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4 Reassur;ng Forecast

NXIOUSLY awaited both at home
a and abroad, Americas July crop
reports are decidedly cheering. The
prospect now is for a wheat yield which,
though not up to the trimming bounty of
last year, will be far more liberal than
was hoped month or two ago. Nine hum
dred and ten million bushels is the fore
cast, or about thirty million less than in
1919. The corn yield is estimated at g.
$50, 900 bushels, as against ,917,00O.-
600 last season; and rye Ct 6z,O0O,000
against 88, 500, 900. For oats and barley the
outlook is unusually promising-one bill
lion, three hundred ands twenty-five mil
lion, and one hundred and ninety-three
million bushels respectively.
ColOrless as the figures may appear to
us who eat our daily bread with scarce a
thought of whence and how it comes, to
the watcher of world needs they are so
many rainbows of reinsurance. Millions of
lives in far off lands will be nourished or
pinched, lifted up or left to drift in mis-
cry, according to the fullness or dearth of
American harvests. Likewise our own pros
perity will be measured largely by this
same Gtandard A severe wheat shortage,
such as was feared early in the spring,
would have accentuated an already painful
cost of living and have tangled still tighter
the gordian knot of our economic affairs.
But the present crop augury, while it does
not promise a reduction in food prices, at
least clears the future Of many fears.
1t is to the FARMS after all, that we
must look for the chief sustainment and
encouragement Of our common life. Let the
tidings from that quarter be good, and
nine times out of ten business will move
with confidence and vigor. But when the
lean kline haunt our dreams, then it is that
prosperity grows doubtful and all things
less secure So long as Georgia turns duly
to account her wondrous resources for d.
| versifed food production, she need have no
anxiety touching her material welfare.
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THE ATLANTA TRI-wEEKLY JOURNAL.

the loan bill. The third contemplates the
control or elimination of sheep-killing dogs.
The fact that these measures, as recent
ly revised, have the approval Of agricul-
tural leaders throughout the State and the
earnest Endorsement of that alert body of
prosperity builders, the Georgia Associa-
ton, should make for their speedy pas
sage. The latter two so obviously es-
sentiaI that the wonder is they were not
put upon the statute books years ago. AS
for the bill facilitating cattle loans by MAX
ing the collateral sufficiently secure, it sim
ply applies to the needs and opportunities
of this State a principle which long has
been practiced to the advantage of other
regions and without which progress for
the cattleman of small means is virtually
impossible.
Whatever heartens and advances live
stock interests in Georgia is of fundamen-
tai value to the people. For it is through
the growth of such interests that diversified
agriculture will be sustained lands now
waste and idle developed, and all manner
of latent resources brought richly into use.
1t is greatly to be hoped that the pending
bills for this purpose will pass
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OTHERS
By DR.. Frank Crane

The wrongs I ought to be hot over are not
those done me, but those I have done others.
The bitterest tears in the world are not
mine, but those have caused.
1 am not afraid of punishment for my sins;
1t is the sins I have caused in other people
that scare me.
The most selfish of mortals is not selfish.
One way or another he borrows his joys and
griefs.
The king could have no glory and pride
were there no subjects The millionaire
would not enjoy his millions if there were no
poor. The very breath Of life to the famous
person is the exhalation from the multitude
of the inconspicuo'ls
Most of our satisfactions are those we
think other people suppose we have. And
most of our wretchedness is rented. We have
very little feeling, pleasant or unpleasant, in
fee simple.
The most heartbreaking thing about a
penitentiary is not the prisoners in it, but the
wives and mothers around it.
Going to the devil might be much more
satisfactory if one could go alone. But he
must always drag others down with him.
And I never could see much to be desired
in escaping everybody and getting into
heaven. alone. To get others into bliss, how
ever, even if one missed it ones self, might
be worth while.
Willy-nilly we are tied up to our kind.
Their veins and nerves run through our
flesh.
The supremest sufferings are vicarious.
The highest joys are epidemic.
It has never seemed to me that the old
theologians understood psychology-who
made the wicked to suffer in torment from
helFs flames; that might be bearable; in
tolerable anguish would be to sit in heaven
and watch it.
Here's the idea, in poem by Ina Cool
BIRTH:
Soul! however sweet
The goal to which hasten with swift feet
If, just within my grasp,
reach, and joy to clasp,
And find there one whose body must make
footstool for that sake,
Though ever and for evermore denied,
Grant me to turn aside!
I howsoever dear
The love long for, seek, and find a-near-
So near, so DEAR the bliss
Sweetest of all that is,
If I must win by treachery or art,
| Or wrong one other heart
Though it should bring me death, my soul,
that day
Grant me to turn away!
| That in the life so far
And yet so near, be without a scar
| Of wounds dealt others; greet with lifted
eyes
The pure of Paradise!
So I may never know
! The agony of tears 1 caused to flow!
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
|
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS
CULTIVATE GRACIOUSNESS
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
Copyright 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate Ine.)

They are the sort of people who,
while they are relieving your needs,
deliver you a lecture on your lack
of thrift; who feel it their sacred duty
to tell your of your weaknesses and
shortcomings, and who take credit to
themselves because with all your
faults they love you still.
The gracious man Or woa1an nnSs
not give YOU half so much, but
they do it with a sympathy that
warns the very cookies of your heart;
they make you feel that they consider
it privilege to know you instead
of impressing on you that it is an
honor for you to know them, and
without in some subtle way having
your. opinion of yourself somehow in
f1ated.
The brusk people have to fight,
tooth and nail, for everything they
get. We hand the gracious all they
of our way to helH them, for we all
do favorS for the people we like that
we wouldn't do for those we don't
like.
dren graciousness. which in it's last
analysis is simply the art of getting
along with our fellow-creatures with
out friction.
To do this begin by teaching chill
dren to always speak in pleasant
the habit of swapping or snarling, or
replying in a surly manner when
spoken to, 1t is just as easy to ac-
Quire an agreeable voice as it is a
disagreeable one, and the one wins,
at least, a hearing, while to the other
every listener turns deaf ear.
Teach children how to get along
| together without quarreling. Teach
them how to lose, how to be good
sports, how to play the game. Teach
| children how to give and take, and
not to whine and fight when another
| wins.
Teach children to be appreciative
| of what is done for them. Teach them
| to thank every one who does a kind
ness to them, and to show proper
| gratitude for every courtesy. Take
| the trouble to make them write let
! ters of thanks to people who send
| them presents, and notes Of congrat-
ulations and coincidence to their ac-
quaintances who have joys come to
them, or sorrows befall them.
Teach them to consider the feel
! ings of other people, and to avoid
saying the things that hurt and stab
just as they would refrain from ply
sically wounding other people. Go
even farther than this, and teach
things to people. There are just as
many men and women starving for
few kind words as there are hungry
for bread.
"It isn't what he said, it was the
nasty way he said it," complained
the hero of the song, of his enemy.
Teach children the pleasant way in
want them to succeed in life.
Dorothy Dix articles appear in
this paper every Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday)
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DRUGS AND HEREDITY
By II. Addlngton Bruce
T HERE is widespread notion that Il
child of an alcoholic. of a mOrphin

.T HERE is widespread notion that the
child Of an alcoholic, of morphine
addict, or other drug fiend," is fated
by heredity to become drug fiend" him
self This notion is perniciously false.
1t has been the means of promoting the
downfall Of many man who, aware of the
skeleton in the family cupboard, has been
driven by self-suggestion to become slave
to some drug his father had been before
him.
what is the use of resisting the craving
have inherited?" he has consciously or
subconsciously asked himself. 81 must be as
my father was, because 1 am his SON.
If he would only stop to think, he would
appreciate that were this heredity doctrine
sound almost all the people he knows would
be drug enslaved. For there are compare
lively few whose ancestry is completely free
from faint at least of alcoholism.
The true situation has recently been we'll
stated by leading authority on the drug
problem, Mr.. Carries B. Towns. Writing in
his "Habits That Handicap" Mr.. Towns Wig
orously affirms:
81 want to go on record. once and for all
time, to the effect that-all the old grannies
in the world to the contrary Notwithstanding
there is no such thing as inheriting the al
cohol or drug habit.
ga mans father and mother-and all his
relatives, back to Brian Boru or Julius Gaze
sar-might have been drunkards, or opium
smokers, or cocaine snuffers. But this doesn t
constitute the slightest reason in the world
why the man himself must inevitably be a
drunkard, hop fiend,' cocaine user.
For the drug addiction, like any other
addiction, is an acquired trait And acquired
traits cannot be transmitted.
FFThis does not mean, however, that a man
may not inherit an unstable nervous system
from ancestors who had Systematically poi
soned their organisms.
ga man who has father whose cells were
thoroughly saturated with booze and tobac-
CO, could, and probably would, inherit de-
fective nervous system. But he could not
inherit craving for drugs or drink
Which suggests, of course, that man born
Of parent addicted to alcohol or morphine,
may be so constituted that he is in special
need Of training in moral control.
But given that training-or training him
self, in later life-the nervous weakness
which might impel him to seek relief in some
drug will no longer harry him.
AS has been demonstrated in countless
cases. Often enough, assuredly, to justify
the emphatic reiteration that there is no IA
tai heredity to drugs, only at worst a neu-
rotic predisposition which may be totally
overcome.
Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
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YoT long ago a man, who was
~ the father of five sons, died
and in his will he gave many
instructions as to how his
boys should be brought up. Among
other things. he said:
II wish to lay particular stress
upon my sons being taught gracious
manners. Boys are not liable to
realize how far social qualities count
in life. No man is likely to go far
with his fellow men and women. and
Knows how to get on with them
Tactful coaching in youth makes al
the difference in this respect, and
although 1 do not want the boys to
make too conscious effort to be
with their training to keep an eye
on this part of their education, and
to see to it that they acquire that
suavity Of demeanor that will make
them pleasing to those with whom
they come in contact"
1 do not know how much money
this father left his boys, but 1 am
sure that the most valuable bequest
he made them was this advice about
acquiring the fine art of gracious
ness.
For graciousess is a letter of
credit that the whole world honors
at sight; it is the magic that opens
every door; it is the charm that
| makes friends, and disarms enemies,
| and that causes every one to lend a
| helping hand up the ladder to its for
| tunate poSseSSor.
What we vaguely describe as per-
sonal magnetism, or a winning per-
| sonality is nothing more, nor less,
| than graciouSneSS, the ability to do
| the nice thing in the nice way, and
| to say the pleasing thing in the
Without graciousness even the yir-
| tues become as dust and ashes in
our teeth, and kindnesses to US are
an offense against US.
Haven't you had people do YOU a
! good turn in such an insulting way
| that you hated them for it? Haven't
i such an ungracious manner that you
| longed to throw their gifts back in
| their faces?
And haven't you had people refuse
you things with so charming man
ner that you went away sorrier fCN
them because they couldn't oblige
you, than you were for yourself be-
cause you didn't get what you had
asked for? That's the difference be-
tween graciousness and ungracious-
| ness.
| There are people who cannot give
you a pocket handkerchief without
| making you feel that you are a pau
! per; who never do you a kindness
without making you realize that 1t
| is a great sacrifice for them; who
cannot associate with you without
| patronizing you; whom you never
! spend an hour with without their
wounding your feelings or hurting
! your Self-love in some way. They
may be at heart really good, kind
men and women, but their brusk and
| brutal manners makes them enemies
instead of friends.
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a Trio of Useful Bills

- NACTMENT of three special bills
r now before the Legislature looking
to tho protection and promotion of
the livestock industry in Georgia will be
or truly incalculable worth to the Com
monwealth. The first, and in some respects
most important, is intended to safeguard
loans on cattle and thereby make credits
for cattle purchases more widely available.
The second provides for the registration of
distinctive marks or brands and for more
adequate penalties in cases of conviction
for cattle theta needful supplement to
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AN ECONOMICS
PRIMER
BY DANA KYSOR
money

There is a demand for money; it is
needed to carry on business.
There is supply of money; gold
paper money, etc.
Money has value; it has purchas-
ing power.
The value Of money can change;
its purchasing power is sometimes
greater, sometimes less.
When the value or purchasing
power of money is high, one dollar
will buy much in commodities; that
is, prices of commodities are low.
When the value or purchasing
power Of money is low, one dollar
will buy less in commodities; that is,
prices of commodities are high.
Summary
High value of money means low
prices Of commodities.
Low value of money means high
prices of commodities.
The value Of money is determined
by CD the supply of money and (2}
the demand for money.
AS the volume of business in
creases, the demand for money in
creases.
If the increase in supply is pro-
portionate to the increase in demand,
then the value Of money remains un-
changed.
An over-supp1y of money decreases
it's value.
An insufficient supply of money in
creases its value.
Illustration
During 1915 and 1916 the United
States received from foreign coun-
tries $1,000, 100000 in gold.
This increased the supply of money
enormously.
The increased volume of business
due to war orders increased the de-
mand for money considerably, but
not in proportion to the increase in
supply of money.
Prices of commodities rose.
The demand for money is increased
by an increased volume of business.
Illustration
The volume Of business in the
United States in 1900 was much
smaller than the volume of business
in 1900. Therefore the need for
money in 1900 was much greater than
the need for money in 1900.
The demand for money is decreas-
ed by the use of credit instruments.
Today some business transactions
are carried on by the use of book
credits, some with checks, some with
promissory rotes, bank drafts, etc.
If none of these credit devices
were used, that is, If every purchase
were paid for in cash on the spot,
the need for actual money would be
much greater.
Credit is thus a substitute for
money.
Bank credits, transferable by
titles daily.
If these checks were eventually
paid in money they would represent
demand for money. But nearly all
Of them are simply deducted from
one credit balance and added to an
other.
Summary
The demand for money is % in
creased by an increased volume of
business, and CD decreased by the
nCo IF Cradit IN
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Editorial Echoes

The mosquito that bites one of our up
to-date girls is liable to die of painters
colic.-Nashville Banner.
Times have changed since the days when
Mr.. Bryan ran for president. An editor
never had a chance then.-Nashville Ban
ner.
Reduced to simple terms, the race this
year is between two printers to see who
shall preside at the "pi' counter-Kansas
City Star.
If you get coaled now you'll not be cold
next winter.-Greenville IS. c. Piedmont.
Mr.. Bryan will now divert his energies
from rocking the boat to rocking the can
didates.-Columbia IS. CO. Record.
traced to the "she" in Bolshevist-Dur-
ham IN. CO. Sun.
Europe should make up her mind that
the United States cannot keep her in the
style to which she was accustomed before
the war.-Toledo Blade.
Have you noticed the scarcity of flies
this year, are you boarding somewhere
on farm?-Boston Globe.
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QUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

The usual crowd was gathered round the
usual motor car and the usual goggled one
was endeavoring to right matters in the
usual way.
"Hallo!" suddenly cried the voice of a
new arrival whats the matter, Hobbing
car turned turtle?"
Hobbins smiled with expressive sweetness
oh, no; not at all, old chap!' he replied
These kids here wanted to see how the ma
ch1nery worked, so 1 had the car turned up
side down just to please them
The doctor was giving an informal talk on
physiology.
ALSO" he remarked, cit has recently been
found that the human body contains sui
phur."
"sulphur!' exclaimed the girl in the blue
and white blazer. 'And how much sulpbur
is there, then, in a girls body?"
On, the amount varies," said the doctor,
smiling, according to the girl"
All" remarked the girl, chats why some
OF us make better matches than others"
'Do you go to bed very early, Mrs. Peck"
inquired Tommy.
eyes, Tommy" replied the lady. when I
feel tired but why do you ask?"
why, you would not go to bed early if
you were married to my father
ooh, Tommy, you funny little boy. Why
not?"
"'Cause my father told my mother yester-
day that if he were your husband he'd make
you sit up
Father was standing before the open fire,
1ecturing his son and heir on the necessity of
thinking twice before speaking once.
Father" exclaimed the boy in the mid
die of the talk. The father held up a warn
ing finger. "Think again before you speak,
my son, and then 1 will answer YOU The
boy pondered for a full moment and then
said: Father, I have thought twice, and
now am quite convinced that your coat-tails
are on fire"
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REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND
copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, lnc.)

~ YES first complaint, when she
II tasted the apple: Great heav-
IL ems! I've nothing to wear!'
Adams first growl. when he
Is tn It all you've got to eat?"
Thus descendeth the honeymoon,
today. yesterday, and forever!
A woman's love is never quite dead
until the day on which she can SIT
down and reason logically with a
man about it.
Some men are so credulous that
they actually believe that woman
carries a pink parasol in order to
keep off the sun, wears a one-p1ece
bathing-suit to swim in, and smiles
because she is happy.
A man laughs when he thinks his
wife amusing; woman laughs When
she thinks that her husband thinks
he is ar using.
The woman who marie, a lazy
man may be pited; the woman who
marries faithless man may find sur
cease from sorrow in divorce; but
the woman who marries man with
a teasing sense Of humor has nothing
to look forward to for the rest OF her
life but the laughter of the gods.
Somehow, it's awful1y hard for a
girl to fall Economically in love with
a man while he is carrying an UNI
brella and wearing overShoes.
Man was made from dust-but
there are some mornings when his
wife darkly suspects that the dust
must have gotten a lot of gravel
mixed in it.
When a man falls in love with a
girl, he covers her with a rose
tinted isinglass, through which all
her charms become radiant, and all
her faults are Softened and blurred.
A bad reputation, an undesirable
huband. and cheap umbrella are
the hardest things in the world to
lose.
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The way of Politicians

Once upon a time Senator Harding
com, AIRED Theodore Roosevelt to
Benedict Arnold But that was when
Roosevelt was leading the Bull
Moose and Harding had enough re-
spect for him to believe he would
remain true to his new party. Now
he is caressing the former Bull Moos-
ers and paying tribute to the depart
ed Roosevelt Such Is the way OF
politics and politicians.-Rome News
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Probably the third party movement
will serve to get the names of some
men in the newspapers who have
uuirer-Sun. .-
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Attaining Fame

That Massachusetts schoolboy who
won a state wide breadmaking con-
test no doubt will grow up to be a
famous man milliner If he doesn't
fall down and cut a blood vessel on
the mirror in his vanity box
Johnny Spencer in Macon Telegraph.
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CA Eair ExchanReW

People are coming to America, from
Europe to get something to eat, and
Americans are going to Europe to
get something to drink It's the
new balance Of trade.-Cincinnatl
Times-Star. A.
We have often heard that "a fair
exchange is not robbery" and we as
sumo that the exchange In this par
ticular is fair enough.-Columbus En-
uuirer-Sun.
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Regulating "Moonshinc"

Some of the brethren are COM
talks Of regulating the quality Of
the moonshine made in Georgia it
is grossly neglecting it's duty in
not fixing the price of white light
ming in reach of the average thirst.
Savannah News.
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h Will Be There

Question: Will Jack Patterson es-
cape the daily grind of his work
on The Atlanta Journal to attend
the press convention in Carrollton.
Answer: Editor. J. J. Thomasson's
big barbecue.-LaGrange Reporter.
Fair warning to Editor Thomas
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Sufficient Reasons

By the way, has anybody found
out just why the Democratic con-
vention was held in San Francisco,
Savannah News.
Probably to adopt a platform and
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WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
Some New Partiots

I name nominees.-Augusta Chroni'
{ Gle,
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A New serni-weekly

The Eagle Publishing company,
Gainesville. Ga, I. M. Merlinjones,
president, publishers Of the weekly
Eagle, has recently installed limo
type machine and will at an early
date begin the publication of a
semi-weekly paper. There are now
three weekly newspapers in Gaines
Vile, the other two being the Her
aid and the News.