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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
The Techs Great Future, and
Georgia $ Great Opportunity
r T is with keen regret that the South learns
of the resignation of DR.. K. G. Matheson,

" T is with keen regret that the South learns
of the resignation of DR.. K. G. Matheson,
for nearly two decades head of the Geor-
gia School of Technology, to accept the presl-
dency of Drexel Institute at Philadelphia.
Fortunately, the foundations which he and
his co-workers have laid are so broad and so
firm that others can build thereon with high
hearted faith in the outcome.
The Techs educational standards are
sound, its faculty unsurpassed for worth ana
fealty. it's board Of trustees jealous in it's
every interest, its student body as splendid
and loyal host of youth as ever gathered to
prepare for life service, its alumni devoted
beyond measure to it's upbuilding, and it's ad-
mirers throughout the realm of Southern in
dustry resolved that it shall go nceasingly
forward The warm good wishes of a multi
tude of old friends will follow DR.. Matheson
to his new field, where undoubtedly he will
do great work and win fresh distinction. AS
his resignation does not go into effect until
next April, there will be ample time for
choosing successor who will be fully COM
petent and worthy of Techs finest traditions.
In ali America there is no richer oppor-
tunity for service in the cause Of indus
trial education than in this eyer-groWing in
stitution, set in the very heart Of the South's
manifold resources. Already famed the ma
ton over, the Georgia School of Techonolgy
is destined to immensely greater usefulness
and power. Nor are the rank and file of
Georgians unmindful of this prospect. True,
the States fiscal affairs are such for the
time being that justice in the way Of Legisla-
tive appropriations cannot be done to the
Tech nor to other institutions. But in so
rich a Commonwealth as Georgia this hand
leap is certain to pass as soon as an efficient
tax system, of which there is now definite
promise, supplants the present outworn plan.
Further, the people themselves are more than
even keenly sensible to the Importance of
education. This they have evidenced, not
only by the enthusiasm with which they
recently raised handsome endowment for
the Tech, but also by their heart-deep in
terest in the University, in Emory, in Ogle-
thorpe, in Agnes Scott, in Mercer, in Wes-
1eyan and other seats of higher education, as
well as in the great fundamental reaches of
the common schools. AS this interest con-
tinues to deepen and widen, the Tech and
all other educational endeavors will draw
ever-increasing sustenance and vigor. To con-
tribute thereto by deed and word and in
fuence is one of the highest privileges of
Georgia citizenship.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
What we Get for Our Money
TO the frequently heard complaint that

Y Il
our wondrous mechanical inventions
have served to increase rather than re-
duce the cost of living, a far-look1ng econo-
mist replies that while this is true as regards
prices, it should be noted that incomes also
have mounted with the development OF
machinery. ''The reward you receive for
your daily TOLL" says he, sis expressed in
what you are able to buy-in the furnishings
of your home, the food on your table, the
cost more than in the days of hand produc-
ton, but machines enable us to have
thousand comforts to every one commonly en-
joyed before the mechanical age"
The more concretely this idea Is consider
ed, the richer it's truth appears. When
Lucullus cooled his banquet wines with snow
fetched from the caps of distant mountains,
the cost of living was far less for the run Of
Roman families than for the average Ameri-
can household of today; but only the wealth
lest could afford such luxury then, where
as now the cobbler as we'll as the king eats
ice cream and shares in hundreds of viands
made available by refrigeration. In the
year 1880 or thereabout it took Benjamin
fortnight to travel from Philadelphia to Bos-
ton; today he would make the journey be-
tween breakfast and luncheon-and would
not grumble, we fancy, at the increased
prices which an age of mechanical marvels
has brought. When Hardy Ivy built his
pioneer cabin On what is now the corner of
roaring Atlanta thoroughfare, he hewed
cord upon cord of hickory and pine for the
kitchen fireplace, and sat long winter even
ings through by candle or faggot light. AS
frugal life 1t was as heart could wish; but
are you, earnest sir or madam, ready to
abandon your gas burners and electric but
tons, with the countless comforts and ameni-
ties attending them?
No doubt we could live on great deal less
were we to destroy the mechanism which the
last century or so has produced, and some
could live more wholesomely. But as it u.s.
undeniably we receive more for our money
and those who so will can keep life whole
some, however complex living may become.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08

forest of statistics, recently issued by the
United States Bureau of Census, concerning
Georgias capital county. Some changes, no
doubt, have taken place since the data were
collected in 1920; but proportions it may be
assumed, are not materially altered. Sixty
seven and six-tenths per cent of Fulton's
population is native white, only two and two
tenths per cent being foreign born. Thirty
and two-tenths per cent is colored, as COM
pared with thirty-tWo and six-tenths per cent
in 1910. OF the foreign-born, Austria contrib
utes 70; Canada, 2S2; Czecho-Slovakia, az;
England, 476, France, 1874; Germany, AL;
Greece, 434; Hungary, 1O2; Ireland, 2OS;
Italy, 50; Lithuania, AZ; Poland, 479; Rus
STA, 1907; Scotland, 143; Sweden, 85;
Switzerland, Al; Syria, 1903; and all other
countries 362. These particular reckoning, it
should be stated, are for Atlanta alone, but
the foreign population outside the city IS
negligible.
Especially interesting is the record on Full
toms school attendance and Hteracy. OF 2S,-
97S children between the ages of seven and
fourteen years, 26,678 go to school. Be-
tween the ages Of fourteen and fifteen years,
5,543 out of total of 1865 are in school.
Between sixteen and seventeen, only 2,951
out of S13S are enrolled. Between eighteen
and twenty inclusive, only 1,671 out of 49,
O61 attend. Striking evidence is this Of the
need of redoubled effort to keep the county's
boys and girls in school after they pass the
grammar grades. Ninetytwo and one-tenth
per cent of them are in school up to their
fourteenth year; but from then on, the pro-
portion dwindles rapidly until at the age of
seventeen the percentage is only 1858; and
at twenty, only Ill. Six and nine-tenths
per cent of the population ten years of age
and over is reported illiterate; decade ago
the figure was 90, SO that considerable
gain has been made. OF the native white
population, only 1T per cent is listed as il
literate, and there is reason to believe that
this is a bit above the actual. Manifestly,
the county is doing we'll in education which
is vast deal more important than all incre-
ments Of material wealth.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
Dorothy Dix Talks
a YOUNG chap was going into heroics be-
n cause he thought his fiancee had de-


''For heavens sake, son." said his worldly
wise mother, don't be idiot enough to make
yourself miserable over nothing. OF course,
she deceived you. l deceive you. Your sis
ters deceive you, all women deceive all men,
We begin by fooling you about the cookie
jar when you are a little boy, and we end
by fooling you about the bills when you are
married man. No man will stand for the
truth from women. AS long as you live
women will lie to you. Get used to it,
All of which is one Of the most cynical
facts in the world, for while every man will
tell you that there is no other virtue that he
admires and respects so much in woman as
truthfulness, every woman knows that Vera
ious Jane is slated to spend her latter years
in the Old Maids home.
1t is often urged as a criticism of women
that they are less truthful than men, more
given to subterfuges and the telling of TARA
diddles. Probably this is the case, because
the whole training Of the sex, since the very
beginning of time, has been in the art of
sidestepping.
Until within the last ten years women
were absolutely dependent on the whims of
men. Everything they had was the gift of
some mans hand and had to be wheedled
out Of father, or brother, or husband, or
lover. A woman's whole well being depended
on the pleasure of her lord and master, and
the kind Of mood she kept him in.
It is impossible that this state of affairs
should develop candor and frankness in the
female character. 1t probably wasn't ten
o'clock in the morning of her first day in
the Garden of Eden before Eve discovered
that the way to work Adam and make him
climb the highest tree to get her the most
golden fruit on the topmost branch, was to
tell him what a wonderful athletic figure he
had, and how gracefully he Skinned up a
branch.
And she passed the information down to
her daughter, and she handed it on to her
daughter and it is still perfectly successful
plan Of operation in dealing with the male
of the species. For men are as naively eager
to have their fur stroked the right way as
the kitten that comes up and rubs against
your knee, and she who refuses to do it is a
mean grudging, nit-wit who deserves what
she gets, and that is to have her husband
go to some lady who knows more about how
to take care of domestic pets, and keep them
at home, than she does.
Men have made women liars by putting
premium upon lies. If you would pit the
most beautiful woman in the world with a
conscience which compelled her to tell the
absolute truth to every man, against home
ly woman who was an adept salve spreader,
you would find the beauty papering the walls
at every party while the men swarmed
around the homely sister like bees around a
honey pot.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
WHY WE LIE
BY DOROTHY DIX

It is the girl who tells men the things
they want to hear about themselves; the girl
who looks thrilled and interested no matter
how big bore she is listening to; the girl
who can pull off laugh over the stories she
who can put on an admiring and adoring
look that makes any man feel like he, was
about seven feet high, and as wise as Solo
mon, who is belle, and eventually captures
a matrimonial prize.
You never hear of a girl being popular
with men who lets them see that she has got
their exact number, and knows precisely
where they get On and off.
Men make women liars by penaliZing the
truth. 1t is only the fortunate women who
have had the luck to get big, broad, just,
tolerant men for husbands who dare be
frank with them, and tell them the exact
truth.
Most women would like to be truthful with
their husbands, but their husbands won't let
them. They force the wives to cheat and
deceive them, or else endure such scenes,
and be subjected to such insults and recrimi-
nations as few women have the courage to
stand.
Not many of us are of heroic mold, or
have any yearnings towards the martyr role.
We prefer to get through life as easily, and
comfortably, and with as little friction as pos
sible, so we naturally follow the line of least
resistance Therefore, if a husband raises
Cain every time his wife goes to the movies,
when she has spent the afternoon watching
a film, and he asks her where she has been,
she fibs about it and says she has been shop
ping. Her subterfuge is on his head, be-
cause he has compelled her to deceive him
or else have a row. She would a thousand
times rather tell him where she had been,
and discuss with him all of the thrills she
had enjoyed.
When man absolutely refeuses to give his
wife cent of money of her own he drives
her not only to lying, but petty larceny. He
won't give her IS to help her poor, old, sick
mother, but he will pay it out for groceries,
without whimper, so she simply charges it
up where it will look the most plausible, and
wishes that she had married a man big
enough for her to be honest with him.
AS long as men regard their wives as sub
ject to them, as long as they believe that
their wives must obey them and ask their
permission to go and come; as long as they
believe that wife should work for such
board and clothes as her husband sees fit
to give her, then, just so long, will they be
lied to and deceived.
Women don't lie by choice They would
consider it the height of luxury to tell their
husbands the truth, if they dared do so.
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Inc)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
LIFE'S WINNERS
By H. Addington Bruce

n FEVER will you find among Iifes winners
N those who deem wealth the greatest
prize life has to offer. Nor those to
whom the pursuit Of pleasure seems the most
desirable of all human activities.
Soon or late the money-grubber and the
pleasure chaser are forced to confess that life
is singularly empty and unsatisfying to them.
They may have gained both wealth and pleas
ure, but they rightly feel that they have
missed something infinitely more worth
while.
What it is they have missed they perhaps
do not clearly perceive. Yet the missing so
Expresses them that their days are spent in
restless discomfort.
They are bored by everything and every
body. They are bored even by themselves.
Until at last it may be that kindly fortune
impels them to try to get away from their I'M
happy selves by planning and working for the
good of others.
Whereupon, to their establishment, they
begin to feel the satisfaction they vainly had
been craving.
Their days become more joyous. The sense
of oppression gradually lessons, and present
changes.
No longer do they bitterly exclaim, Life
and misery began together" Now their ex-
ultant declaration is, 81 had not dreamed
life could mean so much to me-"
OF truth these fortunate ones have learn
They have found the one sure way to journey
through life victoriously-the' way of unself
ish service.
It is the way all must take who would gain
life's best rewards. And if the world abounds
in losers so far as concerns those best re-
wards-happiness, contentment, peace of
mind-it is because multitudes fail to obey
the supreme command, "Serve constantly
gladly"
And this is a truism that cannot be reit-
Grated too often or with to much emphasis.
Many remain strangely deaf to it. Foolshly
they sped after the will-o the-wisps that lead
them only to sloughs Of despair. From these
sloughs they too frequently fail to make their
way back to the solid highroad of success
through service.
Perchance they catch the will-o'-the-w isp,
the gold, the pleasure, that has lured them
What avail if they are mired in morass OF
clinging clQtching bitterness? Such mir
ing is certain to all who, to the end of their
days, have self-seeking in one form or an
other as their life motive.
"He is a slave of the greatest slave VINO
serveth none but himeslf,' runs an old saying
that crisply phrases profound wisdom. The
sooner a man takes warning from it, the bet
ter for him.
downright, 1921, by The Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
Some Striking Facts About
Georgia Cab;ta1 Countz

~ the two hundred and thirty-two thou
l sand six hundred and six souls in
Fulton county, 114,749 are denomi-
mated che" and III, 857 "she." The rather
marked excess of the latter may suggest to
fearsome and guilty conscenced males that
If ever they should be called upon to defend
their political rights, as women once were to
assert theirs, the outcome at the polls would
be extremely dubious for the worser half
There is further fact, however, to be con-
sidered. Of the county's total population
the native whites number 157,131, of whom
78,450 are male and 1851 female. Thus
on the more decisive ground of battle the
hosts would be SO nearly equal that the dis
pute, If unhappily such should be, would
doubtless go to arbitration, where, as in
every war of words from time out of mind,
the women would come off conquerors
These figures are gathered from d yeritable
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
Dodging lightning

Here are some instructions as to what TO
do and what not to do in thunderstorm.
They are issued by the state fire marshal OF
Louisiana and quoted with approval by safe
ty engineering.
If you find yourself indoors during thun-
derstorm, don't go near the stove; keep away
from the chimney, and avoid using the tele-
phone; also, don't touch a screen door.
Out of doors during thunderstorm the
safest place is in the woods. Lightning may
strike a tree, but it is not likely to be the
one under which you have taken shelter. On
the other hand, the most foolish thing you
can do is to stand beneath an isolated tree.
An open shed, especially If it is some dis
lance from larger buildings, is nearly If not
quite as dangerous.
Never go near wire fence during thun-
derstorm.
Nine-tenths of the annual mortality from
lightning occurs in the rural districts, In
Guiding under this head towns and villages
of $500 inhabitants or less
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
League Expense

Great Britain and France must pay the
largest proportion of the expenses OF operat-
ing the League of Nations, it was found when
the committee charged with determining the
share each country should pay reported TO
the assembly of the league today. Each
must pay 90 per cent, while China, india.
Italy and Japan were placed in the second
category, and were called upon to pay $50
per cent each.
In the third category were placed Argen-
tina. Spain, B1azil, Rumania, Jugo-Slav1a
and Czecho-Slovakia, whose individual shares
were fixed at 3.58 per cent.
The scale was graduated downward to III
per cent, which will be paid by Nicaragua,
Luxembourg Panama, Paraguay, Salvador,
Costa RIGA, Guatemala, Honduras and
Liberia.
Under this ruling Great Britain and France
will pay 100000 gold francs, while the
nations in the second category will each pay
100000. The countries in the lowest cate
CORY will be called upon for $4,000 gold
francs. This plan of payment was reached
by the committee after holding nearly forty
meetings, including two night sessions
The assembly opened what was expected
to be the last day Of it's present session this
morning with consideration Of three remain
ing amendments to the covenant OF the
league, the last work to be undertaken being
the assessm emit of each member for its share
of the expenses.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
BY JACK PATTERSON
Cotton in E0VDt

Cotton has been grown in Egypt since 200
B. c., but it was not until hundred years
ago that Jumel, French engineer, suggest
ed the introduction of the commercial varie-
ties In 1922 the famous American sea is
land cotton was the first sown. Five years
later a Brazilian variety was introduced
The two strains were mingled and from
them came the famous "Ashmouni plant
and the still finer "Mutaffi,' which is one of
the most productive cottons in the world
Worth County Local
Cotton production in Egypt has not been
developed to the opportunities of the grow
ers, as Egyptian farmers are not as progress
conditions.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
SMILE A WHILE

Beauty is skin game.
He who hesitates gets run over.
Anyhow temperatures are lower.
Health is wealth, but hard to cash.
Nobody loves skinny man in winter.
A little learning is an expensive thing.
Men who never take day off have off days.
If the unemployed conference works we all
will.
ARTIST Marries Model."-Headline. A
model wife at last.
No matter if the world is round, you can
live on the level.
Pretty 'soon they will be quoting German
marks by the ton. .,s,..
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
Georgia Memorial

The greatest war memorial in the south
will be built at Athens as result OF the Uni,
versity of Georgia war memorial campaign.
according to announcement of Harry Hodg--
son, campaign chairman general.
Alumni war memorial hall will honor the
forty-fve university men who died in the
world war, and it will be a tribute to the
thousands of university men who served their.
country" said Mr. Hodgson. Occupying a.
commanding position over Sanford athletic
field, it will be the most imposing building
on the campus at Athens, and the most CEN.
trally located It's estimated cost is $780,
600, of which 100000 has already been ex"
pended for the foundations and first story,
leaving $150,000 to be supplied from the
$1,000, 900 war memorial fund
Standing midway between the old campus
and the new agricultural college campus, 1t
will be easily accessible to all students, and
is ideally located to serve as center for
student life. 1t will contain quarters OF the
student organizations, a gymnasium and
swimming pool, and reading and assembly
rooms.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
1t Can't Be Done

eff some people would work as hard as
they talk, they would pay a whole lot more
income taxes" says the Schley County News.
Perhaps that's why they refuse to work.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
Lowering the Cost

In Gary, Ind, the cost of necessities ha
dropped materially. Divorce lawyers hav
cut their fees from 800 to $5O.-LaGrang
Reporter.
Has the cost of staying married shove
a corresponding decrease?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
The Calhoun Times

The Calhoun Times has shown one hun
dred per cent improvement since Editor
Ralph Meeks assumed personal charge of
the editorial page. The Times is literally
patronized by the people of Calhoun and
Gordon county and Editor Meeks is issuing
an interesting weekly paper.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
Keeping Tn With the Time

U. S. Williams has purchased an Inger
soil. There is conflict of time somewhere.
Pembroke Enterprise.
Any to spare?-Savannah Morning News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
John ID, Sues

John D. Rockefeller, through his attorney,
has asked the supreme court to advance ar
guments on a case by which he hopes to re-
gain some federal income taxes paid several
years.
The federal government agreed to Rookie
feler's motion to advance the case.
Rockefeller is seeking to recover taxeF
paid amounting to $3S3,89159 The taxef
were assessed under the income tax law OF
1913, and represent the levy on the excess OF
the market value over the par value shareE
of stock of the Prairie and Illinois Pipe Line
companies, which Rockefeller ACQUIRED il
1915.
Acquisition of these shares of stock was il
the form of dividend and not income, the
oil king contends.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-08
"Yield Not to Temptation"

The editor has been sorely tempted for "a
few days. A customer mailed us check
for his account and sent S. too much.-La-
vonia Times and Gauge.
Well, why not give him credit for it and
allow him a refund in advertising space?