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The Thinkers Are for Cox
VTf 7 HATEVER its political consequence,
\A/ there is a vast deal of moral sig
nificance in the joint statement is
ned by more than one hundred distin
guished Americans who usually have sup
ported the Republican or Progressive can
didates for the Presidency, declaring that
m this year’s election they will vote for Cox
and Roosevelt. Their reasons are straight
forward and undebatable. The group behind
Mr. Harding, they point out, “has permitted
the Republican party to become a Tittle
American party’,” and is counseling a‘course
that points toward “national isolation.”
They do not urge the acceptance of the Ver
sailles treaty precisely as it was brought
from Europe and do not insist upon “any
particular wording of reservations.” Their
great regret is that “a cause which should
have served to unite all parties in the same
spirit of common service which won the
war, should be made a basis of party dif
ference in the present campaign.” They are
resolved accordingly to support the Demo
cratic Presidential ticket as the sole means
of giving practical expression to their con
victions on the supreme issues, of national j
interest and national honor. t
These one hundred, including a number
f former Republican or Progressive party
anagers and office-holders, as well as emi
•-nt educators, ministers and journalists,
■e representative, no doubt, of thousands.
-nd perhaps of tens of thousands. How
-ver that may be, however marked or un
-oticeable the effect on the immediate po
"tical outcome, it is highly heartening to
ne this trend among the nation’s thinkers,
’or ultimately it will be the thinkers who
■ ill decide this and every other momentous
uestion. In a particular hour or year the
ote of Cleon may count as much as the
nte of Socrates, or a great deal more. But
n the larger reckonings of history, preju
dice and passion and ignorance are out
weighed by truth. So, at least, it will be if
civilization continues to unfold and the
world becomes a better place to live in,
rather than a brutish jungle.
A host of thoughtful Republicans and In
dependents who realize the grave need of
international co-working in the cause of
peace could have followed Mr. Harding, not
with much enthusiasm but with some meas
ure of hope, had he stood by his original
pronouncement for “clarifying reservations”
to the League covenant. But after months
of equivocal talk on the matter, he declares
it last, “I do not wish to clarify these obli
gations, I 'want to turn my back on them.”
That amounts to unconditional surrender to
the Irreconcilables as represented by Borah
and Johnson. It amounts to repudiation of
the highest principles for which America’s
dearest blood was poured out at Chateau
Thierry, at St, Mihiel and in the Argonne as
a sacred sacrifice. It will mean, if Mr. Hard
ing and his supporters win, the shame of a
separate peace with Germany. It will mean
the moral isolation of America and, insofar
as human prevision can go, the certainty of
another vast war in no very distant future.
Is it to be wondered, then, that thinking
Republicans and Independents turn to the
Democratic party at this critical juncture?
A vote for Cox and Roosevelt means a vote
for the Treaty with safeguarding reserva- j
tlons. A vote for Harding means a com
promise of national honor as well as the im
periling of national interests.
“Downward Trend of Prices Keeps Up,”
says a headline. But it would be nearer the
truth to say that the downward trend keeps
prices up.—New Orleans States.
Busy Times Ahead
BUSY years are ahead if one may judge
from the prospect of unprecedentedly
keen competition in world trade. As
the European nations recover from the war,
they bestir themselves more and more to
win back their lost commerce and to de- i
velop fresh fields of export opportunity. ]
To meet this rivalry the United States 1
must make the most of her resources and
must reduce inefficiencies to a minimum.
Consider, at the same time, that there is
world-wide need for all staple products of
factory as well as of field, and it is plain 1
that the conditions essential to sustained
business activity li' bountifully ahead.
American manufacturers appear thus
far to be holding their own against the
most vigorous challengers. “In the Far
East and in South America,” says a recent
report, “United States locomotives are dis
tancing all competitors. Wire nails made
in America are having such a run in Eng
land that in an attempt to meet the situa
tion British firms have been compelled to
reduce their prices ten pounds sterling a
ton. American-made agricultural machin
ery is in good demand for export to all
parts of the British empire. American au
tomobiles and motor trucks are highly pop
ular in East India mainly because of the
excellence of the article offered, the rela
tively low prices quoted, and the skill •-<
American salesmen and American advertis
ing.”
This very success, however, will Impel
the chief industrial nations of Europe to
redoubled effort, sc that Americans la
turn wOJI awTaddng incentives to sus
tained effort and to improvement. It te
from such competition that the sturdiest life
of trade is born. It is by such incitements
that production is kept efficient and
plenteous. Are not these the baste condi
tions of prosperity?
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ions. We are wondering whether YOU
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“Mike Casey”
A few days ago we printed a sparkling
letter from an old-time Georgian who
signed himself “Mike Casey.” Another let
ter from this same philosopher has'arrived
' and is published today on this page. We
thought it was altogether interesting and
we hope you’ll look at it in' the same light
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Lessons From the Great Fair
S a portrayal of the resources and
prosperity of Georgia and her neigh
bor States the Fair now being held
at Lakewood is a tonic for the weariest
sight-seer or the dumpiest prophet of ill.
Long regarded as a province of cotton and
of little else in tillage, the Southeast ap
pears in this exposition as the versatile em
pire of opportunities and attainments that
she really is. Corn and wheat that the gold
en V\ est might well be proud of, pumpkins
and potatoes fit to crown the trenchers of
anj king, fruits of well-nigh every vine and
bush and bough that plenteous nature bus
bands, herds and flocks of the finest breed,
all are set forth in heart-warming abun
aance.
There is eventful history behind these
varied exhibits—the history of a beneficent,
revolution in the South’s agricultural sys
tem. A decade ago such an exposition would
have been almost impossible, and even five
years ago would have lacked much of its
present depth and reach. Os course, there
have been interesting and creditable Fairs
in the Southeast from time out of mind; but
the distinguishing and significant fact is that
whereas they represented the aims and
achievements of comparatively a few, the
Lakewood Fair is the product of a new or
der of things in Southern farming. Looking at
its wealth and diversity of food-crop and
food-animal exhibits, one sees why it is that
millions of dollars which formerly poured
from this region to distant markets now re
main at home; and he sees, moreover, the
foundation for greater and greater conserv
ing of this kind in the years ahead.
A people with resources for so wide a
range of production need have no anxiety as
to their agricultural and business future, if
they will but continue the development
here revealed. The present cotton situation,
it is true, gives rise to problems exceeding
ly grave. But the Fair at Lakewood is a
cheering reminder that the South is under
no necessity of staking her fortunes upon
any one crop, that she can gather rich har
vests of one kind or another for three sea
sons out of the four, that she can raise
from her own fertile acres nearly all of the
needments of life, that she can go forward
in prosperous independence, howsoever the
winds of a single market may blow. As one
of the agencies that has served Jo make
these bountiful opportunities better appre
ciated and that is holding up the goodliest
fruits of the new order as an effective in
spiration, the Southeastern Fair merits the
warmest good wishes of the millions of peo
ple whose interests it serves.
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The Philadelphia judge who would make
it grounds for divorce if a wife didn't read
the newspapers is assured the support of
many husbands and newspapers.—Buffalo
Commercial.
Worse Th an Dragons
MORE formidable in this day than
the dragons and chimeras of old
are insect pests and crop diseases.
The South has lost uncounted millions of
money through the cotton boll weevil, the
West large fortunes through microscopic in
vaders of grain, and the entire country
colossal sums through crop and orchard
parasites. It is conservatively reckoned that
in a recent year one hundred and eight mil
lion bushels of American wheat were de
stroyed by black rust.
To check these drains upon the country’s
wealth, the National Research Council has
effected what it terms “a co-operating group
of scientific investigators, together with
i representatives of leading industrial con
| ierns engaged in the manufacture of chem
icals and appliances used in fighting plant
pests and diseases.” The movement is not
intended, of course, to interfere with Gov
ernment activities along the same line, but
simply to fill in existing gaps and to bring
about more extensive co-operation.
As population multiplies and the source
of food production becomes relatively less,
conserving efforts of this nature will grow
more and more valuable. The time doubtless
will come when the world will live on what
it now loses and wastes. Certainly America
will find it behooveful to take keener
thought on this score. Rarely endowed with
agricultural richer she has spent them al-1
most recklessly, abar t « : .-ning farm sites as I
soon as their primal fertility was exhaust- 1
ed, sowing, reaping and marketing In a |
happy-go-lucky way, and trusting to bountl-j
tul nature to overbalance the destructiveness
of plant pests. It ts highly fortunate that
this improvidence Is giving place at last to
scientifically directed methods and to or
ganized conservation.
DIAGNOSIS
By H. Addington Bruce
HE was a very tired and a very much in
earnest medical man as he said to me:
“1 do wish you would urge your read
ers not to expect too much or to be too critical
of doctors. We really want to do our best for
our patients; we are not deliberately neglectful
of them, and we certainly don’t want to make
mistakes in deciding what is wrong with
them.
“But this is just where we are most likely
to fall down, for diagnosis is often one of the
most difficult things in the world. Especially
is it difficult when the doctor only sees a pa
tient, as 1 usually do, in consultation with the
family physician.
“Many identical symptoms may come from
different causes. Then there is the big problem
of differentiating between functional and or
ganic conditions. To make sure of this it may
be necessary for the doctor to know his patient
intimately.
“But the consultant, when called in, is ex
pected to say offhand what is wrong. This is
fair neither to him nor to the patient. And
if he refuses to be stampeded into a hasty
judgment, but says that he must have a chance
to study the case, he is apt to be accused either
of being out for money or not knowing his
business.”
As he spoke I was reminded of a passage I
had recently read in the writings of another
physician. Emphasizing as it does the diffi
culties of diagnosis, I reproduce it for the ben
efit of any among my readers who may happen
to be hypercritical of doctors:
“Headache may be a reaction to eye-strain,
but it may be a reaction to a mother-in-law.
Pain in the back is sometimes explained by an
E-Ray plate, but sometimes by unwilligness to
work.
“Indigestion may be more closely related to a
troubled conscience than to poor cooking. Pal
pitation is not always an indication of organic
heart disease—it may be the expression of the
remance of life gone astray.
“Not that the situation is always simple. The
patient with organic heart trouble may have
romantic longings. A bad cook may conspire
with a troubled conscience to ruin the diges
tion.”
In other words, ability to make a sound diag
nosis often depends not so much on the med-
I ical man’s professional knowledge as on his
personal acquaintance with the patient, or the
latter’s willingness to be absolutely frank in
his statements to his doctor.
Frankness, unhappily, is no characteristic of
all patients. Yet the dangerously reticent ones
may be precisely the loudest in their condem
nation of the doctor if the latter fails in the
diagnosis which their reticence has made doubly
hard.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspapers)
SENTENCES FROM ORIENTAL
WISE MEN
By Dr. Frank Crane
Far away and long ago lived these Chi
nese wise men, yet their wisdom is green
today, and the need thereof.
Confucious said: A man must first de
spise himself, and then others will despise
him. Works of Mencius. Book IV, Part
I, Ch. VIII, 4.)
Mencius said: With those who throw
themselves away it is impossible to do any
thing. (Ch. IX, 1.)
Mencius said: The path of duty lies in
what is near, and men seek for it in what
is remote. (Ch. XL)
The work of duty lies in what is easy,
and men seek for it in what is difficult.
(Same.)
Sincerity is the way of heaven. To think
how to be sincere is the way of men. (Same,
Ch. XII, 2.)
Mencius said: Os all the parts of the
body there is none more excellent than the
pupil of the eye. The pupil cannot be used
to hide a man’s wickedness. Same, Ch.
XVI.)
Listen to a man’s words and look at the
pupil of his eye. (Same, Ch. XV, 2.)
Mencius said: The respectful do not de
spise others. The economical do not plun
der others. (Ch. XVI.)
Kung-sun Ch’ow said: Why is it that
the superior man does not himself teach
his son? (Ch. XVII, 1.)
Mencius replied: The circumstances of
the case forbid its being dqne. The teacher
must inculcate what is correct. When his
lessons are not practiced he is angry. When
he is angry he is offended with his son.
Also the son says: My master inculcates in
me what is correct, but he himself does not
proceed in a correct path; The result is that
father and son are offended with each other.
When father and son are offended with each
other, the case is evil. (Ch. XVIII, 2.)
The ancients exchanged sons, and one
taught the son of another. (Ch. XVIII, 3.)
There are many services (things one
must do for others), but the service of
parents is the root of all others. There
are many charges (things to watch over
and keep), but the charge of one’s self is
the root of all others. (Ch. XIX, 2.)
Mencius said: The evil of men is that
they like to be teachers of others. (Ch.
XXIII.)
Mencius said: Men must be decided on
what they will not do, and then they will
be able to act with vigor in what they ought
to do. (Book IV, Part 11, Ch. VIII.)
Mencius said: The great man does not
think beforehand of his words that they
may be sincere, nor of his actions that they
may be just; he simply is what is sincere
and right. (Ch. XI.)
Mencius said: The great man is he who
does not Ipse his child-heart. (Ch. XII.)
Mencius said: (and, Oh, that moder
nity might heed!) In learning extensively
and discussing minutely what is learned the
object of the superior man is that he may
set forth in brief what is essential. (Ch.
XV.)
(Copyright. 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes
Just what kind of food is the lord
mayor of Cork starving on, anyway?—St.
Joseph News-Press.
The question is shall the twentieth
amendment abolish tobacco or confirm
woman’s to smoke.—Cleveland News.
There came near being a riot in this
vicinity. The copy read “gin fires” and the
Mergenthaler made it read “gin sizes.” It’s
dangerous, even in error; to trifle with
human emotion and agony that way.—Hous
ton Post.
But we have a dreadful fear that if you
were to ask the doughboy or the gob about
it, he would assert that there is nothing
extraordinary in the discovery that one ma
rine was crazy.—Greensboro Daily News.
When the rag man hits our streets now
we go out and see if he has anything in his
cart that will fit us.—Burlington Daily
News.
If the king of Greece should die, it will
not be the first time that too much monkey
business has proved fatal to royalty.—Chi
cago Post.
Three cheers for the Pennsylvania po
lice. They have captured the murderer of
the Coughlin baby, with no clue to work
on except the kidnaper’s confession and
surrender.—Nashville Tennessean.
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
XIII. The Grant-Greeley
Race of 1872
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—The
presidential campaign of 1872
resulted in a tragedy—the
insanity and death of Horace
Greeley. It took the organization of
the Republican party out of the
hands of the men who had founded
it and turned it over to another group
of Republicans, in whose control it
remained until after the rise of
Roosevelt. It added to the lexicon of
Democratic party historians the
phrase, “the Greeley fiasco.” And,
more important than all, it marked
the beginning of the end of the polit
ical party organ newspaper, and was
responsible for an independent press.
The Liberal Republican movement
of 1871-72 was the most considerable
defection the Republican party had
suffered since its organization. Its
effect on the party was not disas
trous, but it carried into the Demo
cratic party many of the men who
were most prominent, in the early
days of Republicanism. It is a re
markable fact that more than two
thirds of the men prominent in the
Republican conventions of 185& and
1860 died Democrats, or Independents.
Even more remarkable js the fact
that this great defection from Re
publican ranks was the result of a
movement headed by Clement Val
landigham, of Ohio. Vallandigham
was the arch-Copperhead of ithe whole
north, was arrested by General Burn
side and banished to the Confederate
States of America, and was execrated
by every loyalist north of the Mason
and Dixon line. Yet it was the
same Vallandigham who, in 18 il, in
the famous Dayton platform, declared
for'the unification of all elements op
posed to Grant on the basis of com
plete acceptance of the results of the
war, the reconstruction policy, the
amendments to the constitution and
so on. So radically did this P°hcy
differ from that formerly held by
northern Democrats that the val
landigham movement was called lhe
New Departure.”
A Newspaper Campaign
The Democratic press, headed by
the Missouri Republican, afterward
the St. Louis Republic, and the Lou
isville Courier-Journal, broke away
from conventional moorings and hail
ed the “New Departure” as the po
litical salvation of the land. The Val
landigham origin of the movement
was lost sight of, and Editor Grosve
nor, of St. Louis, and Editor Watter
son, of Louisville, became the leaders
in the Democratic ranks.
Meanwhile General Grant’s admin
istration was alienating old-time Re
publican leaders by the score. Gen
eral Grant was a great soldier, but
his most ardent admirers cannot com
mend his judgment in selecting men
to assist him in civil administration.
Scandals without number were con
tinually arising. The secretary of
war, William Belknap, and the
secretary of the navy, George M.
Robeson, were accused of all kinds of
graft. The New York Sun, then ed
ited by Charles A. Dana, every day
thundered against the “Robbers at
Washington.” Meantime General
Grant was blind to many things, was
blinded to others, was too trustful of
some of his advisers, and was at
tempting to run the whole adminis
tration on a military plan.
Horace Greeley raised the flag of
revolt in the Tribune. Charles Sum
ner, another chieftain of the anti
slavery agitators, joined in. Cassius
M. Clay, of Kentucky, and Hinton R.
Helper, -of North Carolina, the pre
mier southern abolitionists and Re
publicans, followed the “new depar
ture.” The movement was crystal
lized by the merging of party lines' in
Missouri in an effort to gain com
plete amnesty for Confederate sol;
diers in that state. The Missouri
leaders issued a call for a national
convention to meet at Cincinnati.
Gathering of the Great
When the “Liberal Republican"
national convention met at Cincin
nati on May 1, the country believed
it faced a political crisis. The per
sonnel of the convention was ex
tremely able. Few political gather
ings in the history of the country
showed so many famous names on
the roster. Carl Schurz was perma
nent chairman and he made the
speech of party revolution. The
leading candidate at first was Charles
Francis Adams, of Massachusetts.
Next to im was Mr. Greeley, and
then Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois;
B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri: David
Davis, of Illinois; Andrew G. Cur
tin, ofa Pennsylvania, and the per
ennial Salmon P. Chase.
Greeley was nominated on the
sixth ballot and B. Gratz Brown, of
Missouri, was chosen for second
place on the ticket. Greeley was the
founder and editor of the Tribune
and the most eminent newspaper
man in the country. Brown had
risen to prominence as the editor of
the St. Louis Democrat, since con
solidated with the Globe to form the
Globe-Democrat. It is the only in
stance that a national ticket was
named composed exclusively of jour
nalists.
Newspapers of great influence ral
lied to Greeley’s support. Dana, of
the Sun. and Bennett, of the Herald,
battled for him in New York. Henry
Watterson, today the only survivor
of that era of ~ journalistic giants,
was in the very thick of the battle
for Greeley and reform. Alexander
K. McClure, Murat Halstead, Sam
uel Bowles, of the Springfield Repub
lican; Horace White, of the Chicago
Tribune; Frank Leslie and scores of
others were declaring the election of
Greeley and the defeat of Grant nec
essary to save the republic. So bit
ter was the denunciation of Grant’s
administration that the press did not
hesitate to take up Jere Black’s
statement that no tyranny was so
bad as that of a “republic thoroughly
rotten.”
Greeley’s Nomination
The Democrats met in Baltimore
on July 9. Thomas Jefferson Ran
dolph, grandson of the founder of
the party, was chairman. The Cin
cinnati Liberal Republican platform
was adopted without the change of
a word, and Greeley and Brown were
indorsed and nominated as the reg
ular Democratic candidates. Thomas
F. Bayard, of Delaware, and Daniel
W. Vorhees, of Indiana, voiced a
feeble protest, but in vain. The pol
iticians believed that it was the gol
den opportunity to kill the Republi
can organization and they seized it.
Horace Greeley formally accepted
the Democratic nomination. ' Greeley,
who had hated Jackson, despised
Van Buren, scorned Polk, damned;
Pierce and Buchanan and Douglas;
Greeley, t»he abolitionist; Greeley, the!
protectionist; Greeley, the Prohibi
tinist; Greeley, the woman’s suffra
gist: Horace Greeley was the candi
date of the Democratic party for
president. But Democrats all over
the union remembered the bitter
things Greeley had said about them.
The Republican orators helped them
to remember. They did not remem
ber to vote.
In July, or perhaps as late as Au
gust, it seemed certain that the
Democratic-Liberal coalition would
sweep the country. Many men be
lieve the wave would not have re
ceded if Adams or Davis had been
at the head of the ticket. But Gree
ley was simple as a child in prac
tical politics, however able and pro
found he was in theory. No greater
campaign speeches have ever been
delivered than those made by Gree
ley on the stump In 1872. As he
had denounced slavery in the south
in the name of humanity, he now
denounced carpetbagism for the ’
same reason. As he had denounced
the political corruption of the slave
oligarchy before the war, he now de
nounced the money corruption that
was beginning its long reign. Sud
denly, a shiver of fear and distrust
swept over the country. Would ■
Gree’ley, who had been unable to keep I
his own newspaper, be able to con- I
duct a bus.iness administration?!
Would Greeley, who was the dupe j
of every sharper who got him, be
any better than Grant in selecting
advisers? What was his financial
policy? The business interests of
the country, partly affected by the
fear of a Greeley administration, and
partly angrv because Greeley was
attacking Wall street financial meth
ods, rose up for Grant. Money went
into the campaign as it had never
gone before. The October elections
correctly forecasted the result.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1920.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From
All Over the Earth
Blasting Gelatine Caused Explosion
' The Wall street explosion on
September 16, which resulted in
the death of thirty-seven per
sons, was caused by the detona
tion of at least fifty pounds of
blasting gelatin, according to the
opinion of Dr. Walter T. Scheele,
an expert, in a seventy-page re
port submitted to William J.
Flynn, chief of the department
of justice.
Dr. Scheele went into the ac
tions of different kinds of ex
plosives that might have been
used. He based his assertion that
the explosive used was blasting
gelatin on testimony of wit
nesses as to the sound of the
explosion, the color of the smoke
and flame and fragments found
near the scene. A microscopic
analysis was made of all the evi
dence.
No Chinese Revolution
The Chinese ministry has issued
an official denial of rumors that a
monarchy had been or would be set
up at Pekin. They said no such plans
were under way. Pekin is reported
quiet.
$lO a Day
Although they are offering high
wages, farmers around Greens
burg, Ind., are unable to get men
to cut corn. Farmers who have
obtained cutters are paying thirty
cents a shock. Corn cutters say
that they can average from $9 to
$lO a day.
The Huns Are Faying
Germany fulfilled the terms of the
Spa coal agreement for August and
September by delivering to the al
lies 1,936,865 tons of coal, the repara
tions commission announced recent
ly. Os this, France received 1,477,629
tons, the remainder going to Italy.
Belgium and Luxumbourg.
Volcano Awakes
The volcano Pococatepetl,
twenty-six miles west of the city
of Puebla, Is reported to be in
eruption.
Much steam is escaping and
there are deep rumblings, accord
ing to dispatches from Puebla.
There has been no damage as
yet, the dispatches say, but the
population is preparing to flee.
Bolshevik! Geography
WER JL
We learned the bold, bad Bolshevik
On Wrangel played a measly trick;
They fbught and Mariupol fell,
They occupied Berdyansk as well;
Some know where those burgs are,
mayhap;
We never saw ’em on the map.
Kentucky Values
Only six important products of
Kentucky farms were valued at more
September 15 this year than they
were a year ago, according to data
made public by the department of
agriculture. These items are horses,
wheat, rye, butter, eggs and chick
ens. Decreases of varying degrees
are noted in the value of other prod
ucts.
Jamaica Women Get Vote
Under a new law the women of
Jamaica, British West Indies, are to
have a vote in the elections for the
parochial boards and the legislature.
Every woman is entitled to vote if
she is twenty-five years of age or
more, can read and write and is of
British nationality, but she must
have also certain salary or property
qualifications. Thes salary designated
is 5 pounds a year, or she must pay
10 pounds in rent or 2 pounds rates
on house, lands or personal prop
erty.
The Age Question
( vour )
(AGE 3/
The Maine supreme court had the
crust
To make a rule that women must
Tell at the polls their ages true
Or else not vote November 2. „
The court should know that “must’
will stir
Up trouble when addressed to ’her.
Actors Strike
The orchestra, chorus and stage
hands of the Paris opera house voted
laai week to go on strike. The meet
ing at which t his decision was
reached was private, but Jacques
Rouche, director of the opera, said
the reason was his refusal to change
the rules concerning the chorus and
to agree not to employ more than
one foreign artist every three
months.
100,000 Dose Jobs
One hundred thousand fewer work
ers are employed in the factories of
New York state than were on the
payrolls six months ago, a total re
auction of 7 per cent, according" to
a bulletin issued by the New York
state industrial commission, at Al
bany.
The figures, compiled bv the com
mission’s bureau of statistics, are
taken from the reports of 1,570 man
ufacturers and show that employ
ment in the state continues to de
cline slowly, but steadily. The pres
ent downward movement started six
months ago.
Pony by Airplane
Sir Philip Sassoon, needing a
polo pony for a game to be start
ed in midafternoon on his estate
at Lympne, England, telegraphed
to London to have a pony sent
by airlane, and the animal arrived
in time.
Heckler on Stump
Edward, Ryan, Washington, who
was arrested in Baltimore when he
attempted to ask a question of Sen
ator Warren G. Harding some weeks
ago, has joined the Democratic
speakers. He will tour Ohio and In
diana, opening at Marion, Mr. Hard
ing’s home.
Puzzling Patient
Physicians at St. Louis hos
pital are puzzled at the plight
of a man about fifty years old
whom they call an "intellectual
genius,” but who knows not his
name, birthplace, or his age.
He quotes Shakespeare and
Homer, knows the canals of
Venice, the wharves o* Liver
pool, the boulevards of Paris,
and can prove the binominal
theorem. Still he does not know
who he is nor whence he came.
Stranger than the mythological
.“no man” is the tale of this per
son garbed in laborer’s attire,
but whose brain wears the cloth
ing of a college professor.
Goat Stands High
The goat is held in high esteem
n Switzerland and is carefully pro
ected by legal regulations. If a boy
tlagues a goat he can be fined and t
ent to jail. If a person meets a
;oat on a path and drives him aside
he can be arrested. If a railroad train
Iriver sees a goat on a track the
train must halt until the animal can
be coaxed to remove himself.
The first of Germany’s drydocks,
which she has to deliver to Great
Britain under' the peace terms, has
arrived in the mouth of the Thames.
The huge structure, which is 720
feet long and 180 feet wide and has
a lifting capacity of more than 40,-
000 tons, was towed from Kiel to
Sheerness by a dozen tugs In seven
teen days
One of the crew In charge showed
a clipping from a Kiel paper pub
lished on the day the dock left that
port. It expressed hope that the
dock might gink on the way. 2
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
THE GENTLE GRAFTER
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright. 1920. by the Wheeler Syndicate.lnc.)
, , ~Y ELL,” said a woman to me
* * \/\/ the other day, “the hous-
Y y ing shortage, and the al
titudinous price of rent,
have one good thing about them, any
way They furnish an alibi that we
can hand out to our relatives and
friends, and the people we used to
know back home, who have the pleas
ing habit of grafting their annual
visits to the city on us.
"For years I have been the vic
tim of these hold-uji artists, ar-d I’ve
played in ho worse luck than every
body else I know; for the minute you
acquire a place in a city where you
can furnish free board and lodging,
everybody that you ever knew who
lives out of town, conceives a pas
sionate affection for you.
“Your own forty-ninth cousin, and
your husband’s cousins in the seven
ty-second degree; girls that you went
to school with when you were in the
kindergarten and haven’t heard of
since; folks who have no claim on
you except that you used to live in
the same town with them, all are
smitten with a longing to see you
that they can no longer resist, and
they write and tell you so, and that
they are coming on the 5:45 a. m.
train on Wednesday, and won’t you
please meet them at the station be
cause a city is so confusing to one
who is not used to it.
“Wl\y, if I were to recite what 1
have suffered at the hands of these
bandits, it would sound like a chapter
out of Fox’s ‘Book of Martyrs.’ When
Jim and I were married and he
brought me to the city to live, we
went to housekeeping in a little four
room apartment. Before we got set
tled and our bridal presents unpack
ed, a distant relative whom I hadn’t
seen since I was a little girl in pig
tails, descended upon us, bag and
baggage.
“She said she was passing through
the ci'y and she felt she just couldn’t
go by without taking a ‘peek’ at dear
little Elsie in her new home. It took
her two weeks to peek, and she
hadn’t been gone a day when another
flock of these birds of prey, this time
Jim's bunch of vultures, came to
roost on our sofa bed, and from then
on we have hardly had a day that
we have been free' from some self
invited guest.
“Bovs hunting for a job arrive with
letters from their parents, whom we
had the accursed luck to know at
some previous state of our lives,
saying that they know we will be so
glad to take darling Jim in until he
finds something to do; or the mother
of some girls to whom we have the
misfortune to be kin in some faint
degree, drops us a missive informing
us that she is sending Mamie and
Sadie by the next train for a little
visit to the city as she has been
promising the dear children a treat
for a long time, and would we mind
letting them stay with us for a
month, they are such lambs, and it s
so nice to have young people about
the house.
“Or we get a screed from some
poor old soul who has been advised
to consult a city specialist about her
QUIZ
0 New Questions
e i—Where does platinum come
'■ from?
£ 2—Do you know a town that has
f no doctor?
t 3—what city in the United States
J Is known as the Fores City?
J 4—ls there an English newspaper
s in Jerusalem?
• 5— please give dimensions and cost
of the Kiel canal and when was it
built?
6Who was known as “the plumed
knight” of American politics?
7How long has shorthand been
kn g°— Whence did the saying, “Thin as
a 9 r MWow rl £ at I ? keep cider from
tU ?o l L g How tO d^ ne t g he r? cup which is
the prize in the big yacht race come
to be called “America’s cup, if
it came first from England.
> Questions Answered
1. Q.Do deer lose their antlers
h e -r antlers each
vear and new ones grow, except in
’ cases of accident. If antlers have
, been broken off, it wouldl depend
upon the nature of the injury.rhe
bone may be injured in such a man
ned that a new antler would not
1 Sr 2. W Q.—Who designed the seal of
- the United States?
5 A.—Congress appointed a commit-
» tee composed of Benjamin Franklin,
I John Adams and Thomas
s to prepare a device lor the fercat
1 seal of the United States. Various
i men were invited to submit designs,
s among them William ,
Philadelphia, and Sir John Hrest
ruch, an English antiquarian A
combination of the ideas of these
-two men are represented in the seal
f which was adopted June 20, 178-.
s 3. Q. —How did the Bowery get its
- name? ,
, A. —Its original name, he Bow
< erv, was derived from the estate of
- the governor, Peter Stuyvesant,
whose farm and orchards were call-
- ed the great Bouwerie.
3 4. q. —into how many languages
- has the Bible been translated? Arc
- there any countries in which the
- gospel has not been preached?
A.—The latest report of the Brlt
: ish Bible society states that the
Bible has been translated by the
society into 450 different languages
and dialets. The American asso
ciation also has compiled 150 trans
lations. At the present time there
are many parts of Thibet, India.
China, Africa, and Australia where
the gospel has not yet been preached.
5. Q. —How many of all the auto
mobiles made are used in the Unit
ed States?
A. —The world registration of mo
tor vehicles is 5',750,009. The num
ber in this country is 7,558,484.
6. Q. —What is the meaning of
Samuel Clement’s pseudonym, “Mark
Twain?”
A. —Mark Twain is an expression
taken from the vocabulary of pilots
and means “safe water.”
7. Q. —What is the name of the
poem which begins “The boy stood
on the burning deck?”
A.— This poem is entitled "Casa
bianca,” and was written by Mrs.
Felicia Hernans.
8. Qi — Who ha? been selected by
the Red Cross to pose as the can
teen girl?
A.—This honor has been given
Miss Mattie Burch, of Washington;
D. C. A miniature is being made of
the Red Cross canteen which served
many soldiers at Issaoudun, France.
The reproduction will be placed in
the museum at the Red Cross head
quarters in Washington. Miss Burch
will be the model for the Red Cross
girl in the miniature.
9. Q. —Which is the most active of
the American oil fields? That is,
where are the most new wells be
ing opened?
A.—The Wall Street Journal
states that the Oklahoma fields
were the most active during the
month of August, 982 wells being
completed, giving a new production
i of 78,995 barrels.
10. Q. —Which are the seven seas
referred to in literature?
A. —According to Kiplin’s poem
by that title, the seven seas in
clude the North and South Atlantic,
North and South Pacific, Arctic,
Antarctic, and Indian oceans.
Killing Two An Hour
Every thirty minutes some one in
this country is killed in an automo
bil« accident, mainly through the
criminality of the driver, and it tn
but an accident of the day. If the
newspapers were to report a death
from yellow fever or smallpox every
thirty minutes the whole country
would rise up on its hind legs ana
demand protection against the men
ace. Queer, but true.—Social Circle
New Era.
cancer, and she wants to come and
stay with us and have us trot around
to the hospitals with her. Or some
body from Sqeedunk, or Rabbit’s
Track, has been told by her doctor
that she needs a change, and
thinks that nothing would t>e so de
lightful as to come to the city, only
she hasn’t the money to stay at a
hotel, but if it would be convenient
for us to have her, she could come
easily on Monday week.
“Os course, anyone who has the
nerve to hold you up for her board '
bill isn’t going to stop with petty,
larceny like that. She goes the whole;
hog, and you not only have to feed
and lodge her, but you have to pay
for her theater and opera tickets,
and her street car fares. So far as
my observation goes, a self-invited
guest has a Yale lock on her pocket
book, and you would have to chloro
form her before you could get a
nickel out of her.
“It is no secret to the people who
come and camp on us that Jim and I
are a poor young couple struggling
to get a start in the world, and that
every dollar counts with us. Also
they perceive that I do my house
work, and that by horning in on us
they add immeasurably to my labor,
and the expense of our living.
“But does that keep them away?
It does not. They not only crowd in
and put me to the trouble of getting
up company meals for them, but they
expect me to run around with them,
taking them to all sorts of places of
amusement, and to spend days in the
shops where they look over every
thing, and price everything, from iny
ported automobiles to safety plns»
and buy nothing. And never by any
chance do they pay for a lunch at
a res' ,urant, or for a theater ticket,
or even pay their car fare.
“And the expense of entertaining
these people you hate because they
are such poor mean little grafters,
counts up enormously, and it keeps
me mad thinking of all the things,'
I want that I do without because I
have spent the money on these
pikers. Why we stand for It, I don’t
know. Lack of backbone, I guess, and
because we have been taught that
hospitality is one of the seven shin
ing virtues. -
"So it is. Nobody admires It or
loves to practice it better than I, but
I want to pick out my recipients and
select the time, the place, the wom
an, so to speak. I object to being
held up and forced to deliver invita
tions whether it’s convenient or not.
“But I know I’d never have got
up the ?r> nk t:c slam ti > neo: in
the face of Uncle Jezebiah, who’s got
a couple of hundred thousand dollars
tucked away in first mortgages, but
who would rather die than spend a
penny of it on a hotel. Nor would my
craven spirit ever get bold enough to
enable me to write to a self-invited
guest that I didn’t want her, and
wouldn’t have her; and so the hous
ing shortage has provided me with
a ready-made excuse for not enter-.,
taming all and sundry.
“I’m goifig to live in one room,
and a bath and kitchenette where
nobody can visit me. Thank God for
all His mercies.”
“Mike” Casey’s
Back
Muses on Matrimony and Says
It’s O. K.”
“Editor The Tri-Weekly Journal.
“After readin’ and bearin' so
much about how married folks fuss
and row and separate and appeal to
the divorce court it makes me won
der if marriage is not really a fail-,
ure.
“But after givin’ all the angles
of the question due consideration I
figure it out that marriage is grand
and noble and exaltin’, and that the
trouble about the matter is all
brought about by the people who
have entered the married state. i
“The trouble is with the people,
and not with marriage. People rush
headlong into matrimony without
givin’ it much serious thought. Then
when the realities begin to show up
the fur begins to fly.
“Maybe they hadn’t ever thought
that when she married she would be
mony they were then due to under
go a complete change in their mode
of livin’.
“Maybe the girl had never thought
that when sh "emarried she would be
come head-over-heels in possession
of a mother-in-law. Or, if she had
given it any thought, maybe she had
made up her mind that she could
outlgeneral the old lady and not
give her any love, nor any kindness,
and very little respect.
“But even if she feels this way
toward the dear old soul, she had
better, make out like she’s takin’ and
appreciation’ the old lady’s motherly
wisdom and advice. Because when
you get these good old mothers-in
law stirred up just right, I’ll be
doggoned if the fur ain’t goin’ to I
fly.
“Maybe the young man went into
matrimony without ever thinkin’
that he would have to make a great»
many sacrifices in order to make his
matrimonial venture a howlin' suc
cess. Maybe he never had thought he
would have to quit stayin’ out late
at night with the boys and slippin’
in home with his shoes in his hands
and smellin’ like blockade corn whig
ky.
“The fellow that goes into it with
out givin’ it suchthought, will find
himself wonderin’ why it is that
matrimony is not all roses and hon
ey-dew. When a fellow gets married
in my honest opinion he will have
somethin’ to think about besides
runnin’ his automobile, burnin’ gas
and braggin’ about the runnin’ qual
ities of his motor.
"When the young lady gets mar
ried she finds somethin’ to occupy
her time besides powderin’ her nose,
dog-earin’ her hair and making goo
goo eyes at the other fellow.
“The main trouble about matri
mony is that people enter it with
out ever thinkin’ about payin’ the 4
price it costs.
“People that will pay the price,
and pay every installment by the
time or before it comes due and
not let any interest accumulate, will
find mighty soft and smooth sail- i
in’ o’er the matrimonial sea, and z
will get to where they don’t never
want to land, but will want to just
keep on sailin' and sailin’ and sailin’.
“MIKE CASEY,
“Originally from Petit’s Little Mill.**
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
A HA z NT KIN <3O RIGHT
thu a solip wall
But SHUCKS.' ’DAT AIN'
NOTHIN'--HE kin make
Me Do it, Too!'..’
Copyright 1920 by McClure New*QM«r SyneJSST