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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga.
The United States in the Role
of a Teague of Nations
IN its insistence that Panama relinquish
a strip Qf territory which under arbi
tration has been awarded to Costa Rica,
the State Department at Washington is
playing single-handed the part of a league
of nations. That is to say, it is protecting a
manifest right and maintaining a highly im
portant principle against unreasonable ag
gression. The decision of the impartial judges
to whom the dispute between the Central
American republics was submitted is gener
ally accepted as just save by a “government
clique” in Panama, and even that minority
Is bound by every rule of law and good
sportsmanship to respect the arbitrament;
Instead, however, it has taken the attitude
of holding willy-nilly to its claims, after
losing them in court. If such a course were
countenanced, there would be no guarantee
and scant hope of justice and peace in Cen
tral America, nor would arbitration as a
method of settling differences between na
tions in this hemisphere long retain its vir
tue.
The situation was one in which the United
States was morally compelled to intervene.
All that this Government has stood for in
matters international was challenged; all
that it hopes for in the way of fair dealing
and happy relations amongst its neighbors
was involved. .Rather cynically a Western
newspaper remarks: "It is safe to say that
not a soul in this country, unless some one
concerned with a concession, cares a rap
whether Panama or Costa Rica gets the
strip of land.” That point of view is un-
American and unmoral. It is like saying one
does not care whether courts of justice are
maintained or demolished, whether promises
are kept or repudiated, whether law and
justice or banditry and anarchy shall pre
rail. Disputes there are from which the ju
dicious necessarily hold aloof, but when the
issue is unmistakably one of respecting, or
flouting the essentials of international right,
then neutrality becomes impossible for
minds that divide truth from error.
In the present case the United States was
all the more bound to exert its influence
because of its special relation to Panama.
The establishment of that republic was made
possible some seventeen years ago by an act
of the Washington Government, which not
only encouraged (some, indeed, say instigat
ed) the revolution and recognized the new
isthmian regime, but also undertook to guar
antee Panama's territorial integrity. Thus if
Panama were now on the defensive and
Costa Rica the aggressor, the United States
would be constrained to intervene in behalf
of the former. But inasmuch as the sole war
rant for intervention in any case is duty,
unavoidable duty, to the larger interests of
peace and justice, our Government needs,
must warn Panama when she is in the
wrong just as decidedly as it would pro
tect her in the right. Elsewise there would
be no reasonableness, no righteousness, no
merit whatsoever in our peculiar relation
ships to the isthmian government.
It was in these exigencies and upon these
jrinciples that Secretary Hughes issued,
first an admonition and then an ultimatum
to the Panama authorities who refused to
abide by arbitration. There is no show of
tyrannous strength in that policy, but sim
ply the assertion of the rule of right, and
the carrying out of the common conscience
of the Americas. So it is that the United
States here performs an important function
of a league of nations; no more or less
would have been required, had our Govern
ment been party to the covenant of Ver
sailles.
Construction in the South.
THE sustained upward trend of the
South’s construction activities is well
attested by reports to the Manufac
turers’ Record of contracts awarded and en
terprises projected during the first week of
May. These represent an aggregate outlay
of twenty-five million dollars and embrace all
types of building from domiciles to indus
trial plants. Highway and street construc
tion also figures largely in the range of work
undertaken or definitely planned, the week’s
total for such items amounting to nearly five
million dollars. In virtually every line, the
Manufacurers’ Record comments, “activity
is holding up well, and there are no indica
tions that the peak is. in sight. In fact many
plans for projects large and small are stjll iiN
the Initial stages for work involving the ex
penditure of millions of dollars, much jf
which will get under way in time to insure
completion before lext winter sets in.”
These figures appear the more significant
and cheering when compared with the out
look of four or five months ago. The old
year closed grayly and the new opened with
but fitful gleams. In early January few save
the most sanguine would have predicted that
May’s building record for the South would
begin at the rate of twenty-five million dol
lars a week. Not suddenly has this substan
tial sum been reached but by a series of
steady gains. Naturally constructive activi
ties would quicken with the advent of spring,
but in this case it is noteworthy that the new
life-beat became manifest as far back as
February. For mouths conditions have been
improving, so that the present growht is well
rooted and therefore the more promising.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
. Stronger Than Heredity
HIGHLY refreshing it is to hear a keen
student in modern psychology re-
I baking as “a feeble, childish whine”
the practice of laying the blame for all of
life’s failures and muddles on heredity.
“Two things,” he writes in the London Daily
Express, “will drive the forces of heredity
before them life chaff in the wind —a well
ordered education and a strictly disciplined
mind. Have the will to be other than you
are, if you are not satisfied with yourself.
Muster all the forces that lie within you,
(and, he might well have said, above you)
and fight. If you are naturally lazy, over
work yourself; if you are slipshod, train
yourself to thoroughness even though you
ache. Above' all, do not plead inherited ten
dencies for your ineffectiveness; that is
cowardly.”
This view, it scarcely need be said, does
not refer to the transmission of physical
traits and features, nor does it conflict with
the historically proved fact that when the
parents have eaten sour grapes the chil
dren’s teeth will be on edge. “We are all
omnibuses in which our ancestors ride,” ob
served the genial Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table, but it should be added that we our
selves hold the reins and are accountable
for the driving. Elsewise, man is but a
mechanism, and this “universal frame”
without a mind—in which case, O doughty
fatalist, you would not be seeking answers
and venturing explanations to life’s riddle,
nor buckling your manhood’s armor for any
worth-while struggle; you would be merely
crouching like a stump in your great dismal
swamp of destiny. As houses of clay, we are
bound indeed, but as minds and spirits we
are free to live and move in realms vastly
wider than the four stark walls of heredity.
Nature herself suggests as much in her
endless diversity of form aiid color and
mood, her endless variation of species, from
the spineless fish of steaming primordial
beaches up to the brain of Plato and the
glory of Jeanne D’Arc. She does not stupefy
with dull repetitions of a tale that is told,
but stimulates with plots and scenes and
characters forever new, making no two
pily has it been remarked that although
leaves, no two stars, no two lives alike. Hap
there be little difference between one man
and another, that little is very important.
Likewise between generations the differences,
though imperceptible if observed only from,
say, 1890 to 1920, grow unmistakable if we
take a range of three thousand years, which
itself spells but a word or so in the chap
ters of life’s story that stretch behind us.
Change has mad'e life what it is, has \ept
life from hardening and dying into fatal
molds, has smitten a dark and formless deep
with light and purpose and freedom. More
and more effectual, more and more impor
tant does this wondrous power to change be
come as life moves onward. Today the so
cial or collective mind attacks problems and
challenges wrongs which the wearied bodies
and shackled wills that built the pyramids
would accept mutely as the unchangable
sending of Fate. There is no ill heritage
which human society, if given due time and
due intent, cannot throw off as already it
has thrown off slavery and the superstition
that once held it in awe of mortal kings.
What the group can do the individuals of
whom group life is made and through whom
group change is wrought, can accomplish,
each in his own adventure, if he sail with
courage and faith. It is the w'ormling love
of self-justification and self-indulgence that
bids us blame heredity and fate for our
failures. None has said it so well as Shake
speare: “When we are sick in fortune (often
the surfeit of our own behaviour) we make
guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,
the stars; as if we were villians on neces
sity, fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves,
thieves and treachers by spherical predomi
nance; drunkards, liars and adulterers by
an enforc’d obedience of planetary influ
ence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine
thrusting on.”
The Cotton Acreage
NO prudent person ever hazards a re
mark on cotton without a plentiful
supply of ifs, buts, stills and how
evers. With all these and other needful res
ervations understood, we venture to point
out the interesting result of an inquiry re
cently conducted by the New York Journal
of Commerce concerning reductions in the
South’s cotton acreage for 1921.
From the reports of some eighteen hun
dred special correspondents dated for the
most part around April the twenty-seventh,
that conservative and dependable papei’ es
timates a curtailment of twenty-eight and
two-tenths per cent as compared with last
year’s expansion of two and three-tenths
per cent. Georgia is represented as a little
below this average, her reduction being
given as twenty-six per cent. Alabama’s, ac
cording to the Journal of Commerce report,
is twenty-four and seven-tenths per cent,
South Carolina’s twenty-five and five-tenths,
North Carolina’s twenty-seven and seveu
tenths, Mississippi’s thirty and nine-tenths,
Louisiana’s thirty-two, in Arkansas thirty
two and seven-tenths, Missouri’s thirty-live,
and Texas’s twenty-seven. The reader is
cautioned, however, to remember that the
planting season is about a week behind, as
compared with last year’s belatedness of
more than a fortnight, so that accurate in
ference must wait upon further information.
There qan be no doubt that the ( best judg
ment in agricultural, mercantile and bank
ing circles alike has advised rigorous conser
vatism in the planting of cotton, along with
liberal production of foodstuffs. To ignore
such counsel, based as it is upon both science
and common sense, would be to risk mis
fortune if not disaster. Whatever else the
South can afford to do or to leave undone,
she needs must produce the -bulk of her
food necessaries if she is to prosper in times
like these. For Georgi this means, as the
State College of Agriculture has plainly
shown, that there must be substantial and
in some items great increases over last year’s
output—increases which will be impossible
if time and labor are absorbed by an ex
cessive acreage of cotton.
4.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
It's easy for a sharp man to make a tool
•f a dull one.
Beauty is only skin deep, and lots of wis
lom is in the same class.
The man who paddles his own canoe may
ome day sail his steam yacht.
It’s a pity that the good old summer time
can’t come in the winter, when we do so
appreciate that heat.
Os course we know that we are better than
some others, but we are not asking that it
be kept a secret.
Yes. Alfred, the ambitious girl is ambitious
to make a name for herself, but she usually
ends by accepting some man’s.
.No man favors expansion of that little
bald spot.
The good we do is an excellent antidote
j for the evil we think.
GOUT
By H. Addington Bruce
THE antiquated notion that gout Is
caused by uric acid is still widely ac
cepted, I find. Even an occasional
medical writer urges it, on- the ground prin
cipally that gout is especially likely to devel
op after unwise indulgence in foods to pro
duce an excess of uric acid in the system.
What these same foods do, however, when
eaten to excess or by persons with whom they
peculiarly disagree, is to lower the resistance
to the action Os disease germs. And it is to
the action of certain germs, 'operating on
body tissues of uncommon susceptibility, that
the best modern authorities attribute gout.
To quote from the latest treatise on gout,
a most detailed study ty Dr. Jones Llewllyn:
“Neither uric acid nor its precursors can
be held responsible for fever, local inflamma
tions, and constitutional disturbances in gout,
being, as they are, practically non-toxic.
“Uric acid must be viewed in its proper
perspective as a concomitant or sequel of
gouty inflammation, the essential cause of
which must be sought elsewhere.”
And, relative to that “elsewhere:”
“The onset, clinical phenomena, and course
of acute gout, and no less the life history of
the disorder as a whole, are emphatically in
dicative of the intrusion of an infective ele
ment in its genesis.”
As to the source of such intrusion, Dr.
Llewellyn recalls that students of gout long
ago noted the occurrence of “gouty teeth,”
“gouty tonsils,” “gouty pharyngitis,” regard
ing these as conditions produced by gout, in
reality, present-day observation and experi
ment go to show, gout is the product and they
the producers.
Theoretically, therefore, treatment to clear
away dental, tonsillar, and throat infections
should, if successful, put a stop also to at
tacks of gout. In actual practice it often
does this.
But it does not always do it. And the
reason is found in the unfortunate fact that
the germs, first localizing in throat, tonsils,
or teeth, do not always remain in the portal
of entry. On the contrary, thqy have the
habit of migrating to establish themselves in
less accessible parts of the body.
Hence the importance of also combating
gout by dietary and other measures aiming
to keep up the natural resistivity to the ac
tion of germs.
These hygenic precautions may. indeed, not
suffice if the “innate tissue peculiarities,” of
which Dr. Llewellyn speaks, are exceptional
ly preseni,. But they should and do con
tribute to lessen the frequency and severity
of gouty attacks.
So does the cultivation of as happy, opti
mistic a mood as possible—this, too, being i
recognized means of upbuilding the body re
sistance, because of the energy-developing
power of pleasurable emotional states.
And, as suggested, early remedial action
against seats of infection that are readily ac
cessible may of itself effect lastingly the
much to be desired conquest of gout.
THOUGHTS THAT SPOIL
By Dr. Frank. Crane
Have you ever noticed how thoughts feel
inside your mind? Some are satisfying as
bread, some fiery as pepper, some refreshing
as water, some heady as wine, and some —
and these are they I am to treat of —
lie in the mind’s stomach heavy as lead, pain
ful, nauseating, and making one sick of life.
These last are thoughts that ferment and
do not digest. I once ate a spoiled ham sand
wich at a railway lunch counter. I found no
relief until the physicians had made use of a
stomach pump, and I did not recover from
the effects for a month. There are certain
thoughts that act precisely the same way in
the brain; they cause “mental gastritis.”
In the mind’s cellar everything must b»
kept sweet and clean, if we do not want to
breed spiritual fevers. As soon as an idea
begins to “work” and spoil and sour, out
with it! It foes not pay to go about this
bright world with something yeasting and
seething ,in our souls.
It is the very best of foods that spoil the
most quickly, such as cream, beefsteak, and
butter. The cream, beefsteak, and butter of
the soul are love, religion, and' laughter.
So it is these things we must watch most
carefully. Love, the very milk of life, is
worth all that poets have written and fond
and foolish heads have dreamed of it. But
if love thoughts are going to “keep” and not
play havoc within us, we must air our hearts
often and keep them clean and be on the
watch for the insistent microbe that dearly
loves to multiply in a love “culture.”
Laughter is good. It may not save our
souls, but it often saves our lives. It pre
vents insanity. But it is ill.e 1 .itter. It
must be fresh; likewise clean; also spread
not too thickly over the bread of serious busi
ness.
No one can eat solid butter, unless he be
an Eskimo; and no one, outside a madhouse,
can laugh all the time. Some of the saddest
people I have known have been those whose
only business was to' find something to amuse
them.
And religion. This is man’s greatest pas
sion and privilege; hence, also, his greatest
danger. Sometimes it i a blessing,, and
sometimes it seems to make us morose and
dark-souled. narrow and bigoted, contentious
and even cruel. As was said of liberty, so it
may be said of religion, “What crimes have
been committed in thy name!”
Clean up or cast out every fermenting
thought, whether uncleanliness or distrust,
the memory of a wrong or the apprehension
of disaster. Feed your mind on clean, sweet,
wholesome thoughts. Above all, do not in
dulge in self-pity, most horrible of all mental
toadstools!
“Keep thy heart,” said the vyise man,
“with all diligence, for out of it are the
issues of life!”'
(Copyright, 1921, bby Frank Crane.)
THE HOME OF POETRY
(Proposed for New York)
The “House of Poets!” Did I but sleep and
dream
That Poetry at last will have a shrine?
Is this an idle fantasy of mine—
A mirage of the soul where visions seem
As true to sense as some sweet flowing stream
That sings between green banks of tangled
vine.
Beneath the stately bour'’s of oak and pine,
Where shifting lights and shadows glint and
gleam?
This roof may shelter Shakespeares yet un
born;
Blind Miltons here might still pursue their
art,
Byronic souls might lose their wish to roam,
A future Keats, forsaken and forlorn,
Find solace here to mend a broken heart;
Some Howard Payne may find his “Home,
Sweet Home.”
—JOHN WINGFIELD GATEWOOD.
A lady who had been giving a party told
her maid to put away all the refreshments
that were left on the tables before retiring to
bed.
The next day the lady could not find the
dainties and called to her maid:
“Jane, what did you do with those things
that I told you to put away last night?”
“Sure, mum, and yes told me to put ’em
away, and I did, mum, and enjoyed ’em!”
DOROTHY DIX TALKS—THE UNIT OF VALUE
BY DOROTHY DIX
A correspondent writes:
“Do you think a man appreciates his wife
more if slie was hard to win, than he does if
she did the wooing?”
. Surely. The more difficult a thing is to get,
the more we esteem it. It is one of the
cardinal principles of human nature that we
set little value on things that come to us
easily, and it is only that for which we have
toiled, and agonized, and striven, that we prize.
It is the peach that hangs highest on the
tree that allures us, not the over-ripe one that
is ready to drop into our mouths. If dia
monds were the same price as soft coal, and
we could buy them by the ton, we should
never htink of setting them in a ring, or
adorning our neefcs with strings of carbon.
People who are born with a full pocketbook
in the mouths, so to speak, are .nearly always
wasters and spenders. They do not know how
hard it is to earn a dollar, and so they do not
value it. It takes the men and women who
have worked, and pinched and scrinched, who
have gone hungry and shabby to rake to
gether, one by one, the pennies in their savings
account, to know how to appreciate money.
So it is with everything in the world. Easy
come, easy go, seems to be the universal rul
ing. The more a thing costs us, the more we
value it, and the more carefuly we cherish it.
It’s the price tags we have written with Gar
blood and sweat before which we knock our
foreheads on the ground in reverence.
This is as true in matters of affection as it
is in material things. You see it exemplified
every day in family relationships. The chil
dren, who have had adoring and self-sacrific
ing mothers, take their mother’s affection for
granted. They are not grateful for the cease
less care that broods them, for the labor that
ministers to their every want, for the sym
pathy that never fails them.
It takes some poor little homeless chap,
who has never had a mother to tuck him into
bed, r a mother’s breast to weep out his sor
rows on, or a mother’s cookies to eat, to thrill
at the touch of a woman’s hand, and to fol
low like a lost puppy any woman who will
show any motherliness to him.
Men so almost universally prize love in pro
portion to the difficulty of winning it, that it
may almost be said that the average man never
wants the woman who wants him, and that the
more a woman cares for him, the less he cares
for her. Os course this is a little exaggeration
of the situation, but it is a fact that nothing
makes a woman so desirable to a man, either
before or after marirage, as for him to be
never quite certain whether he has caught her
or not.
This is why the women who want to mar»y,
and who are frankly and boldly out on a hus
band hunt, nearly all die old maids. Once let
a man realize that a woman desires him for a
WASTE OF CONGRESSIONAL TIME—By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 14.—The old
evil of permitting defeated members
of congress to continue to sit and en
act the nation’s laws for four months after
their successors have been elected is again
causing a great deal of discussion in congress.
Ordinarily, this discussion is revived every
two years, during the pre-election campaigns.
The fact that it is now under discussion at
the beginning of a new administration is
taken as an indication that there is a better
chance than ever before of changing the ex
isting law, and remedying the difficulty.
Another thing which is condemned almost
unanimously by public men, but which has
nexer be* n changed, is that a newly elected
President does not take office until four
months, sometimes to a day, from the date of
his election. But this occurs only once in
foui years, and often only once in eight years.
Therefore, despite the greater importance of
the presidential position, the situation as it
affects congress is generally regarded by
members of that body as in more vital need
of remedy by legislation.
There is a widespread belief that an amend
ment to the Constitution- would be needed to
change the convention date of congress. This
is not so, and is proved by the simple words
of the Constitution itself. The second para
graph of Section 4, Article 1, provides:
“The congress shall assemble at least once
in every year, and such meeting shall be on
the first Monday in December, unless they
shall by law appoint a different day.”
“They” refers to the members of congress.
It is generally conceded that the meeting date
of congress, can by authority of this section
of the Constitution, be changed to any time
the majority of its members may select, if
the President approves of the change.
One of the greatest objections to the pres
ent system is that under ordinary conditions,
a member of the house or senate is elected
in November of one year and does not take
his seat in congress until December of the
following year. In the case of members of
the house, this leaves them but eleven months
before they must be up for re-election. It
has worked out in hundreds of cases that
newly elected members of the house, comin;
to Washington for the first time under such
conditions, have to give nearly all of their
time to the business of politics in order to
keep their coveted positions. Their strictly
congressional duties naturally suffer from this
neglect, and the whole country is the loser.
Defeated Congressmen Hold Seats
Another objection often brought forward
is that members of the house and senate con
tinue to serve for four months after their
defeat at the polls. When this is combined
with an overturn of the party holding the
executive power, it has always resulted in
the government being practically dead until
afte’’ the inauguration of the new President
When one thinks 01 the excellent work the
Georgia Normal and Industrial college is do
ing in Georgia, the whole educational prob
lem begins to revolve in his mind.| He is
wont to inquire of himself, what shall we ed
ucate—the cultural or the industrial side of
our girls and boys? Shall we make them
utilitarian or classical of mind? lhe reply
should be simple and more so in this day and
time: We must develop all. We must de
velop in the school and college both the cul
tural and the industrial, both the utilitarian
and the classical. Georgia Normal and In
dustrial attempts to do this.
The hand cannot be trained fully if at the
expense of the brain; nor must the brain be
developed and the hand allowed to wither.
The hand needs the brain, and the brain
needs the hand. Utility need? to flower into
beauty-, and beauty needs the handmaiden of
use. The twin goddesses are technique and
inspiration. Technique, to have its worth,
must have inspiration behind it, while inspi
ration must culminate in utility and use to
be of value.
When you have a beautiful thing that is a
useful thing, as Robert Morris has said, then
you have art. The marriage of use and beauty
is really, after all, the highest art, and ulti
mately there can be no conflict between the
hand and the brain, between the cultural and
industrial, between the thinker and doer. The
skillful hand must certainly have a good
brain behind it, and a fine brain is often in
mate, and is determined to have him, and it’s
all off with him. They woman may be pretty,
and attractive, and intelligent, but the mere
fact that she is pursuing him, instead of him
pursuing her, puts him on the defensive and
makes him use every ruse to escape her.
Everywhere you see girls who never have
any beau, who have never had any attention
from men, whose only lack of charm is that
they want the attentions of meh too much.
Their mothers scheme for them too openly,
and try to bribe men to come to see them,
and take them about feeding them and auto
mobiling them, and the girls themselves are
too pleased, and too grateful when men notice
them.
Their trouble is that they are too willing.
They are not difficult enough. Any man knows
that he can have one of them whenever he
asks for her, with a nice chromo from papa
thrown in, so he never asks. Men are the
artful dodgers, and when a woman throws her
self at one’s head, he nearly always sidesteps
her.
Nothing queers a girl’s chance of getting a
man so quickly as letting him see that she
wants him. It is. to be remembered that our
grandmothers always played coy, and reluctant,
and sl-ways told the suitor when he proposed
tbii they were so surprised, and had never
thought of such a thing. It is also worth
bearing in mind that there were few spinsters
in those days, and that the tactics of our ances
tresses in handling men have .never been im
proved upon.
And just as the man is most anxious to
marry the ..oma'i who is least anxious to
him, so is the man most anxious to
please the wife who takes the least trouble to
please him. Os course, men will rise with one
voice and denounce this statement, but every
woman knows that it is true.
Theoretically, the most cherished wife should
be the woman who works her fingers to the
bone to make her husband comfortable; who is
meek, and patient, and forbearing, and thrifty,
and saving, and who spends her days in adora
tion of the god-like creature to whom she is
united in the holy bonds of matrimony.
Practically nobody ever saw a woman who
made a doormat of herself, who didn’t get
trodden upon and kicked about. The woman
who is queen of her husband’s heart, and who
keeps him a lover to the end of the chapter, is
the astute dame who demands much of him,
who is hard to please, and who keeps herself
looking so desirable that he doesn’t see why
some other man mightn’t want her. So he
keeps wanting her himself.
The French have a proverb that says that
in love one kisses, and permits oneself to be
kissed. If a woman desires to be the kissee,
she must never be the kisser.
(Copyright, 1921, by The Wheeler Syndicate,
. Inc.)
and the convention of the new congress. A
case in point has just occurred. While there
was, of course, a Republican majority in both
branches of the congress, this majority was
materially increased on both sides of the cap
itol as a result of the elections last Novem
ber. Also, the Democratic aspirant for the
presidency was overwhelmingly defeated.
With this expression of the will of the
American people registered, the .vaning Wil
son administration was forced to sit and
twiddle its thumbs until March fourth. Not
untU then could the cogs of the governmental
machinery start again. A parallel situation
developed when Woodrow Wilson was first
elected. The then president, William Howard
Taft, feeling an obligation not to embarrass
the man who would succeed him, was forced
to sit with idle hands, despite the fact that
the Mexican situation was then an acute mat
ter of foreign policy.
The origin of the long wait between the
election of a president and the time of his
taxing office dates back to the beginning of
the nation. After the thirteen original colo
nies freed themselves from British rule and
formed the United States of America, it was
found that the territory of the new nation
was so vast and conditions of travel so prim
itive, that a considerable time was necessary
to travel to the capital from the more remote
regions. For that reason, the elaborate sys
tem for the election of the presiderft and
vice president was built up.
This system, still in operation, provided
that electors for president should be chosen
on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November at i; ervals of four years. This is
still the election day.
The next step is the meeting of the electors
on the second Monday in January following
the election. They convene in the various
state capitals. These are the people who act
ually vote for the president and vice president.
The Original System
Three reports are made of the results of
these meetings of the electors. From each
state capital, one report is sent to the con
gress of the United States by special messen
ger. A second report is forwarded to con
gress by mail. The third report in each case
is filed with the United States district judge
presiding in the various districts in which
the state capitals lie. The original purpose
of this was to insure a rec d of the action
of the electors in each state being preserved.
If anything happened to the special messenger
from any state, there would he the attested
record of the electors’ action which would
reach congress by mail. Should both records
be lost, the record filed with the district judge
at the state capital would then be conveyed
to Washington as the official record for that
state.
WELL-ROUND ED EDUCATION
need of a dexterous hand. We must not there
fore neglect one phase of education for the
other, or develop one part of the mind at the
expense of another, but educate the whole
mind and develop all the faculties of the girl
and the boy.
We must likewise pay as much attention
to our public schools in Georgia as we do to
our colleges and universities, or our educa
tional systefir will finally become topheavy
like unto the man who wears a silk hat and
mud boots. Educate all.
Creation is the throwing of things out of
the mass into individuality, and binding them
back together in mental and spiritual unity.
We have reached a stage in the experience
and development of the world wherein unity
is necessary not only in the individual mind,
as spoken of above, but in the whoe world.
It is at last necessary to realize that human
ity is one organism, and that the ha. must
not let the foot suffer on its account, nor the
eye forget that the ear is a part of the body
also. When the Chinese are hungry, we must
feed them. When the French are attacked,
we must go to their escue. When other spots
of'the world are in need of medicine, educa
tion and religion it behooves us to supply
them. Mankind cannot longer neglect any
part of the world, just as it cannot afford-to
neglect any faculty in the physical and men
tal make-up of'our boys and girls in dealing
with the problem of education and just as it
cannot afford to neglect the country axd
grammar schools. —The Macon Telegraph.
THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1921.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly. News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Huns Must Disaim
The crucial test in the German reparations
situation is regarded in Paris as likely to
come on June 30, with the expiration of the
time limit for the complete disarmament of
Germany.
If the Allied conditions are not complied
with by that date, it is declared in official
circles, the Ruhr will be occupied, even if
Germany pa; 3 the 1,000,000,000 gold marks
within a month as provided in the Repara
tions commission’s schedule.
Odd Legend
Babies in large numbers are being brought
to Prinkepo, Princess Islands, from Constan
tinople to be blessed by Father Dionysias, the
sole monk remaining in th» Monastery of St.
George, which tops the. 655-foot summit of
this Marmora Sea island.
The legend ha? >reacl that babies so bless
ed will have long life, health and happiness.
To the outside world the island is better
known because of the proposal of Woodrow
Wilson to hold the Bolshevik conference
here.
Father Dionysias, a native of Sparta, is
now eighty years old. He has been here
for thirty years, save for a short imprison
ment by the Turks during the great war.
France Will Pay
France intends to pay what she owes, said
a high official of the French foreign office
this. week.
“The French government,” he continued,
“will take no teps whatever regarding the
ihodification, reduction or cancellation of her
debt to the United States.”
This statement, it was explained, was
drawn out by persistent reports reaching here
from New Yor' to the effect that an arrange
ment of this sort was under consideration.
King of Clowns (
Al Miaco, the king of clowns, has quit the
sawdust ring. Al is eighty-one years old,
though he insist:; he is only seventy-eight. He
has gone to his home in New York City—“for
a little rest,” he said
“But I’ll join the show again in Newark
in a couple of weeks,” he insisted.
Last Sunday when Ringling and Barnum’S
combined circus arrived in Philadelphia, old
Al walked to the grounds with the other men,
but the exertion in the sun was too much for
the veteran and he collapsed. He was taken
to St. Luke’s hospital and physician advised
his retirement.
Retirement. Who could retire from a job
that had been a part of his life for more than
sixty-five -years Albert Frisbee became A!
Miaco when he was a lad of sixteen.
\ ’omen Prisoners
Ten women and girls are at present under
going imprisonment for Irish political of
fenses, their sentences ranging from thre»
months to ten years.
The youngest prisoner, Mary Bowles, who
was captured near Cork wearir - armor and
carrying a Lewis gun, is fifteen years old,
and has been ordered to be detained in a
reformatory until she reaches the age of
nineteen years.
Fifteen others Lave not been tried.
Parliament Names Babies
Among its arduous duties the Turkish na
tionalist parliament has the task of naming
triplets, reports the Constantinople corre
spondent of the London Daily Mail.
The excited parents wired to Mustapha
Kemal asking him to give the babies some
names. He delegated the duty to parliament,
recommending that the names should be such
as always to recall that the babies were born
during the struggle for Turkey’s independ
ence. Stormy debates are reported to be pro
ceeding.
Americans Honored
Ten Americans who fought in the world
war and then came to Poland to fight against
the Bolsheviki were honored at Warsaw by
President Pilsudki and General Joseph
Haller at ceremonies attending the demobili
zation of the famous Kosciusko aerial squad
ron, composed of young aviators from tha
United States.
General Pilsudski, in his residence, Belve
dere palace, decorated Lieutenant Colonel
Cedric E. Fauntleroy, of Chicago; Lieutenant
Colonel Merion Cooper, of Jacksonville, Fla.;!
Major George M. Crawford, of Wilmington,
Del.; Captain Edward J. Corst, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., and First Lieutenant Elliott Chess, of
Texas, with the Cross of the Brave.
General Haller later awarded the Polish
service medal to all ten members of tha
squadron, whom he thanked for their serv
ices in aid of Poland. He asserted the names
of Fauntleroy, Cooper and Crawford would
live in Polish history the same as the namtM
of Kosciusko and Pulaski were remembered
in the United States.
Most of the American aviators are plan
ning to return to the United States in tha
near future. y
I REFLECTIONS of a
BACHELOR GIRL
BY'HELEN ROWLAND
A woman is young, until the day when she
stops fearing that mten will deceive, and be-,
gins wishing they could.
When a man sees the love-light dawning ih
a woman’s eyes it gives wings to his spirt-,
and sometimes seven-league boots to his ieet.
A woman is a cipher-code, which lose all
that fascinating mystery for a man, as soon
as he has learned the key to her moods and
tenses, by heart.
Man’s woman: The kind whom women first
suspect, then gossip about, then envy, then
imitate.
The sight of powder on his coat-lapel makes
a callow youth brag, a bachelor and a
married man tremble.
■ Every (uan will admit that he has “ideals;
but, somehow, when you ask him what they
are, he always begins talking about the color
of your eyes, the moonlight on your hair, or
the curl of your eyelashes—thereby proving
that the average man’s ideals are not much
over five feet high.
Don’t marry a man with an erotic past, in
the hope that it will insure his a pure spotless
future. A little exercise may harden the mus
cles of the heart, but too much of it merely
takes away their powers of resistance.
Poor man! lie is never safe. As soon as
women cease to tempt his emotions, the flesh
pots of the table begin to tempt his appetite.
As soon as he stops worrying about his heart,
he begins worrying about his waist-line.
Taking the sun out of Sunday woy make lots
more work for the preachers. Idleness and
boredom are the devil’s favorite tools!
(Copyright, 1921. The Wheeler Newspaper
Syndicate.)