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Brrmg Precedents
WWBSWiW of the precedents broken by
t Wilson are to be restored
BKSy-r ti.e adininistr: tion of Mr.
deed, the new President and the
will begin their official life
with the restoration of a prece
shattered by President Wilson,
formal inauguration exercises
fjjiiww President and Mrs. Harding will
their presence the inaugural ball
HB®|flwening of March 4th, and this ball,
‘ v w£-®told in the press dispatches, will be
RSilflLf dazzling in the history of Washing.
were no inaugural balls during
Resident Wilson’s administration. When
■lans were being perfected for his first in
auguration, social and official Washington,
not to mention thousands of persons who
Intended taking in the inauguration, were
shocked to learn that Mr. Wilson looked with
■displeasure on inaugural balls. Half the ]oy
Fof the inauguration was knocked into a
cocked hat for those who enjoyed such spec
t&clcs«
But the decision of Mr. Wilson struck a
responsive chord in the country. The peo
ple generally rather admired the courage of
the President and applauded the firmness
'of his resolve to eliminate frivolity, even
though he upset a cherished custom. Mr.
Wilson adhered to the broken precedent and
there was no ball upon the occasion of his
second inauguration. •
The country was far more interested in
Mr. Wilson’s second precedent-breaking
■■jßMfhuciTcanre -
of the new Congress. Appearing
Congress in person to deliver his
■ffiiflge, rather than dispatch it by a mes
||Kr, to be read by a clerk, was a de-
from custom that provoked wido
comment. The presence of the Pres
flnt in the halls of Congress appealed to
|fl> imagination of the people and more
Rarly filled their conception of the high of
■ce. The innovation was a good one, and
(commanded from the members of Congress
Lind from the country-at-large a far more
attentive hearing than written messages had
Lver received.
Rfint Mr. Wilson did not stop breaking
flecedents with delivery of his messages in
Arson. He frequently slipped quietly away
Ann the White House during sessions of
Regress to visit the Capitol and there con-
K in person with Senators and Representa
■ives about legislation in which he felt a
Particular interest. It was no unusual sight
[o see the President at the Capitol nor was
lit unusual to learn from the public press
■hat he had called from the Senate chamber
Br tfrgjgouse of Representatives certain Sen
■torjgfrnd Representatives to advise with
Remconcerning the details of important
legislation. This innovation, we feel sure,
was effective. It invited public attention to
matters that otherwise might have, escaped
not’ce and operated in many instances to
encourage enactments that might have been
delayed.
I The President’s first voyage tc Europe and
Ifcis prolonged stay in Paris in attendance
Lpn the Peace Conference capped the cli
an action without precedent in the
of the Nation. Announcement of his
to leave America and attend the
(Conference provoked a discussion that
■Hui for weeks before he actually sailed.
■■Wilson made the trip against the advice
RRiany of his closest friends, and the wis-
WBI of his course continues a subject of
■Katie. It seems certain that his labors
Rt the Peace Conference were responsible
Ffor the failure of his health, and considered
in this light his trip to France was a mistake
that will ever be regretted.
But Mr. Harding is going v,o restore many
Fof the precedents that were broken by Presi
dent Wilson. The inaugural ball will be the
bfitst one. Then will come Mr. Harding’s
[first message to Congress. He will not de-
it in person, but will send it by a mes-
BHRrv to be read to an inattentive Congress.
■Kll mal<e ”° informal trips to the Capi
interview Senators and Representa
and it is safe to say that he Is not
to vißit France or any other foreign
during his term of office.
H The Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Rock is to be lowered
feR And restored to the shore level, where
\ rested three hundred years ago,
IBIIBR ~4ed the landing of the Pilgrims. The
builder was removed from its origi-
RJResting place in 1774. A twenty-yoke
■ox team dtagged it to the Town Square,
Evhere it was-tfsed as the base of a flag pole
End was an object of interest and veneration
'to thousands of visitors, who were disap
pointed, however, at not finding it in its
original site. Subsequently the rock was
brought back to the shore, but not to its
site, and here it has rested under
E, handsome canopy. Now it is to be lowered
fIL the shore level.
SLphe history of the Plymouth Rock dates
1741, when Thomas Faunce, ninety-
RUFyears old at the time, protested against
obscured by the erection of a wharf.
Usaßnsisted that his father had told him that
marked the site of the landing of
>m that time the rock has
W; ’’ n<■■r es 1. It has taken i<s
flMMßflfeL a- l mind of the Ameri
‘Bl : unconqiier-
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Progress on the Farm
THE Importance of careful and scientific
farming has made much progress in the
United Htates, but there is room for
further improvement, according to Secretary
of Agriculture Meridith, who handles the sub
ject Interestingly in his annual report to Con
gress. It is unfortunate and regretable that
the enterprise of the farmers in improving
and modernizing their methods is denied the
reward that their diligence and thrift so ,v I
deserve. But event if conditions over which
the farmers have no control and which have
depressed prices all over the world have oper
ated to deny to them a fair return, the fact
remain that the lessons learned from the ap
plication of modern methods have not been
learned in vain. The farmers have at least
lightened their labors, and will, in future
years, be abundantly rewarded.
The American farmers have raised larger
crops this year than last year, but notwith
standing this increased yield the value of
farm product has shrunk by $5,000,000,000,
according to accepted estimates. The decline
in the prices of the products, which reflects
the demand and the world’s ability to buy,
accounts for the shrinkage in values.
It is evident, xiom a consideration of con
ditions under which the bumper crops were
raised, that the fermars have dene their full
duty in seeking to feed and clothe the world,
and that their labors reflect unquestioned evi
dence of advanced methods in the cultivation
of farm lands.
The acreage actually under cultivation, we
are informed, was smal’er than for the pre
vious year and less labor was employed in the
cultivation of the crops. It follows therefore
that the per acre per man yield was much
heavier. Favorable weather conditions, it is
stated, accounted in part for the increased
yield, but the bulk of the incr-ase was due
to the farmers themselves. With improved
methods and more intelligent application they
got better results.
In the past there have been complaints
agai. st the methods of American farmers,
more especially Southern farmers. They have
been criticized as wasteful and unscientific.
The farmers have been charged with not Im
proving their opportunities. The fertility of
the soil and the abundance of land, it has
been remarked, have contributed to lax
methods and wastefulness. It has been shown
that European farmers, with r-ore care and
intensive methods, have secured far better
yields.
The report of the Secretary of Agriculture
for the past year shows, however, that the
American farmers have awakened, and that
many Improvements have been introduced in
every section of the country. In no part of
the country have the farmers made better
progress than in the South, where it is noted
that modern and scientific methods have sup
planted the careless u.nd slipshod
that have heretofore prevailed.
Topics of Today
ISSUES which today are the subject of
. lively interest to the American people
were no less engaging seventy-five
years ago. Walt Whitman, on the editorial
staff of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, in 1846
and 1847, was discussing fluently the topics
of today. Blue Laws, prohibition, immigra
tion and the Irish question were matters of
as much moment in those days as they are
now.
Whitman’s editorial contributions have
just been published by Putnams, under the
title, "The Gathering of the Forces,” and it
is interesting to observe the mental attitude
of Whitman toward some of the questions
that are hi-the forefront of publi<\dlscussion
today.
A legislator at Albany, no less enterprise
ing than many A our present day law mak7
ers, proposed to abolish “all licentiousness
and imorality in the state of New York,”
by the simple expedient of legislation. The
bill called forth from Whitmai. a discussion
of the general question of Blue Laws, which
he characterized as "the miserable effect of
all efforts to legislate men into religion and
virtue,” adding that he had "no faith in all
the efforts of the law to make men good.”
Although less acute in Whitman’s time,
prohibition was nevertheless a subject of
much agitation and controversy, and here
we find Whitman writing on “the intemper
ance of temperance,” and pointing out the
failure of certain licensing restrictions in
’New York. It was h - ' - conclusion that mod
erate drinking c.ould not be enforced by
statute.
The question of restricting immigration
excited, public attention and moved Whitman
to criticize the panicky views of his con
temporaries concerning the scare over the
"importation of paupers and criminals.” He
complained that "eve:: our discre. and usu
ally clear-eyed contemporary the Evening
Post is carried away with this idle hubbub.”
Famine aggravated the Irish question
which in those days was hardly less acute
than it is today. Whitman entertained the
most sympathetic and extravagant views of
the case of Ireland, declared that "no
one can see where how these evils, un
der the present state of things, are to be
obviated. Surely they will prevail as long as
the present organization of relations between
England and Ireland prevails.” He indorsed
the policy of the Repeal Movement under
Daniel O’Connell, a policy that correspond
ed at that time generally to the Dominion
Home Rule policy of today.
Whitman’s contributions outside the edi
torial columns of the Brooklyn Eagle to
of public concern are no less inter
esting than his editorial expressions. He
was excited by the “sad state” of American
drama and uttered protests which have been
repeated in one form or another by his suc
cessors ever since.
The Hamilton Association, in 1847, held
Truly a frightful and audacious sen
timent! A most treasonable and rebel
lious toast! Are we not "a mere
suburb of London”? We trow yes . . .
as long as such sentiments as that of
the hapless toast are condemned; . . .
as long as we copy with servile imita
tion the very cast-ok’ literary fashions
of London —as long as we wait for Eng
lish critics to stamp our books and our
authors, befi re we presume to say
whether they are very good or very bad
—as long as the floods of British manu
factured books are poured over the
land and give their color to all the de
partments of taste and opinion.
an anniversary dinner and a toast “involv
ing an assertion of American literary inde
pendence” was hissed, inviting this comment
by Whitman:
The debate continues to this day and en
livens the pages of our periodicals, wuh in
teresting clashes between Professor Brander
Matthews and Stuart Sherman and their
followers, on the one side, and H. L. Menck
en, J. E. Spingarn and others, on the other.
EDITORIAL ECHOES
Only a few people make good in an emer
gency.
When a man lectures on prohibition he has
a dry subject.
Any man possesses the ability to be as big
a fool as he pleases.
An evildoer is one who believes In doing
others before they attempt to do him.
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
By H. Addington Bruce
rOMORROW is Christmas day. Begin it
.and go through it, brother, hand in
hand with the Christmas spirit.
The Christmas Spirit bids you cast aside/
worries, fears, suspicions, hates, jealous es.
all unworthy thoughts. It bids you mee.
your fellows with a cheery smile. It bias yo 1
feel, not merely say, “A Merry c^ r , istma . s '
From morning till night the making g M
of others must be your aim, if you would
hearken to the Christmas Spirit. Selfishness
must yield to unselfishness, getting to giv
ing, contracting to expanding. .
"Much they saw and far they went,”
Dickens tells us of the journey of Scrooge
and the Christmas Spirit, "and many homes
they visited, but always with a happy end.
"The Spirit sto-d beside sickbeds, and
they 'were cheerful;' on foreign !andr, and
they were close at home; by struggling men,
and they were patient in their greater hope;
by poverty, and it was rich.
"In almshouse, hospital, and jail, in
misery’s every refuge, where vain man in
his little brief authority had not made fast
the door and barred the Spirit out, he left
his blessing.”
You need the blessing of the Christmas
Spirit. I nee.l it. Everybody needs it. And
there is only one way to get it.
That way is by radiating good-will one’s
self, by substituting kindness of heart for
hardness, by opening wide the windows of
the soul and letting in the sunshine of true
fraternity. It is in the power cf every one
of us to do this.
Illness need not prevent, or adversity, or
a long sequence of distressing events. Man
always can control his sentiments if he but
choose to be superior to the forces that
would crush and drag him down.
“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable sool.
"In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried iloud:
Under the bludgeonings of Chance
My head is bloody but unbowed.
"It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll;
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.”
Don't iity yourself tomorrow, brother.
Don’t lam.’it, "If only Christmas could
mean something to me.”
It can mean something. It can mean much.
It should mean much.
Make it mean much to you by smoothing
out the wrinkles, by banishing the frowns,
by summoning the smiles —and, above alk,
by helping to make it mean much to others.
That always is the secret of Christmas
happiness. It is the secret of happiness every
day in the. year—generous thinking, gener
ous doing. And if perchance the fire of gen
erosity has almost died away within your
heart, begin tomorrow to fan it to a full
blaze again.
"All who joy would win
Must share it—Happiness was bom a twin.”
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
WHAT CHRISTMAS HAS TO SAY
By Dr. Frank Crane
We have heard from the muckraker, and
the Bolshevik and the martyrs, and the in
jured, and the submerged, and from all the
apostles of protest.
• The newspapers have teemed with the de
tails of our unending quarrel.
Republicans have lambasted Democrats,
and Democrats have denounced Republicans,
and the Socialists have scored them both.
Capital and labor stand facing each other
in their grim trenches.
Labor'unions tell us of the deceitful greed
of employers, and employers’ associations
warn us against the dangerous aims of la
bor. . .ii
Isn’t it time we heard what Christmas has
to say?
Christmas comes this year opportunely.
The war’s over. The election’s over. The
industrial slump (let us hope) is over.
We have fought the good fight. We have
manfully bloodied each other’s nose.
Christmas rings the bell. The round is
over. Let us stop, shake hands, forget a
spell that we are competitors, contestants,
in duty bound to hate, and remember that
we are all, after all—
Human beings.
Let the bells ring out, that there are in
the United States no more Republicans, no
more Democrats, no more Capitalists, no
more wage-earners, no more Jews, Gentiles,
Catholics, or Protestants.
We are brothers.
Each one of us lay, not long ago, on the
breast of some woman, drew our sustenance
from her mother-bosom, and looked up help
less and dependent into her eyes.
Each one of us, very soon now, will give
a last weary sigh, and lay down the burden
of life, and enter Upon the Great Unknown.
Why quarrel?
And if so be, by our coarse texture, we
must fight, beneath the patient stars, why
not, at least once a year, declare a brief
truce, for Christmas?
And recall that Eternal Bababy in the man
ger, and the Eternal Mother who bore Him?
Mr. Harding, the people chose you. and
we will do our utmost that you may suc
ceed From next March on you are not the
leader of the opposition, you are the presi
dent of the United States, and we pledge you
our utmost support to make your adminis
tration a success.
Labor Leader, Capitalist, Irishman, Eng
lishman, German, Russian, Standpatter, Rad
ical, Old Folks, Young Folks, Grandfathers,
and Little Babies, let us try to understand
one another, then, if we must fight, we shall
fight fairer.
Let us get together, just this Christmas
once, and try to understand.
For, as the French say, "to understand all
is to forgive all.”
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES
A Scot was taken out of the train at
Willesden for being drunk and disorderly.
He had got into bad company, he said. "Bad
company—how?” the magistrate asked.
"Weel, sir, ye see, I had twa boatties o’
speerits in ma bag an’ a’ the ither men in
ma compairtment wis teetotal.”
Sandy entered the grocer’s shop.
“Ah want a oounce o’ tea an’ a pound a’
sugar,” he ordered, adding, “an’ me mither
says ye’ve ta gie better weight than ye’ve
dun lately.”
"What!” exclaimed the indignant grocer.
"Dis your mither think Aa dinna gie
weight?”
Sandy—Ah dinna ken.
Grocer—Weel, tell your mither that if Aa
thocht Aa wasna’ gien’ weight Aa couldna’
sleep at nichts, an’ that Aa’s very vexed at
sioh a message.
Sandy returned to the shop a few days
later, when the grocer asked him what his
mother said about the weight.
"Weel,” replied Sandy, "she says ye must
ha’ lost a lot o' sleep lately!”
"I should like to go to New York,” said
the weary and subdued traveler.
"Are you asking for information,” said
the young woman at the desk “or are you
merely telling your troubles?”
THE DRY POINT OF VIEW
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20;—More laws
to enforce prohibition and stricter
enforcement of the laws already
passed.
This Is the gist of the belligerent program
with which the Anti-Saloon league ap
proaches the beginning of a new administra
tion. It is backed by a congress overwhelm
ingly pledged to enforcement of prohibition
and to no modification of the laws in the
way of leniency, and it is faced by the fact
that the prohibition amendment is being
widely and variously broken.
The question of enforcement is now ad
mitted to be the crucial one. That is, there
seems to be no doubt but that the prohibi
tionists can pass all the laws that are needed.
They dominate not only congress, but most
of the state legislatures. Thirty-eight states
have already passed enforcement codes, and
it is predicted that most of the others will
speedily do so.
But passing a law is one thing and en
forcing it is another. In spite of all these
laws, liquor is pouring into the country over
both borders and through every port. It is
being taken out of bond and sold. It is
beihS Illicitly made and sold. It is being
made in many homes by the occupants
thereof for their own use, and these illicit
makers of beer, wine and whisky include
persons of a great variety of classes, poor
and rich, rural and urban.
Can this wave of lawlessness be checked?
The prohibitionists have presumably con
vinced the American electorate that prohibi
tion is a good thing if it can be made ef
fective. But if it cannot be made effective,
if it gives rise merely to an elaborate system
of law-breaking, then the question legiti
mately arises again as to whether it is a
good thing in such circumstances. In other
words, the best point of attack which the
■ opponents of prohibition have is that a law
: which cannot be enforced is worse than no
law at all, and that intelligent regulation,
which could be enforced, would undoubtedly
be better than complete prohibition which
cannot be enforced.
Prohibition on Trial
The prohibitionists evidently realize this
fact. Prohibition may be considered to be
on trial now as a practical proposition, just
as it was on trial for a long time as a theo
retical proposition. If enforcement Is made
year by year more effective it will be hard,
indeed, for the opponents of the law to make
an effective attack upon it. If the wave of
law-breaking gathers and spreads, if the law
is a dead letter in a considerable part of the
country, then prohibition will be attacked
as a practical failure, whatever its theoreti
cal merits.
The present situation seems to be about
this : Whisky of the standard distillery
brands can be purchased in most large cities
by anyone who can pay from $8 to 12 a
quart for it. Various moonshine brews can
be purchased in many rural sections. Cer
tain alleged medicines, containing large per
centages of alcohol and prescribed on the
bottle to be taken in doses of several glasses
a day, may be purchased at very reasonable
prices in drug stores and delicatessen stores
almost everywhere. Above all, almost any
one who has ordinary cooking facilities can
make in his home either ale, beer, wine or
whisky, and beyond a doubt great numbers
of persons do so. How can all these breaches
of the law, and especially the last one, be
stopped?
We talked this matter over with Wayne
B. Wheeler, who is general counsel for the
Anti-Saloon league, and has often been re
ferred to as the brains of that organization.
‘His. point of view is most interesting and
presumably may be taken as representative
of that of the actiy*.- prohibitionists in gen
eral. A prJiounu faith in law and in police
power is the basis of Mr. Wheeler’s philoso
phy. He sees the present wave of law-break
ing as a mere temporary thing which will
inevitably, be crushed.
“The law-breaker always fails,” he says.
“He may give us a lot of trouble, but we
will get him in the long run.”
Campaign Against Lawlessness
He outlined at some length how the illicit
sale of liquor would be checked by laws gov
erning the disposal of whisky in ware
houses. by strengthening the enforcement or
ganization, and by a campaign of education
against lawlessness.
"The man who breaks the law is a traitor
and ought to be shot,” he said. He added
that the American people could not hope to
stamp out bolshevism and anarchy as long
as they tolerated the lawlessness of those
who break the prohibition amendment. The
Anti-Saloon league, he intimated, will devote
much of its educational effort to driving
home this idea. In other words, it will try
to make the man who breaks the prohibition
law an object of social odium. That is un
doubtedly one thing which is lacking. It is
considered no disgrace to "make your own.”
The best people do it. The methods are dis
cussed at the most fashionable and otherwise
respectable gatherings.
The prohibitionists recognize this as a
lamentable state of affairs. They realize
that men db not fear the punishments of the
law half as much as they fear the bad opin
ion of their fellows. They propose, there
fore, to make the liquor law-breaker a pariah,
to put him in the same class with the
bushy-bearded, bomb-brandishing Bolshevist
of the cartoons.
This would be easy if he were an isolated
figure. But it will be hard when there are
large, solid blocks of such law-breakers,
when whole communities and especially
whole social classes feel the same way
about it.
The Elusive Home Brewer
Mr. Wheeler was convincing in his state
ment of how prohibition will be enforced,
except in the matter of home-brewing. There,
indeed, is the difficult part of the job. To
restrict the sale of malt and hops will hardly
solve the problem, for you can make a good
beverage out of almost any fruit or vegeta
ble, and the ways of doihg it are multiplying
and spreading. Unless the right of a man’s
home to be free from search without war
rant is abolished, so that prohibition agents
can ransack our houses at regular intervals
for evidence of liquor making, the preven
tion by police power of home-brewing and
distilling seems hardly practicable.
This is tacitly admitted to a certain extent
by the prohibitionists who say that they de
pend on their campaign against the spirit of
lawlessness to do the work. Mr. Wheeler
adds to this another argument.
“The making of various home-brews,” he
says, “is novelty now. But the novelty will
wear off, and it will be forgotten.”
This is an interesting speculation. It 1«
a bit confusing to the unprejudiced inquirer,
because, when the prohibition movement was
in the propaganda stage, we were told that
drinking alcohol was an Insidious and tena
cious habit. If once a man got in the habit
of drinking liquor, we are told, he would do
almost anything to gratify the appetite so
acquired. Surely if this is true, the home
brewer’s love for his brew will grow rather
than dwindle with time.
We ventured to point out to Mr. Wheeler
that many who break the prohibition law
do so in the belief that it is a violation of
their personal liberty, and that they are,
therefore, justified in lawlessness. It was
inquired what would be the prohibition reply
to this viewpoint.
"There is no such thing as personal liberty
J I ’EMBER
ArounJ the World
Tri-Weekly News I Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Unwelcome Eels
The good ship Alice Howard swallowed
an eel, and ferry service between Kittery,
Me., and Portsmouth, N. H., was stopped
until its throat could be cleared. The trou
ble was diagnosed by marine doctors as di
gestive and was traced to the injector.
There it was found the pipes were clogged.
A search of the feed tank was made with
the discovery that a large eel, with an
equally large family of young ones, had
clogged the pipes.
Seize Arms
The time for the voluntary surrender
of weapons having expired, the German
disarmament commission has ordered the
beginning of the military search of every
house in Germany for guns. The carry
ing out of the order in greater Berlin was
begun in the Bavarian quarter, once a
fashionable residence district and still
the home of many prominent persons in
cluding Dr. Peters, a disarmament com
missioner. The district derives its name
from the fact that the streets are named
after various Bavarian notable person
ages and Bavarian towns and villages.
Record Tail .Spin
What is said to be a world’s record tail
spin was made at Carlstrom aviation field
at Arcadia, Fla., by Lieutenant B. J. Tooher,
u’ho flew to an altitude of 12,000 feet tail
spinning fifteen times to an altitude of 5,000
feet and then making a perfect landing.
Officers at the field say this is the longest tail
spin on record.
Pasteboard Hal
A pasteboard hat provided with elastic
band loops so that the purchaser may cover
the crown and brim with cloth or fur, has
been patented by A. T. Kirby, an inventor, of
Newport, R. I. These covers can be changed
at the various seasons of the year.
Music for Ballots
Music has charms to catch votes, according
to Republican Congressman-elect Fred B. Ger
nerd, of Allentown, Pa., who states in the ex
pense account of his campaign he spent $96,-
04 for "rendering vocal selections at political
meetings.”
Standard Time in Salvador
Adoption of a standard time in Salvador,
beginning January 1, 1921, was announced in
a government decree Issued last week. Here
tofore Salvador time has been approximately
33 minutes slower than Washington, but un
der the decree it will be one hour behind,
which will make the time in Salvador the
same as central time in the United States.
An effort is being made to induce other Cen
tral American governments to take a similar
step.
Coal Production
Coal production in West Virginia his yejo
increased more than 3,000,000 tons, as com’
pared with 1919, according to the annual re
ports of producers made public here today.
The increase was registered in spite of the
fact that 27 of the largest producing com
panies reported a decrease of more than 1,-
000,000 tons under the 1919 record.
Price of Peace
Expenditure of $1,651,191 by Amer
can delegates to the peace conference at
Paris, as shown in the report filed with
congress by President Wilson, will be in
vestigated by the house.
“We want to find out how many bot
tles of champagne were paid for out of
the $283,560 reported for food, hotel and
kitchen supplies,” said Representative
Rogers, of Massachusetts.
"I want to find out how many broken
chandeliers had to be paid for out of
$125,870 reported as payment for dam
ages to the Hotel Crillon.”
National Gambling
Nearly $2,000,000,000 changed hands this
year as a result of the gambling mania, ac
cording to estimates made in Washington on
the basis of information reaching government
officials through official and unofficial chan
nels.
Treasury department officials are deeply
concerned over the situation, wnich indicates,
they say, that the United States is still cling
ing to wasteful and extravagant habits that
grew up since the war.
The situation has been brought to the at
tention of Secretary of the Treasury Houston.
Director William Mather Lewis, of the sav
ings division, now is considering whether an
appeal to the public through ministers and
civic societies would be effective.
Chinese Quake
.An earthquake was felt at Pekin,
China, last week. The earth tremor
rocked buildings and created much ex
citement in the hotels and clubs.
Albania Joins
Albania was elected a member of the
League of Nations by the assembly of the
league at Geneva last week. This nation had
previously been denied admission.
Policewomen Wed
Chicago is having trouble keeping its jh>-
licewomen. During the last year six of the
most valuable officers have quit the force to
be married and others are expected to resign
shortly.
Slavery in Scotland
Less than a century and a quarter ago the
workers in the coal mines and salt mines of
Scotland were legally bound to the places in
which they were employed, were bought and
sold with them, and when they attempted to
escape were pursued, arrested and returned.
Their children, if once employed, became
subject to the same servitude.
Fort Memorial
A rather unique ceremony is to take
place in Dougherty county, Georgia,
Tuesday, December 28, when the first ar
tesian well bored in the state of Geor
gia will be donated to the county of
Dougherty and dedicated as a memorial
in honor of the late Colonel John P. Fort,
known in Georgia as the leading agri
culturist of his day and the man who
introduced artesian wells in the state
and deserves credit for the great bene
fit which resulted to agricultural inter
ests by their general use.
under a civilized government,” said Mr.
Wheeler. "Personal liberty ends where pub
lic wrong begins. There is only civil liberty,
which is liberty under law.”
This impromptu statement must evidently
be taken as suggestive rather than complete.
It leaves one to puzzle out for himself the
nature of a civil liberty which is not per
sonal, and how public wrongs should spring
from individual rights. None the less, Mr.
Wheeler makes the prohibitionist point of
view pretty clear.
"Better law enforcement. More laws. And
the man who breaks them is a traitor and
ought to be shot.”
Whatever else it means, It evidently means
business,
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cate, Inc.
A man writes me that he doubts his
fiancee’s affection for him because she is
always extolling the charms of a certain
movie hero, and he wants to know if I think
that the girl cau really love him while she
raves about the soulful eyes and Greek pro
file of the gentleman on the screen, and
sighs to be made love to as men do it in J
novels and on the stage, and never do in
real life.
Pooh. Nonsense. As long as a man
anything to be jealous of except a film, he’s
in luck. There is no danger of that break! Ki
ing up his happy home if only he has
enough to realize that the girl’s axlmtratiou ■
for this stage hero, whom she has never g
seen in the flesh and probably never will Jfe
is just a little romantic meringue on tn****®
lemon pie of life. She enjoys just a bite of
it now and then, but she doesn't want it for <
a steady diet, and she no more desires real- J
ly to marry the mau than she would to
live on pastry. It’s roast beef, and potatoes,
and a good, steady *elier with a snub nose,
and no roll to his eyes that a woman a fnts ■
for regular consumption.
As a matter of fact, every husband and 4
wife in the world has one of these io.agi
nary rivals. Generally it is a hero in a 1 ook.
Sometimes it is an actor or an actress
Generally it is no one particular person. It
is just the man or woman we didn’t marry, ■
and who is so different from the one we I
did marry. _ B
With the man, the woman he did not I
marry is always young and beautiful. When
he looks across the table at the woman he I
did marry and perceives her fat, and griz
zle haired, with sagging cheeks, and triple I
chins, he thinks how different she is from I
that Other One who would have the glory
of eternal youth and beauty about her.
And the woman he did not marry would
have been some sort of miracle worker who
would 'never have bothered him about mon
ey. She would have presided over a house
that was always spick and span, in which
there were perfect meals, and plenty '
heat, and light, and well trainol servants,
but there would have been no bills to both
er him, and no deadly, “Will you leave me
some money for the children’s shoes, and
the laundress, and to pay my milliner?” shot
across the breakfast table to ruin his day
for him.
And the woman he didn’t marry would
have been a sweetly reasonable creature who -
would always greet him with a glad,
smile when he came home at three p. nuT
and told him how glad she was that he took
a little diversion with the boys. And she
would know that because a man is married
doesn’t afflict him with any kind of astig- ,
matism that prevents him from taking note
of a pretty face, or a trim ankle, that hap
pened to drift across his vision. She would
Lnot be ja woman with a mania about hav
■pg show up on time of an evening,
mor ATOitlrb.she be filled with deep, dark sug.-
picions oT’rvery girl who is half her age ami
weight at ./hom her husband looks, as is 1
the wife of his bosom. •
A beautiful and lissome young creature I
who is never sick, who aas no nerves oi ‘
temper, who was born with a permanent
wave in her hair, with Paris clothes grow
ing on her back like feathers on a peacock,
and who can live on air, that is a man’s ,
mental picture of the woman he didn’t mar
ry, and that is the deadly rival with whom ;
he is always comparing his wife in his —1
thoughts. ■
Os course he knows that no such person a
exists, but all the same, she is a kind of con- ■
solation to turn to when the real wife calls I
him to book, and grows hard to live with. I
The man a woman didn’t marry is the I
perfect lover. He would have wooed and ■
won her in romantic situations, and talked ■
sentiment to her in poetic language, andaß
popped the question to her in a frenaiecj®»
outburst of passion which thrilled her to rewM
member to the last day of her life. He wouIM&
never have said, “Gee, Mary, but I
strong for you. What do you say to our geH|i
ting tied up in double harness?” as did
man she married.
And the man she didn’t marry
never have wearied of talking sentiment
her. He would have continued to klmi
for forty years with an ardor that nevßg||
abated. He would have told her that
grew more beautiful year by year, and
would have sung paeans of praise in hoißfl|
of her housekeeping.
He would never have had to be
to come back and give her a
peck on the cheek when he started to woH9B|
in the morning. He would never have
minded her that she was taking on
and growing old. He would never, never
demanded to know why she couldn’t learn
make pie like mother’s, as does the unaHSS
preciative man to whom she is married.
The man she didn’t marry would
known that she was all soul, that she wHS|
somehow different from other women,
that the reason she never could keep
butcher’s bill within reason, or have me<K|ra
on time was because she wae a genius
had thrown away a great career by maki|9»|
the mistake of getting married instead WH
elevating the stage, or writing a
And he would have understood that
she got angry and was ashamed of it afteH9|
wards that it wasn’t really temper, but
because she was temperamental and
stiung, and he would have sympathized
her instead of telling her not to act likeWii
fool, as does the man to whom she is maIWM
ried.
And the man she didn’t marry would bavHS|
been able to make money with one hand
romantic love with the other, so to spealSi
In real life a woman generally has to chooftKa
between the man who can give her a limouß|
sine and the one who can entertain her,
the man a woman didn’t marry isn’t
down to an office. He can take his wife to V|
afternoon teas, and play golf with her of 111
mornings, and he is equally strong on poe- l||
try, and the stock market.
A woman knows that, in reality, them H
isn t any man like the one he didn’t marry
but she gets a lot of fun in thinking about ■
him, and dreaming about what might
been, and then she comes down to eartlSl
and is Quite satisfied with her own
monial who is cut off of the
piece of imperfect humanity that she is.
It is this vision of the romance they
never had. that makes men and women
in love with the stars of the screen. And
is a perfectly harmless and safe way
blowing off sentimental steam.
Women Are Qualified
Many LaGrange women cook on gas stJI’WS
therefore they ought to be able to
hold their ,wn with ordinary male
although today’s politics is more wi
time cannibalism than modern
LaGrange Reporter.
The women may be depended
“hold their own.”
Nobody Doubts This ‘..j
Tlie throne of Graeco Ilr> t wort]®
as it used to be and still is wrffl
Ciinstant ine is the only one that
found his position.---
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