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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 iponths 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wc.l Mo. 3 Mot. sMos. Hr. Daily and Sunday2oc 99c $2.50 $0.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .1)0 1-75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from ail 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. Woodllff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label uaed tor addre»«ing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at lenst two weeks before the date on this label, yon insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as your new address, if on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. 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. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. TheEditor’ sDesk The Sun Never Sets on The Tri-Weekly J ournal The Tri-Weekly Journal takes a trip around the world three times a week. Every time an edition comes rumbling off the big presses, the mails begin to scatter copies all over the globe. To begin with, subscribers in every state in the union read the papqy. Then, up in Alaska, and down around the Panama canal, and across the Pa cific in the Philippines, and eastward in the Hawaiian Islands, people living under the Stars 'and Stripes get their news from our columns. And among foreign nations of the -world The Tri-Weekly Journal is a regular visi tor. In North America outside the United States you will see it in homes of Canada and Mexico. In Central America, Hon duras is on the list. In South America come Brazil and the Argentine Republic. Cuba and Great Britain’s Isle of Pines must be counted, too. So much for the Western Hemisphere. Skip across the Atlantic and mail carriers of varied races and in varied climates lug The Tri-Weekly Journal in their pouches. That’s the case in England and in the Belgian Congo and in France and in Ger many. This schedule of the paper’s tri-weekly tour around the world may not be com plete. But it’s enough to set anybody to thinking. Most of The Tri-Weekly Journal’s big family of readers, of course, are’home folks. They live mainly on this side of the Mason-Dixon line. They are sub scribers, first, because the paper gives them the most, the livest and the latest news from this region. National happen ings, world events and general news are important, but not so personal. Yet why do people of distant lands re main faithful readers of a paper published thousands of miles away? There’s one answer that sounds reason able. The Tri-Weekly Journal is far more than a local newspaper—far more than a recorder of world activity. It has indi vidual attractions, unique points, exclu sive merits that belong to no other paper printed. It’s an institution in its own right. Perhaps that’s the answer. But, at any rate, if you believe that the paper is the best to be had, your belief is supported by others everywhere on the top side of the earth. 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 in port, and there is depression in those very staples of which European countries are in urgent need. Authorities point out that cot ton to the value of approximately a billion dollars, even at current prices, is available for export, as are also some six hundred 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. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS 'parson 'low DE whut steals Yo’ » POCKET-BOOK STEALS)! TRjASH BUT RE s_Ho j| wouldn 1 git nothiN'll CEP'n trash es he J, • Got bA_£NE. !» < ■ j||| id