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THE TRI WEEKLY JOL’RN AL. Atlanta, Ga.
The Way to Destruction
THAT distinguished and engaging writ
er on the powers of present-day
chemistry, Dr. Edwin E. Slosson,
jays that not since the battle of Crecy, when
the armored knight first fell back before
the cannon, has Jhere been so vast a revo
lution in warfare as the next conflict, if a
next there is to be, will witness. “It is no.v
possible,” he explains, “to send an airship,
with or without a pilot, by day or by night,
over the enenij’s cguntry to sprinkle the
ground with a liquid so deadly that a whiff
Inhaled or a few drops touching the skin
will cause death. The airships or self-pro
pelled projectiles will simply move over the
’and, as a potato bug sprinkler goes over a
Held, and a certain strip of territory, say a
Yiile wide and a hundred miles long, will be
instantaneously depopulated and will remain
uninhabitable for days to come. In the next
Kar there will be no frontiers, no en
trenched line, no exempt cities, no distinc
lon between combatant and non-combatant.”
This, be it noted, is not the f ncy of a
Jules Verne but the matter of fact state
ment of a chemist and publicist who knows
yell whereof he speaks. The formulas for
he all-devastating poisons are writ, the de
vices for scattering them are available, and
here are men, it would seem, who are will
ing if not eager for a renewal of interna
lonal strife that the death-clouds may be
Inleashed. But the most striking thing in
Jr. Slosson’s statement is the query with
yhich he concludes it: “Can we say that
han has reached a mental and moral matur
ity so that he can be safely entrusted with
such weapons? It is clear that unless man
learns to make proper use of his new found
knowledge he is likely to destroy himself.”
As makers of war our generation has prov
id frightfully efficient, but as makers of
peace we have been no better than sham
bling cave men. In the United States of
America itself, with such opportunity for en
lightened and generous world leadership as
never before was vouchsafed a nation, we
are devoting, out of every dollar of Federal
taxes, ninety-three cents to purposes of war,
we are pouring oceans of wealth into death
dealing devices, while to preserve and pro
mote peace amongst men we are doing—
what? We are not even lending a neighbor
ly hand in the effort to build up an interna
tional league for good will and creative co
operation. We are but sulking in the isola
tion to which a grudgeful Senate committed
us along with Russia and Mexico, while Am
bassador Harvey chatters to Europe that we
would never have joined humanity’s Strug
gle against Prussianism had we not been
fearfully concerned 2or our chattels. Billions
for slaughter, but not one cent for peace!
Is it not evident that while the physical
sciences have made wondrous strides, leav
ing in their wake marvels of material -wealth
and opportunities that call trumpet-voiced
to man’s most heroic self, yet the political
and social and moral sciences lag more than
two thousand years behind? Long, long ago
men discarded the astronomy, the geography,
the physics which prevailed, say, 300 B. C.,
but still they cling to the politics of that
dead world, still speak and think as unpro
gressing ancients on the gravest concerns of
their lives.
Continued gains in material power and
skill, and continued impoverishment in spir
it fibre and vision can lead, in the nature
of things, to but one end —the destruction
of all that is human. Man will vanish from
this planet, as other species have vanished
before him, if he can serve no worthier pur
pose than to slaughter his kind, thousands,
mayhap millions, in a day, as a gardener
kills potato bugs with poisoned vapor. It
matters little who the victor may be in such
a war as the chemist now pictures (that
war which some persons apparently desire
and which others in authority have done
nothing to prevent) if it is to be won at
fatal cost to humanity. A world of soulless
mechanicians -would not be worth saving,
though heaped with gold to the tips of the
moon and peopled with beings as smugly
smart as Ambassado" Harvey himself. The
supreme concern of education, the supreme
duty of citizenship, the supreme task of
school and church and all institutions de
voted to the commonweal should be to bring
the soul of man abreast of his machinery.
"Psychic Mal nutrition"
AS a preventive of divorce, a Long Is-
land magistrate has prescribed that
errant husbands shall help in the.
housework or take care of the chil
dren' for an hour each day and shall
bring home candy once a week. Says this
sagacious judge, “Take a woman that has
started early in the morning, worked all day,
minding the children, and she is grouchy at
Might time, maybe tired to death. Now if
the husband comes home with a grouch, too.
without proper understanding of the work of
the wifw, there is likely to be a row.” There
fore, let the lord of the castle learn by ex
perience something of his lady’s tribula
tion.
In reporting this highly notable decree, the
New York Tribune aptly cites the view of
the distinguished psychotherapist. Dr. David
Orr Edson, who maintains in his recent book
“Getting What We Want,” that happiness
and health are dependent on “a balanced ra
tion of achievement.” “People get their
daily portion of praise from those they love,
or else seek it in the various excitements of
the outer world, where it is more costly and
far more fickle.” Thus, she o he who is not
praised and netted . hit deve’ons “psvchic
m-'lnrt-P’'--.” from which all maner of ills
may develop. »
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
A Victory for France
IN carrying the day against the extremists
Premier Briand has won a notable vic
tory for Europe as well as for France.
For months past he has coped with a difficult
situation, at first tactfully and cautiously,
then, with a bold stand and sharp thrusts.
Factions there were in the Chamber of Dep
uties and the press who clamored for crush
ingly drastic treatment of Germany—a policy
which would re-enact Prussia’s ruthlessness
toward the France of 187 2, and sow again the
dragon’s teeth of future strife. Briand sought
for a while to control and placate the rough
riding sentiment, but at last he was com
pelled either to face it with sturdy challenge,
or else renounce all pretense to statesmanly
leadership.
Face it he did, and dramtically. “I have
faith in the sincerity of the new German gov
ernment,” he declared amid jeers from his
opponents, and added, when they continued
hooting, “tl is making praiseworthy efforts
to fulfil its engagements.” This was the same
Briand who refused to yield one jot of what
he considered justice to France and who stood
out persistently for enforcement of the terms
of the treaty of Versailles. But just as em
phatically he refuses to cross the boundary
betwee njustice and persecution, between se
verely reasonable and passionately excessive
demands. He will go any length as a patriot,
but he will not play the chauvinist. That pre
vailing French opinion is with him rather
than with the “fire-eaters,” the vote of con
fidence accorded him in the Chamber at the
climax of the issue, substantially attests.
This assuredly is a victory for France, be
cause that nation has nothing to gain, but
much to lose, by daubing over her war record
of heroism and genius with churlish and cove
tous policies on the great issues of peace.
The true France, the France of clear seeing
and generous acting speaks through Briand.
The victory for Europe is obvious, for not
until international relations are changed from
a status of jealousy, greed, hate and moral
chaos to one of considerateness and co-opera
tion, will economic recovery and human prog
ress be possible. As a step toward this deeply
desired end the repuls of the extremists in
France is most cheering.
The Revolt in Egyftt
THE recent riots in Alexandria, Egypt,
} ay or may not have been kindled
by Nationalist sentiment, but they
leave little doubt that the country is yet un
prepared for complete self-government. It
was not simply nor even chiefly against Brit
ish rule that the passion of the mob seems
to have stormed, but, as a disinterested ob
server reports, “against all things Euro
pean.” The ' eaviest sufferers were the Greeks
of the city, for the most part tradesmen and
merchants, whose forbears twenty-three cen
turies ago, and earlier still, were trafficking
with the Nile land and settling there in con
siderable numbers under the protection of the
Pharaoh kings.
In the drift of the ages came other peoples,
Abyssinians, Arabs, Turks, Mamelukes, Ne
groes from the Soudan, and adventurers from
all climes, as well as substantial business
folk and, colonists. What portion of the pri
mal Hamitic or Coptic strain is left, only the
ethnologist could aay, but it appears certain
that the solidarity of thought and feeling
which makes for stable government has not
been acquired.
The British Government, although freely
recognizing the counrty’s right to native con
trol in native affairs and to ultimate autonomy
prescribes for the present “a relationship
which, while sceuring the special interests of
Great Britain and enabling her to offer ade
quate guarantees to foreign Powers, will meet
the legitimate aspirations of Egypt and the
Egyptian people.” This is no more than our
own Government insists upon in the Philip
pines; and Britain’s interests are far more
vitally, or at least more intimately, involved
in Egypt than are America’s in the far-away
Pacific islands. It is hardly to be doubted,
moreover, that if the supervision and guid
ance which have served Egypt’s broader in
terests well should be taken away at this
juncture, the country would lapse into polit
ical chaos.
A Costly Croft
BECAUSE it is keenly descriptive of the
experience of other southern states, an
account of South Carolina’s “contribu
tion to western wealth” in 1919, by
Mr. A. B. Bryan, of Clemson college, is broad
ly notable. In that year, he shows, the Pal
metto commonwealth imported food and feed
stuffs to the amount of one hundred and
eleven million dollars, corn, hay, oats, flour,
bacon, beef, butter and eggs being included in
the purchases. How were these products, all
of which can be raised in abundance on South
Carolina soil, paid for? Out of the proceeds
of a cotton crop of two million eight hun
dred and seventy-seven thousand acres, the
total value of which was one hundred and ten
million nine hundred and twenty-five thous
and dollars. That is to say, all the returns
of the money and labo’’ spent on the produc
tion of the cotton did not suffice to pay the
one hundred and eleven million dollar food
bill. Such a situation points its own moral.
That conditions re not to remain thus,
however, is clear from the fact that South
Carolina’s food crops for 1920 all showed
large increases over 1910, while their values
aggregated one hundred and five million
ninety-five thousand dollars. Moreover, as
Mr. Bryan reports in his interesting discus
sion in the Manufacturers Record, the state’s
farmers “are determined that 1921 and the
future shall see decided increases in the
amounts produced and yearly decreases in the
amounts bought until at a not far distant
time the state will live at home.” This is the
policy of the south at large, and it is along
this line that independence and stable pros
perity in agriculture w’ill be achieved.
Editorial Echoes.
When one of that primitive race which
lives among us, separated by a decade or so
of mere years, but by aeons of inherited ex
perience—I mean small boys—asked my
opinion of the “pizenness of blood-suckers, ’
I took it for mere curiosity. Not till a third
had broached the question did 1 guess there
was something in the wind.
There was. They had invented a new
kind of fishing—old as Adam, but new to
them —and they were keeping mighty still
about it. They had a dim notion there
might be reasons why it was not customary,
but they preferred tc learn by experience
rather than have their fun spoiled by any
grown-up wisdom. Except in the matter of
blood-suckers. There showed the primitive
caution. Dire terror seemed to lurk in the
very name.
Each sunny afternoon they took their
spears, on long light shafts of ’ amboo, and
sallied forth to a shallow bay among the
reeds which is a favorite fish spawning
ground. There they dispenses with such
clothing as would be likely to meet a
mother’s eye, tossed it into their beached
canoe, and met the brisk spring wind clad in
B. V. D.’s, a jersey, and an ancient pair of
sneakers. Save for the materials and the
footwear, regretted, but indispensable to
soft-footed civilization, they were ospreys of
the same feather as those who laid asidJ
their furs, in ages gone, and wielded spears
tipped with stone instead of iron. Modernity,
in the shape of hip-boots, “’count of them
suckers.” was denounced as worse than use
less. They waterlogged in “really decent
wading.”
TO THE SELF-CONSCIOUS
By H. Addington Bruce
RECENT discussion of self-consciousness
has brought to me a number of inter
esting letters from readers detailing
their personal experiences as former victims
of this malady of diffidence, awkwardness,
and embarrassment. Describing also the
manner of their cure, they offer some help
ful hints to those afflicted as they used to be.
One and all they emphasize the importance
of courageous effort as a remedial factor.
The sei "-conscious, they insist, will be self
conscious so long as they supinely lament
their self-consciousness and try to avoid sit
uations provoking it.
There should be, on the contrary, a de
liberate and frequent testing of one’s powers
of self-control. As a New Jersey correspond
ent, Mr. R. C. D., writes:
“The hard taskmaster of experience has
taught me that a person thus afflicted should
seek out occassions for self-conquest In this
respect. The only way to conquer self-con
sciousness is to go manfully right straight
against it, to take the bull by the horns with
both hands solidly.
“I myself have had to suffer terribly on ac
count of self-consciousness. When at col
lege I would tremble from head to feet when
ever obliged to appear before the class.
“But I made up my mind to conquer. I
purposely took part in an elocution contest,
only to make a fool of myself. Which ex
cellently served my purpose.
“To make a long story short, I do not now
know what it is to be bashful or self-con
scious. The struggle against my former
tormentor has made me stronger.”
Other conquerors of self-consciousness
testify to the help to be obtained from self
suggestion. Here, for example, is the way
Miss M. N., of Ch cago, cured herself of self
consciousness:
“From about the age of fifteen I suffered
mental agony when in company. A few
years ago I went to work for a prominent
man. Every time I was called into his office
to take dictation I vas unhappy and uneasy
and could hardly answer questions intelli
gently.
"At last I got ‘mad’ about it. I reasoned
to myself that I was just as bright as a good
many people and a good deal brighter than
some, and that there was no sense in my not
receiving credit and advancement for my
work just for this one reason.
“I also reasoned that if people could find
fault with me and things to laugh at, I
could find a great many things wrong with
them and things to laugh at. And I made it
a point to pick out companions who had a
lot of nerve, and unconsciously acquired some
of it.
“What is public opinion, anyway, if one
acts always so that his conscience is absolute
ly clear and gives to every one a courteous
and square deal? You can then look every
body in the face with a steady eye and feel
that you are not an inferior.”
To be sure, there are some pe pie so ab
normally self-conscious that they require
medical aid—the aid of a trained medical
psychologist—to obtain emancipation. But
self-cure, it is safe to say, is within the reach
of the great majority if they will but strive,
as these correspondents did, to gain greater
courage and a better opinion of themselves
and their capabilities.
(Copyright, 1921, by The Associated News
papers)
WHOSE MOVE?
By Dr. Frank Crane
Well?
That really is about all there is to be said —
“Well?”
The United States would like to reduce the
size of her navy, if the others would. Ditto
Great Britain. Ditto Japan.
These three are the only ones that really
have any say in the matter.
If so, why not begin?
Especially as every nation is sweating blood
under its tax burdens.
Are we to continue a preparedness that is
as expensive as war?
As for whose move it is, it is unquestion
ably ours.
We are no naval empire. Our territory is
self-sufficient.
Great Britain is an island dominion.
Japan is also. She has an ocean territory
to protect that reaches from the Kurile Is
lands to Formosa, and stretches off into the
South Pacific to the Caroline and Marshall
Islands, which are now under Japanese man
datory.
Japan and Great Britain are both depend
ent on supplies obtained by sea. Fleet de
struction would starve either of them. It
would not bother the United States.
We are rich. W r e are unentangled. We
would not be accused of fear.
All we need is the courage of a gentle
man, and less of the cheap vanity of the bully.
Speaking as for Japanese sentiment the
other day, Dr. lyenaga, director of the east
and west bureau, said:
“It seems to me that the great naval ex
pansion by both Japan and the United States
is simply foolishness, for this reason: Today
the naval tonnage of the United States is
about 'i 90,000 and that of Japan about 340,-
000, which means that the proportionate
strength is a little more than 2 to 1 in favor
of the United States. When America’s pres
ent naval program is completed in 1925, and
Japan’s present program is completed in 1928,
then the proportion would remain almost ex
actly at the same ratio —2 to 1 in favor of
the United States. And if both countries
keep on buildiiTg and complete the
programs, they will spend unnecessarily bil
lions of dollars without altering their pro
portionate strength. The idea t’ at a little
country like Japan could successfully com
pete with the United States in a huge naval
expansion, knowing almost no limits, is im
possible. The expense for the United States
would be heavy, and for Japan practically
Ruinous.
“If either Great Britain or the United
States should propose a conference with Ja
pan, looking toward reduced naval programs,
and as a logical sequence partial disarmament
afterward, it is my profound conviction that
the suggestion would be most heartily wel
comedy by the Japanese government and the
Japanese people.”
It looks as if it were Uncle Sam’s move.
(Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)
At a Fort Sheridan dinner party the con
versation turned to war reminiscences. Ma
jor Hanson Evans of the signal corps said:
“There was a private named Bill, a western
farmer, who had just arrived in London. He
was being shown the sights by friends from
home, who had been in England some time.
They were surprised at Bill’s indifference to
all the historic landmarks, which he passed
by without a word of comment. Despairing
of interesting him in anything, they started
to lead him through Trafalgar square to the
Strand. Tn the middle of the Strand stands
’Nelson’s monument —a tall shaft, with a
statue of the great admiral at the top and
at the base four sculptured lions. Well, here
at last it was obvious Bill had found some
thing to interest him. A new light shot into
his eyes. He stood fascinated, glancing from
the lions below to the admiral above, then
back again to the lions. His trends were
pleased to see that at last had im
pressed him. ‘What do you think of that
Bill?’ one of them asked. ‘Well,” answered
Bill, ‘them lions sure got the ojd man in a
tight corner, ain’t they?’ ”
DOROTHY DIX TALKS—Don’t Press Agent Mother
BY DOROTHY DIX
It has been said that a discreet man never
praises one woman to another woman. Tak
ing this by and large, it is good advice. It is
especially good advice when it comes to a
man who is holding up his mother’s virtues
as a model to his wife.
“Aly husband’s mother is a splendid
woman,” remarked a woman who was dis
cussing this subject the other day, “and I
think I should have been very fond of her,
if I had not had her thrown in my teeth so
continually, but as it is, I am fed up on her
until I can’t abide her. From the very day
of my marriage, my husband has harped con
tinually on what mother says, and mother
does, and the way mother cooks, untL I am
sick and tired of mother, and all pertaining
to her.
“More than that, he is always talking about
his love for his mother, and how nobody can
ever take mother’s place, and about mother’s
influence, and so on. Now, I want my hus
band to admire his mother, and tc love her,
and I’ve got sense enough to realize that the
way a man loves his mother and the way he
loves his wife, are not the same, and that the
two affections do not conflict
“Also, I have enough intelligence to per
ceive that most of the things that he says
about his mother are pure sentimentality. It’s
the traditional ‘home and mother’ stuff that
men are so strong for after they get away
from home and mother far enough to idealize
them. I don’t mean that my husband isn’t
devoted to his mother, and that he doesn’t ad
mire her. He does, and with good reason;
but when she is with him I notice that she
gets on his nerves with her little peculiari
ties, and that even the dishes that she cooks
for him, and that he used to like as a boy,
seem to have lost their flavor.
“Now, I wouldn’t for the world pull my
mother-in-law down off the pedestal on which
her son has put her, but, all the same, there
are times when I wish that my husband would
quit burning incense at her feet long enough
to light a few punk sticks before mine.
“And I also wish that, he would quit com
paring us, always to my disadvantage, and
telling me what mother did, ard mother
didn’t do, under entirely different conditions
of life. It is doubtless true that mother did
not wear dresses that were short in the skirt
and low in the neck, and mother did not be
long to bridge clubs, and didn’t automobile,
and golf, and one step, and mother was always
cooking, and sewing, and cleaning, and work
ed from sun to sun; but fashion, and condi
tions, and customs have changed since then.
“If I should dress as my husband’s mother
did he wouldn’t be seen out on the street
with me. If I had as narrow a range of inter
est as she had, and a conversational reper
toire that only took in the kitchen and the
nursery, I would bore him stiff. If I was
nothing but the household drudge that his
mother was, he would find some other worn-
THE TRIUMPH OF PURE W ATER—By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, May 28.—A ray of sun
shine in a gloomy maze of mortal
ity statistics is an item showing
that typhoid fever is rapidly becoming a rare
disease in the United States.
Since people have understood that impure
water is largely responsible for typhoid, the
percentage of cases has fallen off steadily.
When the country is thoroughly organized
for clean drinking water, typhoid will be as
rare in occurrence as smallpox, and as much
feared.
In the past year there were 1,007 deaths
from typhoid in the sixty-eight largest cities
of this country. This makes the death rate
for this disease 3.7 per 100,000 population,
a big drop compared with the figures of 1900
and 1910. Then a typhoid death rate of 35,
50 or even 100 in 100,000 people was not
unusual for a city.
In those days, European capitals were far
in advance of our cities in clean water pre
cautions. Even in 1908 New York had twelve
deaths from typhoid and Chicago fifteen, as
compared with London five, Paris eight,
Stockholm one and Berlin four. Now New
York has brought its rate down to 2.4 and
Chicago 1.1 —a remarkable reduction —and
many other cities have done as well.
Smaller communities for the most part
have not been able to advance so rapidly.
Some towns have underestimated the impor
tance of pure water to the extent of thinking
they could not afford the precautions used in
cities. As for the farmer, dependent on his
own farm for his water supply, he has been
apt to conclude that cold, clear water was
bound to be sanitary, without giving a
thought to the possibilities of infection.. Re
cently the government has been making a
special effort to point out to the farmer the
principles of a pure water supply.
The latest step in insuring pure water to
the public is a ruling by which the public
health service is to supervise the drinking
water on steamships in this country. This
means that all the excursion steamers and
other passenger steamers on our rivers and
lakes, and along the coast must furnish sat
isfactory drinking water to passengers.
Boat Inspection
In the past some of these boats have been
lamentably careless in choosing the source of
their water supply. On the Great Lakes
some steamers have been known to draw
water for drinking purposes close to shore
where sewage and drains were sure to con
taminate it. Cases of typhoid traced to trips
on these boats were common.
Boat inspection by public health service
officials will be similar to that now main
tained on trains. Inspection of water on
trains has been in effect for some time and
has been successful in spite of predictions
that agents could not follow up a moving
train to see that it did not fill its drinking
tank from an unsafe source.
In another way a body blow is being aimed
at the typhoid germ. Typhoid inoculation
kept down the-- epidemic which usually fol
lows war conditions, and this precaution is
gradually being adopted by civilians, espe
cially those who live in districts where ty
phoid is most prevalent. The trouble with
inoculation is that people regard it as an
infallible charm against typhoid, and if they
hear of an inoculated person contracting the
disease, they decide that the process is
worthless.
What inoculation does is to increase the
person’s resistance, so that he is able to
throw off a much greater number of typhoid
bacteria than he otherwise could. If he is
exposed to food or water polluted to an ex
treme degree he may take the disease. A
few of our soldiers did contract typhoid in
this way, but the number was insignificant
compared with the number that contracted
the disease in previous wars.
It is an interesting tribute to our grow
ing wisdom that we do not argue that water
brings typhoid, therefore we should not
drink water. That was the way doctors —
the most learned of cheir day—reasoned less
than a century ago. Only aJew medicos ven
tured to suggest that water might not be al
ways harmful —there was so much of it that
it seemed unlikely it was all poisonous.
As a matter of fact, the water of those
days was more apt to be dangerous as a bev
erage than not. Water had begun to be con
nected with certain diseases, but the idea of
irifying it and continuing to drink quanti
■>s of it would have been cried down as an
extravagant theory.
The linear of Water
People who were not easily aroused to
the deadly properties of a glass of water were
permanently cured of drinking by lantern
slides showing drops of water highly magni-
THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1021.
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an to play around with him. If I even served
him the kind of food that his mother cooked
for him when he was a child, he wouldn’t
eat it.
“In reality, he likes my ways much better
than his mother’s, and I am a better mana
ger than his mother was, but he doesn’t know
it. He is still true to his childish faith that
his mother knew it all, and he hasn’t enough
gumption to see that it hurts a wife’s vanity
to be continually reminded that she isn’t a
top notcher in her husband’s estimation, and
that she always has to play second fiddle to
his mother.
“Os course, all of us know that we are poor,
weak, faltering creatures, with a million
faults and imperfections, but all of us nourish
the illusion that there is one individual in
the world whom we have got fooled, and that
is the one «to whom we are married. Every
wife loves to believe that her husband thinks
everything she does is right, and that she is a
paragon, as a wife, and mother, and a model
of thrift, and a blue ribbon cook. Every
man likes to think that his wife considers
him a second Solomon, and that she considers
everything he says, as the opinion of an
oracle.
“And we would go along being happy, hug
ging this blessed illusion to our breasts, if it
was not for the fool way in which husbands
and wives press agent their mothers. It is
when a man begins to tell his wife what a
superior being his mother is, that poor wifey
gets the first crimp taken in her rosy dream
that her husband regards her as an angel. It’s
when tvife commences to tell husband what
mother says on every subject under the sun,
that he realizes that his opinion isn’t going to
rule in their household, and that his wife
considers him a mere idiot beside the lady
whose views she has been accustomed to take
on every subject under the sun, ever since
she was born.
“In reality, that is the secret reason why
so many men and women hate their mothers
in-law. They are continually being measured
against mother-in-law and found wanting.
They are forever being compared to mother
in-law to their disadvantage, and it is not in
human nature to endure this with patience,
A man rubs it in on his wife that she falls
far short of the perfection of his mother. A
woman lets her husband see, at every turn,
that it is mother she turns to for advice and
counsel, that it is mother she admires above
him, and the result is that the woman and
man, who have to’listen to a never eliding
paean of praise of mother, comt to hate her.
“If men and women, when thej get mar
ried, would put the soft pedal on mother, and
let her make her own way, she would be a
lot more popular with her in-laws. It’s this
over-touting mother business that puts her in
bad, and sets her daughter-in-law and sons
in-law against her.”
(Copyright, 19 21, by the Wheeler Syndi
cate, Inc.)
fied. On a huge sc.-een, minute organisms
became hideous water monsters, as fearful
as the octopus. “These creatures live in the
water you drink!” rang the perpetual moral
of the pictures.
Even then some people dared to distin
guish betwen pure and polluted water. But
it has taken generations for the fear to wear
entirely off. As late as 1872 a writer in a
London magazine said:
“What the world really wants is a man
having authority who shall say: ‘There is
nothing in the nature of cold water—provid
ing always it be not foul with sewage or
sparkling from contiguity to a churchyard—
which (Jan be considered deleterious to health.
A man ordinarily strong may as safely drink
a glass of water when he is thirsty as he may
eat a steak when he is hungry.’ ”
It was just about then that the typhoid
bacillus was draggeu into the spotlight and
the intelligent war on water-borne disease
began. With certified water a possibility,
doctors began to urge their patient to con
sume large quantities as a preventive of the
very diseases once vaguely laid to the drink
ing of a glass of water when overheated, or
tired, or on a full or empty stomach.
Now most doctors say that three glasses
of water, besides a glass at each meal, should
be the minimum daily ration. It is well to
drink more than this. Liquid is necessary
to start the digestive processes, and water
is preferable to tea or coffee. The learned
doctors of the eighteenth or even the nine
teenth centuries would have held up their
hands in horror over the idea of imbibing
water at meal time. Yet the doctors of to
day have scientific experiments and a com
paratively profound knowledge of water
chemistry and engineering to back up their
prescriptions. Os course, it is a desirable
bit of forethought to make sure that your
own water supply is pure before drinking
your quart or two quarts a day. For people
who are camping, or who for some other
reason do not have the benefit of a filtered
or otherwise purified water supply, a public
health doctor offers the following rules for
purifying your own water:
Keep on hand a couple of ounces of chlo
ride of lime solution in strength of two tea
spbonfuls to a quart of water. A teaspoonful
of this stock solution added to two gallons
of suspected drinking water will purify it.
Agitate in a stone jar and let it stand cov
ered with several thicknesses of cheesecloth.
This will aerate the water, protect it from
air contamination and remove the flat taste
peculiar to water that has been boiled and
not aerated.
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
UY JACK PATTERSON
A Good School
In looking over the University News this
week we were delighted to see that Effing
ham Academy is rated as being equal to any
of the accredited schools in the state and far
ahead of many of the larger schools in
equipment and building. Our school stands
in the first class, ahead of Sylvania, Claxton
and Lyons and many other places much
larger. The University News is published
by the State University and it is the , ■+hor
ity we all go by.—Springfield Herald.
This is a record of which anj’ school in the
state should feel a commendable p-ide.
Nothing New About That
“Women Want Men’s Wages” shrieks a
headline. And that isn’t all, the women have
been getting men’s wages, for a long time;
ever since, in 'act, pockets were invented. —
Savannah Morning News.
We are not in a position to take issue with
the editor of the News, who is a married
man.
A Home Run
Lovely woman will sharpen a lead pencil
with the scissors and drive nails with the
back of a hair brush, but she gets there just
the same.—Schley County News.
All right, let her go.
Johnny Spencer Says
Thirty young men of the Evanston, (Ill.)
Congregational church have passed ressolu
tions declaring this age to be the most im
moral in all history and binding the resolu
tors not to speak to or walk with a girl
wearing short skirts. We just knew some
thing terrible would happen if the girls kept
on. Well, they broughtyit on themselves.—
J. D. Spencer in Macon, Telegraph.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth. f
Industrial Waste,
Huge losses through industrial waste are
being saddle 1 upon the nation, it was de
clared at a national forum held at Chicago
in connection w ith the meeting of the Ameri
can Society of Mechanical Engineers. Lead
ing engineers, manufacturers, technologists
and educators, heard a sharp indictment of
methods in American industry by L W, Wal
lace, of Washington, executive secretary of
the American Engineer Council of the Feder
ated American Engineering society who as
serted that “the stupendous wastage could
be wiped out by applying the principles of
the engineer.”
The American people, he said, “were pay
ing a stupendous subsidy,” through changing
styles in women’s hats, shoes and millinery.
Every time fashion decreed a slight style
change in + he cut of the lapel of a man’s
coat, more waste occurred, he said. Lack of
effective planning of elevators in great cen
ters like Chicago and ‘New York, industrial
design of locomotives and the commission
system in housing and building were adding
to the people’s burdens, he said.
Egyptian Fighting
There has been only desultory firing in
the streets of this city, following the recent
riotous disturbances at Alexandria in whicli
fifty persons, including twelve Europeans,
were killed, and nearly 200 persons
wounded. footers and skulkers were re
sponsible for these disturbances.
Game Law
The Florida house of representatives has
passed a game bill presented by the commit
tee on game. It was under fire more than
one and a half hours, but finally got by the
house with only one amendment tacked on
to it. This bill is one amending the present
law, materially increasing the license fees
for hunting in the state. It is the opinion of
many members that this will be the only
game bill to pass the house this session and
this one may not pass the senate.
The house bill abo ishing the state audit
ing department and placing that duty upon
the comptroller was up for final considera
tion the latter part of the morning session.
It is one of the administration bills and Is
strategy urged by the governor, yet it is be
ing stoutly opposed. It is thought the bill
will pass, however.
Wasted Milk
High milk prices In Lake county, Indiana,
investigators declare, are due to the fact
that many cans of milk are daily poured
into sewers so that the supply wjll not ex
ceed the demand and there will be no rea
son to lower the price. The Milk Producers’
Co-operative Marketing company is accused
of having disposed of 54,720 quarts in this
way.
River of Doubt
The famous River of Doubt, discovered by
the late Theodore Roosevelt, will be traced
to its source and mapped by a party of
scientists sailing from New York June 1 for
a two-year expedition in the Amazon coun
ty of South America. The expedition also
will search the jungles for new drugs and
will make a complete collection of reptiles,
insects, birds and animals there.
Dr. Henry H. Rusby, professor of phar
macy at Columbia university, will head the
party, which will include Dr. William M.
Mann, government entomologist; Dr. Fred
erick L. Hoffman, statistician; Dr. Everett
Pearson, University of Indiana, and Dr. Or
man E. White, of Brooklyn botanical gar
dens, riflemen, taxidermists and a photog
rapher.
Ordered to Wear Pearl
A court order, directing Mrs. James B«
Blum to wear for thirty davs each year,
under police guard, the SIO,OOO pearl neck
lace of a relative, in order to keep “life”
in the gems through their contfct with a
human body, was issued by the superior
court of San Francisco. The pearls have
Idst much of their lustre through not being
worn.
Gold Ban
Rumors that the Argentine government
was preparing to lift the ban on exportation
of gold are current at Buenos Ayres, but
there is lack of official confirmation. Private
cablegrams and recent dispatches received
from the Uniled States tell of the recent ar
yival in that country of gold from Argentina,
out these reports are not credited because the
shipment of gold is illegal. Bankers say it
is possible there may have been some clan
destine shipments, but assert it is highly im
probable that any one has attempted to ship
large amounts of gold, as discovery would re
sult in confiscation by the authorities.
One explanation advanced is that it is pos
sible the shipment of about $2,000,000 in
gold from Chile to New York might have been
mistaken for Argentine gold, as it was sent
by the way of Buenos Ayres on an American
liner and might have appeared in the ship’a
manifest as coming from Argentina.
Forged Permits
Four thousand cases of whisky, valued at
more than $300,000, have been withdrawn
from three Kentucky distillery free ware
houses on forged permits within the last six
weeks, it is announced at the office of El
wood Hamilton, collector of internal reve
nue for Kentucky, at Louisville.
The permits came from Pennsylvania. In
vestigation of their genuineness brought
word from Arthur McKean, prohibition di
rector for Pennsylvania, that they had been
made out on blanks by’persons whose rights
to have permits had been revoked.
At Mr. Hamilton’s office it was said that
the liquor apparently had been transported
out of the state on trucks and then deliv
ered to transportation lines. Efforts of the
government to trace it to final destination
have been unsuccessful.
Cuban President
Dr. Alfredo Zayas, on assuming the office
of president of Cuba, was cheered by a ca
blegram from General Jose Miguel Gomez,
his opponent in the bitterly contested elec
tion of last November, extending his felici
tations and promising his co-operation. The
liberal party, of which General Gomez is
leader, engaged in a “legislative strike,” fol
lowing the announcement of the result of the
election, and it was cnly recently that it
took part in any of the work of the congress.
General Gomez is in New York, and his ca
blegram was considered an indication that
his party will participate actively in the fu
ture work of the Cuban government.
Negotiations ot a new commercial treaty
with the United States was approved by Dr.
Zayas. As a means of solving the actual finan
cial stringency in Cuba he advocated an ex
tension of the moratorium, aid for banks by
the issuance of adequately guaranteed paper
currency and formation of a co-operative or
ganization of Cuban banking institutions.
Eugenic Marriage
Beginning last week, every man obtaining
a marriage license in Wyoming must produce
a certificate dated within ten davs and signed
by an approved Wyoming physician showing
the applicant is free from disease. The state
eugenics law passed bv the last legislatura
requires such certificates,