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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-02
A Widely Welcomed Change
In the Reserve Bank Rate

MONG many reassuring signs of the
N day none augurs more happily for the
agricultural and business interests OF
the Southeast than the official announcement
that the Federal Reserve bank for this re-
gion, beginning November the first, will SUBJ
stitute a flat rate of seven per cent on loans
to It's member banks in place of the so-called
"basic line and progressive scale' which has
heen in force, The change is hailed by bank
ers throughout the district, particularly by
those most concerned with rural Credits as
highly fortunate. At the least, they point
out it, will dispense with the complications
anil uncertainties that marked the sliding
scale of rates, and thus will Simplify many
transactions. 1t is expected, moreover tna1
the average rate which the borrowing panks
now will pay will be appreciably less than
that prevailing under the former system, ana
that the general effect will be an improve
ment in credit accommodations.
Merchants and farmers will profit from
that Improvement to the extent, of course,
that their local banks are prepared to
avail themselves of the advantages winch
the Federal Reserve system has to offer.
The Reserve bank it scarce need be saId
does not deal with individual borrowers, but
only with banks which are members OF the
Reserve system, rendering through them us
invaluable services to the public. In the
Sixth or Atlanta, sdistrict there are some
four hundred and fifty member banks OF the
Reserve system, all o. which can give thelT
patrons the benefit of improvements m the
methods and policies of the Reserve bank it.
self But there are many banks, far too
many in Georgia and neighboring States
that have not entered the Reserve system
and consequently are not able to give their
communities the advantages which such
membership affords. It is greatly. to be
hoped that these will see fit to join the sys-
tom without further delay, for by so doing
they can strengthen their own sinews, en-
large their own usefulness, do more for their
home territory, and at the same time help
to hasten throughout the Southeast those
processes of readjustment on which the full
tide of prosperity awaits.
7 Meanwhile, banks which are in position
to reflect the benefits incident to the
changed Reserve rate are reported to feel
much encouraged over the general outlook.
Their confidence is shared by dependable OBJ
servers far and wide. In all essentials the
South and the common country are econom-
ically sound, with their bountiful crops of
food and unclouded prospect of a world de-
mand for the products of their factories and
fields. Such difficulties as we have encoun-
tered in recent weeks and may have to con-
tend with for while longer are but incidents
in the passage from wartime to peace-time
conditions. The stability and gertrude grow
ing out of that readjustment will be worth q
millionfold more than the cost in temporary
inconvenience. Certain it is that those who
study present tendencies most closely are
ost heartened over the future.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-02
France Like Americans

A MERICANs recently returned from
~ trips abroad counterfeit the impress
sion gained from some tourists that
the United States and it's people are not
over popular in France nor have been since
the signing of the armistice.
An Atlanta man who has but just come
back from several weeks in France, Eng
land and Germany is authority for the
statement that in the main, the French en-
terrain for the United States a sincere re-
gard and a genuine appreciation of the part
America played in the war
II was rather surprised" he is quoted as
saying, "by the real cordially shown Ameri-
cans, for had been told that France was
weary of American tourists, resented Amer
ca's attitude on international affairs and
was none too friendly toward the American
citizen. Instead, I found the same courtesy
that was shown the American soldier dur
ing the war and encountered very few
efforts to profteer at the expense of the
American visitor. On several occasions too,
noticed in French newspapers expressions
of the warmest appreciation for the help
something, am sure, which the majority of
the French people and the nation as a whole
will never forget '.,N
| 1t Is gratifying to discover, nearly two
years since the signing of the armistice, sucl.
| convincing testimony of the enduring friend
! ship of France for America, The memories
! OF nations, like the memories Of individuals,
are so short that, often less than two years
sees a complete change Of front But France
one Judges, is not one to forget America any
more than America will forget the bonds Of
! friendship that have always tied her tC
| France and are stronger now than ever.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-02
THE NEXT PRESIDENT A
PARTISAN
! BY DIR. Frank Crane

Trouble is coming and we may as we'll get
ready for it.
That old enemy of mankind and of the
State is far from dead. Partisanship, the
disease of civilization, is still strong and
fevered among us.
The European nations, bruised by war,
have had to turn from 1t. The United States
was not hurt enough We are still fat and
fatuous. Only some gigantic calamity can
knock this folly from our crazy heads.
We still assume that government must be
by Political Parties, in spite Of the fact that
the Constitution does not provide for them,
and Washington distinctly condemned them.
I have appealed to Mr.. Harding and Mr..
Cox, asking whichever one is elected to for
get party, rise above the pettiness of con-
tention and vulgar success, and be President
of the United States and not foreman of a
Political Party
1t was undoubtedly Mr.. Wilson's fatal
error, of considering himself Party Leader,
that wrecked his splendid plans of world
peace
The new President is going to fall into
the same pit. The greeds, hates and pas
sions aroused to secure election cannot stop
after election.
But one thing could stop them. One thing
only could save US from endless political
squabble in the Senate, from industrial
wreckage due to lack Of settled policies, and
from an era of cowardice and humiliation
abroad
That one thing would be to have Presi-
dent who would form a COALITION Gov
ERNMENT, who would invite members of
the opposing party into his cabinet, consult
with and cooperate with the opposition in
the national legislature, bring peace to our
troubled country and inaugurate another
EZRA of good feeling"
I don't believe either Harding or Cox is
big enough. Neither is strong enough to
withstand the crafty. persistent and eager
forces of graft and vengeance behind him.
In H. G. Wells new history I find these
words about Napoleon They describe the
opportunity that opened to him when he first
came into power, opportunity he was
utterly unable to meet because the Old Or
der gripped him, and instead of becoming the
worlds greatest democrat he became only "a
new and nastier sort of autocrat." Says
Wells
''The old order Of things was dead or dying;
strange new forces drove through the world
seeking form and direction; the promise of
a world republic and an enduring world peace
whispered in multitude of startled minds.
Had this man had any profundity of vision,
any power of creative imagination, had he
been accessible to any disinterested ambi-
ton he might have done work for mankind
that would have made him the very sun of
history. There lacked nothing to this great
occasion but a noble imagination"
| Something like that we will see here. The
new President will be, not the President OF
| the Republic, but the leader of the victorious
pack of party wolves.
| For Partisanship must do her perfect work.
Copyright, 1920 by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-02
Editorial Echoes.

"Please ma'am, fathers sent me round to
say that your dog Towers killed three OF
his prize Cochin-chinas this afternoon" an
uounced an apple-faced youth to the elderly
maiden lady.
The lady held UP her hands in horror.
Tower" she said, Couldn't do such thing
I'm certain. Go and tell your father that
he must have made mistake"
'But father saw him with one of the
chickens in his mouth, ma'am."
Tell your father circumstantial evidence
mas led many a wiser man astray," shifted
the lady Run away and do as I tell you,
now"
When the boy returned, three minutes
later, he struggled with all to ear smile.
Feathers compliments, ma'am, and pr'ars
you're right" he said. He says I'm to tell
you that circumstantial evidence would point
to the fact that he shot your dog half an
hour ago, but on goin' into the matter he
reckors as how you'd find the poor thing
died O. nervous prostration.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-02

He was without money and in his
great canvas was sometimes forced
to borrow the price of a ticket to
the next stopping place.
Against this terrific campaign,
which seemed to be sweeping the
country for the Democrats, Mr.. Ham
ma planned the great Campaign of
education" The farmers of the agri-
cultural states east of the Missis-
slppi were induced to believe that
tn the election of Bryan would mean
wealth of the country was back of
Hanna-he had millions to spend and
he knew how to do it.
Careful canvasses taken two
months before the elections showed
diana were for Bryan. The work
that was done to turn that defeat
into the overwhelming victory was
due to the political sagacity Of Mar
Gus a. Hanna.
Bryan's appeals to the people OF
interest in his personality and the
picturesqueness Of his campaign, on
the ono side, and the efforts of the
Republicans to reach every voter with
campaign literature and personal ar
gument on the other side, resulted
in q widespread popular interest in
politics such as had never been
known.
While the campaign was decisive,
and while it practically settled the
money question for all time, defeat
did not diminish the popularity of
the Democratic standard bearer. who
has ever since stood high in the coun-
ellis of his party. Mckinley was
chosen president and his administra-
tion witnessed the return of pros
perity, the greatest the country has
ever known, After all, not the least
among the Republican assets of 1896
was the fact that the panic of 1898
came during a Democratic admin
istration.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-02
"S;z;;ng' Hin, Ub

4 NOVEL method of hiring employees
~ is described by a writer in the No
vember number of System, a maya
zine OF business young man called on
the general agent Of large life insurance
company asking for a job as a salesman
He impressed the general agent favorably,
but before deciding anything definite, the
agent introduced him to number of other
employees who, unknown to the young man,
constituted committee pledged to pass
favorahly or unfavorably on applicants for
places
'"The committee didn't convene, and call
the young man in for a hearing" con-
tinues the writer of the System article.
1.-TWO or three members invited him out to
lunch. The young man was much at ease
with them, much more his ordinary self
than he had been with the general agent,
and he said some things that the COM
mitteemen didn't like. Some little 'revela-
tons of his personal life and his ideas of
selling satisfied them that he was not the
kind of man for the organization. They
talked the matter over with the other mem
}ers of the committee secured their ap-
prevail, and returned a unanimously ad-
erse report to the general agent. OF
course he wasn't hired"
The suggestion incorporated in this case
is not bad one for any business house
% consider. The "boss," from his position
Of comparative isolation, often is not able
TO pass judgment on the newcomer with
the wisdom and precision of the men and
women with whom he is to be or not to
be associated. Where employees are moved
solely by motives involving the best in
terests of the (irm-and surely every sue
cess;ul house has such employes-the de-
cisien on the applicants qualifications, one
ventures to saS, is likely to be more cor
rect nine times out Of ten than that of the
man higher up For one thing, it will be
case et 1.-TWO heads better than one
OF course, most employers consult theil
subordinates any way on the progress OF
lack of progress of the new man, This is
merely carrying it step farther. .secur
ing In advance what is just as likely tc
be expert opinion" as any available.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-02
New Questions


l.. What country has a flag most
nearly like ours?
2. When were fireworks first used?
3. Can stars be seen by the naked
eye during broad daylight on fair
day when person is standing at
1874 feet in height? ~, (
4. Does the. Scotch song, Com.
ing Through the Rye" mean coming
through rye field?
e, 5. What is the meaning of a
'Mayourneen?"
6. What is the new submarine gun
that has been adopted by the New
York police department?
z, 7 see in the paper that a certain
man . is away on sabbatical leave.
What does this mean?
8. What are the heaviest and light
8. Please give me recipe for max
ing roOtbeer.
10. Did any woman sign the dc
ument written in the cabin OF the
MayfloWer?
10. What part of a mans weight
is water?
A. Water forms over 60 per
cent of the weight of theh body Of
the average man.. being a compo-
nent part of all the tissues.
20 Can an American Indian
vote?
A. An Indian who has been made
a citizen is enfranchised and is en-
titled to vote. Those, however, who
remain upon the reservations do not
have the rights of citizenship, as
they are exempt from taxation and
other obligations. -
90. When were votes first cast,
and what different methods have
been used?
A. Voting is mentioned in the BIZ
BILE as casting of lots. The evolution
of voting Is from this catsing of lots
first mentioned in Leviticus 1863,
to the viva voce voting common In
the ancient nations; the open ballot;
the Australian ballot. and finally the
voting machine.
4--Q. What is the origin of the
term shin-plaster as applied to pa
per money during the Civil war?
A, The word "shin-plaster," as ap-
piled to Civil war currency. is orig
inally said to have been applied to
the deprecated continental currency.
During the war, people resorted to
postage stamps and private notes,
the latter representing 10, rs and so
cents, were of little value beyond
the particular locality where they
We're issued, except as "plasters for
broken shins,"'. hence their, name
"shin-plaSters."
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-02
Our ROYAL Visitors

r JUDGING by the number of such visit
ors in the last year or so, 1t is be-
coming the custom for European and
Asiatic royalty to tour these United States
The Prince of Wales was followedby Carol,
of Roumania, and it has neen rumot I1so
throne of China, now destined for the
presidency of the Chinese Republic, is to
venture to our shores as soon as he is
safely engaged to one of his own country
women
The latest of these foreign potentates to
reach America attracts unusual interest
both because Of the nation he represents
and the fact that, apparently, he is in
spired by more laudabfe motives than mere
sightseeing and entertainment.
IT am a railroad man, and it is as
Commissioner General of Railroads and
not as a member of the royal family that
/ am making this brief visit to the United
States. I was here for about two months
in 1915, and was greatly impressed with
certain features of your railroad system.
For that reason I placed twenty-one yuong
men in this country to study your rail-
roads"
Thus speaks Purachartra Prince OF
Siam, the tiny nation Of the white ele-
plant which was among the first to de-
clare war against Germany and to array
itself with the Allies in the great strug-
gle. The Prince is a brother of Rama
Sixth present ruler of Siam, and only re-
Gently arrived in New York City.
The serious purpose of his visit not only
speaks well for the Prince himself, but in
dicates that Siam itself, small though it
be, is not slow in striving to keep step
with modern progress. Indeed. in many
ways Siam is stride ahead of many an
other nation, If one judges by certain re-
marks of Prince Purachartra, Women, for
instance, who form sixty-eght per cent
of the Siamese population, have equal ed
vocational opportunities with the men. Siam
has compulsory educational law and a
great co-educational university in which
many women are enrolled.
Economically, states the Prince, Siam
does not have "the extremes of poverty
and wealth that America apparently has. -
An agricultural country, the women work
in the fields along with the men, receiv-
ing equal pay. Little poverty and equal
opportunities for all prevail
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-02
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK ON
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
By DOROTHY DIX

No doubt there is an OCCASION
woman of high and heroic mould WI
does sacrifice her life to her idea
But most of us are pretty poor, Wea|
Wavering creatures, and when we 81
cold and hungry and discouraged, v
| are nothing but bunch of amin
| appetites, clamoring to be satishel
and it is then that we forget OF
high ethical standards, and sell OF
for a mess of pottage: Therefore
| is not enough for parents to Wr7
| the thought about them that the
| pure and innocent little girls wou|
| never do anything that wasn't gran
and noble, and ladylike. Nobody ca
| tell what they would do until thq
and mothers to DO is co build
strongest wall they can between the
| girls and temptation. II
They can best do this by teach1II
| the girls how to ma.-e an E.Dnel
and respectable living, so that Chg
will never be forced to cart che
| support by nefarious means. k1
in ninety-nine cases out of uuI
bred, the downward way is the rhol
en- way tic thoTe who know no otni
| way. i
The girl who cannot earn her oy
bread and butter. who cannot NAL
clothes, OF qrovjdc her with I'll
amusement that her youth Graves,
the predestined victim of any col
scinceless man who comes alon|
! Some way she must live. Some wa
she must get the things she desire
and the only way she can do tn
| is to wheedle them out of men, y
| the only work that woman can
without being taught, is worki1
men.
But for all that, a woman gel
| from man, she pays the price, II
! bitter price of those who must 50
| themselves in the market place b
cause they have nothing else to sci
On the other hand, the very know
edge that she can stand on her oW
feet, that with her own brains ar
hands she can fight her own batt
| of life, that she is financially ind
pendent and need look to no man T.
help, encases a girl in an armor tn;
makes Her bomb-proof against tenn
| tatioR.
There are no other girls in Il
world who are so capable of takir
care of themselves as business girl
They are neither thieves nor vamp
| They do not have to get their livir
| that way.
that they protect their daughters
Money is the hardest of all thin,
to hold. Especially does it RI
through the fingers of feminil
hands, like water through a siev
1t isn't lenough for fathers and mot
ers to trust to luck to their daug
ters marrying. Husbands are n
always Forthcoming. and even wht
they are, they often die leaving the
widows penniless.
Girls must be given that with
| themselves that nothing can tai
! from them. They must be taugl
how to support themselves If the
are to be kept safe.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-02
YOUNG woman of good fam
lily, of education and refine

A YOUNG woman Of good fam
~ lily, of education and refine
n ment, has recently been ar
rested in New York and put in
Jail for getting money under fraudu-
lent pretences.
In trying to excuse her crime, the
girl said that she was driven to
stealing because her lack of knowl-
edge of any gainful occupation pre-
vented her from making an honest
living.
you can't get job in New York
ness experience there. ARD If you
haven't even had out-of-town bust
ness experience, you might as well
stop trying before you begin--no
matter how clever you may think
yourself.
Everywhere that 1 loked for work
I was met with the same objection
that l lacked experience. They ex-
planned to me in offices where l tried
to get a job that they could not af-
ford to waste the time of the staff
teaching an ignorant newcomer. You
have to have skill to do the simplest
thing. Why, I even tried to be, a
waitress in a, restaurant, but found
that in order to do tina: Won must
be bus girl first and learn to STAG k
dishes properly. There's no place for
the untaught.'
In contradistinction to this girls
story let me tell you the story of a
girl 1 know who also came to New
York, seeking her fortune. This sec
ond girl had not had the educational
advantages, nor the social upbring-
ing Of the first girl, but she had
been taught a good trade. She had
served an apprenticeship to a good
milliner, and she had the technique
of making hats at her fingers ends.
Il. l. = =
she had only few cents in her hand
bag, but she had her thimble and
her apron in it, and the address of
a wholesale millinery firm. She got
somebody to direct her to it, and as
skilled workers are always in de-
mand everywhere, in, less, than an
hour after she reached New York
she was settled in a good job, which
grew. better and better until it laid
the foundations of the fortune that
she is enjoying today
Because this second girl was train
ed in some definite occupation that
would bring in money, she was not
driven to wrong-doing to keep soul
and body together as was the first
woman.
1 wish that might write the
moral of these two stories in letters
Of fire before the. eyes Of al! the
parents in the world. I wish that
might make them see that there is
no other safeguard that they can
throw about their daughters that is
so potent as just to make them self
sustaining. / wish / could make
them realize that money in her pocket
will do more to preserve a girls
virtue than the highest moral prin-
ciples.
It's all very we'll to say that a girl
should hold her honor higher than
her life, and that she should starve
and freeze rather than deviate step
from the straight and narrow path.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-02

80. How long have gloves bee
A. The glove is an ancient artic1
of dress. Rude gloves have bee
found among relics of cave dweller
They were known to the anciei
Greeks, but raiher as a protected
, to the hands in performing heaV
labor. Romans used gloves of sort
calling them digitalia. Their use fd
the nobility and clergy.
Go. What fraction of horse
power is a man power?
Fl. A muscular man usually de
velops one-tenth of horse po we
but he cannot expend this amount d
energy continuously. LAX n
TO. have an army Colt 4
automatic that | found Am / vic
lating law in keeping it? If S,
what shall 1 do with 1t?
A. The war department says tha
II you have an army revolver in YOU
possession, no matter how 1t gam
into your possession, you could
accused of possessing governmer
property without any government l.
cense for same, and the offens
might lose for you your citiZcnshi
as well as mean one year imprisoI
ment in the state prison. 1t Is sul
SeStcu IudL you Take the revolver
your nearest army ui.ing stati9l
stating how you obtained 1t, and
this way YOU will avoid any penalt
IN case you were found with 1t !
your possession.
SO, What is the difference bs
tween a college and a university?
A. In the United States colleg
is an institution of higher learninl
having but single faculty and cul
riculum usually leading to the d.
gree of bachelor of arts. A univei
siry, in addition to a college cours,
offers graduate work and has pre-
fessional schools. The two term
have been confused, since some CO.
Ieges have extended their instruc
ton to university scope withou
changing the name, while some uni
versities have limited their work an
retained the designation of "univer
sity."
7. Q. What year is this a.cordin
to Hebrew count?
A. The year 1920 according t
the Hebrew calendar is the yea
100. Why Is the Bible preser,
ed in st. Johns church, Portsmouth
n. H., called 1.-THE Vinegar Bible?"
A. 1t is SO named from the 26t
chapter Of Luxe, which reads, 9TH
parable. of the vinegar" instead o
the "VineVard"