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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 W-.l Mo. 3 Mob. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday..... 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday ••••••••.••••• 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 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 -'*iue to the home and the farm. At,*»nts 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 used for addressing your paper bliowb 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 as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions 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. 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. TheEditor’sDesk 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. < 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 > , ONE REAoOKI HOW COME 1 FOLKS DON 1 LAK FUH DE PREACHER T' PRfeACH DEM DAH BRIM-STONE' -SARMONS, DEY GITS SO DIS-COMF'TABLE DEY CAIN’ GO T' SLEEP WHILSi HE PREACHIN'.”, j— J TIiSW j Ms i Copyright. 192%by McClure Newspaper Syndicate