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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06
A PROGRAMME OF SELF
EDUCATION
By DR.. Frank Crane

There is hardly a young man or young
woman who reads these lines who canno1
give himself or herself good general edue1-
ton. All that is needed is determined WILL
unflagging courage, and self-discipllne
Every one of them wastes time enough in
four years to secure advantages equIValent
to college course.
Here is a program. Follow it, Or rs much
of it as you can. Put in an hour or two
every day at it. And it will do you more
good than a million dollars. Go to the library.
Get books of primary instruction and study:
1. Some language, as Spanish or French.
e. History of English Literature.
8. History of the United States. Some
good book on the Constitution and Govern
ment, History of Politics.
L. Textbook on Economics. (Read Prog
ress and Poverty
S. Ancient History History of Greece.
OF Rome OF Europe in the Middle Ages;
History of England.
6. Composition Textbook on Grammar
and English Construction. Practice writing
daily.
T. The Bible, together with History of the
Jews and the Life of Jesus.
8. Selections of Classic Literature, espe-
cially Greek and Roman. Selections from the
French, German and English Classics. Use
TRANSACTIONS. Take these along during your
VdCdLlOuS.
g. History of Art. Frequent the Museums.
History of Music. Hear as much good music
as possible. History of Architecture.
10. Read textbooks on Botany, Physics,
Zoology, Entomology, Chemistry, Geology.
Ask your librarian, or High School princi-
pal, or Y. M. G. A. educational director, etc.,
for more detailed information.
Don't be discouraged that this list seems
formidable. Attack in detail. Always have
your book with you. Pucsue your studies as
fad, fancy. Get all the fun you can out
of it.
Get the habit. 1t is just as easy to get as
the magazine or novel or movie habit
Be Intellectually curious. Seek to know
everything. Keep your mind open, alert.
And it will mean money in your pocket
power in your personality, culture, the COM
partnership of the best, freedom from cults
and mob manias, and altogether richer aud
fuller life.
Copyright 1920, by Fran zCrane.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06
THE INSANITY PROBLEM
By H. AddinptOn Bruce

VHTRITING in the North American Review
w more than ten years ago. called at
tention to the rising tide of mental and
nervous diseases in the United States. AS
pitfalls for the insane had grown from barely
10000 in 1880 to more than 100000.
The tide continues to rise. There are now
at least 100000 inmates in state hospitals, with
probably as many mentally diseased persons be-
ing cared for in private institutions or in their
homes.
Meantime, as means of helping to check
the increase in insanity as we'll as to insure
humane treatment of the insane, the national
committee of mental hygiene was organized,
thanks chiefly to the enlightened zeal OF Mr..
Clifford W. Beers. Out of this numerous state
societies and committees have developed, to-
gether with similar bodies in Canada.
And undoubtedly many men and women have
been saved from insanity through the work OF
the mental hygiene associations. Which, how
ever, only goes to emphasize that something
more is necessary if the problem raised by in
sanity is ever to be satisfactorily solved
That something, it is safe to say, is syste--
matte study of the causes of insanity, followed
by remedial action to remove those causes, SO
far as their removal is possible.
Of course, good deal is already known as
to causes. If this were not so, the actlvltleS
of the mental hygiene, societies could not have
had the good results they have mad.
But that not enough is known is evident
from the continuing increase in hospital popu-
lation And the lamentabe fact must be added
that systematic study of the causes of insanity
is almost non-existent in the United States even
today.
The various states make large appropria-
lions for the care of the insane. Necessity and
a growing humanitarian sense have driven them
to this. None provides, as all should, tor re-
search that will tend to lessen the occurrence
of insanity.
In New York more than $S,ooo,ooo year
is appropriated for the custody of the $4,000
insane in that state beggarly $4,000 year
is annually provided for the Psychiatrc institute
where much work besides research mas TO be
done. . .
Yet is has been estimated (by Horatio M.
Pollock) that 100000 year might we'll be de-
voted by the state to the study of single type
of acknowledgements precox-which more than
any other helps to crowd New YorkS hospitals
for the insane.
In Illinois, according to DR.. Bayard Holmes,
not cent of state funds can be spent Tor re-
search. "despite double-headed psychopathlc
institute" Massachusetts,, state noteworthy
for its care of the insane, only has "a few
workers who steal time from service tor broken
investigation"
Everywhere the story seems to be the same
Everywhere there is lack of provision TOR po-
tent. concentrated, and unburdened research"
And everywhere the story will probably con-
tinue to be the same until the public awakes
to the importance of squirting the authorities
to action which should have been taken long
since ,,.o \
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06
4 Better Wheat PROSPECT

THE outlook for the staple grain crops,
which earlier in the year was anything
but cheering, has grown distinctly
brighter. winter wheat" runs recent re-
port, promises to be above five hundred
million bushels, and spring wheat In Mon
tana, the Dakotas and Minnesota is doing
we'll" The acreage curtaiment of wheat,
amounting to some fifteen or twenty per
cent, appears to have been offset in large
measure by an extension of corn, (which has
a good stand, plenty of moisture at this time,
and is we'll advanced" 1t is thus expected
that the net harvest result if no disaster be-
falls, will be plenteous, giving us about as
much grain, the carry-over included as we
last year.
BY no means does this imply, however,
that the need for thorough-going conserva-
ton is past. Relieved though we are Of the
distressful leanness threatened some months
ago, general conditions Of food output and
supply are still far from normal. Europes
harvests this year promise to be larger than
at any time since 1915; but at that, they will
lack a vast deal Of being adequate. In the
United States, the failure Of production to
keep pace with growth of population ten
dency marked for the last two decades
contends. While rejoicing, therefore, in the
frightened prospect of the coming crops, we
are admonished to remember that economy
is still needful, and, above all, that only q
continued as we'll as liberal increase in food
production will reach the root of the prob
lem.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06
An LID. of the Soil

~ Fan SWIFT reports a savant of Brob-
dingnag as holding that whoever
could make two ears of corn, to grow
upon the spot of ground where only one grew
before would deserve better of mankind, and
do more essential service to his country,
than the whole race of politicians put to-
gether''
1t is in the spirit of this generally acknowl-
edged but too sparse1y practiced wisdom,
that Queens University at Kingston, Ontario.
has conferred the honorary degree of LID.
upon Seager Wheeler Mr.. Wheeler's notable
achievement is not in letters art, not in
science as that term is usually taken, and
certainly not in politics He is farmer,
"small' farmer, as we would say, owning
some one hundred and fifty acres and lead
ing a delectably simple life. But within his
little realm he has thought and wrought SO
effectively that all the great Northwest is
his beneficiary. He has brought the produc-
tion of wheat up to eighty-tWo bushels an
acre and "has developed it's varieties to such
an extent that the Canadian farmers have
made millions of dollars on his efforts and
researches" ,.'t
In honoring such service Queens Univer-
sity honors herself, and sets goodly example.
Georgia, it is pleasing to observe, has been
liberal of late years in recognition of agrl-
cultural talent. Banks and business houses
and railway companies have provided SUBJ
stantial prizes for special attainments by the
boys and girls of the corn, pig and canning
clubs One Of the excellent units of the state
University, moreover, is the College of Agri-
culture, whose degrees are coveted distinc-
tions and whose worth to the Commonwealth
is beyond measure. Still, much remains to be
done in giving the creative tiller of the soil
his rightfu1 need. Work like his and like the
scientists shout dbe ranked, along with the
artists, in the forefront of appreciation. The
producer, the explorer, the inspirer-are not
these the flower and happiest fruitage of our
humanity?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06

burdens, or Gods own gifts; max
ing a home is Womans noDIest
sphere or domestic slavery just IA
the individual woman thinks 1t IS.
And similarly, making her own NV
ing is career or a curse according
to woman's point of view.
The only difference between pleas
ure and work is our mental attltN1-S
towards them. Golf is sport because
you have to pay out money for the
privilege of playing it. Hoeing pot
toes is work because you have to
hire somebody to do it for you.
A woman is having regular pic
mic when she spends time and money
turning over lovely goods in a SHOP,
or trying on imported frocks ana
hats to see how she looks in them:
But she regards herself as poor
unfortunate when she is hired to
handle pretty things in a store, or
serve as cloak Or hat model.
In reality there is no other sucn
fun as work. It's the big game that
calls into play every faculty that one
possesses that keeps one strung up
to concert pitch all the time because
it's stakes are real. You are not
playing for counters. All you have
and hope for is staked on the out
come Of your effrts.
earning their own living. They are
the bright-eyed, wide-awake, jolly
business women who have an inter-
| est that never pals in their job.
There is always something new fr
| them to find out about the thing they
are doing; there is always something
| exciting happening in the way of
some new trade; they are always
| looking ahead, building for the fu-
| ture; they are always striving to-
| wards some new goal.
The work may be hard. They never
| notice it, so keen are they on re-
suits. They. do the same. things day
| new faces to even the most familiar
act The hours are long! They are
| all too short for what they wish to
accomplish They are classed as
working women. They glory in 1t,
| for it means that they are not dolls
or parasites but capable human be-
| ings able to stand on their own feet;
They look with pity on the pooG
| lackadaisical creature who leans list
| lessly against her counter, or sheds
tears all over her typewriter, and
laments because she has no man to
| support her and has to earn her own
bread and butter. Still more do they
! pity the woman who finds no inter,
| est in. her work, who gets no thrill
out of the sacred joy of independ-
ence, and knowing that she has real
| ly earned the contents of her pay
| envelope, and is of some use in the
world, and so justified in living.
AS a woman thinks, so is she
Happy or unhappy, lucky or unlucky
or boor, just>as she sees him. Her
| work is worth while or not, as she
visualizes it. What a pity every
woman can't put the good thought
on herself and see her lot through
! rosy glasses!
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.

| ing to prevent war, would ask more tnan
this; and surely no predetermined friend
of the League idea would grant less.
| The country now knows precisely where
! the Democratic party stands on this great is
sue; nor can it reasonably doubt that Demo
| cratic victory in the coming election will
mean the speedy establishment of a stable
| honorable and thoroughly American peace
| But of the Republican party, only this is
known: that it has treated the transcendent
issue of and peace, involving our own
and every nations dearest interests as a
political shuttlecock; that it has evolved no
constructive idea and declared no definite
purpose; that it has INSTRUCTED and quibbled
and pettily schemed and that not unless it's
deadening clutch upon the Government is
broken will the overshadowing problems
quent to the war be solved with wisdom and
honor.
Not even in the most urgent of domestic
matters has Mr.. Hardings party shown either
capacity or disposition to act constructvely
and for the public good. Well does the San
! Francisco platform condemn the failure of
the present Republican Congress 'to respond
to the oft-repeated demand of the President
and the Secretaries of the Treasury to revise
existing tax laws" Further:
THE continuance in peace stimes Of
taxes devised under imperative neces-
sity to produce revenue for war pur-
poses is indefensible. The Republican
Congress persistently failed through
sheer cOWardlce to make a single move
toward a readjustment of tax laws
which it denounced before the last cleo
ton and was afraid to revise before. the
next election. We advocate tax reform
and searching revision Of. the war
revenue acts to fit peace conditions
That this promise will be duly fulfilled, if
popular support is given, is assuredly to be
expected of the party that has produced
since 1913 more legislation of economic
value to the common interests than the Re-
publican organization so much as conceived
through all its decades of power
In it's entirety the platform is one Of which
Democrats may be proud and to which in
dependent, progressive voters can rally with
a will 1t is a product of liberal thought,
broad sympathies and untrammelled discus
sion. Some things which some delegates
wished inserted were left out and some
things which others wished omitted were
put in. But there was no dragooning and no
lodging; all issues were squarely met and
fairly settled the convention floor. More
over, such differences as there were con-
cerned matters of detail or methods, for the
most part, rather than broader reaches of
policy and obligation. No duty was side
stepped; principle was sacrificed. An
honest, high-minded declaration it is, worthy
of great party, a great people, and mo-
mentOus time.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06

" KNOW a great many happy,
contented wives and mothers,
and l know a far greater num-
~ number of querulous, dissatis-
fled, complaining ones.
I know many alert, alive, jolly,
optimistic business women. and l
gruntled, Whining women who are
always knocking fate because they
have to earn their own bread and
butter.
Yet the lots of the happy and un.
discontented, are precisely the same
Both have certain joys and per-
quisites. Both have certain cares
and burdens to bear.
The whole difference between them
lies in the point Of view from which
an the work which she has been
given to do in the world seems big
and fine, and worthwhile. To the
ether her daily task is loathe3
drudgery which she performs with
out interest or inspiration.
Consequently, one woman is hap
py, and the other miserable though
they walk side by side down the
same path. For as woman thinks
Take the case of the married WON
an. To the average woman the holy
estate is a vale of trials and tribu
lations in which she has to learr
humility and self-control; where she
meets up with establishments and
hardships of which she never dream
ed, and, is called upon to perform
labor, and make sacrifices Of which
she would have believed herself in
capable.
She finds that instead of being {
romantic hero who is a comblna
ton of Job and Sir Galahad and Mr.
Rockefeller, her husband is a poo
weak human man with a dyspeptit
instead of having money coming tt
him on wings, he earns it painfully
by the nickel so that she has tt
squeeze every penny to get the mos
out Of it,
Likewise, she ascertains that in
stead of being pinfeathered litti'
angels, always rosy and smiling ant
mostly brats who need to be spank
ed and have their noses wiped, slt
that they are prone to measles, ant
mumps, and raiding the jam closet
Certainly the wife and mother o.
an ordinary family has a strenuou:
life of it, and whether she is {
martyr. or the blessed among WON
It she loves her husband and chill
Gren better than she does herself
she gets pure joy out of it. There
is nothing mental in the hours sh'
spends over the cook-stove, pre-
pairing the food that gives then
anything sordid in the pinching econ
omies with which she manages he
household, for she is helping her mai
build up his fortune,
And there you are. Husbands ar
dull or fascinating, children ar
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06
Peaches by A;rb1ane
TT is in no wise extravagant, if we may

I judge from tendencies elsewhere, to
look forward to a time when Georgia
peaches will be shipped to their Northern
markets by air instead of by rail. Thus a
plane-load of delectable Bellies or Elbertas,
red-ripe and trimming with nectar, would
leave the orchard at sun up and be served
at New York tables on the evening of the
same day.
Enterprise of this sort is being developed
in England with goodly prospects, London
dealer of conservative type is quoted as say
ing: aerial transport of perishable goods,
particularly choice fruits, such as oranges is
in sight. There should be big difference
between the luxury market value Of, say, an
orange picked when ripe and served in Lon
don before it has gone Off, and orange
picked when unripe and allowed to mature,
so far as it can, during it's slow transit by
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06
QUIPS AND QUlDITlES

A famous Scotch minister of the last
century was very absent-minded, and many
amusing stories are told of this awkward
failing. On one occasion he had arranged
to preach in a certain church few miles
from Aberdeen. He set out on a pony in
good time, but when near the end of the
journey he felt desire to take pinch of
snuff. The wind was blowing in his face, so
he turned the head of the pony around, the
better to enjoy the luxury. Pocketing his
snu Tbox, he started the pony without think
ing to turn it in the right direction, and he
did not discover his error until he found
himself back in Aberdeen, at the very time
when he ought to have been preaching seven
miles.
An accusing glitter in her bright blue
eyes Mrs. Monkton faced her husband
What is this long, dark hair on your
coat, Henry?" she demanded
"Oh--er--a horse hair, my 1ove!" STAN
mered Henry, hoping for the best.
Most ikely!' sneered the good lady.
And no doubt you got it in motor carr"
Exactly, my dear. The seat covering
was worn through, and some of the stuffing
came out
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Attention, Mr.. tame Warden

but there have been SO many viola
tions of the fishing laws that there
are comparatively few fish left for
those who abide the law. Our people
need awakening to the necessity of
respecting the law, which was for the
benefit of all.-SandersvilIe Progress.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06
But Is It Fair?

If it's nice and fair for the men
to smoke cigarettes, why condemn
the women who make a practice OF
the same thing? There are not two
standards of morals. All are to be
governed Authorization News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06

sea or rail-" In the same way, divers prod
ucts of soil and sea would become ten or a
thousand times more delicious to palates far
away from their source. The North would
taste of the true Southern paradise, and
distant inlanders get the real SAVIOR of the
brine.
Surely, there is no region of the globe Of
fering richer material for such traffic than
Georgia.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06

Another reason why there will be
not wet plank in the platform is that
Democrats will refuse to be respon-
sible for a woman, wine and song"
slogan.-Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06

Mrs. George s. Stillman and Ro-
bart c. ChatfieldTaylor, Chicago,
author, were married in New York
recently in ST. Bartholmew's church.
The bride is a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George H. Barbour. Crosse
R@ARkA, AiA}A
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06
solomon MADE Her rau,o,,s

The Queen of Sheba got her beauty
naturally, and it didn't take news.
paper sensationalism to make her ia.
nous for it.-Thomasville Times
ENTERPRISE ..'
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06
No Relief FROM Ranuhlicana

There is sad disappointment in
store for the person who expects any
relief from present conditions
through the Republicans, should they
come into control March 4, next. The
Republicans are hungry, and they
will wait long and move slow before
they do away with thousands of
useless federal offices created by the
Democrats during the war and stili
continued two years after the fight
ing ceased. Instead of reducing the
number of soft job holders the hun
cry Republicans are likely to in
crease them-LyonS Progress
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WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS

vention cannot afford to be either wet
or dry" And he's right. Not as
long as the rest of the country isn't.
Dublin Courier-Herald.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06
Education Does and It Doesn't

There perhaps has not been timeI
in our history when an educationl
seemed to count for as little in lifeI
as it des now. Still it is our opin-I
ion that there has never been timeI
when an education really counted
for as much. These are the problems
with which We have to combat inI
educational work.-Lavonia Times
and Gauge
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06
HAMBONE ) MEDITATIONS

! PAHSoN Low DAT AR =.
FRESHLY MATED COUPLE
AIN LOOK SO HAPPY e.
WEN FOLKS THoWlN' RICE
AT EN- DIS MAWNlN .
BUT SRucKs! DAT WANT
NO RICE HIT WIZ
BLAckEYEp PEAS :. +
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Entitled to Fun

Not only the nominee, but every
delegate and visitor who perspirec
through that grueling June conven
ton was entitled to a chance Il
run for president, or some other lofty
reward -Macon News
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06

Speaking of things that sound good,
how about a dinner of fried chicken,
hot biscuits, mashed potatoes, ten
der string beans, onion dressing
Country Gentlemen corn and a black
berry dumping? If you can stand
that in this day and time and get
away without serious stomach trouble
you are immune to any bad effects
from more than enough of good
things. - brownsville Times Enter
prise.
No Place for an Editor
Judge Bengemine ellis has had a
shelter erected over the front of his
meat market to keep the shining rays
of the sun from spelling his smiling
countenance. The judge says that
only a selected few are allowed to
lounge around this luxurious spot
and that the editor was not included
in the preferred number. But we
should worry, for We'll stand at a
safe distance alone to be sure that
we are in good company.-Soperton
News.
a. Dubious Condition
And Glass has it that "the con-