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Reassuring Views o f Germany
EVERY reassuring account of present-
day Germany should be peculiarly
welcome; for as the World War
could not have befallen without that na
tion’s Incitement, so world peace cannot be
made an abiding reality without her co
working. There have been, an in some
quarters still are, grave apprehensions that
this consummation might be cut off by any
one of three untoward developments. If
Germany should lose self-control and go
reeling into anarchy, or if she should pass
again tfhder the dominance of an ambitious
and resourceful militarist cult, or if she
should make common cause with Russian
Bolshevism against western and democratic
Europe— her power for peace and for con
structive Internationalism would be lost.
While some observers whose views com-'
mand respect are fearful of one or the other
of these contingencies, the larger number of
competent judges whose expressions reach
us are distinctly hopeful. Here, for in
stance, is a striking commerftary from Mr.
F. W. Foerster, who recently revisited Ger
many after an absence of more -than a
twelvemonth. "It seems to me,” he writes,
"that the German people, with a more or
less unchanged exterior, are passing through
a period of profound transformation which,
for the careful observer, gives also certain
external evidences. It is surprising, in the
first place, how much order, cleanliness and
punctuality are observable on the railroads,
at all events on the principal lines, and in
most cities both large and small.” This
and like evidence of a social will rising
vigorous and proficient from the nation’s
catastrophe is interpreted by Mr. Foerster
as "a sign of old and new moral strength,
and also as undoubted proof that the Ger
man people themselves believe in their own
rehabilitation; for he who despairs shows
it by carelessness as to his personal habits
and appearance.” From this it does not
appear that danger of German’s spitting
into anarchy is at hand.
Nor, if our present witness has seen
aright, is there likelihood of the nation’s
renew-ing militaristic adventure. He is not
persuaded to this opinion by the frequently
heard statement that no reasonable person
in Germany is thinking of revenge, because
"recent years have shown clearly enough
that political acts are often dictated by the
passions of the unreasoning.” But he con
siders the country’s enonomic situation an
altogether effectual barrier, at least for
many years to come, to any such ambitions;
and he interestingly adds that “a new war
would find Germany the battlefield between
East and West.”
But if misgivings on this score be
groundless, what of the supposedly more
formidable danger of a Russo-German coa
lition framed on Bolshevist tenets? Mr.
Foerster regards such an alliance as "im
possible,” not only because of its incom
patibility with German character, but chiefly
because “the whole movement is too lack
ing in foundation to be able to triumph,”
too absurdly unequal to "the task of the re
habilitation of Europe.” The plainest and
most imperative conditions impel Germany
to resume relations with the West, whence
must come her substantial heli) —not to link
arms with an impoverished and quite irre
sponsible fanatic of the East, with a view
to bringing on another World War.
These observations, strengthening the
hope that Germany may grow inwardly
stable and remain unmoved by outer temp
tations, are made by a number of recent
visitors to that land. May the seasons
ahead confirm them and fortify their sus
taining conditions; for upon peace and
good will in Central Europe, peace and
good will the world around largely depends.
Governor Cox and Business
SO much is said of Governor Cox s serv
ice to the cause of educational, social
betterment and other fields of dis
tinctly human need, that cdsual observers are
likely to overlook much that he has done in
the interest of business. The fact is his
work in this particular constitutes one of the
richest aspects of his Congressional and gu
bernatorial record.
Among his earliest recommendations to
the Ohio Legislature was that of a budget
system to supplant the political log-rolling
plan of appropriations. The adoption of his
suggestion has saved the taxpayers of that
Commonwealth millions of dollars and at the
same time has made possible many public
improvements foj’ which otherwise there
wouV. have been no funds.
Beginning with business-like methods for
the affairs of the State, he has stood con
sistently for fair play and encouragement for
business in general, from the largest to the
least of lawful enterprises. A "blue sky”
law to protect against fraudulent schemes
and to encourage sound investment, a help
ful State banking code, a public utilities act
pi---riding property revaluation as a basis for
rate making, a uniform accounting sys
tem applied to public utilities —these are but
typical of much valuable legislation fostered
by him.
His is the experience and the constructive
attitude which are the true bulwarks of busi
ness security.
A man has been arrested as crazy be
cause he told all his friends to keep away
from Wall street. We’ve been telling all
our friends that for years.—Richmond
(Ind.) Item.
THE ATLANTA TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL.
The South's Textile Growth
THOSE are highly significant figures
which Commissioner Stanley, of the
Georgia Department of Commerce
and Labor, has compiled on the relative
increase of cotton manufacturing in the
South and in the remainder of the Union.
For the twelvemonth ended August 31
last, it appears, there was an addition of
579,163 to the number of active spindles
in the cotton-growing States as against
312,831 elsewhere. At this rate it will not
be long ere the center of the great indus
try passes from the East to Dirie, al
though there are still some four and a
quarter million more spindles outside of
this region than within it.
The advantage in converting raw mate
rials into finished products as near as pos
sible to the source of the former’s output
is so obvious and so manifold that the
South’s ultimate control of cotton textile
industries might have been predicted from
the beginning. Yet it was not until decades
rather recent that the slow shifting from
New England got under way. Though the
cotton gin was invented in Georgia more
than a century and a quarter ago, and
though as early as 1811 a cotton mill was
established in Wilkes county, on Upton
creek about nine miles south of Washing
ton, the War Between the States had pass
ed into history and a new South was well
risen from the night of Reconstruction be
fore the development which we now take
for granted was begun.
Want oi skilled labor and of adequate
capital was but one among sundry cir
cumstances that delayed what now appears
an inevitable coming on of events. How
ever the past may be explained, the im
portant fact is that today the land where
cotton is most extensively grown is fast
becoming, for this continent, the land
where it is most extensively manufactured
Massachusetts and Rhode Island still lead,
but North Carolina comes third, South
Carolina fourth, and Georgia fifth among
the cotton textile States. As the harness
ing of the hydro-electric energy now go
ing to waste in our rivers and streams
proceeds and cheap power thus becomes
available, the South’s natural superiority
in this field of manufacture will grow
more and more evident, and the capital
needed to utilize her rich resources there
in will be abundantly forthcoming.
What Independents Think
THE trend of the country’s unfet
tered thought in the Presidential
campaign is interestingly evidenced
in Professor Irving Fisher’s organization
of Independents and progressive Repub
i licans who will vote for Governor Cox.
Among many notable names in a pre
liminary list, of those supporting the idea
are: .Henry C. King, president of Oberlin
College; Theodore Marburg, Republican
Minister to Belgium under President Taft;
Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent;
Professor Charles Seymour, of Yale;
Charles W. Eliot, former president of
Harvard; Caroline Hazard, former presi
dent of Wellesley; Mary E. Woolley, presi
dent of Mount Holyoke; Professor Schlesin
ger, president of the American Astronomi
cal Society; James Tourney, dean of the
Yale Forestry School; Rev. Henry A.
Stimson, of New York City; and Moor
field Storey, of Boston.
That these leaders in education and so
cial service, these careful and penetrating
thinkers, whose politics is a matter of in
telligent adjustment to issues, not of mere
habit or prejudice, that they should cast
their decision and influence for the Demo
cratic candidate for President is indeed
significant but certainly not surprising.
Governor Cox himself is an exemplar of in
dependence, constructiveness and true vi
sion in statesmanship. His record, beside
that of Senator Harding, is like a page
from the Bill of Rights beside some docu
ment of Bourbonism. Moreover, the party
behind Governor Cox is unmistakably pro
gressive, while that behind Senator Hard
ing is unmistakably reactionary. In such
circumstances there is but one course for
men and women like Professor Fischer’s
associates.
The nation’s thinkers are the election
of Governor Cox.
An Unexampled Corn Crop
AMONG the cheerfulest tidings early au
tumn has brought is the official es
timate of the corn crop. On a basis
of conditions-as they were at the first of the
month, the Department of Agriculture reck
ons the forthcoming yield at three billion
one hundred and fifty-one million bushels,
and adds that if frosts are late the total will
be still larger.
The significance of this unexampled har
vest to sundry fields of animal husbandry,
particularly the sources of our breakfast
bacon, is obvious. It was not until Georgia
and hep neighbor States came to be plen
teous producers of corn that they made sub
stantial progress in hog raising; peanutss
give fat, but for firmness - the sturdy grain
is needed. It is to be expected, then, that
the largest corn crop in America’s history
will have a decidedly upbuilding effect on
the production of meat.
Food yields in general are richly prom
ising. True, drouth in the Northwest
"caused the prospective sgring wheat crop to
decline from two hundred and sixty-two mil
lion bushels on August 1 to two hundred and
thirty-seven million on September I”—a loss
which reduces the "prospective total” of win
ter and spring wheat to about one hundred
and seventy million bushels less than last
year. But even thus the aggregate, estimated
at nearly three-quarters of a million bushelss,
so far exceeds the expectations of four or five
months ago, that we may well be grateful.
The South shares bountifully in these
signs of plenty. Heavy though the reverses
of cotton have been, diversified agriculture,
which has grown apace in recent years, as
sures a full crib and a fat smokehouse for
almost every farmer who worked with fore
sight and vim. The result should find reflec
tion in widespread prosperity.
The Plague B earer
PRUDENT persons and well-ordered
communities the country over will
give heed to Surgeon General Cum
mings’ statement on the importance of tak
ing preventive measures ' against post-war
plague infections from the Near East. Re
ferring to the indications that “seven mil
lion people are trying to get here from Asia
Minor, the Black Sea district of Russia and
other parts of Europe where the bubonic
plague, typhus and smallpox are raging,”
and recalling the appearance of the first
mentioned malady at certain American ports
early in the summer, he appeals for a gen
eral strengthening of sanitary precautions.
Especially important, -all students of the
matter agree, is the extermination of rats,
which are carriers of sundry germs—notably
the infecting/ flea that spreads bubonic
plague. This peril centers} of course, in
immigrant ships, so that vigilance on the
part of port authorities is the first essen
tial. But in all places and at all times
activity against the disease-bearing, prop
erty-destroying, ever-dangerous rat is com
mendable. This duty is not lessened by
the fact that one is fortunate enough to
dwell far away, from apparent possible
sources of plague infection. Always and
everywhere a rat is a peril £nd a pest. Se
curity of health as well as conservation of
property calls for ceaseless war upon his
species.
PSYCHIC RECONSTRUCTION
By H. Addington Bruce
TYPICAL of the aid tne modern mental
clinic can give, in the way not merely
of treating mental and nervous disease
but of helping people to better social adjust
ments in general, is the experience of a young
man hailing from a small country town.
This young man appeared one day at a city
hospital with a story of persistent headaches
for which his physician could find no adequate
cause. Nor did the hospital experts succeed
in tracing the headaches to any condition of
bodily disease. He seemed organically sound
enough, if somewhat flabby of muscle.
Consequently the suspicion arose that the
continuing pain in his head was of purely
psychic origin. This suspicion was strengthen
ed by the way in which he forever talked
about it, and by his curiously secretive and
mistrustful attitude.
"He will confide in nobody,” one who knew
him well reported. “In fact, he keeps by him
self nearly all the time. There is something
queer about him.” *
Sent to the mental clinic, the young man in
sisted for a while that he had no special
worry or anxiety that might account for his
headaches. Tactful questioning and some
medico-psychological detective work caused
him to modify this statement radically.
It appeared that he could not get along with
his family, that he had few friends and no'
recreations, and that he had fallen into a bad
sex habit over which he worried greatly.
"Your headaches,” he then was told in ef
fect, “are directly caused by the unhappiness
which your wrong ways of living have brought
upon you. If you would have fewer headaches
you must develop a sounder philosophy of life.
“It will help you to do this if for a time
you change your environment. Come to the
city to live, get employment here, join the
Y. M. C. A., take gymnasium work regularly,
and force yourself to enter into social amuse
ments in the evenings instead of moping at
home worrying over your mistakes and your
hard lot.”
The young man promised to carry out the
program arranged for him, and did so. With
this result, according to the clinician in charge
of his case:
“The patient’s attitude has been transformed
from one of sensitive seclusiveness to a much
more healthy outlook. Instinctive control is
satisfactory. Headache is no longer sponta
neously referred to, while his improvement
has been an enormous relief to his family.”
Other young men—and young women, too—
are similarly tormented by secret worries, per
haps not at all connected with sex errors, but
poignantly distressing and embittering them.
Influenced by these worries they have devel
oped traits, with or without definite disease
symptoms, that make it hard for them to earn
a living and impossible to be happy.
So, too. older men and women suffer from
social maladjustments due to wrong modes of
thinking and living. All that they need is have
their mistakes made clear to them and to re
ceive instruction In overcoming them.
Which need, for old and young alike, It is
one of the’ functions of the modern mental
clinic to meet.
(Copyright, 1920-, by the Associated News
papers.)
A CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRACY
By Dr. Frank Crane
Democracy is away of government.
Its machinery is intended to enable the ma
jority of the people to get what they want.
It is the only plan of government that seeks
this end. It does not always attain it, but in
the nature of the case it is the only one that
approximates it, since no other plan aims at
it.
Any man or group of men, any idea, theory,
scheme or movement, which has for its object
to impose the will of a minority upon the
people is democracy’s foe.
It makes no difference whether such a con
spirator is a hereditary monarchy, a bureau
cracy, a cabal, a party, or any other person,
theory or organization.
The whole and sole point is, that a mi
nority, either by violence or scheming, seek,
to control the government.
The gist and core of democracy is that
stated by Lincoln, “a government of the peo
ple, by the people and for the people.”
When, therefore, the British labor unions
issue an ultimatum to the government, that
unless it does thus and so, the industry of the
nation will be crippled, it is precisely as much
a tyranny as- it would be if a kaiser declared
that he would enforce his personal will by
an army.
Lloyd George stated the issue in plain
terms. “The elected representatives of the
people do not count,” declares the labor group.
Hence, they propose to substitute the soviet
for parliament. .
“This,” declared the premier, “is one of the
most formidable challenges ever given to de
mocracy, and without hesitation every govern
ment must accept the challenge.”
That is the issue behind every attempt by
strikers to get their own way, not through
their regularly elected representatives, but by
coercion.
By sticking to this program labor lead
ers are riding to a fall.
Through many long years the people have
gained what liberties they have. They are not
going to give them up for any tyrannical
scheme, even one that talks of justice and the
rights of men.
Our government may be faulty, inefficient,
even venal. But we chose it. We elected it.
And if we don’t like it we can elect another.
It is proper and commendable for labor
to organize, to secure the election of repre
sentatives favorable to its cause, to bring
any pressure of public opinion they may be
able to create to bear upon legislatures, but
when they resort to threats of “direct action,”
which means injury to the body politic, it
means that they intend that the government
shall be run by a compact minority, and not
by a majority. And this is the death of de
mocracy.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
Mr. Smith-Farman acquired great wealth
by the death of a relative, and his wife imme
diately became anxious to get into society.
Her knowledge of social customs left much to
be desired. Their nearest neighbors were a
very exclusive family who were extremely
conservative regarding their friends. Mrs.
Smith-Farman, desiring the acquaintance of
the family, sent a card as follows:
“Mr. and Mrs. Smith-Farman present their
compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Hartt, and hope
they are well. Mr. and Mrs. Smith-Farman
will be at home on Wednesday evening at 8
o’clock.”
The family receiving it were quite equal to
the occasion, and Mrs. Smith-Farman received
the following reply:
“Mr. and Mrs. Hartt return the compli
ments of Mr. and Mrs. Smith-Farman, and in
form them that they are very well. Mr. and
Mrs. Hartt are glad to know that Mr. and
Mrs. Smith-Farman will be at home on
Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. Mr. and
Mrs. Hartt will also be at home.”
It is strange the ouija board hasn’t
been consulted in the Wall street bomb
mystery. The ouija is as reliable as palm
istry.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Maybe the reason for fifty-cent haircuts
is because the barber has to pay 31 cents
for gasoline and he wants a little left
for tires. —Toledo Blade.
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
IV. THE VAN BUREN-
HARRISON RACE OF 1836
ttt ASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 21.
\/\/ Martin Van Buren was
y Y practically appointed by
Andrew Jackson to suc
ceed him in the White House, but the
appointment did not take effect until
after it had been ratified by the
people at an election which marked
the close of one of the most bitterly
contested campaigns of our history.
The re-election of Jackson in 1832
upon the issue of his veto of the
bill to recharter the Bank of the
United States had practically de
stroyed the National Republican
party. So in 1834 the elements of
opposition to Jackson organized un
der the name of '•Whig,” which, to
some extent, had been the popular ap
pellation of the National Republicans.
Henry Clay was the heart and soul
of the new party, but it could not
unite even in opposition to Van
Buren.
In all the northern states but
Massachusetts the Whigs supported
William Henry Harrison. In Massa
chusetts Daniel Webster was the
candidate. In the south, except South
Carolina, Senator Hugh Lawson
White, of Tennessee, was leading the
antl-Jackson battles. South Carolina
was looking out for itself, the legis
lature ready to instruct electors to
vote for anybody to defeat Jackson’s
man, Van Buren. If the anti-Van
Buren leaders had managed to get
a majority of the electoral votes,
they would have deserted their can
didates to combine upon Clay or some
other leader, but that scheme was
never put into effect. Van Buren had
a clear majority of both popular and
electoral votes and Andrew Jackson’s
administration was once more en
dorsed.
The second Jackson administration
had been even more stormy than the
first. After Jackson was re-elected
the attitude of the opposition was
reflected by.such papers as the Bos
ton Courier, which said: “Yet there
is one comfort left. God has prom
ised that the days of the wicked
shall be short; the wicked is old and
feeble and he may die before he can
be inaugurated. It is the duty of
every good Christian to pray to our
Maker to have pity on us.”
The Fight on the Bank
South Carolina found out for cer
tain that Jackson was re-elected by
the middle of November, 1832, and
on November 23 the famous Ordi
nance of Nullification was passed.
The Tariff Abominations was largely
the work of Henry Clay and had not
much support from Jackson. But
Calhoun and the nullifiers, in fighting
the tariff, declaring it unconstitu
tional arid null and void, were in the
same political bed with Clay so far
as opposition to Jackson was con
cerned.
The burning words of Jackson’s
proclamation of December 10 was
the first great and broad denial of
the right of a state to oppose its
single will against the power of the
federal government, and Jackson’s
stand on that question saved the
union. But the nullification ques
tion was one which affected only a
small portion of the people. The
bank question was a nation-wide is
sue.
The bill to recharter the bank
had been vetoed during the cam
paign of 1883 and the voters had
ratified the veto. The bank had ex
erted every possible effort to elect
Clay. It did not take Jackson long
to decide to use all his power to end
the bank, without waiting for Its
charter to expire in 1836. His sec
retary of the Treasury, William J.
Duane, would not order the removal
of the government deposits in the
bank without authority from con
gress. He also refused to resign his
position. Whereupon he was re
moved and his portfolio given to
Roger B. Taney, of Maryland, who
had been attorney general. Taney
removed the deposits and, in later
years, was rewarded by appointment
to be chief justice of the supreme
court.
Strictly speaking, the deposits
were not removed from the bank.
Incoming funds were deposited in
certain state banks, and the balance
in the United States bank was grad
ually exhausted by drafts for cur
rent expenses. The selection of cer
tain state banks as depositories gave
rise to charges of favoritism and
in the campaign of 1836 much was
made of "Jackson’s Pets” as such
banks were known. But in spite of
all these radical things and the en
tire destruction of the financial sys
tem upon which the country had
been conducted, everybody prosper
ed. The people were more prosper
ous than ever before, the govern
ment was In better financial condi
tion than at any time, before or
since, in its history. By January,
1836, the national’debt was all paid
off and the country had to face the
question of what to do with the
surplus revenues.
They Divided the Money
It was finally decided to distrib
ute it among the states in propor
tion to their representation in con
gress. The states gave Receipts for
the money, over $28,000,000 in the
aggregate, as if they were deposits,
but everybody understood the
money was not to be paid back. Tne
distribution was to be in four in
stallments. Three were paid, but
the panic which followed Van Bu
ren’s election prevented the fourth
payment. Some states built public
buildings with the money. Maine
divided it among the people, per
capita. Other states made It the
basis of a school fund, as which it
still exists. As late as 1883 the
state of Virginia attempted to col
lect the fourth installment, but was
unsuccessful. The treasury of the
United States still carries that S2S,-
000,000 on its cash books as an un
available fund. Whatever may
have come of all these things in
after years, to the people in 1836 it
looked good.
To their eyes Jackson was still a
hero and he was a statesman. Jack
son said Van Buren was the man to
succeed him, and the voters took
Jackson’s word for it. Jackson had
overthrown the old aristocratic
clique. He had punished the bank,
which the people called the British
Bank, because much of the stock
was owned abroad. He had paid off
the national debt, and he had remit
ted a large amount of money, col
lected as Indirect tax, directly to the
people. Everybody was prospering
and money was easy. Everybody
was speculating and getting rich
quick. That was the danger, but
they couldn’t see it ahead of them.
So it was that when the votes were
counted, Van Buren had more than
Harrison, White. Webster and Man
gum, the South Carolina candidate,
His Home State Turns on Jackson
To Andrew Jackson it was a great
triumph, but there was a thorn in
the crown of roses. Tennessee, his
own state, had deserted him. The
anti-Jackson forces were led by Hugh
Lawson White, once his friend, but
turned enemy on the Bank question.
White had been re-elected to the sen
ate by a Tennessee legislature in
spite of Jackson. So earnestly did
Old Hickory go into the campaign
that, he had articles printed in Wash
ington papers denouncing White, and
then franked them under his own
signature to members of the legis
lature at Nashville. What a scandal
if a president should do such a
thing in these days!
In this campaign White carried
Tennessee over Van Buren by more
than 10,000 votes. That was gall and
wormwood to Jackson, and he never
could become reconciled to it. Eight
years later he dictated the nomina
tion and election of another pres
ident, but again Tennessee was
against him.
No campaign was ever disgraced
by moreft vilification than this con
test for the succession to Jackson.
The Van Buren men accused every
body in opposition, without discrim
ination, of being bribed by the bank
to me the creatures of the Brit
ish Rothschilds, who were present
ed as the real owners of the bank.
Nicholas Biddle was attacked with
more venom than ever before, if such
a thing were possible.
On the other hand, the Whigs of
every shade of belief continued their
attacks on Jackson, and accused him
of almost every sort of corruption
and wickedness. Van Buren they as
sailed as the creature and the proxy
of JQackson. They declared that
Jackson’s presumtion in dictating his
successor would mean the overthrow
of Republican iuaULuUoaa in Amer-
-RSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1920.
REFLECTIONS OF A
BACHELOR GIRL
By HELEN ROWLAPD
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
Oh hearten me. Beloved—oh tell me
not the truth!
Say not my eyes are losing the starry
mist of youth.
Hint not my girlish figure grows ma
tronly 'in size—
Oh, comfort me, Beloved, with pleas
ant little lies!
Oh, hearten me, Beloved—nor stop to
count th,e cost!
Say not my shining tresses their
golden glint have lost.
Oh, tell me that you love me! Not
once, but every day,
Repeat the sweet assurance, in the
sweet, tender way!
For I am but a woman. Truth has
for me no thrills,
Unless it’s subtly camouflaged, and
all dressed up in frills.
So tell me ’til the end, Dear Heart,
that I am passing fair,
Oh, feed me not the bitter truth—but
just the old hot air!
A man has two ways of winning a
woman. To half of them he paints
himself blacker than he is, and to the
other half he whitewashes himself.
You can judge a jnan, nowadays,
according to whether he regards
Bermuda ag the “Isle of Lilies,” as
“the place where onions come from,”
or merely as a tempting oasis in the
desert of prohibition.
After a few years of marriage, a
man ceases to resent the. fact that
men stare at his wife, and begins to
wonder why they do it.
At ten, a man
mash;” at twenty, "I’ve got a gir;”
at thirty, “I know a charming wom
an;” at forty, “The sweetest little
woman in the world;” and at sixty,
“My affinity!”
The new fall hats are hard on the
eyes. But don’t blame us! Hats are
like husbands, you know. We can’t
"choose” them; we merely “accept”
them, when under hypnotic influence.
A summer vacation is like a love
affair—awfully sweet and thrilling,
while it lasts; but you are glad and
relieved when it’s over, and you find
yourself on your way back to your
home or your sanity, again.
GAS MASKS HAVE
OTHER HANDY USES
When our soldiers came back
from "over there” they were wildly
enthusiastic on the subject of gas
masks, and were convinced that
they could be utilized to advantage
in mines and -in factories where
poisonous gases are sometimes en
countered. /
The fire department of our cities
thought they would afford protec
tion to firemen, and were anxious to
adopt them.
It was a mistake. In a big fire
the chief danger, so far as gases
are concerned, is from carbon mon
oxide. But the war mask is of no
use against carbon monoxide. It
has no value against ammonia gas
or ordinary illuminating gas.
Furthermore, the conditions in a
factory or a mine are very different
from those of the open air of a bat
tlefield. In open air a poisonous
gas is so diluted that the atmos
phere contains only a small per
centage of it. Indoors or under
ground it may easily be so concen
trated that the war mask affords
no effective protection.
The chief constituent of the gases
in a mine after a fire or an explo
sion is the deadly carbon monoxide,
which the war mask will not filter
out. Though the United States bu
reau of mines explained this to the
fire departments, they were uncon
vinced until they had tried the thing
out. Then they agreed.
As a protection against smoke the
war mask does first rate service. So
far as that goes, It is highly satis
factory, if fitted with canister con
taining filter pads.
The bureau of mines is of opinion
that the final solution of the mask
problem' for firemen will be reach
ed by the construction of a canister
three times the war size, and con
taining, in addition to the war filling
(charcoal, lime and filter pads), spe
cial absorbents for ammonia gas
and carbon monoxide.
One should, of course, not confuse
the war mask with the oxygen ap
paratus used In mines, which ren
ders the wearer independent of any
breathing supply from otuslde. In
its latest development it is a hlgn
lv scientific contrivance, and a man
equipped with it could live for a
while in an atmosphere of pure car
bon monoxide. —Kansas City Star.
WONDERFUL
LODESTONE
The lodestone is considered the
most wonderful stone in the woHd;
it is really not a stone at all, but
rightly belongs to the mineral fam
ily. If it is suspended by a silken
thread or floated on mercury, or on
a circular raft in water, the same
end of the stone will always point
to the "lodestar” or north star; that
fact is where it got Its name. The
lodestone is a natural compass, such
as the vikings of old used to make
centuries before America was dis
covered. By rubbing a needle or thin
steel bar on a lodestone it becomes
magnetized, and will float on water
and always point to the north. The
most powerful lodestones come from
Sweden, and hunters tell stories of
not being able to pick up their guns
from the ground after laying them
near lodestones. Gallleo’u original
lodestone, with which he made so
many experiments, weighs only six
ounces, yet it sustains a weight of
fifteen pounds; it is 300 years old
and holds as firly as it ever did. It
is exhibited in the Tribuna de Gali
leo, Florence, Italy. The iron weight
at the bottom is made in the form
of a sepulchre, probably suggested
by the legend that Mahomet s cof
fin was supported in midair by lode
stones.
BOUNCING CLOCKS •
The newest thing in clocks is
made of rubber and is meant espe
cially for travelers.
This kind of cloak, being incased
in rubber, has an s-lmost inaudible
tick. If it falls it bounces and suf
fers no injury. It iw, in fact, proof
against ordinary shocks.
This characteristic makes the rub
ber clock suitable for mounting on
an automobile, a motvr boat, an air
plane or wherever vibration or shock
might disturb the mechanism of an
ordinary timepiece.—Kansas City
Star.
ica if suffered to pass unrebuked.
They accused Van Buren of being
corrupted by Jackson in one breath,
and in the next they declared that
it was from Van Buren that Jack
had learned corruption.
Another feature of all the anti-
Jackson press was the never-ending
criticism of the postoffice depart
ment. The Mobile Advertiser sol
emnly apologized to its readers for
not giving them the news of the
election Georgia “as no foot-passeng
ers have arrived from that state, ar.J
we are compelled to wait for the
mail.”
Van Burean’s inauguration was the
beginning of the great civic cere
monies which continue until this day
People came from every state to see
the parade and to cheer the out
going hero. Jackson followed the
example of Washington and delivered
a farewell address to the American
people. Two days later he left
Washington, and said that he went
to end his days at the Hermitage,
where he would know no politics.
Yet he lived long enough to dictate
the election of still another presi
dent, and to once more defeat his
ancient enemy, Clay, for that high
office.
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
Labor unions of Manila have
adopted resolutions against importa-.
tion of contract Asiatic laborers into
the Philippines as proposed by the
Agricultural congress in session re
cently. The unions appointed com
mittees to protest to the legislature
against the passage of a bill admit
ting Asiatic laborers.
Ten out of fourteen representative
industries showed a decrease in the
number of employes on the payroll
in August, as compared with July,
the Department of Labor’s Bureau of
Labor Statistics reports in an in
dustrial survey. Figures on which
the comparison was made were ob
tained from identical establishments.
The historic fortifications of War
saw, long famed as the strongest in
Europe, are being displaced by fer
tile fields. A report received from
Warsaw states that in the early
days of the war these fortifications
were abandoned, having proved old
fashioned and of little use against
modern artillery.
The first suggestion that they be
levelled to the ground was made by
Red Cross officials and met with im
mediate approval. Hundreds sf men
and women were put to work and as
rapidly as the great piles of earth
were removed the level ground was
plowed up and planted with garden
vegetables. Large quantities of vege
tables grown in these gardens help
ed relieve the food situation in the
Polish capital during the past sum
mer.
John a Dondero left a job as
butcher’s helper at $lB a week to
act as an agent for Charles Ponzi, in
Boston, and made more than SI,OOO a
day in commissions during the latter
part of July, according to his testi
money at a hearing by the receivers.
The receivers introduced cancelled
checks and deposit slips on two local
banks and asked Dondero the source
of the money. He said the sums rep
resented commissions. Counsel re
ferred to them as gifts, but the wit
ness replied that he felt he had earn
ed all he got.
In response to the demand made
by the Fair Price committee that
prices on eatables be reduced or
prosecution would immediately start
against practically' all large restau
rants in the city, the hotel and res
taurant keepers of Pittsburg, Pa.,
have adopted a new schedule of
prices for many staple dishes.
The new list becomes effective not
later than the first of next week.
The United States government
may buy In upwards of $206,000,000
worth of Liberty bonds during the
current fiscal year, which ends next
June SO. Secretary Houston, of the
treasury department, favors the
plan.
A sinking fund provision, which
was part of the Victory loan bill,
gives the treasury the necessary au
thority to buy bonds. Under this
> PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
By JACK L. PATTERSON
A (10,000 Ben In Kentucky
M. T. Lysle, of Versailles, has a
hen nine years old which never fails
to lay an egg a day. Lysle thinks she
holds the record for continuous lay
ing.—Exchange.
There are few people who will dis
agree with Lysle, although they may
doubt his hen.
Belying on the Paean Crop
South Georgia farmers who have
devoted a considerable acreage to
pecan trees are not much worried by
the advent of the boll weevil, as the
prices that they receive for choice
nuts bring them more cash per acre
than can possibly be made raising
cotton' under the most favorable con
ditions. This should stimulate the
raising of pecans in middle Georgia
It is estimated that a well developed
orchard of large paper shell nutr
is worth SI,OOO per acre, from which
it will appear that horticulture is
more profitable than agriculture, and
there is a great deal less labor re
quired to make and gather a pecan
crop.—Sandersville Progress.
It has been demonstrated that pe
cans may be grown north of Macon
at a profit and nobody will dispute
that the Gedrgia paper shell nut is
without an equal.
The New Party
The new women’s party may be
known at first as the “Coming Out
Party.”—Savannah Morning News.
Consolation for the Ladies
There never lived a woman yet
that couldn’t have gotten some sort
of a husband if she had wanted it.—
..Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
You don’t know ’em all, man.
“War Xs H-ll,’’ Anyhow
From the divorce cases in many of
our courts it appears that those fel
lows who married in order-to keep
out of war were the victims of poor
judgment.—Monroe Advertiser. /
Perhaps they preferred domestic
to foreign warfare.
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Questions Answered
1. How many men are there in the
Mexican army?
2. Who is the eighty-five-year-old
woman who has crossed the Atlantic
thirty-five times?
3. How many words did Shake
speare use? How does this compare
with the average person’s vocabu
lary?
4. Who said- "I would rather be
right than president?”
5. What is meant by “balance of
trade?”
6. How did the expression, “To the
bitter end,” originate?
7. In the states where women are
of age at eighteen will they be al
lowed to vote at that age?
8. Does the English language vary
In different parts of the United
States as it does in different parts of
England?
9. Who invited liquid air?
10. Who was the first American
novelist?
Questions Answered
1. Q. How did the name Yankee
start?
A. The word is of uncertain ori
gin, but it is generally supposed to
be a corruption of the pronunciation
of the word “English” by the In
dians.
2. Q. Who .holds the record of
driving in harness races?
A. Pro-bably the record of Ed
Geers, familiarly known as Pop-
Geers, who has been driving for al
most forty-three years, and is now
past sixty-nine years of age, has
never been equaled.
3. Q. Which damages a road
more, automobiles and loaded trucks
or wagons and loaded wagons.
A. The bureau of public roads
says that automobiles and loaded
trucks cause more damage to roads
than wagons and loaded wagons.
4. Q. Is there a law prohibiting
the burial of Chinese in the United
States?
A. There is np law of the United
States prohibiting the burial of Chi
nese upon American soil. The Chi
nese, however, prefer to be buried
in their native country and whenever
possible make such arrangements.
5. Q. Does the peanut actually
belong to the nut family?
A. The peanut is not a nut. It
belongs to the same family as the
common pea and bean. The term
“nut” was applied to it on account
oi its flavor, which is similar to that
of some true nuts.
6. Q. Has the collier Cyclops
been finally given up as lost?
A. The loss of this ship, loaded
with manganese and carrying fifty
seven passengers, twenty officers and
a crew of 213, has never been ex
plained. After months of search
and waiting the Cyclops was finally
given up as lost and her name strick
en from the registry of the navy.
7. Q. *Do all vines twine from
left to right?
A. The department of agriculture
says that most plants twine to the
left. Some, including the hop and
honeysuckle, twine to the right.
Twining is apparently the result of a
geotropic stimulus.
8. Q. Did President Roosevelt
bill a fixed amount of approximate
ly $250,000,000 a year la appro
priated for the purpose.
British obsolete battleships will
shortly be turned into floating ex
perimental laboratories for the
study of hoof and mouth disease
among cattle in order to do away
with the danger of the disease
spreading to other herds, as was the
case when the diseased cattle were
segregated on land.
Officials point opX that Britain
must stamp out tna disease it she
is to maintain her large cattle ex
ports. The floating cow barns will
carry as investigators some of the
most distinguished scientists in
animal husbandry and the research
may last for years.
American concerns are watching
closely tests now being made in
England of a new type of freight
airplane. Preliminary tests made
recently are said to have proved en
tirely satisfactory. The new plane
called “flyfling tramp,” is of the
monoplane type and has the same
sort of controls.
By means of a new curve, the sin
gle wings of rhe planes, wrr.cri 4»»-»
constructed of mahogany plankw/e,-
are said to make possible large
loads and much cheaper service
than the old type. The cylindrical
body also is made of mahogany
planking. The new wing has a
weight-lifting capacity of 35 per
cent greater than the ordinary wing.
A feature of the machine is the
type of cargo container that will
carry four tons of freight when
properly packed.
Six Hungarians have Seen arrested
in Genoa, Italy, since the explosion
of a bomb in the stock exchange.
They had plenty of money, but none
of them had Identification papers.
Police officials have ascertained
the bomb which exploded in the
stock exchange had been made re
cently, and for this reason there is
some suspicion that it was turned
out by a plant occupied by workmen.
Attempts have been made to blow up
several fashionable restaurants, one
of which was located in the base
ment of the stock exchange building.
The belief tha tthe Rev. Frank W.
Sandford, leader of the “Holy Ghost
and Us” sect, Is soon to attempt t«
form a colony in South Africa, was
strengthened recently when the
schooner yacht Coronet, which has
been at anchor in the harbor at
Portland, Ore., ten years, was hauled
On a marine railway for extensive
repairs.
The colony at Shiloh, on the sand
hills of Durham, is practically de
populated and a current report, based
on statements said to have been made
by deserting colonists, is that Stand
ford, realizing that his control here
has ended, will take a few of the
faithful and found a new home for
his followers on African shores.
Who's Got the Sugar?
They are arresting Southern Ex
press agents on the Southwestern
division of the Central railroad for
wholesale thefts. We hope they get ‘
the fellow that stole those ten
pounds of sugar we tried to dispatch
to Hon. Emmett Houser down Fort
Valleyway last winter when there
wasn’t enough short sweetin’ In
Southwest Georgia to give a bee a
grain to carry home to his queen.—
"Bill Biffem," in The Savannah
Press.
Savannah Get’s Into the Game
Savannah has made up her mind
to get on the ‘‘Advertising Georgia"
campaign. There Is to be an extra
SIOO,OOO to also advertise Savannah.
Agusta Chronicle.
Savannah is already one of the
most extensively advertised cities jn
the south, but the hundred thousand
dollars will win additional recogni
tion.
Not a New Discovery
The Rebecca Independent has dis- 1
covered that one of the differences
between the average Rebecca boy
and a barrel of cider is that it's hard
to keep cider from working.—Butler
Herald.
The difference is not confined tc
the Rebecca boys by any means.
Exactly Correct!
The Dawson News has just cele- ‘
brated. its thirty-ninth anniversary i
and upon this occasion many friends
are wishing Editor Rainey and the
News continued success and prosper
ity. The Dawson News is one of the
best papers, judged by every stand
ard. in the entire state.—Jackson
Progrss-Argus.
“Watch Yow step” in Commerce
There are no traffic laws worth
while governing in Commerce. It’s a
case of park where you please, how
you please and run your car in any
direction. A pedestrian must watch
his step.—Commerce Observer.
have the motto, “In God We Trust.”
removed from coins?
A. When designs for gold coins
were being submitted during Presi
dent Roosevelt's administration, that
of the artist, St. Gaudens, was ac
cepted even though it did not carry
the motto, “In God we Trust.” Later
congress authorized a modification
of the design in order that the mot
to might be restored.
9. Q. What Is the meaning of
the words “Ku Klux” and from what
language are they derived?
A. This explanation of the name
is given. At the first meeting of
this organization in 1866, a name
was suggested, "Ku Klol,” from the
Greek “kuplos” meaning a band or
circle. Someone called out, “Call it
Ku Klux,” whereupon a man remark
ed, “that sounds like ‘Cocletz,’ our
old society was called the ‘Lost Clan
of Cocletz.’ ” The Cocletz Indians
were a clan, not a tribe, that had
existed some 200 years previously.
The name was adopted.
-10. Q. How long has the Panama
canal been operating and how many
ships hava used it?
A. The Panama canal completed
six years of operation at the close of
business on August 14, 1920. Dur
ing this time 10,573 commercial ves
sels have made the transit.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
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