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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta. Ga.
HelfiS ave These Children
THE people of Georgia have been asked
to do their part, in common with all
Americans, in raising a fund to save
from starvation three and one-half million
babies and children of Poland and other
, stricken countries in Central Europe.
Ijtt The appeal is one that cannot be disre-
To begin with, it comes from
sources of unquestionable authority. We are
told by the Rea Cross, by the Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee and by every other
organization with representatives at the
of suffering, that the need is impera-
Ive. There was a fund to meet the need. By
January it will be exhausted. No food can
> had from the soil itself until the next
harvest. Outside aid must be rendered or
he children will be doomed.
To ask why America must come to the res
cue is to beg the question. They have cried
;o us for help because they believed in us.
knd no American who for one moment con
siders the little lives at stake, will turn a
deaf ear to their call.
Georgians, leas, of all, will refuse to an
swer. The nation is organized for the cam
paign of giving, under the lead|rship of Her
bert Hoover. The State chairman is E. Mar
vin Underwood, distinguished Atlanta at
torney and former general counsel for the
federal railroad administration. With him
are associated on the executive committee
a number of Georgia’s most public spirited
men and women, representing such organi
zations as the Red Cross, the Young Men’s
Christian Association, the Young Women’s
Christian Association, the Jewish Joint Dis
tribution Committee, the Knights of Colum
bus and the Council of the Churches of
Christ in America.
The committee lays before the State a sit
uation so simple in its essentials, so heart
touching in its plain facts, that prompt sub
scriptions will surely follow by the thou
sands. Children are suffering. Many of
them are babes in arms. Others, but little
older, have felt the ’-unger pinch so sharply
that their faces are lined and gaunt like’
those of prisoners tortured !:• the inquisi
tion. We can prevent them from further suf
fering and save them from d. ing, if every
one w.ill give. Were these little folk, -with
their rags and skeleton figures and haggard
eyes, to stumble through the streets of our
Z»wn cities, every hand would be lifted to
* help them and every pocketbook would be
emptied before they would be suffered to
perish. That they happen to be a few
thousand miles away does not mitigate the
tragedy. We must give, and give before it
is too late.
The South and the Tariff
VITAL In Its bearing on the welfare of
the south and enlisting the Interest
of every class of business and trade;
is the Southern Tariff Congress, which has
been called to meet in Atlanta January 27,
28 and 29.
All organized industries, chambers of
commerce, farm organizations, governors,
commissioners of agriculture, women’s clubs
and political bodies have been invited to send
twenty-five or more delegates to the con
gress. A general invitation to attend has
been extended to members of the Southern
Tariff association and to all citizens who are
concerned in and prosperity of
the south. Thus it would appear that the
• meeting will be representative of every in
k terest and will assemble a most distinguished
I company of men and women.
I The Congress, absolutely ncn-partisan in
character, meets for the announced purpose
of discussing a tariff as it applies to south
ern production and Southern industries.
There is no doubt that the tariff will be
one of the most important matters to oc
cupy the attention of the national congress,
i and it is proper that the south receive con
sideration as her products deserve. To rec
ommend to the United States Tariff Commis
sion and to congress schedules, on southern
products that will equalize the cost of pro
duction in this country with that of foreign
countries, and to distribute fairly the burdens
and benefits among all industries, all classes
and all sections, is the goal to which the
Southern Tariff Congress will bend its ut
most efforts.
“The movement that will reach a head in
Atlanta in January is probably the first
which appears to have the unanimous ap
proval of all political, agricultural, indus-
I trial and commercial interests. It affords
an exceptional opportunity to the south to
present its case to congress, insofar as the
tariff is concerned, with a united front and
an unmistakable purpose.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
1 The map who lives to no purpose lives to
a bad purpose.
Any man possess the ability to be as big a
fool as he pleases. x
The scorn of egotism is as harmless as the
slurs of ignorance.
A man never realizes how unpopular he is
•until he begins to acquire fame.
Fortune may knock once at every man’s
door, but misfortune crawls in at the window.
If a womaiKhas more sense than her hus
band she is foolish if she evey lets him dis
cover the fact.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL*
Electrified Railroads
THE announcement that the Chilean
Government’s new loan of seven and
three-quarter million pounds in gold
will provide for the electrification of the
State railways draws attention to a realm of
scientific and industrial enterprise in which
the people of the United States are particu
larly interested.
It was more than two decades ago that the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad tunnel trains
were electrified. Some ten years later, in
1906, electric motive power was applied to
the New York Central terminal, and also to
the West Jersey and Seashore. In 1910 the
Pennsylvania's New York terminal under
went the same improvement, as did also the
Detroit river tunnel. And in the years im
mediately preceding and following, the news
papers would report from time to time the
electrification of sundry short lines of rail
roads.
It was in 1915, however, on the Three
Forks-Deer Lodge division of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul system, that the dis
placement of steam by electric locomotives
was inaugurated on an extensive scale. That
particular divis’oi is one hundred and fif
teen miles in length and crosses the main
Continental Divide, striking right through
the rugged heart of the mountains and en
countering many long gradet and short
radius curves. It was selected as the sys
tem’s severest test of the new engines’ power
and dependability.
With what success the venture was re
warded may be inferred from the fact that
today the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
is electrically operated along six hundred*
and forty-nine miles of its main line, the
change having recen’ly been completed to
its Pacific coast terminals at Seattle. Con
cerning the character of the service, an of
ficial of the road has said: “Our electrifi
cation has been tested by the worst winter
in the memory of modern railroaders. There
were times when every steam locomotive in
the Rocky Mountain district was frozen, but
the electric locomotive went right along.
Electrification has in every way exceeded our
hopes, not only as respects tonnage handled
and mileage made, but also in regularity of
operation.”
Engineers of the highest ability and re
pute say that the substitution of electricity
for steam makes possible a gain of fully fif
ty per cent in the available capacity of
tracks and other facilities; and they esti
mate that by the same means at least one
hundred million tons of coal could be saved
annually. It has been pointed out in this
conn ction that on a certain Southern coal
road, having long hauls to reach the con
sumer, .approximately twenty-five per cent of
the coal output “is used on the locomotives
which haul the coV. to market and return the
‘empties.’ ”
Tfiat electrification of America’s rail
roads will come suddenly is almost incon
ceivable, so prodigious would be the capital
outlay and so manifold are the problems
which the individual lines and systems pre
sent. It appears altogether likely, however,
that in time electricity will largely supplant
steam in this sphere of transportation. The
action of the Chilean Government is in line
with that of nearly all nations which re
cently have given the matter attention. In
a country so rich in water power resources
as the United States, the change seems, vir
tually foregone.
The Inventor of the Thimble
THE inventor of most great blessings to
mankind are men whose names have
lived in memory, whose fame has
gone down to posterity along with the prod
ucts of their brains. There is, however, one
simple little household article, a veritable
godsend in its small way, whose creator
would seem to deserve more glory than has
actually been his lot.
We speak of the thimble. A small thing,
the thimble, yet what a boon it has been to
the women of the world! Who can say how
many rosy fingers it has saved from muti
lation, how many pretty eyes from tears,
how many soft hearts from suffering? It
has been a dear companion alike to the gen
tlewoman with her leisurely embroidery
and to her less fortunate sisters who must
patch and darn the day long, to say noth
ing of the seamstresses whose very bread
and butter would have been doubly hard of
earning had it not been for the little alumi
num cup. In fact, the thimble might lay
just claim to the title of the greatest pro
tector of the fair sex history has ever known.
One might suppose that the thimble has
always been there —ready whenever the
needlewoman took up her task. Yet .only
two hundred years ago it was unknown—
before that, sewing was surely one of the
most troublous of the crafts. The man who
gave the thimble to humanity was one John
Lofting, of London, England, a metal worker
by trade.
Whether Lofting was, some unfortunate
bachelor doomed to replace his own buttons,
of whether he was the spouse of some indus
trious housewife whose labors he yearned to
lighten, history does not inform us. At any
rate, it was he who conceived the idea of
a metal cap to be placed on the thumb, so as
to aid the sewer in pushing the needle
through the cloth. He called it the "thumb
bell.” Time saw the thumb bell slip from the
thumb to the finger and the name softened
to the thimble of today. But time should
never obliterate the name of John Lofting,
the benefactor of millions of women.
The Pluck of Caruso
THE breaking of a tiny blood vessel in a
man’s throat is $ little thing in itself—
in general, physicians say, a mere in
disposition that causes nothing worse than
nose bleed. But when it happens to Enrico
Caruso the whole world notes it with deep
concern.
No surer proof of the remendous popu
larity- of the Metropolitan’s golden tenor
could be cited than the anxiety with which
the public read of his recent misfortune.
There is none.whose hold is stronger on peo
ple than is his. Everyone rejoices that the
mishap was not even serious enough to pre- 1
vent his appearance in opera a few nights
after it occurred.
Caruso’s popularity is not dur to his voice
alone, though the magic of that voice—like
no other ever heard from human throat—is
the principal reason for the high esteem,
amounting at times to adoration, with
which the music lovers of two continents re
gard him.
Caruso, the man, has a like prestige with
Caruso the singer. His gay cameraderie, his
readiness to help in any good cause, his keen
zest in all that is going forward —these at
tributes have won him liking wherever he
has gone. Most of all, he has endeared him
self to his public because, fai frfim being
‘enweramental, he has the reputation for al
ways doing his best.
Atlanta knows this as well as any city.
There has never teen an occasion, among all
the score of times when ae has sung here,
that he did not, to use an inelegant but ex
pressive term, “give them all he had.” Even
when the wall of the blood vessel broke, he
kept singing until the act was over and vol
unteered, if his audience wished it, to finish
the opera. That was typical of Caruso. And
the mighty roar of refusal from the audience
to permit him to continue, is typical of Ca
ruso’s place in the hearts of the American
people.
BOIL THE GERMS OUT
By H. Addington Bruce
IF you want to prevent colds from running
through your entire family, if you want
to help keep influenza, pneumonia, and
other respiratory diseases from becoming
epidemic, see to it that lour table dishes
after every meal are washed not merely in
lukewarm water, but in water that is at a
boil. Medical authorities are beginning to
emphasize this as one of the most essential,
though one of the most commonly ignored,
measures for the prevention of winter
plagues.
I wish, indeed, that a certain article in a
recent issue of the New York Medical Record
could be placed in the hands of every man
and woman. It is *an article by Dr. Charles
Lynch, a colonel in the medical corps of the
United States army, and it details findings of
sundry influenza rearches in military camps.
Dr. Lynch frankly gives it as his opinion
that the non-sterilization of eating utensils
used by victims of colds, influenza, etc., and
afterward used by other people, is perhaps the
most potent of all causes of spreading saliva
borne infection. He bases this belief on a
number of remarkable observations, as the
following:
“When the influenza epidemic struck us at
Newport News we had two groups of soldiers,
one of wihch used mess kits which were wash
ed in tepid water. The other group use table
ware or washed their mess kits in boiling wa
ter.
“Our consolidated tabulation shows the lat
ter —the table ware group, including the in
dividual method, but with boiling water —had
a strength of 9,778, with 412 cases of in
fluenza. The former —the individual mess
kits in tepid water—had a strength of 12,-
727, with 2,543 cases.”
Also, detailing Influenza conditions at an
ordance depot: . •
“Besides the soldiers present many civil
ians were employed there. They and the
small ordance organization constituted 1,150
persons, and messed from table ware. Their
rate of influenza f an eighteen-day period
was 82 per 1,000, with an average daily in
cidence of 4.5 per 1,000.
“The two fire and guard organizations,
whose strength was 445, ate from mess kits
washed by the old-line method. In eighteen
days they had 171 cases.
“Yet in every respect the first and guard
organizations were better off from the sani
tary standpoint than the greatly overcrowded
civilian group, save xmly fn their method of
washing their eating utensils.”
Further than this, Dr. Lynch describes ex
periments leaving little doubt as to the part
played by ordinary washing methods in trans
mitting infection. Boil, boil, boil is the les
son these experiments stress.
And while Dr. Lynch’s warning message is
addressed primarily to military authorities,
it clearly is of equal import to civilians. In
the home, the club, the hotel, the restaurant,
personal safety against winter diseases would
indeed seem to depend more than most of us
suspect on sterilization of the dishes out of
which we eat our food, the knives, the forks,
and the spoons with which we eat it.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers)
LAFAYETTE, WE ARE, STILL
HERE
By Dr. Frank Crane
Any one who judges America by its politi
cal acts is mistaken.
To understan America one must realize
that it is a vast beehive of people who are at
tending to their own business. They want as
little government as possible and what they
do they do for themselves and do not expect
officials to do for them.
It must not, therefore, be understood that
the real America is holding aloof from Eu
rope and* its dist.ess, as our political acts
might indicate.
Especially is this true in the case of our
relations with France. America and France
have always been sweethearts.
France was the nation most deeply injured
by the iron heel of German militarism. It
will take at least ten years to repair the
physical damage done by the ‘errific Prus
sian onslaught.
Seven per cent of the total area of France
has been desolated. The report of the Ameri
can committee for devastated France says:
“In this territory most of the are
still desert wastes full of shell-holes, the
farm houses are ruined, the prosperous in
dustrial centers and villages completely de
stroyed. More than 600,000 wrecked houses
were counted in this region. Furthermore,
of the 1,500,000 who died in the
war 600,000 were men of ‘he devastated dis
tricts.”
The committee above mentioned is now at
work in a campaign to raise $1,250,000 in
the United States to assist beloved France
to recover from her terrbile wounds. This
sum is needed in the vast ’.ork of recon
struction, such as supplying hospitals, work
rooms, looms, and sewing machines; supplies
of live stock, tools, seeds, building materials,
clothing, etc.; loans of money to the farmers
and merchants to help them to their feet;
schools of manual training and domestic
science; transportation; rebuilding of homes,
schools, and churches; food and care for the
children.
One of the most affecting problems is that
of the children. The four years of terrible
privation have done them infinite harm.
The agents of the American committee are
at work especially on the problems of the
Aisne and are doing everything humanly pos
sible to restore this region which has been
seared and scarred by war.
This committee asks and ought to receive
the help of evex American whose prosperity
has not hardened his heart.
You can send in your contributions, no mat
how small, to Joseph R. Swan, treasurer, 140
Broadway, New York City.
Said the mayor of Anizy;
“A star of the American Flag became de
tached and is fixed above the Aisne. By its
light we live.”
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)
A LULLABY
The moon, with fingers dipt in light,
Spreads o’er the earth a glow;
The fleecy clouds caress the night,
While over all the flow
Os gentle wind that softly sing
A tender lullaby
To one who came—all pdace to bring—
From out the quiet sky:
"O little One, who slumbers deep,
We pray that Thou shalt lull to rest
All save the good, that men may keep
This Vision of the Blest!”
—LOUISE BARILI, ‘1920.
TO ELIZABETH
I do not know from whence you came, baby
girl, Elizabeth girl,
Mayhap your be of downy clouds was
floating by in silken crowds,
While the winds of March on caprice intent
dropped you down through an azure rent.
It must have been that sunbeams strayed all
around and over your face, and loved you,
and stayed.
And when you smiled and opened your eyes,
there was mirrored in their depths the
azure skies.
r—ALIDE NEELY.
CLUBS FOR THE LONELY
By Frederic J. Haskin
NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 16. —New York
has a new and novel club which is at
tracting v- ; dcspread attention through
out the country. It is called the R. A. D.
club, which means simply the Registered Ac
quaintance Dance club.
Ostensibly, the only object o. the club is to
give dances, but really its big purpose is to
combat loneliness —supposed to be the special
curse of New 7ork—by promoting sociabil
ity on a large scale. Every week or so, the
R. A. D. club gives a larg. dance, usually in
the ballroom of one of the big hotels, where,
discarding the formality of an introduction,
all the members proceed to get acquainted
and exchange dances with each other, secure
in the knowledge that the strangers they are
dancing with are quite respectable.
For the club guarantees that. Anybody in
New York' can apply for membership in the
club, but not everybody is eligible. It all de
pends upon how satisfactorily he or she fills
out the pertient (some say impertinent) lit
tle blank attached to the membership card,
which requires a great deal of information.
In addition to name, age, and address the
club registrar must know the name of the
applicant’s home town, if he is not a New
Yorker; when he left it, and the length of
time he has been ir. New York; whether he is
single, married, or widowed; his occupation,
present employer and employers within the
last four years, and the names cf the schools
and colleges he has attended —in fact, all the
details which any American mother would be
glad to know about her children’s acquain
ances, but seldom does.
At the end of the blank, .moreover, Is a
space for the names of two references, called
character references, with the suggestion that
the names bu_ -ess men, physicians or
other professional men, school or college of
ficials or clergymen would be preferred. The
blanks-are examined and filed in the club
headquarters, and the references investigated.
The Social Procedure
Having satisfied the club authorities in
this respect, any member is eligible to meet
any other member “Your membership is
your introd: iti n” is the club s.ogan. If an
R. A. D. youth sees an unknown R. A. D. flap
per with whom he would like to dance, he
does not wait to be introduced, but goes and
asks her. Usually, he says something like
this:
***How do you do? My name is Smith. You
look as if you danced awfully well. Will you
let me have one?”
To which the R. A. D. flapper replies in this
vein: “So glad to meet you, Mr. Smith. My
name is Jones, Yes, I can let you have the
ninth.”
“The R. A. S. club wishes to emphasize
that there j no ‘jinx’ in its plan,” said the
secretary of ‘he club in explaining the idea.
“Members are not expected to contribute time
or money to any uplift or welfare schemes,
and they will not be made the subjects of
any uplift or welfare work themselves. It
is a dancing club, and the members join to
dance with each other, and not to read
Browning, listen to lecture; on Yogiism or the
fall of the Roman Empire, or join in fiery
debates on the social significance of modern
art. Nobod. is putting up the money—the
club is entirely self-supporting and has been
from its start. The initiation fee is a dollar
and the dances are a dollar a week, if paid
for monthly, although tickets for single
dances may be obtained if arranged for in
advance. Guest tickets are issued only to
prospective members. There are dancing in
structors on the floor, for whose service an
extra charge is made.
"6hr present membership consists chiefly
of college men and girls, and of the proses
sional business and student class. There are
doctors, teachers, artists, writers, men who
are in banks —a bank president or two —and
most of these young people, apparently in
their late twenties.”
When asked about the club’s origin, the
secretary explafhed the idea had occurred to
a few officials in the New York community
service, after a particularly violent attack of
some prominent clergyman on the city’s
dance halls.
"But I believe in dance halls,” declared a
woman official connected with the service,
adding an authoritative voice to the discus
sion. “Why shouldn’t there be dance halls? I
know from experience in my social service
work that the public dance hall is the only
means by which many young men and women
can make acquaintances in New York City. A
normal social life is one of the hardest things
to procure in New York. Os course, such
halls can be abused, but with proper super
vision I should think —”
“Yes, so should I,” declared another offi
cial, “and why not start one with proper su
pervision?”
Out of this discussion grew the idea of the
R. A. D. club, which is the most notable and
progressive of all the various organizations
that have been designed to prevent loneli
ness, since the war. The war was the great
awakener to the community’s responsibility
in this respect. With all the society flappers
rushing around and dancing with strange sol
diers and sailors, and with their mothers
chaperoning informal entertainments for war
workers, and with people inviting both
strange war. 'ors and war workers to their
houses for week-ends and Sunday dinners,
formal customs were bound to suffer, and
they have bcm suffering ever since. In the
middle west, especially, the custom of invit
ing lonely strangers to dinners and
parties still slot rishes to an amazing degree
There* is a married couple in Akron, Ohio,
for instance, who have recently received, a
great deal of publicity because they have inau
gurated a public at-home Wednesday evening.
Sometimes they entertain as many as forty
five persons, mostly strangers to them, in
their attractive suburban home. Autos meet
the guests at the station and carry them to
a wide porch hung with Japanese lanterns,
where they are usually greeted by the small
daughter of the household, and led upstairs
to take off their things.
The whole atmosphere is delightfully in
formal and homelike. The hostess does not
in the least mind having a dozen or more
strange women and flappers pile their hats
and coats on her bed, and she never com
plains when some bashful youth scratches
her favorite Victrola record. The only at
tempt to keep track of people at all is by
tagging each with- a card bearing his name,
so, as to eliminate the nuisance of extensive
introductions.
A Novel Hostess
Sometimes plays are read by guests who
happen to be elocutionists. Sometimes the
evening turns into a musical one with piano
and violin solos, and at other times it is
purely frivolous with sofa pillow fights, im
promptu impersonations and much dancing
to a pianola and Victrola. Mrs. Russell L.
Brooker, who is the heroine <. this unique
entertainment for the lonely, never tries to
dominate the party herself, but allows the
young people to choose their own diversions.
Much of the time. Indeed, she is in the kitch
en preparing lunch which is one of the crown
ing features of the evening.
Back to “Normal”
Comparatively speaking, very few of us
have done any real hard work in the last
two years. But things are getting back to
normal, and with normal times all of us
must do a normal amount of work. God in
tended it that way, so buckle up and get
ready.—Conyers Times.
Nobody who refuses to work has a right to
eat. There will be plenty of opportunities
for honest exercise next year.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1920*
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Funeral Ship
The army transport jyheafon, which
arrived at New York last week from
werp and Bordeaux, brought the bodies of
2,479 American soldiers. It was the larg
est number of dead to be returned on one
ship.
As the transport moved up the harbor,
her flag at half mast, her decks were de
serted except for her crew, but passing
boats recognized her as a funeral ship and
dipped their colors. As each of the cof
fins was placed on the pier in Hoboken an
American flag was laid upon it. A mili
tary guard was placed to stand watch un
til all the bodies are shipped to their last
resting places.
Sell Children
Victims of the famine in China have been
selling their children. A report just re
ceived states that in some famine districts
fairs have been held at which the exhibits
were children, the boys selling for $2 each
and girls fairly mature and pretty bringing
a higher-price.
In large areas 95 per cent of the popula
tion is declared to be suffering, 5 ger cent
being the highest estimate of the people
able to sustain themselves. According to
the report, “the only practicable way of sav
ing the majority is the opening of food
kitchens all over the stricken regions. That
will need a huge organization.”
.Army Figures
Statistics compiled in the war depart
ment show the proposed army of 280,
000 authorized by congress is smaller
than the present armies of Great Brit
ain, France, Italy, Japan or Russia.
The British army this year numbers
310,500; France, 794,000; Italy, 300,-
000. The Russian army is estimated at
428,00, but this figure is only a guess.
Under the Versailles treaty the stand
ing army of Germany will be limited to
150,000.
Idle Britons
More than 194,000 persons are now un
employed in Great Britain, according to the
London Daily Herald, which says the total
has been reached by careful and conserva
tive estimates, based on official informa
tion.
In this calculation no count is made of
persons whose work has been curtailed so
that it engages them less than a full week.
Coal at SIBO a Ton
Coal was sold in Vienna by the pound
at the rate of SIBO a ton when the tem
perature suddenly dropped to below
freezing. Venders with a poor quality
of the fuel drove up to the curbs of the
popuar streets and disposed of their coal.
In Sea Thirty Months
After being in the sea for two and a half
years, boxes from the steamer War Knight,
sunk ’ during the war, have been washed
ashore in good condition at Freshwater bay.
Isle of Wight.
Election Probe
The federal district attorney for Florida
has been instructed by the department of
justice to investigate election riots between
negroes and whites at Oconee, Fla., last
month to determine whether any federal
statutes have been violated.
Wilson Buys Home
The purchase for President w;ison of
the former home, in Washington, of
Henry P. Fairbanks, 2340 S street,
northwest, is announced by R. D. Boll
ing, the president’s brother-in-law. The
home will be the permanent residence
of the president after his retirement
from office March 4. Mr. Bollin said
the property would pass into possession
of its new owner February 15 or before
New Canal
lavement by the federal government of
the Calcasieu river to ‘provide a twelve-foot
channnel between the city of Lake Charles
La., and the Gulf of Mexico, is recommended
m a report filed with congress by the army
engineering corps. Construction at Lake
of a turnin S basin 1,000 feet long
and 400 feet wide also is recommended.
Washington Relics
A miniature portrait of George Washing
ton painted at the request of Martha Wash
ington by Charles Wilson Peale, has been
purchased at auction here by the Mount Ver
non association for $9,600. The miniature
one of a number of Washington relics from
estate of Dr. David Stuart, a kinsman of
Washington, is a portrait on ivory in a gold
frame, and reposes in the original leather
case. It was presented by Martha Washing
ton to Rosalie Eugenia Stuart, a daughter of
Dr. Stuart.
Other relics purchased by the Mount Ver
non association include Washington’s field
telescope, which i brought $4,000. and two
mahogany chairs which he had in his dining
room at Mt. Vernon. One of the chairs
brought $l,lOO, and the other S7OO.
Washington’s shaving outfit, consisting of
two razors, a hone, strop, brush, comb and
mirror, in a morocco case, was sold to an
anonymous purchaser from New York for
$950.
Oil Rush z
A squadron of northwest mounted po
lice, fur-clajd and patroling on snow
shoes, is holding back frenzied oil pros
pectors at Fort McMurray, British Co
lumbia, to prevent them from risking
their lives on the 1,000-mile trail to the
fabulous fields opened up at Fort Nor
man by the Imperial Oil company.
A repetition of the Yukon gold rush,
in which many lives were sacrificed, is
feared by the mounted police and by offi
cials of the Hudson Bay company and
Northern Trading company, Ltd., whose
trading posts are the only white settle
tlements along the Peace and Mackenzie
rivers leading to the rich oil strike.
Riot Aftermath
The entire constabulary garrison in Manila
has been disarmed and placed under arrest,
and complaints were'being prepared for the
prosecution of seventy-eight constabulary sol
diers who admitted participation in the riot
Wednesday resulting in deaths of four
Americans and seven Filipinos.
Shipbuilding Record
American shipbuilders broke the world’s
pre-war record of launchings during the last
fiscal year, according to given in the'
annual report of the commissioner of navi
gation. American ships built and document
ed during the year aggregate 3,880,639 gross
tons, the report says, adding that British
ships under construction June 30, 1920, ag
gregated 3,808,056 tons.
Jail for Writers
correspondents who write unfav
orably of the Hungarian government are
liable to deportation and native writers to
prison sentences from ten years to life, ac
cording to' new laws promulgated by the
Austrian government.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
There’s Always a Way »
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.
MR. W. L. GEORGE, the English novel
ist, says that’ a woman is lacking in
what our colored friends call “problus- -
ness” if she doesn’t find out cn her honey
moon whether swearing or tears is most es-. ;i j
fective with her husband.
A man is equally lacking in gumption if he
doesn’t improve the same shining hours by
ascertaining th« magic formula which will
make his wife as dough in his hands and keep
her thinking that he is a romantic hero seven”
feet high, who is combination of Solomon,
and Pan Swan, and Babe Ruth.
Considering that a man’s ’ appiness and. '
comfort, and most of his prosperity, are de
termined by the kind of a wife he has, and
his ability to get along with ter, and to in- _
duce her to. do the things he wants her to do,
it is a curious fact that so few msn take the
trouble to study the psychology of *he ladies
to whom they are married, so that they may •
have, at least, a rudimentary idea of which
way the cat wil’ jump under any given cir
cumstances. Still less do they now how to
make the cat jump at will, and in the direc- ;
tion they desire.
Yet to manage a woman is absurdly simple.
It is only necessai for the man to find out
whether to use the big stick, or a glib tongue,
and then go to it.
Undoubtedly there are a few women who
enjoy having a master, who like to be pulled
about by the hair o f their heads, so to speak,
and told where to get on and where to get
off, but the clinging vine kind of woman is -
about as rare in these days as a blue rose,
and a man needs to be very sure that he has
gotten Patient Griselda as a life partner be
fore he pulls the cave man stuff. Or else he
will find himself in the hospital, or the di
vorce court. •
There is, however, a type of neurotic wom
an, the woman who is utterly selfish,
heartless, and mean, and who works herself X.
up into hysterical rages, or else sham
idism, in order to get her way, who never
really loves any man who isn’t a brute, or
respects a husbana of whom she is not afraid.
There is something yellow in the makeup of
a woman of this kind, and she will lick the
hand that beats her.
Therefore, when a man finds he is married '
to a woman who does »not respond to kind
treatment, and who has no code of honor or
duty of her own, only two courses are open
to him. One is to leave her. The other is
to terrorize her. For this type of woman the;
only motto is, “Treat ’em rough.”
With the great majority of women dlplo-jJL
macy is the- thing. They like to be jollied
along the domestic highway, and any man
who will do it may lead his wife witherso- .;
ever he chooses.
A man is indeed stupid who does not find *
out within six months after marriage that "
the hammer is the most dangerous weapon
you can have about a house, and that when
a husband begins to knock his wife’s faults,
he simply drives them in, and makes them a■“
permanents part of her character, while, on
the contrary, they can be premanently re
moved by a copious application of salve to the
bumptious places.
For a husband to find fault with his wife’s r
cooking and her wastefulness simply makes
her get her back up, and say that she hates
cooking, and she did not marry to be any "
man’s servant, and if she had known that she
was getting a cheese-paring miser, she would
have stayed at home with mother, or stuck to
her job, and there is no use in burning her- •
self to a crisp for a man who makes a god of ~
his stomach. So there!
But when a man praises his wife’s cooking,
and brags before her of what a wonderful
artist in sauces she is, and when he extols her
thrift, and advises his friends to get such a
helpmeet as he has, he raises before her a
standard to which she will come up, or die in
the attempt. She’s got to make good. She’s
got to live up to her blue china, and it is a••
pleasure to cook and save for a man who
gives you the glad hand, and appreciates (
yqur^every Offoit.
If a man has a wife who has a high temper,
it is a waste of words for him to argue with
her about controlling it. 'No high tempered
person admits to anything but nerves, but if
he will make a point of telling her how beau
tiful she is when she is calm and serene, and
how repulsive her face is when distorted with •;
rage, she will cultivate a Mona Lisa smile •
that won’t come off. For even the best of ~
women will jeopardize the happiness of their
families before thej will their looks.
If you-want to keep your wife happy and
contented, pay her little attentions. Send
her a bunch of flowers by a messenger now
and then. Take her home a box of candy.
Get her the book she has expressed a desire
to read. Wire her a loverlike message when
you are away from home. Don’t forget her
birthday, nor the anniversary of your mar
riage. Do these things and you may beat "
and starve your wife, and she’ll sure thank •
God on her knees for having gotten you.
The thing that most men forget is that the
key with which they unlock a woman’s heart «
is love, and as long as the woman lives, it .
works. After the. are married they throw
away the key, and the door slams to, and
they can’t remember the combination that .
works their wives and makes them pleasant
and agreeable to live with.
The magic formula is 1-o-v-e, a turn to the
right and a kiss between each letter, and the
door will fly ope . again, for as long as a wife
believes that her husband loves her, as long
as he shows an interest in her and she knows
that he is trying to make her happy, nothing
else counts.
And the man who doesn’t find out during
his honeymoon that the way to manage &
wife is through her heart deserves to be hen
pecked.
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS S
BY JACK PATTERSON
Florida as a Winter Resort
People who have recently traveled over
Georgia state that they have seen several hun
dr» d automobiles from the north going to
various parts of Florida where the tourists
will spend the winter months. Some of
them will stop at the fine hotels, others at _
boarding houses, and many will camp under
tents and do theii own work. It is estimat
ed that there will be five million visitors in
that state before the end of the season,
which shows how important Florida has be
come as a winter resort.—Sandersville Prog
ress. x
Florida has always been famous as a win
ter resort, but all past records are being ex
ceeded this winter. The tourists will out
number the citizens.
Building in Valdosta
In addition to the number of handsome
houses and the college dormitory which are
going lip in the northern part of the city, .
there is a huge pile of lumber being placed
on lots on College street for use in building
a half dozen handsome bungalows. Work
upon them will start pt once.—Valdosta
Times.
Valdosta is one of the
towns in southern" Georgia and is to be con
gratulated upon its industry, »