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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16

that the scientist, like the cat, is partly JUS
tilted in his conduct by experience.
At any rate this scientist was genuinely
and deeply alarmed at the idea that his rep
utation for conservatism, Or that Of the gov
eminent department with which he is con-
nected, should be exposed to injury by the
publication Of a sensational story to the eff
feet that mining by airplane is a practicable
thing. Nevertheless, when he had been prom
Used that his name would not be used, he adj
mitted that it did look practicable to him.
The possibilities of the airplane as
means of carrying freight have been pretty
we'll canvassed. 1t has been said that it costs
about as much to carry a pound by airplane
as it does to carry ton the same distance
by rail. In a word, the cost is prOhibitive.
That is why, so far, the airplane has been
used for carrying nothing heavier than mail.
In the second place, an airplane must have
a safe and adequate landing field before it
can operate at all At present, when the
United States air service is asked to land
plane anywhere, it stipultes that there must
be a level field at least 1900 feet square.
Now it might be hard to clear field that
large on some of the mountain tops where
the rich mines are located. But the air serv
ice officials have also officially predicted that
within a year or two they will be able to land
on a field 200 feet square with comparative
safety. They are learning more about the
landing business every day. 1t is understood
that the development of a reversible propel-
1or has much to do with this official optim-
ism about the landing business. And it would
seem that landing field 200 feet square
could be arranged on most mountain tops.
OF course, an airplane can carry only
few hundred pounds of freight. 1t would
hardly be practicable to ship out crude ore
by airplane. But gold and silver are usually
reduced at the mine. The procedure would
presumably be to carry to the mountain top
all the machinery for stamp mill and re-
duetion plant by airplane, piece by piece.
This would be expensive, but it would only
have to be done once. Then the metal in bars
worth thousands of dollars each would be
carried out by airplane, and they would be
far safer from robbery than most gold in
transport away from railroads is nowadays.
So much for gold mining by airplane. The
idea is offered, without royalty charge, to
anyone who wants to try it.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16
INCOME TAX FACTS
YOU SHOULD KNOW
No. 3


In making out his income-taX return the
taxpayer is required to show both gross and
net income Gross income includes practi-
cally every dollar the taxpayer received dur
ing the year 1919. In arriving at net in
come upon which the tax is assessed, he is
allowed certain deductions, which will be
explained later, plus the amouns of his ex
emptOn.
Incomes below $1,000 are exempt from
surtax. The single man with no depend
ents and an income for 1919 of $4,000 will
pay tax of $40 instead of $50 as for 1918
and married man with an income of $4,000
and no dependents except his wife will pay
$40 instead Of $50.
Surtax Rates
The surtax rate is 1 per cent on the
net income in excess of $4,000 and not
over $4,000, and increases by steps of 1 per
cent for each $4,000 of net income up to and
including 48 per cent on net income in ex-
cess of $4,000 and not over 100000. From
this point the rates run as follows: Fifty-two
per cent on net income over 100000 and not
over 100000, Sc per cent on net income
over $4,000 and not over $500, 900, so
per cent on net income over 100000 and
not over $500, 900, SIS per cent on net income
over 100000 and not over 100000, 81
per cent on net income over 100000 and not
over $1,000,0O0, and IS per cent on net
income over $1,00O,O0O.
How to Compute Taxes
The following illustration will show the
average taxpayer whose net income was more
than $4,000 how to compute his tax:
A single man had a net income for 1919
of $4,000. First he deducts his personal
exemption of $1,000, leaving a balance Of
$4,000 On the first $4,000 he pays at the
normal rate of per cent, $50. In addition
he pays a surtax of $40, 1 per cent on the
amount of his net income between $1,000
and $4,000. His total tax is $3.50, as COM
pared with 1870 for 1918.
aRate For Married Men
married man with two dependents had
a net income for 1919 for $500. From this
he deducts his personal exemption of $4,000,
plus 5000 for each dependent. On the first
$4,000 of the balance of $5,1O0 he pays
at the normal rate of per cent, $3.50. On
the remaining $1,100 he will pay, at the nor
NAL rate of per cent, SIS. On the amount
of his income between $1,000 and $4,000 he
pays a surtax of 1 per cent or $40. On the
amount of his income between $4,000 and
$500 he pays surtax of per cent. The
total, normal and surtaX, is $288 as COM
pared with $412 for 1918.
Husband and wife whose combined net
income for 1919 equalled or exceeded $4,000
must file return, either separate or joint
as desired. A widow, a woman living apart
from her husband, or maid must file
return if her net income equaled or exceeded
$1,000 minor whose income for 1919
was $1,000 or more must make return. If
the minors income was less than $1,000,
it must be included in the return of the
parent.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 10.-High up
in western mountain ranges far from rail
roads, wagon roads and even trails, there is
great wealth in gold silver and other precious
metals Much of it is undiscovered, because
no prospector would waste his time hunting
for gold mines in situations from which the
gold could never be brought out. But some
of these deposits are well known, and some
of them miners have tried again and again
to reach. Recently in the Olympic mountains
dozens of horses were killed in a vain at
tempt to carry hydraulic outfit to one of
these inaccessible bonanzas. The horses
slipped and fell into a deep canyon, killing
and manning themselves and smashing the
machinery with which they were loaded. Old
prospectors, discussing these lodes of unat-
tainable wealth, are wont to remark:
1.-The stuff is there all right but you would
need a pack of bald eagles to bring it out"
Well, the pack of freight-carrying eagles,
of which the old-timers used longingly to
dream, has become reality. Man has made
himself mechanical birds that fly faster and
higher and lift more weight than the lustieSt
eagle that ever flew. Why cannot airplanes
or drigibles fly to these inaccessible deposits
of wealth. carrying the machinery in, bit by
bit, and the metal out?
This idea is not merely the pipe dream of
a reporter 1t originated with a mining
pert of high scientific attainments, who holds
an important government position. He knows
a great deal about gold mines and something
about airplanes. He expressed the opinion
that in all probability some man who com
bines imagination with practical ability will
astonish the world and enact one more great
industrial romance by bringing gold and sill
YER and possibly radium down from the
mountain tops in flying machines
When this mining expert was confronted
by newspaper reporter who had heard of
his idea, he was Immediately seized with that
acute panic which so often afflicts the scien-
ti1c man when he encounters representa-
tive of the press. The average scientist is
just as spontaneously afraid of a newspaper
man as cat is afraid of bull dog. The
minute his natural enemy comes in sight he
gets clustered, and Usually goes up high
tree of non-committal language, where he
remains until the brute goes away. 1t may be
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16
The Tail Goes With the Hide
BY Dr.. Frank Crane

In this world you can't get what you want
without getting a whole lot you don't want.
Desire may be pure and unmixed, but the
qualification thereof is spotted.
When you get married all you wanted was
the girl. Did you get her, alone, only and
nothing else? You did not You got a moth
er-in-law; also mixed assortment of other
relatives; likewise some more impedimenta
that we will not say any more about.
You went to school. Did you get the train
ing you were after? Oh, yes; and much more
you were not after and didn't want. You
discovered that college does not exist to
train you, but to be true to it's traditions,''
which means teaching a deal of superfIuities
In order to be an automobile salesman you
had to learn all about the Greek enclitics,
and Latin ablative absolutes, and the nflu-
ences of Aryan jimfritzes upon the Romance
thingumbobs.
You enter beanery Do you get the carbo-
hydrates and protens and fats you need?
Yea verify. Plus. You also buy jazz, and the
courtesy of the waiter and the smile of the
hat-girl.
When you attend church you may get a
nickels worth of inspiration and light but it
comes along with seven dollars and half's
worth of what you don't like, don't need
and can't use.
If you go to a hotel you pay not only for
your bed and food, but for spacious halls,
chandeliers, and gewgaws.
You have a house to live in. But to have
the few simple necessities you must have
several tons of truck that is only good to
stumble over.
This is grand and glorious government,
and long may it wave. But besides keeping
the peace, which you appreciate, it does forty
things you do not care for.
To obtain the news you seek in the news
papers you must search through columns of
clamorous advertisements.
To get the story in a novel you must read
through boundless Saharas Of ''literature."
To get the point in a lawyers speech you
| must listen to four hours of verbal spray
When man comes into your office to tell
! you something he has to tell you first about
| rs other things. d
When you buy house you buy-neigh-
| bors.
When the lawyer makes your contract you
find he has put into it not only what you and
the other fellow agree to do, but everything
else but the kitchen stove
When you get drunk you not only obtain
| the desired hilarity but an assortment of
pink lions and blue giraffes.
| SO don't complain. Everything this
! globe is attended by everything else. There's
| bushel of chaft to every handful of wheat,
| liberty is surrounded by blathersktes, prog
ress has it's retinue of crazy looms, virtue has
! it's hypOcrites, you have to take prohibition
and woman suffrage along with the constitu-
ton, and the league along with the treaty.
Cheer up!
The tail goes with the hide.
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16

Duchess Eleonara D'Arenberg, of Belgian
origin, who died recently at Montreux, Swift
zerland, left a large estate in Belgium which
the Germans had sequestrated. She also left
an Interesting memorandum, saying that her
son was completely Prussanized, that he held
a majors commission in the German army
and was a close friend of the former EN-
perOr.
Three months before the outbreak of the
war, she says in the memorandum, the EN-
the recent mo license" referendum. New Zea-
peror informed her son that Germany short
ly would start hOstilities and to withdraw
his fortune from Belgium, and the son trans
ferred his belongings and bank account from
Belgium to Berlin The Duchess said she re-
fused to take her sons advice and do like
WISE The Swiss newspapers suggest that the
claims made in the memorandum be investt-
gated II former Emperor William is to be
Russlas losses during the war in killed
ana wounded aggregated $4,000 accord
ing to statistics of the Kolchak government.
Twenty-Five deserters who reached Swift
zerland during the war have formed a unique
league, the object of which is stated by it's
founders to be defense of our interests" The
members are chiefly from the Central Pow
ers, none of them being American or British.
The Swiss authorities say they would be glad
to get rid of all the deserters, some of whom
served as Spies Several would be shot if they
were expelled from Switzerland and COM
PEELED to return home.
The Swiss newspapers remark that al
though English and American troops were
on leave near the Swiss frontier, not one de-
serted. One American Numbered into Swift
zerland in 1916, having lost his way. He
complained that Europe was so small that
it's frontiers could be crossed in a days
walk
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16
4 Georgia Issue Passes.

VT ia refreshing to turn from what Mr..
4 Pickwick would call the mutations and
vicissitudes' of troubled world to those
rather numerous Georgia counties now re-
ioicing in their Fence laws which became
operative with the new year. The opJect Oh
this statute, we learn fror. the Dublin Cou-
rier Herald. is "to relieve farmers of the
necessity of fencing in their large tracts OF
land by keeping their live stock penned up
or within properly fenced areas" Our Lau-
rens county contemporary interestingly
adds
"a large amount of live stock, particu-
IarIy hogs, calves and also poultry, an
nually falls victim to autoists frequently
without fault of the driver, as some OF
the Piney Woods rooters often evince
persistence, worthy of better things,
in not getting out of the middle Of the
road, even when car is only slowly APP
preaching With the law effective
autoists may no longer be held respon-
sible for live stock killed in the road"
Commendable though it doubtless is for
the counties to have taken this step, we can
but regret the passing of an issue that has
furnished ground for so many picturesque
and valiant controversy Never did Capulet
war more doughtily against Montague or
Guelph against Ghibelline than the opposed
ranks of the Fence and ''No Fence" law.
It was tug between the idyllic past and the
progressive present; between the romanticist
nine farrow wandering odorously along the
village ways, and the stern realist who had
no relish for such sights and Natures. The
good old times are stealing to oblivion; no
more logs on the fire; no more julep for the
mint; no more pigs in the road.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16
THE WORK CURE
BY H. Addington Bruce
TTERE is a little story that CONNIE
III nRCiallM To th0en n,,,a-,er IL ....-.--

BtRE IS little story that commend es-
/ / peclally to those among the nervouSly i'll
who are men and women with no partic-
ular occupation. 1t is story from real life,
and its beginnings bark back to statement
once made to me by personal friend
Long ago." he sail, 4 made up my mind
that, IT | could afford to do SO, i would retire
from business at the age of fifty. Next year
need and intend to retire"
"Don't do it," | warned him. "Let down
bit in your work, if you like But don't quit
entirely. You'd only regret it,"
He laughed at my warning, and the CONVEX
sation shifted to something else did not
see him again for nearly year.
Then l saw him only because / heard that
he was seriously and mySteriously ill. found
him able to be up and about, but walking
with difficulty because of unaccountable mus
cular pain and stiffness.
It's some kind of rheumatism, he ex-
planned, "but queer kind. It's not due to
teeth and it's not due tc tonsils The doctors
seem stumped, and l certainly don't know
what's the matter with me-"
For months my frien dragged along Then
as unexpectedly - they had come, his pains
and aches left him, coincidel with his deciding
that the financial strain imposed by the war
made it advisable Ior him to go into business
once more.
The coincidence, am sure, was more than
a coincidence, 1t was an impressive iluStra-
ton of the eally curative value of work as
When | learned of my friends recovery was
reminded of the sage observation of another
friend, medical man of vide experience with
nervous patients:
"The physician often has patients who have
been in affluence, but after a financial panic
in Straitened circumstances 1t is inter
eSting to note what an excellent tonic effect
in young people always, in older people often
the change of life has on these chronic value
tudnaranS.
Sometimes this is attributed to the SIM
pier life when poorer occasionally to tine lass
of responsibility or other similar reason. Near
ly always it is easy to see that the real
cause of their improvement in health is the
occupation of mind with serious interests out
side of self"
Oh, that people everywhere, people in all
classes of society, Woul, only appreciate the
supreme importance of work in their liysSa
We should then hear no longer the clamoring
for less work. for ever less work. People
would account ideneSS what it really iS-a
curse, not a privilege.
And also the world would contain far fewer
nervous invaidS. For nervous inyalidSm,
though its victm5 know it not, is often nothing
more than sign of mental WEAKNESS at a life
spent without aim and without Self-satisfying
effort.
Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News-s
paperS)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

The immediate formation of National
Party including the Unionists and the rem
nant of the Liberal organization, to present
an effective front to the Laborites is sug-
gested by Lord Chancellor Birkenhead in an
article printed in The Weekly Dispatch Of
London.
The Lord Chancellor believes the recent
by-election in Spen Valley, Yorkshire, result
ed as it did principally from the absence OF
an organized party capable Of exposing the
weaknesses of labors armor. He says the
Coalition Government is "hopelessly inverte-
bral and Ineffective to fight English COM
munists
Brazil is entering the suffrage race, accord
ing to reports reaching this country. A bill,
the prpuose of which is to grant the right
of suffrage to the women of Brazil, has been
introduced into the senate of that country.
This bill provides that suffrage should be
granted to women twenty-one years of age
or over.
land will remain wet and the present license
system will continue The official vote
showed that for continuance Of the licensing
system 240,998 votes were cast; for State
purchases AMI control of liquors, 32,148, and
for prohibition 270,178.
The prohibitionists, therefore, were 1858
votes short of the absolute majority required
TO carry any issue. The votes of sos soldiers
who are returning on troop ships cannot at
feet the result.
By reason of the failure of the prohibi-
tionists to secure majority of the votes in
brought to trial.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16
The Frontier.

~ 3PORTUNITIES rich beyond measure,
I for the country as a whole as we'll as
for the South, are bound up in the
proposed reclamation of swamp and cut
over lands through a system OF financial
aid from the national Government. Millions
of such acres await development in Georgia.
and neighboring states. Though now until
liable they are wondrously fertile, and at
relatively small expense could be converted
into farm sites of rare promise. They are
indeed among Americas most valuable re-
sources howsoever lightly they now may be
appraised by the unthinking and unin-
formed; for they constitute reserve Of pro-
ductivity which some day, and that perhaps
nearer than we imagine, will be priceless in
it's worth to public welfare.
At a conference on the subject, held this
week in Washington, DR.. Clarence j. Owens,
director of the Southern Commercial con-
gress, aptly pointed, out that this nations
mightiest strides to wealth and power were
made upon our Western frontier through the
utilization of the hundreds or millions of
acres of free, ready-to-crop land. upoA
which have been established nearly five mil
lion farm homes" Without that pioneering
and development, there never would have
been an America capable of turning The tide
of history's greatest war and OF shouldering
like benevolent Atlas the economic burdens
of world. But next to nothing of that vast
free domain is now left. If agriculture is to
expand in the future-and expand it must
to keep the nation strong and secure-it
must turn toward regions like the swamp aud
cut-oVer lands of the South.
Here lies the frontier of America today
Here lie the opportunities for initiative and
fruitful enterprise. There is no worthier
field to which8the Governments constructive
interests can be directed
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16

Too late now to rail against the spring
poet. He is just now preparing copy for the
Christmas magazines.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16

Move is on foot to reduce the percentages
of silver in the dollar Increasing the buying
power, might be suggested as compensation.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16
The Treaty,s WeNWishers
And What They AdUye.

W. HAT the great majority of we'll
w wishers of the Treaty of Peace
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16

THEN a scientist of the attainments
w and the distinction of Dr.. Arthur D.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-16

~ oPORTUNITIES rich beyond measure
Z D for the country as a whole as we'll as
for the South are bound up in tn
Evening journal., 1920-01-20

break in The movement OF the swinging
foot.
Then there is the skating art that Is
known as free skating" a comblna-
ton Of changes OF edges, turns, plrou-
elites and other figures that brns out
the individuality OF the skaters. here Is
something that gives an opening for
the inventlveness OF the expert skater.
Il gives him a chance 10 devise new
combinations all the time Figure elghi.
free skating Is supposed to be done 10
music, Jumps and spins may be work
cd into the figures as also many dance
steps
Other free skating features are the
grapevines and spread eagles and a num-
her OF other specia'ties. Among the
other more advanced skating figures
may be mentioned the spiral. the waltz
step. whlch Is des gned for skating In
couples. dnlcult forms OF the loop and
many other consultations and develop
ments which wizards OF the ice have
devised.
or the ngures OF skating there Is
truly no end. II these articles have
served 10 show you boys who are in
iersied in ice skatirg. the range OF
sport that skating opens up and the
nature OF the work and practice That Is
necessary 10 become pas, masters In the
art, they will have served their purpose,
Evening journal., 1920-01-20
Hes Champ, But Not in Trust,
So Ism Matched Very often
BY FRED TURBYVILLE.

Here we have Jack Reynolds, OF Cedar
Rapids, la. Jack claims the welter-
weight championship Of the wrestling
world. And, unusual for a champion,
he has to make an appeal for work. lie
doesn't get half the matches some OF
the inferior welterweights get, and he
hasn't half the wealth stored away
despite the fact that he has been
wrestling for years and has been recog-
nized champion for a long time. That
is because, he says. he isn't in the
wrestling trust-an institution we have
never had the low-down on, but which
we have smelled at both long and
close range for many years Jack does
most Of his wrestling at Cedar Rapids
The fans like him and they generally
pack the hall. But he also Is a favorite
in many other mid-western towns But
applause doesn't pay for the meal
tickets which he consumes weekly. Like
Frank Gotch, he uses the toe hold TO
good advantage. But he also has many
other holds In his repertoire. This Is
proved by the great number Of VIC
tories he has scored on the mat, hav-
ing participated in 700 matches and
having won most Of them. He won the
claim TO the welterweight title by TAX
ing on all comers and he is hoping 70
defend It in the same manner, though
the going right now seems bit rough
and a worlds championship claim is
worth little 70 him BECAUSE HE
WON'T COME IN with the trust.