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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-08
The Vanishing Stick
from any other quarter than

from any other quarter than Paris
word hat the walking stick is going
irretrievably out of mode would be-
stir no great concern; but coming from that
supreme court of fashion, the edict is not to
be blinked. Figaro itself, that charmingly
keen observer of men and manners tells us,
after vigils upon the boulevards, that while
veteran customers of the Cafe Anglais or of
the Maison Dore "remain faithful to the
friend of their frisky YOUTH" never ventur-
ing abroad without the cane with a gold
knob or ivory handle" at the same time the
rising and dominant generations have dis
carded this archaic plaything as Stupid, use
less, and even EMBARRASSING
Nor is this mere gust Of fashion. It is
revolution" declares igaro, bidding us
reflect that since the age Homeric the stick
has been part of man: "The crook of the
clergy, the staff of the pilgrim, the signal of
command, the cOquetry Of the courtler, play
thing of the dandy, it rarely left mans right
hand. Condo threw his into the enemy
trenches to inf1ame the troops; Louis the
Fourteenth cast his out of the window to
save his dignity; Rohan caused his to be
broken on Voltaire's back to teach the young
poet wisdom; Balzac had all the precious
stones which he had received from lady adj
mirers, l1Ounted on CT ne; and as to M.
Michelets stick, we know that it was more
famous than any of them
But nausht of tradition or romance avails
to save in these inexorably changeful times.
Is it possible that the ill grace into which
the sword of late has fallen has something
to do with the dwindling popularity of the
stick, which is said to be a survival of the
day when all gentlemen carried swords? I'm
deniably there is the symbol if nc, the sub
stance of disarmament in casting aside an
appurtenance which to our cavekeeping for
bears was the prime essential of defense and
attack, we'll as handy solvent for shrew-
ish wives. Howbeit, the stick is out o1 fash
ion in Paris, at least till it comes in again.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-08
GERMS AND SUICIDE
Bv H. Addineton Bruce


TEW people appreciate, as all should, the
| r. part often played by infectious diseases
as a cause of suicide. The extent to
which such appreciation is lacking was
strongly impressed upon me by recent In
cident, the self-killing Of well-known New
England athlete on the morning of his birth
day.
Reporting his suicide, the newspapers
properly stressed the fact that the unfortu-
nate man had been suffering for some days
from heavy cold, verging on pneumonia.
Also that since the cold set in he had been
acting strangely. Herein there was sufficient
explanation for the act that shocked and
saddened his wide circle Of friends and &C
quaintances.
Yet persistently men kept asking one an
other, "Why do you suppose he did it?" The
tendency seemed to be to take it for granted
that the athlete had been impelled to his
tragic end by some mysterious motive-
AS a matter of fact, suicides due to moth
ing more than the misunderstanding influence
of disease germs are of not uncommon oc-
currence. They are of exc eptionally common
occurrence during all epidemics such as that
Of the influenza plague of few years ago.
And at all times, personally believe, they
are Of more frequent occurrence than is sus-
pected even by those medical men and psy-
biologists who have had occasion to make a
close study of the suicide problem.
That is to say. believe that so-called Glow
grade' infections, such as originate from
diseased teeth tonsils, may act as deter
minants of suicide as truly as do acute infec-
tions Of the influenza or pneumonia type.
Consequently I believe that many suicides
might be averted if, when the behavior be-
gins to cause alarm, search for disease in
teeth, tonsils COR other focus of infection
were made.
Certainly 1t is we'll established that any
thing which impairs the quality of the blood
supply to the brain may lead to disordered
thinking. Acute infections cause a sudden
impairment. Chronic infections, it is reason
able to suppose, may likewise cause impair
ment, if more slowly.
I offer this suggestion as one that may help
to lessen the occurrence Of suicide.
And in any event, would urge, as sure
means of lessening it, more general recog-
milton of the influence disease germs may ex-
ercise in the way Of weakening the instinct
for self-preservation and in creating or pro-
noting mental states tending to self-de-
struction.
ANY marked change in behavior during
the course of an infectious disease should
be interpreted signal for close watch
ing of the victim of infection, even though
the Infection be Of a seemingly mild type. If
this Interpretation were universally made, |
am convinced we should have fewer trag-
edies akin to that of the athlete who hanged
himself in the full flush of a most successful
career.
Copyright, 1921, by the Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-08
THE SUBSTITUTE
Bv DR.. Frank Crane

By DR.. Frank Crane
The pest of the business world is the Sub
stitute.
A man spends many years and much mon
ey developing product and when he has
created demand for it, along come the
rascals with substitutes and undersell.
But merchants neef not complain. The
whole business of life is vitiated by substi-
tutes.
Religion is undoubtedly a good thing, for
the object OF religion is to cause sin to cease.
But the greatest enemy of religion is the
substitute or false religion, which compounds
with sins and shows us the way to go on
with them and yet appease our conscience.
Education is valuable, for education is the
training of our native faculties. But it's
greatest foe is substitute education, which
consists in s,uffing the mind with useless
knowledge and cramping our natural abili-
ties into conventional shapes
Organization is one of the best means for
getting things done. But the average Or
ganization il a substitute for doing any
thing. Wher group of people feel the call
Of duty in any direction, civic, moral or char
table, they meet, make speeches, elect Of
fcers, select committees, and go home with
a sense of having discharged their response
bilities.
Government is a good thing, but it ought
to consist in serving the 'eople. But most
governments are composed of those who do
not serve the people but live as parasites
upon them.
Love is the greatest thing in the world and
develops all that is best in us. But the sub
stitutes for love, including lust and desire
to be fattered, are life's poisons and not
lifes food.
Joy is good thing, but the empty pleas
ure of self-indulgence, the mere relaxation of
diversion and the septic delights of cruelty,
which are but substitutes for joy, are like
the cracking Of thorns under pot.
Aristocracy is a good thing, for it means
the ascendency Of the superior virtues But
what is commonly called aristocracy is but
miserable substitute and snobbery.
independence is a good thing But self
will and stlbbornness, which are it's substi-
tutes, are bad.
In fact, the principal effort of the devil
IS not devoted to frontal attack upon the
things which make life good and beautiful,
but rather to an effort to induce us to adopt
cheap and dangerous substitutes
Copyright. 1921, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-08
Crobs That SAGE the Day

THAT food crops without markets are
better than no food crops at all is
strikingly illustrated by resourceful
Morgan county. Normally yielding some
thirty thousand bales of cotton, Morgan this
year will reduce not more than seven thou
sand-and cotto mis- virtually it's sole money
grower. Nevertheless, as Ralph Smith points
out in his interesting account of the situa-
ton, matters would be incomparably worse
were not the farmers plenteously supplied
with corn, sweet potatoes, and other life
sustainers of their own raising. At the least,
there will be protection against want.
The corn crop is the largest in the county s
history. This means that much if not all
of the one AID half million dollars formerly
spent for imports of Western grain will be
saved; and it means that some farms whose
cribs otherwise would have been distress
ingly bare will pass the winter securely.
Granting, then, all the misfortune which the
meager cotton yield mrlies, and granting
the sore need Of facilities for converting sur
plus food products into money, the fact re-
mains that those products, even without a
market, are a mighty help in this time of
trouble. and so they are in every region
which has suffered boil weevil blight, and in
every emergency which befalls the farm. Not
only economy and efficiency, but the prime
instinct Of self preservation argues for food
crops.
Morgan county is lot satisfied, however,
with raising food crops to eat; next year she
is going to raise hem to sell. ga thorough
survey of the county, writes Mr.. Smith in
his notable series of articles ON farm mar
kets, in The Journal, sis being made to as
certain the inclination of the farmers with
respect to 1922 planting. This movement
had it's inception at Madison, at a county
wide meeting called by Mayor r. w. Walk
er, one, of the enterprising citizens. After
the committee has completed it's surveys and
learned as far as possible the character of
Investigation that appeals to the farmers,
definite efforts will be made to provide IA
cilities for handling such commodities as are
to be produced IN commercial quantities"
This is the way to independence and pros
perity. It is the way all forward-thinking
Georgia communities mean to pursue in
seeking escape from the difficulties with
which cottons reverses have beset them.
They will move by different methods and
toward different points along the great front
of their common objective. But all will aim
at a system of marketing capable of con-
verting food crops into cash. Succeeding in
that, they will have broken the cotton bond
age and have beaten the boil weevil's onset,
of which they then can truly say, "Our
castles strength will laugh his siege to
scorn.'
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-08

| At a. recent luncheon given to a. bride
| to-be each of the women present was IN
vited to tell why she married the man she
| did, or why she wished to get married, or
why she married the second time, accord
| ing to whether she had one husband, or had
| two husbands, or was looking for husband.
| If the ladies told the truth, and really got
| down to brass tacks about their individual
cases, it must have been most interesting
meeting, particularly as regarded the matri-
monial repeater.
The question: "Why did I marry the man
did," is one that every woman asks her
self with varying infections, and to which
she gives a different answer according to
the state of the matrimonial barometer.
When the weather is fair and sunny, and
hubby is waiting hot air in her direction
she is sure she married him because he was
the Only Man in the world for her.
But when the domestic skies are lower
ing, when husband growls over the bills, and
is disgruntled, and unreasonable, she opines
that the. only explanation for her having mar
red that particular man was because the
fool-kller was loafing on the job, and not
attending to business the day she two-step-
ped with him to the altar.
Why anybody marries anybody else Is a
conundrum that keeps everybody guessing, as
you may learn by attending any wedding.
The strains of the bridal march are never
quite loud enough to drown out the chorus
that swells from very throat Of: "For pity s
sake! Is that the bridegroom? What in the
name of heaven 10 you suppose she ever
saw in him to make her want to marry
him? Looks like a scared rabbit trying to
swallow his Adams apple, while he steps
on his own feet. know men are scarce, but
it does seem as f she could have shut her
eyes, and run her hand in the grab-bag and
pulled out something else than that!"
"And what do you suppose made him pick
out Mabel for a life? My dear, she is three
years older than he is, and she is that made
up I bet she wouldn't recognize her own
face if she saw it in mirror liter it was
washed Clean Worse still she is one Of the
vivacious kind that would give me nervous
prostration in two days. Imagine having to
listen to her giggle, and exclaim, and have
Mysteries, and wonder, and JOY, and delight
for the balance of your life! Funny how
people marry, isn't it? Wonder what makes
them choose each other out of whole world
full of people that look as if they would
have suited them SO much better"
And the answer is: 'Search me-"
The question, why do women marry sec
ond time? was cynically answered a long time
ago by Doctor Johnson who said that Sec
ond marriage was the ultimate triumph Of
hope over experience.
When you look at the matter dispassion-
ately you wonder that human being has the
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-08

nerve to dare fate by making a second mar
rage. You would think that those who had
oeen happily married the first time would
feel that they had had their portion of good
fortune in life, and that they could not ex-
pect that Lady Luck would again bestow
upon them her choicest favor. You would
mink That those who had been unhappily
married would be like the burned child that
ureads the fire, and that they would no more
enter again into the matrimonial fold than
the freed soul would voluntarily plunge again
into purgatory.
otrangly enough, neith7r of these conten-
lions hold. Experience sets up no warning,
anu teaches no lesson in 4natrimony. Both
the happily and the unhappily we'd plunge
with undated optimism the second, and even
the third, ard fourth times into matrimony
And the world asks 'Why do they do it?"
Inc main reason that people marry the
second time is because matrimony becomes
hablt and one that is hard to break While
mann and woman are married thew chafh at
times under the bonds, al their necks are
CALLED under the yoke of wedlock. and thew
imagine they long for nothing so much as
they do for freedom. But break the bond
and remove the yoke, and give them the free
doom they crave, and they are miserable
they find that, without knowing it, they
nave been domesticated and that they have
lost their taste for the wild
moreover they ascertain that stolen waters
are no longer sweet, but just like any other
Lat and tasteless water when they are legiti-
mate coming by. Staying out with the boys
mas no pep to it when nobody cares whether
you come home or not, and life generally
loses its interest when you lose your spar
ring partner.
Man and women who have had home and
lost 1t marry again to get home. The man
who Is accustomed to home cooking, to his
own fireside, to the thousand little comforts
or domesttcity is miserable in hotels and
clubs. No hired hands can make for him
that intangible atmosphere that his wife
gave to their abode and that turned four
walls into home.
No woman who has ever been at the head
OF her own establishment is ever satisfied
anywhere else, and, somehow, no matter
how much money she has, she cannot
make real home for herself without a man
in 1t. You have to have both tides on the
chairs and pipe smoke in the curtains to give
flavor to home, and make it the real thing.
People marry the second time because they
are lonely. The want somebody that be-
longs to them, somebody with whom they
have right to squabble, and to whom they
don't have to be polite and mind their P's
and Q's.
And finally, people marry the second time
just because they do. God help us all.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-08
Proofs of Better Business

- EDROCK violence OF business improve
K ment is found by the Guaranty Trust
- Company, of New York, in recent sur
vey of conditions throughout the country.
Besides the general betterment Indicated by
cheaper money, easier credit, and rather ex-
tensive revival of industry, this careful OBJ
server notes widespread building activity,
ticking up IL the textile trade, reports OF
progress in the shoe and leather industries,
gradual marketing of surplus copper at up
ward prices, IAN increased output Of iron and
STEEL" together with return of railroads to
the market, a decrease in the number OF
business failures, lessening OF unemploy-
ment, and gain in savings.
Here are substantial and specific grounds
for optimism, nearly all of which, it will be
noticed, are to be found in Georgia and the
South. Nor has any region surer knowledge
of the truth that: "The banks of the coun-
try have been able, since the establishment
Of the Federal Reserve System, to aid in eff
fecting a more orderly general readjustment
of industry, following a period of imitation
than was possible SO long as our banking
system remained extremely decentralized.
Such service, particularly in the last year and
a quarter, has been of incalculable benefit to
the nations business. But the avoidance OF
a general collapse of credit, such as was re-
peatedly experienced before the organization
of the Federal Reserv Systm, has necessarily
tended to probing the period Of readjust-
ment."
In the deep of the depression which came
as natural reaction from war times we were
safeguarded as never by a sound, flexible sys-
tenn of finance. Now that the stress is pass
not expect in due season particularly sta
MIA nrocnprifv2
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-08
The Irish Settlement
- IDINGS that the Irish peace negotia-
lions have been brought at last to


tions have been brought at last to a
u happy issue are hailed with delight
the world around. Although details OF the
agreement, reached after months of futile
discussion and on the brink of what threat
ened to be tragic failure, are not yet 1ortn-
coming. it evidently vouchsafes protection
to the essential tights and interests Oh ali
concerned. Friends both OF irish freedom
and of British unity appear content, even II
not altogether satisfied. Ulster may dlsrel-
ish certain particulars OF the pact, but sne
will not, it is believed, reject it's saving prln-
ciples Likewise in Parliament, special ses-
sion of which is to be summoned for prompt
action, there doubtless will be voices OF
dissent, but hardly IL sufficient force to unoo
the great work of reconciliation.
- The value of just and peaceful settle
ment may be more clearly conceived by
imagining it's dark alternative. IF you do
not near from me by Tuesday" Lloyd George
had said to cabinet official 'you will know
that negotiations have bro e.. OIL ana
a final, irretrievable break it probably would
have been, followed by bitter civil war ana
long years of ranking feud. The cost to
ireland would have been calamitous; to the
United Kingdom, grievous beyond measure;
and sore setback to civilization. economic
and social reforms which have made hearten-
ing Roadway of late years. would nave peen
delayed indefinitely, if not DESTROYED Inc
perity of land rich but undeveloped would
have been blighted; and, worse, the warm
ing goodwill of peoples long estranged
would have chilled and died., The whole
world would have been the loser. But II the
present promise is fulfilled, free ireland
will go thriftily forward, profiting by her
relationships with the other self-governlng
British commonwealth and contributing to
the moral unity which makes for world
peace and progress.
. One lesson from these negotiations there
IL which all Governments and all peoples
should intently ponder. Despite the great
gulf which appeared fixed between the par
ties at issue, despite the long months OF
seemingly fruitless talk, despite the fact that
at midnight Of December the fifth agree
ment looked well nigh hopeless, still the
dawn brought placation and workable
peac. The policy IF reasoning to settle
ment instead of fighting to one, the policy
of arriving at political and economic read
justnents around counsel able instead
of on blood-drenched fields, the very pol
Icy of the Washington conference on arma-
ment limitation, has been tried under pecu-
liarly forbiddfng stars ard found effectual.
Upon the extension of the principle OF set
Element by conference instead of by war
depend the growth of thai which is most
distinctively human in the world and the
fruition of mans fairest hopes.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-08
Bee Wins
'QUIPS AND QUlDDITIES

A Boston man, visiting friends household,
found his hosts son one afternoon settled in
the library with a sheet of paper before him
and a pencil claSped in his fist. Looking over
the youngsters shoulder the Hubbite saw that
he was making pictures. swell, Albert" he
asked gently, "are you drawing an engines"
Slowly the child looked up and slowly he re-
piled: at would take very strong boy to
draw an engine, but am making picture OF
a locomotive."I
"Don't you consider bridge an intellectual
gamei" said Miss Pepper. ~
"Too intellectual" replied Miss Cayenne.
"After reading the books of instruction
haven't the courage to attempt it."
An irate fan who had watched the home team
go down to defeat stopped the umpire as he
was leaving the park.
"Where's your dog?" he demanded.
"Dog? "ejactuated his jumps. II have no
dog"
"Well, you're the first blind man ever saw
who didn't have dog" returned the disgruntled
one. rs
A large poster displayed in the window Of
florists shop read as follows:
"Don't lead the life of slave. Try pack
age of our famous weed killer"
Although the advertisement seemed to anuSs
all who read it, the florist declared to fell
low tradesman that it had been a great help
to his trade.
That evening the friend of the florist, who
was an electrician was seen plastering his shop
window with poster which ran:
ITO married men. Don't kill your wives
with houSework. Let one, of our electric floor
scrubbers do the dirty work"
Tho mother was sitting on park seat
Her small SON be san an argument with an
other youth.
Whore yer punchin' off" he demanded
truculent1y.
Tommy" said the shocked parent.
"Your grammar! You should have said, OF
whom are you punching?'"
An American professor who was studying
at Edinburgh university roomed at the
home of thrifty Scotch family. Each
morning Mrs. McAngus would come in with
an age-scarred dustpan and well-worn
brush and sweep the floor, STOPPING about
the place. in back-breaking discomfort. 81
should think you would find it easier to
use broom" the professor ventured one
morning.
''No doot no doot," agreed Mrs. McAngus,
"but I haze the brush and haze not the
broom my mither having left the broom to
the eldest child. The youngest brother got
naething but turkey wing"
They were thrown into each others So
ciety in country house, without common
interests or the least attraction for each
other.
Finally, after casting about for al fertile
subject of conversation, only to fail In
every attempt, he said, desperately: "Will
you marry me?"
She considered long and deeply.
81 hink I'll say yes" she replied at last.
''It will give us so much more to talk about
while we're here"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-08
SMILE A WHILE

Steady men are Kept that way by bank
balances.
Somehow there isn't much excuse for a
man at matinee.
A cat scratches when rubbed the wrong
way and so do heavies.
Adding up all reports Of price reductions.
we find we are being paid to take things.
Mary Garden wants man. She will make
him good husband.
You can't tell whether money makes fools
a~aIr r,ake rnorev
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