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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-03
APHASIA
BY H. Addington Bruce

, PHASlA. reference 10 which is so often
n made in the news columns Of our
1 papers, may be defined as a mental
malady due to blocking of destruction
Of the brain centers that have to do with
the seeing hearing or speaking of words 1t
has many causes, and may take any one OF
numerous forms.
Not disease only, but conditions created by
unusual excitement or fatigue will some
times bring on an attack of aphasia. Then
people find themselves suddenly stricken
dumb, or otherwise strangely limited in their
linguistic accom- JliShmentS.
If they know more than one language they
may find that they can now talk in only
one. And, oddly enough, this is not always
their native tongue.
Thus young German woman, having been
badly frightened, was unable for long time
afterward to speak a word of German. But
she could still talk we'll enough English,
which she had learned in childhood.
Here the brain trouble was purely func-
tional and durable. So in cases of aphasia
due to slight poisoning of the brain from the
toxins of fatigue or some mild disease. But
the outlook is different if the speech center
is organically damaged. whether by disease,
or as sometimes happens by accident.
Once, as DR.. Hanna Thomson relates, in
his Brain and Personality" a man was
brought to Bellevue hospital in New York
City to be treated for an injury received in
a drunken fight.
The tip of an umbrella, it appeared, had
been poked into one of his eyes. The eye it
self was not badly damaged. But from that
instant, to his horror, the victim has not
been able to utter word.
What had happened was that the tip had
penetrated his brain, 'just where the utter
ing speech center lies resting on only thin
plate in the bony roof of the orbit" There
had been no great bleeding The injury had
seemingly been quite light. But it had been
enough to render the unfortunate man to-
tally incapable of speech. Says DR.. Thomson:
"While l was describing his case to a large
class at my clinic, he saw a student with an
umbrella in his hand, and, poin ing to it, he
burst into tears. But though he wept at his
inability he could not talk"
Aphasia of another kind results if the
brain center Organically or functionally at
fected is that relating to words seen. Then
we have the peculiar condition known as
word blindness.
Persons thus affected may be able to talk
as we'll as ever. But they are unable to read
anything written or printed. They see the
words plainly enough. Only they no longer
have any idea of their meaning.
And again, as in speech aphasia, this type
of aphasia is subject to many variations.
There may be word blindness for one Ian
guage, but no word blindness for another.
Similarly if the center relating to words
heard is affected. A Frenchman who spoke
English well had stroke of apoplexy. Ever
after he could not understand word of
spoken French, but could understand Eng
liSh when it was spoken to him.
All of which surely goes to emphasize the
marvellous complexity of our being, and our
dependence for self-expression IN the integ
rity of our brain.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-03
Motor Mail Service.

From divers quarters comes the suggestion
that the Government can make good use of
two hundred and fifty thousand motor We
hicles, for the most part freight trucks, which
peace leaves on its hands, by employing them
in parcel post service. Soon after we entered
the war motor mail routes were established
in number of districts as a means of econO-
MIXING the railway car space so urgently
needed for military purposes. The trucks no
longer required by the army might we'll be
utilized for extensions and improvements of
such service. There seems all the more rea-
son for this when one reflects that something
like one and half billion dollars has been
invested in the Government trucks-far too
large a sum to go to waste. 1t is obvious.
however, that if long-distance, interstate
motor lines are to be inaugurated by the
Postofice Department. there must be better
defined and better supported system of fed
eral aid for highway maintenance than we
now have. This is one of the many recon
struction problems which congress will have
to conefI1r
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-03
Our Friendship Nth China.

How steadily the long-standing friendship
between the United States and China has
grown in recent years and how substantially
it is manifesting itself in trade relations, is
Interestingly attested in a current report of
the federal Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce. 1t appears that China now pur-
chases from us sixty-six per cent of her i'm
ported motor cars, sixty-three per cent of her
leaf tobacco, fifty-seven per cent of her kero-
sene, forty-seven per cent of nails, forty-two
per cent of tin plate, and thirty per cent of
steel plate. OF the seven thousand foreign
concerns doing business within her borders,
two hundred and sixteen are American--and
they are among the most important.
While the recent growth Of our export
trade with China may be explained partly by
war conditions, American factories having
been free for the production of goods which
European concerns could not turn out, this is
not the root of the matter Our nations
wholly dsinterested friendship for China in
past crises of her history made fertile soil
for commerce. Furthermore, the financial
assistance which we have rendered her has
been duly valuable, and duly appreciated. 1t
Gently approved some fifty million dollars of
loans to China by American bankers About
the same time it was announced that the
United States Shipping Board had awarded
contracts for the construction of a number of
merchant vessels at the Shanghai shipyard of
the Chinese Government. These are i'm
pOrtant factors in the continued development
of happy relations which the war has served
to strengthen.
With Japan and the Orient in general, as
we'll as with China, American commerce is on
a marked increase In the last three years
our sales to those markets have advanced by
the sum of two hundred and eighty million
dollars while during the same period our ex-
ports to South America gained less than one
hundred and seventy millions. The immense
ly expanded transport service which we are
acquiring in our new merchant marine, to-
gether with the extension of American bank
ing facilities to foreign fields. will make for
still wider and richer activity in those prom
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-03
ART SALES AFTER THE WAR

What effect will peace have on the sale of
works of art? That question is agitating
those for whom the saying was coined: Art
comes after bread. Architects forecast a
vigorous return of building; and along with
it there will come a revival of the demand for
the services of artists and artisans. Painters
OF portraits and historical pictures will be
called upon to immortalize persons and scenes
made famous in the curse of the war, while
scuptOrs re not unreasonable if they expect
a harvest of portraits OF distinguished states
men and of monuments to military heroes.
Great wars are more likely to be followed
by renascence of art than by one of litera-
ture, not alone because as a general thing ma
tions have physical objects to replace that
have been destroyed, and so call for things
visible and concrete, but also because abstract
ideas at such periods must suffer from the
agitation of the times which is adverse, if not
fatal, to leisure and to quiet thought. In
epochs OF stir and action the pause that comes
with peace is more favorable to the dOer than
the thinker. A nation that has a corps of
trained artists and artisans ready to resume
their tools is pretty certain, with peace, to
enter into an era of art. America had sncb
an experience after the Civil war, although the
number Of her artists and their training left
much to be desired Great masters appear
only now and then, but minor artists are like
other professionals, in that they can be
trained. We are never sure hat corps
d'armee contains generallsslmo whose name
will echo down the ages, but unless we have
the corps it is unlikely that the generalissimo
will appear at all, since the soil on which he
grows is lacking.
At present we are in much better shape than
we were in 1865 In case the country sees its
way to call for art works of the most varied
character. from a miniature to park, from
pocket medalio to a state capitol, the men ~
respond are here. The general condition of
the arts however, depends on he will and
ability of the Public to buy works of art. Are
taxes on income are the rise in rents and en-
HANGED cost of living, about to block the buyer
of art works? Will they continue to discour-
age the collector?
A singular p ~nomenon was reported few
months ago from Berlin, namely, Gales of old
nicturpe and hric-a-brac at prices far above
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-03

When the superb and Incompatible crisis
comes the Day of Days, and all hearts are
too full, nothing can express the upspringiug
emotions so we'll as the sonorous and state
ly words of the Bible.
To GERMANY
Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, We
scOrnful men, Because you have SAID, We
have made a covenant with death and with
hell are we at agreement; we have made lies
our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
ourselves; Therefore thus said the Lord God,
Behold, judgment will l lay to the line, and
righteousness to the plummet; and the hail
shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the
waters shall overflow the hiding place. And
your covenant with death shall be dis
annulled, and your agreement with hell shall
not stand; when the overlooking sceurge
shall pass through, then shall you be trodden
down by it. Qsaiah.)
TO RUSSIA
Be not deceived; God is not Knocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also
reap. (Galatians)
TO BELGIUM, SERBIA AND ARMENIA
The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; be-
cause the Lord hath anointed me to preach
good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent me
to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim
liberty ~ the captive, and the opening of the
prison to them that are bound; to proclaim
the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day
of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that
mourn. And they shall build up the old
wastes, they shall raise up the former desola-
tions, and they shall repair the waste cities.
For the Lord love judgment, hate robbery
for burnt offerings. (Isaiah)
TO FRANCE.
Arise shine; for thy light is come, and the
glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For,
behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and
great darkness the people; but the Lord shall
rise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-03
1t was the most thankful Thanksgiving in
four long years.
The L essen of Thrift.

There is a cheering lesson of thrift in the
story from England that notwithstanding the
country's huge investments in Government Sc
curities, the Postoffce Savings banks and the
Trustee Savings banks on October the twenty
sixth last held balances of two hundred and
eighty-seven million pounds as compared
with two hundred and fifty-one mil
lion the year before. That the aggre-
gate of savings accounts should have in
creased so substantially in a twelvemonth of
extraordinary demands on both national and
individual incomes bears striking witness to
English patriotism and resourcefulness The
mass of the people saved in spite of the war,
and because of the war. They saved not only
money but also materials of which the Gov
eminent was in greater need than of gold.
They denied themselves that the soldiers and
sailors might be suficed and the national
cause pressed to triumph. For four years the
people of England, like those of France, have
pursued this policy becoming all the while
more proficient and cheerful in it's practice.
The more they did save the more they could
save.
May we not expect similar results from
Americas wartime economy? Our billions
of Liberty Loans and Thrift Stamp issues
have been raised largely, if not principally by
current savings. This, at least was the
method wisely commended to the people at
the outset; and the majority, we assume left
their past savings in bank, buying Govern
ment securities by means of new economies
Moreover, thousands who never saved before
have learned the lesson. The American peo-
pie are intellectually stronger in their abil-
ity to conserve, and they may be expected to
carry into the era of reconstruction now
at hand those hardy virtues of thrift which
they acquired in war.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-03
History is another word for repetition.
Better Than Interest.

Wiser investments never were made than
Americas loans to the Allies. The credits
established up to September the third are
set forth in Current History as follows: Bel
GUM, $154,2 900; Cuba, s15,0OO,OOO;
France, $2,O65, 900 900; Great Britain, So
745.OOO,OOO; Greece, s15,79O,OOO; Italy,
$3.50 GOO, 600; Rumania, $6,666,666; Rus
STA. S325. OOO,O 900; Serbia, s12,OOO,OO0. OF
the aggregate of s7,oss, 100000 of loans
thus authorized, there has been actually ex-
tended the sum Of $685., 764.75O. In the
large accounting of civilization these expend-
itures have been for our own advantage as
much as for that OF our eo-belligerents. The
great common task of liberty-loving peo-
ples was to defeat Prussianism, and defeat
II 40 Overwhelmingly that its revival as
menace TO future times would be impossible.
The money our government has lent the Al
lies went for that supremely important pur-
pose. IN due season it will be repa'' with in
terest. But already We enjoy its returns IN
the assurance OF a righteous peace.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-03

those obtained before the war. In part, these
values may be attributed to the fall in pur-
chasing power of The mark, but chiefly they
are to be explained by the desire to put funds
won through munitions and speculation into
objects Of permanent value that are less easily
taxed than others. Besides, being portable,
they are fitted for resale in any market, espe-
cially the American 1t was the peculiar stu
alton in doomed Germany that boosted prices
FOR old pictures DUR war time. Elsewhere
sales of antiques have been moderate in guam
tity and not greatly enhanced in price. But
there has been no slump. Most antiques of
note belong to people of wealth who are not
forced to sell. Even in England, where the
war strain has driven so hard against we'll
TODD owners of old masters, there is no sign
of lower prices. On the contrary the steady
limitation of such objects, drifting as they do
into public collections, has produced greater
scarcity and forbidden any shading OF of
values.
Notwithstanding the unprecedented out.
pouring of money for Liberty Bonds and war
charities, there will be money left for most
of the forms of fine and applied art. With the
return to building of hotels, schools, and resi-
dences, we may expect to see mural painting
and sculpture take a new start. Very likely
we shall find that good prices are given at the
varied auctions of books and prints paint
ings and bric-a-brac American, European and
Oriental art-all the miscellaneous objects
that flow toward New York as the great con-
tinuous Mayfair of the Western Hemisphere.
With peace, a weight of anxiety is already
lifted from many breast. The chance re-
turns to crafty old tastes
1t may be that the war has done good in
widening horizons AMI improving tastes. Ger
tainly among the millions of young men who
have gone abroad fair proportion will real
iZe what a power beauty exercises on the
mind, what call there is for better town mod
elling and better building in America, what
need there is for beauty in the home. These
men are not unimpressionable stolid, ordinary
folk for the most part. Keen as soldiers to
stand among the first, they will be keen to
note what is finest abroad and will long 10
bring their own section of America forward in
accord with new standards of art.--New York
Eyenin~ Post. Y
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-03

upon thee Violence shall no more be heard
in thy land, wasting nor destruction within
thy borders. The sun shall no more be thy
light by day; neither for brightness shall the
moon give light unto thee; but the Lord shall
be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God
thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down;
neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for
the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and
the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
(Isaiah.) u
TO GREAT BRITAIN, ITALY AND AMERICA
- And / saw new heaven and a new earth.
And saw the Holy City coming down from
God out of heaven, prepared as bride
adorned for her husband. And heard great
voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tab
ernacle of God is with men, and they shall
be His people and He shall be their God. God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow,
nor crying, for the former things have passed
away. And He that sat upon the throne said,
Behold, | make all things new. He that over
cOmeth shall inherit all things; and will be
his God and he shall be my son. (RevelatiopD
TO ALL THE WORLD
And seeing the multitudes, Jesus went mp
into a mountain; and when He was set, His
disciples came unto Him: and He opened His
mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are
the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven Blessed are they that mourn: for
they shall be comforted. Blessed are the
meek: for they shall inherit the earth Blessed
are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall
be called the children of God. (Matthew.)
DOXOLOGY
And / heard as it were the voice Of great
multitude, and as the voice of many waters,
and as the voice of mighty laundering, saying,
Alleluia: for the Lord God Omnipotent reign
eth. (Revelation)
Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-03
County Health Boards.

Lowndes county, according to the Valdosta
Times, soon will be enjoying the advantages
obtainable under the Ellis Public Health law.
That measure, enacted by the General Assem-
bly, some years ago, provides for the institu-
ton of county and district boards of health
with far-reaching powers of sanitary con-
servation.
Upon the recommendation of two successive
grand jures, there is established a county
board of health composed of the chairman of
the county commissioners, the superintendent
of the county schools and a competent physi-
clan to be chosen by these two from list of
names approved by the State health authori-
ties. This physician serves as the county
health officer and in well-develOped systems is
aided by trained nurses. His duties consist
not only in administering such rules and ordi-
nances as the board may adopt, but also in
constructive educational work. Thus he is
closely identified with the public Schools and
he also seizes and makes opportunities to
bring hygienic knowledge directly to the peo-
pie, either through assemblies or personal
visits. The boards powers of inspection and
regulation are especially valuable in con-
trolling and preventing epidemics For one
example among many, the elimination of i'm
pure water and milk will save thousands of
lives from typhoid.
Lowndes county is warmly to be congratu-
lated upon prospective adoption of this benefi-
cent measure. No wiser investment of public
funds could be made than the comparatively
small appropriation required for the main
tenance of county health system. At a
yearly cost of few cents per capita of the
population, Georgia could establish public
health work that would save the common
wealth millions of dollars and priceless lives.
1t is deeply to be hoped that throughout the
States the example of Lowndes and the other
progressive counties which have availed them
selves of the Ellis law will be followed
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-03
Rights.

what rights" asks contemporary, has
a man to the air over his house, MS barn OF
his Office building?"
The question is not as idle as it seems.
Indeed, it will be altogether pertinent and
practical IL air travel fulflls its present
probabilities When We read the news of
eommodious plane skimming lightly over
London with forty passengers aboard, and
OF another carrying a piano over the Eng
fish Channel to a destination well into
France, we are prepared to believe that the
day of aerial traffic on an extensive scale is
not far futureward.
Now. these developments will make no
difference in the long-intrenched principle
that a landowners rights extend downward
10 the center OF tFs earth; but what about
the equally venerable tenet that they extend
upward as far as the ether zone? Obviously
there will be new problems for the courts to
knit their brows over, new fields for the leg
fsIator, and new delights for the lawyers.
~Airlanes," observes a student OF the ques-
ton, will need definition by statute; pilots
and airlines will need licenses; terminal
privileges will be valuable, and laws for
their regulation necessary; rights of pas
sengers will need consideration; rates of
fare will call for legal enaetments; and air
police will be needed by large cities and
for proper control of country districts"
International law faces peculiarly impor-
faut problems IN aviation, problems involv-
ing not only questions Of territorial defense
but also sundry matters OF commerce. It is
reliably forecast, for instance, that air mail
service soon will be established between
several European capitals, and il time trans
portation service doubtless will follow. In
that event, will not the freedom OF the air
be as vital a question as the freedom of the
seas?
But in noting the problems Of the air, let
Us not forget its opportunities and radiant
reckoning. BY a wondrous intuition man
from his first fumblings and groupings as an
artist, has represented himself as winged.
The empire of his spirit, or rather its great
adventuring-reaIm, always has lain largely
in the skies; and even science, as Bergson
reminds US, first came down from the stars
as astronomy. By that same science, man
now begins to soar.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-03
QUIPS AND QQIDDlTIES

The photographers clerk was very pre-
occupied in showing some samples of work
to prospective sitters when Patrick Maloney
stalked into the studio and intimated that he
would like to know what the pictures were
worth.
Like that 5 shilIings a Dozen" said the
girl, handing him one.
Pat gazed long and earnestly at the photo
graph of very small baby sitting in wash
basin.
"Shure, now Pat SHY asked, "phwat
would it cost wild me clothes On?"
Apparently the ex-Kaser expects to hold
- f,r7il-. ynrIni0n in Holland
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In honor OF the seventy-three Atlanta Jour
nal men who have entered the service OF their
country. The two white stars are in memory
OF Captain Meredith Gray and Captain James
s. Moore, Jr, Journal men, who gave their
lives for our country in France.
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Even William Hohenzollern must be con-
vinced IN time that he started the war
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There Is no disposition to be hard on Ger
many. but then Germany must pay until it
hByts. --....-.
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n can at least be said that birds of feather
are eongeniaI.
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indications already point to an interesting
session of the Wilson peace conference.