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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30
What Would Germany Tao Us?

The news that the Germans have imposed war
tax of two billion dollars Rumania may we'll
prompt to ask what indemnity they would exact
of the United States if they should win the
Rumania lacks about nine thousand square miles
OF being large Georgia. and its population is
some two and half million less than that of New
York state. Its annual revenue amounts to one
hundred and ten million dollars and its total for
egn trade TO two hundred and fifty millions as
against billion one hundred and twenty-five mil
lions in revenue and almost nine billions in foreign
trade for the United States. The New York World
appositely says IF Germany demands two bill
lion dollars from this small European State, how
much. if Prussanism prevails will she demand Of
our country with its population fourteen times as
large, its commerce eighty times great and in
nntely richer in agriculture manufactures and re-
sources"
The three billion dollars we are now called upon
10 raise a loan to the Government for war
necessities is mole hill compared with the noun
famous tax which the Germans would heap upon
us if they should have the opportunity. Every
business, little or large, every factory and farm
every home and every citizen would feel the crush
ing burden. For a generation to come Americans
would have lost their prosperity along with their
freedom. Which shall do lend money to our
own Government at four and a quarter per cent in
terest, for the defense of liberty or pay it
tribute 10 Prussian tax gatherers for the
enrichment OF the murderous Hohenzollerns?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30

eases-kidney disease, arteral disease, etc.-now
known to be steadily the increase.
Just at present two factors cooperating to
lessen the menace of Overeating.
One is the abnOrmalIy high cost of living which
has perforce reduced the food allowance of many
people. The other is the appeal OF the goveTnmnt
for food temperance a war measure.
Many persons, however, continue to eat too
much despite high food prices and appeals to their
patriotism.
intend to be unpatrotic. They simply are victims
of mistaken ideas as to the amount of food they
ought to consume to keep in good health
They continue to eat too much because they
long ago acquired the habit of eating too much.
Yet there are certain signs which should give
them ample warning.
One-not always presents tendency to put
and age
Another is a feeling of physical and mental
drOwsiness after meals. The minds of the over
eaters do not work they should and there is
an abnormal Discrimination for physical effort
When this condition develops the daily food
allowance ought Immediately to be cut 1t is dan
ger signal which none afford to disregard.
Disregarding it, symptoms of more seriousness
will soon or late develop. Nature penalties per-
sistent overeating surely as she penalties any
other hygienic error, and more heavily than many
other hygienic errors,
Remember this in these days of world wide
food scarcity Take stock OF your eating habits for
your own good as for your nations benefit.
Copyright, 1918, by the Associated Newspapers
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30
Sir Million Tons of Shipping.

One of the most heartening bits of war news in
many day is the announcement from Washington
that upwards of four million tons of shipping are
now operated by the Government board that an
other million has been launched and is waiting only
to be QUILTED, and that some three hundred thou
sand tons of bottoms in the water will be COM
peted and put into service in the near future. Add
to this the five hundred and fourteen thousand
tons which Japan will place at our disposal
under charter and sale agreement, and we are as
sured of approximately six million tons within the
next four five months.
Furthermore, the Shipping Board and its CO.
operators from other departments of the Govern
ment planning definitely for the 1919
building program and mapping out a general
course for 1920 They see clearly that far
ahead because at last the shipbuilding machinery
is running true to design and is beginning to pro-
duce the results expected of the vast preparations
wooden vessels totalling more than sixty-two thou
sand tons were launched from Government yards
A Seattle yard recently completed an lightweight
hundred ton ship within ffty-five days after her
keel was laid. Evidently the American spirit of
speed and practical performance is astir in our
shipbuilding industry.
The significance to larger problems of the war
is incalculable. 1t apparent from the outset
that the part the United States was to play in the
conflict would depend vitality ships; and
that the need of American troops at the front
is urgent. the question OF transportation is
than ever important.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30

tice But they have already been applied to 80 000
men and 5000 officers, and checks have been ap-
piled which show that the ratings are accurate
In large percentage of cases. Thus the psyche
logical tests OF the men agree strikingly with the
opinions which their officers had formed concern
ing them and the tests of officers correlate we'll
with their ranks and ratings.
The military value of this system of intelHl
gence tests is adequately illustrated by the fact
that they show per cent of the drafted men,
as they appear at the camps, to be so seriousII
defective that they either menaces Oh
nuisances in a military organization The adj
vantages of discovering and eliminating these men
as soon as they reach the camps are abvious.
The commanders in the various training camps
are coming to rely upon the tests for great deal
besides the elimination of the unfit. With an in1
tell1gence rating for every in a companyI
the company officer is much better able to PLACID
and his recruits, while the intelligence ratin
of officers is of the greatest value in making ash
sig1ments and promotions.
This use of intelligence tests in determtnine i
the fitness and abilities of soldiers is really lust
application of business methods to warI
Great corporations have been using these SAM 4
methods for years, and with excellent results
In order to provide an adequate force Of
trained men to make these tests, school of mill
tary psychology has been established at the Medi
cal Officers Training Camp at Fort Oglethorpe.
Georgia. Fifty psychologists are there to bd
given a two months course of training in the sub
jects which they should know in order to practices
their speciality under military conditions. The
will be given regular military training, will bd
taught military psychology. and trained in apply
ing the military intelligence tests.
These psychological tests applied prim arily
as a military measure, the medical exami
nations, but like the anthropological studies O
the Research Council, they will be of the creates
scientific value. After this it will be for tn
first time possible to answer, partly at least, tn
question: What is an American? All sorts o
qualities have been attributed to Americans
ventiveness, versatility, enterprise AS a result
these tests, and similar tests which being an
have been made in European countries, it will b
possible after the war to make an actual compari
son of the average mental and physical develop
ment and capacity of Americans and Europeans
Light will be shed upon many questions of tn
greatest importance. We will know which OF tn
numerous races that represented in Amerfc
thrive best here, and which dying out. W
will know whether New England the South
the Pacific Coast produces the best physical an
mental types. We will know what effect the enoI
nous development of cities is having tn
men that live in them as compared with thos
who live in the country The melting pot wi
have become a known and tested alloy
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30
Eat More Potatoes.

Help win the by eating potatoes,
which thereby saves the wheat supply for the use
of our armies and the armies of Allies.
The United States Department of Agriculture
in a special bulletin the subject calls atten-
ton TO the fact that Germany is beating at
our own game of eating potatoes
The United States is eating 90 quarts per
capita per week, while Austria-Hungary is eating
quarts and Germany is eating quarts
OF course it is easy to understand that the
Germans will eat most anything they get their
hands on nowadays, including a great variety Of
high-priced fake food substitutes which the Ger
man government hasn't got the conscience to stop,
but even at that the Germans ought not to excel
us by any such great proportion in the consump-
ton of potatoes, for they are distinctivey an
American product.
Besides their exceptionally high food value
potatoes have the merit of being tempting and pal
atable in probably more forms than any other
staple food commodity. There are all kinds of
WAYS of cooking them, and what doesn't suit this
mans taste will suit another.
Get your market basket and carry home po-
tatoes every day. Eat them at every meal. Wheat
must have the support of potatoes to hold its
line until the next harvest Not only that, but
millions of bushels of potatoes should be eaten
within the next few weeks else they win be
wasted.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30

VXTASHINGTON, D. c., April 26.-Every
wv listed man and every officer who enters
the United States army from now on will
be put through a scientific test to determine ex-
actly how much intelligence he has These tests
will be made by the Section of Psychology of the
Army Medical Corps, of which Major Robert M
Yerkes is the head
This is the latest phase of a system Of analyz-
ing the manhood of America which has grown
up sort of by-process of our soldier factory.
America has been widely described melting
pot 1t has been, moreover, melting pot OF
which the contents were only vaguely known, and
the result of the melting and mixing process mas
been subject for speculation Now, for time,
the flow of material into the melting pot has been
checked by the stoppage of immigration, and
American scientists making use of the oppor-
tunity to find out just what the human material
of this nation is, and what it is becoming.
The draft law and the call for volunteers
have placed at the disposal of the American gov
eminent almost ideal sample of the male part
of the population. The men who constitute this
sample drawn from every occupation, from
every section of the country, and of every race
that is represented in America. All of this data
concerning each individual is contained in the
QUESTIONABLE which he fills out.
All of these men have, of course, been put
through a physical examination, the results of
which have already been made known to some
extent. 1t shows what percentage of the men in
America of military age are physically it, and
what diseases and physical deficiencies anect the
unfit In addition to this physical test the Com
mittee on Anthropology of the National Research
Council under the leadership of DR.. Ales Hrdlicka
of the National Museum is making an anthropolog-
ical study of representative men in the training
camps. This study consists Of measurements OF
the men notation of the color of their hair and
eyes, and all of their other physical Characters
tics The anthropologists will study typical spec
linens of the southerner and the northerner the
farmer and the city dweler the mountaineer and
lowlander in exactly the same way that zoolo-
gist would study kind of wild animal rms
studv is made primarily for. the scientific value
of the data which will be obtained, but will also
have its military value, especially as showing
how Americans compare physically with their
enemies.
Now comes this third test by which every man
in the army will be given intelligence rating.
This test consists in asking the subject certain
questions causing him to do certain simple things
which have been found by experiment to afIord
a reliable index to his mental power and develop
rnent including both his intellectual power and
his mechanical aptitude. The men are put
through the tests rapidly and in groups 1t Is
NOT claimed that these tests are lntall1ble mere
NV he some men to whom they will not do JUS
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30
Make Payments NO1C.

Every man and woman who has signed sub
scrption card for the purchase of Liberty Bond
should go at once to their respective banks and
make their initial payments.
On account of previous experience the banks
are not counting cards as sales until the signers
have come and made their initial payments In
the two previous loans a large number of people
signed subscription cards and went further,
which caused a considerable shrinkage of At
Ianta's Bond sales when a final casting-up was
taken.
Apparently some of the Liberty Loan sales
men, as we'll as saleswomen, have been crcuat-
ing erroneous information concerning the last
date for making initial payments. This date is
not May g. but May 4. And o'clock the
afternoon of May 4.
When that hour strikes the banks will begin
their final casting-up, and all subscription cards
which have not been taken up with the initial pay
ment will be discarded and put in a separate stack
where the signers may may not take them up
in the future.
But the signer of a subscription card who
waits until the last day to make his or her initial
payment will encounter rush at the bank, and
will hold back Atlantas Liberty Loan sale figures
by this delay.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30
THE STORY OF THE MAGIC
PAPER
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE

once there was Little Girl Who Wanted to
Hahn She had heard how the wicked SaVages had
broken forth and killing torturing, burning
and running. Every night she shuddereo 10 Steep
bacause she thought of little children starving, and
mothers wailing, and old men dying under the
blows of pitiless soldiers In her sleep sne e2ulo
hear the cannon roaring the nome roofs IuInDIins
in and the shrieks of helpless people on SINKING
ships - u.+ohod
him in his new uniform, march down the street
nth his company and had waved her little nag at
him while her mother cried. Her father was DONG
something for the government and her mother ana
sisters were knitting and making bandages.
And she wanted to help.
So one day a Good Fairy appeared to her and
rave her Magic Paper, and said:
with this Magic Paper you too, can help:
Won must keep it for your very own, and not
sell it nor lose it, for it is wonderful.
with this Paper you can give our solder
boys clothes to keep them warm
You can provide teachers TO snow tnem no"
to fight the savages.
You can build houses for. them to live in
You can supply them with food to refresh
when they get ready to cross the ocean this
Paper will bring ships to carry them
when they get to France this paper VII! nave
trains in which they can ride'up to the battlene.
This Paper will put a gun in the soldiers hand
and bullets in his belt. 1t will keep him armed
and we'll fed and strong in body and in spirit TO
more than that. 1t will help our friends who
are fighting with us in the great war to save the
world from the cruel savages.
The women and children who have not died
or been driven away slaves in Belgium and
France have fled away to Paris and other cities
and have no food. no homes; this Magic Paper will
feed them, care for them and house them.
People suffering, starving and dying also
in Armenia; this Paper will save them.
1.-The sturdy English and American ships are
watching day and night to keep the savages from
sailing out and numbering travellers and burning
coast towns with their pirate crews; this Paper
will supply our ships with and weapons for
their heroic watch.
with this Magic Paper you cheer the
soldiers and people of Italy who trying to hold
back the fierce enemy.
when the Russian people recover from their
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30

Tho strength and steadiness with which Eng
lands munition industry has stood the severe
strain of the past five weeks of battle bears sIrlk
ing witness to the efficiency that country has de-
veoped since its first i'll prepared year OF war All
through the 1914-15 and we'll into the succeeding
twelvemonth the English were painfully hanol-
capped both in offense and defense because Oh
munition shortage. So indeed were all the Allies;
time and again t. Russians fought with iron pixies
against a perfectly equipped enemy; and the
French themselves were repeatedly in straits Tor
guns and shells. To this condition were largely
due those great initial gains of Germany Wnlcn
strengthened the way for all her subsequent cam
paigns In munitions as in other fields or pre-
paredness she had the advantage Of the bandlt
who knowing Just when and where he was to
launch a foray, made ready in every detail. How
well the English have overcome those handlcaps
is indicated by the that despite their loss OF
upwards of four thousand machine guns, together
with many other arms and enormous quantities
of ammunition, the current output of their tacto-
res was sufficient to repair all the wastage without
touching their vast reserve stores.
This augurs we'll for the future. When the
present German offensive dies away, it will be the
Allies turn to start a great forward movement for
which they will need a superabundance of all
kinds of munitions The English and the french
evidently are prepared for that time; and progress
of American munition industries under the stlmu-
lus of centralized control and direction promises
to be equally satisfactory.
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Ludendorf says the French digging their
grave The Germans, however, seem to be ming
it up
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30
NVERINDULGENCE in alcoholic drinks is
I D universally recognized potent cause
of human sickness and suffering. But no

~ VERINDULGENCE in alcoholic drinks is
J universally recognized a potent cause
of human sickness and suffering. But no
less baneful is overindulgence in food, the harm
full effects of which are by no means generally
appreciated.
doubtedly caused more i'll health and shortened
lives than ntemperance in the use of alco-
holics. Also it is a more dangerous foe to the
maintenance of national vigor from generation to
generation.
Or as more deliberately stated by specialist
in nervous disorders, DR.. Robert S. Carroll:
"A few years ago a writer the question of
intemperance would have headed his list of dam
aging indulgences with alcohol. While in way
discounting the frightful toll of wreckage
which alcohol has wrought and is still working,
the primary emphasis must be laid upon more
common and seductive enemy.
Food intemperance is larger factor in pro-
ducng the damage which results in defective nerv-
Gus offspring than any other single cause.
Food intempeTance in our land of plenty is al
most universal. Self-posonng from oTereating
produces far greater total damage to nervous
health than overindulgence in alcohol.
"Excesses in meats, sweats, fats if habitCal
and not neutrazed by proper exercise, will, with
in the first second generation result in condi-
ton of overacidity, recognized of the
most common and fundamental physical causes
of modern nervous irritability."
Besides which, owing to the poisonous action
of the waste products absorbed from overloaded
stomachs, food intemperance is directly RESPONSE
BILE for large proportion of the degenerative dis
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30

madness and come again to fight the savages VIII
have deceived and robbed them, this Magic Pape
will encourage them, put strength into their arm
and bravery in their souls.
"This Magic Paper will help build airpIanes t
destroy the enemy, and motor trucks to carry sup
plies to our armies, and factories to make thing
they need.
1T will also erect hospitals and hire doctor
and nurses to attend the wounded
$50 you that almost anything that any on
else can do, you do simply by having this Magi
Paper.
And the Little Girl took the Paper and wa
happy, because she could help.
And the Magic Paper Liberty Bond
Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES


Germans is to paint the sides of their Ut boa
with English Jokes so that when they are In tt
vicinity of the Scottish coast the shippers of til
trawlers are unable to see them!"
Bill and Henry had not met for some tim
when quite Unexpectedly they came across eac
other in the street. Noticing that his chum va
looking downcast. Bill capped him on the bac
and said:
"Wot cheer, Henry? How are yer gettin' on
"Yus, was HenTys sad reply Wife. moth
er-in-law and ten kids"
Little Jessie, from the city watched the farm
er's wife plucIing the duck for the morrow
Please" she asked, do you take off theI
clothes every night"
A witty judge declared recently that "a patrid
who refused to button mis- wife's blousl
A martyr, he went on, lis who attempts an
fails while hero tries and succeeds
Then what is cOward?" asked a curious b1
stander.
oh coward" replied the judge, sis a md
who remains single that he won't have to try
Ex-President Taft talking Recently of I'd
advantages of CONSUMPTION. 1T puts every md
in the place best fitted for him." he said I'D
like the case of the captain of the man-of-war. Fl
saw a new hand loafng by the rail.
" What was this chap in civil life?' he dI
manded.
"A milkman, sir was the reply.
" Then roared the captain, to the pun
with him at once.'"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30

Congress always in the end gives the president
credit for knowing how to run the war.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30

Rasputin seems to be the only missing link
between revolutionary Russia ana Austria.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30
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
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30

Czernns fault. from Teutonic standpoint
seems to be that he had more sense than his boss
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30

The man who neither fought nor bought a
bond or a thrift stamp will have to do some ex-
planning after the Is over
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30

Every time the Germans scof at the size of our
army General Crowder calls another half million
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30

Spring is a Stacker.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-30

Ludendorf says the French are digging their
grave. The Germans, however, seem to be filling
it up.