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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily. Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months..... $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W .i 50. 8 Mos 6 Mos 1 Yr. Dallv and Surd.’V .... 20c l.'c $2.50 $5.00 $0.50 Pally IS? 70< 2.00 4.00 7.50 Surnlay 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Jou/nal is on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early 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 tarm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. 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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. »—i 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 o J ' M 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.,