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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-23
OUIPS AND QUIDDIES
Henry" said Mrs. Style. II must

Henry" said Mrs. Style, II must
have a new motor car"
"Good heavens, woman" exclaimed
Mr.. Style. whats the matter with
the car bought you six months ago:
Didn't you choose the upholsterinG
contrivance you could think Of put
into 1t, by which you added nearly
$500 to the original price?"
"Oh, yes, Henry! But I've been
about quite lot in that car. All my
friends and acquaintances have seen
attracts attention when I go for a
run. Dear me! When I'm in that
were wearing a last years dress"
All was rush and hustle in the
studio when the new producer be-
gan to get busy. He snapped and
barked and roared and wept, but
certainly. he. got things done.
Then, he turned suddenly to the
"we'll begin on the next episode
now" he said briskly, while the ac-
tor groaned. 1T ought to be a
thriller. You're blown up into the air
rushes along and catches you"
"It does, does ft?" exclaimed the
actor. But look here. Supposins
the airplane isn't there?"
But the film producers thoughts
were already away ahead.
"Oh, that's all right" he snapped
absent mindedly. "In that case, Just
come down; don't wait for it."
IT am not business men, you see,
and I should be glad If you would
enlighten me as to what is meant
by double entry?"
"By double entry we mean two sets
Of bookstore of which may be pro-
duced in court If required, but not
the other"
Miss Sophy Snubden's new young
beau was calling at the house for
the first time. He had Just settled
into a chair in the parlor when
Sophy's little brother brought him a
glass Of water and offered it to him
very politely.
The. young man drank it ana re-
turned the glass to the small boy,
who looked disguised.
HE Doesn't" he said to his sister.
Doesn't what, dear?" asked Sophy,
sweetly
"Why, he doesn't drink any diff
ferent from any one else and father
said he drank like a fish,
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UNCLE SAM HAS
"GOT THE GOODS"
(From the Beater.)

A great many of our own people
delight in fostering the idea that
these little old United States face
dismal days ahead. and they've been
harping on this pessimistic theory
ever since the war ended
Do you know that the United States
has only s per cent of the popula-
ton Of the world and only Z per
cent of the land? And yet we pro-
duce:
20 per cent Of the worlds supply
of gold.
rs per cent of the worlds supply
of wheat.
40 per cent Of the worlds supply
Of iron and steel.
40 per cent Of the worlds supply
Of lead,
40 per cent Of the worlds supply
of silver
SO per cent of the worlds supply
Of zinc.
So per cent of the worlds supply
so per cent Of the worlds supply
SO per cent of the worlds supply
of copper.
so per cent of the worlds supply
of aluminium.
so per cent Of the worlds supply
Of oil.
rs per cent of the worlds, supply
Of corn
IS per cent Of the worlds supply
of automobiles.
We also refine 80 per cent Of the
copper and operate 40 per cent of
the worlds railroads.
Before the war we owed other ma
lions $4,000, 100000. We have not
only paid this debt, but foreign ma
lions now owe US $10,000,000 and we
hold the largest gold reserves of any
nation in the world.
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Back to Barter!
THE wide world is of closer kin than
its parts usually perceive Note this

THE wide world is of closer kin than
its parts usually perceive Note this
bit of news from the Far North, tell
ing how the Eskimo paper, KALORIKMIR,
is graphing the high cost of subsistence.
Forced to take measures for an increase of
income, our Arctic contemporary announces
the following advance in subscription
rates:
Per Year ............ One Sealskin
Six Months .........T Two Elder Ducks
Three Months .'......Six Dozen Eggs
Single Copy One Egg
How many of the hardest pioneers and
brightest lights in Georgia newspaperdom
have gathered the material reward of their
talent in pecks of yellow vans, bushels of
golden corn, red-gravied hams, and, when
fortune was uncOmmonly kind a squealing
porker or heifer calf. Journalism thus had
much more substantial scheme of COM
pensation than is possible in payment by
mere money, where dollar is but decrep-
1T ghost Of what it pretends to be. Money
in fact, is ever like lagos purse. Today it's
something, tomorrow nothing
Twas mine, it's his, and has been
slave to thousands.
But he who holds the fruits of field and
flock and herd has wealth indeed. A return
to the days of primitive barter would make
living less convenient, but in divers WAYS
lar more equitable, more wholesome and
would slit the weasand Of many an economic
problem. How i'll would the industrial slack
er fare under system where one who had
notnlng worthwhile to offer could get moth
Ing substantial in return How the drones
who hive in soft unproductive jobs would be
sent buzzing back to nature for living.
AND We scribe, who now receives pittance
OF green paper for his pens outpouring
would feast again on autumn's fat and warm
MS no longer shrunken shank by roaring
hearth ~ 1o'i lug
happy our Eskimo brother, who can fetch
MS wife a sealskin out of one yearly sun
scr1pt1on, and by disposing of a single cow
OF KALORIKMIR become the proud nos,
SCISSOR OF an egg! May he and his excellent
scr1bers, may they never grow less in elder
ducks O'o LII eluer
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Reclaim, This Empire

vt is greatly to be hoped that Sumter
county's wonted spirit of enterprise
will seize upon the suggestion recent
ly made by expert engineers that its more
than thirty-three thousand acres of marsh
and overflow lands can be reclaimed at
relatively low cost and converted into farm
sites of high productiveness. The drainage
of similar lands in North Georgia has
been accomplished with expenditures rang
ing from fifteen to thirty dollars an acre
Formerly well nigh worthless for practical
purposes, these tracts are now valued at
upwards of one hundred and fifty dollars
all acre; and the attendant gains to pub
lie health and common prosperity are no
less marked than those to the individual
property owners. The Sumter county low.
lands, it is estimated, can be drained al
a cost no larger and probably less than
those of the Piedmont area, while there
is every assurance that the rewards will
be equally as rich and farreaching.
Every we'll advised reclamation proposal
deserves unstinted support from Georgia S
business and agricultural leaders. 1t is not
a matter of theory but of widely estab-
lished fact that capital invested for such
purposes yields substantial and abiding re-
turns According to the latest published
records of the Geological Survey some for
ty drainage districts have been formed in
this State, their average extent running
from fourteen hundred to nearly twenty
two thousand acres. In all these undertak-
ngs thus far completed the results have
been abundantly satisfying. Many of the
goodliest farms in America now lift their
harvests of gold from land which few
years or few seasons ago was I'M
tillable and virtually valueless bog. The
thousands of dollars spent in retaining
w no hn will
lions which they will produce in food
stuffs or cotton through the decades and
generations to come.
While results thus strikingly warrant
drainage enterprises, the work OF reclaim
ing Georgia's swamp and overflow lands
has scarcely begun. Little more than four
teen thousand acres have yet been won
from the marshy Wilderness The aggregate
in need of drainage is nearly eight mill
lion acres. OF this immense total, three
million, one hundred and ffty-one thou
sand represent periodically overflowed
and permanent swamp lands; three million,
five hundred and ninety-one thousand wet
and twenty-eight thousand, periodically
swamped land; upwards of one hundred
and ninety-sir thousand lands requiring I'M
Disadvantages; and three hundred and fifty
two thousand tidal marsh lands. With
these nearly eight million acres, constitut-
ing one-seventeenth of the States entire
area, as field for development, Holland
or Belgium would count herself surprising
ly rich Intrinsically they are worth just
as much in Georgia as they would be in
Europe. Their fertility is no less, their
capacity for turning forth bountiful crops
is no less, their significance to economic
and human interests is no less. Apply to
them the transforming touches of science
and thrift, and they will make up another
empire within an Empire State.
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New Questions


How about the $4,000 a year
allowed the president of the United
States for travelling expenses. II
it isn't used does the president get
the rest?
2-Is it proper to wear the we'd
ding ring first on the finger or the
engagement ring?
3-What countries have furnished
the most immigrants to the United
States?
4-Will you tell me where Cocos
island is, about which there Is 80
much talk Of buried treasure?
5-What part of the woodland of
the south is on it's farms?
6-When and by whom was knit
ting first done?
Kindly let, me know who was
the author Of the words, There is
time to fight and time to pray?
8-What causes wind shake" or
rings" in trees?
9-How many Americans are living
in Mexico? How does the number of
Americans killed during the revolu-
lish killed?
lois there a difference between
meteors and shooting stars? What
becomes of them?
Questions Answered
1. Q.-How soon will the 1920
census be completed?
/. A-The bureau of census says
that the completed report for the
1920 census will not be ready for at
least two years.
2. Q.-Are the new quarters with
out three stars under the eagle gen.
uine?
2. A.-rhe office of the director
Of the mint says that there are two
types of these quarters in c1rcula-
tion and both are genuine. Those
with the stars under the eagle are
the type now being made. A modi-
fication of the design was authorized
by congress in order to improve the
artistic merits of the coin. The first
ARRANGEMENT of stars on each side
of the eagle gave the coin crowded
appearance.
3. Q.-What shall use to kill in
sects on plants?
8. Aft the insect is chewing
of lead; if a sucking insect, dust
with tobacco powder; if scale in
sect, one of the best remedies is
fish oil soap. Make a suds and
give the plant thorough BATH then
allow it stand for two or three hours
and spray with clear water.
4. Q.-Let me know if post cards
and stamped envelopes which have
been addressed or printed but not
mailed, are redeemable?
4. A-The postoffice department
says that uncanceled, unserviceable
and spoiled postal cards not treated
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Back
BY EDMUND VANCE cooKz

BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE
I think I know, now, why no tongue
or pen,
Or brush or chisel of the cum
ming hand,
Has pictured heaven to the minds
of men
By any sign they cared to I'M
derStand.
The tales Of golden gates and Jas
pered walls
Have only served to turn our
spirits pale;
The shining streets and infinite,
ivory halls
Have seemed sorry, subl1mat-
ed Jail.
So too, Mahomet's heaven and its
flesh
Cannot re-f1ame the ashen ap-
petite,
And when the Buddhist soul escapes
It's mesh
1t loses all we think of as de-
light.
But I, who have been banished and
To the sweet solace of my roof
0, then,
Mine is the inner wisdom, for 1
Heaven is the joy of getting
((Copyright, 1920, N. E. Al
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GO u D =

I by bronzing, enameling,. or other
| process of coating, may De redeemed
in postage stamps or other stamped
paper only at IS per cent of their
original purchaser; but parts of
pieces Of cards will not be redeemed.
5. Q.-What does the word Chau-
tauqua mean?
S. A.-This is Seneca Indian
ward meaning literally "one has taken
out fish there"
g.. Q.-Are there any wild tribes
of Indians in the United States?
S. A.-The bureau of Indian at
fairs says that there are no wild
tribes of Indians in the United States
at the present time. The Indians
those of the white people, namely,
agriculture, commerce and business
of all kinds. The Seminoles Of Flori-
da do not live on government res
ervation, and have no regular agree
ment or treaty with the government.
Z. Q.-Do humming birds go south
in winter? What do they feed on?
7. A.-Most species of the hum
ming birds are natives Of the warmer
that go north for the summer. Hum
ming birds do not feed exclusively
on honey, but depend largely on the
insects found in flowers for their
s. Q.-Was Vermont one of the
thirteen original states?
s. A.-Vermont was not one of
the original thirteen states, but was
the first state afterward admitted
to the union.
9. Q.-What viii! remove stains
from gravestones? The stains were
made by decaying vines.
9 A.-Such stains can usually be
removed by scrubbing with water.
10. Q.-Why is there such drive
for determination of rats when the
government states that bubonio
plague is under control?
10. A..The public health service
says that while obubonic plague Is
under control in this country, there
will be scattered infection until rats
are exterminated. Rats are an un-
necessary and intolerable burden.
costing the people of this country one
cent per person every day for food.
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lllLl0 AudI I6l6.
When a girl says "The Lord will
provide" she means that He will
provide her with husband and thus
save her from stenography.
Every man would "hit their tobog-
gan" occasionally, if he felt that he
could rely on some woman to drag
the sled up the hill again for him.
When a man has to stop and think
what to say in love letter, it is a
sign that has caution has come into
action--and his heart is having a
reaction.
There is as much difference be-
tween an. understanding" and a
as there Is between an I. 0. U. and
check.
Some one has said that the trouble
with married people is that they get
too close a view of one another, ard
thus lose all the enchantment and
perspective which distance lends,
trouble with married people is that
they are married!
Simply because a man asks you if
you could love him is not necessarily
a sign that he wants you to. 1t may
be merely a move for preparedness"
III case of a sudden attack.
Those spirit communications"
would be a lot more convincing to
some women If all the husbands who
come back would not be so abso-
lutely positive that they are in
heaven.
If everybody in the world seems to
be going against you, why not turn
around and jog along with the
crowd?
Success in love affair goes to a
mans head and makes him so dizzy
that he begins to wonder why SUCH
a dazzling creature should waste him
self all on one girl?
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The Nation and the Trees

THE fact that the next Chief Magis-
trate Of the United States will he q
publisher encourages the president
OF the American Forestry Association Mr.
Cnarles Lathrop Pack, to believe that At
last we shall have action on the critical
neeo o. conserving the trees For he rea-
SUNS e. cr Governor Cox or Senator Hard
49, Mou-a De lmpelled from sharp expe-
az te Win the print paper problem new
"a ~ rest easy until something effective
Is Is done to fortify the future and tighten
Inc cost OF producing wood pu1n
LII tn1s matter no field or phase of Amor
ican interest is uninvolved. Every paner mr.
pook that one reads, every chair and to-
ole III his nome OR office, every niece of
tlihDer IN his house, every problem inciden+
10 MS community's shortage of dwe11in oe
I.u BUSINESS structures is related one wav
or another to the question of forest con.
serVatlon. And beyond all these lie The
fundamentally more important interests ot
agriculture and health, which are vita11v
Concerned IN the future of the forests
tt When one sees in official reports that
the virgin forests of the United States
nave shrunk from eight hundred and
twenty-five million acres to one-sixtb ri
mat amount" he feels vaguely that the
s4tuatlon IS disturbing. But not until he
ti tuuleS us manifold effects in the ma
Iloh daily life and business does he he
gin to realize how unfortunate and ominons
it is. '"o oi1ii1ous
Ihere are few more practical or more
urgent matters to which Governmental ener.
| gles, state and Federal alike can be di
rected. TO check and, as far as possible
! repair the enormous forest wastes will
nghten many burden of the present and
prevent incalculable ills in time to come
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Those Who Give Their Talent
TT Is doubtful that a true teacher or
true scientist ever gave up the poorly
paid work Of class room or expert

TT Is doubtful that a true teacher or
true scientist ever gave up the poorly
paid work Of class room or expert
mental laboratory to accept lucrative
place in the business realm, as a matter
of preference. It seems, however that
scores are doing as matter of neces-
sity. Witness these typical cases compiled
by the New York Evening Post: "a pro-
lessor of biology, with salary of $4,000
a year, recently exchanged his chair for a
position with an automobile company at
$4,000 a year. A professor Of modern Ian
guage at $1,000 a year has become a trade
comm-s sioner at $4,000 A professor of
English at $1,000 has become an advertis-
ing manager at $4,000. A teacher of pub.
lie speaking at $1,000 has become a sales
man at $4,000. A professor of education
at $1,5OO is doing something with oil and
with a salary of $4,000 has gone into com
mercial work at a salary of $500"
APPLY does the Evening Post comment:
These man have not suddenly become able
to hold business jobs; they have finally be-
come unable to hold academic jobs-and
live"
The South was not served more loyalty
by her soldiers in the Sixties than by her
teachers in these latter years of struggle.
from grammar schools to universities, they
lave shown truly heroic steadfastness in
aboring on in a field of i'd ais and i'll
,cwarded duties despite the continual in
-itation of generous salaries elsewhere.
,oliege professors who, in commercial and
adustrial Offices, could have doubled or
rebled their financial incomes, have stood
by the colors to which they were dedi-
e2ted even when it seemed that the land
n whose interest they were sacrificing had
oorgotten them. And most of those who
have been constrained to turn to business
for a livelihood would infinitely have pre-
cerred the herbs Of the educator to the
money-maker's stalled ox-had the herbs
but been sufficient to hold family's souls
and bodies together.
Loyalty like this deserves peoples
richest gratitude. Such institutions as
Emory, Agnes Scott and Oglethorpe, as
we'll as the Tech the University of Geor'
gia and others founded by the State, should
have a hundred or a thousand dollars o
endowment for every one they have today
Only thus can justice be done the men anC
women who would rather give than sci
their talents. Only thus can the South
resources be rightly developed and he
progress in things worth while be assured
We can better afford to stint any other in
terest than that of education, for it is TIL
light without whose quickening beams n
flower and no fruitage can spring fror
material wealth.
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Progressive, or Standbatter?
"H HOSE elements of American thought
and effort that count themselves

I" HOSE elements OF American thought
and effort that count themselves
progressive" as distinguished from
''reactionary' and constructive as distin-
guished from "standpat," should have no
waverfng in the Presidential campaign.
Governor Cox is as distinctly champion
, of progress as Senator Harding is dis
ciple of destruction.
Though neither had uttered word since
his nomination, the record of each speaks
so loud that there can be no mistaking
the purposes for which he stands and the
interests with which he is allied The Gov
ernor has proved himself a thoughtful
friend to the rank and file; student OF
social and economic difficulties, who has
the discernment to find where true rene
dies lie, and the courage to go forward; a
statesman who sees that prosperity cannot
abide If 1t rest not upon justice, and that
public problems cannot be solved save in
the spirit of construction. The Senator, es-
Unable gentleman though he is, lacks both
the impulse and the experience from which
views like these are evolved. When has he
ever come to grips with great issues and
great emergencies as his Democratic op.
Donent has? When has he demonstrated
opacity for dealing with critical situations
I'D for understanding the needs of the in
-rticulate mass OF men, as Governor Cox
repeatedly has done?
The latter, during his executive terms,
5 initiated legislation which, for it's
-,lue to the cause of social justice and
;onomic security, has hardly parallel in
20 nations history. Laws for the protec-
On of the weak against heartless aggran-
ement laws for the reform of prison
'onditions which were affront to hui
,anity and commonsense, laws for the
conservation of health, for the extension of
educational facilities, for the development
If agriculture, for the encouragement and
peace of industry, for the promotion of
those common and fundamental interests
that are the source of a States or a ma
tons well-being-these are to his credit
in overlooking measure.
If America wishes prosperity, she must
go forward. If she wishes concord and
good-feeling she must go forward. No phil
osophy of reaction can bring content in
these unsettled days Those who do not ad-
vance will go inevitably backward. Those
who do not help to build up will find their
own selfish structures tumbling about them
Because he looks forward because he builds
upward. Governor Cox is the man the
Presidency needs.
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"This is rather a curiosity" re-
marked an artist who was cnterta1n-
ing lady in his studio.
AS he spoke he produced a tiny
but exquisite painting.
ut is nice" gushed his visitor.
ct was out in the country one day.
he went on, "and mad all my mate.
rails with me except a canvass. But
1 was so keen on painting this scene
that I took out my handkerchief.
stretched it upon my case, and paint.
ed the picture"
Dear me-" exclaimed the lady.
Then a look of horror came over her
face as she went on: "But you'll
never be able to wash all that paint
out of it"
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Editorial Echoes.

Be sure you are right, then hold the
stakes while the other fellows bet.-New
York Globe & Commercial.
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"The power Of the press" will be even
stronger after the apple season opens
Florida Metropolis
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The Houston Post has chosen a motto
for the Dempsey escutcheon: "invncible in
peace, invisible in war;" which seems to
fit the fighter both up and likewise down.
Nashville Banner,
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PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGNS
By FREDERIC J. HASKlN

Editors Note: The foregoing is
the first of series of twenty-four
articles by Mr.. Haskin in which he
will discuss the most interesting
features of each of the presidential
campaigns from 1924 to 1920. This
series of articles will be valuable to
everybody interested in the present
campaign for president, and will con-
tain much interesting historical in
formation Of the kind usually over
looked in the histories-the incidents
and the stories of the campaign. TAX
en- as a whole, this series will form
a complete history of the quadren-
NAL struggles of the American people
to choose a president. Cut them out
and paste them in your scrap book.)