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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

Pin G 5sS %0gnt ye OF apRr01i apese
priated for the purpose.
British obsolete battleships will
shortly be turned into floating exo
study of hoof and mouth disease
among cattle in order to do away
with the danger of the disease
spreading to other herds, as was the
case when the diseased cattle were
segregated on land.
Ofticials point opt that Britain
must stamp OUT tns disease It she
is to maintain her large cattle ex.
ports. The floating COW barns will
carry as investigators some of the
most distinguished scientists in
animal husbandry and the research
may last for years.
closely tests now being made in
England of new type of freignl
airplane. Preliminary tests made
recently are said to have proved en-
tirely satisfactory. The new plane
called "hyfing tramp" is of the
monoplane type and has the same
sort of controls.
By means of a new curve, the sim
gle wings of the planes, wn,cn t.T,
constructed of mahogany planhIns,
are said to make possible large
body also is made Of mahogany
planking. The new wing has a
| weight-lifting capacity of 35 per
cent greater than the ordinary wing
A feature of the machine Is the
type of cargo container that VIII
carry four tons of freight when
properly packed.
Six Hungarians have Seen arrested
| in Genoa, Italy, since the explosion
of a bomb in the stock exchange.
They had plenty of money, but none
Police officials have ascertatned
| the bomb which exploded in the
stock exchange had been made re-
Gently, and for this reason there IS
some suspicion that it was turned
out by a plant occupied by workmen.
Attempts have been made to blow up
several fashionable restaurants, one
| of which was located in the base
ment of the stock exchange building.
The belief tina THE Rev. Frank w.
Sandford, leader of the Holy Ghost
| and Us" sect, is soon to attempt to
form a colony in South Africa, was
| strengthened recently when the
| schooner yacht Coronet, which has
| been at anchor in the harbor at
| Portland, Ore, ten years, was hauled
on a marine railway for extensive
repairs.
The colony at Shiloh, on the sand
hills of Durham, is practically de-
populated and current report, based
| on statements said to have been made
by deserving colonists, Is that Stand
ford, realizing that his control here
has ended, will take few of the
faithful and found a new home for
his followers on African shores.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30
REFLECTIONS OF A
BACHELOR GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Irc.)

Oh hearten me, Beloved-oh tell me
not the truth!
Say not my eyes are losing the starry
mist of youth.
Hint not my girlish figure grows ma
tronly in size
Oh, comfort me, Beloved, with pleas
ant little lies!
Oh, hearten me, Beloved-nor stop to
count the cost!
Say not my shining tresses their
golden CLINT have lost.
Oh, tell me that you love me! Not
once, but every day,
Repeat the sweet assurance, in the
sweet, tender way!
For I am but woman. Truth has
for me no thrills,
Unless it's subt1y camouflaged, and
all dressed up in frills.
So tell me It'll the end, Dear Heart,
that I am passing fair,
Oh, feed me not the bitter truth-but
just the old hot air!
A man has two ways of winning a
woman. To half of them he paints
IlIHScIl UldChcT liloll IlS 49, anu " Tile
other half he whitewashes himself.
You can judge a man, nowadays,
according to whether he regards
Bermuda as the isle of Lilies" as
the place where onions come FROM"
Or merely as a tempting oasis in the
desert of prohibition.
After a few years of marriage. a
man ceases to resent the. fact that
men. stare at his wife, and begins to
wonder why they do it.
At ten, a man says, give made a
NASH" at twenty, 1--WE got a gir;"
at thirty, 81 know a charming wom-
an" at forty, 1.-THE sweetest little
woman in the world" and at sixty,
MY affinity"
The new fall hats are hard on the
eyes. But don't blame US! Hats are
like husbands, you know. We can't
choose" them; we merely accept
them, when under hypnotic influence.
A summer vacation is like love
affair-awfully sweet and thrilling,
while 1t lasts; but you are glad and
relieved when it's over, and you find
yourself on your way back to your
home or your sanity, again.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30
The Plague Bearer

~ RUDENT persons and well-ordered
communities the country over will
give heed to Surgeon General Cum
mings' statement on the Importance of TAX
ing preventive measures against postwar
plague infections from the Near East. Re-
ferring to the indications that ''seven mil
lion people are trying to get here from Asia
Minor, the Black Sea district Of Russia and
other parts of Europe where the bubonic
plague typhus and smallpox are raging"
and recalling the appearance of the first
mentioned malady at certain American ports
early in the summer he appeals for gen
eral strengthening of sanitary precautions.
Especially important, all students of the
matter agree, is the determination of rats,
which are carriers-of sundry germs-notably
the injecting flea that spreads bubonic
plague. This peril centers; of course, in
immigrant ships, that vigilance on the
part of port authorities is the first essen
tial. But in all places and at all times
activity against the disease-bearing, prop
erty-destroying ever-dangerous rat is COM
mendable. This duty is not lessened by
the fact that one is fortunate enough to
dwell far away. from apparent possible
sources of plague infection. Always and
everywhere rat is a peril md a pest Sc
curity of health as we'll as conservation of
property calls for ceaseless war upon his
species
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30
GO ID 0 =

have the motto. Tn God We Trust. 3"
removed from coins?
A. When designs for gold coins
were being submitted during Presi-
dent Roosevelts administration, that
of the artist, st. Gaudens, was ac-
cepted even though i did not carry
the motto, I'm God We Trust" Later
congress authorized a modification
of the design in order that the mot
to might be restored.
9. @. What Is the meaning of
the words "Ku Klux" and from what
language are they derived?
A. This explanation Of the name
Is given. At the first meeting of
this organization in 1866, name
was suggested, "Ku Kloi," from the
Greek "kuplos" meaning band or
circle. Someone called out, Call it
Ku Klux," whereupon man remark
cd, that sounds like 'Cocletz,' our
old society was called the Lost Clan
of Cocletz.'" The Cocletz Indians
were a clan, not a tribe, that had
existed some 200 years previously.
The. name was adopted.
10. @. How long has the Panama
canal been operating and how many
ships have used it?
A. The Panama canal completed
six years Of operation at the close of
business on August IA. 1920. Dur
ing this time 10,573 commercial YES
sells have made the transit.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30
w ON D { R F UL
LODESTON E

The lodestone is considered the
most wonderful stone in the world;
it is really not a stone at all, but
rightly belongs to the mineral ram
lily. If it is suspended by silken
thread or fioated on mercury, or on
a circular raft in water, the same
end of the stone will always point
to the "lodestar" or north star; that
fact is where it got its name. The
lodestone is a natural compass, such
as the vikings of old used to make
centuries before America was dis
covered. By rubbing needle or thin
steel bar on a lodestone 1t becomes
magnetized, and will float on water
and always point to the north. The
most powerful lodestones come from
Sweden, and hunters tell stories of
not being able to pick up their guns
from the ground after laying them
near lodestones. Galileo'e original
lodestone, with which he made so
many experiments, weighs only six
ounces, yet it sustains a weight Of
fifteen pounds; it is 800 years old
and holds as firIy as it ever did. 1t
is exhibited in the Tribuna de Cali
leo, Florence, Italy. The iron weight
at the bottom is made in the form
of a sepulchre, probably suggested
by the legend that Mahomets COT
fin was supported in midair by lode
stones,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30
GAS MASKS HAVE
OTHER HANDY USES

from lover there" they were wildly
enthusiastic on the subject OF gas
masks, and were convinced that
they could be utilized to advantage
in mines and in factories where
'0 The fire department of our cities
thought they would afford protec-
ton to firemen, and were anxious to
adopt them.
the c %Is danger myers So far as s gases
are concerned, is from carbon mon
oxide But the war mask is Of no
use against carbon monoxide. 1t
has no value against ammonia gas
or ordinary illuminating gas: :.
factory or a mine are very different
from those of the open air of q bat
tlefeld. In open air a poisonous
gas is SO diluted that the atmos-
phere contains only small per-
ground 1t may easily be SO concen-
trated that the war mask affords
no effective protection.
The chief constituent Of the gases
in mine after fire or an exp!o-
sion is the deadly carbon monoxlde.
out. Though the United States bu-
reau Of mines explained this to the
fire departments, they were uncon-
WINGED until they had tried the thing
out. Then they agreed.
AS a protection against smoke the
war mask does first rate service. so
far as that goes, it is highly salts
factory, if fitted with canister con-
tanning filter pads.
The bureau of mines is, Of opinion
that the final solution Of the mask
problem for f1remen will be reach
ed by the construction Of a canister
three times the war size, and CON
tanning, in addition to the war filling
Charcoal, lime and filter pads), spe-
cial absorbents for ammonia gas
and carbon monoxide.
One should, of course, not confuse
the war mask with the oxygen ap-
paratus used in mines, which rem.
breathing supply from. Outside. In
its latest development it is high
ly scientific CONTINUANCE, and a man
equipped with it could live for a
while in an atmosphere of pure car
bon Observation-Disclosures City Star.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30
Questions Answered


1. How many men are there in the
Mexican army?
e. Who is the eighty five-year-old
woman who has crossed the Atlantic
thirty-five times?
8. How many words did Shake
speare use? How does this compare
with the average PERSONS vocabu-
T. Who said "I would rather be
right than PRESIDENT"
5; What is meant by balance of
6. How did the expression, "To the
bitter end" originate?
7. In the states where women are
of age at eighteen will they be al
lowed to vote at that age?
8. Does the English language vary
in different parts of the United
States as it does in different parts of
England?
g. Who invited liquid air?
TO- Who was the first American
novelist?
Questions Answered
l.. @. How did the name Yankee
start?
A. The word is of uncertain orr
gin, but it is generally supposed to
be a corruption Of the pronunciation
of the word English" by the In
dams.
2. @. Who holds the record of
driving in harness races?
A. Probably the record Of Ed
Geers, Familiarity known as Pop
Geers, who has been driving for al
past sixty-nine years of age, has
never been equaled.
8. @. Which damages road
more, automobiles and loaded trucks
CT wagons and loaded wagons.
A. The bureau of public roads
says that automobiles and loaded
trucks cause more damage to roads
4. @. Is there a law prohibiting
the burial of Chinese in the United
States?
A. There is no law Of the United
States prohibiting the burial of Chi
nese upon American soil. The Chi
nese, however, prefer to be buried
in their native country and whenever
5. @. Does the peanut actually
belong to the nut family?
A. The peanut is not a nut. 1t
belongs to the same family as the
common pea and bean. The term
nut" was applied to it on account
o. it's flavor, which is similar to that
of some true nuts.
been finally given UP as lost?
A. The loss Of this ship, loaded
with manganese and carrying fifty
seven passengers, twenty officers and
crew of 213. has never been ex-
planned. After months of search
and waiting the Cyclops was finally
given up as lost and her name strick-
en- from the registry of the navy.
7. @. ado all vines Irvine from
left to right?
A. The department of agriculture
says that most plants Irvine to the
left. Some, including the hop and
honeysuckle, Irvine to the right.
Twining is apparently the result Of
geotropic stimulus.
8. @. Did President Roosevelt
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30

Labor unions of Manila have
adopted resolutions against importa-
ton of contract Asiatic laborers into
the Philippines as proposed by the
Agricultural. congress in session re-
Gently. The unions appointed COM
mittees to protest to the legislature
against the passage of bill admit
ting Asiatic laborers.
Ten out of fourteen representative
industries showed a decrease in the
in August, as compared with July.
the Department of Labor's Bureau of
Labor Statistics reports in an in
dustrial survey. Figures on which
the comparison was made were OBJ
tanned from identical establishments.
The historic fortifications of War
saw, long famed as the strongest in
Europe are being displaced by fer
tile fields. A report received from
days of the war these Notifications
were abandoned, having proved old
fashioned and Of little use against
modern artillery.
The first suggestion that they be
levelled to the ground was made by
Red Cross officials and met with i'm
mediate approval. Hundreds of if1er
and women were put to work and as
rapidly as the great piles of earth
were removed the level ground was
plowed up and planted with garden
vegetables. Large quantities of vege-
ed relieve the food situation in the
Polish capital during the past sum
mer.
John a Dondero left a job as
butchers helper at SIS a week to
act as an agent for Charles Ponzi, in
Boston, and made more than $1,000 a
day. in commissions during the latter
part of July, according to his testi-
money at hearing by the receivers.
The receivers introduced cancelled
checks and deposit slips on two local
banks and asked Dondero the source
Of the money. He said the sums rep
resented commissions. Counsel re-
ferred to them as gifts, but the wit
ness replied that he felt he had earn
ed all he got.
In response to the demand made
prices on " eatables be reduced 10 o.
prosecution would Immediately start
against practically all large restau.
rants in the city, the hotel and res.
taurant keepers of Pittsburg, Pa.
have adopted a new schedule Of
prices for many staple dishes
The new list becomes effective moi
later than the first of next week.
The United States government
may buy in upwards of $200,000,00C
worth of Liberty bonds during the
current. fiscal year, which ends next
treasury department, favors the
plan.
A sinking fund provision, which
was part Of the Victory loan bill
gives the treasury the necessary au-
thority to buy bonds. Under this
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lea If suffered to pass unrebuked
They accused Van Buren, of being
corrupted by Jackson in one breath,
and in the next they declared that
it was from Van Buren, that jack
had learned corruption.
Another feature of all the anti
Jackson press was the never-ending
criticism of the postoffice depart
ment. The Mobile Advertiser SOL
EMMY apologized to its readers for
not giving them the news of the
election Georgia las no foot-passeng-
ers have arrived from that state, ar;
we are compelled to wait for the
mail"
Van Bureaus Inauguration was the
beginning of the great civic cere
monies which continue until this day
People came from every state to see
the parade and to cheer the out
going hero. Jackson followed the
example of Washington and delivered
a farewell address to the American
people. Two days later he left
Washington, and said that he went
to end his days at the Hermitage,
where he would know no politics.
Yet he lived long enough to dictate
the election Of still another presi-
dent, and to once more defeat his
ancient enemy, Clay. for that high
office.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30
What Iudebendents Think

THE trend Of the country's unfet-
tered thought in the Presidential
campaign is Interestingly evidenced
in Professor Irving Fishers organization
of Independents and progressive Repub
licans who will vote for Governor Cox.
Among many notable names in a pre-
liminary list. of those supporting the idea
are: Henry c. King, president Of Oberlin
College; Theodore Marburg, Republican
Hamilton Holt editor of the Independent;
Professor Charles Seymour, of Yale;
Charles w. Eliot, former president OF
Harvard; Caroline Hazard, former presi-
dent of Wellesley; Mary E. Woolley, presi-
dent of Mount Holyoke; Professor Schlesin-
ger, president Of the American Astronomi-
cal Society; James Tourney, dean of the
Stimson, of New York City; and Moor
field Storey, of Boston.
That these leaders in education and So
cal service, these careful and penetrating
thinkers, whose politics is matter of in
telligent adjustment to issues, not of mere
habit or prejudice, that they should cast
their decision and influence for the Demo-
cratic candidate for President is indeed
significant but certainly not surprising
Governor Cox himself is an exemplar Of in
dependence, constructiveness and true vi
sion in craftsmanship. His record, beside
that of Senator Harding is like a page
from the Bill of Rights beside some docu-
ment of Bourbonism. Moreover, the party
behind Governor Cox is Enthusiastically pro-
gressive, while that behind Senator Hard
ing is Enthusiastically reactionary. In such
men and women like Professor Fischer's
associates
The nations thinkers are the election
of Governor Cox.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30
An Unexamb1ed Corr, Crob
MONG the cheerfulest ii

A MONG the cheerfulest tidings early au-
~ tumn has brought is the official es-
innate of the corn crop. On basis
of conditions. as they were at the first of the
month, the Department of Agriculture reck-
ons the forthcoming yield at three billion
one hundred and fifty-one million bushels,
and adds that if frosts are late the total will
be still larger.
The significance of this uneXampled har-
vest to sundry fields of animal huSbandry,
particularly the sources of our breakfast
bacon, is obvious. 1t was not until Georgia
and her neighbor States came to be plen-
teous producers Of corn that they made sub
stantial progress in hog raising; peanutss
give fat, but for firmness the sturdy grain
is needed. It is to be expected, then. that
the largest corn crop in Americas history
will have a decidedly upbuilding effect on
the production of meat.
Food yields in general are richly prom
Using. True; drOuth in the Northwest
caused the prospective sgring wheat crop to
decline from two hundred and sixty-two mil
lion bushels on August 1 to two hundred and
thirty-seven million on September Ia loss
which reduces the irrespective total of win
ter and spring wheat to about one hundred
and seventy million bushels less than last
year. But even thus the aggregate, estimated
at nearly three-quarters of a million bushelss,
SO far exceeds the expectations of four Or five
months ago, that We may well be grateful
The South shares beautifully in these
signs of plenty. Heavy though the reverses
OF cotton have been, diversified agriculture,
which has grown apace in recent years, as
sures full crib and fat smOkehouse for
almost every farmer who worked with fore
sight and vim. The result should find reflec-
ton in widespread prosperity.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30
The South s Textile Gro1oth
THoSE are highly significant figures

which COmmlSSlOueT Stanley, VI INC
Georgia Department of Commerce
and Labor, has compiled on the relative
increase of cotton manufacturing in the
South and in the remainder of the Union.
For the twelvemonth ended August 81
last, it appears there was an addition of
579,163 to the number Of active spindles
in the cotton-growing States as against
312,S31 elsewhere. At this rate it will not
be long ere the center of the great indus
try passes from the East to Dire, al
though there are still some four and a
quarter million more spindles outside of
this region than within it.
The advantage in converting raw mate
rails into finished products near as pos
sible to the source of the formers output
is so obvious and so manifold that the
Souths ultimate control of cotton textile
industries might have been predicted from
the beginning. Yet it was not until decades
rather recent that the slow shifting from
New England got under way. Though the
cotton gin was invented in Georgia more
than a century and a quarter ago, and
though as early as 1911 cotton mill was
established in Wilkes county, on Upton
creek about nine miles south of Washing
ton, the War Between the States had pass
ed into history and new South was we'll
risen from the night of Reconstruction be-
fore the development which we now take
for granted was begun.
Want of skilled labor and of adequate
capital was but one among sundry cir
cumstances that delayed what now appears
an inevitable coming on of events How
ever the past may be explained, the i'm
portant fact is that today the land where
cotton is most extensively grown is fast
becoming, for this continent, the land
where it is most extensively manufactured
Massachusetts and Rhode Island still lead,
but North Carolina comes third, South
Carolina fourth, and Georgia fifth among
the cotton textile States AS the harness
ing Of the hydro-electric energy now 60
ing to waste in our rivers and streams
proceeds and cheap power thus becomes
available, the South's natural superiority
in this field of manufacture will grow
more and more evident, and the capital
needed to utilize her rich resources there
in will be abundantly forthcoming.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30
OUIPS AND QUIDDIES

Mr.. Smith-Farman acquired great wealth
by the death of relative, and his wife imme-
diately became anxious to get into society.
Her knowledge of social customs left much to
be desired. Their nearest neighbors were a
very exclusive family who were extremely
conservative regarding their friends. Mrs.
Smith-Farman desiring the acquaintance Of
the family, sent card as follows:
"Mr. and Mrs. Smith-Farman present their
compliments to Mr.. and Mrs. HART, and hope
they are we'll Mr. and Mrs. Smith-Farman
will be at home on Wednesday evening at 8
o'clock"
The family receiving it were quite equal to
the occasion, and Mrs Smith-Farman received
the following reply:
"Mr. and Mrs. HART return the compli-
ments of Mr., and Mrs. Smith-Farman, and in
form them that they are very we'll. Mr.. and
Mrs HART are glad to know that Mr.. and
Mrs. S1nith-Farman will be at home on
Wednesday evening at o'clock Mr.. and
Mrs. HART will also be at home.''