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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-19
Todau and Seven Years Ago

1" HERE is notnlng mooAsAlhS LA N
story of optimism which that ma
tionally read journal, the New YORK
= commercial, recently carried concerning the
economic outlook of Georgia. Every me- on
the contrary, is buttressed with facts ana
figures of a most substantial nature, all
COM piled by so excellent an authority as Mr.
Martin Calvin, statistician Of the state De
partment of Agriculture. For the ooletuily
disposed, Mr.. Calvin prescribes careIul
look into the conditions of 1920 as com
pared with those of 1913, the year preceding
fhe World War 1t is only by such a COM
parison that we can reach sound judgment
of the present and gain real insight into
the trend of things. To measure a PERIOD
of transition and readjustnent by the stano-
ards of prosperity which prevailed during
peculiarly high war activities Is obviously
unfair. II we would learn the truth of these
times, we should measure them by what Is
normal and for that purpose certain rec
ords of 1913 are opposite and highly inter
esting.
In that year, Mr.. Calvin shows, Georgia
produced sixty-three million, twenty-three
thousand bushels of corn; in 1920 she pro-
duced seventy-six million, five hundred thou
sand bushels. In the year preceding the Wa'
she produced one million seventy-elght
thousand bushels of wheat, and in 1920 two
million one hundred and ten thousand BUSH
els. Similarly large increases appear in oats
rye and other staples, while the gains IN
peanuts and in Irish and sweet potatoes are
still more impressive. AS for livestock
there were many thousand more horses
mules and mich cows on Georgia farms IT
1920 than in 1913, and one million two hun
dred and seventy-seven more swine.
It cannot be denied that these rich IN
creases in food production and the agri
cultural advancement which they betoker
make the Commonwealth much stronger
much steadier and much more certain Of
stable prosperity in the years ahead. The
present has it's difficulties and perplexftiei
but it has also, in SO far as Georgia Is con
cerned the assurance of foundations far firm
er than that of 1913. And what is true Of thil
State is true largely Of the entire South
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-19
Who Is High Authority?

We have it from higl authority that fisl
worms are beginning to stir.-Albany Her
aid
We will leave it to anybody else but thi
one to say whether John Spencer is high au
thority.-Cordele Dispatch.
Spencer is not high authority on fishing
but it is true that fish worms are beginning
to stir and that fish are commencing to bite
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-19
Made i'm America

Figures show that there were 500, 900 900
worth of toys-at retail valuation--on thu
market this year of which 100000 wer'
of American manufacture; $1,000,000 o
Japanese manufacture; $80,OO0,000 made II
Germany; about 100000 worth from
France and other European countries.-Au
gusta Chronicle
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-19
ROCK-A-BYE BABY
BV John Rreck

You would never take the east wild for
nursemaid; it's a lively strain he roars as he
rocks the trees with no temperate blast yet
Natures children sleep in those woody
cradles none the less soundly. Neither paw
nor wing stirs abroad on such day. Chick
adee, woodpecker, and squirrel doze in their
holes while Brer Coon's tall elm sways back
and forth like pendulum, each vibrant twig
grooming a violin accompaniment to the Wig
orouG lullaby.
I have wondered at Br'er Coons choice
Why should he shin up fifty feet to wedge
himself into his Granny where the storm had
torn off big limb, while he has wild range
OF more commodious apartments to choose
from? Perhaps he thinks the snugger he fits
the warmer he sleeps but why climb so la
boriously for that? He - not fir ghteEed; he
was undisturbed a mere fifteen feet up all
last winter. He deserted the old maple for
some other reason.
I have guessed it was BECAUSE, like other
| tree-dwellers, he had 70 fame. to trust, to
brittle timber which frost and winter winds
| lay low. only hawk or a woodpecker ever
nests in dying tree. The hawks choose one
in it's lusty prime, but year after yea, it Ian
guishes under their tenancy as borers and
black ants riddle it unchecked by the visits
| of the feathered tree-doctors who give wide
| berth to any perch which GEARS the marks of
| their ominous claws The voracious insects
| have no terrors for the birds who eat them,
| yet the little redbr"asted nuthatch, who nests
J in deserted woodpecker holes. smears his
doorway with pitch to guard against them.
Brer Coon may dread their attacks on his
winter fur.
Yet as I watch the sway of his eyrie can
not think that caution is all his care. Luxur-
| ious soul, he likes the rocking. 1t is unhy-
genic-the doctors say so--for human in
fants, but that will not deter Brer Coon Give
him his comforts and he will chance the con-
sequences.
| Is it? We VINO have rocked our babies will
have our doubts. We were ol4ce tree-dwell-
ers as we'll as Br'er Coon. So long as baby
hands CLASH natul ally as If to steady them
selves by the nearest branch, so long as bah
feet fold inward If to CLIMB long as
baby eyelds droops to d measured swing and
baby eyeids droop to measured swing and
suspect that Mother Natures wisdom sides
with Br'er Coon
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-19
Nothing Unusual.

''Traveling alone this trip, boss?" asked
the Pullman porter.
eyes, George" replied the little man
"But why do you call me boss? The last tim
was on your train you called me chief"
eyes, boss, but your wife was with yo'
then and l had a spicion she would feel hur
to hear me call you boss."-Yonkers States
man.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-19

Ex-President Taft told at literary dinner a
story about coored man. "a coored man."
he said "knocked at Mrs. Browns back door
and asked for job.
"What's your name?" Mrs. Brown asked.
'Mah names Poe, maam.' he answered. 'Poe,
ehs' said Mrs. Brown. q suppose some of
your family worked for Edgar Allan Poe-did
they1' The colored mans eyes bulged and
he struck himself resoundipg whack on the
chest. why, ma'am,' he said, 'Ah is Edgar
Allan Poe" ', -.--.------
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-19
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
BY JACK PATTERSON
Fitzgerald Gets Syrup Plant.

Syrup can be made from SWEET potatoes Is
now an assured fact, according to govern
ment tests. Congressman Charles r. Crisp
las used his influence in getting the govern
nent to put one of the testing plants in the
third district for not only making syrup, but
other tests along the line of utilizing this
Georgia product for various uses num-
DER of towns were after this testing plant
and the efficient work of the Chamber of
.oAnerce of Fitzgerald landed this propo-
ition. A live chamber of commerce is what
very town must have if it gets anywhere
Ashburn Wiregrass Farmer.
Mould Be Much Worse.
That present conditions are bad enough,
but could be great deal worse, is the be-
lief of a prominent Georgia business man,
who, in writing President B. S. Walker, Of
the Bank of Monroe, quotes the following:
His horse went dead and his mule went
lame,
And a cyclone came on winter day
And blew the house where he lived away;
Then an earthquake came and when that was
done,
It swallowed the ground that his house stood
on;
Then the tax collector, he came around
And charged him up with the hole in the
ground Walton Tribune.
1t Could Happen in Manchester
In Atlanta the other day man was sound
" thrashed by woman. That's a reason
why we don't care to live in Atlanta Man
chester Mercury -.--.-...-.-----.--.-- -4--A---
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-19
Black Art

Sorcery and black art, remarks the
Manchester Guardien's Paris correspond
emit, has again appeared in the French law
court.
M. Salleron Bourgeois, of Touraine, months
ago brought a suit against ore Chateau,
magician, for damages, alleging that the lat
ter had cast a noxious and harmful spell
upon him
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-19
Mould Be Much Worse.
It Could Happen i'm Manchester

In Atlanta the other day man was sound
" thrashed by woman. That's a reason
why we don't care to live in Atlanta.-Man-
chester Mercury
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-29
LAVE ONLY ALLOTTED span
Death Of Trout, Although at Advanced
Age, DisproVes Theory Whleh
Seems Absurd.

IN ancient controversy has been 70
tiyed by the published story Of the
Heath in Dumfriesshire Scotland, OF
. trout which for 20 years had Gtea-
yvta in well.
The fish was caught in an adjoining
streafl-rne River Evan a tributary
1f the Amman. near Moffat, and was
placed in q well formed in burn adj
jacent to q remote railway signal box
4 few miles north of Beattock, on the
taIedcnian main line. The signalman
who AT the time was in charge Of the
cabin took a lively interest in the flsh,
as did also various engine drivers GnG
other railway workers on that sector
Of the line, when intervals permitted
nj their visiting the aquarium" with
It's solitary occupant. The trout grad
ually became quite tame and docile,
and was accustomed to swim boldly
10 the edge of the well to receive til,
bits from visitors In the form of worms
Or insects suitable to its appetite.
II is still argued by some authorities
that unless some accident befalls him
A trout lives on Indefinitely.
Opponents of that theory find sup
port in the account of the deaah OF the
Scotch trout for their opinion that all
fish. even the members of the prihcely
salmon or trout class. have their sp
poizted span Of life.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-29
DEMAND FOR HIPPO TEETH
BUYERS Flock TO Antwerp Four Times
Year to Attend Auction Where
They Are Sold.

The chief ivory market of the worlo
is In Antwerp, where buyers from
everywhere assemble four times year
to attend an auction of this material
Most of It consists of the tusks OF
African elephants, but considerable
quantities of hippopotamus teeth also
figure in the sales. The latter, at an
auction a few weeks ago, brought
prices all the way from thirty-hve
cents to IS a pound, according to quail
ty.
A century ago hippopotamus ivory
was much more valuable than 1t IS to-
day, because it was the preferred ma
terra, for artificial human teeth, oelng
very dense and hard. George WASH
ington had a set of teeth made OF 1t.
But nowadays much better ones are
manufactured of porcelain by the MIL
lion.
At the recent auction above men
toned rhinoceros horns brought S1o a
pound. They are ingeniously carved
mostly for curios. The horn OF the
rhiroceros, by the way, is one OF the
oddities of nature, being composed OF
| closely compaGted hair.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-29
Wonderful Poison Gases

Canned, soliditied poison gas, which
is claimed to be absolutely foolproof
and mobile, has been perfected for use
by the American soldier, according to
Popular Mechanics Magazine. That
two studies-defensive and offensive
gas research-go hand in hand al
ready has been demonstrated, for, in
addition to the development of new
forms of gas army experts at the
Edgewood (Id) arsenal have had to
improve the gas masks to make them
effective against some of the new
gases brought into existence there. In
technical military progress every new
weapon means call upon the ar1nOref
for new defense. AS a result, this
country today has not only gases
which surpass anything used during
the World war, but a mask which, In
recent tests was worn "a hours day
for week, except at mealtime. with
out any discomfort whatever Breath
ing was normal, speaking was simple,
and it kept out all the gases thus far
known.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-29
Yiddish Theater for London.

The Jewish population Of London,
which is about 10000, is at last to
have for the first time a 1iddish the
alter in the West end. It is proposed
to establish a permanent playhouse
for the performance of Yiddish plays
in Yiddish, with Jewish actors, There
is also a project under consideration
for the translation Of classic drama
and the best contemporary plays into
Yiddish for performance in the new
theater The best musical comedies
will also be adapted to performance
there. Jewish actors from many parts
of the world have signifed willingness
to go to London professionally. One
of the promised features is a roper
toire of so different plays to be pro-
duced on so successive nights.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-29
WANTED ALL TO UNDERSTAND
Cicerone at Holy Sepulchre at Jeru-
salem Careful to Impress Gospel
Facts on Visitors.

Either I was particularly fortunate
or others are particularly fastidious.
The guide who showed me the Holy
Sepulchre in Jerusalem was not par
ticularly noisy or profane or palpa'
bly, mercenary; he was rather more
or less sympathetic than the same
sort of man who might have shown
me Westminster abbey or Stratford"
on-Ayon.
He was a small, solemn, owlish old
man, so far from deserving the charge
of not knowing the Bible, he deserved
rather a gentle remonstrance against
his assumption that nobody else knew
it. If there was anything to smile at
In associations so sacred, it was the
elaborate simplicity with which he
told the first facts of the Gospel story.
as if he were evangelizing q savage.
Anyhow, he did not talk like q cheap
jack at a stall, but rather like teach
er in an infant school.
He made it very clear that Jesus
Christ was crucitied, in case anyone
should suppose he was beheaded; ana
often stopped in his narrative to re-
peat that the hero of these events
was Jesus Christ, lest we should fancy
it was ACKNOWLEDGMENT or the duke OF
Wellington. do not in the least mind
being amused at this, but I have no
reason whatever for doubling that he
may have been a better man than l.
rora hin, what should have given
q similar guide in my own country;
parted with him as politely as from
one of my own countrymen.-From
the New Jerusalem by G. K. Chester.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-29
ODD DEVICES FOR PATENTS
Curosities That Have Been Accorded
Place in the Archives of Grea.
London Office,

Some recent curiositics patented in
England are described by the Illus
trateQ London News. There are two
head-washing caps, one of which is
al inverted metal bowl with rubber
ring that fits it tightly to the head and
q spigot by which it may be attached
to a rubber tube; the other is
helmet-lilZe device with an inlet for
water at the top and an outlet back
on the neck.
Others are an automobile for use on
land o. water. 1t has a propeller and
detachable hull, while the fore
wheels are eDcased and act as a rud-
der.
Then there is a railway train fitted
with a conduit passing from the
s1nobestack over the roofs of the cars
to the rear Of the train, through
which smoke, yapor and cinders are
conveyed.
Tor bathing the face there is a basin
with recessed end for supporting the
neck and Il detachable tube through
which the bather may breathe while
soaking her Complexion in the water.
\ protective garment for motorists
and others is made OF a double fabric
containing shock absorbers, i'll the
form of hollow rubber balls.
Another ingenicnS person patents
a buf-er to be placed on the bows Of
ships so rs to lessen the shock Of col
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-29
Great Pianist Particular.

Padcrewski Will not permit anybody
TO sit behind him. says a writer in
Hearst's. AT some Of his concerts hun
drcds Of se@ls could have been added
on the stage, Moreover, in every
Paderewski recital no seats are sold in
tAat part Of the orchestra proper which
is directly behind him. The piano is
SET at a 45-deEree angle, which means
that in the extreme left corner of the
orchestra, looking toward the stage,
number of seats are directly facing
Paderewski's back. Those seats are
empty for Paderewski If they are
behind me, I think they are pushing
my elbows" he says.
One night he complained: ''Wil you
go down to that woman in the seventh
row at the right? She is tanning. 1
do not mind if she fans in time, But
if She cannot do that I cannot play"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-29
WILD DOGS CAUSE PROBLEM
Threaten to Wipe Out the Sheep In
dustry in Some Breeding Districts
in Australia.

Wild dogs are presenting a serious
problem in Australia, according to a
Central News dispatch in the London
Westminster Gazette. The correspond
ent at Broken Hill, New South Wales,
says that unless immediate measures
to protect the flocks Of sheep are
taken, they will have to be replaced
by cattle in the districts north Of
Broken Hill.
The seriousness of the situation Is
described by John Dunno, president Of
The West Darling Pastora1ists' associa-
ton, who states that, although there
has been a good season, pastoralists in
the Darling River district and north as
far as the Queensland border are faced
with one Of the greatest problems
within the memory of settlers in that
part of the country.
Reports are coming to hand from
all parts of the district" he added, "of
the enormous losses incurred owing to
the prevalence of wild dogs. Already
country which before the drought was
admirable sheep country, Is now
stocked with cattle, and likely to con-
tinue to be stocked unless the dog
nuisance Is successfully dealt with"
Last year the western veEmin boor4
was formed at Wflcahi4 and IL 3Uv.
ernment then II power e1nto -.
! 90 for fencing u IL ~
g ln.t So " M : !! 4. ~ 4 ~
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-29
SLUM SETTLEMENTS

Like cases in the arid deserts, the
Salvation Army Slum Settlements are
planted in the hearts of the congested
foreign population of the big cities.
In the eleven of these modern, fire.
proof, business-like structures more
than $4,000 children were cared for
last year in the United States. Crowd
ed to the limit day and night, the de-
mands upon them are always far be-
You'd their resources.
The workers from these settlements
visit thousands Of poor families yearly,
and become acquainted with their
needs and their troubles They know
the fuulity Of preaching religion to
the starving and shivering, and they
provide the bowl of soup and loaf of
bread, the warm garment and the bit
OF medicine and nursing attention that
is needed as the opening for their re.
ligious work
Dressing like the poorest of their
neignboTs in Bingham dress and apron.
bare headed with little shawl about
their shoulders, these women who have
dedicated their lives to the Masters
service so forth with scrub pail, and
brush and scrub floors, wash dishes,
Iaander clothes, and preach, pray and
help the weak, sick and sinful. The
settlements have been called Light,
houses on a Rocky Coast.
The most absorbing and truly altru.
istic part of their work is that of the
nurseries. There the babies and wee
toddlers OF the community, under six
years OF age, are brought by the work
ing mothers on their way to the shop
factory. The little ones are tended,
fed, bathed, amused, put to bed in
snow cribs for their naps-and given
loving care-for five cents a day, if
the mother can pay it. If she cannot,
Baby gets the care anyway. One is
never refused while there is room
for it.
The nickel does not pay for the
bread, butter, milk and soup served
them at noon and at four o'clock, but
the payment of it does help to restore
self-respect to the mother.
Toys are provided, and the first les
sons in cleanliness, decency, unselfsh-
ness and Americanism are inculcated
in these little forei gners who will some
day bear fruit in splendid citizenship.
The Stun workers also coax the bad
boys and girls of the neighborhood
into the Halls for Sunday School to
keep them from the demoralizing inf1u,
ence Of the streets.
They likewise conduct Mothers
meetings where with a cup of tea and
caEe the hard worked women in the
bright cheer Of the uplifting service
and attractive surroundings get in.
spiration and encoura cement to try to
der their condition.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-29
The NaYipenduIuna.

One of the problems which naval
architects have to confront is the roll
ing of a ship on the waves, and the
"navipendulum" is an invention for
dealing with it experimentally.
The apparatus consists OF two
parts: A plate to which motion cor
responding to that Of a portion of the
surface of a wave is impaired, and a
pendulum of a peculiar shape which
rolls upon the moving plate in the man
ner Of vessel supported by water.
The same pendulum can be made
to represent different vessels Of given
size and shape BY adding or Yenoving
artificial resistance to the oscillatory
motion.
This instrument has been employed
y study III rtlllng Of The Italian bat
t1oSkapo - 1lf - tlOse & ot
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-29
Cheap Light.

Science and Invention describes a re-
cent achievement of a French scientist
who has successfully tried out in his
house a scheme for operating electric
lights without cost.
Upon his water-supply pipe he has
fitted high-speed water turbine.
which drives a dynamo, charging q
storage battery. Every time a faucet
is turned on in the house the stream
of water is put to work at loading the
battery, which furnishes current for
the lights. 1T is simply utilizing en-.
ergy that is ordinarily wasted" says
the inventor.-Philadelp Ledger.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-29
CaurCh directory.

-lETHODIs9 LtLS oOpAL SOUTH.
Sunday Senool 9.45 a. NJ, Preach.
ins at II 3. 70. and SEQ 9. Il. each
Sunday. Prayer meeting Wednesday
night 81 soc p. IN,
s. K CoCARELr,
Pastor
LUTHERAN
Evsrt Sunday Il A NJ and 7.30
Z. NJ. REV o.F. KUHEs, Pastor.
CHRISTIAN.
Second and Fifth Sundays Of each
mouth al Il a. ii. and 7.3U ? Nj.
REV. j. D. HAMAkER.
h4rURMED
81 PauPs 90 dstock-2nd and 4th
Sundays A. NJ. Every Sunday night
talv&ry-1st ans 3rd Sundays "A NJ
REV. w. Il. CAUsEY, Pastor.
WHITE CHAPEL
Preaching LIST Sunday afternoon
$50. 3rd sunday night 1870.
Sunday school at 10000 clock every
sunday morning except LIST Sunday
afternoon at $50.
OAK LEVEL
treachiug ISL Sunday lght 1t $50.
Bird sunday afteruGuu . $50.
Sunday schooj every SUNDAY morn
tu1at f:01 O'Clock lXeaot Bid Sunday
afternoon at $50
". G, WINw7N. ?. Z.
LUTHERAN CHARGE.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-29
Whale Bones for BUILDINGS.

The scarcity of building material is
not worrying Avalon. Calf, residents.
For twenty years several huge whale
ribs have been bleaching in the sun
IN front of the Avalon Tuna club. An
enterprisiIg contractor sought the
owner of the historic bones. He didn't
want them for museum, but they
would make the supports for whale
Of a bungalette," he explained.
Canvas. wallboard and flooring have
been added to the bones and the pop
plar little Catalina island city has &c
quired new shelter ~ ~ la1n NJ
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-04-29
Light Railways in New Zealand.

The minister of public works an
nounced in his annual statement to
parliament that the proposal to con-
struct privately owned light railway
lines in different parts of the Domin-
ion to connect up rural sections with
the government main trunk line would
be encouraged and efforts made to
push the project. The construction Of
these lines will call for a large amount
of material as well as construction
machinery and rolling stock.-Scien-
tific American.