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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-05
MRS. ELROD IMPROVING

Cullman. June -sspeciaD--Mrs J. D. Elrod, who was seriously injured the first of the week. when the horse that she was driving became fright, ened, Is believed to be out of danger. Mrs. Elrod lives at Baileyton, out east of the city. She was In tho buggy alone. when her horse became fvight- encd at bale of cotton near the against . telephone pole and break. Ing loose, went down the road. !eav- ing Mrs. Elrod unconscious with the torn up vehicle. A farmer nearby saw the accident and rushed to her aid. Physicians were summ0ned and the injured woman was carried to her home, Her arm was broken and thsrs wasa bad wound on her head. ~
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
PROSPERITY
BV II. AddingtOn Bruce

by n. AuulllS tOll DluCC
THE dictionary defines prosperity as
Advance or gain in anything good
or desirable" Also it gives the far
more limited definition, Successful prog
ress in any business"
This latter, unfortunately, is the defini-
ton most people have in mind when they
think of prosperity. Many-including even
people of high political authority-seem to
regard prosperity as wholly synonymous
with business success.
We see so-called statesmen bending every
energy to increase the material wealth of
their nations. Huge manufactures, NAM
moth crops, and ample markets for manu-
features and crops seemingly constitute in
their opinion the summum bonum of ma
tional development
And among the multitudes who make up
the nations similar notion prevails.
"Get rich-at all events, get as rich as
you can," is the popular slogan. Men, and
women too, sacrifice and strain in money
earning activities. To thousands nothing
matters except the securing of money.
Health itself is damaged to this end.
Spiritual realities are quite forgotten. Gull
tural interests claim next to no attention.
There is even tendency to Cypress the
weak-as when children dragged to
mills to contribute to the wealth accumulat-
ing process and women are forced to slave
in sweat-shops that the prosperity" goal
may be the more surely attained. Again
and again, moreover desplcable intriguing
is summoned to aid in the getting of gold.
Does true prosperity result therefrom?
I ask the wealthy man, lonely amid his
wealth, his mind barren of all interests save
those of the market and the amusement
place, his nervous system depleted by pro-
longed money-chasing effort, his stomach,
his heart, his arteries degenerated-I ask
him, does he really deem himself prosper
Gus?
I ask the statesman who beholds conflicts
and jealousies among the nations and in his
own nation an ever-increasing social discon-
tent coupled with decreasing national vigor
i ask that statesman if, after all, it is wise
to confuse prosperity with an obsessive aug
menting of worldly goods?
Long ago Goldsmith wrote
ell fares the land to Fastening ills
prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men
decay"
Business success is by no means the only
thing good and desirable. None can afford
to be blind to these other things, to leave
them out of the reckoning.
So long as they are left out true pros
perity must elude the seeker. And if they
are left out overlong even business success
may be Transformed into catastrophe fail
ure.
AS has been demonstrated in the case, not
merely. of individuals, but of whole nations
who misidentfied prosperity with the aug
menting of wealth. Recall the fate of Baby
Ion, the fall of imperial Rome.
History in matter of this sort, is all too
apt to repeat itself. While there yet is time
let the leaders of the nations of today guide
their peoples thoughts to the ideals which
alone can insure a prosperity that will be
enduring.
Copyright, 1921 by The Associated News
paperS)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
Around the World
Tri-Weekty News Flashes From All Over
the Earth

Elk Hunting
Jake DeHart is smiling. And the elk In
Yellowstone Park are laughing.
There was little snow before Christmas
and the open season on elk ends that day.
Therein lies the joke.
Jake DeHart is state game warden in Mon
tana. He says hundreds of hunters came to
Montana to kill elk.
There was plenty of forage in the national
reservation because of sunny skies and warm
winds.
When there are heavy SHOWS Ahe elk leave
the parks in search Of vegetation.
That happened last winter. Solid ranks
of hunters waited at the borden of the park
for the elk to como out. They slew 1000.
Most of them took only hides, teeth and
antlers. Hundreds of carcasses were left
at the scene of the slaughter.
But even, if there are early SHOWS next
winter, the elk may be safe. Naturalists
are trying to get the state legislature to en-
act protecting law.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY JACK L. PATTERSON
Tax EXEMPT Bonds

The great number of heavy investors sub
scrlolng Tor non-taxable bonds during the
general prosperity of 1919 and the first six
months of 1920 resulted in material re-
duct1on of income tax returns, discussing
which the Augusta Herald says:
The surprising decline in income tax pay
ments during the peak of the prosperity
period reveals how many weather people
have escaped taxation in large measure by
buying tax exempt bonds
us it good business for public authorities
to keep on issuing bonds with this privilege?
The reason for SO doing has been, that the
exempt bonds bring higher price But
probably the ublc gets the worst end of
the bargain. The higher price PAID does
not compensate for losses in taxes.
at would not be fair to tax securities al
ready issued on an exempt basis, without
making compensation to owners for the
higher price paid to get the exemption privi-
lege But it seems doubtful policy to allow
any more of then to be issued. The great
amount of the securities available permits
a big class of wealthy people to escape fair
taxation" <
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
THE ONE GREAT ISSUE
By DR.. Frank Crane

My dear Mr.. Harding: I speak in the
name of a very large part Of the citizenry of
this country who think that the supreme
duty of our Government is to do what it can
to stop war.
good many of us were in favor of Mr..
Wilson's policies, not because we were Dem
ocrats, but because he apparently was ear
nestly committed to plan which he thought
would end that old system of international
relations which caused war.
And many of us voted for you because we
thought that you and your party could come
nearer to obtaining a working majority Of
legislators in forming some plan to obviate
another war.
Both of these sections think that if we
do not learn from the late conflict some way
to see that such a thing shall never happen
again, we shall be guilty of the most stu
pendous folly of history
The voters repudiated your opponents and
elected you. We all accept you. You are
now no longer a Party Leader; you have
been promoted. You are President of us all.
Every loyal American wants you to be sue
cess. We are good sports. And we realize
that our national and worldwide aims can
be realized only through your administra-
ton.
All we ask of you now is to realize that
States can cooperate with other nations so
that another war, such as now is being freely
prophesied, can be prevented.
Besides this, all other questions are
dwarfed.
The business men of the country don't
need Government aid or regulation. All they
ask is to be let alone.
The laboring men through their organiza-
tions can take care of themselves.
People in America like to work on their
own initiative, and all they ask Of Govern
mente is to maintain order, restrain violence
and make everybody play the game accord
ing to the rules.
Hence your administration widely speak
ing, has little to do with regulating this coun-
try except to keep Government from med
ding.
But when it comes to our relations with
other countries Government has everything
to do.
From our international relations may arise
those vast and disastrous cataclysms, such
as our late war, that wreck our whole do
nestle machinery.
Some thirty or more nations are struggling
along trying to make a League of Nations
function. Shall we join them, oppose them,
or keep hands off?
In Russia is another international pro-
gram which has ramificatons throughout
the world. 1t aims to overthrow the present
structure Of civilization and substitute an
other. What position shall we take toward
this?
Earnest efforts are being made to reduce
the rival ornaments of the nations the quick
seed of wars as well the chief clog to
progress and burden to production. Shall
we help along here, or hinder?
In other words, Mr.. Harding, the United
States is so self-sufficient that it conceivably
could run along four years without any Pres
ident or Congress; but as to our neighbors,
trouble-makers are busy. pessimists and
ha mi fc
Old Order, not yet abandoned, is pregnant
with new wars more horrible than the last
What are you going to do about it?
Copyright. 1921, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
Hard Cider
mystery of Attorney Genera Pal

r% HE mystery or Attorney NeuetG 81 : al
mer's ruling that hard cider" does
not come within the limits Of the Vol
stead act has been satisfactorily solved by
the editor of the Dallas, Texas, News, who,
while disclaiming any personal knowledge
of alcoholic processes Of any kind yet swift
ly and simply delves to the heart OF the
puzzle.
The mystery, it seems, is no mystery at
all, for the attorney general had no choice
in the matter. Hard cider" is merely the
juice of the apple, fermented. And the
business of fermentation is nobodys business
but the apples. The juice of the grape and
the squeezings from the corn are not so &C
commodating. At least some effort on the part
of man is necessary to make them hard.
But the apple is its own brewer. Strain
the juice from it and leave it alone and al
most anything may happen. What is most
likely to happen, according to the Dallas
editor, is fermentation. And who, he asks,
is responsible for that?
Not man, for surely he cannot be cen
sored for straining a perfectly harmless ap-
pie. The apple perhaps; but what sheriff
is going to arrest an apple? What judge is
going to fine an apple? And what prison
will the apple serve its sentence in?
In short, after the explanation of the Dali
las editor, one can only sympathize with the
attorney general in his predicament and
agree with him that there was no other way
out-so long as the apple Juice turns hard"
without apparent intention NJ it's owners.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
4 Soldier on Disarmament

wv YEN so commanding figure as Cen
M eral Tasker H. Bliss steps emphat-
ically forth for policy of disarma-
ment no thoughtful group Of men will stand
Indifferent to his appel Testifying before
House committee on naval affairs, General
Bliss avows his conviction that civilization
cannot much longer support the strain OF
military preparation. The late war bent the
back of the worlds tax payers almost to the
breaking point What will the next war do?
Or, to speak more to the purpose, what will
continued planning and spending for the next
war do? We must answer now in cool and
constructive reason. or we shall answer mere
after in calamity if not chaos
No one can appreciate keenly lore than
soldier of General Bliss practical outlook the
difference between feasible and foolish plans
for disarmament. Whatever ~ done in this
matter, he POINTS out, must be done through
a. Joint agreement OF thu worlds leading POW
ers-Amerca, Great Britain. France, Italy
and Japan He believes that if America
should call for ga full, free and fair discus
sion of reduction of ornaments, the favorable
response would be prompt and inevitable.
Further,
If such conference were to be held
and if the secretary were to make pup
lie every day an abstract Of the PROPOSE
tions put forward and the arguments
for and against, with the names OF the
national representatives who made them
the common peopl- of the world would
not allow the conference to dissolve until
at least the first step had been taken. |
do not care what the cabinets OF the
world think, the masses of the people,
who pay the taxes, have the vital interest
in this subject.
''The masses of the people who pay the
taxes!" There we have the heart of the
matter. 1t is their lives that will be p1nched
and burdened and darkened, their homes
that will be made chill and bare, their rights
that will be sacrificed and their hearts that
will be broken, if enlightened efforts to stop
war and .)reparatiCn for war not given
fair chance.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
For a Greater Georgia

"a Ar AEON will be the scene of one of the
| MI most important meetings in Geor-
gia's history Monday, when repre-
sentatives from every section of the state as
semble there to consider plans for complet-
ing the three hundred thousand dollar fund
to advertise Georgia.
| The work already done to procure the
fund will be outline in detail Exactly what
remains to be accomplished will be set before
the meeting. Ways and means for finishing
the undertaking in the speedtest time posi-
BILE will be discussed. and organization will
be effected to carry on the plans to trium-
plant conclusion.
Upon the shoulders of the distinguished
Georgians who will attend the meeting to
furnish their advice and counsel rests a re-
sponsibility which their fellow citizens should
be quick to realize and eager TO share in. 1t
will be theirs to lead the way, but united
state is behind them to uphold their hands
Georgia stands upon the threshold of
great opportunity. AS certain as tomorrow's
sun rises, the next few months will see
vast change in the business condition of the
country. The tide already has turned, and
he does not need to be prophet who sees
in the years just ahead one on the most sub
stantal and steadily progressing eras in the
nations history.
The part Georgia shall play in that prog
ress depends largely on the foresight and
action of her people, not tomorrow, but to-
day The Advertise Georgia p'an is one of
the soundest and most far-reacning in its re-
suits that was ever conceived by any state.
It is no program of the minute, but care
fully thought out system for increasing the
wealth and prosp 1rity of the state through
forceful, infallible means The advertising
program proposed extends over a period of
three years at least, with the possibility that
it can be made the basis for permanent
advertising burea-' for the state. 1t is essen
TALLY practical, employing not only direct
sales system to bring capital and desirable
citizens to the state, but "follow-ups' to nail
every prospect, and equal anG fair distribu-
ton of inquiries and information so that it
will satisfy the applicants and the people of
Georgia alike.
There is no reason why Georgia, as a
state should not use the same business meth
DDS that every corporation employs with sue
cess There is every reason for Georgia to do
it now, when the time is ripe for action and
the future seems so golden.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Be sure your sins have found you out, II.
YOU were a candidate for office
Too many men spend their time trying to:
make molehills out of mountains. I:
Don't waste time finding fault with yourself,
that's what your friends are for.
Girls, never keep a man waiting for an an
swer. He may have another engagement
The $40 you pay for an article is its mar
ket value and the 80 cents secondhand dealer
offers you for it is its intrinsic worth.
If man has no eye for beauty and no ear
for music he doesn't get ali that is coming
to him in this world
Beauty is only skin deep, bat sweet dis
position extends all the way through
Some girls are called "gddy" because GneJ
make the young mems heads swim.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
The Lure of the Long Trail

" HE age-old lure of whats around the
corner" largely quiescent during five
years of war, appears to have been
revived in the hearts of men with brighter
flame than ever, with the result that the year
1921 is likely to see more daring exploits III
in the realm of exploration than any of it's
predecessors since Pearys last dash for the
pole.
No less than sixteen different expeditions
already have been organized for work some
time this year in the fields of meteorology,
zoology, ethnology, geology and biology. What
other private adventures are planned, one
can only guess, yet there are doubtless many
others who will set forth on the long trail
without any worldwide heralding of their
intentions.
Already Captain Raold Amundsen is away
up beyond Asia, north of fifty-three," wait
ing for the ice pack to break in the spring
that his ship may be carried by the flow on
ward to the pole. On the Kolyma river in
Siberia two men have set forth on journey
of four thousand miles Knud Rasmussen IL
preparing for five-year trip into the Arctic
to study Eskimo tribes. Donald Macmillan
one of the men with Peary when he discov-
cred the North Pole, announces he will at
tempt to circumnavigate Baffinland. Then
there is British Antarctic expedition being
formed to make dash for the South Pole
on a hunt for new whaling grounds, and
gold, silver coal and ruby fields.
Nor is the land of the aurora borealis the
only mecca for the brakes and the Colum-
buses of today Explorers are making their
plans to penetrate the interior of China and
the hermit nation of Tibet, South Sea Islands,
Ecuador and Peru Mexico. Nova Zembla and
other romantic lands of mystery. A group Of
American scientists, under command of Henry
Russell. of Columbia University, and DR..
David Starr Jordan. of Leland Stanford Uni
versty. will explore the wild reaches of the
Amazon.
Thus they beckon-the long, cold trails to
the north, and the hot, wild trails of the
tropics, and man. the ncurable gypsy. finds
them never more fascinating than now.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
In p;scatory Paradise

-HE "piscivorous gourmand''-and II
NAV he that beneath those startling
words many an upright citizen can
identify himself-will rejoice in the revival
nv a New York newspaper of clipping from
.sTbe Cooks Oracle" learned discourse IN
culinary affairs written by one Wlllah
Kitchner NJ. D., and adapted 10 the An'ei
can public by a medical gentleman IN the
year 1855.
The volume deals in highfloWn phrases
with various and sundry methods LOT tne
nrenaration of food, but the particular memo
randum that will strike the fancy OF the
reader during these wintry months is tnat
devoted to the oyster.
"ovsters are in season from September to
May, but approach the meridian OF per1ectloh
during December and January" declares the
American medical gentleman who revised Mr.
Kitchner's work. Common people" ne con-
tinues "are Indifferent about the manner OF
opening oysters, and the time of eating them
after they are opened; nothing, however, IS
40 important in the enlightened eyes of the
experienced oyster eater. Those who wish
to enjoy this delicate restorative in its ut
most perfection must eat it the moment it
is opened, with its own gravy in the under
shell: if not eaten while absolutely alive it's
uavor and spirit are lost. The true lover OF
n oyster will have some regard for the feel
ags of his little favorite, and will never
Sbandon it to the mercy Of bungllng opera
!. or but will open it himself, and contrlVe
! 20 detach the fish from the shell so dexter
pusly that the oyster is hardly conscious he
has been elected from his lodging till he feels
The teeth of the piscivorous gourmand tick
ling him to DEATH
humanitarian fellow was this American
medical gentleman, or perhaps MI. hlCchneL
himself, one judges from his adVlce; puC
above ALL connOisseur OF the LeSn-poCs'
One who has known the luscious fry and the
savory stew, as well as the baked dlsn tney
serve in New Orleans, may hesitate before
agreeing with him that the oyster is better
morsel alive than dead At the same Time
one is bound to be impressed by the authorl-
tative manner in which this physician lays
down his oyster laws, to say nothing OF the
exquisite delight he takes in lingering over
the details
No mere scrivener he, no grinder-out
of encyclopedia information; but one who set
pen to paper upon a subject most dear to
his heart One can imagine him, heavy with
oysters, penning his notes dreamily, or per-
chance pausing in the midst of a phrase to
crack shell or two and whisk forth the un-
suspecting bvalve, dangling in wriggling as
constituent on the end of fork, to provide
food for reflection as we'll as for the inner
man e'er vanishing down the long red lane
One is tempted, reading after the author of
1.-The Cooks Oracle" to go and do likewise,
were it only for the satisfaction of smiling
tolerantly when a friend mentions "oyster
stew" as much as to say, "Ah, my dear fell
low, you are evidently not piscivorous gour-
mand!"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
Fairy Story

A. Conan Doyle creator of Sherlock
Holmes, and believer in spiritism, thinks
he has found some pictures of fairies in
action.
Not the stage kind.
But the tabled fairies.
He has contributed an article to a cur
rent magazine in which he tells about
accommodating a surprising number of ex-
periences of persons who claim to have
seen fairies.
And he presents Photographic proof in
the form of pictures with tiny fairies
dancing before S. me Yorkshire girls, who
took the snapshots.
Bunk" says Maurie Hewlett, another
English novelist.
And proceeds to argue the pictures are
fakes.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
Man for Sale

Obert Firmin, a native of st. John, N.
B., now in Chicago, and a deep-sea sail
or, is willing to sell himself for a year for
$4,000. His only restrictions is that who
ever buys him must not require him to
do anything unworthy. He attributes his
inability to get work to his unfamiliarity
with the ways Of the "1andlubbers." He
says he does not want charity, but as
surances that his wife and baby will be
cared for.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
New Invention

M. Damblanc, an engineer of Paris, has per-
fected a machine which he calls the hell
coptere. The new invention, it is declared,
will enable person to fall from a great
height without danger of injury. Damblanc
will give exhibition test of his machine
by jumping from the Eiffel tower He says
that the machine creates a vacuum by de-
scending, thus retardng the body in the fall
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18

After the footing and burning of the i'm
portant Yangtsze river port Of Ichang by mu-
tinous Chinese soldiers, the arrival of British
American, French and Japanese gunboats has
brought an end to the outbreak. The insub-
ordinate soldiers held undisputed possession
of the city, which numbers upward of 40 900
people, for more than five days.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
1t Was This Way

The Atlanta correspondents are again re-
porting the "snake that bellows like bull
and eats cattle and Dogs Those newspaper
boys up there certainly must be using a very
poor brand of 'snine. How about it, Jack
PattersOn.-DawsOn News
You're correct 1t was the drinker that
beloved and not the snake
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
Costly Hair

The young women who i'm several Irish dis
tricts have had their hair cut off by Sim
Feiners for associating with the police and
soldiers have lodged claims for compensation
for malicious injury. The price they place
on their lost hair varies from ST 800 to ST.
500.