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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
Bernstorf on Disarmament

IF anyone is competent to speak on the
1 effects of building and maintaining huge
war machines Count Bernstein should be.
Prior to the events that eliminated in the
autumn Of 1918, he was a trusted counselor
and diplomatist of the Hohenzollern regime,
understanding If not always approving the
ambitions and designs of Potsdam. Since
then. as political leader in the German re-
public. he has come to grips with the prob
lens which the war entailed. He was in
Germany during the latter seasons of that
dire struggle having left his ambassadorial
post at Washington with keener sense than
most of his countrymen could have had or
how the world regarded the protagonist OF
militarism; and at home he saw the bitter
ness Germany had sowed come darkly to har-
vest.
Particularly interesting, then, is Count
Bernstorff's comment on the approaching
Disarmament Conference. 1.-THE race for
ornaments" he writes in a recent article for
German readers, "as we know only too well,
always leads to war because 1t inevitably
gives a preponderant influence to the mill
tarist party in politics." Such is the testi-
mony of one who speaks as an eyewitness
and participant in the drama. He takes no
umbrage at Germany's not having been In
vfted to the conference; he sees, indeed, no
practical reason for her being there inasmuch
as she is already disarmed. Should there be
a return to competitive armament building
the United States, he thinks, could easily sur
pass other Powers with her endless human
material and her inexhaustible financial and
technical means" But, he goes on, "The
American people are peace-loving and can
gain without war all their political desires;
militarism has no influence in the United
States, and consequently she counts more on
understandings with peoples than on war to
realize her political ideals"
So inclined and so circumstanced, America
was pre-eminently the nation to call a world
conference on armament restriction; and be-
cause her position is so secure and her mo-
tives SO free from misinterpretation, she can
and should lend the idea her utmost infu-
ence. The restriction Of ornaments will not
in itself prevent war, but it will ease bur-
den and check drain which If continued
will produce international bankruptcy, and it
will make war far less likely.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
4 Wholesome Georgia Trend
.HAT Georgia has nineteen thousand
more farms now than decade ago is

more farms now than a decade ago is
highly interesting in ITSELF but chiefly
significant is the fact that small farms, rang
ing from twenty to forty acres, make up the
increase.
For the country at large the drift is just
the reverse. There the aggregate gain of
some eighty-seven thousand is composed of
farms embracing from twenty to one hundred
and from one hundred to five hundred and
more acres, while those CT less than twenty
acres have diminished in number by upwards
of forty thousand.
The national census reports that convey
these interesting figures suggest no reason
for the marked difference between the tend
ency in general and in Georgia However eX-
planned, the multiplication of small farms in
this Commonwealth is certainly to be wei
coined. Small FARMS" as the Savannah
Morning News well observes, make for less
tenancy and for more entertainers, substan-
tial families who stay by the soil and are in
terested in permanent improvement, not only
of their own farms but also Of their COM
munities.''
Further, the small farm in the South, as
distinguished from the great plantation,
lends itself more readily to diversified crops
and to the production of foodstuffs rather
than cotton, so that as a rule it will stand
for thrifter and more scientific order of
agriculture. Consider, too, how much more
of independence, enterprise, neighborliness
and interested citizenship is represented in
ten farms of fifty acres each than in one of
five hundred.
This IS not to say that the larger farms are
without their advantages and, for some pur-
poses, their marked superiorities. They are
sometimes marvels of enterprise, adding i'm
mensely to the States wealth and prosperity.
But the wealth that counts most is that which
| is diffused; the prosperity that abides is that
which flows from mutltudes of free minds
and willing hands.
| Georgia we'll may rejoice that this is the
| trend of her agricultural development and
| give cordial encouragement to the increase in
| farm ownerships.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
AGE AND EFFICIENCY
BY H. Addington Bruce
~ FTEN one hears nervousness accounted
for, even defended, on the score Of


~ FTEN one hears nervousness accounted
for, even defended, on the score OF
the completely of modern life.
If | am nervous, it is not at all surpris-
| ing" the defense runs. Anybody would be
nervous who has to live as 1 do. person
does not have time even to think, let alone
get any rest.
zone must do ones work, of course. And
one must meet ones social obligations Just
take a look at my calendar and you will ap-
preciate what that means.
cit is a charity bridge one evening, a
charity dance another. Tomorrow afternoon
have to attend a committee meeting, and
the next day there is luncheon to which I
positively must go. Before the week is done
there are two dinner parties.
"Then I have so much planning with re-
gard to the housekeeping And 1 simply
must get the dressmaker started at some
thing or I'll have no clothes for this winter.
"It is rush, rush, rush, from early in the
morning until late at night And there's no
way out of it, I'm afraid I'll have to put up
with my nervousness the best way 1 can.
eff can't put up with it, and break down,
don't blame mem. Blame the kind of life I
have to lead"
But is it absolutely necessary to lead a life
of super activity? Is perpetual rushing in
evitable?
Thousands upon thousands of people do
not find it so. Thousands, even amid the
hurly-bur1y of city existence contrive to live
happily and usefully, yet with a nerve-con-
serving simplicity.
They throw themselves enthusiastically
enough into whatever they undertake. But
they do not undertake too much. And they
are content with quiet satisfactions.
The joys of home life mean more to them
than the delights Of diversions that take
them away from home evening after even
ing. They have no passion for social recog-
milton. Intercourse with a few congenial
friends gives them infinitely more pleasure
than mingling in crowds at this or that "func-
tion.'
Yet they do not vegetate Loving books,
art, music, they may actually be far more
alive mentally than many of the unfortunates
who feel that they must be forever on the go.
In a word, modern life need not be nearly
so complex as many make it. Its completely
is largely psychological And wise are those
who appreciate this, and cling resolutely to
simple modes of living despite the allurements
and temptations Of an over-sophisticated age.
"Life's but span; I'll every inch enjoy"
sang Farquhar. Truly life is meant to be en-
joyed. Only a man-and a woman, too
must give some thought to what constitutes
sane and really satisfying enjoyment.
Copyright, 1921, by the Associated News
papers)
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they believed that tuberculosis or cancer was
hereditary in their blood.
have seen women give full rein to their
tempers, and go into spasms Of rage over
every trifle because their grandmothers were
viragos. / have seen women ruin their
husbands by their mad extravaganza because
they said they took after some ancestor who
was waster and spender.
All of these people visioned heredity simply
as a palliation of their weaknesses. It gave
them leave to do as they wanted to do. Not
one OF them saw in their heredity red light
of warning.
The boys, who believed they were born with
thirsty throat and a yearning for games of
chance, did not deduce from that a tip that
they should never touch liquor or card, and
that they should beware Of temptations that
other men might safely daily with. The man
who realized that he lacked energy did not ar
que from that that he must make his will pow
er force him into perpetual high gear. Those
who came into the world with weak constitu-
tions did not make a study of hygienic living,
so they might ward off disease.
The high-tempered woman, and the extrav-
agant woman, never dreamed that the knowl-
edge of the sins to which they were prone
should make them put ten times the guard on
their tongues, and their spending that good
natured thrifty woman needs to put upon her
self.
Just how much there is In heredity not even
scientists know. Certainly, we see it work out
often children seem to inherit the virtues that
parents have not got, as they inherit the faults
they have. If you will run over the list of
rich and successful men in your acquaintance,
you will find that about three-fourths OF them
are the sons of ne'er-do-well fathers. The
fathers shiftlessness forced the boy out to
work and made man instead of loafer of
him.
And it is a common proverb that no account
mothers have capable and efficient daughters.
nOfh fri RI q oil n
house, and make the children clothes, daugh-
ter is mighty apt to qualify for the job.
The most rabid prohibitionists have ever
met were the children of drunkards.
All of which goes to show that heredity is
mostly an excuse for self-indulgence. and that
we can exercise whatever evil spirits our an
cestors have handed down to us by the use of
little will power. 1t doesn't matter what is
in the blood, as long as there is enough
strength in the backbone to fight it.
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler syndi-
cate, Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
MRS. ANNIE BESANT
By DR.. Frank Crane


Mrs. Annie Besant, president of the Theo-
sophical society, recently delivered a lecture
in Paris.
Mrs. Besant is a remarkable woman. She
was an impressive figure in her white gown
and lace mantle and snow-white hair. She
was stately and dignified and showed no
trace of fatigue despite her seventy-three
years.
She levelled keen, friendly eyes toward
her hearers, and when she spoke, she had
clear and direct manner of expressing her
opinions
She looked her part as philosopher, as
founder Of the Central Hindu college in Be-
nares as leader of the Boy Scout movement
in India, with it's $4,000 members, and as a
woman whose influence over the indus has
lately caused her election as president of the
Indian National congress, in which capacity
she both upheld their cause Of liberty and
suppressed the use of violence and bloodshed
in the attainment of that end.
Mrs. Besant does not agree with those
alarmists who maintain that society is de-
moralized and that the world is on it's way
to destruction.
Her Interpretation of the restlessness and
apparent weakened morale in civilized coun-
tries is courageously optimistic.
1--WE are passing through a transition Pc
riod," she said, the old has been torn down
before the new is fully developed, and the
result is a certain moral laxity-but it is not
permanent I think the conditions today can
be put down to Tery natural reactlOn from
the strain of the war;"
Asked what she thought of the prospects
for religion in the future, she replied that in
her opinion new teacher and new religion
would come, but not to replace those already
existing.
81 think there will be a great hberalizing
movement in the Christian churches of to-
day." she added, land tendency to revert to
the old principles of the mystics in defining
the meaning Of Christianity. In fact, the
change has already taken place."
Although this remarkable woman calls her
self a theosophist she seems to have reached
plane where in her experience and ripened
judgment she is able to synthetic the various
religious movements Of the world She has
got past the stage Of conflict and already
foresees coming cooperation Of all spirit
ual forces, in which alone the human race
can find it's redemption.
One could wish that Mrs. Besant could live
another hundred years.
If a mind like that could be projected in
it's philosophical isolation, in its maturity of
process and in the advantage which it would
have of having lived in a preceding day, it
would be of immense benefit.
1t is pity that we cannot retain certain
human beings as we do cathedrals.
Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
DOROTHY DIX TALkS-HEREDITY
BY DOROTHY DIX

"HERE is no other excuse in the world
so over-wOrked, going and coming, as
heredity. Whenever a man and Wom-
an are cutters who lay down upon the JOB
Of life; whenever they are too self-indulgent
to control their appetites and passions; when
ever they are lazy and trifling, they take no
blame to themselves. They lay 1t all on their
forefathers.
Judging by the people who talk most about
their heredity, it appears that the one char
acteristic that parents most frequently be-
queathed to their children is yellow streak.
It is the failures who put the loud pedal
upon the subject, and invariably attribute
what they are to their ancestors. The sue
cessful are apt to take credit alone to them
selves for their achievements, and to claim
that they are self-made.
Heredity certainly has been mantle of
charity under which weaklings have ia ken
refuge not only from their own shame, but
from the judgment of society And the amaZ-
ing thing is how they have put it over on the
balance of us, and gotten away with it.
Year after year we go on supporting the
shfftless, and yanking drunkards out of the
cutters, and putting up with the tantrums
of the vile tempered, because we are COM
mitted to the hallucination that they can't
help their faults.
cts in the blood" we say darkly and cryp-
tically as we dip again into our pocketbOoks,
and put the brakes on our own tempers, and
make another effort to help those who are too
inert and Selfish to try to help themselves.
Worse still, the heredty myth exerts par
alyZing effect on those who think that they
are it's foreordained victims. There is no
doubt that the belief that there is some pc
culiar poisoned chemical compound in the
blood that flows through their veins, exerts
a malign influence on many people, and pre-
vents them from being the decent, fortnight
citizens they might be.
They feel that nobody expects them to be
ANYTHING, or do ANYTHING, and that they have
no blue china that they have to live up to.
And they expect nothing Of themselves; so
they do not have any self-respect to maintain,
and this makes it easy to take the line of least
resistance, which always points downward.
I have known school boys who calmly an
nounced that they knew they would die
drunkards and gamblers, because their grand
fathers did l have known men to sit down
and let their wives take in boarders to sup
port them, because they declared business
ability did not run in their family. I have
known people to die of disease without MAX
ing an effort to live, or be cured, because
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
"Turn About Is Fairplay"

Editor l.. w. Moore of the Springfield
Herald, has raise da point that should be of
interest to all married men and women who
are contemplating instigating divorce pro-
ceedings. Editor Moore is of the opinion that
since the enactment of woman's suffrage,
placing women upon an equality with men,
that husbands may be entitled to alimony
upon securing a divorce Decree The Herald
says: IA woman in Minnesota is being sued
by her husband for alimony and this case will
open the courts to decide another delicate
question. The national constitution gives the
females the same rights as it gives the men
and we see no reason why they should not be
subjected to the same laws"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
SMILE A WHILE

Boys look forward to long trousers; girls
to short dresses.
Men who marry regular dreams find dreams
60 by contrarieS.
Maybe the tariff can't please all because it
has too many duties.
The best thing about paying compliments is
it leaves one due you.
Prohibition officers are not the only ones
looking for bootleggerS.
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Soldiers to Stay

American troops will stay on the Rhine un-
til the new treaty with Germany is ratified
by both parties, according to authoritative
information at Washington.
Ratification will be considered in the Amer
lean senate and the German reichstag begin
ming late in September and should require
comparatively short time, it was said. Pend
ing this ratification, however, status of re-
lations between Germany and the United
States remain exactly where they have been, it
was said
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
By JACK L. PATTERSON
Atlanta Leads

Atlanta holds hes own as being the most
progressive city in the South. In July the
building permits for that city were $1,94S,-
322, more than double any city in the South
except Memphis, and over $780, 900 over that
place.-Bryan County Enterprise.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
Scribe and Shaver, Too

n RYLY and truly remarking that many
J newspaper men exc out subsisten 3e
"by close shave" the Triton Gazette
cites the particularly interesting and admir-
able case of the editor of the Doerun Courier
of which it relates: Besides running q news
paper, this versatile Journalist also operates
a barber shop, and during the dull season he
is offering free shave with each paidup year.
ly subscription; at least, that is the tale Eli
tor Allen, of the Observer, is telling, and AL
len is usually truthful, even when jealo"s."
. In ages gone, they say, the barber was a
surgeon, too, as the stripes of his shop pole
still attest But it remained for twentieth
century Georgian to combine the fortitu1e
of a scribe with the keen art of shaver
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01

Alas, if a golfer marries, before forty, his
golf suffers; if he marries after forty, his wife
suffers.
Marriage is a sort of mental thermos, which
keeps your heart warm in winter cool in sum-
mer-and at about the same deadly tepid tenn
perature, all the year round.
A bachelor loves to look at pretty woman
through the haze of his cigarette, and weave
beautiful dreams about marriage. 1t is like
riding on scenic railway-all thrills and no
danger.
A little boy never can decide whether he
wants to become pirate or a banker, when he
grows up; little girl can't decide whether
she wants to be nun or a vampire-and
usually they waver between these two, all the
rest of their lives.
Love is a permanent wave of emotion, which
lasts just as long as any other "permanenr
wave"-about six months, at the most
The woman who marrieS man always has
life struggle trying to live up to his radiant,
imaginary ideal of the woman he didn't get.
mans most effective after dinner speeches
are those short but imprisoned ones, which he
sometimes Makes regarding the home dinner
and which make woman hate cooking.
The average man goes to his grave secretly
wondering whether he captured the woman he
married, or merely capitulated to her.
Copyright, 1924, by The Wheeler Newspaper
Syndicate)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
Gold Imports

The Drottningholm, of the Swedish-Ameri-
can Line brought shipment of 100000
in gold consigned to the National City Bank
last week.
The vessel carried sixty-nine first cabin,
365 second cabin and 664 third class passen-
gers, mostly Scandnavians returning to the
United States from visits to home countries.
Among the passengers taken on at Gothen-
berg, Sweden, was Captain Hans D. Doxrud,
marine superintendent Of the Norwegian
American Line, who had been abroad on bust
ness.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01

Astronomers can measure the distance
from Mars to Venus, but can they measure
the distance between Tellegen and Farrar?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
MRS. SOLOMON SAYS:
BY HELEN ROWLAND

Alas, if a golfer marries, before forty, his
golf suffers; if he marries after forty, his wife
suffers.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
Cheap Suits

The offer of British concern to sell in
Vienna 100000 ready-made suits of mems
clothes at 81 los each has been occupying
more space in the newspapers than the dis
turbed political situation. Master tatlors and
ready-made clothing merchants are fighting
it, and thus far successfully, as the Ministry
OF Trade has refused the import license.
The entire Vienna press, backed by The
countless civil servants and workmen's CO.
operative societies, is demanding the deal
be permitted, pointing out that native tai
lors charge at least IL, 900 crowns for suit
of equal quality, while the British offer equals
about 1000 crowns.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
Sweden Has 100000

Sweden's total population at the end OF
1920 amounted to more than 100000, ac-
cording to the Central Statistical Bureaus
preliminary figures just published This is an
increase during 1920 of more than $1,000
an da record increase since 1861.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
Opening Route


News has reached London, according 20
the writer OF the London Letter" in The
Manchester Guardian, of a very interesting
attempt being made by the Russians to open
up sea and river communication with North"
ern Siberia. The expedition Is andeT the lead
ership Of Otto Sverdrup, who was with Nam
sen on his first North Polar expedition.
The expedition consists of the Russian Ice
breaker Alexander, accompanied by four Brit
ish steamers-the Ashwen, the PineWen, the
Meath Abbey and the Tintern Abbey-and tha
Norwegian steamer Bran. The ships assem-
bled at Murmansk about Auguss 8, ana
thence will go into the Kara Sea, which 10
part of the Arctic Ocean, and with luck Will
reach the mouths of the rivers OBJ and Ye-
nesei. These rivers pass through country rich
in timber and ores, and are naVigable for
great part Of their length, which in each
case is over two thousand miles.
The expedition will carry $4,000 tons or
miscellaneous cargo, including railway la
terial, agricultural implements, tools ana
hardware besides sporting rifles for thu fur
hunters Of Siberia. The people Of Siberia
have for long time been cut off from the
rest of the world, and land communica-
ton Is now almost impossible this attempt
is being made to devedop communication by
sea.
It is organized by the All-Rusa!an Cooper
alive Society-the big trading organization
Of Soviet Russia One part of the cargo ex-
pected to be brought back Is q large quantity
Of valuable furs collected by the Soviet gov
eminent for export.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
Russ RECOGNITION

The United States should establish diplo-
matte relations with Soviet Russia at once,
Senator Joseph 1. France, of Maryland, de-
clared on his return from a several weeks
visit in that country.
Returning with Mr.. France on the liner
Rotterdam, was Mrs. Margaret e. Harrison, q
correspondent of the Baltimore Evening Sun,
who was imprisoned in Russia for ten months
and was the first of the released Americans
to reach home after the United States govern
ment had effected their freedom.