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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
DOROTHY DIX TALKS-The Psychology of Clothes
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The average American man is not a senti-
mental1st. He is a poor lovemaker, at best,
and when he tries to say flowery and gallant
things to women he gets tongue-tied, and
feels as If he was about to choke on his
Adams apple. Hence, when he gets married
he breathes sigh of relief, and says to him
SELF Thank God, that's over, anyway" and
he proceeds to business, and to proving his
devotion to his wife by shaving to give her
everything he can.
very likely he never mentions again to her
that he loves her, or tells her that he appre-
ciates her devotion, and the sacrifices she
makes for him, or that he blesses Heaven for
having bestowed her upon him for wife, or
that he believes her to be the paragon of her
sex, but nonetheless, that is whlet he is think
ing all the time, and the last thing on earth
that he is looking for is an affinity, or a
romantic adventure.
AS for the painted up vampires, in floating
chiffons they are no more to his taste than
the highly spiced dishes in restaurants. Give
him good, plain home cooking every time
and woman with a clean face and lips that
don't taste like drug store, and sensible
clothes that she can do an honest days
work in.
Furthermore there is this bitter sweet
comfort for the woman who imagines that
ner husband Will care less for her because
she is losing her looks, and youthful figure
after marriage man rarely ever takes real
good appraising look at his wife. That's
hard on our vanity, but it is likewise our sal
Walton, for it enables a man who marries a
gol den headed little sprite to go on thinking
she is golden headed little sprite after she
is grayheaded and weighs 175 pounds.
Just ask your husband if your hat is be-
coming. He grunts and says Eyes" without
looking up from his paper, because he is see
ing you, not in the hat you have on, but in a
bonnet of twenty-five years ago that you had
on when he courted you.
1 am convinced that women borrow lot
of unnecessary trouble about losing their
husbands love. The average man is domestic
by nature, and his instinct is to be faithful.
He has neither time nor inclination to philan-
der Besides which he is bound to his wife by
the strongest of all ties, mutual interest.
They have every thing in common, and you
cannot make home together and bring chill
dren into the world, and smile over cradles
and weep over little collins without bond
being formed that is harder than any other
to break.
But the way to keep husband is not by a
woman trying to keep young and beautiful,
and flirting with him, and attempting to
preserve a romantic atmosphere. 1t is by
making him comfortable and being good pals
with him. Do that and you can't lose him
unless he is born wanderer and nothing can
keep a stray dog at home.
Copyright, 1921, by The Wheeler Syn
dictate, Inc.) ass. -,..
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
The Writer and the South
EXT to laziness, 1 know of nothing
that has ruined so many writer's as

TEAT to laZlneSS, l know OF nothing
VI that has ruined so many writer's as
reading said Prof. Walter B. Pit
kin, of Columbia versity, in a recent dis
cussion of the business of writing stories.
Il would like to see gifted people put where
they couldn't get to books, so that they
would write what was in them and around
them instead of initiating what has already
been done. [ think that the most competent
short-story writer of today is illiterate in a
sense; he has never read anything. He
doesn't read. He Sees"
What fiction needs today is a knowledge
of people and things by the writer. 1t doesn't
need mannerisms, it doesn't need neat SEN
fences, it needs background and people and
color Style is simply matter of what you
are writing and how it interests you. Prob
ably fifty per cent of the unavailable stories
received by magazines are we'll written, but
they tell nothing. Whole sections are wait
ing to be put on paper, particularly the
South, the South Of today and not of the
War Observation-Disclosures. The latter has
been written and the former has not
The Double Dealer, of New Orleans, one
Of three literary magazines that have ap-
peared recently in the South speaks to this
same effect. "Ours is an enviable heritage -
it says of Southern writer's, "an indisputable
birthright and it is chiefly because of this
background-the only solid background bar
ring perhaps that of New England, in Amer.
ica-that we should have a voice.
New Orleans has been done by Cabell, but
who has put Atlanta Savannah, Birming CHAM
Mobile, Memphis into literature? And. why
not? There is more warmth to the people
there is less of the machine pattern to their
lives than is true of those who live in the
bigger cities to the North. From the Middle
West have come the significant books of the
last year or so-"Main Street." "Moon Calf
Miss Lulu Bett'' and 'Zell," and it was of
the West that Villa Sibert Gather wrote in
my Antonia," as fine as anything done by
an American writer in the last five years,
and perhaps better than anything, even Mr..
Bennett or Mr.. Wells has produced This is
true of the West. 1t has been put into vigor-
| Gus fiction. Why should not the South find
| expression, not in sentimental "reminiscences
| but in pictures of the South as it actually is
| today?
Perhaps Prof. Pitkin is stressing a point
| by exaggeration when he suggests that the
| libraries De closed to all writer's. But he
was not wide of the mark when he
! said that among people and not books are to
| be found the things worth writing; he was
wrong when he added that the style of the
| classics is as unsuitable to the present as
/ horse cars would be.
Will N. Harden got the people of North
| Georgia into his books Isn't there a vast
amount of unused material in the other Sec
| tions Of the South, in the cities, in the small
| towns,> in the country; stories of atmosphere
| stories Of people; stories that express the
South just as so many of the new novels
have expressed the Middle West?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
OLD CROPS ANDD NEWLY Frederic j. Haskin

destroying the American white pine This
fight has not yet come to the stage of ex-
plorat1on for new pine which will resist the
blister, but that may be the final move to
save this lumber grown. The present means
of fighting the blister is an heroic measure,
based on the known necessities of the pest
which causes the blister. This pest is an
odd one, spending part Of its time on wild
currant and gooseberry bushes and the rest
of the. time on white pines. The bushes,
when the pest is present. develop a yellow
nothing of the leaf. In order to try to con-
troll the ravages of this insect and save the
remnant of the pines, campaign is being
conducted to destroy the gooseberry and
currant bushes whenever they are found in
the neighborhood of white pines. 1t is i'm
possible for the department to predict the
outcome of this battle
Plants Go Through Quarantine
After plant is found which it is desirable
to bring into the United States, due to reg
ulations, of the department, it must be sent
to Washington to the plant quarantine sta
ton here This has been aptly termed the
Ellis Island of the horticultural world.
The main purpose of this station is to pre-
vent the introduction of new plant diseases
into the United States. Each plant brought
in must be fumigated and treated for all
kinds of diseases, whether traces of pa !
sites are apparent or the plant seems entirely
healthy, or not. Sometimes the invisible
present, but not detachable even under the
microscope.
Despite this fumigation, it is known that
there are some plant pests which it is i'm
possible to kill in this way, and therefore nc
plants which have been brought into the
United States are ever allowed to leave the
quarantine station except for scientific study
by experts who know how to handle them
and keep them from harming other growths
From these plants, young plants may be
grown which are known to be absolutely free
OF any sort of pest, and it is from these that
crops are propagated.
With seeds, it is possible to kill everything
of the parasitical order, and therefore i'm
ported seeds are put through the quarantine
station, rendered free from every germ OF
plant disease known to man, and then shipped
throughout the country without danger to
other crops
The explorers sent out by the department
are all trained horticulturists, and their
knowledge must and does go beyond knowl-
edge of plant life of all sorts. 1t must in
clude an exact knowledge of how to prepare
plants for mailing long distances so that on
arrival they will not be shrivelled up or rot
ten. This is important factor when it is
realized that in shipping plants from such
points as the interior of Africa or ASIA they
may be as much as four or five months in
transit before getting into the hands of the
proper people in Washington.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
A woman writes:

Probably due to the fact that one cannot
| pick up newspaper without reading of some
| man who has forsaken his middle-aged wife
| for flapper young enough to be his daugh-
| ter, and probably because the beauty special
| 1st are always urging married women to re-
| main young, and handsome and mysterious
and coquette with their husbands, I have
grown pessimistic.
my husband is one of the best ever and
for that reason don't want to lose him, but
alas, my person and the circumstances of my
life do not lend themselves to vamping. A
woman who does all of her work. even the
laundry, cannot be lily-handed and pearl
finger tipped, nor can she be gowned in
flimsy pegligees when she is nursing teeth
! ing babies and trying to make small income
| cover the high cost of living. Nor do I see
how can stay an Elusive, to-be-pusured per-
| son whey my husband is with me all of the
| time, and knows my every mood and tense,
and that I love every hair on his head.
Tell me, is there any hope for me, grow
| ing little stout, with the gray coming in my
hair, and no jade earrings?
rs there any hope for me in last years
Dress and hat trimmed myself?''
us there any hope for just cheerful, do
nestle, thrifty woman who has done her
best to make her man a comfortable home
and raise his children and help him to get
along, to hold her husband, or must every
woman expect to lose out when she gets be-
tween forty-five and fifty?"
surely, SlSLSr, LQ6r0 is not only hope, there
is certainty that she will always keep her
husband if he is worth keeping, even if she
possesses none of the bag of tricks with
which sirens are supposed to work their
spells.
The man who forsakes the wife who has
burned the lilies and roses out of her cheeks
cooking his dinners for some pink and white
l11ttle girl; the man who would rather hold
the soft, manicured hand of some idle wom-
an than that of the wife who has worn cal
louses on her hands working for him; the
man who turns from the comrade who has
fought the hard battle of life by his side to
follow after some alluring stranger, is so
poor creature he is not worth holding.
When he goes woman might as we'll whistle
him down the wind and say: ga good rid
dance to bad rubbish"
And the pity of it is that women so often
set their hearts on these worthless men, and
that they take so much trouble in guarding
what is, after all, pinchbeck jewel, and
that they shed so many tears over losing it.
Fortunately, the number of these philan-
dering husbands, whose tickle fancy requires
to be fascinated anew every morning to keep
it in working order, is small. It is true we
hear great deal about men who desert their
wives for no other reason than that the wives
have grown old and fat, but we must remem-
Der that it is the abnormal that attracts at
tention. We gossip for years over Mr.. A.
who runs off with a chorus girl, but we
never mention that thousands of Mr.. Ms
who never look at another petticoat than
their Marias after their wedding day.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
China Again. Outstr;bs Us
~ ONDER the news that the Chinese hav

inaugurated between Picking and
Shanghai an airplane service for mail
and passengers, which sis proving so success
full that the Government is arranging for it's
extension over the entire country"
How did Occidental concet ever muster
the arrogance or ignorance to call the Chi
nese a backward" people? Did they not
give us the art Of printing and much more
important, the art of paper-making, on which
diffused education depends? We're they not
painting rare pictures and writing charmful
poems on the seventh cup of tea while west
ern Europe was cropping in a. night of barbar-
ism? Did they not prove themselves wonderful
builders and engineers, as we'll as profound
and gracious philosophers long, long before
the Renaissance and the dawn of our "mo1-
ern" times? A Chinese Journalist visiting
America was asked the other day if he feared
that his country might become infected with
Russian Bolshevsm. "Ah, no." he laughed;
"Our people experimental quite thoroughly
with Bolshevism some centuries before the
Christian era and demonstrated to their
lasting satisfaction that it is unsound.
And now, while the United States of Amer
lea, the airplane's birth-land, lags in aero
nautic development, the Government refusing
to promote even an adequate aerial posta
service, the Chinese are sending mail anC
passengers by air from Picking to Shanghai
and are preparing to extend the enterprise
throughout their vast republics domain!
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
GOVT AND THE MIND
By H. Addington Bruce

| A LARGE and most interesting volume might
n be written on the mental complications
| OF govt These vary not in degree only
| but in kind, so that at one extreme we find
govt productive of pitiable insanity, while at
the other it is associated with distinct
| heightening of intellectual power.
| 1t has, indeed, been seriously argued that
| govt is at tines decisive factor in the develop
ment of genius.
Long statistical tables of equity men of genius
have been drawn up, and by some close STU
| dents of the problem of genius have been ac-
cepted as proof that between govt and genius
there is more than chance coincidence 9th
| erS see in these same tables proof merely
that men of genius are no more immune against
| govt than ordinary men.
Yet it cannot be nedied that occasionally at
| least govt does have curious capacity for re-
leasing and stimulating mental energy. Men
remarkable more for stupidity than anything
| else have exhibited distinct sharpening of
their wits while gout-stricken.
| Equally curious is the fact that during at
| tacks of govt the mentally diseased sometimes
| show a great improvement as regards their
| mental symptoms.
| Thus in one case cited by the Chicago alien
| list, DR.. James G. Herman, decisions of perSe-
cuton and impulses to suicide alternated with
| attacks of govt. Through each attack the pa
to his delusory and obseSsve ideas when the
govt abated.
More commonly, though, the effect of govt
on the mental state is the reverse of hen
eficent. Side by side with the govt there may
be-as in the historic case of the elder Pitt
a mental unbalancing so pronounced as to
| amount to outright insanity.
Melancholia may develop, or strange states
of abnormal irritabity and suSpiciousness. Alb
normal rritability, for that matter, is far too
common-though hardly surprisng-accompani
ment of govt. AS pointed out long ago by
the famous Sydenham:
"The body is not the only sufferer in govt,
and the dependent condition of the patient is
not his worst misfortune. The mind suffers
with the body, and which suffers most it is
hard to say.
$50 much do mind and reason lose energy
as energy is lost by the body, so susceptible
and vacillating is the temper, such trouble is
the patient to others as we'll as himself that
a fit of govt is fit of bad temper. To fear,
anxiety, and other passions, the equity patient
is continual victim; whilst as the disease de-
parts, the mind regains tranquility"
If only because of this dominantly unfavor-
able effect on the mind, it is, indeed to be
hoped that the continuing efforts to find a
| sure preventive Of and specific for govt, will
| ere long be crowned with success
Copyright, 1924, by The Associated NewSpa-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
SMILE AWHILE

Business also needs little rein.
Crooked landlords make stratened circum-
stances.
Some people find prosperity by advertising
for it.
The burning question will soon be the
price of coal.
The black sheep of the family is good at
wool gathering.
When a girl gets a new dress she visits
some girl she doesn't like.
Now the auto question is how many miles
can you go on credit?
One way to reduce rents in your neighbor-
hood is take singing lessons
friend indeed is one who keeps your
dog while you take a vacation.
In some restaurants you can read the
menu on the walters coat front.
Homesickness makes some people return
home and others stay away.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
Supplying the Demand

Some of the moonshine stills which pro-
hibition agents find in this part of the coun-
try are no lard cam affairs, but stills of suf-
ficient capacity to turn out ardent spirits in
large quantities. Many of them are cleverly
hidden, but the officers are able to ferret
them out with fair success, and the game #
hide and SEEK goes merrily on.-Albany
Herald.
Well we have heard it said that the pro-
hibition agents are not the only men who
have fair success in ferreting moonshine stills
out,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
Prohibition abolished

Frohlbltlon has been abolished in Soviet
russia and the country now is on light wine
OASIS dispatch to the Latvian Telegraphic
Agency, confirmed by the Moscow newspapers.
announces the issuance of decree permitting
the manufacture and sale of beverages con-
tanning up to IA per cent of alcohol. The bev-
erages will be highly taxed.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
Corn to Burn

Iowa farmers are attempting to mature the
largest corn crop in the history of the state,
with no prospect of a market, and Minnesota
farmers are preparing to burn their corn this
Wlnter instead of buying coal, farmers told
the Interstate Commerce Commission in its
investigation Of freight rates on grain and
hay.
Railroads, by maintaining abnormally high
freight rates, will lose the traffic on coal
which the farmers would use if they could sell
tnelr corn as well as that on the unsold grain.
T. E. eastman, Minnesota farmer. told the
commission. Lower freight rates on grain
and hay; he said in reply to questions by menu
bers of the commission, would increase the
volume of traffic not only in those commod..
ties but the increase would be reflected in the
aooed purchases by farmers of machinery,
household goods lumber and other necessi-
ties
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
Editorial Echoes

Candy dealers have seen great light. 1t
is again possible, after some shopping, to get
the child a nickel's worth of candy that it
will not sheer at.-Chicago Daily News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23

When we hear so much about railroads
needing money we wonder what they did
with all that we paid our last short trip
Passac Herald.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
Vienna Taxis Double Fares

Taxicab fares were doubled in Vienna re.
Gently, and now one pays sixty times the
number of crowns registered on the meter.
Horse-drawn public vehicles have removed
the meters and fares are matter of bar
gaining with the individual
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23

Sir Thomas Upton announces that he will
try again for Americas cup. If he wants to
make a real sensation, one of these days, he'll
announce that he won't try.--Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
BOIsf,eVik Art

The Stockholm correspondent of the Lon
don Morning Post quotes a Helsingfors tele-
gram describing fantastic project evolved
by Bolshevist artists to visit all European
capitals and Finland.
The Finnish government has been APP
preached in the matter, as it is hoped that
assistance will be given in promoting the
scheme. The exhibition will include 5000
paintings of ninety artists in two groups
"Moderates'' and "Modernists Among
them will be Rjepin and Rorich. The whole
idea is, however, tainted with Bolshevist
propaganda.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
American Thrift

America, long considered the extravagant
spender of the world, is acquiring the habit of
thrift, according to Orrin Lester, acting direc.
tor of the division of savings in the treasury
department.
Per capita holdings of war savings securi-
ties amount to $6.40 for the continental Unit
ed States, Lester announced. After making
reduction for redemptions on sales extending
over three and one-half years, securities val.
ued at 76,520,OO0 are still in the hands
of investors.
The savings campaign, Lester said has
accomplished three results:
1. 1t has raised a substantial amount for
the government.
Q. 1t has popularized the investment Of
small savings in government securities.
3. 1t has helped create national senti-
ment for thrift.
Government savings securities" Lester
said, 'have started thousands of people to
have money who never had saved before"
Lester said several states have established
divisions in thrift in their departments of
public instruction and plan to give thrift an
equal place with other subjects in their state
courses of study.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-23
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth
Rate Wars

hlCt wars
Two "rate wars at least are expected in
Cuba as result of federal and municipal ac-
ton in favor of the use of alcohol in inter
nal combustion engines Dealers in imported
gasoline are said to be awaiting instructions
to cut their prices to meet the lower scale
established by alcohol vendors. while the
owners of large fleets of popular priced taxi
cabs are planning to meet the lower rates
fixed by owners of cars using alcohol.
By presidential decree denatured alcohol
produced in Cuba from sugar mill bypro-
ducts is freed from federal taxation for a
year and can be used without restriction by
automobile owners as ''motor spirits" while
the city authorized jitney drivers using "mo-
tor spirits to advertise the products on their
windshields and charge pre-war rates, which
are 33 Is per cent less than the present
scale.