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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-09
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Under the dire compulsion Of the
necessity of earning their daily bread
officers of the former Germany army
are reported to have resigned their
commissions and taken up any CIVIL
ian Job available. The more the
Prussians are forced out Of the army
and into peaceful and honest pur-
suits, writes the editor of the Wash
ington Post, the better it, Will De
for the German people and the world
outside. These are the men who up,
military policies. Their source of in
come ceased when the old regime
was overthrown. The German masses
apparently have had their fill OF the
insolence of Prussian military Off
GERS and the special privileges which
were accorded them under the Ho-
henzollern dynasty.
Now it is reported that something
like $4,000 former officers, some of
them ranking as high as brigadter
generals, are working as Junior clerks
or as menials throughout Germany
for less money than ordinary Ia
borers. The compensation Of these
former military leaders is 500 2arks
a month, or about $50 at the pres
'ent rate of exchange, according to
reports reaching the department of
commerce. If it is true that these
former representatives Of the auto
cratic military power of Germany
find it necessary to earn their own
living through honest toll, it prob
ably is also, true, then that the
ing learned to their great cost =, hat
Prussiantsm haG brought to them,
have determined to prevent 1t ever
again raising its head.
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we know not how many others, is in trouble
again. This time it Is the Polish Government
that threatens to declare war upon the young
republic unless the League of Nations Will
bring the latter to terms. Just what blthua-
mia has been doing to deserve correction is
not made altogether clear, though 1t appears
that troops Of hers at certain points nave
trespassed upon Polish territory. The League
probably will take the matter up and work
out peaceful adjustment.
1t is to be expected. however, that for
many year to come those numerous little
nations to which the World War gave birth
will be unsettled and belligerent. Both their
environment and their internal condition
make for restlessness. In some instances
they are almost entirely inexperienced in
self-government and are left either to i'm
ported theories or to slow empirical methods
in the most important administrative affairs.
This, of course, makes them inwardly unsta-
BILE and affords fertile soil for seeds of re-
volt. Moreover, the particular group of new
nations to which Lithuania belongs, and
which includes besides herself Ukrainia, Es-
tonia and Latvia, is still on a rather indie
terminate and slippery basis. These are frag-
ments of the old Russia. In some high quar-
ters the opinion is held that they should be
reunited with the mother land. Secretary
Colby, in declaring that 1.-The American Gov
eminent would be made happy if the Allies
would agree to keek Russian territory invio-
liable and intact" added that Russia should
Finland Poland and Armenia" This view,
it scarcely need be said, is keenly resented by
the Lithuanians and by their comrades in
Independence; but it serves to show the I'M
certain light in which these experimental
sovereignties are regarded and the dubious
bases on which they rest. 1t is hardly i'm
aginable, however, that an attempt to thrust
them back into the bonds of Russia, especial
ly Bolshevist Russia, would be successful
without prolonged strife, or, indeed, would
be undertaken by the Allied Powers. These
struggling new entrants upon the stage of
nations must be given a chance to show their
mettle and their possibilities. 1t has been
proposed that Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and
Ukrainla form federation for safeguarding
and promoting their common interests. Such
plan, If pitched upon feasible lines, would
certainly strengthen the cause of the coun-
tries directly concerned and also would con-
stltute serviceab1e barrier against the Rus
sian Reds. Meanwhile, 1t is to be hoped that
L1thuania's difficulty with Poland will be
happily adjusted for every agitation in that
critical region of Europe is a peril to the
worlds peace.
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ENERGY AND CRIME
By n. Addington Bruce
? OV are disturbed because of the mis-
chievous, destructive propensities of

wTOV are disturbed because of the mis-
chievous, destructive propensities Of
your growing boy. Neghbors have
complained of him; he has even attracted
the attention Of the police, who warn you
that he is in danger of being taken into court
as q juvenile delinquent.
Naturally this worries you. And your
worry is aggravated by the fact that punish
ment seems to have lasting effect on your
boy. He promises to do better, but almost
Immediately he is in trouble again.
This led you not long ago to have him
examined at a psychological clinic. There
must be something radically wong with him,
you feared, else he would not so soon break
his promises of reform.
But the clinic people found him a per-
fectly healthy, normal boy. SO your prob
lem is as far from solution as ever. You
are beginning to fear that it is beyond So
luton; that your son is afflicted with an in
born and incurable bad streak"
Do not despair too readily. Few boys are
thus afflicted. More than this, the behavior
you deplore may actually point to the pos
session by your boy of exceptionally good in
herited qualities rather than exceptionally
bad ones.
Certainly you will agree, your boy is IN
commonly energetic in his badness" Has
it ever occurred to you that perhaps it Is be-
cause no adequate outlet has been provided
for his energy that it finds vent in mischief?
The best authorities are agreed that re-
for much delinquency in boys. And expert
ence has shown that when juvenile delin-
quents are aided to expend energy health
fully there often results surprising readi-
ness and ability to behave we'll
The general advice given by one expert
in the study of "bad boys" may be particu-
larly serviceable to you:
provide organized games, provide healthy
physical exercise both in and out Of doors,
initiate Boy Scouts and open more play cen
ters, and you divert energy into healthy
channels.
Boys must have exercise, and If they can
nto get 1t in legitimate way they will seek
it and find it in mischief and vice."
This, Of course, may not be the correct
solution OF your special problem. But it is
likely to be If you have been blocking the
natural, the instructive craving of your en-.
erget1c boy for romance, for adventure, for
active movement
Perhaps you have been keeping him In
doors too much, perhaps compelling him to
spend too much time in study perhaps neg
lectlng to encourage him to take part in team
games. Your policy may be well meant But
IL you have been doing any or all Of these
thlngs 1T is essentially a policy of repression
Any repression, when applied to ~uncom-
mon, or even average energy invariably has
one OF two consequences. 1t either fosters
laWless and vicious behavior, or it produces
nervous disorders Of some sort.
But you know how you have been rearing
your boy. Have you given him fair chance
to expend his superabundant energy? The
question is we'll worth your consideration.
copyrighted, 1920 by the Associated News
papers,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-09
THE BROWNIES
By Dr.. Frank Crane

had very remarkable talk the other
DAY with a business man sixty years of age,
Inc remarkable thing about it is what he
to!d me OF a striking fact of his life
lie said that from his youth he had heard
III MS sleep voices which gave him advice.
directed his life, and dictated to him many
words. @'11'
When young he got a message from these
voices telling him Of certain improvements
Ihat could be made in writing life insurance.
lie acted upon this information These prn-
clples nave been adopted by many compa-
MES. He himself secured an enviable nosi-
ton in the insurance world and earned a
large salary.
One night the voices told him to Quit life
insurance, go to a distant city in the west,
road
He resigned his position, much to the dis
guest OF his associates went to the city indi-
Gated, and established the trust company. It
prospered.
The voices continually told him where to
get money, and he always got it. Never once
id they misguide him.
Soon the opportunity came to build the
'allway. Following the voices, he obtained
g needed capital, and without outside help
INSTRUCTED the road.
The voices also led him to build more rail
ads, and he has laid down as much railway
any man in America
..~'sT C,pcr : -,rr oova him advioa xvb;ob
he never regretted to follow
AT last they told him to resign from bust
ness. He refused. He could not see the wis
dom Of it, And he had an accident in an
elevator which compelled him to quit
Then he spent three years in regaining
his health, during which time the voices were
silent.
When he had recovered the voices resumed
Since then they speak to him almost every
night.
The man doesn't seem to be mystic. he
has plenty of means, and gives the impress
sion of being sound and sane business man.
He calls these voices The Brownies.
Robert Louis Stevenson had somewhat the
same experience, and spoke also of his
Brownies.
Socrates had his damon.
DR.. Holmes said ideas came" to him,
striking him like bullet.
These phenomena are undeniable.
Of course the explanation of them is an
other matter. Does it mean that the spirits
Of the departed communicate with u.s. or
that our subconscious self speaks, or-what?
Who are The Brownies?
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-09
4 WOMAN'S IDEAL N

a little afraid, a man who is iron
yet VINO becomes putty, upon oca-
sion, in her ha0!sS, ior there is moth
ing SO thrillfngly fascinating to, a
fluence the man who is infleXible
to all the balance of the world
A woman's ideal man is what old
fashioned novels call a man of SEN
timent." He is sensitive ~ "a that
thrills to moonlight nights and the
music of steel guitars drifting over
silvered water. He can read poetry
in way that brings your heart into
your mouth and makes you want to
make love in the most adorable fash
ion. He knows just the little things
that women like to have done for
chem and said to them.
But he never, never is tempted to
flirt with a pretty woman, no G2aH-
entrancingly the Hawaiian band
plays, nor does he ever read poetry
to another pair of ears though the
book of verses underneath the bough
is at hand, and ready listener in
a soft white frock and most be-
witching summer hat. No; wom-
ans ideal man is an artist in senti-
ment who lavishes the entire output
of his geniud on one customer and
never even looks around to see If
ed in the line of sweet goods he
carries in stock.
A woman's ideal man makes money
with one hand and one brain cell,
while he devoteS the other hand and
most of his intellect to amusing her.
She requires much money, for it Is
only men who are strong for the
simple life. Women desire a scheme
of existence that is garnished with
beautiful clothes, and luxurious
homes, and motor cars, and such
like, but the woman's ideal man must
not have to drudge for these in the
way they come to ordinary men.
Dear me, no! A woman wants her
husband to give her all that money
buys, but she wants him to have a
soul above money grubbing. He
must be idealistic and discourse Of
music and literature and art, and
not talk shop. His thoughts must
not be conferred on his horrid old fac
tory or office. He must have leisure
to travel and must never be too tired
to CAD around with her to parties
and balls. And she's perfectly GER
tain he could do all these things, and
accumulate a fortune on the SIDE IL
hte was all that he should be.
A portrait Of woman'S IDEAL mam
would show a composite picture OF
Douglas Fairbanks, President Wilson,
irwin Cobb, John Drew, Mr.. Rookie
Teller and Job. Needless to say there
ia no such person in real life. Hence
no woman is perfectly satisfied WITH
her husband.
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TN personal appearance he is
l. looks as if he. could give a
fight s for ~ SoG0' secretly CT ike " bit
white teeth and the usual ensemble
of features. She isr'. particular
about their size or shape or arrange
clean, and wear his clothes with the
right air.
The average woman admires the
soulful-orbed matinee hero or the
Adonis of the screen only profession
ally. She wouldn't take him as a
center of the stage as the family
beauty for herself, instead of having
to see it wasted on mere man.
. ASo she TGuId f. far +b rather ar,d hs q
you suppose that homely man ever
married a peach like that?" than to
listen to some one eXclaim: Gee,
look at that handsome man and
the leme-a ne drew
intellectually woman's ideal man
has Solomon backed up in the know
nothing class. There's nothing a
woman really enjoys like getting
sway-backed looking up to her hus-
band and when you find one who
says" as if that settled everything
from the League of Nations to the
length of the ladies' skirts, you have
perfect picture of connubial bliss,
and Of a woman who has got her
hearts desire.
No woman really wants to know
as much as her husband. She wants
a man who will save her the trouble
| of thinking and the responsibility
of deciding things and using her own
judgment so that she can throw the
blame on him when things turn out
badly.
But while she desires a man who
is cleverer than she is, she wants
him to regard her as a paragon OF
wisdom, and to make of her COM
panion: she wants him to listen to
her advice, and be guided by it; and
he must have enormous respect for
her intuition and always play her
lunches in business deals.
A woman's ideal man IS happy
combination of a roaring lion and the
woman is still a cave-woman,, and
she would like to be wooed with q
club, and dragged by the hair OF
her head to the two-by-four flat her
| lover has rented for their new. home.
No woman ever really falls in love
with the man who woos her humbly
on Bonded knee nor does any Wl1e
care a tuppence about the husband
who lets her henpeck him and make
a doormat out Of him. The man OF
her dream is strong and master1ul
and able to hold his own at nome
and abroad. -, :,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-09
The Treasure IN Our S,0amps
I'm urging, with his wonted vigor and
Effectiveness, the Importance of re-


Effectiveness, the Importance of re-
claiming the wet lands of the South,
the editor of the Manufacturers Record
points out that there are some fifty million
acres of this character "as fertile the
Valley of the Nile and that such areas as
have been drained and put under cultiva-
ton "are yielding marvellous crops of food
stuffs." Through the efforts of individual
States, supplemented by that Of private or
CARNATIONS, some of this great latent empire
Of agricultural opportunity is being re-
claimed and utilized But, as the editor Of
the Manufacturers Record cogently argues,
the task is too gigantic for the unaided
States and corporations The Federal Gov
eminent should bring its mighty resources
to bear and hasten the development of these
potentially invaluable lands Ia the interest
u the entire nations prosperity. For,
"It is certainly as important to the
nation that this land should be reclaim
ed as it is that the dry lands of the
West should be irrigated. It costs less to
take the water off the overlooked or wet
lands of the South than 1t does to put
water on the arid lands of the West. If
the National Government would CO.
operate as actively in retaining the wet
lands of the South as it has in irrigat-
ing the dry lands of the West, it would
open up an enormous area unsurpassed
in fertility in the world, and thus add
enormously to the food producing re-
this land yields enormous crops of corn
and of other products essential to the
nations welfare.
The apt wisdom of this counsel will ap-
peal to anyone who takes even a glance at
the rich possibilities in the South's swamp
sna overfiowed lands. Competent engineers
estimate that if these fifty million acres were
properly drained their aggregate worth in
monetary terms would be at least five bill
lion dollars whereas they are now of scarce
Il
to the supply of necessaries. Most important,
however, is the fact that reclamation would
make these vast areas national centers of
productiveness. The bountiful 1harvests of
grainand other foodstuffs which now are
converted into farm sites leave no doubt that
some day these swamps and overlooked
lands will be among the country's mainstays
of food production.
OF all States none has greater reason to
be Interested in this matter than Georgia
With the single exception of Florida, she
Atlantic seaboard. Nearly eight million acres
or approximately one-seventeenth of her
territory, are in a swampy or overlooked
agriculture. But with adequate drainage, they
would be so many EdenS of fertility and
would increase the States wealth-producing
should continue with unflagging earnestness
the reclamation movement which home en-
terprise has launched, and also should lend
Federal aid for this highly important work
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Learning One-Crob Per'1s
X EoRG1ANs who recall the hazards and
y hardships of the one-orop agriculture

" hardships of the one-orop agriculture
that once prevailed in this State can
sympathize with the growers of Kentucky's
hurley tobacco. Long years of UNMARRIED plant
ing Of that product have impoverished the
soils resources to such an extent that the
yield is largely of inferior quality and at
prevailing prices, will not afford anything
like q fair compensation. The. growers say,
indeed, that most of them will lose money
this year; and as a safeguard against re-
peated misfortune they planning organ
lied curtailment, or complete elimination,
of next seasons hurley tobacco crop. The
proposal is to substitute corn, clover or some
other growth that will help to recuperate
the soils exhausted strength. Otherwise,
the producing power of their lands will sink
to insignifcance.
Every region that persists in one-crop
farming, whether it be tobacco, cotton, wheat,
or whatnot comes at length to realize the
unwisdom and danger of that policy. 1t
finds the output deteriorating in quality or
quantity or in both, and the plant food IN
the soil dwindling to barrenness. More
over, in seasons when this crop happens to
be failure, there is depression If not dis
tress throughout the country concerned; and
all the interests of business as well as OF
agriculture bear the consequence. In fact, it
is not too much to say that economic secur-
ity and progress are impossible where this
course is indefinitely pursued.
Diversified farming, on the other hand,
will upbuild the soil, improve the quality
and amount Of the yield, protect the planter
against the failure of single crops, provide
money the year around, place many trans
actions upon cash instead of credit basis,
quicken all the tides of business, and
strengthen all the sinews of prosperity. In
Georgia and other Southern States once I'M
der the tyranny of cotton, there are hundreds
of communities that bear witness to this
truth and thousands of farmers who by
practicing diversification have achieved indie
pendence.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-09
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

A married couple were looking into a shop
7indow. A handsome tailor-made dress took
the lady's fancy and she left her husbands
side to examine it more closely. Then she
went back to where he had been standing
and took his arm.
"You never look at anything I want you
to look at" she exclaimed. "You don't care
how I dress Why, you haven't kissed me
for three weeks
Indeed, I am sorry; it is not my fault
but my misfortune" said the man.
Turning round she looked at him and gave
shrek. She had takeD-the arm of the
wrong man!
There were several passengers in the car
where smoking was not allowed, one of them
fussy old lady who carried small dog on
her lap.
At station man got in and sat opposite
the lady in question. He had not been there
long before he pulled out a blackened old
clay pipe and began to smoke.
The old lady asked the man to put it out
and he declined; whereupon she took the
pipe from his mouth and threw it out of
the window.
This angered the man, who, nothing
daunted, took the old lady's dog and heaved
it after his pipe. Matters grew worse after
that, and the situation did not improve until
the train arrived at it's destination, when
everybody was surprised to see the dog run
ming along the platform with the pipe in
his mouth.
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New Race of Pigmies

A new tribe of pigmies has been
discovered by the British ornitholo-
gists' expedition along the upper
course of the Mimiki river, in
New Guinea.
The pigmies encountered by the
expedition lived at an elevation Of
= out 1000. They averaged feet 8
inches in height, the taIest indivi-
duals attaining about 4 feet 6
inches.
They were very wild, and not much
to have been learned concern
lieved to belong to the Negrito race
The discovery was made in the
Dutch, or western part of the island.
A pigmy tribe was alreay known in
German, or Eastern, New Guinea and
the two are assumed to be raciaHy
PhtladeIpflta Record.
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AS A WOMAN
THINKETH
BY HELEN ROWLAND
(Copyr1ght, 1920, by The Wheeler syndi-
cate, Inc.)
-vVY HALES can swim at the
''W 5 Siiss # an ten ssar.s q twelve !:

AT least,
That's what the newspaper says.
And, perhaps, it's right.
But I'm not whale!
And, for years and years. I've been
desperately trying and TRYING to
learn how to swim! -
And, every summer. a different
man has offered to teach me- me, ,
unteer has grasped the back of my
bathing-suit, and held me like kit
ten, that the family didn't want,
And said. Now kick"
And I'd always kick, and go down
: And spiutter and choke and strug-
gle and sink-and be rescued"
And find myself clinging fatuously
around the mans neck!
And I'd be raving MAD
Mad at myself, and at the water.
and at the man, and above all, at
everybody who dared to laugh! "
And SO, at last,
I determined to go way off by my
self. and simply SW1M-if 1T droWn-
And, little by little, my courage
came, and I reached the point where
1 could paddle around with my feet
off the ground, and was getting very
conceited about 1T, y
When a Human Fish, in purple
silk bathing-suit and Titan hair,
flashed past me, and turned around
to LAUGH, and to sing out,
For Heavens sake! Don't strug.
gle sol You can't swim UPRIGHT
Just lie on top Of the water and re-
lax-as though you We're in bed =.
you CAN'T sink-if you aren't
afraid. -.
God didn't make you that wayy"
And I DID tt-exactly as she saidt
And 10, fioated like a leaf, on top
And pulled myself gently along
through the velvet water, with my
cupped hands-and swan, and swan
and SWAN,
Without an effort!
And it was heavenly '@
And suddenly, it seemed to me,
That's just that way with LIFE
Cling and straining, and getting mad,
and holding onto yourself, and cling
ing to other people,
And remember that you CAN'T sink
If you're not afraid
GOD DIDN'T MAKE YOU THAT
WAYV
You'll find yourself floating on top
of the troubled waters
/ And GETTING somewhere-with-
out an efforti
And, know that this sounds like
Which is very amusing-comins
from "cynic"
But God didn't make me that
way"
And, sometimes, the "silver Hningr
shows through!
And the waters Of life seem like
And I HAVE to admit,
That the worlds all right!