Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-28
WHAT'S YOUR IDEA?

Have you ever enjoyed a more
beautiful October? There has been
dust, but think of the crisp days, the
nights just cool enough to make one
tuck a little more cover around one $
shoulders and then ''snooZe." The
late spring was hard on everybody,
but this glorious autumn has been
ample compensation. The pumpkins
will be ready for gathering and the
corn will have drawn plenty of
from the soil to fill the barns with
the sort that stays sweet and whole
some for man and beast.
Cotton is low and corn will be
within the price of all If the farmer
plays the waiting game he will get
many of them want to see the money
as soon as the bale is packed Too
many families were extravagant
through the year that is almost
gone, and bought at credit, prices
and now must pay: It's hard to pay
fulpess, or enjoyment are gone, Here
a little and there little makes a
store account or mortgage that
takes the joy out of gathering a
crop. as we'll as the same condition
makes a salaried man, or woman feel
like she is handling other people S
money when the money that comes
for services rendered must imme-
diately be paid the merchant, dentist
or doctor.
But we may through it all rejoice
that these glorious days are o.
enjoy to the utmost. There is no
help more comforting, no elixir more
inspiring than to look upon hills,
valley or skyline and remember that
He who made them for US remem-
Der that they arefor US slumbe
not nor sleeps; Our errors OF Judg-
their punishments and we throw the
blame on others
Just now there are two or three
sorts of people who planted crops
whose prices are not coming any
where near the cost of production
these must make sacrifices If they
have bought all sorts Of things on a
credit, not just what was needed, but
what each member of the family
wanted. That sort must drop their
beautiful bales of cotton or peanuts
or fat cattle into the pockets of the
spectators, for this set of people
are the ones the spectators counted
on getting.
The next lot of producers were so
enthused over their success last year,
or the success of nelghbor that
they overbid on land rent and put
Now they haven't much option, but
must pay rent notes and fertilizer
notes and ruefully gaze on what is
left, be it a mortgage that must be
paid or pitiful balance known as
"caSh on hand"
Then comes the sort known as the
fellow that lives at home" He
may drive mule or a pair, and
sport top buggy, his wife and
daughters may not possess silk stock
ings nor wrist watches, but that cot
ton. or corn or tobacco can be held
and the things they did without will
not hurt half as much as debts
would.
l heard a woman torn all to pieces
by two men. They condemned her
because she made a brave fight for
her children's education. She fol-
lowed her husband from pillow to
post while the children were young,
but when they were ready for school
she waited until the second one was
seven, then she selected a home in
a town with good environments and
told him that there she expected to
stay until they were educated, or
he had really settled in a place that
offered as much for the children as
that place did. That was eleven
years ago. He is still a rolling
stone and she has raised a nice fam
lily. Of course, the men thought that
her first duty was to that man. When
he gets little older he viii be