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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURX AL, Atlanta. Gn,
What Else Could the South
Expect but Prosperity?
DIXIE today, thinks the Louisville Cou
rier-Journal, is in “a most prosper
ous condition,” and faces a future
of full-sinewed development. Byway of
evidence the keen Kentuckian points out that
•within the last decade Southern population
has increased approximately four and a half
millions, a gain which is ‘‘primarily in the
native American stock and little influenced
|>y immigration from abroad:” that corn has
|grown to rival cotton in acerage, while all
manner of food harvests make surer and
more abundant the good fortune which once
depended on a single crop; that in the lum
ber industry, now more than ever important,
the South exceeds every other single region"
of America, ‘‘as approximately fifty per cent
of the entire output of wood products comes
from Southern forests;” that in the field of
manufacturing, her rich and closely related
■upplies of coal, iron, water power and raw
materials are peculiarly advantageous; and
that all these resources will make for unex
ampled prosperity in the years just ahead.
Whatever may be the transient problems
of the season of readjustment through which
We are passing, no clear-eyed observer can
fail to see that fundamental conditions are
sound, and that in the very nature of things
this fertile Southern country, of which Geor
gia is the heart, is on the eve of far-reach
ing developments. How could it be elsewise
in a region that contains a third of America s
iron ore reserve, a fourth of her coal re
serve and water power sufficient for the in
dustries of au empire? a region that produces
half of the nation’s petroleum and the bulk
of many of its valuable minerals, in addition
to all the cotton grown on this continent? a
region that embraces three-fifths of the
country’s coast line and has ports of wonder
ful promise in the new era of world trade?
These natural resources, scarcely par
alleled in all the world, are attracting more
and more capital—which means, of course,
more development, more production, more
business, more prosperity. President Fair
fax Harrison, of the Southern Railway, re
ports that along the lines of that system,
within eighteen months from January, 1919,
five hundred and eight new industries were
completed and put into operation, while two
hundred and ninety-four were enlarged.
Further: ‘‘Capital to the amount of two hun
dred and twenty-five million eight hundred
and sixteen thousand dollars was invested
in new industries and i the extension of old
enterprises served by the Southern Railway
system during the three years from July 1,
1917, to June 30, 1920; and the estimated
coat of plants under construction on the lat
ter date was one hundred and fifty-three
Biililon one hundred and sixty-five thousand
tfollars.” These figures are typical of the
South’s present-day development and pro
phetic of still better times to be. They chime
with the fact that in the last three decades
the a’mduat of cotton consumed by Southern
mills has increased from a little more than
five hundred thousand bales to approximately
three and a half million. That is to say, we
are selling more and more of finished prod
ucts Instead of raw material, and thereby
are retaining millions upon millions of prof
its which formerly were lost to thriftier
centers.
Well may we rejoice in the improvement
of Southern agriculture and the expansion
of Southern industry in recent years, the
results of which are now so richly manifest
in Georgia and her neighbor States. But
those advancements are mere first steps in
a vast forward march whose full swing we
are yet to feel. Beyond the brief interim ■
of time-marking from which we are soon to ■
pass lies the sturdiest prosperity of all.
• The Next Kjng of G reece .
THE death of the young King Alexan
der of Greece occasions some cu
riously interesing questions as to his
cuccessor. Those most prominently men- ;
tioned in that capacity are his two brothers.
Prince Paul and Prince George. But would
either of them consent to a repudiation of
the royal rights of their father, the former 1
King Constantine, now exiled in Switzerland I
with his wife and sons?
Constantine, it will be remembered, was
virtually driven from the throne by a re
volt of Hellenic sentiment against his pro-
Germanism. Closely related, by marriage,
to the Hohenzollerns, he withstood his coun
try’s depest impulses and balked her most
enlightened statesmanship at the time when
her support was critically needed by the Al
lies. The shortsightedness of his policy has
become more and more apparent through
the retrospect of vears, while that of Veni
zelos, stanch friend of the Allies and now
Premier, has been vindicated. It is unlikely,
then, that any course which might raise even
the remotest possibility of Constantine’s re
turn to the throne would be countenanced
by the party now in power at Athens.
If the former King’s surviving sons are
ruled out by refusal to renounce their fa
ther’s claims, the throne may be offered to
Constantine’s brother. Prince Andrew, or to
some foreign royal family—Perhaps to
Prince Charles of Belgium or to Prince Ar
thur of Connaught. Back of all this lies the
chance of a republic’s being proclaimed, but
the most dependable observers do not con
sider conditions yet ripe for that event.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
TheEditor\Desk
Two More Staff Writers
Two more brilliant writers ou the
staff of The Tri-Weekly Journal will soon
have splendid articles in the paper.
The contributors spoken of are Me
dora Field and O. B. Keeler.
While Tri-Weekly readers, may not be
familiar to any great extent with their
work and record, both are distinguished
figures in the south’s daily newspaper
field.
Both, by the way, are Georgia prod
ucts and are Journal fixtures.
The story coming from Miss Field is
about Beryl Rubenstein, the Georgia boy
who has become one of the world’s great
est pianists.
Miss Field’s story reveals an inside
glimpse—a sidelight—on the reason for
his success. It shows what mother-love
means in life.
She tells you, in simple, sympathetic,
i vivid, inspiring fashion, of things that hap
! pen “behind the scenes” in the careers of
popular idols. It’s a story that will play
on your heart-strings.
What O. B. Keeler offers is quite dif
ferent.
“Old Bill,” as he is known to thou
sands, is one of America’s few natural hu
morists and philosophers who are gifted
with the ability to transfer their notions
to black type and white paper without
sacrificing naturalness.
In his coming dissertation in The Tri-
Weekly Journal he talks about the pres
ent-day tendency among women to indulge
in the habit of smoking.
Mr. Keeler’s observations are gather
ed from an odd viewpoint and are express
ed in a manner all his own. The story is
illustrated by Brewerton, The Tri-Weekly
Journal’s cartoonist.
Many other exclusive features, among
them a chronicle of the exploits of “Man
o’ War,” the greatest race horse of all
times, are on The Tri-Weekly’s calendar.
The South in Foreign Trade
IT is highly significant that whereas be
fore the World War vessels flying the
Stars and Stripes were rarely glimpsed
from Constantinople, today, as a correspon
dent in that city reports, “American liners
are in the Golden Horn at all times.” It ap
pears, moreover, that at least twelve impor
tant American corporations have established
permanent branch offices in the great Near
Eastern metropolis, while many others are
represented by local agents. Further, “Mer
chants there are ready to put in lines of
American goods, rail and water transporta
tion has improved, and financial facilities
for handling American business have become
available.”
These are highly cheering evidences in
that they show a vigorously launched and
well sustained movement to develop our op
portunities in the markets of the world.
Hitherto American merchants and manu
facturers have been rather indifferent to
overseas business, plentifully supplied as they
were with rich fields at home. But now it
grows continually plainer that our prosper
ity in the years ahead will be measured
largely by the expansion of our foreign trade
and the improvement of facilities for han
dling it.
How important this is to Southern inter
ests appears in the oromptness with which
cotton prices react to overseas demands.
Suppose that we now could provide credit
accommodations for the European countries
that need several million bales of cotton for
Immediate consumption; what an energizing,
uplifting effect on the market, it would have!
Likewise, if new fields are opened for the
sale of American cotton goods, whether in
China or Peru, the increased demand will
benefit the growers as well as the manufac
turers; will make for more jobs and bigger
payrolls, will encourage investment and en
terprise, will quicken all the currents of
business from the largest to the
It is of utmost importance, therefore, that
the South, in common with progressive
sh e country over, support all well
advised efforts for the promotion of our
foreign trade. Especially commendable are
the movements looking to the development
and service of Southern ports and to the
organization of facilities for financing a
larger volume of export business. To these
and kindred undertakings, Georgia and her
neighbor States should give full-sinewed,
full-hearted encouragement.
Just think of the poor girls who dare not
exercise their franchise because they have
joen telling their friends they were only 19.
—Milwaukee Journal.
*
A Great Fair
THE Fair which came to a close at
Lakewood Tuesday after ten days of
brimming instruction and entertain
ment is generally acknowledg&d to be the
most successful exposition of its kind that
the fertile Southeast has produced. Its at
tendance overtopped all records; its ex
hibits were richer in content as well as
more numerous than ever before, its pre
miums more liberal, its earnings more sat
isfactory, and its influence more farreach
ing.
There is scarcely a limit to the goodly re
sults which such an exposition yields. The
city has bad the pleasure and profit of
thousands of visitors, and will continue to
enjoy the fruits of a peculiarly effective form
of publicity, while the State and the en
tire surrounding region have had an im
pressive portrayal of their resources and
stimulating evidence of the wonders that en
ergy and skill can achieve.
Especially valuable is the Fair’s encour
agement to diversified agriculture and ani
mal husbandry, both of which are of the
very heart of Southern progress and pros
perity. The exhibits of food harvests and
pure-bred livestock could not fail to stir the
admiration of the thousands who beheld
them, whether native farmers, or home-seek
ers and prospective investors from distant
States.
President H. G. Hastings. Secretary R. M.
Striplin, and their co-workers in the South
eastern Fair Association are warmly to be
I congratulated upon the excellence of the ac
complishment. They have done a great work
for Atlanta, a great work for Georgia and
the South. With characteristic vim and
largeness of view, they are planning already
for the exposition of 1921, determined to
make it still better: and in that admirable
undertaking they should have full-hearted
co-operation.
The discussion as to who will be the next
king of Greece might be profitably varied by
! discussing whether there shall be any king
i of Greece.—Detroit Free Press.
HINTS AS TO BATHING
By H. Addington Bruce
BATHING helps the bather in’so many ways
that it is difficult even to enumerate satis
factorily its physiologic and hygienic ben
efits. Foremost is the aid it renders in keep
ing the pores of the skin open and in freeing
them from possibly infectious or poisonous sub
stances.
The skin, though most people do not seem
to appreciate this, is an eliminative organ of
great importance. Through millions of little
ducts it is constantly discharging waste mat
ter. If checked in so doing, the health is
pretty sure to suffer in some degree.
Covering the skin with paint—as some fool
ish women cover the skin of their faces
is one means of checking normal elimination.
Another is by permitting dust, dirt and waste
body products to accumulate on the skin
through failure to bathe regularly.
Such failure may also cause harm by per
mitting injurious substances to gain entry into
the body through absorption from the skin.
Consequently Gilman Thompson, in his treatise
on hygiene for industrial workers, specially
notes:
“A full hot bath should be taken at least
twice a week, soaping and scrubbing the body
well. If the occupation has involved exposure
to irritant dusts, vapors, or fumes, the body
should be sponged with warm water and well
rubbed every night before retiring.”
Warm baths further have for many people a
quieting effect, hence have been found distinct
ly helpful in cases of insomnia or nervous
excitement. Cold sponge baths or shower
baths on the opposite, have a tonic
quality. Which is one reason they are partic
ularly well adapted for morning bathing. But,
with Doty, the warning may well be given:
“The very young, the very old, and invalids
are not proper subjects for cold baths at any
time. The shock which follows the sudden
reduction of temperature of the surface of the
body is not usually succeeded by a prompt and
healthful reaction in these cases.”
For various reasons the most generally sat
isfying form of bath Is the warm shower for
three to five minutes, followed by a cool or
cold shower for a fraction of a minute, and
this followed by a vigorous towelling. In
summer such a bath may be taken daily, in
winter every other day.
Shower attachments for ordinary bathtubs
may be procured at little expense. Their use,
of course, should not ‘be understood to do away
with the necessity for a full hot “tubbing” at
intervals of not more than three or four days.
Only be careful to rinse off well after every
soap-and-water scrubbing, leaving no soap on
the body. Don’t stay in the warm or hot bath
too long—not more than ten minutes. And
never take a bath within two or three hours
after a meal.
(Copyright, 1920 by the Associated Newspapers.)
GOVERNMENT BY BUSINESS
MEN
By Dr. Frank Crane
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
It was Glenn Frank, who writes ad
mirable editorials in “The Century,” who
said in one of his books that there has
never been an industrial mix-up which
twenty business men could not have settled
satisfactorily if they had set their minds
to it.
Which is true of all mix-ups. Even
political.
If a dozen men like Judge Gary, Henry
Dougherty, Charles Schwab, John H. Pat
terson, Marshall Field, P. D. Armour, and
Herbert Hoover had been asked to settle
the differences which eventuated in the
World war they could have accomplished
it between luncheon and dinner.
They could settle the League of Na
tions row over night. They could arrange
the question of Japanese immigration some
Saturday afternoon. They could even
smooth out the Irish question, although
that would probably take longer.
The point, here stated with somewhat of
exaggeration, is that this kind of men has
the kind of mind to do things.
They are the real ruling class. By
which I do not mean a class to lord it
over others, live in palaces and hold scep
ters, but the class that knows how to ar
range conditions so that people can get
along.
They are doing that all the time. They
are constantly handling complicated issues,
with all sorts and conditions of men, and
making money for everybody. Os course
they make money for themselves, but they
make it by enabling myriads of other men
to have work and wages that mean pros
perity and culture.
They are the real gubernatorial, sen
atorial and presidential timber.
They ought to be running the country.
Why don’t we eelct them to office, in
stead of the hand-shakers, spell-binders and
platitude peddlers whom we choose by our
party machines.
It is because we still conceive of the
state as a political thing.
Some day we are giing to realize that
the state is an industrial thing.
Then we will go out and hire a man like
Harriman or Morgan, pay him what he de
serves, and have our industrial common
wealth run on business principles.
Instead of blackguarding and hating such
men, and giving vent to our vulgar envy,
because they succeed and we fail, we are
going to conscript them.
And if a man does what Rockefeller did,
we shall say, “You are entirely too smart to
be competing with us. Here take this gov
ernment and run it, and let us all in on
the profits.”
The government is a business proposition.
When will we cease voting for second raters
and filling our printed pages with attacks
upon the only men who could govern us
successfully?
Editorial Echoes
This fall’s cider crop may Help the back-to
the-farm movement next spring.—Providence
Tribune.
Now they say that Edison won the war,
which lets out both the Republicans and the
Democrats.—Pittsburg Sun.
Boston paper reports an unusual amount
of dirty money in circulation. Oh. never
mind, we can wash our hands.—Syracuse
Post Standard.
What has become of the o. f. woman who
was afraid her children would be kidnaped
by gypsies?—Luke McLuke. She’s an apart
ment renter and wishes they had been. —
Nashville Tennessean.
At least one reason appears for deferring
the inauguration of a president four months
after the November election: it gives his
voice a chance to rest.—Boston Herald.
A Chicago postman admits burning all the
political circulars to lighten his load. If he
could be tried by a jury of the men on his
route he would be acquitted.—Syracuse Post
Standard.
Once in a while one runs across a man
who is so poor he can’t afford new inner
tubes and doesn’t know where the next gal
lon of gasoline is coming from.—Toledo
Blade.
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
XVII!. The Cleveland-Harri
son-Weaver Race of 1892
tt t ISHJNGTON, D. C., Oct. 5.
\/\/ The Democratic land-slide
V V of 1892 which placed Grover
Cleveland for the second
time in the presidential chair mark
ed the failure of the most extraordi
nary efforts ever made by any party
to perpetuate Itself in power. When
the Republicans came back into their
own after the end of the first Cleve
land administration, they left no
stone unturned, so far as legislation
was concerned, to make their power
absolute and to prevent the possi
bility of another Democratic presi
dent..
The first thing the Republicans did
under the Harrison administration
was to admit six new states to the
union, thereby subjecting themselves
to the charge that they sought to
assure their party of twelve addi
tional Repuolican senators and twen
ty additional votes in the electoral
college. The house of representa
tives was Republican by a very nar
row margin. The Democratic mem
bers were unseated by wholesale to
give their places to Republican con
testants, without regard to the merits
of their claims.
Then followed the attempt to en
act the Force bill. Its authors and
proponents called it the Federal
Election bill, but it was so odious
to the majority of the people of
both parties that the name applied
by the Democrats stuck to it long
est. This bill provided that all elec
tions for federal offices, that is, rep
resentatives and presidential electors,
should be under the direct control
of the federal government. That
meant “carpet-bag” returning boards
in the south, supported by bayonets
of federal soldiers and pistols of
federal deputy marshals, and a “solid
south” which would have been solid
ly Republican. The fact that the
negroes were not permitted to vote
freely, or that their votes were not
counted, was the principal argument
used for the bill, and the only argu
ment which gave the cause a shadow
of justification.
Beating - the Force Bill
The Force bill was passed by the
house and went to a Republican sen
ate. There the absolute freedom of
unlimited debate gave the Demo
crats a chance to fight the majority.
The Republican senators from the
Far West were not heartily in sym
pathy with the Force bill advocates.
The western Republicans had long
since ceased to wave the “bloody
shirt” in campaigns, and the west
erners had not known the bitterness
of armed conflict. The Democrats
hald caucus after caucus and decided
upon their plans with the greatest
care. It was a matter of life and
death to them, and they knew it.
Southern senators of the old “rebel
brigadier” type—men of culture and
polish—were assigned, man for man,
to pay court to the rough diamonds
of the west who were their col
leagues on the other side of that
chasm marked by the center aisle
of the senate chamber. The talk
went-on unceasingly for days and
nights. The whole country was dis
cussing the probability of the sen
ate’s adopting a cloture rule to limit
debate.
Finally, about 3 o’clock one morn
ing, Senator Daniel, of Virginia, left
his crutches in the cloak room and
shuffled on the floor. Senator Vest,
of Missouri, was speaking. He had
been speaking for hours and hours.
Daniel whispered to him. “It’s all
right, we have enough votes to beat
it. Senator Suratford, of California,
is with us.” "Let me finish my
speech,” said Vest. And he went on
to put a proper rhetorical and ora
torical finish on the speech that was
meant for nothing but to gain time.
The 'Force bill was dead. Its advo
cates knew it and did not press for a
vote.
Quay Disgrunted
In that fight the Democrats were
aided and abetted by two eastern
Republicans, and their victory was
due in great part to Matthew S.
Quay and Don Cameron. senators
from the . rock-ribbed Republican
state of Pennsylvania. Quay was
to figure greatly in the coming
events. He had elected Harrison
over great difficulties, and he natur
ally supposed that he was to be re
warded for his efforts in the manner
that politicians are ever rewarded,
fie found to his surprise that Har
rison credited Providence and not
Quay with the victory of 1888. Har
rison mortally offended Quay on his
first visit to the White House after
the inauguration. Harrison also for
got to reply to a telegram of con
gratulation sent to him on the day
after his election by General W. W.
Dudley, of Indiana, treasurer of the
national committee, who in 1880 had
organized the famous “blocks of
five” system.
The Republicans believed that they
had been returned to power on the
great issue of protection. The prom
ise was redeemed and the McKinley
Bill, the Tariff of 1890, was passed.
Major McKinley was chairman of the
house committee on ways and means
and thereby gave his name to the
bill, but many of the schedules went
in over his protest.
Rightly or wrongly, the whole
country rose up in protest and in
1890 the house of representatives
was turned over to the Democrats
once more, giving 'them the largest
majority that any party had ever
had in that body. That tremendous
victory, which swept <>ver states
that had never elected a Democra 1
to any office, disheartened the Re
publicans and gave courage to the
Democratic hosts. Then came the
great fight for nominations.
Harrison was renominated at Min
neapolis by an overwhelming vote.
The federal office holders’ mac’iin
ery was loyal to him and the opposi
tion was divided. Blaine had made
the great blunder of resigning his
position as secretary of state to mak
the race. It was as hopeless as was
Clay’s candidacy for the Whig nom
ination in 1848. William McKinley
was made permanent chairman of
the convention, and at the last mo
ment the wavering oppsition settled
on him. But Harrison was named
on the first ballot, Blaine’s and Mc-
Kinley’s vote being equal. The blow
was too much for Blaine and he died
soon, broken in heart and spirit.
A. Fighting Convention
Cleveland’s third nomination was
accomplished only after one of the
hardest ante-convention fights ever
known. He was opposed by the solid
New York delegation, Governor Hill
and the Albany machine joining
hands with Tammany to play their
common enemy. Hill had held a con
vention very early in the year, a
“snap” convention as it was called
and it had instructed the New York
delegation for him.
In the convention Bourke Cochran
leaped into fame as an orator, by his
famous speech denouncing Cleveland.
General Bragg, of Wisconsin, voiced
the sentiments of the Democratic
voters with his shout: “We love him
for the enemies he has made!” The
matchless skill of that arch-politic
ian. William C. W'hitney, accom
plished the apparently impossible,
and Cleveland was named as the
Democratic standard-bearer for the
third time. When the convention
adjourned there were knives in the
boot-legs of a majority of the Demo
cratic leaders and it seemed that Re
publican success was absoltuely as
sured.
Both parties had “straddled” the
money question. The silver issue
was becoming more and more per
sistent, but as both parties were di
vided on it, neither had the courage
to take either side of the controver
sy It was exactly as in the ante
bellum days when slavery was the
only real issue, but when neither
Whigs nor Democrats dared to touch
the question.
The tide of the election turned
from Harrison to Cleveland after
the great Homestead strike at the
Carnegie Steel Works. The McKin
ley bill had not given the laborerr
the Increased wages they expe -ted
and there was serious labor trouble
all over the country. The use of
troops at Homestead and the em
nlnyment of Pinkertons in the Far
West enraged the laboring people
against the administration.
Until the l n st the Republicans had
confidence, all of them excent a few
leaders like Quay, and the Cleveland
landslide was not expected. The
Democrats were hopeful, but when
they found they had carried states
like Illinois and Wisconsin they
were tremendously surprised. Cleve-
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1020.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From
All Over the Earth
“Yellow Jack”
Despite the efforts of Miss
Mary Turner, Presbyterian mis
sionary, and her ascociates at In
stitute Morelos, a school here,
yellow fever is spreading.
There have been four deaths at
the mission. One teacher, who
had been given permission to
eave, but who stood by her post,
lied. The school holds every day
in spite of the epidemic.
Because the yellow fever mos
quito lives in the low, fine grass
which abounds here, the women
of the school burned the grass
with the aid of the Vera Cruz
fire department.
American destroyers in the
harbor aided in fighting the
plague by making special trips
to bring anti-plague serums here.
Mortuary
The champion hog of loway
Laid down and died the other day.
Ten thousand dollars was his worth
And goodness knows how much his
girth.
Take warning from his woeful fate
For probably he over-ate.
Want Post Fired.
Formal request for the dismissal
from office of Louis F. Post, assis
tant secretary of labor, has been
submitted to President Wilson by a
committee of the American Legion.
Representatives of the Legion in
the Pacific coast states demanded
last May an investigation of Mr.
Post’s official conduct with reference
to the deportation of aliens, and the
national commander of the legion
appointed a committee of three to
make the inquiry. This committee
recommended Mr. Post’s dismissal
and on October 1 the national execu
tive committee of the Legion ap
proved the report and authorized the
national commander to appoint a
committee to visit the White House.
The English Strike
(quit./
The British miners dropped their
picks
And left the country in a fix;
Lloyd George remarked: “If men
must strike
The kind of walkout I would like
Is this —to have the Irish mob
Forsake their guns and quit the
job.”
World’s Fair for Iceland
Iceland is going to have a
' world’s fair, with agricultural
implements and other exhibits
common in warmer climes placed
before the Eskimos who snow
shoe up to gaze upon them.
It will be held next June at
Reykjavik, the cai -tai, the Ice
landic government advised the
Canadian department of trade and
commerce today. A request was
made for Canadian exhibits.
Horses Passing"
The horse is being driven
even from the plains of Montana.
The last big horse raising com
pany in the state will soon cease
to raise horses. The “Long X”
company will place its brand on
cattle only in the future. Three
thousand horses will be sold at
its final auction. Motor cars and
tractors are to blame, say offi
cials.
Constant reduction of the amount
of Liberty bonds held by national
banks is reported by John Skelton
Williams, comptroller of the cur-:
rency. Records of the banks show
an encouraging absorption of such
seclrities by the investing public,
the statement said.
National banks held on June 30,
Liberty bonds and Victory notes
equal to only about 3 1-2 per cent
of their total resources, Mr. Williams
said. On that date, national banks
owned $778,361,000 of such securi
ties, while their resources aggre
gated more than $22,000,000,000.
The aggregate of Liberty bonds
held by the national banks on June
30 as collateral amounted to $225,-
568,000, while six months previous
ly they had held more than $269,-
000,000, according to the statement.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels
says that an event believed to be un
precedented in the history of ship
building occurred when, within the
space of a few hours, the keeys or
three large American battle cruisers
were laid, recently.
One of these vessels, the Saratoga,
is being built by the New York Ship
building corporation, at Camden, N.
J.; the other two, the Constitution
and the United States, are being built
side by side at the Philadelphia navy
yard. The keel of another vessel of
this class, the Constellation, was laid
August 18, 1920, at the yard of the
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry
dock company, at which yard pre
liminary work is going ahead on a
sister vessel, the Ranger.
Similar preliminary work is also
being done on the sixth of the class,
building by the Bethlehem Ship
building corporation, at its Fore Riv
er plant, where the keel of the Lex
ington will be laid very soon.
Child Jury Tries Toys
A jury of French children sat at
the Grand Palais, Paris, and decided
which of "all the new toys now on
view is the most amusing. The in
ventor of the toy chosen by the child
jury received a prize of S2OO.
The Riclxsha Passes
The ricksha will soon be a thing
of the past in Yokohama, Japan. Two
thousand rickshamen have lost their
source of livelihood with the placing
into service here of several hundred
baby motor cars carrying two pas
sengers each.
Champion Typist
George L. Hossfeld, of Paterson,
N. J., has won the speed typewriting
championship of the United States
and Canada by typing approximately
131 words a minute for sixty con
secutive minutes. The contest fea
tured the opening of the seventeenth
national business show in New
Y'ork.
Pershing Needs Rest
General John J. Pershing will pass
the next two months in a cottage at
Roslyn, !■. I. General Pershing, it
is said, is not in good health and
desires a rest before he leaves for
South America.
land had 277 votes, Harrison 145,
and Weaver 22. ,
Cleveland’s popular plurality was
over 380,000. He was the only man
to duplicate Andrew Jackson’s rec
ord of winning a popular plurality
for president three times in succes
sion, and each time increasing the
majority. He was also the only
president ever re-elected to office
after a retirement. He and Harrison
are the only presidents who succeed
ed each other. They are the only
two who twice rode down Pennsyl
vania avenue at the head of the in
augural procession together. It has
been said that in 1892 was the first
time that a party had been retired
from power during prosperous times,
but as the panic of 1893 was already
approaching the statement is hardly
fair. The election of Cleveland by
such a great majority was a fore
warning of the great radical unrest
which was to reach the flood-tide at
the next election.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
THE IDEAL HOME
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
(Copyright. 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate. I nc. I
AMAN asks me my definition of!
an ideal home.
Physically, it is l a place of
peace, and quiet, and com-
place to which one goes for
refreshment of body as well as of
soul. Within it o«|, finds cleanli
ness and order, and good food,
warmth in winter and coolness in
summer, a good bed to' sleep on, a
good chair to sit in, a good dinner at
the end of the day’s work, a good
book to read.
The place out of which a home is
made may be grand or humble. It
does not matter. The floor may be
of bare boards, or covered with Per
sian rugs; the bed may be of deal
or carved and inlaid wood; the din
ner may be a banquet or a single
savory dish. It is home, if it ex
presses our individual taste, and
meets our individual need of com
fort.
I have been in palaces built by
great architects and furnished by
famous interior decorators, that
were no more homes than hotels or
furniture stores are. And I have been
in two-room cottages where we sat
in the kitchen, and sniffed the de
lectable odors of the stew that was
cooking on the kitchen stove for
dinner, and where a woman sang at
her work, and that place was the
very embodiment of home.
The ideal home must have in it
three people, the man, the woman
and the child. No one human being
can make a home alone and un
aided.
No man can make a real home by
himself, though he fill it with period
furniture, and the artistic loot of
the world, and have perfect servants
to wait upon you, and give you the
feasts of Lucullus to eat.
Nor can any woman make a home
by herself, though she hangs a tidy
on every chair, and has a chimney
that smokes, and a parrot that
swears, and a cat that stays out
late at night.
Rooms are bare and lifeless and
dead that lack the human touch
that a house gets that is really
lived in, where the drama of life,
birth and death, and laughing and
weeping, does not go on continually.
That is what makes old houses and
old furniture so interesting. They
have seen so much.
No bachelor’s home-coming of an
evening can have the zest that comes
to the man who knows that there
will be a child’s face pressed against
the window pane watching for him,
arid a woman’s tender arm to draw
him across the threshold. A woman
must have the definite object of
making her husband and child com
fortable to inspire her to the work
of making a real home. Women who
live alone almost invariably degen
erate into tea and toast dietary.
Spiritually, the ideal home is an
altar on which a man and woman
offer up the very best that is in
them to their lares and penates.
They give to it love. The very at
mosphere of the ideal home is
charged with tenderness. It is a
QUO'S
Now Questions
1. —What part of a man’s weight
is water?
2. —Can an American Indian vote?
3. —When were votes first cast
and what different methods have
been used?
4. is the origin of the
term, “shin-plaster,” as applied to
paper money during the Civil war?
5. —How long have gloves been
worn?
6. —What fraction of a horse-pow
er is a man-power?
7. I have an armv Colt .45 auto
matic that I found. Am I violating
a law by keeping it? If so, . what
shall I do with it?
8. —What is the difference be
tween a college and a university?
9. —What year is tips according to
Hebrew count?
10. —Why is the Bible preserved at
St. John’s church. Portsmouth. N.
H., called “The Vinegar Bible?”
Questions Answered
1. Q.—Why is rice thrown at wed
dings’
1- A. —The use of rice at weddings
is an ancient custom. It is part of
the marriage ceremony of the Brah
mans of India. The Jews were ac
customed to throwing wheat and the
Russians oats or barley, while say
ing “Increase and multiply.” Rice
is now largely used in Christian
countries, because it is the most
prolific of grains.
2. Q. —How many women are run
ning for congress in this election?
2. A.—Pennsylvania has two can
didates that aie women, while Ore
gon. Oklahoma and Nebraska have
one each. They are all asking seats
in the house of representatives.
3. Q. —How long does it take a
message to cross the Atlantic ca
ble?
3. A. —While the coding and de
coding of messages, transmission and
delivery of cable messages make it
necessary to set the time of a cable
message at from three to five hours,
the actual time it takes for the cur
rent to cross the ocean is scarcely
to be reckoned, since It travels at
the velocity of light, 186,000 miles
a second.
4. Q. —What size is the largest gun
in the United States army?
4. A. —The war department says
that the largest gun used in the
MRS. SOLOMON SAYS—
■ BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.
BEING THE CONFESSIONS OF THE SEVENTH-HUNDREDTH WIFE
MY DAUGHTER, a woman
seeketh love with prayer and
with trembling. But a man
regardeth love as a game of
chance, and a wife as a matter of
luck. Yet, when a prize is offered
him, he is exceeding fastidious, and
harder to please than a woman that
shoppeth on a large account.
Now, I questioned a young man
saying:
"Wherefore, oh philanderer, dost
thou squander thy youth and thy
sentiment upon ‘seconds’ and light
loves, and ‘also-rans’? How shalt
thou hope to find the true love if
thou flittest after every new love?
For love is not a Roman candle, but
an altar fire!”
And he made answer, lightly say
ing:-
"Nay, woman! How shall I recog
nize the real love, if I have not
known all of its fifty-seven imita
tions? How shall I find the ‘one
woman,’ until I have known at least
a hundred women, and loved at least
a score of them?
"How shall I discover the right
girl, if I have never dallied with the
wrong girl? For, he that would know
the happiness of true love, must first
have suffered from sentimental bore
dom !”
Now, it came to pass that, after
many moons, I saw the youth, and
again questioned him, saying:
"Hast thou found thine ideal, and
thy ‘one woman’—oh, wise youth?”
But he answered me wearily, say
ing:
“Yea. verily, mother! I have found
many of her—even the perfect being
of my dreams.
“Lo, she is fairer than the rose of
morning, sweeter than a damsel’s
voice, purer than a pure
food label, and gentler than summer
girl’s sigh.
“She hath eyes of velvet and a
voice of silver and a disposition '
smoother than a Rolls-Royce or a i
profiteer’s promises.
"I know her to be the ideal wife, |
who is all things unto one man— 1
even a charmer, a chum, an inspira- I
tion, a valet, a playmate, and a mys
tery.
“Yet, alas. I find her less interest
ing than yesterday’s newspaper, and
more wearisome than last summer’s
popular waltz-tune.
“She thrilleth me no more .than
the message on a postcard, and I can
not love her!
“For. so long have T controlled the
muscles of my heart, that now, they
refuse to work. So long have I be-
place where a man comes, secure
in the knowledge that though oil the
world turned against him, here he
would find an unquestioning faith
that would believe in him until the
end. It is a place in which a woman
knows that she will find shelter in
the arms of her husband, and that
he will protect her against every,
harsh wind that blows.
There is peace in the ideal home.
There is no arguing, nor quarrel
ing, nor rancor or reproaches. It is
a quiet harbor in which one drops
anchor after the storm and stresA
of the business day. and gathers up
fresh courage to go on with the
journey of life.
The ideal home is full of unself
ishness. Everybody in it is seek
ing the happiness of the other rath
er than their own. There is praise
instead of blame. There are words
of appreciation and gratitude, in
stead of knocks. There is no bitter
ness in self-denial, because the sac
rifice is made for one dearer than
oneself.
The ideal home is a place of cheer.
The husband does not spend the
evening sitting up in a gloomy
grouch that sends the domestic tem
perature down below zero. Neither
does he take out on his unoffending
family all the temper and nerves,
and general cussedness that lie
dared not show customers or clients.
Nor does the wife make her home
a dumping place for her tears and
tempers, and consider that home
means a place where she has the
privilege of having hysterical fits,
and talking like a fish wife.
In the ideal home the man recog
nizes that the round of domestic
duties that a woman daily' performs
are as monotonous and deadly as a
treadmill, so he makes a conscious
effort to cheer and interest his wife.
His best stories, his snappy little
record of the day’s happenings, his
optimistic interest in everything she
has been doing, set the sun in her
Heaven.
And the wife realizes that in his
strenuous fight with the world ev
ery day, a man has just about all
the unpleasantness that he can en
dure, and so when her husband
comes home of an evening she does
not lay upon his already over-bur
dened shoulders .all the little worries
and aggravations that have happen
ed to her.
She does not meet him at the door
with the announcement that John
nie has broken his pet meerschaum
pipe, and Tommy must be punishe<’
and the landlord has raised the ren
and she doesn’t see why he can
make enough money to buy ac;:
like the Smithkins. On the con
trary, she turns a smiling face upon
him, and makes merry over hard
ships, and feeds, and pets and ca
joles him into believing that he is
the greatest man in the world, and
ha s the best wife and the most de
lightful home.
The ideal home is a Heaven cs
earth. Every married couple can
have one if they will, because ire
build ourselves the kind of a hom<
we live in.
military service is the 16-inch gui
which is the type used on the Panatr:
canal.
5. Q. —How much did the late wa.
cost us an hour?
5. A.—Colonel Ayres, in “The War
With Germany,” states that the war
cost us more than $1,000,000 an hour
for over two years.
6. Q. —Will the United States treas
ury replace a paper ten cents that is
not in good condition?
6. A. —If your ten-cent bill (United
States fractional currency) is in goo<A
enough condition to be identified, the'
treasury department will redeem it<
for you at its face value.
7. Q. —Did a coal mine ever catch
on fire and burn for years?
7. A.—The bureau of mines states
that there have been several instances
of coal mines catching fire and burn-**
ing for several years.
8. Q. —What government depart
ment is making and selling the paper
suits?
8. A.—The department of com
merce says the paper suits are not
made by the government. j'he de
partment of commercl did have sev
eral suits made which were on ex
hibition in Washington, and are now
on exhibition in New York City. This
exhibition is to encourage manufac
turers to make suits of this kind
which would bring down the price
of woolen and other clothing. So
far the department of commerce has
not succeeded in having manufactur
ers take up this line of work. These
suits will be exhibited all over the
United States and will stay in large
cities from ten to twelve days.
9. Q. —Please print the answer to
this: Is this the nineteenth or twen
tieth century?
9. A. —We are, at the present time,
living in the twentieth century. The
first century extended from the year
1 to 100; the second, from 101 to 200,'
and so on, making the years 1901 to
2,000, the twentieth century.
10. Q. —When did neckties become
popular?
10. A.—Neckties, formerly known
as "cravats,” were first extensively
worn in Europe during the Frencli
revolution. The custom was bor
rowed from the Croats or Crabats, as
they were called, in the seventeenth
century.
numbed my sentiments with the
opiate of flirtation, and the wine of
near-love and the false stimulant of
experiment, that there is neither
romance, nor an illusion, nor an emo
tion left within me—save one.
“And that one is curiosity!
“Verily, verily, I am the ‘man-wh*\
understands-women.’
“Yet I shall never marry until 1
meet a woman whom I cannot under
stand!”
And in the air could be heard the
weeping of angels and the triumph
ant laughter of cynics.
For 10, he that seeketh all his days*
to play with sky-rockets and bon
fires, shall never find warmth and
brightness in the altar fire of real
love.
And his middle name shall be
“misogynist.”
Selah.
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