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4 THE TRIWEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months , 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) IW-.lXo. 3 Mob. 6 Mos. Ur. Dally and Sunday2oc fiOc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .00 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. 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Address all orders and notices for this Department to 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. a “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 than any paper in its field. It will con tinue constantly to become greater. Stay ing on the subscription list is a wiste thing to do. We hope we will get a lAter and a re 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.” 1 11 *' i 11 11 | 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! Wo fllgl Copyright, 1920by McClure Nowipaper