Newspaper Page Text
4
THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST.
Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail
Matter of the Second Class.
Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY
Twelve months SI.OO
Six months 50c
Three months 25c
Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday
(By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance)
1 Wk. 1 Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr.
Daily and Sunday. .20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50
Daily «.... 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50
Sunday 10c 45c 1.25 2.50 5.00
The Triweekly Journal is published
on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and
is mailed by the shortest routes for early
delivery.
It contains news from all over the
world, brought by special leased wires
into our office. It has a staff of dis
tinguished contributors, with strong de
partments of special value to the home
and the farm.
Agents wanted at every postoffice.
Liberal commission allowed. Outfit free.
Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation
manager.
The only traveling representatives we
have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Cuyle,
Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan
Hall, Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and
John Mac Jennings. We will be respon
sible for money paid to the above named
traveling representatives.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
The label used lor addressing your paper shows the
time your subscription expires. By renewing at least
two weeks before the date on this label, you insure
regular service.
In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your
old. as well as your new address. If on a route, please
give the route number.
We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back
numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order
or registered mail.
Address all orders and notices for this Department
to THE TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga.
Prepare for Business!
ADVISING the merchants of the south
to “put on steam and prepare to han
dle the business of tomorrow,” Gov
ernor Harding, of the Federal Reserve
Board, cites substantial indications of a for
ward trend and a future rich with opportu
nities. Surplus goods, ofwhich there was
an excess when the period of depression
get in, have “gone into consumption,” leav
ing space on the shelves and in warehouses.
The recovery in agricultural prices has come
sooner than was hoped for a summer ago,
and has kindled fresh courage in many a re
gion but lately downcast. Foreign affairs
also, still complicated though they are, give
omen of betterment, as in the much greater
stability which the exchanges of some of
the leading European nations have acquired.
On the strength of these and related develop
ments Governor Harding rightly declared,
in his address to the Southern Wholesale
Drygoods Association at Birmingham, “The
time has come when the enterprising busi
ness man may well let others indulge in
lamentations and recriminations over the
past, and devote his energies to working out
the problems of today and preparing for the
business of tomorrow.”
These observations are borne out and this
good counsel confirmed by a notable ; sur
vey of the National Association of Manufac
turers. Reports from some thirty thousand
members of that great body attest a “stable,
sane, definite, and continuing advance.”
Among basic industries the majority describe
their present trade as “fair to good,” while
some say “excellent,” but only a handful
“poor.” There is no murmur of pessimism,
but a prevailing, outspoken faith in better
times. Summing the consensus of telegraph
ic replies to his questionnaire, Mr. John E.
Edgerton, president of the Association, says:
“In the steel industries today the survey
shows conditions classed as excellent among
six per cent of our membership, twenty-five
per cent as good, fifty-two per cent as fair,
and seventeen per cent as poor. In the
textile industry seventy per cent of them re
port conditions running from fair to exel
lent, and thirty per cent report poor condi
tions. In the machine and tool industry we
find eighty per cent of the replies reporting
conditions fair to excellent, and the re
mainder not so encouraging. In three indus
tries where retrenchment is ordinarily acute
ly felt —automobiles, jewelry and leather—
the showing is not by any means gloomy, al
though not so good as in other lines. From
the automobile trades good reports are seven
ty per cent; in jewelry, fifty per cent, and in
leather, sixty per cent. All of these business
es, from steel to jewelry, report prospects for
high percentages of increase between now
and fall.”
This is not the heresay optimism of a side
walk junta, but the fact-rooted judgment of
national authorities. It is the substance, not
of things hoped for, but of things seen. Un
less all present prospects fail and all cur
rents turn awry, rich reapings await the busi
ness man who sows betimes and stands pre
pared. But opportunity is never harvested
by him who lacks readiness and courage. The
fortunate of tomorrow are the far-sighted
and energetic of today.
Hamstringing Civilization
AN American traveler lately home from
Russia reports the peculiarly ill-bod
ing fact that the peasant of that
country now raises only so much as his own
wants require and takes no thought either
of possible market earnings or of the neces
sities of others. While this prevails there
can be little advance in economic recovery
and none in the development of national
character.
The peasant’s indifference is hardly to be
wondered at in lijfht of his past oppression
and the present lack of inducement to sur
plus production. Under Czarism he was in
fact if not in name, a serf, to whom the
years brought at best a dole for harshest
toil, and sometimes bitter suffering. Under
Bolshevism, although for the most part
spared the persecution ■which befell the mid
dle classes, he possesses little if any more
than under the old regime, nor has he tha
opportunities in trade which a responsible
government and a workable economic order
would vouchsafe. If the fruits of his toil
were not confiscated to feed Lenine’s Red
army, still they would bring scant reward or
none in a land where money is indeed but
scraps of paper and where the breakdown
and decay of long-distance transportation
has made marketing exceedingly circum
scribed and difficult.
But while these conditions explain the
peasant’s attitude they do not mitigate its
effects either upon the country or upon him
self. When men cease to work beyond sup
plying their own immediate creature needs,
they begin to render civilization and even
human society impossible. The wheels of
commerce turn, the life of a community pros
pers, the soul of culture survives, all upon
the fact that men work for their common
and their future needs. What befalls when
they do not thus labor is seen In the star
vation and general wretchedness of Bol
shevist Russia. A system that leads to such
results, call it Communism or whatnot, is
rather costly, is it not?.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
A Pretext of Profiteers
IN its trenchant discussion of the pend
ing tariff bill the minority, or Democrat
ic, repoK on that high-handed measure
makes short work of the contention that the
extremely high rates proposed are necessary
to enable protected industries to pay a wage
in keeping with the American workingman’s
standard of living. That argument is de
scribed as “rather strange” in light of the
fact that “these selfsame industries are to
day engaged in an intensive drive to reduce
wage standards,” and the further fact that
“the scale of wages in foreign competing
countries is today more nearly equal the
American than ever before.”
No longer is European labor content with
old-time pittances. The war that drew so
vastly upon its sinew and its life-blood
quickened its aspiration, widened its view,
steeled its purpose. Not in a mood of Bol
shevism but at a matter of common sense
and just dealing, millions of toilers across
the sea have effectually insisted upon a
fairer share in the fruits of production and
a closer approach to the living-standards of
American Labor. The likelihood, according to
thoughtful observers, is that those gains
will be held, if not increased, and that the
wage tendency of the world will be toward
a basis of “relative international equality.”
This aside, however, the new tariff does
not suit its rates to the difference in costs
of labor and of production here and abroad.
It sweeps radically beyond that principle
and proposes rates that will enable the favor
ed interests to charge the American con
sumer what they will or, at least, as much
as they can collect. Thus on the pretext of
protecting labor, it is really intended to pro
tect the profiteer. The rank and file of in
dustrial and business concerns are content
with fair earnings, but some look greedfully
back to the exorbitant prices and brimming
fleshpots on which they fed in war times.
It is to these, not to the workingman, not
the farmer, and certainly not to the consum
er, that Republican tariff makers have de
ferred. And if their bill be enacted it will
add to the burdens of the American public,
according to conservative .estimates, between
three and four billion dollars, or more than
what is imposed by the direct taxes of the
revenue measure itself.
-Touching the claim that these excessive
import duties are needed to safeguard Ameri
can markets against foreign invasion, the
minority report points out that whereas our
imports for the last year accounted were two
and a half billion dollars, our exports were
sixty-two billion four hundred and eighteen
million. (The latter figure is from statistics
of 1919, the latest available.) “Upon that
basis our imports represent four per cent of
our production, while our exports, which
were $4,379,000,000 in 1921, represent
seven-per cent of the domestic production.
If importations amounting to four per cent
of our annual production is such an invasion
of our markets as calls for further restric
tions, is not the exportation of seven per
cent of our annual production a twofold
greater invasion by us of the markets of the
rest of the world? In 1921 we invaded Eu
ropean markets to the extent of $2,363,000,-
000 while European countries (including
Germany), invaded our market to the extent
of only $764,000,000. If these importations
from Europe show or argue underselling in
our markets, our threefold greater exporta
tion to Europe upon a parity of reasoning
show that we can and do undersell Europe
in her own markets. In 1921 the United
Kingdom of Great Britain invaded our mar
ket to the extent of only $238,000,000, and
in the same year we invaded the markets of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain to the
extent of $942,000,000.
“We do not sell our goods in foreign mar
kets at a loss. On the contrary, we are sell
ing them at such a high basis of profit that
our manufacturers and producers show both
zeal and eagerness to further extend their
foreign business. If American goods can com
pete with foreign goods in the markets of
the world, is it not folly to contend they
cannot compete with these same goods in
our own market without entailing national
disaster?”
In this, as in most matters, inordinate
selfishness would prove its own undoing. To
make American import duties so high that
foreign goods could not enter would make
our foreign markets so dull or unfriendly
that the outlet for our surplus production
would be dangerously curtailed. Where then
would be the advantage of a high tariff to
American labor, with factories closing for
lack of overseas fields in which to sell?
Where would be the advantage to American
business? Where, indeed, would be the ad
vantage to the seekers of privilege them
selves?
Fruits of “Normalcy"
T ORMALCY” is not all that its rapt
I\l prophets once sang. But it is
nearly everything that cool ob
servers of its beginnings apprehended. It is
at once paying and imposing the penalties
of a political regime that possesses neither
ideas nor ideals.
Just now these penalties run largely to
Departmental “scandal.” That short and
ugly word we take from the mouth of, not
a Democratic, but a Republican onlooker,
the New York Globe. Says that paper: “If
all that is reported is true, Mr. Harding has
a scandal of the first magnitude on his
hands. Added to the bad impression pro
duced by the recent upheaval in the Bureau
of Printing and Engraving and the remov
al of Major Watts because of his incontinent
desire to prosecute contractors accused of
robbing the public treasury, and also the
abrupt deflation of the Shipping Board’s as
sets, Senator La Follette’s discovery becomes
ominous.” That discovery—which by the
way belongs to Senator Kendrick, of Wyo
ming, although Mr. La Follette fathered the
resolution for a probe—concerns the In
terior Department’s leasing of certain in
valuable oil fields in the public domain to
private interests that are beholden to the
Standard Oil Company, if not indeed owned
by that giant trust.
The “naval oil reserves” they were com
monly called, because they had been dili
gently safeguarded by previous Administra
tion as a source of fuel supply for the na
tional fleet. All our more modern warships
are oil burners, as is also the greater part
of the merchant marine. Plainly it was to the
public interest that those fields, situated in
the far West, should be conserved with all
vigilance. But Secretary Fall, of the Interior
Department, is anything but zealous as a
conservationist. Some even aver that he is
actively opposed to the policies which sprang
up during the days of Roosevelt, and were
respected under President T’aft, and mem
orably promoted by President Wilson. Cer
tain it is that Secretary Fall, long classed as
reactionary, forfeited the confidence of ear
nest believers in those safeguarding and con
structive policies when he surrendered to
private control a store of natural treasure
which belonged to the nation and which was
of exceeding importance to the nation’s well
being. The excuses offered for this astonish
ing transaction have been so flimsy and its
circumstances as a whole so dubious that the
Senate by unanimous vote has ordered a
searching investigation.
To this unsavory affair add the rough
shod over-riding of civil service rules, not of
rules merely but of basic principles; add the
indifference of the Department of Justice
and the inefficiencies of the Treasury De
partment; add the notorious and winked-at
lobbying by seekers of privilege under the
Fordney tariff bill; add the indefensible seat
ing of Mr. Newberry in the Senate despite a
i record against which the whole country's
sense of uprightness rebelled; add the in
anities of a do-nothing Congress, and the na
ture of “Normalcy” can be fairly appreciat
ed.
THE ONLY CRIME PREVENTION
By H. Addington Bruce
WELL established business houses, as
you probably know, account “good
will” as among the most real and
valuable of their assets. New business
houses, if properly managed, endeavor from
the outset to make good will a real and val
uable asset to themselves.
For, without good will no business house
can long endure. With good will it may at
tain to a prosperity far exceeding its found
ers’ fondest hopes.
Has it ever occurred to you that the gain
ing of good will is just as important to every
individual who has to make his way in the
world as it is to business houses? And are
you aware that good will can be gained by
individuals precisely through, and only
through, the methods whereby business
houses gain it?
What are those methods?
First and foremost must be rated the giv
ing of value for money received. Let a bus
iness house sell goods at fair prices, let it
do this consistently day after day, never giv
ing warrant for the suspicion that it is foist
ing inferior articles on its customers, and
the good will of an increasing body of cus
tomers is sure to accrue to it.
It will the more surely accrue, if, in addi
tion to dealing fairly with its customers, the
business house deals with them in a gener
ous way.
From time.,., to time customers make mis
takes, they fall into arrears of payment, or
otherwise develop situations which might
easily become sources of serious trouble to
them if the business house insisted on its
rights. And sometimes it is necessary for
the house to insist on its rights.
If, in the main, however, it adopts a pol
icy of concession and adjustment, any im
mediate loss this entails will be greatly out
weighed in the long run by the resulting in
crement of good will. Always, though, to
secure this increment concessions and ad
justments must be made cheerfully, not
grudgingly.
Cheerfulness Is always an important fac
tor in the gaining of god will for business
houses. “I like to trade in that store,” one
often hears. “There is such a pleasant,
cheerful atmosphere all through it.”
And, as said, so far as concerns the gain
ing of good will the situation is the same
with individuals as with business houses.
If the individual is persistently cheerful,
no matter what the occasions for gloom, if
he is consistently generous in his dealings
with others, if in his daily work he takes
pains to give rather more than less value for
money received, he, too, will gain the good
will of his fellows and profit vastly there
from.
Os that he may rest assured.
Only, of course, like any business house,
he must also possess and exercise the virtue
of patience. Good will and its rewards are not
to be had overnight. But gained they will
be in the end, if the course that makes for
them is earnestly adopted and steadfastly
pursued.
(Copyright, 1922, by The Associated
Newspapers.)
• GAINING GOOD WILL
By Dr. Frank Crane
The American Bar Association recently
gave its attention to a study of the underly
ing reasons for the crime wave which has
swept the country since the close of the war.
Many reasons x were advanced by crim
inology students, lawyers, doctors, and oth
ers. Some insisted that the crime wave is
the natural outgrowth of war through the
breaking down of moral fibre; others blamed
prohibition; others insisted it was because
of a growing belief that the courts would
favor the rich.
One layman declared that it might be a
good idea to put many of the practicing law
yers in jail, and others insisted that punish
ments for crime were not sufficiently severe.
The Adams Express Company, so the news
papers informed us, in taking drastic meas
ures to protect its treasures, and is inaugurat
ing a service of armored trucks, with bot
tom, sides and top covered with steel plates,
and with the driver inclosed in a bullet
proof glass cab.
Each truck is to carry a crew of five men
armed with revolvers, and loopholes are
provided all around it for the crew to fire
from within.
All o| this represents an elaborate con
tinuation of the wrong method of dealing
with crime, to which the mind of the world
is committed.
That method is based upon a piece of
sheer fiction. That fiction is that crime is
prevented 'by punishment. That is to say,
when a man commits a crime he should be
hurt, in which case he will not commit an
other crime, and others will be deterred from
imitating him. Anybody who is old enough
to go to school knows that the world has
been carrying out that program faithfully
so far back that the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary; also that it has not
stopped crime yet.
Said schoolboy, also, if he would study a
little deeper, would discover that crimes
have diminished in the civilized world to a
certain degree steadily, and that that dimi
nution has exactly followed the diminution
in the severity of punishment.
That means that in proportion as we have
stopped hurting people for drime they have
stopped committing it.
This is a general law. Like all general laws
it will be pooh-poohed by most people who
can see nothing but particular instances.
It is not a question, however, of argu
ments, it is merely a question of fact. That
fact is: that notwithstanding the many crim
inals today in Chicago, for instance, life in
Chicago is much more secure by day or night
than it was in London 250 years ago when
there were some 200 crimes for which a
man might be hung.
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY JACK L. PATTERSON.
Georgia-Raised Butter
The Savannah Morning News calls atten
tion to the fact that we raise but two per
cent of the butter we consume in Georgia.
We infer this to mean that we produce but
two per cent of the commercial butter of
fered for sale in the state. There is no rea
son why we should not produce all that we
consume, and then produce a great deal more
to send out of the state. We have a fine sec
tion for dairying. We have the feeds that
produce milk and cream, and we can produce
them more cheaply than they can be pro
duced in any other section of America. We
have the climate and we can have the pas
tures with but little effort. What we lack is
organizing the business and setting it go
ing.—Moultrie Observer.
This is a fair but startling statement of
the butter yield in this state. The Observer
takes the correct view of the situation.
*• * .
Prince Sails
KAGOSHI, Japan, May 9.—The prince
of Wales sailed for home from Japan this
week. He has been in Japan four weeks, re
turning the state visit to England made last®
year by Hirohito £ crown prince regent,
Dorothy Dix’s Talks —We Make Our Thrills
WOMEN are forever complaining about
the monotony of their work.
“It’s doing the same thing, day
after day, week after week, year after year
t’ at gets on my nerves, and drives me fran
tic,” wails the housewife. “It’s the eternal
getting up in the morning, and getting
breakfast, and washing little faces, and but
toning little shoes, and getting the children
off to school, and a man off to work! It is
the never-ending cooking, and cleaning, and
sewing, and mending that makes me feel
like committing suicide to get out of it
all.”
“It is just the dull, deadly grind of doing
the same thing over and over every day of
your life that drives me mad,” complains the
working girl. “Same old boss coming in,
and hanging his hat on the same old peg
every day. Same old desk, same old type
writer, same old letters ‘yours of the fifteenth
duly received, and contents noted. In reply
to same would say, etc., etc., etc.’ Same old
corrections. Everything the same, until I
am ready to shriek at the sameness of it all.”
So goes the universal feminine cry for
change, for excitement, for something to put
pep and excitement into their lives.
The domestic woman thinks that she
would not mind any kind of work that she
could do outside of her own home. She
thinks that she would be perfectly satisfied
at her daily task if she could dress herself
up of a morning, and go downtown and work
In an office or a store where she would be
brought into contact with many other peo
ple. She thinks it would be fun to jolly
along her employer, who, perhaps, would be
young and good-looking, and to wheedle
grouchy customers into buying, and to have
a part, however small, in the making of a
big business.
She thinks that the reason that she finds
that her own work palls upon her is be
cause it is carried on in the privacy of her
home, and has only to do with her husband
and children, whose every word and thought
she can anticipate, she knows them so well.
The working girl thinks that she would be
blissfully happy if only she followed some
exciting profession. She feels that she would
be willing to work herself to death if only
she were a singer, or an actress, or a writ
er, or if she were in the movies. What she
objects to in her own occupation is the bore
dom of performing the oft repeated tasks.
It never seems to occur to these women
that all work is monotonous, and that the
very foundations of success are made of
repetition. It is only by doing the same thing
over and over and over again, thousands
upon thousands of times, that we acquire the
skill that we call craftsmanship. The great
est genius that ever lived cannot hold his
own with a second-rate professional while
he is a bundling amateur.
FIRST STEPS T O INVENTIONS
WASHINGTON, May 11. Watchmaking
was the first step to most of the principal in
ventions that make modern industry w'hat it
is today, Carl W. Mitman, curator of the U.
S. National Museum, declared at a meeting
of the Horological Institute of America here
this afternoon.
James Watt, who invented the separate
condenser for the steam engine which result
ed in the development of the true steam en
gine and began the replacement of hand pow
er and appliances by mechanical devices, was
first a watchmaker and then an instrument
maker.
George Stephenson, whose locomotives
first defnitely established the economic worth
of the steam transportation, though an en
gine man and engineer, made extra money by
repairing thef watches and clocks of his
neighbors after his day’s work.
When the Baltimore and Ohio Railway,
after its first trial of the steam locomotive,
offered a $4,000 prize for steam locomotive
that could pull 15 pounds at the rate rate of
15 miles per hours, two watchmakers of
Philadelphia, Stacey Costell and Ezekial
Childs, competed.
Matthias W. Baldwin was a watchmaker
who progressed from the building of a model
locomotive for a Philadelphia museum to the
founder of the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
today the largest concern of its kind in
world.
Henry Ford’s post-graduate work as a
mechanist was that of watchmaking and he
almost went into the business of making
serviceable watches at a production cost of
thirty cents rather than Ford automobiles.
John Fitch, who built a steamboat which
made regular trips on the Delaware river be
tween Philadelphia and Trenton and obtain
ed from the King of France a patent for
propelling boats by steam, learned his me
chanics while apprentice to a Connecticut
watchmaker.
Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing ma
chine, was apprentice to a repairer of crono
meters and surveying instruments while he
built the first sewing machine.
Ottmar Mergenthaler, whose invention of
the lin-o-type machine, makes the modern
newspaper possible, emigrated from Ger
many in 1872 with no capital but his com
pleted apprenticeship as an expert watch
maker and thirty dollars in cash.
Corn Cobs Source of Organic Acids
MADISON, Wi3„ May 12.—The humble
Labor Board for Coal Indus
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 9...Thp tri
bunal created in the proposed Kenyon
bill to regulate labor affairs in the
coal industry is patterned closely after the
Railroad Labor Board, established by the law
which returned the transportation systems of
the country to private operation. It is desig
nated as the “National Coal Mining Board,”
and is to be composed of nine members.
Three members, constituting the labor
group and representing the coal miners, are
to be apointed by s he president 0 the United
States and shall be selected from men pro
posed by the United Mine Workers of Ameri
ca. Not less than six nominations shall be
made by the union. Three members of the
board shall constitute the management
group, representing the coal operators and
they shall be chosen from not less than six
nominees proposed to the president by the
National Coal association and the Anthra
cite Coal Operator association. As the
bituminous branch >f the coal industry is
much larger than the anthracite it is assum
ed that the bituminous operators will name
two of the three employer members of the
board, but there is no provision to that ef
fect in the bill.
The third division of three members of
the board will constitute the public group,
representing the public interest in the great
fuel industry, and they will be chosen by the
president entirely oa his own initiative. All
appointments to places on the board must be
confirmed by the United States senate.
If either the employes or employers fail to
make nominations and offer nominees with
in 30 days after the passage of the bill in
case of any original appointment to the of
fice of member of the labor board, or in
case of a vacancy in any such office, within
fifteen days after such vacancy occurs, then
the president shall make the appointments
on his own motion, but he shall select indi
viduals associated in interest with the groups
they are appointed to represent.
Any member of the proposed hoard who
during his term of office is an active mem
ber or in the employ of or holds any office
in any organization of coal miners or opera
tors, or owns any stacks or bonds thereof or
is otherwise financially interested therein z
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1922.
Nor do women understand that work, in
its essence, is the same. It is just doing the
same thing one time after another. And
after the novelty wears off it is just the same
grind. Making novels is just as much a
trade as making bread when you do it for a
living, and it is ten times harder work. Dia
monds and rubies and emeralds get to be
just so many little white, and red and green
rocks to the jewel expert. The champagne
taster comes to loathe the very smell of
wine.
Sitting around, daubed up with paint,
wearing furs and velvets in August, and with
a piece of chiffon for covering in December,
waiting for hours at a stretch for your turn
to go before the camera, is about the most
tiresome job on earth, as any film queen will
tell you, and if you want to know which has
the most thrill, your own home or the stage,
ask any successful actress.
The truth is that work is work, and earn
ing your daily bread and butter is a monoto
nous job no matter how you do it, and
whether we keep up a perpetual interest in
it, or go stale in it, depends altogether upon
ourselves—not the work.
We have to manuufacture our own thrills.
We have to put in the punch, and inject the
pep into our work ourselves. It depends
upon us, not our jobs, not our environment.
The housewife can be bored to death, or
kept on her tiptoes by her work, just as she
pleases. She can say, “what’s the use of
cooking meals that are eaten as soon as
cooked, of cleaning rooms that are
mussed up again, of correcting faults in chil
dren that they commit again the next min
ute, of spending my life doing things for
people who do not even see what I do?”
Or she can think that making a home, and
raising up a family of fine boys and girls is
the greatest work in the world. She can
find excitement in outwitting the high cost
of living, and feel a real thrill of achieve
ment over a superlative cake or batch of
pies. Whether being a wife and mother is a
martydom, or a career, is solely the point of
view of the woman.
Whether the working girl finds writing
letters, or selling goods, dreary drudgery, or
gets from it the thrill of playing the game
is up to her. If has no ambition, no de
sire to rise; if she isn’t interested in what
she is trying to do, and is only marking time
until some man comes along and marries her,
then, indeed, her work is monotonous.
But if she sees modern commerce as the
great romance, and adventure, then every
letter, every sale rouses the sporting blood
in her, and makes her eager to w-in. Business
to that kind of girl ic never dull.
Whether our work is monotonous or not
depends upon ourselves. We take out of our
daily life only what we put in it.
(Copyright, 1922, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Inc.)
corn cob is coming into its own. Every ton
of the 20,000,000 tons of this product burn
ed or discarded in this country every year is
capable of yielding over 300 pounds of acetic
acid and 320 pounds of lactic acid if the yield
on a commercial scale should prove equal to
laboratory results, according to the Wiscon
sin Agricultural Experiment station here.
The acids are easily obtained by ferment
ing a syrup made from corn cobs hydronolyz
ed with dilute suphuric acid, which yields 30
to 40 per cent xylose, a kind of sugar. This
sugar solution is fermented by the proper
bacteria and the resulting acetic and lactic
acid in almost equal quantities accounts for
85 to 90 per cent of the xylose.
These acids are particularly useful in the
tanning of hides and the manufacture of ace
tone and other chemicals. The commercial
development of this industry will involve
numerous chemical and technical problems,
but the possibility of producing chemicals in
this way was proved when over 5,000,000
pounds of acetone was obtained by a ferment
process during the war for use in making ex
plosives.
Search for Volcanoes Deep Under Seas
ROME, May 12.—Scientists do not know
how many large volcanoes lie under the sur
face of the oceans. Every now and then a
ship at sea will be shaken by a submarine
eruption but the captain will enter the occur
rence in his log-book and nothing more will
be done about it.
A systematic search of past and future log
books of ocean vessels has been proposed at
the meeting of the International Geodetic and
Geophysical union here which is attended by
a number of American geophysicists. The
hydrographic office of each country will be
asked to undertake an Investigation of the
logs, and ocean steamship lines will be asked
to co-operate.
This information will aid in the compiling
of a catalog of volcanoes. Scientists expect
to find that there are many more volcanoes
hidden in the seas than are visible rising out
of the land or sea, as the earth’s surface is
about one-fourth land and three-fourths sea.
Rows of volcanoes are found along great
cracks in the earth’s crust. One such sup
posed volcanic zone runs from the West In
dies to the Azores and many of the Pacific
islands are wholely of volcanic origin, one ex
ample being the Hawaiian Islands.
try —By Frederic J. Haskin
becomes at once ineligible for further mem
bership cn the board, but none of the mem
bers will be required to relinquish honorary
membership in or his rights to any insurance
or pension or other benefit fund maintained
by any organization of employes or by any
operator.
Ten Thousand Dollar Men
The members of the board will draw salar
ies of SIO,OOO a year, which is the same as
the pay of the nine members of the Railroad
Labor Board. The term of office will be five
years after the first appointment have been
made.
Coal miners and operators are expected to
do their utmost to settle their quarrels with
out appealing to the proposed labor board.
Section 3 of the Kenyon bill declares that it
shall be the duty of both operators and their
employes to exert every reasonable effort and
adopt every availa de means to avoid any in
terruption to the operation of any coal mine
which might result as the culmination of a
labor dispute. .All such disputes shall be con
sidered and if possible decided in conferences
between the representatives designated and
authorized so to confer by the employers and
employes directly interested.
The proposed law thus contemplates the
application of the principle of collective bar
gaining in the creation of unofficial machin
ery which shall adjust minor differences and
controversies, but when this machinery can
not accomplish the desired end, then appeal
must be taken to the labor board which
represents not only the miners and operators,
but the public as well.
Three ways are proposed by which a dis
pute may be brought before the board. First
the board shall take jurisdiction in a case
upon the application of any operator or or
ganization of employes whose members are
directly interested in the dispute; second,
the board may proceed upon the written
petition of not less than 100 unorganized
or non-union employes who are directly in
terested in the dispute in question; or, third,
the board may act on its own initiative if
it is of the opinion that the dispute “is like
ly substantially to interrupt commerce.” .
The board may thus act in any dispute with I
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Dreadnaught Junked
In compliance with the terms of the naval
treaty signed at the Washington Armament
conference, the British dreadnaught Erin was
put out of commission at Sheerness last
week and ordered sold.
The Erin was one of a score or more of
battleships added to the British Navy during
the war. Her normal displacement is 23,000.
tons. Her armament consists of ten 13.5- <
inch guns, with anti-aircraft guns and tor
pedo tubes. She had a designed speed of *
twenty-one knots. Her complement was'
1,130 men. «
Wilhelm’s Plans
Commenting on the memoirs of ex-Crown.
Prince Frederick William, in which he tries
to explain to the German people the reasons
for flight and abdication, Vorwaerts re
veals that on the very day of the German
revolution Count Schulenberg and the Crown
Prince had agreed to assemble the loyal mon
archist troops under the Crown Prince to
march back and to put down the revolution
throughout Germany.
Should they fail in this they had the for
mer kaiser’s consent to yield all claims on
the imperial crown, but to retain the crown
of Prussia, provided they succeeded in put
ting down the revolution in Prussia. Vor
waert’s says:
“This means that they were willing to
sacrifice the national unity of Germany for
the sake of the dynastic family interests of (
the Hohenzollerns. Had the plan succeeded ♦
we would have today a royal Prussian dy
nasty of Hohenzollerns, but no united Ger
man state. We would have independent
states—Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and so on—-
in other words, there would have been a
collapse of the empire, which is exactly what
Clemenceau and the French militarists de
sired, and what only the establishment of
the Republic prevented.
“The German people gained unity by con
stantly fighting the selfish, princely inter
ests, and Germany will retain her unity and
flourish only if she adheres to the Republi
can form of government.”
Bandit Surrounded
Tazarut has been surrounded and the re
treat of the bandit Raisuli has been cut off,
according to an official statement outlining
the latest Spanish operation in Morocco.'
The enemy’s morale is said to have been >
greatly affected by yesterday’s operations, <
in which Hamido-El-Succan, Raisuli’s prin
cipal lieutenant, lost his life, several aids
were killed and Chief Hertiti was wounded.
Factions of the Beni-Said tribe, which
were on the verge of surrender, have again
become hostile, for which, the statement
says, the propaganda of Abd-El-Krin, Mo
roccan rebel chief, is responsible. The Mor
occan leader has broadcast the report Spain
is obliged to repatriate her soldiers because
of her economic state and assures his forces
they will triumph if they can hold another
month.
Trust Dissolved
Federal Judges Rogers, Hough and Man
ton have filed a dissolution order against
the American Sugar Refining company and
othr corporate and individual defendants in'
the government’s Sherman law suit begun
twelve years ago.
In the 12-year wait, caused in large part
by a decision to await rulings of the United
States supreme court, in the steel and har-•
vester trust cases, the defendant corpora- *
tions in the sugar trust case have “abandon- I
ed their combination and conspiracy to re
strain trade and commerce, and to monop- * 4
olize the business of manufacturing aqd deal
ing in refined sugar,” said the decree.
Ocean Gold
An expedition for salvaging the Lusitania
and other ships that have sunk in the last,
few years will start from New York May 25.
The steamship Blakeley has been chartered
by the Lusitania Salvaging company.
Estimates of gold that lies at the bottom
of the sea run into the millions. A single
passenger alone deposited $75,000 with the
purser of the Lusitania, while Mme. An
toine de Page, wife of the medical director
of the Belgian Red Cross, carried more than
SIOO,OOO.
REFLECTIONS OF A
BACHELOR GIRL
By Helen Rowland «
WHAT IS YOUTH?
Youth Is in the Saddle—and Riding for
a Fall!
“Youth,” says the Pollyanna Philosopher,
“is a matter of the spirit—not of the
arteries.”
“A man is never old until his rosy hopes
have turned grey, his bright illusions have
faded, and he has wrinkles on his heart.”
Perhaps that was true in the days when
forty-seven was the Golden Age of Man,
and when no woman was interesting until
she was at least thirty, Dear Heart.
But things are SO different, now.
Age is getting a very rough deal; and
unless you watch your step, you may find
yourself shelved with the antiques, before
you have passed your salad days.
You are OLD, in these times, my darlings,
not when you lose your illusions, but when
you lose track of the latest dance steps, f
You are aged, if you wear spats—or any
thing but the sheerest cobweb silk on <
goose-fleshed ankles—in the dead of winter.
You are antique, positively mortifying, if
you wear long-sleeved undergarments, or
anything on your shivering arms heavier
than a flake of georgette crepe.
A man is senile, if he has reached that
softened stage, where a glance from a pretty
woman can cause him a thrill.
A girl is tottering toward the grave, If
she still believes in the glory of marriage
and the myth of eternal love.
You are effete, decrepit, superannuated—-
if you feel that a kiss is something sort of
sacred, and shouldn’t be given away with
every cup of tea.
If you still wear steel and whalebone
stays.
If you speak English instead of the New
Slang Jargon.
If you quote Kipling or the Rubaiyat—!
or anything except the Freudian philoso
phers and the free verse “poets.”
If you like pictures that you can under
stand and statues that are beautiful and
look human.
If you have a weakness for romance and
illustions about love.
If you arc jealous of the flappers who
flap around your husband.
If you weigh over 120 pounds, don’t know
what “hip-juice” is, hate jazz, and are
afraid of Sunburn.
respect to wages, hours of labor and other ,
working conditions.
The board, once it has taken jurisdiction
in a case, must render its decision within
60 days, unless this period is extended by
agreement of the parties, and there can be
no decision by the board except by the con
currence of at least five of the nine mem
bers, and at least one member of the pub
lic group must join in the decision, t '