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4 the tri weekly journal ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W ..1 Jo. 3 Moi « Mos. Ur. Daily and Sunday2oc £oc $2.50 $5.00 -SO-SO Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1-75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed Jby the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the 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 used for addreesi ng your paper ehowa the time your eubscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the d.-.te on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper change d, be sure to mention your •Id as weU as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscript ions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mall. Address all orders and notices for this Department to tHE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta. Ga. 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!! WWW yll Copyright, 1920 by McClure Newwwer Syneteate.