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Keefc This Slogan Ringing
TO. the fact that there is “a highly
developed system for marketing cot
ton” while other crops, in this re
gion, are inadequately or wholly unpro
vided for in that respect, Mr. Chauncey
Smith, writing in the current issue of the
Manufacturers’ Record, attributes a lai g
measure of the South’s inattention to di
versified agriculture. Recent years, he
grants have witnessed a gratifying im
provement, but there is still lamentable
lack of facilities for disposing'of crops oth
er than cotton, such facilities as grain ele
vators, potato warehouses, canneries, and
■mall stock yards. “Many such institutions
are doing a successful business, to the
great benefit of the communities they serve
and to the profit of their owners. But
their number is insignificant compared
with the potential demand. The sooner they
are built, the sooner will the demand ex
ist, as they will create their own business;
and by the stimulus they will give to di
versified farming they will reduce the cost
Os producing cotton, while providing the
opportunity to adopt the only system of
agriculture—diversified farming—that can
in the long run be profitable.”
The conditions here observed cannot be
brought to the South’s pondering too fre
quesntly or too emphatically. In our sub
stantial and cheering advance toward a
system for marketing food harvests, we are
likely to forget that the steps thus far
taken are a bare beginning. The situation
is incomparably better than ten years ago,
but its improvement must be still more ,
rapid and extensive in the present decade,
if th South is to prosper as she should. We
need to bear constantly in mind that want
of convenient and dependable markets for
diversified crops is still costing the Cotton
Belt millions upon millions of money and
18 retarding the sections entire agricultural
progress and business expansion. This is
not to minimize the importance of what al
ready has been achieved. The beginning
was a vast deal of inertia to overcome, and
long years of prejudice to break through.
To have proved that the “impossible,” as
many once regarded it, can be done; that
the tyranny of cotton can be broken; that
other crops in abundance and variety can
be raised; and that facilities for convert
ing them readily into cash values can be
provided, all in the cotton country—this is
■ Cause indeed for gratification and encour
agement.
But let us not imagine that we can rest
upon these and that mere mo
mentum will carry us duly forward. No
such sluggardly attitude will do. The haz
ards and ills of the; all-cotton system of
farming should be talked against and acted
against just as vigorously now as at the
outset of the diversification campaign. Like
wise the advantage and duty of providing
“home markets” for “home-grown” prod
ucts should be urged with unslacking, ever
Increasing earnestness. This is not an old
Vein of enterprise, nor a finished endeavor.
It is still in the pioneer stage, still de
manding the keenest attention of business
and agricultural leadership. There is nc
more essential, no more timely and imper
ative work to which the South’s chambers
of commerce and kindred institutions can
apply themselves than that of interesting
capital in the matter of markets of this
nature. Grain elevators, canneries, the po
tato curing plants, and establishments for
utilizing the mariifold products of herd
and flock—these and their like are mate
rial needs of the Southern country and
rich opportunities for the discriminating
investor.
Stick to the Joh
CHICAGO employment agencies report
they are placing only about one-fifth as
many applicants for work as they did
this time a year ago. Likewise..the “Situat
ed Wanted” columns in the daily newspaper
is beginning to lengthen as the “Help Want
ed” column shortens.
In this, economic students see more cause
for optimism than for alarm. The unem
ployed are not a problem, they say, and will
not be for years, at least so long as the
world-wide'shortage of production continues.
Rather are these matters indications of a re
turn to normal, and more particularly indi
cations that labor of all kinds is “sticking to
the job.”
With slow but sure readjustment of prices
end wages, there is no longer such a tendency
on the part of young men and old to give a
sure berth the slip in order to go voyaging
out on strange seas in search of fairer ports,
where the returns will be greater and possi
bly. the work easier. The consequence is
that fewer positions are being left vacant in
the world of workaday, as the applicants for
situations are rapidly discovering
The plain truth of it is there was never a
time when a good job was more to he de
sired and more to be' prized, and the future,
with its certainty of further readjustments,
promises to emphasize that fact. He who
sticks now’ will not regret it in the days to
come.
The Democratic party has no ambition to
rival the G. O. P’s. reported fund of fifteen
million dollars, but assuredly it is entitled
;o enough to pay the legitimate expenses of
jne of the most critical, campaigns in its
own or the nation’s history. Let Georgia’s
loyal Democrats come generously forward
with their quota.
* a a\ A a. ala ■ JL ♦JOL’MxN
Conquering Malaria
I generally will go to
I enormous expense to combat hog
cholera and cattle tick, and then
will refuse to do anything for the most im
portant asset of any community, its peo
ple.”
This is the comment of Dr. L. D. Frick,
head of the malaria department of the Unit
ed States Public Health Service, who is now
in Georgia, engaged in conducting a cam
paign in Mitchell county against malaria.
Dr. Frick’s point applies in many parts of
the south. There are numbers of Georgia'
counties that would do well to follow the
example of tbe enlightened and progressive
people of Mitchell, who are doing so much
to stamp out a disease of such destructive
qualities.
Malaria has been a bane in the south for
years. In lowering vitality, shortening li
causing long spells of sickness and idleness
it has robbed Georgia of millions of dollars
as well as causing suffering and hardship for
thousands of her people. In Mitchell coun
ty alone, it is estimated that malaria has
meant an annual loss of at least half a mil
lion dollars, a loss which can be prevented
by just such steps as authorities are taking
in Mitchell county today. More than nine
thousand people, it is said, representing a
third of the population of the county, have
taken the treatment of quinine doses given
for malaria, and already a large percentage
of them- are showing marked improvement.
Not only can malaria be controlled anil
checked in the individual, but the cause of
malaria can be stamped out by counties that
will undertake to finance the proper meth-
I ods. Science has proven that malaria comes
from the bite of the malaria mosquito, eas-
I ily distinguished. The malaria mosoii
breeds in swamps and other stagnant places
There is the root of the trouble. Drainage
projects in Georgia are not alone productive
of agricultural prosperity, but they will
bring to their communities less malaria, bet
ter health and increased prosperity of all
kinds.
Tales Yet to Be Told
THE “Grandfathers’ Tales” of Nathaniel
Hawthorne were wondrous, no doubt,
to the children of that generation, but
they will be as nothing to the yarns to be
spun in the twilight of seventy by grand
fathers not so many years from now.
Let us take them, the fathers of today
who will be the grandfathers of tomorrow —
let us take them at the average age of thirty
five. and consider for a moment what novel
reminiscences they will be able to recount
at twice their years.
In those thirty-five years what have they
seen come to pass?
To children as familiar with street cars,
motors and flying machines as with hills and
houses, they will be able to tell of the ex
tinct horse-car, of their first ride in an au
tomobile and their first sight of an airplane.
They will be able to describe, if they can but
recall the details, the first air flight across
the Atlantic, the first aerial mall service, the
advent of the submarine and its perfection
to the point where it all but drove fighting
ships from the sea.
They can say they have witnessed the ar
rival of the wireless telegraph and the tele
phone, the inauguration of the phonograph
in the homes of the people, the common usage
of electricity Instead of gas. the acceptance
of the tractor and the electric milker on the
farm, the birth of the motion picture and its
sudden rise to popularity.
Science cursed their generation with poi--
son gas warfare and engines of destruction
that killed forty million men in battle and"'
burned up sixty per cent of the wealth of
the. world. It blessed them with discovery of
the X-ray, radium, and anti-dieease treat
ments that have all but wipefl out yellow
fever and successfully checked the typhoid,
malaria and any number of other scourges.
It has been an age of wonders, these past
thirty-five years, and who knows what other
marvels the next thirty-five may bring forth?
If for no other reason, one is tempted to live
a long time for the simple satisfaction of
being the recounter of the “Grandfathers’
Tales” of 1955.
And Yet, They Decry Radicals
THERE are multitudes of uninformed
persons, particularly among those not
to the American manner born, who
draw little or no distinction between govern
ment and the men administering it. They
will construe some reckless censure of an of
ficial as an indictment of the institution un
der which he is serving. To shake their con
fidence in a judge is to prejudice them
against courts; to poison their good opinion
of a President or other high magistrate is
to kilt their respect for authority in general.
Abstractions mean well nigh nothing to them;
personalities mean everything.
In the light of this all too evident fact
how doubly pernicious appears the habit of
abuse and recrimination into which our poli
tics so frequently falls! As Chester Crowell
recently remarked in the Independent,
“charges which might very well be made the
basis of impeachment are the ordinary cam
paign claptrap of almost every contest, from
constable on up.” And he cogently adds:
“After having made charges which bear out
nearly every assertion of the Bolshevists
against our form of government, our elo
quent candidate closes his address with a
soul-stirring plea for one hundred per cent
Americanism! His heart throbs.with Ameri
canism. He would put the Bolshevists in
jail or hurl them into the sea. But his ha
tred of them is quite evidently based largely
upon the fact that they are silly enough to
believe what he says about the administra
tion of our public affairs.”
A due sense of justice, or even of humor,
would have put an end to this baneful prac
tice long ago. ’Now the security of govern
ment itself demands a bridling of the reck
lessly abusive tongue. “Public office,” as
the great Cleveland declared, “is a public
trust,” and whosoever betrays it should be
held to strict accountability. But that is
quite a different matter from the wild and
slanderous charges which too often debase
political campaigns, and from the vicious gos
sip which too often besmears political con
versation. What wonder if the forces of de
structive radicalism made headway, if these
foolish practices should continue! ’ We are
much given to quoting, that ours is “a gov
ernment of laws, not of men.” But for thou
sands and millions of minds there is no con
ception of laws apart from the men execut
ing them, no conception of government apart
from the officials at its head. Is not this
worth remembering in so unsteady a time?
«
The photoplay “marriage” has the sub
title, “Not a War-Play.” The drama en
titled “The Gold-Diggers,” might with
equal advantage add, “Not a Political Ex
pose.”—Columbia (S. C.) State.
There used to be rest for the weary on
the other side of Jordan, but not since
the advent of the ouija board.—Norfolk
Ledger Dispatch.
It would seem that the wives of a good
many Maine Democrats must be Republi
cans. —Boston Transcript.
THE HEALTH SPAN
By H. Addington Bruce
HOW many years of really robust health
do you suppose the average person has
in the course of his or her lifetime?
At a rough guess you would perhaps say
forty. Or, to be on the safe side and avoid
overestimating, you might more cautiously
put the health spaiK,at thirty or t\venty-iive
years.
You would hardly go lower than that. Sure
ly, you would -argue, nearly- everybody must
have at least twenty-five years of freedom
from health impairment. Many, you will add,
certainly have more than that.
Many certainly do. Yet medical men who
have most closely delved into health statis
tics insist that, in our modern civilized world,
so many have less than twenty-five years of
full health that the average health span is
only ten years!
That seems incredible to you. Neverthe
less, it is possible to gather from numercftis
sources an appalling array of evidence to sup
port this seemingly incredible statement.
The world war, for one thing, revealed a dis
heartening extent of ill health even among
the naturally most vigorous element in the
population—young men in their twenties.
Recall that of 2,500,000 of these examined
for service in the United States army‘more
than one-third had to be rejected unfit to
bear arms because of physical defects. And
correlate with this some astonishing facts
brought to light by health examinations for
insurance and other purposes.
As, for example, to quote Fisher and Fisk:
“Among large groups of clerks and em
ployes . of banks and commercial houses in
New York City, with an average age of twen
ty-seven and all supposedly picked men and
women, none were found free of impairment
or of haibts of living inviting impairment. Os
those with important physical impairments 89
per cent were, prior to the examination, un
aware of impairment.”
And in millions of instances impairment
of health begins exceedingly early. Accord
ing to Dr. Frederick Peterson, a New York
physician of prominence and known to be cau
tiously conservative in statement:
“More than 16,000,000 children of our 22,-
000,000 now in the public schools have physi
cal defects, most of them preventable and
remediable, such as heart and lung diseases,
disorders of sight and hearing, diseased ade
noids and tonsils, flat feet, weak spines, im
perfect teeth, and malnutrition.”
Note especially the phrase, “physical de
fects. most of them preventable and rem
ediable.”
If the average span of health today is only
ten years, it is not thus short because of con
ditions inherent in modern civilization. These,
no doubt, stress humanity as was not the case
in earlier and simpler times.
But the great cause of the deplorably short
health span is the failure,of people to take
the trouble to learn how to live hygienically.
Ignorance is to blame more than any other
single cause.
And until people begin to educate them
selves for health as zealously as they now
educate themselves for the earning of a living
there can be no appreciable lengthening .of
the average health snan. Popular education
in the ways of right living, together with
nonular application of the rules for right liv
ing, is assuredly one of the greatest needs of
<wr time.
(Copyright, 1920, bv the Associated News
papers.)
A WOMAN’S CHIEF BUSINESS
By Dr. Frank Crane
I am in favor of full rights and qualities
for women before the law. I am infavor
of allowing her to do any share
world’s work she chooses, and of paying her
fairly for it. I have no objection to a woman
SSX. nursing, practicing law or mell
- singing or dancing or acting on the
stage, plowing corn or jumping through
cus hoops. She Rlso should be permitted t
keep house for a husband and bring up chil
drfen for the United States. .
But all this is aside from the one great
business of womankind, the business of mak
ing herself lovable.
The high calling and election of every
woman-soul born upon this planet is to light
the flame and keep burning the altar tire
of love. Everything else is a side issue.
To do this she should make herself at
tractive. She does not need to be beautiful.
Strangely enough, the best loved women of
history have not been the beautiful.
A plain girl can win from a peach-blow
pretty one every time, if she understands the
game.
It is as a Love Producer that Woman has
no competitor.
There she is more wonderful than any
man’s masterpiece of painting or carving;
more mysterious than the stars; more mov
ing than the golden sunset; sweeter than
the dawn, and, altogether, more awful, ra
diant and love-producing than anything on,
over or under the earth. Because she is hu
man.
In these days of Anglo-Saxon reticences,
of Puritan leanings, when all that is sweet
and pleasant is still looked on with a taint
of suspicion, it Is well to remind the world
of womankind that the greatest thing in,
the world continues to be Love.
What about those to whom love never
comes? What about the apple never picked,
the rain that falls in the Lake, the babies
that never grow up and the flower that never
blooms?
They all have their uses, careers and pur
poses; but it still remains true that the plan
of nature is that apples are to be eaten, rain
to nourish the land, babies to grow to men,
flowers to bloom and women to be loved.
It would be wrong to say that a woman
whom no man has loved is a failure; but it
is right to say that any woman who has
caught and held the love of one man, no
matter what else she does, is a success.
The universe owes a debt to every woman
that has ever kindled pure love in a man’s
heart; a double debt to any woman who has
brought a child into the world.
And the universe pays its debts.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes
One of the last strongholds of mere man
has fallen. Oxford University has decided
to throw its doors wide open to women. It
is doing this at the very moment when the
males clamourous for admission are more
numerous than it can conveniently accom
modate. Before the war many students
were attracted to the German universities
from England as well as from America, but
as Germany is now in extreme disfavor, the
logical result is that more and more aspi
rants to the higher learning are crowding
the two great English national centers of
student activities, Oxford and Cambridge. It
is under such circumstances that Oxford has
come to its momentous decision, and it is
only a question of brief time when Cam
bridge will follow suit.
Naturally this almost revolutionary step
nn the part of the governing body of storied
Oxford has given rise to much misgiving and
has evoked spirited protests throughout con
servative England, but, for weal or woe, the
die has been cast. The country which has
already sent one woman to parliament and
will soon send several could scarcely with
hold any possible favor from the fair sex.
■?he entrance of Lady Astor to the house of
commons broke down many barriers and
made co-education at the universities a well
nigh inevitable corollary.—Washington Post
Ind.)
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
111. THE JACKSON-CLAY
RACE OF 1832
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 20.
“Old Hickory” against “Har
ry of the West;” national
conventions against national
conventions; the “peepul” against
the “money power;” the outs aganst
the ins, and all with the federal
offices at stake as sure prizes for the
winners, made the campaign of 1832
the fiercest of American history up
to that time. For Andrew Jackson
had hardly .arrived in the White
House on March 4, 1829, before he
had fired a whole raft of Adams
office-holders and had replaced them
with loyal Jacksonites.
“To the victors belong the spoils,”
said he, promulgating the doctrine
of rotation in Office and instituting
the political method of rewarding
partisan activity with a public job.
Its effect was tremendous, and while
Jackson did not have the committee
form of party organization which
backs up an administration today, he
did have Martin Van Buren in his
councils, and Van Buren was as wise
in practical politics as was Napo
leon in strategy.
This campaign of 183;2 was the
first in which national nominating
conventions figured. The anti-Masons
held the first, and nominated William
Wirt, who had been attorney gen
eral of the United States under Mon
roe and Adams, for president, and
Amos Ellmaker, of Pennsylvania, for
vice president. The national Repub
licans, already called the “Whigs”
in ordinary conversation, nominated
Henry Clay, of Kentucky, for presi
dent, and John Sergeant, of Pennsyl
vania, for vice president. The Dem
ocrats held a convention, but did not
nominate a candidate for president
as Jackson was the unanimous choice
of the party. Martin Van Buren -was
named for vice president and the
famous two-thirds rule, which after
ward proved Van Buren’s undoing,
was adopted. The state of South
Carolina still chose its electors by
the legislature, as it did until afi.i-.-
the Civil war, and it had a party
all of its. own, with John Fit- ~ of
Virginia, for president and Henry Lee,
of Massachusetts, for vice president.
A Stormy
Jackson’s administration had been
the stormiest ever En 0..., and the
conservative statesmen of the old
school were in de. ..air. H e had
quarreled w.th the vice president,
John C. Calhoun, by preferring Van
Buren as a caief counsellor. He had
broken up his own cabinet and had
precipitated th e most violent social
war of Washington’s hisioiy by in
sisting upon tae acceptance of Mrs.
Katon, wife of nis •secretary of war,
by the offic e.. circles o' the capital.
He had turned out all the old office
holders and >-ad g.ven their places
to his i; s tie had violated ev
ery prcceac.ic of presidential behav
ior, am. h?.d transgressed every tra
dition of statecraft.
B * e iteßt fight had been against
the ban.; of the United States. When
he first became president he had
some coz; with the bank
insistir.., th..t t.ie national govern
ment had, some tight to say who
should be chosen officers of the bank.
r ? Nicholas Biddle, head
of the bank, set uj> an-absolute de
nial. Then reports came in from all
over the country that the various
branches of the bank were discrimi
nat.ag against Jr.ckson men in busi
ness relations, and that the bank
vvx; building up a machine to over
t“r<7Tz Jackson. This federal bank
had been chartered in 1816 for a pe
riod of 20 years, and it must obtain
a new lease of life from the govern
ment- during the administration of
that president to be elected in 1828.
ii ? I ? r Y Clay, hating Jackson with
J 1 1?.- and firm in the belief
that.the people would not re-elect
such an uncouth monster to the high
?, ftl ce of president, decided to force
iu ♦ It was by his advice
that the bill to recharter the bank
was introduced and passed by con
gress during Jackson’s first term.
Thomas H. Benton, senator from
Missouri, was fighting against the
recharter in the senate, declaring for
a gold,currency and gaining his so
briquet of "Old Bullion.” But the
bank had friends in congress and
the bill extending its charter was
passed.
Swatting the Money Devil
Jackson promptly vetoed it. That
veto was given in July, 1828, when
the presidential campaign was al
ready well in progress. In these
advanced and enlightened days the
president always sees to it that con
gress has adjourned before the nom
inations are made, so as to prevent
big questions coming up. But Jack
son didn’t care. He said he had
swatted the “Money Devil” and he
had. The campaign was on, and so
far as Jackson men were concerned,
there was but one issue—the duty of
saving Jackson from overthrow by
the money monster.
Clay, the idol of his followers, was
confident that he could win on the
bank question. He was sure that
the people would not consent to a
ruthless overturning of the financial
system of the country. Therefore
he made loyalty to the bank a test
of party fealty. But there was a
settled conviction that Jackson was
right and the bank was wrong. The
old "corruption and bargain” cry
of four years ago was heard again,
but most of the old issues were
buried in the new.
The anti-Masons were strong in
the north, or had been in state elec
tions, and Calhoun was leading the
anti-Jackson fight in his own state,
where the doctrine of nullification
was already being preached. The
end of the bank question and the
crisis in the nullification business
were to come in Jackson’s second ad
ministration, but of course, that was
not known. The fact that Clay, a
Mason, was conniving with the anti-
Masons, and that Clay, the author
of the “American System” of protec
tion and the traiff of aL....filiations
wp in collusion with Calhoun, the
the chief of the nullifiers, added to
Jackson’s strength. "The Triple Un
holy Alliance of Clayism, Nullifica
tion and Anti-Masonry” was the way
the Jackson orators described the op
pc ition.
The Day of Campaign Songs
On the other side every effort was
expanded to induce the people to
wake up to the dangers of the spoils
svstem as introduced by uackson. His
cabinet and his no less important
and much more notorious "Kitchen
Cabinet” came in for their share of
the fighting. The Whiafe sang:
"King Andrew had five trusty
squires,
Whom he held his bid to do;
He also had three pilot fish
To give the sharks their cue.
There was Mart and Lou and
Jack and Lev
And Roger of Taney hue,
And Blair the cook, and Kendall
chief cook,
And Isaac, surnamed the true.”
A bad song, maybe, but it told
about Martin Van Buren, Louis Mc-
Lane, John Branch, Levi Woodbury
and Roger P. Taney who were in
Jackson’s official cabinet, and also
about Francis P. Blair, editor of the
Washington Globe; Amos Kendall
and Isaac Hill, the three friends of
the administration known as the
"Kitchen Cabinet” because Jackson
used to let them in at the back door
of the White House.
Charges of Murder
On the other side, the Jackson men
tried to meet the charges of bloody
murder made against their leader by
telling tales of the duels in which
Mr. Clay had figured. There were
enough of them that really happened,
but more were invented by Dame Ru
mor to be spread through the Jack--
son press. Senator Benton, of Mis
souri, Jackson’s right bower in the
senate, had shot Jackson in the
shoulder in a street fight in Memphis
many years before. While this cam
paign was on the bullet was cut out,
Benton standing by the operating, ta
ble. The story was printed in three
lines, followed by a whole column
about the dueling propensities of Mr.
Clay, abusing the great Whig leader
for fighting when he accepted chal
lenges, and denouncing him as a cow
ard in cases where he declined to
fight.
Jackson got 219 electoral votes,
Clav 49, Floyd 11 and Wirt 7. The
Jackson victory was overwhelming,
and the Democratic papers all ex
claimed: "The bank veto has been
sustained.” Japkson three times re
ceived the plurality of the popular
vote for president, a record equaled
only by Grover Cleveland in the
whole history of the country.
jrC'ESDAI , SKI TIMBER 2», 1920.
REFLECTIONS OF A
BACHELOR GIRL
By HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
THERE are two kinds of “late
husbands” —the slow and the
dead.
When a man and a girl profess to
have an "understanding,” it usually
means that the man understands that
the girl will marry him, if he ever
to ask her.
After a time, “falling in love” be
comes such a matter of habit with
some men. that no matter how often
they "fall” they never receive a per
manent injury—like marriage.
You can melt a man’s heart, as
you can melt iron, as long as the
flame is there; but, once his love Mas
cooled, nothing on earth will soften
It —but another flame.
Nowadays, you can gauge the
depth of a girl’s mind merely by ask
ing heT "whether she regards a. hus
band as a blessing, a necessity, a
luxury, an affliction, a joke, or an op
portunity.
Life is becoming awfully simpl’
fled, isn’t it? For instance, a walk
is called a “dance;” a cowbell is re
garded as a "musical instrument;”
one-rooffi-and-bath constitute an
“apartment;” and one wife and a
Pekinese make a "family.”
Some girls want to marry, for the
same reason that prompts them to
learn to run a motor-car, or to go up
in an airplane—just in order to be
able to say they've done it.
Making a man propose to you is
something like teaching a cat co
jump through a barrel; you don t ex
pect him to do it gracefully, but the
astonishing thing is that he does it
at all.
Funny, but the moment a man’s
love for a woman ceases to be blind
it becomes a little lame.
Even love is brighter, if jewelled
with consistency.
SCIENCE SHOWS
WHO'S A LIAR
Science is not unsympathetic.-
Newspapers are slightly more so.
They have duties, to perform that
are sometimes irksome. And al
though the latest unsympathetic in
strument of science has not as yet
been made applicable to newspapers,
but only to spoken words, it does not
require much imagination to foresee
situations that will be at least pa
thetic. . , ~
For an English physician has dis
covered a contrivance that will de
tect, through the accent of the per
son speaking, whether or not he is
telling the truth. It is called the
"epidiascope.” Itg discoverer tells
the Royal Society of Medicine
that the epidiascope records
speech inflection on a blackened re
volving drum in such away that ab
normalities are seen long before they
can be distinguished by the trained
ear of the most experienced doctor.
The instrument is'one of the med
ical achievmnts of war time, de
vised to ascertain whether or not the
men who asked exemption because
they had fits, or some , such
uncertain and invisible disqualifi
cation, were telling the truth or not.
After its introduction it was the
word of the epidiascope that was
finally taken.
The doctor has satisfied himself
that there are seech peculiarities
for various- maladies and also result
ing from varying emotions—fear, ex
citement, enthusiasm, doubt—all of
which are distinguishable and can
be recorded by the epidiascope.
In the future it is evident the
epidiascope will be as necessary to
the household equipment as the meat
chopper. Mounted in silver, it will
be a fine present for the bride’s
mother to choose. Or, what a fine
compliment ro their son it would be
if it were to be triven by the groom’s
parents.
And, outside of the household, they
would be wonderful. Equipped with
an amplifier, for the courtroom, for
instance, jury trial, now becoming
so often difficult, and extremely
costly, might be done away with. All
that would be needed is one large
sized epidiascope, equipped to throw
its record on a screen, and' one nor
mally observing judge.
And then again, during presiden
tial or gubernatorial campaigns, they
would quickly classify fund raising
witnesses, and with them out of
jobs she campaigns themselves would
be much more economical affairs.
CONCERNING BARNUM'S
WHITE ELEPHANTS
Gaylord was an expert animal
man—probably the best Informed in
the show business —and had been P.
T. Barnum’s confidential agent for
years. He had traveled the world
over, time and again.
It ws Gaylord who negotiated
with the Siamese officials for one of
the farhous white plephants of Siam.
Barnum had his heart set on having
one of them for his show and he sent
Gaylord out with instructions to go
the limit. The stumbling block in
the transaction was that the Sia
mese believe the spirits of the an
cestors of the royal family are trans
ferred to the white . elephants. The
animals lived in the royal palace and
were cared for with all the ceremo
ny given to any members of the
reigning family. Os course, Barnum’s
plan was just as unthinkable to them
as if he had offered to exhibit the
king in his sideshow.
There was a hot exchange of ca
blegrams between Barnum In New
York and Gaylord in Siam. Finally
Barnum offered the government one
fourth million dollairs for the privi
lege of borrowing one of the ele
phants for just ohe year. He agreed
to support a retinue of priests and
ttendaants nd to py all transpor
tation chaarges. The government
would not even consider the proposi
tion, and so Gaylord gave up in dis
gust and cabled that the deal was off.
But Barnum was not discouraged.
When Gaylord returned to this coun
try, he found that the old man was
advertising a white elephant from
the royal palace of Siam. Barnum
had simply used a whitewash brush
on an ordinary elephant, with the re
sult that he had a whiter elephant
than the Siamese ever dreamed of
seeing. The animal was so covered
with velvet robes and surrounded by
attendants that the audience could
not detect the fraud; the general ef
fect was good nd the trick brought
in a lot of money.
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Copyright. 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
William Shakespeare was placed
under SSOO bond in Atlanta recently,
charged with reckless driving. He is
not the shade of the famous play
wright but just a negro chauffeur
whose automobile broke J. W. Wray’s
leg.
Complaints by banks and the gen
eral public at the flood of unusually
dirty and insanitary paper currency
in circulation bring an explanation
from federal reserve bank officials
that the bureau of engraving and
printing at Washington is unable
to remedy the situation by increas
ing the output of new notes. The
limitations placed on the Washing
ton bureau, according to the officials,
are physical. One-third of the bu
reau is utilized in printing perma
nent Liberty loan bonds, and the pa
per currency in the United States
has doubled in circulation during the
last six years.
Reorganization of the Interchurch
World Movement has been brought
about and the organization os sol
vent. Bishop Thomas Nicholson, of
Chicago, chairman of the reorganiza
tion committee, has announced.
More than $1,000,000 has been paid
into the organization by the denom
inations which undertook to under
writes the original $100,000,000 cam
paign, Bishop Nicholson said. Con
ferences will open in New York city
in two or three weeks.
The old battleship lowa, weighing
12,000 tons, was navigated with pre
cise accuracy by means of radio
waves emanating from a control sta
tion on the battleship Ohio, in a test
just concluded by the navy depart
ment off the Virginia Capes.
The control was found efficient up
to 10 or 12 miles. The novel test
was declared to have fulfilled the
highest expectations of naval ex
pert. >
San Francisco police have started
a search for Grover Cleveland Berg
doll, wealthy Philadelphian, wanted
for evading the draft. The search
began when department of justice of
ficials advised the police that several
people had reported they had seen
Bergdoll here
Judge Elbert H. Gary. American
steel magnate, at a luncheon given
in his honor at Paris last week, ac
cepted an invitation to return next
year with a delegation of American
steel men to inspect the steel indus
try in process of reconstruction.
Major General Leonard Wood was
decorated last week in Chicago as an
officer of the Order of St. Maurice
and St. Lazarus by Colonel Di Ber
nezzo, Italian military attache at
Washington. The ceremony took place
on the Municipal Pier auditorium,
and was part of exercises in honor
of the fiftieth anniversary of the
entry of the Italian army into Rome.
A large quantity of railroad roll
ing stock, including a number of lo
comotives. has arrived at Alicante,
Spain, on board a French steamer
and will be employed Immediately
to replace material on roads in this
vicinity. The rolling stock on these
lines is so worn that service has
been abandoned on many branches.
Many thousands of Hollanders are
inquiring about prospects of work or
business In the United States, New
York hears. There are three main
reasons for the coming migration
from Holland. First, an accumula
tion of those prevented by the war.
Second, the over-crowding of Hol
land by refugees from war-stricken
countries, principally Belgium. Third,
a general nausea caused by fear of
Bolshevism, the. lowering of moral
standards and the uncertainty of pol
itics.
THE BUSINESS MEN OF THE BIBLE
BY REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
Noah, the Vintner
If the Book of Genesis is to be ac
cepted as authentic history, grape
culture is one of the most ancient of
all human occupations, and as an
cient as the culture of the grape is
the custom which prohibition is now
trying so strenuously to wipe out.
In Genesis 9:20 we learn that Noah
was a vintner—-a raiser of grapes and
a of wine. "And Noah
began to be a husbandman, and
planted a vineyard; and he drank of
the wine, and was drunken; and he
was uncovered within his tent.” .
In the fair eastern land where
Noah lived for so long the conditions
for grape-raising are ideal, and with
land so plentiful and cheap as it was
in. those good old days, we may be
sure that the patriarch’s vineyard
was of royal acreage, or, perhaps I
should say, mileage, Its glorious clus
ters stretching away toward the hor
izon like a purple sea flashing in the
sun.
California —the Italy of America,
and a "goodly land” indeed if there is
one on this earth —is. justly proud of
her grape fields; but the chances are
that Noah’s ranch was far ahead of
anything in that line in California.
That Noah was a successful vint
ner, and found delight in his occupa
tion is shown by the fact that he re
mained in the business 350 years
from the time of the flood to his
death.
Speaking of the flood, we are re
minded of the fact•that that ever
memorable event n>akes it difficult
for one to write interestingly ort
Noah’s real occupation.
Take, as an illustration, the case
of Mr. Hoover. When the great war
got fairly to swinging, the president
summoned Mr. Hoover and gave him
the task of feeding the starivng mil
lions of northern France, Belgium
Q IL=D D
New Questions
1. —How did the name, "Yankee,”
start?
2. —Who holds the record of driv
ing in harness races?
3. —Which damages a road more,
automobiles and loaded trucks, or
wagons and loaded wagons?
4. —ls there a law prohibiting the
burial of Chinese in the United
S tcites ?
5. —Does the pearyut actually belong
to the nut family?
6. —Has the collier,- Cyclops, been
finally given up as lost?
7. —Do all vines from left to
right?
8. —Did President Roosevelt have
the motto, “In God We Trust,” re
moved from coins?
9. —What is the meaning of the
words "Ku-Klux,” and from what lan
guage were they derived?
10. —How long has the Panama
canal been operating, and how maqy
ships have used it?
Questions Answered
1. Q. What do the small letters
on coins stand for?
A. The initials on coins are ei
ther mint marks or the initials of
the designer of the coin. The mint
marks of various mints are as fol
lows: New Orleans, o; San Francis
co, s; Denver, d. Coins made at the
Philadelphia mint are distinguished
by the fact that they bear no mint
mark. ~
2. Q. Where did the Indians
get their flint and how did they make
darts out of it without tools?
A. The bureau of ethnology says
that Indians got flint or chert from
river teds and shaped them by per
cussion with other stones, producing
rude shapes of the arrow or dart
points they Intended to make. Then
with horn they flaked off the stones
until the desired shapes were ob
tained.
3. Q. Which is the correct initial
to use in marking a cuff linkupr belt
where tb.« name is O’Connor, Mc-
Donald or Van Horn?
A. Individuals may decide this
arbitrarily, but jewelers advise the
combination O’D., McD., or VH., in
making silver and jewelry.
4. Q- Os what does a "herb bou
quet” consist?
A. Cooks differ In the composing
of this seasoning bunch, but a spray
of parsley, sprig of thyme, a bay
leaf and a branch of celery consti
tute an acceptable herb bouquet and
will flavor about a gallon of soup if
cocfked with it for an hour.
5. Q. What is the difference be-
A bomb was thrown at the Kang
tang police station in South Phyon
gy.ang Province, Korea, Friday, but
failed to wreck the building, because
of the protecting trees about it. The
outrage is supposed to have been the
work of malcontents. A band, alleged
to have been composed of Koreans,
attacked a public office in the same ■
province, stole the money in the
building and burned pul jic' dociu
ments. ’
The Spanish armored cruiser Al
fonso XIII, which has been visiting
this country for several weeks, h'
sailed for Ferrel. Spain.
ship arrived at Havana last July and
later anchored ,at Annapolis, when
officers and cadets were taken ii
charge by the navy department o'
a visit to Washington. The Alfons
has been here since Septcnvier f
She was the' first Spanish warshi
to visit United States ports since th
Spanish war.
"Farmer” Dunn, the man who so
years provided New York City witl
its weather forecasts, is giving :
new revelation of versatility by
seeking the Republican nominatior
for congress from the Ninth New
Jersey district. He is coming on a
wet platform, .but not the kind of
wet you think. His issue is ex
pressed In the slogan adopted by
the non-partisan “Farmer” Dunn as
sociation* which is backing his am
bition—“ Put Newark on the Ocean.”
This means that If he is sent to
Washington “Farmer” Dunn pro
poses to urge, in season and out, the
necessity of deep water from the
Kill van Kull into Newark’s Bay
and the Passaic river so vessels of
deep draught may enter and make
Newark a regular seaport.
The American Federation last week
adopted resolutions demanding repre
sentation for farmers and stock rais
ers in the cabinet and opposing gov
ernment price-fixing of farm prod
ucts. The resolutions also demanded
that the government "make a study
of the agricultural products and cost
of producing so that frequent, abnor
mal and ruinous fluctuations in
prices of farm products may be
avoided” and urge revision of the
tariff on agricultural and farm pro- .
duce.
The resolutions "especially demand
that the secretary of agriculture bo
a practical farmer.”
Warning has been Issued against
counterfeit S2O and SIOO Federal Re
serve bank notes. They are printed
from poorly made photo-mechanical
plates on two pieces of paper be
tween which a few silk threads have
been distributed. The portraits of
Cleveland and Franklin lack many
of the fine lines of the genuine, show
ing white patches easily detected.
The expenditure of $1,000,455 for
carrying on the work of the Neu-
York Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor during nexl
year is foreshadowed In a budget
submitted to a special meeting of
the executive and finance committees.
Thjs budget, the largest in the his
tory of the organization, will be
placed before the annual meeting of
the association on October 27 for for
mal adoption.
The conditions which will govern
the entry of immigrants into Pales
tine, just made public by the admin
istration of the district, are contain
ed in dispatches from Jerusalem.
Each Immigrant must possess a pass
port vised by the British consul of
his city, ample proof that he will be
able to sustain himself for at least
a year and a certificate as to his
physical fitness. !
and other parts of war-stricken E,
rope. The splendid' way in whir
Mr. Hoover performed the hercuie:.
task is the talk of the world, and wi
be the admiration and wonder of al
mankind for a thousand years t'
come. Hoover, the man who kep •
Europe from starving-—that is al
anybody cares to know. Other parts
of Hoover’s history fall upon the at
tention like a “twice-told tale, vex-/
ing the dull ear of a drowsy man."
In the same way, only to a much
greater extent, does Noah’s building
and navigation of the “Ark” eclipse
whatever else the patriarch may have
been or done. It was his chef
d’ouvre, his masterpiece, in comparl
son with which the other facts about
him are of no particular interest to
anybody.
A few reflections may be In order
here.
While Jehovah made up his mind
to drown out the whole human breed
and start over again, he selected
Noah and his sons the “seed corn”
of the new generation; and yet, the
first thing that Noah did after the
flood was to raise grapes and manu
facture wino not "unfermented
wine,” but real wine, with “kick”
enough in it to make a man drunk.
Not only so, but Noah’s business
did not prevent Jehovah from mak
ing a holy covenant with him —a cov
enant which invested him with the
Premiership of Humanity—Jehovah’s
Head Man on Earth!
These facts have long been a stum
bling-block to thousands of good
Christians, especially If they nave
happened to be not only Christians
but Prohibitionists, and their only
refuge has been the lines of the poet
Cowper as familiarized to us all in
the glorious old hymn,
“God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform.”
tween a national forest and a na
tional forest reserve?
A. A national forest is any for
est owned by the United States,
while a national forest reserve is a
tract of land set apart from the pub
lic domain in order “to Improve and
protect the forest within the reser
vation or for the purpose of secur
ing favorable conditions of water- •
flows, and to furnish continuous sup
ply of timber for the use and neces
sities of citizens of the United
States M
6. Q. Do Canada and the Unit
ed States coin gold dollars?
A. Neither Canada nor the United
States coin gold dollars at the pres
ent time.
7. Q. What dressing should be
used on leather chairs?
■A. Chairs and couches upholster- \
ed in leather will last much longer
if the following mixture is applied
once a month: One part good vine
gar, two parts boiled linseed oil.
Shake thoroughly together. Apply a
little on a soft rag and polish with
a s:lk duster or a piece of chamois.
This cleanses and softens the leath
er; it is also a good polish for the
wood. / 1
8. Q. Where do oysters known as
Blue Points get their name?
A. They are named for Blue
Point, N. Y., the southern extremity
of Patchogue Bay, L. 1., which is
famous for its oyster beds. The
name is now used to designate the
small, delicately-flavored oysters,
whether native or transplanted,
which are taken off the southern
shore of Long Island.
9. Q. Please tell me when the
first Thanksgiving proclamation was
Issued?
A. After the first harvest of the
New England colonists in 1620, Gov- ,
ernor Bradford made provisions for
a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
In 1-B*7. New York City adopted this
as an annual event and it soon spread
throughout the states. In 1864 Ab
raham Lincoln, then president.
pointed a day of thanksgiving aifn
prayer. Since then the presidents
have Issued a Thanksgiving procla
mation.
10. Q. Will the government pay
funeral expenses of a man who had
been in the army?
A. The war department says that
the government does not pay the fu
neral expenses of a soldier unless he
dies in the service or in a soldiers’
home. A veteran’s pension may be
applied to such expenses, if any had
accrued and no other means for bur
ial are provided.