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The Gains of Southern Ports
THERE has been much “throwing
about of brains,” as Hamlet would
say, over the news that between July
nd September last the foreign commerce
lassing through New York fell more than
twelve per cent in outgoing and more than
live per cent in incoming business, while that
jf other ports particularly those of the
South Atlantic and the Gulf materially in
creased. Some of our friends in the North
east lay the change to what they call the
shipping Board’s “policy of discrimination.”
By this they mean Admiral Benson’s an
nounced purpose to see that in the allotment
>f tonnage, and in other matters where the
nfluence of the Government-steered mer
chant marine comes into play, there should
ie an impartial deal for all American ports,
nstead of the favoritism which thitherto
lindly turned its flow of milk and honey to
ne or two outlets of the North Atlantic.
It is pleasing to see, however, that the
lore thoughtful observers in that region in
crpret the developments more fairly and
aore reasonably. Jhus the New York Even
ug Post points out that while exports-to Eu
ope for the first three quarters of the cur
ent year are below those for the cor
esponding period of 1919, exports to Latin
tmerica have markedly increased, and that
in this, South Atlantic and Gulf ports ought
o profit.” Furthermore, “the Shipping
loard will not be able to take .rom this port
uch trade as it ought to get; it is for New
fork to see that it deserves as much as
ossible.”
That is the common sense and the com
lon justice of the situation. Neither Ad
airal Benson nor any other reasonable
American could wish to divert from New
ork a single ton of trade which ought, as a
latter of natural flow or superior facilities,
ogo that way. But, just as obviously, trade
zhich, if left to those same determining
ictors, will pass through South Atlantic or
lulf ports, should not be diverted to New
'ork by arbitrary regulations or arbitrary
ates. Such a policy, as experience has
harply proved, is highly detrimental to the
ommon country. In the earlier stages of
he World War, and even up to the second
pring of America’s participation, the custom
f trying to crowd the bulk o the nation’s
>verseas commerce through a single North
.tlantic outlet brought widespread incon
enience and loss, and at last grave peril to
ur military interests in France. So congest
d were the approaches to New York, as well
s the port itself, that not infrequently traf
c for a hundred miles into the interior
ould be tied up for weeks together. Is it
o be wondered that in 1917, on trunk lines
orth of the Potomac, there were one hun
dred thousand box cars more than belonged
here, while Southeastern roads alone lacked
ome twenty-five thousand cars of what they
iwned and urgently needed? The whole
ountry suffered from the effort to force vast
ides of commerce through .. single channel,
gainst all rudiments of efficiency and natu
al economic law; and it will suffer just as
epeatedly as the short-sighted policy is in
dulged.
The influences responsible for that state
f affairs have been partly removed. For one
hing there has been a revision of the dis
riminating freight rates which once con
,trained shippers in the Middle West to
oute their exports byway of North Atlantic
•utlets, although the South Atlantic and the
lulf were nearer, more convenient and alto
ether preferable. Moreover, there is a fair
r allotment of tonnage to these ports than
foretime, and a promise of fairer marine
ates. Was it not passing strange that a con
ignment of goods for, say the West Indies
»r Panama, should start from a Georgia
actory, go the long rail haul to New York,
md thence be shipped by water uown the
Seaboard; past Savannah and Brunswick,
vhen it could have gone directly through one
of those last mentioned ports, at a great
laving of distance and time and money?
Protests against the rules and rates which
made this anomaly possible were met by the
assertion that Southern ports lacked shins.
But when these ports would ask for ships,
they would be put off with the reply that
they bad not business enough to warrant
ships’ being assigned to them —as if forsooth
it would be possible to develop the business
without the ships'
Surely, there can be no just or reasonable
"omplaint against the righting of such inequi
ties. The development of Southern ports,
with their ice-free harbors, their commod
ious facilities, their proximity to Latin Amer
ican trade routes, their vast potentialities
for serving the country’s needs and promot
ing its prosperity, is a matter for reioicing,
not for regret, throughout the ration.
Southern cities themselves, however, those
of the interior included, must do their ut
most to foster that development and to safe
card its fruits; elsewise the gains of recent
easons will be in peril.
Editorial Echoes.
Tmerica’s ship of state b’ds fair to be
come a rowboat. —Norfolk Virginian Pilot.
One war in baseball was called off to
give another a chance. Just like regular
wars. —Pittsburg Dispatch.
An Ohio woman asks a d’vorce because
her husband beat her in a political argu
ment. Well, she didn’t haev to admit it. —•
Pittsburg Gazette Times.
The Editor ’sDesk
That New Serial
“The Only Thing That Counts,” a fine
new continued story, gets going in The
Tri-Weekly Journal today.
The first instalment appears on the
Home Page.
Carolyn Beecher, the author of “The
Only Thing That Counts,” hit upon a happy
idea in the plot of.her story While she
has given the public many splendid novels
in the last few years, none of them, per
haps, excels this continued story.
“The Only Thing That Counts” is the
sort of a tale that grows more absorbing
with each chapter. Any reader who
“keeps up with it” will be generously re
paid in terms of enjoyment.
More About Subscriptions
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special offers arranged by The Tri-Weekly
Journal’s subscription department are re
peated in this issue.
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these opportunities carefully, or who has
I not yet taken advantage of one or another
of them, would do well to heed that fa
mous bit of advice.
“DO IT NOW!”
Georgia's Industrial Tour
THE industrial tour of the North and
East for which one hundred and
fifty representative Georgians are
to leave Atlanta Wednesday is rich in
promise both of constructive results for
the Commonwealth and of a deepening of
cordial relations between the South and
the regions to be visited. It is peculiarly
fitting that such an enterprise should be
conducted under the auspices of the move
ment for “a Greater Georgia Tech and a
Greater Industrial Georgia.” The upbuild
ing of that institution and the develop
ment of the State’s material resources are
as intimately related as a dynamo and
the machinery which it drives to produc
tive ends. From the Tech come the engi
neering power and skill, the trained mus
cles and the trained minds that can trans
form the crude treasure of stream and
forest and mine and soil into the vastly
heightened wealth of manufactures.
While Georgia has made remarkable
progress in this respect, it is clear to even
a casual observer that she has but blazed
the first pioneer paths of the industrial
empire that is hers for the working. It is
well therefore that a company of leading
citizens, especially devoted to the idea of
increasing the capacity and serviceableness
of her far-famed Technological institution,
should go upon a tour of the great manu
facturing centers of the North and East,
to study their methods in the light of
Georgia’s needs and resources. Among the
points to be visited are Cincinnati, Pitts
burgh, New York, Niagara Falls and Bos
ton, all noted for their wealth of manu
facturing interests and all waiting with a
hearty welcome.
In the last mentioned city is the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology, which
has done for that State and, largely for
New England, what the Georgia Tech, if
adequately financed, is eminently capable
of doing for this Commonwealth and for
the South. Some years ago, before the in
dustrial development of our region had be
gun, there was a national meeting at
which a spokesman for each of the States
was called upon to tell of its special ad
vantages. When it came the turn of Mas
sachusetts, as the Manufacturers’ Record
relates, her representaive said: “I have
listened to the story of the natural ad
vantages of the Pacific Coast, of the West
and of the South, but I am compelled to
tell you that Massachusetts has none of
them. We have a rugged soil, we pro
duce comparatively little of what we eat
and nothing of what we turn into manu
factured products. We have, however, taken
the cotton and the coal and the iron and
the timber of the South, we have drawn
upon the West for our food supply, upon
California for the products of its soil, and
based on this wholly artificial foundation
we have created an industrial development
the output of which far exceeds the total
manufactured product of the entire South.
We have utilized our brain power and our
energy, and, having no natural advantages,
we have made them do our wokr.”
Brain power and energy! They are the
open sesames to the vast treasure which
nature has stored in Georgia. They are
the magical touches that transfigure crude
materials into the riches of loom and
forge. They are the incalculable assets
which the Georgia Tech turns forth. They
are the motive and ’the end of the pres
ent industrial tour.
Financing Southern Exports
A BUSINESS project could receive no
more impressive indorsement than
that which the Georgia Bankers’ As
sociation, at a special meeting held yester
day in Macon, gave to the recently organ
ized movement for promoting foreign sales
of Southern products, particularly cotton'.
“We believe that the plan proposed,” runs
the Association’s resolutions, “is practicable
and will be beneficial to our section, and
profitable to the stockholders.” Each bank
in the State is urged to subscribe, on a
basis of three per cent of its capital and
surplus, to the six millions of stock with
which the proposed company is to begin ser
vice. It is recommended, moreover, that,
“all exporters, wholesalers, and others
whose business would be facilitated by this
organization, subscribe.”
This, be it observed, is not the casual
opinion, of mere well-wishers to a presum
ably good cause, but the mature judgment
of specialists in business and finance, who
have given exhaustive study to the enter
prise which they now so earnestly commend
as “practicable, beneficial to our section,
and profitable to the stockholders.” Such
counsel cannot fail to carry conviction, and
should not fail to evoke prompt and full
sinewed action. The Federal International
Banking Company, as the new institution is
to be called, will do much to simplify, if
iltogether to solve, such problems as beset
he South when, notwithstanding a pro
nounced foreign need for her cotton, the
market for that staple becomes sluggish and
beggarly, simply for want of means to fi
nance the overseas sales. Today millions of
bales could be sold, on the soundest secur
ity, to Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia and other
countries of continental Europe if the Fed
eral International Banking Company were
in operation.
Not only cotton, but also lumber, sugar
rice, textiles and divers other products of
Southern fields and mills will be helped to
wider and steadier reaches of foreign trade
through the export bank. This is an oppor
tunity that should appeal with peculiar
force to Georgia, with her advantageous out
lets to Atlanta and Caribbean commerce,
her diversity of natural resources, and her
fast growing industries. Abundantly can
she afford to subscribe her quota of one
and a half million dollars to the minimum
capita! stock of the six millions which
Southern interests are to assemble; indeed,
she cannot afford to do otherwise. It is
greatly to he hoped that the indorsement of
it.be Bankers’ Association will speed the
I State’s nart in the enterprise to full per
-1 formance.
WHY DC) YOU HURRY?
By H.'Addington Bruce
YESTERDAY I saw you rushing to catch
a street car. You hurried desperate
ly only to find when you got to the
end of your street that no car was in sight.
Then you fumed and walked about impa
tiently until one finally did come.
Most of the way you sat tapping uneasily
with your foot. Leaving the car, you again
set off feverishly to your place of work. So
rapidly did you move that you almost ran.
This seems to be your regular performance
day after day. And I’ll warrant that all day
long you are the ' embodiment of restless
haste. Certainly I have seen you in the
late afternoon rflshing home as though you
had not a moment to spare.
Why do you hurry this way?
If you hurry in the morning because you
are afraid of being late to work it surely
should be a simple matter to arrange things
so that you ’an make a trifle earlier start.
And if you hurry all day because you think
that otherwise you cannot get your work
done, let me tell you plainly that experience
will prove tc you that with less hurry it ac
tually is possible for you to do your work both
better and easier than at present.
More than this, "by conquering your bad
habit of hurrying—that is what it is, a bad
habit —you will not merely raise your effi
ciency, but will improve your health into the
bargain. This for a reason admirably stated
by one observant physician:
“Hurry means high tension. High tension
is the counterpart of a breakneck, speed,
which is hound to lead to a ‘runaway’ of the
nerves sooner or later.
“I fact, hurry makes overwork inevitable,
and overwork leads directly to worry, ner
vousness, and exhaustion. The old adage,
‘Make haste slowly,’ is quite justified.”
Though unacquainted with you, I do not
hesitate to describe you as a person weary of
mind, dissatisfies, oppressed with a feeling
that life is pretty empty and futile. This un
happy mental state is only because you hurry
so relentlessly.
And such a mental state is itself harmful
to health. It causes physical as well as emo
tional friction, throwing the different bodily
organs more or less out of gear.
So that your hurrying habit may be acting,
in more ways than one, to shorten your life.
Is it not of real importance to resolve to con
quer such a hurtful habit and to learn how to
conquer it?
There are books, plenty of them, that will
teach you how to do this. I have listed for
your benefit a few of the best, and will send
you my list if you w'ant it. Write to me in
the care of this newspaper, inclosing a stamp
ed and self-addressed envelope.
And write now, while the appreciation of
the harmfulness of hurry is keen in your
mind. Otherwise you may forgetfully go on
hurrying to a hurrier’s fate.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers)
z—
THANKSGIVING, WHAT IS IT?
By Dr. Frank Crane
Thanksgiving is a state of mind.
It is not a conclusion of logic.
You cannot get all the evidence together,
present it, argue eloquently about it, and
convince a single soul that he ought to be
thankful. Because you are trying to push
him to a goal along the road of reasoning,
when the only way he can reach it is by the
road of feeling and imagniation.
Hence it is strange to see every year,
about Thanksgiving time, the efforts made
y many to give a list of reasons why w’e
should be thankful, as though thankfulness
were to be come at by arithmetic.
When you anlyze thankfulness, put it into
the test tube and search for its ingredients,
and test it by the spectrum and x-ray, you
discover that it is no more nor less than the
outward sign of an inward grace, which is
Humility.
That is to say, if one thinks he gets more
than he deserves he is thankful; if he be
lieves he is getting less than he ought to
ave he is not thankful.
But we are social animals, and few of us
make our estimates by looking at ourselves
alone. And it is not so much what we our
selves get that troubles or comforts us; it is
a comparison of our own condition with that
of our neighbor.
And here comes into play the greatest
misery producer, wretchedness spreader, and
unhappiness breeder that is known to man.
That is, Envy.
Most of us would be pretty contented if
it were not for other people.
Our feeling of injustice is not caused by
the fact that we have only bread and butter,
for bread and butter are good and w r e really
like them, but by the fact that the other fel
low has pie, which is bad for us.
There is, therefore, but one sure recipe for
thanksgiving, and that is to get the habit of
considering our own state without reference
to that of others.
You are perfectlly comfortable in your
cottage; why should you lose flesh because
your neighbor nas a mansion?
Y r ou have a good bed and sleep w’ell, why
should you thorn your pillow by thoughts of
his bed which cost a thousand dollars?
You have enough to eat and drink, why
worry because he has more chan he can eat
and drink?
Envy is almost always directed tow’ard the
superfluous.
It is envy that makes workmen bitter, and
women catty, and youth sulky, and politi
cians vicious, and drives many a business
man to bankruptcy.
It is the ternal struggle for precedence, the
desire to outshine, outdo, and outrun our
neighbor that is the fly in our ointment of
contentment “that '•auseth it to stink.”
Not for nothing was the commandment
"Thou shalt not covet” put amoung the ten.
Abate your hot egotisms, and put away
your unclean envies, and you will find ( this
earth and your place in it not so bad.
Confucius said: “He dislikes none, he
covets nothing—what can he do but what
is good?”
There it all is, in a nutshell. Despise no
man being, envy n ne. Such a man is con
tinually in a state of thanksgiving.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)'
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
Bv JACK L PATTERSON
They Know What They Are Doing
Sometimes in our kind of way we wonder
why it is some “prominent lady” with origi
nal notions doesn’t have her picture made
for the newspapers without crossing her
running gear, just tc look different.—J. D.
Spencer in Macon Telegraph.
Well, perhaps the photographer advises
her to “put her best foot forward.”
A General Need
What LaGrange needs is more men who
will do things and talk less.—Charles Beau
pree in LaGrange Reporter.
The incessant talker seldoms has time to
do anything else.
Displaying “Horse Sense”
Considering the vay a lot of automobile
drivers behave those horses who some years
ago used to jump into the ditches at sight
of a machine showed very good judgment.—
Augusta Herald.
Evidently the horses were believers in
, “safety first.”
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Santa Claus Ship
A Santa Claus ship is going from
America to Dalmatia. It will be furnished
jy the navy department and the cargo
vhich is to delight the kiddies of the
Adriatic sea country will be supplied by
n Ame r: ecn Junior Red Cross.
The sending of the ship was suggested
by Rear Admiral Andrews, commanding
American naval forces in the Adriatic. He
wrote that the children of Dalmatia need
ed better clothing and nourishment than
they received and that they didn’t know
vhat toys were like.
Three Little Wars
Three little wars, led by three .ittle
leaders, now are going on against the
Bolshevik! on or near the eastern fron
tiers of Poland. In the extreme south
is Petlura, hetman of the Ukraine. Next
to him is a Wrangel army under Gen
eral Permikin, and in the north are
Balakhovitch and Savinov. These lead
ers have widely different objects. For
the moment they are united by hatred
of the Bolsheviki, but in case of victory
it is difficult to say what they would do.
New York Horse Show
A polo match and an exhibition of ma
chine gun cart teams were innovations on
the program of the thirty-fifth annual na
tional horse show which opened Monday at
Madison Square Garden, New York, with the
argest number of entries in its history.
Cost Her $2,940
Expenditures of $2,940 were made in
the campaign on behalf of Miss Alice
Robertson, of the second Oklahoma dis
trict, the second woman to be elected to
congress, according to a report filed with
the clerk of the house of representatives
by her campaign manager.
Receipts were given at $2,615 and the
deficit, it was stated,, will be made up
from subsquent collections “to ratify the
result of the election;”
Miss Robertson declared in he rstate
raent that “no pledges or promises were
made to obtain her election.
Watson’s Vote
Thomas E. Watson’s received a total of
123,730 votes as against 6-6,841 votes for
Harry Stillwell Edwards, the Republican sen
atorial candidate, in the recent election, ac
cording to figures compiled at the govern
or’s office. The totals do not include Evans
county, which is yet to report.
The vote for presidential electors has not
yet been recapitulated, but it is believed
the Democratic electors received slightly
fewer votes than the number cast for Sena
tor Watson.
Japanese Mobs
Anti-Christian mobs twice broke up
Salvation Army jubilee celebrations in
Tokio, Japanese capital, Sunday. Gangs
of students dispersed an open air gath
ering. while a mob invaded an indoor
meeting, tore down the decorations and
silenced the speakers. Officials of the
Salvation Army declare they believe the
disturbances were fomented by Bud
dhists.
Free Cigarettes
The sight of millions of apparently good
cigarettes being dealt with in the same man
ner as confiscated opium confirmed the long
held view of the average Chinese coolie that
the majority of foreigners in Shanghai are
insane. The explanation was that the ciga
rettes had become damp, and. being refused
by the consignees, the company decided to
destroy them. The coolies made a raid on
them and secured thousands of the con
demned cigarettes before the police arrived.
Two More Volcanoes
The volcano Izalso, in Salvador, near
the town of Sonsonzte, is throwing out
torrents of lava, but no seismip disturb
ances are accompanying ;he eruption.
Great quantities of smoke and ashes .also
are issuing from the crater of San Miguel,
another Salvadorean volcano.
But They Didn’t Win
Expenditures of the single tax party in
the presidential campaign totaled only
$2,548.85, according to a report of the par
ty’s national committee filed with the clerk
of the house of representatives. Receipts
were placed at $3,122.65, and there were no
individual contributions of more than SSOO
The list included several donations from per
sons living abroad.
Air Race
Applications for entries in the Pulit
zer trophy airplane race at Mineola on
Thanksgiving day closed Monday, it was
announced by the contest committee of
the Aero Club of America, under whose
auspices the race will be held.
Eighteen planes from the army and
navy air service have been entered, the
committee announced, as well as all the
participants in the recent Gordon Ben
nett race in France.
Low Death Rate
The 1919 death rate in the death registra
tion area of continental United States, em
bracing 81 per cent of the total population,
was shown in statistics made public Monday
by the census bureau to be the lowest re
corded for any one year. The rate of 12.9
per 1,000 population showed a drop of 5.1
per 1,000 from the unusually high rate of
1918, resulting from the epidemic of influ
enza.
The total number of deaths in 1919 was
1,096,436, of which 1 11,579 or 10.2 per cent
were caused by heart disea'se, while tuber
culosis resulted in 106,985, or 9.8 per cent,
the statistics showed. Deaths attributed to
pneumonia totaled 105,213; influenza, 84,-
112; nephritis and Bright’s disease, 75,005,-
and cancer and other malignant tumors, 68,-
551.
Three states—Delaware, Florida and Mis
sissippi—were added to the registration
area in 1919, making a total of thirty-three
states, the District of Columbia and eighteen
registration cities in non-registration states
in the area.
Australia Adopts Town
' The city of Melbourne, Australia, has
“adopted” Villers-Bretonneux, the ruin
ed town east of Amiens, where, in Anvil,
19IS, the Australians stopned the Ger
man drive which was to have cleft the
British and French forces.
History of Thomasville
W. B. Maclntyre, member of the lesrisla
ure from Thomas county, has just completed
he compilation of a history of Thomas
county and Thomasville, which, after being
published in serial form in the local newspa
per. will be published as a book.
Mr. Maclntyre has made considerable re
search and put much time and labor into the
ustory.
I'hlxioLAjf', 18, 1920.
READING CHARACTER
By Frederic J. Haskin
NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 13.—The num
ber of persons you can find in a great
city like this, who will tell you all
about your abilities and possibilities, and the
number of dfferent methods by which they
will do it, is bewildering.
The shape of your head, the bumps upon
your skull, the form of your features, the
color of your hair and eyes, the lines in the
palms of your hand, your handwriting, are all
made the bases of systems for the reading of
your character. Likewise, you can be put
through scientific tests and examinations
which will reveal the exact grade of your in
telligence, your powers of memory, concen
tration, perception, invention and many other
things. Many of these systems of diag
nosing the human personality are prac
ticed by quacks and charlatans, ming
led with all sorts of • superstition, but
they are also cultivated by persons of real in
telligence an.’ scientific attainment. They
played a large part in choosing men for the
army. The United States navy employed a
handwriting expert as well as psychologists.
And many industrial plants now use some sys
tem of testing the intelligence and studying
the characters of prospective employes.
Theoretically then, there is no reason why
you should be in any ignorance of your own
potentialities—why you should go about won
dering w’hat you are good for, ot cherishing
any illusions about what you can do. With
all of these methods available, it should be
as ea%’ to have your abilities analyzed as it
is to have a case of measles diagnosed. And
likewise, there ij apparently i.o reason why
you should not be able to choose your friends
and employes with scientific precision, in
stead of blundering about it the way you do;
for all of these methods are taught, and many
of them are taugh x by correspondence, and
books have been written about all of them.
' We Blunder Still
And yet, somehow, we seem to go on blun
dering about ourselves and others, as of
yore. And even those of us who have studied
these systems are not so much better off than
those who have not. Can it be that there is
nothing in them after all?
In the judgment of one character-reading
fan, who has plodded through the literature
of many of these methods, and tried mightily
to apply their teachings, there is something
in each of them, but no key to the riddle of
human personality in any one of them, or in
all of them put together. There is nothing
more terrible than to become a victim of
some one of these systems and to try to ap
ply it literally on all occasions. Take the
matter of head-form, for instance. You learn
that a man with a fine square brow has a
dominating intelligence. If he also has well
placed eyes, a good chin and high nose, he is
the ideal type, the master of civilization.
Then you meet him on the street. He is a
traffic cop. And the same day you meet a
man who has written a remarkable book, and
you find that he has a low retreating fore
head, a pug nose and several of the stigmata
of degeneracy, and that he ought to be a
porch-climber or a pickpocket.
Does this prove that the system is no good?
Not exactly. The shape of a man’s head and
features does reveal a good deal about the
nature of his abilities, but it does not reveal
much about his caliber. The traffic cop may
indeed be a man of well-balanced intelli
gence and good character—the kind who will
handle a bad traffic jam with a fine sense of
justice and without becoming confused or
angry. And the writer with the bullet head
may indeed be an erratic. But his brain cells
are three or four times as strong and active
as those of the traffic cop. He is not such a
well-balanced machine, but he is one of much
higher horsepower and finer quality.
The Mystery of Power
The proper method, perhaps, is to apply all
of the systems for what they are worth, and
never to let any of them interfere with the
general impression. It is the degree of pow
er which resides in a man that determines
more than anything else his effectiveness for
human purposes, and there is no system for
accurately estimating that degree of power.
You can judge it only by intuition and ex
perience. It is as invisible and vital as the
amount of electricity which courses through a
wire?
And it is just as hard for a man to estimate
his own powers, except by performance, as
it is for him to estimate those of another. The
feeling of power seems to be no guide at all.
The world is full of egotistical fools who
seem to feel genuinely sure that they were
born to high destiny, while many great men
can scarcely believe in their own powers
even after they have discovered them.
It seems well, then, to take account of all
these systems for judging men without ever
letting any of them get in the light of a gen
eral impression. If you are going to hire a
man, study the shape of his head to be sure.
If he has a good brow it is in his favor. A
man with a high brow is apt to make a good
salesman. A well-formed, sensitive mouth is
a good thing to bank on, and a deep cleft be
tween the eyes shows unmistakably that its
owner has done some thinking. And do not
overlook the man’s handwriting, either, if
it is only a signature to a typewritten letter.
There seems to be no doubt that an ascend
ing signature shows ' courage and hope—a
personality which is growing and winning in
the struggle of life—and a descending signa
ture shows a man discouraged or frightened
or in poor health. Simple, graceful capitals
show good taste, and ornate capitals show
vulgarity, while unduly large ones are a pret
ty good indication of egotism. These things
are significant and worth taking into account,
but they do not prove much.
Everything Significant
In fact, everytning about a man is signifi
cant. There is no effect without a cause.
Every move that ma makes, every line in
his face, every inflection of his voice, the
way he combs his hair and the way he
dresses, the way he sits in a chair, and the
way he walks are all tell-tale, if only we
could understand them. And these systems
for reading character which are springing up
in such number are all based on this fact.
They are steps toward the founding of a
science of human personality, and if it ever
becomes a true and unified science, it will
perhaps be the most important cf them all.
For surely ignorance of human character
and personality is the ca se of enormous
human waste. No doubt the t’rne will come
when education, for example, will be as much
diagnosis as training. How many boyc are
forced into business when all of their apti
tudes are for rt or science? How many per
sons labor to become writers or artists, spend
ing years of effort, giving up hard-earned
cash to correspondence schools, when they
have not a spark of talent? How many born
thieves and murderers are cheerfully turned
loose upon the community every year by the
schools? How many good mechanics and'
farmers are spoiled by the idea that they'
were cut out for office jobs?
And all of this waste is preventable. Much ,
of it could be prevented by such methods as [
have been perfected already. Give your at
tention then to every system for studying
the enigma of human personality which is
honest and sincere It cannot solve the rid
dle, but it may help.
South Georgia Syrup
It will soon be syrup-making time on South
Georgia farms. There will be u big crop this
year, and there is every reason to believe the .
demand for Georgia cane syrup will be, as it
ever has been, greater than the supply.—Al- j
bany Herald. |
| DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
To Propose or Not to
Propose
(Copyright. 1920, by the Wheeler Sy
dicate, Inc.)
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A young man is very much in love with
a girl, but he is poor and in no position to
marry. It may be years before he is able
to undertake the support of a family, and
he is torn in the conflict between his heart
and his head.
He feels that it is not quite fair to bind
the girl to him by a long engagement, and.
yet he also feels that it is right to let her
know that his heart i. hers, and that he
has not been just philandering with her, so
he askt shall he pop the question or not.
I say yes. It is a question that the girl
has a right to t. :ide, and however she does
it, it will alvzays be another bead on her
rosary of happiness to know that the man
cared for her. For with women it is always
better to have loved and lost than never
to have been loved at all.
Many a man who thinks it dishonorable to
bind a woman he loves to his uncertain for
tune dooms her to a far worse fate than
poverty. She does not understand his silence,
nor guess why he loved and rode away with
out speaking, and so she grows into a bitter,
hard old maid, who rails at the faithlessness
of man because she believes that the one
man to whom she gave the priceless jewel
of her maiden heart trifled with it and
flouted it.
Women are not pikers in love, nor are
they as afraid of hardships as men imagine
them to be. So if they would prefer to risk
their all in the great adventure rather than
spend their days safe and dull and knowing
never a thrill o love or danger, certainly no
man has the right to deny them the privi
lege of making the choice, and deciding the
question for themselves.
I agree with the young man in thinking
that a long engagement is one of the most
unsatisfactory phases of all the relation
ships between men and women, for it is nei
ther the one thing nor the other. It has
neither the freedom of the celibate, nor the
security of the married. It is neither fish
nor flesh, nor good red herring.
It wears out romance as not even mar
riage does, because it is full of the jeal
ousies and bickerings of those who belong,
and yet do not belong to each other, and tha
couples who eventually marry, after they
have waited years for each other, almost al
ways find when they come to drink their
cup of rapture at being together at last, that
it has gone stal and flat at having stood too
long. It is like last night’s champagne
served up for breakfast.
The long engagement is even more disas
trous when a couple are parted and live in
different places. Then it is inevitable that
they should grow apart because environment
develops them along different lines, or one
develops and the other stands still.
There are no more .profound tragedies than
those that are the result of a long engage
ment between girls and boys who are start
ing in away from the country, or some small
town, to seek their fortunes.
If the boy does not succeed, the girl wears
her youth out in hopeless waiting and lets
her chances for settling herself for life go by
her. If the boy does succeed, nine times out
of ten, he outgrows the girl and only a sense
of honor sends him back t<j redeem the pledge
he had given her. He has broadeened and
developed in the big outside world. City Jlfe
has polished him. He has become accus
tomed to smarter women, women who speak
a different language, and have a different
viewpoint from his old sweetheart. But there
has been nothing to change her.
And sad as is the fate of a man who mar
ries a woman whom he no longer wants,
from a sense of duty, it is not so horrible
as that of the wife 'who knows that her only
hold on her husband is his pity for her, and
that he married her because Lj didn’t have
the courage to leave her by telling her that
he no longer loved her.
But these tragedies of the long engage
ment are no longer necessary. Formerly,
when a couple had not enough money on
which to marry, all that they could do was
for the woman to wait ana weep while the
man worked, and romance grew thread-bare,
and thrills wore themselves out.
Now’ when any able-bodied, intelligent girl
can go out and get a job, and earn a good
living for herself, there is no reason why any
young couple should not take their courage
in their two hands and unite their earning
capacity as well as their hearts. ,
Thus they may take love at its flooding
tide instead of waiting for its ebb. Thus
they have the glory and the joy of compan
ionship in their youth. Thus they may grow
together, develop together, become one in
stead of being two crotchety individuals,
with ways that they have developed and fos
tered during years of living alone.
And no husbam and wife are so close to
each other as those who have stood shoulder
to shoulder and fought the wolf away from
the door, who have saved, and planned, and
hoped, and dreamed together 1’ the years in
which they vere getting a start.
Love and courage and the high heart of
youth! These are the best things in life. They
are worth risking a lot for, and they surely
make an adequate substitute for the gew
gaws, the swell wedding, and the period fur
niture with which so many young couples
think it necessary to begin their married life.
Anyway, a man in these days in trying
to decide whether he has a right to pop the
question or not, should remember that the
modern girl is not the helpless doll her grand
mother was. She’s capable of being a help
meet, and she has the sentimental suffrage
as well as the political, and the right to a
vote on her fate. '
So ask her.
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
A man, who, with his family, had spent
several weeks at a fashionable seaside re
sort, discovered one morning that he had
lost his pocketbook. Thinking it possible
that it might have been found by some em
ploye of the hotel at which he was staying,
he reported h s loss to the landlord.
“That’s a pity, Mr. Johnson,” said the land
lord. “I'll make some inquiries about it.
What kind of pocketbook was it?”
“Russian leather,” answered the boarder.
“What color?”
“Dark red.”
“Any distinguishing marks about it?”
“Flat, of course!” said Mr. Johnson.
“Haven’t I been staying here now for nearly
a month?”
“Mothers.” said the sweet girl, “George
told me solemnly that that pretty hairpin
holder he gave me cost. $5; yet today I saw
exactly the same kind on sale for 10 cents.”
“You know’, my dear, that George is very
religious,” replied mother. “Most likely he
bought that at a charitable bazar ”
“What time is it?” asked his wife, suspi
ciously, as he came in.
“About one.”
Just then th° clock struck three.
"Gracious! When did that clock com
mence to stutter’” he said, with a feeble at- 1
tempt at justification.