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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-21
DIAGNOSIS
By H. AddingtOn Bruce

w was very tired and very much in
II earnest medical man as he said to me:
L n 81 do wish you would urge your read
erS not to expect too much or to be too critical
of doctors. We really want to do our best for
patients; we are not deliberately neglectful
of them, and we certainly don't want to make
mistakes in deciding what is wrong with
them.
"But this is juSt where we are most likely
to fall down, for diagnosis is often one of the
most difficult things in the world. Especially
is it difficult when the doctor only sees a pa
tient, as | usually do in consultation with the
family physician.
"Many identical symptoms may come from
different causes. Then there is the big problem
of dfferentiating between functional and or
ganic conditions. To make sure of this it may
be necessary for the doctor to know his patient
intimately.
"But the consultant, when called in, is ex-
pected to say offhand what is wrong, This is
fair neither to him nor to the patient And
if he refuses to be stampeded into a hasty
Judgment, but says that he must have a chance
to study the case, he is apt to be accused either
of being out for money or not knowing his
business"
As he spoke was reminded of a passage |
had recently read in the writings of another
physician. Emphasizing as it does the diff
cultieS of diagnosis, | reproduce it for the ben
e1lt or any among my readerS VINO may happen
to be hypercritica of doctors:
"Headache may be reaction to eye-Strain,
but it may be reaction to mother-in-law.
Pain in the back is sometimes explained by an
E-Ray plate, but sometimes by unwilligness to
work.
indigestion may be more closely related to a
troubled conscience than to poor cooking. Pal
pitation is not always an indication of organic
heart dSease-it may be the expression of the
romance of life gone aStray.
"Not that the situation is always simple. The
patient with organic heart trouble may have
romantic longngs. bad cook may conspre
with troubled conscience to ruin the digeS-
ton.
In other words, ability to make sound dag
nosiS often depends not SO much on the med
cal mans professional knowledge as on his
personal acquaintance with the patient, or the
latter'S willingness to be absolutely frank in
his statements to his doctor.
Frankness, unhappily, is no characteristic of
all patients Yet the dangerously reticent ones
may be precisely the loudest in their condem-
nation of the doctor if the latter fails in the
diagnosis which their reticence has made doubly
hard
Copyright 1920, by the Associated Newspapers
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mike" Casey S
Back
Muses. on Matrimony and Says
It's O. K"

editor The Tri-Weekly Journal.
After readin' and hearin' SO
much about how married folks fuss
and row and separate and appeal to
the divorce court it makes me won
der if marriage is not really a Iall7
ure.
But after givin' all the angles
of the question due consideration 1
figure 1t out that marriage is grand
and noble and exaltin', and that the
trouble about the matter is all
have entered the married state.
THE trouble is with the people,
and not with marriage. People rush
headlong into matrimony without
g1v1n' it much serious thought. Then
when the realities begin to show up
the fur begins to fly.
-. Maybe they hadn't ever thought
that when she married she would be-
mony they were then due to UNDER
go a complete change in their mode
of livin'.
Maybe the girl had never thought
that when sh emarried she would be-
come head-over- heels in possession
of a mother-in-law. Or, If she had
given it any thought, maybe she had
made up her mind that she could
out1general the old lady and not
give her any love, nor any kindness.
But even if she feels this way
toward the dear old soul, she had
better make out like she's takin' and
appreciation the old lady's motherly
wisdom and advice: Because when
you get these good old mothers-in-
law stirred up just right, I'll be
doggoned if the fur amt goin' to
fly, :
Maybe the young man went into
matrimony without ever thinkin'
bot lNo Ia IN
many sacrifices in order to make his
matrimonial venture a howlin' Sue
cess Maybe he never had thought he
would have to quit stayin' out late
at night with the boys and slippin'
in home with his shoes in his hands
and smellin' like blockade corn whis-
ky.
1.-The fellow that goes into it with
out givin' it suchthought, will find
himself wonderin' why it is that
cy-dew. When fellow gets married
in my honest opinion he will have
somethin' to think about besides
runnin' his automobile, burnin' gas
and braggin' about the runnin' quail
tiles of his motor.
when the young lady gets mar
ried she finds somethin' to occupy
her time besides powderin' her nose,
dog-earin' her hair and making GOO
goo eyes at the other fellow.
Inc HldlH lIOuDIS dpOuI HldtII~g
mony is that people enter it with
out ever thinkin about payin' theA
price it costs.
people that will pay the price,
and pay every installment by the
time or before it comes due and
not let any interest accumulate, will
find mighty soft and smooth sail
in DER the matrimonial sea, and
will get to where they don't never
want to land, but will want to just
keep on sailin' and sailin' and sailin'.
mike CASEY,
"Originally from Petit's Little Mill"
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS
THE GENTLE CRATER
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
Copyright. 1920. by Wheeler Syndicate Incl
BY DOROTHY DIX

cancer, and she wants to come and
stay with us and have us trot around
to the hospitals with her. Or some
body, from Sqeedunk, or Rabbits
Track, has been told by her doctor
that she needs change, and sha
thinks that nothing would pe so dS~
Hghtful as to come to the city, only
she hasn't the money to stay at a
hotel, but if it would be convenient
for us to have her, she could come
easily on Monday week.
of course, anyone who has the
nerve to hold you up for her board
bill isn't going to stop with petty.
larceny like that. She goes the whole
hog, and you not only have to feed
and lodge her, but you have to pay
for her theater and opera tickets,
and her street car fares. So far as
my observation goes, a self-invited
guest has Yale lock on her pocket
book, and you would have to chloro-
form her before you could set a
nickel out of her
at is no secret to the people who
come and camp on us that Jim and
are a poor young couple struggling
to get start in the world, and that
every dollar counts with u.s. Also
they perceive that I do my house
work, and that by horning in on US
they add immeasurablv to my labor,
and the expense of our living.
But does that keep them awayr
1t does not. They not only crowd in
and put me to the trouble of getting
up company meals for them, but they
expect me to run around with them,
taking them to all sorts of places Of
amusement, and to spend days in the
shops where they look over every
thing, and price everything, from inn
ported automobiles to safety pins,
chance do they pay for. lunch at
a res >urant, or for a theater ticket,
or even pay their car fare.
"And the expense of entertaining
these people you hate because they,
are such poor mean little grafters,
counts up enormously, and it keeps
me mad thinking of all the things
I want that 1 do without because l
have spent the money on these
pikers Why we stand for it, I don't
know. Lack of backbone, I guess, and
because we have been taught that
hospitality is one of the seven shin
ing virtues.
loves to practice it better than I, but
I want to pick out my recipients and
an, so to speak. 1 object to being
held up and forced to deliver invita-
lions whether it's convenient or not.
"But I know I'd never have got
ulp the 80 NIX ut siam Il: do0 N
the face of Uncle Jezebiah, who's got
a couple OIL lHOuSohu
tucked away in first mortgages, but
who would rather die than spend a
penny of it on a hotel. Nor would my
craven spirit ever get bold enough to
enable me to write to a self-invited
guest that I didn't want her. and
wouldn't have her; and so the hous-
ing shortage has provided me with
a ready-made excuse for not enter,
tanning all and sundry.
I'm going to live IN one room,
and a bath and kitchenette where
nobody can visit me. Thank God for
all His mercies."
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-21
Worse Than DRAGONS

"a WORE formidable in this day than
MI the dragons and chimeras of old
are insect pests and crop diseases.
The South has lost uncounted millions of
money through the cotton boil Weevn, the
West large fortunes through microscopic in
vaders of grain, and the entire country
colossal sums through crop and orchard
parasites. 1t is conservatiVely reckoned that
in a recent year one hundred and eight mil
lion bushels of American wheat were de-
stroyed by black rust.
To check these drains upon the country's
wealth, the National Research Council has
effected what it terms "a cooperating group
of scientific investigators, together with
representatives of leading industrial con-
Germs engaged in the manufacture of chem
tcals and appliances used in fighting plant
pests and diseases" The movement is not
intended, of course, to interfere with Gov
eminent activities along the same line, but
simply to fill in existing gaps and to bring
about more extensive cooperation.
AS population multiplies and the source
of food production becomes relatively less,
conserving efforts of this nature will grow
more and more valuable. The time doubtless
will come when the world will live on what
it now loses and wastes Certainly America
will find it behoOveful to take keener
thought this score. Rarely endowed with
agricultural riches she has spent them al
most recklessly, aoans=s71ing farm sites as
soon their primal fertility was exhaust
ed, sowing, reaping and marketing In a
happy go-iucky way, and trusting to bounti-
full nature to overbalance the destructiveness
of plant pests. 1t 10 highly fortunate that
this imprOvdence Ia giving place at last to
scientifically directed methods and to Or
ganized conservation.
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IVY ELL" said a woman to me

ELL" said a woman to me
- M the other day, "the hous-
w ing shortage, and the al
t1tudinous price of rent,
nave one good thing about them, any
way. They furnish an alibi that we
can hand out to our relatives and
friends, and the people we used to
know back home, who have the pleas
ing habit of grating their annual
visits to the city on us.
For years l have been the vic
tim OF these hold-up artists, ard I've
played in no worse luck than every
BODY else l know; for the minute you
acquire place in a city where you
can furnish free board and lodging,
everybody that you ever knew who
lives out of town. conceives a pas
slonate affection for you.
Your own forty-ninth cousin, and
your husbands cousins in the seven
ty-second degree; girls that you went
TO SCHOOL with when you were in the
kindergarten and haven't heard of
since; folks who have no claim on
you except that you used to live in
the same town with them, all are
smitten with a longing to see you
that they can no longer resist, and
they write and tell you so, and that
they are coming on the 5:45 a. IN,
train on Wednesday, and won't you
please meet them at the station be-
cause a city is so confusing to one
who is not used to it.
why, if 1 were to recite what l
have suffered at the hands of these
bandits, it would sound like a chapter
out of Fox's Book of Martyrs When
Jim and / were married and he
brought me to the city to live, we
went to housekeeping in a little four
room apartment. Before we got set
tied and our bridal presents unpack-
ed, a distant relative whom 1 hadn't
seen since I was a little girl in pig
tails, descended upon US, bag and
baggage ggs o5 s,o ,,,os vaccine +,rorcn
the city and she felt she just couldn't
go by without taking peek at dear
little Elsie in her new home. 1t took
her two weeks to peek, and she
hadn't been gone a day when another
flock of these birds of prey, this time
Jim's bunch of vultures, came to
roost on our sofa bed, and from then
on we have hardly had day that
we have been free from some SELL
invited guest.
Boys hunting for job arrive with
letters from their parents, whom we
had the accursed luck to know at
some previous state of our lives,
saying that they know we will be so
glad to take darling Jim in until he
finds something to do; or the mother
of some girls to whom we nave the
degree hegfee. G drops US a missive Informing
us that she is sending Mamie and
Sadie by the next train for little
visit to the city as she has been
promising the dear children a treat
for a long time, and would we mind
letting them stay with US for a
month, they are such lambs, and us
SO nice to have young people about
the house.
cor we get a screed from some
poor old soul who has been advised
to consult city specialist about her
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-21
Lessons From the Great Fair

portrayal of the resources and
~ prosperity Of Georgia and her neigh
Dor States the Fair now being held
at Lakewood is tonic for the weariest
slght-seer or the dumpiest prophet of ILL
Long regarded as a province of cotton and
of little else in tillage, the Southeast an
pears in this exposition as the versatile en-
pre- OF opportunities and attainments that
she really is. Corn and wheat that the gold
en- west might we'll be proud of, pumpkins
ana potatoes tit to crown the trenchers of
any KING, fruits of wellnigh every vine and
push and Dough that plenteous nature hI1s-
oands, nerds and flocks of the finest breed
all are set forth in heart-warming abun-
dance
There is eventful history behind these
varied exhibits-the history of beneficent
revolution in the South's agricultural sys-
tenn. decade ago such an exposition would
have been almost impossible, and even five
years ago would have lacked much of it's
present depth and reach. Of course, there
have been interesting and creditabe Fairs
in the Southeast from time out of mind; but
the distinguishing and significant fact is that
whereas they represented the aims and
achievements of comparatively a few, the
Lakewood Fair is the product of new or
der of things in Southern farming. Looking at
It's wealth and diversity of food-crop and
food-animal exhibits, one sees why it is that
millions OF dollars which formerly poured
from this region to distant markets now re-
main at home; and he sees, moreover, the
foundation for greater and greater conserv-
ing OF this kind in the years ahead
A people with resources for so wide a
range of production need have no anxiety as
to their agricultural and business future, if
they will but continue the development
here revealed. The present cotton situation,
it is true, gives rise to problems exceeding
ly grave. But the Fair at Lakewood is a
cheering reminder that the South is under
no necessity of stalking her fortunes upon
any one CROP that she gather rich har-
vests of one kind or another for three sea-
sons out of the four, that she can raise
from her own fertile acres nearly all of the
needments of life, that she can go forward
IN prosperous independence, howsoever the
winds of single market may blow. AS one
of the agencies that has served to make
these bountiful opportunities better appre-
c1ated and that is holding up the goodliest
fruits of the new order an effective in
sp1ratfon, the Southeastern Fair merits the
Warmest good wishes of the millions of peo-
pie whose interests it serves.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-21
Busu Times Ahead

m SY years are ahead if one may Judge
X from the prospect of unprecedentedly
A~ keen competition in world trade AS
the European nations recover from the war,
they bestr themselves more and more to
win back their lost commerce and to de-
yelop fresh fields of export opportunity.
To meet this rivalry the United States
must make the most of her resources and
must reduce inefficiencies to a minimum.
Consider at the same time, that there is
worldwide need for all staple products of
factory as we'll as of field, and it is plain
that the conditions essential to sustained
business activity liz Iountifully ahead.
American manufacturers appear thus
far to be holding their own against the
most vigorous challengers. I'm the Far
East and in South America" says a recent
report, Omitted States locomotives are dis
tancing all competitors. Wire nails made
in America are having such a run in Eng
land that in all attempt to meet the situa-
ton British firms have been compelled to
reduce their prices ten pounds sterling a
ton. American-made agricultural machin-
cry is in good demand for export to all
parts of the British empire. American au-
tomobiles and motor trucks are highly pop
ular in East India mainly because of the
excellence of the article offered, the rela-
lively low prices quoted, and the skill =
American statesmen and American advertis-
ing
This very success, however, will impel
the chief industrial nations of Europe to
redoubled effort, SC that Americans in
turn waa4 .sslAe o,rzfacking incentives to sus-
tanned effort and to improvement. 1t Il
OF trade 10 born. It Is by such indictments
that production IS kept efficient and
pienteous. Are not these the basic eondt
lions Of prosperity
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-21

Every thirty minutes some one in
this country is killed in an automo-
bile accident: mainly through the
but an accident Of the day. If the
newspapers were to report a death
from yellow fever or smallpox every
thirty minutes the whole country
would rise up on it's hind legs and
ace. Queer, but true.-Social Circle
New Era
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-21
100 nO0 lose 1oh.

One hundred thousand fewer work
ers are employed in the factories of
New York state than were on the
payrolls six months ago, a total re-
duction of 7 per cent, according to
a bulletin issued by the New York
state industrial commission, at Al
bany.
The figures, compiled by the COM
missions bureau of statistics, are
taken from the reports of 1870 man
ufacturers and show that employ
cline slowly, but steadily. The pres
ent downward movement started six
months ago
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-21
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Bo1sheviki Geography

We learned the bold, bad Bolshevik
On Wrangel played a measly trick;
They fought and Mariupol fell,
They occupied Berdyansk as we'll;
Some know where those burgs are,
mayhap;
We never saw 'em on the map.
Kentucky Values
Only six important products of
Kentucky farms were valued at more
September Is this year than they
were year ago, according to data
made public by the department OF
agriculture. These items are horses,
wheat, rye, butter, eggs and chick
ems. Decreases of varying degrees
are noted in the value Of other prod
ucts.
Jamaica Women Get Vote
Under new law the women of
Jamaica, British West Indies, are to
have vote in the elections for the
parochia1 boards and the legislature.
Every woman Is entitled to vote If
she is twenty-five years of age or
more. can read and write and 1s of
British nationality, but she must
have also certain salary or property
qualifications. Thes salary designated
is pounds a year, or she must pay
10 pounds In rent or pounds rates
on house, lands Or personal prop
erty.
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$40 a Day

Although they are offering high
wages, farmers around Green's
burg, Ind, are unable to get men
to cut corn. Farmers who have
obtained cutters are paying thirty
cents a shock Corn cutters say
that they can average from SO to
$40 a day.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-21

The orchestra, chorus and stage
hands of the Paris opera house voted
last week to go on strike. The meet
ing at which his decision was
reached was private, but jacques
Rouche, director of the opera, said
the reason was his refusal to change
the rules concerning the chorus and
to agree not to employ more than
one foreign artist every three
months
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-21
Pony by Airplane

Sir Philip Sassoon, needing
polo pony for a game to be start
ed In midafternoon on his estate
at Lympne, England, telegrapned
to London to have a pony sent
by airlane, and the animal arrived
in time.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-21
The Age Question

The Maine supreme court had the
crust
To make rule that women must
Tell at the polls their ages true
Or else not vote November 2.
The court should know that must"
will stir
LIN trouble when addressed to "her.
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mike Casey"

few days ago we printed sparkling
letter from an old-time Georgian who
signed himself mike Casey" Another let
Ter from this same philosopher has arrived
and is published today on this mage W.
thought it was altogether interesting. and
we hope you'll look at it in the same light
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-21
Those Fashion Hints

In every issue this paper publishes one
or more illustrated suggestions on fash
ions. We are wondering whether YOU
are taking advantage of them. Hundreds
OF our readers are doing it, Thousands
of fashions have been sold by our bureau.
me service is valuable one if you
heed it.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-21
RsckIar on Stnn1n

Edward Ryan, Washington, who
was arrested in Baltimore when he
attempted to ask a question of Sem
ator Warren G.. Harding some weeks
ago, has joined the Democratic
speakers. Ee will tour Ohio and In
diana, opening at Marion, MIR. Hard
ing's home
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-21

The Philadelphia Judge who would make
1t grounds for divorce if wife didn't read
the newspapers is assured the support of
many husbands and newspapers
Commercial
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