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In Piscatory Paradise
rHE “piscivorous gourmand’’—and it
may be that beneath those startling
words many an upright citizen can
identify himself—will rejoice in the revival
by a New York newspaper of a clipping from
“The Cook’s Oracle,” a learned discourse <n
culinary affaire written by one M illiam
Kitchner, M. D., and “adapted to the Ameri
can public by a medical gentleman” m the
year 1855.
The volume deals in highflown phrases
with various and sundry methods for the
preparation of food, but the particular memo
randum that will strike the fancy of the
reader during these wintry months is that
devoted to the oyster.
“Oysters are in season from September to
May, but approach the meridian of perfection
during December and January,” declares the
American medical gentleman who revised Mr.
Kitchner’s work. “Common people,” he con
tinues, “are indifferent about the manner of
opening oysters, and the time of eating them
after they are opened; nothing, however, is
so important in the enlightened eyes of the
experienced oyster eater. Those who wish
to enjoy this delicate restorative in its ut
most perfection must eat it the moment it
is opened, with its own gravy in the under
®hell; if not eaten while absolutely alive its
Havor and spirit are lost. The true lover of
'll oyster will have some regard for the fecl-
Igs of his litle favorite, and will never
Abandon it to the mercy of a bungling opera
w 'or. but will open it himself, and contrive
■ !o detach the fish from the shell so dexter
ously that the oyster is hardly conscious he
has been ejected from his lodging till he feels
ihe teeth of the piscivorous gourmand tick
ling him to death.”
A humanitarian fellow was this American
medical gentleman, or perhaps Mr. Kitchner
himself, one judges from his advice; but
above all, a connoisseur of the flesh-pots.
One who has known the luscious fry and the
savory stew, as well as the baked dish they
serve in New Orleans, may hesitate before
agreeing with him that the oyster is a better
morsel alive than dead. At the same time,
one is bound to be impressed by the authori
tative manner in which this physician lays
down his oyster laws, to say nothing of the
exquisite delight he takes in lingering over
the details.
No mere scrivener was he, no grinder-out
of encyclopedic Information; but one who set
pen to paper upon a subject most dear to
his heart. One can imagine him, heavy with
oysters, penning his notes dreamily, or per
chance pausing in the midst of a phrase to
crack a shell or two and whisk forth the un
suspecting bivalve, dangling in wriggling as
tonishment on the end of a fork, to provide
food for reflection as well as for the inner
man e’er vanishing down the long red lane.
One is tempted, reading after the author of
“The Cook’s Oracle,” to go and do likewise,
were it only for the satisfaction of smiling
tolerantly when a friend mentions “oyster
stew,” as much as to’ say, “Ah, my dear fel
low, you are evidently not a piscivorous gour
mand!”
♦
The Lure of the Long Trail
THE age-old lure of “what’s around the
corner,” largely quiescent during five
years of war, appears to have been
revived in the hearts of men with a brighter
flame than ever, with the result that the year
1921 is likely to see more daring exploits in
in the realm of exploration than any of its
predecessors since Peary’s last dash for the
pole.
No less than sixteen different expeditions
already have been organized for work some
time this year in the fields of meteorology,
zoology, ethnology, geology and biology. What
other private adventures are planned, one
can only guess, yet there are doubtless many
others who will set forth on the long trail
withbut any world-wide heralding of their
Intentions.
Already Captain Raold Amundsen is away
up beyond Asia, “north of fifty-three,” wait
ing for the ice pack to break in the spring
that his ship may be carried by the flow on
ward to the pole. On the Kolyma river in
Siberia two men have set forth on a journey
of four thousand miles. Knud Rasmussen is
preparing for a five-year trip into the Arctic
to study Eskimo tribes. Donald MacMillan,
one of the men with Peary when he discov
ered the North Pole, announces he will at
tempt to circumnavigate Baffinland. Then
there is a British Antarctic expedition being
formed to make a dash for the South Pole
on a hunt for new whaling grounds, and
gold, silver, coal and ruby fields.
Nor is the land of the aurora borealis the
only mecca for the Drakes and the Colum
buses of today. Explorers are making their
plans to penetrate the interior of China and
the hermit nation of Tibet, South Sea Islands,
Ecuador and Peru, Mexico. Nova Zembla and
other romantic lands of mystery. A group of
American scientists, under command of Henry
Russell, of Columbia University, and Dr.
David Starr Jordan, of Leland Stanford Uni
versity, will explore the wild reaches of the
Amazon.
Thus they beckon —the long, cold trails to
the north, and the hot, wild trails of the
tropics, and man, the incurable gypsy, finds
them never more fascinating than now.
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL*
I For a Greater Georgia
MACON will be the scene of one of the
most important meetings in Geor
gia's history Monday, when repre
sentatives from every section of the state as
semble there to consider plans for complet
ing the three hundred thousand dollar fund
to advertise Georgia.
The work already done to procure the
fund will be outline in detail. Exactly what
remains to be accomplished will be set before
the meeting. Ways and means for finishing
the undertaking in the speedtest time possi
ble will be discussed, and organization will
be effected to carry on the plans to a trium
phant conclusion.
Upon the shoulders of the distinguished
Georgians who will attend the meeting to
furnish their advice and counsel, rests a re
sponsibility which their fellow citizens should
be quick to realize and eager to share in. It
will be theirs to lead the way, but a united
state is behind them to uphold their hands.
Georgia stands upon the threshold of a
great opportunity. As certain as tomorrow’s
sun rises, the next few months will see a
vast change in the business condition of the
country. The tide already has turned, and
he does not need to be a prophet who sees
in the years just ahead one or the most sub
stantial and steadily progressing eras in the
nation’s history.
The part Georgia shall play in that prog
ress depends largely on the foresight and
action of her people, not tomorrow, but to
day. The Advertise Georgia pian is one of
the soundest and most far-reacning in its re
sults that was ever conceived by any state.
It is no program of the minute, but a care
fully thought out system for increasing the
wealth and prosperity of the state through
forceful, infallible means. The advertising
program proposed extends over a period of
three years at least, -with the possibility that
it can be made the basis for a permanent
advertising burea- for the state. It is essen
tially practical, employing not only a direct
sales system to bring capital and desirable
citizens to the state, but “follow-ups” to nail
every prospect, and equal anc fair distribu
tion of inquiries and information so that it
will satisfy the applicants and ttie people of
Georgia alike.
There is no reason why Georgia, as a
state, should not use the same business meth
ods that every corporation employs with suc
cess. There is every reason for Georgia to do
it now, -when the time is ripe for action and
the future seems so golden.
A Soldier on Disarmament
WIEN so commanding a figure as Gen
eral Tasker H. Bliss steps emphat
ically forth for a policy of disarma
ment, no thoughtful group of men will stand
indifferent to his appeal. Testifying before
House committee on naval affairs, General
Bliss avo-ws his conviction that civilization
cannot much longer support the strain of
military preparation. The late war bent the
back of the world’s tax payers almost to the
breaking point. What will the next war do?
Or, to speak more to the purpose, what will
continued planning and spending for the next
war do? We must answer now in cool and
constructive reason, or we shall answer here
after in calamity if not chaos.
No one can appreciate keenly .lore than a
soldier of General Bliss’ practical outlook the
difference between feasible and foolish plans
for disarmament. Whatever in done in this
matter, he points out, must be done through
a joint agreement ot th< world’s leading Pow
ers —America, Great Britain, France, Italy
and Japan. He believes that if America j
should call for “a full, free and fair discus
sion of reduction of armaments, the favorable
response would be prompt and inevitable.
Further,
If such a conference were to be held,
and if the secretary were to make pub
lic every day an abstract of the proposi
tions put forward and the arguments
for and against, with the names of the
national rerpesentatlves who made them,
the common peopL- of the world would
not allow the conference to dissolve until
at least the first step had been taken. I
do not care what the cabinets of the
world think, the masses of the people,
who pay the taxes, have the vital interest
in this subject.
“The masses of the people who pay the
taxes!” There we have the heart of the
matter. It is their lives that will be pinched
and burdened and darkened, their homes
that will be made chill and bare, their rights
that will be sacrificed and their hearts that
will be broken, if enlightened efforts to stop
war and ’(reparation for war are not given a
fair chance.
Hard Cider
THE mystery of Attorney General Pal
mer’s ruling that “hard cider” does
not come within the limits of the Vol
stead act has been satisfactorily solved by
the editor of the Dallas, Texas, News, w’ho,
while disclaiming any personal knowledge
of alcoholic processes of any kind yet swift
ly and simply delves to the heart of the
puzzle.
The mystery, it seems, is no mystery at
all, for the attorney general had no choice
in the matter. “Hard cider” is merely the
juice of the apple, fermented. And the
business of fermentation is nobody’s business
but the apple’s. The juice of the grape and
the squeezings from the corn are not so ac
commodating. At least some effort on the part
of man is necessary to make them “hard.”
But the apple is its own brewer. Strain
the juice from it and leave it alone and al
most anything may happen. What is most
likely to happen, according to the Dallas
aditor, is fermentation. And who, he asks,
is responsible for that?
Not man, for surely he cannot be cen
sored for straining a perfectly harmless ap
ple. The apple, perhaps; but what sheriff
is going to arrest an apple? What judge is
going to fine an apple? And what prison
will the apple serve its sentence in?
In short, after the explanation of the Dal
las editor, one can only sympathize with the*
attorney general in his predicament and
agree with him that there was no other way
out —so long as the apple juice turns “hard”
without apparent intention of its owners.
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
She impressed upon all her friends how
much she loved fine literature. To Mr.
Author, whose name she would fain take,
she told the story of her literary devotion
with emphasis. “Then,” he exclaimed one
day, “you must worship Six Walter Scott —
his ‘Lady of the Lake,’ most wondrous of
books of a great author.”
“I do, I do,” she cried ecstatically. "And
Scott’s ‘Mannion’ and ‘Peveril of the Peak?’
he inquired. “Yes, yes, she averred joyfully
“‘Scott’s Emulsion,’ too*; ’ he further in
quired. “That,” she cried, “is the best of
the lot.”
The stranger approached the Washington
policeman outside the union station and ob
served: “Say, I want to go to the White
House.” “Now, look here,” the officer re
sponded peevishly. “You’re the ninth can
didate that’s come bothering me today, and
it. ain’t a bit of use. I’ve always lived right
here in the District of Columbia and haven’t
got a vote.”
PROSPERITY
By H. Addington Bruce
THE dictionary defines prosperity as
“Advance or gain in anything good
or desirable.” Also it gives the far
more limited definition, “Successful prog
ress in any business.”
This latter, unfortunately, is the defini
tion most people have in mind when they
think of prosperity. Many—including even
people of high political authority—seem to
regard prosperity as wholly synonymous
with business success.
We see so-called statesmen bending every
energy to increase the material wealth of
their nations. Huge manufactures, mam
moth crops, and ample markets for manu
factures and crops seemingly constitute in
their opinion the summum bonum of na
tional development.
And among the multitudes who make up
the nations a similar notion prevails.
"Get rich —at all events, get as rich as
you can,” is the popular slogan. Men, and
women too. sacrifice and strain in money
earning activities. To thousands nothing
matters except the securing of money.
Health itself is damaged to this end.
Spiritual realities are quite forgotten. Cul
tural interests claim next to no attention.
There is even a tendency to oppress the
weak —as when children are dragged to
mills to contribute to the wealth-accumulat
ing process and women are forced to slave
in sweat-shops that the "prosperity” goal
may be the more surely attained. Again
and again, moreover, despicable intriguing
is summoned to aid in the getting of gold.
Does true prosperity result therefrom?
I ask the wealthy man, lonely amid his
wealth, his mind barren of all interests save
those of the market and the amusement
place, his nervous system depleted by pro
longed money-chasing effort, his stomach,
his heart, his arteries degenerated—l ask
him, does he really deem himself prosper
ous?
I ask the statesman who beholds conflicts
and jealousies among the nations and in his
own nation an ever-increasing social discon
tent coupled with decreasing national vigor
—I ask that statesman if, after all, it is wise
to confuse prosperity with an obsessive aug
menting of worldly goods?
Long ago Goldsmith wrote:
“11l fares the land, to hastening ills
a prey.
Where wealth accumulates and men
decay.”
Business success is by no means the only
thing good and desirable. None can afford
to be blind to these other things, to leave
them out of the reckoning.
So long as they are left out true pros
perity must elude the seeker. And if they
are left out overlong even business success
may be transformed into catastrophic fail
ure.
As has been demonstrated in the case, not
merely of individuals, but of whole nations
who misidentified prosperity with the aug
menting of wealth. Recall the fate of Baby
lon, the fall of imperial Rome.
History, in matter of this sort, is all too
apt to repeat itself. While there yet is time
let the leaders of the nations of today guide
their people’s thoughts to the ideals which
alone can insure a prosperity that will be
enduring.
(Copyright, 1921 by The Associated News-
• papers)
THE ONE GREAT ISSUE
By Dr. Frank Crane
My dear Mr. Harding: I speak in the
name of a very large part of the citizenry of
this country who think that the supreme
duty of our Government is to do what it can
to stop war.
A good many of us were in favor of Mr.
Wilson’s policies, not because we were Dem
ocrats, but because he apparently was ear
nestly committed to a plan which he thought
would end that old system of international
relations w’hich caused war.
And many of us voted for you because we
thought that you and your party could come
nearer to obtaining a working majority of
legislators in forming some plan to obviate
another war.
Both of these sections think that if we
do not learn from the late conflict some way
to see that such a thing shall never happen
again, we shall be guilty of the most stu
pendous folly of history.
The voters repudiated your opponents and
elected you. We all accept you. You are
now no longer a Party Leader; you have
been promoted- You are President of us all.
Every loyal American wants you to be a suc
cess. We are good sports. And we realize
that our national and world-wide aims can
be realized only through your administra
tion.
All we ask of you now is to realize that
the over-topping issue is how the United
States can co-operate with other nations so
that another war, such as now is being freely
prophesied, can be prevented.
Besides this, all other questions are
dwarfed.
The business men of the country don’t
need Government aid or regulation. All they
ask is to be let alone.
The laboring men through their organiza
tions can take care of themselves.
People in America like to work on their
own initiative, and all they ask of Govern
ment is to maintain order, restrain violence
and make everybody play the game accord
ing to the rules.
Hence your administration, widely speak
ing, has little to do with regulating this coun
try except to keep Government from med
dling.
But when it comes to our relations with
other countries Government has everything
to do-
From our international relations may arise
those vast and disastrous cataclysms, such
as our late war, that wreck our whole do
mestic machinery.
Some thirty or more nations are struggling
along trying to make a League of Nations
function. Shall we join them, oppose them,
dr keep hands off?
In Russia is another international pro
gram, which has ramifications throughout
the world. It aims to overthrow the present
structure of civilization and substitute an
other. What position shall we take toward
this?
Earnest efforts are being made to reduce
the rival armaments of the nations, the quick
seed of wars, as well as the chief clog to
progress and burden to production. Shall
we help along here, or hinder?
In other words, Mr. Harding, the United
States is so self-sufficient that it conceivably
could run along four years without any Pres
ident or Congress; but as to our neighbors,
trouble-makers are busy, pessimists and
Chauvinists are working overtime, and the
Old Order, not yet abandoned, is pregnant
with new wars more horrible than the last.
What are you going to do about it?
(Copyright. 1921. by Frank Crane)
It Was This Way
The Atlanta correspondents are again re
porting the “snake that bellows like a bull
and eats cattle and dogs.” Those newspaper
boys up there certainly must be using a very
poor brand of 'shine. How about it. Jack
Patterson.—Dawson News.
You’re correct. It was the drinker that
bellowed and not the snake.
ARE THERE WITCHES STILL?
By Frederic J. Haskin
NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 12.—“ She’s a
witch!” yelled a woman in a New York
court room not long ago, and to the
surprise of the judge and some of the spec
tators, other women took up the cry. The
fact was suddenly revealed that numbers of
persons in the most civilized city in America
firmly believed in the power of the evil eye,
and that a baby had lost the use of its legs
because it had been cursed by a woman sup
posed to have that power.
The belief in witchcraft is supposed to
have perished in this enlightened country a
little over 200 years ago. Shortly after the
witchcraft persecutions which took place in
Salem in the 17th century, a whole literature
against the belief In witches sprang into be
ing. It began with books which admitted
that the Devil was a dangerous fellow and
apt to tamper with human destiny, but which
denied that he could do it through the me
dium of witches. Such arguments as this
were followed by others more and more rad
ical in tone, until finally the most intelli
gent came out flatly for the bold idea that
there was nothing in any of these supernat
ural ideas.
These bold intellectuals were at fiist re
garded askance, but they gradually prevailed.
People who believed in witches became
ashamed to acknowledge the fact. Most im
portant of all, the church and the law no
longer took official cognizance of witches, as
both had done before the year 1700. Witch
craft as a crime recognized by the statutes
ceased to exist.
Belief Still Alive
But the belief in witchcraft by no means
ceased, as the New York ladies recently dem
onstrated. Literal belief in witches who
commune with the Devil and cast supernat
ural spells is still common to a large part
of the human race. It is widely scattered
among the lower peasantry of Europe, and
by them is imported into the United States
with every boatload of immigrants. Fur
thermore. it still flourishes as an indigenous
product in many sections of this country.
Down in the southwest, for example, Mexi
cans and Indians still believe in it implicitly,
and to some extent openly. A Mexican wom
an in a southwestern town has been known
to spit in the eye of the baby in public, and
explain that she did it to protect the child
from the curse of a witch who was looking
at it.
Belief in witchcraft as literal and crude
as is indicated by this incident, and that of
the New York court room, may be compara
tively rare, or at least limited to a few very
ignorant classes of the population. But the
essentials of withcraft are still widely preva
lent. These essentials are ignorance and the
credulity that always goes with it, and per
sons who are anxious to turn both to their
own advantage.
By his belief in witchcraft, as in fairies,
ghosts and other supernatural phenomena,
the ignorant man is primarily expressing a
feeling that there are forces in the universe
beyond his ken. This is a sound feeling.
When you come right down to it, no one
can with certainty deny the existence of su
pernatural forces. The universe is infinite
and mysterious. The dogmatic scientist who
asserts that there is nothing beyond -what he
can prove by experiment has no way of prov
ing that he is right.
The sophisticated and educated man may
admit this, but he also realizes that if there
are supernatural forces, in the nature of the
case it is impossible to understand them. He
therefore confines his mental operations to
the world that he is able to apprehend with
Ms mind and his senses, and refuses to con
cern himself about the supernatural on the
ground that it is essentially unknowable.
But this position is possible only to a mind
somewhat trained and logical. The untrained
mind thinks not in terms of logic but of emo
tions and images. In other words, the ig
norant man is vaguely aware that there is
a supernatural world, and he necessarily con
ceives of this world in emotional and imagi
native terms. As sure as he thinks about the
matter at all, he is scared of ghosts, or has
visions of witches or fairies or hobgoblins or
something. He or she is generally a hard
working person, drugged by routine, and
therefore does not think of the matter much.
But that sense of the supernatural is always
there. It is always ready to flare up if it
has a chance. It usually cherishes in secret
some sort of delusion. How many persons
can you find among your acquaintances who
do not believe in any sort of superstition?
The great army of those who believe they
communicate with the dead by means of a
ouija board, and those who support our great
army of fortune tellers in luxurious ease are
the modern descendants of the witchburners.
Some of them are half-ashamed of their su
perstition and some are proudly in earnest
about it. But in all an instinctive belie* in
the supernatural, combined with a desire to
give the supernatural some definite form and
character, is at the root of it. It is very no
ticeable that women are more prone to these
superstitions than men, and the reason is that
women have more leisure, and are therefore
more cognizant of the mystic element in life.
They have more time to think about it.
This belief in the supernatural as an ab
straction is, as we said, inevitable. There is
something of it in every man. It is the root
of his religions sense. It is his instinctive rec
ognition of the fact that a finite mind cannot
possibly comprehend an infinite universe—
that thpre are vast areas of existence which
transcend the powers of the human mind, and
ire beyond all laws which it can discover.
Pride and Superstition
It is the tendency to manufacture this mys
tic sense into definite images which does the
damage. Man is full of troubles which are
due to the miserable precariousness of hu
man life coupled with the remarkable stupid
ity of human beings. But men, being a proud
animal, hates to admit that his troubles are'
due to the fact that he is merely unfortunate
and stupid. The child who burns his hand
does not blame his own stupidity. He blames
the stove, endows it with a malignant spirit,
and wants it punished. The savage who has
no luck in hunting does not blame his own
laziness and lack of cunning. He blames the
gods and makes a prayer to them. The be
liever in witchcraft likewise refuses to put
the blame for his troubles where it belongs--
on himself. Instead he picks out some neigh
bor whom he envies or dislikes and accuses
that person of being a witch and in league
with the Devil. Thus he at once dignifies his
own misfortunes and gets even with an en
emy.
And another element enters into the mat
ter here. There are usually leaders of the
community who are to some extent to blame
for the misfortunes of its members, and they
are only too glad to have the blame saddled
on some supernatural force Hence the sanc
tion which witchcraft long received from the
law and other high institutions.
It is easy to see how the psychological es
sentials of witchcraft still work among us.
All of our willingness to believe in bugaboos
conjured by our politicians is based on the
same credulity, the same ignorance, and the
same desire to find a dramatic cause for
troubles which are really due to our own stu
pidity more than to anything else. The ten
dency to blame all onr economic troubles on
"profiteers.” “Reds” and other such balf
mythical malefactors, is the same tendency
that made witchcraft popular with our an
cestors.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1021*
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Elk Hunting
Jake DeHart is smiling. And the elk in
Yellowstone Park are laughing.
There was little snow before Christmas
and the open season on elk ends that day.
Therein lies the joke.
Jake DeHart is state game warden In Mon
tana. He eays hundreds of hunters came to
Montana to kill elk.
There was plenty of forage in the national
reservation because of sunny skies and warm
winds.
When there are heavy snows ®the elk leave
the parks in search of vegetation.
That happened last winter. Solid ranks
of hunters waited at the borden of the park
for the elk to comi out. They slew 4.000.
Most of them took only hides, teeth and
antlers. Hundreds of carcasses were left
at the scene of the slaughter.
But even, if there are early snows next
winter, the elk may be safe. Naturalists
are trying to get the state legislature to en
act a protecting law.
Fairy Story
A. Conan Doyle creator of Sherlock
Holmes, and believer in spiritism, thinks
he has found some pictures of fairies in
action.
Not the stage kind.
But the fabled fairies.
He has contributed an article to a cur
rent magazine in which he tells about
accumulating a surprising number of ex
periences of persons who claim to have
seen fairies.
And he presents photographic proof in
the form of pictures with tiny fairies
dancing before s-me Yorkshire girls, who
took the snapshots.
“Bunk,” says Maurie Hewlett, another
English novelist.
And proceeds to argue the pictures are
fakes.
Chinese Trouble
After the looting and burning of the im
portant Yangtsze river port of Ichang by mu
tinous Chinese soldiers, the arrival of British,
American, French and Japanese gunboats has
brought an end to the outbreak. The insub
ordinate soldiers held undisputed possession
of the city, which numbers upward of 40,000
people, for more than five days-
Costly Hair
The young women who in several Irish dis
tricts have had their hair cut off by Sinn
Feiners for associating with the police and
soldiers have lodged claims for compensation
for malicious injury. The price they place
on their lost hair varies from $1,500 to $2,-
500.
Hun Imitators
German women have decided they
must have American pointed shoes. The
cobblers are lengthening their lasts.
Berlin shoe dealers who have large stocks
of round toes on their hands are busy
attempting to explain that the long vamp
is not hygienic.
New Invention
M. Damblanc, an engineer of Paris, has per
fected a machine which he calls the heli
coptere. The new invention, it is declared,
will enable a person to fall from a great
height without danger of injury. Damblanc
will give an exhibition test of his machine
by jumping from the Eiffel tower. He says
that the machine creates a vacuum by de
scending, thus retarding the body in the fall.
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Man for Sale
Obert Firmin, a native of St. John, N.
8., now in Chicago, and a deep-sea sail
or, is willing to sell himself for a year for
$2,500. His only restrictions is that who
ever buys him must not require him to
do anything unworthy. He attributes his
inability to get work to his unfamiliarity
with the ways of the "landlubbers.” He
says he does not want charity, but as
surances that his wife and baby will be
cared for.
Wolves Escape
Wolves escaped from a circus wintered at
West Baden, Ind., four years ago. There
is a pack of them killing live stock in Martin
county now. They eluded 1,500 men who
scoured thirty-five square miles for them.
Death House
Jack L. Kelloy, in the death house of Spald
ing county jail, is an aotor, interior decora
tor and musician. He sings and plays for
other inmates while awaiting the outcome
of an appeal from his conviction for the mur
der of a taxi driver.
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Italian Airship
Italy’s great airship, the Roma, is for
America. She was planned and built in Rome.
Early in the spring the ship will start her
flight across the ocean. The airship can
travel 3,125 miles without stop and carry 100
passengers. Her speed is fifty to sixty miles
an hour.
More American Students
American students are increasing in
Britain. The latest official figures place the
number at 180 in Oxford, 37 in Cambridge.
21 at Edinburgh, and others at smaller uni
versities.
Tea Trade
Several tea estates in Ceylon have stopped
producing and some have been offered for
sale. Cost of production averages 46 Ceylon
cents and prices obtained at auction average
3 4.5 cents. Reason for the slump is heavy
stock of low-grade tea held in London.
PRESS TALKJN GEORGIA
By JACK L. PATTERSON
'
Tax Exempt Bonds
The great number of heavy investors sub-j
scribing for non-taxable bonds during the'
general prosperity of 1919 and the first six'
months of 1920 resulted in a material re-1
duction of income tax returns, discussing'
which the Augusta Herald says:
“The surprising decline in income tax pay-1
ments during the peak of the prosperity
period, reveals how many weather people
have escaped taxation in large measure by
buying tax exempt bonds.
"Is it good business for public authorities
to keep on issuing bonds with this privilege?
The reason for so doing has been, that the
exempt bonds bring a higher price. But
probably the „ üblic gets the worst end of
the bargain. The higher price paid does
not compensate for losses in taxes.
"It would not be fair to tax securities al
ready issued on an exempt basis, without
making compensation to owners for the
higher price paid to get the exemption privi
lege But it seems doubtful policy to allow
any more of them to be issued. The* great
amount of the securities available permits
a big class of wealthy people to escape fair
taxation.” ,7
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Our Just Deserts
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.
NOT long ago, I met, on the other side of
the world, a woman who is no longer
young, and wb" suffered from an in
jury to her foot that made every step a pain
ful effort.
"Good Heavens!” I exclaimed one day
when I saw her face white and drawn with
agony after a long climb of some temple
steps, "Whatever induced you to undertake a
trip like this in your state?”
"Because,” she replied, “I am growing
old, and old people are necessarily left much
alone, and I want something to think about
in the long evenings when I Lave to sit by
the fire and knit. I’ll never lack for good
company now, because I’ll always have with
me the memories of the entertaining things
I have seen all over the world.”
Then she added: "I have spent a lot of
money in my life, but the only money that
I have spent that I still have, is the money I
have spent on travel. I enjoyed going to
places when I w r ent, and I have enjoyed
them ever since in retrospect.”
“Right-o!” I responded, “Talleyrand ad
vised everyone to learn how to play a good
game of whist in their youth, so that they
might not spend a miserable old age. Ho
might better have advised them to travel,
for the consolation prize of age is a rail
road or steamship ticket. Nothing else
makes old people so endurable to them
selves, or to others, as getting away from
home and getting something different to
think about and talk about.
"Indeed you might almost s«*y that travel
is a panacea for hal' the ills, bodily and
mental, and spiritual, that afflict humanity,
and that the best remedy for whatever ails
us is to take a trip somewhere.
"Especially is this remedy effective with
women, and more especially with middle
aged women. About the time a voman’s chil
dren get married, or settled in their careers,
she is apt to take a kind of slump and grow
fat and dull and uninteresting, and peevish,
and discontented. She isn’t satisfied with
her home, she finds fault with her husband,
and either becomes a morbid recluse, or
taken up with faddy religious, or literary
crazes.
“The reason is because she is bored. She
: has been busy all her life, and suddenly her
occupation is taken from her. Her job ie
finished. She is thrown back on herself for
amusement and companionship and she is
dull company for herself.
“The remedy for her case is a railroad
ticket. Let her get out of her treadmill into
fresh fields and green pastures. Let her go
and fill her mind full of new thoughts, new
impressions, new ideas, new experiences,
and she will come back home happy, and
contented, and with a sane viewpoint on life.
“Why, even a month away from home Is
equal to refurnishing the house from top to
bottom, and marrying a new husband, to an/
woman. £
“And there is nothing like travel as’ a
promoter of Christian charity. Most of the
gossiping and scandal-mongering, most of
the blackening of characters is done by
women who think that all the world must be
judged by their little inch-high standards,
and that everyone who doesn’t do exactly
as they think right is going to the eternal
bow-wows.
"They will tell you that Sally Sue Jones
is no better than she should be, because
they think her frock is an inch too low in
the neck, and too short in the skirt. They
will call Jennie Smith a huzzy because she
paints her cheeks. They look askance at
the man who is supposed to be flirting with
two girls at the same time. But when they
go to far countries where a woman is con
sidered modestly clothed if only her eyes are
hidden, no matter how much of the balance
of her person is naked, where even baby
faces are painted to show they have good
mothers, and where the more wives a man
has, the better citizen he is thought to be,
they find out that morality is merely a mat
ter of geography, and they are not so quick
to sit in judgment on others.
"For the only way to be . sure that you
live in the only place whose standards are
absolutely correct, and that you. way of
doing things is the only proper way, and
your point of view is "he only point of view,
is never to go anywhere else. The only peo
ple to whom Sqeedunk and Rabbit Track are
the centers of the universe, are those who
never get outside the limit of Sqeedunk and
Rabbit Track. ;
“Travel is also the only real cure for the
divorce evil, and for domestic infelicity gen--
erally. Most married couples really are
more fond of each other than the; think
they are. They quarrel because they are so
fed up oi. each other’s society that they have
gotten on each other s nerves. Years upon
years ago they said everything to each other
that they had to say. They have heard each
other’s pet stories and reminiscences over
and over again, until each feels like scream
ing when the other hits the old familiar trail
of the hoary joke, <,r the chestnutty recol
lection, which wasn’t interesti..;; in the first
place, and has acquired no charms through
ago.
“When things reach this pass in the fam
ily, if one or the other would only buy a tick
et around the world Instead of to Reno, how
much misery and heartbreak could be saved!
"Absence would erk its perfect cure, and
the traveled one would not only come back
with a fascinating line of conversation, but
after having seen ti c men and women of
many countries, would not find his or her
choice so bad after all.
"But the main advantage of travel is that
it gives you imperishable memories that
are a joy to you as long as you live. It -
broadens your horizon; it makes you a milrj
lionaire in experience; and you can never be
dull or lonely, because you always haver
thousands of strange peonies to bear you.,
company in your thoughts.”
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
Be sure your sins have found you out, if"
you were a candidate for office.
Too many men spend their time trying te~
make molehills out of mountains.
Don’t waste time finding fault with yourself,
that’s what your friends are for.
Girls, never keep a man waiting for an an
swer. He may have another engagement.
The S2O you pay for an article is its mar
ket value and the 30 cents a second-hand dealer
offers you for it is its intrinsic worth.
If a man has no eye for beauty and no ear
for music he doesn’t get all that is coming
to him in this world.
Beauty is only skin deep, Irat a sweet dis
position extends all the way throurn
Some girls are called “giddy” because uicj
make the young men’s heads swim.