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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-14
TO YOU, o BRITISH
By DR.. Frank Crane

To you, o British, hats off.
You have fought a good fight; you have kept
the faith.
Night and day, in storm and fog, in wind and
hail and angry SEAS your fleet has kept faithful
watch for the tiger ships of the enemy. You have
kept his ironclads in their hole. They have not
dared to forth.
Undaunted you have met the menace of his
sneaking submarines You have borne uncom-
plainingly the wounds of his piracy
He has shelled your unfortifed towns bombed
your peaceful cities. He has gloried in dishonor
and inhumanty that he might cause you fear and
break vour spirit But you have gone grimly on
Your sons, highborn and commons, nave reap
ed to the breach to keep their pledged word Win
Belgium. .-s
overwhel Ginning masses of the foe. You have built
the rampars of civilization with British dead
You have poured out your treasure like water.
You have not spared your young lives.
You have not suffered France and Italy to fall
unaided.. You have clasped hands with them in a
grin of brotherhood that only death can dissolve.
You have maintained the traditions of ch1valry
and honor against enemy that practices the
last vilainy of barbarism.
We fought you twice. We were enemies. But
after a hundred years of peace, the hate has
gone from our hearts, and in the great crisis Of
the world we come togther, brothers in arms, side
by side to do utmost against the common enc
my of mankind.
You have your mannerisms. as we have ours;
our accents differ; but we see, and salute your
uncovered hearts, hearts of oak, of fine courage
of unsullied tenderness.
America is with you to the last dollar, to the
last man to the last of inventive resource
fulness.
What are our little differences, our drawing
room divergences our commercial rlVaires, Wnen
tbe common foundations of our civilization are
threatened?
So where you and France and Italy stand we
stand Our battleships line up with yours. Our
bows from Kansas and Connecticut take their
place in the trenches with yours from Australia
and Canada.
We are not fighting for Great Britain, for
France nor for Italy, for America neither are
you; we are fighting, in a blood-cemented league
that shall forever be unbroken, for humanity for
all free peoples everywhere.
Our. cause is one. We go with this war,
not to further any national ambition not to wreak
an ignoble vengeance, but with high purpose
unon which we can pray for the blessing of the
Saviour of the world, because we fight to save
the world. .
Stand fast British We coming. And
v,e will see this thing through, whatever happens.
Here's our heart, and here's our hand!
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-14
Blocking the U-BoGtS

Though not entirely successful, the effort of the
British to repeat the entrance to Ostend harbor
what they recently accomplished at Zeebrugge in
blocking the egress of U-boats rewarded with
substantial results. The sinking of three hun
dred-foot vessel in the neck of the channel, which
itself only about three hundred and twenty feet
wide, will materially hamper the enemy's sub
marine operations from that base and eventually
perhaps with the steady accumulation of silt, will
completely obstruct them. 1t is to be expected
moreover that the Allied forces will make addi
tionaI and probably efectual efforts with a view
to thwarting all submarine activities directed
from the Belgian coast.
This is but of the aggressive means by
which U-boats successfully combated
The destroyer, the depth bomb the armed mer
chairman and other weapons, some of which may
be are not publicly known, make the seas more and
more perilous for German pirates. This
year ago Allied tonnage being sunk at the rate
of from twenty to forty vessels week. The num-
Der of ships being destroyed so far in excess
of those being built that it was all too easy to
not fatally short of ocean transport facilities if
conditions then existent continued. But spring
ripened into summer the sinkings began to decline
and kept declining until the U-boat is no
longer regarded as a potentially decisive or pri-
marily important factor in the By means
is it yet conquered; but has been brought within
,...; oontrollable and continually narrowing lin
its This alone would be a momentous achieve
meut for the American and the British navies
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-14
TALK THRIFT
BY H. Addington Bruce


The newspapers have forcefully been preach
ing thrift. From the pulpit clergymen have been
earnestly advocating it. Lecturers war subjects
continually refer to it. Every department of the
government has urged it through innumerable
pamphlets and posters
Yet all this has not been enough. Thriftless=
ness still is RAMPANT. Something else is needed.
That something, it seems to me, is persistent
talk about thrift, in the home and on the street,
by all persons who appreciate the exceptional need
for thrift at the present time.
Let thrift become general topic of CONVERSE
tion and it is safe to predict that waste and
travagance will soon be far less in evidence than
they Unhappily are today.
Many people, it is important to remember, do
not read newspapers carefully. Many do not read
them at all, because they are iliterate and can
read nothing.
Many never go to church. Many have failed
to attend single lecture. Many do not give
a passing thought to books pamphlets,
posters on serious subjects.
Such people necessarily remain unaffected by
the various agencies for intoxicating thrift.
If they MASTERS they continue to be waste
Internationally with regard to food-because
they early acquired habits of wastefulness, and
because their mental habits such that they are
adamant to most educational influences.
1t is not righteousness or wilfulness that makes
them wasteful. 1t is colossal, almost incredible
ignorance.
a constant preaching of thrift in their hearing
by fellow citizens.
They need to hear thrift talked in the street
cars at the theater, at the moving picture show,
in the markets and department stores where they
shop Thrift should become universal theme
that they cannot help hearing of it wherever they
go.
And this public discussion of thrift should be
exceedingly concrete. Specific ways of saving,
little economies in the sewing and the kitch-
en-, should be talked about. Specific forms OF
waste notably in misuse of food, should be I'M
sparingy condemned.
As a result there will unfailingly be borne into
the dull minds of the MASTERS the consciousness
that they are out of tune with the rest OF the
community.
They will listen-they cannot help listening
and thereby they viii learn. Gradually they VIII
grasp the Importance of renouncing wasteful Gus
toms of which they have been guilty.
Impervious to everything else, they will not De
impervious to this: But public opinion must speak
out loud to affect them.
Keep this in mind. Talk thrift at every op-
portunity.
When in the street car you meet a friend turn
the conversation to thrift topic Tell your
friend some of the things you are doing to help
your country through thrift.
Your friend may be thrifty as you But
in the seat opposite an ignorant waster may need
the education your talk will give.
For the waster's benefit and your nations good
make It a point to spread the thrift gospel Tt
is a patriotic duty you should be more than will
ing to perform.
Copyright, 1918, by The Associated Newspapers)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-14
OUIPS AND OUIDDTTIES

Little Herman was very fond of his aunt who
was visiting at his home. She had gone to see
her sister-in-law in the afternoon and he was get
ting anxious for her to return. After looking out
the window several times and not seeing her
coming he asked impatiently, Mama, is auntie
going to stay till dark by the new timer"
when l began business" said the plutocrat
YEARLY ''I made a solemn vow that when had
made an even million 1 would quit
but you've made that many times over, said
the other man. land still are accommodating.
THAT'S the curse of it. Whenever 1 think I've
made an even million find on figuring 1t up it's
either little more little less, and I've got to
renew the heart breaking struggle"
Two darkies suing for divorce 1t was
necessary for the old parson who had married
them to testify. He appeared and this colloquy
ensued:
Judge-'Nigger, what's your manner"
Parson-"William Lewis, c. W. B. M, yoh
honah."
Judge-''Do you know this coupler"
Parson-"Yas, sub, do"
Judge-"Did you marry them?"
Parson--"No, subj"
Judge-"Didn't marry 'em? Why, they have
proof you did"
Parson-"Mebbe So boss, but yo' it was
lax dis Dat yaller Niger come to me an said
he'd glib me 50 to marry him. I sch alright and
he went and got dat ole woman and brung her to
de church. Just befo' de ceremony he low as how
he amt got but six bits to glib me. Boss couldn't
pubform no regular ceremony lax dat for measly
six bits so just de Chritian Endeavor pledge
ober EN- and turned loose"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-14
Keep on Buying Thrift Stamps

The waycross Journal-Herald relates the pleas
ing incident of young man who was cashing the
interest coupons of his first Liberty Bonds. When
the teller handed him his silver, he shook his head
Give it to me in Thrift Stamps" he said. The
majority of persons owning two Liberty
Bonds can well afford to follow this example of pa
triotism and foresight. AS the Journal-Herald OBJ
serves THE interest will not go far in the way of
buying luxuries, but it will help fill the Thrift
card; and if there enough Thrift cards in the
comforts and Iuxuries can be purchased with what
the Government pays to redeem them"
1t should not be forgotten, that the sale of
Thrift Stamps goes steadily While Liberty
Loan campaigns come only two three times
year the War Savings movement is constantly be-
fore the people with its rich opportunities for wise
and patriotic investment While there are some
persons whose earnings and responsibilities will
not allow them to buy Liberty Bonds, there few
if any who cannot buy twenty-five cents Thrift
Stamps one at a time and thus in the course of
weeks or months come to own one or more War
Savings Certificates These Stamps and Certificates
are lust as safe an investment are Liberty Bonds
lust as profitable and can easily be converted into
cash.
1t is TO be hoped that the school children of
Georgia will continue the excellent work they have
done in the patriotic savings campaign and that
their elders will join them in turning loose the
pennies and nickels and dimes into investment
for liberty and justice and lasting peace.
You could never make young men between 81
and 81 believe that General Crowder was not on
the job.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-14

greater part of the lands which have come under
the heel of German conquest
But such promises would be snares to
weaken the purpose and the endurance of the Allied
peoples without which the Allies armies cannot go
forward or even hold their Indeed, Germany
could we'll afford to restore Belgium and northern
France. together with Serbia and Rumania, and
Alsace-Lorraine if at the time she were
allowed to keep considerable part of her treach
erouly got Russian conquests. She could make num-
bers peace proposals which, though appearing to
concede much, would be in reality a triumph for
Prussiansm and a prologue to another terrible
war. But there is only settlement which
America and the Allies afford to consider and
that is overthrow and plotting of Prussanism.
That will only guarantee of justice and last
ing concord. Peace talk OF less resolute purpose
is not truly the voice of peace, but the voice of
PrusSiansm.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-14
Saving the SOIL

farm from which crops gathered year
after year with never thought to the depletion of
the soils productiveness is aptly likened by the AL
bany Herald to a bank account which is steadily
drawn upon and never replenished- There be but
outcome TO this needless pOhcy-exhaustion and
poverty. Furthermore, the Herald observes,
there is no more admirable science art than
that which comprehends the making of profitable
crops by processes which enrich instead of exhaust
ing the soil" The farmer who practices those
methods is the great and the great build
of the Commonwealth. He is not only helping
sustain the present generation but is safeguard
ing and enhancing the most precious material
heritage of generations to come.
The folly and wrong of the all-cotton system
of agriculture-which happily is passing, and
amongst thoughtful planters is forever dead-lay
chiefly in sappng the soil of its vitality in contin-
ualy taking out and putting back those plant
foods without which land becomes useless for
agriculture as the Sahara. That sort of farming
not only ruins the who practices it, if he keeps
it up long enough. but it also robs the future 1t
is dangerous and in the end destructive not only to
the interests of the individual but to those also of
the public. The farmer who goes from season
to season recklessly impoverishing his soil is now
regarded as woefully mprovident but the time will
come when he wi. be regarded as actually hostile
to the weIlbeing of the people.
Soil conservation becomes continually more i'm
portant to Georgia and to the entire country The
State can render more substantial service to its
citizens than through literally fostering those of
its institutions which teach its young men and
women, and their elders WELL this great lesson.
The British will survive a little row in parlia-
ment effectively as they do the German push
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-14

You could never make young men between 81
and 81 believe that General Crowder was not on
the Job.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-14
AMERICAN ENGINEERS COOL UNDER BoCHE FRE-By

Germans came over some months ago. And it was
the engineers who invented the company
Kitchen and it is the engineers who laying the
lines of communication which will enable the new
American army in France to speed up some time,
and it is the engineers who cheerily running
trains into Verdun under fire every day. One
doesn't hear very much about them, but they are
one of the most important strands in the complex
fabric of army organization.
81 never thought l could learn to like digging
ditches" said Dutch, but the level do"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-14

The British will survive little in parlia-
ment as effectively they do the German push
on the west front.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-14
The Journals Service Flag

In honor Of the sixty-one Atlanta Journal men
Who have entered the service OF their country. The
one white star Is in memory Of Captain Meredith
GRAY who gave his life on the French Battlefield
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-26
AMERICANS ARE COFFEE USERS
Most Of Costa Rica's Crop
of 25,246,7ll Pounds

Official statistics of Costa Rica's coffee
exports for the last season, from August
81, 1917, to date, shows shipments total
ing 25,246,711 pounds gross. These figures
show that Costa Rlca shipped in that
period 1,T9T.S39 pounds less coffee than
in the corresponding period of last year.
OF fully milled coffee 25,179,s33 pounds
were exported and 66,77s pounds of
coffee in parchment were shipped. These
figures are respectively 1914 and 0.26
per cent Of the total exports.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-26
BOOM
TOLATIN AMERICA
Efforts Being Made to Add
New Lines and More
Ships
WANT r FLEET
Appeals From Buenos Aires,
Cities in Brazil and Other
Countries Received
WANT r

Philadelphia's port boosters are work.
ing hard to gall for this city n greater
mercantile feet for South American
trade.
Just as soon as many steamers are
released from Government control, both
Allied and American. virtually all the
former lines running from this port TO
South American shipping centers VIII be
resumed and new lines started. n
will boom Philadelphla's South Amer
lear trade. -
philadelphia is the natural seaport
to South America It Is a big manufac-
turing and railroad center and nearer
by many miles to South America than
New York harbor." said Director Web
ster, of the Department OF WharNes'
Docks and Ferries. and head OF the port
development committee.
War had badly crippled u trade 70
the south, but 1t IL now being resumed
and we are striving to get new lines
and open a big trade path from TINS
city"
Iron ore. nitrate. fruits. lumber dur
ing the present month have again begun
TO follow in greater quantity from South
America to Philadelphia. However. the
shortage of bottoms has kept much OF
this cargo bound in the country from
which It originated.
The efforts to reopen South American
trade on a "bigger-than-ever' style has
been spurred with new appeals from
banking and commercial institutions IN
South American countries.
Concerns in Buenos Aires. ports in
Brazil and other countries have been
promoting an advertising campaign to
open business with Philadelphia.
A number of the big steamship com
panies here have virtually promised that
they would start regular lines with
South American ports on a big scale
just as soon as their steamers were re-
leased from Government control.
The present shipping emergency has
been partly met by n larger ALLEGATION
of schooners trading between this port,
Buenos Aires and other southern ports.
Much of the commerce existing has been
more or less dependent on the schooners
for many months.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-26
SHOWS OPENINGS
TN FOREIGN FIELDS
II. S. Commerce Bureau
Issues Report on Latin
American Countries
MANY OPPORTUNITIES
Government Expert Tells in
Detail of Chances for In
vestment Of Capital

The growing appreciation of the Inn
~porthnce of foreign investments as n
factor In developing trade has led the
bureau of foreign and domestic COM
nerce TO issue a report outlining the
investment situation in all Latin-Ameri-
can countries and the British West
indies. 1t is conceded that the willing
ness OF foreign capitalists 10 assist In
the development of a country's resources
creates a favorable attitude on the part
Of that country's citizens and n recptiv-
iey toward other business proposals.
Before the war the commanding position
Of European nations in certain Latin
American markets was due In large
measure to their great investments
there.
According TO the new report. the
continent OF South America, containing
as Il does extensive areas Of undevelop'd
and partly developed territories, has
proved a magnet for the investment
OF considerable amounts Of foreign
capital. Great Britain, France. Ger
many, Belgium. the Netherlands and to
a less extent. perhaps, the United States,
have Investigated opportunities In the
southern continent and have successfully
developed railways and public utilities,
mines and manufactures FARMS anu
cattle ranches. have purchased Govern,
ment, State and municipal bonds n
have otherwise made investments IN the
nela. Al is d Tatsel VI .no. croot
and perhaps s,shil'eanoe' 80
britain curing the Serets. me- ~
ceuihs tne ou'oreah u tne 90
pean war placed iHreer SUNS
Una tnan III tne C"''eu "'"'e'
The outbreak of the war In l"t4
brought about an immediate change OF
conditions in the European investment
markets. The conservation of the re-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-26

publics. The investments in Argentina
include three railway lines with q mile
age OF approximately $500, Government
bonds, banks. etc. The French have
made loans from time to time to Bolivia,
hold interests In mines. and have other
wise made Investments in that republic,
French engineers are at present building
a section OF the railway link to connect
the highlands of Bolivia with the rail-
ways of Argentina. The public utility
enterprises Of La Paz. the capital, are
under French ownership and manage
ment
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-26
Likely to Cripple Germany

For this reason Germany's rolling
stock and ships are likely to be seized
for the benefit OF the Allies who suf.
fered heavily, Germany being left
what is barely necessary. This handi.
cap will hold her back at least till
the rest of Europe and NAV
be consistent with what President vii.
son calls justice TO Germany. Our
interests and those Of the Allies con.
verge regarding any too quick recov.
cry of German industries.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-26
An Export Message.
TO Manufacturers

- ME END OF THE WAR HA COME so SWIFTLY that most manufacturers find hems
i mprepaed6 for the great EXPORT e that may now be expected.
Prompt acon should be taen by the individual manufacturers this psychological moment to
his postwar export campaign.
We are on the threshold of a new era in world trade whnh ofs stpendousop opportunities to
American manufacturer with initiative enterprise and foresight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-26
DESTRUCTION OF INVESTMENTS
total

In addition to the above total. Great
Britain has invested fairly large amounts
in British West Indian, Colonia and
other securities. The total British West
Indian investments would probably ap-
proximate 500 900, 900, including some
$40. 600. 900 in Colonial oansa n upward
Of $50, 900. 900 in Trinidad oil securities.
Thus the approximate total invested in
governmental and municipal securities
and in stock enterprises throughout
South and Central America, Mexico and
the West Indies may c~onservatively be
said to approach $3.50, 900, 900.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-26
Other Investments

No figures are available as to the ex-
tent of French Investments in Latin
America. The amount placed in Argen-
tina is said to total $500. 900. 900, and
fully that sum has gone into Brazilian
loans and enterprises in fact, some est
mates place the total amount of French
capital in that field as high as $780,
900. 900. There is likewise French cap
ital in practically all OF the other re-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-26
Want German Ships

American shipping advisers favor
surrender of German merchant ship,
ping. except that barely necessary. and
for Germany TO replace as far as pos.
sible the destroyed tonnage OF the AL.
lies and neutrals.
One factor making for sympathy
with the European desire to compel
Germany to pay heavily is Germany's
economic advantage if any other
course is pursued. Nc. having been
invaded. her industries can recover
more quickly than those of any other
country except America. She might
dump goods on the world in competi.
ton with products of the Allies and
our own.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-26

(largely in mining securities) were made,
including bond issues of the Cerro de
Pasco mines, the Chile Copper Company
and the Braden Copper Company, oper-
ating in Peru (Cerro de Pasco Mining
Company and in Chile. These three
great mining properties, developed
through the investment of American cap
ital, have become the greatest mining
properties in South America and rank
among the most important copper pro-
ducers In the world.
American interests have also turned
their attention to developing the petrol
cum resources of Venezuela, Colombia
and Peru, as we'll as the nitrate fields
of Chile, the anganes deposits of
Brazil and other forms of enterprise.
Concerning the ~undeveloped wealth of
the various South American countries, It
may be said that mineral exists in all
the republics, that the forest
of all, except possibly Uruguay, are
very extensive that oil deposits have
been found in almost every country
and are worked commercially in Argen-
tina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and
Venezuela. and that there are lands
available for the raising of livestock
and for agricultural purposes. Although
public utilities have been developed to
a considerable extent, the vast amount
of water power available assures a fu-
ture of greater Importance for this field
of enterprise.