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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
The Duty to Amer;can;ze
THAT the effort to Americanize those

who come to these shores as home
! seekers from foreign lands is not I'M
appreciated by their discerning kindred and
kind is evident from such comment as that
of the Finnish PAIVALEHTI. Says that
journal, touching educational work Of this
nature:
"In many cities evening schools and
other courses have been organized where
the immigrants are given instruction in
English and other subjects. Side by side
with these activities the immigrants have
been taught to understand the institutions,
government and principles of the country.
We can realize how hard such work is If
we remember the difficulties which most
of the immigrants have in learning new
language; but those difficulties notwith-
standing, this work has produced splendid
results. The immigrants have been brought
through it to know America better and more
than ever before"
Too long were we content to deplore the
perils of an unassmilated foreign element,
without doing anything by way of cure or
prevention. In principle it has always been
plain that America could not afford to
open her gates to millions who were likely
to remain alien to her institutions and
ideals as though still dwelling beneath
strange flags. 1t has always been clear that
economic assimilation alone. important as
that is could not suffice, but that unless the
immigrant were absorbed into the country's
nina ana sympathy, ne cOulu not De q de-
sirable citizen and might easily prove a
menace. But how lamentably we Jagged in
practice! Only within the last few years
has there been an organized, extensive eff
fort at Americanzation. When we entered
the World War there were eleven million
aliens amongst us-more than tenth of
our population-multitudes of whom could
read not a Inca understand scarce word
of the language in which the nations law
and literature are embodied and through
which it's inner life is apprehended.
So unwholesome and potentially danger
Gus a condition should never be suffered 20
recur; nor should day be lost in overcom-
ing the effects which still linger all too OBJ
viously. Highly important as it is to keep
out the criminal and the defective in the flu
ture and to guard against excessive inflows,
it is also exceedingly important to educate
In true Americanism the immigrants already
here and those yet to be admitted This
does not mean the imposing Of our speech
and customs and faiths upon unwilling
minds, but the shedding of knowledge and
kindling of thoughts that will make friend
ship possible and democracy safe. This we
Q to the immigrant, and assuredly we owe
it to ourselves
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27

The reason that most people fail in the
world is because they have no definite OBJ
jective Like the hero of the popular song.
they are on their way, but they don't know
where they are going. They don't even
know where they want to go, so they just
drift aimlessly about, from place to place,
and never arrive anywhere.
| And just as the person with no idea at all
| of what he is going to do in the world, al
ways fails, so the one ideal man almost in
variably succeeds. In the biography or all
great men and women we read of how, when
they were children, they planned to be finanS
ciers, or great writer's, or actors, or polltl-
cians or preachers and Of the weary years
they spent fitting themselves for their ca
reers.
They worked, and studied, and sacrificed
! always to one end, that they might carry out
| the plan that they had formulated. 1t was
a long and toilsome road for them to travel,
| but every step took them a little farther
along, and brought them a little nearer to
their goal, and, at last, they reached it be-
| cause they always had some set goal-1n Nina
| OF course now and then there is an ind1-
vidual who stumbles accidentally over gold
mine, or has greatness thrust upon him, but
such one is child Of luck who has little
! in common with the balance of us who must
| earn all we get. We can't count on being
struck by lightning. What we achieve we
must win by our own blood and sweat.
That is why it is pitiful to see people run
ming aimlessly around in circles instead OF
marching straight ahead, for they are put
! ting in as much labor and energy in dabbling
| at dozen Indifferent things as, they would
| in doing one thing superlatively we'll. There
! fore, they remain perpetual amateurs at life
| instead of becoming professionals and the
| professional wins over the amateur every
| time.
| The man who cannot decide whether he
wants to be a farmer, lawyer, business
| man or an actor never amounts to anything
at any one Of these occupations. 1t is the
| man who has the very call of the soil in his
blood who makes a successful farmer. It is
the man who finds no adventure so thrilling
as trade who becomes a merchant prince.
| It is the man who would rather starve as q
lawyer than be anything else. 1t is the man
who can barnstorm cheerfully because he is
learning the rudiments of his profession, who
eventually holds an audience in the hollow
of his hand.
| No general could win battle If he started
| to fight without any plan of campaign. A
| business would go into bankruptcy il the
man who was running it didn't know what
he was trying to do. We couldn't even go
to a city fifty miles distant unless we
bought ticket to that definite place. Yet
most of us let our lives be the sport of
chance. We are utterly purposeless. We
are the helpless victims of any accident that
| befalls us.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
MRS. SOLOMON SAYS:
nv HELEN ROWLAND

By HELEN ftOW LAM
Why Is Good Husband, oh, my Daugh-
ter?
For, of frivolous married men and their
ways the gossips have said much; but the
world is full of devoted husbands whose
names are never heard, and whose portion 10
oblivion.
Now, it came to pass, that met three Good
Husbands; and I questioned them, saying:
"Behold, Woman, I am a Good Husband,
because my conscience prompteth me to- DO
virtuous and honorable and to keep my we'd
ding-vowst And is this not enough?"
And the second made answer, saying:
'Lo, 1 am a Devoted Husband, because y
love my wife; and to make her happy Is the
first aim and desire of mine existence. AND
Is this not enough"
But the third closed an eye, and spake eau
tiously, saying:
go to! Peradventure they have spoken
rightly, and it is love of virtue that possess
eth the one of them, and love of woman that
inspireth the other.
"ButI as for me, shall speak the Truth.
"For, 10, it is love Of PEACE that keepeth
me trotting steadily in double harness, and
holdeth my feet in the straight and narrow
way.
"Verily, verify, it is far easier to resist
temptation, than to endure the curtain-lec-
ture which followeth fall from grace.
''It is less painful to refuse libatton from
a. friends cellar than to hearken unto the
proach, which flow when kiss is favored
with cognac.
"It is less strenuous to climb into evening
clothes and totter forth to dances and dinner
parties, than to argue about it.
'It is less humiliating to grant a wife g.
request in the beginning, than to deny 1t, ana
grant it, AFTER the battle
"It is far less exertion to desist from glanc~
ing at a pretty woman, than to spend the
night in explaining thy DETECTION
"It is less wearisome to keep all the COM
mandments of wife, than to break them ana
be forever after kept in hot water.
cit is less fatiguing to shave ones chin,
than to prove that it doth not require shaw
ing and to change ones coat than to prove
that it need not be changed.
"It is less laborious to fetch and carry and
do the household chores, than to invent ex-
cuses for NOT doing them.
"Lo, when a man bringeth his wife burnt
offerings, in his heart, he saith not, This will
make her happy!', but This will put her in
good humor!'
''When he maketh sacrifice to please her,
he saith not, Anything, for loves sake!', but
Anything, for quiet EVENING"
"For, verify, verify it requireth less energy
to be Good Husband, than to manufacture
reasons for NOT being good.
go to! A foolish husband spendeth half
the days of his life in explaining away the
things which he spendeth the other nalf In
doing.
"But the slogan of Good Husband is
Peace, at any price,"
Selah.
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Newspaper
Syndicate.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
DOROTHY DIX TALkS-HAVE A PLAN

BY DORO THY DIX

We do not take the trouble to find out
what occupation nature intended us to fol-
low. We become a blacksmith because the
man with forge near us needed helper, or
we became a preacher because Uncle Eben-
ezer is pious and offers to send us to theo-
logical college, independent Of whether our
talents run to blacksmithing or preaching.
We marry, just casually, somebody we hap
pen to be thrown with, without ascertalning
whether we are soul mates or not, so we mud
die along through life unsuccessful, dissatis-
fled, putting up the best we can with what
we have got when we might have had what
we wanted if we had only had enough in
telligence and determination to really find
out what we desired, and go get it.
The chief victims of the painless life are
women. The great reason why women so
seldom attain anything worth while in the
commercial world is because they do not set
out with through ticket to a big place in
it clinched in their hands. They expect to
get off at the first matrimonial way station
at which they are invited to stop.
When you find woman who has set her
heart on being at the head of her own bust
ness or a highly paid private secretary or a
buyer, or to have her name in electric lights
over a. theater door, you may as we'll be
thinking up appropriate words Of congratu-
1ation. She'll get there, for the woman with
a plan carries it out.
1t may be said that the practically un1ver-
sal feminine plan is to get married True.
And most women achieve this end, but they
even do this in a hit-or-miss kind Of way,
as is proven by the kind Of men they marry.
They haven't even worked their matrimonial
plans out definitely enough to make sue
cess of marriage by selecting the type OF a
man with whom they will be happy.
Worse still, although they plan to marry,
they do not plan to be good wives. In a
nebulous way every girl probably hopes that
her husband will be happy and satisfied with
her, but doubt if one woman in thousand
ever sits down before she marries, and for
mulates working plan for being good wife.
She doesn't say to herself that she is going
to be good tempered, and Industrious, and
thrifty, and a crackerjack cook and house
keeper.
She leaves to luck the details Of making
the man she has married happy. She has no
plan, and that is why so many marriages
never get anywhere except to the divorce
court.
Whether you are man or woman, quit
being a drifter. Find out what you want to
do and do it. Work with definite plan in
mind and you will succeed. Otherwise, you
are bound to fail
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Syndi-
cate, 1nc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
In Truth, Not in Hyster;a
Lies the Hole of Reform,

w As'sntss municipal nun, Up affairs. tn. rank
and file of her citizens unquestion-
ably condemn; and they doubtless will vote,
to the best of their lights, for correction
But they do not believe, If The Journal has
an inkling of their attitude, that to compass
this sane and patriotic end it is needful to
advertise the city as trembling beneath a
tidal wave of immortality shuddering in a
"reign of terror and swarming with
"harpies" that ere long will ''pluck you to
the bone"
The phrases quoted are from the text OF
resolutions adopted, 1t is said, by members OF
the present and the four preceding grand
juries of Fulton county, "acting solely as
private citizens" Respecting though one
does the fervor Of spirit which naturally
runs to ardent imagery, and granting the
best of motives to gentlemen so heartily es-
teemed, at the same time one can but feel
that here the rhetoric of their scribe has over
leaped the counsel of their judgment. Ger
tainly, it has over-leaped the truth-and
Truth the seer reminds us, hath a
quiet breast" Consider such statements as
these, published to the world with no shade
or syllable or qualification:
tected day or night.
''You risk your life if you walk the
streets after dark.
1.-THE pedestrian escapes the terrors OF
downtown traffic by day, only to be held
up and robbed by night"
When the stranger within our gates, or
the inquiring home-seeker, or the inveterately
hostile critic of the South reads assertions
like these he allows no grain of salt for the
temper in which they were conceived, but
takes them as literal accounts of Atlanta
prevalent and characteristic condition. Now,
were it fact that this loved city lay beneath
tidal wave of immortality" (1et alone a
reign of terror with "harpies" Whetting
beak and claw to ''pluck to the bone'O
then by all means should we acknowledge the
grim truth and pray the four winds of heaven
to come and whip us clean. But if, as The
Journal for one believes, Atlanta is nor
mally decent and lawful, albeit far from per-
feet, community; if she more nearly resem-
bles the average American CITY Of right
thinking majorities, mixed with elements of
incompetency and wrong, than the reeking
Gomorrah which some would have us believe
her; and if her civic problems call for clear
statement of fact and for sober thinking,
rather than for hectic tirades-then, assured
ly, such outbursts were better restrained.
AS good citizens, let us condone no wrong,
tolerate no abuse, and rest content with moth
ing short OF a city moving upward to our
vision; but the way thither, let us remember,
must be lighted by TRUTH not blinded by hys-
terra.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
Caesar Unbends

IT. HE powers that be in Japan have de-
cided, with significance hardly to be
gagged by the democratic West, that
when the Crown Prince returns from his
foreign tour the people, instad of being re-
CURED to stay hushedly indoors while the
Heir of Heaven moves by in state, shall be
permitted to flock the streets and cheer as
Justify as they will.
Verify, 1.-THE thoughts of men are widened
with the process Of the suns" 1t is but a few
generations since the masses of Nippon were
dust for royalty's feet, and a simple human
being likely to be slain if he failed to bow
down when a feudal chief passed by. There
the divinity of kings" eyed asquint by the
Aryan West in even the earliest days, was
no mere symbolism, but dry, literal, humor-
less fact. No Shakespeare of Japan would
ever have dared write:
Imperial Caesar, dead and turn'd to
clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away;
O., that that earth, which kept the world
in awe,
Should patch wall to expel the win
ter's flaw"
The Crown Prince of Japan may have tax.
en- a leaf from that king of good fellows the
Prince of Wales. He may have acquired a
taste for public entertainments and highway
jostlings on his visit to England and the
continental democracies. Who knows but that
he may lave cultivated sense OF humor!
Howbet, the decree has gone forth that
"disregarding all the ancient customs" his
loyal people shall be suffered to greet his
homecoming in unrestrained numbers and
applause That is no transcendent privilege
in our American way of thinking, but doubt
less there are Japanese worthless who wae
their heads and forebode dark things at this
radical conc S ions to the herd. Thai
common clay should be vouchsafed to gaze
upon the splendor of an Imperial, albeit be-
goggled countenance, must shock their con
servatsm to the marrow.
And they, be it observed, are no different
in basic temper and inner attitude from oul
own worshipers of convention, ritualism anc
snobbish privilege. There are no more idol!
and no more idolaters in the so-called un
changing East than in America or Europe
our idols merely go by other names-and
mostly, they are idols of moneymaking, which
are the stupidest idols Of all.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
THE OVERHUMBLE
BY H. Addington Bruce
<<TT UMILITY," says an ancient proverb,
II sis the foundation of all virtue"

* L
II sis the foundation of all virtue
Another AYERS, '"There is no true
holiness without humility"
Not for moment would I dissent from
these dicta of folk wisdom. Nevertheless
humility, like all desirable things, can be car
ried to excess. And all around us we see
people who are altogether too humble for
their own good.
They are so humble that they do not give
themselves a fair chance in life. They seem
to think that they were destined from birth
to a career of plodding mediocrity. Admir-
ingly they look up to the more successful
but they never dream of emulating them.
If urged, GO and do likewise" they smile
family and shake their heads deprecatingly.
'Twere foolish they will tell you, to make the
attempt.
eve know our limitations" their argument
runs. "The part we are to play cannot pos
sibly be an exalted one. We must remain
content and thankful for whatever fortune
sees fit to bestow upon u.s."
This assuredly is overhumility. In psyche
logical terms it is an abnormal functionins
of the instinct of submission, precisely as con-
ceit is an abnormal functioning OF the instinct
of self-assertion.
Moreover, just as the conceited take their
great worth too much for granted, so do the
overhumble take their unworthiness too much
for granted They should at least make a
real effort to rise before confessing inability
1t would help them to appreciate the folly
of their attitude if they would but scan the
pages of history and note how, in every land
and every age, men have progressed from ORR
gins to resplendent achievements.
These men, with greater reason, might
have given themselves to the dismal inertia
of overhumility. They might have pleaded
such disadvantages of heredity and environ
ment as to make it out of the question for
them to accomplish anything of note.
But they offered no plea of this sort.
Probably they did not think much about the
matter one way or another.
They simply responded to the vital urge
which bids all men strive to excel-and by
the very fervor of their striving they drew
upon powers which made it possible for them
to excel.
The overhumble need only strive as these
men did, and some day they too will find
themselves richly regarded.
Thus to strive, however, they must dwell
not on limitations, but on possibilities. They
must cultivate not supine acceptance, but di-
vine discomfort. They must insistently think
81 can." instead of their perpetual II can't"
Copyright, 1921, by The Associated News
papers)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
The Georgia Publisher

official organ of te Georgia Press associa-
ton, carried sixteen pages of interesting news
matter, timely editorials and attractive bust
ness announcements. The Publisher is issued
monthly by William G. Sutlive, president, and
Hal M. Stanley, corresponding secretary of
the association, with the executive committee
as board of directors. This is the largest is
sue yet attempted an is distinct credit to
it editors.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
Smile AOh;7e

The south's cotton crop reduction may
put some wool in wooden suits.
Doctors are being asked to cut their
prices. Very difficult operation.
Bald-headed men should find comfort
because there is no parting in heaven.
New British histories should contain a
chapter headed "My Wild Irish Rose"
Congresswoman Robertson says women
should disarm. Lay down their pointed
remarks?
If you don't get vacation this summer
you'll be rested up from last years by next
year. -
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
About Atlanta

Great is Atlanta and Fulton county. Tai
for the county show a net increase
of $23,0O0,0O0 in tax returns for 1921, a.
against 1922. 1t really is a magnificent
showing. News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
OUlPS AND OUIDDITIES

learned young man, who prided himself
that she knew more than most people, went
one evening to call on a professor under
whom he had once worked.
He found his old master bending anxiously
over spirit lamp on which a small pot bub-
bled.
whats the experiment this timer" he
asked.
Every mportant-guess,' answered the
professor.
The student brought out large number
Of long technical names, but all in vain
"I'll give it up he said at last.
"Sausages," replied the professor, poking
his evening meal.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
Fair Warming

Advt.-Personal: Horace-Please do not
phone again. Father is cleaning his gun
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27

"Only think, Mrs. Brady" Mrs. Murphy
said, that great pianist down our street has
practiced so hard during the last six months
that he has paralyzed two fingers"
That's nothin'," Mrs. Brady proudly re-
piled. me daughter, Bridget has practiced
so hard for the last six months that she's par
alyzed two pianos"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
Roots for Food

A Russia Soviet wireless message says that
the laboratory of Samara university claims
to have discovered the adaptability for food
Of swamp root called "awsan," which Is
abundant throughout the territory in Soviet
Russia afflicted by the famine.
The root contains 70 per cent of starch,
considerable of albumen and slight guam
tty of fats. Hitherto the root has been con.
sidered worthless. With the proper organt.
cation, the university laboratory experts as
sert the preparation of this root for food will
reduce the suffering in Samara one-half.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
Sousa Deaf

John Philip Sousa, world famous con-
ductor, has been directing his band by M
stinct owing to deafness, following spe-
cialist's statement that he is now improved
in hearing.
While thousands sat enchanted by the
strains of his band, the man who welded the
baton scarcely heard the notes, it was said.
Sousa's ear specialist says he is suffering
from catarrhal deafness, trouble common
to persons "beginning to grow old"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27

Britain's Population
Census figures published today show that
Great Britain has population Of 42,767,53O.
compared with 40,631,3S6 in 1911. -
There are 20,430,623 males and 1885,.
907 females.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth
High Insurance

Insurance underwriters Of Dublin have
asked and were paid three pounds sterling
a hundred pounds to insure the plant OF
Dublin newspaper in sympathy with the
Sim Fein against riot or other civil commo-
ton for three months This is five times as
much as would be paid ordinarily and is
taken here to show how divided is the best
local opinion on the question of renewal of
the strife in Ireland.
One of the underwriters Of the insurance
is the proprietor of another local newspaper
which has leanings similar to that Of the
newspaper insured.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27

TT HE powers that be in Japan have de-
cided, with significance hardly to be
gagged bv the democratic West, that
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27

Jamaica Asks More Liberty
Arrangements are being made to send .
deputation to London to urge the granting
of a wider measure Of representative govern
ment in Jamaica
The colonists are not favorable to fedora
ton with Canada, but are clamoring for .
government of the people.