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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13
AN ERA OF GOOD FEELING
BY DR.. Frank Crane

DON'T you remember with what pleasure Won
teaa' IN your history of the United States. at
School, of the era of good feeling, when James
monroe was elected president?
OF SO wonderful country had to be quarre,ing
IKE cats and GogS all Tie time, and it was q
relief to find out that once, at any rate. thev
all quit and got together
Isn't it about time NOW in this U. S. A. to
nave little rest from the dscord and conten-
days hideouS for so long?
GIye US rest from partisanship Republicans
and Democrats have been clrSinp. Scowling
splitting and throwing things at each other for
long while now, and bit OF quiet would
help some.
AS a matter of fact, there is no great issue
now upon which the people ar divided At
neaft we all want some sort of peaceful work
ing agreement with other countries, whether Won
call 1t League of Nations or not, and we all
YAM YAM american interests sAfeguarded. Why, in
GodS name, cannot we all get together?
Every historic demarcation between the two
great political parties ha been wiped out by
the great war. Such issues as slavery the tariff
3lmetalllSm, and others we once split over are
dead; nobody cares 2 hang about them
we all want to get to work, to produce. to
tend to our farms AID shops Doughboy and
COB hurry to get off I cir uniforms and bsck
to their Jobs O'>~'>
We are tired of fighting, and just as tired
or lighting each other as CT fighting the Hun
Tireder.
The public cannot permanently be Interest ed
IN the dispute over man. We are perfectly
willing to leave it to history an6 to the next
generation to decide whether Woodrow Wilson
was a statesman or a blund .er We don't want
all our business to 20 20 the devil while we
are settling that point of pride and resentment
The country is sick and tired of the antics
OF professional politicians SkirmShing around to
lraSe fictitious issues, to arouse blind paSSio S
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13
The VIRGIN Islands


Senator Gay and his congressional coll
leagues who have gone to the Virgin Islands,
acquired: by the United States from Denmark
largely for their strategieal value, to make
a report on existing conditions and recon-
mendatiOns with respect to their future gov
eminent will naturally have pleasant time,.
but probably difficult task in evolving a.
satisfactory plan of administration.
The islands are largely populated by peo-s
pie of color and it may we'll be doubted that
they are fitted for self-government, as We
understand and enjoy it in the United Statess
nor yet for the form of administration which
Porto Rico and Hawaii enjoy
At this time the islands are being admin
istered practically as in the days Of their
Danish sovereignty and the Danish language
and Danish currency are still in use. The
chief authority is an American admiral, and
as the navy generally does everything well,
it is not impossible that the congregational
committee will deem it advisable to make no
radical change until the islanders have had
some training in American forms Of admin
istraton. 8.
The islands were purchased chiefly because
Of the proximity to the Panama canal and
the fear that they might fall into the hands
of an unfriendly foreign power But they
are capable of development into valuable pos
sessions aside from their military value, and
sooner or later we may expect American en-
terprise and capital to be attracted, to them
by the opportunities they offer for Industrial
exploitation. New Orleans States (Dem.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13

- room with a collection of queer
junk"
That he might wish to collect postage
stamps, you can understand But you deem
unaccountable the liking he is showing for
old bottles, cans, and tobacco boxes
Be patient with him, encourage him to
keep them in orderly array. But do not
ruth1essly Danish them altogether.
He will soon outgrow the impulse that
now puzzles you. To refuse to allow him
to give it expression may in the long
run be to his great disadvantage.
For it has it's roots in the acQuistive
instinct, which every human being should
possess in proper measure. 1t is a means
by which nature would foster in your little
boy the necessary later interest in earning
and preserving property.
Imitation, to be sure, may enter to the
extent of determining the particular form
Of the collections made. So that if your
tobacco boxes, instead Of postage stamps it
possibly is because boys of his acquaintance
are collecting these things.
But the collecting itself is done in obed-
fence to an inner urge, of practical impor-
lance in his development. Likewise with
other spontaneous interests to which nearly
all children seek to give expression
The interest in toys is no mere amuse-
ment interest. It variously helps to develop
imagination, ~constructiveness, domesticity,
maternal love, and numerous other qualities
and instincts vital alike to the individual
and the race.
And, if only for this reason, the simpler
the toys given children the more surely will
| be realized the purposes of the impulse to
play with toys. For with simple toys chill
dren can creatively amuse themselves as
they never can with playthings so complex
that little scope is left for independent
mental activity.
Thus a cheap box of building blocks
1 means far more to the child's mental
growth than any expensive continuance could
mean. Dolls with which children can really
play are incomparably more valuable than
costly and ultra-fragile dolls
Children's interest in other children. their
impulse to romp and play with other chill
dren, is another instance of a formative
instinct which should be allowed, ample
expression.
Through their games with one another
they unconsciously grow in social adapt
ability. The splendid qualities of sympa-
thy tact, courage, unselfishness, self-denial,
and sef-control are given a better chance
| OF becoming solid personal assets
Whereas the child denied playmates, or
| permitted to play with only a chosen fed, is
all too likely to grow into a difficult man
! or woman, socially UNACCEPTABLE snobbish.
selfish, cringingly ttmid or abnormalIy hard
| and cold.
One and all, consequently, the fundamen-
TAI the typical interests Of childhood, should
be encouraged, not depressed. Indeed. one
should look eagerly for their appearance.
| ana II thy do not appear this should he
taken as danger signal Indicating that tho
child in whom they are absent needs snecia1
| study and care
Copyright, 1920, by The Associated
I''-'- .''7.t NeWSDaDerS !
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13

to see that each step is performed according
to the sanitary regulations and standards of
quality.
1.-THE inspector looks to see if only clean,
sound materials are used, and II the fish,
fruits or vegetables have been properly wash
ed or trimmed in preparation for canning.
He also investigates the packing of the cans.
To come up to the National Gamers stand
ard each can must be as full Of food as praC-
teal, consistent with proper sealing and pro-
cessing, and without injury to the quality
and appearance of the product. The water,
brine or syrup added can be used only to
fill cracks and to cover the product.
"The inspector visits every corner Of the
plant, always with the threefold purpose in
characterization of the cannery, sanitation
of the product and whOlesomeness of the
product. .%
This undertaking OF the Gamers is es-
pecially worthy of recognition because the
plants that assume this extra responsibility
do SO of their own choice Most of the states,
and some cities, have inspection regulations,
but the forces provided to carry out the laws
are necessarily small, and a factory is visited
by state officials only once in while.
Besides state and local regulations the
Gamers have to comply with the pure food
and drug law. This law deals entirely with
the product when it is on the market, and
there is no factory supervision by the ma
tional government as means OF enforce
ment. Thus the Gamers have been left more
or less to themselves Fifty canning fac
tories in Ohio, for instance, are under super
vision of one state official Forty Of these
plants are now also under inspection of the
Gamers with fourteen men in charge.
The fourteen states which have established
the sanitary inspection service are the big
centers of industrial canning They range
from California, the home of so much of our
canned fruit, to Illinois with it's corn, and
New York with it's varied products
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13
As To Lord Crews Leadership

On the night, of November 10. when tha1
senate rejected the various resolutions on
ratification, Senator Lodge said: ....
"The treaty is dead so far as this senate.
is concerned. In the new session Cne pr~R+-
dent can withdraw the treaty from the sem,
ate and resubmit it for ratification or rejec-c
ton" g..
He repeatedly asserted that only the presi--
dent could revive. the treaty, and there was.
no public evidence Of a change in his attitude
until Lord Grey's letter was printed. Then
Senator Lodge, forgetting that the treaty
was dead unless the president withdrew it
and resubmitted it, promptly gave notice that,
he would ask the senate to take up the
treaty next Monday by a majority vote. I
If this was not response to Lord Grey's,
leadership, what was it? The action Of
Senator Lodge was especially impressive be-
cause he had stubbornly refused 10 accept any
compromises, and only two days before the
appearance of the Grey letter he had reject
ed outright former President Taft's substi-
tute reservation on Article Knew York
World (Dem.) ...,->.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13
Seed Time Sense in Georgfa,
THE attitude of the farmers and bust

"HE attitude of the farmers and bust
ness men who met at Americas on
Tuesday to hear representative of the
State College Of Agriculture discuss season
able problems and to take counsel concerning
their common needs is happily characteristic
OF Georgia as whole. It was the consensus
or opinion at this meeting that while every
available aid for combating the boil Weevil
should be employed. planters should be es-
pecially careful not to give an excessive acre
age to cotton, but to raise food crops in album
dance.
Practical science has demonstrated beyond
peradventure that the ravaging weevil can
be so subdued, If not blotted out as to make
cotton production quite feasible even in in
tested territory. The Importance of this can
hardly be oVergauged. It means that mil
lions upon millions Of dollars of potential val
ue hitherto destroyed by the boll-invading in
sect can be saved. and that the worst of a
grave peril to Southern farm industry is
probably over. But men Of foresight are out
making the mistake of plunging their agri-
culture back into the all-cotton system sim
ply because effective resistance to the weevil
has been found. They realize indeed that it
would be better to have the weevil in full
force and practice diversification than to
be freed of the weevil only to be fettere
again by cotton tyranny.
Georgia's richest measure of prosperity has
come since liberal production of foodstuffs
was made necessary by the inroads of the cot
ton parasite. To return to the old order
would be to forfeit most of the progress and
independence of the last five or ten years and
TO darken the bright promise Of the times
coming on. Sumter county farmers and bust
ness men have counseled well. Every region
of the State, let us hope, will be guided by
the same wise policy.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13
THE SEMI-WEEKLY EDITORIAL DIGEST S55
National Summary of Leading Opinion Current
Questions andE pent

is no reason to suppose that any facility
which he may acquire at night school In
reading or speaking English will lead to the
habitual use Of that language. - AS for
the children, they learn English in the
schools. Americanization cannot Dc
taught in English or any other language 1t
must be subconsciously absorbed by contact.
The problem is how to secure the contact
with aliens who are settled in colonies"
The KNOXVILLE JOURNAL AND TRIB-
UNE (Rep.) would prefer to restrict immt-
grafton, holding it too much to expect that
the coming of million immigrants year
will not be too much for our schools" The
Kenyon plan rests on "a beautiful theory, but
putting it into practice is something else"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13

The Rev. DR.. James Monroe Buckley, for
thirty-two years editor Of the Christian Adj
vOcate, official organ of the Methodist Epis-
copal churhc, died this week at his home in
MorristoWn, N J., where he had been living
in retirement since 1912. DR.. Buckley had
been i'll about a week. Death was ascribed
to hardening Of the arteries He was in
his eighty-fourth year.
DR.. Buckley welded so powerful an in
fuence during his editorship that he came
to be known as the Bishop maker" His
attitude toward public questions always was
vigorous, his editorial policy always pro-
gressive. Largely through his leading the
Methodist church entered field of humani-
tarianisn which had no immediate connec-
ton with religious observances.
District Attorney Charles F. Clyne has
brought suit in the Circuit Court of Appeals
to have Victor Berger, convicted Socialist
congressman, sent to Leavenworth Peniten-
tiary to serve out his ten year sentence.
In his brief Mr.. CIyne declares Berger
tried to perpetrate fraud on the court and
that he should be sent to prison Immediate
ly The fraud charge is based on new evil
dence that while out on bail under promise
to refrain from all such activity, Berger took
part in campaign to induce Socialists to
oppose CONSUMPTION and the war.
Berger's appeal from the sentence passed
by Judge K. NJ. Lands is now tending in the
Circuit Court Of Appeals.
Further loans from Federal loan banks
have been suspended until the constitution
atty Of the farm loan act has been determ~
fned by the United States supreme court.
Instruction to this effect have been sent out
to the farm loan representatives by Com
missioner Norris, who explained that the or
der did not affect loans for which appIica-
tions already have been received but that it
shut off new applications. The commission
er insisted that prospective borrowers be in
formed that the step was taken as measure
of protection to them.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13

over nothing, upon who's wave ;hey may ride
into office
Would it not be wond4, full if the masses,
the whole people, by i tremendous outburst of
enthusiasm, should sweep away the petty, rot
house ,squabblerS, with al tu~ir bunk of party,
with their narrowness and self-interest; if we
could all get, together, Americans all, drop our
man whose tie to America is strong lust be-
cause his tie to a party is weak; and thus fol-
low our magnificent coopertiorl in war by a
cooperation no less magnificent in peace? And
is not right now the psychological moment for
another
ERA OF GOOD FEELING?
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13

~ 1OA ANOo VI AlaDamaS Forthcoming
election on bond issue for the con
struct!on of an inter-county system
Oh highways, the Birmingham News observes.
THE State and Federal Governments
Will combine forces to build roads from
county seat to county seat that can he
kept up with maximum of efficiency
ana minimum of cost. This means ner-
manent roads, with bridges and culverts
OF concrete or other durable material
Inc engineers who will have charge of
the construction have found out by ex-
perlence that 1t costs more to maintain
sorry road than it does both to build
and to maintain a good one"
There could be no surer harbinger Of the
South's prosperity in the years ahead than
the TACT that almost every State and every
county in this region is coming to appreci-
ate ana apply the wisdom in these words By
the millions OF dollars which they so heartily
are voting for highway improvement and ex
tension, the people Of Georgia and neighbor-
ing Commonwealth are preparing the Wav
for new era of social as we'll as economic
progress. The little which has been done
upon this line Of enterprise in the decade inst
behind (and we say little" in comparison
with what is going to be done in the new pc
nod gives a hint of what may be expected
hundreds and thousands Of cases bear wit
ness to the power Of road betterment to en-
nance land values to increase crop profits
to stimulate trade, to upbuild schools and
to quicken the community's finest impulses
and ideals.
If so much has been accomplished with
rather grudging and ofttimes divided effort
what may we not look for when the pub1ic's
whole heart is in the undertaking and when
county, State and Federal Governments work
shoulder to shoulder by the most efficient
methods which engineering science can pro-
vide?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

More than $4,000 candidates for military
service in this country during the war were
rejected, on the ground that they were feeble
minded, according to a paper written by DR..
Pearce Bailey. chairman of the New York
state commission on Mental Detectives, ana
read at the closing session of the socletles
for mental hygiene held recently in New.
York. Rejection for nervous and mentaI
diseases, he asserted, ranked fourth on the
list. The percentage of mental defectlvesG
he said, ran especially high among immi1
grant classes of New York. &
ThIcampaign against food profteers and
boarders has netted a total Of 395 arrests,
the Department of Justice in washington
has announcedH Although only small num-
Der Of these cases have been brought 10
trial, the prosecutions so far have resulted
in twenty-eight convictions. Penalties range
upward to fine of $4,000 with one year
Imprisonment More than one hundred per-
sons have been arrested for profteering in
sugar. Eleven Of these have been convicted
thus far Less than one-fourth OF the cases
have come to trial. .'..-'.... ,
The legislature Of Idaho in special session
Wednesday ratified the woman's Suffrage
Amendment to the national constitution by
large majorities in both houses. Idaho is tho
thirtieth state to ratify and only six more
are needed. ..-.,
Robert Underwood Johnson, of New York,
author and editor and one of the founders OF
the League to Enforce Peace, has been nam
ed by President Wilson as ambassador to
Rome, Italy, to succeed Thomas Nelson Page,
of Virginia.
An English barrister, arguing before the
criminal court remarked with much SOL
emnity to the presiding Justice: my lord.
there is honor among thieves" The justfcs
looked at him severely. There is gold in
sea water" he replied, "but it can't be ex-
tracted in profitable quantities. Go on, sir"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13
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THE SEMT-WEEKLY. JOURNAL. Atlanta, Ga.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13

General Woods campaign managers have
had row, but the Wood forces refrain from
calling it split.-Columbia Record.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13
Highway. Har6ingggle.rs.

a PROPROS of Alabama's forthcoming
| election on bond issue for the con-
struction of an inter-county system
OF highways, the Birmingham News observes.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13
YOUR CHILD'S INTERESTS
By H. Addington Bruce

cause your little boy is littering
room with collection of 20
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13

Jul . u UIy,
]. P. MATHEWS, Lovett, Ga.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-24
Editors Letter Box
Some Good Sweet Corn

East Monmouth, Me-, Nov. 20, 1920.
Mr.. Editor: I
1t is a little late to write about
sweet corn, but having been busy
could not see the time to spare. There
were some good pieces of corn in this
vicinity. Mr.. Cram sold an acre for
seed corn to the factory for $215. II
would have brought more to cut as it
was one of the best acres I INV this
season. Reuben Howard has been a
successful sweet corn grower for sew
eral years: this year he took a new
departure. Instead of four stalks in
the hill he left only three stalks. The
result was more corn to the acre, He
had two acres and 1t brought at the
factory $453. and besides he saved his
seed for another year. which he cures
on a line in the kitchen over the
stove, making sure the corn is well
dried before the cold weather comes
on. This is the third year Mr.. How
ard has had corn on the same piece.
Clement & Taylor have been in COM
pany for fifteen years on the Orchard
Slope farm but the last year Mr..
Clement got a job with the State so
sold his interest in farm to Frank
Taylor. This farm is rightly named
Orchard Slope" for certainly it has
the orchard and slope. The orchard
contains more than 1900 trees and the
high land is back Of the house and
slopes to the -Cobbosseecontee.
At this farm they have had
as high as 1900 barrels of apples:
this year not far from 400 barrels,
being an of year. az"
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Un-American Amerieanism
T. (Churchman) s."


DR.. Francis H. Rowley's plea before
the annual meeting of the American
Humane Society for more humane
method Of slaughtering animals is I'M
pleasant reading. We all wish to for
get the ahattoirs which condition our
living. But DIR. Rowley says we mus.
not forget the 100000 calves. 1880. 900
cattle. 16.500.O00 sheep and lambs, and
Il 900 900 swine which are slaughtered
in America every year. Ard all ex-
cept the large beef animals are killed
in what he deems to be neediessiy
cruel fashion. Other nations do it more
humanely.
Germany. whatever our prejudices,
has been thirty years ahead of Eng
land and France and America In her
methods of slaughter. 49, Think Of
where we stand as a civilized country
in this matter: look at Denmark, where
a law is now pending to compel the
painless death of even all poultry and
fish; at Sweden, where replies from ev-
cry abattoir written to state that all
food animals are stunned before slaugh-
ter: at Finland. where. stunning mnst
precede the knife; at Switzerland,
where all animals are stunned. and in
Iceland not only must all animals be
stunned before being bled. but they
may not be killed in each other s
presence. Here is one instance at least
where a man should be ashamed to
be one hundred per. cent American.
Better be fifty per cent American and
at least fifty per cent humane"
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A despatch from Washington says
gossip in the capital centres upon Will
liam Howard Taft as the next man to
be appointed to a place in the Su-
preme Court. Certainly that would be
return to normally
Since President Wilson has had the
appointing power the country has seen
two judges appointed to that tribunal
who, so far as anyone could guess.
were named because they were differ
ent from thc kind of men presidents
generally select for the highest court
in the land. MIR. Wilson's idea seemed
to be that he wanted to change the
character Of the court. and for that
purpose. speaking with all due respect,
he chose men who had not been par.
ticularly distinguished as 1urists. They
were simply good lawyers who were
regarded as liberal in their. views.
Mr.. Taft, on the other hand. was al
ways thought Of as jurist even when
he was President. One quality he would
bring to the court would be a spirit
of accommodation and compromise
III he were on the bench it is possible
the court would not be quite so CEN
tripetal as it has been.