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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10
A HERO EVERY DAY

While returning from liberty at about
1890 p. m. on the evening of September 8,
1918, Walter E. Bio, attempted to board
his ship the U. S. S. Lake Tahoe" by means
of a ladder lowered from ship to a lighter
alongside. When halfway up the ladder,
the strong current caused the ladder to
drift away from the ship, leaving it sus-
pended by line with which it had been
made fast to the ship. The sudden strain
on the line caused it to break, throwing
the ladder and Blot unable to swim, into the
water between the ship and lighter.
Ian E. Mcintyre, fireman, hearing Bots
cry for help, Immediately jumped into the
water to his shipmates assistance and man
aged to raise him high enough out of the
water so that one of the men on the lighter
could catch hold of the terrified seaman and
assist him on board. McIntyres work of
rescue was made difficult by the frightened
mans resistance The secretary has COM
mended Mcintyre for his gallant and self
sacrificing conduct. He enlisted in June,
1917. William Mcintyre the enlisted
mans father, resides at Wellsville, N. Y.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10

''The whole world is doing without
things which it would gladly buy, wear
ing out equipment and falling behind
it's wants. Clothing has been worn out
the world over. There will be a good
market for cotton, and our Cotton States
should be prosperous. Automobile con-
struction had nearly ceased, and the cars
in use are nearly worn out. The stir of
the war will continue in the blood of all
nations, and the impulse to do things
will be manifest"
This summarizes conditions which the Ma
tional City Bank of New York finds prevalent
and which it rightly interprets as being
Favorable to a period of enterprise and &C
tivity which will tend to sustain prices or
moderate their decline" That there ought
to be and must be a decrease in some prices
if public interests are to be conserved, goes
without saying. But it is equally plain that
anything like a general and sudden drop in
values would be calamitoGs. Business health
and prosperity require that readjustments of
this kind should come gradually. This evil
IDENTIFY will be the way in the United States
if not throughout the world-a prospect that
is highly reasSuring.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10
HE AND SHE

The engagement of Princess Patricia of
Princess Pat as she is atfec-
tionately termed by whole host of admirers
caught the fancy of hundreds of thousands
the world over, for all the world loves a
lover That she should have accepted as
her future husband Commander Dalhousie,
R. N, a man outside the circle in which she
was born, is the element of romance which
particularly appeals to very many, especially
as it goes to indicate that the old traditions
and customs of royalty are being cast aside
for something which is altogether sane, hui
man and democratic. Nothing is more likely
to add to the stability and permanence of
the monarchial institution of Great Britain,
as we'll in the few other countries where
it is retained, than the sweeping away of
the restrictions and eXclusivenesS which
forbade a prince or princess Of the blood
royal to marry outside royal circles.-New
York Herald.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10
THE UNREAD DRAMA
BV John Brock

by UOllu DlCCh
~ HERE is one drama, its pages open
to all who but put their eyes upon it,
that has a greater thrill than any
one can find to read from book. Printed
dramas are concerned with the interplay OF
character and circumstance, life in the MAX
ing 1 speak of the making of the world.
If you think of the pace you live in as
static, if you cannot cast your mind back
over aeons of time to what it once was,
speculate as to how it came to be what IL
now is or wonder what it is to be-why by
all means read that most dramatic OF books,
the Excursions of an Evolutionist." Then
YOU will realize your part in the great drama
which is being played out beneath the stars
to what denouement we cannot dream.
Those fields which stretch before your
eyes, what we're they when the glacial age
had passed over them? What fodder grew
for the mammoth before the forests had
sprung up from the cleared ground? What
butterflies did the great deer brush from
the branches with their spreading horns, and
what bird stopped to snatch them on the
wing? And where was man? How did the
earth come to clothe the rocks which lie
so far below and how did the stone itself
dissolve to mingle with the soil? How
came our great water channels to be formed
the Mississippi draining more land than
the whole continent of Europe? I say there
gather the story of the past, build it anew
for ourselves, dream our way through the
scenes, since the curtain of mist was first
raised which screened it from the sun.
Here in California, where l write, the tale
is more BRIEF yet more thrilling to be read.
The land is young, forced up from the
oceans depth by some crumpling of the
earths crust, long after other land was
smooth and tame. These rocks never knew
the weight of the tremendous brontosaur,
nor can one fancy any life in them save
which now abides-lizards and snakes, ele-
mental things, or the birds who fit in to
fill whatever corner of the earth is pre-
pared for them, always seeking the fresh
feeding grounds and the safety of the soil
tudes Life seems to have crept across
them rather than sprung from their sides.
The immensely of the universe is still a
line of figures to me; my mind cannot en-
compass it. But the power which reared
Cuyamacha's crown, where snOwstorms
crumpled the solid granite into folds as you
gather a cloth into your hand-that is a
concrete thing. Far up among the pines
you can still find the shells of the giant
clam, extinct these thousands of years, yet
young as the world counts time. To the
east lies the desert. Much of it is still so
far below the oceans surface that if the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10
Federal hid to States
For Public Education

Senator Smiths bill to provide extensive
Federal aid to the States for public educa-
ton is we'll described by the Savannah Morn
ing News as the most inclusive and most con-
crete measure of it's kind yet proposed. In
the event of its enactment the National
Government will provide annually seven and
a half million dollars for the extirpation of
illiteracy; seven and a half million for the
AmericanZation of foreigners in this coun-
try; twenty million for disseminating knowl-
edge of health and hygiene and for recrea-
ton; fifteen million for preparing teachers
for public schools, particularly rural schools;
and fifty million for equaliZing educational
opportunities within the several States, with
especial reference to rural interests To ad-
minister these funds and perform other i'm
portant duties, the bill calls for the estab-
lishment of a Department of Education rep
. resshted by a Secretary in the President s
ACabinet and ranking with the foremost ex-
ecutive provinces.
Our Savannah contemporary, whom we
quote for it's conservatism, truly observes
that it is unwise to shift the burden of edu-
cational support from local to general sources
to such an extent as to dull incentives to To-
cal exertion. But in the proposed measure
the safeguard has been provided to make the
Federal assistance to the States conditioned
upon the assumption by the States OF a
like burden of expense" Further:
eff the theory of the expediency OF
public education is at all tenaDle, tne
Federal Government, it IS indicated,
sustains the same responsibility as the
State or county, or the city or the school
district"
The character and extent of that RESPONSE
bility were impressively illustrated in the ex-
ecution of the Selective Service act, through
which it developed that the United States has
some seven hundred thousand male litter
ates between the ages of twenty~one and
hirtu-O at A
icanized foreigners settled within our borders
is exceedingly disquieting to contemplate.
The facts thus brought to light gave impetus
and practical direction to an already earnest
sentiment for more extensive educational ef-
fort by the National Government; and mas
much as the readiest channels for such eff
fort lay in the established machinery OF the
States, bill along the cooperative lines pro-
posed by Senator Smith was naturally forth
coming.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10
AT HOME AND ABROAD

this monotony of blank and forbidding wall.
For South American has his front yard
in the middle of his house. If you call on
citizen of Asuncion, you pass through hall
way and INTO a courtyard, which is full of
charm secreted from the street. Here lit
tie fountain plays, there are flowers and
palm trees and pretty benches and very like
ly parrot a monkey.
The interiors of the better houses too, are
as attractive as their exteriors are ugly, the
rooms being high-ceilinged and richly fur
nished.
The public buildings of Asuncion, on the
other hand are almost all Of high architect
ural merit. The railway station is thing or
beauty, as is also the government palace"
which. was built by Spanish conqueror of
long ago, while even the banks are richly
decorated structures of marble.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10
Penny-Wise.

The statement that the MINIS coined
total of three hundred and seven million
six hundred and fourteen thousand one-cent
pieces last year. an increase of more than
two hundred million over the average for
the decade. up to 1916, tells a striking
story of climbing prices and changing points
of view. Time was when the penny was
considered well-nigh annoying in its trivial
ity. and person who would insist upon his
copper dues in change was put down as mig
gardIy. But war times have taught the
proudest that many muckle makes a
Inick1e. The odd cents required for revenue
taxes on sundry commodities and for the
price advances almost every article or
common use have eaten into n1ckels and
dimes and dollars so continually as to ad-
monish even the most careless spender that,
after all, the smallest coin is worth watch
ing.
Millions of these multiplied pennies went
into War Savings stamps last year-a prac-
tice which by all manner of means should
be continued. Although no definite amount
of stamps has been allotted Georgia for the
present twelvemonth, they will be sold as
heretofore and the public will be expected,
as a matter of both patriotism and self-ln-
terest to buy them. Thanks to the gen
erous and able service of Mr.. Hugh Rich
ardson, State Director, and Mr.. J. T. Rose,
Assistant State Director, of the War Savings
campaign in Georgia, together with host OF
loyal co-workers, the gospel of thrift has been
sown in thousands of lives that once were
barren of it's blessings. To the individual and
the nation alike, the need and duty Of we'll
reasoned economy are as important now as a
year ago. Let's make 1919 a time in which
we shall be penny-wise and pound-wise, too,
thus strengthening Americas sineWs and
safeguarding, each man, his own future.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10
FREEDOM OF THE SEAS
BY Dr.. Frank Crane

Next best thing to understanding thing
is understanding why you cannot understand
it. There are very lew thing, the world
after all, that are satisfactorily movable
Most things you just talk about as if you
we're thoroughly acquainted, and the people
you talk to nod their heads as if they COM
pretended, and neither of you know what
it all means, and both of you are ashamed
to say so.
H'Treedom of the Seas" for instance You
have heard of it, and read about it, and
seen people excited over it, but nobody thinks
it worth while to pause a moment and tell
you what it is
had been in this state of mind for some
time. Indeed, [ was Sc ignorant upon the
subject that I had bout decided to write
an article upon it, which would have been a
humdinger, as I would have had no facts to
interfere with my imagination. Also, no
body else in my circle knowing anything
more about it than I do, I would have had
no fear of being found out.
| From this crime, however, I was stayed by
the friendly interference of Dr. Nicholas MUIR
ray Butler, president of Columbia university.
| Which shows that college presidents do
some good, after all
For [ read in an interview, which DR..
Butler recently gave, these grand and glOr-
ious words:
'The American public is wholly mystif1ed
as to what is meant by freedom of the seas"
| And now that regular college president
has up and said that he does not know what
is meant by freedom of the seas, the rest of
us are relieved from the strain Of pretending
that we know And the next time some rapid
fire arguer shoots the word at you, you can
say to him, What do YOU mean, freedom of
the seas, hey?" just like that. And see
what happens.
The phrase, however, hath a familiar smell,
There is tang of sauerkraut to it. If it
was not made in Germany it has hung around
there long enough to suggest Germany.
1t seems to be one of those phrases coined
by that large and passionate company who
hate England, and whose fayorite sport is
twisting the lions tail; that is, when said tail
is hanging through the bars and the lion can
not get at them with his paw.
The real fact is that Notwithstanding
Great Britain's naval superiority the seas al
ways have been free. Ships of any alton up
till 1914 could come and go as they pleased.
At that date the seas ceased to be free for
Germany and those wanting to help her, and
it was mighty good thing TO the rest of
the world.
We have no way, said the immortal P.
Henry, of judging the future except by the
past And judging by the past no nation
that behaves itself has anything to fear from
that fleet which thwarted the ambition of
Of Napoleon and disappointed the kaiser. The
British fleet has been doing it's bit towards
making the world safe for democracy long
before President Wilson came on the stage,
and the peace conference at Paris can find
plenty to do in the way of abating nuisances
without attempting to cripple tho arm of the
best friend democracy and fire. nations have
ever had.
Copyright 1919, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10
ASUNCION

ASUNCION ..1.
In the typical North American city you
see many pretty homes set in lawns, and often
showing considerable architectural beauty,
while the public and business buildings are
usually big, ugly boxes of brick and stone
with just an occasional pretty court house
or city hall.
In South American city this distribution
of municipal beauty is reversed. If you
walk through the residential section of Asun-
cion the capital of Paraguay, for example,
you find yourself passing endless walls flush
with the street There are no yards, usually
no trees, and no attempt at architectural eff
feet. The windows are often barred and the
doors are heavy, forbidding affairs without
verandas or porches, while the roofs are
fiat Second story balconies on some of the
houses are only excrescences that break
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10
NEW TIME, NEW SPIRIT

The new time is instinct with new spirit.
Old things have passed away.
New thinAS must replace them.
New ways, new thoughts, new deeds.
Those whC attempt to do things in the
new time in the spirit of the old time will
find themselves ineffective.
Two Scots were coming home along a
lonely road late at night.
Donald's unstea ly feet led him too near
the brink of the deep ditch at the side OF
the road. Will a cry he fell to the bottom
of the trench.
Can We climb out?" inquired Sandy, anx-
iously.
'I Gamma, the bank is too slippery" re-
piled Donald.
"Weel,'' remarked Sandy, 81 Gamma reach
We to pull we out SO I'll Just jump down
beside ye!''
That's the New Time spirit in action
Sacrifice of self for the general good.
Comradeship of the high and the low.
Meeting problems on a common level.
Disregard of artificial distinctions.
Recognition of essential brotherhood
Some call this sentimentalism. A better
name is essentialism.
1t means cooperation of all minds and
hands toward one common end, which must
be the greatest good to the greatest number.
But fine phrases pay no rent bills.
Each man must realize that when other
men prosper he can not fail to share in that
prosperity. The employer who seeks to
force down wage-levels reall. tries to emas-
culate his own business prosperity. Similarly
the worker who refuses or fails in eHclency
of production harms not merely his employer
but his fellow-workers and himself by re-
ducing the level of prosperity.
The spirit of the new time is friendly
one Let's be careful not to quench it.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10
FEEDING YOUR MIND

Years count for nothing. Some men are
old at thirty; while others are young at
sixty.
cts a good thing you've got the ambi-
ton to start in again at fifty said work
ingman chum of the same age to SEMI
professional man who was practically be-
ginning his life's work over again - and
doing it with enthusiasm.
But the ambition was due to mind
kept fresh because of contact with live, new
things-whereas the workingman who was
offering his congratulations to his friend was
old and "logy" because his life had con-
sisted of dull routine.
The mind greatly affects the body Every
body knows this. It is the basis of world
wide religious and profound PHILOSOPHERS.
If your mind is kept young and fretful
by reading and study and by mingling and
talking with live people, your body is sure
to respond to it's freshness. If your mind is
not fed upon the vital things of life, 1T is
bound to grow older and die before its
time.
It is quite generally true that working
men as a class Idle" sooner than profess
sional men-physicially as we'll as mentally.
This isn't altogether due to the fact that
workingmens jobs are more dangerous than
other mems jobs-nor may 1t be charged
up to the difference in the food eaten -
it is due principally to the workingman's
attitude toward life.
He assumes that when he's fifty he's an
old man with nothing to which to look
forward Among the so-called upper
classes" a man is at his best at ffty-and
he does some of his finest work between
fifty and seventy.
Feed your mind! That's the way to keep
young-Rev Charles Stelzle.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10
A FABLE BY AESOP
THE BOY AND THE NUTS

young child put his hands in a jar
where nuts and figs were kept. He took all
that his fist could hold, but when he came
to pull it out, the neck Of the jar was too
small for him to do So At this the tears
by, said, Grasp at but half, my boy, and
you will have it; but grasp at all, and loose
came in his eyes, and a friend, who stood
all -
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10

waves could pierce that mountainous wall
great freighters could navigate upon it. In
the hills, granite which once lay buried be-
meath the ocean bed blinks with it's mica
eyes in the sun and waits until good earth
shall cover it or crumbles to give its
strength to the growing things. And in the
desert the sand waits only water to bring
forth life.
Yet, read eagerly as you will, there are
always chapters you will have missed. |
found deep cut in the valley the other day
which had barred the trunks of greater
trees than now flourish here. When did
they grow? Whence came the earth that
covered them? 1t was as though a page
were half turned back to mock the mind
that dared to speculate on these things
or was it to lure it on?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10
Are Pig Clubs Worth WhiIeS

Some facts are in themselves so obviously
significant that merely to state them is to
clinch an argument. For example:
In a Georgia county, school children have
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10
The Journals Service Flag


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.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10

Pretty good for those green" southern
troops of the old Hickory division, who
were the first to break the Hindenburg line.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-10

~HE Greeks of Georgia, in accord with
their compatriots throughout the
United States, have issued an appeal
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1919-05-19

nasza Ojczyzne ~ukochana. w kohcu
o6daf Geese tw6rcom konstytucyi !
duchowiehstwu polskiemu, kt6remu
~wdziecznost sic nalezy "a energiczne
zabiegi / %starania sic o fundusz ma
rodowy ola Polski, o odziez ola POI
trzebujacych rodakow; nawolywai
ably nadal swiecic przykladem " tel
twardej koniecznosci. Pieniadze
Polsce daG trzeba, oraz dostarczye
zywnosci, odziezy | obuwia. Inni ola
Ojczyzny dali zycie, krew i mienie,
my zaS przynajmniej znikoma cast
Ike naszego zarobku dat winnismy.
Move goraco oklaskiwano. Pc wy
czerpaniu programu personal---very.
x. dr.. Wojciech Kmiecik c.. R., po-
dziekowai wszystkim bioracym u
dial W wystepach "a wykonanie
kr6tkiego, lecz d~oskona'ego pro-
gramu jakotez / wszystkim tym, kto-
rzy zaszczycili obch6d swoja obec-
noscia. w kohcu zachecal do wsp6l-
nej piracy ola dobra ojczyzny. Cd
spiewaniem og6lnej modlitwy DO
be cos Polske' opuscili wszyscy sale
pokrzepieni / rozgrzani ma duchu, z
otucha W sercu / checia do piracy
ola dobra Narodu | Ojczyzny.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1919-05-19

do sChicago.B yi juz diva razy 20
naty. Pierwsza iona zosta}a zabi'
ia we wypadku automobilowym
pred II laty, a Cd drugiej otrzy-
mai wczoraj rozw6d W San Die
go, Kalifornia.
- Trzech rabusiow ma rogu u
lie Madison / Sangamon obrabo,
wa}o z $1,000 panne E. Herman.
kasyerke firvny Empire Grocery
Co., Z pnr. 920 w. Randolph ul.,
ktora nios}a pieniadze do banku
w srodmiesciu. Automobil, W ktd
rym rabusie uciekli, pozniej iden-
tyfikowano jake skradziony.
- Mianowany zostal subkomi-
tet z komitetu licencyi rady miej-
skiej i otrzymai polecenie, azeby
udal sic do Springfieldu i tam sta
raj sic cd legislatury stanowej
dodatkowej w}adzy ola miasta,
celem powiekszenia dochodow ma
lozeniem op{at ma przedsie-
biorstwa, ktore obecnie mic "a IL
cencye ME plaza. Czlonkami sub
kemitetu sd alderman: Cermak,
Adamkiewicz, Hogan, Anderson
i Krumdick.
- Onegdaj przywieziono pocz-
te z Cleveland do Chicago aero
planem W czterech godzinach, II,
0 Is godzin wczeSniej, anizeli to
motive jest koleja. Jest to po--
czatek regularnej poczty napo'-
wietrznej ~pomiedzy temi dwoma
miastami.
- Onegdaj ma 21szym rocznym
zjezdzie international Associa--
ton of Garment Manufacturers"
odbywajacym sic W hotelu La
Sale przemawiaf senator Cham
berlain z Oregon, ktory przemy-
slowcow krytykowa} "a to, il ME
powiedza rzadowi, co mice prag-
na, a pozniej zwalaja wine ma
rad, il ME udziela i'm zadnej po-
mocv.