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YOUNG girl writes me that she andsa

YOUNG girl writes me that she andsa
IA married man are in love with each
n other. She says that their affection is
pure and idealistic, and that she does not
expect, or desire, the man to forsake his
wife and marry her.
do you think any harm can come Of such
a beautiful lover" she asks.
do you think any good can come of it?"
would ask her in reply.
Leaving out of the question the wrong that
a woman does her sister-woman when she
encourages .er husband to be faithless to
her, and the irreparable injury she does to
the children whose father she takes away
from them-for no man can do his duty as
a father and be philanderer at the same
time-let us consider the case Of the girl
alone.
What good does she get out Of love at
fair with a married man?
She will say love. True. But she gets the
lees in the bottom of the cup Of love, not
the wine. The few brief hours of rapture
that she knows in loving, and being loved,
do not compensate her for the days and
weeks and months and years of black de-
spair that are the inevitable portion of nurs-
ing hopeless passion.
Every young girl dreams Of love- but she
dreams Of it coming to her as something that
will crown her life with joy, something that
will have no regrets bound up with it,
something of which she can boast and be
proud And she expects this love to flower
into a wedding bell.
The girl who falls in love with married
man can never know the clean happiness OF
love. Hers is always the guilty passion, some
thing furtive and to be hidden Her romance
does not wander down flowery paths. 1t
sulks behind closed doors and at clandestine
meetings at shabby restaurants, and taking
from every kiss its sweetness, is the knowl-
edge that one is not playing the game, that
one is not sporting, that in the background
&c hnlO1nSS is
bed without being given a chance to defend
herself.
The woman who has love affair with a
married man must perforce endure such
agonies of jealousy as are almost punish
ment enough for her folly and sin. She sees
another woman bear the name of the man
she loves, and occupy the social position that
he gives her She knows that the man who
tells her he loves her would not ask her to
his house, or introduce her to his friends,
or more than casually greet her on the
streets. She knows that while he tells her
that his wife does not understand him, and
that he is tired Of her, yet that they are
bound together by thousand ties of mutual
interest, and that just because woman Is
a mans wife, sets her apart for him from
all other women.
No other woman in the world goes through
such grinding torment of suspicion, and
anxiety, and jealousy, as does the girl who
is in love with a married man. She knows
no moment in which the green-eyed monster
does not bear her bitter company. There Is
10 peace nor happiness in such love, be-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-30
THE COLORLESS.
Rv II. Addinqton Bruce


~WO men, chatting at street corner, hap
pened to bring up the name of third.
u "Pleasant fellow" said one.
ooh, yes,' responded the other. pheasant
enough. But absolutely colorleSS"
And the conversation promptly shifted to
some other topic--as it usually does when
reference is made to any one who, by COM
mon consent, is regarded as being of "color-
less" personality.
For to define man as colorless is to imply
that he has not done, and is unlikely ever to
do, anything specially distinctive 1t is to
classify him among those lacking, If not in
strength of character certainly in energy, en-
thuSiasm, breadth of interests, and real am
biton.
. It is. in fact, through the absence of these
traits that the coorleSS are made colorleSS and
prevented from impreSsing their fellowme1 IN
any wav Weakness of character, inertia, lack
of enthusiasm, narrownesS of interests, lack OF
ambition, mean non-effectiveneSs in life.
And nobody need be expected to pay any
heed to the on-effective-eSpecally when the
world aboundS in electives compelling adrnlra-
ton or provoking discussion
IN the other hand, because colorleSSneSS is
thus created it obviously is remediable de-
feet It is not a shortcoming with which men
were born and which must forever hamper
them. Men, clearly, can always strengthen
their character, broaden and intensity tnelr
interests and strive to realize some worth while
ambition.
The difficulty is that the colorless do not
appreciate this.
Thew know we'll enough that others achleVe
and attract attention. To Their sorrow they
tnow that to them nobody gives moments
thought But they accept their 1on-effectiveness
as something they cannot help. They account
il their misfortune instead OF recognizing II
for what it actually iS-their fault
If they would but keep their eyes open tney
would see other colorless folk transformed
into colorful ones under the spur of some un-
exnected stimulus. Nonentities hitherto, these
latter now compel the thoughtful consideration
of people who Justly enough, had been wont
to ignore them.
change in the general life attitude has
brought about this happier condition. Ana
every colorless man-unleSS, indeed, ne be OF
organically weak mind-could similarly pront
hv changing his own life attitude.
Mental and moral awakening is what the col
orless need-and, commonly, all that they need
They are not victims of the inevitable. They
need not for all time be unheeded laggardS,
unnoticed stragglers.
Always, or almost always, they can grow
and expand in personality, can accomplish and
impress, if only they will take the trouble to
reorganize their lives.
downright, 1921, by the Associated .Newspa-
perS)
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EINSTEIN.
By DR.. Frank Crane

By DR.. Frank Crane.
There are supposed to be twelve persons
who know what Enstein is talking about.
This number does not include me-
Still, and the common run are able to pick
up few concrete and appreciable pebbles on
the shores of the vastly scientific deep.
And we gather this much at least, that we
don't know as much as we thought we did,
that lot of our supposedly intact scientific
Fundamentals have holes in them, that you
never can tell, and that it all depends.
This is about the residuum of the Einstein
theory when it gets down to where we can
touch it.
And there's wholesome and usable truth in
this vague output. 1t is that the only real
thing is RELATIVELY.
The moon is the size of barrel head when
it rises and of dinner plate when at the
zenith If it came to within mile of us it
would be as big as the whole starry sky, and
if it receded as far as AnturuS 1t would hardly
be the size of pin point Which of all these
sizes is its real size?
Answer: the only real thing, as to size, is its
size in relation to you at the usual distance
you are from it.
This supreme importance of RELATIVELY applies
not only to material objects but to ideas, teel-
ings, and all things human.
Riches CONSIST NOT IN the pie OF pe1 you
own, but in its comparison to the size OF the
pack of others. A rich man in Gopher Prairie
is pker in New York. Wealth is wholly a
matter of RELATIVELY, not of moss.
Whether time is long or short, all depends.
We are informed that fifty years of Europe is
better than cycle in Cathay.
Social position is all relative The leader of
society in Sheridan, Wyoming is lost and
miserable in society at Newport.
The size of Woodrow Wilson depends on
when and where. He is one size of professor
at Princeton, of another as governor of New
Jersey, of another as he appears at Versailles
representing the United States and of another
as ex-president.
To answer the question as to the Trinity or
the Doctrine of Reconsideration, we must
ask, when? Once they meant life and death,
and folks know absolutely all about them;
now most people do not know what they
mean.
We must go back to Heraclitus the Obscure,
of ancient Greece, who held that all things
are Becoming, nothing really Is.
"What is TRUTH" said jesting PLATE. To
reply, we must ask both When and Where
Even happiness is not fixed thing. 1t is
the relation between what you have and what
you think you ought to have.
So don't worry if you don't understand Elm
stein. Cheer up! Perhaps he wouldn't un-
derStand you
copyright, 1921 by Frank Crane.)
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words, Words, Words"
.HE Great photographer" himse

HE ''Great Lexlcographer" himself, as
DR.. Samuel Johnson was called by an
adoring Boswell, would stand in awe
of the latest achievement in dictionaries Be-
gun more than forty years ago and built,
tome upon tome, by multitude of jealous
scholars, the Oxford Dictionary has reached
at length the last word under T. That last
is "zyxst," "a fourteenth-century Kentish
dialect equivalent of the modern (thou)
seest," we are told, and sample of the lynx
eyed research spent upon the great produc-
ton. Back into dim ages went the tireless
word-explorers and out into the highways Of
most recent slang, as well as into the labora-
tory and along the trail of present-day
science, gathering the treasures of that most
wonderful Of human creations, the English
language.
Shakespeare used, in his plays and poems,
some fifteen thousand five hundred different
words-a vel ~ and richness unparalleled
The educated NAL of today has a working
vocabulary between three and four thou
sand words. Our progenitors of the later
Stone Age, or carly Bronze, are supposed to
have had sLar.ely more than four hundred
words, and that number now suffices in GER
tain peasant districts of Europe; there are
South Sea islanders who get along with still
fewer. But the English language contains
according to the Century Dictionary, up
wards of two hundred thousand words, while
the latest edition of the Standard lists some
four hundred and fifty thousand terms
To just what extent the ten-volume Oxford
will add to these records already colossal, Is
not indicated in the press announcements,
but an inference may be drawn from the
statement that there are upwards Of two
million illu 'trativu quotations" 1t Is said,
moreover, that while "zyxst" is the last word
IL the dictionary proper, the Unsuitable
scholars are looking forward to supplement
they do not see how they can get along
without one!
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-30
DOROTHY DIX TALKS

BY DORO THY DIX

cause there Is no faith In It, In her soul the
woman knows that the man who has not
been true to the wife he has sworn to love
and honor will not be true to her, and that
just as she took him away from one woman
so some younger and prettier girl will even
tually take him away from her.
If girl does not expect to marry the man
with whom she is in love, she is booming
herself to barren life, in which she will
have only the husks of affection to feed up
on For this furnished romance she Is CIV
ing up all the love that ends in husband,
home, and children. The mating time in
woman's life is short. 1t is comprised In the
few years of her youth and beauty, and II
she gives these to man who has nothing 10
offer in return for them, she makes los
ing bargain.
There are plenty of women who are fool
ish enough to make this mistake. They let
their youth go by while they play about
with some married man, and let him NIL
their heart so full that they have place
in it for the man they might have married.
And in the end they are left disgruntled old
maids, for when a married man gets tired OF
woman and his tickle fancy is lured by
some prettier face, he has always perfect
~ good ready-made excuse for breaking with
the old love. He can always have an acute
attack of conscience that requires to have
the old growth of affection removed.
Nor need any girl think that she can have
love affair with married man without
endangering her r6puLaClOu mo MdLCeT uOW
innocent and idealstic her affection may BE-
she will never be able to convince scandal
loving world of it. For the world Is worldly
wise and cynical. It knows that the man who
wins a young girls heart, knowing that he
is not free to offer her honorable marriage,
and who takes her youth and her beauty
for his own selfish enjoyment, knowing that
he is robbing her of all the rights of her
girlhood, is no Sir Galahad. He is as yellow
as they come, and is not to be trusted.
To the girl who wants to know If there Is
any wrong in having love affair with a
married man, I would suggest the one in
fa1lible test fer any such human problem
which is to try it on herself.
Let her put herself in the other woman's
place. Let n think Of herself as married
to man she loves, and the mother OF his
children. Let her think Of the years she has
worked and cave to help him get start In
the world; Of the homo they have made to-
gether; of the ole age that she has expect
ed to pass 18th him. Let her think of her
self as having grown middle-aged, and lost
her beauty, and then ask herself II she
would think it right for some girl, pretty
and slim, and young enough to be he1 daugh-
ter, to come along and take her husband
away from her, and break up her home, and
make her children fatherless.
The girl who permits herself to love
married man is both fool and sinner, and
gets the punishment, here and hereafter, OF
both.
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Syndicate
Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-30
The Good of Highway Board
- HE value of a State Highway Commits

sion, which required years of hard
effort in the teeth of prejudiced OPP
position to establish in Georgia, is interest
ingly attested in the auditors report on the
affairs of tina, department. "The business Of
this board" he writes, has grown up al
most overnight from a very small volume to
a large one. For the first six months of the
year 1920 it on a basis of four hum
dred thousand dollars year. For the last
six months it was on a basis of four million
year, and at the rate for the month of De-
cember the total would have run more than
seven million"
That the duties incident to this vast
growth of activities and responsibilities were
we'll performed, without material errors, is
tibute both to the plan and to the per-
sonnet of administration. Had there been no
Highway Department, the business could not
have been handled-indeed, the State could
not have procured the Federal funds nor
have been competent to give counsel in the
expenditure of county contributions and al
lotments.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-30
Condensation for Prisoners

!" HE plan, soon to be inaugurated in the
Federal prison at Atlanta, of paying
the inmates for their productive la
Dor is an admirable step in the right direc-
tion. The sums thus earned, amounting in
some cases to probably four or five dollars
q week, will be credited to the prisoners
account and turned over to him upon his
discharge, a sorely needed nucleus for his
LIES rebuilding. AS things now are ordered,
he receives at the end of his term suit of
clothes, railway ticket home, and ten dol
lars in cash-pitiably little, but incompara-
bly, more than the majority of State prisons
do for the men they turn adrift.
1t is greatly to be hoped tn. the humane
and equally sagacious system to be estab-
lished in the Atlanta penitentiary will COM
mend itself to others, and also will develop
into broader undertakings of this character.
Ohio, under the leadership of Go.ernor Cox
and others interested in penal reforms, has
set wise and splendid example. In that
State prisoners employed in road work, in
Guiding the manufacture of bodybuilding
mahcinery, are compensated under a plan
which directs that their earnings, over the
|cost of maintenance, shall be paid to their
dependents; and similar provisions are made,
as far as possible, for prisoners doing other
kinds of labor. Thus the State avoids, at
least to a measurable extent, the grave in
justi of taking away the support of wom-
len and children and doing nothin1 in re-
|quital.
To punish the innocent along with the
|guilty, as is done when the dependents of
prisoners are left uncared for, is not only
[revolting to the sense of fairness but Is like
wise socially unsound and wasteful. 1t be-
(hooves a State to look to the rights and
welfare of families so crcumstanced, for
sailure to do so inevitably adds to the bur-
gns the community must bear and the
problems it must grapple. The fact is our
general attitude toward persons serving SEN
kences for wrong doing has been woefully
|hort-sighted and awry. Too long have we
BOXED upon them merely as creatures to be
bcked up and punished, having no further
relations to society and no further claim
=upon its solocitude, rather than as men and
s1omen and y. uths to be reclaimed and re-
enerated, if by any means that be possible.
at least to be dealt with as BELTS intel
hgent and humane government. Not senti-
9mentalism, which is destructive Of real mer-
lev, but justice with soul in 1t Is what is
needed, and needed grie ously, in present.
zday penal administration. Substantial reform
There has been. but we are still as far from
where we ought to be in matters of this
Ssort as the head-hunting bushman is from
khe Sermon on the Mount.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-30
The First English Ne1Osbaber
-HE twenty-third Of May will witness

-HE twentythlrd OF May Will witness
the anniversary of signal event in
history-the birth of English jour
zlism, which dates back to two hundred and
{nety-nine years ago, when Nathaniel Butter
published the first English newspaper in
&ondon, May %, 1922.
1.-THE world had known newspapers before
1T time-the Tching-pao, which flourlshed
In China from the year 713 to as late as 1900;
Hhe Acta Dlurna of ancient Rome, and minor
journalistic attempts of ancient civilizations
2n Egypt, Babylon, Assyria. But there was
10 actual newspaper among English speaking
peoples until Buffers day.
His paper, the Weekly Nerves, printed "all
The news of the day upon single sheet
Ind was published regularly week by week
kpon fixed days" It was the outgrowth OF
What were known as continental news letters,
Circulated extensively about Europe as the
td.dle ages drew to close. These were I'M
thentic reports, without fixed dates of pub
nation, to which various correspondents con-
kbuted more or less distorted and "cOlored'
counts of what was going on in the world.
lev were, however, little better than word
mouth gossip. Nathaniel Butter was one
these correspondents, and, through this
lining, became the first English newspaper
kitor.
It is a far cry from Buffers day to the
present. Newspapers have developed from
$ingle sheets, written and printed by one man
n limited number, and published weekly
br when good fortune permitted him the
Sprice OF ink and paper, to tremendous lnstl-
Buttons, housed in great buildings, employ
ng hundreds of people, using the most mod
ern mechanical appliances science can invent
ssued not only daily but sometimes hourly,
travelling over land and sea, furnishing their
news, their laughter and their tears, thelr
scussions, their opinions, frequently their
MY reading matter to countless millions.
Yet Butter and his paper had much in COM
ION with journalism, even in its most ad-
anced stage. Ben Jonson denounced the
Weekly Nerves as "a pamphlet with no truth
LIN it, and King Charles First advertised IN
hts columns for a lost Spaniel. Butter, like
many editors today, had his vicissitudes and
his rewards.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-30
OUIPS AID QUIDD1TlES

An Irishman travelling train was unable
to produce his ticket when the inspector de-
manded it,
81 must have lost it," he explained, after
making thorough search of his pockets.
"But you could not have lost your tickle"
protested the Inspector at must be in your
rockets somewhere"
'You don't know me- replied the lrishman.
81 lost bass drum once"
"He's crazy, your honor" said the policeman
to the magistrate. l found him standing at the
corner scolding his wife"
"That doesn't prove him crazy" rejoined the
judge.
"His wife wasn't there, your honor" added
the officer.
"Mamma, I've got a sweetheart" exclaimed
Carl, lad of seven, one evening on his re-
turn from school, "and she is pretty, too"
After several moments of thoughtful con
sideration of the subject, he asked; "Mother
when we grow up do the boys marry the girls
because they are pretty or just because they
are good like you when papa married you?"
And mother is wondering.
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A motoriSt had been hailed into court, and
when his name was called the judge asked
what the charges were.
suspicious actions, your honor" answered
the policeman who had made the arrest.
suspicious actionS?" queried his honor.
"What was he doing that he seemed to make
you suspicious?"
"Well," replied the officer she was running
within the speed limit, sounding his horn prop
erly, and trying to keep the right side of
the street, so / arrested him."
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-30

Germany has sufficient factories to sup
ply the world with chemicals and dyestuffs
in peace time and she could quickly turn
these factories to the uses of war."-Dr.
Charles H. Herty, American Chemical So
cietY
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-30

Governor Stephens, of California, has de-
MED the request of North Carolina for the
extradition Of Mrs. Marian A. Barrett and
Ashfield Stow, her attorney, charged with
having kidnapped Mrs. Barretts son. William
H. Barrett, from Asheville, N c., last Feb
ruary.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-30

'Politics is game with the cards mark
ed and the dice loaded, Mrs. Maude Wood
Park, president, League of Women Voters.
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! aft a man coughs in your face, bust him
!; the nose and tell the judge he attacked you
18th deadly weapon-the pneumococcus
erm"-Health Commissioner Robertson,
hicago. -.-..---.u- -. -
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-30

"Of every 20 factories destroyed in France
in the war, we have reconstructed Six."-Rene
Vivian former French premier.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-30

There were introduced in the last congress
4 total of about $4,000 bills of this nature
pensions, private claims, etc) and it cost 81
kpiece to print them.-Senator Nose.
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TWenty.Ounce Dog

tiny black-and-tan terrier named Snoo.
pie, which is attracting notice in Paris, can
sit in the palm of hand, and weighs only
one and quarter pounds. 1t wears cam
el-hair robe silk trimmed, with cowel
made by one of the best Paris dressmak-
ers, and has silk handkerchief in its
pocket.
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Arkansas Diamonds

ArkAnSaS U1dIIUNUS
Diamonds mined on the property Of the
Arkansas Diamond corporation, in Pike
county were placed on the market in Little
Rock last week. There were fourteen stones
valued at $500.
The company, Of which Samuel w. hey-
burn. Of New York, is president, has been
operating since the field was discovered
about six years ago.