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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURN AL, Atlanta, Ga.
4 Widely Welcomed Change
In the Reserve Bank Rate
AMONG many reassuring signs of the
day none augurs more happily for the
agricultural and business interests of
the Southeast than the official announcement
that the Federal Reserve hank for this re
gion, beginning November the first, will sub
stitute a flat rate of seven' per cent on loans
to its member banks in place of the so-called
“basic line and progressive scale” which has
been in force. The change is hailed by bank
ers throughout the district, particularly by
those most concerned with rural credits, aS
highly fortunate. At the least, they point
aut. it will dispense with the complications
and uncertainties that marked the sliding
scale of rates, and thus will simplify many
transactions. It is expected, moreover, that
the average rate which the borrowing banks
now will pay will be appreciably less than
that prevailing under the former system, and
that the general effect will be an improve
ment in credit accommodations.
Merchants and farmers will profit from
that improvement to the extent, of course,
that their local banks are prepared (o
avail themselves of the advantages which
the Federal Reserve system has to offqr.
The Reserve bank, it scarce need be said,
does not deal with individual borrowers, but
only with banks which are members of the
Reserve system, rendering through them its
invaluable services to the public. In the
Sixth, or Atlanta, there are some
four hundred and fifty member banks of the
Receive system, all oi which can give their
patrons the benefit of improvements In the
methods and policies of the Reserve bank it
self. But there are many banks, far 'too
many, In Georgia and neighboring States
that have not entered the Reserve system
and consequently are not able to give their
communities the advantages which such
membership affords. It is greatly to be
hoped that these will see fit to join the sys
tem without further delay, for by so doing
they can strengthen their own sinews, en
large their own usefulness, do more for their
home territory, and at the same time help
to hasten throughout the Southeast those
processes of readjustment on which the full
tide of prosperity awaits.
Meanwhile, banks which are in a position
to reflect the benefits incident to the
changed Reserve rate are reported to feel
much encouraged over the general outlook.
Their confidence is shared by dependable ob
servers far and wide. In all essentials the
South and the common country are econom
ically sound, with their bountiful crops of
food and unclouded prospect of a world de
mand for the products of their factories and
fields. Such difficulties as we have encoun
tered in recent weeks and may have to con
tend with for a while longer are but incidents
in the passage from war-time to peace-time
conditions. The stability and certitude grow
ing out of that readjustment will be worth r
millionfold more than the cost in temporary
nconvenience. Certain it is that those who
tudy present tendencies most closely are
wst heartened over the future.
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“Sizing” Him Ul>
A NOVEL method of hiring employes
is described by a writer in the No
vember number of System, a maga
zine of business. A young man called on
the general agent of a large life insurance
company, asking for a job as a salesman.
He impressed the general agent favorably,
but before deciding anything definite, the
agent introduced him to a number of other
employes who, unknown to the young man,
constituted a committee pledged to pass
favorably or unfavorably on applicants for
places.
“The committee didn’t convene, and call
the young man in for a hearing,” con
tinues the writer of the System article.
“Two or three members invited him out to
lunch. The young man was much at ease
with them, much more his ordinary self
thap he had been with the general agent,
and he said some things that the com
mitteemen didn’t like. Some little 'revela
tions of his personal life and his ideas of
selling satisfied them that he was not the
kind of man for the organization. They
talked the matter over with the other mem
bers of the committee, secured their ap
proval, and returned a unanimously ad
•erse report to the general agent. Os
course he wasn’t hired.”
The suggestion incorporated in this case
is not a bad one for any business house
o consider. The “boss,” from his position
of comparative isolation, otfen is not able
so pass judgment on the newcomer with
the wisdom and precision of the men and
women with whom he is to be or not to
be associated. Where employes are moved
solely by motives involving the best in
terests of the \firm —and surely every suc
cessful house has such employes—the de
?ision on the applicant’s qualifications, one
ventures to sa?, is likely to be more cor
rect nine times out of ten than that of the
man higher up. For one thing, it will be
a case es "two heads better than one.”
Os course, most. employers consult their
subordinates any way on the progress or
lack of progress of the new man; This is
merely carrying it a step farther, .seenr
z ing in advance what is just as likely to
be “expert opinion” as any available.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL,
TheEditor’sDesk
A $80,000,000 Leak
On The Tri-Weekly Journal's “Farm”
page today appears a rather amazing ac
count of a government experiment carried
out at Jefferson, Ga.
It shows in definite, simple, unanswer
able fashion how one of the slipshod prac
tices common to the Cotton Belt brings an
unnecessary loss of $70,000,000 a year to
growers.
Cotton growers deserve every penny
they can, get for the money, the labor and
the risk they put into their profession.
Yet thousands of them overlook a “sure
bet” and carelessly allow many hard dol
lars to slip through their fingers by neg
lecting to take ordinary pains in storing
baled cotton.
The federal bureau’s article tells noth
ing really new. Yet when you think of
the case of the Maysville farmer mention
ed, the pity of this unhappy business is
forcefully realized.
The Maysville farmer got exactly $l,O 00
less for fifty bales of cotton than he could
have had if he had not let. the wind, the
sun and the rain share in the fruit of his
labor.
A thousand dollars is worth having
these days. It would mean a lot to the
average family in making things easy
through the winter. It might pay off an
old or two, and give the house a new
coat of paint and buy clothes or stock or
tools.
The very needlessness of losing that
thousand dollars makes the case all the
harder.
Yet hundreds of cases like it are hap
pening, over and over again, every year.
The Tri-Weekly Journal hopes that the
unpretentious little article in today’s issue
may heljF matters, even if only to a mod
est degree.
The First of the Mouth
The first of November is just behind ns.
On that date —as is the case whenever a
new month rolls ’round—some of our
readers’ subscriptions run out.
As we have said more than once, there
never was a timd when a good newspaper
could be of more real, practical everyday
value. •
The Tri-Weekly Journal offers you more
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tinue constantly to become greater. Stay
ing on the subscription list is a wiste thing
to do.
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newal before many* days from every reader
whose paper runs out with thjs issue.
Our Royal Visitors
JUDGING by the number of such visit
ors in the last year or so, It is be
coming the custom for European and
Asiatic royalty to tour these United States.
The Prince of Wales was followedby ‘ Carol,
of Roumania, and it has been rumored
for some time that the former heir to the
throne of China, now ‘ destined for the
presidency of the Republic, is to
venture to our shores as soon as he is
safely engaged to one of his own country
women. 1
The latest of these foreign potentates to
seach America attracts unusual interest
both because of the nation he represents
and the fact that, apparently, he is in
spired by more laudable motives than mere
sight-seeing and entertainment.
“I am a railroad man, and it is as
Commissioner General of Railroads and
not as a member of the royal family that
I am making this brief visit to the United
States. I was here for about two months
in 1915, and was greatly impressed with
certain features of your railroad system.
For that reason I placed twenty-one yuong
men in this country to study your rail
roads.”.
Thus speaks Purachartra, Prince of
Slam, the tiny nation of the white ele
phant which was among the first to de
clare war against Germany and to array
itself with the Allies In th6 great strug
gle. *The Prince is a brother of Rama
Sixth,/ present ruler of Siam, and only re
cently, arrived in New York City.
The serious purpose of his visit not only
speaks well for the Prince himself, but in
dicates that Siam itself, small though it
be, is not. slow in striding to keep step
with modern progress. Indeed, in many
ways Siam is a stride ahead of many an
other nation, if one judges by certain re
marks of Prince Purachartra. Women, for
instance, who form sixty-eight per cent
of the Siamese population, have equal ed
ucational opportunities with the men. Siam
has a compulsory educational law and a
great co-educational university in which
many womap are enrolled.
Economically, states the Prince, Siam
does not have “the extremes of poverty
and wealth that America apparently has.”
An agricultural country, the women work
in the fields along with the men, receiv
ing equal pay. Little poverty and equal
opportunities for all prevail.
France Like Americans
AMERICANS recently returned from
trips abroad counteract the impres
sion gained from some tourists that
the United States and its people are not
over popular in France, nor have been since
the signing of the armistice.
An Atlanta man who has but just come
back from several weeks in France, Eng
land and Germany is authority for the
statement that, in the main, the French en
tertain for the United States a sincere re
gard and a genuine appreciation of the part
America played in the war.
“I was rather surprised,” he is quoted as
saying, “by the real cordiality shown Ameri
cans, for I had been told that France was
weary of American tourists, resented Amer
ica’s attitude on international affairs and
was none too friendly toward the American
citizen. Instead, I found the same courtesy
that was shown the American soldier dur
ing the war, and encountered very few
efforts to profiteer at the expense of the
American visitor. On several occasions, too.
I noticed in French newspapers expressions
of the warmest appreciation for the help
America rendered France in the war. That is
something, I am sure, which the majority of
the French people and the nation as a whole
will never forget.”
It Is gratifying to discover, nearly two
years since the signing of the armistice, such
convincing testimony of the enduring friend
ship of France for America, The memories
of nations, like the nemorles of individuals,
are so short that often less than two years
sees a complete change of front. But France,
one judges, is not one to forgbt America any
more than" America will forget the bonds of
friendship that have always tied her to
France and are stronger now than ever.
THAT EYESTRAIN
By H. Addington Bruce
YOU tell me that, some little time ago, an
oculist prescribed spectacles for you as a
means of relieving an eyestrain supposed
to be responsible for headaches and other dis
comforts from which you suffered. These
spectacles, you say, did seem to give you re
lief for a while. But now your head is aching
again.
Consequently, you fear that the diagnosis of
eyestrain as a cause of your symptoms was
entirely wrong. Or else that the eye strain was
merely a contributory factor in the develop
ment of ills chiefly brought about by some
other cause.
Both of these possibilities should no doubt
be taken into account. If you have not al
ready done so, it would be well to have an
X-ray examination made of your teeth and
sinusek Also have your tonsils carefully ex
amined. Focal infection in teeth,, sinuses, or
tonsils is known to produce symptoms such as
yours.
It may be, however, that the eystrain diag
nosis was correct enough, but that either the
oculist made a mistake in prescribing the par
ticular spectacles he did, or the optician made
a mistake when filling the oculist’s prescripton.
The best oculist in the world and the best
optician are liable to err once in a while. Give
the oculist another chance to examine your eyes,
and ask the optician to make sure the specta
cles are what was called for.
Further—and not the least unlikely of all pos
sibilities—the continuance of your ailments
may be due, not to a mistaken diagnosis, not to
a wr<Mig prescription, not to faulty workman
ship by the optician, but to your own negli
gence in the use and care of your spectacles.
Perhaps, in fact, though the oculist prescribed
spectacles for you, you ordered eyeglasses from
the optician. In many cases eyeglasses, owing
to the difficulty of wearing them properly, have
been known to increase rather than lessen eye
strain.
Or it may be that you are not wearing the
spectacles as regularly as you should. Numer
ous people, from vanity or some other motive,
try to dispense with spectacles as much as pos
sible, even though told to wear them all day
and in the evenings.
If you are one of these people, you need
hardly be surprised at the return and persistence
of eyestrain’s symptoms. The same applies if
you are among the many who neglect to keep
the, lenses of their spectacles dean.
"Second only to uncorrected or incorrectly
corrected metropia, dirty lenses are the great
est cause of eyestrain,” warns that eminent spe
cialist, Dr. George M. Gould. “It is a good plan ’
to give the patient a label or tag to paste on
his mirror with the injunction, 'Clean my spec
tacle lenses now, and six times every day.’”
And, lastly, it may be that your eyes have
changed so markedly since the spectacles were
first prescribed that you now need different
spectacles. Spine people, having long suffered
from eyestrain, have to change spectacles fre
quently 'before lasting relief is obtained.
So you see it will not dp to jump to the
conclusion that your symptoms are not due to
eyestrain at all. To be on the safe side, let
both your physician and your oculist see you
again But take also the little personal precau
tions 1 have indicated, in order to give your
spectacles a really fair chance to help you.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspapers.)
THE NEXT PRESIDENT A
PARTISAN
By Dr. Frank Crane
Trouble is coming and we may as well get
ready for it.
That old enemy of mankind and of the
State is far from dead. Partisanship, the
disease of civilization, is still strong and
fevered among us.
The European nations, bruised by -war,
have had to turn frojn It. The United States
was not hurt enough. We are etill fat and
fatuous. Only some gigantic calamity can
.knock this folly from our crazy heads.
We still assume that government must be|
by Political Parties, in spite of the fact that
the Constitution does not provide for them,
and Washington distinctly condemned them.
I have appealed to Mr. Harding and Mr.
Cox, asking whichever one is elected to for
get party, rise above the pettiness of con
tention and vulgar success, and be President
of the United States and not foreman of a
Political Party. /
It was undoubtedly Mr. Wilson’s fatal
error, of considering himself a Party Leader,
that wrecked his splendid plans of world
peace.
The new President is going to fall into
the .same pit. The greeds, hates and pas
sions aroused to secure election cannot stop
after election.
But one thing could stop them. One thing
only could save us from endless political
squabble in the Senate, from industrial
wreckage due to lack of settled policies, and
from an eta of cowardice and humiliation
abroad.
That one thing would be to have a Presi
dent who would form a COALITION GOV
ERNMENT, who would invite members of
the opposing party into his cabinet, consult
with and co-operate with the opposition in
the national legislature, bring peace to our
troubled country and inaugurate another
“era of good feeling.”
I don’t believe cither Harding or Cox is
big enough, i Neither is strong enough to
withstand the crafty, persistent and eager
forces of graft and vengeance behind him.
In H. G. Wells’ new history I find these
words about Napoleon. They describe the
opportunity that opened to him when he first
came into power, an opportunity he was
utterly unable to meet, because the Old Or
der gripped him, and instead of becoming the
world’s greatest democrat he became only "a
new and nastier sort of autocrat." Says
Wells:
“The old order of things was dead or dying:
strange new forces drove through the world
seeking form and direction: the promise of
a world republic and an enduring world peace
whispered in a multitude of startled minds.
Had this man had any profundity of vision,
any power of creative imagination, had he
been accessible to any disinterested ambi
tion, he might have done work for mankind
that would have made him the very sun of
history. There lacked nothing to this great
occasion but a noble imagination.”
Something like that we will see here. The
new President will be, not the President of
the Republic, but the leader of the victorious
oack of party wolves.
For Partisanship must do her perfect work.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Editorial Echoes.
“Please, ma’am, father’s sent me round to '
say that your dog Towzer’s killed three of ,
his prize Cochin-chinas this afternoon,” an- !
nounced an apple-faced youth to the elderly i
maiden lady.
The lady held up her hands in horror. 1
’Towzer,” she said,'“couldn’t do such a thing. |
I’m certain. Go and tell your father that
he must have made a mistake.”
“But father saw him with one of the
chickens in his mouth, ma’am.”
“Tell your father circumstantial evidence
pas led many a wiser man astray,” sniffed
the lady. “Run away and do as I tell you,
notv.” *
When the boy returned, three minutes
later, he struggled-with an ear to ear smile.
“Father’s compliments, ma’am, and p’r’aps
you’re right,” he said. “He says I’m to tell
vou that circumstantial evidence would point
to the fact that he shot your dog half an
hour ago, but on goin’ into the matter ho
reckons as how you’d find the poor thing
died o' nervous prostration.
PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
XIX, McKINLEY-BRYAN
RACE OF 1896
TTTtSHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 6.—-
\/\/ The hardest fought political
V V battle of American history
was the campaign of 1896 in
which William McKinley, of Ohio
vanquished William Jennings Bryan,
of Nebraska. The fact that McKin
ley was re-elected with ease in his
second campaign against Bryan, and
that the Republican majorities of
1896 look so great on paper, has
caused many men of short memory
to believe that McKinley won his
first election without great difficulty.
In that year the Democratic nomi
nee, Mr. Bryan, made the most re
markable- speaking campaign ever un
dertaken by any man. In the same
year, the Republican canfpaign man
ager, Mr. Hanna, spent five times as
much money as had ever been spent
before in a presidential race. The
Republican campaign was conducted
with such consummate skill that the
name of Mark Hanna will live for
years as that of the best political
general the country has produced.
The year 1896 was a year of polit
ical revolution. Both of the leading
parties underwent great changes, and
the number of independent voters
was increased a thousand fold. Mr.
Cleveland’s second administration be
gan with the country on the verge
of a financial crash. blow de
scended and the panic of 1893 was on.
The money question, which both par
ties had so carefully side-stepped for
so many years was presented in such
away that? the administration could
not avoid taking a position. Mr.
Cleveland and his arabine t decided to
place the country squarely on the
gold standard,, and to disregard the
petty sops which had been thrown to
silver. The treasury regulations ac
complished this purpose long before
the McKinley administration came
in.
Democrats in Control
For the first time sincq the first
part of Buchanan's administration
the government was in the control
of the Democrats, that party having
the president and a majority in both
of congress. Mr. Cleveland
cabled congress together and urged
the repeal of the silver purchasing
clause of the Sherman act, which
would finally "demonetize” silver.
His party did not agree with him on
that subject, and it was with the
greatest difficulty that his purpose
was accomplished. p
President Cleveland had been an
exemplar of civil service reform and
was opposed to “pernicious activity”
In politics, but he went to the ex
treme of the ure of patronage as a
club to drive the repeal bill through
congress. Even then, it was done
only by the help of eastern Republi
. J 1 left his P art y hope
lessly divided.
« T A e M^ e T r “V c landslide which
re-elected Cleveland was the result
of popular disapproval of the Mc-
F °f F 896. After the
terrific fight on the stiver purchasing
clause repeal, the Democratic con
gress endeavored to enact a Demo
reZdv b,l,> The Party was al
ready torn asunder and could act
with no unanimity. The result was
the passage of the Wilson bill, which
hlw a ? d i Permitted to become a
law without his signature.
MeKiniM P v3? le . had condemned the
■McKinley hill six months after it
was passed and before its effect
cculd possibly have been felt, by
on P A Ct on the Democratic house
in 1890, so the Wilson bfll, charged
with responsibility for a panic which
was on before the bill was written,
resulted in the overwhelming Repub
lican congressional victory of 1894.
A Year of Split Parties
_AII through the three years of the
Cleveland administration leading up
to the campaign of 1896 there was
constant strife in both parties. For
a time it seemed that the Repub
licans woul<i declare for free silver
and that the Democrats would follow
their president in advocacy for the
gold standard. Then it seemed that
both parties would declare for the
gold standard and the silver hosts
would enroll under the banner of Pop
ulism. The Republicans felt certain
tha( they could win on the prosperity
issue, and by denouncing the Cleve
land administration for its issue of
$262,000,000 of bonds in "time of
profound peace.’’ But they didn’t
Want to split their own forces by
taking sides in the money fight.
Mr. McKinley and Speaker Thomas
B. Reed were the leading candidates
for the Republican nomination for
president. Mr. McKinley had the
good fortune to have Mark Hanna
for his political captain. Hanna or
ganized the states and took even New
England away from Reed long be
fore the convention met. Mr. Hanna
was afraid of the money question
and Mr. McKinley was committed by
his record of "bimetallism,” So the
Ohio leaders attempted to "straddle”
the issue once more. The Ohio state
platform contained a delphlc utter
ance on the money question which
said nothing.
But when the national convention
met at St. Louis, Mr. Hanna found
that the question was one which whs
too big to be straddled. Senator
Thomas C. Platt, of New York, forced
Hanna to accept a gold standard
platform. It was later modified by
pronouncement in favor of inter
national bimetallism, which permitted
Republicans who had been shouting
for silver to come down gracefully.
Senatrw Platt may not be regarded
as a great statesman, but in 1896 and
1900 he did things that left marks
on the'-history of the country.
Westerners Bolted
When the gold plank was adopted,
thirty-four western Republican dele
gates, headed by Senator Teller, of
Colorado; Senator Cannon of Utah,
and Senator Dubpis, of Idaho, walhed
out of the convention and into the
Democratic party. All over the coup
try there were Republicans who
loudly proclaimed the fact that they
had bolted the nomination of McKin
ley. A national silver Republican
convention was called. Mr. Hanna,
chosen chairman of the national com
mittee, knew that he had a great
job ahead of him and he set to work.
The Democratic convention met in
Chicago. The Cleveland wing of the
party controlled the national com
mittee, but the recommendations of
that body were swept aside on the
first vote and it was clear that the
silver men controlled the convention.
A resolution commending the then
present Democratic convention was
voted down with vengeful hoot.. No
man was ever hated more than the
Democratic national convention of
1896 hated Grover
Democratic president of the United
St Leading free silver advocates like
Richard P. Bland, of Missouri, and
John R. McLean, of Ohio were con
testing for the nomination. The
story of their defeat is. a most fa
miliar bit of political history Wil
liam Jennings Bryan, who had re
norted the St. Louis convention
which nominated McKinley, fo £, a
Nebraska newspaper, came to cni
cago at the head of a contesting dele
gation. He was given a seat. Then
came the great debate on the plat
form, the eastern Democrats fl ght-
Ing hard against the majority. In
that debate, Mr. ® r ya."’
♦ hirtv-six vears old, slim 0,. ngure
Ind'full o/name, leaped into world
wide fame in a moment. rhe ta
mous “crown of thorns and pros
of gold” speech, whether the figure
wns S borrowed from Representative
McCall, of Massachusetts, or not
sent that convention wild. Bryan
' VnS T n r O iumph e cf the Boy Orator
A -little later the populists and
the* Silver Republicans also nomi
nated "the Boy Orator of the Platte
Th** Cleveland Democrats called a
convention at Indianapolis and or
"■anized the "National Democracy.
General John M. Palmer, of Illinois
a soldier of the union, was nominated
for president, with General Simon
Bolivar Buckner, of Kentucky, a sol
dier O s the Confederacy for v.ce
president. They polled but few votes,
the majority of the gold Democrats
voting straight for McKinley.
Bryan soon began his unprecedent
ed and unequalled campaign tour. He
did not then posses the sauvity of
his later years, but he was mightily
in earnest. No other man has ever
aroused the enthusiasm which he cre
ated in that campaign. He spoke lO
over 5,000.000 people, making over a
thousand separate speeches. Tn the
first part of the campaign he trav
eled in ordinary day coaches, the
railroads making it as hard for him
as possible. Toward the end of the
campaign the railroads relented and
he was enabled to get a private ear.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1920.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From
All Over the Earth
Beds Fill Bullets With Poisoned
Liquid
Threp alleged extremists ar
rested recently while posting
placards calling for violence
against employers at Madrid,
Spain, carried revolvers loaded
with cartridges filled with poison
ous liquid.
A Liquor Mixup
/vAIAS&\ M &I
(THIS?)
An edict made in Washington
Will probably produce Isome fun,
For it provides that envoys’ grips,
Their trunks and diplomatic hips,
Their trunks and diplomatic hips,
Shall not conceal by trick or ruse
A drop of plenipotent booze.
Mexico for Deague
As soon as a majority of important
powers recognize the present Mexi*
can government, Mexico will ask ad
mission to the League of Nations,
the Mexican embassy at London
says. In the meantime, no embassy
representatives will be sent to ob
serve league proceedings at Geneva.
Ask for “Devil Dogs”
Secretary Daniels has been
asked by the Armenian-American
society to send warships tp the
Black sea to land marines at Ba
tum to keep open the railroad
line from that port to Erivan.
Mr. Daniels has promised to take
the matter up with Secretary
Colby. , !
Holland has lifted a number of
travel restrictions upon foreign vis
itors who have heretofore been sub
jected to considerable difficulties
and annoyances.
The hew regulations do away with
the former compulsory police regis
tration in respect to American, Brit
ish, French, Italian and other tour
ists from western Europe, but it
is still imposed upon Germans, Rus
sians and others from eastern coun
tries, owing to the fear of Bolshev
ist infection. .
As a result of the former strin
gent rules, Holland had little tour
ist traffic during the summer.
Turkey Talk
_ S /''IS
y
The turkey-raisers raised once more
That plaintive cry they’ve made be
fore; /
Fat worms are scarce, the grubs are
shy
While corn is so all fired high.
And gobblers are so scarce they
fear
Thanksgiving dinners will be dear.
Gets a Medal
Carl Jakobsen, formerly chief
engineer of the steamship Alan
thus, who directed the prelimi
nary efforts to rescue the im
prisoned crew of the suhjnarine
S-5 when it plunged its nose into
the sea bottom sixty miles off
the Delaware Capes, received a
gold watch from the navy de
partment for his services. Rear
Admiral James H. Glennon gave
him the watch and a letter from
Josephus Daniels, secretary ot
the navy.
Bussians Ship Gold
Russian gold equivalent in value to
more than ten million dollars *has
reached Stockholm consigned to the
Robert Dollar company of San Fran
cisco. The American Express com
pany received notice of the shipment
from a man in Reval, whose name is
Zindin. but whose nationality is un
known.
The bullion is on deposit at a
Stockholm bank to the credit of the
Dollar company pending further in
structions.
The French aviator Fronval estab
lished a world’s record this week
for landing at a given spot when
he ascended to a height of 1,000
meters and came down within nine
feet of the spot indicated. The ac
tual -measurement was 2,600 meters.
Fronval holds the record for loop
ing the loop.
Three Boston policemen, all re
cruited since the police strike of a
year ago, have been discharged from
the police force and are under arrest
on charges of breaking, entering and
larceny.
Conditions in Petrograd were sum
marized in one phrase: “Hunger and
want, but order,” by H. G. Wells, the
British author, when he arrived at
London last week from Russia. He
implied that -similar conditions pre
vail throughout Russia.
Tourteen Grocers Indicted
The Sugarland Industries and four
teen wholesale grocery concerns
scattered over Texas have been in
dicted by the federal grand jury at
Houston, Texas, which has been in
vestigating alleged violations of the
Lever antj-profiteeriqg act.
Ex-King Ferdinand of Bulgaria,
fearing the inroads of the tax-gath
erer, is enjoying his wealth by
spending it. y
At Mergentheim, which he is visit
ing for the sake of the magnesia
springs, he leads a jovial and uncon
cerned existence in striking contrast
to the cloistered seclusion of the one
time German emperor at Amerongen.
Under the Count von Mu
ranny, says a writer in the Zwolf-
Uhrblatt, Ferdinand is residing at
the Kurhaus, together with his suite
composed of chaplain, chamberlain,
chauffeur, footman, valet and private
secretary. His lavish expenditure
has made him popular in the town
and surrounding country, whefre the
villagers see in him an emblem of
the "good ol dtirnes’’--.and greet him
with cheers as he drives past in an
automobile.
He was without money and in his
great canvas was sometimes forced
to borrow the price of a ticket to
the next stopping place.
Against this terrific Campaign,
which seemed to be sweeping the
country for the Democrats, Mr. Han
na planned the great "campaign of
education.” The farmers of the agri
cultural states east of the Missis
sippi were induced to believe that
the election of Bryan would mean
bankruptcy for them. All of the
wealth of the country was back of
Hanna—he had millions to spend and
he knew how to do it.
Careful canvasses taken two
months before the elections showed
that . such states as Ohio and In
diana were for Bryan. The work
that was done to turn that defeat
into the overwhelming victory was
due to the political sagacity of Mar
cus A. Hanna.
Bryan's appeals to tne people of
every section, the enormous popular
interest in his personality and the
picturesqueness of his campaign, on
the on© side, and the efforts of the
Republicans to reach every voter with
campaign literature and personal ar
gument on the other side, resulted
in a widespread popular Interest in
politics such as had never been
known.
While the campaign was decisive,
and while it practically settled the
money question for all time, defeat
did not diminish the popularity of
the Democratic standard-bearer, who
has ever since stood high in the coun
cils of his party. McKinley was
'chosen president and his administra
tion witnessed the return of pros
perity, the greatest the country has
ever known. After all, not the least
among the Republican assets of 1896
wqs the fact that the panic of 1893
came during a Demoeratio • adiola-
Istration. i |
DOROTHY DIX’S TALK ON
TEACH GIRLS TO MAKE A LIVING
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX
A YOUNG woman of good fam
ily, of education and refine
ment, has recently been ar
rested in New York and put in
jail for getting money under fraudu
lent pretences.
In trying to excuse her crime, the
girl said that she was driven to
stealing because her lack of knowl
edge of any gainful occupation pre
vented her from making an honest
living.
"You can’t get a job in New York,
unless you have already had busi
ness experience there. Aiffi if you
haven’t even had out-of-town busi
ness experience, you might as well
stop trying before you begin—no
matter how clever you may think
yourself.
"Everywhere that I loked for work
I was met with the sarhe objection
—that I lacked experience. They ex
plained to me in offices where I tried
to get a job that they could not af
ford to waste the time of the staff
teaching an ignorant newcomer. You
have to have skill to do the simplest
thing. Why, I even tried to be a
waitress in a, restaurant, but found
that in order to do that you fnuftt
be a bus girl first and learn to stack
dishes properly. There’s no place for
the untaught.”
In contradistinction to this girl’s
story let me tell you the story of a
girl I know who also came to New
York, seeking her fortune. This sec
ond girl had not had the educational
advantages, nor the social upbring
ing of the first girl, but she had
been taught a good trade. She had
served an apprenticeship to a good
milliner, and she had the technique
of making hats at her fingers’ ends.
When she arrived in New York
she had only a few cents in her hand
bag, but she had her thimble and
her apron in it, and the address of
a wholesale millinery firm. She got
somebody to direct her to it, and as
skilled workers are always in de
mand everywhere, in less than an
hour after she reached New York
she was settled in a good job, which
grew beter and better until it laid
the foundations of the fortune that
she is enjoying today.
Because this second girl was train
ed in some definite occupation that
would bring in money, she was not
driven to wrong-doing to keep soul
and body together as was the first
woman.
I wish that I might write the
moral of these two stories in letters
of fire before the eyes of all the
parents in the world. I wish that I
might make them see that there is
no other safeguard that they can
throw about their daughters that is
so potent as just to make them self
sustaining. I wish I could make
them realize that money in her pocket
will do more to preserve a girl’s
virtue than the highest moral prin
ciples.
It’s all very well to say that a girl
should hold her honor higher than
her life, and that she should starve
and freeze rather than deviate a step
from the straight and narrow path.
O) Q=D 0
New Questions
1. What country has a flag most
nearly like ours?
2. When were fireworks first used?
3. Can stars be seen by the naked
eye during broad daylight on a fair
day when a person 'is standing at
the bottom of a brick smokestack,
164 feet in height?
4. Boes the Scotch song, "Com
ing Through the Rye,” mean coming
through a rye field?
5. What is the meaning of a
"Mavourneen?”
6. What is the new submarine gun
that has been adopted by the New
York police department?
7. I see in the paper that a certain
man is away on sabbatical leave.
What does this mean?
8. What are the heaviest and light
est minerals?
9. Please give me a recipe for mak
ing rootbeer. ' .
10. Did any woman sign tne doc
ument written in the cabin of the
Mayflower?
1— Q. What part of a man’s weight
is water?
A. Water forms over 60 per
cent of the weight of theh body of
the average man, being a compo
nent part of all the tissues.
2Q. Can an American Indian
vote?
A. An Indian who has been made
a. citizen is enfranchised and is en
titled tp vote. Those, however, who
remain upon the reservations do not
have the rights of citizenship, as
they are . exempt from taxation and
other oblligations.
3Q. When, were votes first cast,
and what different methods have
been used?
A. Voting is mentioned in the Bi
ble as casting of lots. The evolution
of voting is from this catsing of lots
first mentioned in Leviticus 16-8,
to the viva voce voting common in
the ancient nations; the open ballot;
the Australian ballot, and finally the
voting machine.
4 Q, What is the origin of the
term shin-plaster as applied to pa
per money during the Civil war?
A. The word "shin-plaster," as ap
plied to Civil war currency, is orig
inally said to have been applied to
the depreciated continental currency.
During the war, people resorted to
postage stamps and private notes,
the latter representing 10, 25 and 50
cents, were of little value beyond
the particular locality where they
were issued, except as "plasters for
broken shins," hence their name
“shin-plasters.”
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REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
W'TEN love dies, it would be
so/ne consojation to a woman,
to give it an elaborate burial,
if the man wouldn’t always
insist on bringing the next woman
to the funeral. •
A man’s idea of time is so fluctu
ating, that every wife needs a ouija
board around the house to tell her
exactly when her husband will come
in, evenings, and when to put the
steak in the oven.
A woman’s first kiss is a sacra
ment, her second an adventure, her
third a surrender, her fourth an ex
periment—and all the rest, merely
research.
When a flapper acquires a lipstick,
a pair of green ear-rings, and an in
scrutable expression, it is a sign
that she has decided to take up
“vamping” in a serious way.
A man may read all wks ever
written about women and then not
know any more about them, than a
Hottentot would know about an ice
burg,, merely from seeing a pictudb
of .one.
Eve was the only woman who ever
got what every woman wants—the
complete and undivided attention of
"the only man in the world."
No man would hesitate to marry
an "angel,” and then expect her to
make over her old halos and use her
wings to dust the furniture with.
The difference between a spinster
and a bachelor girl is that the first
thinks of marriage as something she
has "missed” and the second thinks
of it as somthing she has "escaped.”
After forty, a man might as iyell
marry; he is going to grow old.
grouchy, and finicky, anyhow.
Marriage is the point at which a ;
woman ceases being .’’babifd" by a j
Bjan, and begins to "mother” him.
No doubt ’there is an occasion
woman of high and heroic mould wl
does sacrifice her life to her idei
But most of us are pretty poor, wea
wavering creatures, and when we g
cold and hungry and discouraged, v
are nothing but a bunch of anim
appetites, clamoring to be satisfle
and it is then that we forget o
high ethical standards, and sell o
for a mess of pottage; Therefore
is not enough for parents to wri
the thought about them that the
pure and innocent little girls wou
never do anything that wasn’t grai
and noble, and ladylike. Nobody ci
tell what they would do until th 1
are tested, and the thing for fathe
and mothers to do is co build tl
strongest wall they can between the
girls and temptation. t
They can best do this by teachii
the girls how to ma’--e an itne
and respectable living, ao that th
will never be forced to eafti. the
support by nefarious means.
in ninety-nine cases out of a hu
dred, the downward way is the nho
en way to those who know no otn
The girl who cannot earn her ot
bread and butter, who cannot ma
the money to pay for her of
clothes, or provide her with ti
amusement that her youth craves,
the predestined victim of any co
sclnceless man who comes alon
Some way she must live. Some wi
she must get the things she desire
and the only way she can do th
is to wheedle them out of men, f
the only work that woman can <
without being tailfefit, is workii
men.
But for all that a woman ge
from man, she pays the price, tl
bitter price of those who must s<
themselves in the market place b
cause they have nothing else to se
On the other hand, the very know
edge that she can stand on her ov
feet, that with her own brains at
hands she can fight her own batt'
of life, that she is financially ind
pendent and need look to no man f
help, encases a girl in an armor th
makes Her bomb-proof against tern
tatiou.
There are no other girls in tl
world who are so capable of takii
care of themselves as business gir
They are neither thieves nor vamji
They do not have to get their livli
that way.
It Isn’t enough for parents to thir
that they protect their daughters
they leave them a little mone
Money ie the hardest of all thin,
to hold. Especially does it ri
through the fingers of femlni
hands, like ‘water through a
It isn’t.enough for fathers and mot
ers to trust to luck to their daug
ters marrying. Husbands are n
always forthcoming, and even wh
they are, they often die leaving the
widows penniless.
Girls must be given that with
themselves that nothing can tai
from them. They must be taug
how to support themselves if tn<
are to be kept safe.
5—Q. How long have gloves bee
worn?
A. The glove Is an ancient artlc
of dress. Rude gloves have bee
found among relics of cave dweller
They were known to the anciei
Greeks, but ra.her as a protectic
to the hands in performing heav
labor. Romans used gloves of sort
calling them digitalis. Their use f<
many generations was confined t
the nobility and clergy.
6. —Q. What fraction of a hors*
power is a man power?
A. A muscular man usually di
velops one-tenth of a horsc-powe
but he cannot expend this amount <
energy continuously.
7Q. I have an army Colt .
automatic that I founds Am I vi<
lating a law in keeping it? If s
what shall I do with it?
A. The war department says thi
if you have an army revolver in yot
possession, no matter how it cam
into your possession, you could 1
accused of possessing governmei
property without any government 1
cense for same, and the offeni
might lose for you your citlzcnsh
as well as mean one year imprisoi
ment in the state prison. It is su;
gested that you take the revolver 1
your nearest army recruiting static
stating how you obtained it, and i
this way you* will avoid any penalt
in case you were found wih it i
your possession.
8— Q. What is the difference bi
tween a college and a university?
A. In the United States a colleg
is an institution of higher learnin
having but a single faculty and cui
riculum usually leading to the d<
gree of bachelor of arts. A unlve
sity, in addition to a college cours
offers graduate work and has pre
session;) I schools. The two tern
have been confused, since some co
Jeges have extended their instruc
tion to university scope withot
changing the name, while some Un
versifies have limited their work an
retained the designation of “unlvei
sity."
7. Q. . What year is this a«.cordin
to Hebrew count?
A. The year 1920 according t
the Hebrew calendar is the yea
56 00.
10—Q. Why is the Bible presera
ed in St. John’s church, Portsmout
N. H., called “The Vinegar Bible?”
A. It jis so named from the 26t
chapter of Luke, which reads, "Th
parable, of the vinegar” instead o
the “vineyard.”
FIRST MARBLES
* MADE BY SEA
■
It is suggested that man borrow
ed the idea of marble-making fro:
the sea. In museums may be foun
not only the marbles played with b
young Egypt, Greece and Rome, bu
among the relics of the Neollthl
time, are little balls of stone, whlc
are supposed to have been the im
plements of the fascinating ganu
The even roll of the sea has wor:
rocks smooth and uniform.
JAWBONE'S MEDITATIONS
PE MAN WHUTS GOT
FLINTY MONEY, HE
I GOT JOY, but PE
MAN WIP PE BLUES,
HE JEs’ Got Pagination!
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