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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Our Friend, the Tree

THERE is much of pathos in the news
from Washington that the old "Morse
Elm" one of the historic trees of Amer
lea, is all ut gone. Many operations OF
stree surgery and all known applications Of
stree medicine" have been tried by Wash
ington's superintendent of city parks, but
without avail The tree was planted in 1920
tened the "Morse ELM because of the many
hours spent ZEN -atL it by Samuel B. Morse,
chatting and joking With his cronies con-
corning the nebulous idea which finally re-
suited in the invention of the telegraph. Now
1t is little more thar a stump; soon it will
not be even that
In the passing of any loved landmark-the
razing of house, the crumbling of rock,
the drying up of spring or riyer-there is al
ways regret But about tree is glamor, a
touch Of something almost human, that makes
its destruction smack of real tragedy. 1t
is as though person died.
Whoever has looked upon the majestic
live-oaks of New Orleans the Suicide Oak,
the Dueling Oaks and dozen others rich
in legend-must have yearned f them to
speak. that they might unfold tales of the
countless dramas to which they were wit
ness. And every city has its trees some
centuries Old that stand as the sole survlv-
OrS of nd events long since Durled III
the mould of histor-.
One could ask no more fitting monuments
In city than the preservation. of its trees.
Likewise, to hundreds of individuals there
are trees of ch ldhood and of youth which
in middle age he cherishes as comrades in
old joys and old sorrows. One can under
stand the spirit of the Athens. Georgia,
man who drew in due legal form the docu-
ment that decided to itself the tree that to-
day is its oWne-. Though he were no
longer here, he saw to it that no hand
should profane the sturdy trunk which he
had come to dapend on and to love. The
Athens tree is not the only one to deserve
such consideration; there are many others
which were our wishes our deeds, would
live as long as the Morse Elm, and longer.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
The City of Wonderful Names
IT is delightfully."- astonishing what magi-

IT Is delightfully."- astonishing what magi-
cal names one discovers amongst the
some two hundred and six thousand
souls that rejoice in the title Atlantans-
names from the four winds of history and
the seven seas of poetry and romance. Fancy
yourself meeting Cervantes, not in book and
1amplight but in esh and noontide your
fellow saunterer along Peachtree, Ammo
Domini 1920! And whom should we en-
counter at the next corner but Napoleon!
Not altogether a likeness of the Man of Des-
tiny, and luckily less ambitious; but Napo-
leon for all that-Dave Napoleon, of At
lanta. Where else, we wonder does a tele-
phone directCly list both Homer and Milton I?
AS for Presidents, every name from Wash
ington to Wilson belongs to this versatile
town, save two. Garfield and Roosevelt as
patronymics, are wanting; but the Jeffer-
sons and Madisons and Folks and Pierces
and, of course, the Johnsons abound, along
with the rarer Van Buren, and Fillmore and
Taft Not content with Chief Ma istrates,
the Gate City's nomenclature must have it's
Clay, Calhoun and Webster, it's Emerson,
Whittier, Poe and Lanier, it's Daniel Boone
and Winfield Scott. 1t reaches into all lands
and all times. Dig as far as you like into
the past, back to the very dust of Eden if
you will; and the Oldest names you can
fetch forth, Atlanta will match with ner Eve
and Adams, her Abraham and Noses and
Solomon Or take the golden age of Queen
Bess. The mightiest and most enchanting
names that rang rom the London of those
spacious days borne incarLate and be-
trousered along the streets of the Georgia
capital this very Sunday morning: Raleigh,
Bacon Marlowe, Beaumont and Fletcher and
heaven bless the mark!-WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE! You see, gentle reader,
this is town of towns, "the heir of all the
ages as well as foremost in the files of
time" Addison, Steele, Sheridan, Gold
smith, Robert Burns, Byron, Shelley and
Browning are fellow citizens of ours. Charles
Dickens resides in Atlanta. So do Messrs.
Snodgrass, Wrinkle and Weller Mr.. Pick
wick himself. be It regrettably admitted, is
not here-that is, not in the body; but by
way of compensation an apartment house is
named for him.
What's in name? Browse amongst those
of Atlanta If you would know what rarities
there may be, what drt1l associations and
contrasts what treasures for an observer of
the kind described by Shakespeare ga
snapper-up of unconsidered t1ifes.'' You
will find, on the briefest excursion, not only
Faith, Hope and Love, but also Pleasure,
Sorrow. Wisdom an Joy, all domiciled as
the kindliest of neighbors along with the
Smiths and Browns. You will find North,
South and West although, by IN unaccount-
able omission, no East. You will find Clink-
scales, Sprinkle. Toodle. Midget, Spire, PIN
and Tut, Thoroughbred. Longfeather and
Stump. You expect White and Black, Long
and Short, Low and High; but will find to
boot Febuary. and May, Som, Moon and
Stars. And lest, in the dazzling abundance.
you overlook them, let rs remind you Of
Bud Flower and Hang Song
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07

A PROPOS of the officially announced
~ plans for a highway to link New
nan, Griffin, Monticello and Augusta,
the Herald, of the last mentioned city, re-
calls the interesting fact that before the days
of the railroad a stage coach traversed that
flourishing region. 1t was unfortunate that
the route ever fell into disuse, for as the
Herald points OUT Persons now wishing
to go by private conveyance from Augusta
to Griffin or Newman must either go to
Macon and then up, or go to Atlanta and then
down. Griffin is about half way between
the two cities, and Newman is directly west
The travel between Augusta and Indian
Springs is heavy, and this cross country
route will shorten the distance considerably"
Here we have an apt example of the space
cutting, time-saving,; prOsper1ty-mak1ng
work that is being done under Georgia's new
system of highway construction. Time was,
and not many years ago, when our road plan
ming and road building proceeded mainly
upon the principle of every county for itself
and the mud-devil take the hndmost. Some
instances of fruitful co-working there were
but for the most pat there was lack of cor
related effort among counties in the same
district, let alone in widely distant parts of
the Commonwealth. Under that condition of
affairs nothing lie the new Augusta-to-Grif-
fin highway would have been projected.
But now that we have State supervision
and are hewing to the lines of Statewide
system, the counties cooperating are with a
view to collective interests and carry out
plans of far-reaching service. The result will
oe we'll functioning order of traffic arte-
ries and veins through which the life-tides of
commences and agriculture and industry can
flow without hindrance. This means a more
prosperous Georgia, a Georgia more produc-
tive and more progressive.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
New Pilgrims Order

The Order of the Pilgrims, new nation
al organization, created by the general court
of the National Society of the Sons and
Daughters of the Pilgrims, at a meeting in
Providence, R. l., announced that the first
fifty members elected included former Presi-
dent Taft, President-eect Harding, United
States Senators Lodge and Colt, and Bishop
Jane. De Wolf Perry.
Membership is limited to pilgrim de-
scendants of distinguished ancestry and po-
litical or patriotic service.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Strike Ends

The strike of the orchestra, chorus and
stage hands which closed the Paris opera in
the middle of October has been called Off and
the house re-opened for perfo 'mances. The
orchestra, which was the last body of en-
ployes to give in, today agreed the terms.
At the time of the walkout it was said that
the trouble originated by the refusal of JAG
cues Rouche, the director, to change the rules
concerning the chorus and to agree not to
employ more than one foreign artist every
three months.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Can't Make Diamonds

The latest effort of scientists to manufac-
ture genuine diamonds has failed, according
to an announceme by William /. Resented,
vice president of the American welers' Pro-
tective association and director of the Jewel
ers' vigilance committee. The committee.
he SAID, has made an exhaustive investiga-
ton of the reported discovery OF diamond
making formula by German, and is con-
WINGED that the formula will not produce
gems equal to natures product Report OF
the "dscovery' several weeks ago, Mr.. Ros-
enfield said, startled the jewelry and precious
stone trade throughout the world.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Election at Uruguay

Election returns from Montevideo,
Uruguay, indicate the Government Party
has scored a triumph throughout the
country, obtaining two posts on the Ma
tional Administrative Council, on which
the Nationalist will have but one. The
Government Party has won four seats
in the senat :, while the Nationalist
have been successful in carrying two.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Morgan Blake's Smile

Wonder if that's a form-fitting smile
which Morgan Blake wears in The Atlanta
Journals sport pages now and then. At
least so far as the pictures are concerned 1t
must be the "smile that won't come Off,
Charles Beaupre in LAGRANGE Reporter
The picture in question was made soon
after the winning of the Southern league
baseball pennant by Atlanta. We've seen
Blake when he looks even funnier than his
picture indicates.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
France to Sell Stamps

The French government is making prep
arations to sell the greatest collection of
stamps which was ever made, valued at ST.
OOO, 900. 1t comprises the collection Of Bar
ON Ferrary, who died i'm 1871, and by the
terms of his will the collection was left to
the Berlin Postal Museum. The collection
was i'm Paris at the time and it seized
as alien property.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Must Have Been hungry

Recently man in Chicago ate twenty
seven feet of sausage, five pounds of raw
beef, three eggs and lot of other things
and then quit because no one would volunz.
teer to pay for more food for him.-Colum-
bus Enquirer-Sun.
We don't suppose that anybody had any
more money after paying for what had al
ready been consumed.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
&9O, 100000 Loan

The Mercurio q newspaper Of San
tiago, Chile, says 1t understands negotia-
tions are in rogress by the ministry of
finance for loan of 100000 in the
stock for the state railways.
The railway bill, carrying authorize
ton to contract a loan of approximately
100000 pounds gold, already has
passed the senate and now is before the
chamber of deputies.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Around the World
Tri-WeekIy Mems Flashes From All Over
the Earth
Turkeys Escape

Turkeys Escape
The most exciting incident on the log
E the Scandinavian-Americ liner Unit
ed States, which locked at New York re-
?ently, was the escape from their crates of
seventy-eight turkeys. Mischievous boys
reed the gobblers. The turkeys were in
lended' for Thanksgiving dinner for the
22O passengers.
The most skillful efforts of crew and
passengers were required to recapture the
turkeys. Three of them. preferring self
lmmolation to slaughter, few from the
ship One of the birds made for passing
steamer, but could not quite reach her and
drowned When last seen the others were
heading for Greenland. hundreds of miles
away.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07

Charged with manufacturing and selling
thousands of counterfeit Internal Revenue
stamps for liquor "bootlegging'' purposes,
nine men are held by the New York Secret
Service officials and other arrests are prom
Used. These stamps, together with cleverly
counterfeited labels of various brands of Ii
quor, have enabled bootleggers to flood the
city with one-day old whisky, made of in
gradients of poor quality, If not actually dam
gerous to the health of it's drinkers.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Steals Cheese

For the theft of a cheese from a steam
ship lying at the foot of Congress street,
Brooklyn, Anthony Liberio -ongshoreman
employed on the pier there, sentenced to
twenty days in Jail in Special Sessions,
Brooklyn. The cheese, brought here from a
South American port, had been cut into
small pieces and distributed about Liberio's
person,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Tea at Harvard

The Harvard union, gathering place for
the men of the college, has inaugurated after
noon tea. Tiffin was made an event in the
undergraduate day in the belief that it would
serve both to promote the club idea of the
student commons and to serve as relief from
the days grind through the winter months,
when outdor activities are curtailed.
With the tea the menu provided for muf-
fins, toast and strawberry jam.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Wen Paw You a visit

Just now we are strongly inclined towards
tempting to raise a brood Of turkeys next
,ar.-Cuthbert Leader.
This inclination on the part Of the farmer
7itor of the Leader doubtless caused the
hen doomed for the Thanksgiving dinner to
go to laying while in the coop. We commend
Editor Howell for his enterprising intentions
and will see him later
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
BY JACK PATTERSON
just as Was Expected

The Georgians on their trip to the manu-
featuring centers have made great impress
sion, as might have been expected.-Thomas-
Vile s-Enterprise
That bunch Of Georgians would make
favorable impression anywhere.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Memorial Tablet

A handsome tablet in memory Of Lucy
Webb Hayes. wife of President Rutherford B.
Hayes, is to be erected in the Hayes memorial
at Fremont, Ohio. by the Nationa. W. G. T. U.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Profitable Lettuce

A carload of lettuce shipped from the San
ford, Fla, section brought it's growers a
profit of $2,455.44, after sale on the New
York market, according to recent dispatches.
The profit is believed to be record. The
shipment contained four hundred hampers.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Senator Mccormick in France

United States Senator Medill Mccormick
arrived at Cherbourg, France, this week on
the steamer Aquitania from New York.
special car chartered by Mr.. Mccormick was
attached to the Paris Express.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07

Perhaps the American gold producers
would like to have tariff on gold.-Omaha
World Herald.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Gift to Wilson

Governor Beckett, of North Carolina, and
his son called at the White House this week
to leave for President Wilson a number of
cartridges which they killed ON a recent
hunting trip. They were received by Secre-
tary Tumulty.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
A Curious Newspaper

world is the Kamloops Wawa, a journal
printed in shorthand and circulating among
the Indians of British lumbia.-Cordele
Dispatch.
Guess it is printed in shorthand to con-
serve print paper, but we didn't know that
the Indians had taken to stenography.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
New Gas Shell

Successful tests have been completed Of g
new poison gas she'll in Toxic, Japan. This
shell is of Japanese manufacture.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
Chinese Divorce

The first Chinense woman in Canada to
avail herself of the Dominion divorce laws is
Mrs. Wong Lai, of Vancouver, who has petit
toned the court for a legal separation from
her husband.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07

Just because this horseless age is no rea-
son why it should be horse senseless.-Nor-
folk Virginian Pilot.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07

large part of New York's population
seems composed of master minds" judging
from recent graft reports.-Denver Times.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07

You may get what cheer there is out O.
the glad news that bread has been reduced
one-half cent loaf in MISUNDERSTANDING
Plain Dealer.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
And It Doesn't Come Back

A school teachers dollar goes farther than
it did one year ago-Commerce Observer.
So does that of newspaper man, or it
would if he had one.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
EDITORIAL ECHOES

Our own confident meteorological pre-
! diction is that we shall have no skirt-high
snowdrifts this season.-Ohio State Journal.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
The Inter-County Highways

A PROPOs Of the officially announced
. plans for a highway to link New
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-13
49, The Lakeland
EVENING TELEGRAM

THE LAKELAND NEWS
A weekly newspaper giving resume
Of local matters, crop conditions,
county affairs, ETC., is published from
che Telegram Office and sent any
where In the United States for $3.50
per year.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-13

that they were not coming any more.
Listen fellows, there is only one ques-
tiona d you win have to answer, yes,
come Friday and find out what it is.
Various troops in Lakeland are trying
for the honors in merit badges and
the taking of examinations = will
Troop No. be left in the rear? No,
Troop MOL MUST and WILL be the
Banner Troop Of Lakeland" There's
big work ahead of US. Let's all be
present and talk about it Friday night,
"A Scout is loyal that's a big scout
law that our troop is going to enforce
and there's big motto too-every-
body come and see what Troop No.
rs motion is from now to December.
Nov or never"-come or go-"Be
Prepared" or be a slacker-your 10y
atty will be sized up Friday night
show your pep and real scout spirit
by being present at 7 p. m. sharp. BY
order Of
TROOP OFFICERS EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE.
L. 3. Amidon, Scoutmaster.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-13
TIMOTHY WAS
TALKING TODAY

The trouble with this thing of suf-
ferage is that it amt got no sense
to it,, he says. What is the use of
doubling the expense of elections
from start to finish just to let women
have their say. Haint they got
enough? And besides, naturally ev-
cry woman would vote like her faith
er or her husband or somebody and
there we'd be just where we was be-
fore-nothing changed except the
cost of elections and lot of fool talk
put into the candidates talk to make
an impression on the women" he
says.
Well" says, Where do / come
in. ] amt a woman and l aint a can.
didate."
Pm telling you," he says, ito see
what fool thing you've got in mind to
say on this subject"
We'll" | says, "all got to say is,
! am glad you and Lizzie are getting
along SO much better"
Who? Us?" he says. I'VE amt
getting along better. She aint never
agreed with me on nothing so far and
! reckon she never will"
B. H. s.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-13
FLoRlDA's WORST ENEMY

Florida's greatest enemy is the
cattle tick. Nothing else ever has
done or ever can do as much to retard
the development and prosperity of
the state. Designed by nature to be
one Of the greatest stock raising re.
gtons on the continents land flow
Ing with milk and butter and cheese
and fat juicy beet-it has been held
back by this one pest and its products
practically outlawed. y
Sfs Much has been done, and much is
being done, to eradicate the tick.
And, in that connection, it is crafty
ing to note, from the Quarterly Bulle-
TN Of the Agricultural department,
that Polk county leads all the other
counties in the number of cattle re-.
ported dipped, and is about fourth in
tne number of dipping watts con.
etructed.
Nv Ihis is the kind of fight in which
no truce can be made with the enc
ny 1t is fight to the death. The
ucks can be wholly destroyed and
the state made as free from cattle
lever as Wisconsin or Iowa. When
mat is done, Florida will rival those
hates in its beef and dairy output
md Its prosperity will stand upon as
nrm a basis, Let the war 60 on and
e retrenchment is necessary. let II
re in other departments.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-13
RECORD BREAKING RUSH
OF SETTLERS EXPECTED
AS WINTER SEASON OPENS

II present conditions are an indi-
cation OF what may be expected when
the winter season commences, Lake
land and this section of Polk county
will see the biggest increase Of set
tiers ever known. During the past
thirty days no less than IS families
have come in to look this section over
and twenty-three Of this number have
been satisfactorily located up to date.
1t Is to be regretted, however, that
We are losing some on account Of our
inability to provide homes for those
desirous Of locating and unwilling to
buy before becoming acquainted with
conditions.
Furnished and unfinished houses
and apartments are already in great
demand. not simply for winter visi.
tors but for those who want to locate
here permanently, and our citizens
are invited to list them with the
Chamber of Commerce for the infor-
nation OF those desiring such accom-
mediation. A large number Of furn-
ished and unfinished houses could
readily be rented at once to people
who are either here now or very de-
s'rous Of coming in preference to any
other place in Florida, which means
that more and more effort should be
made to meet this demand.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-13
BIOLOGISTS WORRY OVER
EARTH CRACKS In KANSAS

Hutchinson, Kans., Aug. 13.-Geo-
logists and scientists Of this part OF
the state are displaying much inter-
est in great cracks in the earth re-
ported to be appearing in Kiowa
County, On the John Marriage ranch
crevices IL feet deep, half a mile
long and some Of them three feet
wide have appeared recently. Atten-
ton to them was attracted by the
finding of two steers in one of the
crevices. The cattle were wedged In,
apparently having fallen in when the
earth cracked.
Biologists generally agree that the
cracks are due to hot dry weather
and the counter effect Of the subter-
ranean supply Of water. In Meade
County, further west, the under-flow
Of water is tapped by many wells.