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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-13
is MAN A GAME ROOSTER?
BY DIR. Frank Crane

A recent editorial in the Chicago Tribune
says:
illusions regarding universal peace begin
with the conviction that human beings have
an affection for each other and that the
plain people of one nation would love the
plain people of another if mischievous gov
ernments would stop making trouble artif-
cially''
The editorial then goes on to say that the
common people are beligerent, prejudiced,
proud, and intolerant. The mass of the COM
mon people instinctively have a contempt or
dislike to the mass of people composing an
other nation. They are enemies of anything
alien and scornful of other customs and
habits.
The editorial indicates hat mankind nat
urally runs to war, that it is their govern
ments and statesmen that hold them back.
1t is refreshing once in while to see a
frank statement even of the most abomi-
nable nonsense.
1t does us good to hear the infidel clearly
express his iaeas. And this sort of talk which
the Tribune gives is the only real and dan
gerous kind of intidelity.
1t is the crtdO of Lnfuith in the people.
And it is simply because the world has gone
on believing that SO long that it has wallow-
ed so long in the slough c. contention.
He that Beieveth not shall be damned.
This does not refer to unbelief in some theo-
logical credo, but exactly to the kind Of mis-
chief-making unbelief expressed in the article
quoted. That is to say, Unbelief in Human
Nature.
1t is this Unbelief that ails the individual,
the nation, and the world at large.
1t is this Unbeief that has made our peni-
tentiaries schools of crime instead of reform
atory institutions.
There never has been an advance made in
human welfare that has not been due to
Faith in the people. And there never has
been a slump into perversion, violence, foul
living, and twisted thinking that has not
been due to Unfaith in the people.
There are two persistent delusions in the
world. One is that mankind is essentially
bad. And the other is that he can be cured
by force.
Neither of these delusions has ever work
ed. And yet the people who call themselves
shreWd and sophisticated go on believing
lem.
The queer part of it is that the pessimist
perks himself up as being practical. He is
the most impractical of Observation-Disclosures. If
you would read history and consult facts you
would see tat men, neither nc vidually no"
in groups, have ever been helped by doubling
them, curslng them, or hurting them. But
hat they have always been helped by believ-
ing in them and helping them.
After all, the eternal war is between the
believer and the infdel, if we strip these
words or their theological connotations.
For it is u war between those who believe
in the human race and it's incurable goodness
and who are willing to trust men and who
are even ready to base their business and
on the other hand, those who consider every
man rascal, every nation an enemy, and
the men of the world nothing but lustful
guats, vicious serpents, and contentious
game roosters.
Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-13

in one arm. He almost forgot to mention the
latter disability, the doctor said.
1t was also found that he had not fully
recovere! from sort of paralysis of the
throat, arms and legs. The We! said that he
had always been too busy to file a claim for
compensation, before, but that while work
ing in the noun ANS he saw a poster an
nouncing that the cleanup squad was COM
ing to Stockton, SO he decided to go there
for an interview. He was rated as SO per
cent disabled and therefore entitled to $40
a month compensation.
When the cleanup squad sat in Hartford,
Conn.,, a veteran came before it. He showed
the doctors of the squad a wound in his
left side that made them stand aghast The
head of the cleanup squad was called into
the room and he, too, admitted that in his
crowded experience in the department with
disabled ex-service men, Re had never seen
such CHASTITY wound. This soldier had not
received penny Of allowance since his dis
charge over two years ago.
An explosive bullet had opened wound
across his left side, just above the hip, over
IA inches long, and had forced the hip out
SO that the cavity was from to inches
deep. It had not yet fully healed and the
veteran applied for compensation inasmuch
as he was unable to work.
Humorous incidents come to light in con-
nection with this work as the unemployment
situation leads some Of the ex-service men
to strain a point in order to obtain COM
pensation. In Kno xville, Tenn, young man
presented himself and told of his affliction,
which he was informed was not compensate.
The young man was taken cback by this
prompt dismissal of his argument and
paused moment. Suddenly his hand began
to tremble while resting en- his knee as he
said, II am also very nervous"
In some parts of the hill country Of Ten
nessee and West Virginia the government
representatives with the cleanup squads
were mistaken for ''revenooers." In other re-
mote districts they were mistaken for draft
officials who the less 1iterate portion of the
population believed were searching for draft
evaders. One agent of the Veterans bureau
who had preceded the squads for the pur-
pose of making the advance arrangements
was picked up by a group Of men in an
automobile who offered to take him to his
destination. He accepted the offer and got
in the car but he had to rest his heels on
several demijohns of "corn Hkker.' The trip
was interrupted in several places while de-
liveries were being made.
In Buchanan, Virginia, Ian who had
his face almost blown away by gasoline
explosion in France told the cleanup officers
that he did not know that he was entitled
to compensation because she wasn't any hero
soldier and didn't get shot, but just got
blew up trying to put fire out in camp"
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f-llow woman who is pleasant to live with,
and who makes cheerful home. No man
looks forward to returning Of an evening to
home where a grouchy, sullen wife is wait
ing to haul him over the Goals about every
thing he has done and forgotten to do.
Furthermore, any man who is afraid OF
his sweetheart, may be very sure that he
will live in abject terror of his wife, for the
girl who does not conceal her TEMPER before
marriage, will not hesitate to give it full rein
after marriage. When she is husband-hunt
ing a woman puts her best foot foremost,
and it is a safe bet to estimate her faults at
about ten times their apparent face value.
We speak of marriage rs a gamble, lot
terry, leap in the dark. 1t is that only be-
cause we shut our eyes to the danger sig
nails that every man and woman unconscious
ly hold out, and that we Light see in time to
have ourselves if we were not purblind fools
Any man in his senses, for instance, must
know that if he marries a girl with whom
he always has to agree to save row, he will
be henpecked out of his life.
Any man in his senses, for instance, must
know that il he marries a girl with whom he
always has to agree to save a row, he will
be henpecked out of his life.
The man who marries the girl who is sus-
picious and jealous would never even dare to
take his own mother out to lunch after he is
married.
The man who marries the girl who runs
her own family, and whose mother and father
are afraid Of her, will never be anything but
an upper servant in his own house.
The man who marries a girl who dresses
beyond her means will toll all Of his days to
pay her bills, and never be more than a jump
ahead of the sheriff.
The man who marries a sloppy, untidy,
shiftless girl will have to eat meals that
would kill an ostrich, and live in house that
is like pig sty.
The man who marries nervous, neurotic
girl will pass an exciting existence between
Mysteries and scenes.
Whereas, on the other nand, the man who
marries good-natured, sensible, reasonable,
thrifty girl may count on getting a wife whose
price is above rubies, and who will be real
helpmate to him.
There are plenty Of both kinds of girls,
and if a man gets the wrong sort it is his
own fault because he picks her out. She's
his choice.
If a man wants to be happy, though mar
ried, let him watch out for the danger signal,
and when a girl flashes the red light of a
high temper. or unreasonableness, or ex-
travagance. or laziness, and thrift1essness be-
fore him to beat it back to safety.
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best-sellers has been constrasted unfavorably
by American critics with the French school,
which has the courage to make story end
unhappily. Yet, reverting to the newest
American school, it may be questioned II
even the "Pollyanna Brats" and "Rosamond
with her lead on heginald's shoulder in the
moonlight should not be preferred to the
dreary and depressing inconclusiveness Of
Main Street. and it's ilk.
Why not a reversion to swashbuckling and
romance in slashed Enthusiastically
slashed by forty-two-inch rapiers?
Still, one Jeffrey Farnol has been attempt
ing that, with results that really ought to
be illustrated by the most esotted artists of
the futurist or geometrical school.
The shoes of Robert Louis Stevenson and
Dumas, pere, remain lamentably vacant.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-13
The Four-Po1ver Pact
"HE four-Power pact, by far the largest
attainment of the Arms Conference

II
attainment of the Arms Conference
I'D to this time, is more important
for what it eventually may become than for
what it Immediately proposes. Highly i'm
portant 1t would be simply as an agreement
among America, Great Britain, France. and
Japan binding themselves for period OF
ten years to respect one anothers existing
rights in the Pacific and to confer Jointly
with a view to concord in case of disputes
which wonted diplomacy cannot settle.
This in itself will be a mighty influence
for world peace. Supplanting the Anglo
Japanese treaty, which was in the spirit of
the old rather than of the new international
thought, it will bring into liberal co-work-
ing the nations having the widest response
bilities of the time. To their far-flung rela-
lions it will apply the conserving principle
of settlement by conference instead OF by
conflict 1t wall give to reduction of arma-
ments, for which it prepares the way, the
further significance and effectiveness OF
pledge to pause and take common counsel
when tempers wax warm. We will shorten
our swords, these Powers would say, and
then, if we are mad, will count ten. This
means much.
Il will mean more however, if in time it
leads, as probably it will, to larger CO.
operating group, in which America will sit at
a tat where all countries may gather to
discuss their common welfare and to pre-
serve and promote goodwill. The principle OF
international confe' ence for the general veal
is the same whether applied to fou. nations
or to forty. This would not be true of a
selfish alliance, defensive though that might
be termed; of anything resembling the
old balances of power which accentuated
the very differences and dangers they were
supposed to avert. But where the object is
in all sincerity the prevention of war and
the advancement of the common interests OF
mankind, nations an join together with
never fear of ENHANCEMENT. The four
Power pact is prophetic just the League
covenant was prophetic. The two are not in
conflict, but are expressions OF the same
fundamental faith in reason and right, and
of the same wise purpose to spare humanity
needless agonies. What the ultimate rela-
lions OF this pact and that covenant may
be, it is not now necessary to inquire. In
deed, it matters little in whose name the
devils of war are asst out, If only the purg-
ing and healing go forward. So widely and
so closely interknit, however, are the inter-
ests of our modern world that discussion of
the affairs of any 4our nations needs must
involve discussion of the affairs of them all.
II today America, Great Britain, France and
Japan sit at the conference table, with
Italy, China and Others in neighborly near
ness, tomorrow they must bic Germany, Rus
STA and the rest come and talk matters over.
For there can be justice to none unless there
be justice to all; and only in an atmosphere
of general goodwill can the worlds grim
proc ems. economic, political and social be
thought effectually out and pressed to q
happy issue.
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Gro,O;ng-Pa;ns of Literature
IN a delightful volume of Renaissance

TN denghtful volume or "reminiscences,
"Forty-odd Years in the Literary Shop
James l.. Ford comments with engaging
candor and spirit on some of '-'e growing
pains of American literature,'' which, in the
opinion of Mr.. Ford, have been, and some
still remain distinctly grievous.
After criticizing the "settled habit of our
periodical literature to depict life as it might
be and not as it is" and gaining from his
own critique some comfor+ for the shocking
realism that lately has become rampant,
Mr. Ford touches caustically on what he
terms a school of fiction founded on the
paean, "All's right with TIE world" ''To this
school of fiction he says, W owe the brats
of the Pollyanna type, toPether with many
maudlin tales designed to make the reader
feel benevolent without spending cent
Mr.. Ford confesses shamefacedly to hav-
ing read what he regards as the best of these
Mrs. Wigs Of the Cabbage Patch
Icing affected by it to a degree that mois-
t med his eyes, and found lin at it's concu-
sion saying to himself fervidly that if he only
had Rockefeller's money he would give that
" man all the family wash.us."
This school of fiction great only when
measured by its consumption of paper" he
continues SIT has not yet produced any
thing equal in quality to Vanity Fair The
Tale of Two Cities THE Man Without a
Country Alphonse Daudet's Siege of Ber-
lin,' not one of which has n ding calculat-
ed to please publisher
This criticism of America literature is not
precisely original. Often our own taste in
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n
l yourself, were to inquire of any veteran
II leader in business as to the qualities he
deemed most essential to the winning Of bust
ness success, the chances are he would put
special emphasis on:
Enthusiasm.
Tactfulness.
Honesty.
Thrift.
These certainly are the qualities most fire.
quently stressed by the eminently successful
when asked to give a success-w winning for
mula. And without them, undoubtedly, no
high degree of success can be won.
Lacking enthusiasm for the work he sets
out to do, no young man can apply himself
to that work with proper diligence.
He will find it irlzsome, tedious fatiguing
The call of pleasure will easily draw him
from it. He will give to it little creative
thought, little real thought of any kind.
Certainly he will not gladly labor at it
many hours daily. Yet This is what every
man must do, else content himself with me-
diocre COMPLIMENTARY with the rewards
of mediocrity. All big winners have been
willing workers. Overtime has not seemed to
them something to be dreaded.
And to enthusiasm must be added tactful-
ness, if only because the doing of business of
any sort is largely matter Of personal con-
facts.
The tactful-which means the polite, the
courteous, the genial-f1nd their way smooth
through the personal contacts of their
workaday life. The tactless are hampered at
every turn.
Necessarily they create antagonisms block
ing their advancement, no matter how indus
trious they may be. So that gradually-and
merely because they have been tactless-they
lose heart, grow embittered, and perhaps sink
to the level of the absolutely unaccomplish-
ing.
But so, for that matter, may sink the tact
full, if their tactfulness is pretense, lack
ing a foundation of sincere goodwill and per-
sonal integrity.
The insincere, the dishonest-let them be
prodigies of politeness courtesy and geniality
continually dig pitfalls for themselves
Cunning and deceit can give at best only a
transient prosperity. Usually they reap har-
vest of disaster.
Finally, he who would get on in the world
should make it a point to add thrift to the
qualities of enthusiasm, tactfulness and hon
esty.
Thrift not only means prudent conserva-
ton of financial resources. 1t gives an added
incentive to work, it helps to strengthen and
stabilize the character, and it means ability
to grasp an exceptional opportunity when
such an opportunity presents itself.
For lack Of thrift many an ardent, tactful
honest worker has been cheated of the sue
cess that should have been his. Still worse,
lacking thrift the worker, no matter how
capable he may be, is forcdoomed to an old
age of difficulty and discomfort.
Look about you and you will appreciate
the truth of this. For, all around, you will
see old men who should have been prosper
Gus in their declining years, but are poverty
oppressed for no other reason than that j l
their days of earning power they never sensed
the value, the necessity CT thrift.
Copyright, 1921, by Associated Newspapers.)
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Shorts and Morals

a noted Of the agreed 81 fact that sport
in all it's forms is growing with
tremendous impetus.
what sport gains, the Church loses"
says one. "The increasing love OF athletics
is a symptom of that general abandon to the
world that has been creeping on us for
J ars."
But the Rev. F. Townley Lord, in The
Christian World (London), takes differ
ent view:
eve need not fear that to allow our young
peo,le to cultivate their skill in games is
going to have an adverse effect upon the
spiritual work Of the churches.
And he adds:
eve are all in it, inside the Church and
outside. We all caught UP in the pre-
vai!ing enthusiasm for games"
This churchman, who seems also be be
remarkably fine type of sportsman writes
with engaging freedom IN continuing MS
discussion:
eff every Christian were a sportsman we
should have a healthier atmosphere in all
our churches. We should be less paroch1al
in our outlook, and less gi zen to that petit
ness of Lind which has so often hindered
the work of God among the young. Games,
properly directed and controlled, have
ministry all their own.
"Wo have a suspicion that If the He
brews had been athletic lation our Lord
would have chosen rointed illustrations from
the field of play as we'll as from the field OF
: corn. If the Pharisees had played cricket
and imbibed it's :. rit they would have been
saved much of III Lords criticism. And the
record of the early controversies Of the
Church would be better reading if there had
been displayed better sporting Spirit be-
. tween the various parties.
"I1deed, if we may say so with humility.
q those violent protagonists of the fourth and
fifth centuries lacked both a sense of humor
and a sense of prorortion-btt tn of which
healthy attention TO games is calculated to
ly. For games naved in the proper way
call for the evrression of those qualities
which in hieher sphere, go to the making
= of noble character.
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OUIPS AND QUlDDITIES

The party had just sat down to supper,
when the conversation turned on counting.
Some one turned to granddad and asked him
to give his opinion upon the counting of his
day and the present.
"Weu, said granddad, "when I was a.
counting my girl used to take me home, and
hen we retired to the parlor the old grand
father clock in the corner seemed to say,
Take your time-take your time But the
present-day fapper takes her young man
home, retires to the parlor, sits on his knee,
and the little, cheap alarm clock says, Time s
going-time's going!'"
$50 you've got an accident to report, have
you?" said the head clerk to the foreman of
the works.
eyes, SIR" said the foreman. Then he
paused while, gnawing his pen rehectlVely,
before handing over his report.
The latter read as follows:
"Date, March 81 Nature of accident: Toe
badly crushed How caused: Accidental
blow from hammer. Remarks"
Fright" laid the clerk. "But why no re-
:narks?"
"Well, SIR replied the foreman slowly,
''seein' as how you know what Bill is, and
seem as how you know that it was his toe
what was hurt, well, didn't like to put
'em down.
For the first time for three weeks Mrs.
Hardup happened to be in when the land
lord knocked at the door.
Looking through the window, she exclaim-
ed to her little son Willie:
"Tell him I'm out!'
But the caller seeing her feet as the door
was opened said: ooh, all right, my lad but
next time Size goes out tell her to take her
feet with her!''
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a YOUNG man is in love with a prettJ
~ and attractive girl Tho keeps him on
u the I. .xious seat.

n the t.-IXiOuS seat.
If he is minute late in keeping an engag--
ment she goes into a state Of frozen silence
that sends his heart into his boots. II they
have discussion and differ on any point, he
has to back down, and apologies all over the
place, even if he was in the right, in order TO
placate her, and get things on cheerful foot
ing once more. If he fails to show her any
attention that she thinks is due her, she sulks
and has to be propitiated by offerings of flow
ers and candy, and having her adorer groyel
before her.
Often the poor young swain doesn't even
know how he has offended his divinity, and
her moods keep him SO bewildered that he
appeals to ne for help in solving the prob
lem Of how to avoid wounding the sensib1l1-
ties of one whose feelings are spread all over
the place.
I know of no reliable recipe for coping sue
cessfully with the temper OF temperamental
lady, but can give the young man one piece
and peace in his life, if he takes it. And that
is to make his getaway from the girl while
the going is good, and before he let's him
self in for paying alimony to her.
For of all wives under the sun, none is so
hard to endure as the selfish, egot1st1c, I'M
reasonable oman who is always going into
tantrum every time anything displeases her,
nd before whose outbreak of temper the
boldest man cringes in terror.
The one absolute necessity for a successful
marriage is for both the husband and wife
to be willing to give and take, and to make
excuses for each others faults. No happy
home has in it a woman who is she-who-
must-be-obeyed, and who makes of her hus-
band bond slave to do her bidding.
What a man wants in wife is pal,
companion friend, somebody who will I'M
derstand, and sympathize, and make allow
ances for his shortcomings and for the par
ticular circumstances in which he is situated
at the time He doesn't want wife who Is a
merciless Judge, who holds him to the strict
letter of the law, and SO when he finds girl
who refuses to understand why he had to
break an engagement with her on account Of
business, why he could not be at her beck
and call; why he had to pay some attention
to some other woman, he does well to re-
frain from marrying her, no matter how good
looking she is, or how she fires his fancy for
the moment.
For a man does not stay in love with that
sort of wife. The woman who holds her
husbands affections to the end is the good