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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Bills That Really Count.

It ought not to take the House of Repre-
sentatives very long to dispose OF the Dill re-
quiring that fifty per cent OF the states entlre
revenue from all sources shall be set aSlde
for the common schools This Dill headS the
list of special orders fixed by the house for
next Tuesday, and when it is out of the way
the house will take up the highway program.
Whatever action the present legislature
may take with reference to future common
school appropriations, and whatever statutes
it may enact, will have no effect one way or
the other The next legislature can repeal
any statute enacted by the present legisla-
ture, hence any effort By the present legis-
lature to fix aminimum limit on future com
mon school appropriations is camOuhage.
The way to place the common schools or
Georgia on an adequate financial basis is not
by passing bills, which are worth little more
than the paper on which they are written,
but by amending the constitution so as to re-
qure a local school tax in every county. The
sooner the legislature performs this duty, the
sooner will Georgia take her place among the
educated states of the union.
That the house and senate will get down to
business next week is indicated by the setting
81 the special order in the house The high
way bills above all others in Importance.
Nothing will advance the prosperity and prog
reSs Of the state so rapidly as a system of state
highways. The first two bills in the program
will enable the commencement Of actual con-
struction next year. That these bills ought
20 be passed without delay is open to no argu-
ment whatever. The entire subject of high
way legislation has been thoroughly can
yasced by legislators and public alike. Every
body in Georgia who takes any interest in
public matters is familiar with the program.
All it needs now is legislative action to get
it underway.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
IF YOU FEAR GERMS
By H. Addington Bruce

V%OU write me that you are tormented by
| 7 a strangely excessive fear of germs.
A In particular, you afraid OF con-
tracing some disease through handling OBJ
| jects which may have disease germs upon
| them
This leads you to wash your hands great
many times a day Indeed, you are uneasy
if you find yourself anywhere without easy
access to soap and water. So you stay at
home most of the time in an uncomfortable
| frame of mind
| Well, cleanliness is certainly virtue But
| it is possible to overdo it, just as it is pos
sible to overdo anything else. And there
really is far less danger than you imagine
of contracting disease through handling OBJ
| jects.
In the first place, I would remind you
that about the only place where germs thrive
is in the body itself.
When expelled from the body through
coughing, sneezing or otherwise most of them
soon lose their disease-producing power They
| los" it for the excellent reason that they
quickly die. Sunshine and fresh air are
| fatal to them.
And, in the second place even live germs
are as a rule powerless to produce disease
unless they get into body that is weakened
by fatigue, worry or some other condition
! that has the effect of lowering the bodily
vitality.
The proof of these facts is found in the cir
| cumstance that every day millions of people
| handle innumerable objects to which disease
germs may be clinging, yet go along from
| day to day without contracting any germ
caused disease whatever.
And these same people survive without
eternally washing their hands to get the
germs off. If they are clearly, as they
ought to be, they wash their hands before
every meal and whenever it is obviously
necessary to rid them of CRIME.
Rut thew n he 1yay do
| They do not rush to a wash basin every time
they handle things. And they keep just as
we'll as you do; in fact, their general health
is probably better than yours.
For Tuning and fretting the way you
do it is impossible for your vital processes
to function normally. Fear of anything dis
turbs in some degree the workings of every
bodily organ, And this is bound to mean
a lowering Of your resistivity to disease.
So that it any germs do happen to come
your way and succeed in invading your Or
ganiSm your chances Of throwing them off
are much fewer than they ought to be. Ger
tainly they are much fewer than they would
be if YOU went quietly about your business
instead Of forever keeping yourself excited.
In other words, your fear of germs is
precisely the sort of thing calculated to make
you victim of germs.
Think bit about this. Give it some really
earnest thought in the light of common sense
that is your natural heritage. Then you will
appreciate its fOrce-and, l trust, will resolve
to behave as other people do and no longer to
disturb your peace of mind and reduce your
bodily vigor by your unreasonable fear of
germs.
Copyright, 1919, by the Associated News
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Every failure has a past.
All signs fail in wet weather. Any auto
mobile owner knows that.
Shtbs From the South.

Apropos of the recent decision of the
United States Shipping Board to allocate
more cargo vessels to South Atlantic ports,
the Augusta Chronicle points out that GER
tainly there should be established regular
line of steamers from Savannah to Liverpool
and Hamburg, and also from Savannah or
Charleston to the Orient, by way Of the Pan
ANA canal. "Such line" our contemporary
argues, could advantageously handle traffic
from the Midd1e-West to the Orient, as
freight could be moved much more quickly
and cheaply through Southern routes than
over transcontinental routes to the Pacific
coast and thence to the Orient"
Tides of traffic would have been. taking
this course long ago if there had been any
thing like an equitable system of freight
rates from the interior to Southern as COM
pared with North Atlantic ports, and if
fair portion of ocean tonnage had been al
lotted the ports of the South. Heretofore,
however, rates from the MiddleWest have
been fixed with view to forcing business to
move along rail lines running to the North
east, in spite of the fact that the natural
route would have been along lines to the
Southeast, or the Gulf. Relief from this
injustice is now promised by the Federal Rail-
road Administration whose traffic authorities
have recognized the merit of recent pleas to
that end.
There is also assurance from the united
States Shipping Board that South Atlantic
ports shall be given enough Vessels TO hanule
their steadily increasing volume OF colhllerce;
The Board now controls seven hundred ana
twenty-nine ships, aggregating more than
four and quarter million deadWe1ght TOMS
which are available for general transporta-
ton: in addition, there are some two and a
half million tons which at present are en-
gagged in army and navy service and IN over
seas civilian relief work, but which after a
while will be free for general commerce.
This fleet together with the merchantmen
now building, will afford ample tonnage Tor
Southern ports and provide the means for
turning to definite account the opportunities
which equitable freight rates from the lnte-
rior to the eastern seaboard will open.
In these circumstances steamship lines from
South Atlantic ports to the Orient as wei! as
to Latin America will be altogether feasible
and will rebound to the good of the country
at large as we'll as to the prosperity OF THIS
region.
If the senate doesn't know how it stands
now. it will after the president starts his
tour.
Indications continue to show thai the cpl
tai is we'll satisfied in Atlanta
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
The Source Of GeOrgia's
Steady Wealth Increase

The estimated increase of seventy million
dollars in Georgias taxable property for the
current year prompts the Savannah Morning
News to remark that the prosperity thus evil
denced rises largely from the fact that we are
no longer dependent upon single source Of
agricultural wealth and resultant business
activity. Instead, we have range of farm
productiveness that yields an income almost
the year around and hence steady purchas-
ing power that keeps the current of commerce
continuously flowing. AS the Morning News
effectively phrases it:
s'Georgia is fast getting into condi-
tion that will permit" her to keep on
smiling, whatever any one crop may do.
The world is learning that Georgia can
and does produce many other crops than
cotton, that the climate is suitable for
all sorts of farming, that the weather
never closes factories down, that the
ports are open here summer and winter
& that man can work three hundred and
sixty-fVe days a year and does not have
to knock Off for fierce heat or bitter
cold"
1t is this diversity of resources and of OPP
portunities that assures Georgia of continued
and ever-increasing growth. Investors and
home-seekers will turn naturally to a State
in which every season brings some bounty
from field or herd. In such a region the
merchants trade is steady, the manufacturer
finds a sustained demand for his products,
bank accounts multiply month by month, and
prosperity, instead Of coming in gusts or
waves, shines with constant kindness.
Georgia always had the natural gifts to
attain to this happy condition, but it was not
until she cast off the one-crop tyranny that
her manifold potentialities had a chance to
develop. Her increase in taxable property is
now becoming especially marked because the
deeper economic effects of her recent years of
diversified farming and animal husbandry are
beginning to be felt Those effects are not
confined to any one class of persons or in
terests, but are registered in all fields of our
material endeavor-in towns and cities as
we'll as in rural districts, in factories, stores,
shops and banks as we'll as on the farm itself
Let this sound policy of agricultural produc-
ton be sustained and developed, and the
States wealth will grow not only in amount
but also in steadiness and in breadth of dis
tribution.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Much ado About Shantung.

, TN the peninsula of Shantung there h
little tract of land, about one hun
dred and seventeen square miles, to
which China some two decades ago gave Ger
many ninety-nine year lease. Included in
this zone is the fishing village of Tsing
but not, as sometimes is said, the city of Kiao
Chow. The only considerable value of the
territory lies in certain commercial and strate-
gic advantages which it's possession affords
In the late war this land was wrested from
German control by Japan, just as other of the
Kaiser's colonies were taken by Great Britain
Portugal and France. When the peace treaty
came to be made, Japan was allowed to retain
the German lease-hold which she had con-
quered-allowed to retain it, that is, for the
time being. But she stands pledged to restore
the territory to China, not at the end of the
nlnety-nine years but in a future reasonably
near. And she should do because the German
lease was originally obtained by extortionate
methods. .-.,.
These are the facts in the case over which
Senator Lodge and his partisan colleagues are
= making such an ado. They profess intense
concern over the sacrifice of China's rights,
! as they call it, and threaten to reject on this
score the entire work of the peace conference.
Why this sudden uproar over minor problem
of the Far East, which is expected by compe-
tent observers to work out satisfactorily to all
interested? Is it not singular that these Sena-
tor; waited months after the publication of
the peace treaty to wax SO vehement over a
markable that Senator Lodge now should
burst into passion over Chna's wrong al
though he was in no wise disturbed when that
wrong was at its origin? A writer in the Phil
adelphia Record Interestingly points out in
this connection that Mr.. Lodge was mem
Der Of the Senates foreign relations commit
tee twenty-one years ago when the ninety
nine year lease from China to Germany was
made, and that the matter was then of much
more consequence to the United States than
the assignment of the lease by Germany to
Japan is now
why, then, did not the Republican
Senators demonstrate their friendliness
to China at the time by protesting the ex-
tortion by Germany? Because Mr.. Lodge
and his Republican associates cared moth
ing for the fishing village of Tsingtao I'M
til it could be distended into the entire
- province OF Shantung and then used a
base OF attack upon Dem ocratic Presi-
dent" ,-,-
No true friend of China would seek to undo
the peace treaty and prevent the establish
ment, OF the League OF Nations, which will the
hope OF weak, simply because OF this strip OF
Shantung. The President accepted the trea-
ty with that provision rather than throw in
ternational relations into choas. No practical
statesman, no humane statesman, no states
man OF, sound principles and sound mind
would have done otherwise.
--%--
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29

Enemies of Secretary Baker should remem
Der the hard time the enemies of Secretary
Daniels had running him down
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29

Presidents Wilson's oppt nents may make
his third term not only a possibility but q
certainty.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29

However, it's weather like this that puts
the water in the watermelon,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29

Enlargement OF the Republican Legislative
Steering Committee was voted down last
week at a party conference. Proposals to
increase the committee from five to seven
and from five to nine members were each
disapproyed by margins Of ten votes or more.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29

Indications continue to show thai the cpl
tai is we'll satisfied in Atlanta.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29

IF the senate doesn't know how it stands
now, it will after the president starts MI
tour.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29

Senator William j. Harris one of the new
members Of the senate, has put his first reso-
luton through that body. 1t directs the fed
eral trade commission of which he was foYL
merly chairman, to conduct an immediate in
vestigation of the prices paid by meat pack
ers for live cattle and swine with particular
reference to any discrimination against the
stock producers in the southern states
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-22
STRONGER MEN
TAKE THE LEAD
They Have Nerves Of Iron and
Real Red Fighting Blood

Vital force is the material from
which leaders in ali walks OF life are
made, it is well worth getting and
holding.
The health and nerve Of the athlete
what Nature intended every man
md woman to- have.
The blood of an athlete f. pure and
ed, strong heart pumps and drives
through his body. No wonder that
every inch of his system is filed With
energy and health, his nerves like
iron, spirits high, hard tasks u pleas
tire and life oAe song OF joy.
A leading Doctor says, "Everyone
ahould feel this way That il you are
not red hlooded, are nervous. all run
down and on your last legs, for you TO
build UP your blood and nerves with ex-
creise, fresh air, nourishing food anG
Natures great prescription, Phosphat-
cd Hon real blood and nerve builder
He also says. "Phosphated Iron feeds
the blood cells with iron and Nerve
force, and that leading specialists are
now using II successfully all over the
country, that ii is one of the few rene
dies that better class doctors can now
depend on 10 produce results.
Special Notice: To insure doctors and
their patients getting the Genuine phos-
phated Iron we have put in capsules
only, so do not allow dealers to se,. you
pills CT tablets
Corbus Drug Store, and leadinl
everywhere.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-22
TO GIVE COURSE IN
LIBRARY SCIENCE

rbana. H. April 2-.-s course in
library science for the first time vii
Do given at the University If Illinois
during the summer session. beginning
June u and continuing to Arg. l6
Only high school graduates actually
employed as librarians. or library as
sistantS. or As teacheT-iibrdridus, or
under definite appointments 10 serve
in such positions. VIII be admitted
No tuition Zee will be charged stu
dents entering from library iL, this
state but students entering from libra
ries in other states will pay a tuition
OF 81. No credit toward a degree is
given for the work.
Special courses fer teachers WE!ct
will be given in the summer school
will include accountaucy. botany,
chemistry, entomology history. Latin,
mathematics, music physics, French
and Spanish.
Courses will be offered in vocational
and industrial education in prepara-
tion for teaching agriculture, home
economies and other Industries. The
following courses viii be given in the
department of Industrial education.
TO industrial education,
teaching related technical subjects,
teaching shop work. teaching non-yO-
CatiOnal subjects, teaching CONNER
cial work, carpentry ana cabinet max
Ing, ana organizatiCa. administration
ind supervision Of manual arts.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-22
HAVE ROSY CHEEKS
AND FEEL FRESH AS
A DAlSY-TRY THIS!
Says glass of hot water with
phosphate before breakfast
washes out poisons.

To see the tinge of healthy bloom
in your face, to see your skin get
clearer and clearer, to wake up with.
out a headache, backache, coated
tongue or a nasty breath, in fact to
feel your best, day in and day out, just
try bathing every morning for
one week.
Before breakfast each day, drink a
glass of real hot water with q teaspoon
full of limestone phosphate in it as a
harmless means of washing from the
stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the
previous days indigestible waste,
sour bile and toxins thus cleansing,
sweetening and purifying the entire
alimentary canal before putting more
food into the stomach. The action OF
hot water and limestone phosphate on
an empty stomach is wonderfully in
vigorating. 1t cleans out all the sour
lamentations, gases and acidity and
gives one a splendid appetite for break
fast.
A quarter pound of limestone phos-
phate will cost very little at the drug
store but is sufficient to demonstrate
that just as soap and hot water
cleanses, sweetens and freshens the
skin. so hot water and limestone phos-
phate act on the blood and internal Or
gans. Those who are subject to con-
supation, bilious attacks, acid stomach.
rheumatic twinges, also those whose
skin is sallow and complexion pallid,
are assured that one week of inside
bathing will have them both looking
and feeling better In every way.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-22

guest on Easter at the home Of Mr.
and Mrs Albert Poundstone East OF
the village
Easter celebration Of the Holy Com
munion at ST. Andrews church a.
Farm Ridge Sunday morning April
Goth.
Mrs. Susan Harden and daughter,
Miss Madaline OF Washington. D. c.
and the Misses Strawns Of Ottawa
spent last Friday with their cousin
Mrs. John w Fogle Northeast of town
Or. and Mrs. J. S. Lewis who have
been visiting their daughter Mrs. A.
G. Mcmillan and Miss Gertrude
Lewis at Wichata, Kansas, on their
way home from California, were
joined at Wichita by their son. Percy
H. Lewis who has received his dis
charge after having served his
country overseas. All returned to
their home on West Main street on
Saturday.
At the school election held Satur.
day afternoon F. w Newman was
elected to succeed c. E. Hibbs The
board now consists OF DR.. ". E.
Smith, w. VI. Poundstone and f. w.
Newman.
Mrs. w R. Langley and daughter
Miss Angie called on village friends
Saturday evening.
VIM. keeller and family are en-
joying the pleasures of a new Dodge
car recently purchased.
Mrs. III. II. Brown OF Long Beach
California has arrived for a visit with
her daughter, Mrs. Fred Peck west
Of town.
Charles Gumm and family are re-
ported to move this week from their |
present location to the c B. Moss !
nome on East Washington street
which is being vacated by the Karl /.
Koch family who 90 to McNabb.
Mrs Claude Jerne Of Michigan is !
village relatives spent last
Thursday with the Misses Violet ald .
Ida Fogle West Of town
Mrs. c. o. Fogle has had as her
guests her brother Mr.. lrion of the
treat Lakes Training Station and
ler sister, Miss Irion of Ottawa.
Walter Lock and wife called Fri.
lay evening at the David Hunter
Tome.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Oleson and
Wo children of Leland and Mrs.
blossoms parents and brother. Prof
md Mrs. A. II. Kan and son of Peru
we're week end visitors at the home
# Mrs Emily Poundstone of East
liberty street
Mr. and Mrs Eliza Heth spent
.aster day with his parents, Mr. and
FRS John Heth.
Easter was observed Sunday morn
lg at the Methodist church by the
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-22
V0LlVA RAMPAGE
PRECEDES SUITS

Chicago. April 22--Oyerseer Voliya
Of Zion City is all tough at the leSis-
lative members who have been an.
thorized to make an Investigation Of
the Zion City. He has directed his
attorneys to file libel suits against
them. In a letter addressed to Sen
ators Daley and Swift. members Of
the probing committee, he uses these
endearing expressions: "HypOcrite,
liar buckwheat brain, -ignoramus,"
simpleton.' and idiot
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-22
C. OF C. FOR STATE
is BEING PLANNED

, Springfield, Ill.,. April 22.-An ef-
fort is being made to form a Cham
her Of Commerce of Illinois. It's head.
quarters viii probably be in Spring.
field. Business men from various
cities in the state recently held a
meeting in Chicago, at which such an
organization was discussed. 1t was
decided TO hold another meeting in
Quincy some time in July, when the
plan win be thoroughly gone over and
the headquarters city settled The
principal aim Of the organization will
be to foster Industrial advancement
in the state along lines adopted by the
city associations and 10 sanction com
munity events for the state.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-22
Good Reports
Please Ottawa

There has never been anything with
the QUICK results of pure Lavoptik
eye wash, One mans eyes were so
badly strained he could not read
without pain. TWO applications OF
Lavoptik relieved him A lady had
tried three different glasses for weak,
infamed eyes. ONE Layoptik wash
surprised her. We guarantee a small
hottie TO benefit EVERY CASE weak,
strained or dnflapled eyes. VIM D.
Duncan, druggist.