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Through Pink Spectacles
ITALIAN Communists are putting on their
Utopian spectacles in anticipation of the
Peninsula’s tossing its present system of
government into the sea and donning- the
fiery shirt of Bolshevism. From the re
cent industrial upheavals they augur the cer
tain coming of revolution; wherefore they
are taking mental stock of the country’s re
sources and calculating its chances of sub
sistence in case of a not improbable blockade
and boycott by the leading commercial and
non-Bolshevist Powers. Their speculations,
although of scant concern to the practical
minded either at home or abroad, are engag
ingly ingenious. They acknowledge Italy’s
wonted dependence upon foreign sources for
such necessaries as coal, bread, animal fats,
iron, chemical fertilizers and cotton. But
gazing through the magical glasses of Com
munistic theory, they see in a trice how all
these wants could be filled out of native sup
plies now sorely inadequate—if only indi
vidual ownership be abolished.
Thue the Socialist organ, Umanita Nuova
(New Humanity), argues to its complete
satisfaction that, although Italy imported 6,-
250,000 tons of coal last year, she
could easily get along without another
bunker’s being filled from the mines of “capi
talistic” Britain or ■ America —at least, they
fervently add, it could be managed for a
twelvemonth. How? “Technicians have dem
onstrated that this coal is not now used to
the best advantage, and that from twenty to
twenty-five per cen L is wasted. Half of the
remainder is consumed by useless industries
>vhich could be dispensed with. It is safe
to estimate that the two million tons now on
hand which would be requisitioned, added
o the domestic production of lignite and peat,
would meet the demands of the nation during
the first year of the revolution.” Likewise a
formidable deficit of grain would be made
up by “stopping the baking of pastries of all
kinds,” forbidding further exports of' spa
ghetti, and by a larger dietary of fresh vege
tables and cheese.
But, some still doubting child of the Bour
geoise may ask, what about 'sugar? It is
just here that the shades of Lucullus will
tremble indeed, and even the frugalest elves
of the Horatian farm cry out at the doomful
hand which the Communists would lay on
adored custom. “Italy,” runs the “New Hu
manity’s” dehumanized proposal, “produces
annually seventy-five million quintals of
grapes from which are extracted fifty mil
lion quintals of must containing about thir
teen million quintals of sugar. This is valu
able food, which now is lost in fermenta
tion that turns it into alcohol and carbonic
acid. In time of revolution this must would
be reduced to a pleasant and nourishing
drink, as has been done in the United States
since the prohibition of wine!” Alas!
doughty Utopians, have you not taken your
pitcher of theory once too often to the foun
tain of Italian nature? If one wishes to
wager that the good King Victor Immanuel
>—a Democrat as stanch and true as Junius
Brutus himself could have wished—will die
»ut of the graces of his people, one would
Jest be prepared to pay. It may be that
taly, of all western nations, is “nearest
;o Bolshevism;” but we doubt exceedingly
lhat the dreaded rule of a rabble minority
will come to pass; and assuredly it will be
shortlived if the sons of the Vineland are
left with only fires of peat to warm by, and
no sunnier potations than such as the Com
munist organ prescribes.
Were our Soviet friends not under ne
3essity of dwelling this side of Quixote’s
realm and of dealing with human clay,
they might make a huge success of their
schemes, though even then, we fear, life
amongst them would grow monstrous stale.
Their ultra-modern teachings are, after all,
nnly the theories at which Shakespeare
good-naturedly laughed three hundred
years ago:
Had I plantation of this isle, my
lord,
I’ the commonwealth I would by
contraries
Execute all things; for no kind of
traffic
Would I admit; no name of magis
trate ;
Letters should not be known; riches,
poverty,
And use of service none; contract,
"accession,
Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vine
•ard, none; \
No occupation; all men idle, all;
All things in common nature should
iroduce
Without sweat or endeavor: treason;
felony,
Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of
any engine,
Would I not have; but nature would
bring forth,
Os its own kind, all foison, all
abundance
To fed my inocent people.”
Neither Italy, nor America, nor any land
)f grown-up folk need grow flustered over
the 'isms of the age. They were all test
ed and tossed aside hundreds and thou
sands of years ago.
The accepted idea of a hell of Ire and
brimstone,, and no water to be had, may be
all right for the unrepentant coal profi
teer; but if the consumer had a vote he’d
make it a region of perpetual snow and
Ice, and provide each one with a summer
outfit and a palm leaf fan.—Greensboro
(N. C.) News.
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Ships and Prosperity
w wOW important a part a merchant fleet
£ —j can play in a nation’s prosperity ap-
pears in the official statement that
British shipping will earn for the current
year approximately two billion two hundred
million dollars—enough to counterbalance a
large excess of imports and leave a substan
tial surplus besides.
Observing that Great Britain thus will be
restored to her position as a creditor na
tion, the Guaranty Trust Company of New
York draws some noteworthy inferences
concerning our own newly established mer
chant marine. Evidently, it points out, keen
competition must be met by the ships of the
Stars and Stripes, and evidently their num
bers must be multiplied ere they will suffice
the needs of our ocean commerce. “The
American carrying trade to and from United
States ports showed a steady increase (in
tonnage) during the fiscal year ended June
30, 1920; but, during the same period, for
eign carrying trade to and., from our ports
increased at a more rapid rate than our
own trade, with the result that American
ships in July carried less than fifty per cent
of our total foreign commerce. American
ships carried about fifty-seven per cent of
our July trade with North America, about
fifty-five per cent of our trade with South
America and less than thirty per cent of our
trsde with Europe.”
These figures mean that while we are In
comparably better off than at the beginning
of the war, we still have much to do if we
would save the hundreds of millions of dol
lars drained from our industrial profits by
ocean freight charges and kindred expenses,
and if we would achieve that marine inde
pendence which it is so greatly to our in
terest to have. Let every possible encour
agement to the continued upbuilding of the
American merchant fleet be given.
Words and the Man
IT would be hard to find a more inter
esting revelation of personalities than
that of the two or three lines in
which Senator Harding, on the one hand,
and Governor Cox, on the other, recently
expressed themselves concerning' a great is
sue of the national campaign. Said the
Senator:
“I do not seek to control any man’s
views. My task is to so harmonize the
views of American leadership that we
shall, be able to adopt a policy in our
world relations to which Americans
will unitedly subscribe. In deliberate
public addresses I have given a clear
statement of my own suggestions for
our future international policy, and
you may read your answer therein.”
Said governor Cox:
“As soon as after March 4 ag pos
sible, if acting in your behalf, I will
recommend that we become a member
of the League. We will accept any
reservation that helps to clarify. We
will accept any reservation that helps
to reassure. We will help any reserva
tion that helps to strengthen. We will
accept any reservation which helps to
give the associated Powers a full un
derstanding, in good faith, of the lim
itations of our Constitution beyond
which we cannot go. The candidate of
the opposition is in favor of scrap
ping the League. I am not.”
Even if the matter in question were of
minor instead of major import, these two
utterances still would be of immense sig
nificance, for they show forth as plainly
as could a dramatist’s pen or a portrait
painter’s brush the world of difference be
tween a candidate who is talking to es
cape an issue and one who meets it with
plain speech born of conviction and pur
pose. Mr. Harding’s remarks mean noth
ing save in the setting which his political
associations give them. Governor Cox
speaks out in straightway American fash
ion, and with a seal thinker’s pithiness.
The difference between them is simply
that between an uneasy politician and
workmanly statesman.
The Republic of Thuringia
IN a land of gray castles and golden
traditions, „ where the minnesingers wan
dered ages ago and knighthood went
shining with lance and plume; where
Luther found refuge from the anger of
Rome, and Goethe dwelt—and Schiller and
Bach and Liszt; in that rich-harvested, rich
storied region folded in by mountains and
forests, there lately has come to pass one
of history’s happiest dreams. Seven of the
little States which parceled the territory,
and which long chafed under Prussian rule,
have united to form the Republic of
Thuringia.
It is a peculiarly interesting consumma>
tion. For long ages the Thuringian people
have kept undimmed their consciousness as
a sharply defined branch of the Teutonic
stock, tracing their ancestry back to a
blending of the Cherusker tribe with cer
tain invading Angles from the north, in
the dawn of the Christian' era. “Now at
last,” says Current History, “Thuringia,
long a cultural unity, becomes also a po
litical unity.” Repeatedly broached in the
last one hundred years, this ideal was re
peatedly disappointed. “It failed of achieve
ment both at the Vienna Congress following
the wars of liberation and in the fruitless
attempt to found the empire in 1848. The
Thuringian supreme court was founded at
Jena in 1817. This court was transformed
in 1879 into the National Supreme Court,
and won the participation even of Prussia.
The Thuringian districts in 1883 formed
themselves into the Thuringian Customs and
Tax Union as a provincial branch of the
German Customs Union. The Thuringian
High Court in 1912 was more or less of a
fiasco because three of the States withheld
their sanction.”
Toward the end of the World’s War,
however, the impulse for uitfty among the
several groups of this people found effec
tive channels, so that by the spring of 1918
it appeared foregone that a confederation
of some sort would result. But it was not
until the present year that the new repub
lic came formally into being. Its constitu
ent States are Weimar, Meinnigen, Reuss,
Altenburg, Gotha, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt,
and Schawrzburg-Sondershausen. Thus with
in the heart of Germany, and as an inte
gral part of that nation, has materialized
the hope which for centuries was in the
dreams of Thuringian patriots. It is a re
public within a republic, is this new feder
ation; and there can be little doubt that
its compact character will have marked in
fluence on outlying Germany.
THE JOURNAL’S LETTER BOX
“THE COTTON SITUATION”
Editor The Journal: I have just read
your editorial in yesterday’s Journal an the
“Cotton Situation” and I am writing you
to express, to you my appreciation of The
Journal’s support of the agricultural inter
ests of our state and a square deal for the
farmers in their efforts to get a fair price
for the 192 Q cotton crop. Yours very truly,
J. H. MILLS,
President.
October 4, 1920.
.TICS
By H. Addington Bruce
SHE did not need to tell • the neurologist
why she had consulted him. Even as
she entered his office and walked to
the chair he indicated, her head convulsively
jerked to one side two or three times.
“I have been to a number of doctors,” she
explained, “but they have been unable to do
anything to stop this distressing movement
of my head. I have vainly tried to stop it
myself by the exercise of will-power.
“Yet it does not seem to be the result of
any definite condition of disease. 1 feel in per
fect health, and the doctors have found nothing
the matter with me. So I have been sent to
you as a specialist in mental and nervous dis
eases.
“Though,” she added, with a pathetic little
smile, “1 do not think that 1 am nervous, and
1 certainly hope my mind is all right.”
The neurologist hastened to reassure her.
“Troubles like yours,” he said in effect, “are
habit movements, known as tics. They may re
sult as a consequence of pain, causing muscles
to be moved in a particular way to secure free
dom from discomfort. The original cause dis
appears, but the movement automatically per
sists.
Or, more commonly, tics may be the product
of some psychical rather than physical distress.
“A person is greatly distressed in mind by
some unpleasant occurrence or situation. The
natural tendency is to escape it. This may be
figuratively achieved by refusing to think ot
the distressing episode, by trying to thrust it
out of the mind, so to speak.
“But in the case of supersensitive people,
this only seems to fix it more firmly in the
mind. It may be consciously forgotten, but it
survives in the depths of the subconsciousness.
There it torments its victim, finding expression
in various ways, sometimes in the causing of a
tic, which symbolizes the repressed emotion.
“The tic may then continue until, by psycho
logical analysis, the incident responsible for it
is recalled to conscious remembrance. I suspect
that your tic is thus caused, and I want you to
co-operate in some mental probing.”
And, in fact, psychological analysis in this
case resulted in an interesting discovery.
The patient, a middle-aged woman,* had a
niece of whom she was very fond. The niece
became engaged to a foreigner, to the aunt’s
dismay. All marriages to foreigners, she be
lieved, were certain to turn out badly.
She could no longer bear to look at her niece
because of the grief she felt at the thought of
the fate anticipated for her. So when they
walked together she kept her head turned
away from the side on which her niece walked.
Thence, in time, had developed the tic for
which she now sought z cure.
As with her so with most victims of tics.
Their involuntary twitchings and movements
are usually the outward sign of some inner
emotional stress, past or present. And the cure
of the tic depends largely on the physician’s
ability to dig down to the root of the trouble.
Once the cause has been found the tic, in
deed, may disappear of its own accord.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
THE END OF THE VICIOUS
SPIRAL
By Dr. Frank Crane
A friend is the rarest jewel in the human
treasury.
The tie that binds you to him is pure
Liking, and Liking is far scarcer than Loving,
scarce as Love may be.
Liking is pure affinity.
It is spoiled by the entrance of any other
feeling.
For instance, any sort of Dependence is likely
to impair Friendship. Ideal Friends are usually
of the same station in life, so that one may
not expect advantage from the other.
Friendship is harmed by fear or favor.
Friendship is disturbed by Money. A wise
man does business mostly with strangers and
enemies.
Friendship is as a rule inconsistent with sex.
Between a man and a woman Friendship is
probably a delusion. Friendship is not often
found between man and wife; there may be
loyalty, passion— but Friendship is quite differ
ent from all these.
Friendship is incompatible with moral propa
ganda. It goes without saying that we want
no man for a friend that seeks to injure us,
but it is just as true that we want no friend
who is seeking to improve us.
Utter independence is essential to Friend
ship. In fact, it might be said that the basis
Os Friendship is Indifference. This does not
mean lack of sympathy, but it does mean entire
absence of meddling, regulating, proselyting.
It must have room to play. Hence Friendship
is difficult, not impossible, but rare, between
Lover and lass,
Man and wife,
Parent and child
Employer and employed,
Officer and subaltern.
Master and servant.
Merchant and customer
Teacher and pupil,
And the like.
Do not fall into loose thinking here. And
io not deny the above statement too quickly,
and say that very real Friendship often does
exist in the relations cited.
For, while it is true that there is possible
and practical the most delightful harmony, co
operation, justice and even affection and loy
alty between teacher and pupil, parent and
child, and in the other cases, mentioned, re
member that we are talking abount Friendship,
and for the calm, strong, and unchanging feel
ing called Friendship a certain detachment and
independence is necessary.
Friendship is perhaps the rarest as it is the
most exquisite flower in the- human garden.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes.
Comiskey has put to his credit the most
remarkable play in the history of the
game by retiring eight men. on a foul
ball.—New York Evening Post.
A gun-trop in a Kingston orchard went
off and shot a boy who was stealing ap
ples. Had this gun-trap system prevailed
years ago, the world might have lost some
of its greatest men.—Montreal Star.
Now that woman has the vote, politi
cians are trying to make a hit with every
Miss.—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
The Paris police have brought to an
abrupt end the career of a couple named
Taintor, believed to be American, who, after
spending the season at Aix-les-Bains, syste
matically victimising shopkeepers and pay
ing their hotel and other bills with worth
less checks, returned to Paris to repeat
these operations.
They put up at an expensive hotel in
the Champs Elysees, and hired a luxurious
motor car, in which the wife, a very pretty
woman, invariably stylishly dressed, made
daily rounds in the most fashionable shop
ping quarters, where she ordered dresses,
other clothes and jewelry to the value of
over twenty thousand dollars to be sent to
their hotel. The items included a glove bill
for eight hundred dollars..
Her victims included the hotel parter,
who offered to pay her motor car bill one
day when the woman declared that she
had insufficient ready money on her. The
bill was $3 5. When the banks refused to
honor their checks the police were advised
and the couplea rrrested. —Paris Correspon
dence London Daily Express.
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
VII. THE TAYLOR-CASS
VAN BUREN RACE OF 1848
▼tt ASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 24.
Once more the Whigs put
’ V their faith in a war hero,
+ . .u and for the second and last
time they were victorious. Zachary
Taylor was nominated because he
was the popular hero of the war
with Mexico. It mattered not that
he had never cast a vote in his life
and had never taken any interest in
politics. it mattered not that the
war in which he won glory and re
nown was condemned by tne Whigs
as a crime against civilization. It
mattered not that he was a southern
slaveholder when northern Whigs
were beginning to battle every day
against the extension of slavery. It
mattered not that Henry Clay, the
leader of the Whigs, again wanted
the nomination from bis party. Noth
ing mattered except that the Whigs
wanted to win, that they had won
in 1840 with a war hero and an al- t
literative slogan, and that/they could'
do it again. Thus to General Har
rison and “Tippecanoe and Tyler,
too’’ was added General Taylor and
“Old Rough and Ready.” These
were the only men the Whig party
ever put in the White House, and it
is remarkable that they are the only
two presidents who have died in of
fice of natural causes.
eve ? L he h ear ty attractiveness
of General ’laylor, the freshness of
his war-won laurels, the magic of
the memory of Buena Vista, none of
these things would have availed to
defeat the Democrats had it not been
tor the factional party fight in New
York state, which ultimately resulted
in the formation of the Free Soil
Democratic party and the candidacy
ot Martin Van Buren for president,
van Buren did not carry a single
state, but he got a sufficient num
ber of votes to take more than one
state away from the Democratic can
didate and give its electoral vote to
General Taylor.
The Democratic national conven
tion met that year in Baltimore on
May 22. The nomination for presi
dent was a race between Lewis,Cass,
of Michigan, and James Buchanan,
of Pennsylvania. Cass was nomi
nated on the fourth ballot without
difficulty. But th© great fight in
the convention was not over the
nominations, it was upon the status
of the two contesting delegations
from New York.
The Barn-Burners
There they were, Samuel J. Tilden,
later the leader of the national De
mocracy, as spokesman and advo
cate for the Barn-burners, and Dan
iel E. Sickles, the orator for the
Hunkers. Then only twenty-three
years old, Sickles was already a
member of the legislature and a lead
er in the Hunker, or conservative,
wing of the Democratic party in New
Y,ork.
The Barn-burners were liberal
Democrats, whose name was given
to them because of the similarity of
their doctrines in politics to the
economy of the Dutch farmer, who
burned his 1 barn to get rid of the
rats. Some authorities, not friendly,
assert that the name was derived
from the depredations of certain per
sons in western New York, not un
like the Kentucky night-riders of
more recent fame. The Hunkers
were the conservatives, who believed
in standing by the party, whatever
betide. “Hunker” is New York
Dutch-English for “hanker,” which is
akin to “hunger,” and the name was
applied to those of the Democrats
whose desire for the possession of
office was more remarkable than
their “hunger and thirst after right
eousness.”
A Bitter Convention
Barn-burners and Hunkers came
down to Baltimore, each swearing
death against the other. Behind the
Barn-burners was the awful shadow
of Martin Van B# ren, who had been
the head of the greatest Democratic
political machine the party had pos
sessed. The party had defeated him
for renomination four years previous
ly by the imposition of the two-thirds
rule, and by permitting delegates to
disregard instructions. Hhis friend,
Silas Wright, had declined the .vice
presidential nomination in 1844, but
had saved the day by running for
governor of New York, and lining up
the Van Buren strength for the Polk
ticket. Two years later, in 1846,
Wright nad been defeated for re
election as governor, and the blame
was laid on the Hunkers. Van Buren
and his friends wanted revenge.
The Baltimore convention was un
able to decide between these bitter
factions, and therefore voted to seat
both delegations, giving a half vote
to each. Both sides declined to ac
cept the compromise and refused to
vote in the convention. When Lewis
Cass had oeen nominated for presi
dent and William O. Butler for vice
president, young Dan Sickles jumped
to his feet to promise the vote of
New York for the nominees, making
an impassioned speech which brought
the attention of the whole country
to him.
But the Barn-burners went home
sore, it was not long until the Free
Soil movement was under way. Mar
tin Van Buren became its candidate
for president and Charles Francis
Adams was nominated for vice pres
ident. The Abolition party was swal
lowed up in it. It was the ttrst con
siderable movement toward the
wrecking of the old non-sec.tional
parties and hastening the inevitable
Civil war. And when the votes were
counted, General Taylor was elected
and Martin Van Buren had his re
venge.
General Taylor was nominated at
the Whig national convention in
Philadelphia. Governor Morehead, of
North Carolina, was president of the
convention and it became his duty to
inform the candidates that they had
been nominated. It was before the
days of compulsory prepayment ot
postage and Governor Morehead sent ,
the letter to General Taylor's address
in Louisiana, postage collect.
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
Isn’t it nice to be back, where the
shaded electrics glow,
Whispering gossip or love, while the
violins sweet and low
Swing to the old refrains! Meeting
the people you know,
Chatting of this and that, watching
the Passing Show!
That, for the call of the wild! That,
for the song of the sea!
Sweeter the voice of the Town, call
ing to you and me!
Siren of silk and light, frolic and
filligree,
OH, but it’s nice to be back —flirting,
again, at TEA!
Somehow, marriage seems to take
all the romance out of a girl’s beau
tiful dream of darning a man’s
socks!
A man actually occupies only
about six feet of space; but when he
hangs around the house, Sunday
mornings, he manages to fill all the
rooms and the garden and then spill
over.
When you tell a man that a girl
has “common sense,” he always pic
tures her as the kind who would
keep her husband’s old love-letters,
his insurance policy and her decree
of divorce, all in the same safety
vault.
"For better or for worse,” is not
an idle phrase in the marriage cere
mony. A man always turns out to
be either a lot better or a lot worse,
than you ever suspected, before mar
riage.
The most difficult feat of a girl’s
life is to assume that look of glad
surprise, that a man expects when
he proposes to her. He is so aston
ished at himself that he naturally
expects her to be!
Men will never be cured of their
vanity, so long as the moment a girl
turns one of them down, another girl
is ready to rush right out and "pick
him up,” agaim
A woman’s faith is never lost—but
it is often dreadfully misplaced.
CURRENT EVENTS
Ten gamblers made at least $250,-
000 as a result of bribing members of
the Chicago American baseball team
in the 1919 world series, says a state
ment by Abe Attell, former feather
weight champion, whose name has
frequently been mentioned in connec
tion with the Chicago investigation.
“There is a master mind who
evolved and operated the entire
scheme,” said Attell. "Os course, he
was assisted by several others. His
name and their names I know, but
I do not care to reveal them at the
present time. .Later I shall give
names and particulars.”
A plan of the Industrial Workers
of the World to inaugurate a period
of terrorism in the northwest with
in twenty days, is charged by Con
gressman Albert Johnston, of the
Third Washington district, Washing
ton, in a statement commenting on
anonymous leters received by the
Seattle police and federal authorities
bearing the warning that radicals are
planning to blow up financial institu
tions and buildings in Tacoma, Port
land and Seattle.
Passengers or crews of vessels are
not allowed to go ashore at Puerto
. Barrios, Guatemala, because of yel
low fever in the interior, it is an
nounced at New Orleans. Passengers
from Guatemala will be accepted on
steamships only' when from Guate
i mala City and upon presentation of
health certificates issued at the cap-
■ ital.
Lack of sufficient dock laborers is
hurting the shipping interests of
Brunswick, Ga. There has been
freight piled on the docks for sever
al days that should have been shipped
into the interior, but could not be
moved for lack of labor. There is
enough labor, but the trouble seems
to be the men simply do not care to
work regularly. There are now more
ships in port than have been in some
time, and it seems to be a question
of more work than willing workers.
A British mission will leave shortly
for Brazil to study the districts
where cotton is growing with a view
’ to recommending the formation of
British companies to stimulate the
development of Brazil’s cotton in
dustry, according to advices to the
department of commerce from Lon
don. Transportation facilities also
will be investigated.
Ten thousand criminal cases were
recorded in Vienna in the year 1919,
against 1,674 in 1910. The prisons
are so crowded that It has become a
• scandal and the dockets so extended
as to lead the public prosecutor to
recommend that all in which
conviction would not involve more
than five years’ imprisonment be
quashed. It is said that many of the
cases cannot be reached for years.
The judicial machinery of the state
is wholly inadequate to cope with the
situation.
Many hundred Germans from Po
land and the Russian border states
arrive every week at the Dutch sta
tions in Holland and cross the border
with a view to embarking at Rotter
dam for the United States. If their
passports are right the Dutch fron
tier guards do pot stop them.
Seventy-eight fire alarms were
' turned in here within twenty-four
hours, in Birmingham, Ala., last Fri
day. In many instances the firemen
had barely completed their work in
one place before rushing to another.
High winds, which scattered sparks
from furnaces, industrial plants and
locomotives, were given as the cause
for most of the fires. The loss is
estimated at SBO,OOO.
Under the direction of the Eighty
second Division association, southern
veterans of the famous unit of the
A. E. F. will gather in Atlanta far an
informal reunion on October 9, the
second anniversary of one of the
hottest combats in the Argonne bat
tle in which the division was en
gaged.
Girls in search of husbands, gather
around! California, in announcing
her latest vital statistics, boasts of
261,340 piore males than females.
And California’s men are apparently
healthy and long-lived, for 58 per
cent of them are sixty-five years and
older.
New York City’s new rent laws,
which were Signed by Governor
Smith a few days ago, have nullified
100.000 eviction proceedings pending
in the courts, abolished "moving day
until November, 1922, and have ‘ put
the city marshals out of business.
There will be no moving day until
November, 1922, unless, of course,
tenants desire to move. The new
laws will keep the tenants in thir
present homes. The 100.000 eviction
notices sent out have been wiped out
as if they had never existed, and
therefore city marshals who have
been reaping a harvest from eviction
cases suddenly find themselves de
prived of their lucrative gold mine.
Floods said to be w'orse than any
recorded in China in the last twen
ty years in the district north of
Nanchang are reported to be sub
siding after having devastated a
wide area.
People of the districts flooded
were on the verge of starvation. The
district that has suffered most ex
tends northward from Nanchang
along the east bank of the Kan
river to Poyang lake. At one time
the streets of Nanchang were un
der water. It is estimated that about
one hundred persons lost their lives
in the floods.
A derelict, apparently the wreck
age of a large vessel, has been sight
ed in the steamship lane off the
Grand Banks, Novia Scotia, fishing
vessels report. Near the wreck were
two damaged dories. The identity of
the ship was not obtainable.
There now are 90,952 persons who
own United States steel common
stock, according to the totals made
up by the transfer office on the clos
ing of the' books, August 30, for
the last quarterly dividend. This is
"a new high record as compared with
87.229 stockholders as shown by the
books in June last. The average
holdings of the stock is less than
56 shares. The number of steel com
mon stockholders has doubled in
the last three years. The majority
hold the stock purely for invest
ment.
Leprosy apparently has been con
quered by officers of the United
States public health service in the
leper colony at Kalihi, Hawaii. For
ty-eight sufferers who have been
subjected to a new method of treat
ment,,have recovered to such extent
as to warrant their parole and,
after a year, not one has shown a
symptom of recurrence.
As yet, no announcement of a
“cure” has been made officially for
some of the government medical ex
perts are frankly skeptical of the
results. The limit of the official
claim is set forth in a joint report
by Dr. J. T. McDonald, director of
the Leprosy Investigation station,
and by President A. L. Dean, of
the University of Hawaii.
Lieutenant Belvin W. Maynard,
the “flying parson,” who won the
transcontinental air race under dra
matic circumstances last year, has
abandoned the lecture platform to
become an aviator again. He is
operating a passenger carrying air
plane on Long Island, in Queens,
and commenced a successful day
yesterday by carrying ten passen
gers.
News from Coblenz, Germany,
says the American forces in Ger
many will have an aviation unit in
operation within the next few
weeks. The newest ty »■ of United
States army airplanes, i veloped re
cently in America, have been ship
ped to Germany and a group of
aviators already has arrived. The
unit will become an active part of
the Rhine forces.
Discovery of crude petroleum in
several shallow wells that have just
been drilled near Mier, Mexico, two
miles from the Rio Grande and 120
miles down stream from Laredo,
Tex., has caused considerable ex
citement. Many American oil opera
tors have gone to the locality and
large areas of land there have been
leased for oil exploration and ex
ploitation purposes.
• Ninety persons were killed by
motor vehicles in New York city in
September. Included in this death
list were fifty children, none over
the age of thirteen.
Even the bees tries to help cut
down the cost of living in 1919,
when the average amount of honey
to . the colony of bees was fifty
pounds.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1920.
THERE are some people who are
self starters. There are oth
ers who have to be cranked
up in order to make them go.
The most interesting and mysteri
ous thing in the world is that little
quirk in the human brain that gives
to an individual the ability to see
even a tiny crack open in the'door of
opportunity, and the initiative to get
his toe into it, and the strength and
energy to push his way through. It
is what makes generals out of sol
diers in the ranks, and merchant
princes out of office boys, and great
writers and actors out of boys and
girls who grow up on lonely farms
in remote places, where they have
none of. the so-called advantages of
education.
Run over the list of the people who
are doing the big things in the world
today, and you will find that they are
the people that one would least have
expected to be doing them. A Welsh
miner and a school teacher are at the
head of the most powerful govern
ments in the world. Two poor coun
try lads who started life between the
corn furrows of the middle west are
contending for the presidency of the
United States. A trained butcher
has become the greatest inventor that
ever lived. * Our richest man earned
his first money by sweeping out a
store, and sleeping behind the coun
ter.
I know a man who is worth millions.
He landed in this country with only
10 cents in his pocket. He could not
speak English. He was barely able
to read and write in his 6wn lan
guage. He apparently differed in no
way from the hundreds of other im
migrants with whom he came over,
yet he lives in a palace, and rides
by them in his limousine as they
sweat and toil at the manual labor
wffiich they are still doing.
This man was a self; starter. t>o
are all the others who succeed. They
have vision. They can see the thing
that is to be done, and they have the
pep to go to it, .and put a punch in
their work. They are not afraid to
take risks, or to trust their judg
ments.
Nobody ever has to tell the man
and woman who are self starters how
to do things. They know it for them
selves. And if one way fails, they
can always think of another, because
they are simply boujtd to go. That’s
what they were made for.
But, when all is said, if nature
doesn’t turn us out self starters, we
are not to be blamed for it. Those
who never see their chances until
they have gone by are no more re
sponsible for their lack of foresight
than is a blind man for not being
able to see his why along the street.
Those who have rickety judgments,
and who decide every problem wrong,
are as much to be pitied as the crip
ple who stumbles and falls over every
obstacle. Even the lazy and listless,
who do their work half-heartedly, are
probably as little to be censured as
are those who are born with a physi
cal weakness.
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New Questions
1. —Do snakes have lungs?
2. —I am corresponding with a
young lady who always puts a cross
under her name in signing her let
ters. Can you tell me the meaning
of this?
3. —When did Steve Brodie jump
off the Brooklyn bridge?
4. —When Alaska was bought from
Russia was .the whole sum paid in
cash or in part by a sale of war
ships?
5. —Was castor oil used in airplane
motors during the war?
6. —Which animal was the first to
be domesticated?
7. —Who coined the expression,
“While there’s life there’s hope?”
8. —Can you tell me about the per
sons who have risked or lost their
lives in Niagara Falls, and the Rapids
below them?
9. Why are mountpeaks cold?
10. —Could you tell me all the can
didates running for the presidency
and vice presidency, and the parties
they represent?
Questions Answered
1. —Q. What .is the largest steer
known?
A. What is claimed to be the big
gest steer in the world is a 3,500-
pound shorthorn in Ontario, named
Sir Douglas Haig.
2. Q. How far is it across the
United States?
A. The distance varies from 2,152
miles to 2,807 -jniles.
3. —Q. When was Frank James in
prison?
A. After Jesse James’ death, Frank
surrendered and was held in jail in
Missouri awaiting trial for more
than a year. He was never con
victed of any charge, however, and
spent the last thirty years of his life
as a farmer.
4. —Q. How deep is Salt Lake, in
Utah, and what is its area?
A. Great Salt Lake, which occu
pies a shallow depression has an
average depth of less than twenty
feet. It is said that the changes
in area of the lake are due to the
fluctuations in rainfall. In 1850 the
area was 1,750 square miles. In
1869 it" had Increased to 2,170 square
miles. Since 1869 and 1870 the lake
has been gradually receding. One
cause of the diminishing of the
waters is the amount used for irri
gation, and a second cause is the
fact that the amount of water con
tributed to the lake by the 'inlets
has decreased.
5. Q. What were the dimensions
of Solomon’s Temple?
A. Thd records are given in cubits.
The length of the Hebrew cubit is
AMERICAN INVENTIONS
HELPED WIN THE WAR
The part which American inventive
genius played in helping to win
the war is for the first time made
known through the publication by
the navy department of the official
story of the work of the naval con
sulting board, the organization of
distinguished scientists and invent
ors, of w’hich Thomas A. Edison
was head.
Long before this county entered
the war the naval consulting board
was brought into being as a means
of studying new problems of mod
ern warfare, and, if possible, meet
ing these problems with new devices.
In course of time the board be
came the clearing house for new
ideas, not only from its own mem
bers but from the public, and its
work along these lines constitutes
one of the most remarkable chap
ters in the history of American in
vention.
The story of what was accomplish
ed is told by Captain Lloyd N.
Scott, formerly of the inventions
section of the army general staff,
who was assigned to act as liaison
officer to the naval consulting board
and its war committee of technical
experts. It comprises a volume of
288 pages, with a large number of
charts and other illustrations show
ing some of the principal inventions
and devices actually turned out. Os
course, the record is not complete.
As pointed out by the secretary of
the navy, in a foreword, some of
the inventions were of such impor
tance that they, “must still be held
confidential.”
“Everyone expected that the board
would evolve some invention that
would conquer the central powers
with one fell swoop,” remarks Cap
tain Scott. “Had the war lasted
another year an important and confi
dential device not described herein
would have probably justified this
expectation, in a degree at least;
and other devices evolved by the
board, such as wireless controlled
bombs, devices for the automatic in
troduction of all the factors in the
aiming of machine guns on airplanes,
as well as others, gave promise of
such results.”—New York Evening
Journal
DOROTHY_DIX TALKS
SELF-STARTERS AND OTHERS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright. 1920. by the Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.)
It is a pity, though, that parents
do not study their children, and real
ize this difference between them,
that some of them are self starters
and others must be cranked up. This
would save a lot of people from be
coming failures, for, after all, the
cranked-up car goes very satisfac
torily when once somebody has put
it in motion.
The boy and girl who can think
of rew ways to play, who are always
inventing games, and who can al
ways offer a different explanation
for their raids upon the cooky jar,
need no help. They are self-starters,
and will get away under their own
power.
But the boy and girl who always
follow, and never lead, in thr'r
play; who always say, “what cr I
do now?” “where sb" 11 Igo r /’
who have not ingenuity enough X ll
to invent a plausible lie, nt / to
be definitely trained for som/ one
specific occupation in life. They are
the ones who must, be cranked up and
set in motion by some hand from
the outside. They have no power
within themselves to achieve things.
Left to his own devices, that kind
of a boy drifts around from ill
paid job to ill-paid job, because he
is never worth much of an employ
er’s money. He has not the initia
tive to go to night -school, or a tech
nical school, or to learn how to do
his job from those among whom
he works, as the self-starter boy
has.
Or if he inherits a little money, he
starts a business with it and goes
broke within a year or two, because
it is impossible for him to compote
with the self-starters.
These boys, however, might have
achieved success if their parents
had recognized their limitations and
had them trained to do some par
ticular line of work well, for their
very lack of enterprise makes them
invaluable in places where patient,
methodical drudging and attention
to detail is necessary.
Every young man starting out to
seek his fortune does well to apply
the acid test to himself and find
out whether he is a self-starter or
ndt, and if he is not, to hitch his
wagon to a big firm, where some fi
nancial genius will do the cranking
and pull him along to prosperity.
He will make far more money than
he ever will in trying to go his own
way alone.
The woman who has daughters
will not need to help the self-start
ers get married. They are born with
the come-hither look in their eyes
that makes even dead men get up
and follow them, but there are other
daughters who will make admirable
wives and mothers, who need all the
help that a managing mother can
give them if they are ever to own a
weddir.g ring.
It’s a great thing to be a self
starter, and the next best thnig it,
> have someone to crank you up
and get you along, if you aren’t.
supposed to have been a scant 18
inches, and according to this meas
ure, an authority says the whole
building was 120 feet long' and 60
feet wide. The porch was 15 feaj>
wide and extended across the front
of the building. The rpain build
ing consisted of the holy place (30x
60 feet) and the holy of holies wai
30x30 feet—a perfect cube.
6. Q. Can a person take gold to a
United States mint and have it coined
into money?
A. The office of the director of
mint; says that a person may take
gold of any kind to a United States
Mint and he will be paid for ft in
gold coin, or by check that is pay
able in gold if he so desires. Mints,
however, are not required by law to
accept gold from individuals in
smaller quantities than SIOO in val
ue. This gold is paid for at the rate
of $20.67 an ounce of pure gold. «
7. —Q. Where were the Pillars cf
Hercules? *
- A. Two hills on opposite sides of
the Strait of Gibraltar were calle<>
the Pillars of Hercules following a
myth to the effect that they had been
torn asunder by Hercules to admit
the flow of the ocean into the Med
iterranean.
8. —Q. how many Illiterates ara
there in the United States?
A. The Bureau of Education says
that there are five and a half million
people over,ten years of age in this
country who can* neither read nor
write.
9. —Q. What books did Lincoln
read when educating himself?
A. There is little material to show
exactly what Abraham Lincoln read,
but there is evidence that the Bible,
certain of Shakespeare’s plays, Rob
inson Crusoe, the statutes of Indi
ana, the Constitution of the United
States, Weems’ Life of Washington,
the poems of Robert Burns and "Pil
grim’s Progress" were Included In
the list.
10. —Q. Why does Venice haw*
streets of water?
A. Venice is built upon Islands
A. Venice is built upon islands
tants of neighboring cities during
attacks by barbarians. Its strategic
advantage was so great that many
fugitives remained and the lagoona
which separated the islands were the
natural streets. These islands were
formed from the silt and debrie
brought down by rivers, and the sol!
is an oozy mud that makes building
difficult. Roadbeds would be ex
tremely difficult to make, while
canals are obviously easy to con
struct and maintain.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
Smithson? met his pal Johnson in
the street .the other day. After ex
changing; greetings Smithson asked
Johnson if he could advise him which
horse in tomorrow’s races it would
be worth while backing.
Johnston stood for a moment think
ing. “You back Loose Button, old
chap.”
Smithson thanked him and went
on his way.
Two days later both pals happen
ed to meet again. “Loose
won!” exclaimed Smithson excitedly,
Johnson answered him quietly;
“Yes, I thought it would dome off.**
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
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Copyright. 1920 by McClurje New»p»per SyndtcM*