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The Waning of Rural America
FEW developments of the past decade
in America are more significant than
the turning of the balance of popu
lation from countryside and village to more
or less crowded centers. The tendency long
has been in that direction, but as recently
as 1910 fifty-four per cent of this nation’s
inhabitants dwelt under quiet country skies.
Now considerably more than half live in
cities of twenty-five hundred and upwards.
While the increase in urban population has
been at the rate of twenty-five and two
tenths per cent during the last ten years,
that of rural population has been only three
and four-tenths per cent. The cityward drift
which, a few generations back, ran like a
meadow stream, has swollen to a river’s im
petus.
Is it not inevitable, if this trend continues,
that its economic and social effects will
work profound changes in the nation’s life?
Already we see a declining supply and a
mounting cost of divers necessaries, in con
sequence of the movement away from the
soil. While of most food staples this is but
relatively true—that is, the gain in produc
tion, though appreciable, has not kept pace
with the increase in population—there have
been recent periods of absolute decline in
the output of important farm products. With
the inducement of war prices, there came
marked increases# accentuated by the prog
ress of diversified farming in the South. But
it cannot be expected that a passing stimulus
like this will conteract a steady dwindling
of the ranks of farm labor and the adding
of millions to the cities. The problem of food
supply, which looms grimly behind this state
of affairs, may not become acute in the near
future. Improved methods of agriculture
undoubtedly can do much to increase the
average yield, and machinery can go far to
ward offsetting a shortage of hands; ulti
mately, however, the gap between demand
and supply will yawn like a gulf of Dives,
unless more man-power is turned to making
food for the multiplying millions.
Woven in with these economic currents
are social reactions of far-reaching conse
quence. An America whose sinews are
formed and whose thoughts are bred amid
a densely populated and intensified indus
trial environment needs must be different
from the America w r hose ideals so long were
dominated from the wide reaches of rural
life. To the extent that the change would
mean a larger consciousness of common in
terests and a keener efficiency for co-work
ing, its effect would be distinctly construc
tive; for while industrialism lays a doom
ful hand on much that is picturesque and
deservedly cherished, it does make for a cer
tain new breadth and effectiveness of the
social impulses, and thereby quickens the pace
of human progress. But could not such
gains just as well be secured through rural
channels, and without many of the ills now
accompanying them, if the countrysides were
peopled in fair proportion to the 'cities and
were as well provided with schools, domestic
conveniences and facilities for social contact?
Il it not thus, indeed, that the problem can
best be solved? The drift to crowded cen
ters has sundry causes, but none more im
pelling than a desire for neighborly mingling,
tor better educational facilities, for freer
communication, and for a bit of diversion’s
spice. All these can be had in the'country,
if the movement to put them there be strong
and sustained enough. And with their en
richment and cheer added to the basic advan
tages of rural life, a return to the soil will
become most likely. However it might be in
those regions which already are highly urban
ized, the South, which is still predominantly
rural, in population, can be kept so by no
other means than the development of schools
.and highways and other forces that make
life on the farmstead humanly engaging.
The South in the Census
THAT the census returns announced
from time to time for months past
have made a fine impression for the
-outh in other parts of the country is in
dicated by such comments as this, from the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
“The census returns exhibiting the pros
perity and growth of the south, as pre
sented in figures showing an increase in
all populations of multitudinous towns of
all sizes, have been presented daily and
impressively. Special exhibits more eloquent
on the same subject are coming to hand.
One of them is the increase in automobile
registration. In that section are recorded
the greatest gains this year of the entire
country. North Carolina stands first with
fifty-one per cent more registered motor
cars than it had last year, and South
Carolina comes second with 43 per cent.
Other southern states show remarkable
gains.”
Progress which the south makes in the
opinion of other sections is bound to be
gratifying to southerners, and is bound to
be reflected in further prosperity and
progress, as the nation at large realizes the
resources of the south, its possibilities and
opportunities.
One cannot help the conviction, however,
that what the south is getting it deserves.
The south has waited long for it, labor
ing as it did for fifty years to overcome
the ruin wrought by war. Only in recent
years has she regained the prestige which
should always have been hers in agricul
ture, industry and commerce generally.
That the south at last has entered on an
*poch of bounty should be a sosurce of tin
r.Vdish congratulation and genuine joy for
Ufee east and west as well.
A Call for Co-operation to Tide
Ovar the Cotton Crisis
THE esnference of bankers and busi
ness men to be held in Atlanta on
Friday to consider means for steady
ing the disturbed cotton situation bids fair
to yield substantial results. Those who are
to participate are men of broad outlook.
iong accustomed to co-operation for the
public good. They see plainly that an en
forced sale of the cotton crop at present
prices would be unfair to all farmers, dis
astrous to many, and extremely unfor
tunate for the entire South. Moreover, they
realize that the one way to relief and re
assurance lies in the earnest co-working
of all concerned, particularly the growers,
the merchants and the bankers. It is • to be
expected accordingly that the plans of the
Atlanta conference will be directed chief
ly to this important end.
Nor can it be doubted that such co
working, if thorough and persistent, will
save the day. It is not a permanent prob
lem but an emergency which confronts the
cotton producer and the manifold interests
that thrive or suffer according to his
state. Every pound of cotton which this
lean season brought forth is needed, and
in time will be demanded at something
like a reasonable price. If, then, the in
terval of sluggishness which now depresses
the market can be tided over, it is fore
gone that cotton will sell appreciably above
the cost of its production, or at least at a
figure which will not leave the grower
empty-handed for all his toil.
But this emergency cannot be met by
mere railing at the universe. It cannot be
met by acts of violent folly, such as the
burning of gin houses, or by sullen re
fusal to join in a general, well-considered
movement for relief. It can be met only by
thoughtful and united effort in the com
mon cause. That the rank and file of
farmers so view the situation and are
ready to do their part is not to be doubt
ed, • despite an occasional outburst of
worse than futile anger. It is through con
ferences like the one to be held in At
lanta on Friday that business men and
bankers can demonstrate their own readi
ness to co-operate. Theirs is the peculiarly
important work of see ; ng to it, as far as
they can, that credit accommodations for
this time of stress are provided. It goes
without saying that no right-minded man
asks such aid fcr the holding of cotton
for speculative purposes. Simple justice and
stark necessity are the Sole grounds upon
which financial assistance now is sought
in behalf of cotton producers and the great
business fabric of which they are the foun
dation.
They claim no special privilege out only
the right to a square deal under the law
of supply and demand. They hold as the
fruit of their labor a basic commodity
which is worth, according to every stand
ard of values for other staples, much more
than the momentary market price and
which, according to competent judges, has
cost the producer more than he is now of
fered. Surely, in these circumstances, it is
not only a legitimate but imperative func
tion of banking to supply such aid a& its
available resources and its other obliga
tions warrant, to save sound industry and
sound business from imminent sacrifice.
As the backbone of a great part of the
country’s banking strength the Federal
Reserve system naturally is called upon to
prove its usefulness at this juncture; and
any narrowly conceived policy which kept
it from doing so would be unjust to the
system itself as well as to the public in
terests it was established to serve. It
should be carefully noted, however, that
the Federal Reserve system, no matter
how liberal its policy might be, cannot
render due service so long as a large
number of State banks remain out of its
membership and thereby lose its invaluable
support in meeting the needs of their
customers and communities. Banks at the
big centers of business, which are mem
bers of the Reserve system, will do their
best, we assume, to tide the South over
her emergency. But they alone, tasked as
they are vffth sundry other obligations,
cannot meet a multitude of special de
mands. But if State banks which are out
of the Federal system will come in, the
means of assistance for crises like the
present will be far more adequate and
more effectively distributed.
Co-operation such as the Atlanta con
ference is expected todevelop will put heart
and hope into these dubious times. It will
array in a saving phalanx all the inter
ests involved, from the grower to the sup
ply merchant and from the supply mer
chant to the centers of business and bank
ing. It will reassure the present and
abundantly safeguard the future. Let there
be no shirking and no lagging in so great
and good a cause.
Mr. Hardwick's Election
THE run-over primary for the Governor
ship has brought to an end a long
and peppery course of Georgia poli
tics. Since early spring the pot has been
boiling with all manner of candidates and
issues—Presidential, Senatorial, Gubernato
rial and whatnot. Surely they who relish
such excitement have supped full, and a e
ready now for the ways of quiet constructive
ness. Mr. Hardwick’s victory in the second
contest should serve as such a cue to all con
cerned, regardless of what has gone before.
Why he won is/now of less moment than
what he will do. Some will argue that he
was elected because of his opposition to the
League Covenant and to other important
policies of the Wilson administration. Far
be it from us to debate that now fruitless
question; but it is cur own opinion that
those issues played at most a minor part.
(Certainly they were ill understood and wer«
not judged upon their merits). Much
more appealing to the mass of voters,
it would seem, was Mr. Hardwick’s aggres
siveness against a Georgia political ring
that represented the narrowest and bitterest
factionism, that fought with conscienceless
slander and abuse, that was rooted in things
reactionary despite eleventh-hour liberal pro
fessions, that was identified with forces no
different in nature from those which have
made the Republican party a rendezvous for
seekers of privilege, a ring that once ruled
the State with rods of iron, that was fight
ing again for control of the political ma
chinery in its selfish interests, and that was
obviously incapable of efficient, progressive
service to the people. Mr. Hardwick, it so
happened, was pitted against that clique and
profited thereby, just as Hon. Clifford
Walker, estimable gentleman though he is.
became its victim.
It scarce need be said that The Journal
has never approved Mr. Hardwick’s course
during the later season of his Senatorial
term, that it has differed radically from his
ideas on the League of Nations, and that its
judgment on those matters remains, as far
as principles are concerned, unchanged. But
that he has been unfailingly outspoken, un
failingly courageous in maintaining his views,
howsover unpopular at the time, and un
failingly stanch as a fighter, no frank ob
server will gainsay. He will take up the
duties of the Governorship with a great ma
jority of the people behind him as his sup
porters in the recent campaign; and with
virtually all behind him. we doubt not. in
his every effort to serve and unbuildd the
Commonwealth. His task will be highly dif
ficult because the affairs of the State, espe
cially its finances, are in an unprecedentedly
EXERCISE IN MOODS
■ By H. Addington Bruce
IF you want to avoid moodiness —surly irri
tability, an unsocial taciturnity, feelings of
depression, etc.—one of the best helps you
can find is to take bodily exercise with reg
ularity.
The development of will power and deliberate
cultivation of cheerfulness are, of course, in
valuable to all who would cure themselves of a
recurring tendency to moody words and ways.
But so is a systematic improvement of the vital
processes through exercise. This for a reason
plainly hinted in Dearborn’s summary of exer
cise’s good effects:
“Benefit is derived because of an increased
development of the blood-lymph circulation;
?f respiration; of digestion; of nervous con
trol; of the musculature, and through the va
riety afforded both mind and body. Phyiscal
exercise, in a word, brightens up the metabolic
fires of the whole organism.”
In fact, if moody people will only give some
thought to their attacks of moodiness they
will find that these usually occur during or
just after digestive troubles, a slowing down of
the circulation, imperfect elimination, or a gen
eral physical “loginess.”
That is to say, they then are suffering from
an ennui of body as well as of mind. And
often their ennui of mind, finding expression
in moodiness, is but a reflection of the bodily
ennui that oppresses them without their being
clearly aware of it.
Exercise is the best of all medicines for
this, brisk exercise taken preferably in the
open air and in a form that makes a strong ap
peal in point of being interesting.
From personal experience everybody occasion
ally knows the salutary influence exerted on
the mind by the organic feeling of well-being
produced by a brisk and not overlong walk or
game of golf. One comes indoors glowing
physically and also glowing with sentiments of
good-will. '
The moody need to make practical applica
tion of this fact habitually.
Instead of sitting about grumbling and glow
ering, they need to get outslors, and move
around in order to stimulate the organs of
circulation, respiration, digestion, and elimina
tion, the sluggishness of which is often the
basic cause of their moodiness. And they need
to do this not occasionally, but daily, so that
they may permanently keep at a high level
their metabolic rate.
Only, of course, they must be careful not
to overdo in the effort to conquer their mood
iness by exercise’s aid. If they exercise to the
point of undue fatigue, the poisoning of the
system that will result may make them even
moodier than they were before.
A happy medium is the thing for them, just
enough exercise day after day to offset inher
ent or acquired tendencies to some moodiness
producing defect in the workings of their in
ternal organs.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspa
pers.)
THE END OF THE VICIOUS
SPIRAL
By Dr. Frank Crane
Prices are coming down.
They had either to come down decently and
in order, as they are doing, or in time would
have come down with a smash.
After the war, or rather during the war, the
Vicious Spiral began.
To pay for its insanity, stupidity, daring
egotisms and cherished hates, the world of na
tions went to war.
War’s other name is Waste.
We proceeded to blow up in smoke and to
sink as scrap, billions of dollars’ worth of
good material.
It all meant so much subtracted from the
productive energy of the race, which ought to
have gone into building ships and houses,
weaving clothes, raising foodstuffs and increas
ing intelligence.
To pay for this debauch, all due to the Old
Order, to the lack of World Government, we
issued wagon-loads of paper promises.
There being a superabundance of money and
a shortage of goods, prices naturally began to
go up.
Everything helped.
In the first place it was fun. Everybody,
from the trust magnate to the plumber, was
making more money.
The people began to buy luxuries. There
was an immense sale of diamonds, Russian
sables and silk pajamas.
Then wages started climbing, because it took
more money to buy bread and meat and pota
toes.
Labor being so high, the storekeepers and
manufacturers had to boost their prices.
Prices being so high, laborers had to have
more wages.
So it went. Everything boosted everything
else.
We were like the farmer that raised more
corn, to feed more hogs, to get more money,
to raise more corn, to feed more hogs, to get—
and so on.
Some day or other people would have got
tired of getting pieces of paper for their debts
and wages, and would have demanded regular
money.
Then the crash would have come. Bankruptcy
would have swept the country.
We were saved from that by our League of
Banks, which fortunately we had formed, over
the protest of most of the banks themselves.
The People revolted. They began wearing
overalls, and buying fewer gimcracks.
Manufacturers followed, and cut prices. Also
the storekeepers saw the handwriting on the
wall.
And now we have begun the painful but
salutary process of sobering up and coming
down the spiral.
There will be no panic. But there will be a
deal of grumbling. .
Because it is easier freezing to death than
coming to.
The descent of the spiral, however, is as re
assuring as its ascent was dangerous.
(Copyright 1920. by Frank Crane.)
quips ’and’quiddies
One evening, coming home from the thea
ter on a trolley with a lady friend, Jones
stepped from the car and noticed an auto
mobile coming up behind the car.
So Jones kept his eye on the auto, and
took the elbow of the next person alighting
after him, expecting it to be his friend.
Still watching the motor, he led the elbow
safely to the walk and then turned to her.
But, to his embarrassment, who should he
find himself escorting but a great, tall man,
who said, in the sweetest voice:
•’Thank you, I was never escorted by a
young man across the street before; you are
the kindest fellow I ever met!”
Strange as it may seem, the lady, who was
following them, giggled.
Miss Fortyodd awoke in the middle of
the night to find a burglar ransacking her
sffects. Miss Fortyodd did not scream, for
she prided herself, among other things, upon
her courage. Pointing to the door with a
dramatic gesture, she exclaimed: “Leave me
at once!” The burglar politely retreated a
step and said: “I have no intention of tak
ing you.”
grievous condition. For that very reason,
however, united and ungrudging co-opera
tion is needed. Our long months of politics
are over. Let loyal Georgians one and all
turn to generous co-laboring for the common
good.
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
VIII. THE PIERCE-SCOTT
RACE OF 1852
rISHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 25.
\A; The campaign of 1852
V y marked the end of the Whig
party as a factor in national
affairs. For the third time that or
ganization placed expediency before
principle to nominate a war hero
for president. Winfield Scott was
the hero of the War of 1812 and of
the war with Mexico. He had been
defeated in the convention by a nar
row margin by William Henry Har
rison when it was necessary tc
choose a hero candidate to oppose
Van Buren in 1840. That was Tippe
canoe against Lundy’s Lane, and
Tippecanoe won. As will be remem
bered, Scott was defeated in 184 C
by a letter written to secure aboli
tion support jn New York. Writing
letters was the one great business
of General Scott’s life. He wrote
letters to everybody, about every
thing, and at all times. His letters
ruined him and his party, and when
the votes were counted it was found
that he had been overwhelmingly
defeated by the Democratic “darl
horse,” Franklin Pierce. Scott car
ried onlv four states in the Union,
receiving but 42 electoral votes tc
Pierce’s 254. .
When President {Taylor died he
was succeeded in the White Hous<
by Millard Fillmore. As has been
the case in every instance in which
a vice president has become chiei
magistrate (with a single exception)
the policy of the administration was
reversed. Taylor had permitted his
policy to be dictated by the conser
vative Whigs. Fillmore was a lib
eral. As a result of the right-about
face attitude taken by Daniel Web
ster who went over to the non-in
terference-with-slavery side in his
speech of March 7. and of the suc
cession of Fillmore, all parties were
enabled to get together once more
on a compromise basis.
One More Compromise
It was Henry Clay, the great Paci
ficator, whose compromises had kept
him out of the White House, who
was once 'more called to the front
in his old age to bring about peace.
The compromise of 1850 was arrang
ed. It included several measures
The most important was the admls
sion of California as a free state,
as that broke the balance of power
between free and slave states in the
United States senate. It was the
one concession to the north, but it
was of far greater importance than
the south realized. To the other side
the concessions were a stringent
fugitive slave law, the maintenance
of slavery in the District of Colum
bia, the payment to Texas of $lO,-
000,000 for yielding its claims to
New Mexico, and the organization of
Utah and New Mexico as territories
without restrictions as to slavery.
By this compromise, Henry Clav
united the warring elements of the
Democratic party and destroyed for
all time the party which he organ
ized and had captained for so many
years.
President Fillmore was a candi
date for the nomination. Genera.’
Scott and Mr. Webster were the
other aspirants. Mr. Fillmore had
urged the compromise through con
gress and had approved it. He
wished the whole country to ac
cept it as a final disposition of
the whole slavery question. The
country, for the most part, wished
to accept it as such. The Democra
tic convention approved. The Whigs
had to do so. To swallow the Fill
more-Clay compromise the northern
Whigs were forced but they would
not swallow Fillmore. So they toox
Scott, whose sympathies were be
lieved to be with the anti-slavery
wing of the party.
General Scott was nominated on
the fifty-third ballot in the conven
tion, after heated sessions in which
a delegate would now and then arise
to spring a letter from Scott. When
the nomination was made, Senator
Jones, of Tennessee, the “Lean Jim
my” Jones who had twice defeated
James K. Polk for governor, leaped
to the platform with a letter from
General Scott. It was a letter of
acceptance couched in less than a
hundred words, but pledging loyal
and exclusive support to the plat
form. That all too sudden letter
helped to do his business in Novem
ber.
Another Note-Writ er
General Scott had in years gone
by affiliated with the Nativist party
in Pennsylvania to the extent of
writing letters attacking the Cath
olics and opposing the foreign ele
ment in politics. These old letters
the Democrats used against him
with great effect. Horace Greeley
shouted himself black in the face
in his attempts to defend Scott from
Scott’s letters, but it was of no
avail.
General Scott himself took the
stump in an effort to win over the
voters of foreign blood. He was a
great flatterer, and his references to
the “rich Irish brogue” and the
“sweet German accent’’ of some of
his hearers were nothing less than
ludicrous. The Whigs soon realized
that Scott would be defeated, but
the candidate hoped on. When it
was all over he gave out an inter
view in which he declared that he
owed his defeat to the New York
Herald, the Webster defection and
the lukewarmnes s of the Fillmore
administration.
Daniel Webster consented to be
come the head of a bolting Union
ticket, but he died a few days be
fore the election and his little party
died with him. A few days before
his death Webster sent for his bosom
friend, Peter Harvey, and asked: “Is
Rufus Choate going to vote for
Scott?” “I don’t know,” was Harvey’s
reply, “but I think not.” Then Web
ster said: “Tell him not to ruin his
future by voting for Scott, and tell
him, as my dying message to him,
that after the second day of Novem
ber next the Whig party as a na
tional party will exist only in his
tory.” The publication of this in
terview in the Democratic papers a
few days before the election did not
aid the Whig’s dying cause, although
Choate announced his fealty to
Scott. Webster’s prediction was
correct. In 1852 the Whig party died
and in the same year Henry Clay
and Daniel Webster, its greatest
leaders and its worst enemies, were
gathered to their fathers. In the
election the Whig ticket carried but
four states—Massachusetts and Ver
mont in New England and Tennes
see and Kentucky in the south.
The “Maineacs”
In the Democratic party that year
there was a great fight for the presi
dential nomination. Lewis Cass,
James Buchanan, Stephen A. Doug
las, and William L. Marcy were the
principals, but from the first it was
believed that a “dark horse” would
win. Sam Houston, then a senator
from Texas, who had been governor
of Tennessee and president of the
republic of Texas, was a formidable
possibility for awhile. But Houston
had lately become a “Maineac,” that
is to say, he had become a teetotaler
and a prohibitionist, and was in fa
vor of the extension of the Maine
liquor law to all the states. Persons
holding such views in those days
were called “Maineacs.”
On the thirty-fifth ballot in the
Democratic convention the Virginia
delegation plumped a solid vote for
Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire,
whose name had not been mentioned
in the conveniton although the New
York Herald had suggested him as
the possible “dark horse.” That
started the ball, and Pierce was
nominated on the forty-ninth ballot.
Pierce had a good record as a poli
tician, had served with some distinc
tion as a brigadier general in the
War With Mexico, and had the nega
tive strength of being a compromise
man.
When Pierce was nominated the
Democrats did not yet know how
many mistakes General Scott would
make or how many letters he would
write. They only knew that the
Whigs w’ere certain to nominate him
and that he was a war hero. It was
in the frightened eoffrt to get a hero
to match a hero that Houston was
proposed, and that Pierce was se
lected. Yet how few Americans re
member taday that Franklin Pierce
had a war record in Mexico?
K, OCA'VJLiIiiXt 1),
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From
All Over the Earth
Inspections of Immigrants at New
York last week totaled 20,503. Os
this number 16,005 were steerage
passengers. Owing to the crowded
condition at Ellis Island, a large
percentage of arrivals were examined
and released aboard ship.
Flogging as a punishment for con
victed profiteers has proved so sat
isfactory to the public that the min
istry of justice is considering its in
fliction for other offenses.
A jail sentence of one year and
a fine of $1 was imposed in the
United States district court at San
Francisco on William Smith, ninety
year-old counterfeiter, following his
plea of guilty. Smith said he had
passed bad money in the hope of
getting into jail, as he was well
treated there.”
William Jennings Bryan, several
times the nominee of the Democratic
party for president, spent Wednesday
night in Macon, Ga., on his way to
his winter home in Florida Mr.
Bryan loosed his politically-tied
tongue long enough to state»that he
wanted the next congress to make the
country so dry that any president
who violated his oath of office by
failing to enforce the prohibition
law would face impeachment.
Missouri, with a population of
3 403.547, an increase of 110,Z1-, or
3*3 per cent over 1910. when it ranged
seventh state, has dropped to eig htl
place, according to the list thus far
announced bv the census bureau. Cal
ifornia, twelfth state in 1910, has
surpassed Missouri in population..
Street car fares in Atlanta ad
vanced from six to seven cents on
Friday, the first day of October, by
authority of the railroad commission
of Georgia, which recently passed an
order allowing the Georgia ilw A y
and Power company to make in
creases in all departments.
The old swindle of passing, cur
rency notes of the Confederate States
of America which has been worked
in England for years, is . f i? u "®hing
again. Reports of the victimization
of shopkeepers at ports have been
reaching the American o--'bassy here
in increasing numbers recently.
A ticket seller at one of the big
London railway stations gave a
Swiss waiter eleven English pounds
for a SSO Confederate note, but be
came suspicious before the waiter
had gone far and had him detained.
The police were in a dilemma as
they could not distinguish the note
from good American money and final
ly had to appeal to the American
embassy.
Estimates for the New York police
department for IS2I, made public by
the finance department, show de
mands nearly double those granted
in the budget for 1920. The total
requests for next year amount to
$41,318,976.92, an increase over this
year of more than $17,000,000. The
increase is largely due to requests
for larger salaries for all grades or
policemen.
A destructive worm closely re
sembling the army worm has ap
peared in large numbers in eastern
Kansas, according to reports to the
agricultural college. The worms are
seriously injuring wheat and alfalfa,
especially new alfalfa, in which vol
unteer wheat has been growing. Ac
cording to George A. Dean, entomol
ogist, the worms have much the
same general appearance as the army
worm.
The fall army worms are not dif
ficult to control and while there are
several methods by which this may
be done, the most effective and the
most practical method is to poison
them with poisoned bran mash.
A quarttt of freshmen in knicker
bockers and the first official appear
ance of women as students on the
college campus were incidents in the
opening day at Harvard, which start
ed with registration early last week.
The youngest freshman was Fredl
- Santee, of Newcastle, Pa., who
was fourteen years old three weeks
ago. Santee is the youngest first
year student enrolled at Harvard
since the days of Cotton Mather.
Santee’s age prevented his admission
to the freshman dormitory, so, in
company with Herbert B. Hofflert, of
Philadelphia, who is fifteen, and in
short trousers, he is rooming in an
apartment with the former’s mother.
Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the
silencer for firearms, has now devised
a “house of silence.” He has sug
gested that apartment houses, hospit
als and hotels, instead of opening
their windows, could be ventilated by
air supplied through the roof. On top
of the main air duct a silencer would
gather up the noise waves which
come from phonographs and crying
babies and, by a series of spirals in
a chamber of sound-deadening ma
terial, take all the noise out of them.
When a crate of eggs was dropped
at a railway station in West Vir
ginia, a few days ago, an illegal odor
filled the air and a prohibition in
spector discovered that the eggs had
been carefully blown and the aper
tures filled with cement after the
eggs had been filled with whisky:
Benedict Hottel, a member of the
crew of the steamship Superior City,
on Lake Erie, overslept on a night off
and reached the dock at Cleveland
two minutes after the steamer had
sailed. That night she sank with all
on board.
Two prospectors are introducing a
seaplane into the Rice Lake mining
district, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, to
enable business men to inspect prop
erties in the shortest possible time
and make all parts of the extensive
tnining area easily accessible#
Major railroads of the country re
corded a deficit of $6,653,420 in
operating income for July, compared
with an operating income of SBO,-
325,481 in July, 1919, according to
a summary issued by the interstate
commerce commission.
Operating revenues of the roads
for the month amounted to $528,132,-
986. compared with $455,280,142 in
July, 1919, while operating expenses
totalled $511,773,300, against $358,-
891,812 for July of last year. De
ductions for taxes and uncollectible
accounts produced the deficit. Esti
mated wage accruals, under the de
cision of the railroad labor board,
included in July expenses were $39,-
141,889.
Charles Ponzi, get-rich-quick
schemer, appearing at a hearing in
the federal court at Boston, testified
that when he began his operations
he had assets of only SI,OOO, part
ly “furniture and fixtures.” He ad
mitted he had never sent a repre
sentative abroad, but declined, on
the ground that it might tend to in
criminate him, to say whether he
ever had a representative abroad.
Temperatures were below freezing
in all parts of Kansas last week
with the exception of eastern and
southern counties, the federal weath
er station here reports. The low
mark was at Hays—24 degrees—
where ice an inch thick formed.
The frost killed all corn except
that on the uplands, but the bulk
of the crop was safely matured.
The United States has more than
106,000,000 of people. This already
has been determined by the census
bureau. This information has be
come known without an actual count
of the people. It happened this way:
The classification of the people into
male and female, white and black,
race, occupation and so on, is done
by means of machines that punch
cards. Hundreds of employes have
been punching these cards for
months. Originally there were 110,-
000,000 of these blank cards. There
is one card for each person. The
fact that all but 4,000,000 of the
cards have been punched shows that
there are 106,000,000 persons already
accounted for.
Lively betting and intense rivalry
mark the competition between the
whalers Westport and Moran, oper
ating from the Bay City whaling
station, Aberdeen, Wash. The West
port is credited with seventy whales
thus far this season, the Moran with
fifty-seven. The season ends in the
middle of October.
Worcester, Mass., boasts a news
paperman who is so fascinated with
his work gathering news as a report
er that he refuses to be lured from
his chosen calling by the inheritance
of a fortune of $400,000.
He is Slater Washburn, and the
money comes from the estate of his
maternal grandfather, H. N. Slater,
mill owner. Washburn says he will
continue on his “beat,” regardless of
the fortune.
DOROTHY_DIX TALKS
CONCERNING ADVICE
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright. 1920. by the Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.)
IT is not to bo denied that the
favorite indoor and outdoor
sport of the great majority of
the human race is giving and
seeking advice. Particularly giving,
for it is far more blessed to give
advice than to receive it.
Why we should be so eager to
tell our fellow-creatures just ex
actly how they should act under
certain circumstances, is one of flw.
mysteries of vanity that nobody can
explain. Certainly very few of us
think that we have run our own af
fairs so successfully, and have ex
hibited always such unerring judg
ment, that we have qualified to pose
as oracles.
Nevertheless, we do not hesitate to
lay down the law to those about us.
We have never been able to make
more than the barest living our
selves, but we feel perfectly compe
tent to advise anybody about how
to invest money. We know nothing
whatever about medicine or the
vagaries of the human system, yet
we advise people to take drugs, of
whose properties we are totally ig
norant, for ailments that we have not
the ability to diagnose.
Men and women who have never
had anything but an airdale pup, or
a canary bird, tell you exactly how
to raise your children, and if you
try to make a garden, or build a
house, you are swamped under the
counsel of those who never planted
a seed, or wrestled with a contract
or, and do not claim that they know
anything about either subject except
that they know more about it than
you know.
The perfect strangers whose su
blime egotism makes them feel that
they cap run our affairs much bet
ter than we can manage them our
selves, and who do not hesitate to
tell us where we should get on and
off, are hard enough to endure,
Heaven knows, but the real pest of
the world is the family adviser.
In every household you will find
some man or woman who has elect
ed himself, or herself, to the office
of adviser extraordinary, and who
runs everybody else crazy with a
never-ending flow of suggestions.
The man may be a good-for-noth
ing parasite whose children have
to support him, but before they can
make a single move in any direc
tion they have to listen to his end
less, “if I were you I would do
this,” or “I strongly advise you
against doing that,” and if anything
ever goes wrong he is an incarnate
reproach with his, “if you had only
taken my advice In the matter.”
Or perhaps the family adviser is
a woman, in which case the female
of the species is deadlier than the
male, because she is always on the
job. She knows better than the doc
tor what you should take when you
get sick. She knows more than the
lawyer about how to settle an es
tate. She can pick out the exact man
q m o
New Questions
1. To settle an arguments please
state whether the American Indians
shaved their faces as men do now?
2. Whose sepulchre was the great
pyramid of Egypt?
3. Who discovered X-rays?
4. What is “Spanish Town” and
where is it located?
5. Can you tell me the race and
nationality of Jack Dempsey, world’s
champion heavyweight prize fighter?
6. When did people begin paying
rent?
7. Can you tell me who wrote,
“But the man worth while is the
man who can smile when every
thing goes dead wrong?
8. How do they lay cables in the
ocean?
9. What is a nautical mile?
10. What percentage on an in
vestment would be yielded by Vic
tory Liberty Loan bonds, and when
do these bonds mature?
Questions Answered
1. Q.—Do snakes have lungs?
1. A.—The bureau of biological
survey says that snakes do have
lungs.
2. Q. —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?
2. A.—While the young lady in
question may attach to this hiero
glyphic some meaning unknown to
us, it is commonly intended to mean
that the writer encloses a kiss.
3. q. —When did Steve Brodie
jump off Brooklyn bridge?
3. a. —On July 23, 1886, Steve Bro
die jumped from the Brooklyn bridge,
a dron of 148 feet.
4. q. —When Alaska was bought
from Russia, was the whole sum paid
in cash or in part by a sale of war
ships?
4. A. —The United States govern
ment paid the Russian government
the full sum of $7,200,000 in void
for the territory of Alaska.
5. q. —Was castor oil used in aero
plane motors during the war?
5. A. —The air service says that
castor oil was used as a lubricant in
aeroplane motors during the world
W *- r q —which animal was the first
to be domesticated?
WITH THE GEOR
GIA PRESS
BY JACK PATTERSON
Depends Upon the Girl
Corns on a girl’s feet may keep
her from church, but they never
keep her from going to a jazz dance.
—Brunswick News.
Pecan Trees an Asset
One thousand pecan trees put out
this fall will mean at least a $25,000
asset to the city within twenty
years.—Waycross Journal-Herald.
A Change of Program
Fish frys and picnics are soon to
give place to candy pullings and
sugar boilings, possum hunts and
the like.?—Thomasville Times-Enter
prise.
Th* Rome News la One Year Old
The Rome News, published every
afternoon and Sunday morning, T.
E. Edwards general manager, and
Robert H. Clagett, managing editor,
issued its first anniversary edition
last Sunday consisting of thirty-two
pages of interesting reading, bright
editorial and attractive advertising
matter. The News has a modern
printing plant, and while young in
years, it is a live and enterprising
infant. The management is to be
congratulated upon the splendid suc
cess that has been achieved during
the first year of its existence and
nobody will doubt the fulfillment of
the promise for even greater accom
plishments the coming year.
The Nahunta Banner
Disregarding the constantly in
creasing cost of newsprint paper and
other materials used in the produc
tion of a newspaper, J. N. Atkinson
has launched the Nahunta Banner at
Nahunta, in the new county of
Brantlev, the first issue of which,
under date of September 8, carries
eight four-column pages of reading
matter and advertisements. The
Banner deserves and should receive
the liberal support of the peope of
Nahunta and trade territory, and
here’s wishing the enterprise abun
dant success.
Tom Will Make a Noise
Nobody can go bail that Tom Wat
son is going to permit himself to
be exactly cramped by the limita
tions of the party platform, but it
may be safely gambled upon that
Washington knows he is in town. —
Macon News.
In Charlie’s Eavor
Mrs. Chaplin says Charlie is a tight
wad. Well, he always wore a stingy
and woman for every girl and boy
to marry., She knows just what
dressmaker you should patronize and
what you should wear, and how you
should furnish your house, and
what you should have to eat, and no
matter how hurried or worried or
busy you are, you have got to
and combat her endiess ad»» r rs.
It’s the family adviser who wrecks
homes, and makes the members fly
the uttermost parts of the earth
to try to get away from one who
feels that he or she has a right to
run their lives for them, and whose
feelings are hurt if his or her
counsel is not taken.
It is- easy to see why people dote
on giving advice. It is because they
like to exploit themselves. It is the
ultimate expression of self conceit.
Why people ask advice is as com
prehensible as the riddle of the
sphynx, for they are bound to know
that the advice is worthless.
Nobody can tell another person
what to do, because no other per
son knows all the circumstances of
the case. There are a thousand lit
tle intimate details of the problem
that the seeker after light never re
veals to anyone, and these are the
crux of the whole matter, so that
even a Solomon could not solve the
riddle that is propounded to him.
Also there is the human equation
that must be taken into considera
tion, so that the advice that seems
to fit your case doesn’t fit it at all
when you try it. It may look a per
fect thirty-eight in the advice shop,
but when you get it home, you find
that something is wrong , with your
measurements and that it bags
where it shouldn’t bag, and is too
tight across the breast, and that it
hikes up in the front, and tails
down in the back.
“Never go into the grocery busi
ness,” advises the man who has
failed in it; but you may have the
very qualities that he lacked that
will enable you to make a fortune
in it. “You will starve if you try
to make a, living writing,” advises
some poor uninspired hack; but you
may have the divine fire that will
light your way to fame and for
tune. “Don’t marry so-and-so, you
will never be able to live with him.
and you will be poor to the end of
your days,” counsels a mother; yet
that man may be her daughter’s
soul mate, and the very man who
is destined to become a millionaire.
Os course the redeeming feature
about giving advice is that few
people take it, and most people who
ask for advice merely desire you to
confirm them in the course they
have already determined upon pur
suing. They simply want to be back
ed up. Also the process of being
advised helps them to clarify their
own ideas, and really decide upon
what they want to do, quite inde
pendent of your opinion.
But all the same, the advising
business wastes a lot of time, and
is a great bore.
6. A.—The dog was probably do
mesticated first, but the sheep, the
ox, the camel and the horse were
doubtless added in rapid succession
when it was found that animals could
be adapted to the needs of man.
7. Q. —Who coined the expression.
“While there is life there is hope?’’
7. A.—This is attributed to Cicero,
the exact quotation being, “While the
sick man has life there is hope.”
8. Q. —Can you tell me anything
about the persons who have risked
or lost their lives in Niagara falls,
and the rapids below them?
8. A. —Captain Matthew Webb lost
his life in an attempt to swim the
rapids on July 24, 1883, and a simi
lar fate overtook John Lincoln
Soules. W. J. Kendall, a Boston
policeman, went through the rapids
protected only by a cork life pre
server on August 22, 1886. In 1886,
1887 and 1889 Carlisle D. Graham
successfully went over the falls in
a barrel. This was also accomplish
ed by George Hazlett and by William
Potts, of Buffalo. Among the tight
rope walkers who crossed the falls
were Maria Speltania. in 1876, and
Samuel John Dixon, in 1890.
9. q. —Why are mountain peaks
cold.
9. A.—The absorption of solar and
of terrestrial radiation by the air is
greater in its lower levels where
dust, water, vapor and clouds are
densest, While the transmission of
both incoming and outgoing radia
tion is more rapid through the pure
air at the greater elevations.
10. Q. —Could you tell me all the
candidates running for the presidency
and vice presidency fend the parties
they represent?
10. A. —The names of the candi
dates for president and vice presi
dent of the different, parties are as
follows: Republican; Warren G.
Harding, Ohio; Calvin Coolidge, Mas
sachuetts. Democratic: James Mid
dleton Cox. Ohio; Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, New York. Farm-Labor
ticket; Farley P. Christensen. Utah;
Max S. Mayes, Ohio. Single Tax
Robert Macauley, Pennsylvania; Rob
ert C. Barnum, Ohio. Socialist. Eu
gene V. Debs Indiana- Seymour Sted
man, Illinois. Prohibition: Aaron K
Watkins, Ohio; Leigh Colvin, New (
York.
mustache, but his shoes were gen
erous.—Rome News-
You'd Better Not Bun
If the number of women who reg
ister for the next election is not
sufficient, just reduce the poll-tax
rate to 98 cents, advertise It Spe
cial” and be on hand for the grand t
rush.—Augusta Herald.
Thoughts of the Circus
When the temperature gets along
about this time of the year the
small boys’ thoughts turn seriously
to searching for the first signs of
the bill-board man with a collection
of three-sheet pictures of gorgeous
street parades and an impossible
collection of tropical fauna an . d
scenes of gentlemen and ladies in
more or less tight attire catching
each other by the hands in mid air
and bears doing balancing act on
huge colored balls and all that sort
of thing.—Savannah Morning News.
HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS
STO'-KEEPUH WANTER
KNOW HOW MUCH DO IT
TAKE T* S'POHT DE
OLE 'OMAN BUT AH
DON’ KNOW NOTHIN'
BOUT HOW MUCH IT TAKE
T' S'POHT DAT 'OMAN!!
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