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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-15
Seeing the Error of Their Way

" VIDENTLY, the country has been
heard from on the Fordney tariff bill,
that altogether characteristic piece of
Republican legislation, lately hailed by
it's sponsors as a tower of national strength
and a well-pring of prosperity. To delay its
enactment, they huskily warned, would be
the extreme of danger, and to cast it aside
calamitous. But now hear that amiable
and in many respects, astutest counselor OF
the Administrator, Postmaster General Hays.
Says he, in well-prepared speech at CleVe-
land:
The very basic condition on which
a tariff is built-namely, the cost Ola
manufacturing in various European
scountries with relation to our own cost
of manufacture and the value of the cur
rency of tho various European countries
with relation to the value of our own cur
rency-is at the present moment as
buctuatinf as quickSand and as unforsee-
able in the future as the weather.
The country, we say, evidently has been
heard from. Months ago Democratic Con-
gressmen, urging the very considerations
which Postmaster General Hays now SO cog
emily argues, were doing their best to dis
suade the House from the Fordney tariff,
contrary as that measure was to sound eco
Monies and menacng to the nations widest
welfare. But the G. O. P. majority, behold
en- as it ever is to pleasant mammon, pushed
the bill to passage and hurried it on to a
waiting Senate. This was golden news to
special interests whose profiteering had been
curtailed since the war and who looked to a
"protective' tariff for restoration of the lost
privilege of taxing the ublic what they
pleased. But to the general interests a pros
pect of increased living costs and reduced for
eIgn trade appeared, the longer contemplated,
the less desirable. Why, asked the country
with growing insistence, should we rear high
tariff barriers against the commerce on
which our industrial vigor and expansion, our
ri fv 1Nlrr1n ant of 1ah nr md cIIS-
tenance of enterpris depend? Why should
we debar those who owe us billions from pay
ing through the sole medium by which they
now can pay-goods and services? Why add
to the economic stress and ENHANCEMENT of a
world in which our own prosperity is in
volved?
If at Il the Oh Guard for whose bene-
fit, we assume, Mr.. Hays is speaking, can be
brought to realize that legilation to favor
special interests at the expense of the COM
mon veal is politically dangerous as we'll as
morally crooked, distinct service will have
been done his party as well as his country.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-15
DOROTHY DIX TALKS-THE VALUE OF SILENCE


sored, and so much deleted, as that which
takes place between married couples.
Nine-tenths of the family squabbles could
be prevented by little judicious silence. ALI
married people know that there are certain
subjects which even to mention is like wav-
ing red flag before mad bull Why, then,
should they not avoid riling each other by
refraining from discussing the topic that is
as good for a fight as nickel is for gin
gercake?
Women complain much about the way
their husbands find fault with them and criti-
cize them, yet they fail to realize that they
themselves furnish the inside Information on
which their husbands base their structures.
Except in extreme cases of extravaganza and
bad cooking, no man really knows what sort
of manager his wife is except from what
she tells him herself,
Therefore, if every time she is seduced by
sign that something is marked down from
So to $1.98 into buying an article she dOeSn' t
really want or need, she runs to him and tells
on herself, if she is always telling him how
much less some neighbor runs her house on
than she runs hers; if she blabs every time
she spoils garment in the making or ruins
a dish in the cooking, she is simply impress
ing upon her husbands mind that she is
thriftless, and bungler, and that he has got
ten a gold brick in the matrimonial bargain.
But if she has sense enough to keep her
mistake to herself and put on the loud pedal
when she makes good trade, and cooks a
that she is paragon among wives, and he
will brag about her achievements to his fell
lows If there ever was a time when a woman
should put guard upon her tongue, and be
wary about what she says, it is when she
talks to her husband about herself
And why should woman burden her hus-
band, as so many women feel they have a
right to do, with all the unpleasant things
that have happened in the home during the
day. Suppose the washwoman did fail to
come. Suppose Johnny has been bad, and
Mary and the child next door did have q
fight and the cat ate the cream, and the
butcher delivered roast when you tele-
phoned for chops, and Sarah broke plate,
and you got letter full of walls from your
mother, and Mrs. Jones did not invite you to
her party, and your new hat isn't becoming.
They are all veXatious enough trifles to you,
but your husband can't help single one of
them, and there is no sense in worrying him
with them. Heaven knows, he has troubles
of his own, and just your grist of doleful
news is oftentimes the straw that breaks the
camels back.
After all, leaky vessel is a pretty poor
thing, isn't it? And we are weak, contempt
able creatures unless we have the strength to
keep our own counsel, and this is true in
every relation of life. Husbands and wives
should tell each other the loving things, the
tender, kindly things, that will make each
other happier. The rest is silence.
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Syndicate
Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-15
SEA OF RUM GOVERNMENT SPOON-By Frederic j. Hakn
BY Frederic j. HaSkin
BY Frederic J. H

gether a concoction containing the deadly
wood alcohol. A little of this terrible dose
means blindness, and little more means GER
tain death. The newspapers every day con-
tain accounts of deaths resulting from drink
ing this poison, but it is doubtful if there has
been a case where the dispenser of this stuff
has received more than the penalty prescribed
by the Volstead Law. AS matter of fact, a
bootlegger knowingly selling this kind of
stuff is guilty of plain murder.
Government Hunts Big Game Only
The Bureau of Internal Revenue is not
going after the little fellow, the retailer Of
contraband and forbidden BOOZE This is not
because of any sympathy with him or his
Vaccinations. Regardless of their personal
views on the subject, the officials of this bu-
reau are sworn to detect and prosecute vio-
lations of the dry law, and they do that to
the limit of their funds and capacities Know
ing it is impossible to go after every violator,
it has been found necessary to leave the
smaller offender to be dealt with by state and
city authorities and concentrate attention on
the wholesale liquor manipulation.
A flying squadron has been organized, and
is moved from city to city to try and break
up the bootlegging systems. Recently this
squadron made important arrests in Balti-
more, and went from there to New York.
Some arrests will be made, but Baltimore is
not dry nor will New York be. Revenue Of
ficials know this, but plug away at their jobs
udIu DIS 6y Cdll, huOWIuS LudL COmp10IS
success can be theirs only when preponder-
ant percentage of public opinion Is in favor
of hard and fast enforcement Of the dry
amendment.
The attention of the Internal Revenue Blu
reau is directed toward the rum smuggling
along the Atlantic Coast, particularly from
the smaller islands lying off the southern
states. The promise of some action in the
near future against these smuggling boot
leggers has been made, and arrests may be
looked for some time during the autumn. 1t
is admitted, though, that with the thousands
of natural harbors along the South Atlantic
and Gulf Coasts, not great deal can be &C
complished. A few Of the big operators may
be caught, but there will be scores ready to
step into their places, attracted by the big
fortunes which may be made quickly in this
illicit business.
Right now the situation is seen by Off
Gals about in this light-the United States
has two long coast lines, filled with fine har-
bors for small boats, it has several thousand
miles of border, and liquor will continue to
come in on all sides just as long as people
want it and pay for it. Only reversal of pop
ular sentiment can dry up the American
ocean of rum.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-15
HEALTH THOUGHTS
By H. Addington Bruce

VERY once in a while you will meet a
= superior person who sneers at the ad-
vice, Think health" To him such
advice is as foolish as it is easy to give.
Health" he may point out to you, sis a
physiological phenomenon. j 1t depends,
not on mental states, but on bodily condi-
tions. 1t is a product, not of thinking, but
of eating, drinking, exercising, resting,
and in other ways conforming to physical
laws and requirements.
Il do not need to think health to be
healthy. I have only to live wisely and
avoid the preventable causes of disease.
Then l shall be healthy enough"
Yet the fact is that among the prevent
able causes Of disease quite overlooked by
this self-satisfied matertalst, is unhealthy
thinking. Let man be never so careful as
regards bodily hygiene, ill-health will strike
him down if he permits thoughts of ill
health to gain a foothold in his mind.
This is exemplife in real life all the
while. The world abounds in people who
are models of hygienic living, yet are per-
petually in a condition of invalidism or
semi-invalidism.
These poor people are i'll, as their doctors
may frankly tell them to their great dis
pleasure simply because they believe them
idea that they have say, weak hearts, or
weak stomachs, or weak backs. Accepting
this idea and dwelling on it, they actually
experience the symptoms of weak hearts or
weak stomachs or weak backs, as the case
my be.
And they experience these for no other
reason than that their thinking has thrown
the thought-about organ out of gear. Con-
slider this testimony from great American
man of science, the late William James:
Cali mental states are followed by bodily
activity of some sort. They lead to incon-
spicuous changes in breathing, circulation,
general muscular tension, and glandular or
other visceral activity, even if they do not
lead to conspicuous movements of the mus
cles of voluntary life
And, from another great scientist, Pro
fessor Laid, of Yale:
Gwen the most purely vegetative of the
bodily processes are dependent for their
character upon antecedent states of mind
Is the advice think health" so foolish
after all? The fact is that the more in
sistently and consistently one entertains
thoughts of health the better ones health is
likely to be.
Over in France there is at the present
moment a physician, DR.. Coue, who recon-
mends as a health-conserving and health
restoring measure frequent repetition OF
the health thought:
II never felt better in all my life, all
things considered"
Twenty times daily arising, twenty
times daily the last thing before going to
bed, this formula should be said mentally
| according to DR.. Coue. And he promises to
all who say it fervently a marked improve
ment in the state of their health.
1t is not rash promise. Health thoughts
do make for better health.
Copyright, 1921, by The Associated News
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-15
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
QUESTIONS

1. Who, in Greek and Roman mythology,
ferried the dead over the River Styx?
2. Who invented the submarine in it's
present form?
8. What name is given to the extensive
region in Central Africa south of the Sa-
hara Desert?
4. How many miles long is the Suez canal?
5. Which state produces the most maple
sugar?
6. In which state was so extensive a de-
post of pure sulphur found a few years ago
that it now leads in the production?
7. Where did nearly all the sulphur of
commerce formerly come from?
8. What general group name is given to
the islands south of the Malay peninsula, in
Guiding Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Java,
etc.?
g. How many members has the United
States supreme court?
10. With what material were the first
photograph records covered?
ANSWERS
l. CharOn; 2, John P. Holland; 8, Soudan;
4, 100; 5, Vermont; 6, louisiana; Z, Sicily;
8, Sunda Islands; 9, nine; 10, tinfoil.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-15
A WORLD OF OLD PEOPLE
BV DR.. Frank Crane

Horace Bushnell was probably the great
est preacher Amer has produced, meas
ured by the sheer size of his ideas and the
vigor of his creative imagination. He was
not an orator like Beecher or Talmage; he
a thinker.
He once preached a sermon on "The
Power of an Endless Life,'' in which he es-
timated the majesty of a mind which had
gone on growing for endless years.
Scientists now tell us that there are no
physiological reasons why man can not live
ON this earth $50 or 200 years.
1t may be an interesting exercise for the
Imagination to attempt to conceive what
sort of person a man would be at the age
Of $50, if he kept his mental vigor in full
and enough bodily, strength to exist COM
fortably.
First, he would have outgrown that
period of storm and stress that is caused by
the conflict of the strong physical forces
with the mental and moral. He would have
emerged from the animalities, and become
a towering spirit
Even if he retained his sex vigor he would
at least have settled in some permanent and
satisfactory way the sex problem, and would
no more be disturbed by its turbulence nor
vexed by it's perversions.
Any considerable number of persons who
had attained to such age would form an
influential group, and it's tendency would
be to lessen the Importance of youthful i'm
patience in literature and art. This would
be a relief. 1t would almost wipe out
pessimism.
There is no reason why mind $50 years
old could not retain all of it's inventive
power. Think of an Edison going strong
with all the experience of two average life
times
AS it is now, about the time a man learns
how to live he has to die Time settles so
many things and is such a tremendous fac
tor in mans efficiency and happiness.
Speaking of happiness, age ought to be,
and normally is happier than youth. It
has learned what is worth while.
1t would have accumulated what stores of
wisdom, of patience, of skill, of powers Of
adjustment, at the age of 1907
Think of a Memory with $50 years of
treasures, of VIII developed by $50 years
of training, of a Judgment Vision, an
Optimism, Courage and, in fine, a Char
acter, built up by $50 years of practice!
Phillips Brooks, an Einstein, Luther
Burbany, a Jane Adams, Lyman Abbott,
John Burroughs a George Grey Barnard,
an Anatole France, an Abraham Lincoln,
$50 years old, would be as imposing and as
wonderful as Cathedral 500 years old.
Even a Keats $50 years old, and with I'M
diminished spirit could write what marvel
lous poetry
For Youth is not period of time; it is
a state of the mind.
Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-15

" HE other day a man testified in court
that he told everything he knew, and
a. everything that happened to him, to his
wife.
"Humph commented the magistrate,
''you belong in heaven!'
Or in the home for the feeble-minded, say
T. For there is no doubt that people get
themselves into trouble by talking too much
in the family circle as we'll as outside of it.
Indeed, it is even more dangerous to blab
everything you know, and think, and that
you think you think, to the partner of your
bosom than it is to rank stranger, for
strangers have not the same uncanny MEM
cries that husbands and wives have, nor have
they the same opportunities of arising and
casting your communications in your teeth.
Many are the men and women who have
been lured by some loquacious mood into tell
ing to the ones to whom they are married
the unexpurgated stories of their lives, and
who have never heard the last of it. Perhaps
they told of some youthful folly. Perhaps
they confessed some wrong, committed years
ana years ago, and that has been repented in
sackcloth and ashes, but in either case the
indiscreet babblers furnished the whip of
scorpions with which they were flayed the
balance of their lives.
There was never a family scrap in which
their skeleton was not brutally dragged out
of the closet in which it was hidden, and
they We're made to live over again the old
shame and the old remorse. Worse still, the
man and woman who told the things that they
should have kept locked in their own breasts
furnished to their wives and husbands unend-
ing food for suspicion, and doubt, and jeal-
ousy.
The sinners may know that, because they
have once stumbled, they will forever after
watch their step; that because they have
been burnt children they will henceforward
keep a safe distance from the fire. but it
takes bigger understanding than the aver
age husband and wife possess to enable them
to appreciate this. The minute they find out
that their idols have feet of clay they jump
to the conclusion that all the balance of them
is mud, and that their faith is gone in them
When people get married each Is entitled
to know that the other brings over no liabili-
ties that will endanger the prosperity of the
new firm. Beyond that the slate should be
wiped clean, and a new account started, so
when either husband or wife is tempted to
tell the other things that done and past,
and that cannot be helped, or remedied, or
changed now, and that would be bitter knowl-
edge to the one who is ignorant Of it, why he
or she should go off and count million back
ward before speaking.
than that it makes for domestic peace and
happiness for husbands and wives to tell each
other everything On the contrary, what peo-
pie don't know don't hurt them, and no other
conversations should be so carefully CEN
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-15
Dr;v;ng u, T1Uo Directions
THE "close attention." as Washington
dispatches phrase it, which the State

TENHE close attention., as washington
dispatches phrase it, which the State
Department has been giving to the de-
velopment of the Shantung issue and it's
readiness at any time" to act as mediator
are altogether commendable. That Far East
ern province which Germany extorted from
China years ago, which Japan captured and
took over as her service to the Allied cause in
the Great War; and which China now asks
again as rightly her own is of material i'm
portance in the court of world justice and of
material concern to the cause of world peace
Naturally, then, the United States Govern
ment is interested in the negotiations be-
tween China and Japan, and is willing to lend
such aid as it may to happy ISSUE
But why should the attitude so properly
taken in this instance be reversed in the case
of European matters which are not a whit
less important to world interests and hence
to American interests than is the disposal of
far away Shantung? Why should we refuse,
despite what is expected of us, to give one
word of counsel on such vexed questions as
Upper Silesia? Why, indeed should we hang
back shirked of responsibility and neg
lector of our own interests in the League
of Nations? Well does the Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal remark that our foreign policy to-
day sis cursed with an inconsistency which
impels the Administration to do with it's left
hand what it will not do with its right; in
Shantung and in Silesia the principle is the
same yet in one case America acts like big
brother, and in the other it acts not at ALL"
This essaying to drive at once in two direc-
tions can not be continued except at the cost
of both principle and practical values.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-15
County Fairs IN Georgia
He "frost on the pumpkin" and t


fodder in the shock are not more
racily characteristic of autumntide
than are county fairs, scores of which soon
will be spreading their wholesome treasures
in Georgia, and hundreds throughout the
South. Few other agencies if any, thinks the
Columbus Enquirer-Sun, do more to bring the
worthwhile, producing people of a commu-
nifty into relationship that make "for better
farming methods, for greater pride in agri-
cultural pursuits, and for good citizenship
generally" 1t is not of that conglomeration
of cheap carnival stuff which too often has
: marred otherwise excellent exhibitions" that
the Enquirer-Sun is writing but of fair
which portrays resources and achievements,
begets neighborliness and enterprise, enlight-
ems and upbuilds-a fair at which: "Closer
acquaintance between citizens of different
parts of the county is formed; results OBJ
tanned by this plan and that plan are viewed
marketing methods discussed, and also seed,
fertilizer, land preparation, cultivation and
what not" so that by exchange of IDEAS as
well as by exhibits much is learned and many
fresh forces of progress put in action.
Good evidence it is of Georgia's growth
and a happy omen for future enterprise that
so many fairs answering to this description
have been organized in recent years, from
mountains to sea. Soon they will begin their
and herd for 1921; and from these the rarest
will be assembled, tog ether with the best OF
all Dxes products, in the Southeastern Fair
in Atlanta. 1t has been the privilege of this
exposition to work in harmony with the nu-
merous local fairs, encouraging them by its
varied display of the fruits of field and flock
own liberal premium lists and it's cordial in
vitation that their exhibitors, after competing
in county and district contests, come to the
Southwide foregathering at Lakewood. The
response this autumn will be unusually wide
reaching, and every county and individual eX-
hiibtor will be heartily welcome.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-15
Girl Imprisoned

Mrs. Virginia Moll, who was Miss Virginia
Fairfax and American has been sentenced in
Germany to six months Imprisonment and
fined $4,000 marks for evading the custom
laws by importing salable commodities under
the pretext that they were charitable gifts. An
additional fine of 500 marks was imposed
for illicit trading. The sentence of six months
Imprisonment was regarded as served by her
during her detention for trial. having been
arrested about January Is, but in case of nom
payment of the fine, the sentence stipulates
that she shall go to Jail for twelve months
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-15
Apnealing to the Laggard

every Voter Should Express Himself at the
Ballot" Wonder what McWhorter is going
to do with the "herselves?" He must re-
member that the women are voting these
days.-Lavonia Times and Gauge.
1t is understood and we'll known that the
women will express themselves. We were
appealing to the laggards and careless
Winder News.
In other words, the ladies may be depend
ed upon to speak out in meeting-and at
home.
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-15
Commutes Sentence

President Harding has committed to Life
imprisonment the death sentence imposed by
military court-martial at Manila upon Pri-
vate Lefwich Wylie, the war department an
nounced today.
Wylie was convicted of murder in connec-
ton with the death of Private Foster Lillard,
OF the Ninth cavalry, at a Philippine post
January IS, 1921.