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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
AROUSING INTEREST IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Bv Jesse W. ArmiSead
By Jesse w. ArmiStead

munity to such interest that action will fol-
low automatically and of necessity.
Responsibility for the initiative in matters
pertaining to the schools ought, of course, to
rest with the board of education, the super
ntendent of schools the principals, and the
teachers. They know most about the kind
of service the schools are giving to the COM
munity; they are the ones who know most
about the present and future needs in fact,
the community expects these officers and
teachers to take tho lead in informing it of
the schools work, of their needs, and to sug-
gest concrete plans for meeting these needs"
1t is not enough for the school authorities
to formally request the tax-evying body for
an advance in rate Prof. w. E. Chancellor,
in "Our Schools, Their Administration and
Supervision" says: eff boards of education
would spend half their time in work to get
funds, they would do better for education
than they now do. 1t is symptomatic of
Incompetence for q board to worry and to
wrangle over petty sums rather than to
go out and raise sufficient means to carry on
public education crcditably. The work of ed
ucating public sentiment to reasonable school
appropriations should be carried on all
through the year by boards of education"
The school officials should present their
case to the people who constitute the COM
munity, and when the people are convinced
Tof the need and are willing to be taxed to
meet it, there will be no objection when the
legislative officials fix the rate.
Publicity is the best method Of gaining the
attention of the citizens, and no opportunity
should be overlooked for informing the peo-
pie about their schools, their aims, work,
problems cost and needs. This can be done
through the local press; through bulletins of
special phases of school work, by educational
talks before civic bodies; by school exhfbi-
lions, and through parent-teacher associa-
tions.
If properly handled, it will not be difficult
to convince the parents of the educational
need and welfare of their own children, or of
the necessity for concentrated efforts to Sc
cure the needed improvements.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
The Georgia Baptist Hospital.

The drive for fund to complete the pay
ment of the purchase price of the Georgia
Baptist Hospital morris liberal support from
all Atlant1ans .rr9spe ctive of church creed,
for this is truly community institution,
given Fundamentally to human service. Of
all the persons to whom it has ministered
during its six years of operation fewer than
half have been Bal lists, and of it's seven
thousand three hundred and sixty-one
patients, more than fifteen hundred have had
no church affiliatio1 Within this period,
moreover, it has contributed to the poor who
were in need of uleGical and hospital atten-
ton services which i terms of money would
amount to at least one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars ard which in civic and
human value are al ogether beyond reckon
ing. This institution the efore, deserves the
public's aid on the same broad ground as
does the Red Cross or any other great work
for the good of mar kind.
It's appeal, be it noted, is not for aid in
the payment of debts for debts have been
incurred by this h spital since it passed into
the possession Of fhe Baptists of Georgia.
Out of its own income it has paid year after
year every dollar it's operating expenses.
and has paid, moreover, some forty thousand
dollars on the total property cost of ninety
two thousand, together With interest. Be-
sides all this it las completed at cost of
sixty-five thousand dollars new building,
which virtually trebles the institution S
capacity. Thus with it's beautiful benefit
CeuC6 Inc georgia BapClSC HOSptal cOmDln9S
a remarkable efficiency, which assures those
contributing to its cause that their gifts will
be producing a sir larly bountiful harvest
of good
The fund of fifty thousand dollars now
asked is for the purpose of taking up the
remainder of the purchase money notes,
thereby quitting the hospital of all encum-
| ORANGES so that it can go freely forward
with preparations to meet it's ever growing
| responsibilities yh> raising of this sum
which Atlanta has been assigned as her
peculiar duty will ne followed by a move
ment to procure from the Baptists of the
State-at-large a fuld of two hundred thou
sand dollars for the institutions enlarge
ment 1t scarcely need be said that the more
cordially this conplr nifty does it's part, the
more readily will ii e larger gift be forth
coming. The latter, indeed is contingent
upon the former so that enlightened self
interest alone shou.o persuade the city tc
take prompt Advantage of it's opportunity
The rank and file Of Atlantians however. will
find ample motive Tor contributing to this
fund in the chance II gives them to serve q
cause whose every advancement means
victory in battles with disease and death and
a lifting of burdens from weary and heavy
laden hearts.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
Pr0digl0ns Trade.

The United States balance of EXPORT
trade in the fifty-one months of the wsr ex-
ceeds that ct the entire foregoing period of
the nations life From the year 1890 down
to August 1914, according to the NationaI
City Bank of New York. our excess of eX-
ports over imports amounted to $9,GO7, 900
600, whilst from August 1914, up to the
signing of the armistice they amounted to
$1O,903, 100000.
Even more remarkable than the increase
in volume and values packed into those fifty
one months is that of the country's produc-
tive ability. The figures are explained partly
OF course, by the fact that Europes flow OF
shipments to us dWindled to a mere rivuIet
OF its Wonted fullness. But that lacks much
OF being the whole reason; as matter of
fact, our imports from other regions, notably
from South America and the Orient showed
large gains. It was by expansion and speed
ing up OF productive power that the United
States was able to meet the enormous foreign
demand upon its factories and fields, and
thereby rolled up so unprecedented balance
Of trade. This Industrial mobilization and
development are as wonderful in their way
as any of the nations military attainments
and indeed are the bases on which much OF
that attainment rests.
1t is a striking commentary on American
and world affairs alike that there were
crowded into the stress of about four years
so vast sum of production and trade that
our resultant export balance oyertopped that
of the whole century and quarter preceding
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
THE COST OF HEALTH
BV n. AddinqtOn Bruce

~ UBLIC health, to large extent, is pur-
chasable commodity. Nor does it cost
a great deal to purchase it. Unhappily,
many communities act as though they were
bent getting it at impossible bargain
prices
And some communities seem to labor under
the dangerous delusiOn that public health
may be obtained without paying anything for
it at all.
Only little while ago there was called to
my attention the case of town which, feel
ing it necessary to reduce expenses, voted TO
do away with the civic existence of it's under
paid health officer. | wonder what happened
to that town during the influenza epidemic.
Your own community, you feel sure would
never be SO foolish as that. And you are
confident it is no haggling bargain hunter in
the matter of public health.
But it may be well for you to make certain
before boasting too loudly. Did you ever, as
a public spirited citizen, inquire into the
workings of your local health board and the
amount annually appropriated to maintain
it?
In point of cold fact the chances are that
your community is not nearly as liberal in ills
public health expenditures as you assume it
to be-
medical man of an inquiring turn of
mind, Surgeon Preble, of the United States
public health service, has taken the trouble
to summarize the annual public health expen-
ditures of more than three hundred cities
found that their spendings on public health
averaged only 272 per cent per capita per
year.
Some cities spent at the rate of only 9 cents
per capita. Others spent away up to 80 cents.
Yet even these were not spending enough.
For it may be set down definitely estah
lished that a really satisfactory civic health
service cannot be obtained for less than an
annual expenditure of SO cents for every IL
dividual in the community. Does your com
munity spend at rate high as that?
1t really is worth your while to make in
quiry. AS a member of the community you
are intensely concerned in it's well-being
Some day your own health may be seriously
affected if. there is stinginess in public health
expenditures
If you do make inquiry, and if you f1nd
that nothing like so much is being spent on
public health ought to be spent, you will
doubtless be told that this is because the tax
rate is already lamentably high.
Inquire a little further. 1t is not impos-
sible you will discover that every year Ger
tain foolish and wasteful expenditures are
made, the cutting of which will enable more
money to be spent on public health without
raising the tax rate in the slightest
Should you make this discovery, let the
facts be made known to your neighbours
Talk, agitate, help to bring pressure on the
city hall for the public good.
Insist elimination of the needless and
ltberality in the essential. Your health your
neighbours health, the health of your fellow
citizens in general, is surely one of the prime
essentials.
And you can truly safeguard it only by
persuading or forcing those who spend the
money which you pay in taxes to spend a fair
portion of it on the business of public health
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14

mans property to educate another mans
child" This selfish spirit has been eiminat-
ed in large measure, and today efforts are
being made not only in the south, but
throughout the entire country, to arouse the
public to just sense of their responsibility
and of the true worth of their schools. Promi-
nent citizens interesting themselves in
movement aimed at securing proper equip
ment and that generous maintenance fund es-
sential to strong inTernal school work. Here
tofore the people have not been informed in
forceful way of the needs of the public
schools, and have pei itted themselves to be-
come blinded by Indifference to the impor-
lance of efficient teaching and competent
drilling of the child
The people have too long remained silent
and depended upon their representatives to
take the initiative in this highly important
matter. "a community thinks individ-
ualS and feels as individuals" says DR.. Bunker
"but where it acts. it acts in it's corporate
capacity" But, generally, it never acts in it's
corporate capacity until it is forced to do So.
Especially is this true where increased taxes
is the issue. State and city officials have
long considered any effort to increase taxes as
an objectionable error, for every increase of
taxation is looked upon with suspicion by the
people. Therefore, the first step in any plan
for increasing the revenue of the schools or
any other municipal department., is to enlist
the active support Of large number of repre-
sentative citizens whose irresistible demand
may be overcome through a greater, wider
and deeper interest in the public schools
made possible by bringing the citizens and
patrons into close contact with the schools.
In discussing this question, DR.. Bunker
says: cit is mistake to expect the men who
chance at the moment to be the legal repre-
sentatives of the community to take the de-
sired action upon their own initiative. 1t is
mistake also to think that an appeal to them
alone will suffice. They as individuals might
less they can be shown that the project has
won the of the community and that the
community desires the requested action, they,
as the community'1 trustees and spokesman,
cannot, neither should they commit the COM
munity to the plan A community, therefore,
and it's representatives also, may appear to be
Indifferent to a given matter, whereas, in
point of fact those vitality concerned in it
have not adopted the methods and taken the
steps which are necessary to arouse the COM
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY

With Lloyd George plus King George, the
British tommy will swear by George more
than ever.
The autopsy upon the body of DR.. Karl
Liebknecht, the Spartacan leader who was
shot and killed last week in Berlin as he was
trying to escape from the party of soldiers
which had arrested him in suppressing the
Spartacan revolt, showed that he was shot
from behind and that the bullets which struck
him were fired from some distance.
Study the snow fakes get out of doors and
allow them to alight upon your sleeve. Take
a magnifying glass and look at them, They
are Notwithstanding beauties; no two
alike, but all of them six-ponted. And when
the snow comes in drifts and swirls about the
face of the earth, and drifts into every nook
and Granny, look IT it. Behold not an enemy,
but friend. See how nature has woven a
blanket for her little children. Comprehend,
if you can, the infinite patience that so de-
yised it that these little particle should fall
silently until they formed a great sheet to
cover the regiOn-a wavy, warpy garment of
purity to shut out the north wind, the biting
tongue that would lap up the tender, growing
plants of the earth. There is no more won
derful thing than the snow-and more
kindler thing.-George F. Burke in The Co
lumbuS Dispatch. -
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
Autumn on Lu1lWater Road

Flying clouds in hooded pillows of gray,
Shot here and there with crimson and gold.
Wondrous beauty mysteriously wrapped the
closing day
In colors that manifestly revealed Gods
mould.
Twas autumn. On Lullwater road leaves
were quickly turning
Glorious was this revelation of God above;
Written in marvellous bushes on tree and
shrub and softly calling
From Lullwater brook and tangled wood,
of peace and love-
Everywhere about me Autumn's crest, en-
blazoned on fields Of red, with silver
lining;
Gorgeous banners, floating like soft and
silken tissue.
With child-like wonder beheld this emblem
of Nature dying,
Teaching me and making evident Gods
power without issue.
Aide S. NELLY.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
WHAT THE SUCCESS OF PRO-
F1IBITION SHOWS
By Dr.. Frank Crane

The success of :Le prohibition campaign
was revealing. 1t showed number of things
IN American life ard economics, in moral
tendencies and in politics, which heretofore
had been obscure but now stand out clearly.
1. 1t shows the fiction of leadership 1t
demonstrates how thoroughly this country is
run by the people themselves, and not by
newspapers nor politicians nor by party
BOSSES Twenty years ago prohibition was a
negligible issue to the politicians Almost
the entire weigh! of the newspapers was
against it. The people have simply brushed
these aside and had their will.
2. The success of prohibition was not due
to fanaticsm. Doubtless there was fanati-
cism narrOwness aud stupid prejudice on
both sides, but the inability to see the other
sde the utter incapacity to catch the deep
significance of the drift of things, was even
more apparent in the New York World than
in any church paper
3. There were hree roots of prohibition
The first was the moral root, the conviction
that it was an evil thing to poison the human
stock, and that the custom of drinking was
indissolubly connected with vice. The sec
ond was the business root The dominating
spirit of America is achievement, not enjoy
ment Drinking interfered with efficiency.
One by one the Big business concerns of the
nation declared against it. The third root was
scientific. After much opposition and spe-
cious argument it became at last a scientific
fact, accepted with practical unanimity by
the teachers of thu nation, that the use of
alcohol was injurious. except upon rare occa-
sions that it should be administered under
the same restrictions as in the case of opium,
or choral.
4. The success Of prohibition has demons
trated the futility Of the political party as a
means for putting into effect an idea a
principle. The failure of the Prohibition par
ty showed that the party is way how not to
do anything. Let those who advocating q
Labor party take notice.
s. The success of prohibition was a
triumph of Ameritanism. Most of the oppo-
sition to it was imported one way or another.
The whisky drinking British, the beer-drink-
in Germans and the wine-drinkng French,
Italians and Spanish were scattered through
out the nation and had great influence.
American literature has always been dom
mated by the literature of England. France
and Germany, all three of them saturated
with alcoholic sentiment. The prohibition
amendment is the social, cultural and moral
declaration of independence of America from
foreign influence
6. The passage Of the prohibition amend
ment was gratifying proof that this free and
lliberty-loving democracy is capable of limit
ing it's liberty when necessary, capable of dis
cip1ine and self-restraint
1t means that Democracy in America has
reached maturity. America has come of age.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
THE DOG AND HIS BONE

Editor The Journal: I was school boy in
the days of the old blue back speller. In one
of the readers then in use there was pic
ture and a little story. Fiction of course,
but it had moral.
Today, can see that picture and read that
story as a reality.
The picture was that of a dog crossing a
shallow stream with a bone in his mouth.
Seeing his shadow III the water, and suppos-
ing it to be another dog, with another bone,
ne laid down his bone to take away the bone
the other dog had; and 10 and behold when
he laid own his bone the other dog had no
bone Turning to take up the bone he had
laid down, the wateT carried it away and he
had lost the bone he once had.
The Emperor of GERMANY, and the kings
of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria all had big
Jobs, but wanted bigger ones. They endan-
gered the big jobs they had to get bigger
ones and lost the ones they had. l am an old
patron of The Atlanta Journal Subscribed
for it before it went to press the first time.
Have read either the daily semi-weekly
ever since. 1t is useless for me to say that l
love The Journal.
Frank Carter and Ed Sutton are among
my old Atlanta friends, where I lived more
than forty years,
L. S. N'MULLEN
Wellborn, Fla, Route 1, Box Sc, Feb 4,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
Poison Gas for Boil WeeUiIs.

The boil weevil would be as alarmed as
Hindenburg was when the Americans reach
ed Argonne wood, if it knew what method
of attack the Department of Agriculture
now plans to launch against it's strong
holds. Poison gas, of which the United
States has well-nigh incalculable quaint
ties left in essence from the war, should
prove as effective against the pests of plant
life as against the myrmdons of the Hob
enzollern. &c. at least, some of the special
lists conjecture, and they mean to try their
theory out.
Shortly before the signing of the armi-
stice, it seems, the War Department had
perfected means for the unlimited produc-
ton of particularly fierce and potent gases
which were to be turned fuIl-flood upon
the enemy if he refused to come to terms
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14

With all this powerful and costly medicine
prepared and, as it were, ready to be pour
ed into the spoon, the Government feels
somewhat like the thrifty grandma who in
sisted that someone take her dose of physic
simply to keep it from being wasted.
The boil weevil, along with caterpillars,
potato bugs and other Huns of petal and
leaf are the most convenient subjects. And
truly, as an observing scientist remarks,
TO make the fumes that filled thousands
OF graves in France contribute to the well
fare OF the living will be an achievement
worthy of American resourcefulness."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14

Never before on this planet did the life of
man move with energy so amazing in both
its range and it's concentration. 1t is as
though within that brief space a new arc of
human evolution had been traversed
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
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The Journals Service Flag

In honor of the seventy-thrse 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, 1919-02-14

country recovered slowly,
and partly due to wealthy
families attending to the
schooling of their own chill
dren by means of tutors,
support to the public school
systems was reluctantly
given, and in a great major
ity of instances in meager
sums only. The struggle to
establish public schools met
almost everywhere with the
protest against taxing one
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14

Partly due to the impoverished condition
of the south following the war between the