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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JOURANL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST- Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W .1 J'o. 3 Mo*. 6 Mos IXr Daily and Sunday 20c iJc $2.50 $5.00 49.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.35 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and 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 allowed. 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. H. Bevil and John Mac- Jennings. We will be responsible foi money paid to the above named traveling » representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks Before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your .Bld as well as your new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We canr.ot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta. Ga. The City of W onderful N antes IT is .delightfully astonishing what magi cal names one discovers amongst the some two hundred and six thousand Souls that rejoice in the title, Atlantians— Hames from the four winds ot history and the seven seas of poetry and romance. Fancy yourself meeting Cervantes, not in book and lamplight but in esh and noontide, your fellow saunterer along Peachtree, Anno Domini 1920! And whom should we en counter at the next corner but Napoleon! Not altogether a likeness of the Man of Des tiny, and luckily less ambitious; but Napo leon for all that —Dave Napoleon, of At lanta. Where else, we wonder, does a tele phone directciy list both Homer and Milton? As for Presidents, every name from Wash ington to Wilson belongs to this versatile town, save two. Garfield and Roosevelt, as patronymics, are wanting; but the Jeffer sons and Madisons and Polks and Pierces and, of course, the. Johnsons abound, along with the rarer Van Buren and Fillmore and Taft. Not content with Chief Magistrates, the Gate City’s nomenclature must have its Clay, Calhoun and Webster, its Emerson, Whittier, Poe and Lanier, its Daniel Boone and Winfield Scott. It reaches into all lands and all times.. Dig as far as you like into the past, back to the very dust of Eden if you will; and the oldest nimes you can fetch forth, Atlanta will match with ner Eve and Adams, hei Abraham and Moses and Solomon. Or take the golden age of Queen Bess. The mightiest and most enchanting names that rang 'rom the London of those spacious days are borne incarnate and be trousered along the streets of the Georgia capital this very Sunday morning: Raleigh, Bacon, Marlowe, Beaumont and Fletcher and •—heaven bless the mark!—WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE! You see, gentle reader, this is a town of towns, “the heir of all the ages” as well as “foremost in the files of time.” Addison, Steele, Sheridan, Gold smith, Robert Burns, Byron, Shelley and Browning are fellow citizens of ours. Charles Dickens resides in Atlanta. So do Messrs. Snodgrass, Winkle and Weller Mr. Pick wick himself, be '.t regrettably admitted, is not here —that is, not in the body; but by way of compensation an apartment house is named for him. What’s in a name? Browse amongst those of Atlanta if you would know what rarities there may be, what drill associations and contrasts, what treasures for an observer of the kind described by Shakespeare as “a snapper-up of unconsidered tiifles.” You will find, on the briefest excursion, not only Faith, Hope and Love, but also Pleasure, Sorrow, Wisdom an-’ Joy, all domiciled as the kindliest of neighbors along with the Smiths and Browns. You will find North, South and West, although, by -n unaccount able omission, no East. You will find Clink scales, Sprinkle, Toodle. Midget, Snire, Pim and Tutt, Thoroughgood. Longfeather and Stump. You expect White and Black. Long and Short, Low and High: but will find to boot Febuary. and May, Sonn, Moon and Stars. And lest, in the dazzling abundance, you overlook them, let ns remind you of Bud Flower and Hang Song. , Our Friend, the Tree THERE is much of pathos in the news from Washington that the old “Morse Elm,” one of the historic trees of Amer ica, is all ut gone. Many operations of “tree surgery” and all known applications of “tree medicine” have been tried by Wash ington’s superintendent of city parks, but without avail. The tree was planted in 1820 in front of the ol< Willard Hotel and chris tened the “Morse Elm” because of the many hours spent -en.atu it by Samuel B. Morse, chatting and joking With his cronies con cerning the nebulous idea which finally re sulted in the invention of the telegraph. 'Now it is little more that a stump; soon it will not be even that. In the passing of any loved landmark—the razing of a house, the crumbling of a rock, the drying up of spring or river—there is al ways regret. But about a tree is a glamor, a touch of something almost human, that makes Its destruction smack of real tragedy. It Is as though a person died. Whoever has looked upon the majestic live-oaks of New Orleans— the Suicide Oak, the Dueling Oaks and a dozen others rich In legend—must have yearned f< them to apeak, that they might unfold tales of the countless dramas to which they were wit ness. And so every city has its trees, some centuries old, that stand as the sole surviv ors of men nd everts long since buried in the mould of history. One could ask no more fitting monuments In a city than the preservation of its trees. Likewise, to hundreds of individuals there are trees of c* 1 idhood and of youth which in middle age he cherishes as comrades in old joys and old sorrows. One can under stand the spirit of the Athens, Georgia, man who drew in due legal form the docu ment that deeded to itself the tree that to day is its owne.. Though he were no longer here, he saw to it that no hand should profane the sturdv trunk which he had come to depend on and to love. The Athens tree is’ not the only one to deserve such consideration; there are many others which, were our wishes our deeds, would live as long as the Morse Elm, and longer. Tfriis .Vi 1.4 1..* n. The Future Cotton Sufiftly CURIOUSLY enough while cotton grow ers find the market sluggish for their lates crop, keen students of the industrial and commercial future are won dering whether the demand foi this product can be supplied? Writing in the November ATLANTIC, Mr. Melvin T. Copeland points out that cotton has come to be strongly com petitive with wool, silk and linen, as well as widely used in other than textile fields—in book-binding, for instance, and the manu facture of belting for machinery, and the composition of automobile tires, this last mentioned item alone taking from ten to twenty per cent of the earth’s output of high grade long-staple cotton. In the years im mediately preceding the World War the per capita consumption of cotton cloth was about nineteen pounds in the United States, from two to eight pounds in South America, from six to eighty in Northern and Western Europe, from three to six in Russia and Southeastern Europe, from two to three in Asia, and from one, or less, to two and a half pounds in Africa. Even if the rate stooa at these fig ures, increases in population weald multiply the demand in point of quantity; but as cot ton fabrics improve and standards of living advance and tew markets are opened while old ones are more intensive cultivated, the rate of consumption is certain tc go upwards if the material and its finished products can be procured at affordable prices. The ques tion, then, as Mr. Copeland ccnceives it, is whether in the years and decades ahead enough equipment, enough labor and enough raw material will be available to supply the world’s growing demand for cotton products? The first two factors, he thinks, will adjust themselves, though they certainly will call for vigorous and resourceful thinking. But when it comes to the fuure supply of raw cotton, this far-looking observer finds a major prob lem. He does not see at present how or whence a sufficiency of the fiber will be produced to keep pace with the growth of new industries and new markets. A little more than sixty per cent of the world’s supply comes from the United States, and almost entirely from the South. Sea Island, with its high value, is ex clusively an Americ n crop; its output is comparatively small and is not increasing. “Other kinds of long-staple cctton, inter mediate between Upland and Sea Island, are produced in the United States in substantial quantities,” we are reminded; “but the sup ply is far from adequate.” Among the ob stacles to an increase in the production of cot ton in this country, Mr. Copeland considers especially serious the boll weevil, lack of la bor, and competition from food crops. Par ticularly interesting is his comment on the second of these difficulties. Observing that the cotton crop requir i “a highly unbalanced supply of labor,” he goes on to say: “Labor-savin; machinery has been applied far less extensively in picking cotton than in harvesting the other staple crops. Two .to three times as much labor is required, for ex ample, to grow and picl an acre of cotton as to cultivate rnd harvest an acre of corn. The chief difference comes during the picking sea son. In order to keep the fiber free from leaves and dirt, and to make sure that all the ripe cotton on the plant is picked without in juring the immature bolls, cotton is picked mainly by hand. For three and ..one-half months each season the cotton farmer needs a much greater supply of labor than during the remainder of the year. This seasonal peak it not easily met. A universally success ful machine, with practically human intelli gence, for picking cotton, r/ould be a god send to the south and to the cotton-manu facturing industry of the world.” The conditions here set forth are all too familiar to the farmers of the South, but it is well that they should have been recounted by a distinguished writer in so widely read and highly regarded a magazine as the AT LANTIC MONTHLY. When the country at large and the world at large understand something of the hazards and difficulties pe culiar to the raising of cotton, they will not wonder at the growers’ disappointment over the trend of th.: autumn’s market. It is evi dent, however, from the underlying condi tions which Mr. Copeland has set forth, that prices which Hl to afford the producer a fair return cannot, in the very nature of the situation, be permanent. The Inter-County Highways APROPOS of the officially announced plans for a highway to link New nan, Griffin, Monticello and Augusta, the Herald, of the last mentioned city, re calls the interesting fact that before the days of the railroad a stage coach traversed that flourishing region. It was unfortunate that the route ever fell into disuse, for as the Herald points out: “Persons now wishing to go by private conveyance from Augusta to Griffin or Newnan must either go to Macon and then up, or go to Atlanta and then down. Griffin is about half way between the two cities, and Newnan is directly west. The travel between Augusta and Indian Springs is heavy, and this cross-country route will shorten the distance considerably.” Here we have an apt example of the space cutting, time-saving, prosperity-making work that is being done under Georgia’s new system of highway construction. Time was, and not many years ago, when our road plan ning and road building proceeded mainly upon the principle of every county for itself and the mud-devil take the hindmost. Some instances of fruitful co-working there were but for the most pait there was lack of cor related effort among counties in the same district, let alone in widely distant parts of the Commonwealth. Under that condition of affairs nothing 11’ e the new Augusta-to-Grif fin highway would have been projected. But now that we have State supervision and are hewing to the lines of a Statewide system, the counties co-operating are with a view to collective interests and carry out plans of far-reaching service. The result will ae a well functioning order of traffic arte ries and veins through which the life-tides of commerces and agriculture and industry can flow without hindrance. This means a more prosperous Georgia, a Georgia more produc tive and more progressive. EDITORIAL ECHOES Our own confident meteorological pre diction is that we shall have no skirt-high snowdrifts this season. —Ohio State Journal. A large part of New York’s population ' seems composed of “master minds,” judging from recent graft reports.—Denver Times. Perhaps the American gold producers ’ would like to have a tariff on gold.—Omaha , World-Herald. Just because this a horseless age is no rea son why it should be horse senseless. —Nor- , folk Virginian Pilot. ’ You may get what cheer there is out of ’ the glad news that bread has been reduced ‘ one-half cent a loaf in Winnipeg.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. We’ll Pay You a visit Just now we are strongly inclined towards i "tempting to raise a brood of turkeys next I 'ar. —Cuthbert Leader. ! This inclination on the part of the farmer i -’’tor of the Leader doubtless caused the i hen doomed for the Thanksgiving dinner to ; go to laying while in the coop. We commend [ Editor Howell for his enterprising intentions and will see him later. CHILDREN’S RIGHTS By H. Addington Bruce CHILDREN, w are repeatedly told, have the right to a carefree childhood. They have the right to pass their days in play, through play fitting themselves for the activities of later life. Serious effort should not be expected of them. In the na tural course of events effort and responsi bilities will be imposed upon them all too soon. Undeniably the right to play is one of the prime rights of children. Undeniably, too, children should be kept as free from care as possible. But to let children do nothing but play, to give them an absolutely carefree childhood, is to withhold from them other and even more important rights. They have the right, specifically, to be helped to develop their minds so that they can use them vigorously and efficiently in their years of adult endeavor. Since the mind grows with exercise even as the body does, this requires that elementary mental train ing should be begun in earliest life. With such training properly given—that is, given in such away that the child will really enjoy it—there need be no fear of mental overstrain. Mental overstrain results, on the contrary, when parents let the minds of their children “lie fallow” until they reach school age. They then expect them to study gladly and to learn easily. But because habits are formed early, children who have been reared on the -“let children play all the time” prin ciple usually have acquired habits of thought and desire that make all study both irk some and difficult. Nervous troubles are a common outcome, with Iperhapt a lifelong incapacity for real thinking and effective doing. All because the poor children were denied the right to be given at an early age upbuilding mental ex ercises. And, just as wisely directed mental train ing is a fundamental right of children, so is wisely directed training in self-control. Play can contribute to this, but the con tribution of play alone is not enough. By precept and example every child should be aided so to behave that self-control becomes second nature to him. Training for social adaptability which means training for kindness, helpfulness, al truism, tact, self-denial —is another basic right of children. Denied this right—as is every child who is pampered and indulged—the blighting handicap of selfishness is almost certain to burden the child through maturity. Other handicaps, too, may result, especially the handicap of undue aggressiveness, the han dicap of a bad temper, the handicap of a jealous disposition. All of which does not mean that child hood should or need be made a period of rigorous schooling. bhe indispensable train ing, whether of the mind or ot the morale, may be carried on without abating one whit the joys of childhood. But it does mean that parents must keen ly appreciate their responsibilities as par ents. It does mean that the father or moth er who would leave his or her children pret ty much to their own devices, in accordance with the “carefree childhood” theory, is sow ing the seeds of a bitter harvest for the chil dren in years to come. (Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News papers.) ROCKEFELLER By Dr. Frank Crane (Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.) Sixty-three million seven hundred and six ty-three thousand three hundred and fifty seven dollars is the staggering sum John D. Rockefeller has just added to his already mountainous gifts for human welfare. His total gifts to date are estimated at $475,000,000 and some say over half a mil lion. Thisiis $125,000,000 more than Carnegie’s beneficences. It is the greatest amount of money ever given in history by one man for benevolent purposes. It is hard to estimate Rockefeller, because he is richer than the rest of us. He has succeeded where thousands, playing the same game, and employing identical meth ods, have failed or come short. And it takes more justice than most of us possess to be just to one who has beaten us. Eliminating envy, however, as much as be mortally possible, we have to conclude that this man, leaving out of consideration all question as to how he got his money, is doing more good, gauging what is good by the practical methods at hand, than any human being that ever lived. That is, of course, doing more good as far as money can do good. This does not necessarily make him a great man, nor put him in the rank of Lin coln, Plato or Saint Francis. But it does show that he is great enough to be in the grip of a great impulse, a great conviction and idea, and perhaps that is the best any of us can do. He made his money in the rough and tumble of American and modern business, and in away probably no worse nor better than that of his rivals. Pass that. He got his money, quite as other millionaires and country storekeepers get theirs. We will not discuss the “Capi talistic” system. But, having got it, he is using it in away that shows the vast advancement of the world. Going over the list of rich men, from Croesus and Midas on down through the Medici, the Fuggers and the Rothschilds, to this day, and even granting that luck or un just privilege or what not made some people wealthy and kept others poor, the fact re mains that this gigantic figure, whom fate put in charge of a vast wealth unit, has turned the stream of his millions toward helping his fellowmen, and not hurting. It is harder to be charitable toward the rich than toward the poor. Envy gums equity. But fair-minden folk will not grudge this man his meed of praise. The list of his beneficiaries reveals thou sands of human beings aided. Diseases re duced, poverty relieved, institutions of learn ing assisted, churches helped and almost every practical agency for relieving want and woe given encouragement. That’s surely that. He built himself no throne, founded no dynasty, amassed no collection of gold and jewels and erected no gingerbread chateaux in Europe and America to out-dazzle others. He seems to be a simple-hearted old man, upon whom, as he sits alone in his study or lies at night upon his»bed, the Spirit of that One who is “Servant of All” has descended, at least in a measure. Unfortunate enough to have incurred the charge of being a Rich Man, he is trying to wash his hands before he goes to be judged. And the world of his fellowmen, whatever their theories and obsessions, their pro grams and propaganda, should think very kindly of one who. undismayed by their con demnation and criticism, has dared to help them. He’s just a human being after all, and as another human being, one of the common masses, I should like to take his hand and say, “Thank you!” provided, of course, I could break through the army of those at his gates who want to get something from him. It is difficult to see how he is going to be utterly condemned at the last, if He is to be the Judge whose rule was stated: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren ye have done it unto Me.” Around the World Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over the Earth. Turkeys Escape The most exciting incident on the log f the Scandinavian-American liner Unit ed States, which docked at New York re cently, was the escape from their crates of seventy-eight turkeys. Mischievous boys reed the gobblers. The turkeys were in ended for Thanksgiving dinner for the -’2O passengers. The most skillful efforts of crew and passengers were required to recapture the urkeys. Three of them, preferring self immolation to slaughter, flew from the ship. One of the birds made for a passing steamer, but could not quite reach her and drowned. When last seen the others were heading for Greenland, hundreds of miles away. Tea at Harvard The Harvard union, gathering place for the men of the college, has inaugurated after noon tea. Tiffin wai made an event in the undergraduate day in the belief that it would serve both to promote the club idea of the student commons and to serve as relief from the day’s grind through the winter months, when outdor activities are curtailed. With the tea the menu provided for muf fins, toast and strawberry jam. France to Sell Stamps The French government is making prep arations to sell the greatest collection of stamps which was ever made, valued at $2,- 000,000. It comprises the collection of Bar on Ferrary, who died in 191'., and by the terms of his will the collection was left to the Berlin Postal Museum, The collection was In Paris at the time and it was seized as alien property. Chinese Divorce The first Chinense woman in Canada to avail herself of the Dominion divorce laws is Mrs. Wong Lai, of Vancouver, who has peti tioned the court for a legal separation from her husband. Memorial Tablet A handsome tablet in. memory of Lucy Webb Hayes, wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes, is to be erected in the IJayes memorial at Fremont, Ohio, by the Nationa. W. C. T. U. Profitable Lettuce A carload of lettuce shipped from the San ford, Fla., section brought its growers a profit of $2,455.44, after sale on the New York market, according to recent dispatches. The profit is believed to be a record. The shipment contained four hundred hampers. $20,000,000 Loan The Mercurio a newspaper of San tiago, Chile, says it understands negotia tions are in ; rogress by the ministry of finance for a loan of $20,000,000 in the United States for the purchase of rolling stock for the state railways. The railwmy bill, carrying authoriza tion to contract a loan of approximately 7,500,000 pounds gold, already has passed the senate and now is before the chamber of deputies. Gift to Wilson Governor Bickett, of North Carolina, and his son called at the White House this week to leave for President Wilson a number of partridges which they killed on a recent hunting trip. They were received by Secre tary Tumulty. Senator M’Cormlck in France United States Senator Medill McCormick arrived at Cherbourg, France, this week on the steamer Aquitania from New York. A special car chartered by Mr. McCormick was attached to the Paris Express. Steals Cheese For the theft of a cheese from a steam ship lying at the foot of Congress street, Brooklyn, Anthony Liberio, a ongshoreman employed on the pier there, was sentenced to twenty days in jail in Special Sessions, Brooklyn. The cheese, brought here from a South American port, had been cut into small pieces and distributed about Liberio’s person. New Gas Shell Successful tests have been completed of a new poison gas shell in Tokio, Japan. This shell is of Japanese manufacture. Election at Uruguay Election returns from Montevideo, Uruguay, indicate the Government Party has scored a triumph throughout the country, obtaining two posts on the Na tional Administrative Councu, on which the Nationalists will have but one. The Government Party has won four seats in the senat., while the Nationalists have been successful in carrying two. Fake Labels Charged with manufacturing and selling thousands <rt counterfeit. Internal Revenue stamps for liquor “bootlegging” purposes, nine men are held by the New York Secret Service officials and other arrests are prom ised. These stamps, together with cleverly counterfeited labels of various brands of li quor, have enabled bootleggers to flood the city with one-day old whisky, made of in gredieiits of poor quality, if not actually dan gerous to the health of its drinkers. Strike Ends The strike of the orchestra, chorus and stage hands which closed the Paris opera in the middle of October has been called off and the house re-opened for perfo mances. The orchestra, which was the last body of em ployes to give in, today agreed the terms. At the time of the walk-out it was said that the trouble originated by the refusal of Jac ques Rouche, the director, to change the rules concerning the chorus and to agree not to employ more than one foreign artist every three months. Can’t Make Diamonds The latest effort of scientists to manufac ture genuine diamonds has failed, according to an announcemt t by William I. Rosenfeld, vice president of the American J welers’ Pro tective association and director of the Jewel ers’ vigilance committee. The committee, he said, has made an exhaustive investiga tion of the reported discovery of a diamond making formula by a German, and is con vinced that the formula will not produce gems equal to nature’s product. Report of the “discovery” several weeks ago, Mr. Ros enfeld said, startled the jewelry and precious stone trade throughout the world. New Pilgrims’ Order \ The Order of the Pilgrims, a new nation al organization, created by the general court of the National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, at a meeting in Providence, R. 1., announced that the first fifty members elected included former Presi dent Taft, President-elect Harding, United States Senators Lodge and Colt, and Bishop Jame. De Wolf Perry. Membership is limited to pilgrim de scendants of distinguished ancestry and po litical or patriotic service. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1920. THE PASSING OF THE DUEL By Frederic J. Haskin X1 » ASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2.—Duel ling has been dealt a heavy blow in ’ ’ France, we learn, by the refusal of Leon Daudet, a member of the chamber of deputies, who fought eleven duels before the war, to accept another challenge. He de clares that duelling is a foolish practice, and that there is no excuse for it “since the war.” It seems strange to Americans that in France men still formally fight to death, as they do alsc in other European countries and in most of Latin-America. It has been more than half a century since „ duel of any impjrtanee was fmght in the United States, and almost a century since the duel here was in its heyday. We might claim from this that we are a more civilized country than France, but that w’ould be a hard claim to substantiate by any other evidence. It would also be hard to claim much credit for not uelling when we will have our little lynching parties and race riots, and in view of the record we have made in Haiti. A malicious critic might say that we have given up the fair fight for the unfair one. As a matter of fact, duels have undoubtedly held a high and recognized place in countries which were by every other standard highly civilized, and a study cf the subject leaves one not at all sure that combat jetween man and man, strictly regulated, is a wholly bar barous proceeding. The duel seems to be condemned more and more, not because it is essentially uncivilized, but because it is wasteful of human life, and because it tends, especially in a democracy, to degenerate into a means of legitimizing murder. Why Duel Declineu "" This seems to be the real cause of its de cadence in this country. Duelling is an aristocratic practice. In theory, it is a com bat between two peers, regulated by the strictest regard for fairness. But in this country everyone is a peer. Onfe man is as good as another in theory, and all had, until a few years ago, the right to bear arms. Hence the duel became a means by which a rascal skilled with gun could kill a useful man and go free. Long and interesting is the history of the duel in America, and it makes us realize keenly how much we have changed. A book on duelling, wr’tten in 1868 by an English man who had traveled extensively in this country, says that “America is the land where life is hel cheaper than anywhere else. There duels are off-hand diversions.” He goes on to say that the walls and fur niture of Washington hotels were scarred by the bullets which excited legislators and politicians had fired at one another. In a word, 50 years ago we were the most cantankerous, truculent and self-assertive people on earth. All men went armed and were always ready to lay down their lives in defense of their honor, their property and their dignity. In those days you did not even jostle a man on the street without making elaborate apology or else fighting for your life. Now we are as completely disarmed as medieval peasants. We are driven about like sheep in great herds. We peacefully stand on each other’s toes in the subways, while consideration for the stranger it a rare vir tue in our midst. There would seem to be just a mite of truth in a statement of an old writer on the subject that “the duel is a sharn but salutary remedy for rude and of fensive conduct.” He also points out that there is little excuse for ny nation which still goes to war to pride itself on the abo lition of duelling. “When individuals and nations have learned to treat each other with respect.” he thinks both duelling and war may be unnecessary, but he does not think that the one is either any worse or any less necessary than the other. Loss of Personal Prowess Certainly no good brief can be made out in defense of duelling. Yet it does seem un deniable that when a man renounces all per sonal prowess and entrusts hi,, safety ana honor to policemen, he loses something. The typical good citizen of today, sedentary, short-winded, physically unfit for any kind of encounter, and nervously unable to face disaster, is surely not altogether an ad mirable figure. We hank back with pleasure to tales of en who wielded i wicked sword shot straight and faced death calmly. This is not argument in favor o’s fighting, but it does seem to indicate that civiliza tion has robbed TEL individual of something valuable. This was what William James had in mind when he said that war might be abolished if we could substitute something else strenuous nd dangerous for it. He sug gested that your young men be enlisted in armies to go out and conquer the wilder ness—to reclaim deserts, explore rivers and forests. That .light be a substitute for duel ling, too. The trouble seems to be that the heroic impulse—the will to dare and suffer —is de cadent among us. We are too comfortable to fight each other or the wilderness. The man who craves bittie and adventure is as much out of place among us as a lion in a barn yard. Old Laws on Duelling Public opinion on duelling was always di vided in this country, even in colonial times. There was a feeling that men had a right to settle their differences by combat, but it was also recognized that valuaole lives were lost in that way, and much crime committed in the name of honor. The killing of Ham ilton by Burr probably gave the duel its first serious setback. Various laws were passed to prevent duelling, and of them were strange. In New Orleans, a “court of honor” was established for the urbitration of individual differences. This apparently was to do for individuals about what the Hague tribunal tries to do for nations, and it ap parently succeeded about as well. A Massa chusetts law forbade duelling and provided that the body of a man killed in a duel should be used for dissection. A Mississippi law dealt a body blow to the practice by providing that a T, a who killed another in a duel must pay his victim’s debts. The famous Cilley-Graves duel, in which one congressman killed another, also re sulted in a great popular revulsion against duelling. A committee of congress investi gated this fight and recommended the ex pulsion of Graves from the house., Cilley was challenged, shot and killed for remarks which he made on the floor of the house, and which were perfectly in order. This was in violation of the constitution of the United States. It further appeared that the whole thing was very nearly a frame-up on Cilley, and there was a plan on foot to murder him in case he was not killed in the duel. These unsavory revelations brought it to the at tention of the people that duelling in Amer ica had degenerated from a test of skill between gentlemen to a deadly weapor in the hands of bullies and criminals. Although duelling continued more or less until after the Civil War, it declined from the time of Cilley’s death, which was in 1838. Morgan Blake’s Smile Wonder if that’s a form-fitting smile which Morgan Blake wears in The Atlanta Journal’s sport pages now and then. At least so far as the pictures are concerned it must be the “smile that won’t come off.” — Charles Beaupre in Reporter. The picture in question was made soon after the winning of the Southern league baseball pennant by Atlanta. We’ve seen Blake when he looks even funnier than his picture indicates. DOROTHY DIX TALKS ' BY DOROTHY DIX The Price of Wedding Bells Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi- cate, Inc. A YOUNG girl of my acquaintance said to me the other day: “I told Jim that I would marry nim whenever he saved up enough money to furnish a little home for us. I don’t ask for anything fine. I don’t expect to start where my parents are leaving off, for it has taken father thirty years’ hard work to get* where he can afford to give mother Oriental rugs, and carved mahogany, and aluminum pots and pans. “I love Jim, and I’d be satisfied with mighty little, but that little has got to be paid for. lam not going to ba one of those installment brides whose honeymoon is knocked into flinders by the collector ham mering on the door. “I’ve seen debt kill love too often to want to take any chances on it. I don’t want my husband to have to think how much I am costing him, and wonder how on earth he’s going to get the money for my upkeep, every time he thinks of me. I want to be the nice, sweet meringue on his life, not the lemon pie beneath. "If a young couple start out in life loaded down with debt, they haven’t got one chance in fifty to get out of it, and they haven’t one chance in a hundred of not coming to hate each other. They are simply foredoomed to make a failure of both life and matrimony. ' “The man celdom gets any higher than he is, because there is nothing that holds one down like a pile of bills on his back. He can’t climb with that load to carry, and it gets bigger and bigger, because there is sure ) to come sickness, and rainy days, that all cost more money. “To succeed, a man rnusfr have a little monej laid by, so that he can take advantage of whatever luck throws in his way, for the only key that ever unlocks the door of op portunity is a golden one. He must be able to take a few risks. Above all, if he is to accomplish anything worth while, he must have a calm, clear mind, and be able to give the best of his abilities to his work, instead of having half of his brain cells employed in trying to figure out some way to stave off the installment man. “The man who starts out in married life in debt is beaten at the very outset. He can’t embrace the opportunity that comes his way, because all of his money is going to pay on the Early Grand Rapids dining room suite. He’s bound to stick to his clerkship, no matter whether it leads anywhere or not, is because he is behind with the butcher and ’ the baker, and he can’t risk beb.g out of work a week. And he can’t develop the kind of personality that employers pay for, be cause debt takes the heart out of a man, and kills ambition quickei than anything else in the world and turns s he sunniest nature into a grouch. “I want my husband to be a successful man, and I’m not going to- be the one to handicap him in the race. “I want my marriage to be a success and that’s why I insist that it should have a good strong financial plant under it. It would be all right far people who are in love to get married, if they coulc exist in real life as they do in novels, on romance and kisses. “But they can’t. We’ve all got more stomach than we have heart, and after we get married we are just as hungry as we were before, and take just as keen an inter- . est in beefsteak and inions. Also, we’ve got to K be clothed and housed, and we find that sentiment plays a pretty poor second fiddle to our physical comfort. “Nor does just getting married, e’ en to the person you love, make up to you en- j tirely for doing without the kind of things you have been accustomed to all your life, and when a man . woman are forced 'to make a perpetual sacrifice of every taste and habit for each other, they soon begin to won der if the game is wo-th the candle. “Think of all the peevish, fretful, discon tented wives you kno-. who are always com plaining because they are shabby and can’t do any of the things they used to do. Do you think that their husbands are having any particular picnic? Think of all the synl cal, bitter men you know who have fallen out of love with the pretty, dainty girls they married, just because the girls have been forced into becoming unattractive drudges, and who are always warning other men against matrimony! Pleasant fi their wives, isn’t it, to be made o realize that their hus sands regard ’hem as burdens? “The truth is that a family Is a luxury i that comes high, and whether you enjoy it or not, or even whether you’ve got a right * to indulge yourself in one, depends alto gether on wh 1* r you can afford it. To get married when you haven’t the price of a bed, or a chair, or a cooking stove, is just as silly and wicked a thing to do, as it is V set un an automobile where you pay two dok lars down on it, and are paying the balance as long as you live,and where you have heart failure every time you have to buy anothe» "allon of gasoline. » “And I, for one, am not going to my soul to eld Man Trouble in that way. “Understand, I don’t think that a young couple should wait until they’re rich to get married, or until they can furnish a home in splendor: but they haven’t got any right to get married until they can start life out of debt. “And that’s the ultimatum I’ve put up to Jim. If he does not think lam worth work- t ing and saving for, he doesn’t want me bad enough to get me. I’ll say that.” WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS \ BY JACK PATTERSON Just as Was Expected The Georgians on their trip to the manu facturing centers have made a great impres sion, as might have been expected.—Thomas ville Times-E-nterpris*. That bunch of Georgians would make a favorable impression anywhere. Must Have Been Hungry Recently a man in Chicago ate twenty seven feet of sausage, five pounds of raw beef, three eggs and a lot of other things „ and then quit becaus r no one would tee<r to pay for more food for him. —Colum- ‘ bus Enquirer-Sun. We don’t suppose that anybody had any more money after paying for what had al ready been consumed. A Curious Newspaper One of the most curious newspapers in the world is the Kamloops Wawa, a journal printed in shorthand and circulating among the Indians of British Columbia. —Cordele Dispatch. Guess it is printed in shorthand to con serve print paper, but we didn’t know that the Indians had taken to stenography. And It Doesn’t Come Back A school teacher’s dollar goes farther than it did one year ago.—Commerce Observer, y So does that of a newspaper man, or it would if he had one.