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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-29
APPRECIATION PAYS
n. ApulNGToN BRUCE.

.'Why are you not always courteous?
Always he tells us. the answers he received
were along these lines:
'It takes special effort to be polite under ad-
verso conditions and the effort seemingly is never
appreciated"
'Excepting in cases of complaint the employer
does not know, at least shows no appreciation
of the attitude of clerks toward the public.
The cry of the modern business world is for
efficiency Here. decidedly, is an efficiency leak
that had better be looked to.
Everybody knows that you cannot neglect
piece of machinery if you would have it always in
good running order. You must tend to 1t carefully.
Especially must you keep it well oiled.
So with the human machine. 1t, too, needs to
be oiled And appreciation is by all odds the best
kind OF lubricant it have.
Better far to ignore even serious mistake than
to let a commendable deed pass without word of
appreciation.
In the home in the office in the factory, in the
store-everywhere that men have dealings with
one another this ought to be guiding rule of life.
Appreciation always pays the one who is appre-
cative 1t makes for smoothness in personal rela-
tions it makes for efficiency, it makes for greater
effort by those who know that good work will be
apprecited
Also it makes for that happiness of which all
men are in quest-happiness on the part OF both OF
the appreciator and the appreciated
Surely it is worth while to utilize at every OPP
portunity the dynamic power of appreciation.
Copyright, 1916, by the Associated Newspapers
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-29

HE next time your wife, your child, friend,
one of your employees, a stranger you cas-
ually meet does anything that gives you
feeling of satisfaction just speak apprecative
word to the who has pleased you.
Most people too sparing of appreciative
words. And most people, unhappy, are alto
gether too ready with criticism
When things go wrong they prompt enough
in censure When things go right, they seldom
take the trouble to bestow praise
What they ought to do is to behave in precisely
the opposite fashion. Fault-fnding tends create
fresh occasions for finding fault. Appreciation
helps to keep people doing the right thing in the
right way
The truth of this has never been more sugges-
lively brought out than by an investigator, William
Vernon Backus, engaged in special study of human
conduct.
AS he tells the story in a little book, Making
Happiness Epidemic, that is real contribution to
wise living, Mr.. Backus put certain questions to
hundreds of employers and employees. To employ
he wrote:
Taking it for granted that you instruct your
employees to be courteous how do you
ascertain whether or not they COURTHOUSE"
The answer to this question disclosed that as
rule employers give thought to the compliance
of their employees with the instruction to be eour-
teous unless they receive complaints of dscourtesy
Then the offending employe is reprimanded or dis
charged.
To employees Mr.. Backus put the question:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-29

The significance of the Wilson record lies not
only in the number of vessels already authorized
but chiefly. perhaps in the adoption of continuing
program of construction whereby the navy will be
upbuilt through period of three years in accord
ance with sustained, far-sighted plan, instead of
by piecemeaI as heretofore. This that at the
end of the three-year period there will be- i'm ad-
dition to the one hundred and tweny-one ships for
which appropriations already have been made,
ninety more vessels, including six dreadnaughts
two battle cruisers six cruisers, thrty-seven
submarines and thirty torpedo boat destroyers.
Furthermore. the adoption of the continuing pro-
gram means that the funds appropriated will be
spent far more efficiently and produce far better
balanced results than would be possible through
disconnected efforts and expenditures.
In the number of men well in number of
ships and the amount of appropriations. the navy
has been strengthened beyond precedent by the
Democratic administration. Under Mr.. Roosevelt,
seventy-five hundred men added to the navy;
under Mr.. Taft three thousand were added; in the
first two years of Mr.. Wilson's incumbency, five
thousand, eight hundred and twenty-four men were
enlisted. and the increase authorized is
twenty-seven thousand. five hundred Further as
Secretary Daniels points out
I'm emergencies the President may make
the enlistment $1,000 against the 51,5OO
authorized when Wilson inaugurated. This
will b. a sufficient number to man all ships.
which has not been possible in this generation.
The large increase at this time made
necessary because former administrations
failed to enlist enough 10 man the small
number of ships they constructed. There
no organized naval militia. provision for a
reserve and no civilian training when Wilson
became President. Provision has been made
for these, an indispensable adjunct to eff
cient navy
BY authorizing each Senator and Representative
to appoint three instead of only one, midshipmen
10 Annapolis. the Democratic Congress has pro-
vided a remedy for the shortage of officers.
fairer and more encouraging system for the promo
tion of enlisted also has been established The
increasing popularity and efficiency OF the service
is evidenced in the fact that during the past three
years a full quota OF enlistments has been main
tanned re-enlistments have advanced from fifty
two to eighty-fve per cent and the number of de-
sertions has deere sed from two hundred and
sixteen TO fewer than ninety a month.
While the navy has Jared more literally under
the Democratic regime than ever before, it has also
been administered more economically. BY insist
ing upon competition among armor plate manufac-
turers Secretary Daniels saved the Government
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-29

at NOT much over a quarter of mirIon told. class
feeling begun develop until the unity on both
sides was stronger than 1t seemed
The great railroad strikes of 1877 remark
able phenomenon in ways. The strike spirit
spread from city with rapidity and lack of
apparent that argued highly disturbed state
of the public The strike started in protest against
a reduction of wages B. and o. railroad but in
a few days it turning San Francisco upside down
in shape of anti-Chnese riots Many of the most
important railroads tied and there
rong pitched battles between the public and the
militia of the big eastern cities. Lives were
lost sides in Baltimore and Pittsburg and Buff
fao. well as in many smaller cities Chicago had
big riots, in st. Louis the police advanced
meeting with The general situation was COM
plicated by miners strikes and strikes in dozen
smaller industries.
significant feature of the situation was the fact
that this general strike, but epidemic Of
more or local troubles The of what
going on city would reach another the
pIoyes line would hear what the another
line doing and with remarkable promptness and
spontanety another serious disturbance would break
The of the year 1877 plain to be read,
no definite action to prevent recurrence of the
calamity was taken The Importance Of the disturb
ances was not underestimated. On the contrary the
tendency to regard them epoch-making and
world shaking But they looked like volcanic
eruption earthquake rather than economic
from which something might be learned.
Broadly speaking the strikes of 1877 unsuccess-
full
The federal least recognized the prob
what it after, and in 1880 bureau
began gather statistics all
country. This kept for twenty-five years,
and the results startling in the aggregate. In
that period $4,000 strikes and 1900 lock-
outs high $500 strikes single year.
biggest strikes of those years in memory
of of us-the Homestead steeI-workers strike,
when the strikers fought pitched battles with the
detectives; the Pullman strike of 1894 that up
all the railroads running out of Chicago and caused
loss the country and the parties directly
cerned o from 500, 900 900. Since then we
had the great anthracite that was settled
federal mediation, the Colorado strike with
companying that is only just over.
of others.
The most casual review of the part that strikes
and lochouts played in the history of American
industry shows clearly enough that present prob
has gone could expected; it could
have been prophesied the month the year.
perhaps, closely enough that would be
fronted with it now, just prophesy today
with all assurance that unless make definite
vision to avoid them future will have other
and still more serious situations to deal with
One point noting is that the older and
stronger the concerned, the less frequent
strikes trade, the orderly is the in
which they conducted, and the more frequently
are the differences submitted arbitration But this
organization holds the potentality
commensurate national disaster long the posi-
bility of the strike exists later shall
have to a system by which that possibility
is eliminated.
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-29

Well, it's life; we can't all be elected.
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02
SHOWING CHANGE IN TIMES
Historical Researches as to Status OF
the After-Dinner Speaker Arc
Somewhat Interesting.

James c. Cleary, the well-known
New York lawyer and after-dinner
speaker, while speaking at banquet
of hotel men in Boston, recently, re-
ferred to the "after-dinner speech" in
this wise:
81 had occasion not long ago to con-
duct some little research into the orig
in, history, cause and effect of the
after-dinner speech, and l was some
what surprised to find that during the
feudal days of England and also in
Rome in the reign Of Nero the object
and purpose of the after-dinner speech
were entirely different from what they
are today. In those days it was con-
sidered and used exclusively as a
barometer to indicate the mental and
physical condition Of the speaker. In
other words, if the speaker, after
spending an hour or perhaps several
hours at the festal board. with convi-
vial and other spirits, could then stand
upon his feet and talk inteligently. or
even coherently, he was considered
to have demonstrated staying quail
ties Of an exceptionally high order.
In the course of time, however, the
purpose Of the after-dinner speech un.
tierwent n radical change, and now,
instead Of being used to indicate the
condition Of the speaker it has be-
come test Of the physical endurance
Of the audience"
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02
EXPERIMENTS WITH WHITE RATS

Philadelphians were perturbed re-
Gently over the publication of the re-
suits of a series of experiments with
white rats which are being made by
Helen Dean King at the Wistar In
stitute of Anatomy and Biology of
the University of Pennsylvania.
Shorn of it's sensationalism and
half truths, the story of the expert
ments with white rats now going on
at the institute is still interesting. BY
means of careful selection and mating
of brother and sister rats from the
same litters, which is "the closest form
of inbreeding possible" there is being
developed a race bigger, heavier and
better in every way than the ordinary
rat
'tAnd," says Doctor King, "theo-
retically what can be done with rats
can be done with other animals. Give
me ten years longer and I may have
found out something" BY following
out her experiments it might be pos
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02
"SUB" FOR KING VICTOR

The duke Of Genoa, who SUBS as
king at the Quirinal while his nephew,
Victor Emmanuel, is at the front,
is fast proving himself formidable
rival of the latter for the affections OF
the Italian people.
King Victor has ever been known
as the most democratic sovereign in
Europe. His Sub" has gone him one
better for democracy and won for him.
self the sobriquet Of the civilian king.
The nearest the duke of Genoa
comes to accepting any of the kingly
perquisites that go with his job is at
four o'clock each day, when he goes
for his drive in the country. Four
cayalrymen surround his carriage and
a corps of bicycle guards follow. The
police won't let him drive unless he
accepts this escort.
In the evening he makes up for it
by walking about the streets of Rome
in civilian clothes, accompanied only
by his chief aid de camp. 1t was while
IL <l,,1,~ CT,
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02
SUBTLE JUSTICE N0'REYN0LDS

Associate Justice McReynolds OF
the United States Supreme court pref
aces nearly everything he has to say
with a story.
Occasionally McReynolds tells a
story with point so subtle that only
those, with l,eenly pitched sense OF
humor can get" him. One night at a
dinner he sprang something that oc
casioned not the slightest ripple OF
laughter He waited a reasonable
length Of time and then observed:
"Well, at least don't cry about it"
Nobody got that either. They
didn't understand what it was that
they weren't to cry about. So Mercy.
nolds added: It'll come in, may be by
freight"
An Englishman was seated next to
McReynolds, and his curiosity was
aroused.
"What do you mean when you say
come by freight" he inquired.
"Slowly, like freight train," ex"
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02
NEW CHIEF OF YARDS AND DOCKS

Civil Engineer Frederic R. Harris
Of the navy, recently appointed chief
Of the bureau Of yards and docks, navy
department, to succeed Civil Engineer
Homer r. Stanford, has made an en-
viable record in connection with a
number of important projects on
which he was engaged since appoint
nent to the navy corps of civil engi-
neers.
Among his achievements was the
solving OF the problem that long had
attached to the dry dock at the New
York navy yard, the contract for
which was awarded in 1905. Five years
later, after several contractors had
failed On the job, Civil Engineer Har-
ris took charge. He employed an en-
tirely new method of construction, he
was instrumental in having the d.
mansions of the dock increased, and
he successfully completed the work
in 1912.
Tn addition to many other achieve
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02

than
A it.
specially He smokes
All his
He has a
plantation big upentne
proposes politicians the biggest
in Washington"
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02
Ry Measurement.

For half an hour the teacher pa
tiently instructed her class in the art
OF telling the time.
Now she said at last, as she point
ed to the big clock on the wall. you
may be the first to tell me the time,
Full Of Importance, Mary turned and
studied the dial. Then she faxed hel
teacher again, her eyes shining with
triumph.
please, MISS she said, IT'S just
one inch past eleven" -Philadelphia
Record.
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02

biggest" POLITICIAN in The Unlted
States. Brinson already holds the dis
tinction of being the biggest man in
the United States, and the largest
Elk in the world.
Brinson now weighs 5S5 pounds in
his stocking feet, and complains dis
mally that he is being worn to a
shadow by overwork. He has weighed
as high as 600 pounds. 1t took him
fifteen years to lose the fifteen pounds.
He will make his canvass in a buggy
h1ilt sneciallY to accommodate his I'M
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02

Of delight his
would
to
en
that the sailing vessel
would
results
ancing
notable
sailing become
where
b, and to
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02
Lono journey to Safety.

Three thousand refugees from the
devastated provinces Of western Rus
STA arrived in Irkutsk, the capital OF
Siberia, recently. Some Of them had
been - weehs journcying hither and
thither
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02
Ice.Rreaker Carries PASSENGERS.

The icc-brealIing ferryboat, Prince
Edward Island, plying on the Straits
of Northumberland, Canada, has pala-
tial accommodations for passengers.
Il is the first boat Of the kind to be
so equipped.
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02

A plant has been discovered In
Cuba bearing fruit like figs in which
flies lay their eggs. to be Matched By
The sun.
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02
Waycross Man Hopes to Be Biggest Congressman

made formal
wv When
throughout the nation
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02

Piles Relieved by First Application
And cared in to IA days by PAZO OlNTIEET, tine
Universal remedy for all forms OF Piles DrIggista
eefuzsE money II 1t fails 60c-
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02


with
|Eospit helped
Qurinal he
aid hospital to make she
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02

be
Hawaii the
Of the
dock
He been valuable assistant to the department
Technology well
IS being
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02

wait long enough don't
see?"
Englhmans "Ah exclaimed
shipped by packet Twoud be
utterly it-ha
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02

~ IN a place ike IuiS Dclolt, Wdo hC'
sophisticated than simple country pig
room of Mrs. Payne Whitney, at 972
Fifth avenue, and about it moved
New York's most wealthy and most
lovely, attired in the latest styles.
The fact that he was a pioneer in
a new field did not lessen the young
p~rker's Fifth avenue debut, for it
was for the social service department
of the New York hospital that Mrs.
Whitney threw open her home.
Late in the afternoon Mrs. Anna
Sands took pity on the little pig and
bought him for $25. The $40 bantams
in the next box cackled a good-by, tn
the kittens raised plaintive meow.
The pig, chickens and other live
this market new to Fifth avenue. IT
81 dozen, olives at 81 a small bottle
Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt, Jr, and
the pickles and cakes, and Mrs. Cornell
Mrs. Payne Whitney herself took
a huge silver bowl at her feet. Wher
with har foot. She estimated the con
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02
New York Society Entertains Pig in Par|or

NEW piggns He love- he was and he never was
The the imposing drawing
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02


the o me- living
world has that honor
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02
Trained Lobster Bites Philadelphia Policeman

kidnap Felix trained lobster which has
Winter streets station Before
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-02
Gales of GOT HAN
i]fz{fheECI1
Old Sailing Ships Return to Port OF New York

FEW battery boatman looked with earnesness
he expected TO him the
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-11
Ten Of Haughton's
Pupils Will Coach
Elevens This Year

Cambridge, Mass, June l0.-The
Haughton system Of foot ball will
spread over the land this fall. No
less than ten men who have played on
Harvard elevens under the Boston
foot ball genius will take up coaching
tasks at other institutions.
Edward Mahan, captain OF last
years crimson eleven, will have
charge of the gridiron squad at the
University Of California. Donald
]. Wallace, a teammate of Mahan's,
will coach at the University OF South
ern California. :.
The University Of Wisconsin will
have three Harvard coaches this fall.
DR.. Paul With 'ngton, crimson foot
ball star and assistant to Percy
Haughton, Is now director Of athlet.
les at the Badger college. He will
be head foot ball coach and has
signed Ernest Soucy, end on Mahan's
team, and John A. Doherty, assistant
quarterback, II help him.
Albert ]. Weatherhead, end at Cam.
bridge last year, has been appointed
head coach at Bowdoin. Milmoi
Whitney, half back, will have charge
OF Boston preparatory school eleven
Huntington (Tacks) Hardwick is tc
coach the midshipmen at Annapolis
The famous Charley Brickley has left
Johns Hopkins, where he coached last
year, and will direct the play Of the
Boston college eleven. Tom Camp
bell, who also learned his foot ball a,
Harvard under Haughton, has beer
appointed head coach at the Univer'
sity Of North Carolina.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-11
MICHIGAN DIGS UP HIGH
SCHOOL BASE BALL STAR

For several years, Michigan has
boosted of high school or college
pitcher whose sensational work en-
abled him to leap from comparative
obscurity into major league circles,
Earl Brooks Of Arthur Hill High
school Of Saginaw is in the limehght
this season. Recently he pitched two
no-hit games and followed these con-
secutive performances by twirling a
one-hit victory, in which he famed
seventeen men and made home run
Sisler Of the St. Louis Americans
Koob, the same club; Bill James oi
the Detroit Tigers, Eddie Cicotte oil
the Chicago Americans, Eddie Killian
the former Detroit star, and other
twirlers who achieved national promi.
nence broke into the game in Mich.
gan as school "phenoms." Victor
Safer, first baseman for the Chicago
Nationals, starred on the Lansing
Mich, High school team and wa.
purchased by Chicago after he hat
only one seasons experience with 9
minor league club.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-11
London City Temple
Passionate Deadlock
May Soon Be Broken

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.)
London, June 7.-Opinion as to the
choice of successor to Rev. r. ]
Campbell as pastor of the City Tenn.
pie appears to be about equally di.
vided among the members of the oh,
gregation between Dr.. ]. H. Jowett OIL
New York and DR.. Joseph Font New.
ton of Cedar Rapids, la. The deacons
have returned DR.. Jowett. DR.. Joweti
is to preach at the Temple during the
month Of July.
Whoever is chosen will be warmly
welcomed, both as mark of gratifica.
ton at seeing the pulpit filled once
more and because OF the final break.
ing of the protracted deadlock as to
successor to Mr.. Campbell.
Since the latter's departure congre.
cations have fallen off by 80 per cent
and the famous Thursday midday
service has been abandoned.
Meanwhile genuine interest has
been aroused in ecclesiastical circles
throughout the country by Mr.. Camp.
BELLS announcement that he will state
HlS lSdoOhS lOi iCdNHIS lOH-COIlOTll-
ity to re-enter the Church of England
Since re-entering the Church oil
England he has privately and publicly
refused to be drawn into any sort Of
statement of his reasons for so doing
In maintaining silence he has given
as reason his reluctance to provoke
acute difference of opinion.
1t was recent episode at a session
of the Congregational union which
prompted Mr.. Campbell's determine.
ton to make a statement. The sub.
ject of the validity OF the Congrega.
tional ministry was under discussion
and DR.. ]. D. Jones, now the recog.
nized leader of British Congregation.
alism, suggested that Mr.. Campbell's
action had been construed as re.
Election upon the status of Congrega.
tional ministries. At the same time
he limited to Mr.. Campbell that it was
expected of him to affirm frankly thai
joining the Anglican church and sub.
hitting to reordination did not imply
any doubt as to the validity Of hi:
former Congregational orders.