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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26
THE CURE FOR CHAOS
BY DR.. Frank Crane ,

BY DR.. Frank Crane
Chaos in the world OF business is the re-
suit of the rise and fall of prices.
And we are all in business. The problem
Of eating, dressing and paying the rent is
one that comes more intimately home to
every one of us than any other.
1t is the ups and downs of prices that
cause the fluctuation in wages, and foments
industrial trouble.
1t is the same cause that is the reason why
business is not business, so much as it is
gambling.
It is that which has dislocated the COM
merce of the world
Few thinkers have gone to the bottom of
things and inquired for the fundamental
cause of this fluctuaton. One of these few,
however, is Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale
university.
His answer to the question is that the
prices of commodities go up and down not
because their values alter, but because the
value of the gold dollar alters in which they
must ultimately be paid.
almost no one gains long or gains much,'
he says, "either from rising prices or from
falling prices. To society as a whole there
is in either case great net economic loss
as we'll as great injury to social justice and
good will.
"When people are hurt, but do not know
what hurts them, they become suspicious of
what is needed, therefore, is to stabil-
ze, or standardize, the dollar, just as we
have already standardized the yardstick, the
pound weight, the bushel basket, the pint
cup, the horsepower, the volt, and, indeed,
all the units of commerce except the dollar.
All of these units of commerce have passed
through the evolution from the rough-and-
ready units primitive times to the accur-
ate ones of today.
''Once the yard was defined as the girth
of the chieftain of the tribe and called
a grid. Later it was the length of the arm
of Henry the First, and, still later, the
length of a bar of iron in the Tower of Lon
don. Today we have at Washington a Blu
reau of Standards, where the modern yard
stick is determined by a bar Of metal alloy
kept in a room of constant temperature,
under a glass ,ase, nd not approached by
the observer lest the warmth of his body
should, cause it to vary, but sighted by
telescope across the room!
Except the dollar, none Of the old units
are any longer considered good enough for
modern business The dollar is the only sur
viva1 of those primitive crudities.
1--WE tolerate our erratic dollar only be-
cause the havoc it plays is attributed to
other agencies If it's victims knew the truth
about the dollar, it would be stabilized at
the very next session Of Congress-"
Professor Fishers solution lis to vary the
weight of the gold dollar in accordance with
| the "indeX number" or average price of the
| standard comm 0dities.
His plan has been we'll received and ap-
proved by MANY economists, financiers and
| business associations, and it is surely worth
| thin ing over.
Copyright. 1921, by Frank Craneo
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26

ing, believe me, 1 think that the advantage is
with the abbreviated garment
"I'll admit, also, that the little painted-up
baby dolls that we see all about us don't look
as if they were fit for anything but toys, to
be dressed up and played with, but very few
women are as big fools as they appear to be,
and hardly any girl is as big goose as she
looks Girls know that men are more at
tracted by parlor ornaments than they are by
kitchen utensils, and so they roll their eyes
at them and pretend to be helpless, and ignor-
ant, and they giggle, and chatter, and ask
idiotic questions, because that makes man
feel that he is so wise, and strong and supe-
riOr; while all the time little fluffy-ruftles
knows her way about ten times as much as
he does, and is laughing in her sleeves at how
easily she is working him.
''The modern girl is far more practical
than the girls of my generation were. Most
of them, even among rich people, are taught
some way of making a living. In my day
man who had family of daughters was an
object of public cOmmiseration, because he
would have to work himself to death to sup
port them. Nowadays he is an object of
congratulation, because the girls get to work
just as quickly as boys would and bring more
money home to help support the family than
the boys would.
Gwen the girl who doesn't have to work is
a better fnancier than her mother was at her
age. In my generation girls never had the
handling of any money. Mothers did all that,
and she bought things on charge accounts.
Now most girls have their allowance, and the
way they hustle around and hunt up bar
gains is a revelation to me. Why, any of
these little bobbed-haired brats can beat me
shopping right now. You see, things are
! expensive, and they have to spread their dol
lars farther than we did in my day.
| "And they know more about cooking and
sewing, too, Because that is taught in the
schools, and you don't often find a girl now
who isn't fair cook and doesn't know how
to trim her own hats. Also they are taught
| in the domestic science courses how to budget
their incomes, and how to buy their food
supplies.
eff you will recall our early married life,
you will remember what outrageous butchers
bills used to run up, though meat was cheap
then and how often you would come home to
find me in tears over burnt roasts and soggy
| pies and Watery potatoes For nobody
| thought it worth while then to teach girls
any of the things they would most need to
know when they got married. No girl, unless
she was extremely poor, expected to have to
do her own homework those days. In these
days, no girl who isn't rich expects to have a
cook, so she learns before marriage how to
do it.
ooh, the modern girl is all right. Don't
in its latest manifestation. She'll make her
husband a good wife, and twenty years from
now he'll be wondering why his son hasn't
| the chance to marry some nice, modest, SEN
| siblydressed girl as he had"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
THE GIRL OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY
BY DOROTHY DIX

Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Syndi-
cate, Inc.)
<~ HANK God 1 haven't daughter"
- exclaimed middle-aged man the
l. other day. whenever l see a lot
of little f1appers with their faces smeared with
cosmetics, and their hair combed like Skye
terriers and their skirts up to their knees,
bless Heaven that not one OF them belongs
to me.
"And 1 weep with sympathy to think of
how their own fathers must feel when they
see their daughters dressed with an utter dis
regard for all decency, and painted up until
you can't tell them from the women OF the
street. And when l think that my boy Will
probably marry one of these silly little BRAIN
less creatures, whose whole idea in life is
shimmying and jazzing, [ feel that the kind
est thing that l could do would be to take
him out and kill him to save him from fate
worse than death.
"What's the matter with the modern girl,
anyway? Why has she no sense of modesty?
What makes her so dressmad? Why haven't
we any more sweet, dignified, reserved, intel
ligent, sensibly-dressed young women like
there were when l was young?
81 tell you, the most decadent thing in this
decadent age is the modern girl and when
think that she is going to be the mother OF
the next generation, 1 am filled with pessf-
mism and despair and ready to prophesy that
the world is going to the dogs"
Nonsense" replied the mans wife. "The
modern girl is all right. It's just because
she's different from the girls you used to
know, and on whom you formed your ideals,
that you object to her. Every generation be-
lieves that it has monopoly on all the wis
dom and virtues, and expects the succeeding
generation to wreck things, but it never does.
ct agree with you as to finding the modern
girls costumes shocking and l can't see how
any mother, who knows the world can let
her little daughter go out with a couple OF
layers of chiffon doing duty for bodice and
dress up to her knees; but, after all, the
modesty or immodesty of such garb depends
on the point of view. In the South Sea
islands string of sharks teeth constitutes a
perfectly proper garb for lady, and we are
already getting so accustomed to semi-nude
women in society that we no longer look at
them twice.
'When I was a girl, our dresses came up
to our ears, and down under our feet and our
skirts were ten and twelve yards around the
bottom, and interlined with haircloth so that
they weighed ton, and we tied great bustles
around waists, and one year had sleeves
so tight that we couldn't raise our hands to
our heads, and the next they were so big that
we had to go sideways through a door.
THAT was the sensible costume I wore
when you came accounting me, and between
the skirt that rendered a woman almost help
less to walk, and that trailed on the street
and swept up all the microbes, and the
sheared-off one that the girls are now wear
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26
4 Great Gorilla Passes

IN the death of John Daniel the world lost
\ the only gorilla in captivity and big
circus one of the principal attractions
in its animal tent.
For this, and for other reasons, the pass
ing of John Daniel was read with interest
wherever the news was printed. No states
mans demise, multi-millionaire's caught
the public attention more swiftly than the
death of the big ape, the only one of his
kind outside the jungles of his native Africa
John Daniel died in bed, attended by
private physician and a private nurse, for
the value set upon him was great. For
nearly four years he had been a captive
brought from Germany and sold to an Amer
lean circus for $4,000. Many times that
sum could not have purchased John Daniel.
Reports disagree as to the cause of John
Daniels death. He had a cold in the head,
followed by pneumonia, but many OF ms
admirers declare that the ing which killed
John Daniel was not disease, it was nos
talgia for the trees and sunshine of the free
forest To this the New York Times takes
ISSUE
1.-THE real cause Of John Daniels demise,
so far as it was not the pneumococcus, was
the fact that the members of his race have
not received the amount and kind of study
that would make possible the keeping of
them alive in captivity till they reached the
natural term of existence, whatever that
might be-" said the Times. Even in their
native WlldS they seem not 10 nave peeu nu-
merous, and it is not remarkaD!e that they
show even more susceptibility than 10 much
higher savages under changes of food and
living conditions Their enormous strength
of muscle is no protection against diseases for
which they have had no need to cultivate
immunity
The argument of the Times is logical, but
there is every reason to believe that home
sickness did play it's part in bringing on John
Daniels illness. Animals may not possess
all the fine emotions of man, but every dog
lover will agree that loyalty for the things
and the persons about him-and missing
them when they are gone-vitally affects
the humor, the habits, the health of the dog.
And who shall say that John Daniel, more
closely related to man than perhaps any anil
NAL on earth. did not suffer in his captivity,
did not pine for jungle Iairs and jungle
mates until his powers of resistance, mental
as we'll as physical, reached the breaking
point and he passed to the happy hunting
grounds?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26

PPLE dumplings were the real cause
~ of the Revolutionary War, according
q to Don Marquis, poet, columnist, nov
elist, now turned historian. He is writing in
the New York Sun a series of fragments
from "his own" history. Here one reads the
anecdote of the apple dumplings.
Benjamin Franklil it seems, was dining
with George the Third. Dumplingc was-or
is it were?-the dish, and his majesty voiced
his wonder as to how the apples were got
into the dumplings. To This Franklin re-
piled that the apples are put in before the
dumplingl are baked. Don Marquis thus con-
tnues the tale:
''The king said nothing more at the time,
but he appeared puzzled. Six weeks later he
sent for Franklin and said: DIR. Franklin,
have been thinking over what you told me
concerning the apples being put in before the
dumplings are baked, and I must complain
that it does not really answer my question:
Dr. Franklin, how do they get the apples in?
Franklin, in his answer, was guilty Of one OF
the few indiscretions Of his diplomatic ca
reer. He said, musingly: Once an English
man always an Englishman! The result was
the Revolutionary War"
One is forced to wonder, after reading Mr..
Marquis's ingenious tale, whether columnlsts
may not be respon ,ible for many of the his
toricaI legends we regard with such fidelity
and belief. Suppose, for instance, that a hun
dred or a thousand years hence, it is Mr..
Marquis's own history that has survived time,
while all Others have persisted. Apple dump
1ings then, will be credited with the quar-
rel of the colonies and the king. the Revo-
luton, the victory at Yorktown, the United
States of America Mr.. Marquis, you and
your colleagues may have much to answer
for in the day when all records are made
clear! -
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26
CUPS AT n OUTDDITIES

The lady superintendent was testing the
schools cleanliness in great style.
From article to article she went. running
her finger along the cupboards, shelves and
rollers of maps.
She came to the globes and gave an excla-
nation of disgust.
"DUst nearly an inch thick" she cried
in mortified tones as her forefinger swept
over the smooth surface.
cts worse than that" said the naughty,
imnertinent little boy in the corner. who had
looked up at the examiners cry of disgust.
"Tt's more than an inch thick there You've
got your finger on the Sahara desert"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26
The Coming Of Memorial Day
THE time will never come in the South
ern states when Mem rial Day will

ern states when Mem rial Day will
not be observed with a reverence and
depth of feeling beyond the emotions
aroused by any other historic occasion. So,
next Tuesday, all Atlanta will join with the
women of the Memorial Association and their
co-workers in heartfelt tribute to the mem
DRY of the 6 Moderate de d.
Then, as for fifty years past, they will
hold their ceremonies at Oakland cemetery,
in the shadow of the white shafts commem-
Grating heroism, beside the silent rows of
graves that testify to the sacrifice and shining
courage of their own people. All of those
green mounds-the unknown dead along with
the known-will be covered with wreaths
and flowers significant of the SOuths deyo-
ton to them and the cause for which they
suffered and stood fast And, when "taps" is
blown above them, the hearts of the au-
dience will 1eat quicker, and better for the
spirit that reigns there.
Out of the whirl and hum of present-day
life it is good that we should pause, on this
one day of the year. to take thought Of the
men and the period that bequeathed the
South her finest traditions. There is none
of us, be he young or old, who cannot draw
from that memory an inspiration to high
thinking, clean living and loyalty that will
burn in his heart throughout the year
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26
Pill Riffern SAYS

We haven't had quotations yet on marbles,
but we have been advised that the checker
board sales in small towns this spring have
been fully up to normal. Evidently Georgia
is getting ready for hot weather diversion,
even if there is not going to be much money
made.-Savannah Press.
Checkers and marbles may satisfy small
town fellows, but poker IS the popular in
door sport for Bill Biffems fellow tOwnsmen,
regard less of weather conditions. Biffem, We
are informed, spends his leisure moments at
Tybee Island and we don't blame him in the
least.
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26

Bebe Daniels the movie star, and her press
agent are doing their best to keep her in the
public prints, Bebe even going so far to
serve time in Jail without any commitment
for her. Miss Daniels appeared at the Or
ange county jail to enter upon ten-day term
for speeding. 1t was pointed out to her
that there were no commitment papers in
her case, as she had appealed from the
township justice court, and her case was in
the hands of the Superior Court.
Upon learning Of this, Miss Daniels, still
insisting upon staying in Jail, instructed her
attorney to dismiss her appeal and obtain
commitment papers from the justice court
as quickly as possible
Meantime, they declared, Miss Daniels, who
remained in jail, was merely a guest Of
Orange county"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26
Longer Life

M. CASTOR Dauville, a French biologist,
declares, the outcome of his experiments,
that by a freezing process somewhat similar
to that used in conserving fish, the span Of
human life can be indefinitely extended. He
points out that, by renewing the vital sub
stance which human life depends, and
then subjecting the living body to his special
freezing process, it may be. possible to eclipse
the longevity record of Methuselah, chemical
treatment preventing the tissues from de-
generating with the passage of years.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26
The IlandiS Case

Inc Lands case
Francis J. Carey, the 19-year-old boy who
confessed to Federal Judge Lands that he had
stolen $4,000 from the National City bank,
at Ottawa, ILL.,, has justified the jurist's faith.
Under no bonds and unescorted except by
members of his family, he returned to court
to receive sentence.
Judge Lands, without a word relative to
the national furore which his action in
Carey's case aroused-it was his leniency in
permitting the boy to "stay at home" while
he Thought it over that caused Senator
Dial of North Carolina to take the matter
up in cOngress-sentenced the lad to one
year in federal reformatory.
In this he continued to show leniency.
Carey was sent to the National Training
School for Boys at Washington, D. G. This
institution is used only for the correction
Of lads in whom criminal instinct has
been found, but whose misdemeanors are
thought to have resulted from circumstances
over which they had slight control.
Several months ago bank officials discov-
cred that $4,000 was missing from the
Ottawa institution. Carey, too, was gone.
At first they thought robbers had hired the
boy to commit the theft Later he was
arrested on az farm near the town. He con-
fessed the embezzlement and returned the
money.
He was brought before Judge Lands,
where it was revealed the boys salary had
been only $50 month.
'"That's shame Judge Lands exclaimed.
IT don't see how directors of bank expect
their employees to stay honest when they pay
them such low wages. Then to Carey, "You
can go home and stay there until I send
for you"
Senator Dial made the remark the basis
for an unsuccessful attack upon Judge Lam
dis in congress. Congressman Welty of Ohio
urged impea chment of the .urist, but neither
Welty nor Dial was able to get congress to
take any action.
Judge Lands was writing when the Carey
case was called. Attorney Lee O'Neill
Browne moved that the lad be sentenced.
The judge glanced up.
Motion granted. Francis Carey, you are
sentenced to" That all. The jurist
resumed his writing Later he refused to
comment the case which made him the
object of the congressional attack
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26
Plot FOiIed

A plot to assassinate ex-Emperor Charles
of Austria has been discovered at Lucerne.
where he again resides, says dispatch from
the Swiss city to the Petit Parisen.
The alleged conspiracy was revealed to the
police by a private detective. Several for
eigners who were equipped with false pass
ports, were arrested The prisoners had
grenades in their possession.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26
REMARKABLE REMARKS

am sure Lenine and Trotzky are suffering
from decayed teeth. The only thing standing
in the way of Bolshevism in a country is a
good health-Dr E. H. StancOmb, London
Physician.
You are too much given to lauging in Amer
ica because you do not realize the agony OF
the world.-The Rt. Rev. Nicholai Velimi-
rovic, Serbian Bishop.
Large employers of labor-and some of
them Justly so-have been made the footballs
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ]. Davis, Secretary OF
Labor.
The railroads are facing a test. This year
and next will tell the stOry-Archibald Fries,
Vice President, Baltimore and Ohio.
Women will be modified and sent to their
places just like men in the next war.-Will
Irwin, Writer.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26

The value of occupied farm lands through
out Canada rose So an acre last year. It
averaged $3S an acre at the close of 1920
as compared with $46 in 1919, according to
a recent report of the Dominion Bureau of
Statistics. Per values in the provinces
were British Columbia, $175; Ontario and
Quebec, $40; Prince Edward Island, SAC;
Nova Scotia, $43; Manitoba, $50; New Bruns-
wick, $33; Saskatchewan and Alberta, $50.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26
Comets Coming

Two comets are approaching the earth.
say the astronomers of Harvard Observatory.
One Reid's comet, discovered by South Af-
rican astronomer on March IS, last, is i'm
creasing in brightness so rapidly that it will
be visible to the naked eye soon. On April
q it will be seven and one-half times bright
err than now. At present it is situated just
to the east of the star Gamma in the con-
stellation Cygnus. 1t will be nearest the sun
on May 10.
The other comet, Winnecke's, has been
sighted by Professor Barnard, of the Yerkes
Observatory, Wisconsin. Discovered in 1853,
Winneckes comet completes it's elliptic orbit
around the in five years and eight
months. On it's periodic visits this comet
has never come within several million miles
of the earth.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26
AirpIane Wins

Airplane Wins
In race between an airplane and carrier
pigeons from Portland, Ore, to the San Fran
cisco Bay region the plane beat the leading
bird over the 722-mie course by Fl hours
and 19 minutes.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26

The county council of the Seine has voted
$500, franc to the parents Of every third
child born in France during 1921, and has
appropriated 100000 francs to meet the
claims. A graduated scale has been provided
which gives the parents a sum for every
additional child up to the TENTH at whose
birth the parents receive $50 francs.
The council has also discussed plans for
improving the health conditions among chill
dren. At present 100000 children of the
100000 born annually in France die be-
fore reaching the first year.
There will be an increase of government
insurance of maternity; new maternity hos
pitfalls will be established; infants will receive
free periodic medical examinations and moth
ers receive advice as to child nourishment
and care.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-26
Around the World
Tri-WeekIy News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.

American Prisoners
Russian Bolsheviki are bittek toward Amer
leans and are not permitting them to leave
Russia, said Anna Keiser, of Philadelphia,
upon arriving in ConstantinOpe
She arrived on board the steamer Rechid
Hasha, which landed at Odessa a number of
officers and soldiers who had formerly served
in South Russia under General Wrangel, anti
Boshevik leader.
She declared French, Italian and British
citizens were allowed to leave Odessa.