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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURANL I ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. I Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mai) Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W _..l l'o. 3 Mo». 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 2oc fcdc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 I Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 l Bunday .............. 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It coutains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. 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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 The two announcements telling of the special offers arranged by The Tri-Weekly Journal’s subscription department are re peated in this issue. Any subscriber who has not studied 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.) ■ - - I 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.