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4 THE fRI-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 11.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W-.l l'o. 3 Mot. 0 Mos. i ir. Daily and Sunday..... 20c £Jc $2.50 $5.00 $9.30 Dail, 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 3Oc .90 1.76 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. 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A Tech Tour of Georgia vrr HEN the Georgia Tech Industrial Tour \A/ of Georgia is launched some time in February, the state should witness beginning of a business and industrial re vival of a more compelling and far-reaching eharacter than any movement launched to build up the South in the last twenty-five years. The tour is a home product, conceived by Georgians, organized by Georgians and con ducted by Georgian-, for the benefit of Geor gians. Therein is a significant characteris tic —that no outside influence furnished the motive power, but that the realization by Georgians themselves of their own industrial weakness and their great industrial oppor tunities led them to seek a practical and an effective remedy for the situation. The Georgians who will make the tour have seen for a long time that their state, though in resources a veritable treasure house, was falling far behind other states in reaping the industrial harvests. Our vast water-powers, our rich coal and iron and mineral deposits, even our immense produc tion of cotton availed us little compared to the splendid uses made of such assets in Pennsylvania, Ohio and half a dozen other states. Georgia, potentially one of the Strongest industrial sections in America, act ually was one of the weakest. It was a condition that cost the state millions every year and brought dire consequences in de pendence on agriculture alone for our peo ple’s main income. The state’s foremost business captains, seeing this distressful picture with unblind ed eyes, decided to act. They went north and east, to Pittsburg, where Georgia iron ore was being made into steel which was then shipped back to Georgia and sold at a stiff profit; to Ivorydale, where Georgia cotton seed was converted into toilet arti cles and cooking oils for which Georgians later paid fancy prices; to plants where Georgia clay was moulded into beautiful pot tery; and, most impressive of all, to insti tutions such as the Mellon Institute and the Massachusetts School of Technology, where the research work was being done and the men trained that enabled these industries to wax mighty. Now they have come home to Georgia to preach the gospel of industrial salvation taught them by their trip. The message they will bear on the industrial tour in Feb ruary is one every Georgian should take to heart, for through it he stands to win for himself and his children wealth, stability and happiness denied him in great measure to day. If the people of the state as a whole can be shown what their fellow Georgians saw, if they can be convinced of what their fellow Georgians were convinced, if they will likewise become disciples of the new indus trial gospel, Georgia’s indu«trial future is as sure as the rising of the sun. For the state, enthusiastically united in a single effort for a single goal, will bring to pass a new era in its progress. The first step in that progress is to build around the nucleus of the present Georgia Tech an institutio. comparable to the best in the east of the same character—an insti tution where business can bring its problems for solution, where scientific research will find new methods for old and valuable as sets in products now considered worthless; where the young men of the south, the fin est raw material she has, can be trained for the expert leadership that, by developing the south’s resources, will guide Georgia out of the wilderness into the land of industrial promise that waits ahead for her. A Good Sign of the Times FEW omens of the time could be more reassuring than the fact that in this year of readjustment, with its inevi table anxieties and doubts, the American peo ple are buying ten billion dollars’ worth of new life insurance. That they have so large a surplus as the premiums on this sum rep resent means much; it means more that they are turning it to so wise and altruistic an end. Ten billions of new life insurance bear witness to reserves of wealth and of charac ter that appear the more impressive when we note that this is twenty-one per cent above what was bought in 1919, which was itself a period of unprecedented increase. Last year, although commonly? described as one of headlong extravagance, saw a gain of sixty-two per csnt over 1918 11 the amount of new insurance taken; and this year, al though put down as one of sharp retrench ment, sees that vast investment multiplied by more than a fifth. The heart of the rank and file is usually much steadier and sounder than those who judge from the flutte of little groups sus pect. A near-sighted tourist sees the froth of Paris and pronounces the x rench nation hopelessly frivolou® or decadent, being ig norant of those deep, heroic tides which found utterance in “They Shall Not Pass.” Likewise in America a casual ob erver sees flurries of folly from which he infers that the whole country has turned prodigal, and then sees fits of pennriousness from which he imagines th public has swung to the other extreme. But a look into the broader currents of the lational life will reveal, as do these remarkable insurance figures, that In neither instance have the people lost their taith or their common sense. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Making Sweet Potatoes Pay THERE is a deal of discouragement over the fact that this year’s sweet potato crop amounting to upwards of one hundred and five and a half million bushels has sold at prices lower than any quoted since 1914, lower indeed than any but the most beggarly figures of the past. Does this mean that uopes of building up an ex tensive and profitable industry in the pro duction of the sugary yam must be aban doned? By no means, say those who have studied the situation most discerningly. To the contrary, they insist, one of the South’s especially valuable opportunities still awaits development in the efficient raising and ef cient marketing of sweet potatoes. Arguing to this effect in the Manufactur ers’ Record, Dr. K. J. Horton, an agricul tural specialist of nigh attainments who now resides in Chicago, estimates that out of a one hundred million bushels crop of sweet potatoes, the availa- “prime quality” table stock is only thirty-two million bushels. Here, then, at the outset is a huge loss to be reckoned with. Can it be reduced? His answer, well buttressed by citations of fact, is that losses from disease can be made neg ligibly low; that losses in storage can be prevented almos‘ entirely by properly built, properly operated “curin’ ’ houses; and that the proportion of “prime table” stock can be doubled. But of what use is all this, i‘ may be ask ed, if the potatoes cannot be sold at profit? The reply is that they can be sold, tens and scores of thousands of bushels of them, at goodly profits, if the marketing problem is rightly handled. To show tha he is not unaware of the formidable difficulties in volved, Dr. Horton q> otes from one of his recent correspondents in the South a para graph which runs in this wise: “One and a half cents a poun is the best the curing houses are paying here, and they won’t pay a profit to the gu er. Two carloads from B— and one from I— were consigned to a commission house in Chicago. Prices quoted were from $2.25 to $-.50 per crate of about 60 pounds, a.id nette the growers five cents per crate. One of the cars from R— has not yet been heard .’rom —almost five weeks ago. Is It not time to organize and co-operate?” Discouraging |ndeed! Yet, at the very time that letter was written “sweet potatoes were selling in the chain stores in Chicago four pounds for a quarter, and choice stock at ten to twelve cents a pound.” Evidently, the rag-tag and bobtail prices of which growers rightly complained a result, largely, of inadequate channels between the great body of producers and the great body of actual or potential consumers —that is to say, inade quate facilities and inefficient methods of marketing. By why of remedy Dr. Horton suggests four lines of irocedure: “First, convince the Northern buyer that you have something of greater merit than what is now on the market, and something that can be sold for the same price or a shade less, eocond, care ful curing and grading; third, choice of varie ties; fourth, strong marketing association.” Due attention to these matters will convert a disappointment and a loss into one of the most far-reaching and most profitable in dustries the South has known. The curing house has made it unnecessary that any con siderable portion of a sweet potato crop should decay or deteriorate. The canning factory can tur th culls to excellent ac count; and if there be a residue not suited for table use, it can be made into delicious syrup, vinegar, flour, cattle feed and other valuable products. It only remains, then, to develop the mar keting side f Le situation; but that must be developed on an extensive scale and in all its important particulars, from grading and crating to salesmanship in the North. If this seems a vast undertaking, let it be remembered that a vast field of opportunity is involved; and that what organized effort has done to lift the Georgia peach industry from a precarious and losing status to one of steady and substantial profit, it can do also for the Southern sweet potato crop. < Lives and Livings IS America, in z. strenuous pursuit of fleshpots, forgetting culture? Certain ly there are whirlwinds and fires of en thusiasm for the so-termed “practical” in ed ucation and in life, while the call of the humanities comes in a still, small voice. In numbers of schools and colleges the upper hand is held by “mater., -ists” and “fad dists,” as President Butler, of Columbia, named them in his recent recuke to those who “have given up preparing a youth to live in favor of preparing him to make a living.” The quarrel is not with vocational school ing, nor with that which looks to developing the resources of soil and stream and forest and mine. The ranks of skilled workmen should be multiplied; the powers of science shbuld be mustered ever more vigorously to bringing forth the treasures of the earth. Civilization itsel. has been defined not in aptly as “the utilization of nature.” From the most liberal as well <is most common sense point of view therefore, industrial training should have its rightful place in the country’s educational system. * But when we assume that the unearthing of treasure and gaining of money, are the “be all” and “end all” of individual or national life; when we treat education as merely a short-cut to suc cess reckoned in terms of vvealth; when, in a word, we proceed upon the idea that man can live by bread alone —then assuredly we are forgettin; culture and are ceasing to grow in what is most truly inman. Such in difference and neglect are dangerous as well as foolish, dangerous to nations no less than to persons. “Materialism dominating educa tion made Germany what she was,” says H. G. Wells “and will make any other country something like Germany.” To be mechanical ly efficient, to be dominant, to be successful, were the ambitions of “kultur,” rather than to be serviceable and liberal and kindly. And whoso follows Kultur’s path will reach its goal and its fate. The United State of Americ; is today the richest of nations, and the most powerful. But her place in history, if it be the place of honor which patriotism covets, will not be determined by power and riches but by the heart and soul of her people. To the extent that the. are truly educated, that is to say, to the extent they are making lives instead of mere livings, America will progress and endure. Editorial Echoes. Russia wants a billion dollars’ worth of American machinery and other materials for reconstruction. If she pays for it in rubles the .paper shortage will immediately end.— Tacoma Ledger. Sugar is down in price and so is flour, but L has been revealed now that baked goods are made of overhead expenses. Toledo Blade. The Chicago police have been forbidden to swear at motorists. The pedestrian will con tinue to exercise his natural rights.—Detroit Free Press. If some of those valiant fighters who in sist that the United States take Ireland un der her wing should go over to Ireland and fight for her, it would do a lot of real good —here, —Columbus Dispatch THE ECZEMA PROBLEM By H. Addington Bruce ECZEMA, as the medical world long since discovered, is both an exceedingly com mon and an exceedingly puzzling skin affection. Readily yielding in some cases to simple treatment, in others it stubbornly re sets the skin specialist’s ' est efforts. Which suggests, of course, that eczema is a disease having m. 7 causes, not all of which are as yet reckoned with or fully appre ciated. And physicians are today well aware that this is the case, its causation ranging from external irritations of the skin to internal constitutional peculiarities. Conspicuous among the latter, according to recent researches, would seem to be a special sensitiveness to certain foods. Even the most wholesome of foods, there now is reason for believing, may so affect sundry persons as to be really poisonous to them, with eczema as a possible symptom of the poisoning. In one series of eczema cases, for example, studied by Drs. Howard Fox and J. Edgar Fisher, of New York, nineteen out of sixty patients gave skin-test reactions indicating an intolerance for one or another of various foods, stfch as oysters, pork, cheese, sweet potato, turnip, cabbage, onion, cauliflower, beans. In another series, Dr. M. A. Rami rez found food intolerances in twenty out of sixty-six cases. Treatment by putting the twenty on a modified diet —that is, a diet from which the incriminated food was excluded—resulted in a definite cure in six cases and great im provement in nine. In the Fox-Fisher series the, results were less impressive, possibly be cause treatment by dietetic changes alone was feasible in but a few cases. “Our most favorable result of treatment by modified diet,” they report in the Jour nal of the American Medical Association, “was in the case of . man who had suffered for eight years from a severe eczema of the back of the hands and wrists. He had been a great eater of cabbage and sauerkraut, and gave a double plus reaction to cabbage. “After omitting this article of food from his diet, he showed e most striking improve ment at the end of a week. As he expressed it, the eruption was ‘2OO per cent better.’ On eating cabbage one month later, at our request, the eczema became worse.” In other cases, to be sure, Drs. Fox and Fisher, like Dr. Ramirez, found no improve ment whatever resulting from dietetic treat ment. So that in these cases here was every reason to believe that the food poisoning was at most only one factor in causing the ec zema, and not the dominant one. However, the knowledge that in some cases food poisoning may be the dominant cause is distinctly a therapeutic advance. As is the discovery, likewise emphasized by re cent research, that in certain cases eczema may be the product of a singular sensitive ness, not to foodstuffs or other material sub stances, but to the mental strain of fear, wor ry, etc. To this little appreciated but truly most important phase of the eczema problem we shall return another day. (Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News papers) THE HUMAN EQUATION By Dr, Frank Crane In the.recent disaster in a moving picture theater in downtown New York six little chil dren were killed and many more injured in being trampled under foot because the door at the foot of a stairway was locked, when a frenzied mass of children and adults tried to escape at the cry of “Fire!” Certainly no exit of a theater should be locked and the persons to blame should be punished accord ing to law—but — We notice, on reading further in the ac count of the fire, that a certain woman with her child went down the same stairway and escaped before the mob descended because she used the other door at the foot of the stairs. In the hideousness of the panic—there stood the unlocked door. All of which causes us to observe that in the final test it is the human equation that upsets all calculations. We may have all manner of contrivances for safety and along comes some human and throws into confusion the whole works. The other day a man had his teeth X rayed—one of the million or so who are having the same thing done every day. Sud denly he shifted his position—at the wrong time —and he was electrocuted. Just his peculiar shift had not entered into the cal culations before that. Henceforward no doubt we will be protected from one more human quirk. A window cleaner, we see in another place, decided at the sixteenth story that he would rather get to the ground inside the skyscrap er instead of climbing down on the outside. He pried open a window and put his head in, to be caught by the great lead weight of the elevator which was coming down full force, jamming his body between it and the side of the shaft. \ Could anyone be expectea to provide against having the sixteenth story window of an elevator shaft pried open at the exact moment of the descending weight? No. There’s where the human equation en ters in, to baffle, to disturb, to incite to new endeavor and achievement, to offer new op portunity for human skill of inventiveness against human ingenuity for bungling. When severa nersons are plunged to death in a railroad wreck, and in the Investigations all the safety devices were found to be in proper working order, we look to the man in the cab for the reason. Perhaps he was “star-gazing.” Stricken perhaps. They call it “wreck due to man-failure.” And so it goes.’ On through Society. Man failure in the court, in miscarriage of justice, in politics, in the “success” of the bad man or “failures” of the good man, in battle, in education, in marzi ge. Wherever we look upon men grouped to gether for mor* fruitful living, with the ground well mid, the plans well-conceived, we know th *■ before it all may come to fruition there is a certain amount of “mar failure” to be reckoned with. It is the variableness of the human equa tion that settles the account in the end. In other words, where humans are gather ed together “you never cp” tell.” (Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane) WORDS FROM THE WISE A secret is in my custody, if I keep it; but should it escape me, it is I who am the prisoner. Arabian Pro' r ~rb. A dinner lubricates business. Lord Stowell. A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possess some knowledge of these he may venture to call himself an architect. S. W. Scott. The doctor sees a’ the weakness of man kind, the lawyer all the wickedness, the t' eologian all the stupidity. Schoepenhauer. Nothing is more terrible than to see ig norance in action. Goethe. Error of opinion may be tolerated when reason is left free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson. Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret, Disraeli. Around the World Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over the Earth. Dalton voters are not yet ready for woman in public office. This was clear ly shown in the election last week when W. M. Carroll, present clerk, defeated Miss Mary Wheeler, who was opposing him in his race for re-election. Carroll carried all eight of the wards, for a com bined majority of 427. His vote was 623; Miss Wheeler received 196. Not only does Miss Wheeler stand well here, but she was recognized as being fully qualified to fill ’the office, and she had influential people working for her. 100,000 Gangsters The Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, of the Church of the Ascension, New Y’ork, said re cently in a sermon that there are 100,000 gangsters in New Y’ork City who must be ed ucated and taught good citizenship. Disastrous Earthquake Twenty-five villages in the Albanian district of Jugo-Slavia have been destroy ed by an earthquake, according to Ameri can Red Cross reports from Valona. The tremors occurred in the Tepeline district. A Family of Mayors BANBURY, Eng.—The new mayor of Banbury, J. Wawie, succeeds his eldest brother. Their father was twice mayor of Banbury. Steamboat Hunters Hunting deer by steamboat is the newest Memphis sport. As the towboat Scott was nearing Memphis Captain Frank Hyatt spied a deer swimming across the Mississippi river. He turned the ?row of the boat, gave chase, got a rope around the deer’s body and haul ed it aboard alive. Wilson Accepts President Wilson has accepted the Nobel prize for 1919, it is announced at the state ’ department. The state department is cabling an announcement of his acceptance to Christ iania, which read: “In accepting the honor of your award, I am moved not only by a profound gratitude for the recognition of my earnest efforts in the cause of peace but also by a very poig nant humility before the vastness of the work still called for by this cause.” Weather Forecasts “Weather forecasts for months ahead will be possible within a few years as a direct re sult of solar observation, R. M. Stewart, as sistant director of the Dominion Observatory, recently told the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. The sun has great • influence over varying weather conditions on the earth, and recent observations of it have led to the belief that observatories will be able to predict with ac curacy the general trend of weather for six months or even a year ahead, he said. To be able to foretell the amount of precipitation and the general, temperature for several months in advance may take fifty or even 100 years of observation, he added, but expressed the confidence of the observatory that this end would be reached. Failed to Pedal Channel Miss Zetta Hills, one of England’s best-known women swimmers, recently made a daring, but unsuccessful, attempt to cross the English Channel on a water bicycle. Women Jurors Weep A coroner’s jury of women at Erie, Pa., wept when they returned a verdict hold ing Martin C, Cornell, city 'solicitor, re sponsible for the death of William Schultz, who was killed by an automobile. Cornell’s defense was that he was home at the time of the accident, Magellan Celebration Thirteen countries have accepted the in vitation of the Chilean government to send representatives to participate in the festivi ties early in December commemorating the 440th anniversary of the discovery of the Strait of Magellan. Living Up In Australia Owing to the increased cost of commodi ties in Melbourne, Australia, Justice Clarke of the Arbitration Court has granted bonuses to 20,000 commonwealth public servants in stead of permanent wage increases. Spaniards Seeing America Spanish-speaking people are in New York this season than for many years. Pros perity in Spain and South American countries is causing the Spaniards to travel more ex tensively. Cheap Houses Cheap lodgings for families with children are being completed and rented both inside Paris and in the districts outside the old walls. These have been built with city and government money, as a means of relieving the critical congestion. Separate wooden buildings nave been con structed on the outskirts of the city and somewhat temporary tenement buildings in the city. The first unit in Paris has thirty small apartments and twelve single rooms. Another unit will be ready in April. Progress has been slow, but it is expected that next year the building may be pushed, so as to have some effect on the lodging shortage. Harding Invited Senator Harding has been invited by for mer Senator George Sutherland to attend the banquet of the New York State Bar associa tion to be held in New York January 22. Senator Harding took the invitation under advisement. While Senator Harding is flood ed with invitations which it is impossible for him to accept, it is said that he may make an exception in this instance. Chilian Railroads Railroad travel in Cuba is more expensive than in the United States and far less com fortable. Ordinarily, it takes about thirty two hours for an express train to cross the island between Havana and Santiago, and a fifteen-hour delay is not unusual. From Ha vana to the naval base at Guantanamo bay, counting ordinary delays and an overnight wait at Santiago, took tiree days. Travelers from the states who want to see the inland must put up with many dis comforts, not the least of which is the task of trying to buy sleeping car reservations. It is almost impossible to buy them at tariff rates. Coming over from Havana on a hurried trip the other day a correspondent was in formed by a ticket seller that he would have to wait two or three days for a lower berth There was nothing in stock, according to the agent, but he did not add the informa tion that reservations could be ontained eas ily and quickly from hotel porters, usually at pn advance of $5. Motors 300,000 Miles Tn her eightieth year Mrs. H. .T. Lutcher, of Orange, Tex., recently completed more than 300,000 miles of automobile touring. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1920. AMERICA LEADS IN CRIME > By Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 10.—Wash ington has about three times as many homicides as Liverpool. In New York more people are murdered in a year than in all of England and Wales put together. In a typical American city there are several times as many burglaries every year as there are in London, in proportion to population. Ovef 5,000 automobiles were stolen in New York in 1919, while 290 were stolen in London and ten in Liverpool. These are a few typical samples, chosen at random, of the statistics presented by Raymond B. Fo.d.ck in his book on Ameri can police systems. They show that the United States leads the world in crime, not by a small margin, but by several hundred per cent. It is perhaps the most lawless place on earth which pretends to have a civilized government. Mr. Fosdick occupies a unique place in this country as an expert on crime and po lice work, who has studied all the principal police systems of Europe, as well as that of his own country. During the war he was placed in control of the commission on train ing camp activities, which was certainly one of the most creditable of our war time ac tivities. His book is not of a popular nature, and appeals chiefly to students and profes sionals. It therefore seems worth while to give the gist of his remarkable facts and arguments here. Far more interesting than proof of Amer ica’s world leadership in the production of all kinds or crime is his acute analysis of the reasons for this. His viewpoint here is that of a cosmopolitan rather than a typi cal American reformer. He does not see the cause of our crime-ridden state primarily in the fact that we do not all go to Sunday school, nor in the movies, nor in the dime novels, nor in the foxtrot, nor in short skirts, homebrew nor cabarets. He does not be lieve that a great wave of moral reform could sweep all this crime away, nor that a multiplication of laws would solve the problem. On the contrary, he makes out a strong case for the view that what we suffer from is too many laws, which attempt to regulate personal conduct instead of to pre vent crime, law; which are fundamentally unenforcible, because they are not sufficient ly supported by opinion, and which have had the effect of making all law ridiculous, ana of giving social sanction to much law-break ing. Causes of Crime True, he sees other causes for our nation al criminality. He shows that our aston ishing mixture of unassimilated racial ele ments presents a unique police problem. He shows that the absurdity of our administra tion of criminal law is an encouragement to to crime. He shows that almost any crimi nal who can hire a lawyer has at least an even chance to escape conviction, and that one with plenty of money, or with political pull, is seldom convicted. This is painfully j true, and has been pointed out before. But Mr. Fosdick’s analysis of the national mind is the most original and arresting thing he has to offer. He shows that none but the Germans of the period before the war were ever so ridden by laws designed to make of men a regimented mass, rather than a group of free individuals. "The willingness with which we under take to regulate by law the personal habits of private citizens is a source of perpetual astonishment to Europeans,” he writes. “In no country in Europe with the exception of Germany, is an attempt ever made to en force standards of conduct which do not meet with g< - al public approval, or, at the behest of what may be a minority, to bring a particular code of jehavior within the scope of criminal legislation. With us, how ever, every year adds its accretion to our sumptuary laws. It suits the judgment of some and the temper of others to convert into crimes pra tices which they deem mis chievous or unethical. They resort to law to supply the deficiencies of other agencies of social control. They attempt to govern by means of law things which in their nature do not admit of objective treatment and external coer itn .... The views of particular groups of people on questions of private conduct are made the legal require ments of the state. We are surrounded by penal laws whose only purpose is to enforce by threat certain standards of morality. . . . Moral Laws “Indeed, this presents one of the strange anomalies of American life: with an intoler ance for authority and an emphasis upon in dividual rights more pronounced, perhaps, than in any other nation, we, of all people, not even excepting the Germans, pre-emi nently are addicted to the habit of standard izing the lives and morals of our citizens. Nowhere in the world is there so great an anxiety to place the regulation of morrl af fairs in the hand of the police, and no where are the police so incapable of carry ing out such regulations. “Our concern, moreover, is for externals, for results that are formal and apparent rather than essential. We are less anxious about preventing a man from doing wrong to others than in preventing him from doing what we consider harm to himself. . . We attack symptoms, rather than causes, and in doing so we create a species of moralistic despotism which overrides the private con science and destroys liberty where liberty is most precious.” There is little anyone can .d~ to that paragraph, but Mr. Fosdick goes on to de scribe some of our laws. Unenforcible Laws “Often the laws are such as to defy en ; forcement even if they had behind them a substantial body of public opinion. Thus there are laws against kissing, laws against face powder and rouge, laws against ear rings, laws regulating the length of women’s skirts, laws fixing the size of hatpins One would have to scan the ordinances pub lished by the police president of Berlin to find any parallel to the arbitrary regulations in regard to private conduct with which American citizens are surrounded. . . . “It is estimated that ther" are on the av erage something like 16,000 statutes —fed- eral, state and local —applicable to a given city. To enforce them all . . . is of course .... utterly impossible. With ten times the number of policemen it could not be done.” In a word, much of our law in the United States has become a tissue of absurdity, which grows in both size and absurdity ev ery year. Personal liberty in this country is impossible without lawlessness. What we have produced, therefore, with all our laws is the most lawless nation calling it self civilized on earth. One Is an Elegant Sufficiency The King of Siam after refusing to take over the harem selected for him, has chosen a wife for himself. The king is a wise boy; if he can manage one, he is a genius.—Tif ton Gazette. Perhaps he took the high cost of main tenance into consideration. Any man with sufficient sense to hold down a kingdom should think of that. Enforce the Law Strict enforcement of the law hurts no one except the law evader; laxity in law enforce ment hurts all, innocent and guilty, and un dermines the foundation on which our gov ernment is built.—Tifton Gazette. No man who does right need have any fear of law enforcement. > You ’Em t Johnny, You Know DOROTHY DIX TALKS BY DOROTHY DIX The Moving Picture Problem Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi cate, Inc. A YOUNG woman writes me that she works hard all day doing her cook ing, washing and sewing, and that no man comes, home at night to a neater house or a better-cooked dinner than her husband. The husband has to work at night until about 11 o’clock, and it is her habit to spend her evenings at the moving’ pictures. Her husband and her family object to her going frequently, and she wants to know how often I think a movie fan has the right to indulge in hit or her favorite diversion. lam sure I don’t know. If I could answei that question, and draw the line betwee., the psychological place where the cinema ceases to become a stimulating amusement, and turns into a deadly dope, I should solve one of the great problems of the day; for there is no denying that no other influence in the world is so powerful, and reaches so many people, as the screen. To answer my correspondent’s question in detaU, I should say that it is not good to go to any one place every night, not even to church. The tendency of too much of any thing is to upset people’s mental balance, and to obsess them with a single idea. It makes fanatics of them. Their minds run along a single track that in time gets to be a narrow-gauge road with no pleasant by tracks, and no way stations or stopping places, and they are lucky if they don’t bump into a padded cell at the end. We need variety in our amusements and occupations to keep us mentally healthy, just as much as we need variety in our food to keep us in bodily health. That is .vhy all crazes, whether they are crazes for dancing, or roller-skating, or crazes over now religion, or crazes over certain phases of literature, or moving picture crazes, leave wrecks be hind them. People who overdid always have to pay the price. And, as Stevenson said, “The world Is so full of a number of things” that are pleasant to do, it is a pity not to nibble at them all. Certainly it is more than a pity not to alternate evenings spent in reading, and in converse with one’s friends, with at tendance at the picture houses. As to how much footage of a film is the proper allowance per week for a woman, she must be her own judge. A good test for her to apply to herself is to keep tab on her thoughts, and see if the screen is becoming the most absorbing interest in her life, and if she goes through her days waiting impa tiently for her nightly debauch of pictures. If she is, then it is time to cut down her dope. Also let ter honesty search her soul and ascertain what effect the pictures she sees I have upon her. If she is filled with envy of the snakelike vamp, with long green eyes, and jade ear rings, and practically nothing else on, if, as she washes her dish es, and chops the meat for her Irish stew, she loathes and detests her homely task and feels as if she were a martyr because she is not one of the sirens at whose feet men dump bushels of diamonds in the pictures, and who never do anything more laborious than recline in a real lace aegllgee on oriental divans, and puff cigarettes; then she’s had too much of the movies. And if, as she looks at her good, kind hard-working husband, she finds that she i. contrasting him unfavorably with some ox eyed, lily-handed movie hero, with a thirty dollar permanent wave in his hair; and il she catches herself wondering how she hap pened to marry a plain business man, even if he does bring home the bacon, instead of a picturesque, film robber; and if she ceased to registe. a thrill when her John gives a bread and eggs peck on the cheek when he starts to work of a morning, in stead of pulling the cave-man stuff as they do in the movies, then let her beware! She’s drugged up on lurid romance, and she is in just as much danger of wrecking her life as she would be if she had acquired the opium habit. She’s got to have the nerve to give it all up until she get’s back to normal. The real secret of enjoyment of anything thing is to take it in moderation, but if there are some women who have been hurt by an over-indulgence in the movies, there are millions upon miLions of women who have got nothing but good out of them. They have been saved from themselves, saved from themselves, saved from becoming mor bid and disgruntled, and cross, and unen durable to live with, by the genii of the films. I can think of no other one thing that has done as much to brighten the life of the great mass of womankind as moving pictures have done. It is only the fortunate few women who have money enough to go to the theaters, to have automobiles, to spend their afternoon at tea parties and luncheons, and in other forms of more or less expensive amusement, because a woman must have proper clothes for these diver sions, as well as the price thereof. Thus for the majority of women there was nothing but the dull, monotonous round of work, with no fun thrown in, no amuse ment, nothing to stir the imagination, or rouse the emotions, nothing new for a wom an to think about as she made her beds, or sewed long seams. Then came the movies, and opened up a new world to her, full of romance and ad venture, sentiment and laughter. It was a world to which the price of admission was so cheap that she could go and take the children along with her, and it gave the whole family something of mutual interest to talk about instead of quarreling with each other. So, taking it bj and large, the moving pictures have been a benefaction to those who needed help the most; and a woman can have far worse faults than to be a movie fan, and spend her evenings far less profit ably than in getting a little sip of romance, a little laughter and fun, and a deal of solid information r.t the movies. For one thing your woman who is a film fan is never a back number. She’s always strictly up-to-date, and knows just exactly all about the last big thing that happened in the world. For she has seen it with her own eyes. (Dorothy Dix articles will appear regular ly every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in this paper.) Why Boys Lie Judge Ben Lindsay, who gained fame for his work as head of the juvenile court of Denver, Col., is delivering a lecture on “Why Boys Lie.” We have not heard the lecture, but we suppose the principal reason why boys lie is that they are the sons of their fa thers.—Valdosta Times. At least that is what their mother says in offering an explanation. Newspaper Man for Ordinary Ben Hardy, the well-known Barnesville newspaper man, is running for ordinary of the new county of Lamar. He will make a good one and his friends throughout the state trust he will be successful in his race. —Griffin News and Sun. < Hardy has made good as newspaper pub lisher, banker and trustee of the Sixth Dis trict Agricultural school and would doubtless make an efficient ordinary.