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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
4 Ne1u Air Thriller

W ARELY has adventure come with
X sharper hazards or keener thrills
than to the three American airmen
who now are making their way by dog
sledge down the snow-bound trail of the
Massanabi river in northern Ontario, after
a stormful balloon voyage of more than
eight hundred miles.
1t was on December the thirteenth last
that Lieutenants Hinton, Farrell and Kloor,
of the United States Navy, assembled from
Rockaway Point, New York, and drifted
northward trusting to the upper currents
of the air to direct their course and expect
ing to land somewhere in Canada" The
local weather forecast on the day OF their
departure was moderate east Winds and
for northern New England moderate to
fresh east and southeast winds" In the
vicinity of northern Lake Huron, however,
storm warnings were spread. At RockaWay
station, officers and mates of the aeronauts
eagerly awaited news of where they had
alighted and of what they had gained in
observations and tests But no tidings
came, nor did come for three anxious
weeks.
On the night of the thirteenth the voy-
ayers encountered a terrific blizzard that
swept them through the darkness as if they
had been snowflakes When day came they
looked far down upon the Canadian will
derness. No landing place was in sight. On
sped the balloon until the frozen waters of
the southern extremity of HUDSON Bay hove
into view. There or nowhere, the lieuten-
ants realized, they must land; and desper-
ate as the undertaking was, by dint OF
courage and skill they succeeded Fifty
miles farther east .they would have been
blown away to sea; fifty miles farther west
north or south they would have been
lost in forest wilds where a wanderers al
most certain fate is to be devoured by
wolves.
Fortunately, their balloon was observed
by employees of the Hudson Bay Company's
post at Moose Factory, and searching par
ties were sent forth. But it was not until
the three had struggled for four days
through bleak woods and snow drifts that
they and their rescuers met. Then they
were taken to post and cared for, while
Indian runners were dispatched to the
nearest telegraph station, more than
fortnight's journey, to give the news to
the outside world.
The lieutenants, who are now treking it
down the hree-hundred-mile snow trail to
the nearest railroad, doubtless will bring
back knowledge Of much value to stu
dents of upper air currents and Of aero
nautics in general. Chiefly interesting to
most Of us, however. will be their story of
how they survived the giant gale and the
four days in the frozen wilderness with
only a sandwich or so amongst them.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
Maintaining Highways
. ISCUSSING the disrepa1r1 into WHICH
the Dixie Highway has fallen in

~ ISCUSSING the disrepa1rs into which
the Dixie Highway has fallen in
Kentucky, the Louisville Courier
Journal stresses the obviously true but all
too frequently ignored principle that with
out adequate maintenance no system of
roads is of permanent value: Better mod
crate expansion of mileage of improved
roads, with good maintenance, than rapid
expansion without it,
If this policy had been consistently fol-
lowed the country over, thousands of miles
of roads which today are the despair OF
drivers would be in prime condition. and
the money and labor originally spent upon
them would be still al investment instead
of loss. In the development Of highway
systems upkeep is not whit less impor-
tant than construction, particularly since
the advent of motor traffic. and plans that
do not so provide are unjust to taxpayers
and the public.
There has been marked improvement in
this matter since the rise of the State
highway commissions, with their staffs Of
competent engineers and their close coop
Grafton with the administrators of the Fed
eral aid road funds But much is yet to be
done before maintenance needs will receive
their full due. Nothing bearsa.more directly
upon the durability and the ultimate cost
of highways.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
HOME FOLKS
By DR.. Frank Crane

Home Folks are the folks you have to live
with. They are more important to you than
any other folks, because they have most to
do with making you happy or miserable.
They are so near you that often you can
not see them.
In family I used to board with I have
seen the mother; when the doorbell rang
and company came, stop Snarling at the chill
dren, smooth the frown from her face, and
replace it with lovely smile, pushaall the
other facial lines up which she had been
wearing droopcd for family use, smooth her
hair, and become all nice and pleasant be-
fore she went in to say howdy to the callers.
Why is it that we hand out sugar to strang-
ers and reserve the vinegar for our own?
The Home Folks are they that are with
you in your fight against this untoward
world for existence. They are our COM
We treat them pals? Soldiers in the
trenches jollied each other along; why can't
we be decent to those who are stationed be-
side us in the home trench?
There's your MOTHER. OF course she's
not grand opera star, or the queen of the
movies, but If you will stop to think you will
discover that she is quite as wonderful To
you, anyway, she ought to be-. She went
down to the doorstep of death to bring you
into the world; she watched and tended you
when you were helpless; she loved and cod
died you while everJ body thought you were
when all other persons thought you were in
the way. Honestly, is anything too good for
her, and wouldn't it pay you to be pleasant to
her as long as she lives? Think it over. Of
you're away, write her letter, a good, long,
chatty one, the kind fellow writes to his
sweetheart)
And DAD. OF course, he's bit trying
Fathers don't seem to un 'orstand. But still,
you know that away deep in his heart he is
fond Of you. If you were in trouble he
would come If every mans hand were
against you he'd stand by. And before you
get through this vale of tears, son, you'll
find out that those who will stand by are all
too few.
Another thing. Folks get lonely as they
grow old. And a man wants his son, his
daughter and feels great inwar1 hurt if
they have escaped him. Make up to Dad.
And BROTHER. We never wholly ap-
prove Of brothers. We have been too close.
We see their nuisance capacity. But a
brothers a brother, flesh Of your flesh, you
know, and If you do not cultivate brotherli-
ness you are cheating yourself There isn't
anything finer thar being a mans brother
sharing each others silly little imperfec-
tons
Time will come, If you both grow up, when
the most delicious suppers of recollection will
be when you and he meet, after years in
strange parts, an( sit down and talk over
the escapades and FRANKS and fights you had
when you were seven and he ten.
Then-there's SISTER. Take it all in all,
is there any influence quite like a sisters?
She is not so partial as mother, nor so
jealous as wife, but somehow her love Is
one Of the cleanest, most loyal and depend
able Of all the loves we meet.
Don't neglect your folks. They are Yours
Truly.
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
Using Georgia 5 Health La1O

YALL COUNTY is to be congratulated
upon having availed itself of the oppor-
tunities afforded by the Ellis Public
Health Act, highly constructive measure
which the General Assembly adopted some
years ago for the conservation and upbuiId-
ing of Georgia's vital interests Under the
provisions of this law counties, or groups of
them, are authorized, upon the, due recon-
mendation Of grand juries, to organize sari-
tary districts, employ public health officers,
and establish regulations looking to the pre-
vention and control of disease. Much en-
phas1s, moreover, is placed on educative eff
forts, that it is through the schools, the
press and through community meetings and
visits that some of the richest results of the
public health systems are achieved.
The good thus accruing to the Common
wealth, and particularly to the counties
that have applied the terms of the law to
their own needs, is beyond reckoning. HUI
man lives have been saved, human energies
preserved and quickened, the possibilities
of industrial and agricultural production in
creased, land values enhanced, civic growth
accelerated, and the basic forces Of prosper
ity strengthened, all through attention to
simple principles Of public sanitation and
hygiene. Millions of money, as we'll as
higher values beyond measure, have been
saved t an expense purely nominal.
While numbers of alert counties have or
ganfzed health departments. many are still
without this vital service. The day is not
distant. it is to be hoped, when every Geor-
gia community will have taken advantage
of what the Ellis Act offers. There is no
wealth like health and no field of the COM
mon interests to which official effort can be
more profitably directed.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
CAPITOL Burns

The capitol building Of west Virginia was
destroyed by fire late Monday. One laborer
was killed, fireman seriously injured and
several others injured when section Of the
roof, under which they were standing, caved
in. The spectacular nature of the fire was
enhanced when much ammunition, stored on
the third floor of the building, exploded.
The fire broke out on the Lee street side
of the building and within half an hour two
floors of that wing were mass OF flames All
the fire companies in Charleston were called
to the capitol which stands in park direct
ly across the street from the executive man
sion. At $3.50 o'clock the fire was spreading
rapidly and it seemed as though the old
building was doomed.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Yes, dear, some queer birds roost in family
trees.
You can't get the best of some men-they
haven't any.
Many woman who looks like an angel for
gets to act like one.
Nor is there in the bright lexicon of youth
such word as ignorance"
Speaking of skin games-what's the matter
with the beauty doctor!
The first time man falls in love he imagines
he is in bottomleSS pit.
Any woman can make dollar go so far that
her husband will never see it again.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
Police Records

Reports compiled at Atlanta police head
quarters show total of 2,426 arrests by At
lanta police during December. The great
est number Of these, it is stated, we're arrest
ed on charges of being drunk, 452 falling I'M
der this classification. Idling and lettering
cases ranked second in point of number.
Violations of the speed laws were not so
numerous during December as during the
two preceding months A large number of
persons were hailed into court for violating
traffic ordinances.
Stolen goods aggregating in value $751;
1921 were recovered during the month.
Goods to the value of $23,246.16 were recov-
cred by detectives; the uniformed force re-
covered $30,327.95 worth of stolen property.
The amount of fines collected from the
recorders court during December was $14,-
1876.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
On1;nous Times u, SPAN,
4 SHARP-PENNED Spanish pessimist O
II the day describes his country as "a


mass of wreckage on the coast Of
Africa" Undeniably things are in
wretched way with the kingdom long loved
by castle-builders. Oppression has done it's
worst there, and now starvation stalks in.
Nothing short of revolution, keen observ-
ers predict, will solve the, deepening and
tragic problem.
Picture country larger than Britain,
with a population upwards Of twenty mil
lion, more than half of them unable to read
or write, and vast numbers Of them in never
appeased hunger; a country where five thou
sand towns and villages are without roads
''marooned and forlorn,'' as a. recent traveller
expresses it, and imploring some better means
of contact with the outer world than the
goat-tracks (which the wolf and the wild
boar use, as well as sad caravans of underfed
and overtaxed people," Untouched though
she was by the fire and sword of the World
War, Spain appears today well4nigh the most
deso1ate region of Europe
Some idea of the misgovernment which is
largely responsible for these conditions may
be gathered from the well-authenticated
story of an olive grower Of Murcia., During
the war, it is related, his trees were hewn
down to make barges and to feed railway
engines. Nevertheless he was compelled to
pay the usually burdensome taxes on the
naked stumps and litter that were left him.
''The national budget writes a correspond
ent of the conservative London SATURDAY
REVIEW, "has swollen to a preposterous
size, and public moneys melt unaccountably,
while three million Spanish school children
are without elementary schools, and Spain's
wheat acreage continues to shrink alarm
ingly'
Will 1t be surprising if this nation, long
the least-talked-of in Europe, soon flames to
the center Of the stage?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08

A bill designed to prevent the doctoring or
adulteration of the sick mans liquor has
been introduced by Representative Ware,
Republican, of Pennsylvania. Specifically, 1t
would stop the manufacture and sale, for
medicinal purposes, Of whisky containing less
than As per cent of alcohol.
In a letter to Chairman Volstead of the
house judiciary committee, Mr. Ware declared
there had been wholesale violations of the
medicinal provisions of the enforcement act
and that great harm had resulted to patients
for whom liquor had been prescribed e.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
OUlPS AND OUIDDITIES

One day Smith was complaining that he
was not feeling as fit as usual, and a friend
suggested that he should go in for more
exercise.
"There's riding, for instance" said the
friend. eft is one Of the best forms of ex-
ercise on earth"
"I know" was the doubtful rejoinder.
"But I am afraid 7 couldn't afford it." -
Couldn't afford it," exclaimed the other,
wondering. "You already have horse, and
just think of the appetite 1t would give you"
Eyes," responded Smith, with sigh, "and
just think Of the appetite it would give the
horse!"
When John Mccormack singing in
grand opera, as Sig. Foil, some years ago.
he had on one occasion to sing from a stage
balcony which was hardly strong enough to
support so heavy man. rhe stage mana
ger assigned two stage haL*s to hold it up
from beneath, but befor Sig Foil was more
than half through one Of the men below said,
''Be jabers, Moike, the Oitallan is moighty
heavy"
Lets dhrop him, Pat; he's only an Oital-
ian, after all"
Voice of Sig. Foil above: Twill We, ye
divils, will ye?"
"Tare an 'ounds, Pat, but he's an Oirish-
man! Hould him up for the loife of yez!"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta Ga.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
Monroe Reduces Tax Rate

Monroe county has done something ux-
heard Of In these times-reduce it's tax rate,
the reduction being $3.50 on the thousand.
The custom these days is to tax property
to it's limit and then ransack their heads in
an endeavor to find another kind Of tax that
can be levied. Monroe county is to be con-
graduated. 1t is a record that should be
emulated by other counties-Dawson NsaWes!
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
Around the World
Tri-Weekly Mems Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Naval Recruiting Stops

@Nt0FtHA AOOOH AAOhAKS OOOK'o
Recruiting for the navy\has been suspend
ed temporarily, it was learned at the navy de-
partment Tuesday. All new enlistments have
been prohibited and only re-enlistments of
men now in the service are authorized
1t was said at the department that the
strength of 1872 900 men reached several days
ago was the maximum possible under the ap-
preparation of congress. If the figures fall
much below that mark recruiting will be re-
sumed, it was added.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
Arkansas COnVicts

Delivery of every convict in the Arkan-
sas penitentiary could be accomplished by
friends outside, due to the presence of
ladders leading from picket houses on the
walls to the ground outside, and the fact
that the night guards "are In the habit of
sleeping in the picket rooms" according to
a report made by Captain-J. Carroll Cone,
commanding national vuard troops on
duty at the penitentiary to Governor
Brough.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
Who Expects Him to Do 1t?

Here's the way the Fayette Advertiser
sizes it up and hands 1t out:
"The minister is expected to take two
line text and preach three-column sermon
from it while the editor must take a three
column sermon and make two-line item
out of it, and one job is as hard as the
other" -Columbus Enqurer-Sun.
We interpose the suggestion that a ma
jority of the ministers use about two columns
Of text, but that's none of our business.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
COIhy in Brazil

Mutual declarations of warm friendship be-
tween the United States end Argentina and
the exchange of toasts to Presidents Wilson
and Irigoyen marked brief addresses of Senior
Torello, acting foreign minister, of Brazil, and
cambridge Colby, American secretary of state,
at a banquet in Buenos Aires Monday night.
Members of the Argentine cabinet and of Mr..
Colby's party were present.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
WEppS Are EgQSN

Those old hens have not yet heard that
prices are going down. They are still lay
ing SO-cent eggs here in Morgan county
Madison Madisonian. Brother Furlow ought
to send marked copy of his paper to them
and let them know about it.-Columbus En-
quirer-Sun.
Still, we don't see how a hen can work
all day on the production of one egg and
derive much profit at 6% cents for her
energy.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
Ban on Whiskers

ga word to the wise is sufficient" wrote
George J. Murphy, superintendent Of the
Third Avenue railway New York, prefacing
his quote from poor Richard, with an order
that all employees should appear for work in
proper uniform and shaved of all facial
growths, from moustaches and Thiskers to the
tawdry two-day growths.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
Bold. Bad Burglars

Things have come to pretty pass in New
York when bandits can stop an auto driven
by lady, take rings from her fingers and
search her stockings for money. The bold,
low-down rascals!-Cuthbert Leader.
The bandits were not gentlemen, to say
the least.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
Italian immigration

The Italian government has suspended the
issue of passports to subjects innigrating to
the United States, and will refrain from is
suing such passports until informed as to the
classes Of immigrants desired in>this country,
the American state department has been adj
vised by the Italian embassy.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
Guatemala Mob

A disorganized mob of aGherents of
former President Manuel Estrada Ca
brera attacked the headquarters of the
commander of the garrison at Guata-
mala City, Guatemala, Saturday morning.
The mob was. dispersed by rifle fire after
two of it's members had been killed and
four wounded. It's leader, man named
PEPPER, was arrested and imprisoned.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
Coal Indictments

The federal grand jury at Knoxville, Tenn,
has returned twenty-eight indictments
against fifty coal companies and dealers and
against their proprietors and managers al
1eging that the defendants had been guilty Of
demanding and charging unjust and exorbi-
tant prices in producing and handling of coal
during the last year
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-08
.-m Governor Quits

Alfred e. Smith, retiring governor of New
York, ended at 22-year career in public life
this week when he went to work chairman
of the board of directors of the United States
Trucking corporation. The ex-governor an
nounced he would never be candidate for
public office again.
Evening star., 1921-10-08
CHANGE FOR BETTER IN MANY
(, TRADE LINES BEGETS OPTIMISM
General Survey of Business Seems te
Justify More Confidence in
>'@ the Future.

rather better feeling in financial
circles regarding the German repara-
tions problem. What the basis for
this feeling is, however, has not been
disclosed. 1t may be the negotiations
reported under way between Ger
man manufacturers and merchants
and an American banking syndicate
for loan secured by German mer-
chandise. On the other hand. If these
negotiations are really far along and
promise a successful issue, 1t Is hard
to understand why there has not been
more of recovery in the German
mark.
We still have both in Germany and
in Austria the rare spectacle of panic
in the shape of furious buying
movement The population seeing the
currency sink to comparatively moth
ing-measured in outside values--is
drawing it's cash out of the banks and
fiinglng it intp any form of invest
ment that can be purchased.
Securities are bought, regardless of
value, because the purchaser feels
that, however unsafe they may be at
their present heights, they are bet
ter chance than cash or bank de-
posits redeemable in the currency of
the realm. The result is an anomalous
situation where. for this army Of
desperate investors, any rise in the
value of the mark at the present
juncture would be calamity. II
would surely be followed by a fear
full collapse In the inflated security
prices on the bourse.
Against the improvement which the
week has brought in oil and the metal
trades must be set as a depressing in
| fiuence the extreme weakness in the
grain markets. Prices of wheat and
corn have fallen to the lowest of the
season. The export trade is not what
] it was a while ago. and deliveries from
Evening star., 1921-10-08

of attention. Those in a position to
know what is going on inside the
| company declare, however, that they
know of nothing to put Superior up.
except the turn for the better in the
trade, which is affecting all the oil
concerns The last earnings report,
which was for the three months end
| ing June so, showed deficit of $ls2,-
| sos. But this was after depreciation
and depletion, and was not altogeth-
| er bad. considering it covered the
period when the oil industry was at
| its worst.
There is no question of any deal in
which Superior might figure, for the
Atlantic Refining Company has an
agreement under which d majority OF
| Superior stocks ia tied up for two
years. Besides, it has a contract to
purchase the entire Superior output at
going prices
With Lee Rubber around its top for
| the year gossip is being heard that
| the dividend rate may be increas sed
The situation i'll Lee is one that has
been SO often told that it should not
need repeating, but it is one that
| is also so pleasing in this year of
bad earnings and poor business that
! it is refreshing. Lee. unlike some
| other rubber and tire companies,
| cleaned house before the depression
| in it's industry and today is in good
| financial state and doing an increas-
| ing business each month. The COM
! pany has cash and negotiable Sc
| curities on hand of $3.50 600, and Is
| operating at close to capacity, while
sales are going along at a record
! rate.