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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURN AL, Atlanta. Ga.
The 11l Advised Tactics of the
Federal Reserve Board
THE ill-advised attitude lately assumed
by Presdent Hardng, of the Federal
Reserve Board, • and Secretary Hous
ton, of the Treasury Department, can be
deprecated by no one more deeply than by
thoughtful friends of the Federal Reserve
system itself. Those who best know the
odds of prejudice and selfish interest w’hich
the projectors of that noble system had to
combat, and who are beet informed concern
ing the good which it could do at this criti
cal juncture, must be most painfully sur
prised at the tone of the statements recently
gven out by these two high officials. Mr.
Harding might better have kept as silent
as the Sphinx of Gizeh and Secretary Hous
ton as taciturn as a clam than to have
spoken so misunderstandingly of the grave
problems of this- hour and so at variance
with the spirit and purpose of what our
Democratic Text Book deservedly calls ‘‘the
World’s Best Banking System.”
Nobody was astonished at Republican op
position and Wall Street antagonism when
the Federal Reserve bill fought its way to
enactment seven years ago. Being avow
edly intended to supplant the tyranny and
the privilege which the old inefficient sys
tem has fostered, this measure quite natu
rally had its bitter foes. Moreover, notwith
standing its vast service in the stormy years
that ensued—its rising as a tower of strength
\through the shocks of a world war, its ward
ing off of panics otherwise inevitable, its
aid to agriculture, to industry and to busi
ness, big and little—‘riotwthstanding all
these evidences of its worth, the system
still has the hostility of Republican politi
cians and their ogling patron saints. It is
commonly suspected,' indeed, that a Repub
lican victory in November would be followed
by persistent efforts to impair the Reserve
system, and particularly to deprive the South
of her original advantages therein.
How peculiarly regrettable, therefore, that
the head of the Reserve Board and the head
of the Treasury Department, undei' a Demo
cratic administration, should have struck
notes which can tend only to bring the sys
tem ipto disfavor, at the very time when its
services are most needed and when the vir
tues which its friends claim for it could be
made most fruitfully manifest! That these
officials have spoken in haste and in a man
ner whch their own better judgment will
come to deplore, we do not for a moment
doubt. We readily grant, indeed, that their
policy of deflation in so far as it strikes at
the grip of the profiteer and calls a halt
upon sheer speculation is well and season
ably conceived. But nothing could be more
inopportune, nothing more unjust, nothing
more dangerous than to brandish such a
policy as a club of intimidation, without re
gard to the needs of legitimate business and
the rghts of honest producers calling for
help.
Mr. Harding, along with all who. may
share his unfortunate attitude, should pause
and reflect that he is not an avenging Sam
son in a Philistine temple, but a servant of
the American people. Surely there is a bet
ter way to punish profiteers and specula
tors than to shake the vital pillars of pros
perity and risk wrecking the good along
with the bad. Surely the producers of a
basic commodity like cotton should not be
denied such accommodation as the Federal
Reserve system was designed to afford them,
simply because there are adventurers who
seek credit for unnecessary and unworthy
ends. In his recent interview the chief of
the Reserve Board seemed to assume that
the cotton growers, together with their mer
cantile and banking friends, were conspir
ing to hoard the crop for monstrous profits.
‘‘Many people,” he declared byway of an
swer to appeals for aid in the South’s pres
ent emergency, ‘s'eem to think that all they
have to do is to call on the Federal Reserve
bank for aid, and the crop of their particu
lar section can be boosted up for a high
price, or V> w ered, as they might desire.”
How. ;n the name of reason and common
sense, did Mr. Harding get the notion that
a request for rightful assistance to tide
Southern agriculture and Southern business
over a stringent and perilous time was mere
ly a babyish cry for price-boosting?
The Journal finds no pleasure in criticism
of the Reserve Board’s president and the
Secretary of the Treasury.* We admire much
that they have done; we are heartily aware
of their integrity and, for certain spheres of
undertaking, their high ability. But who
that rightly reads the signs of this day and
rightly appreciates the South’s critical need
cah fail to deplore the undiscerning, not to
say unsympathetic position which those offi
cials have lately taken? The main pity of it
is that they are doing the Federal Reserve
system itself an egregious injustice; are
clogging its veins and arteries at the very
time they should pulse most freely; are sup
plying ite foes with fertile pretexts and
keen weapons wherewith to assail it.
Had Wall Street, in the old days, spoken
as overbearingly as Reserve Board and
Treasury oflcials have spoken in recent
weeks, the whole country would have flush
ed wijh resentment. Such tactics will not
do. They run counter to the entirp purpose
and spirit of the Reserve Act, which was
framed to abolish autocracy, not to inspire
it, and to have at its Yiead, not churlish .dic
tators, but men imbued with the ideal of
service. The banks of the country deserve
better than this, and assuredly business and
industry and agriculture deserve better. We
need, and need sorely, a return to some-
THE ATLANTA TKI-Wfi»elA Jt’L'RN’Ah.
thing of the spirit and manner of William
Gl. McAdoo, both in the Treasury Depart
ment and on the Reserve Board. We need a
Democratic, not an oligarchic, administra
tion of those important realms of govern
ment. We need a policy under which the
great Reserve system will function as • it
was meant to function and serve as it was
meant to serve.
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It's a pretty good old world after all.
If yon doubt it, just turn over to Page
Five. In Mrs. Lizzie O. Thomas’ column
you’ll see that Tri-Weekly Journal readers
have given $143.67 to help keep unhappy
Rumanian babies alive.
That’s not such a tremendous lot of
money. And there is a tremendously big
ger lot of suffering babies. Not to men
tion all the other starving people over
there.
Rumania is a long way off. And there
are so many calls for help at home. Yet,
it you’ll read the letters from the folks
that sent their “mites,” you’ll know at
once that the givers neglected not one sin
gle appeal in their home communities.
I ou’ll know that their donations meant
just an extra sacrifice.
The very fact that those good people
whose names are on the Honor Roll spared ,
enough above every other demand to soften
the misery of a people who speak a strange
tongue is more than sufficient to satisfy
anybody who is inclined to view life
through blue spectacles.
You Can’t Tell About Politics
Governor Jimmie Cox, hope of the Dem
ocrats, recently gave out a statement
showing that ex-President William How
ard Taft had suggested quite a few pro
visions for the League of Nations and that
President Woodrow Wilson had adopted
every one of the suggestions.
And right away Mr. Taft hustled out a
reply admitting some of the facts, but
“hedging” on the question of Article X.
Less than a year ago Mr. Taft told the
editor of The Tri-Weekly Journal that he
was for' the League of Natiohs, with or ’
without reservations. America must final
ly get into the league, he said, one way or
another, and the sooner the better. He
didn’t object to Article X or any other ar
ticle.
But that was before the presidential race
was on. And now that Mr. Taft has de
cided to stand as a good Republican in
stead of as an unbiased American, he
throws cold water on the league because
the Democrats are for it.
You never can tell about politics.
More About Aunt Julia
The beginning of “Aunt Julia’s Journey”
discloses the fact that this famous lady is
Mrs. Alice V. S. Grant. If you want to
know’ more about her, it can be said that
she lives at Marietta, Ga., that she is en
thusiastically interested in everything
worth while in life, and that she consid
ers her Letter Box children as a big part of
her family.
*
Shall Georgia Be a Laggard
In Democracy 's Great Cause?
SHALL the greatest of the Southeastern
States in population and resources be
least along loyal contributors to De
mocracy’s needs, least among sustainers of
the party that stood as her fortress in a per
ilous past and stands as her shield in the un
certain future? It is an almost unthinkable
event. Yet as accounts now are, Georgia
comes last in gifts to the party’s national
campaign fund —Florida, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana and the Caro
linas' all surpassing her. An unworthy rec
ord it is—a record that every tradition, every
practical interest, every high impulse of the
Commonwealth calls out to change.
The voters of' Georgia, in common with
their Southern neighbors all have as good
reason to stand by the party of justice and
progress and broad Americanism today as
did their fathers fifty years ago. Democ
racy was the only national party then, and
it is the only national party now. Repub
licanism as represented by Senator Harding
and his reactionary associates is as much a
sectional organization now as it was in the
days of carpetbagging Reconstruction. It is
the instrument of a backward-looking, pot
tage-geeking, South-begrudging group of pol
iticians. If there be any doubt that this is
the case, a glance through the speeches of
Senator Lodge or at the proceedings of the
Chicago convention should suffice to con
vince any open mind.
• It is to save the South and the nation from
the misgovernment which a victory by such
forces would entail that Georgians are urged
to join liberally in the Cox-Roosevelt
While millions upon millions of money are
being poured into the Repubican chest, the
Democratic cause, looking wholly to the
rank and file for contributions, is in sore
need of funde for the bare necessities of the
campaign. Surely, the thinking people of
this richest of Southeastern States will not
fail of generous loyalty to the party that has
meant and still means so much to their com
mon interests and their common ideals.
Keen observers say that vigorous work in
the doubtful-States will swing the Novem
ber election to Democracy, so distrustful
has the country grown of Mr. Harding’s
clique and so stirred by the splendid cam
paign Governor Cox is waging.. Let every
stanch Georgian have a pqrt jn making that
fruitful victory sure. We owe it to the State,
we owe it to the South, we owe it to Amer
ica to do our full duty as Democrats at this
crucial juncture. Contributions frorriy every
’ountv and city and town in the Common
wealth shold be speedily and abundantly
forthcoming.
.
A Problem of Distribution
THAT is a typical story which comes
from Illinois, of fruit price's being
almost prohibitively high in Chicago
while a few score miles away it spoiled on
the trees or in cellars. There is scarcely
a region of America in which great quanti
ties of foodstuffs are not thus wasted,' to
the sore disadvantage of producers and con
sumers alike.
It is to lack of efficient means of distri
bution that such losses are mainly charge
able. Sometimes' transportation is inade
quate; sometimes the grower fails to crate
and ship his products as he should; some
times storage facilities are wanting, so that
he is compelled to dump his crop on an
already over-supplied- public or lose all
chances to sell; sometimes, very frequently
indeed, cities and towns are without ample
or well organized markets where grower and
buyer can deal to mutual profit. Whatever
the particular lack, the result falls heavily
upon all concerned —and there is hardly a
household or a farm that is not concerned.
Make good these deficiencies in distribu
tion, and the high cost of living will be
greatly reduced. For if channels from pro
ducer to consumer were open in sufficient
number, many prices could be cut far below
their present scale, and still leave substan
tial profits. Furthermore,' the certainty of
jt. fair and adequate market would prove a
.keen stimulus to increased production.
A HINT FOR WORRIERS
By H. Addington Bruce
YOU tell me that you have awakened
to the importance of conquering your
abnormal tendency to worry. You
are going to study books that will help you
gain a more optimistic view of life. You
intend to.develop will power for the express
purpose of securing emotional control. If
need be, you will enlist the aid of a mescal
psychologist. \
This is a wise procedure for you to take.
But there is one thing more you ought to do
if you wish to make sure of really freeing
yourself from the thralldom of worry.
Go to your family doctor and let him make
a careful examination of your physical con
dition. If he thinks it necessary, go also to
a dentist or an eye specialist or a nose and
throat specialist or any other specialist he
may designate.
And act on your doctor’s general advice as
to the hygienic measures you should adopt—
exercise, dieting, .or whatever it may be—■
needed to overcome any bodily weaknesses
he may find in you.
For it may very well be that your worry
ing habit is at least in part the result of
some unsuspected bodily defect that acts as
a continual drain on your vitality. In which
case it will obviously be to your advantage
to have this defect corrected. For as the
preventist, Dr. J. P. Bill, puts it:
“Irrespetcive of whether a patient Is
shunted from the rut of worry by direct sug
gestion, auto-suggestion, or downwright bul
lying, he cannot be long kept from sliding
into it again unless his body functions be
brought back more nearly to normal.
“A healthy body makes for a healthy mind
and vice versa. Until body processes be fa
vored toward normality, abnormal mental
processes or lines of thought stand a good
chance of remaining in statu quo.”
I know one medical psychologist who again
and again finds it advisable to say to his
patients, in effect:
“There is little I can do for you in the way
of giving you greater nerve control until you
put on more weight. I can see at a glance
you are poorly nourished. Go to a doc
tor and ask him to prescribe for you. Then,
when you have gained at least ten pounds,
come back to me.”
» Often, my friend tells me with a twinkle
in his eye, she patients do not then find it
necessary to come to him. Body building
was all they needed.
To be sure, there have been plenty of
worriers who contrived to conquer worry
and keep it conquered despite great frailty
of body, even serious illness. And it is en
tirely possible that you can succeed in doing
what they did without the slightest recon
structive work for the correcting of physical
defects.
But if you do happen to be among the
physically deficient, to refrain from calling
a doctor to your assistance will only mean
a harder task for you so far as downing
worry is concerned. And it may mean the
difference between success and failure.
So, take no chances.
(Copyright, 19 20 by The Associated News
papers.)
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A LESSON FROM BULGARIA
By Dr. Frank Crane
It is difficult to keep from running to ex
tremes.
Public Opinion is a pendulum, and when
it swings far one way it is quite sure to
swing back just as far the other way. \
We went into the war tremendously. We
were all for fighting. We were out to “lick
the Kaiser,” and speeches roared from plat
forms, vast cantonments of soldiers sprang
up all over the country, we enforced the
draft, and everybody was a-soldiering.
Then we''got over our fever. And we got
tremendously over it. We were suddenly
sick and tired of war, did not want to hear
war talk, read war stories, nor see war uni
forms.
Whereas we had fever, now we have
chills.
So from frothing militarism we rush to
violent anti-militarism.
But extremes are wrong.
There is something good in the army idea,
something profoundly healthful and con
structive in enforced military service.
The good element is this; That the youth
are made to realize the supremacy of the
social and communal obligation.
The draft should be permanent.
Every boy and girl should, be required to
Jerve a certain time in the army of their
country.
Provided, of course, that this army is
drilled, not to shoot, kill and fight, but to
WORK.
Work is a perpetual need, fighting an oc
casional and extraordinary.
Admeasure is now being proposed in Bul
garia by the Premier, Alexander Stamboln
sky, which if put into effect will put that
-ountry into the foreground of nations. The
bill involves the drafting of young men of
what we have been accustomed to term
military age for service as laborers instead
of soldiers; they are then to be grouped ac
cording to choice or ability, and set at va
rious tasks under the direction of experts.
Some will carry out irrigation schemes in
arid districts; some will reforest denuded
mountainsides; some will build roads and
railways or schoolhouses and public build
ings; some will work the government mines
and others communal tracts of land. Dur
ing such service the young men will have
the advantage of lectures, evening classes
mad other means of improvement. And in
place of maintaining a standing army which
destroys millions of dollars’ worth of am
munition in target practice yearly and can
perform no productive labor, the country
will—be supporting an equal standing army
which is receiving the best sort of training
in agriculture and public works, and is pro
ducing results that will enrich the country
by developing resources.
There is no reason why women should
not be required to perform such service. A
constructive army could use women as .well
as men.
Such an army would not be kept alive by
the spirit of revenge; it would not need hate
of an enemy to give it pep.
It would do much to cure us of the poi- t
son kind of patriotism which functions only
in national egotism and destruction.
It would develop real patriotism, wh’
means -devotion to the business of building
up one’s country and equippings it to help
other countries.
It would unify our people.
It would be a prolific matrix of democ
racy.
Military training and enforced military
service are good provided your army’s cb
business is to Work, and only upon extraor
dinary occasion to Fight.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Mrs. Cluck stopped in the doorway of the
parlor, literally choked with rage.
“John.” she. snapped, when she had recov
ered her breath, “tke your feet off that
table.” . 4
“Mrs. Cluck,” John answered, “there’s
only one person who can talk that way
to me.”
“And who is that?” she demanded, ad
vancing with a dangerous light in her eyes.
■’You, my dear,” replie I John, meekly, as
he deplaced his feet on the well-polished
linoleum.
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
X. THE LINCOLN-DOUG
LAS-BRECKENRIDGE-
' BELL CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 27.
Much of the practical poli
tics of the presidential cam
paign of 1860 has been buried
beneath the glory of the Lincoln ad
ministration and the horrors of the
Civil War. The political result of
that campaign was the promotion
of the newly-born Republican party
to power, the second political revo
lution of American history.
For the first twelve years of gov
ernment under the Constitution the
Federalists were in power. With
the election of Thomas Jefferson an
actual revolution was accomplished,
and the power of government was
given to the Democratic party. The
Democrats ruled for sixty years.
Twice during that time the Whigs
elected a president, but there was no
practical interruption of Democratic
ascendency. With the election of
Lincoln, the Republican party as
sumed the reins of power and held
them forty-eight years. The two
Cleveland administrations checked,
but did not stay, the Republican
march.
The first Lincoln campaign was
marked by practical politics. Mr.
Lincoln did not make any active/
campaign. The Republicans content
ed themselves with continued de
nunciations of “border ruffianism.”
Many of them were somewhat
ashamed of their candidate, and note
the personal equation tn to the dis
of them, outside of Illinois, brought
cussion.
The fight raged in .its greatest
bitterness between the two Demo
cratic candidates, Stephen A. Doug
las and John C. Breckinridge. John
Bell led Constitutional Union
forces as the representative of ex
treme conservatism, but, like Lin
coln, he took no individual part in
the campaign.
A Famous Speaking Tour
Douglas, the “little Giant of De
mocracy,” stumped the country from
New England to Louisiana. A won
derful orator, earnest as he was in
his efforts to accomplish the salva
tion of the Union and believing that
the only vAty to save it was his*way;
the country never knew before and
perhaps never Will know again such
a masterly campaign. But it was
all in vain. He had broken with the
South and with Buchanan, and not
logic nor reason nor oratory had
power to heal wounds so deep.
Douglas was indirectly responsible
for tfee nomination of Lincoln. Two
years before, in 1858, Lincoln had
opposed Douglas for re-election to
the senate. Their joint debates in
that year still live in the memories
of men, and will live on the pages
rf>f history for all time. Douglas
was the better speaker, and he won
the election for senator. But Lin
coln had pressed him close and had
had the eyes of the whole country
upon him.
It was against the advice of every
friend he had that Lincoln bore
down upon Douglas and asked him
a series of questions involving slav
ery in the territories One question
was: “Can a territorial legislature
exclude slavery if it sees fit?" If
Douglas had answered that question
in the negative, Lincoln would have
been elected senator in 1858 and
might' never have been president.
But Douglas said “Yes!” That re
ply carried him back to the United
States senate, caused Horace Greeley
seriously to propose Douglas for tjje
Republican nomination for president
in 1860, broke the Democratic party
in? twain and elected Lincoln presi
dent.
Slavery in the’ territories was the
whole issue, as it had been more
or less for a half century. It was
Thomas Jefferson, a Virginia slave
holder, who wrote into the North
west Territory Bill the provision
that that territory should be forever
free of slavery. The question was
ccmpropised in 1820 and in 1850 by
Henry Clay. The Wilmot Proviso,
using the exact language of Thomas
Jefferson, kept slavery off the Pa
cific coast. In 1854, by the act of
Stephen A. Douglas himself, assist
ed by Franklin Pierce, the Missouri
Compromise of 1820 was repealed
and the whole question of slavery
extension reopened.
The south held that the territories
were federal and belongd as much to
the slave states as to the free, and
that until they became states the
fderal constitution was their only
law. The QonstitutSo'n permitted
slavery by its silence, and this the
ory would make them slave terri
tory. The north held that congress
could legislate slavery out of a ter
ritory, but could not legislate it in
—-that the territories must be free.
Douglas took the middle ground, a
position which Clay would habe sup
ported, and declared in favor of
“popular sovereignty”—that is, of
permitting the people of a territory
to decide the slavery question for
themselves.
The Democratic National conven
tion met at Charleston that year. The
fight on the platform was long and
bitter, and when it was seen that
Douglas controlled the convention
and the Douglas platform would be
adopted, the majority of the south
ern state delegations withdrew from
the convention. The regular con
vention then adjourned to meet in
Baltimore. The bolters adjourned 'to
meet in Richmond. The Richmond
convention met on time, but im
mediately adjourned to another day
to await the action of the Baltimore
meeting.
The “regular” convention assem
bled in Baltimore and the old fight
broke out afresh. Caleb Cushing, of
Massachusetts, who was president of
the convention, finally became so dis
gusted with the Douglas followers
that he resigned his chair, and led
another bolt from the convention.
The remnant of the “regular” con
vention then proceeded to nominate
Stephen A. Douglas for president and
Benjamin Fitzpatrick, of Alabama,
for vice president. Fitszpatrick de
clined, and the second place was
given to Herschel V. Johnson, of
Georgia. The Caleb Cushing bolters
in Baltimore nominated John C.
Breckinridge, then vice president of
the United States, for president, and
Joseph Lane, of Oregon, for vice
president. The waiting “seceders”
at Richmond immediately ratified
the nominations of Breckinridge and
Lane.
Lincoln was nominated at Chicago
by a group of shrewd politicians,
who deliberately overthrew the will
of the majority of the party in the
interests of expediency. William H.
Seward was the great ueader cn Re
publicanism, and when the delegates
met at Chicago, two-thirds of them
were for Seward. But Seward, as
governor of New York, had been too
closely associated with the Roman
Catholics in politics. The Know-
Nothing vote was still large and
had to be reckoned With, especially
in Pennsylvania and Indiana. Andrew
G. Curtin and Henry 8. Laie, Re
publican nominesa for governor in
Pennsylvania and Indiana, respec
tively, put up the scheme to defeat
Seward. They knew his. Catholic af
filiations would defeat him In their
states, and would probably defeat
them also.
But with all the strenuous oppo
sition and scheming, Seward prob
ably would have won if his managers
had not foolishly a great
street parade in his behalf. That
took all the Seward boomers on the
streets. While they were march
ing, the Lincoln managers packed the
Wigwam gallieries with Illionis
folks who were instructed to yell for
“Abe!” They yelled all right, and
by this cheap political method of
organizing a clique, Abraham Lin
coln was nominated for president.
The Constitutional Union party was
the last attempt made to gather the
“old line Whigs” into a political or
ganization. Its candidates, John Bell,
of Tennessee, and Edward Everett,
of Masachusetts, recived. more than
three times as manv electoral votes
as the Douglas ticket and more than
half as many as the Breckenridge
ticket. |
Lincoln received a great majority
of electoral votes over all his op
ponents, but he was greatly in the
minority in the poppi ar vote. The
possibilities of the electoral system
of choosing a president were keenelv
illustrated in the result. Lincoln re
ceived 180 electoral votes and 1,866,-
353 popular votes. Douglas was next
in the popular vote with 1,375.157,
but he got only 12 electoral votes.
Lincoln received an electoral vote
for every 10,000 popular votes, while
Douglas had more than 100,000
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1920.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From
All Over the Earth
Seventy army trucks and automo
miles from Washington, D. C., have
crossed the continent by the Bank
head National Highway and have ar
rived at San Diego, Cal. The con
voy contained twenty-two officers
and 162 enlisted men of the army.
Fuel control regulations similar to
those enforced in Canada through
out the winter of 1918 have been is
sued by the board of railway com
missioners acting for the federal
government in Ottawa, Canada. The
order regulates the amount of avail
able coal to be allotted to each
province and to individual consum
ers.
Seventeen men charged with mur
der in the first degree, one charged
with manslaughter in the first de
gree and seven charged with man
slaughter in the second degree were
arraigned during one day in New
York last week. All were remand
ed to the Tombs.
Dispatches received here from
Madrid telling of widespread strikes
in Portugal, declared to be of a
revolutionary character, drew a
statement fio mtherPortuguese Le
gation in London that these "re
ports of Spanish origin” are “ex
,'aggerated out of all proportion."
The legation made public a tele
gram from Portugal, which only re
fers to a partial railway strike, and
says public order is “undisturbed in
any way.” ,
The Prussian security police, or
ganized on a military basis, has been
disbanded and replaced by a body
of 85,000 civil police, who are fun
damentally local in character, un
dei- coptrol of the local civil author
ities. The substitution was made in
accordance with the demand of the
entente powers.
A high-power wireless station,
capable of direct communication
with America, will be constructed
about 270 miles from Moscow, Rus
sia.
A summary of the activities of
the bureau of war risk insurance as
of August 21, 1920, indicating the
progress made in bringing the work
of the bureau to a, current basis, as
announced by Director R. G. Chol
meley-Jones. shows that durmg the
war and to date forty billion dollars’
worth o finsurance was.issued on be
half of the American forces.
The gross premiunx remittances on
this amounted to $346,987,730.
Claims paid out on account of death
totaled $1,154,911,718, and for disa
bilities $29,577,549.
During the month of August the to
tal disbursements on war-risk term
insurance claims amounted to $7;-
820,607.46. j
The number of the presonnel in
the bureau has been reduded to 7,823,
which is less than half the former
figures.
Beginning last Wednesday a ten
day celebration in honor of Jenny
Lind was begun in New York. Sev
enty years ago Jenny Lind made her
famous tour of America. "The
Swedish Nightingale” was. then well
known in Sweden, England, and on
the continent of Europe, but only a
small knowledge of her capabilities
was possessed by the people of the
United States. It remained for P.
T. Barnum to acquaint this country
with the importance of the singer.
Uncle Sam wants his jackets to be
sailors. In orders issued byt the navy
department a revision of forces now
on shore duty was ordered to the end
that non-rated enlisted men have as
much actual sea service as possible-.
Under the new plan all firemen,
third class and seamen, second class,
must go to sea and district com
manders are directed to replace
as rapidly as possible men of oth r
enlisted grades who have not served
afloat with those who already have
their sea legs. Petty officers also
must have salt water experience and
those who have been ashore for two
years, or have never been to sea,
will be assigned to duty with ships.
Among the trophies which the
Prince of Wales is taking back to
England with him is a specimen of
the favorite Mexican weapon, the
machete. The blade was presented to
him at Acapuco, Mexico, during his
stop there.
The machete is the usual wire
steel blade with a horn hilt, but the
horn has been carved in the form of
an eagle and is studded with silver
ualls. The steel,is etched. One side
bears the legend "God Save the
King.” with “Remember Mexican
West CJoasts,” with a lion and a ti
ger rampant between them.
The other side is engraved with
the words, “Albert, Prince of Wales.”
All the work was done by Mexican
Indians in the village of Tecpan de
Galeana t
From the ruins of Louvain, to
which the Germans applied the torch
on August 25, 1914, are springing
dozens of modern buildings. They
lack the historic interest of the de
stroyed structures, but no city in
Belgium will be able to of a
more up-to-date appearance than
Louvain when the work of recon
struction Is finished.
The city presents to the stranger
an-unusual appearance—masses of
ruins here, new five-story buildings
there, with the old undestroyed
buildings in sharp contrast. \
No efforts have been made to re
build the famous library. The Bel
gian government, however, is gradu
ally finding in Germany trace of
many of the priceless manuscripts
and other books looted from the li
brary by the Germans.
The Soviet is taking measures to
spread education in the southern
Russian towns. In Rostoff and Nak
hitehevan fifty-seven schools hive
been opened. Since September 1 150
other schools have been started.
Little did the former Premier
Clemenceau, when he journeyed to
the front during the troubled days
of 1918, think that the funny little
slouch hat that he wore- on these oc
casions would become the special
headgear to be worn with evening
clothes. The Clemenceau hat, how
ever, seems destined to have a great
future.
“Ever since the war men have been
feeling the need of a special head
gear," a prominent Paris hatter
says. “The silk hat is too formal;
the opera hat is too theatrical; the
bowler looks provincial and soft gray
hats and straw hats are out of place
with evening dress. The Clemen
ceau hat, vjhich is black, light tc
wear, easily transportable ana capa
ble of being crushed Into an over
coat pocket in case of need, will solve
a long-felt want that well-dress?''
men feel especially since the war.”
Circulars announcing rewards of
$10,500 off>-eded by the city of New
York for information leading to the
conviction of persons responsible for
the Wall street explosllon of Sep
tember 16 were posted throughotft
Manhattan and sent in bulk *.J police
departments within a radius qf 200
miles, ' A
J. A. Greenburg, who owns a num
ber of apartments in Chicago, has an
nounced a ten per cent reduction in
all rents effective October 1, and
said that a similar reduction would
be made next May. He said he was
following the example of others who
had started a decline in prices.
Berlin was without street car serv
ice a few days ago, and a large por
tion of the downtown section was
dark as the result of a strike of the
electrical workers at the Moabit car
plant. The walk-out came so sud
denly that many surface line cars re
mained stalled on the tracks, the
passengers being forced to walk
home. No disturbances had been re
ported up to a late hour. The strike
was due to a dispute, over working
hours.
Finding the weather a bit too win
try for motoring, President Wilson
went driving- last week in the White
House victoria, a type of vehicle sel
dom seen nowadays in Washington.
Mrs. Wilson accompanied the presi
dent. Secret service men followed
in a touring car,
ular votes for each electoral vote.
Breckinridge had 847,514 popular
votes, but little more than half of
Douglas', yet he received 72 elec
toral votes, six times as many as
Douglas. Bell, with less than half
of Douglas' popular vote received 39
electoral votes to Douglas’ twelve.
Douglas, running next tp Lincoln,
corried only one state, Missouri, al
though he received three of the seven
votes of New Jersey and three of
Um thirty votes o£ YaaasylvaoU.
DOROTtfY_DIX TALKS
MOTHER JEALOUSY
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright. 1920. by the Wheeler Syndicate- Inc.)
I HAVE received a letter from a
man who writes;
When I was a child my fa
. ther died, leaving my mother
with a helpless babe and no moiey.
By almost incredible labor and self
sacrifice she brought me up decent
ly, gave me a good education, and en
abled me to get a fair Start in the
world. I have tried to be a good son
to her, and thus far have devoted my
life to her.
"But now I am forty years old, I
want to\marry. I want a home of
my own, I want a wife’s love and
companionship, and the feel of little
children’s arms around my neck. For
five years I have been engaged -to
one of the sweetest and noblest wom
en in the world, but my mother will
not hear of my marriage. When I
speak of it, she almost goes ma<t
She weeps, and tells* me that I will
break her heart, and reminds me of
all the sacrifices she has made for
me, and implores me pever to marry
while she is alive. 1
“I cannot endure the thought of
hurting my mother, yet I must
choose between doing that and
wounding the woman I love and who
loves me, for I cannot ask her to
wait Indefinitely on the whim of a
jealous mother. My mother is only
sixty-two years old and in perfect
health, and will live for many years
I trust, so if I defer marriage until
her death I put It oft for ever, for
I shall myself be then too old to
think of such a thing.
“What shalll I do? Has my mother
the right to exact the sacrifice of
my life as the price of her care of
me when I was a child?”
No. A thousand times no. Chil
dren owe much to their parents, but
not a thousandth part of the duty
that parents owe to their children.
None of us ask to be born, and when
our parents thrust life upon us, they
are morally bound to do every possi
ble thing they can to make it tolera
ble for us. There are plenty of sel
fish and self-centered mothers like
this one, who are willing to wredk
their children’s happiness in order
toxgratify their own morbid jealousy,
and their sons and daughters do a
wrong and foolish thing in giving In
to them.
A woman who Is not willing for
her son of forty to marrv a nice
girl is a meglo-maniac. and should be
dealt with gently but frmly, as one
who Is not quite sane. and incapable
of judging clearly of the nature of
her acts There is something even
abnormal in her affect!-m for her
son, tint mukes her wan’ to isolate
him from the regular lite -»t man. It
is a love that is stringing, blight
ing, siiffocateing and unhealthy, in
s’ead of wholesome mother-lovo
Every woman who Is In her right
senses knows that filial love cannot
take the place of romantic love, and
that no matter how devoted a son
may be to his mother, or how neces
sary she is to his happiness, the feel-
QUIZ
I
New Questions
1— Is there a book in the Bible
that does not contain the word God?
2ls there a town in the United
States named O K?
3 What distance out to sea does
the jurisdiction of this country ex
tend?
4 Does a car consume more gaso
line at thirty miles an hour than at
fifteen miles an hour?
5 Are there any prohibition laws
similar to the eighteenth amend
in Honduras or Cuba?
6 is the religion of Gov
ernor Cox, the Democratic nominee
for president?
7 How many newspapers are
printed every day in this country?
8— Has the secret of the "mystery
ships” of England been revealed?
9 What coin first bore the motto,
"In God We Trust?”
10— Please give a description of
the first airplane that actually flew?
Questions and Answers
1. Q. —Is the number of silos in
use increasing?
A.—Basing an estimate on a report
from Indiana, the number has nearly
trebled in five years. In 1913, there
was one silo to every twenty-two
farms. In 1918 there was one silo for
every nine farms.
2. Q. —How long will it be before
there will be a comet that can be seen
with the naked eye?
.A—The naval observatory says
that predictions as to the naked eye
visibility of a comet during one of
its periodic returns art always uncer
tain.
8. Q. —Would like to know the date
the first A. E. F. troops landed in Eu
rope, and at what point?
A.—The war department says that
the first military unit to leave the
United States for France was base
hospital unit NcU 4, from Fort Totten,
N. Y., which sailed on May 5, 1917,
on the steamship Orduna, and arrived
at the port of St. Nazaire on May 17.
4. Q. —I would like to know how
many jniles an hour a homing pigeon
will average in flying 170 miles?
A.—Homing pigeons have been
known to fly over thirty yards per
second, but the average velocity is
less than half that amount. The
course of a homing pigeon is usually
direct, and would probably average
about thirty miles an hour, taking
about six hours flying time to make
the 170 miles.
5. Q.—ln speaking of a pine forest,
is it understood that all the trees are
pine?
A.—ln practice, a forest in which
80 per cent of the trees are of one
species, is called by the name of that
species.
6. Q. —How does kerosene compare
wih coal for heating?
A.—Kerosene contains more heat
ing energy than coal when considered
on a weight basis.
7. Q. —How many acres are under
contract with factories for the rais
ing of corn, peas, tomatoes and snap
beans?
A—The total acreage contracted
for in 1920 for these four crops, and
reported, was 400,482 acres.
8. Q. —What kind of a constitution
was drawn up for the Southern Con
federacy?
A.—’The constitution, adopted on
March 11, 1861, was largely a literal
copy of the constitution of the United
States. It departed from the orig
inal in several passages, and section
° provided for cn* v<:rpetuation of
the institution of slavery.
9. Q. —How many anarchists were
deported last year?
A. —The bureau of immigration
says that of the 2,762 aliens deported
during the fiscal year ending June
30, 1920, 314 were of the anarchistic
or kindred classes.
10. Q.—Are thunderstorms more
likely to occur at certain hours?
A.—On land, thunderstorms occur
most frequently at specified hours of
the day and night, particularly 3 to 5
in the afternoon, 9 to 10 in the eve :
ning and sometimes at 2 or 3 in the.
morning. This is not true on the
ocean, where thunderstorms occur at
all hours of the day and night with
equal frequency,
RUBBER TROUT
USED IN MOVIES ‘
Movie sportsmen who stalk into 1
'the picture carrying fly rods and ■
strings of trout, apparently so fresh- \
ly caught that their tails still wiggle, ■
are not necessarily lucky fishermen, i
says Popular Mechanics magazine, i
Until recently film directors who ,
needed angling Scenes in their pic- ,
tures were dependent on the nOtori- |
ously unreliable moods of living fish.
But modern efficiency demanded a I
method more certain and less waste
ful of time. A California picture
concern therefore engaged a manu
facturer of rubber to produce a string
of accurately fashioned rubber trout,
and an artist completed the verisim
ilitude by tinting the elastic fish with
OUa in nature’s colors.
*
ing he has for her does not prevent
him from yearning to find his mate.
Also the woman knows, from her
own experience, that the love one has
for one’s mother, and the love one
bears one’s husband or wife are not
antagonistic, because they are no
more alike than day and night or
fire and water. They are entirely
different passions, springing from
different emotions, and so the jeal
ousy between mother and wife, or
mother and husband is the most
senseless waste of emotion in the
world. .
To ask which one loves the better,
one's wife or husband or mother, is
as futile as to ask whether one pre
fers roast beef O’* cream. I n
deed, instead Ox d wife or husband
sup?ro»ding their mothers in their
affections, most men and women
love their mothers better after th<”-
are married than they did ’•>•»’ r > r e. L
cause they realize the more all tfcfe
mothers have done for them, ana -
appreciate them more.
And any woman who has the cour
age to look facts square in the face,
knows that while her child may b
the one person of absorbing Interest
jn the universe to her, her compan
'ionship is not enough for her chil
She can sit entranced for hours lis
tening to her son tell every .littl
detail of his daily life, wh" he
done at the office, whom he saw
what they did, and so on; but when
she begins to reminisce about her
own affairs, he is bored stiff. He
cares nothing about the sewing so
ciety, or the missionary meeting, or
the state of the rheumatism of his
mother’s old cronies.
Youth calls to youth, and age may
not answer it. No mother can pos
sibly be the comrade to a man that
a wife can be, because, after all, th?
mother and son belong to different
■generations, and each generation has
its own view point, and between them
a great gulf is fixed. /
Therefore the mother who keeps
her son from marrying is dooming
him to loneliness. She is cutting
him off from that companionship of
husband and wife that is the great
est joy of life, and she does not make
up for it by feeding him on just
the things he likes, and keeping his
socks darned with a care that no wife
would bestow upon him.
And the mother must surely real;
ize that in the ordinary course of
events her son will outlive her. Has
she no pity then for his desolate days
if she has kepU him from forming
any other ties?
The man who marries the woman
he loves, who had children about his
knees, and grandchildren to cheer his
old age. is ninety-nine times out o'
a hundred a happier man, a better
man, and a more prosperous ma:
than the one who never marries. Tin '
is the natural destiny of man, an I
no one has/a right to Interfere wit .
Not. even a silly and selfish ohl
mother.
REFLECTIONS OF j
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
IT TAKES nine women to make
man—and then, maybe, the ten
marries hlnj, and has to ma'
him all over, again.
We all live to learn, but some ym
seem to "live” such an awful lot :
order to learn such a very little:
Instinctively chivalry is wh
makes a man say that he "failed
win” a woman, when he really me:’,
that he succeeded in losing her.
If the average man displayed < v
same ingenuity and tenacity of p j
pose in his work that lie does in
determination to do things with h
and yeast and raisins, we should
be married to millionaires.
A woman always wants to peep
the “last page” of her flirtation
romance, to “see how it is going
tugn out," and thus spoil the wh
story for the man.
Life is full of jolts for the p
who expects her flowers to look il
those In the seed catalogues, a m
| to make love like the heroes in t
| movies, a servant to be as respe
ful and efficient as those parago.
• on 4he stage, and a husband to i
|as Interesting and romantic as 1;
was during courtship.
I The anti-suffragists predict aadi
that women will do most of the.'
| campaigning with smiles and kisse i
I Well, perhaps—but a wise smile ;
more convincing than a foolish speee
and a genuine kiss should be mo:
persuasive than a specious argumen:
any day!
When an authoress marries, sh
stops drawing on her imagination U
her love-scenes and sentimental pa ■:
sages, and begins writing them en
i tlrely from memory.
The Origin of Billiards
(Detroit News.),
Investigation into the popular game of 4
billiards produces some queer history, both
as to the origin of the game, and the
methods used In manufacturing the para
phernalia. It is said to have begun when
william Kew, an English pawnbroker in
the sixteenth century, passed idle moments
by' pushing about three golden balls of his
trade with a yardstick. He soon gained
considerable skill,' and the game became
known In London as “Will’s Yard,” and
this was corrupted to "Willyard," and then
to "Billyard,” and lastly to its present
form. The players seeking a name for the
stick with which the balls were pushed
about called it after its originator "Kew,"
the French, after taking over the game, re
spelling it "que,"
The ivory baUs have to be seasoned for
many months /before they are ready for
which to store them, many of the latter
holding as high as three thousand balls.
The deep red color of the red balls Is ob
tained by giving them what is known as
the “guardsman’s bath,” a dipping into dye
secured by boiling English soldier’s red>
coats. The finer tables used are built 1
of Spanish mahogany, ebony or satin wood,
and some of this has to be seasoned seven
years before being used. The green cloth
was first used by Prince Leopold, and it is
still known as “Prince Leopold green."
It was selected as being less hard on the
eye under the bright light demanded for
playing, than any other color.
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