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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-11
POLYGAMY
RV DR.. Frank Crane

by LII. FRANK NrdNG
The Frenchman joined his finger tips, hun
celebrate after the manner Of Frenchnlen.
He sat in chair on the boulevard, where
it is pleasant on a fine day to watch passers-
by and make the conversation.
There is good DEAL he remarked, to
be said in favor of polygamy.
'The man who renders three women hap
py is surely a better man than one who
makes one woman wretched. Yet we sup
press the benefactor by law, and encourage
the malefactor.
81 do not say that we should divest this
question of all sentiment; you can't do that,
for it is essentially a sentimental issue; but
at least we should subject sentiment to rea-
SON. after the manner of cultivated and en-
lightened people.
Excessive sentiment, among the strictcr
moralists, even goes so far as to insist that
two people who are daily making each others
vorce.
Speaking in scientific strictness, 1 ask,
Is man a polygamous animal? And in an
swer to this query, does not observation
prove that it is a matter of temperament,
of natural disposition? Are there not some
men adapted by nature to have but one
wife, others who would be happier with two,
three, ten, and still others who would get
along a deal better without any?
cit cannot be claimed that polygamy is
bad for the health, since Methuselah and his
co-patriarchs lived Unfortunately, had many
wives, and were blessed in their posterity.
"Of course, there's the Bible. 1t seems to
sanction polygamy in the Old Testament and
frown upon it in the New. And it is singu-
lar how we follow the New in matters of
marriage, while in matters Of war and ven
geance and the like we brush the New Tes-
lament aside as impractical and cling to the
Old.
Another point. Does not prohibiting po-
ygamy render it more attractive. and thus
tend to increase it? From all l read about
the prohibition Of whisky in America there is
more consumed now than ever If 1 am
to believe your newspapers there is more
drunkenness than when the saloons were in
full blast. Millions of barrels Of liquor are
pouring over every border into the United
States. Moonshne still are in active opera
ton And people who never drank before
are taking to their cups. I really cannot
understand why the liquor interests are not
in favor of prohibition. 1t seems strange
that they oppose it, when the quantity of
their sales is enlarged and the price has
scared. But, then, we Frenchmen cannot
understand America.
But, my point is, if we were to legalize
polygamy, and prohibit monogamy would
not many of your citizens, who now are
surreptitious poygamists, become surrepti-
tious monogamists, and while openly living
with six wives, really be secretly living with
| but one?
Zone more point If man had six
wives, how would he know which one to
obey? To obey one is difficult enough. but
six-oh, la, la, la!
81 do not mention six mothers-in-aw,
| Monsieur for l am INDUCING in com ady, not
| tragedy.
9Th, bien! 1t is getting cold. Let US 60"
| Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-11
Dorothy Dix Ta1ks-The Business Girl as Wife
DOROTHY

u Cd help the young men of this day,
~ when all the girls are going into
business, or studying professions,
and when every other woman you meet
knows all about running office, and moth
ing about running a home,'' exclaimed an
irate old gentleman the other day.
''What's going to happen to a mans stom-
ach when his wife has spent all of her time
learning how to make pot hooks instead of
manipulating pots in the kitchen? What
sort of a home body is a woman going to
make who has been in the habit of putting
on her hat in the morning and going down
town to business like a man? What inter
est is woman going to take in making pies,
after she has been accustomed to pulling off
big trades crackerjack buyer, or has
had the whole affairs of an office at her
fingers ends?
"Cynics may sheer all they please at the
picture of a domestic little wife meeting a
man at the door of evening when he
comes home from a hard days work, and
setting him down to a dinner that means
love, and thought, and work and skill, but
that is the ideal of home that nine men out
of ten cherish. 1t is what they look for
ward to attaining when they get married,
and it is what they are not going to get
when they marry women whose whole train
ing has been in offices instead of the
kitchen.
''No wonder there is so much divorce, and
there is going to be more, as more men with
dyspepsia induced by their wives bad cook
ing commit deeds Of violence upon the per-
sons who have lured them to their doom.
What this country needs is more girls who
are learning to make the kind of bread that
mother makes, and who are fitting them
selves to be wives instead of lawyers, and
doctors, and female finaciers.'
wrong, all wrong" replied woman who
had been listening to the old mans ar
raignment of the business girl "The kind of
wife any woman makes any man depends al
together on how much she loves him and,
therefore, how anxious she is to please him,
and not upon how much she knows, or her
riage.
FFThe so-called domestic woman is often
/ the most undomestic creature on EARTH while
many woman, whom fate dooms to live in
trunk and lead the life Of tramp has a
soul that grovels and worships before pots
and pans. It's the woman, and not her en-
viroment that decides the kind of house
keeper she will make.
"Of course, expert knowledge is a val
liable asset in any calling, and I am not
denying that it is highly desirable that every
girl should be a good free hand cook when
she gets married and takes her husbands
stomach into her keeping, so to speak. If
mothers were worth shucks and did their
duty by their daughters, every girl would
have mastered at least the rudiments of the
fine art of cookery by the time she was
twelve years old, and long before she was
out of high school she would have acquired
the frills and be able to qualify as a blue
ribbon chef
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unfortunately, most mothers are too
lazy to teach their girls how to cook, or too
tender to them to make them do any house
work, so the average girl, whether she goes
into business or goes into society, is equally
ignorant when she marries of all the things
she ought to know about home making. 1t is
then up to the individual woman to prove
herself. Anybody who can read a cook book
and who has the desire to do so can become
a skilled cook in three months. Any woman
not congenital idiot, can keep a house
clean and orderly. Any woman who can
add two and two together can run budget
and therefore, as metween the unframed
home girl, and the trained business girl the
business girl is the best bet for any young
man who wants a thrifty, domestic wife.
'She is accustomed to bringing all of her
intelligence to bear on the problem in hand,
and when that problem is learning how to
keep house, she will master it, She has
been trained to be orderly and efficient, and
prompt, and believe me, those qualities
count for just much in home as they do
in office. She has known how hard dol
lars come by having earned them herself,
and she will not waste her husbands money.
"She will make a home-loving woman be-
cause the thing we all most desire is the
thing we haven't had. A little two by four
flat, and a real kitchen, with real food in it
to cook, looks like Heaven itself to a girl
who has lived in hall bedroom, and eaten
out of paper bags and tin cans and plug
ged up the key hole so the landlady couldn t
smell the odor while she cooked messes over
the gas jet.
Cooking is a great adventure to such a
girl 1t is the pursuit of one of the fine
arts, whereas all domestic labor is anathe-
ma of the young woman who has had to
understudy mother in the kitchen all of her
life, and who marries to get away from the
gas range, and into restaurants. I have
known two or three men who married their
cooks in order to permanently retain these
household treasures but l have never known
single case in which the cook didn't cease
to cook, and put some other woman into her
job soon she got her marriage certif-
cate framed.
believe me- the man who marries bust
ness woman stands just as good a chance of
getting a domestic wife as he would if he
married the girl who is Supposed to be
mothers little helper, even if she isn't, and,
in addition, he gets a wife who will give him
an understanding, sympathy, and show to
him forebearance of which the purely do
nestle woman is incapable.
For it is only the woman who has work
ed side by side with men who knows how
hard and bitter, how body shattering and
nerve wearing, is the struggle of the COM
mercial world, and that when man goes
downtown of morning, he goes to a life
and death fight, and not to a picnic, as his
domestic wife thinks he does.
"And that's why the business girl makes
the best wife, even if she does have to learn
how to cook after she gets married"
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Inc.)
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n 70 state in the Union would benefit more
u than Georgia by system of good
roads, and the way to get that system
is to go after it on a large SCALE This is
the kindergarten mode of reasoning-but it
is very good type, frequently.
Automobile taxation appears a logical
method of supplying money for the roads
used by the automobiles The only trouble
is that The revenue is a gradual affair; so
much this year; so much the next year; so
much the year after that.
1t is practically out Of the question to put
on an ambitious road-building plan on a
gradual revenue scheme. great sum of
money is required substantially at the same
time
That means a bond issue. Not all the is
sue would need to be sold at one time; just
as the program warranted, saving interest
charges. And the increasing revenues from
automobile taxation would go far-perhaps
all. the way-toward retiring the bonds and
paving the interest also.
The big thing, as The Savannah Morning
News suggests, is to get ''plenty of road mile
age, of the right sort, and get it as quickly
as POSSIBLE"
''The RIGHT Sort Is the kind of roads that
will remain right with little maintenance ex-
nendture. Roads of the wrong sort always
are expensive The first cost NAV be forgot
ten in ten years, may be absorbed in twenty.
if the durability and service of the road sys-
tenn is satisfactory.
Georgia needs roads; good roads; plenty
Of good roads-and promptly. The state is
progressing into era of physical and in
dustrial development the like Of which il
never has dreamed Of before An importaut
mart Of that DEVELOPMENT is denendent on
good rOads-good roads in all parts of the
FmDire State; the links Of communities and
| business centers; the ties that bind the origi-
nal producer to the ultimate consumer; the
arteries Of trade and commerce through
which pu1sate the life of the commonwealth
bond issue for good roads IS something
| to ronder. A number of other states have
| adonted that plan for road building on E
| great scale. and so far as is known not one
| Of them has regretted it.
Georgia needs good roads. Bonds may be
the answer.
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Hawaiian Mail

Mail and parcel post packages for Hawaii
are subject to the same regulations as domes-
tic mail only, according to statement from
Postmaster Morgan, who says that apparent
ly there is a wide impression to the con-
trary. Parcel post packages for Hawaii are
not required to be accompanied by customs
declarations. Postmaster Morgan directs at
tention to the following announcement from
the postoffce department:
apparently it is the impression that the
classification, rates of postage and other con-
ditions applicable to domestic mail matter
do not apply to the Hawaiian Islands Such
understanding is erroneous, as Hawaii is in
cluded in the term United States and for
postal purposes has the same status as any
of the states"
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Editorial Echoes

a newspaper. 1t is hoped it will not prove
another contribution to yellow journalism
Lafayette Journal and Courier.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-11
3.449 REGISTERED at Yale

Registration at Yale university, now fairly
complete, is given at 3,449 by the secretary's
office an inere,,ge of 1872 over last year. The
college has 1867, the Scientific school 523
and the remainder is distributed among the
graduate schools.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-11

A Pittsburg writer says the world is i'm
proving, because a sheriff frustrated mob
which was trying to lynch a prisoner AS a
matter of fact, it is the sberffs who are i'm
proying.-Kansas City Star.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-11

Believing that about all that there is to
be said on both sides of the Irish controver-
sy has been said, we move the previous ques-
tion.-ColUmbuS Dispatch.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-11
Air Prize
Like Americans

The German government is not looking
forward to the expected withdrawal OF Amer
lean soldiers from the Rhineland with any
enthusiasm. The government would rather
have the United States troops remain where
they are than have the Cobenz area occu-
pied by French troops, an official of the Ber-
lin foreign office says.
This statement was made in connection
with the complaint published few days ago
in the chancellors mouthpiece, Germania,
from a citizen of Coblenz against the con-
duct of the American forces there. This COM
plant, coming from an individual, prompted
Germania to publish a statement which, the
foreign official said, might be taken as rep
resenting the governments view.
The newspaper pays tribute to the Ameri-
can administration Of the area and the con-
duct of the troops there, and says that the
cooperative spirit shown by the United
States authorities has resulted in the elimi-
nation of many misunderstanding and has
given the German population Of Coblenz
cause for full satisfaction.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-11
American Coal in Brazil

Coal imports at Rio de Janeiro during the
month of June amounted to 81, AGA tons, as
compared with 49,317 tons during the cor
responding month Of last year. All of this
was American coal.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-11

Cows Tail 'Lock'
An American inventor has patented wire
clip to hold cows tail against one leg while
she is being MIXED.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-11
Roads and Bonds

70 state in the Union would benefit more
u than Georgia by system of good
roads and the wav IN pat that system
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-24

The dance given by the Par Mar
club last evening at the Masonic
Temple was an enjoyable affair and
was largely attended. The dance
hall was made very pleasant by the
addition OF n number OF electric
fans. The Irwin Pep orchestra Of
Pittsburgh furnished the music and
the committee In charge of the
dance was composed Of Ernest Rob
is0n, Arthur T. Niche, John j,
Tharsher and Mendel Sharp.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-24

Mrs. C. A. Pilson of this city was
elected vice president of the West
Virginia Lutheran Woman's Home
and Foreign Missionary SOCIETY," at
the annual meeting held this week
in Wheeling and Mrs. C. H. Bloom
also Of this city was made recording
secretary. Mrs. Kate Hall OF Wheel
Ing was made president; Mrs. Earl
Fawcett, Grafton; statistical secre-
tary and Mrs. Oscar Wilt, Clarks.
burg, treasurer.
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AZ Bedford sprInua

The Misses Nola and Margaret
Mckinney are at Bedford Springs,
Pa, where they will spend a couple
Of weeks. Miss Nola will go from
there to New York and other east
ern cities an will be gone from here
the greater part OF the summer.
Mrs. Noel Weaver and children OF
Morgantown are spending a few
weeks with the>former's father, the
Hon. 0. s. Mckinney at his home on
First street.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-24

About 5O>were present yesterday
at the picnic OF the Keystone Bible
class Of the First Baptist church,
which was held at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. w. F. Hunsaker at King.
mont. The women Of the class were
the hostesses on this occasion and
entertained their husbands and gen
tleman friends in a delightful man
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ANNOUNCEMENT ReeeIyed.

Cards have been received here
announcing the marriage OF Miss
Viola Myrtle Hall and John p.
icampbell, OF MorgantOwn. The
ards read as follows: Mr.. and
dfs Samuel Judson Hall announce
the marriage OF their daughter,
Viola Myrtle, TO John P. Campbell,
on "Wednesday, the twenty.second
pts,Jnne, nineteen hundred and
twenty.one, Morgantown, West Wiz
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miss AeImlck Hostess

Miss Mary Mason Helmick en-
tertained at an attractiyely appoint
cd O'Clock luncheon today at the
homie Of her parents, Hr. and MEc.
CARROLL Helmick on Walnut avenue,
complimentary to Miss Margaret
Lee Lehman who IS leaving shortly
with her mother, Mrs. a. L. Lon.
man for Charleston where they will
reside, a large French basket o
roses and larkspur ceTtcred IT,
serving table and covers we're ! ]
for 10
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Al Lake chautauaua.

Ms! Kemble White and daugh.
Tor; Miss Harriet, and son, Kemble,
Jr., have gone to their summer
home at Lake chuutauqua, y. Y,
where they will spend the remain
der Of the heated season. Attorney
Kemble White will Join them
fthere later in the summer. During
their absence Mfr. and Mrs y. b.
Kahn are residing In the White
home on Benoni avenue.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-24

Mrs. Everett Butler. OF Cleveland,
Ohio. IL the guest at the home Of
her father, DR.. D. P. Fitch. In the
west End, Mr.. Butler, who accom-
panied her here. with Dr.. Fitch Is
enjoying a fishing trip OF several
days. Mr.. and Mrs. Butler will re-.
main here for two weeks.
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Won Ribbons

Miss Mary MouIds Hurst won The
blue ribbon and Mrs, Il. NJ .Gardt-
ncr the red yesterday in the ladies'
golf tournament held on the golf
course Of the Country club. The
playing yesterday was spirited and
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-24

Mrs. Brooks s. Hutchinson en-
tertained with a beautifully appoint
ed / O'Clock luncheon today at the
Country club to. honor Mrs. W. s.
Adamson, OF Wilmington, Del, who
is.the guest Of her sister, Mrs. job
" Mason, Jr.. at The Pines
Spring flowers formed an attractive
centerpiece for the serving table
and covers were laid for IL.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-24

Mrs. Frank n. Lyon accompanied
lMr. Lyon to New York yesterday
where he will sail for France the
latter part Of the week Mrs.
Lyons sister, Miss Ida Beeritz, Of
Somerset, Pa, who had been her
guest, has returned to her home.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-24

Mrs. Maggie Roger, Mrs. Jennie
McCleary and their brother in Law.
a Howard Fleming, have gone 10
Atlantic City where they will
spend a month.
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Texas Guests.

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Hamilton have
as their guests at their home on
Fairmont avenue the latter's broth.
, or, ". X. Hyer, Mrs. Hyer and baby
daughter, Miss Helen vtrglnia, Of
Eastland, Texas
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-24

At the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl.
Riggs this evening at7:So. A mu-
steal program WILDE carried out In
connection with the meeting.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-24

Mrs. Thomas E. Borgess., OF
Edgeway drive, Edgemont. Is in
Wyatt where her brother, Delbert
Robinson, is critically III with ty.
phoid pneumonia.
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Welded Yesterday

Raymer Watkins, OF Kingmon;.
rnd Miss Mary Fortney were united
In marriage last evening at the
home Of the officiating minister,
Rev. ]. E. Gordon on Walnut ave-
une
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-24

Miss Daisy Boyce, OF Maryland
avenue, entertained a number Of
friends last evening with a weiner
roast
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To Mcet

The board of managers Of the W'n
mans club will meet Saturday ar
tcrnoon at the Y at 3 o'clock,
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LOCAL SOCIAL EVEN MS
Welner RoaE4.

tend. Candy, cakes, pies and lunch
boxes will be sold,
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10 Have Social.

TO Have Social.
There will be a social at Cataw.
In saturday evening, July 2, for tho
|Sanefit OF the Catawba cemetery.
TIM the relatives and friends OF pet.
sons buried there are urged to at.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-24

The Willing Workers class of
thsB Central Christian church Will
meet this evening at eight o'clock
m the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. George
baylor on CASTOR avenue.
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Aid Picnic

Tho woman's Bible class OF the
Presbyterian church entertained
heir families at the social rooms
Il the church last evening. The
picnic was to have been held at
loop park but the heavy rain pro-
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For Mrs. stovall

Covers were laid for Il at a orc
O'clock luncheon Of beautiful !ap-
pointrnents at The Fairmont today
a which Mrs. Howard n Ogden o.!
chicago and. Fairmont was hostess
In honor OF her daughters. Mrs. Ton
quin stoyall. Jr.. of San Francisco,
Cal, who is leaving shortly for Sirr
apore to reside. A large blue
French basket filled with Ophciia
roses and blue delphinimums can.
tered the serving table. Mrs. liar
~ K. Granger, Of Lincoln, %eb..
Who! Is me guest OF her parents Mr.
|, Aid Mrs, r. NJ. Hite was an out OF
town guest present.
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Summer Sports Apparel

Clothes important to the joy Of that holiday
where co. Plan clothes there really
fully and early prepared
delightful array Of handsome white tub skirts the lovely silk
summer frock the smart wildly toned sweaters the sports
hat would inspire the most indifferent her holiday
time,
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Class Picnic.

The Glenn F. Barns class OF tho
lFafrmont High school will hold a
icnic tomorrow at the Riheldaffcr
lamp on the Valley river. The
members are asked to meet their
[chaperones at the 1880 train on
Tomorrow and to bring along well
Eiiied lunch baskets,
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To Picnic,

The James o. Watson class ol
the Fairmont High school, which
class was graduated in 1916. will
bold a picnic at Poplar Island on
the Valley river on Saturday, July
Is This was decided upon at Il
meeting Of the class held at The
|Fairmont last evening. The class
lwillBmeet at the rooms OF the Fair.
mont Chamber OF Commerce at
1880 o'clock that morning and go
Ia automobiles to the Island In
case Of rain the party will go to the
Island on the train leaving here at
ABOUT eleven o'clock. The girls Of
lthe class will furnish the lunch and
the boys the ice cream and trans
lportatioIS, facilities. 1t Is planned
ol have every member Of the class
present II possible.