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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
NUTHATCHES
BV John Brock

Watch the foch of nuthatches that come
fitting through the branches on the heels
! of the next storm Sooner or later
you will see every one of them hop
! headfirst down a tree trunk. This il the
outward and visible sign of the innate per-
versity of a nuthatch. Upside Iown-that's
| the way he is.
| Why else would he do it? Other bark
hunters, the woodpeckers, sapsuckers and
fickers, have some regard for the laws OF
gravity The wee brown creeper al1ghts at
the trees foot and follows an Imaginary
spiral as high up as he finds suitable cram
MES to work in There's a reason why the
nuthatch should gyrate to reach the under
side of a twig tip or the seeds OF pine cone.
! Some pines hold them upside down. But
tree trunk upside down? Never.
The white-breasted fellow is the sober ant
of the nuthatch family. wee gray-robed,
cowled monk, be endures his winter penance
to the time Of working chant, hank, hanK,
hank" Yet for all his effort he has little to
show at the end of it. In that unreasonable
| ides of March which sets him to nesting he
wakes to no evident thrill, bursts into no
ebullient song. Look, look-but-for-a-bug'
| he chants, quickening his tempo as he pur-
| sues his family duties like still more ar
duous religious rite.
| The red-breasted nuthatch is the gay
| grasshopper. He is forever twanging a
single harp string as if he might break into
a bit of music if only he could get the plagued
thing tuned right. He never does. But
he capers a bit on the wing. and often ne
tires of his pious cousins to such an extent
that Won find him in the gayer company OF
the chickadees or the irresponsible golden
crowned kinget. Yet with his obviously
weaker faith in Providence it is he who IS
the practical one of the two. He has many
a. tidbit Of wormy acorn, corn ana sunnoWel
banked away in the deepest grooves on the
| south side of an oak, where it is safe till the
rains of spring The illogical part of his
performance is that he does not stay to
profit by it. He goes stravangering on 1or
weeks together whenever he sees the snow
coming, and leaves the busy creeper 10
"pick his pockets"
Now, from beginning to end, where's the
| logic Of that?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
YOUR FEELINGS
Bv H. Addinqton Bruce


tn HERE are numerous people who would
profit in numerous ways by adopting
n the point of view Of the philosopher
who refused to allow anybody to hurt his
| feelings.
eff person doesn't mean to be insulting"
he explained, land is simply thoughtless and
tactless, it would be foolishly narrow-minded
| to put wrong construction on his words
| and be aggrieved and resentful because of
them.
and if person does mean to be insulting
and does want to hurt ones feelings, why
give him the satisfaction of realizing his
desire?"
There would be far fewer cases for the
divorce courts if this sage view were given
general adoption.
There would be far fewer men perpetually
out Of work because of "sensitiveness" that
impels them to quit their jobs whenever any
body says anything to them that they do not
altogether like.
Our prisons would have far fewer occu-
pants of the class herded in them for crimes
of violence due to passion for revenge.
The death toll Of the hangman's rope and the
electric chair would be appreciably reduced.
And paranoiacs-poor, deluded grudge-
nursing maniacs-woud not add to the main
tenance cost of our hospitals for the insane
to anything like the extent they do today.
AS for society in general, it would be an
immensely happier, more contented, more
prosperous and efficient collection of tndi-
viduals than it now Is.
For every time a person does allow his
feelings to be hurt he reacts in way detri-
mental to his own good and the good Of
others.
He may not show that he is hurt-may
refrain from even mild sulking-but the
inner turmoil he experiences reverberates
through the whole being.
Disturbing his poise, it disturbs his judg-
ment disturbs, indeed, the functioning Of all
his mental processes. And in some degree it
also affects his bodily processes.
So that, for example, if he is engaged in
work of any sort, that work will fatigue him
sooner than would otherwise be the case.
And he will work with less speed and accu-
Iracy than usual.
This means a distinct impairing of pro-
ductive efficiency. And whatever impairs pro-
ductive efficiency Injuries society as well. as
the individual.
To be sure, there are people so constituted
that 1t is next to impossible for them to
refuse to allow their feelings to be hurt
But they are a distinct minority.
The great majority have sufficient power
Of control if they will but exercise it, And
acceptance of the aforesaid philosophers
viewpoint is an excellent means whereby they
may help themselves to exercis it.
Copyright, 1921, by The Associated News
paperS.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
Ho1O This for D;;v;dend9

n DlVlDEND or twenty-five hundred per
~ cent is fairly good for a young enter
prise, is it not? That is the rate of
profit, in merely financial terms, which At
lanta derived during 1920 from her Conven-
ton Bureau. Thanks largely to the in
tluences exerted through that institution, the
city was thronged throughout the twelve
month with convention visitors whose spend
ings are conservatively reckoned at little
less than. three million dollars; and when the
total expense of entertainment and of con-
Quoting the Bureau is subtracted, there re-
mains the equivalent of a twenty-five hun
dred per rent return
This however, is least of the Bureaus
services and the lowest standard whereby the
community value Of the great gatherings
which it was the city's privilege to welcome
can be measured. Vastly more important is
the fact that in the course of the year Allan
ia was the seat of three hundred and forty
eight conventions, of which thirty-seven we're
of national scope-conventions representing
industry, commerce. agriculture, fraternal-
ism, education science, art, social betterment,
religion, indeed all the soundest and highest
interests of human society, and bringing
thither men and women of leadership from
the entire South and the entire nation. Six
years ago Atlanta ranked fifteenth as con-
vention city. Today she ranks seventh, be-
ing exceeded by only New York, Chicago, st.
Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Atlantic
City, and pressing hard upon at least two
of these.
The city's rare natural advantages, to-
gether with her prOverbial hospitality and
excellent accommo dations, are the basic ma
terials which have made the wonderful rec
ord possible. But it was the Convention
Bureau, with its keen insight and masterful
methods, that turned these resources to rich
and splendid account. The community S
warmest thanks and congratulations are due
President Paxon, Secretary Houser and all
other officers and officials Of this invaluable
organization.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
yHO the responsibility,


wv collapse of Austria is undeniable
both as a fact and as a cloud upon
Europe's common interests. Some observers
lay the blame on the treaty of Versailles
which undertook, as regards the Dual Mon
archy, they say, to shape boundaries on ra-
cial rather than economic lines" ignoring
trade, industry and commerce-everythine
by which nations live"
The fact is, racial lines themselves were
dsregarded, in that union Of Teutonic
Austria and Germany were forbidden, on the
idea that it would strengthen and embold-
en- Germany for renewed aggressions. How
ever that may be, the manifest result now
is that Austria is paying tragically for what
was intended as punishment for her neigh
Dor. Throughout the war and up to the pres
ent stage of its aftermath the country OF
which Vienna, now broken and beggared
was once the queenly capital, appears to
have been a victim of sinister influence and
luckless circumstance. 1t was from Berlin,
then the seat of ruthless militarists, that the
decisive word which kindled the World War
by way of Serbia, is believed to have come.
It was for those same militarists that Aus
tria bore terrible adversely and made heart
breaking sacrifice, notwithstanding that her
recompense, even if Germany had won,
would have been nothing better than con-
tinued Relationship under the banners of
Berlin.
When at length came the peace-making, 1t
might have been expected that Austria, hav-
ing sung no song of hate and celebrated no
Lusitania sinking, would be treated with
leniency; and it is likely that most of the
participants in the Versailles conference did
onI h0u DIT % no&,,o II
terms, hers was far the severer portion. The
breaking up Of the Dual Monarchy, loose and
Illogical miscellany Of peoples and states that
it was, merely fulfilled expectation; for long
years before the war, it was predicted that
upon the death of the old Emperor Francis
Joseph, the unwieldly empire which his
craftsmanship and tradition had somehow
held together would fall asunder. But it
was not generally expected, not even after
the armistice Of 1918 which made the Allies
dictators OF peace, that Austria proper would
be so stripped and so isolated as to render
her national existence we'll nigh impossible.
The Versailles diplomatists themselves prob
ably did not design or foreglimpse Just this
consequence.
At any rate. there seems now to be a
widening recognition Of the fact that If the
principles for which the western Powers and
America fought are in this instance to be
upheld and If the common welfare of Eu-
rope is to be conserved, way must be
found to restore Austria to economic stabil-
1ty and vigor, not by help from without so
much as by removal of disbursements
that keep her fettered Within
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
Cabin Coolidge, : American.
At1antas Honored Guest

TIANTA is happy and honored TO nave
"A az a guest that eminent American who
- is now Governor of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, aid is soon to be vice
President of the United States. Few names
have won so wide currency IN these 1atIei
crowded years Of the Republics history as
that of Calvin Coolidge, and, few personaL-
ties have appealed so d1stlnctlvely 10 tne
nublic IMAGINATION. A quietS studlous, duty
reverencing New Highlander, bent simply up
on faithful and fearless doing of the tasks
that came to his hand, he has impressed the
nation from sea to sea and proved how quick
" regional boundaries will melt before the
thrill of a common Americanism.
It was pleasingly characteristic Oh our
countrv,s less partisan and more generous
seIF that a Democratic President telegrapneo
congratulations to Republican Governor
when the latter dared to be unpopular III VI
der to be right, and stood stancnly lot Id"
and government as the peoples great cul-
wark of liberty That straightforward racing
of an issue which a mere opportunlst Woulo
have suavely evaded, that sturdy assel lioA
of American principle against BolsheVlsC III
mise meant more to the common country
welfare in that critical year than we wen c1n
reckon It marked Calvin Coondge as pelnS
incomparably more than an office holoer anu
no1itician, and joined millions OF Americans
with President Wilson IN praise OIL Ino NA0'
sachusett's Governors mettIe. ,.,uo
Ru+ while the, incident made Mr.. Cool1dse
nationally known, it did not make him wnat
he was and is. The characteristic was theie
before, and has manifested Itself since IN III
sundry acts and policies and ,utterances rlls
sneeches and writings bear witness
tbrough their direcctness, their s1mphclty "
their stress of thought and ring or nohes 81
feeling to the manner Of man he IS. II 10
not remarkable, then, that hepuD!Lcan
vice-President-elect finds warm ana aonnlii
Welcome in the heart of the ever DEMOCRACY
south. AS blood is thicker than water pa.
triotism is deeper than partisanshlp Wnen we
come to deal with the over-reacnng ISSUES
Of our national life and meet an america
in whom the best thought OF North anu
south. East and West is exemplitled' So
Mr.. Coolidge comes as one or many u ise
tinguished visitors to the southern aiHl
Congress. which convenes Thursday 1or
series of discussions and counsellngs tna'
will continue through the week. The nuhle ' :,
ous representative of business. industry anu
agriculture who are met for this purpose are
heartily welcome to the city. Phe deVelop
ments of their conferences will be observer
with wide reaching interest, and Win
general wish that whatever decisions may We
reached will make for the broadcast ana mus 3so
stable well-being Of the South and OF the
common country.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
Paris Thieves

Paris thieves are taking advantage of
the trick of Johnny Coulon, the Ameri-
can fighter, who defes any one to lift
him off the ground. The thieves talk
about the trick before an intended vic
tim. The latter is usually big man. One
of the thieves bets the big man cannot
lift him. The victim accepts and easily
lifts the thief off the ground. The thief
pays the bet and the victim finds later
that he has been robbed of his money and
jewelry.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
Muscle Shoals

Appropriation of $10,000,0OO toward
completing the Muscle Shoals, Alabama, pow
err project is to be recommended by the SEN
ate appropriations committee. By vote of
to 6, the committee added an amendment
to the sundry civil budget covering the
project.
The amendment was offered by Senator
Underwood, Democrat, Alabama, and is dis
tinct from the project for development of
the nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, proposed
in bill passed recently by the senate.
The $1O,O00,000 power development ap-
preparation was defeated in the house by a
close vote when it passed the sundry civil
measure.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
Mrs. Harding Blue

Mrs Harding blue now takes it's place as
fashionable shade along with Alice Roose-
Welt blue, Cleveland yellow, Mckinley blue,
Taft pink and other celebrated hues.
A firm here announced it had Mrs. Hard
ing's permission to present the new color
In dress goods for spring.
In nearly every administration, member
of the presidents family has manifested
gaming toward some color, which is there
upon given the presidents name. The color
Is something brought to light when the
family gives its orders for decorating rooms
in the White House.
Alice blue is we'll known. Cleveland yell
low is pansy yellow. Light blue was pre-
ferred by Mrs. Mckinley. Mrs Harrison mad
the White House blue and red rooms re-
painted in very dark shades. Mrs wilson's
favorite is an orchid hue, although her
name has never been attached to color
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
Big Tree

H. J. Bryan, who resides in Greene coun-
ty Georgia, has an unusually large apple
tree which was set out fifty-two years ago.
The tree measures eight feet around the
base, and is unusually tall. 1t measures
torty-eight feet across from tip of the limbs.
The tree was set out by W. J. Bryan,
who will soon celebrate his eightieth birth
day. The tree is standing on the old Bryan
home place and is still bearing good, large
apples This is probably the largest apple
tree in the state,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
American Education

The United States was declared to rank
ninth among the nations of the world in the
general educational level of its people, i'm a
report of the house committee ON education,
made public last week, recommending pas
sage of the Smith-Towner bill to establish
a federal department of education with fed
eral aid in increasing educational facilities.
The country is trailing behind ''most of the
civilized wOrld.'
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
FROM MY WINDOW

The next-door lady with the toque
Is thirty, 1 surmise.
And Beauty in thy shyest way
Peeps from her amber eyes.
And quiet is in her complete,
She goes so softly down the street.
In her green garden, to and fro,
l. often hear her sing
With soft, low notes, as though her throat
Fears it's own carolling.
She doesn't sing like other folk
The next-door lady with the toque.
Oh, ponderous husband! Portly owl!
Why did she marry thee?
So pleasureless, So measureless
In pompous gravity.
And how, oh! how, didst thou beguile
That lovely frightened little smile?
On summer evenings, through the dusk
She fits on love-lit feet
To meet her husband coming home
Down Alexander street.
I've seen him greet her with a scowl-
The ponderous, pompous, pOrtly OWL
Sommer is dead. The autumn sprita
With russell paint-pot shows
His handiwork. Alas! No more
My lady comes and goes.
Her windows haunt me, specterwise
With curtainless, pathetic eyes.
Oh! pity me! Oh! pity me!
Who watch uncontrolled.
She cometh not and cometh not.
I think she must be dead
. Sitting among the angel folk
Too timid to remove her toque.
Anna G. Keown, in Coterie, London.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

If the conceit were taken out Of some peo.
pie there would be nothing left to bury.
Mankind is divided into two classes-those
who drive autos and those who dodge them.
Lots of men wouldn't know what to do
with their money if they should ever get out
of debt
A girl seldom begins to take life seriously
until she has been up against one case of I'M
requited love.
With plenty of love for the wife and plenty
Of we'll prepared food for the husband there
would be fewer divorces.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Chinese Roads

Chinese hOAUS
Plans were set in motion in Decem-
her by DR.. C. T. Wang, head of the good
roads committee of the recently or
ganized Pan-Pacifc union, to hold
good roads convention in Shanghai IN
the spring Of 1921. The immediate
purpose of the convention will be to
discuss the projects of building roads
from Shanghai to Hangchow and from
Shanghai to Marking. Doctor Wang, who
was one of China's delegates to the
peace conference at Paris, is enlist1ng
the aid of heads of chambers of COM
merce and other commercial bodies ar
ranging the convention.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
Strange Rambling

That the renewed rumbling sounds
about Flat Shoals mountain, in Stokes
county, S. c., are not caused by blast
ing, was the statement made by Cap
tain T. B. McCargo, judge of Surry
county. He declared he recently visited
the mountain.
Citizens, alarmed at the noises e1na-
mating from the mountain and fearing
volcanic disturbance, have asked that
an immediate investigation be made.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS
ssTurn About Is Fair PLAY"
BY JACK PATTERSON

The Griffin News and Sun, which for
more than forty years has been con-
sistent community booster, voices the fol-
lowing timely sentiment
''The fellow who kicks his home town
shouldn't complain if he finds that in time
the town begins to kick him. Kicking is
not a profitable pastime at best, and people
would do we'll to keep this fact in mind
when they assume to emphasize their own
judgment against that Of an entire COM
munity."
Before criticising town or community
one should conduct inventory of his
own worth in the world. Usually otis not
your town, it's you
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
Cartridges Explode

Ten thousand rounds of rifle ammunition
stored in the basement of the Cleveland
Grays armory, Cleveland o., exploded We'd
nesday when flames swept through the
structure Three firemen were overcome by
smoke and were rescued by their comrades
just as the roof fell in The loss is estimated
at 100000, of which $4,000 was in gov
eminent paraphernaia.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29

Alameda, on San Francisco bay, is under
stood to have been selected by the joint
congressional committee as the site for the
main naval fleet base on the Pacific coast.
San Diego is the committees choice for
the principal aviation base and San Pedro
for the destroyer base. Establishment Of
another aviation base on the north coast, at
Sand Point, Wash, also will be recon-
mended.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
GAINESVILLE Herald CHANGES Owners

Eugene Dyar has sold the. CarnesV11le
Herald to c. J. Culpepper, who has already
assumed charge. Under the management
of Editor Culpepper, the Herald deserves
the liberal support of the people Of Carnes-
vile and contingent territory. Until re-
Gently Editor Dyar owner and publisher
of the Herald and the Royston Record.
Just how he will spend the fortune de-
rived from the sale of his two papers is
not known, but his numerous friends wish
him mighty we'll.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
Cure for Motor Casualties

-OTING the fact that in NUMBERS ol
~ of cities the death rate from automo-
- b;1a accidents exceeds that from ty-
nhoid and other maladies, the southern
Medical Journal takes the interesting posi-
tion that these numerous casualties consul
tute what amounts to a public healtn PROV
lem. Assuredly it is right in. suggesting InaI
the same educational methods Wnlcn n a:u
done so much to check and control ols-
ease should be applied as thoroughly as Is
practicable to the prevention of motor Venl-
Gle accidents. , -
In the last decade or so there has been
most gratifying decrease in mortality from
typhoid thanks largely to the campaigns Oh
nuhlic enlightenment and appeal which. doc
tors. health officials and the press have SO
earnestly waged ''There u.s.. of course,
saws the Southern Medical Journal, "a dill
ferent angle to the problem OF preventing
autom obile accidents, but the principle Oh
educating all the people to the point Wnere
they will realize the danger to themselves
and to others in taking unnecessary risks, IS
the same as teaching them to avoid expos
ing themselves and others to contagious dis
eases" ".
Wise words, and seasonably spoken!
"Speed fends" who run in criminal denance
of law and public welfare are but hand
full to the generally well-meaning but care
less persons who injure others and them
selves in the ever thickeningA traffic Of cities
and highways. Most of these are amenaple
to education, but they need to be admonlshed
over and over and over again that excessive
speed sharp turns, taking the, wrong side
of the road. passing street cars contrary TO
rules of safety, and every such lapse from
caution renders one liable, at any time.
not only to mishaps but to incidents of trag-
ic consequence. Education upon these lines
cannot fail to be gradually effective. And
certainly it is sorely needed!
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
Wilhelm Insane?

The Berne correspondent of L'Intransig-
cant decares it was believed there that the
former kaiser is losing his mind. He was
said to be unable to write now, that he
could not remember names and faces and
that his encourage had grave fears for his
sanity. Berne is a gathering place for for
mer royalty which is believed to be con-
versant with affairs in the kaiser's retreat.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
Census Figures

The negro population of Pittsburg, re-
vised to october %, 1920, was $685. an
increase of 1905 or All per cent. Inc
white population was 550,301, an increase
of 42293, or 8.3 per cent, and all otners
354.
Negroes in Philadelphia numbered 1884,
O9S, an increase Of 1859, or 58.8 per
cent. The white population was given as
1,688,313, an increase of 224,942, or 1914
per cent, and all others 1,l78.