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A Sign of Progress, And I
A Means to Prosperity
THE prompt over-subscription of the
six million dollar stock of the Fed
eral International Banking Company
a cheering sign of the present and is
feof large and prosperous import to the fu
It means much that in times like these
the banking and business interests of six of
the cotton-growing States should provide,
without difficulty or hesitation, the financial
sinews of a six million dollar enerprise in
the realm of foreign trade. Os this sum,
Georgia, Louisiana and Texas have sub
scribed one and a half million each; Ten
nessee eight hundred thousand; Alabama,
five hundred and fifty thousand; and Mis
sissippi, five hundred thousand. These
quotas would not have been raised so
readily, indeed they would not have been
raised at all, if the States concerned had
lacked business leadership of a forward
thinking and substantially resourceful char
acter. The successful establishment of the
Federal International Banking Company is
thus of itself happily significant.
When the concern is fully functioning,
as it will be in the near future, its value
to Southern agriculture and industry, and
through them to the region’s every material
interest, will become more and more richly
manifest. With the facilities for handling
export paper and for providing funds
whereby dealers can do business with for
eign buyers who require long-term credits,
the' new company should do much to pro
mote the overseas sale of products on
which Southern prosperity depends. Im
portant among these will -be cotton, the
market for which would have been
stimulated long ago, had there been means
_of financing the purchases which certain
European countries needed and wished to
make, but from which they have been de
terred by lack of credit accommodations.
It is expected, moreover, that other prod
ucts,. such as lumber, rice, sugar and cer
tain- manufactures, will profit materially
from the new export banking institution.
It appears likely, indeed, that the pres
ent enterprise represents merely the begin
x King of a line of service that will grow con
tinually more extensive. The South, like
the country at large, must look more and
more to export markets if her industries
are to expand and multiply and her, pro
ducers reap a fair reward. As a means to
that end, institutions like the Federal In
ternational Banking Company will prove
invaluable.
Officeseekers are busily pondering where
and how and for what salary they can best
serve their country.—Birmingham Age-
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Stinting America’s Vital
', ; Interests in Aviation
GNE of the astonishing things which he
lias found in his visit on this side, says
Joi S reat Dutch inventor, Fokker, is
America’s seeming indifference to her rich
inh,§rftdnce and rich opportuni y in aviation.
No observer, foreign or native, can fail to be
struck by the fact that the nation of the
Wright brbthers, with its long and versatile
record of inventive genius, is now dnyig
comparatively so little in the development'of
aeronautic service.
The Postoffice Department, it is true, is
acbJeying substantial and brilliant results
In the establishment of air mail lines, one
of which reaches across the continent; and
the Army is scoring some notable records,
as in the recent flight from New York to
Alaska. But these enterprises have been
carried forward in spite of Congress rather
than by its encouragement.
Repeatedly in the last year or so Admin
istrative heads have urged adequate appro
priations for the military and i.aval as well
as postal air service, but with Lttle avail. In
fact’; the funds allowed for this purpose are
short of what ,is needed for surveys and ex
periments. much less for large programs of
constru'btion. Where the United States de
vote, some fifteen or twenty million dollars
to this important sphere of national interest,
countries far less well off in resources and
heaping far heavier burdens from the war are
expending five or ten times that amount.
This is not economy; it is crass misman
agement, and if persisted in, may prove as
costly as it is haza-dous. How imperative is
the need of a larger appropriation appears
from the reported statement of General
Menother, Cb.ef of the Air Service, that “ev
ery army airplane purchased during the war
will be rated as unsafe for flying by next
July.”
Aside from Its military importance, which
can hardly be overestimated, aviation is so
j rich in possibilities to the country’s neace-
I time interests, to commerce, and industrv
and general progress, that on this account
alone, it should receive a fai. measure of
Federal encouragement. On the same prin
ciple that the Government maintains bu
reaus of research and experiment in sundry
fields,of the nation’s natural resources, such
as soil, forests, mines and streams, it is
proper that the immenselv significant realm
of aeronautics should be given national at
tention. through the nostal Service and the
’Army rand Navy. This is a mrtter involving
America’s most practical and most vital in
terests and demanding that Congress take
flue action
Most of us are nervouslv awaiting the out
comer of ’’’dkio student debate on the sub
ject. "Shall ,bnui ■'right America?”—Denver
Rocky Mountain News.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Americas New 'Place and
Power Among Seafarers
IT signifies a vast deal for the security
and expansion of the nation’s foreign
commerce that American ships now car
ry approximately fifty per cent of our over
seas trade as compared with less than ten
per cent at the outbreak of the late war.
Upwards of three thousand four hundred
merchant vessels, aggregating some seven
teen thousand deadweight tons, are flying
the Stars and Stripes; and this does not in
clude more than two million tons on the
Great Lakes. The Federal fleet in operation
at the close of the last fiscal year comprised
twelve hundred and ninety-four steel vessels
plying to all qaurters of the globe—notably
five hundred and eight to Northern Europe,
one hundred,and twenty-six to Southern
Europe, one hundred and thirty-eight in the
South American and one hundred and sixty
three in the service. Upon the
completion of the Government’s shipbuilding
program in 1922 the United States, it is
expected, will control more ocean-going ton
nage than do all other countries, save Great
Britain, combined.
These facts from the current annual re
port of Admiral Benson, chairman of the
Shipping Board, are eloquent of great
achievements and great prospects. From
dangerous dependence on foreign bottoms,
the nation has come to possess large means
of its own for carrying American products
to the markets of all the world; and from
a rearw’ard place among seafarers has come
swiftly to the van. During the last fiscal
twelvemonth eleven hundred and eighty fin
ished vessels, exceeding six million three
hundred thousand tons, were- delivered—a
record unparalleled, and the r ore remark
able from the fact that it was made without
over-time labor or other sueh aids to speedy
production. Touching this performance, Ad
miral Benson well observes that the ship
yard workers of the United St-.tes “have de
veloped an expertness which has raised the
efficiency of the various crafts to a high
plane,” and that the industry has expanded
from fifty thousand skilled mechanics to a
force of three hundred and eighty-five thou
sand men available to the private shipyards.
That is to say, the country has acquired not
only the substantial nucleus of one of the
greatest merchant fleets ever afloat but
also the means, both mechanical and human,
of steadily increasing it.
When we reflect that export commerce is
a prime factor in our national prosperity and
that an adequate cargo fleet Is a prime
essential in export comjnerce, our gains in
ocean shipping in the last few years » loom
out with epochal significance. Had this coun
try remained in its pre-war dependence up
on the vessels of its trade competitors, its
outlook in the keen and rigorous contests of
world trade would be far from reassuring.
But thanks to the vast revival of shipbuild
ing which war emergencies forced upon us,
we can face the future without anxiety on
that score. All parts of the United States will
profit in consequence of this preparedness,
but the South has special reason to be grat
ified. The great increase in American ships
has made it possible for her ports to secure
tonnage for the development of their for
eign trade opportunities; and under the wise
and equitable policy of Admiral Benson their
rights in this matter are recognized.
Store Cotton Carefully /
It will be worth many thousands of dol
lars to Georgia if farmers and others con
cerned will follow the seasonable advice is
sued by Commissioner Brown, of the State
Department of Agriculture, touching the all
too frequent practice of leaving baled cot
ton exposed to the weather. Says the Com
missioner in an official communication on
the subject:
“After a /armer has toilea and sweat
ed to produce cotton, it is the height of
folly to leave ft exposed. Every' time the
rain falls on it, the grade, of the cotton
depreciates and the value goes down.
We are earnestly urging our farmers,
first, to place their cotton in warehouses
everywhere, and preferably in bonded
warehouses; second, if warehouse stor
age is not available, to protect the -cot
ton on their premises.”
Os all farm products cotton figures most
extensively, perhaps, as collateral for credit,
and for that reason if no other should be
stored and handled with special care. Yet of
all crops it is most poorly conserved. When
it begins moving marl.etward in the autumn
thousands of bales are dumped helter-skel
ter along streets or near stations, without
regard to fire hazards, with the result that
a smoker’s mat h or an engine’s spark often
kindles distressful conflagrations. Losses on
this particular account aggregate scores of
millions of dollars a year. Add those caused
by deterioration in the vast quantity of cot
ton left exposed to wind and rain, and the
total becomes almost staggering.
Low prices do not in any wise lessen the
importance of Commissioner Brown’s good
counsel in this matter; rather, the present
marked condition makes it the more impera
tive that every possible penny be saved.
And quality, of course, determines in large
measure the returns from a store of cot
ton, be the prices low or high. It is greatly
to be hoped that agricultural and business
leaders throughout the South will urge more
careful storage of the crop.
France and Her Colonies
AS the French papers now contemplate
their nation’s colonial empire, reach
ing into all climes and embracing
all species of natural treasure, they wax
poetical with enthusiasm. the Paris
Excelsior: “When we speak of ‘cultivating
our garden’ let us bear in mind not only
France—‘the most beautiful realm after that
of Heaven’ —which extends from the Azure
to the Emerald coast and from the Pyrenees
to the Ardennes, but also that immense do
main that is lapped jy every sea. Its wealth
is inexhaustible and we are only beginning
to appreciate and exploit it.”
Wonderful, indeed, are the resources of
this colonial territory of more than three'
million square miles, sixteen times larger
than the French Homeland. Its components
in Africa alone, lying in the north, the west
and the equatorial regions of that versatile
continent whose richest history lies future
ward, would constitute an empire; but, in
addition, it comprises spacious realms in
Asia, in Australasia and Oceania and valuable,
though not ext isive, holdings on this side
side of the Atlantic. From these overseas do
minions France can gather not only food
supplies, such as rice, sugar, cocoa, coffee,
vegetable oils am. cattle, but also a variety
of woods and useful minerals In abundance.
Well may Frenchmen rejoice in these re
serves of national wealth; and great is their
opportunity to serve not only France, but
also civilization, in developing them with
skill and in using them justly.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
Long faces gather few friends.
Happy is the bride the diamond sun bursts
on. (
The average man has a mania for posing
as his own hero.
It is not good for a man tc live alone—
unless he wants tc save money.
Only a foolish woman considers the jeal
ousy of her husband a compliment.
ECZEMA" AND WORRY
By H. Addington Bruce
HE had been doctoring for eczema for
several months. His case was an ag
gravated one and most resistant to
the ordinary methods of treatment. Finally,
at. a skin specialist’s suggestion, he became a
patient in a general hospital.
There he was visited not only by the skin
specialist, but by a psychologist connected
with the hospital staff. The specialist ex
plained that for a time the psychologist
would assist in taking care of him.
The psychologist’s first move was to get
on a friendly footing with the unfortunate
eczema patient. Daily he< sat and chatted
with the latter for a few minutes, seemingly
with no other purpose than to make a so
cial call. '
Actually he was intent on creating in the
patient’s mind a belief that here was a man
who took a real interest in him.
And pretty soon the patient, naturally reti
cent, began to talk about himself as he prob
ably had never talked before.
He was tormented, it appeared, by family
worries. He was anxious about his finan
cial future. He carried, in fact, an overload
of real and Imaginary cares.. Concerning
these he spoke with unwonted freedom be
cause of his listener’s sympathetic attitude.
From his listener be received advice that
helped still more to the easing of his mind.
And, to his astonishment, as his worry abated
his eczema troubled him less and less, until
one day it- was entirely cleared away.
“You have been cured,” the psychologist
told him, “because you have learned to con
quer worry and to face life bravely. Your
eczema at bottom was nothing more tnan
an outward manifestation of the anxious
state of your mind.”
As eczema often is, incredible though such
a statement may seem. In the words of
Dr. James J. Walsh, the New York neurolo
gist and medical psychologist:
“Probably every skin specialist has noted
in a number of his cases that a first attack
of eczema came after a period of worry or
excitement, or sometimes followed directly
on a fright.
“When relief from the condition has been
brought about by treatment, relapses occur
during periods of business worry or family
anxiety or mental stresses of one kind or
another. Unless business worries can be re
moved or family anxieties allayed, the cure
of eczema becomes a difficult matter.
“Moreover, men or women who worrv
about their eczematous condition apparently
prolong it.”
This is something worth remembering if
you happen yourself to be a victim of ec
zema. Worry may be the sole cause of your
eczema, and in any event the less you worry
the speedier your cure will be.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated Newspa
pers. )
ELECTIONS AND* SCHOOL
DISTRICTS
By Dr. Frank Crane «
Some things which we accept as a matter
of course, simply because we are used to
them, or because they are done by officials
of a government too remote and complicated
for us to hope to change, are, when we stop
to think of them and hold them up in the
sunlight of common sense, utterly absurd.
Such, "or instance, as reading a bill three
times aloud in a legislature, or listening to
a long report from the treasurer in a meet
ing, when we each have a printed copy in
our hands.
But particularly the recent election sug
gests its joke. Have you noticed the little
voting shanties set out in the street?
And have you thought of all that compli
cated machinery of electoral districts, and
judges, and the big blanket ballots that no
body can possibly analyze and understand in
the few moments given him in the voting
stall ?
How simple and easy it would be to get
rid of all this rubbish and get the vote of
the whole people of the United States at
any time, is shown by a suggestion made by
Dr. B. F. Wooding, of Montclair, N. J.
Briefly, his ideas may be summed up as
follows:
(1) Permanently make the* voting district
identical with the school district.
(2) Make the school officials judges of
elections.
(3) Issue a voting license to every one
recognized by law as eligible.
(4) All voters’ names to appear on a bul
letin board conspicuously displayed perma
nently on the school house, and constantly
amended as’ voters remove from one district
to another.
(5) This will do away with the necessity
of days of registration.
(6) It will save a vast amount of time
and expense and useless red tape.
(7) It will furnish a means by which the
will of the people can be ascertained at any
time, on short notice, on any question, local
or national.
(8) It will keep representatives in con
stant touch with the electorate.
(9) Great/issues can be decided, unmixed
with personalities or irrelevant matters; as,
for instance, Prohibition or the League of
Nations. People can enforce their will when
the representatives fail.
(11) It would go far toward doing away
with the ridiculous party system, by which
the people are regularly confused and
(12) It would tie up the business of gov
ernment with the public school, and thus
promote the training of children in the art
of democracy, concerning which now they are
in ignorance before they graduate and in con
tempt after. 4
(13) Honest representatives could thus
quicßly find out what their constituents
want, and dishonest ones be exposed.
Elections are now complicated and dif
ficult, which plays into the hands of the cor
rupter element, and of party machines.
Whatever makes elections simple, easily
understood and easy to consummate, and
whatever brings the government into close
touch with the whole people, makes for the
health, progress and permanence of a democ
racy.
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Shoemaker’s Wife Goes Barefooted
The El Paso Herald says: “A Chinese laun
dry can’t be found in China, and according to
‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson, one can’t a drop of
Scotch whisky in Scotland. One of these days
we shan’t be able to get a rarebit in Wales.”
That brings to mind that there is hardly any
time of the year when one car buy Toombs
county hams in Toombs county nor peanut
butter in Toombs county, altaough both
products are raised here in large
Lyons Progress.
And it is also remindful that many Geor
gia farmers buy oats and corn with which to
feed their stock.
Information Wanted at Once!
The moonshiners seem to the hardest
’hit by the recent fall in prices of anybody.
Booze is reported selling in one of our neigh
boring counties at $2 per gallon and the mar
ket flooded. —Pickens County Progress.
How is it seeling in Pickens, brothers? —
Dawson County News.
We are acquainted with a few consumers
who are desirous of learning the address of
the fellow who is selling real mountain dew
at $2 a gallon.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Terrible Taxis
The Manchester Guardian’s special
correspondent at Paris finds the taxi
drivers of that city to be more terrible
than any German aircraft that ever
dropped bmbs, besides having worse
manners than in other large cities. Three
deaths a day has been their average toll
since October 1.
Many attempts have been made to
deal with him, and skilled traffic police
have been imported from London and
New York, only to cover themselves
with confusion even, if, as legend denies,
they always escape with their lives from
a fierce afternoon’s point duty at the
Place de I’Opera.
Costly Beetle
A gray-green beetle has much to do with
the present shortage of paper. The beetle
is the adult form of the aspen borer, a grub
which often destroys whole plantations of
the trees that are so essential to the pulp
industry.
The beetle gnaws a slot in the bark and
deposits one or two eggs therqjn. From
these eggs come the trouble making grubs
tha gnaw into the heart of the tree.
Lawyers Strike
All lawyers at Naples, Italy, have de
cided upon a forty-eight hour strike in
protest against what they call the
“small amount of deference” which the
judges show toward them. >
This will necessitate suspension of all
judicial business.
Postal Deficit
Operation of the United States postal serv
ice for the fiscal year 1920 resulted in a
deficit of $17,270,482 —the second largest in
the history of -the service—Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson shows in his annual report to
the president, in which expenditures of the
postoffice department are placed at $454,-
322,609 and revenues at $437,150,312. The
postmaster general charges congress with di
rect responsibility for the deficit, explaining
that the expenditures included approximately
$33,202,600 paid as a war bonus to postal
employes, and stating that but for this there
would have been a surplus of $18,427,917.
Mr. Burleson says he declined to approve
the bonus action of the legislative depart
ment, adding that he had offered suggestions
of anoher plan of compensating the em
ployes which would have served the purpose
without at the same time giving a blanket
increase in pay to “thousands who were al
ready amply compensated.”
Arguments have commenced in the United
States supreme court on the suit of Okla
homa and Texas, with the United States in
tervening, to determine the boundary line
between th‘e tw’o states along the Red river,
where valuable oil lands are involved.
Former Attorney General T. W. Gregory
was to make the main argument for Texas.
Exile Returns
After years of virtual exile, General Luis
Terrazas, former governor of Chihuahua, will
go back to Mexico to spend the rest of his
life. He is on his way to Chihuahua City
from os Angeles. His estate of nearly 5/
000,000 acres of land has been returned to
him. He is ninety-one years old.
Farm Embargo
An embargo for one year against the im
portation of wheat, wheat flour, barley, rye,
oats, flax, wool, hogs, cattle and sheep is
proposed in a bill introduced by Representa
tive Young, Republican, North Dakota. He
also introduced a bill establishing a perma
nent schedule of import duties upon these
items after the one-year embargo.
Mexico- Saves
The cost of the government of Mexico was
reduced by 60,00C,000 pesos during the first
six months of the provisional administration
of President Adolfo de la Huerta, according
to data furnished to representatives of the
American Chamber of Commerce at a recent
conference with the president.
Snubbing Wilhelm
The burgomeister of Doorn has set an ex
ample for the village by having as little as
possible to do with ex-Kaiser Wilhelm. Un
like Amerongen, where both the burgomeis
ter and town secretary were proud to be
guests at William’s table, the village authori
ties here have taken the attitude that it
would be better for all concerned if they
did not visit the House of Doorn.
The same can also be said now of the bur
gomeister of Wierengen and the one-time
Crown Prince Frederick. The former burgo
meister there, J. Pereboom, was an intimate
friend of Frederick, but his successor, Herr
Slot, Is said to consider the crown prince’s
presence there as somewhat of a nuisance.
REFLECTIONS OF A
BACHELOR GIRL
By Helen Rowland
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Inc.)
Christmas comes but once a year, and when
it comes, it brings—a house full of relatives,
fourteen calendars, two sets of nutpicks, four
dozen cheap gloves of assorted sizes, indiges
tion, a heartache, a backache, and that
‘‘never again” feeling!
The ideal husband may break all of the
Commandments, wear a red necktie, and
make only thirty dollars a week; but he
never insists on seeing you at breakfast,
never enters your boudoir without knocking,
never forgets your wedding anniversary, and
never kisses you as thouggh it were a “morn
ing chore.”
There are times when every married man
has been secretly tempted to pose as a bach
elor. But, DID you ever meet a bachelor
who yearned to pose as a married man?
Men don’t propose as carelessly and freely
as they used to—perhaps, because in the
brilliant man’s success—in some cases, his
wife’s character.
/ Character is the real foundation of every
brilliant man’s success—in some cases, his
cases, his wife’s character.
In the old-fashioned novel, a girl’s heart
fluttered between eloping with the fascinat
ing villain or marrying the plain but noble
hero; nowadays, it merely teeters between
marrying a fresh-air fiend with the “sleeping
porch” mania, or an exotic clubman, whose
idea of “getting next to nature” consists in
sitting under a potter palm and watching
the gold-fish.
A woman looks back/upon the men who
escaped her as wolves In sheep’s clothing;
but a man looks back on the girls who turn
ed him down as angels in disguise.
“Putting on style,” In these days, consists
merely In leaving something off.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1920.
IMPORTED DIVORCE
By Frederic J. Haskin
NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 11.—-It has re
cently been observed and remarked
upon that a number of women who
move in the most expensive society of the
country have been getting their divorces in
Paris, usually along with their frocks. Thus
he law-makers of the fashion code have, by
their own example, laid down a new decree
for high society.
Os recent years there is as much danger
of bad form in connection with a divorce
as with any other social function. Just as
it is not in accordance with the best thought
on etiquette to be married in a lavender
waistcoat, or to appear at your funeral in
a polkadot necktie, so it is incorrect to be
divorced in your home town. The law 'of
the elite goes further to prescribe the exact
place where a divorce is to be most agree
ably and fashionably obtained, and, like all
questions of style, the social divorce center
shifts with the seasons.
South Dakota, unconsciously instituted
the divorce pilgrimage as a national cus
tom, when it made six months a sufficient
time to establish residence in the state.
This was done to encourage farmers, busi-'
ness men and home-makers to come in to
develop the state. But it did not take the
unhappily married of other states long to
see the use to which such a law might be
put. In the modest town of Sioux Falls a
divorce colony rose, prospered, and then fell
heavily.
For a New York lawyer was attracted to
the beauties of the liberal Nevada divorce
and residence law, and by advertising them,
and himself, he started w r hat is now a well
worn trail from New York to Reno. Since
then Reno has been a resort of the fashion
able world when the marriage bond bored
or annoyed it. Yet Nevada claims that Reno
has been misjudged, in that it is regarded
nationally as a wild and reckless town.
Reno Not for Rich Only
As a matter of fact, there are all sorts
of people among the prospective divorce
seekers of Reno. There are a few gay and
dashing types, and many more quietly ex
clusive types, and there are a great many
ordinary citizens from Pittsburg, Sacra
mento, New York and other places, who have
journeyed to Nevada to get a release from
troubles which their respective states re
fused to recognize as grounds.
Reno is indisputably the center of the di
vorce Industry in this pountry, with only
Newport as a possible rival for fashionable
divorces. As a result, Reno is somewhat dif
ferent from any other city in the United
States. It is a prosperous and attractive lit
tle community, with luxurious shops, thea
ters, hotels and cases, all of a scale of
sumptuousness ordinarily boasted only by
large cities.
Reno lawyers may well be shivering in
their boots over the tendency of fashion to
turn to Paris for its divorces. Once before,
when Nevada tried for a year the experiment
of changing its residence requirements from
six months to one year, there was an alarm
ing decrease in the contents of its coffers.
Paris, backed by fashionable approval, may
attract only a ‘small fraction of Nevada's
clients. But that shifting hundred or so of
population is important to the lawyers, fur
riers, caterers, jewelers and hotel men of the
town. /
Paris as a divorce colony is a logical after
math of war conditions. Passports have
been granted grudgingly for several years,
and now the rush for Paris is on. There is
no longer any difficulty in getting a pass
port from the government for France, pro
vided one agrees to pay $lO for it. And
there is no difficulty in obtaining a passage
on a steamer, provided you make up your
mind a year or two in advance of the day
you wish to sail.
Paris offers attractions to the fastidious
divorce-sepker that Reno, with all its efforts
to make visitors comfortable, can scarcely
rival. In the first place, Paris is indisputa
bly a correct place in which to be seen by
one’s friends. And, of course, Paris offers
a fascinating collection of amusements.
With races, cabarets, theaters, dressmakers
and milliners at hand, a sad or impatient
candidate for divorce has plenty of diver
sion between the ordeals of appearing in
court.
Paris More Exclusive
Another advantage of Paris from the so
ciety point of view is that it promises to be
more exclusive as a divorce colony. Many
a person of moderate means goes to Reno
to gain release from an intolerable mar
riage. In Reno he or she finds employment
and settles down to establish resisdence and
get a decree. A Paris divorce, however, nec
essarily costs a good deal more. To get your
divorce in Paris is generally a badge of af
fluence.
The French divorce law is lenient, and
usually swift. The applicant appears at the
court to file a petition and a hearing is in
time set. The judge solemnly urgek that
the parties reconsider before taking the fatal
step, and then, having done his duty, he
proceeds to hear the grievances and any
protests from the other side, if present.
Kinds of Cruelty
Incompatibility, which for a time was one
the stated grounds on which a divorce
could be obtained by French law, is no
longer recognized as adequate grounds.
Cruelty, however, is just cause for divorce,
and no judge has ever been wise enough to
set down a rule showing exactly where in
difference, lack of consideration and un
kindness shade off into cruelty. In the cir
cumstances, the possibilities of the cruelty
phrase of the law are numerous. A young
woman has been known to offer as an ex
ample of cruel treatment the fact that her
husband thought he played the piccolo beau
tifully, whereas his squeaky discords drove
her wild. At least one harassed wife, too,
has used as evidence of cruelty that the
brand of smoking tobacco used by her hus
band made her sick, though we believe this
has usually been rejected as an insufficient
cause. But, on the whole, a skillful lawyer
can do wonders with such disputable points
of conduct.
Desertion is another popular gateway to
freedom. As divorces are seldom contested
in formal society, the decree can usually be
obtained on this ground, if on no other.
There is one drawback to France as a di
vorce hunting ground, and that is that after
a second divorce has been granted, the court
decrees that the applicant may not remarry.
Hence France will not do for those addicted
to frequent divorce.
On the whole, the fashionable migration
to Paris, in order to settle household affairs
affects this country, outside of Reno, very
little. Later, if there is any dispute over
the legality of a French decree, as in case
of remarriage or a will, there may be some
Interesting decisions by courts.
We have fifty varieties of divorce law in
as many states, territories and the District
of Columbia. What one state will unhesi
tatingly pronounce a legal divorce, may by
another court a few miles away, over a
state line, be pronounced invalid. Hence,
an important divorce is perhaps as good a
risk as a domestic one.
Commission Government for Brunswick
Brunswick as a municipality will be ob
served with uausual interest now. The new
commission-manager form of city govern
ment has been adopted in that city and will
be (given a fair try-out.—Savannah Morning
News.
Brunswick is a good town and it is to be
hoped that the new plan will prove satis
factory. „
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Moving Picture
Problem
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.
z , -(-EFFICIENCY, what crimes are com-
H mitted in thy name!” we might well
cry out, as Madam Rolland said of
liberty as she was being taken to the scaffold
to die in its name.
For these be the days when we have made
t little tin god of system, and when we con
sider it a pious act to sacrifice every com
fort, and convenience, and impulse on the
iltar of routine, which false prophets have
assured us is the one and only way by which
we may achieve efficiency.
This process of turning human beings into
automatic self-starting and stelf-stopping
machines, has been a vogue among men for
several years—where, by the way, it hasn’t
worked out according to schedule. But it is
one of the theories that sound so plausible
that anyone will give it the trial once, any
how.
And now, a strenuous effort is being made
to introduce it into the home. If you pick
up any woman’s magazine, you will find a
carefully worked-out budget, compiled by old
maids, and old bachelors, and wealthy stat
isticians, who have never personally grap
pled with the problem of feeding and cloth
ing six or seven children cn a shoestring In
come, telling you just exactly how every
penny should be spent.
They know precisely how many pairs of
shoes Johnnie is entitled to wear out, and
how often the baby has a right to be sick,
and all (the other financial details that bal
ance so nicely on an imaginary ledger, and
that come to such grief on the real books
of daily life.
And when you have found out just exactly
how to spread your husband’s pay envelope
so that everything from the corner grocery
to the moving pictures gets its fair pro rata,
you may cast your eye on the schedule by
which the housewife should pattern her day
if she wishes to be really efficient. It reads
something like this:
Arise six-thirty. Say prayers 6:35. Bathe
6:35 to 6:40. Dress 6:40 to 7,7 to 7:30 pre
pare breakfast. 7:30 to 7:45 eat breakfast.
7:45 to 7:59 get children ready for echopl.
7.59 to 8.01 kiss husband and children a
cheery good-bye as they start to work and
school. 8:01 to 9 clean up house. 9 to
12 sew. 12 to 12:30 prepare lunch. 12:30
to 1 serve lunch. 1 to 1:30 clean up after
lunch. 1.30 to 2 dress self and baby. 2
to 3 take baby for airing and do marketing.
3 to 4 visit friends. 4to 5 sew. sto 6 pre
nare dinner. 6 to 6:30 converse with chil-'
dren. 6:30 to 7 serve dinner. 7 to 7:30
clean up dishes and kitchen. 7:30 to 10 en
tertain husband. 10 to 6:30 sleep.
Repeat schedule next day, and every day
as long as you live, or until they put you
in an insane asylum where you suffer from'
the hallucination that you are chasing an
alarm clock and can never keep up with
it.
Now, I contend that the emicable theorists
who have chopped a woman’s day into this
sort of mincemeat fragemnts, each minute of
which has its appointed task, know nothing
about either women or housekee. ing. In the
first place, housekeeping is one of the oc
cupations that cannot be run upon any cast
iron schedule,' because the very essence of it
is its uncertainty. Sickness, birth, death, all
the whole drama of life are pitted against
any routine in it.
You can’t go on with yor little cdt-and
dried program when a new life is coming
across the threshold, or your heart’s beloved
is being borne* out of the door, or all the
joy bells are ringing for you, or black de
spair has paralyzed you with horror.
And, for another thing, women are not
creatures sos routine. They are simply not
built that Way. They are temperamental.
They have to put their heart in their work
to do good work, and they can only do this
upon impulse.
You might as well expect a poet to com
pose a matchless sonnet because it is nine
o’clock and the time has come for him to
write a sonnet, as for a woman to be able
to break her record at darning, or cake-mak
ing, just because she has reached the darn
ing or cake-making minute on her schedule.
Every woman will tell you that if she waits
until she feels in the mood for sewing, or
cooking, or wakes up some'morning with her
hands itching for the dust-pan and the broom,
she can do more work in an hour than she
can in a whole day if she forces herself
at the task when she has an inward shrink
ing from it.
Os course in every business there has to
be some sort of orderl. routine. This is true
also of housekeeping, where meals must be
served on time, and beds made, and floors
swept, but it is one of the consolations of
house work that it gives a woman more lee
way than any other occupation.
This is well, because it is the most monot
onous work in the world. It is the labor with
|he fewest thrills to it. Other occupations
bring to the worker at least companionship
with others. Housework is mostly solitary,
and because a woman does walk the tread
mill all alone, is the more reason, why she
should not let herself be made the slave of
system.
If she knows days, and months, and years
before hand just exactly what she is going
to do every minute of the time, she will
find her task unendurable. Who could bear
to know that at nine o’clock on every Wed
nesday, as long as they live, they will be
washing dishes? They will tell you in New
England that it is the methodical country
housewives who have washed on Mondays,
ironed on Tuesdays, cleaned up on Fridays,
baked on Saturdays, and rocked in the same
place in their chairs until they have worn
grooves in the floor, who fill the asylums.
None of us want to do the same things at
the same time every day. We even feel like
biting the people we have to kiss every day,
so I urge housewives to chuck the system
theory out of their windows. Get as much
variety into your work as you can by doing
it at different times and in different ways.
Go on cooking orgies, and cleaning bats, and
have resting spells, and do them all when
you feel an inward urge that way.
The real test of efficiency is getting things
done. It doesn’t matter how, or when, yov
do a thing, so you do it properly.
(Dorothy Dix articles will appear In this
paper regularly every Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES *
“This line in your hand,” said the girl who
had studied palmistry, "indicates that you
have a brilliant future before you.”
“Is that so?” queried the dense young man.
“Yes,” continued the maid, “but this line
indicates that you are too slow ever to over
take it.”
Pretty litle Joan was a town bred little
girl, and the holiday she had been looking
forward to with very great glee arrived
when she was allowed to go down to spend
several weeks on her aunt’s farm.
One morning, while, walking in the or
chard. she saw a peacock for the first time,
with its beautiful feather spread out to its
full extent. * ' Jl
Running to her aunt, the little maid cried:
“Oh, auntie, come and see! There’s an
-Old chicken in bloom!”