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WHY INITIATE EUROPE BY Frederic j. Haskin

class must print at least a part of its menu
in a language which scarcely any of its
patrons can read.
Architecture Imported
Our architecture is horrible hodge-podge
of all European styles of all ages-Gothic
English manor, Greek classic, and dozen
others. Our furniture must be modelled after
that of Louis the Ounce or some other Eu-
ropean monarch long dead The nearest
thing to an American architecture so far at
all widely used is the so-called Colonial type,
and that is really Greek in its origin. The
only indigenous type of furniture is the
heavy two-by-four stuff known as mission,
and it is for the most part ugly.
So our whole country, with its boast OF
superiority, is in manners, dress, customs,
architecture, furniture, food, and to great
extent in it's art and it's literature, poor i'm
ttation of a great many European models. The
only distinctive thing about 1t In these re-
CARDS is the jumbled quality which come OF
promiscuous imitativeness.
1t must be said that in literature during
the past 10 or Is years, and especially since
the war, the United States has made some
thing of declaration of independence. A
whole crew of novelists, poets, and critics
have sprung into action, who write about
American life as they know it, and who are
not conspicuously indebted to foreign models
for anything in their view point or method.
In architecture, a small but hardy native
tendency is gaining ground in the southwest,
and some really attractive buildings have
been built on designs evolved from the
pueblos of the Indians American art also
now follows the American scene more close
ly, deals less in mythical subjects, runs less
persistently to Europe for its education and
inspiration
Why should we not, in our clothes and
manners and foods, also dare to be ourselves
1t is not seemly that the greatest nation on
earth should be composite imitation. What
have we, besides chewing gum and candi-
dates for office, that is really 100 per cent
American?
PRESS Talk IN GEORGIA
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at 1CdSC US Sdlu LudL AS mas D60u
doing his best to solve the problem
of royal unemployment. Charles. being
chucked out of his hereditary fief of Hun
gary, declined to remain out of work, as he
conceived work to be. The fact that since the
signing of the armistice "Gott" did not ap-
pear to be particularly "mitt uns' appears
to Charles as no more than temporary lapse
or attention on the part of his Deity. He
considers, even in his present captive con-
dit1on, without doubt, that he was ordained
d1vlnely to rule over Hungary: and il they
let him go again he doubtless will find some
new scheme which he will try naively in the
effort to re-establisn himself as monarch.
Last spring he set out on comic opera
venture disguised as an officer of the Red
Cross. He slipped through Austria, and I'M
fortunately for his plans, arrived in West
Hungary a month before he was expected by
his co-plotters. So Hungary failed to arise
and clamor for him, and he retired in some
disorder.
But Charles is of the optimistic type. Last
week he took to the sky and blew in by air
blame. Now he is sequestered, you might
say.
These little exploits of Charles seeking a
job are in way amusing to read about. But
they tend to keep Central Europe stirred up
at time when Central Europe ought to be,
and to appear, as settled as possible. A
Hapsburg in power in Europe may as we'll
be taken to mean another war on tap.
To matter-of-fact American. it would
seem that the best way to keep Charles out
of mischief is to give him a garden-he is
said to be fond of gardening-and see that
he stays in it. To give him an island would
be an indignity to the memory of the great
Corsican on st. Helena. But he should be
put comfortably away somewhere.
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derful she is and who brings her violets and
feeds her on candy and spends his time try
ing to amuse and please her.
The man finds out that even the most
lovey-dovey sweetheart is converted by mar
rage into prickly creature, all feelings and
nerves and temper. He also ascertains that
matrimony is an expensive luxury that takes
all and little more than man can earn.
The woman finds out that marriage
changes her husband from a handsome matt
nee hero into an unappetizing stranger who
is often unshaven and unshorn and whose
principal indoor sport is knocking her. She
also finds that marriage has brought her
sickness and suffering and sacrifices OF
which she has never dreamed
So the man is disillusioned with the woman
and the woman is disgruntled with the man,
and they try to find consultations for their
disappointment on shady pathways, and the
result is disaster for everybody concerned.
How much better If they would eat what
was set before them, and ask no questions.
If they would make the best of each other,
the lion, and try to forgeL ..ldt they
ever had sweet tooth or thought that mar
riage would be all pie.
All of us make mistakes as we go through
the world We are blind and stupid, and we
blunder into pitfalls. We are foolish and
credulous and easily hoodwinked. We are
careless and inexpert in our work.
Some of us have intelligence enough to ac-
knowledge our mistakes and profit by them
and to accept criticism gratefully and learn
from it. Others never acknowledge their err
rors. They always blame others for their
failures and spend their time bewailing the
victims they have been to circumstance
1t takes courage and wisdom and breadth
Of view to eat crow and ask no questions, but
the men and women who can do it shall one
day sit in the seats of the mighty.
Hardest of all and truest test OF character
is to eat what is set before you and ask no
questions when fate s.reads the banquet ia
BILE. Then it is that some become pompous
and chesty and swell-headed; that they for
get the friends of other days who gave them
handouts when they lacked the price of a
meal; it is then that they become arrogant
and boastful of their achievements, and when
they tell weary world all about their limou-
sines and palaces and French chefs and what
sort of sauce they always have on their night
ingale tongues.
But others eat their feast of success in ST.
lence and humble gratitude for what they
have been permitted to do with the same
calm acceptance of good fortune that they
give to bad.
Happy those brave souls who at the end
Of life can say, II have neither whined nor
boasted I have eaten what was set before
me and have asked no questions"
Copyright, 1921, by Wheeler Syndicate, Inc)
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Len;ne Gums Ub Aga;,,
ENINE, the Queer Man of Russia ap-
pears to think that by honest con-

ENlNE, the queer Man OF Russia, ap-
pears to think that by honest con-
fession, or, at any rate, by confess
sion, he can take the curse off his own re-
sponsibiity and the edge off the evil he has
done. He acknowledges that Bolshevism of
the type projected by him is remarkable
fizzle.
This is candid of Lenine, who might go fur
Their and admit that his plan represented the
most extreme application the world ever has
known of the government of privilege"
the idea that an organized minority has a
God-given right to eat without toll. The old
aristocracies were infinitely better and wiser
than Lenine's regime At least they strove
to preserve order; and they recognized in
some degree the fact that it was not profit
able to drive a work-horse beyond his
strength. Also they had pleasing manners
and cultivated some of the finer arts
There are no credits to be set out for Boil
shevism and its scheme of privileges. And
it ran down mainly because the peasants re-
fused to continue feeding the rank and file
of the Bolshevist machine, which was en-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-01
Lots of Game

This is to be banner see son for the Amer
lean sportsman, according to an announce
ment from the department Of agriculture.
Game of the sort usually hunted is more plen-
tiful, generally speaking, than it has been
for many years.
In some localities there are more ducks
and geese than the oldest inhabitants ever
saw before East of the Mississippi river mi
gratory birds are making their southern
flight in unprecedented numbers. The quail
is present also in numbers not equalled for
years. And the deer is not so scarce, ap-
parently, as it used to be.
All told, the 5000 hunters who will carry
gun into the field or to lake or river be-
tween now and New Years are apt to find
the happiest hunting grounds of many years,
according to reports to the Biological survey
from the United States game wardens sta
toned from Maine to Florida and from the
Atlantic to the Mississippi
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a Feminine Sartor Resartus
TORIAL discussion has arisen be-
tween two women candidates for the

~ ARTORIAL discussion has arisen be-
tween two women candidates for the
office of register of New York coun-
ty, and permits the masculine voter to re-
mark with some complacence, 81 told you so
talking ABOUT clothes!''
The comments of both candidates in this
regard are conservative enough, and smack
OF political equivoque Says one:
1.-THE perfect dress should always be a
frame for the wearer'' in which pronounce
ment she rather is at odds with proportion
of her own sex, who latterly have come to re-
gard apparently the wearer as frame for
the dress.
Says the other:
81 favor wearing what is becoming, always
bearing the occasion in mind"
Certainly tina is not startlingly radical.
Before wagging their heads too sagely over
this modest excursion into the optic of dress
by feminine politicians-or candidates, let
us say-the men should remember that presi-
Dental campaigns used to bring up questions
Of dress long before women had the ballot.
Along in the '80's while the wool tariff
was under furious discussion the effect on
mans garb came in for reference.
Said Benjamin Harrison in 1888:
81 cannot find myself in full sympathy
with this demand for cheaper coats, which
seems to me necessarily to involve a cheaper
man and cheaper woman under the coat"
This view would not encounter any per-
servid applause today, however it may have
stirred the hgh-tariff protectionists of the
preceding generation.
In the first Cleveland, campaign the white
plug hat made its appearance, and there was
the red bandanna handkerchief of the Thur
nantes Men have not always scorned the
appeal of dress, themselves.
The New York Herald suggests chat the
real invasion of politics by clothing will come
when there are candidates on the stump for
places on United States Style Commission
when we may expect the length of the skirt
as vital campaign issue. There will be the
prim shoe-top candidate; the ankle-length
candidate; an the knee-high candidate, and
present styles do not forbid speculation as to
other candidates.
How will the men vote then? They have
been rather literally educated on the sub
ject.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-01
Around the World
TTi'Weekly NeVs Flashes From All Oper
the Earth
Sports VS.. Fashions

Newspaper sporting pages attract more Of
the young women students at Radcliffe COL
lege than the womens pages. Ninety-six per
cent of the 600 students at the college have
oeen found by census just completed, to
DC regular readers of the newspapers, but
only four claimed the women's pages as their
favorlte department Fourteen played the
sporting pages first.
twenty-five per cent of the girls ex-
pressed preference for the editorial pages,
% per cent said the general news of the day
interested them most and SO per cent said
they usually were satisfied with the head
lines.
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War Insurance

Insurance against the outbreak of war be-
tween the United States and Japan on or be-
fore December 81, 1922, has been effected in
London market at rate equivalent to odds
Of about 10 to / against the risk, according
to "The Times"
Another deal was effected, "The Times"
adds. providing for the payment Of the total
loss in the case that "even part or the whole
of the West Indies is transferred to the Unit
ed States of America in payment or part pay
ment of our debt on or before December 81,
1922" The odds were II to 13 against the
risk.
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Oldest Woman Vote,

Miss Annie Stone, Of Boston, 1913 years old,
and reputed to be the Oldest woman voter in
Massachusetts,, died last week at home for
aged people. Vice President Coolidge, re-
membering her birthday ON October 5, sent
her congratulatory letter. Miss Stone cast
her first vote in the last presidential cleo
ton.
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gagged exclusively in Bolshevism. They were
imbued with the usual human prejudice
against giving something for nothing.
Lenne has been bad for the Russians, to
whom he now apologies. But he has beeen
of considerable use to the world in a mag
nificent demonstration by experiment that
his Marxism won't work
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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-01
Some Timely Advice

This section has been blessed this year far
above that of other sections of the state.
Let's not make the mistake Of thinking the
boil weevil will not hit us heavily next year.
--Winder News.
Next year is the time to expect him.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-01
Large Families

Following the news story from Savannah
Of negro man who is the father o' thirty
two children, a correspondent of The Local
tells of Worth county negro, "Uncle' Bob
Hodge, who is the father of thirty-eight chill
dren, thirty-two of whom are living The
exact numb. of his wives is in doubt but
he is known to have married four times in
Dooly county. At the age of seventy he mar
ried a girl of eighteen, and they had eight
children before moving to Irwin county,
where the correspondent lost track of them.
Negroes are not to walk off with all the anti
race suicide honors. According to our recol-
lection, one of the Vickers families in that
part of Coffee county which is now Atkinson,
consisted of thirty-two children Perhaps
DR.. Wilcox can give us further information
here.-Tif On Gazette.
Reminds us of "the old woman who lived
in shoe and hac so many children that she
didn't know what to do.''
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-01
Don't Worry

Refusal to worry is one of the secrets to
long and happy life, said Chester r. Wood
ford, of Avon, Conn, who will be 107 years
old this week. He is the Oldest living ex-
member of the Connecticut House Of Repre-
sentatives and belongs to a long-lived family
His mother lived to be ninety-seven years
Did and his grandmother to be 102.
Going to the Middle West in 1888 as a
clock peddler, Mr.. Woodford met Abraham
lincoln when the latter was a country lawyer
in 1871. Mr.. Woodford bought farm of
100 acres at the foot of Talcott Mountain
and ever since has raised tobacco and dealt
in dairy products.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-01
'RESS TALK IN GEORGIA
By JACK L. PATTERSON
MnnnhanfS Who AdNarfica

The Atlanta merchants are advertising to
"beat the band" they realize the value Of it.
Advertising has made Atlanta what she is to-
day. Atlanta is worthy of imitation-Tal-
bottom New Era
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-01
Careless Letter Wr;ters

Postmaster General Will H. Hays in an
article In "The Nations Business for Octo-
per- tells of the multiple problems which
ths postal department. is encountering in car
rying out his plan for speeding up the mails.
Not the least of the difficulties which the
postmaster generals men are meeting. is an
apparent indifference on the part of the
pupllc as to what becomes of it's letters once
they are dropped in mail box.
In the words of the postmaster general.
the dead letter office is one of his busiest di,
visions. Tt handles $4,000 900 undeliyered
letters annually, many of them with no adj
dresses at all, and large percentage with
only partial or incorrect addresses. The
New York postoffice alone handles more than
zoO.O0O mlsdirected letters daily, and large
staff is employed in addressing them from
city directories. Carelessness in this resnect
costs the tax payers millions.
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RockefelIer's Liberiality.

Says the Griffin News and Sun: "John D.
Rockefeller gave little girl twenty cents the
other day and the next day the crude oil adj
vanced two dollars barrel, and gasoline
two cents a gallon" To which the Rome
Tribune-Herald replies: "There's always
method in Johns madness. However, the
chances are that John didn't know anything
about it,
Rockefeller applies much of his wealth to
good purposes, which is more than can be
said of other millionaires who squeeze a dol
lar until the eagle screams.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-01
Cheap Money

Cheap Money
The official exchange rate on the dollar
reached 1885, 900 rubles on Thursday of last
week in Moscow.
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Smile Awh;;7e

Loud clothes speak volumes.
Steamers Laundry Blows Up''-headline
The clothes will be washed ashore.
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Controlling the Press


strange order affecting the freedom of
the press has been made at Hull England, by
the immigration authorities, writes a CORE.
spondent in 1.-THE Morning Post"
In the House of Commons recently a COM
paint was made that the government had
olIrlculty in countering the insidious propa-
ganda or Bolshevist agitators in England. hut
tney 40 not appear to want the means of pre-
venting facts from becoming known
Ihree weeks ago the steamship Astrea
reached Hull at z o'clock in the morning
with five English refugees from Russia
shortly after their arrival Journalist named
walter Watson boarded the steamer and OBJ
tanned evidence from British subjects of tyr.
annies by the Bolshevist government of Rms.
sla and pr1vations caused by them The refu-
gees were describing their experiences while
waiting for vehicle to take them to the rail-
way station for London, when an official of
the immigration department interviewed and
objected to the journalist taking statements
from the refugees, who, however, protested
wishing to continue their stories, and saving
tney would like their experiences published
IN England, where the truth about the tyran-
MES and terrors of Bolshevist rule should be-
widely known.
The Journalist declined to do other than
puplsh the interviews on the ground of pub
Tic policy, and what he wrote duly appeared
Ihe same steamer is now due at Hull again
with fifteen refugees from Russia and the
immigration authorities have given written
orders to the steamship agents that no Jour-
nal1st must interview the refugees without a.
written permit Several correspondents are
unaware of this extraordinary restriction.
which is the first of its kind ever imposed on
the English press
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-01
An Unemployed King

~ N the side Of Charles of Austria it may
at least be said that he has been
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Emma's Homesick

Emm8S HOm6Slck VI 4 u
Emma Goldman, the anarchist, who, with
her associate, Alexander Berkman, was de-
ported to Soviet Russia\ by federal authori.
ties two years ago, is exceedingly anxious to
return to the United States, according to trav-
elers who arrived in America recently.
Miss Goldman, they say, seems DESTROYS of
meeting persons from America who chance to
be in the vicinity where she lives, and she has
talked freely of her disgust with the regime
of Lenine and her desire to come to America
and be good.
Nicholas Avksertiev, president of the ST.
berian directory, under the former provision
al government Of Russia, said that Emma
Goldman was planning to return here even
if she was unable to have her passport APP
proved.
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He1b;nq His Weev;1sh;6

"HE following bit of tremendous news
bestirred little or no popular interest
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A N old man, looking back across the
~ long stretch of more than eighty years,
~ said to me:
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Announcement.

Trinity NJ Il. Church, South
Rev. II. q Reynolds, =. g.. j $.
Hamblen, S. S. Supt., c. w
Bennett, Epworth League pres
ident, Mrs. Otis Mouser, presi.
dent Of Woman's Missionary
Society, Sunday school 1000
II. M, preaching 1880 II IN by
the pastor. Subject, "Mrtho
dist Missionaries " Senior
League 1880 y IN. Preaching at
east Stone Gap 1880 p III
Prayer meeting every Wednes'
day evening 1880 Good music
every service. Come!
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Trinkle
Elected
Democrats Carry State BY
10000 Majority.

The democrats somewhat in
creased their usual majority in
the state election yesterday and
elected T.. Leo rrinkle for gov
ernor by q majority that will
reach 10000.
Although returns are not
complete yet, local democratic
leaders claim majority for
Trinkle in tho Ninth District.
w. w. q. Dotson, democratic
candidate for House of Dele
gates from Wise and Dickinson
is probably elected by about 200
majority over his republican
opponent, j. II. Hagy. Fol
lowing is n majority the candi-
dates received in Wise county,
except the Pound, which Dot
son claims by l50 votes or more.
He also claims Dickinson coun-
ty by the same amount.
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L ak Notice

will sit at the following places the dates
collect taxes
East Stone Gap Post Office Tuesday, November Sth.
Appaachia Clear Greek Water Company Office Thursday
Friday and Saturday, November 10th, l2th
day and Tuesday November 2Sth and 29h.
Inman CommissaTy Tuesday November 18TH
Linden Commssary, Wednesday, November 10th.
Stonega Commissary Thur day, November 18th.
Roda Commssary, Friday. November 18th.
Arno Commissary Saturday November 10th.
Imboden Commissary Monday. November 2lst.
Exeter Commissnry Tuesday November 22nd.
Big Stone Gap, W. L wampler Compauys Store Friday
and Saturday, November 25th Wednesday,
Der 30th aud Thursday, December
All payers the Richmond District requested
either c. +. Rlanton between ls
order pay their penalty per
TO all uncolcc,ed taxes az err that date
w. C. ELKiNS. Deputy Treasurer
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CHRISTMAS

Our Mr.. Moore will be Mt the
Monte Vista Hotel November
Is and %, taking Christmas or.
ders.
He would be glad to have you
call whether you purchase or
not viii have his usual ele-
CANT line of Watches, Jewelry
Silverware and ali latest Nov
elites.
ID. h. RyLANp COMPANY,
adv45-F Bristol, Virginia.
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certain tho liens. II any, and their priority
OH tho fund paid into said court by tho
complainant to tho credit OF said cause
and to whom aud In what proportion said
fund should DO paid, in order to make said
inquiry will sit In his Office in the Town
OF Norton, Virginia, ON the sSth day of
November, 1921, in order TO execute said
Gcoreo when and where all persons inter
ested are requested to attend.
This November 8. 1921.
]. L. CAMBI.0S,
1910 Special Commissioner.