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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14

That the school house should not only be
an institution for the training and guidance
of children and youth, but should become the
community center, wherein instruction may
be offered to the adult through lectures
reading circles, debating societies, ETC., is
shown by the successful attempt to provide
educational, recreational and social facilities
at LangeIoth, Pa, a manufacturing and min
ing community, situated about thirty miles
from Pittsburg While Langeloth is only a
village, yet it's plan is interesting and help
full.
The tax returns of the township in which
Langeloth is situated proved insufficient to
maintain good schools, so the American Zinc
&, Chemical company agreed to supplement
the funds appropriated by the township
school board to the schools of LangelOth
The total amount raised by taxation and ap-
propriated by the company is about $4,000.
There is an additional income from a $780,
900 endowment, which makes a total reve-
nue. for the schools, for social and recreation
al work and for the education of adults, $780,
900. The schools have an enrolment of
$50.
The educational, social, recreational and
health work is in charge of director, who
is also employment manager of the company.
He is known as the educational and social
tivities of the communty-educatio rec
reatiOnal, health and social.
SCHOOL ORGANIZATION
The following is a brief account of the or-
ganizatiOn of the schools and of the COM
| munity, outlined in School Life issued by
the bureau of education at Washington:
"In an industrial community such as
Langeloth, with a population representing
many different nationalities, it is obvious
that the abilities of children attending
school vary in a marked degree Some will
be able to advance in their school work more
rapidly thai others if they have the oppOr-
tunity, and others will need more time in
which to complete a grade To overcome
this difficulty classes in the first three grades
are taught in small groups averaging about
twelve pupils. There are, on an average,
thirtysx pupils to each teacher. The teach
er usually has one or two groups in her
room at time, and teaches each group for
period of twenty minutes. Each child thus
gets almost individual attention, and has at
the same time the stimulation of other pu-
pills in the group. Each group progresses
just as fast as it can. If a pupil cannot
maintain himself in his group he is dropped
back to the next lower group, which is only
few weeks behind If a child has been out
of school for few weeks he is, upon his re-
turn to school, placed in the group where
he can maintain himself, and thus does not
become a dead weight to his class, does
he have to repeat the work of an entire
half year or year.
'The children who are not in the regular
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14
In Good Hands.

1t is much to the advantage of all interests
the President has appointed to succeed Mr..
McAdoo as Director General of Railroads is
not only a highly competent executive and
richly experienced in matters OF transporter
ton but is also a keen and open-minded
thinker on the great issues which the future
of the railroads involves.
Apparently it was upon Mr.. McAdoo's
recommendation that this appointment was
made, fact which of itself bears witness to
Mr.. Hines eminent qualifications, for the two
have been closely associated in the admin
is.rotion Of the roads from the day the Gov
eminent, acting upon the emergencies of
war; took charge. Mr.. Hines may be depend
ed upon for the important duties he will have
to discharge between now and the time Con-
gress decides whether the railways shall con-
tinue experimentally under Government di-
rection, or be returned to their owners under
the old plan of operation, or taken over
permanently by the Government, or restored
to private ownership and oper ton under
some strongly unified system of federal con-
troll
These are exceedingly complex problems,
terests of the public as we'll as Of the thou
sands of holders of railroa~ securities are
involved Indeed, the fundamental inter-
ests of the nation are involved. Thorough
investigation, together with clear, unpreju-
diced thinking, is needed to reach wise and
just solution To this sort of thinking, the
the new Director General may be counted
upon to contribute.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14
The Farmer in Control.

Southern farmers have proved by actual
demonstration in the last two years that
they can control and do control in very large
measure the price to be paid for their cotton.
Through the organization known as the
Cotton States Advisory Marketing Board,
composed of the commissioners of agricul-
ture, market bureau directors and farmers
union presidents of the cotton states, they
have succeeded in modifying sentiment to a
greater extent, and with more solidarity, than
has ever been attained in any previous move
ment
CrnD liberalization has progressed beyond
the dream Of farm journal editors and agri-
cultural college professors. It is rapidly be-
coming an accomplished fact. The more it
grows, the more Independent become south
ern farmers. Raising at home the supplies
they need for their smokehouses and pan
tries and barns, they live Indefinitely
without selling cotton. They can stack their
receipts to their banks and borrow money
whenever they need it and wait for the mar
ket to offer them a price they are willing to
accept.
Two conditions had to be established be-
fore southern farmers could fix their own
price. on their own product: The first, di-
Versification; the second, organization. Mel
Their condition is vet universally established
but both are far advanced both are making
rapid Roadway.
The day is coming in the next few years
when a chosen spokesman, representing the
farmers of the south, will say to the world
that his organization has decided that the
current cotton crop is worth so-and-sO. The
world will then either pay that price or do
without cotton, whichever it chooses.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14
THE EMPRESS WAR RECORD

The Empress of Britain" which sailed
from New York on Sunday afternoon with
$50 officials of the British War Mission, Y
M. c. A. and knights of Columbus workers,
has already covered 1880 miles since the
outbreak of hostilities, when she was taken
over by the British Government and has
transported 10000 troops overseas. She
took thousands of Australians and British
ers to GaIlipoli, and was one of the trans
ports assigned to take them away. The
Suez Canal being closed, she made a 16
months trip around the Cape of Good Hope
with troops for German East Africa and
also for Mesopotamia. She made eight trips
with Canadian troops and for the first seven
months of the war, patro1led the South At
lantic as an admiralty cruiser.
1t was during one of the trips across the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14
NeqU Nations From Old.

Instead of Germany's intended .NIittel-
Europa with its killing grip upo.- the ma
tional life and hopes of millions of peoples,
there is now promised a reJirth of nations
and revival of freedom the like which the
Old World never before dreamed. Out Of
the ruins of the Romanoff the Hapsburg and
the Hohenzollern monarchies will be fash
toned a new Europe; and if present tenden-
cies are sustained, it will be a Europe Of
comparatively small nations, essentially
democratic and rich in possibilities Of peace
full development.
Russia is just now so darkly problematic
that any prediction in that quarter would be
hazardous 1t seems probable, however, that
what has been the Polish part of the En-
pire will permanently detach itself to form,
in conjunction with the Polish segments of
Germany and Austria, an indepeldent king
dom. 1t seems likely, moreover, that
Lithuania's and Ukranias claims will be
recognized by the determining Powers, al
though there are now serious complexities in
their connection. How matters will shape
themselves in the remainder of the once
Romanof dominion is hardly to be con-
jectured.
In what was recently the Dual Monarchy,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14
H0qU to Gut Disease Costs.

Commenting the tremendous cost of
disease, the Augusta Chronicle truly says
that strict and general adherence TO rules Of
sanitation can do much to solve the problem
However, cooperation must be extended
both between neighbor and neignbor and be-
tween community and community"
The practical question is. how can this CO.
operation best be obtained? A helpful and
convenient means in Georgia is provided in
the Ellis Public Health law, enacted by the
General Assembly some years ago ana avail
able for any county through the recommended
ton of two successive grand juries. Under
the terms of this measure a county or group
of counties may organize sanitary districts
wherein needful regulations are enforceable,
and also may employ a Doctor of Public
Health, together with competent rurses and
inspectors, all under the jurisdiction of a
Health Board. This tEoughtfully devised
system affords the basis and machinery for
broadly cooperative effort. 1t arouses and
directs the public mind: it serves and edu-
ing and utility to those laws of hygiene and
OF which lies the hope Of cutting down the
tremendous losses through disease.
It is conservatively reckoned that by
spending about fifteen or twenty cents per
capita Georgia could maintain public health
system that you'd save. each yer in human
life andSefficiency hundreds of millions of
dollars. This S prOpOrtiOnately true OF in
Mvidual communities, rural and urban alike.
No county can afford not to avail itself of its
benefits available under the Ellis act or
through the adoption of some other well ad-
vised system. This is the surest and most
profitable investment for material prosperity.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14

This table was drawn up specifically for the
age of thirty. But it may serve as guide for
all ages thereafter. For, as Fisher and Fisk
point out
1.-THE usual gain in weight with advancing
years is not an advantage but a handicap.
We should endeavor to keep our weight at
approximately the average weight for age
thirty, the period of full maturity, as expert
ence has shown that those so proportional eX-
hibit the most favorable mortality
Remarkably thin people, to be sure may
accomplish much, keep we'll, and live to a
good old age. So may remarkably heavy peo-
pie. But these are exceptions to the general
rule, according to which excessive overweight
or underweight is a danger signal.
By excessive departure from normal as re-
CARDS weight is meant a deviation of twenty
pounds or more from the average weight for
ones height. And, as between underweight
and overweight, the latter must be regarded
as the more dangerous, except in the earlier
years of life.
'"The lowest mortality again I quote
Fisher and Fisk, 'is found among those who
average, as a group, few pounds over the
average weight before age thirty-five, and a
few pounds under the average weight after
age thirty-five.
''That is, after the age of thirty-five, over
weight is associated with an increasingly high
death rate, and at middle life it becomes
real menace to health, either by reason of its
mere presence as physical handicap, or be-
cause of the faulty living habits that are
often responsible for it's development"
Diet and exercise, as all know, are helpful
in the reduction Of weight. They are helpful
also in the putting on of weight. But, in
either case, when the underweight or over
weight is excessive doctors guidance should
be sought.
Copyright, 1919, by the Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14

new outlines are growing fairly clear. A
Czecho-SlOvak republic has been established
under rather assuring auspices; a Hungarian
nation entirely separate from Austria is
taken as fact; a separate German State,
formed out Of the old Austria, is reasonably
certain; and some sort of Jugo-Slavic Union
is considered probable. The Armenians and
other peoples hitherto subject to Ottoman
misrule are also candidates for nationality,
whose claims will receive careful considera-
ton from the Versailles Confei 21ce. More
over, it is not impossible Tat the German
Empire itself will dissolve into u number of
small self-governing units. Thus do we see
the plans of tyranny reversed and made
foolish and the schemes OF the vaingorious
brought to naught.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14
THE ONE THING FOR THE
PEACE CONFERENCE TO DO
By DR.. Frank Crane

By DR.. Frank Crane
There is but one great object for which the
nations of the world are assembled at the
Paris conference.
They have but one thing to do. That one
thing includes all other things.
If they do that one thing they will succeed,
no matter how many mistakes they make.
If they do not that one thing they will fail, no
matter how excellent their works.
That one thing is to stop war.
For the first time in history this is possible.
Because for the first time since the world
began have all the nations of earth come to
council.
For the first time all nations sit together
and speak with equal voice. There is no
dominant nation. There is no master mind.
They are under no fear.
The world at last can do as it pleases.
This is the reason that war can be stopped
This is why the talk of war being inevitable,
and of war lasting as long human nature
and of war being natural, is nonsense; not
harmless ridiculous nonsense, but most
hideous and damnabIe nonsense.
War is the by-product of provinciaIsm
It's cure is unity. Revolutions grow less fire.
quent and finally disappear under all unified
governments. Let the peace conference
achieve unity of action and war will die.
1t makes little difference how this is DONE
whether it be forming a League to Enforce
Peace, or a League of Free Nations, or more
compact World Government. The thing is
unity.
There will be a thousand reasons against
this. Nothing in the world has so many enc
mics as common sense. Nothing is fought so
stubbornly as progress.
1t is a simple matter for the violent and
passionate to inf1ame nation to war. 1t is
most difficult matter, and one that calls
for the last reserves of intelligence and 10y
atty, to lay the foundation of permanent
peace. Many questions will arise at this con-
ference, questions of boundaries, of indemni-
ties of precedence, of national honor, of this
and of that, but the cry that goes up from
the whole War-wOrn earth, from the mangled
men, the bereaved women and the beloved
children, of all races and tongues and peo-
pies, is for but one thing. It is that war
shall cease.
Listen, ye high councillors! Be not de-
ceived. You have but one thing to do. And
you are the first men since the days of Cain
in position to do it.
Stop war. This, humanity demands. To
this destiny has called YOU For this Almighty
God shall hold you accountable. Fail in this,
and no matter what peace terms you make,
you will have 'healed the hurt of the daugh-
ter of my people slightly, crying, Peace,
Peace, when there is no Peace
Copyright, 1919 by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14

Atlantic with 5000 troops aboard, that
German submarine launched two torpedoes,
one of which, due to a lucky zig-zag, missed
the bow by three feet, and the other passed
a dozen feet astern. At least dozen at
tacks were made upon the Empress of
Britain during the war, by U-boats.
Captain George S. Webster R. N R., who
is the present commander of the Empress
Of Britain" has made 81 trips across the
Atlantic since the outbreak of the war.
When the Empress of Britain" reached
New York last Tuesday, she had aboard
2,450 U. S troops, including 400 sick land
wounded heroes, and she is returning to
Liverpool for more. When this work Of re-
natriating u S. troops is finished, she will
return to her home port, st. John, New
Brunswick.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14
AMERICA

. American America!
0, proud republic of the west,
Across the sea in he1lish war,
Thou hast given the nations rest.
Chorus:
Mighty in majesty,
Superb in chivalry,
America. America
So glorious in name,
With an u1dying fame,
America! America
Millions of voices called to thee,
To save the stag ring millions yet,
And quickly sailing DER the sea,
America could not forget
The bitter wrongs that have been done
Against humanity and God
Blacklist beneath the shining sun,
That ever stained the verdant sod.
Chorus
America All hail! All hail!
The stamp of God is on thy brow;
Lead on, lead on-thou canst not fail
With the valiant faith thou has now.
Ga.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14
YOUR WEIGHT
BV Il. AddingtOn Bruce

Dy IT. fANANI1IS IO1I III W.
a PERSONS weight is, of course, not
II sure sign of the state of his health.
But it usually gives some pretty definite
information. To be markedly below or mark
eddy above the average weight for ones
height and age commonly calls for medical
intervention.
This is generally known. Yet comparative
Iy few profit from the knowledge as all
should, because most people have only a
vague idea to what they should weigh.
Here, taken from the pages Of Fisher and
Fisk, is a table worth clipping and keeping
for ready reference:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14
SEARCHLIGHT
O.

An American in ,entor has revive the long
lost Venetian art of spinning glass The glass
is spun like thread and wound on a spool. 1t
can be used in insulating wires, and when
cOlored can be woven with other materials
in making costumes and draperies.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14
The Journals Service Flag

TIC JUIIIIIdI ) CEIVICE Tag
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 country in France.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14
NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY

Mr.. Peerabout was the typical tourist, so
when on his wanderings he came across a de-
preston in the ground, covering several
acres, he bounced upon a native eagerly, fir
ing his questions at him:
what is this depression, can you tell me,
my good man?'
'That is the bed of a lake.
els that so, really? And what has hap
pened to the water?"
cit was this way. There was picnic here
last year, and they had a spare case of an
chovy, and as they didn't want to carry it
home they threw it in the lake..
Eyes, I see! But what has it to do with
it?"
Everything. The fish ate them, and the
salt diet made them so thirsty they drank all
the water"
eff woman came into the hospital who
was so cross-eyed that the tears ran down
her back could you do anything for her?"
asked the inquiring small boy of his fathers
doctor friend, being fond of propounding re-
mote conundrums
"Well," replied the great man, suppose
we treated her for bacterial"
"I'm afraid I can't use this kind of stuff %
said the editor lOftily as he handed back the
manuscript.
'All right. You needn't be so condescend-
ing about it, retorted the contributor. ''You
are not the only one who's refused that
STORY, you know.
The lieutenant was instrUcting the squad
in visional training. "Tell me, No. l." he
said, chow many men are here in that
trench digging party over there Thirty
men and one officer" was the reply "QUite
right" exclaimed the lieutenant, after
pause. But how do you know one is an
officer at this distance?" Cos he's the
only one not working, sir"
Australian usiness men are trying to
swing a big industrial boom in that country.
They predict an industrial expancion on a
great scale Although Australia is primarily
an agricultural country, and can never be
anything else, it is also true that her natural
resources have not been developed to their
fullest extent. With the present system of
railroads and W aterWays, exploitation is
easily possible. The move has the backing
of the Australian government which has al
ready offered bounty of $337,5OO for the
discovery of new oil deposits.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-14
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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-09-26
MOSQUITO LEAVES
TRAIL Of DISEASE
Scientists Show Danger in Tits Bite

Scientists Show Danger in Tits Bite
The whole country is infested with
mosquitoes. The government health
service and every other agency
known to man is being used to exter-
inmate them. Once they were looked
upon as an annoyance only; scient-
lists now know that they leave in
their wake deadly disease garms. es-
pecially malaria. Those who are in a
position to know, vouch for the fact
That they have been the cause of
more diseases and death than all the
wars from the beginning of time.
Mosquitoes will probably never be
exterminated. We can, however, by
proper screening and spraying of our
homes daily with TORMENT, rid our
household of them.
TORMENT is a gaseous vapor in
which no insect can live. Sold bv
druggists, general stores and dealers
everywhere. The price is 25 cents per
bottle, do not pay more. The G. b.
Williams Company, Quitman. Ga.