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Two Wel come Untanghngs
RECENT outgivings at Washington
seem to indicate that the Mexican
and the Japanese problems, two vex
ing tangles in our foreign relations, are soon
to be unkotted.
The new political order south of the Rio
Grande is giving substantial evidence, not
only of its ability to govern, but also its
good will to the United States —in both of
which important particulars the regime that
it supplanted was sadly lacking. Border dis
turbances have died away to infrequent lit
tle flickers, where formerly they were so
recurrent and so serious as to threaten a
conflagration. Interior conditions also ap
pear more auspicious than anything Mexico
has known for years. Industry and com
merce are waxing vigorous; investors are
taking heart again; the mass of the people
are markedly more content; the country’s
better elements are greatly encouraged.
This, at least, is the tenor of recent and
trustworthy reports. Such developments
make it likely that Washington will recog
nize the new Mexican government, and rec
ognition in turn will reinforce the conditions
that prompt it. Her diplomatic and busi
ness relations with the United States fully
re-established, Mexico will have means of
borrowing the money so much needed to
meet her obligations and to develop her
wondrously rich resources. Thence will
come prosperity—not, as in the old days,
for a tyrannical few, but (if the new order
fulfills its evidently earnest promise) for
the rank and file who seek success with in
dustry,l honesty and intelligence. A Mexico
of that character will make an excellent
neighbor and will live honored in the family
of nations.
As to the Japanese matter, the Govern
ment at Tokyo is said to stand ready to
pledge itself, by a gentlemen’s agreement if
not hy treaty, to stop immigration from its
country to ours, upon the understanding
'hat California’s land legislation shall not
discriminate between Japanese and other
aliens. There is every reason to expect that
this issue, wide though its ramifications are,
will be settled satisfactorily to all rightful
interests, if demagogues and jingoes are
kept from intermeddling. Japan has noth
ing to gain in pressing for more than jus
tice or in antagonizing American sentiment.
Moreover, within her own Far Eastern sphere
of influence and opportunity she has enough
to preoccupy her without seeking troublous
adventures afar. In all reason, she and
America should continue in mutually profit
able commerce and generous friendship.
The untangling of these two matters will
be highly welcome, for while neither the
Mexican nor Japanese question has been
very serious, both have been irritating. And
at this dubious juncture of w-orld affairs,
the fewer irritations the better.
St. Paul as a Letter Writer
We have before us, in the incomparble
English of 1611, a collection of letters which
discuss everything of human interest from
God to overcoats, which reveal a brilliant,
passionate personality, and which have had a
prodigious effect on the development of the
Anglo-Saxon race.
Dante, Milton, Bunyan have each and all
helped to shape our conceptions of God, of
the future, of sin and salvation; but the
formative influence of Paul’s letters has been
and still is greater than that of these three
writers combined. Paul arrived exactly on
time to aid in the spread of the Christian re
ligion; for he was both a philosopher and a
man of action. He was a profound thinker
and a persuasive advocate. He was devoted
to introspection and liked to travel. His love
of metaphysics did not prevent him from
being a successful advance agent of Chris
tianity, carrying with him everywhere an ex
cellent sample of the article he wished to
distribute. His letters are full of pure and
applied religion. He deals especially with
the practical problems that confront young
students —the temptations of the mind and
the temptations of the body. He has been
well called the "college man’s apostle.”
The year of his birth is not known, but
he was probably about the same age as Jesus,
for at the stoning of Stephen, he is called a
young man. That might mean anything from
seventeen to thirty-five. The rather impor
tant role he played in persecutions would
seem to indicate manhood. On the other
hand, the fact that at the murder of Stephen
he took care of the clothes, just as small
boys today hold coats for their big brothers,
would indicate youth; and his zeal in perse
cution would harmonize with mental imma
turity. I like to think of him as younger
than Jesus, and I think of Jesus as forever
young.
Paul was born at Tarsus, in Cilicia, in
Asia Min°” T *. was a city of importance
both for its commercial industry and for
its learning. Paul has every mark of being
city bred; there is nothing provincial about
his way of thought. The union in Tarsus of
Greek culture with Yankee enterprise was
typical of Paul’s own temperament. His
father was a Jew, and belonged to the nar
rowest sect of the Pharisees, so that probably
Paul was educated as sternly and strictly as
our Puritan ancestors in New England. In
austerity and alertness, he was a combina
tion of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin
Franklin. His father was a Roman citizen:
and so Paul was a free-born Roman as well
as a Jew, a privilege which gave him a trump
card in the game of life.—From “St. Paul as
a Letter Writer,” by William Lyon Phelps:
The MacMillan company.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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“The Only Thing That Counts”
The Tri-Weekly Journal takes pleasure
in announcing a fine new serial story.
It’s title is “The Only Thing That Counts,”
and the author is Carolyn Beecher, a story
writer with a long list of successful tales
from her pen.
“The Only Thing That Counts” will begin
in the issue following the last chapter of
“Wilful Ouija.” the continued story now
appearing in the paper. “Wilful Ouija” is
now nearing its conclusion.
The new serial is entirely different from
the present one. Its scenes are laid at one
of the most picturesque places in America —
Greenwich Village, New York.
Greenwich Village is the abode, of the
young artists, novelists, sculptors, poets and
other aspirants for fame in the world of
American art and letters.
It Is an odd. unconventional, Bohemian
place, comparable only to the famous Latin
Quarter of Paris as to its life and customs.
With this bizarre, colorful, fascinating
background, “The Only Thing That Counts”
begins to weave a love mystery. A spirited
western girl, who, through a prank of fate,
knows nothing of her past, is the heroine.
She becomes a part of the gay life of
Greenwich village—and from that moment
things begin to happen in bewildering fash
ion until the tangle is unraveled at the finish.
Be sure to watch for the start of “The
Only Thing That Counts.”
The Arithm-a-Letta
Arith-a-Letta is published on the last
page of The Tri-Weekly Journal today.
This novelty is obtainable only in this
paper. It has provided w’orlds of fun and
entertainment for young and old every
where.
Simple, complete directions for askin*
questions of Arithm-a-Letta and then get
ting the answers are printed along with the
device.
The Late Election
There’s one good thing about the late elec
tion that both Dertiocrats and Republicans
will likely agree upon. u
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IT’S OVER!
When There Is No Coal
TO the average man, ‘even a hundred
years bulk as such a tremendous
passage of time that he is certain not
to be excited unduly, though he may be
interested, by the statement of Dr. Svante
Arrhenius, a writer for the Journal of the
Franklin Institute, that America’s coal sup
ply probably will be exhausted in the next two
thousand years.
The United States, it seems, is in a far
better position with regard to coal than other
nations of the world. Germany, for in
stance, will be able to meet its demand for
fuel from natural resources for only one
more thousand years, while England faces
an actual problem with little less than two
hundred years to run before its coal lands
are scraped clean.
There is a possibility, moreover, that Dr.
Arrhenius and other scientists are overesti
mating the supply. According to the latest
calculations, the geological congress which
met in Canada in 1913 and declared that six
thousand years would see America’s coal
supply used up, was some four thousand
years overshooting the mark. What esti
mates another seven years may bring forth
cut down even the Arrhenius prediction
considerably.
In any event, it is inevitable that genera
tions in the not so far distant future must
hit upon other sources of supply and per
haps ration their oal. At present the most
logical substitute for coal is “white coal;”
that is, the water power of our rivers and
streams. Scientists declare that the energy
which might be taken economically from the
waterfalls of the world would amount to
about sixty percent of the energy of the
present output of coal. At the same time,
they view pessimistically the practicability
of the universal use of heat generated from
water power, since the inaccessibility of the
falls, coupled with the cost of harnessing the
torrents, appear to make “white coal” too
scarce and expensive material to meet any
thing like the demand.
Genius and brains, however, have sur
mounted greater difficulties than these in
the past, and it is not unbelievable that the
thinkers and builders of this century and
the next will be able to turn to practical
usage of all sorts this limitless supply of
rushing water which the Creator has placed
within man’s reach.
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The Ped Cross Roll Call
TO every public spirited American the
Fourth Red Cross Roll Call, which
will be held from November 11 to
November 25, comes as a clarion summons
to give his best, in time and money and ef
fort, to the organization that is such a tre
mendous asset to the nation in peace as well
as in war.
Especially should the cause of the Red
Cross appeal to the people of the south. Gen
erosity, kindness, hospitality, warmth—
these have ever been the characteristics of
southern people. It is those characteristics
which the Red Cross typifies, it is the expres
sion of the traits that beat in kind and lov
ing hearts.
There is an additional incentive that
should enlist the support of southerners in
the Fourth Roll Call as no other people of
America. This is the fact that last year, for
every $1 contributed to the Red Cross in
the south, the Red Cross spent $1.25 in the
south. Because there were more military
posts and hospitals in the south than anv
part of the country, the Red Cross spent
more on military relief in the south. In ad
dition, the Red Cross concentrated its health
program in the south, doing more in this sec
tion in public health nursing and health ed
ucation work than it did anywhere else. The
south also had a more generous share of
Red Cross social service, compared to the
east and west.
The Fourth Roll Call gives to southern
hearts the opportunity to show their appre
ciation of this splendid Red Cross service of
the past year. More, it enables them to
finance a continuation of that service, an
enlargement that will touch many needy
communities and help many needy souls. If
any part of America rolls up a record num
ber of members for the Red Cross, it should
be the south. And surely the south will not
fail to answer this call to all that is best
in man. »
The difference between a spinstar and a
bachelor girl is that the first thinks cf mar
riage as something she has “missed” and the
second thinks of it as something she has “es
caped.”—Memphis News Scimitar.
The Bolshevist government is collapsing
again. The only rations are raw apples. In
asmuch as we paid 10 cents for the last raw
apple we had. it seems to us the Russians
are living high.—New York Mail.
IT’S OVER!
ON CATCHING COLDS
By H. Addington Bruce
A CANADIAN correspondent, a chronic
catcher of colds, suggests that at this
season of the year many people would
welcome information as to the cause of their
tendency to catch cold easily. Unfortunately,
such a tendency has numerous causes, so that
every case should be made a subject of in
dividual medical investigation. *•
Perhaps the commonest of all causes, how
ever, is the widespread practice of not mere
ly overheating the home in winter, but under
ventilating it, and giving it supply of air
that is too dry as well as too not and stale.
Failure to obtain a sufficiency of fresh air
means f a lowering of the resistivity to cold
causing germs. The breathing of air that
is too dry means an irritation of the mucous
membranes of the air passages. This is an
ideal cold-catching combination.
The obvious remedy is an improving of
the ventilation of the home, and a raising of
the humidity of the air in it. Moisture-pro
viding appliances may be attached to the
heating system, or, at less expense, a pan or
large-surfaced dish containing water for
evaporation may be placed in each room.
Other people catch cold easily not so much
because of the air conditions in their homes
as because of failure to exercise properly,
plus failure to eat properly. Undernourish
ment, like underventilation, lowers resistiv
ity to colds. So does malnourishment, due to
overeating or to eating of too rich foods.
Then there are persons who often catch
colds simply because they persist in going
outdoors dressed too lightly for winter weath
er. On the other hand, there is such a thing
as dressing too warmly, and this itself may
be productive of frequent colds. The win
ter clothing should be neither so tight nor
so heavy as to cause one to perspire when
moving about.
Or the cause of catching cold easily may
be some physical abnormality in the cold
catcher himself.
People who have chronic tonsillar or other
throat infections, who cannot breathe free
ly because of polypoid growths bone mal
formations in the nose, etc., are particularly
liable to catch cold frequently. Besides
which, as Fisher and Fisk observe:
"Such conditions not only predispose to
colds, but increase their severity and the
danger of complicating infections of the bony
cavities in the skull that communicate with
the nose.' They also increase the liability to
involvement of the middle ear and of the
mastoid cells, which are located in the skull
just behind the ear.
“The importance, therefore, of having the
nose and throat carefully examined, and of
having any ulseased condition of the mucous
membrane or any obstruction corrected, will
be apparent. All who suffer from recurrent
colds should take this precaution before win
ter sets in.”
More rarely, frequency in catching colds
may be a sign of some unsuspected organic
disorder that is markedly lowering the vi
tality. Common sense again dictates a visit
to a good medical man to make sure that
chronic cold catching is not thus co-existent
with declining health.
(Copyright, 19 20, by The Associated News
, * papers.)
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CAMP FIRE GIRLS
By Dr. Frank Crane
The Camp Fire Girls is an organization in
tended to improve the morale of girls.
The most important thing, of course, in
improving the fitness of any human being,
male or female, old or young, is outdoors,
The law’ of the Camp Fire Girls is to trav
el seven roads, which are as follows:
1. To seek beauty.
2. To give service.
3. To pursue knowledge.
4. To be trustworthy.
5. To be healthy.
6. To glorify work.
7. To be happy.
If any parents in the world ever existed
that did not want their girl to travel these
seven roads, I never met them.
Among the things that Camp Fire Girls
are supposed to do are the following, which
are good to recommend to any girls in the
world:
Cook left-over meats in four ways.
Cook for one month in a home.
Iron eight hours in two months.
Wash and wipe dishes and leave the din
ing-room in order after one meal a day for
two months.
Care for the baby for an average of one
hour a day for one month.
Cook and serve two Sunday dinners while
mother rests.
Abstain from chewinggum and from candy,
icecream sundaes, sodas, and commercially
manufactured beverages, as well as from eat
ing between meals, for two consecutive
months.
Sleep out of doors, or with wideopen win
dows, for tw’o -’onsecutive months between
October and April, inclusive.
Swim one hundred yards.
Skate twenty-five miles ‘n five days (not
necessarily consecutive).
Walk forty miles in any ten days (not
necessarily consecutive). This means tramp
ing in the country or walking to and from
school or business.
Make a bed on the ground, and sleep out
of doors on it for any five nights.
Build an open fire in wind and rain with
material found out of doors, and build a
proper bonfire. (No fire is credited until
it is properly put out.)
Take a dozen photographs; develop and
print them.
Make a set of baby clothes.
Embroider or bead a shirtwaist or dress
with original design.
Use all the attachments of a sewing ma
chine, and clean and keep it in order for
three months.
Identify and describe twenty wild flowers.
Identify eight birds by their flight.
Describe, from personal observation, the
home, appearance and habits of three wild
animals.
Save 10 per cent of your allowance for
three months.
Do not borrow money or articles of wear
ing apparel for two months.
Swat at least twenty-five flies every day
for the one month.
Do not eat meat or eggs more than once
a day.
And if you can and will do all that, you
may have a day off and steal some apples,
or something.
(Copyright, 1920. by Frank Crane)
Editorial Echoes.
It costs only eight dollars to enter the
United States, but the side shows cost some
thing terrible.—Arkansas Gazette.
Tlie campaign has been objectionable in
many respects, but there was a comparatively
small output of campaign poetry.—Birming
ham Age-Herald.
This year’s enormous crore were not pro
duced by the fellows who talked last year
about going back to the soil. —Toledo Blade.
A Bufaflo soap manufacturer was recently
attacked by a would-be assassin. It is the
characteristic ungratefulness of a Bolshevik
to bite the hand that makes his soapboxes.—
i Kansas City Star.
THE IMMIGRATION STREAK
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—While the
population has increased 10 per
cent or more during the last ten
years, the number of farms in the country
has barely increased at all—only 1.4 per cent
to be exact.
This fact, that the amount of land which
is being cultivated is not increasing as fast
as is the population, has been pointed out
before, but it is interesting to note that the
census officially confirms it, and also to note
just where the increases and decreases lie.
It also seems especially pertinent to set
forth these facts right now. Neither of the
major parties seems to be taking very much
account of them. The appointment of a “real
dirt farmer” for secretary of agriculture has
been put forward by the politicians as a rem
edy. Legislation has also been recommend
ed, and will probably be passed, allowing
farmers to organize for purposes of selling
and buying. Nothing more is heard of the
project which w r as put forward so vigorously
during the war, for the government to create
more farms out of swamps, stumplands and
deserts.
Meantime, there is every prospect that,
unless something is done, our facilities for
producing food will soon fall far below our
needs. In 1900 it was found that the num
ber of farms had increased about 10 per
cent in ten years, which probably meant that
the amount of land cultivated was increas
ing about as fast as the population. This
year the number of farms only increased
about a sixth as much as the number of peo
ple. The next census may well show a de
crease in the number of farms, unless some
thing is done in the meantime.
Why Men Won’t Farm
It has been widely stated and implied that
the reason for the dwindling number of
farms in this country and for the tendency
of the food supply not to increase as fast as
the population, is found in the unwilling
ness of the young men to go on the farms
or to stay there. This, no doubt, is the rea
son. But the implication is that they spurn
the farms, not because farming is unprofit
able, but because they prefer bright lights,
moving pictures and all the other alleged al
lurements of our great industrial cities.
Representatives of farmer organizations
say this is not so. They say that the country
is full of men who are not merely willing,
but anxious to farm, if only they can make
a good living at it. They say that this is
often impossible, except where the land is
rich, transportation facilities of the best, and
all other circumstances favorable. They say,
further, that it is very hard for the man who
wants to farm to get a farm. Farm lands
are held at very high prices in this country,
many thousand acres of them lying idle. To
buy unimproved ’and and to put it under
cultivation is simply not a paying proposi
tion, it is said, except on a large scale, and
not always then. In other words, the man
who has or can borrow a few thousand dol
lars cannot profitably invest it in farm lands,
and that is one very good if not all-sufficient
reason why the number of farms has not in
creased.
What Figures Show
This view of the matter seems to be sus
tained in away by the census figures,
show the increase or decrease in the number
of farms in each state. These figures prove
that the number of farms is decreasing in
nearly all of the northeastern states, and
in many of the southern and middle Atlan
tic states, and that it is increasing, in some
parts very rapidly, in the west.
Os course, one would expect to find the
greatest increase in the west, where there are
still public lands and relatively sparse pop
ulation. Even so, the rapid increase in the
west would certainly show that men are
willing to farm where they can get hold of
land and farm it at a profit. And the posi
tive decrease in the east would surely seem
to prove that men are being discouraged in
that section.
The western states which show an In
crease in the number of farms are Arizona,
Arkansas, California, Colorado,. Idaho, Min
nesota, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota,
Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wiscon
sin and Wyoming, that is, practically all of
the far western states except New Mexico.
Os the southern states increases are shown
by Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Tennessee and Virginia. But the increases
in these states are much smaller on an aver
age than those in, the western states.
All of the other states show decreases in
the number of farms. This means not only
that the number of farms in New England
and the northeast generally is decreasing,
but that the number of farms in the middle
west, the traditional granary of America, is
decreasing. The' west, then, is doing more
than its share to feed America. The south
is doing much,, but the average increase in
that section scarcely keeps up with the in
crease of population. The middle west and
the northeast are steadily falling behind in
food production. They are looking more
and more to the west to feed them.
The West Leads
What, then, are the conditions which have
kept the west in a state of growing agricul
tural productiveness when the rest of the
country has become decadent in that re
spect? No doubt the rich young soil ofy the
region is one reason. No doubt another rea
son is there are fewer industrial plants to
attract men to the cities.
Neither of these conditions can be arti
ficially altered, of course. The west is in
evitably the more productive part of the
country, and its prime business is food pro
duction, while the east is given more and
more to manufacture.
The rich soil and room are not the only
favorable conditions which account for the
increase in the west. In the west there are
both state and federal reclamation projects
upon which a man can get good land for
reasonable prices on long-time credit. And
state laws in the west are far more favor
able to the farmer than in most eastern
states. Those who are inclined to decry the
Non-Partisan league, which enables farmers
to own their own grain elevators and other
wise to exercise much control over the mar
keting of their products, may be the num
her of farms increased 4.5 per cent, while
in Minnesota, where it has a headquarters,
the number of farms increased 14.4 per
cent.
The northwest in general is the section of
the country where the farmers are most
progressive and most successful in getting
the legislation they w r ant and in co-operative
movements. And all of the northwestern
states show large increases in' the number
of farms. Montana leads them with an in
crease of 119 per cent. Oregon shows an
increase of 10.3 per cent and Washington
of 1 8 per cent.
A clever team driver boasted of the sure
ness of his aim with his whiplash, declaring
he could reach with his whip any object
named.
“See the top of the left ear of that horse?
I’ll reach it.”
And he did, exactly.
Next there was a dry leaf in a hedge sur
he said, and again he was successful,
rounded by green leaves. “I’ll touch that.”
Then came the stranger’s turn. “Can you
reach that hornets’ nest?” he asked.
“No. sir,” answered the team driver; “I
cannot—that hornets’ nest is not an object,
it’s an organization!”
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1920.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Cox Elected!
Governor James M. Cox, Democratic
candidate for president of the United
States, was overwhelmingly elected to that
office Tuesday, November 2—at Agnes
Scott college, Decatur, Ga. While his Re
publican opponent, Senator Harding, was
riding the crest of a tidal wave that swept
him victoriously through most of the
forty-eight, “United States,” the Demo
cratic nominee was being proclaimed the
next tenant of the White House by the
electoral college at Agnes Scott, in which
scores of maidens, representing various
wings of the dormitories, designated as
states, participated.
Ecuador Going Dry?
The Ecuadorian congress is discussing
a proposed prohibition law. While pro
hibition legislation may not be passed at
the present session, “it will be reintro
duced each successive congress until a
majority approves it,” according to a
dispatch received from Consul General
F. W. Goding at Guayaquil.
Louisiana Development
A group of capitalists and financial lead
ers, including Colonel A. C. Goodyear, of the
Goodyear Rubber company, and others, from
Buffalo, N. Y.; Baltimore, Md., and Pennsyl
vania are gathering at t’rania, La., for the
purpose of reforestation experiments which
have been carried on there for several years.
If the reports of the experts, who are in
charge of the experiments, are favorable,
immediate steps are expected to be taken
looking toward the establishment of a vast
paper-making industry in that state. Hun
dreds of thousands of acres of cut-over lands,
now lying idle, will be reforested with pulp
wood timber.
Another New Republic?
The prospect of becoming a republic
is in prospect for Holland under rec
ommendations submitted by the commis
sion appointed to revise the constitu
tion. If these recommendations are
adopted, Holland will have the chance
to decide upon doing away with royalty,
unless the little Princess Juliana, only
child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince
Consort Henry, some day gives birth to
a son by a husband whom the Dutch
parliament approves as her consort. The
princess is eleven years old.
Official returns from 674 precincts out of
1,206 in Massachusetts show the affirmative
leading in the referendum on the bill to le
galize the stale of light wines and beers. The
figures are: Y’es, 242,310; no, 232,270.
The same precincts gave Debs, Socialist
candidate for president, a vote of 18,715.
Judge Lindsey Wins
The only Democratic candidate in Den
ver county to withstand the Republican
landslide was Fudge Ben R. Lindsey, who
was elected juvenile judge over his Re
publican opponent, Charles W. Varnum.
Lindsey’s lead was 21,000.
Judge Lindsey is nationally known as a
juvenile court justice and his court has
been ueed as a model for juvenile courts
established throughout the United States.
Dr. Pottiez, the Belgian bacteriologist, has
discovered a cure for foot-and-mouth disease.
The results of recent experiments are said to
be surprising. The cure is not a serum, but
a drug.
The Women Again
Women will play a larger part in the
administration of Warren G. Harding
than ever before in American history.
. There will be a woman in his cabinet
in event the department of public wel
fare is created by congress, as recom
jnended by Harding.
Women will also be called into his
conferences on the League of Nations
question.
Cpx Will Hunt in Alabama
Governor Cox will rest from his presi
dential campaign by hunting near Tuske
gee, Ala., instead of Pasquale, Miss., as
previously planned. /
American Extravagance
• That America wasted more than seven bil
lion dollars last year in needless expenditures
was the declaration of Mrs. Samuel M. Lump
kin, national chairman of thrift for the na
tion’s women’s clubs, in making a plea for
more economy and thrift by the women of
Georgia in her address before the convention
of the State Federation of Women’s clubs in
Atlanta.
These were the so-called extravagances list
ed by Mrs. Lumpkin-
Fifty million dollars in chewing gum; one
billion .dollars in candy; eight hundred mil
lion dollars in cigarettes “for both ladies and
gentlemen,” said Mrs. Lumpkin; 350 millions
in soft drinks; 760 millions in cosmetics; 510
millions in cigars; 800 millions in snuff; 300
millions in furs; two billions for automobiles;
and one billion, 500 millions in other non
essentials.
Poet Honored
Announcement was made on the twenty
fifth anniversary of the death of Eugene
Field, the children’s poet, tTiat funds for a
Field memorial monument at Lincoln Park,
had been raised. Ever since his death Chi
cago children have been adding their pennies
to the slowly growing fund of $25,060, which
was completed bv action of the Art institute
trustees who today voted to supplement the
$9,920.25 children’s collection.
Wilhelm Pays High
The village of Doorn, Holland, now begins
to look upon the former German emperor
with less disfavor. His residence here, under
the new tax assessment levied on the exile, is
expected to increase the town’s income by
about $18,265 annually, being about 25 per
cent of the entire municipal tax receipts of
Doorn. This is the municipal share of the
anticipated revenue from taxation of' Wil
liam’s income, which the Dutch government
has estimated at the normal equivalent of
$522,606 annually.
Millions from Grapes
More than a quarter of a million i> pouring
into the village of Lodi, Cal., ever? day from
the sale of table and wine gra’Jt-s shipped
east.
When it is realized that $1,0,10.000 is col
lected here every four days from this one
source, the reason of Lodi’s present prosperity
can be seen. i
For the past month there has been on an
average of 10 0 cars per day—including box
cars—shipped from this district. It is safe
to say. that conservative estimate on the sales
of this fruit is more than $2,500 per car. At
the f. o. b. price of $2 per crate, it would
amount to $2,400, figuring on 1,200 crates to
the car. Many cars have sold away above
this figure, and quite a number have brought
from $3,000 to $4,000 in the east, with SSOO
freight charges.
Railway Deaths Drop
Fewer perro. q were killed on railroads
during 1919 than in any year since 1898
and fewer were injured in any year since
1910. A total of 6,978 persons were killed
and 149,053 injured last year, a statement
bv the Interstate Commerce commission
shows.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS V
A Few More Fig Leaves
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer.
IT is cheering news to hear that the puis
sant Federation of Women’s clubs has
turned its attention to the matter ol
dress reform, particularly as it applies tc
young girls, and has gone on record as ad
vocating the lengthening of feminine gar
ments at both ends, and adding a few mon
layers of thickness to the string of beads
that now does service for a bodice.
Heaven knows it is time that somebo.'-
called a halt on the disrobing mania that
seems to be afflicting the women of the so
called civilized world—a mania that has
nothing to recommend it because it is an af
front to both decency and art.
Conceding that morality is largely a mat
ter of geography, we must also admit that
we of the Northern Hemisphere are out ol
the latitude in which a woman can appeal
in public in a semi-nude state and still main
tain the perfect flower of her modesty. A
belle of the Zulu Islands may be able to com
bine the soul of a white dove with a grass
mat as her only costume, but that is a cli
matic achievement of which we are incap
able.
The influence of dress is more potent upon
women than all of the ten commandments
and no honest person will deny that one of
the main reasons that the young girls of to
day are bolder, and more forward than theii
mothers and grandmothers, is because they
are less clothed. For when a woman throwi
away almost all of her seven veils, she throws
away with them a lot of her reserve, modesty
and innocence.
Women not only sin against modesty, bul
they sin against art, in the uresent undress
ed fashion. We might forgive the nude ij
society if every woman were a Venus d?
Milo, and built along specifications that rav
ish the eye with their beauty.
But, alas and alack, such is far from being
the case. Clothes have been the mantle o:
charity that covered tubs of fat, and grave
yards full of bones, and none of us had ths
remotest idea of how many grotesque semi
nine forms nature had perpetrated unti
women began shearing off their frocks at ths
bottom and cutting them out at the necks.
Then what a spectacle we have beheld o
mile post ankles, and splay feet; of lon
necks and triple chins; of wish-bones and liv
ing skeletons! Surely women have broker
their mirrors and lor their sense of humor
or else they would make a frantic grab foi
the concealing, the alluring petticoat again
and the swathing chiffons that take the curss
off either flesh or thinness.
But the reform in women’s clothes is liks
all other reforms. It must start from with
in, and that is what makes it encouraging t£
hear that the Federation of Women’s clubi
has taken the matter up, for this great or
ganization can put it across if it so desires.
The trouble with the individual mother In
trying to make her daughter dress modestly
is that she runs counter to what all th<
other girls are doing, and mother’s influence
as compared to the influence of the mob, it
null and void. If all the other girls are w’ear
ing but two fig leaves, there is not a single
little Eve alive that can be induced to add
a third fig leaf to her costume.
Therefore, to get any results, mothers must
act in concert, and when the hundreds of
thousands of mothers who compose the Fed
eration of Women’s clubs put down their
broad, flat-soled, sensible, middle-aged feet
on any abuse, it i* going to be squashed as
flat as a pancake, and cease to exist.
Why, they could make red flannel fash
ionable as a ball gown and every girl crar.'y
to wear it, if they wanted to! For these
women carry around in their little handbags
the money that Keeps the retail trade going
and the minute that they say, with one voice,
that they want decent clothes for their
girls, and will buy no other, that Instant dec
signers, dressmakers, tailors and manufact
urers will get busy making up garments that
will combine beauty, style and modesty.
And Mamie, and Sadie, “and Katie will be
just as crazy about the new sensible-length
skirts, and the modest decolletes, as they are
now about the see-more garments that they
are wearing, for they will be the latest things
in the shops, and all the girls will be wear
ing them.
Women have not yet realized what a
tremendous power they hold in their hands
through being the purse bearers, for it is the
wives and mothers /ho spend the money that
the husbands and fathers earn.
It is the middle-aged women who buy ths
clothes, and furniture, who decide on what
papers and magazines shall be taken, what
books read, what places of amusement shall
be attended. Therefore, these mothers, it
they will' act In concert, can set the styles,
and make or ruin any place of business, or
amusement by giving or withholding their
patronage.
No manufacturer would put out a type of
garment they refuse to buy. No dance hall
would permit the kind of dancing that they
would not let their daughters dance. No
theater would put on plays that they would
not let their daughters see, and that they
would not see themselves. »
So after all, the whole thing is up to the
mothers. They can make the world exactly
the sort of place they want their children
to live in, for the hand that pays, rules the
world.
It is wonderful to think what the combined
mother influence might do. And terrible to
think how little it does do. Perhaps the
Fed ration of Women’s clubs is going to
mobilize this great power and put it into ac
tion. If it does, it will be the lever of Archi
medes that will left the universe and raisj
it up to higher things.
JUST BETWEEN
If there’s one thing that we women have
learned concerning politics this first year of
our general emergence into the arena, it’s
the difference between mere politicians and
statesmen. The balance is not on the side
of the former.
For we’ve learned that the politician
thinks first of self, and second, last, and al
ways of party. He is out for the “goods”
every time. If he is a Republican, a Repub
lican he votes for, regardless of any differ
ence in fitness of candidates for office. If
a Democrat, he considers it a cardinal sin
to vote for a Republican. If a Socialist, h?s
brain convolutions work in like manner. All
cultivate assiduously the plum tree, gazing
with horror and disgust at the few which
by accident or purpose fall on the other
of ths fence. !
But c-.- statesman thinks aiways of hia
country. He loves party lines,- holds to
them when uprightness will permit, but does
not magnify them beyond national or inter
national limits.- He is ready to serve hia
nation, but is not striving insistently to gain
the limelight of public interest and popular
ity. He is neither petulant, abusive, nor
one-sided in thought. He sees all, chooses
that which is best in the light of his mag
ment, and goes about to attain results. His
efforts are marked with passionate sincerity,
and although he makes errors occasionally,
they can be forgiven because of it.
Yes: we women have had great chance
to study and learn in the polineal field be
fore we have left, its quiet - eiges for the
actual battle. Some of us are going to b«»
noliticians, nevertheless. Others of us
est statesmen. Or is it stategwetnen?