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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURN 4L, Atlanta. Gs.
A Shot at the Moon
HIGH-MINDED and open-handed persons
who have answered all the appeals of
deserving charity and patriotic politics,
yet still are wishing for worthy causes to
befriend should get in touch with that en
gaging scientist, Professor Robert H. God
dard, of Clark College, Worcester, Mass. The
Professor has conceived the idea of shooting
at the moon with a mammoth rocket, stored
with “repeating charges,” which he feels
•ure would carry his machine right into the
lace of the silver satellite and leave its mark
tor an admiring earth ever after to behold.
He finds but one barrier to putting his
brilliant project into execution. Its purely
scientific problems he has mastered to his
heartiest satisfaction. But alas! this world
was ever apathetic to thoughts beyond the
reaches of its bread-and-butter sense. “The
great pity,” exclaims Professor Goddard, “is
that I cannot commercialize my idea.” And
he adds, with biting sarcasm, “If I could
have promised a one hundred per cent return
in forty-five days, I’d have been financed long
ago.” Shame upon a materialistic time! A
Ponzi can lure millions to his ignoble and,
M it turns out, fraudulent schemes. But a
rare astronomer, afire with the wondrous
conception of shooting at the moon—yea,
and of hitting her spang in the midriff —
can raise scarce a penny to bring his vision
to pass!
After all, however, It is not the Professor
who is to be pitied, but the obtuse generation
that cannot rise to his great idea. For him
there is the consoling example of unappre
ciated genius in every age—Columbus, Gali
leo, Noah, and
’’Seven cities claim • immortal Homer,
dead
Where living Homer begged his daily
bread.”
But what of the torpid multitude that suf
fers this rocket-minded seer, who needs mere
money, to go unaided and his magnificent
idea unrealized? Theirs will never be the
heart-throb of seeing the man in the moon
shot from his ancient brush pile by mun
dane wit, nor the fame of financing so mar
velous an achievement. Theirs will never be
the thrill of sharing a seat with genius and
hitching their wagon to a star.
Let Us Not Forget
THE comparative rapidity with which the
United States has settled back into the
normal swing of life since the war is
brought home most forcibly when we consid
er that, just two years ago, the American
Expeditionary Force began its bloody drive
in the Argonne forest.
Only two years, yet how swiftly they have
passed, what tremendous changes they have
brought! Problems born of the war are still
problems, but they are becoming over
shadowed more and more each month
with the problems, the enterprises, the af
fairs of peace. Peace politics for war poli
tics, lower prices for inflated prices, building
booms to offset housing difficulties, a multi
tude of new thoughts and interests for those
that crowded every heart and min 4 in the
summer of 1918, have seized the American
people.
It is well that this should be, that Amer
ica at peace should go forward with all the
drive and energy of America at war. But let
us never allow two years or two hundred
years to erase from America’s memory what,
happened in the Argonne forest and along
the banks of the Meuse in those tense days
when the eyes of all America were set across
the Atlantic.
Their anniversary is here, the second anni
versary of thousands of young Americans
whose glory is hidden from us in the matter
of-fact life they have taken up once more;
the anniversary of many hundred others who.
in hospitals from coast to coast, still bear the
burden of the sacrifice; the anniversary of
the quiet dead who, two years ago. gave their
all for America. Cherish their memory, hon
or it, revere it, let nothing dim the shining
splendor of their deeds, no matter what
changes time may bring. No pomp or cere
mony will remind us of their gallantry; may
such reminder never be necessary.
Bonded Cotton Warehouses
IT IS a happy omen for the business and
agricultural interests involved, as well
as a high tribute to the influence of the
State Bureau of Markets and its numerous
co-operators, that within the last few months
more than one hundred cotton warehouses in
Georgia have bonded themselves in accord
ance with the Federal law for that purpose.
This means greater protection tor farmers
and bankers alike, greater facility in obtain
ing loans on cotton, and consequently a
larger measure of prosperity for the Com
monwealth.
The advantage of bonded warehouses over
those lacking that distinction is manifold.
For one thing the former enjoy, as a rule, a
considerably Icwer insurance rate. They also
na>e standardization of grades and kindred
efficiencies of high value to the cotton
grower and buyer. More important, they
command for the cotton stored within them
credit accommodations which warehouses
lacking the United States Government’s in
dorsement cannot procure. Not only cotton
but divers food crops and tobacco as well
will benefit from the security and conven
iences of bonded warehouses.
It is greatly to be hoped that business and
agricultural leaership will continue to press
for this improvement until it prevails in
every county.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Is Your Democratic Loyalty
Pocket-Deef)?
THE readiness with which Georgia
Democrats are responding to the
party’s need of national campaign
funds is a credit to both their judgment
and their patriotism. To elect as President
for the difficult years ahead a virile, con
structive, forward-thinking statesman like
Governor Cox will go far toward assuring
a happy issue of America’s problems and
a clear way for her prosperity.
Certainly no candidate or party whose
mind is not open to the broader outlook
of the age and whose heart lacks under
standing of humanity’s interests is capable
of dealing with the matters that will fall
to our country’s next Chief Magistrate. No
reactionary can successfully grapple those
momentous duties, because no reactionary
can possibly interpret them. A man of
Senator Harding’s attitude and associations
might serve passably enough in a Presi
dential term in which all was predestined
sun and calm; but what would he do when
the seas roughened and vision and strength
were needed?
Not byway of censure but simply as a
matter of fact it must be acknowledged
that he and the political forces to which
he is bound are insensib to the supreme
needs of the time and hardened against
its highest leadings. This htey have demon
strated by their opposition to almost ev
ery measure of liberal legislation which of
recent years has been proposed in Congress
and by their hopelessly provincial stand on
the great questions of international pol
icy. There would have been no protective
banking and currency law if they had had
their way, and there will be no adequate
safeguards to the peace of the world if
they are given control They cannot help
being as they are, we may admit; but
the fact that they are as they are warns
a thoughtful electorate not to hazard the
naion’s welfare by committing it to hands
so incompetent.
It is to carry out this principle that
Georgia Democrats, in common with broad
sighted citizens the country over, are ask
ed to contribute to the Cox-Roosevelt cam
paign fund. The only way to prevent the
ills of a reactionary Republican adminis
tration is to assure the election of a pro
gressive Democratic ticket. This great un
dertaking has its practical business details
which must be looked to, or its major
purposes will fail. It mus. be provided
with expense money. The costs of printing
and postage alone mount exceedingly high
in a national campaign, and these are but
the beginning of the list of essential items.
it the necessary funds are not forthcom
ing, the campaign of education must lag.
It is to the rank and file, and to them
alone, that Democracy looks for these
sinews. There are no “malefactors of great
wealth,” as Colonel Roosevelt used to call
them, to heap up a fifteen million dollar
war chest in the interest of Governor Cox.
There are only the thousands of citizens
who believe in straightforward government
and broad-visioned policies and who per
ceive how important it is to America’s ma
terial as well as higher interests that no
forces hostile to such government and such
policies be entrenched at Washington.
The treasurer of the Democratic cam
paign said yesterday, in answer to the
question, “Would you take fifteen million
doHwrs if you could get it for your party?”
“No. So great a sum would shock the pub
lic conscience.” Two million, he added,
sice ’ and that he would be
}°. get one million.” But as a
ro JaJ ■ " e concluded, he had raised
thousand h “ ndred and
Evidently the time has come for Demo
crats whose loyalty is pocket-deep to do
their duty. Those of Georgia have made a
praiseworthy beginning, but a beginning
only. There are thousands and tens oi
thousands who are minded, no doubt, tc
contribute to this patriotic fund. Let them
act without delay, for their party and
heir country need the aid.
No Crash in Values
MANY a heave of hope* greets the
forecast by Government officials
that the law of supply and demand
will gradually resume its pre-war influence
over prices. Already, indeed, there are
signs of a trend back to normal. The dol
lar, though still a sad shadow of its wont
ed self, is perking up. Numbers of com
modities are appreciably cheaper than they
were a twelvemonth ago. The economic
world appears to be regaining its equili
brium.
This does not signify a sudden and
sweeping change in conditions brought
about by an earth-wide war. Persons who
refuse to eat until food reaches former
price levels will not live to enjoy those
easeful days; and persons who hold a like
attitude toward raiment will have to seek
out a clime where the Adamic fig leaf is
comfortable and unforbidden. The price de
clines, authorities say, will be distributed
over a period of months and years.
For the great body of consumers, as
well as for producers and merchants, this
prospect is greatly to be preferred to a
sharp and sudden break. High prices are
incomparably better than the conditions
which go with idle industries, stagnant
trade and empty purses. The cost of liv
ing has been burdensome indeed during the
war and its aftermath; but there has been
a living for all—a boon by no means cer
tain if there should come a crash in
the values which the last five years have
established. Let us be thankful, then, that
the trend to lower prices is gradual as
well as sure.
Boys Who Made History
AN unusually large and select exhibit by
the Boys’ Pig clubs is one of the par
ticularly interesting prospects of the
next Southeastern Fair. It is to these young
experts in animal husbandry, together with
their brothers of the Corn and their sisters
of the Canning clubs, that Georgia owes a
vast deal of her progress in diversified agri
culture. When the work of these clubs was
inaugurated little more than a decade ago
the tyranny of cotton was manifest in every
region and every interest of the state. Only
the most farsighted farmers raised even
’heir own grain and meat, much less food
crops for the market. Millions upon mil
lions of dollars poured out of the Common
wealth every year to distant sections for the
purchase of supplies which now are produced
at home. And all the economic ills insep
arable from such a system were felt through
out the body of business.
A few of the Boys’ clubs’ inspiration
al work prepared the way for a truly benefi
cent revolution, and a few years more saw
the kaiserdom of cotton overthrown. Those
influences we have to thank for the fdet that
today Georgia is one of the foremost corn
producing States and, with but two or three
exceptions, leads the country in swine rais
ing. It will be a'*rare pleasure to greet the
young champions' of this great movement
at the Southeastern Fair.
IF YOU ARE TIMID
By H. Addington Bruce
BASHFULNESS, dilfedence, timidity—all
these are widespread checks on happi
ness and success. In most cases, it has
been pretty definitely established, they have
their roots in a faulty upbringing in early life.
Unfortunate childhood experiences, combined
with unwise rearing by parents, have created
a habit of mind destructive of normal self
confidence and self-assertiveness. The proper
treatment of timidity and its allied attitudes
is consequently psychological. There must
be, as the phrase is, re-education of the per
sonality.
And in some cases, oddly enough, before
this can be effected there has to be a thorough
exploring of the timid one’s past to resurrect
and do away with subconscious memories of
the incidents that have made timidity habitual
and extreme.
But often timidity has a physical as well as
a psychological basis. Often, indeed, the cor
rection of unsuspected physical defects, a
raising of the vital forces in general, will be
enough to turn a timid person into a suffi
ciently courageous one.
As Dr. Tom Williams, ‘of Washington, D. C.,
emphasized in an address at the latest meet
ing of the American Medical Association:
“Many physical conditions are characterized
by disturbances of feeling, emotion. Intoxica
tions, many infections, and visceral diseases
all disturb the emotions, and often seriously.
So do many diseases of the nervous system
itself.
“In all these disorders of somatic source the
emotional disturbances are incidental, and
not susceptible of being dealt with fruitfully
by psychologic means. Only the disappear
ance of a diseased bodily state will dissipate
the morbid emotion in cases of this kind.”
A general muscular softness and weakness,
for the matter of that, may be a contributing,!
perhaps a determining, factor in the produc
tion of timidity. So may the weakness of
malnutrition.
Accordingly, besides striving to develop
courage through the cultivation of will-power
and through training in emotional control, it
is always wise for the excessively timid to
have themselves physically examined by a
good physician.
Then, if any vitality-lowering disease exist,
it will be discovered and can be corrected, to
the benefit of the morale as well as the bodily
organism. Or if it be only a question of an
imprisonment of vigor through faulty living
habits, reconstructive measures can be effi
ciently planned.
A few changes in diet, some gymnastic ex
ercises taken faithfully, participation in physi
cally upbuilding games, may be all that is
necessary to effect an improved feeling of
organic well-being that will be reflected for
greater readiness to face conditions which
formerly were reacted to by timidity, perhaps
by outright fear.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newsw
papers.)
I DON’T KNOW
By Dr. Frank. Crane
The best proof of wisdom is a willingness
to confess ignorance.
There are some people who have an un
pleasant habit of being absolutely certain
about everything. It ought to disgust us with
this sort of thing to note that all fakers, hum
bugs, impostors, and frauds have the habit.
The Dowies and street corner orators never
hesitate. On the ■ other hand, when you talk
to a man of real learning, mature experience,
and trained mind, such a man as a Socrates
or Mark Hopkins or President Eliot, the most
striking thing about him is his attitude of
childlike modesty.
Certain plants never grow except in certain
soils—edelweiss in the Alps, bananas in the
tropics, and cacti in the sands of the desert.
Wherever you find the plant called humility,
you will always find real wisdom in the
brain soil that grows it.
The other day I was conversing with a
young woman and the subject of socialism
was mentioned. “Oh, yes,” she said, “I know
all about that er—Karl Marx, you know—
and strikes —and the laboring class—and all
that—we had it in school, you know.”
1 soon discovered that beyond “a lick and a
promise” she had given the matter in the high
school she knew nothing. It was an example
of the positivity of a vast and comprehensive
ignorance.
It is upon the ignorance of the world that
the partisan plays. He knows that men hate
to acknowledge they do not understand.
There is a fool pride in us which makes us
want to parade a knowledge we do not pos
sess.
The most ardent fighters for any particular
political platform, or religious creed, or social
scheme are those who have one part fact and
ninety-nine parts hoop-la. We quote second
hand opinions, turn and twist to argue for
what we have already made up our mind to
believe. We go to mass meetings and howl
for free silver and bark at the “cross of gold.”
We turn this preacher out of the association
because he does not believe Jesus was born
of a virgin. We call that one a narrow bigot
because he does believe Jesus was born of a
virgin.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes
Out of Davenport, lowa, comes a piteous
tale. A grocer and butcher, embodying in
one person two business potentialities with
millionarish possibilities, is the hero. This
man, in the characteristic opulence of his
class ever since the war began to boost
prices, was wearing one of his presumably
many S6OO diamond rings, the while he
attended to the needs of his flock of 150
chickens. With the carelessness that comes
of long familiarity with such baubles, he
knocked the diamond loose from its set
ting, -and while he was probably speculat
ing as to whether he should pick up such
a trifle, one of the chickens swallowed it
and disappeared among its fellows.
Then the butcher wanted his diamond,
but couldn’t find the particular fowl which
had made way with it. There was nothin?
to do but slay the chickens until the right
one was found. In the fiftieth chicken the
diamond was located.
The tale points many interesting things.
That grocer-butchers in lowa, or any place
else, wear diamonds in pursuit of their oc
cupations will surprise no one who is fa
miliar with present-day prices of their
wares, for to judge by this standard, the
diamond might well be the insignia of their
trade. But think of the profits of this for
tunate lowa butcher from the transaction.
He recovered his S6OO diamond, but that
bulks small with what be mnH have re
ceived from the sale of the fifty chickens
he slew to recover his bauble.
But the unanswered question is why did
the butcher make such a fuss over only
one diamond? Most of us who have tried
eating chicken in Philadelphia restaurants
have been led to believe when the check
appeared that chickens were fed exclusive
ly upon diamonds, instead of containing
only one, as did this indiscreet middle west
fowl. —Philadelphia Public Ledger. (Ind.)
About the time a fellow begins to feel a
personal interest in the young lady he
sees in a dozen or so ads one month, the
new magazines arrive with another girl he
never even met. —Kansas City Star.
The single taxers have selected the cat
as their party emblem. It can’t be because
they expect to come back, since theyAnever
have arrived. —Cincinnati Enquirer,
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
NO. 2—THE JACKSON
ADAMS RACE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 19.
“Let the People Rule,” cried
the supporters of Andrew
Jackson before John Quincy
Adams had taken the oath as
president in 1825, and the long three
years’ campaign which resulted in
Jackson’s elevation to the White
House was on. Jackson had received
a plurality of both popular and elec
toral vote, and probably would have
received a majority of both if the
people had been permitted to vote
for presidential electors. The -slogan,
“Let the people rule,” was so potent
that of the six states which chose
electors by their legislatures in 1824,
all but South Carolina had surrender
ed that right to the popular suffrage
before 1828. Jackson had been the
choice of the greater number of the
people and the indignation against
the manner in which he was prevent
ed from taking the presidency was
intense.. Out of it grew the division
of political parties and the system
of political methods which obtains
to this day.
The campaign of 1828 was the first
in which there were two parties open
ly bidding for the votes of the whole
people. Both Jackson and Adams
still claimed to be the true exponents
of the Democratic-Republican party
of Jefferson, but the line of demarca
tion was distinct and the parties were
known as “Jackson” and “Adams.”
It was not until three or four years
later that the Adams people adopted
the name of “National Republicans, '
thereby driving the Jackson party to
the popular designation, “Democrat
ic,” which it still holds, although the
official name “Democratic-Republi
can’ was adhered to until after the
Civil war.
The election of John Quincy Adams
to be president by the house of repre
sentatives, through virtue of votes
delivered to Adams by Henry Cl-v
and the fact that Henry Clay imme
diately became secretary of sr-be in
Adams’ cabinet gave rise to the idea
which was the principal issue of the
campaign of 1828, the issue which
gives it the name of the “bargain
and corruption” campaign. Andrew
Jackson accused Adams and Clay of
entering into a corrupt bargain by
which the votes of st'tes controlled
by Clay were delivered to Adams in
return for the promise of a high cab
inet position. Henry Clay denied this
charge and proved to the satisfaction
ot a. majority of historians that it had
no foundation in fact.
An A'.ciant Scar.c'.al
Newspapers p-inted n week before
the election in the house of represen
fives nub’’ bed .cpj.ts of a “deal”
between Anar-s and Clay which
would ; Adams president and
Claj's. cretary of state. It was a dis
pute growing out of this rumor w hich
caused the Crawford supporters to
become embittered against Clay be
fore the presidency was decided.
When Adams was chosen, the sup
porters of Crawford immediately
char-red Clay with the sale of the
presidency The New York Evening
Bost, a fair sample of the Crawford
press declared that Clay’s action
was a most indecent and daring
outrage on public morals.” All of
this was in February, 1825.
It was rot until two years later
General Jackson took up these ru
mors of a barter and sale, and by
giving them the prestige of bi-s
name, caused them to become an is
sue in the campaign. He added to
the charges the assertion that friends
° had come to friends of him
with the proposition that Clay would
throw the election to Jackson if Jack
son would pledge himself not to make
!t Cr ® t u ary of state - Thls Por
tion of the bargain and corruption”
charge was never proved, but a large
majority of the people jn the country
flmly believed that it was true and
it always weighed against Mr. Clay’s
aspirations.
Clay issued a pamphlet in 1820
urging the people to vote for Adams
and denying the charges made by
Jackson and his followers. In that
pamphlet he proved by the Marquis
de La Fayette, by senators, bar
keepers and every sort and condition
of man that he had always said that
he was against Jackson and that he
would rather see either Adams or
Crawford elected than to see Jackson
in the White House. La Fayette de
clared that Clay’s fear of Jackson
was the fear of a military dictator,
the fear of an unschooled man at the
helm of the ship of state, and the
like.
The Hero Stuff
Jackson’s great popularity as a
war hero gave him the plurality of
the votes in 1824. Four years later
he was still the hero, and he had
the added strength of the popular be
lief that he had been cheated out or
the presidency. Adams had little sin
cere following outside of New Eng
land, he was a miserably poor poli
tician, and even Clay could not do
anything to rally the popular vote
to his standard. But the Adams ap
peal was made altogether to the con
servative element in the country.
Jackson was declared to be a man
of “blood and carnage.” Against nis
victory over the British at New Or
leans was set the fact that he sus
pended the writ of habeas corpus in
that same city. Jackson’s summary
execution of six militiamen was the
excuse of flooding the country with
circulars and cartoons, showing the
murderer Jackson gloating over the
six coffins of the innocent victims of
his thirst for blood.
On the other side, all the old
charges against Adams were brought
up in addition to the “corrupt bar
gain” issue. He was accused of be
ing an aristocrat and of seeking to
perpetuate his family in the office of
president; his Unitarian religious
beliefs were attacked as being infidel
ism, and his loyalty during the War
of 1812 was again questioned. And
all this in spite of the fact that
Adams was one of the best and
purest men who has ever occupied
he White House, the most scholarly
if our presidents and a true patriot.
Candidates Not Nominated
The question of nomination of can
didates did not enter into this cam
paign. Both Jackson and Adams
were nominated by various state leg
islatures. but as a matter of fact
he two tickets, Jackson and Cal
houn and Adams and Rush, were
lominated by common consent.
Jackson and Calhoun in his cam-
Kiign were the first regular Tam
many Hall nominations for president
and vice president. Os course the
Haji had taken great interest in na
tional politics from the beginning of
Washington’s second administration,
but this was Its first “regular” year.
It is interesting to note by what a
narrow margin Tammany Hall be
came Democratic instead of Whig
and Republican. In 1824 Tammany
■upported William H. Crawford and
had a plurality in the legislature
which selected electors. A combina
tion between the Adams and Clay
men kept Crawford out of the votes
of New York, and Tammany was
“sore.”
Having been organized in the first
place as a Democratic opposition to
the aristocratic “Society of the Cin
cinnati,” the Tammany braves were
naturally on the side of the “low
brows.” But they had supported the
Virginia aristocratic clique and had
followed Crawford. When Crawford
was ended, Martin Van Buren recog
nized the possibilities of the political
strength of Andrew Jackson and took
the up-state Crawford following into
the Jackson camp, persuading Tam
many Hall to come along.
The Jackson newspapers played
the very limit of hero-worship. They
published what purported to be Gen
eral Jackson’s address to his troops
before the Battle of New Orleans, in
which Jackson was quoted as refer
ring to the “British troops fresh
from the field of Wellington’s vic
tory over the great Napoleon.” The
same error has been made many
times since, despite’ the fact that
the Battle of New Orleans was
fought six months before Wellington
defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
Women, Wine and Scxig!
Women, wine and song! It has
been discovered that the last amend
ment to the constitution was with
reference to women, the one before
that to wine, and now comes the
suggestion that the twentieth
amendment may deal with some of
these new songs that have caused
so manv to fall from grace and then I
backslide. —Savannah Morning News. I
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1920.
Mrs. Solomon Says:
Being the Confessions of The
Seven-Hundredth Wife
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Copyright, 1920, by The McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.
CONSIDER the Golfer. my
Daughter.
For he Is the Son of Joy,
and the heart of his wife re
joiceth in him.
He requlreth not to be awakened,
but ariseth at dawn, and arouseth
the whole house.
Mighty are his preparations, and
there is much rushing about
amongst the women, to find his
THINGS.
He swallowed his breakfast with
out complaint, and fortifieth himself
at the font within his locked.
Optimism is the middle-name; and
in his bright lexicon, there is no
such word as “Rain!"
The mind of his wife Is at peace;
for she knoweth where he IS all
day; and in the evening he is weary,
and goeth to sleep, after dinner.
Whatsoever his wanderings, and
however long his absence, she feel
eth no jealousy, but salth, “Thank
heaven, he is safe!”
His moods, his grouches, and his
temperamentalism are known only
to his God and his caddy; and, in
the open, where it can do no harm,
he bloweth off the carbon of his
brain-storms.
The “touch of liver” knoweth him
not, and dyspepsia is a stranger
unto him.
The sun lighteth up his counte
nance, and his figure keepeth its
beauty; embonpoint cometh not
near him.
He lacketh not a topic for conver
sation, and concerning his score, the
TRUTH Is not in him.
He is happy In his folly, and
weareth the smile that will not
come off.
He preferreth a pleasant day unto
a moonlight night, and a beautiful
course unto a beautiful woman.
And a smile of approval from his
caddy, he findeth more thrilling than
the smiles of blondes and of sirens.
Verily, verily, a little HOBBY is
a wonderful thing.
For, every man must have his
folly, whereon he worketh off the
original sin within him.
And some choose wine, and some
tobacco, and some flirtation.
But the GOLFER exceedeth them
all in wisdom!
Then, blessed be the driver, and
the putter, and the mashie and the
niblick, and the little white rubber
ball!
For where Golf is, theer Is sweet
nes sand light—and a good diges
tion. . . .
And, no man can be both a good
golf-player and a bad husband!
Selah.
PRESS TALK IN
GEORGIA
By Jack L. Patterson
A. C. L. Xs Prospering
Gratifying is the news that the
Atlantic Coast Line can set aside an
additional ten million dollars for
rolling stock. Orders have been
placed for thirty locomotives of the
Mikado type, for 500 ventilator cars
and for 400 coal cars, deliveries to
start soon. Superintendent McCra
nie stated to a reporter for the
Morning News that most of this
new equipment will be placed in this
terirtory. It is good to see the rail
roads getting back into the game.
The development of the country had
left them behind.—Tifton Gazette.
Valdosta as a Tobacco Market
A close tabulation of tobacco sales
over south Georgia for the past week
shows that the Valdosta market av
eraged about 10 cents per pound
more than the next highest market
for the entire week’s sales. Much
tobacco is being brought here from
adjoining counties, both in Georgia
and Florida, and the growers all
express great satisfaction with the
progress obtained off the Valdosta
market up to this time.—Valdosta
times.
We shall now hear from Nashville,
and Tifton and Vidalia and Douglas
and Lyons, and —but what’s the use
of naming them all over.—Savannah
Morning News.
No Unkind Words
No, we have no unkind word to
say of any human being. It’s only
when we don’t consider them human
that we tear loose and rip off a few.
—Winder News.
"Do w n in God’s Country”
The editor of the News has lived
in southwest Georgia since his early
manhood, and has never yet seen a
crop failure or lean years of fam
ine. He expects to live here all his
life, and never will see a crop fail
ure.—Dawson News.
“As long as time shall last there
shall be rain and sunshine and seed
time and harvest.” —Bible.
Underselling Atlanta
You can get a quart of good stuff
they tell, right here for eight dol
lars a quart.'—Thomasville Times-
Enterprise.
As we know the editor of the
Enterprise to be a law-abiding citi
zen, we must subscribe to the belie*
of that he is offering buttermilk
for sale.
Financial Stringency
No matter how tight a man may
be with his money, he knows some
others who are stingier than him
self.—Brunswick News.
Still we have always been of the
opinion that the man who crossed a
land-line to dring from a branch
flowing through another man’s farm
held the
Natural Expansion
The Englishman who advertises
for an island for men who are fed
up with taxation is off his trolley.
What he wants is a hemisphere or
two.—John D. Spencer in Macon Tel
egraph.
Better add another hemisphere
since the passage of the nineteenth
amendment.
Griffin News Gets Linotype
The Griffin News and Sun an
nounces the arrival of a new Model
5 linotype which was purchased
several months ago. This daily and
weekly publication, established in
1874 and edited by the late Douglas
Glessner for twenty-nine years, has
long been recognized an important
factor in the progress of Spalding
county and middle Georgia, being
the first newspaper in America to
organize a correspondents’ associa
tion, which was perfected on the
first Saturday in May, 1898. Under
the management of Robert L. Duke,
who has been connected with the pa
per for about twenty years, it is
now enjoying unprecedented suc-
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Copyright. 19ZO t>y McClure Ntwspspsr Syn<C.:t-
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
King Albert and Queen Elizabeth,
the first king and queen to visit any
South American country, received a
tremendous ovation when they land- .
ed’on Brazilian soil this week. The:
city was in holiday array, virtually
the entire population greeting the
royal party. The dreadnought Sao
Paulo, on which the king and queen
of the Belgians voyaged from Ant
werp, was met at sea by a division
of destroyers, a squadron of air
planes and excursion steamships,
which escorted the warship up th*-
bay to its anchorage amid the
ing of salutes from the fortresses.
During 1919 and so far in 1920 the
greater part of the grazing area o
Australia has suffered from a severe
drought, which brought the number
of sheep in the commonwealth at
the close of the seasons
(June 30, 1920) to approximately
78,000,000, as against 88.000,000 in
1918-1919. It is expected that the
clip for 1919-1920 will amount to
2,000.000 bales, but as to the clip
for 1920-1921, it is believed by the
best informed wool men that the
most favorable conditions would
place the figure at only 1,500,000
bales.
The interest being manifested
throughout Japan in athletics was
given tremendous impetus with the
announcement that an athletic track
and stadium costing more than $500,-
000 will be built in front of the
Meiji shrine in Aoyamo. The track
will be larger than the Olympic
track at Stockholm.
Estimates of the wheat crops of
Argentina, South Africa and Aus
tralia show those countries, which
comprise 92 per cent of the wheat
growing area of the southern hemis
phere, will produce 28 per cent more
wheat in 1920 than in 1919. In qual
ity the grain will be 2 per cent above
the average, it is said. These fig
ures have been deduced by the In
ternational Institute of Agriculture,
and are included in a bulletin show
ing crop conditions in many coun
tries.
Although strenuous efforts have
been made to figure what the total
Japanese consumption of cottorr will
be for the coming year, no responsible
business man will venture any au
thoritative prediction. The most re
liable authorities, however, are of
the opinion that should the present
conditions persist the total consump
tion for the year beginning August
| 1, 1920, will be about 1.620,200 bales
of 500 pounds each. The consump
tion of Amrican cotton probably will
be about 525,000 bales.
For the first time in local history
elderberries are ‘being offered for
sale in local stores in Kansas. The
price is $2.75 a bushel, and the sup
ply is not equal to the demand.
Sixteen hours a day will be the
working schedule of the United States
mint in Denver, beginning Monday,
officials announced. A large order for
nickel coins from the Colombian gov
ernment of South America necessi
tated the doubling of working hours.
Drastic measures to enforece the
nationalization of food have been
adopted by the soviet authorities at
Petrograd. A state department tele
gram received today said all houses
in Petrograd ana the streets and
yards as well were under close Bol
shevik surveillance, and that all food
stuffs found in private possession
were confiscated
The executive committee of the
Petrograd soviet has designated three
commisssaries to take complete
charge of the enforcement of the
prohibition against private transac
tions in food supplies, with a view
to soviet monopolization of all food
and food business.
Motoring is rapidly increasing in
popularity in Peking, where there
are said to be more Chinese owners
of cars than in any other city of
China. The number of passenger
automobiles there is about 650, of
which a large majority are of Amer
ican manufacture, and over five
hundred have been taken by the
Chinese residents.
Through Chinese efforts the Pek
ing Motor club has been formed,
along the lines of similar organiza
tions in Shanghai and Tien-tsin.
"Life members pay SIOO, ordinary
members sl2 a year.
If the present plans are carried
out China’s longest modern highway
will be completed within six months.
It will extend from Peking to
Tien-tsin, a distance of about eighty
miles. The first section of this
road, from Peking to Tung-chow,
(g ii— j o
New Questions
1. What do the small letters on
coins stand for?
2. Where did the Indians get their
flint and how did they make darts
out of it without tools?
3. Dhlch is the correct initial to
use in marking a cuff link when the
name is O’Connor, McDonald or Van
Horn ?
4.0 f what does a herb bouquet con
sist?
5. What is the difference between
a national forest and a national
forest preserve?
6. Do Canada and the United
States coin gold dollars?
7. What dressing should be used
on leather chairs?
8. Where do oysters known as
Blue Points get their name?
9. Please tell me when the first
Thanksgiving proclamation was is
sued?
10. Will the government pay fu
neral expenses of a man who had
been In the army?
Questions Answered
1— Q. How about the $25,000 a year
allotted the ’president of the United
States for traveling expenses? If
it isn’t used does the president get
the rest?
A. The president is allowed only
that part of the $25,000 which is
actually spent in traveling. Any un
expended balance is added to the sur
plus fund of the treasury.
2 Q. Is it proper to wear the wed
ding ring on the finger, or .the en
gagement ring?
A. The usual custom is to wear the
wedding ring first and the engage
ment ring above it. The engagement
ring is removed before or during the
ceremony, then replaced after the
wedding ring has been put on.
3 Q. What countries have furnish
ed the most immigrants to the Unit
ed States?
A. The British Isles stand first,
nearly one-fourth of the total immi
gration for the last 100 years com
ing from England, Ireland, Scotland
and Wales. Germany is next and
Italy, Austria-Hungary, Russia and
Scandinavia follow in the order
named.
4 Q. Will you tell me where Co
cos island is about which there is
so much talk of buried treasure?
A. The Keeling or Cocos Islands
are a group of twenty-three small
coral islands belonging to Great
Britain and situated in the Indian
ocean, in latitude 12 minutes 4 sec
onds to 12 minutes 13 seconds S. and
lengitude 96 minutes and 50 seconds
E., 500 miles southwest of Java. It
was off these islands that the Ger
man cruiser Emden was destroyed
by the Australian cruiser Sydney in
1914.
5 q. what part of the woodland
of the south is on its farms?
A. The department of agriculture
says that one-half of rhe forested
lands of the south, more than 125,-
000,000 acres, are on farms. The pres
ent yearly farm income from wood
lands is estimated at about $150,-
000,000.
6. Q. —When and by whom was
knitting first done?
A. Although there are classical
references to such work, it is im
possible to say that such allusions
mean knitting as it is known to
day. It is probable that these an
cient writers regarded knitting as a
type of weaving. “Knit,” in the spe
cific, sense in which it is known to
■aviwas mentioned in an old gram
pub i'-hed- in 1530 A. TV This
•s the verb “to knit.” The word
I thirteen miles, was constructed in
1917. Through the efforts of the
Peking Motor Club, it is reported, a
loan of $150,000 has been negotiat
ed with the Banque Industrielle de
Chine for the construction of a mod
ern road between Tung-chow and
Tien-tsin.—Dallas Morning News.
So many important records of th*
last few k days of the
disappeared from Hungarian
government’s nies that the war
arcMeves commission has been
Lorced to appeal to officers and of
ficials to come forward with verbal
testimony or personal papers in or
der to complete the history of the
period.
It is presumed that these docu
ments were removed at the instance
of officials upon whom they reflect
ed unpleasantly or to hide person
al guilt. The government promises
immunity from punishment for any
offense which the testimony they
seek might disclose so that the com
plete history of the breakdown,
both on the war fronts and internal
ly, may be written.
London’s hospitals—and, Indeed,
those of all the United Kingdom—
are facing a double crisis. They
need more money to keep operating
on their present basis and they are
having great difficulty in obtaining
nurses.
A typical case is provided by the
London hospital, a great institution
which draws its patients especially
from the poorer classes in East Lon
don. This week it was brought be
fore the court of governors of the
hospital that the institution’s fi
nancial status made imperative one
of three measures—the closing of
the entire hospital, the closing of a
wing of 300 beds, or the conversion
of some of the wards into paying
ones at a rate of S3O a week. The
hospital at present charges adult in
patients $5 a week and children half
this amount; but patients who can
not pay even this charge are not
turned away.
The first step to local self-gov
ernment in Corea has just been taken
With the publication by the gover
nor general of four decrees and four
ordinances, all of which relate to
the creation of local consulative or •
advisory bodies throughout the coun
try. The consultative bodies to be
created by virtue of these laws are
of three kinds, namely, provincial,
municipal and village councils.
Captain Joe Bernard and A. Ander
son arrived at Nome, Alaska, today
with their vessel, the Teddy Bear,
after four years spent in the Arctic,
during twenty-five months of which
time they were icebound at Taylor
Island in Victoria strait, near King
William Land.
Captain Bernard brought with him
a native of the land of Stefansson’s
famous blonde Eskimos, but declared
that after two years’ search of that
district he was unable to find any
of- the blonde natives.
He found sod houses, evidently
of great age, in East Carnation gulf,
he said, and brought back pieces of
old ivory and other curios uncovered
in the ruins.
A professor and his wife have
placed $50,000 in the hands of the
authorities of Cornell university, to
accumulate until the funds amount
to about $6,500,000, when they will be
used for the founding of an insti
tute of pure and applied mathe
matics. It is estimated that the in
stitute will be in operation at the
end of 100 years.
Prominent Japanese will unveil a
monument to Ernest Fenellosa,' an
American, .to commemorate his ser
vice to Japanese art, it is announced
here. Fenellosa, born in Massachu
setts, came to Japan In 18 as pro
fessor at the Imperial university
here. His collection of Japanese art,
In the Boston museum, is regarded
as one Qf the finest in the world. He
died in London in 1908, and his ashes
were brought to Japan and placed on
the shores of Lake Biwa, near Kyoto,
where he studied Buddhism. Hi",
influence was paramount in inducing
Japan to-conserve national art treas
ures.
The monument will be unveiled
September 20 with a Buddhist cere- «
mony.
Captain Roald Amundsen, whose
Polar expedition ship, the Maud, is
(vedged in the ice twenty miles off
Cape Serge, on the Siberian coast, is
in danger of losing his vessel and
may be forced to abandon his Polai
expedition, according to Dr. J- I •
Condit, superintendent of the Pre:
byterian missions in Alaska, win
arrived at Victoria from Nome.
is probably derived from the Saxon
“cynttan,” meaning “the making oi
fabrics from thread by hand.”
7. Q. —Kindly let me know who is
the author of the words, “There is
a time to fight and a time to pray?”
A. The quotation is attributed to
John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, who
was a preacher at a church in Wood
stock, Va, when the Revolutionary
war broke out. In February, 1777, he
was made brigadier general under
Washington. It was while he was a
minister that the famous incident
occurred which you know about.
, 8. Q. —What causes “wind shake ’
or “rings” in trees?
A. There is a difference of opinion
as to the cause of anemosis (wind
shake). It is generally supposed
that the annual layers of the timber
of trees (rings) are sometimes sepa
rated by strong gales. Many, how
ever, doubt that this condition is
due to wind, and believe it should
be referred rather to frost Or light
ning.
9. Q. —How many Americans are
living in Mexico? How does the
number of Americans killed during
the Revolution in Mexico compare
with the English killed?
A. The state department says that
the number of American citizens liv
ing in Mexico at present is about
12,000. The number of British killed
in Mexico since the Diaz regime,
in 1911 is about 40; Americans killed
during the same period, 1911-1920,
about 240.
10. Q. —Is there a difference be
tween meteors and shooting stars?
What becomes of them?
A. Acording to the late Prof. New
ton there is no definite line of dis
tinction between meteors and shoot
ing stars. If a meteor passes com
pletely through the atmosphere and
reaches the surface of the earth it
then becomes known as a meteorite.
Particles of matter thought to have
their origin in disintegrated comets,
and moving around the sun in orbits
of their own, are known as meteors.
The energy of their motion is sud
denly converted into heat on impact
with th.e atmosphere. As a general
rule, this speedily vaporizes their
entire substance, the exterior being
brushed off by the air as soon s
melted, often leaving a visible trail
in the sky.-
FACTS ON FRUITS
The strawberry, says one of the
government experts, comes from a
cross between the native strawberry
of Virginia and that of Chile. The
raspberry is native in temperate
Europe and in Asia. The apricot
originated in hCina. The peach was
originally a Chinese fruit. The
cherry originated around th?, r '-*
pian sea.. The plum comes from the
Caucasus and Turkey.
The pear is native in temperate
Europe and western Asia. The quince
comes from southeastern Europe, the
Caucasus and the Caspian region.
The apple is native all over Europe,
in the Caucasus, around the Black
sea and in Persia. The almond
comes from Transcaucasia, Mesopo
tamia. Persia, Turkestan and Algeria.
The fig seems to have originated
around the Mediterranean, particular
ly in Syria. The grape is native
in southern Europe. Algeria, Moroc
co and western Asia. The red cur
rant grows wild all over Europe, in
the Caucasus, the Himalayas, Man
churia. Japan and Arctic America.
The walnut comes from the Cauca
sus, Persia and northern India. The
sweet orange originated in southern
China and Cochin. China. The citron
is of Indian origin.—Kansas City
Star.