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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09
HOOVER AND PENROSE
(The New York WOrld)


Senator Boies Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
who is the real leader of the Republican
party in so far it has a leader, has is
sued an edict in regard to Herbert C.
Hoover:
Herbert Hoover could never be con-
sdered by a Republican convention as
fitting candidate for the presidential
nomination. Mr. Hoover is an adherent
of the Wilson end of the Democratic
party Any good Republican can be
nominated for president; but Mr..
Hoover is neither a good nor a bad Re-
publican. He is no Republican at all.
Senator Penrose will have more to do
with the selection of the Republican candf-
date for president than any other man, and
his arbitrary exclusion of Mr.. Hoover moves
the Philadelphia Public Ledger, a Republi-
can newspaper, to ask:
Why are the Republican staff officers
driving Herbert Hoover into the Demo-
cratic party?
Why are they presenting a discredit-
ed Democracy with it's one chance Of
winning the election?
The answer is simple. Senator Penrose
and his associates in the Old Guard are con-
cerned first of all with the control Of the
Republican organization, which means the
control of the Republican party. A Repub-
lican president is of no value to them un-
less he is their kind of Republican. On the
contrary, he is a menace, for he would try
ton away from them and ruin them political
ly. No Democrat could do that. Conse-
quently, they would prefer any kind OF
Democratic president to the wrong kind of
republican president.
In this respect Senator Penrose and the
Old Guard do not differ from the ordinary
run of professional politicians, whatever their
party affiliations may be. There are plenty
of Democrats who would rather lose with
an organization candidate than win with d
candidate like Hooper who would give or
ders and not take orders.
In his uncompromising opposition to MI.
Hoover Senator Penrose is following the in
stinct of self-preservaton. Nobody knows
better than he that if Mr.. Hoover were the
Republican candidate for president he would
be elected, and that if he were elected the
Penroses and the Lodges and the Barnses
and all the rest of the reactionary crew
would soon cease to dominate the Republic
can party. The leader would be Herbert c..
Hoover, and Hoover's opinion of Penrose
politics is matter Of record.
In asking Boles Penrose to take up Hoover
the Public Ledger is asking the senator
from Pennsylvania to cut his own throat po-
litically. 1t ought not to be astonished II
he vigorously protests and resorts to drastic
protective measures, like reading Hoover
out of the Republican party and defining him
without qualifications as Wilson Democrat
If the Public Ledger belonged to the Old
Guard wing Of the Republican party it would
feel Penrose feels about it. Safety first!
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09

TTABANA, Cuba, Feb. 24.-To the visitor
who has just landed and goes for his first
a. stroll along the Prado the leading Cuban
industries seem to be the purveying of smokes
and drinks and the shining of shoes.
This impression will be corrected when he
pushes up of the business streets
lined with retail stores of all kinds, but of the
Prado and of the principal squares it is GER
tainy true You turn in anywhere and buy
the best cigars in the world at amazingly low
tpriceS, and you can generally get food and
drink at the same place, while it is never
more than thirty or forty feet to shine.
Habana must support more bootblackS per
thousand of population than any other city in
the world. And they are all kept fairly busy,
too.
The term booblack does not seem to apply
to these gentlemen of comparative leisure, each
of whom owns chair for his customer and
another for himself. Between shines he almost
invariably improves his mind with a newspaper
or book or by gracious and polite CONVEX
sation with any who happen to be near. Be-
sides being beautifier of shoes, he is an
information bureau and language teacher for
the benefit of visitors. He knows his city. Ask
policeman how to get some where, and he will
almost invariably 60 and ask the nearest boot
black. He will then write the necessary in
formation in Spanish OF sheet from little
notebook which he carries for the purpose. The
visitor gives it to a jitney driver, and is
promptly set down at his destination for one
peSeta, having received the assistance of three
puDlC 1unCCOnafleS.
The Cuban Shoeshiner is an interesting con-
traSt to the type who practices the same call
ing in our American midst The ShoeShiner in
the United States is often a poor foreigner who
works for corporation. The Cuban is an IN
dependent and dignified operator. He sits down
to the job and haTitg finished one shoe he
leiSurely moves his chair over to the vicinity
of the other. Neither does he affect the Wig
orouS rubbingS and SlappingS of the vulgar
American bootblack. His attitude toward shoe
leather is contemplative rather than aggressive.
He is more an artist than an athlete. He takes
long time and does a nretty good job, though
he does not go in for yer. high lustre. He
also foregoeS the heroic labor of brushing your
clothes. You go away with the impression that
your shoes have been Shined by one who is a
gentleman and scholar, and is Savin< his
energy for some great effort to be made in the
future.
The policeman who co-operates with the
bootblack in sending you where you want to go
is also worthy of a word. He is a man of
ferociouS appearance, who carries an enormous
six-shooter strapped the outside of his
clothes in addition to his club but his severe
look is deceptive He never botherS anyone.
He is not heard telling people to move on or
to get back nor does he prowl around and peer
into windows and rattle doors He discharges
his duty by selecting a shady spot with con-
genial company understanding there. You get
the impression that nothing less than murder
or larceny would galvanize him into activity,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09
Beat the WeevI to Il,
y TORTH Georgia is facing invasion this
: year by the boil weeviI. How the farm

1 year by the boil weevil. How the farm
ers can prepare against the onset is
oastusSeo py Mr: H. G. Hastings, president
Oh the Georgia Chamber of Commerce in an
article of the magazine section in todav's
journal, entitled GA 25,00O,OOO stake in
North Georgia." N0 III
MI Hastings says that the weevil has been
ID TINS region of the state for the last four
OF I'VE years, but that conditions have been
unfavorable to it's propagation. with the re-
suit that the damage done has been sIiqht
Last taIl, however. the northern counties he
came we'll infested no extreme cold occurred
curing the winter to kill the weevil and in
consequence North Georgia this year will feel
the full effects of the weevil menace
put. mr.. Hastings adds, "this is no time
10 pc frightened or pessmistic. Cotton can be
and is being grown under weevil conditions.
Inc difference is one of cultivation, fertiliz-
ing, and the use of some early variety''
He then outlines means by which the farm
ers IN North Georgia can prepare against the
coming of the weevil. He says that reports by
state experts show that approximately S25-
100000 worth of cotton will be destroyed in
North Georgia this year by the boil weevil
II the old methods of cultivation are con-
tnued. ga SIS, 100000 stake is to be played
fol" he continues. "On one side of the table
sits the cotton growing farmer and on the
other side, Mr.. Boil Weevil"
First of all, Mr.. Hastings urges North Geor-
gia farmers to write to the State College of
Agriculture in Athens for it's bulletin on
cotton growing under weevil conditions.
Next, he urges that early maturing va
riety OF cotton be planted He himself plant
ed both early and medium maturing varieties
last year in Troup county. "Our loss of crop
in the medium or later maturing Variety" he
says, was from 25 10 33 per cent. In the
early Varietk the effect of the weeyu was
hardly NOTICEABLE"
The cotton should be planted as early as
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09
KNOWLEDGE BY CHANCE
By H. Addington Bruce


tONE summer day scientist stood gaz-
~ J ing idly out of his study window.
Nearby he saw cat summing itself
on the roof of a she'd
AS he watched, the cat happened to rise
and move little in order to get out of the
shadow cast by house wall. few min
utes later the cat again moved, as the ad-
vancing sun heightened the shadow.
Amused ard at the same time in ques-
tioning mood, the scientist continued to
watch the cat third, fourth, and yet a
fifth time he saw it change position to keep
in the sunlight.
He noted its attitude of complete relax
alton, its evident feelings of contentment.
The thought occurred to him:
ut must be that this cat is getting some
thing out of the sunlight of great benefit
to it. Would human beings get the same
thing?"
Thus, the story goes, originated the work
of Finsen, the famous Eight cure" specialist.
1t is a typical instance of what is so often
termed knowledge by chance
And, undeniably, chance played part in
Finsen's notable discovery, just as it has
played part in many other discoveries and
inventions. The names of Newton, Da-
guerre, Calico are three of the many that
come thronging to remembrance in this con-
nection.
Yet, it is important to appreciate, in the
instance under discussion chance did not
play nearly as Dig part as CnaC prayed by
Finsen himself.
Hundreds-nay, thousands-of other men
had seen cats basking in the sun. 1t re-
manned for Finsen to raise the practical
question of a cats passion for sunlight.
So with Newton and the falling apple,
Calico and the swinging lamp. Chance
alone, that is to say, is not sufficient is
never sufficient, to effect a scientific dscov-
cry create an invention. In the absence
of a keen minded observer chance could
a result. AS Professor Mach has put it,,
with reference specially to 'accidental'' in
Ventions:
In all such cases the inventor is obliged
to take note. of the new fact; he must dis
cover and grasp it's advantageous feature,
and must have the power to turn that fea-
ture to account
And just as truly, it may be affirmed
that chance is, in fact, operating all the
while to make discoveries and inventions
possible. Only alas! keen-minded observers
are not sufficiently numerous.
Nor will they ever be unless men are
trained, more effectively than at present, to
use their minds when they use their eyes
and their ears, to ponder causes as we'll as
perceive effects, to discern the significant in
the seemingly trivial.
We boast of our wonderful educational
system. Yet, as clearly shown by our as
constituent at the occasional gaining of
knowledge by chance, radical reforms in
schooling are needed if most of us are to
avoid going through life in mental semi
blindness.
Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09
Congress and the Merchant Marine

In giving his views about the American
merchant marine General Leonard Wood
avoids details, as does almost every public
man who ventures to say something about
this irrepressible and difficult problem. All
agree that we should have cargo carriers un-
der the American flag in sufficient numbers
to transport American products to all parts
of the world. 1t is like the question of con-
tinuing to pay rent when a man should own
the house he lives in. Why pay the British,
Norwegian and Japanese for cargo space
when we can build and operate our own
ships? The war gave us our opportunity.
Ships were built by the gross to carry troops,
munitions and supplies to Europe, and the
war over, the building program was contin-
ued in order to found American merchant
marine and put the Stars and Stripes in port
where for forty years it was rarely, if ever,
seen. LET us see to it," says General Wood,
that to as large an extent as possible they
(the ships) remain in the hands of Ameri-
cans He adds that "the government will
have to sell its ships at considerable loss"
and there the general stops He does not
trust himself to details. He steps warily.
Some questions of prime Importance re-
main unanswered. Can the ships be sold
cheap enough to tempt firms and companies
to buy? What government control shall
there be over private operation, if any?
Would it be eXpedent for the government
to lease some of the ships, retaining title?
Is government ownership to have any con-
sideration? Can officers be provided for as
large a merchant marine as would be able
to compete with the British before they
got the cream of the ocean-carrying trade?
Can crews be obtained and kept at living
wages American standards? Is it practi-
cable to operate American ships probably
without amending the navigation laws?
Would passenger ships pay in competition
with foreign liners not handicapped by
prohibition laws?
The American merchant marine is in an
1nchoate state, waiting for congress to do
something, with congress reluctant, back
ing away, fearful. The problem must soon
be dealt with courageously and with reso-
luton. One thing is certain--if those
questions relating to operation cannot be
answered satisfactorily, the sun rising on
the American merchant marine will be OBJ
scured by clouds-NEW YORK TIMES
Ond. DEM
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09
What Happens After q War

What Happens After War
A shreWd business man describes the
usual course of events after war about
like this: First, the people weary of de-
privation turn to buying in great quantities
the things they could not get during the
That stimulates production, partic-
ularly of luxuries and non-essentials. The
stimulus leads inevitably to over-production
along these lines. Over-production leads to
a clogged market, difficulty in selling and
consequently difficulty in meeting financial
obligations. Now, banking is the most
timid profession-bankers have to be eau
tious. Bankers, therefore, observing the
situation, naturally begin shutting off credit
to the business institutions concerned. Thus
begins wave of business depression which
may sweep the country.
After the Civil War it took eight years
to reach that point. How long will it take
now? The business man referred to re-
minds his friends that things move faster
than they used to-" Are we to expect, then,
another "panic of '73' in five years, or four
years, or three?
The situation is not entirely parallel.
Fortunately we have the safeguard of far
better banking system now But current
DEVELOPMENTS seem to- run pretty true u
form And there is always the possibility
Of being side-swiped by European panic.
No fnancier however pessimstic, sug-
gests that a panic is inevitable. The only
ouestion is whether the nation will take, IN
time, the measures necessary to forestall IL.
This means, on the part of the general pub
lie, the stopping of unnecessary expenditure
and the saving of money, which is an old
story On the part of business 1t means
something of which little has yet been salo'
but which is bound to be forced on the at
tention of business men more and more
earnestly That is the necessity of curta1l-
ing expansion in industries that produce lux
uries and concentrating capital and effort
on the production of Observation-Disclosures
STATE JOURNAL (Ind.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09
THE SEMI-WEEKLY EDITORIAL DIGEST
Summary Leading Opinion


the ambassadors mouth. Immediately after
ward his vision improved and continued to
improve until it is restored perfectly,
or nearly so. Indeed it was said by close
friend of Viscount Grey that his eyesight is
stronger than it ever, was before.
In due course of time Viscount Grey will
attempt to fuse the scattered unionst groups
into solid compact whole-such a party as
he led in the house of lords.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09

possible, he adds. No more acreage should be
planted than can be we'll cultivated Fer
tilizer should be heavy and of a sort that will
give the cotton quick start. o,Cultivation
should be prompt, regular and of a shallow
character.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09
Reu1ye of Glass Rule

The New York Republican state eonven-
ton said in its platform:
1.-THE chief enemy of democracy based up
on universal suffrage and majority rule no
longer is the arbitrary government OF a
monarch or of hereditary aristocracy, but
th3 cruel and relentless domination OF
class bent upon protecting liberty and equal-
ity of opportunity, but upon exploiting all
who are not of their own kind and group.
We support and urge. the most vigorous
measures to prevent by education the spread
in this country of the doctrines of this dan
gerous and undemocratic movement"
Wise words and sound; but always to be
construed in a manner so comprehensive
as to include among the groups that menace
democracy not only the red radicafism
against which these words are directed, but
also the group of red reaction&ries whose
ideas color and dominate the platform OF
the New York Republican state convention.
Duluth Herald (Ind 49,, ,4:-ElE1 .sH; 81
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09
Our Share of Russian Trade

The United States, dispatches from Wash
ington indicate, plans to ignore the Russian
peace plea.
But the allies are not planning anything
of the kind. They are giving it careful con-
sideration. The great possibilities of COM
mercial relations with Russia are in their
eyes and minds. They are looking to the
future.
America should not ignore the peace
plea. II should at least be given enough
consideration to learn if it be sincere. If
it is not it can be refused. If it is sincere,
America will be far behind other nations
when the flood of Russian commerce is let
loose to the world.-QUINCY (IH) JOUR-
NAL Ind. Dem.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09
The Railroad Labor Board

The chief objection of the labor repre-
sentatives to the railroad bill seems to be
directed at the provision for representation
Of the public on the board that is to deal
with labor disputes. This will be interest
ing to the public, which is really the chief
party in interest. What is derived is that
disputes shall be submitted to body COM
posed solely of employers and employees
Such tribunal could easily agree to any
increase of wages that might be asked, for
the roads could appeal to the Interstate
Commerce Commission for permission to
raise rates sufficiently to cover the increase
and incidentally give them a 51A per cent
return-and the commission would be
bound to allow the increase
1t is well to remember that wages of rail-
road workers are paid by the public, and
ings of the roads must come. The PROPOSE
ton, therefore, is to exclude the paymaster
from the board. This same public, too, is
deeply interested in preventing strikes, from
which it is the greatest sufferer Every
rule of fair play demands that it should have
vote on the proposed board-IN-
DIANAPOLIS NEWS (Ind.)
Dentist Restores Eyesight to Viscount Grey
copyrighted dispatch from London to
the SUN AND NEW YORK HERALD says:
Owing to an operation by an American
dentist Viscount Grey's eyesight is now al
most completely restored to him and he is
returning to active politics with a view
eventually to the premiership, your CORE
spondent learns in well informed circles.
1t was while Viscount Grey was on a
special mission to the United States that he
was troubled with his teeth and went to a
Well-known Washington dentist, who dis
covered large abscess and removed 1t from
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09

.NNE summer day a scientist stood gaz-
ing idly out of his study window
hn itself
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09

Charges of immortality and lax discipline
among inmates of the Portsmouth, N. H.,
naval prison were held to be without fOunda-
ton in the report of the special board of in
vestigation, made public in Washington by
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, member of
the board.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09
Pork VerSuS Humanlty.

vt was at recent hearing in New Jer-
sey, on bill providing minimum
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-08-03
BODY OF CAPTAIN BOOTH
WILL BE BROUGHT HOMI

The body of Kenneth j. Booth will
arrive in New York from France on
August 2, and will be shipped thence
to San Francisco. where it will be
turned over to his widow, according
to word received by w. w. Booth
father of Kenneth Booth, says the
Reno Gazette.
Captain Booth died in France from
injuries received in a motorcycle acct
dent, which happened several weeks
after the armistice was signed.
Captain Booth was one of the best
known newspaper men in the state
and was doing newspaper work in
Reno when he enlisted in the army
and secured a captains commission
at the first officers training camp.
He served with distinction in
France and was wounded during one
of the early drives following the ar
rival of American troops on the fir
ing line. He recovered from the
wounds and again headed his COM
pany until the armistice was signed
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-08-03
DOVE SEASON NOT
OPEN UNTIL SEPT. |

Proper enforcement of the migra-
tory bird treaty act which forbids
hunting of doves in Nevada between
March 10 and September /, is urged
by Ray Dillon, chief United States
game warden, in a letter received by
George |. James, deputy United States
game warden for Nevada, according
to the Carson News.
The federal department had been
urged to permit shooting of doves
after july Is, but stated such permits
sion was beyond the authority of the
bureaus. The letter states: IF acts
are committed involving violations of
the migratory bird treaty act, it is
your duty as a federal deputy to re-
port such facts to the bureau, giving
names of violators, dates and places
where violations occurred, and any
other information which would assist
the bureau in bringing the violators
to justice"
The bureau fatty refused to con-
slider the offer of Nevada men to aid
in bringing about a closed season on
doves mating and Matching. provided
hunting be permitted after July Is.
The letter points out that only three
and one-half months of open season
is permitted. Therefore" it states,
1T is obvious that the present open
ing date, September /, for the federal
season on doves in Nevada is the
very earliest that can be prescribed
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-08-03
CLAIM MADE THAT TONOPAH
WAS POORLY ENUMERATED

Census for Tonopah, Nevada, as an
nounced by the census bureau, is A.
144, an increase of 244, or six and
three-tenths per cent.
The long expected announcement of
Tonopah's 1920 population. received
from the federal census bureau. will
create not a little surprise in that city.
There have been various estimates
of the number of persons residing in
Tonopah. ranging anywhere from 1000
to 10000. Business men, who in
formed The Bonanza of the official
figure, were unanimous in the opinion
that the report is far short of the
actual number of people there.
One thing is certain, they say, that
the enumeration work there was un-
systematized. Only two enumerators
were at work, when there should
have been at least four. 1t was prac-
tically impossible, it is declared, for
two enumerators to cover the city in
a name anywhere nearly thorough
Many people, it is alleged, were
missed. Estimates based on school
attendance, gas and electric meters
installed throughout the city, place
the population at a conservative fig
ure between 5000 and 5000.