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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST- Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months sl.sd Eight monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W .1 !o. 3 Mo» 0 Mos 1 Daily and Sunday2oc IJc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .00 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free Write R. R. BRADLEY. Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac f Jennings. We will be responsible for i money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Tbe label uaed for addreisiug your paper Show* the time your aubacrlption expires. By renewing at least two weeks before tbe date on this label, you Insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mall. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURN 4L, Atlanta. Ga. 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 KUNL 808 'LOW HE HEAH] TELL AH'S MIXED UP IN A FIGHT LAS' NI6HT --AH SHO W_UZ MIXED UP - MAH MOUF EN NOSE EN EYES WUZ SCAN LOUS MIXED UP! J Uw 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”