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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURN 4.L, Atlanta. Ga.
A Timberless America
THERE is a world of warning in the
statement of Secretary Meredith, of
the Department of Agriculture, that
America is consuming timber four times as
fast as she is growing it, and that at this
rate five-and-twenty years will see her pres
ent supply exhausted.
Every sphere of our daily interests and
activities, from the building of the smallest
cottage to the fate of the nation’s chief in
dustries, is involved in this disquieting state
of affairs. Already construction costs have
reached a forbidding figure; what will they
be a decade or so hence if the practice of
constantly destroying and never restoring the
forests continue? Already the interests of
agriculture are suffering as a result of de
nuded hills and consequent lack of flood
control; what will be the losses in fertility
and productiveness a generation hence, if this
waste goes on unchecked?
Heretofore the discussion of forestry prob
lems has been left to a few zealous scien
tists, to whom the business world gave little
or no heed, and who found it extremely dif
ficult to interest national and State legisla
tors. But the time is at hand when this
matter will force itself upon the country’s
practical attention, and the aid of science
be sought as eagerly for reforestation as for
fighting the spread of a deadly disease.
Indifference in the decades gone by ie taxing
the American public millions today in the
cost of virtually every article which wood
products enter. Print paper, for one instance
out of hundreds, has advanced to prices
which publishing interests frequently find
almost insupportable and which threaten the
progress of popular education. Likewise in
every field of industry and commerce, one
branch or another of this problem presses
sharply home. •
How vitally concerned is the South ap
pears from the official figures showing that
ten years hence this region, to which the
entire nation now largely looks for lumber,
will be producing less than its own needs
require. “Pine forests of the South Atlantic
and Gulf States, - ’ says Secretary Meredith,
‘have been reduced from about six hundred
and fifty billion board feet to about one hun
dred and thirty-nine billion. During the
past fifteen years the South has been fur
nishing the building lumber and structural
timbers for the Eastern and Centra) States:
within ten years these two regions will have
to start shipping from the Pacific coast.”
This means, for one thing, increased freight
Jills for the longer hauls; and it is worth
noting that at present the Eastern con
sumers of lumber face the prospect of pay
ing some six hundred million dollars a year
in this one item. Add the other increases
which inevitably attend a waxing demand
and a waning supply, and the seriousness of
the outlook becomes unmistakable. »
The situation demands, first of all, keener
efficiencv and larger foresight In the use of
our remaining sources of timber supply; the
wasteful and wantonlv destructive methods
which have obtained all too widely hereto
fore must cease. But this alone will not suf
fice. There must be also a vigorous, far
rosching movement for reforesting the naked
hilts and the idle cut-over lands, if the dan
gers that now loom ahead are to be averted.
To this end, the Federal Government should
devote its most liberal energies, while the
States should give their various local aspects
of the problem intensive treatment. All this
will require, of course, a good deal of special
legislation and considerable funds. But the
initial step in any well considered State plan
is the establishment of a forestry bureau or
commission through which due co-operation
can be maintained on one hand with the na
tional authorities, and on the other with pri
vate owners of timberlands. With this be
ginning fairly made, the way for the con
structive work so imperatively needed will
be open.
Mr. Bryan is letting it be distinctly under
stood that he will be bound by no party ties,
including even the May-I-knots.—Philadel
phia North American.
The Brave Tin Soldier
THE little tin soldier of Germany, one
sees in the news, is so red with rust
that his day is practically over. The
toy-makers of Nuremberg, we are told, have
stopped making military figures almost en
tirely, for the children of the present Ger
man generation have seen enough of soldiers
in their life to sicken them with military
in their land of let’s pretend.
Instead, the most popular product of
the Nuremberg shops is the cow. Brown
cows and spotted cows, cows that moo when
they are squeezed, cows that whisk their
tails, cows little and cows so big they cost
a* •vucn as a live cow, are being put on
the market in great numbers, and the chil
dren of Germany are taking them to their
lio&rts*
May it not well be that, in this simple
fact. v- e have the rebirth of a new and bet
ter vreimanyr Prussian militarism loses
one of its firmest grips when the children
of Prussia repudiate it. The men who died
for Germany on the western front, and
the men who sent them to their deaths,
were alike the products of nurseries where
the little tin soldier held his musket firm
in his hand. Will it be that the nurseries
where the moo-cow is the center of the stage
in turn will produce a set of men and women
who shall find their destiny in the soil of
the land rather than in the blaze of com
and conquest?
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
The Cotton Situation
THE recent cotton conference in Atlanta
resulted in certain conclusions and
recommendations that are of capital
importance to the South’s farming and busi
ness interests.' From the character of those
who met to consider how the grave prob
lems now pressing for an answer might be
grappled, it was foregone that sound ideas
and, better still, safeguarding lines of action
would be forthcoming. Among those assem
bled were the highest officials of the Ameri
can Cotton Association, of the State and the
National Farmers’ Union, of the State De
partment of Agriculture and Bureau of Mar
kets; men of eminence in banking and mer
cantile affairs; and influential members of
the Georgia delegation of Congress, together
with that veteran of many a hard-won bat
tle for the cotton growers’ rights, .the senior
Senator. From such counselors, useful advice
was to be expected, and useful advice was
given.
First for their conclusions. “We find that
the present price of spot cotton is below tbe
cost of production. . . . We believe that th®
price suggested at Montgomery by the Amer,
ican Cotton Association, of forty cents a
pound for cotton, basis middling, is the low
est figure at which farmers can sell their cot
ton and obtain the cost of production. Surely
those who produce should not be asked to
make a greater sacrifice than the loss of aU
profit.” These estimates, we take it, are
based upon extensive and accurate observa
tion; certainly they seem very conservative
when one considers the extraordinary costs
of the labor and materials with which the
present crop was produced and the hazards
which have beset it from seed-time to har
vest. None but the widely and exactly in
formed can safely venture an opinion as to
just what is a fair price, but assuredly there
is no contention that the one noW prevailing
is so. Nor can it be expected that the com
mon interests of the South (nor ultimately
those of the country as a whole) will pros
per if the thousands of farmers whose energy
and capital and hope are invested in this
cotton crop, do not receive in return the
equivalent of at least a living wage.
It is of the utmost importance, therefore
to business, as well as to agriculture, that
every feasible and rightful means be em
ployed to prevent the dumping of large quan
tities of cotton on an already depressed mar.
ket. The suggestions of the Atlanta confer
ence) touching this point are well considered,
and if generally carried out will constitute a
saving course of action.
“We urge the farmers to store their
cotton, and if money is needed to meet
their pressing obligations we advise
them to negotiate loans with their local
banks, using warehouse receipts as col
lateral security, based upon eighty per
cent of the market value of the staple,
as instructed by the Federal Reserve
banks.
“We urge the people in the cotton
growing States, for their own protection,
to co-operate in preventing the cotton
crop from being placed upon the market
aster than the manufacturers can ab
•> it. at prices less than the cost
of production.”
Without liberal co-working among those
concerned this policy will not yield the de
sired results; farmers, merchants and bank
ers all must do their part, and a loyal public
sentiment must reinforce them. But surely
there will be no shirking where it is so ob
viously to the common interests that the
grower sell only enough cotton to meet
“pressing obligations,” such as supply bills
and current bank loans already outstanding,
which he cannot meet by other means. Hav
ing adjusted such accounts, he should store
the remainder of his crop in a safe ware
house until the market reaches a price level
consistent with hie rights under the natural
law of supply and demand.
That credit accommodations for this pur
pose should be provided as amply as the re
sources of banking and mercantile houses
will permit, is too plain for argument. The
fact must be faced, however, that such ac
commodations would be far more adequate
today if more State banks held membership
in the Federal Reserve system; for then the
demands which now center upon the larger
banks, whose credit facilities already may
be taxed, would be distributed, much to the
advantage of all concerned and particularly
to those of rural districts and small towns.
This is a matter to be remembered and acted
upon in the light of present experience. Mean
while everything possible and practicable
? e done to serve the imperative needs
of the hour.
The French are betting on who is going
to be their next President. They can do
that because the race over there is doubtful.
—Nashville Tennessean.
If Europeans don’t settle down to hard
work pretty soon it will be a long time be
fore they will have earned money enough for
another war.—Toledo Blade.
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Those Blonde Bshimos
CAPTAIN JOE BERNARD has returned
to Nome, Alaska, after four years in
the frozen silences that rim the
Pole. Captain Joe spent this period in
search of blonde Eskimos. He failed. Either
Stefansson, who found blonde Eskimos, ex
hausted the crop, or all blondes were out
when he called, says Captain Joe. “The
only Eskimos I saw,” he asserts, “were
brunettes!”
While one sympathizes deeply with Cap
tain Joe in his disappointment, one’s pity
is tempered by the unavoidable feeling that
Captain Joe’s mission, his gruelling four
years amid polar hardships, his indomitable
persistency in the face of brunette after
brunette, might have had a more worthy
object as the goal. Were he even seeking
blue roses or the Golden Fleece, ther would
hav been a halo of romance surrounding
the journey to excuse its impractibility. One
can understand the sordid greed for gold
animating the treasure hunters on the Span
ish main; one can feel the stir of a fellow
feeling for Ponce de Leon, though he scarce
concur in Juan’s conviction that, somewhere
on this prosy eartn .bubles a fountain of
eternal youth. But blonde Eskimos—there
is a far diferent inspiration to send man
chasing under the Aurora Borealis for
years, existing on pemmican and gumdrops,
suffering frozen feet and numbed ears and
noses.
Verily, Captain Joe is a person of odd
hobbys. Better men than he have been
known to seek blondes, yet even they did
not deem it necessary to travel thousands
of miles into a region of ice and snow on
their hunt. But blonde Eskimos we re
peat—surely Captain Joe’s explorations are
more worthy of chroniciling than are their
reason!
No, lady, a candidate’s request that you
support him is not necessarily to be con
strued as a matrimonial proposal.—Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot.
“Is the human mind tireless?” queries the
Literary Digest. No, we should say, but it
is running pretty flat.—Boston Herald.
Either the public schools or the reform
schools of the United States wil have to be
enlarged.—Mitchell (S. D.) Gazette.
The hack writer seldom can afford to ride
in a taxicab. —Philadelphia Bulletin.
AFTER TUBERCULOSIS
By H. Addington Bruce
YOU have been undergoing treatment for
tuberculosis. You have been discharged
as cured. Now you have before you the
problem of staying cured. Which is not such
a difficult problem as you may imagine.
Indeed, it need not even involve your mak
ing a completely new start in life so far as
the choice of an occupation is concerned. The
advice given to ex-patients in the admirable
pamphlet on tuberculosis issued by the New
York state department of health could not be
improved:
‘Do not look for ‘a light job on a farm.’
There is none such. An indoor job you are
used to, unless it is very unhealthful, means,
despite certain disadvantages, less exposure,
less physical and mental exertion; more reg
ular hours, and better wages, and will allow
you to get better home conditions.”
The only exceptions to be noted are dusty
or damp occupations, or occupations that
may expose you to irritating gases or severe
physical or mental strain. If you have been
engaged in any such occupation, then you
ought to select some other.
And, whatever the occupation in which you
decide to engage, try to secure employment
in a working-place that is well lighted and
well ventilated. Working-places like this are
not nearly so hard to find as used to be the
Once back at work, work faithfully and
cheerfully while on duty. When off duty
avoid excesses of any kind, except excesses
in rest.
For at least a year after you return to
work you should spend most of your leisure
resting. This does not mean that you need
to rest in bed and do absolutely nothing.
But it does mean that during your free
time you should lie down frequently, be con
tent with light exercise, cultivate non-stren
uous recreations such as reading and listen
ing to music, and keep out of crowded amuse
ment places. i
If possible, too, do .not start in to work
until at least six months after you find
yourself free from such symptoms as cough
ing, spitting, fever, sweats, weakness, and
shortness of breath. Devote those six months
to taking the rest “after-cure.”
Make it a rule, moreover, both before and
after your return to work, to keep your home
as well as your working-place thoroughly
ventilated. The fresher the air you can get
the better. Take your rest out of doors as
much as you can, your exercise and amuse
ments likewise.
Give yourself plenty of sleep. Others may
get along with less thah eight hours of sleep
per night. You cannot. Nor can you afford
to under-eat, or to eat foods difficult for
your digestion to handle. Nourishment will
always be one of your great needs.
Try not to worry. Cheerfulness is a real
essential to' you, together with hope and
confidence. And you can best conquer all
emotionally depressing states by living an
unselfish, self-forgetting life.
There are other precautions helpful to you,
but these I cannot present here because of
lack of space. You will find them detailed
in the pamphlet quoted above, “What You
Should Know About Tuberculosis.” I advise
you to send for it, addressing the New York
State Commissioner of Health, Albany, N. Y.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
WAR’S PRICE
By Dr. Frank Crane
Most Americans object to militarism, but
hardly know why. It is the expression of
the most deeply inbred instinct, for it is the
opposite and enimy of everything that Amer
ica means of e'ery principle in the Declatt
tion of Independence, of every functioning of
the spirit of Democracy.
That is what’s the matter right now with
the U. S. A. „
After Death Hell, and after War Collapse.
Four million men and more have been
plucked from their rooted grow*a and trntx«-
planted for a time into the abnormal, over
heated hothouse of army life.
Europe is on the verge of ruin because foi
years her manhood has been subjected to
this demoralizing regime.
For out of war, whatever its high aim,
come these plagues, which unchecked will
ruin any State:
Waste, gigantic, heedless, reckless waste.
The enemy must be beaten at any cost. And
this principle eventuates in tons of snoiled
food, mountains of scrapped airplanes and
motor trucks, national debts piled sky high,
the wildest and wickedest mortgaging of the
present for the future.
Unconcern for human life, an orgy of mur
der and rapine, increase in crimes of vio
lence.
Mob madness, willingness to engage in any
revolution or riot that, offers excitement and
the advancement of our class.
Disregard of property, a contempt for the
slowly accumulated works of men’s co-opera
tion.
Ma-eiialism ir i.s coarsest form, a smudg
ing out of all the finer restraints, a feeling
of grab-all.
Egoism, individual and national, every
man for himself and devil take the hindmost,
and the national egotism which is its corol
lary.
A dull worship and exaltatifin of brute
force, and a contempt for all spiritual po
tencies.
A w’itches’ dance of mad gayety, a deter
mination to “have a good time” even on the
edge of economic ruin, careless of tomorrow
—“After us the deluge l ”
Ruthless profiteering, not only by the rich,
but by every grafter according to his ability,
for the barber raises his price for a hair cut
from twenty-five to fifty cents and the deli
catessen charges twenty-five dollars tor a
ham that costs three dollars, with precisely
the same motives that lead a woolen com
pany to pull off a hundred million dollars
profit.
Distaste for work, shiftlessness, incompe
tency. Never in the history of this country
has labor been so inefficient, so indifferent
and so well paid.
Hate. It is hard to stop hating. We got
into full swing hating Germany, now we go
on hating each other.
All the hell-stew of destructive passions,
envy, distrust, sneers, pessimism, cynicism
are let loose.
“Never,” says Sisley Hui be.'.tcn, “was
Carlyle’s image of a basket of serpents, each
struggling ‘o get its head above the rest, so
expressively precise a picture of humanity as
it is today.” ’
Why?
It is the aftermath of War.
For after Death comes Hell.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
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QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
A shriek! A splash!
People ran frantically along the pier to
ward where a lady waved her hands to the
skies and wailed that her sister had fallen
into the sea.
But the occasion usually produces the man
A gallant hero threw off his coat and kicked
his feet clear of shoes; then he dived boldly
into the waves.
Swimming toward the spot where the vic
tim of the accident had sunk, he caught her
as she rose, gasping, to the surface.
“Don’t struggle, madam,” he said calmly;
“we are quite safe. The sea is quite calm and
as clear as a mirror.”
“Well, let go my arm for a minute,’’ said
the lady faintly. “I want to see if my hair is
coming down.”
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
VI. THE POLK-CLAY
RACE OF 1844.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Sept. 23.
In the live stock markets of
the year 1844 there was a
great premium placed upon
mules of a certain particularly ugly
hue. Blooded horses did not com
mand so much ready money in the
Kentucky marts. That was because
every loyal. Whig in the country
wanted to ride in the Clay proces
sion at the big Whig barbecue and
he wanted to ride on a “claybank”
hule, the while he sang:
"Get out o’ the way, you’re all un
lucky;
Clear the track for bld Kentucky.”
True it is that certain very
nanughty small boys of Democratic
parentage did secrete themselves
along the roadside and lie in wait
with the felonious purpose of stain
ing the wethers of those beautifully
ugly “claybank” mules with a pig
ment made by expressing the royal
purple juice of the poke-berry. For
was not Polk the Democratic candi
date? And had not Andrew Jackson
the beloved “Old Hickory,” given the
stamp of approval to this “Young
Hickory of Tennessee?” And did not
the Democratics, defying Mexico and
England alike, prove themselves true
patriots In rallying to Polk’s erv for
“the reoccupation of Oregon and the
reannexation of Texas,” and did not
every Democratic heart beat faster
when he heard the alliterative slo
gan: “Fifty-four Forty or Fight?”
And when it was all over and the
unbelievable news was borne in upon
the minds of the people that the
great Clay, the gallant "Harry of
the West,” had been defeated by a
nonentity, a mere nobody, like Polk,
did not strong men give way to
tears? And even the Democrats
could not help but feel sorry for the
famous Kentuckian whose life am
bition was once more denied.
The election of James Knox Polk,
the first “dark horse" candidate for
president, and the defeat of Henry
Clay, then at the apex of his per
sonal popularity, ended a political
campaign which had a more profound
effect upon future history than any
other yet recorded. It brought about
the annexation of Texas, the ac
quisition of California, and made the
Civil war inevitable.
Clay Sure of Victory
The Whigs had sung and shouted
their gallant Harrison to such a no
ble victory that they were certain
that Clay could not be defeated. Har
rison had died after only a month
in the White House, and had been
succeeded by John Tyler. The Whigs'
of the Clay wing believed in a Bank
of the United States. They passed
two bills to charter such an institu
tion, but both were vetoed by Tyler.
The result was a complete break in
the Whig ranks, and the reorganiza
tion of Tyler’s cabinet along Demo
cratic lines. Then Tyler began to
give heed to the appeals for annex
ation from the new, republic of Tex
as. The south wanted Texas to come
in, as it would be slave territory.
For the same reason the north want
ed Texas kept out
Both Whigs and Democrats were
still afraid to take hold of the slav
ery question. The leaders feared
that the introduction of the Texas
question would break up both par
ties and endanger the union. Mexico,
had announced that the annexation
of Texas would be regarded by that
nation as a declaration of war, al
though it had already acknowledged
the independence of Texas. England
and France, jealous of the growth
of the United States, were exerting
every possible diplomatic influence
to prevent annexation.
Henry Clay knew that he would be
the Whig candidate, Martin Van
Buren was equally certain that he
would be the Democratic standard
bearer. Although bitter political
enemies. Clay and Van Buren were
good personal friends. Mr. Van
Buren went to Kentucky and spent
several days as the guest of Mr.
Clay at Ashland. There they had
a conference, each recognizing the
other as the presidential candidate of
the opposition party. Each believed
the Texas question was “loaded.” So
they agreed to keep it out of the cam
paign.
Dodged Xtsuss Then M Now
The Whig convention was to be
held in Baltimore on May 1, 1844,
and the Democratic convention was
to meet in the same city on May 27.
The official organ of the Whig party
was the National Intelligencer, while
the Washington Globe represented
the ruling Democratic powers. On
April 27 there appeared in the Na
tional Intelligencer an open letter
from Mr. Clay saying he was op
posed to the annexation of Texas
without the consent of Mexico, as it
would mean war. In the Globe of
the same day there was published an
open letter from Mr. Van Buren
saying that he was opposed to an
nexation of Texas without the con
sent of Mexico, as it would mean war.
This remarkable coincidence of the
simultaneous publication of the iden
tical views of the two leading candi
dates for president caused a tre
mendous sensation.
Andrew Jackson, old but wise, saw
it meant the defeat of Van Bureh
and he immediately groomed his
dark horse for the race. Delegates
to the Democratic convention an
nounced that they would break in
structions for Van Buren. Others re
signed rather than vote for him.
Mass meetings were called at various
places in the south to rescind Van
Buren instructions. When the con
vention met Van Buren had a ma
jority of the delegates on the first
ballot, but the two-thirds rule, the
product of his own scheming, was
in effect. On the ninth ballot James
K. Polk, of Tennesee, was named, as
Jackson had planned two weeks be
fore, and the convention declared for
the “reannexation of Texas and the
reoccupation of Oregon.” Texas had
been claimed under the Louisiana
purchase, and the Oregon country as
far north as “fifty-four forty” was
claimed by right of discovery. Texas
was wanted to add to 'the Influence
of the slave states. Oregon was
claimed to give a hostage to north
ern Democrats. The campaign was
conducted with great skill by the
Democrats. Mr. Polk succeeding in
being a high tariff man in Pennsyl
vania and a low tariff man in South
Carolina. The telegraph was invent
ed, and the first news it ever carried
was that of the nomination of Polk.
But it extended only between Wash
ington and Baltimore. Since it has
spread all over the country it is no
longer possible for a candidate thus
“to be all things to all men.”
Texas Too Big to Straddle
Clay had been nominated by accla
mation bya convention which de
nounced Texans as murderers and
adventurers who were unworthy to
be considered as future Americans.
But the southern Whigs had their
own ideas about Texas, and they be
gan to bring pressure to bear upon
Mr. Clay. On July 1 he wrote from
Ashland to Stephen F. Miller, of Tus
caloosa, Ala., a letter discussing the
Texas question in which he said:
“Personally, I could have no objec
tion to the annexation of Texas.”
For which statement he paid the
price of thousands of abolition votes
and lost the presidency.
Two years before Clay had made
a triumphal tour of the west, being
met everywhere by a great outpour
ing of the people who were abso
lutely certain that he would be
chosen president to succeed the Im
possible Tyler. It was at Richmond,
Ind., that a Quaker named Menden
hall came forward and presented Mr.
Clay with a petition, bearing many
signatures, asking the great Whig
leader to emancipate his slaves. He
replied in a speech which was a
marvel of evasion and sophistry. But
ir seemed, at the time, to have the
effect of once more postponing the
day when candidates for president
must recognize the slavery issue.
It did have the effect of strength
ening. the hearts and hands of the
Birney Abolition party. That organ
ization did not get many votes in
the aggregate, but it polled enough
in western New York to turn the
Empire State from Clay to Polk, and
thereby decide the election. Horace
Greeley, as sincere an anti-slavery
man as there was in the whole north,
could not find words bitter enough
to denounce Birney and the “fanatic
abolitionists” who followed him.
CURRENT EVENTS
The largest shipment of gold, $16,-
750,000, ever transported across the
Atlantic, is being brought to New
York on the White Star liner Baltic,
which left Liverpool, September 22.
The gold is consigned to American
bankers. The largest previous ship
ment from abroad of which there is ,
any known record was approximately
$8,000,000. 1
The smallest known species of hog
are the pygmy swine of Australia.
They are exactly like other hogs in
every particular except size, being
no larger than a good-sized house
rat.
A blow was aimed at home dis
tillers in Chicago when federal of
ficials announced a sweeping inves
tigation of the sale of copper stills
by mail order houses, department
and hardware store. Arrests of of
ficials of companies selling the ar
ticles in violation of the prohibition
laws are to be made, according to
John W. Kelly, assistant United I
States district attorney.
It is said that the stills are being |
used for the manufacture of “moon- i
shine,” which in many cases is found
to be 130 proof, or 70 per cent al
cohol.
A football game at night between
Chanute and Parsons high school
teams, in Kansas, will be a feature of
the Neosho county fair, which opens
here soon. The teams will play
with a ball painted white a*id
the field will be illuminated by a bat
tery of electric lights. This will be
the first football game ever played
at night in the state.
The cabinet council of Vienna, has
approved seven-hour day for ser
vants.
A unique record of centenarian
brothers has just been broken by the
death of John Mullan, 108 years old,
who lived with his brother Henry,
103, at Doneydale, near Dungannon,
Ireland.
Increases from 2 cents to 3 cents
a copy in the prices of the Des
Moines Tribune and the Capital,
evening papers,-on all street sales in
Des Moines and vicinity, were an
nounced last week.
With something like 50,000 sets al
ready completed and shipments about
to be made to the New York and Al
bany Automobile bureaus, the New
York state prison department is
busily engaged in turning out next
year's automobile plates, a combi
nation of dark blue and white and
one of the handsomest plates in the
state’s motor history. About 'fifty
convicts are employed on the work,
the product being of an exceptional
ly high grade, the steel a trifle
heavier than in this year’s plates,
the enamel so perfect as to with
stand sledge hammer blows.
Former Premier Orlando will leave
soon for Brazil on an extraordinary I
mission as a special envoy of the
Italian government. It is said he
will carry an autographed letter
from King Victor Emmanuel to
President Pressoa.
A state-wide organization of tobacco
growers was formed at Danville. Va„
last week at a mass meeting attend
ed by more than 5,000 growers.
It will be known as the Virginia
Growers’ association, and its an
nounced aim is to obtain some satis
factory explanation for the depres
sion of the market,’ to aid small
planters financially when the crop is
marketed slowly and to get united
action in crop curtailment next year.
All the larger political parties In
the new republic of Czecho-Slovakia
give the women members places in
their councils, including the exe
cutive and administrative bodies,
both central and local.
In an effort to bring tons of fruit,
which would otherwise rot on the
ground in Michigan, to the poor peo
ple of Chicago, Chicago has arrang
ed with the owners of seven small
steamboats to haul the surplus fruit
to the city. It will be distributed
at the municipal pier, eliminating
the wholesaler, the middleman and
the retailer. Peaches and apples can
be bought in Benton Harbor, Mich,,
for 75 cents a bushel.
The last of the White House flock
of sheep has been rounded up prepa
ratory to shipment back to the farm
where they were born. Some already
had been disposed of, but the bulk of
the flock, by President Wilson’s or
ders, was returned to William Wood
ward at Bel Air, Md., who sent the
sheep to the White House during war
days when the lawns needed trim
ming and wool was in demand.
Alaska gives a great promise of
becoming a wheat-growing country.
Quite a good start in this direction
has been made in the Tanana valley,
and the results were so successful
that the planting will be increased..
Many of the farmers are enthusiastic
about wheat growing, and they re
ceive every possible encouragement
from the government.
The finest unworked iron fields in
the world have been discovered in
the Philippines, according to a re
port from government experts just
received by the United States bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce.
The quantities of ore adjacent to
good harbors, they state, will be suf
ficient to assure the future of iron
and steel production in the United
States for generations.
Already land believed to contain
more than 500,000,000 tons has been
surveyed. Deposits on the Island of
Mindanao are believed to be without
a rival. They contain 275,000,000
tons close to good harbors and 130,-
000,000 tons within easy transporta
tion distance of Dajkin bay, perhaps •
the best natural harbor on the
Islands.
Only crude iron work in primitive
smelters is being carried on at
present.
Enormous damage has been done
throughout the Province of Alicante
by torrential rain and hailstorms,
according to a report from Jumilla.
At one place a torrent pouring down
a watercourse became so violent that*
it carried away 100 yards of rail
road track and swept loaded cars
Into fields in the lowlands. Many
horses and cattle have been drowned.
tax refunds that total
$5,000,000 will be made to residents
of Texas and probably a half dozen
states under regulations now being
prepared by the internal revenue bu
reau.
Tbe refunds will be made under
the community property law by
which one-half of all property com
ing into possession of a husband aft
er marriage belongs to the wife. ’
Texas, California, Louisiana, Wash
ington and several western states
have such laws.
For a hundred years there has been
an ordinance In Savannah prohibiting
the sleeping on board vessels of
sailors and crew s of vessels in port—
except those necessary to guard the
boats. During August, September and
October the city law required them
all to Sleep ashore—and quarters are
provided for them. The law originat
ed in the old-time danger from ma
aria. At the council meeting Thurs
day night a stren< ou« effort was
made to repeal the ancient law. D- <
Whit, an aiderman, and Dr. Brunner,
city health officer, vigorously oppos
ed the repeal—and the radical action
has been postponed indefinitely.
The 110,000.000 cards needed to re
cord the population of the United
States in the new census made a
stack more than ten miles high.
Without machinery It would be al
most impossible to manage a census
nowadays. It took seven years to
complete and publish the census of
1890 and nine years to complete the
census of 1880. By means of elec
trical mechanism which punches
something like 4,000,000 cards a day
he cards are now sorted and tabu
'ated in weeks instead of years. The
device also saves expense and elim
inates error.
There was no doubt but that aboli
tion votes had elected Polk. and.
thereby, assured the admission of
Texas, another slave state, which
was to have the right to divide it
self into four other and new slave
states. Greeley was furious.
Mr. Clay retired to his home at
Ashland with a broken heart. But
there is not the slightest indication
that Clay realized the fact that com
promise, by which he saved so many
other great men, had caused his own
defeat and
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1920.
THE BUSINESS MEN OF THE BIBLE
(BY REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY)
Gehazi the Politician
A distingushed writer, dwelling
upon the subject of this sketch, says
“Gehazi is one of those men whom
later ages have accepted as a type.”
And the type! O ye gods! is that
of the politician—the panderer, the
professional accoucheur of any birth
that may happen to be attended by
a fee.
There are three names in Hebrew
history that are indissolubly linked
together—Elijah, Elisha and Gehazi.
Elijah, the Grand Old Man, who
never “crooked the pregnant hinges
of the knee that thrift might follow
fawning;” who always hewed to the
line regardless of where the chips
might fly; Elisha, Elijah’s successor,
who. as mortals go in this wcrld, was
well worthy of benig called a man,
not so strong and heroic as his great
predecessor, but still a real man as
far as he went, and then Gehazi,
the politician, with his seven prin
ciples, five loaves and t'Vu dshes, a
time-server, with eye always out to
windward, looking for the breeze that
might fill the sails of his private
venture.
This “Me Too” to the prophet
Elisha, as has been well said, be
longed to very serious times, yet
never realized their importance; he
had the great examples of his master
ever before his eyes, .yet wholly
missed its significance. We see in
him an utter want of appreciation, or
moral proportions, a confusion be
tween substance and shadow, a con
dition of mind in which great things
dwindle or pass completely out.of
sight while the whole horizon is
blocked by petty considerations and
small, selfish interests. He dwelt
with a hero, yet was a poltroon. He
lived with a saint, yet was a knave.
He was the associate of a prophet,
yet was a petty thief.
A wqnderfully interesting story is
q u o
New Questions
1. What is the largest steer
known?
2. How far is it across the United
States?
3. When was Frank James, the
noted train robber, in prison?
4. How deep is Salt lake, in Utah,
and what is its area?
5. What were the dimensions of
Solomon’s temple? ffl ffl
6. Can a person take gold to . the
United states mint and have it coined
into money? ffl ffl
7. Where were the Pillars of Her
cules?
8. How many illiterates are there
4n the United States?
9. What books did Lincoln read
when educating himself?
10. Why does Venice have streets
of water?
Questions Answered
1 — q. What- are the bleeding
statutes of Ireland?
A. The Rev. J. Dawson Bryne, a
priest of the Roman Catholic church,
whose home is in Beresford, South
Dakota, has just returned from Ire
land, where he saw the ‘ bleed
statues” in the village of Temple
more. He vouches for the miraculous
stories concerning them. He says that
in the home of Thomas Divan, where
they are being displayed, he saw a
small statue of the Virgin and oth
ers of the Crucifixion, bleeding from
the mouth. A soldier whose leg had
been shattered was able to run home
after the bleeding figure had been
applied to his leg. A little girl
was said to have been cured of con
sumption and an old woman of
paralysis. The priest adds that the
lame and halt from all parts of Ire
land are gathering in Templemore
in the hope of being healed by the
statues.
2Q. If women vote can their
votes outnumber those of the men?
A. It is estimated that the total
male vote could be 26,7(10,000 and
the female vote about 27,000,000.
3q. in what city of the United
States are burial made above
ground? . ,
A. In New Orleans it is the cus-
tom to bury* the dead in vaults, or
compartments rising in tier.), some
times as high as eight feet above
■the ground. In this vicinity it is
not possible to dig very far below
the surface without finding water.
4q. Why did the country wait
a year before the prohibition amend
ment became effective, while the suf
frage amendment was effective at
once? , ...
A. The clause making prohibi
tion effective one year from the date
of ratification is a part of the
amendment and was made so be-
TATTOOED KINGS
While Prince of Wales. King Ed
ward VII of England subjected his
arms to the art of the tattooer. This
was known to his intimate friends,
and it also is no secret that his son,
the present king, was tattooed by a
skilful Japanese artist when as a
midshipman on board the Bacchant
he visited Japan many years ago.
The late Czar of Russia wore an in
delible India ink dragon on his left
foreafm, and quite a number of other
European royalties past and present
have received these indestructible
“decorations.” But the experience
of Charles XIV of Sweden and Nor
way makes an interesting story in it
self. It always was a puzzle to
those most intimately assq
ciated with him that he would never
show himself anywhere with bared
arms. It was not until his death in
1844 that the mystery was explained.
On his right forearm was tattooed
neither a dragon, an eagle nor an in
signia of high authority, but instead
the red cap of Liberty, and the motto,
“Death to Kings." As Jean Baptiste
Jules Bernadotte, in his young re
publican days in France, he had been
thus tatooed, never dreaming thaf
later he would be called to the
throne.—Pennsylvania Grit.
A man at a wedding was telling
everybody, in a very loud voice, that
a good wife was capable of turning
this gloomy earth into a joyous
heaven.
“A good wife can make a verti
table angel of a man,” he declared.
“You’re quite right there,” a mar
ried man exclaimed. “Mine came
near making one of me with her first
, biscuits.”
JAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
DE OLE 'OMAN CLAIM A
STITCH IN TIME SAVE
NINE BUT E.F SHED
'A TUK A FEW
STITCHES IN TIhAE
Hit'd 'A .SAVED bESE
HE AH BRITCHES
h.l
Copyright; 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate
that of Gehazi, as told in the second
Book of Kings, chapter IV. The hu
man interest of the story Is thrilling,
and readi n '" it v-o ■ —e "re
dealing with a man that lived thou
sands of years ago. It seems as
though wf. . ~,.i . iis.e n. the
story of any one of a thousand of
Gehazi’s posterity right here in
America today.
Quite modern and up-to-date
seems Gehazi’s action in the case of
Naaman, the Sirian captain.
The noble-hearted Elisha was oifl
fashioned and foolish enough, to do
Naa»'”i a wonderfully great favor
Wkiiout exacting any fee for his
kindness. The old prophet was happy
enough in being able to render Naa
man the much-needed assistance, an**!
he ala not once think of rwxa
off.” But tbe thought of the fee ob
scured everything else in the eyes of
Gehazi. “What an old fool Elisha is,”
he said to himself. “I’ll hike out
after Naaman and make him come
across with the dough.” And he was
as good as his word. Catching up
with Naaman he managed, by the
help of a lie, to get two talents out
of him, which he took home and hid
in his house. But the money did
Gehazi no good. Elisha, learning of
his assistant’s action, got mad in the
way that thoroughly just men some
times do, and the result to the poli
tician W’a3 dreadful.
It soon became to Gehazi
that the most unfortunate hour of
his life was the one he spent catch
ing up with Naaman and demanding
those two talents.
It would be a fine thing if all the
grafting politicians and lucre-loving
“statesmen” could be led seriously to
read the fourth chapter of Second
Kings. It might induce some of them
to cease giving up to self a?-3
party that which was meant «
m->n’-ind and for the “general wel
fare.” J
cause of the tremendous business
upheaval which would result from
immediate action in the matter.
There was no such clause to the
nineteenth amendment.
SQ. How much radium is there
in the world, and what part of this
supply is in the United States?
A. There is less than two ounces
of radium in the world and less
than one ounce in the United States.
6Q. What does the name “Kan
garoo” mean?
A. When Captain Cook discover- ,
ed Australia, he saw some natives
on shore with a dead animal in
their possessicn. He sent some sail
ors to buy it. When it was brought
on board he saw that it was an ani
mal with which he was entirely un
familiar. He sent the sailors back ,
to find our the name of the animal.
The natives could not understand
what they desired to know, so replied
in the Australian language—“ Ka
ngaroo” meaning in English “I don’t
know.” Therefore, the name of this
animal means "I don’t know.”
7Q. Can one legally make cider
for his own 'se?
A. The bureau of internal reve
nue says that any person may, with
out permit, nd without riving bond,
manufacture non-intoxieming cider
and fruit 1 ces, and in so doing he
may take his apples or fruit to a
custom mll and have them made
into cider a d fruit juices. After
such non-intoxicating cider and fruit
juices are made, they must be used
exclusively *n the home and when
so used, the phrase “non-intoxicat
ing” means non-intoxicating in fact
and not necessarily less than one
half of one per cent of alcohol.
8— Q. How many United States
soldiers hal the death sentence by
general cotirtmartial inflicted upon
them during the late war?
A. The war denartment says that ’
there were 35 death sentences in
flicted during the world war. All
were for murder or kindred offenses,
none for purely military offenses.
9 Q How long does it take for
the soft spot on a baby’s bea-’ *o
disappear?
A. There are usually four sv eh
spots discernible on the skulT of • .
newly born nfant. All but the an
terior or great fontanel close with
in a few months. This closes about
one year after birth, but in some
cases persists during the second
year.
10 — Q. How many wars are going
on in the world at present?
A. There are seventeen wars,
either in nactlve progress, or that
have not been ended by the sign
-1 ing of a treaty of peace.
POLITICS—
Through Woman’s
Eyes
BY HELEN ROWLAND
/Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
, Z •y-x OLITICS,” a nice man tell*
• • I—* me, is not/plural, but slngu-
1 lar. Oh. VERY singular!
Only a woman, just learning
to vote, can appreciate how singu
lar!
A “Campaign Fund,” for instance,
is the money which your OWN party
is generously contributing in order
to elect the Right President.
A “Slush Fund” is the money which
the other party is raising in order
to elect the Wrong Candidate.
“Saving the Country” does not
rpean saving it from its enemies,
but saving it from the Other Party.
Socialism: The deep-seated con
viction that no matter how little
you may do in this world, nor how
much you may be paid for it, you are
getting STUNG]
Conservative: A man who won’t
believe that the airplane is practi
cable until he has been hit by one.
Radical: A man who won’t admit ,
that the airplane is practicable, even
AFTER he has been hit by one.
The Great Political Issue: Each
and every party has its own “Great
Issue;” and, as they are all talking
at once, and none will answer the
other, itjs about as enlightening and
intelligible as the conversation at »n
afternoon Sewing Circle —and al
most as spicy;
Most campaign platforms, read to
a woman, like the average man’s
love-letter; awfully sweet and flat
tering, but absolutely vague and in
definite.
The Presidential Chair: The most
uncomfortable seat in the Country,
next to the Electric Chair.
At least, that’s the way Politics
looks to a woman!
Is “Politics” singular?
Thev Are!
WANTING ’.
’ r
Wild wind, west wind, wind thac
sweeps the s’x-
Tossing the ragged clouds about 1»
a ginsv revelry.
My throat has ached to drink your
wine for many a winaless day—
But I am caged in a cheerful house,
and can not get away.
Tall trees, pine-trees, that march
around the hili.
Swaying in a stately dance to the
wild wind’s piping shrill.
My heart cries ou-t for the joyous
days that in your lodge I’ve
spent—
While my good wife nods by our
well-kept fire, nor dreams of
my discontent.
Swift water, white water, plunging
down the
Pushing with impatient nanus at t»,
caging canon walls.
There’s a call in my brest to strive
once more against your rough
waves colod —
But my old dog lies on the hearth
and sleeps—am I, too, growing
old?
—Frank E. A. Thone, in the Grin
nell Review. I
