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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15
THE FATMAN
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE

Slim women are neat, orderly. everything-in-
its-place. They are good housekeepers, meaning
that they keep the house fit for everybody but
husband and children.
And why do women admire slim men, with
no girth? Such fit for treasons, STRAIT
agems and spoils. They beat their wives, If they
are vulgar, and prosecute them more subtly IL
they cultured.
Take it from me, girls. Pick out nice, large,
round, juicy man, that likes to feed, and whose
conscience is not wormy marry him, and, the
Good Book says, "let your soul delight itself in
fatness.'
1t doesn't follow that because mans fat he's
a slob Napoleon was roundish. Samuel Johnson
was obese, and so Boswell, who wrote about
him.
The world and overcoat, it was said, could
not contain the glory of Victor Hugo. And be-
lieve me, he some eater. Here's one of his
meals Veal outlets, lima beans, oil, roast beef
md tomato sauce omelets, milk and vinegar,
mustard and cheese, all swallowed rapidly, with
great draughts of coffee.
They called Rossini "a hippopotamus in trous-
ers and for six years before his death he couldn't
see his toes.
Alexander Dumas could eat three beefsteaks
to any other mans one; and Balzac looked more
like a hogshead than human being.
Besides, added the fat man, IL everybody was
fat there would be It's the lean men
that fight
Copyright 1916, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15

Every once in a while said the fat man, some
body comes along with some medicine or treat
ment system of exercise or plan of starvation
to reduce my flesh.
What do want to reduce 1t for? 1t all feels
good. And every time lose weight get peevish.
What's the matter with people, anyhow; that
they make fun of fat folks?
They are the salvation of the race They keep
humanity cheerful
Optimism is mostly matter of adipose tissue.
Fat people like to eat and drink. They don't
have food fads. They enjoy breakfast, dinner and
supper, and bite between. And that's the kind
of people mother loves to cook for, and the rest
of the family like to live with
People with appettes human.
Human folks those who make joys of life's
necessities. Must we eat? They make eating a
celebration. Must we drink? They adorn with song
the inserting of liquid into ones anatomy. Must
We labor? 1t shall be to music Must we exer-
else? 1t shall be a game.
It's your fat men that keep humanity from
dying with the dry rot. They make existence
poem. They the jokes of destiny.
Fat have the sources of humor in them.
Some lean persons have been funny, but what
would they have amounted to had there been no
fat persons to laugh at them?
Your skinny ones take themselves too seri-
ously. They are reformers, prohibitonists. rev.
olutionists, suffragettes. Their gospel is What
is. is wrong.
Why do men admire slender women? They nag.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15
Ouips and Quiddities

, -, u,oaLs-old calf was nbbing the grass and
was viewed silence for some minutes oy the CITY
TELL me-" she said to her hostess, does it really
pay you to keep small COW as that!
.,yybst do you mean by coming home without a drop
of milk in the pail?" demanded the indignant farmer OF
his new odd job DO you mean to say the co"
"0u a%nS said the man "she gave plenty and
kick"
A Judge who used to very long waving
hair and a heavy beard, day on his way to
court when he aceosted by little street boot
black with exceedingly dirty face with the Gus
tomary "shine, sir?" He was very importunate and
the judge being impressed with the terrible state or
boys face, said:
don't want shine, but if you'll go and wash your
face I'll give you sixpence."
"All right, sir"
well let me see you do it,"
The boy to a neighboring fountain and made
Returning, he held out his hand for the sixpence
The judge said
We'll, you earned your money. Here II Is.
But the boy said:
Il don't want your money old FELLOW. You can
and have hair cut and forthwith scamper-
ed off.
Pa ma, and the six children stood in
the pavement beaming the landlady who had APP
peared the front door when the head of he fam
lily addressed her.
I'VE have to spend month by the sea, madam,
and glad if you would give me particulars
Of the furnished apartments that understand you
have vacant
Certainly, sir-certainly! The are all ready
IL you care to them. But your party is rather
large one think it only fair to tell YOU that
there is but bed"
The family with the exception of the father,
ed to smile, but father of sterner stuff.
"Only bed? Well, we'll, ii can't De helped" he
cried cheerfully. "One must expect to put up with
such little inconvenience a holiday. Besides, We're
all quite used to roughing it, and the wife and kids
won't in the least mind sleeping on the EJor"
Scribb and his wife going to the theater.
will you please go upstairs and get my of
the dressing table, asked Mrs Scribb
your goats?" queried the puzzled Scribb. What
new tangled idea have you women got now
I'll show you!" snapped the wife
those what you mean? Why. 1 call those
kids
81 used to-" replied Mrs. Scribb. but aey set
ting old am ashamed to call them by that maine
any longer"
He took the hint.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15
HELPS IN TUBERCULOSIS
Y H. ARLINGTON BRUCE

progress of his disease. Despair lowers resistive
vitality hope and cheerfulness raise it.
Accordingly, in the modern treatment of tu-
bercuos the great aim of all specialists to raise
the vitality both by physical and by mental means
On the physical side, chief reliance is placed
in fresh air and nourishing food Milk and eggs
become major staples OF diet. AND lie In the
open becomes imperative.
In the sanatoriums for tuberculosis patients
are kept almost constantly outdoors. They
told, and rightly told, that fresh air means life
to them. Or as one physician puts it:
much gained; every hour they spend inside is just
that much lost in the curative process.
But also in these sanatoriums, emphasis is
placed on cheerfulness. Means are devised to keep
the patient from dwelling his unfortunate con-
dition, to MIN from falling into depression.
1t is appreciated that unless this is done, no
matter how faithfully he adheres to the air and
food treatment. his vitality will remain danger
ousy low.
If you who to read these lines happen to be
afflicted with tuberculosis bear in mind what
cheerfulness and confidence will mean to you.
They helps of equal value with the life
giving air and the strengthening food which you
must take if you would be we'll again.
Whether you go to a sanatorium, whether you
fight your battle among your own people OF in
a lonely shack-as tubercuar patients have sue
cessfully done-you must maintain your courage.
Maintaining your courage, acting on your doc
tors advice as to food, Sleep etc., the probabili
ties are in your favor. Losing heart, they are all
against you.
Copyright, 1916. by the Associated Newspapers
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15

share New England's pork" What things
coming when Southern craftsmanship directs
national policies? So peeves the Senator.
But his appeal to sectonalism finds scsnt
response, if we may judge by the comment of so
representative a New England paper as the
Springfield Massachusetts, Republican:
Mr.. Lodge seems to be living in the polit-
ical atmosphere of dead past" says the Re
publican. ut will be recalled that dstin-
guished politician once said there one
more president in the bloody shirt and Mr..
Lodge is evidently his disciple. But what
commentary this is the search for issues
in the present campaign! What has become OF
Belgium, the Lusitania, Potsdam American
ISM preparedness, Mexico the national honor,
protection to American industries, a national
budget, efficiency in administration Jones the
horse doctor, Durand the census man, the son
of the late Battery Dan Finn, civil service re-
form, Myron T. Herrick and too proud to
fight?' Have they been exhausted so soon, and
is Mr. Lodge now driven by partisan ext
gencies to rattle the skeleton of sectional hate
which our fathers hoped to buried beyond
the possibility of resurrection in order that
the republic might be one and indivisibe for
ever more?"
The fact is, the further Mr. Hughes cam
paign is pressed, the more evident becomes its
lack OF a vital issue. The Republican worthless
are, in this respect like the fisherman OF the
Arabian tale who upon casting his net drew in,
first, a mass of mud and then mass Of stones
and finally the carcass of Senator Lodge s
tissue is more ludicrous than those of his cam
paign mates, but il is no inane Intellectual.
Thoughtful Americans cannot be aroused against
a foreign policy that has preserved at once the
country's peace and honor, nor against a. tariff
policy under which the country has prospered
without favorism to special interests, nor against
a railroad policy which has spared the country
the disaster of nationwide strike and opened a
way to a permanent solution of such problems.
Mr. Hughes speeches ring hollow because he has
no heart or truth to put to them. The appeals
in his behalf are lame and halt because they
have no ground of justice or patriotism on which
to stand He is candidate without an issue.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15

T ECTURING one day to a class of students in
| Fordham University School of Medicine DR..
- j. Walsh made a statement which is of di-
rect and profound significance to every sufferer
from tuberculosis.
L repeat it here, in the hope that it will give
heart to some in despair:
1T cannot be insisted too emphatically that
there never is a time in the course of the tuber
culoss when a physician is justified in saying to
patient suffering from any form of tuberculosis
that his case is hopeless.
Practically every town of any size in this
country has a number of cases in which patients
were told by physicians that there was no hope,
and yet have recovered to chronicle often
they get the chance the fact that they have out
lived their physician.
There are patients in whom the prognoss is
never cases of which it should be said there
is hope. When patients told, they so
often are, that they incurable, absolutely
good is done and harm is inevitable
Medicine it is true. has yet specific rem
that, by certain modes of living, it is possible for
tubercular patients to win their way back to
health.
More especially it has been found that when
these modes of living adopted the chances for
recovery increase in direct proportion to the pa
tents refusal to believe that he is doomed, and
his ability to maintain an attitude OF cheerful,
confident expectation
The explanation of this is simple
Lacking a specific remedy, the hope for cure
depends solely on the development of sufficient
resistive vitality to enable the patient to check the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15
after the Primary.

Political contests naturally engender heat and
sometimes. unfortunately bitterness But with
the rank and file of the people dissension ends
at the verdict of the polls; the winners are mag
unanimous, the losers good humored and public
interest turns wholesomely again to work-a-day
tasks.
So il will be, let us hope with the campaign
which has just closed in Georgia. Words spoken
in the zeal of partisanship should have no place
in the memory of people who agree on hun
dred things where they differ only one and
whose highest good depends on united endeavor.
Politics, like the poor, shall always have with
u.s. There never will be enough offices to &C
commodate every ambition, but there always will
be enough elections to give every asprant a
chance The candidates who win have their re-
ward, and those who lose can invariably declare.
81 had rather be right than President"
Practical patriotism is infinitely more i'm
portant than successful politics. Especially is
this true today of Georgia whose resources must
be developed for the common good and whose
Democratic strength must be mustered to the
full for the approaching national campaign. Diff
fer as we may some issues, we are all together
for prosperity Vote We may in Tuesdays pri-
mary, we must all vote as Democrats in the No
vember election.
In this campaign The Journal has endeavored
TO be fair to all candidates and to be neutral
cept toward influences that proverbially trail
torous and avowedy hostile to the Democratic
party. Against such influences We always have
been and always will be Incorporating par
tisan We have been constrained also to warn
the public against sinister schemes to impair de-
stroy the value of the State road. In far as
those issues pointed the way of duty, we have
spoken as plainly and vigorously as could, our
sole concern being with principles, not with per-
sonalities.
The primary over it will be the duty and, we
believe, the generous purpose of all good Geor-
gians to merge their differences and support the
chosen leaders in every effort for the States
honor and advancement.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15

There is a comical diverseness among Repub-
lican orators regarding the paramount issue of
the campaign. ar. Roosevelt finds the paramount
issue in the Presidents foreign policies, partic-
uarly his failure to prevent the invasion of Bel
GUM. The Hyphen contingent denounces just as
hOtly the Presidents stand against submarine
lawlessness and his refusal to take orders from
the Kaiserbund. Mr.. Fairbanks, while approving
both these contentious insists in his coldy solemn
way that the one great question of the time is
the tariff. Mr.. Hughes. having played all these
and sundry other tunes with little effect now
declares that the Wilson administration should
be condemned chiefly for having averted as it did,
the railroad strike.
II remained, however. for Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, of Massachusetts, to hit upon the most
distinctive issue the Republicans have advanced.
According to Senator Lodge, the darkest evil for
which the Democrats are responsible is what he
terms Southern domination" in the Government.
The South he bitterly protests, is getting larger
proportional share of federal appropriations than
New England, and is paying a far smaller part
of the income tax receipts than the wealthy east
Further, the chairmanships of most of the i'm
portant committees IN Congress are held by South
ern Democrats, and in the Presidents cabinet
Southern in the majority. state OF
affairs so contrary to the traditions OF the last
fifty years offends and alarms Senator Lodges
conservative soul. What right has the South to
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15

I'm addition to high prices offsetting to
. an appreciate extent the shortage in produc-
ton, the South is reaping the benefits of
greater diversihcation of crops. A short cot
ton crop is less hurtful than formerly because
the South is having to buy less and other
staples than when it stuck to the one-crop
system."-The Courier-Journal.
In the broadcast view OF the situation short
cotton crop is not hurtful at ALL 1t is positively
helpful. The years crop, though much below the
average in size will bring great deal more money
than did the monster crop Of 1914. Twelve mil
lion bales at sixteen cents pound is worth nine
hundred sixty million dollars exclusive of seed
and by-products. Seventeen million bales at ten
cents a pound is worth only eight hundred and
fifty million dollars
The main advantage in present conditions how
ever, is the fact that the small crop of cotton is
accompanied by a varied and bountiful production
of foodstuffs The and wheat and live stool.
which Southern farmers have raised this year, and
which would not have been raised had they planted
cotton to excess will keep at home millions of dol
lars which formerly drifted to distant sections for
walton of these crops has placed agricultural
system a efficient and more Independent
basis.
Two years of dversifcation have done more
for the basic of Southern prosperity than
decade of big cotton crops could have done. When
the war is over and the worlds normal demand for
cotton is restored the cotton naturally will
be increased but in no circumstances should it be
increased at the expense of food crops which are
the South's prime need and surest protection
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15
Important French Gains.

The latest gains of the French north the
somme apparently clinch their possession of the
main approach to Peronne which is the chief OBJ
jective of the Allied campaign in the west.
Peronne is the junction of two railroads and of
numerous highways, leading northward to Ba-
paume and Arras, southwark to Ribecourt, west
ward to Amiens and eastward to St. Quentin. The
capture of this key point would disrupt the system
If free and swift communication which means so
much to the German forces and thus would go far
toward forcing a general retreat.
BY taking the village of Bouchavesnes and ad-
iacent territory, the French have expedited the
plan to this important end. AS the Washington
summary of the days operations points out, Com
bles is now cut off from the south and is in. a
perilous salient, while General Foch is in fav-
orabIe position for stroke from the north at
Peronne."
One of the foremost of the Allied leaders was
reported a few weeks ago as saying:
1--WE propose to finish the this year If
we can. Maybe we can't. But when we get
through trying next years job will be an
easier one."
The present drift of the Franco-British offensive
gives strength to that statement. 1t is doubtful
that the German line can be broken, except at
points here and there, before next spring or sum-
mer: and, perhaps, it never will be smashed. But
in the meantime the apparently slow but steady
gains of the Allied thrust bringing about
situation that soon or late will compel German re-
treat.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15
An Incentive to Cattle Raising

The latest figures on meat exports are strik-
ing reminder of the opportunities now open in
animal husbandry In the fiscal year, 1915, tce
United States shipped abroad $4,000, 900 pounds
of meats of all kinds, and in the following year
1888, 100000 compared with 455,OOO,OOO in
1914. The New York Commercial interestingly
comments:
This increase of 100 per cent in the total
meat exports in the first year of the and
200 per cent in the second year, when COM
pared with the increase of the year imme-
diatey preceding the war, is, however trhing
when compared with the increase in exports of
peef alone The quantity of fresh beef
ported jumped from 6,4OO 900 pounds in the
fiscal year 1914 to 10, OOO, 900 pounds in 1915
and 231,OOO0 900 pounds in 1916. The fresh
beef exports of 1916 are thirty-six times
much as in 1914. In the two years of the war
the fresh beef exports have been twenty-nine
times as much in the two years Immediately
preceding the war. OF beef of all kinds, the
export of 1916 were practically ten times
much as those of 1914, having been for 1915,
100000 900 pounds against 33, 0OO, 900 pounds
in 1914. In the two years of war, the exports
of beef of all kinds has been $4,000 900
pounds against 7S, 900 pounds in the two
years preceding the war, or eight times as
much in the two years of war as in the pre-
ceding two years Of peace"
These figures become the more impressive when
it is noted that the countrys supply of beef cattle
is now hardly two-thrds as much per capita of the
population as it was a decade ago. During that
period there has been not simply relative but a
positive decline in the number of food animals.
In the last year or the production of swine has
increased and there have been appreciable gains
in beef cattle. But the supply is still far short of
the domestic demand aside from the enormous for
eign demand.
These conditions mean that meat prices will re-
main at high level for years to and, accord
ingly that the raising of food animals will be
among the most profitable of all industries on
which farmers can enter
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15

before Argand discovered the method of
putting oil in a small reservoir and forcing it up
through wick and then covering it with chimney.
This which the first real lamp know it
today, made its appearance about 1874.
Following this invention discovery of
kerosene and and new fixtures were developed
along new lines. So far the collection ends with
Welsbach burner, which IS recent improve
ment for gas illumination and the Tungsten flament
for electricity. In the exhibition in
the museum there twenyfour different speci
of lamps representing the various stages of CIV
zaton but these only the beginning of a collec
tion which is to be of the extensive in
world. The number of candles candlesticks
would probably fill five six cases, for there
improvements in this type of illumination throughout
the ages the in lamps The origin of word
candlestick is shown in two three of these speci
which carved sticks of wood with a small
dish the top.
Ultimately, DIR. Hough hopes broaden the coIIec-
ton into complete history of fire rather than his
tory of illumination alone Among his present speci-
many curious old and bellows foot
and curfew, which is said to be the only
one in America. 1t is the popular opinion in this
country the curfew bell but instead it is
of lid which used to the fire. At
time England a law passed requiring every
light to be out at certain hour in the night
sumably o'clock. and in order to comply
of this law people had to suppress their fires. Thus
to be called the curfew hour
One time in travelling through, street in Mexico.
Dr. Hough came upon a peddler who had singular
little tin lamp among his goods. Dr. Hough imme-
diateiy bought inquired into it's 1t
turned out to the type of lamp used by the Mex
leans in hunting snails. Another time the doctor
travelling through railroad tunnel in Italy when the
train was held up while some repair was being made.
He observed the laborers used peculiar kind of
torch different from any he had before. He
quietly got out train and, it admitted,
stole one the torches. Later when he able to
look he discovered that the TORCH which
was made of creased piece of twisted rope, the
same kind that carried by link boys early
English history. 1t is valued specimen of the
collection.
In nothing else perhaps is the progress or the race
from the dawn understanding the present day
evident as in history of illumination After all
the race very young. Our grandmothers used the
same sort lamp with little difference, that was
used in Of the pyramids and as late as 1876
when the Centennial exposition held in Philade-
phia a kerosene lamp of a common type with Liberty
Bell as base, the highest triumph
of modern illumination Apparently. the greatest
been made in the last ten or fifteen
but who knows what another ten years may bring
forth? Tungsten flament may yet look medieval
New York strike growing serious" They
ought to call in President Wilson.
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15

Vanity isn't on the official list of virtues yet
unless a man has a good opinion of himself he
will never amount to much.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15
Pointed Paragraphs

Among other literary stars find the as
terisk.
wise man says just enough and then puts
the lid
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-15

Now for the war news once more.