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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-13
The Constructive Side
of the Legislative Session

OF enc Le97SluC7OS oSSS|C"
- VERIFYING considered, the Legisla-
- ture just adjourned has rendered sub
- stantial service Faults both of omis-
sion and of commission are quite obvious In
it's record; but despite these, for one thing
it has done Georgia may well take heart.
Boldly and with constructive aim it has at
tackled the far-frowning and long-evaded
problem of the States fiscal difficulties.
The mere will to action on this issue de-
serves credit, for the easier course would
have been to continue lavishlng appropr1a-
lions which the treasury could not pay, and
thus blandly leave the State to tread what
Shakespeare calls eth eprimrose path to the
everlasting bonfire" Retrenchment is I'M
popular, hard thinking WEAKNESS to the
flesh, and whose embarks upon such under
takings is certain to encounter rough wealth
err. Yet, so important Is 1t to the COM
n2onweal that this central problem or ex-
penditure aid income be mastered, we IAN
we'll afford to endure such passing inconvenl-
ences and ills may attend determined ef-
forts at it's solution.
For not until the old care-free custom of
appropriating without providing for payment
is abandoned, and not until the present out
worn, inadequate, inequitable system gives
place to better and fairer methods Of procur-
ing revenue, will Georgia be able to deal
justly, much less generously, with her 1ll-sup-
ported institutions, or able to launch needful
development in her vast empire Of latent re-
sources. Fundamental to all plans and all
wishes for the upbuilding of public educa-
ton is a fiscal system that will furnish the
requisite sinews. Eloquent appeals for the
schools and colleges will not suffice; passion
ate belief in their noble mission will not suf-
flee; nothing will suffice until this stark,
stubborn old problem Of finance is thought
through to fruitful end.
Because of what it has done in this direc-
ton the present Legislature must be account
ed thus far essentially constructive. Deeply
regrettable was its failure to provide for the
critical needs of Tech and the University and
other institutions. Regrettable, too, are GER
tain items of the emergency tax program
But be it remembered at the same time that
if the movement toward fiscal Efficiency and
an adequate State income goes on to its goal
these supreme interests of education and So
cial service will fare more literally than ever
in the past land our dreams of a greater Geor-
gia be nearer than ever to fulfllment. The
longer and more important chapter of this
Legislatures history remains to be written.
Between now and the session of 1922 it's joint
committee tax revision will study that
basic problem and prepare a report that will
serve at least as a starting point for compre-
hensive action. Meanwhile, those toiling at
the hard task are entitled to encouragement
and to credit for the good, even though linn
'ited, which they actually do.
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cal party"
Thus Senator Gooding, of Idaho, on
the Fordney tariff bill. Senator Gooding is
a Republican, and stanch one, but he car
ries more beneath his hat than mere Nhair,
and is given to speaking his mind. Partlcu-
larly vicious and dangerous, he thinks, is
the FOrdney bills treatment of the cOuntrys
wool growers and of the consumers. To
favor a group of special interests it mot only
permits the American manufacturer to fix
his own duties upon which the basis for his
protection is given, but with the thirty-five
per cent ad valorem duty on wool, permits
him to fix the protection for the wool grower;
for the manufacturer is the only market
for American wool, and he alone fixes the
price on every pound of wool produced in
America. . If this bill shall be passed with-
out amendment the manufacturers protec-
ton, when his compensatory. duty Ito which
he is not entitled) and also his ad valOrem
duty are computed, will be anywhere from
sixty-two and half to two hundred per
cent
From a veteran Democrat this impeach-
ment might be suspected of partisan bias,
but from veteran Republican it comes with
peculiar weight and sharpness So bold is
the piracy, so gross the injustice of this tariff
bill, that PrOtectionists themselves, If at all
open-minded, are moved to denounce it. The
favoritism which the Idaho Senator con-
DENNIS because it comes home so crushingly
tire measure is conceived in spirit of social
injustice and framed in disregard of eco
nomic safety.
It ignores, not only the rights of the mass
of consumers, but also the interests of the
rank and file of producers. 1t is blind to
the momentous history of the last seven
years and to the plainest, grimmest exigen-
cies of the industrial and commercial world
of today. 1t will increase the burden ofliv-
| ing costs when people are direly in need Of
| relief, and. will prejudice foreign markets
| against American goods when our sole hope
of prosperity lies in upbuilding foreign trade.
| 1t will place at the mercy of little group
of profiteers those whose labor and knowl-
edge produce the country's real wealth, and
will sacrifice the basic interests of both agri-
culture and industry to band of mere ad-
venturers in finance. BY this token may the
| country know that the Republican machine
| today is no better either in morals or in
brains than when it went headlong to de-
| feat in the great political revolt of the year
| 1912. Indeed, it is more cynical toward the
commonweal than ever before, more stupidity
| Indifferent to human needs and human issues,
more meanly bent upon patronage and\profit,
more incapable of understanding and more
unworthy of serving a great nation in a
perilous age.
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THAT NERVE PROBLEM
By H. Addington Bruce

~ FREQUENTLY I receive from nervous pa
II tients letters complaining of the failure
of their physicians to afford them re-
lief. Sometimes, there can be no doubt, the
fault is the physicians. But also it may be
the patients.
Certainly when nervousness is-as is often
is-the result chiefly of a wrong attitude to
life, the patient cannot justly complain II
he or she deliberately neglects to cultivate
the healthier attitude which the physician
has pointed out as being indispensable to
cure.
And many nervous patients err also In
hastily rushing from one physician to another
without giving any physician real opportunity
to delve to the true cause of their nervous
ness.
Nervous symptoms, it cannot be too wild ely
made known, spring from many sources. They
may have a purely psychic origin-they al
ways do have a distinct element Of psychic
maladjustm ent-but also they may have an
underlying physical factor. And the physi-
cal factors that enter to create nervousness
are indeed numerous and varied.
For example, If the typical symptoms OF
ervousness-discontent, restlessness, diff
Guilty in concentrating, difficulty in sleeping,
difficulty in digesting food, etc.-may be due
to nothing bu4 overattention to self, they may
also be due to any one of the following bodily
conditions:
Eye strain.
Dental disease, particularly impacted teeth
and abscessed teeth.
Self-poisoning from infections or mechan-
ical distractions in the digestive tract.
Malnutriton from any cause.
Overfunctioning or underfunctioning of the
thyroid, the adrenals, other of the So
called ductless glands.
Low blood pressure or high blood pressure.
Unhygienic living habits-notably dietetic
indiscretions, underexercise, underrest, work
ing and sleeping in poorly ventilated rooms,
the weraing of clothing that fits too tightly,
etc.
Faulty posture.
Weakened or fallen arches in the feet.
unsupported joint conditions.
Nor does this by any means exhaust the
list Of physical factors to which the typical
symptoms Of nervousness may be due. Add
the more common psychic tactors-worry
envy, jealousy, hatred, absorption In self
and is it at all surprising that physicians, as o
rule, do not effect immediate cures OF nerv-
BUSINESS?
Suggesting as it does the need for patience
the need for giving the physician fair
chance-the fragmentary list of just men
toned causes also suggests, most obviously,
the folly Of self-doctoring when nervousness
has become extreme or chronic.
Yet many nervous patients, having failed to
obtain relief after few visits to physician,
turn to the patent-medicine shelf for hit
or-r1iss cure. It is miss far more often than
HIT as they eventually discover. Meanwhile
they have lost precious time-a loss that may
turn out to be really serious.
Copyright, 1921, by The Associated News
papers.)
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A woman must be a mush OF sympathy.
She mustn't use any intelligence in judging
other women. She mustn't have any stand
ards of decency. She must think that every
murderess should get of Free simply because
she is woman She must hold out the glad
hand to every woman of the street, and well
come her to her home. She must believe
that every hard-eyed little gold digger is an
angel child, and be willing for her son to
marry her And if woman, like a man,
has her standard of conduct and morals ana
refuses to mlngle with those not of her
lodge, why, we have to listen once more to
how hard women are on other women!
AS long as women keep within the bounds
Of responsibility, and lead upright lives, they
never have cause to complain of the attitude
OF other women towards them. There isn't
an honest poor woman in the worlL who isn't
helped daily by other women, often by women
as poor as herself, who divide their little
with her, or work overtime to nurse her
when she is SICK or lend a hand with the
children There isn't a woman, in the world
in trouble who doesn't go instinctively to
some other woman to pour out her sorrows
on breast that is never turned away from
her.
There isn't working girl who hasn't got
her eye always out for a place for some
other girl needing a job, nor a woman who
makes her own way in the world who doesn't
climb up on the willing shoulders of other
are trying to live decently and help them
selves.
And as for the women beyond the pale
the poor weaklings who have taken what
they think is the easiest way, women really
have more sympathy for them than men
have and judge them less harshly for women
know better than men do, the temptations
that beset a pleasure-mad, foolish young
girl, crazy for the flesh pots-anG with the
feast spread ready to her hand, and to be
had for the taking
Mems tolerance Of such women goes only
so far as they themselves are concerned.
They draw the line at their own home doors
and the Magdalene may not pass 1t. I hava
known many women who would still have
chung to q sister, or a friend who had stun
bled off the straight and narrow path, but
their husbands would not permit 1t. A man
doesn't even want his wife seen out with
another woman who is loud and fast looking,
| or who Is talked abut.
woman would make a thousand excuses
for such a woman, and say to her husband
| that she was just indiscreet or lacked taste,
and that her kindness of heart, and real
goodness offset a lot of foolishness but the
man judged only by what he saw, and his
thumbs are always down for the woman who
doesn't live up to the conventions.
So in view of all these facts-and they
are facts as our own personal experiences
will show-isn't it about time for us to
abandon the ancient catch phrase that women
are hard on other women?
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS DEFICIENCY
BY DOROT THY DIX

tn HE attorney for a woman, who is be-
ing tried for the murder of her hus-
band, refused to let any woman serve
on the jury on the ground that women are
hard in their judgments of other women.
Strange how tenaciously that old myth
about woman's inhumanity to woman per-
ssts. Nine out of ten people believe it, yet
not one of the nine if put to the test, could
bring forward single instance, in their per-
sonal knowledge, of where woman has
turned deaf ear to another woman's cry for
help, or refused to hold out hand to another
woman in TROUBLES
The very woman who repeats the libel on
| her sex knows that she herself is filled with
| a perfect passion of pity for all other women.
| The very who talks cynica1y about
| how hard women on each other, excerpts
| his wife and mother who often bore him
| to tears with their women pensioners, and
| their poor Marys," and "poor Elias,
| whom they are always having to dinner, and
dragging around in the automobile because
| they old, and ugly, and frumpy, and
unattractive that nobody else will bother to
! try to bring little brightness into their for
! lorn lives.
l. Certainly the women who are always claw
| ing at their sister women, and trying to pull
| them down are Mesdames 2. None of us know
| them personally, and the amazing thing is
that we should go on passing along this silly
and hoary canard. 1t simply goes to show
that the world is ruled as Stephenson said,
| by catch phrases.
! Once people have got nice little con-
venient catch phrase for anything they cease
| to consider whether it is true or false, appli-
cable or not. They go on using it because
| it saves them the trouble of thinking.
| That is the way with the theory that wom-
en- are hard on other wo4len, and the amaz-
| ing side light on it is that it is only women
whom we condemned for not being in state
| of perpetual stopping over with maudlin SEN
| timentality about their sex.
Nobody expects a man to think that every
! other man in the world Is perfect darling
| and dear, and to be ready to introduce him
| into his clubs and take him into the bosom
| Of his family, no matter who he is or what
he is. Nobody expects an honest and honor
able man to consort with thieves and jail
birds. And nobody says how hard men are
on other men when he refuses to meet such
socially, or even to give them employment
| in his store or factory Nobody thinks OF
the average man is not likely to be overcome
| try a man for numbering his wife to get
her money.
| Men feel that they have right to criticize
| their fellow men, and when they find one
who is rotte or who is a liar, or who is dis
honest, or who has broken the code that pre-
walls among gentlemen, they have no hest
tation cutting him dead, and refusing to asso-
ciate with him. It's all right for a man to
draw the line among men, but when a wom-
an draws it among women-oh, la la-la!
What a dreadful thing, and how cruel
women are to women!
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OUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Prof. Blank was the most absent-minded
man who ever lived. He was out for walk
one morning when he became dimly aware
that something was wrong.
at feels exactly as if one of my shoe laces
had come unfastened and is Tapping" he re-
fected.
After walking the length oil a road or two
still under the same impression, he looked
down at the shoe, but the lace was tied.
GLOW odd" thought the professor, some
what relieved, and continued his walk. But
the same sensation persisted.
'Tut, TUT" muttered the professor. "It
can't be my watchchain Tapping against my
ankles, because I wear a wrist-watch."
Still the feeling was predominant few
yards farther on the bothersome thing trip
ped him up.
Dear, dear!" he exclaimed, from his seat
in the gutter, when he had recovered con-
sicousness. eff it wasn't the shoelace on the
other shOe!"
And so interested was he in his discovery
that he resumed his walk without remem-
bering to tie it; and after walking a few
yards, it tripped him again.
And SO on. And each time he picked him
self up he forgot to tie the lace, and he reach
ed home so dazed that his wife thought he
had been drinking, and scolded him and sent
him straight to bed.
A meek looking darkey was brought into a
suburban police station just outside of Phila-
delphia and petty charge was put upon the
blotter. He pleaded innocence.
well" asked the examining officer, 'is
there any one here who can vouch for your
respectability?"
Whereupon the darby singled out the head
of the small police force. "He cam said
the colored man, pointing to that officer.
81 CAM" gasped the policeman. "Why, 1
don't know you.
Oats it exactly" said the accused 'I's
lived in this place TO- mo- dan five yeahs an
de police don't even know me. So, YOU see
gents, can't be such d hard lot
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Some Cheering Facts

~ VEN tenth of a loaf is better than
none when it comes to the problem of
unemployment survey by the Fed
eral Department of Labor shows that in July,
at twenty-eight representative cities through
out the country, there was an appreciable
gain in the number of workers. At thirty
eight centers, it is true, there was small
continued decrease, but the consensus of judg-
ment was that the lowest ebb had been
reached and that turn for the better was
at hand. Depression appeared most pro-
nounced in metal and metal-product indus
tries; in the very nature of the worlds needs,
however, that field must grow active ere
long.
Increased employment was shown in rail-
way repair shops, automotive plants, textile
mills and in the lumber, leather, tobacco,
paper and printing industries. Particularly
marked was the impetus to building opera
tions. Scarcely a region but reported con-
siderable if not extensive construction, with
a prospect of larger developments in the
months ahead.
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said he was going to vote for it because he
had intention of being crucified back
home. I am now sending inquiries to women
all over the country to see if they have read
the bill and know what it means" Miss Rob-
ertson suggested that it might seem to lay
man as though the bill framed to evade
the understanding of lawyers, and the law
yers on the committee which had the bin
especially under discussion were ashamed to
admit they didn't understand it.
The lady from Oklahoma has personally
given more time, study and thought to this
bill than to any other legislation now pend
ing. She says that she is most decidedly in
favor of legislation to protect maternity and
infancy, but such legislation should be framed
in the most definite and simple language
possible.
To the casual observer, Miss Robertson
would not appear a stateswoman if seen
on the street, but rather as the practical,
home body" that she likes to acknowledge
herself to be. Large, rather slow and pom
derous and dressed in simple, comfortable
clothes, Miss Robertson might be suspected
of planning thousand and one little house
hold arrangements instead of planning to tell
the women all over the United States why
she does not favor the passage of the much
talked-about Sheppard-Towner bill. In her
office, however, she is not SO true to femi-
nine type. She really dislikes having her
secretary "straighten up" her desk and has
no more desire than any masculine congress
sional representative to solve problems for
the constituents of districts other than her
own. Yet, just because she is woman,
many are the requests that come to her desk
that should be referred to other congressman.
On the other hand, she is quite feminine
enough to be thoroughly delighted with a
bouquet of gorgeous American Beauties which
the ambassador of Peru sent her in recog-
milton of her part in selecting the mission
sent by the United States to celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary of Peru's birth as a
republic. Such is the completely of woman.
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THE ATLANTA TR1.wEEK1Y JOURNAL.

she will sacrifice no right, hazard no inter-
est, venture no step where others will not
follow. But she will make it possible for
others to join without apprehension in a
common-sense plan to cease multiplying
those instruments of destruction which GER
tainly do not tend to prevent war, which
certainly do tend to provoke war, and which
are driving nations toward bankruptcy. If
the richest, the mightiest, the safest Of Pow
ers today can not bring to present problems
something of the courage and wisdom which
the young Republic of the fathers mani
tested, how sadly unworthy we shall be of
heroic past!
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THE CRAVEN FEAR OF BEING
GREAT
By DR.. Frank Crane

At the bottom of every crime is coWardice.
At the bottom all selfshness is fear.
There is but one objectionable sin, in the
eyes of Destiny, and that is to be afraid
And there is one sainthood to which the
least and lowest may aspire, and that is to be
unafrad
What ails America today is that it has got
over being brave and has taken to fear
In the summer OF 1913 the soul of America
had opened as the rose of the world and its
fragrance intoxicated all the nations, its beauty
dazzled and COMPOUNDED the croaking pesSimiStS
who continually sound the blatant warnings of
decadence.
We were all going forth magnifcently to
die. We had reached that ecstacy of grandeur
where men fling away life. 1t was the large
ness the extravaganza, the luxury, the hilarity
of utter fearleSsness. The immortal gods walk
ed among us.
Our spasm has passed. The lasstude of lit
tlereSS has succeeded. The counsels of the
petty prevail. The cynic wisdom of partisan
ship is needed. In newspapers, In cabinets, in
senates, even in some pulpitS the plattudes of
precaution smother the counsels of courage.
Thsi marvellous America has the conquest of
the world before it. Not the conquest by
arms, after the egomaniacal program of the
kaiser, but the conquest by bold and rejuvenat-
ing ideals. BY her success in material things,
by her triumph in building up nation found
ed on liberty and justice, by her demo1stra-
ton Of the power of democracy, and by her
amazing record in the late war, America is the
most. potent moral voice in the world.
Shall we forfeit this by crawling back into
the slumS of turbulence, of selfshness, and OF
childish egotism? Or shall we go on and
show timid world that we are not afraid to
be the protagonst of faith, of cooperation, OF
federation, and of humanity?
Our were not afraid in Belleau Wood
and the Argonne Forest; shall we be afraid
| now, when all earth is timid, or shall we not
| fulfill the vision of John Milton and rise like
| the royal bird that "kindleS her undazzled eye
at the all midday BEAM" scorning "the noise
of timorous and flocking birds that fluttei
| about, amazed at what she meanS?"
| Is there any reason why we were not ashamed
of such talk in 1917 and now can be proud
only of cowardly cynicism?
Let us remember our race. We were once
4 bold as robbers, in the early times when We
were emerging from savagery. Let us be a,
bold now, dauntless pioneers of the ideal
| Remember the words of Tenryson, who
spoke our blood:
We sailed wherever ship could sail,
| We founded many mighty state,
| Pray God our greatness may not fail
| Through craven fears of being great.
| Copyright, 1924, by Frank Crane)
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Smile Awh;;1e

Uncommon people have common sense.
You can't do everythng-or everyone!
You can't be a high liver and have a spry
liver.
The hardest thing to remember is to forget
trouble.
Those who live by the sword shall perish
by the taxes
Some styles have gone so far they are a
regular side-shoW.
OF course, Lenin and Trotzky are not
among the starving.
All the world is a stage and the best way
to act is natural.
The Woolworth building isn't any higher
than home building.
Congressman have an awful nerve to cele
brate Labor day.
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