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Evening star., 1924-12-09
D. C. MAN F0RFEITS $500.
Fails to Answer Liquor Charge in
Rockville Court.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md, December g.
y man who had identified himself as
Cietus c. Connor of Washington was
not in the police court here yesterday
10 answer a charge of illegal pos
session of intoxicating liquor and
Iis bond of $500 was declared for
feited by Judge Samuel Riggs.
Connor was arrested on the
Brookeville pike, near Wheaton, by
Policeman Earl Burdine Saturday,
after an automobile. of which he
was in charge. collided with motor
truck, disabling both machines.
Policeman Burdine said Connor's car
contained about so gallons of corn
whisky.
Connor was taken before Justice
Of the Peace J. L. II. Sawyer. at
Sligo. who released him when a
friend deposited $500 collateral.
Evening star., 1924-12-09

| WHICH = ", will sue
W coed? The man
who spends all his pre-
cious reading time with
the daily paper, or the
other, who is gaining lit
tie by little, in a few de-
lightful minutes each
day, that knowledge of a
few truly great books
which will distinguish
him always as a really
well-read man? What
are the few great books
biographies, histories,
novels, dramas, poems,
books of science and
travel, philosophy and
religion = that picture
the progress of civiliza-
ton?
DR.. Charles w. Eliot, from
his lifetime of reading, study,
and teaching, forty years OF
it as president of Harvard
University, has answered
that question in a free book
let that you can have for the
asking. In it are described
the contents, plan, and pur-
pose of
Evening star., 1924-12-09

were transferred to the new structure.
The new building is modern In every re-
speot, having IA classrooms, library,
auditorium and q cafeteria The trans
fer of the classes was made under the
supervision Of the principal. Harry
Baker, jr.
Evening star., 1924-12-09

OF Building Owners and Managers at
q luncheon tomorrow at the City Club.
Mr.. Holbrook has come to the
East to make a@study of commercial
arbitration and seasonal construc-
Evening star., 1924-12-09

and Thomas were each fined $50 when
they pleaded guilty.
Tried to Rob Wife.
Pleading guilty to a felony charge,
Henry Hardy. previously indicted. ap-
peared before Judge Brent and was SEN
fenced to three years in the penitentiary.
Hardy was indicted on a charge Of at
tempting to assault and rob his wife.
He asserted. when arrested. that he and
his wife had been held up by highway
men, but later confessed to Common
wealth Attorney w. C. Cloth.
George Mason High School, at Del
Ray. erected at a cost Of approximately
$4,000, was opened yesterday, when
the high school CLASSES which have been
housed in the Mount Vernon Elementary
School, and holding halliday sessions,
Evening star., 1924-12-09

Seals are eating 100000 pounds Of
salmon a year and threaten to exter-
terminate certain species of the fish.
Evening star., 1924-12-09

tion. The State Legislature Of Ore
gon will have before 1t the first part
Of next year an arbitration law sim
liar to that enforced in New York
and New Jersey
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05
By H. AddingtOn Bruce

~ ECAUSE Of the present prevalence of
X cancer uncommon public interest at
- taches to a letter sent to a leading
medical periodical by that well-known
health statistcian, DR.. Frederick l.. Hoff-
man. DR.. Hoffmans letter gives the results
of an inquiry into deaths from cancer among
prison inmates, and raises anew the posi-
bility that diet may have much to do with
causing cancer.
The prisons surveyed in this inquiry were
Sing Sing, San Quentin, Eastern pententiary
and the Massachusetts, State prison at
Charleston. From each of these DR.. Hoff-
man obtained ngures giving the total prison
population for the ten-year period 1914
1928, and the prison mortality from cancer
during the same period.
In Eastern penitentiary, 1t appears, there
were six deaths from cancer, in San Quentin
five, in Sing Sing two, and none whatever in
the Charlestown prison Thus there were al
together only thirteen deaths from cancer in
the ten-year period, these occurring in a
prison population totaling 52,047.
This is equivalent to a rate of 25 per 100,-
900 population, astonishing low rate as
contrasted with the rate OF nearly So cancer
deaths per 100000 general population of the
United States. How account for this? DR..
Hoffman makes answer.
"The relative rarity Of cancer among pris-
oners would seem to be decidedly suggestive
of the Importance of dietary factors in can
Ger causation. The diet, generally speaking.
is just sufficient for wholesome nutrition and
rarely of a nature to produce hypernutri-
ton
Also he goes on:
Another fact of possible Importance
would seem to be the relative absence of
worry incident to prison life in contrast to
the stress and strain of civilized life in the
daily struggle for existence.
THE routine of prison life readily becomes
a matter Of habit as one of extreme regulari-
ty and simplicity. An investigation into the
cancer question would seem to include the
relative Importance of nervous strain in cor
relation to dietary errors"
Men confined in prisons, it may reasonably
be objected, may be shielded from the
stresses of competitive existence, but, chat
ing under a detention that cuts them off
from relatives and friends and severely linn
its their freedom of action, they can hardly
be described as immune against grief, worry
anger, and other forms of nervous strain.
The regularity of their daily life, and espe-
cially the simplicity of their diet, cannot be
denied.
Wherefore It is indeed worth while to act
on DR.. Hoffmans hint and carry on a still
more extensive survey of the occurrence of
cancer among the inmates, not only of pris-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05
Southeastern Water po1Oer

THOUGH 1t means little to most Of us to
be told by engineers that three and a
half million horse power go plunging
down the mountain sides of the Southeast, if
all that enegy were transformed into friendly
genii, such as Aladdin could summon by rub
of his lamp, their mere numbers would amaze
and their services enrich us beyond measure
In the development of these immense re-
sources lie the industrial future and, largely,
the prosperity Of Georgia and her neighbor
States.
Only modicum Of their potential water
power has yet been harnessed In the coun-
try as a whole there runs to waste every
day, according to scientists, the hydro-elec-
trio equivalent of one million tons of coal
This lost energy could run most of the fac
tories operate most of the mines and drive
most of the railway engines within the ma
tion's bounds, besides lighting thousands of
homes in cities and countrysdes. The pro-
portion of undeveloped power in the South
east Is, We should say larger than in any
other region this side of the mississippi GER
tainly, the vaster part of Georgias possibili-
ties are yet to be turned to account, not
withstanding the important developments of
recent years.
Through its great reserves Of water power
and its great production of raw materials for
manufacture the South is destined to be-
come one of the worlds industrial centers
The trend of the last four decades has been
strikingly in that direction, and the move
ment has only begun.
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ment has only begun

rHE radical, given responsibility and
possessing intelligence becomes con-
sentative. SO it was, at least, with
Britains Labor party; and so it is with NJ
Herriot in France. The reported political
precepts of that statesman were enough to
send sh4Ners down the spine of an American
accustomed to picture all European Social
lists as wild-eyed and ominously bewhskered
as reassuringly concerning his nations for
eign and domestic policies as temperate
minded citizen, with no privilege to seek and
no particular interest to coddle, could well
desire.
Touching Germany and the reparations
issue, he declares, For the economic solu-
ton we cheerfully accept the report of the
experts. But Germany must carry out it's
provisions. We should take it in the worst
possible part IT, by citing misfortunes which
she has largely brought down upon herself,
Germany, where imperialism still fingers,
the cosgHncity OF certain other nations. That
would lead directly and inevitably to war
on thu day when German industrial capt.
talism was able to draw upon the resources
accumulated in foreign- countries and to mo-
Billie against us the wealth which it had
not only preserved but increased. This be-
i -, a.
less will not associate ourselves with the
policies of chauvinists. To wish for the de-
struction of Germany is stupid both from the
moral and from the political point Of view.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05
THE COUNTRY HOME

recty or indirectly, to hand down the White
House to descendants.
With sane and sensible people the choice
of a president should be based on merit, not
family pull for the honor.
The day is coming when our cear-vision-
ed people will demand referendum of the
millions of voters, not by cliques klans or
vest pocket selections to choose their chief
magistrate. Primary elections should be Sc
lective, not handpicked by few.
If I had say so I would (under present
conditions in Georgia. make the FIRST Tues
day after the first Monday in November the
election day, pure and simple. 1t is the
legal election day for Presidents and every
voter, man or woman, qualified to cast a
ballot should go to the polls and make his
or her choice
I would abolish the inheritance tax sys-
tenn in Georgia. Otherwise we will find all
our very wealthy people registering as cit
liens of states where no inheritance tax
can be compelled. I know of some men of
prominence who are dividing already among
their heirs their large estates, giving mil
lions in some cases, and from seventy-five to
hundred thousands, because of the income
tax demands and the feeling that the heirs
could get what had been accumulated by
hard work to hand down to their descend
ants, and they are thus justified because the
state has all the time been collecting taxes
year by year, and the people who earn the
wealth should get "quit-claim title" to
the inheritance.
Before I stop, I am wondering whether
the people who boss the legislature will al
low the voters of Georgia to dictate the abol-
ishment of the tax equalization bin. The
present house of representatives have twice
voted it out and the senate has contuma-
ciously refused to consider this house bill,
last summer and again at the special ses-
sion. "On what meat has this Caesar fed,
that they decline to consider?
Do not these members of the Georgia SEN
ate, who thus block the proposed legisla-
ton, remember that they may be allowed to
stay at home and hoe their own potatoes?
With best wishes -.
MRS. REBECCA FELTON,.
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and draws attention to the extraordinary
revolution in the position of women which
has been accomplished since that once IA
nous affair.
Mr.. Jackson married solicitors daughter
with whom he had become acquainted at a
picnic, and left almost Immediately after the
wedding for New Zealand whittier his wife
refused to follow him. On his return to
tuition of conjugal rights which his wife
forcibly seized her one day she was leav-
he detained her as prisoner. The house was
virtually in state of siege, the police watch
ing day and night to serve official papers,
but the garrison eventually gave in one
morning The fight then shifted to the court
of appeal, where the matter was argued on
a writ Of habeas corpus requiring the pres
ence Of Mrs Jackson. 1t was finally decided
that she must be set at liberty, and it was
made clear that a husband has no right to
abduct or forcibly detain his wife if she does
not choose to live with him.
Since that time the position of women in
England has considerably changed. They
have obtained the vote and will shortly re-
cefve it on the same terms as men. Women
have the right to sit in the house of COM
mons. They can practice at the bar, and be-
come solicitors, doctors and surgeons They
may act as justices of the peace. They can
take degrees at most universities including
Oxford, through not yet at Cambridge. Di-
vorce is to be obtained by either sex on
identical grounds. The subsection of women
is thing Of the past.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05

ATLANTA OFFICE.
@ Does America produce as much coal as
it uses? A P. S.
A. America produces 43 per cent of the
world output and consumes AZ per cent.
O. Are the collie and shepherd dog the
same? w. NJ G.
A. They are not. The shepherd dog origi-
mated in Germany, and is called the Police
dog. In France it is called the French po-
lice dog; in Belgium, the Belgian police, and
in England the Alsatian wolf dog. The col
lie is the real shepherds dog, and was de-
ve1oped in the Highlands of Scotland. The
dog of all domestic animals, is the only one
which seems to grasp the connection between
man and mans property. This attribute is
most conspicuous in colies and shepherd
dogs.
@. What is the origin of wishing wells"
and what superstition is connected with them?
0. Nj. S
A. The origin of wishing wells has not
been definitely traced They have been known
to very ancient peoples and are found in
various countries. The Druids in England
pretended to predict future events from holy
wells. The suEerstitious alteration of foun-
tains was forbidden in England early as
$50, and was also mentioned by ST. Anselm
in 1902. 1t is believed that persons who
throw pins into them can find out whether
| or not and how soon they will be married.
Pilgrims were frequently accustomed to kneel-
! ing before them and throwing pieces of gold
! into the wells for the accomplishment Of
/ their wishes
@. Who is Golden Rule" Nash? I. S. A
/ A. Arthur Nash. president of the A. Nash
! Tailoring company, of Cincinnati, who has
/ undertaken to practice the principle of
/ brotherly love in his business, has been given
! this name. He recently distributed among
his 5000 employees a 100000 dividend and
/ stock which ultimately will give them con-
| troll of~the enterprise
G. Why was Abraham Lincolns mother
called Nancy Hanks instead of Mrs. Lincoln?
| A. S.
| A. Prior to her marriage, the mother of
Abraham Lincoln was Nancy Hanks 1t not
/ infrequently happens that the mothers of IA
| nous men are referred to by their Christian
/ and maiden names. For example the BIZ
/ ography of the mother of James Barry written
! by her son is called Margaret Ogilvie.'
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05

A VOICE FROM A SICK ROOM


WY HILE the New York Democratic con-
w vention has been pulling off various
stunts" Of the rabid sort, this old
scribe has been doing her little best to get
well and hold down the worst pain in her
head that she has experienced in many a
long year past and gone. thought [ had a
bad earache and 1 doctored it, long as I
could do so, with sedatives, hot water bags
and soft poutices. Then the home doctors
took a turn at the wheel. But to small
effect
l have been in an Atlanta hospital nearly
eight days, fighting the pain in my head. 1t
hinders my sleep and confines me to my
room. If l could get out in the open air I
would enjoy it, but the torrid heat is so
fierce that I must keep in the shade. Now
I have told you the most of the story. 1
feel sure you are wishing me recovery, and
1 know I have the sympathy of my dear
Country Home readers. We have been COM
rades in such love and sympathy nearly a
quarter of a century. On the 25th day of
August, 1924, will have served The Semi
Weekly and The Tri-Weekly full twenty-five
years, with no stint to my service.
If I live to see the close of this great
quadrennium I will refer to it again.
l read the newspaper, some, not stead
lily as I did when in normal health, but it
takes me away from myself. I mean, the
thinking about myself, to hear what other
people are doing in the great events of the
present era. l may just be one by myself,
but I would, if I had the right of way, elect
a governor for four years and then give him
at least four years rest before he offered
again. would elect a president for six
years and give him a lifetime reprieve. Six
years of this strenuous life-hindering serv-
ice in the White House is enough for any
American
I have lived long enough to have personal
knowledge of the bloody assassination of
presidents-Lincoln, Garfield Mckinley, and
of ex-President Roosevelt, whose valuable
life was cut short by the assassin's bullet in
hiS body. We are averse to the thought that
we must cultivate heirloom to the presidency
Therefore there should be no attempt, di-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05
THE 1924 BATHING DRESS

BRIGHTON.-The plain black jersey bath
ing suit has a rival this year in the shape
Of a seductive little tunic to be worn over
the short knickers with very harmonious eff
feet When made in two colors in crisp silk,
this little costume looks particularly smart,
and cannot be recognized as belonging to
the same family as the clumsy garment of
rough serge which was used when first sea-
bathing became popular, garment which
began at the chin and ended at the ankle.
The woman of 1924 will be covered In a
fragile looking costume with only a sug-
gestion Of a skirt, and knickers that stop
far above the knee.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05
CLEMENCEAU AND PADEREwsKI

PARIS.-When M. Paderewsh recently
visited Paris he at once asked for news of
the "Tiger' ON. Clemenceau), for whom he
has the greatest admiration. 1t is only just
to add that M. Clemenceau is no less an ad-
mirer of the great pianist. One day during
the Versailles conference Clemenceau, Pade-
rewski and Colonel House were discussing
some political question when the French
premier exclaimed "You are not made for
the little game of diplomacy, Paderewski.
You are the most wonderful artist that l
know You soar above us. 1t is only too
bad that you should have chosen the way of
international politics to come down to our
level
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n n AGDEBURG-A curious incident Is
MI said to have taken place at a village
~ near Magdeburg. A sow belonging TO
a farm gave birth to thirteen little pigs The
last one was so small and being apparently
Jifeless it was thrown on a manure heap and
nobody thought any more about it. One
morning the farmers wife heard a peculiar
sound in an adjoining room. Thinking it
was rat, she went with her husband to find
out where the noise came form. To their
greatest establishment they found the little
pig which had been regarded as dead, lying
close to a big dog, which was feeding it.
The little pig continues to thrive we'll with
it's foster mother.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05
THE NUMBER OF WOMEN IN THE
MLORI n

PARIS.-According to statistics there are
supposed to be $40 900, 900 men 635, 900, 600
women in the world thus showing a deficit
of 1900, 900 women. In spite of this deficit,
in the whole world, however, in Europe
there is an excess of 3 500, 900 women, which
has probably increased since the war. In the
rest Of the world men are more numerous.
In Asia with SIS 100000 inhabitants, there
are 100000 more men than women;
Africa with 27,OOO000, has an excess of
100000 men, Australia with 100000 has
100000 more men.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05
The World Inertia in Doing Right
By DR.. Frank Crane

"HE beaver builds the same kind Of a
dam now that he built when Noah was
"a baby.
The bee makes the same shaped cell in
your garden hive he made while Adam and
Eve were picking their first flowers in Para
disc.
They never learn anything. They don't
have to. They are born perfect
A man is different His essential differ
ence from the beasts is that he does not
know; he must learn.
1t is because of this that there is such a
thing as racial progress.
Beedom and beaverton go round like a
wheel; each generation begins exactly where
the former began.
Humanity does not revolve; 1t goes con-
stantly forward, for each generation begins
where the former left off; each generation
stands upon the preceding ones shoulders.
There is no brain now, probably, that is
better than was the brain of Socrates. But
the brain of society is better than was that
of ancient Greece.
This is the argument of Benjamin Kidd
that the real evolution is social.
1t certainly is true in the realm OF morals.
The best part of the goodness Of the race
is that part which has slowly accumulated
through the centuries.
Righteousness rises slowly, like an island
in the sea. You cannot detect much differ
ence in the sea level in one year or two, but
you can in 500 years.
From this comes the Irresistible power Of
righteousness. 1t is not a device Of today.
1t is not something now for the first time to
be tried. Behind it are millions of lives,
who, in life or in death, proved its suprem-
acy.
scientist called conscience "the accrued
caution of foregoing generations" He was
right. Conscience is the fruit of the world
tres.
When you do right you are doing the old
est known moral act. So don't be afraid.
When YOU do wrong you are the ten mil
lionth who plays the fool. You will be
stung.
1t is not matter of opinion. 1t is the
most hoary-headed fact known.
Copyright, 1924
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AdoL SD0S
LITTLE MISS FIXIT,
Care Tri-Weekly Journal,
Atlanta, Georgia.
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

To whom ye yield yourselves servants
to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye
obey, whether of sin unto death or of ODE
dience unto righteousness? But nom
being made free from sin, and become
servants TO God ye have your fruit unto
holiness, and the end everlasting life. For
the IMAGES of sin is death, but the gift of
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ
our Lord.-Romans 6:14-16; p, %.
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THE TRl- WEEKLY JOURNAL
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05

We'll" said Farmer Briggs to the artist,
chow much will you charge to paint my
farm with me standing at the door,"
ooh, five guineas," said the artist.
Done" said the farmer. Come tomor-
row."
In due course the painting was finished.
But, alas, the artist forgot to paint in the
farmer.
Eyes, like it," said the farmer, "but
where's me-where's me?"
a joke.
my five guineas."
ooh, have II" was the farmers reply.
perhaps I'll be coming out soon, and If
do I'll pay you; in the meantime well hang
it up and wait"
The objector to prohibition spoke bitterly.
water has killed more people than liquor
ever did"
, "You are raving," declared the teetotaler
How do you make that out?"
"Well, to begin with, there was the 1ood!s
Billie, aged four, was spending few
weeks in the country One day he some
queer things jumping about on the grass,
and asked what they were.
why they are grasshoppers," answered
his mother.
short time later the little fellow dis
covered a toad on the walk, and exclaimed:
at the big dirthopper."
ons, but of other institutions such as homes
for the poor and hospitals for the chronically
insane, the diet of all such institutions be-
ing conspicuously simple. far-reaching m
vestigation of this sort might throw food
Of real light on what Is admittedly one of
the gravest social as well medical prob
lens of today.
Copyright, 1924)