davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02
BY ANTHONY ASHMORE
FRANCES CHECK ON SPIES

A law was passed recently in France that
compels every commercial traveller WORKING
in French territory TO carry an officially
stamped identification card. This card, which
must have his photograph affixed, must be
renewed annually.
HOUSELESS BERLIN
Berlin, in common with the other capitals
of Europe, is overcrowded. No building was
done during the war and there are not suf-
ficient houses to take care of it's ever increas-
ing population.
Counting on the German quality of ODE
dience, the city authorities asked the owners
of all large houses to accommodate other less
fortunate families. The appeal was totally
ignored and now the authorities say darkly
that they are going to take strong meas
ures' to relieve the housing situation.
GERMAN WORKMEN VOLUNTEER
On account of the scarcity of coal in Ger
many, the railway men of Wurtemburg have
volunteered to do ten hours of overtime
weekly to relieve the situation.
HOMAGE TO THE POILU
A proposal has been made in France and
is being warmly furthered that the body Of
an anonymous French soldier should be bur-
led in the Pantheon an act of homage to
the private soldiers of France who saved their
country.
MORTALITY IN RUSSIA
During the last few weeks the mortality
Once it was due to influenza, then to the
Bolsheviki. Now it is from lack of nutri
ton. Where once long lines waited for
bread rations, one now sees longer lines
waiting to register to have the dead removed
to cemtery.
The DieIo Naroda, a Socialstic-revolution-
airy journal, declares that the dead are lying
from ten to fifteen days awaiting burial. Re-
lations called to the bedside of dying pa
tients in hospitals fail to recognize them.
Thus the authorities forced to bury the
dead at public expense, as being without
relations"
Every train leaving for Uspehski, the state
cemetery outside the city, has at least three
extra freight cars attached filed with rough
collins, which are afterward piled, one atop
the other in a great unmarked grave
MILKMAN BRIDES LANDLORD
Such is the congestion of London at pres
ent that milkman advertising for two I'M
furnished rooms offers as an inducement to
supply the landlady with free milk every
morning. AS there is a shortage of milk and
it is said the price is about 10 be raised
again, the milkman's offer may procure him
good choice of lodgings.
FIND LARGEST CRATER IN WORLD
The largest crater in TIE world has been
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02
Disappointed Senators.

WHITE what heaviness of soul and burn
Wv ing OF heart must certain Repub1i-
can senators view the marked and
repeated preference which is being shown
General Leonard Wood for their party's Pres
idential nominee! At least a score of the
Senators are convinced that they are the only
timber suitable for that lofty design. and
many more, no doubt, would admit their
peculiar fitness if pressed for candid opin-
ION. But Interestingly enough when the Re-
publican rank and file consulted they
almost invariably advise the nomination of
some one far from the Senatorial shadow,
Thus an Illinois newspapers recent poll
OF the Republican members of the lower
mouse OF congress showed only twenty-three
votes for the highest Senatorial candidate
and one hundred and seventy-five for others
OF whom General Wood was far away and in
the lead. Likewise canvass of Republi-
can Governors, National Committeeman Re-
publican journals and others capable of re-
flectlng that party's inclinations showed an
lnconslderable vote for the Senatorial Bar
Kisses, forty for former Justice Hughes and
one hundred and thirty-onel for Genera
Wood.
However else these omens may be inter-
preted, they certainly indicate that there is
no popular enthusiasm for Lodge, for Knox
for Hiram johnson nor for any other of the
republican sOlons who have counted so con-
hdentIy upon winning political favor by op-
position to the Treaty of Peace and fight of
pygmy-minded prejudice against Woodrow
Wilson. Sagacious watchmen on the Repub-
llcan tower see this at least, that the Ameri-
can people will raise no dust for a candidate
whose chief claim to consideration is that he
delayed the worlds peace and fought against
the cause of International goodwill
The logical Republican candidates, if the
party means to stand by its record at Wash
ington, would be Lodge for President and
Hiram Johnson for Vice President-or vice
versa the difference being immatertal. But
evidently the party is wiser than it's standard
bearers.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02
A SIXTEEN THOUSAND
DOLLAR HOG
(The Dublin Tribune)

Bleckley county is the center of the hog
raising industry of the state, after entering
the field only few years ago, when several
of the prominent farmers realized the i'm
portance of live stock and took lead in in
PRODUCING the new enterprise on large
scale And after several years, it's progress has
been so great as to have the attention of the
United States house of representatives in
speech by the Twelfth district congressman.
The Dublin Tribune is pleased to note that
Orion Cherry King, Jr., considered to be the
champion Duroc Jersey boar in the world,
has been sold by Cochran firm for the sum
of $4,000. The price paid by an Arkansas
firm for the hog is significant because it
shows the limit which the live stock industry
Ia approaching in Bleckley county and the
state of Georgia. few years ago 1t would
have seemed ridiculous to the people OF
Georgia if one said hog in the state would
bring nearly $4,000. But now with the fine
breed hogs which are being raised in the va
rious parts of the state and the hold which
the live stock industry is taking upon all the
farmers we are looking forward to the time
when a price such as paid for the Cochran
hog will be ordinary in comparison to some
of the fine breeds which will be raised here
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02
THE ORIGIN OF "DIXIE"
(The Montgomery Advertiser.)

We never hear "D-e" without wondering if
those who engage in enthusiasm for Dixie Land
appreciate the derivation of the word. Do they
know that if they should cheer for "Dixe" in its
pristine significance, they would be cheering for
city known as New York?
1t was this way Once upon a time there
was a STAKEHOLDER named Dixie on Manhattan
island. He removed to the Southern states,
taking his slaves with him, and later they were
dispersed among several owners. Their life in
the south was far harder than it had been on
Manhattan island, which became to them Dixie
Land where milk and honey constituted dietetic
bliss. The idea was expanded until Manhattan
became the delectable country and finally Bcu-
labs Land where the weary sinners eventually
finds rest. And then DixieS Land gradually be-
came "Dixie, the md of cotton" that inspired
ing air of the Confederacy.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02
DON'T BE TOO JEALOUS
Bv H. Addington Bruce

~ EAL for ones work, zeal for the pro-
4 motion of worthy causes, is SPLEEN
IL did thing. No one ever accomplishes
much who is not jealous for accomplishing.
But there is such a thing as being too zeal
ous And excess of zeal always carries pen
alties Often it carries the penalty of ill
health, even of sudden and untimely death.
In his recently published "The Health of
the Teacher" DR.. w. E. Chancellor tells
little story Of warning significance not to
teachers merely but to workers in general
1t is the story of man who, at forty,
had attained a prominent place in the edu-
cational world. He was a brilliant thinker
and intensely interested in promoting educa-
tional progress, as every educator should be.
Unfortunately, he allowed himself to be-
come obsessed with certain reforms in meth
DDS of educational administration which
seemed to him particularly desirable
In his zeal for these he violated funda-
mental laws of personal hygiene He gave
himself no play-time He drove himself to
the point of physical exhaustion. And he
lost no opportunity for urging his ideas on
other people. Says DR.. Chancellor
HE believed in system and in records
He could and did make public speeches in
faculty meetings hour, even two hours
long defending and explaining his records
and methods. The least opposition brought
from him long streams of talk"
Naturally this bored and irritated those
tor. He became unpopular and found him
self in frequent disputes, which had the eff
feet of adding the strain of worry to the
strain of overwork.
In vain his wife and friends begged him
to ease down, to vary his interests, to play
golf or take up some other means of ex-
ercise and recreation. He would not listen to
them.
Then one day he suddenly began to talk
strangely. He insisted that conspiracy was
on foot to ruin him. He told slanderous
tales of men whom he disliked. Even when
the falsity of the tales was made clear to
him he continued to spread them.
Within a year, his mind completely broken,
this unhappy victim of overhead breathed
his last in a hospital for the insane. Not
without reason DR.. Chancellor comments:
The man who cannot get his mind off
one subject-whose mind does not play
will soon have no mind at all. He may be-
come fool. He may become a maniac. He
cannot remain a normal man
Or, driven by excessive zeal to excessive
work, the penalty exacted may be- and more
frequently is, a physical breakdown.
Forgetting his body's needs, the zealout
may weaken himself as to become the
ready prey of any disease germ which hap
pens to attack him. Brights disease may
claim him. Or he may untowardly perish
from a failing heart.
The laws of nature inexorable. They
may be ignored, but they cannot be denied
And those who, under the spur of fine but
too jealous enthusiasm, choose to ignore
Them will suffer just as surely as the most
worthless wastrel of nerve force.
Copyright, 1919, by the Associated
Newspapers.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02
The SOundest Mvestment
Il C0mMnnitn Gan Make

VIE New Rochelle Era goes to the finn
damentals of prosperity when it pleads
Tor good schools as means of rural up-
building. Taxes used in this wise it argues
constitute not an expenditure but an in
vestment." For:
How often does one find in special
tax districts some farm whose owner yio-
lently opposed the extra school tax but
whose land almost doubled in value be-
cause OF the better school the tax
brought! There is hardly a community
IN the South where the school is poor
that has not lost some good citizen for
thls reason. Similarly there is hardly
a community with good school in which
that school has not attracted one or
more good citizens to the neighbour
hood"
mere is no better lesson for Georgians TO
learn and apply. That they are learning it
we'll is evidenced in the fact that whereas NOT
many years ago there were only four locaI-tax
counties in the entire State, there are now in
me nelghborhood of seventy, all of whom have
voluntarily taxed themselves in order that
Cher common schools might improve and
multiply. The time is not far when all coun-
ties will enjoy the advantages of this good
system; 1t is taken for granted that an in
formed and patriotic electorate will ratify the
constitutional amendment proposed and an
proved at the last session of the Legislature
to make minimum local tax for the public
schools obligatory and Statewide
meanwhile, however, progressive counties
are adopting the tax on their own initiative
not waiting until the next general election
ana passage OF the amendment to avail them
serves OF the great benefits which this nIan
OF school maintenance affords Thew are to
be congratulated upon their business iudg-
hent as well as their moral foresight Thew
are making the soundest investment and the
most fertile to which public funds could be
applied. w
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02

Wv WITH characteristic force and clearneSs
NJ Secretary Glass of the Treasury De
partment warns Liberty Bond hold
ers against the army of sharpers who hnd
easy booty in these days of reckless specula-
ton
The Secretary of the Treasury heretofore
has sought to protect owners OF Government
securities against selling their bonds or eX-
changing them for worthless stocks. He mas
from time to time, issued statements to the
public calling attention to the INSCRIPTIONS
few who are seeking to gain at the expense
of the many through the promotion of Wild
cat oil wells, gold mines and what not
It appears, however, according to announce
ments from Washington, that many Liberty
Bond holders persist in exchanging or trad
ing their Government securities for fraudulent
stock, in the expectation of receiJ WINS greater
returns. The prevalence of this evil has
prompted Secretary Glass, the eve of his
retirement, to renew his warning to bond
holders.
We quote Mr.. Glass:
where Liberty Bond holders urg
ed to give up their securities for stocks
of speculative character good sense Sug-
gests the presumption that the offer is
made because the Liberty Bonds are
worth decidedly more than the stock.
Experience in a great number of cases
shows that the stock is worthless, and
the bond owner who makes the exchange
is simply announcer VlCtlm TO the army OF
sharpers who find easy booty in these
days of reckless speculation
'Self-interest and good business judg-
ment should decide in favor of the hold
ing of Liberty Bonds, which are decar-
ed by those most experienced in invest
ment to the worlds best security. 1t is
the duty of citizens in every community
to sound the warning against fraudulent
operators in government securities at
this time, when we can i'll afford to dis
sipate our resources for the profit of the 1.
uncruplous few
Mr.. Glass states the case plainly Certain
ly good sense suggests, as he says, that offers
to exchange stocks for bonds are made be-
cause the Government securities are worth
decidedly more than the stock We commend
this advice to every holder of Liberty Bonds
more especially to those whose cupidity has
been aroused by the promise of big returns
upon some stock of which they know nothing
The men engaged in marketing questionable
securities are not philanthropists. They are
unscfupulous sharpers seeking easy booty
and it matters not to them who thew vic
timiZe.
Liberty Bonds are the best securities in the
world. The return from them is certain AL
though their value may be slightly depreciat-
ed in the market, every bond will be re-
deemed by the Government, at maturity at
par value, and in the meantime the interest
return is assured beyond the question of a
doubt.
AS Secretary Glass says, ''self-interest and
good business judgment should decide in
faVor OF holding Liberty Bonds" It is with
sense OF duty which we feel we owe the
puonc that we commend Secretary Glass
warning and urge upon the people generally
10 beware of the financial sharpers who are
oHerlng questionable stocks in exchange for
Liberty Bonds -0-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02
Some Striking Figures, and
Their Lesson to the Soutj

.NHAT is highly significant report which
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture has given out concerning the
worlds supply of food animals in the wars
aftermath. The greater part of Europe, it
appears, has suffered a heavy decrease in
herds and flocks, while this country, along
with Canada, Argentina, Australia and New
Zealand, has made appreciate gains The
net result, however, is a marked deficit. Thus
while the number of cattle in the five coun-
tries enumerated increased about six million
during the war period, in Europe there was
decrease of more than seven million; and
this takes account of Austria-Hungary
Russia and the Balkans, where undoubtedly
there were large losses. There a de-
crease of approximately twenty-four and a
half million swine in the European zone, as
against a gain of some seventeen and half
million in the other countries named. Sim
ilarIy, for sheep the figures are seven mil
lion, five hundred thousand against four mil
lion, seven hundred and fifty thousand.
The lesson for the farmers of America, par
ticularly those of the South, is plain. Years
before the war the worlds supply of food ami
mails was failing to keep pace with it's mount
ing population. That condition having been
accentuated for five springs and winters, who
can doubt that values will continue high and
opportunities spacious for many a season to
come? Grant that the European live stock
industry will be restored to a pre-war basis
by the latter part of 1921, the time fixed by
conservative estimates. Still in the aggregate
there will be a pronounced shortage, if we
reckon the intervening growth of population.
There is profit in nothing if not in animal
husbandry at this stage of world conditions:
and surely in other region are those
profits more easily to be earned than in the
mild-wintered, rich-pastured South.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS

The label used for addressing shows the time
vour subscription expires By renewing at least TWO weeks
before date this label you insure regus d
In be to mention your oo
as well as your new address If route please give
number. S.,t. r,r,
We cannot subscriptions to begin with PACK num-
sent by postal order OF regis
tered mail .,, oo....,,on+ +o
Address all orders uotices for this Department 10
rEJN SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ca
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02
SOLUTION OF IRISH QUESTION
By DR.. Frank Crane

The other day | attended the theater and wit
messed the play called "THE LOST LEADER"
by Lennox Robinson, which, to my mind fur
niSheS the best solution of the Irish Question
that | have seen.
In the first place, it was good play. In
sheer originality and genius it stands out
among a host of mediocre plays that have
been produced this season, and it was we'll
acted.
BY that mean that every actor was real
human being, and not stage manikin going
through the usual performance that one expects
from certain characters.
The play proceeded upon the assumption that
Charles Stewart Parnell did not die when peo-
pie thought he died, but away and hid in
an out of the way place in Ireland 1t was the
body of Russian peasant that occupied his
coffin which was followed by the weeping
multtudeS on the occasion of his funeral
Parnell himself, according to the story found
friend and follower who took care of him,
Instead OF dying and passing into Heaven. he
SIMPLY quit and passed into Ireland He spent
his time fishing and roaming the woods and
enjoying the quiet and rest that were grateful
to him after his long and stormy career
| At last he is discovered Representatives of
the factions in Irish politics come to see him
That is to say, of four or five factions, not
| OF the whole 365 factions. In the concluding
part of the play each one of these factions ap-
peals to him for support He tells the propo-
nent OF each party wherein he is wrong. He
! announces that Ireland cannot be saved by a
party. The only way it can be saved is through
| a Spiritual regeneration, and that he will lead
them to this desired goal.
| In the last scene he announces that as soon
as some men arrive who can positively identi-
fly him he will tell what his plan is-this plan.
that is to settle the whole Irish Question and
solve the problem that has been vexing great
people for many years.
Meanwhile the little group of representatives
get into a general free-for-all fight One of
them who is half-wt, in attempting to strike
down his oponent strikes Parnell instead, and
kills him.
So we never find out what the wonderful So
luton is, and the only man that knows it is
killed by crazy fool.
The lesson of all this is that social problems
| are not problems at all There is no Irish Prob
lem, there is no Labor Probem-that is to
say, these are not puzzles to which some clever
man may possibly find a solution which all
will accept
They are conditions which must be lived
through, and not problems to be solved. Time
and evolution alone can bring such causes to a
satisfactory conclusion for the simple reason
that it is not the truth alone that is necessary,
but it is quite as necessary for the minds of
the people to grow up to the point where
they can understand and use the truth
Copyright, 1916, By Frank Crane)
,,Waiter!" cried the diner, there's fly in
this ice pudding"
Serves him right sir" replied the wait
er: "let him stay there and freeze to death.
He was in another gentleman's soup yes
| LA nSrI,f nrla riI
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02
WORLDWIDE HAPPENINGS

discovered by two young Swedish students
who have been making an adventurous trip
in Iceland. The crater measures five miles
in length and three and one-eighth miles in
width. Hot springs have also been discover
ed. by the two young explorers in the in
terror of Iceland.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02

,,Waiter!" cried the diner, there's fly in
this ice pudding"
"Serves him right SIR" replied the wait
er: "let him stay there and freeze to death.
He was in another gentlemans soup yes
terday. I'll be downright glad to get rid of
him..
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02
Secretary Glass Farming.

Wv WITH characteristic force and clearness
M Secretary Glass of the Treasury De-
partment warns Liberty Bond hold
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02

Influenza has again appeared in epidemic
form at Linares, Spain, about fifty miles
northeast of Granada, dispatches stating that
there are at present more than 1000 ill from
the disease in that city. Precautionary meas
ures have been taken by the authorities.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-02

Volunteer workers who go into the Kan
sas coal fields to dig coal under the state re-
ownership plan will be considered strike
breakers, Thomas Harvey, secretary treasurer
of the Kansas miners, has announced.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29
Il. S. Steel Earns
S3.43 a Share on
Common i'm Quarter
Net for Three Months End.
ed September 30 Was
$5,845,93l Larger Than
in the Preceding Quarter

The United States Steel Corporation
Cor the third ouarte, of 1919 earned
a surp' US, after preferred dividend
requirements, of $17,458 94S, or the
equivalent of 3.43 per cent on the
S50s,302,50 common stock. The dis.
.rbutlon on the junior s'ares totalled
l a per cent, or $6,353 ISL, so that
after meeting all dividend payments
the company had final surplus for
The three months ended September 30
Of $l11O5,157. The surplus avai a Vie
for the common stock for the quarter
was at an annual rat. of more than
13 per cent.
Net earnings for the September
garter were s4o,l77,232, contrasted
with S34,331,30l for the preceding
quarter an increase of S5,S41. .93l, au7'
s42,9615S9 for the third quarter Of
1913. August had the largest total.
with S1d,444.SS1. Jul came newt
with Sl3,567,100, while September had
the smallest earnings w IN Az arpre-
gate of s12,165 251. The decline in
the latter month may have been due
to the steel strike which went into
effect on September 20.
Inc income account for the three
New-York tribune., 1919-10-29
Studebaker to Issue
More Common Stock
; ockhloders Asked to Approve
Increase to 5000, 600; to
Offer $4,000. 900

Directors Of the Studebaker Corpora
Il IN yesterday adopted a resolution
p oviding for an increase in the an
tt orized amount Of common stock from
81 O,00O 600 to $4,000, 900. 1t is pro-
posed to offer $15,O0O,OO0 of the new
st ock to shareholders at sI05 q share.
W ,ich will place the company in funds
tt pay off an issue Of $500 600 serial
per cent notes, now outstanding. and
still leave approximately S75O,0O0 for
,rking capital
Stockh olders are asked to approve
II G stock increase at q meeting called
fer November "a. Stockholders of rec
o d on November % will be entitled to
subscribe to the new Offering. The
S. 100000 issue is being underwritten
b. syndicate of bankers headed BY
G Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Lehman
B Brothers.
A. R. Erskine, president of the Stude
baker Corporation, in making the an
nouncement of the new financing, said
Yesterday that the company would turn