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IBEV Agricultural Romance
■H.< Secretary of Agriculture, Mr.
in his annual report to
B?ongress, remarks:
?,’■ JJ>urum wheat, introduced in 189 9
Rusia, now produces a crop
Rir cotton, brought by the scientists of
’ the department in 1901, has become
the basis of the long-staple cotton in
dustry in the Southwest, valued at
.... $20,000,000 in 1919.
The federal government has done and
still is doing much to encourage the agri
cultural development of the country. What
Secretary Meredith says about durum wheat
and Egyptian cotton is evidence of only
—a small fraction of governmental enter
prise in scouring the world for plant seeds
that will contribute to the prosperity of
the nation.
As the New York Evening Post well
remarks, “it was government search in
Northern Europe and Siberia that gave us
alfalfa which would resist drought, to
which the alfalfa originally brought from
Latin lands easily succumbed. It was the
government that gave us in 1899 the
Peruvian alfalfa, which has conquered the
Southwest as the best variety. The hard
durum or macaroni wheat of which Secre
tary Meredith speaks was so exactly suited
to the Northwest that in five years 10,000,-
000 bushels were - being grown. Semi-arid
regions from Dakota to New Mexico count
their yearly profits from Kaffir corn, in
troduced from South Africa, in millions.
Soy beans reached the United States from
China without government help. But it
was the government which increased the
available varieties from a half dozen to a
thousand and selected the seven or eight
that are most productive.”
The development of the agricultural
resources of America, through the re
search and activity of the Department of
Agriculture, reads like a romance. The
Tice industries of Louisiana and Texas owe
their fast-growing crops to the government,
to Sudan grass was brought from Egypt about
I eleven years ago, and today its yield is
I worth ten million dollars to American farm
■ ers. Rhodes grass is known from the Mis-
F to the Pacific, yet it hasn’t been many
years since the government introduced it in
- America from Cecil Rhodes’ Grote Schuur
farm, in South Africa.
Many varieties of fruits Were found in
foreign countries, introduced and popular
ized in America. California and Arizona
are indebted to the government for the lu
crative date industry that flourishes in those
states. Indeed, it is stated that the gov
ernment has given to the farmers of the
United States more than 34,000 new varie
ties of plants.
► But the activity of the government in
aiding agriculture does not stop with the
importation of foreign plants. The Bureau
of Plant Industry, at Washington, and the
various experiment stations supported by
State and Nation, work unceasingly in the
Improvement of domestic plants.
The government has indeed accom
plished wonders, and we are persuaded that
the federal Department of Agriculture will
accomplish much more as the succeeding
years roll by if it is given the support it
so richly deserves from Congress.
I The Postal Deficit
i OSTMASTER GENERAL BURLESON is
■ unduly disturbed by the deficit of $17,-
K 270,482 incurred in the operation of
R the postal service during the past year. Mr.
’ Burleson’s attempt to shift responsibility for
this deficit to Congress, as he does in his an
nual report, will not commend itself to the
people who stop to analyze his alibi; not that
Congress isn’t responsible, as he charges, but
k because the deficit is the result of improving
F a condition which Mr. Burleson should feel
proud to assume the responsibility for having
improved himself.
The deficit, says the Postmaster General,
is the result of the payment of a war bonus
to employes of the Postoffice Department,
y ’against the advice and over the protest of
Mr. Burleson.
“For reasons that can be readily under
stood, the legislative department rejected
these suggestions made by the Postmaster
General, and hence is directly responsible for
the deficit which inevitably followed the in
defensible action,” says Mr. Burleson.
As Mr. Burleson remarks, no difficulty is
experienced at arriving at the reasons of
Congress for authorizing the war bonus to
postal employes. But they were not inde
fensible.
The bonus undoubtedly added a few million
dollars to the cost of operating the service,
but we seriously doubt whether the people of
1 America begrudge the increases in pay given
to the underpaid employes of the postoffice
department. No class of Americans stood in
greater need of additional compensation, and
Congress authorized the bonus as a matter
of justice.
There is no occasion for alarm over a defi
cit in the postoffice department, and Mr.
Burleson, it seems to us. might have ignored
discussion of the matter in his annual report.
The deficit was a ma* ematicai certainty, in
view of existing conditions. Everything else
went up in cost, the compensation of em
ployes was increase!, and the postal rate re
mained the same. That’s the answer to the
deficit, but we are persuaded that the Ameri
can people much prefer h deficit in the postal
service to three-cent letter nostage.- It is a
priceless possession and well worth an occa
sional deficit.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Mr. Coolidge in the Cabinet
MR. HARDING’S Invitation to Mr.
Coolidge formally to participate in
the councils of the Cabinet seems
a sound and sensible thing, at first blush.
As the second officer of the Republic, it
would seem that the Vice President should
sit at the right hand of the President as
his chief adviser. Certainly Mr. Coolidge
is qualified by ability and experience, as
well or better than the usual run of Cabi
net officers, to join in the executive coun
cils.
But as Vice President, Mr. Coolidge will
be, constitionally speaking, only the pre
siding officer of the Senate. As an ex
officio member of the President’s cabinet,
his presence at the bi-weekly meetings of
the Cabinet might, and probably would,
arouse jealousies in both the Senate and
House than would more than neutralize
any advantage resulting from his presence
at the White House.
If the presiding officer of the Senate is
to be taken into the President’s official
family, why not also call in the presiding
officer of the House? Why discriminate in
favor of the Senate? Such questions cer
tainly are pertinent. The House, as a
body, has ever been more or less jealous
of the Senate, and individual members of
the lower body feel themselves entitled to
quite as much consideration at the hands
of the President as Senators.
Then there are the elder statesmen
in the Senate —the leaders of the oligarchy
—to be considered. The leaders of the
Majority and Minority parties are supposed
to enjoy the confidence of the President
over and above the rank and file of the
Senate membership and the Vice President.
Would it not irritate them to have Mr.
Harding call to the White House as a
member of his Cabinet and a confidential
adviser the Vice President, who has no
vote or voice in shaping legislation? Might
not his rulings and decisions as presiding
officer of the Upper House be subject to
criticism and question because of his al
leged intimacy with the President? Might
not the arrangement proposed by Mr. Hard
ing, in all good faith we feel sure, jeopardize
the freedom of the thought and action of
the legislative and executive branches of
the government?
Mr. Harding’s invitation was extended
in the fulfillment of a campaign commit
ment, and Mr. Coolidge’s general accept
ance, as we understand, is in the nature
of accepting the invitation as a command.
He has emphasized his desire to be helpful
in any way he can to the success of the
Harding administration.
If Mr, Harding’s invitation and Mr.
Coolidge’s acceptance are going to occasion
jealousies and misunderstandings and sub
ject the President to the suspicion of seek
ing unduly to influence the presiding offi
cer of the Senate, it would be wise for the
Vice President-elect to reconsider his ac
ceptance of the President-elect’s invitation,
and follow the example of another Vice
President who hailed from Massachusetts.
John Adams, the first Vice President,
eager for the success of the Republic, al
ways responded to the requests of General
Washington for advice and opinions. Some
times he went in person to see the Presi
dent; at other times he communicated with
him in writing, but never did he sit as a
member of the Cabinet. Mr. Coolidge, fol
lowing this example, might act as a coun
sellor to the Administration, and such an
arrangement would give the House no
cause for jealousy, nor would it subject
sensitive Senators to irritation.
The Industrial Tour
THE industrial tour of Georgia, under
the auspices of Georgia Tech, next
month, is arousing throughout the
state a measure of interest commensurate
with the motives that have inspired its ar
rangement. Each of the thirty-four cities and
towns that is to be visited by the tourists dur
ing the week is appreciative keenly of the
opportuniy hat is thus to be offered for pre
senting its resources and advantages for de
velopment.
“These tourists will visit Americus on the
second day of this second industrial tour,” re
marks the Americus Times-Recorder. “They
will spend more than two hours here. Os
course they will be more than welcome. Sum
ter county has much to show them —
more than it will be possible for them to see
in the limited time they will spend here. But
they can depend upon it that the best use
will be made of their time spent here, and
they will not have reason to regret their com
ing.”
It is to be regretted that the tourists will
have relatively so little time at Americus and
other cities and towns that are to be visited.
As the Times-Recorder remarks, Sumter
county has more to show than possibly can
be seen even hurriedly in so short a stay as
the tourists will spend in Americus. The
same is true of every place to be visited
on the tour, but even so the trip will enable
the excursionists to get first hand impressions
that will prove invaluable and unerring in
assisting them in the intelligent industrial de
velopment of Georgia.
*
Needless Destruction by Fire
PUBLIC attention should be arrested by
the -emarks of Mr. T. Alfred Fleming
before the convention of fire marshals
in New York City last week. In its outlines,
Mr. Fleming’s .story is familiar, but his reci
tation of details cannot fail to emphasize not
only the enormous waste and loss in the Unit
ed States from preventable fires, but also the
importance of a continuous campaign of edu
cation designed to reduce these losses.
Generally speaking, there is nothing new
in Mr. Fleming’s statement as to the magni
tude of the fire losses, but relatively few
persons realize that in 1919 fire caused +he
deaths of 15,219 persons and was accountable
for the injury of 17,641 others, of whom
eighty-two per cent were mothers and chil
dren under school age.
The property losses from fire, together with
the cost of maintenance of fire departments
and high pressure water service, cost the peo
ple more than $2,000,000 a day. according to
Mr. Fleming, but this is insignificant as com
pared to the loss of human life.
Mr. Fleming declared that homes are be
ing destroyed in America at the rate of 889
for every working day of the year. The fig
ures become the more impressive when we
stop to consider the serious bousing problem
that confronts practically every community
in the country. It is estimated that there is
a shortage of 5,CC.,000 homes which means
that probably 25,000.000 people, nearly 25
per cent of the population, is living In tem
porary quarters with attendant evils and in
conveniences.
It is to be regretted that Mr. Fleming’s re
marks cannot be brought immediately to the
attention of every person in the country. If
everyone could be made to realize the ruth
with respect to preventable fires, we feel sure
there would follow an era of caution that
would materially reduce the number of such
losses. Experience has shown that the best
way to bring facts home to the people is by
constant repetition, and by this token it is to
be hoped that Mr. Fleming’s remarks are
given the publicity they deserve.
Mr. Fleming toid the fire marshals that ef
forts are now being made to secure the co
operation of various interested agencies in a
campaign of education among children in the
schools, women in the homes and men in
places of business, to impress upon them the
importance of precaution. Ha declared that
investigation has shown that sixty-five per
cent of the fires orginate in dwellings, most
of them from preventable and trivial causes.
“Fire prevention day” was observed
throughout the country a few weeks ago and
we understand was measurably effective, but
it didn’t go far enough. The observance re
sulted in a general inspection of homes and
the elimination of trivial and preventable con
ditions likely to cause fires, but it stopped
right there, with the single day, when it
should have been continued indefinitely. Ev
ery day should be “fire prevenion day” in the
homes and factories and schools and theaters
and business establishments throughout the
country, and every day the same inspections
and precautions that were exercised on the
one day of observance should be continued
with the same vigilance and zeal.
LISTEN
By H. Addington Bruce
YOU are inclined to pride yourself on
your conversational ability.
In fact, you frankly pride yourself
on it. You rejoice to know that you are a
good talker.
No matter in what company you find your
self, you are not at a loss for words. You
do not have to sit dumbly silent, like many
other young fellows of your acquaintance.
Let any topic be brought up, and you prompt
ly find something to say about it.
Yet, oddly enough, easy converser though
you are, you have to confess that you are
not making as rapid headway in your chosen
business as you would, flke. Which is doubly
odd since your business is that of salesman
ship, wherein ability to talk readily is an ac
knowledged asset.
Perhaps, friend, the trouble is that you
talk too readily. That is to say, you may be
one of those numerous persons whose fluency
in talk is more conspicuous than the extent
and soundness of their knowledge of the
things about which they talk.
In that case your conversational facility
is sure to be a ability rather than an asset
to you. For the more you talk the less fav
orable will be the impression you make o«
those to whom you talk, conversation being
always the index to one’s thoughts.
Just byway of an experiment, make it a
point for the next few days to talk no more
than is absoluteL necessary and to listen
hard while others talk.
Ability to listen well —as you perhaps have
forgotten—is even more important to busi
ness success than ability to talk well. For
the matter of that, efficient talking presup
poses efficient listening. Otherwise the raw
material of the mind must ever remain scan
ty, incongruous, and unworkable.
What others say in your presence can give
you food for t* ught only if you listen to
them.
It can save you from errors only if you
listen.
And the defect of most over-ready talkers
is that they ara sadly short in the listening
faculty.
It may not be true that, as an old proverb
cruelly Insists, the shallowest persons are the
most loquacious. But it certainly is true that
when a man is loquacious he is prone to pay
little heed to the often helpful ideas voiced
in his hearing.
You know better than I do whether you
are as facile in listening as in talking. If
you are not. begin forthwith t cultivate the
listening habit. You will find it pays.
(Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers)
THE HAPPY FAMILY
I ———
By Dr. Frank Crane ' |
This family has a very tall, thick, unmbrag
eous and old tree.
The ancestral line runs so far back that
“the memory of man runneth net to the con
trary.”
Its oldest authenticated progenitor was old
man Good Health.
Another distinguished name unong its an
cestors is Youth. Youth is not a recent epi
sode; it is the oldest thing in the world.
The Father’s name is Love.
The Mother’s Temperance.
Among the Aunts and Uncles are Discip
line, Common Sense, Unself, Humility, and
Faith.
The chief enemy of this family, the one
who does most to injure it, is a man named
Envy.
He has a lot of spies, bullies, and hired
mischief-workers, who assist him in doing
every possible thing to disrupt the Happys.
Among these are Suspicion, Hate, Grudge,
Grouch, Worry and Despair.
Sometimes one of the rascals gets a job
as servant in the Happy family, and makes
use of his position to do all the damage he
can.
One of the sturdiest and handsomest of
the Happy children is Work. He does per
haps more than any to keep the family pros
perous, and is looked up to and respected by
all its members.
The family has its Imitators. They are
frauds, and have deceived and ruined many
who have put it? in them.
Among these humbugs and cheats are Al
cohol, Drugs, Excess, Luxury, Glutton, and
Lust.
One of the most charming and beloved
members of the Happy family is Loyalty. Ev
erybody, even the crooked and perverse,
seems to love her.
The family home is a very attractive house
on Main street.
Its foundations were placed deep on the
bed rock of Honesty.
Its builder and architect was Simplicity.
Its furnishings were by Good Taste.
All its expenditures are looked after, and
its accounts kept, by Thrift, with the able
assistance of Budget.
Discretion guards the door.
There is but one Rule in this house; it is
the Golden Rule.
Gentleness and Cheerfulness are always at
home, and, with Courtesy and Thoughtful
ness, invariably make all visitors welcome.
The rats of Waste are kept away by the
cat whose name is Carefulness.
The butler has orders never to admit Spec
ulators when he calls.
The family doctor’s name is Science.
Light and Air are present all day, and at
night the lamps are lit by Hope.
The family hav a proper self-respect, and
are intimate with no one on friendly terms
with and vouched for by Love and Temper
ance.
There is a good Priest whose visits are
welcome and whose advice is followed; his
name is Conscience.
(Copyright, 19 20, by Frank Crane)
EDITORIAL ECHOES
Secretary Houston Is right. What little
money the small salaried man has been able
to save should be taken away from him at
once.—Burlington News.
Normalcy won’t be back in all its glory
until you can order a dish of pork and beans
and not find the pork A. W. O. L.—Kansas
City Star.
War Bride Reunited.—Headline. Some
of that wonderful surgical patchwork they
have been doing in the army, probably.—
Philadelphia North American.
Even the nickel is beginning to take on a
little self-assertiveness.—Nashville Banner.
The Democrats tn Washington can be
thankful they’re not being turned out in the
middle of winter. —El Paso Herald.
There is nothing new in that customs rul
ing. For considerable time past one who
wanted to import liquor into the United
States has had to be a diplomat.—Manila
Bulletin.
“SUNLESS SUNDAY”
By Frederic J. Haskin
NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 18.—The pro
posed Sunday law, which was ex
plained from the Washington view
point in this column a few days ago, is the
center of a real emotional disturbance here
in New York. And here again the excite
ment seems to have obscured the facts.
Neighborhood meetings are being called
in all parts of the city and surrounding
suburbs to protest against the resurrection
of the blue laws; local chapters of the Amer
ican Legion are organizing to fight them; the
Freethinkers’ Society is threatening opposi
tion to all kinds of reformers, and the thea
ter and moving picture industries are pre
paring to fight to keep the subject of the
Sabbath out of our ever-growing book of
national laws.
Os course, all of us have been more or less
prepared for further reforms ever sinefe the
successful ratification of the Eighteenth
amendment, but it is doubtful if anyone ex
pected them to come so soon, or so many
of them at once. Occasionally, we heard that
an attack against tobacco was ominously im
minent, but that the reformers were sharp
ening their tomahawks for an attack on all
forms of Sunday recreation, healthful or
otherwise, was scarcely suspected until the
Lord’s Day Alliance announced its belligerent
intentions.
Even now, some people are of the opinion
that the alliance can not be sincere in what
it says—that there is some “jinx” about the
thing somewhere. For instance, the other
night, the following conversation between
two business men on the subway, filtered up
to the reporter’s ears:
“I believe it’s all a trumped-up scheme on
the part of the Republican party,” said the
first business man sagely. “They may have
given these old boys a little encouragement,
just to throw them over in the end. For
even a feeble-minded person can see that the
people are not going to submit to any more
restrictions on Sunday. It’s bad enough to
get through as it is. Well, then, what would
make a better impression on the people than
for the Repubs, to squash the blue law agita
tion just as soon as they get into office?
What would win the public’s confidence
quicker?”
“Hmn, that’s a pretty theory,” said the
second business man, “but remember that
everybody thought that prohibition was a
joke until the supreme court declared it
wasn’t. The first thing you know we’ll all
be dragged out of bed on Sunday morning by
probation officers employed by the commit
nity to see that we go to church.”
A Blue Law Advocate
On the whole, New York is inclined to
treat the Sunless Sunday movement very se
riously, and anyone who has heard the Rev.
Henry L. Bowlby, general secretary of the
Lord’s Day Alliance and leader of the move
ment, state his case can be perfectly sure that
the alliance means what it says. Mr. Bowl
by is short of stature and has short, thick,
energetic hands. His eyes are small and
shrewd, his mouth a thin, determined line
above a stubborn chin. In Altoona, Pa.,
where he was formerly a minister of the gos
pel, he was known as an excellent “field pas
tor” rather than an eloquent preacher. In
other words, he is an extremely efficient ex
ecutive —the very type one would expect to
find presiding over the crowded, business-like
offices of the Alliance in the Presbyterian
building on Fifth avenue.
When being interviewed, Mr. Bowlby is
self-confident, but cautious. He is careful
not to say anything on his own authority, but
quotes elaborately from the pamphlets of
the alliance, while one of the officials of that
organization, usually his attorney, sits
watchfully at his elbow.
When asked if the reported aims of the
alliance were true, the other day, the rever
end exective asserted that he, personally, had
been continually misquoted by the newspa
pers, but would be glad to rehearse the pro
gram and purpose of the organization.
"Our organization is backed by 16 de
nominations,” he began, “including all ex
cept the Roman Catholics, the Jews, the
Seventh Day Adventists and the Unitarians.
We are well-financed. Our lobby at Wash
ington will be a strong and effective one. We
shall work in every congressional district in
every state. We shall advocate and spread
propaganda and cause voters to write un
ceasingly to their Representatives in congress
until no congressman who cares to stay in
congress will dare refuse to vote for our
measures. These were the methods used by
the Anti-Saloon League, and they were ef
fective. ,
“We propose to pass no blue laws. There
are no such things as blue laws and never
were, so far as I know. We don’t propose
to legislate people into church. We do pro
pose to secure legislation which will make
it easier for people to go to church. In other
words, we shall try to close the baseball
parks, the golf links; the motion picture
and other theaters; the concert halls; the
amusement parks; the tennis courts, and the
bathing beaches. We shall fight all amuse
ments where an admission is charged. We
shall oppose golf, baseball, tennis, football
and other sports even if purely amateur or
devoid of financial cost to those watching or
fn? n fn P / rt ’ because the y set bad examples
L cbildren who otherwise might be con
tent to go to Sunday school.
To Cut Off the Gas
“We shall seek to restrict the sale of gas
oline for pleasure automobiles and urge other
measures that will stop Sunday automobiling
and joy riding. This will not bring the old
fashioned horse and buggy back be
cause we believe that the Lord’s Day should
be a day of rest for man and beast.
“Excursion steamer rides on Sunday will
be opposed by us on the grounds that they
are unnecessary to the moral welfare of
America. We also see no reason why the
public libraries or art galleries should re
main open on Sunday. And Sunday
papers are certainly unnecessary.”
When pressed for his opinion of something
that the people could do on Sunday besides
go to church, Mr. Rowlby declared that there
would be no objection to them walking in
the fields or parks or attending the beaches
“Provided they do not go in bathing,” he
"ded.
It has been stated several times in the
newspapers that the program of the Lord’s
Day Alliance is strongly backeo by the Anti-
Saloon league, but the Anti-Saloon league
now vigorously denies it. According to the
officials of the New York branch of this or
ganization, they are not the slightest bit con
cerned with the fate of Sunday, but are
spending all their time and energy in at
tempting to see that prohibition is enforced.
That the sixteen denominations said to be
backing the Lord’s Day Alliance in its cam
paign to suppress Sunday recreation are not
entirely unanimous in their stand is evidenc
ed by the statements of individual members
of the clergy, who have frankly criticized the
blue law movement. One of the courageous
dissenters is Dr. William T Manning, rector
of Trinity church here, who referred to the
matter as follows, in a recent sermon:
Some Pastors Oppose It
“This proposed campaign for stricter Sun
day laws is one of those well meant but mis
guided efforts which do harm instead of good,
to the cause they are intended tc serve. It is
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1920.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Drop Blue Laws
Overwhelming opposition in congress and
throughout the country to the proposed na
tional Sunday “blue law” has caused reform
organizations in Washington to announce the
complete abandonment of their purpose to
press such a move.
The anouncement was made by the Rev.
Wilbur F. Crafts, superintendent of the inter
national reform bureau, chief proponent of a
rigid Sunday observance act. He said the
purpose of his organization has been “grossly
misrepresented,” and that all it desires is
legislation to prevent a “commercialized Sab
bath.”
Suffrage Rules
In order that the list of all voters may
be sufficiently descriptive, women in this
city will be compelled to register again if
they wish to vote next year.
The new list will include the height
and weight of all registrants.
The purpose of the re-registration is
to guard against improper voting.
Daniel Boone
That Daniel Boone, famed Kentucky
Punter, made an expedition into Wayne and
Lincoln counties, West Virginia, during
his career is the belief of a party of lum
berjacks, who recently discovered the name
‘D. Boone” chiseled in a large rock at the
mouth of a cave on Pond Fork of Four-
Mile creek, Lincoln county, near the Wayne
tine. The forms of the letter are said to
correspond with the name of Boone, which
is found carved in the rocks of Kentucky.
The rock bearing the name in Lincoln
county is located in a remote and wild sec
tion.
Greek Refugees
Thirteen thousand Greek refugees, who for
four months were near death from starvation
in Batum, republic of Georgia, have been re
moved to Greece by the new Greek govern
ment, it was announced in a cablegram re
ceived at headquarters of the Near East relief
here today.
The lives of hundreds, the message said,
were saved through American relief bodies
which furnished food at critical periods.
Czecho-Slovakia Calm
Normal conditions now prevail here after
the recent revolutionary movement, and it is
expected work will be resumed throughout
Czecho-Slovakia today.
The attempt to set up a revolutionary gov
ernment was met by resolute measures on
the part of the authorities, including the dec
laration of martial law in all localities where
public order was threatened.
Korean Attack
Korean insurgents in the Chentao district,
on the Korean-Manchurian border, recently
attacked and surrounded a Japanese detach
ment, killing 18 and wounding 35 of the Jap
anese troops, according to a Pekin dispatch.
The Japanese, it is said, were extricated by
Chinese troops.
Must Wear Pants
A bill introduced in the Philippine terri
torial senate makes it obligatory, under pen
alty of five years’ imprisonment, for natives
of the Islands to wear trousers in public. The
bill further provides that the government
shall buy trousers at wholesale and distribute
them free. It is estimated that nearly 500,-
00 0 pairs of pants are needed.
Senator Santos, who introduced the meas
ure, said that the appearance of half-naked
pagans is a most shameful exhibition and is
capitalized by the opponents of Philippine in
dependence as demonstrating the incapacity
of Filipinos for self-government.
Against High Heels
A ban on high heels such as never carried
a Puritan or Pilgrim ancestress to church is
to be sought from the legislature by the Mas
sachusetts Osteopathic society.
Announcements that the society would in
troduce a bill to stop the high heel at its
source —the manufacturer —was made at its
nineteenth annual convention here. Dr. R.
Kendrick Smith, of Brookline, told his asso
ciates that the advent of woman suffrage had
given the society courage to propose a bill
prohibiting the manufacture, sale or wearing
of heels more than one and one-half inches
in height.
Vessel Is Seized
Federal prohibition officers seized the
steamship Colopaxi, of the Clinchfield Navi
gation company line, operating in the coal
trade between this port and Havana.
Ten cases of liquor had been found aboard
the vessel. Arrangements for furnishing bond
in the sum of $500,000 for the release of the
ship are said to be under way. She was about
to load coal for Galveston.
Fodder Hund in Trees
In Cashmere a novel method of putting
fodder away for winter use is in vogue. The
chief industry of the people consists in rais
ing fine wool and in making this into
fabrics which have carried the name of the
country all over the world. As in winter
snow lies some five or six yards deep, sup
plies of hay are hung among the branches
of trees, where they are easily reached by
the flocks of sheep.
Woman Chess Champion
Beginning to play chess when she was
twelve years of age, Mrs. A. B. Stevenson now
holds the proud position of woman chess
champion of Great Britain.
impracticable, wrong in principle and based
on a narrow and imperfect conception of the
Christian religion. It would do far more to
drive religion out o t the hearts of the people
than to draw them toward it.
“We have no right to compel religious ob
servance of Sunday by law. The law should
forbid all unnecessary business on Sunday,
and thus, as far as possible, secure to all their
right to Sunday rs a day of freedom from’
their ordinary occupations and of religious ob
servance if they’ wish to use it. Further
than this, the law may not rightly go.”
The Right Rev. Charles S. Burch, bishop
of New York is alst firmly opposed to forcing
Sunday blue laws upon the people. He says:
“I do not believe that the people of this coun
try are going b*ck to the New England blue
laws. If what little I have seen is correct
the eformers are going pretty far. I do not
believe we are going to have such a revolu
tion as would occur if we prohibit interestate
commerce on Sunday. You cannot legislate
people into moral or ethical positions. You
can educate them to it. but you cannot
achieve moralit by compelling them to give
up what they believe are their constitutional
rights.”
Even more interesting than the views of
the clergy are th views of the people now
pouring into the offices of New York newspa
pers, some cf which are printing them in
their columns. Unfortunately, we have
the space to set down the opinions of the peo
ple here. But suffice it to say that they are
surprisingly serious and hostile to all re
formers. They show conclusively that the
Sunless Sunday will not be accepted with the
same good-natured resignation that ushered
in the Eighteenth amendment.”
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
There’s Alway a Way
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.
IN one of his admirable essays about
women, W. L. George says that a wife
is an idiot if she doesn’t find out on her
honeymoon whether swearing or crying is
most effective with her husband.
And a husband is equally obtuse if he,
doesn’t ascertain within six months of mar
riage whether to pull the cave man stuff on
his wife, or spread the salve.
There’s always away to work the partner
of your bosom, but the trouble with most
married couples is that they never take the
trouble to find out the combination. They
are as stupid as people would be who bark
ed their shins, and tore their clothes, and
risked their necks trying to climb over a
stone wall, when not two feet away was a
doorway through which they might pass
with ease and comfort, if only they had
wit enough to turn the knob the right way.
Os course there ar" ' jew men of such
a sullen and morose disposition, or such
tightwads that nothing but their own brutal
and selfish desires appeal to them. They ap
pear to get married only to have some help
less creature in their power, on whom they
can practice their cruel humors, and noth
ing that any woman can do or say would
alter them.
Such men are, however, extremely rare,
and any woman can get along with the aver
age man, and get her way with him, if
only she has sense enough to find out how
to rub his fur the right way, so that he
will purr under her hand.
To do this she must study her man, and
find out whether swearing or crying is more
effective, as Mr. George puts it.
There is the traditional belief in the fem
inine sex that the easiest way to run a man
is by hydraulic power, and so they turn on
the waterworks whenever they want a
thing. Probably this is good, as a general
measure. There is something in a woman’s
tears that melts down the average man’s
backbone into a pulp, and makes him give
in to the cry baby to etop her howling.
But tears do not avail with every man.
There are men who feel like inviting every
lachrimose lady to come and sob it out on
their shoulders. There are other men to
whom a woman’s tears are like a red rag to
a mad bull, and who jqmp up, and grab
their hats, and bang the front door behind
them the minute they see a woman’s upper
lip begin to tremble, and her nose com
mence to get red.
Therefore, the wise woman makes care
ful note of how her husband reacts to
brine, whether it softens or pickles him, and
she pins her faith to the tear jug, or throws
it into the junk in the garbage can accord
ingly. If the rst time a bride weeps her hus
band pats her on the shoulder and says,
“There, there, of course you can have it,”
she does well to cultivate her tear ducts,
but, if he scowls at her and tells her not to
be a fool, she is a fool if she doesn’t can the
sob stuff.
If a man is Inclined to be tyrannical and
high-tempered, then a woman’s only chance
is to beat him at his own game. She must
go to it first, and develop ways that have
to be catered to, and a temper that makes
him stand in awe and wonder. Women can
do this because when it comes to an argu
ment, no man can out-talk one of the female
persuasion. He lacks the swiftness and stay
ing powers to do it.
Nerves and weak hearts are weapons with
which thousands of women keep their hus
bands in an abject state of slavery to them,
but to make use of a physical Infirmity that
appeals to a man’s sympathy and tender
ness to get your own way is not playing
the game. It’s hitting below the belt, it is
winning out on a foul, and no woman with
a drop of real sporting blood in her, or any
sense of honor would make ill health, real
or pretended, the means of getting around
her husband.
One likes to think of women achieveing
results in a subtler manner, and using more
diplomacy in dealing with their husbands.
In its most elementary form this consists
of a wife’s using some discretion in choos
ing the time, and place, and conditions in
which to make a request, or to impart to
her husband some of the necessarily un
pleasant facts of dally domestic existence.
Certainly any woman deserves to be in
an asylum for the feeble-minded who
doesn’t know that a man who is tired, and
nerve racked, and hungry, at the end of a
hard day’s work is as dangerous to handls
as a sore-headed bear, while the same man
two hours later, after he has been fed, and
soothed, and rested is so gentle and do
mesticated that he will eat out of your
hand, and jump through the hoop, or do
pretty much everything else you want him
to.
One of the things that every woman
knows is that men have a ruling passion for
being deferred to, to having their advice
asked, or having official proclamation made
that they are the heads of the house. If you
will grant a man this empty honor you
may do with him as you choose, and why
women so seldom take the trouble to kow
tow their lords and masters, when the re
ward is so disproportionate to the effort, Is
a thing that always fills me with amaze
ment.
If a woman wants a new car; if she wishes
to have the livingroom done over in brown,
or to send John off to college, she can an
nounce that she is going to have him do
these things and either get them after a
bloody fight with her husband, if hes the
sort of a man who will give in at the last,
or not get them at all if he is the sort that
sticks when he gets his back up.
Or the woman can say to her husband,
“My dear, I believe you are right in think
ing we needed a new car. Didn’t you say
that it was a Humpty Dumpty twenty, with
mauve lining, you like? You are such a
wonderful judge of motors and know so
much about machinery,” or “I wonder If
you could take an hour off and help me
decide on the livingroom decoration. Your
taste is so artistic, and I’d like for you to
see the browns I looked at,” or, “I have
been thinking it over and I am sure you
have selected the right school for John,”
etc.
And husband will say, “Certainly. Do as
you please,” for the funny thing is that men
never notice whether you take their advice
or not. Nor do they care. All they want is
to have their women folk pay them the
compliment of asking it.
All of which, and much more, is what
Mr. George meant when he said that any
woman who was not an idoit found out on
her wedding trip whether it was better to
swear or cry.
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Ideal Climate and Fertile Soil
With Georgia’s fertile soil and mild climate
growing anything in the world, except trop
ical products to perfection, there is every
reason why cotton should be only a by-prod
uct on every farm. Wnen this becomes a
fact, cotton will bring riches to the south,
instead of poverty, and we will be dependent
upon no other section and no other people
for any of our needs. Then, and only then,
will the south become the granary and store
house of the world in actuality instead of in
potentiality, as now.—Americus Times-Re
corder.
Dixie Is the garden snot of the world and
Georgia is the county site.