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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 Twe'lve months $1.5(1 Eight monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Price*’ Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W 1 . u o Al» • * • • Pnily and Sunday 2<ic ()c $2.50 $5.00 S'J.SO Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 . Sunday 7c 80c .90 1.75 8.25 I 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 tarm. 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 Hal). Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling » representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label uaed for 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 »ld as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We canr.ot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mall. Address all orders and nctices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURS AL. Atlanta. Ga. 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. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS MOS' NIGH tv_Y-BODY 'j MAKES GOOD RESUMLUTIONS | de mawnin' atteh But . EF You WANTS RAIY I GOOD RESUMLUTI ON S | YOU HAS T' MAKE 'EM I DE NIGHT BE-FO'L* who Copyright, 1920 by McClure Newcpeper Syndicgtfc