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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-28
BIG BERTHA
BV Dr.. Frank Crane


One of the most striking incidents of the
war was the bombardment of Paris by a cannon
from distance of some forty miles.
At Coucy-le- Chateau | saw the emplacement
where the gun had been. 1t was concrete
pitt shallow, with walls about six feet thick.
The diameter of the place was about 200 feet.
The gun was marine cannon with an extra
tube for long distance firing. 1t shot almost
straight up, that the shells tell almost
straight down upon the city.
Among the war material the Germans gave
up was no such gun. They said they couldn't
find it.
The place is just little way out in the
woods from the town of Coucy-leChateau.
Thick forest is all about. Here and there is
a shattered tree or a shell hole where the
French shot at it. They never hit it,
1t bombarded Paris forty-eight days.
1t did not do much damage. The wonder is
it did so little. The Spanish influenza which
was prevalent in Paris in the summer of 1918,
killed more people in one day than all the
German air raids and BerthaS killed in four
years.
partment of the Seine was AL killed and $40
wounded.
The object of the bombardment of the city
was pure ''frightfulnesS;" it was the policy of
the Germans to strike terror to the enemy
population and so destroy its morale
They did not succeed. The Partisan was
supposed to be excitable and easily subject to
panic. But while he gets heated up over a
small matter, he is Singularly calm in the
presence of great danger.
During the war Paris was as gay as it ever
had been. Food was plentiful and living was
cheap. The ParisianS went about as usual, un-
disturbed by the destruction that Stalked at
MONDAY and the terror that flew by night.
The boom of bursting shell was greeted
with ripples Of laughter by the midnettes.
During one of the worst raids, in March
1915 bomb fell near one of the theaterS soon
after the play had begun. The manager an
nounced from the stage that if the audience
desired the performance would stop and all
money would be returned, All the actresses
were willing to continue Few left; the play
went on, after little delay due to the trouble
of finding an underStudy for the only male
performer in the cast who was in a state OF
physical collapse from fright.
When there was an air raid at night the Sire-
was sounded and everybody was expected tc
run to the cellar.
Many OF the cellars were fitted up comfort
ably, some luxurously.
The greatest damage was done by shell
that struck q church of Good Friday, 1913
when large congregation was assembled
Eighty-four people were killed and many
wounded.
ANODOS'y, aS d lule, was NUT ny Dig DeItnt
shells except those in the upper story Of
houses The shells falling almost perpendic
ularly struck the roof and exploded. The tor
stories were occupied by servants who were
absent during the day from their quarters The
gun was fired only in the daytime so that it
flash by night would not reveal it to the
French air men. For this particular reason no
much damage done.
The Germans seem to have misjudged tht
quality of French courage.
Big Bertha was not success
copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)
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Sque1ch1ng a Politician

S a Gopernur, indicted on charges of en-
bezzlement, immune from arrest and
prosecution? AID Illinois court answers
with keen common sense as we'll as unsWerV-
ing justice Touching the issue as it now
involves that States scandal-clouded and de-
fiant chief magistrate, Judge Smith, OF
Springfield. maintains that within his Julls-
diction there is no divine right or KINGS
that it transgresses the scope OF executive
power for Governor Small to summon troops
to shield himself from the laws due process;
that Withholding Of warrants Simply 10
spare his dignity would be favorltlsln anu
if prolonged, might easily tade INTO the
statutes of limitation; that the governor Hust
conform to law, but that he should De per
mitted voluntarily to present himself pc
fore the court
Distinctly sagacious is this last provision
in that it refuses melodramatic martyrdom
to one who evidently Graves 1t. Governor
Small, apt pupil Of Chicago's notorious Mayor
Thompson, appears 20 have treated with lev
ity the charges lodged against him, but not
the chance Of a theatrical tilt with justice.
Resistance to the uttermost," "bulWarK
of bayonets," come and get me-" such has
been his staggering spirit when all that is
required is that he act with good citizens
regard for judicial forms and institutions
But the court contents itself with an answer
at once cogent and soft. That the law is no
respector of persons, it asserts with full en-
phasis; but it does not fall in with the gov
errors ambition to play hero to Hoodium
town; it does not order him hailed to the bar
with oxen and wainrOpes.' or dragged
thither at the heels of foamiug horses; it
permits him, with the Difference due every
great office if not every office holder, to
present himself voluntarily, if he do so with
in a reasonable time.
Politicians of this type are squelched by
nothing so effectively as by being stripped
of opportunities for sensational display.
Forced into paths who're unaffected ability
and character are required, they shrink to
wretched insignificance They must be
bumptious, lionesque, mysteriously wise,
high-jowled, "pot valorous,' as Carlyle would
say, or they will be recognized for the stupid
parasites they are. The charges against the
present governor of Illinois may be, as he
AYERS, trumped up by his political foes but
certainly his manner and his personality as
revealed in public record are of the kind that
have been the bane Of popular government
time out of mind long age ago Jack Cad'e
harangued the London rabble with, There
shall be in England seven half-penny loaves
sold for penny; the three-hoop pot shall
have ten hoops; and l will make it felony
to drink small beer; all the realm shall be
in common, and in Cheapside shall my pal
frey go to grass long age ago, but are
not the attitude and sentiment, the gesture
and strategy duplicated a thousand times
throughout the world today?
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of q nations Lwn air forces, it is conceivable
that in another great war, should on7 occur
aircraft would wreak terrible havoc In the
commercial fleets of the nations unless be-
fore that war occurs the nations evolve some
adequate defense from air attacks for these
commerce bearers.
The New Big Gun
Recently newspapers published reports OF
the development of gun which would hurl
a projectle weighing many tons a distance
of from 200 to 800 miles. Naturally, such a
weapon would be practically useless against
ships at sea, as they are far and away beyond
the horizon and beyond the reach of spoilers
in observing planes. Add to iris the fact
that a fleet target would be always on the
move, and the uselessness Of the big guns
against navies becomes more apparent.
If the gun proves practicable it would be
terrible weapon is land warfares, however
The present-day big land guns are so power
full that the strongest Notifications are soon
destroyed by them. Early in 1914 this was
demonstrated by the advancing German ar
mics, when the finest and most modern for
tresses in the world were reduced one by one
by the big guns.
The "seventy-five-mile sum- with which
Paris was bombarded did not do great deal
of tonnage from a military point Of view, but
it demonstrate to artillerymen all over the
that it possible to shoot gun OF
tremendous range with accuracy, and that
further development of the weapon would
render it more useful as a destructive agent
in the future if wars are to continue. The
explosive shell us>u in the long-range Ger
man gun was mere pin prick in comparison
with the destruction which the new gun now
talked of would accomplish. Hurting a high
explosive shell hundreds Of miles into enemy
territory, and demolishing everything for
long distance around the point of explosion,
it would be truly awful attacking weapon.
No sort of a lnament to Withstand such gun
fire could be effective.
There is little doubt that the proposed new
gun could be made accurate. Marvellous &C
curacy is obtained with all Of the big guns
now in use, including the indirect firing guns
or mortars. The charge which propels the
projectles is measured almost to the last
grain of powder. So we'll is thi4 science per-
fected that in target practice at sea- when
two big guns are fired, sometimes only one
splash will result when the two projectiles
hit the sea at exactly the same point and at
precisely the same fraction of a second.
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HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES-By Dorothy Dix
BY DORO THY
BY DORO THY DIX

thinking the others occupation is picnic,
and their own job grinding work because
neither has ever tried to shoulder the others
burden. Furthermore, it is perfectly Logical
that they should take this opposite point OF
view because they have always seen each
others lot from different angles.
Home means to the man place OF rest
and relaxation, of good food and cleanl-
ness and order-the most desirable and com
Portable spot in the world in which to be,
and he has no conception of the endless
labor it takes to produce this result. He
never stops to think of the hours it takes TO
prepare the dinner that is eaten in half an
hour, of the WEAKNESS that has gone INTO
the washing of dishes and clothes, and the
sweeping of floors that are soiled and lit
tered up again as soon as cleaned.
Nor can his widest flight of fancy picture
what a drain on the vitality is the care OF
even the most angel children with their in
cessant activities, their fights and quarrels'
and wailings, and ceaseless call on
mo-o-other. He knows that single Sunday
afternoon alone with a two-year-old klddle
wears him to fragile, but he labors under
the illusion that a woman doesn't ever weary
of her babies, and that it is just fun for her
to be on the jump with them all day and
half the night.
And women have the same hallucinaton
about mans work being all beer and skit-
ties because going down town means spree
to them 1t means the thrill of shopping,
or being in crowds, a lunch, and perhaps
matinee or picture show, and they have a
vague idea that a business man passes his
time in a round of pleasure.
They know nothing of the wearing grind
of the daily treadmill, where, sick or well,
man must toll on or lose his job. They
never dream of the overbearing insolence of
the man higher up, or the evaporation OF
employees who have no interest or loyalty in
their work, of the heart-breaking, nerve
wearing anxiety of the man who sees his
whole fortune trembling in the balance IN
some trade. They do not know that every
dollar is bought with blood and sweat.
Business women, who have been in the
thick of the fight themselves, know this, and
that is why they make the best wives and
the most considerate in the world. They
know what men have to endure, and they
sympathize with them, but men have never
had a chance to find out how hard is wom-
ans lot, and that is why the average husband
cannot make the proper allowance for MS
wife when she is nerve tagged and fearful
or cross
Certainly men and women would pity each
other more, and be more patient and gen
tier with each other if one-half knew how
the other half lived.
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Syndl-
cate, Inc.)
Dorothy Dix's articles appear in this news
paper every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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Around the World
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
HoOVer's Plan

Hoovers Plan
Plans for relieving the estimated shortage
of 100000 homes throughout the country
through The diversion of greater proportion
of the nations $22,OOO,000,O00 in savings
deposits into home building are under con-
sderation by Secretary Hoover.
The commerce secretary considers that
there has been a tendency during the past
few years for the savings of the people to
find their way into commercial paper, bonds
and similar securities rather than into home
building, while critical housing situation
has developed with about 1T families for
each 100 homes.
The chief reliance of the country in the
necessary financing of home building, in the
opinion of Mr. Hoover must be the savings
institutions. With total of $4,000 100000
available from these sources he believes it
will be found, aftoT eliminating the building
and loan societies and actual savings banks
who devoted about SO per cent of their de-
posits to home building, that the savings de-
partments of national banks, state banks,
trust companies and insurance companies,
comprising more than one-half of the total,
probably do not lend more than 10 or Is per
cent of their saving assets to housing.
Mr.. Hoover suggested that 40 or SO per
cent of the nearly $16O,O00,O00 deposits in
postal savings banks could be diverted to this
purpose as we'll as a larger proportion of the
savings deposits of national banks through
amendment to the federal reserve act
Diversified foods must be supplied imme-
diately to famine sufferers to the south to
prevent many thousands of fatalities among
the pellagra victims, the United States pub
lie health service warns. Between five and
ten thousand of the estimated pellagra suf-
ferers have little chance to survive, accord
ing to reports to the health service.
actual relief must be extended in the one
crop states" DR.. Joseph Goldberger, of the
health service, said. "In states like Misss-
sippi Lousian D., Alabama and parts of Texas,
where cotton is the only crop, the need for
diversified foods is Imperative"
Pellagra IS caused by faulty diet. Due to
the failure to market the cotton crop scores
of thousands of tenant farmers and their
families in the "one-crop' states lack the
money to purchase staples and they have
been living on diet of salt pork, corn meal
and molasses.
This, DR.. Goldberger said, is starvation
diet" and unless balanced by other foods,
causes pellagra and eventually death.
In the states where more diversified crops
are raised the danger from pellagra is less
than in the one-crop states. The farmers
and their families in Georgia are suffering
less than in other southern states because
of the good fruit crop, the health service
said
While the Red Cross here has received no
appeals for aid, it was believed it's southern
section is prepared to cope with the emer-
gency if the situation becomes acute.
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From, Peaches and 1Ic!'cr

II ago that tn Georgia. vo.:a derive ten
million dollars G-&3On from peach
orchards ana melon patches, he assuredly
would have been without credence in his own
country. Fruit growing thCl had reached
rather striking proportions as compal with
the time, not far gone, when it was merely
yielding as much as ten million dollars a
Fairy tales!" the conservatives
would have exclaimed.
To this substantial earning, however Geor-
gfa peach and melon producers have come in
the current season, according to figures fur
nished The Journal by competent observers;
and the gathering is not yet over. Ado the
income from apples. pecans, grapes, and sun
dry small fruits, and the total will tower
high among our harvest bOunties. Yet, it is
barely more than generation ago that these
fields OF enterprise were regarded genera
as zoo unimportant or t. unpromising for
extensive lauor and investment. The real
sinews of the soil and the real profits thereof
lay in cotton, it was assumed, or. at any rate,
in something sturdier than peaches and
watermelons. But in this lean summer
when business in many a town was at its
lowest ebb, those two crops, once smiled at
as trivial, brought home again the fat and
flow Of prosperity. Ten million dollars
though 1t come in small change, is exceed
ingly welcome IN dog days.
Should predict here and now that
Georgia will derive fifty, hundred, five
hundred million from this and kindred
realms Of her wondrously varied resources,
would it be a wild prophecy? Not if due
attention and energy and science be applied
to those treasures Of nature. We have but
skinned the surface of opportunities in hor-
ticulture and in agriculture. About us lie
lands of unmeasured promise, whose fruition
will be ours for the labor.
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THE magistrate who presides over do
nestle relations court in New York

HE magistrate who preSldeS over 40
nestle relations court in New York
n has hit upon a novel way Of dealing
with housekeeping husbands. Instead of
sentencing them to jail he sentences them
to ten days at lard labor in their own kltch-
ems, or three months of taking care OF
teething baby, or six months OF getting up
and preparing the breakfast and getting the
family off to work and to school, or to some
other form Of household servitude in which
the punishment can be made to fit the crime.
IF men had any idea of how neVer-ending
a woman's work is, and of how nerve-wear-
ing the ceaseless calls made upon her are,
they would have more patience with their
wives and treat them better. I am giving
the husbands a chance to find out from &C
tual experience how monotonous and dreary
domestic drudgery is and I expect it to work
a reform in many cases." says the magis-
trate.
A Daniel, Daniel, say, second Daniel
come to judgment! Now, if he will only
push the good idea along by sentencing the
shiftless thriftless, nagging, whining wives
to go out and labor at their husbands jobs
for while we shall have a reformation that
will bring about a domestic millennium.
For there is no doubt that the old saying
that "one-half of the world doesn't know
how the other half lives" is nowhere else
so true as it is of the sexes. Men have no
conception of the burdens women bear.
under which men stagger along Each thinks
that it is the sacrificial goat Of the family
while the other has it easy, and out of this
misunderstanding grows much of the dis
cord that makes marriage SO often failure.
For husbands and wives would be drawn
closer together in love and sympathy If they
realized that they were fellow sufferers. 1t
is only when one or the other imagines that
he or she got the short end of the bargain
that he or she is filled with envy and bit
terness and strife.
Every woman knows, for instance that
when, at the end of a days work that has
begun at 6 o'clock and finished at 8, she
sinks into a chair too weary even to think
how tired she is, nothing rouses her to such
fury as for her husband to say: 81 don't see
what you have to make you tired. I'd think
myself pretty lucky if didn't have anything
to do but stay in a nice home and do a little
Homework and look after my children"
And every man knows that nothing but
being perfect gentleman, and so incapable
of raising his hand to strike a woman, no
matter how much he would like to- keeps
him from giving his wife punch in the jaw
when she says: II don't see why you don't
go out to Smither's dance. l am sure if
had nothing to do except to sit at a mahogany
9sk in fine office all day I would be fresh
as daisy at night and glad to go around
and get little exercise and fresh air.
And there you are, with two people each
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4 Time for Protest
, Hooked at the Impotence and {

~ HOOKED at the lmprICence ana greed
y of the ordney tariff bill, the stoutly
Republican New York Herald AYERS
that there are powerful resolute national
figures that must stand between a member
ship of blind folly and the danger it threat
ems to the ~ountry." All that can be done
these ought to do ''to preserve the nations
natural resources from exhaustion and to
salvage it's Industries and trade from ruin"
How did the Herald's powerful reso-
lutte national figures respond to it's fervent
appeal? By voting, in the House of Repre-
sentatives virtually as unit for the indie
feasible Fordney bill, leaving only the
Democratic minority to "stand between a
membership of blind folly and the danger it
threatens to the country" "Resolute," in
deed, were those powerful national figures"
when it came to favoring a few at the
many's expense No argument could dis
suade them, Lo pleading deter from policy
that will at once re-burIen the cost of living
and diminish our foreign trade. No sharper
blows could be dealt against the peoples
and the nations economic veal. To impose
tariff duties that will increase the consum-
er's load just as he begins to feel little
easement and that will reduce our overseas
commerce. Wn0Q we are SOrely III no0Q OIL
more active foreign markets to stimulate
and sustain depressed industries-this or
anything uimly resembling it, should be op-
posed by responsible Congressman, regard
less of party doctrine, injustice and
q peril to those who make up America. But
when the hour of decision came the Her
AIDS Republican heroes voted two hundred
and eighty-nine strong, a well-nig.. solid
phalanx, Tor that peril and injustice, while
only the Democratic minority of one hun
md fIToo Oht 10 olIyo rn
the nations industries and trade from ruin
What the Senate Will do is yet to be
seen, Jut if that body has no wider discern
ment in the matter of tariffs than it has
shown in foreign relations, it will do little
to retrieve the blind error of the House.
Apparently there is but one hop of check
ing the hazardous course upon which Con-
gress ruled by forces of reaction and privi-
lege, has entered, and that is the hope that
the American rank and file, Republican and
Democratic alike, will speak out so potently
that even those forces will be constrained to
heed. Rarely in the nations history has it
been SO imperative that the enlightened
public declare it's mind and assert it's will
For months, vital issues of foreign policy
have been drifting, to the serious detriment
Of business well as discredit of govern
inent. The great Republic that spent without
stint her treasure and life blood for the
cause of world freedom and world right is
forced by the short-sighted helmsmen of the
hour into moral as we'll as diplomatic iso-
lation. And now, to worsen this bad, they
propose a tariff that threatens to strangle
all but the irreducible minimum of our for
eign trade? Is it to be wondered that ma
terial interests suffer along with national
prestige? Is it not time, high time, for
countrywide protest?