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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-13
DOROTHY DIX TALKS-The Art of Growing Old


r NASMUCH as the only way we can escape
growing old is by dying young, why
Il do we pay so little attention to the art
Of growing old gracefully?
We are always preaching to the young
about what they should do to render them
selves more agreeable to their fellow
creatures. We tell them they must avoid GER
tain faults, and practice certain virtues. we
counsel them to display modesty, self-re-
straint and consideration for others in their
demeanor if they wish to make themselves
persona gracia with their families and friends.
We urge them to mind their manners as
our nurses used to say, and to be careful
that their personal habits are not such as
to offend those with whom they come IN
contact.
But while we are so tnsstent about the
young making themselves livable, so to
speak, nobody ever says word to the old
about correcting their faults, and making
themselves more agreeable companions. Yet
surely Grandpa and Grandma might eliminate
many of their most trying characteristics II
they would. It's never too late to learn.
OF course every right-minded person feels
it a duty to take care of the aged but in the
great majority of cases it is duty and not
a pleasure, as it should be. 1t takes a lot
of patience and self-control to bear with the
vagaries Of the old, and almost super-human
endurance to keep up an appearance Of in
terest in their oft-told tales.
1t is. a terrible thought that this as fate
that will overtake us all if we don't watch
out. We too shall come to the place where
we are endured instead Of welcomed, and
where we bore people to tears instead Of en-
PERTAINING them.
So while we still young we should
begin to prepare for old age, and to guard
against the vices of age. The principle one
is self-conceit. Why the possession of years
should be supposed to endow an individual
with supernatural wisdom, goodness only
knows. 1t does, however, and every old per-
son believes firmly that he or she is an in
carnation of Solomon at his most sapient
moment.
A man never have had enough intell1-
gence to make living, but just because he
is seventy years old, he feels perfectly con-
fident to tell the Secretary of the Treasury
how to run the finances of the government.
A woman may have been such a fool that
she kept her house like pig sly, and prac-
tically murdered every one of her own chill
dren through ignorance, but just because she
has gotten old she is sure that she knows
more about raising children than Doctor Holt
and all the baby specialists put together.
It is this constant flow of ;.dvice on every
subject under the sun that makes old people
get on our nerves worse than anything else,
and so as a preparation for old age we
might begin by cultivating in ourselves a
Spartan determination to refrain from put
ting our fingers into other peoples affairs.
Really this hallucination that you are Old
Man, or Old Lady Know-it-all is far greater
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-13
i Not Such a Sorry World

WHILE engaged enthusiastically in
w kicking about this "sorry scheme OF
/ things entire" did you ever take time
out to contemplate the lot, in this year OF
grace 1921, of the average man, with an aver
age income, as compared with, say, nun
dred or two hundred years ago?
couple of hundred years ago, when the
average man wanted to go three miles, ne
walked. When his wife wanted goods at
the store, he went after them--or one OF
the children went. When cold weather
came he lugged in wood, which he previous
ly had cut up toilsomely, and built a ire,
barking his quivering knuckles in the cold
gray dawn and cursing perfervidly il not
warmly as he hacked away with flint and
steel. the Goals having died out during the
night When he wanted to communicate
with his relatives hundred miles away ne
started a letter and was lucky to get his re-
ply in the same month. Shaving was JOB
to be put over. to Sunday morning and hot
water was luxury. He read 1nfrequenI
books by Pickering candle light and his
children were taught to the accompaniment
OF hickory stick.
Now the average man turns on an cleo
trio light and in half an hour learns from
furnace keeps the entire house warm and
comfortable, and he would, if put to it, pay
twice as much for coal rather than go out
and frost-bite his hands cutting down trees
If the average man hasn't an elaborate
library of his own, he can get anything he
wants from the public library. On his table
is a telephone over which he can talk to
any city in the country and to practically
anybody in the town. His wife orders
groceries that are delivered at the door.
The family washing is done by laundry;
the. floors are cleaned with vacuum
sweeper; hot water at all times and safe
ty razor make shaving a pleasant way to
start the day. His children attend a school
where better education is to be had than
the sons of kings could get, two hundred
years ago. He may wait five minutes on
street car, but he travels four miles in the
time it would take him to walk one.
It really is very fine, when you stop to
think about it. There is only one danger.
Soft living is likely to develop soft genera
lions. 1t has happened before, when the
living was not so soft as it is today.
A little meditation on how easy living
really is nova modicum Of gratefulness
for itJ-would do much for the possibly FLAG
cid spirit .of these easy and pleasant times.
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Boil Weevil Seeks Information

Although the government cotton report was
not scheduled to come out until Thursday
September 1, boil weevl was found in the
office of The Advocate-Democrat here We'd
nesday at noon busily engaged in studying the
newspapers on Editor Tsotter's desk. 1t is
thought the weevil wcs looking for the crop
report in order to find out if any cotton had
been overlooked by his tribe, and if so just
where it was located. However, whatever in
formation he may have forgotten will. do this
particular weevil no good, and if he was a
committee of one appointed by his co-workers
to find out and make report on the matter,
which is thought to have been his real pur-
pose in the office, then his report will never
reach the ones he represented for he was cap
turd and killed and is now an inhabitant Of
that country to which all good Cor bad) boil
weevils finally go.-Crawfordville Advocate
Democrat.
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indication of age than mere wrinkles and
gray hair.
You never see the young afflicted with the
advice habit. They willing for everybody
to play the game off of their own bat. It's
only the old who insist on your doing every
thing, from winding the clock TO running
your business, like they say, and are hurt
and offended if you don't do it.
Another vice of old age is believing that
its point of view is the only point Of view,
and that the only proper way to do anything
is the way it was done in it's youth.
That's why it's an ordeal in SO many fam
lilies to have Grandma around. Every time
one of the girls gets new dress there has
to be fight with the old lady because it
isn't seven yards around the bottom, because
it doesn't come up to the ears, and under
the feet, as did the frocks when she was
girl. And as the modern dances and auto
MODELLING, what Grandma's got to say about
them, and those who engage in such pastimes,
sounds like the utterances of the ancient
prophets about Sodom and Gomorrah, for they
didn't shimmy and joyride in Grandma's day.
And it's because Grandpa is set against
all new-fangled ways Of business that drags
many a firm down to bankruptcy, or keeps
it marking time while his sons wait for the
old man to die.
Therefore, as another prevention against
the horrors of age, we do we'll to cultivate
shifting viewpoint, and when we find we
are getting mentally stiff to force ourselves
to quickstep. We are never old as long as
we can change our opinions, and learn new
ways of doing things.
Perhaps the greatest vice OF old age-at
least the that is most affecting to the
general public-is the habit old people fall
into of telling the same stories over and over
again, and of reminiscing about their past.
Of course, with the very aged this is senile
dementia, and cannot be controlled. But
short of that, the garrulous monolog about
ones own private affairs is simply a bad
habit which increases with age because we
all feel that we must listen with a certain
respect to the boring stories of the old that
we would cut short from the young.
Surely, however, no one can yearn to be
bore, and we would do much to avoid that
phase of age by training ourselves, from
youth up, to keep tab on our stories, and
refrain from repeating them, and by always
| remembering that no human being, save our
selves, thirst for information about the de-
tails of our little Johnny. cutting his teeth,
or the time we went fishing in 1906.
Tallerand advised everyone to learn to
play a good game of whist while they were
young so they might not pass miserable old
age. 1t is equally advisable to cultivate
while one is young the amenities that will
keep one from affecting the other with ones
society when one is old.
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Syndicate)
Inc.O
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Thunder and Lightning

TT remained for this material age to go
Ajax one better. Ajax, If tradition is
to be trusted, defed the lightning. DR..
Charles P. Steinmetz has put commercial
value on it, in dollars and cents. That is,
DR.. Steinmetz has put a value on lightning
In cents, because it doesn't get up Into the
dollars, with the celestial meters at their
present setting.
At the power rate of 5 cents per kilowatt
hour, calculates DR.. Steinmetz, the electri-
cal force used in putting on a flash of light
ming of good grade and average illumina-
ton for the usual period Of one ten-thou-
s4ndth part of a second would cost about
70 cents.
frst-class thunderstorm, therefore,
could be cooked up at a cost Of, say, ten or
fifteen dollars, provided the display were
not to last all evening.
The thunder would be thrown ina sort
of celestial lagniappe. 1t is explained as a
direct consequence of the lightning, as fol-
lows:
Sudden and intense heating and molec-
ular dissertation occur along the path Of a
lightning discharge. Hence a correspond
ing abrupt expansion, Stimulating a violent
explosion, also occurs along this path; and
this expansion in turn produces a COM
preston wave in the surrounding atmos-
phere that travels outward exactly would
any other sound wave
This Is a lot more than Ajax knew about
It, so his defiance Of the lightning Is all
the more to the credit Of his courage.
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TO- K.
By DR.. Frank Crane


c to K is formula invented, to the best
of my belief, by B. L. Taylor, King of col
yuiaists 1t means Curious to Know.
I have jotted down from time to time GER
tain things 1 am to K, and pass them on,
for the readers amendment.
I am G to K.
Why people go on wearing hats all sum-
mer.
Why suspenders are made for six buttons,
when they only need two.
Why, when you find two swinging doors
at the hallway entrance of an office building,
one of them is usually fastened. Why don't
they let them both swing?
Why girls giggle all the time even when
they are saying it looks like rain, or thaC
they like flowers.
Why we all get so worked up over govern
ments, institutions, the millennium and the
League of Nations, and all such long affairs,
when we will all be dead pretty soon.
Why an automobile salesman makes more
money than a school teacher.
Why we talk loud and fast to a foreigner
that does not understand us, instead of slow
and clear.
Why we are so polite to people we meet
but once, and so impolite to those we live
with every day.
Why it rains on the ocean.
Why any one is peeved at another's sue
cess. Why envy.
Why such marked difference in the psychic
rays people send out, one person affecting us
like breath of Spring, another repelllng us
as discord or bad odor, and still another
just nothing.
Why people who write books telling us
how to be rich and successful are not rich
and successful themselves.
Why the skllful Almighty made so many
unbeautiful people.
Why beautiful women are not all good
and why most of them are pigeon-headed.
Why anything so good as ice cream is not
wicked.
Why, when you want only spoonful or
so of medicine to dress your sore finger, or
just one pill to take at night or just little
bit of something or other, and go to a drug
store for it, you can buy only quantity that
will last you for six years; so that every
houses medicine chest is numbered with anti
quated bottles and pill boxes from which one
dose only has been taken. You don't throw
the rest away because it cost SO much, also
because you are slave of that time honored
superstition that has loaded all homes with
junk-"You might need it some time
Why people argue.
Why religion, the most interesting subject
to the greatest number of people, is taboo in
polite conversation.
Why it is so much easier to believe one
does not like me than to believe one does
like me.
! Why sophistication, which means bore
dom, sneers at, and considers itself superior
to, unsophistication, which means enjoyment
and interest.
Why every young fool must learn only
from his own experience, which is expensive
painful, and dangerous, and cannot learn
from other peoples experience, which is
cheap and pleasant.
Why we have to die just about the time
we have learned how to live.
Copyright. 1921. by Frank Crane)
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-13
Editorial Echoes

The Wild and Woody West-Virginia.-
Ashevile On. CO. Times.
We have tried government control of al,
most all public utilities except the bootleg
ger-Hartford Times.
There are quite few who would like to
celebrate Labor Day this year by working
Detroit News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-13
Living Costs

Increases in the retail prices of food in
August as compared with July shown in sta
tistics for fifteen additional Cities made
public by the department of labor included
In Louisville, KY, and Houston, Texas,
three per cent and Dallas, Texas, two per
cent.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-13
Suns Rays
achievement


The next great achievement of science will
be utilization of the suns rays to provide
light, heat and power.
This prediction was made by DR.. Arthur
D. Little, Of Boston, in an address at the in.
ternational convention Of chemists Accord
ing to DR.. Little, the sun alone is worthy Of
scientific investigation as source of energy.
He rejected wind, waves and tides
He said he presumed chemistry would play
an important part in Harvesting solar rays to
supplant the dwindlng supplies of coal, Pc
troleum and other sources of energy.
Attacking the claim that labor is the great
producer of energy, DR.. Little asserted that
few men with brains could apply scientific
principles to accomplish what mere muscle
could not do.
Hydraulic Devices" he said, enable one
man to operate the locks of the. Pana ma canal,
and the desert of Sahara, with it's six million
square kilometers of area, receives daily solar
energy equivalent to that Of six billion tons
of coal. The world awaits the genius who
will convert radiant energy into electric cur
rent
Since coal must remain for generations
our chief emergency resource, the line Of
progress parallels the better utilization of
coal"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-13
Restrictions Removed

American citizens no longer require GUS
toms permits in sailing for Europe, nor are
they required to produce an income tax re-
ceipt before sailing from this side, according
to bulletin just issued by the international
Mercantile Marine company, operating the
American line, the Red Star Line, and the
White Star line, in transatlantic passenger
service.
The removal of these restrictions, 1t is
pointed out, greatly simplifies the details of
preparation for a voyage abroad, removing
certain requirements that have existed since
the beginning of the great war. German sub
jects no longer need passports to enter Ger
man territory, but will be admitted on pres
entation of affidavts to their national
public
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-13
Heroic Surgeon

Heroic work was done b. DR.. Pedro Con-
zales Rodriguez, a naval surgeon, during
the fighting along the Alhucemas coast be-
tween the Spanish battleship Catalina and
the Moroccan rebels, says the Diario Uni
.versal. The warship directed a heavy fire
at Moorish positions on shore, and large
numbers of Moroccans fell seriously wound
ed. They were making vain efforts to es-
cape when DR.. Rodriguez asked permission
from the Cataluna's captain to land and at
tend the wounded.
The landing was made in full view OF the
enemy, who, observing the humanitarian eff
forts of the Spaniards, ceased firing, and al
lowed the landing to be made without re-
sistance. After rendering aid, the doctor
returned on board the warship, accompanied
by the men whose lives he had saved.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-13
Railroad Plea

Another appeal for relief was made to
President Harding on behalf of the railroads
this week by Alfred P. Thorn, counsel for the
railway executives. The railroads will be
hampered seriously in fall and winter busi-
unless they get prompt aid, he told
the president He received the impression
that the president is anxious to have congress
pass the railroad relief bill at the earliest
possible time.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-13

.HE Cahoka Indian mounds near East
st. Louis, ILL.,, are in danger of being
destroyed by the growth of that city,
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wv re of the South eulogize and are eu-
M logized frequently on the marvellous
resources of this section and its
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-13

Purchase and distribution of 264 tons o.
wood for student hostels in Vienna, to enable
these hostels to have fires during the winter
Medical examination and treatment of slcl
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-20
NEW RACQUET CLUB RULES
Move to Boom Athletics Begun a.
Meeting Last NIoht

At the annual meeting Of the Racquet
Club last night several cnanges we're
made in the constitution OF the or
ganization.
The most important of those amend
ments was the insertion of a new article,
providing that men between the ages
Of twenty-one and twenty five years
may benceforth be elected playing mem
bers Of the club with the privilege Of
paying one-baf of the initiation fee
and one half Of the membership dues
II was explained by Richard II.
Norton, secretary of the club, that the
measure was decided upon as a means
of broadening the scope OF the or.
sanization In the field OF athletics.
"We have felt for some time" said
Mr.. Norton, "that what tho Racquet
Club needed most was the infusion Of
new blood to carry on it's fine sports
The new section in the con
stHution is designed to encourage up
young fellows to join the or
ganization and uphold It's splendid
The club now holds the court
tennis and squash racqucts champion
ships Of the world
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-20
PASTORS WILL PROBATED
The Rev. George BurnfieId Left Es.
tate Valued at $16.491

The will of the Rev. George Burn
field. 1886 West Clcarfield street, pas
tor of tho North Broad Street Prcsby
tcrian Church. was probatcd today be =
fore Register of Wills Shechan in City
Hall
DR.. Erlrnfcld, who died March Il,
leaves an estate of SIG. .iS1 to his widow
Sarah.
Other wills probatcd today are as
follows Charles G.. Cameron. 2501
North Broad street, $500: Matilda C..
Farley. 252 High street. S17 900; Mary
4. Gilc. 51I0 West Girard avenue,
$3.50; Mary A.. Mullin, 243 North
Tenth street. S23 900; James McSorley,
1896 North Fifty ninth street $500.
The following letter Of administration
was also granted: Lcvanda I. Stout,
oG9G North Eleventh street. $4,000.
Inventories of personal estates Fl led
we're: Martha Roberts. S5,572,5S; John
TTolroyd S11 ,43l 40, and Luke Fox,
s.. .iO6 II.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-20
WOMAN AT MOVIE
THIEVES GET HAUL
JeweIry and Clothing Worth
$4OO Stolen in Broad
Daylight

The home of william Huder, a3O
West Erie avenue, was entered yester-
day afternoon by thieves, who stole
iewelry and clothing valued at S4OO and
500 in cash belonging 10 Mr.. Huder's
mother.
Mr.. Hudcr. on returning from work
late in the afternoon. was unable TO
open his front door. Upon investign-
ton he found that n chair had been
wedged against It. Going to the rear Of
the house, he discovered n papn OF glass
in the shed had been broken. u
panel knocked out Of the kitchen door
and the bolt slipped back.
Every bureau drawer and wardrobe
closet was rnnsackcd. Many valuable
coins belonging to Leonard A. Hudcr,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-20
YOUTHS THEORIES
CAUSE OWN ARREST.
ardmore Man Plays Sherlock
and Draws Suspicion
to Himself
7ElL.TALE MARKS ON SHOES

Plaster Of paris knocked TO the floor
from windowsill whcn II burglar
torccd a window in the drug store of
clarence G.. Warner. IIavcrford avenue
and I,crkclcy road ITnycrford, Monday
night. led to the arrest OF the alleged
thief late Yesterday.
lie Is Joseph Messenger. twenty. three
,cars old. Locust avenue. Ardmorc. and
l. ,uid to have confessed the robbery TO
,'hicf of Police Donaghy, OF 1iavcr-
ford. , am.
rsrc Investigating the robbery a crowd
NJ Youths lettering around the drug store
offered suggestions and comments on the
host methods of crime detection and
theories on the way the store was robbed
and S12S taken. Underneath the rear
window through which entrance had
bcen gained was burst bag Of plaster
of paris. There we're footprints in it
and IL had been tracked all over the
store.
Masscugcr, il is said w8s more gem
crous in his suggestions than any of the
snectators and Donaghy drew him out
op his theory Of the crime. While lis
tcning to Messenger the police chief
claims TO have noticed traces Of white
substance on Messengers trousers and
shoes. Donaghy and Mullin left. and
after investigating Messengers move
mcnts the previous night, placed him
under arrest
Hc first claimed innocence. but later,
il is alleged. broke down and confessed
he had hidden the money in n talking
machine case at his home. IL was later
found there, the police say.
Messenger has his left arm in n sling. !
and according to the police ho tried
70 force the windSw with one hand and
in doing so displaced the bag of plas-
for of paris.