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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
Sweet Potato Syrub

n TEWS comes from Fitzgerald that the
M first stage has been completed in the
experiment of the United States gov
eminent to make syrup from sweet pota-
toes. The formula was tested, thirty bar
rels of the new syrup were produced, and
those who tried it declared it was at least
the equal of the famous Georgia cane.
That is one interesting item in the days
grist Of news.
Another comes from HawkinsviIle,
where Mr.. C. S. Gibson, successful farmer,
recently shipped carload of onions to the
Atlanta market, thereby planting a mile
stone in the onion industry so far as it
concerns Georgia.
Here are two illustrations of the vast
possibilities in Georgia agriculture to which
the state apparently has not fully wakened
the use of the Georgia yam for syrup,
and the opportunity for Georgia to become
as great an onion-growing state as Texas.
The yam as an edible has long been
famous. 1t ranks To-Day with watermelon
and fried chicken as one Of the most lus-
cious dishes on Georgia tables But should
it's potentalities for syrup be sufficiently
developed, it will enter the commercial field
is planned to submit samples of the syrup
to candy manufacturers, in the belief that
production can be started Immediately on a
large scale, should leading manufacturers
contract to take sufficient Of the supply.
The opportunities in onions as a crop
loom even greater, according to Mr.. Gibson,
who for ten years has grown them on his
fen-acre farm and who claims to have pro-
duced the worlds record yield of onions per
acre.
&, Texas hitherto has been the onion state.
From $35,000,o00 to $4O,OOO,OOO worth OF
onions are produced each year In south
Texas. Most of Georgia's onions come from
Texas. Georgia consumers pay the freight
on them, when, could they obtain them
from their own fields, the saving would
be more than $500 to the carload.
Moreover, the Texas onion crop is
financed at a far heavier expense than
would be necessary in Georgia. Practically
all Texas onions are grown by irrigation.
Mr.. Gibson is authority for the statement
that there is no spot in Georgia where
onions cannot be grown without irrigation
particularly in middle and south Georgia
direct from the seed, not from the set
plant
Yet Georgia has produced scarcely any
onions worth the mentioning. It is author
itatiyeIy stated that so much as a carload
has never been shipped to market outside
the state. The proposal of Mr.. Gibson that
an onion growers association be formed in
the state, undoubtedly should be warmly
greeted by farmers everywhere. The gen
eraI public too, has selfish as weu as
a patriotic interest to serve in putting Geor-
gia to the forefront in the onion market,
since the Georgia consumer will profit as
well as the Georgia producer.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
Winnecke's Comet

7 F humility is virtue, one has but to
consider the heavens to acquire it in
full measure. No man, facing the IL
limitable reaches, but must be conscious of
the tiny part the planet Earth plays in the
solar system and the infinitesimal position
OF himself in that vast plan embracing bill
lions Of miles, lasting billions of, years be-
fore and after his own small flame CLOVIS
briefly and then dies.
Plunglng in our direction today, whirl-
ing out of incomprehensible spaces, past
suns and moons we have never known,
comes Winnecke's comet It is travelling at
speed that makes all human efforts at
transportation seem tortoise-like. So far
away is it that at its closest to the earth
it is ten million miles away, more than
forty-one times as far as the moon. Due
to its peculiar orbit, its nebulous train or
tail more than million miles long-a ter
rifle flaming snake Of poison gas-will be
nearest the earth on June 81.
There is little use in star-gazers to seek
the housetops these warm nights, for Win
necke's comet is visible only to the astron-
omers. 1t may make its presence known
however, through shower of meteOrs,
quite harmless in themselves since they are
so small and their velocity is so great that
they become incandescent, due to air fric-
ton, and are consumed before they can
reach the surface of the street The only
possibility of detecting them, say scientists,
is to note a sky spangled with streaks of
light, should the heavens be clear on the
twenty-seventh.
Winnecke's comet is but one of many
star rovers burning a hot path through
the universe. Many has equipped himself
with telescopes so powerful that it is pos
sible to determine much about them and
about those planets that are our neigh
bors. But how many thousand unknowns
must there be of which we are ignorant!
How futile, sometimes, seem all our efforts
to solve the riddle'of the whole!
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21

have demonstrated their coursing ability
obstacles as powder, poison, fire, water and
swatters. Many a despairing cook and maid
will be willing to back her choice against
Turkeys best.
1t may be, however, that one is mis-
taken in his estimate of the causes leading
to roach racing; that it is not an evidence
of the gambling craze, but rather of the
decline of the evil. Perhaps Constantinople
has felt the iron fingers of the law. Per-
haps the turf has been placed under the
ban; perhaps the Turkish equivalent of
poker and bridge no longer is safe;y perhaps
the methods of the bunco artist have be-
come so we'll advertised that it is no longer
sport even to be swindled, and the despair
ing Constantinoplian has turned to roach
racing as the last ditch OF dissipation in
losing battle with reform.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
QUlPS AND QUIDDITIES

The fat man decided to try golf as
weight reducer Armed with four clubs, a
ball. and caddie, he marched off to the
links.
The caddie placed the ball upon the tee.
Then, with terrific swing, the fat man
whirled his club through the air.
But the little white ball still stayed smil-
ing on it's tee, while the club, meeting moth
er EARTH broke into splinters.
"Give me another club, boy,' said the fat
man.
Alas! Club No. 2 shared the fate of club
No. 1, club No. emulated the evolutions OF
club No. e. and club No. flew into a hedge.
what would you do now" asked the
golfer, wiping his forehead, as he turned in
desperation to the caddie.
Holding out the empty bag, the young
ster replied: Don't give in, boss. Give 1t
swipe with this"
''Is Mr.. Hanson counting you, Alice?" her
chum Doris asked her one day.
mot exactly-yet," admitted Alice. But
he is approaching step by STEP
What do you mean?'
'Well, when he first called he sat all the
evening with a post card album in his lap"
eyes"
Next time he sat with my poodle in his
lap"
"Wen?"
Last night he took my little brother on
his knee. SO, you see, hope it will soon
be my turn"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
DOROTHY DIX TALkS-The Effect Of Absence on Love
BY

coming to breakfast in curl papers and
kimono that he does not actually see them.
Mary can have heard John gurgle his coffee
behind his paper so many mornings that her
ear doesn't register the familiar.
We often wonder how a man can endure
to live with a fretty, nagging wife, who COM
plains about the same things every day, and
who warns him every morning when he goes
out not to be run over by the street car, and
to walk on the shady side Of the street. We
marvel that woman does not commit suicide
who has to endure husband who spends his
time monologuing about how wonderful and
great he is.
The reason is that these husbands and
wives are so accustomed to each other that
they, have ceased to notice each other or
listen to each other, and their salvation lies
in their never being separated long enough
to get good clear view of each other. Alb
sence is fatal to them because when they
come together again they see each other as
they are, and without any OF the softening
veil Of romance through which they behe1d
each other in their youth.
1t is as disillusioning to go back to your
own family after a long absence as it is to
go back home, and just as the one recipe
for being contented in the village in which
you were born, or on the old farm, is never
to leave it, so the only way to keep the fires
burning on the altar of love is to stay ana
tend the furnace.
We never stay still AS long as we live
we either grow and improve or we shrink
and deterio- ate, and if a husband and wife
hope to keep together spiritually they mu ~
be shaped by the sario environment, and thin
is why those who risk a long separation
jeopardze their love-
The nan who roams far afield, who has
strange adventures, and broadens, and pol
isbes, through contact with the world can
not help but grow, away from the little
provincial wife he has left behind him. And
likewise, she is weaned from him, and he
becomes a stranger to all her modes OF
thought.
When they meet, they have nothing in
common. They are as constrained and as
dumb with each other as we are when we
meet our old school fellow and find mat we
cannot take up again the old intimacy.
Yet, husbands and wives get on each
others nerves when they are continually to-
gether. They talk out, and get to boring
each other, and even the most devoted
couples find that they are happier and bet
ter for an occasional vacation from each
other.
ALI of which seems to indicate that alb
sence is like certain patent medicines, oura-
tive in broken doses, deadly in big ones, and
should be taken with discretion.
A short absence makes the heart grow
fonder of a husband or wife, but long
absence makes it grow fonder Of the other
fellow.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
Cockroach Racing

~ course, it is the unspeakaple
Turk" aided and abetted by the
Russ, who has begun it. Even SO
the thing seems impossible. Yet the dis
patch comes by true and tried news serv-
ice, and the correspondent does not qulbble
even at the outset, thus:
"CoNsTANTINoPLE, June 12-
4 Betting on cockroach races is one of
the newest sports here. 1t was intro
duced by Russian who has just
opened a hall where man who wants
some real excitement for his money
can get results The hall is darkened
at the moment the race is to- Begin
Then single electric light at the end
of runway is turned on, and the
cockroaches, each in separate track,
are let loose from their cages to race
for the light"
Forsooth, the clergy must be right land
the modern craze for gambling amounts
actually to a menacing mania. Else now
can one explain this latest phase in racing
this perversion of the sport of kings from
derbies, thoroughbreds and champion mares
to a darkened hall and that unseemly in
sect the roach? Young blood must have us
day, lads, but this, as the British say, is
going it bit thick. Do they, one won
ders, have roach derbies in Constantine
pie? Does this mean that they are foaling
a super-breed of reaches, that the racing
fans, over their coffee on the shores Oh
the Bosphorus, discuss not the merits OF
this or that stallion, or so-and-so's f1lly,
but the report that the exiled Grand Duke
is secretly pacing an unknown roach that
can step his hundred yards in less than ten
seconds?
True, if this prospect is inevitable and
roach racing gains anything like universal
popularity, America may be expected to do
its part. The nation that has won the
laurel wreath time and again at the
Olympic games, will not allow itself to be
outdone in a mere matter Of bugs.
Let the call but be issued and thou
sand housewives will spring to arms over
night willingly, nay eagerly, offering to
their country the speediest product of the
kitchen floor; hardy, rangy reaches that
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
N HE war, which knocked most of our
/ fondest faiths galley west. seems to

THE war, which knocked most Of our
fondest faiths galley west, seems to
- have played hob with the cheerful
theory that Absence makes the heart grow
fonder.'.
The divorce courts of both England ana
the United States have sent out an S. o. S.
call for help. They report that they are
overwhelmed with business, and, that never,
in the history of the world, were there SO
many men and women frantically seeking
to break their matrimonial bonds and they
further states that in three-fourths of the
cases the people Tho desire divorces have
no real grievance against the ones to whom
they are married. They frankly state that
during the time that the man was away
in the army, their affection for each other
persisted, and they now find life together
uncomfortable.
1t was to be expected that the great ma
jority of war brides would become peace di-
vorcees, because marriages that were entered
into on the spur of an emotional moment,
when girls married anything that looked
good in khaki, or because they were roman
tic, or adventurous, or avaricious, had no
element Of stability IN them. But it is sur
prising and disheartening to find that the
seasoned matrimonial timber, so to speak,
also broke under the strain of absence.
For it would seem that the situation
would tend to draw husband and wife to-
gether, and to call out in each all that there
was of love and loyalty. The mans danger,
his courage, his response to his country's
need-one would think that this would
thrill woman's heart with pride in her man
and keep hef heart conferred on him. The
wife at home who represented all that a
man was fighting for and risking his life
for-one would think that she would be the
load star that would draw her husbands
every thought to her and home.
Perhaps this was generally true during
the time of actual peril, but when the war
was over, and the man returned home, and
the husband and wife tried to take up their
every day life together, they found out that
something insidious, intan gible had happen
ed to them. They had somehow lost step
and they couldn't catch it again. They
knew not how, or why, but they did not fit
in their old places.
The truth was that absence had done it's
deadly work. Tley had grown in different
directions, and undoubtedly, in addition to
the multitude of the weak brothers and sis
ters who are clamoring for divorce because
they were alienated from each other by the
separation of the war, there are thousands
of couples who are now stoically bearing the
misery of a mismated marriage, who would
have rocked along in commonplace comfort
if they had never been parted.
Nor is this hard to understand. We get
the habit Of the people with whom we live.
We are too close 20 them to get a per-
spective on their little ways and peculiari-
ties. John can become so used to Mary's
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
THE EOHIPPUS AND THE
MILLENNIUM
BY DR.. Frank Crane

"The oldest discovered fossil of the horse"
the Wilderness" where he tells some queer
things about fossil horses, belongs to the
Eocene Epoch, perhaps four million years ago.
He is known as EohippuS, or Dawn Horse. At
that time he was not more than foot high
and had four toes and rudirnentary fifth one
on each foot. Some one wrote of him:
"'Said little Eohppus,
81 am going to be horse,
And on my middle finger nail
I'll run my earthly course."'
"By the following epoch, the Ogocene, he
had grown to the height of two feet and had
reduced the number of toes to three. During
the next epoch, the Miocene, the Great Plains
region of the West was uplifted and became
vast grassy prairie. The horse, evidently
benefited by grass, changed and developed
rapidly. His legs heightened; he at last came
to his middle-finger Malone toe"
If it takes so many thousand years to make
a horse, how many thousand years will it take
to make Utopia?
People do not realize how long is required
We have had Christianity going on two
thousand years, and we are just beginning to
see what it means.
Democracy is a babe of only hundred years
or so, and yet we fret at its slow progress.
Waltz
Come back in a thousand years and we will
show you quite a world.
Truth is a plant of very slow growth it is a
century plant.
Yet some people cry prohibition a failure be-
fore we have tried it on generation.
We complain that the progress of statecraft,
of law, of religion, of education, of all reform,
is so slow. We forget that all these things are
Plants that have to Grow; they are not chick
en-coopS that we can Make.
Don't be inpatient!
Don't forget how long it took to produce a
horse.
Copyright 1921, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21

Chancellor David @. Barrow

The retirement of Chancellor David G.
Barrow, who has served the State University
so faithfully and efficiently, would have
been distinct loss to the young manhood of
the state and announcement of his decision
to yield to the urgent demand to withdraw
his resignation was received with unanimous
qualification. Chancellor Barrow's knowl-
edge and wonderful influence are leaving ana
impress that will live long after he has
answered the last call.
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Fair WarningI

AS has been repeatedly explained, this COZ
umn assumes no responsibility for it's own
opinions or for those of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
cross Journal-Herald.
The above paragraph sounds like Editor
Jack Williams is preparing to issue his an
nouncement for political Office
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
Georgia Onions

Georgia has fallen asleep over millions OF
dollars in treasure, according to G. S. Glis-
son. well-known farmer of Hawknsville, Ga.
The treasure is neither gold nor silver, but
onions.
Mr.. Gibson has arrived in Atlanta with
a carload of onions-736 bushels, to be ex-
act, which he has put on the Atlanta mar
ket
The point of the story is that heretofore
Georgia never has produced any onions to
speak Of Onions on the local market most
ly come from Texas, where millions are made
from the onion crop each year.
The freight on carload of onions from
Texas to Atlanta is $500, while, according
to Mr.. Gibson, they can be raised anywhere
in Georgia and shipped to Atlanta from such
a point as Hawkinsville for only $88 car.
Mr.. Gibson is the pioneer onion grower OF
Georgia. On his ten-acre farm near Haw-
kinsville he has been producing onions for
the last ten years-onions ranging from q
fourth of pound to half pound in weight;
1900 bushels this season alone, and in 1918
the worlds record crop, bringing $2,100 an
acre for one year.
Mr.. Gibson grows his onions from the
seed. The set plants, he says, are no good.
Georgia, he declares, could become the BAN
ner onion state of the union, for irrigation
is not necessary, as it Is in Texas, and the
soil of the state will grow onions in almost
any part of it.
Mr.. Gibson is trying to form an onion
growers association, and he hopes to have
at least 800 acres planted by onion growers
Of the state this year.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21

Stefansson's going to take trip three hum
dred and fifty miles beyond the North Pole.
Probably pay for it out of the money he'll
save on his summer ice bills-Wyoming
State Tri6N2Ae
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Dynamite Gaps

A bag containing dynamite, thirty feet of
fuse and blasting caps, was brought into the
Bridge Plaza court in Brooklyn this week
as evidence that Jacob Spievach and Abra-
ham Serper had been found with burglars
supplies in their possession.
When the prosecutor directed an expert OF
combustibles to see if the fuse fitted the
caps, Magistrate Geismar took hand in pro-
ceedings.
81 don't want you to forget, gentlemen,
that am father of family" he said. EUR
thermore, this is a crowded courtroom. If
there is any testing of this evidence, let it
be done before the grand jury
There were only few spectators left to
hear the conclusion of the magistrates ex-
hortation.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
Confederate colonel Dies

Colonel Hume R. Field, Tennessees last
surviving Confederate colonel and a distin-
guished soldier Of the civil war is dead at his
home in Union City, Tenn, aged eighty-four.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
"The Best One Yet"

1.-THE Best One YETI
An Elmira newspaper is responsible for
the best one yet: 1.-THE best recipe for pre-
serving peace: First can the diplomats, or
they'll jar you."-Savannah Morning News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
The Industrial Index

The Industrial Index, established by Wal
ter J. and Clyde Woodall, recently COM
pleted the fifteenth year of it's existence I'M
der it's only management. The Index has
been developed into one of the South's most
important industrial journals and it's contin-
ued prosperity indicates the esteem in which
the publication and its editors are held by
the public. Prior to the establishment of
the Index the Woodalls were publishers of
the Columbus Enquirer-Sun, to the editorial
page of which Clyde Wooda1l contributed an
interesting column under the title, Good
Morning"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
Wanderer Gets Reprieve

Carl Wanderer, convicted of Staying his
girl wife and ragged stranger he hired
to stage fake hold up, was saved from the
moose Saturday when the supreme court
granted a reprieve pending sanity hear.
ing.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21

A want ad offers for sale ''an osculating
fan" But, could such a fan keep one cool?
Oklahoma City Oklahoman.
w. A. Brady says ninety per cent of mo-
ton pictures are clean. The producers clean
up with the other ten per cent.--Greenville
IS. CO. Piedmont.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21

A lot of misguided individuals are. tryin
to close up the race tracks by winning a.
the bookmakers' money.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21

Hot Weather
Atlanta now is more than a foot and q
half behind the high-water mark established
by this time last year, when 1t seemed to
do little else but rain. The exact figures
in precipitation are as follows:
This year, to date, deficiency Of 6.S6
inches, compared to normal or average rain
fall.
Last year, to this date, an excess of 11.50
inches beyond normal
Thus it may easily be calculated that 1921,
to date, has experienced in Atlanta 1886
inches less of rain than 1920.
This difference is all in favor of crops,'
said G. F. Won Hermann, weather forecaster.
'In spite Of the deficiency, all the crops are
getting along finely. Last year they were
soggy and almost drowned out at this time.
Golf courses were covered with tall rank
rain grass Everybody was moist humid
and sulky. It's dry and hot these days, but
call it very fair summer weather--fair, GER
tainly.'
Mr.. Won Hermann said that prospects for
the next few days were more of the same
fair and hot The thermometer reached 80
degrees Friday, and climbed to about the
same altitude Saturday and Sunday. Satur-
day morning at o'clock the thermometer
stood at 70 degrees.