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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07
Words and the Man
TT would be hard to find a more int,

TT would be hard to lind a more inter
esting revelation of personalities than
that of the two or three lines il
which Senator Harding, on the one hand
and Governor Cox, on the other, recent,
expressed themselves concerning great is
sue of the national campaign. Said the
Senator:
81 do not seek to control any mans
views My task is to so harmonic the
views of American leadership that we
shall be able to adopt a policy in our
world relations to which Americans
will unitedly subscribe. In deliberate
public addresses I have given a clear
statement Of my own suggestions for
our future international policy, and
you may read your answer therein
Said Governor Cox:
GAS soon as after March as DOS
sible, if acting in your behalf, I will
recommend that we become member y
OF the League. We will accept any
reservation that helps to clarity. We
will accept any reservation that helps
to reassure We will help any reserva-
ton that helps to strengthen. We will
accept any reservation which helps to
give the associated Powers full un-
derstanding, in good faith, of the linn
itations of our Constitution beyond
which we cannot go. The candidate of
the opposition is in favor of scrap
ping the League I am not
Even if the matter in question were of
minor instead of major import, these two
utterances still would be of immense sig.
n1ficance for they show forth as plainly
as could a dramatists pen or portrait
painters brush the world of difference be-
tween a candidate who is talking to es
cape an issue and one who meets it with
plain speech born of conviction and pur
pose. Mr.. Harding's remarks mean moth
ing save in the setting which his political
associations give them. Governor Coz
speaks out in straightway American fash
ion, and with a real thinkers pthiness
The difference between them is simply
that between an uneasy politician anG
workmanly statesman
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
SELF-STARTERS AND OTHERS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
Copyright. 1920 by the Wheeler Syndicate Inc.l

1t is pity, though, that parents
do not study their children, and rear
re this difference between them,
that some of them are self starters
and others must be cranked up. TINS
would save IL lot of people from pc
coming failures, for, after all, the
cranked-up car goes very satistac-
torily when once somebody has put
it in motion.
The boy and girl who can think
of rev ways to play, who are always
inventing games. and who can al al,
for their raids upon the cooky jar
need no help. They are self-starters,
and will get away under their own
power.
But the boy and girl who always
follow, and never lead, in thF'r
DO now?" where sFs',. I go r
who have not ingenuity enough n
to invent a plausible lie, ne to
be definitely trained for SOM one
specific occupation in life. They are
the ones who must be cranked up and
the outside. They have no power
within themselves to achieve things.
Left to his own devices, that kind
of a boy drifts around from ILL
paid job to ill-paid job, because he
is never worth much of an employ
er's money. He has not the initia-
tive to go to night school, or tech.
nical school, or to learn how to do
his job from those among whom
he works, as the self-starter boy
has.
Or if he inherits a little money, he
starts a business with it and goes
| broke within a year or two, BECAUSE
| it is impossible for him to compete
with the self-starters.
ThaSe hOVS how aver MIGHT haVA
achieved success if their parents
| had recognized their limitations and
/ had tfem trained to do some par
ticular line of work we'll, for their
very lack of enterprise makes them
invaluable in places where patient.
methodical drudgirg and attention
| to detail is necessary.
Every young man starting out to
seek his fortune does we'll to apply
the acid test to himself and find
| out whether he is self-starter or
not, and if he is not, to hitch his
wagon to a big firm, where some H.
nancial genius will do the cranktng
and pull him along to prosperity.
He will make far more money than
he ever will in trying to go his own
way alone.
The woman who nas daughters
will not need to help the self-start-
ers get married. They are born with
| the come-hither look in their eyes
| that makes even dead men get up
| and follow them, but there are other
| daughters who will make admirable
wives and mothers. who need all the
help that a managing mother can
give them if they are ever to own
wedding ring.
It's a great thing to be self
starter, and the next best thing is
! have someone to crank you up
and get you along, If you aren't.
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supposed to have been a scant IS
inches, and according to this meas
ure, an authority says the whole
| building was 100 feet long and so
feet wide, The porch was Is fea$
wide and extended across the front
of the building. The main build
ing consisted of the holy place (30x
60 feet) and the holy of holes was
30X30 feet-a perfect cube.
Go. Can a person take gold to
United States mint and have it coined
/ into money?
A. The office of the director of the
mint says that a person may take
Mint and he will be paid for 1t in
gold coin, or by check that is pay
able in gold if he so desires. Mints.
however, are not required by law to
accept gold from individuals in
smaller quantities than 500 in vail
ue. This gold IS paid for at the rate
of $20.67 an ounce of pure gold
TO. Where were the Pillars cf
Hercules?
A. Two hills on opposite sides Of
the Strait of Gibraltar were called
the Pillars of Hercules following a
torn asunder by Hercules to admit
the flow of the ocean into the Med.
iterranean.
So. How many illiterates are
there In the united StdteSI
A. The Bureau of Education says
that there are five and half million
people over, ten years of age in this
country who cam neither read nor
write.
90. What books did Lincoln
read when educating himself?
A. There is little material to show
exactly what Abraham Lincoln read,
but there is evidence that the Bible,
certain of Shakespeare's plays, Rob-
inson Crusoe, the statutes of Indi-
ana, the Constitution of the United
States, Weems' Life of Washington,
the poems of Robert Burns and Pill
grim's Progress" were included In
the list.
80. Why does Venice have
streets of waterT
A. Venice is built upon islands
A. Venice is built upon islands
tants of neighboring cities during
attacks by barbarians. Its strategic
advantage was so great that many
fugitives remained and the lagoons
which separated the islands were the
natural streets. These islands were
formed from the silt and debris
brought down by rivers, and the soil
is an ooZy mud that makes building
difficult. Roadbeds would be ex-
tremely difficult to make, while
canals are obviously easy to con.
struct and maintain.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07
AMERICAN INVENTIONS
HELPED WIN THE WAR

The part which American inventive
genius played in helping to win
the war is for the first time made
the navy department of the official
story of the work of the naval con-
sulting board, the organization Of
distinguished scientists and invent
ors, of which Thomas A. Edison
was head.
Long before this county entered
the war the naval consulting board
was brought into being as means
of studying new problems of mod
ern warfare. and, if possible, meet
ing these problems with new devices.
In course of time the board be-
came the clearing house for new
ideas, not only from its own mem
work along these lines constitutes
one of the most remarkable chap
ters in the history Of American in
Vention.
The story of what was accomplish
ed is told by Captain Lloyd N.
section of the army general staff,
who was assigned to act as liaison
officer to the naval consulting board
and it's war committee of technical
experts. 1t comprises a volume of
288 pages, with a large number of
ing some of the principal inventions
and devices actually turned out. Of
course. the record is not complete.
AS pointed out by the secretary of
the navy, in a foreword, some of
the inventions were of such impor-
lance that they. must still be held
confidential"
Everyone expected that the board
would evolve some invention that
would conquer the central powers
with one fell swoop," remarks Cap
tain Scott. Had the war lasted
another year an important and conf
Dental device not described herein
would have probably justified this
expectation, in a degree at least;
and other devices evolved by the
board, such as wireless controlled
bombs, devices for the automatic in
PRODUCTION of all the factors in the
aiming of machine guns on airplanes.
as we'll as others, gave promise of
such results. New York Evening
Journal
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07
New Questions

1.-Do snakes have lungs?
FL am corresponding with a
young lady who always puts a cross
under her name in signing her let
tiers: Can you tell me the meaning
S-When did Steve Brodie jump
off the Brooklyn bridge?
4.-When Alaska was bought from
Russia was the whole sum paid in
cash or in part by sale of war
ships?
5.-Was castor oil used in airplane
motors during the war?
(Which animal was the first to
be domesticated?
Who coined the expression,
while there's life there's hope?"
8.-Can you tell me about the per-
sons who have risked or lost their
lives in Niagara Falls, and the Rapids
below them?
9.-Why are mountpeaks cold?
10.-Could you tell me all the can
didates running for the presidency
and vice presidency, and the parties
they represent?
Questions Answered
10. What is the largest steer
known?
A. What is claimed to be the big
gest steer in the world is $500
Sir Douglas Haig.
20. How far is 1t across the
United States?
A. The distance varies from 2,152
miles to 2,807 miles.
80. When was Frank James in
prison?
A. After Jesse James death, Frank
surrendered and was held in Jail in
Missouri awaiting trial for more
than a year. He was never con-
victed of any charge, however, and
spent the last thirty years of his life
as a farmer.
4.-Q. How deep is Salt Lake, in
Utah, and what is it's area?
A. Great Salt Lake, which occu-
pies a shallow depression has an
average depth of less than twenty
feet. 1t is said that the changes
in area of the lake are due to the
fluctuations in rainfall. In 1850 the
area was 1850 square miles. In
1859 it had increased to 2,170 square
miles Since 1859 and 1870 the lake
has been gradually receding. One
cause of the diminishing of the
waters is the amount used for irri-
cation, and a second cause is the
fact that the amount of water con-
tributed to the lake by the inlets
has decreased.
So. What were the dimensions
of Solomon's Temple?
A. The records are given in cubitS.
The length Of the Hebrew cubit is
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07
. HERE are some people who are
self starters. There are 9TH
l. ers who have to be cranked
up in order to make them go

n
self starters. There are 9TH
L ers who have to be cranked
up in order to make them 60.
The most interesting and mysteri-
Gus thing in the world is that little
quirk in the human brain that gives
to an individual the ability to see
even tiny crack open in the door of
opportunity, and the initiative to get
his toe into it, and the strength and
energy to push his way through. 1t
is what makes generals out of SOL
diers in the ranks, and merchant
princes out of office boys, and great
writer's and actors out of boys and
girls who grow up on lonely farms
in remote places, where they have
none of, the so-called advantages of
education.
Run over the list of the people who
are doing the big things in the world
today, and you will find that they are
the people that one would least have
expected to be doing them. A Welsh
miner and a school teacher are at the
head of the most powerful govern
ments in the world. Two poor coun-
try lads who started life between the
corn burrows of the middle west are
contending for the presidency of the
United States. A trained butcher
has become the greatest inventor that
ever lived. 'Our richest man earned
his first money by sweeping out a
store, and sleeping behind the coun-
ter.
know a man who is worth millions
He landed in this country with only
10 cents in his pocket. He could not
speak English. He was barely able
to read and write in his own Ian
guage. He apparently differed in no
way from the hundreds of other i'm
migrants with whom he came over
yet he lives in a palace, and rides
by them in his limousine as they
sweat and toll at the manual labor
which they are still doing.
This man was a self starter. 30
are all the others who succeed. They
that is to be done, and they have the
pep to go to it, and put punch in
their work. They are not afraid tc
take risks, or to trust their judg-
ments.
Nobody ever has to tell the man
and woman who are self starters how
to do things. They know it for them
can always think of another, because
they are simply bound to go. That's
what they were made for.
But, when all is said, if nature
doesn't turn US out self starters, we
are not to be blamed for it. Those
who never see their chances unit
they have gone by are no more re.
sponsible for their lack of foresight
than is a blind man for not being
able to see his way along the street
Those who have rickety judgments
and who decide every problem wrong
are as much to be pitied as the Grip
pie who stumbles and falls over every
obstacle. Even the lazy and listless
who do their work half-heartedly, are
probably as little to be cenSured as
are those who are born with a physi-
cal weakness.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07

The Paris police have brought to an
abrupt end the career of couple named
Taintor, believed to be American, who after
spending the season at Aix-les- Bains syste-
matically victimising shopkeepers and pay
ing their hotel and other bills with worth
less checks, returned to Paris to repeat
these operations.
They put up at an expensive hotel in
the Champs Elysees, and hired a luxurious
motor car, in which the wife, a very pretty
woman, invariably stylshly dressed, made
daily rounds in the most fashionable shop
ping quarters, where she ordered dresses
other clothes and jewelry to the value of
twenty thousand dollars to be sent to
their hotel. The items included a glove bill
for eight hundred dollars.
Her victims included the hotel parter
who offered to pay her motor car bill one
day when the woman declared that she
had insufficient ready money on her. The
bill was $35. When the banks refused to
honor their checks the police were advised
and the coupled rrrested.-Paris Correspon-
dence London Daily Express.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, hc.)

Isn't it nice to be back, where the
shaded electrics glow,
Whispering gossip or love, while the
violins sweet and low
Swing to the old refrains! Meeting
the people you know,
Chatting of this and that, watching
the Passing Show!
That. for the call of the wild! That,
for the song of the sea!
Sweeter the voice of the Town, call
ing to you and me!
Siren of silk and light, frolic and
OH, but it's nice to be back-firting,
again. at TEA!
Somehow, marriage seems to take
all the romance out of a girls beau
tiful- dream of darning a mans
socks!
A man actually occupies only
hangs around the house, Sunday
mornings, he manages to fill all the
rooms and the garden and then spill
over
When you tell a man that a girl
has common sense" he always pic
lures her as the kind who would
keep her husbands old love-letters,
of divorce, all in the same safety
vault.
For better or for worse" is not
an idle phrase in the marriage cere-
mony. A man always turns out to
be either a lot better or lot worse,
than you ever suspected, before mar
riage.
The most difficult feat of a girls
life is to assume that look of glad
surprise that man expects when
he proposes to her. He is so aston
ished at himself that he naturally
expects her to be!
Men will never be cured of their
vanity, so long as the moment a girl
turns one of them down, another girl
is ready to rush right out and pick
him up" again.
A woman's faith is never lost-but
it is often dreadfully misplaced.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07
OUIPS AND OUIDDIES

Smithson met his pal Johnson in
the street the other day After ex-
changing greetings Smithson asked
Johnson if he could advise him which
horse in tomorrow's races 1t would
be worth while backing.
Johnston stood for moment think.
ing. you back Loose Button, old
chap"
Smithson thanked him and went
on his way.
Two days later both pals happen.
won" exclaimed Smithson excitedly,
Johnson answered him quietly:
eyes 7 thought it would come off 4"
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THE JOURNALS LETTER BOX
"THE COTTON sITTTATTON"


Editor The Journal I have just read
your editorial in yesterdays Journal on the
Cotton Situation" and | am writing you
to express. to you my appreciation of The
Journals support of the agricultural inter
ests of our state and a square deal for the
farmers in their efforts to get fair price
for the 1920 cotton crop. Yours very truly,
J. H. MILLS,
President.
October 4 1921
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07
Editorial Echoes.

Comiskey has put to his credit the most
remarkable play in the history of the
game by retiring eight men. on a foul
ball.-New York Evening Post
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07

A gun-trop in a Kingston orchard went
off and shot a boy who was stealing ap-
pies Had this gun-trap system prevailed
years ago, the world might have lost some
of it's greatest men.--Montreal Star.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07

Now that woman has the vote, politi-
clans are trying to make hit with every
Miss.-Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07

The accepted idea of a hell of Ire and
birthstone and no water to be had, may be
all right for the unrepentant coal prof.
teer; but if the consumer had vote he'd
make it a region of perpetual snow and
Ice, and provide each one with a summer
outfit and palm leaf fan.-Greensboro
IN. c. News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07

October 4, 1920.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07

Ninety persons were killed by
motor vehicles in New York city in
September. Included in this death
list were fifty children, none over
the age of thirteen.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07

Even the bees tries to help cut
down the cost of living in 1919,
when the average amount of honey
to the colony Of bees was fifty
pounds.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07

Passengers or crews of vessels are
not allowed to go ashore at Puerto
Barrios, Guatemala, because of yell
low fever in the interior, it is an
nounced at New Orleans. Passengers
from Guatemala will be accepted on
steamships only when from Guate-
lnala City and upon presentation of
health certificates issued at the cap
ital.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-07

A woman's faith IS never 1ost-but
it is often dreadfully misplaced.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-19
CLEANSING CREAMS

There are few women who can get
along without using some sort of cold
cream. l am not particularly in ia
vor of cosmetics-at least, not when
exercise and common sense methods
of living are so much more desirable
as a means to beauty. But cold cream
/ consider as necessary as soap, and
in some cases, even more necessary.
If you have dry skin you will need
cold cream containing certain
amount of vegetable oil, since this is
readily absorbed; but if you have
normal skin and no wrinkles to bother
nhout you can get along just as well
van mineral oil cream which simply
c1eanSeS.
An excellent formula for such p
cream is as follows:
White Wax. .................1 ounce
Spermacettf .................1 ounce
White Mineral Oil.-..........5 ounces
Rose Water .112 ounces
Powdered Borax .......... 80 grains
fef1uIneQ OIL 10 drops
Melt the wax, spermacetti and oil to-
gether over a slow fire. When all are
melted together remove from the heat,
add the borax and slowly pour in the
rose water, which has been slightly
warmed. Stir and beat until the liquid
begins to CONCEAL, then pour off into
jars.
A little of this can be rubbed into
the face before it is washed in order
to avoid chapping from the winter
winds After a train ride or q long
journey in the car or carriage little
of this cream should be rubbed in be-
fore any water touches the face. 1t
can be used as a general cleanser and
even rubbed into the skin before ex.
posture to cold winds 1t is nothing
but a cleansing agent; it will not
grow hair; all 1t does is to get out dirt
from the pores where even soap ard
water win not reach.
AnXious-It is so hard to get rid Of
freckles that it is much better to spend
your efforts in avoiding them rather
than curing them. All mild skin
bleaches' will help to remove them,
but can never be absolutely depended
upon.
Blackheads are another matter. You
must, first of all, have your digestion
in good order, and you must be sure
that there is no constipation. Then
you can begin to treat the black pores
themselves. If you will write me q
letter with a self-addressed, stamped
envelope enclosed, l will be very glad
to mail you a formula for blackhead
cleansing powder. This is rubbed into
the skin when the pores are open and
absorbs the black grease of the black
heads. When it is washed out much
of this blackness comes with it. Re
peated treatment with the blackhead
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-19
COMPETITION GREETS
BABE RUTH IN CUBA
(By Associated Press)

HAVANA, Nov. 19.-During the Sc
ries of baseball games played by the
New York Giants in this city, Babe
Ruth, the champion home run hitter.
compiled a batting average of .345, but
managed to hit only twice for the cir.
cult. He scored five times. His eff
forts with the bat resulted in two
home runs, three triples, three dou
bles and two singles. He struck out
six times.
Ruth was signed by local promoter
for ten more games in this city. Dur
ing the contracts in which he figured
during his first series here capacity
crowds gathered at the baseball park.
the enthusiastics having but one am
bition-to see Babe hit the ball out OF
the park.
Torriente. a member Of team
which met the Giants last week
eclipsed the efforts of Ruth by hitting
three homers in one game. AS re
suit of this feat he has been named
by local lovers of baseball as the
Babe Ruth of Cuba"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-19

s13.9s, $26.5S, s35.11. Metals, machine
~ and conveyances, s14.50, 1921,
S3O.67 Wood manufacturers, S12.49,
$24.26, $28.42. Fur, leather and rubber
goods: SHIT, $27.09, $26.43. Chem
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$27.OO. Printing and paper goods:
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$2103, $24.79. Clothing, millinery,
laundry. etc, $12.40, $27.6S, s26.46.
Food, liquors and tobacco: $11.60,
$23.40, $26.04. Water, light and pow er:
$15.79, $30.91, $3.50.
The general average of these indus
tries for the three years runs: $13.06,
S26.17, and $28.44.