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The Silesian Dispute
p*T is unfortunate for not only France and
fT' Great Britain, but also for the whole
world, that Premiers Briand and Lloyd
Ggbrge firmly adhere to diametrically oppo
site views on the question of whether or not
Germany should be permitted to defend
against Polish insurgents the territory in
Silesia allotted to the Teutonic republic by
virtue of a plebiscite held under the terms of
the Treaty of Versailles an<J the direct super
vision of military and political representa
tives of the governments allied against the
Central Empires during the world war.
Open and frank discussions have been en
gaged in and positions taken which would ap
pear to make more difficult the ultimate ad
justment of the delicate situation, which, of
course, yill be made, even though one or the
other of the statesmen'seal his political
doom. It is inconceivable that a serious
breach of amity could result from this differ
ence of opinion.
And yet there are close students of history
anjj political events of recent times who pro
fess to see more than a trivial incident in the
divergence. They think that behind the
background is a more serious clash of two
ancient and opposing ideas.
France’s/ lesson of the past half century
has been well learned. She has been bitterly
taught in Bismarck’s school of blood and
iron; forty years later the Hohenzollerns and
the Hapsburgs reminded her that her safety
lie§ in the weakness of her ancient and most
formidable foe. France__ knows that her
serenity lies in being the greatest of the
Western European powers and she knows
that she cannot be unless Germany is shorn
of her sources of strength, her powers again
to do mischief to the rest of the world and
especially to France, against whom there will
always be enmity in the Teuton heart so long
as the Tri-color is planted in Alsace-Lorraine
'On the other hand, England, however gal
lantly she fought side by side with the allies
ag£inst the legions of Hindenburg, has never
quite forgotten the days of the greatness of
France in still another war when the shadow
fell across all Europe and loom
ed across the channel. England fought just
as desperately against French militarism then
’ as,rShe did against German militarism in
1914. It must be disquieting to British
statesmen to see the tide of affairs giving to
France her strong and proud place in Europe.
Lloyd George may w r ell lose his composure
■when he sees France making alliances with
Poland, Belgium, Hungary and the little anti
soviet states -which have been lopped off from
Russia, however satisfactory it may be to the
Test' of the world. France is slowly, quietly,
methodically putting Germany between the
jaws of a vise consisting of herself and Po
land.
At a time when the British Empire is groan
lng°under domestic and territorial unrest;
when Ireland is aflame with open rebellion,
Egypt muttering, South Africa dissatisfied
and India in almost open revolt, England is
watching the growing French dominance in a
disquieted mood. The balance of power in
Europe seems to be shifting without the
guiding hand of Downing street, and it is not
at all unnatural nor unselfish in Lloyd George
sharply to remind the Poles of their treaty
obligations or to warn the French that the/
cannot ruthlessly build another Napoleonic
empire on the prostrate forms of their former
allies.
Probably the most unfortunate effect of the
conflict is the cunning satisfaction which Ber
lin is receiving. They hope to drive the wedge
deep between the allied governments and. al
though unable to win the victory on the bat
tlefield. still escape just punishment for their
crimes against civilization.
1 - How to Be a Cave Man
tttißOM the little town of Spreehagen, near
Ht the borders of Berlin, conies a curious
story of reversion to cave life. Some
days ago the placid burghers were set agog
by sight of a group of men and women across
the fields intent upon digging what at first
appeared to Ue trenches. Rumors of a Red
army began to spread. But closer reconnais
sance discovered an unarmed company of
artless-looking folk whose leader vouchsafed
the information that he was “Guardian of the
Caverns of Zarathustra.” The thirty of them
were dwelling in holes which they had dug
In the hillside and covered with fir branches.
“Children of nature,” they called themselves.
."Whether they wore skins of wild beasts
and girdles of grass and carried hatchets of
stone, whether they ate bramble berries and
meat half raw, squatting about a fire born
from flint sparks, and whether the “Guardian
Caverns ’of Zarathustra” beat his be
loved with a club if she waxed undocile, the
lesser males doing likewise on occasion, the
news dispatches do not relate. We fear, how
ever, that if these barkers back to nature re
* semble those of kindred cults they are not
consistent and certainly not natural. There
is, it is true, a cave man in each of us, and
all,too often his red eyes glare out. But if
we wish to restore him to rule in good ear
nest, if we wish to get really back to nature
as jhe ruled the dawning human spirit some
fifty thousand, or mayhap five hundred thou
sand years ago, the thing to do is, not to
» coldnize in hillside holes, not to bedeck our
selves with picturesque pelts and dine upon
hairs and spring water, but simply to stay
a.t home and cheerfully profiteer, backbite
our neighbors, hug our chattels, worship our
lucre, and take Colonel Harvey’s advice on
the 41 League of Nations.
Def ending Edison s Questions
THE reaction of the public to the ques
tionnaire propounded by Thomas A.
Edison to applicants for positions in
his manufacturing plants has been one of
good natured tolerance, rather than serious
criticism, and the vast majority of com
mentators have been inclined to “poke fun”
at the famous inventor.
However, Dr. Frankwcod E. Williams, As
sistant Medical Director of the National Com
mittee for Mental Hygiene and one of the
foremost Psychiatrists of the country, de
clares that the general public and the learn
ed critics of Mr. Edison are themselves con
fused over what the wizard of electricity
was trying to do.
“The first impression,” he goes on to
say, “was that he considered his questions
a test of intellectual ability, or, as some
have put it,-th value of college training.
This would seem not to be Mr Edison’s ob
ject, as he has stated clearly that his exam
ination is not a psychological examination.
Mr. Edison’s interest is in obtaining men
who will make good executives. Evidently
from his experience he has decided that men
who are good executives, must, in addition
to having intellect, be alert, observing, have
a good memory and a wide range of inter
est. His plan, therefore, seems to be to sort
out from among the large numbers who
come to him those who have the latter four
qualities. Having obtained men with these
qualities, it is then evidently his plan to
employ them temporarily and to judge of
their intellectual capacity by his own obser
vation of them. Clearly, then, his examina
ticfn is not one of intellect, but merely of
the foregoing qualities. None of these quali
ties. of course, ’is a sign of intellectual ca
pacity. The; may or may not be. Many in
dividuals of good intellectual capacity have
them, but a good many Others have not. On
the other hand, many individuals with a
low intellectual capacity have all of these
qualities, so that Mr. Edison can make lit
tle judgment on the intellectual capacity of
his candidates by this method. But, then,
that is not what he wishes to do, and for its
purpose the questionnaire may serve very
well.”
There are many standardised tests of in
tellectual capacity that are widely used and
of great value, such as the Binet-Simon test,
the Yerkes-Bridges test, the Terman test and
the army psychological test. These consist
of a series of graded questions so hat an in
dividual’s intellectual capacity can be rough
ly estimated either in terms of years or de
velopment.
‘‘These tests,” Dr. Williams concludes,
‘‘are mental tests and have led to confusion
and criticism of Mr. Edison in that the pub
lic thinks them tests of mental capacity.
That is not true. They are not tests of
mental capacity but of intellectual capacity,
which is quite another matter. In judging
one’s mental capacity, not only must intel
lect be considered but other elements such
as will and emotion.”
’ No Profit in War
THE Government Loan Organization’s fig-
ures that during the period of 1914 to
1921 the wealth of the United States in
creased from $250,000,000 tc $300,000,000
are apt to be misleading, although theoreti
cally their correctness probably can be estab
lished. The estimate declares that the in
crease per capita was from $2,564 to $2,800,
all of which the average citizen will probably
read and pass up with a sigh.
“This is quite impressive on its face,” the
New York World declares, “and would be so
in fact if the increase were altogether sub
stantial in character and reflective to any con
siderable degree of the practice of thrift dur
ing the war and of the people’s will to work.
But in the final reckoning we shall doubtless
find that the gain is almost altogether nomi
nal and due to ‘enhanced values of property
during the period of inflation,’ or, more prop
erly, enhanced prices or values reckoned in
terms of money greatly reduced in purchas
ing power by the country’s enormous increase
of gold monetary stocks and their hypothe
cation for much larger issues of Federal Re
serve notes. That a country’s " ’.serial pro
duction per productive unit is increased by
war is a proposition hardly to be denied.
Savings as a rule also become greater, as
they must in order to take c re of the cur
rent costs of the war. But savings so di
verted go toward the destruction of wealth
and not its increase, and are themselves de
stroyed. And a war of any intensity will
thus absorb all possible current savings and
accordingly cause a decline in actual wealth
from the diversion of industrial plants to
war purposes.”
Germany and England must have lost
heavily in gold values during the war,
though unscathed by invading armies. The
United States also lost heavily in wealth
during the, comparatively brief period it was
actively engaged in fighting, although it is
probable that during the whole seven years
of the conflict there was some net increase
in wealth.
The United . jates, however, has neither
liquidated nor even calculated fully what
the memorable conflict cost her. The stag
gering figures'have been piling up far into
billions during the past year of peace in idle
factories, farms and mills and will continue
to grow as the years pess by in alleviating
the distress of the victims of the struggle.
By no process of reason can war be prov
en an upbuilder of nations or of wealth. Its
one essential function is to tear down and
to destroy, and its blighting effects are felt
by all future generations.
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES.
A famous actress was at a big reception.
She w.as asked by her hostess to recite some
thing. She could think of nothing to suit the
occasion and begged x o be let off with a short
selection in her native language.
Her audience could not understand a word,
but were enthralled by her gestures and tones.
She received tremendous applause.
Just before the guest went, her hostess
said: “Do tell me what you recited.”
“It has no nartfe.” said the actress. “I
was counting from 1 to 230—in Polish.
It was an Irishman’s first visit to the wilds
of America, and, strange to say, he was soon
fast friends with an American.
The American was a dead shot.
One dav while they were strolling together
through the backwoods the American, wishing
to sliqw off his shooting abilities, said:
“Say, pard. d’ye see that bi-r-rd high up
voider tree?”
“Yes.” answered the Irishman.
“Waal,” implied Sam. “I’ll get that bird
first shot.”
As he spoke he raised his gun to his shoul
der. took careful aim, and fired.
It was a good shot, and the bird, after
several somersaults, fell at their feet.
The Americ picked it uo.
“I guess I’ve killed this bi-r-rd, pard,” he
drawled proudly.
The Irishman pondered a while, then said:
“Oi’m glad it’s only guessin’ ye are, for
”'e fall was enough to kill it.”
“I don’t think Mr. Bunker is much of a con
versationalist,” observed Miss Elder.
“Well, he came to me last night,” replied
’'--•r.c. v O nng. as she carelessly twirled a new
ring on the third finger of her left hand, “and
I found his conversation quite engaging.”
BUSINESS SCHOOLS
By H. Addiqgton Bruce
BUSINESS schools of today are, in the
main, distinctly superior to the busi
ness schools of not so very long ago.
The improvement is due largely to greater
recognition of the importance of the human
element in business.
It is now appreciated that education in
business technique is by no means enough
to insure business success. If fundamental
business activities still are taught in busi
ness schools—as they needs must be—so
are the really vital, but formerly ignored,
assentials of human relationships, as be
tween employer and employed, seller and
buyer, etc.
The findings of psychology, in so far as
they bear on the efficient doing of business,
are given concrete application in “business
school” laboratories. Experts stage for nov
ices actual business situations developing
problems certain to confront the novices in
business life.
One most interesting afternoon was spent
by me in such a laboratory. Here I saw em
bryonic salesmen receiving instruction from
a veteran, would-be workers learning from
another veteran how to secure work.
First principles in “suggestion,” the busi
ness value of “tact,” the business significance
of “manner,” the importance of “proper
clothing properly ■worn,” and other elementals
in business psychology were taught in away
to insure remembrance. The informality of
the various “demonstrations” appreciably in
creased their educational value, not detract
ed from it.
All this marks a real advance. -Yet there is
another forward step which business schools
as a class must take if they would fully ad
vantage their pupils.
In every business school there should be
a department for instruction in the wise use
of leisure. For manifestly the business
worker who does not know how to use leisure
aright is liable to contract habits which will
interfere seriously with his doing his work
well.
Still worse, unwise use of leisure means
not merely decreased business ability, but les
sened possibilities for happiness. Many work
ers who now blame their work for the discon
tent they feel should blame instead their
“amusements” when away from work.
More specifically, some time should be set
aside in every business school for “insnira
tional” teaching, having as its object vthe
awakening and strengthening of interest in
music, art, literature and other mind-occupy
ing activities of truly cultural value.
To the natural tendency to overemphasis
of the material—inseparable from ordinary
business school instruction—there should be
opposed a stressing of the ideal. Then busi
ness school graduates would no longer enter
the world of business effort with an excellent
equipment for business doing, but also with
a perhaps sadly imperfect equipment for life
in general.
With each recurring period of “after busi
ness hours” they wculd not be more or less
at a loss as to how they may most agreeably
“kill time,” a sad problem now daily weigh
ing on hundreds<sof thousands of workers.
They would not event want to “kill time,” for
they would better appreciate time’s value and
its possibilities.
And having gain a love of really profitable
avocations, they would enthusiastically en
gage in these to their increasing benefit as
well as enjoyment.
THE FUNERAL
By Dr. Frank Crane
The other day a man in New York observed
the funeral of his wife by cremating the body
and scattering the ashes to the four winds.
The ceremony took place at twilight at a
place on Staten Island.
The family, close relatives, and a few inti
mate friends were present.
The sister, at the conclusion of the service,
on being interviewed, said that the place
chosen by her brother was Out Doors, since
the free air- seemed to him the fitting place
to send the dust of one who had gone out
of the world; that the location was secluded
from the public, gaze; that there were spring
flowers and budding green things all around;
that twilight had always been the hour best
loved by the departed, and also seems a sym
bol of the turning point from one sphere to
another, and that the ceremony was secret
and in no way public.
Funerals are matters of the most intimate
taste and of the most unreasonable preju
dices. People resent having the question dis
cussed.
For this reason the most tyrannous custom
has assumed control of them.
The last rites of the departed soul, rites
which should be beautiful, inspiring, and
helpful to the living, because the soul goes
back to rejoin the infinite, are, as a rule,
cluttered with cheap mummery, and vulgar
ized by expense and lugubrious display.
1 have no hope of reforming anybody or
changing his tastes, but wish to state as my
strictly personal view that the ceremony
above described is most sweet, wholesome,
decent and intelligent.
I loathe tombs, graveyards and mauso
leums, particularly cemeteries where gaudy
marbles, side by side w’ith humble slabs, con
tinue to emphasize the artificial inequalities
of fortune and the silly precedences of money.
Personally—and any expression upon thi<»
subject must be wholly personal—l wish my
intimate friend the Public to know that when
I die I want my earthly remnant to be dis
posed of after the manner of this woman.
That is, I should like to be (1) cremated,
so that as quickly and cleanly as possible the
atoms my spirit has used may go back to the
universe from which I borrowed them, (2)
spread to the winds and not kept in any grave
or urn, (3) all to take place in the Spring,
when the air tremble? with resurrection, (4)
at Twilight, and (5) with only those present
who loved me.
I would have everything done to show that
those remains are Not Me.
(Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane.)-
Editorial Echoes.
The elusive something you cannot afford
to let get away.—Adv. A collar button.
Come on; give us the prize!—Buffalo Ex
press. •
The New York World says that the pub
ic is taking life more easily than its fore
fathers did. The murder list proves that.V—
Minneapolis Journal. /
Somehow it seems that a lot of girls have
the idea that all they need to begin house
keeping is a can-opener and a vanity case.—
Canton News.
It is jusf as easy for a man to hold a
woman’s baby to suit her as-it is for a wom
an to put a man’s hat on to suit him. —Lin-
coln Star.
• If Mr. Daniels had wanted to play a mean
trick on Mr. Denby, he should have had his
naval recommendations copyrighted.—Ar
kansas Gazette.
That one-half the world doesn’t know how
the other half lives may be due to the fact
that women are generally supposed to have
more curiosity than men have.—Petersburg
Index Appeal.
Maybe we fed Poland too much.—Toledo
Blade.
DOROTHY DIX TALKS —Are You a Booster or a Knocker?
BY DOROTHY DIX
AMONG iny trends is a fine, intelligent,
hard-working man who started out in
youth with every prospect of making
good, but for a number of years achieved
nothing. He married a pretty girl, but she
was a fretful, peevish, discontented sort, who
was always complaining that her husband did
not get .along, and that they couldn’t have
the luxuries she craved, and she was sure
she didn’t know why, because, Heaven knew,
she worked her fingers to the bone, and
scrimped on every penny.
In the course of time, this woman died, and
in the still further course of time the man
married again. This wife was a jolly, good
natured woman, who put her husband on a
pedestal and worshipped him, and was always
telling h’im, and everybody else who would
listen, how great and wonderful he was, and
almost immediately the man Logan to prosper,
and he went on to the big success that all f
us who kne / him had prophesied for him
in his youth.
“Queer, isn’t it, how he suddenly got into
his stride?” his acquaintances said, in discuss
ing the matter. “Wonder what happened to
him?”
But it wasn’t queer. There wasn’t any
thing strange about it. And the miracle was
the effect that a man’s wife almost has on
his fortunes.
This man’s first wife had been a knocker
and she had knocked all of the courage and
ambition out, of him. Every time he made a
plan, or originated a new scheme, she gave it
a tap on the head that knocked it stone dead
before it w r as ever fully born. Every time he
got up any enthusiasm over, what he was
doing, she poured cold water on it until its
fires sizzled out. She killed his belief in him
self, by always telling him that he was a
failure, and so he lost his nerve and courage
and became one.
She would spend half the night snivelling
over his ill luck and wondering why he
couldn’t make money like other men, and the
result was that he would start the next day’s
work so worn, and weary, and down-hearted,
that he slunk away from his fellowmen in
stead of holding them up and forcing then
to do business with him.
His wife’s nagging and complaints put him
into the down-and-out class. For the wdrld
takes a man pretty much at his own valua
tion. He’s got to believe in his goods and
self if he sells either one to other people.
Then the pessimistic lady died, and the
man married an optimist. She believed in
the man with such fervor, that she made him
believe in himself. She inspired him with
fresh courage and hope, and just because he
had to live up to her good opinion of him or
die, he gathered his energies and made a
fight that carried him on to victory. If this
man’s first wife had lived, he would have
died in the poorhouse. When his second
wife closes his eyes, it will be in a mansion
on the sunny side of Millionaires’ Row.
Such is the effect of a wife on the common,
or garden variety of man. Os course, there
are super men who can rise superior to home
influences, but these are few and far between.
THE STORY OF DUSE—By Frederic J. Haskin
NEW YORK CITY, May 19.—Eleanora
Duse, the famous Italian tragedienne,
has returned to the stage after an ab
sence of nearly twenty years. At the age
of sixty-two she will tour Italy under the
management of the distinguished actor-man
ager, Ermeto Zacconi, playing Ibsen’s “Lady
From the Sea,” and other roles in which she
triumphed many years ago.
If the tour is a success it may be extended
to other parts of the continent, and eventual
ly perhaps, the younger generations of Amer
ica may have an opportunity to see an actress
•who, all critics agree, is one of the greatest
dramatic artists who ever lived.
According to people who have seen her
recently, Duse is just as miraculously pre
served for her age as her great rival, Sarah
Bernhardt, who is her senior by some fifteen
years. She retains her slender figure, they
say, and the same wonderfully melodious
voice which once held all Europe enthralled.
Her face has remained smooth and unwrin
kled. Above all, she still retains the per
sonal magnetism which so deeply stirred her
audiences.
Duse is said to be the only woman of
whom Sarah Bernhardt was ever jealous.
Until the Italian actress suddenly appeared
at the Renaissance theater in Paris during
her continental tour in 1897, Bernhardt had
been idolized as the greatest tragedienne of
all times by the French people. Then, al
most overnight, the Divine Sarah found her
lofty pinnacle of fame shared by a formid
able rival. “The Duse is equally as great
as oui' beloved Sarah,” wrote the French
critics, “even though Italian.”
This w'as not all they said. The French
newspapers contained columns upon columns
of fervent praise for the new genius. In
reading over /what European dramatic critics
have written concerning Duse, in fact, one is
moved to deep amazement. Although by no
means a beautiful woman, she seems to have
had them all hypnotized. Unlike Sarah Bern
hardt, she scorned the use of make-up even
on the slage, and her clothes were habitually
somber, if not actually dowdy. She wore
no jewelry, and perfumes of any description,
even the scent of flowers, she found intoler
able. A plain, quiet, little woman, w r ho sel
dom laughed and who spent most of her lei
sure hours collecting books, photographs and
scissors—innumerable pairs of scissors, which
she was always losing and leaving about.
Yet her interviewers all found her the em
bodiment c-i charm, grace and all that was
desirable in woman. Returning to their
desks, they would write unrestrained rhapso
dies to Duse—Duse, the poetess of tragedy,
the actress of the ages.
Even Shaw Approved *
Even Bernard Shaw could find no flaws in
her art or personality. In an essay which
he wrote on the actress nearly twenty years
ago, he was, for once in his life, almost te
diously complimentary. He contrasted Bern
hardt’s superficial appeal with the deep, pow
erful sense of tragedy that Duse evoked.
Bernhardt, in his opinion, was a highly skilled
technician; Duse •was a born tragedienne.
Bernhardt appealed to the intellect, while
Duse wrung people’s hearts. The Divine Sa
rah martialed her emotions as her intellect
and will directed, whereas Duse was often
overcome by her own emotion in playing a
tragic part and ■was unable to go on. In
some instances she was known to cry her
3elf ill.
It has been said that to those who think,
life is a comedy, to those who feel, it is a
tragedy. This theory is nowhere more
clearly illustrated than in the lives of the
two great tragediennes. Duse and Bernhardt.
Bernhardt, always coolly intellectual, shrewd
and philosophical, has greatly enjoyed life—
still enjoys it at the age of seventy-seven.
Duse, on the contrary, emotional, high
strung, deeply sympathetic, has been the vic
tim of misfortune and sorrow. When a wom
an wronged Sarah Bernhardt, she went al
most gaily so her apartment and horse
whipped her. When a man cruelly wronged
Duse, she fled to a lonely> retreat in the
Italian hills, humiliated and heart-broken.
And so it was throughout her early life —
always sensitive, always sorrowing. Life did
not spare her even as an infant. The daugh
ter of poor Italian players, she was made to
do her share in supporting the family at the
age of four, when she played Cosette. From
then on she was always working, playing
first one. role and then another, always trav
eling from place to place in dirty, third-class
TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1921.
The average man is very apt to live up to
his wife’s blue china and be what she expects
him to be, and helps him to be.
There is nothing stranger than that women
have, so little understanding of the effect that
home atmosphere has on a man. They appear
to regard that as negligible and to have no
appreciation of the fact that it is the most
important factor in determining his success
or failure in life.
Most women desire to help their husbands,
but their idea of doing this is by saving dimes
here and there, or wishing they could earn
a few dollars themselves. Thrift and good
management in the houehold are, indeed,
first aids to prosperity to any family, but
the real way, the big way, that any woman
can help her husband, is by bolstering up
his courage in himself, and by making for
him a peaceful and happy home.
No man can do any more than he thinks
Jie can do. That is his ultimate measure of
success, and if his wife is a perpetual dis
courager, she reduces his limit of achieve
ment by just so much. Nobody knows just
what schemes will succeed until they are tried
out. Nobody can tell beforehand what
dreams will come true, but we all know that
those who never venture anything never have
anything. And right here is where women
make or mar. For one woman bolsters up
her husband vith her courage and nerve to
try his wings, and the other wet-blankets
every aspiration and ambition until he gives
up. and sinks into the rut of mediocrity.
Os course, there isn’t a woman in the
1 world who doesn’t -see her husband’s faults
and weakenesses, but if she is wise, she
i doesn’t constitute herself a critic on the
hearth. He gets plenty of knocks in the out
side world without having to come to an ex
pert hammer wielder Rather is it her place
to spread the salve over the sore places
where the skin has been knocked off his
vanity, and restore his belief in himself.
We were told during the war that if we
wanted our troops to win battles we must
keep up their morale. That goes for every
day life as well as for war. The man who
succeeds must have his morale kept up. And
the job of doing that is his wife’s job.
The woman who wants her husband to suc
ceed, must make him a happy home. The
man who can drop •‘all his troubles at his
front door and pass into a place where his
body is well fed and comforted, where his
nerves are soothed, and he has fresh hope
and courage breathed into him, goes forth
next day like a giant refreshed,
But the man who has a home that fs a
perpetual storm center, whose evening is spent
in bickering, and his nights in listening to
curtain lectures, goes to his work next day
physically unstrung and mentally unfitted to
cope with business problems. Nor does he
put up much of a fight, for before you. fight
for a wife and a home, you have got to have
a wife and home worth fighting for.
So, if you want your husbands to succeed,
ladies, boost. Don’t knock.
(Copyright, 1921, by The Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
Italian railway carriages often hungry and
cold. There was nothing to compensate for
the drudgery of this life. She was not her
alded as any child prodig-; in fact, her com
panions looked upon her as a rather stupid,
plain little girl, who was absolutely hopeless
as an actress.
Duse's greatness did not manifest itself
until she was a nature woman. Rachel was
famous at the age of 17, but Mrs. Siddons
was 27 before she made her first great im- I
prossion, and Luge was 24 before she show
ed evidence of genius. She achieved a few
small successes before that, but it was .in
her 2 sth year. iij. Naples, after her first sad
love affair, that she brought tho Italian pub
lic to her feet.
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY JACK PATTERSON
The Season’s Best Catch
Many interesting fish tales have been told
this season, but the Tifton Gazette is re
sponsible for the best one to date:
“A waiter from a Valdosta hotel was miss
ing from his regular duties for two days last
week, and when he returned an explanation
was asked. He stated that he, went out to
the Withlacoochee river to fish. He said
that while in a cozy retreat along the banks
of the river his hook caught in a plow line
which was just below the surface of the wa
ter. Hauling in-on the line the waiter found
a jug attached to the -Iver end and an ex
amination disclosed the contents of the jug
to be moonshine whiskey. It took him two
days to get over the ‘shine jag.’ ” Well, ev
erything else considered, it seems that a jug
of moonshine should supply an average hotel
waiter for at least two days.
Atlanta Has All Three of ’Em
Atlanta entertains from two to four con
ventions on an average every week during
the year. It requires three things to do this,
namely: hotel facilities, active support of a’
convention bureau, and a willingness on the
part of business and professional men to help
entertain the visitors.—Commerce Observer.
Hurrying to Atlanta
Atlanta gets closer in minutes with the
paving of each section of the Marietta-At
lanta road. Reputable drivers are now tell
ing of driving to Atlanta in forty-eight min
utes—and some tell of shorter trips.—Cobb
County Times.
However, the drivers who cover the twenty
miles in less than forty-eight minutes • are
not quite as reputable as the forty ighters,
are they? With a paved highway connecting
Atlanta and Marietta there is no reason why
Otis Brumby should not attend every ball
game during the season.
Miss oodward Goes to Church
The fellow who takes the best part of the
road and refuses to give others a fair share
is called a road hog. What is the fellow who
gets the end seat at chur ,h and refuses to
move up for others to come in or else rise
and step out for them to pass without the
discomfort of ctumbling over knees and f: st?
Lack of courtesy looks bad on the highway
or in the chu± ’• pew. But it looks worse in
some places than in others and the church is
one of these “some places.”—Vienna News.
Rise, brethren, and allow Miss Emily Wood
ward, editor of the Vienna News, pass.
WORDsTfROM THE WISE
A wise man -;.s dignity without pride; a
fool has pride without dignity.—Confucius.
To ove il with g jd is good, to re-
sist evil by evil is evil. —Mohammed.
The eye of a man is a window through
which may be seen the thoughts w' ’ h enter
into and issue from his heart.—Victor Hugo.
Most persens do not seem to know why
they were born into the world until thej are
ready to leave it.—Sir T. Smith.
Any fool knows how to resist, but it is the
piovince of wise man to know how amd
when to submit. —N. Mar ..aid.
In society e learn to know others, but
solitude we acquire a kn, -edge of self. —
Lady Blessington.
Around the World
Tri-Weekjy News Flashes From AU Over
the Earth.
Palestine Immigration
A news agency dispatch from Cairo says
that all immigration to Palestine has been,
stopped until notice. Steamers at
continental ports carrying Jewish immigrajita
have been ordered to suspend bookings; it is
stated.
Winston Churchill, head of the British co
lonial office, received a delegation from the
World Zionist organization and declared to
them that the British government’s attitude
toward Palestine and Zionism would not be
affected by recent disturbances in Jaffa.
Famous Pallbearer
Simeon Woodrow King, former United
States senator, the last survivor among the
men who served as pallbearers at Abraham
Lincoln’s funeral, is dead in Chicago. He
was eighty-eight years old and was born in
Morgan county, Ohio.
Trotzky Sick
Information has reached Riga tending to
confirm the report that Leon Trotzky, th®
Russian Bolshevik war minister, is seriously
ill. He is said to be in a sanitarium near
Moscow suffering from cancer.
Some mystery, however, surrounds th®
case, as recently reports were circulated in
Moscow that he v and Ensign Krylenko, form
er Bolshevik commander in chief of the Rus
sian armies, had gone to the Afghanistan
frontier.
No mention of Trotzky’s illness is made in
any of the Moscow papers, the information
concerning him reaching outside points only
through travelers from Russia. Some of
these travelers being Communist leaders,
they are in a position to know.
According tq one of them, the collapse of
Trotzky’s health, added to the physical break
down of several other Bolshevik leaders, is
increasing the difficulties in which th®
premier, ’Nikolai Lenirie, finds himself trying
to stave off the fall of his regime, which is
faced by extraordinary disorganization of
transport and fuel.
Lease Russian Land
A syndicate of Los Angeles bankers and
business men, represented by Washington B.
Vanderlip, has obtained a fifty-year lease on
10,000,000 acres of spruce land in the Arch
angel district of Russia, according to message
received by the syndicate from Vanderlip, via
Tallinn, Esthonia.
J. H. Coverley, secretary of the syndicate,
said Vanderlip departed last January to
change details of a contract previously ob
tained from the Russian Soviet government
for a concession in Kamchatka and to work
out plans for orders he had obtained for
American goods.
“In addition,’*’ the secretary said, “he went
to get concessions which would guarantee to
this country timber tracts from which news
paper pulp could be obtained.” ,
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Girls Wanted
The bureau of employment of the Stat®
department of labor, New York, announces
that there are one thousand jobs open for
girls on farms of the Hudson fruit belt.
Wages and living conditions are good. Ap
plications are received every day at th®
bureau of employment.
Hero Dying
Emile Ifroidiveaux, hero of the French
foreign legion, is dying of an ailment that
-has puzzled specialists for two years. Littla
by little his legs and parts of both arms hav®
been amputated in a series of 3 8 operations
that have not stopped the spread of the
malady.
He is soon to be moved from a hospital to
his home, where, it is hoped, he may receive
in ceremony, before he dies, the Croix de
Guerre awarded him by the French govern
ment. ®
American Money
M. Perlowski, secretary-general of the
Polish delegation to the League of Nations,
Geneva, called at the office of the finance
director of the league to pay Poland’s con
tribution. He lain upon the table $67,276 in
small American bills, and eight nickels,
which the Polish government had gathered
in from returning emigrants.
M. Perlowski departed with an official re
ceipt for 348,667 gold francs, or 52,000,000
Polish marks, in settlement of Poland’s con
tribution for 19 20.
The Geneva banks refused to receive this
amount except at a considerable discount,
and Captain Howard Huston, the American
attache, proceeded to London with the bills,
where they are at a premium.
Paraguay has just paid jts assessment, so
that only two per cent of the total amount
due the league is still outstanding.
Trip for Lenine
A special «dispatch received at Copenhagen
from Helsingfors, 'Finland, says Nickolal
Lenine, the Bolshevik premier, has requested
permission to go to London to continue
there the negotiations in connection with
Anglo-Russian trade relations.
Mrs. Harding’s Gift
Not to be outdone by the Camp Fire Girls
of Kingsbridge, New York, who have made
moccasins for President Harding, the Camp
Fire Girls of Hashat-U—Aya Camp, composed
mostly of Italians, completed a chiffon scarf
for Mrs. Harding yesterday.
The scarf is handblocked, the design being
a blue butterfly, which is the Camp Fire
symbol of happiness.
Profiteer Law
A remarkable anti-profiteering act cam®
into force in Czecho-Slovakia, according to
the Manchester Guardian. This measure
supplements stringent legal provisions for the
punishment of profiteering and the illicit ex
port of necessities abroad, which were al
ready in operation. All persons above the
age of eighteen convicted of infringing the
law will be unconditionally drafted into the
penal labor contingents for a minimum period
of one month or a maximum period of one
year.
Persons sentenced to undergo this penalty
will (says the Czecho-Slovakia Bureau) be
employed upon manual labor of general util
ity, and this labor will be performed in pub
lic. It will consist of such tasks as cleaning
and repairing streets, public buildings and
high roads, keeping waterways in good con
dition and building railways.
The detailed methods for applying these
measures have already been drawn up by the
Minister for Justice, and,they will be publish
ed as soon as possible. The sentence cannot
be remitted or modified in any way, and can
be postponed only in a case where mental de
rangement or severe bodily illness might re
sult in the death of the person convicted if
the penalty were inflicted immediately.
Suspect Arrested
A man alleged to have been the principal
denouncer of Edith Cavell, the English
who was executed by the Germans, has been
arrested at Mons, the newspapers giving his
name as Armand Jeanne.
Jeanne has put forward the plea that many
other French and Belgians have been identi
fied- by numerous witnesses as the denouncer
of the nurse.