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4 TriE TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter.of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) I W .1 .’ u. 3 U Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c tic $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sun-lay 7c 30c .90 175 3.25 Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Tnursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news fro~n all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the tarm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. 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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. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS AH 'CLARE. T' GOODNESS! AH WU SH DE PAHSON WOULD STOP TALKIN T* ME 'FO I>E OLE '<9 MAN BOUT I>E RULES El/ REFLATIONS WHUT AH OUGMTER 'STABLISH IN MAH HOUSE !! w i i 1 kXWVt l| I ILAIU 'ill I M 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.