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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
THE BY-PRODUCTS OF THE WAR.
BY DR.. Frank Crane


War is bad. But out of bad comes good, in the
processes of destiny. Sickness is bad and finan-
cial loss, and fires, and famine but often men
come out of these trials better truer men, purged
of dross.- AS the lily bulb in its strange alembc
transmutes the dung of the garden into white and
fragrant flowers, the soul of can change
outward disaster to inward triumph. Some of the
good by-products of this are:
Thrift. We have been a spendthrift people,
MASTERS ALL from millionaire to shop girl Says
John Muir. E" Overnight, almost, came a change
The first Liberty Loan gave the American people
the incentive. They wanted to be patriotic They
wanted a good investment The partial payment
plan of subscribing made it easy and interesting
for them to pay for the bonds-made it easy and
interesting for them to Four million people
subscribed to three billion dollars of the first
Liberty Loan. 1t the birth of American thrift"
Economy. Literally, housekeeping. We
wasteful IN our kitchens automobile
rides. The vast campaign directed by Mr.. Hoover,
and aided by every newspaper and magazine in the
country, is changing the American housewife into
thoughtful, careful intelligent food expert. This
will be of inestimable benefit to us long after the
is
The sense of the common good. Every man.
woman, and child is being made to feel that there
is something bigger and more important in life
than ones self. Our fantastic individualsm is
passing. We are becoming real commonwealth.
The social nerve is being developed. The civic con-
science is being strengthened.
Discipline. million young are in mill
tary training. To most of them this is spiritual
godsend. They fare learning self-control, team
work. cooperation. They getting physical
hardness and fitness Thanks to the foresight Of
the government conditions in the camps being
ordered that need more fear that to join
the army means moral ruin.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
Think of "OVer There. -

If anyone considers our wheatless and meat
less days a privation, let him glance at condi-
tions the other side of the Atlantic. There the
people are grateful for even the smallest portions
of wheat bread, while meat is a luxury of which
most of them no longer think.
In England, recent Food Administration
bulletin points out the of cream has been
prohibited except for infants and invalids and for
butter making. Under Government authority the
price of milk has been raised to sixteen cents
a quart. All fats scarce and dear that the
utmost economy is required to make them serve
the country's downright necessities. And this is
but an index to food conditions generally in the
United Kingdom.
In France, only the peoples intense and stead
fast patriotism has enabled them to endure the
keen deprivations of the last three years. The
dearth of fuel as well of food has put the peo-
pie to tests of which we in this favored land can
hardly conceive-tests of patience and loyalty
and character which they have met as gloriously
as their armies have met the Hun at the front.
Neutral as we'll as belligerent countries are on
the leanest possible rationing. The Swiss al
lowed individually a pound of sugar a month
Rice cards." comes the news, ARE issued which
allow one pound per month per person; the bread
cards allow one-half pound of bread per person
per day" Conditions equally more severe pre-
vail in the Netherlands and in Scandinavia.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
Our Ice Free Ports.

recent Associated Press dispatch described
New York harbor closely resembling a frozen
Norwegian ford or the port of Archangel "The
Hudson river" the story ran, was frozen solid
down to Harlem, and gIacierlike ice foes which
had broken off and foated down stream
caught by a thirty-mile wind, blowing from the
New Jersey side, and damned against Manhattan,
Governors Island and the Brooklyn water front"
Similar conditions were reported from other North
Atlantic harbors. From Newport News came ac-
counts of an ice field extending from Fortress
Monroe to Cape Charles and seriously interfering
with shipments in Hampton Roads
What a contrast is all this with the ports of
the Southeast! AS the Savannah Morning News
well puts it:
Close inspection failed to reveal any rea-
son why dozens of the ships that were delayed
by ice in the more northerly ports could not
have been busily loading getting away to
sea if they had been sent to Savannah instead
The Savannah river untroubled by ice
and flowed along, quiet and deep, with
for many ships in its channel and room for
many more along it's banks where are faci-
tiles for loading that challenge comparison
with those of ports of the North Atlantic,
even when the latter working freely in
stead Of being frozen into almost complete
inactivity"
Fortunately for the nations interests, the Gov
eminent has determined to make larger use of
Southeastern ports for shipments. According
to the announced policy OF. Mr.. McAdoo, Director
General of Transportation, much of the ocean
bound freight which has congested Northern ter
minals will be routed hereafter by way of South
eastern outlets. This will relieve conditions which
have borne heavily upon the entire country and
have interfered seriously with important phases of
our activity 1t is to be assumed, further
more, that when the advantages of Southern ports
appreciated through experience, there
will never be a return to the hazardous practice
of attempting to crowd the greater part of the ma
tons foreign commerce through few North At
lantic outlets.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12

gely, however, that in artillery she will be more
formidable than heretofore, her wholesale captures
III Russian and Italian guns having materially
strengthened her in this respect.
So circumstanced, the Huns will launch their
supreme effort and strike with the desperateness
of final chance. For if this offensive proves to
be another Verdun it will come near breaking the
morale of the German people and the grip of their
military rulers. With the promised victory now
mvre than three years overdue, the patience of
the half-famished German masses will hardly
stand another great disappointment. The fourth
war-winter has strained them to the utmost; ttth
still fruiess of success at the 'front.' would leave
the Hohenzolerns and Hindenburgs on extremely
precarious ground. Into the next eight or ten
months, therefore, the German leaders may be ex-
pected to pour all the resources at their command;
and into the next four five months all the power
they can muster for their supreme offensive. If
within the latter period they have made decisive
Roadway against the French and British and the
U-boat campaign has been unable to cut serious
" to weaken the line of Americas transatlantic
communication, there will be little if any hope for
the German offensive. There would remain, how
ever the possibility of long period of German de-
tense which would try to the utmost the Allies
endurance and strength. Thus the years prospect,
however viewed, wears a look of crisis and culmi-
nation.
the part of the American people no less than of
the American army and fleet, is intellectually i'm
portant 1t is to us that French and British and
Italians look for food supplies to keep them from
famine and for moral assurance as we'll as military
support to sustain them in their deepening trials.
Every American who produces food and every Amer
lean who saves food is helping Allies to stand
firm Every American who wastes food or fails to
operate the Governments plans for conserving it
is helping Hindenburg on his Western drive. All
that our Government asks of at this crucial
time we should do with ungrudging loyalty; for
upon our national effort, which is but the sum of
our individual efforts, depend the freedom of
America and the good of mankind. The army
and navy, we may be sure, will do their part with
glorious fidelity to American traditions. But their
ultimate power and effectiveness depend the
spirit and the deeds of the hundredodd million
people behind them 1t is for each and every one of
US to meet the coming onslaught of the Huns with
as much fire and steadfastness if we ourselves
were at the battle front; for all that hold dear
of liberty and honor and right there calling to
US for defense and support
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
The Rewards of Food Raising.

Noting the fact that Tiff county farmer sold
the peanuts and hay from nine of land for
two hundred and nine dollars acre, the Triton
Gazette asks How many farmers made two hun
dred dollars from their cotton crop?"
Peanuts, the Gazette adds, be cultivated and
harvested with one-third labor required for cotton
and from cotton, at least fifty per cent must
usually be deducted for expense
Examples like this fast reducing the once
crowded ranks of the all-cotton planters. For a
number of years. the last three particularly, Geor
gia agriculture has been a continual demonstra-
tion of profits derivable from food crops. Even
in the time of pinnacle prices for cotton the most
substantial rewards have come to those planters
who diversified and placed the emphasis on food
crops Their rewards will be richer and more pro-
nounced the years go on, for their method of
farming is of itself a wealth-producer and wealth
conserver. Their fields will grow in fertility in
stead of, as the one-crop system, becoming
exhausted and their fortunes will rest upon
ever-strengthening base.
Furthermore, and at this time most important
of all, the farmer who raises food crops and food
animals is serving his country we'll as himself,
and is helping to win the war whose outcome
depend every Americans freedom and welfare.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
No Time for Hating.

Tnts is q time :or courage and resoluteneSs in
al thiags-in personal as wen as national af-
ifEfrz. in business as well war. Confusion and
uncertainty there may be in some fields of in
dRstry and commerce. but conditions as whole
are assuring The eountrys financial strength
never so manifest, and its general trade in
terests, domestic and foreign alike, were never
more flourishing. Labor is fully and pr9fitabiy
employed; farmers are assured of extraordinarily
good prices for all they produce; the basal con-
dftions of prosperity all present. But because
OF q scarcity of labor and Of certain materials,
together with the acuteness of fuel and traffic
problems some lines of business, in some parts of
the country, have become inactive. Some bust
ness men, moreover-though fortunately they are
few-are fearful that this condition may be pro-
longed and may wax more serious.
To all such we commend these virile and
thoughtful words from Mr. F. S. Etheridge, of
Jackson, Ga, quoted by the Augusta Chronicles:
Because of these perilous and uncertain
times, must business men halt and falter?
Must We slow up, and because of pros
perity OF the past seek shelter and get in out
of the storm? To do so would be cowardly
and unpatriotic, and not worthy of our his
toric past. 1t is more important than ever
hat we should be brave energetic, prudent
md conservative in the conduct of our bust
,ss. as it is for boys in the trenches to
low bold and intrepid front to the en-
""
rmer president Of the Georgia State Bank
Association and as a man of large and varied
ticaI interests, Mr. Etheridge speaks a far
led counselor. Not to be forward-looking and
rward-moving at this time would be poor policy
well as poor patriotism, particularly in the
South. whose products will continue in great de-
mand regardless of how long the war lasts or how
soon IL ends.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
OUIPS AND QUIDDITIES.

Here is of Mr.. Pet Ridges stories. 1t was
in the early days of the advanced movement Of
woman suffrage, when by the magistrates orders
a number of enthusiasts went to Holloway Jail.
Among them most excellent charwoman
who employed at Clement's inn. A sympa-
thetic meeting held on their release, at which
the chairman spoke in eloquent terms. Here
you have" he remarked "a body of delicately
nurtured, earnest minded who for some
tri1ing nfraction of the law find themselves con-
demned to prison, and there for the first time in
their lives
''Beg pardon, sir, for interrupting, said the
charwoman, jumping up hastily but think I
ought to tell you that / did once get seven days
for banging my old man on the nose!"
It is recorded that certain literary man of
high reputation had occasion to say to a waiter
in the restaurant where he sometimes lunches:
Waiter, this beefsteak is not at all tender;
hardly cut it" .,....
The waiter looked at him with sorrowful
expression and sighed deeply. g
Perhaps you will tell me-" said the literary
man, why you sigh in that fashion,"
"Ah, SIR" said the waiter, 81 took you for
who always wrote and said original things,
and here you come and. say the thing that
all the rest of the customers do"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
A Time of Supreme Test.

As winter draws toward end interest in the
expected German drive the Western front
grows intense. 1t was on February 81 two years
ago that the Huns launched their furious offensive
against Verdun, the blow on which they confident
counted to smash French resistance and cleave
me way to victory. Whatever they really may
think, they speak with much assurance as
then; at least their military leaders do To the
warning that German food reserves would be al
most exhausted by May. Hindenburg is said to
have replied, "Never mind will be in Paris by
Aprr"-a bit OF Prussian bravado. no doubt, but
truly illustrative OF the great store which official
Germany lays by the forthcoming drive. One thing
is certain: they will strike as hard as they can
apd swiftly they can, in hopes OF winning
some sort OF decision before America can get fully
into the field. Whether they snail succeed or fail
depends chiefly on the adequacy with which we of
America-not simply the army. but the people as
q vhole-support our Allies and upon the speed
with which we swing our total strength into the
struggle
Military observers agree that Germany is seiz-
ing her last chance to win. if not indeed her last
chance to escape complete vanQuishment Circum-
stances are more favorable to her now than they
likely to be again. They broadly similar to
those of February, 1916, when she had conquered
Serbia and lad rendered Russia Intellectual for
months TO come. AS Mr.. Simonds sums it up in
the current Review of Reviews, she has now put
Russia out OF the war. has disposed for the time
being OF the Italian menace, is able to transfer
troops from East to West and concentrate in the
West her tremendous munitions resources. Fur.
Their.
Her foes in front OF her have no decisive
advantage in numbers, If they have any
They cannot attack her now, because to at
tack and to fail might lead to disaster, while
to wait is to be assured OF American help.
II Germany, by striking, breaks France, then
Italy VIII be easily put out of the war, and
Britain and America will be left to fight the
thing out Falling short of de-
cisiYe victory. the Germans plainly hope that
they viii produce such exhaustion in the ranks 49,
of their enemies that the foe will consent to
talk peace and abandon the task of holding
on until America gets ready"
w lille the Russian detection has restored Germany
to a position as favorable in number of respects
as that she held two years ago, it has not given
her the numerical strength which alarmists imag-
inc C~-~ervative and reliable opinion scouts the
report thar 81 Western lines have been or soon
will be. reinforced by many million and
half men withdrawn from the Eastern arena. The
more competent observers consider half a million
rather a liberal estimate. and four hundred thou
sand as nearer the reality. This, added to her
present strength in France and Flanders, would
give her in the neighborhood of two million men,
which Is about the number the French and British
believed to have in the West. at is thought
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12

unpaved altogether. Tiny streams trickle across
some of the thOroughfares Others lead down to
the beach and piers by steps of rough stone.
On the piers the brown-faced fishermen toll
their nets and smoke and gossip. They are
a quaint people, these kindly Cornish folk, pious
to the core, yet still believing in pixies and the
other good little people even when they refuse to
admit it.
Their fishing is chiefly done at night, the boats
putting out to at sunset. Yet Sunday morn
ing finds the fisherman stiffly starched and dressed
in his Sunday black worshpping in his bare
chapel. They want the pure doctrine, these sturdy
sons of the sea, none of your modern notions for
them.
Mousehouse has a typical Cornish climate II
SHOWS once in long while in the winter but the
snow does not lie on the ground for more than
day or two: Geraniums fuchsas and myrtles
grow in the tiny cottage garden the year around.
There is always rain; to the visitor it seems il
the sky were always gray like the sea and rocky
shore. The fsherfolk care nothing for the wet.
The village has in recent years attracted a
colony of artists, who love the tiny hamlet for its
picturesque simplicity. Many a simple fisherman
of household will go down to posterity, immor-
talized on canvas.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
TRAVELETTE
BY NikSah
ELEPHANT BUTTE

l.
The road to Elephant Butte winds from little
desert railway station a dead land of low
hills, barren the desert where the children of
Israel wandered for forty years. And like the
road of the Hebrews, the road OF Elephant Butte
ends in a miracle. 1t ends at a huge green lake.
deeper than the Mississippi, more beautiful than
the fjords of Norway. 1t resembles a chapter
from Arabian Nights rather than a government
reclamation project.
The land is gray and dry and rocky, inhabited
only by a few prairie dogs and occasional herd
of lean wild range cattle. The sparse grass is
brown and bunchy, the well-known buffalo grass
of the dry lands. The sky overhead is eloudless
blue; obviously it has not rained for a long time,
and doesn't intend to- Looking for a monster
lake in this region is rather like searching for
dry spot in the Pacific ocean.
Then, quite suddenly, the lake is at your feet.
thin line of palest gray, barely distingUishable
against the gray of the terrain cuts rim of the
green water like the edge of knife That is the
concrete dam, most of it invisible under water
reaching down through the drowned sands to
bedrock, shaped like gigantic wedge, with
upper edge of the wedge. Above the dam, the
waters stretch in placid green sheets, winding in
and out among the blue lava hills. The rocky
hilltops float the emerald mirror like things
chanted white cloud in the blue sky is re-
fected line for line and shade for shade. The
air is clear if there were no air. The silence is
perfect that the flop of little fish be
heard for hundred yards. Only the throb of a
tiny pumping engine saves the whole scene from
the quality of. absolute mirage.
MOUSEHOLE
On the coast of Cornwall, a few miles from
Penzance is little gray hamlet, cuddled close by
quaintest and most charming villages in England
Unnotced by most sightseers, it has been allowed
to remain unchanged part of the somber, yet
lovely Cornish landscape. The tiny quay hugs the
harbor where the shallow draught fishing sloops
rest at anchor. On the beach, gray bottomed
boats lie upturned to the gray sky.
In the village the low cottages of stone smell
of fish and drying nets The narrow crooked
streets are paved with huge fat stones are left
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-29
NeD International Executive
Head Of q. c. T. Named This Week

Columbus, o., June 29.-Fredericl1
]. c. Cox of Winnipeg, Manitoba,
was elected supreme counselor Of
the United Commercial Travellers of
America at the annual meeting of
the order here this week.
The honors paid Mr.. Cox in his
election as the new leader OF the
travelling statesmen OF America is
not only a just tribute to a man
who has rendered yeoman service to
the saaesnanship profession but
the two great English speaking
people Of the North American con-
tinent, fraternal relations that have
long been fostered by commercial
travellers which in these soul stir
ring times play so important g. part
in the brotherhood OF nations.
Mr. Cox is a successful business
man OF Winnipeg. prominent in
civic, political and social affairs. He
is president of the 0rtbo Manufac-
turing company, also OF the Bryce
Carriage company; director Of the
Garry Manufacturing company, and
general secretary Of the Northwest
Commercial Travellers association
OF Canada. In civic activities he Is
president of the Canadian Indus
trial Exhibition association and a
director of the Winnipeg Industrial
bureau. He is the present chair
man OF the Civic Charities Endorse
mont bureau Of Winnipeg. He serv-
ed his city as alderman for several
years, is president of, the st. Johns
Curling and Bowling Green associa-
ton, a member OF the Automobile
Country club and many other bodies.
Mr.. Cox's estate on Anderson ave-
nue., known as 1.-THE Grange" is
noted h1long Winnipegs beautiful
and hospitable homes. O.. -
Mr.. Cox was born in Hudders-
field, Yorkshire, England, April 10,
1850. Was educated in private
schools and DR.. ScllieFenberg's COL
lege, Hamburg. Following a short
connection in the wholesale dry
goods business in London, Mr.. Cox
associated himself with Thibaudeau
Bros. & Co. of Montreal and Win
nipeg, in whose employ he contin-
ued from 1881 to 1900. being an ac-
r. : p d
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-29

tive traveller on the road for the
Montreal house.
The first council of the United
Commercial Travellers of America
instituted in Canada was at Win
rlipeg, July H. 1899. Mr.. Cox was
elected secretary which
position he has held ever since. Up
to 1911 the six states and provinces
OF Minnesota, North and South Da-
l1ota, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta formed one Of the grand
jurisdictions Of the u. c. T., in
which federation Mr.. Cox was
prominent and influential, being
honored by this grand council by
repeated election to honorary posi-
lions and as its chief executive Of
f1cer, that of grand counselor at
Duluth, Mimi, June II, 1909. Mr..
Cox was the first Canadian delegate
to the supreme council of the u. C.
T. where he has risen in eminence
to the highest honors within the
gift Of that body.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-29
Lane Is Placed
On Commute

Delegates from Canada, United
States. Alaska, Mexico, Cuba, West
Indies, Canal Zone and Central Am
erican, Porto Rico, Labrador and Ha-
wall were in attendance at the ses-
sions Of the international Sunday
school convention, held In Buffalo, n.
Y, June 21-25, according to W. J.
Lane, who with Mrs. Lane was among
the North Dakotans at the meeting.
The attendance was cut down con-
siderably on account Of the increase
in railroad fares and only four
states sent the number of delegates
assigned to them and North Dakota
was one Of the four. Seven delegates
were assigned and these twelve at
tended: Mr.. and Mrs. Fred o. Pres
ton, New Rockford Mr. and Mrs. w.
J. Lane, J. c.. Garrison, Fargo, Miss
Bertha Palmer, and James Van
<leeck, Fargo, Miss Margaret John
son, Fullerton, Mrs. A. z. Bolton,
Jamestown, J. J. GUnsinger, Bisbee,
J. wv. Widdifield Of Leal and J. F.
Stevens, Grand Forks.
u. B. Cassell of Hope was chosen
as North Dakota member OF the eX-
ecutive committee for a term of four
years and James w. Simpson Of Nc
Vile as alternate. W. J. Lane was
chosen as the member Of the nominal
ing committee.