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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURN AL, Atlanta. Ga.
Is Democracy Dying?
SOMEWHAT cynically a Paris corre
spondent inquires, “The world is now
safe for democracy—but where is de
mocracy?” In France, he goes on to say,
royalist and imperialist sentiment is strik
ingly outspoken and blandly countenanced.
The celebration of the Republic’s fiftieth
anniversary was postpone! from September
the fourth to November the eleventh, with
never a ripple of popular protest; and when
Armistice day arrived, the Republican fea
ture of the jubilee w . effaced, lest the feel
ings of those who worshiped at older shrines
of national memory shpuld be hurt. It seems
but a few yesterdays since Zola, stirring the
heart of the world with his plea for the per
secuted Dreyfus, wrecked the far-laid plans
of a militarist clique that meant deadly
mischief to - tench democracy. But now,
“Only a few voices speak out to defend the
name of Zola, and they are drowned in a
torrent of abuse. The Republicans—‘Rad
icals,” as they are called in French political
nomenclature —are scattered, gone the way
of the British Liberal party, through the
passions of wa. . It has become easy to
trample on the name of Zola and to pretend
that his body defiles the great hall of
posthumous fame, the Pantheau.” Not .that
Zola himself is of so much consequence in
the minds of these assailants, but “through
him one can reach Voltaire, Gambetta, Re
publicanism itself.”
History is too full of relapses, surprises
and contradictions for one to dismiss as
impossible th idea of a monarchy’s springing
up from Bastile’s long-scattered dust.
Strange as it would be should the land that
paid so red a price for “Liberty, Equality
and Fraternity” return to the political fash
ion of its Louis,’ still is not this planet of
ours given to strange doings? Aud would it
not be of the very essence of that irony which
seems inseparable from fate, if a great war
fought and won in the name of democracy
should be followed by a Europewide revival
of the monarchic spirit?
This is imaginable. But it is not the only,
not the simplest, not the most reasonable
line of interpretation for such phenomena as
the Paris correspondent sets forth. It was
but natural that in her emotion of victory
France should gather up Royalists, Imperial
ists, Republicans and all others, regarding
them no longer as devotees of conflicting
philosophies of government, but as children
of her breast —inheritors of a common gran
deur, achievers of a common glory. It was
natural, too, that the reaction from those
iron years of struggle and suffering should
express itself in .political as well as other as
pects of the nation’s life. But the laborer
in some goodly task, who pauses at the close
of a hard day to jest or scold or roister and
then lies down foe the night, has not aban
doned his duty or his faith; he has but
sought the means to sturdier effort on the
morrow. France is not turning monarchist
in her fling at republican manners; England
Is not going backward in the ill fortunes of
the Liberal party. The world is not repudi
ating democracy in its passing wave of po
litical reaction.
In so far as democracy is more than a mere
form and theory, ia so far as it is an ex
pression of sock .1 truth and an aid to social
progress, an outgrowth of man’s impulse to
kindliness and a nourisher of his ideal for
justice—so far forth, we may confiden
tly trust, the very stars in their course®
are fighting its battles.
The City That Forges Ahead
GENEROUSLY commenting on Atlanta’s
building record for the first eleven
months of the current year, the Me
ridian, Mississippi, Dispatch remarks: “There
Is a spirit in Atlanta which forges ahead and
knows no permanent obstruction. While
many cities are standing still in awe of the
high' costs of construction, the Georgia cap- (
ital points to 1920 as the year in hich it
has attained its greatest building growth?’
Without pretending in any wise that her
full duty in this field of service and enter
prise has been done, Atlanta well may re
joice that the twelvemonth drawing to a
close has been turned to so good an ac
count despite the towering costs. The com
munity’s housing problem still lacks much
of having been solved, and there is still a
shortage of quarters for business and indus
try. Particularly regrettable it is that more
progress has not been made in plans to pro
vide middle-priced dwellings which salaried
workers and wage earners can purchase, to
their advantage, by easy installments; this
is a need that touches the fundamentals of
civic welfare, and one to. which every alert
city is giving earnest thought. Nevertheless,
substantial achievements stand to Atlanta’s
credit in the year’s building record, and will
prove to be both a stim 'lating and sus
taining influence in her days ahead.
To the extent that the city lives up to the
character which our Mississippi neighbor
graciously attributes to her. she will con
tinue to prosper an ’ progress True enter
prise consists, not simply in fathering har
vests already ripe for whosoever will reap
them, but in breaking ground and going for
ward when only faith and courage can see
the wav. Obstacles always will rise against
worthwhile - ndertakings, doubts always will
besiege the "ath to richest opportunity. But
!»aDJ>y are they, whether men or cities, that
go constructively ahead.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
The Wealth Developer
A GEORGIA TECH bulletin draws at
tention to the striking fact that this
State, if it had the furnaces, “could
produce pig iron at from fifteen to eigh
teen dollars a ton less than Pittsburgh” and
that “altogether it sustains on steel prod
ucts a loss of some twelve million dollars a
year, a sum more than enough to finance a
iteel plant capable of producing that much.”
While Pittsburgh must import its iron ore
and limestone from the Lake region by a
long, circuitous and costly haul, Georgia
"has in operation ore mines, coal mines and
limestone quarries, all within ten miles of
each other and capable of turning out thou
sands of tons each day,”—a situation with
out parallel in all the world. But as affairs
now go these valuable and abundant min
erals, instead of being mobilized and man
ufactured for the enrichment of the region
which yields them, are shipped over great
distances to the East and the Middle West,
there made into a finished product, and
then re-sold to Georgia at a handsome prof
it.
It is the splendid purpose of the Tech to
change conditions like this, not only in the
matter of steel production but in every field
of the State’s natural resources, and there
by to conserve millions upon millions of
wealth now lost or wasted. It is not from
raw materials but from manufacturers that
the richest streams of prosperity flow, not
in mere toil but in skilled labor and in en
terprise that the goodliest rewards are to
be found. If an institution of the character
of the present-day Tech had been estab
lished in Georgia fifty years ago, the State
now would be selling steel instead of ore,
fine pottery instead of clay, and all manner
of highly profitable goods instead of crude
materials. Much more important, however, is
the fact that if the Tech of today is given
an adequate and sorely needed endowment,
it will not be fifty years nor twenty-five, but
only a decade at the most before Georgia’s
actual development will outstrip the bright
est dreams of her past.
Canadian Prosperity
THE long friendly relations between the
United States and Canada should be
strengthened by the fact that Ameri
cans now have investments in the Dominion
amounting to upwards of one and a quarter
billion dollars, as compared with only a fifth
as much in 1914. These represent, in addi
tion' to divers stocks and credits, some six
hundred American-owned plants. It is es
timated that the sums payable to this side of
the border from all such sources, in the way
of interest, profits, freights and insurance,
approximates seventy-five million dollars a
year.
These figures bear striking witness to Ca
nadian development and prosperity. The
war brought rich opportunities to the Do
minion’s industrial life, and her ever- thrifty
and achieving spirit mada the most of them.
On a basis of returns from thirty-four thou
sand three hundred and eighty of her manu
facturing plants for 1917, the latest year for
which statistics are available, the Bankers’
Trust Company, of New York, calculates that
the capital then invested was $2,772,517,000,
an increase of thirty-nine per cent over 1915.
Furthermore, “the gross value of goods pro
duced in 1917 was $3,015,000,000, while the
cost of materials was $1,600,000,000, leaving
a net value, added by the process of manu
facture, of $1,400,000,000.”
It is not to be wondered that growth like
this has attracted investors in the United
States. The fact is the interests of the two
countries are so vitally interwoven that the
prosperity of the one is almost certain to re
dound to the other’s good. With the busi
ness reciprocity thus resulting, there goes
an international friendship which has been
deepening for generations and which, we may
confidently trust, will never grow cold.
Edenic Georgia Cane!
THE most convincing picture of a par
adise yet painted is that which rep
resents a morning-faced family seated
beside a golden stream on the banks of
which grow goodly trees that drop buttered
hot cakes as their fruit, and in the chan
nel of which flows, no such beggarly liquid
as water, but a royal, a glorious tide of
Georgia cane syrup.
This Edenic image comes blooming to
mind as we read the news that the Geor
gia-Florida Cane Growers’ Association has
attained to a membership of fifteen hun
dred. May their ranks increase to fifteen
thousand, and then multiply again fourfold.
Eve, admirable housewife as she was de
spite her sex’s curiosity, would not have
brought woe into the garden if she had
rested content with cane syrup and let the
pippins be. Olympus, that once shining
abode of the immortals, would not have
come to grief, had its banquets flowed less
of heady nectar and more of the juice of
the cane. What were all the hives of
Hybla to a single kettle, nay a single lit
tle breakfast-table pot, of that palate-bless
ing, soul-satisfying deliciousness we call
Georgia cane?
By all means let the growers press their
plans to advertise their product throughout
America; for if they can but bring the
country at large and, after that, the wide,
wide world to a tasting knowledge of this
wondrous succulence, they will have done,
not only a highly profitable, but also a
highly beneficent deed.
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WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
BY JACK PATTERSON
Crisp County Fair Success
For the second tinie the Crisp county fair
paid expenses. Last year’s fair was in the
nature of an experiment, and showed a profit;
this year it made an even break with ex
penses, despite adverse conditions. The re
sult of good management, for which Secre
tary Fleming is entitled to a large share of
the credit.—Tifton Gazette.
With everybody supporting the fair it
should be a humdinger next year.
Don’t judge a man by his clothes. He may
not be as foolish as the present-day styles
proclaim him.
To the corn-fed girl: Be sure that the
high heels of your shoes will wabble as you
perhobulate down the street.
A dispatch from London says “Cambridge
is seriously considering giving degrees to
women.” Might as well, as they’ll get ’em
anyhow.
Ships are not the only things that “pass
in the night.”
It may be true that “there are finer fish
in the sea than have ever been caught,” but
Gaynelle says that they have quit biting at
just any old thing.
Townsend Toll ’Em About It
If there is any patron of the Nugget who
does not .’ike or wish to read it, it is their
own fault. All they have to do is to mark
“refused” on the margin of the paper and
put it back In the office, and we ’’’ill return
their money.—Dahlonega Nugget.
Anybody who doesn’t enjoy reading Editor
Townsend’s paper should consult a liver and
> brain specialist.
INEFFICIENCY
By H. Addington Bruce
INEFFICIENCY has many causes. But
more and more the conviction is grow
ing on Tie that its great cause is wholly
psychological—a faulty attitude of the
worker toward his work.
If a man thinks —as thousands of men
seem to think today—that work is nothing
more than a means of earning a livelihood,
naturally there will be a conscious or sub
conscious desire to exert one’s self only to
the extent that is necessary ‘ hold a job.
For work will be deemed a disagreeable
necessity, something to be avoided as much
as possible.
The mind and the heart will be directed
away from work. A multiplication of holi
days will be welcomed —even “strikes” —as a
means of dodging unpleasant.
Inefficiency will then be inevitable. Also
•—if only because this attitude to work is es
sentially wrong—there will be inevitable
restlessness, unhappiness, and discontent.
This because to avoid work, to shirk work,
to underwork, is to go contrary to one of the
basic instincts of humankind —the instinct to
contribute through creative self-expression to
the welfare ’ the race. Gilded loafers and
misled artisans alike need to take this truth
home to themselves.
Life’s purpose is not the mere satisfaction
of any individual member of the social or
ganism. It is the contribution by every in
dividual of something that will benefit the
social organism as a whole. And only
through such contribution can the individual
gain the satisfaction he rightly craves.
That is why the gregarious instinct is
given to man. In obedience to that instinct
he turns enthusiastically to work of some
sort that will redound to the good of his fel
low men. To fa?, thus to turn —to despise
or hate work—is both to injure society and
to cheat himself of self-satisfaction by re
fusing to take the one course through which
he can win it.
I ask the idlers, the lazy, the pleasure
chasers, the deluded followers of those who
perpetually cry, “strike, strike!”
“Are you happy? Is life yielding to you
what you feel you have every right to expect
it to yield? Does your high pay for scant
effort bring you joy?”
You know very well that the more time
you have to “enjoy” yourself the less real
enjoyment is yours. You wonder why. The
answer is simple. You are defying a basic
instinct of your nature, and you are being
penalized for your defiance.
Recognize that to find joy in work is the
one sure way of finding joy at all. Recognize
that a happy life and a working life are
synonmous. Pay nu further heed to those
who would subtly persuade you to work less
and less.
'None could do you greater harm than they.
(Copyright, 19 20, by The Associated News
papers.)
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THE GREATEST MISCHIEF
MAKERS IN THE WORLD
By Dr. Frank Crane
The business of mischief making is an old
one and has produced persons of overtop
ping genius.
In the rivalry of doing damage, and bring
ing loss, ruin, and misery to the greatest
number, it is no slight achievement to stand
in the front rank.
Chief and father of all, according to tradi
tion, was the Devil, who, angered by the
sight of our first parents living in idyllic
Eden, managed to get them expelled, and
started the race on its tumultuous path of
trouble.
Hebrew lore makes mention of the Philis
tines, whose main purpose seems to have
been to harass and corrupt the chosen peo
ple.
Then there is the unspeakable Turk,
whose fierce and fanatic rule has always
been a thorn in the flesh of Christendom.
Mention might be made of the barbarian
tribes who pillaged the loveliness of Greece,
made glorious Rome a heap, and brought
on the darkness of the Middle Ages.
In latter days the sudden flowering into
monstrous efficiency of Prussian Junkerism,
with its frightfulness in war and its permea
tion of the world by its spies and intrigues,
appears to be the most conspicuous sample
of sheer deviltry.
But now arises a new and a subtler clan
of hate makers.
Whatever may be the outcome eventually
or the immediate advantage of a concert of
nations to prevent another such outbreak of
devastation as we have just passed through,
all well-informed persons agree that the act
ual, dependable, and practical guaranty of
world peace lies in the good understanding,
the entente cordiale, and the honest co-opera
tion of the English-speaking peoples.
. No possible combination of nations could
resist the force of a united Canada, Australia,
United States of America, and Great
Britain.
This force is essentially peace lotlng, be
ing commercial and not military.
Whatever pact for world peace may be
formed, this combination will be the iron
of it.
With the unity of the English-speaking
states behind it, any world agreement will
have authority; without it, only oratory.
Those twisted minds therefore who delight
to sow discord among the nations composing
this racial group are entitled to the blue
ribbon in the world’s exhibition of master
criminals.
Justice William Renwick Riddell spoke In
truth and soberness the other day at the
Canadian club, of New York, when he said:
“Nor did I nor do I think that it is of vital
importance to the world whether the present
League of Nations be adopted or not. The
peace of the world, the whole future of the
world, will ultimately rest upon something
quite other than the League of Nations. It
will rest upon the peace, the harmony, the
soul-unity of the English-speaking peoples.”
(Copyright, 19 20, by Frank Crane)
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
A well-known artist was standing bare
headed in a hat store. A clerk had taken
his hat away for the moment. In rushed an
angry man, who mistook the a-tist for a
clerk.
“This hat doesn’t fit,” he shouted.
“Nor does your coat,” replied the other,
“and I hate your trousers.”
The fussy aunt was accompanied to the
train by her nephew. “Are you sure this is
the right train?” she asked again and again
“Well,” returned the young man, “I’ve
consulted five porters, two ticket sellers, the
bulletin board, the conductor, and the en
gineer. They all say it is, so I think you
might risk it.”
The small part actress had condescended
to be chummy with the mere chorus girl.
“At rehearsal,” sh: said, “I was letter
perfect. So, you see, my dear, there's one
consolation, I know my words.”
And the minx queried rather maliciously:
“What! Both of them?”
Kitty, aged four, had been naughty and
her father had had to administer vigorous
correction before going to business
That an impression had been made was
apparent when, on his return from business
in the evening, Kit'y called upstairs with
frigid politeness:
“Mother, your husband’s home.”
UNEMPLOYMENT
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 29.—The
man who Is willing and able to
work but can’t find a job is
with us again. Unemployment is in evi
dence almost everywhere in the United
States, according to reports reaching the
U. S. employment service. In some little
factory towns it means only a few hun
dred men out of work. In New York it
means 100,000 men out of work in a sin
gle industry. So far it has not meant
bread lines nor other symptoms of acute
distress. And no one can tell how bad it
is going to be. That depends upon how
quickly and easily the price-adjustment is
made —or rather, makes itself.
But the man out of a job is a signifi
cant figure. He is the hardest of all rad
icals to answer. You may say that the
agitator who criticizes our institutions talks
bosh, but the man who wants to work and
knows how to work and cannot find the
chance, surely has a real case against so
ciety. He is the man of all men who will
listen when someone tries to tell him that
the nation is organized on the wrong prin
ciple and ought to be made over. There is
no use asking him to be content, when his
stomach is empty and the door to his
job is closed.
To prevent unemployment is worth more
as a step toward suppressing radicalism
than any amount of red-baiting and an
archist-exporting. Yet unemployment hits
us periodically and we have never yet
made any intelligent effort to take care
of it.
The Employment Service
The nearest thing to an effort in that
line was the creation of the U. S. employ
ment service during the war as a part of
the labor department. It was not pro
vided to take care of unemployment, but
rather to help in overcoming a labor short
age. Nevertheless, it was an organization
for studying labor conditions, and its ma
chinery could be used against unemploy
ment as well as against shortage.
At present this government bureau is
just barely alive. During 1919 it received
appropriations of $5,500,000. For 1920
and 1921 congress has given it $400,000
and $225,000, respectively. In other words,
it has received just enough to keep it
in existence with a skeleton organization.
The Nolan bill, which has been reported
favorably by the house committee on la
bor, would make it a permanent bureau.
Unless this bill is passed it will presum
ably go out of existence.
How would the employment service go
about preventing unemployment if it were
made a permanent bureau? The most di
rect and effective way would be for it to
open employment offices in every indus
trial city of the country, with its Wash
ington office acting as a clearing house.
By such a system, it would bring the man
and the job together, and reduce unem
ployment to a minimum. If a thousand
men were thrown out of jobs by the closing
of a factory in Massachusetts at the same
time that a thousand were needed for a
state road-building project in Pennsylvania,
the employment service would know it,
and move the men where they were needed.
This would not solve the problem, of
course. It would not create jobs. But it
would give the man out of a job a re
source, a hope. It would make the size
and nature of the problem evident. It
would be an immense advance over the
attitude of indifference mixed with futile
philanthropy with which we have always
met the unemployment problem before.
This national employment system, as
it was operated during the war, collides
with our political ideals. It is regarded in
many quarters, as a violation of states’
rights, and an extension of the evil of pa
ternalism. There is no present prospect
of re-establishing such a system. Senti
ment, as the saying is, goes against it.
States and Federal Co-operation
But a very similar system can be estab
lished by co-operation between the federal
government and the state governments. It
is such a system that is contemplated by the
Nolan bill, and which the present officials of
the employment service hope to establish.
Thirty-three states already have employment
services, with offices in about 200 cities. If
some federal aid were offered, it is probable
that the rest of the states would establish em
ployment services, and that all of the prin
cipal industrial centers would be served. In
return for a small federal appropriation, these
state services would be bound to furnish the
employment service in Washington with all
available Information concerning labor condi
tions, and they would also, perhaps, be com
pelled to maintain certain standards of ef
ficiency in order to get this federal aid. In
this way a system similar to the federal sys
tem, with Washington acting as a clearing
house, would be established without violating
states’ rights or extending very much the au
thority of the federal government.
A Labor Survey
The U. S. employment service, while wait
ing to see what the new congress is going
to do to it, is preparing to make a survey of
the labor situation. Such a survey is made
once a month now by the bureau of labor
statistics, but the employment service con
templates a much more intensive and exten
sive effort. The country will be divided into
nine geographical divisions, and agents will
be established in the principal industrial
cities of each. / These will make bi-monthly
reports, showing the exact conditions of the
labor market in all of the fudamental in
dustries in all parts of the United States. This
information will make clear to employers, to
labor leaders, to congress, the exact condi
tions at all times. It will supply the facts,
which is certainly the first step toward solv
ing any problem. The Chamber of Commerce
of the United State: is understood to have in
dorsed this proceeding. Manufacturers are
beginning to realize that the man out of a
job is their worst enemy, if they wish to
maintain the industrial status-quo in this
country. And ?.e is an enemy who cannot be
put in jail «r shipped to Russia. The only
way to get rid of him is to find him a job.
Hence the manufacturers favor job-hunting
machinery.
The most direct way of overcoming unem
ployment, of course, would be to provide
work for all who were willing to work, by
state or federal action. Thus it has been sug
gested that the unemployed be put to work
at the reclamation, under government super
vision, of swamp and desert lands —a task
which must be done before long. But this
again would be paternalism. It would con
flict with out political ideas of individual
ism.
None-the-less, the establishment of an em
ployment service by state and federal co-oper
ation would very likely lead to sometihng like
this. A state government could very well
leave some of its more ambitious road-build
ing projects and other public improvements,
until its employment service reported many
men in need of work. In other words, state
expenditures for public works could be so
timed as to relieve unemployment.
This Testimony Is Ruled Out
Things are never just right. Old Louie
-•’orris’ wife thinks he looks too dressy when
he goes on a press trip, and our wife thinks
we do not look quite dandy enough to suit
her. The trouble is that Louie’s wife stays
at home and Louie plays off single and our
wife never lets us get away for even a day
without going right along, too. —Lavonia
Times and Gauge.
It is the difference between the two men,
Rush. Mrs. Morris knows that she can trust
Louie.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1920.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Sleeping Sickness
A kind of sleeping sickness is said by
medical authorities to be spreading
through eastern and central Europe.
The International Red Cross is seek
ing to have preventative measures
adopted.
In Switzerland, statistics show 991
cases of the malady have been treated in
the first half of the year.
Against Barmaids
About 2,000 former service men in
Liverpool are protesting against the em
ployment of barmaids in the city’s
hotels and public houses. When a dep
utation waited on the committee of the
Liverpool Brewers and Spirit Mer
chants’ association, one of the men
said that if the barmaids did not give
place to service men, action would be
taken that would force the women out.
About 2,000 barmaids are employed in
Liverpool.
United States Leads
The United States continued far in the
lead of other nations in commerce with Chile
in 1919, supplying nearly half of Chile’s to
tal imports of $140,483,331. This is shown
by the annual report of the Superintendent
of Customs. Imports from North America
amounted to $70,020,914, against $74,259,-
840 for 1918. Great Britain was second,
with $28,423,274.
Navy Improves
In the United States navy, both the At
lantic and Pacific fleets now have well or
ganized and complete “trains” of hospital
ships, supply boats, repair vessels, refriger
ating ships, ammunition and fuel ships, in
addition to motor patrol vessels, submarine
chasers, mine sweepers and mine layers,
converted yachts, submarine and destroyer
tenders and troops transports, practically
undreamed of a decade ago.
Smallpox Relief
Smallpox serum and other medical sup
plies required to combat the epidemic of the
disease which has broken out in Hayti have
been ordered dispatched to Port-au-Prince
by Secretary of the Navy Daniels. The re
quest for medical supplies came from Rear
Admiral H. S. Knapp, now conducting an in
vestigation there.
Funny Money
Business and advertising cards, torn and
dirty from much handling, have been circu
lating as money in Papeete, Tahiti, travelers
were surprised to find, since the middle of
October, 1919, says Popular Mechanics Mag
azine. At that time, and in some manner
not explained, all the smaller silver coins
dropped out of circulation as though lump
ed into the water that girds this small island
of the southern Pacific. Department to es
ablish a medium of exchange at last, one of
the business firms offered as currency its
own business cards, bearing above the pro
prietor’s signature the wo-ds: “Good for 5 0
centimes,” 1 franc, or 2 francs, as desired.
Clever X-Ray
In the government mint in Japan an
X-ray machine is used to examine sus
pected employees as they leave the es
tablishment daily, and it has revealed
the presence of coins that had been con
cealted in the guilty one’s stomach..
To Reduce Forces
The American army of occupation in Ger
many is to be reduced nearly 50 per cent
within the next six months, unless withdrawn
completely when the Harding administration
takes office, March 4 next, according to pres
ent plans of the war department. The re
duction planned by the general staff will cut
the forces on the Rhine by May 31 to 446
officers and 7,751 enlisted men, as against
the present force of 630 officers and 13,676
enlisted men.
Coining to Mexico
Arrangements for settlement of more than
10,000 Russian Mennonites ip the State of
Campeche, Tabasco and Oaxaca, Mexico, be
fore the first of the year have been made, ac
cording to advices from Mexico City.
The preliminaries were agreed to by three
representatives of the Mennonites and Gen
eral Antonio Villareal, of the Mexican gov
ernment. The colonists are to purchase gov
ernment land, receive the right to conduct
their own schools and teach their own lan
guage and religion.
To Study Movies
Announcement is made that photoplay
study and scenario writing as a course will
be inaugurated at Temple university with the
beginning of the new year.
The new course, which was made possible
through the co-operation of the Stanley com
pany, will be named the “Stanley V. Mast
baum Course,” in memory of the late Stan
ley V. Mastbaum, a pioneer motion picture
man.
AS A WOMAN THINKETH
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by The Whc-eler Syndicate. Inc.)
What Makes a Man
Charming?
“What,” writes a worried young man,
“What are the qualities in a man that ap
peal to a woman?
“How is it that a little runt with kinky
red hair, and goggles, and a pre-war salary
can start all the prettiest girls in town fight
ing over him,
“While a regular, all-wool fellow, with
plenty of war-medals, blunders and muddles
and sighs in vain—”
Stop! Stop right there!
No “all-wool fellow with plenty of war
medals” sighs in vain for feminine adora
tion in these days.
And there is no black magic or dark
mystery about the art of charming a woman.
Any man can be a woman-charmer, a “girl
tamer,” a “heart-fancier,” if he cares to
take the trouble,
And to make the sacrifice!
But, alas, so few of them do!
You can eharm a woman in seven —or
seventy—ways,
Every one of them guaranteed!
The trouble is that it’s SO easy, that no
man without “the sixth sense” can believe
it.
You can charm a woman—the simplest
and quickest method of all—by making
love to her,
By making her think that in your eyes,
she is adorable, desirable, irresistible!
No woman’s heart can fail to hold a soft
spot for a man who loves her,
And who has the courage to SAY so, con
vincingly.
You can charm her by flattering her.
No woman can ever forget a man, who has
told her that she has beautiful eyes, or a
beautiful wrist, or a fascinating upper-lip.
You need not wrack your brain for poetic
phrases, or call her “Wonder Girl” or
“Dream-Lady.” and all that sort of thing.
Just “say it with WORDS”—words of one
syllable!
You can charm her by listening to her.
It is such a novelty to a woman to be LIS-
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Domestic Humor
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.
A young wife is very much hurt and be
wildered. She is married to r man whom
she loves with all her heart, and who appears
to be very fond of her. fee praises her man
agement of their little home. He hands her
bouquets about her thrift and ec -omy. He
smacks his lips over her cooking, and when
they are alone together, or just with mem
bers of their respective families, he registers
every earmark of being a happy and con
tented husband, who thinks that he has
drawn a capital prize in the matrimonial lot
tery.
Let strangers come in, however, or let
them be out at some party, and it’s a different
story. Then the husband groans loudly over
the expense of having to support a famiL’-
and represents himself as a poor
creature who has to punch the home tim
clock on the minute. He warns all the un
married men not to be as foolish as he was,
and slip their necks into the domestic halter’,
and he boast that if he were free no woman
would ever be smart enough t catch him.
The wife cannot understand why her hus
band acts so differently at home and abroad
She is hurt -nd mo.titled at the attitude he
puts her in, and she wonders if he rea’ly is
sorry that he married her, and would lite to
be rid of her, why he doesn’t come out and
tell her privately, instead of proclaiming It
publicly.
The poor little wife doesn’t know, as she
will know when she has cut her matrimon
ial isdom teeth, that her husband doesn’t
mean a thing by his flings at marriage, and
his aspersion of her character. He is mere
ly trying to be witty, and s making his lit
tle joke after the time-honored formula of
husbands.
The oldest wheeze in the world is the
mother-in-law joke. The second oldest is the
man-who-is-sorry-he-married joke. Both of
them date back about four thousand years
B. C., but they are s.ill in good working or
der, and every man who gets married takes
them off the shelf, dusts them off, and
starts them going again.
Why a man should want to make the
woman he loves a fgure of fun, and hold
her up to ridicule before a lot of guffawing
fools, nobody knows. There is no other
torture so exquisite as being laughed at, and
yet many a husband ruthlessly subjects his
shrinking, and sensitive wife to this cruel or
deal, for the sake of being funny.
All of us know men whose best stories
center around some peculiarity in their
wives. All of us have sat at dinner tables,
and listened to some coarse-flbered, triple
chinned, husband, with a hide like a rhinoc
erous, relate some alleged pisode about his
wife which showed her up in an idoitic light,
while his poor victim looked at him with the
eyes of a hurt rabbit, and tried to smile to
hide the trembling of her lips, and we have
wished that we could get up and take the
carving kinfe to him, instead of having to
politely applad him.
Os course women are funny; so are men.
The cardonic test of creation is human na
ture. There is not one of us whose eccen
tricities would not make a screaming car
toon, especially with a little touching up
here and there.
That is why anyone who is cruel enough
to pick out the mental or physical defects
of other people and hold them up to ridicule,
can always get the reputation of being amus
ing, and raise a laugh. But it is the cheap
est form of wit, and the most cowardly.
Perhaps if men realized how deeply thev
stabbed into their wives’ hearts with their
domestic jokes, they would forbear to use
the deadly weapon, even if it did make a
Roman holiday for their friends. Apparent
ly it does not occur to the average husband
that it does not amuse his wif« to hear him
say that she is a burden, and a killjoy to
him, and that he regards himself as nothing
less than a red lantern to warn other men
against matrimony.
Nor does a man seem to think that his wife
will do anything but chortle with mirth over
the side-splitting account he gives of her
trade with the rag man, or her run-in with
the janitor, though he would never forgive
her if she barbed her wit with his weakness
es, or set a company in roar with the vera
cious account of the time he bought a gold
brick and fought a cabby.
Humor always depends upon whose ox is
gored, and the merit of a joke depends upon
whom it Is on.
If a woman has the ill-luck to be married
to a man who thinks he is funny, and who
yearns to be a laugh-getter, she has only
two solaces; one is, that when a man jokes
his wife, it Is really a sign that he is fond
of her and approves of her, little as it would
appear to indicate. The man who is really
irritated by his wife’s shortcomings never
laughs over them in public. He swears at
them in private, and none who is actually
henpecked ever mentions the fact. The man
who pretends to ’ i afraid of his wife, and
to be bossed by her, is the one who Is per
fectly sure that he is the unquestioned head
of his own house.
The other consolate for tho wife of the
domestic joker is tu cultivate her sense of
humor, and while she can probably never see
how funny she is herself, she can get a most
amusing vision of how ridiculous her hus
band is, trying to be a cutup.
But, as a matter of fact, a joke in the
family circle is as dangerous as a homb.
When it explodes, it shatters the peace, and
somebody always gets hurt.
TENED to—by a man to have a man hear
her through, and not Interrupt with some
brilliant bon-mot of his own!
You can charm her by thinking about her. |
By remembering her preferences, her
birthday, the thing she said last night, the
dress she wore the first time you met, her
favorite color.
ANY “thought” on the part of a man is a
delightful surprise to a woman?
You can charm her by “taking care of
her.” by chivalry.
Every woma loves that "protecting”
manner, in men.
She can come right out of the "gym,”
after her boxing lesson, and lose her heart,
to the first man who helps her off a car-step
or gefitly pulls her back from in front of a
speeding automobile.
And you can magnify your charm for her.
by dressing to please her, in dark, plaii),
well-fitting clothes—
By discarding loud checks and plaids, and
ninchback coats, and yellow gloves, and silly <
little mustaches, and hideous derby hats.
Ugh!
Oh, there are a hundred ways of charming
a woman!
You don’t have to be handsome, or rich,
or clever, or brilliant—that is the comfort
and Joy of being a MAN!
But you can never charm her by POSING
for her; nor bv doing stunts,
By patronizing her. or being witty at her
expense; bv monopolizing the conversation,
or doing the “cave-man”; by showing her
how much more you know than she does; by
taking all the laughs and the curtains —
And playing to the gallary!
She loves the person who “ST? S her”-
not the one who tries to startle her? >
The men who adores her—not the man .
who tries to dazzle her! ’
Ask any woman!