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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-22
A Christmas Letter From Bust
ness Concern
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE,

Il
business, to buy and sell. TO make money.
This letter is from this house and is ad-
dressed to those with whom we have had any
business relations during the past year.
1t is Christmas greeting. And the ldea Is
that business well the individual, can feel
the Christmas spirit.
We believe that business is more cooperation
than it is conflict. We do not regard our competl.
tors enemies, but as rivals in the matter OF
serving the people. The only way we want 10
beat them is by giving better service And they
do us good by keeping alert and preventing us
from slumpng into spshod ways.
Hence, here's to our competitors! May you all
thrive, and by your generous rivalry keep us al
ways up to the mark! May never descend into
bitterness nor hard feelings but each set the other
a good example in fair dealing!
We do not look our customers as those
from whom try by hook or crook to extract as
much money as possible We want in every o 9sd
make, to benefit them as well as ourselves. we
believe that any transaction where both parties are
not profted is bad business in the long run
We believe that we and our customers mutaly
serve one another. So to them we send our good
wishes
May every deal you make with us leave good
taste in your mouth!
May you never suspect we have taken advantage
of you, never discover that we have msrepresented
anything to you, never remember that we nave
treated you otherwise than courteously!
In this business we are trying to do our part
of the worlds work. on are trying TO 90 your
part. AS workers together for the general gooo
let us exchange generous greetings this Christmas
Day!
War is the Old Worlds method of expressing
energy efficiency, and organization Ihese tn1lss
we in the New World express in business
We think best serve the nation by serving
the people in it, and as far opportunity permits
the people in other nations. ,
BY business make life richer, more worth
while.
Christmas is the great human festival We want
our competitors, customers, and also our EN-
ployes, to feel this day that we are bound TO-
gether in the best and most human of ties-that OF
service. -,
May we all band together for fair dealing, JUS
tice forbearance cheerfuness, hope, faith in each
other energy efficiency and determination to do
the very best we can, each in the corner where is
is placed! .o.
AMI may all stand together against our common
enemies fear self-distrust encouragement, worry,
petulance, suspicion, laziness, carelessness, eVl
peaking self-pity, and everything else that makes
life wretched work poor, and play poison, against
whatever loosens the sinews of our high courage!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 10
you all!
Copyright, 1916, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-22
O1inS and OuidditieS

The visitor from Manhattan had been talking of
tho size of some Of the millionares palaces Long
island: hut when in the of his tour he was
brouebt TO a certain castle in Warwickshire he adj
roitted that it was "a fair size"
"a fair .size?" echoed his guide who was feeling
little tired of Yankees depreciation of everything
that was not American "a fair size? should say it
vast Why you can't tell how big it is from the out
side, Wait till you get inside. There many
rooms and cellars corridors in that house, sir,
that the visitors get lost in it when they for the
first time and duke pack of trained blood
hounds to track ena down and chase em back to the
dining room in time for dnner!'
Now I want you to write letter every day."
said his young wife, departing for fortnight. In
weak moment he promised to do
One day elapsed without a letter. On the second he
resorted to a desperate expedient. He summoned a
stenographer and dictated good affeconate
"Now 1 want you to that letter a model" he
worded, but containing about the thing. Date
velope properly addressed. the posting
for me. Here's $40 for your trouble
Three days later the husband received telegram
from his wife will be home first train Meet
me-"
The train arrived. When his wife stepped out he
asked:
whats the matter, my dear?"
The wife said not word, but walked into the wait
ing room. Then she opened her handbag and quietly
handed husband bunch of letters.
The stenographer had followed his instructions but
had posted all the letters on the same day!
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-22
Islands for Defense.

The decisive majority by which the people of
Denmark have approved the proposed sale of the
Danish West Indies apparently removes the last
obstacle transferring the islands to the United
States Negotiations to that end have been in
progress for a year or more treaty of sale was
ratified some time ago by the Senate and by the
upper chamber of the Danish parliament; and the
people of the islands voted overwhelmingly for
American annexation. fractional politics in Den
mark, however forced a popular referendum, the
result of which empowers the Danish Government
to go unhesitatngly forward with it's plans
summating the deal.
The United States will pay twenty-five million
dollars for these three islands-St. Thomas ST.
Croix and st. John. The price seems excessive at
first glance; but some ambitious European power
might consider them worth a great deal more, and
in hands unfriendly to the Monroe Doctrine they
might become grave menace to American inter-
ests Writing of the strategic value of st. Thomas
the principal member Of the group, Roland G..
Usher says:
Suppose some European nation should seize
this a fleet base for operations against
positions in the Gulf of Mexico or against our
own Atlantic coast Suppose it should fortify
it secretly and then, when all was ready, make
a dash at Panama and take possession. The
guns in the forts around the canal are still
very vulnerable to a modern fleet, and it is
difficult to how the canal could hold out
many hours 1t is still more difficult to see
how it could be retaken without the expendi-
lure of many times S25 100000 and the loss
of thousands of lives We do not know that
any European nation has any such plans
would attempt to carry them out after the
present war But why take chance on it?
Why sit round and wait for trouble to come?
Why not take out insurance policy of about
$4,000, 900 a property worth at modest
computation, about $500 900 900? A policy all
paid up for the rest of time, so far as that
particular source of trouble is concerned.
The acquisition of the islands will be of far
reaching value to the preparedness program on
which the United States has entered. These ocean
outposts will strengthen the navy's grasp Most
important of ALL however, their possession by the
United States will prevent complications which
might lead to serious results.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-22

other diseases which, like it. affect the respiratory
tract prevail in cold weather. No principle
has been discovered to any of these
characteristics.
The basis of the public health services study of the
disease is the ease card These blanks which are
carried about by the physicians and filed with all
possible information about each Seven hundred
of these cards made out during epdemicJ
and the results still being tabulated studied
Laboratory study of the disease has likewise made
progress without reaching a solution. DR.. Simon
Flexner of Rockefeller institute, has isolated
organism which he is the of IT.
has far discovered specific DR. Rosenow,
other hand, has recently announced that of
the large class of germs known streptococci is
responsible and claims to have infected monkeys with
poomyetis by injecting these germs
Nevertheless, great gains have been made. Much
has learned about how to for the victims in
order them from manning. 1t has been def
nitey determined that the disease is not generally
by milk other food and that in all probability
neither animals insects play significant part in
its spread So, by process Of elimination. the
scientists drawing closer to the truth.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-22
Grease for Georgia Shl[ets.

That Georgia is still far from the point of rails
ing enough food animals to supply its own needs is
evidenced by the fact that there shipped into
the State during the past eleven months cor1e
thirty-sx million pounds Of salt side meat, repre-
sentng at the lowest estimate outlay OF five and
half million dollars. When to this record is
added the years imports of beef. mutton fresh
pork and the higher grades Of cured meat, the sum
will reach into scores OF millions.
AS far as natural resources go there is no more
reason for Georgia importing side meat or bacon
than there would be for Florida to import oranges
raise enough hogs and cattle and sheep to supply
the domestic demand and leave a large surplus for
shipment to outside markets. These possibilities
though long ignored, are at length being realized
This year Georgia has two million, four hundred
and thirty-four thousand hogsan increase of four
teen per cent over the preceding twelvemonth-
and stands seventh among all the States hog pro-
duction. The current year has bean notable also
for widening interest in the finer breeds of beef
and dairy cattle, good stock of the kind hav-
ing been brought into Georgia. is said than into
any other State.
These developments are significant and en-
couraging. The tendencies are broadly and vigor-
ousIy forward. More and more farmers are raising
live stock and through the growth of local pack
ing houses better and better market facilities are
we are still thirty-six million pounds short of
skiIlets fairly creased and that this shortage is
small item among many which must be met before
the State will be abreast Of its opportunities.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-22
THE MIND IN SLEEP
BY H. ARLINGTON BRUCE

hypnotsm, hypnoidsm, and other it is
memory experiences that have SEEM
ingy been quite forgotten. Again and again it has
happened that among experiences thus recalled are
dreams which the dreamer knew he had dreamed
1 write 1 reminded of the case of business
man who became a nervous invalid after his wife's
DEATH which occurred with tragic suddenness.
Questioned in hypnosis, it was found that he
every night. his dreams all having to do with
his dead wife Before being hypnotized he had
asserted, with conviction that his sleep was
absolutely dreamless. d
like this common in the experience of
all medical psychologists.
Further it frequently happens that people going to
bed perplexed by problem awake in the morning
to find that they have their problem while they
slept.
They may remember having dreamed about 1t. Or
they may remembrance of the sort But
obviously their mind have been actively occupied
with problem during sleep.
Consequently it is unsafe for anybody to declareI
with confidence II dream" 1t is equally unsafe
to insist that deep sleep is always dreamless.
But neither will it do to affirm that, estab-
lished fact time and all the time wei
sleep This nature of the is not susceptible
scientific proof.
that be stated scientifically proved is that
dreaming frequent occurrence than most
people suspect. and that for every dream which Isl
Copyright 1916. by the Associated Newspapers)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-22
The Navy and the Nation.

Secretary Daniels does well to caution the
country against assuming, because of the great
penditures recently authorized for the navy, that
our problems of maritime defense all solved.
1--WE have made a magnificent beginning
he says, but it must not be forgotten that the
intelligent appreciation of needs,
the same willingness to provide for those
needs, must be shown this year and every sue
ceding year, if to finish what have
commenced"
If the building program adopted by the present
Congress is carried duly forward the main fighting
elements of the fleet in commission in 1921 will
comprise twentyone dreadnaughts of the first line,
supported by six battle cruisers; twenty-five second
line battleships, thirteen scout cruisers, hun
dred and eight destroyers, twelve fleet submarines
and hundred and thirty coast submersibes
Just where among the naval powers of the world
the completion of this program will place the
United States is hardly practicable in the face of
the many things that may happen in the course of
the European and Immediately afterwards 1t
is certain, however, that the present plans are
than requisite to provide a navy at all equal
to American needs.
There should be slackening of zeal in press
ing those plans to fulfllment; and may be sure
that there will not be under the present earnest
and able administration of the Navy Department
But the country should remember and Congress
should remember that an adequate navy cannot
be built provided for in a single year. The
interests of the fleet should be borne constantly
in mind, for it is first and mightiest line of
defense.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-22
Judge Wallace Lambdin.

The death of Judge Wallace w. Lambdin
brings keen regret to the entire State and sense
of personal sorrow to hundreds who knew him as
friend. Zealously true to convictions and faithful
to every trust whether in public private life he
was honored not only as a jurist but as a citizen
and a man.
Beginning his a teacher Judge Lamb
din retained in the busiest of his later years.
a cordial interest in the affairs of education. He
retained, too, the scholars tastes and the true
students spirit of intellectual quest and discovery
These qualities, together with his broad, deep
knowledge of law and his innate sense of Justice
made his appointment by President Wilson to the
bench of the United States district court for the
Southeastern district of Georgia a particularly
happy one The national Department of Justice as
The Journals Washington correspondent points
out considered Judge Lambdin lone of the most
efficient and expeditions Of district court judges"
and feels that in his death the Government "has
suffered distinct loss" Wherever Judge Lambdin
was known he was honored, and to all who had the
privilege of his friendship his memory will be an
imperishable treasure.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-22
TraVe1ette
BY NIKsAH
BosToNs CEMETERIES.

rbere is not another in the United States, and
probaby none in world, which has cherished the
resting places of great dead as has Boston There
are no less than cemeteries in and close about
the CITY which their headstones the names OF
famous men and women, many Of whom died centuries
ago Most of cemeteries are no longer Durying
grounds having for long crowded to the ut
most with marble memorials to older generations
but they with the utmost care no matter
how valuable they become for other purposes Some
of them busy Streets and surrounded by
high buildings but reverence for the great
names on the headstones keeps them intact
One oldest of them all is the Granary ouryins
ground because the town once stood
near it. In little plot of ground lie the remains Of
three signers Declaration of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Hancock Samuel Adams and Robert Treat Paine Nine
governors including the famous Governor Hancock
are buried here, and is Samuel Sewa who sternly
condemned many witches death, and wrote such an
interesting diary about it. Here too lies John Hull the
colonial mint-master, who to his daughter when
she married weight in pine tree shillings
Peter Fanuei Paul Revere buried here. too and
the conspicuous monument Of all is the one that
BENJAMIN Franklin erected to his parents. Here te
acre of soil sown with the bones of men that made
American history. No wonder Boston chershes It yell
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-22

NTs there such thing as dreamleSS sleep
inquiry that has come to me. Il have
been told that everybody dreams more or less
while asleep L that many people say they
dream. What science to tell us about this?
Science, represented by psychologists who have
specially investigated the state of the mind during
sleep, has deal to tell about the occurrence
of dreams. But the question whether sleep is ever
entirely dreamless, uncertainty still prevails.
Most modern authorities incline to the view that in
really deep sleep there is dreaming THE weight OF
evidence" says Coriat seems to show that dreams
only in light sleep OF in the intermediate
(hypnagogic) sleep states"
Such is virtually the position also taken by, among
eminent psychologists. Wundt. Jastrow and Havelock
Ellis But actually evidence that deep sleep
may be dreamful and often is dreamfuL
Somnambulism, for example, is essentially the
acting out in sleep of dream. Yet a somnambulist
hardly be said to be in a light sleep. On the
trary he usually is soundy asleep that is difficult
to awaken him.
He himself. it is true, does not know that he has
been dreaming. He oblivous everything that
passed through his mind during the somnambulic
state But this only suggests that dreams dreamed in
deep sleep tend to be forgotten in the waking state
And, in fact, it is easy to show that those
who insist that they dream probably mis-
taken They have been definitely proved mistaken in
many instances
Medical psychologists know that. by the aid of
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-22
The Face Toward the Wall

The man who turned the wall in the
detected feeling that he is out Of the running would do
better whatever energy remains in him to turn
about confront his adversely trouble squarely
seen is half defeated. The Peterkin family in the
immortal book showed in by mountainous drift
but by the time they had cut their through the
side Of the house in another quarter 1t melted
away They had not thought to look
Any of prosperity is likely to inundate a
of discouraged. They and cerulean
because they pit their dismal estate against the
radiant good cheer every hand. They cannot see
where they in" They tell themselves they are
Just deserving everybody higher up. Why
haven't they much? They are asking this not in
their behalf they protest but for ones
Against the majority vote Of laughter song and
the blinking profusion of silver and gold
pfu minority Veto OF one crowded out of the festal
careessness and the minstrelsy. MERCHANDISING
to be fed and warmed. and the as child
who looks at all the unbuyable things in a shop
presses at window to wish for the glory to
fall him from the laden tree Sick or
poor thinks of the rest Of humanity as well and
happy and affuent. When and out the
whole panorama is prosperity.
For hurt and heavy mind action is the medicine.
The action in the direction of help to others
dstressful plight is the first and the best aid to our
own injury. What you think of anything you may
suffer compared with the misery of thousands
thousands in war-racked lands? What right any
with the heritage of American to coddle his own
sensibilities and study own symptoms and plan
for his own easiness when human hearts and souls,
beyond little stretch water, yonder Canada,
are torn in pieces bodies dismembered?
these days there is much to be done to permit any
to spend time wishing for the horn of plenty
right to pick and from it, bemoaning the
hard chance that where they are enumer1
ating aches pains forecasting evil and
miserable morrow.
"E5elp me to need no help from men,
That 1 may help such men need
The facilities of the ambulance service are stretched
tn the limit 1t to not to be supported
and transported by those whose need is thousand
times our own-Public Ledger.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-22

Another lesson of maps is that the disease
travels waves like those that radate
where has struck pool of water. 1t to
advance about fifty miles at time This is of the
mysterious and unaccountable facts about it, So
the facts that children about years Of age form
the great majority of its victims, and that
occur almost always in the months, though
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-22

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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-29
20 MOTORISTS WITHOUT
DINNERS SENT TO COURT

In a campaign against fneffectiSe
dinners on headlights Of automobiles.
exactly 20 motorists were stopped and
handed tags 10 appear in police court
Saturday afternoon. by motorcycle pa
trOlmen " +. Bvler and W P Scherer,
Friday night The arrests followed a
strict order issued TO the members of
the police department that all persons
who fail to comply with the city or
dinance prohibiting the use Of ineffect-
i've dinners he arrested and fined in
corporation court by mayor Tom Lea
\ number OF warnings to motorists
were also made by the officers, in ad-
dition to the arrests
To comply with the ordinance a mo-
torist must have the headlights OF his
automobile equipped with either metal
hoods or a metal cup affixed to the
globe in the center Of the light The
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-29

building and president or the Popular
Dry Goods company. Friday afternoon.
We hope 70 have the rest of the build
ing finished by January l."
Buys Three Bungalows.
One Of the most important trades Of
the week was that between W L.
Field and l. ). Favier. negotiated
through X L. Hatfield. OF the White
Paden Realty company Mr.. Fields ac-
CURED three bungalows on Idalia
street. between Lakeland and Padiuo.
in Grandview. for $3.50. and a bunga-
low at 200 Kentucky street. in High
land Park, for $3.50. Mr.. Favier Sc
cured ten acres OF valley land six
miles down the valley, a highly i'm
proved ranch known as r T. Nichols
homestead tract for 4 consideration of
$1,000.
The last adobe house on South Fl
PasO street at the corner Of Fourth. Is
being torn down. II Will make way for
a two story store and hotel building
that is 10 cost $4,000. The new struc-
tUre viii be trimmed with marble. tile.
and terra Gotta Harry Turner is the
owner Of the property. The architects
are Braunton and Leibert
Gust Momsen has purchased from W.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-29
STORE BEING REBUILT;
3-STORY BUILDING ON MAGOFF|N
Contractors Who Are Destroying Building Will Rebuild
1t for Store Structure New Building Will Be Com
pleted on January L. Three Homes Idalia
Sold; Valley Land Bought.

"HE work OF tearing down the old
Popular dry goods store at san
II Antonio street and Mesa avenue,
70 make way for a new six-story edi-
flee to be used by the same concern.
was begun Wednesday. Kroeser, May
field & Shaw. the contractors are haul
ing away the material TO a vacant lot
or Magoffin avenue and Florence
with the object OF rebuilding the old
structure. which was originally the
Masonic temple At present one unit
OF the new building is completed
y The new structure viii cost S@oeoVV
and viii he the largest department
store in any city Of this size in the
United states. occupying half block
and having a floor space Of 10a, 400
square feet. Besides six full stories,
there will be three mezzanines and
basement
Three Shifts.
Three shifts of eight hours each
are being worked on this building in
order TO have the basement and the
first two floors ready for the holiday
rush. said \. Schwartz. owner Of the