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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 months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly In Advance) 1 W.,1 Mo. 3 Mo». 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Dally and Sunday 20c gdc $2.50 s.'>.<>• >0.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 80c .00 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 all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our J 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. Woodliff, 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 for addreaslng your paper allow* the time rour aubaeription expire*. By renewing at least two week* before the date on thl* label, you Insure regular eervlce. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old a* well as your new addr e*s. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscript lon* to begin with back num ber*. Remittance* should b e sent by postal order or registered mail. Address *ll order* and notice* for thl* Department to 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.” - * 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. * 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 swine wrong , JES' X>o LAK AH DOES EN WEAR DE WORL' LAK A LOOSE GYARMINT’Jj •Mm,.,, 11 ’ 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.