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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 WJ.I Vo. 3 Moe. 6 Mos. 1 Xr. Daily and Sunday2oc 69c $2.50 $5.00 $9-50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday .•••••■••••••• 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. s 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. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac- Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label uaed for addreasiug your paper shows the time rour subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you Insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old aa well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should b e sent by postal order or all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOUJJN KL, Atlanta. Ga. 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* >/& Copyright. 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate