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.HILE the Arms Conference patiently
seeks to tighten the worlds burden

Y
M seeks to tighten the worlds burden
maintaining giant engines of strife,
Secretary Weeks beguiles the time by telling
what he means to do in tie event of another
war. Says he: II would conscript every per-
son in the United States from eighteen to
sixty years Of age, and would say, You are
to do thus and so, because you can do thu
better than anything else. You can fight or
you can serve in some other capacity for
which you are better suited. -
There is but method, be it granted,
by muster4ng to the vast a"ena every sinew
of nations resources, economic and human.
Time was when armies fought, but in this
age it is entire peoples that go forth to bat
tie. Behind o. every soldier must stand
scores Of civilian workers, giving the best
of Drawn and brain that front lines may be
supported The campaigns Of Frederick the
ureat, to look further back, were like a
chess game played with only two figures,
compared with the amazing variety of forces
that crowded IL to the last great Conflict of
nations. Industry, agriculture, commerce,
along with all other forms and functions of
human activity, were pressed into the ranks;
and every wage Garner, every bread winner
felt the shock and stress of battles that roll
ed red in far-off lands. That the next war;
if a next there must be, will prove even
more exacting of the peoples energies, more
engulfing of their treasure and toll is not
to be doubted-unless meanwhile there
should be perfected some instrument or
formula, some engine or poison by which
civilians and soldiers alike can be plotted
out, thousands and millions at time. There
will be no scrup!es in the "next world war;"
no plying Of women and children; for, first
and last, all will be warriors, the whole ma
ton Spartan camp.
If, then, we are content to let world af-
fairs drift on to that conclusion, let us raise
no protest when Secretary DENLY, or some
future agent of Mars, conscripts us from six
teen to sixty, and bids us edo thus and 500
because we lest can play that particular part
in the universal slaughter Men deemed it
glorious privilege a few years gone to be
summoned as Selectmen to the colors,' to
fight and toll, to suffer and die, because in
the deep of their hearts they felt they were
waging a war to end war and to set the
human spiri; free. But if those sacrifices are
to prove but prologue to a darker omen COM
ing on, if there be- not enough goodwill and
good sense in diplomats and Congresses to
materialize +Ae hope of the Arms Conference,
then ill men ask of what use to humanity
is the conscript-oL of which Mr.. DENLY talks
with such ..csurance, and of what virtue it
is to stint and toll and go through grim
NEST agonies in a game that is but Sound
and fury, signifying nothing?"
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ed to win him, TO- long hair and mystery
shall get him going.
When he hath escaped her, whose inno-
cence toucheth his conscience, behold he
shall find himself ensnared by her, whose
worldliness dazzleth his vision.
When he hath fled from her whose tears
have melted his will-behold, he fndeth
himself bound il the arms of her whose
smiles have lightened his melancholy.
And, when the siren hath failed to lure
him, and the debutante hath failed to cajole
him, and the celebrity hath failed to inspire
him, and the beauty hath failed to blind him
behold, the PLATONIC FRIEND consoleth
him!
And it is all over with him!
What chance, then, hath an unsuspecting
man, oh my Daughter, in a world filed with
Womans Infinite Variety?
Go to! He is as Hick set down in the
heart of great city, with a thousand ave-
nues to choose from, every one of them lead
ing to Matrimony.
Yet, ask me not, oh Foolish One, why ev-
cry woman seeketh to tempt a man into
marriage, and is without mercy upon him.
For, shall answer you according to your
folly, saying:
''Why doth duck swim, why doth a bird
fly, and why doth cat play with a mouse?
Verify, verify, because the Lord hath MADE
them that way!"
/ Selah.
Copyright, 1921, by The Wheeler Newspaper
Syndicate,)
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YOUR NERVOUSNESS
BY II. Addington Bruce

| ~ ECAUSE you complain OF nervousness
| X it by no means necessarily follows
- that you must place yourself in the
care of a nerve specialist or medical psycholo-
| gist. Your nervousness may be due to con-
| ditions which can readily be corrected with
out their aid.
| This is a point have again and again to
emphasize in answering inquiries from nerv-
Gus patients People seem strangely unaware
that nervousness often has its roots in sim
pie physical defects and Embellishments.
Sometimes all hat is needed to restore
nervous balance is dietary change insur-
ing better nutrition. Persons who do not eat
enough food, or cat foods they cannot well
digest, are peculiarly prone to be nervous
So are persons who eat far more than Is
good for them. The result may be not mere
ly a systemic clogging, but also a systemic
poisoning, of which their nervousness is a
symptom.
Or, again, the nervousness which gives its
victims insomnia, indigestion, and other
functional disturbances may be the product
of nothing more seriou" than unrel1eVed
eyestrain. Provide well-ftting spectacles, and
nervousness thus caused will gradually, per-
haps promptly, subside.
Similarly as regards the not uncommon
nervousness due to unsupported footstraln.
Tired feet and weak arches may be as pro-
ductive of nervousness as eyes of which too
much Is demanded.
Failure to take sufficient rest especially
if accompanied by tendency to live toe in
tensely in general, is another frequent cause
of nervousness. Compliance with the 1njunc-
ton, ''Sleep longer, ease down, often relax,
may effect seemingly miraculous cure.
Then there are persons who make themv
selves nervous through prolonged failure to
give themselves due allowance OF fresh air.
Sedentary workers, they take next to no
outdoor exercise. In addition they perhaps
work and sleep in rooms to which fresh air
is given only occasional admission.
Under these conditions they suffer from a
mild poisoning of which their nervousness
is an outward and visible sign. And no mat
ter what is done for them the nervousness
will persist until they. begin to live more
hygienically.
The list of preventable and easily remov-
able physical causes Of nervousness might
be greatly extended. But surely the enumera-
ton is already sufficient to make clear why
always urge the nervous to consult their
family doctors before besieging the special
lists for help.
And when consulting either family physi-
clan or nerve specialist be frank. Even II
questions are asked that cause embarrass-
ment answer them candidly.
Nothing is to be gained by attempting to
deceive ones doctor. The result IL the doctor
actually is deceived can be only needless
prolongation of the misery from which one is
anxious to escape. -
copyright, 1921; by The Associated News
papers)
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GEORGIA S Mineral Treasures


cheer in the report of the State
Geolosist, Professor S. w. McCallie,
showing that Georgia's mineral production
in the year 1920, the last for which complete
records are available grew to value twice
as great as was ever attained prior to 1916.
Last years output totaled thirteen million
three hundred and ninety-six thousand eight
hundred and twenty-three dollars, sum for
ty-two per cent greater than that for the
twelvemonth preceding. Since 1915, when
there was a decrease of ten and six-tenths
per cent, the figures run thus: 1916, $6,779,-
S28 (33 per nj increase); 1917, $780,
553 GAS per cent increase); 1918, $685.
051 CSC per cent increase); 1919, $780,
900 (13.4 per cent increase); 1920, $13,-
596,823 (42 per cen, increase).
1t is Interestingly observed by Professor
McCallie that owing to the enlarged sphere
Of building activities since the close of the
war, there has been marked increment in the
value of such structural minerals as marble
granite, brick and tile Highly gratifying, too,
the fact that "the mines and quarries of
the State have not only held their own dur
ing the business depression. but also show
remarkable and unexpected increase during
the past year." Georgia is so grea. an ag-
ricultural commonwealth that we sometimes
forget how '-aried and abundant are her min
eral treasures. But they are there all the
while, rich in meaning for the future.
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bers Of such far-seeing men of action and Of
thought, men who are not satisfied with
things as they are but are ever pressing for
ward to new frontiers of knowledge and
fruitful enterprise. To them are we indebted
fo primary means wherewith to meet the
cotton crisis and to builc upon diversified
.arming an empire of prosperity such as once
we never dream ed. To them, too, are we in
debted for the organized Statewide move
n en- to provide full facilities for marketing
the output of the new agricultural order.
Tie Georgia Farm Market Federation, with
all that it means to the future Of food crops
and food industries, is the out. :rowth of the
same kind Of foresight and serviceableness
that enabled Putnam county to survive its
severest ordeal May that wide-visioned and
ordinarily spirit grow increasingly in our
Commonwealth and find more and more ex-
emplars.
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WAR AND THE UNBORN
By DR.. Frank Crane

By Dr.. Frank Crane
The evil effects of war upon the living have
been often expatiated upon.
The world has just been aware again OF
the fact that war not only murders millions
of the strongest and fittest men, but it also
leaves behind it trail of famine, of pest, OF
mutilated lives, or widespread want, and OF
bankruptcy.
There is hardly home in the world that
has not been in\some way fiecked by the spat-
tering poison of the Great War;
Mr.. Douglas, a Dublin merchant, who Is
chairman of the Board of Quakers in that
city, called attention tosanother way in which
the virus of war attacks the human stock.
Speaking Of the period of desolatlon caused
the late bloody feuds in Ireland, he says:
cit is the suffering of the innocents, the
women and children, that is the hardest to
witness No one can estimate what the eff
fects of constant warfare will be on the future
generations of Irish. There have been an un-
precedented number of premature births due
to fright, and medical nen predict that chill
dren born in days of such terror will grow up
heavily handicapped"
In one section of Ireland nurse reported
that premature births had increased threefold
since the f1.Lting started in 1920.
Mr.. Douglas cites one case where the father
was afraid 60 for physician after curfew
and the mother herself started, with the re-
suit that her child was born in the streets.
1t would seem as if the world had lived
long enough to put away such medieval bit
terness as exists between the Protestants and
Catholics of Ireland.
This implies no attempt to construe the
Irish question politically one way or another.
But there is no doubt that an aggrayat1ng
element in it is religious feud.
Both Roman Catholics and Protestants are
presumed to be Christians. And it is a ghast-
ly commentary upon the intelligence of the
human race that the followers of Jesus Christ
should make their religion an occasion for
the outbreak of the basest and most print
tive passions.
The situation in Belfast, according to Mr..
Douglas, is probably unparalleled in its de-
plorable aspects. He says that there have
been $500 Roman Catholic workers vio-
lently expelled from their occupatic ) by the
mobs of their fellow workers. In one out
break on July 10, 161 Roman Catholic houses
were looted, burned and wrecked, and the
homeless people had to be sheltered and fed
in the Roman Catholic schools.
Of course it is absurd to say that the fault
is all on one side, as there has been only too
much evidence of senseless preju lice on both
sides.
Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane.)
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The Charm That EndureS

whole hearts are ours, and we find that not
the richest of us has got money enough to
buy that. For you can't urchase the great
est thing in the world over the counter, and
many and many a poor woman who hasn't
a second dress to her back has got something
that dozens of millionairesses would give
their all to have, and that is the absolute GER
tainty that she is loved for herself alone, and
that the man who married her wanted just
her, and not her bank account.
"Have you ever wondered why there are
so many rich old maids? 1t rs because the
woman with money is afraid to marry.
II think you exaggerate the DANGER" re-
piled the woman with whom the rich girl
was speaking, 'for one thing American men
are not fortune hunters as rule. There are
too many opportunities in this country for a
man to make money for himself, for him to
be tempted to sell his birthright for a mess
of pottage.
'The man who marries for living pays the
highest board on earth, and there are mighty
few American men who wouldn't rather work
at some less nerve-wearing job than being
the poor husband of wealthy wife. So gen.
orally are men of this opinion that I have
never known very wealthy girl who was a
belle, not even with all the chromos in the
shape of feeds, and theater tickets, and auto
mobiles, that her family handed out with ev-
cry ticket of admission.
But suppose a man Is Influenced III udT-
rying you for your fortune? Every woman is
married because of some particular charm
that attracts man. One woman Is married
because of her beauty. In a few years she
is bound to lose that. Another allures man
by her willowy figure. In, ten years it is
gone, and she is either feather bed or liv-
ing skeleton.
"a man is lured into matrimony by a
girls vivacity; and gaiety. Life sobers and
saddens the most joyous q us. girl may
be married for any one of a thousand fugi-
tive charms that are bound to fade away in
the stress of matrimony.s
"But if man marries a girl because Of
her money, she has got a charm for him that
age can not wither, nor custom stale. She's
got something to conjure with, for the time
will never come when he will grow weary of
the things that money buys, and as long as
she keeps her money in her on hands, she
is sure of holding her husbands interest, and
keeping him always on his best behavior to-
wards her.
$50 marry your man, and keep a strangle
hold on your pocketbook, and while you never
know for certain that your husband loves
you for yourself alone, you will be certain of
a devotion that other women will envy, and
she is foolish woman who looks gift horse
in the mouth"
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
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DOROTHY DIX'S TALKS
. ITY the poor-r1ch girl for she is the
= stenchild of Cupid.

|
| stepchild Of Cupid.
A yoInS woman who was born with
not only the traditional gold spoon in her
mouth, but with whole sets of them, said to
me the other day that she was beset with a
double fear, the fear that she would be an
old maid because Of her fear Of being married
| for her money.
"The price that we rich girls pay for our
| fortunes" she said, "is that we never have
the ioy of knowing that we are loved for our
we have it drilled into us that men will try
to marry us for our money, and we grow so
suspicious that we see a fortune-hunter in
every one who approaches
81 look at myself in the mirror, and I see
a woman who is certainly as good looking
and attractive as the ordinary. I have been
we'll educated, have travelled widely, and l
am sure I am quite as interesting compan-
| ion as the average girl. I dance well. play
| a good game of tennis, and golf, and bridge,
| I ride, and swim, and sail boat, and drive
! a car, and know that am fitted to make
a good pal, and meet almost any man on his
own ground, and so do not see why man
should not fall in love with me despite my
money bags.
Probably a man might love me for myself,
| but I would never trust him. Every particle
| of vanity in me has been killed by the warn
| ings have had against the men who would
| try to marry me for what have, instead Of
what am, so never see myself as the angel
| Of some mans dreams, but only as his meal
! ticket
GAS matter of fact, no girls in the world
have as poor chance to make a happy mar
riage or to marry worthwhile men as we
rich girls. For one thing, we have no chance
| to get acquainted with the young chaps who
are going to do the great things, and be the
| big men Of tomorrow. They are hard at work
| in offices, and shops, and roughing it in far
places. They are not hanging around the
| gilded resorts where we go, and SO nearly
all Of the men we know are the idle sons Of
rich fathers-men whose only accomplish
ments consists in wasting and spending the
hard-earned dollars of their daddies. They
are purposeless in life, spoiled, blase, always
on the lookout for new sensation, and SO
it's no wonder that when we marry them,
there's generally divorce coupon attached
to the marriage license
"a poor young man Of the right sort sell
dom pays any attention to a rich girl because,
for one thing, he doesn't want to be depend
ent on his wife, sort of household pet
that she sets up as she would new and ex-
pensive lap dog. Also, he knows that whether
it is true or not, he will be accused of being
a fortune hunter, and his pride won't suffer
that.
$50 there we rich girls are. We want to
be loved, we want the sort of husbands who
do things, and of whom we can proud. We
want real homes, with men in them whose
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

=. Every woman thinks she has the right to
make fool Of some man.
Fortunately, the world isn't able to see
society matron as her aid sees her.
Money talks, but there Is not enough of
it in the world to take the place of woman.
Somehow, the average man doesn't feel
called upon to worry over the loss of his
neighbours money.
The things that come to the man who
waits are seldom the things that he has
been waiting for.
Marriage may be failure in some cases,
but with the advent Of twins it becomes a
bowling success.
When a widow gets the idea in her head
that she can't live without another man,
she hasn't much to live for.
Adam was the original Oldest inhabitant
Opportunity doesn't wait for the man who
Is late,
Vegetarians ought to be able to give sage
advice.
No man is as dangerous as he thinks you
think he is.
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Help the Poor

"Help the poor" says the Cedartown
Standard, "but do it by giving them work of
some kind To give charity to a man who
is able to work lessons his self respect, and
it is far better in every way to think of some
thing useful to be done for which he can be
paid. And if a man is able and unwilling to
work, he certainly does not deserve charity.
The Bible says that bird that sing and
refuses to perform should be made to sing.
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OUIPS AND OUIDDlTIES

She was very modern girl with bobbed
hair and mannish attire. He was soulful
young poet with long hair.
AS they stood before the registrars desk,
waiting to be married, an anxious look stole
over the officials face.
pardon me-" he said, "before we begin
the ceremony, will you please tell me which
is the bride?"
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Armenian AtrOcity

The murder at Constantinop1e in Septem-
Der Of seventeen Armenian women and chill
dren who came to the United States seeking
safety, but who were ordered deported by
immigration authorities, was reported to the
House immigration Committee by c. V.
Knightly, counsel for welfare organization
at Boston. These were deported as being in
excess of the quota allowed from their
country.
Details Of the killing were obtained, Mr..
Knightly said, from an American student at
Roberts College From the best information
obtainable, he declared, the women and chill
dren were first outraged by Turks and than
murdered because there were no means for
their upkeep and "thep were considered in
the way" Mr.. Knightly pleaded for help
for twenty-eight Armenians, women and chill
dren, at Ellis Island and fifty at East Bos-
ton awaiaiting deportation, probably today or
tomorrow.
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Smile Awh;1e

Wouldn't it be grand if we all made what
we claim we do?
Best thing about the trains which will
travel 800 miles an hour is motorists must
be quicker to hit one.
Only way to keep the Ratchet buried is to
put the hammer with it.
If the shimmy is what we think, she's al
ready been shook.
Williams finds the Krupps will make type
writer's. That's what all wars should be
'Do fish TALK" is worrying the scientists.
Human ones, yes.
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Said Jones, sadly: Something I said to
my wife some days ago offended her so much
that she hasn't spoken to me since"
''Old man." returned Henpeck, with pain
full eagerness, "w uld you mind telling me
what it was you said?"
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Ignorance is never shown more effectual-
ly than in an attempt to conceal it. A coun-
tryman, wandering about a cemetery, came
upon a stone which bore this inscription:
"Sic transit gloria nlundi" $50 passes earth
ly glory.)
'What does that mean?" he asked of the
sexton, who was at work nearby.
The sexton replied: "Well, it means that
he was sick transiently, and went to glory
on a Monday morning"
DESTROYS Of buying a camera, the pretty
girl inspected the stock of a local dealer.
Is this a good one?" she asked as she
picked up dainty little machine. what is
it called?"
"That's the Belvedere,' said the hand.
some young salesman, politely
There was a chilly silence. Then the girl
drew herself erect, fixed him with an icy
stare. and asked again:
"Er-and can you recommend the Belva?'
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Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth L
Bad Books

Forty thousand volumes Of detective.
"Wild West" and Indian stories, which had
been put in circulation in Berlin since the
revolution, were piled up and burned \ys-
Gently, under the supervision of the Asso-
citation for the Protection Of German youths.
The books burned were turned, in by youths
who had purchased them. The association
has given classical works and other good
reading matter to the youths in exchange for
the destroyed books.
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Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Syndicate
Inc.)
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Fine Hunting

What has been one of the best deer stalk
ing seasons on record in Scotland has con-
cluded. 1t is estimated that 5000 stays have
been shot in the area north of the Gram
plane during the last two months.
Among the monarchs of the glen were six
teen stays, each weighing over $50 pounds.
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Every woman thinks she has the right to
make fool of some man.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-24

Fortunately, the world isn't able to Sc,
a society matron as her aid sees her: