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The Seward gateway., 1921-01-24
MONDAY, JAN. "A, 1921
MAKET THE STOCK MOVE

No doubt exists i'll the mind of astute students ot trade phenomena that ad- vertising agitation of the market coupled with fair in
 ducements in the way O. prices stimulates demand, The persistent advertising by the largest manufacture, and dealers of the continen, are open testimonials tha they get results. If they dc. not they would not advertise and what is more, the adver- tising is inculded in the esti
 mates of the calculating bus
 mess man as one of the esseI. tial items of his annual bud.
 get; and, further, the con.
 sumer, as in respect to al: times pays the cost. In fact the thinking consumer Is sat. isfied and even pleased tC pay for the information con. veyed in a newsy and honest advertisement. The press k the one medium whereby th< advertising news of the da! can be generally purveyed iE, reliable form every few hours to the consumer. The consumer has no time to go touring through a town or rummaging through stores looking for prices. He is en- titled to the daily store news through the advertising col umns of his daily paper, ano does not object to the fai' charge for such news being added to his bill of goods ant covered by the honest safe rrice.
 It is interesting to note in the news papers received from the states and Canad, on the last boat, both in tn: news columns and the adver. tisements a general decreas, in prices of merchandise oi al! liin6s. Commodities of al kinds are plentiful and the prices are tumbling head. over heals. This means that we will soon see the lower priced goods coming into Scward. There may possibly be some new traders and merchants and if Seward merchants are not prepared to meet the new prices they viii be at a disadvantage in competing :.gainSt tl.e new independent traders. To an- ticipate that competition the Seward merchants should be prepared to bring in as soon as the others the various lines obtainable at the new low prices. In order to do that the goods now on hand in Seward should be made t4 move immediately. The short est day of the present winter has passed and the sun is on the back track to summer. It will be surprising how rapid ly the spring will come on and the summer will be here.
 Little time now remains in which to make, the Seward stocks, which were obtain able at high cost schedules move before the competing low cost goods begin to ar rive. To induce a larger con- sumption and a more gener- ous purchase during the re laainder of the winter days an active advertising cam paign on the part of the mer-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-21
QUERIES FOR PARENTS
Bv H. AddinqtOn Bruce
x JOUR little boys recent failure to pas
Z his school examinations still rankle

xZOUR little boys recent failure to pass
I his school examinations still rankles
in your mind. You accuse him of
laZiness, or, if you hate to acknowledge that
he may be deficient in any respect, you are
inclined to blame poor schooling for his fail
ure.
His teachers did not teach him properly"
you insistently assure your friends HE
studied diligently enough, and he is natural
ly quite bright, but he was not prepared as
he should have been for his examinations"
Well, it is possible you are right.
There are incompetent teachers just as
there are incompetent workers in every other
vocation. The educational process as a whole,
moreover, is not nearly as efficient as it
might be. And your boy is perhaps as bright
as you deem him, despite his low examina-
| ton marks.
But, conceding his natural brightness, it
| yet is entirely possible that not the teachers
but you yourself are mostly to blame for his
examination failure. Has this possibility re-
| ceived any thought from you? If not, 1 COM
| mend to your consideration some queries re-
| Gently put to parents in QUESTIONABLE is
sued from Toronto school. Here they are:
Do you visit the school to inquire about
your child's progress and department, and to
see if you can help the teacher to help the
child?
DO you encourage your child in respect
for teachers and for others in authority?
do you send your child to bed in time,
SO that he will be rested and fit for study?
do you provide plain, nourishing food
| and see that your child is up in time to eat a
good breakfast?
'Do you teach your child to read the pa
pers and find out the best in them, and
do your encourage an interest in public af-
fairs?
do you avoid gossip before your children
and telling Of incidents which they may mis-
interpret?
DO you encourage helpful conversation at
table?
do you interest yourself in your child's
sports, amusements and friendships?
"Do you comply with the rules of public
health in your home?
And do you keep in mind the fact that,
while the school may be made to instill right
principles, your children are handicapped if
you do not support the school by instlling
obedience and high ideals OF patriotism and
personal life?'
Unless you can satisfactorily answer these
queries it is hardly in order for you hastily
to condemn either your unfortunate little boy
or his teachers for something which actually
may be your fault more than his or theirs.
And if candor compels you to give unsat-
isfactory answers, then I would respectfully
suggest that, wherever you find your policy
as parent at fault, you should endeavor to
make the necessary correction.
The results to your boy may be so bene
icial that, long before his school life is done,
ou will be as proud of him as now you are
rritated and discouraged.
copyright, 1921, by the Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-21

of dalying, one Representatives of the people
is not asleep at the post.
The extension of remarks is perhaps wise
expedient in that it saves time on the floor
for important matters. But the privilege has
undoubtedly been abused, Before election
time candidate for reelection has been
known to print in the Record remarks hav-
ing no connection whatsoever with the bust
ness being discussed by the House, but which
bore very pertinently on the campaign issues
in his home district. These speeches. re-
printed from the Record could be sent in
pamphlet form without postage as the frank
ing privilege is allowed on the Record or re-
prints from it.
Another use which ingenious Congressman
soon found for the Record was to print ma
terial which interested them for some reason.
Poems by constituents, long tables of statis-
tics, 'striking articles from magazines and
newspapers were once crowded into the Rec
ord regularly Of late years, this practice
has been laughed at by Representatives them
selves, and favorite poems of Congress are
rarely seen.
Still, whatever a Congressman wishes to
print, goes. Senator La Toilette on one oc-
casion saw fit to insert in the Record a speech
that ran 565 pages. The Senator had favored
Congress with only the first few pages oral
ly. The suggestion of a censor over Congress
has never been tolerated, but never has Con-
gress been so besieged by economy at every
point as now.
The Record as it is costs the country over
half a million dollars year. AS an institu-
ton, it scarcely be dispensed with, al
though it would be interesting to know how
many copies go into the wastebasket I'M
opened. Around $4,000 copies are printed
and scattered over the country, but, for the
most part, the people get their news of Con-
gress from the newspapers A reporters &C
count of speech, cut down, and with the
important features played up, often seems te-
dious enough, but the original with prelude,
Interruptions, meanderings, and repetitions
for emphasis would be read only by some
one unusually interested in the subject
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-21
OUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

mr.. Smith, a man asked his tailor, chow
is it you nave not called on me for your &C
COUNT"
ooh, never ask gentleman for money
Indeed! How, then, do you get on il
he doesn't pay?"
why" replied the tailor, after a momen-
tary hesitation, latter a certain time l con-
clude he is not d gentleman, and then 1 ask
him
A member of one of the theatrical clubs
tells of stranded but still naughty leading
man who was obliged to put up at dilapi-
dated country hotel. He glanced frown-
ingly about the office, reluctantly signed the
register, and took the brass key from the
proprietor.
els there any water in my room?" he de-
mandeu.
There was replied the proprietor, but
I had the roof fixed
The time had come to dole out the day S
rations, and in an Irish regiment the quar-
termaster and his assistant had been por-
tioning them out in preparation for distri-
button.
The assistant turned to the quartermaster
and with a twinkle in his eye said: CAV
we PLACE, ~sorr, there's loaf short. Who'll
1 give it to-"
keep it yourself Nike replied the
quartermaster
"But are you British-born subject?"
angrily demanded the official at the passport
office.
my mother was British" began the ap-
plicant.
Eyes, yes
"But she married a Frenchman-"
Yes
= "In Italy
Yes, but wheru were you BORN"
II was born on a ship flying the Spanish
coIors while she was lying at anchor in
Honolulu harbor, but my parents died in
Brazil when I was only four years old and
was adopted by a Chi.taman, who brought
me up in Russia"
''Well, he's began an official.
Hes a bloomin' league of natlons!" ex-
ploded the official who had first spoken.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-21
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
Ten Commandments for the Summer Girl
BY DOROTHY

First
When you pack your trunk for your summer
outing tuck therein amongst your chiffonS and
your frillS the mantle of gracious manners the
stays of discretion, the cloak of modeSty the
Jewels of cheerfulneSS, and the ornament Of
sweet and gentle spirit.
So shall you keep the spotlight of public at
tention centered upon you, for there be many
girls who are reStful to the eyes, and many
more who are not SPORTS and not few who
are stock artists, but in these days a girl who
is real lady and conSiderate of other people
is a museum piece, concerning whom every
one makes inquiries. We are all interested in
raritieS.
Second:
Dress we'll, but not too we'll. Fine feathers
make fine birds, and womanS clothes are the
fame that sets off her beauty. True, but don't
make the mistake of having the frame so
expensive looking that it appears prohibitive
to the average masculine beholder. Also avoid
giving the impression that you have spent all
the brains you have on picking out the frame.
Many a girl does herself out of a good
husband by being overdreSsed. She looks
like daily hint from Paris. SO, after OBJ
serving the number and variety of her toll
cites, man does little figuring and comes
to the conclusion that his salary would Just
about keep her in fancy shoes, and he doesn't
relish the prospect of spending his life toll
ing to enrich millinerS and dreSSmakerS, he
drops out of the running, and leaves some poor
Simp to qualify for the office of her bill
payer.
The man who likes to be seen about with
a girl whose glad raiment makes every one
rubber, is seldom the marrying man. He who
is looking for wife picks out some little
bundle of dry goods that isn't put up in such
fancy package and hasn't an imported label
upon it.
Third:
Watch your step. Particularly in the good
old summertime, which meltS down our morals
and our morale even as it does your collars
and when we go negligee in both clothes and
conduct. Heaven knows why, but we do things
in August that we would be utterly incapable
of doing in December.
Of course summer is the silly season, but
reflect that womans Stiffness is her undoing
more often than her sins are. It's folly in
stead of the devil that leads girls into doing
things they spend the balance of their lives
repenting. Therefore, watch out for an attack
Of midsummer madness, and when you find
yourself listening to some married man tell
ink you how lonesome he is while his wife's
away, and how it would cheer him for you to
take little excursion with him or spend
evening with him at some road house. take a
look at the calendar, and see how short a time
summer really lasts, and what a brief part of
life couple of weeks are, even if they are
full of fun.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-21

Fourth:
Speak with honey on your tongue to the
rocking chair brigade on the hotel veranda,
and Scorn not the homely girl whom the other
pretty girls snub. Many a fat old lady who
rocks and knitS is social arbiter in her home
town, who can turn thumbs up or down and
settle a girls fate in the matter of the avn
ings she is asked to walk under. Also full
many an ugly ducking has good-looking
brother who comes in for week-endS.
Fifth
Don't be piggiSh. Don't be one of the girls
who grab every man who comes along, and
who would die before she would introduce
man to another girl. Every man steers clear
of the girl who tries to monopolize him, and
from whom he has difficulty in freeing HIM
self. It's the generouS-hearted girl who shares
her beaux, and her candy, and her good times
with every other girl who is the belle of the
resort.
Have ply on the poor defenSeleSS, lone lorn
man of the summer resort, and be not one of
the pack of misunderstanding females who
hound his footsteps. Consider the sufferingS
of one who cannot show his face without be-
ing bounced upon and dragged off to play golf,
or tennis, or ride in car, or row in a boat
or see view, and who every night must dance
with a myriad of partners until his feet ache
and he loathes the sound of a jazz band.
Even more have mercy upon his pocketbook,
and hint not for frappeS, and candy, and sand
witches every time you go out with youth
who may look like million dollars but prob
ably is a clerk on a small salary.
Seventh:
Take not summer love making seriously.
Filtration belongs to moonlight nights and
silvery waves, and girl is no sport who
holds man responsible for what he says on
the beach when the waves are rolling in and
the music of guitars comes family on the wind.
Eight:
Avoid the snapshot friend as you would the
leproSy. 1t may be very funny to be photo
graphed with jolly group in an unconven-
tional attitude some hilarious excursion, but
your best young man won't see the humor in
your having some strange mans around
you when you show him the picture after you
get home.
Remember that scandal is weed that flour
shes most luwuriantly in the warm months and
that summer hotel is its habitat. Keep your
moral skirts as clean as you do your sport
skirts.
Ninth:
If you can't get away from town for even a
short vacation, be comforted by the reflection
that you are having twice as much fun at
home where the men, and the picture shows
and the summer theaters are, as are the girls
who are sitting around lonesomely or
dancing with each other at the Adamless Ed2ns
in the mountains or On the seaShore.
copyright, 1921 by The Wheeler Syndicate
lnc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-21
4 Decline IN Sh;bbu;1d;nq

~ ONE arresting figures are given in
Lloyds Register of Shipping for the
second quarter of the current year, on
the decline in marine construction. Amerl-
can shipbuilding decreased during those three
months, as compared with the preceding three,
approximately four hundred thousand tons,
British two hundred and seventy thousand,
and that of other countries aggregate Of
about two hundred and fifty thousand tons.
Still more pronounced does the contraction
appear when present building is compared
with that of year ago. Within the twelve
month, operations in the United States have
shrunk one million three hundred and eighty
nine thousand tons, in Britain forty-eight
thousand and in other countries eighty-four
thousand, so that the worlds total construc-
tion is upward Of one and a half million tons
less at the close of June, 1920.
The decline is accounted for, in part by
the fact that the program Of intensive ship
building under way since 1918 has restored
a great portion of the tonnage losses suf-
fered during the World War, and therefore
can be sackened and curtailed. Not only did
U-boat raids cut sWaths in British and neu-
trail shipping, but there was also interior
ence with normal construction, so that ordi-
nary losses from wreckage and deterioration
went unreplaced. But in the last year of the
war British yards became uncommonly pro-
ductive, while America launched into ship
building of unexampled vigor, speed and ex-
tensiveness 1t is not surprising, then, that
the third summer since the armstce should
witness marked decline in these extraor-
binary construction activities.
In the case of the United States, however,
the shrinkage is more than it should be or
would be if overseas commerce were not de-
pressed. The American merchant marine,
greatly upbuilt though it has been in the
last three years, is still short of the nation s
requirements and opportunities.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-21
Higher Postal Rates.
7 N his manifestly earnest wish and effort

to improve the postal service Potsmas-
ter Genera Hays has the country's
heartiest appreciation. 1t is exceedingly
doubtful, however, that many will welcome
his proposal to increase the fee on immedi-
ate delivery mail from ten to twenty-five
cents His supposition is that the general
public will prefer to pay the higher charge
for better service" What the general pub
lie really prefers is better service at the pres
ent, or a lower charge.
If it be demonstrable chat letters cannot
be delivered at the existing rates without
loss altogether too heavy for the Government
in reason to sustain, then it would be in or
der to consider increases. But first it should
be proved beyond a peradventure that the
deficit cannot be made good by heightened
efficiency of management, instead of by an
added tax upon patrons. Undoubtedly, a
doubling or trebling of charges would null
tiply the Postoffice Departments revenue
and enable Il to improve it's service; but as
the New Yer, world rightly remarks, the
Postoffice was &ct established to earn
profit, sit was established to diffuse intelli-
gence and facilitate communication at the
least possible COST
If the service is barely self-sustaining, still
it is justified in the matter of expenses; in
deed, the government could well afford to
bear occasional deficits in the interest of so
important function in the nations life and
the peoples affairs.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-21
France and Germany as Allies.

4
IF advices from Paris are true, there is
| the possibility if not likelihood of France
and Germany reaching an industrial rap
prochement, that could easily prove more
consequential than q political alliance. The
Treaty Of Versailles leaves France with
wealth of iron ore, and Germany with an
abundance of coal, the combination Of which
resources is essential to large-scale produc"
ton of steel. The French Minister of Re-
construction and the corresponding German
official are said to be negotiating to this end,
apropos of which an influential Bavarian
newspaper observes: cit is clear that such
a union, the policy Of which would be di-
rected by France, would be able to sell
cheaper than America, for instance, In rail-
way construction, in hydro-electric factories
for South America, etc. This union might
become very powerful in competing with or
even absorbing the English steel industry
Although this project has no political char
acter, it might have political consequences
which would perhaps lead to a close union.
Of course there are many elements in the
country in opposition to this solution, many
of which are caused by considerations of
home policy; but it is sure that decisive steps
are being taken which may lead to indus
trial concentration
From the general temper and drift of
events prevailing year ago it seemed next
to impossible that Franco-German partner
ship would develop in the present decade or
generation. But Germany's final acceptance
of the Allied terms of indemnity and her
manifest purpose to live up to them has
cleared the air for calm and practical think
ing in many quarters formerly beclouded
with a quite understandable passion. French
economists have not been slow to point out
the Importance, to French interests, of Ger
man industrys reviving and also the natural
interdependence of these late foes in the
field. History has witnessed many recon-
ciliation and working alliance as strange as
that of France and Germany would be.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-21
No Quarter for Pistol "Toters
n FEVER" saws Governor Morrow NJ
EVER" says CT

VI Kentucky, twill pistol toter'- SEN
fenced to prison be pardoned by
him" decision none too stern, for if there
be an offense where mercy should not season
justice, assuredly it is this. The habitual
carrier of concealed weapon is a potential
and Outlines purposed man-slayer. In
breaking this law he is more than likely to
break those which sustain the very founda-
tons of society. He is patiently anti-social
in outlook and impulse. He is an enemy to
public peace and security, to good govern
ment and the commonwesl, to his own and
the community's best interests No reasona-
BILE measures against this evil can be too
drastic. To make it prison offense, without
the alternative of a fine, is proper. anu the
magistrate who refuses leniency in every such
case will merit public gratitude.
Georgia courts have been commercially Wig
orous in prosecuting the pistol "toter and in
Furnishing him to the extent of the law. 1t
appears, however, that the existing law is
not far-reaching and severe as it should
be to produces due results; wherefore, !egisla-
ton looking to the needful reinforcement is
proposed at the present session ~ the General
Assembly. Any aJaCu2te and we'll consid-
cred bill to this effect slo1Id pass without
parley.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-21
THE ALPHABET MAN
By DR.. Frank Crane

Any man who can do his work we'll and
skillfully is interesting. A good bricklayer or
horseShoer is delight to see in action.
l met a man on the S. S. iceland, who is
the best in his line, and when you meet such
man he is worth studying.
His line is the alphabet. That is to say he
is designer of type. He has invented more
new forms of type than any man since Guten-
berg. ,
His name is Goudy, and his place of bust
ness is in Garden City, Long Island.
Most of us as we read the printed page do
not realize that there are only twenty-Six of
the little characters that convey the current of
ideas from the page to our mind.
These twenty-six little dancers, by altering
their combinations and making new lorna
TONS open up to us all the enchanted fields
of romance and the rich Speculations of philoso-
ply. They give US the news of the world in
our morning papers. They enable us to COM
municate with absent friends They furnish the
vehicle for the transaction of business In
hymn book and psater they comfort our souls.
They are the tools of the mind.
Without them the human spirit would be
dumb, indeed
1t is essential that these little workers be as
efficient as possible. That is to say, they
should be legible, pleasing, and, like all per-
feet servants, Self-effacing.
Here comes in the craftsman.
Enter Cloudy.
He has devoted his life to the perfection of
literatn.
He has written de luxe book on the alpha
bet, which tells the whole genesis of it from
the ancient Greeks, through the Romans, by
whom it was universaized, down to the pres
ent day.
Caligraphy, or writing or printing, beautiful
in itself, is hardly known in modern life. We
have Insisted that the main business of a let
ter is to get itself out of the way.
Ruskin said, Gall letters are frightful things,
and to be endured only upon occasions, that is
to say in places where the sense of the inscrip-
ton is of more importance than external orna-
ment."
Still, once attended an exhibition of cali
graphy at the Grolier club, where the coptc
letters were ornaments of real beauty. The
MahometanS, who, lest they be guilty of idol
airy, hang no pictures on the wall, decorate
with verses of the koran.
Perhaps Goudy will show us in time how
A B may be things beautiful in themselves.