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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 months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wu.l Vo. 3 Mot. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c Wc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday ••••••.•••«••• 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 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. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling • representatives. “ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label uaed tor addressing your paper show* the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you Insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old ae well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscript lona to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. 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he and his regime evidently were bent when they felt confident of victory and has made large concessions besides; has withdrawn all provisions against which the Poles protested, and has offered to restore divers works of art and historic trophies which the czars in times gone took from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 ISTb-KEBPUH WANTER KNOW AIM* AH <JES’ BOUT LOS* PE TAS? FUH BEER-- AH AIN' LOS' PE TAS* FUH IT BUT AH SHo IS PONE LOS* T>E TAS’ UV ww Cepyrigtrt, 1920 by Mcqiyre