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4 m TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL jfirMNTA, GA., B NORTH FORSYTH ST. 1 l|nt«re.d the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail ; Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday . (Bv Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 l W...1 Ko. 3Moi. 6 Mos. 1 Yr, ’ end Sunday 20c £Jc $2.50 $5,00 $9.50 I 7/oily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunaay 7c 30c .90 1-75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early 1 delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. I Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac- Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling • representatives. “ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label uaed for addressing your paper eliowe the time your subacrlptioo expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you Insure regular aervlce. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your •Id as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. • We cannot enter subscript lona to begin with back num bers. Remittances should b e sent by postal order or tegistered mall, Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TBI-WEEKLY JOURN AL, Atlanta, Ga. 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. (£=3)o o=—o 0 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 ——- MAH BOSS ’LOW CHAITY AT HtfMEJ da's SO, EN JEDGIN’ FUW DE WAY HE J>OOES IT END DAH,TOO! n ft V/Vssp CopyrighJ, 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndlcata,