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The Simple and the Sage
wT Is highly refreshing to hear ao disting-
I uiahed a scientist as Director George Otis
Smith, of the United States Geological
survey, making a plea for plain words—for
“sand” instead of “arenaceous deposit,” for
“clay” instead of “argillaceous stratum,” for
“river banks” Instead of “riparian borders.”
In precise scientific statement, it Is granted,
special terms are needful —“words that ’ cst
keep their' razor edge when used only for
hair-splitting distinctions.” But if a spe
cialist on rocks Is writing for the layman or
talking to a landowner about the mineral
makeup of a soil, there is no excuse for say
ing “The superimeumbent material consists
of a stratum of calcareous composition,”
rather than “The overlying bed Is limestone.”
Well does Dr. Smith advise that “the eco
nomic geologist tell his story in plain Eng
lish so that his clients and the public can see
things as they are and thus learn to refuse
the highly colored substitute offered by
quack imitators.”
A true scientist, of course, takes no de
light in spreading his gorgeous technical
nomenclature as a peacock its plumes, but
prefers the simplest terms that will suffice.
Anyone can read without stumbling such a
treatise as Professc McCallie’s “Sand and
Gravel Jeposits of Georgia,” or his valuable
account of the State’s mineral springs. And
where is more lucid or more engaging Eng
lish to be found than in the gre .c Faraday’s
“History of a Candle,” or in Lord Kelvin on
the tides, or in William James’ psychology?
The suns of the intellectual world shine
clear; it is the little oil lamps that smoke
and sputter.
In his story of Alexandria, that once splen
did capital of ph ”'sophy and science, Mr.
Wells epeaks of a time when wisdom had
passed away and “lei; pedr try behind,”
when “for the use books was substituted
the worship of books,” when the learned
grew to be “a specialized, queer class with
unpleasant characteristics of its own.” And
then he sketches this portrait of a person
ality with which we are still, regrettably
enough, not unacquainted: “The Museum
had not existed for a halt dozen generations
before Al r andria was familiar with a new
type of human beings; shy, eccentric, unprac
tical, incapable of essentials, strung 1y fierce
upon trivialities of literary detail, as bitterly
jealous of the colleague within as of the un
learned without, the bent Scholarly Man.
For him no method of copying was suffi
ciently tedious and no rare book sufficient.y
inaccessible. He was a sort of by-product of
the Intellectual processes of mankind.” It is
against that mood and spirit that true
science like true literature and true educa
tion ever revolts, with half a flash of anger
but more in pity and in laughter.
What better example for teachers of
truth than the liberal, kindly heavens, whose
lights and dewr are bhed upon the mightiest
and the lowliest, the simple and the sage?
A Plan for Reforestation
A PARTICULARLY interesting plan of
financing the reforestation of denuded
areas, as reported by the American
Lumberman, is that large tracts of cut-over
timber lands unsuited for farming shall be
sold to the State at their present taxable val
ues, the owners accepting in payment forty
year State bonds.
Os this plan, which in at least one Southern
commonwealth has ben definitely proposed
by the landowners, the American Lumber
man says: “It would enable the State at a
small expenditure of money to acquire great
tracts of land and put Into effect a program
of reforestation that would build up a tre
mendously valuable resource. By the time
the bonds had begun to mature the timber
regrown on the lands thus purchased would
be ready for cutting, and lumber manufac
turers would be in the market to buy the
timber from which to produce lumber for the
country’s needs.” Thus, too, would be made
possible the development of wood pulp in
dustries, for which in recent years there has
been a keenly felt and waxing need.
That the timber output of the lands would
provide ample funds for retiring the bonds
and also for growing the trees is considered
certain by those who have studied the propo
sition, as is also the possibility of thus solv
ing the more and more troublous problem of
depleted timber resources. “Perhaps the
very simplicity of the plan,” comments the
American Lumberman, “explains why it has
received such scant attention. It would ap
pear to be practical in every sense. It is
hoped that the suggestion may be followed in
other States, and that as the people become
familiar with the advantages of such a plan,
pressure may be brought to bear sufficient to
secure its adoption throughout the country.”
Certainly, any proposal or any discussion
that will bring nearer to accomplishment the
vast and imperative task of reforestation
merits earnest attention. Economists are now
estimating that the forests of Russia could be
made to liquidate the whole world’s war debt
within less than a hundred years. The cut
over lands of the South could be made to play
as great a part, proportionately, in prospering
this region.
Yes, Certainly
Bill Biffem remarks in the Savannah
Press that “it is a poor rule that won’t work
In reverse gear,”-
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
Prophets of Today
A PROPHET is not without honor in his
own country when he predicts the
peril of floods so far in advance that
farmer and householder and all others con
cerned may be ready and fortified. Specialists
of the United States Weather Bureau have
earned this distinction by their forecasts of
risings on the Mississippi and its greater
tributaries. The unprecedented overflow now
marking the lower reaches of that river was
calculated by the Bureau’s observers from
three to four weeks ahead.
Calculated, we say; the ancient word
would have been “augured” or “divined.”
One skilled in portents would have fingered
the liver of a sheep, or Intently watched the
flight of birds, or listened to the rustlings
of a consecrated oak, or sought to Interpret
the wild, dark sayings of a priestess dazed
with oracle vapors. And Interestingly
enough, the soothsayers of old seem to have
hit upon the truth of events more often
than our unimaginative skepticism of today
likes to believe. For aught we know the wise
ones of Delphi and Dodona had arts most
potent, of whose true nature they them
selves were ignorant.
But when it comes to predicting a Mis
sissippi flood, give us science which is never
mysterious rather than augury which is al
ways fascinating. “These forecasts,” says a
recent report, "are based upon estimates
from data furnished by the river and rain
fall stations of Weather Bureau which are
established throughout the basins drained by
these rivers. The Ohio is the most accurate
index to what will happen in the way of a
flood below the Arkansas river; there is
never a flood on the lower Mississippi with
out first a flood stage on the Ohio, no mat
ter how the other tributaries of the Father
of Waters may rise. Predictions in the larger
rivers are chiefly based upon the stages of
waters at different points along the course
of each and its tributaries. The records of
these river stages along the Mississippi go
back seventy-five years, but they cannot be
depended upon in present estimates for the
lower river as there have been many changes
in the levees since that time.”
Following the completion of the present
levee system in 1916, records became more
dependable. Further, notwithstanding that
every change, together with every climatic
variation, must be taken into account, “in
the tremendous volume of two-fifths of the
water in the United States which passes
New Orleans, the Weather Bureau can ordi
narily estimate, within three Inches, the
exact amount of the rise which will occur
at that point.”
This excels anything of its kind credited
to pythoness or crystal gazer. In regions of
the Colorado and the Columbia flood stages
are more easily foretold, owing to the less
variable conditions. As melting snow Is the
main source of floods In those Western
streams, “the amount of snow Is reported In
terms of the number of acres It would cover
to the depth of one foot; the water content
of this is then computed and forecasts made
from the figures.” The practical worth of this
service appears in the fact that hydro-elec
tric plants use It as a basis of light and
power contracts for the coming season, be
ing thus enabled to figure upon a plentltude
or a poverty of water, while in the same way
irrigation farmers can tell rather accurate
ly what their water supply will be. For the
smaller streams, however, forecasts are
more difficult and less reliable, rainfall be
ing the sole basis of calculation. “The wat
ers rise rapidly and flow out swiftly, as in
the case of the Pueblo flood, where the
Weather Bureau’s warning was carried
ahead of the onrushing warriors by a gal
loping horseman. Means of warning will be
greatly facilitated, of course, by wireless
and aeronautics. Something of the extent to
which the service has grown may be gather
ed from the statement that there are seven
hundred and seventy-five year-round river
and rainfall staitons and one hundred and
twenty-five snowfall stations.
Now that floods are predicted weeks In ad
vance and eclipses long years or even cen
turies, may we not hope that with Increas
ing knowledge of the phenomena of what
we call weather, it will become possible to
forecast crop prospects and ocean storms
and wintertide severities a twelvemonth
ahead? Indeed, may not one generation warn
another? May not perils a hundred years
futureward be foreglimpsed and guarded
against?
Why Is There Less Smoking?
SIDEWALK savants are pondering the re
port of tobacco producers that American
use of Sir Walter’s soothing weed Is on
a decline. The output of cigarettes, it seems,
is sixteen per cent less than in 1920, and
eighteen per cent less than a year ago. For
cigars the decrease, while not so marked, is
considerable. Disciples of the pipe are, of
course, a steadfast and tranquil company, but
they are not multiplying as of yore. As for
the comforting quid, we can only infer from
the silence of the statisticians that it holds
its own—and certainly its own hold it.
Why this falling off? Hardly because there
are fewer smokers. An old dog sometimes
may learn a new trick, a veteran of many
wars may quaver in battle, a venerable saint
may veer from grace; a circle, says Einstein,
may not be round; but how rarely do her true
loves jilt Lady Nicotine! A number of steady
smokers pass on each year—some to Para
dise, some perchance to Pluto. The former,
according to Sir Oliver Lodge’s advices, go on
smoking if they so prefer; and the latter, says
all tradition, assuredly do, though not from
preference. But this normal thinning of the
ranks of mundane smokers cannot of Itself
account for a decrease in tobacco consump
tion sufficient to bring about an eighteen per
cent decrease in the manufacture of one of
its most popular forms. What, then, Is the
explanation?
“There is less smoking,” answers a student
of the figures, “because there Is less excite
ment.” During the war years when nerves
were under excessive tension tobacco was
craved to an extraordinary degree; as times
calmed, the need for its sedative was felt less
insistently, less acutely; where ten smokes
were once required, four or five now suffice.
If this indeed be the case, perfect poise of
being should dispense with the desire alto
gether. That, mayhap, is why the seraphim
are not supposed to smoke.
QUIPS AND’QUIDDITIES
The family was seated at dinner, and the
conversation turned to school lessons, much
to the consternation and disgust of little
Cynthia.
“What period In English history are you
studying?” asked her father.
“The Stuarts,” said Cynthia curtly.
There was a long pause as father thought
out a question to put to his daughter. He
was a little hazy about facts, but at last he
propounded his poser.
“What was the first thing James I did
when he came to the throne?” asked father
solemnly.
“Sat on it, I suppose,” replied Cynthia,
with calm conviction.
“It was his first trip in an airplane. The
pilot asked him whether he was nervous.
“Not me, I don’t know what fear is.”
He said this so perkily that the pilot gave
him many new sensations—looping the loop,
spiraling down, and so forth—before they
came to the earth again.
The pilot pointed to the crowd.
“I don’t mind telling you,” he said to the
passenger, “that fifty per cent of those peo
’ low expected us to smash.”
And the passenger’s comment was: “I
don’t mind telling you that fifty per cent of
I those above did, to<£”
ROOTS OF PREUDICE
By H. Addington Bruce
Prejudice—defined In the dictionary as
“an opinion or leaning adverse to anything,
without just grounds, or before sufficient
knowledge”—is admittedly one of the great
est of all causes of human misery and suf
fering.
It has rent communities in twain, has
hurried nations into war. Households have
been wrecked by its malevolent influence.
Countless are the individuals it has cheated
of the well-being and happiness that were
their right.
Long has it been Inveighed against by
philosophers and poets. Nor does one have
to be philosopher or poet to recognize the
evil !t has wrought. Yet still it lingers in
the civilized world —even in Its most direful
forms of religious prejudice, race prejudice,
political prejudice.
And It has lingered because all efforts to
overcome it have been directed at its ugly
blossomings rather than at its roots. There
it must be attacked if it ever is to be con
quered.
Its roots—where are they to be found? In
the life of the home.
Prejudice, understand well, Is not a thing
of sudden growth. It is no more of sudden
growth than is the human being of whom
it takes possession. And, as a rule, it begins
to take possession of him when he is a lit
tle child —and grows up with him.
If only parents would appreciate this.
If only they would remember that what
ever they say and do in the presence of
their children may give color and direction
to all the thinking of their children; and if,
remembering this, they would guard them
selves against exhibiting prejudice to their
children, then indeed prejudice would begin
to loosen its grip on the hearts and minds
of men.
As things stand, prejudice too often is
instilled into children before they are fair
ly out of their cradles. Unkind remarks,
jeering words, absurd misstatements direct
ed against this or that person, this or that
race, religious denomination, or political
party are uttered in children’s hearing,
sometimes dinned Into their ears.
Inevitably the result is that the children
become as prejudiced as their parents—per
haps a bit more prejudiced.
Which contributes neither to the happi
ness of others nor to their own happiness.
The prejudiced, as a matter of fact, are
hampered in all their thinking. The more
prejudiced they are, the less likely that they
will progress in life, even in a material
way.
Parents really solicitous for the future
welfare of their children—-parents patriotic
ally desirous of seeing those children de
velop into citizens of a type making for the
prosperity of their nation —will do well to
remember this.
They may not be able to free themselves
from prejudice. But they can at least re
strain themselves from passing on to their
children the virus of prejudice. And the chil
dren, the nation whereof the children are
members, will be infinitely better off in
days to come if the children’s parents do
exercise this commendable self-restraint.
(Copyright, 1922, by The Associated News
papers.)
ART AND DRUGS
By Dr. Frank Crane
A man may be very eminent in his own pro
fession and vastly ignorant outside of it.
Mr. Joseph Pennell is an eminent American
etcher and illustrator. He made a speech the
other day, however, in New York, in which, ac
cording to the press reports, he stated that “no
nation ever produced and maintained art with
out freedom of thought such as drink implies.”
He also attacked those fanatics whom he pic
tured to be gradually reducing the United States
to the point of becoming an artistic and intel
lectual desert. '
“When a group of fanatics takes away such a
privilege as wine,” continued the distinguished
artist, “.not only freedom takes its wings but
the Graces are not long in following. You
cannot have good art or good literature with
out drink. It is absolutely impossible. Unless
something is done toward ameliorating the
prohibition laws, art will go to the devil in
the United States.”
Reduced to its lowest terms and put in sim
ple understandable English, Mr. Pennell’s propo
sition is that the best work of the human is
produced by drugs.
Alcohol is a drug just as opium, cocaine,
heroin, and the like are drugs. This is nothing
against it, as drugs have their human uses.
But it is a drug just the same, for the simple
reason that it is not necessary food. The nor
mal healthy human being can get along without
it. The only person who absolutely needs it
is one whose system has been perverted by its
continued use. The man who simply must have
alcohol is precisely the same sort of type as
the man who simply must have his happy dust.
The main difference between alcoholic and
other drugs Is that the use of alcohol has been
almost universal for countless generations. It
has behind it the tremendous momentum of
tradition.
It is also entrenched in that institution known
as society, which gives it an enormous power
over a vast portion of the human race.
But for all that, alcohol is vastly more dan
gerous than any other habit-forming drug, for
the reason that its effects are so closely par
allel to those produced by a perfect state of
youth, health and fitness. These effects are
temporary and are invariably followed by re
action, which is dangerous and often destructive.
But there are a large number of souls who
are willing to throw away life, health, and pros
pects for a high moment. This number in
cludes not only geniuses but all children, and
fools.
Mr. Pennell is not the first who has twanged
his lyre and raised his voice in praise of wine.
The cult of Bacchus is as old as delusion, which
in turn is as old as the human race.
Mr. Stephen Crane once said that American
literature might be divided into two classes,
whisky and opium.
Mr. Pennell seems inclined to restrict all
American genius to one class, as he said noth
ing in praise of hasheesh, loco weed, or the
hypodermic syringe.
(Copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane.)
Laugh With Us
In Texas the short cotton crop forced a
large number of negroes to the cities. One
of these applied for a job at one of the large
employment agencies.
“There’s a job open at the Eagle laundry,”
said the man behind the desk. “Want it?”
The applicant shifted uneasily from one
foot to the other.
“Tell you how it is, boss,” he said, final
ly. “I sure does want a job mighty bad, but
I ain’t never washed a eagle.”
The prisoner had been given a sentence
of seven days without the option of paying
a fine.
Woman Candidate
Miss Mayhayley Lancaster is a candidate
in Heard county for member of the state
senate from the Thirty-seventh district, com
posed of the counties of Heard, Troup and
Carroll. Commenting on the race the La-
Grange Reporter says:
“We observe, by the way, that the Carroll
County Times is opposing the candidacy of
some man for that office because he has de
clared himself in favor of relieving women
from the payment of poll tax in order to
vote. We want Miss Lancaster to let us know
when she gets ready to debate the issue with
that mas,”- a
A Chicago man, who sued his wife for
divorce because she kept him awake at
night with her weeping, has just been de
nied separation from the tearful lady, the
court apparently holding to the theory that
a woman has a right to cry as much as she
wants to, and no husband has a right to
abridge her pleasures.
One’s sympathy goes out to the man who
has had the 111 luck to espouse a human
hydrant, fdr if there is any woman under
the sun who gets upon one’s nerves, it is
the lachrymose sister whose tears are al
ways on tap, and who turns on the water
works at the slightest provocation, or no
provocation at all. No one should be ex
pected to endure having such a damp, moist,
unpleasant body tied around their necks,
and so if excessive weeping is not a divorce
able offense, it should be made one. A
wife who Is a good, cheerful sinner is
simply a matrimonial prize compared to the
wife who is a weepy saint.
For there is always the chance of re
forming the sinner, but there is nothing
you can do with a woman who is a tear
jug, except to walk on tiptoe around her,
and try to keep from jostling her so she
won’t slop over. You can’t argue with
her because if you differ with her on the
slightest point, she floods the place with
her tears. You can’t tell her of a fault
because to criticise anything she does is a
signal for hysterics.
What she wants, she gets, because she
sits down and howls for it until it is given
to her to shut her up. She evades all of
the duties and burdens of life by the
simple process of doing the cry baby act.
There is no more contemptible type of
woman than the weeper because she has
found out that tears are a graft, and she
works them for all they are worth. Ex
perience has taught her that it is easier to
cry than it is to toil, and deny herself, and
DRYING UP THE WORLD—By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, May 13.—1 s prohi
bition a temporary thing, from
which public opinion will swing
strongly in a few years or a few decades?
Will public and official support of the
Volstead law In the United States fall away
so that the law becomes a dead letter, and
bootlegging be tolerated without much in
terference from the police or from federal
officials.
The state of mind of the American
public will be well shown in many of
the congressional elections this autumn.
The wet and dry issue is foremost in
many of the campaigns. Straightout party
issues do not amount to very much. The
same old hue and cry about extravagance
and taxes voiced by the “outs,” and point
ing with pride to accomplishments by the
“ins” doesn’t arouse any transcendent en
thusiasm among the great common people
so frequently referred to by campaign
orators.
But the question of liquor seems to re
main a very live one with nearly every
body. The Interest keeps up, whether a
person be wet or dry in sentiment. In
the elections this fall there will be some
effort to organize on the part of citizens
who believe prohibition a failure and a
bad thing, just as the Antl-Saloon League
and other Similar so-called reform organ
izations have organized their followers and
the dry voters with considerable success.
In the coming elections the history of
the Volstead law will be revived. Anti
prohlbitionists will recall the charge that
the Volstead law was passed over Pres
ident Wilson's veto in violation of an
agreement which had been made with
several opponents of the measure. When
the measure had gone to the White House,
several Pennsylvania, New York and other
congressmen who were opposed to the
Volstead measure secured promises, so
they said then, that they could go home
in safety, and that there would not be a
vote on passage of the measure again if
it was vetoed by Mr. Wilson, until they
had a chance to be present and cast their
ballots.
Bad Faith Charged
However, according to certain anti
drys, when It was found that there was
a sufficiently large dry vote In the house,
with the “wet” New York and Pennsyl
vania members absent, the bill was called
up for passage over the veto of the
president, and among those present and
voting the sufficient two-thirds affirmative
vote was secured.
Interest in the matter of prohibition,
however, is spreading throughout the
world, partly due to the efforts of the
agents of the Anti-Saloon League. Eng
land was made the first objective of this
purely American organization. The first
REFLECTIONS < OF A
BACHELOR GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
My Daughter, why is there weeping and
wailing amongst Golf Widows?
Why is there sorrow where all should be
joy and thanksgiving?
For, verily, verily, among women, the
Golf Widow and the Sod Widow are the
ONLY ones who know always where their
husbands ARE—and what they are doing.
Go to! Who is so blessed as a Golf Wid
ow?
For 10, hers are all the comforts and bene
fits and joys of matrimony with none of its
sorrows and afflictions.
As the Pet Wife in an harem, she hath
but one-tenth of an husband to amuse and
to jolly and to wait upon; for upon her, her
Beloved bestoweth all his kisses and all his
worldly goods, but only a small portion of
his society.
Then, let her be glad and rejoice.
All her Saturday afternoons are matinees
and trances, and all her Sunday mornings
are dreams and beauty sleep.
All her evenings are deadliness and quiet
—and all her holidays are rest.
For, when her Beloved is not playing
golf, he is sleeping off his weariness there
from. And her heart is not troubled con
cerning Flappers, and Blondes and Sirens.
For, the Golf Husband hath no time and
no money, and no enthusiasm left FOR
women.
Blessed is the Golf Widow, for she know
eth not the burden of inventing things for
an husband's hands to do, that he may be
kept busy and out of mischief.
Lo, she is spared the torment of watch
ing him tinker about the house, and disport
himself with a bucket of paint and a ham
mer and nails.
He stayeth not to snoop in the refrigerator,
he hangeth not about the cook, he search
eth not the cupboards, nor seeketh for flaws
in the housekeeping.
He seeketh not to keep her at hard labor,
finding his clothes and his books and his
pipes and his fishing tackle.
(Copyright, 1922, by Helen Rowland.)
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1022.
so she takes the water route to the goal of
her desires.
Observe the woman who Is a free and
easy weeper, and you will see that she is
nothing else. She never exercises any
thing but her lachrymose glands.
Is she a miserable housekeeper, one of
the women whose beds are never swept
under, whose bread is always heavy, whose
meat is always overdone or underdone, and
whose families are poisoned with mean
food? She doesn’t t»o to work and wrestle
with the broom, and the cook book, and
make a decent home. Oh, no. If any
body dares to say a word about how untidy
things are, or to criticise an un-eatable
dinner, she just boo-hoos and boo-hoos until
someone Is fool enough to try to comfort
her.
Are the tearful mother’s children little
hoodlums that are the scandal of the
neighborhood? Does she stay at home,
and look after them, and try to control
them, and teach them elementary morals
and manners? Far from it. She just
weeps, and weeps, and weeps over how un
ruly Mamie and Johnnie are, and sobs out
that it just breaks her heart to see the
kind of men and women they are growing
up to be. But that’s all she does about It—
just cries.
Does the tearful woman desire some
thing beyond her means? When her hus
band explains to her that he can’t afford
it, that times are hard, that they must look
out for the future, does she recognize the
wisdom of his refusal to go into debt for
a luxury, and cheerfuly give It up? Never.
She becomes a perfect geyser of tears, and
spouts and spouts until the poor drowned
man gives in to her selfishness to save his
life.
(Copyright, 1922, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
j Inc.)
emissary of any prominence who was sent
to the tight little island was mobbed when
he started his campaign, and In the ex
citement one of his eyes was knocked
out. However, he took this loss so philo
sophically, seeming to think that it was well
lost in his cause, that there was a re
vulsion of feeling toward him personally,
and those who had mobbed him looked
upon him later as a “good sport.”
This man, judging by the present sit
uation, did not make much headway, and
was later reported to be attempting to
ameliorate the condition of the Indian sub
jects of the British crown. In the ex
citement there of a political nature, how
ever, he has not succeeded in getting
much publicity, and whatever he is en
gaged in doing now is not particularly
well known here except to his immediate
friends and associates in the uplift or
ganization for which he works.
For many months past anti-dry societies
have been quietly at work organizing. The
first object of these roganizations has been
merely to enroll members. One of them
with headquarters in Washington has de
clared that it is not seeking to change
any opinions, or proselyte in any way—
that at present no members were wanted
except those who believed the present sup
posedly dry regime a bad thing, with the
bootlegging evil rampant, and who want
a modification of the Volstead law or
eventual repeal of the dry amendment to
the constitution.
The efforts of the dry organizations
will be spread to other countries. Some
of the agents of those associations have
dreams of a dry world. They are par
ticularly desirous of making countries
within Striking distance of the United
States abolish the legal sale and manufac
ture of liquor and beer, believing that this
will be a step toward making prohibition
effective In the United States. Parts of
Canada are somewhat dry now, but Mexico
and the West Indian Islands, other than
those under the American flag, are as wet
as can be.
Just at this time, though, the whole
attention of the Anti-Saloon League, for
instance, is centered in the coming con
gressional elections. Some candidates,
such as Senator Reed, of Missouri, have
directly defied this organization. Senator
Reed has attacked the actions of Wayne
Wheeler, the moving spirit In the Antl-
Saloon League, publicly. Then, too, the
professional reform organizations have
the beginning of organized opposition to
fight this year. From present indications,
this is regarded only as a beginning by the
anti-dry organizations, which are just get
ting under way. However, they hope to
be able even at this time to make their
presence felt.
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irvin Cobb
A young Arkansas lawyer commanded a
company of colored draft troops in France.
He heard members of the outfit calling one
of their companions “Deacon,” and in view
of the general character of the individual
thus designated, his curiosity was aroused.
“Look here, George,” he said, “do these
other men call you ’Deacon’ for fun or in
sarcasm?”
“They calls me ‘Deacon’ ’cause I is a
deacon,” said George.
“A deacon in a church?”
“Yassuh, a reg’lar deacon In a reg’lar
church.”
“But you’re the toughest nigger In this
whole battalion. You shoot craps, you get
drunk, you get In the guard-house, you’re
always fighting and every time you open
your mouth you spill cuss words. How did
you ever happen to be elected a deacon?”
“Cap’n, ’twas lak dis,” said George. Dey
was holdin’ an ’lection in my church down
in Alabama and de rough elemint in de
congregation wanted a member on de Bo’de.
So dey ’lected me unanimous.”
(Copyright, 1922, by The McNaught Syndi
cate, Inc.)
Aviators May Become Ad Writers in
Sky
(By Science Service)
LONDON.—Ad men here see possibilities
of using a new medium for pushing their
goods. Smoke writings in the sky have been
developed through experiments made during
the last three years by the Air Ministry dur
ing the perfection of methods of military sig
naling. While the military men have confined
most of their writing to the vari-colored dots
and dashes of the Morse code, simple words
may be written so as to remain In the sky
for from three to ten minutes and even
longer.
A pillar of cloud by day and a column of
fire by night may soon be leading custom
ers through a wilderness of competitors to
the promised land where they may obtain
“Somebody’s Soap” or “Another’s Beans.”
Couples cooing in the moonlight may look
into the dreamy depths of the sky and read
there, “Own Your Own Home.”
A great deal of chemical research was
necessary to discover the best materials and
mechanism to be provided. The inventor also
devised a method of sending small jets of
smoke from various parts of the aeroplane
wing, so affording a means of studying air
flow from photographs.
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Cheap Watches
Timepieces made in Germany are being
distributed among congressmen and one
has been given to Mrs. Harding by Elmer
Dover, assistant secretary of the treasury,
as propaganda for the American valuation
scheme in the tariff bill.
The watch given Mrs. Harding, apparent
ly a valuable one, cost $1.33, duty paid,
because of cheap German labor and the
low price of the mark. Watches sent to •
Senators McCumber and Watson (Ind.) and
Chairman Fordney of the house ways and
means committee cost about 80 cents each.
Mice Wanted
WANTED —Cats to eat the mice that eat
the bees that pollenize the clover that
feeds the cows that produce the highly
prized milk on the Hollenbeck dairy ranch
south of Yakima, Wash.
A plague of field mice has overrun several
parts of clover and alfalfa lands near here,
and upon Investigation it was discovered
the mice come out late in the aay and
catch honey-laden bees and eat them.
Further research has' disclosed the
scarcity of owls, hawks and other mlce
lovlng birds. It Is believed these birds
have been decreased* by eating poisoned
ground squirrels.
Unless the destruction of the bees can
be prevented the crop of clover and alfalfa
is endangered for a perfect polienization can
only result from contact with bees.
The Hollenbeck dairy has concluded to
teach kittens to hunt in the fields, and after
advertising for them has several dozen for
the work.
Field mice produce remarkably large fam
ilies several times each year. Naturalists
declare the field hunting birds will return
once they Instinctively find the plentiful
food supply.
Murre Eggs
An increasing trade has been built up
in northwest cities for murre eggs, tha
value of which as a comestible is widely
recognized.
The egg of this sea fowl has excellent
nourishing qualities for Invalids and con
tains an abnormal amount of white, or
albumen. Though the murre subsists on
fish, the flavor of the egg is not dissimilar
to that of the domestic hen. A curious
feature In cooking is that the albumen does
not become solidified and of an opaqus
whiteness, as does that of the chicken egg,
but retains its jelly-like character and is
light blue in color. In size the eggs are
approximately that of the goose. The eggs
are sometimes cooked hard and makhed,
then served with salad or mayonnaise dress
ing.
The murre arrives off the west coast of
Washington early in spring, finds a slit in
the rocky cliffs or a convenient ledge where,
with no nesting material, the eggs are laid.
Egg gatherers, mostly Indians, climb the
cliffs daily, taking out one fresh egg from
each negt. The climbers maintain their
positions on the almost perpendicular rocks
by shipping out hand and foot holds from
,the cliffs. These are used year after year.
A bag hung from the neck and extending
down the back contains the egg harvest.
What eggs are not utilized by the trade
while strictly fresh are candled and packed
away in water-glass solution for use In out
of-seas’on periods.
These birds are protected when nesting >
on certain preserves, but on uncharted 1
rocks and shore line the harvesters
heavy toll. The practice of taking but onqn
egg from a single nest has helped to keep,*
alive the species and save the small ln«d
dustry. tar
Winsted Phenomena
On the Roy property, near the old trotting
park at Highland /ake, Winsted, Conn., this
morning were two crows and a large hen
hawk, hobnobbing and feeding together. TMta
unusual spectacle attracted even a large
on, which stood in a nearby marsh watching
the trio. When an automobile passed th®
hawk flew away, closely followed by the
crows. ' , /Kb
William Phillips, in Maple Hollow, Baknvr
ersville, discovered a three-inch reptile in a.n
hen’s egg, which the hen was about to hatfthA
out in a nest of a dozen eggs. The egg,
the worm, was sent to the agricultural el“ H
perlment station at Storrs for examination 11 ’
by experts.
Frank Hogan, who lives with his brothe?-
in-law at No. 47 Allendale Road,
while investigating strange noises in tlie^ o
house Saturday night, discovered that a set j
t-b In the basement was also a rat trap, the n
tail of a large rat having been caught by th>ci
cover. He killed the rat. M■>
, Dummy Dome
It Is not generally known that the tower- ’
Ing dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London,
England, is a dummy. It is built of wood
and covered with lead, but is not strong
enough to s -pport the lantern and gold ball
that appear to rest on It.
Sixty feet below it another and quite sep
arate dome. This is built of brick and Is
the dome seen from the interior. Between
these two, hidden from sight, is a brick cone,
eighteen Inches in thickness and reinforced
with iron tierods.
The lantern and ball, which weigh 700
tons, are supported by this cone. The total
weight of the whole structure c 64,000 tons)
is carried on eight central piers.
Dry Limit
If territorial waters are to be stretched
from three to twelve miles by the dry pow
ers solely to keep out the Demon Rum It
will be no cause for worrying naval men of
England. But if the action of certain pow«-
ers—Norway and Sweden—in making twelve
miles the extent of the territorial limit about
their coasts is also to be maintained during
a time of war, it will be an entirely different
matter.
Sooner or later, it was said today in an
authoritative q tarter, there will have to be
some sort of international conference to dis
cuss the limits of territorial waters. As a
number of big powers are outside the
League of Nations, it will probably have to
be referred to the existing International
or to a specially convened conference of the
powers. Thu limit was considered
sufficient in the days of the old muzzle
loading cannon. Now Norway holds she has
the right to apprehend I ooze smugglers if
they are within twelve miles of her coastline.
She is already in conflict with Russia over
this interpretation.
SMILE A WHILE
Brown had attended an auction sale of
furniture and antiques, and had bought a
grandfather clock.
After the sale he looked round for some
one to carry his purchase to his house, but,
alas! he could find nobody.
So at last, in despair, he decided to be
his own beast of burden. After some difficulty
he managed to strap the clock on to his
back and trudged off toward home.
A burly laborer happened to come round
a corner rather abruptly, and a collision re
sulted.
“I’m sorry,” gasped Brown.
“So am I,” said the big workman, rising
from the gutter. “If you can’t blow youl
horn, why don’t you buy a wrist-watch?”