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The Grievous Betrayal of the
Great American Game
TO the millions of Americans who love
clean sports and cherish their coun
try’s athletic fame, the story of
the temptation and fall of certain star play
ers on a popularly idolized baseball team,
brings not so much the swell of anger as a
heart-sinking which is close akin to grief.
The White Sox long have loomed out in
public opinion as exemplars of that skill and
strength and dash and rectitude -which are
the soul of the great American game. Its
members, like those of other national
teams, have been heroes to tens of thou
sands, who found in baseball not merely
an afternoon’s diversion, but a nourisher
of much that is wholesomest in both indi
vidual and community life. Most men are
blest enough to keep one path in their
hearts leading back to boyhood, howsoever
the wintry years come drifting against that
green enchantment. They may lose the
tang of Robinson Crusoe; may forget the
wondei of April woods and the thrill of
swimming holes; may grow sadly cynical
not only to knights and weeping princesses,
but even to “buccaneers and buried gold;”
yea, in depths of wretchedness, may find
no allurement in a hidden pot of jam. But
breathes there a man with arteries so hard
ened that he never turns youth-ward to un
forgetable hours on the back-lot or old
field diamond, or to thoste supreme mo
ments when some archangel of his college
team scored the ninth-inning run that won
a pennant? Such are the recollections that
come trailing their “clouds of glory” when
baseball is played aright. And then the
matchless grip and sparkle of the game!
the tensions and drives, and flooding psychic
waves that make a multitude as one!—the
glory of a battle that deals no blow and
leaves no rankling, as it rolls in clean
sunlight, beneath the open sky!
No wonder Americans prize this distinc
tive game of theirs and feel so keenly the
betrayal of its honor. A scandal in the
National Congress could hardly have
brought so sharp and wide a shock; for
while an occasional crook in politics seems
inevitable, real men are all expected to
play straight. There are eight Chicago
players, it is charged, who yielded to the
gambling clique that conspired on a huge
scale to make national baseball their means
io easy and dirty money; and at least
two of those indicted have confessed. One
can but despise a pitcher like Cicotte who,
with the admiration of innumerable “fans”
poured constantly forth for him and with
the fate of a world series in his hand, de
liberately threw* wild balls and muffed
easy catches in order to give the game
to the gamblers Who had bought him. Yet,
there comes, too, an uprush of pity for
him. “In the last year I’ve lived a thou
sand years,” he told the Grand Jury that
heard his confession; and then, as if
speaking within himself, a faroff gaze in
his wet eyes: “My God! Think of my chil
dren!” More fools than knaves were these
players who sold their honor and cheated
their public, all for five or ten thousand
dollars left under their pillows. But what
of the sneaking tricksters who bought
them? There lies the black heart of the
corruption. Whatever falls into a gambler’s
clutch grows tainted and decays. The sound
est business, the cleanest government, the
finest sport, will rot and die if ever it
comes under his dominance. He fuses all
elements of crime into one ratal poison
gas, and nothing honest, nothing decent
can survive in its atmosphere. Here, theh,
■s the most distressful and alarming part
of the story. Professional baseball will de
serve to die, and die it assuredly will, un
less purged once for all of this deadly germ.
But there is one heartening and truly
heroic figure in the drama of sordidness
and betrayal. Charles Comiskey, owner of
the White Sox and prime sufferer from
the conspiracy, rose to the situation in a
way worthy of American sportsmanship.
The Old Roman, they call him; and sure
ly there was much of ancient virtue in his
act. Discovering the guilt of players he had
befriended, seeing that a disclosure of
their deeds at this time would wreck his
chance of winning the world pennant, but
seeing also that the integrity of baseball
demanded immediate baring of the facts
and a rigorous probing, he lost not a mo
ment in placing all that he knew 7 at the
court’s disposal and in discharging every
one of his suspected men. Straight from
his heart the veteran declared:
“Forty-four years of baseball en
deavor have convinced me more than
ever that it is a wonderful game, and
a game -worth keeping clean. I would
rather close my ball park than send
nine men on the field with one of them
holding a dishonest thought.
There speaks the true spirit of America’s
national game; and because so many scores
and hundreds of players as well as so
many millions of “fans” feel just that way
about it, we may look confidently for a
•urging forth of the evil whose haunts and
methods have been at least partly reveal
ed. In the interest of national character,
it is imperative that this be done, for by
the nature of their sports and recreations
a people’s social and moral self is large
ly determined. The Olympic games were a
ountain of Greek culture and history; on
ihe cricket fields of Eton, said Wellington,
Waterloo was won. America needs most of
.11 athletics of a kind that will bring the
ank and file, not simply select individuals,
into play. But she does not therefore need
aseball a whit less. It is a game of the
mp’e and for the people, a Democratic
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
game, a game incalculably rich in poten
tialities for good. Let it be kept honest and
clean. Let the spirit of Charles Comiskey
imbue its every manager, its every player,
its every spectator.
The Ultimate Problem
ALL economic problems lead ultimately
back to the soil. Industry may be
wonderfully productive, commerce
wonderfully efficient and every wheel of the
nation’s business machine running its
best; but unless agriculture also is pro
ductive, efficient and functioning for the
common good, prosperity must fail.
It is all too evident that the interests
of the farm have not moved as vigorously
forward in the last few decades as the
public welfare requires. It has not even
kept pace with the growth of elemental
needs. “While manufacturing industry,”
says a writer in the current number of the
Americas, “has been managed in such a
way that its progress has outstripped the
most vivid imagination of twenty years ago,
the farming industry, greater in the value
of its annual output than any other, has
practically stood still. Manufacturing has
had the benefit of every economic force,
including combination for large scale pro
’ duction. high-grade managerial talent and
cc'-'mand of sufficient capital to take
advantage of market conditions in the
(.....• vui rarming has remained
almost an individualistic industry, with
each unit competing with every other farm
unit; with the methods of yesterday, the
tools of last year and the credit based not
on cash in hand, but on next year’s ex
pectations.”
While this picture may be somewhat
overdrawn, and certainly is if we take ac
count of recent developments in the South,
its main lines are lamentably true. The
United States has least consideration to its
niG-t important economic realm. Is it to
be wondered, then, that grave problems
are rising in consequence?
In the early eighties our population was
predominantly rural; today its balance is
decidedly toward the towns and cities. This
symptom is warning enough; for with the
ranks of farm producers constantly thin
ning and those of urban consumers con
stantly increasing, the inevitable result will be
a dearth of basic needments of living. The
excessive food prices of recent years are at
tributable not so much to this cause as to
inadequate or ill ordered means of distribu
tion; both the raiser and the buyer of food
would profit immensely if this defect were
remedied. But ultimately there will come a
distressing scarcity of food itself unless the
sources of its production are widened and
stimulated.
Institutions like the Georgia College of
Agriculture, together -with its system of dis
trict schools, are doing much to better the
situation, as are also the county farm dem
onstration agents and domestic science
teachers. All endeavors in agricultural edu
cation by Federal and State governments
alike are invaluable. So, too, are the im
provement and extension of highways, the
establishment of rural libraries and espe
cially the upbuilding of rural schools. Let
all these efforts continue, let the methods
which have wrought marvels in industry be
applied as far as is practicable to agricul
ture, and let the hiving of drones to soft
urban jobs be discouraged as far as can be.
Then the decades ahead will be secure against
want and the destructive unrest that springs
from it.
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A New Entente
IT is like old times, this reading of the
formation of a Triple Entente. The
new coalition, however, is a mere
miniature of the great agreements of the
past. Czecho-Slovakia, Roumania and Jugo
slavia have entered into a defensive un
derstanding against a twofold menace—
Bolshevism in Russia and Magyar militar
ism in Hungary.
The plan seems to have been initiated
when the Red armies -were pressing hard
upon the Poles, threatening to capture
Warsaw and blot out democracy’s one bul
wark on that troublous frontier. Czech
statesmen perceived at once how perilous
it would be for their young nation if
Bolshevism, after overwhelming Poland,
should effect a working alliance with Ger
many. They entered accordingly into ne
gotiations with the Roumanian and the
Jugo-Slavic Governments, both of which al
ready had taken measure of the situation
and realized its grave bearing upon their
own interests.
A Bolshevist triumph, though it did not
directly touch the fortunes of those new
ly freed countries, undoubtedly would en
courage their old enemies and would set
back the emancipating tendencies that gave
them birth. Nor is it improvable that the
Red forces, once fairly launched upon con
quests, would overrun the whole of East
ern Europe and challenge the West as
well. The new Entente thus was founded
upon a well conceived need.
But the Bolshevist menace was not all.
In Hungary there has been pronounced re
action toward monarchy and militarism. A
royalist element of considerable strength
is said to be designing the re-enthrone
ment of former Emperor Charles. Whether
or no that could be accomplished in the
face of positive declarations against it by
the Western Powers, it is ~enerany unuer
stood that the Magyars, Hungary’s domi
nant race and class, are in aggressive
mood and would seize a hopeful chance
to recover some of the territory which
the Dual Monarchy lost in the World War.
So it was that Roumania and Jugo-Slavia
were keenly willing to join Czecho-Slovakia
in a defensive agreement.
As long as it remains purely defensive
such an Entente will serve a widely use
ful purpose, provided it does not call forth
another and countervailing coalition. It
will make for unity among the best Bal
kan elements and will tend to preserve
peace by checking the ardor of incipient
aggressors. Ultimately, however, the prob
lems which gaVe rise to this agreement
cannot be solved except upon a broadly
international basis and through an effec
tive international league representing civ
ilization’s common interests and common
conscience.
Good Work! Keef) It Ufi!
IT is deeply gratifying to see the marked
improvement which a few days of con
centrated effort for more careful motor
ing have secured. The vigor with which the
police and the courts have entered upon
their part of the work has been effective
beyond measure. Arrests prosecutions, fines
and criminal indictments will deter a cer
tain class of heedless drivers who would be
unamenable to reason or public sentiment.
The arm of the law, therefore, should con
tinue outstretched for all such offenders, and
unsparing in punishment of them.
But the most assuring aspect of the situ
ation is the earnestness with which the ma
jority o’ motorists themselves are co-oper
ating in the interests of safety and reform.
Hundreds who. though not flagrant or per
sistent violators of speed and traffic rules,
were wont to take occasional risks in order
to gain a little time or escape a little incon
venience. have resolved that henceforth they
will be unswervingly careful, and do theiT
best to inspire carefulness in others. From
this spirit and its happily contagious influ
ence will come untold good. May it continue
to grow as fast and steadily through the
weekG and seasons ahead as in the last few
encouraging days#
MUSIC AND LIFE
By H. Addington Bruce
MANY years ago the great Charles Dar
win wrote:
“As neithei’ the enjoyment nor
the capacity of producing musical sounds are
faculties of the least use to man in reference
to his daily habits of life, they must be reck
oned among the most mysterious with which
he is endowed.”
Darwin did not often nod. But when he
penned this sentence he unmistakably was
semi-somnolent. So far from being of no
practical use, man’s musical faculties are of
great utility to him in more ways than one.
And it is precisely because of this that he
has been endowed with them.
In fact, of such practical utility is music
that musical instruments ought to have a
place not only in every home, but also wher
ever there is special need of increasing hu
man energy and raising vital forces.
Already to some extent this is appre
ciated.
Military regiments have long had bands
to stimulate soldiers on the march. First
class hotels and restaurants keep orchestra
busy at mealtimes. Musical instruments are
found in nearly all good hospitals for the
physically or mentally ill.
And even in some industrial establish
ments provision is made for the employes
either to join in choral singing or to enjoy
instrumental music.
All this because experience has demon
strated that the pleasurable moods which
music has a unique power to create quicken
all the bodily processes and thus render the
singer, the player, or the listener more alive
as to body and more capable as to mind.
t here are some, for that matter, who af
firm that the strengthening, quickening,
healing power of music gains effect not
merely through the indirect action of creat
ing pleasurable moods. They speak of di
rect vibratory action on the nervous system
in general.
However this may be, the all-important
fact is that music can and does help. It
helps the sick, the weary, the discouraged,
the grief-stricken. As Charles Kassel fine
ly puts it:
“The heart torn by brief finds in a beau
tiful air a balm which no book, no discourse,
no friendly voice can give. Lost in the maze
of chord and cadence, the mind forgets its
haunting thoughts, and the whole being is
soothed and calmed.”
And:
“As poetry and prose are the language of
thought, so music is the language of feeling.
It is sound grown eloquent. Painting, sculp
ture—nay, even the printed page—less pow
erfully sway our emotions.’
By all means, then, let every one of us
have music. And happily, thanks to the bles
sed invention of the phonograph, every ons
of us today can have music at little cost—
and have it whenever we want it.
No longer do we need a technical musical
education. No longer need we depend on
musical friends or haunt concert halls. Music
now is ours to command —in an age when
the world never more needed the aid music
can give.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
TO MY LANDLORD
By Dr. Frank Crane
DEAR sir, Miss, Mrs., Dr., Hon., or Com
pany.
1 don’t know who you are.
I never met you, and don’t hope to meet
you. Not in this world.
1 rent a flat in your apartment.
It is a nice flat, as flats go, and I am thank
ful that through your mercy I have a roof
over my head in these days when better men
than I are roaming the streets and rooming in
hotels.
But I want to tell you something.
I can’t reach you. The only man I can get
to is an agent, whose face is marble and whose
insides are of brass.
Besides, he is a liar. But I wouldn’t mind
that. Only he has no imagination. He’s a poor
liar.
And so, having no way to get you, O owner
and man-higher-up in this building, and the said
agent having refused to give me your name
and address, and having informed me that if 1
have any business with you I must pass it
through him, and I not wishing to go to the
electric chair for what pass I might make if I
saw him again, I say in view of all this, and
I having a part of this newspaper at my dis
posal, 1 take this means and opportunity to ad
dress you. *
Hence, with a silent prayer that you may
read this, I make known to you my petition.
It is not much. If the granting of it costs
you more, stock on some more rent, I’m used
to having the price of things raised.
My request is this, this only.
1 WANT HEAT.
I want it now.
It doubtless is not the time on the calendar
for it. But calendars won’t keep me warm.
Cold makes me sick. ,
I get the stomach ache and the chills and
fever and the neuritis and the rheumatism.
1 hate to go to the cold bed, and hate to
get up in the cold room. I shiver in the
bath room. And in the dining room my teeth
rattle so I can’t eat my soup noiselessly, as a
gentleman should.
You allow me no stove. You’ve stopped up
the gas hole in the imitation fireplace. There’s
nothing hot in the kitchen but the cook.
Please give me some steam heat.
Nobody else may want it. If they don’t they
can turn it off. But 1 can’t turn it on if there
isn’t any.
This is the most treacherous' and dangerous
time of the year. It looks so bright and sunny
outdoors. But within all is a whited sepulchre.
Please, Mister Landlord. I know I’m a poor
nobody. I don’t belong to a labor union and
can’t strike. I’m not in with the police and
can’t threaten. I have seen my lawyer, and he
smiled and told me I couldn’t do anything, as
the law does not compel you to start a fire in
the furnace until Christmas even, and you can
turn it off New Year’s Day.
Hence I have no recourse but to your mercy,
if any. 1 grovel. I beg. I bow down. I
abase myself before you. I offer you all the
money the grocer and butcher have left me.
Hear these trembling words from my blue
and pinched lips, and answer, and receive the
blessings of a perishing man, just before he
rigidities:
GIVE ME HEAT. STEAM HEAT, NOW!
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes
ITALY KEEPS COOL
The decision of 70 per cent of the Ital
ian metallurgical workers to accept the
compromise agreement reached, at the in
stance of the government, between the em
ployers and employees has again set the
factory whistles blowing in that country.
Revolution is thus averted where its spokes
men proclaimed that it would carry all be
fore it. What the men seem to have won
is increased pay, immunity from punish
ment for damage caused to plants during
the period of seizure, and the promise of
a commission, to be composed of twenty
four members, to decide the exact terms
of factory control. What they seem to have
lost is pay during the period of seizure
and an immediate concession of the fac
tory control they wanted. They have, how
ever, won the principle of such control,
else the promise of a commission is mean
ingless. The principle underlying this set
tlement seems to haye been that mutual
interest in production—the interest of both
capital and labor —gives mutual rigtyt of
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
V. THE HARRISON-VAN
BUREN RACE OF 1840
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept.
22.—A “big meeting” was
in progress in Giies county,
Virginia, in November
1810. The circuit-riders were assist
ed by earnest exhorters and there
were many professions of conversion.
One old woman in the neighborhood
had held out against the efforts of
the church. She was piecing a quilt
- quilt of ten thousand pieces. At
last .after two years of toil, the quilt
was finished, and she consented to
go to “meeting.” On the way to the
church she heard a great piece of
news. When she got to the meeting
she rushed to the “mourners’ bench,”
knelt for a space in prayer and then
arose, shouting: “Glory to God! My
quilt is finished; my soul is saved;
and Tippecanoe is elected.”
To the Whigs of 840 soul’s salva
tion and the election of William
Henry Harrison were matters of
equal importance. The campaign was
not so much a political campaign as
it was a Hallelujah Chorus sung
by the triumphant Whigs. It war
the most exciting political race of
our history, and it ended by the over
whelming election of William Henry
Harrison to be president, and John
Tyler to be vice president. It was
the first campaign in which cartoons,
emblems, popular slogans and polit
ical songs had a vogue, and it was
the first in which a candidate foi
president took the stump to appeal
to the voters directly.
“And have you heard the news from
Maine?
How it went,
Hell-bent,
For Governor Kent,
And Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,
For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!”
That was one of the many great
Whig songs of the campaign. It
has lived because of the alliterative
lilt of the refrain “For Tippecanoe
and Tyler, too,” and because of the
memory of the tornado of enthu
siasm which greeted its appear
ance. It was in'September of the
campaign. Harrison was well in the
lead, but the Van Buren adminis
tration ana the old Jackson machine
were straining to stem the Whig
uprising. The September elections
in Maine were then, as now, taken a„
straws to show the trend of the po
litical air currents.
Horace Greeley entered the arena
of national politics in this year. He
started a campaign paper in New
York called “The Log Cabin.” In
every issue it printed from ten to
twenty Whig- campaign songs. On
the day it presented the g.oriou:,
news of the ‘redemption of Maine,”
for Maine had been a strong Demo
cratic state, it also published the
words and music of the song ’ Tippe
canoe and Tyler, Too.”
The campaign of 1840 is called the
Log Cabin and Hard Ciuer Cam
paign.” It all came about because
i of the complacent superiority of the
Democrats. Van Buren had beaten
Harrison in 1836, and when the
Whigs turned down their great Clay
and again nominated the venerable
Harrison, the Democrats could do
nothing but laugh. Having- beaten
Harrison once, they reasoned that it
was utterly impossible for them to
be beaten by Harrison. The sneers
at the Whig candidate appeared in
every Democratic paper, but it re
mained for the Baltimore Republican
to say:
“Give him a barrel of hard cider,
and settle a pension of $2,000 a year
on him, and, my word for it, he will
sit the remainder of his days in his
log cabin, by the side of a sea-coal
fire, and study moral philosophy.”
That paragraph was not so cruel,
perhaps, as the New York Evening
Post’s appeal to the ladies to send
in second-hand and hats so
that tne poverty-stricken Harrison
might appear in decent clothing be
fore the people, but it struck the
Whigs as utterly contempeible.
Therefore, they turned the tables,
took up the “hard cider” and “log
cabin” sneers at their candidate and
proclaimed to the world that, as true
democrats, they were supporting a
man who lived in a log cabin and
drank hard cider—third Cincinnatus.
The Whigs and their predecessors,
in opposition to the Democrats, had
had excellelnt opportunity to judge
of the efficacy of the Hero in poli
tics. Fo? four presidential cam
paigns Andrew Jackson had been un
conquerable with the people, in 1836
Harrison had been a candidate, but
there was little reference to his war
record. But in 1840 he was put forth
by his ardent followers as a real,
true and genuine war hero. He was
the hero of the Battle of the Thames,
of the Battle of Fort Meigs, and he
had overcome the mighty chieftain,
Tecumseh, at the Battle of Tippeca
noe. The Democratic candidate for
vice president, Richard M. Johnson,
of Kentucky, had slain Tecumseh
with his own hand, and a few of the
younger Democrats tried to retaliate
with Johnson as a hero. But it didn’t
go. Johnson was not popular to be
gin with, and 1840 was distinctly
not a Democratic year.
The panic of 1837, brouoght on by
over-speculation and too much confi
dence in the great governmental
prosperity as a prop for individual
prosperity, had reduced the nation
to poverty. Men were out of work,
bank deposits had been lost in bank
wrecks, and the country was in a
terrible condition. Whether rightly
or wrongly, the party in power was
held to be responsible and the Whig
landslide was inevitable.
When the Whigs met at Harris
burg there were three candidates
Henry Clay, the real soul of the
nartv. William Henry Harrison, and
Winfield Scott Thaddeus Stevens
made his first entry into the realm
of practical—and dirty—politics in
this convention. He was an anti-
Mason and he soon convinced the
convention that it would be impossi
ble to get the anti-Mason vote for
Cltv, who was a Royal Arch Mason,
with Clay eliminated the race was
between Scott and Harrison, both he
roes of the war of 1812. Poth were
born in Virginia, as was Clay, and
curiously enough, it required the vote
of the Virginia delegation to settle
the issue. Thaddeus Stevens was
for Harrison because he had a let
ter from Harrison promising him
a cabinet position if Harrison was
nominated and elected.
Stevens also had a letter from
General Scott written to Francis
Granger in which Scott was flirting
with the abo’itionist sentiment in
New York wth a view to getting
votes in the convention. Stevens,
with careful carelessness, let this
letter drop on the floor of the Vir
ginia headquarters room It was
found and rend. Instantly the Vir
ginia delegation solidified in sup
port of Harrison and he won the
nomination. It was the first real
fi"ht for a nomination by a national
con ven ton.
Another remarkable feature of
the campaign of 1840 was the estab
lishment of the Abolition narty. Its
candidate for president, James G.
Birney, received 7.059 votes, mostly
in New York and Massachusetts, but
it was the beginning of a move
ment whch brought about the politi
cal conditions whch resulted in the
Civil war. the battalion of slavery
and the reunion of the states unon
a basis of acknowledged inseparable
permanency.
Another innovation of the cam
paign of 1840 was that William
Henry Harrison took the stump. It
was contrary to all precedent and
the nemournts affected to be shock
ed beyond words by the indecent
r.nectacle of a candidate for presi
dent actually pleading for votes on
the hustings. But the tour of Ohio
and Indiana enabled Harrison to off
set the ch-rye that he was a mere
punnet in the hands of political
schemers, and it turned the tide in
his favor.
One of the greatest political gath
erings this country has ever seen
was the Whig n-therng at the Bat
tleground of Tippecanoe near Lafay
ette. Ind., on May 29. 1840. A log
e ’bin had been built on the field and
’n it General Harrison received the
veterans who had fought there un
der him against Tecumseh. It Was
a great day and Harrison made a
great speech. He then began his
famous hand-shaking tournament;
which, according to the popular be
lief at that time, caused his death
one month after he was inaugurat
ed president. People came in wag
ons for more than 390 miles to the
Tippecanoe meeting and there were
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1020.
CURRENT EVENTS
One of the freaks of New York’s
bomb explosions has just been re
ported to the police. It consisted of
a piece of a broken sash weight that
fell on the ferryboat Washington, of
the Pennsylvania railroad, at the foot
of Cortlandt street and North river,
two-thirds of a mile fiom the scene
of the explosion. In order to reach
the ferryboat the missile had been
hurled over four of the city’s larg
est skyscrapers—the Equitable build
ing, the Bankers’ Trust build ng. the
Singer and City Investment buildings.
Anatole France, seventy-seven
world renowned French author, will
soon marry .Mlle. Emma La Prevotto,
according to an announcement pub
lished in .L’Oeiivre. Ten years ago
the veteran academician was report
ed engaged to Mlle. Brindeau, an
actress. He met her while returning
from Buenos Aires. His sea ro
mance was running smoothly until
a certain Mme. Caillavet appeared on
the scene with demands for instant
satisfaction under pain of all sorts
of revelations. She said the romant c
author was indebted to her for sub
stantial aid while he was struggling
for recogpition.
M. France, whose real name is
Jacques Thibault, is by common con
sent the leading French critic.
Drillers for the state of Kansas,
prospecting for gas on the grounds
of the state hospital for Epileptics,
at Parsons, brought in a gas well
that promises a capacity of 500,009
cubic feet daily. The. state will sink
additional -wells in an effort to find
sufficient fuel for all its needs here.
Tests of the well are being made.
King Victor Emmanuel, of Rome,
Italy, set eyes for the first time
upon a portion of the Italian capital
he had never before seen when he
flew over Rome and the surrounding
hills in a dirigible a few days
ago. Flying low, the diri < 'ible pass
ed over the Vatican gardens. Pope
Benedit was driving in the garden,
it is said, and, hearing the dirigible,
watched it for several moments. He
was clearly visible from the airship.
Spain is following the example of
the United States in establishing ju
venile courts on the theory t at de
linquent children should not be treat
ed as criminals, according to a state
ment by the department of labor.
Since Chicago established the first
juvenile court in 1899, t’ e state ent
adds, similar courts have been estab
lished in England. Belgium, Holland,
Denmark, Switzerland. Italy, Ger
many, Russia, Austria and Hungary.
Cranberries for many turkey din
ners were nipped the other night bv
a frost which settled over eastern
Massachusetts. Bogs were under
temperatures below the freezng point
in several places in the Cape Cod
district. The damage, however, was
only partial and was rel ev’d ? n some
pFces bv flooding the bogs. The mo e
tender crops, such as squash, cu
cumbers, tomatoes and corn, w re
made useless in some sections. Farm
ers and market gardeners stayed u >
all n’"’'.t in an attempt to ml’ ve the
conditions with smudge’ Hres and
wraps, and saved some of their crops.
E. Summerville, a Kansas City bar
ber, and Ollie Edm ondson, a negro
porter, were fined $-5 each this week
on com; lai nt of .’rJ’-.ur Reja •nd
his wife, of West Plains, Mo. Rega
»nd Mrs. Regil testified they had
been charged ssl tor a shoe shine
last Friday.
The official count of the vote, in
the Massachusetts state primaries,
just made public, shows that James
Jackson, who, running on sticaers,
won the Republican ballot. At least
one thousand votes cast for Jackson
for treasurer were included in the an
other candidates” total because the
voter had failed to add his place ot
residence to his name on the stickers.
Two votes were cast tor Charles
Ponzi the discredited financier, tor
state treasurer. Cardinal O’Connell
received one vote tor governor.
The Swiss government has decided
not to open political or commercial
relations with soviet Russia Lenine s
emissary named Bratmann. who re
cently arrived to inaugurate rela-.
tions. will be asked to leave Switzer
land. .
Three judges in the island of Mar
tinique were elected recently by ma
jorities that so far exceeded the
number of voters in certain districts
that they have been charged with
election irregularities.
Investigation, according, to tne
prosecution, showed that 5,000 dead
men were recorded as voting for one
of the three while the other two con
tented themselves with a like num
ber of imaginary supporters between
them. , ,
The voting lists were prepared by
the judges.
Greater attention to the business
accounts of the farm will be the
aim of 120 high teachers of
agricultural education in Illinois this
season. They are expected to insti
tute a system of farm accounting
on 3.000 farms.
School credits will be allowed pu
pils who keep the farm accounts sys
tem. or rather who see that it is
adopted by their parents. It will
be classed as “home work,” which
this year is receiving more emphasis
than ever.
Wholesale fraud in the Missouri
primary election August 3 last was
charged in proceedings brought un
der the federal corrupt practices act
in the United States district court
at St. Louis this week. The suit was
filed by John C. Higdon, a local law
yer, and G. H. Foree, also of St.
Louis, defeated Democratic candi
dates, respectively, for the United
States senatorial nomination and
nomination for national congress
man from the Tenth district.
Philip Hunt, an ex-cbnvict, was
sentenced to seven years in the pen
itentiary by a Missouri judge re
cently for stealing a sack of wheat.
The sentence was made heavy be
cause of Hunt’s previous crimes.
America is destined to bear more
than her share of the prohibition
fight in Scotland. Whether Scotland
goes dry, wet or merely moist,
Americans on either side will bear
much of the responsibility. On the
dry side is “Pussyfoot” Johnson,
who has just arrived in England and
is expected in Scotland in a week or
ten days to take charge of the
speaking campaign. The wet side’s
star speakers are C. A. Windle, edi
tor of Brann’s Iconoclast, Chicago,
and Mrs. Minona Jones, president of
the Race Betterment League, Chica
go. Botli are speaking nightly all
over Scotland, and the wets are try
ing to arrange a debate between
“Pussyfoot” Johnson and Mr.
Windle.
In Japan there is said to be a very
satisfactory substitute for milk, just
as the nut margarines are a substi
tute for butter. Cows are very scarce
in Japan and the people are using
an artificial milk derived from the
soy bean. The bean is first’ soaked
and then boiled until the liquid
turns white, when sugar and phos
nhate of potash are added. The
boiling is resumed until the liquid
has the apnearance of ordinary con
densed milk. When water is added
soy milk is hardly to be distinguish
ed from fresh cow’s milk.
The American relief administration
has turned over to food administra
tors of Central and Eastern Europe
checks totaling $605,194. This sum
represents the margin between oper
ating costs and money received under
the food draft plan instituted by
Herbert Hoover. The announcement
added that the money will be used
to provide free food for destitute
children. In this way one out of
every forty of the 2,500,000 children
in Europe who are approaching
starvation will be saved. According to
Fdgar Rickard, director of the Amer
!nan relief administration, the $605,-
194 is only a fragment of the more
'han $20,000,000 neces"’try to pre
vent European children from starving
this winter.
Forty water colo ■ views of New
York are contained in a collection
"resented to King Christian of Den
mark on his fiftieth birthday anni
versary by a group of metropolitan
rms with Danish affiliations. The
presentation was made by George
Beck, consul general of Denmark.
The results of the .annual election
m Rhodes scholars to represent the
nited Spates at the University of
■ ixford -*<e announced this week by
Prof. Frank Aydeelotte. of the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology,
American secretary of the Rhodes
trustees. The quota for the United
, tates this year was as last year,
s-.ty-four, instead of the normal
. making up for the
DOROTHY_DIX TALKS
ARE YOU A GOOD HUS3AND?
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, inc.)
DJ you want to know whether 1
you are a good husband or
not? Do you often wonder,
when your wife kneels
down to say her prayers at
night, whether she is thanking God
for having bestowed you upon her
as a life partner, or beseeching the
Lord to give her grace and strength
to endure you? If you do, check
yourself by these points:
Do you treat your wife with the
courtesy and consideration that you
show to any strange woman whom
you happen to meet at a dinner
party? You have quite a reputation
among the ladies for being gallant
and chivalrous. Do you keep that
line of conduct for society, or do you
hand it out also at home?
Do you remember your wife’s
birthday and the anniversary of
of your marriage, mithout having to
be reminded of these august occa
sions? And when you are remindci
do you throw a few dollars into her
lap and tell her to get something
for a present, for you don’t know
that she wants? Before you were
married, you thought her little fan
cies important enough to recollect
Do you occasionally bring her a
bupch of violets, or a box of candy,
or the book she has said she would
like to read, just to show her tha.
you are thinking of her?
Women put an absurd valuation
on little attentions, and w very few
of them planted along the matrimon
ial road make it a primiose path to
a woman, instead of a track through
an arid desert.
How do you talk to your wife? Do
you speak to her in a manner that
you would not dare to use to a man
of your own size and weight? Do
you sneer at her opinions and tell
her that she doesn’t know what she
is talking about, and call her a fool?
Do you yawn .n the midst of her
stories, arid remind her that they are
ancient chestnuts and that she al
w, .<• misses the point of a joke, any
hc <
bu you knock everything that she
does, and enlarge with brutal candor
on her faults and weaknesses?
Did you cease telling her that you
loved her on your honeymoon, and
has it been years and’ years since you
showed her the least particle of af
fection, or give any visible sign that
you cared for her?
Women don’t shed their sweet
tooth when they get married, you
know, and a wife craves affection
from her husband ten times as much
as she did from her sweetheart.
When she was a girl there were
plenty of men to pay her compli
ments and make love to her, but
marriage narrows her visible supply
of sentimental bonbons down to one
possible giver, and if he withholds
them, he starves her heart to death.
Do you ever show your wife any
appreciation? The life of the aver
age married woman is a life sentence
at hard labor with mighty little pay.
It is one never-ending round of
cooking, and washing, and cleaning,
and sewing and sick nursing, and
baby tending, and scrimping and sav
ing. and the only thing in the world
that can make it worth while is for
her husband to show that he appre
ciates her. and that he is grateful to
her for all that she does for him and
his.
How many times a year do you
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New Questions
1— What are the bleeding statues
of Ireland?
2lf women vote can their votes
outnumber those of the men?
3ln what city of the United
States are burials made above
ground?
4 Why did the country wait a
year before the prohibition amend
ment became effective while, the suf
frage amendment was effective at
once?
5 How much radium is there in
the world and what part of it is in
the United States?
6 What does the name “kangaroo”
mean?
7 Can one legally make cider for
his own use?
8— How many United States! sol
diers had the death sentence by gen
eral court-martial inflicted upon
them during the late war?
9 How long does it take for the
soft spot in a baby’s head to disap
pear?
10 — How many wars are going on
in the world at preseit?
Questions Answered
1. Q. How many men are there
in the Mexican army?
A. The council of national de
fense says that it is announced from
Mexico City that the Mexican army
now comprises 117,000 officers and
men, 500 of whom are generals.
2. Q. Who is the 85-year-old
woman who has crossed the Atlantic
35 times?
A. Mrs. Mary Sullivan, of whom
a photograph is printed hare,
has just completed her 35th trip
across the Atlantic. She arrived
aboard the Haverford, which docked
at Philadelphia. Mrs. Sullivan said
she had just “run over” to County
Cork, Ireland, to collect some rents
that were due her there.
3. Q. How many words did
Shakespeare use? How does this
compare with the average person’s
vocabulary?
A. It has been estimated that
Shakespeare used about 25,000 dif
ferent words. The vocabulary of the
average educated person seldom ex
ceeds 2,500 words.
4. Q. Who said “I would rather
be right than be president?”
A. The statement, “I would rath
er be right than be president,” is
PRESS TALK IN
GEORGIA
By Jack L. Patterson
A Beal Convention.
Friday afternoon about seventeen
farmers who sell home-made sausage
on the local market met at the city
hall with Chairman W. B. Conoley,
of the sanitary department, and Dr.
E. D. King, Jr., the city inspector.
Those present discussed the matter
of inspection very frankly and enter
ed into an agreement with the city
whereby the best possible results
could be obtained in the way of get
ting the proper kind of meat used
in the manufacture of sausage. The
farmers were instructed in ttye simple
methods of determining whtit meat
was proper to use in sausage and
upon their agreement to abide by
these rules it was decided that busi
ness would be carried out along
these lines until such time as bet
ter arrangements could be made. —
Valdosta Times.
Deaths by Accident
Statistics show that 85.000 deaths
by accident or 81 per 100,000 popu
lation occur in America every year.
Many of these deaths are caused by
automobile accidents. That is a
larger number than America lost in
battle during the world war, yet we
go ahead with the slaughter and ap
parently regard it lightly.
"We Try to Bi Pair
As a friend of Hon. Clifford
Walker, the Walton Tribune appre
ciates the fairness which The Atlanta
Journal showed in reporting his
speeches d'uring the recent cam
paign.—Walton Tribune.
“The ri; nt Partner"
• You might say, if you wish.” whis
pered a well-known Douglasville man
yesterday, “that marriage Id a silent
partnership, with the man the silent
partner.”—Douglas County Sentinel.
Justifying Hunger Strikes
There is only one set of circum
stances which many of us can think
of as probably justifying a “hunger
strike”—the condition in which the
high cost of groceries makes the ob
taining of a meal impossible.—Sa
vin’! 'h Morning News.
tell your wife that she is the most
wonderful little woman in the world,
and the greatest manager, and the
best cook, and that you think that
your guardian angel must have been
working over time when she made up
her mind to accompany you to the
altar?
Funny creatures, women. They
put great stress on words, and any
one of them will cheerfully work her
fingers to tha bone for a man—and
be glad to do it, if he will only kiss
her hand nad tell her how he thanks
her for all she does for him.
Do you ever do any particular
thing to make your wife happy? Or
are you one of the men wao think
that just being married to him is
joy ride enough through life for any
woman? The treadmill is no more
monotonous than the daily round of
existence for the woman who spends
her hand and tell her how he thinks
her home doing the same never-end
ing round of tasks.
Do you realize this, and devise lit
tle treats for your wife? Do you
go with her occasionally to places of
entertainment without having to be
dragged there, fighting and protest
ing? Do you take her out to the
theaters or the movies of your own
accord now and then? Do you some
times spend a holiday In taking care
of the baby and the children and let
her have a day of real freedom to
herself?
How do you act at home? Are
you a grouch or a ray of sunshine?
Are you one of the men who dump
down upon their family all of the
nerves, and irritability, and temper,
and swearing that they did not dare
expend upon their clients, or cus
tomers, or boss? When you put your
key in the lock at night, do your
wife and children come running to
meet you, or do they grow suddenly
silent and timorous?
Do you sit up silent as a dummy
behind your paper, or are you chatty
and chummy with your wife and
children? Do you growl like a bear
when your wife asks you if you have
heard any news during the day, or
do you try to be entertaining sand
the life of the party, as you are out
side of your own home?
A woman can’t make a happy home
by herself. That’s a two-handed job.
Nor can she carry on a conversation
by herself, though many wives ac
quire the monologue habit of trying
to break that awful silence that per
vades, where the man of the house
feels that home is the place in which
to gloom.
How do you act about money? Do
you go fifty-fifty with your wife, or
make her feel when the bills come
In as if slue were a criminal who had
devoured every particle of food, and
monopolized all of the light and heat,
and was generally responsible for
the high cost of living? Do you give
your wife a personal allowance as
her right, or make her come like a
beggar to you for every penny?
Check over these little items of
conduct, and you will have a pretty
good idea of how you stand with
your wife, and what she’s telling the
Recording Angel about you.
(Dorothy Dix articles appear in
this paper every Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.)
credited to Henry Clay, the “great
i pacificator,” in a speech he made be
fore the United States congress.
i 5. Q. What is meant by “balance
of trade?”
I A. This term is applied to the ',
> difference between the value of ex
ports and imports. The balance of
trade is in favor of the United States
when this country has exported more
than it- has imported. This differ
ence was formerly measured rough
ly by the outflow or inflow of pre
cious metals in settlement of ac
counts. Many factors enter into
analyses of modern trade relations
and only broad general tendencies
can be indicated in discussion of
trade balances.
6. Q. How did the expression "to
the bitter end” originate?
A. The true phrase was "bettor
end,” and was used to indicate a
crisis or moment of extremity. When
in- a storm an anchored vessel had
paid out all of her cable, the rope
ran out to the better end, that is, to
the end that was in better condition
because seldom used.
7. Q. In the states where women
are of age at eighteen, will they
be allowed to vote at that age?
A. Twenty-one years is the vot
ing age for both sexes.
8. Q. Does the English language
vary in different parts of the United
States as much as it does in differ
ent parts of England?
A. It is said that it is harder for
a Lincolnshire farmer to understand
a Lancashire miner than it is for
any two Americans from different
sections of the United States to un
derstand each other.
9. Q. Who invented liquid air? '
A. A number of scientists were
concerned in the discovery of liquid
air. Prominent among them are two
Poles, Sigmund Wroblewske and
Karl Olszewske. On April 8, 1883,
I at Cracow, they performed an exper
iment before a number of scientists
i and actually produced a few drops
of liquid air. Working in the same
period as the Polish scientists were
the French scientists, Cailletot and
Pictet. They also performed experi
ments in the same year and produced
liquid air.
10. Q. Who was the first Ameri
can novelist?
A. The man who is usually refer
red to as the first American novelist
and whose claim to the title seems
to be undisputed, Was Charles Brock
den Brown, who was born in Phil
adelphia in 1771, and died in 1818.
His best novel, “Wieland,” is a mor
bid horror story, based on ventrilo
quism, and while improbable it con- >
tains scenes of great power. He pub
lished several other novels, and in
1799 a book on divorce and marriage
which enunciated many views then
considered very radical but now
widely accepted. No other novels
than his were published by a native
American until the appearance of
“The Spy” by James Fenimore Coop- .)
er in 1821.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
HEAP O' MEN LAKS T'
tell bout how ‘mean
DEY USETER BE , BUT
DEY DON’ NEVUH L’AK
FUH NO-BODY ELSE
T’ TELL
Copyright, 1920 by McClure Newspaper Synaicsta.,