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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04

vASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 28.--Before
w you spend that dollar, stop ind
W think. Are you going to get for it
dollars worth of anything you really
want?
Likewise, before you put that dollar away
in a savings bank, pause and consider Are
you really saving it for a good purpose, or
merely following blind instinct to hoard,
as crow collects bright pebbles and bits Of
glass? How long is that dollar going to stay
in prison, and what is it going to, and how
much is it going to be worth when it gets
out?
Yet again, if you adopt the third a1terna-
tive, and invest your beloved buck, go first
to a quiet place and think for long time.
Also seek the advice of wise men Is this
proposed investment really an investment in
the literal sense of the term, or is it just a
gamble, similar to poker but less fun? Are
you planting your little simoleon inr happy
environment where he will grow and beget
other little Simoleons, or are you apprentice
ing him to some hard taskmaster,; who will
work him to death and return him to you a
mere shadow of his former self-if, indeed,
he ever returns at all?
These are some of the questions (freely
interpreted), which the newly created savings
division of the United States treasury depart
ment is asking the citizens of the United
States. 1t is true that this division has been
created mainly to encourage thrift in this
country, to the end that the people may have
more money to invest in government securl-
ties. For billions of dollars worth of gov
eminent securities have got to be foated If
the government is going to provide soldiers
with farms, and pay them their insurance,
and patch up the transportation system, and
feed few starving European nations, and
meet all the other obligations which have
come with peace, and are not bit lighter
than the obligations which war brought.
But the savings division is going at this
task in broad-minded way. Harold Brad
dock, chief Of the division, and his associates
realize that thrift IS much more than the
blind accumulation of money. Thrift, in its
best and truest sense is a philosophy of
money. The truly thrifty are not afraid OF
money, nor yet do they despise it. They TN,
derstand it. They know both it's value ind
how to use it. Therefore, they always have
some
To inculcate philosophy of money is the
purpose of the new savings division. These
prophets of a thrifty America are out to
oppose the extravaganza for which America
is famous, but they are equally opposed to the
senseless and purposeless saving which goes
on in America, as it does everywhere else in
the world. If you are saving money that you
might otherwise use for food, clothes or recre-
alton that you Or your family really need,
then take that money out of the bank and
spend it--yea. even though you might other
wise buy savings stamp W it'll it.
Intelligent saving is the kind that the saw
ing division wants to encourage And intelli-
gent saving, they say, depends largely upon
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04
Our TROOPS in Russia.

Those impatient Sill Oracles who insist
upon the instant withdrawal of Americas
part of the Allied force in Russia, as if it
were as easy to move military expedition
as to Whit off a ring of pipe smoke, seem
to have forgotten why and in what circum-
that troublous land.
They were sent, like those of our co-bel-
ligerents under the spur of an emergency
whose development and outcome no one
could foresee. Whether they would be gone
six months or six years; whether they would
be nightly reinforced remain simply the
nucleus of an economic and diplomatic mis-
sion; whether they would play trivial or a
decisive part in the war-all this was con.
jectural The one thing certain was the ur-
gent need of intervention to keep great
stores of allied war material in Russia from
falling into German bands, and also to
hearten those elements of the Russian peo
pie who were seeking to save their naC1on
from German-boughC BOlshevist clique. AS
circumstances then stood, we could no m GRE
have afforded to neglect the peril in Rus
STA than we could have refused to hasten
reinforcements to the hard pressed lines of
the French and British in the West.
But the problems thus entered upon
were intellectually complex. The task of saw
ing the military stores was entangled with
that Of combating the pro-German Bolshe-
Wiki, and with that of supporting the Czecho-
SlOvak forces who were our friends, and
with that of providing food for great masses
Of people whom hunger was driving to an
archy. Nowhere else in all the reaches of
the war was there a situation so complicat-
ed, SO unpredictable. From the beginning,
America and the Allies were loath to enter
it, hut they dared not stay out: and, once in
they could not get out until events opened
a way. They could not have got out hon
orab1y when their wichdrawal would have
left the Cezcho-Slovak army and the friend
y Russian forces victims of murde1ou Boil
shevist regime. They could not have got out
adgisedly whilst German agents remained in
Russia contrary to the armistice terms Nor
could they have got ont either with grace or
with safety when they were under attack by
Lenine's wolish forces It Is one thing to
clamor for the instant withdrawal of Allied
troops from the Russian maze; it is quite
different thing to show Just how they can be
ties.
The United States Government, we may
be sure, has no wish to leave an American
soldier in Russia day longer thar is need
full and all the Allied Governments are CT
that mind But as Lord Miner recently re-
clared in the House Of Commons, this is a
in which more haste might mean less
GDeed; for eff the Allies should scramble out
# RU.ria Dall-mell. the result would almost
certainly be that the barbarism which now
reigns in only a part OF that country would
spread the whole of it.'-al disaster
whose ultimate consequence is beyond pre-
diction. The least then that we reasonably
can do is to credit the Government with
knowing at what time and in what way cur
contingent of the Allied expedition can he
expediently withdrawn and to rest assured
that when that time arrives there will not
be moments delay.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04
WHAT NEWSPAPERS
SAID OF DRY VICTORY

And the toast will be dry, too!-Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
The water-wagon is sort of Car of Jug
or-not-Lowell Courier-Citizen.
The Sahara desert at one time was the
largest dry area on earth.-Detroit News
We shall beat our swords into pIowshares
and our corkscrews into buttonhooks.-
Brooklyn Eagle.
Better get rid of the tea and coffee habit.
These Ubiquitous beverages come next
Chicago Tribune.
When certain people start blowing the
foam off of a charlotte russo it's time the
United States went dry. - Lackawanna
Journal
A lot Of women are going to regret pro-
hibitiOn, the way it will lead to their hus-
bands staying around home.--New York
Evening Sum-,
The horrendous thought occurs that Rus
STA was the first nation to adopt prohibition
And now look at the darned thing.-New
York Tribune.
1t is one of life's jronies that the saloon
keeper in politics was largely the cause of
the passage of the prohibition law.-Philadel-
phia Evening Ledger.
Prohibition may or may not cause a great
improvement in the public health, but some
thing tells us that it will do away with good
deal of the necessity for sitting up with sick
friends-Springfeld Union.
U. S. A means U Stay Arid-Detr Dit News
How do the drys celebrate" ?-Brooklyn
Eagle.
All states ratifying after Nebraska are
extra drys.-New York Sun.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04

estimable. Perhaps not other national prof.
ect promises so much in aiding in back-to-
the-farm movement as this.
Nearly two million boys and girls have been
given something to do during the coming
spring and summer. And when seed planting
time arrives, it is believed there will be more
than three million boys and girls who will
be doing something that will help carry the
burden of their country in its struggle to
feed not only its own people, but those of
Europe as withdrawing that will help
them to build character and which will appeal
to and develop their patriotism.
Hundreds of civic and commercial organ
izations have become interested in the School
Garden army movement, and are giving 1T
their hearty support Many of the associations
are offering prizes for the best report of in
dividual effort in production, and for other
purposes.
In Salt Lake City last year there were five
thousand mothers representing sixty-two
parental associations, who actively supported
the food production as aimed at in the school
army.
The standards for measuring the results
OF school and home gardening as part of
town and city educational systems have not
been worked out. Many articles of a general
nature have been published in regard to the
educational value Of the subject, and it is
generally conceded that the expenditure of
money for this branch of education is JUS
titled
1t is argued by some that while the train
ing thus obtained is good for the child, yet
the money is not returned in crop value
Neither do other school subjects Immediately
return such money value. Each well-directed
home garden will return more than it's cost
including its proportionate cost of super
vision, and at the same time maintain it's
educational value. From standpoint of
nature study, the non-productive garden has
its value, but real garden lessons reach their
highest educational value when it becomes
productive.
You can definitely measure the immediate
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04

of vessels needed to round out the navy in
the light of war lessons.
Secretary Franklin Lane says this is a.
work that undoubtedly the parents will be
interested in, because it takes care of our
food needs, promotes the health of the chill
dren, makes each one study the problem of
reconstruction and become more thoroughly
identified with their country.
The most important thing for the success
of the movement he says, is to persuade
boards of education and superintendent of
schools to employ garden teachers, offer them
courses of study that will prepare them for
this especial work, and give other financial
and moral support to it. where this cannot
be done, business, civic and other organiza-
'tions can usually be persuaded to finance the
work"
New and unexpected obstacles. to the long
delayed war revenue bill developed last Fri
day, resulting in settlement of more minor
disputes between the senate and house, but
entailing pos+ponement of final action by the
conferences until tomorrow and submission
of the conference re-draft probably until
Tuesday.
To secure instructions from the house on
senate amendments in dispute, Representa-
tive Kitchin, of North Carolina, the Demo-
cratic leader, brought the bill before that
body late today, and after spirited discus
.sion to accept, with notifications, the senate
plan for taxing political campaign contri-
buttons.
Premier Lloyd George, telegraphing from
Paris on Saturday. informed Arthur Devlin,
Irish leader, that he would decline to inter-
vene in the Belfast strikes.
81 am in complete agreement with Chan
cellor Bonar Law that the same considera-
tons which apply to Glasgow apply equally
we'll to Belfast the premier declared.
The attitude of the government as previ-
ously announced is that the strikers and
employers should settle their differences at
a joint conference.
While unsuccessful efforts were being made
before the senate agriculture committee last
week to develop the identity of a person who
sent Swift & Co. advance information affect
ing the meat packing industry, the house in
terstate commerce committee was informed
by the federal trade commission that it would
furnish the names of witnesses upon whose
testimony it had made charges of collision
among the five big packing firms.
Six women were candidates for seats in
the house of commons in the recent general
elections in Great Britain. Five of them
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04
FAIRY JAGOONS

FAIRY LAGOONS
Before the entrance of the most imposing of
the horticultural buildings at Shaws Gardens
in Tower Grove Park, st. Louis, lie these
graceful lagoons. They are especially popu-
lar with small children, who delight hugely
in skipping along the wide stone slabs which
outline the still, clear waters They also en-
joy sticking their little sippered feet into the
cooi waters, under the pond lily leaves, which
look so enchantingly large and substantial
ha- is almost tempted to walk out on
them.
. On mid-September day when the breeze is
crisp enough to whip the rosy leaves from the
trees of the gardens, yet the sun is warm
enough to bring out few bees among the
fowers---then are the lagoons bits of fairy
land itself.
1t is then that the beautifully cultivated
pond lilies are at their best The perfect
blue, white, pink, crimson and purple bios
SONS are as dainty and fragile the thin
nest of china cups, and their centers are filled
with heavy golden powder.
Thick lily pads lie between these lovely
blossoms, and their red-scalloped edges give
them a quaint, o1d-fashioned look Dark
patient water bugs crawl about on them and
stop each other to. pass the time of day
Thistledown butterflies of yellow, brown and
red, as we'll as stately zebra swalIowtails
carry on a never-ceasing traffic in the golden
pollen depths of the lilies.
Shimmering dragonfies like an army of
restles Ariels, dance back and forth just above
the water, and nose into the interests of all
the other insects. Their, iridescent wings
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04

TT AVE you ever given any thought to
II the profoundly significant truth
that what man sees is determined
not SO much by the power of his eyesight as
by the power of his mind?
A man of undeveloped mind will always
see far less than one whose mind has been
developed by education and experience. And
as between two men Of developed mind, what
each will see depends always on the kind of
training his mind has received.
You can test this for yourself by simple
and most interesting experiment..
Take two or three friends and go with them
for a walk in park OF along a Country road.
While walking call their attention to nothing
in the way of objects to be seen, but chat
casually about variety of topics of general
interest. Then set down on paper what you
yourself have seen during the walk, and ask
your friends to do the same.
Comparing the accounts it is safe to pre-
dict that you will find some astonishing diff
ferences.
Your own training perhaps, has been such
as to make you what is known as practical
minded In this case your account may en-
phasize such things as the character of the
road over which you have walked. the rich
ness or poverty of the surrounding country,
the thrift or thriftlessness of the people
whose homes you have passed.
Your friend A, of more aesthetic mental
development, may have seen nothing of this.
But he has seen much that you have missed
the colors of the sky, t. e shape of the clouds,
the beauties of roadside, meadow, and distant
forest.
If perchance he has seen the houses that
have so impressed you because of their evil
dences of poverty or prosperity, he will de-
scribe them, not in the terms you have used,
but in terms of their icturesqutness or the
reverse.
Friend R.'s account differs again from
yours and AS.
naturalist by training, his narrative of
the walk you three have taken is full of al
lusions to plants, insects, birds, and little ami
mails quite unseen by you and A.
All three Of you will probably feel
chagrined at the 7egree of blindness revealed
in each. All three should lraw from the ex-
pertinent a useful hint as to the desirability
of visual power by further mental develop
ment along the lines in which weakness has
been disclosed.
'The secret of open eyes," exclaims Charles
Clinton Peters, in his stimulating and prac-
tically helpful book. Human Conduct -
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04
The Good Roads Spirit.

The Cordele Dispatch pridefully remarks
that while some counties are waiting on a
State bond issue to give them adequate roads,
"Crisp is at the business of building more Of
the splendid kind already here" And the suf
ficient reason for that continued activity is,
"Our roads have brought us a good
type of citizens, and our population is
putting the price of farming land over
the hundred dollar an acre limit
1t never fails that when a county once gets
fairly started on efficient highway building, it
goes zealously forward from gooG to better,
with an eye constant to the best. The re-
turns on such investments are so speedy and
so substantial that even the most skeptical
are convinced and the most lethargic aroused
L~rger net profits on crops, higher values for
farm lands, steader and brisker trade for the
merchant, wider and soundeT opportunities
for, the banker, better schools, better
churches, more neighborliness, happier and
wholesomer living-all are the rewards of
sustained highway improvement.
But it is not enough that progressive coun-
and their manifold blessings. The true good
it simply begins there. 1t reaches forth with
Commonwealth. 1t sees that no county can
reap full benefits from good roads as long as
it's neighbors are afflicted with poor roads.
The interests of each and of all demand
Statewide system of highways, well built,
we'll kept, linking every county to every other
in vital chain of prosperity and progress.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04

"the secret of open eyes is well-stored
soul.
what you have got in the past-and
every iota of twill affect your mode of ap-
perceiving for all the future"
Read, listen, observe, reflect. Broaden
your interests Refuse to glide into a mental
rut. Gain information from every possible
source and on all sort3 of SUI ,jects.
This is at once the way to srow in knowl-
edge and to grow also in power to see the
world roundabout
Copyright, 1919, by the Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04


Preliminary peace terms will probably be
presented to Germany along with conditions
for further renewal OF the armistice this
month, if present plans are not deranged.
Recognizing the need for a return of the
world to normal peace-time basis, the ma
lions associated against Germany are con-
sidering making a start toward the actual
peace treaty by inserting some of the ele-
mentary terms into the conditions which will
be submitted to the German armistice COM
mission on February II. This decision is
reflected also in the examination now under
way to determine what American troops it
will be necessary to leave in occupied terri
tory. The plan is to set them all out as
soon as it seems advisable and it has been
thought that a start might we'll be made in
laying down the terms of, peace. Some off,
Gals who have been closely studying the
situation believe that the armistiee itself
might we'll be developed into peace treaty,
just as they think that society of nations
might be developed out of the deliberations
of the peace conference.
French, American, Canadian and Belgian
delegates were present on Saturday at the
conference in Paris of inter-allied Socialists
which considered the conditions under which
the international Socialist and labor confer
ence at Berne was inaugurated. 1t is ex-
pected that decision will be reached today
regarding the participation of Belgian and
American delegates in the Berne congress.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04

~ ATIONAL RUIN is staring us in the
~ face, if we are to believe the prophets
who think the prohibition amend
ment to the United States constitution
blunder, says the Literary Digest. They as
sure us that we are in for an epidemic of
BoIshevism as a protest against the infringe
ment of personal liberty; an increase of I'M
employment, already made acute by demob-
ilization; an increased burden of taxation,
made necessary by the loss of excise revenue;
a depression of real estate values in our big
cities; an increased aggressiveness on the
part of the forces of intolerance, as fore
Swallowed in the statement of w. c. T. U.
official that "the next campaign will be
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04

stuff of which true America is made. The
American way is to march straight forward,
trusting in the countrys inexhaustib1e re-
sources and indomitable spirit, begetting con-
tidence by courage and prosperity by enter
prise. This is what we need today. and his
is all that we need.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04
AT HOME AND ABROAD

catch the sunlight with dazzling briIiancy,
and they whirr and buzz like fairy airplanes.
Even the most staid and prosaic of the
grownups that come to the gardens cannot
resist the fascination of the Iagoons and their
busy insect life.
OMSK
Omsk is a little city, or big town
whichever you like--in Siberi- The build
ings Of Omsk keep close to the round. The
home of the settler is one-story log affair
The public buildings and shops are ornate
with pillars and carvings, but their grandeur
extends upward little farther than the log
hut, of which they are an elaboration
Omsk has more than its share of law-break-N
ing an crime. The number of persons who
die inopportunely there is large enough to
inspire more caution than bravado in one en-
joying a nighttime walk throug the lanes
which pass for streets.
There is Jail in this rustic metropolis, but
its inmates are, as rule, only the most re-
cent indicators, who have bee 80 careless
as to be apprehended by the woodel shoes
policemen who rattle bout the streets at
night to assure the .itX that til law is not
sleeping. But the majority of Stnose
have resorted to violence stealth I gain
their ends are always at large.
knowledge of this is not reassuring, but it
adds to the stimulating atmosphere of the
Siberian life to wonder whether the queer
looking shop clerk or waiter who serves you
is a pillar of the church. or the man who
mysteriously made AVA with fur trader
the week before
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04
RECORDS OF SCHOOL GARDEN ARMY WORK

Through the enthusiasm
aroused among boys and
girls throughout the coun-
try by the School Garden
army, home and vacant lot
gardening in cities, towns
and villages has reached
such a dignified plane and
become so popular as to in
sure it a prominent and
permanent place in the pub
lie school system. The edu-
cational and material value
of such results is almost in
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-04
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., Jour nal men, who gave their
lives for our county in France.
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