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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 months 00 Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) iw..n'o. 3 Moi. 6 Mos. Hr. Daily and Sunday 20c BJc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mae Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label uaed for addressing your paper shows the time your 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 as 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 be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI WEEKLY JOURN AL. Atlanta. Ga. "Boys, Get the Money! EVERY bit of evidence which the inves tigation thus far has disclosed tends to substantiate Governor Cox’s charge that the Republican party organiza tion is raising “a stupendous fund, so stu pendous as to exceed the realm of legitimate expense, which means but one thing—im minent danger of an odious and corrupt campaign.” To this the G. O. P. purse liners replied, with an air of wounded innocence, that only a moderate amount, a trifle over three million dolars, was budgeted, and that no gift would be received in excess of a thousand dollars! It develops, however, through the testi mony of Republican managers and agents themselves, that the sum of four million nine hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hun dred dollars has been assessed against the several States, and that an additional seven hundred thousand is scheduled to be raised for the special use of the Republican Congres sional committee. It develops, furthermore, by the mouths of still other witnesses, that a five million-dollar fund was planned ex clusively for the use of the National Commit tee. Thus does the modest mole hill swell to a mountain’s ambition. Particularly interesting is the account of how these millions were to be procured. Vul gar publicity was to be eschewed. “Get the right man to see the right people.—and do it quickly and systematically.” Such were the instructions of Assistant Treasurer Blair, who originated the famous phrase, “Boys, get the money.” And just how were the “boys” to proceed? Nothing could be more elegant, more fraught w’ith the odor of sanctity. “They were to invite the, ‘prospects’ to luncheons and dinners, at which ‘inspirational speakers’ should impress big business men with ‘the of the situation,’ and there was to be no hesitation in asking for subscriptions ‘ranging from $5,000 upward.’ There was to be ‘a cream list’ made up of easy marks. To keep up Chairman Hays’ pretense of a great popular outpouring of small donations, it was urged that ‘large subscriptions might well be reported piecemeal,’ but in flagrant disregard of his more or less sincere insistence upon publicity everybody was warned that ‘care must be used that nothing is left on tables at luncheons and dinners that might fall into the hands of any one that might give pub licity to such material.’ ” When It Is reflected that all this, and more, which at first was vehemently denied by Re publican managers, has been established by Republican witnesses and documents, Gov ernor Cox’s charge of a fifteen million-dollar boodle bag seems in nowise extravagant. There Is one supremely important question in this matter: Is the Presidency of the United States an elective or a purchasable office? The Next State ALASKA is looking earnestly forward to a time when there will be a forty ninth star on the American flag, tell ing of her attainment to Statehood. Whether or not this hope comes true within the life span of those now cherishing it, there is hardly a doubt that the territory will be granted a larger measure of self-government in keeping with her development and gains in civically competent population. It Is little more than fifty years since the United States acquired this treasure-land of the north, paying only some seven million dollars for an area ten times the size of Georgia. The purchase was ridiculed at the time as an extravagant folly, and not until recent years has general misinformation given place to appreciative understanding. A snow-bound waste, haunted by polar bears and reindeer; peopled by Eskimos, with a sprinkling of motley adventurers; gleaming, no doubt, with chance veins or nooks of for tune, but an impossible place for steady-go ing industry and production—such was the popular idea of Alaska. That this misappre hension lingered so long is ascribed by keen observers partly to monopolists in the fur trade and other natural treasures, who con sidered it to their interest to keep back the competition which, with the arrival of am bitious and capable settlers, would be cer tain to come. But now the Government issues highly readable reports on Alaskan wheat, stock raising and other food-producing industries, while tourist parties are conducted througn the land’s scenic splendors. The remarkable activity which thus has set in will date his torically from the spring of 1915, when Pres ident Wilson announced the route of the Alaska Railroad to be built by the Govern ment. That epoch-marking construction is to extend from Seward, on Resurrection Bay, to Fairbanks, on the Tanana river, four hundred and seventv-one miles. It is but a question of vpars when branch lines and sys tems of highways affording the transporta tion facilities on which extensive develop ment of the territory’s mineral, forestry and agricultural resources depends will be es tablished. It Is significant that the United States navy Is now mining its own coal in Alaska, and that the Government is planning to establish a coaling station for merchantmen plying be tween Seattle and the Orient, a service which officials say, “will mean a saving of thou sands of tons in cargo-carrying capacity on each voyage.” Steps like these will bring Alaska into closer and closer touch with the affairs and interests of the Union, and thus make easy the way to that larger measure of self-government which her sturdy pio neers and builders are due. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. How to Melfa Georgia TOUCHING the commendable ambition to draw home-seekers and developers to Georgia, the Moultrie Observer well remarks that while our statistics for this end are impressive enough, our farm houses, tenant dwellings, barns and other appurtenances do not sufficiently bear the figures out. All too frequently there is a run-down look, a washed-out and forsaken appearance;” and it is in the very sections where such conditions prevail that develop ment is most needed. What, then, is the wis est policy? Concentrate upon education, the Observer answers, upon vocational training, drainage, health and hygiene, farm demon stration work, upbuilding of the livestock in dustry, the establishment of evergreen pas tures on the waste lands, and similar lines of agricultural and domestic construction. “This, with the institution of proper mar keting methods and the inculcation of hab its of thrift in our young people, will make the land blossom as the rose.” Sagacious counsel and truly patriotic! In formed Georgians all know that theirs is one of the goodliest of nature’s empires, blest with a soil and sun and manifold fruit fulness rarely to be found in even the rich est lands. But they know, too, if they have looked with seeing eyes that the greater part of all this treasure remains to be developed, and that a stranger who judged by appear ances would ofttimes take away wholly in adequate if not wholly erroneous impres sions. The improvements which reflect hu man interests and by which the prospective investor is so largely guided are too fre quently lacking. The efficiencies which only widespread and intensive education can bring are too frequently wanting. The best that can be done for Georgia is what she can do for herself. If her own en ergy, her own enterprise, her own people cannot make her great, then they should have no part or lot in her prosperity. Build ers from all regions of America should be welcomed hither, and every reasonable in ducements to bring them should be offered. The farreaching, never-failing power of well directed advertising should be liberally em ployed. But let us not forget that it is Geor gians who must make Georgia, and that the mightiest of all upbuilders is education. A Beneficent Revolution NOT many years ago a tide of lamen tation would have risen in the Geor gia county of which it could have been said that its cotton crop, reduced two-thirds in acreage, would give only a forty per cent yield. But now, with this very state of affairs obtaining. Coffee county looks forward to an unusually pros perous autumn. Evidently a fundamental change in the agricultural system has come to pass. Something of its nature and extent may be gathered from a report of The Jour nal’s Douglas correspondent, who points out that the county’s corn crop is above normal in both acreage and Indicated yield, while the output of velvet beans promises to be correspondingly large. Further, there is almost a hundred per cent increase in the peanut acreage, including the Spanish variety, planted for the market, and an other for hog feed. To these staples add exceedingly large crops of sweet potatoes and sugar cane, and it is clear why Coffee county farmers face the coming-on of winter with light hearts and easy minds, notwithstanding the fate of cotton. They are the more content and prosperous be cause in addition to abundant food har vests they are well off in hogs and cat tle, a secure foundation for animal hus bandry having been laid by their varied and well chosen crops. The happy significance of all this lies in the fact that it is broadly typical. Georgia has undergone a beneficent revolution since the days when cotton was kaiser and held the fortunes of the whole Commonwealth in his uncertain palm. With diversified ag riculture have come broader and richer de velopment, sources of prosperity, stronger bases for the State’s economic life. May this sagacious policy continue through all the seasons and years ahead. A Better Sfint in Mexico THE new political order south of the Rio Grande emphasizes its “desire to cultivate friendly relations with all nations, and to create confidence in the goodwill of Mexico.” If this profession is lived consistently out, there will be no more misunderstand ings between the United States and its long misgoverned neighbor. All that Amer icans wish, all that their Government has asked is a condition of affairs that will make “friendly relations” possible and permit “confidence in the goodwill of Mexico.” For years past this has been prevent ed by a series of unfortunate incidents, not one of which would have occurred had those claiming authority across the bor der shown a fair measure of tact and considerateness or a reasonable sense of justice. Even the worst of Villa’s depra dations would not have threatened the peaceful standing of the two countries if those whose duty it was to put down ban ditry in Mexico had shown themselves truly concerned for law and order and mindful of American rights. Now that the regime of indiference and bigotry has given place to one showing an earnest desire to be friends with the out side world, we may hope for happy and mutually helpful relations. Both Obregon and De la Huerta, the outstanding person ages in present day Mexico, express them selves to this effect, and moreover recom mend definite policies that indicate their good faith. Though a fair sunrise does not always vouchsafe an unclouded day, there is good reason to take these professions as sincere and likely to be fulfilled. No capable lead er in Mexico can fail to see that his na tion’s emergence from her present diffi culties, economic and political alike de pends largely upon the good will and aid of others, particularly the United States; and the rank and file of thinking Mexi cans are apparently of that same opinion. Why France Is Not Bolshevik WHY is it that one never hears of Bolshevism in France, not even the faintest fear of its rooing and spreading there? The answer appears partly in the fact that eighty-eight per cent of that country’s cultivatable land is owned and tilled by three million, two hundred thousand peas ants; partly in the fact that industrial securities and stocks are distributed on a similarly wide scale, more than two mil lion, three hundred persons, for instance, being owners of bonds or shares in the nation’s railroads; and partly in the fact that of the national debt of France, total ling two hundred and thirty-seven billion francs, two hundred and three billion are held by the French rank and file. These and a host of kindred figures, re cently compiled by students of economics, bear eloquent witness to the thrift-making qualities of patriotism as well as the pa triot-making qualities of thrift. It was not by strokes of mere good fortune that these millions of French peasants, workingmen and small tradesmen acquired so substan tial and splendid a part in their country’s wealth. But it was by steady, full-sin- ewed labor, by foresight and frugality, by the exercise of those individual and social virtues which Bolshevism despises. The ordinary man’s opportunities in France have been no richer or more fre quent than elsewhere, and by no means so abundant as among Americans. Twice within little more than four decades the French people have been called upon to pour out their treasure and blood for na tional defense. Have they whimpered and despaired? Have they turned pessimists or radicals? The heavier their burdens, the braver their hearts have been, and the more loyal! That is why France has prospered; that is why she is free. Hers is the national greatness that rests upon faithful labor and willing sacrifice. No lesser foundation ever has or ever will resist the tides of time. HOW TO GAIN SKILL By H. Addington Bruce PRACTICE, of course, is indispensable to gaining skill in anything, from playing the piano to excelling in golf. One must keep everlastingly at it until the required movements largely become automatic before any noteworthy measure of skill results. But practice alone is not enough. There are innumerable pianists who prac tice day after day, yet remain bunglers. And numerous is the army of golfers conspicuous as dubs or semi-dubs, despite a veritable mar tyrdom of practice. No; something is necessary over and above repetition of effort. That something is suc cinctly stated by the psycho-physiologist, George V. N. Dearborn, when he remarks: “In order to gain in faculty nearest to orig inality, to become clever, skilful, expert, and dexterous, one must put his soul into his work. And the ground of one’s soul is not thought but feeling, and will as well.” Also: “When a person has a feeling of satisfaction or of delight in his work, then he does it well: when of ennui and repugnance, he does it ill. When creative work is pleasant to the worker there is progress, when unpleasant, re gress.” And further, to quote W. F. Book’s concise summary of his conclusions from a long ex perimental research in the development of skill in the use of a typewriting machine: “It is not what the learner would like to do, but what his mental and physical condi tion at the time of study or practice will let him do, that is important for determining his progress.” All of which is another way of saying that the person who would gain in skill must, be sides practicing faithfully, keep his attention fixed on what he is doing, be enthusiastic about what he is doing, and take care to keep in good physical shape so that it will be easy for him to hold his attention fixed and to be an enthusiast. This last proviso too many students com pletely ignore. They act as though mind and body were separate entities. Trying sedulously to culti vate their mental powers, they let their bodies take care of themselvs. Instead of exercising daily, they exercise scarcely at all. They undereat or they bolt their meals so that they can get back to their studies. They work too long and in rooms faulty in point both of ventilation and of light. Naturally their health is none too good. Naturally they frequently experience feelings of malaise, or organic discomfort. Naturally they find little joy either in life as a whole or in their work as a particular. And naturally, no matter how faithfully they practice on piano, typewriting machine, or whatever it may be, they are far more likely to break down than to become paragons of skill. Which explains why skill of a really high order is a rarity in the world today. Too few people take the trouble to learn how to live. Yet learning how to live is in truth a prerequisite to learning anything else in high degree of attainment. (Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News papers.) FOR BOYS AND GIRLS By Dr. Frank Crane At Your Debating Society or your High School or College, boys and girls, if you want to take up a live issue, sharpen your wits and perhaps learn something useful, sup pose you attack the Labor Question. And to help you in preparing your pro grame I would suggest the following topics: Why do we have a holiday called Labor Day? What do we mean by Laborers? Are we not all Laborers? Who are not? Are strikes necessary, in order to secure the rights, maintain the wages and improve the conditions of wage-earners? Is the Wage System wrong’ What is meant by the Wage System? [s there any better way of carrying on industry? Should postoffice employes, policemen and other government officials be allowed to strike? Is Compulsory Arbitration desirable? Feas ible? What is the Soviet idea? What is Socialism? Would Socialism be better than our pres ent system? What is meant by Capitalism? Why is Capital needed? Should the wage workers own the con cern for which they work? What is John Leitch’s plan? To improve the condition of the wage workers is it advisable to cultivate class feel ing? What is a Radical? Do Radicals do more good than harm? What is a Conservative? Are Conserva tives valuable in a community? How can the balance best be maintained between Conservatism and Radicalism? What is the difference between Democ racy and Socialism? Between Democracy and Sovietism? If high prices make high wages necessary, and if high wages cause higher prices, where is the ascending scale to stop? What will be the difference between the effect of the election of a Republican as against a Democratic president upon indus trial conditions? Give five why he should vote for Hardingi should vote for Governor Cox. Give five why he should vote for Marding. Is there any better way to select govern ment officers than by political parties? Don’t be afraid to discuss questions the whole nation is discussing. Keep your temper. Listen carefully to your opponent. Answer his arguments, if you can. If you cannot, say so. Keep good natured and open-minded. Try to find out the truth, and stick to facts. Truth and facts belong to no party. Don’t admit anything unless you under stand it. If you don’j; understand it, find out about it. Don’t dodge, bluff nor repeat hear say. Learn to be a keen, live, well informed American. And always be a Good Sport. Laundry charges must be high in Russia if they kill everybody who wears a white collar. Newspapers now-a-days would be dull reading were it not for the women humor ists, but they don’t know it. MARTIME HARMSEN. A DIFFERENT COUNTRY By FREDERIC J. HASKIN WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11. A picture of a nation rap idly changing, radically dif ferent from what it was a hajg a century ago, and even a quarter of a century ago. is drawn by the Census bureau as it puts forth the results of the recent decennial count. The most striking thing in this picture, of course, is the growing preponderance of the city popula tion over that in the country; and the second most striking is the growth of the large cities which have alone swallowed up a fourth of the population. There will presently be a flood of comment on the facts revealed, and all sorts of interests and par ties will find proof of their conten tions in them, and glibly explain them to the last detail. As a matter of fact, no one knows just what the changing character of our popula tion means. And it is changing not only in the way of its lite, but in its hu man make-up. More and metre the United States is becoming a coun try whose people are of Semitic, Mediterranean and African origin, while the old Nordic strains from England, Germany and Scandinavia are steadily declining. These facts are well-known to anthropologists. The America of our grandfathers was a land of blond men of Nor dic or so-called Anglo-Saxon blood, who lived outdoors, tilled the soil, herded cattle, hunted, fished and sailed the seas from Arctic to Ant arctic. The America of our grand sons will be a heavily populated country of short dark-skinned men, living for the most part in the most crowded, complicated and enormous cities the world has ever seem, de pending on manufacture, trade and commerce for their livings. Headed, Who Knovzs Where? America is in the midst of transi tion which is rapid, probably inevi table, and the final results of which no man can foresee. That our insti tutions will have to undergo great changes to meet these great changes in our needs almost any fair-mind ed man could guess. It seems prob able that Our leading radicals will soon be behind the times, just as the radicals of 25 years ago are being thrown into the discard now. But when the prophets and sooth sayers try to go b»yond such gen eralizations as ihese, and tell us just where the country is heading and what it needs, it is time to add a little salt to the discourse. Take for example, this n mazing growth of the city population. It is predicted that the proportion of Americans who live in cities will this census pass the 50 per cent mark. That is, heretofore more than half the population has always been what the census bureau classed rs rural —living on farms and in vil lages. Now more than half of it is classed as urban, and lives in the larger towns and cities. And this change is still going on, and has been rapid and steady. In 1910 only 46.3 per cent of the population lived in cities and in 1900 only 40.5 per cent. The common wail raised over this state of affairs in editorial and cartoon is that the people are all leaving the country for the city, that no one wants to stay on the farm any more, that the food sup ply is declining and that the cost of living is rising for this reason. The average citizen has come to picture this movement as an hegira of country boys, leaving the plow in the furrow' and the old folks weeping on the front porch, hieing him to the city with its fleshpots and high wages, leaving the nation to starve. Farmers Like the Country The reactionaries and mossbacks generally treat this movement as a proof of the declining moral stamina of the nation. Nobody wants to stay on the farm and do a hard day’s work. They all think they have to go to the movies every night and wear a stiff collar and work only six hours a day. It’s disgusting! (The author of this outburst often works one hour a week' clipping coupons off bonds.) The farmers, on the other hand, while they paint an equally alarming picture of this national migration, say it is all the fault of our economic system, and that these young fel lows are leaving the farms because they can’t make a living there. The farmers are right In their last contention. You can easily prove that for yourself by going into the country districts anywhere and talk ing to the people. It is very doubt ful whether any more boys leave the farms nowadays for the cities, out of a deliberate preference for urban life, than have always done so. Here and there is a boy born in the coun try whose greatest usefulness and happiness is naturally found in the city, and he usually gets there. But if there is one thing certain about country people, especially men, it is that they like the Country. They like the freedom, the old clothes, the out door life, the animals. They do not have to work as hard as city folk, despite the popular belief to the contrary. They work hard in harvest time, but in January they go coon-hunting. Why They Leave Why, then, do so many country boys go to the cities? Chiefly be cause there is no other place for them to go. Go into any old, set tled farming district, such as eastern Maryland. Talk to a farmer who has four boys. Three of them, he will tell you, are going away. The fourth boy will stay and inherit the old homestead. Why don’t the others buy farms? For several reasons. In the first place, the good farms are not for sale, and they don’t want the poor ones. In the second place, to buy unimproved land and put it under cultivation takes more cap ital than they can command. So the boys go to New York or to Philadelphia and become automo bile mechanics or electricians or else they go west in search of land. But going west is getting to be a poor expedient. The greater part of its arable lands are as crowded as those of the east. Os its public lands little is left but desert. Just as the east has its swamps and cut overs which might be made into farms, so the west has its Irrigable deserts. But in both cases it will take the strong hand of government to make these lands available. There is no mystery in this so called movement of the country pop ulation to the cities, nor does it rep resent any great change in the feel ing or viewpoint of the people, or any new restlessness. The simple fact is that there are just so many farms in the United States. Every one of them that will yield a living for hard work is being tilled, and a good many that will not yield a liv ing in the long run are being tilled. The area of cultivation is being ex tended slowly, which is the only way it can be extended by men working singly, with little capital and upon the least desirable land in the coun try. It is true that the population is increasing faster than the food sup ply. Nevertheless, the food supply is still adequate. Its high price is due almost wholly to the way it is distributed. The movement from the country to the cities will go on steadily and for a long time. It is inevitable in a nation which is changing from an agricultural basis to a comme"cia> and manufacturing one. But the farms will always be tilled, and as soon as the government gets down to the necessary work of creating more farms, those will be tilled, too. A smartly dressed woman, who visited a department store recently to make several purchases, noticed that as one salesman passed her on to another the remark was passed in a stage whisper: “Two-ten!” She was struck by the oft-repeat ed remark, and finally said: “What does two-ten mean?” ‘lt’s nothing,” .eplied the man. “just a password.” But she was not satisfied. So when the messenger brought her purchases home she said to him: “Boy, would you like to earn a quarter?” “You bet, miss,” was the reply. “Tell me what does two-ten mean and I’ll give you the money.” "That’s easy,” replied the young ster. “It means keep your two eyes on her ten fingers.” She had been taken -or a shop lifter. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1920. WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS The Third and Thirty-Third City Atlanta is the thirty-third city in point of population, but the third city in point of get up and hustle, as well as noise.—Thomasville Times-Enterprise. Lowering the High Coat The high cost of running a news paper for one dollar per week.— shoes, shirts and overalls. There is no doubt about it. For instance, we are offered canned editorials in sufficient quantity to fill up this paper for one dollar per week”— Lyons Progress. A Righteous Protest When a man has to pay all the taxes which is now required of him to drive an auto, and then has no better roads than we have, he feels mighty like cussing a little.—Wal ton Tribune. But why should a newspaper man worry over roads that are too rough for joy riding? Uncle Jake is Mistaken Uncle Jake says women will not register to vote because they will have to tell their correct age.—Carey J. Williams in Greensboro Herald- Journal. They will be expected to veil their correct age, “Uncle,” but they don’t have to do it. They Don’t Like Water Seventy-five years ago it was a violation of the law to own a bath tub in the cultured city of Boston.—• Dahlonega Echo. And to this good day the citizens of Boston are not overly fond of water. The Women Celebrate So far the women who have been celebrating the adoption of the 19th amendment have all been able to show up for work the next morning at the usual hour.—Forsyth County News. Toticig $150,C00 The Atlanta man ought not to have taken that $150,000 in a bag. Most anybody else would have hired a squad to tote it around in iron.— Thomasville Times-Enuterprise. It requires a larger amount than a few hundred thousand dollars to excite an Atlanta man. The Other Fellow’s Bights No. Elmer, the public highways were not made for your convenience alone. Generosity concedes an inch to the other fellow.—Cornelia En terprise. Generosity makes the concession, but Elmer is not always so consid erate. “Back to the Farm” Maybe Billy Miske will now join Jess Willard in the “back to the farm” movement.”—Dublin Courier- Herald. But we hear that Jess may try to “come back.” May Dope cci the Bing Only a few women will be reckless enough to toss a SSO hat in the po litical ring.—Brunswick News. They may decide to fling in their bonnet or head-rag, who knows? Reviving an Old Industry “Old-time people use to ‘rive’ boards with which to cover their houses. New time people can see the same process if they go out to John Sirman’s place, where A. H. Yeomans is engaged in this business. He has already manufactured over 20,000 boards and has a contract for about that many more. He says that split boards last longer than sawed shin gles, on account of the straight grain which throws off the water.” —Mil- town News. Back to the Farm A lot of people who moved from the country to the city first of the year are trying to find homes back in the country for next year. They find that high wages are not so at tractive after all when the high cost of rent and other necessities is taken into consideration.—Pembroke Enter prise. The farmer has many effective weapons with which to combat the high cost of living and he is learn ing to use them. Misinformed Men It is evident that the man who says women will vote as their hus bands do is not a married man.— Brunswick News. Test of Patriotism Nothing but patriotism could sus tain a candidate on a speaking tour in August. There certainly is not enough money l n the office to be an inducement.—Quitman Free Press. Some Folks Are That Way The fellow who says you can’t be lieve the newspapers is the same gent who believes the scandal told on one of his enemies by the big gest liar in town. —Cary Williams, in Greensboro Herald-Journal. And Time For Low-Hecks The Americus Times Recorder notes that it will soon be too cool for summer furs.—Griffin News and Sun. BABEL AND NINEVAH ARE DISAPPEARING When the ancient kingdom of the Assyrians fell through effeminacy and negligence 300 years after the Trojan war many petty states arose out of its ruins, two of which raised themselves to a high degree of power. The kings of Media subdued the mountain land of Persia and estab lished relations of amity with hordes that wandered on the eastern side of the Caspian sea; they conquered also a portion of the empire which had centered in Nineveh. At the same time the king of Babel, or Babylon, flourished with still greater magnificence and power. In Babylon, ancient 'seat of learn ing and science, Nabopolassar, after a long period of anarchy and di vision, erected a most powerful mon archy, whose sceptre Nebuchadnezzar, his son, extended from the Caucasus mountains, where he defeated the Iberians, to the sandy deserts of Lybia. He burnt Jerusalem, defeated Ammon, Moab and Edom, conquered Tyre, the richest city of the Phoe nicians; laid waste Egypt and form ed his empire on new boundaries. He adorned Babylon, the city of his residence, with the noblest works of architecture, but of this city the ruins are scarcely discernible. It is still more difficult to trace the vestiges of Nineveh, which lay a three days’ journey from it, and whose ruins have sunk in the marshy soil. —Detroit News. AERIAL BATTLES OF THE FUTURE The battle for the supremacy of the air in future wars will be fought at an elevation well beyond the range of human vision, that is, at an altitude above 20,000 feet, ac cording to a prediction made by the army air service. Fighting planes in years to come will be made en tirely of metal, heavily armored, and will carry numerous machine guns and small cannon, it says. The planes must have a speed of well over 200 miles an hour, and must be able to climb 20,000 feet in ten minutes, or at the rate of two miles a minute. The pilot will have to be provided with oxygen and heating apparatus against the cold of the higher atmosphere, and the machine must be so constructed that half the bracing can be shot away and the plane still fly. The fuelc tanks will have to be armored, and will be placed in the wings, to be protected against fire, the air serv ice believes—New York World. CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST p Georges Carpentier, heavyweight prizefignter of France, who made nlmself an idol during the war by nis daring exploits as an aviator, arrived in New Yo.k this week. M. Carpentier is here for a match with •’Battling” Levinsky. The people of England are be ing told that America is on the verge of ruin on account of prohibition, according to a British scientist vis iting this country. He declares that the “wet” interests of Great Britain paint vivid pictures of the dire straights that have taken Uncle Sam since the “dry” law became effective. He seems to think that America is getting along in fairly good shape, however, after a few weeks spent here. United States Senator W. Murray Crane, of Massachusetts, an old “war of the Republican patty, has been ill at his home in Dalton for several days. Caruso, the world-famous tenor, who has been heard by thousands of southerners during Atlanta's grand opera seasons, was the featured sing er at a Fiume Day celebration in New York last wee!:. More than 590 Italian societies weie represented in the festivities. The first international Girl Scou badge ever awarded, a gold pin call ed the Thanks Badge, has been pre sented to Captain Vera Mu t.iova, chief of the Russian,_C'-’ .vcouts, an organization of girls among the refugee Russian children who htve been staying at Fort Wadsworth, New York, under the protection of the Red Cross. This pin was presented by Miss Esther Eaton, assistant national director of the Girl Scouts, in recognition of the services rendered by Captain Muraviova in forming the Russian organization and for work done by it in caring for the younger- children of the party, heloing to make c’othes for them out of army blankets a-'d looking after their pleasure m the long journey they are making to Petrograd. Cantain Vera, who is a nretty blonde girl eighteen years old. but small for her age, Is to continue the organization of Russian Girl Scouts °t Petrograd after she reaches there if it is possible, she says. The death of Captain George Guv nemer. the famous French ace, who was killed by a German aviator three '■ears ago in a battle in the ar near Poelcapelle. was commemorat ed this week by all the aviation units of the French army. Cantain Guv nerer's Last citation was solemnly read to the airmen. Wall street betting odds on the election in Maine showed a strong preference for the Republicans’ chances for carrying the state. On the general resuits the nrevailing odds were, R tn 5 in favor of the T? enublio''n ticket. One waver of .31.- 609 to SI,OOO was reported nlaced Harding continues to be a 5 to 2 favorite in the p"es’dent{pi with tho potentin] brokers of Gov ernor Cox asking 3 to 1. A cabin message has he»n ’-ecefv«d in New York from the Rev. Dr T H Fonditt. stating that the United Stare* revenue enffor Rear has suc ceeded fn?" the first time in two years in hrenk’nr the ice nact and ] n neachin<r the Prcsbvfe-ian ’’■'lspion ” Point Rar-ov-. This is fha most northn-lv mission of the Pres- Lyterian chn-nh. farthest north of any mission in the world. Thirty men were kiTed. score* we-e “■mmded and damage amounting to 3250 000 was dcm A bv of dvnamite ’n Gulino p ny . 1n last week. Negligence in handlin'- the explosive in decl"-cd to have caused the accident. Thu wo-k O s ’oadi-rg Sivns ti'er© has not been ma terially affected. Former Emperor William h.o* de cided to fence himself off completely from his neighbors at Doorn. Hol and. At a few nlaces about h’s house, where persons walking on the grounds could be seen from the road, the forme- emne-or has n-dered the erection of high fences. The work is now being carried out. With the ever-inc-easing supply of electrical energy furnished bv the development of Switzerland’s vast re sources in water power, consideration of various electrically driven house hold appliances is growing from year g vn a ... renorts Consul Francis R. Stewart, Berne. Un to the nresent time the use of washing machines in Switzerland has been very limited and electrically driven machines have been utilized only in nublic laundries. The hurried launching of lifeboats from disabled vessels is usually at tended by confusion and danger. An eastern shipyard worker has devised a new method of lowering the boats that carries them forty feet away from the ship’s side, lays them on an even keel, and gives them a forward impulse. The small 'boat, instead of hanging in davits, rests in a cradle supported by three parallel inclined arms, which are pivoted near the yater line and guyed by cables at tached above. Sugar cane infected with mosaic disease near Thomasville. Ga.. has been inspected by W. C. Herron, plant entomologist of the state hoard of entomology. He advises that as the pulling out of stalks would be too costly to grind the entire crop into syrup, and next year plant seed free from disease. MUST A GENIUS BE A FAT MAN? The connection between feeding and literary genius has been remark ed more than once. Zola, It is said, wrote best when he was very stout, and when his bulk dwindled so did his talent. Theophle Gautier, himself enor mous, maintained that a man of genius should be fat, and for proof of this pointed to “that more barrel than man,” Balzac; to Alexander Du mas, “always fat and jolly;” to “the hippopotamus in breeches,” Rossini and to the plump and well-fed ap pearance of Victor Hugo and Sainte- Beuve. Byron would never have agreed with Theophile Gautier’s dictum that men of genius should be fat For the increase of his, too, to solid flesh was the one thing whereof he was afraid, and various freak diets were adopted to keep it under. "Don Joan” was written almost entirely on gin and water, and in 1813 he lived on six biscuits a day and tea. Previously at Athens he had tried a diet of rice in small quantities, washed down by vinegar and water, and later on he tried one thin slice of bread for breakfast and a vegetable dinner, keeping down hunger by chewing tobacco. And ap parently such diets stimulated the brain while mortifying the flesh. One of the fattest men of today is Gilbert Chesterton, that sarcastic and witty British writer.—Detroit News. QUEEREST RAT IS FOUND IN TEXAS A rat that looks like a kangaroo, barks like a prairie dog and is the size of a squirrel has made its ap pearance in Caldwell and Bastrop counties, Tex., according to M. M. Mills, of Red Rock, who called at the state department of health at Austin, to tell of the great numbers of rats that are now in his community. Mr. Mills said: “The tai] is longer than that of the ordinary rat. There are three different species, possibly all of the same family—one with front legs a little longer than the back, some thing like the kangaroo rat, but is not the kangaroo; another with front legs about in proportion with the hind ones, and the other just like; the ordinary rat except for the long tail. “The rat with the long front legs is the one that barks like the prairie dog. “They eat everything, crops, fruit, etc., but are partial to corn. Chick ens, too, are not spared. “Cottontail rabits are dying very rapidly in my section of Texas and I thought perhaps the rats might be causing this.”—Dallas News. The dedication of the monument erected by the state of New York at the battlefield of Antietam on September 17 will be participated in by a battery of field artillery and two troops of cavalry, Secretary ot War Bauer announces. The artil lerymen and cavalry will march to the battlefield from Fort Myer, Va. Lodging houses and “Wardrobes of thy Poor,” where old clothing is sold, are being multiplied by tnw bTench Salvation Army, on much the same lines as in the United States. The work, so necessary, now tnat cities are over-populated and tne cost of living so nigh, is attracting the attention of publicans interested in social work ana French philan thropic organizations are being urged to follow the lead of “L’Armee du Salut,” as the blue-uni- t formed, tambourine contingent is known. Following the importation of wal nuts to Ciuna by the early mission aries the Chinese developed this in dustry so carefully that it has now reached tremendous proportions, ac cording to George E. Young, of Shanghai, China, who has been in the Orient ten years. Mr. Young says that the Chinese are growing tnoie and more interested in their lands and considerable development will be seen during the next few years. American merchandise valued at , 10, 000, 000 francs has been sold to the needy in the devastated regions of r rance for 3,500,000 francs dur mg the last year and a half. This work of fighting the high cost of living has been carried on by wel fare societies in co-operative stores established and stocked bv tno American Red Cross. When there no longer is need of the stores whatever funds may. re main after the “selling below cost” campaign, will be used to found a permanent social welfare institution, such as libraries and dispensaries, ’ to commemorate America’s aid. Archaeological investigation will be greatly facilitated by the use ot the airplane. For instance, in his recent flight along the length of vY i^^„ f H ICa , 1 ? continent Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, the English scientist, ob- * r n>ned city on tne oanxs p „ !e which was wholly un known and which was to be clearly cnn?i f h Onl heights, whereas it ' could have been readily overlooked the a v y chFty PaSSing 011 the surfac ® ‘n A large body of silver land which promises to be of great commercial talue, has been discovered ninety miles from The Fas, Manitoba. The • two prospectors, arrived in Tlie las on the Hudson Bay rail way bringing with them several striking samples which have aroused th® enthusiasm of local mining l men. .The prospectors reported they made their find at the north end of Herb lake, which is reached by a road twelve miles in length, running from Mile 82 on the railway. Tile oxidiza tion was traced for 1,000 feet over a width of 150 feet. At the ends it dipped beneath the clay and neither wall was reached, so it is impossible to say what the true dimensions Will be. Jesse Miller and Mike Stark, living near Carrollton. Mo„ hold the record for capturing the largest number of wolves ever taken by farmers with out the aid of guns or clubs, although they admit that to get the nine they gathered in one morning was not child’s play. The wolves were found in a log near the Beatty farm while the men were out on an exploring trip. It was evident that the high water had driven them from a den in the low lands and they had sought shelter in the hollow log, which furnished an ideal place as protection from the elements. Moonshining in West Virginia is in creasing, according to figures and reports received at the state prohibi tion department, there being more stills raided in June than in any for- month in the history of the state. In one raid a still was found in the attic of a church and the janitor was charged with being engaged in moon shining. Another was found in suc cessful operation in a residence fifty feet from the state capitol at Charles ton. A raid made by officers in Lin coln county disclosed a still on the premises of a rich farmer, showing that poor and rich alike are doing it. He owns two farms worth at least SIO,OIO each and a large tobacco crop. In Summers county a still was cap- . tured in the home of a man who had been a school teacher for sixteen years. Another still was found in the homo of a man who had been a teacher fifteen years. Memorials to two Confederate generals, Dodson Ramseur and James Johnston Pettigrew, both North Carolinians, will be unveiled near Winchester, Va.. during the week at the places where they died. Many southerners, principally North Carolinians, are expected here for the exercises, . which will be under the joint auspices of the North Carolina ■ivioi-'-i Uni’.ed Confederate Veterans, the North Carolina division of Unit ed Daughters of the Confederacy and the North Carolina historical com mission. Germany exported about 3,000,000 metric hundredweight of potash last year, as compared with an annual pre-war exnortaatiort of from 12,000,- 000 to 16,000.000. ♦ QUIPS AND QUIDDIES In the vestry after the marriage service a North London clergyman reproved the bridegroom for his burst of laughter in church when the words of the service “With my worldly goods I thee endow were reached. The bridegroom replied: Why, bless you, I’ve cnly got this suit of clothes to endow her with! If I give her them I’ll have none for myself, and she can’t wear them, anyhow.” A little girl walked into a con fectionery, placed a nickel on the counter, and called for an ice cream cone. "Ice cream cones are seven cents, little giH,” the fizz, clerk an nounced. “Well, then* give me a soda pop.” “Six cents.” “Got any root beer?” “Yep; six cents, too.” The little girl sighed disappointed ly and started out, leaving her nickel on the counter. “Here, lit tle girl, you’re leaving your nickel,” the clerk called to her. “Oh, that’s all right.” the child shouted back. , “It’s no good to me—it won’t buy anything. » “The new French maid was all that the heart could desire. As she was putting a lovely marcel in her mistress’ hair one afternoon tha latter said: « “I visited a fortune teller this morning, Yvonne, and asked her about my husband.” The maid smiled. “If madame hais asked me,” she said, “I could have told madame more than the fortun* teller could!” HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS Yo' Boss ketch You Dodgin' work tain' 6WINE BE LONG 'Fo Xoo's Look in* FVH WORK.", i 11/l / wf .x « W 111 z/ Copyright, 1920 by McClure Newjpiper Syndicate, '