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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
A Great Feature of the Fair
THE Southeastern Fair, which has
opened most auspiciously and with
unusually rich prospects for construc
tive Influence, embraces among its many
notable features one that is altogether new.
We mean the international stock-judging con
test for farm lads, inaugurated through the
co-operation of the Fair’s dirctors with the
State’s Relation Service of the Federal De
partment of Agriculture. There have been
limited contests between teams from agri
cultural colleges, but never one of such scope
and far-reaching purpose as that to be con
ducted at Lakewood. Youths from every
State of the Union and from foreign lands as
well have been invited to participate, with
the result of a gratifyingly large number of
acceptances.
Happy will the winners be, for rewards no
less substantial than distinguishing await,
them. The first prize will be a free trip to
the world-famous Royal Live Stock Show in
London, England. ‘ The winning team,” runs
the announcement, “will be accompanied by
the State Club leader from its State, by the
county club agent who trained the winner,
and by a club official from the Department
at Washington.” Regardless of prizes, how
ever, all who take part will be abundantly
repaid by the experience gained, while the
entire South will profit from the educative
and Quickening results.
As President Hastings, of the Fair Asso
ciation, aptly points out, every student of
agricultural development, and, for the mat
ter of that, every intelligent observer of the
.‘■'outh’s progress, will find it exceedingly in
teresting to watch the boys at work in the
judging rings during the week.
“Under the agreement,” he explains,
"teams representing the various States
and foreign nations, engaged in club
work will be sent to the Southeastern
Fair, each State or country being per
mitted to send two contestants, with ore
alternate to be selected by the Stat?
agents under the rules governing tie
contest. These boys will be taken care
of in a camp similar to that of th°
Southeastern Boys’ Fair School and will
have opportunity to take part in the
judging of twelve rings to consist of
Hereford, Angus and Shorthorn beef
breeds; Jersey, Holstein and Guernsey
dairy cattle; Duroc-Jersey, Poland China,
Berkshire and Hampshire hogs; South
down and Shropshire sheep. No club
member may take part who hag taken
part in any interstate or national judging
contest prior to this year or who has
been at any time an enrolled student in
any college teaching agriculture.”
The management of the Southeastern Fail
and its generous co-operators are warmly to !
be congratulated upon this excellent piece ’
of enterprise. That the South’s agricultural
upbuilding and prosperity depend largely on
the development of live stock industries is a
fact emphasized by every student of our ma
teria! interests. In this, as in all construc
tive work, the Fair is doing service that is
truly invaluable and worthy of the public’s
full-hearted appreciation.
The Cost of Poor Roads
THE American Automobile Association,
in issuing schedules and guide books
for Southern travel, states that the
number of inquiries already received at its
New York office Indicate more motorists will
tour Florida this winter than ever before in
history.
One reason for this is the improvement of
Florida roads and the growing popularity of
Florida generally as a winter resort. Then,
too, there is “wet” Cuba, a few hours’ boat
ride from Key West.
One is chagrined to note in the guide
books the dubious picture painted of Georgia
roads. The tourists are told that, while all
is rather easy sailing through Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Carolinas,
they are likely to encounter treble in Geor
gia, the gateway to the Lci«r of Sunshine.
As a result, advice is given concerning the
shipping of cars direct to Jacksonville, where
the jaunt may be continued pleasantly along
the famous roads of the east coast.
While Georgia roads have made vast im
provements in the past few years and during
most of the winter and summer are quite
passable throughout the State, we must ad
mit that, particularly in the rainy season,
there are spots en route to Florida to daunt
the courage if the most optimistic automo
bilist. This is a condition undoubtedly harm
ful to me State, not only in the prestige lost
in the minds of visitors, but in cold dollars
and cents.
Florida, which has spent millions on her
roads, has received returns many times over
from her tourists. There is no reason why
Georgia, especially South Georgia, could not
become equally as desirable to the tourist
and wax equally as prosperous in returns
from tourists. So long as motorists avoid
Georgia, if possible, or press on as fast as
they can, so long will Georgia lose much rev
enue. When we build roads that make it a
temptation to tarry in Georgia, where the
sunshine is just as oright as Florida’s and
the towns every bit as attractive, Georgia will
take her rightful place as one of the choicest
of the winter resort States.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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Home Talent
National celebrities like Dr. Crane, Mr.
Haskin, Dorothy Dix, Helen Rowland and
the rest, whose work is a special and reg
ular feature in The Tri-Weekly Journal,
make up a distinguished roster of writers.
Yet they have no monopoly on the tal
ent that goes into the making of the paper.
For instance, Angus Perkerson and
Ward Greene, are two staff writers who
were “born and raised” right here on The
Journal, so to speak. Every reader doubt
less is familiar with their names.
! Just lately Angus Perkerson has had
j two fine contributions in the paper. One
i was about his visit to the home of Tom
! Watson and the other 1 told of the com
i ing “sky route” between New York and
Atlanta.
Ward Greene was The Journal’s own
correspondent in France two years ago.
And all the recent interesting stories about
Atlanta’s “mixed baby” tangle were writ
ten by him, although all of them were not
signed.
Our readers may be interested to know
that both of these young southern writers
have "arrived” in the world of literature.
Short stories from their pens are begin
ning to appear right along in American
magazines.
A humorous bit of fiction, called "Pink
With Blue Insertion,” appeared over Mr.
Perkerson’s signature in the latest issue
of Telling Tales, out this week.
The Tri-Weekly Journal goes after the
keenest brains in the literary world in
trying to get out the best paper in its
field.
The Southeastern Fair
The Southeastern fair had a big opening
in Atlanta Saturday. It’s a real wonder
place. Never before has there been so
much to see and do there. Whether it’s
only to enjoy a brief vacation, or to learn
new things or to gain fresh ideas and in
spiration; nobody ought to miss the fair if
it can be helped.
Chitterlin Time in Georgia
IN Atlanta they are agitated about the
food prices in the cases, wrangling over
the question of how much one shall pay
for a dish of canned peas, with coffee and
prunes on the side. In South Georgia, one
learns from the Thomasville Times-Enter
prise. the menu in many homes within a few
weeks will include —
Chitterlings, spareribs, backbone, liver
puddin’, souse, quail, doves, ducks, turkeys
and “hundreds of other delightful dishes,
as well as new Georgia cane syrup, sweet
’taters and ’possums.”
Ah, we who live in cities are mere to be
pitied than censured! Assemble our street
cars, our telephones, our electric lights and
our hot water; call the roll of our theaters,
our libraries and our concerts; list our
newspapers, our paved streets, our parks and
our playgrounds. Bring them all together,
the assets of the city, and then place beside
them one dish of South Georgia chitterlings
with new Georgia cane syrup, sweet ’taters,
hot biscuit and ham gravy on the side;
what choice can be left to the starved soul
who has been be-pruned and be-peaed day
in and day out for many weary weeks?
Not only in the matter of the flesh-pots are
city-dwellers unfortunate. It is harvest time
in Georgia now, but what is harvest time
to them? The rattling of radiators breath
ing wheezily once more after the long sum
mer holiday; an increase in the soft coal
smoke that clogs noses, soils collars
and clouds the atmosphere around; hur
ried sorties to the clothiers to exchange the
frail Palm Beach for the expensive suitings
and overcoatings we can but ill afford.
Yet, only a few hours’ drive by automobile
from Atlanta, skies are blue as summer seas,
cotton makes white drifts of the fields, and
the wirey wind of autumn threshes across
hills splattered with all the colors of the
rainbow. They are grinding the sweet cane
there, setting the ’possum dogs loose o’
nights, building bonfires for the yams and
the roasting ears. What does it matter if
radiators grumble or grow cold, so long as
the pine logs blaze? Who cares for the
smoke? It is clean and pungent and fra
grant with the stored-up saps of hickory and
pine and persimmon. What boots it if one
dons sweater and frayed trousers when the
quest is turkey and quail and Br’er ’Possum?
Lucky Georgians those who know harvest
time away from the city. Lucky fellows who
sit down to chitterlings and backbone and
spareribs while we agitate the question of
the prce of prunes.
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Your Democratic Dollar
WIERE does your dollar go when it is
contributed to the Democratic cam
paign fund? The Walton Tribune,
one of Georgia’s most discerning weeklies. ,
has some very pertinent answers to that ques- .
tion which should gratify every Georgian who .
gives his dollar or his hundred dollars or his
thousand dollars to the national Democratic
fund. Says the Tribune:
“A dollar contributed by a good Democrat
to the Democratic national campaign fund
will accomplish a great deal. The contribu
tor of a dollar can feel that he is actually
performing one of the following services to
the Democratic party: A ten-dollar contribu
tion does ten times as much: a hundred-dol
lar contribution one hundred times as much,
and so on.
“If used in sending out special articles it
dollar will send a hundred-word news item
to a possible one million one hundred and
fifty thousand readers.
“If used in sending out specia articles it
wll print and deliver to deitors a thousand
word articles, which may reach eight hundred
and thirty-five thousand readers.
“If used by the editorial department, it •
place a Democratic editorial the length of
this on the editorial desk of papers having
a circulation of slightly over a million and
a quarter.
“It will purchase three hundred eight-page
pamphlets on the League of Nations or other
Democratic literature, or pay postage on one
hundred of them, or buy one hundred and
twenty-five bn’tons.
“If used by the Speakers’ Bureau, it will
carry a Democratic message from one of the
speakers to one hundred and fifteen voters.
“It must be borne in mind that f here are
many millions of voters and that they must
be reached not once, but many times and in
many ways.
“Every Democrat can and should do his or
her part. And doing one’s part consists in
giving liberally according to one’s ability
and means—not merely a nomnal sum.
“Conscience as well as patr : otism and De
mocracy calls. The League of Nations means
peace to the nations. Its rejection means—
death and suffering to nations, to mllons
of men, women and children. ’ Invest, your
money in, do your part for the League of
Nations, for Peace, Progress and Prosperity.”
YOUR SYMPTOMS
By H. Addington Bruce
LATELY you have been suffering from
a number of disease symptoms. You
have had a recurring backache, which
is at its worst ■when you rise in the morn
ing. You have occasional attacks of dizzi
ness. Sometimes your head aches. You do
not always sleep soundly.
You know that this means a dangerous
internal trouble. ,
You know it because you have read the
fact so stated in a medical “almanac” which
some distributor kindly left at your door.
Indeed, you owe to this “almanac” your ap
preciation of the gravity of the symptoms
that torment you. .
Until you were thus informed of their
meaning you had gone about your business
in foolish ignorance of the fate overhanging
you. But now that you are aware of it,
you are determined to evade it.
•What troubles you most at the present
time is the singular circumstance that you
have not as yet found a doctor competent
to* make you well again. ,
You have been to half a dozen doctors,
and one and all refuse to take your malady
as seriously as you know they should. Jor
that matter, they have tried to make you
think that you are not ill at all.
They have thumped you and prodded you
and tested you in different ways. Then, in
varying language, they have given you the
advice, “Forget it.” After which they have
presented their bills. You have paid these
and not been a bit better off.
You wonder why such imbeciles are per
mitted to practice medicine. You know you
are ill because your symptoms tell you so.
And you know you are ill of a certain dis
ease because the “almanac” that so con
vincingly describes your symptoms tells
you so.
Let me, however, ask one question, a
question the doctors would have put to you
if you had confided to them jour reading,
of the enlightening “almanaca.”
“Isn’t it a fact that your symptoms have
progressively become worse since the ‘al
manac’ first impressed upon you their dire
significance?”
I am sure you will have to answer this
question in the affirmative. And I am tol
erably sure that until you chanced to read
the “almanac” you felt these particular
symptoms not a whit more often than the
average man or woman does.
Everybody has a backache at times.
Everybody feels dizzy once in a while.
Everybody has an occasional headache.
Everybody sometimes sleeps poorly.
Also it is a fact, though you may never
have had it called to your attention, that
when a person begins to think about bodily
conditions and sensations he begins to ex
perience more frequently the conditions and
sensations of which he thinks.
You will admit that the reading of this
“almanac” made you think of your various
symptoms as you had not done before. Isn’t
it entirely possible that your incessant think
ing about them is responsible for their in
creasng occurrence?
Give the doctors some credit. Burn the
“almanac” and act on their advice. Stop
watching your symptoms, and the chances
really are that you soon won’t have any
symptoms to watch.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
BEHOLD HOW GOOD!
By Dr. Frank Crane
“Behold how good and how pleasant a
thing it is,” cried the Psalmist, “for brethren
to dwell together in unity.”
For ages the ancient psalm has rolled
forth in the Church, “Ecce quam bonum,
quamque, jucundum!”
It’s about time for it to roll out of the
Church, into the street, and fill the city, the
nation, the world with its disposing har
mony.
For “Getting Together” is the most an
cient, time tried and effective cure for all
ills economic, politioal and social.
It has recently been exemplified in Brus
sels, where representatives from the nations
gathered in the International Financial Con
ference.
When armed invasion threatened the
world we found that only by Getting To
gether could destruction be averted. When
the armies of the Allies united as one the
war was soon over.
So also in the presence of the world threat
of debt and financial collapse, we are realiz
ing that by Getting Together we can find a
hope, and the basis of a rational optimism.
The general feeling of the delegates was
that the Conference accomplished all that
could be expected of it. “Even the Ger
man delegates who came to Brussels with
some apprehension regarding their recep
tion,” says the press report, “and the French,
who came with no little skepticism concern
ing the results of the conference, were much
gratified.”
Although this conference is but a small
beginning, yet it is a beginning in the right
way.
The world has been mighty sick, is not yet
out of danger. But it is going to get well.
And this it will do as rapidly as men and na
tions quit hating and *fighting, and take to
conceding, trying to understand and getting
together.
Mr. Boyden, our unofficial American rep
resentative at the conference, said:
“The world really got together here. As
ilways happens when men get together, we
Cound it easy to become friends and ex
change views; to agree with pleasure and
disagree without anger. The spirit of the
conference exemplified a will to promote
among nations the co-operative spirit for
which the League of Nations stands.”
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Questions of the Hour
Who says there are no philosophers left?
Here are three cogitations that would have
done credit to the Athenian market place
when Socrates talked there.
“If car fare keeps going up and Fords keep
going down,” predicts the Syracuse Herald,
“one will not know’ whether to buy a new
Ford every morning or take the street car,”
The Nashville Tennessean opines: “About
the only thing that will make gasoline drop
is a leaky tank.”
And this from the Canton News: “The
restaurant that sells a cup of coffee for ten
cents knows how to capitalize the city
water.”
Editorial Echoes
In auto driving, the least reckless are the
most wreckless.—Norfolk Virginian Pilot.
The question, “What is charity?” is being
discussed in Pasadena. Possibly the attitude
of the courts toward the automobile thief
is the answer.—Los Angeles Express.
A candidate’s idea of giving careful study
to some economic problem is to get someone
else to write his speech on it for him.—
Ohio State Journal.
There are yet a few’ people in this coun
try who ought to be shipped out before the
ocean goes dry.—Toledo Blade.
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
XII. THE GRANT-SEY
MOUR RACE OF 1869
YTT ASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—The
\A/ long and bitter quarrel be-
V V tween President Jonnson
and congress resulted in the
adoption of a policy of reconstruc
tion in the southern states which had
in it more of Thaddeus Stevens than
of Abraham Lincoln. It resulted al
so in the enfranchisement of the ne
groes. But, so far as the campaign
of 1868 was concerned, its most im
portant result was the adherence of
General Ulysses S. Grant to the Re
publican party and his triumphal
election to the presidency. General
Grant was the greatest of all war
heroes, yet it was with the utmost
difficulty that he was persuaded to
become a candidate.
In the first place Grant was a Dem
ocrat. so far as he had any politics
at all. His last vote before the war
xvas for a radical pro-slavery Demo
crat, and he was not even a support
er of Douglas in the quadrangular
fight of 1860. He never cast a Re
publican vote until after he had
served eight years as a Republican
president. The Democrats claimed
him. They had even talked of nom
inating him in 1864. During the
Johnson administration there was
an earnest effort to get the Demo
cratic party on its feet and to nomi
nate Grant for president. If it had
not been for the quarrel between
congress and the president, which re
sulted in a violent break between
Grant and Johnson, the probabilities
are that Grant would have been
nominated and elected by the Demo
crats in 1868.
But Johnson had provoked Grant
to anger and had attempted to sup
ersede him to command of the army
by calling General Thomas to that
position. Grant naturally found
sympathy Was among the Republican
leaders in congress, nearly all of
whom hated Johnson with their
whole souls. So when the Republi
cans began to plead with Grant to
be their candidate, he listened. For
a time he held back, honestly
doubting the wisdom of the step.
Finally his consent was obtained, his
candidacy announced and the whole
thing was over. So far as the head
of the ticket was concerned, the Re
publican national convention which
met in Chicago on May 20 was mere
ly a ratification meeting.
South Did Not Count
While some of the southern states
were permitted to take part' in the
election, no attention was paid to
them as it was known that they
would be excluded if their votes af
fected the result. The race in the
north became a contest in loyalty.
The Republicans waved the “bloody
shirt,” kept on fighting the war, told
the “boys” to “vote as they shot,”
and called all the Democrats "Cop
perheads.” The Democrats, on the
other hand, made violent protesta
tions of intense loyalty, assuming
the “higher patriotism” of a firm re
liance upon the liberties guaranteed
by the constitution. For the most
part the Democrats were supporters
of President Johnson’s administra
tion.
The Republican convention met in
Chicago On the same day—of course
it was accident—thgt the national
soldiers’ aVid sailors’ convention met.
The soldiers and sailors got under
way a littile quicker than the Repub
licans and recommended the nomina
tion of Grant. The convention, next
day, accepted the recommendation
with a whoop.
In some respects, how’ever, it was
the “maddest” bunch of Republicans
that ever assembled in a national
convention. The impeachment trial
of President Johnson had been drag
ging itself out, and every Republican
in the country was absolutely con
fident that the verdict of the senate
would be “guilty.” Only four days
before the Chicago convention met
the senate voted and Johnson was
acquitted. The vote was thirty-four
guilty and fifteen not guilty, but
that lacked one vote of being the
requisite two-thirds. Seven Repub
licans had joined the twelve Demo
crats then in the senate voting for
acquittal. In the convention these
senators were called the “seven
traitors.” Whatever may be the final
verdict of history in the case of An
drew Johnson as a statesman, it is
already unanimously agreed that his
acquittal in the impeachment pro
ceedings was right.
Wade’s Shattered Hopes
There was old Len Wade, presi
dent pro tempore of the senate. If
Johnson had been convicted he would
have succeeded to the presidency
under the old order of succession.
He thought it was a certainty Grant
was to be nominated for president,
but Wade was running for vice
president on the strength of prom
ising patronage for the few months
he was to be president. The Wade
boom fell through when Johnson
was acquitted and Schuyler Colfax
of Indiana got second place on the
ticket.
The Democratic convention that
year met in Tammany Hall on Four
teenth street. New York, on July 4.
It was a great loyalistic and patri
otic gathering and not even the Re
publicans could do more yelling for
the flag. Quite by accident, a most
peculiar coincidence, a National
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ convention met
in New York on the same day. That
convention, entirely distinct from
the one that had met in Chicago in
May, recommended to the Democra
tic convention the nomination of
General Winfield Scott Hancock. But
the Democrats didn’t approve the
recommendation.
Despite the fact, not even so ap
parent, that the Democrats did not
have a ghost of a show to defeat
Grant with anybody they might
name, there was a great contest ov
er the nomination. In the first place
Andrew Johnson, president of the
United States, wanted to run on the
Democratic ticket. He wrote a let
ter saying he would accept the nom
ination. Then George H. Pendleton,
of Ohio, was there as the embodi
ment of the "Greenback” sentiment
which was gaining ground all over
the country. On the first ballot
Pendleton led, Johnson was second,
and Hancock third, with a dozen
other candidates in the field.
Wiley Wire-Pullers
In that convention were the two
shrewdest politicians who ever en
tered the national arena under the
Democratic banner— Horatio Sey
mour and Samuel J. Tilden. Sey
mour was president of the conven
tion, Tilden was leading the New
York delegation., Seymour was the
chief conspirator in a scheme to
stempede the convention to Salmon
P. Chase. If there was ever a man
who wanted to be president it was
Salmon P. Chase. And if ever an
aspirant had a supporter who was
always faithful and always enthus
iastic, it was Chase’s daughter, Kate
Chase Sprague. Chase had been a
candidate in various parties before
the war: he had opposed Lincoln for
the nomination in 1864, and Lincoln
had returned good for evil by mak
ing him justice of the supreme court
despite the memory of his quarrel
with Chase, as secretary of the treas
ury, early in his administration.
It was now 1868 and Chase was
again a candidate, this time for the
Democratic leadership. He had pre
sided over the trial of Andrew John
son as chief justice, and the “fair
ness and impartiality” of his rul
ings were specifically commended in
the Democratic platform. Seymour
had fixed it up to give Chase the
nomination. After the twenty-first
ballot was taken on the fifth day of
the convention, Seymour left the
chair to go out in the hall and or
ganize the Chase stampede, which
was to come off on the twenty
third ballot.
How Tilden Beat Chase
Now Samuel J. Tilden was there,
and he was absolutely opposed to
the nomination of Chase. He was
informed as to Seymour's plans, and
Seymour had left the chair but a
moment when Tilden was in action.
He started the Seymour stampede on
the twenty-second ballot. Seymour
rushed back to the platform and as
state after state followed Tilden's
lead, he shouted: “Gentlemen,
your candidate I cannot be. your
candidate I cannot be!” But he was.
And eight years afterward, when
Samuel J. Tilden was contesting his
right to the presidency before an
extra-constitutional tribunal, Kate
Chase Sprague remembered that it
was Tilden who blocked her father’s
last hope of the presidency, and was
revenged.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From
All Over the Earth
Hot in Gotham
The thermometer of the New
York weather bureau broke its
October altitude record Friday by
recording 82 degrees at 3:30 p. m.
It was the warmest October day
of which the bureau has any rec
ord.
The previous record for October
heat was established just thirty
two years before. On October 14,
1888, the weather bureau’s ther
mometer marked 81 degrees. That
mark stood as the record hereto
fore.
Branch Husbands Tremble
The husband's authority in the
home is threatened in liberty-loving
France.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate repealing a clause of the civil
code which asserted that the wife
owes obedience to her husband.
Senator Louis Martain, who want
ed this clause wiped off the statute
books, said the time had come when
the husband should no longer be an
"absolute m inarch,” but the house
hold should become a “constitutional
monarchy.” Senator Collin opposed
the repeal on the ground that, un
less there is a vzell defined head of
the house, the door would be open to
Bolshevism in the home. Action on
the bill has been postponed.
Authorization by congress for
the government to purchase all
alcoholic liquors now in bonded
warehouses as a means of aiding
prohibition enforcement officers
to curb the illicit sale of whisky
will be demanded by dry workers
all over the country.
Definite steps toward this ac
tion, it is understood, are being
formulated by prominent leaders
of the Anti-Saloon League of
America.
Maine women must give their ex
act age and date of birth before be
ing registered as voters, Associate
Justice Scott Wilson, of the Maine
supreme court, decided recently.
MANY SOLDIERS
ENLIST AGAIN
About one out of every five soldiers
whose enlistments expired during
September have re-enlisted, the army
recruiting service reports. At Camp
Gordon, Georgia, 55 per cent of the
men discharged re-enlisted immedi
ately, and at Camp Lewis, Washing
ton, 50 per cent.
A total of 16,461 men were accept
ed for service during September, and
the war department estimated that
the 280,000 authorized strength would
be reached by spring. There are
now 190,432 men enrolled.
Luminous Cable
Tests of a luminous cable by which
steamers may enter and leave port
during heavy fogs have been attend
ed by Admiral Fourier and the minis
ter of the navy, who have reported
them to have been entirely success
ful. It has been decided to install
one of these cables in the principal
French ports, and the Matin says the
placing of one across the English
channel is being considered.
Not Superstitious
Tw’enty-four couples disregard
ed the thirteenth and applied for
and were granted marriage li
censes in Louisville last week.
Fred L. Koop, marriage license
clerk, predicts a new record will
be set up this year. He believes
the total number of licenses for
the year will reach 4,000, as com
pared to about 3,600 of other
years.
65,000 in Oyster Industry
It takes 65,000 laborers to supply
the American public with its cus
tomary first course, says Luther C.
Fry, writing in World’s Work. This
force includes entire families, as well
as single men. The father works on
the boats which gather the oysters
by dredging or tonging. His wifs
and children can and prepare them
for market.
Boston on Water-Wagon
Arrests for drunkenness in Boston
during the last court year were 1,143
less than in the preceding twelve
months, according to the annual re
port of Edward J. Lord, clerk of the
municipal court.
Roads Last 2,000 Tears
Two thousand years ago the Ro
mans built roads, some of which
are still in active service. These
roads have lasted through the cen
turies, simply because of their mas
sive construction. The Romans
built four successive courses, or lay
ers, on an earth sub-grade carefully
prepared and drained. First came
the statumen, or foundation; then
the rodus, next the nucleus, and fi
nally the pavimentum, or wearing
surface. The statumen and pavi
mentum consisted of large flat
stones, while the two intervening
courses were built of smaller stones
laid in lime mortar. To carry the
chariot and packhorse traffic of Ro
man times these roads were seem
ingly ridiculously heavy, yet the
wisdom of the builders was amply
demonstrated by the 800 years dur
ing which the Roman road system
formed the backbone of the trans
portation system of the ancient em
pire.
Carpentier Wine
Under the white flare of great
arc lights that shut out the stars,
Georges Carpentier, heavyw’eight
champion of Europe, knocked out
Battling Levinskj’ in the first few
seconds of the fourth round of a
bout at Jersey City last week. A
right hook to the jaw was the win
ning smash.
Thirty-five thousand fight fans,
from the highest to the lowest brows
in the metropolitan circuit, paid out
more than $350,000 to see the fast
Frenchman baffle and bewilder the
shrinking Levinsky, who made no
effort to fight back at any stage.
Trousers Burn; No Barrel Near
The treasurer of the United
States has sent a new $1 bill to E.
C. Browning, of Jamestown, N. Y.,
in redemption of a damaged $1 bill
which Mr. Browning wrote was
burned when a pair of trousers he
was drving at a camp in the woods
caught fire. In his letter to the
treasurer Mr. Browning added: “The
loss of the bill was insignificant
compared to the loss of the trousers,
as the nearest clothing store was
several miles distant and not a bar
rel was in sight.”
Bakers of the Swiss city of Zu-
Rich have found they can beat their
ovens with electricity produced at
near-by waterfalls at mv.ch. less ex
pense than with coal or wood.
Louisiana agricultural interests
have been advised that the Immigra
tion bureau has authorized suspen
sion of immigration regulations so
as to permit the bringing in of Mexi
can laborers for farm work. Shortage
of negro labor in cane, rice, sugar
and cotton fields made such action
necessary, it was said.
TT S Honors Branch Heroes
The first United States naval dec
orations ever distributed abroad
were conferred a few days by Am
bassador Wallace on more than 100
French naval officers. Among them
were Vice Admiral Lacaze, \ ice Ad
miral Ronarch and Vice Admiral
Jaure s?
Ambassador Wallace was assisted
bv Rear Admiral Thomas P. Ma
gruder, American naval attache. The
ceremony was attended by Andre Le
fevre, French minister of war, and
M. Landry, minister of marine.
Although Boston is experiencing a
serious housing shortage, the build
ing commissioners announce ha.
there had been no permits issued
for a dwelling house of any kind in
two weeks. A small frame struc
ture of five rooms was the only ad
dition to the city’s prospective habi
tations in five weeks. In the same
period ten new garages were com
menced.
The oldest newspaper in Green
land, where there are few papers
printed, is called the “Kaloriknit.” It
appears once each month and its
subscription price for one year is
a sable skin, while a short-time sub
scription gets the paper three
months Uva duoka-
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1920.
WHEN many a woman dies and
goes up before the judg
ment bar, she is going to
be condemned because she
dhas sinned the Sin of the Attic and
in the particular hell to which she is
’issigned she will be tormented by
the imps of the things that she has
selfishly and senselessly hoarded.
She will be stamped upon and
walked upon, and kicked about by
the shoes that she has let moulder
and rot while the feet of her neigh
bors were bare upon the ground.
She is going to be smothered under
the mattresses that she Jet decay
while the old women turned their
•weary old bodies at night on hard
beds.
She is going to be pinched by the
bed springs that she let rust out
while her laundress had nothing but
a hard board to he on.
She is going to go naked and
shivering in the bitter cold while
the stacks of warm dresses, over
coats, and cloaks that she let go to
decay grin at her and mock her with
their warmth.
In her ears she will hear cease
lessly the wail of new-born babes
without a rag to cover them while
trunks full of the little clothes of
her own children slowly fall into
dust before her eyes.
She will be haunted by the wistful
faces of little children who reach
out eager hands for the toys that
only the rats played with In her gar
ret.
And after aeons of years of this
torture perhaps the woman who has
sinned the Sin of the Attic will have
expiated her crime, and get another
chance at life. Perhaps it was a
woman who sinned the Sin of the At
tic in some previous incarnation who
devised the scheme that she calls
the Economy Shop, which is a sort
of double-barreled philanthrop that
hits both the attic and the high cost
of living.
That I do not know, but I do
know that the Economy Shop is
one of the cleverest, most practical
and efficient ways of solving a num
ber of problems that has ever been
devised.
The woman with the Economy
Shop idea lives in a little mid-west
ern town of about thirty thousand in
habitants. She is rich and socially
important, and possessed of great
executive ability, and she puts her
big scheme intp operation by taking
a small storehouse, and inviting a
certain number of girls to come and
be clerks for her, and asking all of
her friends to send into the store
house anything that they had that
they didn’t want, from a white ele
phant to a peck of potatoes.
Nothing is too big or too little to
find a place in the economy store.
It would take, with equal gratitude,
a grand piano or a single cup and
saucer. It has priven a boon to house
wives who for the first time in years
have been able to clean their attics,
because before they did not know
QUIZ
New Questions
1— Do deer lose their antlers each
year?
2 Who designed the seal of the
United States?
3 How did the Bowery get its
name ?
4 Into how many languages has
the Bible been translated? Are there
any countries in which the Gospel
has not been preached?
5 How many of all the automo
biles made are used in the United
States?
6 What is the meaning of Sam
uel Clemen’s pen-name, Mark Twain?
7 What is the name of the poem
which begins, “The boy stood on the
burning deck?”
8— Who has been selected by the
Red Cross to pose as the canteen
girl?
9 Which is the most active of the
American oil fields? That Is, where
are the most wells being opened?
10— Which are the seven seas re
ferred to in literature?
Questions Answered
1. Q. Is President Wilson a sing
er?
A. It is stated upon good author
ity that President Wilson has a ten
or voice of unusual power and qual
ity, and that in his college days he
was in great demand as a singer.
2. Q. At the start of the world
war was Canada compelled to furnish
troops?
A. As part of gte British empire,
Canada was bounjto furnish troops,
: but she did not wait to be asked for
i soldiers, she volunteered them.
' 3. Q. What is bull baiting?
A. This was a sport once popu
lar in England, but declared illegal
in 1835. A bull was attacked by dogs
and sometimes the nostrils of the
bull were blown full of pepper to in
crease his fury. Another form of
the sport was to fasten the bull to
a stake by a long rope and then set
bulldogs at him, one at a time, which
were trained to seize the bull by the
nose. The bulldog seems to have
been developed for this sport from
a short-eared mastiff called “alaunt.”
4. Q. How many strings has a
piano?
A. This differs, but the usual
number is 180 strings in the treble
and forty-six in the bass.
5. Q. How much does the blood
in a human body weigh?
A. The jiublic health service says
that the quantity of blood in the hu
man body is 7.7 per cent of the body
weight.
6. Q. Can you tell me how large
Saint Bernard dogs grow to be, and
how large Russian wolf hounds?
A. The largest Saint Bernard
dogs stand about thirty inches or a
little more at the shoulder, and
weigh about 150 pounds. Prussian
wolf hounds are from twenty-eight
to thirty-one inches high at the
shoulder, and weigh from seventy
five to 105 pounds.
7. Q. Where is the most power
ful telescope in the United States?
A. The new telescope of the
Mount •Wilson observatory in Cali
fornia has this rank and is 250,000
limes as powerful as the human eye.
8. Q. What are the dimensions of
the liberty bell?
A. The measurements of the lib
erty bell in Independence hall are:
Length around the lip, twelve feet;
length around the crown, seven feet
six inches; from lip to crown around
the in-curve, three feet; over the
crown, two feet three inches; length
of the clapper, three feet two inches;
weight, 2,080 pounds.
9. Q. Is it necessary to be an
American in order to get sea train
ing for merchant marine service?
A. The United States shipping
board says that only American citi
zens will be accepted for training on
the ships of the sea training bureau,
as it is the policy and desire of the
government to have American ships
manned entirely by American crews.
10 Q. How old is the office of
justice of peace?
A. The institution of justices of
peace is very old. They were known
in England prior to 1327 when they
were called conservators of tne
peace, and were chosen in every
county by the freeholders from
among the principal men of the
county.
Talking Over the Bhone
Exactly 8,867,170 telephones are
reported in use in the United States
by the interstate commerce commis
sion. This is a gain of 639,58 G In
struments over the number in use
last year.—Dawson News.
What we can’t understand is why
all the lines are “busy” at the same
time.
Labor Conditions Improving
News dispatches from industrial
centers state that labor is becoming
plentiful. Which is to say that a
great many disturbers see the ha
writing on the wall. The time is
now at hand when a man who has
a good job will doubtless show some
appreciation of it. More money and
less work will soon be a thing of
the past—Commerce Observer.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
THE ECONOMY SHOP
BY DOROTHY DIX >
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by Wheeler Syndicate.)
what to do with the junk that had
accumulated. Their consciences
would not allow them to throw good
furniture Inta the fire, nor cast we»S-'.
able garments into the garbage can,
and yet they knew personally no one
to whom they could give these
things.
Now they send them to the Econ
omy Shop where they are sold for a
mere pittance, and where they meet
a longfelt want, because they go to
that middle class of people, the smi.ll
salaried people, who are being ground
to powder between the proiir.»ertf
above and below then-..
These people, the genteel poor,
would starve and freeze rather than
take charity, but they can supply
their needs at the Economy Shop,
and save their money and their pride.
At the Economy Shop one may
buy odd dishes for ten cents apiece,
a hat for a dollar, that with a little
furbishing is as good as it was when
it cost twenty-five or thirty dollars.
Every kind of a dress, from a bun
galow apron to an imported ball
dress, that are a fraction of what
was originally paid for them: three
new novels for a dollar, magazines
for five cents apiece, and shoes that
perhaps need a little cobbling to make
them as good as new, for twenty
five cents to a dollar, and so on.
And there’s every conceivably thing
in the shop, from quilt pledes up
and down, for it is a clearing house
for domestic undesirables on one
hand, as it is a source of supply f/
the millions of things that other
people need and want on the other
hand. Moreover, it has fostered a
beautiful spirit in those who give.
It has made the woman who has
much realize her stste-’-jod with the
woman who has little, and so the
women who give do not just jump
down their things in the store any
old way.
They have got so that they take
the trouble to freshen up a dress
by putting on new collars and cuffs,
or cleaning or pressing it, and mak
ing it look better, because they rea
lize how much more value it will
have in the eyes of the woman who
buys it.
The Economy Shop has been a par
ticular blessing to the poor mothers
with many children because it has
rurnished them at the least possible
cost with quantities of ready-made
clothes for their young ones, and
with shoes of a quality that they
could never hope to buy in an open
shop.
All of the women connected with,
the Economy Shop give their ser
vices, and it* is so successful finan
cially that for the past two years
it has cleared more than a thou
sand dollars a month. This money
is diveded between three different
charities which it virtually supports,
thus relieving the people of the town
from any further calls upon their
charity.
The Economy Shop is a great Idea.
Try it in your own community.
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
WTAT the average bachelor
thinks he knows about wom
en would fill a book; but
what he has overlooked
would fill a Carnegie library.
Ther« are three thriumphal days in
every woman's life: the day she is
born, when all the family agree that
she is "wonderful;’’ the day she is
married, when all the newspapers
agree she is “beautiful,” and the day
she is burled, when the clergyman
and her tombstone agree that she
was “good and noble.”
When the fire of an old love has
burned to ashes, it takes merely the
zephyr of a new flirtation to blow
the last spark away.
The average man builds him a
beautiful “ideal” of woman, then
marries a dimpled chin, a giggle, or a
baby-stare and tries to fit it into the
pedestal, and disguise it with a halo.
When your husband begins picking
oh the cook and criticizing the do
mestic regime, let him tell you all
he knows about how to run a house.
It will only take him two or three
minutes.
The exquisite thrill of first discov
ering that you are falling in love la
exceeded only by the thrill of discov
ering that you have at last fallen out
of it.
A confirmed bachelor is one who
has come to the unalterable conclu
sion that a girl "by any other name*'
than his own Is not only "as sweet”—
but just a little bit sweeter.
The flame of love never dies o.ut in
a man’s heart; it merely turns like a
searchlight on one object after an
other, dearie.
If there ever were any germs in
the modern debutante’s kiss, they
must all have died of "painter’s col
ic," long ago.
"VEGETABLE SHEEP"
A CURIOUS PLANT
A curious plant growing in Peru is
known to the natives as “yareta” or
“vegetable sheep.” It grows abun
dantly among rocks at high altitude*
along the Andes of Bolivia and Peru,
where it constitutes a conspicuous
feature in the landscape because of
its peculiar manner of developing the
co-called "polster,” or cushion forma
tion.
The yareta forms hillocks or small
mounds often three feet high and
sometimes several feet in diameter.
Moreover, the entire mound is made
up of a single plant, not of a colo
ny of individuals, and it attains this
enormous size and extreme compact
ness by a process of repeated branch
ing, so that the ultimate branches
are closely crowded and the outer
surface is continuous.
The flowers of the yareta are very
thin, only about one-eighth of an
Inch long and are borne in small
clusters near the tips of the
branches. The fruit resembles a
miniature caraway seed. The natives
use the plant as fuel. —Detroit News.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
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FOLKS DON 1 LAK FUH
DE PREACHER T' PRfeACH
DEM DAH BRIM-STONE'
-SARMONS, DEY GITS SO
DIS-COMF'TABLE DEY
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