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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURN AL, Atlanta. Ga.
Confidence and Courage,
The True Note of the Hour
ND one would describe Judge Elbert H.
Gary, the head of the United States
Steel Corporation, as a star-gazing
optimist. It is his business to see things,
not as he would like them to be, but as they
are. Peculiarly interesting, therefore, are
the observations of this level-looking realist
on the trend in industry and trade. “The
people of the United States,” he says, speak
ing with habitual conservatism and candor,
"have reason for confidence in the business
future. They need not be discouraged or im
patient.” Flurries and showers are always
possible, he reasons, “but there is nothing in
the atmosphere to indicate the approach of
a storm.” “If there should be serious re
action and depression, which now seems im
probable, it would be the fault of those who
are connected with business operation or
jthers who, by reason of official positions,
improperly interfere, and not because of any
fundamental deficiencies in our resources
and opportunities.” This is a time, he con
cludes, “for courage, composure and cau
tion,” not for moping pessimism.
This counsel of cheer is as applicable to
Georgia and her neighbor States as to the
mntry at large, and is given by the ablest
in this region as confidently as by
•udge Gary himself. The fact is few parte
f America or of the world are fundamentally
i well off as the South, notwithstanding
vat just at this juncture cotton brings more
j’.ors than dollars. There ie no denying the
Piousness of that particular situation; and
solish indeed would be he, whether mer
■ant, banker or farmer, w r ho failed to do
? thoughtful best to lighten the common
■ rdene and serve the common interests of
is hour. But let it be remembered the
iiile that cotton has weathered uglier seas
ian the present and come prosperously to
>rt. The basic and hence decisive, factors
i the case are all heartening. With a 1920
op of less than twelve million bales and the
orld’s undoubted need for at least fifteen
tillion from the South; with the certainty
,f American mills resuming their activity
hen the present process of readjustment is
ver; and with continental Europe eagerly
waiting to buy large quantities of our cotton
o soon as credit facilities can be provided—
s it not probable, is it not inevitable that
ood times lie ahead?
This reassurance the South would have,
■ven were she quite resourceless save for cot
on and -were tied to that sole pro-duct, like
jrusoe to hie island. But consider the
.vealth of her other harvests and the rich
ness of her other hopes; the gold of corn
field, the fatness of smokehouse and crib,
the red-cheeked plenty of orchards on a thou
sand hills, the bounties of a land where sum
mer tarries through a green October, and no
leason comes with empty arms. It is not to
i one-crop Georgia that we now look for
:heer when the cotton market grows slug
gish, but to a veritable empire of treasury
md opportunity. Does it count nothing to
lay that within the last seven years this
Itate’s tax values have increased from some
hing less than eight hundred and forty-three
aillion dollars to one billion three hundred
.nd forty-five million? Does it count for
lothing that Atlanta’s bank clearings
mounted to almost two and a half billion
lollars during the first nine months of the
urrent year, while in the same period her
»uilding record rose to eight million two
mndred and sixty-one thousand? Are not
hese locally unexampled figures, together
zith like evidences from the South at large
.nd the witness of America’s vast strength,
nough to send courage tiding and trumpet
ng through every heart? Courage is the
rue note of this hour—with "composure
nd caution,” as Judge Gary counsels. It is
he true note, and the only note worthy of
i people who are stanch of soul and bounti
ully blest.
Another trouble about the growth of the
ountry is that it inevitably means more
ongressmen.—Nashville Banner.
Wise Spending
, /-> PEND with wisdom” is the advice
‘ from S. W. Straus, president of
k-'' the American Society for Thrift,
tat comes with especial force at this time,
,'hen the approach of winter calls for ex
nenditures in many lines and when the pur
chaser has unusual opportunities.
It is not the refusal to buy that is the
wisest thrift, Mr. Strauss points out, but the
decision to buy carefu'ly. One may skimp
himself threadbare to save a few hundred
dollars, and then toss it all away on some
extravagant or unwise purchase.
“Correct spending is a matter of deep
study and intelligent investigation,” de
clares Mr. Strauss. “If you have in mind
the purchase of a home, for example, or a
set of furniture or some article of wearing
apparel, do not buy the first thing that,
strikes your fancy, but look around thor
oughly. • Never allow your enthusiasm to
run away w’ith your good judgment.”
Buyers at this particular time should find
it easy to follow’ the advice of Mr. Strauss,
for not in months has there been a bigger
field for selection. Shops and stores of every
kind offer a market where the purchaser
should be able to spend wisely.”
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Are protests against census figures a
counter revolution? —Greenville (S. C.) Pied
mont.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
TheEditor’ sDesk
They’ve arrested a mail carrier in Chi
cago for burning up copies of political
speeches that candidates were sending out
for the edification of the voting public.
The speeches weighted his sack outland
ishly, the carrier explained, so he dumped
them into a furnace at a public school.
Thus the burning oratory of sundry
spellbinders w r ent to help heat the building
for the pupils.
Os course, this postal w’orker was wrong.
He violated an iron-bound law of the gov
ernment. And Uncle Sam is likely to come
down on him pretty hard.
But, somehow or other, his offense
doesn’t seem so heinous.
When you think of the millions and mil
lions of fancy words that have been spoken
and printed since America’s political pot
began to boil over this year, it looks like a
few thousand of them might be spared
without vital loss to the nation.
The people those speeches W’ere address
ed to probably hadn't asked the politicians
to send them. The intended recipients
probably wouldn’t have read the speeches
had they arrived. The candidate probably
mailed the speeches under the franking
privilege, which means that the public paid
the postage.
Political speeches are frequently long,
and, although they frequently have verv
little in them, their weight is bound to be
considerable in printed form. A bunch of
them addad to a mail carrier’s burden is
doubtless a strain both on his patience and
his backbone.
All in all, It’s possible that many a cam
paign speech has done less good than
serve as fuel during a coal shortage.
“Mike Casey’’ Again
If you’ll read the letter fronf The Tri-
Weekly Journal’s epigrammatic correspond
ent, "Mike Casey,” elsewhere on this page,
you may notice one thing.
He’s consistent.
His meditations this time are upon the
topic of "Free Advice.”
But never once does he give any free
advice on the evils of giving free advice.
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Many persons are willing to fight for
ideas. The odd thing is that so many of
them are willing to fight for ideas they don’t
understand. —Buffalo News.
Another congressional junket is planned,
this time to the Panama canal. Gentlemen
who like to travel adopt at the beginning
the slogan, "Get to Washington first.’’—
Philadelphia North American.
A Fishemen s Race
THERE is something to stir the red
blood of every lover of sport in the
announcement that the Gloucester
fishermen have accepted the challenge of the
fishermen of Halifax for a race of forty miles
between two fishing smacks for a silver cup
and a purse of five thousand dollars, of
which four thousand goes to the winner.
Here is an international contest, the ban
ner of the United States on one side against
the Maple Leaf of Canada on the other, that
by every law of sport should become as cele
brated and interesting to the people of both
nations as the international yacht races.
The Defenders and the Resolutes, the
Shamrocks and all the other speed yachts of
the pleasure-seeking sportsmen are beautiful
enough in action, no doubt, and when pitted
against one another, excite the admiration
and partisanship of thousands. But, after
all, they are idlers of the sea, dilettantes that
know not the shouting buffet of the winds
and the crash of smoking seas.
But when the Esperanto, of Massachusetts,
and the Delawanna, of Nova Scotia, go forth
to battle under the flags of two nations,
when the ships that have dared the storms
of the Grand Banks and faced the icy breath
of the arctic start bow to bow over the forty
mile course, one ventures to predict that
gale or tempest will not stop them and that
the finish will be a sight worth going miles
to see.
It will be a race of working ships, manned
by working crews, with commanders who are
working skippers. Only masters who have
fished on the Grand Banks for at least a year
shall qualify to compete, and rigging to be
used, as laid down in the rules, shall he lim
ited to such as enters into the everyday sail
ing of a Grand Banks boat.
One wishes for the defender of America’s
honor in this royal race of "Captains Coura
geous” all the success desired for our inter
national tennis team or the contender for the
Lipton cup.
Having demonstrated that monkey bites
are dangerous, King Alexander of Greece
cannot be said to have lived in vain.—Cleve
land News.
Innocents at Home
WE think that we live in a sophisti
cated age and a marvelously shrewd
country. Who so keen as Ameri
cans, who so worldly-wise? we ask, half
ashamed of our lost innocency. This only
goes to show that the most easily gulled
are oft’ the least aware of their delightful
artlessness.
Five hundred million dollars, authorities
reckon, is swindled from the American peo
ple annually by purveyors of bogus securi
ties —a little lees than five dollars for every
inhabitant, from babes and sucklings to
gray old foxes of finance. It is not so much
a lack of protective laws as of Scotch cau
tion that makes .his sad fleecing possible.
Thirty-eight States have provided cunning
and formidable statutes against those who
live, as Dickens said, by the lack of wits
in others. Still, the wicked wax fat, and the
guileless persist in feeding them.
The trouble lies in not applying the lash
of these statures with due vigor, some ob
servers say. Mr. George W. Hodges, of New
York, former president of the Investment
Bankers Association, is of the opinion that
“eighty per cent of the promoters now
filing fradulent or questionable stock covid
be put out of business if existing laws -were
properly enforced.” Then in the name# of
Saint Charity give us alertness and rigor
on this score wherever they now are want
ing. for blest will he be who brings a
swindler to book.
It should not be forgotten, however, that
the innocents at home owe themselves cer
tain precautions which no one can take for
them—the precaution, for instance, of using
a modicum of the sense with which nature
has endowed them and of profiting by their
own if not others’ experience. Only once did
Moses Primrose barter his horse for a basket
of green goggles. Credulous Americans
should try to be at least that canny.
With Europe willing to pay any price for
coal and the bins of America empty, our
mine owners are up against the old issue of
being good or being rich. —New Haven Jour
nal Courier.
WHY CHILDREN LIE
By H. Addington Bruce
\GAIN and again 1 receive letters from
parents worried by the falsifying pro
clivities of their children. In many
of these letters, I am glad to find, there is
recognition of the fact that the telling of
lies is not necessarily an evidence of “de
pravity.”
It may, indeed, be an evidence rather of
unsatisfied yearnings for love and sympa
thetic interest. Children who for any rea
son feel that they are not getting out of life
all they should are not unlikely to resort to
lies as a means of gaining more attention
from their elders.
In this way, for example, children in whom
feelings of inferiority develop because of
mental or bodily defect, an environment of
poverty, or parental neglect, are apt to in
vent amazing “yarns,” with themselves as
the chief actors therein. They may even tell
harmful lies about other people, being blind
to every consequence except the desired one
of making themselves appear more interest
ing.
Or a habit of lying may be the product
of nothing more serious than an underdevel
opment of the critical faculty. Very young
children are, of course, particularly prone to
err in this way.
A vivid dream may he gravely related by
them as an actual occurrence. Or they may
ascribe to themselves happenings of actual
occurrence to others. What these little
falsifiers obviously need is not punishment,
but training that will help them to discrimi
nate between fancy and reality.
Even when lying is premeditated and de
liberate —for the avoiding of penalties, dodg
ing some irksome task, getting one’s own
way, etc.—punishment may be neither the
surest nor the most logically indicated rem
edy.
"I’ll teach you to tell lies!” cries an irate
parent, who perhaps has not himself set his
child a consistent example of truth-telling.
Or it may be that he has unconsciously in
cited his child to lie by the severity with
which he has penalized even slight faults.
Parents, as some one has well said, too
often forget the natural timidity of children.
Fear is assuredly the chief cause of wilful
lying. “There are more lives spoiled by un
due harshness than by undue gentleness.”
And as a not unimportant secondary cause
of wilful lying comes imitation, whether of
truth-disregarding playmates or truth-disre
garding parents. So that Eugenia Andruss
Leonard, writing on this complex subject of
children’s lies, suggests the best possible
course for parents to follow when she insists:
“The parent who is truthful, sympathetic
and sincerely interested in the problems that
perplex her child has little to fear from child
lying, for the recollection of such a friend
is a mighty force prompting the child to bet
ter and worthier effort at truth.”
If, however, sympathetic study and judi
cious handling alike fail to curb habitual
lying, then the aid of a specialist in mental
and nervous troubles should be invoked. For
the possibility is that the unfortunate little
falsifier is a juvenile victim of that malady
known as mythomania, concerning which I
shall have something to say another day.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspa
pers.)
AN OPEN LETTER TO MR.
HARDING AND MR. COX
By Dr. Frank Crane
One of you is going to be elected Presi
dent of the United States.
No matter which is the one, he is going to
face a tremendous practical tangle. It is
this:
With thirty-two Senators to be elected
on November 2, thirty-two Republican and
thirty-one Democratic Senators whose terms
are unexpired, and one vacancy to be filled —
neither Republicans nor Democi’ats can se
cure the two-thirds majority of the Senate
necessary to wield the treaty-making power
vested in the Senate under the Constitution
of the United States.
While it is apparent that the Republicans
can prevent the ratification of the Versailles
Treaty and our entrance into the League of
Nations, it is equally true that the Demo
crats will have the power to prevent the adop
tion of any resolution for a separate peace
with Germany, or for the entrance of Amer
ica into any new “Association of Nations.”
You will perceive that “it is a Condition
that confronts us, and not a Theory.”
This is no time for blind, stubborn ad
herence to ultimate ideals for which the peo
ple are not yet ready. Nor is it time for
that “foolish consistency which Is the hob
goblin of little minds.”
It is your duty, Mr. Next President, to
Get the people of this country Together.
To this end you must be the President of
ALL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, and not the
leader of a Party.
The League of Nations ought never to have
been made a Party Issue. You know that,
and have said it.
If you -want to have a successful adminis
tration, therefore, and win the enthusiastic
applause of all classes —
FORM A COALITION GOVERNMENT.
Get men of Both Parties in your cabinet.
We've had enough fighting. Let’s Get To
gether!
Lloyd George said: “Every belligerent
country, with the exception of America, has
been driven to a coalition, to save the state.
He also said: "When there is a storm it is
all hands on deck.”
The Business Men of the United States
-re sick and tired of Party squabbling.
The Workers are sick of it.
The Women are sick of it.
Everybody, except the political wrestlers,
is sick of it.
Can you not, once you are elected, help
‘his torn, bleeding, and disgusted People to
Get Together?
Only so will we have Peace and Prosperity.
Men of influence in the parly opposed to
onrs will flock to your support.
Will you do this?
It IS your amazing opportunity.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes
Robert Clive started life with the sobri
quet of "born dunce.” His teachers pro
aounced him “impossible” and requested his
parents to remove him from school. At 32
he could barely read or write. Yet Clive
boasted that some day he would “show ev
erybody.” He left home in rage and joined
the army. During a critical engagement, and
while severely wounded, he was called upon
to command 3,000 men. Untrained and
ridiculed by them, he nevertheless forced
those men forward by sheer grit and suc
ceeded in defeating 5,000 men at Plassey,
thereby laying the foundation of the British
empire in India. England erected a statue
to his memory in Trafalgar Square.
Another “born dunce” was Carolus Lin
naeus, the Swedish naturalist. Born in Ras
hult in Smaiand, Sweden, what little chance
he had in life as a boy he threw away.
“Unhandy at everything; even unfit for the
pulpit,” later wrote his critics. Yet in the
fields alone where he was commanded to
work he studied botany in a crude way, and
seven years later was joyfully hailed as the
greatest botanist of his age.
Charles M. Schwab says there are more
opportunities today than ever before, but
that most people live in a rut.
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
XVI. THE CLEVELAND
BLAINE RACE OF 1884
'T-T T ASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 3.
\/\/ Disgraceful because of the
V V scandal-mongering and mud
slinging, exciting because of
the intense partisanship displayed
and because it was so close, the cam
paign of 1884 stands as one of the
most Interesting of our history. It re
sulted in the elevation of Grover
Cleveland to the presidential office,
the first Democrat to be elected after
the Civil war, whose two terms of
office were the only interruptions In
fifty-two years of Republican ascen
dancy.
Long before the campaign was over
it was realized that the candidate
who carried New York would be
elected. Cleveland carried the state
by only 1,149 plurality over Blaine.
A change of 600 voters in New York
would have made Blaine president.
The narrow margin resulted in a
thousand "ifs” and it is by some of
these "ifs” that the campaign will
be remembered longest.
The aggressive action on the part
of the Democrats began with the
election of 1882. Garfield had alien
ated Conkling by making Blaine sec
retary of state. Then followed the
appointment of Robertson to be col
lector of the port of New York.
Conkling was so furious that he re
signed his seat in the senate, being
imitated by Thomas C. Platt, his
junior colleague, who thereby gained
for himself the sobriquet of “Me
Too!” Conkling and Platt were sore
ly disappointed in that they were
not triumphantly re-elected.
The assassination of Garfield did
not end the factional disputes in the
party. President Arthur was Conk
ling’s friend, but he soon broke with
the imperious New Yorker. Blaine
was the popular leader and the idol
of the masses of the Republican vot
ers. Yet his enemies were many and
powerful, both within and without
the party. The Democrats looked
upon him as the next nominee for
president and trimmed their sails ac
cordingly. In 1882 the Democrats
swept the country and elected a ma
jority of the house of representa
tives.
Cleveland’s Nomination
More than that, they carried the
pivotal state of New York by a ma
jority of almost 200,000 with Grover
Cleveland as the nominee for gov
ernor. Cleveland’s carreer as mayor
of Buffalo and his veto of extrava
gant appropriations had brought him
into notice in New York. His great
victory, contributed -to by Republi
can factionism, caused the whole
country to look to him. When the
Democratic national convention met
in 1884 he was easily nominated on
the second ballot, receiving the nec
essary two-ihirds vote despite tne
violent and even disorderly protests
of Tammany Hall, then led by John
Kelly.
The admniistration opposed Blaine
with all its force, and attempted to
win the nomination for President
Arthur. Bat Blaine was the leader
from the beginning and received the
nomination on the fourth ballot. The
powerful influences which had de
feated him in the conventions of 1876
and 1880 were still at work, but
their force was expended and Blaine
was nominated —for slaughter.
Again there was a third part fac
tor in the problem. The Green
backers reappeared as the anti-mon
opo,y party and nominated for presi
dent no less a personage than Gen
eral Benjamin F. Butler, of Massa
chusetts, the premier acrobatic clown
of the political circus. Six weeks
after taking the anti-monopoly nom
ination, Butler appeared as a dele
gate in the Democratic convention
actually trying to get. the Demo
cratic nomination and bidding for
southern support by offering a plank
favoring federal pensions for Con
federate soldiers!
Scandals affecting Blaine’s in
tegrity had been afloat for years, and
had been used against him in two
national conventions. The Demo
cratic press hailed his nomination
with the Credit Mobllier scandal and
the Mulligan letters. The charge was
reiterated that Blaine, as speaker of
the house of representatives, had been
influenced in his rulings by financial
considerations.
Tho Usual Mud Battle
When the campaign was fairly
started, a scandal about Mr. Cleve
land’s earlier life was unearthed—
the Halpin affair. The Blaine forces
made a fatal mistake in lending of
ficial countenance to the spread of
the scandal. When the Democratic
committee considered publishing the
Blaine scandal broadcast, Mr. Cleve
land vetoed the proposition. That
did not prevent, of course, the indi
vidual Democrats from taking up and
repeating the old charges against
Blaine which had been current for
eight years. The result was a bit
ter, nasty, mud-slinging campaign.
Everybody looked upon New York
as the pivotal state. There Mr. Cleve
land and Mr. Blaine both labored un
der great difficulties. Mr. Blaine
had the implacable hatred of Roscoe
Conkling. That alone cost him the
presidency, for there were a thousand
Conkling men in Oneida county who
voted for Cleveland. On the other
hand, Cleveland had the enmity of
Tammany hall and the intense hatred
of Charles A. Dana, editor of the
New York Sun, and the ablest jour
nalist in the land. The Sun was
then a straightout Tammany organ.
Mr. Dana had a personal grievance
against Mr. Cleveland. He inspired
the Tammany opposition to Cleve
land, and after the nomination he
bolted the ticket.
Dana and the Sun supported Gen
eral Butler, the third party candi
date, and always had a good word
for the Prohibitionist candidate, Gov
ernor John P. St. John, of Kansas.
Butler's candidacy was a miserable
fiasco, and the Sun’s following voted
straight for Blaine when election day
came around.
Blaine made a stumping tour of
the middle west and was welcomed
as few men have ever been. There
was no doubt in the minds of either
Republicans or Democrats that he
had made many votes for himself, and
that he had swung the tide in his
favor. On his way back east he
stopped in Indiana to visit his sister,
who was mother superior in a Ro
man Catholic convent. This called
attention to the fact that his mother
and sisters were devout Catholics,
and was liable to inject a religious |
issue into the campaign.
Instead of going directly to his [
home in Maine. Mr. Blaine stopped :
over in New York City and thereby :
committed a fatal blunder. He dined
with Jay Gould, a fact which the
Democrats seized upon to show his
intimacy with the Napoleons of fi
nance in Wall street. That dinner
undoubtedly cost Blaine many votes.
But the climax was reached in
the Buchard incident. Mr. Blaine had
been accused of so many horrible
things that it was thought wise to
have a delegation of prominent
clergyman call on him to show the
countrv that the Protestant, ministers
of New York trusted him. Mr.
Blaine received the delegation on
the grand stairway at the old Fifth
Avenue hotel. The address on the
part of the delegation was delivered
by Dr. Burchard, an aged Brooklyn
preaaher. At its close came the fa
tal phrase in describing the evils
against which Blaine stood: “Rum,
Romanism and Rebellion!”
“Rum, Romanism and Rebellion!
The Democrats took it up on the in
stance although Mr. Blaine delayed
a whole day in discerning sympathy
with this speech. here were but.
two days until election, then, and
-ho disclaimer did not reach the
voters. In New York there were cer
tain unscrupulous ward-workers who
told the tale that Blaine himself had
denounced the trinle evils of “Rum,
Romanism and Rebellion!”
Despite the frantic efforts of the
Republican legions, despite their
bitter denunciation of the Democrats,
the fatal alliteration got in its work
Manv good Catholics who had been |
persuaded to turn from their Demo- ■
cratic leaning to vote for Blaine
changed their minds again and voted
the straight Democratic ticket. It
was in the davs of the ascendancy of
the Irish vote in New York.
Either the Conkling defection in
Oneida county, the Burchard break,
the St. John Prohibition vote, or the
Butler vote was sufficient to turn
the scale. If any one of these things
had not happened, if the vote lost
by anv one had been saved to the
Republicans. Blaine would have been
elected and Grover Cleveland never
would have been heard of in na
tional affairs. By such trifles, ac
cidents and animosities are the af
fairs of a republic influenced. |
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From
All Over the Earth
Another Sea Mystery
Water-logged, with sails fully
set and lifeboats intact, but not a
soul on board and nothing to In
dicate what may have become of
the crew, the British three-mast
ed schooner Adonis, from Bridge
town, Barbadoes, with a cargo of
yellow pine lumber on board,
drifted ashore near Fort Pierce,
Fla., last week. It is being bat
tered to pieces uy heavy seas.
War-Dog Retires
The voluntary retirement of
Brigadier General John Biddle,
who commanded the American
troops in England during the
world war, on December 1, is an
nounced at the war department.
On that date General Biddle will
have completed forty-three years
of active service and be eligible
for retirement.
General Biddle, who is a na
tive of Detroit, was graduated
from West Point in 1881 and
served during the Spanish-Amer
ican war as a lieutenant colonel
in the engineer corps.
Sweden Bars Reds
The Swedish government has re
fused permission to M. Zinovieff. one
of the Russian soviet delegates to
the Socialist conference in Hallie,
Germany, to pass through Sweden on
the way back to Russia. The Ger
man government recently ordered
the expulsion of M. Zinovieff and M.
Losowski, the other Russian soviet
delegate to the Halle conference,
from Germany.
Wilhelm Makes Will
The ex-kaiser has just drawn up a
new and what he declares to be hl*
final will. It is kept by M. Schroot
at Axnerongen, where the ex-mon
arch first lived after his abdication
in 1918. _
Explosion in China
An explosion and fire in the
Tong-Chan coal mine and Chi-Li
province China, killed upward of
400 Chinese laborers on Thurs
day. There were 110 survivors.
An official report by the min
ing company places the dead at
412. The explosion occurred in
next to the lowest level, smoke
causing most of the deaths.
Grief stricken crowds sur
rounded the mine, carrying off
the victims as they were brought
to the surface.
Dry in Chattanooga
All previous records for dry spell
of weather were broken last week
when Thursday passed without rain.
The last rain this section. has had
fell September 25, and Thursday
makes the twenty-sixth day of
drouth. The longest previous dry
spell was in 1884, from September
26 to Octber 21. There are no in
dications for rain and it looks as if
the dry spell is destined to continue
for a week longer yet. The Ten
nessee river has been stationary at
8.8 feet for the last six days. It
looks from the record of weather bu
reau as if the drouth is local to
Chattanooga. There have been rains
in the western, middle and upper
section of the state.
To Bar Citrus Fly
A public hearing will be held
December 20 by the federal hor
ticultural board at Washington
to consider the advisability of
placing a quarantine on fruit and
vegetables from Cuba, the Ba
hamas, Jamaica, canal zone, Costa
Rica, India, the Philippines, Cey
>n and Java in an effort to pre
vent the spread of the citrus fly
to the United States.
Well Armed
Among the German civilians who
surrendered weapons to the police
for destruction in Berlin was a wom
an who brought ten machine guns
and 180 pistols and revolvers in a
cart. She was given premiums total
ing $3,750.
Antique Cup at Tifton
S. D. Thomas, of Tifton, has a
silver cup which he has good Rea
son to believe is over 200 years
old. It was given to him seven
teen years ago by Joe C. Craw
shaw, of Lawtey, Fla., who was
eighty-seven years old at that
time and thought the cup had
been in use over 200 years. The
cup was one of six brought over
by Mr. Crawshawfe grandfather
from England. The cups have
been handed down from genera
tion to generation.
Another Mr. Cox in Race
Another Mr. Cox entered the race
for president of the United States
with the filing here of a complete
state ticket of the Socialist Labor
party.
Their standard bearer is William
H. Cox, of St. Louis, and his run
ning mate for vice president is
August Gillhaus, of New York.
Democratic Fund
The steady flow of campaign
contributions to the Democratic
national committee almost reach
ed flood tide last Tuesday, ac
cording to Wilbur W. Matsh,
secretary of the committee. 'So
elate-d was Treasurer Marsh
when the books closed that he
proclaimed it a banner day. Ap
proximately 7,300 letters were
received, containing checks and
currency amounting to $32,461.
Shipbuilding Lags
Shipbuilding in the United States,
which led that of England by 1,-
931,000 gross tons early this year,
has fallen behind in the quarter
ended September 30, by 1,959,000
gross tons, according to figures
made public today by Lloyd’s regis
ter of shipping.
Yamacraw Back
The United States coast guard
vessel Yamacraw, put in to Sa
vannah, her home port, last
week, after a long absence. The
men and officers were glad to
get home again. The vessel
will probably remain in port
some time. The Yamacraw was
named for the Indian tribe that
once inhabited what is now Sa
vannah.
More Trouble for Armenia
Bolshevist troops have opened hos
tilities on Armenia from Elizabeth
pol, crossing Armenian territory with
a view to joining the Turks advanc
ing south of Kars. The Armenians
are falling back. A Bolshevist divi
sion has occupied Novo Bayazid
with the intention of advancing
south and the railway con
necting Armenia with the outside
world.
riAMBONE’S MENTATIONS
AMS TELLIN\' MISS LUCY
MS MAWNIN' SHE MUSTN’
WORRY So BOUT THINGS
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Copyright, 192.0 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate i
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1920.
IF I could say one word more
.earnest than another to the
young woman who is starting
out to make her own bread and
butter, it would be to cut out the
sex stuff, and exercise her woman
liness in business.
Most women reverse this proce
dure. That is why so many of them
fail. Many girls try to vamp their
employers, and to make googoo eyes
and sentiment take the place of in
dustry and efficiency. Many oth
ers attempt to hide behind their
skirts, and to make the fact that
they are women protect them from
office discipline, and for being cen
sured for turning out poor work.
Tears every time their work is
criticized;' nerVes and hysterics al
ways on tap and ready to be turned
on at the most inopportune moment;
chronic tardiness; lack of grit that
makes them coddle every slight ail
ment and give into it; family claims
that come above business necessities;
touchy dignity that is always de
manding parlor gallantries in an of
fice; helplessness that requires some
man to sharpen their lead pencils—■
all these are the defects of the wom
en who play up their sex in busi
ness.
And they form a blanket indict
ment against female labor, that
causes many men to hesitate before
employing women, and that keeps
many a good woman from being ad
vanced to the post to which she is
entitled.
The -woman who puts the loud
pedal on sex in business makes a
mistake. So does the woman who
ignores it altogether, and who tries
to make an imitation man of her
self. She never gets far, because
all imitations are inferior to the
genuine article and nobody wants
one if they can get the real thing.
A lady ‘longshoreman, for instance,
may get headlines in the paper be
cause it is remarkable for a woman
to be a 'longshoreman at all, but
when it came to lifting things, and
reallj’ loading a ship, she wouldn’t
be able to hold her own with even
the most ordinary male ‘longshore
man.
The women who write, and paint,
and who try to be what is called vi
rile, nearly always fail. They miss
their point, because the thing that
is interesting in their work is the
feminine outlook, the intuitions that
make one woman get under another
woman's skin as no man can. And
the same thing may be said of the
woman merchant. The thing we like
about her shop is its difference from
a man’s, the coziness, the hominess,
that she somehow manages to give
it.
Practically always a woman suc
ceeds best when she chooses some
line of occupation in which she can
capitalize the inherited aptitudes of
her sex, and I do not doubt that in
the course of time, when women
have had more experience in busi
ness, and have developed their execu-
Folks Are Philanthropists,
Thinks “Mike Casey,” When It
Comes to Giving Away Advice
“Editor Tri-Weekly Journal: Some
folks are considered mighty free
hearted and clever; others are con
sidered clever but not enough to brag
about, and some folks are not con
sidered clever at all, but mortal
stingy and regular tightwads.
“I have found out that nearly ev
erything is free-hearted and clever
with one certain thing, and that one
thing is free advice.
“You get it j’ust as free as the
water you drink, and it is handed
out to you in unlimited quantities.
In fact, nearly the whole population
is standin’ ready, willin’ and waitin’
to offer advice and to hand it out
absolutely free and without charge.
“I reckon that this free advice
question has always been in vogue.
I know it was in vogue away back
yonder when I was a small boy up
around Petit’s Little Mill, and has
been very prominent ever since.
“Some folks, in order to show how
clever and free they are on that
score, will hand you out free advice
about things that they really know
nothing about.
“You may meet up with ’em and
tell ’em tha t you are not feel in’ well,
and they will advise you to take a
certain medicine, when they don’t
know any more about the properties
that go to make up that medicine
than a pet moneky, and they know
no more about the construction of
the human body than a six-months
old baby.
“They will advise you all about
farmin’ and tell you just exactly
how to get rich at it, when it may
QUO
How to Ask Questions
Tri-Weekly Journal readers
who wish to obtain information
from the Quiz department should
send their questions direct to
The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal
Information Bureau, Frederick J.
Haskin, director, Washington, D.
0., enclosing two cents in stamps
for return postage. Replies will
be sent direct to the inquirer.
The bureau does not attempt to
give advice on legal, medical or
financial matters, nor does it try
to settle domestic troubles or te
undertake exhaustive resea -ch. Be
sure to write plainly and briefly,
giving full name and address.
New Questions
1— Are the Niagara Falls receding?
2 What was the time made in the
airplane races held in France for
the Janies Gordon Bennett cup?
3 How can eggs be softboiled
without timing them?
4 When was the first American
submarine built?
sls golden rod especially apt to
cause hay fever?
6 Where is the largest locomotive
in the United States?
7 What is the highest mountain in
the Appalachians?
8— What populations have Ru
mania and Transylvania?
9 Under what office and depart
ment of the government are the sol
diers’ cemeteries in
10— At what age is a carrier pigeon
at its best?
Questions Answered
I—Q. How much would a million
dollar bills weigh?
A. The treasury department says
that a million dollar bills weigh 3,000
pounds.
2.—Q. What was the difference be
tween Pilgrims and Puritans?
A. Pilgrims were Separatists and
were associated as a distinct church
before they left Holland. A prin
ciple of their church -was thar the
state had no right to punish for
spiritual sins. The Puritans, though
non-conformists, were not separated
from the established church. Their
scruples were against conforming to
many of the ceremonies of that
church.
3Q. How large do snails ernw?
A. Species of snail found in East
Africa grow to be eight inches
long Their eggs are about the size
of pigeons’ eggs. Rotn the snail
and the egg are used for food by the
natii es.
4Q. Does a parrot’s tongue
have to be split before it s able to
talk?
A. The bureau of biological sur
vey says that a parrot’s tongue need
not be split before it c.an be taught
to talk.
5 -Q. How long does a patent run?
A. A patent is good for seventeen
years, and cannot be renewcl. Jt
thereupon becomes publie property
and may be used by anyone.
6Q. Please give me the names
of the various wedding ann’versa
ries.
A. First year, paper; secend, cot-
DOROTHY DIX TALKS 1
WOMANLINESS IN BUSINESS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by Wheeler Syndicate,)
tive ability to a higher degree, tha
the keeping of hotels, which is onl
home making on a big scale, and th
running of apartment houses and th
shops that purvey luxuries, such a
clothes and jewels and fine furniture
will be run almost exclusively b
women.
But W’hile sex has no place i.
business, womanliness has, and :
girl can bring no more valuable as
set to her employer than just th
qualities that she would use in bein(
a good housewife.
There is cleanliness and orderli
ness, to begin with. She can se
that cleaners do their duty, and tha
an office is kept splc and span, an<
well aired, and made comfortable
She can give it that subtle feminin
touch that takes the curse of th
workshop off it, just as the wonini
who is a real home-maker cai
change a bleak hotel, room into i
place to live in by altering theh ar
rangement of a chair, or punchini
up a pillow.
And she can bring to her worl
that curious faculty that womei
have of knowing where everythin!
was put, and being able to put he
hands on it in the dark. Mother’
gift for locating everything, fron
father's spectacles and pipe, to tin
baby’s teething ring *nd the lauto
mobile pump, is what makes daugh
ter invaluable in an of,flee.
And woman’s mania for detail, an<
observation of little things amoun
to a special talent when she givei
them full play in business, It’i
tvhat makes her look after the pen
nies, and stop leaks so small tha
they escape a masculine eye.
Furthermore, business is a field h
which a woman’s tact has scopt
to do its great and perfect work. A
woman who cultivates the diplomacy
of her sex to Its highest power la
sure of success, for she will be abb
to handle grouchy and surly employ
ers with velvet gloves, and she wil
know how to return the soft answei
that turneth away wrath, and tha
makes the customer who has com<
to kick, remain to buy.
And nowhere does the womanly
virtue of sympathy cut more lc«
than in business. It is the woman
who is interested in the joys an<
sorrows of all with whom she comes
In contact, who is pulled up the lad
der of success by those above her
and boosted up It by those from be
low her. She makes friends of hei
fellow-workers; she wins the confi
dence of her employers, and she get*
the co-operation of those who serve
under her because they all feel that
she is their friend.
The woman who is womanly, wh<
Is quiet and sweet and lady-like and
efficient and kindly, she's the wom
an who gets there in business. She’s
the woman we want and need in of
fices as well as in homes.
be they have never In all of their
lives pulled a line across a mule’®
back and have never in the least dis
turbed the quietude of the soil.
“If you happen to get into a law
suit, they will give you free advice
on certain points of law, when it may
be they have never seen inside th®
lids of a law book.
“They will give you all kinds of
free advice about the proper way
to raise your children, when it may
be they have never raised anything
in all their lives except a hound pup
or a bull yearlin’ or two, or maybe a
billy-goat.
"These advice-givers will give you
all kinds of advice absolutely free,
about the matrimonial market, and
how to make matrimony extremely
blissful, when right then it may ba
they are just back from the divorce*
court with a second verdict and a
copy of the divorce decree in their
pockets.
“It looks like, as little as all this
free advice is heeded, these advice
givers would become discouraged and
shut up their storehouse of free ad
vice.
“But I reckon they have one conso
lation. When some poor mortal, up
on whom they have lavished their
free advice, has a mlsfortunte or
makes a failure in life, they can rear
back and say:
“‘I told him about it, and if h®
had taken by advice, things wouldn't
be like they are with him. Poor
thing!’
“MIKE CASEY.
“Originally from Petit's Little Mill.**
ton: third. leather; fifth,, wooden;
seventh, woolen; tenth, tin; twelfth,
silk and linen; fifteenth, crystal;
twentieth, china; twenty-fifth, sil
ver: thirtieth, pearl; thirty-fifth,
ivory; fortieth, ruby; fiftieth, golden;
seventy-fifth, diamond.
7. —Q. What was the greatest vol
canic eruption in the world?
A. The greatest volcanic disturb
ance within the period of human his
tory was an eruption in one of th®
interior valleys of Savll, Samoan Is
lands. With a brief resting period,
this activity, which began in August,
1905. lasted for four years, and the
discharge of lava has been estimated
at more than five cubic miles.
8— Q. What is the difference be-
tween an alligator rjid a croco
dile? 9
A. The alligator and the crocodile
are closely related reptiles of th®
same family. There are only a feyz
minor differences in form. Th®
alligator has a round, blunt snout,
and the crocodile a long, thin ons.
There are two species of alliga
tor; one of which is found in Flor
ida and other parts of the south, and
the other in China. There are a
number of species of crocodile, one
of which is also found in Florida.
The crocodile is a more
treacherous and altogether danger
ous reptile than the alligator.
9 q. What verse in the Bibl®
contains all the letters in the alpha
bet?* „ X,
A. Ezra VTT-21 contains all the
letters of the English alphabet
except “j” which was formerly writ
ten as “1.”
10 — Q. What w,as the first real
news sent by telegraph?
A. The first news ever carried by
telegraph was the nomination of
Polk. The line extended on’y from
Washington to Baltimore.
BEEF PRESERVED
HUNDRED YEARS
The energetic press service of the
United States marine corps sends a .
bulletin from Ann Arbor, Mich., witHß
tb* following curious if not important!
information:
“A piece of beef cooked in 1805
is still being carefully preserved in
a little silver pitch by Edward B.
Manwaring, of this city. This is not
being kept in anticipation of. a /-.*»-•
ther increase in the cost of beef
is a genuine heiivJizi,.
“.Sergeant Joseph Hobbins, tr’ the
British royal marines, saved the pleca
of beef, which he was eating when
assaulted with an ax by a cook on
a French vessel which had been cap
tured by Lord Nelson at Trafalgar.
The cook missed his aim. but the
sergeant got the beef. Sergeant Hob
bins was the great-great-grandfather
of Lieutenant Colonel Edward B.
Manwaring, of the United States ma
rine corps.”—The Outlook.