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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta, Ga.
America s Russian Policy
TOUCHING certain Bolshevist complaints
that the Washington administration has
discouraged if not actually stopped phil
anthropic missions in distressed Russia, Act
ing Secretary Davis of the State Department,
sets forth the facts with trenchant and con
clusive force. Writing to Judge Alton B. Par
ker, president of the National Civic Federa
tion, he says, in substance, that it is not the
American Government which has hampered
and disheartened relief work among suffering
Russians, but the Soviet Government. It was
Lenine’s own prefects who refused, last sum
mer, to permit Americans to feed starving
children 4 n the Polish territory, then under
Bolshevist dictation. “And in all that large
section of Russia (we quote, not literally, but
froth a press epitome of Mr. Davis’ letter)
which Bolshevism controls today, no relief
organizations have been allowed to operate
save in so far as all that they nave done has
been strictly placed under the control of the I
Central Soviet Commissariat.”
As for the statement that Americans are
restrained by their own Government from
commerce with Soviet Russia, the fact is that
they are quite free to trade or travel thither
as far as the Soviet regime will allow them.
That they do so at their own risk, however,
is not to be gainsaid or w’ondered at; for the
United States has not seen its way clear to
recognize what President Wilson well termed
“a non-representative Government, whose
only sanction is brutal force.”
It were bootless, of course, to argue with
blind Bolshevist prejudice. But it is well
that the American public and other nations
should know just how sympatnetic our Gov
ernment has been toward the scores of mil
lions of unhappy human lives who make up
the oppressed Russia of today. Never did a
people have a stauncher friend than the Rus
sian people have in the Washington Adminis
tration. Sooner and more clearly, perhaps,
than any other world-statesman, President
Wilson perceived the vast importance of rev
olutionary Russia to the issues of the war,
and to the ensuing peace. He perceived the
right of Russians to govern themselves as
their own minds dictated without any foreign
Interference, provided only that they
really governed. This principle, in its prac
tical application to the Russian welter, was
far from popular a few years ago; but it was
enunciated and championed by President Wil
' son then no less earnestly than today.
What this year, or the next, may bring
forth in Russia, only the event can tell. Bol
shevism has outlarted most expectations, and
its fever may have a wearisome, long time
yet to run. There can be no doubt, however,
that the people of that hapless land are in
grievous need of aid and of friends, or that
America stands ready to help in so far as their
tyrannous and churliih oppressors will per
mit.
Labor Saving in the Home
SOME interesting investigations have
been made by the Conference of Voca
tional Workers of the South, meeting
recently in Montgomery, Ala., not the least
of which was in the realm of the housewife.
One of the discussions concerned labor
laving in the home. As an experiment a
• pedometer was attached to a student in a
model kitchen, and she went through all the
movements of preparing the usual three
meals a day. When the pedometer was ex
amined at the close of the allotted routine,
it was found that the pupil had walked two
miles.
In other words, the Conference deduced
not only that the average housewife walks
two miles a day while cooking meals for her
family, but she travels fourteen miles a
week, seven hundred and twenty-eight miles
a year, and, adding the distance traversed
in dusting, answering doorbells, g r ing to the
telephone and the like, just about crosses the
continent annuall? without ever crossing her
threshold!
Os course, the answer to all this is for the
housewife to so arrange her rooms and her
methods that she wiv eliminate all unneces
sary steps, for, although talking spells
health, it is the hike outdoors, not in the
kitchen, that gets the desired result. Just
how her steps are to be eliminated the
housewife may determine; but, like many
discoveries, this one appears to offer more
problems than cures. In the mear’ime, the
Vocational Conference statistics will doubt
less give food for thought to the husband who
travels on the average of ten blocks a day
from home to street car. from street car to
office and back again, and Imagines he has
secured far more exercise than the one who
stays at home.
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Editorial Echoes.
We can’t see why the Bolsheviki seek new
■worlds to c nquer. Only one-eighth of the
Russians have starved.—Arkansas Gazette.
Make listening compulsory and it would
be no time at all until there would be a gen
eral demand for the abolishment of free
speech.—Toledo Blade.
Make the most of the Christmas present—
especially if you are unable to exchange it.
A Poetry of love is transformed into prose
” at the paregoric stage.
Our idea of a speaking likeness of a wom
an is a moving picture showing her chin in
aetiop,
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Georgia s Vital Interest in
the Agricultural Budget
THE South is peculiarly concerned in
the Federal agricultural appropria
tion bill as reported by the House
committee for the coming frscal year, be
cause of certain provisions that touch, the
vital economic interests of States like Geor
gia and her neighbors. It should be noted
at the outset that while the measure as now
drafted carries upwards of a million, eight
hundred thousand dollars more than in 1920,
this sum does not represent a real increase
if measured in terms of the great needs to
be served. Last year the appropriations rec
ommended by those who had given the mat
ter careful study were cut and slashed so
recklessly that the final allowance fell woe
fully short of practical requirements, and
work which ought to have been pressed vig
orously forward was left to lag. Notwith
standing this handicap, the department of
Agriculture rendered invaluable service, even
in those fields where its funds were most
stinted. But the highest efficiency cannot
make fift- cents equal to a dollar. The blind
ly penurious policy must not be repeated, if
the basic national interests involved in ag
riculture are to receive their due.
It should be observed, moreover, that one
million dollars of the so-called increase is
for the acquisition of additional forest lands
in the Appalachian and White Mountains.
The agricultural importance of these reser
vations in conserving moisture and controll
ing floods, as well as in protecting the head
waters of navigable streams, is not to be
overgauged. But with a million dollars of
the pending bill allotted tu that purpose,
there remains, for the ordinary activities of
the department, only eight hundred and four
thousand dollars of the increase; and certain
ly that is little enough, the manifold and
ever growing demands upon the department
being considered. The total appropriation,
out of which must be financed the "Govern
ment’s every activity in behair of the coun
try’s deepest and broadest material interest—
for agriculture is nothing less than that —Is
only some thirty-three and a half million
dollars, as against more than si:, hundred and
thirteen million for naval expenditures in
the current fiscal year. The program of na
tional defense to which America was forced
by world conditions during the last five or
six years was prudently conceived, and in the
light of that time represented true economy.
But assuredly there is no less of prepared
ness in the production of corn and wheat and
meat and cotton and wool, those mighty
staffs of national life and prosperity, than in
the building of battleships and training of
armies. Assuredly the Government can af
ford to spend the price of * cruiser or so
in promoting that fundamental Industry, the
bringing forth of food and raiment, without
which a navy would be no better than drift
wood, and an army no more than chaff.
If any change is made in the amount of
the agricultural budget, it should be byway
ot increase, not of reduction. The South is
peculiarly concerned because among the items
recommended in the present draft are six
hundred and sixty thousand dollars for the
extermination of cattle tick and five hundred
and ten thousand for oombatting hog chol
era in this region; sixty-five thousand for
the administration of the Warehouse Act,
which has proved to be invaluable both to
farmer and to mercantile interests, more than
one hundred cotton warehouses having joined
the Federal bonded system, in Georgia alone,
during the last twelvemonth; twenty thou
sand dollars for developing the experiment
of making syrup from sweet potatoes, a man
ifestly feasible and highly promising indus
try; one hundred and seventy-five thousand
to enable the department to certify to ship
pers the condition of fruits and vegetables
upon arrival at destinations; and one hun
dred and fifty thousand for the safeguarding
of threatened field crops, particularly cot
ton in the boll weevil zone. But it is not
the South alone that is concerned, not even
In htese special items. The common coun
try’s interests are involved, vitally involved.
Let the budget, then, be passed as it is, or
liberally increased.
Many a man does nothing but hope from
morniner until night, then sits down and calls
it a day’s work.
A Highly Notable Event at the
Agricultural College
IF events were measured by intrinsic
value rather than by sensational effect
the opening of the anual “short
course” in the State College of Agi i
culture at Athens next Monday, would be the
most talked of topic in Georgia’s history of
the day. As it is, thousands of thoughtful
persons are keenly interested, and scores, if
not hundreds, will avail themselves of the
opportunities the school affords.
The result will be not only a gain for the
individuals who have the good fortune to
attend, but also for the State’s common in
terests. The lessons learned, the ideas ac
quired or awakened, the enthusiasms kin
dled, will make their way from farm to
farm and from community to community, en
lightening and enriching as they go.
The course of demonstrations and lec
tures this year will be concerned particularly
with direct and indirect means of combatting
the boll weevil, that stubborn and costly foe
of the cotton belt. Numbers of specialists
and an abundance of equipment will be as
sembled for this purpose. The indirect fight
against the weevil consists, of course, in di
versified farming, with special attention to
crops that can be converted readily into cash.
Besides practical discussions of every aspect
of these matters, there will be demonstra
tions in the killing and curing of the farm
meat supply, the finishing and grading of
a lot of market hogs; in the judging of beef
and dairy cattle, in pasturage and forage
crops; in the care of the home orchard, in
the divers problems of soil fertility and in
the use of tractors. “The work of the
school,” says the official announcement, “will
consist of ten demonstrations beginning at
2 o’clock on Monday afternoon, January
24th, thus permitting the students to arrive
on Monday and secure their accommodations,
and will last until noon Saturday, January
29th, permitting them to return to their
homes that day. Evening conferences on
marketing problems will be conducted by
Prof. M. C. Gay, Field Agent in Marketing,
and his assistants. We have in the past
neglected the marketing phase of farming,
giving our whole attention to production, but
prevailing prices demand that marketing re
ceive the same attention as production.” The
expenses will be limited almost wholly to
railway fare, lodging and board, and will be
in their entirety very small.
In offering this course for the benefit of
men in the midstream of practical affairs,
the State College of Agriculture is doing the
Commonwealth invaluable service. Production
from the soil is always of fundamental im
portance in our economic system; it is es
pecially so at the present juncture, when the
State’s prosperity depends, first of all, upon
a well balanced, well executed farm program.
You may have observed that a girl never
misses an oDoortunity to rush up and kiss
another girl if a certain young man is look
'ng.
Once in a while we meet a woman who is
as proud of her husband as she is of her
husband’s wife M
YOUR ENEMY
By H. Addington Bruce
YOU have an enemy in whose' case yon
simply cannot bring yourself to obey
the Biblical injunction. He has
wronged you too seriously. Forgiveness is
quite out of the question.
Well, if you cannot forgive him,, you can
at all events stop thinking about him. And it
is very much to your interest to do this.
For if you think about him your thoughts,
on your own statement, will hardly be "pleas
ant ones. Quite the reverse. They will be
bitter, angry, perhaps even revengeful,
thoughts.
Such thoughts, let me tell you plainly,
while they will not harm your enemy a whit,
are likely to harm you yourself a great deal.
Ponder what follows:
“Experimenting on a dog so conditioned
that the workings of its stomach could be
seen I once roused in this animal an angry
excitement by bringing a cat into the room.
The dog flew into a great fury, whereupon
the cat was removed and the dog pacified.
“Now some food was given to the dog.
In spite of the fact that it was hungry and
ate greedily, there was no gastric secretion
worthy of mention. During a period of
twenty minutes only 9 c. c. of acid fluid was
produced and this was rich in mucus.”
The dog, in other words, digested its food
badly because, as reported by the eminent
scientist quoted, it had allowed itself to be
come angry. Similar results have been ex
perimentally obtained, not only in the case
of other animals, but of human beings as
well. Angry thoughts almost always throw
the digestion out of gear.
They throw Qther bodily organs and proc
esses out of gear. The ductless glands are
unfavorably affected by angry thoughts, so
are the liver, kidneys, blood vessels, and
heart. Long continued anger may create a
condition of outright disease.
Which ot itself, should be sufficient reason
for your not thinking of your enemy at all
if you cannot think of him kindly.
Nurse a grudge against him, and even
though you may not therby disturb yourself
to the point of bodily ill health, you will at
least so disturb your internal processes as
to feel both physically and mentally below
par. Good haters are seldom the most effi
cient people in the world, if for no other rea
son than the vitality and efficiency-lowering
potency of hate.
Actually, therefore, by hating your enemy,
by brooding mournfully and angrily over the
injuries he has done you, you will only be
helping him to a further triumph over you.
Assuredly you do not want to help him to
th So, I repeat, if you cannot forgive him, for
get him. That, from any point of view, is
the wisest course left open to you.
(Copyright, 1921, by Associated Newspapers.)
♦
WHAT A WAR BETWEEN GREAT
BRITAIN AND THE U. S. A.
MEANS
By Dr. Frank Crane
We are in the habit of saying that war
between Great Britain and the United States
of America is unthinkable.
It is not. Anything is thinkable. Sup
pose we think of it.
For there is a very considerable element in
this country that is doing its level best to
bring on such alcalamity.
In the first place, there is an “ancient
grudge,” as Owen Wister has so vividly*
described for us, born in the War of the’
Revolution and carefully nursed in school
histories ever since.
Then there is the fact that, for the mob,
patriotism is always hate of some other
country rather than love of one’s own, and
Great Britain was our earliest foe.
Besides these, the natural friction and
envy between kin and of late the Irish ques
tion have added to the heat.
It is also quite the style for politicians
and newspapers, of the baser sort, to indulge
in the popular pastime of twisting the Lion’s
tail. i
It is from such small sparks that great
conflagration: grow.
Nobody expected the last Great War. It
“just growed.” And nobody expects a war
between the two great English-speaking
powers. But wars are not planned; they are
tremendous explosions caused by the growing
pile of (1) long taught hates, (2) carefully
nurtured jealousies, and (3) the possession
o great battlefleets or armies.
That pile is growing. All that is needed
is for some fool to drop a match in it and it
will blow up. Some reckless American or
some chuckle-headed Englishman, given
just the right occasion, can bring on the
horror.
And what will it mean?
It will mean, to begin closest home, the
arming of the Canadian border. Canadians
are loyal to their Empire, and they are good
fighters. For many a year we have lived
beside this, our neighbor, in the peaceful
rivalry of trade. Whose imagination is
equal to the unspeakable results of a war
upon so widely stretched a border?
It will mean the bombardment of New
York or London.
It will mean, of course, a clash between
the two most powerful navies in the world,
with all the loss of life and property that
involves.
It will mean a war infinitely more frightful
than the last, since the Germans raged over
Belgium and parts of France, while this ruin
will affect the richest and most populous cen
ters of civilization.
There is little doubt that today what civ
ilization we have depends upon Great Britain
and the .United States. If they fight, both
will be destroyed, whichever conquers.
That will be the end of the white man and
his ideals. By his own incredible folly he
will have cut his throat, and the scepter will
pass to the Oriental.
In other words, It will be the Day of
Judgment and the wiping out of European
culture and states, just as Greece perished
and Rome was destroyed by the barbarian.
Another Dark Ages will ensue, ravaged by
the unhinged fanatics of Russia and the
imperial plotters of Japan.
All this is absurd? So it is. And so was
the last war.
(Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
“Will you?” he murmured, gazing into her
eyes appeallingly.
But she was undecided and turned away.
“Say ‘Yes!’ ” he exclaimed hoarsely.
“Don’t let me go without some encourage
ment.”
He bent down and showed her the rich
presents he had to offer. She drew a deep
breath.
“I will,” she whispered. unsteadily.
“Wait.”
He watched her as she left him and
smiled as he saw her return, clutching her
husband’s second best trousers in a limp
hand.
“Well, ma’am,” he said cheerfully. “What
will you have, a fern or a geranium?”
“John,” exclaimed the nervous woman,
“there’s a burglar trying to get into the flat.”
“I’ll get up and give him the fight of his
life.”
“Aren’t you afraid?”
“Not a bit. Any burglar who thinks this
flat can hold all three of us must be a little
bit of a fellow.” I
OUT OF A JOB
By Frederic J. Haskin
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NEW YORK CITY, Jan. IT—-If it were
not for the new calendars on every
body's desk, you might easily suppose
we were living back in the year 1915. The
streets are filled with almost as many un
employed as there were then; the park
benches, which enjoyed such a quiet, indo
lent existence during the war, are once
more doing duty as beds; the hospital wards
are again treating starvation cases, and the
bread line—a long, hungry bread line —has
returned on the Bowery.
In 1915, before the United States entered
the war, according to Anson C. Baker, secre
tary of the Bowery mission, 1,000 men stood
in the bread line every right. During the
war, the number dropped to about 85, all
of whom could be accommodated inside the
mission, so that there was not longer any
necessity for a bread line. Meantime, the
mission’s facilities for feeding large num
bers dwindled. Hence, when just before
Christmas hundreds of hungry men started
crowding its doors every night, it was abso
lutely unprepared to take care of them.
Rolls and coffee were gradually served to
every one, but so gradually that it was us
ually midnight before the last man received
his portion.
Since Christmas, many more hundreds of
employes have been released throughout the
city, and the situation has become much
worse. St. Marks-in-the-Bouwerie, at Sec
ond avenue and Tenth street, has come
nobly to the rescue, however, opening its
chapel as a public lodging house and turning
the church kitchen into a soup station for
the unemployed. In addition, a substantial
dinner is served by the church every night
at 8 o’clock. Between them, the Bowery
mission and St. Marks chapel are feeding ap
proximately 1,500 men daily.
“We used to be criticised severely for
helping to pauperize the men,” Mr. Baker
of the mission, in discussing its activities.
“It was said that they would not work if
they could, get free meals. This was dis
proved during the war when the attendance
at our evening lunches fell off. Those who re
mained to take advantage of the free food
were aged, decrepit, or actutely unfortunate
in We do not offer charity but
hospitality. Men ‘ • not stand in the bread
line except as a last resource.”
The truth of this statement is also prov
ed by the fact that, while only 1,500 men
are applying for free food daily, there are,
according to recent estimates, 180,000 un
employed in New York.
Not Many Charity Cases
The majority of these are not yet in need
of charity, or hospitality, as the mission pre
fers to call it. There are still the family
savings to fall back upon, and the children’s
earnings. Children can often get jobs to
day when their fathers and mothers can’t,
especially among the foreig- -born poulation,
where only the children have received an
American common school training. Thus,
school authorities report that thousands of
children are now abruptly leaving school to
seek work until their fathers are once more
employed at steady jobs.
Meantime, the fathers plod wearily*
around the streets pursuing forlorn . hopes
raised in the help-wanted columns or haunt
ing the numerous prosperous commercial
employment agencies that occupy so much
space along the Bowery and Sixth avenue.
Both discouragingly futile tasks.* The pay
agencies have recently raised their commis
sions, but even so business is slow. Much
as they would like to, under present condi
tions, they cannot themselves c.eate the jobs.
The most that the mission and St. Marks
chapel have been able to place in a day is
15, and they are rather proud of this record.
The New York State employment bureau
has a branch on West Forty-sixth street,
where jobs are supplied free of charge when
there are any to supply, but the number of
men placed by this organization on the day
the reporter visited it, was just three. Yet
all day long, lines of men stood in patient
exasperation before the various sections of
the office, marked “Hotel and Restaurant,”
“Skilled Labor” and “Clerks,” hoping for
a word of encouragement. The demand for
experienced clerks still exists in a feeble
way, one of the secretaries explained, but the
other two departments for the past few
weeks have had practically nothing.
“What is your line?” inquired a social
service worker of a tall gaunt and haggard
faced man, as he left the w’aiting group and
started for the door. <
“Drill press operator,” he replied dully.
He continued to answer the social work
er’s questions In the same dull, tired voice.
Yes, he was married, he said. Five chil
dren. One of them had diphtheria. His
wife was out of a job, too. Yes, he had tried
to get something else, but the agency had
nothing. They said they would let him
know if a request came for a drill press op
erator. In the meantime he was scrubbing
floors in a high school at night, but it did
not pay enough to keep the family.
Unreliable Agencies
The social worker wrote something on a
card and gave it to the man, whose face then
assumed a more hopeful expression, but as
a loud dispute arose in the hotel and restau
rant section of the office, at this critical
moment, the reporter was compelled to pass
up the finale of this incident.
Nearby, a few minutes later, one job
hunter was explaining to another that he
had tried every pay agency on Sixth avenue
and that at last he had discovered one that
offered a job as truck-driver. But the man
in charge wanted $8 for the address of the
j(fb.
“So there was nothin’ doin’ on that,” the
first job-hunter explained emphatically.
“You can’t trust them guys. They fix It so
that you go to work one day, and get fired
the next—and then where's your eight
-bucks?”
In these normal times, the various disin
terested employment agencies, which play
ed such an important part during the war,
are conspicuously missing. Most keenly
missed of all are the offices of the United
States department of labor that did so
much to straighten out labor turnovers and
complications two years ago. Gone too, are
the agencies of the Knights of Columbus, the
Y. M. C. A., and the other valiant rooters
for overseas service, who were going to do
so much for the boys when they ca,ne home.
Many of these men who are walking the
streets in search of work are scarcely out of
khaki; some of them still wear their khaki
shirts and spiral puttees. But people do not
notice that now. »
The lack of free employment agencies is
a serious handicap for the man with only a
few dollars left in his pocket. The pay
agencies are taking advantage of this golden
opportunity to charge high commissions, and
even then, according to the testimony of the
job-hunters few of them are reliable. For
the men to go direct to the factories and
hotels and offices and department stores
seeking work is merely a waste of time and
shoe leather. Recent canvasses have shown
that not a single job is to be had in any of
these quarters.
Only Accountants Wanted
In fact the only class of workers for
which there is still an active demand is ac- 1
countants. Requests.for auditors and assist- ;
ant accountants are still so great that there i
are not nearly enough to go around. This 1
SATURDAY. JANUARY 22, 1921.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Lose Liquor
Check of liquors seized by dry enforce
ment operatives in the last year and held
at a government warehouse in Chicago
disclosed that more than $3,000,000 worth
of whisky is missing, Frank D. Richard
son, prohibition commissioner, announces.
The whisky evidently was stolen sev- ,
eral months before he took office, Mr.
Richardson said.
Mr. Richardson says he Las learned
that at one time 800 barrels of whisky
were removed from the warehouse in day
light and that the day before he assumed
office thirteen truckloads were hauled
out, while, he asserts, the prohibition
agents supposed to be on guard were in
side the warehouse playing cards.
Honor Gorgas
Tribune was paid to the memory of the
late Major General William Crawford Gor
gas, native of Mobile, Ala., former surgeon
general of the United States army and au
thority on yellow fever, In memorial serv
ices held Sunday in the Pan-American build
ing by the Southern society, of Washington.
Diplomatic representatives from Latin Amer
ica, France and Great Britain joined in the
exercises in honor of the distinguished
southerner.
General Gorgas died last July in Lon
don.
Strike Over
Dock workers in Caliao, Peru, who
went on strike last week, resumed work,
having reached an agreement with the
dock administration relative to their de
mands for higher wages.
Joins D. A. R.
Mrs. Warren G. Harding, wife of the Presi
dent-elect, has been enrolled as a member of
the Captain William Hendricks Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Lucky Thirty-Three
Thirty-three individuals own two per
cent of the American national wealth,
George P. Hampton, managing director
of the Farmers’ National Council, says.
He urges that the wealthiest classes
pay their just share of the cost of the
war.
Hampton adds that 23,000 million
aires are estimated to own over 136,000-
000,000, while the thirty-three richest
Americans own property worth about
0.675,000,000, or roughly 2 per cent of
the national wealth, estimated at $500,-
000,000.
Houseless Britishers
It is estimated that London is short of
150,000 houses and Premier Lloyd George,
speaking in the house of commons, has placed
the total house shortage for the whole of the
United Kingdom at roughly 1,000,000. A
house for rent notice board in London qulck
. ly attracts a crowd.
Lady Deputy
With the new officers of Jackson coun
ty, Ga., installed for this year is Miss Lur
line Collier, who wll serve as a deputy
sheriff. She is a daughter of B. H. (Big
Ben) Collier, who was elected sheriff for
the ensuing term. Though Mr. Collier
did not serve the past term, he was pre
viouslsy sheriff of Jackson for many years,
and is famous as an “auctioneer” at sher
iff’s sales and as a fearless, loyal officer.
His daughter is probably the first lady
deputy sheriff in Georgia.
Living Lower
The cost of living decreased 5.6 per cent in
the four months from last July to November
and the decline was brought about by drops
in the average prices of a number of impor
tant food and clothing articles so great as
to offset concurrent increases in many other
items, the national industrial conference
board reports.
This four months’ decrease, however, left
the cost of living higher than in July, 1914.
immediately before the war.
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WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
BY JACK PATTERSON
! _ I
Discussing Diversification
Farmers have been urged to engage more
extensively in diversified farming and many
of them have done so. In doing this they
have done well, upon the whole, for the
man who has raised on his own farm those
things which he needed himself, and who, at
the same time, bad a surplus to sell to those
who did not, profited by pursuing this course.
If he had had such marketing facilities as
he should have had—such as he was entitled
to have had—he would have been in better
circumstances than he is in now; but at
that, having his own barn and smokehouse
well stocked he is well off as compared with
the man who has declined to engage in di
versified farming.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
The only farmers who do not diversify
their crops nowadays are those who profit
by experience, and much of it very costly ex
perience. There is no way of computing the
cost of the one-crop farming system to the
agricultural interests of the south. It has
taken hundreds of millions of dollars out of
this section which should have remained here,
and has kept farmers poor, whose toil en
titled them to more liberal rewards. It is
to diversified farming that the section must
look for the basis of its future prosperity,
and the teaching of experience is that there
is nothing else “just as good.”—Albany
Herald.
The Invasion of the Mexican boll weevil
has rendered diversified farming in Georgia
imperative. The Georgia State College of
Agriculture has issued an informative bul
letin showing the wisdom of diversification
and the inevitable results that every planter
in Georgia should study carefully before per
fecting plans for another crop.
Hog Killing Weather
The people of Coffee county have been
specializing in hog raising this year, which
caused Editor Fred Ricketson, of the Coffee
County Progress, to remark:
“The recent hog-killing weather brought
about probably the largest butchering of hogs
this section has seen in several years. Ev
erybody seems to have some fresh pork and
lucky they aro.”
Lucky is right. Hog-killing time in south
Georgia is always an important event in the
history of the world. We hope that the
chitlins were saved.
is because of the large number of New York
firms which have lost goods and money in
the crime wave and have to have their books
straightened out.
It seems that when a crook robs a store
he not only does much damage to the stock
but to the books as well. Missing stock
plays havoc with a firm’s bookkeeping. So
as long as the crooks keep up their work, at
least accountants will have jobs.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX .
A Double Order of Wives.
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.
AMAN in Colorado is trying to get a law
passed to permit farmers to have two
wives. He says that it takes two
women to do the work properly on a farm
and inasmuch as it is impossible for a mai
to hire female help in the country he shouk
be permitted to marry it.
, This rural statesman also believes tha
nothing .would stimulate the back-to-the
land movement like polygamy, and that wit!
the boom that this would give our infan
industry we should no longer have to impor
farm labor from Europe. We should raise i
on the premises.
Os the practicality of the plan there can b
no doubt. The Mormons tried it out a goer
many years ago, and it worked beautifullj
Much of their prosperity is due to the sac
that every married man had an assortmer
of faithful and industrious wives working so
him without pay.
Nor can anyone , say that those times ar<
past, and that a man cannot hire a womai
with a wedding ring to do the thing sht
couldn’t be persuaded to do for money, fo>
we see women making that sort of curiou
and lopsided bargain every day of our lives
Let a man wave a marriage certificate at ,
woman and it hypnotizes her so that she wil
get up and follow him to the ends of th
earth.
Os course, when it’s just half of a m*r
riage certificate that he flashes before he
dazzled eyes she may not be quite so fas
cinated by it, but the man’s plan for marry
ing a cook and a laundress because he can’
hire them, and it saves their price, anyway
is a practical solution of the great servan
problem. Thousands of men can testify
that they have tried it, and that the result'
were entirely satisfactory.
Why, the reason that widowers almos
invariably remarry as soon as they decent!',
can is because they find that a wife is mone;
in their pockets. By the time a poor man he
paid an army of women to do his cooking
and marketing, and washing, and sewing
and mending, and baby-tending, and all th
thousand other things that his wife did as i
mere matter of course, he is bankrupt.
Leaving aside, though, the practical ant
economic advantage of a man’s having on*
wife, to say nothing of two of them, who an •
willing to work for their board and clothes
and precious little of either, we can but spec
ulate upon certain other aspects of the sub
ject.
For one thing, it makes us wonder if mat
rimony is still, as it was in the beginning, a
female partnership instead of a one-woman
job.
Os course, the modern woman is strong for
the domestic monopoly. Like the jealous
Turk, she can bear no rival near the throne.
She cannot endure to think of any other
woman sharing in her husband’s affection, or
taking up any of his thoughts and interests,
or dipping into his pocketbook, and when she
finds that there Is such a one, she hales him•
into the divorce court and trades him off for
right to pose for a wronged wife and a little
precarious alimony. All or none Is her motto (
Better no husbands at all than a half or three
quarters interest in one.
Yet there probably isn’t a married womai'
alive who hasn’t had times and seasons when
she did not feel that being a wife was a syn
dicate job instead of a career for one poor,
lone female creature. For it would take a
bevy of women, endowed with every known
charm and virtue, to fill any average man’s
ideal of the kind of wife to which’ ha in
entitled.
For instance, every man thinks that it is
no more than his due that he snould have a
wife who is perpetually easy on the eyes, and
who is always young, and beautiful, and
charmingly dressed. Inasmuch as nobody
has yet discovered the fountain of pespetuftl
youth, and the years take their devastating
toll of every woman’s looks, it is an impos
sibility for anyone to keep herself a living
picture, no matter how much time and work
she bestows on touching up her hdnd-made
complexion, and trying to maintain her girl
ish figure.
Every man thinks that he should have a
wife who is a good cook, and housekeeper,
and a wizard who can work miracles with
pennies, and make them do the work of dol
lars. He expects, when he comes home at
nights, to find an orderly house, a good pin
ner, and children who have been washed and
dressed, and disciplined into the likelihood of
little angels. But he hates a wife who smells
of the kitchen, who is frowsy and untidy,
and who is tired and cross, and nervous and
irritable.
i Every man wants a wife who is his chum.
who reads the things he reads, and keeps
abreast of the times, and is vivacious, and
i bright, and entertaining company, so that an
! evening at home is a stimulating experience
instead of being a sure cure for insomnia
' He wants a wife who is ready to drop things
and go off to the golf links with him, or
automobiling, or any little jaunt that tiroes
his fancy. He is bored to death by the
woman whose conversational repertoire only
reaches from the kitchen to the nursery and
back again, and who is more interested in a
new recipe for eggless cake than she is in
Harding s policies, and who interrupts the
most thrilling passage in a play to ask him
a whisper if he supposes the baby
has got its feet uncovered.
It’s the impossibility of combining all of
the different kinds of wives that a man wants
in her own propria persona that discourages
the average wife, and makes her slack on her
job. She could be either of his ideals, but
she can’t be them all, and in her moments of
iespair she would be almost willing to sublet
the contract to various and sundry of her
sisters, instead of trying to fill the whole bill
of being a parlor ornament, a cook stove, a r
Century dictionary, and a compendium of
sports.
And it is because no man is really satisfied
with either the cook, or the beauty, or the
blue stocking, but wants them all bunched In
one, that men find marriage a failure. Per
haps, after all, as Mr. Howell said long ago,
even after centuries of civilization man is
still imperfectly monogamous, and the onlv
time he is ever truly thankful that he is only
the husband of one wife is when the bills
come in around the first of the month.
“Uncle” John Shannon Says
A Chicago minister has added a dance hall
and billiard table to his church and the at
tendance in two months went from twwtfy
to one thousand. Now, if that preacher will
add a barroom and furnish good liquor, we
will guarantee that the attendarw'e will go to
five thousand in less than one week, ano
further, that the whole bunch will go to
hell together.—Commerce News.
Brunswick Banner’s New Manager
H. C. Rogers, an experienced newspaper
man, more recently connected with Rome
News as city editor, today becomes the busi
ness manager of the Banner, and is hereby
commended to its patrons, present and pros
pective. as a man of intellect, industry and
fair mind, capable of a conscientious dis
charge of the duties and responsibilities that
may devolve upon him in this capacity.—
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