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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
QUEEREST RAT IS
FOUND IN TEXAS

A rat that looks like a kangaroo,
barks like prairie dog and is the
size of squirrel has made its ap-
pearance in Caldwell and Bastrop
counties, Tex, according to M. NJ,
Mills, of Red Rock, who called at the
state department of health at Austin,
to tell of the great numbers of rats
that are now in his community.
Mr.. Mills said:
1.-THE tail is longer than that of
the. ordinary rat. There are three
different species, possibly all of the
same family-one with front legs a
little longer than the back, some
thing like the kangaroo rat, but is
not the kangaroo; another with front
legs about in proportion with the
hind ones, and the other just like
the ordinary rat except for the long
tail.
THE rat with the long front legs
is the one that barks like the prairie
dog.
"They eat everything, crops, fruit,
etc, but are partial to corn. Chick
ems, too, are not spared.
"Cottontail RABBITS are dying very
rapidly in my section of Texas and
thought perhaps the rats might be
causing his."-Dallas News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
Ho10 to Help Georgia
the commendable ambition

"OUCHING the commendable ambition
to draw home-seekers and developers
to Georgia. the Moultrie Observer
we'll remarks that while our statistics LOT
this end are impressive enough, our farm
houses tenant dwellings, barns and Hther
appurtenances do not sufficiently bear the
figures out All too frequently there IS
rundown look, a washed-out and torsaken
appearance" and it is in the very sections
where such conditions prevail that develop
ment is most needed. What, then, is the WIS
est policy? Concentrate upon education, the
Observer answers, upon vocational training,
drainage. health and hygiene, farm demon
stration work, upbuiding of the livestock IN
dustry, the establishment of evergreen pas
lures on the waste lands, and similar lines
of agricultural and domestic construction
This with the institution of proper mar
keting methods and the incubation of hab-
it's of thrift in our young people, Will make
the land blossom the rose.
Sagacious counsel and truly patriotic! In
formed Georgians all know that thelrs Is
one of the goodliest Of natures empires,
blest with a soil and sun and manifold fruit
fulness rarely to be found in even the rich
est lands. But they know, too, II they nave
looked with seeing eyes that the greater part
of all this treasure remains to be developed
and that a stranger who judged by appear
ances would ofttimes take away wholly in
adequate If not wholly erroneous impress
sions. The improvements which reflect hui
man interests and by which the prospective
investor is so largely guided are too fire.
quent1y lacking. The efficiencies which only
widespread and intensive education can
bring are too frequently wanting.
The best that can be done for Georgia is
what she can do for herself. If her own en-
ergy, her own enterprise, her own people
cannot make her great, then they should
have no part or lot in her prosperity. Build
ers from all regions of America should be
welcomed hither, and every reasonable in
ducements to bring them should be offered
The farreaching, never-failing power of we'll
directed advertising should be literally en-
ployed But let us not forget that it is Geor
gians who must make Georgia, and that
the mightiest of all upbuilders is education.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
MUST A GENIUS
BE A FAT MAN?

The connection between feeding
and literary genius has been remark
ed more than once. lola, 1t is said,
wrote best when he was very stout,
and when his bulk dwindled so did
his talent.
Theophle Gautier, himself enor-
nous, maintained that a man of
genius should be fat, and for proof
of this pointed to that more barrel
than man" Balzac; to Alexander Du-
mas, always fat and jolly" to "the
h1ppopotamus in breeches," Rossini.
and to the plump and well-fed ap-
pearance Of Victor Hugo and Sainte-
Beuve.
Byron would never have agreed
with Theophile Gautier's dictum
that men of genius should be fat.
For the increase of his. too, to solid
nesh was the one thing whereof he
was afraid. and various freak diets
were adopted to keep it under.
Don Joan" was written almost
entirely on gin and water, and in
1873 he lived on six biscuits a day
had tried a diet of rice in small
quantities, washed down by vinegar
and water, and later on he tried one
thin slice Of bread for breakfast
and a vegetable dinner, keeping down
hunger by chewing tobacco. And ap-
parently such diets stimulated the
brain while notifying the flesh
One of the latest men of today is
Gilbert Chesterton, that sarcastic
and witty British writer-Detroft
News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16

ewed labor, by foresight and frugality, by
the exercise of those individual and social
virtues which Bolshevsm despises.
The ordinary mans opportunities in
France have been no richer or more fire.
quent than elsewhere, and by no means so
abundant among Americans Twice
within little more than four decades the
French people have been called upon to
pour out their treasure and blood for ma
tional defense Have they whimpered and
despaired? Have they turned pessimists or
radicals? The heavier their burdens, the
drawer their hearts have been, and the
more loyal!
That is why France has prospered; that
is why she is free. Hers is the national
greatness that rests upon faithful labor
and willing sacrifice. No lesser foundation
ever has. or ever will resist the tides of
time.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
OUIPS AND QUlDDlES

In the vestry after the marriage
service a North London clergyman
reproyed the bridegroom for his
burst of laughter in church when
the words of the service with my
worldly goods L thee endow" were
The bridegroom replied: "Why.
bless you, I've only got this SUIT OF
clothes to endow her With II
give her them I'll have none Tor
myself, and she can't wear Them
anyhow"
A little girl walked into con-
fectionery, placed nickel on the
counter, and called for an Ice cream
cone lice cream cones are seven
cents, little girl" the fizz clerk an
soda pop" six cents" Got any
The little girl sighed disappointed
nickel ON the counter. Here, lit,
tie girl, you're leaving your nickel"
the clerk called to her. ooh, that's
all right" the child shouted back.
TITS. no good to met won't buy
anything"
"The new French maid was all
that the heart could desire. AS she
was putting a lovely marcel In her
mistress hair one afternoon the
latter said:
about NV husband"
The maid smiled eff madame had
asked me-" she said, IT could have
told madame more than the fortune
teller could"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
"Bous, Get the Money!"

VERY bit of evidence which the inves-.
tigation thus far has disclosed tends
to substantiate Governor Cox's
charge that the Republican party organiza-
ton is raising "a stupendous fund, so stu
pendous as to exceed the realm of legitimate
expense, which means but one thing-im-
minent danger of an odious and corrupt
campaign" To this the G. O. P. purse liners
replied, with an air Of wounded innocence,
that only moderate amount, trifle over
three million dollars, was budgeted, and that
no gift would be received in excess or
thousand dollars!
It develops, however, through the testi-
mony of Republican managers and agents
themselves, that the sum of four million nine
hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hum
dred dollars has been assessed against the
several States, and that an additional seven
hundred thousand is scheduled to be raised
for the special use of the Republican Congress
siona1 committee. 1t develops, furthermore,
by the mouths of still other witnesses that
five million-dollar fund was planned ex-
clusively for the use of the National Commit
tee. Thus does the modest mole hill swell
to a mountains ambition.
Particularly interesting is the account of
how these millions were to be procured. Vul-
gar publicity was to be eschewed. "Get the
right man to see the right peOple-and do it
quickly and Systematically" Such were the
instructions of Assistant Treasurer Blair, who
originated the famous phrase, boys, get the
money" And just how were the "boys' to
proceed? Nothing could be more elegant,
more fraught with the odor of sanctity. "They
were to invite the, prospects to luncheons
and dinners, at which fnspirational speakers
should impress big business men with the
necessities of the situation,' and there was to
be no hesitation in asking for subscriptions
ranging from $1,000 upward. There was to
be "a cream list made up of easy marks. To
keep up Chairman Hays pretense of a great
popular outpouring of small donations it was
urged that large subscriptions might we'll be
reported piecemeal,' but in fragrant disregard
OF his more or less sincere insistence upon
publicity everybody was warned that care
must be used that nothing is left on tables
at luncheons and dinners that might fall into
the hands OF any one that might give pub
1lcity to such MATERIAL"
When it is reflected that all this, and more,
which at first was vehemently denied by Re-
publican managers, has been established by
Republican witnesses and documents, Gov
ernor Cox's charge of a fifteen mi1lion-dolar
Doodle bag seems in nowise extravagant.
There is one supremely important question in
this matter: Is the Presidency of the United
States an elective or purchasable office?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
4 Better Spirit IN Mexico

NHE new political order south of the
Rio Grande emphasizes it's "desire
to cultivate friendly relations with
all nations, and to create confidence in the
goodwill of Mexico"
If this profession is lived consistently
out, there will be no more misunderstood
ings between the United States and its
long misgoverned neighbor. All that Amer
leans WISH all that their Government has
asked is a condition of affairs that will
make friendly relations possible and
permit confidence in the goodwill of
Mexico"
For years past this has been prevent
ed by series of unfortunate incidents,
not one of which would have occurred had
those claiming authority across the bor-
der shown a fair measure of tact and
considerateness or reasonable sense of
dations would not have threatened the
peaceful standing of the two countries if
those whose duty it was to put down ban
ditry in Mexico had shown themselves
truly concerned for law and order and
mindful of American rights
Now that the regime of Indifference and
bigotry has given place to one showing an
earnest desire to be friends with the out
side world, we may hope for happy and
mutually helpful relations Both Oregon
| and De la Huerta the outstanding person
ages in present day Mexico, express them
selves to this effect, and moreover recon-
mend definite policies that indicate their
good faith.
Though a fair sunrise does not ALWAYS
vouchsafe an unclouded day. there is good
reason to take these professions as sincere
and likely to be fulfilled. No capable lead
er in Mexico can fail to see that his ma
tons emergence from her present diff
culties, economic and political alike. de-
Ponds largely upon the good will and aid
of others, particularly the United States;
and the rank and file of thinking Next
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
The NEXT State
\ LAsKA is looking earnestly f

A LASKA is looking earnestly forward
~ to time when there will be forty
ninth star on the American flag, tell
ing of her attainment to Statehood Whether
or not this hope comes true within the life
span of those now cherishing it, there is
hardly doubt that the territory will be
granted larger measure of selfgovernment
in keeping with her DEVELOPMENT and gains
in civically competent population.
It is little more than fifty years since the
United States acquired this treasure-land of
the north, paying only some seven million
dollars for an area ten times the size OF
Georgia The purchase was ridiculed at the
time as an eXtravagant folly, and not until
recent years has general misinformation
given place to appreciative understanding. A
snow-bound waste, haunted by polar bears
and reindeer; peopled by Eskimos with a
sprinkling of motley adventures; cleaning,
no doubt, with chance veins or hooks of for
tune, but an impossible place for steady-go-
ing industry and production-such was the
popular idea of Alaska. That this misappre-
tension fingered so long is ascribed by keen
observers partly to monopolists in the fur
trade and other natural treasures, who con-
sidered it to their interest to keep back the
competition which, with the arrival of am
bilious and capable settlers, would be GER
tain to come.
But now the Government issues highly
readable reports on Alaskan wheat stock
while tourist parties are conducted through
the lands scenic splendors The remarkable
activity which thus has set in will date his
torically from the spring of 1915, when Pres
ident Wilson announced the route of the
Alaska Railroad to be built by the Govern
ment That epoch-marking construction is
to extend from Seward on Resurrection
Bay to Fairbanks on the Tanana river, four
hundred and seventy-one miles 1t is but a
uuesuop OF wears when branch lines and sys-
TENS of highways affording the transporta-
ton facilities on which extensive develop
ment of the territorys mineral, forestry and
agricultural resources depends will be es
tablished.
II is significant that the United States navy
ia now mining it's own coal in Alaska ano
that the Government is planning to establish
a coaling station for merchantmen plying be-
tween Seattle and the Orient, service which
officials say, twill mean saving of thou
sands Of tons in cargo-carrying capacity or
each voyage" Steps like these will brins
Alaska into closer and closer touch with tn
affairs and interests of the Union and thu
make easy the way to that larger measur
of self-government which her sturdy pic
roers and builders are due.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Bv DR.. Frank Crane

At Your Debating Society or your High
School or College, boys and girls, if You want
to take up a live ISSUE sharpen your wits
and perhaps learn something useful, sup
pose you attack the
Labor Question.
And to help you in preparing your pro-
CRANE I would suggest the following topics
Why do we have a holiday called Labor
Day?
What do we mean by Laborers? Are we
not all Laborers? Who not?
Are strikes necessary, in order to secure
the rights, maintain the wages and improve
the conditions of wage-earners?
Is the Wage System wrong? What is
meant by the Wage System? Is there any
better way Of carrying on industry?
Should postoffice employees, policemen and
other government officials be allowed to
strike?
Is Compulsory Arbitration desirable? Feas-
ble?
What is the Soviet idea?
What is Socialism?
Would Socialism be better than our pres
ent system?
What is meant by Capitalism? Why is
Capital needed?
Should the wage workers own the con-
Germ for which they work?
What is John Leitch's plan?
To improve the condition of the wage
workers is it advisable to cultivate class feel
ing?
What is a Radical? Do Radicals do more
good than harm?
What is Conservative? Are Conserva-
t1ves valuable in a community?
How can the balance best be maintained
between Conservatism and Radicalism?
What is the difference between Deraoc-
racy and Socialism? Between Democracy
and Sovietism?
II high prices make high wages necessary.
and If high wages cause higher prices, where
is the ascending scale to stop?
What will be the difference between tho
effect of the election of a Republican as
against a Democratic president upon indus
trial conditions?
Give five why he should vote for Harding.
should vote for Governor Cox.
Give five why he should vote for harding.
Is there any better way to select govern
ment officers than by political parties?
Don't be afraid to discuss questions the
whole nation is discussing.
Keep your temper Listen carefully to your
opponent. Answer his arguments if YOU can
II you cannot, say so.
Keep good natured and open-minded
Try to find out the truth, and stick to
facts. Truth and facts belong to no party.
Don't admit anything unless you under
stand it. If you don't understand it, find out
about it. Don't dodge, bluff nor repeat hear
say
Learn to be keen live, we'll informed
American.
And always be a Good Sport.
Laundry charges must be high in Russia
if they kill everybody who wears a white
collar.
| NEWSPAPERS nowadays would be dull
reading were it not for the women hume
lists, but they don't know it.
MARITIME HARMSEN.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
AERIAL BATTLES
OF THE FUTURE

The battle for the supremacy of
the air in future wars will be fought
at an elevation we'll beyond the
range of human vision, that is, at
an altitude above 10000 feet, &C
cording to prediction made by the
army air service. Fighting planes
in years to come will be made en-
tirely of metal, heavily armored, and
will carry numerous machine guns
and small cannon, it says.
The planes must have a speed of
we'll over 200 miles an hour, and
must be able to climb 10000 feet in
ten minutes, or at the rate of two
miles a minute. The pilot will have
to be provided with oxygen and
heating apparatus against the cold
of the higher atmosphere, and the
machine must be so constructed that
half the bracing can be shot away
and the plane still fly. The fuelc
tanks will have to be armored, and
will be placed in the wings, to be
protected against fire. the air serv-
ice believes-New York World.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
4 Benef;cent Revolution

n TOT many years ago a tide of lamen.
VI tation would have risen in the Geor-
gia county of which it could have
been said that it's cotton crop, reduced
two-thirds in acreage, would give only a
forty per cent yield. But now, with this
very state of affairs obtaining, Coffee
county looks forward to an unusually pros
porous autumn Evidently a fundamental
change in the agricultural system has come
to pass.
Something of it's nature and extent may
be gathered from a report of The Jour-
nails Douglas correspondent who points
out that the countys crop is above
normal in both acreage and indicated yield
while the output of velvet beans promises
to be correspondingly large Further, there
is almost a hundred per cent increase in
the peanut acreage including the Spanish
variety planted for the market, and an
other for hog feed. To these staples add
exceedingly large crops of sweet potatoes
and sugar cane, and it is clear why Coffee
county farmers face the coming-on of
winter with light hearts and easy minds
Notwithstanding the fate of cotton. They
are the more content and prosperous be-
cause in addition to abundant food har-
vests they are we'll off in hogs and cat
tie, a secure foundation for animal hus-
bandry having been laid by their varied
and we'll chosen crops.
The happy significance of all this lies in
the fact that it is broadly typical. Georgia
has undergone a beneficent revolution since
the days when cotton was kaiser and held
the fortunes of the whole Commonwealth
in his uncertain palm. With diversified ag-
riculture have come broader and richer de-
velopment, surer sources of prosperity
stronger bases for the States economic
life. May this sagacious policy continue
through all the seasons and years ahead.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
Why France Is Not Bo7shev;k

" IHY is 1t that one never hears of
w Bolshevism in France, not even
the faintest fear of it's roofing and
spreading there?
The answer appears partly in the fact
that lightweight per cent Of that country's
cultivatable land is owned and titled by
three million, two hundred thousand peas
ants; partly in the fact that industrial
securities and stocks are distributed on a
similarly wide scale, more than two mil
lion, three hundred persons, for instance
being owners of bonds or shares in the
nations railroads; and partly in the fact
that of the national debt of France, total
ling two hundred and thirty-seven billion
francs two hundred and three billion are
held by the French rank and file.
These and a host of kindred figures, re-
Gently compiled by students of economics
bear eloquent witness to the thrift-making
qualities Of patriotism as we'll as the pa,
| trot-making qualities of thrift. 1t was not
| by strokes Of mere good fortune that these
millions of French peasants, workngmer
| and small tradesmen acquired so substan
tial and splendid a part in their country'f
wealth. But it was by steady, full-sin
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
The other Fellows Rights

No. Elmer, the public highways
were not made for your convenience
alone. Generosity comedies an inch
to the other fellow-Corne1ia En-
terprise
Generosity makes the concession,
but Elmer is not always so consid-
crate,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
Tot1Cag Sl5o,COO

The Atlanta man ought not to
have taken that $4,000 in a bag
Most anybody else would have hired
a squad to tote it around in IRON
Thomasville Times Enuterprlse.
1t requires a larger amount than
a few hundred thousand dollars to
excite an Atlanta man
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
Back to the Farm

A lot of people who moved from
the country to the city first of the
year are trying to find homes back
in the country for next year. They
find that high wages are not so at
tractive after all when the high cost
of rent and other necessities is taken
into consideration.-Pem Enter
prise.
The farmer has many effective
weapons with which to combat the
high cost of living and he is learn
ing to use them.
Ndsinfor Men
1t is evident that the man who
says. women will vote as their hus-
bands DO is not married man.
Brunswick News.
Test of Patriotism
Nothing but patriotism could sus-
tain candidate on a speaking tour
in August. There certainly is not
enough money in the office to be
an Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
Some Folks Are That Way
The fellow who says you can't be-
lieve the newspapers is the same
gent who. believes the scandal told
on one of his enemies by the big
gest liar in town.-Cary Williams, in
Greensboro Herald-Journal,
And Time For Low-Necks
The AmericuS Times Recorder
notes that it will soon be too cool
for summer furs.-Griffin News
and Sun.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
mBack to the Far1nO

Maybe Billy Miske will now join
Jess Willard in the back to the
farm" movement" dublin Courier
Herald.
But we hear that Jess may try to
"cOme hack"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
A Righteous Protest

When a man has to pay all the
taxes which is now required of him
to drive an auto, and then has no
better roads than we have, he feels
mighty like cussing a little.-Wal-
ton Tribune.
But why should newspaper man
worry over roads that are too rough
for Joy riding?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
They Don't Like Water

Seventy-five years ago it was a
violation of the law to own bath
tub in the cultured city of Boston
Dahlonega Echo.
And to this good day the citizens
Of Boston are not overly fond of
water,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16
Uncle lake is Mistaken

Uncle Jake says women will not
register to vote because they viii
have to tell their correct age.-Carey
J. Williams in Greensboro Herald
Journal.
They will be expected to ell their
correct age, Uncle" but they don't
have q do