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A Troubled Front Porch
WHEN certain Republican journals were
likening their Presidential candidate
to a dignified St. Bernard and Gover
nor Cox to an ebullient fox terrier, some wag
gish Democrat bade them beware lest the fox
terrier run'the St. Bernard off his own front
porch.
The warning prediction has come amus
ingly to pass. After weeks of superior se
clusion, Senator Harding has been constrained
by his anxious managers to go forth and
meet the people. Ponderous dignity is well
enough in a Wouter Van Twiller, the sedate
and corpulent Governor of New Amsterdam,
whose unvarying daily program, Irving tells
us, was to eat six hours, sleep ten, and smoke
and doubt the other eight. But in a time
tense with problems that must be solved and
thick with issues that must be met, there is
scant Interest in the dignity that sits and sits
upon its lordly haunches, staring out upon an
■ iferior world.
So, the “front porch” campaign has been
ibandoned for those terrier-like tactics which
solemn politicians once professed to despise.
It is not enough, they have discovered, to
keep the “gold diggers” delving, while the
candidate himself emits an occasional plati
tude. A fifteen or thirty-million-dollar cam
paign fund can do much, but it cannot answer
those urgent, farreaching questions, now up
permost in a thoughtful public’s mind; it
cannot put substance and sincerity into a
political platform that was framed by shuf
fling opportunists; it cannot fill the void
where constructive purpose and statesman
ship need to stand. The music of the money
will flatter some ears; and the superstition
that only a Republican administration can be
competent and safe will rule some minds. But
that sort of “front porch” philosophy does
mot greatly impress the American rank and
'file—as Mr. Harding’s directors have discov
ered in this waning half of the campaign.
Thus far, however, it does not appear that
the distinguished and really delightful Sena
tor is saying more on his speaking tours than
he did in the sedateness of the Marion piazza.
We do not mean to be malapert. We do not
mean to be ungenerously partisan. But we
leave it to any reader of fair discernment if
Senator Harding’s speeches are not cut from
the very fabric of him of whom Shakespeare
said: “He draweth out the thread of his ver
bosity finer than the staple of his argument.”
Has he yet come squarely forth for a single
policy in which forward-thinking Americans
are interested? Has he yet proposed a defi
nite plan of dealing with one of the major
public problems of the day—taxation, for in
stance, or shipping, or the development and
conservation of natural resources?
Governor Cox Jias been from the outset as
plain spoken and as comprehensive as the
San Francisco platform with its frank facing
and broad grasping of momentous issues. Not
only has he gone straight to the voters, but
he has given them no shadow of difficulty in
perceiving just what he stands for. He has
made his position so plain and his purpose
so appealing to liberal and constructive
thought, that Republican “dignity” has felt
the bite of the situation to its very marrow.
Americans are a practical people, and un
failing admirers of one who means what he
says and says what he means. Is it to be
expected, then, that they will take the Gov
ernment out of the hands of a party that has
performed with high competency the most
difficult and stupendous tasks the nation
ever faced, and deliver it to forces of reac
tion and inefficiency? Or is it likely that
one whose skill lies chiefly in evading issues
will be accounted more worthy of the Presi
dency than one who shows equal clearness
and soundness and courage of convictions?
-TA e Vice President
IT Is the custom of the day to ridicule the
Vice Presidency and to poke fun at the
Vice President. Mr. Marshall, the in
cumbent. with a fine sense of humor, rather
has encouraged the tendency. He has made
his official position the subject of humorous
references that have shown him to be a
'-haracteristic American.
Mr. Marshall has occupied a difficult po
rtion during a period of eight stressful ydars,
tnd he has discharged his duties with sound
and sober judgment, attesting his worth
as a man and his sterling integrity. During
the past several months his position and been
particularly delicate, but no false move or
illy-considered word has escaped him during
the period. When the false rumor of the
President’s death was reported to him, and
for half an hour he thought himself the head
of the Nation, the sterner side of his person
ality manifested itself and he considered only
‘he gravity of the situation and his responsi
bilities to the country.
But Mr. Marshall’s genuine sense of
humor, his Americanism, if you please, and
the pleasant persiflage in which he has in
dulged about his office have caused many to
misjudge him and to withhold from him the
recognition to which he is entitled by the
discharge of a difficult task. Republican and
Democratic Senators alike will bear witness
to the fact that the Senate has never had an
abler and more impartial presiding officer
than Vice President Marshall. |
♦ i
A lot of politicians would neverj starve to
death if forced to eat their words. —Nashville
Banner.
A litter of pups was born in an aeroplane,
and the Mail thinks they must be Skye ter
riers. But why not Airedales? —Toronto Star.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Growth of Southern Cities
THE growth of the South is interest
ingly evidenced in the fact that dur
ing the last census decade five more
of her cities advanced to the one hundred
thousand rank and seven more to a popu
lation of twenty-five thousand. This makes
a total of eleven in the first-class and thir
ty-five in the second, while forty-five South
ern cities have upwards of five and twenty
thousand inhabitants.
All parts of the region have shared in the
upbuilding which these figures indicate.
There could be no more impressive proof of
rich and varied resources than the concur
rent and unconflicting growth of cities only
a few score or a few hundred miles apart.
Atlanta and Birmingham both have forged
ahead by giant strides without either’s
trenching upon the other’s good fortune. So
has it been within Georgia and within Ala
bama; numerous neighboring towns have
waxed in population and prosperity, all draw
ing from a common fund of opportunity and
enterprise.
This is markedly true in Texas, where
four cities have made their way to the one
hundred thousand class —Dallas, San Anto
nio, Fort Worth and Houston. Os the last
mentioned, the Birmingham Age-Herald aptly
remarks that no Southern city more deserves
the eminence to which it has attained. “No
other has done more of its own motion to
make itself grow. Houston owes much to
the building of the ship canal that made it
a real port with ocean liners docking at its
own municipal terminals. It entailed an
initial outlay of three million dollars years
ago when the city was smaller and had less
money. Houston invested in waterways and
the reward has been manifold.”
Always it is investment for the common
interests and co-operation for the common
good that gives a community lasting vigor
and distinction. Atlanta’s growth has sprung
not so much from her advantageous location,
highly important though that is, as from
the spirit of broad-visioned enterprise and
generous co-working that has animated her
people. Let a city seek first the things that
make for contented homes, for general in
telligence, for good health, for productive
thought and labor, for wholesome living and
all else will be added.
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Using the Merchant Fleet
THE feature of the recently enacted
Shipping bill which has drawn keen
est attention is that committing
America to an energetic and thoroughly in
dependent policy in the use of her new mer
chant fleet. Previous arrangements that
have bound our overseas trade to the keels
of foreign carriers are to be given up, and
all needless restraints upon our marine’s
participation in world trade are ,to be put
aside. Henceforward we are in ocean com
merce as competitors instead of dependents.
What this will mean in the way of in
creased profits to American industry is
scarcely conceived by even the most obser
vant until they look into the record of what
this country has paid out in foreign freight
rates and associated charges. Remarking
that the toll has aggregated billions of dol
lars, an authority on the subject points out
that “from 1870 to 1890, alone, foreign ship
owners collected more than three billions
from us;” that in the twelvemonth before the
war the bill amounted to nearly four hun
dred million dollars; and that last year “we
paid in excess of seven hundred millions to
enrich our competitors on the high seas.”
To check this vast drain is of itself highly
important, but incalculably more so is the
idvantage of having American bottoms ever
ready to ship American goods, instead of
hanging upon the favors and fortunes of for
eign interests.
The handicaps and perils of that state of
affairs were brought sharply home to us
upon the outbreak of the World War, when
the European cargo fleets that were wont
to serve us were diverted to military needs.
For a while the nation’s export business was
almost paralyzed, and the manifold veins of
domestic prosperity dependent thereon were
rendered well-nigh pulseless. Tens of thou
sands of Southern farmers and merchants
felt the deadening grip of the situation
through a demoralized cotton market. One
of the heaviest crops of that staple ever pro
duced was left on the growers’ hands, largely,
if not mainly, as a result of the war-made
-ap in ocean transportation; and the con
sequences to every field of our business
threatened to wax disastrous.
Evidently, then, it is of vast significance
to the nation’s common interests to have a
home-owned, home-controlled merchant fleet,
which is already carrying sixty per cent of
our overseas trade, and which has been given
at last the support of safeguarding and en
couraging legislation. No part of the coun
try is more materially concerned than the
South, with her excellent but hitherto neg
lected ports, and her marvelously rich re
sources for foreign commerce. Her business
leadership, accordingly, has the broadest and
most urgent of reasons to keep actively in
touch with the development of the national
merchant marine.
The One Way to Prosperity
FOR sound gospel in things civic, a re
cent remark by the manager of
Thomas county’s Commercial Asso
ciation, Mr. S. T. Kidder, Jr., is rarely ex
celled. “Education,” said he, speaking of
the forces that prosper and upbuild, “is the
prime factor.” And the first duty of com
munity leadership is to foster thought that
will translate itself into “better schools, bet
ter homes, better streets, highways and trans
portation facilities, better farming methods,
farm machinery and farm products, more ef
ficient government, and, above all, more cor
dial fellowship.”
A commercial association that applies it
self to the working out of such ideas is
of measureless ‘ value to its community’s
every interest. It is certain to go far and
fare richly in the business of prosperity
making because it has struck deep into the
soil that holds prosperity’s real sustenance.
The first element of success for a county or
a town is education; the second is education,
and the third is education. While it is
largely in the school room and the home that
this ever fundamental process is carried on,
there is not a phase or interest of the com
munity’s or individual’s life that It does nst
vitally concern. Is it r.ot education that im
proves agricultural methods, and crystallizes
the public sentiment that passes bond issues
for better roads and establishes the stand
ards that make government more efficient?
Is it not education, too, that broadens the
common outlook and teaches men to work
generously together for the community’s
good?
Many are the so-called short-cuts to pros
perity and to the solution of civic, economic
and social problems. But there is only one
dependable way. and that is education. Poli
tics cannot untangle our troubles, nor the
enactment of laws dispel our ills. Mere or
ganization cannot beget enterprise and public
spirit; mere institutions cannot do the work
of which good times and progressive tenden
cies are born. Nothing will suffice but edu
cation that is broad enough and high enough
to fit man’s seen and unseen needs.
The women who seeks a divorce, saying
her husband is in the penitentiary after hav
ing pleaded guilty to marrying four others,
surely has at least faint legal grounds for a
separation.
AFTER YOUR VACATION
By H. Addington Bruce
VACATION days are done and you are
back at the daily routine once more. . 1
hope you have not merely had a good
time during your vacation, but have really
fortified yourself to work to good purpose
through the months that lie ahead.
That, of course, is always one of the great
objects of a vacation. It is a break in work,
designed to help people to work better, It
should, for that matter, have the effect of
helping them want to work better.
On some people, unfortunately, vacations hav/
precisely the opposite effect. Vacations so dis
organize them that they return to work rer
luctantly and dawdle at their tasks in a less
than half-hearted way.
They let their minds wander back to the
“fun” they have been having at seashore, coun
try, or mountain resort. They think of almost
everything except the work they have been
engaged to do.
In this respect they are like school children
after the long ten weeks’ summer holidays.
Every teacher knows that it is difficult to
induce children to settle down to their books
for some time after the September reopening
of school. Morale is lessened, discipline is
hard to maintain. Which has led to a serious
agitation to have the summer holidays cut
short.
But children have the excuse that in them
the critical faculty has not yet developed. If
they go to work unwillingly it is because they
do not sense the real importance of work and
have no conception of how ruinous a perpetual
playtime would be to them.
You, an adult, do not have this excuse. At
any rate, you should not have it. If you do
work poorly after your vacation, however, it is
a pretty sure sign that, like a school child,
you are immature in point of judgment.
Also it justifies the prediction that you are
unlikely to progress Lar in your chosen call
ing. For your failure to appreciate what work
should mean to you indicates that the chances
are all against your ever being an enthusiast
for work.
And without enthusiasm real success in any
vocation is impossible. Enthusiasm alone can
beget the creative effort which commands the
richest rewards.
You know, as I do not, just what your atti
tude to your work is on returning to it from
a pleasant two or three weeks’ holiday.
You know, as I do not, whether you have
come back to it eagerly or regretfully, whether
you are attacking its problems vigorously or
feebly. ,
If the latter, sit down and have a heart-to
heart talk with Have several such
talks. Drop your time-killing amusement for
a few evenings—your billiards or pool or cards
or dancing oY idle gossiping—and instead de
vote those evenings to some serious medita
tion on your past and present and on the fu
ture in the light of your past and present.
Ask yourself candidly why you have been
lagging in life’s race—as you most certainly
have been. .
Don’t prate of luck, unrewarded industry,
favoritism, unfair employers. Look facts
squarely in the face—something you may not
have done before. Try to visualize your to
morrows as they are certain to be if you cling
to your easy-going todays.
Then get busy. . , J
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspa
pers.)
DEMOCRACY AND INDIFFER
ENCE
By H. Addington Bruce
The suicide of Democracy is indifference.
The trouble with the U. S. A. is not too
much Politics, but not enough.
A Monarchy or a Government by Trusts,
by Bosses, or by Grafters will work itself, be
cause thre is a Class whose self-interest keeps
them on the job. It is their bread and but
ter. Also jam.
A Democracy will not work itself. It nae
to be worked. The purer, decenter and
cleaner it is, the more it is in danger, be
cause nobody’s immediate selfish interests
are engaged.
That is why Democracies invariably tali
into the hands of Grafters.
That is why there spring up Political Par
ties, which are compact organizations of
men who expect to get something out of it
for themselves.
The cohesive power of public plunder is
stronger than the unifying energy of an ideal.
Parties exist because we have to make it
worth somebody’s while tq run the govern
ment.
They are based upon the weakness of the
sentiment of Patriotism.
They arise from the lack of Civic Con
science.
They substitute 'personal ambition, party
spirit and the pork barrel for those noble
motives, which are too watery.
For instance, they are saying now in Day
ton, Ohio, that the City Manager Plan they
have had quite a while is to be abandoned.
The reason is that nobody seems to be in
terested enough in it to defend it.
The two political party organizations hate
it, of course. It keeps their hands out of the
grab bag. Hence they have steadily done
their utmost to discredit it.
The have fomented discontent, circulated
misleading reports, magnified every mistake,
and carried out the usual program of mis
chief-makers.
They are banking on a pretty safe thing—
Public Indifference.
This sort of thing means the corroding,
possibly the collapse, of Democracy in the
end.
There is only one way to remedy it.
That is through the PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Children there ought to be trained in De
mocracy.
» Every school ought to be a little Republic,
not a little Monarchy, as they almost all are
now.
The most important thing in all the world
for American children to learn is How to
Govern Themselves.
Now how to obey a Teacher, but how to
ascertain and obey the will of the majority.
If they knew Democracy they would love it,
for we love what we know.
Now children graduate hating, despising
Politics. Democracy is Politics.
Do you know what is the Biggest Idea in
the World.
It is to make the school room a working
Republic, and train children in Democracy.
This is the only way to cure that Indiffer
ence that threatens our national life.
Underlying any stable Democracy must be
Education in Democracy.
Any other way to attempt to cure our po
litical ills is ‘‘to heal the hurt of the daugh
ter of my People slightly, crying Peace,
Peace, when there is no Peace!
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes
One way to enlist the support of a man
for any movement is to let him run it.—El
Paso Herald.
Japan has a man-faced crab, which Is a
far pleasanter possession than a crabbed-face
man.—St. Louis Globe Democrat.
A stogie is one of the few things that
travel on their merits and not on appear&nce.
—Canton (Ohio) News.
Many a father makes a goat of his kid. —
Columbus (Ohio) Citizen.
METHODS IN
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 15.
The management of a na
tional campaign is a matter
of business as well as poli
tics. Some of the most successful
managers in the national, as well as
in local politics, have been men who
won their spurs in commercial af
fairs long before they took an inter
est in things political. Mark Hanna
is a notable example. Prior to 1896
he was looked upon as a successful
business man rather than as a poli
tician, yet when he entered the field
of politics, Hanna was able to de
feat such veterans as Joe Manley,
of Maine; Platt, of New York; Quay,
of Pennsylvania, and Clarkson, of
lowa. What has been said of Han
na is also true in the case of Wil
liam F. Harrity, who was chairman
of the Democratic national commit
tee in 1892. He was known as a
business man rather thtin as a poli
tician. Many thought that Mr. Roose
velt made a mistake in 1904 when he
named George B. Cortftlyou as head
of the national committee, for the
latter had no experience in the game
of politics, his work having been
confined entirely to business and the
government service. But Cortelyou
was a success.
That the head of the national com
mittee js a ticklish position goes
without sayipg. The chairman is
ofttimes blamed for results quite
beyond his control. A case in point
is that of Senator Carter, of Mon
tana. who headed the Republican na
tional committee In 1892, a year in
which the tide had turned so strong
ly to the Democrats that the best of
politicians could never have divert
ed it.
The problem of success In the
management of national campaigns
is divided into three parts—how to
hold the vote of the rank and file of
the party and arouse their enthusi
asm for the ticket; how to convert
voters from the other side as well
as the great mass of Independents;
and ho*w to take advantage of the
mistakes the other side is liable to
make.
A Costly Error
The most costly mistake that any
party manager was able to take ad
vantage of was in the campaign of
1884, when James G. Blaine, in re
ply to the greeting of the ministers,
did not immediately repudiate the
speech of Dr. Burchard characteriz
ing the Democratic party as one of
Rum, Romanism and Rebellion. It
is true that the Plumed/Knight did
so late ron, but not before the Dem
ocratic managers had flooded the
country with Copies of the Burchard
speech, by which time it was too
late. The advantage .taken* of the
utterance of General Hancock char
acterizing the tariff as a local issue
helped to bring about his defeat.
There are thre eways of attain
ing the results. The first is through
mass meetings. Most leaders claim
that their value Is limited to the
arousing of enthusiasm of the rank
and file, that mass meetings do not,
as a rule, make votes. As evidence,
it is pointed out that Mr. Bryan in
his campaigns had large and en
thusiastic audiences, many people
coming to hear his oratory, although
determined not to vote for him. The
second is through the distribution of
campaign literature. This means
the speeches of party leaders, leaf
lets on the issues and badges and
buttons with the party emblem and
portraits and the names of .the can
didates. The third is the insertion
of articles and editorials in the daily
and weekly newspapers throughout
the country. This is one of the most
important and highly effective meth
ods. Much attention is paid to it
by party managers. It came into
vogue when the tariff was an issue
back in 1888. The controversy over
free raw materials was then on.
Both sides began to send the press
articles on this subject and then on
qther issues.
Getting the Dope
The national committee is aided in
its work by a campaign or execu
tive committee. The informa:ion on
which the campaign is conducted
comes from two sources. First, from
the managers themselves and those
close to them politically. As they
are from every section of the coun
try their .knowledge covers the gn
tire field. It .may be stated as a gen
eral proposition that each manager
is presumed to be in charge of the
campaign in his territory. The sec
ond source of information is the
chairmen of the various state com
mittees. They are supposed to be
continually keeping the national
managers posted. Their information
as to local conditions is derived from
the heads of local organizations.
During the campaign of 1900, how
ever, Chairman Johnson, of the Dem
ocratic executive committee, revived
the idea of having a direct represen
tative in every election precinct
throughout the United States. Abram
S. Hewitt originated H. He did it
in the campaign of 1876 when man
aging the canvass of Samuel J. Til
den for president. Mr. Hewitt had
two sets of blanks prepared for
every election precinct. One was a
preliminary, the other a final can
vass of voters. The experiment,
however, was not entirely success
ful. For the work was found to be
too volumnious for the national com
ndttee to undertake, hence the latter
body continued to depend upon the
state organizations for news as to
the situation. Chairman Harrity did
so to a great extent in the campaign
of 1892. That year the information
received by him was accurate
to enable a calculation coming with
in two of the electoral votes that
Grover Cleveland received.
Three Kinds of States
For campaign purposes the states
are divided into two classes. The
first are those that are doubtful,
with chances favoring the ticket.
Much attention is concentrated on
this class. There is usually one, and
sometimes even more than one mem
ber of the campaign committee do
ing nothing but attending to the cam
paign in each such state. In the
days prior to election reports several
times a day are received. The sec
ond class is of those that are doubt
ful, though more apt to be carried
by the opposition.
The press bureau is usually com
posed of two sets of men. First,
those ■who do nothing but read the
newspapers and magazines in search
of campaign material. This work is
both important and laborious. The
second class is of men who write
the articles sent out for publication
by the bureau. During the campaign
of 1900 the Republican headquarters
in Chicago had seven men in its press
bureau. Five were readers, while
two got up the articles. The coun
try weeklies get this matter in the
shape of patent insides, the country
dailies as stereotyped stuff, vzhile
proof sheets are mailed to the more
important papers, and are apt to un
dergo extensive revision prior to pub
lication. During the 190 C campaign
a list of country papers, with a cir
culation of 165,000, received from
one side three and a half columns of
matter every week; another, with a
circulation of 1,000,000, received plate
matter. Statements were also sup
plied to three special classes of coun
try daily and weekly papers, their
combined circulation being in the
neighborhood of 3,000,000. The most
difficult papers to get matter into are
those independent in politics. They
are particularly desirable as mediums
and special matter of a higher class
is usually prepared for them.' Dur
ing one of the Bryan campaigns, the
late Murat Halstead, Republican, and
■Willis J. Abbott, Democrat, engaged
in a debate in the columns of the
Kansas City Star, a paper hostile tc
the Nebraskan.
Most of the literature is written
around the campaign text book,
which both sides usually get out aft?
er the 'etter of acceptance is madfe
public. The textbook is not intended
lor general circulation. It is more
of a guide for the various commit
tees and spell-binders. The book,
however, may be purchased by any
one. During the campaign of 1896
Mark Hanna sent out campaign liter
ature prior to the publication jf the
textbook, but that was because he
was fearful of the influence of
“Coin’s Financial School” on the vot
er in the west. That year 200,000,-
*IOO documents were distributed by
the Republican campaign committee.
They were printed in English,
French, German, Spanish, Italian,'
Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch
and Hebrew. Over 2,000,000 copies
of the letter of acceptance of Presi
dent McKinley were distributed.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1920.
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
Closing of Vidalia Tobacco Market
After a most successful season,
the Vidalia tobacco warehouse has
closed for the year 1920. Between
One and two million pounds of to
bacco were sold through the ware
house here this season and Vidalia
will hold to her record as leading
the state in prices paid, as she did
last year. On the whole, the to
bacco industry has been successful
this year and It is confidently pre
dicted that more tobacco will be
grown in this section next year than
ever before. —Vidalia Advance.
Some of the finest yellow leaf to
bacco ever produced In the world
was marketed in Vidalia this season.
Lesson of the 801 l Weevil
With the partial loss of another
cotton crop, we wonder if the farm
ers 1 ve not yet learned the boll
weevil lesson. We wonder if the
farmers have not yet learned that
there is no money* in growing a
fourth of a cotton crop on land that
will produce, when properly tilled
and with the same fertilizer, from
50 to 100 bushels of sweet potatoes,
1,000 pounds of tobacco, and so on.
We wonder how many more big cot
ton crops they will try before they
will learn the boll weevil lesson as
they have learned It in Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana.—Lyons
Progress.
It is a wise idea to swat the boll
weevil with corn and other produce
immune to his attacks. Diversified
farming will aid In the fight.
Mad Bull Takes Charge
"A mad bull barricaded himself In
a produce store Oft Flat Shoals ave
nue. and after smashing everything
in the shop to bits, Including the cash
register, defied uybody or anything
to drive him out. The bull was first
angered by,the sight of a very red
barrel of very red apples in front of
the store, and after demolishing the
barrel, scattering apples in every di
rection, he went into the store to
complete the devastation. The clerks
jumped through the windows and the
proprietor ran upstairs. A half hour
later, just as it had been decided to
send for a rifle and shoot the bull,
the animal decided of Itself to walk
out of the store, and calmly proceeded
on the road to the slaughter pen.”—
Weekly Bostonian.
What of ths Mosquitoes?
The average woman is not afraid
of backbiters, if we may judge by
the kind of evening frock she
wears.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Good fdr Cordele
. Down in Cordele the administra
tion is prepared to pav the entire
indebtedness of the town. There is
talk of lowering taxes. This sounds
pretty good for Cordele.—Savannah
Press.
Wealth in the Soil
The “Advertise Georgia” movement
means a great deal. Its success is
sure to profit the state. There is
room here for many a home-seeker.
We have many an acre of untilled
soil which could be made to yield
wealth.—Augusta Chronicle.
Presidential Material
A New York baby fell out of a
four-story window and landed in a
baby carriage unhurt. That, if you’d
ask us, is the stuff presidents are
made of.—Dublin Courier-Herald.
Rome Folks Don’t Count
The sweet, demure, shy, modest
little thing while out with the
sweeties can be as grouchy and mean
and tart as an old hen when there
ain’t anybody around but home folks
that don’t count. Thomasville
Times-Enterprise.
‘What Do You Know About Georgia? 1
“What do you know about Geor
gia?” asks the Grady County Prog
ress. -The Progress 'was not talk'ng
politics—but business and agricul
ture and education and progress.
What do Georgians know about Geoi‘
gia? The advertise Georgia move
ment is to begin on the home folks
and tell them about their own state
Advertising Georgia is like charity
in that —it is best to begin its gooa
work at home. When the Georgians
know Georgia they’ll tell the world,
one way or another, probably both
ways, about Georgia.-—Savannah
Morning News.
ZEERRL'GGE MOLE IS
NOW A SHOW-PLACE
Zeebrugge Mole, to which a small
charge for admission is now made,
has become the show place on the
Belgian coast. A walk along the
Mole—a mile and a half long, .with a
good view of Blankenberghe. Heyst,
Knockle and the blockships In the
Bruges canal —has become Very
popular.
A museum on the Mole, one of
the latest additions to its interest,
contains many German war relics
and a large collection of photo
graphs by German officers showing
their handiwork—ships of the allies
in all the stages of sinking. There
is also to be shortly added a gun
from the Thetis which fired the
first shot in the historic raid, and
a “tot" from which grog was for
the last time served out to the men
on the Vindictive. A large number
of notice-boards have been affixed
to historic spots on the Mole to en
able visitors the more easily to re
construct the daring deeds of the
great raid.—Detroit News.
TRY AGAIN!
BY ROGER W. BABSON
Edison tried a great many things
before he found the carbon thread
that burns so brightly in the Incan
descent lamp.
Columbus met with much ridicule
before he finally won the help of
Queen Isabella for his journey to
America.
Shakespeare was long a poverty
stricken and unknown actor before
he attained some success, with the
plays that have since made him fa
mous.
Socrates, the beloved philosopher,
kept his way serenely in spite of
the threats of his countrymen. The
inspiration of his firmness and hon
esty has been handed down for cen
turies.
How many men of genius and in
spiration have through persever
ance risen from poverty and some
times misery to positions of honor
and fame! One might go on nam
ing them almost indefinitely.
Had these men been easily dis
couraged or depressed by ridicule
or failure, the world today would
not know their names. They went
right on; they tried again and again
—and again.
Think it over!
JAWBONE’S MEDITATIONS
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(chicken en possum z but
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APPETITE JE5' GITS T’
Honin' fuh Good ole
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Copyright, 1920 by McClure Newepeper Syndic*tg
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
A terrapin, which, according to the
date cut on the bottom of the shell,
is more than sixty-one years old,
was found a few days ago by James
D. Zelles, at Stewartstown, Pa. The
date is 1859 and the initials L. Z. The
latter correspond to those of his
grandfather, Devi Zellers, who often
cut dates and his initials on terra
pins.
One of the unique relics of Ameri
can history still extant is the six
teen-blade pocket knife which was
presented to George Washington by
Captain Samuel de Wees in 17 84. Tna
knife was recently acquired by
George De Wees, of Chicago, a de
,Cendant of Captain De Wees. It is
quite likely that the knife was of
Sheffield origin, as the American cut
ary industry did not take a real foot
old until about fifty years ago.
Julio Maria Sosa, editor of El Dia.
Montevideo, Uraguay, was wounded
Sunday in the first duel fought under
the newly legalized dueling law. His
opponent was Minister of Public
Works Humberto Pittamiglia.
The men fought with sabres and
Sosa was sligntiy wounded in the
arm.
Pigs have been almost eliminated
from Philadelphia. And the few of
the porcine quadrupeds that still re
main are doomed shortly to follow
their brothers and sisters beyond the
city limits or to the slaughter house.
Within three months 5,253 pigs
have been removed from the city un
der orders of the board of health and
fifty-four have been seized and sold
at the Philadelphia stock yards be
cause of the failure of their owners
to comply with orders of the board.
The number of pigs remaining for
whose removal orders have been is
sued is 207. In addition there are
about fifty pigs which, however, Di
rector Furbush, of public health, as
serts will not be allowed to remain.
The complete elimination of pigs
from the city will be an accomplish
ment for which Director Burbush be
gan to strive ten years ago, when
the number of pigs in the city, is said
to have exceeded 20,000.
Major Cedric Fauntleroy, Os Chica
go, commander of the Kosciusko
squadron in Poland, and in chaige of
air forces on the southern front dur
ing the recent Bolshevik offensive,
was decorated with the highest Pol
ish military cross by President Pil
sudski recently. The president paid
high tribute to the gallant role played
by Americans in repulsing the soviet
attack against Warsaw. Others dec
orated were General Roswadowski,
chief of staff, and General Stanislas
Haller, commander of the Sixth army.
One hundred and sixty accident and
injury claims were filed in Los An
geles a few days ago with the work
man’s state industrial commission by
motion picture actors and actresses,
who took part in a battle scene that
was photographed last week. Os the
claimants by far the larger number
are women.
Big game animals are increasing
on the four large game reservations
under control of the United States
department of agriculture. The report
of the chief of the bureau of biologi
cal survey shows a total of 368 bison,
274 elk, 54 antelope and 21 deer, an
increase in each species over the
number reported last year. The num
ber of . visitors to the big gamp res
ervations is also growing, says the
report.
Five million dollars will be spent
this year in improving the main high
ways of Canada through provincial
and Dominion government grants.
Two-thirds of the amount Is being
contribuled by the federal authori
ties. This is the first year ot the
scheme, and, in view of the time oc
cupied in preparing plans, the initial
year's outlay will not be as heavy as
in succeeding years. The improve
ment scheme, however, is general.
Every province from coast to coast
has filed highway plans for a»Ppy al
by the Dominion highways expel ts.
This is one of the conditions on
which the money is voted for the
purpose.
A new firearm, a machine S u « ln
the form of a pistol, has been adopt
ed bv the New York police.
Captain Charles Schofield, head tb y
Priire Training school and com
rnander of the riot batt f al ?he euns‘lasl
the first consignment of the guns last
week.
Chicago has a candidate for the
Hall of Fame for trees. It is »
eiant white maple nine feet in ® lr *
cumference at the base, *®®g
high and estimated to be 1,00 9 years
Ol The big maple stands In the Cook
county forest preserve, near Glen
view Ransome Kennicott, cnier
forester of the preserve, who recent
lyreexamined the tree and computed
its age, found that, while the heart
was dead, the exterior was sound
and the tree capable of lasting many
more years So far as known the
tree is the oldest living thing in
Illinois, according to Mr. Kennicott.
The value of the army air service
in time of peace is believed by the
war department to be demonstrated
clearly in the record army fliers
have made in forest fire Patro’s.
Six bases from which these pa
trols operate have been opened be
tween May 16, 1920, and July 1,
1920, and in that time 6,2347,091
square miles of timber land have
been covered.
The fliers on this work have
been In the air for 1,995 hours and
have located 464 forest fires.
When Louisville women go to the
polls to register October 5 and 6, it
will not be necessary for them to
state their age specifically, accord
ing to Martin Evans, clerk of Jef
ferson County Election commission.
Mr. Evans declared last night that
the women voters will only have to
convince the officers at the polls
that they are 21 years old and
therefore, privileged to register.
FARMER WINS
SB,OOO A DAY
(Charles O’Nell In Leslie’s.)
There Is a pot of gold at the end
of the rainbow. Bill Crossland, of
Okmulgee, Okla., has foynd it after
a quest that spanned three quarters
of a century. As a pioneer of the
type that soon will be seen no more,
he followed the rainbow of fortune
from eastern Ohio, through the mid
dle west, and along the frontier trails
of Missouri and Oklahoma. His dream
of a pot of gold at the 1 end of the
rainbow came true in the early part
of 1920 when the great West Okmul
gee oil pool near Okmulgee, Okla.,
was discovered and Bill Crossland
found his farm of 640 acres of land
lying in the heart of the great pool.
As the owner of the fee in his faym
Crossland receives the oil royalty, or
one-eighth of the value of the oil
produced on the land. Crossland’s
income is now from $5,000 to SB,OOO
a day and steadily increasing.
At the time the big pool was dis
covered Crossland was a poor farmer
working year in and year out on his
land in the river bottoms twelve
miles west of Okmulgee iCty. His
home was an old log and frame
house, built in the late eighties.
Bill Crossland, multi-millionaire,
with an income of $2,000,000 per
year, has not changed his status
from the days when he was Bill
Crossland, poor farmer. The old
house is still his home and he still
spends most of his time laboring
with his son in the fields of his
farm.
Finding the pot of gold has not
brought all happiness to the pioneer
who followed the rainbow So many
years. “It came a little too late,’’
Crossland tells those who offer con
gratulations on his good fortune. “If
I could have had it a few years ago
ft would have meant so much to me.
Os course, I am glad to have it now
and I aim to use what means I have
to proliong my life so that I may
see some of those near and dear to
me enjoy many of the'things that for
a number of causes have, so far, been
denied to them.’’
Crossland, who is seventy-six years
old, is planning the first vacation of
his lifetime. He has bougJit a small
and inexpensive touring car and will
soon leave with his son for a fishing
trip in Colorado. —Leslie's Weekly.
Caught with an empty gasoline
tank 10,000 feet above Washoe
Lake, Daniel Davison, San Francisco
and Los Angeles, aviator; John
Woolley, Oakland, business man, and
James McKay of Reno, were forced
to volplane nineteen miles to the
ground last week.
Landing was made without in
jury and, tlie machine was brought
to Reno. Davison said the gasoline
became exhausted when fighting a
wind storm.
More than 5,00,000 firms and in
dividuals are paying income taxes
this year, according to figures made >
public by the Bureau of Internal
Revenue. These figures also show i
that practically 3,090,000 tax payers
have already paid their income taxes
in full.
The bureau’s statement shows
that 4.900,000 persons are paying in
come taxes on incomes of $5,000 or
less, and that fewer than 600,000 of
this number have not paid their
taxes in full, choosing the alterna
tive method of payment by install
ments. Individual returns for in
comes in excess of $5,000, including
those individuals and firms, num
bered 790,000. Approximately half
of this number have paid all Income
taxes to the Government. The third
installment of tax payments for thig
year is due Wednesday next.
The steamship Mismaha reached
New York a few days ago with the
latest news from Pitcairn Island, a
tiny spike of land some two and a
quarter miles long which rises from
the depths of the mid-Pacific. Cap.
tain Robert C. O’Brien, skipper of
the Mismaha, which touched there
last month en route from Australia,
said that the inhabitants of the is
land told him proudly that their •
population had increased to 175 .
while the previous count, made al- •
most a century ago, showed but 170.
The resident's of the island, a Brit
ish possession, are descendants of
fifteen mutineers of the British ship
Bounty, who founded a colony there
in 1790 with wives from Polynesia.
Captain O’Brien said the colony 19 V)
thriving and that the inhabitants
show no signs of the mental deterio
ration predicted for them as a con/-
sequence of long continued inter
marriage.
The destroyers Wasmuth, the first
to be named after a private in the
Marine Corps, and Trever were
launched at Mare Island Navy Yard
last week. Private Henry Wasmuth
saved the life of Admiral Robley D
(Fighting Bob) Evans in 1865 an/
died two days thereafter. Lieut-Con
mander George A. Trever lost his
life in a successful attempt to pre
vent an explosion on the submarine
O-5 in 1918.
A joint report by the Mint and
Geological Survey fixes the total Am
erican production of gold during the
calender year 1919 at 2,918.628
ounces, valued at $60,333,401); silver,
56.682,445 fine oupces, valued at $63.-
533,652, taken at the average New
York price of $1.12057 per ounce
This represented a reduction of SB.-
313,300 in gold and $11,127,694 tn
silver from the 1918 output of the
mines, the report said.
California led among gold produc- •
ing states with an output valued at
$17,398,200, and Montana among sli
ver producers with $15,012,258 fine
ounces.
A group of fifteen business and
professional men of Boston has
agreed to boycott one of the most
popular restaurants in the business
district because the proprietors have
advanced prices to a point that the
fifteen consider to be exhorbitant.
They not only will refrain from pat
ronizing the restaurant themselves,
but will pass the word about among
their frjends.
Belgium is to continue its sugar
rationing scheme. It was begun as
one of the numerous efforts to cur
tail foreign purchases, that ex
change might be reduced, and to as
sure the population a certain amount
of sugar at a reasanoble price. The
plan, according to the Ministry of
Ravitaillement, is working success- k
fully.
Among the 725 passengers who de
parted for Europe from New ■York
last week aboard the White Star
liner Adriatic was Mme. Marcella
Sembrich, famous prima donna of
the Metropolitan Opera Company.
According to the figures of the
Employers’ Association, 28,000 less
men are employed in the factories of
Detroit than were employed April 1,
Many other thousands, the number
of which is unestimated, are wont
ing on part time. Consequently for
the first time in a long period, rooms
are easier to get than in New Yora,
the housing tension has slackened to
the point where a canvass by the
Board of Commerce shows a con
siderable number of vacancies, and
wages for un-skilled and semi-skilled
tend lower, with manufacturers “ad
justing” uiece work rates.
The Trans-Pacific Magazine re
ports that in a further endeavor to
arouse in the farmers of the Philip
pine Islands a true appreciation ot
the possibilities of agricultural ma
chinery, the Philippine department
of Agriculture and natural resources
hlan to utilize moving pictures to
demonstrate the most approved
methods of cultivation, preparation *
of seed, use of farm machinery,
harvesting and storing crops and
methods of packing and handling
where these processes are Involved.
Neither airplane machine guns,
battery guns, automatic guns nor
any gun larger than a 10-gauge may
be used in Alberta to kill migratory
wild fowl under the internatinoa!
agreement that has been entered
into with the United States as a par
ticipating factor. Motor boats ana
sail boats are also forbidden as
accessories to the sport of duck
shooting.
WHAT DO YOU
KNOW ?
1. What former Giant player has
been traded to Toronto?
2. What is a Mohammedan plac«
of worship called? _•
3. What former president was a
particularly heavy smoker?
4. Who was the famous sage of
Athens?
5. What country has an elephant
on its flag.
6 What is the Japanese name for
Japas- 9
7 Who composed the opera, "The
Flying Dutchman”?
8. How many dreams did Joseph
interpret tor the Egyptians?
9 What is the longest river in
Africa?
10. What are the provinces of
Switzerland called?
11 Who wrote "Fables in
Slang”?
12. What was the title of the
priestesses of the oracle of Delphi?
Answer to Questions
1, Benny Kauff; 2, mosque; 8,
Grant; 4, Solon; 5, Slam; 6, Dal Nip
pon; 7, Wagner; 8, three; 9, Nile; 10,
Cantons; 11, George Ade; 12, Py. i
t h o n e ss.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
There was an expression of melan
choly tinged with resentment on Mrs.
Brown’s face as she entered the
grocery store.
“I want,” she began impressively,
“to talk to you about them eggs I
had last week. They weren’t any
thing like as fresh as they might
have been.”
“That's strange.” replied the grocer,
who thought himself something of
a wit. “We always have an almanac
hanging up in the chicken run to
keep the hens up to date.”
“Oh!” came the retor, with crush
ing emphasis. “Then all I have to
say is that somebody with brains
about as addled as them eggs has
been misleadin’ the hens with ’•last
year’s calendar. Just you hang up a
1920 card, and maybe them chickens
’ull start working overtime to catch
up to it!”