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ELOOUENCE
BY H. Addington Bruce

TLOQUENCE is not Identical with the
n spinning of fine phrases, though many
~" speakers still seem to think it is. Slav
ishly they toll over dictionaries and books Of
rhetoric, laboriously they write and re-write
Their sreeches in the effort to give their ideas
a magnificent garb
Then, when at last they take the platform
they too, often discover that they fadl, not
merely to impress, but even to hold their
audience. Not the silence of eager interest
but the restlessness of boredom attends their
oratorical flights. In the bitterness Of their
disappointment, they may reproach themselves
with having been guilty Of the error of talk
ing over the heads" Of those who came to
hear them.
But usually that is not their real error.
Their real error consists in having Inderest1-
mated their hearers critical acumen.
They have depended for their effect on the
manner of their, delivery rather than it's mat
ter And their hearers have been quick to
sense this, and, rightly or wrongly, to suspect
that the matter is of no Importance.
Sincerity-it cannot be put too strengths
at the very root Of all eloquence, Let man
sincerely believe what he is saying in public
address, let him have also a real knowledge
of what he is talking about, and he never
need be phrase-maker to rise to heights Of
eloquence.
He must, of course, pay some attention to
the mode of his expression. II the rhetoric
of artificiality is to be avoided, avoided too
should be the uncouthness of slang and gram
NAUTICAL looseness Though even the slangy
and the ungrammatica1 may attain eloquent
responsiveness if they but be ardently sincere.
Whereas to the insincere, eloquent persua-
siveness is an impossibility, no matter how
adept as rhetoricians they may be. Nor will
it do-as some would have us believe-to pre-
tend a sincerity that is not possessed, even
as an actor feigns emotions he feels not.
This may yield q temporary triumph, only
to be followed soon or late by an increasing
failure in proportion as the pretending be
comes more and more known for the falsity
it is. The charlatan who flattered himself
that he was accounted eloquent, will now have
the painful experience OF talking to empty
benches, Of seeing his followers desert him.
not one by one, but in droves.
Remember always that, rs some one has
said, "The message Of eloquence Is addressed
to the heart rather than the BRAIN" There
is Just one sure way by which those who
would reach the heart through the spoken
sincerity.
And the greater ones enthusiasm for that
which one sincerely believes, the greater ones
eloquence is likely to be- That I doubt not
was what Webster had in mind, when speak
ing of eloquence, he affirmed:
Labor and learning may toll for It, but
they will toll in vain. Words and phrases
may be marshalled in every way, but they
cannot compass it. 1t must consist in the
man, in the subject, and in the OCCASION
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14
Bombing the Chinese Wall

IT. HE flow and ebb of civil conflict in
China wins attention once again to
the greatest wall in the world. Built
as barrier against invading Mongol tribes
men thousands of years ago, the famous bull
wark was point of vantage in recent battles,
as it has been throughout that country's tale
of war AS the smoke of modern siege guns
and airplane bombs floats away, what re-
mains?
Military and political developments have
eclipsed mention of the historic barrier ex-
cept as it figured in battle maneuvers. We
heard Of the wall being crossed and recross-
ed by armies of the opposing factions. We
could vision Chinese machine gunners en-
sconced in its age-worn turrets, shell fire
tearing UP the gigantic stones, broad breaches
blown by dynamite to permit armies to pass
through different picture from that of
ages gone when baffled Tartar horsemen fell
back from its skyey towers and bristling
parapets.
Hundreds of miles long is this wall, but
what is that to modern warfare? It is scores
Of feet thick; yet one bomb can breach it. It
has been for centuries a wonder of the world
and monument to human achievement; but
to war it is merely pile of stones. 1t was
built for war. By war it may be destroyed,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14
Every Georgian Should Vote
An Indebendent Conviction

IN the eve of the state and county pri-
tions which need particularly to be en-
phasized and touching which there ought
to be undivided assent. 1t is the duty of
every qualified citizen to vote. And it is
his duty to vote an independent convic-
ton.
Failing in the one he is a shirker; failing
in the other he is, politically, slave.
The indifference with which thousands OF
citizens have come to regard ballot duty
bodies i'll for democratic government. To
leave to a minority, no matter how we'll
meaning, decisions which the whole electo-
rate is entitled, and indeed obligated, to
make, may conceivably result in government
that is endurable, but never in government
that is democratic. We thus may develop
potent oligarchy, but we cannot thus
remain true to the vital traditions of Geor-
gia and of America. The citizen who neg
lects to vote, especially in so important an
election as that now upon us, is not only
abandoning a right Of his own, but also is
ignoring right of his community and COM
monwealth: for they are due his thought
full ballot in time of peace no less than his
loyal service in time of war.
His THOUGHTFUL ballot, not mere
scrap of paper inscribed with prejudice or
filled in at the behest of boss or clique!
Whoever has a mind of his own, con-
science of his own, patriotism of his own
is qualified to cast a vote of his own with
out interference or dictation. If this prin-
ciple depart from our Democratic primaries,
then what substance of political liberty will
the rank and file of Georgians retain? In
the general election they are honor bound
to vote their party's ticket, because for
obvious and vital reasons their partys in
tegrity must be maintained. But it is on
this very account that there should be the
utmost freedom of judgment and Of will in
the primary itself, for only therein can most
of the citizens of this State give expression
and potency to civic convictions.
In the campaigns now drawing to
close The Journal has not seen fit to be-
come partisan to any candidate, although
it has endeavored to make plain it's judg-
ment concerning measures and principles
and to be uniformly fair. But there is
matter on which this paper is admittedly
partisan. 1t is admittedly and intensely par
tisan as regards the peoples duty to vote
and their right to vote as free Individuals
When they can be voted as herds, no
matter by whom, then liberty will have
passed from their ballots, and virtue from
our democratic institutions.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14

one-half of the women in the church will
not be speaking to her at Christmas time"
"But I don't understand" exclaimed An
drew, puzzled.
Neither do they" said Imogene, placidly.
Don't you know that women are afraid Of
knowing smiles and they always want it I'M
derstood that they are on the inside Of ev-
erything and right this minute both Mrs. AL
derson and Nettie Phillips are giving that
knowing smile when ever that Long woman's
name is mentioned"
"But Jims wife doesn't get any show for
her white alley protested Andrew. "She has
no comeback"
"She has as much show as her husband
gave you. She has as much come back as I
had when she grinned that Cheshire cat grin
at me in the street car. I'll show her that she
cannot let that crook of husband of hers
steal your money and then laugh at me. /
would like to take her by the throat and
choke her. What are you laughing at?"
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14
Giants Against Gods
. HERE were cries Of horror and con-
demnation when Germany launched

- HERE were cries or horror and con-
demnation when Germany launched
poison-gas warfare in the late world
struggle. But soon the other combatants
were fighting the devil with fire, and by the
late autumn of 1918 noxious II not deadly
gases filled, according to one authority, half
the shells employed. Once begun, the evil
was not to be stopped or in any wise restrain
ed by considerations of humanity. The NOR
tai agonies of soldier or of million SOL
diers upon whom the poison had seized was
Of no more concern to military science than
q marble image of the Dying Gaul.
From this may be inferred something Of
the uncontrolled and uncomfortable charac-
ter of chemical warfare if the nations again
go to battle. The only limit will be that of
the scientists power to discover and devise,
and ere that point be reached the ruin may
well become cataclysmic. 1t is obvious at
the outset that no treaty stipulations against
fighting with poison, as vapor and in divers
other forms, could be enforced; for the
chemical manufactures that are landmarks
to industry and medicine in time of peace are
convertible into ruthless slaves of Mars upon
the approach Of war. Think of the numer
GUS poison gases which chlorine alone can be
made to yield. What is more innocent than
indigo? Yet the same materials from which
it is produced can be made to yield the no.
torious mustard" gas. Germany can be
stripped of howitzersA and forbidden to manu-
facture machine guns beyond certain num-
Der, but not prevented from making indigo.
Consider, then, the dread reach and power
of unrestrained chemical warfare. ''It is pos
sible today" writes Major Lefebure in his
recent book on the subject "by chemical
means to transform an entire region into
natural barrier, having the same value as
strongly defended ground. 1t is even thought
that in time gas will do away with trenches,
and that poison zone may be substituted for
barbed wire" By this very means, in fact,
the Germans in the spring of 1918 threw
out defensive TANKS for their great drive.
Since then the development of poison gas re-
sources has gone forward apace, so that now
it is considered to penetrate masks and SUBJ
terranean refugees. More, it is believed that
with noxious gases will be combined electric
shocks, radioactive bombs, even fatal bac-
terra. AS the French observer visualiZes it:
"Aeroplanes will cover the towns in enemy
territory with poisonous vapor; there will be
no rear and no civilians It will be impos-
sible to breathe the air; the electrified earth
will tren1ble in its depths, whole cities will
disappear instanteneously; neither old people
nor children will be sheltered from these
deadly fumes"
To humanize war is impossible. If it be
not abolished, 1t will abolish mankind. AS
In the mythical long ago the issue is Joined
again between the giants and the gods, be-
tween barbarism and civilization, between
Chaos and Cosmos On which side shall be
cast the loyalty Of our generation and of our
country?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14
MARRIED MUSINGS
BY HELEN ROWLAND

WHY husbands leave home has never
w seemed mystery to me. There are
moments when 1 wonder why they
ever STAY home!
tempts them to truancy; it is the lull inside it.
There is nothing particularly thrilling
about a mems club. Most of them are big.
cold places, full of stuffed furniture and
stuffy old gentlemen.
1t isn't passion for jazz or for another
woman that drags man out or his own
house so often as passion for peace. and
rest-and comfort.
When man stops spending an occasional
evening out, and begins spending only an oc-
casional evening at home, it is not because
he is in love with something or somebody
else-but because he is physically, mentally
or morally uncomfortable.
Physically Observation-Disclosures there
are no comfortable chairs to sit on.
Or because there is no place for him to
put his FEET.
ono man can be thoroughly comfortable
unless his feet are at least few inches high
er than his head.)
Or because there is nowhere to put his
stubs and his cigarette ashes.
Or because the house is kept going like
boiler factory half the day, in order that it
may resemble a mausoleum the other half.
Mentally uncomfortable, because he is tir-
ed of listening to Human Phonograph with
only one record.
Or because nobody laughs at his jokes or
listen to his stories.
Or because he knows that he Is secretly
regarded as a harmless lowbrow.
Morally uncomfortable, because his always
being stood in the corner and put through Q
QUESTIONABLE.
Or because he is always being detected"
in something.
Or because he yearns for little flattery-
and is tired of being improved"
Or because he is tired Of having his "high-
er nature" appealed to, and yearns for lit.
tie self-expression Of his other 80 per cent.
And, Of course, he should have thought Of
all this before he married.
But Love is a ringmaster, who keeps you
jumping through paper hoops and doing
stunts" for an audience of one.
And, after marriage, the audience goes fast
asleep.
So you wipe off your makeup and dotf your
spangles, and slip down quietly into mental
kinomo-and doze.
And when you wake up-all the lights are
out!
Men leave home-not because they want
to get somewhere else
But, just because they want to GET
AWAY!
That's perfectly simple
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14

WILLIAMS BAY, Wis, September H.
Long and delicate comet tails sweeping
through the planetary spaces are sometimes
disturbed and broken by some force still
mysterious to astronomers, Prof. E. E. Bar
nard Of Yerkes Observatory revealed here at
the meeting Of the American Astronomical
society.
Besides showing that the comet itself has
much control over the direction of the tail
and streamers, photography, that reveals
unknown influences opposed to the theory
of gravitation seem to be at work In the
space Immediately about our sun.
'"This is highly suggestive and may lead
to discoveries of very great Importance con-
corning certain conditions within the, solar
SYSTEM" declares Prof. Barnard.
1T is we'll known that a comets tall al
ways points approximately away from the
sum-" explains Prof. Barnard, and that its
form is determined by the speed with which
the small particles forming it leave the
head, going outward from the sun by the
pressure of the suns light. We may there
fore have, if the particles are moving very
fast, relative to the speed Of the comet in
it's orbit, very straight tail pointing direct
ly away from the sun. II the speed of the
particles is relatively slow, then the motion
of the comet in it's orbit, combined with the
motion of the particles, will cause the tail
to be curved away from the direction of mo-
ton. These features Of a comets tail are
easily understood from our knowledge OF the
motion of comet and the repellant action
Of the suns light, so that we may have a
straight tail if the particles are moving
very fast away from the sun or violently
curved one if their motion is slow. But
the curvature, if there is any, must invari-
ably be away from the direction OF motion.
Photographs have sometimes shown a curva-
ture in contrary direction to this and
that. the tail has been thrown forward at a
large angle, sometimes suddenly, thus NOV
ing faster than the comet itself which is
nearer the sun. This is opposed to the
theory of gravitation and must be due to
some cause which is Independent of the sun
and comet. Within twenty-four hours 1t
may recover its natural position
Prof Barnard explains that by far the
most interesting comets have not been Wis
ible to the naked eye. The smaller and more
active comets are studied on the photo
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14
The Outline of History-By H. G. Wells
|. The Romance of Mother Earth

was spinning, flaming mass of, matter not
yet concentrated into a compact center Of
heat and light, considerably larger than it is
now, and spinning very much faster and
that as it whirled a series of fragments de-
tached themselves from it, which became the
planets.
Our earth is one Of these planets. The
flaring mass that was the material of the
earth broke into two masses as it spun a
larger, the earth ITSELF and a smaller, which
is now the dead, still moon.
Astronomers give us convincing reasons
for Supposing that Sui and earth and moon
and all that system were then whirling about
at a speed much greater than the speed at
which they are moving today, and that at
first our earth was a flaming thing upon
which no life could live.
The way in which they have reached these
conclusions is by very beautiful and inter-
esting series of observations and reasoning
too long and elaborate for us to deal with
here. But they oblige us to believe that the
sun, incandescent through it, is now much
cooler then it was, and that it spins more
slowly now than it did and that it continues
to cool and slow down.
And they also show that the rate at which
the earth spins is diminishing and continues
to diminish-that Is to say, that our day is
growing longer and longer, and that the heat
at the center of the earth wastes slowly.
There a time when the day was not a
half and not a third Of what it is today;
when a blazing hot sun, much greater than
it is now, must have moved visibly-had
there been an eye to mark it-from its rise
to it's setting across the skies. There will be
time when the day will be as long as year
is now, and the cooling sun, shorn of its
beams will hang motionless in the heavens.
It must have been in days of much hot
ter sun, a far swifter day and night, high
tides, great heat, tremendous storms and
earthquakes, that life, Of which we are a
part, began upon the world. The moon also
was nearer and brighter in those days and
had a changing face.
Tomorrow-Life's First Records in the
Rocks.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14
SMILE A WHILE

Happiness Is a state of mind your own
business.
Every man starts life as a baby. 1t is
best to outgrow 1t.
When hubby helps with the dishes you
know who is boss.
The man who makes the worst Of things
gets it.
Our train may be late; but Russian time
tables are calendars.
What could help safety first campaign
more than longer skirts?
Wouldn't 1t be great If an American
dollar was worth as much here as it in
Germany?
Terrible thing about girls showing their
ears again as they may wiggle them while
dancing.
Michigan man thinks he is the devil.
Moral: Don't believe everything your wife
tells you.
Stewards plan to eliminate strange words
from menus. Nothing is said about elimi-
mating strange prices.
We saw a man who was down in the
mouth and up in the ain
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14

"Confound him." said Andrew, viciously,
ct would like to take his throat between my
two hands and choke him."
"Why, Andrew" laid Imogene, mildly. 81
am surprised at you. You are absolutely
common. You. talk like stevedore."
"I don't care" said Andrew. "Jim Long
is crook and you know it. You know he
skinned me out of $1,000, just as much as
though he had put his hand in my pocket
and stolen it.
eyes dear" soothed Imogene, "but I
would not talk of choking him. I remember
that he swindled you and If you do not be-
lieve it, can prove It to you by telling you
that only two weeks ago kept his wife from
being invited to that weekend party at Al
derson's down on the shore.
ooh, lam sorry of that" said Andrew.
"I don't want you to take up my affairs and
thrash them out with lot Of women"
"I.never opened my mouth" assured 1mo-
gene eve women do not choke each other
as you threatend to choke him.
"It was like this About two weeks after
he had swindled you out Of that money and
they stopped calling here or being friendly
with u.s. I sat opposite her in the car one
day and she looked me straight In the eye
and then let her gaze wander down the front
of my dress to the tips Of my shoes and then
she smiled and turned her head away. Oh,
I was angry.
ct made up my mind right then that she
knew all about how her husband had done
you and determined that I would get even
some day, and when Mrs. Anderson told me
who she was going to invite, she read over
the list and when she came to Mrs. Longs
name I said:
"'I beg your pardon and she repeated it.
"Then I said did not think heard right.
GAS 1 said it I smiled just as she smiled
at me in the street car and Mrs. Anderson
asked me what was the matter and told her
there was nothing the matter and then l
smiled more widely than before.
"She insisted on my telling her what was
smiling at and I only smiled the more and
would not answer.
"While we were talking Nettie Phillips
came in and Mrs. Anderson told her that she
had made me think she was going to invite
Mrs. Jim Long to her house party just to see
what 1 would say.
81 smiled again at Nettie and Mrs. Alder
son smiled too, and then Nettie smiled, and
now every time her name is mentioned
either Nettie OF Mrs. Anderson will smile and
soon other women will be smiling, too, and
she will not be. asked anywhere.
"Tn wager she will not be in single
bridge or dancing club next winter and that
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14
MY FAVORITE STORY
By Irwin Cobb

During the Republican national convention
Of 1920 the leaders behind the scenes fear
ing Senator Hiram Johnson might kick over
the traces in the event of the nomination OF
a presidential candidate displeasing to hims
repeatedly made overtures to the Californian
to take the second place on the ticket. Invari-
ably Johnson declined the proposition. To-,
ward the last he showed signs of temper.
At this critical period the stage managers
invoked the offices Of Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., as an intermediary. They
counted on the friendship which had existed
between Johnson and young Roosevelt's
father Johnson was briskly emphatic In
stating his position to young Colonel Roose-
welt as he had been in his language to earlier
emissaries.
Nevertheless, right up to the eleventh hour
the bosses trusted that Johnson might be
induced to change his mind. Three Of us,
all newspaper correspondents, were in John
sons room at the Blackstone hotel in Chi
cago on the night before the ticket was
named, when Johnson's secretary came to
say that Colonel Roosevelt was on the tele-
phone desiring to speak with him. Johnson
took down the receiver, and we heard him
say this, with pauses between words:
no-no-yes-no-NO"
When Senator Johnson had hung up the
receiver and returned to his seat, one OF
those present said: Senator, I'm curious to
know what the question from Colonel Roose-
welt was which caused you to reply in the
affirmative when all your other answers were
such positive noes"
Johnson's eyes twinkled.
THAT" he said, twas when the young
man asked me if could hear distinctly what
he. was saying
Copyright, 1922, by The Mcknight syndt.
Inn
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14
ious Forces Attack Comets in Solar System

graphic plate Some of the very large and
best known comets, as Halley's comet OF
1910, and others, have not shown any I'M
usual phenomena.
Sometimes comet will reject its tall,
always sending out new one in a slightly
different direction, which, like the smoke
from locomotive, will drift away and dis
sipate in space" he says. Sometimes a
comet will cease to hold it's particles to-
gether and will itself melt away in space
and cease forever to be comet. These are
called 'lost COMETS Beilas is the best
known of the lost comets. 1t has resolved
itself into a great swarm Of meteors that
sometimes are encountered by the earth and
burned up in our atmosphere. These dis
plays are called meteoric showers. comet
may sometimes separate into two or more
bodies and later disappear altogether from
the heavens. Science Service.