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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postofi'ice as Mail ! Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wu.l Mo. S Mo*. C Mos. 1 Xr. Daily and Sunday 20c 60c $2.50 $5.00 ?0.50 Daily ,!6e 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday "c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 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 eraj commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label n«ed for addre»sing your paper *how* the time your subscription expires. By renewing at lea*t two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old a* well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subicrlptlona to begin with back num bers. Remittance* should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all order* and notice* for thl* Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, G*. 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.”