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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20

when distributed amongst more than a hun
dred and fifty counties would amount to very
little in any one instance. 1t is chiefly through
local taxation, therefore, that the sorely
needed funds for raising the rural teachers
salaries must come. Communities that refuse
to meet this situation reason and justice
require will find their schools going woefully
downward, with sad consequences to all the
vital interests involved.
For fairness to college and university
teachers, however the State and the public
are accountable-the State for it's own insti-
tutions, and the public for those depending
on private endowment The Legislature
should do its part in this problem with I'M
stinting hand, for there is no sounder invest
ment of State funds than in education like
that fostered by the University of Georgia.
the Georgia Tech, the Georgia Normal and
Industrial, the College of Agriculture and all
their sister institutions. In addition to these,
however, and not a whit less important to
deed, more importantly are the universities
and colleges which the churches and indi-
vidual philanthropy have founded.
1t is to these that hundreds of thousands
of Georgia Methodists, Baptists, Presbyte-
rians, Episcopalians and followers of other
great faiths look for the higher education of
their sons and daughters 1t is to these, more
over that the Commonwealth itself looks for
a vast deal of it's educational work and
progress. To support these institutions, there
IoTe, SO tnaC tney can VoucnSale Cner Iacul-
ties something like a just recompense for
splendid labors, is patriotism, of most use
full order 1t is from the rank and file of lib
eral minded, open hearted Georgians and
Southerners that Emory, Oglethorpe, Agnes
Scott, Mercer, Wesleyan, Cox College, Short
er, Brenau and institutions Of this character
must derive financial sustenance; it is from
Georgians and Southerners OF this spirit that
funds for fair salaries to the majority of col
lege and university teachers must come.
The adequate maintenance of common
schools and of the higher centers of educa-
tion are among the most imperative obliga-
tions upon good citizenship.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20
Colleges and Rural Schools.

ffSSsq.z The Carroll Free Press gives telling ex-
ssisSa preston to truth which is being borne in
more and more keenly to Georgia's civic
q q and parental conscience, when it says, CAL
81 ready there is shortage of teachers through
b. out the country, and, particularly in the ru-
raj districts, many schools are unable to Sc
cure them The one substantial hope of re-
! lief, our contemporary argues, lies in better
Eagsalaries, touching which it declares:
If there is any excuse for taxpayer
- refusing to grant those into whose keep
~ ring he places his child salary sufficient
Eses@ to buy the necessities of life we can't
- - imagine what such excuse consists Of
" Our children are either entitled to the
sbest school facilities or they are not. II
they are, then how they going to en-
g2j joy them if the state and the subdivi-
olsU1 sons thereof refuse to pay adequate
t= wages to our teachers
while every province of the teaching pro-
Fl fession is entitled to these earnest words in
FH its behalf, there are two groups that should
receive special attention because they have
~ been left in all too many instances to special
sa41y. cold neglect. We mean the teachers in ru-
ssfaSTal schools and those in colleges and univer-
sites. The formers grievance must be right
ed by the State and the counties, particu-
gs1sIarly the counties Though treasury condi-
9G gtions should permit the Legislature to in
Saxserease the common school appropriation by
tGa.lotens of thousands Of dollars, that addition
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20

logical thing to her, ana to many other think
ing people, to try to feed, clothe and educate
the children already in the world, and prepare
them best al for their huge task of
paying for the war, rather than to thrust boards
of new babies into a worlt unable to feed them
properly. Of course II ere is another group
of serious thinkers who advocate just the re-
verse AS cure for all our troubles they want
more children and still more.
The only way to decide which plan is best
is to look at the example. offered us by coun-,
tries who do practice birth control, and COM
pare them with those who do not, say the birth
control supporters. Take Holland for inStanc$.
Holland is shining example OF birth Coz"
troll country. For forty-five years public birth
control clinics have been maintained there with
the consent of the government AS direct
result, the family limitation enthusiasts claim,
and seem to have reason their side, the
death rate in Holland is the lowest in the world,
for strange IS it may SEEM high birth rate
and a high infant and mother mortality rate
go hand in hand. Also Holland was able to
support herself during the war without outside
help because her population did not exceed her
food resources.
And-when the 'men of Holland were mobil
lied as wartime meaSute-they were found, to
be nnety-five per cent efficient, as against our
sixty per cent. All this points out say the
birth control enthusiasts, that it is better to
concentrate upon the quality of our citizens
than upon the quantity. We all must admit
that Hollar+t is a very pleasant and highly re-
spectacle little country They don't have birth
control clinics in Russia and they don't have
them in China, and the, don't have them in
India. 1t will also be remembered that Ger
many was strong for big families. Her popu-
lation increased fifteen millions in thirty years,
and the pan-German dreams of national
panSion grew and waxed strong until Germany
precipitated the fearful world war.
An instance worthy of notice is the sudden
interest which the Japanese government is
showing in birth control. During the last six
months fifteen Japanese officials have sought
Margaret Sanger to get the benefit of her wide
knowledge and experience in the work of edu-
eating people in the real meaning and ad-
vantageS of birth control as she sees them.
They say that the Japanese government agrees
that the OyercroWded condition of their coun-
try means birth control now or a war of ag-
erosion twenty years hence and they have
decided on birth control for humane reasons.
Every book the subject which Mrs. Sanger
recommended to them is being translated into.
Japanese. 4
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20
Admiral Benson Ne7U Post.

N naming Rear Admiral Benson, of
Georgia, to succeed John Barton Payne
as chairman of the United States Ship
ping Board, the President has made a most
admirable appointment to a most important
office National and business interests alike
are materially concerned in the administra-
ton and ultimate disposal of the great mer-
chant fleet which was built for war emer-
gencies These vessels represent public in
vestment of billions of dollars and public
stake in export trade opportunities that is
truly beyond reckoning.
It is for Congress to say what finally shall
be done with all this aforementioned ton
mage, and assuredly few legislative questions
of greater economic moment to the entire
country have arisen. Should the new marine
be delivered into the control of narrowly
selfish interests-such, for example, as those
which threaten to strip Southern ports OF
the tonnage which the Shipping Board has
allocated for the development Of new over
seas routes-a capital injustice would be
done the whole nation. If, on the other hand,
care is taken that the marine shall remain
not only under the Stars and Stripes but
also under liberal and constructive policies
OF operation, all America will be advantaged.
Until Congress takes final action, however,
chief responsibility for the millions Of tons
of vessels will continue to rest upon the
Shipping Board; and after that, the Board S
duties still will be highly important. 1t is
exceedingly gratifying, therefore, that so able
and Just an executive as Admiral Benson mas
heen called to that station of service. AS
chief of naval operations during the war
he performed stupendous task with ability
that will prove historic. The post to Wnlcn
he now is summoned is worthy of his talent
and natriOtiSm,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20
THE WAR is OVER
BY Dr.. Frank Crane
..nr ;n ALLY Dnfinitn1nr


Up till now there have been doubts
The Germans, of course, were licked, but
they didn't seem to know it. And the general
sentiment in the allied countries was that the
war stopped too soon.
We were just getting good and ready Our
mad was all up We were finally adjusted to
war and prepared to go with it for years.
In fact we rather liked it. We were en-
joying debauch of national unity everybody
was for the u S. A. and so many of the boys
had gone to war that the loaferS and poor
workmen at home were getting fabulous wages
for doing nothing.
Then all of a sudden there came the armiS-
tice. 1t hit us as baseball hits a batter in
the solar plexuS We were groggy for a
spell
We thought at first, of course, that we ought
to be happy and rejoice because the cruel
war was over.
But we had got going so hard we could not
stop. We simply had to go on hitting. The
Germans having run away, we began fighting
each other.
Senator'S began to scrap. number of them
decided that as the kaiser had quit they must
have somebody to hate, they picked on
Wilson.
And the navy began to snarI.
And the army began to quarrel.
Everybody hated everybody else.
The Hearst papers discovered that it was
England after all that was enemy and
not Germany.
Labor took a hand We had more strikes
than ever before in our history. Coal miners
struck, railroad men threatened to quit and
tie up the whole country, janitorS decided to
freeze us all in our beds unless they got more
pay for keeping up the furnace, the printers
walked out, milkmen refused to bring the
babyS bottle, drug clerks declined to sell pare
goric, school children declared they would not
go to school, the actors would not play, the
devil was to pay generally, and right in the
heat of it all they closed up the saloons and
we had no beer glasses in which to weep nor
friendly. red-eye wherewth to Slake our wrath.
Russia threw a fit. Hungary, Poland, Estho-
mia, Italy, CzechoSlovakia, boiled up DAN
nunzo, Trotzky, Kolchak and others did their
respective dances according to their lights
in those places where Providence and bull luck
had placed them.
JUST because the nasty Hun wanted to quit
was no reason why we should be cheated out
of our Shindy.
And then Brer Valera came over and began
raising Irish funds to defeat the English
But it's over. know it's ovel, be-
cause on the front page of the paper l saw
displayed in conspicuity the news from Palm
Beach that John r. BradleyS tomcat Dick was
killed by a skunk last night. There were a
coupla StickfuS of this.
Also a dispatch from Cincinnati that Willie
.Capucn, the famous ring-tailed monkey in the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20

n TEW YORK. Feb, 15.-StrikeS and rumorS
~ of strikes are so common these days that
we are fast accepting them as a normal
part of our national life. Daily newspaper an
nouncementS that the buttonmakerS have walked
out or that the cloak models are demanding q
better living wage, cause not one tremor III
the stout heart of the average citizen OF today.
But one strike has been called recently which
is so unusual that it ought to make even the
most hardened of us sit up and take notice,
This is birth strike of five years duration, ad-
vocated by Margaret Sanger, head of the birth
control movement in this country.
The time was, and not so long ago, when the
mention of birth control in any gathering was
followed by a Scandazed silence and the future
oStraciSm of the rash and unconventional men
toner. But now there is hardly debutante
who cannot quote glib statistics on the subject.
Most of the big periodicals, and many of the
larger newspapers, are discussing it openly and
unbluShingly. Those of us who believe that
ignorance and silence have never aided the So
luton of any vital question of national welfare
may we'll be encouraged by the growth of this
brOad-minded attitude. Whether we are for or
thing TO do is to allow both sides of the move
ment to state their cases clearly and then decide
the matter for ourselves, as American citizens,
Self-governing and untrammeled by superstition,
are popularity supposed to do.
The main reason for the growing interest in
birth control is not the sentimental one of saw
ing the poor under-nourished mothers of the
sumS from lives {, hardship and early graves
or of preventing the birth of unwanted children
in already crowded families where they will
never have fair chance of surviving and de-
velopng into anything but a burden to the
state. Rather it is a purely economic reason
of such obvious urgency that government
officials in some countries are beginning to
consider it. The late Lord Rhondd formerly
food controller of Great Britain says "the end
of the reproductive five years of the war found
Europe with exhausted credit shortage of
food, and other primary requirements of life.
All this means industrial DISCRIMINATION for
some years to come; g.. It means hardship
and coupled with the food situation it means
starvation. 1t means want for a considerable
portion of the European population for con-
siderable part of the lifetime of the children
now Being born And these conditions in
Europe will inevitably have their effect upon
America. This world is so closely knit to-
gether that no part of it can suffer without
bringing suffering to the rest.
1t is this situation which is responsible for
Margaret Sanger; birth strike 1t seems the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20
The WorldI's Syrup King.

~ RADY county's remarkable record
II of cane syrup production engages the
whole States interest and pride 1t
is indeed gratifying that a Georgia commu-
nifty leads the world export center for
this delectable product--the more so when
we look into the earnings. Upwards of one
and one half million dollars, writes The
Journals Cairo correspondent, was realized
up to February the first on Grady's syrup
yield for the 1920 season, a sum more
than three times as great as the topmost
figures of previous years. While much of this
extraordinary gain comes from rising prices,
much also is attributable to increased pro-
ducton.
That county, like so many of it's forward
moving nieghbors, is devoting more and
more energy to food harvests and animal hus-
bandTy. Its cotton crop last year was at least
fifty per cent under that of 1918-a result
explained partly by the boil weevil and I'M
toward weather, but mainly by curtailment
of the cotton acreage to make room for food
crops. So profitable has been the outturn of
diversified farming that this year a still
larger area probably will be given to cane
corn, potatoes, peanuts and like commodities
Planters who can make a world record on
syrup production and garner trimming pros
perity from crops that involve no weevil haz-
ards, naturally are not worrying over the
cotton future
The same agricultural policy on which Ora
dy county thrives is bringing good fortune
wherever given play Georgia is far richer
Comm wealth and incomparably more indie
pendent since she broke free from the one
crop tyranny and began developing the Won
derful range Of her soils resources. Now
that seed time is again at hand it is great
ly to be hoped that this fruitful policy will
be adhered to throughout the State.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20
The Suspicious Man.
~ HE Mobile man who was robbed OF MS
lifetime savings of sixteen hundred
II oh ho had tucked care

-HE Mobile man who was robbed OF MS
lifetime savings of sixteen hundred
II dollars which he had tucked care
fully away in trunk for safe keeping draws
from a keen onlooker this rather unsympa-
thetic but altogether true observation: |He
who essays to be his own banker is under
taking to exercise in his person the function
of heavy vaults and well organized strong
ly fortified system of money protection. In
his fear of all humanity he subjects himself
to the maximum of danger; in his doubt of
all honesty he puts his money where dis
honesty, with least menace to ITSELF can lay
hold on it,
Curiously interesting it is that the most
suspicious persons are ofttimes the ones most
ridiculousy duped. Faith and discernment
appear somehow to go together. To believe
in the essential or ultimate goodness of hui
mainly is not to be purbind to it's perilous
streaks; rather a certain keenness for the
detection of fraud comes from considering it
the exception, not the rule. 1t was in his
haste that the wise king said, Cali men are
liars" and he who proceeds upon the notion
that there is more rascality than integrity in
the scheme of things never fares far along
the road of true living. One does not have
to be a Moses Primrose to escape being a
lesser Machiavelli; but as between the two,
Moses for all his gaping innocency will see
more Of life and certainly more of happiness.
Trust there must be-trust in friends trust
in banks and business houses, trust in the
public, trust in the universe-if our world
is to function and our minds arrive at truth.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20
sOBSTINACY

BY H. Addington Bruce


r HAVE known not few obstinate men in
my time. One and all of them have
found living examples of the truth OF
.Schopenhauer'S trenchant remark:
"ObStnacy is the result of the will forcing
itself into the place of the intellect"
The obstinate, to be sure, usually plume them
selves on being people of uncommon intellec-
tual power This is one of the reasons they
consistently refuse to take advice from any
body, no matter how obvious may be their
need for advice.
In fact, they are inclined to resent advice
I as implying an intellectual inferiorty on theil
part Nothing StingS them more than this
They may even voice their resentment openly
with a bitter:
ed guardian. Do you imagine that | not
capable of thinking things out for myself and
deciding what is best for me?'
Yet it is certainty that, however capable
they may be in this respect the obstinate never
take the trouble to think things out.
If they did they would profit from the lessons
of failure and defeat, inevitably forced upon
them by reason of their obStinacy Instead, they
think only of explaining away their dsaS-
trouS experiences, SO as to justify to them
selves as we'll as to others persistence in courses
which have already cost them dear.
81 was dealing with tricksters and crooks,
they affirm. at was the dishonesty of other
pcOplC lHdL DIOuSHl HE 10 SIleI. II InSy naQ
been honest all would have been wel.'
Or:
81 did not get fair chance to prove my
worth. Envy and jealousy and prejudice
thwarted me-"
Or yet again:
"My luck was bad, can only hope that it
will be better next time"
Not for a moment do these obstinate ones
admit that poor Judgment may have something
to do with their lack of success. Not for a
moment do they turn on their msfortuneS the
Searchlight of reason.
They have only to do this, they have only to
ponder calmly and patiently causes and effects,
and they will soon have better right to the
egotiSm which bulkS so unpleasant1y in
them.
For then they would travel far and fast with
the aid of their uncommon will power which
at present retards them because they have al
lowed it to become the master, not the servant
of the intellect.
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20

ZOO, who had himself out trying to pro-
tect his wife's baby from being kidnapped by
his SSter-in-law, had taken pneumonia and died.
This sort Of stuff on the front page means
the war is over, and we can go back to our
jobs. .. ......
Copyright 1920, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20

political revolution is taking place'-a rev.
olution that is in some sense a reaction. Men
are rebelling, against the extreme centraliza-
ton Of the war period"
But whether the Federal amendment is
ratified not women already enjoy Eat
least presidential suffrage in tWenty-seven
ommonwealths," as the PITTSBURG SUN
(Dcm.) reminds us, so that most of the wom-
en- Of the country will vote in the next presi-
Dental election, including practically all of
the states that are at all "doubtful' politi-
cally.
An interesting point, emphasized by the
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE (Rep) is that if the
amendment is ratified this year, it will be
just one hundred years after the birth of Su-
san B. Anthony, who drafted it. l,
The CLEVELAND PRESS (Ind.) mentions
that "the Isle of Man enfranchised its women
in 1884," and that since then twenty foreign
countries have granted the suffrage. Thus
it says, "the United States is only thirty
nine years behind time" The LANSING
STATE JOURNAL (Ind.) reports that
France, also, has a woman suffrage bill pend
ing.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20
More Congressman

WOTe LOHgTGSSHeH
1t is more or less officially estimated that
the 1920 census will show an increase of
population in the United States of ten per
cent. If the existing plan of sending to
Washington one representative in Congress
for every 100000 of population continues to
be followed, more than forty new members
would be added to that company which sits
under the speakers eye This addition would
give total house membership of about AIS
for population of 100000.
Forty-four representatives were added to
the membership Of the house as a result of
the 1910 census. Each ten-year period, in
fact, has increased the number of representa-
tlVes by approximately forty. 1t is by these
accret1ons that the total membership of the
house of congress has increased to it's pres
ent size from the sixty-five congressman in
the first house.-SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
Rep.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20

The Hungarian minister has handed tc
Chancellor Renner, of Austria, note pro-
posing plebiscite in west Hungary to de-
termine the attribution of that territory
which is now assigned to Austria, but claim
ed by Hungary on historical grounds. 1t is
proposed that Hungary and Austria pledge
themselves to consider a vote Of the people
on this question final
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20

No One Person Can Make Liping Cheaper
If there should be considerable decline
in the price of things during the current
calendar year, the efforts of any individual
will deserve credit to the amount of per-
haps a fraction of one per cent General
practice of thrift and economy will bear the
bulk of the responsibility. Good crops, if
we have them, will claim fair share. Eff
fectivo pressure of public opinion against
undue profits will be on the roll of honor.
Decrease of exports due to the foregn ex-
change situation may qualify for honorable
mention.
But laws alone will not do it, nor will
high-sounding statements by public officials,
or elaborate programs" or the disinterest-
ed efforts of candidates for political prefer
ment. There are two ways of keeping we'll.
One is by means of small and tasty pills
and the other is by saving wood and walk
ing to work Everybody would like to get
cured of our national ailments by the pleas
ant pill method, but in the end we will have
to come around to the sawbuck.--SPOK-
ANE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW lind. Rep.