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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
The Honor of Thieves
"snapper-up of unconside

T HAT "snapper-up of unconsidered
trifles, as Shakespeares delightful
rogue Autolycus is called, would have
relished keenly the complaint of the Pick
pockets Association of Genoa Those nimble
adventures are grieved and scandaliZeds be-
cause, as they protest in a letter to the chief
of police, the persons from whom they pill
fer have a reprehensible habit of reporting
much larger losses than really are suffered
In one case a man who claimed to have been
robbed of twenty-five hundred lire lost only
fifty, they aver; and another declared him
self poorer by some eighteen hundred lire
when his purse contained less than two hun
dred. Such Misrepresentation, the letter goes
on to argue, "are likely to cause unfortunate
consequences and strained relations among
the pickpocket fraternity, for if member
turns in a few hundred lire when the loser
reports thousands, he is suspected by his
colleagues of having retained the difference"
The complaint closes with this irOnic re-
buke: "Professedly honest folk should be
more considerate of the truth
indispensable indeed must honor and in
tegrity be when not even thieves can get
along without them. In classic Athens it was
not unusual for early morning strollers to
see at the base of a statue ofeHermes little
portions of the nights booty left there as
the offering of some pious thief! Nor did
that spirit die with the passing of naive pag-
an creeds; for though we no longer build
shrines to the god of stealers, we do fire.
uuently proceed upon the idea that 1t mat
tiers not how one wastes or perverts the
bulk of life's gifts and trusts il only one
casts bribing bit to Heaven now and then.
Like the pickpockets of Genoa, we expect the
angels to play fair, while we ourselves are
cheating like the Devil.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12

we have got to give reason for the faith that
is in us. We have got to deliver the goods,
and prove to other people that we have got
the ability we think we have.
Emerson said that we should aim at the
stars even if we only hit the barn door, which
is good advice as far as it goes. But after
having aimed at the stars reasonable length
Of time and only succeeded in hitting the barn
door, common sense would suggest that we
select a mark that was within reach of our
AIM and where we could hit the bulls eye
every time.
There is more honor, as we'll as more profit,
in doing humble thing we'll and successfully
than there is in making an utter failure in
attempting to do something high-faluting and
romantic that we can't do 1t is better to make
a good loaf of bread than poor sonnet; bet
ter to be good actor in the kitchen than a
bad actorine the stage. The woman who is
a gifted amateur musician and figure in her
own social circle is a mllionatimes more en-
viable than the hemi-demi-semi professional
singer who thinks herself lucky to get to
sing in a restaurant while other people are
gouging themselves with food
l. Every person in the world who is willing
to work. can make a good living if only he
or she will do the thing that is within his
! or her range of abilities. Our failures are
nearly all the result of our thinking too high
ly of ourselves.
Many a man, for instance, whose whole life
is nerve-racking struggle on the brink of
bankruptcy, could command a handsome sal
airy and live in comfort on Easy street, if only
he would work for someone else instead Of
trying to conduct business of his own. He
would be Invaluable in departmental work
where he could follow his own little groove,
but he lacks executive ability and the Anan-
cial acumen to conduct business himself.
So the woman who fails as painter might
make a fortune an artistic dressmaker
where her sense of color and her knowledge
of line would enable her to make good dresses
instead of poor pictures. Many tresome
preacher would make a good blacksmith
Many clientless lawyer would succeed as
business man, and oh, the numbers of girls
behind counters and typewrters, whose rea
vocation is the washtub and the gas range!
In these days, nobody need lay the fatter.
ing JUNCTION to his soul of being an unappreci
ated genius. There is no such animal. Theat.
r1cal managers, directors, business men, ec-
erybody iG out on still hunt for talent for
ability for those who can do any one thing
we'll; and If you can't get a job, or your
work is not appreciated, be sure you lack
the ability to do what you are trying to do
|. TWO years is long enough to spend in Civ
ing yourself trial. If by that time you
haven't got some tangible evidence of sue
cess in your hand it is a tip that you have
over-valued yourself, and need to revise your
estimate, and try to get your real number
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Syndicate
Inc)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
Good Work for Georgia Roads
worth of bonds for road building


worth of bonds for road building
and road betterment by fifty-six Geor
gia counties during the last five years is
a contribution to the progress of the common
wealth, for which the State Automobile asso-
citation deserves no small measure of credit.
AS Secretary Reynolds points out in reporting
the impressive figures, the work of the asso-
citation has been mainly educational In more
than one hundred counties he himself has
made addresses and held interviews in the
interest of good roads; other officers have
visited Washington to exert their influence
when federal appropriations for Georgia high
ways were in the balance; and the rank and
file of members have been earnest workers
as we'll as liberal givers wherever and when
ever the good roads cause needed aid. More
over the association has co-operated cordially
with the State Hig way department and with
district and county officials, thus strengthen
ing the spirit Of unity and the sense of COM
mon interests which have so happily marked
Georgia road building of recent years
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
Coal in England


A correspondent in the Manchester GUAR
dian has been looking up some OF the earnest
references to coal in England.
Professor Boyd Dawkins has stated that
coal-ashes found along the Roman wall lndl.
cate that coal probably was used by the
Romans The earliest authentic referenceI
to mining rights occurs in 1915, and relates
to the Newcastle area Newcastle grew
quickly and Was exporting coal to London as
early as 1908.
In the latter half of the thirteenth century
coal was mined at. Morley and Smalley, two
villages few miles north of Derby. In the
early fourteenth century it was mined in
Flintshire, and certain Blethinlap Ithel OBJ
tanned a lease of some coal mines at Ewloe
in 1922.
Coal frequently was brought into the port
of Chester in the fourteenth century, the
earliest mention being in 1926, when it was
stated to be worth Sd a quarter. Among the
merchants whose ships brought coal to Ches-
ter was a Bartholomew of Northenden.
Medieval writer's usually refer to coal as
''sea-coal" (carbones MARTINI or coro del
mari), in order to distinguish it from char
coal (carbones). The name evidently arose
from the fact that it was brought to some
places by water. The name was, however,
used of coal which was carted into Chester
from Ewloe, and of that found in the middle
of Derbyshire. In the reign of Elizabeth coal
was measured by the barrel, nine barrels to
the ton.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
Jail PrOfiteers

Nineteen butchers in Paris who had care
fully conformed to the governments scale Of
meat prices, but who were convicted of Jug
Cling various grades of meat and selling Sec
ond and third class cuts for extra cuts, were
sentenced to fifteen days in jail and assessed
fines ranging from 1000 francs down to 100
francs.
The hardest blow of all to the butchers,
however, was an order of the court that all
OF them must post on their shop doors for
seven days and. publish in the newspapers
the lengthy decision which the court rem
dered against them.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
Rare Document

rare broadside copy of the Declaration
of independence, printed by John Dunlap in
Philadelphia in 1776, was sold for 500 at
the auction OF the library of O.. A. Hawkins,
of Richmond, Va, in New York recently. L.
G. Harper was the buyer
Important pamphlets and books relating
to Virginia, together wit. other historical
matter, in the collection
An unusually large collection of auto
graphs of the governors of Virginia, from
Patrick Henry TO Fitzhugh Lee, with few
omissions, is a valuable state item that sold
to w. M. Hill for $195. Among the names
are Thomas Jefferson, BENJAMIN Harrison,
James Monroe and John Tyler.
The first session sales total was $2,476.70.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
italy Honors American

The body of Richard Cults Fairfield, one Of
the first two Americans killed in Italy during
the war; was transferred Wednesday to the
monument in the Mestre cemetery, near Ven
ice, purposely erected to receive it. Fair
field left Harvard university at the age Of
eighteen and enlisted in the British Red
Gross. He came to Italy with one of the
first contingents and was killed in 1916 by
an Austrian bomb while transporting wound
ed at Mestre.
Italian soldiers and sailors and detach-
ment Of American bluejackets rendered mill
tary honors at the service. The mother Of
Fairfield, Mrs. James Cummings Barr, of
New York, was present. Brigadier General
Evan M. Johnson, military attache to the
American embassy in Rome represented the
American army, and General Guglielmotti
represented the Italian war ministry. Gen
eral Guglielmotti and General johnson de-
livered addresses in which they emphasized
the ties between the American and Italian
armies and peoples.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
The Catoosa Record

]. c. Wal,on, for the past two years editor
and publisher of the Macon County Citizen,
published at Ogle.horpe, has purchased the
Catoosa Record from Jeff Carter, and he will
assume charge about the first of June. Edi-
tor Walton has been issuinS interesting
weekly newspaper at Oglethorpe and will
doubtless continue the good work for which
he is noted at Ringgold. The plant of the
Record was recently destroyed by fire and
many improvements are being contemplated,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS

The label used for addressing paper shows the time
your subscription expires By renewing at least two weeks
before the this label insure regular service
In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your
old as well your addr II on route. please
give the route number. 80 -
We subscriptions to begin with back num-
bers Remttances should be sent by postal order or
registered mail. . -
THE TRI-WEEKLY J0URS AL, Atlanta. Ga.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
Liquor SmuggIers

The use of airplanes to smuggle drugs
from incoming steamships on the Pacific
coast was charged by H. H. Stevens, at Van
couver, British Columbia, in the Canadian
house of commons this week. Confederates
aboard the ships, Mr.. Stevens said, drop the
drugs into the water, where they are spotted
by the plane and later salvaged.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12

The extension of daylight saving in Great
Britain to two hours instead of one hour as
at present, is foreshadowed in an announce
ment in the London Gazette. The announce
ment says the secretary for home affairs
has authorized the advancing of the clock
two hours over Greenwich mean time. The
order for setting the clocks forward has not
been issued, but it is expected as a measure
for coal conservatism as result of the mine
strike.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12

Respect for representative government Is
lower today than it was century ago.-Ex'
President William Howard Taft.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
Ancient MOnu .ents

Excavations made under the church of San
Sebastiano, on the Appian way, have brought
to light the most ancient Christian monument
vet discovered 1t consists of the remains OF
a house in which, Judging from inscriptions on
the walls, Saint Peter and Saint Paul lived
when they were in Rome
The excavator5 now hope to solve the veXed
questions of the locality of the temporary
tomb in which the bodies &C these two saints
we're hidden to foil tie attempts of Oriental
Christians to steal the bodies when the Apos-
ties died.
Professor Marucchi, in charge of the exca-
waiting expedition, believes that the tomb VIII
be found soon f his funds hold out. Arch
aeoIogists are Auggesting that worlo-wiue
subscription be taken up to make completion
of tAe work possible.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
Around the World
Tri-WeekIy NewS Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Smallest Theater

The smallest theater in the world, but
one which l. , revise the whole theatrical
ait, will be opene in Paris next month. 1t
is founded by Francois Bernouard, publish
err, and will be free to all comers-that is,
until the forty available seats are taken.
But later corners will not have to wait long
for the second show, as the program will
only last fifteen minutes.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
Editorial Echoes

Chauncey Depew reached eighty-seveh Sat
urday on strong bulltrading and is expected
to go to par.-Chicago Post.
Youth is always going to do tomorrow the
things old age didn't do neutrality-suspicious.
ola rs. c. Record.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
REMARKABLE REMARKS

l do not know of any way on earth that
we can legislate to KEEP rascal from being
a rascal but we can punish him when caught.
Representative Summers, Of Texas.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
VandaIS In London

Vandals of new type are busy in London.
They are window slashers, who go about
among the shops at night slashing the plate
glass windows with diamond cutters. In
some instances they have left cryptic signs in
chalk, indic&tir>, the work Of a gang.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12

1t is our intention to dry up the flow of
liquor everywhere. Some spots are still wet.
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel, Anti
Saloon League.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
Policeman as NIaypole

'The most troublesome man in Eastbourne'
was the description given William Hawker
by the London police He was fined SIS for
dancing around policeman for Is minutes.
He had been convicted, it is explained, we'll
over 100 tir- IS.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12

There is no reason for fearing that the
dispute between the United States and Japan
over the Island of zap will be settled other
wise than by peaceful means.-Rene Vivian
former French Premier.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
WOmen'S Wages

survey of the wages of 4,322 women en-
Dloyed in commercial and industrial pursuits
in Colorado has disclosed that 13 per cent of
those employed receive less than $12 a week
and that so per cent receive less than SIS.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12
QUIPS AND QUIDDITlES

A small boy was sent Ito church by his
father with nickel and a dollar bill
You are t. put what you please in the
onertory bag, my boy. Listen to the sermon
and make your offering in accordance with
the impression made upon you"
The boy had returned. well, what did
you put in the bag?"
"The nickel. I going to put in the
other when I remembered what the clergy
man said in his sermon"
what was that "
"The Lord loveth cheerful giver.'
eyes," said a girl who is a determined all
tograph hunter, ''it is one of the best have
in my collection"
But are you sure it is genuine?" asked
her friend.
"Quite, I cut it from telegram his wife
received from him!"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12

Wooden eyebrows are the latest. The,
will match up remarkably we'll with tn
wooden heads that wear them.-Bridgepor
Telegram
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12

Butter Started Romance.-Headline Now
to keep Satan from putting hair in it,
Kansas City Stsf.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12

To be good sport is a most necessary
qualification for political life.-Mrs. w. F
Van Ness New Jersey assemblywomap.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12

In the present state of the industrial ma
chine, 1t is a time for oil and not for monke
wrenches.-James J, Davis, secretary Q
labor.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12

Like charity, honor begins at home; but it
does not end there.-Senator Williams, Of
Mississippi.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12

If peace hath her victories no less re-
nowned than war, then she should have her
honors and rewards for the men who have
made this nation the most glorious Of all in
art, invention and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
tive Bowling, of Alabama
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12

The salvation of this country now rest
with the women.-Alice Robertson, congress
woman, Oklahoma.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-12

wv JAS that shining trumpet of the Fourth
w Estate, the New York Tribune, toot-
inc humOrnuSlY when 1t daclared:
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-03-16

was good-people. bought and sold.
The only way we can PAY for the
war is by buying and selling-trad-
ing: And, moreover, prices are down
for many commodities they are al
ready down to lower levels than they
should Behring'S are selling for less
than they cost to make. That is an
impossible situation. If you won't buy
the things the other fellow makes, HE
can't buy the things you make. That
is reasonable, is it not? And if he
doesn't buy the things you make, the
shutters will soon be up on your place
of business. Those who are insistently
determined to wait until things
"crash" before they buy are not do
ing humanity a service. For nobody
can sell things long at a loss.
The prices of overcoats, shoes, furni-
ture, tires and, in fact, all other COM
modities are based on the cost of raw
material, labor, freight, etc., and prof
it to those who make, handle and sell
them.
Your livelihood and prosperity are
bound up in the livelihood and pros
perity of other men-you can't deny
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-03-16
Make it year wise spending by buying wisely Of those
needed things for comfort Of self and home thereby brn&n
business back to normally in sixty days.
Prices Went Up Step at lme-Thy Can't Come Down the B@s@

that point. There is nothing funda-
mentally wrong with the country
we have bountiful crops, ample money.
capable heads and hands. But we
can't survive ''buying strike" never
theless. Business is a gigantic organ
ization, kept alive and active by trade
coursing through it's veins. When
trade stops circulating, business dies.
Your particular trade can't flourish
in splendid isolation. The articles you
make can't be sold to men tout CT
Job" True thrift is always wise, but
a stubborn refusal on the part Of the
public to buy the things they need
NOW is simply slowing down the
wheels of commerce that feed and
clothe and house us ALL.
If you are on a buying strike, "forget
it," Go out and buy today the things
you need, for the prices are down. If
you are waiting for them to come down
further tomorrow or next day or next
month, you may not THEN be in a
position to buy.
Reproduced by permission of Smith, Denne &
Moore, General Advertising Agents, Toronto
and Montreal.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-03-16
The KiWaniS Motto IS-'We Build'

by "calamity howlers,' but our trou-
bles are largely psychological. What
we need is confidence and conserva-
tive optimism, coupled with the de-
termination to go ahead. Can we do
this? I say we can. Let, everybody
pull together and don't wait for
George to do it, ! When? RIGHT
NOW. %#|S
If you don't sbuy,@you can't expect the
next fellow to buy:-and he won't!
What's the result?"%% Poor business,
thousands of failures, hundreds of
thousands of unemployed, hard times
for everyone What's the remedy?
BUY NOW! Buy your full normal
purchase of the essentials, but--BUY!
If you don't buy essentials now, you're
helping to create business disaster, for
prices will come down with a thud.
If you do buy now, prices which have
already been lowered will continue to
come down-but slowly and safely to
your business and the .country's bust
ness
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-03-16

and in the interest of all and for their
own interest to buy-and buy NOW.
In this way confidence will be created
and it will stimulate business as moth
ing else will.
You should buy from the merchants;
the merchants from the jobbers; the
.jobbers from the manufacturers. The
manufacturers would then be able to
give employment to thousands of
workmen and could purchase their
raw material from the farms, mills
and the mines, and thus give employ
ment to thousands of other employees,
and these employees would then buy
from the merchants, and so--an end
less chain X ID = 90
- -sSslsE%as, '$s
Our country has more money at pres
ent than ever before in its history and
all that is needed to make business is
confidence. The whole world has been
thrown into a near panic and we have
suffered business depression, and mat
tiers have been made infinitely worse
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-03-16

What is needed in this country more
than any other one thing today is con-
fidence-we have, the money and the
resources. The whole world has been
undergoing this period Of readiust-
ment, as all initiation must be done
away with and a dollar will then be
worth one hundred cents.
Labor is beginning to realize that
days pay demands a days work.
and inefficiency and indifference, to-
gether with Stacking, will no longer
be tolerated.. Profteering as prac-
ticed during the high markets will not
be tolerated either.
With capital willing to take reason
ably fair profit; with labor realizing
it's responsibility, all we need is coop
GRAFTON on the part of the buying pub
lie to make business as usual.
Conservative buying should be uni
versally practiced. Extravaganza and
useless spending should not be in
dulged in. It is the duty of everyone
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-03-16

Do you realize what's happening The
public is on buying strike" A "buy-
ing strike" to nation is what "hun-
ger strike" is to an individual. Bust
ness is languishing today; and why?
Because demand has fallen off? No,
sir! Because there is lack Of capital
to carry on?'s Not at all. The demand
is there, but you are sitting it. The
United States and Canada have ample
capital, and plenty of labor eager to
work. j..
The public is like moody, prosperous
individual, hanging around the house
with money in his pocket, wanting lots
of things, needing lots of things but
harboring an obsession that he won't
spend his money-till prices come down
to where they were six years ago.
Prices didn't go up in day. They can't
come down in day. Prices went up
gradually from 1914 to 1919. Prices
went up step at a time. They can't
come down by the banister. They must
come down the same way they went
up. =
The reason we were able to, finance
the war so we'll was because business