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America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1919-09-19

noastre, cit 81 onoratului public
rominesc, care ne-a Onorat GU
prezenta dior, 81 speram ca 81
pc viitor vom Fl onorati GU pre-
zenta dior.
In numele socictatii ,,Dacia
Romina" din Cincinnati, Ohio:
loan Feher, presedinte.
Pavel Moroica, secretar scriptur.
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1919-09-19

Care suma S a alaturat la Fon-
dull Nsocietatii ,,Dacia RominaS
din Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dcci inca odata multumim cal
duros tuturor acelora care AL
jertfit timpul dior pentru inain-
tarea 81 bunul mers al societatii
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-08

interests of those States we find that they are
literally provided for, every county having a
local school tax. When we look into their
rural library facilities, we find appropriations
for that purpose ranging from twelve and
fifteen thousand to f1fty-three thousand dol
lars. When we look into their highway serV-
Ice we find them spending money without
stint to provide Statewide systems of the
best roads that engineering skill can produce.
When we look into their public health act1v1-
ties we find them highly progressive and tar
advanced. Schools, libraries, highways anu
health--on these essentials they have spent
tax money in ungrudging measure, and every
penny of it has returned to them hundred
fold
If we wish to bring Georgia's farm land
values abreast of those in the one hundred
and seventy dollar class, let Us emphasize the
DEVELOPMENT of these great social and human
factors in prosperity. We have the natural
resources in bounty and richness rarely
euualled. We have the energy and enter
prise that ask only fair chance to prove
themselves. Add to these splendid gifts the
hest schools, the best libraries, the best roads
and the best health conservation to De
had-and who can fix a limit to Georgia
progress and worth? The only vital values,
after all, the only values that count ana en-
dure, are those touching the welfare OF men,
women and children Let us seek those ana
all others will be added
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-08
"They Rotted on the Zine. y

FROM farmer in it's district the AL
bany Herald receives and passes on
n this thought-provoking bit of expert
o,oe. at have a neighbor who has ten push
els of tomatoes rotting on the vines ~ 70
won't bring them to the market pecauee ~
does not LAY him to stop his other WORK. plcA
the tomatoes and bring them into town TOT
dollar a bushel That's what the local re-
tailers pay, and they get about nine oollal
q husbel selling the tomatoes by the pounu'
No doubt you neWspapermen, knowing onlS
ne local retail price, will tell the FARMERS VI
this section to raise tomatoes next SEASON.
seeing big profit in them at these prices:
Tbare would be a. profit in growing them II
the farmer could get his share of the retail
price" 1850 ~ will,
lions, of the need of a more enlclehC sysI0lih
of marketing farm products. NO system un-
der which the producer receives only one ool-
Ior hushe1 while the consumer living at no
great distance pays nine times that rate, IS a
truly efficient system. 1t is not etflclent
even for the middleman, though he nurse IL
as a bonanza; for eventually it will stop the
production, and so destroy his trade, OF the
commodity in question. furthermore,
system that thus discourages crop d1Verslhca-
ton is an injury to the town and the district
on which it is perpetrated. Nothing can be
truly efficient which is not fair to all concern
ed: nothing can be truly profitable winch
rests on injustice.
That there is a way whereby producers
can protect themselves and at the same time
guarantee the consumer better service ii not
better prices, is evident from the results
which the Fruit Exchange has accomplished
for Georgia peach growers. Wherever
thoughtful cooperation and competent man
agement are given a chance at the market
Jig problem they conserve and promote the
producers interests and rebound to the pub
lies good. The Georgia State Bureau of
end, as are also the farm development bu-
reaus of the Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany and of other public service institutions.
But there is urgent need of each community S
taking up it's particular problems and par
ticular opportunities of this nature to solve
and develop them. If it finds that it's home
demand is not sufficient to assure compen-
sating prices for a product, then obviously
the wise course is to look to larger markets.
The chances are that somewhere within
practicable shipping distance there will be a
cehter of active demand. Thus the problem
becomes partly one of finding outlets and es-
t3blshing connections. The outlets are there
and. the connections can be formed, but not
unless there is some dependable, public
spirited local agency to act for the pro-
ducers' common interests, and not unless the
producers themselves will avail. themselves
of opportunities for cooperation.
We do not pretend to say that these sug-
gestions compass the wide and intricate prob
lem, but they do point out base and start
ing point where interested communities can
begin. And if they but make an earnest be-
ginning, they will find divers aids coming to
them and unsupported opportunities open
ing.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-08
BE HUMAN

By H. Addington Bruce

By H. Addington Bruce
F. you want to know real happiness in
this life be as human as you can AS
- fully as possible get into the spirit Of
the fine soul of whom the poet sings:
He was so human! Whether strong or weak,
Far from his kind he neither sank nor
scared,
But sat an equal guest at every board.
No beggar ever felt him condescend,
No prince presume; for still himself he bare
At mankind's simple level, and where'er
He met stranger, there he left a friend.
No one is more to be envied than man of
this splendid type, no one more to be pitied
than the man who forgets his kinship with
his fellow men. Out of touch with humanity,
he is doomed to pass his days in solitude,
even though he make his home in the most
crowded of cities and possess the greatest
wealth of all it's citizens.
His wealth may command for him many
followers and f1atterers. 1t may give him
entry to choice places. 1t may enable him to
travel the wide world over, lacking nothing
in the way of luXuries.
But always he will be in sad reality moving
alone. Always a gulf will stretch between
him and the rest of mankind. And, without
his knowing why, this will condemn him to
unending misery -
Where as men with not title of his
wealth, men perhaps forever on the ragged
edge of poverty, will be truly happy in the
richness of their human companionship.
They have "a friendly nod for all, kindly
word, an understanding smile. They cringe
to none, but neither do they show contempt
uous Indifference to any
The manhood of others is as keenly sensed
by them as their own manhood. They nave
no absurd notions as to their intrinsic SUI
periority to those less fortunately circum-
stanced. Snobbery has no place in their
psychic makeup.
Consequently they pass from place to
place sowing seeds of JOY in other people 9
hearts and in return harvesting an abundance
of joy for themselves What money cannot
purchase is theirs without the asking.
Even when alone they cannot feel lonely.
For they live all the while in an atmosphere
of good will created by their own intensely
human outlook.
1t is all so easy, all so simple. Yet how
many there be who, intent on their own con-
Germs, needless of aught except their imme-
diate satisfaction, ignore this easiest and
simplest and surest of means of winning the
happiness that is everybody's birthright.
Cultivate this precious virtue of human
ness, this wonderful personal asset. Open
your heart to the heart throbs of the people
all about you. Appreciate the essential
brotherhood OF man and become true broth
er of men if you are not one already.
copyright, 1919, by the Associated News
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-08

Thrift goes upon the honored principle
that one good turn deserves another 1t
prompts people to save pennies, and then en-
courages them to lay up dollars. 1t serves
the largest needs of the government and
then helps the humblest of the struggling
rank and file. Give thrift but half d chance
and it will outshine A1addin's lamp for benef-
cent wonders.
Liberty Loans and selling millions upon mill
lions of Thrift Stamps, many persons looked
for falling Off in savings bank deposits. But
of the World War savings deposits in the
United States increased from six billion to ap-
proximately eight billion dollars, the most re-
markable part of the increment coming after
this country entered the conflict 1t appears,
moreover that the stanchest of savers were
those who bought regularly of the Thrift
Stamp issues and Liberty Bonds as we'll.
This record appears the more remarkable
when we remember the high prices of most
necessaries in the war period. In many vo-
cations, it is true wages also advanced but
never to such an extent as to account for the
growth in savings. Nothing, indeed &C
counts for that growth save the exercise Of
the virtue of thrift itself. Stimulated by
necessity and inspired by patriotism, the
American people, hitherto the most extrava-
CANT in the world, began to save; and as re-
suit they are approximately two billion dol
lars better off in savings bank deposits, after
having bought all their billions of Govern
ment securities. Give thrift start, howso-
ever modest, and it will reveal astounding
resources in a nation and in an individual.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-08
THE RAILROADS
BY DR.. Frank Crane

BY DR.. Frank Crane
Ihere is no subject of more Importance
awaiting the decision of congress than the
disposal of the Railroads.
The Hallway business is the biggest busi
ness in the country. 1t is part of every
mans business. 1t is essentially nuh1ic nv
nature. For civilization is mainly a matter
of transportation
Any suggestion looking toward satisfac-
tory solution of the problem is welcome.
Upon the proper operation of the Rail-
roads," says Senator Albert B. Cummins.
oepenos not alone the comfort and conven-
1ence of the people, but their whole industrial,
and commercial existence"
Just now the problem before congress- is
what to do with the enormous railway pron-
ertles which the Government took over DIR
ing the war. MI
One section of opinion insists on Govern
ment Ownership. Another on handing hack
the railways to their original owners
Neither makes out clear case Eventual
~ IL must come to- some form of Government
ownership, for the simple reason that the
business is too big, too public and too pow
erIul TO De trusted to any group not directly
responsible to the whole people. But we are
not ready for that yet, because we still cling
TO the idea that Government must be run by
Political Parties. Partisanship which still
DOMINATES statesmen, is no more nor less than
organized graft. So long as lawmakers are
elected by parties we cannot afford to turn
the railroads over to them.
On the other hand, it would be a mistake
TO give the railroads back to the original
groups that controlled them. Some of these
groups have been honest and competent. But
many OF them have been dishonest reckless.
Selfish and incompetent
The Investors Protective Association adj
Vocates third plan, which is:
"A National System of railroads. divorced
from Wall street, operated by regions pri-
vately owned and managed Jointly by Invest
ors, Shippers, Employees, Farmers and the
Public.
This Association proposes that a company
be formed, managed by directors chosen from
the above Glasses. This company shall pur-
chase a controlling share of the railway
stocks. 1t shall then operate the roads, Civ
ing to stockholders about five or six per cent
and devoting the balance of the profits to i'm
proving the property. At least, this is the
gist of it's proposal.
This plan would seem to avoid most of the
evils of the other schemes. The roads would
be considered as the property of the whole
country, and their improvement and efficiency
would be the chief end of the management.
The interests of the workers would be safe
guarded, also the welfare of the shippers.
The investors would be made secure. And
the whole matter, while operated for the
Common Good would be far enough removed
from direct Government Ownership to secure
immunity from the Gray Wolves of Partisan
ship.
Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-08
DOG DAYS
(The Sy1vania Telephone.}


These are the dog days, which are supposed
to begin when Sirius, the Dog star, rises and
sets with the sun. Five thousand years before
the Christian era, the Egyptian peasant, as he
watched each year for the happening of the
great miracle, the rising of the Nile, noticed that
its gracious waters began to trickle over his
parched land just at the Hme that certain
glorious star appeared above the horizon. And
so inevitably did the rising of the Nile follow
upon the rising of the star that, to the peasant
the stars faithfulness could only be compared
to the faithfulneSS of his dog, and thus Sirius
came to be called the Dog Star. 1t is time
of the year when we should all be careful and
conservative in what we say and do, and also
in what we eat. The poison oak creeps by the
sluggish stream and the rattleSnake is blind
1t IS time to be careful and 60 slow. Let
us not become unduly excited about the League
If Nations or allow ourselves to get into differ
enceS over politics. There is time enough yet
for that, when the forty days are. over and
nature begins to put her crimson touch upon
the leaves. Just now let us try. to keep cool
and go slow. Avoid heavy eating and undue
excitation of the mind, for this is the time
when the germs the thickest and man most
easily runs amHck.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-08
QUIPS AND ,QUIDDITIES

eyes, grandma" said the fair young thing,
$! am to be married during the bright and
gladstone spring"
"But, my DEAR" said the old lady, earnestly,
you are very young. Do you feel that you
are fitted for married life1' 4
, 81 am being fitted now, grandma" explained
the prospective bride, Sweetly Seventeen
gowns and three costumesI"
MiJkboy-"A penny bun and glass of wa
ter please"
Shopkeeper (executing the order)-"And
pray what do you want the water for on
cold morning like thiS?"
Milkboy Complying the water into his can
OF milk)-"That'S to pay for the bunl"
The "boyS" were coming home and Sloshton
was determined to give them a great reception.
Everybody hung out decorations; there was a
trlumphal arch and everything.
The band played, the people cheered and the
tepariated soldiers roared with n1irth
WHATS the matter2" asked the vicar of the
khaki hero, who wept with JOY
The man pointed to the local police station
IN which was diSpayed a banner reading:
welcome Back Again"
THE cost of the war has been frightfuI, and
1t is gong to be many years before the burden
OF the struggle is lifted from our shoulders"
remarked Secretary of State Lansing Indeed,
those who imagine that as soon as peace is
finally concluded everything will be as it wasI
before the war are due for a sad awakening
This country is really in the position of little
Johnny, who was found by his mother bowling
Justify. why, Johnny she cried, you don't
generally keep on crying after your father has
given you spanking 4 know walled Johnny,
but ne says Eve got to sit down and think it
over, an, before Ive always stood up and for
got it,"
Not so very long ago Attorney Lou Guern-
sey was quite i'll. A doctor was summoned,
but directly he arrived and got one look at
his patient, he said, Sorry, but you'll have
to call another DOCTOR
"Am I as sick as all that?" gasped Guern-
sey.
mo, but you're the lawyer that cross
examined me when I was called to give ex-
pert testimony in a certain case Now nv
conscience won't permit me to kill you, but
I'm darned if care to cure you. Good day.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-08
What Makes Land Values.

~HE increase in farm land values in
Iowa and other Western States has
- been so extraordinary of late that on
lockers are curious for an explanation. A
Lincoln township farm, for example, that was
sold by it's owner a year ago for two hundred
and fifty dollars an acre and repurchased by
him last autumn for two hundred and seventy
dollars an acre, has been sold by him again
for four hundred and twenty-five dollars an
acre, or a total of sixty-eight thousand dol
lars.
1t seems hardly conceivable that farm land
however productive and highly improved it
may be, could advance one hundred and
seventy-fve dollars an acre in real value in
the course of a single twelvemonth. That
speculation of not altogether wholesome
character is at work in some of these aston
ishing transactions is indicated in the COM
ment of leading Des Moines banker, who is
quoted in this wise: 81 think I am safe in
saying that Iowa bankers generally and hence
forth will adopt policy of discouraging the
purchase by their patrons of Iowa land at
anything above three hundred dollars an
acre." Prevailing prices, he added, may not
represent imitation, but at the same time it is
doubtful that even in these times of high
costs of food, land generally can produce
enough TO warrant investments at such fig
ures. This is the kind of conservatism that
makes Iowa safe.
It is obvious, however, that if there were
not a substantial foundation of real values,
nothing approximate to such prices could
have been promoted. After the largest allow
ance has been made for speculative elements,
the fact remains that farm land values in that
region have demonstrated their stability and
have richly rewarded those purchasing them.
Why is it, then, that whilst for the country as
whole pillow lands average about seventy
four dollars an acre, in Iowa they average
one hundred and sixty-nine and in Illinois one
hundred and forty-four? Divers conditions,
of course, enter into this remarkable result,
which is paralleled in other States. But the
determining or controlling factor cannot be
" soil fertility, because there are millions of
acres in the South which are superior in this
respect Nor can it be simply the present
high prices of agricultural products, because
lands in those States were increasing steadily
and swiftly in value before present prices
were dreamed Of Evidently there are other
factors than those of nature and of abnormal
economic conditions. What are they?
Well, when we look into the public school
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-08
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-08

The German white book" issude, accord
ing to it's publishers, because of the insistent
demand of the German people to know the
"whole truth" revails the inside story of
Germany's appeal for peace and an armistice.
1t shows that Ludendorff and Hindenburg,
fearing the line would be broken, forced Ber-
lin make overtures.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-08
HeLand Thar Georgia Leads.

~ EORGIA'S lead of the South in Federal
= income tax returns bears striking
witness to the States growth and
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-08

The Republican group of mild reservists"
on the question of the league, have won new
recruits in Senators Nelson, Capper and Wat
son, who have sided with the views Of the
"reservists." This group hopes to gain five
or six more recruits at their next conference,
at which time the text of their reservations
will be adopted.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-17
LIGHT voTE IN BUCKS
Jonss p. Kern Leads Democrats for
County commlssloner

Doyiestown. Pa. Sept l7.--lncom
plete returns from the voting districts
Of Bucks county at q late hour last night
indicate a very light vote, The only
contest is for the Democratic nomina
tion for county commissioner. There
are sin candidates A heavy Democratic
vote was cast in all sections Of the county
The Democratic aspirants for com
missionership ere Joseph Gulden. OF
Bedminstcf: Oscar +. Helms. OF
Riegelsville: Jonas +. Kern Of Doyles-
town Cornelius W. Leidy, Of Hilltown ;
William \. Lewis. of Quakertown. and
Aaron n. Weisel, of Milford Returns
from Doylestown and vicinity show
big ma jority for Kern. The following
slated Republican candidates we're sue =
cessful al the primaries from returns
received late last night Sheriff
Harvey u. Hunsbrrger. Plumstcad re
cordcr Of deeds. Elwood w. Minister,
Bristol: county treasurer. A. Harry
Clayton clerk of Orphans Court. Is:
Harrison Thatcher, Richland; clerk OF
Quarter Sessions. Howard r. Hetrick.
Telford county commissioners, James
II. Cooper. Upper Wakefield and Allen
XPety. Hiltown coroner, Howard i.
White. Doylestown; director Of the
poor. J Howard Paxson. Solebnry. and
Aaron Tomlinson. Langhorne; county
auditor. Isaach Erathen. Tinicum, and
Charles +. PuEh, Newtown.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-17
Renoninated for Former Post by
Majority OF 347

Bradford. Pa. Sept II Spencer
NJ pnGcli"r. former mayor NJ tue
city. j. the Republican nomine" for
MAYOR. defeating II II North By ma
IOrity of 3+7 The DemnrratIc "snd.
date IS Frank PiSherwo"d. The returns
sriu iuromplote from M"H"an county
show:
Republican Count! 'r"aSurer. ku
gene F McCsnn; sheriff. ! F.. Robin
son. prothonotsry. B F. Starsky ;
recorder oF dcpds A r Anderson
clerk Of quarter sessions. James a
IIndSey coroner. : p Heaffner
county commissioners. \ j. Bond and
q :. Gshagnu auditors. Abbey and
Garlick
Democratic County treasurer VI
! Burns: sheriff. 4 +. bvistt. pr"
monetary. Howard Jeutter: recorder +"
deeds, A. R Anderson coroner. DR.. j.
II Robinson county ""mni ssloners.
Thomas Flaherty and George l..
Logan: county auditor. BurdiCk n
Cartwpll
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-17
LANCASTER

Lancaster. Pa. Sept. Il \ com -
plete victory for the Grirst Repubucs n
organization ticket was registered AZ
the primary election here samuel ".
Diller and John r Shirk. incumbents
of the county commissioner Office won
two 10 one over e. A r. IOok and
L. F. McAllister. Independent candi
dates for the nomination on the Rppuh.
hcsn ticket
In the city. Mayor II l.. Trout or
ganization candidate. won by more thar
four to one. victory over John r
Smith. Independent candidate for the
Republican mayoraIty candidacy. The
vote, with one precinct missing being
Trout. 1851 Smith SdI