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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. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months ....? 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W-.l .Vo. 3 Mo*. 6 Mob. 1 Xr. Dally and Sunday 20c GJc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday $C 30c .00 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. 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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. 0 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.