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The Star of Lee
ALL men and all nations would do well
to make the birthday of Robert Ed
ward Lee a shrine in their “sessions
of silent thought.” Life came to that high
»oul of his, as it comes to all, with hard and
bitter issues. He met them as a soldier whose
battle was not of flesh and blood alone, nor
only of earth and time, but of celestial
sinews, and of values eternal. Quietly he
met them, as one too noble to bluster, too
staunch to complain, and went his way oc
sorrows — a knight in arms, a child in hu
mility.
Any age would do well to meditate upon
this companionable and star-like spirit who
came to the Old South’s happy soil, a son
of her godliest traditions, and dwelt gently
among his people, and lovad his America s
flag; and then, brought tragically to grips
with an issue that shook and wrenched the
nation’s soul, chose as neither self-interest
nor self-desire impelled but as the oracle of
duty inspired. Especially will this age and
this nation of ours, with its wealth of things
but its all too frequent dearth of thoughts
beyond them, do well to contemplate one
who turned his back upon the chief honor of
the hour that he might stand unpretentiously
true to the faith of his heart and to the fire
sides of his Virginia. “I told him,” said Lee,
touching the visit of General Blair who
brought him the president’s offer of the
command of the army of attack, “I told him
3 candidly and courteously as I could, that
aough opposed to secession and deprecating
.-ar. 1 could take no part in an invasion of
lie Southern States.”
Os Lee, the shining warrior and incom
?.rable strategist, impartial history has left
□thing to be said. But that inner hero,
■hose sword flamed a light that “never was
) sea or land!” The world will be many
operations, mayhap many centuries yet,
iarning the full stature of bis spirit, the
ill splendour of his life. His intellect com
mands instant admiration, and his character,
> :th its sublime note of duty, wins instant
■wering. But beyond these and above them,
Mty as they are, stands a Lee who baffles
U'en while he lifts up these little hearts of
*nrs —the Lee who would not harbor bitter
fftss, nor hate his enemy, the Lee who re
:ounced high emoluments at home and high
honors abroad to become a humble school
ftaster to Southern youth and give them
-trough the kindling touch of his darly life
i message which they and all America sorely
the Lee who, when urged by zealous
>*ficers of his staff, in the last flicker of
‘he Confederacy's hope, not to surrender but
» disperse his army into guerrilla bands,
'’splied (“with a sort of solemn anger” as
•Vilson observes) “You must remember we
•re a Christian people. For us, as a Chris
dan people, there is now but one course to
irtrsue. We must accept the situation; these
nen must go home and plant a crop; and we
oust proceed to build up our country on a
lew basis.”
To that utterance, falling like a great light
mon the dark of the South’s and the Union’s
nost fateful hour, is due not only the be
;nmlng of a new South but of a new America
well and a heritage today of faiths and
Aspirations which otherwise might never
svre flowered . Mighty of deed, mighty of
wind, noble of character, majestic of soul
:fiis knight of the South, this life that is
-'9O, Still,
3 star
inacons from the abode where the Eternal
ar®.”
It ought not be any harder for a man to
refuse a woman who proposes matrimony
ban it fa for him to let her hang to a car
trap—Toledo Blade.
No Nation Prospers Alone
IT was not a visionary idealist but a cool
eyed man of affairs, Mr. Charles H.
Sabin, one of the country’s foremst
'nanciers who declared the other day;
When the war ceased, shortsighted men
bought that the United States, with its
reat riches, would escape the effect of the
wful destruction of life and industry and
•’ealth in Europe as they had unwisely be
ieved we could stay out of the conflict, and
light prosper indefinitely upon the urgent
eeds of the remaindei of the -world. Here
gain the law of international economic re
’itions, that no nation can prosper by itself
• '.one, haj been fully proved. The economic
aralysis that began with the belligerent na
ons, slvwlv spread until it effected every
luntry throughout the world.”
America no more can afford to stand in
ifferent to the interests and destinies of
vo or three hundred million people on the
ther side of the sea, than her own mer
chants could ignore the good Ci ill fortunes
her own farmers, and no more than in
telligent farmers, for their part, could dis
egard those conditions of industry and
-•usiness that determine market develop
hents. To imagine that we have no stake
tj the peace and prosperity of Old World
Countries, simply because a few thousand
*ftWes of salt water roll between us is to
everlook the plainest facts and strongest
forces of modern history. It is to over
look. for one thing, an array of revolution
izing inventions and discoveries- —the steam
ship that crosses the Atlantic in five days,
airplane, that crosses in thirty-six
the wireless message that crosses in
thirty seconds. Atlanta is much nearer
Paris and Vienna today than ‘he hills on
which she sits were to New York when
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL*
President Washington was inaugurated.
More than ever before, the life of the
world —economic, political and social —is
the life of an organism, the life of a living
body, in which no member dare say to an
other, “I have no need of thee.”
There once were business men who
thought we could conduct international
affairs as if these facts and principles
were non-existent; and there still are pol
iticians who think so. Most men having
practical interests involved have already
learned better, have realized bow deeply it
behooves them to go to the aid of Europe’s
enfeebled industries with long-term credits
and with other helps to rehabilitation.
The South’s recently organized internation
al banking company is but one among
divers practical movements to that end. Tn
time, will not the Hiram Johnsons and the
Borahs come to see, in terms of statecraf
what the eye of business long since envis
aged in terms of economics?
*
Congress makes a grave financial error ev
ery day it delays substituting a “being oored
tax for the amusement tax. —Kansas City
Star.
Threatening the Rights of the
Southern Ports.
GEORGIA and her neighbor common
wealths are materially concerned in
plans now maturing to -withstand the
recently revealed designs of certain eastern
transportation interests to destroy, if Possi
ble, that system of freight rates under which
the ports of the south, as well as those of
the North Atlantic, are given fair opportuni
ties in the nation’s export trade. Delegates
of the South Atlantic States association and
of the Mississippi Valley association will
meet at Washington, D. C., on Wednesday
and Thursday of the current week to take
action on this issue in connection with a
program for upbuilding the merchant marine.
At the same time, and largely for the same
purpose, representatives of middle-west in
dustry and commerce will be in conference.
All these, it is expected, will make common
cause in the face of a common danger, and
vigorously resist the efforts to re-establish
the unjust and unreasonable export freight
tariffs which formerly obtained.
Those tariffs were such as to force into
the over-crowded terminals of the north
east tonnage which naturally would move
byway of such outlets as Savannah, Charles
ton, Wilmington, Brunswick, Jacksonville
and New Orleans. Shippers in the . great
central manufacturing territory of which
points like Toledo, 0., and Indianapolis, Ind.,
are pivots, might wish to route goods to
Latin America through Gulf or South At
lantic ports, those being the shorter ways.
But under, the old system, which the eastern
lines now propose to restore, this could not
be done, because rates were fixed arbitrarily
with a view to compelling those shippers to
take lines leading to the northeast. Thus
southern railways and southern ports were
excluded from business which rightfully be
longed to them. Thus, too, manufacturers
and exporters in the central west were ex
cluded in numerous cases, from the most
economical and expeditious shipping routes.
At the same time terminals and ports in
the North Atlantic region were ofttimes so
congested as to make efficient service im
possible. During the war period this state
of affairs grew so menacing to national in
terests that the government was constrained
to intervene and divert to other routes some
of the enormous excess of tonnage which an
arbitrary rate system forced along certain
lines.
Under the federal administration of rail
roads, these wrongs were rectified, not alto
gether but to an important extent. In an
nouncing the new policy the director of
railroad traffic declared: “We have de
termined to treat the ports of the country
as a whole instead of as sectional affairs.
We want to equalize port rates and charges,
as far as we can, so that tjje great producing
sections of the country can get to the sea
ports at the lowest possible cost.”
It is upon this wise and just principle that
the interests concerned in the rights of south
ern ports have taken their stand. They ask
no indulgence, no favors, no mite of special
privilege. They ask only a fair deal. And
the common country’s vi-elfare, no less than
their own demand that (hey have it.
Chicago hotel men are said to favor re
storing pre-war rates on rooms and food.
Well, wel, if they are agreed, who is left to
object.—Pittsburg Sun.
Let Georgia's Light Shine
THE announcement, made at the recent
Macon meeting in the interest of the
“Advertise Georgia” campaign, that
approximately one hundred thousand dollars
has ben subscribed for the first year’s pro
pram of that fertile project, is highly sig
nificant and heartening. The sum itself is
modest inee.fi beside the magnitde and im
portance of the work to be done. A million
dollars might well be thus invested; and ere
long, it is to be hoped, the present subscrip
tions will be multiplied at least five or ten
fold. But the beginning which has been
made leaves no doubt that Georgians are
wakening to the need and value of letting the
light of their resourceful commonwealth
shine, instead of remaining half hidden to
the nation and the world.
Gathered at the Macon conference were
representatives of some fifty commercial or
ganizations, leaders in industry and in agri
culture, prime movers in educational and
civic affairs, men and women whose hearts
are devoted to the building up of the com
mon good. Out of that council came, not
simply the news of the one hundred thousand
dollar fund, but a workmanly enthusiasm
that is certain to kindle a host of others to
interest and action. The thought of a greater
Georgia, after long lying as a dream or a
wish in Individual minds, is now organizing
itself, is drawing together for concerted and
definite action hundreds, who formerly
planned and worked apart, s undertaking a
practical program which good citizens all can
support.
Effective advertising consists not only in
publicity but also, and chiefly, in deads.
Reputation, whether in the case of men or of
businesses or of states, counts qnly to the
extent it is lived up to. The lasting force
and charm of the story that Georgia has to
tell will depend upon what she is doing while
she tells it. Her wondrous resources of soil
and forest and mine, her rich opportunities
in industry and in commerce b?th domestic
and foreign, her wealth and diversity of
natural inducements to the home-seeker and
investor all must be reinforced by enlight
ened an.fi constructive policies carried out in
the daily life of her people. Quite properly
therefor', a large part of the “Advertise
Georgia’' work wil have to do with enter
prise and development at heme. The im
provement of farm methods, the extension
of good roads, the providing of adequate mar
kets .the upbuilding of the common schools,
the encouragement of production both indus
trial and agricultural, the support of all that
makes for prosperity and progress—these
will be among the prime aAd constant pur
poses of the undertaking. Is not such a
movement worth while? Does it not merit,
and will it not receive, every loyal Georgian’s
co-operation?
Shattered romance caused Tulsa girl to
drink poison. She had to swallow one hun
dred eggs io save her life. Everyone in
Tulsa seems to be rich. —Omaha News.
A CURE FOR DREADS
By H. Addington Bruce
RECENTLY I have read a book which I
wish could be in the hands of all
nervous patients, particularly those
tormented by unreasoning dreads of any
kind. It ie the latest book by that admirable
New York medical writer, Dr. James J. Walsh
and is called “Religion and Health.”
Speaking with a conviction born of long
experience, Dr. Walsh extols religion as one
of the best of all cures for the morbid fears
so common among the nervous. People who
truly “get religion,” as he rightly empha
sizes, are by the very fact of their strong
religious faith given a peace of mind that
banishes all unreasonable doubts and anx
ieties:
“If a man or a woman is convinced that
there is a Providence that oversees human
life as well as the universe, in Whom ‘we
live and move and have our being,’ and of
Whose infinite knowledge and power we can
have no doubt, the unreasonableness of
dreads comes home to him.”
And, recalling the fact that many other
veteran physicians see in religious faith a
wonderful remedy for dreads, Dr. Walsh
quotes Sir Dyce Duckworth, the distinguished
English physician, as writing to an anxiety
beset friend:
“In my experience the only solution of all
our difficulties is to maintain a humble,
childlike faith and a confident trust in the
perfect love of God. With that there need
be no fear, and all will come right in His
own time. ,
“That is the faith to live by and die with,
and the happiest people are those who hold
firm by that faith. That is my experience
after much thought, much knowledge of hu
man nature, and not a little study of all the
difficulties you relate to me.”
Moreover, besides pacifying the mind, re
ligion has the effect of inciting to altruistic
—that is, self-forgetting—activities. The
truly religious do not hold self foremost in
their thoughts. They are zealous in good
works for others, in sacrificing themselves,
if need be, to render useful, helpful service.
And self-forgetfulness, as every medical
man well knows, is an essential in the cure
of dreads. If those who dread were not so
much concerned about themselves they would
obviously be less anxious regarding the un
toward happenings they fear may befall
them.
“Get your mind off yourself,” all enlight
ened physicians today urge the phobiacs who
come to them for advice and treatment. Dr.
Walsh would add:
“And turn to religion as a potent aid in
getting your mind off yourself. Pray, go to
church, meditate on spiritual truths, associate
with religious-minded people. In proportion
as religious faith takes possession of you,
dreads will take flight.”
But his teachings should be studied in their
entirety to be fully helpful. Get his book and
read it with a receptive mind, you who have
to confess yourself among the abnormally
worried and anxious.
(Copyright, 1921, by the Associated Newspa
“ pers.)
“AND THE LITTLE TIN SOLDIER
IS COVERED WITH DUST”
By Dr. Frank Crane
After all, destiny gets things done her own
slow way and strange.
All our machinations, policies, organizations,
creeds, gospels, and parliaments are bubbles on
the stream.
If, as the clearer thinkers have insisted, war
is an anachronism, the holdover of a past
thought and custom upon the modern world,
an exhalation of rotted mediaevalism, or the
dying spasm of the decapitated rooster of
monarchism, then mankind will grow out of it.
It will pass, not because we fight it, but be
cause it has ceased to amuse us.
“Culture,” said a philosopher, “is the rising
process of a series of disgusts.”
We do not quit bad habits because they are
wicked, but because we lose interest.
We opponents of war have perhaps been
lured by the too easy task of disproving its
logic.
It does little good to show what asses na
tions are to go on building warships and sup
porting armies in competition, when they could
accomplish the same end and play the same
game of rivalries much cheaper if they would
all agree to strip down to one battleship and
one regiment, because they all know it.
It is of no use to demolish the reasons for
militarism, because there isn’t any reason.
It is of no avail to waste wind appealing to
the intelligence of the race-hate mongers, trou
ble makers, and Chauvinists, because they have
no intelligence; they don’t need any in their
business; all they work with is prejudice, ego
tism, and the gang spirit.
But destiny is busy in a wiser way.
That the soul of the world is passing out of
the war-lust stage, as individuals grow out of
puppy love and marble playing, is indicated by
a curious incident in the news items the other
day. It is a small straw, but it shows the way
the wind blows.
For it shows that children are getting tired
of playing war.
And -fallen children no longer love to play
with tin soldiers, the next generation will cease
to indulge in the luxury of real soldiers.
“The little tin soldier is covered with dust,’
said the poet, and it seemed a wilder prophecy
than “the Parliament of Man, the Federation
of the World.”
Yet, according to the dispatches, the toy sol
dier was not much in evidence in the London
Shops in their Christmas week decorations.
The war, it is stated, in addition to building
up the British toy factories, has developed a
demand for a new type of toy—the structural
steel and block game by which the child’s own
inventive ability is .brought into play.
The iron fire-engine, the rag doll, and the
monkey-on-the-stick have given way to toy
games requiring thought and skill.
An English writer tells of a class of sixty
boys in an elementary school who were asked
what toy they desired for Christmas. Thirty
two declared for structural games, eighteen for
fretwork, three for magic lanterns, five for
stripe work outfits, and the others for miscel
laneous articles.
That little boys are turning away from pop
guns and lead soldiers, and toward building
blocks and structural iron toys, is not without
significance to the thoughtful.
(Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane.)
About Feminine Fashions
Who is responsible for modern feminine
styles? If women elect to wear styles pre
scribed by French desingers, and many of
them do, who has a reasonable right to in
terpose an objection” It was a long leap
from the -hoop-skirt age to the s’-ort “tube
skirt” era, but who ic so unthoughtful as to
recommend a backward movement?
The Valdcsta Times says, in discussing the
subject:
“Women of fashion have blamed their
clothes—or lack thereof-'■on the mode de
signers in Paris, but now these, in response
to recent ecclesiastical denunciation one and
all assert that they are helpless before the
determined demands of the women of fash
ion. Some of them admit that they are con
cerned in the change of modes—perpetual
motion of this sort being the life of the trade
—but insist that the changes must be accept
able to women of fashion. Among the lat
ter we may look for come-backs as usual/’
CITY RUBES
By Frederic J. Haskin
NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 15. —The idea,
usually so popular with city people,
that all rube live in the country,
seems to lack force in New York this season.
Too many people are being cleverly separat
ed from their small change. For in the wake
of the crime wave has come a - epidemic of
petty graft, to which the shrewd, sophisticat
ed New Yorker has succumbed as easily as
he did to last year’ flu, showing himself to
be quite as gullible as his rural relatives.
Hardened shopkee ers of long city train
ing have been buying fake furs and paste
jewels with a reckless good mature that
would astonish even a suburb, and thousands
of canny Broadway residents have been con
tributing to fake causes with a sentimental
abandon rarely exhibited by the citizens of
small towns. In spite of all the talk about
money being light, beggars and fraud
specialists are having a nicer time in New
York this year than they have ever had be
fore.
Here is the sort of thing which is con
stantly happening to enliven the atmosphere
along Broadway and Fifth avenue.
The other night a friend of the reporter,
a shrewd young business man in Wall street,
was on his way Lome when he was accosted
by a well-dressed, well-built stranger, who
stretched forth a gloved hand in delighted
recognition.
“I don’t suppose you remember me,” said
the unknown one, with an admirable mix
ture of cordiality and reserve, “but I have
seen you so often on the street. I’m employ
ed in the next office buildin 0 you know,
Here in New York we don’t speak to people
so readily as we do in my home town, but
I’ve often wanted —. Well, I’m awfully
lucky to run into you now, for I’m in need
of help. Just had an accident and had to
haul my car into a garage about three blocks
from here and now I find I’m just five dol
lars short on the repair bill. Worst of it is
I promised to meet my wife at the station
this afternoon. She’ll be loaded down with
Christmas junk and won’t have a cent left.
As soon as I caught sight of you, though, it
occurred to me that you might be able to
help me out.”
A New Touch
At this point, the stranger drew forth his
wallet and disclosed a fat roll of small bills.
“I’ve got fifty-three dollars here,” he
smiled drolly, “but the repair bill is fifty
eight.” Then, with engaging frankness: “I
am going to ask you if you can let me have
the extra five until tomorrow morning. I
can run right over to your office from mine
in a few minutes anc hand it back to you.”
“That’s all righ...” interrupted our friend
uneasily but agreeably, taking a five , spot
from his much mailer roll of bills. “Glad
to let you hav it. I may need some help
myself some time.”
And that was the end of the incident —ex-
cept that the cordi 1 stranger has never
been seen since, and inquiry in the next of
fice building revealed no information con
cerning him. But a few days latbr, the
morning papers warned their readers about
this partcular form of “touch.”
It is extraordinary to wha; lengths the
small fraud artist will go to obtain a five
spot, as the young assistant of a well-known
woman philanthropist here can tell you. This
young woman was qi.ietly cataloging in her
office, the other day, when nice-looking
young man, with soft brown eyes and neatly
combed pompadour, attired in immaculate
clothes, dashed excitedly in the door and ask
ed to see Mrs. J., the young woman’s em
ployer. , , „
“Where is she?” he demanded, his face
flushed apparently from the exertion of run
ning. “I must see her at once. I ran all the
way up here from the hotel down the block.
Gone to lunch? Oh, I say, that’s tough. Is
there an: way I can reach her immediately
—you see. I’m in a rather embarrassing pre
dicament.” „
“I’m afraid I don’t know where she is,
said the assistant, but she ought to be back
in about an hour.”
“What am I to do?” exclaimed the young
man dramatically. “Perhaps you can advise
me. Yon see, I’ve asked a girl to lunch, and
when we were seated at the table down
there at the hotel, I suddenly discovered I
didn’t have a scrap of money on me. All in
my other clothes, you know,” he explained
in evident embarrassment. 'So, knowing
Mrs. J. very well, I thought .. could just run
up here and get a loan from her, but I sup
pose it’s no use. I can’t leave the young
lady waiting for an hour.”
The Boeris Friend
The young assistant was sympathetic. She
thought the young man looked very boyish
and helpless, and she felt sorry for the dam
sel, who was about to be deprived of her
luncheon with him. So she took the fifteen
dollars he said he needed from from her
own purse and insisted upon hl:’ accepting it,
in perfect confidence that he would return
it as he said he would, the next afternoon.
But when Mrs. J. returned, the young as
sistant was dismayed to learn that that good
lady had never heard of Gavin Courtney, the
name the young man gave, nor did she know
any young man who answered his descrip
tion. * A few days later, however, when she
described him to the police, they seemed to
be on quite familiar terms with him.
One of the most expensive cases of fraud
which recently occurred on Fifth avenue in
the shopping district was one > which that
most sophisticated of humans, a professional
chauffeur, was hoodwinked.
The man’s employer, a very wealthy
woman, had just removed her twenty thou
sand dollar sable coat from storage in a fur
rier’s shop, and upon returning to the car,
left it in his care while she continued her
shopping. As the chauffeur waited, a strang
er sauntered up and engaged him in conversa
tion about the town, the weather and about
various makes of cars. Then he sauntered
on, and in a few seconds another stranger
appeared on the block staggering in an al
most forgotten manner. The chauffeur found
this second man so interesting that he fail
ed to see the first stranger circle the car
and calmly remove the sable coat. The first
he knew of the incident was v. hen a police
man came and informed him that a bus con
ductor, from his position on top of an Avenue
bus, had seen it go.
Tlie Reluctant Slot Machine
While sleight-of-hand work of this descrip
tion is constantly increasing, it must not be
supposed that New York has been free of
petty fraud until this year. As a matter of
fact, it has always suffered more than any
other city in the United States from this
evil. In away, New Yorkers have become
accustomed to it, as they have to other
metropolitan inconveniences. There are the
,slot machines on the elevated and subway
stations, for example. A slot machine is an
innocent apparatus in itself, and is a great
boon to a gum-chewing public, but the slot
machines of these stations are graveyards of
ruined hopes. They are supposed to contain
chewing gum, and occasionally they do. but,
ah, how often they don’t. Yet never are
they emnty of nickels and pennies thrust in
by trustful persons who sigh and swear and
miss their trains in an effort to get some
thing out.
But perhaps the most suspicious establish
ments in New York are the hat-checking
narlors. where surprising frauds of one kind
and another are always coming to light.
Most astonishing of these waa grooves?
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 4921.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Generous Gift
South Carolina cotton growers have of
fered to contribute $250,000 worth of cot
ton to the American Jewish relief com
mittee and the Near East relief, and have
called upon western grain growers to con
tribute a like amount of their product.
This announcement was made by Henry
H. Rosenfelt, national director of the Jew
ish relief committee who explained that
the southern growers had adopted resolu
tions expressing their desire to help the
>overty-stricken people in tne Near East,
out setting forth their inability to make
tash donations, and offering their product
j Instead.
Against Smoking
The president and even senators and rep
resentatives in Washington might have to
take to the streets to enjoy cigars, cigarettes
or pipe as an aid to statesman-like reflec
tion if a bill offered by Senator Smoot be
came a law. It forbids smoking in govern
ment departments of “any independent Es
tablishment of the government” as a fire
protection measure and its language was
held to include the White House and capitol.
A recent fire which destroyed census bu
reau records, attributed to a cigarette,
prompted the Utah senator’s proposal.
Opium Smugglers
Coast guard cutter service is restored
to Hawaiian waters, after an interval of
nearly four years, with the arrival of
the Eagle boat Earp. It will tie stationed
permanently at Pearl Harbor for exclu
sive duty about the island ports.
Dispatch of the Earp from Mare Isl
and followed the request of customs au
thorities for a ship to undertake patrol
duty because of unusual activity on the
part of opium smugglers.
Large amounts of the drug have been
confiscated in the island during the last
few weeks. Customs authorities, aided
by divers loaned by the Pearl Harbor
naval station, recently took from the bot
tom of Honolulu harbor nearly 800 tins
of opium, valued at $90,000.
SIOO Shoes
Two pairs of shoes designed to sell at
retail for SIOO a pair and said to be the.
most expensive ever made in Massachu
setts are exhibited at a factory at North
Adams. One pair is made of patent kid
leather with pure gold leaf lining and gold
underlining of all perforations, gold hooks
ind eyes, and has a S2O gold piece in
serted in the heel on each side. The other
iair is of tan, with a lining of bright red
satin and a gold watch of the wrist type
nserted in the left shoe just above the
inkle.
Lenin Bombed
Russian newspapers received at Lon
don describe a desperate attempt to as
sassinate Premier Lenin near the Krem
lin, in Moscow. While he was speeding
to a meeting o fthe Soviet congress in
a heavily guarded automobile, a bomb
was thrown from a house. It missed Le
nin’s car, but it struck the cne following,
killing six guards. Three civilians were
wounded. Twenty arrests were made.
Bulgarian Retribution
The wives of prominent Bulgarian poli
ticians and generals are being called to ac
count by the Bulgarian government whenever
it is proved that their influence over their
husbands has caused a political or military
disaster to the nation.
The wives of several public men and gen
erals have already been made responsible by
the Bulgarian government for the disastrous
results of the war owing to the influence
they exerted over their husbands, says the
newspaper Atre, published m Sofia.
It is believed in Sofia that the sentiments
of a number of Bulgarian women caused a
movement for a greater Bulgaria which in
fluenced the country to enter the war on the
side of the Central Powers.
Chilean Nitrate
The Nitrate Producers’ association, with
its headquarters at Valparaiso, Chile, has
recommended that its members sharply re
strict production owing to “the difficulties
of the world’s commerce, which is reflected
among consumers of nitrate, who are espe
cially affected by the enormous fall in prices
of the principal articles of consumption.”
It is estimated that the accumulated stock
of nitrate in Chile on December 31 amounted
to 1,200,000 tons.
Neglect Wounded
More than half the sick and wounded sol
diers and sailors of the world war being
cared for by the public health service are
in hospitals of “flimsy or inflammable con
struction” or otherwise unsafe, according to
a letter from Surgeon Geenral Cumming read
in the senate by Senator Ashurst ,of Arizona.
Wisconsin Roads
Road building on Wisconsin highways in
1920 totaled 1,461.3 miles, according to a
report issued by the state highway commis
sion.
Belief that construction work this year
will be carried out - under more favorable
conditions than in 1920 was expressed in
the report.
Fierce Fighting
Severe fighting between Bedouins and Dru
zes in Syria is reported in a Cairo dispatch to
the Central News. The Druzes are said to
have lost 1,500 killed, but it is asserted the
remnants of their forces are preparing for a
counter offensive.
The Bedouins are one of the nomadic Arab
tribes inhabiting Syria, Arabia and northern
Africa. The Druzes inhabit the southern
ranges of Lebanon and the district south of
Damascus andmave for SOO years maintained
their independence. This race is warlike,
and, for the most part, adheres to a secret
religious belief which in general is an off
shoot from Mohammedanism.
recently made when a couple of hat check
boys got into a fight. When the guests
rushed into the check room and succeeded
in separating the irate rincipals they found
that the cause of the hostilities was a spool
of white thread.
By degrees, the story came out. It seems
that when a stingy dancer or diner refuses
to tip for an unnecessary brushing off, he is
permitted to get just as far as the door.
Then a boy . .’itely requests him to stop.
Rushing up to the guest’s back, the boy be
gins to brush off cluster of white ravel
ings, conveying at the same k'me his keen
distress that such a well-dressed gentleman
should be so careless. This it where the
white spool of thread comes in. and also its
immediate result —a dime. Always a dime,
and sometimes, if th guest is mucl embar
rassed, a quarter.
Thus, don’t be too impressed when you
hear about the sagacious invulnerability of
the New Yorker. Live here for a few months
yourself, ind you will find him out,
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Appertaining to and Con
cerning Cheerfulness
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.
A CORRESPONDENT asks me if I wity
tell her how to acquire the habit o»
cheerfulness, and the art of bein<
merry. •
Well, of course, the real recipeyfor becom
ing a human sunbeam is like that for acquir
ing a beautiful complexion, ou have to be
born with it. All others are mere camouflage
and makeshifts, but, just as by care and at
tention, and a copious use of cold cream you
can improve a bad complexion, so, by the ex
ercise of thought, and philosophy and a liberal
application of the salve of diplomacy, you
can brighten up a pessimistic disposition.
To one wno would fain take an optlmiscrc
outlook on the world, I wou.it* Totommend a
good course of liver medicine as a starter
along the cheery road. Nothing puts such
hope in your soul and strength in your char
acter, as a judicious dose of caramel. When
ever you have that dark brown taste in your
mouth, and life becomes ashes, cinders and
dust in your teeth, beat it for the nearest
drugstore. The subsequent results will leave
you loving your fellowman, and convinced
that God is in His Heaven, and all is right
with the world.
So many things that we think are spiritual
are merely physical. Most grouchiness is the
result of dyspepsia. Morbidness is the out
ward and visible sign of flap-jacks and sau
sage within, and nearly all irritability is over
wrought nerves. Good health would, cure
most of the wrongs of society, for wfien we
are feeling good we act good.
So if you want to be cheeful, look first to
your liver, for not without reason do the
Turks speak of one they love as “The joys of
their liver.” Nobody can smile the smlle
that-won’t-come-off unless that organ is do
ing business properly at the old standard.
And If you get up in the morning with a
chip on your shoulder, and a yearning to
fight anybody in sight, and if everything that
everybody says to you irritates you beyond
endurance,' don’t go on a debauch of tears,
and melancholy, in which you have a perfect
ly grand time viewing yourself as a martyr
who is misunderstood and not appreciated,
ock your door ,and go to bed and stay there
until you are rested, and fit for family con
sumption once more.
Having got your body in the proper state,
the next aid to cheerfulness, is to adopt a
sane attitude toward life. Try to see things
in their right proportions, and not make
mountains out of molehills. Suppose life isn’t
all you want. Suppose you have disappoint
ments and disillusions. Suppose you even
have great griefs. Does any good come of
whining over your misfortunes, and hugging
your sorrows to your breast?
Me are sad and gloomy because we are al
ways demanding of Fate: “Why should I be
sick? Why should I be poor? Why should
1 , los ® those I love?” We should be more
cheerful if we could see ourselves as the poor
insignificant atom that we are, and ask of
destiny: “Why, of all created human beings,
should I be the favored of the gods and spared
the common lot?”
The next aid to cheerfulness is to forbear
from borrowing trouble. Most of our sorrows
are sorrows that we never have. We worry
ourselves ill over the misfortunes that never
happen to us.
This is particularly true of women who
have shed ’oceans of tears over sorrows that
never come to pass, and who never enjoy to
day for fear something untoward might hap
pen tomorrow. I once knew an old lady
more than comfortably well off, who lived a’
dull, drab life because she feared she might
lose her money and be sent to the poor
house. She might have had pretty clothes, a
beautiful home, travel, everything to make
1 bright and cheerful, and she denied her
self all of them because she was dreading that
a thing that was not within the bounds of
possibility might happen to her.
She has many sisters In melancholy. You
see many mothers-who do not enjoy their
children because they are afraid they might
get sick, or die, or go wrong when they grow
up. You see many wives who worry them
selves to death lest their husbands should
cease to love them when they get old and
fat. You see many women who never us®
their pretty things, or wear their good clothes,
because they might possibly need them twenty
years hence.
The next aid to cheerfulness is making th®
best of now and here, of getting every pos
sible drop of happiness out of the present
situation. Suppose it is raining today, and
you had planned to go on a picnic. Quit
fretting over the picnic, and do some one of
the thousand entertaining things that a rainy
day is just designed for doing.
Suppose you have to work. Have enough
intelligence to realize that there is a million
times more fun in working than there is in
any play. It’s the great game with the big
stakes. Suppose you have had heart-break
ing sorrows. You can bear them with a cour
age that lifts you above all petty trials of
life, and lights the fires of victory In your
soul.
And the final aid to cheerfulness is to es
tablish the habit of looking on the bright Bid®
of things, and of smiling instead of whining.
You can cultivate hope just as easily as yon
can despair, and with just as much reason,
for the law of average always holds good.
There is just as much sunshine as there is
rain, just as much happiness as there is sor
row. Things are just as liable to turn out
well as to turn out disastrously. We can say
with just as much truth of misfortune, as we
can of god luck, that this too shall pass
away.
Cheerfulness is worth cultivating, because,
like virtue, It is its own reward. It brings
us health and happiness, like virtue, it is its
own reward. It brings us health and happi
ness, because it is like a sun shining in our
own souls. It brings joy and contentment
into a household, where a cheerful woman is
like a warm fire upon the hearthstone. And
it brings prosperity to us because people like
to do business with an optimistic person.
The habit of cheerfulness is the concrete
expression of the brave attitude towards life.
It is only the hwoes who smile and carry on.
The cowards grouch, and gloom, and whine.
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
Two Chinese sought to settle a difference
about a missing dog before an American
judge in a far western township. Neither
could speak a word of English, so the im
patient judge asked the interpreter to find
out what kind of a dog it was. The ques
tion was put, and the Chinaman replied
something like this: “Yung kin a hoenkn*
yob fuwl ee ai kskv la; seelwik’ho yng pung
hi eekiskcoofilee ynung hoo; tsi ti foo
bylfki bi png beela kski la boonyung hi kski
ja—”
At this juncture the judge interrupted
brusquely and demanded of the interpreter
again what kind of a dog the trouble was all
about. The interpreter replied:
“A black dog, your honor.”
“Thank you,” said the judge, awarding
damages to whichever of the cispstants un
derstood him first, adding; “And see here,
young feller, it’s a good thing for you it
.wasn’t a black: and tan/’