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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA.. 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthsll.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday {By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W„.l Mo. 3 Mo«. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday2oc SJc $2.50 $9.30 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .30 1.75 3.20 ■ The Tri-Weekly Journal is published ! on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. 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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. <... TheEditor’sDesk ■ ' ... 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.) f 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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