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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-22
The Legislative Session.

While the Legislative session which adjourned
Wednesday failed in several instances to pass
meritorious measures it also refrained from pass
ing several bad ones. Thus the net result gives
cause for satisfaction.
The defeat Of the bill looking to the tax ex-
emption of college endowments is much to be re-
GREETED, is also that of the Western and Atlantic
bond election bill. Both these measures, however
favored by the rank and file of the House
and Senate and were lost only because of the two
thirds majority required for constitutional amend
ments. Their friends, though disappointed, are in
no wise discouraged.
On the other hand, the ultimate defeat of
the unjust and undemocratic Primary Election bill
is peculiarly gratifying. Governor Harris is due
prime credit for his wise and courageous veto but
the House also is to be commended for having sus.
tanned him. Efforts to repeal the tax equalization
law met deserved failure and the capital removal
bill met quietus which, for the good of the State
ought to be everlasting.
This session of the General Assembly did more
however than kill bad legislation. 1t enacted sew
eral excellent laws, notably that establishing COM
pulsory school attendance. Georgia is thus re-
deemed from the shame of being one of the only
two States which do not enforce the educational
rights of children. The constitutional amendment
to place solicitors general a salary instead of
fees and the bill permitting to practice law
are obviously just.
The Legislature might have done better, but it
might have done worse. All things considered, it's
record is gratifying
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-22
The Dye Industry.

A peculiarly valuable item in the Deutschland's
cargo for the United States was one hundred and
fifty tons of dyestufs. The total CONSIGNMENT
however, amounted to only about one-tenth of
what our industries ordinarily consume in the
course of single month. Evidently then our
dye problem will not be solved by German sub
marine freghters unless they call more fire.
quently.
1t is encouraging to note that American plants
now are turning out three times as much dye as
in the cheaper grades the domestic supply is not
far short of the demand. But authorities stress
the fact that there is still an embarrassing dearth
of the finer dyes such so-cahed vat dyes for
shirtings, indigo and fine shades of DEVELOPED
blacks
That these be produced in the United
States, there is no reason to doubt. The raw ma
terial is abundant and science stands ready to
furnish the needful processes. The main diff
Guilty heretofore has been lack Of ample induce
ments and safeguards for the capital required
Investors unwilling to lay out large sums
in enterprise which, profitable though it might
be long the lasted, would encounter
dangerous competition when foreign manufacture
ers re-entered the market.
Such investments are entitled to reasonable
protection against cut-throat competition from
abroad; and if they are thus protected in their
critical stages, they will flourish and, in time be
able to hold their in world markets. The
war has taught America independence in a num-
Der of industrial fields; it is to be hoped that our
progress in dye production will keep pace with
other lines of new and valuable enterprise
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-22
Wells AND NERVOUSNESS
by q. ADDINGrON BRUCE.

DROM Bar Harbor, Me-, comes a report that the
II latest fad among the society women at that
- popular resort is the wearing of heavy wells
This is not merely silly device to make oneself
conspicuous. 1t is always likely to have unpleasant
consequences to of the wearers of such wells,
by affecting them with nervousness or increasing
any nervousness they may already have
Few people appreciate the relation that often
exists between wells and nervousness Usually the
choice of veil is determined by the fashion of the
moment, by the attractiveness of some type of
VEIL
Seldom is any thought given to the possibility
that pretty veil may have nerve-racking ten
denotes through it's interference with the wearer's
vision.
Yet medical observation and experiment leave
doubt that this is the case; that there wells
which who have any regard for their
nerves will do we'll to avoid wearing.
Heavy veils patterned wells, and kinds
of dotted wells are particular offenders in this
respect.
Some years ago the well-known Chicago eye
specialist, DR.. Casey A. Wood, made a series of
experiments with different wells to determine to
what extent they affected the ability to
Here, in brief summary, his findings:
Every description of veil affects less
the ability to see distinctly, whether the object
of vision is at distance near at hand
The most Objectionable kind of veil is the
dotted veil although the influence of this variety
for evil is marked in some styles than in
others.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-22

Other things being equal, in indicted and
non-fgured wells vision is interfered with In di-
rect proportion to the number of meshes per
square inch
The least Objectionable veil is veil without
dots sprays, or other figures, but with large reg
ular meshes made with single compact threads.
What these findings of DR.. Wood mean is that
heavy dotted and patterned wells tend to cause
EYESTRAIN And one of the commonest results
of eyestrain is nervousness. Also it my result in
marked systematic disturbances. As an eminent
English physician has pointed OUT
Eyestrain frequently acts by exhausting the
nervous system of the patient and hence through
the medium of brain and cord often have pro-
found and far-reaching effect on the functions Of
the various organs of the body, and on the general
nutrition
'In many cases the eyestrain is accomplished
by no pain or discomfort in the eye but by symp-
toms altogether outside the eye itself. Headache,
insomnia brain Gag, vertigo, and dyspepsia are
mentioned as having their origin in eyestrain
To be sure, if the wearer or an unhyg1enic veil
is blessed with strong eyes, the interference with
vision may be readily endured. But many people
have weak eyes, or at least have eyes that are in
some degree defective.
These are the people who likely to expe-
rience as a result of wearing badly chosen wells,
one or more OF the manifold nervous symptoms
known to result from eyestrain.
What they need, and all they need, is to be
more discreet when selecting wells, and to let an
oculist provide them with well-ttng spectacles or
glasses.
Copyright 1916, by the Associated Newspapers.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-22

TINE year 1870 is not very long ago. Yet it
was in that year, it is claimed, the first
bananas were brought commercially to Bos-
ton.
Whole fleets convey this fruit from the
tropics to the American states; in every city
ders sell bananas the multitude in every country
grocery they staple. In less than fifty years
they have become one of the chief means OF sus-
tenance to the people of the nation
The banana ranks with the APPLE the potato,
the wheat-grain and the peanut a prime minis
ter to the life of hundred million people.
The reason is not far to seek. In the first
place the banana tastes good. There are some
things like tobacco that one dislikes at the first
bite; there are Others like the banana, that
one has to learn to enjoy. There may be some
curious palates here and there-freaks every
where-who have distaste for this fruit, but they
not in a hundred thousand.
Children cry for them. Negroes, Cinnamon.
grooms, messenger boys, railroad presidents, bank
ers janitors prize fighters and paciists like them.
Secondly, they are carefully protected by
ture herself in an admirable sanitary covering.
You cannot eat the skin as you do the apples. No
matter how unclean the wagon from which you
buy them, when you peel OFF the yellow coat the in
ward meat is revealed pure and white las an un-
driven hack" as Charley Case would say.
They good, they are clean, and thirdly they
cheap. Thus they are ideal food for the
millions. l like to eat what all humanity eats. L
know some run to caviar canvas-back and the
Widow Cliquot, but while they get the sweet SAVIOR
of exclusiveness they miss that deeper gusto which
comes from communion with humanity. This you
obtain when you drink water milk and eat
bread potatoes, apples, peanuts, and bananas. 1t
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-22
The Duty and Opportunity
of the w. and a. Commission.

Regrettable though it is that the Legislature
failed pass the Western and Atlantic bond cleo
ton BILL theimportant fact remains that it did pass
a bill empowering the W and A. Commission to
deal with propositions for extending the State road
to the sea. The Commission thus is enabled to &C
cept an offer to that end. if it receives which
it deems advantageous, and to enter into a tenta-
tive contract
1t remains to be seen. of course, whether inter-
ested persons will submit proposals the final
ceptance of which necessarily would depend on fu-
ture legislation to authorize State bond issue and
on future of the people to approve it. There
is every reason to believe, however, that a bond
election measure be enacted at the session
OF the General Assembly; at the recent session it
passed the Senate almost unanimously, and would
have passed the House but for the fact that
many of the members absent at the time of
the vote There is goo. reason to believe more
over, that such a measure would be approved at
the polls, for public sentiment and public judgment
far they can be gagged are decidedly in favor
of extending the Western and Atlantic to an ocean
outlet.
In these circumstances it is the duty of the
W. and A. Commission TO invite proposals for this
great project and give the matter the widest pos
sibIe publicity. One proposal already has been
submitted, its terms being such that the State,
within period of fifty years could acquire uncon-
ditional ownership of line without the actual
expenditure of a single dollar. The extension of
the Western and Atlantic means such a. vast deal
to the development and protection of the road itself
and such a vast deal to its owner. the people of
Georgia, that the Commission should do its utmost
to encourage offers from persons who capable
of cooperating with the State for the consumma-
ton of this splendid enterprise
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-22
Editorial Echoes.

America has apparently emerged from the fur
misunderstanding horrors of the seventies of the
last century. The pictures of chairs, tables beds
sideboards. bureaus and the like which appear in
the advertisements of the great stores having
their annual furniture sales show that the design
have begun to study the work of the great cab
lent makers of the past centuries and to profit by
what they learn. Where they cannot invent they
reproduce, and they are working to such good eff
feet that the descendants of the families who buy
the well-made furniture of today will be as proud
of it the few families who have inherited
from the Colonial period the mahogany which met
the approval of their Observation-Disclosures
Evening Ledger.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-22

cost comparatively trivial beside the profitable re-
suits to be attained.
Under the stimulus of the State Geological
Survey and the Georgia Drainage Association, a
number of fruitful projects of the kind have been
carried to success and others now in prog
ress. A law enacted by the Legislature several
years ago authorizes the establishment of drain
age districts and the issuance of bonds to pay the
cost of reclamation. BY this means, any county,
or group of counties, convert its useless wet
lands and swamps into areas of bountiful produc-
tion-and do without appreciate bur-
den upon taxpayers and property owners.
Such enterprises valuable not only because
they create new wealth but also because they
destroy prolific sources of disease. swamp, be-
fore it is drained, is drawback and menace;
swamp, after it is drained, is a mine of agricul-
tural gold. The drainage projects Georgia
essays and accomplishes, the richer and more pro-
gressive the State will become.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-22
The Wealth in Swamp Lands.

Fifteen/miles from ocala Florida, lies tract
OF some five thousand acres which almost
worthless few years ago, but which is now de-
scribed as 'the richest body of land under cult
Walton in America" This seemingly magic trans
formation has been wrought by drainage processes
which can be applied, without great difficulty
expense, TO millions of acres of swamp and
overhowed land in divers parts of the South and
which. if applied. will open the way to billions of
dollars OF new wealth.
The Florida land was formerly in the bed of
the oklawaha river or adjacent bottoms, and ordi-
narily was waist deep in water. reclamation
project begun in 1912 has been carried to COM
pletion, and the investors already are reaping
royal dividends. Last year, according to a CORES
pendent of the Manufacturers Record. four and
half which were planted to corn yielded
an average of one hundred and forty-two bushels
without the of any fertilizer. This year eleven
hundred acres luxuriant with corn which has
an assured outturn of more than one hundred
bushels to the acre. The soil. composed of the
decaying vegetation of unnumbered centuries
needs no artificial enrichment 1t is stored with
natures alchemy.
Back of this fertile expanse stretches the sand
soil, which the promoters expect to develop for
livestock industries. The adjoining higher lands,
says the correspondent afford excellent pastur-
age. land the corn will be fed to the hogs and
cattle raised thereon. InuS from single drain
age enterprise have sprung opportunities for grain
production far exceeding anything known in
Illinois Iowa and also opportunities for live
stock raising which will in time be even more
important than the agricultural output.
Commenting on this development, the Man
ufacturers Record observes:
''It is estimated that there are about
5O,OOO,OOO acres of overfowed lands in the
South which can be drained, as is being
done on large scale in many Southern
States and in which many duplicates can be
found of the success achieved near Ocala.
This overlooked land. not worth more than a
few dollars an acre as it stands should, when
drained be easily worth 500 acre. IL it
be counted as worth approximately $40 an
acre under present conditions covered with
water, drainage would mean an advance to
500 an acre, or a total advance from ag-
gregate value of $500. 100000 to S5,OOO.OOO.-
OOO'
Next TO Florida, Georgia has a larger area OF
swamp and Over1owed lands than that of any
other State or the Atlantic coast, approximately
one-seventeenth of its territory consisting of
sssI Vast regions like the okefenokee swamp
present formidable drainage problems
though eventually no doubt they will be grappled
and mastered But there are thousands upon
thousands of acres which could be drained at
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-22

Suppose that would send such fragment to the
geological and that the law and appropriation
nrovided for analysis of all specimens in. The
chemists the would that rock like
sample would 500 to the ton in gold. That would
be true enough, but might spend several years
Of his life looking the hillside the sample
came from without finding another rich. But
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-22
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-22
BANANAS
. By DIR. FRANK CRANE

is an important secret that the most satisfying
forms of pleasure are those that common to
the race.
Fourthly, the banana stands the test of science
as being valuable food. The government issues
a deal of literature, the product of its hygenic
perts endeavoring to enlighten the people as to
what foods are wholesome and cheap.
Following is comparison of bananas and ap
PIES according to a u s. government report:
Bananas Apples
(Fresh) (Fresh).
Fuel value per pound. 400 calories 290 calories
Water -. =. 1873 per Ct SAG per ct.
Protein ............ 1.3 per Ct GA per ct.
Carbohydrates 22.O 142
Bananas. Apples
(Fried). (Fried).
Water :. 29.2 per ct. 26.1 per ct.
Protein. 4. -. :. E. 5.3 per ct. 1.6 per ct.
Carbohydrates :. 599 68.1
Fuel value . :. 1-2Es Galleries $3.50 calories.
From this it will be that the banana is
rich in nourishment.
Bananas cost about cents pound; porter
house steak about 80.
John w. Beall states that in the states of Pa
rama and Santa Catarina, in Brazil, the entire
population subsists on bananas as food, and are
famous for their strength and endurance.
Flour made from dried bananas Is superior in
carbohydrates to wheat flour, but inferior in pro-
TEN Or hesh-forming values; but it is very palat
able and particularly adapted to persons of weak
digestive organs.
Buy banana or so, and bag of peanuts, for
your lunch instead of gorging yourself on a table
d'hote monstrosity and you'll feel better, and live
longer.
Copyright, 1916 by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-22

mo post-bellum rights for the United States"
says the London Times; by which you might think
the London Times really had say so in the
matter.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-13
TO CONSIDER BOND ISSUE
o"hril. az Special Meeting
'">iEht. VIII Also Act ON Post
ONCE Dcdicntiun

ne common Council will hold :,
:peti"I meeting Tonight at & o'clock
10 take up the $1,000 900 bond Issue
iecoaii l,eh"ed by the Finance Commit
&c ana 10 act upon the ordinance adont :
Ell by thr Board Of Aldermen cadi,,.
httten loot strip OF land on Eleventh
street I" tn" United States govern.
1 Tor use as a driveway to the
Post Office. '''
Assistant city ATTORNEY ,rd..so,
Yesterday directed The attention or
lnhirhah FULLER. OF the stree, Com
miitee. To the letter he had addressed
10 MN on Tuesday. in which he. drew
attention TO the clause reauirinr The
United States to save the CITY harm
less from damages consequent upon
me work done. In The same letter. Mr..
anderson said the committee could
waive this clause If il saw fit and the
clauSc was stricken from the ordinance
me ordnance as amended was adopt-
Ell by the Board Of Aldermen.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-13
TESTING THE ACCURACY
OF THIRTY TlMEPlECES
Hur~an Of Standards Place watches
ON TrinI for Period OF Fifty
-Four Days.

WASHINGToS. April l2.-They'rc
OH Thirty Of EN-. all on = ff,y-fou--
DAY race 10 Guido each other. TO show
old Father Time that he hasn't q thing
on them for accuracy
side by side, without any question ~
"ehutE' s'yi" or ownership, ~ dress
Tor that matter, thirty watches we're
paced in 1" glass case q, the bureau
o! STANDARDS yesterday. and the EXPERTS
OF 'hat bureau vii! note the effect o!
neat and cold Oh the accuracy OF The
uhl"pleccS Tho occasion !: the hu-
reau : periodical watch test 'rhrv ar,
IN AN alright case. which might no
hScd Tor either refrigerator or :,
turkish bath. whatever the whirne OF
tn" test may demand For overhead
are brine coils 10 cool OF the case and
below arc many electric lights 20
Neat the case
Ihere are Afty-:our trying davs
ah"ad OF thes" watches but when ,h.v
com" Out their owners viii know ms.
what TO "Spect Of them under all con
olbon" Tor during tn" period .n.y
VIII -" tried "u' upright. S'andirg on
'h"ir '"reS ON 'hcir backs aud leaning
10 r'Sh' ara left Toward the ard
"' IN" 'es' they VIII hc allowed 20 run
down and q tab Keep; every hour nr ca
:" determine the amount of Tim. los,
"i gained Gntii thc dying gasp Tbn,,a
"hhl ih"E call rhr isorochrunlsin -.s,
~" Is IN example Of tho thorourbuas.
Nl'h when the United states ilro,u OF
standards does things For IN no o,hnr
country IL this ties. given "a :. watch
u VIII cost Won az TO know aho,,t
your wa,ch's accuracy
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-13
Hungry Fish Elicit
Society S Sympathy
S. PC. us March Report Lists
Extension of Aid TO Six Men,
bcrs Of Finny Tribe.

Sore back mules. cruelty driven
horses and unfortunate cats no LONGER
clici, all the sympathy "f THO Eich-
m"nd Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty TO Animals That or;:nuiza
ton in - g. idcnin; OF III. svnipathics
has begun 10 lend helping hand to
oppressed members OF the nnuy tribe.
Last month six fish. which had no:
been dealt with in strict accordance
with tn" lawS OF humanity and which
sorciy needed a desperation Of charity.
were taken IN. cared for, and fed
rhis opens no new field OF investi-
cation for members Of the socict,
Three hundred and thirt!-three carce
OF cruelty were handled by rh. society
during the month Of March. out OF
nine crScS taken TO court. there "erc
sin convictions three dismals. three
TWO drivers We're DISCHARGED from ser
sic" by their employers.
The March report is AS follows
Horses and mules, sore backs CALLED
shoulders and lame. urhitched and sen,
TO stable. Il, horses and mules unf.
FOR work. poor and half-starvcd ,ir-
hitch"d and sent 10 stapl" 10 b. cnrcu
for 20 horses and mules ovcrloadnd
relieved. -. horses and mules cruelty
whipped and driven, 4 horses ana
mules sent to blacksmith 80 he shod.
II, vctcrtnart"s called. ! admonitior
to owners aud drivers. a. ch"ckr,ins
taken on horses and mules. "a; horses
aud mules taken care ~ and fed J:
Whips cut up II: horses and mules
put under shelter. = cr'icity to dog. !
cruelty to cattle. cruelty 10 monkey.
J. FISH taken care OF and fed. cattle
taken care OF 81 horses and rrulcr
humanity destroyed. u: dogs and cats
huIn2n"lE destroy ed. as. cases iuVcsii-
gated for which there MAS no cause
FOR complaint. II total. }aa
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-13
Ever See Anything Like
the Popularity of
Dress Skirts?

Never, in all our recollection. were they
more 50 than they are to-day
We're selling quantities OF Separate
Dress Skirts daily-a fact behind which
there must be a REASON!
SUCH SMART MODELS Of cloth. silk
and cotton are here; we know your fav-
orite' must be among them
GOLF1NE SKIRTS in the new spring
shades, $500.
BLACK TAFFETA Skirts also the
new striped Silverboom Skirts, $3.50.
NEW STRIPED PONGEE SKIRTS.
$3.50 and SlG.50.
SPORT MODELS in mixtures and black
and navy blue: splendid assortment, $500
70 $1,000.
NOVELTY SILKS. in taffetas and others
5000 TO $1,000.
WASHABLE SUMMER SKIRTS - orr
new spring line is now on display and
sale, Sl.0O to $500
Second Floor