Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
Starting the New Year Right

the new 4 ear ft1Sn
L dropped into provision store
his morning in my home town
hunting something good to eat-and
from the confusion in the store room
and the piles of various things on
the floor, I concluded the food mer-
chant was moving out. 1 rather
limited so much to him. mo! No!
Ma'am-We are only taking Stock
[ saw the clerks moving things on
the shelves and busting them off,
and I decided that neatness and
cleanliness would prevail after the
thrifty spring merchant was doing
the needful things that must be done
once year, at least.
1 remembered also that I had need
for such work in and around my
home, if I could secure the neces"
sary assistance for that purpose
Starting the new year Alright is
exactly what we all need to do, in
very many lines of progress, domes-
tic and spirit, as well as CONNER
cial. -.
The big profits and high cost of
living; will both affect the star[la nS,
and there are people who. have beGn
so nearly crazed by high prices for,
land and homes that they have ac-
tually sold themselves out of house
and home and are sorry enough
about their own lack of wisdom.
homes in. a good locality, especially
if you have family of children to
raise and educate, should certainly
find out about what other foolish
people have done, who are never sat
isfied after jumping into Nasty
trades with shrewder people - IN
selling what you need for yourselves!
Money is a very. valuable com,
modify, but money lacks a good deal
of being the best thing, for, you or
yours-if you are not able TO prlng
up your children il community
with the right kind Of folks; II you
have sold out and are obliged TO
move, [ pray you, be careful TO tlnu
out what sort of people you must
have for .neighbors, before you ouV
the second time and locate.
The security of our own country
lies in the homes of our population
IT ia not an essential thing that
they shall be fine homes-1ndeeo the
neonle who own the finest homes IN
America do not expect to lnhaplt
them except for a few weeks IN the
year. 1t is the people who stay IN
their own homes-very often humble
homes-that compose the pacKpohe
of the nation.
The very rich can go to Europe
for foreign travel. They can own
lodge in the high Adirondacks for
July and August-shey can WISH
Miami and St. Petersburg or beau
tiful Los Angeles in mid-Wlnter.
They are birds of passage as rule
They can't be very neighborly.
1t is far otherwise with the aver
age citizen of the United States.
Home for them is home from Jan
uary to December. You can find
them by writing to them. You can
see them by visiting them. They
know all about the section OF coun-
try they live in. They are part of
on foot, these stable ones can rise
UP and be counted. The most useful
person in the average community
is the one who loves his place of
residence, and whose children are
willing to live in and around the old
we'll as the pleasures of their ma
tive place with their own kindred.
Therefore, start right, in buying
you a home, if you haven't such
possession and particularly if you
were tempted to sell what really
suited you because somebody envied
you and was willing to step into
your shoes, and pay big price for
the privilege.
I was born in the country and
have lived on farm the greater part
of my long life. There is a freedom
and independence about farm lie
that I have never found anywhere
else. 1 do not know a prettier sight
than young farmers home, where
his industrious wife can conduct her,
part of the business with skill an
Observation-Disclosures the baby ones C
frolic like little colts and calves
and enjoy the natural things that
pertain to such an existence. The
town children must be dressed up at
least once q day-and as soon as
they are large enough to see what
all the children around them are
doing, they must have a dime Git
used to be a nickeD and go down
town and spend it. 1t burns in their
fingers until they get relieved of it.
The country children can play all
day-get to bed earIy-and have no
such temptation to eat or spend
money for things that they are bet
ter Off without, as a rule. This
spending habit is very serious
thing for children.
I would send the returned soldiers
the young ones, to country home,
if | wanted to provide the best and
safest places for them.
There is no Disgusting the fact,
that we must have great many
more farm homes than any other
sort of homes. They are the pro-
ducers. The rest of the population
are consumers.
I wish our people could only stop
awhile and consider what we are