Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-20
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND THE MODERN HOUSEWIFE
The Country Home
BY MRS. VI. I'll. FELTON,
What Keeps Your Body Warm?


In plain words, there is something
that keeps living body warm be.
sides the heat Of the sun or the re.
Election from fuel burning in your
fireplace or CRATES. People in colo
room, not well wrapped in blanketn
can keep warm without any fire.
The scientists tell us that the food
WeStake into our stomachs is exactly
what warns our entire bodies. With
out food, nothing will warm your Z
human frame.
Without fire or other fuel nothing
VIII warm your house. When YOU
make a fire and it burns down there
is lett cinders and ashes. The wastes
OF the human body are what is left
OF the FOOD that you have eaten. The
olllerence between a fire in a stove
ana the slow combustion $50 to
speak) Of the food you have eaten is
tnat the stove fire destroys fuel rap
ioIy. Inc waste of the human body
is much slower process, but it is
real actual heat, that is evolved in
ootn cases. 1t Is the conversion of
1000 INTO blood, and the support Of
your vital organs, by regular sun.
AOCN
awe. When you starve to death
you die from lack Of heat as SURELY
as you freez to death in a reyase Of
Ice and snow. 1t is because Of the
continual recreation of the tissues
supplied by raw material known as
Iood that keeps any Of us out of the
grave. 1t keeps the living machin.
cry supplied with muscular energy
Tor any form Of work. You often
near it said, HE must have plenty
TO eat or he can't work" It would
be better to say, eff he don't supply
heat to his body by means of food.
ne will die-without heat and with.
out any remedy. The use of narcotic
drugs 1mpedes the action of the
1ood you consume. They paraIyze
the cells OF the body without recre.
atlng energy. Have I explained WIN
your body keeps warm when there is
no IRE or outside heat in reach?
Fighting With Coal Miners
Inc papers OF today have columns 4
printed on the fighting in Kansas
where frenzied women led in the
struggle and carried their struggle
TO present. victory. OF course, there
must be an aftermath to matters Of
this and similar kind.
Ihere has been terrific struggle
already of the same sort in West
virginia, except that hundreds Of
strlklng\ men are now prisoners in
Jail.
A generous friend in New York
city has presented me with a valua.
Die BOOK written by Sir Philip Gibbs.
OF England, entitled More That
Must Be Told" There are nearly
NJ tLa hNo
by Harper & Brothers. The p,b.
fishers copyrighted the volume in
the present year, 1921.
CHANGING over some pages-where
the struggle of coal miners in Eng
land is depicted. I am interested.
Just few words-here copied:
Coal exports had now dropped with
a rush Q920-2D. France, Italy and
other countries who were in desper.
ate need for fuel, found they could
do without ours. The German de-
liveries were beyond the capacity Of
France to use in her own factories.
The surplus France sold to Italy and
others. American coal was coming
cheaper to the continent, across the
Atlantic, than we could sell it from
New South Wales. It was then that
our government abandoned control
of these mines-hauled them back
to their owners--with the suggestion
they must make the best of bad
business. Between mine owners,
managers of mines and cabinet min
1sters-there were few whispered
words, a slight detection of the eye
lids, and a nod of assent. They said
these miners must be brought to
heel Make a drastic cut in wages.
the time and it has got to be DONE"
in the spring of 1921, England
came very near to revolution. Only
a few hours, and a few men were
between the challenge and the con.
f1ict.
If 10 o'clock had struck on Fri
day night the 18th of April, 1921,
without repeal of the notices to
the railway and transport men, there
woul1 certainly have been a class
warfare leading to bloodshed and
civil disorder of the widest kind.
cit was not difficult to tell what
would have happened. I have seen
strikes in England before. This sue.
cess would have embittered further,
millions of men standing idle, loaf
ing about the goods yards, along
with revolutionary fanatics, ready
for social destruction at all costs
the usual minority Of young thieves
and blackguards seeming loot with
itching fingers for other folks
property. There would have been
darkness in the great cities--the
wailing of illfed children in voorhees,
homes-the excitement Of women
the sense of fear, which is the faith. ;.
er of cruelty. Ones imagination
need go no further. It might have
completed the ruin of Old EuRtAn1.
| of all Great Britain and brought the
empire down. The cost of a defense
force was nearly million pounds
| week." "a pound is $50
The mine-owners risked the whole
life Of the nation by a wicked dis
regard of consequences. 1t was
unacceptable to self-respecting men.
who craved a decent living for wives
and children, and the government
secretly connived at (the very low
wage scale that was offered these
miners) it,"
| MY time and space have a. limit In
| these columns. I am writing what
happened in Old England this year.
| The newspapers are printing what
is happening in the United States
with coal miners and mine-owners-
| in this year. These things are more
than suggestive.
girl or boy is. Consequently 1t IS
| up to parents to do their duty and
he firm with their child in order to