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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURN AL. Atlanta. Ga.
Franklin K. Lane
FRANKLIN K. LANE will be remember
ed, not only as a great Secretary of
the Interior and a foiemost figure in
the Wilson administration, but also as an
American who lived out the stanchest, the
kindliest, th- noblest ideals of his time. His
mature and influential years fell within sin
gularly important periods of the nation’s
history. Born a Canadian, in the last sum
mer of the War Between the States, he was
reared in California, graduated from the
university of that commonwealth, and
launched in his early twenties upon a sturdy
newspaper career.
His interests from the outset were in
things human and sdcial, not in money-get
ting; and in the life of the times he found
fields ever fresh for observation and for
action. Time- of transition and unrest they
were, of sharp challenge to corrupt and
reactionary politics, of wider thinking, more
generous impulse, and also of quixotic va
garies. Grover Cleveland. Mugwumps, Popul
ism, all move ac-oss the stage upon which
the young journalist, first as reporter, then
' as New York correspondent of Western pa
pers, and at last as publisher and editor of
the Tacoma News, was intent. It is likely
that he was born a Liberal, certainly the is- :
sues of the day made him one, and in the
Democratic party he found his inevitable as- !
filiation. For mere partisanship, however, '
he cared next to nothing, and among Cali
fornians anu Westerners of all political per- '
suasions he was esteemed for the sterling
American he was.
So it was that in 1905, some years after
his retirement from newspaperdom and his
entrance upon the p actlce of law, he was
called by President Roosevelt to a seat on
the Interstate Commerce Commission. Mr.
Lane’s service 'in that capacity was of ut
most importance to railway and shipping in- ,
terests, and to the manifold concerns of
economic life .vhich they involve. Here, as
In his every other place of ’'esponsibility
and influence, he stood for the common
rights and for even handed justice. So dis
tinguished, moreover, was his ability that in
1913 when President Wilson was casting
about for the strongest talent procurable for
a Cabinet, he selecteu Mr. Lane for the
Department of the Interior. His record there
Is fresh in his country’s memory and will
remain vivid in her history. One of the mos
trusted a d far-visioned of the great Admin
Istration’s counselors, he bore a truly heroic
part in the winning of the war and in the
working out of splendid policies of construc
tive democracy. The nation is gratefully
proud of him. and the world pays him the
honor which only its faithful servants earn.
On the Path to Prosperity
FLOYD COUNTY well may rejoice in
the fact that its farmers are planting
a liberal acreage of forage crops, such
as alfalfa, sorghum, soy bean and cowpeas,
and also are developing their pastures, as a
foundation for extensive live stock produc
tion. Never was this policy more warmly
commended by science and common sense
alike than at the present juncture, when all
but the most conservative ventures in cotton
are dangerous and when an ample food out
put is the only promise of independence and
prosperity.
Years ago diversification ' , ame to be the
chief theme of practical counselors on Geor
gia agricultur- and the ruling plan of for
ward-thinking farmers. Corn, pig and can
ning clubs and kindred enterprises among
the farm lads and their sisters served to sow
the new ideas in peculiarly fertile soil. At
the same time special courses offered by the
State College of Agriculture, together with
its “extension” service and ihe work of the
demonstration agent, reached a multitude of
planters who formerly had no practical en
couragement in breaking away from the cot
ton tyranny. The results became evident in
business as well as in agriculture. Counties
which aforetime had been inveterately on a
credit basis, and largely on a mortgage basis,
began to pluck up the spirit that comes from
ready cash; and . -ere foodstuffs were raised
most abundantly and in widest variety, the
cash system throve most vigorously and bore
the goodliest fruitage of prosperity.
It is to this tendency that Geergia owes
her longest strides in economic progress dur
ing the last decade or so, and along this
same line will her most substantial attain
ments in the years just ahead be made. As
long as cotton held the whip hand, there was
bound to be .nori or less slavery to debt;
and wherever it rules today, that is the c~~o.
Moreover, as long as cotton monopolized soil
and energy, great empires of resources and
opportunities were certain to go neglected—
for example, animal husbandry. No region
of America is natuially better suited for
herds and flocks and the divers industries re
lated to them han is Georgia. But no* un
'l tht Planting of large areas in food and
forage cr'»ps and the development of the pas
turage w...s it profitable or in any wise prac
ticable 1 ' tc raise swin and cattle extensively
in this State. Not until agriculture took
that turr* did the packing house, now so im
portant i factor in our prosperity, appear.
In pursuing this path F oyd county is in the
way of substantial progress. Many other
counties, gratifyingly enough, are doing like
wise. while discerning merchants an bank
ers ar*k Icm.ing the movement hearty en
couragßnent.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL,
Prophecies, Safe and Unsafe
THOSE oracular politicians and other
wiseacres who are ever ready to
mount the trinod and begin prophesy
ing with the assurance of a Pythian pries
tess would do well to ponder thl passage
in Lord Bryc ,'s recently published MODERN
DEMOCRACY: “To realize how vain con
jectures are, let us imagine ourselves to be
in the place of those who only three or four
generations ago failed to forecast what the
next following generation would see. Let us
suppose Burke, Johnson and Gib Lon sitting
togethe” at a diurer of the club in 17 69,
the year when Napoleon and Welli .gton
were born, and the *alk falling on the poli
tics of the European continent. Did they have
any presage of the future? Men stood on tin
edge of stupendous changes and had not a
glimpse of even the outlines of those
changes.”
As little did most of us suspect the on
coming of the catastrophe of 1914, although
as we now look back, its genesis and rise
appear plain enough. “Even the fool,” said
Homer, “is wise after the event.” Spying for
big things, wfe ofttimes miss the important
ones because they are unpretentious. Had a
visitant from some superior planet dropped
down to the earth in the hey-day of her
monster reptiles and glimpsed here and yon
der amidst t’ eir unchallenged rule certain
scared little creatures which were the ob
scure forefathers of the mammals, he would
hardly have guessed (unless indeed he had
been a spirit of widest prevision) that from
those humble, newly risen dwellers on the
bleak margin of life would come at length
the princes of creation. One murky Febru
ary day of the year 1809, in Hardin county,
Kentucky, the crossroad’s store kc per hail
ed the post-ian to ask what news was abroad.
“None wuth tellin,” he answered. “A t~bv
was born up to Tom Lincoln’s this mornin’,
and they named him “Abe.” But that’s all.
Nuthiii’ ever happens in vi.ese narts.” We
puzzle hopelessly over economic problems
which some unheralded scientist, working
quietly with test-tub- and alembic is solv
ing in a manner undreamed. We fume and
fuss over political ills, finding no :’emedy in
the grave statesmen of the day, when forth
comes a school master, green in politics but
seasoned in knowledge of justice, and swings
open a fresh era. We despair of sc.’a 1 wrongs
and follies, seeing no glimmer of ' —int,
when all the while there are fallin? from
faithful, hidden lives, from teachers and
mothers and work-a-day seers, t' gleams
that shall hearten, the leaven that shall lift.
Maybe if eur Burkes and Gibbons were co
take the deep simplicities more largely into
acco- ‘ they could prophecy to better pur
pose. The future indeed they could not fore
tell. except per 1 aps as the ever ingenious
oracle of Delphi foretold it for King Croesus,
when it answered that if he marched against
King Cyrus he would destroy a great em
pire. Yet, while there is nothing so uncer
tain as the vay of men (except the way of
women) we may be pract’cally sur (Pro
fessor Einstei: otwithsta ding) that how
soever surpriseful those ways may prove
they will not disrupt the multiplication table
nor dispense utterly with / Decalogue, nor
exhaust the possibilities of the Sermon on
the Mount. Landmarks like these are ever
visible, not only in the past but in the be
wildering present as well, and across the
furthest, dimmest ranges of the future. If
America deal fairly and generously with the
world, if Georgia stand firmly for law and
.justice, disdaining to do wrong to the hum
blest of her people, if Atlanta make
abiding values her aim and think in terms of
quality and live in good neighborliness—
then in truth may it be prophecied that our
country always will be nobly great, our com
monwealth always worth serving, our city
always worth loving. And this much as
sured, what need of anxiety?
Chief Justice White
AMERICA has lost in he death of Chief
Justice White a jurist who will loom
eminent in the history a most
eventful age. To only eight men since the
Republic’s beginning has come the distinc
tion of that high trust from which he has
passed in splendour; and assuredly none
proved more faithful, more righteous, more
rich in honor. Called to the United States
Supreme Court bench by President Cleveland
twenty-seven years ago, he brought to its la
bors liberal experience and attainment He
had been a lawyer of large practice, a judge
in the Supreme Court of his native Louisiana,
and subsequently had been elected to the
national Senate from + hat State. Equal /
virile and poised in intellect and ruggedly
upright in character, he soon won the admi
ration of the common country as completely
as he already held the affection of the South
in whose Confederate ranks he had worn a
jacket of gray. How ably he served in tha
highest of courts was attested in 1910 when
a Republican President chose him, a South
ern-bred Democrat, to fill the vacancy which
then befell in the Chiei Justicesui; Os that
notable appointment Mr. Taft himself has
said: “He brought to the discharge of his
great duties an ever-pressing sense of respon
sibility to the people of the United States
in the preservation of the constitution and
the maintenance of the public interest and
private right as therein balanced. He had a
great personality and it enab] him to ex
ercise a wise influence in the courts. His
name is writ large in the constitutional
jurisprudence of this nation.”
\ Editorial Echoes.
It looks as if we had beaten our swords
into monkey-wrenches.—Columbia (S .C.)
Recrod.
It doesn’t pay to strike back. Better hit
the other fellow first. —Petersburg (Va.) In
dex Appeal.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
A bachelor’s notion of an “ideal wife” is
woman to whom he can turn for relief and
consolation, after every foolish flirtation.
You can’t judge an American man’s char
acter by his record in the divorce courts; be
cause .nine times out of ten, that proves noth
ing except his inability to refuse a woman
anything she wants —even a divorce.
A good husband is one who will get up and
lift the groceries off the dumb waiter for you,
instead of lying back #hd lifting his voice to
tell you dow to do it properly.
No woman will ever be a man’s equal—not
in vanity, anyway, so .ong as she feels that
she must enhance her charms with powder
and rouge in order to please him; while he
has not a doubt that he is fascinating enough
to please any woman, just as God made him.
“The way of a man with a maid” is one
thing—and the way of the same man with a
widow is quite another.
Every man is, at heart, a profiteer, when it
comes to trying to get a whole beauty-chorus,
harem, kitchen force and celestial choir for
the price of one wedding ring.
A bride is forever begging her husband to
“tell her everything;” but a seasoned wife
prefers to find out the truth.
A spinster who is still II ' g in hope says
that the marr‘ J*eable ago is anyvzhore be
tween the and the cemetery*
TO CHECK SENILITY
By H. Addington Bruce
* M I right,” a correspondent asks,
ZA “in believing that the cultivation
of poise would do izuch to preserve
mental vigor even in extreme old age and pre
vent anything resembling a reversion to child
hood?”
In so far as “second childhood”—senile de
mentia, the doctors call it —is dependent on
arterial hardening, the cultivation of poise
will most certainly be found helpful. For
poise implies emotional control, and emotion
al control contributes appreciably to keep the
arteries in good coxidition.
Worry, anger, fretfulness, these and psychic
states akin to them, aggravate and may even
cause hardening of the arteries. They are
psychic states from which the well-poised
are free. Hence the helpfulness of poise in
checking senility.
But of still greater helpfulness in this re
spect is the keeping of one’s self not only well
poised, but keenly interested in many things.
It is not the poorly poised mind so much
as the inert, the vegetative mind that tends
to senility. Energetic thinkers, keenly inter
ested thinkers, may indeed become senile.
They are always less likely to do so than
persons of narrow and feeble interests and a
proclivity for using then’ minds no more than
necessity requires.
This is why in every discussion of the prob
lem of caring for old people we find the best
authorities pretty unanimously urging, with
Elmer E. Jones:
“Those who have charge of the aged should
study the individuals carefully in order to
discover habitual activities which have been
retained and in which interest is stih alive.
“Effort should be made to stimulate these
activities to the end. To "How one of them
to lapse is to reduce the mental capacity so
much, and to render the subject so much more
like a child.”
If in old age itself it is important to keep
interest alive, it manifestly is more import
ant to develop in earlier life a habit of being
keenly and variously interested—if only in
order to have interests to be kept alive in old
age. But, more than this, youthful enthusi
asms—including enthusiasm for one’s work
literally postpone the coming of old age.
Whereas when enthusiasm dies, or when it
has never been possessed in any degree, the
feebleness of old age quickly becomes accentu
ated. Again and again I have myself been
impressed by the coincidence between senile
dementia and a lifelong habit of general non
interest.
He who would live long and preserve
mental and physical balance,” prescribes the
physician Bainbridge, “must banish fear and
maintain an ever fresh and vigorous interest
in the varying panorama of life as it passes
before him.”
° f a truth are the indispensables.
•iney do not provide absolute guarantees
against senility. But to disregard them Is ?o
invite senility and all its woes.
THE CRAFTSMAN’S CREED
.. Frank Crane
At the request of the C ub of Printing
House Craftsmen, of Milwau -- I I ave nre
lared the following P
CRAFTSMAN’S CREED
1. I believe in Work.
2. I believe in doing the kind of Work
that is of real use.
3. I believe that one of the tests of wheth
er Work is Useful pr not is, that people are
willing to pay money for it.
4. I believe in Work that is of value to
people now Living, that I am a part of this
Generation, that I should serve my Contem
poraries and co-operate with them, ani th-,
tae best assura -3 that my Work will be ap
preciated by Posterity is that it is of practi
cal worth Now.
5. I believe that while I have a right to
exp.ct pay for my labor, my chief concern
is to do my Work well, as the joy of good
Work well done is the highest form of statis
faction.
6. I believe that the most dept, "able
kind of Happiness is that which is a by-prod
uct of Work; that no play is worth while un
less it refreshes and restores the power and
disposition to Work; and that no Rest is
sweet unless it is earned by Work.
7. I believe no man can do good Work un
less he Loves it.
8. I believe no man can do good Work un
less he sub its to training and practice.
9. I believe that all Work done in Love,
and following t aining and practice, will be
Beautiful.
10. I believe that the perfectly Useful is
always Bearti ul, and that whatever .s
Beautiful is Useful.
11. I believe that no man lives unto him
self nor can he do his Lest Work by himself;
for he must learn of his Masters, he must
co-operate with his Fellow craftsmen and he
must produce something that shall be valu
able to the People.
12. I believe in nc class. Party nor Privi
lege, but that every man should be judged
by his Work, and that he is entitled to re
spect and position only by virtue of his In
ner Character auc. his Outward Product.
13. I believe that God is no idle King,
seeking the adulation which Icings crave, nor
indulging in the petty pleasures of a mon
arch’s vanity; but that He is the infinite
Worker, expressing Himself in the creation
and continuous upkeep of His universe, and
finding His joy ir. the forthputting of His
almighty energy.
I believe that I imitate Him, please
Him, and am worthy to be called a Son of
God, only as I also, in my small corner, do
my Work and find my j’oy in it.
15. I believe every human being was born
to de some kind of good Work, and that in
doing it he finds his best excuse for living,
and the most intelligent answer to the ques
tion: “Why Was I Born?”
My, But We’r. Glad We Voted Bonds!
Marietta has voted bonds for street paving
purposes. One by one they are coming to it.
A town of any conse .nee cannot hope nor
expect to ma.<e steady progress with unpaved
streets. Street paving goes with electric
1 ghts, waterworks, sewerage, modern schools
and other comforts, facilities and conven
iences of modern times. We have .always said
that a community is just what its inhabitants
want it to be. —Commerce Observer.
No town will amount to anything by refus
ing to hustle and push forward. And further
more it doesn’t eserve to. Unfortunate x in
deed is that town where the drones and tight
wads can make their influence felt. —Dawson
Citizen.
Both papers are eminently correct. The
town that refuses to invest in improvements
will regret the action after the wisdom of
such has been demonstrated by such enter
prising centers as Marietta.
Christmas Supplies
The following good news comes from
SOx.t'n Georgia via the Pearson Tribune:
“Judging from the heavy crop of blooms
there will be a good crop of pecans in Pear
son and vicinity. A young o"ee in the editor’s
yard is nc • putting on the heaviest crop of
nuts it has ever borne. The editor has made
careful survey of his neighbor’s trees an
finds that they also bearing good crops.
However, there is some complaint of the
presence of the ‘Case Worm’ and that they
are causing Uie ijrees to shed the nuts. The
editor’s examination has not discovered these
pests to any alarming extent. Blight has ap
peared but not seriously. With the j proper at
tention these enemies of the nut trees can
ho routed, but t 1 ’ 0 remedy must not be ap
plied until next fall.”
DOROTHY DIX TALKS FIRST AID TO MATRIMONY
BY DOROTHY DIX
Every one who has lived in a large city
knows that one of the biggest needs in it is a
clearing house for youth and ro‘ .i. Some
L lace where nice, respectable boys and girls
may meet each other, and have a good, in
nocent time together, and perhaps fall in love
with each other and get married, and know
all the time that ever- thu is all right be
cause they have been 0. K.’d by the roof un
der which they have been introduced.
At present there is no such place. Young
people who go as strangers to a city, almost
perish of loneliness during the first few
months in which they are aliens in an alien
land. Then they begin picking up acquaint
ances on the street, at the places where they
work, at boarding houses, and cheap res
taurants, an ’ the result is tragedy in innum
erable cases.
Yet youth calls to yo th, 1 man to J aid.
Every young chap must have his girl, and
every girl must have her man, and they must
play together, and have natural, normal fun.
I get hundreds of letters a year from young
men, asking me how they may meet nice
girls in the cities in which they live, girl like
the sort they knew back home, and even
more letters from girls wanting to know how
they may get to know worthy young men of
the type who used to take them around to
parties, and to picture shows at Squeedunk
or Bird Center.
And I have had to answer that I don’
know, and to beware of the vamp with the
rolling eye, and the smiling youth who says,
“Excuse me, miss but didn’t I see you last
week at the ball at the Vantoria? I see my
mistake now but you are so exactly like that
girl who was the most beautiful creature I
ever saw that my error was perfectly nat
ural” etc., etc.
A prophet, however, has arisen in Israel,
who has a plan for solving this great prob
lem. He lives Li New Orleans, and has a bill
now before the Louisiana legislature, in which
communities of 2,000 and over are authorized
to establish social centers at which young peo
ple may meet and mate under the chaperon
age of the law.
According to his plan, men and women who
wish companionship, will go to the nearest
matrimonial station and register. Their rec
ords will be xhor ’ghly investigated, and if
they are clean, the matron in charge will in
troduce them to a circle of other certified in
dividuals.
Os course, t i the up to the man and
woman to find congenial acquaintances, or,
perhaps, the one particular Him or Her. That
is as may 1 3. Cupid is a choosy youngster,
and makes strange select! -ns, but the point
is *hat here he is given a working baJs, and
whomever he picks out is more or less a guar
ant< ;d arti le.
The author of this romantic dll is so far
enamored of wedding bells that he would
have the state subsidize matrimony. That is
going it a bit tl.ick, as the English say, but
there is no doubt but that it would be a good
thing if there could be some proper place es-
CONGRESSIONAL CALISTHENICS By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 19.—With
the opening in the house office build
ing of a gymnasium, supported by
personal contributions from 140 congressmen,
the physical culture movement seems to have
struck Capitol hill full force.
Perhaps the sudden interest of the congress
men in the their physical condition is not
hard to explain. They have recently been
holding hearings in the committee on educa
tion on a bill to establish a nation-wide system
of physical culture, and the figures showing
the need for such a measure have been truly
alarming. They show that a large percent
agel of American men are physically unfit, and
that among sedentary workers, lack of exer
cise and of fresh air are the big causes. We
have conquered germs, only to let our livers
and hearts and other vital organs degenerate
for lack of an occasional shaking up.
The congressman and senator are the sed
entary men par excellence. Sitting is their
business. A congressman’s reputation de
pends partly on how much time he spends sit
ting in the house, and when he leaves there
he goes to his office and sits down and spends
four hours dictating letters, explaining that
the garden seeds are all gone and why he
could not recommend fifteen men for one
postmastership.
Formerly oratory gave the legislator all the
exercise he needed. Men like Daniel Webster
and Henry Clay used to get up a good sweat
every time they addressed the house. Then
they would take a plunge in the Potomac and
a rubdown, and so keep in the best of trim.
But the style of oratory has changed. There
is not as much swinging and hammering and
waving as there used to be. Oratory can no
longer take the place of the setting up exer
cise. And members of the house, especially,
do not get the chance to talk often enough to
keep them in really good trim. The congress
man says a few words and then extends his
remarks in the Record. The orations that
the home folks read are delivered only to
stenographers or even written with a lead
pencil.
Hence the need for the congressional gym
nasium, which has recently been opened on
the first floor of the house office building
in a space formerly occupied by the Demo
cratic national committee.
A Fighting Congressman
The idea is credited to Representative Brit
ten, of Illinois, and Reed, of New York. Aft
er the balance of the 140 congressional ath
letes had signified their willingness to take
part in the plan, each was assessed $lO. With
this money Representative Britten managed
to obtain complete equipment for the gym
nasium.
For the legislator who seeks diversion or
exercise, there is provided a handball court,
three rowing machines, two punching bags, a
wrestling mat, horizontal bars, abdominal
massage machines, a gymnasium “horse,” and
any number of medicine balls, fencing foils,
masks and breast plates. In addition, there
are lockers, shower baths, a steam room, rub
bing tables, and an electric cabinet bath.
The “gym” idea was conceived during the
last session of congress, and the money for
the equipment collected. Every day there is
spasmodic use of the gymnasium, but it is
planned now to have regular classes to whip
congressmen into good trim. The two origin
ators of the plan with Representative New
ton, of Minnesota, have been named as a com
mittee to get in touch with the athletic au
thorities of the navy, marine corps, and
Georgetown university, with a view to secur
ing the services of the best athletic coaching
available. It is planed to hold this class in
the morning, due to the embarrassment which
might result from a roll call interrupting an
afternoon class, dragging nearly naked states
men from their violent physical exertions,
forcing them to dress hurriedly, dash over to
the Capitol and answer to their names.
It is not expected that the full 140 sub-
I scribers to the fund for the equipment of
the gymnasium will take advantage of the
opportunity a coached class in physical cul
ture will offer them. Some of the older mem
bers will not attend, and many of the house
leaders contributed with no idea of being
able to devote a definite fraction of their
time to being put into good bodily trim.
Captain John Craige, of the marine corps,
will have general supervision of the physical
work of the statesmen when the class is
formed. He is an overseas veteran, and now,
in addition to being one of the aides to Ma-
I jor General Lejeune, commandant of the ma
irine corps, is athletic officer of the corps. He
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1921.
tablished in every city where young people
who have no homes and no facilities for get
ting acquainted, could meet under the eye
of a worldly wise and lenient Mrs. Grundy.
Just how this first aid to matrimony is to
be conducted has not been made public. Un
doubtedly, its questionnaire will be search
ing, and all who enroll at will ha\ to tell
their age, their past history, the amount and
source of their incomes, the kind of disposi
tion they have, and what are -heir general
matrimonial qualifications.
This should enable those who are seeking
for life partners to make much more intelli
gent selections than are possible to those who
get their husbands and wives out of the
matrimonial grab bag, so to jpeak.
The thing that does more than anything
else to make marriage a failure, is the dis
covery, after you get home and settle down
to real life, that you bought a pig in a poke,
as it were, and that the man or woman to
whom you have tied yourself for life isn’t any
more the individual you thought you were
marrying, than if he or she -was some entire
stranger whom you had never set eyes on be
fore.
Thus it ver; often happens that a girl is so
misled by the rich presents, and the money
that a man lavishes on hei during the days
of courtship, that she thinks he is marrying
a millionaire; only to find out after marriage
that he has scarcely a shoestring of a salary;
or a man marrie . „ girl under the full belief
that he is acquiring a blue ribbon cook, who
"otes on a gas range to to his
despair that her mother made the angel food,
and that he is doomed to go through life the
victim of dyspepsia brought on by his wife’s
biscuit.
Os course, all these little mistakes would
be obviated by a man and woman being able
to look over each other’s record. They would
have each other’s number to begin with, with
out having to correct a false guess when it
was too late.
Each of us cherishes in our fancy our ideal
of the kind of a wife or husband we would
like to have. Every man knows every char
acteristic of his dream woman. Every woman
knows every taste and little quirk of the hero
of her imaginings; but we, seldom' marry
those with whom we' would be “two souls with
but a single thought, two hearts that beat
as one,” because we do not know how to find
them.
The matrimonial center would find them for
us. We would only have to look v-r their
list of eligibles to discover the man or woman
who agreed, with us on everything from poli
tics to pie, and then tie up with him or for
life.
Propinquity is the great match-maker.
Perhaps all (hat you’ve got to do is to bring
men and women together, and Nature will do
the rest, but any way you look at it, the idea
of having some place where young people
can meet each other in the right way, is a
good one. It should do much not only to
promote marriage, but to stc divorce.
intends to detail properly qualified enlisted
men of the organization if they are found
to be available.
Captain Craige entered the marine corps
durifig the late war. His prowess as an ama
teur boxer is well known. In addition to at
taining laurels in this field, he assisted in
training of three middleweight champions of
the world.
Boxing bids fair to take a prominent part
in the activities of the house gymnasium dev
otees. One of the originators of the gym
nasium, Representative Britten, has an envi
able record as an amateur boxer, broad jum
per and sprinter. He still keeps himself in
first-class shape all the time, doing a con
siderable amount of handball playing and
boxing.
Mr. Britten and Col. Theodore Roosevelt,
new assistant secretary of the navy, have
agreed to a friendly bout with the gloves at
the house gym. Colonel Roosevelt, by the
way, is the only man outside the membership
of the house who has been admitted to mem
bership in the gymnasium. Only the fixing
of a time convenient to Secretary Roosevelt
remains in the way of these coming together.
Secretary Roosevelt had led the “strenuous
life” advocated by his distinguished father,
and has engaged in a great many glove en
counters with the late ex-president. However,
in tackling Representative Britten, he will
have his hand uncomfortably full, although
he will have the advantage of weight, height
and reach.
The congressman made a great name for
himself on the Pacific coast as a youngster. He
is still remembered there as one of the fast
est and strongest lightweight amateur boxers
that California has produced. He came into
national notice when fighting a gentleman
who rejoiced in the name of Young Brady at
the Olympic club, of San Francisco, in 1892.
In the first round he knocked Brady down six
times, then knocked him out, all in the space
of one minute and thirty seconds.
At the Chicago Athletic club, during the
world’s fair games in 1893, young Britteri
knocked out Jack Mackler in twelve rounds.
During the Chicago games Mr. Britten did not
devote himself entirely to boxing, but byway
of variety defeated Crumm, the then famous
lowa sprinter, who subsequently was timed
for 100 yards in less than ten seconds. Mr.
Britten also treasures medals won for swim
ming and broad jumping.
Mr. Britten received his instruction in -box
ing from James J. Corbett, former heavy
weight champion of,the world. If, in the com
ing encounter between Mr. Britten and the
doughty Secretary Roosevent, one inadver
tently hits the other a little harder than he
meant to, it is more than likely that the fur
will fly.
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
A tiff had taken place,., but Smithers had
cooled down. He determined to try woman’s
weak point—dress—and he remarked in a
pleasant voice, “I see dresses are to be worn
longer this season.”
But the hard lines at the corner of her
mouth were still there. “Well, if they are
to be worn longer than I am compelled to
wear mine,” she said bitterly, “they will
have to be made of sheet iron.” And then
it began all over again.
The captain of an English football team
that had visited Sludmush-on-Sea had just
finished a modest ce.ebration of his side’s vic
tory, and was enjoying a quiet stroll before
catching the train back. The vicar saw him
and congratulated him on his success.
“But I hope the enjoyment of your visit
has not been confined entirely to football?”
added the vicar. “I hope you have been
drinking in the ozone?”
The captain then replied: “Well, I didn’t
notice the name of the place, but it was the
one opposite the pier.”
“Augh—waugh—gr-r-r!”
It was the baby, and he had made similar
remarks steadily for the last hour. Mr. New
pop’s hair—what was left if it—stood on end.
“Gnow ah wb wombdgou filagur-r-r!” re
marked the baby, lustily, while the people
living across the way rose from their beds
and closed the windows ostentatiously.
Mr. Newpop ground his teeth,
“To think,” he murmured wearily, “that I
should live to become the lather of a train
announcer!.” A
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Royal Upset
King Alfonso- and Queen Victoria of
Spain had a narrow escape from death this
week. They were motoring to the Hippo
drome to attend the races when a tire on
their automobile burst, causing the machine
to skid and finally overturn.
Officers of the military escort came quickly
to their aid. The king and queen were much
shaken up, but received no serious injury.
Insurance Figures
Figures compiled for the Unique Manual
Digest for 1921 from special reports by 288
insurance companies doing business in the
United States show total insurance in force
at the close of the year, December 21, 1920,
of $43,319,972,742, a gain of of $6,924,-
184,460 for the year 1920. Total admitted
assets were $7,632,845,449. Payments to
policy-holders for the year 1920 were $682,-
472,013. A half dozen or so small compa
nies had not sent in a report, but if all the
companies’ reports were included these to
tals would not be affected over 1 per cent.
Fraternal and assessment companies are
not included, nor is the business of the war
risk bureau. The Unique Manual Digest be
lieves the above figures are the first accu
rate totals to be announced on the business
of 1920. (
Crowns Stolen
The recent theft from the royal armory
of two golden votive crowns of the Visigothic
King Swintila deprived Spain of one of her
greatest treasures, as only in the Cluny mu
seum of Paris do similar specimens exist.
Historians suppose that the two crowns
originally were part of the treasure of tha
old cathedral of Toledo before the present
building was constructed. It is believed they
were removed from the,church when tha
Arab invasion occurred and buried in a sep
ulcher in the hamlet of Guarrazar, in tha
vicinity of Toledo, where they were discov
ered after six centuries.
Later, when Isabel II was on the throne,
two peasant women came to her and offered
her the crowns and other articles which have
now been stolen from the royal armory.
Those Bolsheviki
Choice of a home is not permitted in the
land of the Bolsheviki, according to reports
from Russia. Everything belongs to the
government which assigns living quarters.
Special barracks have been assigned to
persons from America, as Soviet authorities
consider them unreliable rebels that must be
kept apart from others. Everybody knows
these “Americans” by their sad faces and dis
mal silence. .They do not answer if spoken
to in Russian, but their faces brighten if some
one appears who knows English, and espe
cially the American vernacular. .
“Don’t you speak English?” is their first
question, followe4 by the inevitable second:
“Is there any way to get back to America?”
But there is no way out, for Russia is locked
from within.
Concerning Stamps
Speculating on the possibility of a new is
sue of stamps as a result of ex-Emperor
Karl’s dash for the Hungarian throne, Doug
las B. Armstrong writes to the London Daily
Express that Hungary’s political vicissitudes
since the armistice are already vividly re
corded in the stamp album.
The encarmined imprint “Koztarsasag”
(republic), following the flight of the empe
ror and empress to Switzerland, was im
posed on the postal issues of the erstwhile
Hungarian kingdom until such time as the
obsolete designation “Kir” (imperial) could
be erased from the 4* es themselves. The
same stamps in due course were reissued
bearing the inscription, “Magyar Posta,”
only.
A further overprint reading “Magyar
Tanacs Koztarsasag” (Hungarian Soviet Re
public) was struck with the advent of th®
red republic under Bela Kun on the contem
porary postage stamps, which, however, lata
gave plact to a bizarre series of a definite
character adorned with the effigies of Karl
Marx and other Socialist leaders.
The printing of these grotesque labels had
to be suspended after a few weeks, thus re
moving what the promoters had looked to
as a source of considerable revenue, in view
of the world-wide demand by collectors.
After the seizure of the main stocks of post
age stamps by the Bolsheviki it became nec
essary to distinguish those current in the
areas under allied occupation, and to this
end local overprints were applied at Arad»
Barabya and Temesvar by the French, Ser
bian and Rumanian authorities and at Sege
din by the anti-Bolshevist government of
Count Kardy.
For France
Hugh C. Wallace, the retiring American
Ambassador to France, on behalf of the
American committee having its erection in
charge, formally tendered the Marne memo
rial, the gift of America to France, tp Presi
dent Millerand in the Elysee palace thia
week. The statue, which is being designed
by Frederick MacMonnies, the American
sculptor, will be erected near Meaux. It will
be as large as the Statue of Liberty in New
York harbor.
“I present to the government and people
of France, in the name of the whole Ameri
can people, the monument which is to rise
to commemorate the victory of the Marne,”
said Mr. Wallace. “Four millions of my
countrymen directly joined in the gift.”
Ambassador Wallace handed to President
Millerand a letter from Thomas W. Lamont,
of New York, the originator <of the memorial,
formally tendering the gift.
Friend of Tobacco
Tobacco is the least harmful of the “four
social poisons,” tea, coffee, tobacco and al
cohol, according to Sir James Cantile, the
eminent surgeon, speaking in London.
“Smoke the same amount of tobacco every
day,” said Sir James, “and the heart will
become accustomed to a certain amount. If
one smokes less one day than another he
feels the effect as much as if he had smoked
more.”
He said three days’ abstinence from smok
ing would entirely free the system from nic
otine. Sir James condemned the cigarette.
Arctic Expedition
Another expedition into the Arctic regions
in two or three years is planned by Vilhjah
mur Stefansson. the explorer, he announced
at Pasadena. Cal., at the residence of Ernest
de Koven Leffingwell, also an explorer,
where he is a guest.
Despite the discovery of the North Pole,
Stefansson said, there remains much room
for exploration in the Arctic.
“The center of the ice-bound regions of the
north never has been reached by man.” ha
said. “The North Pole region is 450 miles
from the edge of the icy area, while the cen
ter is 800 miles from the edge. We are cen
tering our interest on getting to the center
and finding out what is there. I have no
theories. It may be land or ice.”