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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
THE SELF-SATISFIED
BY H. Addington Bruce
WON'T laugh at the self-satsfied when you
| ] meet hem III the office, store or work


WON'T laugh at the self-satisfied when you
| } meet hem i'll the office, store or work
g. shop. Pity hem. Without knowing
it they are sick people, suffering from the
effects Of a strange mental polson-the pol
son Of complaCence. AS somebody has said:
"Complacence is powerful narcotic
even in tiny doses it is a poison lethal to all
progressive thought and action"
It's ultimate effects are even worse than
this. Compacence not merely stupefies, so
as to make further achievement impossible
1t also causes a distinct deterioration, with
the result that it's victim gradually becomes
less and less capable of efficient doing.
Recall a few self-satisfied you have known
twenty, fifteen not more than ten years
ago. How are things with them now?
Unless some remedy has fortunately been
applied to expe from their systems the virus
of complacence it is safe to assert that they
have appreciably refrigerated. Lacking the
support of wealth, charitable friends or per-
sonal Influence of some sort, they may have
sunk to outright want.
Yet when you first knew them they were
perhaps acclaimed young men of promise"
Everybody predicted that they would travel
far" Today they are described in uncom-
pimentary terms as "stck-in- the-muds"
has beens" and "good-for-nothings."
The trouble is that the little they did in
the way of early achievement brought to
lu6lll Inc pOISOu VI cUmpldCSuC6 luSy uu-
duly Wanted themselves. They were content
to rest on their laurels, to bask in the sun
shine of foolish pride in what they had al
ready done. They even put on an absurd
wholly unjustified, air of superiority.
Ceasing to strive, they ceased to forge
ahead. And since men are constituted
that they cannot mentally stand still, but
must either advance or recede, these effort
less ones began to go back. The virus of
complacence made their going back all the
more certain.
Contrast their dominant attitude-the at
titude of elf-satisfaction-with that found
in every man who in tn course of his career
does put really noteworthy achievements to
his credit.
Cali my life said the mighty Newton,
Englands greatest scientist, 81 have been
a child playing with pebbles on the sea-
shore"
No dissatisfaction here, but superb hui
miity-the supreme anti-toxin against COM
placence. AS with Newton, so with life's
greatest winners generally.
They appreciate the vastness and complex
ity of the problem confronting humankind.
may achieve, it is as nothing compared with
what remains for men to do. They appre-
ciate that they have only short while in
which to do anything.
So a divine discomfort possesses them,
urging them to ever worthier effort while
life permits them to make effort at all.
Copyright, 1921, by the Associated Newspa
pers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
Polk County's Bond Issue

DOLK county is warmly to be congrat-
ulated upon it's voters emphatic in
dorsement of a four hundred thou
sand dollar bond issue for better roads.
This sum, supplemented by equal
amount from the Federal appropriation,
will make upwards of three-quarterS OF a
million dollars available for the improve
ment and extension of the county's high
ways.
The accruing benefits to every field of
common interest, whether of agriculture,
commerce, industry education, will be
beyond measure. 1t is a matter OF record
that nowhere else in Georgia has the en-
hancement of farm land values been SO
rapid or so steady as in those regions
where expenditures for road building have
been most liberal and most efficient.
There, too, the growth Of trade has been
most marked the investment of new cap
ital most pronounced, the development OF
schools most vigorous.
The reasons therefor are not far to
seek Means of easy travel and communi-
cation are to the activities of a county
or commonwealth what arteries are to
the body; without them there can be
no free flow either of business or of
ideas Good roads not only link the farmer
to his market and the merchant to his
trade. they also foster neighborliness and
do more, perhaps, than any other material
agency to draw the children Of rural dis
tricts to school,
The people of Polk county could have
made no sounder investment than their
5cnd issue for better highways. Georgia
has been especially active in such enter
prises and also in school improvements in
recent years, so much so indeed that a
county which neglects these vital inter
ests is left sadly behind Good roads,
good schools, good health-these are fun
damentals which no people wishing to pros
per can afford to slight.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
HOW ALICE FOUND HER
WONDERLAND
BY Dr.. Frank Crane

This is true story. 1t is about little
Jewish boy who lived in London and of what
became Of him.
He was intelligent and ambitious. His
parents were not rich, but were in comfort
able circumstances.
He got married when poor, which is, as
often as not, about the best investment a
poor young man can make.
1t was in this case, for he married Alice,
whose parents bore the goou old Jewish
name OF Cohen. She was Miss Alice Edith
Cohen. She believed in her husband that
he would get On in the world, and, what was
better, she proposed to see to it herself that
he did get on.
At the time of tl-eir marriage the husband
called himself broker. He was hardly
that, but rather hanger-on in the financial
world. He was not a member of the Stock
Exchange but picked up what profits he
could from small deals. Still, he worked
hard and saved his money and was able to
keep his wife in comparative comfort.
But things were moving too slowly for
Alice, who had notions. She did not want
her man to wear himself out in little affairs,
when she believed he was capable Of great
things.
So she made up her mind chat he should
study law. He die not think he could afford
it. She persisted. And she had her way
finally by declaring that not only should he
take UP the law, but that she proposed to
So the youn' couple casheG in on the
brokerage business and with their little saw
ings started to make a lawyer of the hus-
band.
That's all the story, except the climax.
The man is Isaac Rufus Daniels, first Earl
OF Reading and Lord Chief Justice of
England.
He occupies what is probably the most
conspicuous legal position in the worlu.
He the first Attorney General ever to
go into the cabinet and tn first Jew to be
Lord Chief Justice
In 1913 he was selected a special am
bassador of the British Empire to the United
States.
He has just been appointed Viceroy of In
dia, perhaps the most ticklish job in all the
world. Great Britain picked him out as her
representative in a place where the welfare
of millions O people and the whole course
Of empire depend upon the sense and judg-
ment of ON man.
An English historian wrote: "For an
English Statesman one cannot conceive of a
higher place on the earth than that of Vice
roy of India
SO you see dreams do come true. And the
Wonderland of his Alice bscame solid fact
When we see 'the little Welsh attorney as
Prime Minister of England, moulding the
destiny Of nations, and this little Jew law
YER Lord Chief Justice we get a slant
on Democracy IN the British Empire.
Copyright 1921, by Frank Cranel
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
Let the Russians Settle 1t

-HE new Russian revolt has at least the
advantage of being entirely a native
product, uninspired and unencumbered
by foreign elements If the country is ever
to be freed from Bolsheyism and set upon de-
penda BILE paths, it must be thus. Efforts from
without, howsoever we'll intentioned can only
make matters worse and delay the ultimate
offshakng of Lenine's misrule. Nothing could
serve his cause so we'll as a gesture from the
Allies which could be interpreted as threat
Of interference He profited immensely from
the Polish INVASION without which his dis
integrating forces probably would have crum-
bled to dust long ere this.
There was a time, perhaps, when the Allies,
including then the United States of America
could have helped the true friends of Rus
sian freedom and stability by supporting the
valiant Czech army in its challenge to BolShe-
visit tyranny. But that opportunity was not
seized, and no other has risen Or will rise. If
the rank and file of the Russian people will
not take matters in hand and supplant the vi
cious oligarchy of Lenine and Trotzky with re-
spectacle government then they can only be
left to their deserts The task is too enor-
nous and complex, too indigenously Russian
for outside hands.
There is reason to hope, however that in
time native sense and vigor will prove equal
to the task. Whether the present outbreak
is to succeed as the long-expectc1 counter
revolution only the event can tell. At this
iunctura and from this distance, it appears
the most formidable cloud that has vet gath
esed upon Lenine's horizon-not in size. but
in its course and in the temper Of the times
There is real Russia behind this revolt,
Russia of peasants as we'll as sailors of the
most liberal as we'll as most substantial ele-
ments. If competent leader and organizer
rises to the occasion. decisive results we'll may
ensue.
f3ut no one who followed the ever-change-
full, never practicable course Of Russian his
tory in these last few years will venture an
opinion on the situation, with ut a question
mark. In all reason. the folly and evil If
Bolshevsm should have reached the ropes
end long ago. but it has left the prophets
sorelv in the lurch. The most that be
said now is in the nature Of hope that west
ern Furopo will have wisdom enough to leave
Russia und distracted in her fresh effort at
,ousecleaning. and that the Russians them
salves may see the task vigorously through.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
What If 1t Were Georgia!

the Iife-sus amin: crops of Georgia
| and her neighbor States were entire
failures for two consecutive seasons, we
should count ourselves extremely unfortunate.
But how battling would be our predicament
if at the same time the harvests of the West
also should be blighteG. How anxiously we
should await news of food Imports from hap
pier lands, and how despairfully, if hey did
aot come would the gaunt days and months
sreep by!
More unfortunate, more battling, more
s,aspairful than anything Of the kind we can
4aagine in resourceful America, are condi-
tions now actually prevailing in one OF the
largest and most populous regions OF the
earth For two years in the densely-peopled
districts of northern China, farmers have
watched their grain seasons come and
90 without rain enough to keep even the hard
',st grasses from whitening to the root.
st and weary sunshine, dust and empty
rarners. dust and starving children-that has
>en the story, of which the end is not yet.
By autumn of last year the effects were
Eowing tragical. Famine gripped the land.
len and women ate tn bark of trees and
ne skin and bone of perishing beasts; chill
Iren died thousands of them. The Amerl-
ian epide lic of influenza at its worst was
merciful and mild compared with the hunger
death that elentlessly gnawed and spread
upon China In The Christmastide OF l92O
Professor R. u. Smart of Soochow University,
wrote to his brother DR.. w. A. Smart OF
Envy UnivesitJ, Atlanta, that unless nbefal
measures of relief soon were forthcoming,
millions woui die for want Of life's barest
necessities-ifteen million was the estimate
at the time of his writing, or approximately
Ionl in fIn
were conditions some three months ago, ana
the interim ha? deepened the suffering.
The President of the United States has
done well to add his official VI ice to that OF
the churches and other friends of humanity
who are appealing for aid for those stricken
and menaced millions across the sea. The
traditional friendship between our nation and
China, the historic sympathy that links TO-
gether the great republic of the Vest and the
great republic Of the East. the is rye and vital
community of interests which they have to-
day and which by every token OF world COM
merce and word politics they will have IN
far lager measure tomorrow. this of itself
should stir America to unstinted giving. me
merest statacraft can but see how important
1t is that we prove by generous and unselfsh
deeds our goodwill for that most numerous
and altogether most gifted and promising
people of he Orient. Add the urge OF Amerl-
can human heartedness, the call that blds
every man help them who are in sore dis
tress and there can be no passing by on the
other side while this imperative kindness re-
mains to be done.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
OUIPS AND QUIDDITIES.

The shaded lights, music in the distance,
sweet perfumes from the costly flowers about
them-everything invited him to chance his
luck.
She was pretty, which was good, and he
believed, an heiress, which was better.
care you not afraid that some one will
marry you for your money!" he asked gently.
"Oh, dear no!'' smiled the girl. "Such
an idea never entered my head"
'Ah, Miss Deargirl," he sighed, =" in your
sweet innocence you do not dream how cold
ly, cruelty mercenary some men are!"
Perhaps I don't" replied the girl calmly.
81 would not for moment have such
terrible fate befall you" he said passion
ately. ''The man who wins you should love
you for yourself alone
He'll have to-" the girl remarked. cts
my Cousin Maize who has the money-not
I. You seem to have got US mixed. I haven't
a cent myself"
"Oh-er," stammered the young man,
what pleasant weather we are having, aren't
we?"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
REFLECTIONS OF A
BACHELOR GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND

Love is the yeast of life; without it, our
spirits would never rise above the common
place, and our hopes would always be heavy
and sodden.
There s nothing quite so intriguing to a
bachelor flirting with the idea Of mar
his fingers crossed. He just
loves to "consider marrying" in the abstract,
and to go about plying himself for being SO
lonely"
Mental science won't cure broken arm
anG soft soap and prOtestations will rot cure
a woman'5 broken faith in a man.
A man w % couldn't swallow the same
diet, day after day, TO; dinner, will cheer
fully swallow the same old half-baked or
0VerdOne compliments from women year in
and year out, without Winkng.
Nothing will carry a man so far away from
woman as a new train of thOught-started
by the sigma in another womans eyes.
Nobody knows what he wants most in this
life; and yet everybody gets it-and then
feels disappointed because he thinks he
wanted so lething else.
A woman doesn't mind honest criticism
from man--provided he will criticise her
with a compliment.
Give man a grain Of hope and he'll raise
whole cr0D OG CXrcct"tinnq and 10 o"~dn
(Copyrigh1 1921. by The ,'heeler Newspa-
-er Syndicate)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Be sure you're right, then stay right there
A late supper embraces the things Of which
dreams are made.
Even if the wind does whistle occasion
ally, it never tackles popular airs.
The man whose only thought is for HIM
self has little use for brains.
The girl who listens to soft nothings hopes
that they may eventually means great deal
wise man never tells a woman with
baby how pretty some other woman's baby is
We feel sorry for the young man who is
afflicted with the impression that he knows
it all.
After a girl has acquired beau. he first
thing she does is to look in his watch case
to see whether it contains another girls pic
ture
Lots OF things children would never think
Of doing if their parents did not forbid.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
BallOOnist Killed

Walter Johns, chief gunners mate, was
killed when he jumped from an observation
balloon which broke adrift from the battle
ship Florida off Guantanamo Friday during
maneuvers by the United States fleet. The
body was recovered and taken aboard the
hospital ship Relief. A. R.. Mcneil, attached
to the seaplane division of the fleet, also was
killed Thursday by the propeller of a sea-
plane shortly after the seaplane had rescued
the members of the crew of another obser-
walton balloon which broke loose from the
battleship Nevada. The body has not yet
been recovered.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24

tcuar course an applicant may take but
every endeavor is made 20 place each ap-
plicant where he may learn proficiency in
the occupation for which he is best suited
Military organizations all over the coun-
try are reported to be strongly supporting
the bill. Representative Tess states that he
has every reason to hope that it will be
among the first to be passed when the next
congress has convened.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
Heroic Work

Battling for five hours against wind. fog
and high SEAS the Milwaukee coast guard
crew and the tug Conrad Starke released the
Pere Marquette Line steamer No. s, and re-
moved 48 persons from jeopardy after the
boat had grounded a sand bar two miles
north of Fox Point.
Carrying a crew of 35 and twelve passen-
gers. and loaded to capacity. the boat was on
the way to Milwaukee from Ludington, Mich.
A strong southwest wind with a dense fog
drove the steamer off her course, Captain Mi
chael Martin said
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
Americans Killed

Two American soldiers We're aCcide1~--
killed and a third seriously injured at Weis-
senthurm, Germany, according to reports at
headquarters at Cobenz. The men we're
driving an automobile which colided with an
express train. Army officers were checking
reports of the accident.
Harold H. Hamenkrap and Lawrence G.
Murphy were reported killed and Hamilton
A. Baker ,riously hurt All were privates.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
For France

Plans to send fifty architects to France to
assist in the work of reconstruction during
the coming summer have been formulated
by the Architect Club and Society of New
York. The architects will be selected from
the art departments o. Princeton, Yale, Co.
lumbia, Cornell, Boston Technical school and
the University of Pennsylvania.
A campaign to raise approximately $780,
600 to assist the architects in carrying out
their work is to be begun within few days.
An additional 1000 will be needed to de-
fray the expenses of some of the architects,
although several of the fifty who have VOL
unteered their services will pay their own
expenses Miss Anne Morgan, head of the
committee for devastated France, will assist
in the campaign for funds.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
Hunting 600 Fathers

Members of the National Desertion bureau
are going hunting in Canada. They expect
to bring back 600 men who deserted their
families. This is in line with a new treaty
ratified by the senate.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
Diamond Tooth

Nellie, a monkey, visited dentist and had
a real diamond put in place of tooth which
was knocked out recently. She belongs to
street vender, who insists Nellie grieved over
her lost tooth until he was forced to consult
a dentist. She opened her mouth with alac-
rity to permit the delicate work of dental
surgery.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
Lands Anniversary

Federal Judge X. M. Lands last week OBJ
served the sixteenth anniversary of his ap-
pointment to his present position by ANNOUNCE
ing that he expected to be on the bench
sixteen years more
The judge was unaware of the anniver-
sary until informed by his baiiff
Recently there had been reports that Judge
Lands might resign from the bench to de-
vote his entire time to his position as base
ball commissioner. r.. ,.. .E
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
Hail Storm

severe hail storm which covered the
ground almost like snow, caused consider
able damage to fruit trees and early vegeta-
ton around Greenville, S. c., last week. The
of the storm was restricted to the citv
and narrow strip of territory to the west
ward.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Native Uprising

Natives of the equatorial district of Congo
Free State have risen and burned fifty trad
ing posts, according to a wireless dispatch
from Bona, Congo Free State, published by
the newspaper, Neptune.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
Canadian Snow

Reports from various parts of the Cana
dian northwest show scattered snowstorms on
the first day of spring, with temperature
ranging from to 20 degrees below zero.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24

case of a mans heart ceasing to beat
for fourteen hours and then resuming work
is reported from Berne, Switzerland, where a
pastor of that city, the Rev Mr.. Bauden-
bacher, after being officially declared dead,
suddenly awoke.
The Rev. Mr.. Baudenbacher, aged fifty
and suffering from heart trouble of long
standing, fell senseless Friday. His physi-
clans issued a death certificate, arrangements
were made for the funeral and Saturdays
newspapers published eulogies o. him. The
pastor awoke after fourteen hours, surprised
to find his bedroom filled with flowers
wreaths, distant relations and friends. He
sail weakly: my call has not yet come"
The funeral has been postponed indefi-
nitely, as the doctor said the Rev. Mr.. Bau-
denbacher might live many years.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
Island Plague

Alastrim, contagious disease similar to
mild form of smallpox, is again raging or
the island of Jamaica, fully 500 cases having
been reported. The disease is found princ
pally in the country parishes.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24

State and federal agents in Colorado raided
headquarters of the entertainment commit
tee of the American Federation of Labor in
Denver, confscated twenty-one gallons of
whiskey and arrested two members of a COM
mittee named to provide entertainment for
the national convention of the order here
next summer, on charge of violating the
prohibition law.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
Boston Baths

Bathtub census returns have come to light
in Boston. In 1880 state statistics show
there were 402 persons for each bathtub in
the city. Latest figures, as announced by X.
H. Goodenough, chief engineer of the state
department of health. show that tubs have
been increased until the average is A per-
sons for each.
If the ratio of increase should be main
tanned there would be one bathtub for each
person inside of five years.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
DOROTHY, DIX TALKS
To Please the Ladies
BY DOROTHY DIX
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi-
cate, Inc.

YOUTH writes me that he greatly de-
II sires to be a riot with the ladies, and
asks me to tell him some of the things