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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24
CLOSED DOORS
By Dr.. Frank Crane

| ny LIZ AoA4N )letlAS
! do not know half dozen people in the
] whole world to whom can say anything. Ac-
cent on the anything.
! What | mean is that with most people there
ere one or more subjects upon which it is alb
3outely useless to talk
Upon this or that they have Closed the Door.
Also locked it and thrown away the key
And they regard this as a virtue, and preen
| over it considerably.
And it is right to have convictions that are
krooted, principles that solid, and conclu-
SionS to which one has definitely and finally
! arrived. For instance, it is just as we'll to- de-
eide that one will not bulge so far as the Ten
| Commandments concerned.
| But small minds coveting the name of be-
ing firm are inclined to settle themselves in
positions entirely untenable, to be positive
where ordinary good breeding demands that
all should be yielding, and tenacious where
everybody that wants to be agreeable yields
little
1t is amusing to see how people put such
questions to you as "Do you believe that Mars
lis Inhabited" "Do you believe it is going to
rain tomorrow" Also we are asked to say
yes or no, whether or not we believe in this
religious cult, or that political programme, or
some other thing that the WiSeSt men are still
discussing and have not" settled
Besides this there are all sorts of briStling
poStivtieS where there should be gentle re-
ceptivtieS. | cannot mention Miss JOneS'S name
to Mrs. Smith, it is like waving a red flag at
bull. Friend Republican will not listen to
one word favorable to Mr.. Cleveland, and
Friend Democrat is equally contemptuous and
summary when you bring up the name of Mr..
Mckinley. In fact, to be a good party man.
you must first get up and shut the door of
your mind.
Mr.. Black does not want to hear of a soil
tary good thing about labor unions, and Mr..
White sees red the minute you mention a
gentleman who is SO unfortunate as to accu-
mulate million dollars.
Most of US have spots of fanaticSm. We will
not listen to any possible hint that such a
class may be at all tolerable. The whole Glass
idea is composed of fanaticiSm and prejudice
and is chung to by minds that "have shut with
click"
There is hardly political, economic, or re-
ligiouS ism that has not deal of truth in it.
And probably none that does not contain fall
lacy.
Be hospitalble minded Keep the door open
Every human being, in and out of the peni-
Tertiary, has some commendable qualities. And
even the best and noble: have faults
Be tolerant. Most things do not matter much
Your house needs only one or two locked
rooms
Try to understand, more than to convince
And as you love me, cultivate a sense of
humOr.
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24


GUS man, active in mind and body. Oft
en- friends had enviously commented
on the splendid health he enjoyed.
His constitution must be exceptional, -
was the explanation offered by some. Others
attributed his freedom from disease to the
fact that his occupation kept him much out
of doors.
But one day, being still on the sunny side
of forty, this uncommonly healthy man TO-
ticed that he felt strangely fatigued after his
work was done. The next day, and the day
after, the feeling of fatigue increased
In few days he found it advisable to
shorten his working hours. This did not mend
matters. An alarming suspicion dawned on
him that he was also beginning to lose weight
Resort to the scales bore this suspicion out
Within month he lost twenty-five pounds.
And though he visited various specialists,
none could tell what was the matter with
him.
Finally one physician advised him to go
south. His trouble, it was to be reared, was
tuberculosis.
"To be sure" the physician added ct have
found no laboratory evidence of tuberculosis.
But everything else points so strongly in that
direction that I cannot make any other dag
nosis. SO would advise you to seek change
of climate without delay as offering you the
USSC CuduC6 LOT recovery.
In the midst of the preparations for de-
parture some one suggested that it might be
we'll for the stricken man to have X-ray pho
tographs taken of his teeth. Assessed teeth,
he was reminded, were now known to be re-
sponsible for much i'll health, particularly ill
health of puzzling kind.
Skeptical, because his dentist had only a.
snort time previously assured him that his
teeth were "all right" he nevertheless acted
on the suggestion. To his surprise the X-ray
pictures showed two teeth to be abscessed, an
upper and lower
No pain had been caused by these alb
scesses, no swelling, not the slightest tender
ness. SO far as appearances went his dentist
had been quite justified in approving the state
of his teeth.
But the oral surgeon whom he now con-
suited informed him that the germs harbored
in the two affected teeth might be responsible
for all his symptoms-hs great fatigue, sud
den loss of weight, etc. Accordingly he at
once consented to have them removed
Less than a month later he was able to re-
port:
II feel as good as new, am working as hard
as ever l did, stand my work we'll, and have
gained back twenty of the pounds 1 lost"
Such is the story as it was recently told to
me by the oral surgeon who handled the
case. Its lesson for those afflicted with what
appears to be quick consumption is obvi-
Gus.
They may actually be consumptive But
it will be wise for them to make sure through
the X-ray's aid that dental disease is not the
real cause Of their rapid decline-especially
if laboratory tests fail to show the presence
of the bacillus of tuberculosis.
Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24
THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY
(The Triton GaZete.)


The ValdoSta Oh mber of Commerce is lay
ing plans to start an active campaign ir the
interest of the Nationa Highway, says the
Times, which remarks: "ThS splendid high
way, the pioneer of all the highways through
out the state, has been neglected to conSd-
cradle extent by the towns along the way.
While this was being done, other routes sprung
up and have been advertised and pushed to the
extent that the popularity of the National has
been seriously threatened One of the mis-
SlonS of the Valdosta Chamber of Commerce
this year will be to cement the interests of
the towns along the line into concrete form.
and get some real advertising and publicity
which will show tourists that the National
Highway is still, as it has always been, the
nearest and best way through to Florida
points"
The proposition to advertise the National has
been seriously considered by. the towns along
the line south of Macon There is still an Or
ganization which effected at the time the
National was bidder for the Dixie route
south of Macon and this organization has been
held together for the purpose of conducting
an aggressive advertising campaign when the
time was ripe.
| 1t has not been considered advisable to ad-
vertSe the National during the past two years
because it was not in condition to make adver-
Using profitable. .
With the paving of the Highway through
Hamilton county, thus shortening the distance
from ValdoSta to Jacksonville nearly thirty
miles; the completion of the paving from
White Springs to Jacksonville and its extern
sion from the Florida line through LowndeS,
Cook and Tiff counties to the line of Turner
all of which will probably be done this year
will give the National Highway something to
advertise and an assurance that once tourists
use this route they will use no other between
Macon and Jacksonville The advertising that
has been done by other routes will be one of
the biggest boosts for the National
When the time comes to start an advertising
campaign, ValdoSta will find Triton ready to
cooperate in liberal manner. 1t has beer
ready to do this all along, but was only await
ing the right time
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24

VIZ ASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 1S.-The
w time-honored congressional custom
of winning the voters approval by
generous donations of free seed hung trem-
ping IN the balance this week when the ire
pressible Mr.. Blanton, of Texas opened fire
on the 100000 seed item in the agriculture
appropriation bill.
The gentleman from Texas charged that
his honorable colleagues were humbugging
their constituents by sending them the seed
as gift, when in reality they were being paid
for by taxes and the increased.cost of living
The farmers OF this country" he shouted,
would rather have their taxes cut, than to
receive a ffteen-cent package of seed that
they don't want and can't use, from their
senator congressman"
For few minutes it looked as though the
SEEDS were doomed, but when the roll call was
taken, at Mr. Blantons request, enough votes
were mustered to defeat the amendment strik-
ing the item from the appropriation bill. The
vote stood 100 to II, some seventy of Mr.
Blanton's fellow congressman voting with
him, probably for the first time in their lives.
Colleagues Of the Texas congressman de-
clare in rebuttal of his argument that the
farmers are not the ones most benefited by
the seed distribution, the greater number of
the packages going to the backyard gardener
who cannot purchase his seed in the bulk the
farmer finds necessary, and at the price at
which the farmer is able to obtain them
They declared that the seeds only cost the
United States government a trif1e over three
and half cents package, including the cost
of purchasing them, putting them in pack
ages and mailing them to various points
throughout the country, excluding only the
cost of the extra clerks the senator or con-
gresham must employ to address the franks.
The same grade of seed, if purchased by the
gardener or small farmer, would cost him
about twenty-five cents package, and even
then he would not be sure that he was secur-
ing the same grade of seed furnished by the
government.
The seeds, it was stated, are the best that
can be purchased in the United States, and,
before their distribution, are thoroughly test
ed and examined by government experts for
their purity and vitality.
Members of the house stated that not nfre-
quently the seed is sent to those, who but for
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24
rood GRIP Markers in Ge0roin
IN the establishment of grain elevator IN

N the establishment of grain elevator IN
4 It's territory the Dublin Courier-HeraId
rightly sees "another incentive to diversi-
lied farming on large scale" Improved IA
cllltles foT the storage and transportation of
corn, wheat, oats, velvet beans, field peas and
peanuts will greatly encourage the production
Oh such products and carry Georgia pros
perously forward in her newly won freedom
from the tyranny of cotton.
Agricultural authorities in the South long
nave declared, the Courer-Herald reminds
u.s. that one-crop system means want and
poverty" while the bringing forth of food
harvests, together with herds and flocks. will
mako Tor that independence to which this
region with its wondrously varied resources
is entitIed AS for Laurens county, we are
told that it "has been especially fortunate
in that its farmers have been provided with
ready market for produce of nearly every
KIND and now that the grain elevator is
about to be put into operation an even wider
field for different crops is opened.
Every county that wishes to win and hold
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24
0rkers on the Soil.
THE Savannah Press touches interest
lngly upon problem of basic i'm

THE Savannah Press touches interest
lngly upon a problem of basic i'm
portance in Georgia when it saws.
Prlces OF farm products are high. but OF
what benefit is that if labor cannot be had
on the Farms to raise these products Food
we must have but food we cannot get M
Iess the farmer can secure enough labor 10
provide it, ~
"A certain measure of relief is to be found
no DOUBT in making machines do the work
VI nanos' A tractor will take the place OF
several men and mules and never complain
VI hours or pay. There are other time~say
ers ana labor-supplanters which, if used nm
oeI a systematized plan of farm operation.
Will tighten the present trouble
After all, however, there must be moro
morhers on the soil if food needs are to be
supphed. The immediate problem in this
connection will be simplifed when industria1
funultlons IN the towns and cities recover
~ tton wartime abnormalities. But must not
lhe ultimate remedy be such a betterment ~
r l me- through improved schools. high
ways and social facilities, that people Viii
ne draWn to the country's substantial hannil
ness and content? 4l"ppi-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24

the advantages of diversified farming should
work for the betterment and expansion of it's
storage and marketing accommodations. For
it is to these after all that the food grower
must look for sustained success. Cotton held
its despotic grip upon Southern farmers so
long, largely because it was the only crop
which could be converted readily into cash or
made basis for credit. But as soon as the
packing house, the bean mill, the canning
plant. the grain elevator and like utilities be-
gan to appear and afford conveniences COM
parable to those of the cotton warehousng
system, the sun of diversified agriculture,
with all its golden omeps for the South, was
fairly up.
Georgia towns and business leaders can
concern themselves with no more helpful and
profitable entcrDr:rH than that of providing
such facilities for the country about them
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24
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THE SEMT-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. sGa
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24

We should think the cabinet members
could get an injunction or something to pro-
tect them in their constitutional right of
emblage.-Cleveland News
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24

DAnnunzio says he is "going to let the
Japs hear his wings whir'' Doesn't he mean
his Observation-Disclosures Mirror
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24

Poland is about to institute a senate.
Can't the new republic learn anything from
the mistakes u the ola Pierre
Haute Tribune.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS

Treaty Is Formally Before Senate To.
day.-Headline. But is the senate behind
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Daily News.
dispatch from Cork says the Irish have
captured the police station. They do it diff
ferently in New York.-Fresno Republican.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24
TEETH AND TUBERCULOSIS
BY H. Addington Bruce

TT was large, powerfully built, vigor-
II Gus man, active in mind and body. Oft
en- friends had enviousY commented
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24

Premier Lloyd George, has offered the
ambassadorship at Washington to the Earl
of Reading the former ambassador there
says the Pail Mall Gazette, but he has de-
clined the appointment. 80 RAD
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24

Petitions to place the name Of Governor
Edwards, of New Jersey, on the Democratic
ballot in the presidential preference prl-
mary, April 20, were filed with the secre-
tary of state today.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24

A new Chinese-American bank, entitled
the Commercial Industrial Bank of China, has
been opened in Picking. The offices were
crowded the first day with Chinese and
foreign guests, offering congratulations.
Among these were members of the cabinet,
foreign bankers and merchants. The depos-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24

The card system will be re-established in
Italy for the necessaries Of life under the
same conditions as during the war. The diff
fculty of obtaining transports, the scarcity in
supplies and the high rate Of exchange caus-
ing this decision. Cards, therefore will be
required for bread rice, maccaron, coal, lard
and fats.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24

~ HE proposal to lay certain Restrictions
upon Georgia voters in the forthcom-
Ia inp Presidential urinary is sadly out
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24

Despite further depreciation in European
exchange exports of raw cotton from the
United States in January, according to de-
partment of commerce reports today,
amounted to 929,671 bales, valued at $194,-
965, 1853, which exceeded the former high
record set in November, 1919, of 924,751
bales worth 1881 ,309,272, England as usual
w the largest nurch9Ser
Evening journal., 1920-06-02
AMERICAN LEGION
CIRCUS ON PARADE

A parade was held at noon today
in the centre Of the city by the
American Legion Circus which Is
showing this week al Iweniy-ninM
and Market streets for The benent
OF the Legion Home Fund.
II was a short but picturesque and
gaily caparisoned procession. Headed
by a portion Of Che band. the line
was composed Of several motor cars
containing acrobats and gymnasis
and a clown orchestra, Coronat's
charioteers. Hunts Wild West aggre-
CATION. with Chief Strongheart; the
Hercum family Of equesirians; Gas,
the clown and his trained mule, and,
finally, the Powers elephant troupe
It was intended TO have Adgle's per
forming lions In the parade, but I
was feared IL might make the beasts
too dangerous for handling by theil
mistress at the performance thii
As Jennie. one Of the elephant
troupe. passed the dupont building
She cast longing glanoes toward me
Public Building Ia front OF which
she danced the "shimmle" dnrlne
the community sing last Saturday
evening.
Evening journal., 1920-06-02
GEN. DUPONT WINS
AID FOR SUFFRAGE

CHICAGO. June 2-Gen. r. Coleman
dupont. OF Delaware, made a strong
bid Yesterday for the honor OF put
ting over the federal amendment
granlng suffrage TO the 2S0O0 600
Women in the United states. The
national committeeman from Delaware
sttppCd up during a dull momtnt at
the national committees sessions and
in short order obtained unanimous
approval Of a resolution urS'ng tho
all important thirty-sixth ratification
There was only one untowaru incl
dent about the dupont suffrage reso-
luton He called IL the eighteenth
amendment Republican leaders in
their anxiety 20 approve the proposal
never stopped 10 count The various
an.Cudn.tnls. IL was discovered by
some cilcious newspapermun that
the eighteenth amendment related TO
rrChst iuon. not woman suffrage. 40
was a mathematical. not a liquid. or
rOr. Mr.. dupont said Ills resolution
reld.
"Resolved by the Republican Ma
tionai Committee, That The nineteenth
constitutional amendment be and the
SAINT Is hereby again indOrseG BY this
committee, and such Republican
states as have not already done so
are now urged 70 take such aclion
| BY their governors and their Lee.s-
| latu~Cs as will assure the ratlcation
OF suon amendment and establish Inc
right OF equal suffrage at the earliest
possible time"
Evening journal., 1920-06-02
JOHNSON NOT
after Y. P. AS
LOWDEN MATE
contInned dom FIrsl Pase.

1NUIlNuIl AINU IAN0N IhN't
Penrose is expected 10 point The way
70 some solution OF the tangle over
the party nominee.
penrose may or may not come 10
Chicago finally. but IN an events he
will be IN direct touch by wire with
his lieutenants here end Is expected
10 speak ont soon with his recon-
mendati0n for the national Ticket. His
spokesmen In Chicago meantime are
working In an effort 90 effect an un-
dersianding whereby senator Johnson
Will get behind senator Knox for the
nomination n Johnson cannot win.
ptnrose has at least two cards up
I his sleeve-knox and Governor Sproul.
Tie has declared that II the convention
/ were 20 nominate a man OF the Low
| den type IT might as well name
spr0ul' lie has added, however, that
Knox would be the man best lifted for
the 0flce.
10 appears likely therefore that Pen
rose. when and n Johnson and Wood
are eliminated from possible nomina-
uon, viii enter Knox or Sproul, or
possibly both before he gives his sup
| port 90 LOwdcn.
, Confronted with the doubtful record
or having disposed OF only three OF the
/ 70 contested delegations In two DAYS
mornings, the committee today
launched upon a program designed
TO clean up the remainder OF the dis
puies In short order.
AZ the suggestion OF Chairman HAYS
the c0mmmiitee will begin holdinr
night sessions and an effort will b,
made 10 bunch the various contest.
In each state whenever possible. Tn,
policy OF holding open sessions hal
resulted In the contests being decided
upon judicial grounds rather than DO
litlcal eXpendlency. hut at the saml
time 10 has also had the effect OF drag
ING out the hearings 10 an unlooke,
for length
SO far but 10 Of the i22 delegaie
affected by the contests have bcei
placed on the temporary ron OF IN
convention. or these fowden woi
seven from Arkansas and one from
Alabama, The 1rst day. while Woo
benefited by two from the District o.
Columbia yesterday.
Evening journal., 1920-06-02
LITTLE SUPPORT
FOR CHAUTAUQUA

10 is likely that this may be the
last year that the Wilmington Chau-
tauqua Association will be able TO
produce its usual June entertainment.
With the best program arranged for
this Yar Of any In its history, sea-
son tickets which meet the expenses
Of the weeks program have sold so
slowly that the local guarant0rs are
fearful that the denoit that usually
occurs will be so large that the eX-
eoutive committee Of the association
may decide not to arrange Tor any
more chautauquas.
Whether we have the Chautauqua
another year depends on how many
season tickets are sold by tomorrow
night" said Benjamin X. Smedley this
morning. I'VE get nothing from the
single tickets sold during the week and
have TO depend entirely on the season
tickets which must be sold by the iirst
day Of the week. which this year
means Thursday. ] know that the
guarantors do not feel like conirihut-
ing large amounts 10 make up q
deficit, and If there is not enough
money at hand tomorrow night to
nearly meet expenses, there are many
who Will agree TO drop the yearly
June entertainment, believing that the
people do not want 10"