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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 monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Dally and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) IWu.IKo. 3 Moe. 6 Mos. Ih. Daily and Sunday2oc SOc $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 <n%ii_ed. by the -hottest routes for early cwirz cj/ y It contains <.ews from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. 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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? THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. TheEditor’sDesk Just a word about subscriptions. It’s the easiest thing in the world to put off or overlook or forget sending in your renewal when your paper runs out. Os course, that doesn’t apply to thou sands upon thousands of our good friends who would as soon do without their re ligion, almost, as The Tri-Weekly Journal. But in other cases, we want to say that there was never a time when a powerful, alert, up-to-the-second newspaper could be of more value to any home. The world is being made over again. And the only way to know how to guide yourself for profit or enjoyment is by watching the record of events as they pass by. The Tri-Weekly Journal is served' by the greatest news organization on earth. And, besides that, a selected staff of editorial talent fills the paper with educational, entertaining and constructive features in every issue. ) Remember these three things: A good newspaper is worth real nionej’ to anybody these days. The Tri-Weekly Journal is trying to be the best newspaper in America. Our subscription department has any number of attractive propositions that you can take up with great profit to all the family. The returns on a subscription to The Tri-Weekly Journal can’t be measured. Stay on the list! Those Fashion Hints In every issue this paper publishes one or more illustrated suggestions on fash ions. We are wondering whether YOU are taking advantage of them. Hundreds of our readers are doing it. Thousands of fashions have been sold by our bureau. The service is a valuable one if you heed it. “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 —> 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. —e 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