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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
Food. Feed and Fertility

-OOD, feed and fertility first is the
II slogan for farming policy for the
south in 1921 suggested by the
Progressive Farmer, one OF the leading ag-
ricultural journals of the nation.
The Progressive Farmer has reached this
motto not on snap Judgment, but through a
careful symposium of the views OF thousands
of southern farmers who have written to
the magazine their ideas on the farm sltua-
ton this year.
Collaborating this slogan, the Progressive
Farmer outlines a good farming platform
vhich all tillers of the soil will do well to
read and study 1t contains five chief planks,
stated as follows:
First-We will join our brother farmers
in marketing our crops so as to nave voice
N pricing our products as all other mous-
tries have.
Second-We will not plant, hoe, cultivate,
nick and gin 100000 or 100000 bales of
cotton for nothing. We will not plant acre
age to produce 100000 bales when o.
100000 or 100000 bales would bring us
lust as much money.
Third-We resolve right now that we will
never again let cotton be child-labor and
Woman-labor crop. We have kept our chill
dren out of school to make cotton with no
result except to increase the crop SO as to
knock out all profits Put the child in
pIus an education for the child. Put the
child in the cotton patch and it means low
priced cotton and ignorance for our children
to boot.
Fourth-While we are reducing our work
on cotton we will put ourselves in position
to live better than ever before, resolving to
have homemade bread, meat, milk, butter,
vegetables, fruits, canned goods, chickens
eggs, watermelons, syrup, and honey, not
merely one year while cotton is low, but
henceforth and forever.
Fifth-In addition to taking more land for
the products just mentioned, we will plant
an increased acreage in peas, soy beans,
velvet beans, clover, rye, and vetch, so as to
have richer lands to use and smaller fertili-
ger bills to pay when cotton again reaches
fair price.
Here, stated most clearly and forcefully, is
a creed for southern farmers by which they
may order their business during the coming
year. Lived up to, it means prosperity not
only for the present, but for as long as they
carry out its tenets.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
WHO WILL MOVE FIRST?
BV DR.. Frank Crane

Baron Lee, First Lord of the Admiralty of
the British Empire who is the same Lieuten-
ant Colonel Arthur Lee who was military at
tache in Washington in the late nineties,
made a significant speech the other evening
at a dinner given by the Institute of Naval
Architects in London.
eff America invites Great Britain to a
conference he said, 'to come to agree
ment the naval question, l am prepared
to put aside all other business in order to
he that matter forward, for there can be
no more pressing business in the affairs of
the world"
at is hard to believe" he continued, that
those who were fighting side by side to save
civilization are now going to build navies
against each other, if for no other reason
because it would be SO ridiculous and so
silly"
l quote this because it is ouck a joy to
find one of the High and Mighty breaking
out and talking horse sense.
Sometimes we get wholly discouraged see
ing that Presidents, Senators, Prime Min
listers and Editors continue to fill their
mouths with sawdust, i e., to talk of any
thing else than the One Thing that the world
and every nation therein need. which is to
Disarm.
In world bankrupt, morally collapsed
smitten with famine here and folly there, on
account of war, that statesmen should nesl-
tate one moment to put aside the implement
and cause of their ruin, would seem to ar
que a world gone mad.
Il join issue,'' said the Baron, with those
who say we should not discuss the question
of hOstiities between the two great English
speaking nations. This is a subject about
which we Jught to be thinking, thinking day
and night, with the fixed intention of max
ing it impossible.
From my seat, away up in the gallery in
the back row, I rise and yell as loudly as
[ can, "Hurrah!"
"The only point to be settled" he also
said, 'is w is to make the first move
That is easy. The Gentleman, of course
always makes the first move. That nation
that is the strongest-hearted. surest of itself,
and most conscious of nobility, will make
the first move. 1t is always so. The great
are quick to trust, the petty hesitate.
Meanwhile what words of scorn and con-
tempt are strong enough to characterize
those miscreants who cease not to busy
themselves sowing the seeds of hate ana
suspicion. which, when they have matured'
bear the hideous and deadly fruit of war?
(Copyright 1921, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
The Farm Market Meeting

FARMERS all over the south, especially
should be vitality interested in the
meeting called for April 26 in Atlanta OF
repl esentatlVes of all farmers organizations,
representatives of the federal nd state de-
partments of agriculture and or every agri-
cultural school in the cotton "a sing belt for
the specific purpose of considering the
adoption of plans for the orderly mark e,ing
of the cotton crop.
Many attempts nave been made to estab-
lish marketing methods that would be bene-
fetal to every cotton planter but so far all
of these plans have fallen short of meeting
the needs of the farmer, and 1t is to be hoped
that out OF a multitude of counsel at the
April meeting, there will be evolved sys-
tenn that will bring to the cotton raiser just
return for his honest effort.
No selfish plan of few individual, or OF
any one organization will suffice, lut every
idea advanced should be given thorough con-
sideration and its best features incorporated
in composite plan tina, it will have for its
fundamental principle the advancement of
the agricultural industry in the Youth.
Invitations to attend the meeting are to
be extended to everybody connected with
agriculture in the sOIth. President James
H. Howard of the American arm Bureau
Federation will preside at the meeting, and
it is said that several of the experts of this
organization will be present to advise with
the cotton planters.
The farmers of Dixie have announced their
wish to market their cotton in an orderly
way, and it is to be hoped that they will at
tend the meeting in April, for out of it there
may be born plan nat will enable them to
accomplish this wish. and to increase the
prosperity of themselves, the Southland, and
the whole cou' try.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
Ho, for the South Seas!

YUST as in children blooms the everlast-
in love of fairyland SO in the hearts
y of millions of adult Americans persists
a longing for far places, the romance of alien
lands they may never travel, the lure of tropic
sunsets they may never see.
Styles in this yearning for the unattanable
appear to change with the seasons even as the
matter of clothes. But yesterday it was
Alaska and the great northwest that held the
reading public in it's grip. Before that it was
fanciful Kingdoms of middle Europe The
American wild west, with it's ranches and it's
cowboys and it's Cripple Creeks, had run of
popularity that has never entirely stopped
Kiplings India, Central American revolu-
tons, South African veldt tales all enjoyed
their cycle of favor.
Today it is the South Seas that claim the
spotlight They have provided the setting for
the years leading novels, the years best-sell-
ing book Of non-fctiOn, of the most
popular of recent motion pictures. They are
even supporting a monthly magazine devoted
almost exclusively to pictures articles and
stories Of Papeete, Tahiti, sea captains, copra
traders, beach-COmbers, shipwreck, moonlight
and winds in signing palm trees.
Where are the people whose patronage
makes such popularity possible? Tourists
seeking information of trips they plan? Re-
tired sailors who would live again their crowd
ed hours in hot and spicy ports? Relatives
of foreign missionaries who seek further
knowledge anent the cannibals being convert
ed by Uncle Charlie? One doubts it. No.
the lover of the South Seas, it's literature and
is pictures, is the same who once devOured the
tales of the princess of Ruritana, the same
who gloried in the Alaskan poems of Robert
w. Service. Perhaps some school girl who
has never been farther away than the railroad
station Of her native town; perhaps some city
strangled clerk without even railroad fare
enough for a vacation at the seashore; per-
haps some tired business with no more
notion of actual South Sea travel than he has
Of flying to the moon.
Never shall it be theirs, perhaps, to know
the smash OF seas against the bows of a
tramp steamer, the trade winds of the Pa
ciic warm against their cheeks; the glory
Of the Southern Cross riding high in black
and velvet skies. Yet they plunge into their
vicarious vagabondage with all the zest OF
fve-year-olds accompanying Alice down the
rabbit hole into Wonderland.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY JACK PATTERSON
Farming in Southwest Georgia

Conditions down in what Editor Henry M.
Mcintosh has long been pleased to designate
Goods country" are not as encouraging as
they have been in the past, according to the
subjoined paragraph from the Albany Herald:
Farming operations throughout southwest
Georgia are fairly well advanced and are
moving along satisfactorily so far as physi-
cal appearances indicate Farmers have been
a little undecided in pitching their crops, due
to unsettled conditions with reference to the
markets for their commodities. They really
don't know what to expect. Market condi-
tons generally seem to have been conspiring
against them recently, and the one who puts
in big crop of any one thing is taking about
the same chance that the card player takes
when he sits down to game of poker. The
safest policy seems to be to first make sure
Of ample food crops including hogs for meat,
and then take whatever chances there may
be in cotton, peanuts or other money crops. ="
What is true in southwest Georgia is true
in other sections of the state. The farmers
are undecided, but hopeful.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
OUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Smith and Jones were personal friends
one day Smith took personal friends Ii
ty and said to Jones:
"You mustn't take offense if | speak
you about something l lave had on my n
for some time-just little habit of you
Certainly not" responded Jones.
Nobody has ever had the nerve to
you before" Smith continued in hesita
sort of voice, land you are such a splen
noble fellow
eyes, yes" answered Jones'
Smith cleared his throat; then, with G.
determination, -s-unched out:
you're one of those fellows who nj
really know what is being said to tn
you're always pursuing some Grain
thought. Any one can tell half the time
are not listening by the faraway lool
your eyes. You've Offended d lot of PEG
Of course, it's terribly rude only you
know it. You mustn't any more, old CHI
putting his hands OH Jones , should
Promise me you'll not"
Jones was then Obliged to face his frier
Gust what were you saying?" he iLqui
in faraWay voice. ,.,.,,.-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
England u, Foreign Relief

Vt is easy to get the impression in Amer
ica with the many campaigns and
''drives'' carried on for foreign relief
that this country stands alone in the worlds
work of caring for the stricken.
While, in a measure, it is true that the
United States LEAD, all nations in such phil
anthropies, We must not forget that we are
by no means alone in gener ,sity. England
for one, has ven literally in the recent
movement to help the starving babies of Cen
trail Europe. Last year the English Society
of Friends sent into Austria, Germany, Po-
land and Russia 3,440 tons Of goods valued
at half million pounds, or nearly two mil
lion dollars. England's Save the Children
Fund also allocated last year the sum OF
611OOO pounds for RELIEF work, the majority
soing to Vienna. Another worthy effort was
the care of children taken from stricken
countries. More than a thousand such were
adopted N England last year. Still another
unselfish charity of Eng and's has been to aid
in feeding students at German universities
Englands helping hand EXTENDED to her
whilom foes is all the more worthy because.
stole in her pride, the world little realizes
how much she suffered from the war. With
England it was not question or sons De-
tween Fl and 81 going away for two years.
but of fathers and sons together departing,
many of the former losing their great oppor-
tunity for education and advancement over a
period of five years, their families suffering
a double loss of income.
Thus EngIanu's struggle to return to
normally has been harder than the passing
reader often knows. Her first sympathy, say
London dispatches, has been for her own
people, to prop up her own impoverished
families, help her own ex-servlce men pro
vide for her own unemployed. let, with
it all, she has been next to America in pro-
viding for the unfortunates Of the Central
Empires.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
Burke County's Good Example
1T is peculiarly significant nd cheer
| ing that Burke county, known h1th-

TT is peculiarly significant nd cheer
| ing that Burke county, known hlth-
l. erto as the largest cotton grower in
Georgia. has set about preparing for leader
ship in the production of foOdstufts" A group
of the countrys forward-thinking business
men has organized a stock company and
built grain elevator to care for the tens OF
thousands of bushels of corn, peas beans and
like products which are to be raised on acres
once monopolized by cotton Moreover, lib
eral attention will be given to animal hus-
bandry, crops being planted with view to
feeding hogs and cattle not only for home con-
sumption but also for sales to packing houses.
The result it is reasonable to expect, will be
more of independence and prosperity than
Burke county, for all it's rich traditions, ever
knew under the old one-crop regime.
Of all who have labored to bring this hap
nv change to pass, none has given more i'm
portant aid than the business men who pro-
yided the grain elevator and pledged their CO.
operation to the farmers in marketing other
food products Without such facilities the
transition from an Unbalanced and precarlous
system of agriculture to one we'll diversified
and progressively scientific is next to impos-
sible Cotton has been grown to the impov-
erishment of the soil and the exclusion of
more profitable crops, not so much because
farmers were unwilling to change as for the
reason that cotton was the only crop which
could be converted readily into cash or used
as collateral for credit. Hence the fundamen-
tai need of grain elevators, potato houses,
canning plants, packing industries and other
such services. No duty of the States business
and civic leaders is more urgent at this juno
ture. when the future is being sown for good
times or bad, than that of providing 2de-
quate Critics for marketing the food
products of Georgia farms.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
Around the World
Tri-WeekIy NewS Flashes From All Over
the Earth.


Historic Gift
Governor Dorsey has offered the bow plates
of the battleship Georgia to Mayor Murray
Stewart of the city of Savannah if he would
like to have them and find appro-
pirate place to place them on display.
The bow plates were presented to the gov
ernor by the secretary of the navy early in
the war when the fighting ships Of the United
States navy were stripped for action.
Governor Dorsey offered the bow plates
as a county prize in one two Liberty loan
campaigns but no county ever claimed them.
He offered them then to Mayor Key of At
lanta, but the mayor could find no appro-
pirate place to display them, and declined
the offer with thanks.
1t occurred to the governor that Mayor
Stewart, of Savannah, might be able to find
an appropriate place for the display of the
bow plates, inasmuch as Savannah is sea-
port city
The governor is awaiting Mayor Stewards
reply.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
REFLECTION

The day is done.
The sun has dipped below
Horizons gray
That rim tn western sky,
Yet, nigh above,
The ;olden after glow
Still lights the earth,
Though night is drawing nigh.
When earth grows dark
I'll turn my face away,
And in the east
Will see the rising moon;
And lind reflected there
The light of day,
More beautiful to me
Than glazing noon.
The sun of love
Must some day dip below
Horizons gray
That rim the evening sky,
Yet, frcr" the heart,
Loves golden after glow
Will lght the soul,
Though death be drawing nigh.
When life is done
The spirit, spurning clay,
Will face the east
TC watch the rising moon;
And ind reflecte there
Eternal Day,
More BE- .utiful By far
Than earthly noon.
JOHN WINGFIELD GATEWOOD
Ga.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
Molten Metal

Five men are dead and three missing,
buried under many feet of molten metal, and
white hot bricks as the result of a blast tur-
mace slip at the Steeton plant of the Beth
lehem Steel company.
The force of the explosion blew hole in
the side of the furance, letting out the molten
metal. Scores of women flocked to the OIL
fees of the plant in a frenzy Of fear that rela-
tives NAV have been in the accident
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
Chicago Opera

Control of the Chicago Opera company has
passed out of the hands of a small group Of
wealthy persons into the hands of 500 bust
ness men, each of who1 has underwritten
$1,000 as a guarantee of expenses. George
M. Spangl / was formally appointed business
manager Of the company when the arrange
ment was completed
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
From the Sea

Fishermen returning from Quintana Beach
near Velasco, Texas, reported the ARRIVAL upon
the coast of thousands of tons OF fresh asphalt,
borne upon the waves of the Gulf. Blanket
like strips of twenty-five to fifty feet in length
and varying thickness up to several feet nave
been cast up along several miles of the beach,
they reported .D.. .5-4.-,- --
II, J. Parks, one of the fishermen, expe-
rienced difficulty in making his way through
the surf to shore after the first strip OF as
phalt had bowled him over.
The temperature of the asphalt indicated
it's origin was close to the coast, according to
the fishermen. The beach for stretch or
approximately ten miles has taken on the
characteristics of motor speedway.
The phenomenon of asphalt appearing in
the beach surf revives stories told many years
ago by coast residents of similar occurrences
long before the discovery of the Tampico Oil
fields The surmise has been advanced in the
past that the asphalt originated from some
section of the bottom of the gulf through an
earth disturbance causing emissions of the
substance from an underlying deposit.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
Bomb ExpIOdeS

A bomb explosion took place in the Diana
theater at Milan, Italy, 20 persons being kill
ed, according to dispatch to the London
Times from that city. Many were injured at
least twenty of whom are not expected to
survive.
Police believe that the outrage was the
work of anarchists as a protest against Mala-
testa's imprisonment.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
New State

The Tennessee senate has adopted reso-
fulton by Senator Louis Bejach, of Memphis,
calling for the creation of 4 new state to be
composed of territory west of the Tennessee
river and to be called the state of West Ten
nessee.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29

President Harding thinks people "want too
much of the government" And most of us
think cat income tax tme) that the govern
ment wants too much OF the people!-Flnt
(Mich.) Journal.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29

Formerly it was the custom for the army
or navy to assign physician to the presi-
dent. Now the president assigns his physician
to the army or nayy.-St. Louis Star.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29

In this country, it has been said of office
holders, Few die and none resign" In
Ireland, it's Few don't die and none re-
sign."-Greenville Is. CO. Piedmont.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
German ARMY

The German army bill abolishing conscrip-
ton and fixing the strength of the army at
100000 men and of the navy at $1,000 men,
has passed the Reichstag. The Independent
Socialists and Communists voted against the
measure
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29

boat. This girl now-ain't she fine? I
never have the good luck to fi,d her myself.
she make me veree good wife. My father
he know-he pick her OUT
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29

Miss Mol1ie Carroll, the actress who flew
over the BIRTHS; embassy, dropping leaflets
of protest ab)u. Ireland, said at a Washing
ton dinner party: Poor Ireland! I know
an irish boy nameI Mike Shane who immi-
grated into america last month. When he
reached here the immigration officer started
to question him. Where do you come FROM?
he says. 4 come from Balybunion says
Mike. 'BallybLnon,' says the immigration
officer. And what state is Ballybunon in?'
Faith, sor,' says Mike she's in horrible
state. That'T why immigrated.' E"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
One Cent Check

Harry See, manager of produce company
at Kirksvile, Mo-, has just received a check
for cent from the United States government.
Accompanying the check was quarter
worth of reading matter to indicate that a
score of clerks at Washington spent several
days making out the check, auditing it and
entering it in score of books reserved for
that purpose.
See says some time ago he purchased a
fleece of wool after he had ceased acting as
purchasing agent for firm that had special
permit. He turned it over to G. B. Matthews
who had buying permit. In making his re-
port Matthews told of buying the fleece from
See and the latter got the rebate of 1 cent
that had been charged on the deal.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
Discovers MicrObe

Dr. King, head of the state bacteriologi
cal laboratory at Stockholm, Sweden, is re
ported to have discovered the microbe O.
sleeping sickness" and to have established
that the disease is infectious. DIR. King in
oculated rabbits with brain matter from per
sons who died of the disease.