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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-28
WEATHER LORE
By H. Addington Bruce

tn HERE are many sound popular beliefs
With regard to weather signs and in
fuences. But also there many
beliefs which have no foundation in fact. To
some of these attention may we'll be drawn
for corrective purposes.
It is popularity believed for example, that
the firing of explosives, in battle or during
national celebrations, is sure to bring rain.
Weather bureau records do not confirm this
belief.
Indeed, the United States government long
ago disprOVed it by some iteresting expert
ments. Heavy charges of dynamite were set
off, within clouds, by means of kites and bal
looms, causing violent explosions but no rain
fall whatever.
Similarly erroneous is the belief that there
is definite connection between the weather
of one particular day and that of following
weeks.
Thus the presence or absence of sunshine
on Grounding Day, February 2, is popularity
supposed to determine the severity or mild
ness of the rest of the winter wet Easter
Sunday is held to be followed by seven wet
Sundays. Rain on st. Swithin's Day, July
Is, is thought to portend forty days of rain.
Sometimes the event seems to Justify these
beliefs. But weather bureau records show
that this is only sometimes. The connection
is merely one Of occasional coincidence.
Then there are the numerous and varied
beliefs as to connection between the moon S
changes and changes in the weather, con-
clever rhymster:
The moon and the weather
May change together.
But a change of the moon
Does not change the weather
E'Lightning never strikes twice in the same
place." runs familiar adage. Actually the
tendency of lightning is to strike in the same
place or Whereabouts.
eff the conditions which attracted light
ming discharge are not disturbed by such a
discharge" the meteorologist Andrew H.
Palmer has pointed out, ''there is great prob
ability that they may attract the lightning a
second time.
"The Eiffe1 Tower in Paris, steel tower
1000 feet high has often been struck, six
times during one particularly severe storm"
And, commenting another prevalent
belief with regard to weather signs, Mr..
Palmer Observes
"There is no known relation between the
weather of one season or year with that of
the following season or year, various opin-
ions to the contrary Notwithstanding.
'"The records of the weather bureau do
not show that a relatively dry spring is fol-
lowed by an unusually hot summer, or that
abnorma1Iy cool autumn is followed by a Sc
verely cold winter.
Neither can it be shown that cold years
or warm years occur in groups of two or
three, as is sometimes maintained"
Copyright, 1919, by the Associated News
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-28

Millions of dollars worth of vegetables
were produced and thousands of acres of
otherwise unproductive land we're improved
and cultivated by the city and town school
children during the season of 1918.
The total product of the city or town
garden as operated by the School Garden
Army can be counted as a clear gain, for the
boys and girls perhaps would otherwise have
been idle. The vacant lots and yards would
not have been cultivated, so neither the
land nor the labor should be counted as
debit. The intelligently directed labor of
the children was good for them both phys
ically, mentally and morally.
Most of the country children would have
been employed, maybe, though probably not
so profitably, had they not been at work on
their own little farm" with their pigs
and chickens.
The Importance of this splendid work has
not been lessened in the least by the fact
that the war is ended. The need for it is
just as great, if not greater, this year than
last year. While the monster war is
crushed to earth, there has risen in it's place
a creature almost as terrible-famine. The
starving nations of Europe must be fed and
America is called upon to produce even a
larger quantity of food than it supplied last
year.
Children should be kept out in the open
where they fill their lungs with fresh
air and enjoy Gods sunshine. Fun and re-
taxation are good for children, but so are
sane and wholesome employments A union
Of these virtues is found in the home gar
den work. It is good for them to work with
nature and become acquainted with natures
phenomena and laws. 1t is good for them
to work at some task that cannot be fin
ished in day, for this kind of employ
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I be published as pamphlets, and will be used
in answering the requests. When specific
information is asked which is not contained
in the printed matter available, or in any
form, the homeseeker will be placed in COM
munication with one of these agents, who
will supply the latest information.
This bureau, which was inaugurated on
January first, is now receiving at least one
hundred letters a day. This is a pretty
good indication of the need for just such
an organization. survey of the daily mail
shows that the majority of inquiries come
from people who have always lived in cities,
but who wish to obtain small pieces of land
near the larger cities. Truck farming and
poultry raising are the most popular occu-
pations. The questions are very general
and many people want information about
more than one state. The Homeseekers' Blu
reau wishes to encourage people to write
more specific questions, as it believes that
in this way it can be of greater service.
If the man who wants to raise wheat on
the plains Of Minnesota or start ar apple
orchard in Oregon will give some informa-
ton about his experience and ability, and
the amount of money he wants TO invest,
the bureau will be able to help him much
more in the light of these facts.
So far the mail has shown that quite a
number of women are very much interested
in taking up some kind of farming. They
seem partial to live stock breeding and poul-
try raising. Experience has proved that
women are very we'll adapted to poultry
raising, and in particular to all kinds of
dairy work.
Several persons have written asking how
to get work on farms. Such request is
little out it's line, but as the Home
seekers Bureau takes interest in every
potential farmer, it will do what it can for
those who wish to get some practical ex-
perience. In matters of this nature it will
cooperate with the United States employ
ment service.
Chambers Of commerce, trade boards,
community centers and newspapers are
asked to cooperate with the Homeseekers'
Bureau and to supply whatever Informal
ton they gan for the benefit of those who
are seeking new homes. At the present
time the bureau is unable to give full in
formation to it's correspondence because the
reports from the railroad agricultural agents
is not available for distribution. BY spring
the bureau will be in position to handle
all inquiries. For the time being, it is
sending out whatever literature it has on
hand, and filing the Inquiries, which will
be answered more fully at the earliest OPP
pOrtunty.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-28

IGH praise is sounded for the women
RI who have gone to work on the rail-
- roads of the country by the chief of
the division of labor of the United States rail-
road administration. Between January 1 and
October 1, last year, the number of women
workers on American railroads increased from
10000 to 100000. Practically all are anx-
ious to remain permanently, officials report
Of the 101,O 900 women employees, $4,000 were
in clerical or semi-clerical occupations $3.50
in cleaning cars or Offices, 5,091 in shop work,
1896 were telegraph operators, and 2,613
telephone operators. Others were employed
as bridge attendants, car employees, engine
wipers, switch tenders, track work and watch
women.
Sergius Sazonoff, the former Russian
foreign minister under the old regime and
now representing the government of Yeka-
ternodar and the Siberian government at
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A very interesting summary of some of the
main accomplishments of the United States
Food Administration has just been prepared
for publication by Dr. Andrew NJ Soule, the
Federal Food Administrator for Georgia.
= Now that the is over and the people
have time to look back over the great events
which are gradually taking perspective, every
one realizes, or ought to realize, that the
United States could not have played such a
t>amendous and effective part in ending the
war if it had not been for the Food Admins
tration.
:, In the first place, as DR.. Soule points out,
there came a call from Lord Rhondda, the
feed controller of Great Britain, for the
United States to supply the Allies at once
itHeseventy-fve million bushels of wheat.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-28

Omsk, has declared in a statement that he
would not participate in the conference pro-
posed by the supreme council with Bolshe-
vik representatives. He added that it was
very likely that neither the government
of Admiral Denikine nor that of General
Denikine would send emissaries, for they
were fully aware of what Bolshevism
meant.
Wherever American negroes have appeared
in the area occupied by the Americans they
have attracted great attention among the
civilians. In Treves, Coblenz and other
places during the early days of the occupa-
ton, crowds assembled wherever any negro
soldiers stopped and it was necessary for the
military police to enforce the orders prohibit
ing gatherings. Even now in Coblenz and
Treves, where there are a number of negro
soldiers, they attract crowds of German chill
dren every time they appear. The German
soldier also regards the negro with great
curiosity. According to a discharged Ger
man soldier in Rengsdorf, the German army
early in the war offered a reward of four hun
dred marks for the capture alive of each
negro. The discharged German soldier said
that throughout the war German soldiers
lived in great fear and even terror of the
negroes, and it was in order to overcome this
fear that rewards were offered.
Bolshevist attempts to lombard Reval,
Cdp4I6L VI CSLuOuId, AIOu Iu0 sea nave re-
suited in complete failure, according to re-
ports received in London Every vessel in
the fleet is said to have been sunk
Americas job as banker for the allies has
been lighter this month than at any time
since the nation entered the war. Only
$17O 900 900 has been paid out as allied loans
since January list, the treasury reported last
week although payments on this account for
long time ran around $500, 100000 a
month The reduction is caused principally
by the curtailment of shipments of food for
payment of which the American credits had
been largely used. Until congress enacts the
pending bill, advocated by the treasury, to au-
thorize loans to the allies for other than
strictly war purposes, officials do not look for
much change in the present low rate of de-
mands on the American government. Total
credits extended by the treasury now amount
to $8,588,773,00O, but only $7,854,816, 900
has been actually paid out under these cred
it's.
Textile workers in Lawrence, Mass, await
ing the outcome of a mass meeting to decide
upon a course of action on their demands for
decreased working hours, were confronted by
conflicting advice of their leaders. President
John r. Menzie of the Central Labor union,
has said he would oppose a strike at that time
while line Kaplan, secretary of the general
committee selected to enforce the request for
a 48-hour week, stated he would favor imme-
date drastic action.
About fifteen days remain of the time Mr.
Wilson proposed to stay in Europe. 1t is ex-
pected the committee will be able to present a
plan upon which they are all agreed within
the next two weeks. This will enable the
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president to depart for America with an out
line of the league which he considers para
mount to guarantee future peace, and which
will give the key of settlement Of many other
questions.
Appalling and almost unbelievable atroci-
ties were practiced upon Greeks and Ser
bians by the Bulgarians during the war, &C
cording to a report submitted by an official
Serbian commission, which has been conduct
ing an investigation Not only has evidence
Of bruta1ities been found, but the names of
Bulgarian officers who ordered them have
been secured, it is said. Hundreds of grimes
against civilians in occupied territories nave
been proved by the investigation It is re-
ported In one district, it is said, 500 won-
en- and children were ordered massacred by
a certain Lieutenant Stojamov. The spot
where this wholesale tragedy occurred is
said to be still marked by human skulls and
Sccef>
Theodore H. Lund of Chicago, last week
submitted to the house military committee in
Washington a statement in which he charged
that twenty military and political prisoners,
most of them conscientious DIRECTORS, had
been "brutally treated" at federal peniten-
tiaries and detention barracks. He gave what
he said were details in each case; declared
that conscientious DIRECTORS had been subject
ed to particularly inhuman treatment and
asked that an investigation be made. Mr..
Lund asserted that the prisoners had been
placed in solitary confinement for weeks at
a time, forced to go without sufficient food
and water, strung up to the bars of their cells,
beaten numerically by their guards and
otherwise brutally treated" and that as re-
suit "some of them are dead, others are dying
by inches, while all are more or less in con-
slant jeopardy of life and health"
The railroad administration needs $780,
100000 more for it's revolving fund to sup
plement the $500 900, 600 originally provided
and now practically exhausted In preparing
Hines explained that $196, 900 of this sum
operations last year, and the remainder repre-
sents advances to railroad companies, to be
repaid eventually with interest Congress
will be asked Immediately to appropriate this
amount, which Mr. Hines declared would be
necessary, regardless of whether the rail-
roads were returned to private management
within few months retained longer. The
director general estimated that $368,193,000
would be required this year to finance capital
enterprises, such improvements and pur-
chase of cars and locomotives, which railroad
companies are not able to finance without
borrowing from the government. This figure
also includes $12,S4O 900 for contemplated
expenditures inland waterways, and $780,
100000 to finance reorganization of the
Boston and Maine.
After a debate lasting nearly five hours
which was preceded by Republican eau
Gus in which it was made party meas
ure, a resolution to ratify the federal pro-
hibition amendment was adopted by the
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In honor of the seventy-three Atlanta Jour-
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country. The two white stars are in memory
of Captain Meredith Gray and Captain James
S. Moore, Jr., Journal men, who gave their
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came from city gardening,
and more especially from
the school-directed home
gardening work of the
United States School Garden
Army, under the general
direction of the bureau of
education at Washington,
which will be continued this
year upon even more extern
sive plans.
Millions of dollars worth
of vegetables were produced
and thousands of acres of
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CURRENT EVENTS

issue of The Atlanta Semi Weekly
7nears the
opinions of the
foreign countries
here e>itomized by editorial staff
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Perhaps the largest gain in all the food
production and conservation during last year
Newark post., 1919-01-08

nell ST., Wilmington, and Egbert !
klair of Stanton.
The Canning Club championship
was won by Evelyn Stoll of New
ark who canned SO quarts of fruit
and vegetables at cost of S5.28 in
94 hours.
Laura Hopkins of Newport can
ned So quarts of fruit and vege-
tables at a cost of $1127 in 26
hours.
These girls each received two
gross of "Good Luck" rubber
rings offered by the Boston Woven
H and Rubber Company.
In a 15-minute address, H. D.
Alla.baIck, vice president of the
Interstate Milk Producers Associa-
tion gave an excellent report of
the achievements of the past year.
The open winter, which has per-
m;ttted farmers Ito pasture their
herds in the wheat fields, made
possible the lgeatest milk yield in
years. All of this has been placed
with the exception of 160 quarts.
The record prices have placed this
commodity above the butter mar
ket SO that many farmers are using
oleo. He warmed against skimping
the family supply and urged the
use of milk in the home. He told
what has been accomplished by Or
gan;zation and urged those pres
emit to interest themselves in get
ting new members.
Four prominent members of the
Hurlock Maryland Tomato Grow
er's Exchange were present and
gave brief bus:ness-like talks out
lining the good things accomplish
ed by the Exchange. The first
speaker, Mr.. Packard, said that
like the merchant and the manu-
facturer, the farmer must sell his
produce en- the basis of cost plus
profit; that he must wake up and
do justice to himself and to his
family by obtaining an adequate
return for their labors. Vice presi-
d2nt l. O. Taylor explained the
work of the organization in plac-
ing the tomato yield to advantage,
in dealing with Gamers and in
dispoe.ng of the surplus. He urg-
ed organization among local farm
ers and advised more canneries for
this section.
Tomato diseases were discussed
by local and visiting farmers. The
visitors urged the purchase of wilt
resistant seed which can be OBJ
Newark post., 1919-01-08

by establishing truck service from
the farms to Trenton. Valuable
suggestions for organization work
were made by the speaker.
Following this address a moving
picture show was given. The reels
were provided through the court
esy of the American Jersey Cattle
Club, the Holstein-Friesian Asso-
At noon an excellent dinner was
served to about 60 members at The
Commons.
Newark post., 1919-01-08
COUNTY FARM BUREAU
MEETS IN WOLF HALL
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6N~Gk CT tomorrow and announced
that the pure bred pigs offered by
Delaware College would be de-
l. '"atred I,to the boys in the spring
c nce this is a bad time of year to
START a pig.
The pure bred pig championship
was awarded TO William E. Bland,
SON cf William H. Bland of Shady
br~'ok Farm. AT the beginning the
prize pig weighed az 1-5 pounds
and at the end of $50 days it
weighed 206 pounds. The total
cCAst was S44.15; the value at 25
cents a pound is S51 so, net profit
of S7.35.
The grade pig championship
was awarded to Joseph C. Brown
of Newark, whose pig at the be-
ginning weighed 63l2 pounds and
at the end of 167 days weighed
1852 pounds. The value is S56.79;
the EtCtal cost $38.01; net profit
S1S.7S.
H. Wallace Cook who won the
Corn Club prize at the State Fair
was awarded a pure bred pig offer
ed by the State Board of Agricul-
ture, as winner of the Corn Club
championship. His yield Of corn
en- the club acre was 63.4 bushels
the cC-t per bushel was 5S cents,
the value of the corn is $1O2.69
making a net profit of $6554.
The Poultry Club championship
was awarded to Francis Thomas of
Io2klyn who produced SAG 63
worth CT eggs and chickens at a
cost of S2256 making a net profit
of $24.97 with pure Rhode Island
Reds. The prize was a pure bred
cockerel offered by William H
Sewer.
Prizes of So in money offered by
the Diamond State Poultry Asso
citation, were awarded to Elizabeth
Mac Roberts of 312 North Con,
Newark post., 1919-01-08
PUBLIC SALE

On account of impaired health | will
discontinue farming, and will sell at
Public Auc ton, on the farm now teranted
nv me known as The Old Eastburn
Farm, " owned by DR. Veasey, of Whining
ton. four miles north of Newark, Della
ware on the road leading from Newark
to sC0rner Ketch" T. Howard Walms-
ley, Manager,
On THURSDAY, JANUARY IS, 1919
at 10 O'Clock \. NJ.
The following described Personal Prop
erty, to-wit:
6 Good Horses
% Head of Fine Cattle
Scows. fresh; II springers; ! yearling,
heifrrs. & six-rnonths-Old hciters; l SIX
montns-Old bull, Holstein; l three-year-
old fine bull IIolstein,
This is fine dairy herd and should
interest all dairymen.
Farming Implements, Etc.
Deering binder, Ontario grain drill.
tt-spout: manure spreader, New Idea;
Deering Mower. horse rake, | snlky
n1ow. No. II: Oliver walking plow, 3
Su1kv Cultivators, / hand Cultivator,
roller | corn planter, Case; douple ulsc
harrow, 6O-tooth spike harrow, Column
bia farm wagons, / two-seated carnage
ton market wagon, break cart, wheel
barrow ? hay riggings. All these farm
mo implements were bought new last
year
2 sets wagon harness, sets ploW har,
recs / set single harness, collars and
bridles single-trees and douhle-trees ana
many other articles too numerous 10
mention
Poultry---Chickens Ducks, TURKEYS.
The above property will be sold with
out reserve. as l have no further use LOT
them.
Terms of Sale---Cash. Positively no
goods removed until settled tor.
THOMAS MALONEY.
w. S. ARMSTRONG, Auctioneer.