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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-02
Editorial Echoes.

When one of that primitive race which
lives among us, separated by decade or so
of mere years, but by aeons of inherited eX-
perience-I mean small bOys-asked my
opinion of the "pizenness Of blood-suckers, >
took it for mere curiosity. Not till third
had preached the question did | guess there
was something in the wind.
There was. They had invented a new
kind of fshing-old as Adam, but new to
them-and they were keeping mighty still
about it. They had a dim notion there
might be reasons why it was not customary
but they preferred tt learn by experience
rather than have their fun spoiled by any
grown-up wisdom. Except in the matter Of
blood-suckers. There showed the primitive
caution Dire terror seemed to Turk in the
very name.
Each sunny afternoon they took their
spears, on long light shafts of Hamboo, and
sailed forth to a shallow bay among the
reeds which is a favorite fish spawning
ground. There they dispensed with such
clothing as would be likely to meet a
mothers eye, tossed it into their beached
canoe, and met the brisk spring wind clad in
B. V. DIS, a jersey. and an ancient pair of
sneakers. Save for the materials and the
footwear, regretted, but indispensable to
soft-footed civilization, they were ospreys of
the same feather those who laid asid )
their furs, in ages gone, and welded spears
tipped with stone instead of iron. Modernity,
in the shape of hip-boots, "count of them
suckers" was denounced as worse than use
less. They waterlogged in "really decent
wading.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-02
4 Victory for France

N carrying the day against the extremists
Premier BRAND has won a notable VIC
tory for Europe as we'll as for France.
For months past he has COPIED with difficult
situation, at first tactfully and cautiously
then. with a bold stand and sharp thrusts.
Factions there were in the Chamber Of Dep
uties and the press who clamored for crush
ngly drastic treatment of Germany-a policy
which would re-enact Prussia's ruthlesSness
toward the France of 1872, and sow again the
dragons teeth of future strife. BRAND sought
for a while to control and placate the rough
riding sentiment but at last he was COM
PEELED either to face it with sturdy challenge
or else renounce all pretense to statesmanly
leadership.
Face it he did, and Dramatically. II have
faith in the sincerity Of the new German gov
eminent" he declared amid jeers from his
opponents, and ADDED, when they continued
hooting, ''tI is making praiseWorthy efforts
to fulfil it's engagements" This was the same
BRAND who refused to yield one jot of what
he considered justice to France and who stood
out persstently for enforcement of the terms
of the treaty of Versailles. But just as en-
phatically he refuses to cross the boundary
betwee Injustice and persecution, between Sc
verely reasonable and passonately excessive
demands. He will go any length a patriot,
but he will not play the chauVinist. That pre-
vailng French opinion is with him rather
than with the "fre-eat ers," the vote of con-
fidence accorded him in the Chamber at the
climax of the issue, substantially attests.
This assuredly is a victory for France, be-
cause that nation has nothing to gain, but
much to lose by daubng over her war record
Of heroism and genius with churlish and cow
tous policies on the great issues Of peace
The true France the France of clear seeing
and generous acting speaks through BRAND.
The victory for Europe is obvious, for not
until international relations are changed from
a status of jealousy, greed, hate and moral
chaos to one of consderateness and co-opera-
ton, will economic recovery and human prog
ress be possible. AS step toward this deeply
desired end the repuIs of the extremists in
France is most cheering.
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fled. On huge screen, minute organisms
became hideous water monsters, as fearful
as the octopus. "These creatures live in the
water you drink" rang the perpetual moral
of the pictures.
Even then some people dared to distin-
gulsh between pure and polluted water. But
it has taken generations for the fear to wear
entirely off. AS late as 1872 a writer in a
London magazine said:
What the world really wants is a man
having authority WHO shall say: There is
nothing in the nature of cold water-provid-
ing always it be not foul with sewage or
sparkling from contiguity to a churchyard-
which can be considered deleterious to health.
man ordinarily strong may as safely drink
glass Of water when he is thirsty as he may
eat steak when he is hungry"
1t was just about then that the typhoid
bacillus was dragged into the spotlight and
the intelligent war on Water-borne disease
began. With certified water a possibility,
doctors began to urge their patient to con-
sumo large quantities as a preventive Of the
very diseases once vaguely laid to the drink
ing OF glass of water when overheated or
tired, or on full or empty stomach.
Now most doctors say that three glasses
OF water, besides a glass at each meal should
be the minimum daily ration. 1t is we'll to
drink more than this. Liquid is necessary
to start the digestive processes, and water
is preferable to tea or coffee Thl learned
doctors of the eighteenth or even the nine
teenth centuries would have held up their
hands in horror over the idea of imbibing
water at meal time. Yet the doctors of to-
day have scientific experiments and a COM
paratively profound knowledge of water
chemistry and engineering to back up their
prescriptions. Of course, it is desirable
bit of forethought to make sure that your
own water supply Is pure before drinking
your quart or two quarts a day. For people
who are camping, or who for some other
reason do not have the benefit of filtered
or otherwise purified water supply, a public
health doctor offers the following rules for
purifying your own water:
Keep on hand couple Of ounces of chic
ride of lime solution in strength of two tea
spoonfuls to quart of water A teaspoonful
OF this stock solution added to two gallons
of suspected drinking water will purify it,
Agitate in a stone jar and let it stand COW
cred with several thicknesses of cheesecloth
This will aerate the water, protect it from
air contamination and remove the flat taste
peculiar to water that has been boiled and
not aerated.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-02
The Revolt n, Egybt
THE recent riots in Alexandria, Egypt,
ay or may not have been kindled

ay or may not have been kindled
by Nationalist sentiment, but they
leave little doubt that the country is yet I'M
prepared for complete self-gOvernment. 1t
was not simply even chiefly against Brit
ish rule that the passion of the mob seems
to have stormed, but, as dislnterested OBJ
server reports, against all things Euro
pean." The eaViest sufferers were the Greeks
of the city, for the most part tradesmen and
merchants, whose forhears tWenty-three CEN
turtles ago, and earlier still, were trafficking
with the Nile land and settling there in con-
siderable numbers under the protection OF the
Pharaoh kings.
In the drift of the ages came other peoples,
Abyssnians Arabs, Turks, Mamelukes, Ne
groes from the Soudan, and adventures from
all climes, as we'll as substantial business
folk and colonists. What portion Of the pri-
NAL Hamitic or Coptic strain is left, only the
ethnologist could say, but it appears certain
that the solidarity of thought and feeling
which makes for stable government has not
been acquired.
The British Government, although freely
recognizing the counrty's right to native con-
troll in native affairs and to ultimate autonomy
prescribes for the present "a relationship
which, while securing the special interests of
Great Britain and enabling her to offer ade-
quate guarantees to foreign Powers, will meet
the legitimate aspirations of Egypt and the
Egyptian people," This is no more than our
own Government insists upon in the Philip
pines; and Britain's interests are far more
vitality, or at least more intimately, involved
in Egypt than are Americas in the far-aWay
Pacific islands. 1t is hardly to be doubted,
moreover, that if the supervision and guild
ance which have served Egypt's broader in
terests we'll should be taken away at this
iuncture the country would lapse into polit-
ical chaos.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-02
DOROTHY DIX TALKS-DOn't Press Agent Mother


to play around with him. If 1 even served
him the kind of food that his mother cooked
eat it,
In reality, he likes my ways much better
than his mothers, and I am better mana
ger than his mother was, but he doesn't know
it. He is still true to his childish faith that
his mother knew it all, and he hasn't enough
gumption to that it hurts a wiaes vanity
to be continually reminded that she isn't a
top notcher in her husbands estimation, and
that she always has to play second fiddle to
his mother.
"Of course, all of us know that we are poor
weak, falterlng creatures, with million
faults and imperfections, but all of us nourish
the illusion that there is one individual in
the world whom we have got fooled and that
is the one ito whom are married Every
wife loves to believe that her husband thinks
everything she does is right and that she is a
paragon, as a wife, and mother, and a model
of thrift, and a blue ribbon cook. Every
man likes to think that his wife considers
him second Solomon, and that she considers
everything he says, as the opinion of an
oracle
"And we would go along being happy, hug
ging this blessed illusion to breasts, if it
was not for the fool way in which husbands
and wives press agent their mothers. 1t is
when man begins to tell his wife what a
superior being his mother is, that poor WHEY
gets the first crimp taken in her rosy dream
CHdC nef nuSDand regards nef as an angel. 1t s
when wife commences to tell husband what
mother says on every subject under the sun,
that he realizes that his opinion isn't going to
rule in their household, and thai his wife
considers him mere idiot beside the lady
whose views she has been accustomed to take
on every subject under the sun, ever since
she was born.
'In reality, that is the secret reason why
so many men and women hate their mothers
in-law. They are continually being measured
against mother-in-law and found wanting.
They are forever being compared to mother
in-law to their disadvantage, and it is not in
human nature to endure this with patience.
A man rubs it in on his wife that she falls
far short of the perfection of his mother. A
woman lets her husband see, at every turn,
that it is mother she turns to for advice and
counsel, that it is mother she admires above
him, and the result is that the woman and
man, who have to listen to a never ending
paean of praise Of mother, come to hate her.
eff men and women, when they get mar
ried, would put the soft pedal on mother and
let her make her own way, she would be a
lot more popular with her in-laws It's this
over-touting mother business that puts her in
bad and sets her daughter-in-aw and sons
in-law against her"
Copyright, 1921, by tho Wheeler Syndi-
cate, 1nc.)
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1t has been said that discreet man never
praises one woman to another woman. TAX
ing this by and large, it is good advice. 1t is
especially good advice when it comes to
man who is holding up his mothers virtues
as model to his wife.
"My husbands mother is a splendid
woman" remarked a woman who was dis
cussng this subject the other day, land
think L should have been very fond of her,
if I had not had her thrown in my teeth so
continually, but as it is, l am fed up on her
until | can't abide her. From the very day
of my marriage, my husband has harped con-
tinually on what mother says, and mother
does, and the way mother cooks, until l am
sick and tired of mother, and all pertaining
to her.
more than that, he is always talking about
his love for his mother and how nobody can
ever take mothers place, and about mothers
influence, and so on. Now, want my hus-
band to admire his mother, and tc love her,
and I've got sense enough to realize that the
way man loves his mother and the way he
loves his wife, are not the same, and that the
two affections do not conflict
"Also, I have enough intelligence to per-
ceive that most of the things that he says
about his mother are pure sentimentality. It's
the traditional home and mother stuff that
men are so strong for after they get away
from home and mother far enough to ldeallze
them. l don't mean that my husband isn't
mire her. He does, and with good reason;
but when she is with him I notice that she
gets on his nerves with her little peculiari-
ties and that even the dishes that she cooks
for him, and that he used to like as a boy,
seem to have lost their flavor
"Now, I wouldn't for the world pull my
mother-in-law down off the pedestal on which
her son has put her, but, all the same, there
are times when I wish that my husband would
quit burning incense at her feet long enough
to light few punk sticks before mine
"And I also wish thai he would quit COM
pairing us, always to my disadvantage, and
telling me what mother did, ard mother
didn't do, under entirely different conditions
of life. 1t is doubtless true that mother did
not wear dresses that were short in the skirt
and low in the neck, and mother did not be-
long to bridge clubs. and didn't automobile,
and golf, and one step, and mother was always
cooking, and sewing, and cleaning, and work
ed from sun to sun; but fashion and condl-
tions, and customs have changed since then.
eff should dress my husbands mother
did he wouldn't be seen out on the street
with me. If had as narrow a range of inter-
est as she had, and a conversational roper
tOire that only took in the kitchen and the
nursery, I would bore him stiff If I was
nothing but the household drudge that his
mother was, he would find some other wom-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-02

preventive of divorce, a Long Is
~ land magistrate has prescribed that
errant husbands shall help in the.
homework or take care of the chill
dren for an hour each day and shall
bring home candy once a week. Says this
sagacious Judge, Take a woman that has
started early in the morning, worked all day.
minding the children, and she is grouchy at
night time, maybe tired to death. Now if
cne husband comes home with a crouch, too
without proper understanding of the work Of
the wife, there is likely to be a row." There
fore, let the lord of the castle learn by ex-
perience something of his lady's tribula-
ton.
In reporting this highly notable decree, the
New York Tribune aptly cites the view Of
the distinguished psychotherapist, DR.. David
Orr Edison, who maintains in his recent book
Getting What We Want" that happiness
and health are dependent on ga balanced ra-
ton of achievement" "People get their
daily portion of praise from those they love,
or else seek it in the various eXctements Of
the outer world. where it is more costly and
far more tickle" Thus, she he who is not
praised and netted bit develops "psvchic
m~l1"t"f+'"-'.' from which all maner of ills
may develop.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-02
4 Cost1u Crob
ECAUSE it is keenly descriptive of the
x experience of other southern states, an


account of South Carolina's "contribu-
ton to western wealth. in 1919, by
Mr.. A. B. Bryan, of Clemson college, is broad
ly notable. In that year, he shows the Pal
metto commonwealth imported food and feed
stuffs to the amount of one hundred and
eleven million dollars, corn, hay, oats, flour,
bacon, beef, butter and eggs being included In
the purchases. How were these products, all
of which can be raised in abundance on South
Carolina SOIL paid for? Out of the proceeds
of cotton crop of two million eight hun
dred and seventy-se"en thousand acres, the
total value of which was one hundred and ten
million nine hundred and twenty-five thous-
and dollars. That is to say, all the returns
of the money and Labor spent on the produc-
ton of the cotton did not suffice to pay the
one hundred and eleven million dollar food
bill. Such a situation points its own moral.
That conditions re not to remain thus
however, is clear from the fact that South
Cardinals food crops for 1920 all showed
large increases over 1910, while their values
aggregated one hundred and five million
ninety-fve thousand dollars. Moreover, as
Mr.. Bryan reports in his interesting discus
sion in the Manufacturers Record, the states
farmers "are determined that 1921 and the
future shall see decided increases in the
amounts produced and yearly decreases in the
amounts bought until at a not far distant
time the state will live at home" This is the
nolcy of the south Ut large, and it is along
this line that independence and stable pros
| 2erity in agriculture will be achieved
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-02
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY JACK PATTERSON

In looking over the University News this
week we were delighted to see that Effing-
ham Academy is rated as being equal to any
of the accredited schools in the state and far
ahead of many of the larger schools in
equipment and building. Our school stands
in the first class, ahead of Sylvania, Claxton
and Lyons and many other places much
larger. The University News is published
by the State University and it is the ,+hor-
ity we all go by.-Springfeld Herald.
This is record of which any school in the
state should feel commendable p~ide.
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Johnny Spencer Saws

Thirty young men of the Evanston, Ill.)
Congregational church have passed ressolu-
tions declaring this age to be the most i'm
moral in all history and binding the resolu-
tors not to speak to or walk with a girl
wearing short skirts, We just knew some
thing terrible would happen if the girls kept
on. Well, they brought it on themselves
]. D. Spencer in Macon Telegraph.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-02
WHOSE MOVE?
By DR.. Frank Crane

BY Or. FRANK Crane
Well?
That really is about all there is to be said
'FWell?"
The United States would like to reduce the
size of her navy, if the others would. Ditto
Great Britain. Ditto Japan.
These three are the only ones that really
have any say in the matter.
If SO, why not begin?
Especially as every nation is sweating blood
under it's tax burdens
Are we to continue a preparedness that is
as expensive as war?
AS for whose move it is, it is unquestion-
ably ours.
We are no naval empire Our territory is
self-sufficient.
Great Britain is an island dominion.
Japan is also. She has an ocean territory
to protect that reaches from the Kurile Is
lands to Formosa, and stretches off into the
South Pacific to the Caroline and Marshall
Islands, which are now under japanese man
datory.
Japan and Great Britain are both depend
ent on supplies obtained by sea. Fleet de-
struction would starve either of them. It
would not bother the United States.
We are rich. We are unentangled. We
would not be accused of fear.
All we need is the courage of a gentle
man, and less of the cheap vanity of the bully.
Speaking as for Japanese sentiment the
other day, DR.. Iyenaga, director of the east
and west bureau, said:
'It seems to me that the great naval ex-
pansion by both Japan and the United States
is simply foolishness, for this reason: Today
the naval tonnage of the United States is
about 100000 and that of Japan about 34O,-
600, which means that the proportionate
strength is little more than 2 to 1 in favor
of the United States. When Americas pres
ent naval program is completed in 1925, and
IJapan's present program is completed in 1928,
then the proportion would remain almost ex-
actly at the same ratiO-2 to 1 in favor of
the United States. And if both countries
keep on building and complete the present
programs, they will spend unnecessarily bill
lions of dollars without altering their pro-
portionate strength. The idea t at a little
country like Japan could successfully COM
pete with the United States in huge naval
expansion, knowing almost no limits, is i'm
possible, The expense for the United States
would be heavy, and for Japan practically
ruinous.
eff either Great Britain or the United
States should propose a conference with ia
pan, looking toward reduced naval programs.
and as logical sequence partial disarmament
afterWard, it is my profound conviction that
the suggestion would be most heartily well
comedy by the Japanese government and the
Japanese people"
1t looks as if it were Uncle Sans move.
Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-02
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Nothing New About That

women Want Mems Wages" shrieks a
headline And that isn't all, the women have
been getting mems wages, for a long time;
ever since in act, pockets were invented
Savannah Morning News.
We are not in position to take issue with
the editor of the News, who is a married
man.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-02
Eugene Marriage

Beginning last week, every man obtaining
a marriage license in Wyoming must produce
a certificate dated within ten DAYS and signed
by an approved Wyoming physician showing
the applicant is free from disease. The state
eugenics law passed by the last Legislature
requires such certificates.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-02
A Home Run

Lovely woman will sharpen lead pencil
with the scissors and drive nails with the
back of hair brush, but she gets there just
the same.-Schley County News.
All right let her CO.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-02
River of Doubt

The famous River of Doubt, discovered by
the late Theodore Roosevelt, will be traced
to its source and mapped by party Of
scientists sailing from New York June 1 for
tWo-year expedition in the Amazon coun-
ty or South America. The expedition also
Will search the jungles for new drugs and
will make a complete collection of REPTILES.
insects, birds and animals there
DR.. Henry H. Rusby, professor of phar-
macy at Columbia university, will head the
party, which will include DR.. William M.
Mann government entomologist; DR.. Fred
erick L. Hoffman, statstician; DR.. Everett
Pearson, University of Indiana, and DR.. Or
man e. White, of Brooklyn botanical gar
dens' riflemen, taxidermists and photog-
rapher.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-02

At Fort Sheridan dinner party the con-
versation turned to "reminiscences. Ma
jOr Hanson Evans of the signal corps said:
There was a private named Bill, a western
farmer, who had just arrived in London. He
was being shown the sights by friends from
home, who had been in England some time.
They were surprised at Bills Indifference to
all the historic landmarks which he passed
by without WORD Of comment. Desparing
of interesting him in anything, they started
to lead him through Trafalgar square to the
Strand. In the middle of the Strand stands
Nelson's monument-a tall shaft. with a
statue of the great admiral at the top and
at the base four sculptured lions. Well here
at last it was obvious Bill had found some
thing to interest him. new light shot into
his eyes. He stood fascinated, glancng from
the lions below to the admiral above. then
back again to the lions. His friends were
pleased to see that at last somethil had i'm
pressed him. What do you think of that
Bill?' one of them asked. Well" answered
Bill. them lions sure got the old man in
tight corner, amt they?'"