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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-08
The Basic importance OF
Bonded Cotton Wareh0uses

useful movement as that seeking
to bring cotton warehouses into the
N~- bonded system provided under the
United States Warehouse Act merits the
hearty support of mercantile and banking as
we'll as agricultural interests. In a recent
letter on the subject the Georgia division OF
the American Cotton Association points out
that while many seem to labor under the
impression that much expense and complica-
ton are involved in entering this system,
just the contrary is true. at is exceedingly
simple and inexpensive the Association
writes, generously adding: "a letter to us
will bring a man to you, who will explain
how easy it is and what great good can
come to our people through it's adoption"
Well constructed, we'll equipped and duly
bonded warehouses are among the most
valuable assets that any cotton-growing
State district can possess. Lack OF such
facilities has resulted in the loss of millions
and billions of wealth. Cotton dumped along
unsheltered streets or railroad sidings and
left exposed to the wear of weather and
the hazards OF fire deteriorates to such an
extent that a conservative authority has es-
timated that the amounts thus wasted each
year would provide an adequate fund for
building and maintaining superb highways
throughout the South OF all farm products
cotton is most important as a basis for
credits; yet it is of all farm products the
most carelessly handled. While improve
menC III InlS matter mas long Deen called
for, it is imperatively needed in time when
the value of cotton is so high and the pros
pective shortage so great.
1t is not sufficient, however, that storage
places be we'll built and we'll served If the
grower and all others concerned are to be
protected as they should and if the credit re-
sources of cotton are fully to be realized,
the warehouses must be bonded 1t was for
this very purpose and to serve these very
interests that the United States Warehouse
Act was passed. The appeal of the Georgia
division of the American Cotton Association
for unanimous enlistment in this system is
reinforced by similar letters from Mr.. T. R.
Bennett, State Superintendent of Banks, and
from the Federal Reserve Board. It is great
ly to be hoped that the response to these
good counsels will be prompt and Statewide
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-08
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK ON
TELLING THE TRUTH
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX

Of course it is one of the things
that isn't done. 1t simply isn't. 1t
can't be done. Telling the truth. II
we started out in the morning and
attempted to speak the truth for one
single day, We would end up in the
hospital by mid-afternoon, and prob
ably spend the balance of our lives
on crutches, because we had been so
MANNED, and so roughly man-handled
by those whose vanity we had Of
Tended.
And we would be poor, forlorn crea-
lures, without a friend on earth. No
body ever knew even a moderately
veracious person, who was popular
in society, or one of those lucky in
dividualS at whose coming every eye
brightens, and everyone begins to
purr.
Besides which nobody has the cour-
age to speak the truth There have
been heroes who have led forlorn
hopes, for nobody was ever foolhardy
enough to hope that anybody would
ever be grateful for being told the
particular facts in his, or her, indi-
vidual case.
Yet, can you think of any one thing
that would work such an immediate
and wholesome reformation as for
each of US to be handed nice, large,
solid chunk of truth about ourselves,
and thus have our attention directed
to some particular weakness? This
would give US a chance to correct it,
for most of our faults are the faults
of ignorance. We are SO blinded by
our own egotism that we do not know
| that we possess them, and we'd lop
them off quickly enough if we had
searchlight on them. Particularly So
| cial sins.
Wouldn't you like to be the truth
| teller with a steel helmet and a gas
mask. a coat of chain armor on and
| an aeroplane to make quick get
away in until the offended parties
| had had time to cool down and realize
! that you were doing it for their
good?
There's boy I know. Such a nice
young chap. So handsome, clever and
agreeable, and with such charming
manners. An p-and-coming youn
man, too, because he's just full of
energy and pep, and fairly eats his
work up. Some of these days he is
going to be a big man, but he must
| have had a careless mother because
she did not teach him how to hold
his fork. He grabs it as if it were
a harpoon, and he was going to make
an attack on a deep sea whale. No
body could see this boy eat. .Withod
| having his stock go down fifty per
| cent in their estimation.
| How 1 wish I had the courage to
| tell him the truth and advise him to
| take a few lessons in table etiquette.
1t would be worth hundred thou
sand dollars to him, but I shall never
dare even whisper to him that table
cutlery is an appliance of luxury and
not weapon of offense and defense.
There's a young girl I know. Real
ly pretty, sweet nice girl, with
plenty of gray matter just above the
hair mattresses over her ears, This
girl greatly desires to be admired by
men and to make a good marriage,
but somehow she's made the mistake
of thinking that the way to attra ct
| the attention Of men is being loud
and braZen and disappearing.
| So she dresses herself III the most
extreme styles. She paints her fresh
young face, shaves and dyes her eye
brows, pretends to be sport and
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-08

brags about how much she can drink
and how much money she lost on the
races, talks about women having d
right to live their own lives and the
slavery of conventions, and then she
wonders why she seldom has a beau,
and when she does he is sure to be
one of the undesirables.
How / would like to tell her the
Truth and say, Quit being silly iet-
tie goose, pretending to be something
You're not even tin horn sport, and
you don't give a life-like imperSona-
ton of one. Besides, they are not
the sort of women that men marry,
s4syway. If you would put on SOME
docent. clothes, wash the paint OF
nocent simple things you really
know and let men know that you
help mother with the homework and
make your own clothes, you'd be as
attractive to men as you are unat-
tractive now"
But I shall never tell her, and she
will go on trying to fit the wrong
key into the door of the hearts of
men, and she will never know that
her folly did her out of a good hus-
band.
And there is woman. Such a
nice, good, kind woman and she has
such a nice family. Really extraor-
binary clever and good-looking chill
dren. You never get chance to for
get that. Mother is perpetual mo-
on it, that she grinds out unceasing-
ly. Mary's beauty. Johns intellect.
Susie's talent, Georges achievement
in athletics. Their clothes, their
beaus, their illnesses, every slightest
detail about them; over and over and
over again. The same tale a million
times.
How I would like to tell her the
truth, and say to her, my dear wom-
an, you are not only making yourself
the champion bore of the commune
ty, but you are doing your children
ing expectations of their perform
ing miracles, and no matter what
they do everybody will think they
are failures because they won't come
up to your press agentry. Nothing
human could. Besides, you are pref
cause we are all so tired Of hearing
about Mary. John, Susie and George
that we feel like screaming If their
names are SO much as mentioned"
But l shall never tell her the truth,
and she will go on her devastating
and queering her children to the end
Of the chapter.
And the middle-aged woman who is
always talking about how young she
is and saying that she married when
she was mere child, and the indi-
vidual whom everything reminds of
something else, and the man who
always tells you the funny stories
out of the humorous papers, and all
of those who think they recite and
sing and can't, oh! what a peaceful
world this would be if we could only
tell them to can it, forget it, to get
off of that stuff forever, but we can't,
for somebody might retaliate by tell
ing us the truth, and then where
would we be?
Dorothy Dix's articles will appear
in this paper every N onday, We'd
nesday and Friday.
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-08
Our Reminder From Mexico
n SlNGULARLY interesting report from
. the Mexican situation is that which

n 'ne mexican situation is that which
tells OF Carranza's employing air.
planes to bomb certain towns held nv tho
ee osoIuIIonlsts: He is apparently unable thus
1al " get formidable military force under
way against his lnsurgent countrvmen. and
II developments continue on their nrosnnt
Ctehu, MS position ere long will be desner
aIe; MeanWhlIe however, he seems to he
making rather effective use of aircraft which
ne acquired, it has been suspected, from
Germany. ~
The circumstance is of interest tn Ameri-
cans ior the reason primarily that if we were
called upon to establish an air natro1 of
the Mexican border, or, under pressure of
imperative events, to go further we should
DE sorely unequal to the task Recent testi-
uohy before congressional committees in
dicated, indeed, that the aeronautic nrenared-
ness OF the United States is at almost as low
an ebb toda vas when the punitive expedi-
tlon under General Pershing was sent in
pursuit of the Villa bandits After all the
urges and opportunities of the World war, we
ma ourselves little if any better equipped in
this vital particular than we were six or
seven years ago. Yet, had Congress needed
the plalnest counsels of foresight and com
mon business Judgment, we should now have
hlghly cred1table air fleet, one to be de-
pended on in any probable emergency For
at the close of the war we were beginning
to make substantial progress in both the
materlel and the personnel of aviation. We
had an excellent nucleus which, at an ex-
pense comparatively slight, could have been
upbullt and made a potent force, not only
in national Defense but also in the progress
of peace-time aeronautics. But Congress
Wrangled while the great opportunity died.
SO it happens today that while Carranza,
the bankrupt dictator, can muster flying ma
chimes against revolution, the richest re-
public in the world cannot provide an air
patrol for even one of its borders.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-08
THE USE OF "ONLY"

In speaking, the proper placing of
the word 'only" in a sentence, in or
der to convey the meaning intended
to be conveyed, is not so important
as it is in writing That is because
the mind grasps the meaning of the
speaker quickly and the impression
passes quickly. But in writing the
improper placing of only" causes, Or
should cause, adverse criticism.
For example. do not say or write,
He only lent me a dollar" when you
mean to say, He lent me only a dol
lar In the first case the meaning
is that the dollar was lent only, not
given. But if you mean that the
sum lent was one dollar, and no more,
say HE lent me only a dollar The
difference in meaning, it will be seen
readily, is expressed by the placing
of the world only"
Some years ago a critic showed
that a short paragraph containing
several "onlys" might have any one
of about 5000 meanings.
Copyright, 1920. by the Wheeler Syn
dictate, Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-08
Serious Crop Curtailmenb.

IT is not in Georgia alone that untoward
weather and shortage of labor have pu1
farmers disturbingly behind The trou-
Die appears to- be almost countrywide. So
great is the difficulty in getting helm. re-
ports the New York Times, that numbers of
planters shave resigned themselves to grow
ing only what they produce by their own
Work, and the surplus of many others over
personal requirements will be cut down Sc
verely."
The most suspicious skies over the weeks
and months ahead could hardly offset the
delays and curtailments already witnessed
Early in the year it was evident from fore
shortened sales of fertilizers, seeds and 9TH
er essentials of preparation that the amount
OF planting would be appreciably less. This
was altogether natural in view of the aver
age farmers inability to secure ADEQUATE la
Dor or to pay it's price even if it could be
found Here we have a peculiarly striking
example of the need of economic re-balanc-
ing. When conditions reach the pass where
our supremacy important industry lags and
nmps because out of a population of up-
wards of a hundred million not enough
hands to perform it's simplest tasks can be
OBTAINED at reasonable wage, then assured
~ there are misadjustments or dispropor-
tons somewhere
Inc planter, however, has the cheer of
knowing that such crops as he does raise
this year will command in all likelihood nm
usually good prices The shortage in the
wheat expectancy would be of itself enough
TO stltfen the market for all food staples.
"hen thefe is lean year for that basic com
modify other harvests, though abundant be-
come proportlonally more valuable, and be-
lore the influence has spent itself the whole
range OF larder prices is affected. Obviously
tnen, 1t will be to the interest of the grower
20 produce all that he can And just as obvi-
ousay IL Is TO the interest of the public to
practice diligent food conservation.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-08
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-08

President Wilson has slipped one over on
the landlords trust by sending Charles r,
Crane to China as minister and getting his
house at Woods Hole Mass But not every
body can get houses that way.-WICHIFA
BEACON.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-08
Editorial Echoes.

The anthracite miners have declined Is
per cent raise; if they don't want it per-
haps they could pass it along to the, con-
CAN.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-08

Well, we see that scientists who know all
about atoms and molecules have decided that
the smallest thing there is is the quantel
whereas we had supposed it was the CANT
sole.-GRAND RAPIDS PRESS.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-08

No one cares for a mandate for Armenia
There are no oil wells in Armenia.-SYRA
CUSE POST STANDARD.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-08

The soldiers will get their bonus, and
RECORD
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-08

Excessive politeness seldom has anything in
common with the truth.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-19
North Idaho
Storm Damage
Nearly a Million

LEWISTON. - Conservative esti-
mate of the damage from Tuesday
nights storm through the west half
of Asotin county, Washington,
places the damage at one million
dollars. The district devastated
embraces an area seven and half
by fifteen miles and comprises the
rich wheat lands of Asotin flats,
Cloverland and Peola districts. Fif-
teen thousand acres of crops entire
ly wiped out by devastating hail
storm.
In the Cloverland district two
farmers alone lost crops valued at
$1S5,000. w. ]. Houser lost 1900
acres of wheat, while William Jones
was able to find only few unshat-
tered heads of grain from his 900
acre crop.
Reports from the fruit district
along the Snake river between Lewis
ton and Riparia show heavy damage
sustained. White Brothers &
Crumm suffered loss of 100000.
The entire fruit crop on their Al
powa ranch, comprising peaches,
pears and prunes, was lost as a re-
suit of hail. At Bishop, twelve acres
of orchards were ruined, being cov-
cred with stone carried from the
hill sides.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-19
MERCHANTS ASSN.
SETS FORTH AIMS

When the Retail Merchants asso-
citation was organized it spread the
following resolution upon its records
in declaration Of its purposes:
Recognizing the moral obligation
which rests upon them as distribu-
ters of commodities necessary to the
existence of their fellow citizens, the
merchants Of Bingham county organ
ize this association for the purpose
of promoting individual and COM
munity efficiency. We seek to cor
rect and prevent abuses and losses
that tend to raise selling costs and
constitute tax on the many for
the gain Of a thoughtless and un-
scrupulous few.
ITO this end we urge a sane re-
striction Of credits, united action
in the handling Of bad checks. dis
couragement Of illegitimate adver-
tising, donation and premium
schemes.
Eve further pledge ourselves and
our organization to Loyalty cooper
ate with existing civic bodies In
town and country for the betterment
of roads and schools and community
welfare generally"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-19
FREE TARIFF ON
WOOL IS MENACE
Former Governor Good
ing Points Out Dam
ger to Industry

BOISE.-"With wool on the fret
tariff list in. this country, there IL
serious danger Of the United States
becoming the dumping ground of the
worlds surplus wool supply" de-
| clared former Governor Frank R
Gooding Friday, in discussing the
wool situation.
He said that this country was be.
ginning to feel the effects of the in.
crease in stocks of wool in South
America, Australia and New Zea-
land, brought about largely through
lack of transportation during the
war, and he said he thought it was
time the government took definite
action by putting an embargo on
wool and mutton which is shipped
from foreign countries.
"Unless the government takes con.
troll of the situation and steadies ii
down, the great livestock industry is
going to be seriously crippled, if not
destroyed" he said.
The former governor is in Boise
for the purpose Of comforting with
the president of the Idaho Wool
growers association, to see If some
movement may be started which will
persuade the administration to take
steps which will relieve the situation
in which the woolgrowers find them
selves.
He said that while the condition
reacted directly against the sheep
men, it would act with equal, al
though indirect, force upon the
farmers and people of the state in
general. 80
Australia and New Zealand, be-
cause of provisions which the gov
ernment makes for them and be-
cause of more ideal climatic condi-
tions, can flood the markets of the
western United States whit wool and
mutton SO much cheaper than the
growers OF the states can that they
are unable to compete with them in
point of prices, he declared
Cheaper transportation rates also
com bine with the other causes to
cheaper the cost of production to
growers of that country, he contin-
ued.
I'VE cannot hope to see freight
rates raduced on our railroads." he
said, "but water transportation will
be materially reduced, and as I see
it, Idaho, with it's long haul of it's
livestock and\ farm products to
market, and its high freight rates,
cannot hope to compete successfully
with flockmasters or the farmers of
foreign countries who enjoy a lawer
freight rate to our own markets and
much cheaper labor in the production
of livestock and farm products"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-19
NOT ON BRYAN AFTER ALL

In the last issue we told our read
ers a joke on Bryan, or supposed
to have been on Bryan, as our in
formant understood it, but We are
glad to correct it and say that the
little event took place several years
prior to Mr.. Bryan's party trip to
the park in 1897, and that the re-
mark, We'll, we are not in the
habit of eating with our servants, )"
came from an English nobleman,
when Hi Cherry, who was guiding
the party, sat down on the ground
to help eat the meal he had pre-
pared
Our correcting informant tells us
that on the other hand, Mr. and
Mrs. Bryan we're mighty fine about
the camp and did their share of pre-
pairing things and helped with the
picking up at moving time.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-19
STOCKMEN WILL
STUDY PROBLEMS
All Phases Of Important
Question Will Be
Discussed

Arrangements are being made to
hold a meeting of stockmen and 9TH
ers at Blackfoot next month to study
problems that force themselves upon
the farmers, feeders, stockmen,
shippers, bankers and packers dur
ing the early autumn.
The preliminaries for this meet.
ing have already been made by
County Agent e. w. Stephens, and
the representatives of number Of
shippers and packers have engaged
to be here for it. The local stock
men will act as host to all the 9th
ers, and give banquet at which an
exchange Of views will bring every
cody to an understanding of what
must be done to get capital TO as
semble feeders for every kind Of
consumption of the fall pasturage.
beet tops, beet top silo, beet pulp
and the alfalfa hay.
Buyers and shippers will explain
the difficulties they have had in get
ting stock from this section, and will
make recommendation as to how
these matters may be overcome. The
farmers, stockmen and bankers will
air their views, and it Is expected
that a basis Of mutual interests may
be reached that will enable them to
make arrangements early enough to
take care Of the business this fall.
If it is left to the individuals to
attend to as heretofore, there will
be much sacrifice of business as
heretofore.
The whole matter is being handled
by the farm bureau, and everybody
that is interested is invited to act
upon their interest and consider
themselves invited. The county
agent will be glad to enroll every
body that feels an interest, whether
he is the owner of flocks and herds
or some beet tops or pasturage that
he wants to market 1t is to be in
the nature of a study and an educa-
tional affair, where each man can
find out just how and where he
comes in on this new and important
matter of converting this country in
to a stockfeeding center The more
feed there is represented in the
meeting and the movement, the more
stock can be brought into the val
ley to eat it. The plan is to attract
stock to this county for the winter
rather than drive it out to other val
leys and other states as we have
sometimes done in the past.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-19
AROUND THE COURT HOUSE

The trial Of Henry Drufee was
postponed from Monday to Tuesday
the 9th.
Beanie Stevenson entered plea
OF guilty Of disregarding the signal
Of the flagman at the crossing of
the railroad tracks and will pay
fine of IS.
The sheriff's office captured
moonshine still and nine gallons Of
whisky and one operator named Ly-
man, about two miles above the
New Lavaside school house Satur-
day morning. Lyman was held in
Jail at Blackfoot till Monday and
was taken to Pocatello and turned
over to the federal authorities.
. The people who are harvesting the
roses in the court yard and splitting
and breaking the bushes are inform
ed that these flowers are part Of
the county property and are intend
ed for decorations and not to be car
ried off
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-19
SUGAR CLUBS
HOLD JUBILEE

The people at the various sugar
factories organize sugar clubs, and
a number of the clubs of the Snake
river valley held an annual jubi-
lee at Idaho Falls Saturday.
A picnic, ball game and dance
were features of the occasion. The
Blackfoot sugar club attended and
the members and their families re-
port having had a grand time.