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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
DEBS
BY DR.. Frank Crane

There is good deal of nonsense and hys-
terra going as to the case of Debs and his
imprisonment
1t is claimed he is Political Prisoner. He
is not. There is no such thing in the United
States.
Debs is in prison for the same reason his
fellow convicts are in prison-for breaking
the law.
He is not there on account of his opinions
He is there for what he did.
Twelve men, carefully chosen, found him
guilty, after a fair trail in which he had
every opportunity to defend himself
At the close of his trial he said: 81
haven't one word Oh complaint either against
the verdict the trial. The evidence was
truthful, it was fairly presented by the prose-
cution, the jury was patient and attentive
and the judges charge was mastery and
scrupulously fair"
He said he went t, prison for an ideal
Judge Westenhaver, in sentencing him. said:
II do not regard the idealism of the defend
ant as exp essed by himself as any higher
any plrer, or any nobler than the ideaism of
the thousands of young men | have seen
marching down the streets of Cleveland to de-
fend the laws of their country and the flag
Any one who strikes the sword from the
hand OF those young men, or causes another
young man to refuse to do his duty when
called to serve by their side or any one who
obstructs the recruiting service does just as
much injury to our coun"'y If he were
a soldier in the ranks OF the German army"
Debs' case was appealed to the Supreme
Court. There Judge Holmes pointed out that
Debs was not sentenced because he was OPP
posed to all wars in general, but because he
INSTRUCTED recruiting service in this war"
This being contrary to law, he was law
breaker, and it was for that, and not for any
belief that he is now in the penitentiary.
Debs is not rebel against any tyrant, such
as king, cZar, or kaiser. He is a rebel against
the will of the majority of his fellow citizens.
man ha- a perfect right to any opinion,
however peculiar. That is essential to
democracy.
But it is no less essential tc democracy
that after we have all expressed our several
opinions the majority shall rule.
The foundation of this republic is not Lib
erty. 1t is Law, which lies deeper than Lib
erty, for without it no liberty is possible.
You and I do not like some of our laws
But we look pleasant and obey them until
we can induce the majority to change them
Every man in the U. S. A. can do one Of
three things
I. He can obey the law.
2. He can get out and go to some country
he likes better.
3. Or he can go to jail.
Debs chose jail. And there he ought to
stay until he makes up his mind to obey the
laws Of his country.
Copyright, 1921. by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
Millions of Ne1O HORSEPOWER

-AVORABLY regarded applications now
- before the recently established Federal
Water Power Commission are said to
insure the development, within the next
ten years. of thirteen million horsepower.
Projects authorized during the last month
point to fifty per cent more development
than has taken place in the United States in
all the years preceding. Eleven hundred and
sixty distinct proposals await the Commits
sion's action, coming from twenty-six States
and representing initial expenditures that
will amount to some two billion dollars.
Projected enterprises are numerous in the
West, but not there alone. "In the East,
says the official report, "the whole Appalach-
ian mountain district from Alabama to Maine
is capable of developing immense power. The
Commission expects great activity in this
section, because water power development will
eliminate fifty per cent of the present coal
transportation, which today presents a seri-
GUS phase of the Eastern industrial situa-
ton
The awakening thus evidenced and the Sc
quent increase in hydro-electric power for
industry, for transportation and for sundry
other fields of economic and social concern
means a vast deal to America. Cheap and
abundant power, subject to governmental
control in the interest of the public, will do
more perhaps than any other one material
factor to stimulate production and to enrich
the common sources of prosperity. Atlanta's
industrial growth would be ten times swifter
and more substantial than it is and so would
al Georgia's If an abundance Of cheap power
were available-as available it will be if the
States vast latent resources are efficiently
developed in the interest of the common
veal, not for the entrenchment of profiteering
privilege.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
MRS SOLOMON SAYS:
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Being the Confessions Of the Seven
Hundredth Wife.

My daughter, consider the self-complacency
Of Man.
For it is more imperturbable than matt
nee idols vanity, and harder to ruffle than a
good lawyers temper.
Lo he saith in his heart:
Glow the women Of the world RAVE over
me!
"For behold, half of them are afflicted with
MAN-O MANIA, and are mad about me.
"And the other half are afflicted with
MAN-OPHOBIA, and are mad AT ME!
Half of them torture their hair with dyes
and stains and hot curling-tongs-for my
delectation and approval-and the other half
cut off their locks in imitation of me.
''Lo, the Man-omaniacs stain their lips with
pomegranates and with carmine, and disguise
their faces with rice-powder and Chinese
white, that they may be beautiful in my
sight.
"Yea, they shorten their skirts and their
sleeves and endure torments Of exposure that
may behold the dimples in their knees and
their elbows, to find thorl pleasing. They
uncover their backs to the icy night wind for
my admiration. They dance upon three-inch
heels, that they may seem lissome in mine
eyes.
cat my approach, they flutter and bite
their lips and are covered with smiles of well
come; and at my departure their lives are
filled with emptiness. For, unless there ba
a MAN present, life hath no charm for Man
omaniac. And all their days they battle, one
with another, for my favor and my smiles.
But the Man-ophobiacs are more flatter-
ing, still.
For, although they pretend to hold me in
scorn, and call me 'Tyrant' and Opressor,
and 'Woman's enemy!', yet do they initiate
me in all things! Yea, in the bobb1ng Of
their hair and the smoking of their cigar
cites, they flatter me, and follow after me.
"And, when they search out my foibles and
weaknesses and hold me- to ri1icula in
their clubs, 1 greet their contumely with ha-
has. For it is all free ADVERTISING for
me!
"They have stolen my privileges, and fitch
ed my jobs, and broken into my professions;
yet in their secret meetings, all their talk Is
Of ME, and how to encompass me. and what
to feed me for breakfast.
'Lo, when a Man-obhobiac weddeth, she
apologizeth to her friends, and scorneth to
take her husbands name; and her spouse is
known in the temple as a new member of
Only Their Husbands Club
"Yet, in his own house, his taste and his
moods are consulted, and his slippers are laid
out; and when he returneth from his lahors,
he findeth his wife powdering her nose!
"Verily, verify WE are the irresistible sex!
"For to be worshipped is popularity % be
denounced is notoriety.
And until the women cease to love us or
to hate us; until wives cease to cater to us,
and widows to flirt with us, and damsels to
pursue u.s. and vamps to vamp us; yea until
ALL women become INDIFFERENT to ali
men we shall continue to shine and to re-
ioice in the Spotlight
"Yea, until they find something better to
THINK about, we shall continue to be IT.
"Verily, until they cease to take us serious
| ly, and begin to take us for granted-'we
should worry!'"
! Selah.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
S;1esia, and Kindred Issues

Eff the Hplebiscite which is scheduled
for March the twentieth to determine
whether upper Silesia shall be under
Polish orlGerman dominion Is decisive, the
third of three particularly troublous prob
lens of European diplomacy will be settled.
The first was the Adriatic question, adjusted
some months ago to the passable satisfaction
of Italy and Jugo-Slavia. The second was,
or In strict accuracy, is, the unknotting of
the Near Eastern tangle, with special refer
ence to Turkey.
In this matter, some observers believe,
Turkey has gained more concessions than the
general interests warrant. The zone OF the
straits as set up in the treaty of Sevres Is
to be abolished, the Allies retaining but one
position there. The Turks are not only to
have free access to both European and
Asiatic coasts but also the privilege of forti-
flying Constantinople and reconstructing the
Tchatalga. line of defense. Moreover, they
are permitted to increase their army from
thirty-fiv thousand men to seventy-five
thousapd.awith the understanding that Con-
stantinopIe is to be evacuated by Allied
troops These grants appear In a somewhat
different light it is true, when we observe
that theySare all contingent upon the Turks
acceptance of the Allied proposals concern
ing Smyrna and Fhrace, which proposals are
agreeable to the Greek delegate. 1t is ex-
pected, too, that the general international
precautions-which undisturbed portions of
the treaty provide will serve to protect for
merly defenseless populations against repe-
-tition of.3Turkish atrocities; certainly any
arrangement which fails to do so would be
itself a crime
- The Sifesian problem remains to be solved.
In the region IN dispute both the Poles and
the Germans are mastering every obtainable
voter for the approaching plebiscite. "If
the vote is a close one," writes correspond
ent, there may be prolongment Of the
issue, with ugly possibilities" The contested
territory. rich in natural treasure, will not
be relinquished by either claimant without
protests and heartburnings. If the popular
will is expressed by pronounced plurality,
however, there will be scant justification for
further controversy.
These three issues-the Adriatic the Turk
ish and the Silesian questions-have long
caused much wrinkling of brows in the chan
cellories of Europe, and in their wide-reach-
ing ramifications have been serious men
ace to the stable relationships. Their settle
ment will mark substantial progress toward
a secure and prosperous order.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
The Seventh CUT of Tea

" VEN Falstaff, who avowed that If he
pie he should teach them would be
Ito forswear thin rotations and to addict
themselves to sack" even he would have
been converted to at least tasting of tea,
could he have heard it's praises sung by the
old Chinese poet in this wise:
THE first cup moistens my lips and
throat, the second up breaks my lone
illness, the third cup searches my bar
rem entrail but to find therein some five
thousand volumes of odd ideographs.
The fourth cup raises slight persp1ra-
tion-all the wrong OF life passes away
through my pores. At the fifth cup |
am purified; the sixth cup calls me to the
realms of immortals. The seventh cup
ali, but 1 could take no more! 1 only
feel the breath of cool wind that rises In
my sleeves. Where Is Horaisan? (Ely-
sum- Let me ride on this sweet breeze
and watt away thither.'
1t was in the Sixth century, while Euro
pean civilization was entering Its sad eclipse,
that China began drinking tea and writing
delightful poems about 1t. We robustious
OccidentaIs would do we'll to remember that
while our ancestors were sweeping barbar1ca1-
ly down upon decaying Rome and the dark
ages deepened apace, the Chinese were pros
pering in arts of which the world at large
then knew nothing or little, were painting
beautiful pictures building wondrous bridges,
doing admirable work as hydraulic engineers,
with gunpowder, proving
themselves original printers, cultivating ur-
bane and kindly manners producing grace
full literature, and slipping inspiration from
the seventh cup of tea.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19

N IRE. and dreadful will be the results
fer sport in the state of New York
should the New York legislature
adopt a bill introduced recently by AS
semblyman Frederick L. Hackenburc The
particular sport at which the bill is aimed is
racing, not merely automobile racing or
horse racing or bicycle racing but racing of
every conceivable kind and class
AS witness to the all-embracing character
Or the Dill is the fact that it names more than
three hundred and fifty animals which, by
the terms OF the bill, no man can pit, one
against the other, in a trial or speed for any
bet, stake1or reward. And not only races be-
tween animals are banned but races between
any mechanical devices, including automo-
b1les, roWboats, locomotives, street cars
steam-rollers threshing machines, riveting
machines milking machines and washing ma
chimes.
CHANGING over the list of animals which 20
more may be driven in heated contests around
the track,,<shou1d Mr.. Hackenburgs bill pass
one is struck with horror and with anxiety.
No more may the aard-vark or the auroch be
unleashed- to try their fleetness and stamina
against the lchneumon, the dormouse or the
narwhalN Those historic battles of speed be-
tween the armadillO and the aye-aye, between
the baboon and the bat, between the chip
munk and the gembok, the koodoo and the
muntJac the mouflon and the nigai, the
Vicuna and the yak, all must perish with the
passage of the Hackenburg bill Nor are
these a tenth Of the animals Hackenburg
would outlaw from the realm of sport. The
chevotain and the napus, the pace and the
star-nosed mole must no longer meet in those
epic trials drawing the attention of the whole
countryside on Saturday afternoons.
What, zone is bound to ASK will become OF
the great pengolin derbies in New York the
pengolin being one of the animals outlawed
by the bill? What of the millions sunk in
pengolin sstablese, pengolin trainers deprived
of a livelihood, the little pengolins bred for
blue-ribbon- careers in worthy tournament
against other pengolins? Likewise there is
a badger, the polar bear, the quagga, the
sloth and the, sperm whale-shall it be theil
racing days are over in New York state?
Surely from the highways and byways OF
Greater and Lesser New York, nay, from the
country at large, will go up a great cry OF
protest to Mr.. Hackenburg against his ruth
less measure. Surely he will heed it, for one
has a secret notion that Mr. Hackenburg is
- one of those Satire persons who do not be-
lieve in laws against racing-or other social
ed "blue-laws," for that matter-and. there
fore seek to undermine the battle of the
blues by ridicule.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
BY JACK PATTERSON
Important Announcement

The official announcement comes from
Washington that Democratic office-holders
are in no immediate danger of losing out,
but that is. no reason why they should not
be looking for other employment The
Brunswick News says:
"A cold chill has struck a vast army Of
would-be American patriots who hold patriot
ism in ratio to their ability to nail gov
eminent job. General Daugherty, who is re-
garded as spokesman for the White House,
announces that all Democratic office-holders
will be permitted to serve out their terms''
Still, the scramble for pie indicates a per-
sistent belief that there is to be an early dis
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Many man thinks he is choosing wife
when the privilege is all hers.
There are lots Of other things In this busy
world besides time and tide that wait for no
man.
It Is folly for man to marry woman
because she is good cook, unless he is will
ing and able to furnish the raw material.
The greatness of an egotist is IN his l.
Luxuries Of life are the things we don't
really need.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
Look Up-See Something

The best and surest way to bring prosper
ity back again is for everybody to believe
in it and talk about it.
Growing and bling does a lot OF
harm and no good. It produces nothing but
further cause for complaint.
The rays of the sun may be peeping
through the clouds that seek to obscure it,
but cannot see it as long as we keep
looking at the mud beneath our feet.
Look up and you will see something
Griffin News and Sun.
The News and Sun sounds the keynote
The person who never looks up will not see
anything worth while. Get out Of the ruts
and mud and roll along the smooth paved
highway
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
RECOGNIZING Agriculture

The time is fast approaching when the in
telligent will demand that agriculture be
eiven its proper place in the nations affairs
Before they do this, however, they must ed
ucate their fellow farmers and harvest from
their midst the demagogue and the office
seeker-Covington News.
There is much in this. There are men
who are now showing the way who know
nothing about "the way."-Augusta Chron-
icle.
Yes men and newspapers, too. But watch
the farmer come into his own in the near
future. ...z.....,..-.... q. --zl...I..-.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
Killing Fish

Following the announcement of Clyde Math-
ews, state game and fish commissioner, re-
Gently, that fish in several Georgia streams
were being killed by sawdust dumped from
mills along the banks, John R. Spence, of
Glynn, has written statement to the press in
which he asserts fish in the Chattahoochee
river are being destroyed by coal oil from
some large Atlanta corporation
Mr.. Spence requests shat the grand jury
of Fulton county have it's attention called to
the matter, and that Commissioner Mathews
take proper steps to prevent more powdered
coal oil being dumped into the river
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
Working Women.

The international session Of WORKING
women from most of the great nations, to
have been held in Geneva March 80, has been
postponed until fall, to conform to the meet
ing of the International Labor bureau, set
up by the League of Nations.
Although the United States is not a mem
Der Of the league. both president aud secre-
tary of the Working Women's congress are
Americans.
Primarily the things the next congress will
discuss are the S-hour law, child labor, ma
ternity insurance, night work, unemploy-
nent. immigration and the distribution OF
raw materials
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19

The price of eggs has gone up five cents
per dozen during the past week at York, S
c. Farmers there with eggs got twent!
cents dozen for them whereas last weel
they brought only Is cents dozen.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
American Oasis

Harry Lauder returned to England recent
ly after four years tour of the British en-
pire and America. He was asked If he got
drink in America. Yes he said, there's
no use telling lies And, he added, perhaps
typically, But you don't enjoy it when you
have to pay too much for it, you know. Fancy,
$25 for bottle Of SCOTCH"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19

Organizations for the relief of the starving
Chinese, the hard of hearing" and other
charities will suffer as result Of recent
ruling barring Sunday benefit performances
Of movie houses in Jersey City. 1t was in
timated that the Chinese and others didn't
get very large percentag Of the rcipts
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
Fallen Heroes

The bodies of 1909 American soldiers,
many of them members of the Thirtieth di-
vision, who died on the battlef1elds of France,
were formally received in New York Wednes-
day by their comrades who had returned A
ceremony of welcome, dignifed by the mill
tary ritual for the dead, was held at the army
transport docks, Hoboken, where the bodies
were landed from the transport Somme.
Major General Organ and his full staff
were in full attendance, prayers by chaplains
representing all faiths were offered and DR..
Herbert Shipman, former chaplain to the first
army, delivered a brief address.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
Around the World
Tri-Week1y News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Wants Names.

The governors council of Massachusetts
has directed tho bank commissioner to re-
port the names of all members of the legis-
lature who have notes in any of the five trust
companies in this city that have been closed
by the commissioner in recent months
1t has been charged on the floor of the
house of representatives in the past day or
two that certai- members borrowed money
in 1918 to buy stock of the Boston Elevated
railway in anticipation of the passage Of the
act which placed the road under public trus-
tees and guaranteed it's operating expenses.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
Woman Wins Again.

Miss Emily Draymond is the first woman tc
win the degree of doctor of music at OK
ford. She is member of the staff of the
Royal College of Music.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
Mice Again.

Mice nibbling at matches in the bar of the
Victoria hotel at reston, England, caused a
destructive fire. The guests escaped in their
night clothes, but two servants were severely
burned.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
Confesses Assassination

Ataneo Pedro Matea, an anarchist, has been
arrested in Madrid, and, according to the po-
lice, confessed to the assassination of Premier
Dato. He gave the names of alleged accom-
nlices
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
Balloon DESTROYED

An army observation balloon, eighty-fou
feet long, broke away from it's cables and wa
destroyed during a heavy hail and windstorr
which swept Camp Benning late Thursday
The hangar also was demolished. Hundred
of trees were uprooted and many houses an
tents overturned and damaged.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19

Hearing that some work was hand, an
unemployed man make up his mind to start
without being properly engaged
Therefore, in the morning, he took his pick
and shovel and jumped into the trench with
the others.
When the timekeoper came along to take
the mems numbers he said:
whats your NUMBER"
"Oh," answered the man, tthey never gave
me one"
''Who started you?" asked the timekeeper
'That man over there" was the answer
pointing to one, who happened to be the fore
man, standing some distance away.
The timekeeper went off grumbling and in
about ten minutes returned with number
for the man who had CHANGED it,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-19
Mercgzon Us, Mr.. Hackenburo!

IRE. and dreadful will be the results
for sport in the state of New York
should the New York legislature
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-11
Dining-ROom Suits

Chinese Chippendale suit,
richly carved and nodded, chairs
upholstered in blue haircloth, ma
hogany in antique finish; ten
pieces, 1896.
Chippendale suit in American
walnut, chairs upholstered in tap
estry; ten pieces, $40.
Sheraton suit in antique-fnish
mahogany, oval table, chairs GOV
cred with haircloth; ten pieces.
$765.
Heppelwhite suit in mahogany,
oval extension table, chairs up
holstcrcd in haircloth; ten pieces,
1926.
Mahogany Sheraton suit, ten
pieces, S465.