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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-05-05
Have Yea a Jelly Fish Job?
oft Jobs make soft people.

Soft jobs make soft people.
We gain strength by overcoming
forces that resist US. Things that
come easy never add anything to our
powers.
Men find, as they look back, that il
was in solving the hard problems that
they developed the ability to handle
the big job that came their way later
It's the principle of the carpenters
sandpaper.
If soft things took the roughness
off the board and transformed in into
a smooth, polished desk top, furniture
makers would use velvet instead Of
sandpaper.
If soft materials put fine cutting
edge on dull knife, the grinder wou'e
use rubber instead of an emery wheel.
Things come easy to jellyfish.
All he has to do is to float along IN
the current of the ocean tides and abb
sorb the food around him. But ne
never develops backbone. Before an
enemy he is helpless.
A rich mans son may be given a JOB
in his fathers establishment, but un-
less he really knuckles down to Work
he will never develop initiative, exc
cutive ability, power Of decision.
There have been thousands of Eng
lish statesmen, but none accomplished
more for the British Empire than Dis
.raeli, Queen Victoria's prime minister.
He was a Jew and to attain that Of
flee Disraei was obliged to combat
distrust, ridicule, envy and prejudice.
Overcoming these handicaps gave
strength. He was one of the outstand-
ing characters in English history.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-05-05
Radical
By DIR. Frank Crane

As q radical in good and regular
standing, with all my dues paid, and
with a known and open record, and
having often and publicly made full
confession of faith, I want to protest
against the various groups Of loud
fellows who occasionally drop into
meeting and claim they are the only
real radicals and that the likes of me
do not belong.
Radical comes from radix or radish
or something like that, meaning root,
and radical, properly speaking, is
one who goes to the root of matters.
He is supposed not to stop at half
way compromises. to lodge in no op-
portunisms, and not put his faith IN
catchwords and mob formulae.
That, in the language of Superin-
tndent Tobin of the Chicago schools,
is me.
am a radical in religion, for l be-
lieve in nothing short Of God.
I am a radical in Education, for
believe in studying the child and bring
ing out what's in him. and not making
him study set curriculum sa to make
him twofold more a humbug than we
ourselves.
I am a radical in politics. for l be-
lieve in democracy, in the U. S. A.,
and in the people, and repudiate po-
litical parties-neither will / follow
nor be led by them.
I am a radical in social questions,
for / believe that the social organism
is a Growth, and that Socialists, Boil
sheviks and other Utopian- tinkers are
trying to make something by their
clumsy logic saws and theory ham
mers that can only be grown like a
tree.
I am a radical in taxation, for
believe in Single Tax as the only sys-
tenn which is based on honesty and
not robbery and crooked reasoning. :.
I am q radical in literature, for l
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-05-05
country and requires So cars to carry

it.
During the Confederate war Mr..
Robinson was an officer in the Fed
eral navy. He spent much time and
money in the years that followed in
rebuilding the devastated sections.
MIR. Robinson was one of four men
who organized the United States
Playing Card corporation of Cincin-
rati, of which he was also director at
his death. He also was director OF
the United States Lithographlng
company of Cincinnati.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09
CLOTHES AND SIN
By DR.. Frank Crane

And now comes the Rev. DR.. Wilbur F.
Crafts. reformer and says that the draped hui
man figure is artistic and the nude is not.
The naked Venuses for which Greece has
been famous, are, according to Wilbur, but signs
of decadence. They appeared, he declares, after
Greece had begun to decline and had lost her
power.
He also charges that there is direct relation
between nudity and lewdness.
This is an example of a very common deu-
sion
1t is that virtue somehow is the child of myS-
terry, and that purity depends upon fog.
There are a vast number of people whose
morality may be comprised in the word
FLUSH!
AS matter of fact clothes were invented &C
cording to the Bible, simultaneously with sin.
And ever since that time uncleanness of mind
has always been expressed by clothing, more
or less.
Nudity, as a scientific fact represents limo
cence
All fishes are nude, and no fishes are lewd.
Dogs, horses and other animals have no
shame and no garments.
To put trousers on canary bird would prob
ably ruin his moral character.
The fall of man is marked by the advent of
the fig leaf.
So much for history. Contemporanety is as
conclusive.
The people most covered up are as a rule
the least decent.
The Turks, VIGOROUSLY given to excuses of
SenSuality, conceal their women in haremS, and
cover their faces with wells.
Protection, concealment and Smotheration
never made anything clean, any more than
sweeping dirt into the corner of the dining
room and throwing a rug over it, can be called
proper cleaning up.
You do not insure against blood poison by
binding up a scratched finger but by washing
it,
Uncleanness does not come from exposure
UncleanneSS is germ, a moral mcrobe.
There are three antiseptc remedies that kill
it,
One is intelligence. Morbidity breeds and
multipes in ignorance.
Another is opeaness. All mortality which is
Just covering up is septic
And the third and greatest is dealiSm 1t is
the poet who saves our souls not the parSon.
The only real remedy for lust is loyal love-
Love is the cleansing. We are saved by
beauty.
Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09
The Peri1s of Ringing

T was Irwin Cobb some other humor
list who made the prediction, shortly
after the downfall of the kaiser, that
sinecure helceforth that once it was Events
appear to have borne vout Mr.. Cobb's pre-
diction. There is, for instance the profess
sion of being Russian nobleman.
Time was when a Russian nobleman repre-
sented the elite of aristocracy. British
lord would answer at odd moments, or one
even might be satisfied with a Spanish don.
| But, particularly in the case of the playwright
and the novelist, when the utter admiration
| of his public the prize, it was Russian
| grand duke who was summoned from the
realm of imagination. He always wore even
ing dress, perhaps medal or two on his
coat lapel, more likely thin red ribbon run
ming across his shirt front. His Vandyke
beard, an attenuated cigarette holder, the
grand manner, passionate brown eyes, and
morose and sinister disposition completed
| the picture Such a might serve as
either villain or hero. but, depend it..
he would be alluring in either case. He
was the peer of titled persOnages in fiction:
only. one otker could excel him-and that
would be Russian princess.
Behold what time and the war have done
| to the Russian nobleman and the Russian
| noblewoman! Dispatches from CONSTANT
nople draw a pathetic sketch of their pres
! ent circumstances. Russians OF noble blood,
| they state, fighting the wolf from the
doorstep in the uniforms of porters and
messengers in Constantinople, center of the
crumbIed empires refugees. Some are small
shopkeepers and. many who knew court life
in PetrograC are walters and mattresses.
Grand Duke Alexis has snapped his evening
clothes and his red ribbon for gaudier but
less stately garments Of door caller. Prince
Serge, with a list of titles long the
Andes, has become merely "garcon" to the
cafe patrons. Generals and admirals have
sold their decorations at auction in the
courtyard of the Mosque Aghadjami in SIAM
boul, where women of court circles dispose
Of furs, jewels and other finery for the price
Of a few meals. Admiral Dickert, who wears
the grand cross of the Legion of Honor, well
coined a job as hall porter in the French
hospital. Prince Goubitsen is selling sau-
sage meat in the Pera quarter, and a son of
former Premier Sturmer shines shoes To
similar low estates have fallen the Russian
princesses Many Of them are selling flow
ers and newspapers on the streets. Others
are mattresses. Countess 'Tolstoy is a school
teacher.
After all, it may be that the novelist and
the playwright will be the chief losers in the
collapse of ''kinging." For they, perforce,
must pick mere railroad president or the
head Of a board of directors for hero viii
lain. The dukes of yesterday, the princesses
of the pre-war period may find that the pro-
fession of bootblack is not without honor,
the pursuit of sausage selling not without its
emoluments and it's happiness.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09
Russia S BEqhted Trade

~ OVIETISM no longer can lay it's dismal
failures to foreign barriers against Rus
sian trade. Lenine's contention used
to be that if the Allied blockade were discon-
tinued and the American embargo removed,
his theories, social and political would prove
their efficacy forthwith, and the fortunes of
an unhappy people be soon on the way to re-
| covery 1t is now more than year since
those restrictions ceased, so far as exchange
Of comm ODDITIES with America is concerned
and long ago the blockade was virtually lift
ed. STILL the promised miracles of Soviet
ism do not come to pass. Russia grows con-
tinually NOR impoverished; her wretched-
ness deepens
Nor is there hope of improvement until the
country's government is such to merit a
fair measure of the worlds respect and to
permit within it's own realms a resumption
of productive Industries. The Bolshevik re-
gime has met neither of these bare essentials.
1t has repudiated it's contracts, has denied
freedom to labor as we'll as protection to the
simplest property rights, has flouted those
principles of honor and square dealing on
which all secure relationships between men
and between nations depend. While this
morally irresponsible order of things contn-
ues, there will be next to no chance for Rus
sia's constructive forces and hence no like
lihood of prosperous industry and trade.
So soon, however, as a representative and
dependable Government is established, a
Government to which its people may look for
justice and in which other nations can find
something better than shifty adventurers,
there doubtless will dawn new and won
derfully creative day for Russia. Passing
rich in materials of which the world is in
need, that country can keep the sea lanes
busy with her exports when once she can be-
gin fairly producing them. But to that end
she must have implements, roads, railways,
capital and peace of mind, none of which is
likely to be procurable under the cloud and
tyranny of lshevism.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09
DON'T PRETEND
Bv H. AddingtOn Bruce


NE of the surest courses a person can
} adopt to bring on nervous troubles is to
- be financial, social, or intellectual pre-
tender. For always and inevitably this means
strain, disappointment, and worry. And out
of these ingredients nervousness is COM
pounded.
The futile game of keeping up with the
Joneses' simply cannot be played successfully.
Every nerve specialist will tell you that, from
the experience Of his everyday practice.
For daily there throng to the consulting
rooms of the specialists men and women
broken because. in one way or another, they
have pretended-have forced themselves to
live beyond their means. And to intensity
the tragedy of their collapse stands the appall-
ing fact that all the while they have been
fooling nobody but themselves.
People intuitively sense pretenders, even
| if the pretenders contrive to keep out of their
eyes the awful mixture of eagerness and fear
that is consuming them. Never, indeed, can
pretenders completely conceal their pretense.
For, one close student of human nature
has pointed out:
THE very thought which stimulates the
pretense is reflected in delicate tracery on
face and form, in subtle movement and voice
Affection is recognized as effort to SEEM
not to be-"
Recognizing pretenders, people laugh at
them behind their backs, if they do not openly
snub them. And even when the pretender is
tolerated--even when he or she is admitted to
the companionship of the weather., the more
cultivated, or the more learned, the case
may be--the admission brings genuine
satisfaction.
For always there is the lurking dread that
one misstep may mean betrayal of the sham.
Joy is impossible when anxiety is dominant.
FTo be, not to SEEM" says the already quot
ed student of human nature; "to beauty
and to find inspiration in the simple things Of
life; to keep the mind receptive, sweet, and
serene, with a spirit that reaches out in true
elpfulness-these are the vibrant notes of
happiness. And thus do we grow, thus are
we of value to our friends and to ourselves"
Pretenders of any sort need to take this
truth home to themselves. They have false
outlook life, hopelessly wrong-headed
philosophy. Soon or late it is bound to over
whelm them in misery.
1t may even send them desperately quest
ing for health--for the health they might
never have lost had they been honest with
themselves and with the world.
"Be natural be yourself"-that is good
word of advice as be given to any
body.
Copyright, 1921, by The Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09
Editorial Echoes.

The continental congress did borrow from
Louis XVI the sum of 80 100000 livre or
S6,32468S. However, this was paid back
years ago.
This is shown in book written in 1882 by
Raphael Bayley then an employe of the
treasury department, from which the New
York Times quotes in view of the recent
statement in the French chamber of deputies
that Fthe United States now owes us money.
However, there is also shown in the Bay
lev book the interesting information that in
addition to the amounts loaned us, France
actually gave us an additional sum of TO-
100000 Iivres Also the Spanish government
gave (not loaned) us another million, which
was transmitted through the French govern
ment and it's source was for years kept pro-
found secret. Spain was not then at war
with England.
"All this amounts to but $1,906,500, a
trifing sum as money is counted in these
days. But with compound interest for nearly
] so years it would amount to something by
now. 1t has never been repaid. Payment
has never been asked.
1.-THE French king left no doubt of the
status of this subsidy. He wrote that being
willing to give the United States new proof
Of his affection and friendship. he has been
pleased to make present Of, the sums"
Probably the French people of this day fee
= that, if they. in the long ago. could be sc
generous to the United States, when we were
in our infancy, the United States could, al
this time of the distress Of France. give also
with Omen hand, and not exact the wal
debt which France owes the United States
Augusta (G".) Chronicle. (Dem.l a
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09
EDITORIAL DIGEST
WHAT HAPPENED TO SFORzA

WHAT HAPPENED TO $50 RIA
Count SfOrza, the Italian foreign minister.
succeeded 50 ably at the Paris conference in
moderating divergent views that people won
dered why he finally disappeared from view
at London and permitted a break to come
about.
The London correspondent OF the Giornals
D'Italia says
Count SfOrza attempt to find way for
transaction NetWeen the allied demands and
the German propositions ended in complete
failure on account of the want of a fixed pro-
gram which might have served as a bridge
between the two opposed thesis Thus after
d few vain attempts which were often severe
ly criticized and shown in bad light by our
great allies our delegation finished by adopt
ing blndly their infeXible decisions or imme-
diate repression without even making use of
the authority which our particular situation
with Germany conferred on us. This failure
of Italian policy is much criticised in London.
especially b. TIE Englich, who, contrary to
the French, wish at all costs to come to
terms with the Germans.
'AlthOugh it seems that Count Sforza
wishes to take up again as soon as possible
his transactions to bring about an amicable
solution, there are evident symptoms which
show that there is not sufficient authority in
the council to make authorized declarations
opposition to the French and British
thesis"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

1t has been remarked that love levels all
things, and the man who has loved and lost
knows that it leveled him.
Boarding houses are necessary evils in
tended to convince bachelors that they
should have homes of their own.
Don't attempt to train up your children
in the way they should go unless you are
going that way yourself.
Don't work too hard trying tc avoid work.
Some people who take things easy land in
Jail.
The wise man counts the cost of his pleas
ure after the doctor has sent in his bill.
II women are talking machines, men who
SOW wild oats should be classeu as sewing
machines
either a bank or the United States treasury.
In recent years there have been plans sim
liar to this one engineered by promoters who
took more interest in the imm grants dollars
than in his welfare From experience with
these schemes the foreigner has become wary
of good farm lands cheap" proposals. If
the government takes a hand, it will be nee
essary for it to prove to the immigrant in the
beginning that it is not staging a sleight-o-
hand performance. The government cannot
possibly say to any individual farmer 81 will
guarantee you success, or pay your losses
but it will have to assure him that the prof.
ect is sound business proposition and that
the government agencies stand ready to teach
him and help him with his problems.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY JACK PATTERSON
Fair Warming To Readers

Down in Havana an editor killed man
who criticized one of his editorials They
seem to have very progressive Journalists
down there. But they have something to
keep up their courage-Savannah Press.
And that must have been a somewhat
progressive editorial, too. Prospective
critics will please take notice.
Atlanta's Good Example
Atlanta church members have just enjoyed
a week Of prayer. AnC it was such an I'M
usual thing for Atlanta they sent kilograms
to all the state papers about it.-Savannah
Press.
Go thou and do likewise
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09
Words of Truth and Wisdom

Editor Ernest Camp of the Valton Trib-
une, one of the best weekly newspapers in
Georgia, says:
"a good way to throttle your town is to
squeeze all the spirit and ginger out of your
home paper. The squeezing process comes
through a skinny, Indifferent patronage. A
city is judged by its newspaper and the more
liberal patronage the better paper can the
publisher issue"
1t is also sometime permissible to Judge q
newspaper by its town. by their fruits ye
shall know them"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09
NOTICE NO SUBSCRIBERS

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before the this label insure regular
In ordering paper changed be sure to menuon your
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cannot enter subscriptions TO begin with back num-
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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. GA.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09
OUT Or THE MoUTH3 OF BABES

1t was one of the first spring days and lit
tie Elizabeth, aged four, who had been llay-
ing with some neighbor children. rushed into
the house and thro~ing herself acros her
mothers lap exclaimed, oh mamma, take
og some of myclothes I'm whole petit
coat too Warm!"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09

Thirty-three persons were killed in a col
lision between a freight train on the Mexi-
can National line at Villa Gartra, between
Pa~radon and Monterey, according to reports
received at Eagle Pass, Tex. The time of the
accident was not given.
The only identified person killed was
Victor Viilareal, candidate for mayor of Pied
r&s Negras, the town opposite Eagle Pass,
the renOrt said
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

They had walked in silence for some time
along the moonlit shore. Taking her hand
the youth began: If you should fall into this
lake, and I should rescue you, would you then
give me your heart also?" She replied gay
ly: 'Is it necessary that I fall into the
lake,"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09

at Geneva has adopted a resolution express
ing profound gratitude for the exceptional
and admirable work accomplished by the
American Red Cross during and since the
war;
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09
South Cardinals Indians

AS a result of the interest that United
States Senator Nat B. Dial is taking in them,
the Catawba Indians, wards of South Caro-
lima, who occupy a small reservation, TWEEN
ty-five miles east of York, in York county,
may be taken in charge by the United
States government. 1t is said that the
Catawbas are the only Indian tribe in the
United States not under the protection of
the federal government at the present time.
Senator Dial became interested in the
Catawbas some time ago and wrote Gov
ernor Cooper to know their status The
governor turned the senator's letter over to
%. K Williams, agent for the Catawbas.
Mr.. Williams wrote the senator that he was
sure that both the Indians and the state
of South Carolina would be pleased if the
federal government would take over their
support.
That is about as far developments
have occurred so far, but the South Caro-
lima senator is working on the matter and
it is understood will present the claims OF
the Catawbas to federal protection to the
next congress.
The present state appropriation for the
Indians, according to Agent Williams, is
$500 per annum with an extra 5000 for
the support of the school which is con-
Quoted on the reservation in the extreme
eastern section of York county.
Although a school has been maintained
on the reservation for a number of years
very few of the Indians sent their children
to school until after the state compulsory
attendance law was adopted.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09
Chinese Relief

A total of 100000 has been cabled to
China within the last week, raising the total
of Americas aid to the Chinese famine suf-
ferers to nearly $5,OOO,OO0 according to a
statement issued by Vernon Monroe, treas
urer of the American committee for China
famine fund.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-09

Il want TO be prOcraStlnated at de mex
corner said the negro passenger to the tram
car conductor.
''You want to be what?" demanded the con-
ductor.
Don't lose your temper. I had to look in
de dictionary myself befo' 1 found out dat
| procrastnate' means put Off -
certain young lady with clicking high
heels and generally dressed to the mode ap-
peare1 at school for training social workers
recently in order to ascertain the require
ments for admission. An artist friend of hers,
she said, had told her that she ought to be
doing some active work for social progress,
since whenever he saw her he always wished
''to paint her with a tenement baby in her
arms"
| The cub reporter was grinding out mar
rage notice. Finally he brought it up and
laid it on the city editors desk:
'Mr. and Mrs Blank announce today the
marriage of their daughter to take place next
| Monday-'
Huh" grunted the editor, you can't say
they announced a marriage yet to take place"
Again the cub jabbed away at his type
writer And when he brought it back this
| time it read:
"Mr. and Mrs. Blank predicted today the
marriage of their daughter
/ GAS soon as found there was possibility
of dishonest profit being made in the position,
| got out Of it." said business man.
Eyes, go on and finish the sentence" re-
turned the reporter.
how crntn Of