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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
An Omen Of Better Times

~ NE of the happiest omens of the day,
" in the judgment of that able >obsery-
err the American Review of Re-
views, is the recove-. in agricultural prices
The process, although far from complete,
has fairly begun, and has advanced suffi-
GENTLY 'tto make the prospects Of the farmer,
and therefore of trade in general, decidedly
brighter than they have been since the great
period Of post war deflation set i'm
More than any other group of workers and
producers, those who live by the soil suffer
ed in the stress of that changeful time.
While the prices of their products sank to
Tow levels, lower in many cases than those
prevailing before the war, the things they
had to purchase remained disproportionately
high. The result was a drastic curtailment
of their buying power, and depression in
thousand realms of trade. - Ere balance
could be brought about and business vigor
restored, one of two things, We are told
needs must occur: Farm products must rise
in price to enable the farmer to purchase the
goods which, with the higher levels OF wages
elsewhere, could only be produced and sold
to him at high costs; or else the cost of pro-
duction and the prices of these manu-
featured articles must come down to an ex-
tent that was scarcely conceivable" That
one Of these con iitionsNis now being marked
ly fulfilled, and the other appreciably so, is
true harbinger of better times
Wheat, which sold at $1.01 last Move m-
Der, reached STAT in February for May de-
livery, and now stands around $1.35. Hogs
gained some forty per cent in prices during
this period; and there was a corresponding
increase for corn. Cattle prices have grown
notably better during the first quarter of the
current year; "there is a ready market for
sheep, lambs are bringing double the prices
of the last months of 1921, while wool is
thirty-fve to fifty per cent higher than four
months ago." Touching cotton we are re-
minded that in March it sold fifty per cent
above its low price of the last two years,
and that sit is difficult to see how during
the next year the cotton grower can get
much less than present prices Though
there has been no pronounced price recess
sion in things the farmer must buy, still the
trend has been in the main downward.
thereby enhancing the betterment in his own
field Of values.
When it is considered that the larger por-
tton Of the country's purchasing power, es-
pecially in the South, resides in rural dis
tricts, the import of these developments be-
comes clear. Better prices for farm prod
ucts foretoken better trade and a wide
awakening of business. There is no excess
of enthusiasm in the outlook of those who
are most apt and experienced in reading the
times, but there is sober reinsurance from
which all may take courage.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
A REVIVAL OF THE PEANUT-By Frederick Haskn /

1ASHINGTON, D. c.. April 1.-The pino1
w nut, the tasty seed of the pine tree which
the Southwest Indians have been using
for food for, centuries has at last come into
its own as a popular delicacy A periodic
bumper crop of the little brown nuts in the
mountains of New Mexico this season has re-
suited in the commercializng in the east OF
the pinon as an exclusive product of the south
west highlands
The pinon is volunteer. Nature does the
marketing. The nuts are produced each fall
at an expense to no one, the pine cones drop
ping their ripe seeds 1aviShly on the ground
them to they trading posts for shipping to
eastern markets. The gatherer is paid for his
labor in harvesting the nuts.
The species of two-leafed scrub pine which
produces the edible seed known as the pinon
is found scattered through The four south
western states of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah.
and Colorado 1t occurs, associated with cedar
and juniper trees, in dry rocky soils at alti-
tudeS between five and nine thousand feet. The
tree has shriveled crooked trunk, spherical
crown and reaches a height of about Is feet
1t grows slowly and sometimes attans an age
of over 800 years. Its scientific name is
pinuS eduliS.
1t is commonly believed that the pinon bears
only once every five years. 1t is true that
exceptionally large crops occur only at in
terva1S of from three to seven years. but there
is crop each year. The nut requires two
years to ripen and while last seasons cror
lies on the ground beneath the pine tree the
next crop is maturing in smaller cones on the
tree. The 1921 crop. was one of the largest
in recent years, about 100000 pounds being
gathered in New Mexico alone.
Gathering the Pinon
In October, the big harvest season, bands
of Indians flock to the mountains where thi
pinon trees are to be found. There they camp
moving along as they exhaust the crop Of
each area. The Indians, after their own i'll
dolent fashion, pick up the tiny nuts by hanG
from the ground, Their white brothers, how.
ever, spread a big tarpaulin over the grounc
beneath the tree and shake the limbs until
every cone is emptied. The nuts are carried
in sacks and baskets to the nearest Indian
trading post where they are sold to the
dealer who ships them to market.
The nuts are shipped in 4O,ooo-pound car
load lots to the east, where they are pur-
chased by candy makers, clubs and hotels, and
by companies which vend the nut in various
ways. The man who gathers the pi1ons is
paid from five to ten cents pound the whole
sale dealers average about IS cents pound
and the retailers sell the nuts at about IS
cents pound in the west The 1924 crop in
New Mexico, the only state to market the nuts
on a large scale, is valued az about 100000
Strangers to the exotic little brown nut in
the east are making its acquaintance through
the agency of slot machines which are placed
in the subway stations of New York. nickel
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
The "Ta7k;es'

A FTER lapse of ten years, inventors
~ again are struggling to make the
movies talk, this time with the radio.
Ten years ago, or a bit more, Thomas A.
Edison evolved continuance to synchronize
that is, cause to run with each other-a
motion picture machine and a huge phono-
graph on the stage behind the screen The
pictures moved and the photograph did the
talking and also shut the doors with slam
and made the crash when a plate was
knocked off the table. Occasionally the
synchronizer slipped a bit and the slam of
the door came as if from a great distance
a couple of seconds after we saw the door
shut; or else we heard the plate shattered
Just before it hit the floor
Still, it was undeniably interesting, not to
say diverting.
Now the project is infinitely more pre-
tentious. The idea is for the actors them
selves to do the speaking for the pictures
that previously have been made of them,
and now are being projected on dozen or
more screens at once The picture-play also
is shown at exactly the same speed and in
synchronization in studio, where the act
ors are assembled. They speak their parts as
the screen-fgures enact them, and the radio
carries their voices to every theater where
the 'talkies" are produced.
When this arrangement is perfected, if
ever, one of the great charms of the movies
will have been removed.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
ANDREW AND 1MOGENE- Roe Fulkerson

'Listen, woman said Andrew, whose
puzzle is this?"
cat first thought you had bought it for
the little boy next door, but now believe
it was bought so little child VINO nVes
here might play with it"
"Is that so?" said Andrew, with sarcasm.
"Well, I'll tell you right now, II l did not
know any more about Panama than you do,
I would be buying myself some of these
things and learning.
ST tell you, though that this thing is cut
too complicated for a child. The saving
should be done in such manner that it
would not be too difficult to arrange so the
child would be more Interested. 49,
Imogene went upstairs to make some al
terations in her dress, as they were going to
the neighboring moving picture show.
"Say, the man who cut this thing up had
astigmatism, strabismus, palsy and was crazy
in the head besides,' yelled Andrew.
"Look at this piece here that looks like
the back fence of an old-fashioned basque
pattern There is no place on earth to put
it. Why that piece must have slipped into
this box. from some other puzzle"
clay it aside till we come back from the
show" said Imogene. "You can finish 1t
then"
"Finish it nothing said Andrew, 'you
go to the show. am going to do this thing
or break trace"
Don't be silly" said Imogene. 'You are
letting child's puzzle ruin your temper"
She leaned over him.
ooh, you silly thing" she laughed. "Why,
it has the lines of latitude and longitude on
it. Why don't you match them up and you
can fix it in a jiffy. Didn't you ever study
geography? There. put this one here and
the crooked one there. Now it's done.'
cav" said Andrew, shamefacedly. II
didn't want to take that advantage of the
thing. It's not sportsmanlike."
Copyright, Twenty-frst Century Press, Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
Promoting Georgia Products

T@HE Georgia Federation of Women's
Clubs, an organization composed of
fifty thousand of the leading women
of the state, is to be congratulated on the
movement launched this week to promote the
fullest development of Georgia products and
with that promotion to bring about the full
est use by Georgians of the things their state
produces.
There is no other service of a constructive
nature more important to Georgia at this
time than this one undertaken by this great
and public-spirited organization.
The movement was launched with a proc
lamation by Governor Hardwick which The
Journal had the pleasure of broadcasting
over the state by wireless telephone
The Federation of Women's Clubs pro-
poses to enlist the active cooperation of every
civic, commercial, agricultural and industrial
organization in Georgia in the movement to
develop Georgia products. It will form an
organization in Georgia in the movement to
women in every Congressional district to
carry the movement forward. Every club in
the Federation and every individual member
of each club will have the matter brought to
their attention and their active cooperation
will be enlisted.
AS pointed out by Governor Hardwick in
his proclamation launching the movement,
Approximately $10O,000,000 per year is ex-
pended by Georgia consumers for food prod
ucts grown in other states, and the greater
part of which it is possible to produce or man
ufacture more economically in Georgia."
A state with such productive power unde-
veloped, and with such enormous wealth
pouring out every year, can never achieve the
full measure of prosperity.
Georgia is possessed of every element of
extraordinary prosperity, provided her re-
sources are developed, and provided her peo-
pie buy Georgia products in preference to all
others.
Georgian who loves his state and wishes
to see it prosper ought never to buy anything
produced outside of Georgia if he can get the
same article produced in Georgia
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
OUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

"Yes," said the old man to his visitor, 81
am proud of my girls and would like to see
them comfortably married, and as | have made
little money they will not go pennileSs 10
their husbands. There is Mary, IS years old
and a really good girl l shall give her $1,000
when she marres. Then comes Bet, who won't
see IS again. l shall give her $1,000, and The
man who takes Eliza, who is 40, will have
$4,000 with her."
The young man reflected moment and then
asked 'You haven't one about SO, have yous"
A train in the west was held up by bandits,
who ordered the passengers to give up all
their money.
One Of the passengers was Jew from
New York, and when his turn came he re-
1uctantly drew $500 from his pocket, and,
taking Sc, put it in his pocket.
What do you mean by that?" asked the
bandit.
Surely" answered the Jew, "you don't
mind me taking per cent discount on a
cash transaction"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04

TMOGENE had telephoned down to Andrew
during the day reminding him that the
following day was Fritz Jones' eighth
birthday. Fritz lived next door and he and
Andrew were wont to sit on the front steps
and discuss baseball and things of interest
to men, big and little.
When Andrew had finished his dinner,
present and asked:
"Did you remember to get something for
Fritz?'
eyes, indeed" said Andrew. 'fWait a
minute and 1 will show it to you He
went out in the hall and returned with a
fat box in gaudy color.
eft is Jig saw puzzle of the Panama
Canal" explained Andrew, taking off the
cover. "See, it is a pretty picture of the
whole Isthmus when it is put together and
it is educational in character, for it will
serve to impress the Panama Canal on Fritz
more than dozen lessons in geography.
"Then when you take the pieces like this
and mix them up, it is some pleasure and
fun to put them together again. I am go
ing to do it just to show you how easy it is
for one who knows
eve will start with this piece for it has
the picture of Ancon on it. We know that
Ancon is on the edge of Gatun Lake and car
build from that easily and d. :"
"But Andrew, interrupted Imogene
"Gatun Is a dam"
"There is dam built to hold back Gatun
Lake." explained Andrew, patiently. CHOW
this piece will be over at this end, for it is
part of the ocean, of course I cannot
tell which ocean for it may be the Pacific
end, where Panama is; or the Atlantic end
where Colon is and {. . :"
"But you have them wrong end to-" said
Imogene, "and besides that block has clouds
on it and there are no clouds in the ocean
so it must be sky"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
IF ONLY
BY DR.. Frank Crane

There is a song by Alexis Tolstoi that runs
as follows:
eff the waters of the. Volga would run back
wards,
If one could begin life again,
If all the women were young widows,
If one did not put water in wine,
If one could drink till he was satisfied,
If injustice would go to the devil,
If the hungry were all fed,
If there were justice in this world,
If the waters of the Volga would run back
wards,
If one could begin life again
Which we might continue as follows:
If all the cyclists could be banished to an
island by themselves,
If all the beautiful women were good,
If only politicians would not run! for office,
but sit still and let the office seek
them
If in the question of Disarmament the nations
wonld cease saying to each other:
"After you, my dear Alphonse!"
If critics only wrote of what they liked,
If happiness could only be bought for money,
If only corns grew on the knees where you
could get at them,
If only youth would take experience for moth
ing from age instead of buying it at
such price,
If only partisanship would confine itself to
baseball and let government alone,
If only crime could be cured by punishment,
If only the sun shone at night when we
need it,
If only people had warm hearts and cool
heads instead of hot heads and cool
hearts,
If only we could add to the Golden Rule, "Do
unto others as We would they should
do unto your this necessary compile
ton: But do it first,
If we could only live hundred years from
now and see how it is all going to
come out.
Copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
Back to "NormalcY"

Back to "NOrmaICy'
e correspondent notes tht return of the
ox-cart. Also, if he will look around he
can note the return of the horse and buggy,
and the one and two-horse wagon is again
very much in evidence What we call hard
times is bringing us back to the day of ordi-
nary things-and to better things. Some of
the most substantial citizens of this part of
the country plowed oxen in their earlier days.
The ox-cart on the farm is a convenience
and a money saver.-Tifton Gazette.
1t is not to be understood from this, how
unprogressive, for he is always to he found
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04

at you?
A couple of syears ago every conceivable
shade of blue was represented in whining
wailing, inexpressibly syncopated ditties
known as the Formaldehyde Blues, or the
Bichloridic Blues, or the Tombstone-and-
Weeping Willow Blues, or something or
other, always with a blue title and cast of
sadness and foreboding about it,
These melodic miseries, predicting ashes
to ashes and suggesting horrid endings con-
nected with locomotives and raisinjack are
if the bloodthirsty jazz extravaganzas now
on tap are an improvement. unsteady,
neither fashion is easy to mention in mixed
company.
But the blue fashion is passing-has pass
ed. And the horrid jazz stuff at least is not
funereal. Us
This is symptomatic of the general cheer
ing up in the tone of the nation. Business
blues are passing. Recent news stories with
regard to the soldier bonus have failed to
create furore in the stock market. Not
long. ago, the mere mention of the soldier
bonus was enough to give the market acute
indigestion.
Business went to pot when everybody be-
gan looking lugubrious and the national
music turned blue. Whether pessimism
caused hard times or hard times caused pes
simism doesn't make any great difference
Probably it was a vicious circle, with each
aggravatipg the other.
Anyway, the blues have been turned Oft
and the situation is clearing.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
QUIRS AND QUIDDITIES

A little boy ran to his father one day ap-
pearing very excited
Dad" he yelped, 1.-The kettle and teapot
are in the kitchen on the stove singing for
a wager!"
Singing for a wager! What do you
mean?" asked dad.
WELL replied the boy, ''the frying pan
is in between them holding the steaks"
The would-be sportsman was arrayed in
the very latest thing in shooting suits and
had all the necessary appurtenances con-
nected with the sport with the exception of
the ability to hit anything.
The small boy who accompanied him was
mirthful first, but at last his mirth turn
ed to disgust as time went on and the sports
man had not been able to bag anything.
Suddenly a rabbit darted from behind a
log, looked round, and then dropped as if
shot. The sportsman picked it up.
"There isn't mark on it," he exclaimed
in establishment.
mo- answered the boy; 81 think it must
have laughed itself to DEATH
/ Well have to be careful how speak to
powerful countries like Panama and Costa
Rica when congress finishes with our army
and navy,-Rjchmond Times Dispatch.
zone thing I like about bankers is that
you can depend upon them" says Leonidas
w. Van Quentin. whenever you have it all
doped out that your banker will say no, he
says no.'-Kansas City Star.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
I'm DAYS of Old"

fortune-teller over at Statesboro has
told the people there that horrible crime
will be revealed if they will lower the waters
of a sink hole, near there, five feet" The
hole contains 4 100000 or 100000 gallons
of water, and it is to be pumped in order tc
see if a dark mysterious crime will be re-
vealed,-Valdosta Times.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
Around the World
Tri-Weekly Mems Flashes From AL Over
the Earth.
Praises Edison


Fame of Thomas A. Edison, Americas
wise man, has travelled even into the depths
of the golden east declared Harry G. Os-
trander in an address to the Knoxville Geo
graphic society at the Business mems clup-
Mr.. Ostrander told of meeting a Burmese
priest, who declared that he was on his way
to America.
"And why are you going to American"
Mr.. Ostrander asked.
'"To see Thomas A. Edison, the wise man, .
was the reply.
"Why do you want to see Mr.. Edison?"
Mr.. Ostrander asked.
81 want to see him to make machine, to
reveal the workings of the human soul" re-
piled the priest.
"But what about the famed wise men OF
the East?" asked Mr. Ostrander. Couldn't
they make this machine?"
:'No" was the priests reply. There is no
wise man in the East, no wise man in all
the world like Thomas A. Edison"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
Women Have Determination

The handsome bachelor editor Of the
Cuthbert Leader has made the following
discovery:
According to press reports a woman will
travel 100 miles, and 700 miles of the dis
lance b.. dog team in order to marry an
Alaska man. It is mighty hard to head off
some women when they set their minds on
matrimony"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
How, Could This Happen?

How Could This Happen?
Our interest in the Fort Valley Peach
Blossom Festival Tuesday was that over
shadowing we forgot it was payday. And il
emotions can go farther than that we'd be
much obliged to know.-Johnny Spencer in
Macon telegraph
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04

in the front ranks Of progress. Still, if he
should attempt to persuade a stubborn OK to
continue his journey from home to town,
nobody else would have to write the weekly
Sunday school lesson for him.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
The Worm Turns Aqa;1,

According to The Coming Tower in The
New York World, there is tailor in Tiffin,
O., who had dealings with ga age man for
many months-all, the business being on the
garage mans ledger-and who finally was
retained to sew on button for the garage
man.
Next day the garage man got the follow
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
Smile Awh;1e

If your Iawnmower blades are dull, try
putting in some collars just back from the
laundry.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04

Trying to buy bootleg whisky is dangerous
You might succeed.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04

The funniest stunts in the movies are pull
ed by the censors.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
Cotton Census

A resolution was introduced by Senator
Harris Democrat, Georgia. last week, pro-
viding that the bureau of the census gather,
compile and publish estimates of the amount
of cotton remaining to be gfnned for cur
rent season, at the same time that statistics
as to the amount of cotton actually ginned
are announced.
Senator Harris, who was once director of
the census, said that the estimates of the
bureau of crop estimates during the last sea-
son showed differences of several hundred
thousand bales as compared with the census
bureaus report on amount Of cotton actual
ly ginned, and he believed the best available
information on the estimates of cotton to be
ginned would come from the ginners who
furnish statistics for the regular reports of
the census bureau.
Senator Harris said that one estimate on
the cotton crop during the last year was
more than one million bales in excess of the
actual crop ginned, and that these err
roneous figures were made the basis Of
speculation on the cotton exchanges with the
invariable result that the price of cotton
was greatly depressed
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04

We need autos that will count a hundred
before hitting pedestrians.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-04
Passing of the Blues

fave you noticed that when they haul
out the monograph records these
days they hardly ever shoot "Blues"