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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-03

whenever the facts seem to justify such a
course. Ellis Island today is like a city with
a police system, but without courts. The alien
who commits the crime of being undesir-
able for admittance in the eyes of the law
is arrested and sent to jail Cor deported,
which in some cases amounts to about the
same thing) without trial by judge or
jury.
A Typical Case
There is the case of young man, for
instance, who arrived at the island from a
South American country. He had lived in the
United States for three years, coming origi-
nally through Canada, and had an Ameri-
can-born wife and child here. His trip to
South America had been made to see his
aged mother who was at the point of death
in the home of her other son. He appeared
to have every qualification for residence in
this country and was about to pass safely
through the immigration inquisition when
one official inquired almost as an after
thought as to where the young man had been
born. Unlucky young man! He was a ma
tive of British India, and as such could not
possibly be admitted to the u. S. A. He was
given permission to enter the country long
enough to say goodbye to his wife and child,
and then back to IndiL he had to go, back to
land he had not seen since early child
hood, which was totally unfamiliar to him
and where he had no friends or relatives.
Sometimes says an immigration Off
Cldl, d WuOl0 immigrant family Is
with the exception of one member-possi-
bly, girl of Is or 16 who is pronounced
a mental defective. The family may protest
that she is normal but shy and dazed by her
surroundings. In some cases girls have been
temporarily admitted through desperate ne
cessity; once in the country they have demon
strated their normality to the extent of
earning their own living; private experts
have testified to d Yet nothing can be done
Having been officially certified as "feeble-
minded or for constitutional psychopathic
inferiority' their exclusion is mandatory. Lest
they get into the poorhouse or asylum at the
public expense or become the ancestresses
of line of American detectives, they must
be mercilessly separated from their families
and deported.
sIn other cases, where very young child
out of several in a family is found to be de-
fective, the mother must be deported with
it as AN accompanying Ia ien,' leaving her
other children here and returning to land
where she no longer has home"
Incidents of this kind are said to be part
of the daily routine at Ellis Island, and
there does not seem to be any immediate
hope for Improvement Yet many Americans
continue to wonder at the ingratitude of our
aliens, their lack of enthusiasm for Ameri-
canization, and their desire to tote the dol
lars that they make over here joyously back
home.
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The Kings of Our Day

w or failed to do in the matter sa'o Of gov
eminent during the last three years,
she has made marked Improvement in her
postage stamps. The new issues, dispatches
say, bear no vestige of the once and long IA
miliar crowned pate of a Kaiser, but instead
the picture of smith at the anvil, of miner
with his pick, and of farmers harvesting
grain.
This is in decidedly better spirit than the
old designs, and in better TASTE The brstling
Visage of an egotist who has no sounder
claim to notice than inheritance of title
and a pOmpouS ambition is not a millionth
part as truly interesting as forger of plow
shares, or a garnerer of autumns gold, or
deliver into the deep empire of earths mineral
bount1es; not so interesting so pictur-
esque, desp e all the clatter and tinseI at
which the stupid are wont to stand agape.
Time was when Kings were worthwhile per-
sons, when civilization would have Jagged or
suffered without them, when they rode abreast
of heroism, and romance blew gustily
through their plumes. But not to that age
or kind belonged he whose roubustious fea-
lures glared from the postage stamps of the
Germany he over-swaggered.
The kings of our day are quiet folk, con-
cerned least of all with their own Importance.
They live, not in palaces, but in studies lab
oratories, sober counsel rooms; they go forth
TO reclaim deserts to bridge great CULTS and
link mighty oceans, to battle disease, to con-
quer the shining spaces where once only Gag
les dared, to explore the "vasty deeps" of the
human spirit to set forward the frontiers of
human faith and power. And to this royal
company belongs in kind at least, every pro-
Queer, every betterer of even the smallest
sphere, every true servant of mankind
blacksmiths, farmers, miners, all by whose
labor of sinew or of soul the world is heart
ened on it's strange adventure amid the
stars.
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DOROTHY DIXS TALKS-The Long Engagement
BY DOROTHY DIX

state. They are Just near enough together
to get clear view of all of each other
faults and not so close together that they
are blinded by their very nearness Each
feels that he or she has claims on the other
that he or she has no way of enforcing and
so jealousies and suspicious forever exist
between thems
Worse than all, just waiting wears the
fine edge off anticipation, and when, at last,
the long-deferred marriage does take place.
the bride and groom can register none OF
the rapture they expected. They have b.
little appetite for it as we have for the feast
that has been delayed too long.
The case is still more tragic when the par
ties to long engagement are separated
when, as generally happens, the girl stays
quietly at home while the man goes forth
TO adventures in the great world. She
changes little, except that the years take
their inevitable toll of her youth and good
looks. She hardens in the mold OF her en-
vironment, but he changes with every chang
ing scene. He learns to adapt himself to
new conditions. He gets a fresh viewpoint.
He is polished by fiction with other minds.
He learns to eat strange dishes: to see new
beauties, to have thousand different stand
ards from the ones to which he mas been
brought up.
Hs is, to all intents and purposes, diff
ferent man from the one who popped the
question to Maud, or Mary, or Sally Jane
on the night befo.e he left home, and asked
her to wait for him. She waited. She let
years go by in which she endured sort OF
vicarious widowhood She missed the pleas
ures of girlhood, because she had no beau
to take her to parties, and out riding, and
to theaters and to show her the good time
that the unattached girls had. She was al
ways waiting for John to come back and
get her, and John knows it, and every fiber
Of honor and manhood in him makes him
return and redeem his promise, although ne
knows that he is wrecking both their lives
in doing so.
For he has outgrown her. She is no long
er the woman he wants for wife. She has
nothing in comm N with the man he has be-
come. She doesn't even love him as he is.
She. loves the boy he used to be, and she
never understands the man he has become.
But they keep the long engagement, and
live scrappily ever afterwards.
The long engagement is always mistake.
It is handicap for the man, and a hoodoo
for the woman. A wise man never gives a
woman blanket mortgage on his future
that she can foreclose at her pleasure, and
sensible girl never says, eyes" to man
unless he comes to her with a proposal in
one hand and marriage license in the other.
Dorothy Dix's articles appear in this news
paper every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-03

"Where's Maud Blank 1 asked young
man of my acquaintance the other day. "Last
winter l met you playing around with her
everywhere, and this winter / haven't seen
you together a single time. What's hap
pened?"
Nothing he replied, |'you know I am
studying to be a doctor, and so am follow
ing my own prescription, and taking the pro-
verbal ounce of prevention that is worth the
pound Of cure. Maud was becoming too dan
gerous for me. All of my symptoms were
| beginning to indicate a violent, and perhaps
fatal case of love fever, and so the only safe
way was t. quarantine myself against it by
not going near her.
"You see," he went on seriously, my I'M
Gle is paying for my education and he has a
right to expect me to make good, which I
couldn't do if / was giving the best of my
thoughts to sentiment instead of study. Be-
sides, after l graduate here ] am to have
| two years at the best hospitals in New York,
and three years more of study under spe-
cialists in London and Paris.
''If there is anything in me at all, I shall
come back changed man, with different
tastes, different ideals, different needs, diff
ferent outlook on life. shall have read and
studied and met distinguished men and wom-
en-, and learned much that I don't know
about the great world do not know what
sort of a man it will make me. do not know
the kind of wife that I will then want and
need.
81 am more than half in love with Maud
now, and have suspicion that could win
her heart if I tried to very hard, but she
might not care at all for the stranger that I
will be five years from now, so it seems to
me that it wouldn't be fair to her to ask her
to wait for husband she might not want
So am going to leave her free, and I am
going away unfettered, and what happens
to our little romance in the future lies on
the knees of the gods.
There spoke man Of honor, and of good,
hard, horse sense. For if there is one senti-
mental complication that almost invariably
spells disaster for both the man and the
woman it is the long engagement. And this
is especially true when the long engagement
has to bridge over long separation.
A long engagement rubs the bloom off
romance, and takes the thrill out of love,
even when a man and woman live in the
same community, and see each other daily,
and are developed by the same environment
wedding cake must be eaten while it is
hot and fresh from the griddle, or else it
falls as fiat and stale as yesterdays pan
cake.
An engaged couple are neither fish, nor
flesh, nor good red herring. They are
neither married nor SINGLE neither bound
nor free, and they have all of the disad-
vantages, and none of the privileges of either
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-03
Put Them, Bet,Oeen P1ouO
Shares
PARTICULARLY wise

PARTICULARLY wise utterance on
n the problem of Americanizing the
multitudes of immigrants who pour
into the United States and settle, for the
most pa in already crowded centers, comes
from an Italian MEMBER of the foreign Ian
guage press, the Corriere Del Connecticut,
OF New Haven. The over-swarming of large
cities by the newcomers is an i'll, says this
observer, both to them and to the nation.
Some means should be devised for distrib-
uting more of them as tillers and builders
on the soil, for: "The farmer is worker
and developer 1T the same time. The fer
tility of the land is created as much by him
as by the generosity of nature. He builds
houses, plants trees, and establishes fire.
sides and families. He naturalizes himself
before asking for his citizenship papers, and
he becomes an active element in the forma-
tion of the general wealth of the nation
Here is counsel which many to the man
ner born, now eking out lean, unfruitful
existence in city stress, might well take to
heart; and which, If duly applied, would
come near untying the migration knot to
the advantage of all rightful interests. What
constitutes the menace Of inflowing foreign
millions? The fact, for one thing, that so
many of them will not become Americanized
that is to say, will not acquire a loyal in
terest and a solid stake in the country's
life, will not understand its institutions and
ideals for the reason, largely, that they will
have no personal part or lot in the broader
ranges of it's up5uilding. Nor is there much
likelihood of this conditions altering as
long as they continue to crowd into indus
trial districts where circumstances make
for their segregation as rigid foreign units
touched but vaguely by the customs and
thoughts of the common country. =
This would not be the case, ,however-at
least it would he much mitigated-if the
immigrant tide should spread itself over
gene Gus rural areas and become at once an
enriching and productive element, Turned to
this purpose it would lose it's chief peril
and if at the same time proper educational
facilities were supplied, what is now men
ace would become a gain. This calls, of
course, for administrative machinery which
the Government now lacks, and also for
new powers of selection and exclusion, to the
end that immigrants who would not fall in
within the agricultural plan might be de-
barred unless perchance the need for their
labor on other lines was imperative. But
there should be no great difficulty in work
ing out details, once the principle was set
up. Nor would the anarchist, the sluggard,
the mere parasite or the mere adventurer
care keenly for an America of plowshares
and sunrise tasks.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-03
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

A man went to order a wedding cake the
other day.
sep getting married. he sale to the girl
in the bakery, 'and I want a cake"
''Well, it's the latest thing" said the girl,
''to ave wedding cakes in harmony with
the bridegrooms Ealing or profession. Thus.
musician has an oat cake, an athlete
cup CAKE man who borrows money from
his frie DIS a sponge cake, and sc forth, md
so on What is your calling, please?"
''Im pianist answered the happy young
man.
"Then, of course said the girl you'll
Want a pound cake"
A young golfer, hopeless novice, pos
sessed GOOD intentions. His first job after
toi-Iag a golf club was not to study the
game, but to study the club rules He was
a stickler for obedience.
He went round the course alone at hrst,
having no desire to worry his friends with
his bad play When at last they saw him
returning they were surprised to find that
he was wheeling a big wheelbarrow
'What on earth have you got tnere!
they asked.
replace it."
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IF YOU HOLD OFFICE
TT you who read these lines happen to
hold public office of any sort, there is
By H. Addington Bruce

= F you who read these lines happen to
hold public office of any sort, there is
- a question I should like to put to you:
Do you in performing the duties of your
office, keep ever in mind the fact that you
are morally as much obligated to perform
those duties to the best of your ability, as
you would be If trying to hold position in
private employment?
This question, I hope, you can honestly
answer in the affirmative. Certainly there
are far too many office-holders who cannot.
Many behave as though the office they
have gained is a haven wherein 20 idle away
their time. They perhaps exert themselves
prodigiously to gain it, but thereafter exer-
ton and they are strangers.
Many others, though by no means idling,
are far from giving to the tasks and prob
lens Of their office the thought they ought
to give
Routine has full possession of them. They
move not merely slowly but automatically.
And, in their philosophy, what cannot be
leisvrely finished one day may well go over
to the next.
This sort of fce-holding-as wen as the
offce-holding of the sheer idlers-1s Unfair
in the extreme to the offce-holders' en-
ployers-the tax-raying public. If the latter
endure it, it is only because they do not
commonly see the idling or Sinking office
holders at close range, as private en-
ployer would.
Besides, though the 1dIerS and the SnlfK-
ers do not appreciate this, it is extremely
injurious to themselves.
It certainly units them for making
good" in private employment, should some
political overturn deprive them Of an official
post And even if they pass unscathed
through political upheavals, their undesirable
working habits react upon them none the
less harmfully.
For, If only because they have no inter
est whatever in their work, because they
do not look upon it as giving them oppor-
tunity for creative self-expression and for
rendering service useful to their fellows,
that work soon or late becomes drudgery to
them And whe1 work becomes drudgery,
life becomes a state of chronic dissat1sfac-
ton.
When this results, other evils result also.
So close is the connection between mental
attitudes and bodily conditions that the
former, according to their character, al
WAYS influence the latter favorably or UNI
favorably. Dissatisfaction, especially II
chronic means an unfavorable influence so
potent that it may give rise to outright dis
ease.
Take this to heart if candor should COM
mel you to confess yourself an office-holder
of inert or sentiment type Wake up to the
folly as we'll as the dishonesty of your ways.
For they are both foolish and dishonest. Do
not try to deceive yourself as to that
And some day, if you do not shift to more
energetic, more efficient action, a penalty
NAV , imposed that will surprise as much
as it pains you.
copyright, 1921, by The Associated News
VIA. papers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-03
SMILE A WHILE
ill China be scrapped also?

Will China be scrapped also?
Oysters are cool curing any month with
an ''r" unless captured during a month
without an "r.'
sAfter internationa' disarmament, what?"
asks the Digest. We would say local dis
armament
Some optimists are just too lazy to kick.
Have you motto. the increase in beauty
contests since women vote?
Real prohibition is the price.
Treat these. war veterans right; we may
not have any more.
1t is evident Hungary is not hungry for a
Hapsburg.
The disarmament party may rock some
boats.
Best way to strike is strike out for your
self.
Our ship will come in when our shipping
comes down.
William and Mary college has given Har.
uluS q ucSIOO puCI1uS AlAI OAAO oh0@u VI Yin
thermometer.
Prices are not too high for us I'VE are JUS
too low for them.
Cows no bigger than dogs are found il
Africa, aand now we know where they ge
condensed milk.
Actors do better in movies because they
can't hear the music.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-03
MILAWAN AND LACKSANA
By DR.. Frank Crane

The King Of Siam is going to marry Lack
sana or may have married her by the time
this is published.
This is of interest to the people of Siam
because Of the unusual nature OF the procla-
nation announcing it.
The King WIS previously engaged to MS
cousin, half-sister of Lacksana, but the en-
gagement was broken off because the state
Of his fancee's health was unsatisfactory.
The King, who first met the beautlful
Princess Vallabba Dew on a shopping ex-
petition, became engaged to her, but after
a few months declared that his noble de-
sires could not satisfactorily be met owing to
the incompatibility of temperament between
himself and the princess and because her
nervous system left much to be desired.
His royal preference now has lighted upon
the Princess Lacksana, and everybody seems
satisfied and it appears to be all in the fam
lily. 49,.
The announcement has interest to the
denizens Of the Western world because of the
fact that the King when he was Crown Prince
announced that he would abolish the royal
harem. His grandfather had about 5000
wives.
Speaking in behalf Of occidental civiliza,
ton, more or less devoted to monogamy, we
welcome the King to our midst.
He is forty years old, and ought to know
what he is about.
The difference between having 5000 wives
and one is not matter of mere quantity. 1t
is matter ofquality.
That is 20 say monogamy differs from
polygamy and promiscuity because it is
farther along in the process of evolution. 1t
is one Of the marks of mans advance from
being mere animal with a body to becom-
ing creature with soul.
Monogamy is an effort to idealize the
strongest 1stinct of the human race.
Of course monogamy has it's rebels within
and it's foes without. 1t is the favorite butt
of the testing cynics whose pride is unfaith.
But just the same, as the world grows old
er and as the slow process of evolution
strengthens the moral fibre of the race and
increases it's dominance over material de-
sires, monogamy grows frmer in its position.
1t attracts to itself the poetry, the beauty
and the religion of the world.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-03
Jabaa' S Ne1o Premier

7 T is Of happy omen for international
goodwill that the new Prime Minister
of Japan is a statesman of liberal out
look, pacific temper, seasoned judgment,
and of friendly regard for the United States.
Sixty-seven years # age, Premier Takahashi
takes up his country's besieging problems at
time which calls for veteran wisdom. Do
mestic and foreign questions alik press hard
for answer, and at the most vital points the
two are interknit.
Especially is this true of finance Japan is
described as facing bankruptcy through it's
government expenditures" If bankruptcy
be too strong Term, it certainly will not
be denied that grave embarrassment looms
ahead, threatening to wax into something
worse unless there is eithe~ frugal retrench-
ment or liberal increase in revenue. AS one
Of his countrys most eminent financiers,
Takahashi should be able to prevail upon
both the governing and the popular mind to
accept any reasonable policy he may pro-
pose. During the Russo-Japanese war he
served effectually as his Governments agent
in procuring foreign loans. It was in this
capacity that he visited the United States
in 1905 and 1905. and the report is that
the friendly impression he then received
has remained unaltered
All this would seem TO enlist his support
for the major purposes Of the Washington
conference on armament limitation. AS a
master of finance, charged with the urgent
task of easing treasury now lean and sore
pressed, he can but be interested in a pro-
gram to cut billions of dollars from the war
budget of his own and other nations There
is well-founded hope, then, that the aims
of the great conference will find encourage
ment in him, as unquest1onaDly they would
have found in his lamented predecessor, the
liberal Hara.
Speculation, it is true, must wait upon
the event; but competent Observers now be-
1ieve that the prospect for Japanese coop
GRAFTON. in reducing armament and fostering
peace is much brighter than once would
have been deemed at all probable.
CALIFORNIA; raisin crop sold for two mil
lion five hundred thousand dollars, which
might be called raisin jack.
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PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY JACK L. PATTERSON
South Georgia News Service

"The South Georgia News service, in
augurated by the small daily papers, giving
an Interchange of local news of the smaller
cities, is one of the finest and most inter-
esting newspaper stunts that has been pull
ed off in long ,ime," says the Thomasville
Fress SIT hits the spot by giving local news
which the public ppreciates.-Tifton Ga
zette.
This enterprise was projected by the CAS-
sociated Daily Newspapers of South Georgia"
at recent meeting and is supplying long
apparent need-the dissemination of news
that is not handled by any of the press
services.
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The Payo News Abroad

AS an evidence of the rapid growth of our
circulation, we take pleasure in announcip"
the receipt of a subscription from Honolulu.
The subscriber is an old Pavo boy, Robert
Prentiss Reddick, who is in the United States
navy and is wireless operator on the steam
ship Anthony now stationed at Pearl Har-
Dor. Mr.. and Mrs. Reddick, in addition to
subscribing for themselves, are also sending
it to another son, A. J. RedGick, at Barber
ton, Ohio.-Pavo News.
The home town paper will always receive
a cordial welcome in the Reddick home.
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