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New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
By Anne Lewis Pierce
Director, Tribune Institute

Director, Tribune Institute
T% HE United States started out
with vigorous, man-size
A tea party in Boston Harbor
some lat years ago. How we ever
degenerated into thinking it a bever-
age for ladies who had nothing bet
ter to do (and nothing better to
drink Of an afternoon is hard to
say. The Briton, who would not be
accused of effeminate tastes by his
worst enemy. drinks nearly seven
pounds of tea a year, while the
American drinks only one. The
sturdy Anzac from Australia gets
away with eight pounds a year and
he was conspicuous among the val
liant sons of the earth in the recent
worldwide conflict
The Japanese and Chinese make
tea drinking part of their religion,
their aesthetic joy Of life, their
philosophy Of serenity and their
ceremonial Of courtesy. Like the
wrist watch, which was first deemed
a toy for women and later became
part of the soldiers field equipment,
tea Is coming more and more into
its own as beverage for breakfast,
luncheon, afternoon and dinner, hot
or cold, straight or in fruit drinks.
And nowhere is there a people who
need more the philosophy, the
courtesy, the serenity and the mild
stimulation that surround the fit
ting drinking of real tea than in our
own beloved but over-strenuous
land. "The cup of humanity" is a
fitting name for it, as it is the one
taste and custom that the West
shares fully with the East. Nat
urally, in the melting pot Of the
war more tea than ever was brewed.
With these thoughts in mind and
"The Book of Tea" in hand, we de-
parted for Boston Town and the spot
where the Salada Company blends
and packs it's many different blends
Of tea and surrounds the doing of it
with an atmosphere of subtle charm
and brooding quiet characteristic of
the East, combined with the science,
skill, sanitation and mechanical
deftness of the West.
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When You Drink IL Cold

1t is only the Englishman who
calls for hot tea with milk in the
middle of a July day. We have
heard them do it, though many other
beverages offered. For most of
us iced tea makes a stronger ap-
peal in summer time, and besides the
plain tea itself with lemon, Russian
fashion, it offers a basis for fruit
punches of many kinds. Few realize
what body and superior character
tea gives to any punch--it was used
as such even in the days of rum.
The tea should be strong 1.-TWO
teaspoons to cup), and be poured
after three minutes sleeping, hot,
over the glass of cracked ice. This
insures both fragrance and strength.
You may pour the tea OFF and let it
cool partly, thus making less ice
necessary; or you may make it as
usual, sweeten it while still hot, chill
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
The Metal Package

From the glass tanks the tea falls
by gravity into the electric weighing
machines and then falls directly into
the packeting machines on the floor
below. These machines call only for
few white-robed guardians, for
they show more than human indus
try and precision, reaching out
their metal hands and folding the
aluminium paper (Which keeps out
moisture and keeps in t1avor) about
the weighed portion of tea, slipping
in the ticket that tells you how to use
it. and pasting the labels on the out
side.
Thirty packages a minute are de-
livered sealed and labeled. And it
is we'll, for 100000 pounds are
stored on the top floor; 10000 pack
ages are turned out in a single work
ing day, and the tea capacity OF the
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one gets the real spirit of "Teaism"
and is convinced that here is one
place where our Oriental tea lover
who said that "industrialism is max
ing true refinement more and more
difficult the world over" would be
obliged to note an exception.
The broad windows, ceiling high,
are hung with perfect curtains of
oysterwhite. crash cashmere and
between their folds march a stately
procession of elephants in diminish
ing perspective. Bronze urns and
vases bear spikes Of narcissus
blooms. that lend just the perfume
and delicacy that the Old World gods
seemed to demand; rare rugs and
wall tapestries add mellowness, one
piece of red and gold bearing Chi
nese inscriptions so ancient that
Chinese scholars from Harvard have
been entirely unable to decipher it,
just as we might be nonplused if a
bit Of old Anglo-Saxon were pre-
sented for translation.
The cloisonne dogs {seven or
eight feet high) which guard the
century old painted wooden Buddha
and the Goddess of Mercy are but
feebly suggested by the pictures
and described in further detail in
their captions. You might think
they would seem out of place in a
mart Of trade" But the spacious
ness of their setting and the dignity
of their surroundings are in keeping
with the atmosphere of these ancient
gods and with the philosophy of tea
drinking. They seem much at home
under the shadow of New South
Church and Trinity spires.
Just word of the special beauty
of the Goddess of Mercy who seems
to offer the hospitality of this house
of tea as you enter. The purity
of the marble, the contours of the
slightly inclined figure, the benign
smile that shines even through the
closed eyelids, the tapering fingers
that hold the basket of charity and
the lotus bud Of promise-all this
has lasting charm quite in keeping
with the traditions of tea. Doubt
less the president Of the company,
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The Tea Equipage

In the beginning of Eastern tea
drinking in England in 1740 the
women spent as much as 40 shillings
($10), one writer complains, on a
tea equipage, with its silver spoon
and the teacup and saucer of fine
porcelain holding as much as wine
glass. These each good gossip car
ried with her to the party!
Fine, thin porcelain certainly adds
to the color of the "froth of liquid
jade" and the 0rientals make a
great point Of the color of the tea
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

WHEN the tea has been grown on
the heights of Ceylon, hand picked
and journeyed half way round the
world, sheltered in aluminium pack
cts, TO reach your teacup, blended
under conditions of exquisite air.
swept cleanliness, it is shame to
spoil it in the making, but this is
what is too often done.
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The Entrance

The dignified eight-story building
that stands not far from Copley
Plaza and Trinity Church devotes
seven-eighths of it's $1,000 feet of
floor space to the impressive ma
chinery that handles the tea, from
blending to packaging and labelling,
with the maximum of cleanliness and
the minimum Of motions. On the
first floor, in the executive Offices,
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the dealers a note to the retailer is
placed in each shipment. This is
dated with month and year, seven
months in advance of the stenciled
date of packing on the outside, and
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Quality and Blend

Then again the top leaves and
bud Of the Individual plant are the
finest quality, the second leaf giving
the orange pekoe grade from what
ever country or elevation it may
come. Those who confidently order
orange pekoe" and nothing more
are not always getting the quality
they expect.
Furthermore, leaves from the
same bush may become green or
black according to whether the
leaf is steamed and softened and
dried without fermentation, or
whether it is fermented until the
leaf is soft copper color and then
dried, becoming black in color. The
black tea has less tannin than the
green, hardly half as much; is less
strong, we say in common parlance.
So the quality and flavor of tea de-
pend on the elevation Of the gardens
where it is grown, the manufacture
ing care, the size Of the leaf, the
blending and skill in packing to pre-
vent loss of flavor, and lastly, ex-
quisite care in brewing and serving
it. Let any one of these steps go
wrong and your tea loses. No light
matter, this tea making.
Accordingly, the tasters, with
many formulas of previous years to
guide them, combine and brew and
taste, until the flavor desired for
certain grade is obtained-some-
times twelve or fourteen gardens
may be represented. The formula
is. sent to the man on the top floor
and he proceeds to fill it as an apoth-
ecary would a prescription.
The different chests Of tea are
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who has chosen to adorn his place of
business rather than his private
home with these rare objects, must
be himself what the japanese call
"tea master" who "displayed great
ingenuity in producing effects of
serenity and purity"
And now let us go up to the eighth
floor and come down, following the
tea in its course, and see how well
the symbology of the entrance hall
and executive Offices is carried out
in the actual workings of the plant.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
H0U the Tea Is Packed and Whu

TEAS come from many countries
and from many gardens. Some are
at sea level and some are 5000 feet
and more in the air, and it is from the
gardens that grow high up in the
rarer air that the finest teas come.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

A BOVE is q carued, jade
A head of Buddha from, the
Temple of Po-Chy in Northern
China, l0hich since the fifth
century has smiled inscrut-
ably upon q transitory WorId
and now adds stability and
charm to this tea temple in
Boston
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r HIS gracious figure Of Kuan Yn Goddess Of Mercy has
doWn through fifteen centuries of tire bearing
gifts of food for the body and of lotus for the her
taper fingers IF could how the translucent marble
still all its mystery and subtle
sunlight you Would knou that she goddess uery
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is 100000 pounds!
Return Protection

In finally placing the tea pack
ages in the wooden boxes to go to
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(Tested and endorsed In The Tribune
Instituted
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THE Lo-Yang Bud dha,
carued of lDood and show-
ing fading colors of great soft
ness, sits, guarded by the
seuen-foot cloisonne dogs,
siLhouetted against gold and
sitDer tapestry, be-dragoned
and colored in wonderful
fashion. Lotus plants of cloi-
some in ornamental Dases
offer further homage, and the
Uhote makes q background
For the entrance hall of Sa1ada
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-09
KILLS MOTHER, WIFE,
DAUGHTER AND
COMMITS SUICIDE
Attempt to Destroy Evidence
of the Crime Is Made by
Setting Fire to the Resi-
denCe

CORBIN, KY, Aug. "a triple
murder, suicide and an attempt to de-
stroy all evidence of the crime by
burning the house was revealed In
tha discovery early today of the
bodies of Richard McHargue, his
wife and her step-daughter and Mrs.
Polly McIIargue, mother of Richard
McHargue, at her home. Conclu-
sions drawn by local officials were
en- members Of the family and after
starting fire in one of the rooms in
an effort to destroy evidence of his
action, took his cwn life.
The crime occurred within three
blocks of the Borbin postofice. AL
though the McHargue home is in a
thinly populated section of the town
stream, neighbors today said they
heard the sound of pistol shots at
about o'clock Friday night and were
inclined to the belief that the tragedy
was enacted at that time. The moth
er of McHargue and his wife were
found in one room of the dwelling
while that of the man and his step
daughter Were in another. Evidence
was at hand to show that the girl
had been stabbed with a knife, and
the body was badly burned, the fire
that had been started in the house
having reached her body, where it
lay on the floor, before finally burn
ing out.
No motive for the crime had been
developed today, although residents
remarked that McHargue had not
been on friendly terms with his
mother and If Said ha ho
been heard to utter threats against
her
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-09
DR.. Marvin NJ. Parks
Appointment Interests
People Of Georgia

The appointment of DR.. Marvin M.
Parks, president of the Georgia Nor
NAL and Industrial college at Mil
ledgeville, to membership on the
state board Of education. is of in
terest in educational circles through
out the state. He has been at the
head of the Georgia Normal and In
dustrial college for seventeen years
and in point of continuous service,
has served longer than the president
of any other state educational in
stitution.
During his administration the
educational standards have been
raised, vocational training has been
given particular emphasis and the
enrolment has been greatly in
creased. The college is out of debt,
has no deficit and last spring DR..
Parks was able to refund $4,000 tc
students boarding in the dormitories.
the advocacy of vocational training
for women, DR.. Parks has also been
instrumental in the inclusion OF
agricultural training in the courses
of the state educational institutions.
During his administration more than
600 young women have been train
ed as specialists in home economics.
DIR. Parks is a graduate of Emory
Harvard as we'll at Chicago univer-
sity. His educationl service includes
a professorship at Andrew college,
Cuthbert, Ga, a professorsh1p at
Wesleyan Female college at Macon
and. a professorship at the Georgia
Normal and Industrial college prior
+o his election as president.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-09
Buenos Aires Prexy
Faced With Crisis:
Congress Quitting

BUENOS AIRES. Aug. 6.-Presi-
dent Yrigoyen is confronted by a
sudden political crisis which seems
to threaten him with the loss of con-
troll of congress. This crisis, which
has come upon the beginning of the
electoral campaign which will end in
the election Of a new president next
March, has resulted in a congression-
al deadlock. Sessions of congress
Thursday and yesterday were with
out quorum and some observers
express the belief that the situation
will continue indefinitely unless the
president yields to his political OPP
ponents, or some compromise is
reached.
The trouble grew out Of demand
on the president by a majority Of
congress for an explanation of his
failure to apply the provision Of the
homestead law enacted last year.
President Yrigoyen replied in a sharp
message that he did not recognize
the right of congress to question his
motives for not carrying out the
law. Reading of this message on
Wednesday provoked a storm of re-
sentiment in congress.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-09
DISTRICT MASONS To
MEET At JONESBORO

Nasons from all partst of the Fifth
Masonic district are expected to
gather at Jonesboro on Wednesday of
this week for the annual convention
of the Fifth district, and 1t is ex-
pected that the convention this year
will be the most successful ever held.
and that it will attract more than a
thousand Masons.
The Fifth district comprises the
counties of Fulton, RocKda1e, Doug
las, Campbell and Clayton, and in
Guiding in them are some of the
largest Masonic lodges in the state.
Gate City, of Atlanta, heads the list
with a total membership of more
than LOO, while other large lodges
include, Piedmont, Battle Hill, Leb-
anon, Palestine, Georgia, Fulton,
Atlanta, w. D. Luckie, Malta, all Of
Atlanta, and others.
The program for the convention
Wednesday includes a number of i'm
portant events. The business ses-
sion will be held during the morn
ing, while in the afternoon exempli-
fication of degree work by especially
trained teams, an address by Rev.
Charles L. Bass, grand master of
Georgia Masons, and other interesting
phases Of Masonic work will be given.
It is expected that some action
will be taken by the convention in
regard ito two big projects now be-
ing undertaken by the Masons of At
lanta and of the entire country. One
is the purchase of the Piedmont
sanitarium by the Blue Lodge Ma
clinic for the Masons of the city.
The. other is the erection of a Ma
sonic temple on Schuyler Hill in
Washington, D. c.
This temple, it is said, will sur
pass anything of, it's kind in the
Gently appointed. Every Masonic
lodge in the country will have repre-
sentation in the temple. The work
is now being carried on by the George
Washington Memorial association.
The eXempIification of degree work
time past, special teams have been
working in anticipation of the con-
Vention, and it is said that the pres
entation of the various degrees will
be practically perfect. The degree
teams will put on the work in full
Another feature will be the ap-
pearance of the Grotto band and pa
troll. The patrol will present several
exhibition drills, while the band will
render concerts. This is the first
time that the Grotto has sent it's
band or it's patrol to the convention.
Grand Master Bass address will
be public, and will be delivered at
2 o'clock in the Methodist church,
and the general public is invited to
attend.
Jonesboro Masons are preparing a
royal welcome for the visiting breth-
rem. w. V. Whaley, mayor of the
city, has informed the leaders OF
the district that the city will be
turned over to them, while the Jones'
boro lodge, of which Floyd B. Sum-
mers is the worshipful master, is
preparing social program that will
be hard to beat. The chief feature
will be a barbecue at TESTERS Old
Mill, at noon. The visitors will be
taken to the mill from Jonesboro in
automobiles.
J. Ben Daniel, of Atlanta, worship
full master of the Fifth district, will
preside over the deliberations of the
meetings. The convention will last
but one day.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-09
WATSON COMES To
AID Of c. H. BRAND
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
eos Riggs Building,
By TNECDORE TTLLER

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-Senator
Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, has
taken the side 'of Representative
trict, in the controversy between
Judge Brand and the federal reserve
board over the boards policies on ag-
ricultural credits.
There recently was an interchange
Of sharp letters between Representa-
tive Brand and Edmund Platt, a mem
Der of the board, who objected to
Judge Brands criticisms Of the re-
serve board. Senator Watson took
his first part in the controversy when
he delivered senate speech on the
cotton, situation, and the Congression-
al Record today contained Mr.. Wat
sons promise to defend Judge Brand
II Mr.. Platt carries out threat to
drag the controversy into the political
campaign when Representative Brand
runs for office next year. Without
mentioning the name of Judge Brand,
although all knew to whom he re-
ferred, Senator Watson said:
II saw a letter which a member of
the federal reserve board wrote to
member of congress from my state
"a very insolent letter, a dictatorial
letter, threatening letter-admon-
ishing him that if he did not change
his tone he would be opposed for re-
election next year. Well, if we all
live and nothing happens, we will all
be back in Georgia next year, and we
will see about that. But re said in
this letter: Your banks in Georgia
are charging uSury.' He probably
meant the state banks, which, on
short loans, frequently charge IL per
cent.
81 have paid ~ per cent myself
for all the money 1 borrowed in work
ing myself up in the world, and
was glad to get it at that price. 1t
was worth that much to me. Wheth-
er that be too much or too little, let
us see what the federal reserve bank
has been charging and getting. In
Boston they made 100 per cent clear
profit. In New York they made 2O3
per cent; in Philadelphia, 121 pee
cent; in Cleveland, 10 per cent; in
Richmond, 118 per cent; in Atlanta
they made Isl per cent, and they did
not lend it to Georgiars, either. They
sent it to Chicago and loaned it to
Ogden Armour, and he used in has
business and charged us three or
four prices for his canned goods and
his meats, and so forth. In Chicago
they made 178 per cent; in st. Louis,
121 per cent; in Minneapolis, 112 per
cent and so on "
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-09
Colquitt Planters
Hear Elmore Speak

MOULTRIE, Ga, Aug. 6.-Ad-
drssing an audience of several hun
dred cotton growers, business men
and bankers at the Colquitt county
courthouse here, A. A. Elmore, one
Of the leaders in the organization
campaign of the Georgia Cotton
Growers association, declared that
the biggest question confronting the
farmers is the problem of marketing
his products. There is less harmony
of action in marketing the products
Of the farm in this country than in
the sale Of any other product or mer-
chandise, he asserted.
Mr.. Gilmore referred to other class
organizations, notably labor. The
miners and railroad workers were
pointed out as conspicuous examples
Of what organization and co-opera-
tive or mass selling will do. There
is group action, the speaker said, in
almost every industry and in every
class of labor.
After Mr.. Gilmore had outlined the
plans and purposes of the Georgia
Cotton Growers association many Of
the farmers in the audience signed
the contract. Work securing con-
tracts will be pushed further in Col
quit and those back of the movement
believe that more than 1000 acres
will be signed up. The meeting was
presided over by j. A. Williams, zone
Of the biggest planters in the Moul-
trie section ----.-------..-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-09
Bill Is Aimed at
Wilson Officials
Presenting Claims

WASHINGTON, Aug. G.-Fields
promising a yield estimated at many
millions of dollars are about to be
closed to the high and the powerful
of the last administration.
Observers stated tonight that the
bill of representative Edmonds, of
Philadelphia, to bar former govern
ment officials from prosecuting
claims against the government val
ued at approximately $1,O00,000,000
solidate the Republican victory of
last November.
Those who will be affected by the
bill, if it is passed, are:
woodrow Wilson, cambridge Col
by Mr.. Wilson's secretary Of state
business here; A. Mitchell Palmrr,
former attorney general; Joseph r.
Tumulty, Mr.. Wilson's private secre-
tary in the White House; Robert
Lansing, ousted from the office of
secretary Of state in the latter part
Clark, until recently chairman of
the interstate commerce commission;
Daniel G. Roper and William M.
Williams, former commissioners of
internal revenue, and a host of 9TH
ers.
Attorney General Daugherty has
dietary committee stating that he
favored the bill Acting Attorney
General Golf told the committee re-
Gently that he also believed such a
bill should be enacted. Mr.. Daugh-
erty Is scheduled to appear before
the judiciary committee next We'd
nesday to give his reasons for speedy
enactment of the measure. Other al.
ministration leaders also arc sup
porting the measure.
Mr.. Edmonds' bill makes it I'M
lawful for any government empioye
to prosecute or aid in pushing any
claim against the government with
in three years next after he shall
have ceased to be such officer, clerk
or employee"
A law, similar in nature, but not
so far reaching, was enacted in 1873.
1t contained a limitation Of two
years, as against three years in the
Edmonds mea sure. The law of 1878
will be enforced pending enactment
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-09
Buses Don't Suit;
Want Trolleys Back

DIES MONIES, Ia, Aug. 6-Des
Moines wants it's street cars back
The city council has changed from
it's "irreconcilable" attitude toward
the trolleys and virtually agreed to
7-cent fare, the continuance Of
the old franchise and elimination of
the busses from car track streets.
Bus service was increased yester-
day, the second day of the trolley
less era, $1,000 fares being carried.
This was an increase of 1000 over
the first day.
Bussmen promise a fleet of 1870
busses and complete service if they
are granted a one-year franchise,
excluding street cars. but no &C
tiOn has baan takep