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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24
MENTAL POWER
By H. Addington Bruce

xZOU are not progressing as you would
7 desire. You recognize that this is
due to some mental shortening on
your part.
Perhaps you are held back by being I'M
imaginative. Perhaps your memory is weak.
Perhaps you reason poorly.
Whatever the shortening you recognize
it's presence. You deplore it. But also you
fear that it is incurable, representing handi-
cap placed upon you for all time by an I'M
fortunate heredty.
Danish this vicious idea from your mind.
1t is miserably false. There is much that you
can do to improve yourself in every phase
Of mental power, if only you will earnestly
set about the job Of self-improvement.
For, let me say to you as e1aphatically as
can, it is not the qualities you inherit to
much as the way you cultivate these qualities
that determines the range of your mental
power
1t is safe wager that many Of the men
you see about you, and whom you envy for
their success began fife with less native tai
ent than you possess.
But the training given them by others, or
elf-training has enabled them to use more
efficiently than you the mental resources
which actually are more limited than yours.
So they have gone ahead of you.
Profit from their example.
Stop bemoaning your sad lot. Shake your
self free from the shackles of the delusion
that nothing can be done to mend matters.
They can and should be mended.
Long ago the psychologist, William James,
demonstrated that good memory is not IL
compatible with the possession OF only
middling degree of physiological retentive
ness. True of memory power, this is like
wise true of attention power, of imagination,
of judgment, of reasoning in general.
You improve yourself in all Of these,
much as you may doubt the fact. 1t is ques-
tion chiefly of honest effort, working under
wise direction.
And there are plenty of wise directors
available to you, in these days of public edu-
cation through the printed word. Masters of
mind training have written books which will
greatly help you, and which you can procure
at little cost.
Ask your local librarian to list for you a
few really good books on mental culture.
Or if you prefer, write to me in care of this
newspaper inclosing stamped and addressed
envelope, and I will send you such list.
Do not continue in your hopeless, helpless
attitude. There is much, I repeat, that you
can do for yourself. Make beginning.
Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24
THE SOPHISTICATED
By DR.. Frank Crane

I would add to the Litany these words:
From sophistication and all sophisticated
ones, good Lord, deliver us''
I love to enter shoe store and meet the
urbane salesman who knows what | want
better than do. He smiles in a panied way
at my suggestions He tries, oh, so hard, to
restrain his contempt when I indicate my
depraved tastesa He remarks in hopes it
will reduce me to proper silence, that he's
been in the shoe business for twenty years.
Finally he gets me so cowed that I walk
away in footgear that is killing me, and that
I have to give to the janitor eventually, even
because MIR. Knowitall insisted that the shoes
couldn't possibly hurt. He got me so scared
at length that l was afraid to tell him they
did hurt.
Occasionally you meet the religious
Knower The woozier and crazier his sect
the brighter burns his lamp of certainty. He,
too, has that smile, that blighting, whitening
smile of divine restraint.
1 must not omit the carpenter who knows
precisely how you want your shelf put up.
You have almost to stand over him with
cooked revolver to get him to do what you
want. And when he goes away he leaves you
crushed under the consciousness of your
utter ignorance of what's what.
Let me not omit the waiter in the restau-
rant who is panied beyond words at the alb
surdity of your order; the head waiter who
seats you where you don't want to sit; the
clothier who will force a suit of clothes
you that you don't like, unless you make
scene; the physician who refuses to listen to
your symptoms, who pats your arms if
you were a two-year-old, and who impresses
you with the fact that you have nothing to
do with the case, it is his business, you are
only the man who is to take the medicine
and die; and the boy who listens with ILL
concealed Impotence to your fool advice you
being nobody but father; and the girl, who,
of course, respects you mother, only you
don't understand.
You meet once in while, too, the Know
ing One who has read your articles, or heard
your lecture, and who assumes a matter
of course that you insincere, and con-
graduates you that you have fooled them all
Except him. l confess I hate all famil-
iarity with public personages.
Why in the world is it assumed to be some
thing to make one chesty because he knows
the Pullman conductor, the theater ticket
agent, or the orchestra leader in a restaurant,
or actor aviator, senator, criminal,
policeman, or any other Of the spotlight
ers?
And yet do confess to certain awe in
me when a friend with me speaks Familiarity
| to one of these herders of the human crowd.
For I know none of them. I am one of the
cattle. I step lively when the guard on the
elevated railway yels at me. When the head
waiter holds UP his finger follow it, hypno-
/ tized, to the darkest corner of the dining
room.
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24
Substantial Highway Work
THE substantial character of Georgia,s
highway building is attested nv tho

TIHE substantial character of Georei.,s
nlgnWay building is attested bv the
approval which the Federal Bureau of
ruonc Roads has given to plans of tho
state highway Board for improvement and
CONSTRUCTION representing million, one hun
oreu s ana elghty-two thousand, one hundred
ana flfty-three dollars. Since some forty
per cent of this amount is to coma from, ~ =
Natlonal treasury, the Bureau was exceed-
insly careful in looking into the specifica
'lons Oh the projected work, as indeed if AL
ways 49, before Warranting procedure. The
program when 1t examined in this instance
lnc!uoes the betterment of one hundred and
eighteen miles of roads and the constrno+ion
oL Twelve bridges. The communities in
Whlch this work is to be done and bv which
portion OF the expense will be borne have
the satisfaction Of knowing that EXPERT an.
slneers nave inquired into all items of the
contracts-designs, materials and labor
and nave approved them The know more
over mat the work will be done under the
1Dle supervision of the State Highway Board
mus the taxpayers are assured of solid
return upon their investment, and the trav-
7ilns puplc or highway service that will out
last winters rain.
This is what organized, cooperative meth.
oos or bodybuilding have done for Georgia
III LIE uays When 1t was a rule of every conn
" Tor itself and the mud-devil take the hind
most one rarely could tell in advance what
O-0 4NoAAI VI oil expenditure for high
would be. Some excellent roads, il is trne
were built at that time, but only in the rich,
er ana more progressive districts; and thew
as well as the poorer and sluggish were
sorely handicapped by lack of comprehensive
lnter-county highway systems. Not until the
plans and operations of the many score com,
munltles were correlated into something
Ike harmonious whole; not until purely 1o.
Cal effort was supplemented by State aid and
supervision, was it possible for the individua1
county much less the Commonwealth, to get
adequate results. The present highway laws
enacted after long effort and over mistaken
opposltlon, have meant a great deal to Geor-
gas prosperity and advancement But thew
are snort OF what they should be. The prin>
clpIe or State aid should be given more sub
stance, and the principle of State supervision
more thoroughness. We are moving in the
right direction, but we need to move faster
Where hundreds Of thousands are now spent
for roads, millions must be spent. Where
passably good highways have satisfied us
only the best that money and skill can pro-
duce will do for the years ahead This is the
route OF economy, and this the quite of pro-
gram.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24

a cooking stove, or a sewing machine
or a perambulator-why that's an
other story.
They cannot see themselves knock
ing their foreheads in the dust before
the gas range or the light running
domestic.
Yet Of all women in the world, no
one has more reason to offer up her
heartfelt thanksgiving to her house
hold gods than has the purely domes-
tic woman.
In the first place, If she will only
let them, they cast about her
halo that can only be compared to
the 60. forming effect of pink mos
qufso netting over basket or green
peaches. There is no other such 81
her own home. The dullest woman is
interesting at the head of we'll
spread dinner table. The homeliest
woman becomes a Madonna when
surrounded by her children. Insig-
nificant women become personages
when they are at the head of
To the married woman, her tools
are her salvation, for with them she
keeps her husband and her home
safe. Age comes to her. Her beauty
fades. Her figure loses it's lightness
and grace. Perhaps her mind does
not keep step with her husbands.
for walking the collie and rearing
babies is no developer of wit and
persihage. 1t does not matter, II she
is past mistress in running a house,
and a good free hand cook
After a man is middle-aged he is
shy on romance, but strong on COM
fort. He is fussy about his eating.
He wants his familiar chair, and
the light just so on his paper, and
a home that runs on ball-bearings
without friction. or blowouts or skid
ding, and if a woman will provide
him with that he will never find out
that she has gotten fat, or has false
teeth, or that she misses all the
points in his best stories.
It's the women who live in hotels.
and boarding houses, or who feed
their husbands out of paper bags
who lose out and get divorced. You
never hear of a man getting up and
wife who is a good cook and man
ager going to Reno.
No. A gas range in a woman's
hands is thing to conjure with, and
the spell it lays upon a man is one
he rarely attempts to break. A broom
is a fairy wand that she has only
to use properly to turn the most
wandering old bachelor into a John
sit-by-the-fire who cannot be tolled
| away from his own clean hearth
| stone. Comfort and order, these be
| white magic by which a wife holds
| the heart of her husband secure
| and sirens.
Well may women worship their
cooking stoves, and mops and pals,
| and brooms on the festival of the
| household gods, for there is power
| in them.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24
THE JOURNALS
LETTER BOX
Editor Tri-Weekly Journal,
Atlanta. Ga.

Atlanta, dd.
Dear Sir: AS 1 have been silent
reader of your paper for number
of years and read many helpful sug-
gestionS from same, l wish to write
and state some facts that l have
gained through actual experience,
that might be of interest to some OF
your many readers. One thing that
seems to be paramount in the minds
of many southern farmers, is just
how to control the boil Weevil. In
reading most Of the agricultural pa
pers and government bulletins we
find quite a lot of different opinions
set forth. While one will say pillow
deep, fertilize heavy, cultivate often,
another will advise spray and pick
up forms and burn, etc Now, what
is the use of all this and at the same
time allow these mature Weevils to
pride in my garden and truck patches
for a number of years and have never
found but one way to successfully
control any insect which attacks veg
citation and flies at night, and that
is 1.-The Light Method" For in
stance, in the spring of the year
when these pests become quite num-
erous, I take a wash tub and place
in middle of garden or truck patch
and fill about half full of water
Then pour in three or four spoonfuls
of coal oil and hang a lantern di-
rectly over the tub and about eight
cen inches above the water. These
insects are attracted to the light at
night, fall into the tub and die. Now,
[ merely mention this in very small
way but I honestly believe If this
method was put into practice ina the
cotton belt of the south on a large
scale it would almost do away with
the boil weevil. Say where parties
have the Delco or Lally light system
or can connect a wire to the city
and employ so to 100 lights in order
to save a cotton crop, especially at
the prevailing price it seems to me
it would be worth trying out. Hop
ing to hear from some of the read
ers who have tried the above method,
[ remain.
Yours truly.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24

A r the time of the new moon
~ in September the Hindus hold
n a solemn feast at which they
pay honor to the tools with
which they have supported them
selves during the past year.
The farmer gathers together all of
his plows, and spades. and scythes,
and after having placed them upon a
spot that has been previously puri-
fed, he prostrates himself bef'.re
them, and offers them at sacrifice.
The mason pays the same homage to
his trowel and square; the carpenter
to his hammer and axe: the butcher
to his cleaver; the fisherman to his
nets; the writer to his pen.
The women, likewise, assemble
their domestic utensils, their jugs,
and pots, and brooms, and embroid-
cry frames, and rice mills and Wor-
ship them in similar fashion, for
during this period the instruments
with which one has earned livelihood
are considered to be Household Gods.
worthy of the deepest reverence.
l think that there is something
very beautiful and touching in this
custom, for surely there is some vir-
tue in the tool that shapes itself to
our hand so that with it we can
create beauty and work that We can
cause to bring forth fruits from the
earth, rear habitations for man, and
add to the joy and comfort of life.
Surely we owe some gratitude to the
instrument, unconscious though it
be, that stands between us and our
loved ones and want and poverty.
Personally, 1 know that l never
pass a certain battered old typewriter
without giving it's dingy cover a low
ing little pat. For my particular
Household God has showered untold
blessings upon me, and deserves at
least ton of incense burnt before it
as slight token of my gratitude.
And 1 often wonder mat a man can
sell the store or Office in which he
has made fortune. [ should think
that to him it would be a holy spot,
the place where dreams come true,
and that he would fall down and kiss
its very threshold. Perhaps the rea-
son that so many men who have
made money in business, lose it as
soon as they leave it, is because the
Household Gods are jealous gods, and
punish those who are faithless to
them.
Certainly the Household Gods re-
ward true worshipers. Every time
it is the man who loves the tools
with which he works who makes the
big success. 1t is the man who lays
all that he has of mind and heart
and body upon the altar of his pro-
fession who is given the great re-
ward. He who sacrifices most to his
calling, reaps most.
This idea of worshiping the tools
with which you work will not appeal
to many women. They can see how a
great artist might worship her
brushes, or a great actress her grease
paints. or a great writer her pen
but when 1t comes to kowtowing to
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To What Glass Do You Be,ong9

Are you a producer, doing some
thing worth while, or are you JUS,
talking about production and letting
the other fellow produce what you
consume ?-Marietta Journal.
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before the this label insure regular service
In ordering paper changed, be to mention your
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TF5T TRI.WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta Ga.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24

Lavonia has two soap factories
running on full time, according to
The Lavonia Times. We know some
other places that may not need the
factory, but they "sho do need the
soap.-Maysville Enterprise.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24

Where is the man who used to car
ry his wife's picture in the back of
his watch, where he could see it?
Gone, gone, dear heart, with the girl
who used to carry her money in her
stocking, where nobody could see it,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24

Warning a man against a danger
ously fascinating woman is about as
effective as telling a small boy the
CHERRY tree" story, and then hand
ing him a hatchet to play with.
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QUIPS AND OUIDDIES

William Dean HoWells was talking about
the American novelist, new style and Old.
"a novelist of the new style' he said
pulled up his Rolls-Royce on Fifth avenue
one afternoon and hailed an old-style novel
1st who was just coming out of the public
library.
well, Bill said the new-style novelist,
"have you had any press notices lately? l
had thirty-seven this morning-nine about
my divorce, six about my new car, three
about what l like for dinner two about nv
los suits of clothes, five about my lost
$4,000 bulldog and twelve about the funny
anecdote l told the Prince Of Wales during
his New York visit. Now, how about you.
Bill? Any press notices today?'
Only one the old-style novelist an
swered meekly. Only one Bob. Oniv a
review, which said that my new novel was
we'll written.''
The proprietor of a drinking place in a
southern province of the Philippines married
native woman whom he pronounced the
ideal wife AS Fritz dispensed his wares he
informed his customers with mathematical
certainty that his wife was ''the bestest
woman in de world" No one disputed till
Scotchman insisted upon knowing why she
was. The question rather disturbed the
mental processes of Fritz, but in moment
or two he answered confidently, "Vat
dinks she drinks"
The Scotsman was not quite satisfied
what does she Think" he continued.
"Noddings," replied Fritz with his usual sto-
lidity. @
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Nowadays, when a man makes up
his mind to marry a girl, he doesn't
pursue her-he merely stops run
ming.
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Just Call Him "Ji1nn

James is a good name for a can
didate for president to answer to.
About 20 per cent of the twenty
seven men who have served this ma
ton as chief executive were named
Jim somebody. The list starts with
come James Monroe, James K. Polk
James Buchanan, James A. Garfield.
At this distance from November it
looks like James M. Cox is standing
as close to the front door of the
White House as anybody else on the
outside of that handsome cottage
Southwest GeOrpian
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Cause of "Unrast"

Make a careful estimate of the idle
labor in your community; consider
the inefficiency of labor employed;
calculate the short hours devoted to
work and you won't be surprised at
the dissatisfaction and unrest of the
times. We contend that there is
plenty of labor If it were put to
work, and if every man would do
an honest days work.-Commerc
Observer.
The trouble with labor" is that
it seems to be constitutionally OPP
posed to "functioning
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How Much Did Yon Lose. pob
A hit of pa,thoe

We are not going to Knock, but we
wish the boys would cut out betting
1t makes US nerVous.-Winder News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24

The way of the transgressor, as a
general rule, is to blame it on a wo-
men-elther the one who drove" him
to it, or the one who '1ured" him to
it
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24

Beware the Greeks most when they
offer gifts"-a woman most, when she
offers platonic friendship.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24

Today's daughter doesn't play with
dolls and plan to grow up and marry
and have four children. She goes to
the movies and plans to grow up~and
be a ''vamp" and have four husbands.
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a Good preecrJn+Ior

The decision of the supreme court
on the liquor question still leaves
the thirst.-Butler Herald.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24

Most of the unhappiness in mar
riage is caused by the terrible life
long effort to be happy in somebody
elSeS way.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24

The secret of social reford may
not lie so much in holding women
up to the standard of angels as in
holding men up to the standards of
women.
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WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS

wireless to Rush Burtin, of Lavo-
MIA Over at Bold Springs yesterday
we saw him pulling the meat off of
chicken bones just like a man shuck-
ing corn.-Commerce News.
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OUIPS AND OUIDDIES

The doctors wife was entreatin&
her husband: George, dear. do need
a new fur coat to go with my new
suit this coming winter"
II can't promise you that for
sure returned hubby hesitatingly,
but I'll look over the list of my
patients and if there is one with an
annendiN. I'll get him -
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REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)

T this capricious season Of the
year, a mans "I-love-you" is
: worth about as much as a
Bolshevist "I-O-U."
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24

An egotist is a man who goes
through life paging himself.
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The Poles are in full retreat. Does this
mean another big loan for America ?-Wich-
tia Eagle. "
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If it gets generally circulated
around in Georgia that Lowden paid
$4,000 for seventeen votes in this
state somebody is going to prosecute
him for profiteering. No man has
the right to boost the price of votes
that way.-Savannah Press.
El11jay's Invitation
One Of our city friends writes US
to know if it's possible to get any
good old-fashioned country butter,
such as he ate when a boy. We ad-
vised him to move to Ellijay, where
he could have all the joys of real
living.-Ellijay Times-Courier.
Everything's Going Up
1t is said that women's shoes will
be prettier than ever and just as ex-
pensive this fall and just as soon
as we see our friend Jack Patterson
who is absolute authority on all mat
ters feminine, we shall be ready
either to confirm or deny this rumor
Marietta Journal.
Meet us at Five Points at car.
boarding time any afternoon.
An Effective Remedy
The Macon News views with alarm
the new wave of homicide that seems
to be sweeping the country in the
past few months. If more of the
murderers were hanged there would
probably be fewer murders commit
ted.-Griffin News and Sun.
Boy, Page the Doctor!
If anybody knows of a recipe that
will give relief to a person who has
been foundered by consuming too
much chicken. please send it by
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Fish Tale from Bailey

A and-a-half-pound trout Is
the record creek catch in Appling
this season. 1t is absolutely true. We
did not catch the fish, but we saw It's
head, and it's mouth was large enough
to hold big mans fist. Dan Minchew
was the lucky isherman.-Baxley
News Banner.
We would like to see Dan on his
return from a trout pond, if he
catches 'em that size in a creek.