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4 THE TRI WEEKLY 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 months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months ~............... 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (Bv Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) ’ W_.l »'o. 3 Mo*. « Mos. Hr. Daily and Sunday Z”e fcje $2.50 S-TOO Daily It* 70c 2.90 4.00 Sunday ‘C 30c .00 1.<5 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. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling • representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label u«ed for addressing your paper allow* the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your •Id as well as your new address. If ou a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittance! should be sent by postal order or **Address all orders and notices for this Department to 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.)