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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, G«.
A Timely “Tip” to Georgia On
Industrial Prosperity
JN one of his highly interesting stories of
the Greater Georgia Tech’s industrial
tour The Journal’s managing editor, Mr.
John Paschall, tells of an Eastern idea that
would be quite adaptable and peculiarly
worth while to the Empire commonwealth
of the South. It is in the Mellon Institute at
Pittsburgh that this conception of bringing
science and education directly into the ser
vice of business, and of bringing business
directly into the service of science and edu
cation, has been so happily worked out. While
this institution has a liberal endowment that
takes care of its overhead expenses, the
greater part of its operations, we are told,
is financed by business interests through
the founding of fellowships for the study of
their own practical problems and opportuni
ties. For instance:
“It was a surprise to many of the
Georgia men to learn that the largest
baking company in this country has
been financing a fellowship in Mellon
since 1911 to learn everything there is
to know about bread and bread-making.
It was also surprising that although
students, working under the fellowship,
have made enough discoveries to save
this one company several hundred thou
sand dollars a year in yeast and sugar,,
the fellowship is still maintained with
the evidently confident purpose of find
ing out very much more than is now
known about the supposedly simple pro
cess of bread-making. What has been
Hone for this me industry has been done
for many others.”
Need it be argued that just such a system
research is needed for the due develop
ed of this State’s industrial resources, and
.’at the Georgia School of Technology is
;st the place for its establishment? Far
’ghted, public-spirited men of means could
:> the commonwealth no sounder service
han to endow a department for this pur
pose at the Georgia Tech so that keen
minds, equipped with the methods and im
plements of science, might be • constantly
bont upon discovery, upon invention and up
on the practical questions of shop and mill
ind mine. Nor could industrial corporations
make a sounder investment f 1 themselves,
as well as for the State, than to endow at
the Tech fellowships similar to those at the
famous Pittsburgh institute. If the enter
prise has saved Eastern concerns hundreds of
thousands of dollars and also enabled them
greatly to increase their producing and earn
ing power, will it not do as much for those
of this region? If it has brought to light new
elements of wealth and progress in the in
tensively cultivated fields of Pennsylvania in
dustry, will it not do even more for the
largely latent resources of Georgia and the
South?
Whoever knows the history of Georgia’s
industrial expansion knows that the Tech
has been a major force in that wealth
creating, wealth-conserving process. To the
scientific power and engineering skill which
this institution has developed, more perhaps
than to any other single factor, must be as
cribed the State’s remarkable growth in
manufactures and in the prosperity which
they bring. No longer, as aforetime, are
Georgia products sold almost entirely as raw
materials to be wrought into finished goods
by far distant hands and machines; but to
a*considerable extent (in some instances,, in
deed, to a great extent) are converted into
fabrics and wares here at home. The result
is that millions of profits which formerly
went to other regions as the rightful reward
of industrial skill are now earned in Geor
gia and are retained for the further up
building of her material Interests. But the
Tech’s constructive work in these matters
has just begun. Its serviceableness thus far.
great as it is, aas been sorely handicapped
by lack of endowment funds. Let the busi
ness and industrial leadership of Georgia
muster to the enlargement of this institu
tion. and there is no calculating the good it
"an do, the progress it can inspire, the pros
perity it can unfold. The Journal commends
’-.O research idea of the Mellon Institute to
he earnest consideration of Georgians, and
that appropriate action soon will be
'ken.
The Stuff of Prosperity
~~i HE long accepted opinion that times
'! cannot be very hard when harvests
are bountiful should prove particu-
rly cheering at this juncture. According to
iie latest estimates of the National Depart
ment of Agriculture, oats, barley, rye, hay
and Irish potatoes are all near their highest
record for abundance, while corn has reached
the unprecedented total of three billion, one
hundred and ninety-nine million bushels.
L,ce also exceeds by some twelve million
bushels the record crop of 1917. Buckwheat,
sweet potatoes, sugar beets and apples are
reported plentiful. As for the ‘‘staff of life”
itself, there is enough for America to lean
heavily upon, and still spare a liberal por
tion for less favored lands.
That the farmers have difficult problems
to thread through, and that business on
many lines feels the jolt of a passing read
justment is not to be gainsaid. But there
is the overreaching and reassuring fact that
in fundamentals the country is sound and
secure. Transient troubles there may be,
but no deep-seated or long-lasting ills when
the nation’s barns and garners brim with
plenty.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
TheEditofsDesk
For Georgia Boyhood
In Saturday's issue of The Tri-Weekly
Journal will appear an announcement con
cerning the important program about to be
put under way in Georgia by the Boy Scouts
of America.
Not only every boy, but every father and
mother in the state, should be interested in
this news.
It means that the marvelous Boy Scout or
ganization —the wonderful brotherhood that
is making thousands of young Americans’ bet
ter Americans —will no longer be an advan
tage possessed only by the city boy.
The Boy Scouts are going to spread all
over Georgia—throughout the smaller towns,
the farms, the mountains, the most remote
rural district.
The Boy Scout idea lets a boy know prac
tically everything he wants to know and
ought to know.
Woodcraft, sports, hiking, camping, self
reliance, of course, generosity, courtesy, un
selfishness —everything that goes into mak
ing a boy happy, sturdy and clean in mind
and body, are in the Boy Scout creed.
In the centers of population where the
khaki uniforms of the Scouts are familiar
sites, these young knights command respect
wherever they go.
They have earned their universal respect.
In time of war, their services were invalu
able. In time of peace, their usefulness is
constantly needed.
Atlanta, or an}' other city, could hardly get
along without the Boy Scouts.
No matter what the occasion or the emer
gency, they have so capably, willingly and
consistently filled important posts, the com
munity would be sadly handicapped without
them.
‘‘Be prepared” is the Scout motto. And
“service” is the Scout creed. But totally
aside from their contribution to the welfare
of the nation, no class of boys on earth have
a better time.
Any boy who joins a troop of Boy Scouts
has a busy, interesting, enjoyable future
ahead of him.
The Tri-Weekly Journal hopes that every
one of its boy readers will watch for the
news that will explain how he can become a
Boy Scout.
—4.
The Modern Art of Killing
IT is not without cheering significance
that when the British war office re
cently requested universities to enter
upon research work for the development
of chemical warfare “to its utmost ex
tent,” there was a great deal of adverse
comment and sharp interrogations in the
House of Commons. That there should be
so prompt and outspoken a body of public
sentiment against the suggestion of war
fare with poison gas is at least interesting.
Time was when a hint of that kind would
have kindled intense and approving spec
ulation amongst the rank and file.
So long as there are war departments
—and there probably will be war depart
ments for some decades if not some cen
turies to come —we may expect them to
conduct and encourage researches into the
ancient yet seemingly inexhaustible art of
killing. That is the business of war de
partments; and they would be exceedingly
remiss if they neglected to learn every
thing discoverable about poison gas. One
can imagine their experts in that partic
ular chamber of horrors—gentlemen as per
sonally kind and humane as ever trod upon
neat’s leather —explaining somewhat in
this wise: “Os course, we hope that OUR
country will never be called upon to burn
and maim and torture and kill with poison
gas, but one never knows what the
ENEMY will do; we must be prepared.”
And as long as the world is upon its pres
ent status, there is really no convincing
answer to that argument.
Still, there is a modicum of hope in
the fact that people everywhere are re
coiling from the dread armories of sci
ence, rather than glorying in them. It
may be that Article One Seventy-One of
the Treaty of Versailles, forbidding the
use of the horrible agencies of chemical
warfare will yet be enforced, if public
opinion continues in its present trend. Is
it not easier, however, to prevent war than
to prevent the use of a particular weapon,
once the fighting starts? It is not well
nigh unimaginable, after what occurred be
tween the red dawn of Luvaine and the
red gloaming of the Argonne, that war
can be humane? Prevented it may be, but
hardly ameliorated.
Good Work for Georgia.
THE prospect that Georgia’s quota of
stock in the Federal International
Banking Company will be subscribed
well within the time limit is highly encourag
ing and significant. No more fertile enter
prise has been presented to the State’s com
mon business interests than this movement
to facilitate and upbuild the marketing of
Southern products, notably cotton, in foreign
lands. Millions of bales of Dixie's chief
money crop would be moving to Continental
Europe if the reasonable credit accommoda
tions which the Federal International Bank
ing Company will afford were now available;
and with that channel of demand and sup
ply duly functioning, there would be prompt
improvement in the general cotton market.’
The South no longer should be left to call
for special and outside assistance in matters
of this kind. She has the resources, if only
they were organized, to finance all such
needs; and organized they will be as soon
as the foreing sales banking company gets
into operation. Rice, sugar, lumber and
manufactured articles, as well as cotton, will
find more extensive and more active markets
through the facilities of that institution; in
deed, there is scarcely a field of production
in Georgia and the South that will not be
enriched thereby.
It is exceedingly gratifying, therefore, that
the State’s part of the six millions of cap
ital stock is being promptly subscribed.
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
By JACK L. PAITEKSON
Pitchforking S nbscribers
The Savannah Press says: “Toni Edison is
working on a machine by which he can talk
to the dead.” The only question new is
whether to make the connection at the other
end to a pitchfork or a harp. In case lorn
gets the pitchfork connection, we wish he
would ask some of our delinquents how they
feel about it. —Commerce News.
It is our opinion that they would reply
that they felt all “het” up.
There’s Always an Excuse
Formerly prices went up because people
had more business than they could do. Now
prices stay up because there is not enough
business to do it. economically.— Vigusta
Herald.
“Where’s there’s a wi.l there’s always a
, way.”
WATCHING AND WISHING
By H. Addington Bruce
THERE is a group of educators who,
rightly enough, emphasize the im
portance of doing a thing for your
self if you really would learn to do it well.
“Learn by doing” is their slogan, and it is
undoubtedly a good slogan.
But its helpfulness would be distinctly
lessened if it were understood —as it some
times seems to be understood—to mean that
learning by doing is the only sound way of
learning. Whenever possible, indeed, “learn
ing by doing” should be preceded by “learn
ing by listening,” and, still more, “learn
ing by watching.”
A man, for example, purposes to learn how
to use a typewriter. Will he best learn this
by sitting down at the machine and labori
ously familiarizing himself with its mechan
ism?
Will it not be far wiser for him to read
a book of instructions, listen to directions
given him by some one already familiar with
typewriting machines, and watch a good op
erator at work before he so much as puts a
finger to his machine himself?
“Learning by watching,” of course, should
soon be followe' by “learning by doing.” And
it facilitates the latter in proportion as the
learner has a good model to watch.
For learning by doing unaided is pretty
sure to mean the formation of faulty habits
of doing, which have to be painfully un
learned if any high degree of skill is ever
to be acquired. Whereas the mere attentive
watching of a good model tends to give the
beginner good working habits from the out
set.
Observe, however, that I use the word
“attentive.”
There are ways and ways of watching.
There is but one right way of “learning by
watching,” and that is through concentration
of attention on the model’s movements.
And concentration comes only when one
wills —that is, intensely wishes —to concen
trate. So that ‘learning by wishing” is fun
damental to “learning by watching,” just as
the latter should be recognized as funda
mental to really efficient “learning by do
ing.”
It is forgetfulness of these facts that ac
counts for much of the incompetency and in
efficiency so painfully in evidence today.
Men have thought that they could make
themselves experts simply by doing a thing
again and again. Or, appreciating the im
portance of watching a mode}, they have
been indifferent as to the excellence of the
model chosen.
Or yet again, choosing a good model, they
have watched .00 short a time or with in
attentive mind. Faulty working habits are
the almost inevitable consequence, and the
acquisition of skill is thus lamentably post
poned, if not forever frustrated
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspa
pers.)
THEDEMOCRACY OF
CUSSEDNESS
By Dr. Frank Crane
Tyranny, grating, bulldozing, and swind
ling are not inherent in any scheme, nor the
exclusive possession of any class, they are in- ■
herent in human nature.
Any absolute power contains within itself
the seed of abuse.
The more hqnest a man is the more pleas
ed he is to hav his accounts audited and his
doings watched.
The wicked it is that continue to love dark
ness rather than light.
A good deal of the railings of one-class at
another are in substance no more than accusa
tion against that evil nature that is common
to all classes.
For instance, there has been a deal of
talk against capitalists a d employers gen
erally, that they are tyrannous, selfish, profi
teering, cruel, unjust, and altogether naughty.
Doubtless many of the charges aro tjue.
There are domineering foremen. There are
coldblooded and utterly selfish millionaires.
There are mine owners who permit condi
tions of criminal brutality. There are pluto
crats who rob 'he poor.
But all this is not because they have
money. It is because they are vicious.
There has recently been uncovered a verit
able cesspool of scandal in New York in which
there is evidence pointing to bulldozing, graft
ing, double cross and hold-up on the part of
labor leaders and the officials of labor or
ganizations.
All of which goes to show that a labor
apostle, placed in a position of power, can be
as crooked as any Croesus that owns a bank
cr any duke that wears a coronet.
When the proletariat shall reign we are
going to need common honesty quite as much
as we need it under our present capitalistic
system.
When Lenin and Trotzky replaced the czar,
about all that resulted was that the people
had changed masters. And to be pillaged by
a Bolsheviki or shot by a red guard is no
pleasanter than to be robbed by a grand duke
or killed by a policeman.
There is still a large part of the race that
thinks what’s wrong with the world is its
systems, schemes, institutions, and govern
ments.
It is a mistake. The trouble is with folks.
Cussedness is just as cussed when a walk
ing delegate holds a contractor up for a bribe
before he will let him go on with his build
ing, as it is when some Wa’l street wolf loots
a railroad.
If capitalism is overthrown and the work
ers have things all their own way, if Gary is
ousted and Gompers put in his place, if all
the present big business men are deported
and officers of the Trade Union are substi
ted, will we then have any insurance against
domineering and crookedness?
Nay. nay. Discourtesy, intolerance, vicious
exploitation, egotism, and all the black list
of human hyena traits, are no rich man’s
luxury. All class' 1 can share them.
And do.
The rich have no monopoly of crookedness.
(Copyright, 1 920, by Frank Crane)
The Potato of Paradise
IT is interesting to learn front the Farm
Bureau of the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce that something like a million
bushels of sweet potatoes will be stored in
Georgia this year in houses which will insure
their preservation. Heretofore immense
quantities have spoiled or lost their flavor
for lack of proper care through the winter
months. Thanks to storage rooms con
structed and heated according to plans which
experiment has proved most satisfactory, it
is no longer necessary for growers to dump
their potatoes on an oversupplied and under
priced market. This of itself will do much
to promote the fortunes of the delectable
and nutritious tuber, but this is by no means
all.
The secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce Farm Bureau. Mr. M. C. Gay, re
cently spent a fortnight in South Georgia
co-operating with specialists of the National
Department, of Agriculture in getting mo
tion pirtures of the sweet potato industry.
“This film.” he writes in the current num
ber of the City Builder, “will portray seed
selection, propagation, preparation of soil,
planting, cultivating, harvesting, storing and
marketing, and will be shown throughout the
country.” For those who are native to the
sweet potato paradise it is hard to imagine
poor exiles that dwell in ignorance of its
joys. But such there are, and the Chamber
of Commerce could do no more thankworthy '
or profitable work than to enlighten them. j
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Toni Watson’s Trip
Thomas E. Watson, senator-elect from
Georgia, will leave this week for a motor
trip through Florida and will also make
a tour of Cuba. In his party will be O.
S. Lee, Miss Georgia Lee, Grovel 1 Ed
mondson, Justin Reese and Mrs. Thomas
E. Watson. Mrs. Watson is now in Flor
ida and will join the party on its way
down.
Danced Anyhow
Young men of Cherbourg, France,
who did not receive invitations to a
dance given by the commander of the
1 American destroyer, Broome, banded
together to attempt to induce the young
ladies of Cherbourg not to attend the
affair. The girls, however, objected,
and, guarded by their fathers and moth
ers, nearly 100 appeared at the party.
Didn’t Explode
Through a hail of bullets and the violent
overturning of the automobile which bore it,
and its alleged bandit custodians, potential
destruction of a city block or more, in the
form of a quart of nitrogyeerin passed safely
through the battle between police and rob
ber suspects at Roanoke, Va., recently.
In Havana
About the only persons seen on the streets
of Havana who show symptoms of over-in
dulgence in intoxicants are Americans, say
Havana dispatches. This does not mean,
however, that all the Americans who come
here drink to excess.
Beer and light wines are so much a part
of the Latin life that it has no intoxicating
effect. They drink moderately. But some
visitors from the dry land seem to drink con
stantly, once they find a bar.
Rice in Georgia
That rice can be successfully raised in
Monroe county has been demonstrated by
William Jones, negro farmer, near Ju
liette, who claims that he will make from
ten to fifteen bushels on a small ar«a he
planted in rise this year. For several
years past he had been annually raising
a small quantity of rice, either on upland
of bottom land. He is the first farmer
in the county to ever attempt rice culti
vation. Because of his success it is be
lieved that other farmers of the county
will plant rice to help reduce the high
cost of living.
Smallpox Epidemic
A smallpox epidemic has broken out
in Port au Prince and is spreading rap
idly, with 314 cases, all natives, in the
general hospital. The occupation forces
and American colony have not been af
fected. It is estimated that more than a
thousand cases which have not yet been
reported exist around the city.
A request has been sent to Washing
ton that 300,000 vaccine points be ship
ped here at once by a destroyer, as the
need is urgent.
Champion Bull
The Aberdeen” Angus bull, Enry, owned
by Sanford & Rich, of Mocksville, N. C., that
won the grand championship at the state
fair of South Carolina this year, also won
the grand championship at the Tri-State ex
position at Savannah, Ga., last week. This
bull also was made grand champion at the
Greensboro, N. C., fair.
Want Titles
Cultivators of the garden plot allotments
on government land near Vienna, Austria,
are agitating to obtain title to their holdings.
There are about 60,000 of these plots, each
of about 500 square feet on the slopes of
the great Vienna forest, and the cultivators
have organized to get title and permission to
build huts.
While expressing its sympathy with them
the government officials replied to a great
demonstration held the other day that they
were opening up the whole question of land
appropriation, a delicate issue between the
two dominant parties, and one on which the
demonstrators themselves are divided when
it comes to applying it to private estates.
More Bolshevism
The Turkish Nationalists have de
manded that the Armenians establish a
soviet government under Turkish pro
tection, and the situation in Armenia
is considered most grave. Bolshevism
is said to be spreading rapidly through
out Armenia.
The Turkish Nationalists’ demand on
the Armenians is said also to inclue the
delivery of large quantities of war ma
terial.
REFLECTIONS OF A
BACHELOR GIRL
By Helen Rowland
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syn
dicate, Inc.
first love affair is a miracle, the sec
ond au adventure, the third an event
x —and all the rest merely episodes.
A woman’s whole life is spent on an altar.
She is always worshiping something—an
ideal, a fetich, an art, a fad, a prophet, a pet
dog, a man—or herself.
We used to speak of the “fall from grace;”
but the modern debutante doesn’t wait to
fall; she dives head-foremost, and merrily
floats out on the sea of experience.
That irresistible impulse, which a woman
always has to cuddle up a fluffy kitten and
coo to it, is the same emotion that a man
feels at the sight of a pretty woman—and
mistakes for love.
“Americans are now spending $80,000,000
a year for candy”—and every married woman
wonders who got her share.
No woman can resist the man whose gaze
of adoration is as fixed and perpetual as his
teeth, and who wears his “devoted” manner
as naturally and constantly as. he does his
collar.
It takes just about a year of marriage for
a man to become accustomed to going home
regularly and staying there, evenings—and
just about another year for him to begin to
wonder why he does it.
When a man declares that a woman “un
derstands” him, you may safely conclude that
she knows just enough about him to serve
him his favorite dishes, overlook his favorite
weaknesses, laugh at his favorite stories, and
applaud his favorite illusions about himself.
In love-making as in complexions and jew
els, the real thing, dearie, never appears quite
as brilliant and dazzling as the imitation.
In love, a man on his knees is worth two
on a pedestal—but, alas, a man seldom goes
down on his knees to anything but an auto
mobile, nowadays.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBw 1920.
THE CITY OF ANGELS
By Frederic J. Haskin
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 20.—Los An
geles has just passed through the proudest
moment of its very proud life. This was
when the lated United States census esti
mated the city’s population at 575,000,
thereby proving it to have 70,000 more peo
ple than San Franeisco.
For there is a painful and prodigious
rivalry between these two cities of the Pa
cific coast, which is most bewildering to
the visitor. It is surprising enough to find
California a self-appointed Eden, far re
moved by climate and other superior attrac
tions from the rest of a pitiful and benighted
world, but to find one-half of California
claiming superiority over the other half is
really too amazing. At least, it is for a
mere humble easterner, unacquainted with
the glorious wonders of the state, and per
mitted only a brief respite from his hapless
home in which to find them.
“Oh, you won’t like the northern part of
the state,” you are informed in mentioning
that your travels are not to end here in the
City of Angels. “It’s windy, and it rains
most of the time, and the people are more
like easterners. No, if you want to see the
best of California you’d better make Los An
geles your headquarters and take various
trips to the south, where you can enjoy the
true California climate.”
But upon the same day that you receive
this advice, you are apt to meet a north
Californian, unaccountably strayed south,
who cherishes an entirely different opinion.
“The real California is in the north of
the state,” he will tell you scornfully, in
ferring that only a misguided easterner
would need to be corrected on this point.
“The climate here is too warm and ener
vating—it needs a little wind to stir things
up. And all of the scenery is in the north—
the Yosemite, Del Monte, Lake Tahoe,
Mount Shasta and San Francisco. Why, this
isn’t a city; it’s only a country town. And
the country is so dry that they have to
water it constantly to keep it from drying
up and blowing away. They even have to
irrigate their harbor here.”
Te Harbor
But the subject of the Los Angeles har
bor if sufficient to keep a north Californian
talking in scathing accents for an hour.
“It’s not really theirs,” he will tell you, “but
belongs to San Pedro. San Pedro is an in
dependent town, but they made it join their
township by refusing to supply it with water
if it didn’t. That’s how they got their pop
ulation, too—making all the little towns
about here join—but now that they’ve got
the harbor, what will they do with it? It’s
not even ornamental.”
Yes, Los Angeles has to stand an enor
mous amount of chaffing about its new har
bor from other harbors of. California, but
it is exceedingly good-natured in defending
itself. It is true that nature, which has
been so generous in bestowing gifts on this
section, did not give it a harbor, and that,
therefore, one had to be made at great ex
pense to the city, but Los Angeles believes
that this enterprise was necessary to its de
velopment, and that even now it is beginning
to pay dividends.
“You see, the city is entering an era of
tremendous development,” explained one of
its prominent citizens, who conducted the
reporter about the city. “In 1880 we were
only a sleepy Mexican pueblo, wit i a few
American perquisites and a population of
only 12,000. Now there are nearly 600,000
of us, and we're attracting the largest in
dustries in the country because of our splen
did resources and facilities.
“Within a few miles of the city, nearly one
fourth of the entire oil supply of the United
States is produced. The shipment of lubri
cants and by-products from this port is the
greatest of any in the United States. In
turn, the port receives more lumber for dis
tribution throughout the southwest than
any other of the nation’s harbors.
“From sea to mountains are vast or
chards, grain fields, cattle ranches, orange
groves and truck gardens, which furnish
material for the greatest canning industry
in the world. Large shipbuilding interests
are located here; there is a large garment
industry, tire factories and chemical plants,
as well as the motion picture industry.”
Movies’ Accessory Industries
In connection with the last, the prominent
citizen explained that nearly everything re
quired by the industry, with the exception of
the celluloid films, is aso lade in Los An
geles. The lumber, paint, electric power,
clothing, properties and art work needed in
movie productions are all furnished here.
Many small industries have grown up in the
wake of this big one, some of which are
unique. There is one shoe store, for instance,
where footwear of every nationality and pe
riod of history is made to order. Another shop
supplies crockery ware of a light porous ma
terial that breaks easily and harmlessly over
the comedian’s head. Still another shop pro
duces artificial food of all varieties for the
screen.
“Yes, you can find lots of interesting local
color like that here,” concluded the citizen,
breathless with enthusiasm. “And we’re go
ing to have a lot more in a few years. The
harbor will —”
“You are a native, then?” interrupted the
reporter quickly, having heard almost enough
about the harbor.
“No,” replied the citizen, “I’m from Illi
nois—the southern part of Illinois —but I’ve
lived here eight years.”
One of the curious things about Los An
geles is this fact, that most of her citizens
have come from Illinois or Milwaukee or Mas
sachusetts or lowa. lowa, especially, seems to
have furnished the largest percentage of the
population. During the entire time that we
have been here, calling on banks, chambers of
commerce, moving picture concerns and such,
we have met only one native Californian, and
he was not a native of Los Angeles.
But inasmuch as many of the middle west
erners who come here are extremely wealthy,
having had the good taste to make their
money before seeking a more salubrious cli
mate, Los Angeles is rather partial to the sons
of that section. If often proves profitable.
For the citizen of Illinois or lowa, who re
tires in his goodl} age to California, remem
bers the few good points of his home state
and is alxious for California to x assess them,
too. So, having plenty of time on his still
mildly energetic hands, he proceeds to start
a movement for the building of some public
institution, such as they had at home, and
himself contributes generously to its cause.
Beneficent Millionaires
To retired millionaires from the east, also,
the city owes many of its beautiful homes.
Some sections contain whole colonies of soap,
bread, toilet powder and chewing gum kings,
who have organized in the cause of exclusive
ness by building their Italian, Dutch and Jap
anese residences all on one wide, palm-plant
ed street, shut off from the public by pic
turesque iron gates.
On a less exclusive plane, but even more
beautiful in some instances, are the numerous
bungalow colonies of the city and the sur
rounding suburbs. The bungalow is said to
have originated in California, which has
greatly contributed to the convenience of I
ths world. Tn the California bungalow have
been developed the most novel devices for
economizing on space. There are built-in re
frigerators and wall-concealed cupboards,
dainty closet-dressing rooms, and basement
garages. The bungalow of the southern part
of the state, where the winters are mild, also
have the most attractive styles of windows,
some of them forming wide French doors, and
others extending in an unbroken series of
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Everybody Must Have a
Play Time
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.
AMAN of thirty-five is engaged to a
girl of twenty, and he wishes her
to marry him at once, but she puts
off the wedding and tells him that she is
having such a good time that she wants to
play around a little while longer.
This makes the man feel that the girl is
of a frivolous character, and doubt whether
she will make him a desirable wife.
I sould take exactly the opposite view. My
opinion is that the girl is remarkably level
headed, and that she shows an amazing
amount of common sense in having her lit
tle fling before she is married, instead of
waiting to do it afterwards, when there
would be ten times more trouble with a jeal
ous husband than there is even with a jeal
ous sweetheart.
Doubtless this young woman has been
shrewd enough to observe tow things: the
first is that the only play time the average
woman ever has is ir the few years that lie
between her school days and her marriage
day. In that brief space of time only has
she any liberty, or is she care-free. It is
the one picnic in her whole life, the one
green oasis in the arid desert of the years
that many a woman ever knows.
If a girl marries a poor man, her mar
riage brings her life sentence at hard labor,
and such pinching economies as wear the
very soul to tatters. If she marries a man
who is tyrannical, and grouchy, and cold,
and hard, then she kisses happiness good
by at the altar, and her life is one long
martyrdom.
Even when she makes a fortunate mar
riage, when she marries a man who can
make a comfortable living, and who Is ten
der, and kind to her, she still is done with
the light-hearted enjoyment of girlhood, be
cause marriage brings responsibilities, and
burdens, and the wife who has a husband
to care for, and little children to look after,
must think of her duties before her pleas
ures.
Our observing young friend has doubtless
taken note of these things, and that it is
only girls who laugh much. Married women
smile.
The second thing that she has noted is
that if a woman a man to take her
about to places of amusement, she’d better
get it done before they are married. For
the man who can dance all night with his
sweetheart won’t two-step around the room
with his wife, and he who has a never-fail
ing supply of theater tickets as a beau, has
to be chloroformed before he will part with,
the price of the movies, as a husband.
Therefore, on all counts, the girl who likes
to play is wise to have her play time before
she is married, and when she has a play
fellow.
Somehow men have an idea that their
sex has a monopoly on good times. They
realize that a man. jnust have his fling, but
it never occurs to them that a woman must
have hers. And anyway, the general mas
culine idea is that there is something so
peculiarly thrilling to a woman in just be
ing married, and having a home of her own,
no matter how dull both are, that all the
fun she wants is just sitting up and gloating
over her wedding ring.
Which is some mistake, I’ll say.
Therefore, a man who has danced, and :
frolicked, and who has done all there was
to do, and seen all there was to see, and
who is sick and tired of it all, will marry
a little young girl and expect her never to
want to go anywhere, or to have any amuse
ment. He doesn’t even realize how selfish
he is in denying her the pleasure that ho
has had.
If I were a man, I would want to marry
a girl who had been greatly admired by men
and who had had many men make love to
her. And I should wish to marry a girl
who had had lots of pretty clothes, and who
had had her fill of theaters, and parties and
restaurants.
Then I would know that I was getting
a wife whose head would not be turned by
the first glib-tongued palaverer who came
along and asked her if she didn’t believe in
love at. first sight, and told her that the
minute he saw her he had a strange feel
ing, as if is he had just met his fate —aas!
too late.
And I would know that I was getting a
wife whose idea of heaven was just the
shut-in solitude of two, in their own homes,
instead of thinking paradise is a clattering
restaurant with a jazz band braying in your
ear, and lunatics cavorting around among f
the tables.
It’s the things that we haven’t had that
we are all mad about. It’s the apple we
haven’t tasted that we risk heaven to set
our teeth into. Familiarity rubs the gilt
off the gingerbread of pleasure. Plenty in
evitably brings satiety.
And so, if I were a man, I should wish
my wife to have cut her wisdom teeth at
her father’s expense, and for her to have
had her picnic before I had to pay the piper,
or even to go on the excursion with her.
Then I should know that when she came
to me she had worked all the flirtatiousnesa
out of her system, and that she had danced
holes in her slippers, and had had enough
of folly, and wanted to settle down to the
real business of life.
For I’d have sense enough to know that
every woman must have her play time, and *
if she dosen’t get it in her youth she takes
it later on, and generally with disastrous re
sults.
casements about the walls, which are thus
almost wholly composed of glass. Sometimes
ten or twenty separate bungalows are built .
about a flower-trimmed court, and run on
the apartment house principle, with hot wa
ter and heat supplied from a central plant
in charge of the superintendent.
With the exception of the servant problem,
which is particularly acute in California, the
upkeep of a home here is a comparatively
simple matter. It is, in most cases, small and
compact, requires little fuel, owing to the
gentle nature of the climate, and its table
can be supplied at surprisingly little expense.
Food, especially fruits and fresh vegetables,
are cheap compared to prices in the east,
while the outdoor groceries in which they
are sold make marketing almost an agree
able experience.
Then, there is always the cafeteria to fall
back upon when housekeeping loses its z<*«x.
These institutions are gradually springing up <
throughout the entire country, but the true
cafeteria, with orchestra and comfortable
leather-chaired lobby, is still produced ex
clusively on the Pacific coast. In such a one
it is actually difficult to spend more than 90
cents for a meal, and any check over a dol
lar brings a grunt of surprise from the cash
girl-
Thus, those who are v/eary and heavy-la
den with long, co’ 1 winters and nerve-racking
activity, find a peace and comfort in Loa
Angeles, which change heir very facial ex
pressions. The whole atmosphere is easy
going. Business does not interfere with pleas
ure, but it gets transacted just the same. And
it is these adopted sons who outrival even
the natives in shouting the praises of Cali- t
fornia. To hem, California is, as so many
can tell you, the pot of gold at the end of
the rainbow.