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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-29
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Lemon drops are so popular in the army
that about 100000 pounds are needed every
month to fill the demand. This, however, is
only about Is per cent of all the candy our
soldier boys get away with once month.
One thousand tons Of American sugar con-
signed to German firms three years ago has
just been turned into chocolate candy for our
boys in France. 1t was confiscated by the
French government as contraband of war,
and was held in bond until few weeks ago,
when the Y. M. G. A. bought it and turned it
into candy.
It will be necessary to continue the con-
servation Of wheat -four next year in order to
pile up reserves against possible short crop
throughout the world, on account of labor
shortage. Now that I'VE are getting used to
bread made from mixed flours, and liking 1t
better, we shall feel it no great hardship to
continue. 1t is estimated that the hotels, res
taurants clubs and dining cars of the coun-
try saved, from October l, 1917, to August 1,
1918, between $4,000 900 and 200, 900 900
pounds of wheat and it's products, as well as
$50, 900 pounds of meats and 0,00O,-
900 pounds of sugar.
1t will be news to most housewives that
jelly can be made just as firm without sugar
as with it, Sugar in jelly simply supplies
sweeter tatse. What makes the fruit juices
"jell' is a certain ingredient called pectin,
which is present in apples and pears more
than in any fruit. Pectin is most abundant in
fruit that is not not quite ripe enough to eat.
Approximately 225,OOO,OOO pounds of
sugar was used by our army during the year
ending September l. 1918. About 237
pounds are consumed by every thousand sol
diers every day. This figures out about 81
pounds year for each man.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-29
SIGNS OF GROWING OLD
BY H. Addington Bruce

=
~ NE of the first signs of growing old is a
( dulling of ambition and enthusiasm.
Eagerness to achieve is replaced by a
more or less apathetic quietude. The divine
discomfort of youth fees before an increasing
self-satisfaction.
The mind, ossifying, becomes less receptive
to new ideas. Opinions are tenaciously held
and dogmatically expressed. Opposition is
less patiently borne, giving rise TO irritability
and querulousness.
The memory is not what it used to be-.
Neither is the power of concentrating the at
tention, except in respect to personal comforts.
The self-regarding instinct asserts itself more
and more at the expense Of the altruistic in
stinct.
Hence the whole personality narrows until
there may develop, in the apt phrase of a
Philadelphia physician, DR.. ]. Madison Taylor,
centration on self and a lamentable disregard
of the rights and feelings of others.
With increasing mental sluggishness an in
creasing physical sluggishness goes hand in
hand. Interest in earlier muscular activities,
whether of work or of play, subsidies.
The step becomes less brisk, the pose less
vigorous. Arm chairs exercise peculiar fas-
cination, unsupported in days gone by.
tendency to put on weight may now come
into evidence. Sometimes the change in this
respect is gradual and almost imperceptible.
Sometimes it appears with startling sudden
ness.
Or it may never appear. More than this,
many of the other physical and mental signs
of growing old may be indefinitely postponed,
as is evinced by the number of physically and
mentally vigorous old men whom we daily see
on our streets.
On the other hand, these tell-tale signs may
manifest themselves long before they would in
the natural order of things. When they do
manifest themselves in men still chrOnolOgic-
ally young-men in the thirties or forties-
they are warnings that should be promptly
needed.
For they indicate that something is radical
ly wrong with the mental or physical life
habits. They may even indicate that a serious
organic degeneration has set in, calling for
careful medical treatment.
Consequently a thorough examination, par
ticularly of the heart, kidneys and blood ves-
sells, is at once in order. The man who is
obliged to confess to himself that he is grow
ing old before his time, should lose not
moment in consulting his doctor.
Acting on the latter's advice he may check
the untimely senescence and regain in some
degree his vanished youth. This he can never
do If he persist in the ways that are prema-
turely aging him.
Copyright, 1918, by the Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-29

Observing that the war has changed the
United States from debtor to a creditor ma
ton, the New York World reasons that as a
matter of self-interest we can no longer cling
to old notions of an arbitrary control of our
foreign trade. For,
1--WE can better our export trade and
our new position as q creditor only by
lettering the situation of neutral mar
kets and our new foreign debtors for
making payments in goods instead of
gold, of which they have little and we
have much. Large annual excuses of
merchandise exports over imports have
been for us heretofore no measure at all
of progress in wealth accumulation, but
rather measure of our foreign debt
and its annual interest charge"
Obviously, there must be, in place of those
export excuses, a closer approximation to a
balance If our new position as a creditor is
to be fortified and secure. That is to say,
we must think in terms Of other nations
trade interests; as Secretary Redf1eld Of the
Department of Commerce recently declared,
1.-THE United States must lend itself to the re-
Mobilization Of the Allied belligeTents before
going out after the new business which the
war has brought within its reach" Other
wise, the renewal of prosperity in those
countries, which is a matter of both material
and moral concern to us, will not be assured
Our Government credits to the Allied nations
now amount to upwards of six billion dollars,
in addition to large private loans negotiated
for them in this country. These friends eX-
pect to redeem their obligations by means of
restored industries and revitalized foreign
trade. In serving them to that end, we shall
serve our own deepest welfare.
Indeed, American interests in every direc-
ton will best be promoted by generous and
sympathetic policies. Our failure to make
more Roadway in Latin-American markets
prior to the war was due largely to unac-
cOmmodating methods OF dealing with the
peoples whose trade we sought. 1t was the old
handicap Of provincialism which, thanks to
our great-heaTted participation in the worlds
common perils and problems, will now surely
be shaken off.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-29

Another case is Bert Snyder, who com
mitted his first Offense against socleIy at
the age of fourteen when he broke into the
schooIhouse locked up for the noon hour,
and appropriated money from the teachers
desk. Encouraged by his success, Bert
tried this second time and was caught anu
thrashed by the principal OF the schooi:
year later, Bert, in company with announcer
boy, broke into the local grocery store and
stole SIS. The boys were suspected ana
put through an informal third degree, In
which the other boy confessed. NO actlon
was taken, however, since the owner OF the
grocery and Bert's father were friends. AT
the age of 16 Bert left school, having COM
pleted only the fifth grade. His latest oc-
cupation is collecting money on deliveries
of meat for his father, who Is Dutcner'
charging them on the books and keeping
the money for his own use. Some light IL
shed on Bert's propensities when we learn
that his father is what is know as bot
| tie drinker'' and has recently had case Oh
| delirium tremens which nearly left him In
| sane.
The same kind of heredity IS found in
the case of Jennie Park, fifteen years old,
who recently became the mother OF an IL
| legitimate child, the father or which Is a
man twenty years old who has finally de-
cided to marry her. Tracing Jennie's rec
| ord, the investigator found that she had
| scarcely gone to school at all, and that the
| school authorities had not been troubled by
her absence because she was believed to be
| feeble-minded. John Park, the father OF
Jennie, il immoral and lazy, and is probably
! subnormsl mentally. His wife, who pro-
I vides mOsS of the support of the family by
| scrubbing, is unquestionably subnormal.
| Richard Park, Jennie's cousin, is also
delinquent of fifteen who has committed
| several offenses of a feeble-minded nature.
He has given his teachers a great deal of
] trouble in school, where he has never ad-
| vanced beyond the third grade. One OF his
| first caprices was to take a horse from a
pasture and ride it so long and hard that
the animal died. He also bought eggs on
account at one grocery store and then sold
them for cash at the grocery store across
the street. 1t is believed, however, that
maturer intellect instigated this particular
proceeding since it involved a business
sense which Richard is not believed to have.
Since then, Richard has stolen everything
within his reach-chickens, vegetables,
firewood, boots Richards father, who is
a brother of Jennie's father, is mentally
subnormal, illiterate, and incapable of sup
porting his family. His mother, also a vii
lage scrubwoman, is mentally deficient.
| All Of this goes to prove what European
psychiatrists have long known-that crime
is due to mental defect, which is generally
both hereditary and incurable. man who
is a thief generally has a child who is
thief unless the mothers heredity is suf-
fciently strong and untainted to counter
act the effect of the other.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-29

away from him, it appears, because his OFF,
GERS tank had been hit. when that hap
pens, the officer always takes mans tank,
he explained. The tank organization, By
the way, is five tanks to a platoon and three
platoons to company, with an odd tank for
the company commander. Three or four
companies make battalion and three or four
battalion make a brigade. These units are
variable. Two battaliOns of light American
tanks and some French heavy tanks took
part in the fight on the Meus. Heady's gun
ner had been knocked out, and Eccles got
into the turret with the Iowa man.
I'VE was getting along all right" said
Eccles, "stomping on machine gun nests and
shooting at bOcheS, when silver OF bullet
came in through this little eyeslit the driver
looks through and hits this Heady guy on
the nose. 1t didn't hurt him any-didn't
even bI eak the skin-but it makes him mad.
So then he goes on Joy ride through this
town, with me yelling at him to stop and him
a-sWearing."
Eccles, could see more than Heady could,
because he was in the turret, from which he
had a view around the whole circle. But that
made no difference to Heady. Glaring
through the little eyeslits he charged head
down, rhinoceros-like, at every boche defense
he saw. The frantic EccleS in the turret
would catch sight of many things he wanted
to shoot at, but he got no chance. The one
thing he could do was to ride along with the
angry Heady-"and him a-swearing and
shoot at what Heady saw. Now and then
Heady caught glimpses of boches running at
right angles to his cOurse-Out of the tail of
his eye-and then he whirled the tank on
pivot and started for the rUnaways.
A LITTLE ALTERCATION
"I might just as well been back on the S.
o. S." said Eccles, "as be riding along with
this Heady guy. He didn't have NO sense
Just KEEP rammin at boche stuff, whether it
had men in it or not. I'd just get started
nice to shootin' at somebody when-whang.
Around he goes on his ear after somep'n
he's seen somewheres else. l Jpn kicked
him in the back and told him to behave"
Eccles was right, of course He was in
command of this mad tank, rambling and
roaring through the gray mist, and command
is taken seriously in the army. You ought
to see a first lieutenant address a second
lieutenant some time! If his command did
not obey orders, it was his duty to make his
command obey. So he patiently kicked away
at Corporal Jim Headys back until that
angry soldier consented to do as he was told.
"But I'll get you for this promised Cor
poral Heady.
wait till haven't got battle on my
mind, and I'll trim you up like cane"
Corporal Joseph Eccles' reply was cryptic,
when asked if Corporal James Heady had
made good his threat:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-29
INTO His Courts With Praise.

-HIS Thanksgiving comes with vastly
widened meaning. In other years we
y have been grateful for the blessings Of
ur own land; today we are grateful for those
the worId-a world restored TO peace and
with new visions. The greatest OF wars has
ben brought to a righteous end. Soon men
III be filling the crimsoned earth and sail
N the wide seas as in the old untroubled,
nys. Millions will take up their lives
8roken threads and weave anew those calm
nd cheerful destinies OF which the broad
eft Of human history is made.
. But would the war have been worth while
its end meant nothing more than re-
arn to tranquil living? Would peace be
forth having were it merely a sweet
#biiyious antidote' that left wrongs unre-
hfted and the old infections unpurged? Our
bief cause for thanks iving is that out OF the
hguish and struggle have come a surer gift
h freedom and Of faith. The forces OF
umanity have proved harder than those OF
ultur, ADLER TO fight and endure, filter to
uryive. They who believed in Right, though
hfaed for a season, have prevailed over the
ngdom of Might. Up through ashen years.
#ood-red with sacrifice. has risen the light,
iumplfing over darkness.
To have borne, as America has, oo-labor-
IS part in that shining task. a lance in that
#orious crusade: to have fought by the side
Belgium and England and Italy and
rance; to have helped give fresh meaning to
Ia truths and heightened majesty TO the
ory OF man;-tor this we should be CRATE
'nl indeed. entering Into His gates with
thanksgiving, and into His courts with
raise"
For the Lord is good; His mercy IS ever
ohsting; and His truth endUreth to all genera
Ions"
Ii is a tribute TO the secure position he
bids that GIr. McAdOO can publicly admit he
broke.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-29

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 25.-At
wv the age of thirteen Robert Field
w broke into the hardware store in his
town, and stole a casefzl of jacknives. His
guilt suspected, he was searched and the
missing property found in his clothing. The
owner of the hardware store agreed to leave
Roberts punishment to his father, who gave
him a vigorous thrashing.
Since then, Robert has not been caught in
any delinquency, but he appears to have
bad influence on the rest of the small boys
in town, and is accused of having encourag-
ed one boy to seal a bicycle. His school rec
ord shows that he is always out of school
because of alleged illness, and consequently
has never progressed beyond the fifth grade
He claims to have heart trouble" kidney
trouble" and stomach trouble"-claims in
which his mother strongly supports him.
Further investigation of Roberts history
reveals the fact that his father, who died
of tuberculosis shortly after the incident of
jack-knives, was a drunkard and ne'er-do-
we'll. His mother also has a very bad repu-
tation.
The case Of Robert Field is only one of
many uncovered in recent investigation of
| Juvenile delinquency undertaken by Kate
Holiday Claghorn of the United States chill
dren's bureau. Out Of twenty-one communi-
| ties investigated Miss Claghorn reports 185
cases of erring juveniles, 119 of whom were
| boys and &c of whom were girls.
Never has the connection between hered-
| ity and crime been more clearly illustrated
| than in this investigation by the children's
| bureau. In nearly every case the parents OF
the delinquent child are shown to possess
mental or moral defects.
Why, for example, did Robert Field
| among all the other little boys in his village
show an irresponsible tendency to lie and
steal? Some will contend that it was the
environment, but at the time that he broke
| into the hardware store his environment was
| much the same that of the other boys in
| his community. Only he was handicapped
| by his heritage-a drunken father and dis
ruptable mother.
Here is another case reported by Miss
| Claghorn: At the age of eleven Harry
| Porterf1eld stole watch from a neighbOr
The neighbor Immediately got out war
| rant for the arrest of both Harry and his
| father, and the watch was discovered in
the possession of the father. The father
asserted that Harry had stolen the watch
and that he was going to make him return
| it, but this was doubted by all who knew
the father. Two years later, Harry had be.
come the leader of gang of boys who were
causing the village all sorts of trouble
| Among other things, they wrecked several
| buildings on the local picnic ground. Ar
investigation of Harry's family showed that
! his father had a reputation for stealing
| principally chickens; that he had been or
| probation twice for deserving his family
| and that he was in the habit of going or
| sprees every time he got money enough.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-29
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Caller-I sent you a poem about three
weeks ago. What have you done with itF
Editor-Pm holding it. Every little while
get to thinking that we are not getting out
as good a paper as we ought, and then I take
out that poem and see how much worse the
sheet might be, and that makes me cheerful
again. Say, how much'll you take for it?
Some time before the war a British naval
officer went to China to inspect station. He
found a sergeant in q neat cottage on hill
side what are you doing?" he asked.
Taking care of Admiral Fremantle's goat"
replied the sergeant.
''But he has been dead for twenty-five
years." said the officer.
$50 has the goat" answered the sergeant,
"but they've left me here"
The youth seated himself in the dentists
chair. He wore a striped shirt and wonder
full check suit and had the vacant stare that
so often goes with dignifed clothes.
The dentist looked at his assistant. II am
afraid to give him gas" he said.
"Well,' said the dentist, chow can tell
when he's unccnscious?"
There are about 100000 retailers in the
United States who sell chewing gum. Great
Britain and Canada have recently recognized
the manufacture of chewing gum as war
essential. Our men crave chewing gum when
they cannot get water, and vast quantities are
being supplied to the allied armies and naVies.
From the Peoples Home Journal. 49,.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-29
THE JOURNALS BOOKSHELF

1.-THE Edge OF the Quicksands," by D.
New York City.
Mr. Curtin, while an American, kept in
close touch with affairs in Germany as well
as England and neutral countries. He en-
phasizes the differences between the German
people and the Americans, and describes the
quicksands into which the German people and
army were being driven.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-29

The Journals Service Flag

In honor OF the seventy-three Atlanta Jour
|al men who have entered the service or their
buutry. The two white stars are in memory
Captain Meredith Gray and Captain James
Moore, Jr, Journal men, who gave their
hes for our country in France.
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-29

Our own unofficial opinion is that IL the
allies insist, Holland won't hold out for keep
ing the ex-kaiser.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-29

IL Is a tribute TO the secure position he
olds that NIr. McAdOO can publicly admit he
broke.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
VEGETABLE SEED PRODUCTION
SURVEY.

Total production Of vegetable seed
with the exception of cabbage, let
tuce, satisfy and turnip, will be ample
for the needs Of the coming year, ac-
cording to preliminary returns from
the seed production survey of July /,
1918, and crop reports from import
ant commercial seed growers. In
some cases where the condition of
crops is not satisfactory increased
acreages are expected to bring the
total production up to normal, while
more than normal production of seed
is indicated for some kinds of vege-
tables. This condition, it is pointed
out, does not necessarily mean large
surplus, for it is known that large
orders have been placed for certain
vegetable seeds by foreign concerns
for export to ountries in Eukope
". ich formerly have been exporters
of these seeds to the United States.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
GLAD TO testify
Say. Watoga Lady, "As To What
Cardui Has Done For Me, So
As To Help Others.

Watoga, w. Va.-Mfs. S. w. Caldwell,
Of this town, says: "When about IS years
Of age, suffered greatly Sometimes
would 60 month or two, and | had
terrible headache, backacf1e, and bearing
down pains, and would just drag and
had no appetite. Then ;. it would last
:. two weeks, and was so weakening,
and my health was awful.
My mother bought me a bottle OF
cardui, and | began to improve after
taking the first bottle, so kept if up till |
took three -. gained, and was well
Ind strong, and owe it all TO Cardul.
am married now and have 3 children
Have never had to have doctor for
iemale trouble, and just resort to Cardui
Il need tonic. | am glad TO testify to
what it has done for me, SO as 10 help
others"
If you are nervous or weak, have head
aches, backaches, or any of the other
ailments so common to women, why not
give Cardui trial? Recommended by
many physicians. In use over 40 years.
Begin taking Cardui today. 1t may
se the very medicine you need
NC-lN
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
e.,..n.te Disproportion'

,.orle's Gazette al Thibo-
/ .,,oted considerable space IN
i, an after-the-war problem
"A to do with the probable
.snnee of women over men
~. An Italian sociological
So figured out that if the war ar
A. the year 1919 there will
a l24 women to 100 men IN
~ countries. The Gazette
=. very happy phases in such
aou Of affairs. The gents
|. die to select for brides only
q, measure up to their highest
besuty and disposition and
III IN great race improve
lrmy life is improving the
the men which will also
q fleet along this line, too.
E,p become Of the surplus wo'
| Ne Gazette has this answer;
! Aould worry. Even before
4, goodly percentage of them
10 get ensnared into matri'
! Il win merely be easier for
n void the matrimonial pitfall'
could be 100 many angels
m sex around u.s." We agree
= list sentence particularly.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17

feared in a labor hall as elsewhere
He is more likely to "hold the BALI
than the open-minded chap who wants
all the facts and who is willing to
face the weakness in his own case in
order to get the facts.
1t is important in discussing the
social questions Of the day to remem-
Der that we have not yet mastered
even the ell ments of the problems
of society. Most Of us are quick to
suggest remedies which are based
upon a few isolated facts or upon a
very limited experience. Actually it
is the man with the Lost limited ex-
perience who is always ready to offer
cure-all for every ILL.,
AS a man comes to learn about
the many -sidedness of life he becomes
less ready to offer plans for saving
society. Until the last fact has been
brought out we cannot afford to be
dogmatic. We must be opportunists
that is, we should be ready to do
the next thing, whatever that may be.
There are so many factors to be con-
sidered that no one man can be in
fallible.
Furthermore, it takes the whole
mine" to win the game-Rev. Charles
Stelzle in the Shreveport Times.