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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoftice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthsll.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By. Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 WJ.I Vo. 3 Mot. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday2oc 80c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 10c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30e .00 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published 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 thome and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall, Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling • representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label u«ed for addressing your paper ahowa the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular aervice. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURN AL, Atlanta, Ga. 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. 'luj .......... ... . ... il lK.uUi. 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. ' * 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 parson talkin' bout A GOOD name k IS MO’ BETTUH'n GRET PICHES BUT IT DON' PEAH LAK MAH GOOD NAME IS DOIN' ME SO VE'Y MUCH GOOD !_J- cJgfr ■’aWib Copyright. 1920 by McClurje New»p»per SyndtcM*