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THE TBI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta, Ga.
The Eternal Eve
FOR a land traditionally ruled by the
mailed fist, Germany is making re
markable progress in feminism. In
the recent elections thirty-eight women
were sent to the National Assembly, one
hundred and fifty to the provincial parlia
ment, and some fourteen hundred to muni
cipal councils. "They have taken their leg
islative duties most seriously," reports the
Journal De Genieve, of Switzerland, "and on
numerous occasions have banded together,
regardless of party, to defend woman’s
rights and obtain educational reforms." The
same observer tells a droll story of English
dames, who lately have been made eligible
to jury service. In a certain industrial
town, it seems, where a mixed jury just had
been sworn in, two workmen, with stern
ness and anxiety mingling in their looks,
strode into the courtroom and declared,
“We've just got through our day’s work,
and our wives must come nome and cook our
dinners!” Can you not imagine, betrouser
ed reader, the withering scorn with which
those jurywomen regarded their instruding
spouses? And need it be said that the
canny judge sent the latter packing with a
sharp rebuke?
Verily, the world does move. Hundreds
of petticoated office holders where but yes
terday the mor >polizing male boasted him
self a superman! And your proverbially de
mure, self-effacing ’English wife flouting her
once pampered lord from a jury box! We
doubt exceedingly that the spread of
.Oman’s suffrage will make a new heaven
nd a new earth, but it will make a new
Germany and a new Britain. Here in Ameri
a. where women always have been and al
ways will be the real sovereigns of the land,
'o appreciable change may be expected. But
ie old Germany of sabres and steins and
welling Zarathustras, can it possibly sur
ive? Or will the England of shrew-taming
etrucio ever be the same again? Only a
• ophet, and he the seventh son of a seventh
on, can look into these seeds of time and
ly just what will be the harvest. Yet,
ie guess may be ventured: institutions may
hange, customs alter, philosophies grow
ale and be forgotten, but the eternal Eve
will remain—herself.
Our Per Capita of Money
THOSE charmingly unsophisticated per
sons who, upon reading that the
country’s per capita of money is so
much at a certain time, forthwith write to
the Treasury Department for their share, w'ill
grow especially optimistic when their eyes
light upon the official November statement
of money in circulation. That generous re
port allows each of us fifty-nine dollars and
forty-eight cents, which is considerably bet
ter than a year ago, when the average was
less than fifty-five dollars.
Disappointing as it is, that those of us who
have the forty-eight cents cannot procure our
fifty-nine dollars by dropping a line to Wash
ington, nevertheless there is a certain vica
rious satisfaction in knowing that some
where in this land a-flow with opportunity’s
milk and freedom’s honey, all those dollars
jingle their mighty music. The total of
them, says the official statement, is. six bil
lion, three hundred and ninety-three mil
lion one hundred and forty thousand eight
hundred and twenty-one. A year ago there
were but five billion eight nundred and six
teen million and some nine hundred thou
sand. These figures, be it noted apply to the
money “in people’s pockets and tills.” If
that in the banks and in the Treasury is in
cluded, the total swells to approximately
eight and a quarter billion dollars.
Now, the amount of money circulating,
whether much or little, may mean divers
things. The significant aspect of the pres
ent situation is that back of the billions
which in themselves alone are but as the
“trash” of lago’s purse, lies the real and in
comparable wealth of the world's most
prosperous nation. And every American
truly shares that prosperity, whether his
monetary stake in it be fifty-nine dollars or
fifty-nine millions. We dwell amid natural
treasures, the vaster portion of which is yet
to be developed and amid opportunities as
free and plenteous as the pioneer’s.
Pan-American Friendship
IN directing Secretary Colby, of the
State Department, to visit Brazil and
Uruguay and Argentina in acknowledg
ment of recent courtesies which those na
tions have paid our own, President Wilson
is pursuing his wise policy of fostering
Pan-American friendship. “On my behalf
and in my stead,” he declares, the chief of
his Cabinet is to extent" to the people of
those countries, through their Governments,
“the most emphatic assurances of the es
teem and friendship of the peonle of the
United States, an<? q* the felt in this
country for the strengthening of every tie
that binds our respective peoples in mutual
good will and cordial intercourse.”
There are few more important matters to
which American diplomacy can address it
self than that of keeping this sentiment
warm and vital. Upon the continuance and
growth of happy relations betw’een the Uni
ted States and her neighboring republics
depends a .large measure of the world’s
peace and progress, as well as the prosper
ity of this hemisphere. It is greatly to the
credit of the Wilson Administration that it
has given no cause whatsoever for the chill
ing of that friendship but has made it
firmer and more fruitful than ever before.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
WORTH WHILE—SMILE
BY ROGER W. BABSON
Who does not know the value of a cheery
and brave smile?
If most people are so grouchy and miser
able as their faces indicate, what is the
poor old world coming to?
If you are not happy, at least make your
face look happy.
Don’t admit that you are not happy in
such a glorious w’orld.
Smile while it is hard to do so and it will
soon become easy.
We all know that “The man w’orth while
is the man who can smile when everything
goes dead wrong.”
Let us be worth while —and smile.
It is an insult to the Creator to go out
into His beautiful world with a sour face.
Forget the injuries and hurts that have
been dealt you by thoughtless people.
These things need not move YOU.
Laugh at ’em.
Think of the other lives with which you
come in contact —lives that are unhappy
or unfortunate.
They need you.
Give them your smiles and good cheer.
By simply being happy and serene, you
bring Joy to many lonely hearts.
It is worth while to try.
Georgia Barihs Should Rally
To This Great Enterprise
ATLANTA banks are heartily to be com-
mended for their promptness in
preparing to do a full part by
the recently organized corporation for pro
moting foreign sales of Southern products.
Something of the vast public importance of
this enterprise may be inferred from its
bearing on the cotton situation.
Had the service which it is to provide
been available this autumn the grower's of
the South’s chief money crop and all others
concerned in a compensating price therefor,
would have found their problems greatly
simplified if not altogether solved. A num
ber of European countries stood, and still
stand, in need of large quantities of raw
cotton for their reviving industries; but
lacking gold for immediate payments and
lacking also means for extended credits,
they were unable to-enter the market. They
had idle machinery and idle labor, while
we had idle cotton. They wanted to buy
from us as much as we were in need of sell
ing to them. Could the financial gap be
tween us have been bridged, the way then
would have been clear for the normal proc
esses of demand and supply—and only that
w’as needed to invigorate the cotton market
and relieve the embarrassmenb of those de
pendent upon its proper functioning.
Now’’, the Federal Foreign Finance Cor
poration, which was organized at a council
of Southern leaders recently held at New-
Orleans, will serve to bridge just such gaps
and by so doing will add immensely to the
vigor and firmness of this region’s basic in
terests. Not only the exportation of cotton,
but that also of rice, sugar, lumber and man
ufactured articles, indeed, of all 1 Southern
products for which there is an overseas de
mand,, thus will be facilitated. Organized
under provisions of the Edge Act, w’hich
was passed for the special purpose of pro
moting America’s foreign trade, the new
corporation w’ill have an authorized capital
stock of twelve million dollars, of which six
million will be paid in. That amount, it is
w-orth noting, will exceed by three times the
capital of a similar institution recently es
tablished and now successfully operating in
New York.
No Southern State has more to gain from
this excellent- undertaking than Georgia,
whose vast and varied resources, industrial,
as well as agricultural, will be quickened to
speedier development and to larger pros
perity by connections of their own with for
eign markets. It is greatly to be hope*!
therefore, that the banks in this State, as
well as throughout the South, w-ill join
promptly in subscribing their full quota of
the Federal Foreign Finance Corporation’s
capital stock, in order that its widely help
ful service soon may be made available.
The Cry of the Child ren
GENEROUS-HEARTED Georgians can
do no kindlier deed and serve no
higher cause than by joining the na
tionwide endeavor to send food and clothing
to three and a half million starving, shiver
ing children across the seas. Far, far off
they seem, in the war-broken lands of Eu
rope, amid ruins and tatters and winds now
blowing bitter from gray skies; but who that
has eyes cannot see their shuddering little
figures? Who that has ears does not hear
them cry? A single child in pain or grief
will break a human heart. Think of thou
sands of them, think of millions of them,
shrunken and pallid from hunger, left
against the winter in rags—babes in their
mothers’ arms, tots about the doorsteps,
boys and girls, all dear beyond telling.
To save those perishing little ones Ameri- i
ca is asked to contribute out of her abundant
blessings, and the people of Georgia and the
South are urged to do a part worthy of their
traditional great-heartedness. Surely, the
response will be instant and ungruding. The
Literary Digest, which is raising the relief
fund and which will acknowledge remit
tances' and see that every donation goes
straight to its purpose without a penny’s de
duction, has subscribed twenty-five thousand
dollars. President-Elect Harding has sub
scribed twenty-five hundred. Multitudes of
Americans are expected to give as much as
ten dollars each, which sum will suffice to
provide a coat, shoes and stockings and one
meal a day for one child throng the winter.
Many, it is to be hoped, will give more, but
all should give something, if it is only a
dolar or only a dime. Children as loved as
those of Atlanta’s and Georgia’s own fire
sides are crying to us for help. Let us not
be like him who “passed by on the other
side.”
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
By JACK L PATTERSON
Ehcowrage Club Work
The Boy’s Corn and Pig clubs of Georgia
are doing splendid work—as well as Girls’
clubs, for that matter. Down at Fitzgerald
the other day one of the boys reported 70
bushels of corn to the acre without the use
of an ounce of commercial fertilizer, and also
took a prize with his six-months-old pig
weighing 261 pounds. Encourage the boys
and girls.—Hartwell Sun.
The result of club work in Georgia has
been a revel? on to people who doubted the
advisability of adopting progressive methods
of farming and hog raising.
Negroes Coming Back home
A great many negroes are turning south
from the northern and eastern cities where
they spent the summer, and this, together
with the curtailment of operations in many
industries in all sections of the country, is
causing the : upply of labor in the south to
be more, abundant. There has been a notice
able improvement during the last few weeks,
and the interesting experience of finding men
looking for work is encountered more and
more frequently.—Albany Herald.
The southern white man is the negroe’s
best friend, and eventually they’ll all on:?
back to the cotton and corn fields of their
birth.
IF YOU ARE DYSPEPTIC
By H. Addington Bruce
IF you are troubled with a dyspepsia for
which not one but several doctors have
been unable to find any adequate physi
cal cause, do not rashly condemn them as
incompetents who do not know their busi
ness.
Instead, give yourself as ■well as them the
benefit of the doubt. Take it for granted
that the cause of your dyspepsia is mental
rather than physical, and begin forthwith to
treat it by appropriate mental means.
Nor is there any great likelihood of your
erring in thus taking for granted the mental
origin of your weakness in digestive power.
For although you may never have sus
pected this, it is today known that by far
the larger number of all cases of dyspepsia
are actually due to nothing more than a
faulty mental attitude, whether toward the
stomach in particular or toward life in gen
eral. In view of the doctors’ verdict it is
therefore altogether probable that yours is
another instance of “psychic indigestion.”
Perhaps you have unconsciously fallen
into tjjie deplorable habit of expecting this
or that article of food to disagree with you.
Cultivate the healthier attitude of expecting
all normally digestible food to agree with
you very well.
Or it may be that, for lack of proper men
tal occupation, you have allow-ed your mind
to busy itself in the tiresome and unprofit
able occupation of watching your stomach
at work. No stomach can work well if it is
pestered by a constant mental supervision.
Get busy at something really useful—and
not merely useful but so interesting to you
that it will allow’ you neither time nor de
sire to hold a stop-watch on the poor stom
ach. Numbers of people rave cured them
selves of the most severe dyspepsia by turn
ing from a life of idleness or semi-idleness
to one of really productive effort.
Also dyspepsia of a stubborn sort has been
known to disappear forever the moment its
victim has adopted a serenely optimistic
philosophy of life. Perhaps this is the treat
ment you need to give yourself.
It undoubtedly is if you are a chronic
w’orrier, fussing and fuming over the most
trivial disappointments, and anticipating
trouble from the most unlikely as well as
likely sources.
You know, as I do not, whether you are
addicted to worry. If you are, steep your
self in the gospel of optimism. Train your
self to develop moral courage. Make the
smile habit yours, instead of the habit of
doleful whining.
That, you protest, is something easy
enough to advise, but mighty hard for a dys
peptic to achieve. I know this.
Only, brother, there are many dyspeptics
who must contrive to achieve optimism if
ever they are to be relieved of their dys
pepsia. You may be one of them.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspa
pers.)
COAL
By Dr. Frank Crane
What with the prices of bread and pota
toes and the landlord doing his worst, life
has not lacked zest this fall.
Now that winter is just around the corner
King Coal is added to the fearsome list.
Remembering last winter, when the gas
froze and the pipes burst and Broadway was
an Alpine pass, we have an eye on King
Coal.
We are interested to know that:
We are all going co get coal—people and
industries.
The shortage in Greater New York will not
become more serious than it has been.
Bituminous coal has without a doubt sold
at the highest prices that will be seen In the
United States for some time.
Immigration to the United States of the
kind that finds its way to the coal mines is
steadily and rapidly increasing.
Althoug Europe will be compelled to be a
large buyer from us, France, Italy, Luxem
burg and Belgium have an accumulation of
stock, since Germany fulfilled the terms of
the Spa agreement during August and Sep
tember and delivered to them 1,936,865 tons
of coal.
Italy has a stock of 1,000,000 tons.
For the week ending October 6, 12,135.000
tons is estimated as the soft coal production.
Twelve million is regarded as the normal
production.
This is the biggest week, save one, since
the Armistice.
This means 2,022,000 tons a day.
The railroads are doing their best to de
liver empties and move away loaded cars as
fast as possible.
On the first two days of the week ending
October 23 the loadings were over 78,000
cars.
This large amount of coal being handled
per week does not include anthracite.
The anthracite output is estimated at
1,855,000 tons for the same w r eek.
For the week ending October 16 official
figures show that the principal coal carry
ing roads loaded 36,114 cars.
The anthracite miners are demanding an
adjustment of wages and hours on the same
basis as was granted bituminous miners.
If their claims are just and they are grant
ed, the production ought to be accordingly
satisfactory.
In the recent British coal mine situation,
the British Government made the point that
if wages -were Increased, a proportionate in
crease in production should be assured by the
union.
This is an age of Coal.
Ages past, when the Creator w’alked
through the forests of this land He left there
in the crucible of Time the elements for this
Age of Coal.
And we seem to be looking ahead into the
age of the blood of coal—petroleum.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
SIMPLICITY
BY ROGER W. BABSON
The lives of truly great mer. are marked
by extreme simplicity.
Once captivated by the beauty and sub
limity of this true life, the passing life of
vanity, selfishness and disorder has no lure
for them.
They select as friends those of strong and
noble character, not dressmakers’ or tailors’
manikins whose chief object in life is to look
better or more stylish than someone else.
Simplicity of speech "is important.
Too seldom do we see men of only unaf
fected speech.
Politicians and other glib gentlemen have
made true and simple diction lose its popu
larity.
Not only is truth uncommon, but there is
much senseless and insane babbling over
nothing at all, or over things which tomor
row will be of no moment whatever.
When yon speak, have something to say
Useless disputes and misunderstandings
of many kinds rise through lack of simplic
ity in speech.
Then there are simple pleasures—real
pleasures—that in our hurried existences we
are losing sight of.
The glories of sunrise and sunset, of the
woods in autumn, the fields in spring, we see
not.
We must take our jaded senses to a fash
ion show, a d?nce, a cabaret.
i Let us not get dependent on the pleasures,
i although they may be all right sometimes.
| They are not the best things.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Irish Will March
Irish sympathizers have announced
they will march around the White
House in silent protest for as many days
as Terrance MacSwiney, former lord may
or of Cork, conducted his hunger strike.
The first march with seeveral hundred in
line was staged Sunday night.
The only times Irish pickets and
others hare been interfered with here
was when they created a disturbance or
directed their activities at diplomatic of
ficials not connected with the govern
ment of the United States.
Bolshevik Tide
Armenia is passing under Bolshevik
control, it is said in reports received at
Constantinople from Tiflis. Turks and
Bolshevik Tartars have affected a
junction at Alexandropol, and it is
probable the city of Erivau has been
occupied by Turkish troops command
ed by Kazio Kaarabekir Pasha.
Armenia troops are reported to be
surrendering or seeking refuge in
Georgia.
Statue of Washington
The statue of George Washington pre
sented to the British public by the state of
Virginia is to be unveiled near the Natural
History museum in London next spring.
Profit-Sharing Ends
Under the new working contract between
the Virginia Railway and Pow’er company,
Richmond, Va., and its employes which has
been returned to President Thomas S.
Wheelwright, after having l<een approved
and signed by the Richmond, Petersburg,
Norfolk and Portsmouth locals of the
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway
and Electric Employes of America, the.
profit-sharing plan placed in operation sev
eral months ago will be discontinued Jan
uary 31, 1921.
Oil in Spain
Appeal is nuule to the government by the
newspaper El Debate to appoint an expert
commission t-o conduct a survey with a view
to determining whether there are oil depos
its in Spain. In discussing the matter, the
newspaper declares the Spanish nation
would be prepared to approve of the ex
pense entailed.
Yale’s War Memorial
The dedication of the Yale Memorial to
the war dead of Yale university will take
place on November 21. This is the day
after the Yale-Harvard football game and
has been selected as most convenient for
alumni students.
Will Sleep in England
The bodies of about 550 American
soldiers who died in England are to re
main permanently in that country by re
quest of the families of the men Secre
tary Baker announces that orders had
been given to concentrate the bodies in
a permanent cemetery near* London,
which will be under the perpetual care
and control of the American government.
All other American dead in Great
Britain have been returned to the United
States, according to the war department
announcement.
Wins Prize at 94
Among the winners of memorial medals
for long Sunday school attendance in Eng
land was Owen Jones, of Liverpool, aged
ninety-four, whose record was said to be
ninety-one years and six months.
“Old 999” Still Running
Although in its twenty-eighth year
of service, the famous locomotive, 'No.
999, of the New York Central, is still
handling trains. The pioneer speed lo
comotive mad a record of 112.5 miles
an hour with the Empire State Ex
press in May, 1892, which has never
been equaled.
Novel Church Gifts ’
A goat, a couple of rabbits and some
poultry were among the offerings received
for the harvest festival collection of Banks
Primitive Methodist church in the village of
Preston, England.
Brazilians Protest
Eight important firms of Rio de Janeiro
have protested to the foreign minister
against the recent seizure at Flume by Cap
tain Gabrielle d’Annunzio, of the steamer
Cogne, which carried a cargo consigned to
Brazil. The government is asked to make
representations at once and to secure indem
nity for the goods seized when the ship was
taken over by the d’Annunzia.. forces.
More Cars
Approximately 25,000 cars will be released
from coal traffic for other commodities under
an order issued by the interstate commerce
commission, effective Monday. It limits the
preferential coal order to gondola cars with
sides forty-two inches or more in height, in
stead of thirty-eight inches. It is expected
that the coal preference order will be revoked
completely as soor as coal shortage in scat
tered sections hhve been relieved. Modifica
tions have already released 17,000 cars, not
including the 25,000 released under today’s
order.
Reds on Rampage
Roaring red battle hymns and preaching
inflammatory doctrines, 3,000 Communists
held a demonstration in the Lustgarten in
Berlin Sunday.
Despite the fiery speeches and the threat
ening songs, the demonstration was peaceable
and reinforced police squads were not call
ed upon to act.
Speakers advocated the seizure of factories,
cancellation of debts and cancellation of war
bonds held by the entente. The soviet was
praised and capitalism condemned in the
usual terms. Workers had been called upon
to arm for observance of the anniversary of
the Russian revolution.
Austria Hard Up
A government deficit for the current year
of 13,000,000 crowns is admitted by the fi
nance department. Other estimates, how
ever, place it at a much larger figure, in view
of the constant demands of state employes
for increased wages and allowances which
the government must concede.
Scrap 900 Tanks
Nearly 900 tanks now lying i France have [
been purchased from the English government
by the shipbuilding firm of T. W. Ward, Ltd. '
They will he broken up and the parts brought |
to England.
EDITORIAL ECHOES
Stomachs adorned with a full set of whis- j
kers may be expected if the fad of drinking I
hair tonic is not checked.—Worcester Even-j
ing Post.
“To arms,” cried the health officer. A I
general vaccination is under way.—Brattle-1
boro Reformer. I
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1930.
A young woman wants to know what to
do when you’ve got that tired feeling, and
cannot stop and rest.
She says that she is weary unto death of
her job; that she has come to hate her type
writer as if it were some cruel god before
which she was offered up daily as a living
sacrifice; that she could assassinate with joy
her good, kind employer every time she
takes his dictation and counts how many
chins he has, and that she has neither pride
nor interest in her work, and wonders that
she was ever keen and ambitious about it.
She know- well enough that she need rest
and change, and to get away from her desk
for a while, but the remedy for her nerves is
as far beyond her reach as the port wine
cure is beyond a pauper. She has a mother
and a little sister dependent on her. Her lit
tle white hands must fight the w’olf away
from the door, and so she asks w r hat she can
do to get back her zest in life, and her en
thusiasm for her work.
Your case, little sister, is a hard one, but
it may comfort you to know that your ex
perience is the common lot. It is only the
very few who are lucky enough to be able
to rest when they are tired, and to seek new
and piquant flavors w’hen their lives become
dust and ashes in their mouths.
There is not a business man in the world,
who does not have his moments When he is
so worn and w ary with the strain of plan
ning new selling campaigns, and worrying
over incompetent subordinates, and the anx
iety of financing fresh enterprises that he is
tempted to throw up the whole affair, and go
into bankruptcy.
There is not a mother who has to. nurse
and care for her own children, who does not
get so sick and tired of walking the colic,
and washing little faces and wiping little
noses, and listening to wails for mother, and
settling quarrels, and buttering bread, and
picking up scattered toys, that she does not
at times feel that she hates her own chil
dren, and that she would give anything on
earth to get beyond the hearing of her ba
bies’ cries.
No matter what we do, we all have this re
action against our occupation, and our hours
when the very thought of entering the tread
mill again, and going the same monotonous
round for the millionth time, fills us with a
physical as well as a mental nausea.
Then comes the test of the stuff of which
we are made. The weaklings give up, and
sink into failure. The strong gird up their
loins a little tighter, and take a strangle
hold on their courage, and go on to success.
Because you are tired, little sister, don’t
let yourself believe that you are at the end
of your resources. The runners in a race
vail tell you that when they have gone a
certain distance they are almost overcome
with exhaustion. Theier feet drag, and
their breaths clog, but if they force them
selves on, they get what they call their sec
ond wind, and make their best speed to their
goal.
That is true everywhere in life. If we re
fuse to give up when .we get weary, and dis
couraged, and lose heart, w r e get our second
wind, and find that we have dipped dow r n into
THE BEWILDERED EATER—By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. —Sad and con
fused must be the man w’ho tries
to eat scientifically in accordance,
with the information he finds in the public
prints. Every few months a new dietetic
god and a new salvation is offered him, and
each seems completely to displace the old
one.
Some of us can remember back to the
time, for example, when buttermilk was to
make new men of us all. Many persons of
the older generation still retain a faith in
buttermilk as a prolonger of human life
which is like unto the faith of a little child
in Santa Claus.
But more recently attention was djverted
from buttermilk to a mysterious thing called
the calorie. Lots of people thought a calorie
was itself something to eat, but the more
sophisticated grasped the idea that it was a
unit of heat or of energy. You need a cer
tain number of calories in order to do your
work in the yorld, and too many or too few
will ruin you. The calorie-counter, who com
puted the number of calories in every dish
set before him, became so common that one
great chain of restaurants placed the num
ber of calories in parenthesis after each ar
ticle on its menu.
Then, still more recently, the calorie was
eclipsed in popularity by a still more myste
rious class of things known as vitamines.
A vitamine, we gathered, was not a unit of
measurement like a calorie, but an actual
substance, which was necessary to health. It
occurs in milks, eggs, fresh fruit and vegeta
bles. We ourselves went into the matter
with many experts and set forth the facts
in detail in these columns. They need not he
repeated. Suffice it to say that unless you
get enough vitamines, your machinery won’t
work.
Mineral Starvation
But now a new complexity has been intro
duced into this business of eating, which the
ancients regarded as a simple pleasure,, and
which has become such a complex science for
us. The latest bugaboo of the dinner table
is generally known as “mineral starvation.”
A Boston dentist, whose work was recently
described in the Haskin letter, has reached
the conclusion that our teeth decaV, not be
cause of the particles of food deposited on
the surface of them, but because our habitual
diet does not contain enough mineral build
ing material to keep them in repair. And
this same idea of mineral starvation has been
advanced by many other students of the food
situation. Once again guinea pigs, dogs and
pigeons have been sacrificed to prove the
point. Fed on some of the demineralized
foods w’hich make up so large a part of the
civilized diet, it is said, they practically
starve to death.
This is the idea of mineral starvation, as
we understand it: A great many of the
foods which we eat are refined. This means
that certain portions of the natural product
are removed. In some cases this is lone by
manufacturing processes and sometimes bv
cooking processes in the home. Sometimes
it is done merely because we are in the habit
of eating the food that. way. and sometimes
because it is necessary to refine the foods in
order to improve their keeping and shipping
qualities.
Disadvantage of Bolted Flour
The leading refined manufactured foods,
it appears, are the white bolted wheat flour
of which our bread is made, the manufac
tured corn meal of commerce and the pol
ished rice. Some investigators have taken
the belligerent’ position that food manufac
turers are poisoning the American people.
They have, in a word, tried the usual Ameri
can stunt of finding a scapegoat and raising
a moral issue. As a matter of fact, there is
none. The manufacturers give us what we
demand. It is true that it is impossible to
buy whole wheat bread in many American
cities today (Graham bread J s not the same
thing.) But if even one housewife in ten
began regularly demanding whole wheat
bread, it would make its appearance. The
manufacturers are not slow to satisfy any
paying demand. And von can’t blame them
for not trying to put out a product for which
there is no demand. One manufacturer a
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BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer.
For That Tred Feeling
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Sy dicate, Inc.)
unexplored and undreamed of wells of vital
ity and power, and that we are enabled to
do better work than we have ever done be
fore.
If you are tired of your work and environ
ment, and circumstances are so that you
cannot change them, why not try changing
your own viewpoint towards them?
Everything in life depends upon the way
in which we look upon it. The only differ
ence between work and play is our own at
titude towards it. It costs a man a lot of
mopey to drive his own automobile, and hes
calls that sport. He hires a man to drive
that same automobile, and that man calls it
work, but both men have done exactly the
same thing.
Most girls consider that they are having
the time of their lives when they go shop
ping, and peacock around before long mir
rors in imported gowns, and wraps that they
haven’t the money to buy; Mit hei! a girl
is paid for showing how lovely she looks
in gorgeous finery, she bewails her fate aS
a poor, down-trodden, working girl.
So you see it is all in the angle that you
get on your "ate. I know just as many rich
girls who are bored to death with having
nothing w’orth while to do, as I do.working
girls who are tired of having something defi
nite they have got to do. Believe me, my
dear, you can get just as sick of dragging
around to parties as you can of pounding a
typewriter, and you can come to hate the
inane chatter of w’illy boys just as much aa
you can the line of conversation your boss
carries.
So the best cure for that tired feeling is
to quit looking upon your job as a curse,
and to regard it as a blessing. Just reflect
that it stan s between you and want. You
are independent, self-respecting, honored by
all w’ho know you. No shadow lies across
the white pathway of your girlhood. When
you look at the poor bedraggled creatures of
the streets, skulking along in the shadows,
just think that but for your ability to make
your own living you might have belonged to
that sorrowful sisterhood.
You cannot stop to rest because of the
helpless ones of your family who are de
pendent upon you. It is hard that your
slender young shoulder must bear such
heavy burdens, but when you think of your
mother in the poorhouse, youi little sisters
and brothers in the cold, forlorn/shelter of
an orphan asylum, does it not make you
want to go down on your knees and thank
God for the job that enables you to keep
your own homeflres burning?
And, lastly, for that tired feeling, shake 1
up your self-conceit, and take a good strong
dose as often as required. Quit looking
upon yourself as a martyr, and get a slant
on yourself as ? conqueror. No woman in
the world has such a right to be proud of
herself as the girl w’ho by her own brains
and ability can not only take care of her
self, but support her family. Just for a
woman to be able to hold down a good job
entitles her to wear on he breast the femi
nine Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Sneed up your work, little sister, try to
do it better, ’.nd be glad you’ve got it to do.
That is the sure cure for that tired feeling.
few years ago did try putting on the market
natural brown rice instead of polished rice
in the interests of health. He could not
sell it.
Taking the blame unto ourselves, then,
let .us see why it is that th? refined foods
are not good for us. In making our white
bolted flour, the millers remove the outer
husk of the wheat. In so doing they greatly
reduce its content of mineral and fat. leav—•
ing largely pure protein. The same happens
in the commercial process of making corn
meal. In like manner the brown husk of
the rice contains valuable minerals, while
the white polished rice contains none. In the
tropics, the disease known as beriberi follows
upon eating polished rice, and its prevented
by a diet of natural brown rice.
These minerals which are removed are nec
essary to the building of bone and tissue.
But they are also necessary to keep the blood
in its proper chemical composition. The pro
teins which form the bulk of our food tend
to make the blood acid. These minerals keep
it alkaline. A great many of our typical dis
eases are due to acid blood.
Eat Potatoes Baked
Many of the elements in our diet, which
might counteract this tendency to acidosis
of the blood, are demineralized before we
eat them. Thus the potato is a valuable al
kaline food, but if boiled and mashed much ,
of the best of its substance is leached away,
It should be eaten baked with the skin on,
and parts of the skin should be eaten, too.
In general, the way to avoid a demineral
ized diet, as we understand it, is to eat whole
wheat bread if you can get it. Some food
experts advise that you buy whole corn and
make your own corn meal in a tittle hand
mill. It is true that whole corn ground by
hand makes a more tasty bread than the
commercial product. The Indians in the
southwest grind their own corn by hand, and
its fame has spread so that the Indians have
quite a demand for it from the white people.
Oatmeal is a good natural food, and breads
ancf cookies may be made from it as well as
much. The natural brown rice is good if you
can get it. So much for the cereals.
Os vegetables we learn that spinach, car
rots and turnips are especially rich in min
erals needed by the body. Plenty of fruit
should be eaten, o fcourse. Raisins are espe
cially good because rich in iron. Did you
ever try stewed raisins for breakfast?
Meat should be cut down, and broiled or
-oasted meat is better than that which has
been boiled, as the boiling takes out the min
erals.
In general the problem of eating is not so
terrible as it seems, provided you have money
enough and sense enough to procure a varied
diet. The more varied it is. apparently, the
better chance you have of getting the food
elements you need. Next to variety, perhaps
the best rule you can follow is to eat foods
as much as possible in their natural states.
Whole grain are very hard to get in this
country, and the lack of them seems to le
the most serious problem of our i diet, but
whole fruits ajid whole vegetables, and meats
not overcooked will supply much of what the
cereals lack.
He was a beginner—a recruit —and it wm ,
the first time he had held a service rifle.
A scorching sun shone down on the ranges,
and the large white targets—really only a
hundred yards away—seemed like ladi'Bt’ ,
pocket handkerchiefs on the skyline.
With chattering teeth, and perspiration
pouring down his brow, the recruit crooked
his finger round the trigger, then shut his
eyes and waited for that terrible thud with
which the rifle kicks back into the shoulder.
Disgustedly, the sergeant behind him
watched the performance.
"No need to wait for that shot to be sig
nalled,” he grumbled, when at last the rifle
spoke.
But to both the sergeant and the firer’s
amazement, a bull’s-eye was signalled.
The sergeant hid his amazement at once,
and in a perfectly stoical manner muttered:
"No wonder you got it. You covered the
whole target.”