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Mystery of the Orange Tail
CALL Sherlock Holmes, that he may pay
due homage to h's American superior,
a young operative ofthe United States
Department of Justice, as did the teacher of
Ancient Merlin to his surpassing pupil.
Secret service men behold divers strange
bights, but what stranger than a gray cat
with an orange tail? In the haunts of Poe s
Raven or the caverns of Kubla Khan such
»n apparition would be taken as quite ap
propriate, albeit with something of a start
by the mortal adventurer, -we fancy. But
.magine, if you can, encountering a gray cat
with an orange tail on your evening stroll
along familiar lanes, or glimpsing so weird a
feline in the moonlight of your own back
yard! What!? Whence?! Whither?! Why!?
Speculating upon th- reactions which
different minds would experience, a philoso
pher of the New York Times suspects that
the average citizen who saw a gray cat with
an orange tail “would at once conclude that
something was the matter with his home
brew.” “The moralist would see in it an aw
ful warning of the spirit of our time when
a frivolous generation seeks to take on an
alien luxury. The Socialist would regard it
aa a portent; souls bo.**. to grayness in our
capitalistic civilization are acquiring the hues
of aristocracy as the new day dawns. The
sociologist would reflect upon the late dance
craze which led the middle-aged to make a
desperate and not always convincing effort to
put on the gayety of their children.”
But what was the reaction, what the ap
perception, if you insist, what the deduction
of our keen and fertile-minded hero as this
gray mystical form, be-torched with tail of
orange, glided into his ken? Why, nothing
could be simpler, my dear Watson. The
extraordinary orange stimulus immediately
stirred up associated thoughts of dyestuffs.
The problem thus shaped itself into the dif
ficult but rot hopeless question, “Where has
the cat’s tail been?” For answer, the trained
and now ardent observer followed tabby at
well measured distance, and at length saw
nor vanish through the crack of a seemingly
abandoned shanty. Thereupon, to cut the
long tale short, he explored the premises,
made his way into the cat’s abode and found
her reposing as cozily as you could wish on
a partly broken container of oi-ange-colored
dye—a container of which there were rows
and rows of others around the walls.
A little later stealthy footsteps without were
heard, which proved to be those of the ac
complice of a notoriously cunning band of
dyestuff thieves.
If a moral were needed for so self-suf
ficing a story, why not this? Never be dis
mayed by the seemingly insoluble, or permit
a tale bearer to dip into your private affairs.
Our Chemical Independence
IT would be hard to overgauge the signifi
cance of the announcement by the na
tional Department of Commerce that the
American chemical industry is now virtually
self-sustaining. Between this condition and
that of four or five years ago there is a
world of difference, touching not only of our
industrial and commercial welfare, but also
our national defense.
Then we were dependent upon foreign
sources for most dyes, many medicines and
a number of explosives, or certain essentials
among their ingredients. Now we draw all
these necessaries from retorts and crucibles
of our own. The United States has a right,
it appears, “to purchase from the Repara
tions Commission certain chemical drugs
impounded in Germany, as well ns some
of the production of German manufacturers
since the armistice,” but “this right will i ot
be exercised because a sufficient supply of
these articles is now being made here.” Fur
thermore, and particularly important, “this
applies not only to the simple synthetic or
ganics of commerce, but likewise to all the
German patented products.”
Memories are still vivid of the long months
when our textile and other industries were
sorely handicapped and in some instances
forced to suspension for lack of dyestuffs,
the imported supplies of which were cut
off in the first stages of the war. Like em
barrassment was felt in the pharmaceutical
field; and as for the manufacture of the gas
shells and gas clouds which came to play so
telling a part at the battle front, we were
almost wholly unprepared. Up to that time,
indeed, all other nations, France alone ex
cepted, apparently took it as a matter of
course that Germany should dominate the
world’s chemical industry. She long had per
ceived its importance, both to her commer
cial and to her military ambitions. She gave
it unstinted Governmental aid and the best
thought of her scientific minds and her gen
ius for organization. Little wonder she
ruled in that far-reaching realm.
Under necessity s sharp pinch, however,
American business awoke to its perils and
made at last the investment which American
science so long had urged. The chemists of
this country always had known that we had
abundant resources for the cheap and effi
cient manufacture of dyes and many other
imported products, but it was not until war
pressure came that they could muster the
financial resources for putting their fleas
into effect. How well they understood the
situation and how effectively they have
wrought is evidenced in the independent po
sition which b-o boon won in these few busy
years.
I A Call to Georgia Democrats
For Urgently Needed Aid
THE plainest of their practical inter
ests as well as the most cherish
ed of their traditions urge the
Democrats of Georgia to respond liberally
and promptly to the appeal for contribu
tions to the Cox and Roosevelt campaign
fund. The great majority of the citizens
of this Commonwealth have a sense of in
born devotion to the party of their fathers,
the party that enshrines the Old South’s
memory and the New South’s hope, the one
party that is forward-thinking and con
structive, the one party that is broadly
American rather than merely sectional. It
Is a sentiment as natural as loyalty to com
rades and kindred, as commendable as grat
itude to benefactors and friends.
There are those, we know, who call it
fogyish to vote year after year in the foot
steps of them who came up from the dark
valley of Eighteen Sixty-Six and fought the
grimmer battles of Reconstruction. But,
significantly enough, the censurers of that
fidelity never point out just when or why it
would have profited the Southern people to
have broken their historic allegiance and
have transferred their trust to a political
clan which apparently can never forget the
prejudices and mists of the past. Certain
t is that every mark of consideration which
the South has received in national affairs
during the last sixty years has come from the
Democratic party; and if we may judge
from the attitude and conduct of the pres
ent Republican Congress, there will be an
abrupt ending of such consideration if, un
happily, the party of Harding and Coolidge
comes into control of the Government.
It behooves every farmer of this State and
region to consider what measure of justice he
could expect from those who cut and slashed
the last agricultural appropriation bill un
-,il almost, every item in which Southern
planters were materially concerned was
3ither eliminated or reduced to a beggarly
shadow of the sum recommended by the
Democratic Administration. It behooves the
business men of Georgia and neighbor
states to ponder how their interests would
'are at the hands of those who are avowedly
?pposed to the Federal Reserve system as
ow constituted and who logically may be
xnectefl tn change, if they can, an arrange
ment which gives the South the invaluable
and greatly needed service of three regional
banks. These are solidly practical consid
erations which no man of comnom sense will
ignore. They of themselves, even were
there no vestige of the overshadowing threat
of interference with the South’s safeguard
ing suffrage laws, should suffice to muster
ull-rankefl and full-hearted support to the
national Democratic campaign.
Without donations from the rank and
file that campaign cannot keep the stride of
victory. There are floods of Republican
propaganda to combat; there are scores and
hundreds of doubtful battle-grounds to fight
through; there are well nigh innumerable
expense items, from printing to postage,
which must be cared for if the efforts to keep
the party of progress and construction in
control are to be adequate and effective. For
these legitimate expenses, no such sum as
fifteen or thirty million dollars, which is
said to be the goal of the Republican fund,
is required. But an amount far more sub
stantial than that thus far subscribed is im
peratively needed. And it is to the Demo
cratic masses alone that the campaign lead
ers look for support. There are no special
interests to furnish sinews of war for Democ
racy, no veteran seeks of favor and: for
tune to aid the party that stands for com
mon rights against particular privileges. It
is urgent, therefore, that the true Demo
crats of Georgia, along with those of kindred
faith the nation over, rally without stint
'ir delay to this highly practical and highly
important cause.
In compliance with a request from the
Treasurer of the National Democratic Com
mittee, Hon. Wilbur W. Marsh, The Jour
'al will receive and acknowledge contribu
nrrnoPe anf j p rom pt]y forward
them to the national treasurer.
Cheaper Th an Coal
THE monstrous prices, and unpredictable
character of the fuel situation gives
peculiar pertinency to arguments for
the wider utilization of waterpower. Special
icts in the American Society for Electrical
Development estimat that the energy now
flowing to waste in our r’vers and streams,
if duly conserved, would result in an annual
saving of more than one hundred and twen
ty-six million tons of coal.
The same authorltie interestingly add:
“Coal, once consumed is never replaced, while
water, used to produce power, is always re
placed. Coal is the stored energy of the
ages. Water runs dewn the mountains into
the rivers and to the ocean, to be absorbed
again by the atmosphere and again deposited
on land and mountaii as rain and snow.”
It should be observed, moreover, that while
coal must be dug from the depths of the
earth, at enormous pains and expense, and
must be tn.nsporte I by locomotives and
trains which themeelve consume huge quan
tities of their own cargo, hydro-electric
power, once its generatin' and transmitting
machinery is established, becomes a willing
and wondrously swif Aladdin at the coun
try’s call.
Thus whether one considers immediate
or ultimate needs, the pressure of high fuel
prices or the growing inadequacy of poal
supplies for the natio ’s industrial wants,
it is eviden that waterpower development
is, one of the urgent and lundamental needs
of the time. We are low using approxi
mately three-sis hs _f America’s coal to pro
duce motive power, while eighty per cent of
our available water is going to waste. We
are spending millions and billions of dollars
for power-producing material which, once
employed, is gone forever, when a portion of
that capital applied to hydroelectrical de
velopment would give us the marvelous white
coal that leaps to life again as zast as it
is consumed. This is a matter for America
to think of more earnestly, more < finitely
than ever before; and especially* important
is it to the South, with wondrous wealth
latent in her streams.
The Hero of Whigham
HON. M. G. PATTERSON, mayor-elect
of Whigham, enjoys the unique dis
tinction of having defeated more op
ponents than any office-holder in Georgia,
present or prospective. He was one of twen
ty-two candidates who offered for the may
oralty nomination in the thriving Grady
county village. The uniqueness of his vic
tory becomes the more significant when it is
understood that the twenty-two mayoralty
candidates constituted two-thirds of the qual
ified voting strength. In a word, twenty
two of the thirty-three electors of Whigham
entered the lists as candidates for the same
office.
The Whigham primary was interesting and
axciting, we doubt not. Better yet, it was
free of personalities and has left no unhealed
wounds. All is serene in Whigham, and it is
stated that Mayor-elect Patterson will have
the aid and co-operation of all his opponents
throughout his approaching adiaiaiMUaUoa.
DO YOU LIVE SIMPLY?
By H. Addington Bruce
THERE is a world of significance for everj>
one of us in these few phrases by a con
temporary philosopher:
“If you would be great you must be sim
ple, sincere, and strong. Be on strict guard
against subtle influences of men and society
to lead you away from the simple life.
“Be true to the visions and inspirations of
your own mind. Realize the power and great
ness of true simplicity and endeavor to make
it a preeminent quality in your character, work
and life.”
And true simplicity, mark this well, is as
readily achieved in the strenuous, complex
existence of the city as in the placid, unevent
ful course of a rural career.
One does not necessarily have to rival one’s
neighbors in show and ostentation, even in
the city.
One does not necessarily have io cat over
rich foods, wear ultrafashionable clothes, and
chase with the crowd after pleasures.
There is such a thing as joy in a quiet
home life. Pleasures of the spirit—the finest
of all pleasures—are to be had through the
aid of well chosen books, inspired music, and
the society of a few choice friends.
For that matter, joyous recreation is possible
even "'y means of solitary walks, if only these
walks be taken in the right mood.
And, in fist, inability to enjoy solitary walks,
inability to find good company in one’s self
at any time, is a sign certain that one has
broken with simplicity and is perpetually liv
ing in a wrong mood.
It is the sign of a barren soul, a dissatis
fied soul, a soul seeking something it can
never gain until it acquires inner riches and
learns how to make use of them.
More than this, the barrenness, the dissatis
faction, the misery of such a soul is revealed
planly in the features, no matter how these
may be painted and powdered in obedience to
the dictates ’of a feverishly artificial life.
Whereas fiom the features of the simple,
however toilworn, the beauty of peace and
happiness and power shines. You recognize
it at a glance, and—if so be you are yourself
one of the unhappily ostentatious —you mar
vel at it.
Yet that beauty may be yours, too, if only
you will draw upon the magic of simplicity.
And simplicity will heal your hurts as all
the wealth in the world, all the material de-
Jights of the world, never can.
“Aid me to simplicity” should be your
prayer, you who have been foolishly trying
to keep pace with a society that has made
the fatal mistake of putting simplicity far
from it. Such a society, depend upon
it. will be plagued and tormented with social
ills of all sorts until it returns in repentance
to the quieter ways, the better ways, the
harmonizing ways it now scorns.
papers.)
GOVERNMENT BY DISSENT
By Dr. Frank Crane
A great many people are excited over the
MacSwiney casfe.
With some of them, of course, it is no use
to argue; they hate England and become vio
lently angry when any one intimates that every
evil thing that is wrought under the sun is not
the direct and undeniable fault of England.
There are some, however, who, however,
who, in common sanity, will be willing to
look at the facts in the case.
MacSwiney was put in prison charged with
violating the law. What his alleged offense
was is not germane to the issue.
He intimated that unless he were set free he
would commit suicide by starvation.
The English officials did not deprive hm of
food. He vias provided with plenty to eat.
He refused to eat it.
His object was to arouse public sentiment by
his suicide that world wide sympathy would
be engaged for that portion of the Irish pop
ulation ho do not wish to be a part of the
British Empire.
Just how his suicide would prove anything,
convince anybody or do anything else than in
crease already inflamed passions, nobody has
suggested.
Assuming that his cause was worthy, that his
spirit was heroic and brave, and that Ireland
should be under the control of Sinn Feiners,
the question remains: Is that the way to go
about it?
It practically amounts to government by
nuisance.
It means, if I cannot get my way by the
processes of democracy, or by the
violence of revolution, I will get it by making
myself so disagreeable that people will give in
to me in order to avoid trouble.
The child falls to the floor, kicks and
squeals, until father says: “Oh, let him have
what he wants, and stop the fuss.”
The striker, unable to convince the com
munity any other way, proceeds to burn the
car barns, deprive babies of milk and prevent
clerks and stenographers from reaching the
office.
Some women rule by “the tyranny of ters.
It’s the impotence of weakness using as a
weapon its power to make trouble.
He men and good sports do not indulge in
this sort of thing.
The get what they want by law if possible,
or by force if they can it is necessary, but
never by threat, “Give me what 1 want or I’ll
kill myself.” , .
That is tyranny upside down. The kaiser
made the people do his will by making the
law. The hunger strikers, and all other strik
ers, try to make the people do their will by
breaking the law. Both are essential tyrants.
Os the two the kaiser is preferable, for at
least the people prosper.
Once admit' the principle of governmen by
nuisance and there is the end of all govern
ment by law.
The family will be ruled by the baby, the
club will be run by those members who are
angry when they do not have their own way,
the church will be controlled by a cantaker
ous minority.
When a labor group declares that if the
government will not do as it directs, it will
cripple the industry of the nation, when the
Sinn Feiner says if you don’t turn Ireland
over to him he will shoot policemen, and when
Bill ones announces that if you don’t elect him
County Clerk he will come around and be sick
on your doorstep, that is not government by
consent, it is government by dissent.
(Copyright, 1920. by Frank Chance.)
Editorial Echoes
When lightning wants to strike it never
stops to investigate.—Sioux City Journal.
“An oversupply of watermelons” we read
from a St. Louis paper. There is no other
internal sensation quite so disquieting.—
Kansas City Star.
A “Hague tribunal with teeth in it”
wouldn’t be worth as much to the world as
“Haig with a kick in it.”—Columbia, ,S. C.)
Record.
Debs is probably thinking what a fool a
man is for sticking to a front porch when
he doesn’t have to. —Houston Chronicle. .
Harding seems to regard it as Article
Xtra.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Too many full gasoline tanks and empty
t&tak U&Jm.—Jtfuuieafolw Journal.
MONEY IN CAM
PAIGNS
Dy FREDERIC J. HASKIN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 17. —
That the amount of money
which is to be spent in
electing a president should
become the major issue of th® cam
paign and the chief subject of
speeches by national candidates, as
it recently has done, seems strange
not to say ridiculous. Os little things
like the labor problem and the cost
of living we hear nothing at all, or
at least nothing relevant, but we
have already heard several volumes
about the alleged $15,000,000.
Yet this situation is a natural out
growth of our political system. In
the first place, every candidate is
bound to find some issue, the discus
sion o which will not alienate
and possible supporter, and
the campaign fund is an Ideal
issue of this kind. In the second
place, the amount of money which
it takes to elect a president in this
country has been growing steadily
for over half a century, so that there
really is cause for alarm.
It is interesting to trace the gene
sis of the presidential campaign
fund.
Lincoln Cost Ua Little
The election of Abraham Lincoln
cost the Republicans only $200,000.
The Democrats spent as much on
Douglas, while the slave-holding
wing of the party is said to have
spent more to elect John C. Breck
inridge. Four years later, the Demo
crats had little or no money with
General McClellan a’s their standard
bearer, while Mr. Lincoln could have
bad an unlimited fund from finan
cial Interests in the north that be
lieved '.he war should be continued
with him in the White House, and
the issue with the southern states
settled definitely. Little money was
needed in 1868 or 1872, so far as
the Republicans were concerned. The
Democratic party was not in a posi
tion either year to conduct a very
aggressive campaign. In the latter
year, friends of Governor Seymour
raised a fund, but it amounted to
nothing compared with what General
Grant had, or could have had. to
bring about his re-election.
Big campaign funds were no! cue
rule until 1876. That year the su
premacy of the Republican parly was
seriously threatened because of the
scandals during the l:r ■* on
of General Grant. The Democratic
party had named Sam ol ■). Tilden,
■a man who communde-i admiration
throughout the country. Abraham
S. Hewitt, then alreuy a man of
means, was managing the campaign
for the Democrats, and Henry Wat
terson was helping him end look
ing after things in the south. Near
ly $1,000,000 ..-as spent year
More than $1,000,000 was spent in
the campt: of 1 -I ota James
G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland had
hosts of friends and admirers amojig
the wealthy clvmc*'t and these con
tributed lU'u.-.lfy to the party fund.
Four ye- : s later, there w’as the great
battle over ihe tariff issue. Two mil
lion doilars was said to have been
spent. The figures are conservative.
There 1; the well-founded belief that
the manufacturing interests of Penn
sj’lvi :iia rnd Now England alone
raised more than this sum not so
much for p rty reasons but business
reasons’. The fi£urete have been
mounting ever since./ In the cam
paign at Jo!»2, each party had more
than $1,000,000 at its disposal. Four
years later and again in 1900, Mr.
Hanna had several millions at his
disposal to defeat Bryan.
Ecw Money Xs Spent
It is now in order to consider
what this money is spent for. There
are, first, the legitimate campaign
expenses. National headquarters
has between 40 and 100 employes
at least. Their wages and the rent
amount to thousands of dollars a
day. Some of . these employes are
absolutely superfluous. In many in
stances they have been put there to
conciliate some powerful man or
faction of the party and they render
nothing in return for their salary.
During the campaign of 1904 a for
mer United States senator and
friend of Mr. Bryan was drawing
$l5O a week from Democratic nation
al headquarters through what serv
ice he rendered in return nobody
knew. The next expense is for
speakers. More men than the pub
lic would Imagine receive both sal
ary and expenses. It is said that
Bourke Crockran received one thou
sand dollars for his reply to Wil
liam J. Bryan in the campaignof
1896.
WHAT IT MEANS TO
BE AN AMERICAN
Almost any American would be a
better American if he took time oc
casionally to think about how fortu
nate he is to live in the greatest
country on the face of the earth.
In the hustle and worry of every
day life it’s easy to forget great
blessings that are enjoyed as a mat
ter of course and to magnify things
that seem to be flaws in Uncle Sam’s
makeup.
No American could be more forci
bly reminded of the privileges and
obligations of citizenship under
the Stars and Stripes than by watch
ing a group of aliens become natur
alized.
“You can’t expert to help run this
government if you don’t know any
thing about the government,” Judge
Samuel H. Sibley, in the United
States court at Atlanta, has often
told a disappointed candidate who
had failed to inform himself con
cerning the fundamental principles
'of Americanism.
And here’s what Federal Judge
Garvin, of New York, told a batch
of newly-made Americans recently:
"By the solemn oath of allegiance
which you haye taken each one of
you has become a citizen of the Unit
ed States, and in the namo of your
new country I bld you hearty wel
come. This is a day which you will
remember so long as you live, for
you have not only acquired benefits,
privileges and opportunities such as
only Americans may enjoy, but you
have assumed new responsibilities
which you can never put aside.
“As you take up your citizenship
resolve that you will be worthy of
this precious gift. Bear in mind to
day, tomorrow and always that the
first duty a citizen owes to his gov
ernment is that of loyalty in thought,
word and deed. You must be pre
pared to give freely, completely, of
your money, your service, your life
if necessary, when your country has
need.
“Begin at once to take an active,
intelligent part in political life. Not
every man is fitted by education,
training, experience or inclination to
hold public office, but we all are a
part of the government, selecting, to
a great extent by the ballot, those
who make and administer our laws,
and if we would have a government
that is based upon liberty, justice
and equality ot opportunity, we must
select for office those who will make
these possible, and who will dis
charge their public duties honestly,
fearlessly and intelligently, with the
realization that they have been chos
en to discharge a solemn trust.
“And, finally, most of you have or
will have children. Upon the man
ner in which our children are trained
depends the future of the republic.
As you are patriotic and loyal, you
will help to leave to those coming
after us a country that will protect
them and assure to them the bless
ings that go with liberty. If this
America, of which we are so right
fully proud and in which we believe
with all our hearts, is worth what
it has cost, let us leave when we go
citizens—our children —who will
safeguard and defend these institu
tions for the generations that are to
come.
*T hope that each one of you will
have long life, much happiness and
abundant opportunity for useful
service as a loyal American citizen."
Recently a small farmer in Hon
duras called at a city drug store
and asked for some poison with
which to kill wild animals that were
destroying his poultry. On being in
formed that no poison could be sold
without a personal recommendation
from the mayor of the town, he
went in search of that functionary
and soon returned with the follow
ing note:
“Please give Mr. W— a little poi
son, as he is an honest man.”
The note was signed by the may
, or.
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
Preference of the Ladies
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun de
sires to know whether the ladies pre
fer pink or white ballots.—Griffin
News and Sun.
Doubtless they will attempt to
“carry out the color scheme" what
ever it may be.
Getting Your Money’s Worth
The collection basket in church is
really about the only place you can
get value for your nickel any more.—
Brunswick News.
Perhaps that’s because all other
5-cent articles cost 6 cents.
Harding’s Picture
Harding had his picture taken
while making up his newspaper. We
already had a picture of him as a
candidate. —Dublin Courier-Herald.
Leaning back in an easy chair on
his front oorch watching his chances
for vietory slip by, no doubt.
Cause for Laughter
Speculation regarding things which
do not concern one carries with it
little, if any, profit, but somehow or
other we can’t help but wonder in our
idle sort of way if tnat Camden, N.
J., man who laughed himself to death
had just been informed of Lieutenant
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt’s asser
tion that the Republican party won
the war.—J. D. Spencer in Macon Tel
egraph.
Ths Southwest Georgian
We sometimes find it interesting
to speculate on how long the South
west Georgia would last as a real
newspaper. Every week we gather
and file away in our secret and holy
archives one or more items which
never enjoy the sensation of parad
ing before the public in a black-ink
uniform on a field of white. Occa
sionally we get a little fun out of
imagining how some of these per
fectly legitimate bits of news would
look in print.—Southwest Georgian.
Chaplin’s Socialism.
Charlie Chaplin’s wife says that
Charlie thinks himself a Socialist,
but refuses to divide nls money even
with his wife. That’s the usual So
cialist custom. —Dawson News.
The Socialists always want to di
vide the other fe».-w’s property.—
Dalton Citizen.
A Drive for Sugar
If sugar descends to the old price
of sixteen to eighteen pounds to the
dollar it is dur intention to put on
a drive, raise sufficient money and
bu/ a whole barrel of the sweet
stuff.—Cuthbert Leader.
You will then be in a position to
motor out to your fruit farm and
enjoy peaches and cream.
Girls Know th« Horns
. The case is growing serious when
a Carrollton girl can distinguish the
sound of one fellow’s automobile
horn froip among all the rest.—Car
roll Free Press.
In past years they could dlstin
gufth the whinney of a horse or the
bray of a mule.
Ged Beady for the County Fair
Your county fair will be on you
before you know it. Be ready with
the right kind of exhibit. See the
premium list and select the show
you want to win and go In for it.—
Cordele Dispatch.
“The Hand That Bocks the Cradle*
The hand that rocks the cradle
will take a try at jostling the ballot
box. —Brunswick News.
NATION DRINKS
LESS LIQUOR
< The nation’s drink bill foots up
a cost of $1,578,6110,900 for alcoholic
stimulants, as the annual average
for three years.
“The total drink bill for all bever
ages in 1919 was $2,108,827,583,
against $1,745,283,141 in 1918 and
$1,985,031,552 in 1917. The trend of
the national habit continues toward
a more liberal use of mild stimulants
greatly enlarged use of mineral
waters and so-called soft drinks.”
So states the American Grocer in
its issue of September 1. It secured
its statistics from authoritative
sources. It adds:
■"The result of anti-liquor laws
has been the cutting down the use
of spirituous liquors as a beverage
from 22.79 gallons to 9.17 gallons
per capita.
Consumption Since 1850
"The total consumption per capi
ta advanced from 4.08 gallons in
1850 to 13.12 gallons in 1899, reach
ing 17.65 gallons in 1900, then to the
maximum of 22.79 gallons in 1906,
continuing at the high point until
1914, falling to a yearly average in
1915-17 ,of 19.72 gallons. In 1918
there was a drop to 15.95 gallons,
further decreasing to 9.17 gallons.
“The increasing consumption of
substitutes for malt liquors; cam
paign against the use of spirits; de
crease in the consumption of tea,
with a freer use of coffee since 1913,
account for the marked decline in
per capita use of all beverages.”
The cost of spirituous beverages
In 1919, as compared with the two
previous years, is given in the fol
lowing table:
Malt liquors imported
and domestic $ 715,953,629
Spirituous liquors, im-
ported and domestic.. 880,722,698
Wines, imported and
domestic 92,142,188
Grand total, 1919 $1,629,818,562
Grand total, 1918 1,578,690,000
Grand total, 1917 1,693,231,478
Grand total, 1917,19 ... 4,901,740,910
Yearly average 3 years $1,037,248,980
Decrease from average 7,328,418
Figures on Use of Beer
"During three years. 1917,-19,
there were 4,291,365,406 gallons of
domestic beer consumed, a yearly
average of 1,430,455,135 gallons which
was 574,494,878 gallons below the an
nual average consumption for thr»
years.
"The imports of beer almost fee
from the record. The imports'aver
aged 1,083,6 3 6 gallons annually for
three years, 1917-19 This, added to
domestic beer consumed makes the
annual average consumption of for
eign and domestic beer for 1917-19
total 1,377,162,924 gallons.”
Nothing is said of the retail cost
of spirits to the consumer this
year.
Many Millions for Coffee
Turning to non-alcoholic bever
ages—as every one must nowadays—
the American Grocer shows that the
net imports of coffee for the fiscal
year 1919 were 959,177,361 pounds,
equivalent to a per capita consump
tion of 8.99 pounds. For his coffee
the consumer paid an average of 35
cents a pound, making the nation’s
bill for coffee at retail prices
$385,477,242.
During 1919 there were 93,057,297
pounds of tea imported, about one
pound for each person in the con
tinental United States The tea
drinkers handed over $68,639,272, or
$49,542,104 more than it cost to im
port.
CATCHING FISH
BY TELEPHONE
Fish, when they swim, make a
noise and this can be detected by
the telephone. Norwegian fishermen,
it is said, have taken advantage of
that fact to devise an arrangement
to assist them in detecting and lo
cating fish at considerable depths.
They lower a microphone by means
of a wire from their boat into the
water, the other end of the wire be
ing connected with a telephone re
ceiver on the boat. As the latter
slowly proceeds on her course tn
search of a haul an operator keeps
the receiver of the telephone to his
ear, and once he has learned his
task he can tell instantly when a
shoal of fish is being approached.—
Detroit News.
“You love long rambles in the co in
try?” asked the impudent girl.
“Yes, indeed." responded the
young man in the green hat with
the purple band and buckled shoes.
“When I go out in the country all
nature seems to smile.”
“Gracious! I don’t blame her. It’s
a wonder she doesn't laugh outi-lght!"
DOROTHY DIX IN ATLANTA
TrDWeekly readers who are admirers of Dix, the fa
mous author, whose delightfully clever writings are a popular in
stitution with this paper, may have wondered occasionally as to just
what sort of a woman she was in private life. The following inter
view, secured by a Journal reporter when Miss Dix paid Atlanta a
flying visit recently, gives an interesting personal glimpse into the
question and paints a graphic word picture of the distinguished lady
in question:
BY BOY C. FLANNAGAN
H)W does Dorothy Dix look?
This famous newspaper
voman whose articles in The
Journal are of interest to thou
sands of readers, visited Atlanta re
cently and I had the opportunity of
interviewing her.
She was on her way back to New
York after a tour around the world, -
-during which she visited distant
places and had many adventures.
First of all, Dorothy Dix Isn’t at
all what you’d expect a "successful
woman” to be. She doesn’t dress
like a man. She doesn't wear horn
rimmed spectables, and she is not
one of those angular women whom
cartoonists pick as the feminist
type. On the other hand, she is
small in stature, she is most at
tractive, and in spite of the fame
she has won as a journalist, she is
still a young woman.
In everyday life Dorothy Dix is
Mrs. George M. Gilmer. She is a
native of New Orleans, and she has
a number of Atlanta friends who
used to see her often in the days
when she was a special writer on
the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
She lives in New York, but she says
that she is going back to New Or
leans this winter to stay with her
father.
In telling mo of her trip around
the world, Dorothy Dix said: "I had
a hard time getting a start, because
I received an assignment by wire
less while I was on my way to Bos
ton, from the news syndicate for
which I write. The syndicate want
ed me to cover the national polit
ical conventions, and like a good
‘newspaper man’ I had to postpone
everything* until the Chicago and
San Francisco meetings were over.”
While abroad Dorothy Dix visited
many interesting places in Europe
and Asia. "I enjoyed every minute
of my trip,” she said reminiscently,
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
Close to a million children passed
through the doors of New York City’s
public schools when their summer
vacation ended early this -week. In
Atlanta, there was a record-break
ing attendance on the first day, es
timated at more than 30,000,
Now that Japan is making a strong
bid to become one of the world’s
leading nations, the Nippon govern
ment has decided to find out definite
ly just how many people live there.
Consequently, Japan’s first national
census has been set to start Octo
ber 1.
Uncle Sam’s military hospitals
treated 266,112 Injured soldiers dur
ing the war, according to a recent
announcement' at Washington. The
figures show that the Huns’ pet in
vention, poison gas, sent the biggest
number of American fighting men
back from the firing line. The per
centage of deaths from this cause,
however, was comparatively small.
In spite of the trolley strike now
crippling transportation in Brook
lyn, a huge throng of some 300,000
people went down to Coney Island,
New York’s famous beach resort, one
night last week to enjoy the annual
carnival there. There was a great
parade of many kipds of gala fea
tures. A wintry wind blowing
straight from the ocean failed to
stop the fun making.
Scotland has followed the style
of other countries, notably Italy, by
reporting an earthquake. People liv
ing in the country of Perth were
shaken out of their beds and were
badly frightened by an ominous rum
bling noise when a tremor occurred
a few nights ago.
Emma Goldman, the anarchist
whom Uncle Sam deported not so
long ago, did not receive the warm
welcome in Russia that everybody
had expected. The Bolshevik! greet
ed her and her Red associates with
out any manifestations of joy, ana
then put them all at hard labor on
a Russian railroad.
In response to an appeal for men
and women to help the farmers and
fruit growers of New York and Con
necticut in their fall harvest, the
recruiting offices of the American
Land Service were swamped witn
applications for jobs the latter part
of the week. On Friday alone 300
persons, mostly young men, applied.
Places could not be given imme
diately to some of these because the
apple picking upstate is not yet in
full swing.
An aerial mail service, connecting
Lismore, Casino and Tenterfield in
New South Wales, has been definite
ly established. The initial flight re
quired 75 minutes, Including a land
ing at Casino, where mail was deliv
cred and received. The distance by
road is about 100 miles of one of
the most beautiful and wealthiest
sections of the entire Australian con
tinent.
The state of Illinois has purchased
the old capitol in Vandalia and will
maintain it as a memorial. The
state paid $60,000 for the historic
building, and Fayette county will
continue to rent it as a courthouse
until a bond bill has been Passed
for the erection of a new one. The
rental money will be devoted to pre
paring a museum. It was in this
building that Abraham Lincoln first
served as a legislator and began his
career in public service, and one of
the most picturesque stories of the
old building concerns him.
The former Crown Prince of Ger
many has applied to the Dutch gov
ernment for permission to return to
Germany. He asks as an alternative
that the government point out to
him another residence in Holland.
The first bale of sea island cotton
received in Savannah was sold at
auction to the Espy Cotton company
at $1 a pound. It was grown on
the farm of J. M. Westberry, near
Valdosta. A bale of extra staple
upland sold In Savannah recently at
$1.30.
General Marie Emile Fayolle, re
garded as having more to do with
the direct employment of American
troops than any other French com
mander, will represent the French
government at the coming conven
tion of the American Legion in
Cleveland. Marshal Foch, who was
unable to accept the Legion’s invi
tation because of unsettled .Euro
pean conditions, requested that Gen
eral Fayolle be designated, and Pre
mier Millerand and Minister of War
Lefevre acquiesced.
British tobacco experts are await
ing the arrival of a big consignment
of tobacco which recently left Quebec
and are curious to learn how the ex
periment will work out of manufac
turing this in England for the Brit
ish markets.
General Pershing celebrated at his
Lome in Washington last week his 60th
birthday and, incidentally, the anni
versary of the sceond day of the bat
tle of St. Mihiel, the first all-Ameri
can major offensive against the Ger
man army. Only members of his
staff and a few guests attended the
celebration.
Aside from California, the grape
growing industry in the United
States promises soon to become of
even grrater importance than in the
days before the- making of wine was
prohibited, according to an announce
ment just made by the United States
department of agriculture. A big de
mand has developed for grape prod
ucts and the shipments of grapes
last year were the largest for the I
last four seasons under review.
So many war veterans answered
the recent call of the United States
marine corps for the rebuilding of
the famous Fifth regiment that Ma
jor General John A. Le Jeune has
announced that another war regi
ment. the Sixth United States ma
rines, would be revived, with ranks
filled entirely with veteran officers
an<J. men. All the auxiliary units ot
“I went to a great many strange
places and met all kinds of interest
ing people. A number of funny
things happened—l don’t believe I
ever had so much fun in all my life
as I did over there. I took tea with J
a number of famous . Chinese gentle
men—but I will have to look in my
■bote book to find their namos—and
I visited those places, Kipling writes
about in his s_tories and poems of
India. Even shipboard amusing
and entertaining things were al
ways happening. I am going t'>
write about them when I get bac’:
to New York, and call the serie ;
of sketches. My Joy Ride Aroun I
the World.”
Beneath a very engaging person
ality and a jolly mood Dorothy Di
concealed a great deal of the wis
dom for' which she is noted. He '
eyes proved that she was a kee i
observer in spite of the glint of hu
mor which was always present, and
back of them one could not help
seeing great depth of sympathy, un
derstanding and knowledge. Her
grasp of the various problems
which beset women proves this, and
the charming style in which she
writes her “talks” reflects the hu
morous and kindly spirit which Dor
othy Dix possesses always—even in
a crowded Pullman car after a long
trip.
For a moment we touched on the )
subject of divorce.
“I think that many divorces are
inexcusable," she said. “Yet, in
some cases, no matter what a wom
an may do, her choice of a husband
is a hopeless case, and vice versa.
“One of my missions in the ~
world,” she concluded, “is to get as
many women as possible to do ev
erything they can to be happy. If
they do their part, most domestic »
lives turn out to be successful.”
the marine brigade which won farm
with the Second division in the de
cisive battle at the Marne and Bel
leau wood in Julv, 1918, will be re
vived also, including the Sixth Ma
chine gun battalion.
American athletes; who participat
ed in the Olympic contests at Ant
werp met Norwegian stars at Chris
tiana this week and won the. honor-'
of the meet easily, being far super
ior to their competitors.
The Soviet government of Russia
has published figures claiming that
under the 1919 program the total
Red army strength, actual and po
tential, was 4,750,000 men and that
this program has been restored as
a result of the Polish campaign. The
announcement was made, according
td advices to the state department,
in connection with the coming peace
negotiations at Riga.
Plans for resetting Plymouth
Rock and for improving the water
front at Plymouth were approval
this week by the Federal Pilgrim
Tercentenary Commission, which
voted to release $300,090, the fed
eral government appropriation for
the work proposed. Under the plan
Plymouth Rock will be set again in
canopy of stone to be erected by the
canopy of stne t be erected by the
Society of Colonial Dames. Improve
ments of the shore are being delay
ed by excessive demands by cwner?
of property involved according to the
report of the local committee.
Big changes in the election bet
ting in Wall street occurred as th •
result of the overwhelming victor:
of the Republicans in the state c
Maine. The odds on Senator Hard
ing, Republican candidate for tlv
presidency, shot up to 3 to 1, anC
some wagers were said to have boei.
made at odds of 4 to 1. These ar
the highest odds which have prevail
ed since the betting on the presera
campaign began.
At the twenty-second national er. ’
campment of the United Spanish •
War veterans, in session at S:
Louis, the Rev. Francis Kelly, <
Albany, N. Y., who recently resigns
as national chaplain of the Ameri
can Legion, in an address declare 1
that soldiers of poor parentage dii.
the more heroic work in the great
war.
Natural gas under good pressure
was struck at a depth of 790 feci
at Lovellton, Wyoming county, Pa.,
last week. The well, which is only
eight miles from Tunkehannock, the
county seat, was drilled by the East
ern Pennsylvania Oil and Gas
pany, which is composed entirely of
Wyoming county men.
Importation of peanuts from
China threatens to ruin the growers
of America, according to a state
ment which is being distributed to
farmers in the southern states by
the United Peanut association of
America, urging them to co-operate >
for their own protection. The asso
ciation proposes as a remedy a re
strictive tariff on peanuts and veg
etable oils.
The production of peanuts in
China, it asserts, has Increased on
a tremendous’ scale in the past few
years, and the Importations for the
year ending June 30, it adds, werv
in excess of 150,000,000 pounds.
Wireless secrecy such as will pre
vent listening-in by anyone who
owns a wireless set is now being
sought by the Marconi company, dis
patches from London' say. It an
nounces that experiments with this
object are on the point of successful
completion.
Wireless telephone communication
with aviators flying across the Eng
lish channel to France has been es
tablished at distances up to 300
miles, enabling messages to be ru
ed to passengers on their way to th?
continent.
Damage estimated at hundreds of
thousands of dollars was done by a
brief hail and thunder storm a<
companied by a 45-mlle gale in p
narrow area extending through three .
Rhode Island towns last week. Thou- •
sands of panes of glass were
broken, the interiors of homes and
business establishments were flood
ed and fruit trees were stripped.
Meat packers of the country made
an average profit of only four-fifths
of a cent on each dollar of sales dur
ing 1919, according to figures issued
at a recent convention of the Indus
try.
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