Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10
The Country Home
BY MRS. w. lei. FELTON,
Vice Haunts in Big Cities

| The late tragedies in New York
city, where two men of enormous
wealth were found dead in their own
palatial homes, and under circum-
stances of appalling vicious habits,
have aroused the impression that
morality and decency are back num-
! bers in that great city.
| The facts go to prove that licen-
| tiousness is rampant, and these
! wealthy adulterers were using their
money to decoy young women by the
| dozens, into these gilded haunts of
| vice.
| Some years ago there also occur
| red the Evelyn Thaw incident, and
| it is still sufficient to be used as
| parallel for almost any disclosure OF
similar import. But even Harry
| Thaw had the excuse of the "unwr1t-
| ten law to cover his killing OF
Stanford White in a roof garden
| drawn-out court trial and the life
| Imprisonment of Harry Thaw by the
decree of a criminal court.
Harry Thaw, the son of millionaire
| parents, and spoiled by the money,
was long sight better man than
those who kept an open house for
| giddy young women who craved
money and clothes, and who side
stepped from virtue and decency to
risk the entrance into those palaces
| of vice.
In both of these late tragedies, the
men forfeited their own lives; and
| the more that is said about them,
! the more we are convinced that while
they were unfit to live, they certain,
ly were unfit to die and go to the
| judgment.
These things are SO common an
| occurrence that one trembles for the
| future of a people who are touched
| by this tidal wave of criminal lust
| ~ 1oo Of Ion vii nf NaJu
| York city.
They evidence delay in the essen
tails Of our present civilization. The
country is going down in reputation,
as well as in other particulars.
intensely ms i5e w Thkd nation ma The money
does not gid over these exposures
| for it becomes more and more dis
gusting from their frequency-and
immensely.
Down at the bottom Of the whole
business lies the lack of parental
discipline in the homes, where vain
and giddy young women are wont to
| dwell. There should be some sort of
law, maybe a police arrangement,
where loose-minded girls could be
arrested and kept out of such homes.
If it is only life-saving device, it
should be used TO: the safety of the
community.
But 1 may be reminded that these
headstrong young women deceive
their parents, and go in secret where
and fine clothes. If it was only
these individual units, the world
would be better off if all concerned
went by the pistol route, but unhap-
| PLY they leave so many behind them
to suffer in mind and body and repu-
tation, because of such evil doing. Tt
is a sad commentary on the state Of
our nation when gilded vice brazens
it's way into the public prints of
these United States.
What About Fuel In the Approach
ing Winter?
Fifteen dollars per ton-ladies and
gentlemen! This is about the price
that we must pay for coal to burn to
keep from freezing down here in
the southland. In the more northern
and cold more intense. What are
| these people to do when the mer-
curry falls to zero and twenty odd
| degrees below, in the higher lati-
| tudes?
The war ceased nearly two years
ago. We all remember the stop
came on November IL, 1918. We pay
more for coal, more for every COM
modify today than we did two years
ago, in August, 1918. War seems
We get. worse instead of better as
to the high cost of living.
I am not prepared to say where
the blame lies, but, this terrible thing
Is bearing down on this country and
the suffering can easily be foretold
to pass. The railroads are in the
hands of their owners. The pay for
transportation is much higher than
ever before experienced in America
The labor is paid extrayagantly.
What's the matter? We find our
selves-like squirrel in its cage
always going around in a whirl and
getting nowhere. From this day
henceforward the people who are
able to WELD the axe or collect fuel
idle minute. The thing is coming
down relentless1y upon us. Get up
and strike hard to get fuel.
STOP BUYING NoN-EssENTTALs
1t is plainly evident that people
buy useless things in greater pro-
enormous prices for fine furniture
and fine autos when a palmer and
| cheaper make would render them en-
| tire1y as comfor table.
1t is surprising that the populace
do not understand that this era
of spendthrift extravaganza must
change. 1t is like the swing of a
clock pendulum. II always goes back
after a long sweep forward. A
feast generally pfecedes a famine;
sometimes d panic arrives.
Common sense would indicate this
necessity for saving, when there is
so much that could be saved with
| out even discomfort, and the cash
deposit could be invested to signal
advantage, with the comfort Of know
ing that nothing has been wasted or
thrown away foolishly. I notice the
craving of young children to spend
money. They always expect the dime
for an ice cream cone whenever they
are dressed and start downtown r;
satisfied in the outing.
This is an unhealthy craving. 1t
fixes habit that is sure to become
embarrassing, for it grows with it's
growth and fastens its claws into a
constant habit for spending.
War has left certain trails wher-
ever war has prevailed. Among
these trails is the reckless habit of
making way with money.
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