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The Timber Croft
IF America progresses as her needs re
quire, the time will come when she
will raise crops of timber as regularly
as she now produces corn or apples or pe
cans. Years instead of months will mark
the interval between seed-time and harvest,
and hundreds or thousands instead of scores
of acres will constitute the farm; but trees
for timber will be planted and tended with
much of the same care now given to agri
culture.
This must be done if the manifold mis
fortunes of continued forest waste and ne
glect 6 are to be escaped. For long decades
the country has been stripped of woodland
growth until now its material interests are
threatened, and in some instances are al
ready suffering. Every constructive process
in which wood is employed from the build
ing of houses to the publication of books
and newspapers, has increased in cost so
greatly that careful observers are anxiously
pondering what we shall do if the upward
trend continues —as continue it must if the
source of wood supply is not replenished.
Three-fifths of that original supply is gone,
and the remainder is being reduced at the
rate of twenty-six million cubic feet a year,
while only some six million cubic feet are
being grow r n.
This sad depletion, authorities say, “has
not resulted from the use of the forests but
from their devastation.” Further: “The ker
nel of the problem lies in the enormous
areas of forest lands which are not produc
ing the timber crops that they should. There
are three hundred and twenty-six million
acres of cut-over timber lands bearing no
saw timber. Their condition ranges from
complete devastation, through various
stages of partial re-stocking with trees of
Inferior quality, to limited areas
which are producing timber at or near their
full capacity. On eighty-one million acres
there is practically no forest growth—the
result of forest fires and of methods of cut
ting which destroy or prevent new timber
growth.” To remedy this condition and check
its ever widening stream of hurtful conse
quences, it is essential that the Federal and
State Governments .co-operate, not only in
preventing further waste through fires and
reckless cutting, but also in the basically
Important work of reforestation.
Os all parts of America none has greater
reason to be interested in this conserving
task than Georgia and her neighbor States.
The pine forests of the South have been
reduced from six hundred and fifty billion
to one hundred and thirty-nine billion board
feet. Ten years hence, at the present rate of
sonsumption, their output will be insufficient
for this region’s own needs, and the rest of
the country will be dependent on the Pa
cific coast. Here we have a problem that is
truly critical. Ten short years, and after
that the swift exhaustion of one of our fun
damental resources! Suppose it was author
itatively given out that in another decade
the South’s capacity for producing cotton
would be destroyed unless certain restora
tive steps were promptly taken. Would
thoughtful men fail to act forthwith? Would
any State fall to enact needful legislation
or to co-operate full-heartedly with the
Federal Government? Well, the forestry sit
uation today is hardly less imperative in its
demands for vigorous action. The prosper
ity of all industry and all business is in
volved, and vitally so. Competent students
of the matter are prepared with a remedial
program. Let Congress and the Legislatures
lose no time in making possible its execu
tion.
A World Hint to Georgia
THE news that the world’s total cereal
production during the last fully re
ported year was appreciably less than
prior to the war is a good general reason
for liberal planting of grain this aiFumn
In the case of the South, moreover, there is
a particular incentive. Whatever the for
tunes of cotton next season, it is certain that
if the grower is dependent upon that sole
crop for settling accounts and meeting the
winter’s needs, he will be disadvan
taged. But if he produces enough foodstuffs
to fortify him against want, he will be in
a position to await favorable developments,
should the cotton market be down, or to
reap the largest possible net profits, should
it ne up
Tais truth is ao obvious, so old, so un
■sensational that, like truth in general, its
full import is rarely recognized and still more
rarely acted upon. Divers plans of relief
for cotton emergencies have been proposed,
some of which are distinctly worth while.
But If it is permanent and fundamental
rather than transient and superficial means
that we are looking for, we cannot pause
short of a complete agricultural readjust
ment that will make the South at least self
sustaining in food needments and leave cot
ton a surplus money crop.
Cheering progress this edd has
been made in recent years, and a propor
tionate deepening of Southern prosperity
has resulted. But there is sti” much M be
done before this region’s independence ><• se
cure and the development of Bs wondrous!?
varied farm resources gets fully under way.
As a leader in agricultural progress and sta
bility Georgia should act upon th" *->ken
of the times and plant wheat, abundantly
while the season is apt.
THE ATLANTA TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Folly in the Hall of Fame
YX yHEN it comes to the decisions of the
• yy electors of the New York Univer
sity Hall of Fame most of the im
mortals probably agree, if ever they give an
earthward glance to such drolleries, that it
is better to be rejected than chosen. Who,
would you guess, are among the latest of
the illustrious not to be admitted past those
portals where sit the solemn electors dis
pensing fame pretty much as Salvation
Army lassies distribute doughnuts? “Uncle
Remus,” Walt Whitman, James A. McNeil
Whistler, Joseph Jefferson, Samuel Adams,
John Paul Jones and William Penn.
The outlooming name amongst the chosen
is “Mark Twain,” who assuredly deserves an
elysium with the rarest of American spirits.
But with what a grimace must he, keen-eyed
and laughter-loving soul, suffer himself to
be pedestalled by them who cannot see their
country’s romantic first admiral or her most
charming and altogether greatest teller of
folk tales? It was well to admit Saint Gau
dens, as the elector did. but it was egre
giously stupid to leave Whistler out. And
how in the name of truth did they come to
enshrine William Thomas Green Morton as
the discoverer of the anaesthetic quality of
ether?
By all means give Morton his due; he - did
much to bring about the general use of ether
for surgical operations, and it may be that
he lighted upon that divine Lethe, just as
the English physician. Dr. C. T. Jackson, is
said to have done, through experimentation
quite independent of its first discoverer. Far
be it from us to reopen an outworn and
now useless debate, but we cannot forbear
quoting a paragraph from that impartial au
thority, the New International Encyclope
dia:
Long experimented upon himself, and in
American surgeon, probably the first to
use ether anaesthesia in surgery. He
was born in Danielsville, . Georgia, was
graduated from Franklin College, Penn
sylvania, in 1835, and from the medical
department of the University of Penn
sylvania in 1839. Havihg learned from
from a pupil, Wiltshire, of the insensi
bility produced in apothecaries’ clerks
by inhaling ether vapor for-amusement,
Long experimented upon himself and in
March, 1842, administered ether to
James Venable, and during the patient’s
unconsciousness excised a tumor from
his neck. In the same year, and in 1845,
Long operated upon three other patients
under ether, but did not report his cases
or publish his observations. The knowl
edge of his operations did not spread
beyond his own locality. In 1846
(some four years after Long’s decisive
experiment, it will be observed) Mor
ton\at Jackson’s suggestion, made his
first public demonstration and pub
lished his repeated successes to the
w’orld. In 1902 the Georgia Medical As
sociation began to collect funds with
which to erect a statue of Long in the
Capitol at Washington, as the “discover
er of Anaesthesia.”
Surely, this is the irreducible minimum of
fact and of fair play to an American whom
mankind is forever indebted. Had the elec
tors of the Hall of Fame looked duly into
the matter they hardly would have rejected
the Columbus of the blessed discovery to
crown its Amerigo Vespucci. But after all,
it is as Milton says,
“Fame si no plant that grows on mortal soil,
Nor in the glistering foil
Set off the world, nor in broad rumor lies.
But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes
And perfect witness of all-judging Jove;
As he pronounces lastly on each dOpd,
Os so much fame in heaven exepct thy meed.”
Brighter Shies for Austria
PITY for Austria as the victimized maid
of her Prussian mistress’ adventure has
been so widely voiced and, in the
main, so deserved that it is good to hear a
sanguine account of her present condition
and prospect. Writing in the Revue Des
Deux Mondes, former President Poincare ob
serves that the new Austria holds a highly
advantageous position for international com
merce, being “on the road from Germany
and Czecho-Slovakia to the Mediterranean
and the Adriatic, and also on the rqp.d from
Western Europe to Constantinople and Asia
Minor.” Thus situated, why should she not
develop into one of the world’s great mar
kets? Moreover, argues M. Poincare, she is
peculiarly rich in natural treasure.
The Austrian Alps are much more
thickly wooded than the Central or West
ern Alps. Forests cover 40 per cent of
the surface of the new Austria. Part of
the wood harvested is needed for local
industries; another part is required for
heating; but there is a surplus for ex
port of at least two million cubic meters
a year. (Over 550,000 cords.) The wa
terfalls are numerous, and as a member
of the Austrian parliament, Herr Golde
mung, said, on April 30, the utilization
of hydraulic power is one of Austria’s
great future resources. The National
Assembly, in fact, has voted the electri
fication of several railway lines, repre
senting a total of more than 400 miles.
The steel industry is flourishing. There
is abundant iron ore in the Erzberg, at
Graz, at Eisenerz, and there is rock-salt
at Salzberg, at Salzhammergut and in
the Tyrol. Add to this the spinning
mills, glass factories, tanneries, chemi
cal factories, flour mills, breweries, fur
niture factories, and manufactories of
luxury-articles, some w’iW’ r ; val
those of Paris. You will conclude that
Austria is not dead, provided she will
take the trouble to live.”
It is to be hoped that every nation of war
broken Europe, Germany included, will find
the way speedily back to prosperity, for
there can be no secure wellbeing in the world
so long as any group of its people is left to
misfortune and distress. For Austria the wish
is particularly keen because not even at the
height of war passion did she lose that pe
culiar grace which flowers in Vienna. Mis
led and wrong-willed as she was, she sang
no song of hate, vandalized no shrine of
beauty; and grievous though her fault, has
not her cup of suffering flowed full?
EDITORIAL ECHOES
When a man accepts a five-cent cigar from
a friend, the friend should do the thanking.—
Toledo Blade.
It is, of course, now in order, whatever
happens, to blame it on the women.—Johns
town Democrat.
There is a Kansan who is a pastor, an ed
itor and a lawyer. We suppose he preaches
as an antidote to the practice of his two
other professions—Greenville (S. C.) Pied
mont.
Premier Lloyd George will soon have
enough “feathers in his cap” for an Easter
millinery opening.—Vancouver Province.
Woman suffrage necessitates the revision
of another popular old saying. Nowadays “a
miss is p. 3 good as a male.” —Des Moines
Registe •,
All reports indicate that when Mr. Cool
idge hear'! the news he placed a strong curb
upon his natural!.• excitable and enthusiastic
inature. —New York Evening Post.
GRAVES’ DISEASE
By H. Addington Bruce
GRAVES’S DISEASE, so called, is what is
otherwise known to the medical
world as exophthalmic goitre. It derives
its special name from that of the physician who
described it in some medical lectures in 1835.
And, long though it has been known, it still
is much of a puzzle. Often its diagnosis is dif
ficult because its typical symptoms—swelling of
the thyroid gland and a curious protruding of
the eyes—may not be noticeably present.
But other symptoms go with it —a fine tre
mor of the hands, markedly rapid pulse, ab
normal energy, and nervous tension. So that
even though the thyroid may not be appreciably
swollen or the eyes protruding, as Morsman
remarks:
“One should always be suspicious of the
thyroid in a patient whose heart beats persist
ently 90 or more times a minute.”
To be sure, excessive use of alcohol or to
bacco may cause tachycardia—chronic fust pulse
—and the possibility of these factors must be
eliminated in diagnosis. With them eliminated,
and with no definite cause for tremer or nerv
ous tension found on a medical examination, ex
cessive functioning of the thyroid, or Graves’s
disease, should at once be taken into account.
Its cause or causes are as obscure as the
diagnosis often is puzzling.. Some authorities
are nowadays inclined to emphasize the part
played by “focal infections” of the teeth, ton
sils, etc. Others emphasize wholly psychic
causes.
Nor can there be any doubt that worry and
fear often are responsible for Graves’s disease
—the facial expression of a typical victim is in
deed that of a person overborne by terror. But
the disease may occur without any such excitant
as worry or fear. In fact, as Cabot frankly
says:
“Most cases have no terror as their cause,
and as to their real cause we are entirely in
ignorance.”
Treatment, of course, aims at reducing the
activity of the thyroid gland. This in many
cases may be achieved by putting the patient
on a strict rest cure in bed for two or three
months. X-.ray treatment is found helpful in
many other cases. So is surgical intervention.
When the surgeon intervenes he does so in
one of two ways. Either he removes part of the
thyroid, or he blocks some of the blood ves
sels supplying it. This imposes on the thy
roid, so to speak, a semirstarvation, and
naturally its tendency then is to function less
vigorously.
Graves’s disease, for the matter of that, may
get better of its own accord, no treatment what
ever being given. But it may become progres
sively worse, so that treatment of some sort al
ways is logically indicated —treatment first by
rest, then, if necessary, by the X-rays, and by
surgery as a last and often most successful
resort.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspapers.)
BOOKS I HAVE MET
By Dr. Frank Crane
Recently 1 have met three real books.
To meet real book is as much an event and
a thrill as to meet a real man, perhaps even a
real woman.
Books roar from the presses of the modern
world like the waters that come down at Lo
dore.
No human being can keep track of the wild
and boundless waste of literature spread all
about us.
If one even followed the Times Book Review
he would have time for nothing else. To be
“well read,” as the smart book reviewers seem
to suppose their readers all want to pretend
to be, a man would have to give up his busi
ness and a woman would be compelled to re
nounce the world, take the veil and enter a
library.
Os the sixty new books on my “new books”
shelves in front of me there are fifty-seven
variety of trash.
But I have met three volumes that were
worth almost drowning for.
First: That book on “The World’s Food Re
sources,” by Smith of Columbia, which 1 spoke
of some time ago.
Second: The thin fortnightly luridly bound
parts, recently sent over from England, of
what is going to be the smashing literary event
of the year, H. Gfl Wells’ “Outlines of His
tory.”
Wells, to my mind, is king of modern
writers. He is not a smart Aleck like G. B.
Shaw, a sleight of hand performer like Ches
terton, a wonderful story teller lost on the
Road to Endor like Conan Doyle, an amazing
phrase maker like Kipling.
He differs from all these in that he has
something to say, something of importance
which the world ought to he.ar. He has a mes
sage. He is a preacher. As Dante and Victor
Hugo were preachers, and R. L. Stevenson.
Some time later I hope to review this history
at length. But —just think of one thing—a his
tory of man, beginning with the Pithecan
thropus or Ape Man and ending with the
League of Nations!
Third: Edwin E. Slosson’s “Creative Chem
istry.”
When 1 got away into this book 1 almost
wept for self-pity. To 1 had never had a
chance to read such a book when a boy!
And I wanted to shout. To think of the luck
of the present generation of boys who have
such a book.
The book is tremendous. It is an epoch.
It is knowledge made beautiful, facts trans
formed to fairies.
The reason is easy to see. Slosson has
imagination. Hence he does not stupidly write
what he knows his reader cannot grasp, as do
most authors of scientific books.
It is a book to own, to mark, to read aloud
to the family.
1 am getting along, hence harder and harder
to please. But thankful 1 am that 1 can still
burst into flame at such as these three booos.
Would that they were spread abroad, and
studied of young writers, that they might see
that to write greatly it is not necessary to wal
low in cheap morbidities, nor crack smarty
quips, nor be nasty, nor this, nor that, but only
to have that gift of God which comes to few,
that Ithuriel’s wand that makes a miracle of
the commonplace, that secret of all real letters—
Creative Imagination.
(Coypright 1920, by Frank Crane.)
PRESS TALK IN
GEORGIA
By JACK L. PATTERSON
He Will Take His Own Seat
The Greensboro Herald-Journal is betting
a ginger cake against a quart of persimmon
beer that Tom Watson will not take his seat
in the senate. We’ll go one better and wager
a hand-painted China vase against a home
made Duroc-Jersey sweater that he won’t
either—he’ll take Senator Smith’s seat, how
ever.—Dublin Courier-Herald.
Senator Watson will take “his own seat.”
Senator Smith will have no seat after March
4th and Senator Watson will have to line up
with the occupants of “section W.”
Telephone Girls in Demand
Telephone authorities say it costs SI,OOO
to produce an efficient hello girl. And then
she is likely to win a husband the first day
she gets into active service and all her
“learning’s” for nothing—so far as the com
pany and the public are concerned. —Savan-
nah Press.
Oh, well, we are for the “hello” girls no
matter what she costs, and against automatic
devices that can’t fuss back at an impatient
guy like “Old Bill” Keeler.
DEADLY DUST
i
By Frederic J. Haskin
i :
TTT ASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 6. Dust
yy explosions from a bewildering va
riety of causes and almost all sorts
of dust continue to worry manufacturers and
the government. Since the method of col
lecting dust in factories, supposedly a real
safeguard, caused an explosion, chemists in
government and private laboratories are
hunting more anxiously than ever for solu
tions to the dust danger.
It has for some years been understood that
grain dust suspended in sufficient quantities
in the atmosphere might cause an explosion
if a match were lighted or a spark of elec
tricity released. Lately, however, dust from
sugar, chocolate, rubber fertilizer, starch,
paper, and other materials has proved ex
losive. A campai-n again, t carelessness in
dusty grain elevators and flour mills has cut
down the number of accidents there, but at
a recent conference on dust explosions it was
shown that in the 12 months preceding there
had been at least seven serious explosions in
other kinds of factories, in which at least 80
people were killed, and $7,000,000 worth of
property destroyed.
The bureau of chemistry in the depart
ment of agriculture says that it ‘receives
many samples of dust from manufacturers
who want to know if the particular kind of
dust set loose in their plants is dangerous.
The prevailing tendency is for the factory
owner to think that his plant is -immune, but
so far tests have shown that every kind
of dust submitted, except inert dust—that is,
nely ground lime or rock —will explode if
ufficiently concentrated, and ignited. The
reason for this is simply explained by the
bureau of chemistry as follows:
“We might trjtw-for some time to burn a
block of wood with a lighted match. If we
take a knife nd chip the block the shavings
will ignite more quickly. We might make
excelsior and find it would ignite still more
rapidly, and then continue by gradual reduc
tion to a degree of fineness until dust is pro
duced, when it is found that the mass will
burn rapidly when in suspension and dif
fused in the air. The rate of burning is so
apid that a violent explosion may result.”
In short, anything that will burn as a solid
material will burn when reduced to the form
of powder or dust. There is no way entirely
to eliminate this dust from a product, and
scientific test- have show;- that a very small
amount suspended in the air is sufficient to
start an explosion if brought into contact
with fire.
The main safeguards so far proposed are
to have dust collected by special apparatus,
and to keep it from .filing up where it can
serve as a fuse. Special window construction
for factories is suggested by one engineer to
allow the plant to be regularly flooded with
air in order to remove dust and freshen the
atmosphere. Workmen and managers are
being gradually taught to safeguard their
own lives by observing precautions. Once
it was a common thing for a workman in a
flour mill to carry a lighted match into a
dim and dusty flour bin. When an explosion
occurred, it was attributed to spontaneous
combustion, and not to the fact of flame
and dust being brought together. Now, fac
tory workers are learning never to smoke or
carry matches about a plant, to keep dr 1
from accumulating on beams, machines, pul
leys, and floors, and never to use an open
flame in a dusty place.
Even in factories where smoking is abso
lutely forbidden as a fire prevention measure,
an open flame, such as an acetylene torch, is
used without thought of danger. How ex
tremely hazardous this is the government ex
plosion experts have difficulty in proving to
workers. But the soundness of their argu
ments and warnings was plainly demonstrat
ed last fall when an explosion occurred in a
mill due to dust being ignited by the intense
heat from an acetylene torch.
So slight a cause as dust collected on an
electric light bulb may start a fire, and then
an explosion, if the heat from the bulb ig
nites the dust, and the globe breaks. This
has happened, and it set the electric light
companies to work devising safety globes
for dusty factories. Experiments testing the
safety of electric light fixtures are still being
conducted. A vapor-proof bulb with an un
breakable metal guard is being installed in
many factories as a precaution against the
danger from broken bulbs.
Some investigations are still forward
in the government, though the bureau of
chemistry has no longer any funds to con
tinue its work in this field. Dr. Alsberg.
chief of the bureau, said at the recent con
ference that ia spite of lack of funds his bu
reau would not give up the work entirely.
“We always have a little money that we can
squeeze out here or there,” he concluded,
“but about the best that we can hope during
the next year is to keep the work alive and
do some of the fundamental research that
has to be done, so that if we are ever able
to take it up again we will not have!
marked time.”
The campaign waged by the bureau of j
hemistry, together with the grain corpora-1
ion, has brought about greater concern on j
the part of tht manufacturers, but explosions |
still occur. Since last autumn there have,
been several flour mill explosions, one with 1
$ 125,000 property loss, a grain elevator ex
plosion -with 14 men killed, and another with
hree men injured. Four firemen, fighting a
blaze in a spice mill were killed last winter
when spice dus exploded from the fire, and
3 other firemen were injured.
Six Girls Killed
Most terrible of all was the aluminum dust
xplosion which several months ago killed six
girls in the polishing room of an aluminum
products factory, and burned five others so
terribly that they will be scarred and injured
for life. This accident seemed all the more
a disaster because it was started by a piece
of wire becoming tangled in the machinery
for disposing of the dust from the polishing.
A spark was struck and the dust ignited,
causing a terrible explosion. Because of
this accident, several improvements in the
dust-collecting systems were suggested.
The country in general was first aroused
to the havoc a little dust maj cause back
in 1917. An elevator blew up, just after the
United States entered the war, and enough
grain was destroyed by that one explosion
to have furr ished bread for a year for an
army of 200,000 men.
Before that, the wheat farmers of the
northwest had felt the destructive force of
dust in eonnectio. with threshing. The
wheat smut which for the last 20 years has
cut down our wheat crops was largely re
sponsible for the outdoor wheat explosions.
It is estimated that there are 240,000,000
tiny spores of the smut in one head of smut
ted wheat. Sometimes infected wheat is 70
per cent or "en more smutted; oftener the
amount is much less, but still, enough for a
cloud of fine dark smut blown about in the
threshing to catch a spark of static electric
ity in the machinery and produce an ex-i
plosion.
When the cause of the frequent explosions I
began to be understood attempts were made I
to ground the threshing machines with wires I
to prevent static electricity. Then a fan '
was devised to blow or suck the ctust away ;
from the engine. The department of agri- ■
culture says that it has never heard of any ;
serious explosion occurring v.here one of!
these fans was properly installed, and that !
the insurance companies, which for a time;
refused to insure threshing machines at all.
have reduced the premium on machines ;
equipped with fan apparatus approved by
the government. »
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1920.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Dies When Plane Hits Mountain
John P. Woodward, air mail pilot whose
body was found last week in the wreck
of his plane near Laramie, Wyo., met his
death through flying into a mountain side
in a dense fog, says a report received by
the postoffice department.
The Salt Lake,landing field reported
that a weather bureau warning of a fog
was received a few minutes after Wood
ward left the field en route to Cheyenne.
Woodward’s home was in Mitchell, lowa.
Foreign Service Popular
Service in the American army of oc
cupation is popular with young Ameri
cans, the army recruiting service finds
in checking up its November i records.
There were 25 6 vacancies in the forces
in Germany for which recruits w-ere ac
i cepted on that date, and Adjutant Gen
| eral Harris’ office sent out telegrams
; discontinuing the opportunity six hours
after the day began only to find that
428 men had completed their enlistment
for the regiments overseas.
Virgin Land
President Herrera, of Guatemala, has un
dertaken to interest foreign capital in the
development of some 15,000 square miles of
unexploited territory in Guatemala which
still awaits the hand of the pioneer and the
invader to transform it into productive fields.
As the first step he has created a new De
partment of Agriculture with a Minister in
his Cabinet and has appointed as head of this
department Antonio Bouscayol.
Still Alive’
Reports from the Cork jail describe the
condition of the nine remaining Irish hun
ger strikers there as precarious. Although
they have passed the ninetieth day of their
strike, the emaciated prisoners were declared
to be still determined to refuse food.
There were originally eleven of the Cork
hunger strikers, but one of them, Michael
Fitzgerald, died October 17, and another, Jo
seph Murphy, on October 25, within a few
hours of the death of Lord Mayor MacSwiney,
of Cork, in Brixton prison on the seventy
third day of his hunger strike.
1 Less in Alaska
Alaska’s population is 54,718, a de
crease of 14.9 per cent in the last dec
ide, according to an announcement made
by W. T. Lopp, who, as superintendent
of the Alaska district of the United
States bureau of education, had charge
of the census in the northern territory.
Ten years ago the population was 64,-
366. This year there are 29,210 white
residents and 25,508 natives.
Mexico Behaves
An announcement issued by the Mexi
can embassy at Washington said that the
twenty-four-hour period of October 29-30
was a “crimeless day” in the Mexican cap
ital. Although Mexico City has more than
a million inhabitants, the statement said,
not a crime was committed nor a single
arrest made for an infraction of the law.”
Rockefeller Gift
The Rockefeller foundation has announced
a gift to the state of Louisiana of the 85,-
000-acre Grand Chenier Wild Life refuge,
purchased from individual holders In 1914
and since under supervision of the Louisiana
department of conservation.
The tract in Cameron and Vermillion par
ishes, Louisiana, was bought as a contribu
tion to the country’s wild life preservation.
In presenting it to the state, the foundation
divested itself of any interest in it, but stip
ulated certain conditions to guarantee its ef
fective maintenance as a perpetual wild life
preserve. Louisiana accepted.
Prohibition Did It
The famous Bowery Mission, which
for 41 years has cared for the flotsam
and jetsam of humanity on new York’s
lower East Side, announces that owing to
prohibition its activities have been limit
ed and henceforth it would endeavor to
help Americanize the city’s immense for
eign population.
“With the passing awaj' or so many
saloons,” the announcement said, “and
with the ultimate destruction of the
liquor traffic clearly in sight, this no
torious thoroughfare has taken on utter
ly changed conditions.”
The work of Americanization will be
undertaken primarily through the chil
dren of foreigners.
No Arkansas Session
Governor Brough has declined to call a
special session of the Arkansas legislature,
requested by J. S. Wannamaker, president of
the American Cotton association, to consider
legislation proposed to relieve the situation
brought about by the present low price of cot
ton.
Governor Brough, in a telegram to Mr. ;
Wannamaker .advised him that the legisla
ture would meet in regular session in January
and" suggested that he submit the recommen- !
dations of the cotton association to the gov
ernor-elect, T. C. Mcßae.
Bolivia Quiet
All person who recently fled from Bolivia
following the revolution in that country have
been given pe fission to return and take
part in the impending elections, which will
be held November 15. Recent reports of
a new revolution in that country are de
clared “absolutely false” by the Bolivian min
ister here. He declares the Bolivian gov
erment has not ordered the execution of any
one and that only four army officers are
under arrest, being detained as a precaution- :
ary measure.
Japs Quarantine Fruit
Fruit growers in the United States and
Canada will he affected by a new Japanese
quarantine regulation prohibiting the im
portation of apples, apricots, pears, peaches,
plums, quinces and walnuts, because the
coddling moth had been discovered in a ship
ment of apples. The Japanese department
of agriculture says that this month, which is
causing annual losses amounting to millions
of dollars, is unknown in Japan. The Im-1
portation of grapes, oranges, lemons and I
other citrus fruit is permitted, but cucumbers. I
tomatoes and string beans fror Hawaii and j
China are barred on account of the melon j
fly. These vegetables now are produced in
Hokkaido in sufficient quantities for do-’
mestic demands.
n . I
Paris Tourists
The enthusiastically predicted 1.000,- j
000 American tourists did not come to ;
France this year, but the hotel keepers. .
their association officials say, are sat
isfied.
Instead, there were on record 200.000 ,
police permits issued to tourists intend
ing to remain more than fifteen days.
Among the.e South America sent the
greater number, with the United States
a good second and other countries trail
ing. f
One ill-wind that blew well in France
was the high exchange rate of the Swiss •
franc, so .hat travelers gave the pref
erence to this country, where their
money went about twice as far as iu the ?
Alps. r
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
And Also Intelligence
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer..
_ 1
I have received a letter from a man who
says:
“In your matrimonial articles you say
much about tidiness, good humor, good
housekeeping, etc., etc., as the requisite es
sentials of a good wife. All good points, and
very true, but an excellent servant can have
all of these qualifications and yet not qualify
for-a, good wife. You have missed the maiu
■ point. ‘Man livetl not bread alone.’
addition to all creature comforts, we men re
quire one overpowering essential, and that is
education and intelligence—the ability co un
derstand and appreciate the finer thing*
“For generations women have been taught
to pander to the physical side of men to the
exclusion of the mental. This is a mistake
that has been responsible for 90 per cent
of the failures of marriage, and it will con
tinue to be the cause of the break up of
homes in the future, unless writers of your
type take the matter in hand. Have you
ever stopped to think that men’s clubs are the
result of the lack of mental understanding
at home?
“Most men flock to clubs for interchange
* of mental ideas: something they cannot get
1 at home for the simple reason that their
1 women are far behind tkem in mental cult
-5 ure. When women are well read and have
• opinions on topics of the day, opinions that
■ are based on intelligence and not on pre
‘ judice, they will have no trouble in finding
’ the proper husband, and there will be more
home-staying husbands.”
I perfectly agree with my correspondent as
to the value of the intelligent, educated
5 woman, who is fitted to be a companion to an
- educated intelligent man, and who can serve
i him up as spicy conversation as she can a
' dinner. Also, I agree with him that the cause
I of most men wandering from their own fire
side is because they get so bored listening to
: the insane line of chatter of the ladies they
[ have picked out for life mates, that flesh and
- blood can’t stand it.
r The trouble with the situation, however,
, is that most men want one thing in a woman
. before marriage and another thing after
marriage. Or, to be exact, they want all the
charms and virtues bunched in one woman,
and as nature deals out her gifts with a
pretty impartial hand, you never find the
paragon that even the most ordinary of the
masculine species feels is his due.
A man, for instance, wants a wife who is
young and beautiful, and slim and lissome,
and highly educated, and sympathetic, and
a good cook, and a thrifty manager, and as
Sarah, Gamp said of Mrs. Harris, “There
ain’t no sich a, person.” When you find that
nature has been over generous to the out
side of a girl’- head you will find that she
has skimped on the inside furnishings.
Even the slenderness, without which a
girl’s name is Anathema now to men, is
mighty apt to let her husband in later for
doctors’ bills for aenemia and nervous pros
tration. For some inexplicable reason, the
girl who knows how to cook almost never
knows how to do her hair, ot buy a hat, and
yoii can count on the fingers of one hand all
the young women with the M. A.’s and Ph.
D.’s after their names whom you know, who
■ would even have a look in at a beauty show.
This being the case, and poor men having
to make a choice, more or less, between the
different types of women, he has made the
’ mistake of picking out a wife that was easy
on the eyes Instead of one whom it would
- be easy to live with. And not onlv the fool
ish men have mad? this mistake. Even the
wise make it. Hence the of di
vorce.
For the living picture is bound to fade in
a few years, and a man gets tired of looking
at a picture, anyway. He wants somebody to
talk to, somebody "who will understand him,
! and who can sympathize with him, somebody
who is interested in the subjects that he is
interested in, and who can wander hand in
hand with him down the pleasant pathways
of literature, and art, and music.
A man of education and intelligence must
know that he is going to want that sort of a
wife, but does he take the trouble to provide
himself with one whose mind is on a par
with his own? He does not. He marries a
fluffy ruffles without two ideas in her head
because she’s pretty. Just pretty. The girl
doesn’t fool him. She couldn’t. A woman
can camouflage good looks with clothes and
cosmetics, but she can’t imitate brains, and
give a life-like illusion of being clever and
entertaining if she is dull and stupid.
Now the country is overflowing with clev
er, educated, intelligent girls. The high
schools and colleges turn them out by the
thousands every year. And they are mostly
sitting at home of evenings reading Ibsen,
while their silly little sisters, with pretty
painted faces and a conversational repertoire
that consists of giggles and “I said,” and
“He said,” and "Ain’t it fierce,” and “It sure
was some party,” are out at parties, and
theaters, and joy riding with men who will
marry them, while the female intellectuals
| are earning their own bread and butter.
Os course there are a few men who pick
out their wives for something more than their
i looks, and these marriages are invariably
I happy marriages, for when the romance that
dailj 7 life is bound to tear to tatters, is
thrown into the discard, and when beauty
has fled, these people have still left comrade
ship, and a mutual interest in thousands of
different subjects. And they never get on
each other’s nerves because they' never bore
each other.
My correspondent is right. Most, of the
marriages that are failures go on the rocks
because the wife is not the intellectual equal
of her husband. B t it is the men who
pick out their wives. The problem is up to
them.
REFLECTIONS OF A
BACHELOR GIRL
By Helen Rowland
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syn
dicate, Inc.
THE course of true love, like a golf
course would be awfully deadly and
uninteresting, if it ever “ran smooth.”
i
A man spends his youth turning on the
i electric light of sentiment and basking in its
1 radiance —and then is shocked and astound
ed when he touches the “live wire” of love.
What every man wants is not a wife but
a miracle—a woman who knows a lot about
men—but still has all her illusions; who
“understands” him—but will still iueauu*
him; who respects him—but still “baby”
him; who adores him—but will let him
alone!
Nowadays, every sincere bachelor has to
be a skilled acrobat, in order to embrac a
pretty woman with, one arm and cling to his
freedom with the other.
When a woman cries at a wedding, her
emotions are so mixed, that she never quits
knows whether she is weeping with sympa
thy, envy, joy, regret, or foreboding.
A burnt child dreads the fire: but when he
grows up, he becomes foolish again and
rushes recklessly from “flame” to “flame.”