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Ki F™ LV . Ik, 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. . s-;J .Atlanta i’ostoffice as Mai! &► *£;*’ B of the Second Class. und av, rri-W eek 1 y PRICE TRIWEEKLY Pi : j<7~lTaiij and Sunday flT\ ab!i Strictly in Advance) HBS&s¥ns«fl.... 2<>c &>e J2.ro $r..00 J>'.» .■ - Uk' 70c 2.00 4.00 7.30 7c 30c .:to I.7t> 8.25 Journal is published Thursday and Saturday and jgggß^&-flr> v the shortest routes for early Bptains news from all over the world, PHB|Hht hy special leased wires into our g|||flF It has a staff of distinguished con- BjWmt.ors. with strong departments of spe- value to the home and the farm, Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib ■ eral commission allowed. Outfit free, P Write R. R. BRADLEY. Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall. Jr.,’ W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. 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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- -...7 -Ip* y:. A'..) cam- uvr on the 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, I'he Imaginary w Copyright, 1930, by the 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.--- Times-Enterprise, fl