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The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-26


have not learned. with Carey, to 'Ex-
pect great things from God: attempt
great things for God"
do not say, I am only a youth;
For to all to whom 1 shall send thee, thou
shalt go,
And whatever I command thee, thou shalt
speak
Be pot afraid of them,
For with thee to deliver thee"
Therefore do thou grid up thy loins and
arise.
Speak to them all that I command thee.
Do not be terrified before them, lest 1 ter
rify thee in their presence.
For behold, I myself make thee this day
a fortified city,
And a brazen wall against the kings of
Judah, its princes, and the common
And they shall fight against thee, but they
viii not overcome thee,
For 1 am with thee TO deliver thee, saith
Jehovah"
Must a Man Live?
Rebuffed and repudiated in his
home town, scoffed at by the rabble,
imprisoned by officialdom, hated by
the powerful obscurantist class, this
man jeremiah, son of a priest, did
not grow tired and did not flee from
duty. He was not disobedient to his
was the sense of God in his breast
that all else seemed as Illusion. A
courageous prophet is divinely
strengthened in his soul; he has meat
to eat that the world knows not A
tirnorous politician is attacked by fear,
as by meningitis, in his spinal cord.
1t was not at all necessary. accord
ing to Jeremiah's conception of life,
that he should continue to live; it
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
Reduced Crob Values

TT takes neither a pessimist par
tisan to dissent emphatically from the
Polyannic Republican view that Ameri-
because the value of this years crops is
reckoned to exceed that for 1921 by more
than one billion eight hundred million dol
lars. That agricultural values are improved
as compared with twelvemonth ago is evil
dent and is gratifying But for true and
balanced judgment of existing conditions
we must look further back than 1921 when
the prices of farm products were sorely de-
pressed, and further back than 1919 when
they were far above their average. We
must look back to times before the World
War for fair comparison with the present.
On this basis economists find that the
wheat crop of 1922, for one example among
many, is worth less than that OF 1914, and
is worth only some thirty per cent more
than that of 1909. The net result for the
farmer, as succinctly stated by the New
York World, is this: "The price of his
chief money crops, wheat, cotton, meat, is
fixed in international markets, where he has
been accustomed to sell his surplus. These
markets are falling linn and he is selling at
cut rates, while everything he buys, includ-
ing labor and the interest on, his investment
if his farm was borght or improved at re-
cent prices is costing him double" 1t is cold
comfort to him to have crop values figured
at upwards of billion eight hudred million
dollars more than in 1921, when the buying
power and saving power of his toll and his
thought are so much below normal.
Nor is the World wide of the mark when
it argues that not until his international
market is restored will he obtain due re-
lief: ''The Republican party killed that
market, first by killing peace in the Senate
to provide campaign issue for 1920,
and again through the Fordney-McCum ber
tariff Expansion and improvement of
rural credit facilities will help, and by all
means should be provided. But the largest
service that government could render in this
matter would be to remove trade-depress-
ing tariff and to pursue foreign policy that
would tend to relieve instead of aggravate
world troubles in commerce and finance.
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(TO BE CONTINUED

God that we escaped getting our early sweet
hearts.
Perhaps it is because We have always re-
membered John as 1.-the young god with
am 'rosial locks. quoting poetry in the moon
light, that it is such shock to see him bald
and bay-windowed, and with no conversation
except about the grocery trade. Perhaps it is
because we have always remembered Maud
as starry-eyed and slim, and wistful, that
it is so disillusioning to see her fat, and
frumpy, with many children clinging to her
skirts, and concerned only with a sterlized
baby food, and remedies for the collie.
Admirable people, John and Mary, doing
their duty as citizens, but-did I ever love
you? Did 1 ever break my heart because
didn't get you? Have I wasted the years
in pining for you? Perish the thought! Let
me seek the shrine of my guardian saint
and burn candles before it.,
AS for my correspondent fearing to marry
because she does not feel towards this second
love as she did towards her first, that is the
heghth of absurdity There is only one first
love, with it's wild thrills and raptures, as
there is only one youth in life time. The
years sober us; they slow down our pulses:
they take away the keen edge of desire; they
teach certain philosophy.
The boy and girl are mad for each other
They think nothing in the world counts but
being together, and that nothing is impor-
tant but their love. They, believe that they
a cruel fate should part them, they would
die of broken hearts.
The mature man and woman know that
for a love to endure it must have many ele-
ments beyond physical attraction. They have
found out that the world consists of a num-
Der of things besides love, and they are I'M
der no apprehension of dying of broken
hearts.
Yet this sober second love endures far
longer than the hectic first love. First love
Is a fierce conflagration that soon burns itself
out and leaves only handful of ashes as
reminder that it has been. The second love
is like steady fire upon the hearthstone at
which one may warm oneself for lifetime.
To measure a second love by first is as
ridiculous as it is to measure the appetite
of grown person by that of child. Be-
cause you no longer crave chocolate creams
does not prevent you from relishing caviare.
1t is comforting thought that the heart
is about the toughest organ in the human
makeup. 1t will stand more kicks and buff
feting than a football, and wise is the wom-
an who realizes this, and who instead of
greving over a dead and gone love, blesses
heaven for the new one that has been given
to her.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
Just An,onq Ourselves

Mr.. G. w Cocker IS farmer who lives on
Rural Route No. out of Rockmart, Ga. He
hits the nail on the head with words just as
a good carpenter does with a hammer Read
this:
'The farmers feed and clothe the world
and when the farmer is down and out it
puts the bankers and merchants and all
other business men down and out.
"The time has come when we all have got
to pull together and help one another and
make this life worth living.
Cali farmers know that there had to be
something done for them, but lots of them
are standing back to see what becomes of
us who are trying to help ourselves and
them.
az truly hope that by another fall they
will see what the cotton pool really means
to the farmer. I hope The Journal will do
ALT can for the Cotton Growers Cooperative
association.
"I think all members ought to take The
Journal and keep well posted"
In very few words Mr.. Cocker told the
story OF cooperative marketing: helping our
selves and others. Many a man might haye
written ten times as many words and said
less
AS to Mr.. Coker'5 references to The
Journal-this newspaper is ,oing to contin-
ne to do all it can to help the cooperative
prfnciple The nrinciDle is right and if the
farmers of Georgia and other southern
states will adopt it as the farmers of Cali
fornia have done, we will have as happy and
prosperous and contented section as that
great state.
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No. 5O.-Shrines That Faced East

I We may note here very interesting fact
| about the chief temples of Egypt and, so far
! as we know-because the ruins are now so
! distinct-of Baby-onia, and that that they
were "oriented" that is to say, that the
same sort of temple was built so that the
shrine and entrance always faced in the
! same direction.
! In Baylonian temples this was most often
due east, facing the sunrise on March FL and
| September 81, the equinoxes and it is to be
noted that it was at the spring equinox that
the Euphrates and Tigris came down in
flood. The Pyramids Of GizeI are also ORR
ented east and west, and the Sphinx faces
due east, but very many of the Egyptian
temples to the south of the delta Of the Nile
do not point due east, but to the point where
the sun rises at the longest day-and in
Egypt the inundation comes close to that
date. Others however, pointed nearly north
ward, and others again pointed to the rising
star Sirius or to the rising point of other
conspicuous stars.
The fact of the orientaton links up with
the fact that there early arose close asso-
citation between various gods and the sun
and various fixed stars.
The Mystery of the Stars
Whatever the mass of people outside were
thinking, the priests of the temples were
beginning to link the movements of those
heavenly bodies with the power in the shrine.
They were thinking about the gods they serv-
ed and thinking --ew meanings into them.
They were brooding upon the mystery of the
stars. 1t was very natural for them to sup
pose that these shining bodies, so irregularly
distributed and circling solemnly and 81
lently, must, be charged with portents to
mankind.
Among other things the orientation of
the temples served to fix and help the great
annual festival of the New Year. On one
morning in the year, and one morning alone,
in temple oriented to the rising place of
the sun at midsummer day, the suns first
rays would smite down through the gloom
of the temple and the long alley of the tenn
pie pillars, and light up the god above the
altar and irradiate him with glory The
narrow, darkened structure of the
ancient temples seems to be -deliber-
ately planned for such effect No doubt
the people were gathered in the darkness be-
fore the dawn; in the darkness there was
chanting and perhaps the offering of sacri-
fees; the god alone stood mute and invisible.
Prayers and ipvocations would be made.
Then upon the eyes of the worshippers SEN
sitized by the darkness, as the sun rose be-
hind them, the god would suddenly shine.
So, at least one explanation of orientation
is found by such students of orientation as
Sir Norman Lockyer. Not only is orientation
apparent in most of the temples of Egypt,
Assyria Babylonia, and the east, it is found
in the Greek temples; Stonehenge is oriented
to the midsummer sunrise, and so are most
of the megalithic circles of Europe; the al
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION NOW.
A GREAT SHOP KEEPER
By DR.. Frank Crane

! John Wanamaker, who has recently died,
| was a great shopkeeper.
| This is a title of respect and not OF re-
| proach.
no man is more honorable than the honest
| merchant. no man is greater than the great
| merchant
| We often get the real truth about ourselves
| from our enemies, who are not particular
about hurting feelings. Napoleon, the
| enemy of the English, said that England 10
nation of shopkeepers.
! And this is the simple truth.
The English-speaking people are not pr1mar-
iy military or religious-at least religious IN
the sense of being fanatical. To them the
chief business in life is to minister to life, TO
make life richer and stronger. Hence they
have been great in Invention, in applied
science in medicine, and, most Of ALL in trade.
Mr. Wanamaker was in many respects
typical American. He was pioneer, ne
was an efficient administrator. He was
man of great vision. He understood the age
in which he lived and the people in the ac-
tual world He was intensely practical
He was one of that group Of great men who
have grown up with the rapid expansion OF
modern business. Ia
He grew up and tkept pace with modern
store-keeping, just as Edison and Coffin grew
UP with the electrical industry, Judge Gary
with the steel industry, George F. Baker with
banking, George Eastman with the manufac-
ture of Photographic material, John ID. Rock
efeller with the oil business, Cyrus II. X.
Curtis with the magazine business, and Will
liam NJ. Wood with the WOODEN industry.
Such men as these have made modern
America, and in turn, it may said with equal
truth that modern America has made such
men.
They are the expression Of the spirit OF the
times. The reason they occupy positions OF
prominence is that the greater part of the pop
ulation of America is ambitious to achieve
that kind of prominence. Little by little, the
business man is crowdng out the priest and
the soldier from the pages of history.
1t is a good thing One of the surest
grounds for hope that war is doomed Is the
fact that the majority of young men are not
dreaming of or longing for war and for mill
ttary careers.
The cynical conclusion that all this means
that the world is getting more sordid ana
material is not just one. The right conclus
sion is that the world is more concerned In
the enlargement and enrichment Of the COM
mon life than it is in that kind of glory that
is based upon the common misery.
great soldier like Napoleon or great
monarch like Philip of Spain might achieve
an eminence built upon the DESPAIR of thou
sands great hierarchy like that Of ancient
Egypt might be based upon the ignorance and
credulity of the multitude.
A great merchant like Marshall Field, or P.
D. Armour, or John Wanamaker only rise
to the heights of success by making the great
est number of people contented, prosperous,
and intelligent
To be a great shopkeeper implies that kind
of greatness which is most consistent with
democracy.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY
BY II. G. WELLS

tar of heaven in Picking is oriented to mid
winter In the days of the Chinese Empire,
up to a few years ago one OF the most I'M
portant of all the duties of the emperor OF
China was to sacrifice and pray in this tenn
pie upon midwinter's day for a propitious
year.
The Egyptian priests had mapped out the
stars into the constellation, and divided up
the zodiac into twelve signs by 5000 B. G..
Brains of Ancient World
This clear evidence of astronomical in
quiry and of development of astronomical
ideas is the most obvious, but only the most
obvious evidence Of the very considerable
intellectual activities that went on within
the temple precincts in ancient times.
There is a curious disposition among many
modern writer's to deprecate priesthoods and
to speak of priests as though they had al
ways been imposters and tricksters preying
upon the simplicity of mankind. But, indeed,
the only reading public, the only learned
and the only thinkers; they were all the pro-
fessional classes of the time.
You could have no intellectual life at all,
you could not get access to literature Or any
knowledge except through the priesthood.
The temples were not only observatories and
libraries and clinics, they were museums and
treasure houses. The original Periplus of
Hanno hung in one temple in Carthage, skins
of his "gorillas'' were hung and treasured
in another. Whatever there was of abiding
worth in the life of the community sheltered
there.
Herodotus, the early Greek historian
(4S5 425 B. CO., collected most Of his mate
rial from the RESTS of the countries in which
he travelled, and it is evident they met him
generously and put their very considerable
resources completely at his disposal. Out
side the temples the world was still world
of blankly iliterate and unspeculative HUI
man beings, living from day to day entirely
for themselves /
Moreover, there is little evidence that the
commonalty felt cheated by the priests, or
had anything but trust and affection for the
early priesthoods. Even the great conquerors
of later times were anxious to keep them
selves upon the right side of the priests of
the nations and cities whose obedience they
desired, because of the immense popular in
fluence of these priests.
No doubt there were great differences be-
tween temple and temple and cult and cult
in the sirit and quality of the priesthood
Some probably were cruel some vicious and
greedy, many dull and doctrinaire, stupid
with tradition, but it has to be kept in mind
that there were distinct limits to the degen-
eracy or ineficiency Of a priesthood. 1t had
to keep it's grip upon the general mind. It
could not go beyond what people would stand
either toward the darkness of toward the
persuasion that it's activities were proptious.
Copyright, 1929
(TO BE CONTINUED
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
HEALTHY IRE
BY BERTON BRALEY

" HOUGH I've preached that merry
laughter is a thing worth
seeking after,
And enlarged upon the virtues of a
smile,
There are times when it is filter that our
wrath grow hot and bitter,
When surrounding circumstances call
foI bile.
Anger has it's healthy uses in abolishing
abuses,
Which good humor is too patient to
resent,
And a lot of great upheavals which have
knocked out ancient evils
Are results of incandescent discomfort.
TN HERE are people, for example, who
incontinently trample
n On the rights of any smiling
visaged bunch,
But who rapidly retire from the grim, I'M
smiling ire
OF the scrappy lad who packs poppy
punch
There is often lots of merit in the motto,
Grin and bear it,
When you, find a heap of troubles in
your path,
But considered as a nation we have too
much liberation,
And we smile at things we ought to
view with wrath.
T is silly and scandal to be flying off
the handle
At each petty thing that happens
to go wrong,
But at certain times and seasons there
are multifarious reasons
Why our anger should be violent and
strong.
Though we may find life beguiling If we
keep forever smiling,
We shall leave things very much as they
have been,
For to make existence better and to break
each binding fetter
We have got to burn with fury, now
and then!
Copyright 1922, NEA service.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

He strongly favored the prohibition amend
ment and was delivering lecture at tenn
perance meeting. eff there is any man here
he shouted, "who can name any honest bust
ness that has been helped by the saloon I
will give half my wealth to defeat prOh1b1-
ton His challenge was met with absolute
silence for moment; then man in the
audience arose and said: Il consider my
business an honest one and strictly neces-
sary, and it has undoubtedly been helped by
the saloon what is your buslness?'
stormed the orator. Il, sir, am an undertake
er replied the other.
,Napoleon's invasion of Russia was the
subject under discussion in the class in his
tory, and the teacher was doing her utmost
to make every sentence clear. Referring to
his retreat from Moscow she asked: "And
then, James, what did the French dog
''They ran away was the quick reply.
eyes, they ran away, James, but that is
hardly the correct phrase to USE" said the
teacher. Now think and tell me what you
should have said"
James was lost in thought for a moment,
then his face beamed benignantly in the light
of a new thought
ooh, 1 know, he cried. "They beat it"
She was student at the university and
was much complimented when she was seat
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
A PROBLEM IN T4EA RTS-Bv Dorothy Dix

! A very young girl fell in love with a man
who didn't love her, and who married an
other woman.
Ever since the party of the first part has
gone about carefully cultivating secret sor-
row. and nursing what she believes to be a
fallen in love with the bereaved lady, and
wants to marry her, and make her happy
She admires and esteems the man. and is
very fond of him, but she can't bring her
self to marry him because she doesn't feel
towards him just exactly as she did towards
her first love.
And she wants to know what to do.
| Anybody with a grain of common sense
in their heads would tell her to stop acting
like a goose, and grab the good thing that is
offered her before it gets away from her.
Of all the idiotic crimes that women have
ever committed, the most absolutely assini2e
is the cult they have made of faithfulness.
Somehow a woman accounts it unto herself
for righteousness never to get over a sorrow,
or disappointment. You will hear women
speak with positive reverence of a woman
who has wept over the same old grief for
forty years, and they universally regard one
of their own sex who isn't good mourner
as light-minded creature who is no better
than she should be-
Why this is thus, nobody knows. Certain
ly, to put the past behind you to forget old
sorrows, old mistakes, old disappointments,
and to make the most of today seems not
only the part of wisdom, but the brave atti-
tude towards life. Few women feel this way
about it, however The porous plaster is their
ideal of the highest human achievement.
SO you see women booming themselves to
lonely spinsterhOod because of some blighted
romance of their youth; and women breaking
their hearts over h-sbands who have mis-
treated them in every possible way, and these
poor, foolish sisters actually take credit to
themselves for their adhesiveness, virtue
in which they are only exceeded by sticky
fly paper.
morbd-minded lady, like my correspon-
dent, will probably say that our hearts are
unruy members, and that we cannot bid
them either to cease from loving one person,
n make them love another. To a degree
this is true, but there is one sovereign cure
for an old love that practically never fails.
And that is to meet and see the beloved one
after he, or she, has been married a number
of years.
Other married men and women have their
destinations for us, but for some strange and
inexplanable reason the man or woman
whom we loved before he, or she, was mar
ried, are so absolutely stripped of all illu-
sions to us that our one impulse is to rush
home, and get down on our knees, and thank
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-26
FACTOGRAMS

That the increase in the United States debt
was $265, 100000 during October On October
81, the gross public debt stood at $23,077,-
100000, as compared with 522,812,O00, 600
on September 80. The amount was $780,
1000 on October 81, 1921.
That there is now prohibition by the
postoffice department sending mail writ
ten or printed in Hebrew characters, the
former order prohibiting letters so written
or printed having been rescnded.
That 10000 persons died from accidents
during 1920, accidents which according to
the eleventh ann 1al safety congress, could
have been prevented The largest percentag e
seems to have been due to falling Other
causes in order Of Importance were railroad
accidents, drowning, death from casing, fire
arms, rhine accidents machinery, street cars,
other vehicles and fires Twice as many men
mobile fatalities were children under fifteen
as women were killed. One-third of all auto
years of age.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Large hopes from small foundations grow.
1t takes a woman to tell joke without
a point.
An idle brain is the advance agent for
a busy tongue.
Men are living conundrums that keep their
wives netanty guessing.
Every man worries many women and every
woman worries some man.
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