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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURANL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mai) Matter of the Second Class. ? . i Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.5(1 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W -.1 Vo. 3 Mob. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday..... 20c SJc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 18c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .9(1 J. 75 3.25 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. 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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- ______ 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!”