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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-10

titles, come second as class In the affec-
lions of the bluejackets. The boys on
the rolling ships, with blue water to the
horizon and the splashing of the waves
sounding in their ears. love to read about
the strong silent men Of the plains who
roll cigarettes with one hand and who
shoot quick with the other. OF the 81
classes into which the catalogue divides
the navy fiction, western stories lead with
213 titles. B. M. Bower is the gobs'
favorite author; he leads with rs western
novels listed in the catalogue. Zane Grey
runs him a close second.
second surprise comes when on notices
the large number Of Juvenile books supplied
to the libraries. Many of the enlisted men
are mere boys not yet done with thrilling
over such stories as "Riflemen of the
| Ohio,", or "The Great Sioux Trail" AS a
class, Juvenile books rank fourth in number
Of titles, being exceeded only by westerns,
love stories, and adventure stories. j. A.
Altsheler has 20 titles listed in the cata-
| logue--all stories for boys. Ralph Henry
Barbour, another well known writer for
boys has 10.
Juvenile books are closely pressed for
honors by detective stories. Short stories
come next in popularity, followed by
humorous stories. In eighth place comes
standard and classical fiction.
Some Solid Reading
Yet, although the preponderance Of taste
is for light fiction, a considerable percent
age Of the men aboard Uncle Sans war
ships demand the best in fiction. George
Meredith, for instance, whom even some
professional critics find difficulty in read
ing, maintains place among the "live"
books with three novels, including his
master piece, "The Egoist." Conrad is a
much-read favorite. Nine Of his novels
appear on the navy shelves. Thomas Hardy
has one-"Far From the Madding Crowd,
but neither OF the other two great
moderns, Henry James and George Moore,
Is represented. Arnold Bennett is there
with four novels, and Kipling with nearly
everything he has ever written. Almost
every ship in the navy has to buy new
set of Jack London's novels each year, SO
great is the wear and tear upon these
volumes. The great novelists Of the past
Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Hugo, Balzac
and George Eliot among them-are well
represented.
But Jack does not always read merely
for amusement. His library also contains
large number OF non-fiction works Curl
ousy enough, a class Of books in large de-
mand are books on etiquette. The boy who
enlists in the navy is often leaving home for
the first time. He finds he must write let
tiers. and simultaneously he discovers that
he cannot write good ones. He applies to
! the ships librarian for help and receives a
model aletter-wrting book to help him over
the rough spots. Then when the ships are
in port the boys are entertained ashore;
and some of them fear that their deport-
ment will not be correct. So they take the
etiquette books from the library and study
the social graces.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-10
LOST IN THE ROCKIES
BY John BRICK.


Why is it people are afraid Of getting 1osti
1t is the unexpected we go to seek when we
leave home whether we travel by sea or land,
by foot or wheel, and getting lost is the one
way we are Surest to find it.
| imagined was headed for the town of
blackberry when | left Kingman behind and
drove mile after mile through the cedar-dotted
foothills of the Rockies with the setting sun
warmly stroking my shoulder-blades AS the
speedonleter licked off good ten miles more
than the last road sign had foretold, ] began to
suspect that fate had little surprise in store.
The trail followed was marked by the tread
of tires, yet tracks lnger long in dry climate.
and | passed no one.
! 1t dipped into a narrow canyon whose desert
willow filled the bed of stream with lavender
| spotted blossoms like frilly Tipped trumpet
! flowers Bees sang among them, trying out
| each commodious petal tent in turn to find one
which hung so as to give them good foothold
| for a nights sleep. Birds peered from the
| thickets where they had settled down and
chirped reproachfully at my noisy engine. A
| wide-eared fawn poked out head and shoulders
and stood straddle-legged and defiant, like some
small boy with his hands in his pockets, trying
| to pretend he was so worldly wise nothing
could surprise him. self-important owl sat
| in the mouth of prairie-dog burrow and blink
ed as If the sight of me offended him. But
this was pre-eminently the rabbits hour. Bum
/ MES OF every SlL6s IIOll Oiu JdCkS as Dig as
burro-colt to wee cotton-tailS no longer than
your finger, skipped and played in the sandy
openings.
A hunters paradisei And 10, the hunter was
at hand, sober nine-year-old, toting shotgun
as tall as himself, sneaking up for bead on q
juicy young jack-rabbit. keen as hound A
tanned old plainsn1an with springy step was
guiding him by hand-sign as shepherd guides
a collie They showed more surprise than the
game at the sight of me.
"Hackberrys My land, mol You amt no
where's near. Not within forty mile. You come
out the wrong road at the fork. This hyar's
the Little Sandy. You can't make 1t tonight.
Turn round right hyar whilst we kin give We
hand if you stick in this yer sand and come
| long back to the house till we fix up this mess
of rabbit" So did the old man take me in
charge. / turned and went. And by the time
/ got my teeth into his rabbit fry, with swal-
low of sour mash beer to wash it down, If l.
had any regrets over blackberry was able to
! conceal them.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-10
Stand On Your Own Feet

No dependent person can ever know the
pure Joy in living of the Independent. And
so if you want your children to be happy,
you must bring them UP to rely upon
themselves You must teach them that
they are the architects of their own for
tune, and that they will have just what
ever they have the ability to get for them
selves. You must breed in them shame
of being a leaner instead of litter.
And If you want your children to be
successes in the world, you must teach
them to stand on their own feet. Nothing
else paralyZes energy and effort so COM
pletely as for young people to expect some
one else to push them up the ladder or sue
cess, and to depend upon some pull to get
them. the reward that they are too lazy to
win by their own sweat and labor.
Everyone who has achieved any success
is tormented by these parasites. who think
that they climb into fame and fortune on
somebody else's shoulders. Every rich man
is besieged by poor men who beseech him
to use his influence to put them into
highly paid positions. Every mail brings a
writer letters from amateur authors ask
| ing him or her to get their effusions into
| the magazines. Actors and singers, who
! are stars, literally have to barricade their
! doors against the stage-struck boys and
| girls who think that all they need to be-
| come great actors or singers is to have
someone with pull bring them to Belas-
| co.'s notice.
It never seems to occur to these poor
weaklings that they have got to win their
way up by hard work, and patience, and
| years and years Of drudgery, just as did
| those on whom they are calling for help
| For, alas, there is no royal road to achiev-
! ing. Everyone who arrives has toiled foot
| sore and weary up the same rocky path
| And we may well teach children to
! stand on their own feet because, in the
! end, 1t is what they have to do If they
| amount to row of pins. After all, there
| is very little that any of us can do for an
| other. Sometimes we can indicate to boy
/ and girl what we think are the doors OF
opportunity, but they must open them for
| themselves, and push forward on their own
power IL they get anywhere.
II you have Influence you can put a
| boy and q girl IN a good position, but 1t
avails little unless they have the energy
and the industry to hold It down, and the
initiative to go forward. Nobody can sup
ply that to them, and it is significant that
the young people who do succeed are nearly
always the ones who have not asked any
body to get their jobs for them. 1t is
those who are go-getters themselves who
reach the heights.
Teach children to be independent, to
rely on themselves, to stand on their own
feet. That is the real secret of happiness
and of success.
Dorothy Dix's articles appear in The
Journal every Monday, Wednesday and
! Friday.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-10
DOROTHY DIX TALKS

Among my acquaintance Is a poor
woman who has relatives. and her constant
querulous complaint is that these wealthy
kinspeople do not do enough for her and
her children.
"John has four automobiles. He might
at least give me one.' Jane is going to
Europe; it is shame she doesn't take Sally
with her, 'Tom is named after his
uncle. I don't see why he doesn't send him
to college," Lucy and James have no
children. They should make my children
their heirs"
So she grumbles, and no matter what
her really generous family does for her, 1t
is never enough to satisfy her. She is
never grateful. She never gets enough,
and, worst of all, she is teaching her chill
dren to be parasites and grafters, and to
follow the most demoralizing occupation on
earth, which is waiting for dead mems
shoes.
I often wonder that this mother does not
see what irreparable injury she is doing
her children in bringing them up to be
toadies and hckspittles, instead Of self-re-
speeding human beings, for the man and
woman who work other people for what
they desire instead Of earning it by their
own efforts, are as contemplate in their
own eyes as they are in everyone elses.
The girl who gets her pretty frocks by
wheedling and cajoling and flattering some
easy-mark Of an old aunt and the boy who
holds his situation by virtue Of his rela-
tionship to the president Of the company,
know themselves for what they are-poor,
pitiful hangers-on OF the rich. Lying,
fawning sycophantS, who must dance when
their patrons pipe, who must smirk and
smile and kiss the foot that kicks them;
who must take meekly any kind of treat
ment that is accorded them, and thank
heaven it is no worse.
What crime to thrust such fate upon
children and to teach them to bend the
suppliant knee to people who can accord
them favors, instead Of rearing them to
stand on their own feet and ask moth
ing of any man except fair field and a
chance to win their own way!
A witty and profane individual once said
that the only happy people are those who
can look the world in the eye and tell II
to go to hell, and that is the truth. The
only happy people are those who have the
ineffable Joy of knowing that they are
strong enough to stand alone, and that
they have the skill to play the game with
their own bats.
The crust that we earn with our own
hands is sweeter than any cake that Is
given to US. The humblest cottage that
represents the result of our toll and thrift
has a charm for US that no palace has
where we dwell in sufferance under an
others roof. Better the homespun that we
make ourselves than the cast-off finery
of millionaires, because one covers the
heart of a freeman and freewoman and
the other clothes the body OF flunky.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-10
SMILE A WHILE

The average man wants a 1928 model auto and
1900 model wife.
Bootleg Queen Slain"-headline. It seems
the king crowned her.
1t is about time for something worse to take
the place of jazz.
Health hint: Be sure your circle of friends
is square.
Dad estimates the strikes cost enough to send
a son to college.
New York waSherwoman sues for ten thousand
dollars wash money. The bill must have run
two weeks.
"Boccaccio's Bones Found"-heading. Who
would have thought great writer shot deer,
Congress gets lot of cussing that belongs
to this hot weather.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-10

IN ~
Republican regime appears helpless
in the general Generalization. The party,
in it's legislative branch at least, is as dis
traught and Intellectual as was that light
of it's inner circle, Senator Kellogg, of Min
nesota, in the incident related by Behind
the Mirrors The senator, as described by
that penetrating observer, "seems to blow
about with every breeze Of politics. and is
so uncertain that "his nerves always on
edge in danger of breaking" 1t was dur
ing discussion Of the League of Nations, while
he was delicately weighing the political pos
sbilities of supporting and Of opposing the
treaty, that the following episode is reported
to have occurred.
"Ex-President Taft said to him, impa-
tiently: The trouble with you Frank, is that
you have no CUTS Kellog Strengthened up
all his Enthusiastically he is a white
haired and bent Will H. Hays-and replied,
I allow no man to say that to me- He flut-
tered out, and Mr.. Taft, being kind-hearted,
followed him to apologize. He hesitates, he
trembles. The certainty with which his
mind must have operated in the field of
| legal principles deserts him in the field of
political expediency. Or perhaps it is that
he sees both principles and expediency and
| cannot choose between them"
Is not this a faithful reflection of Mr..
Kellog's party in it's present state of mind
and character? On all the great issues of
| the time, whether national or International
economic or political, it hesitates, trembles.
flutters in the wind.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-10
Neayberry;sn1 Un1eashed

FTER the courts decision in the New
N berry case, that under the existing
On law no limit could be fixed upon the
primary campaign funds of Senatorial can
didates, it was taken for granted that special
measures to safeguard such matters Woulo
be promptly adopted. The Senate majority,
1t is true, had voted to seat Mr.. Newberry,
notwithstanding the cloud upon his election
That, however, was supposed to be the not
unnatural, though certainly unJustlfled, &C
ton of political partisans eager to save a
brand of their own from the burning. 1t
was never conceived that they, having done
their best for their Cmrade straits, would
fail to do something their country by way
of preventing a recurrence Of such scandals
Yet this appears to be the fact. Attorney
General Daugherty has ruled that under the
present law as interpl eted, all restrictions
whatsoever upon the amount Of expenditures
in Senatorial primaries and elections may be
considered as removed. . Thus candidate
may out-Newberry Newberry, MAJ spend tens
and hundreds of thousands of dollars, may
degrade the office which ought to be the
high gift Of a free electorate into piece OF
political merchandise Knocked down to the
highest biderd. and still be unanswerable
for the wdong Surely, it was assumed, in the
face of usch warnings the Senate would lose
not a moment in taking obviously needtul
steps. But the most that has been done is
to refer this vital question to a sub-commit-
tee whose chairman was Mr. Newberry s
leading defender when the latters seat was
contested.
American voters will hardly accept such an
answer to their demand for protection of
basic ballot rights. They will hardly fail to
concur in the judgment of the World
that eff the Spencer subcommittee takes no
action it must be because of the connivance
and consent Of the majority of the Senate.
and that today "the lid is off, and any candi-
date may initiate the methods adopted in the
Newberry campaign in Michigan in 1918 to
buy Senatorship." 1t is not surprising that
in recent primaries the issue Of Newberryism
has had marked and sometimes decisive
effect wherever Republican Senator who
had condoned or extenuated it was standing
for reelection. The people do we'll to take
the matter seriously. If the government can
not be kept pure at its source 1t cannot be
kept pure anywhere. For, if money rather
merit is to win office, and the brides of spe
cial interests rather than the thought and
will of the people control elections there
will be an end of democracy and an end Of
justice.
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Far-Rang;ng Interest IN
Georgia S Port Ierna,na


~ OMETHING Of the keen interest with
which Georgia's projected port termi-
nails are regarded in other States ap-
pears in recent editorial comment by Tn
Mobile Register. 'sIf Georgia is resolutely
going ahead to put een-million-dollar
unit OF great terminal at Savannah" that
paper declares, certainly Alabama can afford
to improve it. own opportunity 1t is agreed
by the same observer as the able engineer,
Mr. F. w. Cowie, who surveyed the situation,
has pointed out, San adequate port terminal
is and must be owned by the public and OPP
Grated in the public interest. Only by this
means can the necessary capital outlay be
provided, the port charges be reduced low
enough to attract ships, and the interests OF
all be impartially and accurately served.
This is but one OF sundry evidences that
the enterprise proposed Tor georgia mas al
ready bestirred deal of thinking, far and
wide The discerning all know that it this
project Is pressed J. contamination 1t will
add well-nigh beyon measure to the states
power and prosperity. 1t vii lvouchsafe alike
to farmers and manufacturers advantages
which, without such facilities, they cannot
hopa to enjoy 1t will GO for the agricultural
interests of Georgia what the publicly-oWned
terminals at Montreal have done for the
grain growers of Canada, and what those at
New Orleans have done for the cotton grow
ers of Louisiana. 1t will give the State vast
ly-widened outlook upon the commerce OF the
world and at the same time will bring sub
stantial beenfits to every business from the
largest to the least, within her bounds.
Naturally, then, the maturing activities OF
the Harbor, Port and Terminal Commission,
authorized by the General Assembly a year
ago. are engaging the attention of far-sighted
men throughout the South and the com non
country. What plume in the States prestige
it will be, and what an impetus to her pros
perity when the work SO wisely planned is
finished! May that good day be fastened
by prompt action on the part Of the Legis-
lature.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

It's the underdog that howls for the peace
maker.
Many man has kept his peace Of mind
by not giving advice.
Some people who have more money than
brains are not considered wealthy.
Homebrew has a peculiar habit Of getting
a man down after he gets it down.
Politeness yields large dividends but it is
an investment often overlooked.
man never realizes how little he knows
until little child begins to ask him ques-
tions.
When a woman doesn't come downtown
for week what lot Of things she has to
attend to!
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THE OLD GARDENER SAYS.

Beets that are flowed to grow until the
end Of the season often get too large to be
Of good quality. There is no reason why
they shouldn't be harvested when at their
best and stored in the cellar in the usual way
provided they are covered with sand. If sand
is not used they are much more likely, to
shrivel up when cold weather comes. 1t is a
good plan to store them in boxes, with alter
mating layers of beets and sand, with a gem
eroue covering of sand on top.
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FACTOGRAMS

Stonehenge is large stone structure, or
the remains of one, on Salisbury Plain,
Wiltshire, England. / originally consisted of
two concentric circles, surrounding two en-
closures In the shape of horseshoe. It is
thought that it may date as far bask as 100
years before Christ
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-10

John Smith was one of the colonists who
settled jamestown. 1t was his direction OF
the settlement during great crises when the
colony seemed lost, that prevented the failure
Of the colony.
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DID YOU KNOW THAT

Soon 100000 horse power will be develop
ed in the hydro-electric plants using the
water from the great lake in Tasmania.
An italian aero2lane factory is said to be
designing two plaLes for the Danish gov
eminent which will have from two to four
engines and be provided with ice runners
and floats for polar expedition.
$4,000 elk of the Yellowstone park region
constitute the only large game herds left in
the United States.
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All play and no work doesn't make Jack
wish school would start.
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Asia's earliest known library, q collection
Of $4,000 clay tablets, was found at Ninevef
on the Tigris, where it had been lying or
the ruined library floor for $500 years.
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A new bridge was opened recently over the
Arkansas River at Fort Smith, Ark-built
OF reinforced concrete--3,162 feet long, 3S
fest wide; cost $1,000,00O.
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Not that anybody cares; but Leni1 will farm
for his health and we bet he raises cain.
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Letters once were supposed to have been
invented by. the Phoenicians, but discoveries
OF Babylonian and Cretan inscriptions have
thrown doubt on this understanding.
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Man reaps what he sows-unless thu
chickens get it.
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Used properly, stumbling blocks make fin:
foothold.
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Editorial Echoes

Our idea of the millennium is the fifth
of July. when no boy has single firecracker
left.-Syracuse Herald.
II you want an everlasting "kick," drink
denatured alcohol.-Muncie Star.
Some men go under the impression that a
friend in need Is friend you can bleed
Florida Times Union.
~. s. Supreme in Radio development"
There are waves then that Britannia does not
rule.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
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