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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-10-13

Another "Put and Take" craze Is
putting on the heayies and taking
them OF.
Mexico is SO quiet you can hear
a good fight two blocks away.
A small boy can't see why they
cali it heaven when the big IRE 1s
elsewhere.
"Reformers Try 70 Stop smok-
ing"-headline. Takes will power.
In these days the best slogan is
Safety Thirst"
Are you broke, or did you have
your winter coal charged? i.
The modern women's magazine
has more beauty hints than cook
ing hints.
Darwin be hanged! The closest
animal to man is the bed bug!
when money talks 1T counts.
a company is known by the man
It keeps.
"Tax Measure Held SUp"-head.
line. Teaching It how tosact.
Columbus wisdom was shown
on ais first trip. he stayed out
side the three-mile limit.
The height Of pollteness IS to
get of street car and give q lady
your standing room:
All-nIght movie5ymight solve the
housing shortage problem.
Lots Of, men are scared by the
OF doubt,
Battleships are floating debts.
IT'S easy TO meet expenses; the
trouble iB lodging them.
WIDEN the crack in the Liberty
Bell.
Among things raised IN dtygrsi.
lied farming q hopeg.
Girls looking for % ! Inns hand had.
bgttsr boz careful Whoge huSband
they get K sA
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-19
THE TARANTULA
BY DR.. Frank Crane

There is a certain idea in industry which
Mr.. George w. Human compared to the bite
Of the tarantula.
"It poisons common sense" he says. "par-
alyzes reason and makes impossible any
sober judgment in business negotiations be-
tween labor and capital
The idea to which he refers is that the
whole value of product is created by labor
and therefore should belong to labor 1t is
a common and old delusion.
1t is probably violent reaction against
the still older delusion that labor had no
rights at all and only existed on the charity
OF the employer. One of these ideas is
about as bad as the other.
Bolshevism is at present the most conspic-
uous example of the effect of the tarantula
bite upon a whole nation.
In fact the underlying idea of Bolshevisn
is practically just this: that labor is the sole
producer of values.
1t was given a certain amount of mystical
prestige by the confused writings of Karl
Marx.
In fact, it is a curious phenomenon that
an idea does not have to be clear in order
to be Influential. Not one man in ten thou
sand has ever read the works of Marx and
few understand what he is driving at.
Everybody today is talking about the Elm
stein theory, and you would have hard work
to find anybody who understands it, even if
you were armed with search warrant
But this peculiar idea that the whole prod
uct Of industry should belong to labor is
admirably adapted to the natural envy Of
mankind, and the soap-boX orators and pro-
fessional revolutionists find it very handy.
AS a matter of fact, the value of product
is not due entirely to the laborer He is
only one of the factors. On frontier farm
or in a condition of savagery he might be
pick civilization other factors enter.
Brains or managerial ability capital or
proper TOOLS and the cooperation of society,
all have to do with the producing of values.
And when you strip production down to
bare labor you reduce it to barbarism.
1t would lead everywhere to the same end
| it has reached in Russia. For the hand work
ers would not be satisfied with any wages,
no matter how high, as Mr.. Human points
out The whole product being theirs by
rights, anything less means that part of their
compensation has been withheld-stolen by
a manager, employer, or capitalist.
Intelligent and experienced labor leaders
| know the fallacy of this proposition. 1t is
only small fringe of madmen who have
| been bitten by the tarantula and will be sat
| isfied with nothing else than the destruction
| of a civilization where any one can make
| more profits than another.
Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-19
4 Nation With Nauqht to Sell

A international example of the. age
~ old problem of leading a horse to
water but not being able to make him
drink appears Ill the utter failure of eff
forts to esta blsh commerce between Italy
and hussia-and there was the added COM
plication, in this instance, of no water to be
drunk.
AS a country of marked industrial de-
velopment but of deficiency in certain i'm
portant raw materials, Italy of course was
disposed to trade with Russia, which
abounds in the required natural resources
So it was that in early spring a Bohsevist
mission arrived at Rome and preparations
interchange of Italian products and Russian
materials.
But alas for the hopes involved. After
more than four months of the experiment
the sum of Russian sales to Italy was some
thirty thousand dollars, and that for sim
gle shipment of hides, whereas trade
amounting to millions had been contemplate
ed. The Bolshevist mission has closed it's
idle quarters and gone home to Lenne-a
stark failure. Well does an observer of the
incident comment: "Tnose who think the
policy Of the United States toward Russia
is responsible for Russian prostration have
their answer in the Italian situation, show
ing that Russia has nothing TO SELL
Natural wealth she has in teeming rich
ness, hut no Government under which it
can be securely brought forth and poured
into the waiting markets of tie void no
prise, no guaranty of fair dealing for for
elgn credit and investment. Is it to be
'Jondered that despite her vast treasures of
mine and soil and forest, Russia is bank
rupt with nothing to SELL" although her
materials are in wide demand and her need
has Frustrated her. When she purges
away that ill., she can recover economically.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-19

paper mills are located in the East. In some
cases, if this comes to pass, the Pacific coast
would be the worst sufferer because the
manufactured paper would have to be shipped
back across the continent with additional
freight rates piling up.
The Smell measure is designed to meet this
situation in all of its angles 1t calls for
an appropriation of about $40, 100000 annu-
ally for putting the otherwise useless ST.,
100000 acres Of American land to work
growing trees. There is also provision for
fighting forest fires, so that the labor of
years would not be wiped out by single
great wave of flame sweeping through the
woods.
The United States used to be independent
with regard to newsprint, but within the past
10 years the consumption has exceeded the
home supply. Canada is stepping into the
breach, and now operates 80 paper and pulp
mills, with an aggregate production of 2,100
tons of neWsprint paper daily. Roughly, SO
per cent of this production is available for
export. America in it's present plight de-
ponds on Canada for about one-third of all
the supplies it requires of paper, wood, and
pulp.
Lumber Tariff Harmful
To complcate the situation, the pending
permanent tariff bill provides for tariff on
lumber, and this the American Forestry Asso-
citation is making every effort to combat
Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the or
organization and sent them to President
Harding for his consideration.
In this statement it is pointed out that
the country is believed to be in need of at
least a million additional homes and that
quite as many if not more farm buildings
are needed and awaiting erection. Any tariff
on lumber, Mr.. Pack said, would add to the
cost of this construction, and would result in
serious delay in solving the housing problem
and the equally important problem of pro-
vidng adequate agricultural buildings.
BY the tariff, it is urged, the cost of paper
to newspapers and magazines, the great me-
diums of education throughout the country
would be materially affected, and in many
cases it would mean the curtailment o. sus-
pension of highly necessary publications.
1t is urged also that putting tariff on
ally, as it would be restricting the use of
natural resources of other nations at time
when the United States is badly in need of
them, it's own resources of similar char
acter are being exhausted at an alarming
rate through constant use of them.
By making imported wood more expensive,
it is pointed out in conclusion, the demand
on the fast failing domestic supply would be
increased considerably, and this would be
false economy of a glazing sort.
Summed up, students of the forestry sit
uation see very gloomy future for future
generations unless immediate and wise legis-
Iative steps are taken now for perpetuating
American forests forever.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-19
THE ATLANTA TRI.wEEKLY JOURNAL.

hemisphere, Washington can take no eXcep-
tons if Tokyo treats sauce for the goose as
sauce for the gander Nor is it to be won
dered that Japan is cautious at a moment
when her compact with Britain, though con-
tinung temporarily in effect, has not been
renewed, and when moreover the Lansing
Ishi agreement, while not actually repu
dated by the Harding administration, prob
ably will be ignored by it. In this shadow Of
isolation, is it not natural that she should
be wary?
But all this need not initiate against the
usefulness of the disarmament conference
For with nations as with men, there is no
)etter way to clarity doubts, relieve anxieties
and prevent misunderstanding than to take
counsel fully and frankly together. An ear
nest effort to arrive at a common agreement
Tor limiting hostile preparation and for lift
.ng the burden of vast ornaments from the
backs of the people, will of itself make for
good will.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-19
Why Blame Prof. E;nste;,,

~ ETURNING TO Europe after his brief
* sojourn in America, Professor Albert
Einsten is interviewed by a Dutch re-
porter and is quoted in comment not alto
gether commendatory Of the United States.
Straightway his remarks are pounced upon
by any number of newspapers and he is
treated in print far more unkindly than he
appears to have treated us.
Such an attitude appears far too typi-
cal of the American mind. We resent
anything, no matter how truthful, that say
ors of criticism. What the professor said
was that America treated his theory of rea-
tivity pretty much as a fad and a sensation
and that few people really understood the
theory or even cared to understand it.
1t may be that Einstein is wrong in this
conclusion. 1t may be, as some aver, that
there are many American students who took
pains to understand the theory of RELATIVELY
and who do understand it, If so, it is I'M
fortunate that the professor should have mis-
judged us. Yet, so far as the genera public
is concerned, the professor appears to have
been right One man out of a hundred
perhaps more-Who heard of the Einstein
theory, knew what it was, careu to
know. Granting that to be true laying
aside the question of whether any one should
be censured for such an attitude, the point
remains that Professor Einstein merely
stated fact.
Why, then, should he be criticized?
foreign country, was feted and dined
and made much of, is he to smother all but
pleasant impressions and keep all frank and
honest opinion dark? Must he indulge in
nothing but superlatives about America, and
say not one word that could be construed
as rejecting on our intelligence, our infinite
wisdom, our SURPRISING genius? Surely our
feelings are not so childish.
And yet the resentment against Mr.. Elm
STEMS interview would appear to be based
on nothing more reasonable than that
he gave honest one. He came and
saw us and then went home and talked about
us. What he said makes no difference He
said something! Whether it was true or not
is beside the mark. 1t wasn't nice! So he is
asked to apologize.
An honest difference of opinion with Mr..
Einstein would not be out of order. But to
flay him for no other cause than that he
criticized Americans, is to bespeak such in
ordinate vanity as should make us ashamed
of ourselves. Sweet words and kindly COM
pliments may be luscious diet, but progress
comes from sterner stuff. Patriotism and
pride easily become SNUG snobbery if they
are carried too far. Einstein or any other
critic should be given interest and attention
rather than hCt denial, provided their criti-
cisms be sincere.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-19
.Taban and Disarmament

TAPAN'S present wish to exclude from dis
cussion at the forthcoming disarmament
- conference specific Far Eastern affairs
should be serious obstacle to the sue
cess of that important parley.-All manner of
particular questions, difficult and delicate
may arise, one way another, in consider
ing SO wide-flung a problem as the limitation
Of navies and armies throughout the world.
But if there be sincere effort to agree and
cooperate in the larger issues, will not the
smaller take care of themselves?
In accepting Fundamentally" the invi-
tation to a disarmament conference" the
Japanese Premier declares, 81 am confident
that much good will result from the proposed
gathering of nations, and in particular for
the friendship between Japan and America.
The Japanese Government will spare no eff
fort to help toward the success of this epoch
marking conference. That spirit prevailing
and translating itself into acts, there should
be results of historic and high value to the
cause Of world peace hOWsOever perpleXing
at times specific questions may become.
Japan's sensitiveness on matters within
her immediate sphere of interest and influ-
ence can he easily understood by the nation
that promulgated the Monroe Doctrine.
Surely, after all that said in the UnNsd
States Senate when the Versailles CovenaSS
was under discussion there, after all the inA
sistence upon Americas peculiar and never
to be questioned privileges in the Western
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-19
Summer Women
BY DOROTHY DIX

are permanently lost but do not stay until
your man has bought patent dishWasher
and learned to do without you.
5. Write to your husband now and tnen
a letter that is full of love and apprec1a-
ton, and tnat doesn't end up with re-
quest for check. 1t is harder for
camel to go through the eye of needle
than it is for man to keep up a romantic
love for a woman who is chief of a hold
up gang.
6. If you still retain your girl1sh hgure
and shake a wicked foot in the dance look
we'll to your reputation, for the old cats
who sit upon the hotel galleries and knit
will snatch it from you and rend it into
tatters, and the mothers of homely daugh-
ters who paper the walls will despitefuly
use you.
Therefore yield not to filtration when it
tempts you to try to see if your eyes have
lot their come-on-look, and say "Get thee
behind me, Satan," to youths with silk hair
and under-slung cars who murmur about
the moon being fair and knowing a road
house where you can still get it. For what
profteth it to a woman to listen to little
love making if thereby she loses her meal
ticket?
6. AS you have children, be merciful. 1t
is within your power to destroy the peace
and comfort, and break the rest of all with
in ear shot of your progeny. Reflect that
to others the voice f your babe raised in
walls in the night time is not music as it is
to you. Nor do the people who room on
either side Of you perceive humor in the
cunning pillow fights at 6 a. m. in which
your high spirited youngsters indulge with
shouts of glee. Therefore suppress your
youngsters and take them apart to play, and
SO shall people arise and bless your name.
8. Sit not down to the bridge table with
strange women unless you are canny with
the cards, or have the price. Verify many
woman telegraphs home for money after
having engaged with a saintly-faced, white
haired lady who shears lambs all the sum-
mer in order to live all the winter.
9. Put guard on your tongue. Shut
your teeth even as you were afflicted with
lock jaw in that hour when women let
down their back hair together and the flood
gates of speech are open. To none tell your
middle name, or the story of your life, or
reveal your husband, peculiarities, for the
things we divulge in a moment Of confidence
we repent in sack-cloth and ashes.
10. Return to your home gladly. For
to a woman it is we'll to go on vacation,
and better to get back, and two weeks
holiday is equivalent to getting a new hus-
band, and having the old house refurnSshed
and done over.
Copyright, 1921 by the Wheeler Syndi-
Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-19

1. Take holiday, no matte? how much
you think you can't. Grid up your straight
front, and take purse and scrip, and journey
to some place as different as you can find
from your regular abiding place. Even the
beasts of burden entitled to a respite
from their labors, and no housewife can
find rest in her own home though she seek
it with search warrant and with tears.
Even the butcher, and the baker, and the
ice man, and the laundry boy will be ham,
mering on her door, and the cry of
"M-o-e-ther" will never be out of her ears,
and her husband will be asking "Where is
the tack hammer and my clean shirt?"
And the daughters crying out! please put
a new rutTle my blouse" and the sons
demanding to have a razor crease pressed
in their trousers. And there will be no
peace for her under her own roof.
And the nerves of the woman who has
prepared 1895 regular meals, and Heaven
knows how many extra ones in a twelve
month and who has washed Titles faces
million times, and picked up bushels of
cigar stubs and tons of newspapers need to
be ironed out. Also her temper requires to
be soothed and the ache in her back as
suaged, and there is Balm of Gilead for her
only in spots atar from her family.
2. When you take your vacation go not
with the partner of your bosom. Reflect
that in a twelve month husband and wife
tell each other everything they know, and
they weary of each others jokes and stories,
dAu USCOA1C SO UOISu IudI Lu6y dlS I'll Nv Gil
to fighting in order to prevent themselves
from yaWning in each others faces.
Therefore go east if your husband goes
west or vice versa, and when you come to-
gether again you shall be as interesting to
each other as strangers, full of new tales.
5. Perhaps your husbands business is
such that he can not leave it even for
short trip to the sea shore or mountain. All
the vacation he can get is being free from
you and the children TO little while, and
getting out Of the domestic grind while you
are away. Do not spoil his little holiday by
writing him to be sure to take in the milk
and put out the cat and not to forget to
water the flower boxes, and to send you by
parcel post about a million things you for
got. Remember that the family goat has a
right to his hour of freedom, and the paa
tient OK that treads out the corn to slip
his yoke, now and then.
4. Remember that absence makes the
heart grow fonder if administered in home
opathic doses, but that given in heroic
Quantity it kills the need of love. There
fore so time your stay that you will remain
until all the dishes are soiled, and stacked
in the sink and no clean towels or sheets
are to be had, and hubbys shirts and ties
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-19
SMILE AWHILE

Swat the "I'' specialist.
All favor disarmament.
Congress is own to brass tax.
It's from hot wave to wild wave.
Speeding autos cast their shadows behind.
Revised: There are always rooms at top
prices.
cheap.
These are the days when the poor freezing
Eskimo gets little pity.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-19
Argentine Kicks

Considerable agitation is developing with
in the Argentianian congress in favor of fix
ing minimum price on meat to be exported
from the country as means of protecting
the cattle industry.
Deputy Palma accuses the American pack
ing houses of controlling the Argentine meat
industry, which is 81 per cent of the worlds
supply, declaring that the Swift Argentine
company paid a dividend of 60 per cent last
year, and that other concerns cleared as high
as 80 per cent.
Heads of American packing establishment.
here. however, deny Palma's accusations, and
say that their dividends have not been abave
norman.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-19
The Woman C;t;zensh;b Bin

bill of which Senator ]. H. Boykin,
of the Twenty district, is au-
thor, recognizing the political rights
of Georgia women, under the Nineteenth
amendment to the Federal Constitution, and
removing their civil disabilities, is so OBJ
Viously proper and needful that it should be
enacted without delay.
AS matter of just eXpediency and with
the consent of those concerned the measure
as first drawn has been altered in two de-
tails. The original draft provided that
women, in the exercise of their Constitu-
tional rights should be permitted to vote
in all elections, hold office, and also serve on
juries and perform military duty. The two
latter provisions have been eliminated as
impracticable and unessential. eve mag
inc, however, that if a newly enabled citi-
Zen bordering her rights and obligations,
should feel constrained by conscience, to
perform military duty, special means there
to could be DEVISED; nor is it likely that
grave hostilities would be suffered to de-
velop in the matter of jury service.)
The pending bill is designed simply to
conform State practice to national law, and
in that aspect is really not debatable. It's
early passage is taken for granted.
A teacher in an English school was calling
over the names of his scholars in order to
ascertain which of them were likely to leave
shortly.
''Please, sir" said one urchn, 81 think shall
leave shortly"
"Why, Tommy" asked the teacher.
well, Sir,' he said, 81 think we're goin' to
leave our OuSe cause mothers burnt the coal
house door an sold the cubberd door and
farver's a-choppin' down the stairs this mornin'.
We allus leave after we've burnt the stairs"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-19
Around the World
Tri-WeekIy News Flashes From All Over
the Earth
Backing the Classics

Advocates of the classical as opposed to
the practical in education will carry the
war into the enemies camp by conducting
a three-year survey, at a cost of 100000, in
an effort to prove that classical students
make better progress in business, it was ae-
nounced at the annual meeting of the Amer
of Princeton, who presided, will direct the
survey.
The plan contemplates investigations of
various fields, queries being sent to employ
ers and executives as to the relative worth
of men and women who have and have not
studied the classics.
Dean West read from a report covering
college entrance examinations for the last
ten years, which revealed that students OF
Greek showed the best general average in
all subjects, with French and Latin students
next.