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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-25
THE SECRET OF TACT
BV II. AddinotOn Bruce
r ALENT is power, tact is skill Tai
ent is weight, tact is momentum.
Talent knows what to do, tact


ent is weight, tact is momentum.
Talent knows what to do, tact
knows how to do it.
'Talent makes a man respectable tact
will make him respected Talent is wealth,
tact is ready money. For all the practical
purposes, tact carries it against talent ten
to one"
Thus an old-time philosopher of success
And, undeniably, in the everyday affairs of
life the tactful man inferior in talent has a
distinct advantage over the talented man
inferior in tact. When talent and tact are
united in one and the same person the COM
binatiOn is irresistible.
What gives tact it's importance is the
fact that human action is largely a matter
of interaction between man and man. Only
those whose callings are such that they are
not necessarily brought into touch with
other people can afford to go through life
without the aid of tact.
All others-which means almost every
body-will be well advised to cultivate tact
to the best of their ability. And, Fortunate
ly, it is a quality that can be cultivated
by all.
Many there be, however, who mistakenly
identify tact with things which it is not.
Some identify tact with cunning, others
with subserviency. Such people think that
they are eminently tactful when they fawn
upon their fellows and slavishly coincide
with their opinions and desires
The result is to enkindle only suspicion
and contempt. Soon or late there is a rude
awakening for these foolish folk. Their
spurious tact recoils upon them to their
great disadvantage.
True tact is otherwise rooted. 1t has
it's origin, not in deceit and cold ca1cula-
ton, not in base self-seeking, not in &C
quiescence born of fear, but in heartfelt
sympathy with others.
It is a product of refinement of feeling.
1t springs from keen perception of other
peoples rights and susceptibilities.
1t does not bid yield perpetually
to others cunningly endeavor to molIify
others. But it does bid him strive to at
tain his ends without inflicting needless
pain.
1t checks him from uttering, even mad
vertently, words that would hurt 1t guides
him. in the smallest matters, to a courtesy
of behavior that nips antagonisms in the
bud.
Hence it unConsciously creates for it's
possessor an atmosphere of good will. He
prospers, not alone because Of his own eff
forts, but because others gladly help him
to prosper.
If he has goods to sell, their inclination
is to buy from him. If he is running for
office he can command their votes. If trouble
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-25

with q lovely ripping sound. That was per-
fectly delightful, SO he went on, turning it
over and over and clawing section after sec
tion of the tense silk until it collapsed, and
then he just patted and played with the rem
nants like puppy Perfectly absurd to see
huge creature like that so childishly anus
cd He was talking away to it all the time in
that little sing-song whine of a really busy
happy bear
II got there then. I thought I'd heard
Elsie call. She'd stopped and was watching
the demolition of the parasol in sort Of
silent anguish, wondering what he'd do when
her turn came. Either she was fascinated or
she was too weakened to run. Which was
it,"
Elsie merely shifted resentfully and re-
manned wisely silent.
"WeIl," he went on, 81 knew what Kos
suth wanted right off as soon as he began to
beg again. [ gave him the butter and a mar
malade jar to lick, and he ambled away, sat
isfied when he was done.
"But Elsie hung around with me in the
sun all afternoon and got dreadful sum
burn without her parasol. Her complexion's
never been the same. Has it?"
Then she proved that unconventional man
ners are not peculiar to bears. Che boxed
her husbands ears exactly as Kocsur-15
mother must have done to him when she was
teaching him the elements of bear conven-
tionality. And didn't blame her.
The Turkish armistice led George Conan
to say:
'"The Turk has we'll been called unspeak-
able. I met one once at Pera. I have seven
wives he told me, calmly blowing perfumed
clouds from his hookah.
"'Merciful powers!' I exclaimed, how do
you manage to pay their dressmakers bills?
"The unspeakable Turk waved his hand:
"T married dressmakers, son of an in
fdel,' he said. ..
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-25

Public interests suffer in a continually in
creasing measure from the Senate filibusterers
who were bent upon embarrassing the Presi-
dents foreign policies. Just now the Federal
Employment Service is an outstanding victim
For lack Of a maintenance appropriations of
some two million dollars, which was lost along
with divers other important matters in the
obstructive Senator's deluge of idle words
this service must be cut short at the very time
it is most imperatively needed. With hum
dreds of thousands of soldiers returning to
civil life, the Government is under special
obligation, as a matter both Of simple justice
and Of economic and social expediency, to
do it's utmost to connect the men with worth
while jobs. 1t is hoped that the emergency
yet may be met by the War Departments
coming to the Employment Bureaus help
with the necessary funds until the deficiency
can be remedied by the next Congress.
Certainly all that is possible should be done
to keep the invaluable work of this depart
ment from lapsing. Its growth and value
during the war is evidenced by the fact that
while in January, 1918, the Bureau directed
62,642 persons to employment, in the follow
ing October it directed SAT 1926. Fully two
million persons were thus definitely placed,
as is shown by reports from the employers
and workers concerned. In the course of the
year, moreover. the Bureau increased its local
employment offices from ninety to nine hun
dred, Georgia branches being established at
Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Brunswick
Macon, Rome, Savannah and Waycross.
If this service was SO useful and so neces-
sary in the war period, it is in some respects
even more so in this time of industrial transi-
ton and reimbursement. BY all means let it
be continued and ampIified.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-25

apparently being attracted by the acquittal OF
a young man of murder by an Atlanta jury.
Most of the newspapers agree that the only
way to avoid costly murder trials, to say
nothing of the wanton sacrifice Of hum"
life, will be the enactment of a law similar
to the Sullivan act in New York state, which
provides a minimum penalty of five years in
prison for the mere possession of pistol cd
other deadly weapon. The south is not a
frontier country, and there is no necessity
nowadays for a peaceful citizen g0in" armed.
Severe punishment for gun-toting will lessen
murders, the newspapers seem to agree.
The new Hungarian government has pro-
claimed solidarity with the Russian soviet
government and an armed alliance with the
proletariat of Russia, according to a dispatch
from Budapest dated Saturday.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-25

befalls him, he may confidently look to them
for aid.
Others are prompt to sympathize with
him, because through his tact he has shown
that he possesses in exceptional degree
sympathy for others. And this is always
the point to be kept chiefly in view by
those who would themselves become tactful.
The development of tact is matter of
heart growth rather than mind growth,
Selfshness shrivels it, kindness coupled
with delicacy of feeling brinss it to an
abundant poisoning.
Copyright, 1919. by The Associated
INeWspapers.)
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-25
CURRENT EVENTS

" URING the past three or four days the
movement against the actual ratilica-
81 ton OF national prohibition and the
enforcement of any such measure has become
so solidified that the Anti-Saloon league, the
chiefest agency on the dry side, has assumed
the defensive John d. Rockefeller, Jr.,
issued a statement explaining the immense
money contributions which he and his father
have made to the league. The league officers
have disayowed any sympathy with the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-25

The existence of the bird which is the en-
blem of America is threatened. An Alaskan
law places bounty Of fifty cents on every
bald eagle killed. The result is that in nine
teen months over five thousand eagles have
been killed. The bald eagle is charged with
destroying salmon, young deer and game
birds
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-25
H070 Refreshing!

That not all public service corporations are
at outs with the world and mopingly at odds
with the powers that be, appears from a state
ment made in a recent address by President
]. Epps Brown, Of the Southern Bell and
Cumberland Telephone companies. After re-
marking that these concerns operate ex-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-25
The Journals Service Flag

In honor Of the seyenty-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 county in France
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-25

changes in some nine hundred cities and
towns scattered over eleven States, in each
of which States they are under the jurisdic-
ton of public utility commissions, President
Brown declared:
''As an evidence of the confidence in
which we have established our business
and of the public relations with the COM
munities we serve, it will be interesting
to you to know that we have, with one
exception, no single question at issue
with the local city councils in any OF
these towns, and have never yet had
other than just and fair treatment from
any State commission"
How refreshingly different this is from the
lamentations and jeremiads sometimes heard.
Doubtless it is true OF public service COM
panies as of individuals that the condition of
health has much to do with the disposition
and outlook on life. A corporation that is
suffering from dropsy, SO to say, is naturally
lugubrious. But, just as truly, those that
seek their own highest interests in frank
dealing, efficient service and i'll the commu-
nity's widest good will be, as rule, cheer
fully disposed.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-25
TAXING JACK-POTS
(The Columbia Record)

One dares not call it humorous in it's gem
era1 aspects, but we cannot deny the humOr
of the ruling reported to have been made by
the revenue department with regard to the
gains and losses of gam blers, moonshiners,
bootIeggers and other gentry pursuing voca-
tiOns that are at least questionable.
1t appears that a professional gambler must
return for taxation the income derived from
his business, and may deduct the losses sus-
tanned therein, even to the extent of losses by
way OF equipment and paraphernalia confis-
Gated by the officers CT the law ir raiding
him.
So, likewise, the casual poker player is
tastefully entreated, nay, enjoined, to return,
as "Other income,'' his profitable jack-pots
and may deduct his losses, though only if
such losses do not exceed his winnings. If
there are no winnings however, but only
losses, which must be betrayed out of capital,
or out Of income derived from legitimate
sources, then the heart of the tax gatherer is
hardened against the unIucky sinner who is
not permitted to make any deduction for his
losses but must in addition pay tax on them.
we can fOreSee that one effect of this ruling
will be to deprive us of q great many pictures
que and AMI NJ ted Tecitals of juicy jack-pots
pulled down on four-dushes and "busted"
straights. There is nothing except fishing
game chickens and bird-dogs, about which a
man will lie with more FEASIBILITY and poetic
abandon than poker Eand and his winnings
in little game 1t will be rather shame
to check this generous impulse, but fellow
will have to be q bit conservative hereafter,
because the woods will be full of income tax
inspectors.
Henpeck was having his picture ''took.'
Twill you take something to drink" asked
the photographer.
with pleasure the sitter replied
The photograph was taen, and the sitter
said:
but what about the little invitaton?"
'Oh," said the camera man, chats just
professional ruse of mine to give a natural,
interested expression to the face
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-25

twenty years ago, just after the Spanish
American war, great-minded John Hay, who
was then Secretary of State, observed tina
whilst ''in any normal state of things"
treaty of peace ought to be ratified in four
and-tWenty hours, they wasted six weeks il
Wrangl1ng over this one and ratified il
with only one vote to spare Further:
eve have five or six matters now
pending settlement. [ can settle them,
honorably and advantageously to our
side; but | am assured by leading men
in the Senate that not one of these
treaties, if negotiated, will pass the Sen
ate L should have majority in every
case, but malcontent third would
certainly dish every one of them.
You must understand it is not merely my
solution the Senate will reject. They
will reject, for instance, any treaty on
any subject with England. | doubt
il they would accept any treaty of con-
sequence with Russia or Germany. The
recalcitrant third would be differently
composed, but it would be on hand"
How in things pygmy as we'll as things
great does history repeat! The petty spirits
and narrow visions that pitted themselves
against true craftsmanship in the perplex-
ing times of John Hay reappear, as petty
and narrow as ever, to vex the still graver
issues of today. The "recalcitrant third"
is again in evidence, now seeking to block
the path to enduring peace and goodwill on
earth.
They condemned the League of Nations
before it's constitution had been so much as
outlined. They denounced President Wilson
for not taking them into his confidence on
the details of the League plan before he him
self had reached definite conclusions there
on. They would oppose the League, as they
would oppose any forward stride in the
world, no matter what were its constitutional
provisions For they are the everlasting
malcontents, the spirits that have fought
human progress in all ages and all lands,
the "recalcitrant third that never fails to
stone prophet and jeer noble cause But
surely there is enough stalWart Americanism
in the Senate and enough power of public
opinion in the Nation to squelch the obstruc-
tionists at this most critical moment of
history!
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