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Poland's Significant Victory
POLAND well deserves the world’s grati
tude for the happy issue to which her
prowess has brought the war with
Russian Bolshevism. Unless present omens
are all misleading the Red army which a few
months ago was threatening Warsaw itself
has been beaten so decisively that it will not
again menace Western Europe. Only a broken
and dispirited fighter would have sought
peace on such terms as Trotzky has proposed.
He has relinquished the territorial ambitions
upon which he and his regime evidently were
bent when they felt confident of victory and
has made large concessions besides; has
withdrawn all provisions against which the
Poles protested, and has offered to restore
divers works of art and historic trophies
which the czars in times gone took from Po
land’s treasures; has offered guarantees, if
a Bolshevist pledge can be regarded seriously,
of henceforth respecting that country's sov
ereignty and rights, and has granted virtual
ly all that a victor could ask, save financial
indemnities.
Some observers think that the chief motive
in the peaceable and humble attitude is a des
perate wish to muster all available forces
against General Wrangel’s advance in the
south. Undoubtedly the Bolshevist dicta
tors are disturbed over recent developments
in that quarter, and with good reason. Wran
gel’s Successes have been repeated and sub
stantial —not so much, it would seem, be
cause of military or constructive genius on
his part, as a deepening popular discontent
with Bolshevist misrule. This, of course, has
had its influence on the situation in the west.
It should be remembered, however, that the
Poles have been fighting steadily with high
valor and skill. They have outwitted and
outdone the Red horde, have proved their
worth and mettle as a nation, and have dealt
a staggering blow to the Bolshevist peril.
It would not be astonishing, indeed, should
Trotzky’s forces disintegrate before another
spring campaign gets under way. Rumblings
and flashes of mutiny amongst the Soviet
troops in the Polish front were perceived
some days before the armistice. Rash though
it would be to venture predictions on so
vast and dark a confusion as present-day
Russia appears, in the glimmer of recent
events it seems reasonable to expect a col
lapse of the Bolshevist regime, which lacks
now, as it has from the beginning, the sus
tainment and the hope of a moral will.
Edison’s invention to talk to the dead may
connect up with Bryan’s heart in the grave
if the wizard only will hurry.—Portland
Oregonian.
Our Need of White Coal
ENERGIZING effects from the Water-
Power bill enacted at the last session
of Congress soon should begin to grow
manifest. Already there has been instituted,
under Government auspices, a survey of the
latent power resources of the Atlantic Sea
board between Boston and Washington. In
that region, according to the Society for
Electrical Development, a plan is being con
sidered, “whereby, through the co-ordination
of hydro-electric enterprises with steam gen
eration of electricity in the mine fields and
at convenient points elsewhere, an esti
mated saving of three hundred million dol
lars annually is to be effected.” This is
but one among numerous possibilities of the
kind that now invite exploration and prom
ise the means to vast economies. It is con-,
servatively reckoned that if these were
turned to proper account our industry and
commerce world would save upwards of a
billion dollars a year.
Still more important would be the im
petus to production, which cheap and abun
dant power would bring. Imagine the indus
trial quickening that Georgia would feel
from the mountains to the sea, if the power
now flowing to waste in her rivers and
streams were made available. The Chatta
hoochee alone is capable of power enough
to provide manufacturing employment for
more than a million people; and from a sin
gle power-site in Heard county, engineers
declare, could be derived ample energy to
produce all the nitrate needed for the fer
tilizer supplies of Georgia and Alabama com
bined. Os all regions of America, none has
keener incentive to develop its water-power
resources than has the South, to whom be
longs the unrivaled control of cotton manu
facturing as well as cotton growing if she
will but make the most of her opportunities
in the hydro-electric realm.
The whole trend of economic affairs, both
at home and abroad, warns America to
hasten the development of this now sparse
ly used national treasure. The last few
years have shown how precariously uncer
tain can be the supply and how oppres
sively burdensome the prices of coal. The
surest answer to that problem lies in water
power, which needs no miners for its pro
duction, no railways for its transmission,
and which is renewed at its fluent source
as continually as it is consumed. Europe
has seen how is the gain in produc-
liwe and profits where “white
coal” is used, and is acting accordingly,
America’s ability to compete in the world’s
markets depends largely upon applying her
own water-power resources to the Business
of manufacturing and transporting goods.
Prices fall this fall. Here’s hoping they
don’t spring again in the spring.—Nashville
Tennessean.
The British ship of state is encountering
adverse Gaels. —Norfolk Virginian Pilot.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
TheEditor’sDesk
“Facing the Situation’*
Dr. Andrew M. Soule, the south’s bril
liant leader in agricultural thought, has
given Tri-Weekly Journal readers many a
splendid article in his department of this
paper.
Yet we daresay that never has one of
them been more timely, more construc
tive, more intensely practical, more pre
eminently valuable than his contribution
which will appear next Tuesday.
The title is “Facing the Situation.”
With that theme before him, Dr. Soule
courageously tackles the problems that
every American farmer is thinking about
today. Dr. Soule looks the facts squarely
in the face. He dodges no issues. No
thinking man should.
Dr. Soule tells why he thinks things
stand as they do. And he tells what he
thinks ought to be done about it. His
ideas do not agree altogether with much
of what is being said and written just now.
He offers no “overnight” remedy. He has
no beautiful scheme for “letting the other
fellow do it.”
But there’s optimism in what he says—
sane, level-headed, clear-sighted, confi
dent optimism.
The farmer who reads “Facing the Sit
uation” in The Tri-Weekly Journal next
Tuesday will find his time well-spent.
“The Good Old Days”
“Mike Casey,” The Tri-Weekly Journal
reader, whose highly original and Interest
ing letter is printed elsewhere on this page
today, shows a world of imagination in
thinking up contrasts between the old days
and now. If he has skipped one change of
consequence we can’t call it to mind.
Yet although the bulk of his humorous
parallels seem to be drawn considerably at
the expense of modern times, we’ll wager
that he wastes no time moaning over the
passing of “the good old days.”
We have a notion that he gets as much
out of life today as anybody in Georgia.
Probably more.
Dark Days for the Sluggard
THE statement of a large employment
agency that only the more efficient
now can get good jobs prompts the
Tacoma (Wash.) News-Tribune to remark:
“This is a hopeful development. It means
more steadiness, dependability and produc
tiveness. It is going to be easy to get done
the work which needs doing.”
It was lack of dependability and steadi
ness during the war period and its immedi
ate aftermath that cut so great a gap in pro
duction. The several million men mustered
to the colors were of our best sinew and
skill, it is true; but there were enough mil
lions left to have done the country’s work
amply and well. Yet, agriculture was sorely
put to it for hands, numbers of basic indus
tries stood in continual anxiety of having to
shut down, and sometimes the public’s vital
needs were in. danger of going unsupplied
for want of willing and steady workers.
These conditions, it scarce need be said, were
not chargeable to true Labor, whose sturdy
and splendid devotion had a fundamental
part in the winning of the war. On the
contrary, they came from an element that
has ever been Labor’s, as well as industry’s,
besetting foe—the element that takes no
pride in good work, feels no obligation for
due service, has no thought of thrift and
responsibility, counts idleness a very para
dise and sustained effort a purgatorial fire.
It was this element that took advantage of
war times and the abnormal period ensuing,
and it is this that is being winnowed out
as the processes of readjustment ripen. “The
Lord made him, therefore let him be called
a man,” will no longer suffice as a recom
mendation for seekers of fat salaries and
wages. The good job is no longer a beggar
beseeching some lordly loafer to take it.
The sluggard no longer twits the ant for a
fool and dictates the pace of the nation.
Still, there is no fear of unemployment in
America—such unemployment, that is to say,
as struck deserving multitudes in dark win
ters gone by. The needs and scope of re
construction will afford worth-while jobs for
efficient and minds for at least sev
eral years come, competent observers say.
But the tyranny of the drone is happily wan
ing.
The Voyage of the Quistonck
SEVENTY-ONE thousand miles in sev
en voyages is the prideful record of
the QUISTCONCK, the first ship
launched from Hog Island in 1918, when
the making of a merchant fleet under stress
of war was fairly getting itjs stride. Evi
dently the speed of the construction did not
impair its stanchness. The QUISTCONCK
and her sisters are proving thus far true to
the traditions of their seaworthy ancestors
of long decades ago. t
That Interesting history of the nation s
trade fleets, “America’s Merchant Marine,
recalls that the MARIA, built in 1782 at
Pembroke, Massachusetts, had a sailing
life of ninety years, and that the pekl,
launched in 1818, weathered the four winds
and the seven seas for sixty-six years.
“Thomas Perkins,” the record runs, was
an old time shipowner famous among oth
er things for possessing a fleet which made
thirty voyages around the world, or a total
of seven hundred and twenty thousand
miles. It brought him a fortune of two
million dollars —large in those days—from
Canton and Calcutta trade.”
The decline of American prestige and
power on ocean trade lanes went so lamen
tably far after the middle of the last centuiy
that at the outbreak of the World War
more than ninety per cent of our foreign
commerce was being carried under o>
flags. But in the last three years efforts to
redeem that grievous condition have made
most heartening progress. We still lack
much of having enough home-owned ton
nage to serve our trade needs, let alone to
enter the wider fields of competition in
ocean carrying. But a highly prophetic be
ginning has been made. Millions of money
once lost to American interests in marine
freight rates and kindred charges are now
kept at home. Moreover, we have an in
comparably larger measure of independence
in these vital matters than before the new
fleet begun building. Let the excellent work
proceed with unbated vigor.
The Two Mr. Tafts
WHAT would the Mr. Taft of 1920 do
if he should meet the Mr. Taft of
1919? What could he do but hang
his head and run away? It was hardly a
year ago, in a memorable address to the
Wisconsin Bar Association, that the Ex-Presi
dent declared:
“There are certain issues that rise
above party, that transcend all parties
and all party triumphs that are merely
temporary. This issue (he was referring
to the League of Nations) is as funda
mental as the Declaration of Independ
ence or the Constitution of the United
States.”
There was much more in the same emphatic
tone, and then a word to the man who was
against the Covenant because he was
“against Wilson.” “Suppose,” said Mr. Taft,
“he was asked by his grandson years later:
‘Grandad, why did you vote against the
League?’ What will you tell him? You will
do one of two things. You will either say,
‘Run away, Grandson, you do not understand
those issues,’ or else you will lie about it.”
Now (the pertinent question is, what can
Mr. Taft say byway of justifying his pres
ent support of a Presidential candidate who
is avowedly for scuttling the world’s hope
of a peace-conserving League in so far as
the United States is concerned? Senator
Harding, completely dominated by the irrec
oncilabies and Bitter Enders, opposes the
Covenant regardless of whatever qualifying
and safeguarding reservations it might car
ry. He opposes, not merely its form, but its
essence, its purpose, its ideal, which is to
substitute reason and justice for passion and
bloodshed in the settlement of International
disputes.
This is indeed an issue that “transcends
all parties and party triumphs;” but how
lamentably does Mr. Taft sink- below his own
conception of the right!
INTESTINAL VERTIGO
By H. Addington Bruce
VERTIGO, or dizziness, has as its com
monest causes eye strain or ear trou
ble. But it may appear as a symp
tom in various conditions of disease not as
sociated with either the ears or the eyes, and
sometimes medical men are hard put to as
certain just what is causing it.
One cause not always taken into account,
as it should be, is intestinal disorder. As
the New York Medical Journal editorially
reminds -its professional readers:
“Like the tomach, the intestine bay be the
cause of the phenomena of vertigo. Glenard,
Sigaud, Vincent, not to mention others, have
met with vertigo in instances of prolapse of
the transverse colon in distention of the
colon by gas, and typhlectasis; while Pro®,
Mendel and others have reported instances
of vertigo in cases of chronic enterocolitis.
“All types of vertigo may be met with in
intestinal disturbances, from simple indeci
sion in walking to the state of ‘mal vertige
neux,’ and even Meniere’s vertigo, trith fall
ing and vomiting, has been known to occur.”
Os course, medical ability to cope with
vertigo thus caused depends on the charac
ter of the intestinal trouble. A long and te
dious treatment may be required, perhaps
surgical intervention. But often relief may
be obtained through simple measures.
For example, in one case reported by the
specialist, Loeper, a middle-aged man had
for months been afflicted not merely with
vertigo, but with a constant ringing in his
ears and partial loss of control of the mus
cles of his legs. In fact, he walked like a
man suffering from a serious organic disease
of the nervous system.
Yet his nervous system was sound enough,
as a careful examination made certain. Nor
did he have ear disease of any kind, and he
was free from eye strain. His case remained
puzzling until he stated that he was a victim
of chronic constipation, and was troubled
with headaches and nausea whenever the
constipation became pronounced.
Now a tentative diagnosis of intestinal
vertigo was made, and oil enemata were or
dered or a complete emptying o fthe intes
tine. Almost at once there was a recovery
of muscular control, the ringing in the ears
ceased, and the vertigo likewise.
In other cases good results have been re
ported on a treatment of dieting for the cure
of constipation and reduction of the possi
bility of food poisoning. This last is indeed
a possibility which should always be reck
oned with in baffling cases of vertigo.
Research is making it more and more evi
dent that there are many people to whom
sundry foods, particularly protein foods, are
positively poisonous. Some cannot tolerate
eggs, others are poisoned by meat, others by
peas or beans, and so forth. Vertigo may
be among the symptoms of such poisoning.
(Copyright, 1920 by The Associated News
papers.)
THE SMATTERERS
By Dr. Frank Crane
We are Dut smatterers. For instance, what
loes the average man know of the sciences.
We studied some of them at school and a
general notion and a few technical terms
stay by us. Os botany we recall endogens
and exogens, and remember analyzing some
plants by the aid of a table of genera; of
geology a few shreds of carboniferous era
and troglodytes and the like remain; of
mathematics we recall Euclid’s problem per
haps and an axiom or two; and of biology,
psychology, history, Latin, Greek and the
rest, what have we left? Twenty years of
selling dry goods or practicing law or work
ing in a railway office have sent these globes
of learning to people the distant sky.
We smatter througn life. In our newspa
pers and magazines and reviews we get
glimpses, and glimpses they must remain for
most part, since we have no time to deepen
and perfect them.
Think also of the full-orbed life of China,
of Japan, of India; how rich, crowded and
multifarious are those nations; we have but
a vague notion of them. It is not the least
curious impression one has In going to
France, or Germany, or Italy, to find how
intensely interested all the people are in their
own affairs; how their politics, society and
business absorb them, as much as ours do
us; and we are absoltuely outside of them,
strangers, not understanding even the lan
guage.
How small a world, too, is that of the
graphic and plastic arts, painting and sculp
ture! When you go into an art gallery or
i museum, how you are bewildered! Very
small is the number of inhabitants, compar
atively speaking, in the realm of music; for,
how many people do you know who are thor
oughly familiar with Bach and Palestrina,
who know the motifs of Wagner, the man.
ner. of Tchaikowsky and the scope of grand
opera? Art critics write to us as if we knew
all this; but we don’t. We like to pretend
we do.
And then in the more near and familiar
things, what worlds for us are unexplored!
There are hundreds who haven’t the faintest
notion of the laboring class and their prob
lems. There are thousands to whom society,
or that little circle of the rich and workless
and endowed which we call the smart set
and the French call the beautiful world or
simply the world (exclamation point) is as
foreign and unexplored a country as Peru
and Tasmania.
And how little we know, after all, of
weightier things; o love, of which we un
derstand but the laces and trimmings; of
religion, whose names and terms and orms
we know, but whose towering realities are
as telescopic stars of blue-hazed mountain
summits; and of life itself, whose inner
meaning, and essence, and use, and pur
pose, and proper enjoyment we but guess.
Come, brothers, let us be as friendly as
we can and creep near one another In com
fort and charity, for oui- souls are truly babes
in the woods; on the branches are strange
birds; among the dark trunks are shining
eyes of animals which we know not to be
friendly or fierce; ii. the sky are balls of
curious light, mysterious; and in our own
hearts bewildering currents of passion and
bottomless pools of feeling. Let us join
hands. For we know but little. We per
ceive but spooks vanishing, not solid bodies.
(Copyright, 1920, for Frank Crane.)
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
XI. THE LINCOLN-Mc-
CLELLAN RACE OF 1864
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 28.
tl is difficult for this gen
e r a t i o n, acknowledging
Abraham Lincoln as one of
the greatest of men and as the great
est leader of the Republican party,
to realize the fact that he won his
renomination and re-election to the
presidency in 1864 over the greatest
obstacles. Practically every leader
in the Republican party was opposed
to Lincoln’s renomination. Nearly
every prominent Republican in the
country believed that Lincoln could
not defeat General .McClelland if he
were renominated. But the people
of the whole north rose up in their
might, ran rough-shod over the poli
ticians and instructed their delegates
to vote for "Old Abe.”
Months after the nomination was
made it seemed certain that McClel
land would be elected. The Repub
lican campaign leaders gave up hope
and Lincoln himself admitted defeat.
Two months before the election the
tide turned the other way, thanks
to a Democratic blunder and a vic
tory won by the Union armies in the
south.
The Democratic party had been a
wonderful political machine and had
dominated the country for sixty
years. It had been more powerful
in the north in the south for
a goodly portion of that six decades.
It was too strong in the north to
die in a brief four years. So greatly
did the Republican organization fear
it, notwithstanding its broken condi
tion, that the Republican leaders de
liberately adjured their party name
and called a national "Union” con
vention to meet at Baltimore early
in June. The “Union” party it was
that renominated Lincoln, not the
Republican.
Two Kinds of Democrats
The Democrats of the stat.es re
maining in the union were divided
into two camps—War Democrats and
Peace Democrats. Both factions
were rather free with their criticism
of Lincoln’s administration, but
neither could say the hard things
that the "Radical Republicans” were
saying. The Peace Democrats were
those who believed in letting the
southern states go, or in anything
to bring peace. They were all ac
cused, and many were guilty, of be
ing in sympathy with the Confed
erates. They were the ‘ dough-faces
who had supported Pierce and Buch
anan and Breckinridge in the past.
They were now the hated ana de
spised “Copperheads.” One of the
most pleasant Republican campaign
songs of the period was:
"Os all the factious men we’ve seen,
Existing now or long since dead,
No one was ever known so mean,
As him we call a Copperhead,
A draft-evading Copperhead,
A rebel-aiding Copperhead,
A scowling, slandering, howling,
Vicious, a states- S Rlghts’ Copperhead.”
If the Copperheads were hated,
they were not so dangerous to Lin
;nin nollticallv as the "radicals” of
his own party. He kne YL
nlace the Copperheads, but it was
hard for him to fight the radicals
like Fremont, Thad St «vens Ben
Wade and others ofthat ilk e
oo»n.»tlo»
cou to meet the determined opposl
tion of mep like Salmon
William H n S !®^a r him to Hl-conceal-
Stanton, who held him m lnfu]
ed contempt. And it w Horace
to Lincoln to see m openly
Greeley d hl C a h Ven om inaHon on the
ground^ not possibly be
eleCt ßMml*« Within the KfUlkß
The "Radical Republicans held a
l°n nV a d TiltS e
i U h iO c’ Fremont 1 was nominated for
president and John for vice
?eadtrs°inTh7conv y en?ion. hut ltwa«
ll a A r urp n ose to influence the BaKL
C °Lin£ n n hld already been
Bta nd. . U lr j‘ fact because more
E two-thirds of the Aelegates U
Baltimore had been instructel How
ever, the leaders might doubt Lin
coin, the people believed in Honest
of his own renomination,
Lincoln set about the task of get
ting a war Democrat and a south
erner for his running mate. Andrew
Johnson, of Tennessee, was nominat
ed because Lincoln personally con
ducted the campaign for his selec
tion He wanted to get the support
of the war Democrats and he wanted
to have a southerner on the tick® l
because of its effect in Europe. Lin
coln held to the belief that sepes
slon was unconstitutional and that
the eleven states of the confederacy
were not legally out of tke T
it had not been for this belief at the
beginning of the war, the north
would have taken Horace Greeley s
advice to "let the wayward sisters
depart in peace.”
The Baltimore convention held to
Lincoln's ideas. Thaddeus Stevens
was there fighting against every
movement to indorse the Lincoln
policy of reconstruction, contending
that the seceded states were actual
ly and legally out of the union, and
that when retaken they should be
treated as conquered territory. Stev
ens was defeated at every turn in
the Baltimore convention. But his
opposition to Lincoln’s policy and
his hatred of Andrew Johnson was
not ended.
A. Democratic Blunder
Nearly three months after he was
renominated, Lincoln and his advis
ers reached the conclusion that Mc-
Clellan, already agreed upon as the
Democratic nominee, would win the
election. On August 23, he wrote
and signed a paper, which he sealed
and delivered to the Secretary of
Navy, Gideon Welles, with Instruc
tions not to open it until after the
election. Then it will be my duty to
co-operate with the presdent-elect so
as to save the union between the
election and inauguration, as he will
have secured his election on such
grounds that he cannot possibly save
it afterward."
Six days later, on August 29 the
Democratic national convention met
in Chicago. It nominated Genera!
McClellan for president and George
H. Pendleton, of Ohio, for vice pres
ident. Then it made the fatal mis
take of adopting a platform that de
clared the war to be a failure. Al
most at the same time came the
news that Atlanta had fallen and of
union victories in Virginia. General
McClellan hastened to repudiate that
portion of the platform, but it was in
vain. The Confederacy was crumb
ling to its fall and the people turn
ed to Lincoln.
Still the campaign waxed on. The
October elections in Pennsylvania
showed great Democratic gains and
the administration was alarmed.
Lincoln got Generals Meade and
Sheridan each to furlough 5,000
Pennsylvania soldiers to go home to
vote. He carried the state on the
home vote only by a few over 5,000
and including the soldier vote in the
field by only 20,000. New York he
carried by only 6,000. Tammany
Hall supported McClellan and gave
him 36,000 majority in New York'
Cityt.
Greeley, in the New York Tribune,
heartily supported Lincoln and de
nounced McClellan as a traitor. But
at the same time he said that no
one would pretend to think Mr. Lin
coln a great man. The New York
Herald thought the choice between
“Old Abe” and "Little Mac” was a
choice between evils, not between
excellencies. For a time during the
heat of the campaign it appeared
that Lincoln had no friends among
the leaders and the newspapers.
Carping critics dissected his every
act. But the great mass of the peo
ple were for him. When the elec
tion was over he had carried twen
ty-two of the twenty-five states
which voted, receiving 212 electoral
votes to McClellan’s 21. McClellan
carried only New Jersey, Kentucky
and Delaware.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1«, 1920.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From
All Over the Earth
Two thousand returned soldier
farmers, occupying 480,000 acres of
choice Alberta land, have been placed
by the Alberta oranch of the Sol
dier Settlement board since February,
1919. The sum of $11,286,003 has been
loaned to the settlers for the pur
chase of the land, stock and equip
ment.
German government’s appeal for
the surrender of weapons in the
hands of the civilian population, it is
stated that 750,000 weapons and 3,-
250,000 rounds of ammunition have
ben given up
Thirty million marks have been
paid in rewards for surrender of
thes arms.
In Bavaria the result is declared
i to be unsatisfactory, but in Berlin
• a fairly clean sweep has been made.
An avalanche of divorce petitions
breaking all records for Boston and
necessitating two separate sessions
of the divorce court, promises to add
nearly 50 per cent to the divorce rate
there this year.
At the twin sessions of the divorce
court, cases are now being handled
as frequently as one every ten min
utes.
Treatment of appendicitis by antl
gangrenous serum instead of by op
eration has been tested with such
satisfactory results that It is likely
operations as a cure soon will be
abandoned. Prof. Pierre Delbert said
in a paper read in Paris before the
congress of surgery. According to
I Professor Delbert the tests have ex
tended over a period of thirteen
years.
I The Red Star liner Gothland, from
i Danzig, Rotterdam, Cherbourg and
I Falmouth, arrived at New York last
j week with a steerage list of 1,30 3
: made up almost entirely of- immi
grants eeking a haven in this coun
try from the rigors of winter in Mid
dle Europe.
According to the ship’s officers
and a glimpse at the steerage mani
fest, no greater variety of aliens has
i come here in the hold of one ship
since the European war. Just how
many of tie newcomers will be per
mitted to enter the country is some
upon which the immigration
officials were unwilling to hazard an
opinion.
New York custom house apprais
ers were recently setting a value on
the 183.15 carat diamond known as
"The Sultan’s diamond,’ ’probably the
largest ever brought to this port,
• which Fred Withram brought on the
Aqui-tania. It is 1 1-2 inches in
diameter and 1 1-4 deep.
Withram is manager of the Mad
rid branch of an American bank. He
has been abroad in that capacity
five years.
"When Abu-el-Hafid was Sultan
of Morocco,” Mrs. Withram said, "he
wore this diamond in the centre of
his turban. On abdicating in favor
of his brother he took the diamond,
among other valuables, to Spain. As
they were heirlooms he did not try
to dispose of them, but recently de
cided to sell this diamond. He has
asked Mr. Withram to sell it for
him.”
A pension fund for newspaper
men is proposed in a bill intro
duced in the Argentine Congress.
The measure would authorize the
appropriation of 500,000 |>esos to
start the fund, which would be
maintained and increased by con
tributions of 5 per cent monthly
from the salaries of the beneficia
ries, contributions by their employ
ers of an amount equal to 1 per
cent of thteir monthly salaries, and
proceeds of theatrical and other
benefits. The fund would be su
pervised by the Presfe Club of
Buenos Ayres.
Persons who have been employed
in journalism for twenty-five years
and are at least forty-five years of
age would receive from the fund
3 per cent of their ordinary sala
ries, multiplied by the number of
years they have served.
No Porto Rico sugars are being
forced on the market, San Juan re
ports say. Whatever sugars there
are here are being held for better
or worse. (This is evidently being
done to prevent refiners from re
ducing the price of raw sugar, as
the Cuban growers have asked the
Porto Rican producers to join them
in an attempt to prevent a cut in
prices.)
For the first time in many years
two weeks have gone by without
the shipment of any sugar from
the island. Approximately 640,000
bags, or 80,000 tons, remain in the
island for export.
The citizens of New York smash
ed all previous records during the
week of registration just ended,
when 1,367,835 men and women qual
ified to vote in the five boroughs.
This was an increase of 288,409 over
last year’s registration, which at the
time set a new mark. «
The enrollment at Harvard Uni
versity for the fall term is 5,481, an
announcement from the register’s of
fice says. This represents a gain
of 450 students over last year and
an increase in every department ex
cept the divinity school, which, with
a registration of 36, loses 12 stu
dents.
‘TIMES HAVE CHANGED,’
SAYS VETERAN READER
AND HE TELL? ABOUT IT
“To the Editor of the Tri-Weekly
Journal:
"To the fellow that has lived In
the age of Old-timeism and is now
living in this modern, up-to-date age,
the difference to him is almost be
yond his comprehension. Back then
we took things easy. Now we take
'em by storm. Away back yonder
we used to walk to meetin’ and tote
our shoes. Now if we go to meetin’
at all, we go in our automobiles at
the rate of thirty miles an hour, with
our fifteen dollar slippers on.
"In the old times we had our front
yards inclosed with rail fences. Now
some of ’em are inclosed by ever
green hedges and have concrete walks
to the front porches. It used to be
we wore homemade cotton shirts.
Now some of us wear silk shirts
adorned with imitation diamond stud
buttons. It used to be that girls
began to wear long dresses at about
sixteen or seventeen years of age.
Now they wear short dresses when
they are forty years old.
“Away back yonder you could get
a pair of boots for three dollars.
They looked like it took the biggest
part of a cowhide to made ’em. Now
a pair of slippers will cost you ten
dollars, and it looks like the hide
off of a cow’s ear would furnish
enough leather to make ’em.
"We farmers used to have to clear
land, split rails and build fences.
Now we ride around in our automo
biles and talk about holdin’ our cot
ton for forty cents a pound. It used
to be that we young folks had dancin'
frolics. Now instead of that, they
have week-end parties and think
about how up-to-date they are.
"Away back yonder we would take
our pine torches and go and sit til
bed-time with our neighbors. Now
about the only way we think of our
neighbor is how we are goin’ to out
shine him and fly the highest.
"It used to be we could take a
big drink of good old sweet mash
blockade corn whisky, and it would
make you love your neighbor. Now
you take a drink of this up-to-date
blockade whisky, and it makes you
want to kill your neighbor. Away
back yonder we went slow and en
joyed the scenery. Now we are
breakin’ the speed limit.
“Away back yondei - when we got
sick, we had to make out on bone
set tea, asafoetida and Tutt’s pills.
Now when we get sick we have to
get some specialist to prescribe for
us. He usually sends us to the sur
geon. The surgeon then takes his
carvin’ knife, carves into Us and
takes out all the useless things which
belong to our physical make-up.
"I am not worrying about the fast
times because I know that an old
timer like me can never change ’em.
I am just talkin’ about the differ
ence between the times now, and
the times when I was a barefoot boy
up at Petit’s Little Mill.
“ ‘MIKE CASEY.’
"Originally from Petit’s Little Mill.”
DOROTHYJDIX TALKS
THE FAMILY MARTYR
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright. 1920. by the Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.)
A YOUNG woman was engaged
to be married to a splendid
young fellow who went to the
war and did a man’s part in
it. He is back now and is pressing
her to marry him, whiqh she wants
to do because they love each other
dearly and long to make real the
home of their dreams. But the wom
an’s sister has recently died, leav
ing four children, and the girl’s
family tell her that it is her duty
to give up her own happiness and
devote her life to rearing these
motherless little ones.
A woman, well in the thirties, has
toiled like a slave ever since she
was fifteen years old, to support a
mother, and sisters and brothers,
and to give the youpnger children
the education and advantages she
never had. Although she earns a fine
salary, she has never been able to
save a cent for her old age, or even
to indulge herself in any luxuries
as she went along, because it took
all she could make to give the oth
ers the things they thought they
were bound to have. The sisters and
brothers are now all grown and at
work, or married, but they refuse to
aid in supporting their mother, and
still come home for the Cinderella
sister to support them when they
are out of a job, or want to take
a vacation without paying board.
A woman who is a Heaven born
genius as a dressmaker, and who
could make her thousands every yea?
in any city, lives in a small village
where she works for a pittance, be
cause her mother, whom she has to
support, will not leave her old home
and her old friends go to a
strange place where she will have
nobody with whom to gossip over
the back fence.
The three women, who are the
heroines of these domestic tragedies,
ask me what they shall do, an<!
whether they shall sacrii.ee them
selves for their families or npt.
I say so. I believe that nihe times
out of ten a sacrifice is not only
made in !valn, but that it harms in
stead of helps those whom It was
destined to aid.
Especially does the domestic sac
rifice breed selfishness and parasi
tism, and turn its recipients into
human ghouls who have neither
compassion nor mercy upon the
poor martyr upon whose very life
blood they live.
Think of the families you know
in which there is some one poor
creature who has sacrificed herself
for the balance, and who is un
thanked and unregarded, even de
spised, because she has not spirit
enough to demand her fights'.
Think of the poor shabby older
sisters that you know who wear
patched shoes, and year-before-last’s
hats, so that their pretty young sis
ters may have silver slippers to
dance in and the latest thing in mil
linery! Think of the worn old wom
en boarding-house keepers you know
who work their fingers to the bones
CMJIZ
New Questions
1— is President Wilson a singer?
2At the start of the world war
was Canada compelled to furnish
troops?
3 what is bull baiting?
4 How many strings has a piano?
5 How much does the blood in
a human body weigh?
6 Can you tell me how large St
Bernard dogs grow to be and how
large Russian wolf hounds?
7 Where is the most powerful
telescope in the United States?
3 —What are the dimensions of the
Liberty Bell?
9ls it necessary to be an Amer
ican in order to get sea training for
merchant marine service.
10— How old is the office of the
justice of the peace?
Questions Answered
1 Q. — Is there a book in the Bible
that does not contain the word
God?
1 A.—ln the King James version
of the Bible the word God does not
appear in the book of Esther.
2 Q. —Is there a town in the Unit
ed States named O. K.?
2 A. —There is an O. K. in Ken
tucky, an Okay in Arkansas, an
Ok'ey in Ohio, and Oka in both Mon
tana and West Virginia.
3 Q. —What distance out to sea
does the jurisdiction of this coun
try extend?
3 A.—The jurisdiction of the Unit
ed States extends three miles out
to sea.
4 q. —Does a car consume more
gasoline at 30 miles or at 15 miles
an hour?
4 A.—The American automobile as
sociation says that other conditions
being the same, a car would use less
gas when going fast, because it
would be possible to use a leaner
mixture.
5 Q. —Are there any prohibition
laws similar to our eighteenth
amendment in Honduras or Cuba?
5 A. —Neither Cuba nor Honduras
has a national prohibition law.
6 Q. —What is the religion of Gov
ernor Cox, the Democratic candidate
for president?
6 A. —Governor Cox is a member
of tjie United Brethren church,
which he joined when a boy at
Jacobsburg, Ohio. At the present
time he and his family attend the
Episcopal church.
7 Q. —How many newspapers are
printed every day in this country?
7 A.—There are 2,580 newspapers
that are printed dally in the United
States. Os these, 160 are printed
in 21 different languages.
8 Q. —Has the secret of the “mys
tery ships” of England been re
vealed?
8 A.—Toward the close of the
world war England constructed two
"twin towers,” which were to be the
greatest naval surprise of the war.
They rise 60 feet above the sea level
and are equipped wth longest range
guns made. Until after the armistice
the greatest secrecy was maintained
in regard to these floating forts, but
recently the atmosphere of mystery
was dispelled by the public launch
ing of the towers at Shoreham, Eng
land. These queer naval structures
cost $5,000,000 apiece.
9 Q. —What coin first bore the
motto "In God We Trust?"
9 A.—The bronze two-cent piece
coined in 1864 was the first coin to
bear this motto.
10 Q. —Please give a description of
the first airplane that actually
flew.
10 A.—The first practical air
plane was made by Orville and Wil
bur Wright, of Dayton, Ohio. This
machine weighed a little over 200
pounds, and when tested on De
cember 17, 1903 at the Kill Devil
Sand Hills, near Kitty Hawk, N. C.,
made four successful fights in one
of which the airplane rose of its
own power, remained in the air 59
seconds, and traveled for a distance
of 852 feet.
DRINKING AT MEALS
NOW RECOMMENDED
Contrary to a long-standing the
ory, water taken with meals Is now
recommended. For years it has
been taught such a procedure weak
ens the secretions of gastric juice,
also that digestion would be delayed
or inhibited. But now it has been
proved that drinking water with
meals stimulates the secretion of
gastric juice, that it produces an im
proved liver function and that it en
ables the food to be utilized more
economically; further, the saliva
acts more efficiently when diluted
with water. Thus we are encourag
ed to drink plenty of pure water
while eating.—Thrift Magazine.
to keep husky lads playing on foot
ball teams in colleges!
Think of the old maid aunts who
haye given their youth to rearing
other peoples’ children, and who in
their old age are regarded as burdens
by the very nephews and nieces for
whom they have sacrificed their
lives! Think of the old maid daugh
ters who have been slaves to tyran
nical mothers, who have foregone
matrimony or the careers they might
have had, to stay at home and coddle
a cranky old woman’s whims, and
whom mother always speaks of aS
“poor Mary or poor Jane,” and says
that she never was brilliant like her
other children!
The truth is that we wrap so much
of the pink chiffon of sentimentality
around sacrifice, that we have lost
sight of justice and common sense
in the n atter. Yet when all is said,
why should one person be sacrficea
to another? Why isn’t one individual
as entitled to happiness as another?
Why isn’t one life worth as much as
another?
In the main, sacrifices are not only
useless, but wrong. Struggle and
hardship develop character ana
sharp.en wits, just as exercise
strengthens the body and develops
suppleness. Therefore when we stand
between an Individual and what we
call the hardships of life, we are do
ing him or her an injury, instead
of a kindness. And we commit a
crime against another when we fos
ter greed, and egotism and self-will
in him or her.
So the mother who works herself
to death that her children may be
idle, instead of making them bear
their just share of earning their
dj.ily bread, does them a wrong. The
men who achieve things in the world
have not been the ones who had
mothers who kept them in cotton
wool.
Nobody can accept a sacrifice
without being brutalized by it. You
will never find a man whose wife
supports him who does not abuse her.
Nor a son who permits his mother
to make a door mat of herself for
him who does not trample all over
her heart. Nor will you ever be
hold a family grateful to the woman
who is the sacrificial goat.
Also a sacrifice is generally Ji
boomerang that annihilates the
source from which It sprang. A fam
ily will tie a brilliant and talented
girl to the cook stove, and make her
sacrifice her career because they
think she should help mother, when,
if they would let ner go, she could
make enough money to hire a regi
ment of cooks. Or they will per
suade a soft-headed girl, with an in
growing conscience, to give up her
happiness in order to play nurse maid
to children, or cater to a selfish and
self-centered old mother or father,
and then bemoan the fact that t.iey
have to have her tag on to their
families, because she has never mar
ried and had a home of her own.
So I say to women that sacrifice
is folly. Don’t let anybody make a.
goat of you.
Mrs. Solomon Says:
Being the Confessions of The
Seven-Hundredth Wife
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Copyright, 1920, by The McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.
THE Ages of Man, My Beloved,
are not seven, but. FOUR in
number.
For, until he hath waxed
twenty, he is but a lump of proto
plasm; and after forty he solidify
eth, and is "settled. ’’
Behold him, at twenty, the
IDEALIST!
“The world,” he saith, "is my golf
ball, and fate my bag of sticks!
"Life is a magic Christmas tree,
full of surprises and miracles,
wherefrom I shall snatch watsq
ever I desire, even the top-most
star.
“All women are wonderful, deli
cious, fascinating, mysterious! 1
bow before them In humility and
wonder—yet I know that they were
made for my delight
“Love Is a pure white flame, a
sweet dream, a high destiny.
"Marriage Is love’s dream come
true, the ideal mating of two souls.
"A kiss is a sacrament —or, If
not that, a sacrilege!”
Behold him at twenty-five, the
REVOLUTIONIST!
"The world,” he saith, Is all
wrong! Omar was right!
"Life Is a struggle against op
pression and tyranny—with the odds
in favor of Mammon!
"All women are slaves— slaves to
men, slaves to dress, slaves to
conventionality, slaves to their own
pettiness.
"Love is a natural expression of
sex, disguised as a virtue!
"Marriage is a prison, when it
should be a privilege!
"A kiss is the end of romance,
and the price of freedom!
Behold him at thirty, the CYNICf
"The world.” he said, "is a joke,
life is a joke, man is a joke—and
Fate is the humorist!
"All women are designing little
grafters, and after the same thlngw:
marriage, an Income, the title of
’Mrs.’—and ME! But I shall jolly
them, flirt with them, kise them,
and dodge them!
"Love is a mixture of moonlight,,
perfume, sentiment, selfishness ana
curiosity; the star-dust which a
woman throweth into a man's eyes,
that she may lead him to the
quicksands of matrimony.
"Marriage is the greatest Incident
In the life of a woman—the great
est accident In the life of a man!
"A kiss Is an end that justlfieth
any meanness!
Behold him at forty the PHILOB
-
"The world,” he saith, “Is a pret
ty good place!
"Life is pleasant, painful, or de
lightful according to what we put
into it, rather than according to
what we get out of It.
"Women are neither devils nor
angels, but human beings made to
match the men; wives are neither
necessities, nor superfluities, but
delightful luxuries.
"Marriage is not an ideal stat*
—neither is it a failure, though
many husbands and wives are fail
ures.
"Love is neither a consuming
flame, a disastrous conflagration, a
pitfail, nor an idle pastime. But,
with all its follies and its sorrows,
it is the only thing in all the world
worth living for.
"A kiss is—just a kiss!’
Selah.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
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Cepyrigtrt, 1920 by Mcqiyre