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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
He that planteth the ear, shall He not
hear? He that formed the eye, shall He
not see? He that chasteneth the heathen,
shall not He correct? He that teacheth
knowledge, shall He not know? The Lord
knoweth the thoughts of man that they ate
vanity. Blessed is the man whom Thou
chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out'
of thy law; that Thou mayest give him
rest from the days of adversity, until the
pit be digged for the wicked. For the
Lord will not cast off his people, neither
will He forsake His inheritance.—The
Ninety-Fourth Psalm 9:14.
Why Is It Called Profiteering?
UNDER the present administration the
Washington government collects from
the people some three billion dollars
a year for legitimate expenses, Including In
terest on the public debt, and more than
six billion a year, through the Fordney-
McCumber tariff, for the benefit of special
interests. The American family pays, in
the average, one hundred and fifty dollars
toward support of the government, but this
sum is taken in such a form as to involve
ther ’payment of an additional three hun
dred dollars to the tariff-favored groups.
These facts are brought out hy Alveron
Sanford Hough, of the Jacksonville Times-
Unton in a notable pamphlet entitled, “The
High Republican Tariff.” The author has
given years of study to the broader bear
ings of the subject, and has gathered the
data for his present treatment directly from
official sources. Concerning these there will
be no dispute, we take it, since the statistics
are vouched for by the Republican admin
istration itself. However much conclusion
may be debated, there is no disputing facts.
The “protection” which iS afforded one
hundred and two beneficiaries of the tariff
amounts in the course of a twelve-month to
silt billion, two hundred and seventy million,
eight hundred and ninety-five thousand dol
lars. That is about two billion, three hun
dred and thirty-four million dollars in ex
cess of the’wages which these industries pay
their employes. Yet, we were solemnly as
sured that the high import duties of the
Fordney-McCumber Act were necessary to
protect America's workingmen against com
petition by the pauper labor ojf Europe. “On
finished products covered by all but two of
the fourteen schedules (of that Act),” we
are told, “the people of the United States
pay annually through the tariff six billion,
five hundred and four million, eight hundred
and forty-one thousand dollars, while but
two hundred and thirtj*-three million, nine*
hundred and forty-six thousand of this total
goes into the treasury for the maintenance
of the government. Duties on raw ma
terials and partly manufactured articles
more than double the sum stated as reve
nue.”
These figures go far to explain, for any
one who may still be in doubt (if such
there can be), the meaning of the phrase
“profiteering tariff.” And upon this tariff,
be it remembered, the Republican admin
istration asks indorsement of the people!
All in a Da y s News
A READER with an eye for those bi
zarre episodes’that haunt our work
a- day world, scanned the news of the
day closely and found that—
A youth slew an aged hermit, thinking
mistakenly that the latter had accused him
ol stealing chickens; a girl passed hundreds
of dollars of worthless checks yi Los An
geles “because she hated the town;” a young
coupte In Minneapolis, nineteen and seven
teen years, thrust their ten-day-old infant
into, unknown hands and forsook it because,
“it 'SEas the baby or the automobile, wc
couldn't take care of both;” a graybeard was
discDuered in offices of the Indiana supren’- 1
court poring, <lay after day, over the reev.d
ly and cheerfuly see
that things are made
right.
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THE ATLANTA *,v »V JOIIRNAV
of an alimony suit which was decided against'
him forty years ago; a Republican in West
Virginia, brooding over the fact that a neigh
bor had christened his new-born “John
Davis,” retorted by naming his twins “Hell”
and “Maria;” an old woman, once wealthy
but penniless at last, died in a Kansas City
basement after nearly thirty years of loyal
effort in behalf of her four sons, “all of
whom were criminals and desperadoes;” that
a Minnesota married pair started upon a
motor trip of thirty-five hundred miles in a
discarded automobile hoarse, after changing
its curtains and fitting It up as living quar
ters; that General Custer’s war horse, “Co
manche,” which stands stuffed in the mu
seum of the University of Kansas, “has had
seven taoils since its death, because souvenir
hunters have robbed it, a hah* at a time, all
thinking that they were getting a strand of
the original tail.”
Many a sad and humorous word in one
has been spoken of human life, but none
apter than Robin Good Fellow’s, “Lord, what
fools these mortals be!”
How the League Helfis Cotton
FIFTY-THREE per cent of our commer
cial cotton crop for the last season is
estimated to have gone to foreign spin
dles. This strikes the Memphis Commercial-
Appeal as good ground on which to support
the League of Nations. For, as our contem
porary well reasons, “we can not have satis
factory foreign trade unless we have foreign
peace. We thought that through the League
this peace might the better be secured; and
we see proof in recent transactions. Wheil
the United States (unofficially) took part in
the dispute between France and Germany,
the road was opened towards an understand
ing. Mainly through Americans differences
were ironed out. If we can secure an un
derstanding between France and Germany
and get things in Germany on a sound basis,
the little nations of Europe also will stop
stewing around. There will follow a quick
ening demand for American raw materials
and for some American products. In the re- ■
habilitation of Europe, cotton will.be largely
in demand.” z
The .United States as a government has
been at pains to hold aloof from the organ
ized endeavor for world peace, during the
last three and a half years. To the great
counselings for that high purpose, it has sent
only “unofficial observers,” and has reiter
ated through Republican dignitaries that it
will have nothing to do with the League.
Thanks, however, to individual Americans
and to enlightened public sentiment, our na
tion has contributed notably to the advance
ment -of the, great cause for which the
League was instituted. That the result
should now be felt through many channels
of'material betterment is but natural. But
how much larger will be the benefits when
America takes her rightful place in the plan
for international co-working for the common
good, as undoubtedly she will. ,
QUIZ
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gqjt the answer to any question puzzling
him by writing to The Atlanta Journal
Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has
kin, director, Washington, D. C., and
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ATLANTA OFFICE.
Q. What is dry-cupping? H. L. W.
A. Dry-cupping is performed by taking a
tumbler, dropping into it a piece of some
thing that is burning, and clapping the tum
bler on to the skin of the affected portion of
the body. Burning the body is avoided by
clapping the tumbler on upwards instead of
downwards. The air inside the tumbler is
largely exhausted by the fire and the air
pressure reduced. The atmospheric pressure
on the body outside the rim of the tumbler
remains constant. The result is as if a pow
erful suction had been applied to that flesh
covered by the tumbler.
Q. Is asbestos mined? S. R. T.
A. The United States geological survey
states that some aspestos is mined and some
is quarried. The asbestos of Canada is near
the surface and is quarried. That of Ari
zona is in a pith formation and it is neces
sary to drive tunnels to mine it. It runs in
both veins and blanket formation. When
asbestos is mined or quarried it is like rock
and is milled into loose fibers.
Q. What kind of dog is the schipperke?
O. P. M.
A. The schipperke dog got his name from
being so frequently seen on canal barges of
Belgium where he makes a good “watch”
and is used oftentimes as an exterminator
of rats. Doubtless this breed is in some
ways related to the “wolf spitz” of Central
Europe. He is covered with glossy, straight,
j black hair and the whole of his neck and
’ breast is covered with an erect frill of
longer hair.
Q. How long does a fly live? A. R. W.
A. The Pasteur Institute has made ex
periments that reveal the fact that the long
est life of a fly is about days. It takes
three generations to span the winter months,
.and some form of meat or animal food is
’ necessary, since flies feeding on sugar alone
never lay eggs.
Q. What makes some lettuce taste bitter?
| W. F. C.
' A. The Department of Agriculture says
i that the bitter taste in lettuce is found only
1 in lettuce grown out of season. It is caused
by cheical action resulting from long expos
( ure-to th6 sun. It is not harmful to the
, health.
Q. Why are naval stores so called? J. E. H.
A. The origin of the term “naval stores"
! which commercially is applied to the great
; turpentine and rosin industry of the south
‘ ern United States is uncertain, but it is
j probable that it is derived from the fact that
! these and other materials broadly included
\ in this designation were ar one time chiefly
used by shipping. Th 5 Forest Service says
I that the term “naval stores” in olden time?
■ referred* to pitch alone which was carried on
the old shinning vess Is for use in calking
the scams or’ the boa:. This term now in-
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HIS BROTHER’S WIFE
BY RUBY M. AYRES
CHAPTER LXII
The Little God Satisfied
IT was some time afterwards before she
could make him “talk sensibly,” as she,
called it; some time before she could
make him tell her how he had found her,
and all about young Evans.
“Poor Mr. Evans!” she said half sadly.
“David, he was so good to me!”
“I know. I suppose I ought to be glad,
bflt I'm not. 1 think I’m jealous of everyone
who speaks to you, Mary.”
“You need not be,” she told him shyly.
“But if you could help him a little—l should
like to help him a little, David.”
“You shall do what you like, my queen!”
“David, does Miss Fisher know about—-
about me?”
She flushed up to her eyes, meeting his.
I He kissed the hand he held.
“Does she know that I love you, you
mean?” he asked tenderly. “Well, I shbuld
think she must guess, though I haven’t ex
actly told her.” He hesitated; then: “What
: are you thinking now?” he asked.
I “Only that—that I used to be jealous of
I her. She is so beautiful, and I—”
“You are the most beautiful woman in the
I world to me!”
And then —but after that even a bright
eyed blackbird up in the tree overhead lost
interest in the conversation, and flew away
to look for something to eat.
And the only person who was not at all
pleased with the arrangement of affairs was
Dora Fisher. She declared that David had
been forced into marrying Mary, and per
sisted in alluding to him as “poor David,”
until even Monty lost his temper, and toid
her it was a pity she could not hide her
chagrin instead of showing it to everybody.
This brought forth the usual burst of
tears.
“How unkind you are! Nobody cares in
the least how unhappy I am, or what be
comes of me!”
But Monty had heard the same plaintive
wail so many, many times it had lost its
poignancy, and he merely walked out of the
room and -shut the door rather forcibly.
That was on David’s wedding day. ’ He
and Mary were married very quietly in Lon
don, with nobody to witness the ceremony
but Miss Verney, who wept copiously the
whole time because she was so glad, and a
gray-haired old verger, who smiled and.
wished everybody “Good luck!” half a dozen
times over.
It was nearly the end of June then.
“The most wonderful June in all the
world!” so Mary said as she and David
drove away together. “I only wish everyone
could be as happy as I am.”
Her thoughts went back to young Evans
and Dolly; and she wondered if it were very
selfish of her to be so utterly happy and
contented.
nAd then the picture of a lonely grave
somewhere in France flitted through her
mind, where lay all that was mortal of the
man she had once loved, and for a moment
a little shadow fell over her face.
Life was such a puzzle! It seemed hard
to explain why he«should be there, lonely
and already almost forgotten whilst she.who
had loved him best was here with David,
■ and happier than she had ever been in all
her life.
“What are you thinking about, sweet
heart?” David asked her.
And she lifted her face/' to his, as she
answered:
“Only how glad I am to be your wife!”
And David said —
_ But here the little god who had been sit-
I ting between them with folded wings, chuck
ling at his own cleverness in having brought
about yet another love-match, stretched
them wearily and yawned before he flew
away. For, after all, what David was saying
was only what he had heard many, many
times before, and it bored him stiff.
It was very ill-mannered of him; but
neither David nor Mary would have cared,
had they known. For David’s arm was
round her waist and her head was on his
shoulder, and both their faces were turned
to the sunshine, and a future which they
I would share together.
THE END.
WHY FASHIONS CHANGE
By H. Addington Bruce
I' T is customary to attribute to commercial
greed the rapidity with which fashions
in clothing change. For centuries it has
been customary thus to account for it.
As long ago as Queen Elizabeth’s time we
J find this note in the Holinshed Chronicles:
“No form of apparel liketh us longer than
the first garment is in the wearing, if it con
' tiiiues so long and be not laid aside to secure
some new trinket newly devised by the fickle
headed tailors.”
Yet it should be obvious that no arbiter
of fashion, unless it be a monarch endowed
with power of life and death, could influence
people to pass from one fashion to another
in the absence of their willingness to adopt
new fashions. The true explanation of the
changeability of fashions, that is to say,
; must be sought in some peculiarity inherent
1 in human nature itself.
.That peculiarity, modern psychologists are
■ agreed, is an instinctive craving for admira
' tion plus an instinctive imitating of those the
: person himself admires. The social psychol-
I ogist Charles Platt well sums up tjie matter
when, in his “The Psychology of Social Life,”
i he observes:
“The aim of fashion is to differentiate the
individual from the masses —from the masses
only, however, for within each small group
custom and convention still hold.
“One wishes to %e distinguished, but one
must still keep within one's group. One
wishes to be as far as possible from the
masses —we want from them only admiration
—but within our own group we will do as
the group does. ...
“Imitation, then, operates within certain
I limits, but the true psychological basis of
! fashion is always the desire to secure ad
miration. The spirit of fashion is not imita
tion. but competition.”
; Mark, though:
The moment a new fashion appears, that
i moment there sets in among the “masses” a
tendency to adopt it. Once it secures any
: thing like general adoption, it forthwith
loses standing as a distinguishing sign. And
i so a new fashion has to be taken up by those
! who would maintain their place as "leaders
of society.”
It so happens, it is worth adding, that of
recent years, as a result of changes in the
! distribution of wealth, and still more as a
' result of cheapening in the machine produc
i tion of articles of attire, the “masses” have
found it increasingly easy to keep pace with
changes in fashion.
As a not surprising consequence fashions
now change more rapidly than ever before.
To have every one dress as they do, is not to
: be endured with equanimity by the admira
i tion-devotees. The mode must at once be
j altered.
None can foretell what will be the even
• tual outcome of this curious contest to com
i mand distinction. It is in truth a costly
contest —so costly as in all likelihood to
compel its gradual slowing down.
Yet it would be foolish to expect that the
time will come when the “leaders" will sur
render and permit a general standardizing of
I clothing. In some degree we shall probably
BY MRS. W.
THE BALLOT PRIVILEGE
IN a government of the people, by the
people and for the people—the choice
of our government agents is obliged
to be made by ballot. This ballot privilege
must be hedged around by safeguards—
that no fraud or cheating may be allowed
or endured. Any manager of an elec
tion who is base enough to miscount or
destroy ballots, or throw out ballot boxes,
should be heavily penalized, for it is a
crime against the government to thus be
tray a trust or violate their oaths to do the
fair and square, thing at the polls by mana
gers. It is the most despicable form of
perjury; nothing will ever excuse such vio
lation of law.
It is well “understood” in the Southern
States, that many things were condoned
after the Civil War —when ignorant and
easily inflamed negroes were given the bal
lot —while thousands of Confederate offi
cials were disfranchised because they had
been sworn officials under Federal laws and
had plunged into secession and what se
cession stood for, despite their former alle
giance to the United States government. Aft
er nearly sixty years of experience and com
mon understanding of the situation follow
ing the Civil War, I feel convinced that
President Lincoln would have been saga
cious and patriotic in dealing with the
franchise of the ( negroes in the Southern
States. But the assassin not only killed the
most dependable official in the Federal gov
ernment and this bloody deed not only infu
riated the people north of Mason and Dix
on's line, but also made the Confederates
violent in dealing with harmless negroes—in
common with the bad negroes that had been
slaves all their lives, and were filled with
a natural desire for revenge. But for the
“preserving mercy” of Almighty God the
Southern States might have been another
San Domingo. Scheming politicians, north
and south, saw their opportunity and seized
it and they “set the woods afire” —to cap
ture all the offices, state and national, lo
cal and federal.
Ballot boxes in the South were ruthless
ly manhandled—and decent people sub
mitted to this outrageous conduct in and
around the polls because of the cry for
white supremacy.
A secret order—political in the main—■
was organized in Southern States. The
oath was drastic, with a penalty of death
for betrayal at the hands of the brethren.
It' was at its peak in 1868 and 1872.
Its control of ballot boxes was diabolic,
so far as honest were concerned.
A cousin of mine, who was born and raised
in Houston County, Georgia, gave me a
full understanding of the way they did it.
The blacks outnumbered the whites five to
one. In Perry, the county seat, there was
a Republican postmaster. He was notified
he would be named as one of the two
election managers. He was so named and
IS AFRICA DRYING UP?—By Science Service
LONDON, Sept. 17. —Is Africa going
dry? That is a question that is
worrying, not “prohis” and “antii,”
but sober, serious scientists.
For there seems to be evidence that the
great continent is slowly losing all water;
that the Sahara and Libyan deserts of the
north and the Kalahari of the south are
gradua'ly encroaching on the moister and
more fertile lands about them.
The evidence comes in from several
sources, some modern, some the ancient
records of archaeology. In the oases of
Kufra and Ouenat, of the Sahara, rock
sculptures of unknown age, but certainly
dating back to a time earlier than the
seventh century, depict ostriches, giraffes
and other animals that require grassland
and cannot possibly live in the region to
day. ' In South Africa there are crude
drawings by Bushmen of hippopotamus, rhi
noceros, and other animals, in regions now
far too dry for them.
Northern Africa used to be the granary
of Imperial Rome, and when St. Augustine
was Bishop of Hippo, in the early fifth cen
tury, the region about the ruins of Car
thage was productive farm land.
Today there are evidences of progressive
drying up, in the distribution of certain
plants. The wine palm has retreated from
Egyptian oases 'to more humid regions far
ther south. There are still scattering speci
mens of the yellow-wood tree on the edges
of the South African desert, remnants of
former forests; and in the same region
there exist scattered stands of bamboos,
believed to be hits of an ancient jungle.
Scientists are watching new evidence as
it turns up with considerable anxiety, for
obviously if the continent is slowly drying
up it will bring on serious problems in the
support and movements of population.
SEEDS ALIVE AFTER 17 YEARS
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 17.—Beet seeds re
tain their germinating' power for 17 years,
according to experiments recently conduct
ed by Prof. K. Dorph-Petersen, of the Dan
ish Seed Testing Station.
A considerable amount of this stock was
stored away seventeen years ago and some
withdrawn for experiments every year. The
tests showed 85 per cent of germination
the second year and 24 per cent the sev
enteenth year of dormancy.
Seeds of white clover germinated after
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irving S. Cobb
An Easterner of sporting proclivities was
spending his vacation up in the Northern
Peninsula of Michigan. There he met a
native of the wilds who was neither a guide
nor a woodsman, but who seemed merely
to be an onlooker at what went on about
him. It would appear, further, that he had
neither vices nor habits.' So far as might
be judged, he didn’t even have any pursuits,
outdoor or indoor, that he followed.
Filled with interest over having encoun
tered so unusual a human phenomenon, the
Easterner proceeded to ply the resident with
questions.
“Don't you ever fish?”
“Nope.”
“Nor hunt?”
“Nope.” (
n Ever run around with the ladies?”
“Never have yet.”
“You don’t play poker, either, do you?”
“Nope.”
“Ever go in for golf, by any chance?”
“Don’t know what it is.”
“I suppose not. Well, how about taking
a drink once in a while?”
“Not for me.”
“Possibly you’ve heard that there is such
a thing as horse racing? Did you ever bet
any money on the ponies?”
“No, sir.”
“Well, then,” said the baffled stranger,
“I’m coming now to the main question: In
the winter-time, when everybody in this part
of the country is frozen in, what the hell do
you lie about?”
(Copyright, 1924.)
Figuring the upkeep, daughter’s perma
nent wave looks to dad like an everlasting
crimp.—Lafayette Journal and Courier.
alway have, as we have always had in the
past, a changing of fashions in dress and
decoration.
(Copyright, 192 1.)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1021
THE COUNTRY HOME
H. FELTON
two ballot boxes were placed in the court
house—the postmaster to receive the Re
publican ballots. Before day dawned' on I
election morning a gang of disguised men
called him out of bed and told him be must'
resign the manager's place or be Ku Kluxed
out of Georgia. He resigned. Then they
handed him some bank bills, said to be
S2OO, if he would take in the ballots (as
formerly proposed) (and he must do it,
or be dealt with “by the brethren”) —and
he held the election at this prepared bal
lot box. That night, when the vote of the
county was consolidated the box thus man
aged was thrown out, “because the manager
had resigned.” This habit strengthened
with its strength—until in 1878 a Con
gressional election was decided by the bal
lots in Crawford County, that were counted
as voted in election precincts, where no
such election had been held. Eh!
Ask Colonel Reuben Arnold, still living
in Atlanta, to tell you how it happened!
Thus the secret order dictated the office
holders in Georgia—and as facts go to
show, many primary elections were farcical
and manhandled, where decent people sub
mitted because it might raise a sectional
row in Congress.
To stuff ballot boxes or count off bal
lots taken from ballot boxes before the
county vote is consolidated may/be only an
election joke, so-called, but wherever it is
performed, by white men against equally
white candidates, there is dynamite about
and danger in sight. In the county I live
in the Australian ballot was brazenly
omitted last week—in open disregard of the
law of Georgia.
THE DESTRUCTION BY RATS
WHEN we recollect that rats are
thickly scattered all over this
country, and always plentiful
where grain is garnered, and that rats
will hide in bed clothing and all sorts
of piled up domestic fabrics in summen, we
can understand what a rat can do if it is
not disturbed and has the rr\n of the prem
ises. The smell of bacon and grain will
induce them to gnaw through wood and find
an entrance. They are brisk also. If the
loss by rats could be accurately counted up
in figures, I presume we Mould say they
are the most pernicious destroyers on farms
and in warehouses that this country knows
—or-ever will experience except war. There
are ways to kill them, but you must keep
at, it. Eternal vigilance is the price of
freedom from rats.
And they put a smell on tho stuff they
handle or paw over, that never departs.
They are ravenous. They are slick thieves.
I presume there is a purpose they are really
made for, but I am too dull to compre
hend what rats are good for. Won’t some
body write the Country Home and tell us
what rats were made for?
twenty-five years. Only a few grass spe
cies tested/showed much life after seven
or eight years. Various environmental con
ditions may influence the length of time a
seed may remain alives Prof. Dorph-Peter
sen believes.
WHO IS PUTTING RUBBER BANDS ON
FISH?
WOODS HOLE, Mass., Sept. 17.—Offi
cials at the U. S. Fisheries Service station
here are puzzled over several mackerel that
have been taken in New England waters,
with rubber bands snapped about them in
front of the pectoral fin. A few such fish
have turned up each season for four or five
years, the last having been taken in Buz
zards Bay. Fisheries men are unable to
guess who may be marking fish in this
peculiar way, nor what his motive might
be.
DO HEAT, MOTION AND ENERGY DISAP
PEAR AT ABSOLUTE ZERO?
BERLIN, Sept. 17. —Is 459 degrees be
low zero Fahrenheit the bottom of the
thermometer scale?
This question has bSen raised by recent
calculations of Drs. Bennewitz and Simon,
physicists in the University of Berlin. The
peculiar habits of hydrogen at very low
temperatures lead to the belief here that
the substance may have a little energy left
even when reduced to the so-called “abso
lute zero,” which is 459 degrees below zero
Fahrenheit. The remarkably low melting
point of hydrogen, 434 degrees below zero
Fahrenheit points to* this conclusion. If
such energy exists, there may be heat, and
so the logical possibility of a still lower
temperature.
Refractory gases like hydrogen and heli
um contract on cooling at a rate that would
make them reach a volume of zero at 459
degrees below zero Fahrenheit, provided
they did not liquefy on the way down.
Thus the absolute zero has been thought
by some to be the point where all heart
energy and motion disappear. This view
receives some support in the remarkable ex
periments of the noted low-temperature in
vestigator, Kamerlingh Onnes, of Leyden,
Holland. After prolonged efforts Onnes has
come within about one degree of the abso
lute zero, but seems to be close to a posi
' five limit. However, no cautious scientist is
willing to say that there can be no such
I thing as a temperature below absolute zero.
I WATER
By Dr. Frank Crane
THE gospel of the twentieth century is
-—water.
You have read many a learned trea
tise, doubtless, including Edmund Demolin’s
: “Anglo-Saxon Supremacy, to What Is It
Due?”/ in which is sought the cause of the
English race overrunning the earth. The
real cause is that the Englishman has not
been afraid of water. He sails on it, tubs
in it, drinks it» even' mixes it liberally with
his Scotch whisky.
From the hygienic point of view, there is
no medicine like water. About nine-tenths
of the ills of the flesh can be washed out.
1 People go to Hot Springs in Arkansas, to
, Manitou Springs in Colorado, to Carlsbad,
and to Vichy and are cured. They praise
the salts in the waters. The truth is the
greatest curative property is in the plain wa
ter that holds the salts. They might be
healed at home if they would drink there
as copiously as they do at the spa.
The human body is mostly water. ' When
we die the liquids are dried up.
Drink a largd glass x of water as soon as
you arise in the morning; headache, consti
pation and physical meanness in general will
disappear.
Get the drink habit. Keep a bottle of
water by your office desk and go to it often.
See how much water you can hold. This is
nature’s remedy for doldrums, nerves, pre
monitions and general depression.
Most of the morbidites, anarchists and
crimes come from the unwashed in body or
soul.
The root difference between Russia and
the United States consists not in the con
trast between their respective forms of gov
ernment, but in the contract in habits of
bathing.
You do not need water that costs money,
charged and bottled waters. Jhe liquor that
runs from the tap in your kitcher. that
flows in rhe mountain brook, that lies in
I infinite plenty in the lake, that A comes from
MOVIE MAD.
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
What, has gone before. —Gloria King
goes to Hollywood with the idea of
making good in the movies. She be
comes hardened by the life and marries
Rolf Templeton, the great screen star, a
man she despises, but one who can
further her career. Later she leaves hiia
and it is then that she makes goo<?>
through talent alone. By this time, how
ever, she has become spoiled, and
plunges into a life of false gayety. Just
as she makes plans to free herself front
Rolf he is seized with pneumonia. In
his delirium he raves of hts love for her,
and Gloria discovers that she, too,
cares. The crisis passed, however, Rolf
remembers nothing of what he l\as said,
and Gloria returns to her own bungalow
without letting him know that she has
been with him during his illness. Vera
Vamp, believing that things, are break
ing up between Gloria and Rolf, de
cides to try and get him for herself.
Inadvertently she blurts out the fact
that Gloria left him only after the crisis
was passed.—Now go on with the story.
CHAPTER L <
Miss Mitchell Tells the Truth
/ t ’LL come in while Mr. Templeton has
I his dinner,” Vera said haughtily. She
x had no intention of leaving the situa
tion as it was, neither did she intend to take
orders from Miss Mitchell, who was, after
all, no more than a hired “attendant.”
“I'm sorry,” Miss Mitchell said civilly, but
quite firmly. “But Mr. Templeton isn’t hav
ing dinner these days. He has a light supper
after he is in bed, and then goes right to
sleep. I really think that he has had
enough company today. You see, we want
him to sleep.”
“Sorry to have to turn you off like this,
Vera, old girl,” Rolf said lightly. I told you
how tyrannical they were with me.” Then he
and Miss Mitchell were ’making off toward
the house, and Vera was left alone on the
terrace.
Insi'de Rolf turned and faced Miss Mitch
ell. “Why wasn’t I told that Miss King was
heye during my illness. I can’t understand
it all. I’d like to know the meaning of it.”
Miss Mitchell smiled broadly. So they
had told him, and she was no longer bound
by her promise to keep silent. It was with
a feeling of intense relief that she hastened
to answer Rolf’s imperious question, and be
cause she had wanted for so long to tell
him; her voice was glad, eager.
“Mrs. Ttempleton made Dr. Townsend
promise hot to tell you. We were all sworn
to secrecy.”
“But, why, why?”
“Well, you see, Mrs. Templeton was sensi
tive, and a little hurt, at least that’s the way
I look at it. Fever patients say things, you
know, extravagant things that sometitnea
they have no recollection of having said. You
kept calling for your wife, you made love to
her —”
“While she was here?” Rolf interrupted.
“Yes.” “ .
“And then —” . '
“Well, then you see, you didn’t remember,
and she thought you hadn’t meant any of
it.” . n
“You mean she cared one way or an
other.”
“Yes, I think she did care terribly*.”
“My God!” The single expletive was so
fervent that Miss Mitchell smiled.
“Mrs. Templeton was here all during tha
worst of your illness,” she went on after a
moment. “She sat up with you night after
night. She was the only one who could
quiet you at all, and Dr. Townsend thinks
she was responsible for saving your life.”
Rolf was silent. The news had stunned
him, he could not seem to take it in. Gloria
had been here! She had come because he
had kept calling her and she had stayed till
the danger was over. It was incredible, and
yet, even as the joyous knowledge beat in on
him he was seized suddenly with another
thought. There was no reason to believe
that she cared. No doubt she had been act
uated by pity, she had felt sorry for him,
that was it, and as soon as the crisis was
over she had gone away again. Miss Mitchell
was kind, but foolishly romantic. She did
not know the truth of the situation, but she
eager to put things before him in the best way
possible because she saw how much it meant
to him.
“Do you want me to send for her?” Miss
Mitchell was saying eagerly. “She left word
that if you asked for her she would come at
any time.
The blood was hammering in Rolf’s tem
ples. He had only to send for her and she
would come. The temptation was almost too
much, and yet the next minute he was crush
ing it back. He didn’t want her pity. He
wanted more, much more. No, he wouldn’t
send for her. If lie did she would only de
spise him for his weakness. •
Tuesday—“ Vera's Little Game.” This
story conies to an end Tuesday week. Renew
your subscription now to avoid missing the
closing chapters.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS
The mania for speed has not yet set in
among the law courts.—Detroit News.
Woman is superior. No mere man can
brag and make ypu think he is apologizing.
—Duluth Herald.
Years ago “the full dinner pall” was a
winning slogan. This year the “full gas
tank” ought to have an appealing sound.—
Des Moines Register.
No more of our great are rail splitters.
They merely split hairs and infinitives.—•
Birmingham News.
One way to get acquainted with a lot of
prominent people is to get on the jury.—
Akron Beacon-Journal.
A lot of Americans have been forced to
return from Europe in order to make enough,
money to go back again.—New York Herald-
Tribune.
your well or that falls down from the clouds,
is good enough, provided there be no pollu
tion.
Use it, immerse your body in it. Flush
your mouth and nose with it. Swallow it to
your capacity. So will all your solid flesh
rejoice, your vital organs operate smoothly,
your mind clear up, your soul be content.
And the cares that infest the day
Will fold their tents like the Arabs
And silently steal away.
i
No wine ripened for years in the cellars
of the Rheims, no concoction produced by
the most skilful chemists in the laboratory,,
no juice of heybs or compound of mineral
can compare with nature’s own beveragb and
medicine.
It has in its crystal body the simplicity
of heaven, which is the vigor of earth.
It is the liquid smile and good will of God.
Without it the bodies of men would die
In torment, and all the beauty would pass
from hill and meadow, and the globe would
spring through space a lifeless hell of fire.
In hell there is no drop of water. In
heaven the central charm is the river that
flows through space.
(Copyright, 1924.)