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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
Often This Georgia Eldorado
THROUGH the mountain heights of
Georgia there winds a gigantic chain
of nationally owned forest lands,
more than one hundred and fifty thousand
acres of enchanting country, which if made
generally accessible by roads and trails will
become for the people of this and other States
a true Eldorado of pleasure and health. By
“the people” we mean not merely the fortun
ate hundreds who have means and leisure
for extensive vacations, but also the thou
sands and tens of thousands who, while un
able or unwilling to visit so-called resorts,
•would find a camp amid the green and blue
of those life-renewing hills quite affordable
and their very heart’s desire. Few services
would more valuable to the common
wealth’s human interests, more helpful to its
child-life and to its pent-up burden-bearers
of home and office, farm and town, than to
open to them the recreation and joy of this
vast mountain park.
An important step to that end has been
recently suggested and ought to be taken
forthwith. A fund of some nine million dol
lars was appropriated by Congress in 1919
for “the survey, construction and mainte
nance of roads and trails within, or partly
within, the national forests.” Now, certain
notable links in these "national forests” are
composed of the Georgia lands to which we
have referred In Union and Fannin coun
ties the Government has acquired, under the
Weeks Bill of 1911, sixty-eight thousand
acres wherefrom to conserve the headwaters
of streams flowing to the Gulf; and also, in
Rabun and Habersham counties, eighty-five
thousand acres as a like protection for the
streams flowing to the Atlantic The former
reservation is a part of the so-called Chero
kee National Forest, and the latter a part
of the Nantahala; both will be extended
from time to time and will play a more and
more important role in the nation’s great
system of forest . eserves.
Assuredly, then, a seasonable and rightly
presented request should bring to bear for
the opening up of these Georgia lands a por
tion of the nine million dollars appropri
ated for such purposes. Under the law, the
Secretary of Agriculture, who is given charge
of the fund, is authorized to “survey, con
struct and maintain any roads or trails
within a national forest, which he finds
necessary for the proper administration, pro
tection and improves ent of such forests, or
which in his opinion is of national impor
tance.” Engineers of the Federal Forestry
Bureau are convinced from a careful study
of the matter that roads and trails are now
needed for the reservations in Georgia, and
will lend their valuable support to a move
ment to that end. Moreover, it was just such
regions as these that former Secretary Lane,
of the Department of the Interior, had in
mind when he declared “There is no reason
why this nation should not make its public
health and scenic domain as available to all
Its citizens as Switzerland and Italy make
theirs. The aim is to open them thoroughly
by road and trail and give access and accom
modation to every degree of incomd.” That
broad-visioned policy could find no more ap
propriate field of application than in the
wondrously picturesque and health-giving
realm of the national forests of Georgia.
In his highly .interesting remarks to a
conference recently held in his office to
consider this matter, Secretary McLendon,
of the Georgia Department of State, direct
ed attention to some of the charms and
treasures of the country ultimately to be
embraced in the Cherokee and Nantaha a
reservations. There are numerous moun
tains, he pointed out, which, if they were
in Europe, would be shrines for pilgrims
from all the world, but which to many a
Georgian are as unknown as though they
■were ten thousand miles away instead of
within an easy journey from any part of
the State. Among those exceeding four
thousand feet in height he mentioned:
Enota, 4,768 feet; Rabun Bald, 4,717 feet;
Chestnut Bald, 4.600 feet; Hightower Bald,
4,567; Blood Mountain, 4,463; Tray Moun
tain, 4,398; Slaughter Mountain, 4,370;
Coosa Bald, 4,287; Eagle Mountain, 4,280;
Wolfpen RiiXge, 4,251; Chimhey Top Moun
tain, 4,229; Horsetrough Mountain, 4,052;
and Blue Mountain, 4,045; while between,
three and four thousand feet are Leveland
Mountain, 3,942; Cowrock Mountain, 3,867;
Spaniard Nnob, 3,860; Strawberry Top, 3,-
74 4; Gumlog Mountain, 3,743; Glassy Knob,
3.650; Round Knob. 3,492; Bell Mountain,
3,446; Cedar Cliff Mountain, 3,391; Snake
Mountain, 3,365; Round Top Mountain, 3,-
360;- Harris Mountain, 3,281; Turkeypen
Mountain, 3,227; Frozen Top, 3,190; Yonah
Mountain, 3,173; and Tesnatee Gap, 3,138
feet. How many Americans, how many
Georgians, asks Secretary McLendon, know
these “heaven-kissing” hills? Or how many
know that in Dawson county of this State
is next to the highest of the nation’s water
falls, the beautiful AmicaloJa? North Caro
lina’s famous Ashville, he observes, has an
altitude of 1,896 feet; but the towns lo
cated in this mountain region of Georgia
have altitudes as follows: Mountain City,
2,161 feet; Hiawassee, 1,984 feet; Clayton,
1,959 feet; Young Harris, 1,928 feet;
Blairsville, 1,892 feet; Clarksville, 1,872
feet; Porter Springs, 1,781 feet; Tallulah
Falls, 1,629 feet; Cleveland. 1,571 feet, Mt.
Airy, 1,522 feet; and Dahlonega, 1,484
feet; so that in northeast Georgia the na
tion si beginning the creation of a nation
al playground of incalculable value and of
national importance.
If further evidence of the national im
portance of these forest lands were needful
it could be found in Secretary McLendon’s
reminder that Georgia has within her bor-
THE- ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
ders three hundred and ten thousand, seven
hundred and thirty-seven farms, more than
any other State save Texas and “exactly
seven thousand and fifty-three more than
are within the six New England States with
Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Arizona,
Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming added.”
Surely, then, Government funds will be wise
ly and justly invested if used to open for
the public’s advantage the resources of pleas
ure and health which the national park of
this great productive Commonwealth affords.
Let Georgia’s rightful claims, which are es
senitally the nation’s claims as well, be duly
presented to the Secretary of Agriculture
while conditions are still propitious, and a
favorable response may be expected.
Progress in Air Mail Service
WHEN air mail service is established
between Atlanta and New York City,
as it will be in the course of the
next sixty days if all goes well with official
plans, the latest achievement will be scored
in a national enterprise which has been
steadily developing for some two and a half
years. It was on May 15, 1918, in the face
of many doleful prophecies that the United
States Postoffice Department launched its
experiment of carrying mail by airplane be
tween Washington and New York. So en
couraging were the results that in the ensu
ing year a similar line was inaugurated be
tween New York and Cleveland, and then ex
tended to Chicako. “Some -day,” the now
converted sceptics exclaimed, “the air post
will sweep on to San Francisco.” They spoke
more in atonement of their original ill-bod
ing than in expectation of ever seeing their
happier prophecy come to pass. But on Sep
tember 13, 1920, service was started between
Gotham and the Golden Gate; and now the
transcontinental line of two thousand six
hundred and sixteen miles is in regular op
eration.
Leaving New York at 6:30 a. m., Eastern
time, the mail airplane arrives at Chicago
at 3:27 that afternoon; leaves at 6 the next
morning and arrives at Cheyenne, Wyoming,
4:25 p. m.; thence it departs at 5:30 a. m.
the following day, which is the third morn
ing of its flight, and at 3:25 p. m. descends
at San' Francisco. With the planes thus fly
ing only by day, the time of the transconti
nental trip is nevertheless greatly reduced.
But soon, it is expected, they will be flying
by night as well, and then mail will be sped
from New York to San Francisco in thirty
six hours.
“Speed,” writes Brigadier General William
Mitchell, in the December Review of Re
views, “is the predominant characteristic of
airplane traffic.” And speed is being contin
ually developed, not only in the machines
themselves, but also by increasing their hours
of flight and b; adjusting them more and
more advantageously to prevailing winds.
“Speed varies,” says General Mitchell, “from
sixty-five miles an liour with the slowest
airplanes—such as the Curtiss training ships,
with 150-horsepower motors —to eighty
miles an hour with the DeHavilands with
40-horsepower motors. At this speed
more than eighty-five t per cent of the trips
are made on scheduled time.” It is worth
noting in this connection that in the first
twelvemonth of the Washington-Philadelphia-
New York service, ninety-three per cent of
all the trips scheduled were completed; and
that of the seven per cent of failures, more
than half were caused by stormful weather,
in spite of which there were successful flights
in gales as swift as sixty-eight miles an
hour. In the year now drawing to a close,
both the regularity and the average speed
of the service will show considerable better
ment, thanks to improved safeguards against
the freezing of radiators and engines and to
the general efficiency gain which comes with
experience.
A system which reduces the time of mail
transmission fifty to one hundred per cent
or more is obviously of vast value to com
merce, if it can be maintained at a reason
able cost. Touching this point, General
Mitchell refers to figures which show, as far
as the experiment has gone, that mail carry
ing by airplane is cheaper than by railway.
“This at first appears strange,” he says,
“until it is considered that the mail cars are
really traveling postoffices, that heir size
is always the same, that is, a sixty-foot car
that is always filled with racks and cases
which - may or may not be full, and are paid
for on the size of the car, regardless of con
tents. The postoffice figures show that it
costs four hundred thousand uolla.x annu
ally to operate a fifteen hundred-pound mail
carrying airplane on one round daily trip
between New York and Chicago, and that
the use of the airplane between these two
terminals does away with the railroad facili
ties which cost five hundred thousand. In
other words, hey claim that a saving of one
hundred thousand dollars would be made in
the item of cost.”
This, of course, is not to be taken as im
plying that the end of the railway mail ser
vice is at hand or is within calculable dis
tance. But it can be doubted no longer that
air mail service is quite practicable, and. for
some purposes exceedingly advantageous. An
aggregate of nearly seven thousand miles is
now traversed by the nation’s aerial carriers
each day, and import - .nt additio- are forth
coming. Os these, the Atlanta-W ashington
link will be one of special interest, marking
as it will the advent of a new era of aviation
in the South.
| A Columbus, Ga., Centennial
IT is heartily to be hoped that Columbus,
Georgia, will prosper in plans for a fit
ting celebration cf its one hundredth an
niversary in 1927. In approving a suggestion
to that end from Mr. L. H. Chappell, presi
ident of the city’s Historical Society, the
Ledger remarks: “We can have a centen
nial that will be of nationwide interest. With
people from nearly every State in the Union
already at Camp Benning and with prospects
of its population’s being more than trebled
within the next few years, Columbus will
have lots of kinsfolk in every part of the
country.”
Certainly Georgia and neighboring States
can be counted upon to take cordial interest,
in observance of the event. Both in goodly
traditions and in present day industrial and
commercial activities Columbus means much
to this Commonwealth and to the South.
During the War Between the States the city,
standing at the head of navigation on the
Chattahoochee, was one of the Confederacy’s
especially important supply depots, being ex
ceeded only by Richmond in the quantity of
manufactured articles it furnished the armies
of the South. In the World War it again be
came a center of prime importance, this time
in a military as well as industrial way; and as
the permanent seat of a great Army training
school, its prestige in this respect bids fair
to go on increasing. Years ago, because of
its extensive textile manufactures, the city
came to be called “the Lowell of the South. ’
Its later development in such interests has
even surpassed its earlier promise; and from
its still latent water power, we may infer that
the most remarkable growth is yet to come.
Along with this material progress Columbus
has evolved a personality and a culture dis
tinctively its own. A century of such achieve
ments is abundantly worth celebrating. Mav
the plans and their consummation prove
worthy of the cause.
A woman may love flattery and yet de
spise an awkward flatterer.
The fool man and the wise trout are slow
in catching on.
HYGIENE OH THE SKIN
By H. Addington Bruce
''"j’w O keep the skin in as good condition
| as possible is a more important mat
ter than most people appreciate. This
because the skin is a bodily organ which helps
in numerous ways to conserve health. And at
this season of the year it is in particular dan
ger of being treated unhygienically.
Skin hygiene, for example, imperatively
requires that the air be given some freedom
of access to tjie skin, even when clothing is
worn, and even when the weather is cold.
This means that outer clothing should be
of fairly open weave and not fit too snugly,
and that underclothing should be light and
also of open weave. But most people, at the
outset of col dweather don heavy, close
woven tightly-fitting attire, both outer and
under.
After bathing, especially in cold weather,
the skin should be thoroughly dried. Neg
lect to do this, followed by outdoor exposure
when the wind is raw and cutting, means
“chapped” hands and faces. And the “chaps”
may all too easily become portals for the
entrance of disease germs.
Also, the precaution should be taken after
bathing to rinse all soap off the skin before
drying. Moreover, while cleanliness is a
virtue, there is such a thing as overdoing it
and bathing too frequently for the good of
the skin.
Too frequent bathing tends to rob the skin
of the oil essential to its health, also to check
normal secretion of oil. In one physician’s
warning words:
“A general lack of oil produces a constant
wasting of bodily heat, resulting in the pa
tient’s feeling any sudden change of tem
perature, which the normal oil prevents.”
And:
“When sufficient oil is present the skin
is flexible, whereas a penury of oil gives a
harsh, dry skin, the epithelium of which
cracks, exposing sensory nerve endings, with
resultant itching and burning.
“Os the number of individuals who come
to the dermatologist with skin affections, the
majority definitely show’ a lack of oil, due
in most cases, to improper toilet, or to a tem
porary derangement from recent local or
constitutional diseases.”
As an aid in insuring a normal oil supply,
the use of cold cream, olive oil, etc., on the
skin is of little value, however helpful these
may be in softening and improving the ap
pearance of the skin. More helpful far is
vigorous bodily exercise daily, the eating of
really nourishing food, and otherwise meet
ing the requirements of general hygiene.
Brief air baths for all parts of the body
daily are of special contributory value to the
health of the skin. By this is not meant
“cold air” baths —merely an “open-to-the
room-air” treatment, said “room air” not be
ing draughty and being of a temperature
of about 70 degrees.
Finally, all cosmetics that may seal and
choke the pores of the skin should be sedu
lously avoided.
Painted faces are no* only unattractive
faces. The paint that “adorns” them produces
ill health, just as it promotes, however
wrongly, mistrust and suspicion of the fool
ish painter. ,
JEWELRY
By Dr. Frank Crane
A lady in New’ York City was robbed of
$767,000 worth of jewelry.
Returning home at night, as she entered
her home she was set upon by burglars. At
temping to escape she fell down stairs and
broke the bones of her foot.
The miscreants then bound and gagged her
and kept her locked up in the bathroom till
after daylight, attempting at inervals to
frighten her by threats of torture to make
her tell w’here more jewelry was hidden.
They stripped the rings from her fingers
and took all the rest of her expensive orna
ments they could find.
It must have been a frightful experience
for any one, particularly for a sensitive
woman.
It is mentioned and emphasized here so
that others, and particularly sensitive
women, may see what caused it all, and may
awake to the terrific danger to which they
are exposed by the vicious custom of society
and by their own love of display.
There’s a lesson in all this. It is that the
possession of jew’elry is an invitation to
crime.
The lady in the case seems to realize this
now, for she said in an interview:
“I’m disgusted with the world. I’ve lost all
my'jewels, m’ore than half my fortune. They
left me only this diamond-studded cigarette
case, a gold toilet set, and hardly anything
else of the priceless possessions that I loved.
“Maybe I was a fool to put so much money
in jewels, but I loved them. Maybe it would
have been better to have put it into property
that would have brought in an income. It
was foolish no to have had them insured
for more money than I did, but that is past.”
She says she was a fool, maybe. We shall
not dispute a lady.
But there are others.
Was there ever anything but sheer evil
in jewels?
The history of every famous stone is mark
ed by blood, cruelty, and crime.
The only reason anybody owns one in the
first place is about the lowest motive in the
list—vanity.
Back of every display of diamonds and
pearls is sheer vulgarity, and that whether
the displaye- can afford them or not.
And who really “can afford” to take the
price of men’s lives and women’s protection
and children’s training—in other words, the
very congealed essence of life itself—and
wear it. around the neck or flash it upon the
fingers?
The ownership of SIOO,OOO worth of jew
elry is something any clean-hearted human
being may ve.y well be ashamed of.
And afraid of. For it is a standing ad
vertisement for every crook that passes by
to use his lead pips or his knife.
The wearing of jewelry ought to pass, with
the czars, kaisers, counts, and no-counts of
the Old World.. whose sign of swollen ego
tism. and of indifference to the common good,
it was.
(Copyright, 1 9 20, by Frank Crane)
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
Dodging duty never brings success.
No, Alfred, it is not the bad eggs that
produce the tough chickens.
When a woman takes the conceit out of
a man she adds to her own.
Putting a little more in than you take out
will eventually fill your purse.-
One of the ambitions of the average man
is to do those he has been don.e by.
Marriage isn’t necessarily a failure, but it
is seldom what it is supposed to be.
How anxious people are to help you
when you are in a position to help yourself.
It’s a poor brand of religion that does
not cause a man to try to treat his neigh
bors decently.
If a man does the best he can, and declines
to brag about it, he is a pretty good chap to
tie to.
Doubtless every man has bad moments
when he imagines he would wake up some
morning and find himself famous.
The Pursuit of the Dope Seller
By Frederic J. Haskin
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal , Nov. 27. —San
Francisco has'recently been engaged in
deadly combat with a la ge and power
ful opium ring. Opium raids and arrests
have been made daily. By some secret
means opium has been smuggled into the
city’s port, and from here cleverly distribut
ed throughout the United States. The state
of California has recently increased its force
of inspectors to meet the emergency.
The other day, great excitement was caus
ed by the arrest of two leading members of
what is thought to be an international gang
engaged in the smuggling and dispensing of
dope. They w’ere found living in quiet grand
eur at a fashionable hotel, with every ap
pearance of dignified respectability. They
presented a convincing denial to the in
spector’s charges. Unfortunately, however,
they had neglected to dispose of a couple of
trunk checks- in their possession. These
checks were for two trunks, one dispatched
from San Francisco to Chicago, and the
other to Boise, Idaho, and each containing
thousands of dollars worth of opium. Further
investigation showed them to be in conni
vance w’ith a suspected Chinaman, the opera
tor of an opium joint, whose place was
raided.
The chasing of narcotic drug peddlers is
the most difficult kind of criminal detection
work. Often it is also the most thankless
task, because only the city authorities are in
terested in prosecuting them. The people
who are their victims have no such interest,
and often conspire to obtain a peddler’s re
lease once he is in prison. Very seldom,
moreover, can a drug addict be induced to
give any information concerning the source
of his dope supply.
“The man who has had his pocket picked,
the storekeeper whose store has been robbed,
the citizen whose hea ’ has been broken by a
footpad, the man whose Aealth has been in
jured with a bullet, all of them are willing
to furnish aid in securing the arrest of the
guilty party or parties,” declared Louis Zeh,
secretary of the board of pharmacy the other
day, “but the drug user, though the guilty
party is robbing him of his very life, is un
willing to see him put where he belongs—in
jail.” »
Drug Users Help
Nevertheless, in answer to the appeals of
the board of pharmacy for information re
garding peddlers, some important tips were
received from drug addicts who professed a
sincere desire to overcome- the habit of drug
using. In fact, the tips were so significant
that the board recentl- made the optimistic
assertion that, with the co-operation of the
local police and federal officials, the peddling
of narcotics in San Francisco will soon/' be
come an activity too dangerous even for the
iron-headed band of traffickers now at large.
“We are going to clean them up or drive
them out of business,” it said.
Oae of the tips received by the board was
from an ex-drug peddler himself.
“I have read with interest in the paper
that they want to get the higher-ups,” it
read. “Well, they have got to go far. I
have sold lots of it anc I have finally quit.
But I wholesaled it, never peddled it on the
streets. I got mine from the Japs in Seattle.
They have got enough there to put two
states to sleep.
“The port of Seattle is a bigger importing
point than San Francisco. Give the govern
ment officials the tip that the dope is sent
over to Japan and is then reshipped to the
United States—”
The existence of an opium ring is nothing
new in San Francisco. It is merely the re
vival of an evil which has sprung up every
time a heavy restriction has been placed upon
the importa t{ OL of narcotic drugs. In spite
of what the drug peddler said about Seattle,
San Francisco, which is the port of entry for
most steamers from the Orient has the dis
tinction of being the place selected by the
smugglers as their basis of operations. It
is always deluged with narcotic drugs, and
it is always trying frantically to get rid of
them. Thus the records of the local cus
toms office show that a powerful opium ring
was operating in 1909 and 1910 after Presi
dent Roosevelt signed a bill prohibiting the
importation of smoking opium into this
country. And t enty years before that,
when a sudden popular agitation rose
against narcotic drugs, another ring of
smugglers was playing tag with the customs
officials.
Since the passing of the Harrison Anti-
Narcotic law, several rings have come into
existence and gone out again. But trained
by long experience the authorities are now
well equipped for their work and the pro
cess of extinction is becoming more and
more expert. The customs officials have
learned to search every nook and cranny of
a vessel for drugs: to inspect every sailor
and mechanic employed on its decks, to takfe
all of its furniture apart, and still to be per
fectly sure that opium is hidden somewhere
In the near vicinity of their activities.
Where They Hide It
Opium has been found in coal bunkers, in
the engines of the vessel, in its flour bins,
in hollow books, and even in pianos and in
the ship’s siren. Sometimes it has been dis
covered behind false paneling and under
staircases and concealed in hollow beams.
One large shipment of over a thousand tins
was taken from nine large, heremetically
sealed cylinders in the watei tanks of a
large ocean liner. Opium users, who in
clude the addicts of such drugs as morphine
and heroin containing opium, are unable to
get along without their dope, and are willing
to pay any price for it; hence, the smug
gling of the drug, if successful, is an
enormoustly profitable undertaking. It
is merely a question of thinking of a place
to hide it, which has never been thought of
before.
There is, however, another, and in the end
more fatal, method of combatting opium
rings, and that is through their victims —
the drug addicts. In recent years, it has
become commonly understood that the vic
tims of the drug habit are sick people, and
not necessarily “dope fiend.” Cities have
become awaie of their responsibility to these
unfortunates, and no longer put them in jail,
but in hospitals. A few cities, which have
tackled the problem in an especially vigor
ous manner, have established clinics and
special hospitals for their drug victims. Last
year New’ York had a drug clinic, where ad
dicts were supplied with narcotic drugs on
a sliding downward scale until the patient
had reached an irreducible minimum—that
is, the smal’est possible amount on which
he could get along. Then they were placed
in hospitals 'o be cured.
Some Doctors Guilty
Unfortunately, New’ York, like every other
city carrying on an anti-narcotic drug cam
paign, was handicapped in its work by the
illegal activities of persistent peddlers, many
of them doctors. When the drug clinic w r as
opened by the city health department, with
the announcement that every drug addict
must come there for his supply of drugs, a
great and indignant wail arose from several
‘New York doctors. It was an outrage, they
asserted, to bring the matter thus into the
open. Families would be broken up when
husbands found their wives at the clinic, and
vice versa. One prominent physician made
a particularly eloquent speech in this con
nection which brought tears of sympathy
to many of his auditors’ eyes. And mean
time in the clinic at least 50 per cent of the
drug addicts w’ere recording on their regis
tration cards the name of this same physi
cian as the source of their drug supply.
What New York did for its drug addicts,
San Francisco is just beginning to attempt.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1920.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
High Temperature
At Greenland ranch, in Death Valley,
California, the air temperature, as re
corded by a tested maximum thermom
eter exposed in a standard instrument
shelter, rose to 100 degrees or higher on
twenty-three days during June, and on
every day during July, 19 20, says a bulle
tin of the American Meteorological socie
ty. The extreme maximum was 125 de
grees, recorded on the last day of July.
On July 10,1913, the temperature there
reached 134 degrees Fahrenheit, the high
est officially recorded air temperature' in
the world.
Dry Campaign
To combat excessive use of intoxicating li
quor in England a campaign will be inaugu
rated by the “Fellow'ship of Freedom and
Reform,” whose chief planks will be indi
vidual freedom, true temperance, reform of
public house, and abolition of drunkenness.
Cut Red Tape
Changes in the correspondence work
of the army designed to save paper and
eliminate unnecessary labor were an
nounced today by Adjutant General
Harris as having been approved by
Secretary Baker. The changes, which
were described as drastic, follow the
recommendations of a board of officers
w’hich investigated the “paper work” of
the army.
Rat Casualties
The total number of rats killed in
Paris since the opening of the offensive
September 12 last Is 101,458.
\
Diamonds Froth the Sea
Diamonds washed up from the sea on the
coast of Southwest Africa in 1918 totaled
1,284,727 karats, valued at $13,132,250.
This is according to government scientists
who investigated the coastal diamond field,
which is 270 miles long and was discovered
in 1908. These gems are found chiefly in
the Pomona district and never more than
fifteen miles from the shore. Most of them
are extremely small. Although one of thir
ty-four karats has been discovered, the av
erage size is one-fifth of a karat. They are
embedded in the beaches or in sand dunes.
The diamonds are of many colors. Clear
white crystals make up the bulk of them.
Yellow’s, pink, purplish, bluish, green and
black stones occur. The gems are charac
terized by greater brilliancy in the rough
than any others found in South Africa.
Lofty Mountain
Many persons believe "that Mount '
Washington, in New Hampshire, is the
highest mountain in the eastern part
of the United States. Mount Washing
ton stands 6,293 feet above sea level
according to the United States Geologi
cal Survey, Department of Interior,
but many peaks in the southern Appa
lachians are several hundred feet higher
than New Hampshire’s famous moun
tain. The highest mountain in the Ap
palachian system—the highest point in
the United States east of th*. Rockies—
is Moun Mitchell, in North Carolina,
which stands at an elevation of 6,711
feet. The highest mountain in Tennes
see, Mount Guyot, stands 6,636 feet
above sea level.
New Inventions
A Massachusetts inventor has devised
a glove cleaning machine which is some
what like an ice cream freezer. The
soiled gloves are dropped into gasoline
or other cleaning fluid and whirled
around by a perforated blade through
which the liquid is forced. After the
handle has been turned about three
minutes the gloves may be taken out
spotless.
Shoe State
The National Geographic Magazine calls
attention to the fact that Massachusetts is a
shoe state. Brockton is pre-eminently the
man’s shoe town, Lynn claims first place in
the manufacture of women’s shoes and Hav
erhill prides itself on being the slipper city
of the world. Massachusetts has an export
trade that reaches ninety countries and colo
nies. *
“Color” To Be Studied
Dresden is soon to have an institute for
the development of the scientific study of
“color” and the adaptation of the results of
research for industrial purposes.
Turkey Bars Dictionaries
Dictionaries are forbidden entrance to
Turkey because the Sultan is usually men
tioned in such books, and that is contrary
to Turkish law.
Poets’ Contest
Poetry championship contests will be held
in Buenos Ayres in 1921, with the poets of
all Latin America invited to participate and
prizes amounting to about $44,000 gold to
be distributed.
The tournament of verse, called in Span
ish, “juegos florales” or “flower games,” is
being organizer’ by the young women’s com
mittee of the Argentine Patriotic League.
Through the Argentine diplomats in all
Spanish-speaking American countries, poets
from every part of the hemisphere will be in
vited to tUke part, those who receive the
prizes being invited to come to Argentina at
the expense of the association.
Bathtubs a Luxury?
Bath tubs and bathroom fixtures ap
pear on the list of “luxuries” ’’which
would be subject to a 10 per cent luxury
tax in Holland if a revenue bill now be
fore the Dutch Parliament is passed.
Poison in Ring
In Paris a collector bought an antique
finger ring in which was figured a lion
with sharp claws of steel. From these
claws he received an accidental scratch
of which he nearly died. Investigation
showed the claws were hollowed and
communicated with a small poison re
ceptacle in the ring.
Crime Chart,
Charles Fitzmorris, new superin
tendent of the Chicago order
ed a chart prepared showing the home
of every known criminal in Chicago.
Patrolmen will be required to report
each time a man with a record moves,
his pin will be shifted from the old ad
dress to the new. The chart is another
step in the chief’s drive to clean up
Chicago.
That is, it is making an effort to treat them
as sick people and to put them into hos
pitals instead of fining them and putting
them in jail. Men addicts are still treated
in jail, it is true, because there is not suf
ficient hospital space to accommodate them,
but it is at least significant that thfey are
being treated. Mort of the women are being
placed in an isolated hospital, where every
possible precaution is taken to see that no
drugs are smuggled in from outside sources.
M ..nwhile the state is considering the es
tablishment of an isolated drug addict colony
on one of the Pacific coast islands.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Children’s Book Week
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.
OF all the different "weeks” we are
called upon to celebrate, none is more
worthy of observance than children’s
book week, for there is no other talisman
that we can put into the hand of the ydhing
that will so surely protect them against the
slings and arrows of outrageous fortune a*
a book will. ’
It is something that adds to the joy of life
at its most glorious moment. It is a com
fort that soothes in the blackest hour of de
spair. It is a friend that never fails, and the
one sure refuge from boredom.
No one who has a good book can ever lack
of brilliant society, or of entertainment, or
amusement. He has always a congenial com
panion to whom he can turn, secure of find
-ing the same warm welcome, smiling up to
him from the printed page; certain always
of getting the old thrill of adventure, or the
brave words of cheer that put fresh courage
into the faint heart, or the message of wis
dom that directs aright his faltering foot
steps.
Books are the real fairy tales come true,
for they have but to wave their magic wand
and, presto, all our dreams come true. Are
you born to dire poverty, one of those un
fortunates who must ever listen to the wolf
howling at the door? Open a book, and all
the wealth of the world is yours. You may
feast on nightingales’ tongues on plates of
gold in a baronial hall. You may roll around
in a twenty thousand-dollar car, and swathe
yourself in silken robes as you step from
your perfumed bath, while your valet decides
which one of your forty-seven different va
rieties of suits he will put on you.
Are you a homely, dried-up, shabby little
old maid, who earns her living by her needle,
and to whom no breath of romance has ever
come? Open book, and you become young
and beautiful, a Helen whose face launches
a thousand shipc. Suitors sigh at your feet.
The very air breathes love and passion, and
you glow, and thrill, and tremble at the com
ing of your lover, and half sv oon with joy
as his strong arms close about you and your
heart finds its home on his breast.
Do you long to and ar. you held
fast to some particular spot which you can
never hope to leave? Open a book, and the
whole wide world is yours. You may sail
through tropic seas, and sniff the cherry
blossoms of Japan, and watch the never-end
ing procession through the treets of Pekin, ,
and the faithful come down to pray at the «
Ganges, and roam the boulevards of Paris,
and listen to the bells of St. Paul in Lon
don.
Books give us all we ask of life, and he
who has them is rich, though he has nothing
else, and he who has them not is poor in
deed, no matter what else he possesses.
It is, therefore, of the utmes. importance
that children should have a love of books
inculcated in them in their earliest youth, and
should be taught the habit of reading them.
Most parents seem to be of the opinion
of Dogberry, that reading and writing come
by nature, and in the guise of a talent, such
as a tenor voice, or an ability to draw pic
tures that can be recognized at sight. There
fore, they rejoice, and brag abou it, when
little Johnnie and Marj are bookworms, but
they feel they have no responsibility when
Johnnie and Mary prefer balls and dolls to
perusing the nice little volumes they got on
their birthdays.. The parental attitude is
that some children are “bookish” and some
are not, just as some children have curls
and some have straight hair. It is fate. Kis
met! And they let it go at that.
The truth is that very few children are
born with a love of books. It is one of the
graces of life that has to be cultivated in
them, like speaking the truth, and kindness
to dumb animals. The point is that it can
be cultivated in them, and that once we have
established the habit of reading, it is the
most unbreakable habit in life.
And it’s the habit that will do more to
keep a girl of boy out of mischief than all
the ten commandments. For it is the lack
of something interesting to do, some way to
fill in the time, that leads young people into
*bad company, and so on down the road to
ruin.
The boy who loves to read can pass a
pleasant evening at home. He doesn’t have
to foregather with the gang on the corner.
The girl who can find pleasure in a book
isn’t out on a perpetual still-hunt for any
kind of beau who will take her around to
dancq halls and any place of amusement
where there is something doing.
And when one’s youth ,is passed and one
comes to middle life, books ar the bulwark
of the home. Not without reason has the
conventional picture of domestic bliss repre
sented the happy family gathered about the
evening lamp.
The reading man is never the man who
wanders away from his home fireside as soon
as he swallows his dinner, to seek for di
version. The reading woman is never the
woman whose idea of earthly bliss is to chase
around from cabaret to cabaret and restau
rant to restaurant.
Perhaps even the most middle-aged and
married of people# have their passing mo
ments when they yearn for adventure, and a
whiff of romance, but if they are reading
people, they do not follow the beckoning fin
per in person. They get down their favorite
novel and take their romance vicariously )
through their most alluring heros and her- '
oines. And all well.
For these, and a million other reasons,
teach your children to love books. It is the
sure ticket to the realms of the blessed.
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
When things go wrong with us it isn’t our
own fault. Os course not! The trouble is
with those about us. If our neighbors or as
sociates had only treated us rightly there
would have been no trouble. It’s too bad
that the “other fellow” should be so lacking
in fair dealing, in kindliness, in considera
tion.
Isn’t it?
If others would always obey the Golden
Rule, if they would always obey our desires
and act in accordance with our principles,
how pleasant our relations might be! How
little trouble we should have! Why don’t
they?
Principally because they are human like
ourselves —not spineless jelly fishes. Queer,
isn’t it, that they dare to have convictions of
their own, that they do not always do right
(of course we do!), and that we find our
selves at variance in many lines of thought?
How much better it would be could we all
be fashioned on exactly the same pattern of
mental convolutions, so ou,r thoughts would
run in exactly the same grooves!
But it wouldr’t be better! Such a condi
tion would make for deadening monotony
and lack of creative power? It surely would.
Any one with even half a brain could easily
see that.
But why, then, expect the other fellow to
come all the way? Why not respect his con
victions, excuse his shortcomings, listen to ,-
his arguments—all this without rancor or
contempt or resentment even? Why not give
to him the same charity that we need at
times? Why not?