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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26
Penalties of PROSPERITY
T He wealth of the Usage Indians already
the richest Of American tribes, has

T he wealth of the Usage Indians, already
the richest of American tribes, has
been materially increased by the sale
of some thirty thousand acres of oil lands for
good round sum" plus guaranteed diVl-
dend from one-slxth OF the areas production.
The aggregate income is expected to be at
least ten thousand dollars a year. But the
copper-cOlored Croesuses, it seems, regard
this accession with no more enthusiasm than
if it were handful of the paltry coins
stamped with their image. For more than a
century they have been waxing in financial
plenty from sales or leases of their terrific
rial treasure until now mere ten thousand a
year is brushed aside as crumbs from Dives
table.
But alas, alas for the stalwart virtues OF
Misunderstanding days! Cracked is the bow and
splintered the arrow of that brave heritage
and it's star swallowed up in cloudy ease.
To these once s1newy nomads, as to many
a nation and me ny a man. excess of prosper
ity mas proved sadly enfeebling. "The rowing
warrior plainSmen of DID, writes a recent
observer, who contested the possession OF
the river-lands along the Missouri and the
Arkansas with Kiowas, Pawneej and Chey-
ennes and met the Cherokees and Chickasaws
farther toward the East, would look with
scorn upon the demoralzed and effeminate
remainder of the noble tribe that Marquette
found in 1878. They need nothing so much
as to saved from themselves
The luXuries of civilization, unless earned
by stufdlest Or anu val ant Sacrlflce, are
but plaques to weaken and destroy. So it IS
that the savage taken from his South Sea
island the barbarian from his forest and
steppe, and thrust into the strain and glare
of ways civilized willis fatally. He must work
out his own civilization. experimenting and
learning from sire to son, laying his way
with wit and toll or he will sink to state
lower than ,vagery and barbarism. Much
the same is the rule in the more advanced
stages and interests of human society. Wealth
unearned and unmerited carries witt. it a
blight worse than poverty.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26

PROPOS of the Fordney tariff tax
~ of fifty dollars a ton on potash,

PROPOS of the Fordney tariff tax
~ of fifty dollars ton on potash,
which the house Republicans
unitedy supported and the house Democrats
unltedly opposed, the Savannah Press re-
marks: "Once every four years a prophet
arises out of the east who tells the people
of the south why it is their duty and ad-
vantage to fall into line with the Republic
an party. This kind of talk lasts for about
SIX months in each fourth year, or twelve
and half per cent of all the time. During
the rest of the time-the other eighty-seyen
and a half per cent-they seem to forget
their affection for the people of the south
and proceed to give us Hail Columbia.''
All manner Of doughty reasons can be
mustered for the proposition that the south
should have more than one party, but what
chance has logic in the teeth of facts like
these? Representatives from Georgia and
the neighboring commemorative so seriously
concerned proved easily enough the injustice
of the potash tax and it's menace to the
far-reaching interests of agriculture. They
showed that the brunt of the burden,
amounting to some ten million dollars a
| year, would fall upon the southeast, as
Georgia and the Carolinas alone consume
more of the fertilizer-of which potash is an
| essential ingredient-than do all other
states combined. Nevertheless, the Repub-
| lican majority proceeded to levy upon the
cotton growers of this region, hard pressed
as they are by market reverses and crop loss
| es, what will amount to a tax of more than
eight hundred thousand dollars a month.
This sort of discrimination and injury it
| is that causes one to doubt, after all, that
wisdom will die with the G. o. P. A one
party region the south undeniably is, but it
is truly national party; not a sectional
clique, to which her fealty is given. Democ-
racy is now and long has been the one party
that is broadly American in either principles
or policies or following. Where else could
the south go in justice to her interests or
| her ideals?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26

IF we parents could. we would shut our
| children up in satin-lined jewel boxes,
and keep them from all contact with
real life,' said an old woman the other day.
when a mother looks at the babe on her
breast" she wen. on, "she could weep to
think that the little eyes must know the salt
| smart of tears, that the little hands must
grow weary with toll, that the little feet
must stumble along rocky pathways. If she
could have her way her child would never
know anything but softness and ease, and
joy, and laughter.
1.-The cOmmonest phrase on parents lips is:
4 don't want my children to have to go
through what l have gone through. 1t IS
the excuse that mothers offer for failing to
teach their daughters anything about sew
ing and cooking. we had to drudge like
servants in our girlhood,' they say, and we
want our girls to be care free
at is the apology many a self-made man
makes for letting his sons grow up to be
good-for-nothing idlers and MASTERS. I had
hard, starved boyhood,' he says. I had to
go to work when I was nothing more than
any playthings, or any of the luxuries I en-
| Wed the rich roys for having. Thank God
I can save my sons from hardshlps l had
| to endure
GOTTEN a mother will bitterly oppose her
daughters marriage to worthy young man,
whose only fault is his poverty. L can't
| bear to see my girl marry poor man., she
| will say, for 1 know how hard is the lot OF
| the poor mans wife, know from experience
| how sordd are the ceaseless economies where
one must count every penny how wearing
are the anxieties when the wolf is never a
stones throw away from the door; what a
crucifiXion to the pride shabby clothes and
| humble homes are; how the overWrought
| flesh and nerves give away when woman
must cook, and sew, and wash, and scrub
with fretting baby in her arms and another
| clingng to her skirts
eel know am working too haru, and nee j
| a long vacation a man will say, but | want
to make enough money to start my boys at
the top and put them in white collar jobs
1 don't want them to have to begin at the
| bottom as I did. [ know from experience
how hard is the climb, and how it takes every
ounce of fight, and determination, and grit
| that is in you to make you struggle on in
stead of giving up. Perhaps I am killing my
self, as my doctor says, but at any rate III
save nv children from all I went through
| and these doting parents never seem to
realize that in trying to keep their children
| from being drafted into the great battle OF
| life they are doing them the sadliest injury
that is possible They are turning them into
| slackers instead of making soldiers out oil
them. They are making weaklngs and cow
ards out of tneir sons and daughters instead
Of brave, strong men and women.
| 'These parents are denying their children
the opportunity they had in life themselves
| They are depriving their children of the
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26
RESPONSIBILITIES

Having won his case with these two argu-
ments the president has accepted two great
responsibilities.
1t is distinctly up to him to enforce such
rules of economy in every department Of the
government service that not a dollar of public
money will be wasted. For if our financial
situation is so hazardous that the soldiers
must forego their bonus, the wasting of pub
lie money is inexcusable.
The other responsibility is to demand OF
congress tina. without delay it pass the Sweet
bill, which provides the machinery ana money
for taking care of the disabled soldiers
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has pointed
out that to carry out the provisions of this
bill will cost the government $500 10000
year.
No one else has made so high an estimate.
1t may be that the secretary in facing the
great task of handling the nations finances
has become something of an alarmist.
But whether it is five hundred million or
twice as much, is entirely outside of the ar
DEBT OF HONOR
The nations debt to its disabled veterans
is debt of onor which must be paid in full
and paid without further delay.
If more taxes must be levied to pay it,
then come on with the taxes
No argum It's about financial strain, treas
ury breakdowns, etc., in this matter, Mr..
President, Mr.. Secretary and Senators.
The most rigid economy, cheese-parlng
economy, if you please, everywhere else
But generosity, even to the point of ex-
travagance Lore And along with generosity,
speed.
A few days ago soldier died in New York
of tuberculosis He was alone and frialIless.
He fought CALAMITY in the great war that
he won three medals for bravery. By the
merest chance hiG body was saved from burial
in the potters field.
This is but one of the thousands of cases of
neglect which have dishonored the nation.
Finances are important, yes. But duty and
honor are more important
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26
Ancient Engine

The Dewitt Clinton, the first locomotive
operated in New York state, is resting after
celebrating it's ninetieth birthday by drawing
train of quaitn cars of the type in vogue
in 1881. The test was given preparatory to
run to New York City.
The engine shortled and pulled under the
pressure of 5 pounds o. steam as it exceeded
the old-time speed limit of eight miles an
hour. Although it shook and groaned after
it's years of inactivity, officials of the New
York Central said it tsood the test well. Sew
eral short runs were made.
The engine and train have been on exhi-
bition at the Grand Central station in New
York for some years.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26
DOROTHY DIX TALKS-EXPERIENCE
BY DOROTHY DIX.

greatest JOY that they themselves have ever
known, for it is the struggle and the fight
that are worth while, that make men ana
women, not the victory. The fun is in max
ing the fortune, not in the things it buys you
There's SO per cent thrill in chasing dollar
and only one per cent thrill in spending II.
"To be young and poor, and full OF plans
and ambitions, and self-confidence; to De
bubbling over with enthusiasm over ones
work; to have little triumphs and feel oneselI
a rung higher on the ladder; to know that
blissful certainty that one can stand on one S
own feet and ask only fighting chance
from the world-has life got anything better
to offer the young than that?
isn't it what the successful old man ana
old woman like best to recall? The big
banker the merchant prince will not talk 10
you about what he is doing now, but his eyes
light with fire when he tells you of the deals
he put through on a shoe string when he was
making his start. The woman sWathed IN
Paris finery, lolling in her. limousine thinks
with envy of the days when she pushed her
own baby carriage and went home TO COOK
her mans dinner and listen with bated breath
to his recital of how things went in the
store She may see the whole world now
but nothing in it will quicken her pulse az
did the sight of the savings bank book with
the pitifully small entry of their first de-
post.
"Yet these very people would deny their
children these experiences because they are
hard, and might hurt them. AS we'll might
YOU keep a child from learning to walk be-
+ cause it is in danger of falling and bruising
itseli.
81, myself, nave been young and am now
| Old In my long life l have known almost
every vicissitude of fortune. l have beer
rich, and desperately poor. l have had love
and seen it prove unfaithful. l have borne
children, and wept above their graves.
have had success and known failures.
have had my hour of rapture, and my night il
| Gethsemane, and now looking back ever m!
| experiences, would not have them changed
I am glad that the way has been hard in
stead of smooth, for by so much as have
! had the strength to endure, by so much am
bigger and a better woman, and wiser one
among my friends are few women wht
have lived in cotton wool all their lives
They went from rich and indulgent father
to rich and indulgent husbands, and ever
| fate has kept from them the ordinary sor
rows of humanity. When look at them it Il
with pity, not envy.
"Ah my DEAR I say to myself, ''you hav'
missed the best thing in the world. Yo'
| have had no experiences. You have neVe
really lived, Tut l who have been through
| the muck of the battle, | w,,o have know
struggle and anguish, and anxiety, and hun
ger, and want as we'll as joy, and peace ant
| comfort I nave touched life at every angle
! l have lived
Copyright 1921. by The Wheeler
| Syndicate, 1nc)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26
SMILE AWHILE

The dead letter probably died at its post
Learning and wisdom are not always on good
terms.
If AnaniaS were living today he would have
lots of competition
It's a pity woman can't strike out from the
shoulder with her fists as we'll as she can with
her tongue
The trouble with some men is that they work
too hard trying to get things they don't need
and never ought to want.
Whenever girl begins to lecture a young
man on economy she is preparing to launch
her bark on the sea of matrimony.
Lots of men who believe in Darwin'S theory
are busy transforming themselves back into
monkeys.
No other love is so incurably blind as self
love.
Silence can speak for itself.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26
OUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

Colonel George Harvey said at dinner in
New York apropos of high retail prices: ga
guest in a Florida hotel complained to the
manager: Your restaurant is conducted in
a very rotten way. At lunch today 1 found
hair in the apple sauce
Well, you see,' the manager explained,
the hair in the ice cream came from the
shaving of the ice. The hair in the honey
came from, I suppose, the comb. But 1
can't for the life of me understand about the
hair in the apple sauce, for 1 bought those
apples myself, and they were all Baldwins' -
He was a professional conjurer "Now,
ladies and gentlemen" he said with wave
of the hand, 'this is a magic cabinet. I in
vite any lady in the audience to enter this
cabinet. I will then close the door, and when
it shall be opened again the lady will have
disappeared, leaving no trace" There was
an impressive silence until little under
sized man in the second row turned to an
enormous woman who sat by him and
breathed eagerly: Marie, dear, won't you
oblige the gentleman?'
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26

After a three months drought, which
scorched grass lands and caused the burning
of many acres of furze woods throughout
Great Britain, rain has fallen in various parts
of the country and London. The unusual
sight was watched by crowds in the city and
in the West End.
After recovering from their surprise num-
bers of persons rushed indoors to spread the
news which bought out other eager watch
ers.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26

Next to an old pair of stays, the hardes
thing for a woman to get rid of with dignlt
and secrecy is a useless husband
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26
Women Smokers

be provided on Canadian Pacific railroad
trains. In making the announcement a COM
pany statement said the equality of the sexes
should be recognized in travelling.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26

The worse thing about being unhappily
married is not the unhappiness, but the gold
en- chance it gives all your family and friends
for saying, 81 told you sol"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26
Killed Climbing Alps

Nine mountain climbers, including Prof
Scheftlein, an Austrian, are reported to have
been killed in a series Of accidents il thu
eastern Alps.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26

After a girl has been talking tnspringly
for an hour or so about the "big problems"
of life and all that, it is awfully nice and
restful to man, to have her suddenly stop,
and begin to talk about a little thing like
the way his hair waves off his forehead.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26

The average man, it is said, speaks in the
course of year about eleven million words
of which his wife hears only two million
grunts two million monosyllables, and sew.
eral million swear-Words.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26
JaDanese Black Hand

Some Americans here, but more English
men, have received letters written in Eng"
lish threatening them and their families with
death unless they pay the writer's of the LETT
tiers large sums of money. The police are in
vestigating.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26
Around the World
TYi-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
New Republic

An independent republic has been pro-
claimed by the Mirdites, Christian tribe in
habiting upper Albania. A president, Marco
Djoni, has been named Troops are being sent
to put down the movement, the chiefs of
which are said to be preaching holy war.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND

Youth will be served''-but, in matters
of love, Youth is beginning to look upon life
as a cafeteria, and to help itself
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26
Big Deficit

VIENNA, June 81. (By MaiD The mu-
nicipality of Vienna, Austria, shows deficit
of 1,75O,OOO,OO0 crowns for the fiscal year,
despite new and increased taxes of every de-
scrintion.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26

The insane asylums full Of men who
imagine they are great geniuses; but de- :
me! the insane asylums CO ldn't possibly
hold all those who fancy that they have
genius for making rarebit, mixing home
brew, and fooling a woman.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26

At ten, he wants to eat AL the time, at
twenty to flirt all the time, at thirty he
works all the time, at forty he worries all
the time, at fifty he COLTS all the time, and
at sixty he sleeps all the time.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26

Some people seem to think that taking
Germany into the league would ha carrying
Preparations too fags
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-26

When some girls answer the door bell vol
can't tell whether they've been baking or arr
going to town.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-09-16
CLASS OF 1s2o-21.
Gift Presented to Union City High
School.

Representatives of the last years
graduating class assembled on the
stage of the High School auditorium
last Monday to present to the High
School set of books on Southern
literature. The president, Miss Kath-
leen Arnold, presided.
The exercises were opened by read
ing selection from the Bible, Prov
cribs, 23rd Chapter, by Miss Ramona
Dietzel, following which the audience
Joined in praying the Lords Prayer,
The very familiar and greatly be-
loved old song, Garry Me Back to
Old Virginny," was then sung by
all. The presentation was then CIV
en- by Miss Sarah Pickard in a very
few but expressive words.
Mrs. G. H. Niles, president of the
Parent-Teachers Association, who
has worked so willingly and faithful
ly in every phase of school life ac-
cepted the gift in a very charming
manner. A selection was then Civ.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-09-16
The Commercial, Union City, Tenn.
friday, SEPTEMBER IS, 1921.
Christian Endeavor News.

All thoughts are now turned
20 Cleveland, Tenn, where the Ten
neSsee Christian Erdeavor will meet
October IA, Is, 16. All delegates
from the northwest district will as
semble in Union City, Gibbs and Nc
Kenzie and so over the N, C. & St.
l.. All the delegates are expected to
go together and have ''beaucoup"
songs and yells-in other words
make the trip more enjoyable.
Union City is making strong bid
for the 1922 convention and would
like very much to have the assistance
of every local booster in making a
fight for this great gathering. Have
you any public spirit? If so, come
on, let's go and get it.
Mr.. Frank Wilson, Christian En-
deavor Secretary, will be in Obion
County, October z and s. Do you
want him for your society? II 50,
please get in touch with the Cor
responding Secretary,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-09-16
CIRCUIT COURT
AND STATE DOCKET
Johnson Case Called Tuesday Now in
Progress.

The case of the State of Tennessee
versus Clarence S. Johnson, charged
with murder, was called last Tues
day. 1t is remembered that Johnson
was arraigned for examination be-
fore magistrates court in July,
1919, in connection with the killing
of Night Policeman Oscar Roper,
which took place July Is, 1919, af-
ter midnight. Johnson was tried at
the September term, 1919, of the Cir
cult Court and the Jury rendered a
verdict of murder in the second de-
gree and the sentence was fifteen
years in the State prison.
The case was appealed, and the
Supreme Court reversed the jury and
the case was returned for new trial.
1t isn't necessary to review the evil
dence. Everyone interested is famil-
lar with the case. The State wit
nesses were examined Wednesday
and witnesses for the defense were
called yesterday. Johnson has been
under bond of $500.
The jury is as follows: j. E. Thur
man, T. j. Myrick, Toy Brush, W. w.
Hastings, ]. S. Ridgeway, ]. T. Gar
ner, P. H. Dozier, R. r. Davis, c. c.
Pierce, w. M.Carroll, John Nichols,
Sam Kemp. Officers: ]. B. Parten,
]. S. Griffith.
State versus Levi Griffith, larceny,
fine of $50 and costs and 80 days in
Jail.
Willie B. Coatie, assault with in
tent to commit rape, fine of $50 and
costs and six months in Jail.
Joseph Ralph (col.), larceny, YER
dict of jury, 10 days in county Jail.
Floyd MILFORD Faker, larceny, YER
dict of jury, 60 days in jail.
Pack Smith, case transferred to
juvenile court.
Public drunkenness, three cases,
fine of $40 each and costs.
Public profanity, two cases, fine of
$40 each and costs.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-09-16
Quarterly Conference.

The Fourth Quarterly Conference
for the Crystal Circuit will be held
at Mount Manuel Church Saturday.
The Presiding Elder, Rev Robt. A
Clark, will preach at IL o'clock and
then hold the quarterly conference
in the Afternoon. There will be din
ner on the ground. The Presiding
Elder will preach again Sunday
morning at IL at this church
The presiding Elder, Rev. R. A.
Clark, will preach at Mount Zion
Church Sunday night. He will also
preach at this church Monday morn
ing at IL, and then hold quarterly
conference in the afternoon.
There will be an old fashioned
quarterly meeting dinner on the
ground Monday.
This is the fourth quarterly meet
ing.