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4 FHE 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 ooc Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mall —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 WJ.I Wo. 8 Mo». 6 Mob. 1 Yr. Dally and Sunday We $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 l«c TOc 2.00 4-00 ..50 Sunday 1-75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staif 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 used for addressing your paper allows 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 old as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to 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.)