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Progressive, or Standpatter?.
THOSE elements of American thought
and effort that count themselves
“progressive” as distinguished from
‘reactionary” and constructive as distin
guished from “standpat,” should have no
waverftag in the Presidential campaign.
Governor Cox is as distinctly a champion
of progress as Senator Harding is a dis
ciple of destruction.
Though neither had uttered a word since
his nomination, the record of each speaks
so loud that there can be no mistaking
the purposes for which he stands and the
interests with which he is allied. The Gov
ernor has proved himself a thoughtful
friend to the rank and file; a student of
social and economic difficulties, who has
the discernment to find where true reme
dies lie, and the courage to go forward; a
statesman who sees that prosperity cannot
abide if it rest not upon justice, and that
public problems cannot be solved save in
the spirit of construction. The Senator, es
timable gentleman though he is, lacks both
the impulse and the experience from which
views like these are evolved. When has he
ever come to grips with great issues and
great emergencies, as his Democratic op
ponent has? When has he demonstrated
opacity for dealing with critical situations
id for understanding the needs of the in
rticulate mass of men, as Governor Cox
) repeatedly has done?
The latter, during his executive terms,
3 initiated legislation which, for its
..hie to the cause of social justice and
xnomic security, has hardly a parallel in
is nation’s history. Laws for the protec
on of the weak against heartless aggran
lement, laws for the reform of prison
auditions which were an affront to hu
manity and commonsense, laws for the
;onservation of health, for the extension of
ducational facilities, for the development
if agriculture, for the encouragement and
peace of industry, for the promotion of
those common and fundamental interests
that are the source of a State’s or a na
tion’s well-being—these are to his credit
in overflowing measure.
If America wishes prosperity, she must
go forward. If she wishes concord and
good-feeling she must go forward. No phil
osophy of “reaction” can bring content in
these unsettled days. Those who do not ad
vance will go inevitably backward. Those
who do not help to build up will find their
own selfish structures tumbling about them.
Because he looks forward, because he builds
upward. Governor Cox is the man the
Presidency needs.
Those Who Give Their Talent
IT is doubtful that a true teacher or
true scientist ever gave up the poorly
paid work of class room or experi
mental laboratory to accept a lucrative
place in the business realm, as a matter
of preference. It seems, however, that
scores are doing so as a matter of neces
sity. Witness these typical cases compiled
by the New York Evening Post: “A pro
fessor of biology, with a salary of $2,000
a year, recently exchanged his chair for a
position with an automobile company at
$4,000 a year. A professor of modern lan
guage at $1,200 a year has become a trade
comm.ssioner at $4,500. A professor of
English at $1,500 has become an advertis
ing manager at $5,000. A teacher of pub
lic speaking at $1,300 has become a sales
man at $2,500. A professor of education
at $1,500 is doing somethii g with oil and
getting $2,400. And a college president
with a salary of $3,000 has gone into com
mercial work at a salary of $7,500.”
Aptly does the Evening Post comment:
“These man have not suddenly become able
to hold business jobs; they have finally be
come unable to hold academic jobs—and
live.”
The South was not served more loyally
by her soldiers in the ’Sixties than by her
teachers in these latter years of struggle,
’rom grammar schools to universities, they
have shown truly heroic steadfastness in
aboring on in a field of ideals and ill
owarded duties, despite th* continual in
itation of generous salaries elsewhere.
,’ollege professors who, in commercial and
idustrial offices, could have doubled or
rebled their financial incomes, have stood
oy the colors to which they were dedi
:ated, even when it seemed that the land
■n whose interest they were sacrificing had
forgotten them. And most of those who
have been constrained to turn to business
for a livelihood would infinitely have pre
ferred the herbs of the educator to the
money-maker’s stalled ox—had the herbs
but been sufficient to hold a family’s souls
and bodies together.
Loyalty like this deserves a people’s
richest gratitude. Such institutions as
Emory, Agnes Scott and Oglethorpe, as
well as the Tech, the University of Geor
gia and others founded by the State, should
have a hundred or a thousand dollars of
endowment for every one they have today.
Only thus can justice be done the men and
women who would rather give than sell
their talents. Only thus can the South’s
resources be rightly developed and her
progress in things worth while be assured
We can better afford to stint any other in
terest than that of education, for it is the
light without whose quickening beams no
flower and no fruitage can spring from
material wealth.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Reclaim This Empire
IT is greatly to be hoped that Sumter
county’s wonted spirit of enterprise
will seize upon the suggestion recent
ly made by expert engineers that its more
than thirty-three thousand acres of marsh
and overflow lands can be reclaimed at
relatively low cost and converted into farm
sites of high productiveness. The drainage
of similar lands in North Georgia has
been accomplished with expenditures rang
ing from fifteen to thirty dollars an acre.
Formerly well nigh worthless for practical
purposes, these tracts are now valued at
upwards of one hundred, and fifty dollars
an acre; and the attendant gains to pub
lic health and common prosperity are no
less marked than those to the individual
property owners. The Sumter county low
lands, it is estimated, can be drained at
a cost no larger and probably less than
those of the Piedmont area, while there
is every assurance that the rewards will
be equally as rich and far-reaching.
Every well advised reclamation proposal
deserves unstinted support from Georgia’s
business and agricultural leaders. It is not
a matter of theory but of widely estab
lished fact that capital invested for such
purposes yields substantial and abiding re
turns. According to the latest published
records of the Geological Survey some for
ty drainage districts have been formed in
this State, their average extent running
from fourteen hundred to nearly twenty
two thousand acres. In all these undertak
ings thus far completed the results have
been abundantly satisfying. Many of the
goodliest farms in America now lift their
harvests of gold from land which a few
years or a few seasons ago was an un
tillable and virtually valueless bog. The
thousands of dollars spent in. reclaiming
them will be as nothing beside the mil
lions which they will produce in food
stuffs or cotton through the decades and
generations to come.
While results thus strikingly warrant
drainage enterprises, the work of reclaim
ing Georgia’s swamp and overflow lands
has scarcely begun. Little more than four
teen thousand acres have yet been won
from the marshy wilderness. The aggregate
in need of drainage is nearly eight mil
lion acres. Os this immense total, three
million, one hundred and fifty-one thou
sand represent periodically ‘ overflowed
■and permanent swamp lands; three million,
five hundred and ninety-one thousand, wet
grazing lands; approximately six. hundred
and twenty-eight thousand, periodically
swamped land; upwards of one hundred
and ninety-sir thousand lands requiring un
derdrainage; and three hundred and fifty
two thousand tidal marsh lands. With
these nearly eight million acres, constitut
ing one-seventeenth of the State’s entire
area, as a field for development, Holland
or Belgium would count herself surpassing
ly rich. Intrinsically they are worth just
as much in Georgia as they would be in
Europe. Their fertility is no less, their
capacity for turning forth bountiful crops
is no less, their significance to economic
and human interests is no less. Apply to
them the transforming touches of science
and thrift, and they will make up another
empire within an Empire State.
*
Bach to Barter!
THE .wide world is of closer kin than
its parts usually perceive. Note this
bit of news from the Far North, tell
ing how the Eskimo paper, KALORIKMIR,
is grappling the high cost of subsistence.
Forced to take measures for an increase of
income, our Arctic contemporary announces
the following advance in subscription
rates:
Per Year One Sealskin
Six Months Two Eider Ducks
Three Months Six Dozen Eggs
Single Copy One Egg
How many of the hardiest pioneers and
brightest lights in Georgia newspaperdom
have gathered the material reward of their
talent in pecks of yellow yams, bushels of
golden corn, red-gravied hams, and, when
fortune was uncommonly kind, a squealing
porker or a heifer calf. Journalism thus had
a much more substantial scheme of com
pensation than is possible in payment by
mere money, where a dollar is but a decrep
it ghost of what it pretends to be. Money,
in fact, is ever like lago’s purse. Today ’tis
something, tomorrow nothing.
’Twas niine, ’tis his, and has been
slave to thousands.”
But he who holds the fruits of field and
flock and herd has wealth Indeed. A return
to the days of primitive barter would make
living less convenient, but in divers ways
far more equitable, more wholesome, and
would slit the weasand of many an economic
problem. How ill would the industrial slack
er fare under a system where one who had
nothing worthwhile to offer could get noth
ing substantial in return! How the drones
who hive in soft unproductive jobs would be
sent buzzing back to nature for a living!
And ye scribe, who now receives a pittance
of green paper for his pen’s outpouring,
would feast again on autumn’s fat and warni
his no longer shrunken shank by a roaring
hearth. s
Happy our Eskimo brother, who can fetch
his wjfe a sealskin out of one yearly sub
scription’ and by disposing of a single copy
of KALORIKMIR become the proud p os
sessor of an egg! May he and his excellent
paper thrive on! And his generous sub
ducksP’ may they neVer grow less in eider
■ •
The Nation and the Trees
THE fact that the next Chief Magis
trate of the United States will be a
publisher encourages the president
of the American Forestry Association Mr
Charles Lathrop Pack, to believe that at
I_ast,W 1 _ ast , W r shall liave action on the critical
sons r C l n r rVing the trees ‘ For < he rea-
\ Governor Cox or Senator Hard
g Ho;i;4 be impelled from sharp expe
erento S the Print Paper P roblem nev
. re * t e / Sy . untll something effective
t L done , fortlf y the future and lighten
die cost of producing wood pulp
In this matter no field or phase of Amer
ican interest is uninvolved. Every paper or
b? e hA T re?dS ’ every <*»*
ble in his home or office, every piece of
’en hiS h every Problem Vcident
to his community s shortage of dwelling*
and business structures is related one way
or another to the question of forest con
servation And beyond all these He the
fundamentally more important interests ol
agriculture and health, which are vitallv
concerned in the future of the forests
? ne , sees in official reports that
the virgin forests of the United State"
f l vvZntv S ? rUnk -J rom eight hundred and
twenty-two million acres to one-sixth of
that amount, he feels vaguely that the
situation is disturbing. But not until he
studies its manifold effects in the na
ion s daily life and business does he be
ginisto realize how unfortunate and ominous
There are few more practical or more
urgent matters to which Govermental ener
gies. State and Federal alike, can be di
rected. To check and, as far as possible
repair the enormous forest wastes will
lighten many a burden of the present and
prevent incalculable ills in time to come.
WHEN STOCKS GO DOWN
By H. Addington Bruce
MANY people, of course, lose money
when stocks go down. Still worse,
many people also lose their health,
especially people of the so-called nervous
temperament.
So full of health-destroying possibilities, in
fact, is a falling stock market that men and
women at 311 inclined to nervousness cannot
be too strongly warned:
“Whatever you do, don’t speculate in stocks.
Keep your money in the savings banks, or
put it into government bonds. Even thtf ex
citement of winning in a stock deal may be
hurtful to you, and if the market turns against
you the effect may be disastrous.”
Stock brokers themselves and professional
traders are not immune against the evil ef
fects on health of a falling stock market. Typ
ical is the statement of one specialist in nerv
ous diseases:
“Whenever I read ,in the newspapers of a
panic or a developing panic in the stock mar
ket, I know that I am likely to have patients
from brokerage houses.
“Mostly they will come to be treated for
sleeplessness, with or without the complica
tion of headaches. But also there will be some
suffering from a severe dyspepsia, and others
whose chief symptom is a heart disorder of a
more or less serious sort.”
And, speaking of the effects of a falling mar
ket on stock speculators in general, another
specialist says: ’
“Financial speculation cannot be carried on
without strain, and the anxieties born of
gambling have worn out many.”
Os course, from the medical standpoint there
is not the same objection to buying stocks out
right for investment as there is to buying
them on margin for speculation. The investor,
with his stocks “salted away,” does not have
to worry about the ups and downs of the mar
ket, but can give undivided attention to his reg
ular business.
Though, to be sure, unless the investments
are really sound, occasion for serious worry
will in time present itself. And nowadays
particularly there are numerous stocks offered
for “investment” which cannot by the wildest
stretch of imagination be called sound.
So that the nervous, unless content with
comparatively low return and willing to be
guided by a conservative banker or broker,
had better keep, out of the market altogether.
They may mfss many a chance to make a
“killing.” They are more likely, though, to
miss many a chance of being crippled both
financially and in health.
Wherefore, if only because they are nervous,
discretion is in their case worth a thousand
times more than valor so far as dealings in
stocks are concerned.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspa
pers.)
.ORANGES, TOMATOES, AND
HEALTH
By Dr. Frank Crane
In the early stages of the science of diet it
was taught that the food elements which real
ly feed are of three kinds.
The fats, such as butter, meat fats, nut fats,
etc.
The protein foods, such as lean meats.
And the carbo-hydrates, such as the foods
containing sugar and Starch.
Roughly speaking these three kinds of nour
ishment did the three things needful, (1) re
stored waste, (2) supplied energy and (3)
maintained bodily heat.
All other foodstuffs, except certain salts and
minerals, were supposed to be waste, or fod
der, and not really needed.
Now, however, the scientists have discovered
that there are other ingredients of our diet
quite as essential as the three mentioned.
These are the disease-preventing elements, and
are called Vitamins.
Vitamins are not yet fully understood, but
enough has been proved by experiment about
them to show that they are of vital impor
tance.
The Life Extension Institute recently called
attention to the high food value of two of
our commonest foods, the orange and the
tomato, because of the vitamins they contain.
Both the aristocratic orange and the plebeian
tomato were formerly regarded by food ex
perts as supplying little more than bulk and
color to the diet; now, however, they are held
in high esteem as sources of “protective food
matter.”
By this is meant that they contain those
vitamins that protect the body from disease.
After much discussion and experiment there
is now no doubt that scurvy, both in infants
and adults, is caused by lack of a protective
factor in the diet which has been given the
name of “water soluble C vitamin.”
It has been proved again and again that
orange juice protects the child fed on cow’s
milk against scurvy. A decoction of orange
peel has been found quite as effective as fresh
orange juice.
Orange juice may also be given to the
breast-fed baby, since it has been found to
contain also the water soluble B vitamin,
which not only wards off neuritis, but also
has a favorable influence upon growth.
The bulletin of the institute notes the ex
periments by Byfield and Daniels at the Uni
versity of lowa, in which it was shown that
in every case where the anti-scorbutic (scurvy
preventive) dose of three teaspoonfuls daily
was increased to eleven teaspoonfuls daily
infants whose weight had remained stationary
for a number of days showed marked increase
in growth.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes.
Be sure you are right, then hold the
stakes while the other fellows bet.—New
York Globe & Commercial.
“The power of the press” will be even
stronger after the apple season opens.—
Florida Metropolis.
The Houston Post has chosen a motto
for the Dempsey escutcheon: “invincible in
peace, invisible in war," which seems to
fit the fighter both up and likewise down.—
Nashville Banner.,
The moth that gets into a bathing suit
this autumn will starve to death.—Omaha
News.
A University of Illinois professor accused
his wife of meeting a “Champion butcher
in his refrigerator three times a week.”
Well, their relation certainly seems to have
been cool enough.—Columbia (S. C.) State.
Experts say fish will solve the high cost
of meat. Now all we’ve got to do is to
pass legislation making every day Friday.
—Nashville Tennessean.
Three Porto Rico sugar companies are
paying dividends of 100 per cent. Aren’t
you glad to know whom you’ve been work
ing for? —Cleveland Plain Dealer. "
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
(Editor’s Note: The foregoing is
the first of a series of twenty-four
articles by Mr. Haskin in which he
will discuss the most Interesting
features of each of the presidential
campaigns from 1824 to 1920. This
series of articles will be valuable to
everybody interested in the present
campaign for president, and will con
tain much interesting historical in
formation of the kind usually over
looked in the histories—the Incidents
and the stories of the campaign. Tak
en as a whole, this series will form
a complete history of the quadren
nial struggles of the American people
to choose a president. Cut them out
and paste them in your scrap book.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—-When
the citizens of Blount coun
ty, Tennessee, held a mass
meeting at Maryville early in
the year 1823 they little thought that
their action was to revolutionize the
methods of choosing a president of
the United States; that they were to
be responsible for the beginning of
political party organizations in this
country; or that they were to take
the first step in the movement which
succeeded in obtaining recognition of
the fact that a man has a right to
aspire to the office of president,
whether trained or untrained in
statecraft. These vitally important
things which directly resulted from
the Blount county mass meeting be
came issues in the campaign of 1824
and caused that contest to be the first
in which the American nation select
ed a president according to the gen
eral methods still obtaining.
This Blount county mass meeting
started all the trouble. It refused to
be bound by the then recognized rules
that a president must be selected
from among those schooled in state
craft and experienced in administra
tion. Every president up to that time
had been a man directly connected
with the separation from England
and formation of the republic under
the constitution. Each president had
been either vice president or a cab
inet officer in the administration pre
ceding his selection. The people had
practically nothing to say in the mat
ter of choosing electors and such a
thing as popular interest in a presi
dential campaign was unknown. Fur
thermore, with the exception of the
four years of John Adams’ adminis
tration, the head of the government
had been a Virginian and A repre
sentative of an exclusive clique which
set much store by knowledge and cul
ture, however democratic they may
have been in their theories of gov
ernment.
The Four Candidates
The idea of the succession to the
presidency was firmly fixed in the
minds of the politicians. It happen
ed that four candidates appeared on
the horizon. They were John Quincy
Adams, of Massachusetts, secretary
of state; William H. Crawford, of
Georgia, secretary of the treasury;
John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina,
secretary of war, and Henry Clay, of
Kentucky, speaker of the house of
representatives. So it appeared that
the country was safe, whatever the
outcome, for every one of the aspir
ants was a trained statesman of
prominence in the administration.
Then this Blount county mass
meet meeting appeared on the scene.
It pow-wowed awhile one “first Mon
day,” and then adopted a resolution
formally nominating for president of
the United States, Andrew Jackson,
of Tennessee. Thus originated what
would be known in twentieth century
political nomenclature as the “Ten
nessee Idea.” Andrew Jackson had
been a great soldier. Everybody rec
ognized that fact and everybody
praised him for the strategy of The
Horseshoe and the military genius
of the Battle of New Orleans. But
he had little or no experience in
statecraft, notwithstanding a short
service in both houses of congress.
The conservatives all over the coun
try held up their hands in holy hor
ror and cried out: This man is; not
fit to be president. He is undignified.
He can’t speak French. He doesn t
know the classics. He wouldn t know
how to act at a dinner party. He is
unspeakable." ,
For a time the three members ot
Monroe’s cabinet and the speaker
of the house who were running for
president declined to pay much at
tention to the Jackson candidacy,
which was regarded as a joke. At
this time, it must be remembered,
there was only one party. The old
Federal party organization had dis
appeared and Monroe had received
everv vote but one in the electoral
college of 1820. The Democratic
party had everything its own way.
King Caucus Canned
The Tennesse idea was crystalliz
ed in a set of resolutions passed by
the state legislature, and sent to the
legislatures of other states for ap
proval, denouncing “King Caucus.
Presidential nomination had been
dictated by the congressional caucus,
coming unpopular. The Tennesse
Idea spread, and with its spread
the Tennessee candidate became
stronger. The Hero of New Orleans
appealed to the popular mind, even
if he was unpopular with the states
men. .
Early in 1824 King Caucus made
his last stand, only 66 of the 201
members of congress attending the
meeting which solemnly declared
William H. Crawford, secretary of
the treasury, to be the regular
Democratic-Republican nominee for
president. Democratic-Republican
was the official name of the party,
although either name was used popu
larly. The old conservative organi
zation made a firm stand for Craw
ford. He had the support of Thomas
Jefferson, the founder of the party,
of President Monroe, and of all the
ultra-conservative forces. But Jack
son’s strength began to be annarent
and some of the practical politicians
of the East were not slow to recog
nize the fact. A Jackson conven
tion was held at Harrisburg. Penn
sylvania. which adopted a resolution
denouncing the scheme of succession
to the presidency by a cabinet offi
cer. George A. Dallas was then
boss in Pennsylvania and he handed
the state over to Jackson. Where
upon Calhoun, whose main strength
had been tn Pennsylvania, withdrew
from the race and was accented b
everybody as candidate for vice
president.
Jackson was hailed as the "Pet.
nle’s Candidate’ on the one sffie and
denounced as an audacious and pre
sumptuous ignoramus on the other.
There were then 24 states in th*
Union. In 10 of these, presidential
electors were chosen bv ponulnr vot»
for a general ticket, in the fashion
now universally prevailin'’. Tn
seven. the electors were voted on h”
districts And in the other- seven
the electors were chisen bv the leg
is’atures and the peonle had no vote
for president at all. Those state
xvoro New York. Dolewnre. Georgia,
r.ouisiana. South Carolina, Vermon’
"nri Indiana.
Tomorrow —Presidential Campaigns
11. The Jackson-Adams Race of 1828.
Back
BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE
I think I know, now, why no tongue
or pen,
Or brush or chisel of the cun-.
ning hand,
Has pictured heaven to the minds,
, of men
By any sign they cared to un
derstand.
The tales of golden gates and jas
pered walls
Have only served to turn our
spirits pale;
The shining streets and infinite,
ivory halls
Have seemed a sorry, sublimat
ed jail.
So, too, Majiomet’s heaven and its
flesh
Cannot re-flame the ashen ap
petite,
And when the Buddhist soul escapes
its mesh
It loses all we think of as de
light.
But I, who have been banished and
return
To the sweet solace of my roof
O, then.
Mine is the inner wisdom, for I
learn
Heaven is the joy of getting
home again!
((Copyright, 1920, N. E. A.)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1920.
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
A BRIDE and bridegroom sel
dom realize they are mar
ried until they find them
selves actually enjoy .ig
their little quarrels.
When a girl says “The Lord will
provide,” she means that He will
provide her with a husband, and thus
save her from stenography.
Every man would “hit their tobog
gan” occasionally, if he felt that he
could rely on some woman to drag
the sled up the hill again for him.
When a man has to stop and think
what to say in a love letter, it is a
sign that has caution has come into
action.—and h’s heart is having a
reaction.
There is as much difference be
tween an “understanding” .and a
bona fide “engagement," dear heart,
as there is between an I. O. U. and
a check.
Some one has said that the trouble
with married people is that they get
too clo.se a view of one another, and
thus lose all the enchantment and
perspective which distance lends,
which is practically saying, that the
trouble with married people is tha*
they are married!
Simply because a man asks you if
you could love him is not necessarily
a sign that he wants you to. It qjav
be merely a move for “preparedness ’
in case of a sudden attack.
Those “spirit communications”
would be a lot more convincing to
some women if all the husbands who
come back would not be so abso
lutely positive that they are in
heaven.
If everybody in the world seems to
be going against you, ‘why not turn
around and jog along with the
crowd?
Success in a love affair goes to a
man’s head and makes him so dizzy
that he begins to wonder why sqch
a dazzling creature should waste him
self all on one girt?
UNCLE SAM HAS
“GOT THE GOODS”
(From the Beater.)
A great many of our own people
delight in fostering the idea that
these little old United States face
dismal days ahead, and they’ve been
harping on this pessimistic theory
ever since the war ended
Do you know that the United States
has only 6 per cent of the popula
tion of the world and only 7 per
cent of the land? And yet we pro
duce:
20 per cent of the world’s supply
of gold.
25 per cent of the world’s supply
of wheat.
40 per cent of the world’s supply
of iron and steel.
40 per cent of the world’s supply
of lead.
40 per cent of the world’s supply
of silver.
50 per cent of the world’s supply
of zinc.
52 per cent of the world’s supply
of coal
60 -per cent of the world’s supply
of cotton.
60 per cent of the world s supply
of copper.
60 per cent of the world s supply
of aluminum.
60 per cent of the world’s supply
of oil.
75 per cent of the world’s supply
of corn
85 per cent of the world’s supply
of automobiles.
We also refine 80 per cent of the
copper and operate 40 per cent of
the world’s railroads.
Before the war we owed other na
tions $5,000,000,000. We have not
only paid this debt, but foreign na
tions now owe us $10,000,000 and we
hold the largest gold reserves of any
nation in the world.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
"Henry,” said Mrs. Style, “I must
have a new motor car."
“Good heavens, woman!” exclaimed
Mr. Style. “What’s the matter with
the car I bought you six months ago?
Didn’t you choose the upholstering
yourself? and didn’t you have every
contrivance you could think Os put
into it, by which you added nearly
SBOO to the original price?”
“Oh, yes, Henry! But I’ve been
about quite a Jot in that car. All my
friends and acquaintances have seen
me in it repeatedly, and it no longer
attracts attention when I go for a
run. Dear me! When I’m in that
car I’m beginning to feel as if I
were wearing a last year’s dress!”
All was rush and bustle ip the
studio when the new producer be
gan to get busy. He snapped and
barked and roared and wept, but
certainly he got things done.
Then he turned suddenly to the
weary “star,” who was resting after
the last stunt.
“We’ll begin on the next episode
now,” he said briskly, while the ac
tor groaned. “It ought to be n
thriller. You’re blown up into the air
by an explosion, and an airplan»-
rushes along and catches you."
“It does, does it?” exclaimed the
actor. “But look here. Supposing
the airplane isn’t there?"
But the film producer’s thoughts
were already away ahead.
“Oh, that’s all right!" he snapped
absent-mindedly. “Tn that case, just
come down; don’t wait for it!”
“I am not a business men, you see,
and I should be glad if you would
enlighten me as to what is meant
by double entry?”
"By double entry we mean two sets
of books—one of which may be pro
duced in court if required, but not
the other.”
Miss Sophy Snubden’s new young
beau was calling at the house for
the first time. He had just settled
into a chair in the parlor when
Sophy’s little brother brought him a
glass of water and offered it to him
very politely.
The young man drank it and re
turned the glass to the small boy,
who looked disgusted.
"He doesn’t!” he said to his sister.
“Doesn’t what, dear?” asked Sophy,
sweetly .
“Why, he doesn’t drink any dif
ferent from any one else and father
said he drank like a fish.”
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
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A FIGHT LAS' NI6HT
--AH SHO W_UZ MIXED
UP - MAH MOUF EN NOSE
EN EYES WUZ SCAN LOUS
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Copyright, 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
Surgeon General Rupert Blue of
the American Health Service has is
sued orders to all offieffiers in Eu
rope under him not to permit any
third-class passengers to depart for
Yhe United States who have not been
vaccinated against smallpox. .This
precaution has been taken in view
of the rapid spread of smallpox in
the Central European countries.
There is scarcely a steamship ar
riving in New York from Europe
that does not bring from one to ten
stowaways, in addition to the reg
ular passengers and the crew, dis
patches report. This, it is said, Is
due chiefly to the high steamship
fares, which range from $75 to $125.
instead of from $25 to $35, as they
did before the war. The majority
of stowaways board the liners in
foreign ports by disguising them
selves as firemen.
If they are citizens they can go
ashore directly on arrival here by
passing the immigration doctor and
inspector and the steamship com
pany is out of passage money.
Immigration officials at Ellis Is
lan dexpressed the opinion that the
stowaways all pay big fees to a
mysterious band which operates at
all the principal ports, and has a
branch here which deals exclusive
ly with Chinese.
The North Dakota supreme court
issued last week an order enjoining
railroads operating in this state
from further charging increased
intrastate rates, which were put
into effect on September 1. The or
der also directs the roads to rebate
any increase already collected.
Forty buildings, Including many
stores, one tug and a wharf, were
destroyed by fire at Tampico, Mex.,
last Saturday, according to infor
mation received here. No estihate
was made of the damage.
The police and carabineers have
been busy in a searching investiga
tion to discover the persons respon
sible for the bomb explosion at the
Stock Exchange Genoa. Several sus
pects, Including six Hungarian Com
munists, are under arrest, but nQ.
no definite clue to the criminals whfr
committed the act has yet been
found.
Gun casements and machinery at
Fortress Monroe, Va., were dam
ager last week by a fire which the
authorities said .was of undetermin
ed origin. A military board of in
vestigation has been appointed.
India’s steady advancement In in
tensive agricultural cultivatiort has
introduced the use of artificial fer
tilizers, special grade of seed, and
modern agricultural machinery at a
rapidly increasing rate, and the
need, especially in Western India,
for a firm specializing in the ne
cessities for agricultural development
has recently brought about the for
mation of the Union Agency, This
agency, according to an issue of
Commerce, will specially promote
the importation of agricultural ma
chinery, fertilizers, and agricultural
seed?.
China’s great commercial water
highway, the Yang-tse Kiang, is to
be put to work. To keep the river
always at flood level, seven dam>»
will be constructed. The project
contemplates the development of
31,000,000 electric horsepower, and
will cost $40,000,000. This is the
first important water power devel
opment undertaken in China, whose
industrial future has a wonderful
outlook in that direction. For,
thanks to its lofty mountain ranges,
the Flowery Land has far greater
water powers available than any
'other country in the world.
Nearly 3,000,000 acres of land in
Wyoming. California and Montana
were classified during August by the
department of the interior under the
stock-raising homestead law, which
makes public lands available for en
try for stock-raising purposes in
homesteads of 640 acres or less, the
department announces.
Property of Germans to the val
ue of about $45,000,000 is to be re
tained by the South African gov
ernment as a loan repayable in
thirtv years. This intention of the
government was announced recently
in the South African house of as
sembly by the premier, General
Smuts.
A meeting of burley tobacco grow
ers of Kentucky will be held in Lex
ttigton, September 30, it is announced
by the secretary of the Burley To
bacco Growers’ association.
The proposed charter and by-laws
of the recently formed association
will be presented for ratification.
Meetings in all burley-growing
counties are urged in the announce
ment for September 25.
The plight of the formerly well-to
do people and a sidelight on the ex
change situation in Hungary are af
forded by the bill in the national as
sembly increasing certain judges
salaries from 5,000 to 6,000 crowns.
This represents in American money a
raise of about 50 cents a month.
In a world-wide appeal from China
it is declared that “the South
Fukien Opium Prevention society,
realizing the open and willful disre
gard of the law prohibiting the pro
duction of opium, and knowing that
during the past year enough opium
was produced for five years and that
another crop will supply the demand
for fifteen years, appeals to the
world press and all welfare organiza
tions, now that the planting season
ra (UJ) 0
Now Questions
1— How about the $25,000 a year
allowed the president of the United
States for traveling expenses. If
it isn’t used does the president get
the rest?
2ls it proper to wear the wad
ding ring first on'the finger or the
engagement ring?
3 What countries have furnished
the most Immigrants to the United
States?
4 Will you tell me where Cocos
island is, about which there is so
much talk of buried treasure?
5 What part of the woodland of
the south is on Its farms?
6 When and by whom was knit
ting first done?
7 Kindly let me know who was
the author of the words, “There is
a time to fight and a time to pray”?
8 — What causes “wind shake” or
"rings” in trees?
9 How many Americans are living
in Mexico? How does the number of
Americans killed during the revolu
tion in Mexico compare with the Eng
lish killed?
10— Is there a difference between
meteors and shooting stars? What
becomes of them?
Questions Answered
1. Q. —How soon will the 1920
census be completed?
1. A.—The bureau of census says
that the completed report for the
1920 census will not be ready for at
least two years.
2. Q. —Are the new quarters with
out three stars under the eagle gen
uine?
2. A.— The office of the director
of the mint says that there are two
types of these quarters in circula
tion and both are genuine. Those
with the stars under the eagle are
the type now being made. A modi
fication of the design was authorized
by congress in order to improve the
artistic merits of the coin. The first
arrangement of stars on each side
of the eagle gave the coin a crowded
appearance.
3. Q. —What shall I use to kill In
sects on plants?
3. A. —If the insect Is a chewing
insect, spray the plant with arsenate
of lead; if a sucking insect, dust
with tobacco powder; if a scale in
sect, one of the best remedies is a
fish oil soap. Make a suds and
give the plant a thorough bath, then
allow it stand for two or three hours
and spray with clear water.
4. Q. —Let me know if post cards
and stamped envelopes which have
been addressed or printed but not
mailed, are redeemable?
4. A. —The postoffice department
says that uncanceled, unserviceable
and spoiled postal cards not treated
for the new crop is at hand, to aid, in
the suppression of the great evil.
Efforts to have the New York leg
islature permit the trapping or
beaver for their furs in the Adiron
dack region are to be made in force
this winter by the Guides’ associa
tions, land owners of private pre
serves and other organizations. It IS
claimed that there are enough bea’v
er in the woods country to permit a
slaughter of 5,000 for their furs an
nually without diminishing the sup
ply.
New York farm brokers say •
“back to the farm” movement has
set in as a result of the after-war in
dustrial reaction and the laying on
of thousands of workers in city fac
tories.
Serious times are in prospect fo>
Denmark unless there is some way
of obtaining American coal this wm’
ter, reports American Minister JO«
seph C. Crew to the department O’
commerce from Copenhagen. In hi’
report Mr. Crew asserts that promi
nent persons in the business and in
dustrial circles of Copenhagan hav«
repeatedly asked the American lega
tion to use its influence to obtain
sufficient coal from this country fo>
the period just ahead. Without 11
these persons foresee not only till
shutting down of industries, unem
ployment, and the consequent socia:
unrest, but privation and suffering
among all classes of people from laci
of fuel.
According to information form
Washington, the center of popula
tion of the Uinted States for th<
new census again will remain in Mon
roe county, Ind. This time, it is lo
cated from six to eight miles du<
east of Bloomington.
Ten years ago the population can
ter was located first by census ex<
pe.rts on a farm eight miles east oi
Bloomington. Markers were erected
and metropolitan papers from al,
over the country sent reporters and
photographers here. Three w-eeks
later the census bureau revised it’
figures, and located the center on a
factory site within the city of Bloom,
ington, where it has remained until
now.
Twenty years ago the center wa|
near Columbus. Ind., and this will
be the first time in the history oi
the United States that the drift has
been eastward instead of westward
There have been plentiful rain*
throughout Persia this season, and 11
is generally believed that this will
be one of the best agricultural years
Persia has had for a decade, reports
American Minister Caldwell from Te<
heran. Prices of foodstuffs, how
ever, remain very high, and It is
hoped that there will be such plen
tiful crops that food can be had at
appreciably lower prices.
The peasants are opposed to inno
vations, and it is with the greatest
difficulty that they are persuaded to
even try modern methods or tools,
However, the wealthy proprietors
are, from time to time, bringing out
modern farming implements from
Europe and America, and it is ex
pected that it will not be many years
before a more extensive use is mads
of modern implements.
Very many English women who
were widowed by the war are find
ing solace and forgetfulness in mar
rying again, statistics show. Official
figures given by the ministry of pen,
sions show at what rate these mar,
riages are being celebrated, as pen
sions are withdrawn when widows
remarry.
Os 10,300 officers’ widows to whom
pensions were granted there still re
main 9,700, and they are marrying at
the rate of ten a month.
Pensions were given to 224,700
men’s widows; 140,000 are still re
ceiving them, and they are marrying
at the rate of 2,000 a month. If the
rate continues, all will, be remarried
by the end of 1927.
Thirty thousand former service
men are expected to attend the sec
ond annual convention of the Amer
ican Legion Cleveland, 0., on Sep
tember 27. 28 and 29.
The convention, which will taka
up problems of nation-wide interest,
will also provide opportunity for
scores of reunions of divisions and
smaller units. Visitors will include
many distinguished men.
Homing pigeons that saw service*
with the army in France and many
others, composing in all a colony of
5,000 birds, are in training for the
greatest racing contest of the kind
ever arranged on September 25. St.
Louis will be the goal Signal office
men from the army and fanciers in
many cities have entered birds for
the event.
The pigeons will be shipped to va
rious points, some of them distint
500 mles, and will be released on the
day of the race. Frank P. Luck,
president of the International Feder
ation of American Homing Pigeon
Fanciers, will judge the race, award
ing a gold prize to the owner of the
pair of birds making the best fight.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children, New York, has
moved to the country. At Inwood-on
the-Hudson they have taken over the
House of Mercy as a temporary
headquarters. It has been remodeled
and will accommodate 200 children.
Here, in the midst of eight acres, the
children who have been abused by
parents or guardians to such an ex
tent that the law has had to Inter
vene will get an opportunity to live
a real life and look to a hopeful fu
ture.
by bronzing, enameling, or other
process of coating, may be redeemed
in postage stamps or other stamped
paper only at 75 per cent of their
face value, when presented by the
original purchaser; but parts of
pieces of cards will not be redeemed.
5. Q. —What does the word Chau
tauqua mean?
5. A.—This is a Seneca Indian
ward meaning literally “one has taken
out fish there."
6. Q.—Are there any wild tribes
of Indians in the United States?
6. A. —The bureau of Indian af
fairs says that there are no wild
tribes of Indians in the United States
at the present time. The Indians
are engaged in activities similar to
those of the white people, namely,
agriculture, commerce and business
of all kinds. The Seminoles of Flori
da do not live on a government res
ervation, and have no regular agree
ment or treaty with the government.
They are very peaceable, however.
7. Q. —Do humming birds go south
in winter? What do they feed on?
7. A. —Most species of the hum
ming birds are natives of the warmer
climates, but there are several species
that go north for the summer. Hum
ming birds do not feed exclusively
on honey, but depend largely on the
insects found in flowers for their
food.
' 8. Q. —Was Vermont one of the
thirteen original states?
8. A. —Vermont was not one of
the original thirteen states, but was
the first state afterward admitted
to the union.
9. q. —what will remove stains
from gravestones? The stains wer®
made by decaying vines.
9 A.—Such stains can usually be
removed by scrubbing with water.
10. q. —Why is there such a drive
for extermination of rats when the
government states that bubonio
plague is under control?
10. A.—The public health service
says that while -bubonic plague 13
under control in this country, there
will be scattered infection until rats
are exterminated. Rats are an un
necessary and intolerable burden,
costing the people of this country one
cent per person every day for food.
“This is rather a curiosity,” re
marked an artist who was entertain
ing a lady in his studio.
As he spoke he produced a tiny.
Out exquisite painting.
“It is nice!” gushed his visitor.
“I was out in the country one day,*
he went on, “and nad all my mate
rials with me except a canvass. But
I was so keen on painting this scene
that I took out my handkerchief,
stretched it upon my case, and paint
ed the picture.”
“Dear me!” exclaimed the lady.
Then a look of horror came over her
face as she went on: “But you’ll
never be able to wash all that paint
out of it”