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DOROTHY DIX TALkS-SMILE, SMILE, SMILE
DOROTHY

The head Of the employment bureau in
a big department store that employs hun
dreds of women clerks and stenographers
says that the qualification that he attaches
most Importance to in girl is her smile.
Of course, the applicant for position
must be reasonably intelligent-looking, but
beyond that it doesn't matter to this student
of feminine psychology whether she is
homely or pretty, or tall or short, or
flapper one who has ceased to celebrate
her birthdays. The job she wants is hers,
If she wears smile that won't come off.
Because the girl who smiles, nine times
out of ten is winner. First because every
body likes to have dealings with a cheerful
person. There is something in a happy
looking face that draws us as irresistibly as
a magnet draws a needle.
The girl who stands smiling behind her
counter is the one we instinctively select
to buy from. The girl who smiles above her
typewriter as she works, and who wears an
expression of contentment and pleasure as
she goes about her duties is never the one
who is dispensed with when the force is cut
down. She is like sunshine in the office and
everybody wants her to stay. The waitress
who takes your order with smile flavors
your food with something that turns plain
meal into banquet and makes you double
your tip.
1t is the girls who never smile during
working hours, who never succeed. Who
wants to buy from scowling young woman
of a vinegar cruet? Who wants to keep in
their office a bitter, cynical, disgruntled
creature who feels that she is being done a
deadly wrong in being asked to earn any
part of the salary she is paid? Who wants
to have about them any woman, in any
capacity, who looks as if her favorite en-
ployment swapping the heads off of
everyone with whom she had to have any
business dealings?
Nobody. There's enough unpleasantness
in the world that we can't escape, without
our affecting ourselves voluntarily by having
grim, grouchy girl around us. A girls
smile is her best asset, because we forgive
such lot to people who are good-natured
and easy to get along with. Pleasantness
and cheerfulness the mantle of charity.
They cover a multitude of sins.
Sarah never will learn how to make bread
that is not frst-aid to the undertaken.
No human agency can make Jane sweep I'M
der the bed. Harriets spelling is a dis
grace. Somebody always has to check up
Florences books for her. Maude will mix
her sales slips. A hundred times we have
been the point of firing them, but we
never do. Because when we scold them
for their faults, they turn upon us the smile
that disarms wrath, and we think that after
all, we would rather put up with their
plumbers and have their sunny faces about
us, than to have to deal with paragons of
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
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conquering the atmosphere by means of
miniature balloons which lifted them from
place to place
Man strives vainly for the birth of a new
idea, but what chance has he with the mil
lions of years which may have gone before
and the intellects which have worked along
the same lines? Subsequent investigations
may find that Noah's ark was gasoline
launch or that the walls of Troy were as
sailed with three-inch mortars.
If gravity is overcome and the earth sends
a representative to consult with the inhabi-
tants of Mars he will in all likelihood find
delegation of ancients there who will brand
his mission as "old stuff"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
EUROPEAN TRAVEL TODAY-By Frederic j. Haskin

is worth only five cents against its standard
value of nineteen cents.
Italy is said to be in good shape to re-
ceive visitors. Hotels have been done over
and many supplied with the American luxu-
facilities.
In general, the traveller may expect to find
that while travel in Europe is cheaper than
travel in this country, it is every bit as ex-
pensive as staying at home. Everywhere the
tourist goes, there are unexpected demands
for money. Taxes are as prevalent there as
here. The luxury tax is even extended in
some places to take in meals trains an /
in restaurants. While in Germany, a for
eigner is regarded as a source of taxation
merely because he is a foreigner. His meals
are higher, and he is taxed wherever he goes
as an exotic, unnecessary being.
Except for the Rhineland and other parts
in allied control, Germany is not an easy
country now for the tourist to visit. in fact,
all of the central European coustres offer
more difficulties in the way Of passports and
vises and they are not reorganized for the
tourist trade as western Europe is.
Belgium, France, and Italy have pulled
themselves together for visitors more rapidly
than it was thought possible they could
Much of the railroad tracking wrecked dur
ing the war has been rebuilt, and trains have
been renovated. The battlefelds have been
made easily accessible by trains and bus
lines, and inns and hotels have sprung up
all along the routes. Souvenirs, post cards,
everything that the tourist used to want is
again sale.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17

I'VE or me Dig tnlngS Ine Worlu hds
j learned in the last century is how to
help people-the poor, the unfortunate.
those lin trouble" of any kind-so that they
are put back on their feet
Some call this social service" In real
ity, it is simply the business of helping peo-
pie in a way which study and experience have
proved to be the best way.
The world has always had kind hearts,
willing and anxious to lend helping hand to
neighbors in distress Likewise, the world
has always haE the distressed. The struggle
has been too much for them-poverty, sick
ness, deaths, har dicaps or burdens of one
kind or another, pulled them down where
others went forward 9rd'up. Often the help
ing hand was there. Sometimes it was not;
sometimes it was a temporary lift only. 1t
was like pulling drowning man out of the
water-and then pitching him back.
Then people began to study these prob
lens. They decided that little was to be gain
ed by half 1neasures-a gift here, there; a
meal one day, but none the next charity ad-
ministered without any plan system. They
concluded that the man must be taught to
swim after he was pulled out of the water,
80 he could saw himself next time the flood
came.
So social service was born-actually, the
combination of the kind hearts and the COM
nonsense of the helpe.-. 1t was mans de-
velopment Of the best way to help, just as he
mas worked out the pest way TO plOW neld
or to build bridge or to make clothes or to
conduct ig business.
There is nothing complex about helping
some one Anyone can do it, but not all of
US can do it equally well. We can feed a
hungry man, but we have not the time or
the interest or the facilities to find out why
he is hungry and how he can be aided in a
way that will enable him to keep from going
hungry in the future. That is why social
service organz ations are valuable, and peo-
pie trained in social service. That is their
business, just as it is an engineers business
to know how to build the bridge, or farm
er's to know how to plant the field. Per
haps anyone could build bridge. Perhaps
city dweller could plow field. But what
q mess he mig make of it!
The social worker has the time, the fac1l1-
ties the interest. He "knows how Thus he
Is an asset to any community, for he is the
active expression of the commun1tys kind
heart and commonsense, it's trained helping
hand.
Unfortunately, some people do not seem
to realize that wisdom, discretion, training
may be as essential in the business of help
ing others as they are in the business OF max
ing carpet tacks or conducting a restaurant.
Yet a very little consideration should con-
vince them of the logic of this statement.
The day may never come, in the history OF
this generation, at least, when society has
reached the stage where its kindness is car
ried on as carefully and systematically as us
commerce. But, in the meantime, social serV-
ice so-ca1led, is taking long, II dlHlcult
strides in that direction.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
The He7;cobter

~11owEvER France may have su11ereo
- in the world war, her losses have not
Z L broken or apparently even crippled InaI
n;ri+ of nrogress so characteristic OIL Cno
French in many fields of endeaVor; PUG LOS
set a. lesson to the rest OF the "ollu III ~
ing ahead even while she recoups her Ialien
fortunes. .. ~. u,rencb
onnaar 70 be taking the leadership in develop
ing new and valuable methods OIL Ilylns. no
latest of these is the helicopter, machlne
designed to rise straight from the GROUND
into the air instead of travelling some us
tance on wheels before the 'take-o1I.
Most airs experts credit the invention Oh
the helicopter to Marquis R. Pateras Pescara,
an Argentinean, employed in the experiments
Laboratories of the Italian government Delole
the war Later he went to Paris ana con-
tinued his work under army supeIsIsion'
originating many inventions, including a
dirigibIe that flew over the enemy nnes
dropping bombs at intervals He was arrest
ed by the police as a spy, but MS release
was obtained by protest from the french
ministry and he was deported TO opaln'
where, at Barcelona, he is continuing his ex-
periments under the observation OF the
French army commission.
The outgrowth of these, the helicopter, is
a machine constructed with series OF horl-
zontal planes revolving in opposite directions.
A base similar to that of low slung auto
mobile is used, and on this is built two series
Of planes composed of ten planes each. The
effect is to make the machine, rise directly
from the ground when the motor is started.
Various French experts have so perfected
the Pescara idea that it is said gas bags,
used at first for protection, no longer are
necessary Although the new plane thus far
is in it's first stages OF development, its uses
are obvious, particularly in warfare where
| it could rise directly from the deck of a
| 5attleship.
| iko
we were told but two years ago, bending its
drained resources toward research and ex-
| pertinent of this Sort is one that should in
| spire other nations, and perhaps humble
| hem who are accustomed to boast that their
| mercy ard initiative cannot be matched the
! world over.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
The MONTGOMERY Moni

Messrs Fred M. Harris and Herman Nc
Bride have leased the Montgomery Monitor
from H. B. Folsom at Mt. Vernon. They are
capable young men and should have the
hearty cooperation of the town and county
in their new venture. Here's our best wishes
for both the new and the retiring editors
Lyons Progress.
Editor Folsom has been in charge of the
Monitor eighteen years, making of it one OF
the brightest weekly newspapers published in
the state. Realizing his ability and integrity
the people of Montgomery county elected him
to the general assembly last year, and he will
doubtless represent his county with ability
and energy.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17

efficiency who would, like as not be monu-
ments of gloom.
The girl who smiles is winner, because
a smile is the badge of courage. People who
meet the ups and downs of life with grin,
are those whom fate cannot conquer. They
have the strength within them that enables
them to surmount every difficulty that lies
in their paths, and that carries them on to
victory in the end.
Most of us fail because we get downheart-
ed. We lose faith in ourselves. We become
towards who supinely give up without fight
ing lick in the battle. We dope ourselves
on self-pity. We howl and whine and COM
plain until everybody flees from us, and so
we shut every door of opportunity in our
faces.
This is true of men, 1t is doubly true of
women. If nobody wants a man about who
is glum, and cynical, and a perambulating
hard-luck story, be sure nobody wants
woman around who is drenched in tears, and
who is about as depressing companion as
funeral procession would be.
But the woman who locks up her skele-
tons in their closet and throws away the
key, who puts the soft pedal on her personal
griefs, and who turns brave and smiling
face on life is the one that everyone Of
us will go miles out of our way to give q
helping hand to, and who never lacks for
friends, or open doors to welcome her.
If a girl wants to marry, there is no other
way by which she can win her way so surely
1uCO Inc masculine n0drC as Dy Smiles. Men
do not like women who laugh much. They
hate the woman who is noisy and loud, and
always ha-ha-ing at something, or nothing,
and trying to be vivacious and lively. Also
they loathe the giggIer, who gets upon their
nerves; but they fall for the girl with the
sunny smile that betokens a quiet and
serene disposition.
The thing that makes man forsake his
bachelor comfort and shoulder a woman s
board bill and shopping ticket is the dream
of being met, when he comes home tired at
night by smiling wife The ideal wife Of
every man is a woman who is bright and
cheerful and contented and good humored
A woman who smile and smile and
smile through good times and hard times,
who can meet the unacceptable trials and
tribulations of life with smile instead of
tears, who can even smile fresh courage
into man when his own courage has gone
down to zero.
The wife who has got strangle hold on
her smile that nothing can break has no
need to dread age and fat, nor fear vamps
and flappers. She has got that which binds
her to her husband with hoops of steel, for
she who has good nature and cheerfulness
has charm whose conjure never fails.
So, girls, if you want to win out, just
smile, smile, smile.
Copyright, 1921, by The Wheeler
Syndicate, 1nc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
Nothing Ne1O Under the Sun

~ nothing new under the sun comes in
the guise of an archaeological dis
covery that the natives of prehistoric Peru
ndulged in the "shimmy" dance, the zone
step" and the "toddle" in an era which ante
dates the known chronicles of man. AS
proof of their dancing agility they carved
hieroglyphics of their syncopated antics in
massive blocks of stone to stand as lasting
memorials of their achievement.
These and other facts have been I'M
earthed by Charles w. Mead, of the Anthro-
biological department of the American Mu-
scum of Natural History. His investigations
further disclse that instead of jazz music
originating on the now extinct Barbary
coast in San FranciscO-as is believed gen
erally-the Peruvians had orchestras con-
sisting of drums, cymbals, rattles flutes,
whistles, trumpets and like musical 1nstru-
ments.
The ancient Peruvians went the modern
jazzfsts one better in the ferocity of their
music. 1t is reported that the Huancas, a
particularly warlike tribe, made their drums
by stretching the skins OF their enemies
over the ends Of hollow logs and danced
themselves into a state OF coma to sepulchral
intorations.
The "shimmy' and "jazz'' were very popu-
Tar among the Peruvians, reports Professor
Mead, for nearly every piece of pottery UNI
earthed in this particular section is embellish-
ed with these dancing figures.
No sooner does the modern mind evolve
some extraordinary idea than it is found that
it is not original but atavistic. The slang OF
few years ago often included the express
sion nobody home" which was thought tc
have been something new in the way OF
language but it did not take close students
of literature long to find that the express
sion originated with Alexander Pope in ar
epigram which said:
"You beat your pate and fancy wit will
come,
Knock as you WILL there's nobody
home"
The idea of mastering the air is as ole
as legendary history and mythology itself
Icarus is reported to have flown so high or
wings of his "wn device that the heat from
the sun melted he wax which he'll them II
place and he fell to his death, carrying his
secret. with i'm. Spiders preceded man il
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
Brooks County Ham

Last week we told about Tiff county
farmer who brought in 400 pounds of cotton
seed and got 800 pounds of hulls for them.
Now comes a story via the Valdosta Times
from Brooks county of man who killed a
hog and sold it On the Quitman market. He
wanted to buy back ham from the hog, and
when it was weighed out to him and charged
at the prevailing market price, it was found
that the hog lacked 35 cents of bringing
enough to pay for the HAMILTON Gazette
Well, it can't be denied that Brooks county
ham is mighty SATISFYING
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Some men find it easier to get drunk than
sober.
Some men used to make rye face every
time they faced bartender.
After woman says: There's no use
talking she keeps right on.
Most women work for their husbands
while some others work them.
Don't wait for your happiness until 9th
ers hand it to you on a silver platter. +.
Insanity is said to be akin to love-but a
man in love doesn't care if he is crazy.
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He Should File q Demurrer

The following paragraph reproduced from
the Valdosta Times indicates that the State
of New York is mot always appreciative Of
favors shown it's officials: Rockefeller gave
the State of New York the use of a house
near the reformatory, free of rent Now he
is compelled to pay $4,000 per year taxes on
the property. We have an idea that his opin-
ion of such a tax law would not look we'll in
print"
1t might not look we'll in print, but it
would doubtless express his sentiments and
to some extent that of other citizens of the
state.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
Russian Immigrants

According to a dispatch received at Rig
from Petrograd twenty-four patches OF Amer
lean workmen and immigrants, totaling 3,
O42 men, arrived in Petrograd from Decem
bei, 1920, to April 1 last, and during tn
brst part of April 1000 additional person
arrived Most Of the immigrants remain Il
Petrograd. The others have been sent int
the provinces.
1t is announced that in the future emmi
grants must be organized into productive
groups prior to sailing for Russia, SO tina
thew may be distributed among curious 10
calities after their arrival.
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
French Costs

French Costs
The cost of living in France has decreased
slightly since ear ago while the prices of
many necessaries remain unchanged. Meat
of all kinds is as dear as year ago, despite
tn fact that live stock on the hoof sells
much cheaper. A decrease is promised by the
butchers after an ultimatum by the minister
of provisions.
Bread anG Lutter remain nigh.
French housekeepers calculate that house
hold expenses show only a slight diminution
on the whole.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
pIaone ON Steamship

A negro passenger on board the steam
ship Panuco which arrived at Havana q
Caibarien from Mexican ports dled at Cai
harien from bubonic plague, according Il
newspaper dispatches
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
Australia Acts

The Australian government has instituted
a. civil government in the former German ter
ritory in the island of New Guinea, thus tax
ing her FIRST official action in connection with
inundated territory.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
League to Meet

The Assembly of the League OF Nation
will hold is next meeting September 8, i
Geneva. President de Cunha, of the league
council, issued the call for this session.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
Editorial Echoes.

Wooden eyebrows are the latest They
will match up remarkably we'll with the
wooden heads that wear them-Bridgeport
Telegram.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17

What is the most valuable bird? The stork,
certainly, ever visit being worth 5000 tax
xemption.-Janesville (Wis.) Gazette.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17

Truth is stranger than fiction. Largely be-
cause you do not meet it as often.-Johns-
town Democrat.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17

Maxim Gorky, the Russian writer, Is re
ported in Helsingfors dispatch to have is
sued through the Finnish newspapers can ap
peal to the world to come to the rescue O
the representatives Of Russia's intelligencia
The message quotes him as saying that abou
5000 savants in Soviet Russia are on thu
verge of dying from hunger.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
Smokers Happy

Smokers Of Vienna who for some tim
have been short of tobacco, are rejoicing to
day over the arrest of thirty persons VIII
are charged with irregularities in conhectio
with the tobacco monopoly. 1t is said tina
several thousand employees of the govern
ment took their pay in tobacco, instead
money and sold the tobacco to band c
profiteers at enormous prices for export Q
Illicit trading. This has caused loss to tn
government estimated at several hundre
million crowns
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Butter Started Misunderstanding Now
to keep Satan from putting a hair in it
Kansas City Star
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Quits Ship Board

The resignation of Captain Paul Foley, U
S. N, as director of operations Of the ship
ping board, was announced this week b.
Chairman Benson. w. B. Keene, assistan
director of operations, has been designated
acting director.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17

The Russian Soviet government, which for
a long time has appeared inclined to revert to-
the Germanic name, St. Petersburg, for the
former capita reversing the wartime edict
changing the name to Petrograd, has official
ly adopted the designation Of Petrograd for
the city, according to the Krasnia Gazette, of
Moscow.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17

The conquest of the air has progressed
to the point where very few people say
"aireoplane Washngton Herald.
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Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Lecree Signed

General Gallieni, former Minister of War
of France and former military governor Of
Pals, who died in 1916, has been posthum-
ously named marshal of Fra g in decree
signed by President Millercnd this week. This
was in accordance with authorization given
by parliament last month.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
De.Inking Process

In the laboratories of the United State
forestry service at Madison, Wis, exper
ments are bein made to determine whethe
a certain clay, found in large quantities
Wyoming, can be used successfully in a prt
cess for de-inking printed newspapers.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
Alaska Losing

Unless development of Alaska is stimu1at
ed, depopulation will reduce it's inhabitant
to Esquimaus and Indials only, ]. L. MI
Pherson, civil engineer who has spen
twenty-three years in the territory, declare
before the house territories committee.
urged passage of Chairman Currys bill t
create a board five members to administe
he affairs of the territory.
Mr.. Mcpherson said it was virtually impos
sible for white settlers to get possession @
Alaskan lands or resources without consult
ing one or a dozen of the thi1ty-two diTeren
conflicting and overlapping federal bureaus