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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
The V;vac;ty of America

NF1E aspect OF America that most I'M
pressed Nine Curie during her recent
sojourn here was the prevalent, fresh
springing interest in life. OF the women
colleges that she visited she now tells France,
81 was struck by the evident joy of living
which animated them, by the spontaneity of
the youth and gayety in their songs and exer-
cises;" while of America as a whole she ex-
claims, "a nation of enthusiastic
Places and people a-plenty there are, be-
tween Gotham and the Golden Gate, that
would constrain Nine. Curie to tone down
her judgment of our national verve-stif1ing
slums, monotonous Main Streets, Sleepy Hol-
lows barred of their old picturesqueness, but
still droningly uninspired. In this nation so
young and fortune-f1lled as the lives of ma
tions go, there are spirits too cynical or too
sad to laugh, and sometimes too heavy laden
to do more than struggle grimly on.
But these assuredly do not determine the
mood and key of America, which are any
thing but subjunctive and minor. The French
woman, keen-eyed and noble-hearted genius,
saw Alright; and her testimony we'll warrants
the comment of the New York Evening Post:
So much for the drab montony of life
which makes impossible in America the
realization of a true art and literature.
So much for the inhibitions internal and
repressons external which sit on the lid
of the creative impulses So much for
those shackles on the joy of living which
were clamped on by the passengers of the
Mayf1ower and are constantly being riv-
eted anew, for the latest time presumably
by Volstead. 1t is not latter all, ma
ton devoted to money-grinding but to-
wide-f1ung and infectious enthusiasms
The spirit of America is still the spirit of
the frontier, in that vast ranges of oppor~
tunity are yet to be adventured and won, and
great thoughts yet to be forged inc deeds.
Much of the conquering optimism that made
the Old Worlds Renaissance and that was
borne to these new shores in hearts like Raj
eighs and Oglethorpe's, still courses the
country's veins. Cynics and prigs and dun
derheads hav sprung up to cucumber the
earth, it Is true but they are not the nation
workers and they are not it's majority.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
7 The Pennsylvania at Panama

THE dispatching of the Pennsylvania,
with four hundred marines aboard, to
the Canal zon eappears to be no more
than precaution of police duty. AS friend
and neighbor of both Panama and Costa Rica,
and as guarantor Of the formers territorial
integrity, the United States has been con-
strained to take firm but quite amlcabIe
stand in the boundary dispute between those
republics. The matter in controversy was
submitted to arbitration, both parties agree
ing to abide by the decision. Unhappily, how
over, when the award went to Costa Rlca,
Panama grew sullen. Her Sovereignty, she
insisted, would be compromised if she gave
up the land in question, as though sovereignty
without right were of moral force or merit.
For several months the issue has been IN
awkward suspense, Costa Rice meanwhile
waxing naturally impatient for an execution
Of judgment.
Ordinarily the Washington Government
would have done no more than tender its
good offices or make neighborly suggestion;
but inasmuch as it's special relation to Pana-
ma would call for intervention, were that
country's territorial rights threatened by
Costa RIGA, SO in the present instance there
is a plain obligation to see that Justice is
done; elsewise, our appeals in behalf or Fan
anna would command little respect, and would
deserve little.
Such is the basis of Secretary Hughes
note, made public yesterday upon the Penn
sylvanias departure. To the Panama author
ties he says, after expressing regret that the
case has not been closed to the mutual salts
faction of the principals: "ln view OF the
fact that the Government of Panama appears
unwilling to carry out this delimitation in the
manner provided in the Porras-Anderson con-
ventien, and inasmuch as a reasonable time
for the reaching of an agreement as to the
manner of carrying out this de1ir';+"tion has
already been afforded, there would seem to be
no reason why the Government of the United
Stats, as the friendly mediator between the
two Governments, by virtue of it's special re-
lations to the Government of Panama, feel
compelled to suggest to the Government of
Costa RIGA that it delay longer taking juris-
diction of the territory which is now occupied
by Panama and which was adjudged to be-
long to Costa Kica.
This is tantamount to saying to Costa RIGA,
Possess your own" 1t is not expected that
a serious disturbance will ensue, but by way
of precaution the marine forces in that vi
entity have been strengthened.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
MOB MADNESS
By DR.. Frank Crane


The psychology of the mind of the public
is curious.
To follow the course of public opinion is
often like noting the vagaries of a mailman.
A nation-a hundred million people-does
atrocious deeds no individual would dream of
doing.
state full of kindly gentle, and self
controlled men and women, every one of
whom every day of their lives is settling
quarrels by compromise and forbearance, will
rush with crazy ecstasy, bands palying and
flags waving, to cut as many Threats as pos
sible among the people of a neighbor state,
and all about a tariff or a treaty which not
one in ten tt Ousand of them understands.
Even now, when our war craze is over and
we are paying the bills and healing the Grip
pies, we are as monumental fools as ever.
Because we cannot get INTERESTED
in any proposal to prevent future wars
We attacked the poor League of Nations,
which at least was an attempt, as furiously
as a bull red flag.
Any proposal for disarmament is boohed
and pished by cynic gentlemen who have been
patented the title practical"
We shrek and jabber and SLAYER like
maniacs at the only device anybody ever i'm
agined that by any possibility can prevent
another war-an international gendarmerie.
And interested-Oh, so Interested
in building more and bigger battleships;
In increasing airplanes;
In discoveries of sases and fearsome liq
uids to be sprayed by aircraft upon a popu-
lation, poisons of such potency that three
drops on the skin mean death by torture;
In the invention Of new explosive that
will silently propel shell three hundred
miles, and destroy the slow-built structures
of civilization and the works of heaven-born
skill with the rapidity and perfection of
super-hellishness
In short, the war, terrific, surgery though
it was, did NOT cure us. The cancer fingers.
The microbes of mania still swarm in the
popular mind.
Peace is still absurd. Law is Utopian.
The coordination of nations is a joke.
And the only sensible thing to do is to
go back to the rotten Old Order, wherein all
the surplus wealth of the peoples labor, and
all the money we can borrow from future
generations, is poured into the fetid rat hole
of war preparedness.
We are yet much more willing to spend
fifty billions in getting ready for another
clash of nations than to spend fifty millions
to induce the nations to come together that
they may prevent clash.
We not men, spirits, things divine.
We are ferocious apes, with slight begin
nings of cerebration
Very slight.
Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
4 New Force IN Russia

" OR administering American relief
stores in famine-shadowed Russia
there will be created the most rep
resentative body that nation has known since
the crash of the ill-starred Kerensky govern
ment nearly three years ago, indeed the one
truly representative and potent body since
Lenine's strange autocracy began Parties
and persons who have been completely
deprived of their rights as ever were serfs
in the darkest days of czardom will be called
again into counsel and public service. By no
other means could the present crisis be at all
effectually dealt with; on no other basis would
the United States send supplies Bolshevist
authority was manifestly incapable of handl-
ing the business Of distribution, besides being
morally irresponsible. So it was that the
clique of Moscow agreed, Willy-nilly, to the
establishment of a commission drawn from
divers regions and political groups of Rus
STA and empowered to direct the work of feed
ing starved millions
This is highly significant, and N it's conse-
quence may prove to be epOchal. Bolshe-
vism was hard-pressed in the extreme. or it
would never have consented to the setting up
of an institution so democratic in principle
and in probable effect. Members of the COM
mission, coming into close, friendly touch
with the people throughout a large part of
Russia will acquire prestige and influence
that can but make for loosening of the Boil
shevist grip, even where that is firmest. The
very fact of cooperation among elements
ulIu0F ISuOI0u VI suppressed Will quicken the
trend toward that liberal, representative and
constructive order of things for which wise
friends of Russia SO long have prayed Who
knows but that from this commission, as an
embryo, there may evolve ere long an all
Russian convention which in turn will open
the way to free and stable government?
In support of this hope comes the word Of
recent observer that Lenne having already
abandoned such Soviet schemes as the mill
tariZation Of labor, and the naturalization Of
land, now lis moving toward a coalition gov
eminent that will include the Mensheviki, the
moderate Socialists, and other elements that
are anti-Bolshevist.' 1t seems however, that
while he will have little difficulty in persuad-
ing the more temperate Communists that ''it
is better to do this than to let Russia die in
her own house." ne finds Trotzky's radicalsm
extremely stubborn If Lenine has been the
brains of Bolsheyism, Trotzky has been its
fiery, fanatic impulse. But it is hard to see
how this excess of folly continue to ap-
peal to country whose sole hope is return
to political and social sanity. Lenine, it
would appear, is shrewd enough to perceive
that the faster he leads away from discredited
and dishonored theory toward the wholesome
ideals of Humankind the larger and surer will
be his following.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
The Indorsers of Neuberru

LTHOUGH the Senate Committee
IN Privileges and Elections has recon-
mended by vote of eight Republic
ans to four Democrats that Truman H. New
berry be reseated, nevertheless straight
minded opinion in both parties revolts at the
suggestion. From Mr.. Newberry's own State
comes the protest of the Republican GRAND
RAPIDS HERALD which describes his case
as having been in it's entirety ga constant
plague to the commonwealth of Michigan"
and sharply adds that it cannot see chow
Republican Senate majority can approve Sem
ator Newberry's continuing credentials and
maintain self-respect"
More might be hoped of that majority had
It not repeatedly proved itself unresponsive to
the best thought and impulses of its party's
rank and file. Indeed, the present Repub-
1ican machine is as unrepresentative of the
party in whose name it acts as it is of the
American people as whole. It is an oil
garchy of narroW-eyed politicians, intent
upon maintaining their own privileges and
perquisites, but as Indifferent to the general
good as are their first cousins, the profiteers.
1t was politicians of this type who engineered
the purchase of the Senatorship that Mr..
N0WD6rTy nOmlndlly QOlQS. 1t was pOIlIl-
clans of this type who at the recent Com
mittee hearing primly shut their eyes to evil
dence thrust before them, refusing to sum-
mon Newberry himself for examination, re-
fusing to call upon the manager who distrib-
uted the money in the VIGOROUSLY venal cam
paign. refusing to hear arguments from
counsel for Mr.. Ford or otherwise to let in the
unanswerable and convicting light.
Nor is it to be wondered that such politi-
clans prefer a Senator of the Newberry type
to one of intellect and high principle who
would act faithful servant of the COM
monweal, and whom, accordingly, they could
not control. This, largely, is why Woodrow
Wilson was so implacably hated by intrigu-
ing self-seekers in both the Republican and
the Democratic party; too great he was to de
scend to their level and they too dwarfsh
to rise to his. 1t will not be surprising,
then Republican power being lodged as it
isl, if the Committee recommendation
that Mr.. Newberry be allowed to retain his
sordidly acquired Senatorship prevail. But
it will be woefully surprising if the Ameri-
can people do not rise ere long against that
gaming oligarchy which dshonors them and,
if left to rule, will disinherit them.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Jones had been invited to
a friends for tea, and the time had arrived
for preparing for the visit.
Come along, dearie," said Mrs. Jones
to her three-year-old son, land have your
face washed
Don't want to be washed" came the re-
ply.
"But,' said mother 'Fyou don't want to
be dirty little boy, do you? 1 want my
little boy to have nice clean face for the
ladies to kiss
Upon this persuasion he gave way and
was washed.
A few minutes later he stood watching
his father washing.
"Ha, ha, daddy he cried. Il know
why you're washing!"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
Pitching Hay

Frederick Santee, of Wapwallopen, Pa,
who entered Harvard at thirteen and became
famous as prodigy, is working as a farm
hand for his summer vacation.
Young Santee finished his freshman year
this year with honors. Now come reports
from the hay fields near his home that he
is likely to carry away the lightweight hay
pitching and all around junior farmer record
for that territory.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
English Railroads

Government control of the British rail-
ways, begun at the opening of the World
War, ended last week. The stockholders Of
the railway companies during the last seven
years have had their dividends guaranteed
pre-war basis.
The new act governing the future of the
railroad administration becomes operative
almost Immediately. Under the act rates
and fares will be fixed by tribunal. Wages
and labor conditions generally also will be in
the hands of the tribunal
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
Alpine Shows

1t has been showing heavily in the Alps
recently, and several parties of climbers are
temporarily showed up in the Alpine huts.
From 20 to 80 inches of snow has fallen in
places above the level of 5000 feet.
The thermometer dropped thirty degrees,
forcing visitors at the various resorts who
week ago went without coats, to don over
coats and furs.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
AS THE SPARKS FLY

The newspapers are always talking about
a 'bloc'' in congress, but they don't say who
the bloc head is.
After all, Mellon is good name fof mil
lionaire and treasury secretary.
We suppose that the bones of musicians are
trom-bones.
Nobody loves a fat man, except in the
movies.
To judge by the newspapers, some of the
descendants of Barnum and Bailey must have
charge of some of the new moving pictures
MARITIME HARMSEN.
A stone mason was on the witness stand
describing the way in which he had been
assaulted by the defendant.
HE walked right into my yard and
slammed me up against one of my tomb
stones" the witness said
Did he hurt you?' inquired the court.
Hurt me-" roared the witness. ''Why,
I've got sacred to the memory of, stamped
all down my back"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25

Every husband is Queen of the May" when
it comes to demanding to be called eaIiy-and
then, not getting up.
Love may be "only combination of vanity
and Sex-attraction;" but if man still loves
woman, after he has seen her with her hair
wet and her face covered with night-crearn, it
must be Somthing stronger and more abiding.
To make woman enjoy herself ask her to
tell you about all the men she almost married;
to make man enjoy himself ask him to tell
you about all the girls he just escaped.
man is little afraid of a woman whom
he doesn't understand; but he is never actually
scared to DEATH until he meets woman who
understands him.
Love is the perfume of life. But most men
become so accustomed to ndulging in the
cheap brands that they never know the real
fragrance of a genuine heart-throb.
When a bachelor of forty steps up to the
altar, in these days. it shows indomtable will
power-on the part of the girl.
A woman might forgive man for most of
his little vices, but that stained glass" atti-
tude with which he decides to "give them up
when he is tired of them somehow, snaps Ter
patience.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25

Good Advertising" says a man we'll up
in that line, benefits any form of business.
The right sort of advertising gives you a
friendly feeling toward a firm. 1t makes
you believe that it will be both pleasant and
profitable to deal with the advertiser A
certain grocer once inserted an advertise
ment that had this merit. 1t ran:
"'Twins are come to me for the third
time This time a boy and girl l be-
seech my friends to support me stoutly."
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
REFLECTIONS OF A
BACHELOR GIRL
By Helen Rowland

Copyright, 1921, by The Wheeler Newspaper
Syndicate
If the reformerS succeed in taking all the
kissing out of the moving pictures, the average
married woman will forget everything she ever
knew about love.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25

A sense of humor is mental radium; it en-
ables you to see through everything-even
yourself; it cures you of everything, even your
vanity; it light up everything-even this dull
old world.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
Soldiers Revolt

A revolt has broken out in Iquitos, capital
of the Department of Loreto, among fiscal
employees and troops, according to delayed
and incomplete advices received at Lima,
Peru. The outbreak is said to have been
caused by the alleged failure of the govern
ment employees and soldiers to receive their
pay for the last six months. The number
of soldiers involved is not known.
The reports say that the project of Iquitos,
the commander of the troops garrisoned
there and the garrison paymaster were seized
and deported to the Brazilian frontier.
1t is also reported that officials of the
Iquitos branch Of the Peru and London bank
were forced to pay out to unnamed persons
10000 soils (nominally about $65,000).
Bank officials here however, discount this
report, asserting the messages from their
manager at Iquitos on August 10 made no
mention of any untoward incident.
At the government office it was said that
no details of the reported outbreak had been
received. This was explained by the fact that
it is extremely difficult to communicate with
Iquitos, which is in eastern Peru, eighteen
days travel from Lima. 1t was stated that
troops would be sent into the district should
the situation warrant, but the belief was ex-
pressed in official quarters that the reports
were exaggerated.
The Department of Loreto has been >eXpe-
riencing critical economic conditions for the
last three months, and there have been re-
curing reports of unrest there, owing, it is
said, to the virtual paralyzation of the cot
ton and rubber industries, which are the
chief sources of revenue.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
Dividing Indemnity

The first billion marks paid by Germany
to the Allies is to be divided between pay
ment Of the costs of the British army Of
occupation and the payments to Belgium
under the latters priority claim, the Allied
Financial commission has decided.
The commission also decided that the value
of the Sarre mines is to be reckoned as
among the payments received by France be-
fore May 1. AS the value of these mines,
together with the value of Preparations in
kind already received by France. exceeds
that country's expense for her army Of oc-
cupation, the commission will take the excess
into account at the end of five years, when
it is expected Belgium's priority claim will
have been satisfied
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
Around the World
Tri-Weekly Mems Flashes From, All Over
the Earth.
Selling Insurance

StIIIIlg INSURANCE
Business has been little dull for Clarence
G. Whitmer, insurance broker Chicago
That is, it was until he watched the Santa
Maria, huge passenger seaplane Swimming
over Lake Michigan and around the tops Of
Michigan avenue skyscrapers
He bought himself ticket and went on
the next flight. AS the giant plane, carry
ing 25 passengers, skinned dangerously
close to the Wrigley building tower, causing
many gasp, he jumped to his feet.
"How about htlle insurance, gentlemen
he yelled above the roar of the engines.
you can never tell
He came down with a handful of applica.
lions.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
Suffrage in Uruguay

President Brum, of Uruguay, has sent the
Uruguayan congress a bill providing suffrage
for women and all other legal rights held by
men. The project has met with the approval
seems to be assured of success Passage Of
the bill will give Uruguay the distinction OF
being the first South American nation to
grant women equal rights.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25

Sherman must have been speaking of
paying for a war.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25

Every husband is Queen of the May" whe
it comes to demanding to be called ea1ly-an
then, not getting up.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-25
SMILE AWHILE

Mixing drinks also causes trouble.
With rents it. is put down or shut up
Vacation days all roads lead to roam.
The real yellow peril is the price of
lemons.
Sometimes a pessimist is the son of an
optimist.
MISTAKE.
Sherman must have been speaking of
The Washington herald., 1921-08-07
Farm Names Trade Mark.

The United States Patent Office recently APP
proved and published trademark covering the name
Of farm Iowa farmer. Ledru c. Willis, the
famer in whose name the trademark was issued. is
a breeder of pnrebred hogs. cattle and sheep. The.
name of the farm as trade marked is "Hawkeye"
To the knowledge of livestock men in the United
States Department of Agriculture Mr. Willis is the
frs. stoeman. and probably the frst farmer. TO OBJ
tain United States trademark for his farm There
is nothing in the law to prevent it. but apparently
no one thought of it before. If farmer uses his
farm name and trademark as part OF his selling
operation in disposng Of what he produces. the
trade-mark protects the owner Of the farm in is
in interstate commerce,
Several States have laws which authorize the
registration of farm names with the State authorities,
but trademark registered by the government pro-
tects the of the farm outside Of the State
in which the farm is located