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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13
HISTORY OF AMERICAN STAGE
lBy DR.. Frank Crane

Arthur Hornblow has done most valuable
piece of work in preparing the two sump-
tuous volumes entitled GA History of the
Theater in America, From Its Beginning to
the Present Time.
The stage has progressed far enough now,
and has sufficiently established itself as a
permanent institution in communal life to
be worth the sincere and careful history
which Mr.. Hornblow has provided.
In the early days of this country severe
Puritanical laws proved an effective barrier
to enterprising thespians.
The prejudice and suspicion of our fathers
are illustrated in an anecdote related by
Judge Daily in connection with the planning
of the Academy of Music in Brooklyn, There
was a warm argument among the building
committee over the question of stage and
scenery, determined stand being taken
against a curtain. "A CURTAIN exclaimed
one solemn-fa faced objector, lis intended to
conceal something and concealment suggests
impropriety." So little versed in the lore OF.
the theater was this worthy city father that
it was necessary to explain to him that stage
plays were usually divided into sections
commonly tacts," and that the curtain was
lowered simply to mark the intervals
There have been several histories of the
American stage, notably Sellhamers, Dun
Laps, and Irelands, but they are all incom-
plete and out of date. In 1859, for instance
the date of Ireland's work, Edwin Booth was
had not yet become famous as Rip Van VIM
kle Augustin DAILY was an obscure play
wright and Charles Frohman and David Be-
lascO were not yet born. &&
Hornblow's work gives the fascinating
story Of the development, of the drama in
the larger. cities of the country, the slow
overcoming Of prejudice, and the rise Of play
ers from position Of little better than So
cial outcasts' to distinction ard honor.
The first theater in America was erected
in Williamsburg, Va, in 1716.
The first play written by Americans, to be
produced here, was given by Harvard stu
dents; it was "Gustavus Vasa," and was
played first in 1890. -sl
All history, says Carlisle, is biography; and
this is peculiarly true of any history of the
drama. ..9
Through the pages of this book, invaluable
to- the actor, troop like ghosts across our
vision-John Hodgkinson, Thomas Abthorpe
Cooper, Mrs. Merry, George Frederick Cooke,
Edmund Kean; Junius Brutus Booth, Will
liam Macready, James W. Wallack, Charlotte
Cushman, j. H. Hackett, Edwin Forrest e.
L. Davenport, sJohn Gilbert, John Brough-
am, w. e. Burton, William Warren, Joseph
Jefferson, Clara Morris, Edwin Booth, Law
renee Barrett, and many others-a truly
brilliant company sas they pass, one after the
other, in stately procession across our stage.
The later history of the theater and the
players of today have also not been ne
elected.
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13
Grading Georgia's Produces.

IN EXCELLENT advice on a matter of Pc
~ culiar Importance in Georgia's ex-
panding food production is given by
the State Bureau of Markets when it says in
it's latest weekly bulletin That farm prod
ucts should be correctly graded and care
fully packed is prime necessity to success
full marketing. No matter how strong a de-
mand may exist in consuming centers for GER
tain lines of products, fair prices cannot be
obtained for ungraded, carelessly packed ar
ticles.' On the strength of this practical
truth, growers are urged to complete their
plans for the year "by resolving that every
thing we sell shall be presented to the buyer
in the most attractive form
If this policy is followed as it should be,
there will be large gains in values and
large eliminations 'of waste.
49, The reputation which California has built up
for her products of vineyard and grove rests
u large measure upon the skill with which
they are packed and graded. Having adopt
ed certain standards of size, weight and
beauty, her growers stuck 60 them, so that
buyers came to recognize as distinctive all the
shipments from that State and to rely upon
them for quality and value. The same thing
can be done for Georgia products by the
same uniformity and steadiness of method.
In fact, it has already been done in the case
of peaches, pecans and apples raised in GER
tain regions of this State; and farsighted
truck growers are adopting the plan with
highly pleasing results.
But there is an immense quantity of farm
products yet to be brought under this wise
manner of marketing. Many thousands if
not millions, of dollars are lost to the pro-
Queer in consequence of his mixing the best
OF his crop with it's inferior portion; and
IN the same way comes the even greater loss
OF an established and distinctive reputation.
me state Market Bureau is rendering Geor-
GA valuable services of many kinds, but none
more important than its efforts to bring about
better system of grading and packing, and
its readiness to give any grower specific adj
vice on such problems.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13
GEORGIA POPLAR

(The Augusta Chronicle.)


There are but few people in Augusta and this
section who know that annually there are hun
dredS of thousands of feet of poplar and gum
lumber shipped away from Augusta and vast
quantities of poplar veneering that come back
home in the finished state. These valuable
woods are returned from the North in form
of furniture, pianos talking machines, etc. We
can build talking machines, pianos and furni-
ture in Augusta and save the freight two
ways
For years the swan1ps of the Savannah river
and the tributary creek have been furnishing
millions of feet of poplar and gum which are
shipped to the North to make the articles men
toned while there has been veneering plant
here for more thin a decade that turns out
the very best veneering that can be procured
anywhere ex elusive of the mahogany veneer
ing This veneering is shipped North, the pop
lar and gum logs are shipped North and they
are polished and vanished and brought back
here and sold for a big profit to the max
Nov, there is no reason why there shouldn't
be furniture factories in Augusta piano facto-
ries talking machine factories and other facto-
rieS to- utilize the practical1y inexhaustible sup
ply of timber in the swamps of the Savannah
river. Freight must be paid two ways now,
and the factories could be set up right here,
and, no doubt, prove tremendous financiel sue
cess from the start.
Augusta pay freight two ways on furniture,
ETC.? Would it not be much cheaper to have
the paint and polish brought hers than to ship
the woodttup North and then ship it right. back
againf 1t. is, indeed a pretty problem in
economics for the Augusta business man. for an
Augusta capitalist locking for an outlet for
his money. 1t would seem to us. that they
would reduce the proposition to matter Of
cold figures and decide that there is an enor-
nous amount Of money going to the railroads
in freight charges that they could put in their
pockets and even the. produce these articles
cheaper than the people in the North can pro-
duce them.
Among the industries in the August: of the
future will be furniture ia -tories, talking ma
chimes factories, picno factories, etc, and right
NOW we are producing talking machines at the
rate of 200 per month, and this industry is
bound to grow by leaps and bounds. Such in
rworkmen here who wills purchase homes and
add to the general prosperity ofEthe entire
community.
Just watch Augusta
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13

TIME Triton Gazette rightly assesses the
situation, not only in Georgia but
: throughout the United States. when
II says, apropos of the srounding~up of tha
Reds: we are glad to see them go. and thew
go none TOO soon But there was never a
time when they had a ghost of show to over
throw the government of this country and set
up a. mlsgoVernment akin to the Soviets of
RUSSIA. Scattered about are few misguided
foolish, half-crazy people of their Ways of
thinking; but the great mass of American
cltlzenry is laW-abiding, contented with it's
form OF government, loyal to it's country,
and will have nothing to do with the rad
icals or any of their kind
Here in Georgia and the steady-going
South, where the admixture of foreign ele-.
ments is negligible, we take this assurance
for granted people domihantly Anglo
Saxon, with a sober Scots-Irish strain, what
ever may be their mistreadings will not be
found flocking with anarchists. They may
appear to move all too slowly at times but
they keep to the track of common sense and
self-control. If they wish to change the
forms and methods of government, they man
age to do so without destroying the sub
stance and damning the spirit; 4 They have
,scant patience with the theory of burning
house to roast an egg. They are anything
but Bolshevik.
Happily, this is the determining fiber and
the ruling temperament of our common coun-
IIy. mere anu IneIe' III oNeIsWaIueu AlVeS
of population or in particular Districts upon
which the alien-minded have fastened, there
are bubbles of destructive radicalism But
they will burst the moment they dash against
the hard, cool sense of the American rank
and file. For in the veins Of the present
generation the New England of the cove
nanter and the West of the pioneer flow
potent still--the conscience and the fore
sight, the sense of duty and the wish to
build that have wrought SO nobly in our
nation s annals. Not until the genius of
that past is dead and forgotten, not until the
heritage and the experience that have formed
the American character dissolve into thin air,
will Boshevism find rootage or following on
these shores.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13
Z DRY TALK-By Ffedric J. fHaskin

n FEW YORK JAM AS the scheduled date
" for the positively last execution of j. B.
a draws near, Broadway bemoanS more and
more oppressed by the magnitude of its grief.
Evidence of deep mourning are apparent every
wherein the theaters, where the audiences can
no longer be made to laugh at things which
are not funny; in the So-called joy palaces
where most of the public looks as If it had
lust quarrefed with its wife; and in the con-
versation of the town, which has become one
long, lugubriouS lament New York is now
like a photograph, with only one record, au-
tomatically repeated aid entitled GIVE Me
Liberty or Give, Nc Death"
Never has there been so much talk about
liberty in New York since the days when the
Liberty Boys themselves went about stirring up
the American Revolution Every New Yorker
will tell YOU the same hing: 1t isn't the exit
of strong beverage he mihdS at all. He can,
and has on various occasions, been able to get
along without it, tits the restriction <ot his
personal liberty which makes him mad.
" "Why, soon, the governmental be tellin' me
how many cups of tea A can drink a day, how
many hairpinS | can YEA in my hair, and what
length to wear my skirt" declared certain
blond rebel the other day, pointing a prophetic
finger at her male escort sitting goomlly at
the other side of Broadway table.
81 tell you what it goin' to do" replied
the male scort moroSely. otis gettin' ready to
hit tobacco"
"Gawd! Where'd you hear that?" demanded
the blond one, instinctively reaching for her
cigarette case
the same evening:
Hello, Jones, what's that you've got in your
hip pocket" Mr.. Jones neighbor inquired jo-
coseiy, givn, Mr.! Jones playful dig in Nhe
ribs with his elbow, as he Topped into the va
cant straw-covered seat beside him.
"Furnture polish" declared Mr.. Jones duly
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13

{ "Oh, come, you can't put that stuff over on
'me-think Pll have to drop in for awhile to-
night" pursued the neighbor with urdaunted
cordially
OTIS true" insisted Mr. Jones bitterly.
aWhere do you suppose could get an thing
MilitariSm. It's those darned reform pirates who
are running the government | tell you, have
always been a good american; the little old
u. S. has looked pretty good to me. 5ut this
thing is enough to turn you BolShevlStlc-an-
archiStic. Well, it can't last Just wait till we
elect presidential candidate on the anti-rrohi-
bition ticket"
With this last burst of optimism Mr.. Jones
departed hastily for the door of the train,
leaving his neightor still staring suSpiciouSly
at the bulge in ME- Jones lip-pocket
For it is commonly known, of course, that
those who wall the loudeSt about their re-
stricted liberty are usually the ones who have
the hrgest supplies on hand in the secret :
ceSseS of their cellars and closes. About 5
o'clock on the evening of New Years Eve, for
example, florid gentleman, in brown over
coat and derby hat stood on a corner near
Times square, holding neat package under
one arm, apd using the other arm for dra-
matte emphasis to his remarks.
'It's an outrage" he was telling the world,
Just as the reporter passed SIS this country
of weaklingS who can't stand half glass?
Understand, it's not the juice care about at all.
! like my little drink occasionally, but | am
not a drinking man-it'S my personal liberty
which"
r Here loud crash interrupted the gentle
mans remarks, and there en- the SluSh-cOVered
asphalt at his feet lay his neat package, from
which flowed a rich blown fluid Immediately
recognized by the surrounding Sniffers as prime
old whisky.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13

1t is possible that thefresult might be all
decisive and completely satisfactory, butbit
is probable that we should have only F'con-
fusion worse confounded, The interests
at stake too imperative7for delay, and too
vitality inwrought with the welfare of count
less millions of human lives to be made Sthe
pawn of political game, This, we repeat,
is no issue for party strategy, and no time
for pride of opinion. In justice to America
and to the world, let all liberal minds of the
Senate bend to the task of ratifying the
Treaty without further postponement.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13

Il WI 81 penetration when he says that Eu-
~ - ropes chief need is not charity nor
large loans from outside Governments, but
work. In certain regions Of the continent
it is true, there is dearth of food and other
necessaries that demand special relief. But
for prevalent wants and Ills the one satisfying
answer must be resumption Of productive
processes This is true whether the question
be one of. larders to be filed, war ravages
to be repaired foreign debts to be paid or
social unrest to be quoted. 1t is literally a
case of working out their salvation, in which
those countries now find themselves.
In some instances, however, their oppor-
unity to work depends upon their procuring
material for manufactures, and this in
turn depends upon their obtaining adequate
commercial credits. In Central and Southern
Europe, for example, there are millions of
persons who look for employment to mills
and other industrial plants which cannot turn
wheel unless they have cotton or metal or
other basic commodities not produced in their
own land For large portion of these sup
plies they must turnsto the United States,
and furthermore they must have certain ac-
commodations while they are getting re-
established. <#2
But SO long as international relations are
as unsettled and as doubtful as they will be
until the Versailles treaty is ratified and
safeguards for continued peace are in force,
those accommodations are not to be expected
IN anything like the needful measure. That
is to say, Europe's return to work, which is
her only salvation and which involves Amer
ica's vital interests along with those of all the
world, is contingent upon a guaranteed peace
in which our nation shall have part and Tot
How imperative, then, that the United States
Senate reach constructive compromise on
those differences which now divide the friends
of the Treaty! Only thus can the great COM
pact be ratified and the vast interests that
depend upon it be protected
"a great many. people WHO profess to be
interested nfbetter. working conditionsFar
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13
Z CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

Victor L. Berger, epresentat1Ve-elect from
the Fifth Wisconsin district, was escorted
from Jersey City, N. j., by the chief of police
last week when he went to that city to de-
liver an address at widely advertised mass
meeting under the auspices of the Socialist
Educational club. The police refused to per-
nit the meeting to be held, though they an
nounced that all who desired to pay dues or
confer with officers of the club might do so.
The American transport Buford THE
Soviet Ark, locked at Kfel Germany Fri
day for repairs. The ultimate destination or
the lark was reported to be either Libau
or Riga, Russia.
+, Secretary Glass has asked authority from
congress to advance $150,00O,000 for food re-
lief in Austria, Poland and Armenia. This
amount, said Mr.. Glass would relieve the
food situation until next spring.
Favorable action has been ordered by the
war department on the bill authorizing an
army of 275, 900 men for the current fiscal
year in order to provide for the forces in
Europe and Siberia.
The army reorganization bill as drafted
by subcommittee was reported to the full
committee containing a section designed
members said, to bring about the appoint
AoHC VI O0n0A@A oA0AtAAS 90 StAA0H - SS,
heretofore a presidential appointment, but
the subcommittee decided to insert the pro-
vision. M8
DR.. G.. Campbell Morgan, the noted London
preacher, will come to Atlanta in March for
the big Bible conference to be held March
1928.
Business associates of Samuel Gambler
Dobbs of Atlanta, have presented life-sized
bronze bust of Mr.. Dobbs to Emory uni
versity in token of their esteem for Mr..
Dobbs - The bust has been placed in the
building erected with money given by Mr..
Dobbs. u 4.,.
The federal amendment granting suffrage
to women was ratified at the opening ses-
sion of the 1920 Kentucky legislature last
week. Kentucky is the twenty-fourth state
to ratify "2fii .s3@
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13
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~rTE SEsfTwEEKIY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ca.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13

At the close of meeting in Cincinnati
last week of 100 distillers from all parts of
the country, it was announced that com
mittee has been appointed to go to Wash
ington to discuss with federal officials the
problem of disposing of bonded whisky in the
United States.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13
THE MAN TO BE
(The Charleston Post.l


Somewhere today in an American home in
all probability modes. in exterior and furnish
ings, in contact with a few friends and &C
quaintanceS and servants and tradesmen thor
oughly accustomed to :: and cheriShing it large
Iy for its own virtues or beStowalS, is family
which a short time hence will occupy the
White. House. Today it is comparatively un-
noticed in its daily life, whatever high office
the head of it may hold, but then its every
act, so far as its acts become known to the
public, will be news
this swift transformation of man and his
family from modest surroundings and perhaps
slight temporal power to the rulerShip of more
than one hundred millions of people by the
ballotng of from twenty to thirty millions: one
man will be given more power than any of the
earths emperors or kings, will be made com
mander-in-chief of armies and navies though
he may never have known a monlent'c martial
service or training, will be empowered to treat
with foreign potentate" in all things though his
stock of language may be limited absolutely to
common school English and his knowledge of
foreign countries to the pages of books In the
past days that all can easily remember, the peo-
pie have selected as the recipient of this more
than imperial authority a wealthy political anna
teur, Stad and inconSpicuouS jurist and a re-
served college professor. The people have
strange ways of making their choice and he
is bold man, indeed, who will stake his repu-
taton as prophet on prediction of it.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13

Total production of tobacco for the year
in the new Jugo-Slav kingdom is estimated
by experts as 5000 tons, Of this 5000
tons are available for export.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13

Mayor Peters, of Boston, Mass has asked
the city council for a. fund of $4,000 with
which to fight radicalism there.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13

Discovery Of new star by the Harvard
observatory, the thirty-ifth in the history OF
astronomy, has been announced.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13

. CANADIANS REBEL AGAINST TIPPING
A recent issue of the Toronto World con-
tains an article attacking the tipping prac-
tice and stating that the Canadian walters
have reached place where they consider a
dollar tip more or less of an insult. Sounds
strangely like New York.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13

The French cabinet has fixed Saturday,
January II, as the date for the election of
the president of the French republic.
During the last eight months the Amer1-
can army, according to revised figures made
public recently, has obtained 159,S43 re-
cruits Those enlisting for one year number
1878 white and 5,981 colored, while for
three years the number enlisting has been
69854 white and 4,030 colored. The total
enIisting for service in the infantry is S.
203, or only 1914 per cent of the total needed
In other branches the proportion is much
lower
The navy department has accepted a do
nation of $4,000 to be used in the erection
of large monolith near the entrance to
New York harbor to commemorate the part
played by the American naval forces in the
world war and the happy comradeship which
existed between the British and French sea
forces.
The money is part of fund raised by pop
ular subscription in Great Britain to perpet-
uate the memory Of the Dover patrol and the
part it played in safeguarding the English
channel during the war. From the general
fund $4,000 was allocated to the American
people, with no restrictions as to it's use.
Senator Myers, Democrat, Montana, has
introduced a bill congress appropriating
$4,000 900 to be loaned to farmers in drouth-
stricken sections of the United States for the
purchase of seeds. 1t was referred to the ag-
riculture committee.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13

The federal amendment granting suffrage
to women was ratified at the opening ses-
sion of the 1920 Kentucky legislature last
week Kentucky is the twenty-fourth state
to ratifY a.s,t. 80 49,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13
What EUROPE Needs.

IA FIR. HOOVER speaks with his usual
lN penetration when he says that Eu-
~ = ropes chief need is not charity nor
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13

j "A great many people WHO profess to be
interested in sbetter working condifionsFare
interested only in better loaing conditions.
Oklahoma News. 60 . q fssssets ~ Z ssfsss
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13

DR.. G.. Campbell Morgan, the noted London
preacher, will come to Atlanta in March for
the big Bible conference to be held, March
1928.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13
The BolsheUist Bubble
4nd the A,mer1can Rock

Triton Gazette rightly assesses the
situation, not only in Georgia but
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-13

!. Secretary Glass has asked authority from
congress to advance $150,00O,000 for food re-
lief in Austria, Poland and Armenia This
amount, said Mr.. Glass, would relieve the
food situation until next spring.