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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28
A SONNET TO SPRING

There is a mystic something in the air
faint lerfume upon the morning breeze,
ftful stir amongst the gaunt-limbed
trees,
A magic whispering now here, now
there
That comes from roundabout--we know
not where;
And seems to hint of flowers, birds and
bees.
Of coral isles and iriGescent seas
Where days are long and skies are always
fair
When Winter turns his visage toward the
Pole,
When chilling winds and gloomy skies depart,
There comes a mystic something to each
soul
That tran2cends far the bounds Of earth and
The echo sweet of anthems grand that roll
Increasingly from Natures beating heart.
JOHN WINGFIELD GATEWOOD.
AtJ0nta Ga ~
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28
The Soldier and the Soil.

Massachusetts has added her good ex-
ample to that of the thirty-tWo States that
are planning to assist returning soldiers to
establish themselves as independent owners
of farms. When a man has fought for
his country in foreign land runs the
preamble to a Legislative measure, which
the Bay State is considering, to provide
him on his return with a slice of home land,
is language of gratitude which he can un-
derstand." 1t is proposed accordingly that
the State, in cooperation with the National
Government, shall provide means whereby
soldiers who are minded to settle on the
soil can do so on convenient and profitable
terms. The Boston Globe pertinently COM
ments that "to bring together the farm and
the soldier is one of the keystones of our
reconstruction period" Further:
"The army and navy abound in men
who have grown to like outdoor life
and who hate the thought of returning
to the clerks store the factory work
bench. Along with these are numbers
who though drafted from farms, are
reluctant to return to the subservient
positions they formerly held"
To these and to many thousands who have
been city-dwellers, the plans now projected
in Massachusetts and other fOrWard-thinking
Commonwealth should appeal strongly once
it is made plain that genuine opportunities,
worth any mans while, are to be offered.
Six States have taken definite steps in this
constructive and patriotic work-Alabama,
Florida, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Wyom-
ing. Montana is preparing to put fifty
thousand dollars into the enterprise, Idaho
one hundred thousand, and Wyoming two
hundred thousand. Oregon is to vote on a
proposed bond issue of three million dollars
for the purpose. Consider the fact that
twenty-seven other States are giving the
matter earnest consideration, and it's impor-
lance as nationwide movement is obvious.
The plan of the Federal Government, with
which it is expected the States will cooper
ate, involves the reclamation of wet and arid
lands; the allotment of them to discharged
soldiers, together with necessary funds for
development; and the payment of the soldier
for his work during the reclamation period
with the understanding that he will repay
the Government when the farms are brought
up to producing status" Though the bill
for this purpose failed of passage 1T the last
session of Congress, because of the Repub-
lican Senator'S notorious filibuster, it is con-
sidered foregone that the measure will be
speedily enacted when the new Congress
convenes.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

Heinrich Won Eckhardt, former German
minister to Mexico, his wife and three chill
dren and Johannes Grunow, counselor of the
German legation at Mexico City, and former
ly consul at st. Paul, Mimi, sailed from New
York on Wednesday on the Holland-Ameri-
can line steamer Nieuw Amsterdam under a
safe conduct granted by the American and al
lied governments. The party will go to Ger
many from Rotterdam.
Announcement was made this week at
Memphis. Tenn, that April 10 had been fixed
as the date for a conference here of cotton
planters, banker and representatives Of south
ern business interests with state and federal
officials to consider the formation OF cotton
exporting corporation along lines recently
suggested by Governor w. P. Harding, Of the
federal reserve board.
Thousands of Jews were slaughtered in a
pogrom conducted in Buenos Aires jan
uary 8, according to a statement issued in
New York this week by the Zionist organiza-
ton of America, quoting a report it had re-
ceived from the Argentine capital.
The official reports of the riots in Egypt
show that 1000 houses in villages were sack
ed. On March IA several British soldiers
were murdered and mob sacked and burn
ed the stations at Ell Rekkah and Ell Wasta.
On March Is the express from Cairo was pill
LACED and several trains were sacked. An
employe of the state railway was murdered.
The Paris correspondent of The Pail Mall
Gazette, of London, says on high authority
that Gin order to avoid perils which would
inevitably arise if preliminary peace terms
are not drafted until such time as the various
commissions shall have finished their labors
and have presented their respective reports
the representatives of great powers have
drawn up certain proposals which seem am
pie to constitute the basis of the first treaty,
or one analogous to that sgned at Versailles
in 1871" The correspondent adds that these
proposals are under the consideration of the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28
(The Boston Transcript

(In6 Boston transcript
The Vermont Press Association does well
to place a memorial tablet on the old building
at East PouItney where a ragged fourteen
year-oId boy, in the year 1925, began pain
full apprenticeship a printer, and in which
he obtained a working knowledge OF the
most dynamic of all the arts. The ragged boy
was Horace Greeley, and the building was the
office of the Northern Spectators country
weekly newspaper In those days it was GUS
tOmary to bestOW imposing names on the most
insignificant sheets. The Northern Spectator
was published in a village of about 400 peO-
pie In a village no larger, in the same state,
a paper called the National Opinion was
proudly published; while from the next viii
lage, still smaller in population, the Aurora
of the Valley shed its radiance over the sur
rounding farms and workshops.
These old New England village newspapers,
Just the same, nourished a race OF Journalistic
giants 1t was from little Connecticut office,
that of the Connecticut Mirror, that a keen
Yankee, named George D. Prentice, went
forth to prepare the way for that great light
Of Southern journalism, Henry WatterSOn
The dingy little printing shops OF Vermont
trained in the service of the types many men
who afterward became eminent in metrOpOH-
tan and western journalism But the case OF
Greeley was an epic in itself. No more un-
cOuth and miserable little wretch ever sought
employment. But ne frightened up the North
ern Spectator with his youthful writings,
which were then, as ever after, his very own,
and not mere imitation AddiSOnianisms. From
the shop in East POultneY he went forth to
an ilustriOuS career; and whether it liked
him or not, the country had to listen to him.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

The Albany Herald quotes with fine effec
the subjoined paragraph of letter to Sena
States Army who fought at Chateau Thierry
and Verdun:
''The American soldier fought with no
selfish or sordid aim. He believed that
something nightly worth while would
follow his sacrifice. He believed an or
ganization would follow which would
make peace more secure. He knew lit
tie of the details of League of Nations;
but from his everyday life he could see
the necessity of organization He now
believes that it is the business of con-
structive statesman to say what that Or
ganization should be, and not merely to
oppose the one suggested. We have
been too busy on the other side to know
what has been going on politically
at home. Possibly an appeal for
party support was made where it
should not have been made. Pos
sibly, the Senate was not given
full consideration. We do not know.
But we do know that American
soldiers have been dying for certain
principles, and that these principles are
too great to be discredited for the pur-
pose of discrediting the man who hap
pens to uphold them; too great to be dis
credited for the purposes of discredit-
ing any party"
Politicians who suppose that the Ameri
can soldier recks nothing of the principles
for which he offered his all are as ignoran
of the army as they are of the people of the
United States. 1t was no horde of mere ad
venturers who followed our flag across the
sea and gathered loyalty about 1t in the
camps on this side 1t was a force Of think
ing citizens who lay store by the truths O.
that flag and who wish those truths made
secure. The Captains letter tt
Senator Borah is meat which the Senate OBJ
will do we'll to chew and digest
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28
Food, the BIZ lwmk.

Those are uncommonly significant figures
which the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce gives out regarding our exports
of food staples. In breadstuffs alone the in
crease for the first eight months Of the cur
rent fiscal year is fifty per cent as compared
with the preceding tWelve-month, the total
value of outgoing shipments thus far being
approximately five hundred and seventy
eight million dollars. In meat and dairy
products, the increase is from two hundred
and seventy-four million in the 1917-1918
period to six hundred and twenty-nine million
this year.
The trend thus revealed may be expected
to continue and grow in the seasons ahead.
For long time to come, perhaps for years,
war-broken Europe will depend largely upon
the United States for food we'll as for re-
construction material and equipment, and for
financial aid That the United States is
bound to supply these necessaries, both as a
matter of expediency and of humaneness,
need not be argued to any Observant and re-
fecting mind; the duties and experiences of
the situation are indeed self-evident.
In providing the vast food exports, with
out which Europe will certainly sink into the
nav of Bolshevism, States like Georgia have
a highly responsible part to perform. Peace,
democracy, civilization itself, are involved in
the earnestness with which the food farmer
does his duty. The pro1tableness of this
branch of agriculture in these times is too
apparent to need urging; but let us remem-
Der, too, that the worlds most precious in
terests are served by him who helps to feed
the famine-shadowed millions.
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

The Journals Service Flas

= ne JOuTlIdT CEIVICE IIdg
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 count in France.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS

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In ordering paper changed be mention old
well your address. If a rosie, please give
the route number.
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Remittances should be by postal order
tered mail
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THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Atlanta, Ga.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

These father-and-son banquests are great
improvement on the conferences the two used
to have in the Woodshed.-St. Joseph Gazette
Trouble will start when the returned hero
suggests giving the first girl baby certain
French name.--Greenville Piedmont
AS the time for presenting the allies bill
for reparation draws nearer, Germany shows
increasing signs of insanity. Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Hun was licked because there were too
many nations against him. He may get off
light now for the same reason.-Greenville
Piedmont.
The kaiser is said to be broke Even if
that is SO, he should cheer up in the knOwl-
edge that so are lot of better men.-New-
ark News.
The way Chicago renominated Mayor
Thompson makes it look as if it were proud
of being the sixth German city in the world
Indianapolis News.
This theory that removal of the kaiser
changed the criminal nature of the Hun
seems to indicate that Bill is some sort of
denoid.-Greenville Piedmont.
The piece Mr.. Wilson assigned to Miss Co.
lumbia on the Peace Conference program
was keep the Home Fires Burning" but
she is developing an annoying habit of hum
ming out loud, "Where Is My Wandering
Boy Tonight?'' North Ameri-
can.
One cause of the bone-dry victory was
the bonehead ppostion.--BrOoklyn Eagle.
Blood and iron having failed, they will try
3oft-soap and Whine.--Greenvile Piedmont,
All general deficiency bills in future should
contain. salaries of senator's Wall Street
Journal.
idea is that Wilson is a Democrat.-Green-
vile Piedmont.
The farmers who work only from Sun-up
to dark shouldn't care hoot what the clock
The ex-kaiser is still at large; unWept, I'M
honored, and unhung.-BrOOklyn Eagle.
John Barleycorn has lost his place in the
sun, but he has his moonshine still.-Green-
Vile Piedmont.
In place of rail-splitters in American poll
tics we now have hairsplitters-Long Island
City Star.
Foch wept when he signed the armistice
tenson.-Greenville Piedmont.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

The way Chicago renominated Mayor
Thompson makes it look as if it were prouC
of being the sixth German city in the world
Indianapolis News.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

The kaiser is said to be broke Even i
that is so, he should cheer up in the knowl
edge that SO are a lot of better men.-New
ark News
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

We have survived too many war crises tt
be deeply disturbed by some incidental hitc!
in the peace negotiations.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

The Hun was licked because there were too
many nations against him. He may get Off
light now for the same reason.-Greenvile
Piedmont
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

This theory that removal of the kaiser
changed the criminal nature of the Hun
seems to indicate that Bill is some sort of
denoid.-GreenviIle Piedmont
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

Europe may not understand the Monroe
doctrine, but she does appreciate the Wilson
doctrine
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

AS the time for presenting the allies bill
for reparation draws nearer, Germany shows
increasing signs of insanity Brooklyn
Eagle.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

These father-and-son banquests are a great
improvement on the conferences the two used
to have in the woodshed.-St Joseph Gazette.
Trouble will start when the returned hero
suggests giving the first girl baby certain
French name--GreenviIle Piedmont
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

The Albany Herald quotes with fine effect
the subjoined paragraph of a letter to Sena-
tor Borah from Captain in the United
States Army who fought at Chateau Thierry
and Verdun:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

It is evident that Governor Allen, of
Kansas, has been sorely misinformed con-
corning the condition and the motives of
Southern cotton growers. Said the Governor,
in declining an invitation to join representa-
tive public men at a conference in South
Carolina to consider the curtailment of this
years cotton acreage:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-28

The piece Mr.. Wilson assigned to Miss Co
lumbia on the Peace Conference program
was keep the Home Fires Burning" but
she is developing annoying habit of hum
ming out loud, "Where Is My Wandering
Boy, Observation-Disclosures North Ameri-
can.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-29

A Paramount screen version OF
Charles Klein's famous stage play.
How an out Of date department
store may be transformed by the
common sense and intelligence of a
girl into a prosperous enterprise, is
told in Maggie Pepper" the new
Paramount picture in which beauti-
fnl Ethel Clayton will be seen at the
Sugg tonight There has probably
been no play of recent years in
which the element of heart interest
has been so compelling as in this ro-
nance of a department store en-
ploye, for Maggie Pepper, heal Of
the silk department for fifteen years
has had nothing but the common
places Of business in her thoughts
until suddenly she becomes OBJ
sessed with the desire to enter So
ciety. This she does with complete
success and wins the admiration OF
a man who turns out to be the head
of the firm, recently returned from
long sojourn in Europe. lie makes
Maggie manager of the business, but
the actual spectre stalks about, and
to save the situation she resigns
Through many trying situations Mag
gie's love remains steadfast and III
timately triumphs.
The part of Maggie Pepper offers
an ideal character for Miss Clayton,
who is given a supporting cast Of
unusual excellence. The players in
clude such vel known artists as FL
lott Bexter Raymond Hatton, TuJly
Marshall, Billy Elmer and Winifred
Greenwood, and others scarcely less
prominent in film circles
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-29
INTERNAL REVENUE.
PENALTY MAY HOLD
UP TO NEXT MONTH

Oklahoma City, March 29.-Huber
J l.. Bolen, collector of internal rev
enue, issued the following statemen
today: toA
"In view of the delay in the fina
passage by congress OF, the ney
revenue bill and the short period al
lowed for filing returns Hereunder
| am recommending to the bureau Of
internal revenue that the specific
penalty imposed by the act not be
asserted until after May l.
The specific penalty to which Mr.
Boien refers is imposed by section
253 of the new law:
"That any individual, corporation,
or partnership required under this
title to pay or collect any tax, to
make a return or to supply informa-
tion, who fails to pay or collect such
tax, to make such return, or 20 sup
ply such information at the time or
times required under this title, shall
be liable to penalty Of not more
than $1,000"
Individual and corporation income
tax returns for the calendar year
1918 were due, together with at
least IA of this tax not later than
March IS, 1919, but Mr.. Bolen is
confident that his recommendation
will receive favorable consideration
and he is urging all those liable
for a return for 1913. who have not
filed same, to do 80 before May J,
1919
every income tax return filed
after March is must however be ac-
companied by an affidavit setting
forth the cause of the delay" says
Collector Bolen, "and if the bureau
considers. that the cause giyen is a
reasonable cause the tax payers
will be relieved of the 25 per cent
tax penalty (Whlcn is penalty lm'
posed by the law in addition to the
specific penalty providing the re
turn is voluntarily filed by the tax
payer.
Collector Bolen is sending d few Ct
his income tax deputies back to the
county seat towns to assist the in
dividuals and corporations in pre-
pairing completed returns and he is
urging especially that those who
have not heretofore filed either a
complete or tentative return do so
at once, securing the proper blanks
an daffidavit from this office or
from the deputy when he visits your
country.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-29

stitutes the first call in the progress
sive program to continue for the next
three years, during which time $12
100000 is to be contributed for home
missions, foreign missions, christian
education and ministerial relief, Sab.
bath school extension and Bible
cause.
From no part of the church is this
awakening more evident than from
churches in home mission territory
in the southwest where in some in
stances, subscriptions made during
the present month show an increase
from 100 to 500 per cent in pledges
for benevolent causes over what was
the past year In this
church there are 694 home mission
aries, including their wives, who la
Dor unselfishly on the frontier in the
among the negroes and
other dependent and exceptional
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-29

Express Want Ads bring results.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-29
KEY WEST WASHINGTON
BY AIR IN is HOURS
BY United Press.

: BY United Press.
Key West, Fla, March 29.-Flight
in an H-S-2 seaplane from Key West
to Washington is planned by Lieut..
II. j. Rowen, commander of the H
boat division of the Key West naval
air station.
about fifteen hours OF flying time
will be cnosumed," said Lieut. Row
en- 1--WE will attempt to make the
entire trip without stopping. If we
are successful, we shall try to make
a transatlantic flight this spring"
Lieutenant Rowen, and his a3-
sistant, Lieutenant H. II. Cautrell,
were in the air eleven and a half
hours recently in a flight from Key
West to St Augustine and return,
without having to replenish their
fuel supply They were compelled to
land once, however. on account of ig-
milton trouble. This trip broke the
American record of nine and a half
hours in the air without refueling.
Lieutenant Rowen is now design
ing a new type of gasoline tank
which will carry $50 gallons of gas
instead of the usual $50 gallons. He
is also experimenting with smaller
Jets, which he claims will reduce the
consumption of gas from thirty gal
Ions to twenty-five gallons per hour
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-29

Continuous show-1:ao to fo;ao
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-29

WIND UP DRIVE
TO HELP CHURCH

Charlotte, N, c., March 29.-The to
tai membership of the Southern
Presbyterian church is about 375,-
900. The call of the general assem-
bly's committee on stewardship in
the intensive drive throughout the
church during the present month is
for $3,50O,000, to be paid within the
next twelve months for the benevo-
lent causes of the church, is call
for practically ten dollars from each
member of the church, or the total
sum averages this amount from each
member
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-29
PATHE NEWS

Showing thousands of captured
German helmets distributed to Vic
tory loan workers as prizes. Also
the first pictures showing Sparti-
cides and Ebert trops operating ma
chine guns an darmored cars in the
streets of Berlin. Many other inter-
esting current events.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-29
500 Reward. SfOO

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
seen able to cure in all it's stages and
that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur
faces of the System thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, giving the
patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith in the curative power Of Halls
Catarrh Medicine that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that 1t fails
to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address f. ]. CHENEY & CO, Toledo
Ohio. Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-29

ing baseball game to be played IN
Chickasha this year, when a team
representing the Chickasha Business
college defeated the Chickasha high
school nine, by score Of II to l3,
yesterday afternoon.
The batteries were; For Business
college, Gerce and Woodruff. For
Chickasha high school, Steinberger
and Adams.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-29

classes, the salaries Of many Of these
being far below what is recognized
as even the living wage" and it is
striking testimony to their effec-
tive work that the pledges of church.
es in home mission territory show
such marked increase over the con
tributions of last year