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The South's Sure Prosperity
IF anyone be dubious of the South’fc
economic etanchness and her assurance
ot full-flowing prosperity in the years
ahead, let him dip. into the recent annual
report of President Fairfax Harrison, of the
Southern Railway system. The facts there
tet toyth and the forecasts reasoned from
them will kindle enthusiasm in the coldest
3 yg, ‘’From the days when Southern people
struggled for a bare existence,” says Mr.
Harrison, "they have evolved into an indus
trial center which is being viewed by the
world as an achievement.” Year by year for
the last half century they have advanced
from the position of mere producers of raw
material to manufacturers of finished prod
ucts, and A ll along this upward course their
wealth-crehtipg, wealth-holding capacity has
increased. Today they are in the full swing
of that constructive tendency. What else,
then, but prosperity is to be expected?
Thirty years ago, Mr. Harrison points
out, only five hundred and twenty-eight
thousand eight hundred and ninety-five bales
of cotton were consumed by Southern mills,
“and that went into the manufacture of
yarn and unbleached fabrics which were sent
to other centers for completion.” Last year
Southern mills consumed three million four
hundred and ninety-ohe thousand bales,
‘which were turned into finished products
■vithout leaving Southern factories.” Never
;efore in the history of this fertile region
/ere so many new industrial enterprises and
.■•lustrial expansions in course of construc
on. ‘‘Five hundred and eight new indus
•ie6 were completed and put in operation
’ong the lines of the Southern Railway sys
\m, and two hundred and ninety-four in
ustries were enlarged during the year 1919
•id the first six months of 1920. Capital
) the amount of $2-25,816,000 was Invested
i new industries and in the extension of
Id enterprises in the territory served by the
outhern Railway system during the three
/pars from July 1, 1917, to June 30, 1920,
md the estimated cost of plants under con
duction on the latter date was $153,165,-
•100.”
Here we have the very heart and sinew
of prosperity. Surface conditions may grow
ruffled and clouded for a while; processes
of readjustment may call a moment’s halt
uyoa/the forward course;' over-nervous and
ill informed onlookers may wax anxious. But
deep beneath transient doubt and depres
sion run the currents of an inexhaustible
business rigor. As speaks President Harrl
sxm, so speak the ablest observers in every
field of Southern interest, whether of com
merce or industry ot agriculture. In this
wondrously blest region we hold an empire’s
unfolding talents, and all will be well if we
but pt*nd true to the great trust.
The Flight to Alaska
THE nine thousand-mile flight of four
Army airplanes from New York to
Alaska and back gives a striking dem
on of the stanchness and agility of
ths machines as well as the skill and hardi
hood pt their pilots. , The long course led
through many a blustering ocean of the air
and above regions where landing was pecu
liarly difficult and dangerous. It was in
deed a triumph ot mechanical talent to pro
duce craft at once delicate enough for flight
and strong to withstand the strain and shock
of so arduous an adventure. There was never
a doubt that human daring would be equal
to the demands of great aerial v.olages; but
who, save the most imaginative, could have
pictured, a generation ago, machines that
would lend themselves so effectively to man’s
sky-cleaving thoughts?
These army ‘planes have shown that it
is together feasible, as far as the aeronau
tic side of the case is concerned, to send
mail, passengers or commercial cargoes from
the fitates to Alaska in some forty-eight
hour? instead of the thirty days required by
rail and steamer. Practical students point
out, however, that the cost of air transpor
tation would be so much the greater, at'least
ip its initial stages, as to prevent its wide
spread adoption. It should be noted, never
theless, that the expense of establishing an
air route is far less than that of building a
rill line, with its large outlays for labor and
Tiatenals. Eventually, moreover, the ship
per or traveler might find the great time
aving of the air route well worth a doubled
-harge. Certainly as the volume of business
' etween Alaska and the States increases,
‘here will be many occasions where a gain of
Jirfp wpe.ks or more in tAe transmission
of mails and certain commodities will be of
ilgh advantage. ' ,
Meanwhile the shorter air mail routes,
•>uch as those between Washington and New
York and between New York and Chicago,
appear to be justifying themselves on the
commercial as well as the aeronautic side.
Plans are going steadily forward for the in
auguration of daily air mail service between
Atlanta and York early In the coming
year, the Government contract therefor hav
ing been awarded. These and kindred en
terprises are watched with an interest no
I'ass substantial than keen, for they are lift
ing aeronautics from the realm of rare ad
venture to that of daily service.
All sort? of reasons have been assigned for
the fact that men stay home more than they
did a few years ago. Maybe they are just try
ing to get their money’s worth out of rented
hotues— Arkansas Gazette.
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The Nation’s Newest Plaything
America has found a new plaything—a
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which the world has never known.
It’s called the “Arithm-a-letta.”
That’s a queer name. But it’s not half
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Did you ever have anything to do with
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a fortune-telldr, a mind-reader, a prophet,
a counsellor and half a dozen other things
all rolled into one. . ‘
Whether it’s your business, your luck,
your secret wishes, your hopes for wealth,
your chance of marriage, or any other
iphase of life you are particularly interest
ed in, the Arithin-a-letta has messages for
you.
Some of the predictions it has made
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nothing short of marvelous. That’s why
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has heard about it’s extraordinary nature,
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By an exclusive The Tri-
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paper "with complete, simple directions on
how to use it, in the issue of Tuesday,
November 9.
In the meantime, watch for more news
about the proposition. Nobody in the fam
ily ought to miss it.
Another New Feature
What do you know about flurniture?
When you read about a Jacobean chair
or hear somebody' mention a Louis XVI
bed or see a picture of an American Em
pire table, do you know how they got their
names?
When you buy furniture you generally
mean that you’re going to live with it.
It’s going to be a part of the home-life
for a long time. Yet lots of furniture is
bought “sight-unseen,” almost.
In a series of brief, interesting, illus
trated sketches, The Tri-Weekly Journal is
going to publish a multitude of valuable
facts on furniture. If you’re planning any
additions to your household goads right
now, the articles will be a source of wel
come information. In any case, they will
supply a fund of useful knowledge. ’
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The first article of the series appears
on Page 5 of this issue. **
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For the Good of America, and
For the Sake of the South
DURING this last week of the Presiden
tial campaign, when history of vast
moment to the American people and
to the world is being made, Georgia Demo
crats should brim over their contributions
to the Cox-Roosevelt fund. “Things are
coming our way,” writes Mr. Wilburn W.
March, the campaign treasurer, "and we
must not relax in the slightest; we must
make the supreme effort now.”
There can be no doubt that the tide of
thoughtful public opinion runs strongly for
the Democratic cause. Senator Harding s
reactionary attitude on the great issues of
the day and the long discredited character
of the political clique to which he is be
holden, have turned multitudes of Independ
ents and large-minded Republicans to sup
port df Governor Cox. Regardless of party
lines, the majority of men and women who
believe in the principles for which we en
tered the World war and who are practi
cally devoted to the maintenance of a just
peace, realize that Democracy offers them
at this juncture the only means of turning
their convictions to account. Assuredly, then,
if the nation’s destinies are to be shaped by
its best thought and its highest con
science, the election of Cox and Roosevelt
is foregone.
No part of the country has deeper rea
son than the South to rejoice in this prom
ise and to work without ceasing that it
may come fully to pass. The best interests
as well as the best traditions of Georgia
Jmd her neighbor States are all bound up
with the Democratic faith. For the entire
nation a Republican victory would be un
fortunate, but for the South it would be
incalculably so. The forees behind Senator
Harding’? candidacy are proverbially grudge
ful of Southern rights and, in some in
stances, actually hostile to Southern .wel
fare. As a matter of expediency as well as
principle,/therefore, it behooves the people
of this region to joip with their friends of
the East and Nofth and West in a supreme
effort for a national Democratic victory.
Every Georgian who has not yet contrib
uted to the CoX-Roosevelt fund as liberally
as he can should do so without delay. It
will be a patriotic 'investment for America
and for the South.
Where Adventure Beckons
WHAT will American youths of today
and tomorrow do for adventure, nqw
that the country’s vast plains have
been compassed and her mountain wilder
nesses so largely explored? No fighting Red
skins left to fight, no prairie schooners witX
unsmoked horizons stretching interminably
before them, no mysterious rivers flowing,*
for aught one knows, from the very bosom
of El Dorado. *
Yet, the lad of today looks out upon a
world that is truly more adventureful than
that of his pioneering grandsires. Take the
prospects so invitingly offered by the new
American merchant marine. “These ships,”
says the San Antonio Light, “are calling
for sailor boys from every State of the
Union—not only fas able seamen, but as
navigators and officers. They have an oppor
tunity to sail to faraway lands, to plant
American commerce w’here it . has never
been before, to amass a wealth of expe
rience amd of money also, in helping to
make the American marine a success.” '
But advancement in this pio-dern field
calls for more mind-equipment and, in some
respects, for more character-sinew than in
the rough-and-tumble ventures of the past.
It. calls’for schooling and steadiness of pur
pose, for study of the languages and cus
toms of the countries whose markets Amer
ican enterprise seeks to win, for patience and
resourcefulness, for integrity and zest. With
these qualities the American youth of to
day has richer opportunities in his coun
try’s merchant marine than those who
sailed with the famous clippers of a hunr
dred years ago, or those who followed
Raleigh himself on strange seas, to virgin
continents. .
DISEASE AND EFFICIENCY
By H. Addington Bruce
IT is axiomatic that the healthier a man is
the better he is able to do his work. But
it by no means follows -that poor health
is an absolute destroyer of efficiency. Men
may be highly efficient despite the pres
ence of outright and serious disease.
Recall the notable career of Charles Darwin,
for forty years afflicted with such an impair
ment of health that he could work but a short
time daily. Yet so ably did he use his brief
working periods as to win for himself a lasting
fame and give an entirely new direction to the
current of scientific thought.
Kant, justly rated as among the world’ great
est philosophers, was another victim of semi
invalidism. The elder Pitt is only one of a long
line of celebrities who worked to exceedingly
good purpose despite the torments of gout.
The foundations of the modern treatment of
tuberculosis were largely laid by the famous
Trudeau after he himself had been stricken by
that dread disease. Robert Louis Stevenson,
likewise tuberculous, splendidly enriched our
literature, working bravely until the endrin
faraway Samoa.
More recently George Edward Barton, an
other sufferer from tuberculosis, instead of
supinely yielding to disease, became a pioneer
in the development of scientific occupational
therapy. And everybody knows what Helen
Keller has acomplished, in the face of almost
incredible 'physical limitations.
These are only a few of the efficient sick
whose names recur to my mind as I write.
Numerously the list might be extended to give
emphasis to the comment of one observant
physician:
“The extent to which a man is disabled de
pends partly on the nature of his disease, but
perhaps more,on»the way he reacts to it.”
Which, I need hardly add, should be taken
much to heart by any-man or woman afflicted
wtih some disease that seemingly makes future
achievement out of the question.
The disease, to be sure, may be of such a
character that achievement in one’s former
occupation is indeed out of tjie question. Or
it may impose a pitiful shortening of active ef
fort during the waking hours.
But almost always some useful occupation
may be found. Almost always means may be
devised to engage in that occupation with ap
preciable efficiency.
The result will be advantageous in more ways
than one, provided the invalid or semi-invalid
refrains from overdoing. There may even be a
distinct curative effect, thanks to the energizing
influence which the pleasure of achievement ex
ercises.
In any>jevent, disease will no longer be the
unmitigated misery it is bound to be when its
victim is \oppressed with an erroneous feeling
of absolute incompetency and inefficiency. And
some prolongation of life may be hopefully
looked for as illustrated’ by the experiences of
every one of the efficient sick named above.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspapers.)
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SECOND OPEN LETTER TO
MR. HARDING AND MR. COX
By Dr. Frank Crane
In tfie name of the American people I ad
dressed a letter to you, urging whichever one
of you happens to be elected to form a coali
tion government. / *
That is to say, to call in members of the
opposing political party to take places in your
cabinet.
This would involve also consulting frequently
with leaders of the opposite party in the sen
ate and house, so that the executive and legis
lative branches of the government might work
in harmony.
This letter is written to amplify, reinforce
and emphasize the last.
You must realize that most of the ills this
country come from partisanship, from class
spirit and the blind love of fighting.
It was this that got us into the tangle about
the League of Nations.
It is ’ this, saipe spirit that causes all the
trouble in our industrial relations. Capital and
labor, instead of working together, work
against each other. \
If you could set the example of conciliation,
concession and compromise in your high office
the benefits of it would flow into every depart
ment of activity in the country.
It would lessen the sectarian animosity of
the churches.
It would heal our widening breach with our
recent allies in the war.
It would quicken and increase production in
industry by bringing head workers and hand
workers into co-operation.
The whole country now is suffering from the
residuary poisons of war.
Every step we try to take to get out of the
pit is hampered by colossal organized envies
and hates.
i Is it not time to stop all this?
You know that the administration of Presi
dent Monroe was called “the era off good feel
ing.” At that time for a space the bitter antag
onisms of the young republic abated and foun
dations ere laid for permanent progress.
Is it not time for another era of good feeling?
Can any one estimate the vast advantage it
would be to America and to the world?
And is there any other way for such an era
to be ushered in than by recognition that your
political opponents, although viewing thtings
from a different traditional angle than yourself,
are as sincere and honest Americans as you
are? , ,
We say nothing concerning the present con
flict. The American people will determine that
in their sovereign freedom. They are going tq
select one of you to be president.
But remember, that no matter which one of
you is dectecT, he will receive many votes
from the qpposite party, and he is to be presi
dent of United States and not leader of a po
litical party. It will be a hard and unpleasant
(thing to resist the claims of the hungry parti
sans who have championed your cause. They
will demand the humiliation of their opponents.
But can you afford to listen to them?
We are in the midst of great peril, indus
trial and political. The waves are high and the
storm is threatening. All we ask of you is,
whichever one of you is chosen captain of the.
ship, to pipe “All hands on deck! ’
In other words, a coalition government.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes. \
Some folks not only want what’s right, but
what’s left.-®—El Paso Herald.
There’s the proletariat, the salariat, the pluto
cariat, and the where are we at?—So. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
“I gave an age,” says one woman. “Neither
of the men in the registration booth’»looked to
me like’ a recording angel.”
There is considerable talk of lower ice cream
and soda fountain prices, mostly on the cus
tomers’ side of the counter. —Kansas City Star.
After that expedition to Asia has found the
missing link, it might devote its energy to
looking for the lost chord.—Chicago Evening
Post. ,
The campaign, will go down in history as the
one in which Mr. Bryan suffered froin,im
i paired enthusiasm. —Des Moines Register.
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
XVII. THE HARRISON
CLEVELAND RACE OF 1888
TT 7-\SHINGTON. D. C., Oct. 4-
Grover Cleveland was elected
y V president the fjrst time be
cause of his views on the
tariff question. Because he was too
insistent upon the expression of the
same views he was defeated for re
election in 1888. Mr. Cleveland was
the only president who ever devoted
an entire annual .message to congress
to the discussion of one subject. The
fiftieth congress was the second of
Mr. Cleveland’s first term, and the
Democratic majority in the house
had been re-elected, while the Repub
lican rpajority in the senate had been
diminished.
The president believed that the re
sult of the 1886 elections meant that
the peqple wished him to carry out
his ideas on the tariff. Therefore
he devoted his entire annual mes
sage to the tariff, .discussing noth
ing else and placing the tariff ques
tion in a position of paramount im
portance never before occupied by
any issue in the legislative history
of thei country. That message was
prepared and sent against the ad
vice of the leaders of the party. It
did not meet with the reception
hoped for, and the ‘tide turned
against the Democrats. But even
with that complication in the way,
Cleveland would have been re-elected
but for the treachery of Tammany
Hall.
The Republican candidate was
Benjamin Harrison, > of Indiana,
grandspn of William Henry Harri
son, “Old Tippecanoe,”. and great
grandson of a Virginia signer of the
Declaration of Independence, a direct
descendant of Pocahontas, and con
nected with all of the prominent old
families of colonial days. He was
the first successful candidate for
president since Zachary Taylor, who
might claim to be of “aristocratic”
lineage.
Memories of the famous “Tippe
canoe” campaign were revived by
ardent republicans, while facetious
Democrats poked fun at the candi
date. They were pleased to call him
the midget grandson in the giant
grandfather’s hat. .Every cartoonist
accepted the “grandfather’s hat” as
the badge of Harrison’s candidacy.
As a result, the campaign of 1888
became a campaign of hats;
A Campaign of Hats
The Republican marching clubs
and “rooters” affected big hats' of
the beehive variety such as Were
worn by Grandfather “Tippecanoe”
Harrison in the campaign of 1840.
The Democrats adopted the white
felt “topper*’ which was a favorite
with Mr. Cleveland. All ®ver the
country rural Democrats Who would
have fainted at the notion of a black
silk top-hat, bought the white
“Cleveland hats” and *wore them
summer and winter, day and night.
The Democratic candidate for vice
president was Allen G- Thurman, of
Ohio, whom men loved to call the
“Old Roman.” Senator Thurman’s
inseparable compainon was a red
bandanna handkerchief. So to the
white top-hat, every loyal Democrat
added the equipment of a red ban
dana. Then he was ready to hike
and hurrah and harangue for Cleve
land and Thurman.,
The campaign or 1888 was a vast
improvement over the scandal-mon
gering contest of four years before.
Mr. Cleveland had gained the respect
« country by his administration
of affairs, whether he had its ap
proval qr not. Mr. Harrison had
both the respect: and confidence of
the country. The campaign was con
ducted with great dignity. The ri
valry between the parties was sharp,
there were fnany doubtful states and
in none of them was victory for
either side overwhelming. It was,
however, a battle of parties and not
of candidates. The tariff issue was
a real issue. Neither of- the candi
dates appealed to the enthusiasm of
the masses of their followers. There
wasn no great popular outburst for
either one. It was the coldest of
the close presidential contests.
The First Porch Campaign
Benjamin Harrison was one of the
ablest of the men who have occupied
the White House. His state papers
are nt to rank with the best in the
archives of the republic, not except
ing those penned by Washington.
Jefferson or John Quincy Adams. His
administration was far from tran
quil, yet its sharpest conflicts arose
from the fact that Harrison, in the
interest of the whole people, op
posed the scheme of certain of hiss
party leaders, advocates of the inter
est of a very few.
Better campaign speeches have
never been made than those which
Benjamin Harrison delivered at his
home in Indianapolis, originating the
“front porch” campaign system. Oth
er candidates had spoken from their
verandas, but Harrison was the first
who did it systematically and to
whose home special trains brought
thousands of excursionists every
week. That these excursions were
pften made up with free passes and
paid delegations, for the effect the
reports of the tremendous outpouring
would have on distant states, is un
doubtedly true, but politics, was be
coming advanced in that day.
Harrison won his nomination in
the Republican convention was the
choice of those elements opposed to
the nomination of John Sherman, of
Ohio. Sherman went into the con
vention with more than twlcejasmany
vot.es as his next highest competitor,
Waltei 1 Q. Gresham, of Indiana.
Third in the race was Chauncey M.
Depew, of New York, fourth was
General Russell A. Alger, of Mich
igan; fifth was Benjamin Harrison;
sixth was William B. Allison, of
lowa, and then a dozen other smaller
ones, each of whom- hoped to be the
successful “dark horse.” James G.
Blaine, “the Henry Clay of the Re
publican party” wanted the nomina
tion. But he had written, letters say
ing he wouldn’t take it, and al
though he wavered and wabbled in
his messages to his friends, he final
ly cabled from Europe that he was
not in the race. His state voted for
him to the last, notwithstanding his
withdrawal.
Quay’s Methods
Cleveland and Thurman were nom
inated without any serious opposi
tion. Tammany Hall still hated
Cleveland, but there was no open op
position in the Convention which
nominated him by acclamation. He
still had the enmity of the New
York Sun, the quarrel with Mr. Dana
remaining unsettled. Mr. Watterson,
the leading Democratic editor in the
country, was not en rapport with the
administration. The party believed
that Cleveland was the strongest
man to nominate, yet there was no
enthusiasm for him. Thurman, the
second man on the ticket, excited
more popular interest than did Cleve
land.
Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania,
was then at the apex of his glory as
a practitioner of national politics. In
the campaign. he made a great effort
to cut the heart out of the “solid
South.” The border stotes of the old
southern Democratic stronghold have
been carried often by abrasion, but
since 1880 the heart of the south has
been untouched. Quay attempted by
the liberal use of money and the cor
ruption of election officers to carry
North Carolina, Florida and Tennes
see. The Republicans polled unus
ually large votes in those states in
that year, and there are many “wise
guy” politicians, in the south who
will tell you to this day that the
states would have been counted for
Harrison if Harrison had needed
them do win.
But Harrison didn’t need them, for
he captured the pivotal and decisive
slate of New York by a plurality of
over 14,000. That gave him the elec
tion, thanks to Tammany Hall. Da
vid Bennet Hill was the Democratic
candidate for governor on the same
ticket with the Cleveland • electors.
Hill was elected by nearly 20,000
majority. The treachery was palpa
ble, and it had the effect of.enrag
ing the Democratic hosts of other
parts of the country. Four years la
ter the Tammany Hal protest
against Cleveland and the Hill snap
boom for President were treated
with scant courtesy.
Although Harrison was elected,
Cleveland obtained a clear popular
majority of 100.000. much more than
he had received four years before.
As usual, whenever there’s a “minor
ity” president. there was a great out
cry against the electoral system, and
us usual it amounted to nothing. ,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1020.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From
All Over the Earth
COX GUTS ROOSTER
A large white rooster was pre
sented to Gov. James M. Cox by
admirers after his speech at
Trenton, N. J., and he fondled the
bird in his arms while the crowd
cheered.
He said he accepted the rooster
as "an omen of victory.”
The governor had the bird
taken aboard his train.
Many Stowaways
The Ell's Island stowaway record
was broken last week when forty
two were found hidden on the Unit
ed States transport Logan, leased
by the Fhelps Line. They were
taken from the transport at its pisr,
at the foot of Fifty-ninth street,
street, Brooklyn, and sent to Ellis
Island.
Immigration inspectors found that
many of the stowaways have rela
tives in this country, and that a
few lived here themselves before the
war. They all will appear before
boards of special inquiry, and it is
expected that some of the appeals
will be taken to Washington.
FATHER OF TOMATO DIES
Adam Duncan, fellow of the
Royal Horticultural Society,
who has just died in England,
at the age of eighty', is said to
have been largely responsible for
the introduction of the tomato
as an edible fruit. The tomato
had long t>*-n grown for decora
tive purposes, but Mr. Duncan,
by means of hybridization,
evolved it tym its crinkled,
statje to- tne smooth-skinned
fruit. .
±arding’s Sister Quits
Mrs. Carolyn Votaw, sister of Sen
ator Warren G. Harding, the Re
publican presidential nominee, has
announced her resignation as pro- ,
bation officer of the woman’s bu
reau of the Washington metropolitan
police. Mrs. Votaw, ip her letter of
resignation, gave no reason for leav
ing the service, but reports have
been current for some time of* fric
tion between members of the wom
an’s’ bureau. “
X Lots Os Egg'S
More tha’n 1,957.001,000 dozen
eggs were produced in the United
States last yetfr. These were
sold by the farmers at an aver
age price of 43.83 cents a dozen,
statistics compiled by the Unit
ed States department of agricul
ture show.
1 More than 60'0,000,000 pounds
of poultry reached the American
table, and the butter production
was -851,269,140 pounds. The
poultry brought $143,040,000 and
the butter $506,505,138.
' University Gift
With the gift from Judge Hamil
ton McWhorter of his library of law
books, the law school of the Univer
sity of Georgia has one of the most
complete libraries in the United
States.
This set of books is one of the
most complete in the country, being
the accumulation of practically a
lifetime, and the students and facul
ty are much interested and appre
ciative in receiving them. Judge Mc-
Whorter is an alumnus of the uni
versity and has served for years a?
a trustee, always ready to assist in ■
anything pertaining to thq welfare of
his alma mater.
Big Foe
Prof. Vidal, who was called to
Athens from Paris, to attend the
late King Alexander, has been
given a fee of $60,030 by the
Greek government, says an
Athens despatch to the Daily
Mail.
j
Mrs. Harris for League
Democratic national headquarters
has announced the names of sixty
two women “prominent in political,
educational, literary, social service
and organized labor activities’* who
have joined in an appeal for support
of Cox and Roosevelt.
Among the signers of the appeal
was Mrs. Corra Harris, Georgia
novelist.
Cartoonist on Visit
W. C. ( ‘Bind”) Fisher of New
York, cartoonist and creator of
‘‘Mutt and Jeff,” arrived in Lex
inton, Ky., last Friday for a stay
of several days.' Mr. Fipher will '
visit Barry Shannon, manager of
Idle Hour Farm. He is bringing
his stable of horses to Kentucky
and while here will select a farm
on which to turn them out.
Prince Pal is the best known
horse* of his string.
Rain Reduces Austrian Crop
Continuous and heavy rains
throughout Austria have caused
great damage to crops and reduced
the August estimate of yield very
much.
Free Land
A royal decree allowing the occu
pation of uncultivated or insuffi
, ciently cultivated lands in Italy by
peasants, and annulling any lease
of the same land without right to
indemnity except for work, is in the
course of execution.
Thieves Are Busy
Thefts in New York city have in
creased from 100 to 200 per cent in
the last year, according to burglary
ind.erhnlty companies, which .declare
that 100 homes and business places
are looted every day. Conservative
estimate of the number of burglaries
within the year is 100,000.
The indemnity companies, which
have increased the prices on in
surance, paid odt $1,500,000 this
year. The uninsured thesis would
s7sfo,oo0 e City ’ 5 tOtal to
Trenton Bank Blown
Liberty. bonds, war savings
stamps, silver and jewelry valued at
$15,000 were taken from the vault of
the Bank of Trenton, 8. C., a fe4
day s ago by robbers who blew open
the aoor.
Wireless compass stations, similar
to those which have been in success
ful operation on the north Atlantic
coast for more than a year, are to
Ibe installed along the Great Lakes.
These stations, operated by the navy
department, enable the operators to
give to ships lost in a fog their po
sition within a narrow radius of ac
curacy.
Fogs on -the upper lakes have
claimed rnie freighter and thirty lives
as .victims thi» year and records of
previous years /show a heavy toll of
sniping. Success of the system on
the Atlantic coast led- to its present
installati.on on the Pacific and now,
it is announced, the inland waters
are to be similarity protected.
Considerable concern is felt in
Jewish Circles of Londen over the
problem confronting relief organi
zations in different parts of Russia.
The Central Relief, recently organ
ized by European Jews at the Carls
bad conference, is extending its ac
tivities, but difficulty is anticipated
in aiding the Jews of south Russia.
The Southern Tyrol, allotted to It
aly by the Austrian peace treaty, for
merly passed into Italian hands last
week. There were
in the churches and public places.
The city of Innsbruck was draped in
mourning.
Toscanini Coming
Arturto Toscanini, former' conduc
tor at the Metropolitan Opera House
in New York, will sail for the Unit
ed States at the beginning of Decem
ber with an Italian orchestra for a
concert tour in that country. The
orchestra comprises 98 players pick
ed from the best Italian instrumen
talists.
Jews Flee to Germany
The Jews of the city of Kovno. Li
thuania, and the surrounding region
are fleeing to Germany in large ’
numbers, according to a dispatch
from Kovno. The exodus is caused
•by the reported approach of Polish
troops.
, Prying the hinges from the
rear door and tunneling through
the brick walls, robbers gained
entrance to the Bank of Goltry,
about 25 miles northwest of
Enid, Okla., and escaped with
about S2S,QQU iu utsix aud LiUurUf
foouds. 1
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
THE MOTHER LOVE THAT CURSES
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright, 1920, by Wheeler Syndicate.)
* RICH woman has just been
\ convicted of having assisted
21 her two sons in evading the
draft during the war. She
pleads in extenuation of her crime
that she loved her children s 0 well
that she could not bear the thought
of their having to undergo the
hardships of a soldier’s life, and
risk the danger ot being killed
fighting to defend thfeir country.
A great many other mothers are
going to make this same excuse
when they stand before the judg
ment bar, and are called uPfin to
render an account of their steward
ship of their children, and why, out
>of the fine material that was put
into their hands, they turned ' nut
men and women who were thieyes,
and gluttons, and parasites ana loaf-
The mothers will say that they
sinned through love, that their
tenderness was so great that it made
them weak, that they could not
bear to make their children do any
thing they did not want to do, or
deny them anything that they want
ed tq do, and so they fostered every
good impulse in their offspring, and
let them plunge unchecked down the
road to ruin.
This is a most familiar type of
mother to us all. A. doctor was tell
ing me about such a one the other
day. He said that she had a desper
ately sick child whose life depend-*
ed upon its conforming absolutely
to ..the treatment he- was giving it,
but the child refused to take the
medicine because it was bitter. It
fretted and cried continually be
cause it had to be kept in a certain
position and the mother let it move
at will.
“But I can’t make Johnnie do
anything he doesn’t want- to do,”
sgid the mother. “I’ve always loved
him so I couldn’t bear to cross
him.”
“Then,” said the doctor, “you
have killed him, because I can do
no.thlng for hinj. His life depends
upon his obedience, and you have
never taught him to obey.” And
the child died.
A young girl of my acquaintance
married a splendid young man, a
young man full of talent and ambi
tion, anj one who is going far in
the world. But the girl had never
been taught self-control, or to think
of anyone except herself, and her
mad extravagance, her love of gay
iety, her craving for the admiration
of other men, soon wrecked the
marriage, and brought her into the
divorce court.
“I know, Mary is to blame,” ad
mitted her mother, “but she is my
only child, and I have loved her ?o,
that I have let her do exactly as
she wanted to all her life, and she’s
never even thought of denying her
self anything she wanted.”
And the curious thing about these
mothers is that they account it un
to themselv.es for righteousness
that they love their children so
much that they do not correct their
faults, or teach them any self-con
trol, instead of realizing that they
are the greatest sinners on earth,
and are accessory to nine-tenths of
the • crimes and misery in the
world. v i .
QUDS
New Question®
1— Why is rice thrown at wed
dings?
2 How many women are running
for congress this year?
3 How long does it take a mes
sage to cross the Atlantic cable?
4 What size is the largest gun in
the United .States?
5 How much did the late war cost
an hour?
6 Will the United States treasury
reylac«ua paper ten cents that is hot
in good condition?
7 Did a coal mine ever catch on
fire and burn for years?
, B—What government department
is making and selling the paper
suits? i e
9 Pleasb print the answer to this:
Is this' the nineteenth ar twentieth
century ?
10— When did neckties become pop
ular? •
QUESTIONS ANSWERED
1. Q. —Are the Niagara Falls re
ceding?
A. —The annual recession on the
American side of Niagara is between
two and nine inches a year. The
Horseshoe falls have receded about
five feet since 1842, which would be
about one inch a year.
, 2. Q, —What was the time made in
the aeroplane races held at Etames,
France, for the James Gordon Ben
net cup?
A. —Sadi Eecointe, the French ace,
who won the race in a Nieuport ma
chine, covered the course of 186 miles
in 1 hour, 6 minutes and 17 1-5 sec
onds, ~
/ 3. Q. —How can eggs be soft boiled
without timing them?
A.—Use a pan of such a size that
the eggs are just covered with cold
water. Place over o moderate flame.
When the water comes to a boil, the
eggs will be “soft boiled.” This
method is used in many hospitals, as
eggs so cooked are more easily di
gested than when cooked in boiling
water.
4- Q- —When was the first Ameri
can submarine built?
A.—The first United States sub-
i
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920. by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
OF COURSE,
A man is not vain,
And yet—
He never appears in eve
ning clothes without feeling, some
how, conscious that the eyes of the
whole world are focused on him.
He never doubts, when he puts, his
cheek against a girl’s, that it feels
as soft and smooth as HERS does.
He never sees two women across
the room whispering together, with
out wondering what they are saying
about him.
He never ' appears in a bathing
suit without unconsciously assuming
what he supposes to be a character
istic attitude of one of the old Greek
athletes. (He never even blushes
When he appears in a bathing suit!)
He never thinks it worth while to
deny himself a jtotato or a slice of I
cream pie for the sake of his beau- I
ty; nor ever dreams that a double*
chin and 4 few pounds avoirdupois
could mar his fatal fascination.
He,never passes a chewing gum
machine, without depositing a penny
in the slot, for the privilege of glanc
ing in the mirror and straighten
ing his tie. - (Though he usually pre
tends that he’s looking for a cinder
in his eye.)
He never gets married without feel
ing secretly sorry for all the girls he
thinks are disappointed, or heart
broken at losing him.
He never buys a pair of shoes with
out trying on every other pair in the
shop.
He never doubts that it is sheer
prudishnesfc (or perhaps artful de
sign) that makes a girl refuse to
kiss him. In his childlike simplici
ty, he never can think of any other
reason why she shouldn’t WANT to
kiss him.
He never doubts that every blessed !
woman he meets, is going to try to!
lure him into matrimony—or out
of it.
He never denies any of these
things. That would be VAIN!
And he is NOT vain—bless his
For into the mother’s hands
given the plastic souls of her
dren. She it is who forms and 1
ions them, and turns them into
kind of men or women \Pho bio*
curse the world.
There is no woman so dull
she does not know this, and tha
fore a child is ten years old
mother had practically settled
fate, and, knowing this, how
mother can love her child
enough not to at least- try toj
guard its future, is something
passes all comprehension.
A woman knows, for instance,
temper probably wrecks more
than any other one cause. It if
bridled temper that makes men
in anger. It is uncontrolled te
that makes thousands upon t
sands of men and women of at
failures. They cannot get along
their fellow workmen, or they
offense and chuck up their job
the very moment of success,
terfiper that wrecks homes, and s
discordant men and women to
divorce court.
Yet instead of conquering
children’s tempers, and , teac
them self-contr.ol, the* great maj
of mothers humor them in their
trums. They haven’t the nerv
stand behind the child and for<
to fight its particular devil and
the best of it.
And if a child is indolent
lazy, mother loyes it too wel
hold an iron hand on it, and
it ;to work until it forms the
breakable habit of industry,
mother knows where loafers
About her she can see the s<
shabby men and 4’omen who
born tdo tired to work, and who
drifted through the world spon
a living on others. She know
what contempt tjiey are held,
yet she lets the maudlin em<
she calls “mother love” doom
own child to that fate.
“I had to work when I wj
child, so I determined my chii
should never have, anything t<
but play.” “I have' very few ii
gences when I was a child,
made up my mind that my chil
should liave everything they w
“I was made to obey when I w
child, so I have never subjecte<
children to any discipline.”
These are things that you
women continually say, and you
der that they have not intellig
enough to see that everything
are, they were made by the
training they got in their youtl
For we (develop strength of <
acter that makes us strong,
weakly succumbing to every ten
tion. Therefore, to try to pr<
children against every difficult
a crime against them, and to
to remove every thorn out of .
path is to set their feet on the
that leads to perdition.
That is what weak mother
does, and there Is’ no misfortune
can happen to a child equal to
ing a slacker mother who tea
blip or her to be a slacker.
marine was made in 171?6, by D.
Bushnell, of the Connecticut,
was named the “Turtle.’' When
merged the head of its single pas
ger remained above water in a
ning tower, while he propelled
craft with a bladed tractor forwa
5. Q. —Is golden rod especially
to cause hay fever? •,
A.—The Ameftca'n School Hyg
association says that hay feve
now known to be caused by the
len of weeds, principally that of
weed, daisy weed, mugwort, e
brush and some grasses. Golder
is only infrequently a catuse of
fever.
6. Q. —Where is the largest i
motive in the United States?
Q —The largest engine of this 1
was built for the Virginian railv
It weighs 648,000 pounds, and h:
tractive force of 176,000 pounds.
7. Q. —What is the highest m<
tain in the Appalachians?
A.—Mount Mitchell in North <
olina, ’is the highest peak in the
palachians. Its elevation* is 6
feet.
8. Q. —'What populations have
mania and Transylvania?
A.; —The secretary of the Mid-Ei
pean Affairs union says that the
est estimated population of Rum:
is 8,200,000. Transylvania is
longer in existence, having been
sorbed by the new nation of
Jugo-Slavs, the population of wl
Is estimated as being about 4,000,
9. Q. —Under what office and
partment of the government are
Boldiers’ cemeteries in France?
A.—The war department says t
the cemererial branch of the Gra
Registration service, quarterma:
genbral’s office. Munitions build:
Washington, D. C„ have charge
the care of Ambrican cemeteries
France and the bringing of soldi
bodies hohie to this country.
10. Q.—At what age Is a car
pigeon at Its best?
A.—The training of such pige
begins when about three months
and continues during that season
the next one. During the three
lowing seasons a bird should be
ts best.
CLOCK STILL RUNS
AFTER 104 YEAR
Ira Fouts, of New Washing
has a clock which has run sine:
was made'in 1816. It is hanging
a brick house built in 1826. '
clock was made by William Thoi
son, an Englishman, according t<
statement pasted in the back of
clock in 1913 by the latq Johnl (
vin Fouts, father of the present o
er.
Mr. Fouts said Thompson broui
his tools and brass plates from E
land and cut out all the wheels ;
machinery, piece by piece. The fa
er of John Calvin Fbuts startex|
deck running May 12, 1816, dnd
has . run 104 years, keeping g<
time.—lndianapolis News.
HAMBONE’S MEDITAHOf
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AHS BIN PAYIN PAT 'A|
POCTUH EVY WEEK,NOI
•T' TREAT PIS HEAH
MISERY IN MAH BACI
BUT SO FUH AHs DONI
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