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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-.l Vo. 3 Mo». 6 Mos. 1 Ir. Daily and Sunday 20c $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 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 for money paid to the above named traveling ’ representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Th« label uaed for address! ug your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By lenewlng at least 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. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. Boy Scouts for All Georgia GEORGE, is fortunate to have been cho'sen as the first State in the union for the expansion of the Boy Scout membership to include rural sections as well as cities. Plans to this er were laid at a recent At lanta meeting of Scout leaders from Geor gia, the Carolinas and Florida. It was de cided to organic the State for Scouting by Congressional districts, each of which shall have a Scout council which in turn shall or ganize committees, councils, Scoutmasters and Scout troop., in every county and town where the Scouts are not already repre sented. Georgia was chosen as the test State for two reasons—first, because of its lack of Scouts, and, second, because Georgia has shown so much enterprise in overcoming that lack. It is authoritatively stated that at present there is only one Scout in Georgia to every sixty-seven boys, the lowest percent age in the Union. At the same time, Georgia in the past year has outdistanced all other states in Scout extension work with an in crease of approximately three hundred per cent. Many communities, including Atlanta, Macon, Waycross, Savannah, Augusta, Val dosta, Columbus, Athens and other centers, have First Class Scout councils, and Scout troops are flourishing in smaller cities. While Scout expansion in Georgia will have a three-fold motive —to include the rural boys, to enroll as many young Georgians as possi ble, thus paving the way for similar expan sion programs in th<- other forty-seven states; and to educate the State as a whole in the principles and the value of Scouting—it is the first of these which is the primary pur pose of the movement and which promises the most beneficial result. Since its inception, the Boy Scout organiza tion, naturally enough, has been confined in the main to ne larger communities where it •was easier to create organized interest and where it was possible to assemble boys with the least difficulty. Yet the rural youth cer tainly should be given as much opportunity to become a Scout a- his brother of the city. In fact, statistics obtained from war enlist ments, surprising though it may seem to some, showed that of the two, as a rule, the city lad was quicker to learn, healthier at core and capable of greater endurance. Since the Boy Scout movement was found ed in America ten years ago, it has gripped the country as perhaps no other system work ed out for the benefit of youths. Only a movement intrinsically sounu could have done that, only a movement that appealed not only to the best in a boy, but to the love of ell lads for adventure, sport, woodcraft and the outdoor life, -c is that rare combina tion —education that uplifts even while it in terests and enwraps the educated. Scouting traces it~ origin to General S. S. Baden-Powell, of the British army, to whom the idea first came while he was one of the leaders in the defense of Mafeking against the Boers. In the troops under is command were many lads whcm he discovered, to his rueful astonishment, were so lacking in re source and knowledge that they were help less as children when placed in situations where they were thrown absolutely on tneir own responsibility. General Powell return ed to England with a life mission ahead o 2 him. The result, after five years’ observa tion and study of boys in all parts of the world, was the Boy Scout organization, in which boys were not only trained to be strong, healthy and self-reliant, but to be kind, to be generous, to be truthful, to be every inch manly in the best sense of the word. Scouting swept over the world. Today there are four million Boy Scouts scattered through pactically every civilized country. In the United States, under the pioneer leader ship of such men as Gifford Pinchot, Theo dore RooseveP Dan Beard and Ernest Thompson-Seton. Scouting has spread to ev ery State and includes more than half a mil lion young Americans who, wherever they are, stand as the recognized criterion for all that Is best in boyhood. To enroll every lad in Georgia in the Boy Scouts is a goal that should enlist the sym pathy and heartiest co-operation of all citi zens, for on such a foundation the State can build a future of e reatness such as she has never known. Twenty-Four Billion Dolles IT cost the American people twentv-rour billion ten million dollars, according to the Treasury Department’s latest reck oning. to bring a winning and world-menac ing Prussianism to terms. Considerably more than that sum was expense i during the period from April 6, 191 i to June 30. 1920, which covers the extremes of the Government’s war-time fiscal operations; but the figures given represent what Secre tary Houston calls “adjusted” expenditures of the Treasury. excludin& Aii out’ays which had no relations to the actual prosecution of the war and also excluding foreign loans ■which will be repaid. Huge as the bill is, it is none too great a price for so important a victory, provid ed the fruits of that victory are conserved and its ideals upheld. We could well have afforded to live lives of* severest self-denial for generations to come if that had been needful to keep Prussian militarism from triumphing. But unless w? stand true to the faith for which our soldiers and sailors fought, unless we prove to be steadfast friends of world justice and world peace, we shall have paid all too dear tor the late war, because we shall have cast away what was worth fighting for. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. An Inviting Opportunity to Hasten Southern Prosperity IN his interesting address to the Tri- State Credit Men’s Conference at Ma con Mr. Joseph A. McCord, chairman of the board of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, cogently presented the claims upon Southern interest of the organizations being formed under the Edge Act to facilitate for eign sales of American products. “At this particular moment,” he said, “these cor porations mean more to the farmers of the South than any other one thing, and I can not urge too strongly the necessity of their support. All classes of Southern business men must get behind them and help them to function properly, so that prosperity may be insured for all times.” Certainly the Federal International Bank ing Company, which is the institution de signed especially to promote the export trade of Georgia and neighboring States, deserves the support of “all classes” of this region’s business interests, not simply that of bank ers and certain groups of merchants. For while the business of this company will consist largely in financing cotton sales to overseas markets, it will render like service to other fields of production as well, notably to those of lumber, of rice, and of manu factured articles, and in one way or an other will benefit eve’ry realm of our indus try and trade. If cotton exports alone were to be stimu lated, still the company would merit hearty support from the business as well as the agricultural South. Whatever quickens and expands the marketing of a region’s chief money crop will make for general prosper ity; and that is just what the Federal In ternational Banking company will do. Had it been operating at the outset of the pres ent season, the misfortunes of cotton and their ill effects upon business at large prob ably would have been averted, or at least greatly softened. For at the very time the American market began to grow sluggish and to decline, there was a demand in con tinental Europe for millions of bales —a latent demand, it is true, and without ef fect upon actual conditions in this country, but nevertheless representing a real want and susceptible of being turned into a real stimulus to trade. Lacking gold for cash pay ment and lacking also proper credit accom modations, the European countries in ques tion could not buy our cotton, although they needed vast quantities of it for their idle mills and easily could have paid for it if helped to get industrially upon their feet. Now, as one of the purposes of the Fed eral International Banking Company is to provide credit facilities for just such cases, the sooner it can be put into operation, the better for the Southern farmer and for the great of interests which are more or less dependent upon his prosperity. In deed, the common interests will be served not by this company alone but by the sev eral others being organized to expedite the sale of American products which other coun tries need but which they are narrowly re stricted in purchasing because of a lack of reasonable credit facilities. The Edge Act was passed largely for the purpose cf en abling American business to solve problems and seize opportunities of this very nature. Its valuable provisions should be turned to prompt and practical account by Georgia and the South. If these aids to export commerce are es tablished and if the eligible banks not yet members of the Federal Reserve system join it without further delay and thus in crease their means of serving their cus tomers and their communities, many an anx ety that now beclouds the future will dis lolve in mists of gold and the South's pros pects will loom brighter with every dawn. A Million for Forestry Will Save Billions for the Nation THE request of the Department of Agri- culture for a million dollars to be used in forestry work, in co-operation with the States, in the coming year, appears most moderate when we reflect that six hundred times that sum is spent by lumber consumers in the East as the annual freight cost of shipping their supply from distant regions. If the forests had been conserved during the last fifty or hundred years a transportation tax of half a billion dollars would not now be pressing upon the public and adding to the burdensome cost of build ing materials. This country’s center of lumber produc tion, located first in New England, has moved, by remarkably rapid stages, to the Alleghanies, then to the Lake States, then to the great pine forests of Dixie; and now, as the exhaustion of the Southern supply draws near, the axes are ringing and the giant saws buzzing on the forests of the Pacific coast. So it comes about that consumers are paying not only six hundred millions a year in freight rates, but also many times that amount in the necessarily increased costs of everything into which wood products enter, from sills and plow handles to books and fireside chairs. With three-fifths of the country’s original timber gone and with the remainder being consumed four times as fast as it is growing, with the pineries of the South Atlantic and Gulf regions dwindling and the forests of the West also trending toward depletion,- what will the nation do for timber supplies a few decades hence if con serving and restorative measures are not taken promptly and on a far-reaching scale? A million dollars wisely expended for this purpose now will mean, in times not distant, billions to American industry and commerce and to people’s common interests. The Secretary of Agriculture proposes co operation with the States in protecting tim bered and cut-over lands from fire, in refor esting denuded lands, and in promoting methods of timber cutting and removal that will aid continuous production. Each of these lines of service should be pressed with all possible vigor. Merely to conserve the rem nant of timber resources now left us will not suffice. New forests must be brought forth to replace those which have been de stroyed; and the nation must learn to cul tivate trees as one of its most precious treas ures. In this wealth-conserving and wealth-cre ating endeavor, which in its fundamental re lation to flood control and moisture supply involves the future of agriculture no less vitally than it does that of industry, there is essential work for the State as well as for the national Government. Foresighted Com monwealths are moving to meet these obli gations. New York and Pennsylvania have appropriated millions for reforestation, and many others are maintaining well-financed forestry departments; the latter is assuredly the least that any state can afford to do. Georgia’s interests in this matter are par ticularly far-reaching and should receive lib eral Legislative consideration. hat Shall We Name the Baby?” Tn Billings, Mont., there are twenty-five babies, some of them a year old, who bear no first names ecause their parents have been unable to choose satisfactor ones. This has been discovered at the city health depart ment, where it has been necessary to delay state registration under the law because the children have not been named. It may occur to the reader that leaving babies nameless is preferable to giving them such names as often are fastened upon them for life.—Al bany Herald. Why not place a few dozen names in a hat and let the baby select one? THE RESTLESS By H. Addington Bruce RESTLESSNESS is frequently a sign of great dissatisfaction with life. When you see a man or woman chronically restless, perpetually uneasy, the odds are that man or woman is not getting out of life all that he or she shoul' Especially is restlessness likely to be a sign of the thwarting of some instinct. It may be the love instinct that has been denied ade quate expression, or the acquisitive instinct, or the altru tic instinct whereby people are impelled to render useful social service. Idlers are notoriously prone to be restless because of the blocking of the altruistic in stinct effected by their idleness. Let circum stances compel them to give that instinct a vent—as the late war compelled so many idlers—and restlessness may leave them over night. But restlessness has physical as well as moral causes. It may even be a symptom of disease. As summarized by the Chicago spe cialist, Dr. Meyer So omon: “A condition of general chronic ill health, perhaps unrecognized by the afflicted one, may be present, and tends to bring on a condition of uneasiness and restlessness more frequently and more severely. “Thus in pulmonary tuberculosis, diabetes, Sydenham’s chorea, exophthalmic goitre, ne phritis with hypertension, in fact, in organic disease of any type, especially when of a gen eralized nature, so that it has its effect upon the nervous system—and hence more espe cially in organic diseases of the nervous sys tem —such recurrent states of restlessness are particularly apt to make their api arance. Functional nervous disorders may also have restlessness as a symptom. Everybody is fa miliar with the restlessness of the unhappy neurasthene and psychasthene. Or the rest lessness may be symptomatic of an oncoming attack of some irregularly recurring malady. True dipsomaniacs—periodic drinkers — usually have a period of extreme restlessness before they begin their excessive alcoholic in dulgence. Many epileptics similarly are rest less on the eve of an epileptic seizure. And restlessness is likewise of prodromic signifi cance in numerous victims of nervous sick headache, hay fever, and asthma. Knowledge of this fact is obviously of med ical value. It permits the taking of measures to ward off an attac’ as soon as the prelim inary sign of restlessness appears. Finally, restlessness may result from un hygienic living habits. Those Wno overwork, overplay, overeat, undereat, underexercise, undersleep, are all p"one to suffer from rest lessness in consequence of nerve poisoning or nerve exhaustion. And, with the victims of faulty life atti tudes, of behavior that involves instinct frus tration, they make up an overwhelming ma jority of the great army of the restless by vhom we are surrounded. (Copyright, 1920, by Associated Newspapers.) THE LEAVES By John Breck. In the still of the misty morning I crept forth to perch upon a comfortable stone and watch the leaves awake. They lay flat on their backs, relaxed by the night’s cool damp, but the first long ray of sunlight set them slowly curling up their springs in readiness for the wind which was fast shred ding up the fog. From beneath one a head peered out —a tiny head of coppery-brown. It had an eager, smiling mouth, bird-like eyes, but no ears, though the place for them was marked with black-etched eai;-tabs. Into the warm glow glided a tiny snake, scarce four inches long, and found himselr a luxurious cradle in an eld leaf. Odd folks are the snakes. Not only do they do everything else differently from the rest of us, but they even have their families in the fall instead of the romantic spring time. Yet as I watched the behavior of this cautious infant I began to give them credit for knowing their own business better than I do. In the first place any toad will tell you that after the leaves come down is the time of times to hunt angle worms. Insect eggs, too, and chrysalids abound —fat feed ing for one whose eyes are sharp enough to see them. An industrious eater grows at a marvelous rate if the night frost doesn’t catch him. Furthermore there isn’t the fierce competition with the birds, who would probably look on this tiny rival as merely another worm himself, a tough-skinned, hard-killing one. • Coppery-headed he was, my early gnome, but that was nothing against him, for his tail did not wave the yellow flag of the poi son fang, and his split-ribbon of a tongue was innocently black. He wore three dark stripes, each formed by a single row of scales so fairy-fine a pen-stroke is wider. I stooped to admire his sleek symmetry, his exquisite finish, with my clumsy eye. With a flick of his tail he shot forward, stretched straight as an arrow’, drew himself up as he touched the ground and sprang again with vigor that sent pebbles larger than his whole bulk rolling and rattling. Poor baby! I had visions of him curled beneath the half where he at last told refuge, his slim sides fearfully panting. For about five breaths I felt sorry for him Then his expressive tail-tip told me some thing was happening to him. Had I driven him into fresh danger? Had a shrew caught him? The accommodating wind flicked off his cover,- gave me a glimpse of him. Faith, he’d forgotten all about me. He was just busy with another worm. WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS BY JACK PATTERSON Yes, At Honest Prices Perhaps we are premature, but we’d like to know didn’t Atlanta sell the Shipping Board anything at all? —Dublin Courier-Herald You didn’t imagine that Atlanta would pass up an opportunity like that, did you? Acknowledging the Com Even a woman will acknowledge the corn when you step on her toes. —Social Circle New Era. Perhaps so, but you can’t get her to admit that her shoes are not too large. Good Times in South Georgia We are now enjoying the finest kind of weather down here in Georgia. Cane grind ings are everywhere, potatoes are being dug, hogs are up fattening for the winter, ground peas are being threashed, wheat and oats are being sown, and south Georgia is going in for a live-at-home campaign.—Vidalia Ad vance. If there is anything that Editor McWhor ter enjoys more than the above mentioned articles it has escaped the notice of his numer ous friends. The Second Oldest Newspaper The Balti’ - lore American, which has re cently been bought by Frank A. Munsey, is the second oldest newspaper in the United States, and indeed is older than the govern ment itself. It has the distinction of having first publisher “The Star Spangled Banner” and to have been George Washington’s chief advertising medium. The files ought to be worth a tidy sum, even without the plant.— Macon News. Mr. Munsey now owns an important string of newspapers and magazines that make him one of the biggest publishers in the world. Around the World Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over the Earth. Smaller Farms Secretary John Barton Payne, in the an nual repo.t of the interior department, made public Monday, suggests smaller farms and more intense cultivation as solu tion of the problem presented by a de sertion of the rural regions. The secretary says that people prefer to live in towns and villages and not like to live alone. Small farms bring people clos er together, and he finds that this may be the remedy for present conditions. X-Ray for Shoes A New’ York store has installed an X-ray o*utfit which permits its patrons to see just how their feet fit in any pair of shoes. Pat rons can note at a glance the position of the bones of their feet, and in that manner de termine whether or not they are trying on the proper last. Find Money Gold rings, coins, w’atches and other valua bles were found by a sewer gang in the slime of an old pit in Boston. The men found coins dating back to 1787, stamped with a pine tree on one s ide and “Massachusetts” on the other. .Close to the ancient coins were found a number of beer checks. Co-Operative Factory The first co-operative glove factory in America, ow’ned and operated by Chicago glove makers, is in operation in that city. Finances for the K lant were raised by two Chicago glove unions and through the sale of shares to members. It is planned to market the product to co-operative stores. The plant is intended to enliven a period of dull ness in the glove industry. Big Turkey The biggest turkey raised in Kansas, a giant gobbler known as Big Tom, tipped the scales at fifty-eight pounds before he was killed by Elmer Hough and W. T. Bell, professional fowl pickers, of Meade county, Kan. “When Big Tom’s feathers were off and we laid him out on a table he looked like a hog,” declared Mr. Hough, who has been an expert poultry dresser for fifteen years. Food Riot A huge demonstration in protest against a 60 per cent increase in the cost of food and clothing within the last nupnth was staged in Vienna this week. Government action to ameliorate condi tions was demanded. Government employes to the number of 2 5,000 have announced that they will strike because their wage and other de mands have been refused and it is pos sible the police also will walk out. Striking bank clerks invaded the town hall in Baden, smashed windows and mirrors and then demolished several coffee houses and hotel dining rooms. Indian Incomes The income of Osage Indians for the year 1920 will total nearly SIO,OOO for each mem ber of the tribe and children who have in herited oil rights because of death of rela tives. Such is the belief of officials at the government Indian agency at Oklahoma City who base their estimate on payment of a regular allotment in December. Bonus payments of SI,OOO are now being made to members of the tribe as an extra dividend derived from past lease sales, the purchasers being oil companies and individ uals, who pay one-fourth the price of the lease at once, with the balance due in three years at 6 per cent interest. The total be ing paid the Osages as bonuses is $2,225,000. There are now 2,228 original shares in the Osage Indian tribe, according to officers of Indian affairs, this being the number of Os ages and those adopted into the tribe when the rolls closed for this bonus allotment. Eggs and the Moon Experiments have shown that more eggs will hatch if the hen is set when the moon is new, or very close to that period, and that the young chicks hatched at that time will be stronger and more vigorous, and will grow more rapidly. On the other hand, chicks hatched when there is no moon are often more weakly and do not make such strong and vigorous fowls, nor are they such good egg-layers. Newfoundland Cpal Active steps to develop one of the bitum inous coal areas which for more than sixty years have been known to exist in this colony are being taken by the Newfoundland govern ment. Preliminary work has been started on the deposit on the south branch of the Codroy river, on the west coast of the island, as a result of data provided by an official of the Canadian Geological Survey who recently ex amined the property. A corduroy road is being built from the first mine opening to the nearest station on the railways, three miles distant. As a means of transportation of the coal the gov ernment has imported four motor trucks ca pable of carrying five tons each. The gov ernment also is directing examinations of coal deposits at St. George’s, further north on the west coast, and at a view to develop ment if it appears warranted. Industrial Accidents Marian K. Clark, chief investigator of the bureau of industries and immigration, New York State Industrial Commission, reported that in the fiscal year 1919-’2O there have been reported 345,672 industrial accidents in his state, an increase over the previous year of 57,228, involving a direct loss to the state under the workmen’s compensation law of more than $40,000 a day and a combined direct and indirect annual loss of about $35,- 000,000. SIOO Island Sold for $2,000,000 In Conception Bay, N. F., is Bell Island, sold by its original owner many years ago for SIOO. Soon afterward it changed hands again for $2,000,000. This enormous rise in value was due to the accidental discovery that the island is composed almost entirely of iron ore. Girl Fingerprint Expert Pauline Buenzle, eighteen years old, is the flfinger print expert in the office of the Cali fornia state bureau of identification at Sacra me >, and is said to be the youngest per son in the United States engaged in her line of work. Women Are Recognized Through action at the recent convention in Atlantic City women have become eligible o full membership in the Atlantic Deeper v, aterways association. Where They Live Longest The longest average of life is to be found in Norway. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1920. IMMORTALIZING LADIES By Frederic J. Haskin r t t ASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 6. —The Na- Vy tional Capitol L soon to have a new ’ ’ statue added to its collection of im mortals. This statue wil. be unlike anything elee in the Capitol in that it will consist of three heads cut jut o the top of one block of marble, leaving the lower part of the block for a pedestal. It is further unusual because the three heads are of women. There is now only one statue in the Capitol to the memory of a woman, and that is the marble figure of Frances Willard, given by the State of Illinois to Statuary Hall in 1905. 'T'he new gift to the Capitol is a memorial to Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, three women who first sponsored the then forlorn cause of women’s rights. The idea of immortalizing these women in marble was really conceived long ago, when it was planned to display busts of them at the World’s Fair. Adelaide Johnson, the sculptor, modeled busts of Su san Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton from life, but the time for a memorial seemed not quite ripe then, with the feminists’ aims un achieved. Now, wheu the work to which the pioneers gave their lives is completer!, a me morial has greater significance, and Miss Johnson has resumed work on the combina tion statue on a larger scale than was first planned. The national woman’s party is raising $50,- 000 to pay for the material, workmanhip, and transportation of the stone. The mate rial is an eight-ton block of Italian marble chosen by the sculptor at Scravezza. A pho tograph sent from her studio at Carrara, Italy, shows the statue in process of comple tion. The three heads stand out above the huge base of the .slab. They are arranged in a triangle, all !acing one way. The sculptor has promised that the work will be finished and sent to Washington in time for the opening of the woman’s partv convention, February 15. As that day is the 101st Aniversary of Susan Anthony’s birth day, the women are anxious to unveil the statue in its place in the rotunda of the Capi tol, then. . . Red Tape Much red tape is necessary in Capitol af fairs, even to make a present. The Library Committee in the Senate is in charge of matters of art in the building, and Senator Brandegee, of Connecticut, chairman of the committee, has long been known as a fiery opponent of suffrage for women. During the crisis in the Connecticut legislature this sum mer, however, he saw that the suffrage amendment was inevitable, If not by Connec ticut, then by some other state. He there fore came out with a letter urging Connecti cut to ratify the amendment, and since then Senator Brandegee has so far become recon ciled to women in national affairs, that he agreed to use his influence to have his com mittee report favorably on the matter of placing the memorial in the rotunda at the next session of congress. With this support, there is small chance of congress refusing the gift. The rotunda where the statue is to be placed is the great hall below the dome of the Capitol. The hall contains eight large paintings showing important scenes in the history of America. Above these runs the celebrated frieze which was begun by Brumi di, the Italian artist, and which for years has lacked only a few feet of completion. The painting, done in gray, back, and white, to simulate bas-relief, seems to be a series of Indians, settlers, and soldiers following one another around the wall, or occasionally fac ing the other way to become part of. a picture in our early history. Brumidi had planned the entire frieze, but he died, and since his time no artist has been found who could keep to the spirit and technique of the Brumidi work. Scaffolding ia still suspended by the frieze where an artist recently tried out his skill. The rotunda in unfurnished, except for a few chairs for the use of blue-coated guards, and a half-dozen statues near the walls. This collection of statues now consists of Lafay ette. Lincon, Grant, Hamilton and Baker in marble; Jefferson in bronze, and a plaster cast of Washington from the famous statue by Houdon. There is also a bust of Washing ton in bronze, and a great head of Lincoln rising out of a marble block, by Gutzon Bor glum. An Unbeknown Great Man Next to the massive Lincoln head, the statue labeled “Baker” attracts the most at tention, because few people can place him in history. His clothes are of a cut which sug gests the time after the Revolution, and be cause he is reproduce x life-size instead of he roic, he looks short and chunky. Even down in the office of the superintendent of the Capitol it required some wracking of brains and consultation of enclyclopedias to drag forth the facts that Colonel E. D. Baker was a noted warrior in the Mexican War, a Sen ator from Oregon and finally died leading a desperate charge early in the Civil War at Ball’s Bluff. After all, Baker was a man of distinction, but placed by Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln the visitor is usually puzzled as to his importance. Probably some people will be equally unfamiliar with the women who are to be added to the occupants of the ro tunda. To the women who have been fight ing for suffrage they are household names. Susan B. Anthon;’, i particular, has always been a name to conjure with in feminist circles. Susan B. was brought up by a Quaker father to the belief that both men and wom should be economically independent. She be gan to teach school at fifteen years, and from then on, whether teaching or lecturing and campaigning for suffrage, she was a working woman to her death at eighty-six years. The most interesting incident in her life is probably her attempt to vote in the presi dential election of 1872 as a test of the 14th Amendment. She was arrested on Thanks giving Day, and the case was tried the next T une in a little New York county court. The judge, who from his mannerisms has come down in history as a “most ladylike hidge,” lined himself up with convention and tradition. He decreed that “the sentence of the court is that you pay a fine of one hun dred dollars and the costs of the prosecu tion,” to which the prisoner returned. “May it please your honor, I shall never pay a dol- : lar of your unjust penalty.” i The judge, believed her, and as one biog- , rapher says, “not wishing to incarcerate her to all eternity, he added gently: ‘Madam, the court will not order you committed until the fine is paid.’ ” Spinster on Principle Miss Anthony never considered marriage. She said half in jest that she could not con sent that the man she loved, possessed of the rights of citizenship and eligible to the office of president, should unite his destinies in marriage with a political slave and pariah, as a woman was by the laws of the country. Elizabeth Stanton was as ardent an expo nent of woman’s equality with man as was Susan 8., but she did not wait for the law to come around before she would marry. She did, however—back in 1840—insist on the word obey being left out of the marriage ceremony. She writes: “I obstinately refused to obey one with whom I supposed I was entering into an equal relationship.” The word “obstinately” she uses, not be cause her fiance opposed the omission, but because the Scottish minister who was to per form the ceremony objected strenuouslv. He finally gave in, but he avenged himself by DOROTHY DIX TALKS BY DOROTHY DIX The Children’s Earnings Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi cate, Inc. H T HAT proportion of my earnings VI should I give my parents? Have they a right to take everything I make from me?” These are questions that I am continually asked, and in reply I can only say that it seems to me that the financial obligation of children to their parents depends altogether upon the parents’ necessity.. If the parents are poor, and old, and fee ble the children should support them, sv/l' if it takes everything they make. If the parents are not in dire straits of want, and are able to work, then, if the children pay their board, they have done everything that their parents should expect or ask of them For nature lays the responsibility of pro viding for the children upon the parents. It is those who have thrust life upon helpless creatures who are bound by every law, hu man and divine, to cherish them. They have no right to feel that in having children they have merely propagated a lot of slaves to toil for them. A great many parents do hold this view, however, and we continually see men and women who are husky and strong, and per fectly able to support themselves, who knock off work and begin to coddle imaginary ail ments just as soon as their children get old enough to be sent out to labor for them. They set up rheumatic knees, and lame backs, as an excuse for turning slackers, just as' fashionable ladies develop nervous prostra tion whenever they want to spend the sea son at Palm Beach. One would think that the last person on whom fashion and mothers would graft would be their own child, but so far from this being the case, it is the exceptional par ents who do not think that they have a per fect right to everything their children make. Os course, it isn’t so easy to hold up a boy, and take his earnings away from him, as it is a girl, so most parents are satis fied if their sons pay board, but the poor daughter, in the great majority of cases, simply has to stand and deliver. Mother takes her pay envelope away from her, and woe to her if she has abstracted a penny for herself, for mother considers that she has been robbed. Mother even thinks that she is being gen erous in giving back to the gril who earned the money, a few cents for car fare and a moving picture, and when she buys her such clothes as she thinks the girl needs. Mother justifies her conduct on the ground that she has better judgment, and it never seems to enter her head that the girl who has sense enough to make the money, prob ably has intelligence enough to spend it, a»id, in any event, the mere fact that she has earned the money gives her the right to do with it as she pleases. The dollars that we have made with toil and sweat are OURS. Parents are wrong from every point of view in making a child turn over all of his or her earnings to them. For one thing, it works a great injustice, in that nearly al ways it forces the industrious and saving members of a family to toil to support the Icafers. In almost every family > there someone who has been born too tired to work, and who simply will not stick to a job as long as he or she is certain of three square meals a day and comfortable shelter. Near ly always there is a butterfly in the famil who will have good clothes, and go to place of amusement. And strangely enough, this idler is nen ’ ly always mama’s pet, and she will take th money of the hard-working children and gh it to the spender. I have known dozens <> cases in which frail girls were made, by thei mothers, to turn over their money to her s that she could give it to their worthies brother, and I have known other cases in , which a brother was literally worked to • death to support lazy and extravagant sis ters. This is most unfair, but justice has no place in the repertoire of parents, and they are ever ready to sacrifice their good chil dren to the prodigal sons and daughters. For the parents to require tLjir children to turn over their pay envelopes to them, kills all ambition, and strangles the sense of thrift at its birth. There are few of us who are so all-fired industrious that we work just for the pleasure of working. The habit of industry may have become so ingrained in us that we love work, for work’s sake, when we are old; but when we are young, we work simply for the sake of the reward. We work for the money that will buy us the pleasures we want. We work because we have a vis ion of the kind of a house we want to live in, and the tart of a car we want to own, and the position we want to hold, yhen we are forty. But if, at the end of the week, all we have worked for is taken from us, If we are no better off than we were at the beginning of it, then our incentive is gone, the hope and inspiration are swept away, and the thing that turned work into a means to an end is lacking, and it all becomes a purposeless, endless drudgery. That’s the reason that so many boys and girls who are bright enough, and capable enough, never take any interest in their work and never get anywh re. They never receive the reward for their labor, so they shrug their shoulders and say, “What’s the use?” Their greedy and grasping fathers and mothers kill the goose that lays the golden egg when they rob their children of their pay envelope. I do not mean to imply that childr-n should not support their parents if their par- * ents need to be supported, or that they should not help their parents. It is their sacred duty to do so, but they should do so in their own way. They should handle the money they make themselves, and themselves be the judge of what is a fair and reason- « able divide. The boy and girl who work should not be made to support idle brothers and sis ters. They should have the chance tv cave up something to start life on themselves, and they should have the ineffable Joy of owning their own individual pocketbooks. Millionaires Increasing There are 20,000 more millionaires in this country than there were in 1914, and they are all located in the eastern cities. Most of them made their money out of govern ment contracts for the manufacture of muni tions. —Rome Tribune-Herald. It is rumored that the government paid high for some things during the war. praying long and fervently and preaching nearly an hour on the obligations of the duti ful wife. Lucretia Mott the third reformer of the tri angle, was a little Quakeress, vivacious of manner, always simply dressed. As only the head and shoulder of the women in the me morial are to be sculped out of the rock, the Quaker cap of Lucretia Mott is the only bit of significant dress noticeable about the statue. Mrs. Mott was noted in her day for her lec tures, especially her famous discourse on woman in which she pleaded, for a woman to be “acknowledged as a moral, responsible be ing.” She especially decried the property laws, which gave all of a woman’s posses sions to her husband from the day of her ' marriage, to do with as he pleased.