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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15
PLAY AND NERVOUSNESS
By H. Arlington Bruce

T has long been practice of doctors, when
1 called to deal with nervousness IN chill
valuable help in treatment. Now comes pnysl-
clan, DR.. F. j. Scotsman of Holland, VINO makes
the same recommendation to nervous adults
Not only this but DR.. Scotsman spec1hes par
ticuar kinds of play being especially desirable
for this that type of nervousness
when you are nervous" he says in erect,
increase your playtime allowance. When you
are exceedingly nervous, drop work altogether
and spend most of your time in play as you ala
in childhood.
eff your nervousness takes the form of a Sc
we're depression of spirits accompanied by men
tai fatigue, go to the country.
Take fishing rod with you, and go fishing
every day. Or, if you prefer, equip yourseiI LOT
mountain climbing
''Do not be ambitious to conquer the highest
mountains in the world. Good-sized hills VIII 40.
Explore them thoroughly. Tramp daily. En-
Joy the scenery from the hitops. This will re-
store to you cheerfulness and mental vigor, and
send you back in good condition for your work.
''If however, your nervousness is OF the ex-
citable sort, so that you find yourself irritable
and impulsive, play games that will require you
to cooperate closely and theoretically with otner
people. .--.- c.
Hockey is a good game for this purpose SO
is any kind of ball game that involves team
play. Or doubles in tennis.
contorl At the time they are active
enough to satisfy your ardent nature. ~. ;.
In the main this is excellent advice. but II
is not applicable to all nervous patients
Many nervous patients have never learned 10
play games Neither fishing nor mountain climb
ing appeals to them in the slightest
They admit frankly that it would pore theH
to death to have nothing to do but walk arouhu
and look at scenery. They affirm that they nave
never taken any interest in tennis or hockey or
ball games. .-...- -,o,,,5
In this case, change of occupation would
-probably prove more beneficial than mere play
If possible patients of this sort should De per
shaded to take up some occupation that VIII keep
them outdoors.
For purposes of cure, they may become tarm-
ers or gardeners or stock-breeders. nave known
several cases of nervousness cured by winter IN
a logging camp. L.I
The phyical exercise and fresh air, whether
of outdoor play or outdoor work, are themselves
of curative benefit. That is why it is important
to keep nervous patients in the open as much
possible. . - - 49, Hood
AS they grow physically stronger as the plooo
sunpIv TO their brain becomes purer and rlcher'
they will find il easier to be cheerful tnan 10 De
gloomy. 80 = ,-. -
This provided they playing or working at
somathing really congenial to them. Boredom is
itself a potent cause of nervousness, ana must Dc
avoided bv all who would escape nervousness
consequently every nervous individual should
decide for himself-with his doctors ald-the
kind of game or diversional occupation ne VIII
take M But some choice he should make
Copyright 1918, by The Associated Newspapers
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15
GOVERNMENT IN LUMBER BUSINESs-By Frederic Haskin

wv ASHINGTON, d. c., March 1.-THE govern
w ment is now preparing to take over and OPP
~ crate timber lands. bill comforting the
necessary authority upon the president has been in.
troduced into congress by Senator Chamberlain of
Oregon, and has received a favorable report from
the committee on military affairs.
The evidence which the committee bases It's
report shows that the government is being seriously
hampered in its shipbuiding and aircraft programs
by individual property owners, who either refuse to
sell their timber or insist upon holding it for exorb-
tant prices
Timber has suddenly become one of the most i'm
portant commodities OF war. Without Douglas mr.
and large quantities of 1.-THE government cannot
build its wooden ships. Already southern ship
yards have had to cancel their contracts with the
Emergency Fleet Corporation because they could
not buy the necessary timber in the south. The
southern yellow pine makes excellent substitute
for fir the people refuse to sell it. So, the ship
yards compelled to wait until millions of feet of
timber are shipped from the northwest, and, with
transportation facilities in the present overbur-
dened condition, this means a long wait!
Without tremendous quantities of spruce, the
government cannot build airpanes. According to
the estimates of the army signal corps, every DIT Oh
available spruce will be needed if the war continues
for three years. Yet individuals, Indifferent to the
needs of the nation, now successfully blocking
aircraft construction.
Operation is hindered by the fact that
refusing to sell are asking unfair prices Tor
their holding says the committee of military at
fairs. Furthermore, many stands of timber with
in range of present operations are owned by estates
non-residents, mOrtgaged or tied up in court
proceedings, and available only through process
es upon which the government cannot wait
This bill has got to pass sooner or later, said
Ex-Governor Oswald West of Oregon, the other day.
The we'll known reform governor is in Washington
supplying the government with information con-
corning timber conditions in the northwest. 1T is
the only way out of what is fast becoming an ex-
tremely serious situation"
mot only people refusing to sell their spruce,
but they refusing to sell rent land for log
ging operations" The governor pointed to a map on
the wall of Senator Chamberlain's office. Suppose
the government buys a stretch of spruce here. he
said, indiating point in the west ut has got to
hull pino for he o
to the sawmll; road that must be built over priv
ately-owned land But the land owner refuses to
consent to such an arrangement, and the govern
men must either relinquish any idea of cutting that
particular spruce, possibly, at much delay and ex-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15

pense build a logging road at some less convenient
location
in airplane construction. 1t is the flexible
wood and the strongest for its weight Hence,
nothing could be more disastrous than spruce
shortage and yet that may be exactly what the gov
eminent will be called upon to face in the future
Estimates of the United States Forest Service
place American spruce resources at about log bill
lion feet Of this only three species-the stka red
and white spruce-Or about 55 billion feet-may be
utilized in airplane construction Other varieties,
such the Englemann and black spruce, are not
adapted to such work.
Out this So billion feet of spruce of the species
needed for aircraft, however, only a comparatively
small percentage can actually be used Governor
West asserts that young spruce trees much more
valuable for. airplane construction than the old
trees. AS the spruce tree ages he says, the top
branches become so thick that they exclude the
sun, and the lower branches, deprived of sunlight
wither and drop off. This accounts for the rings
that form around the trunk of the spruce tree and
for it's many knots.
The heart of the tree is knotty, and so it cannot
be used in the manufacture of airplanes. Only
that part of the tree between the bark and the heart
be used. Now, in typical timber stretch in
the northwest says Governor West, perhaps only Is
per cent of the trees spruce trees And of these
probably only 10 per cent could be used for air
plane material Furthermore, of these chosen trees
only onetenth of the wood could be utilized for this
purpose.
1t is estimated that out of every 1000 feet of
spruce shipped to aircraft factories only 200 feet
actually go into airplanes Each individual air
plane requires from 100 to $50 feet Of spruce
cordng to its size and construction. Some of the
small training school machines require only 100
feet and occasionally even other timbers are sub
stituted.
From this it may be seen that American spruce
resources will not last indefinitely. AS the signal
corps of the army says, three-year war may find
them entirely depleted. In the meantime the Allies
depending upon us for their supply. Represen-
tatives of the Allied governments have been given
office in the headquarters of the signal corps in
Washington, where every morning they put in their
daily order for spruce This order is referred TO
General Ledbetter, head of the signal corps, who
70
able.
Great Britain has recently started timber ganga
into the northern forests of Canada at enormous
pense but it will be some time before the first
suits from these expeditions reach Vancouver.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15
And GeOrQiG PGrt5cuL0rLg.

The Albany Herald thoughtfully remarks that
American farmers need have no fear of the in
creased production of hogs affecting the market I'M
favorably 1t a striking fact that there are near
" four million more hogs in the United States now
than a year ago and that the average annual in
crease for the last four years as approximately
three million. But the Herald says:
1T should not be forgotten that even if pro-
duction is increasing unprecedented scale
the food situation in practically all the rest of
the world is growing more acute day by day.
Our allies across the water are crying out for
more food and urging increased production to
the utmost possible limit. Their fear is that
that we will not produce enough, and there is
little likelihood that production of any food
commodity will provide surplus sufficiently
large materially to depress prices. The posi-
tl,4. y. the American farmer, matter in what
section of the country he may live CT what
commodities he may be particularly interested
in producing, seems to be impregnable. He
simply cannot produce anything for which
, there is not active demand induced by world
wide dearth.
Particularly is this true of farmers in the South
where the output of fOodstus heretofore has fallen
far short of supplying own peoples needs much
less affording a surplus for export. Patriotism and
seIf-interest alike demand that Georgia and its
neighboring States raise this year all the food ami
mails and all the food crops their resources and
IabsF supply make possible.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15
The War OVer Here.

Sergeant Verne Marshall, of the United States
army, voices one of the deep and vital truths of
the when he says
'"The gunfire is in France, but not all
the fighting is being done over there The
bloodshed is three thousand miles away, but
the war is being waged here also, here in
Georgia, in Atlanta, as we'll as in France
And the sooner all recognize that fact
the sooner the will be and ended
The things do, the sacrifices we make
for the boys who are representing us at the
front will bring them home to us sooner;
and will bring of them home to US"
These words are the more impressive because
they from soldier who has stood with the
French at Verdun, who has seen the trails of
desolation and human agony that mark the
course of the bestial Huns, who knows from
frst-hand observation something of what our
forces in France must accomplish before the
enemy is hurled back and beaten into accepting
a Just peace, who knows not by hearsay but from
experience how urgent it is that all Americans
on this side of the water do their full duty by
those on the other side at this critical time. 1t
is literally and emphatically true, as Sergeant
Marshall declared in his Atlanta appeal for lib
eral support of the Thrift stamp campaign and
the forthcoming Liberty loan, that the war is
being waged here we'll in France 1t is
the rank and file of loyal Americans at home that
our boys at the front depend for food for clothing
for guns and ammunition, for everything neces-
sary to sustain them and speed them to victory.
Failure to conserve and produce food here at
home amounts to taking it out of the mouths
of our soldiers and their Allies lover there"
Failure to support the Governments credit by
purchasing Liberty bonds Thrift stamps
amounts to denying our boys in the trenches the
equipment and munitions they need both for their
own defense and for overcoming their brutal
foe.
Those boys and the hundreds of thousands
training to follow them, for what and for whom
are they offering their lives? For nothing less
noble than the freedom of mankind, for nothing
less dear than the liberty and iresides of their
native land. To American soil from Prus-
sian invasion and American women and children
from Prussian beasts-that is what soldier
boys are fighting for. and that is the basal reason
for Thrift stamps and Liberty bonds. Danish the
thought, if INDUCED it, that this is a
PARKWAY war whose outcome will be of little
direct consequence to the people of the United
States 1t is not only the greatest war in which
this nation engaged, not only the costlest
and most far-reaching, but it also strikes deeper
into the principles of national life and deeper
into the heart of our individual faiths and for
tunes If lose this fight, have lost, or
tragically imperiled, stake in humanity and
civilization.
A world dominated by Prussianism would not
be fit to live in. IL is to prevent once for all
that unspeakabe calamity that a constantly
of our own flesh and blood. Who that is worthy
of the name American will fail to support them
in every act of duty and service for which patri-
otism calls?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15
Var Service at Home.

Apropos of the Governments announced mol
icy to make no further draft on agricultural Ia
Dor until this years crops are raised the Column
bus Ledger seasonably urges all the young men
who for the time being are thus relieved of mill
itary duty, Ito get busy at once with a determi-
nation to make showing for their country lust
as If they were actually in the service"
"As matter of fact" the Ledger con-
tinues, they are And they should speed
up activities, and at the same time encour-
age others to go forward in this work They
can strike the Kaiser blow after blow in this
manner, just as if they were using a gun on
the French front, and the same patriotism
which moved them to register and enlist in
the cause of civilization ought to prompt
them to make a showing on the farm during
the next few months"
This is good counsel for their elders as well
fits all workers of all ages On the men and
and sailors at the front, rests definite and
far-reaching war obligation The army and fleet
be stronger than the loyalty of the peo-
pie behind them The effectiveness with which
our war plans are prosecuted will be no higher
than the faith and resolution OF the American
millions. This is everybodys war, involving the
security of every home and demanding the whole
hearted service of every man, woman and child
under the flag. To save food and raise food
to buy Thrift stamps and Liberty bonds, to help
the Red Cross and other war auxiaries, to meet
every patriotic duty and seize every opportunity
for helpfulness-these the ways of true
Amercanism.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15
The Work of the NGUy,

"l'he work of the navy is one of the
most remarkable achievements of the war,
and in no sense has it been found wanting"
So reports the House committee which
appointed some months ago to investigate the
methods and the results of the Navy Depart
ment it has been administered under Hon
Josephus Daniels The country receives the find
ings with keen qualification though without sur
prise, for thoughtful public opinion confidently
expected the navy to measure up to the demands
Oh the time, however great and crucial they
might be- But we imagine the sickly
grimace of those Sir Oracles who less than
twelvemonth ago snarng and sniveling
over what they declared was the hopeless in
efficiency of the Navy Department in general
and of Secretary Daniels in particular. The whole
cOterie of partisan critics. journalistic snobs, in
veterate South-haters and professional trouble
mongers fell to attacking the Secretary with all the
spleen of which long tongues and little minds
capable. But the Administration serenely went it's
way, meeting the duties at hand and making ready
for those ahead with thoroughness and fore
sight which gloriously attested by results.
If Secretary Daniels and his able co-workers ever
needed vindication, they have it abundantly. AS.
the Congressional Committee sums up the record:
First, all the appropriations have been
expended with judgment caution and
economy.
second, the navy with limited personnel
and equipment has met very difficult
situation with skill and a high degree
of success.
Third, the efficiency of the navy's pre-
war organization, the readiness and fitness
OF its men and ships for the arduous part
imposed by war early put to the acid
test, and thus far in way have they been
found wanting"
As for the work of the fleet itself, the deeds
of its gallant officers and men, the dangers they
have faced and the splendid guardianship they
have held, we shall not know the full story until
the war is over. But do know that they have
played decisive part in graphing and throt-
Ting the U-boat peril We know that not a
single life has been lost on the troop transports
they have conveyed three thousand ocean
miles, although submarines infested the way. It
is reasonably surmised that some five hundred
thousand American soldiers now in France
1t was the navy that put them there in safety
We know, moreover, from the House commit
destroyers in from one-third to one-haIf the
time considered possible before the war; and
that we are rapidly developing the greatest feet
of destroyers the world ever saw These things
have come to pass under Democratic admins
tration, under the Secretaryship of"the North
Carolinian to whom snobs and snivelers were
wont to refer "a country editor" AS with the
Navy Department, so with the War Department;
patient merit finds its vndication in results
while the petty scorners are lost in the shadow
of achievements they too little to under
stand.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15
PRACTICAL HEALTH, TALKS
By John B. Huber, AM, MD.
WOOD ALCOHOL.

Without health life is but WEAKNESS. '-Haoelats
Wood or methyI alcohol wood spirit, even
when it is a refined product, is far from harmless
When inhaled the latter is quite as dangerous az
the unrefned; possibly more so, because it hag
not the disagreeabe odOr to warn of its presence.
Painters GLACIERS varnishers launderers, boot and
shoemakers, BARRIERS printers, photographers, piano,
cabinet furniture and other wood workers, metal
workers in general (brass, gold, silver) tanners,
chemists and the like, may suffer from wood alcohol
poisoning.
As little as ounce of wood alcohol has made
men, and women, too, hOpelessIy blind; has induced
incurable deafness. Nor there be any more
ideal form of Knockout drops than wood alcohol
whisky the kind you put old doors to scrape of
the paint with" Whilst exposure to the vapor, in
good ventilation, for hour or two daily, does not
seem to have ill effect, the more exposed artisan
will in time show weakness trembling, unsteady
gait disorders of digestion, the nervous system
and of the heart, lungs and Kidneys
In whatever factories or workshops wood alcohol
is used placards should be conspicuously posted
warning of its poisonous properties and hours OF
labor should be so arranged as to allow of frequent
exercise in the open.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15
OUIPS AND QUIDDlTIES

What brilliant conversationalist young Mr..
Jenkins is Do you know him? Really it's an
education to listen to him talking
Yes" said gentle Mrs. Smith, Il have met
him"
You must have found him very entertaining
He can talk cleverly and wittily for an hour at
stretch
Then when l met him said Mrs. Smith, sit
must have been at the beginning of the second
hour"
A private in Irish regiment and life-guards-
man we're blowing" about the standard of height
in their respective regiments.
why" said the life-guardsman, "one of our
fellows is so tall that he light his pipe at
Iamppost"
''Be iabers." retorted Pat. Flanagan of
company is so tall that the beggar has to get down
on his knees when he wants to put his hands in
his trousers pockets"
tourist happened to meet the usual oldest
inhabiant" of a village In the course of CONVEX
saton be asked the ancient how old he Il
be Just hundred" the reply. well | doubt
if you'll another hundred years." said the
tourist, trying to make conversation. Il don't
know so much about that, MASTER the hope
full response 81 be stronger now than when /
started my first hundred"
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15

Sergeant Verne Marshall of the United States
army, voices one of the deep and vital truths oil
the when he says:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15

TIC .IUUIIIdI , NII VIZ M
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
Crav who gave his life on the French Battlefield.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-07
LIBERTY FAIR ID BE
 HELD IN IDS ANGELE5
(By Associated Press)

LOS ANGELES, March War ex- hibits will be the feature, and the Red Cross the beneficiary, of the Cali fornia Liberty Fair" which will be held here in October, ins:ead of the GUS tomary district fair, according to plans announced by the Liberty Fair Asso- citation organized last month here.
 The exhibition will be, in reality, the district fair authorized by the state legislature at its last session, and for which an appropriation of $5O,0OO is available. This appropriation will be expended in preparing and showing the exhibits, and the net proceeds of the fair, which will continue for the last two days of October, will be given to the American Red Cross.
 F. B. Davison, who is manager of the state building at Exposition park in this city, has been selected as sec retary of the fair association. Mir. DavisOn announced recently that the various public buildings at Exposition park will be utilized to house the af- fair, and temporary pavilions will be put up to supplement them. All war activities, such as the Red Cross, the Red Star, the Thrift campaign, the campaigns for conservation, produc- tion, and kindred wo~K, will be assign ed adequate space and lectures. dem onstrations, and literature will be fea- tured.
 The usual components of a country fair or a district fair will be included, and will be given due attention, but the prime plan of the committee in charge, which includes about 180 Los Angeles men and women, will be to make the exposition a real aid to the war work at home.