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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 "ight months SI.OO Six month* ~. -75 c Four months —5O c Subscription Prices Daffy and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wxl Mo. 3 Mo«. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday ••••••• 7c 30c .90 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 staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mat- Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label need for addressing your paper ahowa the time your aubacriptlon expires. By renewing at leaat two weeks before the date on this label, you Insure regular aervice. la 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 TRI-WEEKLY JOURN AL, Atlanta, Ga. 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. TheEditoEsDesk “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 < 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. * 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.) € ' 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?