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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-16
MONEY
By H. Addington Bruce

BY H. Addington Bruce
w THAT man Is truly foolish who denounces
wv money as an evil thing. There Is
w nothing evil in money itself. When evil
| flows from it, as it often does, the fault lies
not with money but with the possessor and
user Of 1t.
Money, in fact, is among the real necessi-
ties of any progre -sive human existence. 1t
is at once {. symbol and an instrument OF
progress. Only those who completely sepa-
rate themselves from their fellow men, or
live in communities of narrowly limited &C
tivities and correspondingly limited wants,
can dispense with money.
Wherever activities and wants multiply the
| necessity arises for money as means Of IA
cilitating the exchange of goods. 1t need
not be money in the form of gold coin. But
whatever the form 1t takes 1t remains money.
And forever It's proper function remGins the
| same-facilitat4ng the exchange Of goods
Thus money may truthfully be described
as.one of the most useful servants of man. 1t
| becomes useless or worse than useless only
when men forget Its proper function, set 1t to
| serving ignoble ends, or esteem 1t above its
| true worth.
| Then, indeed, evil attaches to money. But
always the fault is not in money but in the
man who misuses 1t or mistakenly prizes 1t.
Under such circumstances 1t can assuredly be-
come the master, not the servant, of man and
a worker of harm.
The Good Book, remember, does not say,
l MONEY Is LuS IOOt VI dlI evil d LllS4uOLo-
ton we often hear. What the Good Book
says Is Love of money Is the root of all evil,
obviously q different matter. 1t is invariably
the human element-the purposes and de-
sires Of moneys possessor and user-that de-
termines the good or the evil of money.
Hence do not join in your voice with those
who advocate the abolition of money and or
the monetary system as a means of improv-
ing the world. The result would only be,
first an immediate stopping Of progress, next
gradual reversion to the uncomfortable life
of the primitive past.
Instead of attacking money, urge what is
really needed-improvement in the system
OF human education, whereby men shall be
trained more effectively than now to evaluate
money correctly and to use it worthily. That
Is the one way to deal adequately with the
so-called evils Of money.
More intensive moral education-an educa-
ton that begins in the home through both
precept and exam 4e, and Is wisely continued
in the schools what we must have. Ed
ucation against greed, selfishness, sordidness,
dishonesty, avarice and Grass materialtsm is
the worlds supreme need, not futile denun-
citation of the tool by which unworthiness &C.
complishes its unworthy ends.
II only the decriers of money and Of the ex-
listing social order could be brought to appre-
ciate this, If only they would aid in organizing
for human uetterment through better educa-
ton, the ills of which they Justly complain,
but for which their socially destructive efforts
offer no substantial remedy, might soon be
in fair way of correction.
Copyright, 1921, by The Associated News
paters.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-16
The Porter "Peace" Plan
IT. HE passage of Representative Porter's

T HE passage Of Representative Porter's
so-called Peace resolution In the
House brings the nation little II any
nearer escape from the disgraceful predica,
ment into which Republican politics has be-
trayed it. That the House measure Is TAI
preferable to the Knox resolution adopted
by the Senate is generally recognized out
side the circle dominated by it's author and
others apparently oblivious to the principles
for which America went to war. Mr.. Porte
himself we'll characterized the Knox plan
when, rising ADORE his party, he declared that
it's Endorsement would amount to repud1a-
ton of the cause for which thousands OF
American soldiers gave their lives. The won
der is that even the present Republican Sem
ate could have stomached proposition so
nauseous.
There Is distinct relief in the refusal Of
the House to concur. But does its substitute
resolution, which simply declares the state
Of war at an end, open the way to peace!
Aside from the merits OF the question, there
Is serious doubt that the Senate will accept
the substitute or that a conference can er-
feet an agreement, in which event the situa-
ton will stanu just as it was before the de-
bate began. But suppose the Porter resolu
ton prevails. Will 1t make peace? Not at
all. Only treaty can make peace, and we
are no nearer treaty now than when the
Senate of which Mr.. Harding was member
turned it's back upon the noble peace OF
Versailles and sent America into moral
isolation with Mexico and BolsheVtst Russia.
| a treaty OF one kind or another there
must be before this nations interests in the
world are secure. The churlish partisanship
| that rejected the treaty negotiated by Wood
row Wilson now faces the alternative OF
making peace under the general provisions
of that very compact, or of coming to separ-
ate terms with Germany. The latter course
which seems to be the one favored by Sena.
tor Knox and the Bitter Enders, would leave
us with no rights under the Treaty of Yer
sailles but with foolish blot upon our ma
tional honor. Truly does the New York World
declare: "For action so repugnant to senti'
ment and common sense there Is Of course a
reason The reason is an election now seven
months past. To roll up at the polls a ma
jority so great that it is an embarrassment
in Congress, the Republican Party made
reckless and impossible promises to every
shade of opinion upon the war. 1t is now
playing politics with peace to appease the
most insistent of its mortgages. 1t has still
to reckon With the great mass of corserva-
tive voters in the Harding hosts Of last
| November. 1t has still to reckon with the
war widows of 1918. 1t has still to reckon
| with the gold-star mothers"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-16
The Snoke7ess Citv

~ o famed and practical an engineer as
Charles P. 5tei1metz, now declares:
"It is not only quite possible to elm
mate factory smoke, but it is already beins
done in number of industrial establish
ments. IncideL tall. it is resulting in the re-
clamation of thousands of dollars worth OF
material that formerly went up the chin
ney. The smokeless city is question OF
time onlv.
That Atlanta has made appreciable, II at
times painfully tedious, progress in the d.
rection of this ideal is apparent when we
compare conditio. now with those styglan
days before the smoke-preyention ordinance
was enacted. What a deal of arguing, i'm
portuning, putting and propaganda it took to
get that simple Ind sorely needed law into
the city's code. From the doubts and obJec-
lions which it advocates encountered one
might have thought the pillars OF society
were being shaken down. Stop smoke? I'M
possible! Absurd! Anarcnistic!" so the OPP
position fumed and Numbered, like Vulcan
at his Jorge, albeit the most reprehensible
purpose of the rules proposed Was to con-
serve fuel, comfort and health.
A years test won the ordinance :. host of
new friends and served also to show its
weaknesses and inadequacies, some of which
have been remedied, but by no means all
The community is cleaner, particularly Its
trade and industrial districts, and more
healthful, while the aggregate saving in coal
as a result of improved firing has offset a
thousand timee such expense as the anti
smoke regulations involved. Yet, according
to Charles Steinmetz, Atlanta and other
cities over whom the black genii still hover
need not pause It'll they have made them
selves virtually smokeless. Assuredly we
have long way yet to go, but it is an oper
way.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-16
WASHINGTON, June ills the city
wv of Washington to become tangled


wv of Washington to become tangled
W range of skyscrapers, like lower
New York, or is 1t to be developed as thing
of balanced architectural beauty as its found
ers planned?
Now that the war emergency, with its justi-
ication for housing the government anywhere
is over, this question is receiving good deal
of discussion. Some think that the old build
ings and the temporary buildings should be
replaced by typical modern office structures,
so that the greatest possible amount Of space
may be had for the money expended. Others
contend that the capital of the nation should
be thing of beauty, and that each building
should be a unit in a carefully considered
artistic scheme.
Meantime, what actually exists Is curious
mixture The old government buildings, Of
which the state, war and navy building Is
the best example, are curious survivals OF
an old type of architecture. They are pic
turesque, uncomfortable and inconvenient.
Most of the more recent permanent build
ings, like the new Interior building, are ex-
actly like the office structures found In every
American city. And all about and between
these representatives of the old America and
the new are the acres and acres Of wooden
shacks, built during the war, and still occu-
pied, because there Is nowhere else for their
occupants to go.
L'Enfant, the man who planned this city,
seems to be forgotten, and with his influence
Is gong some OIL Tue plCLure6QueuSbS WHICH
has always made Washington sightseers
paradise. Not even the most amateurish
traveller would stop to cape at any of the
new red tape factories, or describe one Of
them in letters home.
1t is true that some Of the newer buildings
are strictly temporary in character. Thus,
the department of justice, tall white stone
office building, is merely rented by the gov
eminent. Some day-perhaps when the pres
ent commodlous quarters are outgrown-
there will be specially built department of
justice. j
The huge Munitions and Navy buildings
in Potomac park, where Washington's war
shacks were thrown up, are temporary. sub
stantial as they look. But until the war
and navy departments find enough room
somewhere else, the distractions to the view
Of the Potomac river obviously cannot be re-
moved.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-16

the children of others to lead lives OF
marked usefulness will be interested
in the findings of statistical survey which
shows that l. child with no schooling has one
chance in Ole hundred and fifty thousand OF
rendering distinguished service, that with
elementary schooling he has a four times
larger chance, with high school training an
eighty-seven times larger chance and with col
lege equipment an eight hundred times larger
chance"
How this comes about, the report does NOT
undertake to explain; nor does it deny that
brilliant and noole successes have been WOO,
now and then, despit7 the handcaps of an
unschooed youth. 1t simply states the fact
But that assuredly is enough to give pause
to any parent, any community any State
that is sighting the duty of education. For
who could face .thout shame and grief the
responsibility for sending a child forth into
life with but one chance in hundred ana
fifty thousand. of earning the success anc
rendering the services which elementary
schooling makes possible? Or who coulc
escape hauntings CT poignant regret for fall-
ing to do ones best to give boy or girl the
utmost that education can vouchsafe to life s
usefulness and happiness?
This is a duty of far wider reach than
Individual and family interests. Not until
EVERY child is guaranteed the opportunity
of a grammar and i-igh school education, ana
EVERY youth the opportunity OF college
education will social justice be done and hu>
man progress duly heartened In this drec>
ton and in no other, lie true democracy ana
the confines of that happy kingdom FOR whose
coming wise men all pray and labor.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-16
QUlPS AND QUlDDITIES

returned with flagstone, which he had
found" in a neighboring stone cutters yard
The oven was fixed and the baking went
on as usual.
But, alas! the next day a number of GUS
toners turned up with loaves which they re-
fused to use, for In clear raised letters on
the bottom on each was the legend: Sacred
to the memory of Patrick Flynn"
"I'm not at all sure,' said the profiteers
Wife to the head master of the fashionable
preparatory schol, how your school is going
to suit my dear boy"
The head master smiled confidently.
"You need not worry about that, madam, "
he said; we've taught him how to hold his
knife already"
The darling little baby had just reached
that age when he could coo, an accomplish
ment in which he INDUCED most OF the time.
And proudly his mother was telling the
tale of his accomplishments.
"He Is the most welcome visitor I ever
had" she said, giving him smacking kiss.
He just lies and talks to me by the hour.
Don't you, baby? Don't 90 tell mother every
thing?"
The baby cooed obiigingly, and mothers
friend replied:
isn't that nice! So unlike other visitors
they just talk and lie to you by the hour!"
Jimmy's mother was giving him sound
scolding about his unwashed neck. "You know
you haven't washed your neck" said his
mother Gee Whit" said Jimmy, a note of
desperation creeping into his voice, "ain't l
gon' to wear collar?"
The roughneck politician burst into the law
yer's office and In an excited manner asked:
"What would you do if paper should call
you a thief and liari"
"Well," said the lawyer, "if were you I'd
toss up nickel to see whether I'd reform or
pay no attention to the statement"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-16

Among the patients of certain hospital
there was a man who was disposed to take
dark view Of his recovery.
Cheer up, old man." admonished the
youthful medico attached to the WARD in
IDENTICAL with those of my own case four years
ago. / was just as i'll as you are and look
at me now"
The patient ran his eyes over the physi-
clans stalwart frame, then shook his head
feebly and said:
Eyes, but what doctor did you have?"
Ibid We hear that our local weather fore
caster Is tryin to get transferred?" asked
Jones.
NO. didn't, 81. What's the trouble?"
"He says the climate doesn't agree with
him"
81 want you to put up some wall paper I
have bought" said the clergyman to the To-
cal decorator. when can you do it,"
"Well, I'm rather busy just now" said the
paperhanger. Hung Nj. Smith yesterday,
hanging your deacon today but If it's con-
venient I'll run around and hang you on
Wednesday,"
Charles Looked very glum.
Matilda has broken our engagement" he
confessed to his chum.
Sorry to hear that" replied his friend
Hal. why did she break it?'
Because l stole kiss
What" cried Hal. "Do you mean to say
she objected. to the fellow to whom she is
engaged stealing kiss from herr"
Charles stammered and suffered.
at wasn't exactly that he admitted.
"You see the kiss stole didn't steal from
her"
At an Irish bakery the stone bottom fell
out Of an oven and there was great conster-
nation until one of the bakers went out and
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-16

WYE are in the way of thinking that q
wv sense OF Lumor comes by nature, as
W Dogberry thought that knowing how
to read and write did, and that one was no
more responsible for not having a laugh that
was hung on hair trigger and went on at
a touch, than we are for not being born with
classical profile and naturally curly hair.
OF course, to arrive on this sad old earth
whit a protuberant funnybone lis to be the
darling of the gods, for to hav an intuitive
sense of what some one has called the sweet
absurdity of things" is to have magic that
takes the sting out of misfortune, and puts
an extra kick into the cocktail Of Joy. rev.
ertheless, if Fate has denied you this pre-
cious gift, you need not despair. You can
acquire sense of humor. You can Burbank
the smile of politeness into the rip-roaring
laugh of hilarity.
You don't believe it? You know too many
glum, grouchy people whose lips would crack
it they tried to laugh. You know too many
Grape hangers who never read anything but
Russian novels, and the deaths anC accidents
in the newspapers land who drink black tea
and believe that the judgment day Is at hand
You know too many literal men and women
upon whose heads surgical operation would
have to be performed before you could insert
a joke into their poor old heads, and you
are convinced that people have to be born
with sense of humor, just as they are born
with tenor voices You can't get that way
yourself.
That is where we have made a mistake.
That's why there are so many depressed and
depressing, whiny, complainy, stolid, heavy
people in the world. We have believed that
II any one didn't naturally see the funny side
of things, or catch the point of joke, that
he or she was like the helplessly blind or
deaf and all that we could do was to endure
the poor, afflicted creature with what pa
thence we could. We never dreamed Of such
thing as trying to lift the curse from the
victim.
Yet it can be DONE as am witness, before
and after the fact. Among my friends Is a
superwoman who is wise as she is witty, and
who Is equally filled with imagination and
hard, practical, common sense. She mar
ried widower who had lovely and intelli-
gent little daughter nine years old, whose
one defect was that she had absolutely nc
sense Of humor.
She was as stone deaf to laughter as Trilby
was to music. Witticisms made no more den,
upon her understanding, than a SNOWFALL
would upon armor plate. When people abous
her would roar over a funny story, she would
stare at them in round-eyed wonder, he'll
keen little mind searching through the sea
Of talk to try to find the clue to the mystery
Of what amused her elders Humorous exag'
geration was simply lie to her. Every
thing was bald, up-and-down literalness to
her.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-16
81 ACCEPT"
BY DR.. Frank Crane


When Franklin X. Lane passed he sum-
med up his philosophy of life in the words
II accept.
Here is man, significant figure in our
Twentieth Century, man well informed,
sane, alert, and in possession of all the
knowledge the average MAI of our day can
have. and .Ihen he faces Death, that same
mystery thai all men have been facing since
the race originated, he knows no more about
the Hereafter than the Cave Men knew.
I do not speak of what he believed, nut
of what he knew.
And nor lou, nor I, nor any man knows
more,
Death is the huge Inevitable that stands
at the end.
But 1t is not the only one. Life is full Of
things that we cannot change, of facts and
forces we cannot, alter, and before which
we must give way.
And to this inevitability we have curious
faculty which responds 1t is our faculty
One of the most striking things i have
observed in people Is their power to adapt
themselves.
In Andersonville Prison prisoners were
shot II they came too close to the DEAD
line" Yet men who were imprisoned there
have said that after while they became so
adapted to this that they would wrap them
selves in their blankets and go to sleep right
on the line
70 all of us come some experiences SO
them. but we d. we accommodate ourselves.
and live on.
A man who goes blind thinks at first that
he does not care to live, but after time he
adapts himself and lis blindness becomes
matter of course.
We have losses, disillusions, disappcint-
ments, horrors, and defeats; up comes the
valiant soul from the dust OF failure and
strides on.
We adapt ourselves to bad business con-
ditions disagreeable relatives, unpleasant
circumstances. We adjust ourselves to
poverty, to hostility, to misunderstanding:
Marriage is a process the success or Wnlcn
depends upon our power of adoption.
All happiness Is the product of adjust
ment. ,
what wiser thing can man say to Death,
the ultimate fatality, thar II accept" And
been a school in hich we have learned
our lesson of adaptability.
Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

In a mans life the turning point is reached
Just after pretty girl passes.
thing well begun is better than thing
overdone.
It's better to be fresh than stale-but don't
get too fresh.
The man who makes only penny contribu-
lions is usually cheerful giver.
About the best way to induce woman to
keep a secret Is to keep it to yourself.
Frankness makes people disagreeable, but
all disagreeable people are not frank.
Pickpockets seem unable to convince them
selves that 1t Is shame to take the money.
Some people never stop to count the cost,
realizing that they haven't got the price, any
way.
Some men are like some horses; they will
stand without hitching, but tie them to a
post and they will proceed to kick over the
traces.
Small talk has generated many big trou-
bles
HOW the things that are none of our bust
ness do interest US!
A little learning makes a man dangerous
company for himself
Before calling a man liar, be sure you
are right-then don't
A coward Is a man who knows he is wrong,
but refuses to admit 1t. .,...L.-,-;,.\
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PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
Georgia Ham

Georgia pigs" says the Savannah Morn
ing News, lied on Georgia peanuts and
Georgia corn, make the finest Georgia meat.
and the finest Georgia meat is the finest
made anywhere"
Exactly so! Who has ever tasted the equal
of a properly cured Georgia ham, such as
Editor Royal Daniel describes in the Quit
man Free Press?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-16

Saturday will be my last day to grind
meal, as I am unable to sell corn.-Ad in
the Abel News.
The law enforcement officers in that COM
munity seem to be getting in their work.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
But the miller should not forget that
there are other, communities.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-16

ISTINCTLY cheering it Is, the general
market condition of lumber and other
construction materials being consld-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-16

Bar German Language
Constitutionality of the AXE law, prohibit
ing the teaching of German to students who
have not completed the seevnth grade, has
been upheld by the Ohio supreme court
In unfolding the constitutionality OF this
law the court confirmed the convictions OF
Emil Pohl and H. H. Bohning, teacher and
member of the board Of trustees Of st. Johns
EVANGELICAL Lutheran Congregation School at
Garfield Heights, near Cleveland.
Pohl and Bohning each were fined $25 and
costs by the Mayor OF Garfield Heights for
violation Of the AXE law.
Sink Hun Sub
The German submarine, U-97 was sunk In
Lake Michigan, some thirty miles off Chicago,
by the four-inch guns OF the U. s. S. VIII
mette.
The U-boat, with a known record Of seven
allied ships sunk, was destroyed in accord
ance with the provisions OF the Treaty Of Yer
sailles.
The craft had been lying here for more
than a year. stripped Of all removable machin-
cry ana its copper and brass parts. It toured
the Great Lakes during the Victory Loan
campaign.
The destruction of the craft was part OF
the annual summer maEeuvers of naval re-
servists from Indiana and Illinois.
The U-97 sank in $50 feet Of water less
than one minute after the first salvo Of thir-
wheel around to deliver another volley the
former sea raider had disa1 feared.
Seaplanes from the Great Lakes Naval
Training Station circleG over the submarine
during the action.
The submarine was one of the first ten
undersea craft to be surrendered at Harwich,
England, after the armistice.