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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-01
Il Lesson From Louisiana.

TN HAT reclaimed swamp lands are not IN
danger of unusual damage during
IN seasons of prolonged or excessive
rains. but in fact fare particularly well III
flood time as we'll as in drouth, is interest,"
ingly evidenced by the recent experience OF
planters in southern Louisiana Rains III
that territory have been so continuous ana
heavy that much anxiety was felt for crops,
especially for those in districts which were
marshes or boys before drainage converted
them into farm sites. But the agricultural
commissioner of Louisiana reports, after an
extensive tour of the southern region that
the corn and rice on the reclaimed lands are
as fourishing as any in the state indeed more
so than in many other districts.
Likewise in long rainless periods when
other lands may be baking and the vegeta-
ton burning up, the erstwhile sWamps and
soggy bottoms will be luxuriantly green. In
this connection the New Orleans Times-Pica-
yune recalls that in 1917 and 1918 when a
severe drouth prevailed throughout Texas and
the mountain states, cattle suffered greatly
from lack of water and the drying up of
pasturage that thousands of animals had to
be sent east to save them, numbers coming
to louisiana The result was an enormous
increase and development in our cattle and
dairying industries"
Evidence like this should encourage Geor-
gia to prosecute with quickened and widened
energy the great work of reclaiming her own
swamp and overfowed lands. There are
| more than seven and a half million such
acres in our Commonwealth-appr
| one-seventeenth of it's entire area. The Ia
Dor of reclaiming this empire Of fertility has
barely begun. The drainage districts thus
far organized represent upwards of fourteen
| thousand acres. This is a mere hands,
| breadth, compared with the total task to be
performed. But it is enough to show the
| feasibility and the profitab leness of drainage
undertakings in Georgia. 1t is enough to
demonstrate that at a cost of thirty dollars
| an acre, or less, lands which were virtually
worthless can be raised to a value of one
hundred and fifty dollars an acre, more,
and to pitch of productiveness hat rivals
the rich borders of the Nile itself. Whilst,
| then, we have not gone far into this immense
| opportunity, have ample encouragement
from the results here at home, as well from
and strongly forward.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-01

creation of unnecessary counties is
- an extravaganza which no State can
afford to indulge in, least of all State whose
highways, schools and other essential !nstl-
tutions are so urgently in want of funds as
are those of Georgia. He who makes two
blades of corn grow where before grew only
one is rightly accounted benefactor. But
what shall be said of him who causes two
dollars to be taken from the public purse
where before only one was taken, ana thaC
one amply suficed?
Consider the duplication of labor and OF
expense involved in the establishment OF a
needless county. There must be two court
houses when one would do, and TWO forces OIL
court officials, each drawing on the taxpay-
ers' till There must be two jails, two aims
houses two sets of road machinery, Two
superntendents of road construction, two
sets of guards where convicts are employed,
and a multiplication of effort and cost from
the largest to the least OF pubic actlVltles'
Now suppose that instead OF putting nun
dreds of thousands of dollars into extra court
houses and jails, a community should invest
that sum in schools. Suppose that instead OIL
putting other hundreds OF thousands into
salaries for extra political offices, it appro-
priated as much to the improvement of roads
and the protection of health. Would not the
resultant increase in property values and
growth in prosperity be incomparably
greater?
The Journal does not presume to Judge the
merits of any particular movement for the
creation of a new county. But we do know
that as a rule and as matter OF principle IL
is far better for the individual community
and for the State to cooperate within exist
ing lines and through already established
means rather than divide public resources
and divert to mere political machinery funds
which could be turned to highly constructive
account. There are too many crying needs
which touch the vitals of the common wei
fare. and too many opportunities for sub
stantial. service and progress, there are too
MANY children to be schooled, too many roads
to he built. too many fertile acres to be re-
claimed from marsh and morass, too many
great human interests to be served, for us to
spend one dollar of tax money on useless
projects.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-01
"THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD"

BY THE REV. CHARLES o E@AIH
LET the beauty of the Lord our Coo De up
on U.s.
In former days men sought merely TO MAKE
things useful; today they also seek to make
them beautiful.
If his house was dry, that's all the savage
cared about But now we hire architects 10
nlan our homes on lines that appeal to the
eye.
The workman today builds machines that
not only "go' but look Well-sO we'll, indeed,
that they vie with works OF art" IN snow
windows on stylish avenues. -~v
Once, man was satisfied II his coat was
warm; today it must also be harmonious IN
color and correct in form. Because people are
giving more and more attention to their per-
sonal appearances-even the so-called COM
mon people They are learning that while
clean shirt may not cover clean skin,
dirty shirt never does.
But the beauty of the Lord must be not
only upon u.s." but within us"
"A clean skin is the sign of clean blood. And
no amount of cosmetics can hide the charac-
ter that's back of a jaded eye-because the
eye is the window of the soul.
Create in me a clean heart o God"
should be the prayer of every man who de-
sires to be clothed in 1.-The beauty of the
Lord.
For neither coat, nor car, nor cottage
however fine and beautiful-can cover any
mans character.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-01
H0qC the Farm viii Vim.

s'Exhortation," the Courier-Journal sagely
remarks, will not cause many farmers to re-
main upon the farm if, when looking over the
fence they envy the laborer who earns SIX
dollars day by working eight hours; nor
will exhortation send many young men to the
farm and away from work for good wages
with short hours as an added inducement."
OF course not. But where exhortatlon fails,
there are concrete persuasions that Will sue
coed. We mean good schools, good roads,
rural libraries and recreation centers, COM
fortably equipped homes, and continued i'm
r-ovement in agricultural methods These
things will not win for the farm forthwith,
but they assuredly will in the long run Men
who now flock to cities for high wages and
short hours may find themselves trudgfng
back to the country kitchen for a square meal.
Certain it is that if more of them do not turn
to raising food and producing other necessa-
ries the soft jobs and fat pay of the present
will profit them nothing; for the prosperity
that lacks a sound agricultural bottom is but
froth.
Soon or late, then, there must be return
to the soil. That time will be fastened by
every improvement in living conditions in
rural homes and communities. So long as
highways are hard to travel, so long school
facilities are inferior or scarce, so long as
the social side of country life is starved, it
will be of no avail to protest against the town
ward drift But where these hardships and
handicaps are removed, the farm will hold
its own and win new workers. This is
not theory but fact, to which many a
Georgia county bears witness.
The average mans idea of returning to the
land is rabbit hunting and fishing parties.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-01
OUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

A smart city barber received shock when
an old countrytnan planted himself down in a
vacant chair and asked to have his hair cut.
Never in his life had the barber seen such an
extraordinary crop of hair. 1t stuck up in
wild, unkempt tufts, of different lengths, and
looked more like half-worn mop than any
thing else.
Him." said the man w,Jh the scissors
''who cut your hair last?"
ooh, my wife did," answered the yokel,
with a shamefaced expression.
What did she do it with, eh?"-snorted
the barber disdainfully-"a knife and fork?"
"Propinquity is what brings about mar
riages," declared the father of three single
daughters in didactic mood.
"Yes?" murmured his wife
cit works this way From among the men
who call most frequentl, at house the
daughters of the house naturally select hus-
hands,
''In that case,'' said the mother sadly. ''I
car our girls are doomed to marry bill col
iectors."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-01

Elaborate preparations are being made by
the citizens of Atlanta for the entertainment
of the Confederates, which is to be held in
Atlanta next October. 1t is desired to make
this jubilation the most memorable one in
the history Of the Confederate Veterans AS
ISOLATION and plans with this end in view
accordingly are being made.
General Nathan B. Forrest, OF Biloxi Miss,
son of the famous cavalry leader, is in At
lanta now, cooperating with the local COM
mittee, in outlining program Tor the Octo-
Der reunion and lending such help as he can
toward making a success OF the occasion.
General Forrest has had wide experience in
arranging reunions, and it is his purpose to
spend most of the time between now and Oc-
tober in Atlanta, directing the activities con-
nected with the forthcoming celebration.
Chicago is in the throes of street railway
strike that is paralyzing industry and COM
MERGE Fifteen thousand motormen and con-
ductors went on a strike Tuesday afternoon
for higher pay, tying up all the surface and
elevated lines in the Windy City.
Shortly after the strike was declared the
officers of the street railway company and
representatives of the men agreed &poa q
scale of approximately 65 cents per hour, an
eight-hour day and time and half for over
time 1t was believed that this agreement
would harmonic the differences and that the
strikers would return to work. When the
leaders submitted their agreement to the
striking employees it was rejected, the motor
houd, with an eight-hour day and time and
half for overtime. Officers of the union
urged the strikers to accept the compromise,
since, as they pointed out the public was be-
ing made to suffer.
ITO hell with the public; the public be
damned" shouted number OF strikers at the
meeting, whereupon the officers gave up their
attempt to adjust the differences.
Atlanta's telephone strike has been official
ly called off, by Miss Rose c. Hickey repre-
senting the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers. The strike was declared
| originally on June I'd, when a number of
operators in the several telephone exchanges
of the Southern Bell Telephone company IN
Atlanta walked out.
Miss Hickey estimates that altogether three
hundred and sxty-two operators were IN
volved in the strike. Fifty of these are I'M
derstood to have applied for reinstatement,
and Miss Hickey is of the opinion that within
a short while most all of the striking opera
tors will have re-entered service OF the COM
pany. ..,-.
| In announcing the settlement of the strike,
| Miss Hickey withheld, for the time Delnlg'
statement of the conditions, but remarked
! that they were satisfactory alike to the South
ern Bell Telephone company and to the oper-
atorS.
| William Stoddard, one of the well-knoWn
vonng business men of Atlanta, is threatening
| fo nurchase an airplane for his individual use
| and nersonaI pleasure. He has sent an agent
| tn the Curtiss factory at Buffalo, and upon re-
| ceiying his report will begin negotlatlons ZOE
| the purchase of the plane. 1t is MIR. otou-
dard's ambition to be the first civilian IN AL
Ianta to own and operate an airplane.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-01
IN-RE HENRY FORD
BY Dr.. Frank Crane

| In law court Mr.. Henry Ford has recent
| ly been badgered by a Chicago lawyer, and his
confused replies to all sorts of catch questions
have been faithfully telegraphed to the press
of the country.
The object of the lawyer was to make Mr..
, Ford ridiculous, and to show him to be an
ignorant idealiSt.
The whole procedure is a vulgar piece Of
business.
Mr.. Ford is a mechanic. A man who can do
things cannot necessarily talk. l could write
a better essay on horseshoeing than any black
smith in Chicago, l make bold to say. But II
| were to undertake to shoe horse l should
probably be kicked to death. Writing is my
craft.
Making machines is Henry Fords craft.
And he is a master hand at it. He has built up
one of the greatest units of business in the
world, and his products have been OF lnestlma-
ole benefit to the people. He has served his
generation magnifcently and is one of the I'M
crowned kings of our day. He ought to pc
respected and honored by all.
When war threatened us he had certain
ideas about war in general. He advocated
them. That was not anarchy, but the right
of any citizen. When Nar came he bowed to
the inevitable and supported his country. That
is the opposite of anarchy.
Not half dozen men helped Uncle sam to
win the war more than Henry Ford.
If he had lived in England he would be
knighted; if in France he would receive the
medal of honr. Living in this land of the
free and home of the brave, he is cursed ridi-
culed, and harried. There is a streak of
mighty unpleasant little ness in the American
people.
Scare-headlines have appeared in the pa
pers advertising that Mr.. Ford, as it appear
ed in the trial where the legal fest was snap
ping at the lion manufacturer while the latter
was being held by the court, did not know
what the war of 1912 about nor what
mobilize" means
What of it? What has that got to do with
the case?
When the civil service examinations were
inaugurated long while ago, friend
mine named John RhineJerger, who had been
a railway postal clerk : twenty years, came
up for his examination One of the questions
they asked him was:
"What is the suns distance from the
earth?" His answer was: 81 don't know, but
I don't think it's near enough to interfere
with my duties as postal clerk
Another question was: ''How many Hes
SLAMS came over to this country during the
Revolutionary War;"
To which he replied: 81 disremember, but
there damn sight more of EN- came
over than went back"
Z The ~harge that Henry Ford is an AN
archist" is simply vicious. He is a type of
man Of whom America is proud. He doesn't
always agree with the Chicago Tribune nor
with L.,Y. Sherman. But, then, there are
others. And not all anarchists.
copyright, 1919, by Frank Cranel
Where is the old-fashioned village sport
who cracked a beer bottle over the wheel OF
his buggy?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-01
South Georgia, the Live Stock Section
(Thomasville Times-Enterprise.) .

(ThOmaSVllle l'meS-EnterprlSe)
We will always believe that ThomaSvlle
made serious mistake when it failed to take
up the packing house project and put it through
two years ago. 1t is true that at that ime
there were obstacles, but they could have been
surmounted and every dollar put into the plant
would have been worth ten to the county.
Indications are that this is the coming live
stock section of the entire country, not of
Georgia, but of the United States, and the
strongest indication of it is the progress of
the packing house industry within the past
five years. Armour and Swift have bought
plants already, others are planning to build
them and with capital working in big hunks
lucky indeed is the town or county within
which is located one of the institutions.
brownsville would probably have been able
to bring millions Of dollars worth of business
to this city with expenditure of only two hun
bred thousand that would have been returned
intact That's proposition that is behind us.
1t merely points the way for more mistakes
of that character. Those behind the project
were sure that it would pay, but they were
likewise sure that It would attract some action
such as has been realized in Moultrie and Tiff
ton, which has increased business in those
towns wonderfully.
Packing house products are going 20 be
made hereafter at the producing centers. South
Georgia is that beyond doubt, and it has been
stimulated wonderfully in the past five years.
1t IS but the indication of what will be and
that part of it that fails to take advantage of
its possibilities has just lost that much start
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-01
YOUR MEMORY
By H. AddIngton Bruce
you have made, it appears, a di
that oraat1v trOrh1oc Won


imagining that your memory was all
that it ought to be, you have been unexpected
ly constrained to admit that it is surprisingly
weak.
This was borne in upon you when after
an absence Of many years, you paid visit
this summer to your native village.
There you met a number of people with
whom you had been we'll acquainted in your
boyhood and younger manhood. Naturally
there was considerable Swapping of remi-
niscences. Aud you were astonished and cha
grined to find that you had forgotten much
which you would naturally expect to remem-
Der.
Even incidents in which you yourself play
ed part had almost completely faded from
your memory and were at best remembered
only vaguely. Many other happenings which
far older fellow tOWnsmen related in. great
detail you could not remember at all.
This has amazed, his startled, you. You are
more than half inclined to consult doctor
with regard to your failing memory.
But let me ask you few questions.
These other men, who remember past
events so much more clearly than you, are
they not men who have spent their days in
the humdrum surroundings of the village,
whence you departed to try your fortune in
the great city?
Is it not possible that the past is so vivid
to them because the intervening years have
been comparatively empty of fresh expert
ences?
certainly you KNOW more ABOUT a great
many things than they do. You have heard
more, seen more, lived life more intensely
than they, and thought harder with regard
to variety of subjects of more importance
than the commonplace occurrences which
have dropped from your remembrance.
Do you not think it likely that these have
dropped solely in order that your memory
might be free to retain that which it is in
finitely more necessary for you to remember?
To have a good forgettery is really as
desirable as to have good memory. Or as
that wisest of psychologists, William James,
once put it:
1.-THE peculiar mixture of forgetting with
| our remembering is but one instance of our
minds selective activity. Selection is the
very keel on which our mental ship is built.
And In the case of memory it's utility is OBJ
vious
IF we remembered everything we should
on most occasions be as i'll off as if we remem-
bered nothing. 1t would take as long for us
to recall pace of time as it took the original
time to elapse, and we should never get
ahead with our thinking
| Copyright, 1919, by The Associated Newspapers)
Two women who had not seen each other
for many years met UNEXPECTEDLY in the
street.
How do you do?" exclaimed one effu-
sively
"Now this is delightful" said the other,
who was the elder. You haven't seen me
for eleven years, and yet you knew me a.
once! I cannot have changed so dreadfully
IN all that time. 1t 1latters mel
"Oh, l recognized the hat" said the first.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-01
Starting Preparations for
The Greatest Reunion
~ ENERAL NATHAN B. FORREST, the
honored son Of an illustrious Con-

~ ENGRAL NATHAN b. FOHhE04, the
honored son of an illustrious Con-
~ federate SIRE will find in his present
visit to Atlanta the kind Of welcome he prizes
most. He will find city-wide and whole
hearted interest in the cause to which he is
SO deeply devoted, that of making the next
reunion of the Souths surviving heroes OF the
Sixties the most memorable they ever nave
known.
It is for this purpose that General Forrest
comes to Atlanta to cooperate with local
leaders in working out the well-n1gh 1nnu-
merable problems which such an event IN
wolves. His experience in planning for the
great reunions of the past and in carrying
their programs successfully through will be
invaluable to the Atlanta committee. The
city deems it rare privilege to have him as
a guest and collaboration in the gracious
work now to be done.
That Atlanta is awake to her duty and
mindful of her honor is manifest in the sp1r-
tied public response which the first steps to-
ward preparation for the veterans have
evoked. General Chairman Andrews is re-
ceiving pledges of heartiest support, and
Chairman Willis of the finance committee
advisedly predicts, in regard to the raising
Of the reunion entertainment fund. that we
are going to have the shortest and most sue
cessful campaign in Atlanta's history"
The occasion is a thousand times worthy
of devoted effort and liberal giving. This
will be probably the last earthly foregather-
ing of the gray warriors of the Confederacy,
the last opportunity we shall have to show
them as a body how tenderly enshrined they
are in Southern and Georgia hearts. Let all
Atlanta measure splendidly up to this high
privilege and obligation.
For the Germans to be figuring on who
caused the war and is responsible is our idea
of locking the garage after the thieves have
made away with the tires.
There are various controversies about
who won the war, but our own belief is that
the men who fought in it turned the trick.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-01
The Treaty Nth France.

I'm essence the projected treaty with France
proposes no more than America certain
- ly would do in the event of an unpro-
voked and formidable German attack upon
our late associate in arms and our Oldest
friend among the nations. We are not con-
sidering of course, so remote a future as fifty,
twenty-five or even ten years hence. We are
thinking of the times Immediately ahead
which contain as President Wilson says, in
calculable possibilities"
When the League Of Nations has been firm
" established and through lessons and lead
ings of experience has been perfected, then
doubtless there will be no need of a special
treaty looking to the protection OF France
against Prussian aggression. So far as we
NOW can see, indeed, the terms of settlement
with Germany within themselves strong
guarantees that no such onslaught as rolled
westward from the Rhine in 1914 can be re-
peated Nevertheless, there can be no harm
in making assurance doubly suns, for a Ger
man attack upon France woR& be virtually
an attack upon us.
Let it be known by t9eaty procl3lnation
that the United States, together with Eng
land, will go to Frances aid il she becomes
again the object of German aggression, alp d
there will be still less likelihood OF such
aggression. That is but another way OF say
ing that the guarantees of continued world
peace will be all the stronger, and our own
nations interests all the securer. The SPECIFIC
terms of the proposed treaty must be given
closest scrutiny, but it's broad principle is as
suredly one to which we may we'll subscribe
for the dear motherland of Lafayette.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-01
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