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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17
Why the South Prosbers.

Struck by the fact that increases in the
ratio of savings deposits are much greater in
the South and West than in other regions of
the United States, the Philadelphia Record
advances as an explanation eth high prices
of cotton, cereals and meats" 1t accounts
the profits from munitions and war con-
struction in the East "a small matter COM
pared with thirty-two cent cotton, wheat at
two dollars and twenty cents, corn at dol
lar-sixty and upward, and nogs at seventeen
dollars and half a hundred pounds"
This view, as far as the South is concern
ed, fails to take in certain decisively i'm
portant conditions. Thirty-two cent cotton
would never, of itself, have bred the prosper
ity which brought so remarkable an increase
in savings DEPOSITS. AS a 1act, thirty-two
cents in these times is not a high price for
cotton when we consider the cos of it's pro-
duction; anu certainly it is no higher, on
comparative basis, than the prices Of the in
dustrial products of the East. Moreover, had
the South depended upon cotton during the
last few years as i'll times gone by, applying
its agricultural energy to this one crop and
buying its food staples in distant quarters,
there would be no such economic vigor as we
now see in this section, whether cotton fetch
ed thirty-twO or sixty-four cents a pound.
That is to say, our present prosperity is a
regGit not so much of prices as of methods
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17
Il Great Gardening Year.

Field agents of the National War Garden
Commission predict that the Southern States,
particularly Georgia, Florida and Alabama,
will break all gardening records this year, as
regards both extent of acreage and efficiency
of methods.
Preparations for spring planting are we'll
in prospect, and in some districts we'll ad-
vanced. Thousands of persons who learned
their gardening a-b-cs last year will renew
their efforts with heightened interest and con-
fidence, while veteran gardeners will well
come soil-breaking and seed time with wonted
enthusiasm
The home garden movement has proved in
calculably helpful both in reducing food bills
and in affording wholesome recreation. The
millions of dollars worth of vegetables thus
produced last year were of substantial aid
in conserving foodstuffs for war needs and in
tightening the cost Oh living.
These ends are as important now as ever
before, because the extreme dearth of food
necessaries makes it imperative that we raise
and save to the limit of our resources and
also makes it inevitable that food prices will
continue high. In these circumstances it is
very fortunate that Georgia and neighbOring
States have so prosperous a garden outlook.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17
Il Year of the L and Banks.

The growing serviceableness OF the Federal
Land Bank system appears in the fact that
during the hrst full year of it's operation it
lent to American farmers the sum of one
hundred and fifty million dollars at interest
rates of five or five and half per cent.
Secretary Houston aptly observes that aid
like this is a potent factor in reducing the
amount OF farm tenancy which, he adds, "has
aspects that should cause great concern
Our system of rural credits is still short of
what is needed, but it is so much of an i'm
provement over the wretched conditions of
some years ago that we have pronounced
cause for qualification. Time was, and that
not long past, when farmers paid seven per
cent, on the soundest security, for loans in
the East, wher. monetary resources were
most PLENTIFUL; while in less favored sections
they would pay from eleven to twelve per
cent.
The Land Bank system is blessing not
only in that it opens a way to easier long
term credits for agricultural interests but
also as means ana encouragement to divers
forms of cooperation in country districts.
There are noy approximately thirty-five hun
dred federal farm loan associations, each of
which is a center of concerted effort among
farmers for the common good. The effect
is certain to count for neighborliness, unity
and progress.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17
THE JOURNALS LETTER BOX

Editor The Journal: I shall not offer any
apology for my repeated communications on
the subject Of better roads for Georgia, for l
believe that [ am not only voicing the senti
ment Of the people, but helping to create an
interest in a movement which is second to
none in it's effect upon the development of the
resources of our state. I note with much
pleasure your energetic and persistent efforts
to educate the people up to better roads and
feel that we will yet see good results.
In your issue of the 9th, see it stated that
there is in the federal treasury the sum OF
$1,3O0,O00 awaiting to be used for good roads
under the terms of the federal good roads
act, and that this money is available as soon
as a satisfactory highway administration sys-
tenn is adopted in Georgia. This information
is the first statement approaching anything
like a definite explanation why we have not
begun to avail ourselves of the federal aid.
In other words, the state legislature has not
as yet created bureau through which this
money can be expended that is satisfactory to
the government.
No argument or education is necessary to
prove the Importance of this question, and
the demand for better and more permanent
roads is universal ant. yet legislature after
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17
THOSE WHO HATE

By H. Addington Bruce


HAVE BEEN READING a novel which
I heartily recommend to you, my
friends. 1t is a study, in the form of
fiction, of the psychology of hate.
"Foe-FarrelP' is the uncommon name of
this uncommon book. It's another is the cele-
brated English writer, Sir Arth1 r CUTLER
Couch, better known to novel readers as 20. -
Sir Arthur has written many better story
than "Foe-Farrell," considered merely as a
story. He has written none that more force
fully teaches a lesson of universal signii-
canoe.
1t is the story of a deadly feud between
one Professor Foe and business man named
Farrell. The feud is at first all on the part
of Foe, who hates Farrell with an intensity
that sends him journeying all over the world
in pursuit of his enemy.
In the end the tables are turned. Farrell
becomes the hater and the pursuer. And
now the novel rushes to a terrible climax,
poignant with the truth that there is scarce
ly anything so destructi- Of the mind and
the character as the virus of hate, and that
those who hate are selfdoomed to a heavy
penalty.
Too often in real life people forget or ig-
more this truth. They think of hate only as
a natural sequence to injury or insult and a
spur to resolute action against the hated
one.
That is to say, they gil no thought to it's
reaction upon themselves. But it always re-
acts upon them, psychoIogicaIly and physio-
logically.
And it reacts much as fear and anger and
worry do, for the sufficient reason that usa1-
ly it is compounded of all these states.
Like them, accordingly, it causes profound
disturbances in the workings of the bodily
organs, manifested externally by gradual
changes in face and form, and affecting the
health unfavorably.
There is a loss in weight aid strength.
The features become emaciated and harden.
Repellent lines develop about the mouth.
The eyes take on a most unpleasant ex-
preston.
Mentally there is a cIouding of almost all
the faculties. In proportion as the hatred
is intense, reasoning power becomes en-
feebled. Errors of thought and conduct are
conspicuous in the daily life.
Which means, of course, that hate causes
a general decay of the persl --ality. 1t may
not reach to the extreme depicted in this
strange story of the hatred of John Foe and
Peter Farrell; but it is sure to involve, and
to reveal itself in, marked eccentricities and
abnormalities.
when our hatred is Violent" Rochefou-
cauld used to say, "it sinks us even below
those we hate
Copyright, 1919, by the Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17

legislature meets and fails to give the people
that which they demand. This condition of
the highways of the state at this writing is a
disgrace to our state, and is destined to do
Georgia much harm. Roads cannot be built
without money and we had just as well real
ize that fact and go to work to ,aise it either
through state or ounty bonds, or through
tax on automobiles. No county is at present
equipped to meet the fifty-fifty proposition of
the federal government, and if we propose to
have better roads and keep abreast of other
states, we had as we'll prepare ourselves to do
our part.
Appointing committees to investigate
makes no progress. What we want is legis-
lature that will act and give us something
definite and effective. The time for argument
and education is past and the psychological
time has arrived for action if we would bring
the rich resources of our state in close touch
with the markets of the world and upon an
economical basis of transportation. l trust
tn press of the state will continue the good
work till our lawmakers act or quit.
Yours in the mud,
A. o. MURPHEY. ~
GAINESVILLE, Ga.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17
WORTHY HOME MAKINGS

(Southern High School Quarterly
In recasting the school curriculum during
1919 let none forget the demands for worthy
home making. Less than half of our south
ern high schools now offer courses in home
economics. Yet more than half of the stu
dents are girls and practically all of them
Will sooner or later, be home makers Even
now they are house daughters and should re-
fleet their school training in their home life.
From whatever angle the problem is
viewed-interest, present future need,
economy, health, happiness training, culture
the girls should be given strong courses
lin home economics, of equal dignity in equip
ment, time allotment, skilled teacher, and
graduation credit with any other subject.
Why do not the principals advocate the
introduction of this subject? We see schools
with an expression teacher and no home eco
Monies teacher. Do principals claim express
sion more important than the latter? They
never fail to provide for four years of history
a foreign language, or for mathematics for
four years. Are such extended courses in
these so shown that intensive work can be
done during the summer. Throw open the
windows and doors. Teach out of doors, if
need be, but ''go over the top with the years
work
Fifty minutes a day for five and half
months will make ninety clock hours for
subject The minimum time value of a
school unit is 120 clock hours. By counting
part of the fall term work and following
suggestions for intensive study we believe
the years work can be completed with salts
faction Then again, the teachers may be
able to eliminate some non-essentiaI prob
lens, theorems, chapters, topics and con-
centrate on the essential subject matter.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17
PLANT TREE FOR THE HEROES
(The Dalton Citizen.l

CThe Dalton Citizen.)
Since the armistice was signed and we
have been turning to the things that go hand
in hand with peace, various ways have been
suggested for perpetuating the deeds of valor
and heroic sacrifices of the boys who partici-
pated in the recent conflict.
There will, of course, be tablets of bronze
and monuments of marble erected in men,
DRY of those who fought for freedom, and
doubtless many institutions of science and
mercy will be dedicated to Americans who
helped turn the tide of victory. Out of the
maze of suggestions there is one memorial
that stands apart from all the Others ia
vored for it's simplicity and lasting qualities
the planting of tree for each one who
made the supreme sacrifice. In the planting
and caring for the trees, friends and rela-
tives Of those who will not return from war
would be privileged to express their love and
admiration for the service so specifically
rendered.
Tree planting as a memorial has been in
dOrsed in every section of the country. The
work could be carried on in each county, and
trees planted along the highways, or in parks,
as local conditions prescribed They would
be for all time living tribute to the young
lives that were given to meet the issue
democracy versus aUtocracy.
1t would seem, in event this beautiful idea
of planting trees in honor of our dead is
carried out in Whitfield, that the Dixie High
way would be the ideal thoroughfare to
beautify. There are stretches of road through
this county Shat could be made more attrac-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17
OLD BEN FRANKLIN, THRIFT EXPERT, SIGNALS
GARRY ON TO WAR SAVERS

Today is the 213th anniversary of Benjamin
Franklin'S birthday.
All over the United States it is being celebrated
as an occasion for impressing the American people
with the fact that the end of the has not ended
the necessity for THRIFT on their part,
Benjamin Franklin's thrift writings and sayings,
so pertinent in his day, are just as sound and true
ow as they were the. Here are some of them,
familiar in American homes:
"Save and have
Every little makes mickle.''
Look before, you'll find yourself behind"
''He that waits upon fortune is of dim
ner."
"Al things cheap to the saving, dear to the
wasteful."
eff you would be wealthy, think of saving as we'll
gettngs."
Beware of small expenses; small leak will sink
great ship"
"a penny saved is two pence clear. A pin a day is
Il groat year..
Gain may be temporary and uncertain, but expense
is constant and certain"
T is easier suppress the first desire than to salts
fy all that follow it,"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17
WHAT WE DO NOT UNDER
STAND WE DO NOT POSSESS
BY DR.. Frank Crane

I think it is Goethe who said that what
we do not understand we cannot really
possess.
We may go step further back, and say
that what we do not love we cannot under
stand.
And then we have got down to the roots
of property. For there is but one real prop
erty owner in the world, and that is love.
You do not really possess anything else.
This is proved by the great test of all human
values, Death.
You cannot own land or houses or books
or pictures or cattle or clothing, for Death
strips you of all these things.
We say there is no such thing nowadays
as one person owning another; on the con-
trary, that is the only kind of ownership
there is.
If [ love you I own you. You are mine
and no force or legal process can deprive
me of you. Because if I love you l under
stand you, and if l understand you I possess
you.
Who steals my purse, said Shakespeare,
steals trash; twas mine, it's his, and has
been slave to thousands. And the same
thing holds true withs all material goods
You can keep them. You can keep others
away from them. You can destroy them.
But you cannot have them unless you I'M
derstand them.
Walt Whitman owned America, for he I'M
q,
for He loved it.
What right have you to that beautiful set
Of books in your library? You never read
them. You never fondle them. They stand
there where they have stood for years in
their glass coffin. All you ever did was to
pay for them. Their real lovers wander
about separated from them.
You do not own that park you call yours
There is little raggedy boy that looks at it
NOV INN IL
owns it. And the squirrels scurrying up the
trees, and the robins hopping on the lawn.
they own it.
If you would be rich you must develop
the only thing that can enrich you which
is your understanding It does no good to
heap up jewels and furniture. 1t is vanity
and vexation of spirit.
If you develop understanding you will find
plenty of riches to hand. For the greatest
treasures are public. Why should you think
that you can attract the sage with goods and
Chattels, when he owns the imperial sun and
the uncOunted stars and all the woods and
fields along the broad highway? Can you
lure him with a dollar when he owns the
city?
Those who have scaled the heights of life
and breathed the mountain air of wisdom
have passed through remuneration. They had
to learn poverty that they might learn the
nature of riches.
The Nazarene had to pass His forty days
in the depth of want. Buddha never saw
the great Truth until, stripped of the delu-
sion of property, he meditated under the 30
tree.
Have you learned remuneration?
Not until you do learn it shall you under
stand possession.
1t has two secrets to impart to the soul
The first is that the real joy of possession
comes through UNDERSTANDING
And the second is like unto it, that the
power to understand comes only through
love.
Copyright, 1919 by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17

gether to which we had formerly been blind.
Perhaps the most important fact revealed
to us by the war is the need for freeing our
public schools from the old ineffective
methods of training and establishing the new
education which the great struggle has made
necessary.
That the public school curricula, text
books, methods of teaching, and, in fact, the
entire machinery of instruction should be
carefully examined and evaluated, is shown
by the constitution of the Bay association,
which was organized by California school
superintendent last year.
The purposes of this organization, as stat
ed in it's constitution, are as follows:
1. To put into operation administrative
and supervisory measures for the develop
ment of curriculums which shall be based
upon the fundamental principle of individual
differences of children; to simplify the
courses of study in the public schools; to cut
out all obsolete, unnecessary, impracticable
elements in subjects taught; to abandon at
tempts to teach, by existing methods, ma
terials which past experience has unquestion-
ably shown the schools have failed to teach
to a profitable degree; to substitute other
methods for existing methods which are prov
ed by experience to be ineffective.
2. To reduce to the lowest possible
minimum the essentials of content, of
promotion and of grading subjects, without
which pupils not permitted to enter upon
courses of wider opportunity peculiarly use
full, profitable and suitable to them; and to
provide means by which pupils may reach
such fields of opportunities easily, eXpedi-
tiously and effectively.
g. To put into operation established and
proven means of measuring progress; to deal
effectively with retardation by removing the
causes which induce it so far as the schools
can reach the problem; to determine by in
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17
A POEM FOR TODAY
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE

The birds we're singing last July,
The day he told us all goodby,
And sailed away to do or die
Somewhere in France.
Tonight the stars shine softly down.
Upon a new ensanguined mound,
Unmarked, perhaps--his sleeping ground,
Somewhere in France.
Dad knows in spite of shot and shell,
Of mustard gas and German hell,
They found you fighting where you fell;
Face to the front.
"Dad'' knows your rcb1eness OF soul,
Dad knows you had heart of gold
No grave in France will ever hold
better boy.
The brighter dream-the sooner crushed
The sweeter voice-the quicker hushed
The nobler soldier, killed the first,
Somewhere in France
Oh! God for just one little spark,
Of light to show US in the dark
Why death still loves a shining mark,
Even in battle
Fly pigeon Ger the crested wave,
And drop a flower on his grave
You'll find him sleeping with the brave,
Somewhere in France.
No cannon now, no shrieking bombs,
The price we paid to check the Huns,
Was Albert.
May Evergreen and Immortelle,
Embalm the spot Just where he fell,
And shade the grave we love so we'll,
Somewhere in France.
DAD"
On loving memory of Lieutenant Albert
w. Parham, killed in action at Argonne
front. in early October.)
tive and pleasing by wise planning and plant
ing. Trees furnish pleasure and inspiration,
and their successful propagation would keep
fresh for ages the memory of the men who
stood for right against might in the war
against Prussianism.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17
assurance of Prosperity.

In an uncommonly interesting review and
forecast of building activities in the South
east the Industrial Index says:
Construction operations were de-
creased in large measure soon after the
beginning of the war in Europe and
they ceased practically when this coun-
try entered into the conflict. Con-
struction materials and labor were not
available and counties and municipali-
ties were stopped very largely from
marketing the bonds that they issued
for public improvements. The need
for buildings and for public improve
ments has been growing more and
more insistent with the passing of the
months, and now that construction
can be done again much of it will pro-
coed, the wonderful climate with which
the Southeast is blessed making out
door construction work possible nearly
all the year.
Sounder assurance of continued good
business could hardly be wished When
building is active basic industries prosper
and trade thrives The demand for new
construction in this region and indeed
throughout the United States, bids fair to
continue for years, owing to the enforced
suspension of building during the war Pc
riod and also to the vast needs of rehabili-
tatiOn in Europe. In fact the immediate
problem seems to be one of meeting the
extraordinary requirements of this country
combined with those of foreign lands.
This, however, will serve simply to stimu-
late production to an unprecedented extent
All the resources Of the Southeast which in
any wise are involved in supplying con-
struction needs will be developed more
vigorously and more widely than ever be-
fore, so that not only will prosperity be
quickened in it's surface flow but also deep
ened at it's very springs.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17
SEARCHLIGHT

Chicken wire was the unusual material
from which a pair of wrens recently con-
structed their nest, softening the stiff wire
with a few strands of horsehair and grass.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17

foresighted, science-founded businesslike
methods of agriculture which enabled the
farmers advantageously to adjust themselves
to market conditions 1t is always such
methods, rather than mere prices that under
ly substantial prosperity. The more we think,
the more we shall thrive.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17

scientific research, g a n t
machine guns drawn by
traction engines, scientific
calculations, careful Or
ganization, a continuous
stream of equipment, food
and ammunition. 1t is all
society working at one def
mite, visible task. When
all of us-society-gave
ourselves consciously to the
task, we began to see many
facts about how we lived to-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17

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 county in France.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-17

Dean Marshall, of the University of Chi
cago says: ''War is not made merely for men