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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-15
The Peach Season.

Georga's peach shipments this summer are &C
counted the most profitable the State ever has
known. Though the crop was short, prices were
good and the marketing service highly eff
Gent approximately thousand more cars were
shipped in 1915, but prices then averaged eighty
seven cents a crate al compared with dollar and
sixty cents this The value of the sum-
mer's exports is estimated at between two and
half and three million dollars.
This record appears the more remarkable when
it is remembered that continuous rains caused the
fruit to ripen ahead of time and that the July
floods disorganized traffic in a critical period. For
a while the situation seemed desperate. But thanks
to the energy and resourcefulness of the Georgia
Fruit Exchange, these emergencies we're mastered
and the growers we're saved irreparable loss. A
more striking instance of the value of organized
methods of marketing could not be found. Prob
lens that would have been hopeless to the indi-
The fact tina: of all the peach States Georgia has
largely to an efficient system of marketing the
fruit
When such methods are applied to food crops
generally, there will be need of urging farm di-
versifcation There could be no surer incentive
to the raising of grain, potatoes, peas, hogs and
cattle and other staples of the kind than market
ing system whereby they would find ready sales.
The home demand for such products is far greater
than the foreign demand for peaches. Georgia
spends millions upon millions of dollars import
ing at high prices and from distant points, neces-
saries which its soil produce in abundance.
Adequate marketing service is thus the key to one
of our greatest needs and greatest opportunities.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-15
JUSTICE
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE

Conventional charity piously accepts things
they are and helps the unfortunate justice to
the legislature and changes things.
Charity swats the fly; justice takes away the
dung heaps that breed flies.
Charity gives quinine in the malarial tropics;
Justice drains the swamps.
Charity sends surgeons and ambulances and
trained nurses to the war; justice struggles to
cure that internationalism that will prevent war.
Charity works among slum wrecks; justice
dreams and plans that there be no more Sums.
Charity scrapes the soils surface; justice sub
soils.
Charity is affected by symptoms; justice by
causes.
Charity assumes evil institutions and customs
to be a part of Divine Providence, and tearfully
works away at taking of the wreckage; justice
regards injustice everywhere, custom buttressed
and respectable not the work of the devil,
and vigorously attacks it.
Charity is timid and is always passing the col
lection box justice is unafraid and asks no aims,
no patrons, benevolent support.
ct is presumed says Henry Seton Merriman,
that the majority of people willing enough
to the happiness of others; which desire leads
the individual interfere with his neighbours af-
fairs while it burdens society with a thousand
sociations for the welfare of mankind or the rails
ing of the Masses
The best part of the human race does not
want help, nor favor charity; it wants a fair
chance and square deal. ,
Charity is mans kindness
Justice is Gods.
Copyright, 1916, by DR.. Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-15
GET INNER WEALTH
81 q. ApDINGTON BRUCR. :

HERE two kinds of wealth. There is
wealth of pelf and there is wealth of self.
= Not everybody amass the former. But
everybody can gain the wealth of a well-rounded,
we'll cultivated personality. And of the two this is
infinitely the more important kind of wealth
Yet for man who tries to gain inner wealth,
there are a hundred who strive feverishly for
wealth that is external.
OF the hundred scarcely one can become what
the world calls wealthy. And of the successful one
it may truly be said that his external wealth will
profit him little, unless with it he has gained inner
wealth.
AS evidence of this, witness the fate that over
takes many successful men CT business when, having
retired from business life they start to enjoy the
leisure their gold has given them.
They become Iestless, uneasy, nervous. Otten
they become physically broken, and perish within
year or two of their retirement
How sad and strange it is" people then say
that a should have to die as soon as ne Is III
a position to get great deal out of life"
1t certainly is sad But it is not at all strange
The explanation is really simple.
The restessness, uneasiness, nervousness ana
breakdowns all due to the fact that wnen these
men have retired from business, they have MOTH
ing within themselves to fall back on for active
mental occupation.
They are rich in gold, but they are poor in
inner resources Their one real interest has been
in the conduct of business affairs, in money max
ing. . :. ,,.-o
They have never cultivated an interest in ltera-
ture in art in music, in philosophy, in any OF the
things that really count in enlarging mans per-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-15
Editorial Echoes.

The president of the southern states woman
suffrage conference, Miss Kate Gordon, praises
President Wilson for his stand woman suffrage
and declares her opinion that women voters will
not be deceived by Mr.. Hughes bait of a federal
amendment as shortcut to woman suffrage"
Miss Gordon's opinion illustrates the probable fact
that very many women democrats will vote the
democratic ticket and many women republicans the
republican ticket without reference to a minor diff
ference of personal opinion in regard to question
on which the candidates agree in principle
In Boston photographer surreptitiousIy snap
ped young blonde. The young blonde called him
impudent mammothrept. He had strength
enough left to grope for dictionary which in
formed him that in the young blondes eyes he was
"a child reared by its grandmother; a spoiled
child If he were to pack that word up carefully
and take it down to Oyster Bay, he might be able
to sell it for its weight in gold-New York Evening
Post.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-15
OuipS and OuidditieS

II was the annual reunion of all the members or the
cobe Troters Speeches had been made by every
body who anybody; this and that proposltlon hao
been seconded by and all the usual business
Inevitable at such gathering had been waded through
Then the chairman to his feet holding in his hand
a handsome watch
"Gentlemen" he said impressively, "by way of a
novelty the club present this watch to the member
who tells us all the most palpable lie"
Then the contest started. All sorts of yarns were
lures and then the turmoil Jigson, gentleman
with a mania for angling
Gentlemen" said. alphabetically, 81 trust that
Won will allow refrain from entering this pecu
liar contest"
"Why?" they all cried.
ION principle replied Jigson proudly. I have no
inclination tell lies
Then everybody yelled you've wont"
And he had
"yby is It," asked the inquistve husband that
YOU never any if hat is on straight as
so often other women do?"
well, if you must know, replied his wife, lit is
because love you much"
But 1 fail to what your love for me has to do
with it,"
why just think how it would disgrace if
were to attention to the only hat have
had in three years.
And that's why the very next occasion she went
art.
: countryman visiting Dublin for the first time
took in a tram. Being next to pompous-
looking swell, he commenced conversation in rather
free and easy style At length the mighty said:
my good reserve your conversation for
of your equals. I'd have you know I'm K. c."
At this the countryman stood up with outstretched
hands, exclaming shake hands, namesake; I'm
Casey myself"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-15

sonaIity and in making it possible for him to enjoy
life under all circumstances.
Leisure therefore brings to them only boredom
They feel miserable, but they do not know why.
They do not for a moment suspect that the
trouble is wholly with Themselves, with the poverty
of their personality.
This same phenomenon of boredom, unhappi-
ness and il-health resulting from inner poverty is
constantly in evidence around Very rich men
who have retired from business are by no means
the only to manifest It,
Observe any man, and note carefully how he
passes his time when not actively occupied in the
mental or manual labor by which he gains his lveli-
hood
In order to determine whether he is rich or
poor in inner resources you have only to reckon
the extent to which he is dependent on other peo-
pie for his enjoyment, and on northumberland
recreations.
Now apply this test to your own case ASK
whether you are happy discontinued when You
have only yourself a source of enjoyment.
If the latter you may be sure that you are
lacking in inner wealth. If the former, you are
heartily to be congratulated.
And if you find yourself lacking IN inner
wealth-what then? Must you remain lacking?
Not at all. At any ago of life you can begin
amassing inner wealth by developing intellectual
interests That is all you need do.
Add immaterial interests to your material In
terests. Take up with enthusiasm some develop
mental study-the study of nature, art, literature,
whatever you please.
Thus you will grow in inner wealth, the wealth
that is most worth while.
(Copyright 1916 by the Associated Newspapers
BY H. ADDINGTON BRUCE.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-15

There are many earnest souls occupied in try
ing to do people good.
There are nine million societies, more less,
organized to improve and to ameliorate.
There are preachers, missionaries, evangei1sts,
ers-with- alarm without number wrestling with sin
All forms of industry are booming these days
in the United States of America but the upft
business is still several laps ahead.
1t seems ungracious to say word to any en-
thusiastic person who is engaged in so laudable
enterprise that of rescung the perishing, feed
ing the hungry, and healing the sick
And yet when you take time to think right
through to the bottom of things, you must come to
the conclusion that there is but one real. radical
and effective way to help your fellow men, and
that is the way called justice.
If want to redeem the world can come near
err my object, and do less harm, by being just to-
ward myself and just toward everybody else, than
by doing good" to people
The only untainted charity is justice.
Often our ostensble charities serve but to OBJ
scure and palliate great evils
Conventional charity drops pennies in the beg
CARS cup carries bread to the starving distributes
clothing the naked. Real charity, which is JUS
tce sets about removing the conditions that make
beggary, starvation, and nakedness.
Conventional charity plays Lady Bountiful; JUS
tce tries to establish such laws as shall give en-
ployment to all, that they need no bounty.
Charity makes the Old Man of the Sea feed
sugar plums to the poor devil he is riding and
choking; Justice would make him get OF his vic
TINS back.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-15
Growth of Packing Houses.

The growth of the packing house industry il
the South is strikingly attested by the fact thai
during the first week of August plans we're an
nounced for four new enterprises of the kind, rep
resenting a total investment of half million dol
lars. The salient features of each of them are
summed up as follows in the current issue of the
Manufacturers Record:
The Union Stockyards & Packing Co.,
Chattanooga, Tenn has incorporated with
$4,000 capital. 1t plans to provide for
daily capacity of 200 hogs, so head of cattle
and so head of sheep.
The Orangeburg Packing Co., orangeburg.
S. c., has incorporated with 100000 capital,
but has not determined details of its plant.
j. B. Bruce, Greenville. s. c.. is chairman of
committee organizing a 100000 company.
W. W. Greer. Wilmington y. G., is organ
izing a 100000 company which proposes a
daily capacity of 15O to 200 hogs and 80 cat
tie. including provisions for adding cold-stor-
age units until a capacity of 1000 hogs is
reached
The Waycross Packing Plant, Waycross,
Ga. has organized with plans for building
costing $4,000 and machinery costing
$4,000.
OF interest in this connection is the news
that construction is progressing upon Ar
mour & Co.'S Jacksonville (Fla) plant. and
that this will have a larger capacity than was
at first proposed. The original plan was for a
daily capacity OF 200 cattle. 200 sheep and
500 hogs. and the latter will probably be in
creased TO 1000. The main building will be
a two-story brick structure, and its equipment
will include 80 to 5O-ton daily capacity re-
frigerating machine, two 1O0-horse-power
boilers closed loading dock with daily ca
pacity Of six to eight carloads
There could be no better omen of the South's
development The packing house is both an effect
and cause of diversified agriculture The plant
ing of corn and forage lays foundation for hog
and cattle raising and that in turn. opens way for
meat-packing industries. 1t is equally true that
the packing house afording as it does a ready and
dependable market for hogs and cattle encourages
the livestock industry and thereby encourages df-
versifej farming.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-15
Cotton

Whether the reduction of the cotton crop
was voluntary or involuntary the South has
reaped the benefit of the curtaiIment Prices
are high and the uncomfortable surplus of the
big crop of 1914 has been worked off with
profit TO those who had the patience and were
able to hold. Southern farmers have diversi-
fed their crops and have learned the advantage
of not having to depend crop 1t is to
be hoped that they will stick to diversified
farming and not go back to the old one-crop
idea which has kept them in state of financial
servitude"
The wisdom of these words from the New
York Commercial is particularly appreciated in the
States which have learned through hard experience
the hazards of the all-cotton system The biggest
cotton crop the South raised proved the least
profitable; in some respects, indeed it proved al
most disastrous. In the autumn and winter of
1914 millions and millions of bales of distress cot
ton went begging for market at starvation prices
Farmers were unable to meet their obligations and
a result every wheel in the South's business ma
ehinery was retarded or blocked
In the following year, when the cotton acreage
reduced and food staples were raised in abund-
ance, prosperity returned fuI-tided and the South
enjoyed one Of the richest autumns il ever knew
The lessons OF that time should be of perma-
nent value. Never again should Southern farmers
stake their hopes and fortunes entirely on a single
crop. Such policy, besides being contrary to all
the principles of efficient agriculture is a gamble
with fate which no thoughtful farmer will risk
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-15
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-15

But to all principal points, several hundred
packages may be considerably larger
The confidence placed in China by the United States
in the the parcel post is only continuance
of the same sentiment that showed two years
in letting the handle letter mail with
hesitation China entered the Universal
Postal union, September L, 1914 Up to that time
postal union mail handled through the inter-
mediary of services maintained China by other
countries
The ratification of parcel post conventions has
always proved a valuable aid in promoting commerce
and good understanding between two countries By
coincidence, the agreement between China and the
United States just twelve years the
day after similar agreement between this country
and Japan began to operate The opportunity to ship
Japan has been freely used but much larger results
looked for in China, because Japan is far
She can be- manufacturing nation who prefers to
export rather import manufactured products.
China, the other hand is frankly buyer nation.
One of the important recent parcel post con-
ventions was which we arranged the Argen-
tine republic about a year ago. There has been a
noticeable stimulus export trade Argentina
as a result. parcel post conventions in
operation with every country in South Central
America except Paraguay, which has seacoast,
must therefore be reached by transportation belonging
other nations None the less, postof1ce officials
believe that there is prospect of concluding agree
ment eventually with Paraguay also.
Under international parcel post conventions it is
eleven pounds in weight for fat'rate cents a
pound any part of the world where a convention
obtains The rate is the to Guatemala and China
Several other parcel post conventions been
flied recently, including those with Greece Liberia
well with number of British colonies 1t is
interesting that parcel post convention
with the British colony Of Jamaica, which went
into effect October 1, 1887
From this it is obvious foreign parcel
long before had domestic SYSTEM and, in fact
by mail from New York to London Berlin,
from New York to Brooklyn. In many countries for
egn parcel post has antedated domestic almost
every conventions have
tuaIIy in the establishment of a domestic system
going steadily and points clearly the day
the whole world will be linked together. The
war proved something of a setback but there
excellent prospects that the United will conclude
such agreements in the future with Spain, Por-
tugaI and Russia. With most of the principal
pean countries they already in force.
The most important conventions from the economic
point of those which link with buyer
nations like Argentina and China. They valuable
aids in the for trade which shall have to wage
with redoubed vgor after the other in Europe is
over.
The Ordway new era., 1916-03-17
A Light Dream.

Prof. Uric Dahlgren of Princeton
university predicts that the time will
come when the luciferous substance
of chemical composition carried by
firefiics, certain fish and other ami
mails, will be used for illuminating
houses, etc. He believes that this
will come about when the nature and
proportions of the chemical constitu-
ents of these substances are discov-
cred, and says they will give light
having an efficiency of 80 per cent in
stead of the 10 per cent produced by
lights now in use.
The Ordway new era., 1916-03-17
Tn War an Paris Fashions

AS tn war progresses. we miss
some little thing everyday that used t
come from Europe. an as result our
celebrated Yankee ingenuity an Gre
ative ability II be put t test. In
some respects tn situation is lament
able. but no cloud is without its silver
linin'. TIL general Generalization .
our commerce gives promise of shut
tin OFF Paris fashions. This is as it
should be. 1t is high time American
women had some jurisdiction over
ther waist lines. For years little
handful O. Paris modistes have been
decidin' whether 1t wuz TIL thing fer
woman t be nat or round. Fer
over year our bullSier women have
been hidin' around waitin' fer tip
from Paris before venturin' In tn
open. while ther thin-spaced sisters
were allowed ever freedom.
Whose tastes are considered by TIL
men who create tn Paris fashions?
The Ordway new era., 1916-03-17

American close reefed modest priced
turban fer ever day is another thing
that should be an easy matter for even
tn milliners O. Elwood. An it seems
t me that with our vast resources an
native blonde trimmers some means
could be provided whereby a fair look.
in Sunday hat could be devised on
this side O. tn Atlantic-somethin
that would half way resemble tn price
an still leave a little tobacco money
fer tn husband or father
Why should American women wear
gown whose dominant note suggests
tn nearly fergotten spirit O. TIL
French revolution? Why not wear
somethin' that's reminder o. how
close we come t mixin it with Mex,
leo? We read in TIL fashion notes:
Again you see tn exceedin'ly narrow
skirt grown trifie fuller at th' knees
than ankles, but ample in tn straight,
somewhat heavy, drapery O. tn grad
The Ordway new era., 1916-03-17

Th' qualities O. mind an soul are
not worn OH tn sleeve. These are TIL
qualities that shape tn destinies O
tn newly-wed after tn Illusions o
wedlock fade with tn passin O tn
rose tinted honeymoon. These are tn
qualities too rarely considered in our
rush t. win muscle bound Apollo or
a doll-faced Venus.
Often while readin' tn divorce col,
umn these lines from that grand ole
novel, Cora. tn Beautiful SEWN Ma
chine Girl" are brought forcibly L
mind an ther true significance real
ized: so, havin' grown tired O. Cora g
beautiful complexion, Harold ruthless.
ly cast her aside an bought ticket
for Seattle
The Ordway new era., 1916-03-17

lot o. fond farewells an hest wishes
an fine send off in tn local paper t
accept lucrative an responsible posi-
tion in some great establishment in 4
fer Off city only t return in week.
Sometimes feller goes int business
with great flare O. trumpets an fails
in month. Sometimes a feller II
set forth under tn most promisin'
skies t. accomplish some laudable pur-
pose an meet with disaster. All O. us
have failed at somethin or other at
some time in our lives. But what a
come down 1t must be, how embarrass-
In 1t must be. t those who have
spark o. pride in ther makeup t make
mess o anything as easy as mar.
riage. o. all tn failures in life it is
tn one most uncalled fer. After 4
The Ordway new era., 1916-03-17
{ kin Hubble Essays
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
BY KIN HUBBARD.

fiowery courtship. after refusin' Z
listen t tn advice o. friends, after
stumbE2' down tn church aisle red
an confused t. tn sweet strains .
Mendelssohns celebrated march. after
mumblin' Il PROMISE after givin tn
minister flve-dollar gold piece, after
bein' showered with congratulations,
after receivin' fiat full o. linen an
silver-t' fail!
Silly first Impressions are account
able fer most o. th' connubial botch
work. A pair o. sparklin' eyes, q
couple o. strong athletic shoulders. a
well rounded figure, military uni
form, pretty ankle. musical voice,
an act o. garIantry. winnin smile,
pretty hair, a roguish glance, an
arched expression, a gold tooth. a
Norfolk coat an purity compleXion--
all o. these are TIL decoys O. tn CO.
quette an TIL home wrecker.
The Ordway new era., 1916-03-17

TIL size o. this country an its pre-
sminence in certain lines 'mongst tn
Nations o. tn world appeal t tn pride
O. tn average American. but they're
certain forms o. pre-eminence in which
this sense O. national pride is likely
T. be somewhat tempered. Take our
divorce mills fer instance. With tn
exception o. Japan our country pro-
duces more divorces than all o. tn
other so-called Christian countries
combined. tn output fer tn last fiscal
year reachin' tn grand total o. go, ,502
split-ups t. which may be added by
way o. good measure forty-six nice
fresh ones from Indyn.plus alone last
week.
T. fail allus crushes an disheartens
TIL normally constituted person. an
while he often pulls himself t'gether
an starts afresh tn scars O. defeat
remain. Some fellers go away amid