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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31
OUR DEAD IN FRANCE
By DR.. Frank Crane

Owen Wister and Thomas Nelson Page
have both written protesting against the re-
moval of the bodies of the dead American SOL
diers from the soil of France.
Mr.. Page describes his visit to the cemeter-
les and battlefields and gives his strong i'm
pressions upon viewing those never-to-be-
forgotten fields.
He says: eve were told the bodies were
to be exhumed. Standing there it seemed in
credible. 1t seemed degradation to dig them
up. It would be impossible could those who
loved them see their last resting place.
when General Lee was asked to lend his
name to plan to remove the Confederate
dead from Gettysburg he replied that he had
always felt that the fttest resting PLACE for a
soldier was the field of honor on which he
had nobly laid down his life. We knew as we
stood there that he was right"
Owen Wister calls attention to the physical
difficulties of removal. The remains are often
indistinguishable, fragmentary. What
found in the grave cannot even be embalmed.
It can only be sprinkled with dsinfectant and
shipped to Hoboken. He continues:
FPiles of these poor fragments of human
beings lie at Hoboken unclaimed. They have
been dragged from the soil their sacrifice
made sacred and where as an honored and
cared-for company, they lay in peace, their
graves tended, their memory historic and
precious to France How man. go to the
Potters Field. Such as are claimed and
taken to some family graveyard will soon be
forgotten. Those who mourn them will be
dead, too. Had they been left in France they
would have been cherished long as France
endures.
mo mother could come to France and see
where her boy lies and not be comforted and
thankful he is there. But exploiting mothers
grief to put money in certain pockets goes on.
Three weeks ago I saw our great cemetery
at ~Romagne, It's grass was green, it's crosses
white. Feace and beauty filled it. In mid
May forty per cent of those dead are to be
dragged up, and Romagne Will look like an
old mouth, half teeth, half gums.
"Can nothing stop this hideous mockery
of the living and the dead?"
It is always difficult to apply reason to SEN
timent, particularly if it has to do with our
dead, our ten6erest and dearest treasure.
But it surely would seem in this instance that
the sounder and more beautiful sentiment is
to leave our fallen kinsmen where Roosevelt
left his son.
(Copyr' ght, 1921, by Frank Crane)
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Georgia S Vital Stake n, the
"Th;rty-Three Million Fund

IRON the widest battle-ground Of bust
ness and civic affairs Georgia is keenly
concerned in that movement of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which to-
day comes to the climax of an appeal to it's
members for thirty-three million dollars for
the furtherance Of character building educa-
ton.
OF this sum five million two hundred
and forty thousand dollars Tin the neighbor-
hood of two million more than the States
own quota) will be devoted to the improve
ment and expansion of Georgia institutions
such as Emory University, Wesleyan College
LAGRANGE, South Georgia, Andrew, Sparks,
Young Harris and Re-nhardt Colleges,
Emory Academy and others A large part of
the total will be expended for urgently need
ed buildings, thus finding it's way into the
general stream of business through multi
piled payrolls and the purchase of basic COM
modities. Particularly, as well as broadly,
helpful will be the special "Aid" fund by
which host of young men and women in
every part of the Commonwealth who are
eager for college or university training, but
are without the financial means, will be free
ly assisted in realizing their aspirations.
Moreover, a substantial amount will be ap-
piled to endowments, which of itself will do
much for the reinforcement and prestige of
Georgia education. AS an economic invest
ment alone. we say, the money thus put to use
will pay thousandfold. At once it's quicken
ing effects will be felt; and, more. through
years and generations to come it will yield
deep-rooted harvests of prosperity, for of all
instruments that discover, draw forth, and
utilize earth's treasures, no other is so surely
effective as education.
From the standpoint of the larger and
loftier interests of the commonwea1. how
ever, the good of the "Thirty-Three Million"
fund and of Georgia's liberal share therein
will sweep infinitely beyond the Immediate
gain in things economic, rich though that
will be. and viii, find truest expression in the
fllumining of human minds and the en-
nobling of human spirits. Through these
means and these alone the dark riddles
of the day be answered and worthwhile
happiness assured. IN this high undertaking
for education the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, looks only to it's own COM
munion for subscriptions realizing that other
churches have their own responsibilities But
its aims are as wide as the needs of the State
and the South-as wide, in truth, as the needs
of humanity; all interests will share in the
garnering. and all are watching the great eff
fort with heartiest good will.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31

professionals at different performances of the
same opera. This is an interesting test of the
local singers and it is instructive for the COM
pany.
The Cooperative Spirit
The spirit Of a resident opera company has
proved to be one of it's interesting and sur
prising features. The jealousies and tenn
peramental outbursts of professional opera
are proverbial. Singers wait years for an OPP
portunity to sing certain promised roles, and
the tension is necessarily high. But commu-
nifty opera is more of a family affair.
When Marguerite Sylvia alternated with
Celia Fioravarti, Washington singer, In
performance of Carmen, Madame Sylvia gave
III her dress rehearsal so that the girl who
was to make her debut might have the extra
practice. Madame Sylvia attended the rehear-
sal, however, and made few suggestions to
the young singer and offered to lend her own
Spanish shawl to the rival Carmen. This In
terest in another singer by professional was
decidedly unusual, but it seemed altogether
appropriate in company where every mem
Der was working for the success of the per-
Torrance before personal achievement.
Having companies such as this one linked
together in an organization would give en-
couragement to towns without opera COM
panies to organize them. The organization
could help them with advice and information,
and, what is very important advantage.
scenery, costumes and singers could be ex-
changed. If one company has gone to- the
trouble to collect properties and costumes for
Pagliacci, there is no reason why another
town planning to give the same opera should
duplicate the work. And if a singer of one
company is unusually successful in the role OF
Aida, another company might proftably Dor
row her for performance, either to- save
training one of it's own members, or to have
the visitor alternate with its own Aida.
Mr.. Albion holds that the community opera
proposition is important because it is needed
as an outlet for musical talent, because, the
peopIe are interested in it and would grow
more interested as the project develops, and
because opera is a natural hub for the must
cal activities of city. 1t may also be added
that it is the most broadly instructive Of
theatrical productions. Grand opera tells a
big, dramatic story generally in the language
best suited to the story. There is a setting
of music by a master composer. The scenes
are laid according to the country and the
period of the tale Costumes must be care
fully correct. The arts of singing, playing
dancing and acting are all displayed. All Of
these elements fitted together into a careful
production have wide appeal.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31
YOUNG woman writes me that the

! A-YOUNG woman writes me that the
| ~ other women in her set talk about
L. her because she plays around a bit
with other men than her husband, and she
wants to know if I don't think that gossip
ling is one of the seven deadly sins.
Not at ALL Far from it. 1 think that
there is no other force in the world that
makes so much for righteousness, as gossip
ing. The old tabby cats who sit rocking on
hotel verandas, and who lie in perpetual am
bush behind their starched window curtains
at home, and see everything that goes on and
tell it, may not look like guardian angels OF
the public morals, but they are.
"They say keeps more people walking the
straight and narrow way than all the ten
commandments For the thing that we dread
most, and fear most, is our neighbours op1n-
ion. The thought of forming the subject or
discussion and having our little weaknesses
| vivisected at the sewing circle, or the tea
party, or the club is something that turns
our very bones to water.
1t is the knowledge that she will be Cos
| siped about that makes a Eighty young girl
watch her step. 1t is the certainty that Mrs.
Jones across the street, and Mrs. Smith next
door, will foregather and discuss the way
she neglects her baby to go automobiling
with man who doesn't look like her broth
er, that prevents many silly young wife
from indulging in a stolen bite of romance
now and then.
It is the knowledge that the neighbors
keep tab on the hour he comes home, that
makes many a man punch the domestic time
clock promptly. It's the fear of what his
business friends will say, that keeps many
man from taking his pretty stenographer
out to lunch.
1t is easy to drug conscience into state
of coma. It's no trick at all to invent ex-
clses to ourselves for whatever we want to
do, and to justify ourselves to ourselves by
saying that where no harm is intended, mono
is done. But nobody has ever found any
way to head off gossip.
1t has a thousand eyes that never close In
sleep, and perpetual motion tongue that
never stops wagging. Nor is it concerned
with our motives. 1t only takes heed of our
acts and it puts its own construction on
them
A girl may be really pure as ice and chaste
as snow, but if she permits familiarities from
men, and has loud, bold manner, she will
| be talked about in "a manner that would
raise the hair on her head if she heard what
was said about her. A married woman may
| be as virtuous as Caesars wife, but she can
not escape calumny if she engages in firta-
| tons with young meL. A business man may
really be feeding the hungry when he takes
chorus girls out to supper, and he may actu-
ally be seeing out-of-town customers until
| 2 o'clock in the morning, but his friends
who take note of his risings up and sittings
| down, smile with their tongues in their
cheeks when his name lead all the rest at a
gabfest.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31
DOROTHY DIX TALKS-GOSSIP
nv DOROTHY DIX

Everybody knows this, and they know that
there is no more a way of escaping gossip
than there is of evadng death and taxes.
They likewise know that thereis no way that
you can fight back at gossip, or disproVe it,
or explain yourself to it, because it is in
tangible.
"They say" is like "a deadly miasma that
rises up from the very EARTH and Stays It's
victim with slow and insidious poison.
And the only remedy for it is prevention
Once let it touch a person, and he or she
can never be entirely whole and clean again.
Of course, there are plenty of cases where
gossip works terrible harm. Undoubtedly,
wrong interpretations are put on Innocent
Deeds and scandalmongers blacken charac-
ters beyond justification. There are plenty
Of women who do things that seem wicked,
that are merely indiscreet, and there are
thousands of men who are more fools, than
villains, hut even with these unfortunate
sacrifices to slanderous tongues, gossip still
does more good than harm, because it makes
all but idiots give a thought to their con-
duct and avoid even the appearance of evil.
And to so live as to furnish no food for SLAM
DER is pretty safe chart to steer by.
It is the custom to castigate the gossiper.
and to hold up as model the three monkeys
with their hands before their eyes, and their
ears, and their mouths, who refused to see
any evil, or hear any evil, or to speak any
evil of their fellow creatures.
But why should we expect the general
public to have more regard for our reputa-
lions than we have for them ourselves? Why
should we expect other people to be more
carful of our good names than we are? Why
should we demand that our friends and
neighbors should keep silent about the
weaknesses we faunt in their faces?
If we do not want to be talked about, we
should not do things We are ashamed to
have discussed. It. is only when people are
doing things that are wrong, or that lean
to the evil side, that they object to being
talked about When they are doing fine
things, and right things, the more that peo-
pie have to say about them, the better they
like it. The chorus of praise can never swell
too loud 1t is only when we are being
blamed that we want to put the soft pedal on.
When the old ladies on the hotel veranda
at the summer resort look up from their
knitting. and say, isn't that Mary Smith
the prsttiest, sweetest, most modest young
girl you have seen in an aye?", Mary Smith
doesn't want to stop them; but when they
say, isn't that Mary Smith the most painted
up, brazen-faced creature you ever saw, and
did you know that she sat out in dark cor
ner until 2 o'clock with a married man?''
Mary Smith calls them gossips
And if Mary Smith doesn't want to be
gossiped about, all she has to do is to be-
have herself Generally the fear Of gossip
does make her behave herself. That is what
makes gossip so valuable. It's the police
mans club that keeps the world in order.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31

T7nERE is every sign ahead that the
month of June will mark the begin
ming of turn for better commercial
~Ad industrial conditions the whole world
JVer, and that after a year Of uncertainty
and disappointments, great and growing
era Of construction and prosperity will be in
augurated.
Never since the commencement of hostili-
ties in 1914 have the skies been so bright
with promise, just as during the intervening
years they were darkest with the gloom OF
uncertainty.
Europe seems more nearly restored to nor
NAL than since the armistice The German
reparations question has been definitely set
tied and a stipulated sum of indemnity agreed
upon by all parties at interest. Furthermore,
dispatches tell us that the Teuton republic
will be ready next week to make their first
payment in gold.
The Silesian dispute, which for several
weeks threatened to disrupt harmony in the
Allied councils seems to have BEEN AMIGA
bly, adjusted by the vote OF confidence which
the Chamber of Deputies gave to Premier
BRAND when he took rather positive stand
against the radical element in the French
Republic which has been demanding the alb
solute annihilation Of Germany. The stroke
of the Premier required considerable courage,
and his victory was heartening to the other
Allies as presaging all era OF genuine effort
on the part Of all the principals OF the war
to heal it's terrible wounds. To Lloyd George,
the great WelShman, must be given the major
credit of effecting this coup in French poll
tics.
The natural result of this easement in ten
sion abroad is to hearten American finan-
ciers, industrial magnates and growers or
those commodities upon the profitable eX-
portation OF which the commercial welfare
OF the United States depends. This feeling
of optimism in America has been greatly
strengthened during the past few days by the
attitude of President Harding and his cabinet
IN conferences with great banking interests
looking toward the alignment Of the re-
sources and vast influence of the govern
mental machinery in helping the business
men of the nation restore confidence, turn
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31
Charles to Vacate

Former Emperor Charles Of Austria-Hun-
gary. has formally notified the Swiss Federal
authorities that he will leave Switzerland
with his family and staff next August. and
that meantime he will abstain from politi-
cal propaganda. He declined to say where he
intended going.
The Swiss government received the ex-
emperor's decision with relief, there has
been constant concern over possible interna-
tional complications through the presence
and activities of the former ruler.
Much speculation prevails as to Charles's
intentions. 1t is variously suggested that he
is going to Holland, near former Emperor
Williams abode; to Spain, where it is be-
lieved he would be welcomed and even to
England or the United States The most
talked-of theory, however, is that he hopes
to return to Hungary.
The Hapsburgs meanwhile are putting
their. personal affairs in shape, concentrat-
ing their money, jewels and other valuable
possessions.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

A chilly reception doesn't cool one off on
a hot day.
1t is best, nowadays, not to know the as
SCISSOR unless you have pull.
Don't crowd 1t might prove uncomfort-
able if some one else should forget to be
polite.
Every man likes to hear wise woman talk
because she always talks to him about him
self.
But we have to confess that we don't al
ways recognize good luck when we do meet
it.
A good horse may be forgiven a kick.
Untold agony is a secret woman can't
repeat.
Men fight with their fist, women with their
tears
After giving the prospective maid full de-
tails as to her duties. the mistress Of the
house was about to turn away when another
ietail occurred to her. by the way she
said, Il suppose you know your way to an
nounce?"
We'll, ma am" replied Mary, I'm not so
sure about that, but I think I know my
weight to pound or So"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31
No Jap Guns

Official denial has just been made Of many
recent reports that Japanese had landed
fourteen high-powered guns at Davao, Island
of Mindanao. The provincial commander of
the Philippine constabulary, after an inves-
tigation, reporting to Brigadier General
Rafael Crane, chief of the Philippine Con.
stabulary, said:
"With reference to >the fourteen large
cannon reported to have been found in the
interior of Davao, have found none, ex-
cept a few old obsolete lantakas moro
brass cannon) of large caliber now being
used as park decorations. Some OF these
were found by Spaniards in the hands Of
Moros in 1S48, when Davao was conquered.
Others were brought to the place after
ward"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31
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Costly Smokes

Deciding that the careless smoker is large
ly responsible for many fires, the National
Board of Fire Underwriters has started a
publicity campaign for safeguarding Ameri-
ca against fire. new magazine has been
issued and tho first number estimates that
S91 900 was lost during the past FIVE
years by fire due to careless smokers.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31
OUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

Here you are, gentlemen. the greatest in
vention of the age!' bawled the street ped
dler.
"WhatIs it?" inquired an onlooker.
ga magnetized keyhole plate for front
doors. It will attract an ordinary steel key
from a distance Of two feet All you have to
do to find the keyhole is to take out your key
and hang on to it.
(Three men were injured in the crowd
tt at rushed to buy)
A learned English lawyer got stranded
at a country town and had great diff
Guilty in finding accommodations, at length
being glad to accept a bed in a room
with another occupant When he had made
himself comfortable he recognized the man
in the other bed as one whom he had
been instrumental in getting five years
hard labor. However, the lawyer said
nothing. "I see guv'nor, you didn't recog-
nize me- said the man in the other bed.
ooh, yes, I did," replied the lawyer.
"Well. it's orl right" said the other. II
amt agoin' to object Fact is, I amt got
three months I served done me world of
good Indeed, and how was that?" "It
cured me of the cigarette habit" said the
man in the other bed.
Speeding the parting guests might be de-
scribed as one CT the negative virtues of hos
pftalty. A woman recently overdid the part
She was saying good-by to some visitors who
had long outstayed their welcome. at was
so sweet of YOU to let us stay so lohg," said
they with effusion.
ooh. I'm so glad you've BEEN" she reptile
with obvious relief.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31
Wet Troubles

Bootleggers of Ontario who contracted to
supply rum runners in Detroit with whisky
have been so hard-pressed for supplies since
the law against importation of liquor from
Quebec went into effect that they have re-
sorted to organized raids on liquor stocks In
private homes. The entire police force would
be detailed to the task Of running down the
raiders. Scores Of homes have been broken
into within the last two weeks and large
stocks of liquor have been hauled away in
automobiles. On the West Side, citizens have
organized neighborhood patrols to protect
their property.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31
Hawaiian Sugar

Hawaii's output of sugar for 1921 is be-
hind schedule, according to experts in sugar
circles and steamship men whose business it
is to transport the raw product to the main
land On April 1 the Hawaiian sugar output
was 100000 tons behind the shipping sched-
ule of the same date last year, according to
estimates.
The winter pineapple pack also Is below
the usual figure, and the steamship COM
panies are anticipating heavy congestion
when the sugar shipments begin to pick up
and the big pineapple season gets into full
swing
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31
Around the World
Tri-WeekIy News Flashes From All Over
the Earth

Last Chief
With all the ceremony accorded to
chieftain in bygone days, Albert Grass,
twenty-one, last chief of the Dakota Sioux
Indians, who was killed while fighting in
France was buried recently at Cannon Ball,
NJ D. Mingled with the Indian rites were
services of the American Legion and relig-
ious ceremony of the local Catholic church.
Several thousand Indians attended.
The final resting place for the young chief
is Holy HILL spot sacred to the Indians,
where the last great Sun Dance of the Sioux
was held. Grasss body reached here from
France this week.
The white horse riders had charge of the
Indian ceremonies, consisting mainly of
chanting Dances which lasted throughout
the night. The white horse riders is COM
posed of middle-aged warriors who won
membership in the organization many years
ago through special bravery.
Major A. B. WEIGH, the only white man
to be adopted by the Dakota Sioux tribe as
a blood brother, Rev. A T. Tibbetts and
Claud Killspotted, delivered eulogies.
After the white horse ceremonial, regula.
ton military funeral services were conduct
ed by the legion.