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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25
Saving the Georgia Yam.

The Cordele Dispatch is sustaining its rec
ord for sound enterprise and alert leadership
when it urges it's community to establish a
sweet potato storage plant. Storage facih-
ties are to this product, which now ranks
second in value among all vegetables grown
in the United States, what the packing plant
is to hog and cattle raising-the very base
Of market possibilities, and hence of profita-
bleness to the grower. Without such facili-
ties, losses through decay will oftentimes de-
stroy the profits Of the whole crop, or compel
the farmer to dump his entire yield on a
glutted market, at sacrifice prices. But with
a storage and drying plant, the Dispatch
points out such losses are negligible.
Our. contemporary cites, moreover, as an
interesting example of the comm crcial as well
as agricultural opport mites thus afforded.
the recent sale of eight thousand bushels of
sweet potatoes to Pennsylvania purchasers
by the owners of the large curing plant at
Fitzgerald, Georgia. This plant, now having
a storage capacity of one hundred and fifty
thousand bushels, has doubled its facilities
since it was established about two years ago,
and is now preparing to double them again
This record appears quite natural when one
reflects that in the last ten years the market
value of the sweet potato has increased more
than eighty per cent; that the 1917 crop
amounted to ninety million dollars; and the
1918 crop, according to moderate estimates
will fetch nearly one hundred and seventeen
million dollars.
Georgia; resources for producing this in
creasingly popular vegetable are practically
unlimited But the establishment of safe
storage plants, either on the individual farm
or at convenient market centers, is indispen-
sable. The Cordele Dispatch and other pa
pers that are working to bring about these
facilities are doing substantial service to
their own communities and to the outlying
country.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25
Forest Fires in Georgia.

The Albany Herald directs seasonable at
tention to the peril of forest fires in Geor-
gia. Many of these fires, which are of an
nual occurrence in the "piney woods" region,
says the Herald "are due to carelessness or
Indifference. but others are the results of de-
liberate design"
Burning off the woods has become
a habit with some farmers and stock
growers who let their cattle run at large
and Craze mostly upon the lands of
other people. This burning of the
woods habit is a relic of pioneer times
that has become a menace to present
day conditions, and it is one that needs
to be dealt with sternly and broken up
for the common good
A thoroughgoing campaign of education
doubtless would serve to correct the larger
part of this evil; and there are no happier
mediums for that purpose than the common
schools, the grand juries and the farmer s
associations. But where wilfulness rather
than ignorance is to blame, the strong hand
of the law should be brought down.
Other Southern States, notably Florida,
have recently adopted vigorous measures to
this end. Georgia cannot afford to be less
solicitous where interests so far-reaching and
so vital are concerned. Hereto 'ore we have
been all too negligent of the States forestry
resources and all to careless of the general
dangers of the woodland fires 1t is high
time for very county to take earnest thought
and effectual measures for the protection of
the priceless interests at stake.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25
Waycross Sets an Example.

Through it's Rural Relations committee the
Waycross and Ware County Chamber of Com
merce has undertaken most interesting and
substantial line of service. Seeing the inter-
dependence of town and country in all mat
ters of basic Importance, the committee pro-
poses to bring about closer cooperation be-
tween business and agriculture and, what is
still more admirable, between the broadly
human interests of farm and urban communi-
ties. AS one means to this end, writes The
Journals correspondent, it sis planning a
series Of meetings in different parts of the
county for the purpose of bringing the citi-
zens Of the towns and of the country into
closer personal touch, not in business way
alone, but in a social way as we'll" Further
more, the Waycross Chamber of Commerce
definite service than heretofore to the people
of its outlying territory in every field of pub
lie concern, whether of roads, markets, SAM
tary facilities, schools, libraries or whatnot.
There is no more permanently profitable en-
terprise upon which a Georgia chamber of
commerce could embark. In a State so
fundamentally agricultural as this the towns
must look mainly to the country for business
sustenance and growth and also for the in
fusion of freshness and vigor into their social
development. Likewise the rural districts
must look to the town for many Of the essen
tials of prosperity. Through systematic and
hearty cooperation each can help the other to
a remarka able degree, and can build up the
Commonwealth broadcast well-being.
number of chambers of commerce are
undertaking service similar to that of the
Waycross and Ware county organization The
more extensive and earnest the movement be-
comes, the better for Georgia.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25
DOWN WHERE THE SUGAR
CANE GROWS
(The Vidalia Advance)


"The last shall be first says Holy Writ
and we so often see this truth manifested in
life that we doubt our ability to wisely judge
things by their appearance when first they
present themselves to view, Longfellow in
his Psalm of Life, says, Things are not
what they seem,' and this line of one OF
Americas great poets has world of truth
in it.
For hundred years those people who
have passed by the sandy loans that make
up the southern section of the state and have
preferred the rolling, red hills Of upper Geor-
gia. 1t WIS thought that they were more
were far superior TO those in the costal re-
productive and that the health conditions
gions Sof the state. The last twenty-five years
have brought about wonderful change in
tho relative possibilities of the two sections
Things are not what they SEEM 1t has
been found that this sandy loan soil that
grows such majestic pines will also grow mag
nifcent crops of oats, wheat, corn, cotton,
velvet beans, peanuts and about everything
else that mortal man needs including the
toothsome sugar cane that makes the most
delightful syrup that e'er tickled the palate.
It has been found that down where the
sugar cane grows people can have just as
good health and live jrst as lonf e. they do
anywhere else, and the future of the costal
regions of Georgia is roseate with promise.
And again. the truth that the last shall be
first is being manifested II. the development
of our state.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25
The South as a W0rLd PozOer

1t is a great thing to be among the rich
est regions of a country that produces
twelve per cent of the worlds gold, forty
per cent of it's silver, ffty-two per cent of
its coal, twenty-five per cent Of its wheat
seventy per cent of it's corn and sixty per
cent of it's cotton.
These figures are from recent report by
authoritative statisticians on the compare
tive resources of the United States The
Augusta Chronicle pertinently remarks by
way comment that the South already con-
trolls the supply of cotton, that she could be
the largest producer of corn, and could be a
keen competitor in the production of wheat.
Moreover, without mining or using ton OF
coal, she could weave every pound OF her
cotton into cloth, convert every grain of her
wheat into -four, and turn every grain of
her surplus corn into profitable food prod
ucts, if she would develop and utilize her
latent water power. Thus, as the Chronicle
puts it, "the South can contribute more to-
wards clothing and feeding the rest of the
world than all other sections of America
combined
1t should be borne in mind, however, that
these marvelously rich resources are now in
great measure potential rather than actually
productive. Particularly is this true of our
natural bases for food production and for
manufacturing. Our possibilities in those
realms are unbounded, but we have barely
begun their exploitation. Wonderful de-
velopments, it is true, have come to pass in
recent years in Georgia and her neighbor
States, developmen ts which augur brilliantly
for the times just ahead. But the South's
greatest role in the economic history of
America and of the world is yet to be played.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
birds and to demand their return, but it is
believed most of them have been killed.

birds and to demand their return, but it is
believed most of them have been killed.
Half million British army huts are to be
converted into homes for workhgmen if plans
worked out by the disposal board of the min
istry of munitions carried out. Each lit
tie hut will provide six rooms and bath all on
one floor and the cost of moving and lifting
each for residence would average $1,000.
Besides the huts in England. there are thou.
sands in France that can be used.
The French government is considering a
plan to reopen the gambling casino at Eng
hien-the Little Monte Carlo" near Paris.
Two famous "hush'' ships, the Repuse and
the RenoWn built, launched and operated
against the Germans without the secrets Of
their construction leaking, will be in the
British fleet which is to visit American waters
this year. The tour is likely to be made i'm
mediately after the signing of peace, and the
ships will be home for the grand naval review
which will follow the formal ratification by
all nations involved. The Prince of Wales is
expected to visit America with the fleet.
William Hohenzollern is growing visibly
weaker. His steps are feeble as he walks
about the park of Amorengen castle and at
PENDANTS carry for him chair on which he
rests frequently He has done no wood cutting
for several days.
Concrete ships have come to stay, The
Stewart firm of shipbuilders who started work
the first one for the government in 1917,
have closed their Brentford yard and moved
to Rockford, where they can lay down 10
concrete ships at one time. Ribs, sides, decks
are all Of concrete in one shell, and the more
bad weather they encounter, the harder the
shell becomes.
The Bank of England has announced that
it will take no profits from the war. and
Britain is waiting to learn how many millions
will be turned back to the government. The
normal semi-annual profits of the banks are
$2,500,000 and dividends are almost stand
ardized at 10 per cent for the year. Since
1916 the capitalization of the bank has stood
at little more than seven and quarter nil
lion dollars.
Dum-dum bullets are favorites with the
Spartacists In three underground store
houses in the forest Of Ratingen, $4,000 cart
ridges of this type hidden by the revolutions
aries were found by government soldiers,
along with machine guns and rifles Schroed-
er, the Spartacist leader, who exposed the
hiding place when arrested, was a burglar be-
fore he became revolutionist.
The Germans think they have club which
will compel the Belgians to modify their treat
ment of the Germans. Germany threatens
to send her future trade through the harbor
of Rotterdam rather than through Antwerp
if the Belgians don't be good" The Ger
mans complain that their property is being
seized and their business forcibly wound up in
Belgium.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25
THE GALLANT STEED
(The Pensacola journal,

(Ihe PenSacOla JOUrnali)
The French government has decorated a
horse for gallantry in action. This recalls
Queen Victoria's hanging the Kabul medal
around the neck of Volonel, the dainty Arab
steed of the late Lord Roberts.
Every war except the latest has produced
famous horses. Nineteen chargers were
killed under Napoleon. His favorite steed,
Marengo, an Arab breed, was wounded seven
times.
When Lord Alfred Paget led the charge of
the Light Brigade, five rderless horses raced
neck and neck with him, eager to get into
action-a trait vouched for by old cavalry
men, In this engagement 80 more horses
we're killed-good average figures for old
time battles.
Many centuries we're required to develop
the horse.
Originally they were small as dogs and
were the pets of the children of cave men,
Museums display graduated skeletons show
ing how the five-toed perissodactyl ungulate
mammals developed into Dobbin of today.
Came the period when, in wild and even
man-eating state, they were tanned by man,
who recognized their possibilities for war
fare.
Horses drew the chariots of Rameses with
their deadly sharp knives jutting from the
wheels
Later the horse became beast of burden.
But to warfare-and later to racing--we
owe the science of breeding, which began IN
earnest when heavy cavalry horses were IN
troduced into England during the Norman in
vasions and crosscA with British roadsters,
coach and draft horses.
All American horses come from Imported
stock. The first batch, brought by Column
bus in 1893, persisted. n 1919 Cortez land
ed 16 horses in Mexico. A century later
French steeds were shipped into Canada.
A few, escaping, produced the great wild
herds that made for romance on the plains
of the west. Some scientists dispute this,
claim horses are native Americans, and cite
bones of pygmy horses dug up in the Mojave
desert by Prof. j. G. Merriam.
Today America has 100000 horses-and
is largely given to riding in automobiles.
%-
The william of Well-known melodrama
had to be shot. The supers came on and
fired at him accordingly. But the property
man omitted to load the gins, and the only
sound was the faint click of the -alling ham,
mers. The villain having to die, rose to
the occasion Throwing up his arms, he
exclaimed:
81 die perforated by thousand bullets,
but l ta.,e the opportunity of cIrsing with
my last breath the riggardly government
that supplied the srmy with airguns" y
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25

manifest and distinctive advantages. All can
contribute to the nations strength and pros
perity by helping to solve the serious problem
which we have outlined.
1t is to be expected, therefore, that the
appeal of the South Atlantic Maritime Asso-
citation for a due allotment of ships from the
Government merchant marine with which to
use and develop the resources of these ports
will be readily granted.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25
The Journals Service Flag

The Journals Service Flag
In honor OF the seventy-three Atlanta
Journal men who have entered the service of
their country. The two white stars are in
memory of Captain Meredith Gray and Cap
tain James S. Moore. Jr., Journal men, who
gave their lives for our country in France.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25

There is this much about grand opera, as
Bill Nye said, it is much better than it
sounds.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25

Eighty cents all hour for working in his
garden-that is what Raph Baerman of Fill
more county, Minnesota. earned in his one
tenth-acre foot plat. He was awarded the
state championship in garden work in Min
nesota last year. p
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25

Even we'll grown crop of sweet potatoes
may lose much market value by lack of
proper care in digging, handling and prepare
ton for market. Precaution must be OBJ
served when digging and handing to prevent
a well-grown product from becoming I'M
slightly through the presence of cuts, bruises,
and other defects.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25

Belgium has lost 100000 pigeons. And
as the finest homing pigeons in the world
have come from Belgian lofts, the loss is
great. The birds were stolen by the Germans
during the occupation. Belgian commission
has gone to Germany to seek out the lost
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-07-05

cial questions are to be met. disturb
ances in our industrial life are TO be eff
ciently adjusted, and the lessons of war
are TO be taken seriously that We may
not again neglect preparedness.
AT the outset it is for us to see that
the conoitions of peace are faithfully
performed and that those who were re
sponsible for the war pay the full pen
atty. Let no one doubt that it is our
fixed purpose to see that the terms OF
the treaty are completely fulfilled.
This war has brot about among the
allies a common understanding and a
realization of community of Interest tha,
will make for peace. without which agree
ments are futile 1t is especially impor-
t1nt that Americans resident in France
should cherish and perpetuate, as our
representatives, those amicable relations
necessary to continuance of complete
accord between our two peoples.
This meeting recalls yividly to mr
mind similar gathering two years ago
VIXEN our heavy task lay before US. We
were face to face with situation that
demanded the best that was in US. True
to our ira litions, we have met it cour-
ageously and fearlcssly. and we shall
meet the problems that now confront us
with the same resolution and confidence
and the same devotion TO our Ideals with
which we undertook and carried thrd our
part of the war;
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-07-05
PERSHING REVIEWS EVENTS OF WAR
AND DISCUSSES FUTURE PROBLEMS

Paris, July 4.-Following is the text
Of General Pershing's address at the
lur:heon of the American chamber of
commerce today:
Few Americans can more fully and
completely understand the significance
of this Independence day than those
who have lived in France, and who
have sympathized and suffered with her
people. Few can know better her sacri-
fees and the significance of her de-
vOtion to the cause of civilization. None
can know better the problems which
confronted the American army.
You have lived close to the battle
lines. You have passed thru the dark
period of 1918 when you counted the
days when American efforts should
develop. You have seen the tide of battle
turn and have followed the successes Of
our troops thru the final victory.
You will recall our beginning with
the First division at Cantigny; tbru
when with greater numbers our forces
carried forward the brunt of the Marne-
Somme offensive which gave the allies
the initiative; later, when they fought
beside the allies in Champagne, and
again when they were united as the
First army in the battle of st. Mihiel
and finally, their supreme effort in the
Meuse Argonne, where the decisive blow
of the war was struck.
"Great have been the victories of war
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-07-05

mometer to 40 degrees, his heart still
was pumping at high pressure and he
appreciated the breathing spell.
In the first few seconds of the contest
it looked as if the experts who had been
assigned to keep detailed account of all
blows struck might come measurably
close to doing so but it was only for a
fraction of moment.
FeiIed Five Times in One Round.
After that the experts did we'll TO
count Jacks blows, let alone take note
of how each was made. The challenger
knocked the big fellow down five times
in the first round and had him hanging
helplessly on the ropes or draped over
his own shoulders most of the time when
he was not taking advantage of count.
The crowd thot the fight was over
in that round. Willard was down for
the fifth time and the count apparent
ly was about to end when the gong
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-07-05

screaming fanS when the truth was
broken to him and he was hauled back.
Willard is 0ver-C onfident.
Such fighting as the Kansas ranchman
produced was placed on exhibition at
the onset He had stood in his corner
picture of confidence His smile seemed
that of one who had a brief and not
unpleasant task before him. He GER
tainly was all set to go, for just before
time was called he was heard to remark
Lets get this thing over
He measured the attendance, which
disappointed estimates of about 80 per
cent, with an appraising eye.
Dempsey presented contrast. None
of the confidence of his training camp
statements appeared in his bearing. The
man across from him outweighed him
40 pounds and looked as big and i'm
pregnabie as a metropolitan bank build
ing. The mood of the challenger was
plainly thotfu and more than one ring
side gazer whispered:
Hes licked right now
When they were introduced Jess saun-
tered over with the cordial manner of
one desiring to reassure youngster
and took his hands in the friendliest
way.
Looks Like Plain Murder.
Jacks handshake was friendly, too
Just then, but was the last token of
friendship from those gloves. A min
ute or so later they were using Willard
for chopping block. and some in the
crowd were crying: stop it! Stop it,
It's plain murder." Dempsey's first eff
fective blows and the ones which ap-
parently settled Wizards fate. were a
right over Jess shoulder to the jaw.
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-07-05
Mig Heavyweight Wits
Under Dempsey's
Punches.
.sIAR0Ws UP. THE SPONGE
Y At END OF THIRD ROUND
Is Practically Knocked
Out in the First
II Period.

Toledo, July 4.-By virtue of
bone Of the speediest and most
one sided battles which ever de-
cided a fistic event, Jack Demp-
fsey, who may now wish to be
known by his full voting name
Of William Harrison Dempsey,
today became the worlds champ
ion heavyweight boxer.
40 all intents and purposes
I he whipped the huge Jess Will
Hard, favorite in the meagre
netting, in one round. Dempsey
thought the referee had an
nounced him winner and actual
~ left the ring. But he was
called back and the butchery
\ continued for two rounds more
when Jess, sitting in his corner
with bewildered look on his
swollen countenance, failed to
hspond to the gong for the
fourth round.
ut was no use to continue"
said the ex-champion. my
Vtrength went from me in the
first round"
A. MUCH SURPRISED MAN.
! He sat there apparently the most sur
J prised man in the United States at the
moment. His right eye was closed and
his right cheek swollen and blue with
bruises. Blood covered his body and
bis arms hung so helplessly over the
Niropes that it seemed as if child might
Sgive him further abuse without arousing
his interest.
Dempsey was breathing hard when
the fight ended, but it was from exer-
ton and not from punishment. He es-
capped almost unhurt, but as he had been
using his arms like triphammers on the
anatomy of his opponent for nine crowd
ed minutes in sun that sent the ther
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-07-05
EJECT OF THE MOONEY
STRIKE IN BUTTE NOT
PLAINLY D|sCERNABLE

Butte, July 4.-The effect of the
Mooney protest strike in the Butte dis
trict is not discernable today as the
mines and most of the business estab-
lshments were closed in celebration of
Independence day.
Eight unions had voted to start their
five day strike today and claims were
made that about 800 men employed out
side of the mines had needed the call
c. +. Kelley. president of the Ana
conda company, will confer with repre-
sentatives of the metal trades unions to-
morrow relative to demands for increased
wages.