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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mai) Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.5(1 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W -.1 Yo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. I Yr. Datlv and Sunday 20c fcjc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 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 office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the tarm. 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. 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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. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS Bout PE N\os' SOBER-EST man IN worl' 15 PE ONE WHUTS JES' 6ITTIN* Copyright, 19ZO py McQurt XewWßtf SxfldMt*.