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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-23
An Esamb1e for GEORGIA
N increase of nearly four hundred

n increase or nearly four hundred per
~ cent in sheep raising among the
mountains Of North Carolina bears
striking witness to the possibilities of that
industry in the Southeast. Fifteen counties,
according to the Charlotte Observer. have
multiplied their flocks from total of forty
five thousand three hundred and thirty
eight in 1918 to two hundred and twenty
eight thousand five hundred and seventy
eight in 1919: and it is probable that the
next count also will show goodly incre-
ment. The gains are not confined to one re-
g1on but are virtually Statewide, and are
adding a great deal to the common fund Of
industrial as we'll as rural prosperity
This is an example which Georgia we'll
may study and emulate. Her resources of
soil and climate, her abundance of low
priced and now unused land and her facili-
ties for marketing and utilizing the prod
ucts of sheep afford ample foundation for
these lines Of enterprise. Indeed, there are
few parts of America all things considered,
so excellently suited to sheep raising and it's
llied industries.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-23
GOVERNMENT INDUSTRIAL,
NOT POLITICAL
By DR.. Frank Crane

Some day we are going to quit politics
That is to say, some day we are going to
realize that the State Is an industrial and
not political concern.
The great modern fact Is business.
That which most characterizes this age Is
the rise of business as a matter worthy of
the best brains and souls.
Time was, and not so long ago--and here
and there the septic idea fingers in the
world like snow in the fence corners in
April-that to be engaged in trade was con-
sidered dishonorable, in way. A noble, or
a gentleman, was one who never did any
useful work. And you assembled higher and
higher in the ranks Of nobility in proper
ton to the length of time elapsed between
you and the last ancestor who earned his
salt.
We are recovering from that delusion. To-
day the great man is the accomplished, not
the parader. Prime ministers are taking the
reins from the hands of kings.
Our politics are the leftovers from the
ages of parade.
We still regard our president as an imita-
ton king, our governors and mayors as
fustian dukes and lords.
We have inaugural balls and governors
staffs with tin colonels, and say "your ex-
cellency" and pow-wow as much as we dare
after the manner of the courts of the east
and past.
Women like it,
But we are getting over it. Little by lit
Tie we are roal1Z1ng That the mayor OF city
is more like the manager of a factory than
like the grand duke of Wuerttemburg; that
the governor of state is, or ought to be-
more like the hired man who superintends
ranch or the building of bridge than like
the Akhoond of Swat: and that the presi-
dent of the United States is expected to
make good in promoting the prosperity of
the people, and not to pose
The rise of the idea of such communal
forms of business as the postoffice, the pub
lie school, and the government ownership of
public utilities is not due to socialism So
cialism Is utterly antagonistc to the blood
of Americans. Because it is the opposite of
democracy.
The idea referred to is gaining ground
for the simple reason that we are more
and more conceiving government to be an
industrial somewhat.
Governments first business is not to pun
ish crime, or provide Offices for grafters or
to make laws. It's first business is to see
that every citizen has fair play in making
living, that unjust privilege Is abolished
that all have a chance to work and honest
pay, that those who work shall be prospered
and that those who will not work shall
not eat
Government ought to be a hive for the
benefit Of the workers, not the drones.
copyright, 1920. by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-23
MEN WHO KILL
By H. Addington Bruce


~ lightly there is a growing demand for
X the severe punishment Of all reckless,
life destroying automobiles. More
and more clamorously it is being urged that
they should be classed in the category to
which they certainly belong-that of COM
mon murderers.
But speed maniacs are not the only po-
tential slayers against whom drastic meas
ures should be taken for the public good.
They are not even the most numerously dan
gerous, nor do they exact such heavy death
toll sundry others for whose suppression
we scarcely ever hear a loud demand.
Where the criminal automobilists kill by
hundreds, the equally anti-social distributors
OF disease germs number their victims by
thousands. And they deal death by mani
fold means
Daily you see them in public places, hawk
Ing coughing and spitting--infecting the
dust of pavements, street cars, churches.
stores and theaters with deadly bacteria
ranging from the crteptoccoccus Of malignant
sore throat of the bacillus of tuberculosis.
Or, with contagious diseases in their
homes, you see them boldly breaking quar-
antine to attend to their private affair of
making money" even though the few dol
lars they thus gain may be at the cost of
human life stricken by contact with them.
In other guise you see these same sayers
dwellings and working places, equally intent
on making money at no matter what cost of
human life.
Highly respected members of the commu-
nifty they may be, gentlemanly folk who
would deem their classification as murderers
cruelty libelous. Yet who but they should
be held responsible for the deaths Of men,
women and little children, perishing from
diseases occasioned by existence in dark,
damp, evil-smelling homes rented from these
callous coin-grabbers?
No less murderous is the maker Of tainted
foods, of adulterated foods, of foods cum
ningly robbed Of much of their nutriment for
the sake Of little extra profit. The weak
ened, undernourished consumers of these
foods may we'll cry out in indignation against
those who have ruined their health, per-
chance greatly shortened their lives
We have laws, it is ture, against potential
murderers Of these vicious types.
But what avail are laws If they are not
consistently enforced? Everybody knows
that, except for occasional flurrying cru
sade there is not so much consistent enforce
ment as consistent blinking at 1ife-destroy
ing practices.
Which is one of the principal reasons the
death toll from preventable diseases remains
appallingly high. And high it must remain
until public c1amor for disease prevention be-
comes at least as insistent as it Is now be-
of society-the man who turns his automo-
man life.
Copyrighted, 1920 by the Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-23
Praise for the Peanut
HOUGH. peanuts as a money

- HOUGH. peanuts as money crop
seem for the nonce to have fallen
upon evil days, they are neverthe-
less winning the good word of dietitians and
he admiring report of economists to an ex-
;ent that augurs certain return to
prosperity. Once a synonym of trifles, "pea-
nut' now stands for all that is nutritious
and substantially popular. No longer is it
fitting, argues the Chicago Evening Post, to
speak of peanut politics" by way Of denot-
ing things picayunish in civic affairs, or to
refer disparagingly to ones capacity as
that Of the tender of a peanut stand"
Who, indeed, will not be impressed by
the Importance of an American crop that
amounted in 1913 to ffty-three million
bushels and represented a value of one hun
bred million dollars? In twelve States, the
Department of Agriculture announces, pea
nuts have taken their place among the sta
pies and, in normal years, are yielding the
growers bountiful return.
One seasons depression in the market for
this product does not lessen its real worth,
nor its profitableness when converted into
sleek Dorkers.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-23
4 Question of EXPORTS

A MERICA has next to the largest of the
~ worlds merchant fleets; she has vast
quantities Of materials and goods for
expectation; and she has a group of singu-
larly fertile markets in Europe. YET GU
riously enough, numbers of her ships are idle
in port, and there is depression in those very
staples OF which European countries are in
urgent need. Authorities point out that cot
ton to the value of approximately a billion
dollars, even at current prices, is available
Tor export as are also some six hundred
million dollars worth of wheat, two hun
'dred and fifty millions of packing house prod
ucts, and seven hundred and fifty millions
of manufactures and raw materials
The problem of how to start this immense
surplus of exportable products to moving is
OF basic concern to the nations every mate
rial interest. Not only our own immediate
welfare Is involved, but that also of Euro
pean countries on whose industrial rehabil-
tation and vigor the future of American for
e1gn trade is In considerable measure de-
pendent Touching this matter, Mr.. Edward
n. Hurley directs attention to the fact that
Belgium is in the market for ten million
dollars worth of cotton; Germany for one
hundred millions worth of wheat, as we'll
as for large quantities of cotton and meat
products; France, Poland and Italy, for cot
ton and other staples Moreover, their bust
ness stability and development, and hence
their future capacity as purchasers, are ma
terially involved in the question of whether
OF not tney procure the things they now
need from us. AS Mr.. Hurley pictures the
situation: "Tme is of the utmost Importance,
and it is only enlighted selfishness for us to
dispose Of our products to our own immedi-
ate benefit, and with the knowledge that this
in turn will help in the worlds sterilization
Our position should be commercial one: we
should cooperate with these customers, now
restricted in their purchasing power, to en-
able them to make their needed purchases. !"
That is the crux of the whole problem Pro-
vide credit accommodations for those Euro
pean countries who are eager for our prod
ucts and who, If tided over present Difficult
ties, will be abundantly able to pay, and our
idle ships soon will be swarming the sea
lanes, filled with cotton and other commodi-
ties now in need of an active market The
specific plan for an exports corporation
capable of rendering this service must be
left. OF course, to specialists. But the Amer
lean public should lend unstinted aid to the
establishment of that imperatively needed
organization
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-23
PAUL REVERE BELL
PRESERVED AT BOSTON
In the belfry of Kings chapel, built

In the belfry of Kings chapel, built
when Boston was in it's infancy, still
hangs a bell which was cast by Paul
Revere. It was his -161st bell. Be-
sides being bell caster, Revere was
also an engraver, a goldsmith and
a dentist Rising above the modest
houses in the italian district on Hull
street is the old North Church, from
which Revere received his signal pre-
vicious to his famous midnight ride.
Christ church, the Second Episco-
pal church of Boston, is situated in
the North End, and is an offshoot
of Kings chapel. It's spire, de-
signed. and built in 1923, has served
as a landmark to guide ships into
the harbor.
In 1904 this spire was blown down
by great gale, and was shortened
by sixteen feet. The chime Of bells,
now silent which hangs in the tower,
was made in 1774, in the foundry
of Abel Ruddall, of Gloucester, Eng
land. Each bell has engraved upon
it an inscription denoting it's history
The bells were supposed to possess
the power to dispel evil spirits.-De-
troit News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-23
Why They Turn to Cox

xxi I am any Judge of crowd psychol-
ogy," says Governor Cox, 'the under
current Of Independent thought is
growing rapidly since Senator Harding
declared for outright rejection Of the League
of Nations covenant that it is engulfing his
party wall"
Many witnesses and many DEVELOPMENTS
attest the truth of the Democratic leaders
observation. Throughout the country dstin-
guished Republicans who care more for
their convictions and their country than for
the self-seeking political clique of which
Mr.. Harding is the instrument, are repudiat-
ing his candidacy and declaring their inten-
ton to vote Dem ocratc. This is highly sig
n1hcant but no more so than the pro-
nounced trend among Progressives and In
dependents Close students of the matter are
OF the opinion that a. majority of those who
followed Colonel Roosevelt in his memorable
revolt against a boss-ridden backward
looking, constituencies Republican party in
1912 are today supporting Governor Cox
because in the principles for which he stands
and the forces with which he is joined they
see the promised realization of their still
cherished ideals
With such allies Democracy we'll may
take courage and go forward. The party is
the rallying standard of liberalism, the hope
Of all who believe in Justice as the one sure
foundation Of prosperity and In national
honor as the one safe course for the repub-
lie. The Harding organization is brazenly
the champion Of reaction and special privi-
lege, and shamelessly fouts Americas high
est obligations to humanity and to herself
Is 1t to be wondered that men and women
who hold patriotism above party are turn
ing from rendezvous of visioness politi-
clans to the leadership of true democracy
and true Americanism?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-23

5oiced and blessed them, saying:
Behold, the Perfect '. nan, and
every mans IdeaP!'
But, thereupon, entered a Vicious
Fairy, who had not been hidden to
the feast.
And she Knocked them, saying.
80 be it! But L shall ,bestow up
on her one gift, which shall be her
undoing. Yea, shall endow her with
a sense. of humor, which is the
shall cause her to see men as they
are, and to perceive their funny side.
And she shall refuse to take them
seriously, and shall laugh at
their weaknesses and jibe at they
follies and torment them with wi
and with cyncism. And. behold, shS
shall never marry"
And 10. it came to pass. even an
she had said.
For, though the damsel grew to
great beauty, and was famed in tb:j,
land for her fascinations.; yet, i
man dared to marry her, lest Q =
laughed at!
And she dwelt in the House L.
Spinsters, forever!
Selah.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-23
QUIPS AND QUIDDIES

81 say" complained the stranger, addressing
the drug clerk, "the weighing machine outside
your shop is out of order.'
give got nothing to do with that machine !"
said the man behind the counter.
"Well, somebody ought to have"
whats the matter with iti"
at won't work. | dropped a penny into it
just now and the indicator didn't fly round |
shook the machine and jumped up and down
on the platform and still it didn't move It's
a SWindle"
1T took tn: penny all right didn't t3"
"Certanlyl"
"Well, that's what it's for There's nothing
the matter with the machine, sir"
MY wife is a SomnambuliSt," said traveller
in the Pullman to a new acquaintance. "She
walks around the room at night"
"Mine was, too," said the other, "but cured
her of that habit-by never leaving any money
in my clothes when | went to bed'
Mr.. SimpkinS was complaining to his bosom
friend jenkins about the numerous ills his wife
had brought upon him in the course of their
association. "When first | met her." he said,
~ was struck dumb with admiration. When
married her | was blind with love. and now"
he added, "lm deaf from her everlasting talk
ing"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-23
I~vest;ng In Good Roads

A PPEALlNG for united support Of the
n proposed twenty million dollar bond
issue for highway improvement in
it's State, the Florida Grower points to
CALIFORNIA; inspirting example The latter
recently Endorsed a fifty million issue for
better highways, and when the matter was
being discussed every newspaper of impor-
lance in the Commonwealth, together with
every leading civic and commercial nstitu-
ton, worked intellectually for the sue
cess of the measure at the polls.
That is the spirit Of which progress is
made. Nothing worth while in public at
fairs is obtained without effort and without
expense-co-operative effort and unstinted
expense Good roads especially call for large
OUTLAWS at the start. though in the end they
are incomparably cheaper than poor or
mediocre roads. Fifty million dollars in a
cause of vital consequence to agricultural
commercial and human interests is not an
extraordinary sum, and one hundred or five
nundIed millions would not be excessive.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-23

The Sun Never Sets on The Tri-Weekly
Journal
The Tri-Weekly Journal takes a trip
around the world three times week.
Every time an edition comes rumbling
off the big presses, the mails begin to
scatter copies all over the globe.
To begin with, subscribers in every state
IN the union read the paper
Then, ND in Alaska, and down around
the Panama canal, and across the Pa
cific in the Philippines, and eastward in
the Hawaiian Islands, people living under
the Stars and Stripes get their news from
our columns
And among foreign nations of the world
The TriWeekly Journal is a regular visi-
tor
In North America outside the United
States you will see it in homes of Canada
and Mexico. In Central America, Hon
duras is on the list. In South America
come Brazil and the Argentine Republic.
Cuba and Great Brtains Isle of Pines
must be counted, too
SO much for the Western Hemisphere
Skip across the Atlantic and mail carriers
of varied races and in varied climates lug
The Tri-Weekly Journal in their pouches
That's the case in England and in the
Belgian Congo and in France and in Ger
many.
This schedule of the papers tri-weekly
tour around the world may not be COM
plete. But it's enough to set anybody to
thinking.
Most of The Tri-Weekly Journals big
family of readers, of course, are home
folks. They live mainly on this side of
the Mason-Dixon line. They are sub
scribers, first, because the paper gives
them the most, the livest and the latest
news from this region. National happen
ings, world events and general news are
important, but not so personal
Yet why do people of distant lands re-
main faithful readers of a paper published
thousands of miles away?
There's one answer that sounds reason
able. The Tri-Weekly Journal is far more
than local newspaper-far more than a
recorder Of world activity. It has indi-
vidual attractions, unique points, exclu-
sve merits that belong to no other paper
printed. It's an institution in it's own
right.
Perhaps that's the answer But, at any
rate, If you believe that the paper is the
best to be had, your belief is supported by
others everywhere on the top side of the
earth.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-23
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
SAFETY FIRST
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
Copyright, 1920 by Wheeler Syndicate,)

and anybody who will promise he,E
fifty per cent can take her rola
away from her as easily as he CA
a stick of candy FRI d sick chic chic
inherited fifty thousand dollars
cash. She is a frail, delicate crea
lure, absolutely untitled. ethel
physically or temperamentally. RI
make a living, and those of US VII
knew her were aware that thl1
have, SO we implored her to invesE
it in gilt-edged securities that werI
copper riveted and had millions bei
hind them.
"1f 1 buy the bonds you advise,
she asked, "how much income wi
get?"
About twenty-five hundred dol
lars a year we told her.
ooh. ! can't live on that" sh
said. II must nave at least ten pei
cent on my money. l have so littlI
that l can't afford to take a sr'a
per cent on my money as you do:
But you can't get a high ratt|
9 96 ntSrest wa on anything og b that tbins
that promise these enormous re-
turns are fairy tales, and they emf
in smoke like fairy tales"
But she wouldn't listen to us. ShI
found a man who had a perfectl1
| marvellous mine in Mexico that wal
going to pay at least a hundref
and fifty per cent when it got Il
| running. and another man who wal
boring for oil in Texas. and eI
erybody knows what fortunes havI
been made in oil, and somebody elsI
| who was booming land in Floridj
and who was going to sell of
swamp lands that you bought fol
| ten. dollars an acre; for ten dollar
foot for city lots: and the poor
trusting creature believed them al
and handel over her money to then1
and in less than two years sh|
was swept clean, and had to go liv|
| with relatives who justly RESENTED
being burdened with the support oI
one who had literally thrown he|
Why women should be so dag
zled by the prospect of getting bill
dividends thai. they lose sight o.
the danger of losing their stalk
altogether. is one of the mysterie|
nobody can explain. Certainly AMI
| sane person would reflect that 4
| is better to have five per cent AMI
get your money back, than to gel
and then lose it; but the averagI
woman doesn't reason this way
She feels that somehow, some way
miracle is going to be wrought
in her behalf, and that without
knowledge or experience she is go
! ing to be able to turn a trick thai
to do. And that is. to make a dol
| lar work overtime for her.
! But there will be fewer womeI
weeping over the loss of money tha'
has left them to a poor and de-
| pendent old age.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-23
FINANCING Our FOREIGN Trade
11HE proposal to organize one hun

vT1HE proposal to organize a one hum
dred million corporation to finance
the country's foreign trade derives
marked impetus from the Endorsement OF the
American Bankers Association. It was fore
gone that these keen observers Of business
opportunities and needs would lend their
support to a project so timely and so fer
tile in elements of prosperity.
Every field of the nations productive in
terests, from agriculture to manufacturing,
is materially concerned in the functioning
and development of foreign trade. Cotton
prices would hardly have suffered so
sharp decline as that of the current sea-
son, had there been adequate means for
bringing forth and financing the latent over
seas business. Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia,
Germany and other European centers Of in
dustry stand in need of the Souths chief
money crop and would buy in large quanti-
ties if reasonable credit accommodations
were available. Likewise, in one way or an
other, all products and all industries de-
pend for ultimate values upon the free
lom and strength with which our tides Of
oreign commerce are flowing.
1t is of the utmost Importance, there
,re not to large investors alone but to the
INK and file who prosper as business ex-
lnds, that Americas export markets be
,igently cultivated There are divers means
that end, but none more essential than
lcse of financial nature. It was in rec
yniton of this that Congress enacted the
dge law, authorizing cooperation amongst
manufacturers, merchants and producers for
lie prom otion of export trade. The one hun
red million dollar organization proposed
or this purpose should be ready for service
Y January 1 next, if present plans con-
hue to go vigorously forward. The sup
national Bankers Association
,mes as a particularly cheering omen and
)ubtess assures the undertakings success.