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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JO (JRANL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mai) Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY’ Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) IW-.lJ’o. 3 Mo*. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c UJc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday q.nd is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission aJlowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY’. Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr., W. L. Walton, M. JI. Bevii and John Mac- Jennings. j We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label used tor addressing your paper shows the time your subacrlption expires. By renewing at leaat two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your •Id as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. orders and notices for this Department to 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. 4 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.) * 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!