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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
How War Increases Taxes
IT is a far flight from a tax rate of
six dollars and seventy-nine cents per
capita to one of forty-nine dollars and
forty-one cents. The former was the aver
age in the United States on June 30, 1914;
the latter, on June 30, 1920. We are not
alone, however, in multiplied tax costs in
cident to the war. Great Britain’s rate has
grown during the same six years from
■eventeen dollars and twenty-one cents to
■eventy-eight dollars. Indeed, every belliger
ent nation has undergone heavy increases
on this score, with one exception—and
that, curiously enough, is Germany. In her
case, although the tax levy in marks was
fifteen times greater this year than in
1913, the net result in gold, which is the
standard for international comparisons, is
■mailer than before the war. And the ap
praisers add that inasmuch as Germany’s
huge indemnities are payable in gold, “it
is difficult to see how they can be real
ized out of the present taxes, even sup
posing the German Government capable of
collecting them.”
In giving out the official figures com
piled by its investigators of this matter the
British Treasury notes that the compari
son of the rates in the several nations can
be only approximate because their fiscal
years end differently and because, too,
there are inequalities in local taxation.
There is also some difficulty in reducing
the various foreign denominations to terms
of dollars; in the plan adopted, pre-war
figures were taken at par exchange -and
post-war figures at the rate prevalent at the
end of th-e fiscal year in question, or, if
future dates were involved, at the existing
rate.
By this method, applied to the most
Accurate data procurable from the nations
concerned, the following results showing
the average per capita taxes have been
arrived at:
Year Per
Ending Capita
United States June 30, 1914 $ 6.79
June 30, 1918 37.93
June 30, 1920 49.41
Great Britain .. ..Mar. 31, 1914 $17.21
Mar. 31, 1920 85.20
v Mar. 31, 1921 78.00
Trance Dec. 31, 1913 $20.00
Dec. 31, 1919 19.60
Dec. 31, 1920 29.70
Italy June 30, 1914 $ 6.52
June 30, 1919 15.80
Germany Mar. 31, 1914 $ 7.35
Mar. 31, 1921 6.65
The 1920 figures for the United States
would have been considerably less had not
a Republican Congress sat idle under the
Administration’s repeated appeals for a
timely tax revision. But there is no blink
ing the fact that war, whenever it comes,
lays a heavy hand on a people’s earnings
and piles up debts which are long years, if
not generations, in being paid. No Ameri
can worthy the name begrudges one penny
of what it took to defeat Pruesianism’s
black adventure; we might have spent a
thousandfold more and still have counted
the cost as nothing beside the gain for free
dom and honor and right. But that in no
wise lessens the importance of America’s
doing her utmost as the most favored and
powerful nation of this day to prevent a re
currence of treasure-sapping, life-destroying,
heart-breaking war. If she does not exert
herself to that end, if her influence is not
joined to that of other enlightened, liberty
loving nations in the cause of justice and
peace and good will, our average per capita
taxes which have increased seven and a
half times over in the last six years, may
grow insupportable from another great war
before another decade ends.
Fruitful Co-operation
THAT is an eminently deserved tribute
which President Hastings, of the
Southeastern Fair Association, pays
the Fulton County Commissioners for the
part they have played in the making of the
great exposition. “Had it not been for
their loyal and ’wholehearted support for the
last five years,” he writes, “our Fair would
still be on practically a county Fair basis.”
A liberal appropriation to the fund with
•which the enterprise was launched was but
the beginning of the Commissioners’ valuable
aid. From year to year they have contrib
uted labor, machinery and sustainment with
out which the Lakew-ood grounds and ap
proaches could never have been brought to
their present developments or the Fair have
become so potent and far-reaching an influ
ence of Georgia an.fl the Southeast.
Their policy in this matter is characteristic
of the Commission’s attitude toward opportu
nities for promoting the common welfare of
city, county and State. They have the breadth
of view to see that the interests of Fulton
county and of Atlanta are so vitally inter
woven that service to the one is serv
ice to the other, and that both de
pend for the largest prosperity upon
the upbuilding of the Commonwealth
and the South. The entire community joins
the officials and directors of the Fair in high
and hearty appreciation of the Commission
ers’ part in that constructive enterprise and
in others devoted to the public good. It is
co-operation in this spirit that will develop
our resources most speedily and most fruit
fully. May if continue to grow in the hearts
ind hands of all officials and all citizens.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
TheEditor’sDesk
“Ad Astra Per Aspera”
“Ad Astra Per Aspera” is a motto
from the Romans. It means “To the Stars
Through Difficulty.”
That handful of words hold a world of
meaning and force. And what's more,
the significance applies to human beings
today just as truly as it did when Caesar
reigned. ‘ •
“To the stars through difficulty.” In
other words, “Don’t give up the ship,”
“We have not yet begun to fight,” “Hitch
your wagon to a star.” Some of Ameri
ca’s most valiant sons have voiced kindred
thoughts.
All of which leads up to announceifient.
In this issue The Tri-Weekly Journal
starts another interesting series. The
heading is, “DOWN, but Not OIJT.” You’ll
find it on another page.
Tn the series will he ves’ pocket snap
shots of the lives of great men who be
came great in spite of prodigious physical
handicaps.
The facts may be familiar to the ma
jority of us. But repeating them seems
worth while. When you read how griev
ously afflicted men throughout the ages
have made their names immortal notwith
standing their records, tend to discount
the average person’s allotment of trouble
If you are inclined to be discouraged
about things in general or anything in par
ticular, read the “Down, but Not Out” col
umn.
And, by the way, if you know of some
body who has risen “to the stars through
difficulty”—someone who has triumphed
over crushing adversity—send in a report
of it. The Tri-Weekly Journal will pay
for the contribution.
Make the account brief —not more than
100 words.
Arithm-a-letta
On the front page today is a second an
nouncement concerning Arithm-a-letta.
“the Nation’s Newest Plaything.”
This is the novelty that every reader of
the paper may have by watching out for
the issue of Tuesday, November 9. As
partly explained not long ago, “Arlthm-a
letta” is an ingenous, mystifying, fascinat
ing device that will give more entertain
ment than a trip to the fortune teller’s.
On next Tuesday, the ”Arithm-a-letter.”
in enlarged dimensions, complete, simple
directions for operating it. will be pub
lished.
The tri-Weekly Journal is the only pa
per in its field that can give this amaz
ing new p’aything. Be sure to get it.
When the Trees Give Out
THE next president of the United States,
regardless of who wins Tuesday’s elec
tion, will be a publisher. This fact en
courages the hope that he will exert his ut
most influence for the adoption of an ade
quate to restore and conserve the na
tion’s vanishing forests. For whoever has
come to grips with the problem of print pa
per, the shortage and high prices of which
are attributable largely to a dearth of pulp
wood,' can but realize how imperative it is,
not only that reckless destruction of timber
lands be stopped, but also that a far-reaching
national program of reforestation be inau
gurated.
The waste in this realm of America’s basic
resources has been so enormous and the im
poverishment toward which we are bound in
consequence is so menacing that our every
material interest must suffer unless repara
tory measures are promptly taken. Not only
the cost of publishing books, newspapers
and magazines, but also that of building, fur
niture-making and diver sorts of manufac
turing threatens to become almost prohibi
tively high if the decrease in the wood sup
ply continues. Thus public education and
those manifold social interests dependent
upon proper housing facilities are involved.
Consider, too, the undermining effect on
agriculture as decade after decade of de
forestation goes on. . In the Old World today
there are vdst regions bare of nutritious herb
or grain or grass, arid spaces where no har
vests are brought forth and few flocks, or
none, are fed. Those very dgserts once were
green and fruitful; but as the trees of their
environing hills and plains were cut away,
they lost nature’s great means of conserving
moisture and rainfall, of controlling stream
flow and floods, of keeping the land fertile
and productive. The same fate will befall
our own country, unless due steps are taken
to save and replenish the declining American
forests.
A glance into the official figures on that
decline discovers a truly shocking state of
affairs. Our forests now are growing barely
one-fourth of the amount of timber consumed
annually by onr wood-using industries. Three
fifths of the original timber is gone. At the
present rates of consumption and production
there will be virtually no timber left twenty
five years hence; and within fifteen years the
South’s supply of virgin pine will be exhaust
ed. Already the East is having to pay some
six hundred million dollars a year in freight
rates on shipments of lumber from remote
points. “In each of the old timber regions,”
writes Mr. W. B. Greeley, Chief Forester of
the United States, “the story is pretty much
the same. Abundant forests, a period of
rapid cutting, uncontrolled fires, gradual
diminution of timber supplies, and finally ex
haustion and high prices for imported lum
ber. Located first in New England, the cen
ter of lumber production moved west to the
Alleghanies, then to the Lake states, then to
the great forests of pine in the South; and
now that the end of the Southern pinery is
in sight, the movement to the forests of the
Pacific coast is under full headway. And
after that, what?”
Is it to be wondered, in the light of this
record, that lumber prices have climbed
and climbed, mounting three hundred per
cent in recent years? Is it to be wondered
that, the cost of many articles into the pro
duction of which wood largely enters, articles
of use and comfort and beauty, have reached,
or are approaching, levels disturbingly high?
The most intimate and essential needs of our
intellectual and social, as well as material
selves—needs ranging from the houses we
dwell in to the books and papers we read—
are concerned, and concerned critically.
There is but one way to relief and future
| safety; and that lies in the adoption of a
j forestry policy under which the Federal Gov
ernment and the states will work vigorously
together in conserving such timber resources
as are left and in restoring, as far is feasible,
those which have been recklessly sacrificed.
The Federal Government must take the initia
tive and must bear a large part of the respon
sibility, because the problems to be dealt with
are, in their very nature, of national char
acter and range. It is greatly to be hoped,
therefore, that the next administration,
whether Democratic or Republican, will make
this matter one of its chief concerns, and
that every state will take up its own special
forestry problems with the utmost effective
ness that an earnest purpose and scientific
direction can give.
GLAUCOMA
i By H, Addington Bruce
C. LAUCOMA is one of the most mysterious
Y as it is one of the most serious of eye
diseases. Its cause is still very much of
a puzzle to the doctors.
Indeed, it may have several causes, though
there are indications that it is usually the di
rect or indirect production of a germ infection.
Kearney notes:
“The disease is more likely to develop in
those who are thin and dyspeptic, in women
more frequently than men, and is usually asso
ciated with bronchitis, heart disease, syphilis,
influenza, gout, trigeminal neuralgia or chronic
intoxications.”
However, despite the uncertainty that exists
regarding its cause or causes, medical science
has worked out ways of dealing with glaucoma
successfully, provided it is detected and treated
in an early stage. Left untreated, it almost al
ways gives rise to a total blindness.
Public knowledge of its initial symptoms is
therefore of great importance. These vary to
some extent with the affected individual. And
in occasional cases glaucoma is marked by no
symptoms whatever for some time -after its
onset. More frequently it has distinctive signs,
which include:
Rapidly failing vision for near sight, causing
the patient to apply for stronger reading glasses
at short intervals.
Occasional attacks of a blurring of vision, so
that things seem to be seen through a thin fog
or smoke.
The seeing of rainbow-colored haloes about
a gas jet or other light at which one happens
to gaze steadily.
Unaccountable flashes of light before the
eyes.
The occurrence of dull frontal headaches, at
tacks of nausea, and sometimes violent pain,
coming on frequently at night.
Any or all of these symptoms may occur
without necessarily indicating a developing
glaucoma. It is important to emphasize this,
so that people to whom they do occur will not
be needlessly alarmed.
But since their occurrence may men glau
coma, and since glaucoma is not a disease to
be trifled with, persons to whom they occur
should at once consult an experienced oculist.
Their family physcian will gladly recommend a
good man.
Going to the oculist promptly, they may
find it possible to have their eyesight saved—
if the symptoms in their case are actually
symptoms of glaucoma—by a comparatively
simple eyedrop treatment and the use of hot
compresses. Or if it is found that the disease
has progressed too far for such treatment to
avail much, there will still be a good chance
of preserving vision through a surgical opera
tion. .
The effect of this is to reduce the exceeding
ly high tension within the eye, the essential
morbid condition in glaucoma, thereby reliev
ing pressure on the retina and the optic nerve.
And while vision may never again be quite nor
mal, the patient can still use his eyes as he
soon could not if stubbornly refusing operative
treatment when this is required.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspapers.)
SEES
By Dr. Frank Crane
I have written of smells and feels.
Here are some comfortable sees.
They indicate the multitudinous pleasures
of the world that throng to make daily life
sweet. They help expound the text:
The world is so full of a number of things,
I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.
There is a set of uniform books on a shelf,
standing like soldiers in line, all in green and
gold.
Here is another row of books, miscella
neous, of all sizes and shapes, like a street
crowd of ambassadors and stable boys.
A row of lead pencils, a printed page,
writing paper, white and yellow.
The stars thick in the sky, awful, majestic.
The mountain tipped with snow.
A smooth lawn, a tall tree, a bush bear
ing blooms.
A great forest, aisled and naved like a ca
thedral; a thicket, a bounding squirrel, a
greyhound running.
A horse with mane flowing, an old man
sion, a cottage neat and trim.
Rows of vegetables in a garden.
Haycocks in a field, smoke lazily rising
from a distant chimney, a fast moving train.
Clouds, as flocks of sheep, as thunderous
and black, as in long windrows, as in a
mackerel sky, and as colored at sunset.
The shadows of clouds upon the sea.
Landscape covered with snow.
Trees loaded with sleet, trees tinged with
downy green in early spring.
Sunshine, lying broad upon the lake, spark
ling upon the river, sending a long beam
through the window.
Moonlight, soft, silvered, romantic.
Shadows, lurking in corners, outlined
sharply upon white sand. The shadows upon
marble statues.
Libraries, row upon row of books. Kitch
ens, with shiny pots and pans.
A new dress, the handwriting of one we
love.
Fire in the hearth, the mp, the cozy
chair.
Candles, long rows of electric lights,
torches, bonfires, conflagrations, fireworks,
fire streaming from mill chimneys at night
in the distance.
Children playing, babies being bathed, chil
dren asleep.
Smiles, of babies, of youth, of old age, of
grim men, of pretty women.
Eyes, interested, affectionate, quizzical,
mischievous, puzzled.
A white statue in a green w r ood.
A fountain blazing, fish discerned in ?lear
water, a stony brook, a broad river, ship
ping at a wharf, a sailing vessel under full
sail, an ocean stumer, waves, surf, waterfalls,
the ocean horizon.
Birds flying, ites, airplanes.
Girls in pink, soldiers keeping step, a
crowded theater, a busy street, a church
spire, a wide porch, a skyscraper, a flag-pole.
Glass, metals, jewels, pictures, statues,
pergolas, balconies, narrow streets, vine-cov
ered walls.
And so on, and so on, and so on. 4
And best of all, the face of the one you
love best —happy.
Editorial Echoes.
The former kaiser has grown sadly ungra
matical. He signs himself “I. R.” when it
should be “I ain’t.” —Kansas City'Star.
Every little bit, added to what you’ve got
makes just a little more tax.—Columbia
(S. C.) Record.
The difference between a profession and
a job is about fifty dollars a week in favor
of the job.—New York Mail.
George Bernard Shaw announces that his
new play is to be his last. This doesn’t mean,
however, that he expects to be slain by the
critics.-!—Boston Globe.
With Governor Cox attacking the Saturday
Evening Post and the American Legion crit
icising Louis F. Post, there seems to be no
popular posts left except parcel.—lndianapo
lis News.
The appeal of the Minnesota Highway Im
provement Association is signed “Yours for
good roads. Frank X. Gravel.” We understand
the associating has the support, also, of Bill
McAdam ana Con Crete.—Chicago Tribune.
THE IMMIGRATION STREAK
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 3 o.—African
negroes made up about seven times as large
a part of the stream of immigrants that flow
ed into America during the fiscal year of 1919
as they did in 1913. Mexicans tired of revo
lution swelled the proportion of their race in
the stream to about eighteen times what it
was before the war.
These striking facts, it should be remem
bered, are based on proportional figures. The
total immigration in 1913 was over a million,
while in the fiscal year of 1919 it was only
about 140,000. In other words, we were
then receiving nearly eight times as many im
migrants as we did during 1919. But it is
the proportional change of the various races
that is significant.
Many scientists regard the question of race
as the one of paramount importance in the
effect that immigration has on the future
of the country. Politicians, on the other
hand, uniformly dodge the race issue because
of its delicacy. Only on*the Pacific coast,
where Japanese immigration has become a
burning issue, is any attempt made to face the
racial factor. It is interesting to note that
nearly as many Japanese entered the United
States in 1919 as in 1913. which means that
they were about nine times as large a per
centage of the total immigration last year as
they were before the war.
Certainly racial snobbishness is not to be
tolerated. The theory of the essential su
periority of the blonde races over the dark
ones, for example, has been vigorously up
held by some anthropologists; but it has now
fallen into disrepute. It is generally recog
nized that the dark Mediterranean people,
for example, have certain racial traits which
the blonde Nordic strain lacks. Likewise, the
usefulness of any given man to his adopted
country does not depend primarily on his
race. A negro may become a valuable citi
zen and a Swede may be a rogue. But it can
not. be denied that a thousand extra Swedes
are to be preferred to a thousand- extra
negroes. It is hard to contemplate with
equanimity a deluge of negroes, Mexicans, and
Japanese, yet that is what we have been re
ceiving during the year 1919.
The whole make-up of the immigration
stream has been radically altered. As is gen
erally well known,- American immigration
was made up for many years of Englishmen,
Welshmen, Irishmen, Germans and Scandi
navians. These immigrants made up the
America which was until 1890. Then the
South Italians and the East Europeans began
pouring in, while the influx of North and
West European races fell off.
Now all is changed. With the growth of
Japanese, negro and Mexican immigration as
new factors, the east and south European im
migration has greatly declined. The propor
tion of South Italians, for example, was only
about a tenth in 1919 what it was in 1913,
and the proportion of Hebrew, Magyar, Rus
sian, Slovak, Roumanian, Syrian and Turk-'
ish immigrants has also declined enormously.
At the same time, the proportion of English
men, Scotchmen and Frenchmen who came to
this country in 1919 each increased to about
four times r ’ at it was in 1913.
This is the encouraging feature of the im
migration outlook —that Freaichmen and
Englishmen are seeking the me of their
late allies in ever-increasing numbers.
Os course, the character of post war im
migration is still in the making. The Influx
of aliens is much greater today than it was
In 1919, threatening to reach pre-war propor
tions. Also it is different to some extent in
character. Thu the recent Polish debacle is
Jsaid to have sent a horde of Poles in this
direction, while in 1919 comparatively few
of them arrived. But the important fact is
that the character of immigration has radical
ly altered. The old Immigration problem has
become a new one. Intelligent legislation on
the subject hould be based on a complete
new survey of the facts.
A new immigration bill is undoubtedly to
be a part of the -work of congress. The house
committee on immigration has been holding
hearings out on the Pacific coast and also in
Washington. Various bills have been draft
ed, and one of them by Johnson, of California,
the chairman of the committee, will doubt
less form the basis of legislation which the
committee ,vill lay before congress.
It Is obvious of course that nothing is more
important to this country than the way in
which immigration is being regulated. The
whole eastern half of the United States is
simply a complex mass of the humanity
which we have chosen to import from abroad.
We have a republic, which is breed upon the
assumption that the individual voter has in
telligence and good judgment. The charac
ter of immigration is therefore everything. If
we admit hordes of aliens who have not the
intelligence to grasp the idea of Democracy,
and if we neglect to teach them even the lan
guage of their new country, we can scarcely
hope for that intelligent body of public opin
ion which is the only hope of success for a
democratic government.
Undoubtedly during the first 12 on 13 years
of this century we did admit a horde of aliens
who were of a low type, both racially and
culturally, and we did allow them to collect
in great masses of undiluted foreignness,
speaking foreign languages, reading foreign
papers, following foreign nistoms.
The war checked this inflow of indigestible
humanity. Now it has started again. What
are we going to do about it?
The trouble is that our immigration legis
lation, like that on so many other subjects.
Is based, not on scientific study of the facts,
but on a compromise between various con
flicting Interests. Perhaps the Intelligent
way to solve the problem would be to appoint
a commission of the highest scientific charac
ter to study the question and frame legisla
tion. We had an elaborate congressional in
vestigation of the subject once, and it reach
ed the astonishing conclusion that it did nc
matter much what type of man was admitted,
because as soon as he began to breathe the
free and puissant air of America, he became
an American, even the shape of his head
changing!
Legislation based on such conclusions as
that will not help much. Neither do the con
clusions have much to do with the legislation.
Labor wants immigration restricted, because
immigration means cheap competition for la
bor. The eastern manufacturing interests
want immigration unrestricted for the same
reason. The far west wants immigration re
stricted in any way that will keep the Orient
als out, and the west in general is in favor
of keeping America for Americans. These
various forces will fight it out again as they
have before. In the house, labor and the
west have enough influence to frame legis
lation somewhat restrictive, but in the senate
big business holds the club, and the house bill
is very likely to be “liberalized.”
At present the major problem of immigra
tion is largely obscured by the anarchist
scare. The p incipal bills now before the
committee are taken up largely with oaths
and declarations, designed to make the in
tending immigrant swear by the Bible and
the bones of his ancestors that he does not
intend to put a bomb under the attorney gen
eral, or to organize a revolution. The fact
that a man imbued with any such sinister
purpose woull probably not hesitate to per
jure himself seems not to have occurred to
the honorabl- committeemen. The anarch
ist is only one in a hundred thousand, and
” e well known needle in a haystack is not
more elusive than he. But the congressmen
at present are engaged almost exclusively in
a frenzied hunt for that needle, while the
great and important task of assorting the
human imports, and choosing irom them the
best racial and cultural elements, is almost
wholly neglected.
THURSDAY’, 4, 1920.
Around the World
Tri- Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.'
NOW IT’S THE LABELS
Having dried up beer, ale and porter,
the prohibition authorities are now set
ting out to drive the words into the ob
solete class. Commissioner of Internal
Revenue William M. Williams today
directed that these words must not be
printed on labels of cereal beverages,
even though the same are non-intoxicat
ing and within the law as to alcoholic
percentage.
Hereafter labels must contain one of
the following legends: “Alcoholic con
tent less than 1-2 of 1 per cent by vol
ume;” “Does not contain 1-2 of 1 per
cent of alcohol by volume;” “Contains no
alcohol.”
FISHERMAN’S LUCK
Ross Cooper, of Grand Detour, Hl., a
Rocky River clam fisherman, recently
found a pearl weighing thirty-six grains,
which he sold to a Chicago firm for SBSO.
In addition, he fished out three tons of
shells in a week, which he sold for S6O
a ton, so that he got $1,030 for his week’s
work.
A Polish woman soldier who took part
in driving back the Bolsheviki from
Warsaw, writing to a Polish newspaper,
says she went ten days without taking
off her clothes and that frequently the
members of her detachment went five or
six days without having opportunity to
take down their hair. During one march,
in keeping pace with the retreating Red
forces, the women were on the go four
teen hours, thirteen of which were with
out food or water.
A BIG TOOTH
A tooth of a mammoth, weighing about ten
pounds, was recently found protruding from
the bank of a creek in Arkansas. The tooth
had roots like a cottonwood tree. This is
the first mammoth’s tooth found in Arkan
sas in thirty or more years.
The mammoth was a species of elephants
which ranged over the earth when most of
what we now call the temperate zone was
covered with glaciers. The mammoth had
long white tusks and enormous teeth. The
animal was covered with a heavy, furry coat
to protect it from the cold. t
FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO RETURN
Jules J. Jusserand, French Ambassador to
the United States, will return to Washing
ton this month, the Paris Foreign Office an
nounces. He will sail November 13 on the
Lorraine.
TONSORIAL REDUCTIONS
The 25-cent haircut has reappeared
in Los Angeles.
It has been absent for some time,
while those costing 50 and 6,0 cents took
its place.
Its reappearance was noted only in
a few of those shops which had been
charging higher prices, but there it was
predicted it soon would become general
again.
With it reappeared the 15-cent shave.
FIGHTS HOME BREYV
The annual state convention of the
W. C. T. U. closed at Syracuse with reso
lusions to start a campaign to crystallize
sentiment against home brew, cider and
wine. The big increase in home manu
facture of alcoholic liquors was charac
terized as a violation of the spirit of the
law.
SOMEBODY’S MONEY
About $3,000,000 of unclaimed money,
belonging to former service men scattered
throughout the country, is being held by
the United States government. This sum
includes Liberty bonds bearing a face val
ue of $375,000 and accumulated interest
of approximately $30,000.
The bonds were subscribed while the
owners were in the service, the payment
being deducted from the monthly army
pay.
Probably the only place in the world where
geese are shod is Vilna, in Russia. The geese
are made to walk first through tar and after
ward through sand. Each goose is thus pro
vided with a durable pair of boots, and is
enabled to make the long journey to the
goose fair at Warsaw without getting sore
feet or requiring the services of a chiropo
dist.
36,622,190 METHODISTS
A census of Methodists, compiled by
Dr. H. H. Carroll, formerly of the census
bureau, for the centenary conservation
committee of the Methodist Episcopal
church, shows 36,622,190 Methodists in
the world.
CLOAK YVORTH MILLION DOLLARS
One of the treasures of the Bernice Pauahi
Bishop museum at Honolulu is a marvelous
feather cloak, the property of Kamahamaha
the Great, upon which a valuation of $1,000,-
00 0 has been placed. It is kept in a steel
vault and is exhibited only at rare intervals.
GIVES UP CROWN
The former Grand Duchess Marie Ade
laide of Luxemburg, who abdicated as
ruler of that nation last January and
was succeeded by her sister. Charlotte,
has taken the veil at a Carmelite con
vent at Modena, says a Milan dispatch
to The Times. She quit as head of the
Luxemburg government as the result of
opposition of her subjects on the grounds
that she ha I been too friendly with the
Germans during the war.
Woman Wins!
Delta County, Mich., is going to have
a woman for county treasurer —Miss Mary
McColl.
Miss McColl, a Republican, won the
nomination. She received more votes
than all her four men opponents put to
gether.
She has no opposition, as there is only
one ticket, and is therefore assured of
the office. She has been deputy treasurer
for twelve years. Election to her means
only a promotion.
Viennese “Squatters”
Squatters have taken possession of the
famous Lainz-Tiergarten, a great park on
the outskirts of Vienna, and, where once
the royal stag and wild boars fattened on
rich meadows and under splendid peaks,
huts are being erected and ground broken
for crops.
The procedure of occupation was typical
of present conditions in Austria. Some
months ago a group of men, mostly war
invalids, formally demanded this park from
the government, giving notice that if their
demands were not met within a certain pe
riod, they would take possession.
The demand was ignored by the author
ities, so a few days ago the period expired
and several hundred men marched quietly
to the entrance and demanded admission.
! DOROTHY DIX TALKS
The Woman Jury
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer. I
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, i
Ins.)
AMAN who had been arrested for -wife
beating and Was out on bail, fled the
country vzhon he found he was raying
to be tried by a jury of women.
Evidently he thought, that what they
would do to him would be something with
boiling oil in it, and without doubt his fears
were well founded. One can readily believe
that there are certain crimes, such as wife
beating, and desertion, and failure to support,
and so on, from which women have suffered
so long, in which the culprit would be given
the limit of the law, and then some, every
time by a feminine jury.
Perhaps the woman jury will break up
these misdemeanors. Surely a brutish hus
band will hardly consider that the pleasure
of blacking his wife’s eyes is worth the stiff
sentence in the workhouse that a woman
jury would Und him. Surely the man who
has the habit of fading away from home
when a new baby appears on the scene and
leaving his wtfjß to support the family, wil'
think twice and then stick to his job, if he
knows that when the long arm of the law
hauls him ba k, a feminine jury is going to
make a warning of him to other husbands
with wandering feet.
Surely the man who was born too tired
to work, and w r ho lets his wife take in wash
ing to support him, will decide that it is
better to get busy and hand over most of
his pay envelope to the “missus” than to put
up with the punishment that a woman jury
has decided fits the crime of loafing.
Os course there are those who have long
prophesied that women jurors would be over
lenient to men who were on trial, but this
undue clemencj r would never apply to the
crimes committed against the peace and hap
piness of the home. The man who sins
against that can count on getting his with
out fail when twelve good women and true
pass judgment on his delinquencies.
In all good truth, the woman jury is one
of the greatest blessings we are going to get
from the granting of suffrage to woman, and
it will make for intelligent justice in a thou
sand different ways.
It has always been absurd that, under a
system that makes the jury system the pal
ladium of our liberty, and that guarantees to
every accused individual a trial by a jury of
his peers, women have been tried by men
juries exclusively.
For no one -will contend that a man is a
woman’s peer any more than a woman is a
man’s peer. No woman understands a man,
nor can she trace his mental processes, or
divine what impulses would urge him to cer
tain courses of action. Still less can any
man read the workings of a woman’s mind,
or fathom her motives, or guess which par
ticular way the cat would jump on any given
occasion.
Doubtless men understand men. Os a
surety women understand women. They
know the grips and the passwords and the
high signs of their secret lodges, and it is
a practical impossibility for a woman to fool
another woman. She may be an artful
dodger that can pull the wool over the eyes
of the most clear-sighted men, but all her
artifices are as transparent as crystal to her
sister women.
Therefore, when the woman criminal of the
future demands a man’s jury or a woman's
jury to try her, it will settle her innocence
or guilt before ever she faces the bar o"
justice. If she is guilty she will want men
who will be swayed by her youth and good
looks, who will melt down into a sodden
mush of sentimentality under the rain of
her tears, wLo will not be able to tell whether
she is speaking the truth or perjuring her
self, and who will let any female under forty,
with a good complexion and large ox-like
eyes, and a willowy figure get away with
any crime from murder to arson.
But if the woman is innocent, she wil‘
want a woman jury who will know that she
is telling the truth, even when she a fl’
to some act that is improbable, because they
know that under the same circumstances they
would have done the same thing; more, she
will want to be tried by other women who
know that the law is an ass. and that it has
got a lot of crimes and misdemeanors in the
wrong catalogue, anyway, and they will
know how to show mercy accordingly to one
who has never been more right than when
she was wrong.
No case in which the welfare of a child
is involved should be tried without women
on the jury,’ for the instinct of the mother
heart gives to women a wisdom like unto
that of Solomon in dealing with such prob
lems.
It goes without saying that all cases In
volving romantic and sex relationship be
tween men and women should be tried by a
mixed jury. Tn that way only can we get at
the proper amount that should be fixed as
the balm for a wounded heart in a breach of
promise case, for the six lady jurors could
tell at a glance whether the fair plaintiff was
the chaser or the chasee. and they could also
diagnose with an accuracy possible to no mere
man the actual damage inflicted, on her more
or less tender affections.
And they would know, too, how to deal
with the wolves in sheep’s clothing who prey
upon silly little lambs, and what alimony to
hand out to forsaken and neglected wives
whose only crime has been in getting old and
ugly, and how to pity the poor deserted, tor
mented creatures who in a mad moment have
avenged years of wrong with a red crime.
Oh, the findings of a .woman jury will be
interesting. And just.
UNCOMMON SENSE
BY JOHN BLAKE.
Learn the Best Way to Do Your Work
Because a thing has been done a certain
way for a hundred or a thousand years does
not mean that it is necessarily the right way.
Vessels had been driven by wind power
since the days of the Phoenicians, and even
after steam was applied to navigation there
were hundreds of ship owners .who insisted
on clinging to the old-fashioned sails.
In many offices and factories you will find
the same methods employed that have been
employed for a hundred years, because these
methods brought success in the past.
But the world is moving along, and the
man who does not keep up with it might,
as well quit.
Big, modern industrial institutions keep
hundreds of men at work discovering new
methods of doing things. The result is that
they are constantly increasing their output
and lowering the costs of manufacture.
If you will find out h*** other men are
doing the same work you are doing, you
will be vastly heipea.
If you f are in a business, subscribe for and
read carefully the trade paper that deals
with your business.
Read all the modern books you can find
which deal with it.
Find out who are the best men in the
same line. Get acquainted with them if you
can. If you can’t, get acquainted with peo
ple who know them and learn what their
working methods are.
The more you know about every branch
of your business the better chance you will
have of making progress in It.
Examine your own methods of work. Com
pare them with othe’’ methods and discard
them if the other methods are better.
Do not regard your way of doing things
as best. It may be the best, but you can’t
be sure of it till you have tested all others.
(Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.)