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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Hoz0 H;qh Can We Fin?

MONG the more interesting if not more
n important realms of aerial exploit
and one to which special prowess is
likely to be given this year, is that of alt-
tude flight. The record is now held by
Major r. w. Schroeder, of the United States
Army, who, at Dayton, Ohio, little less than
a twelve-month ago, drove his LIE Pere BIZ
plane to a height of thirty-six thousand and
twenty feet, almost seven miles The
highest previous airpIane climb was not much
above four miles; and four miles, scientists
say, is the limit of upward flight for the
most powerful birds, even the condor hav-
ing to struggle to reach that. Major Schroed-
er paid rather dear for his achievement. At
his topmost soaring, the temperature was in
the neighborhood Of seventy degrees below
zero. His eyes froZe. Losing conscious
ness" the records runs, che lost control of
his plane, falling five miles in about two
minutes. Some fifteen hundred feet above
ground he reganed control and made per-
feet landing. After several days in a dark
ened room Of the hospital, he recovered"
Can this feat in sky-scaling be greatly ex-
ceeded? And if so, how far into outer space
can man adventure? The question is, of
course, like asking when will he be we'll on
the way to the moon, or to Mars or Venus?
But to say that even those flights are incon-
C6VdDl0 is TO ignore some U CU0 pldln0SC
lessons of mans evolution. Inconceivable it
truly is that he could get very much above
a seven or ten mile zone without rarer
lungs or more wonderful aids than he now
possesses. In his fascinating OUTLINE of
HISTORY, Mr.. Wells reminds us that "small
experimental balloons, containing not men,
but recording Instruments have gone high
as twenty-five miles" At an altitude of
twenty miles the air virtually ceases to reg
lister on even the most delicate mechanisms,
it's density at that point being not hun
dreth of what it is at sea level and quite in
capable of supporting such life we now
experience and observe.
But surely no normally imaginative mind
considers life as we observe and ex-
perience it the sum and bourne Of what it
may become-of what, indeed, it is very like
ly to become. Life that has crept ceaseless-
ly, patiently, unconquerably, divinely upward
from the beach foam of primordial seas to
the reptile, the bird the beast, and thence,
through billions of years and measureless
ranges of lowly form, on and up to that "heir
Of all the ages who makes him wings of his
mysterious discontent-surely this LIFE,
earth from some star-lighting hand, will not
be stayed at the present bare beginning of
it's real adventure! How soon, if at all, we
shall be visiting our neighbor planets is
matter more fancifu1 than important. But
the capacity of kind to unfold faculties
now but t-imly dreamed and to reach worlds
now unimagined-this is a conception as
worth while as it is reasonable.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01

greatest glor1es of the common
wealth, again demonstrates that it
5, indeed, the kingpin of tubers, in the
announcement by the United States depart
ment of agriculture that experts have show
ed that an excellent grade of table syrup
can be made from it.
The news of this discovery Will bring wat
er to the mouths of every Georgian and to
host of others, near and far, who have
been introduced in the last few years to the
golden succulence of the yam in the null
tifold forms in which it may b. prepared.
From yams roasted in bonfires to the
daintiest dishes baked with marshmallows,
from "sweet potato pie" to canded yams siz-
z1ing hot from the frying pan, there are a
score of recipes for handling the yam in a
fashion fit for Olympian tables They have
even canned the yam and shiI ped it to for
eign nations. That it's future shall include
transition into syrup promises neavy in
creased consumption on the not cakes and
waffle market.
Georgia is fortunate in that nowhere else
in the country does the yam flourish as it
does in the middle and southern portions of
this state. The number of drying houses for
sweet potatoes that. have been erected, in the
last fw years is startling evidence of the
progress the industry has made, and in time
to come the cultivation Of the yam, with the
added possibilities of syrup seem to assure
even greater prosperity in it's exploitation.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Colby Talks

Once again at his desk at the state depart
ment after nearly two months of travelling,
Secretary Colby tells of the impressions
gained from his official visits to Brazil and
Uruguay and his unofficial visit to Argen-
tina.
cit was a broadening experience, one that
wish all my fellow countrymen might
have" Mr. Colby declared. without eX-
ception, l found the three republics evincing
the utmost friendliness for the United
States as we'll as a profound understanding
of the situation with respect to the rest OF
the world in which this country finds itself
now that the war is over.
81 know no better way of expressing my
admiration of the people of those countries
than by saying that they are delightful, pro-
gressive, enlightened-in short, worthy in
more than one respect of the emulation OF
North Americans"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Gobo, the Gold Eater

-HE chronic pursuer of health will be
interested in the latest prescription
offered his kind, though it is to be
doubted if he can afford it as regular IN
diligence. This, by far the most BIZARRE OF
the many curious recommendations revealed
to the public, is, to be brief, the eating OIL
gold.
At first glance one doubts that he has
read the words Alright. Yet it is true that
gold, with a little honey spread upon 1t, IS
urged as a beneficial diet by it's exemplar,
and that, moreover, he is man who han
dies one hundred-pound dumb-bells as though
they were feathers and runs up and down
stairs with stone collar around his neck
weighing one hundred and sixty pounds.
Meet, then, reader, Mr.. Jatindra Charan
Gobo, better known as Gobar Babu, the only
gold-eating athlete in the world. He mas
reached New York from Calcutta, India, and
is now en- route to Washington to confer
with representatives of this government in
regard to Indian exports. His father, it ap-
pears, is one of the wealthiest exporters and
importers in India, and Gobo besides being
a keen business man himself, is the wrestling
champion of India.
Interviewed in New York, Gobo attributed
his great strength to his peculiar taste for
gold. at makes me strong, you know" he is
quoted as saying. "You laugh. You do not
believe me. But it is so. Before each wres-
fling contest I must eat gold. 1 take the
change, about one misunderstanding dollars
worth-and spread honey upon it. 1t is
quite good, and it makes me strong, and
never become tired when I wrestle many
hours. I am not joking. You must know
that maharajahs often drink pearls dissolved
They are good, too, and make you we'll Gold
gives me strength and 1 am never sick"
The reader, like Mr.. Gobo's interviewer
will 1augh-until he is told that the apostle
Of gold diet is more than six feet TALL weighs
.wo hundred and thirty pounds and comes of
+. long line Of famous wrestlers in a country
where wrestling is considered such major
sport that it's patrons, the rich rajahs, keep
wrestlers as turfmen would string of
horses.
It must not be thought, however that Mr.
Gobo devours four or five bars of bullion at
a sitting. His regular diet, we are told, is
,hicken, rice, milk and butter and almond
nuts, of which he eats two hundred and fifty
" more at a meal. His honey and gold is a
f;elicacy he allows himself infrequently-a
;tmulant before the battle, as it were.
Gobo, the gold-eater, one imagines, is a
nan Of either most remarkable digestive
bowers and odd palate or of equally remark
lble fancies and fluent tongue. He has
neither copyrighted nor patented his discov-
,ry that gold is the finest of foods. Anyone
welcome to try it-provided his bank &C
count can stand the strain. Most people,
however, have grocery bills large enough as it
s, without ordering a couple of nice cuts of
rold for Sunday dinner.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
The Romance Of a Wolf

wv HEN Ernest Thompson-Seton some
wv years ago wrote his Lives of the
Hunted" he was accused of ma
ture-faking." But there has come to pass
recently in North Dakota a drama of ami
NAL life as vivid as any tale of the pacing
mustang or Lupo, king of the Currumpaw;
and it is evidently true, for it was published
in the generally prosaic pages of so author
itative a journal as the bulletin of the
United States department of agriculture.
The Custer wolf was the master Grim
inal among animals. For nine years it
had lived as an outlaw-the cruelest, most
sagacious and most destructive animal
bandit the range country had ever known
The stockmen around Custer, N. D.,
dreaded it as they did the devil, for in its
long warfare against them it had taken
a terrible toll of $4,000 worth of live
stock, killing the choicest animals for food
and often, apparently out of sheer ferocity,
manning others by breaking their legs, bit
ing off their tails and in other brutal ways
mutilating them.
And this, they say, was the motive be-
hind the savagery of the Custer wolf-re-
venge for it's mate, killed four years ago.
1t travelled alone for years, finally taxing
unto itself two coyotes, not as equals, but
as servants. 1t never permitted them to
come near; they travelled far out on the
flanks of the Custer wolf, warning of am
bushes and approaching dangers, getting
their reward by feeding from it's kill after
the Custer wolf had eaten to sat1ation.
The Custer wolf defied all mans efforts
to Stay it or capture it. There was
bounty of five hundred dollars on its
head, but private trappers, sportsmen,
stockmen in big roundup, dogs, poisons
and traps all failed to outwit it's cum
ming Twice the wolf stepped on the jaws
of a trap and escaped Once it rolled
into one or lay down on it, but lost moth
ig save great tufts of hair. Finally the
stockmen grew so desperate that, after
a series of bloody killings. they called on
Uncle Sam for help. The department OF
agriculture sent one of it's best hunters
to North Dakota with instructions to stay
there until he or the Custer wolf was
dead. And H. P. Williams, the hunter,
finally killed the Custer wolf, but only
after months of futile attempts. 1t was a
trap that was the VOLTS undoing. Caught
in the wise, it ran for three miles with
the trap on its front foot, Williams fol,
lowing the trail When the hunter sighted
his prey a shot from his rifle put an
end to the Custer wolf, arch criminal and
a character that might have stepped d.
rectly from the pages of Thompson-Seton
or lack London,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Around the World
Tri-Week1y Mems Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Safety First

Safety First
John Bull has taken elaborate precautions
to prevent Sim Fein from carrying war to
England"
Here are some Of the defensive measures
perfected:
One-A vast secret service is working in
Ireland to uncover plans for Sim Fein OPP
erations in England.
Two-The coast guard has been strength
ened to keep out Sim Fein agents.
Three-All ships, shipyards, warehouses
and docks are closely watched.
Four-DoWning street, where Lloyd
George lives, has been shut off by high
WALL with entrance by permit only.
Five--The houses of parliament are heav-
lily guarded by uniformed and plain clothes
officers outside and inside the buildings; loi-
tering in the halls or Hobbies is prohibited; a
strategic" teleI hone system has been in
stalled; armed boats patrol the Thames
river side of the buildings.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
'T10;.t Rose And Gloom

~ NE does not have to be an optimist or
4 pessimist to subscribe to the propo
stion that things are never quite as
rosy or quite as gloomy as they appear to be.
Thus, when cotton was selling for forty cents
a pound, many confidently believed that by
now it would be bringing dollar. Likewise,
those who were most confident of the dollar
a-pound price are now, many Of them, as
certain that cotton will never pass fifteen
cents, if it stay there. And yet this may be
as faIIacious as the earlier optimistic fore
cast.
Financial history is variation of booms
and depressions. When the public and bust
ness interests begin to take neither too Sc
riousIy, holding back little in one case and
expanding somewhat in the other, happier
medium is struck. The B C's Of the
stock exchange are worth remembering:
''The time to sell is when everybody else
wants to buy, and the time to buy is when
everybody else wants to SELL"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
"Such Is Fame" Paul

Another type of rascal that should be run
out of the community is the professional
bondsman, who hangs around police courts,
city courts and places where cases are dock
eted against persons. The professional bonds
man is a vulture as we'll as grafter-Com-
merce News
At the same time we don't understand this
to mean that Editor Harder has been getting
into trouble Of any kind.-COlumbus En-
quirer-Sun.
"Uncle" John Shannon is editor Of the
Commerce News and not Paul HARDER.
Neither would find it necessary to rely upon
a professional bondsman. Mr.. HARDER is edi-
tor of the Commerce Observer.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
BY JACK PATTERSON
Glimpsing Bob Small

Colonel Sam w. Small is one of Georgia's
most brilliant products and it is no wonder
that his son received a cordial welcome in
Atlanta and Macon. Says the Macon News:
"Macon newspaper men were glad to get
even a hasty glimpse of Bob Small as he
passed through on board the train carrying
President-elect Harding to Florida. Bob
Small is Georgian of whom we are all proud
He comes naturally by his gifts as a newspa-
per man, for there was never one more bril-
liant than Sam Small, though the father IS
not so active now as he used to be- Incl
dentally Bob had better be careful of auto
mobile trips this time. He made a narrow
escape from death his trip with Wilson"
Mr.. Small's many friends are wishing him
a safe trip with President-elect Harding.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Brunswick Population

The population of Brunswick, Ca, in
Guiding the city proper and its environs.
is 1862, according to the new city direc
tory This is one of the most comprehen-
sive and interesting publications of its
kind ever published, containing much
valuable information about Brunswick,
giving a statitiscal and historical review
If Brunswick from the time this city was
founded in 1871, by order o. the colonial
council, up to the present time.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Unnatural Mother

The mother love of Zelda, one OF the
six pigmy hippopotamuses in captivity in
New York ZOO, is waning, and as a re-
suit her ten-pound son who came into
the world this week at Bronx geological
park, may become the adopted child OF
Mrs. Baaa, mountain goat.
If Zelda continues Indifferent to her
babe, officials at the park announce they
would place it in the loving care of Mrs.
Baaa, who has proved a good mother TO
many goatlings.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
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THE TRI.WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta Ca
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Fund Vase

The $4,000 sevres vase, lost In trahs ns
after it's presentation by the president OF
France to James A. Flaherty, supreme
knight of the knights of Columbus, has been
found in ConstantinopIe, a message received
here today says 1t had been placed 10y ms
take, i'm a shipment of furnishings Tor the
KNIGHTS club there.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Want Loan

The Georgia Northern Railway company
has made application to the Interstate com
merce commission for loan of $2OO,ooO 1or
the term of fifteen years offering It's own
notes as security and reserving the rlght 10
take up the notes at any time prior ~ So &C.
o1,ri+v The road saws the sum is needed for
additional equipment follows: Freight
cars cars $1O1, 900; locomotives, $4,000; pr pas
senger cars, $4,000; sections houses $1O'-
600. new shop facilities, $4,000.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Ship Rats

After battling night and day agalns'
rrnat hordes of rats which were wreck
ing havoc among his 1000 canary blrds,
bnI1fnches and goldfnches' FRANK
Vahls arrived here nervous and exhaust
Cd after a 21-day trip from Hamburg
He declared he killed 70 rats during
the trip.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Philippine Wreck

Tbirty-six Filipinos, mostly women and
children. were drowned in the wrecklng OF
the three-masted coastwise schooner Plllcl-
dad, blown ashore and helplessly pounded
to nieces in a furious storm at the mouth
of the Agno river, Province of Pangasinan
according to advices received at Manila.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Release Property

RERTIN-American property IN yer
manv which was taken under control Oy the
German custodian of enemy properly al'0l
the limited States entered the war, has been
Internationally released, said DR.. Han1el
Won Haimhausen, under-secretary for for
eign affairs, this week.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Apti-Cigarettc Repeal

The Tennessee senate has passed nn Sa1s
tho bill repeating the law forblddlng tne I%l
of cigarettes in the state anu C sn nnrova1
At the same session bill was introduced
- strengthen the prohibition of clgare'te
sales to minors
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Whose Money?

More than $4,000 checks on the national
treasury for retainer pay due naval reseIVl ~
are unclaimed at the navy department o. ~ W
Goo 80 tho failure of the reservists to keep
10 nayv department informed Of their cor
. un ad5ress Numerous complaints have
reached the department from men alegln 5
failure to receive retainer pay it was sai H.
and in most cases the failure was due 10 an
incorrect address at the department. now
Al ~ the more than 10000 checks now
o1ni,,1ad we're mailed to the last address
r un.,1 at the department and were return
ed by the postal authorities
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Invention is the stepmother of trusts
1t is sweet to suffer when we suffer for
those we love.
It's unlucky to bet $13 on another mans
game on Friday.
Few photographers would care to take peo-
pie for what they are worth
Most people are more than satisfied. with
their misfortunes, but not with their for
tunes.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Editorial Echoes

Telling the average man to stop worrying
that it will ruin his health-doesnt do
much good. 1t merely gives him something
else to worry about.-Nashville Tennessean.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Women Jurors

Women will take their places WIN nndnn
in the juries of the hlgh cour' III rond.
80 women will be called to serve Ill
ing inries settling these marital tangies'
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01

Germany's forty years of preparations have
now been turned into forty years of repara-
Register.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Cbateau Destroyed 4

Fire has almost completely destroyed LIZ
famous chateau at La Albaida, near ba[ re-,
1 1"ndo cnain Countess Hornuchuelos' her
cbiiGren and several guests had narrow vto eH,
canes from the flames and many hi''01-
treasures were lost.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01

The grade of 5uit of clotht is determin-
ed by the survival of the fit.-El Paso Her
aid
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01

The last rum to go will be rum in nos
trum.-Boston Herald.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01

lot Of men have the air of regarding
their women folks political activities as Dor
ing from within.-Philadelphi North Amer
lean.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01

Some people are so fond of an argument
that they won't even eat anything that agrees
with them-Fayette Advertiser.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
OUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Jones sent 81 to concern that advertised TO
send by mail for that sum tive pairs OF SOCKS;
When they arrived he looked them over ana
then wrote to the senderS:
"Socks received The patterns are vile. !
wouldn't be seen in the streets with them on"
Back came the answer: "What are you kick
ing about? Didn't we advertise that you
wouldn't wear them QUIZ"
It was at a Christmas dinner.
Young Bobbie had had third helping OF
everything and with the stamina of healthy
youth, passed his plate for fourth helping
of pudding. envy goodness, Bobbie, how can
YOU eat so much?" exclaimed his mother.
"Dunnol'. grinned Bobbie "Spects it must
be just my luck!"
"Theres no plant that can compare with the
shamrock" said lriShman at the conclusion
of slight quarrel with a Scotsman.
"Why, it's only a sham," replied the Scots
man. "The thistle is the only thing that ex-
cites my admiration"
81 don't wonder, for every ass is fond OF it,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-01
Potato Sytub

~ HE Georgia yam, for long one of the
greatest glories of the common
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-13

loCx ISLAND COUNCIL 10. 20. r 3 ..
N-The LATED assemblies Of Rock "
"a Council NO. ~. y. b Z. NJ wM
= ~ on the third "Wednesday Of esca
upa,n. W. J. Spencer. Q. b H.; " D.
hideheandt. rec0r0er.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-13
HIGH GRADE
AUTOMOBILES

We have q reputation OF ha0onne
only high grade used cars priced
right"
Try Ms first and be convinced
Fords, Bucks, Dodges, Odds .,
velies, Chevrclets, Saxons, heos'
Hudson Super-Six, Oakland sizes
and lots others ready to go on tho
road-not ready for the shop
See our cars before you buy
elsewhere.
Largest used car dealers.
'GALBRAITH & ROGERS
1911 Fourth Ave-, Rock Island
Open Evenings and Sundays
Phone r. I. 1890.
Towing, Repairing. SuDplies-Al
Night
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-13

uocK BLAND CHATTER. no. 26S.
0rdss Eastern Stsr.-keguiar meetnxs
sscOnd wednesday Of ssen msnsa: W.
~. VI. NJ; AaEy r. Arels. secretary.
Hrthday party Nay .. Return cArds
ice ressrv su0ns n once. OmcaA vi2e
Worthy Grand Mstron 70 Aoane nay
ii. Eeserystlons must be made ~ NAV
a Not,Iy n. n, hreis, secretary.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-13
LEGAL,

Administrator's Notice.
Estate of Rebecca Graham. Deceased.
The undersigned. having been appointed
Administrator Of the Estate Of Rebecca
Graham, late Of tho County Of Rock Is
land. STATE Of Illinois. deceased. hereby
gives notice that he will appear before
the Probate Court Of Rock Island County.
ct The Probate Court room, in the City of
Rock Island. at tho July Term, on the
First Monday in July next, 1t which time
all pusnns having eaaims against said
Estate sre notified and requested TO At
tend for tho purpose Of having the Same
adjusted.
An persons indebted to said Estate sfe
the undersigned.
Dated 10Th day of April A. d. 1921.
requested TO mako immediate payment "a
JOHN W. GRAHAM.
Administrator,