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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
TRAINING BY FEAR
BY H. Arlington Bruce
ITO those parents who cling to the an
cient notion that children must be

ITO those parents who cling to the an
cient notion that children must be
- terror ID in order to be disciplined
effectively, I commend little story from
real life having as it's principal figure a
young and ambitious lawyer.
At the time of this story the lawyer was
in a pitiable mental condition. He had been
working hard to gain foothold in his pro-
fession, was developing good clientele, and
suddenly found himself unable to work at
all.
II can no longer concentrate" he explain
ed to the physician whom he consulted. "My
mind seems in daze. [ sit at my desk, but
only to handle letters and documents in a
mechanical, unthinking way
''Then I must rise and pace the room or
go out to walk the Streets torturing myself
with the dread that I am becoming insane.
And I know that to be the case. For there
is insanity in the family, and [ can plainly
see [ am losing my own mind"
For his part, the medical man to whom
he talked could plainly see that the lawyer S
distress of mind was such that suicide was
a not unlikely outcome unless relief were
found for him. Also he was we'll aware that
oyerwork had played a part in causing the
collapse.
But, being a medical psychologist as well
as a physici Il, he did not make the mistake
of assuming that overwork was the sole
cause and that rest was the medicine most
needed. He knew that while overworz has
certain injurious effects, it alone would not
suffice to produce the mental agony so vivid
ly in evidence.
That had it's roots, he did not doubt, in
the obsessive fear of insanity But whence
did this fear itself arise? Plenty of people
with insanity in their families-even people
who overwork-go through life without ever
experiencing morbid dread of themselves
acquiring insanity.
Those who do develop such dread are
people of uncontrolled emotionality, and par
ticuIarly people who have had severe emo
tional shocks in early life. What great emo
tional shocks, if any, had this patienS had?
None, was the patients own answer
wrong answer, as psychological analysis
showed. In fact, it was found that he car
ried in the depths of his mind poignant
memories of cruel treatment by relative
who believed in frightening children to make
them good.
Often, it appeared, the patient lived again
in dreams the fear-inspiring incidents enact
ly him, they had subsconsciously persisted to
re-emerge in the form of the special fear
Of insanity after he had weakened himself
by overwOrk.
AS was demonstrated by the rapidity with
which the fear of insanity abated when the
underlying fears were recalled to conscious
remembrance. In ten days it gone, and
in the five years that have since elapsed it
has not returned.
Truly, those who would govern children
by fear rather than through love are erring
in a way that may have catastrophe conse-
guences. ,'...
Copyright, 1921, by the Associated News
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
Modern Methuse7ahs

N N ETHUSELAH may have lived to a
mi ripe old age not vouchsafed
the men and women of today, but
twentieth century records do not lack evil
dence that the longevity of man has been les
sened> little, if any, in the last two or three
centuries
One notes, for instance, in the Philadel-
phia Record, the case of DR.. Che Choy, a
Chinese, who was born in 1898, practiced
medicine for many years in Cuba and died in
New York in 1913 at the age of one hundred
and fifteen. Or there is Mahala Ayers, col
ored, of Philadelphia, who passed away at
the same age in 1914.
Illustrations might be multiplied some of
Them most striking by reason of the activity
shown by centenarians. The Rev. Joseph
Garrison. a circuit rider for many years. did
not retire from the ministry until his one
hundredth birthday in 1912. Carsanius
Paigo, of Joliet, Ill, sold papers on the
streets within few weeks of his death in
1913 at the age of ninety-five. Daniel Nc
Clane Of California, born in 1915. learned
to drive an automobile when he was 1O4.
Should one desire to map out plan of life
to enable him to reach the great age Of these
notable examples, he might have difficulty
in hitting upon the right recipe, according to
"entenarians quoted by the Record. "Frugal
habits and fresh air." was the advice of
lanes Livermore, who died at 101 in the
year 1913. On the other hand, 'Eat every
tn1ng you want, cOunseled MRS. CnaflOtte
Riddick, who lived to be 112. "Shun doc
-ors," was the remarkable tip of Samuel
Kiefer. who sawed cord of wood on his
one hundred and fourth birthday. Equally
extraordinary was the motto of Mrs. Rebecca
Burns, 115. Cat onions twice day. she
sold. Christian Nelm. at 100. said he had
never smoked. chewed tobacco or tasted al
oohol in his life; but Thomas Morris. who
claimed / % years. used LIQUOR. smoked. drank
strong caffee and ate heavy meals in the mid
lie of the noht. Ore m0ht even go to the
extreme of BENJAMIN Woo1ev born in 1907,
Tho said when they gave him a bath at the
"firmarv when. he was 101 years Void, that
Il was his first.
The Record vouches for the authenticity
= its examples. but it refuses to recommend
Nair ru1es. thereby proving its wisdom. for
- would be an extraordinary person. indeed,
Tho could live one day and keep them all.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
Romance IN the Dry Era

awy YHEN prohibition scared the land, a
M wall went up not alone from the
W brewers and the bartenders, but
from novelists, short-story writer's, motion
picture producers, fiction makers of all kind,
in fact, who saw ir the drouth the destruc-
ton of many of their pet scenes and favor
tie characters.
What. they asked, was to become of the
cocktails with which the hero always forti-
fed himself before setting out to propose to
the only girl? What would replace the IA
nous barroom scene where the yeggmen
planned the robbery of the millionalress,
home as they whispered over their beer in
one dark corner? What about the gilded
temptations of Broadway into which the in
nocent country girl was inveigled after sew
eral sips of champagne? Where would be
the brass rails, the clinking glasses, the fat
but honest brewery-wagon driver, all the
alcoholic atmosphere which Invariably form
ed the enticing background for the usual
best-seller?
The answer is not far to seek for the writ
ers have been even more ingenious than the
bootleggers themselves. Go to the nearest
movie, or the nearest book store, and you
will discover that America, the Sahara, is
wetter in her literature and her pictures
than ever she was in the old regime. Where
once thevhero had but few ways and places
in which to drink his cocktail, he now has a
hundred. He carries it in his cane, he ex-
tracts it from his safe, he tucks it into his
hat-band his trouser cuff; he freQuents
back alleys, Easements, households, secre-
tive cabarets, mysterious clubs; his liquid
adventures, in fact would be enough to fill
several volumes or four or five reels in
themselves.
The newspapers no sooner carried the tale
that one driver of a milk-cart had been
caught with load of moonshine than milk
men were libeled in hundred short stories
and picture houses from coast to coast.
They no sooner, printed the story that mill
lionaire's private car was raided in Florida
than the authors and the scenario writer's
proceeded to stock private cars with enough
bottled in bond whisky to float several bat
tleships. In short, were one to take as typi-
1al all the illustrations he encounters on
screen and in story of violations of the pro-
hibition law he would wonder we're he living
in America or that jolly France.
At least, the writer's should have no OBJ
lection now to prohibition on grounds of
dearth of material. The dry era has open
ed up to- them illimitable field for the
imagination-a truly, so to speak, intoxicat-
ing prospect.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
The Average Man and
Professor E;nste1n

FTFR ALL" said Professor Einstein,
~ after trying in vain to explain his
theory of relatively to an audience
of New. York newspaper men, "that is some
thing about which the average ran does not
have to worry"
And the reporters, being average men,
did not worry, but one and all betook them
selves to their offices and interviewed Profess
sor Enstein to the extent of several columns,
wherein there was nothing to enlighten other
average men concerning the theory of rela-
tivity.
The most striking thought one gets from
their account of Professor Einstein, in fact,
is this-what a comfortable thing it is, any
way, to be an average man. He has his
electricity his telephone, his street car, his
automobile, his newspaper, his clothing, his
very food without knowing much, nor caring
greatly about where they came from or why.
Were he pressed for an explanation of these
comforts, he might be able to elucldate thelr
origin-or he might not. But why should
he? He has them; and he is an average
man and does not have to worry.
Such has been the comfortable career o.
the average man since time began. He did
not have to worry about the shape Of the
world; eventually he learned without effort
that it was round. He did not have to think
cut the theory of gravitation for himself; it
was put into words of one syllable for him.
He does not have to work out the problems
of his transportation or his meals or his
clothing as did his forefatheps, the pioneers;
Or vided he has some small means, they are
res dy to his hand.
The average man may simply lean BACK
and laugh at the Einsteins of the world just
as the Newtons were laughed at and the Co
lurnbuses and the Fultons. He knows that
some day, provided Professor Einstein is
right, some man not quite SO average as he
is, will reduce the mysterious to comprehen-
sion Meanwhile, let the Professor have his
little secret. But between chuckles, the av-
erage man might spare moment to thank
the gods that not all the world is composed
of average men.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
REMARKABLE REMARKS

81 consider myself just as mucL worker
today as I was when I was driving spikes at
a dollar day. Hard work well done leads
to brain work. Brain work is what pays
Charles M. Schwab.
"Some men worry their heads off because
they think they are not getting credit for
what they do. Then they don't do their jobs
up to the scratch. John j. Browning, in
ventor of machine gun
''You can't lose if you won't. You lose
because you give up Frank A. Vanderlip.
"The cIinging vine type of woman has all
but passed away. The baby doll type is
doomed '-Caroline Kelley, executive secre-
tary, National league Of Women Voters.
cit is possible that the excess profits tax
can be repealed without resort to any new
extensive taxes to take its place. "-Senator
Boise Penrose chairman, senate finance COM
mittee.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
Germany Rejects Bo1shev;sn1

TIME apprehension once widely felt that
war-crushed Germany might turn Red
and, in league with Bolshevist Russia,
become as much menace as when Potsdam
was in the saddle, is dissolving. Restless
she undoubtedly is, and naturally so with
problems. of reconstruction pressing hard on
every hand and thousand knotty questions
besieging her still experimental government.
But it is not the restlessness of the Petrograd
radicals who pulled down Kerenskys democ-
racy and hoisted to power the sly, wolfish
Lenine.
There, is certain middle-class, Saxon
like stolidness in such revolutionary senti-
ment as, thrives between the Rhine and the
Baltic. Had it not been SO, the Bolshevists
would have carried the day long ago. They
have been particularly persistent and adroit
in their. German campaign, reinforcing
propaganda with deftly applied gold. And
it a chance of success there was the effort
was well worth Lenines while, for nothing
could have r 1t more power of penetration
and sustainment into Lis cause than Teuton
alliance,
But all evidence indicates that the scheme
has raveled out. German Socialists of even
'eA more drastic types have gone into Russia,
studied the Soviet experiment, and returned
to- warn their countrymen against it's wretch
ed folly. Moreover, upfIares within Germany
have been explainable by local and particu-
lar conditions, not as a response to imported
doctrines. The latest outbreaks, serious as
they were in places and showing sigrfs of Red
leadership, left the mass of the population
unmoved.
The failure of Sovietism to establish itself
in Germany is the more significant as pres
age of it's reputation by Russia. Had it
taken firm root in Germany, il well might
have oVerspread a large part of Europe and
have emenaced the world. But finding no
Judgment in Teutonic thought and impulse,
it bids fair to Wither away.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
.5Just;ce IN GEORGIA
rHE : expedition and orderlinesg

rTHE expedition and orderliness with
which the death Farm murder case
has been carried from Indictment to
verdict is credit to Newton county and an
example for other communities and other
States throughout the nation. Within little
more than a fortnight after the grewsome
crime was brought to light and less than five
days after the trial began, a jury Of twelve
men drawn from the countryside and towns
round about, found the accused guilty under
the, evidence and the law.
Ashigh and solemn message it is that goes
forth to the world from this panel of seven
farmers, two merchants a clerk, a barber
and a druggist-plain, upright citizens seek
ing to find truth and do justice without favor
or fear. message it is that makes every
thoughtful Georgian proud Of his Common
wealth and heartened over her future, for it
declares, not in words only, but by pro-
foundry impressive act, that the law shall be
upheld, that wrongdoing shall be condemned,
that righteous dealing must prevail, for even
the 1oWliest and poorest in the land.
To pass upon the guilt or innocence Of
prisoners eDafore the bar is not within the
province of newspapers, and The Journal
should be appreciation, always and every
where, of earnest and intelligent efforts to
arrive at truth and to administer justice
without respect to persons. 1t is upon these
plain and r-al principles that our clvli1za-
ton and prosperity our progress and happl-
ness land honor as people depend. To vlo-
late or ignore them, howsoever obscure the
victim may be, is a wrong, not only against
a. hapless indil idual or group, but against
the common security and well-being OF us all
Ages and ages mankind has been strug-
cling to m ster this lesson and has not learn
o vet how wide is it's import or now lneA-
nrable its doom to States and peoples VINO
traInpIe it l. IN. But despite the slo"hess
and laundering and forgetf1lness, the RANKS
of those the world around who belleve III
dealing uprightly with all men at all times
grow apace; and wherever that spirit domi-
mates. goodwill prevails and good fortune -
sure to abide
As evidence hat this wise spirit marches
forward in our beloved Georgia. the effort of
Newton county do justly for the sake OF
Justice, Is notable and in the deepest
sense historic. To every one who stood for
that high standard, from Judge HUTCHINSON
and Solicitor General Brand and Sheriff
Johnson and all 9th officials. on through to
rank and file of a citizenry that kept its head
cool and its conscience active, the State and
the common country offer earnest commenda-
tion.7 Sz=s
There was quibblng in this case, no jot
of that s1aw'3 lelay'' which sometimes makes
the public impatient of court procedure. No
sooner was the evidence available than it was
laid before the grand jury, and no sooner
heard than indictments were returned. Thence
to the verdc, the case moved promptly,
without prejudice or passion
This is, the spirit of justice in Georgia. May
it ever be lifted up
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
OBSERVATIONS

The real history of the World War is writ
ten in national debts.
A low-rate ton of freight in the hand IL
worth two I1igh-rate tons in the bush.
All people may not want tariff but all
people want it settled right away quick.
The modern Horace Greeley advises.
young man, come west and catch up with
the country
Airplane flight to 14,000-feet altitude re-
stored speech to mute. It'd make most OF
us lose our voices.
If you envy the Hardings, just think OF
the mud that's tracked into their White
House by he flood of sight-seers.
A lot of folks who know Speaker Of the
American league have no idea who'll be
speaker in congress-and care less.
The man who wrote, There is no place
like home" probably stayed downtown for
dinner during housekeeping time.
The old-fashioned efficiency expert who
used to wear tortoise-rim spectacles now
ries volume of graph-charts that look like
photographs Of Lightning ...-.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12

One, to go it alone trusting no other coun-
try and building ships as fast as we can to
keep any other nation from building faster;
the other, get the powers together and
see whether a practical scheme can be de-
vised to safeguard tho nations who are will
ing to lessen their ornaments.
The women's committee calls itself group
of opportunists and insists that now is the
psychological time for a conference because
the people who pay the bills want it, because
militarism is plunging them into national
bankruptcy and because a conference is a
reasonable proceed7 such as any business
would hold in the event it was swamped by
overhead expenses.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
Perfumed Grapefruit

Lue Gin Gong, noted horticulturist, whose
estate near Leland, Fla, is one of the show
places of central Florida, has produced an
other remarkable variety of citrus fruit a
perfumed grapefruit which when placed in
room permeates the atmosphere with an
odor unlike that of any other member of the
citrus family. The horticulturist has one
rec Of the variety in bearing.
Lue Gin Gong is the originator of the
Lue Gin Gong orange, named after it propa-
gator, and on his estate has several trees of
this variety with oranges which have been
on the trees from one to three years.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12

France has lost approximately 1871 per
cent of her population since the 1911 census,
according to the early returns Of the 1921
census In a fourth of the population area
including the city of Paris and eighteen de-
oartments,, three departments showed total
gain of 40 900. while fifteen departments lost
$4,000. Paris, which was believed to have.
greatly increased was found to be almost
stationary.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
Around the World
TTi-Weekty News Flashes From All Over
the Earth
Mysterious Theft

A diamond broker at Amsterdam recently
sent by registe-c post 20 his brother in Ant
werp sealed package containing unset dis
monds worth 10000 guilders. Upon re-
ceipt, the brother found the seals intact, but,
in some mysterious manner the diamonds
had been extracted and in THEN place were a
number of ball bearings for bicycles
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
Alcoholic Melons

F. H. Chandler, prominent melon grower,
has contracted to raise one acre of water
melons for each of three real estate dealers
in Burlington, Chandler to receive 81 for
each melon that equals or exceeds 10 per
cent alcoholic contents.
When the melons are half grown Chandler
will plug each melon and insert in the cavity
from which the plug comes a special yeast
of his own invention. The rind part of the
plug then will be replaced, covered with
grating wax and sealed in place with ad-
hesive strips According to Chandler, the
yeast acts on the natural sugar contents of
the melon and Immediately begins to develop
alcohol in the tissues.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12

Strawberry wine may be made, the gov
eminent says, for "non-beverage purposes"
What do you do with it-rub it in your
hair?-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12

Duty always comes before pleasure-fn
the dictionary. Petersburg Wa.) Index
Appeal.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
Editorial Echoes.

Grover Bergdoli writes he hopes to get
back when Harding gets in; if Grover does
get back it probably won't be only Harding
who gets in.-Philadelphia North American.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
PraYs 1000 DAYS

The Rev. Kojun Yoshiza, dean of an Osaka
Buddhist temple, has returned to Japan after
spending 1000 days alone on an islet in Lake
Biwa in meditation and prayer.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
Cleveland Factories

Automobile plants at Cleveland, O., have
1900 more employees than they did month
ago, gain of "a per cent, according to the
monthly survey conducted by the chamber of
commerce in cooper tfAn with the United
States department of labor.
Gains of AZ per cent were reported by
plants manufacturing food and kindred prod
ucts, per cent by textile houses and 5.3 per
cent by thirteen miscellaneous factories
Ninety-seven plants, normally employing ap-
proximately 100000 persons, reported.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
Petition for Beer From Hawaii

A resolution petitioning congress to sane
ton the manufacture and sale in Hawaii of
beer containing 1-2 per cent, and wine con-
tanning IS er cent alcohol, has been intro
duced by Representative Evan Da Silva, of
Hilo. The resolution said that the people of
Hawaii had no opportunity to express their
convictions on prohibition and that drunken
ness has increased in the territory since pro-
hibiton became operative.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
Passion Play Again

The village elders of Obermmergau, Ba-
varia, have voted to enact the assion Play in
1922. The last presentation was given in
1910.
The peasants who portray the sufferings
and death of Jesus Christ in fulfillment Of a
VOW made in 1884 to present the Passion
Play every ten years, as an expression Of
gratitude for having been spared from a
plague, we're unarle to enact it in 1920 be-
cause of the havoc which the war wrought
among the performers and musicians
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12

Looking toward to greater use of the air
by military and commercial airlanes, Presi
dent Harding has directed the National Ad
visory, Committee of Aeronautics to name a
special committee to investigate and formu
late "rules of the air. which later may be
made the basis for legislation providing a
federal code of aviation.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-12
New Diving Suit

That he can dive 500 feet into the ocean
and still work comfortabl, and easily Is the
contention of Frank Walters diver and in
ventor of an aluminium diving suit. In a re-
cent test he reached a depth of 396 feet, said
here to be a worlds record
= The suit is built of five-eighth and one
half inch metal and weighs 800 pounds. In
making his recent descent Walters added
fifty pounds of lead to the soles of his shoes.
Owing to the rigidity of the suit, pressure
at the depth attained was but forty pounds
to the square inch inside the suit, while it
reached ITO pounds on the outside.
The suit has ball-bearing joints and arti-
fetal hands. 1t cost about $4,000 to hBild