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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
Financing Our Foreign Trade
THE proposal to organize a one hun
dred million corporation to finance
the country’s foreign trade derives
marked impetus from the indorsement of the
American Bankers Association. It was fore
gone that these keen observers of business
opportunities and needs would lend their
support to a project so timely and so fer
tile in elements of prosperity.
Every field of the nation’s productive in
terests, from agriculture to manufacturing,
is materially concerned in the functioning
and development of foreign trade. Cotton
prices would hardly have suffered so
sharp a decline as that of the current sea
son, had there been adequate means for
bringing forth and financing the latent over
seas business. Belgium, Czecho-Slovakla,
Germany and other European centers of in
dustry stand in need of the South’s chief
money crop and would buy in large quanti
ties if reasonable credit accommodations
were available. Likewise, in one way or an
other, all products and all industries de
pend for ultimate values upon the free
lom and strength with which our tides of
oreign commerce are flowing.
It is pf the utmost Importance, there
ire, not to large investors alone but to the
ink and file who prosper as business ex
tnds, that America’s export markets be
ligently cultivated. There are divers means
i that end, but none more essential than
icse of a financial nature. It was in ree
dition of this that Congress enacted the
'clge law, authorizing co-operation amongst
■anufacturers, merchants and producers for
le promotion of export trade. The one hun
'red million dollar organization proposed
or this purpose should be ready for service
y January 1 next, if present plans con
nue to go vigorously forward. The sup
ort of the national Bankers Association
' )ines as a particularly cheering omen and
jubtless assures the undertaking’s success.
Praise for the Peanut
THOUGH, peanuts as a money crop
seem for the nonce to have fallen
upon evil days, they are neverthe
less winning the good word of dietitians and
he admiring report of economists to an ex
tent that augurs certain return to
prosperity. Once a synonym of trifles, ‘‘pea
nut” now stands for all that is nutritious
md substantially popular. No longer Is it
fitting, argues the Chicago Evening Pos't, to
ipeak of ‘‘peanut politics” byway of denot
ing things picayunlsh In civic affairs, or to
refer disparagingly to one’s capacity as
"that of the tender of a peanut stand.”
Who, indeed, will not be impressed by
the importance of an American crop that
amounted in 1918 to fifty-three million
bushels and represented a value of one hun
dred million dollars? In twelve States, the
Department of Agriculture announces, pea
nuts have taken their place among the sta
ples and, In normal years, are yielding the
growers a bountiful return.
One season’s depression in the market for
this product does not lessen Its real worth,
nor its profitableness when converted into
sleek porkers.
An Example for Georgia
AN increase of nearly four hundred per
cent In sheep raising among the
mountains of North Carolina bears
striking witness to the possibilities of that
industry In the Southeast. Fifteen counties,
according to the Charlotte Observe;, have
multiplied their flocks from a total <>f forty
five thousand three hundred and thirty
eight in 1918 to two hundred and twenty
eight thousand five hundred and seventy
eight in 1919; and it is probable that the
next count also will show a goodly incre
ment. The gains are not confined to one re
gion but are virtually Statewide, and are
adding a great deal to the common fund of
industrial as well as rural prosperity.
This is an example which Georgia well
may study and emulate. Her resources of
soil and climate, her abundance of low
nrlced and now unused land and her facili
ties for marketing and utilizing the prod
ucts of sheep afford ample foundation for
these lines of enterprise. Indeed, there are
few parts of America, all things considered,
so excellently suited to sheep raising and its
Hied industries.
Investing In Good Roads
APPEALING for united support of the
proposed twenty million dollar bond
issue for highway improvement in
its State, the Florida Grower points to
California’s inspiriting example. The latter
recently Indorsed a fifty-million issue for
better highways, and when the matter was
being discussed every newspaper of impor
tance in the Commonwealth, together with
every leading civic and commercial institu
tion, worked wholeheartedly for the suc
cess of the measure at the polls.
That is the spirit of which progress is
made. Nothing worth while in public af
fairs is obtained without effort and without
expense—co-operative effort and unstinted
expense. Good roads especially call for large
outlays at the start, though in the end they
are incomparably cheaper than poor or
mediocre roads. Fifty million dollars in a
lause of vital consequence to agricultural
commercial and human Interests is not an
extraordinary sum, and one hundred or five
nundied millions would not be excessive.
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A Question of Exports
AMERICA has next to the largest of the
world's merchant fleets; she has vast
quantities of materials ahd goods for
exportation; and she has a group of singu
larly fertile markets in Europe. Yet, cu
riously enough, numbers of her ships are idle
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staples of which European countries are in
urgent need. Authorities point out that cot
ton to the value of approximately a billion
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million dollars’ worth of w’heat, two hun
dred and fifty millions of packing house prod
ucts, and seven hundred and fifty millions
of manufactures and raw materials.
The problem of how to start this immense
surplus of exportable products to moving is
of basic concern to the nation’s every mate
rial interest. Not only our own immediate
welfare Is involved, but that also of Euro
pean countries on whose industrial rehabili
tation and vigor the future of American for
eign trade is in considerable measure de
pendent. Touching this matter, Mr. Edward
N. Hurley directs attention to the fact that
Belgium is in the market for ten million
dollars’ worth of cotton; Germany for one
hundred millions’ worth of wheat, as well
as for large quantities of cotton and meat
products; France, Poland and Italy, for cot
ton and other staples. Moreover, their busi
ness stability and development, and hence
their future capacity as purchasers, are ma
terially Involved in the question of whether
or not they procure the things they now
need from us. As Mr. Hurley pictures the
situation: ‘‘Time is of the utmost importance,
and it is only enlighted selfishness for us to
dispose of our products to our own immedi
ate benefit, and with the knowledge that this
in turn will help in the world’s stabilization.
Our position should be a commercial one; we
should co-operate with these customers, now
restricted in their purchasing power, to en
able them to make their needed purchases.”
That is the crux of the whole problem. Pro
vide credit accommodations for those Euro
pean countries who are eager for our prod
ucts and who, if tided over present difficul
ties, will be abundantly able to pay, and our
idle ships soon will be swarming the sea
lanes, filled with cotton and other commodi
ties now in need of an active market. The
specific plan for an exports corporation
capable of rendering this service must be
left, of course, to specialists. But the Amer
ican public should lend unstinted aid to the
establishment of that imperatively needed
organization.
Why They Turn to Cox
4<T F 1 am any i U(i S e of crowd psychol
ogy,” says Governor Cox, “the under
current of independent thought is
growing so rapidly since Senator Harding
declared for outright rejection of the League
of Nation’s covenant, that it is engulfing his
party wall.”
Many witnesses and many developments
attest the truth of the Democratic leader’s
observation. Throughout the country distin
guished Republicans who care more for
their convictions and their country than for
the self-seeking political clique of which
Mr. Harding is the instrument, are repudiat
ing his candidacy and declaring their inten
tion to vote Democratic. This is highly sig
nificant, but no more so than the pro
nounced trend among Progressives and In
dependents. Close students of the matter are
of the opinion that a- majority of those who
followed Colonel Roosevelt in his memorable
revolt against a boss-ridden, backward
looking, conscienceless Republican party in
1912 are today supporting Governor Cox,
because in the principles for which he stands
and the forces with which he is joined they
see the promised realization of their still
cherished ideals.
With such allies .Democracy well may
take courage and go forward. The party is
the rallying standard of liberalism, the hope
of all who believe in justice as the one sure
foundation of prosperity and in national
honor as the one safe course for the repub
lic. The Harding organization is brazenly
the champion of reaction and special privi
lege, and shamelessly flouts America’s high
est obligations to humanity and to herself.
Is it to be ■wondered that men-and women
who hold patriotism above party are turn
ing from a rendezvous of visionless politi
cians to the leadership of true democracy
and true Americanism?
MEN WHO KILL
By H. Addington Bruce
RIGHTLY there is a growing demand for
the severe punishment of all reckless,
life-destroying automobllists. More
and more clamorously it is being urged that
they should be classed in the category to
which they certainly belong—that of com
mon murderers.
But speeji maniacs are not the only po
tential slayers against whom drastic meas
ures should be taken for the public good.
They are not even the most numerously dan
gerous, nor do they exact such a heavy death
toll as sundry others for whose suppression
we scarcely ever hear a loud demand.
Where the criminal automobilists kill by
hundreds, the equally anti-social distributors
of disease germs number their victims by
thousands. And they deal death by mani
fold means.
Daily you see them In public places, hawk
ing, coughing and spitting—infecting the
dust of pavements, street cars, churches,
stores and theaters with deadly bacteria
ranging from the crteptoccoccus of malignant
sore throat of the bacillus of tuberculosis.
Or, with contagious diseases in their
homes, you see them boldly breaking quar
antine to attend to their private affair of
‘‘making money,” even though the few dol
lars they thus gain may be at the cost of
human life stricken by contact with them.
In other guise you eee these same slayers
once more as the owners of insanitary
dwellings and working places, equally intent
on making money at no matter what cost of
human life.
Highly respected members of the commu
nity they may be, gentlemanly folk who
would deem their classification as murderers
cruelly libelous. Yet who but they should
be held responsible for the deaths of men,
women and little children, perishing from
diseases occasioned by existence in dark,
damp, evil-smelling homes rented from these
callous coin-grabbers?
No less murderous is the maker of tainted
foods, of adulterated foods, of foods cun
ningly robbed of much of their nutriment for
the sake of a little extra profit. The weak
ened, undernourished consumers of these
foods may well cry out in indignation against
those who have ruined their health, per
chance greatly shortened their lives.
We have laws, it is ture, against potential
murderers of these vicious types.
‘But what avail are laws if they are not
consistently enforced? Everybody knows
that, except for an occasional flurrying cru
sade, there is not so much consistent enforce
ment as a consistent blinking at life-destroy
ing practices.
Which is one of the principal reasons the
death toll from preventable diseases remains
appallingly high. And high it must remain
until public clamor for disease prevention be
comes at least as insistent as it Is now be
coming in the case of that spectacular enemy
of society—the man who turns his automo
bile into an instrument for the taking of hu
man life.
(Copyrighted, 1920, by the Associated Newe
, papers.)
*
GOVERNMENT INDUSTRIAL,
NOT POLITICAL
< By Dr. Frank Crane
Some day we are going to quit politics.
That is 'to say, some day we are going to
realize that the State is an industrial and
not a political concern.
The great modern fact is business.
That which most characterizes this age is
the rise of business as a matter worthy of
the best brains and souls.
Time was, and not so long ago—and here
and there the septic idea lingers in the
world like snow in the fence corners in
April—that to be engaged in trade was con
sidered dishonorable, in away. A noble, or
a gentleman, was one who never did any
useful work. And you ascended higher and
higher in the ranks of nobility in propor
tion to the length of time elapsed between
you and the last ancestor who earned his
salt.
We are recovering from that delusion. To
day the great man is the accomplisher, not
the parader. Prime ministers are taking the
reins from the hands of kings.
Our politics are the leftovers from the
ages of parade.
We still regard our president as an imita
tion king, our governors and mayors as
fustian dukes and lords.
We have inaugural balls, and governors’
staffs with tin colonels, and say “yojir ex
cellency” and pow-wow as much as we dare
after the manner of the courts of the east
and past.
Women like it.
But we are getting over it. Little by lit
tle we are realizing that the mayor of a city
is more like the manager of a factory than
like the grand duke of Wuerttemburg; that
the governor of a state is, or ought to be,
more like the hired man who superintends
a ranch or the building of a bridge than like
the Akhoond of Swat; and that the presi
dent of the United States is expected to
make good in promoting the prosperity of
the people, and not to pose.
The rise of the idea of such communal
forms of business as the postoffice, the pub
lic school, and the government ownership of
public utilities is not due to socialism. So
cialism is utterly antagonistic to the blood
of Americans. Because it is the opposite of
democracy.
The idea referred to is gaining ground
for the simple reason that we are more
and more conceiving government to be an
industrial somewhat.
Government’s first business is not to pun
ish crime, or provide offices for grafters, or
to make laws. Its first business is to see
that every citizen has fair play in making a
living, that unjust privilege is abolished,
that all have a chance to work and honest
pay, that those who work shall be prospered,
and that those who will not work shall
not eat.
Government ought to be a hive for the
benefit of the workers, not the drones.
(Copyright, 1920. by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
“I say,” complained the stranger, addressing
the drug clerk, “the weighing machine outside
your shop is out of order.”
“I’ve got nothing to do with that machine,”
said the man behind the counter.
“Well, somebody ought to have.”
“What’s the matter with it?”
“It won’t work. I dropped a penny into it
just now and the indicator didn’t fly round. I
shook the machine and jumped up and down
on the platform and still it didn’t move. It’s
a swindle.”
“It took th? penny all right, didn’t it?”
“Certainly! ’•
“Well, that’s what it’s for. There’s nothing
the matter with the machine, sir.”
“My wife is a somnambulist,” said a traveler
in the Pulman to a new acquaintance. “She
walks around the room at night.”
“Mine was. too,” said the other, “but 1 cured
her of that habit—by never leaving any money
in my clothes when I went to bed.”’
Mr. Simpkins was complaining to his bosom
friend Jenkins about the numerous ills his wife
had brought upon him in the course of their
association. “When first I met her,” he said.
“1 was struck dumb with admiration. When
I married her I was blind with love, and now,”
he added. “I’m deaf from her everlasting talk
jug.”
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FRED-ERIC J. HASKIN
XV. THE GARFIELD-HAN
COCK RACE OF 1880
TTT ASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 2
V V • September election In
V V Maine is one of the few
, ante-election ‘‘straws’’ still
th <- e days - Twice in
J? f . th e country the “news
from Maine in September was nor
-1840 U accurately indi
cated that Harrison would sween the
country, in 1880, forty
it showed that the Republicans were
in a terrible condition and in danger
of being wiped off the earth. The
Democrats became too confident, the
Republicans put almost superhuman
energy into the fight, and Garfield
won by a very small majority. Even
then if it had not been for. the
treachery of Tammany hall, the Re
publican fight would have been lost
lhe campaign of 1880 stands out
as the one presidential contest in
which political manipulation and
chicanery overshadowed everything
else. Both Garfield and Hancock
were nominated by shrewd manipula
tion in the face of the fact that the
majority in each party preferred an
other man. Garfield faced what
seemed certain defeat from knifing
by great leaders in his own party.
The Republican breach was closed by
the making of many promises, most
of which could not be fulfilled. In
the Democratic party the leaders who
were battling for “reform” were out
witted by the practical politicians,
and the very same practical poli
ticians committed party suicide in the
closing days of the campaign.
The Republican national conven
tion at Chicago in 1880 was the
scene of the greatest battle ever
fought for a political nomination.
General Grant, having returned from
a triumphant tour around the world,
was an active candidate for a third
term. He had the support of hosts
of the Republican voters and of the
shouting masses. James G. Blaine
was the favorite of the politicians
and of a majority of the Republicans’,
who were not carried away by the
glamour of Grant’s military fame.
Blaine was the most magnetic leader
his party has had, and his following
was a personal one.
A Poetic Politician
Opposed to Blaine was the able
Roscoe Conkling, senator from New
York. Because he hated Blaine, rath
er than because he loved Grant,
Conkling led the Grant forces in the
convention. He plAced Grant In nom
ination in the famous speech begin
ning:
“If you ask what state he halls
from,
Our sole reply shall be,
He comes from Appomattox,
And its famous apple tree.”
But in the closing sentence of his
speech he mortally offended Blaine
supporters and they swore that Grant
should be defeated, even if Blaine
could not win. For days and days
the battle waged, the Grant and
Blaine forces holding firm, and each
of a dozen other candidates hoping
to be the lucky dark horse.
John Sherman, of Opio, was a
serious candidate, he thought, and
his name had been placed in nomina
tion by James A. Garfield. Gar
field’s speech was adroit and con
ciliatory, and while he was ‘speak
ing for Sherman there were respon
sive cries from the house for Gar
field. At the beginning of the sec
ond week, on the thirty-sixth ballot,
the Blaine column marched solidly
to Garfield, the break having been
led by Wisconsin. The Wisconsin
delegation decided upon Garfield over
William Windom by a margin of
but one vote. Had Windom received
that state he might have captured
the nomination. When Garfield was
nominated there were still 306 dele
gates voting for Grant. “The Im
mortal 306,” they were called, and
gold medals were struck for them
in commemoration of the stand they
made. It Was ‘the first effort to
obtain a third term ever made by
any man who had been president.
Conkling was furious over the nom
ination of Garfield, whom he did not
trust. He refused to select the vice
presidential candidate, but the con
vention named Chester A. Arthur,
just because he was a friend of Conk
ling. We sometimes make presidents
so. General Grant was also chagrin
ed, and for a time he and Conkling
were agreed to knife the ticket and
defeat Garfield. The balance between
the two parties was then so even that
any great leader sulking in the tent,
on either side, meant defeat.
Republicans Got Together
But later in the campaign, after
the news from Maine came in, peace
was restored. The prospect of a
complete overthrow of Republican
power caused the party leaders to
bury their factional differences.
Conkling at last consented to call on
Garfield. And, as a supreme sacri
fice of personal feelings, Conkling
persuaded General Grant to take the
stump for the first time in his life
to speak for Garfield. That stopped
the incipient revolt which threatened
irretrievable disaster to the party.
The Democratic convention met in
June, and in spite of the sentiment
of nine-tenths of the Democrats of
the country, and in spite of the pro
tests of its wisest leaders, it nom
inated General Winfield Scott Hancock
for president. It was not that the
Democrats did not like Hancock, for
he was very popular and had been
nominated as a candidate for presi
dent in every convention since the
war.
But the Democrats, and many of
the Independents, too, wanted Sam
uel J. Tilden denominated. “Give us
the old ticket!” they cried. “Let us
fight it out with the Fraud of ’77 for
our issue!” Although Hayes had
made a good president, although his
administration had restored peace in
the country and although speeie pay
ments had been resumed and a dollar
was once more a dollar, there were
none sb poor as to do Hayes honor.
He had not pleased his own party
politicians, and the Democrats hated
him because they believed he was
president by grace of fraud.
PAUL REVERE BELL
PRESERVED AT BOSTON
Tn the belfry of King’s chapel, built
when Boston was in its infancy, still
hangs a bell which was cast by Paul
Revere. It was his 161st bell. Be
sides being a bell caster, Revere was
also an engraver, a goldsmith and
a dentist. Rising above the modest
houses in the Italian district on Hull
street is the old North Church, from
which Revere received his signal pre
vicious to his famous midnight ride.
Christ church, the Second Episco
pal church of Boston, is situated in
the North End, and is an offshoot
of King’s chapel. Its spire, a de
signed and built in 1723, has served
as a landmark to guide ships Into
the harbor.
In 1804 this spire was blown down
by a great gale, and was shortened
by sixteen feet. The chime of bells, !
now silent, which hangs in the tower. ;
was made in 1774, in the foundry :
of Abel Ruddall, of Gloucester, Eng- :
land. Each bell has engraved upon I
it an inscription denoting its history.
The bells were supposed to possess
the power to dispel evil spirits.—De
troit News.
CLEVELAND RELICS
The Cleveland family* Bible and
portraits of the parents of former
President Grover Cleveland are
among a variety of gifts received by
the Cleveland Memorial association
from Mrs. Susan Sophia Yeomans, of
Brooklyn, a sister of the former
president. They were installed the
other day in the Cleveland birthplace
memorial here, which was formerly
the Presbyterian manse. The Bible,
which is bound in sheepskjn. was
published in Philadelphia in 1829 and
is believed to have been in the pos
session of the family at the time
Grover Cleveland was born, March
18, 1837. It contains in the family rec
ord the date of his birth, marriage and
death 1 .
The portraits of the former presi
dent’s parents, the Rev. Richard F.
Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland, are en
largements of daguerreotypes. The
one of the minister was taken when
he was forty-eight years old and
that of his wife much later in life.—• (.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1020.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From
All Over the Earth
Monkey Business
~Q>. I
King Alexander, boss of Greece,
Is, after all, a man of peace;
But when his ape got in a fight
He interfered and got a bite.
The king remarked: “Who would
have thunk
There was such meanness in a
monk? 6
Many Foies Coining
Roughly, 50,000 emigrants have
left Poland for the United States in
the past eighteen months. Os these,
recording to the American consul at
j Moscow, 95 per cent were Jews. In
j iuly and August 600 Poles per day
! .eceived passport vises. As soon as
.he Polish government lifts its own
restriction it is believed there will be
1,000 applications per day.
Dead Quite a While
E. H. Barbour, of the State
University of Nebraska, has un
earthed the skeleton of a prehis
toric animal, which he believed to
be more than 200,000 years old.
The skeleton was found in the
famous fossil beds of Cook’s
Ranch, near here. It will be pre
served and sent to the university
museum.
Name Sounds German
President Wilson has confirm
ed the sentence of dismissal from
service and fifteen years’ impris
onment at hard labor imposed by
court-martial upon Second Lieu
tenant John C. Gottenkine, of the
Fifth field artillery. The officer
was convicted of deserting his
command at Neuhausel, Germany,
in June, 1919, after embezzling
$36,051 of military funds.
Pneumonia Scourge
From September 1 until last Sat
urday there have been 483 deaths in
New York City from pneumonia, ac
cording to a statement by Dr. Royal
S Copeland, health commissioner.
This number, Dr. Copeland said, was
about double that for the same period
last year. The increased number of
. deaths is indirectly attributed to the
unsettled weather recently. Because
of this condition the health depart
ment has been taking unusual pre
cautions. Dr. Copeland said the
principal thing needed was coal to
supply heat in every house in the
city.
Wrecks Are Popular
Frank Roosevelt, the running mate,
Was touring through the Hoosier
When suddenly a tire bust
And Franklin never even cussed;
“With Cox,” he said, “then Harding
wrecked,
I bet you Coolidge is the next.”
Warship Tennessee on Malden Cruise
The super-dreadnaught Tennessee,
one of the most powerful fighting
ships in the navy, launched four
months ago, cleared from Brooklyn
navy yard last week on the first leg
of her trial trip, completely fitted
for sea services The great vessel
will load 1,800 tons of fuel oil and
at Tompkinsville, S. 1., and proceed
to Newport, R. 1., for torpedoes.
Engineers and contractors who con
structed the vessel will be picked up
at Gardiner’s Bay, L. 1., and will
pass on her fitness during her trials.
The vessel is equipped with twelve
14-inch guns, twelve 5-inch guns and
has twelve decks. She is 630 feet
long and the accommodations for the
crew are more comfortable than any
other ship has. The vessel’s speed is
twenty-one knots.
Frank Yermineaux, mayor of
Gas City, Ind., was sentenced to
four months in the Marion coun
ty jail today by Judge A. B. An
derson for violation of an in
junction order issued in the
United States district court in
the case of the Illinois Glass
company against James Maloney
and other members of the em
ployes’ department of the Glass
Bottle Blowers’ association.
Philip Durgoon, chief of police
of Gas City, was sentenced to jail
for two months on the same
charge.
Jury Out Fifteen Days
After fifteen days of service In a
murder case, eleven of which, ware
spent in a vain endeavor to reach a
verdict, a jury at Pittsburg, Pa., has
reported to the criminal court that
it had been unable to agree, and was
discharged.
Belgium Honors Martyr
The Belgian prime minister, M.
Delacroix, was a recent visitor to
London on the occasion of the fifth
anniversary of the execution by the
Germans of Edith Cavell, English
nurse, and the unveiling on the
Thames embankment by Princess
Clementine of a memorial erected by
the Belgians in gratitude for British
hospitality to Belgian refugees dur
ing the war. M. Delacroix was given
a government dinner at which Pre
mier Lloyd George announced that
the king had commanded him to
hand the Belgian premier the grand
cross of the Order of the Bath.
SI,OOO From Mrs. Cox
The Women’s Bureau of Dem
ocratic headquarters announces
receipt of a pledge from Mrs.
James M. Cox, wife of the Pres
idential candidate, who agreed
to contribute SI,OOO toward the
women’s campaign for the
League of Nations.
Brazil Seeks Doan
RIO JANEIRO, Oct. 20.—The Bra
zilian government is negotiating a
loan with interest in the United
States, it was announced by the ma
jority leader in the chamber of dep
uties last night. While the amount
was not stated, it is understood to
he $40,000.000.
Eighty aged residents of the Mor
mon church home and infirmary, fif
teen of whom wer bedridden and six
blind, were rescued from the build
ing, 1508 Morton avenue, when the
roof caught fire shortly after 1
o’clock yesterday.
■ Some found shelter at the Orphan
age. _
TANK ROBBING
S FINE ART.
Captain Moffit, of the Los Angeles
detective force, one of the veteran
criminal chasers of the country,
says you can’t rob a bank and get
away with it. The job leaves too
many trails.
This city’s bank robberies total
six and of the 19 men concerned, all
are in prison or dead. One man who
got away was traced to enlistment
in the Canadian army and it was es
tablished he paid the supreme pen
alty in Flanders field.
Not all cities have a perfect rec
ord in catching bank robbers, but
the percentage is so high the job is
regarded the most dangej-ous for
thieves.
The battleship Massachusetts,
which fought in the battle of San
tiago in 1893, will be towed from the
Philadelphia Navy Yard, to Pensa
cola, Fin., to serve as a target in a
trial of the nation’s coast defense ar
tillery against an armored warship,
it wag announced.
The old warship’s armor plate is
eighteen inches thick. Her protec
tion nearly equals that of present
day warships. The ship will be
anchored off shore at a range of
three miles from the bMuteMtfjjut
battery. \
DOROTHY DIX TALKS .
SAFETY FIRST
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by Wheeler Syndicate.)
ANOTHER scoundrel, with a
get-rich-quick scheme has
succeeded in conjuring mil
lions >ut of the pockets of
the credulous with a proposition
that was so palpably a fake that it
would seem that even a blind baby
could have seen through it.
And. as usual in svyth cases, a
large proportion of *«s* victims were
women; for if a sucker is born ev
ery minute as the homely old adage
alleges there is. the most of these
suckers are of the feminine persua
sion. And thev are always the first
to nibble at a gilded hook. and
swallow it, line, bait and sinker.
One would think, considering how
important money Is to a woman, and
how helpless and forlorn she is
without it. and how hardly the
average woman earns what few dol
lars she possesses, that she would
hold on to her pocket book with a
death grip, and that you would have
to chloroform her to get it away
from her. So far from this being
the case, however, women are the
champion easy marks of the world,
and a living translation of the
truth that “a fool and his money
are soon parted.”
For women are the wildest spec
ulators, and the most reckless
plungers on earth. They will risk
their all on a blind chance in a
game whose first rudiments they do
not understand. No proposition can
be too wild, too preposterous, too
visionary to attract them if it. only
promises some miraculous profit.
It Is said that women never look
before they leap, and this is par
t.cularly the case when they go into
business ventures. They do not even
stop to investigate the thing they
are asked to buy. if only some glib
talker presents the matter to them
in a picturesque and optimistic
light, or some alluring prospectus
lays before them some utopian
dream.
Boarding house keepers whose ev
ery penny s red with their life
blood; school teachers who have
sweated out a few dollars through
long years of nerve-racking slav
ery in forcing unwilling children
down the ?ths of learning; women
clerks and stenographers whose tiny
savings bank accounts have been
built up through a. sacrifice of prop
er food, clothes and heat: all these
women will take the money that
stands between them and the poor
house and buy a corner lot in some
Garden of Eden that exists only in
the seller's imagination, or sink it
n a hole in *he ground where the
only prospect of gold pr silver that
ever existed came from the coin of
the idiot Investors.
When a woman thinks about in
vesting money she never asks
whether the thing she is going to
put her money in is safe or not.
Her only interest is the size of the
dividend ihe is going to get for it,
0-—0 D
NEW QUESTIONS
I.—How much would a million
’ dollai; bills weigh?
b 2.—What was the difference be-
tween Pilgrims and Puritans?
. 3.—How large do snails grow?
r 4. —Does a parrot’s tongue have to
be split before It is able to talk?
5. —How long does a patent run?
6. —Please give me the names of
> the various wedding anniversaries.
7. —What was the greatest volcanic
eruption in the world?
» 8. —-What is the difference between
an alligator and a crocodile?
; 9.-*—What verse in the Bible con
’ tains all the letters in the alphabet?
j 10.'—What was the first real news
r sent by telegraph?
1 Questions Answered
| I.—Q. Where does platinum come.
J from?
A. Platinum is found in South
. America and in the Russian Urals.
> Ninety per cent of the world’s sup
-1 ply comes from the Urals. Platinum
has been found in small quantities
» In the gold washings of the Pacific
I slope, but nowhere else in North
t America.
3 2.—Q. Do you know of a town that
T has no doctor?
3 A. We have a report from Cana
densis, Pa., to the effect that it is a
community without a doctor.
3. Q. What city in the United
States is known as the “Forest
City?’’
A. Cleveland, Ohio, has acquired
this title on account of its wonderful
shaded streets.;
4. —Q. Is there a British newspa
per in Jerusalem?
A. The Jerusalem News is printed
in Jerusalem daily, and is sold for
one piastre—which is about four
cents in American money.
5. —Q. Please give dimensions and
cost of the Kiel canal and when was
it built?
A. The Kiel canal is 61 miles in
length, 36 feet in depth and 72 feet
in width. This canal was completed
in 1911 and cost $40,000,000.
6. —Q. Who was known as the
, knight’’ of American poll
i A. This title was given James G.
s Blaine by Colonel Robert Ingersoll
i in his speech nominating Mr. Blaine
for the presidency of the United
States.
; Mrs. Solomon Says:
> Bein£ the Confessions of The
. Sefen-Hundredth Wife
i BY HELEN ROWLAND
Copyright, 1920, by The McClure
I Newspaper SyutfTcate.
MY DAUGHTER, what prof
iteth it a woman, though
she have all the talents of
the Muses 1 the charms
of Graces, and have not TACT?
For unruly hair may be held in a
net, and a carpet may be tacked to
the floor; but a wagging tongue is
more dangerous than a second-hand
automobile, whereof, the brakes have
ceased to work.
Now it came to pass, that a
Daughter was born to a Prince of
Babylon.
And to the birthday feast, there
were bidden nine Virtuous Fairies,
who came bringing rare gifts for
the Infant Princess.
And the first of the fairies be
stowed upon her the eyes of a faun,
the smile of a seraph, and the voice
of a Lorelei, that she might charm
mon.
And the second endowed her with
the wisdom of the Sphinx and the
mystery of the Catacombs, that she
might be called “interesting.”
And the third gave unto her the
beauty of an houri and the figure
of a Sennet bathing-girl, that she
might dazzle men.
And the fourth conferred upon her
the ways of a kitten and tne sweet
ness of a maple sundae, that she
might be called "cate."
And the fifth blessed her with
the pliability of a down pillow and
the meekness of a door mat, that
she might know contentment.
And the sixth bestowed upon her
the nerves of a potato and the opin
ions of an echo, that she might be
famed among men fo r her “judg
ment.
And the seventh granted her the
faith of a pet poodle and the pa
tience of Job, that she might be
called "sympathetic.”
And the eighth gave her the con
science of a cat and the sensitive
ness of a wooden Indian, for her
soul’s comfort.
And the ninth made up the sum
total of womanly PERFECTIONS
with the blindness of a bat, the en
durance of a galley slave. a:-d t
allurements of a Gayety Girl.
‘ And the father of the Babe re
and anybody who will promise he
fifty per cent can take her rol
away from her as easily as he ca
a stick of candy f» , “*k a sick chile
A few yearr ago a woman I knot
inherited fifty thousand dollars n
cash. She is a frail, delicate crea
lure, absolutely unfitted, eithe
physically or temperamentally. f
make a living', and those of us wb
knew her were aware that thi
was the last money she would eve
have, so we implored her to inve’
it in. gilt-edged securities that wer
copper riveted and had millions b<
hind them.
“If I buy the bonds you advise,
she asked, ‘‘bow much income wi
I get?”
“About twenty-five hundred dol
lars a year,’ we told her.
“Oh. I can’t live on that.” ah
said. “I must nave at least ten pc
cent on my money. I have so littl
that I can’t afford to take a sma
per cent on my money as you do.
“But you can't get a high rat
of interest on anything that i
safe,” we wa.led. “All of the thing
that promise these enormous re
turns are fairy tales, and they en
in smoke like fairy tales.’’
But she wouldn’t listen to us. Sh
found a man who had a perfect!
marvelous mine in Mexico that wa
going to pay at least a hundre
and fifty per cent when it got t
running, and another man who wa
boring for oil in Texas, and ev
erybody knows what fortunes hav
been made m oil. and somebody els
who was booming land in Florid
and who was going to sell of
swamp lands that you bought so
ten, dollars an acre: for ten dollar
a foot for city lots: and the poor
trusting creature believed them a'
and handed over her money to then
and in lesc than two years sh
was swept clean, and had to go liv
with relatives who justly re.sente
being burdened with the support o
one who had literally thrown he
purse over the windmill.
Why women should be so da«
zled by the prospect of getting bi
dividends that they lose sight o
the danger of losing their stak
altogether. Is one of the mysterle
nobody can explain. Certainly an:
sane person would reflect that i
is better to have five per cent an
get your money back, than to ge
twelve per cent for a year or tw
and then lose it: but. the averag
woman doesn’t reason this way
She feels that somehow, some way
a miracle is going to be wrough
in her behalf, and that' wlthou
knowledge or experience she is go
ing to be able to turn a trick tha
the cleverest financiers are not abl
to do. And that is. to make a dol
lar work overtime for her.
But there will be fewer womei
weeping over the loss of money tha
has left them to a poor and de
pendent old age.
7. —Q. How long has shorthand
been known?
A. From references made to skilled
writers in ancient literature, the in
ference is drawn that shorthand was
known long before the Christian era
The first authentic knowledge of the
art dates to the first century before
Christ. The pioneer of Roman short
hand was Marcus Fullius Tiro, sec
retary and librarian to Cicero, who
j devised a system which was little
more than a list of abbreviations
Later it was improved to such an
extent that reporters of the time
could keep pace with the speakers
by writing in relays. The system o1
the Latins fell into disuse betweer
the fifth and ninth centuries, and
modern stenography dates from 1588.
8. -Q.' Whence did the saying
“thin as a rail” originate?
A. The saying "thin as a rail” does
not refer to a fence rail, as is com
monly supposed, but to the bird
known as a rail. The rails, of which
there are several species in thia
country, live in marshes, and have
extremely compressed bodies so that
they ffiay thread their way between
reeds and rushes.
9. Q. Hqw can I keep cider from
turning into vinegar?
A. Cider cannot be kept success
fully except in a cool cellar. If the
cider is made in cold weather, and
is kept in a temperature not above
45 degrees F. acetic acid organisms
will not develop, and fermentation
will be slow. The cider will not be
come hard for from four to six
weeks. To make good cider it must
be fermented at a low temperature.
10. Q. How did the cup which is
the prize in the big yacht race come
to be called “America’s cup” if it
came first from Engl'ind?
A. In 1851 an American schooner
called the "America" was visiting in
English waters at the time of the
Royal Yacht squadron races. This
vessel entered the regatta and sailed
without time allowance around the
Ise of Wight. The America finished
first out of a large fleet of vessels.
She was awarded the prize of a cup
valued at SSOO. The owner took this
cup to the New York Yacht club to
establish 'a perpetual challenge tro
phy for competition between yachts
of the different countries. Therefore
the cup became known as “ America’s
cup.”
joiced and blessed them, saying:
“Behold, the Perfect V.‘o nan, and
every man’s ‘ldeal’!’’
Biit, thereupon, entered a Vicious
Fairy, who had not been bidden to
the feast.
And she mocked them, saying.
“So be it! But I shall bestow up*
on her one gift, which shall be her
undoing. Yea, I shall endow her with
a sense of humor, which is the
curse of woman! And her affliction
shall cause her to see men as they
are, and to perceive their funny side.
And she shall refuse to take them
seriously, and shall laugh at
their weaknesses and Jibe at their
follies and torment them with wM
and with cyncism. And, behold, shW
shall never marry!" • 1
And 10, it came to pass, even an 1
she had said.
For, though the damsel grew to
great beauty, and was famed in tb-t
land for her fascinations: yet, ,
man dared to marry her, lest ’e 1 z
laughed at!
And she dwelt in the House /u
Spinsters, forever!
Selah.
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