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THE TKI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
A Long Stride Forward for
Georgia s Public Schools
ratification of the so-called “local
school tax” amendment Is a source
of rejoicing to all well-wishers of
Georgia’s educational Interests. Henceforth
every county must levy from one to five
mills, the exact rate being left for local de
termination, as a supplement to its quota of
the State school fund. Sixty-nine counties
were operating under this plan before the
adoption of the Constitutional amendment
made it obligatory upon them all; and so
marked was the advantage of those leaders
that in time their example alone doubtless
would have converted their neighbors
throughout the State. It is highly fortun
ate, however, that the question has been
submitted to the electorate once for all and
has been answ’ered with a decisive vote for
progress.
The new law strikes to the heart of a pe
culiarly important problem in that it pro
vides at least the rudiments of a fair and
efficient system of school finance. Our long
pressing need of more schools, better schools
and longer school terms and of more teach
ers and just salaries for them has pointed
always to one inexorable question—where
is the money coming from? For years Geor
gia has stood high among the States as re
j gards legislative appropriations for schools,
and evidently her allotments for that pur
pose from the central treasury are now as
urge as the tax income will allow. But r
regards local support she has lagged griev
' sly. While Western States have spent from
aven to ten dollars per o p for public
ehools, Georgia has spent little more than
>vo, notwithstanding her bountiful resources
nd keen interest in education. The trouble
’.as been, largely, that wherets most other
dates have looked chiefly to the counties
or school maintenance, ours has looked to
.ogislative appropriations. The latter have
not been a penny too much, but the contri
butions from the local areas have been far
too little. It is by increasing those contribu
te ms throughout the Commonwealth, and by
that means aloae, that we can procure the
sorely needed funds. As a step to that end
the recently ratified amendment is of fun
damental value and foretokens a new era of
progress and prosperity for the Common
wealth.
Many Influences are to be thanked for
the success of this measure after years of
effort in the shadow of hopes often deferred.
The teachers, the forward-thinking school
boards and county officials, the newspapers
and numbers of Legislative leaders have
worked earnestly in its behalf. But if there
is one above all others to whom we are in
debted he is, by common pronouncement,
Dr. M. L. Brittain. State Superintendent of
Education. His has been the great co-ordi
nating force among the hundreds of loyal
laborers in the long campaign, and his the
unshakable faith, amid all disappointments,
that at last the good cause would win. He is
to be congratulated most heartily on the
outcome.
What About the Folks?
THE dwindling of our rural population
does not disquiet Mr. Paul W. Brown,
editor of America at Work, a Mis
souri periodical, especially interested in ag
riculture and industry. From the record of
hia own State, Mr. Brown infers that while
the number of farm producers is relatively
much smaller than twenty or even ten years
ago, their aggregate output, thanks to im
proved methode and machinery, is much
greater. The census of 1900 showed that
of Missouri’s o.e hundred and fourteen
counties, twenty had fewer people than at
the beginning of the decade —and those
twenty, curiously enough, were among the
most fertile in the Commonwealth. The cen
sus of 1910 showed a like decrease in forty
one additional counties; and the condition
thus disclosed was typical, it seems, of the
chief producing States of the Central West.
But now see what occurred in the way of
output in that same region, during that same
period. “The total production of corn, wheat
and oats in Missouri for the five-year period
just before the taking of the 1900 census
was 1,087,000 bushels. For the correspond
ing period exactly ten ’years later, the pro
duction of the same grains was 1,295,000
bushels—a gain of 19 per cent: When
we turn to animal husbandry, the
record of efficiency is still more salient. Tak
-1 ing the annual average of horses, mules, beef
cattle and milk cows for the same five-year
periods, we find that it rose from 3,224,000
head to 4,427,000 head —a gain of 37 per
cent.” From these figures Mr. Brown con
cludes that the same sort of transformation
has been going forward in field and pasture
as in tactory and shop—economy of labor
and Increase of results.
Within certain limits, this argument holds
good and is reassuring. But the fact that
the gain in food production has not kept
pace with the growth in population must be
reckoned with; and also the fact that the
crowding of millions into cities, under the
strain of tense and narrow living, does not
make for physical or moral stamina. Even
if labor-saving machinery were quite capable
of solving the purely economic problems in
cident to the exodus from the farms, ma
chinery cannot reach the vaster human
problems involved.
*A house divided against itself cannot
■tand.” —Lincoln. Personally, we also like
like that saying about a government for and
by the people, from St. Luke. —Boston Tran
script.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Greek Comedy and Purpose
THERE is a touch of opera bouffe in
the spectacle of Greece, with her
democratic spirit and traditions,
taking a nineteen-year-old youth for king
hnd prolonging the royal mummeries which
must have lost their spell when Constan
tine made his inglorious exit. Him the
powers of Athens will have none of, nor
of Crown Prince George; but they solemn
ly bid his third son, Paul, to ascend the
throne, left empty by Alexander’s death.
Was not the time auspicious for putting
off this puppetry, it is asked, and for pro
claiming a Greek republic?
Evidently not, if we may judge from the
course of that liberal and sagacious lead
er, Premier Venizelos. He is by all stand
ards the greatest statesman of modern
Hellas and, in the estimate of some close
observers, the ablest in present-day Eu
rope. To his courage and wisdom Greece
owes largely her present freedom and pres
tige, her rise in less than a decade from
a third-rate to a second-rate European
Power, her vastly widened outlook upon
the Aegean and upon the world. Demo
cratic to his heart’s core and a firm be
liever in republican institutions, Venize
los might have been expected to seize the
occasion of the death of the youthful King
Alexander to bring the monarchy to an
end. But he knows Greece better than do
most of her own public men, and far bet
ter than foreign onlookers.
He knows that while the lingering mon
archy is more shadow than substance, it
serves nevertheless to keep quiet a politi
cal element that might become a storm
center were the existing form of govern
ment abolished forthwith. Being a practi
cal statesman, more interested in things
than in names and preferring results to
mere formulas, he is content to let a well
nigh meaningless monarchy stand so long
as it lends a steadying influence and
leaves him a free hand for large and ur
gent tasks. Among such tasks is that of
administering the affairs of the great ter
ritories which have been added to Greece in
consequence of the -war. “Their popula
tions,” writes a current historian, “are to
be absorbed, assimilated, educated or re
educated as Greek. There is a general feel
ing, even among the most liberal mind&d
Greeks, that the time has not yet come for
so radical a change as that from a mon
archy to a republic.”
So it comes about that amid the still
echoing thunders of crashing thrones and
despite the call of her own glorious re
publican past, Greece takes a king—a
youth not out of his 'teens; a graceful
dancer, they say; charmingly mannered, no
doubt; altogether amiable, let us hope; but
hardly a Pericles for statecraft. May His
Majesty never lack as good a counselor as
Venizelos!
President Wilson thinks that “the youth
of the land will rally to the league.” It will,
if it is made plain that Tris Speaker, Eddie
Collins and Ty Cobb are going to be promi
nent in it.—Houston Post.
We Must Endow Colleges
SO great and so sustained i the increase
in the enrollments of American col
leges and universities, that authorities
calculate there will be one million one hun
dred and thirty-eight thousand students in
two hundred and ten institutions by the
year 19 50, as against two hundred and
ninety-four thousand last term. This is reck
oned upon the assumption that the average
rate of increase during the last six years will
continue.
The Institute for Public Service, with
headquarters at New York, in commenting
upon these figures, which it compiled, asks:
“Will the money to provide education for
the increased number of students come from
taxation, endowme cs, private gifts or larger
fees? Must present universities grow, or
must more universities be built?”
Provided, somehow or other those funds
must be, if America is to wax i.. true great
ness and in prosperity worth the seeking. A
country that failed to answer the call of its
youth for education could not command suc
cess and cer inly would not deserve it. In
part the needful funds must be raised
through the medium of taxes; State univer
sities and allied institutions must look chiefly
to the public treasury for upkeep and de
velopment.
But the greater number of our colleges
and universities, having been founded by
the church or by private philanthropy, de
pend upon increased endowments and gifts
for their bility to serve the multiplying
hosts of young men and women who turn
to them for light and leading. In time, per
haps, more institutions will De needed, but
the pressing duty is to sustain and develop
those already in the field. Especially is this
true of our Southern universities and col
leges, which are ;doing noble work under the
handicap of grievously limited funds and are
finding it ever more difficult to provide for
the eager youthful thousands who knock at
their gates.
For some unknown reason in the old days,
people were always polite to a drunk man.
But now the drunk man has disappeared, and
people aren’t polite to anybody.—Kansas
City Star.
The Mayors Will Be Welco me
IT is greatly to be hoped that every chief
executive of Georgia’s towns and cities
will accept Mayor Key’s invitation to
attend the National Drainage Congress in
Atlanta on November the eleventh, and will
be accompanied by other officials and rep
resentative citizens. The matters to be dis
cussed at that great convention of scientists,
engineers, land-owners and public leaders
are of vital import to municipalities as well
as to counties and States.
There is scarce a community in Georgia,
from the largest centers of population to the
smallest village, that will not derive far
reaching benefit from the drainage of swamp
and overflow lands. Approximately eight
million acres of that nature are in the Com
monwealth. At present they are not only
unproductive, but also, in many instances,
are a menace to health; they will yield the
public treasury next to nothing in the way
of taxes, and are well-nigh worthless to their
owners. But if properly drained, they will
be valued at from fifty to two hundred dol
lars an acre, will add substantially to the
State and county revenues, will produce
bountiful harvests of food, and deepen the
prosperity of all the region about.
Such developments will redound, of
course, to the good of towns and cities, as
well as to that of rural districts. If the
eradication of malaria were the sole benefit
from drainage that of itself would repaj 7 a
thousandfold every dollar of the costs in
volved. It. is a matter of record, moreover,
that in the course of comparatively a few
years the increase in agricultural production
amounts to enough to cover those costs.
Merchants and bankers and manufacturers,
no less than farmers, share in the resultant
gains, because the richer measure of rural
prosperity leads naturally to more trade and
bigger business. Long ago far-sighted cities
came to see that the surest means to their
upbuilding lies in the development of the
outlying country’s resources.
All these considerations call to Georgia’s
mayors to join the county commissioners
and other officials in attending the National
Drainage Congress. Atlanta will welcome
them most heartily; and their visit, no doubt,
will prove highly profitable.
HEREDITY, OR—?
By H. Addington Bruce
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
EXCLAIMS a very learned savant, much
applauded exponent of the doctrines
of the eugenic fraternity who would
reform the world by scientific breeding:
“Heredity bears not only on the features,
but on the physical characteristics —the
blind, weight, tints of the skin, the eyes, the
brain, etc. It rules also the intellectual side,
the morals, morbidness, etc. —in a word, all
that constitutes individuality.”
This is sweeping enough, in all conscience.
It virtually leaves out of account the forma
tive influences of education, imitation, food,
climate, home surroundings, environment
factors in general. But can they sanely and
safely be left out of account?
Two men, father and son, appear before a
physician. The son is in middle life, the
father quite advanced in years.
Both are afflicted with a singular muscu
lar tremor. It is a slow, rhythmical, well
marked tremor, which becomes worse when
thej 7 use their hands. But tests show in
neither father nor son any specific organic
disease which might have such a tremor as
a symptom.
“Extraordinary.” murmurs the physician.
“Here is surely a case of an inherited tre
mor.”
Yet, moved by a praiseworthy spirit of
caution, he questions father and son closely.
He learns that the son has indeed inherited
something from his father—a little factory
for the making of thermometers, 'He learns
that the son has further Inherited his fa
ther’s special job—the filling of the ther
mometers with mercury.
Learning this, the physician promptly
makes a new and more hopeful diagnosis.
Instead of “inherited tremor,” he now says
“mercurial tremor,” and begins to cogitate
remedial measures.
Those high-cheeked North American sons
of European ancestors —is it inheritance that
has made them so unlike their forbears in
appearance? Have not climate and geo
graphical conditions played some part?
And what about the many “born crimi
nals” who, being placed as children in good
homes, display an amazing failure to follow
in their parents’ criminal footsteps?
Shall we say merely that in their case
‘good inherited traits” happened to be “dom
inant?” Shall we not suspect that the train
ing they received in their superior homes
was really what made them superior citi
zens?
Observe, too, that young girl who sews
with her left hand. In every other respect
she is right-handed. So, likewise, with her
grandmother, who reared the young girl.
Did the latter “inherit” her sewing left
handedness from her grandmother? Or did
she not, perchance, acquire it through the
influence of unconscious imitation?
Heredity undeniably is a potent force in
the determining of a human organism. But
let us not make the rash and terrible mis
take of crediting it wis omnipotence. That
way all real hope for human progress ends.
BETTER SPEECH
By Dr. Frank Crane
The proposition to have a “Better Speech
Week” ought to enlist our hearty co-opera
tion.
It’s the little things that count, particular
ly in the field of annoyance, and one of the
most irritating of little annoyances is sloven
ly speech.
I know of but one actress on Broadway
who can put every syllable of ordinary con
versation over to the back wall of the
theater. I would name her, only I would
get into trouble.
I went to hear an actor of great reputation
the other day. I give you my word that I
did not catch over one-third of his utterances.
I got his drift only because I am a good
guesser.
When will some one who speaks with au
thority, and not as Scribes and Pharisees or
as I, coop all the members of the theatrical
profession up in one room, and teach them
the following Truth Number One: to wit,
namely:
That the first business of an actor is to be
heard.
When folks pay money for a seat at a show
they like to know what it is all about.
Also do the above remarks apply to preach
ers, orators, and other wordsmiths.
Here follow a few words which the people
continually do mangle. Gaze upon the shot
ted field!
Artic for arctic, ast for asked, ketch for
catch, cemetary for cemetery, childern for
children, chimley for chimney, deef for
deaf, deps for depths, differnt for different,
drawr, lawr, jawr, etc., for draw, law, and
jaw, drownded for drowned, ellum for elm,
feller for fellow, generl for general, gover
ment for government, hunderd for hundred,
jewlry for jewelry, liberry and Febuary for
library and February, noon and doo for new
and due, pome for poem, acrost for across,
and so on.
Also they drop the final g, as talkin’ for
talking, they omit r where it belongs, saying
tah and forevah for tar and forever, and put
it where it does not belong, as Emmer and
; n ar.
They say Cincinnatuh and Mizzoorah, and
turh about and say Nebrasky and Arizony.
They assassinate the short i wherever they
find it, and smudge out the other beautiful
diversity of short vowels with the primeval
grunt, uh. Thus they “Latun” and “nothun,”
and “I gottuh do ut,” and “What’s up. to
yuh?”
If we have a first-class, twin six and beau
tiful language, why not speak ut?
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)
Editorial Digest
Corn and Coal
When the corn producers of the country
talk of organizing to fix the price of grain
they are told with a fatherly assumption
of superior knowledge that it can’t be done.
Perhaps it can’t. But the coal producers
encourage the farmers to think it can.
Representatives of the soft coal pro
ducers meet in Cleveland this week to
consider coal prices. Under the urgings
of the attorney general they admit that it
may be possible to make some reductions
in the price of coal. They will look into
the matter, and maybe it will be done.
Now the farmers weren’t asked whether
they could stand a cut in corn prices or
not. Conditions shifted and corn prices
just tumbled. The farmers say fifty cents
a bushel is below Cost. That makes no
difference. There is no cost-plus business
about farming. Corn just went down when
it got ready regardless of the feelings of
farmers or of the bankers who hold the
farmers’ notes.
The farmers weren’t asked whether they
wanted to do anything about it. Not being
blind, they are going to see the difference
between themselves and the coal operators,
between corn and coal. And while the coal
operators meet in a steam-heated hall to
decide the price of coal, what wonder if
the farmers get ambitious to do the same
for corn. What wonder they get to think
ing they can do it.—Lincoln (Neb.) State
Journal (Ind. Rep.).
MRS. SOLOMON SAYS:
By Helen Rowland
(Copyright, 1920, *by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Inc.)
Being the Confessions of the Seventh-
Hundredth Wife.
MY DAUGHTER, by a man’s dinner or
der shalt thou know him.
For, as a man eateth, so is he.
Verily, the greatest study of womankind is
man’s appetite; and in the restaurant, the
secrets of his soul are laid bare. Yet the
foolish continue to take counsel with a ouija
board.
I charge thee, when a man inviteth thee
forth to dine, take no heed of the things
which he saith; bu l observe warily the thingy
which he doeth. For by these signs shalt thoir
read his history, his future and his “middle
name.”
Behold, doth he lead thee to the gilded
dens of the profiteers, and seek to dazzle
thee with his lavishness and his knowledge
of cuisine? Doth he study the menu with the
savoir faire of an epicurian. selecting only
the rarest and most expensive dishes, where
of thou canst not pronounce the name? Then,
I bid thee consider him not seriously. For he
is an “impressionist,” seeking to make a
“splurge.”
So doeth he with all women. For he
doubteth not that the way to a woman’s
heart is a “buy-way!”
Doth he pass lightly over thy wishes, say
ing, “let me order for thee, little one, for I
know what shall delight thee?”
Then, I charge thee, think well before
thou weddest him! For, peradventure, he
shall dictate the color of his wife’s Hats, and
the brand of her tooth-powder, and tHe length
of her skirts, and shall choose her politics
and her thoughts, and her opinions and her
morning newspaper for her. And not even
her letters shall be sacred from him! For
he is the petty tyrant of the hearthstone, who
ruleth over a woman in all the little things
all the days of her life!
Doth he instruct the waiter concerning the
mixing of a salad and the flavoring of a
sauce? Doth he wax fussy over the dinner
card? Doth he complain of the linen and
wipe his silver upon his napkin? Doth he
“pick” at his food and test it before eating?
Then, I say beware of.him. For he is the
critic-on-the-hearth, whom no wife can suc
ceed in pleasing; and an egg which is boiled
a minute too long shall plunge him into a
brain-storm, and a cup of weak coffee shall
make of him an “early martyr.” All his days
will he snoop in the refrigerator and torment
the cook, and suggest ways of making filet
of-sole from a sardine and an old turnip; and
■the women of his house shall know no peace.
Doth he bully the waiter, and call the
head waiter into consultation, and grown at
the bill, and protest to the proprietor? Then,
beloved, cast him out of thy list forver.
For he is the little kaiser-in-the-home, and
his is the grouch that knoweth no brother!
But, if thou findest a man who doeth none
of these things; who consulteth thy wishes
and ordereth cheerfully; who eateth with rel
ish whatsoever is set before him, and payeth
h<s bill without grumbling or complaint, I
charge thee, grapple him to thine heart with
hooks of velvet!
For he, my daughter, is of the tribe called
"regular fellow.”
Surely, surely, if thou weddest him peace
and contentment shall follow thee all the
day- of thy life, and thou shalt dwell in the
house of good will forever.
For a good digestion, a good appetite and a
good temper are the rocks whereupon is
builded that blessed thing, the perfect hus
band!
Selah!
PRESS TALK IN
GEORGIA
By JACK L. PATTERSON
Os Mutual Regret
We regretted very much our inability to
meet with the editors in Atlanta last week.
But we just couldn’t get away. Judging from
the reports in the papers, the editors cut a
wide path at the fair. —Lavonia Times and
Gauge.
Your absence was a great disappointment
to the boys.
Too Much Slang '
We may be all wrong about it, of course,
but we do not like to hear young school girls
on the streets use such expressions as “I
swanne,” “O, gee,” and other such slang.—
Ocilla Star.
And how about “good night,” and other
similar substitutes for strong language?
So Have We
The Tribune has infinitely more respect for
a man who does a thing, even though he does
it wrong, than it has for the empty-headed
critic who sits around and furnishes his
opinion of how it ought to be done without
attempting to do it.—Walton Tribune.
The man who makes no mistakes never
accomplishes anything.
Marrying on a Bet
Our notion of a chap who hasn’t been
around a great deal is the Youngstown, 0.,
party who got married on a ten-dollar bet. —
John D. Spencer.
And it is a safe bet that his wife will se
cure a divorce on a flfty-dollar fee.
“Looking Down” On Others
Formerly the cotton stocking crowd looked
down on the wool stocking people. Now
the silk stocking folks look down on the cot
ton wearers. Probably soon those who wear
no stockings at all will look down on the
silk cro.wd. —Augusta Herald.
How Abowt Columbus?
We don’t wish to be disagreeable, but, just
the same, we are compelled to observe that
twenty-two hotel owners in Chicago have
agreed to cut restaurant prices from 25 to
30 per cent, while food prices in Cleveland,
(0.,) restaurants have dropped 15 per cent.—
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Comment withheld pending reports from
other Georgia cities.
It Costs Less to Die
Undertaking establishments in Greenville,
S. C., announce a reduction in prices of cof
fins, embalming and burial expenses. “With
all that,” suggests the Columbus Enquirer-
Sun, “we would advise those Greenvillians to
hold off for a still further reduction.” —Au-
gusta Chron.-le.
The above advice will doubtless be accepted
without reservations.
Raise Her Salary
The school teacher who wasn’t afraid of
dirty bills, said she knew no microbe with
any standing would attempt to live on her
salary.—Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
Nobody except a school teacher can exist
on a school teacher’s salary.
A Big Newspaper
Editor Daniel prefers to give his readers p
weekly magazine instead of broken doses in
the shape of a daily issue. The Qui mu*
Press last week had twenty pr.ges, and was
a model of newspaper arrangement, with
seven department features.—Tifton Gazette.
The Free Press is one of the biggest,
brightest and best weekly newspapers in
Georgia, of which the people of Brooks
county are showing their appreciation by their
patronage.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1020.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
France Recognizes Bolivia
The French government has decided to
recognize the provisional government of
Bolivia, which was set up after the over
throw of the administration of President Jose
Gutierrez Guerr.: last July.
Drys Spend $13,017.82
Reports of the National, committee of
the Prohibition party filed with the
clerk of the house of representatives
show receipts of $13,244.39 in tb«> par
ty’s national presidential and
expenditures of $13,017.8? dtp to Octo
ber 18.
Auto Death Toll
According to the monthly report issued
by Colonel Edward S. Cornell of the Na
tional Highways Protective society, of
New York, 173 persons were killed in
this state last month by motor vehicles.
Os this number, sixtey-seven victims
were run down in New York City. The
total number of fatalities shows an in
crease of sixty-nine over October, 1919.
Snow falls of from three inches to a foot
in South Dakota and Western Min
nesota resulted in a diminished rural vote
last Tuesday.
Enlistment Record
Adjutant General Harris’ office an
nounces that 17,625 army enlistments
accepted during October broke all peace
time records. Fifty-six ier cent of the
month’s enlistments were for the full
three year period.
The educational advantages offered
by the army on its new basis. General
Harris said, are given by nearly all the
recruits as reason for enlisting. The to
tal strength of the army is now 208,-
781 officers and men, of whom 158,466
are in the United States.
Boston Claims More
A population of 801,679 for Boston, in
stead of 747,923 as announced by federal
census takers is claimed by Mayor Pet
ers in a letter to Samuel L. Rogers, di
rector of the census, requesting that a
new federal census be, ordered here.
Frigid weather, which made it diffi
cult for canvassers to get about when the
census was taken, and a panicky feeling
Anong foreign-born people over the
search for radicals which caused them to
withhold information were among the ex
planations advanced by tLo mayor for al
leged errors in the federal enumeration,
which, he claimed, omitted 2,000 persons
in one ward and showed a decrease of
14,000 in another.
, Nobel Prizes
Dr. Jules Bordet, of Brussels, and
Professor August trough, of Copen
hagen, have, respectively, been award
ed the Nobel prizes in medical sci
ence for the years 1919 and 19 20.
The five annual Nobel prizes for
achievements in literature, medicine,
physics, chemistry and peace, are not
regularly awarded until December 10,
the birthday of the donor, Alfred Nobel,
Swedish inventor of nitro-glycerine
and dynamite. The prizes amount to
about $40,000 each, being the income
from an $8,000,000 fund.
Americans who have been honored
with the prizes in the past twenty
years are Thomas A. Edison, Elihu
Root, Theodore Roosevelt and Professor
T. W. Richards. The prize in medi
cine has never come to the United
States, although the award in 1912 to
Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller
Foundation, New York, was considered
as much an American as a French
triumph.
Chinese Bonds
The Chinese cabinet has authorized the
ministry of finance to issue bonds to the
extent of $60,000,000 to be used for retire
ment of depreciated currency of the Bank
of China and the Bank of Communications.
Since these banks were granted a morato
rium at the time of Yuan Shih-kai’s mo
narchial fiasco, the notes have been ex
changeable.
College Gets SIOO,OOO
President W. H. P. Faunce, of
Brown university, has announced that
General Rush C. Hawkins, who died
recently in New York, gave SIOO,OOO
to the Brown university endowment and
development fund, and that the money
has been paid into the treasury.
Italy’s Dead
A great national subscription is now
being made to collect together all the
bodies of Italian soldiers who died
fighting on the mountain front and are
insufficiently buried, all the bones
which are whitening on the rocky
mountain sides and to give them fitting
sepulchre on one of the highest peaks,
probably San Michele. It is proposed
that a simple, noble monument should
be erected under which will rest to
gether officers and soldiers, rich and
poor.
Raze Old Ruins
A dispatch from Granada, in Andalusa,
Spain, reports that the ancient walls, which
are older than those surrounding the old
Moorish Palace of the Alhambra, are being
destroyed with dynamite by contractors in
order to obtain stone for the roadways. A
public protest has been sent to the Minister
of Public Works.
As the town of Findlay, Ohio, was clos
ing its observance of national fire preven
tion week the city’s most disastrous fire in
four years broke out and caused $75,000
damage in a department store.
UNCOMMON SENSE
BY JOHN BLAKE.
Make Your Business Your Hobby
t is well enough to have a hobby, if
you don’t overwork it. A very eminent
lawyer made clocks in his spare time, and
got rest and recreation out of it.
Many prominent men play golf to keep
their bodies in good condition.
Fishing is a hobby that almost anyone
would indulge in if he had the time.
Amateur photography is another hobby
which fascinates many men whose business
activities lie in an entirely different direc
tion.
All these are good and useful, but they
all must be practiced sparingly.
The people who go farthest are those
who make their business or professions their
hobby—who would rather do what they do
to earn their livelihood than anything else
on earth.
These people are able to concentrate,
because the job absorbs them. If you want
to' do a thing badly enough you are not
likely to be distracted. Watch a man who is
running a race and you will find ample
proof of that.
It is certain that you will do best the
thins you want to do- You will not have
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
Marrying for a Living
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer.
a YOUNG girl who has a good job says
that a widower who is more than
x twice her age, and who has a family
of children and grandchildrar,, waats Co
marry her, and she ftslis if she shall do it
or continue to make her own living.
I JN7. astonished that 'any modern young
woman should ask such a question, or con
sider selling the birthright of freedom that
is the heritage of the girl of today for such
a mess of pottage. What, give up her free
dom for the sake of a shelter when she can
earn one for herself! What, give up her
youth to be the companion o|» crabid age,
for the sake of food when she has the jneans
of making her own bread and butter with
her own hands and brains! What, put all
love and romance out of her life for the
sake of a few clothes when she can get them
for herself by her own exertion!
What a poor bargain she would make,
even if the man could give her a palace to
live in, and nightingales’ tongues to feast
on, and clothe her in silks and satins and
hang her with diamonds! For, when all is
said, one can be as safe from the storm
under a lowly roof as a lordly one; one can
get about so much, and one can be as com
fortably clothed in a hand-me-down frock
as a Paris creation. But one has one’s
youth, and Idve time, and the glory of living
but once, and if you barter that away fool
ishly your chances for happiness are gone
forever.
Why, the one thing that every girl who
is self-supporting should thank God for on
her knees when she says her prayers at
night; the one thought that should flavor
her sandwich at lunch and make it taste
like ambrosia, is that she does not have to «
make the sacrifice of trading off her youth
for a meal ticket. She does not have to
marry for a home. She does not have to be
martyrized the balance of her life by being
married to some man who is repulsive to her
because she had to get a bill payer.
No, she is free to follow the dictates of
her heart. She does not have to sell herself
to any man for a support, for she is perfectly
well able to take care of herself, and she
can wait until the right man comes along.
And this is the first generation of women
that has ever enjoyed that privilege. Up
to now, when a girl reached a certain age,
if she had no fortune she had to take any
thing in the matrimonial line that was of
fered, because the only sort of work that
was deemed respectable for women was work
ing men. What tragedies of mismatement
there were, what blooming youth tied to
senile age, what spiritual grace condemned
to live forever with clods, what tenderness
crushed and broken by brutality, what re
volt and blind, futile hatred filled the hearts
of the women doomed to endure this earthly
purratory, we pan only Imagine.
Those days of martyrdom are over for
women now, and it seems almost incredible
that any girl should think df opening the
door back into the torture chamber, and vol
untarily taking her place on the rack. For
that is what a loveless marriage means to
my woman, and especially marriage between
a young girl and an old man.
For let no girl deceive herself by believ
ing that there is any truth in the old adage
about its being better to be an old man’s
darling than a young man’s slave. There
are. in truth, no other such grinding tyrants
on earth as the old, for age brings with it a
curious conceit that makes even a fool, if he
has lived a number of years, believe that he
is ft very Solomon for wisdom. The old al
most universally believe that their judgment
is infallible, their outlook the only point of
view, their way the only correct method of
doing things, and so the old husband forces
his wife to obey him with a rigid discipline
that no young man would think of imposing
on a woman.
And the old are selfish, grasping with
greedy hands at the life that is slipping from
them, and the young wife finds that she is
nothing but a nurse, who must spend her
days and nights ministering to an old man’s
whims and crotchets and coddling his rheu
matism. %
Every young girl who marries an old man
thinks she is going to be able to wrap him
around her finger, and that he will be so
pleased and flattered at having a pretty wife
to show off that he will trot around with
her to places of amusement, and deck her
out like a Fifth avenue show window, and
that he’ll be satisfied to stay put in the back
ground while' she flirts around, and dances
with chaps of her own age.
Alas for the foolish dream. What she
wakes up to is that grandpa, after having
trod a measure getting a young wife, retires
to the radiator, and nurses his gouty feet
of an evening, where he expects young wife
to bear him company, and listen to the thrill
ing reminiscences of what he did forty years
ago. Also grandpa, knowing in his soul that
he was married for his money, hangs on to
every cent with a death grip, and, realizing
that youth calls to youth, he does a watch
dog act that keeps every young man beyond
telephoning distance.
Perhaps there comes times when the work
ing girl gets) tired of earning her own living,
when she wearies of her job, and her pay
envelope looks pretty thin, but, believe me, •
girls, there is no work on earth so hard, no
job of which you can get eo weary, no pay
so small, as that of the woman who has mar
ried for a living. For marriage is the no
blest career on earth, or the worwt profes
sion.
And remember this: that the girl who mar
ries without love, who marries for money,
has no right to pull her skirts away from
her sister of the streets.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES ■'
A middle-aged suburbanite, overtaken on
a Saturday afternoon stroll by a young mar
ried friend who he knew was taking a mem
ory training course, inquired as to the prog
ress he was making.
“Doing fine!” was the reply. “Fill your
pipe from my pouch—l'll tell you while we
perambulate.”
But the last word was hardly uttered when
he made a right about face returned at
the double on his tracks. In the evening the
middle-aged friend called to return the pouch.
“Thanks," smiled the owner. “I suppose
you wonder why I left you so abruptly. Law
of association —worked beautifully. The word
‘tobacco,’ followed by ‘nerambulate’ reminded
me of something.”
“Important?”
“Well—yes. Don't breathe a word to the
wife. I’d left the perambulator outside the
tobacconist’s and the baby was in it!”
to drive yourself; you will not find your
self making excuses for not wanting to do
it, or procrastinating.
Even the drudgery that goes with all im
portant work will be welcome, for you will
know that this must be done In order to
get the results that you want to get.
Have all the minor hobbies you want,
but make your main and important hobby
your every day’s work.
If you do that you will soon begin to
make such progress in it that you will
have hard work getting away from it, even
to spend time on the exercise thsft you /
need to take.
(Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.)