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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURX AL. Atlanta, Ga.
Why Not Come to Georgia?
government surveys,” says
I Floyd Parsons, writing in a re-
- cent number of the Saturday Eve-
Hing Post on “Everybody’s Business,”
"shows that more than four million cattle
and sheep on American ranges died of
■tarvation and disease last winter. This
means a loss in meat of more than one
billion and a half pounds, or enough tb
provide nearly fourteen pounds for every
man, woman and child in the nation.”
Mr. Parsons’ remedy for such appalling
losses in America’s food supply is federal
f action looking to effective plans to conserve
the supply of food animals. There is an
other solution which should appeal to the
practical cattle man. It is, “Come to Geor
gia!”
While hundreds of cattle and sheep are
! freezing to death in such states as North
Dakota and Montana, famous for their cat
tle, Georgia has never had a single head
? meet such a fate. While disease stalks
i v through herds in the middle west and the
far west, Georgia claims the record of
J- having only three counties in the entire
state with any trace of the cattle tick, and
’ these three rapidly eliminating the last ves
tige of it.
The government’s confidence that in
Georgia is one of the great potential cat
tle fields of the country, is proved by the
fact that it has established no less than
seventy-one cattle experiment stations in
, the state. They are daily adding new evi
dence to the fact that in Georgia cattle
* mon will find the ideal state for grazing
and the production of blooded cattle of the
best.
This is the fair season in Georgia. We
venture the assertion that nowhere in the
country will be found cattle of more con
sistently fine quality than at the South
eastern Fair and the numbers of others now
being held throughout the sthte. .
q Such inducements as these, if brought
to the attention of northern and western
cattle men, are certain to convince them
i. that their greatest opportunities and their
greatest prosperity lie in Georgia.
“Edjicatin the Young Uns
r~T~ HERE are more heroes in life’s lowly
ways than the pens of history have
5. ■* written down, more prophets and
seers than temples have enshrined Back
amongst the hills of Kentucky dwelt an old
unlettered man. His garments were home
? spun, and quaintly primitive his speech. But
kindliness kept house in his heart, and in
his soul grew a fruitful ideal. He wanted to
help “edjicate the young uns.” One night he
i- eat by the hearth where logs from his own
r farm’s woodland were glowing, and wrote a
i letter giving all his acres for the establish
; ment of a school. The bequest ran in this
/ wise:
“Some places hereabouts are so Lost from
V Knowledge that the young uns have never
* been taught reading and writing and don t
know the country they were Borned in or
■what State or County they were Borned.
u W® need a whole lot of teaching, how to
work on the farm and how to make farms
pay, also, teaching them how to take care
of there timber and stuff th’ere wasting. We
•- want to teach them books and agriculture
’ and machinery and all kinds of Labor and
learn them to live up as good American citi
sens.” .
► Manifold are the needs which only mind
furrowlng, spirit-quickening education can
answer. But the need behind all others is to
* find men and women with something of this
i humble mountaineer’s divine vision, when
enough Americans, enough Southerners,
h enough Georgians, grow so concerned over
"edjicatin’ the young uns” as to give their
possessions for the endowment of schools
and colleges and universities, then will our
®ad knots of politics and business be fai
; along the way to happy untangling.
Where the backwoods philanthropist once
i toiled and pondered, fourteen log school
; houses lift their music of young voices to the
t skies. The old man is gone, but how im-
mortally does his dream abide, like words
from one who “being dead, yet speaketh.’’ A
nobleman he, with thoughts too high to care
’ for fame, too sterling for coinage into per
ishable riches. The will was his of which
enduring States are fashioned, and his the
way by which mankind ascends.
From Acorn to Oak
r-T-iHE total population of the continental
United States, according to the latest
f census, is 105,683,108.
How significant these figures are is better
appreciated when we recall that just foul
L. years after the Declaration of Independence
the republic comprised but 3,929,214 inhabi
tants. The center of population was then a
7 little east of Baltimore, and the entire na-
♦ >nal area only some eight hundred and
ninety thousand square miles. Today the
center lies not far this side of the Missis
sippi, while the area has .grown to consid
erably more than three million square miles.
It is comparatively a brief span, as his
tory is reckoned, since the first Independ
ence dawn. But within those few genera
tions, what marvels have been wrought! A
scattered band of colonists has multiplied to
imperial numbers and sent its flag fluttering
f across a continent’s sweep; a vast wilder
ness has been conquered and brought to
bloom; from the frontiersman’s footprints,
a world-power has eprung shining; from the
pioneer’s faith and courage a world-ideal has
come to pas®.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
TheEditor’sDesk
Every once in a while in the course of
our work of making The Tri-Weekly Jour
nal the greatest newspaper in its field
in the country, things come up that hold
especial and particular interest for our
readers.
For this reason, the editor often feels
that a personal to our friends about what’s
going on ought to be forthcoming.
From now on, therefore, a few inches of
space on this page will be set aside for
that purpose whenever the occasion seems
to call for it.
After a while The Tri-Weekly Journal
hopes this will help everybody get better
acquainted. On the one hand, it may aid
us in finding out what you like best in
the way of news and features, what de
partments of the paper appeal to you most,
what other features you would like to see
in the paper.
On tne other hand, it gives us a chance
to tell you in advance of good things that
are coming, of commenting on topics as
they pass, of letting you know odds and
ends of facts in general that are part of
the making of the paper.
Here’s hoping this space will turn out
to be a real link between The Tri-Weekly
Journal and its readers!
About Aunt Julia’s Journey
In answer to a sheaf of inquiries, be it
known that Aunt Julia’s famous Letter
Box will keep on overflowing with its mes
sages from southern ®loys and girls while
her “journey” is being published on an
other page. The Letter Box won’t be
closed for even one day. The appearance
of “The Journey” simply means that
there’ll be a double portion of enjoyment
for Aunt Julia’s admirers for a while.
The Housewife’s Job
Labor and time-saving devices are great
things.
But how frequently are all the improve
ments in this line to work outdoors on
the farm when some of them —or others
just as feasible —could easily be used for
lightening the never-ending task of the
woman of the house?
In an early issue, The Tri-Weekly Jour
nal will publish a remarkable article deal
ing with this subject. It shows some
startling facts and figures uncovered by
a government investigation. Every mem
ber of the household will find something
of value in this feature.
How to Solve, and How Not to
Solve, the Cotton Problem
OPINIONS may differ as to how the
present cotton problem can best
be solved, but thinking people
are agreed that there is one way by which
it can NOT be solved. It cannot be solved
by terrorism and intimidation. A farmer
might as sensibly pluck out his right eye to
vent hia displeasure against the boll weevil
as to set fire to ginhouses in hopes of bet
tering market conditions. The law of com
mon sense alone should suffice to restrain
such silliness. The incendiary burning of
ginhouses or any other property is a crime
punishable by long imprisonment or by
death. Suppose it were a mere misdemeanor
and the culprits escaped serious punish
ment. Still they would be enemies to their
own and the community’s best interests, for
such rash conduct could serve only to inten
sify and prolong a crisis which nothing but
thoughtful co-operation can bring to a
happy issue.
How true this is appears as plain as noon
day, the moment one pauses to consider just
what the present problem is. It is not that
the supply of cotton is in excess of the
world’s needs; on the contrary, there is a
real, though not now articulate, demand for
every pound of cotton which has been baled
or which is yet to be ginned—and for a
vast deal more. The problem is not that
the price which the growers consider a fair
minimum—say forty cents a pound, basis mid
dling—is excessive; for if producers do not
deserve and cannot procure as much as the
cost of production, then will the entire eco
nomic order crumble to chaos. The prob
lem is simply that the market demand for
cotton has temporarily declined and that the
growers, together with the great range of
business interests pertaining to them, are
in need of financial assistance pending the
return of normal conditions.
By normal conditions we mean fair and
efficient functioning of supply and demand.
We mean the opening of now obstructed
channels between producer and consumer,
so that the millions of bales requisite
for America’s unfilled wants and the
millions which continental Europe will
eagerly buy as soon as credit facilities are
provided, may begin moving. At the recent
Atlanta conference of business and banking
leaders it was pointed out that Belgium and
Czecho-Slovakia stood waiting to contract
tot one hundred thousand bales each, so soon
as such exports could be financed, and that
Germany likewise wishes two million bales
for Immediate manufacture. These dre
notable Instances inasmuch as they reveal
something of the world-wide need and ac
tual, though not now active, demand for that
very staple which for the time being has but
a beggarly market at home. The intrinsic
value of cotton is not a penny less than it
was six months ago; and it the crop were
sold gradually instead of being crowded into
the autumn market, and if its prices were
governed by the wants of industry rather
than the flings of speculation, its growers
would never have reason to complain.
If, then, the problem of present market
conditions and future marketing methods
can be effectively dealt with, anxiety will
give way to reassurance and all the wheels
of prosperity go smoothly again. It is by
co-operation for grappling this immediate
and central problem that the situation is to
be bettered —not by trouble-breeding threats
and vain lawlessness. The grower should co
operate by ginning and warehousing enough
cotton to secure loans for his pressing needs
and obligations. The banker and merchant
should co-operate by rendering him every
possible service, never forgetting that his
labor and his rights are fundamental to the
common weal. Credits are asked in this con
nection for needs which are legitimate and
imperative and interwoven with vital public
interests—not for purposes of mere adven
ture and speculation, as some authorities,
who ought to know better, seem to infer.
Let those needs be supplied; let the immedi
ate crisis be tided over by conservative loans
on warehoused cotton; let an exports corpo
ration be organized for financing foreign
sales; let the bulk of the crop be held, as
far as considerations of interest and honor
allow, until prices at least equal production
costs—and the road that now looks dark and
steep will shine with assurance.
The South is not poor; she holds the treas
ure of an empire in her hands. Her pros
perity is not to be shaken like a reed in the
wind, nor her heart dismayed by a passing
depression. Co-working and confidence will
bring her people safely through the trials of
this hour. They have too much stamina to
grow discouraged and too much Intelligence
to trust crude violence instead of reasonable
and loyal effort.
THE NEXT WAR
By H. Addington Bruce
ALREADY discussion is rife regarding
the next world war. High authori
ties in various fields are giving their
views as to the methods by which it will
be fought. And these views are appalling.
One well-known army officers predicts a
horrible extension of gas warfare, involving
the destruction not merely of whole armies,
but of noncombatant populations. An emi
nent physician insists that victory will rest
with the nation best able to spread deadly
bacteria in an enemy country.
To the same effect another army man,
Major-General Swinton, one of the inventors
of the tank, is quoted as declaring:
“The final form of human warfare, as
I regard it, is germ warfare. I think it
will come to that, and so far as I can see
there is no reason why it should not, if we
mean to fight.”
And if it does come to that, one need
be no prophet to predict, the final form of
human warfare means the ultimate blotting
out of civilization —nay, a universal suicide
of the human race.
The war recently ended has made it
abundantly clear that even the winners in
a modern war are bound to be heavy losers.
With millions of workers struck dead, trans
portation disorganized, productive efficiency
impaired in countless ways, a world-wide
shortage of commodities is today a painfully
evident fact.
Picture what the shortage will be when
the direct death toll of war, through the
extension of gas and germ warfare, includes
multitudes of workers outside the armies as
well as those workers who have been
snatched from their labors to bear arms.
And picture the continuing ravages of
germ-caused disease even after peace has
been proclaimed. It is an easy enough
matter to set an epidemic in motion. Once
it is under way, as the warfare of tomor
row threatens to put it under way, the
checking of an epidemic is a herculean task.
Nor need any one be simple enough to
suppose that the disease germs let loose
in an enemy country will remain in that
country. They are sure to roam far and
wide —even back to the country whose mili
tary notables let them loose.
Plague and starvation will then work
together to destroy all peoples—if all peo
ples do not forestall them by uniting so
effectually in mutual good-will that all dan
ger of another world war will become as a
nightmare that is past.
Some say such union cannot be won.
Some say that the development of interna
tional solidarity is a Utopian ideal.
But do the skeptics wish to see the
world converted into a planet tenanted only
by disease germs? ,
Even if they must remain skeptical, is
it not the part of wisdom for them to co
operate with the Utopians in a sincere ef
fort to make the ideal of world peace real?
For the end is either world peace or
world destruction. The development of dia
bolical war-waging devices has left us no
other alternative. And the world cannot too
soon awaken to this truth.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
FORMS OF VIOLENCE
By Dr. Frank Crane z
Violence has many forms.
It is the arch deceiver.
It has more disguises than a German spy.
It is as cunning, persuasive, seductive and
cursed as its father, the Devil.
It has woven itself into our language, our
thoughts. It dyes our emotions, affects our
instincts and seeps into our sub-conscious-
DOSS.
We begin, teaching it to our children. To
get obedience we flog them. Whoever strikes
a child proves just one thing—that he is a
bigger brute than the child.
The child, learning the efficiency of brute
force from his parent, goes out to practice
it. He becomes the bully of the school yard.
Most “bad” boys are simply boys who are
faithfully putting into practice the principle
of superior force they learned at home.
The teacher continues the boy’s course in
the art of frightfulness, if not by the birch,
then by moral terrorism.
When he grows up every motion of his
adult mind is spoiled by the poison of the
force idea.
Violence is the greatest hindrance to re
form, to progress. The ideal of anarchy,
for instance, is singularly pure and peace
able. Its aim is the abolition of force. But
the twisted mind of the fanatic seeks to es
tablish this by the very means he condemns.
Nothing has set back the cause of Social
ism so much as the reign of military terror
ism in Russia.
As violence destroyed the Czar, so will it
destroy the Bolsheviki.
Violence is the twin brother of Autocracy.
That is why Autocracy is doomed. They that
take the sword shall perish by the sword.
Violence believed in, glorified, led Napo
leon to exile and lost Britain her American
colonies.
Violence led the flower of Germany to
slaughter, and has reduced the rest to bank
ruptcy.
No greater lie was ever coined than the
saying that “God is on the side of the
strongest battalions.’’
Whatever greatness the British Empire
has is due to her fair play and her skill in
the art of government. All Its woes come
from its resort to violence.
War is the perfect flower of the doctrine
of force. Princes sometimes profit by wars,
the people never.
Victorious France and Italy are now in al
most as bad away as defeated Germany and
Austria. •
The people of the United States are still
groping in the darkness in a belief in vio
lence. They still cannot see that a million
spent in perfecting a world-machinery of
peace and law is beter “preparedness” than
a billion spent in getting ready to fight.
No permanent progress has ever been due
to fighting; it has all come through co-oper
ation.
The maniac who exploded the bomb in
Wall Street is but a symptom of a world
wide delusion.
He is one of a class, including the striker
who murders or burns, the Kaiser, the Czar
the Bolshevik, the “direct action” advocate’
and all the other fools who take a notion
to play God.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
“Where will you reside?” asked the report
er of the young bridal couple.
“At the Old Manse,” replied the bride.
And this is the way the item appeared in
the local paper a month later:
“Mr. Hardup and his bride, formerly Miss
Millions, have returned from their honey
moon. They will live at the old man’s.”
The curious effect sometimes produced in
telegrams by want of punctuation or the
omission of a single small word cannot fail
to have struck every one.
A London lawyer had a woman relative in
Scotland from whom he had expectations.
She had ben ailing for some weeks, when one
morning came a-telegram asking the lawyer’s
wife to go at once as she—his aunt—was
much worse. His wife accordingly went.
During the evening of the following day
the husband received this announcement:
'Aunt Matilda went to heaven at 3:30 re
turning by 11:50 tomorrow morning.”
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
IX. THE BUCHANAN-FRE
MONT-FILLMORE RACE
OF 1856
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept 26.
With ‘‘bleeding Kansas” as
the issue, the Republican
party made its first appear
ance in the arena of national politics
in 1856. with Colonel John C. Fre
mont as its candidate.
If Franklin Pierce and his follow
ers had been content to rest upon
the Compromise of 1850 as the final
settlement of the slavery question
in politics, the inevitable clash of
the Civil War might have been post
poned for a long time. But the
Democrats had won such a great
victory, and the opposition was so
utterly demoralized, that the Pierce
administration imagined it could do
anything with umpunity. Indulg
ing in that mistaken belief, Pierce
brought about the repeal of the Mis
souri compromise. Then, with the
doctrine that slavery must be per
mitted in territories, the believers in
the “peculiar institution” sought to
extend it to the territories of Kan
sas and Nebraska. Both of these
territories were north of the “thir
ty-six thirty” line of the Missouri
compromise and its repeal opened
up the whole question.
The Republican party was born
big. It stirred up one of the hottest
campaigns the country has ever
known before It was actually in ex
istence as a national body. It owed
much of its power in its first cam
paign to Horace Greeley and the
New York Tribune. The Tribune
was the Republican Bible. It thun
dered against abuses which were ex
citing the whole country, yet it could
coo as softly as the dove if political
experience demanded. It even went
so far as to bid for southern sup
port for Fremont and talked of
avoiding the "danger of a solid
south” pleading the while for the es
tablishment of a "solid north.”
No campaign up to that time had
had so many issues. Os course slav
ery was the only real issue, but as
yet not one person of any promi
nence in actual politics had dared to
oppose slavery in 'the states where
ft existed. It was only against the
extension of slavery that the Free
Soilers. the liberal Whigs, the anti-
Nebraska Democrats and the Repub
licans were fighting. But the
southerners realized that Republican
success would mean an ultimate at
tack upon the states’ rights of which
they were such ardent defenders.
The Republican party held its
first convention at Pittsburg on
Washington’s birthday and formed
an organization. It called a nomi
nating convention to meet at Phila
delphia on Bunker’s Hill day. That
convention met and nominated John
C. Fremont for president and Wil
liam L. Dayton for vice president.
The Democrats held their conven
tion in Cincinnati, the first national
convention ever held west of the Al
leghanies. The race for the nomina
tion was spirited, the candidates
being James Buchanan, who was
chosen on the seventeenth ballot,
Franklin Pierce, Stephen A. Douglas
and Lewis Case. John C. Breckin
ridge, of Kentucky, was nominated
for vice president.
The Whig party was broken up,
but its remnants went Into the
Nativist movement and worked with
the new "American" or “Know-noth
ing ’ party. The Know-Nothings
nominated Millard Fillmore for
president and Andrew Jackson Don
elson, of Tennessee, for vice presi
dent. The Whigs went through the
form of holding a national conven
tion and endorsed the Fillmore tick
et. Thus ended the tale of the Whigs,
created into a political organization
by anti-Masonry, expiring as an ad
junct of anti-Catholicism.
“Free States, Free Kansas. Free
Speech. Free Mon and Fremont!”
That was the Republican battle-cry.
‘Buck and Breck” was as much as
the Democratic campaign poets
could find for their slogan. But it
was not a campaign of laudation.
The Republicans denounced and de
fied and dajnned the doings of the
Democrats. The Democrats, in turn
occupied conservative ground and
defended their actions under the
constitution. The Fillmore ticket
was a refuge for those who didn’t
want to take sides in a most un
pleasant argument.
After the Lawrence, Kan., massa-
Greele y declared that
President Pierce, the captain of the
Border Ruffians, will go to Cincin
nati to seek a renonrination stained
from head to foot with the heart’s
blood of the free-state men of Kan
sas. ’ When Preston Brooks, a South
Carolina member of congress, assault
ed Senator Charles Sumner, of Mas
sachusetts, in the senate chamber,
the whole north was set on fire.
Greeley called it a “deed of blood
committed in the chamber of assas
sins.”
Indignation meetings were held
everywhere. In Boston there was a
great meeting at Tremont temple
and another in Faneuil hall. Wendell
Phillips, Lyman Beecher, Theodore
Parker, the venerable Josiah Quincy
and others of that generation were
there to fan the flames of popular
indignation. At the same time, in
the south, the wiser heads could not
prevent the young men from applaud
ing Brooks’ action in resenting the
insults which Sumner had heaped
upon the head of the aged Senator
Butler, Brooks’ kinsman.
Good Republicans never called a
regular Democrat anything less in
sulting than "Border Ruffian.” Buch
anan had been the first to sign the
famous Ostend manifesto, which
looked to the annexation of Cuba.
The Pierce administration and Buch
anan had looked with favor upon
the Nicaragua filibustering expedi
tion of William Walker, “the gray
eyed man of destiny,” and the Re
publicans believed that it was the
beginning of a campaign of conquest
of which Cuba was to be the chief
prize. Therefore, it was not at all
Surprising that the Democrats and
supporters of Buchanan should have
found themselves dubbed "buch
aneers.”
One of the greatest political meet
ings or “rallies’ ever held in this
country was the “Fremont and Free
dom Festival,” at Dayton, 0., on July
30, 1856. There were more than
100,000 people there, from all over
Ohio and from adjoining states. The
rallying cry that day was; "There Is
a North!” One of the chief features
was a burlesque Democratic parade
participated in by a company of
young men from Indiana. This pa
rade was headed by no less a per
sonage than, his santanic majesty,
who was being attended by a com
pany of menials who were easily
recognized as President Pierce and
his cabinet. Then there were floats
representing “Budh and Breck,” the
Walker filibusters, Border Ruffians
beating women to death, southerners
applying tar-and-feather coats to
Free-state men, a Simon Degree
beating an Uncle Tom, a Brooks
breaking his cane over Sumner’s
head, Brigham Young and his wives
(Mormonism was then a Democratic
asset), and all winding up with a
representation of the "gigantic”
Douglas attacking the Missouri com
promise. That day it was declared
these were onlv two parties in Ohio
—‘The Peoples’* and the Postmas
ters’. "
Rousing the sentiment of the Free
states to thus support the Repub
lican ticket was good enough for
the young, but the leaders realized
that the old conservative Democrats
must be appealed to, and that the
old-line Whigs must be kept from
voting for Fillmore. To win the
old-time Democrats, Greeley and his
cohorts opened fire on Buchanan’s
record. Thev proved that he had
been a federalist, had been twice
elected to congress after Jackson’s
day as a Federalist, that he h'ad been
a slavery restrictionlst in 1820, and
that he had been So devoted to the
“thirty-six thirty” line of the Mis
souri compromise that he tried to
extend it all the way to the Pacific
in 1850.
To the wavering Whigs old Gree
ley talked straight as man to man
arid brother to brother. He declared
that the Fillmore ticket was being
financed and run by Democrats to
divide the northern vote, that its
only possible effect would be to de
feat Fremont and elect Buchanan
and that Fillmore’s hope of having
the election "thrown into the house”
was a delusion and a snare. He at
tacked "Know-nothlnglsm” with such
bitterness that he not only weakened
its strength among the old Whigs,
but he attracted many German-Amer
icans of the northwest to the new
Republican standard.
UcESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1920.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From
All Over the Earth
Representative Julius Kahn. of
California, who had his apartment
in Washington sold from under him
a few days ago, is now of a notion
that congress should meet elsewhere
than in Washington until there is
a drop in high prices of real estate.
Mr Kahn, when congress reassem
bles in December, will offer a res
olution proposing that congress ad
journ to meet in Baltimore, Phila
delphia or some other city to es
cape payment of heavy rentals in
the District of Columbia. Many oth
er members Z7 congress sympathize
with Mr. Kann.
“The rent a’tuation here has sim
ply reached a. point where we can
not stand it.” Mr. Kahn said. “We
should remain away until the prof
iteering ceases. Congress has moved
before in an emergency. We can
pay just so much rent and no
more.”
Miguel de Palacios, a widely known
author, is dead in Spain. He was
born in Manila sixty years ago and
during his career published more
than 200 works.
The average man, if told the
shoes he was buying were of part
paper, no matter what the price,
would probably seek another shoe
dealer, says the October Popular
Mechanics magazine in an illustrated
article. And yet, on the authority
of shoemakers more than half of
the shoes sold today contain a per
centage of paper. But like many
other products, even “paper shoes”
have improved, and the honest man
ufacturer of paper shoes has a real
excuse for substituting paper for
leather wherever he can.
But undoubtedly some manufac
turers have taken advantage of the
general use of paper in shoes to
cheapen the product and swell prof*
its*
Two simple tests will help in de
termining whether a shoe is all
leather or not. One is to press the
point of a penknife on the upper
layers or’ the heel. If they are ot
paper the blade will readily sink
in. The other consists in pressing
the counter or toe; if of pa
per, it will not recover its shape,
but if leather it will spring back
again.
Petroleum production in the Uni
ted States has been on the increase
during the summer months, accord
ing to statistics made public by the
United States geological survey. In
August production was 39,144,000
barrels, against 35,548,000 in July,
and 37,295,000 in June. For the
eight months of the year, including
August, the total was 246,111,000.
Domestic stocks in storage also in
cieased during the summer and stood
at 128,999,000 barrels August 31,
against 126.768,000 June 30.
Tenders for supplying 2,777,870
gallons of lubricating oils' for the
use of government owned and con
trolled merchant* ships for the year
beginning November 24, were ir.vltea |
tonight by the shipping board. De
liveries are to be made at Atlantic
and gulf ports.
The Italian government has re
fused permission to former King
Constantine, of Greece, to enter Italy,
according to information reaching
the French foreign office. Constan
tine some weeks ago expressed a
desire to visit Italy.
Capital from the United States Is
being invested in Canada at the
rate of $200,000,000 annually, gov
ernment officials announced.
The money is not going into in
dustry alone, but is being invested
in Dominion, provincial and muni
cipal bonds. The rate of exchange
favors influx of American capital.
Os $275,000,000 Invested in the
Canadian pul.j and paper industry,
about 80 per cenf was American,
and more than a half billion dol
lars’ worth of Canadian loans, ex
clusive of war securities, were held
in the United States.
The discovery of a violent case
of typhus among the steerage pas
sengers of the Holland-American
liner Noordam has resulted in the
detention of that liner at quarantine
in New York indefinitely. The Noor
,dam has been in quarantine since
Tuesday night. All of the steerage
passengers were sent to Hoffman
and Swinburne islands, where they
will be detained for twelve days.
The typhus case was that of a
woman steerage passenger. Dr. L.
E. Cofer, the health officer who ex
amined the steerage passengers,
pronounced the case violent. The
first and second class passengers
were only allowed to leave the ship
after a rigid examination by health
officers. The vessel will be thor
oughly fumigated before she pro
ceeds to her pier.
As a climax to investigations
made by a large force of dry field
deputies on the staff of H. C. Mager,
new collector of internal revenue,
all the breweries of Chicago, more
than twenty in number, will -be
shut down by the government. It
has been found, these investigations
are declared to prove, that all have
been making and delivering the
good old-fshioned brew, which
knows no Eighteenth amendment, for
more than three months.
Twenty-five members of the so
called Vengeance Gang, which is al
leged to be an anti-Brltish society
organized to conduct assassinations
of political personages, in Cairo,
Egypt, have been convicted of con
spiracy by a court before which they,
had been on trial for several weeks.
The sentences will be promulgated
later. Four of the accused persons
were acquitted.
Half a million dollars for the re
lief of famine sufferers in the Pe
king, China, district has been appro
priated by the American Red Cross.
Three men were rescued in an ex
hausted condition at Atlantic City, N.
J., last week, after spending the night
lashed to the masts of the yacht
Akista, bound from New York to
Florida. The craft encountered a gale
off the New Jersey coast and both
her sails were blown away. There
was an auxiliary engine aboard, and
this was employed to some advan
tage. Slow progress was made, how
ever, and the sea swept over the
boat, flooding her cab.
I UNCLE SAM'S "SUBS”
AS GOOD AS HUNS
Detailed examination of surrender
ed German U-boats built in the
war has produced nothing to fore
cast important changes in Ameri
can submarines, officers at the
navy department assert. After care
ful study of the German craft and
a thorough test in the long cruise
across the Atlantic, American ex
perts have found only a few unim
portant details worthy of incorpor
ating in new American undersea
craft.
In periscopes and optical fittings
the German boats were superior to
| pre-war American submarines, it
was admitted. Periscopes on new
navy submarines, however, are su
perior to the best similar fittings
found on the captured vessels, it
was said.
The engine equipment of the Ger
man boats was praised by American
officers, but it was said that the
mechanical plants of the enemy
craft were In no respect superior
to those already in use in the Uni
ted States navy. In many points,
particularly that of mechanical sim
plicity, roominess and comfort for
the crew, the American boats are
regarded as superior to the German
craft.
FIND SITE OF
ANCIENT TIBERIAS
Some Jewish workmen, building a
government road near Tiberias, Sea
of Galilee, have unearthed remnants
of ancient walls and columns.
The government immediately stop
ped the work, and Mr. McKay,
director of the department of an
tiquities, visited the spot with two
members of the Jewish Exploration
Society. There is reason to believe
that the site of the ancient Tiberias,
which played such a great role in
Jewish and Christian history, is on
the point of discovery. Permission
has been granted to the Jewish Ex
ploration Society to undertake im
mediate digiug in the locality
DOROTHY_DIX TALKS
PAYING THE PRICE
BY BOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright. 1920. by the Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.)
AMONG my acquaintances are a
young married couple whose
marriage is a failure because
both of them welch on the
price of matrimony.
Their home is full of unrest and
discontent. They bicker and quar
rel, and the domestic atmosphere is
charged with criminations and re
criminations. They are miserable,
and yet they have all the raw ma
terials for happiness in their hands.
For they have youth and health, two
beautiful children, and the man earns
enough money for them to get along
tn moderate comfort if they were
willing to make the best of what they
have.
But they are not. They have
never been able to reconcile them
selves to the restraints and priva
tions of domesticity.
The man comes home at night
mourning about the boxing match the
boys in the office are going to see,
or the play they are going to at
tend, or the little game they are go
ing to have that he had to forego
because he couldn’t afford it, and had
to punch the home time clock, any
wav. When summer comes, he groans
about the need of golf to keep him
fit, and talks about how well he
used to play before he was married,
and the good times he had then, and
then he goes about looking like a
martyr because the only vacation
that is within the limit of his sal
ary is to stay home and help nurse
the children.
The wife was a business woman
before she married, and earned
enough to support herself comfort
ably, dress well and enjoy the pleas
ures of theaters and concerts and
little trips.
She sheds bitter tears over her
shabby clothes, and as she walks
the baby with colic, or stews over
the kitchen stove, trying to accom
plish the impossible task of camou
flaging a chuck steak so it will
taste as good as a tenderloin, she
thinks enviously and rebelllously of
the good old days when she went to
balls at night arid kept her hands
manicured and her hair marcelled.
Now the trouble with these peo
ple, and many others like them, is
that they want to eat their cake and
have it, too. And that can’t be done,,
not even with angels’ food.
It is only in novels that mar
riage becomes a beautiful annex to
all the pleasures of life which one
has previously <«ijoyed. In reality,
even under the most auspicious con
ditions, it imposes penalties on both
men and women that are almost
prohibitive, but that they must en
dure, or else be quitters. More,
which they are bound to meet cheer
fully for the sake of their honor.
No man, for instance, can be bond
QUIZ
New Question!
1— Is the number of silos in use
increasing?
2 How long will it be before there
will be a comet that can be seen with
the naked eye?
3 Would like to know the date the
first A. E. F. troops landed in Eu
rope, and at what point.
4 I would like to know how many
miles an hour a homing pigeon will
average in flying 170 miles.
sln speaking of a pine forest, is
it understood that all the trees are
pine?
6 How does kerosene compare
with coal for heating?
7 How many acres are under con
tract with factories for the raising
of corn, peas, tomatoes and snap
beans?
8 — What kind of a constitution was
drawn up by the southern Confed
eracy?
9 How many anarchists were de
ported last year?
10 — Are thunderstorms more likely
to occur at certain hours?
Questions Answered.
1. Q. To settle an argument please
state whether the American Indians
shaved their faces as men do now.
A. The bureau of ethnology says
that the Indians never shaved their
faces as they had no means of do
ing so. They pulled the hairs out
with sharp stones, with oyster shells,
or with their fingers.
2. Q. Whose sepulcher was the
great pyramid of Egypt?
A. This pyramid is the tomb of
Cheops, second king of the fourth
dynasty. Its original height was 482
feet and it covers thirteen acres of
ground.
3. Q. Who discovered X-rays?
A. X-rays were discovered and so
called by Prof. Rontgen, of the Uni
versity of Wurzburg, Germany, in
1895.
4. Q. What is “Spanish Town," and
where is it located?
A. This name is applied to a town
in Jamaica, otherwise known as San
tiago de la Vega. It is on the River
Cobre about ten miles west of King
ston.
5. Q. Can you tell me the race and
nationality of Jack Dempsey?
A. William Harrison Dempsey is
an American citizen. He was born
in Manassa, Colo., and is of Irish
ancestry with a trace of Indian
blood.
6. Q. When did people begin paying
rent?
A. We find no exact records of the
first rent paid. It is said that when
the Germans conquered parts of Gaul,
the land was parceled out to chiefs,
lieutenants and private soldiers. In
return the holders of the lands prom
ised military service when needed.
Some of the land was given to fa
vorites who were allowed to pay
in money instead of service, and the
system was established. Rent was
certainly known in the days that
Rome flourished, there being Latin
names for rent under long leasehold
tenure; rent of a farm, ground rent,
rent of state lands, and the annual
rent payable for the right to the per
petual enjoyment of built
on the surface of the land.
7. Q. Can you tell me who wrote
“But the man worth while is the
man who can smile when everything
goes dead wrong?”
A. The lines are from the poem
“Worth While,” by Ella Wheeler
Wilcox. “It is easy enough to be
pleasant when life flows by like a
song, but the man worth while is
the one who will smile when Every
thing goes dead wrong.”
8. Q. How do they lay cables in the
ocean?
A. The usual method is the one
used in laying the trans-Atlantic ca
bles. These were, for the most part,
laid by two vessels. They joined the
cable in mid-ocean, then steamed in
opposite directions, landing the other
ends of the cable on the two coasts.
9. Q. What is a nautical mile?
A. The hydrographic office says
that a nautical mile is defined to
be one-sixtieth part of the length of
a degree of a great circle of a sphere
whose surface is equal in area to the
area of the surface of the earth. This
distance is about 6,080.27 feet.
I'o. Q. What percentage on an in
vestment would be yielded by Vic
tory Liberty Loan bonds, and when
do these bonds mature?
A. The actuary of the treasury de
partment states that money invested
in Victory Liberty 4 3-4 per cent
notes of 1922-1923 at the price of
95.78, which was being quoted at the
time the question was asked, would
yield, if held until maturity, 6.466
per cent interest. These bonds may
be redeemed at the option of the
government on June 15 or December
15, 1922, and they must be redeemed
by June 15, 1923.
“And now, Johnny,” said the teach
er, “can you tell me what is raised
in Mexico?”
“Aw, go on,” replied the bright
boy. “I know what you want me to
say, but ma told me I shouldn't talk
’•mtgh.”
and free at the same time. He can
not have both the perquisites of the
bachelor and the married man. As
long as he is single, he has a right
to stay cut as long as he pleases of
an evening, and to spend his money
upon such diversions as appeal
him.
But he forfeits these rights at the
altar. When he vows to cherish a
woman, he undertakes «r® 1W
happy and contented; and to bear her
company. Cherishing a woman cer
tainly doesn’t mean leaving her to
spend lonely and anxious evening?
wondering where her wandering huA
band is and suspecting the worst.
Also when a man endows his Wife
with all the worldly goods, he signs
away his income in favor of his fam
ily. He has no longer any right to
blow in the money that should go
for groceries, and rent, and shoes, in
a poker game, or to spend it for h's
own sole behoof and benefit.
Therefore, a man commits a griev
ous wrong against any woman by
marrying her until he gets to the
place where he wants to settle down
and sit by his own fireside, and
where he hankers for the domestic
hash instead of the flesh pots of Bo
hemia. As long as he wants to run
around with the boys at night, and
prefers golf to pushing a baby car
riage on his afternoons off, let him
stay single. So shall he escape cur
tain lectures, and keep a monopoly
on his own pocketbook, and preserve
some poor unfortunate woman from
being a neglected wife who has to
put up with a grouchy husband, b
Exactly the same thing may 1*
said to women. The woman who
merely gets a bill payer, and a danc
ing partner, and a flatterer, and a
purveyor of amusements when she
marries, is a myth. There isn’t any
such husband.
Marriage for the average r£rl
means sacrifice, and self-denial, wid
doing without the pretty things she
has been used to, and hard wirk;
and unless she is ready to take upon
her shoulders these responsibilities,
she is dishonest and dishonorable to
marry.
She has no right to marry if she
wants to be free to flirt around and
play around with other men. She
has no right to marry unless she is
w.Jing to make her husband a com
fortable and thrifty home. She has
no right to*marry unless she Is will'
ing to bear children.
Both men and women can easth
enough figure up the cost of matri
mony, especially to people in moder
ate circumstances, and unless thej
are willing to pay the price, they
should stay single. Love, the peac»
of home, the joy that comes of «
Iran and woman working and striv
ing together, the clinging arm® oi
little children, these are the re
wards of marriage; but they Must
be paid for. You cannot have thenj
and the freedom of the bachelor man
and woman at the same time.
Mrs. Solomon Says:
Being the Confessions of The
Seven-Hundredth Wife
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Copyright, 1920. by The McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.
THE Love-Song of a Tired Wom
an, which is Mrs. Solomon's
Come to me, my Beloved!
I will greet thee with song
and rejoicing, and cries of "Wel
come!”
I will crown thee with garlands
and fill thy hands with gifts.
I will cover the walls of thy room
with roses, and thy windows shall
be hung with coleur-de-rose!
Thou shalt walk upon rugs of vc*
vet, and recline upon pillows of
down.
Thy word shall be my LAW! Thj
whims shall be my daily study.
Thy room shall be the sunniest
even that, which commandeth the
BEST view of the Park. Thy rock
ing-chair shall be over-stuffed!’ ,•
I will speak to thee always in “
voice of silver, and my words shall
be tender and flattering. I shall
never command thee; but that which
I desire of thee, I will seek coaxing
and sweetness and hinting!
Thy hands Shall lift no heavy bur
den. Mine eyes shall be blind to all
thy faults. I will NOT pick On
thee, neither shall I nag thee!
When thou “borrowest” mine im
ported perfume, and my manicure
set, and my face-powder, and my
scented soap, and my jewelry, I
shall not SEE it. Nay, I shall turn
away mine eyes, even when my "nose
knows.”
When the air is rent with the
crashing of china, and the shattering
of cut-glass, mine ears shall be stuff
ed with cotton, and my smile will not
come off. Nay, I shall bring thee the
smelling-salts, and soothe thee with
comforting words and "too-bads."
When thou lookest upon my hats
and my garments to admire them, I
shall hand them over to thee straight
way, saying, ‘‘Take this thing—fol-
I no longer need It!"
My phonograph shall adorn thy
kitchen, where thy company may
make merry and enjoy it.
Thou shalt have NO washing.
Nor ironing.
Nor window-cleaning.
Nor carpet-sweeping.
Nor furnaces, nor children, nor
dogs, nor ANYTHING thou dlsllkest,
whatsover!
Six days of the week shalt thou
labor exceeding—oh, exceeding—•
lightly; and upon the seventh, thou
shalt go to Coney Island.
I will give thee golden shekels, and
cover thee with Liberty Bonds.
Yea, ALL that thou askest will 1
give unto thee!
Matinee tickets, and scented note
paper, Christmas gifts and silk pet
ticoats, silken hosiery and hand
painted fans, dream books, seven
evenings OUT a week, and a ouija
board!
Oh come to me, my Beloved!
Come live with me—and be my
COOK! j,
“What am I to talk to my lady
partner about.” asked a young man
about to go to his first party, of an
elderly friend.
"Surely you’ll talk about the most
pleasing question of all—her beauty.”
“But if she does not happen t<>: b*;
beautiful?"
"No matter, she will take your
word for it!”
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
PAHson 'low Moses
PAHTEb DE WATERS
BUT HE AIN' BY HIS-SEF
ON DAT- - SUMPN GOT
ATTEH ME CROSSIN' bE
CRICK TOTHER NIGHT EN
MAH FEET JES' NACHULLY
KNOCKED IT
ISi
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