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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-11
The F1eecers and the F1eeced

FURTHER legislation is needful, thinks
Chairman Thompson of the Federal Trade
Commission, to safeguard the investing
public against those crafty, persistent and
changeful Adventures whose yearly fleecngs
are estimated at above half billion dollars.
Though much has been done by way of lessen
ing the evil, the Commission finds, that ire
quently, as the law stands preventive steps
cannot be taken until after the wrong has been
done. Thus company" organized for the
pretended purpose of manufacturing certain
articles of use and having capital stock OF
five million dollars, chad sold stock to the
amount of four million seven hundred and
twenty-three thousand dollars to fifty-four
thousand persons. Of this sum nearly one
million two hundred thousand was paid to
statesmen as commissions. over SIX hundred
and fifty thousand was retained by the promo
ter, and five hundred thousand went tor other
purposes" Well-nigh numberleSS are the wileS
of those who live, as Dickens would say, by
the lack of wits in others.
1t is not only the victims of such schemes
who are in need of protection, but also legiti-
mate enterprise. Upright business is entitled
to be shielded and encouraged against crooked
business. Every Scoundrel who wheedleS ui-
wary people out of their savings makes harder
the path and lesser the profits of the honest
salesman or developer who follows. Moreover,
as Mr.. Thompson we'll observes, "What is bad
for the consumer is bad for business, and
what is bad for business is bad for the
country"
Most of the States have enacted "blue sky"
laws and other protective measures; GeorgiaS
precautions of this kind within the last decade
have been highly serviceable. But there are
divers frauds which cannot be reached save by
the long arm and the multiplied hands of fed
eral law. If further legislation is requisite, by
all means it should be provided.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-11
Our Wise Foreign Policy

<<T n the next war" says Captain L. D.
Hutson, U. s. A, machine guns and
artillery will be out of date-the
weapons will be gas and chemicals, and the
humblest noncombatant will be exposed to
attack. Entire populations will take the
chance of never awakening when they go to
bed at night. 1t will be truly war OF ex-
termination
To the same drift speak officers of in,
fluence and distinction in the armies of other
nations, and eminent scientists confirm them.
Where previous wars have slain their thou
sands, the next will sla it's millions; and
the ruthlessness for which Prussianism was
once condemned will be passing shower to
the tempest of black terror.
But. of course, it is not incumbent upon
the United states Of America to do anythin ;
by way of international goodwill and CO.
operation to prevent the catastrophe. Our
business is to hold selfshly aloof from the
needs and problems of mankind, brew our
poison, prepare our frightfulness, make ready
our miIlionfold stock Of collins, and in
cheerful idiocy await the world holocaust!
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-11
OUIPS AID QUIDDITIES

I There are some things that woman
finds hard to forgive in her liege lord and
master and this is one: Recently hus-
band in this city, whose record showed
thirty years of married life with his one and
only wife, came home, and, after looking at
her intent1y, was heard to murmur, Blue"
What did you say?" inquired the above
mentioned wife.
"Oh, nothing in Particular he replied,
"but l saw an old friend today, you never
met him. he stopped off between trains, and
he wanted to know all about you; how you
looked, even the color of your eyes, and
blamed if 1 could remember. I told him
brown"
He was young artist, and, although very
gifted man, the world had not yet recognized
what a man they had amongst them.
Still, success was coming his way little by
little, and he was proudly telling his life story
to a patron.
"a few years ago. he asserted, 81 was quite
unknown, but now my work is hung on the
linei"
Then bitter thought fitted through his
brain and he added
| $50 is my wifes."
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-11

trary, it is place where self-sacrifice does
It's great and perfect work, and unless one
is so constituted as to enjoy certain degree
or martyrdom, one shows gulnption by keep
ing out of it.
Even the best of wives is no pin-feathered
saint. Even the finest children are little
imps. There is no household that runs al
ways on ball-bearing wheels. Unless a man
is willing to bear and forbear with his wife;
unless he is willing to walk the colicy baby,
and put up with house cleaning and mean
dinners upon occasion; unless he can love
those dependent on him better than himself,
andfeel it privilege to toll in order to keep
them safe and warm, he's got no business
getting married.
But the old bachelors life is not all beer
and skittles; for there comes to every man
a time when the only desirable thing on
earth is some warm human tie and if he has
not made that in his youth by marrying, his
old age is ISOLATE, no matter what he has
achieved, no matter how much money he has
accumulated.
The old bachelor may be rich and famous.
He may live in a luxurious club where he
is waited upon by trained servants, and every
meal is the triumph of chef. He may have
every little .fussy way catered to, and not q
care or anxiety about another humaN being
in the world, and yet be so lonely and for
1orn as to be an object of pity 20 the poorest
and humblest man who has his children s
arms about his neck.
For achievement becomes an empty thing
when no one cares wheth we succeed or
fail. After we are middle-aged, money can
buy us little because we want little, and as
we grow old we are no longer interesting,
even to ourselves. We have taken our own
measures. We have got gu. own numbers.
What it was in us to do, we have already
done, and we begin to be bored with life I'M
less we have children.
In them we find our own fountains OF per-
petual youth. They rekindle our hopes and
ambitions because we fondly trust that they
are going to achieve all the great things that
we aspired to-, and failed to do. Listen to
the talk of parents. It is all Of their chill
dren. Mothers live over their own romances
in their. daughters love affairs. Fathers
boast of their sons prowess in athletics, or
their grades at school, or of how they are
getting on in BUSINESS and making good al
this or that. To miss being able to brag
about your children is to miss the consolation
prize of life.
Not all marriages are happy. Not every
man is lucky enough to get good wife, I'm
doubted1y, there are many men who should
never marry at all; but taking it by and
large the married man is happier than the
bachelor Anyway, he is a bigger, broader
better man, because matrimony is the great
educator and disciplinarian of the world.
Copyright, 1921, by The Wheeler Syndl-
cate, Inc)
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,Bu;1d;;nq

Somethin;, of the country's growth ana
needs may be inferred from tic fact that al
though approximately one-half OF the three
hundred million dollars worth of new con,
struction launched each month represents
homes the housing problem remains urgent.
Years of energetic building will be required
to offset the shortage from wartime cond1-
tions, aside from natural increase IN de
mand.
This ia a heartening prospect for construc
tim industries One hundred and fifty mil
lion dollars a month for new houses and an
additional one hundred and fifty million FOR
other kinds of buildings may strike general
observers as being rather sturdy figures. But
this record, authorities in that field declare
is puny to what may be expected when con-
ditions become normal and active again, as
thew doubtless will in the course of a few
months
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Unreasonable Logic
THERE is nothing so unreasonable as de-
hunnniznd 1nric The nresidina Off

THERE is nothing so unreasonable as de-
humanized logic. The presiding Off
GER of the German court at Leipzig
which recently acquitted U-boat lieutenant
who Willingly nix the British hospltal snip
Dover, ruled that the act was justified be-
cause the wounded and defenseless victims
were soldiers instead of sailors, and because,
according to letter of The Hague code, SOL
diers in hospital ships are not vouchsafed
immunity. Not humanity but hard legallsm
Lel6 this courts resi- ect; not to interpret
and administer the spirit of civilizations law
but to take technicality as excuse for BAR
barism and urder, was it's policy. Ii the
patients and nurses on vessel chance TO
have come from one branch of the service
Red Cross sl-ts are to be respected; but II
from another branch, then blow them to bits
Never bother about what is humane.
1t was just this obliviousness or 1nd1ner-
ence to the rights of mankind as against the
rules of military mechanics, that made Prus-
sianism anathema to the world. A great ma
ton set out to conduct it's affairs solely and
unswervinglg by scientific formula-not only
the affairs of it's industry and commerce, but
also Of it's heart and soul. What lay OUTSIDE
those formuas-above them and beyond
them, as we would say-was to be ignored
as mere sentiment or superstition; what con-
flicted with them was to be thrust aside as
as scrap of paper, or sunk as cargo OF
mere humanity. Such was Schrecckhchkelt.
Such was materialism. MD the fate of Prus-
sianism awaits all it's iI1itT:1 YRS.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-11

II YAMLET'S grim humor, "The body is
II with the king, but the king is not with
the BODY bears no aptness to young
Boris, of Bulgaria. A genuine sovereign he
is, who thinks much of his duties and little
of his crown, works hard, respects law, takes
good counsel, and looks forward to visit
hither this autumn to study American
democracy. Prince Boris was just four and
twenty, and shining figure for Steven
sonian romance, when in the demonstrating
time of 1918 he succeeded his father, Fer
dinand, that fussy, intriguing understudy of
the German kaiser.
In that same corner of the world, some
twenty-five centuries before, another son,
when he was barely out of his teens, had
succeeded a royal father Boris is not an
Alexander, but he has shown in some respects
a clearer head than the heir of the great
Philip of cedon always carried. At the
outset he turned his back on pomp and pre-
tension. In an address to the people he
pledged himself to respect the constitution
and labor with fidelity and self-denial for
the welfare and prosper ty of the nation" "a
purpose quite inconceiVable to many a youth
or, for the matter of that, many grizzled
eodger called to kingship over wealth or in
dustriaI power.
The imperialistic ambitions which had con-
Bumed his predecessor and brought woe i'm
measurable upon the land, ne promptly put
aside. He cultivated, as far as possible, the
goodwill of France, Britain and Italy. He
recognized that the old order was dead, ana
that only by adjusting himself and his coun-
try to the new could either prosper. Good
! advice he undoubtedly has had, but the best
advice is sometimes wasted on dunderheads.
America will welcome such personality.
mo country the Boston Transcript we'll
observes, watched with more sympathetic
interest Bulgaria's struggle to throw off the
Sultans yoke, and work out, as independ-
ent State, its own natural destiny
1t is to be noted, too, that it was San
American institution, the famous Robert Col
tege at Constantinople, which trained and edu-
Gated hundreds of young Bulgarans, who,
after graduation, became public leaders in
their native land" 1t is the freedom-seeking
Blu garia, the Bulgaria which was misled and
misrepresented by Tsar Ferdinand, that King
Boris stands for. WI
To find further light for guidance Of his
nation he is to visit the United States; and
cordially, no doubt, will he be received both
by the American Government and the Ameri-
can people.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-11
CONSCIENCE
By H. Addington Bruce


TNOR the past few months controversy
r. has teer raging in the pages OF a
theological magazine regarding the
| origin of conscience. On the one side it is
affirmed that conscience springs wholly from
emotion or feeling. On the other, its basis
| is found in reason.
For myself l strongly suspect that when
the dust of scholastic disputation eventually
settles it will be seen that conscience has
twofold origin, being rooted in both reason
and emotion.
Certainly everyday observation goes to
show that we cannot insure a lively con-
science by cultivation of the reasoning pow
s alone. But neither can we depend on the
emotions, unguided by reason, to give us
conscience that functions actively.
The little child feels keenly, but, as has
often been said, the little child is essentially
an immoral being. What quality of conscience
the child will develop depends on the forma-
tive influences to which it is subjected. These
must be such as to foster both right feeling
and right thinking, or singular bunting OF
conscience is sure to result.
Street gamins who degenerate into habitual
criminals of a constituencies sort are often
distinguished by mental shreWdness. They
can think efficiently enough.
But care has never been taken to impress
upon them ideas of sound morality. And
in addition the influences of their environ
ment operate ceaselessly to give them brutal
conceptions and vicious desires. Conscience
thus is deadened in it's incipiency.
So with. children in good homes-children
perhaps taught moral ideas from their earliest
years. If these teachings are reinforced by
the example of high standards of morality
in the life of the home, the conscience is GER
tain to be keen and the behavior likely to be
admirable.
But let the parents set bad example,
and both ideas and desires adverse to con-
science will tend to develop in the children
They will neither feel right nor think right
and in after life may be as constituencies as
any criminal product of the streets.
Though this is not to be taken as implying
that conscience is entirely dead in them and
cannot later be reused into activity. At any
time given sufficiently potent influences on
heart and mind, there may be an awaken
ing-as the literature of religious converse
tion amply 'roves.
Conscience, in fact, almost inevitably wakes
Or wanes as life progresses, because of it's re-
sponsivity to the influence of the daily en-
vironment AS Paul Dubois puts it:
"Our moral conscience is rounded out dur
ing life by deposit Of new ideas and by the
correction of old ones. Our ethical views be-
come exact change, and at a certain age
we are often amazed at what we were former
ly able to do with a tranquil mind
Which means that as developers of our
,hildren's conscience we cannot be too careful
in giving them morality-streng thening sur
roundings as we'll as a sound moral education
And, as protectors of our own conscience, we
cannot be too particular in our choice of
friends, books a01usements, and life influence
generally.
Copyright, 1921, by The Associated
Newspapers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-11
Roads as Toyn Makers
y e completion Of the first leg of a
paved highway of the most approved

." e completion of the first leg of a
paved highway of the most approved
typ extending the length of Daugh-
erty county from north to south, prompts
the Albany Herald to remark: 1.-THE towns
with the best roads leading to them from
their own county lines will draw trade from
surrounding counties, and the towns whose
counties are negligent in these matters will
lose trade, as surely as water runs down
hill
While the upbuilding of business is only
one or the divers services OF good roads,
their contributions to the farmstead and to
educational and social interests being equal
ly as marked, they are assuredly a prime
factor in the commercial growth and proper
1ty of every town. Rome owed it's origin to
the fact that it stood where well beaten
paths converged at ford on the 'Tiber, and
most other historic cities were fostered by
their outsrreading veins and arteries of
communication with the world.
In times gone sthese advantages were in
large measure bestoWal of nature, though
always, of course the enterprisng traders
amongst nations were prompt to develop nat
ural resources by both land and sea. But
In this day the development is far more dar-
ing, more extensive, more speedily enriching
In it's results. Mountains are tunnelled
mighty rivers bridged, and the heavens
themselves charted for "argosies of magic
sails" all of which are but variations OF
that manifold spirit of enterprise which in
spires alert Georgia towns to build better
and better the roads that link them to county
and commonwealth.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-11
is LOVE BLIND?
BV DR.. Frank Crane

Love has been called blind That is be-
cause it will not and can not see faults.
So men have despised love and boosted of
intellect, which. they say. can discern the
truth better.
And herein men simply display their ignor-
ance and show that they do not know what
truth is, nor what knowing is.
For living truth, or the truth about a
living thing, was never yet perceived by any
brain. Mind see dead truths, such as
that two and two make four, or that here is
a book and there is man, and all such things
that have to do merely with material and in
animate propositions; but truths that grow in
the human spirit are only visible to the eye
of love.
Whoever loves, sees; and whoever sees, sees
only things lovely. For the soul of a human
being is essentially beautiful, and only the
owe ray can reveal 1t.
you find love in it's purest and intensest form
you find always that it has this clarifying
effect. In these instances you will find love
at it's best.
First, in the love Of mother for her young
child. This affection cannot see evil The
mother kisses the crippled feet, yearns over
the weak will, and sees beneath all naughti-
ness to substratum of charm that is invis-
ible to you and me.
Second, in the first love of a man and a
maid. Here Puck has squeezed upon their
eyes the juice of that same flower he used to
make the fairy queen love the clown with an
asss head No matter how gross or common
to our unlit eyes the girl may be, her lover
thinks her an angel. So this sex love, when
aised to it's spiritual potency, is the most won
derful of all discoveries. To the infatuated
lover she has no faults; they are but eccen-
tricities of divinity no one but him under
stands. He would not change her in any
least way, lest she should cease to be she,
and so be less miracle. This is not folly,
nor blindness. 1t is insight. For any one of
us is precisely so beautiful and glorious and
majestic, if any one could be found who
would love us enough to detect it.
For awhile, at least, it is given to us, in the
passion of youth, to see another soul as angels
zee souls. There never, yet was love enough
in this world. God send more! And to any
lover we may speak those words of Words
worth
Thou blest philosopher who yet dost keep
Thy heritage; thou eye amongst the
blind,
That, deaf and silent, readst the eternal
deep,
Haunted forever by the eternal Mind!
Love is not blind. Love is the only thing
that Sees
Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane.)
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sympathy for the Loser

young man told a crowd at the bar
Der shop that the woods fire that had been
burning several DAYS below Pembroke
burned a still and about eiehtv barrels of
mash. which aroused "Chp'' Collins SYM
pathv for the loser, and he readily re-
marked without any insurance at ALL"
Pembroke Enterprise
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PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
By JACK L. PATTERSON
Editor 7. w. Mcyyhorter

7. w. McWhorter, of Windery editor and
publisher of The News, was visitor in At
Ianta recently Editor McWhorter recently
purchased The Winder News and The Barrow
County Times which he consolidated thereby
elimina ting unwise connection, He is presi-
dent of the Ninth District Press association
and is ARRANGING interesting nrogram FOR
the next session of that organization, which
will be held in Gainesville on June II.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS


burnt Spectator breads the hot air.
1t is better to fall out than it is to be
kicked out.
We hate to get called down-except for
breakfast.
Getting busy" often takes a hard fall out of
fit of the blues.
It's poor lawyer who can't conStrue law
in more ways than one.
Sometimes you see woman who looks
pretty when she is angry.
Many man Sows wild oats in leisure so
that his children may reap in haste.
Monthly rent days always come around
quicker than the weekly pay days.
Some men spend more time trying to avenge
heir fancied wrongs than they do in trying to
Keep within their rights.
A woman with her first baby feels as i'm
rortant as a man does the first time he at
tends directors meeting in hotel parlor.
One of the best things out is defunct
tooth.
Justice is just what the unjust are anxious to
avoid.
And there's the rest cure; but don't take it
too often.
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Restricting Immigrants

immigration officials have begun enforce
ment of the immigration bill restricting en-
try Of aliens to per cent of the nationals
Of their country in the United States at the
time of the 1910 census. rush of immf-
grants was expected during the next two
months, and officials were of the opinion
that in the cas- of most countries the bars
would have to be put up long before the end
Of the year.
Only 20 per cent Of the total quota of any
given country can enter each month. The
immigration bureau has about completed
working out the figures for each country, but
the grand total is not yet available. 1t Is
not expected, however, to exceed 100000.
Additional figures made public show that
from Armenia 1872 immigrants will be per-
mitted to arrive during the month Of June,
and 1888 for the fiscal year beginning
July /.
From Turkey, including the Smyrna dis.
trict, SO may enter during the remainder OF
this month, and 653 for the fiscal year. From
other European countries not already an"
nounced, including Angora, Iceland, Liech-
tenstein, Lonaco, San Marine, Malta and Gi-
braltar' there will be permitted to land six
immigrants during June and Sc for the fiscal
year. The quota for Palestine for June Is
four, and for the fiscal year Sc; for other
Asiatic countries six for June and 70 for the
fiscal year.