meeting last week, the
southern division of the American
Red Cross, with headquarters in
Atlanta. announced that Georgia
has led the south In work done
this year by that organization.
Ceremonies commemorating the
Battle of the Marne were held at
Meaux and Rheims in France on
September 3. Three Marshals of
France, fifty generals, the Ameri
can ambassador and representa
tives of the American Legion at
tended.
According to an Athlone dispatch
American mining engineers have
discovered good deposits in the hills
near Horseleap, County Westmeath,
Ireland.
A bulletin just issued by the U.
S. department of agriculture says
that from present indications Geor
gia will be one of the next states
to be freed from cattle quarantine.
Already 36,674 square miles have
been released, and 3,700 vats are in
use. It is expected that many of
the high grade animals that will be
brought to the Atlanta live stock
show this fall will remain in the
state.
Jack Dempsey, heavyweight
champion of the world, retained his
crown last week when he knocked
out Billy Miske in the third round
of a ten-round bout. Another hap
pening of the sport world last week
came when "Babe” Ruth, mighty
slugger on the New York American
baseball tearp, crashed out his for
ty-seventh home run of the season.
This stands as by far the highest
mark in the history of the game.
A hat brush so small and light
that it can be carried inside the hat
has been put on sale in Paris. The
brush has a small clamp by which
it is fastened into the hat. It has
two forms, one of soft bristles for
felt hats, one of plush for silk
hats, one of plush for silk hats, and
neither style weighs more that half
an ounce.
Exports .of cigarettes in June
were 1,718,026,000, an increase of 9.3
per cent over those of June, 1919,
and for the twelve months ended
with June, 17,547,371,000, an in
crease of 28 per cent over the pre
ceding twelve months and 92 per
cent above those of two years ago,
according to figures given out last
week.
Cigar and cheroot exports in
June amounted to 4,325.000, a de
crease of 47 per cent from June,
1919. and for the twelve months,
66,874,000, a gain of more thru ■
per cent over the same period last
year and 346 ner cent over those of
two years ago.
Shipments of leaf tobacco total
ed 28,041,064 pounds, a decline of
71 per cent from June, 1919, and for
the twelve months the leaf exports
amounted to 632,773,620 pounds an
increase of 12 per cent over those
of the preceding year and 119 per
cent ahead of the exports of two
years ago.
Courses in elementary science are
to be introduced into the schools of
the United Provinces of India. A
year of work in agriculture will be
the highest of the six years of
science planned, so that "the school
boys of a population of 50,000,000
may be instructed in an art which
is the direct means of livelihood for
three-fourths of this population.”
Organization necessary to assure
building of Louisiana’s share of the
Lone Star Trail has been perfected
and efforts will be made to have
similar action taken by other states
through which it is proposed to
route the road.
The highway is to pass through
North Central Louisiana, the ob
jective points being St. Augustine,
Fla., and Los Angeles, Cal. After
Louisiana is completed the organi
zation of Texas will be taken up and
pushed a thousand miles or more
across that state, and then the east
end will be taken up through the
states of Mississippi, Alabama and
Florida, and finally the great west
ern division will be completed
through New Mexico, Arizona and
California.
In England they now test would
be aviators bv seeing how long they
are able to hold their breath. This
test is to obtain an idea of the
stability of the central respiratory
nervous apparatus. A writer in The
Lancet (London) explains the sys
tem as follows:
A stop watch and a nose clip are
all the apparatus required, while
the precise instructions as to car
rying out the experiment are equal
ly simple. The time the man can
hold his breath before the inevit
able and forceful sensation of the
need to breathe compels him to give
way is noted. The average time in
the normal, fit pilot is sixty-nine
seconds, the minimum being forty
five seconds. Nearly all cases with
a time record as short as this were
rejected on medical grounds apart
from this test.
Most copper mines have been
tound through pure luck. The Calu
met lode, the greatest of them all,
was discovered by a pig. One day,
while vigorously stirring the soil of
the backyard or its owner, who kept
a boarding house, the pig uncovered
a prehistoric Indian cache. This
was a pile of buried copper which
was worth a fortune in itself. But
it also led to the examination of
the rock beneath, in which veins of
the metal were found.
Because of the increased cost of
living throughout the world, the
Mexican government ha s decided to
raise the salaries of its diplomatic
representatives abroad 50 per cent.
This increase will affect both lega
tion and consular employes.
„,-V! er v ea ft e . r diplomatic appointments
will be signed by officials of the
foreign office instead of bv the pres
heretofore. New appoin
tees will be required to proceed to
respective posts within thirty
d sl ?ty days. This latter
reform has been introduced, it is
said, because in the past many
tn P H^ ts a u e shown a tendency
to linger at home while they were
drawing full pay. y
Profits running into millions of
dollars will be taken by rum run
ners operating between Canada and
the Detroit district during 1920,
according to the estimates oased
upon figures by American and
Canadian revenue officers. In some
quarters the estimates of profit
from illicit liquor sales run as high
as $100,000,000 for the present year.
Stories of fortunes made over
night and of scores of liquor rings
ranging in size and operations from
groups of Canadian farmer boys,
who buy and sell whisky by the
quart to “liquor brokers” whose
sales are measured in terms of boat
loads, are being heard along both
sides of the international boundary
between Michigan and Ontario.
William M. Hunter, known in Ore
gc • as ‘king” of sea lion hunters,
recently collected SBOO bounty from
the state for 352 sea lion scalps,
paid at the rate of $2.50 each. Boun
ty is paid on the sea lions because
they are considered the Pacific
Coast salmon’s worst enemy. They
gather off the mouth of the Colum
bia River here to prey on fish
bound up stream.
Sea lion hunting is dangerous,
Hunter says, and he tells of narrow
escapes from angry bulls. Seals,
he asserts, are not as awkward as
they appear, but can travel fast. Re
cently one 'Chased him 'over the
rocks, but was killed by Hunter’s
companion before it reached him.
A coal shortage is bejng keenly
felt in Portugal, owing to the pro
hibition of coal exportation from
England and the absence of any
good coal-producing districts In this
country.
All coal for industries was Im
ported chiefly from Cardiff and New
castle, and since that has ceased
and orders placed in the United
States have been canceled the situs**
tion threatens to become serious,
and people are looking forward with
alarm to the coming winter. Abnor
mal conditions exist as a result. All
restaurants, cases and places
amusement must close promptly at
midnight and external illuminations
are prohibited.
Oklahoma, once part of the chief
habitat of the buffalo in America,
will be included in government plans
for prese-i'i'ing the buffalo from ex
tinction, according to the latest re
port of the American Bison Society,
says the Daily Oklahoman.
Including ‘/ill wild bison and
those in captivity in parks and
zoos, Oklahoma has 296 of the 3,-
393 animals in the United States.
Steps are being taken by the gov
ernment in conjunction with the
American Bison Society to increase
the number of animals in the Platt
National Park at Sulphur and the
Wichita National Game Reserve at
Cache, both under government con
trol.
Oklahoma is fourth in the number
of buffalo and the herd in the
Wichita reserve is the fifth largest
single herd in the United States and
the third government herd. The
government herd at Sulphur is one
of two recently established. An
other Is situated in the Pisgah Na
tional Forest and Game Reserve in
North Carolina.
Bison in the world have dwindled
in number to 8,539. Os these 8,473
are in North America. There are'
ninety wild and 3,303 captive buf
falo in the United States. Canada
has 500 wild and 4,580 in captivity.
There are sixty-six captive buffalo
in South America and foreign coun
tries. Australia has three. Through
disease preventive measures and
government protection it now is be
lieved that the animals are on the
increase in the world ihstead of be
ing doomed to extinction. This is
despite the fact that several large
herds have been exterminated in
Russia through the action of the
Soviet government. American herds
are known to be on the increase.
An earthquake, the heaviest in
years, shook San Jose, Cal., last
week. According to the Lick Obser
vatory on Mount Hamilton, the di
rection of the quake was -from east
to west. There are no reports of
damage. i
A campaign against the beluga, or
white whale, was recently started
from Douarnenez to Concarneau, in
Brittany. The beluga, pest of the
fishermen, is generally cream white
in color, feeds mainly on marine fish
and commits ravages among the
shoals. The average length of the
adult male is ' about eighteen or
twenty feet. To hunt down the
white whale a net 1,100 yards long
was set up at Douarnenez. while an
other was placed in a suitable posi
tion by the fishermen at Concarneau*
Furthermore, the skippers of the
sardine boats used 4,000 Yves Del
age poison tubes against the belugas.
As a result of patrols maintained
by naval seaplanes. Chesapeake Bay
fishermen are making the biggest
hauls on record. Reports to the
Navy Department from the com
mandant of the naval air station at
Hampton Roads say the patrols had
Droved “indispensable” to the fishing
industry in those waters.
Immense schools of fish are spot
ted alomst daily by the seaplanes, it
was reported, and fishing fleets are
given the location by radio com
munition or, if within sight, by flag
signals.
The police at Phoenix, Arlz., who
arrested a man charged with ob
taining money wrongfully from
banks, found stitched into the lin
ing of his overcoat $6,000 in SSO and
SIOO bills.
In its effort to find a solution of>
Its financial difficulties the munici
pality of Vienna Is resorting to tax
ations not approached in any coun
try during the war. As a first sten
it has raised the deposit of gas
consumers from between 100 and
300 crowns to 8,000 crowns a meter.
No interest is paid on this deposit.
The new schedule of taxes con-,
templates a levy on practically every
dally activity. There will be a tax
of 2 per cent on all salaries of em
ployees, to be paid by the employ
ers. Hotel rooms are taxed 20 per
cent, and a graded tax is levied on
apartments to be paid by occupant.
On apartments renting for 3.06®
crowns a month the tax will be three
times the rent. If more than one
domestic servant !s employed l the
employer must pay a high tax on
each additional servant.
WASTING WORDS
One of the greatest wastes of
nerve force and words comes from
sage advice given the young. How
we reiterate the “Don’t do this,” and
“You should do that,” only to find
that youth goes bounding on very
much the same, eager to test life for*
itself, wishing to gain its own ex
perience rather than to profit from
that of others!
Os course our children stumble
over paths that we would have made
smooth for them. Equally, of course,
they fall into traps that we would
have removed from their paths. But
why not? Did not we gain our life
experience In just that way, and did
we always joy to listen to the ad
vice of our ,older friends? Indeed
we did not!
Yet, in spite of all that most of
us have kept out of serious trouble;
many of us have managed to accom
plish some of life's work, gain some
of its joys. Our own mistakes have
had as many lessons for us as our
successes and taught us what the
latter never could. Can we not trust
our children to do as well?
Even if we think that we cannot,
facts remain the same. The petulant
indifference to the gray caution of
mistrustful age still dominates youth.
The boy and the girl remain eager
to make life for themselves, with
vivid impatience calling the days to
them. “We have experiences you nev
er had!” they cry. “How can you 1
tell?” So why attempt the impos
sible and wear ourselves out in the
attempting?
If we can surround them with the
best that we are, the best that comes
within our power in the way of en
vironment, instil strong standards of ,
right and wrong in the early days
when character is forming, we have
done about all that can be done. Each
for himself must discover life.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
BOSS TALKIN’ bout MAH
MONEY JES' SLIPS THU
MAH FINGUHS BUT TAIN’
NO WONDER IT I>O
HITS SO SCANLOUS
LEETLE*
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Copyright. 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate