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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22

are led into another room, crowded
with paintings and statuary and
bowls of artificial flowers. Behind
an ancient mahogany drawing-room
desk, an elderly woman is seated
grandly on an antique throne-like
chair. She is the agent, but she does
not look up from her book. Your
name, address, telephone number,
likes and dislikes, family history and
other details are taken down by an
other woman, who does the inter-
viewing.
Hmm" says this woman, whom
you also gather by her own testi-
mony, to be a distinguished person.
age, eff you will come back tomor-
row morning we will have one or two
people for you to see 1t you do not
like them you might come back the
next morning. I am sure that event
ually we will be able to find what
you want. Of course, you understand
that you will have to pay whatever
they ask. The least you can obtain
good cook nowadays is $500 a
month and board. The butler will
sibly be able to get you a nurse-ma1d
who will come for SIS month. Gen
eral houseworkers? oh, there are
practically no such persons as gen.
eral houseworkers any more; at least
we have none on our list"
THE CONDECENDING HELP
interviewing the domestics them
selves is not much more encourag-
ing. 1t is really they who do the in
terviewing. 1t is you who must ex-
plain how magnificent are your sur
roundings, how sterling is your char
acter, and how gentle and obliglng is
| your disposition. It is they who sit
comfortably back IN their chairs, eye
| you appraisingly, and finally tell you
| that the will consider you, mention
| ing several other elegant opportuni-
| ties. The first one graciously intro
duced to us by the agent the other
| day was Carmen.
Carmen wore an imitation seal
skin coat, topped with cheap fur, into
which sank her two or three massive
chins. Her hat chung waveringly to
the side of a scanty couture, and she
constantly pushed it back to what
was evidently it's proper angle
throughout the interview.
"How much do you pay?" was
Garments first question.
Eighty dollars" we declared
promptly, thinking that such a one
as Carmen could not possibly demand
hundred.
That's not very much" Carmen
corrected us. II don't do any dishes
for that. What is the kitchen like?
I won't work in any kitchen that's on
a dark court. My room can't be on
| a court either. It's got to get sun.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22
Common Sense.

With his characteristic common sense
Governor Beckett, of North Carolina, declines
an invitation to join a faddish "Overalls
Club" because, he explains, the effect of try
ing to make these garments every mans attire
would be to advance their price beyond the
purse of those who really need them. 1t is
a matter of record that in the few communi-
ties where the movement has gained popular
impetus, the cost of overalls has doubled or
trebled while that of other clothing has re-
manned substantially the same. 1t might be
an excellent thing on certain occasions for
water to run up hill or for oaks to spring
from mushrooms or for the law of supply and
demand to lose it's immemorial effect But
as far as can be observed, no such miracles
are being performed.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Old Farmer Turmut went to London for a
visit, and, on a friends advice, stayed at
quiet hotel in Bloomsbury. On his return to
the village his friend asked how he had got on
"Rotten!" retorted the old chap shortly
"Why, weren't they nice to you at the ho-
tel?" asked his friend in surprise.
"Nice!" Old Turmut'S tones were wither-
ing. well, if you call it being nice to fool
a man because he comes from the country,
they were. Why the very first night that /
stayed there they gave big bottle to take
to bed and when l unscrewed the stopper there
weren't nothing in it but hot water'
Gust bought fine motor car" said Jones,
"for immediate delivery"
"What style carr" inquired Smith
"a Dashing Demon Six Now, if could
only get half pound of sugar somewhere the
whole family would be happy"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22
THE GREATEST DISCOVERY
By DR.. Frank Crane
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Or

Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
The greatest discovery in the nineteenth
century, that era of great discoveries, was
not the locomotive the electric telegraph,
nor any kind of explosive or labor saving
device, but it was-THE PEOPLE.
The most striking thing one finds about
the people in previous history is-that they
did not exist.
mobiles and scholars and artists there were
warriors and doges and geniuses and gen
tlemen, and for these all laws were formed,
all books written, all pictures painted.
What forces itself upon you as you go
through the galleries of Europe and see the
works of the old masters is that it never
occurred to them to depict any one but a
saint, or king, or a warrior.
All literature of the past is similarly ig-
norant of humanity. Homer and Virgil and
ariste write only about the distinguished.
There is nothing like Jean Vatican and
David Copperfield and Tom Sawyer previous
to the modern age.
We are just waking up to the fact that
the people are capable of all that is fine and
noble.
The painters of Holland, who first began
to show plain men and women in their
homes, instead of ruffled dukes and haloed
saints, such writer's as Tolstoy and Sien-
kieWicz and Dostoievsky among the Slavs
Carducci and FogazZaro, Maupassant and
Anatole France among the Latins, and
George Eliot and Hawthorne among the
English, together with the popular govern
ments of Canada and Australia, and the vast
dominent, equalizing loom of commerce that
is weaving the nations and the classes into
unity-all these are indications that the peo-
| pie are unfolding a world-rose and that
| the husks and bracts of privileged classes,
of whatever description, are falling away.
! Democracy is shattering thing. 1t does
not mean merely the ballot box. It means
that there is no learning, no taste, no art, no
morality, no religion, except that which is
Of the people
1t means the spreme significance of me-
| the individual, above all classes It means
| that such terms as nation, church, class and
the like are more or less artificial; it is the
man that counts. AS Chesterton says, a ma
ton is composed of its people; because one
man has two legs it does not follow that
| fifty men are a centipede.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22
EW YORK, April 18.-One of
the most popular and sue
cessful get-rich-quick enter

"a = EW YORK, April 1S.-One Of
M the most popular and sue
/ " ceSsful get-rich-quick enter
L. ' prises in New York today is
the domestic service agency. Agen-
cies are everywhere, in spite of the
much-lamented scarcity of servants
agencies for every nationality and
color, supplying everything from a
Japanese butler to a Swedish nurs-
cry maid.
appears to be going into the domes-
tic service business. Every day, one
hears of someone who has thrown
up perfectly good job to take up
the more remuneratiVe occupation
of notwithstanding, of someone who
has added a domestic service de-
partment to his delicatessen store
or tailor shop, while the occupants
OF nearly every apartment house
must put up with the errat5c sery-
ices of a janitor who spends most
of his time in rounding up
acquaintance who are willing to es-
pOuse domestic service long enough
for him to collect his commission.
1t is a matter of doing a small
business at large profit, so that
it is not remarkable that so many
people find it attractive. House
the fact that they must pay what
ever is required of them, and US
ually offer slight resistance. In
deed, many householders have be-
come SO utterly cowed by the diff
culties of obtaining anything in
New York that they are prepared
to offer large bonuses to persons
who will help them to obtain a
really efficient servant These bon
uses, of course, are in addition to
the usual commission charge of ten
dollars per servant. The agencies
also collect a registration fee from
the servant, so you can about figure
what the profit for one day Of fair
ly good scouting would be.
PROPRIETOR FIGURES PROFITS
In many agencies, indeed, there
appears to be little work for the
proprietor to do but to figure up
and collect his fees. He canvasses
various districts for domestic help,
it is true, but after he is fairly
well-known the domestics come to
him for registration. The employers
of servants are required to do the
same. The day when cooks and wait
resses came to you to apply for a
job in your household is gone for
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22
Il Farming to Raise Food
THE recent report Of the National De-
partment of Agriculture showing an

THE recent report Of the National De-
partment of Agriculture showing an
indicated decrease of some two hum
dred and forty-eight million bushels, or thir-
ty-three and a third per cent, in, the winter
wheat yield emphasizes anew the need of
producing food to the limit of resources,
both on farms and in family gardens So
marked decline in the output of this "chief
nourisher at life's feast must be compen-
stated as far as possible in other directions,
if serious and perhaps unprecedented ad-
vance in food prices is to be averted. 1t is
considered unlikely, if not out of the ques-
ton, that the spring planted wheat crop will
make food the winter deficiency and at the
same time leave a substantial surplus for
expectation. Thus it seems virtually certain
that soon or late a shortage will be felt
throughout the country and reflected in the
market for other grains and for food COM
modities in general.
Thence the urgent advice for extra ordinary
efforts in the production of conservable veg
etables this spring and summer. Potatoes,
peas, beans, corn and similar staples will
be more than ever valuable. They can be
raised in trimming abundance during the
next four or five months, not only on farms
but in thousands of town and city gardens
1t is specially important, of course, that
where larger acreages are available food
stores for livestock AS well as for man be
produced as bountifully as possible, for there
is no more certain factor in increased liv-
ing costs than high prices for the upkeep of
cattle and hogs.
To no region of the United States is the
appeal for large food harvests more pertinent
than to the south The broad-based pros
perlty which Georgia and her neighboring
commonwealth have enjoyed in The last
few years is attributable in large measure
to the fact that they have kept at home the
profits Of their money crops instead of spend
ing them all for food purchases from the
distant West. This would never have been
possible under the old tyranny of cotton.
Now that pronounced shortage of wheat
ana consequent increase in the demand
!or otner staples looms warningly ahead, it
is imperative that the South utilize To- the
utmost her long seasons and rich soils for
food production.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22

How many are in your family!
How old are the children? My, thatsI
bad age. 1t must be UNDERSTOOD
that they can't come into the kitchen.
Do you have plenty to eat-meat
three times a day? People as stands
on their feet all day long has got
to have plenty OF meat. WE'LL /
don't think I'd suit.
CARMEN WAS COY
By this, of course, Carmen meant
that we did not suit. So ran most OF
the other interviews held throughout
this busy morning. After visiting
six different agencies and meeting a
dozen or so royal nursemaids or
cooks, we were accepted only twice.
And we were not really on the hiring
line; we were merely investigating
conditions. How much more terrible
it must be for those who go the
rounds, armed not with imaginary
facts and figures, but with grim
realities.
Furthermore, most terrifying of
IaIl is the fact that conditions are
not growing better but worse. Cooks
are more expensive this month than
they were last, and mattresses are
willing to go to the seashore this
summer for twice as much as they
received last season. No relief is
in sight, either. A couple of months
ago, New Workers breathed a sigh
of this order when they read a dis
patch from the United States labor
department, saying that domestic
servants would now be given free en-
trance to this country, but the sigh
proved to be premature.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22

The true artistic spirit" is that
of the man who won't turn from his
contemplation of a beautiful sunset
in order to stare after a red-headed
girl-but have you ever met him?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22

Things no woman can forgive a
man for forgetting: A kiss, the
point of a story, her birthday, the
color of her eyes, and the frock she
had on the first time they met.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22

A woman who clings to a man,
after love is dead, has that same
creepy effect on him as a hair that
shaken off.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22

Mans life is full of struggles!
First, he struggles against soap,
then against discipline, then against
an educat ton, then against matri-
mony, then against badness, and fl
nally against death--but they all get
him, soon or lateri
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22

Hail America--the only country iii
the world where, when a man mar
ries a girl, he says Whats mine is
own ~
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22

:, "A pair OF small glass pitchers manufacturers
u n tne early days of American history NV ~
PaTon Shegal in Pennsylvania, we're sold 't To
can na Aut aor $lO5 in the sale at the Ameri-
o" an Ar ASSOCIATION of the Charles ReI1ou1s
collection. l. O. Fuller gave sc 95n o fn, '" )
Statfordshire copper bowl. T0'-00 LUZ d
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22

wv IOng Tor The day to come when van
shall have put aside money enonab 80 ~
,+eo retlre from business. You long for a
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22
DybOsing OF the Shibs

@ OMETHING of the immensely of the
- task of disposing of our war-acquired
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-07
Fast Bouts At B. s'e. -
l"..,E
Ell Centre Arena
Tomorrow Nieht

The matches to be held at the El
Centro Athletic Club Friday evening
of this week mark the first of a
series of three more that will be held
this season. According to Manager
Woodbury., the weather is becoming
too warm for the boys and it has
been a hard task to fill the club with
fans.
Hanging on the end of the three
matches stands George Thompson.
Pacific Coast and Northwestern
champion willing to risk his title on
the best that the valley has to offer.
Not only the valley but Woodbury.
has "nabbed" the best on the coast to
bring to this section.
Explaining in detail Mr.. Woodbury.
said, "The bouts tomorrow night will
be the first of series of three, the
last three to be given this season.
The main event tomorrow will be
Mata and Hoppe, the winner OF that
match to meet Jack Douglass, OF San
Francisco, the coming Friday night.
The victor of the second match,
whether it be Mata, Hoppe or
Douglass, will be given chance at
George Thompson on the night OF
the 23rd of this month, in cham
pionship bout, the first ever held IN
the Imperial Valley"
Mandot and Peek will scrap a
return bout. The rest OF the
program has not been announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-07
ARMY OFFICERS
WILL PRESENT
BRONZE MEDALS
Major Herbert X. Fay and
Major J. Carl Shindler Are
Touring Valley, Explaining
Various Phases of Peace
Time Army.

Major Herbert r. Fay of the ad-
jutant generals department and Ma
jor ]. Carl Shindler, attache of the
U. s. army district with headquarters
at Los Angeles, are in Imperial county
this week. The majors are under war
department orders covering the ter
ritory of New Mexico, Arizona and
Southern California in a propaganda
of information.
Since the rehabilitation of the war
time army the general staff in con-
junction with the national board Of
educators and representatives Of the
Community service have evolved a
plan for the new peace-time army
which in many features is far in ad-
vance of any period of our country's
history. Major Fay states "The plan
of the new peace-time army contem-
plates educational, vocational and re-
creational features with proper
moral surrounding such as we have
never had before.
"a young man now enters the serv-
! ice and is not only instructed in the
science of war but is given good
education in the American language
is taught a useful and productive trade
VI lilc VI q PiN1N0"AN@-
/ then turned back TO civil life an asset
and not liability. If he is economical
he may deposit the major portion OF
/ his wages in the U. S. treasury where
they compound themselves at A pei
cent interest and even0t the end Of
his first period of enlistment, may
leave the army with over $1,000 IL
cash. His advancement and the amour
of his savings are only graduated ac
cording to the zeal with which tn
young man accepts and improve tn
unusual opportunities offered.
The war department wants the ia:
payer TO know what is done with hi
the parents what the government /
doing for their sons who are IN tn
service, and the young man the oppor
tUnities his government is offerini
him. TIE favorable opinion of ou
people for this advanced and America
plan is sought"
Addresses are being made befor
4 churches, schools, lodges, trades ur
ions, women's clubs, and chambers G
commerce. Calipatria was yisite
J yesterday morning, in the afternoo
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-07

meeting of citizenry assembled with
the high school was addressed at Braw-
ley; Major Fay spoke before the I'M
perial Chamber of Commerce and Ma
ior Shindler at the union church meet
ing ,and later both officers spoke Dec
fore the local lodge of Knights OF
Pythias.
Yesterday afternoon they presented
in the name and under the autnorhy
of Colonel William A. Skunk who mas
charge of this military district, the
medal recently won in the NATIONWIDE,
school essay contest on the assigned
subject, "What are the benefits OF an
enlistment in the U. S. army"
Tomorrow morning at $40 the stu,
dents of the Central Union High school
will be addressed by the majors, after
which the Wilson grade school Will be
visited and Alta Phipps and Thelma
Bailey will be officially presented
with medals awarded them for sue
cessful participation in the recent ma
tionwide essay contest on the sublect
i"What are the benefits of an enlist
ment in the U. s. army?"
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-07
COAST ROUTES
FAIR, SAYS AUTO
CLUBS BULLETIN
San Diego Route Is One Rec
commended for Ordinary
TraUei; 4 DetOurs; PAIRING
Going on in Both Routes.

The following is from the weekly
bulletin of the Automobile Club of
Southern California relative to the
San Diego and Mecca Brawley coast
routes:
San Diego to the Imperial Valley
J In driving from San Diego to Campo
via Portrero Grade, the other via
east through Jacumba to the foot of
the Mountain Springs grade, good
dirt road. Two miles of pavement
open on the Jacumba flats. Some
construction work under way between
the summit of the Mountain Springs
grade and Campo but the detours have
been well provided for. Construction
work under way in Meyers Canyon.
near the foot of the mountains, 35
miles from Ell Centro. Here workmen
are widening the road by blasting.
1t is closed every day between the
hours of II noon and 2:30 p. m. The
balance of the road to Ell Centre is
concrete boulevard. Advise everyone
to inquire at the clubs branch office
in San Diego or Ell Centro for infor-
nation regarding roads between those
points. F
Los Angeles to Imperial Valley via
Ocean to Ocean Highway.-Follow the
Valley boulevard from Los Angeles
through Ell Monte and Pomona to On
taria. From this point there is a
choice of two routes to Beaumont, one
via Riverside and the Moreno grade,
the other via Cotton, Redlands juno
tion and San Timeteo Canyon. Both
routes are in excellent shape. Chains
necessary through San Timeteo Can
yon and on the Moreno grade during
rainy weather. Beaumont, to Ban
ming, paved. Banning to White Water
ranch fair dirt road. White Water
ranch. to Palm Springs stretches of
dirt and oiled macadam road. From
Palm Springs south to Indian Wells,
good dirt road, thence pavement via
Indio and Coachella to Thermal (the
road into Palm Canyon from Palm
Springs, distance Z miles, is in excel
lent condition). 1t is possible for any
one to drive over the road from Their
NAL south through Mecca and Fig
Tree Johns to Brawley, but between
Therman and the construction work
now under way near Kane Springs,
the road is in poor condition. 1t is
sandy, slow and very rough, caused
by the heavy truck hauling it has been
subjected to in the past few months.
There are now II miles of pavement
on the route above Westmorland.
From Westmorland south to Brawley
and Ell Centro rough dirt road.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-07

NOW COMES SAINT PETER
Upton, Iowa-Saint "Pat" has a
new rival. He is Peter Neyens, who
while plowing unearthed a den OF
snakes and killed AZ of them.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-07

Many Paris women of fashion are
wearing diamonds in the heels of their
shoes.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-07

The Jenkins No. Bucll-ralIe is just
the machine for bucl<ing heavy alfalfa
or grain hay over the borders in our
valley fields. 1t is made to take the
rocking and twisting without racking
the frame. With the No. machine,
big loads are possible over very uneven
ground.
Arizona republican., 1920-04-25
Radiator Repairing

PHOENIx SHEET METAL WORKS 320 W. Washington St Phone 35S9
Arizona republican., 1920-04-25
Rubber Goods


 RUBBER GOODS OF ALL KINDS AND DESCRIPTION REPAIRED AND guaranteed at 35 w. Monroe. Ids
Arizona republican., 1920-04-25
Transfer and Storage
PRESERVING sToNEHENeE
(The Outlookl

Stonehenge, now national monu- ment of the British people, is under going preservative treatment so that the gigantic stones may not topple over. In making a concrete founda- ton for one of the columns, no fewer than 125 rude implements of stone used in the original work of dressing the boulders came to light. together with pick" ingeniously fashioned from the antler of the red deer. As- tronomical calculations give the date of the erection of this preat prehistoric work as 1880 B. c.
Arizona republican., 1920-04-25
Advertising Novelties

NOVELTY art caienders. scenic hangers. blotters. advertising fans. gasoline gauge rules. etc We are carrying the prettiest line of advertis- ing novelties shown this season, RIGHT HERE IN PHOENIX It will pay you to look our line over at your earliest convenience You'll be interested.
 DAVIS PUBLISHING co. 121 East Jefferson. Phone 4e76
 5-bg
Arizona republican., 1920-04-25
Roofers

ANY specification of composition roofs put on; leaky roofs repaired by experienced workmen; prices reason
 able. Phone 1887. Patton SD
Arizona republican., 1920-04-25
Razor Honing

1 SAFETY RAZORS - The Safety
 Razor Man is now located at 139 N. 1st Ave Razor Honing a Speciality. If
Arizona republican., 1920-04-25
Auto Repairing

NO LONGER in the employ of Fer guson Keeler. but will continue Olds repairing temporarily at 724 South First ave. Chas. Cross. 5dl