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America s Best Six Novelists
IF the judgment of their fellow craftsmen
is to be considered of any value, the
best six American novelists are Theo
dore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, James Branch
Cabell, Booth Tarkington, Gertrude Atherton
and Willa Sibert Gather.
This, at least, is the selection made by
the Writers’ Club, of New York, a society
which, though’ by no means the supreme
court of literature, numbers many of the
foremost American men and women of letters
among its members and may well reflect the
opinion of American writers at large.
Their decision is interesting in many re
spects. Chiefly it is notable by reason of
the fact that few of the chosen can be ranked
as perennial “best sellers.” Booth Tarking
ton, it is true, enjoys a universal popularity, ■
out is it not based largely on his “Penrod J
stories, which, however delightful, in them
selves would hardly bring him into the cate
gory of the novelist? Os the others, Mrs.
Wharton and Gertrude Atherton are well
known by name, at least, though it cannot
be said that all who speak of them so freely
have ever peeped into the pages of their
books. Theodore Dreiser, given first place
among American novelists by almost unani
mous vote of the Writers Ciub, has but a
limited fame considering the length of time
he has been writing novels, while James
Branch Cabell and Miss Gather are names
newly arisen on the American literary ho
rizon.
it is significant, too, that of the “six best’’
ihree are women —surely another argument
<' >r the suffragists who have such little need
’ ; ; vument now. The South and the Mid-
West may claim a tie for first lonors
/ the list—the South as represented by
. ’m’l and Miss Gather, both born in Vir
na: the Middle West by Indiana, ever
< jlcbrated as the mother State of writers,
-d in this case responsible for Tarkington
nd Dreiser. California gave Mrs. Atherton
to the world; New York, Mrs. M harton.
How many readers, we wonder, are fa
miliar with the navels of this honored
group? Comparatively few, we venture to
say. Yet, if one is to believe the statements
of. other writers, these six are setting the
pace for all novelists of the nation
Accepting the opinion of the New I ork
society for what it may be worth, even tak
ing due cognizance of the scorn they ex
press for certain modern novelists whose
workc are known the length rn’d breadth of
the land, one is yet constrained to wonder
if there be not another side of the picture.
For instance, was it not the late Rev. Sam
Jones who remarked that, while he did not
care particularly to hear Robert Ingersoll
on the Apostle Paul, ( he would give several
thousand dollars outright to hear the Apos
tle Paul on Robert Ingersoll? The New York
society has spoken, condemning popular
favorites with a word; what, we wonder,
io the popular favorites think of the New
York society?
Finger-Printing the Babies
WiSEACRES of the science of detec
tion are pluming themselves upon
a new scheme they have hit upon to
finger-print all babies. Just what it is they
hope to accomplish, unless it is to avoid
“mix-ups’’—in which case, we in Atlanta,
are surely with them—they do not state;
but presumably the idea is to so tabulate
and classify every one at birth that, whether
they grow into rogues or pillars of society
in the future, there will be no hiding their
origin.
One must hesitate, however, to express
full-voiced approval of this plan. Think
you, for one moment, what it will mean, the
Illusions it will shatter, the reputations, the
dreams, the prettj fancies it will destroy.
What chance, for instance, will the Theda
Baras of tomorrow have to spread absorbing
tales of their nativity in the shadow of the
pyramids and the Sphinx, when the tell
tale finger-prints arc waiting to confound
them back in Milwaukee, Wisconsin? What
will it profit professional Southerners to
cheer “Dixie” in the face of finger-prints
filed in Bangor, Maine? Who will dare to
change his name to Smythe when, above the
baby finger-prints, appears the surname with
the tell-tale “i?” Will we not all be so red
iaped. rubber-stamped and card-indexed that
imagination will be a lost art and the gentle
whimsies of the press agents and the hero
worshipers die a-borning? Truly, it will be
a depressing world to live in when finger
prints no longer allow us to believe that our
favorite movie star is an exiled Russian
princess, but is really Maggie Jones, of Jones
ville
Moreover, it strikes us that the Sherlock
Holmes of the finger-print bureau are several
centuries behind the tin?*.-? They are spring
ing nothing new’, for babies have been finger
printing themselves since the birth of Cain.
If they really desire to inaugurate their sys
tem they need not trouble about the finger
printing part at all, but simply attend to the
matter of filing. Provide a special set of
cabinets—one for papas’ linen collars: an
other for daddies’ shirt bosoms; a third for
leaves of the Harvard classics of the Encv
clopedia Britannica; a fourth for the shirt
waists of cooing lady visitors; a fifth for
sections of white w’indow sills and samples
of wall paper; and so on. Once the filing
cases are arranged, gentlemen, simply take
several jars of strawberry jam or cans of
syrup on your census trips, and the babies
will do the rest.
THE ATT. ANT A TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
TheEditor’sDesk
PERSONAL!
; The personal attention of every one of
The Tri-Weekly Journal’s many thousand
readers is called to two announcements in
today's paper.
One of the announcements is on the front
page. The other is on an inside page.
Careful and thoughtful reading of the
news in these announcements, we believe, will
convince anybody that a remarkable oppor
tunity is offered.
For instance, you will learn that you can
get The Tri-Weekly Journal until February
15 in exchange for a wenty-five-cent piece.
Further, you are invited to learn of the many
other valuable offers that are available.
And again, a wonderful chance to start a
home orchard without cost above the price
of a year's subscription is explained. Dr.
Soule’s splendid article last Saturday showed
just how important it is to have fruit on ev
ery farm.
The new year will be here before we real
ize it. This is the season to lay plans for
1921. No home that figures ahead can af
ford to neglect providing for a good news
paper.
The Tri-Weekly Journal is the greatest pa
per in its field. It leads in news, in maga
zine features, in departments for all the
household and in every other factor that
makes a live, useful, readable newspaper.
Costs in every department of a big paper
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sented to old subscribers can not last in
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ers are saving money by snapping up the
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ment is offering. It’s too important a ques
tion for anyone to overlook.
Free Feed
Thirty to forty millions of dollars worth
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ers without cost during the next twelve
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Every farmer in the state is entitled to his
share of these free cattle rations. Dr. A.
M. Soule, the south’s foremost agriculturist,
tells how to share in this gift in his Friday
article.
Dr. Soule’s discussions of farm topics are
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nal. Any enterprising farmer who acts on
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yearly subscription a hundred times over.
To Contributors
Numerous contributors have sent in
sketches of candidates for our “DOWN But
Not OUT’’ column—-little histories of per
sons who have reached success in spite of
difficulties.
None of them, we are sorry to say, how
ever, quite “fill the bill.” The is in
tended to point out cases where the individ
ual has conquered seemingly unconquerable
physical handicaps.
It is highly creditable, of course, when a
man or a woman “makes good” when handi
cappeds by poverty or lack of an education or
some dther outside obstacle.
But the “DOWN But Not OUT” column
seeks to go further than that. Just for the
sake of contrast, it wants to recite records
where the blind, the halt and the lame have
risen in spite of shackles of their crushing in
firmities.
Invaluable to All the South
MERCHANTS and manufacturers and
farmers, as well as bankers, should
lend hearty support to the plans
for promoting foreign sales of Southern prod
ucts. Te corporation recently projected for
that purpose will have an authorized capital
stock of twelve million dollars, of which six
million will be paid in. While the banks
have taken the initiative and are subscribing
liberally, they cannot be expected to shoulder
the entire burden of financing so great an
enterprise, and one from which all realms
of Southern interest, industrial, commercial
and agricultural, will benefit beyond meas
ure.
The Federal Foreign Finance Corporation,
as the new institution is named, will be con
cerned particularly with facilitating the
movement of cotton, rice, sugar, lumber and
certain manufactured goods to overseas
markets; but, first and last, it will enrich
every field of this region’s trade. Had the
corporation been functioning this autumn,
much of tne difficulty and disappointment
that befell the cotton grower and those de
pendent upon his good fortune would have
been averted. For while the American mar
ket became inactive and depressed, Euro
pean countries stood in need of millions of
bales of cotton, which they would have
bought from us and have turned into speed
ily profitable manufactures, had we been
prepared to give them reasonable accommo
dations of credit. To provide this and col
lateral service for the future, so that the
South’s chief money crop may get the benefit
of overseas demand, is one of the objects of
the Federal Foreign Finance Corporation.
And if that were its sole object, it still would
be immensely helpful and deserving of
South-wide support.
But there is hardly a limit to the stimu
lating and constructive influence tha‘ will
redound to Georgia and her sisters in Dixie
from the operation of this trade-quickening,
trade-building enterprise. More and more
will our development and prosperity depend
upon foreign commerce; for after we have
supplied domestic demands, the surplus out
put of our fields and factories will profit us
nothing unless we can sell abroad. More
over, the vigor of the domestic market itself
will be determined considerably bv the ex
tent of foreign demands. Obviously, then,
the continued development and expansion of
Southern industry, with all which that means
to the employment of labor and the enrich
ment of mercantile lines, are vitally bound
up in the success of the work which the Fed
eral Foreign Finance Corporation is de
signed to do. It is, therefore, the policy of
wisdom and of right for merchants and
manufacturers and agricultural leaders, In
deed for alt whose fortune and hear* are in
the South, to loin with the banks in sub
scribing the full six millions of capital stock
without delay.
To no other region of America is the pro
motion of export trade more essential than
to Georgia and her sister States of Dixie, with
their vast cotton interests to be cared for
and their rich industrial opportunities to be
developed. It is exceedingly important,
therefore, that merchants, manufa turers and
farmers, as well as bankers, join in subscrib
ing the capital stock of the recently projected
Federal Foreign Finance Corporation. Every
interest will benefit from this enterprise, and
all must support it if it is to succeed. The
banks are doing a loyal part; let others do
theirs.
READ FOR SUCCESS
By H. Addington Bruce
YOU complain of inability to progress in
your chosen occupation.
You wonder why it is that other
young fellows, whom you feel to be less well
endowed with brains than yourself, are given
belter paying work than any intrusted to
you.
Perhaps they are using what brains they
have to better purpose than you. Perhaps,
more particularly, they are developing their
niinds by reading and studying both more in
tensively and extensively than you.
What do you read, anyway?
You say you read the newspapers. Do you
make it a point to /read the editorials in
them, and the practical and cultural articles
they day after day contain?
Or do you as a rule “skip” them, to turn
with hungry avidity to the sporting page and
the news reports of crimes and scandals?
What about your magazine reading?
Is it confined to the lightest of light fic
tion? Or do you give attentive thought to
essays and articles calculated to enlarge your
knowledge of life in general and to betstow
on you a broader, more earnest point of
view ?
As for books, do you ever so much as
look inside a book? Do any books other
than best sellers in the fiction field hold a
real appeal for you?
I would not have you devote all your leis
ure to reading. Nor would I have you en
tirely deny yourself the pleasure of reading
for entertainment only. But seme serious
reading I certainly would have you do every
day.
Otherwise I shall not be surprised if, to
the very end of your life, you continue com
plaining about your inability to get on in
the world. Dodge all serious reading and
you are more than likely to dodge all serious
thi-'king. And without serious thinking sub
cess must ever prove elusive.
So must the contentment, the satisfaction
accruing as a rich reward to all possessors
of truly cultivated minds.
Begin today, then, to do some serious
reading systematically, if hitherto you have
been a dodger of serious reading all your
life.
Cease the "lolish habit of reiusing to give
even a fleeting glance at what you consider
the “highbrow stuff” in newspapers and
magazines. Really, son, you have got to be
come a bit of a “highbrow” yourself, if you
are ever to gain from life all you can and
should.
Subscribe for one or two good trade jour
nals relating to your special line of work.
Begin to build up a little trade library of
your own, containing books of technical
helpfulness to you.
And, as your means permit, gradually add
to this private library to make it include
good books of a general character—fiction
that is really classic, good biography, his
torical works, popular treatises on religion,
philosophy, and psychology, even some
poetry.
Every dollar spent on a good book prop
erly read and reread, one may say without
exaggeration, is a dollar so invested as to
yield incredibly rich returns. These may not
come tomorrow they may not come next
week. But soon or late they are sure to
come, to the joy of the investor.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
ANNIE
By Dr. Frank Crane
Annie’s dead.
She lived in the white house with green
shutters over on Locust street.
I didn’t know Annie. That is, not per
sonally. I knew people that knew her.
You know, there are folks with whom you
seem well acquainted, even intimate, be
cause the people you are with are always
taking about them.
Annie was like' that. It is as if she were
a flower growing over in a neighbor’s gar
den; you know it is there, somewhere the
fragrance of it is borne in through the win
dow, but you cannot see it for the hedge.
There are people living with us all the
time we rarely or never see. There are
those I love and others I detest, yet have
never clapped eyes on.
Whenever I could go over to Cousin
George’s house, or when his family drop
ped in on us, they alway mentioned Annie.
Annie did so and so, Annie said this and
Annie liked that.
It was as though Annie was a sort of
ghost whose presence was constantly with
us.
We found ourselves wondering what An
nie would think, and doing things calculat
ing their effect upon her.
Life is a strange thing, and one of the
strangest things about it is that there are
those who do not believe in spirits.
We are all spirits. t We are all übiquitous.
No one is confined to his skin.
My father has been dead thirty years, yet
every now and then he is by me and pushes
my mind.
The traveling man taking a trip to Cali
fornia does not leave his wife at home. Her
body may be there, but her presence is with
him on the sleeper, in the hotel, on the
street. *
This is not empty fancy. <There is a very
real and actual Something that influences the
man’/ actions, affects his feelings, alters his
thoughts. And often that Something that
is She affects him more powerfully when her
body is absent than when it is at hand.
So when I say Annie is dead it means
something is gone out of my life.
Somehow the mysterious shade we call
Death, that forever walks the days of
life, has brushed by me in the dark.
Annie was the kind of woman everybody
loved. I loved her myself. I dont know
why, except that loving her seemed to be
in the air.
I have been sad a little all day. It is as
if an angel that had always stood by the al
ter were there no longer, and her vacant
place disquiets me.
The world is a bit colder. Earth is a lit
tle more strange.
That Other World seems warmer and
nearer.
Annie was nut young. Young people can
not pervade -j wide an area of love as the
old. They are shut in by too many bars of
egotism.
The frictions of life, such as sickness, dis
appointment, loss and grief, undo these bars
and let our souls out into the world.
Dear Annie! I have no right to speak this
of you perhaps. lam a strangei and an out
sider, and stand apart witnessing the sor
row of your family and friends.
But you were more to me than you knew.
Maybe you do know —now. And so you will
understand if I came, when all have left the
cemetery an,. T will not be noticed, and put
a little flower where you lie.
For I have seen the light in your window.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)
Georgia Has 310.737 Farms
The total number of farms in Georgia is
310,737, compared with 291.027 in 1910, and
224,691 in 1900, an increase in the 1910-20
period of 19.710, or 6.8, and over the 1900-10
period of 66.336, or 25.5 per cent.—Moultrie
Observer.
This increase offers many opportunities for
a greater number of j’oung men to grow up
in the healthful country air, where “the
morning glories bloom and the cotton blos
soms grow.”
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From. All Over
the Earth.
Crime Tide Rises
The crime barometer is ascending in
New York. There have bdten 104 unsolved
murders there since January 1.
The outstanding unsolved mystery is
the murder of Joseph B. Elwell, June 11,
in his home, No. 244 West Seventieth
street. Five months have passed since
the murder.
Another murder was that of Miss Ream
Constance Hoxie, w’hose body was hacked
by a maniac in the home of her father,
No. 82 West Eigty-ninth street, February
2. No arrest has been made.
According to the police and district at
torneys of the various counties, more than
half the unsolved homicides occurred on
public highways with robbery as a mo
tive.
Swedes Alarmed
Aroused by the increasing emigration
from Sweden to the United States, cer
tain interests have started a campaign, to
keep the Swedes in their home land.
The Stockholm Tidningen has received
letters warning Swedes emigrating to
the United States or Canada.
Against Germany
The French government is unalterably op
posed to the admission of Germany to the
League of Nations at this time, it was stated
at the French foreign office last Friday.
Some “drastic action” would be a conse
quence if the league voted to admit Germany,
it was intimated.
The foreign office said there had been
conversations with Great Britain on the sub
ject, apd that the British, who had been in
clined to favor German membership in the
league, now had accepted the French view
point, allowing the matter to rest for the
present.
Soldiers’ Mail
Christmas packages for American troops
on the Rhine must reach Hoboken by De
cember 5 to insure delivery before Christ
mas day, the war department announced.
They should be sent care of the general su
perintendent, army transport service, Hobo
ken.
Parcels for men stationed in Hawaii and
the Philippines should reach the depot quar
termaster, Fort Mason, San Francisco,’ not
later than December 5, while those for ship
ment to the Panama canal zone and Porto
Rico should be in the hands of the general
superintendent, army transport service, pier
3, army supply base, South Brooklyn, N. Y.,
. by November 20.
Nobel Prize
• The Nobel prize for literature ofr 1919
' has been awarded to the Swiss author,
Carl Spitttler.
The literature prize for 1920 was
awarded some time ago to the Norwe
gian writer, Knut Hamsun, who some
years ago lived in the United States and ,
at one time was a street car conductor
in Chicago. He was discharged from his
job as conductor because he read books
instead of collecting fares.
Students Strike
Four hundred of the 700 students of Trin
ity college, Durham, N. C., struck Thursday
when a petition for a holiday on Armistice
day was refused by the college authorities.
Dean Wannamaker was hissed at morning
chapel when the students walked out and re
fused to attend classes for the rest of the day.
Too Much Money
A campaign fund with a surplus after elec
tion day was discovered when the American
Federation of.Labor filed a statement of its
political expenditures with the clerk of the
house.
The labor fund surplus amounts to
$1,185.85, the report stating that between
February 24 and November 2, $53,174.10
was collected for the federation’s non-parti
san political campaign and $51,988.25 ex
pended.
The German government won out last
waak in its clash with radical workmen who
attempted to emulate Italian workers in the
seizure of plants.
Metal factories seized by strikers were
abandoned when police surrounded them.
Tere was no violence, the workers realizing
that tey would be starved out if they did not
yield. In like manner a ‘.‘Soviet” which
seized a gas plant on the north side of the
city was compelled to withdraw.
Railroad Record
Records of the year for the number of
railroad cars loaded with commercial freight
were broken the week ended October 9, when
the total was 1,009,787, compared with 982,-
171 the year previous. It was the first week
in which car loading passed the million
mark.
Armistice Day
With reports of splendid celebrations
of Armistice day in cities and towns all
through Georgia—Savannah, Macon,
Dublin, Dawson, Valdosta and Madison
prominent among them—the. great serv
ice at Five Points in Atlanta at noon
Thursday assumes its proper part in a
state-wide and nation-wide observance
of the “Twentieth Century Independence
Day of the World.”
It is. estimated that upwards of 20.-
000 persons attended the services at Five
Points, which also were viewed by thou-'
sands more from the windows of adja
cent buildings.
Spanish Plot
• Discovery of a revolutionary plot with ram
ifications in the provinces of Madre de Dios,
Huallaga and Lumbayeque, and the cities of
Cuzco and Arequipa, was announced by high
officials at the Spanish government palace a
few days ago.
The conspiracy was to culminate in an at
tack upon President Leguia during a dinner
given in his honor at the Union club yester
day, it is said. Some thirty persons, some
of whom are prominent members of the op
position party, have been arrested at Anoche.
Fashions in Faces
Rouge and powder are no longer accu
rate terms to apply to the materials of a
fashionable Parisienne’s make-up. Beauty
specialists announce that fair and dark
must acquire different c facial color
schemes. Golden hair and blonde com
nlexions are no longer to be enhanced by
blue pencilings under the eye and scarlet
on the lips. Green or purple are the re
spective colors to be chosen. Brunettes. '
while using blue under the eye, must use i
more face powder and tinge their lips
orange. j
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1920.
A YOUNG woman tells me that she is
in love w th a man who iises her,
but is not in love with her, and
she wants to know how she can heat this
lukewarm affection up to the boiling point.
It looks as if it should be easy enough to
turn liking into ’ove, but as a matter of
fact, it is more difficult to induce an old
acquaintance to look upon us in a new light
than it is to fire the fancy of a stranger.
Still, of course, it can be done. Hearts are
won by patient siege, as well as by assault
and battery.
No one will deny that the difficulty that
this young woman confronts is the principal
answer to the query: Why is there such a
falling off in matrimony? It is because so
many men have substituted liking for love,
and women nowadays have too many men
friends and too few suitors.
It is the price that women are paying for
freedom. In the times of our grandmothers,
when a maiden never peeped her little head
out from under her chaperon’s wing, and
when a <tnan had to file his declaration of
intentions, it was a case of love or nothing.
There had to be quick heart action in
those days of romance. There was no dilly
dallying and keeping charts of whether his
affection, was subnormal or ran up to fever
heat. A man who desired to enjoy the
nleasures of female society had to pull the
Romeo stuff, and qualify for the altar.
Far different is it in these emancipated
limes when men meet women on equal terms
m business and in society; when the two
sexes work and play side by side, and when
a man can have as much as he desires of a
woman’s company without letting himself in
for becoming her meal ticket.
The more the bars are broken down be
tween the sexes, the fewer the wedding bells.
No man can be happy unless he has the un
derstanding, the sympathy, the admiration
of a woman. He has got to have some
woman to whom he can tell things that he
would never have the nerve to tell another
man. He must have some woman to whom
he can go in his hour of despair, when the
world has almost beaten him; who will cheer
and comfort him. And he must have some
woman who will encore his stories of his
triumph, and before whom he can flaunt his
egotism unashamed.
And when the crly way to get this admir
ing audience was to marry her, he bound
her to him with a wedding ring. Now he
turns the trick with platonic cTendship, and
tells the woman she is a good old scout, in
stead of the angel of his dreams. Also he
sneaks of liking instead of loving.
THE MILK SHORTAGE —By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C., 'Nov. 11. Milk
supply is just now a pressing prob
lem in many cities.
Dairy farmers say that they do not know
how they are to continue milk production at
their present rate of profit. The children’s
bureau has for some time been urging that
children between eighteen months and
twelve years of age should drink a pint and
a half of milk a day. This is much more
than is now being consumed, and the moth
ers of poor families, and even those in or
dinary circumstances, say they cannot con
tinue to bt’y even so much milk as they do
now;, if the price soars higher. And while
the price and existence of the milk supply is
argued over and made a subject for strikes,
health officials are busily fighting for greater
sanitation in milk handling.
Os all the angles of the milk problem only
the question of price seems to impress the
ultimate consumer. He hears the health
department of his town has banned milk that
•is not subjected to the tuberculin test, and
he is vaguely pleased, if he reacts at all. A
week later he finds that the price of milk is
to adynce two cents a quart, and he is stir
red to indignation, language, and occasion
ally, action.
The price difficulty, as in other branches
of agriculture, is that the farmers claim that
they have not had a square deal. The dairy
man never knows, when he sends his milk
to market, exactly what he will get in re
turn. If the demand for condensed s,iilk is
cut down, as it is now because less is ex
ported, the condensories take less milk of,
shut down entirely, and dealers in the lo
cality have so much milk offered them that
the price to the farmer is lowered. In such
cases there is often nothing for the dairy
farmer to do but take the proffered rate.
Milk is purely a local commodity. It can
seldom be shipped with profit more than a
hundred miles because of its bulk and ten
dency to spoil. So that when condenseries
in New York release so many gallons of
milk it does not mean that a milk shortage
in the south is to be helped at all.
Farmer Organizations Help
Where the milk producers are organized,
as in the greater part of the northeast and |
around the Greak Lakes, they are better
able to fLal an outlet for their product in
such instances, and to get fair ghare of
profits. They claim that co-operative asso
ciations of dairy farmers are the main hope
for the business. The farmer working alone
and unassisted will always be at a disad
vantage in dealing with the middleman, and
the dairy farmers in particular are rapidly
getting discouraged.
Jamestown, N. Y., is trying in another way
to use co-operation to make the farmer and
milk consumer contented. The milk prob
lem has been made a political issue in James
town, and, as a result, plans are under way
to set up a municipal milk plant—a city
ownership proposition. With duplication .of
effort eliminated and efficiency in full swing,
Jamestown hopes to cut down the consum
er’s milk bill and give the farmer a fair re
turn. ,
But while the rest of the country waits
for Jamestown to show what a city milk
plant can do, producers and consumers con
tinue to squabble over prices and conditions,
with the prospect for the consumer that
while milk is still rising in price, it has
about reached a peak. If it goes much high
er, sales will be cut down more than the busi
ness can stand, and the dairy herds, which
should be almost doubled to give everybody
ip the country a fair share of milk, will be
reduced because or the lighter demand for
milk. Since milk prices began to rise in
New York, the health department announc
ed *hat the total supply of mnk used by the
city dropped 25 per cent, and in the tene
ment districts milk consumption dropped 50
per cent.
Sanitation Costly
With price wars going on in various cities,
it is difficult to push sanitation campaigns.
They mean more careful attention to pro
duction, and often more expense for equip
ment and, consequently, the already har
rassed dairymen are not enthusiastic. Still,
health departments are trying tu impress the
public with the fact that while it is desirable
that milk should be cheap enough to be £
within the reach of everyone it is equally
important that milk, of all foods, should b"
clean. •
Washington is one of the cities where an i j
argument over clean milk is now in progress. «
The capital has fought for good milk from the i
time when people began to understand that I
there was such a thing as pure and impure I
milk. Children of presidents, congressmen, ‘
diplomats, and federal employes ar© depend- 4
DOROTHYDIX TALkS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The World’s Highest Paid Woman Writer.
WINNING A HUSBAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Sydicate, Inc.)
All of which is hard on women, because
the feminine heart is still doing business a'
the same old stand, in the same old way, am
woman’s talent is for loving, not liking, any
way. Her emotions are always either at th<
sizzling or the freezing point.
How to change these comradely men inti
lovers and husbands is the problem that con
fronts thousands of young women. It is t
difficult task, and one that each individua
woman must work out for herself; but per
haps no better remedy for the general situ
ation can be suggested than to try the shoefl
treatment.
The trouble with a great many women
is that they let themselvea b.ecome a habil
to the men they love. If a woman knowh
that the man on whom she has set her heart
depends on her for ympathy, she is always
there ready to hand him out the glad hanc
or tears, according to his demand on her
If she knows he depends on her for compan
ionship, she is ready to trot around the golf
links with him, no matter how she loathes
it, or to automobile with him though she
quakes in terror every minute of the time;
or she lends a listening ear while he dis
courses on the grocery trade, or stocks, of
politics, or whatever other subject he is in
terested in, and about which she only cares
because Ire cares.
If she knows he depends upon her for
comfort she will work her fingers to the
bone to give him the food he likes, and t<s
have his chair, and his smoking stand, and
his reading light just at the particular angle
that he prefers them.
And in time the man comes to take all
this devotion with the same calm acceptance
that he does the sunshine, and the beauty of
nature, and the graciousness of life. The
woman does not exist as a woman in his
consciousness, but simply as a thing that
gives savour to life. He dßes not even rec
ognize how dear and precious a woman is to
him until she leaves the scene.
That is why many men who have been
indifferent husbands are heart-broken
widowers when their wives die. The measure
of their loss is the measure of their love.
So I would advise any woman who wanted
to win the modern man to first majee herself
necessary to his happiness and comfort, and
then to suddenly remove herself from his
vicinity.
Shut the door that has always been open
to him-. - Take away from him tke companion
ship upon which he leans, and if that does
not make him realize that his liking is lov
ing, nothing will. ’
< ent on the purity of the Washington milk
supply, and the health officer of the district
is insistent that the government workers and
j their families shall not ha,ve to worry over
t epidemics caused by milk.
3 Twenty-five years ago, nobody save a few
t scientists thought very much about milk as
I a disease carrier, but about that time Mr.
[ Emile Berliner, inventor of important de
j vices connected with the telephone and talk
. ing machine, and for many years president of
. the tuberculosis society of Washington, be
. gan to be interested in milk.
> Mr. Berliner’s baby nearly died, and the
j inventor was convinced that impure milk
5 was responsible. He began to inquire about
, conditions in dairies, chances for bacteria to,
• be transmitted from the cow and the milker
into the milk, chances of infection from these
. bacteria. Mr. Berliner organized a milk so
, ciety in Washington and helped to got to-
L gether the most important scientists and
health experts in the country for the Wash*
ingon milk conference of 1907. He pointed
out to the people that one baby in four died
' in Washington in its first year, and that un
doubtedly impure milk was the cause of a
. large percentage of the deaths. The truth
of this claim is conceded now. Where twen
ty years ago, one baby in four died, today,
' with a well-guarded milk supply, the loss
has been reduced to one baby in twelve.
Washington’s present milk trouble is over
the tuberculin test. New York and Pennsyl
vania dairy farmers offer to supply the Dis
’ trict of Columbia with milk at a slightly
cheaper rate than the Maryland and Virginia
' farms, but they refuse to subject their cows
to the tuberculin test which is required of
all dairies supplying the capital.
Nearby Supply Is Best
This situation shows clearly, what is often
claimed, that it is better for a city to get its
milk close at hand where inspection can b©
' enforced than to save a few cents on milk
that cannot be easily guarded and is several.
. days old before it can be delivered to the
consumer. Cheap milk from a distant dairy
is a doubtful bargain.
The tuberculin test, which health official#
are struggling to obtain or to enforce is, Mr.
Berliner points out, an elementary precau
| tion. A herd of cows is tested and none
' is infected. Six months later the test is
again made and one or several cows are
; found tubercula . If the disease was con
tracted shortly after the first test, then the
■ milk from that herd may have ,been laden
with tubercle ’ bacilli for several months.
The tuberculin test is valuable to the dairy
man in that it may save his entire herd
from infection, but it is not enough of a
protection to the public. To give the pub
lic clean milk, Mr. Berliner uijges that every
city should insist on proper pasteurization
of its entire supply of milk and cream.
Pasteurization destroys 99 per cent of the
bacilli which flourish in milk, even from
well-managed dairies. Cleanliness in dairy
farming is growing, and the proportion of
pasteurized milk and cream is steadily in
creasing, through pressure of health officials
and demands of the public, and also because (
the dairy business is gradually separating ’
from the general farm. Special precautions
and ceremonies, that often seem so much ex
tra trouble to the busy farmer who sends a
few gallons of milk to town as a side line,
become an accepted part of the routine on
a large dairy farm.
With growing efficiency in the dairy busi
ness and the dairy farmers organizing, the
milk outlook is more hopeful than it has
been though it will be some time before the
United States is raising 43,000,000 cows in
stead of its x >resent herd of 23,000,000 and
everybody is drinking the proper amount of
milk to keep his diet properly balanced.
Getting Down to Business •
We are getting dovjn to business. After
November 1 airships coming into the United
States will be subject to the same quarantine ;
regulations as apply to steamers. The first
airplane health inspector will be located in
Key West. Airships must obtain bills of
health from the American consul at Havana
before leaving Cuba to land in Florida.—
Augusta Chronicle.
This being true we’ll make the trip via
steame”.
, ved in Memory «»f
Ellisville has inaugurated a sure on
monument. Here and there, steadily if
slowly increasing in number, there are set
up plain slabs upon which legends are legi
bly painted or engraved clear and big enough
that he who runs an automobile may read:
“A Fatal Accident Occurred Here.” —Savan-
Morning News.