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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17

vYTASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 1.-THE
w book week recently celebrated In
w New York has already had its imi-
tators in the form of book weeks and book
fairs in other cities, and these are only
few of the many symptoms hat the United
States of America, known the world over as
the most materialistic and un1ntellectual OF
countries, has suddenly developed an inter-
est in books many times greater than it ever
had before.
Books are selling in America at an unus-
.ual rate, and some are reaching very high
totals of circulation, but the significant fact
is not so much the number as the character
of the books that are being sold. Various
periodicals and booksellers publications put
out from time to time lists of books most in
demand at book stores and at public libraries.
These are surely the best possible index to
what the people are reading and they show
that Americans are reading better books
than ever before.
In former years these best sellers and
books most in demand at libraries were al
most all of kinds that had proved their COM
mercial value, just as certain brands of soap,
perfume and toothpowder have done. They
were tradegoods, purely, having no literary
value and often pretending to none.
The principal types of these standard
trade novels were the wild west story, the de-
tective or mystery STORY, the southern noun
taineer, feud-and-moons story, and the
domestic-sentimental love story, and moral
photography story, in which the hero and
heroine go through long series of sexuel
gymnastics hallowed in the end by matri-
mony. +
Novels of these types have appeared in
this country every spring and fall for many
years as regularly as the seasons come
around. Some of them have been written
with genuine skill and have really entertain
ed readers of certain large classes. Others
have been so feeble in conception and eXecu-
ton as to bore even the travelling salesman
and the ladies afflicted with insomnia and
idleness who make up so large a part o. the
reading public
All of them were made according to a we'll
worn formula and had no more relation to
the life they purpOrted to depict, or to any
other, phase of life, than movies OF the
poorer sort They were the literary sue
cessors to the dime novels-to Diamond
Dick 'tNick Carter "Ten Nights in a Bar
ROOM, east Lynne and "Why Girls
Leave Home" Those best sellers of the last
generation were often bound in gaudy paper
covers and sold very cheaply. They were
widely read But their reputation became
steadily worse Dime novel; and paper
back novel" and "yellow-back novel'' became
terms of reproach and contempt. People
were ashamed to be caught reading them.
Their vogue declined, but not the appetite
for cheap illusion, machine-made thrill, easy
moralizing an vcarious eroticism which they
fed. Accordingly the dime novel merely
changed it's dress. 1t was bound in board,
illustrated and sold 1T price that slowly
advanced from SO cents to $500 A book
that would have been sneered at in papers
was devoured in board covers. 1t was not
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17
An Eighty Per Gent Waste
-HE Rritish chemist who forecasts tina


century or so from now sit will be
a penal offense to burn coal in it's pure
state for heating purposes finds droll but
ardent support in writer of the Newspaper
Enterprise Association who suggests that
doubters of the prediction, after starting a
fire in the furnace, CRATE or stove, climb up
on the roof and sit on the chimney" Thus
ensconced, skeptics will not be long in real
izing that there is fearful waste in burning
coal for heat-fearful and altogether too
costly for civilization to tolerate if the
scientists can make feasible laws for pre-
venting it.
The United States Geological Survey has
found that of two thousand pounds of coal
in the earth, only seventy-six pounds "are
actually converted into mechanical energy
in the boiler ROOM" for. "some is lost in
mining, eighty-twe pounds are burned up by
the railroad locomotive that hauls il to the
market while a vast proportion goes for
naught in ashes, smoke and escaping gases.
In the burning alone more than eighty per
cent of the GOALS potential energy is wasted.
Once Ibis fact comes clearly nome to the
worlds mind, the chemists VIII be listened to
eagerly enough, and their directions for
utilizing the heat and energy in coal will
have the backing of business and, II need be,
of government. eff you could I've hun
dred years from now" says our scribe and
prophet, you would find the most humble
home heated by electricity Coal in that day
will be burned at the mines, scientifically,
producing electricity that will be sent over
high-tenson wires. No freight hauls No
smoke! No bother! No waste!" Think,
too, of the multitudes of valuable by-prod-
ucts-dyestuffs, explosives, medicines, what
not-which, now wasted, would then be con-
served
Meanwhile, much can be done to check
the enormous waste of coal by Harvesting
water-power to the wheels of industry and
transportation. Engineers say that every four
and-twenty hours in the United States there
runs to waste in the uncaptured energy OF
our streams the equivalent of one million
tens of coal. This disspated wealth, if made
available, would suffice to drive every train,
factory, mill and mine in thecountry, besides
lighting thousands Cf farmsteads and cit
les. No commonwealth has better reason
than Georgia to put talents of this nature to
use, yet few have been so neglectful OF
her total of some tive and a half million
veloped little more than three hundred
thousand. Upwards of two million, one hun
dred and fifty thousand rolls seaM ard I'M
used, notwithstanding the impetus which
cheap and abundant pow er would give to
both industrial and social progress. Manu-
featuring would double and treble many
times, and household drudgery that now
wears away millions of lives would be per-
formed easily and at little expense, if the
Stats rick hydro-electric resources we're
developed in the interest of the rank and
file. If Georgia wishes to save coal, let her
use watert
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17
WHAT is WEALTH?

w H cal vea i hot n'H''-n'' even 'A'''.
You may take from a country an
the minted gold and printed currency in ito
perfectly solvent
But take from it that which that money
stands for, it's crops, its minerals, it's tim.
Der, its manufactures, and you leave it
"flat."
The wealth that most men toll for they
never attain.
Perhaps the richest man in America 10
John D. Rockefeller. He would gladly exc
change half Of his dollars for good diges-
ton. He would give them all for the oppor.
tunity to start the world over again, a lusty.
ambitious youth, with vision of what
business brains could do in modern world.
Money that brings more than independence
and an opportunity to do good is valueless-
1t is not wealth, it is burden. 1t chains
man to it for life. It's responsibility often
sends him to the grave many years before
his time.
Do not understand us as preaching the no.
bility or necessity of poverty. Poverty is not
noble. Unless man is very badly handicap.
ped in his youth it is inexcusablej
1t is to be avoided as any other plague
would be avoided The endeavor to avoid 1t
is spur to ambition and force for good
Yin the world.
But the man who wants wealth for the
sake Of the gold and the securities that rep
resent it never gains real wealth.
That lies in health, in a clean conscience,
the Two things that alone can bring what we
call happiness.
If you are in your youth able to get the
education that will make you appreciate the
beauty of the world with an appetite that
needs no stimulus, you are wealthy.
The world may not be in your name, but
1t is yours.
The skies, the streams the beauty of the,
autumn foliage, the song of the birds in the
trees, the majesty of the mountains and the
sublimity Of the ocean, all are wealth.. All
that wealth is yours for the taking.
If you can-and you should be able to-
add to these enough ability to earn living
without the fear of dependence, you are as
wealthy as you need be.
Don't envy the man with the town house
and the three or four country places and the
yacht and the fleet of automobiles.
These things do not constitute wealth.
They constitute care and trouble and prob
ably the fear that some other man may have
more than he.
Your wealth is a clear brain and sound
digestion. They are worth many times all
the possessions of the millionaire.
Copyright, 1921, by John Blake)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17
POISONING
By DR.. R. H. Bishop

People are not always poisoned by ex-
ternal means; sometimes they poison them
selves because of a laXity in regard to the
proper carriage of the body.
One of the simplest and most effective
ways to avoid self-poisoning is to adopt and
posture the abdominal muscles tend to re-
main taut and to afford proper support or
pressure to the abdomen. In habitual
slouching posture the blood of the abdo-
men sometimes stagnates in the liver and
the center of circulation. This causes q
feeling of dependency and mental confu-
sion, headache, GOODNESS of the hands and
feet and chronic fatigue and usually con-
stipation.
Although a slouchng carriage is often
the result of disease or low vitality, it 10
also cause of these.
In walking, the most common error IL
to slump with the shoulders rounded, the
stomach thrust out, the head thrust for
ward, chin up and arms hanging in front
of the body. This is characteristic habit
Of those afflicted with weak muscular and
nervous systems.
The simple fundamentals that most peo-
pie know and disregard are to set the
shoulders back and square them evenly,
to keep the chest high and we'll arched for
ward, the stomach in and the neck perpen-
dicular with the chin. It is not necessary.
however, to so exaggerate this attitude that
one resembles the stiffness of ram-rod.
One should have sense of firmness or
tautness of the abdominal muscles and not
II flabby relaxation. When one changes a
slouchy posture into an erect posture, there
is a sense of having reversed the way the
body hangs-on the spinal column.
After years of wrong posture, it is diff
ficult to get the knack of true posture but
when it is learned it gives a curious sense
of poise and ease.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17

We have all seen this happen a hundred
times. Not one of us but can tell stories of
some old man who turned his business over
to his sons, and was then kicked entirely
out of it, and made to feel an interloper
every time he came around Not one of us
but knows some old woman who decided her
house, or her farm, to her son or daughter,
and was afterwards made slave in it, moth
ing but nurse for the grandchildren, or an
unpaid cook. None of us but who can tell
of old people who have given their sons,
or son-in-laws their money to go in business
on, and are now ill-treated dependents, be-
grudged the very food they eat.
1t is sad commentary on human nature
that very few relationships stand the money
test, but it is true that the love of the dol
lar among the great majority of people is
stronger than any family affection.
The children that parents are lproudest Of,
and fondest of, are their successful children.
The best loved father and mother, the most
honored and respected are those who are
independent of their children, who have
their own homes and their own income.
1t is because this is so absolutely and
universally true that men and women who
wish for a happy old age should begin saw
ing in their youth and middle age so that
they may not be dependent on their chill
dren when they are old. It is not enough for
them to trust to their children's sense of
duty. 1t is their own duty to provide for
themselves If they possibly can do so.
And having acquired this competence they
are fit subjects for lunatic asylum If they
do not keep it in their own possession.
What they can afford to give TO their chill
dren should be given freel-- sat nothing
should ever induce theEs 90 part with the
sacred sum that guarantees their own in
dependence.
So far as ones children are individually
concerned they might possibly be trusted,
but there is always the complication of the
in-laws. Many an affectionate daughter is
married to grating husband who would
rob his mother-in-law or father-in-law with
out conjunction, and then cast him or her
into outer darkness. Many good son has
a shrew for wife who would not hesitate
to strip her mother-in-law to the skin to get
finery in which to flaunt around in herself
The moral Of all of which u.s. If you want
to have happy and respected old age, and
to keep your children and your in-laws af-
fectionate and dutiful to you, keep your own
money and makeIt worthwhile for them to
cherish you.
Copyright, 1921 by The Wheeler Syndicate.
Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17
DOROTHY DIX TALKS-INDEPENDENT OLD AGE

BY DOROTHY DIX

HE other day an old woman brought
suit to compel her son to support
her, and in the trial of the case it
was proven that he had persuaded his moth
err into deciding him all of her property, and
had then turned her out of house and
home.
The woman had been left comfortably off
by her husband, but her son had wheedled
her into giving him every penny she pos
sessed by telling her how much money he
could make if he only had little more
capital, and how he would take care of her,
and love and cherish her, and how she
would always be the most honored guest in
his house. He and his wife gushed and CUR
gled over her. and overwhelmed her with
attentions until they got her money in their
greedy hands, and they then made a servant
Of her, and finally wearied of her altogether
and sent her to an old woman's home
l hope all the old ladies in the country
with bit of money of their own, will read
the story of this trial, and then cut it out
and put it between the leaves of their Bibles
where they will see it every day of their
lives. 1t ought to go along with the prov
erbs of Solomon, for the West man who
ever lived could give them no more saga
cieus counsel than they will find in this lit
tie incident.
Indeed, one does not need to be Solomon
to say to all parents and especially to all
old mothers, to keep strangle hold on their
own pocketbooks, and never to turn them
over to their children. If they want to keep
their children on their good behavior, and
be PERSONA grata with their in-laws, let
them keep their own money For between
mother and father who are Independent, and
mother and father who are dependent, be-
tween mother and father who have gifts to
give, and mother ana father who have to be
taken care of, there is a great gulf fixed.
OF course parents who are tempted to i'm
poverish themselves for the sake of their
children delude themselves by thinking that
Mary and John will repay them by their
gratitude. A cynic has defined gratitude as
ga lively sense of favors to come" and
this is just as true Of ones children as it
is of strangers
AS long as there is more to come, MARY
and John do give a spirited exhibition of
thankfulness, but when the old hands are
empty, and there is nothing more to look
for, Mary and John quit registering graft
tude with a suddenness that takes away
mothers and father's( breath. No matter how
they come by it, the property is now theirs,
and they have no hesitation about letting
mother and father see that they feel them
burdens, or that they are unwelcome in the
very houses they have given away.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17

Nowadays, a flapper believes in em5rac-
ing all her opportunities, SO that when she
succeeds in marrying one of them, she
won't haye to be taught much about hug
ging.
Sticking to one husband or one wife for
life is coming to be regarded as an old-fash-
toned form of Intensive marriage"
Marriage is the oculist that cures loves
blindness; but it takes more than an Oculist
to cure married lovers of the folly of pry-
ing into one another's secrets and looking for
one another's flaws with a spy-glass
In these days, if you want to find man
with a vivid interest in women, you must
catch him before he loses his milk teeth, or
after he gets his false teeth.
Every age is dangerous age' for
woman; at twenty, she is in danger of run
ming away with some man; at thirty, of
running away FROM one; and at forty of
running AFTER one.
To keep your wife's hands out Of your
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17
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pockets, try holding them tenderly, now and
then, just as you did before marriage. A
little near-devotion has saved many hus-
band lots of real money.
The road to He'll may be paved with good
intentions; but that is no reason why man
should imagine that bad intentions will lead
him straight to Paradise.
Platonic friendship is a ship in which
man sail serenely and happily with
woman, until another man heaves in sight,
flying the "Pirate'' flag.
A man seldom marries when he is most
prepared to-but when he least expects to.
Copyright, 1921, by The Wheeler News
paper Syndicate)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17
SMILE A WHILE

Mary Garden announces she has one hum
dred and fifty pairs of shoes and spoils her
marriage expectations.
licenses on?
Some wise men are letting their whiskers
grow as preparedness for Christmas neckties.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17

George AIDE said at dinner, as he twirled
the stem of his glass of sparkling sarsapa-
lilla between thumb and finger "Our par
ents taught us to lay up something for
rainy day. How much nicer it would have
been if they had only taught us to lay up
something for dry one!" .....
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17

The cranberry crop is about four hundred
and twenty-five thousand barrels and now
all we need is the turkeys.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17

Edison says only two persons out of a
hundred are intelligent. That is about the
number Of neighbors without monographs.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17
S15O,OOO.

John Mccormack, the singer has paid
$4,000 for the Portrait of a Man." by
Franz Halls. The Halls painting from the
collection of Count Zamoyski, Polish minis.
ter to France, is on its way to this country,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17
Powerful Wireless

The most powerful wireless station in the
world has been opened officially at Rocky
Point, L. l., by officials of the Radio Cor
poration of America. The new station In
able to communicate with any part of the
world
The new station will be known as. Radio
Central 1t will have a power output of
1900 kilowatts from Alexanderson high FREE
quency alternators. Each transmitting unit
at the station will be controlled automatical-
ly and will have sending speed of 100
words a minute.
The sending plant is at Rocky Point and
the receiviIS station at Riverhead, sixteen
miles away. The actual sending and receiv-
ing, however, will be done in the heart of
the financial district in New York 70
miles from either of the stations, by means
of the remote control system.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17
Around the World
Txi.WeekIy News Flashes From All Over
the Earth .''
Daring Hunter

Commander E. H. Cape, of the United
States navy, who has held the post of pay
master at Shanghai for the last several years,
is carrying out wholly novel purpose in
connection with big game hunt that is to
signment, as he has been transferred. Having
sailed from Shanghai in August, he is going
after big game in Indo-China, and he intends,
he said before he sailed, to shoot a tiger with
a revolver.
Commander Cope has long been known as
one of the best, if not the best, revolver shots
in the United States navy. He has captured
virtually all the trophies for revolver shoot
ing in the Far East.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-17

To keep your wifes hands out of your
The Colorado statesman., 1921-11-26
Banks Sound, With Resources Decreased

vate banks with resources of $175,3O6,-
600.
"The total resources of the S,154
national banks on June 80, 1921, in
Guiding rediscounts of 1919, 9,416OOO,
were $2O,617, ,S62 900, reduction dur
ing the year of $2,S93, 3,991 ,O00," the
comptroller reports. Loans and dis
counts, which include paper redis-
counted, acceptances and letters of
credit, amounted to S12, ,242, S02, 900,
compared with S14,OS5, ,O56, 900 on June
80, 1920.
"The investments of these banks
amounted to $4,025, ,0S1 900, a decline
during the year of $161, 1884 900.
"Due to reduction in the deposits
In national banks, their lawful reserve
in federal reserve banks was reduced
during the year $205, 5,02S,O0O, the
amount of reserve on June 30, 1921,
being 81, ,O4O, ,235,OOO. The cash in the
vaults of these banks on June 80 was
1874, ,349, 900, or $76.0O2,000 less than
the amount reported June 80, 1920"
Individual deposits, including postal
savings, but exclusive of United
States deposits to the amount of S249,-
O39,OOO were $12,742, ,2S1 900, or ST.
393, ,332, 600 less than the amount re-
ported June 80, 1920.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-11-26
Cleverest Men in Congress in Gallery

"HE most clever men about con-
gress are those who have their
seats In the galleries. The gal
leryites are the regulars who are on
hand to observe. Most of them are
paid for their observations and are
professionals at it. The lobbyist"
has long since been deceased In
Washington. In this day of advance
ment in things political we have ''leg-
lslatiye agents." They are perfectly
legitimate workers. These legislative
agents are master minds" They are
clever men. most of them conceded to
be more clever than the men with
whom they are working.
Foremost in the ranks Of the legis-
lative agents at the present time Is
Wayne B. Wheeler. general counsel
for the Antl-Saloon league. So far as
congress is concerned, Wheeler is the
Anti-Saloon league.
Alfred P. Thorn, a lawyer, repre-
sents the cause of the railroads be-
fore congress, as rule. Thorn Is the
Washington representative of the
American Association of Railway Ex-
ecutives.
BENJAMIN c. Marsh carries the title
Of legislative agent for the National
Farmers council and sundry kindred
srsaDJxatious- He appears before
The Colorado statesman., 1921-11-26
When Doctors Disagree
WITH the resumption of tariff hear
w ings by the senate finance COM

WITH the resumption of tariff hear
w ings by the senate finance COM
mittee. congress will settle down
for an all-winter grind on the revision
of customs laws. Although February
] has been fixed as the date to which
the emergency tariff will be extended,
no one seems to believe that congress
will complete the enactment of per-
manent tariff legislation by that date.
The date, February l, was selected
admittedly with view to speeding up
the progress Of the permanent bill.
When that date arrives congress un-
doubtedly will pass. a bill again ex-
tending the time of the emergency
tariff.
The radical departure determined
upon In the American valuation plan,
which contemplates the abandonment
of the policy of assessing import
duties on the foreign invoice value,
followed by the United States prac-
tically all the time for more than a
century. has been the primary cause
of the slow progress made in revis-
ing the tariff law.
The American valuation plan Is be-
coming more and more to be the
storm center of pending tariff legisla-