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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-13
GAINING GOOD WILL
By DR.. Frank Crane

The American Bar Association recently
gave it's attention to a study of the underly-
ing reasons for the crime wave which has
swept the country since the close of the war.
Many reasons were advanced by Grim
inology students, lawyers, doctors, and 9TH
Some insisted that the crime wave is
the natural outgrowth of war through the
breaking down Of moral fibre; others blamed
prohibition; others insisted it was because
of a growing belief that the courts would
favor the rich.
One 1ayman declared that it might be a
good idea to put many of the practicing law
yers in Jail, and others insisted that punish
ments for crime were not sufficiently severe.
The Adams Express Company, so the news
papers informed us, in taking drastic meas
ures to protect it's treasures, and is inaugural
ing a service of armored trucks, with bot
tom, sides and top covered with steel plates,
and with the driver inclosed in bullet
proof glass cab.
Each truck is to carry crew Of five men
armed with revolvers, and loopholes are
provided all around it for the crew to fire
from within.
All "a this represents an elaborate con-
tinuation of the wrong method of dealing
with crime, to which the mind of the world
is committed.
That method is based upon a piece Of
sheer fiction. That fiction is that crime is
prevented by punishment. That is to say,
when man commits a crime he should be
hurt, in which case he will not commit an
other crime, and others will be deferred from
initiating him. Anybody who is old enough
to go to school knows that the world has
been carrying out that program faithfully
so far back that the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary; also that it has not
stopped crime yet.
Said schoolboy also, if he would study a
little deeper, would discover that crimes
have diminished in the civilized world to a
certain degree steadily, and that that dtmi-
mutton has exactly followed the diminution
in the severity of punishment
That means that in proportion as we have
stopped hurting people for crime they have
stopped committing it.
This is a general law. Like all general laws
it will be pooh-poohed by most people who
can see nothing but particular instances.
1t is not a question, however, of argu-
ments, it is merely a question of fact. That
fact is: that Notwithstanding the many Grim
inals today in Chicago, for instance, life in
Chicago is much more secure by day or night
than it was in London $50 years ago when
there were some 200 crimes for which a
man might be hung.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-13
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY JACK L.. PATTERSON.
Congratulated Butter

The Savannah Morning News calls atten-
tion to the fact that we raise but two per
cent of the butter we consume in Georgia.
We infer this to mean that we produce but
two per cent of the commercial butter Of
fered for sale in the state. There is no rea-
son why we should not produce all that we
consume, and then produce great deal more
to send out Of the state We have a fine Sec
ton for dairying. We have the feeds that
produce milk and cream, and we can produce
them more cheaply than they can be pro-
duced in any other section of America. We
have the climate and can have the pas
lures with but little effort. What we lack is
organizing the business and setting it go
ing.-Moultrie Observer.
This is fair but startling statement of
the butter yield in this state. The Observer
takes the correct view of the situation.
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I'VE Make Our Thrills

Nor do women understand that work, in
it's essence, is the same. 1t is just doing the
same thing one time after another. And
after the novelty wears off 1t is just the same
grind. Making novels is just as much a
trade making bread when you do it for a
living, and it is ten times harder work. Dia-
monds and rubies and emeralds get to be
just so many little white, and red and green
, rocks to the jewel expert. The champagne
| faster comes to loathe the very smell Of
wine.
Sitting around daubed up with paint,
wearing furs and velvets in August, and with
| a piece Of chiffon for covering in Decembe
waiting for hours at stretch for your turn
to go before the camera is about the most
tlresome job on earth, as any film queen will
tell you, and if you want to know which has
the most thrill, your own home or the stage,
ask any successful actress.
The truth is that work is work, and earn
ing your daily bread and butter is a monoto-
nous job no matte how you do it. and
whether we keep up a perpetual interest in
| it, or go stale in it, depends altogether upon
ourselves-not the work.
We have to manufacture our own thrills.
We have to put in the punch, and inject the
pep into our work ourselves 1t depends
| upon us, not our jobs, not our environment.
The housewife can be bored to death, or
kept on her tiptoes by her work, just as she
pleases. She can say, whats the use of
cooking meals that are eaten as soon as
COOheu1 VI C1edulnS rooms CQaC are
mussed up again, of correcting faults in chill
dren that they commit again the next min
ute, of spending my life doing things for
people who do not even see what do?'
Or she think that making home, and
| raising up family of fine boys and girls is
| the greatest work in the world. She can
find excitement in outwitting the high cost
of living, and feel a real thrill of achieve
ment over a superlative cake or batch of
pies Whether being wife and mother is a
martydom, or career, is solely the point of
view of the woman.
Whether the working girl finds writing
letters, or selling goods dreary drudgery or
gets from it the thrill of playing the game
is up to her. If The has no ambition, no de-
sire to rise; if she isn't interested in what
she is trying to do, and is only marking time
until some man comes along and marries her,
then, indeed, her work is monotonous.
But If she sees modern commerce as the
great romance, and adventure, then every
letter, every sale rouses the sporting blood
in her, and makes her eager to win. Business
to that kind of girl Il never dull.
Whether our work is monotonous or not
depends upon ourselves. We take out of our
daily life only what we put in it.
Copyright, 1922, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Inc
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corn cob is coming into It's own. Every ton
of the 100000 tons of this product burn
ed or discarded in this country every year is
capable of yielding over 800 pounds of acetic
acid and 800 pounds of Tactic acid if the yield
on commercial scale should prove equal to
laboratory results. according to the Wiscon-
sin Agricultural Experiment station here.
The acids easily obtained by ferment-
ing syrup made from corn cobs hydronolyz-
ed with dilute suphuric acid, which yields 80
to 40 per cent xylose, kind of sugar. This
sugar solution is fermented by the proper
bacteria and the resulting acetic and Tactic
acid In almost equal quantities accounts for
IS to 80 per cent Of the xylose.
These acids are particularly useful in the
tanning of hides and the manufacture of ace
tone and other chemicals. The commercial
development Of this industry will involve
numerous chemical and technical problems,
but the possibility Of producing chemicals in
this way was proved when over 5000, 900
pounds Of acetone was obtained by a ferment
process during the for use in making ex-
plosives.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-13
FIRST STEPS T O INVENTIONS

WASHINGTON, May II. - Matchmaking
was the first step to most of the principal in
Ventlons that make modern industry what it
is today, Carl W. Mitman, curator Of the U.
5. National Museum, declared at meeting
OF the Neurological Institute of America here
this afternoon.
James Watt who invented the separate
condenser for the steam engine which result
ed in the development of the true steam en-
CINE and began the replacement Of hand DOW
er and appliances by mechanical devices, was
first matchmaker and then an instrument
maker.
George Stephenson, whose locomotives
first definitely established the economic worth
OF the steam transportation though an en-
CINE man and engineer, made extra money by
repairing the watches and clocks Of his
neighbors after his days work.
When the Baltimore and Ohio Railway,
after its first trial of the steam locomotive,
offered a $4,000 prize for steam locomo olive
that could pull Is pounds at the rate rate of
Is miles per hours, two watchmakefs of
Philadelphia, Stacey CosteN and Ezekal
Childs, competed.
Matthias w. Baldwin was matchmaker
who progressed from the building of model
locomotive for a Philadelphia museum to the
founder of the Baldwin Locomotive Works.
today the largest concern Of it's kind in the
world.
Henry Ford's postgraduate work as a
mechanist was that of matchmaking and he
almost went into the business of making
serviceable watches at production cost of
thirty cents rather than Ford automobiles.
John Fitch, who built steamboat which
made regular trips on the Delaware river be-
tween Philadelphia and Trenton and obtain
ed from the King of France a patent for
propelling boats by steam, learned his me-
chancs while apprentice to a Connecticut
matchmaker.
Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing ma
chine, was apprentice to a repairer of crono-
meters and surveying instruments while he
built the first sewing machine.
Ottmar Mergenthaler, whose invention of
the linotype machine, makes the modern
newspaper possible, emigrated from Ger
many in 1872 with no capital but his COM
pleted apprenticeship as an expert watch
maker and thirty dollars in cash.
Corn Cobs Source of Organic Acids
MADISON, Wis, May 1.-THE humble
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Dorothy Dix's Talks
WI OMEN are forever complaining about
NV the monotony of their work.

VIZ OMEN are forever complaining about
w the monotony of their work.
tits doing the same thing, day
after day, week after week, year after year
t. at gets on my nerves, and drives me fran
TIC" walls the housewife. cts the eternal
getting up in the morning, and getting
breakfast, and washing little faces and but
toning little shoes, and getting the children
off to school, and man off to work! It is
the never-ending cooking, and cleaning, and
sewing and mending that makes me feel
like committing suicide to get out of it
ALL"
ut is just the dull, deadly grind Of doing
the same thing over and over every day of
your life that drives me mad complains the
working girl. Same old boss coming in,
and hanging his hat on the same old peg
every day. Same old desk, same old type
writer, same old letters yours of the fifteenth
duly received, and contents noted. In reply
to same would say, etc., etc., etc. Same old
corrections. Everything the same, until
am ready to shrek at the sameness of it all"
So goes the universal feminine cry for
change, for excitement, for something to put
pep and excitement into their lives
The domestic woman thinks that she
would not mind any kind of work that she
could do outside of her own home. She
thinks that she would be perfectly satisfied
at her daily task if she could dress herself
up or morning, and go downtown and work
in an office or a store where she would be
DrouSnC INTO contact with many other peo-
pie. She thinks it would be fun to jolly
| along her employer, who, perhaps, would be
young and good-looking, and to wheedle
grouchy customers into buying, and to have
a part, however small, in the making of a
big business.
She thinks that the reason that she finds
that her own work pals upon her is be-
| cause it is carried on in the privacy Of her
home, and has only to do with her husband
and children, whose every word and thought
she can anticipate, she knows them so WE'LL
The working girl thinks that she would be
bllssfully happy if only she followed some
exciting profession. She feels that she would
be willing to work herself to death if only
she were singer, or an actress, or writ
er, or II she were in the movies. What she
objects to in her own occupation is the bore
dom OF performing the oft repeated tasks.
1t never seems to occur to these women
that all work is monotonous, and that the
very foundations of success are made Of
repetition. 1t is only by doing the same thing
over and over and over again, thousands
upon thousands of times, that we acquire the
skill that we call craftsmanship. The great
est genius that ever lived cannot hold his
own with a second-rate professional while
he is bungling amateur.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-13
ard for Coal Industry-By Frederic ]. Haski

VIZ ASHINGTON, D. c.. May g.. The tri-
wv bunal created in the proposed Kenyon
bill to regulate labor affairs in the
coal industry is patterned closely after the
Railroad Labor Board, established by the law
which returned the transportation systems of
the country to private operation. 1t is desig-
mated as the National Coal Mining Board"
and is to be composed of nine members.
Three members, constituting the labor
group and representing the coal miners, are
to be appointed by the president the United
States and shall be selected from men pro-
posed by the United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca. Not less than six nominations shall be
made by the union. Three members of the
board shall constitute the management
group, representing the coal operators and
they shall be chosen from not less than six
nominees proposed to the president by the
National Coal association and the Anthra-
cite Coal Operator association. AS the
bituminous branch # the coal industry is
much larger than the anthracite it is assum-
ed that the bituminous operators will name
two of the three employer mem bers of the
board, but there is no provision to that eff
feet in the bill.
The third division Of three members of
the board will constitute the public group,
representing the public interest in the great
fuel industry, and they will be chosen by the
president entirely Oh his own initiative All
appointments to places on the board must be
confirmed by the United States senate.
If either the employees or employers fail to
make nominations and offer nominees with
in 80 days after the passage Of the bill in
case Of any original appointment to the Of
flee Of member Of the labor board, or in
case of a vacancy in any such office, within
fifteen days after such vacancy occurs then
the president shall make the appointments
on his own motion, but he shall select indi-
viduals associated in interest with the groups
they are appointed 10 represent.
Any member of the proposed board who
during his term Of office is an active mem
Der or in the employ of or holds any office
in any organization of coal miners or opera
tors, or owns any stocks or bonds thereof or
is otherwise financially interested therein,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-13
REFLECTIONS OF A
BACHELOR GIRL
BY Helen Rowland
WHAT IS YOUTH?


Youth Is in the Saddle-and Riding for
Fall!
YOUTH" says the Pollyanna Philosopher,
is matter Of the spirit-not of the
arteries"
"a man is never old until his rosy hopes
have turned grey, his bright illusions have
faded, and he has wrinkles on his heart"
Perhaps that was true in the days when
forty-seven was the Golden Age of Man,
and when no woman was interesting until
she was at least thirty, Dear Heart.
But things are so different, now
Age is getting a very rough deal; and
unless you watch your step, you may find
Yourself shelved with the antiques, before
you have passed your salad days.
You are OLD, in these times, my darlings,
not when you lose your illusions, but when
you lose track Of the latest dance steps.
You are aged, If you wear spats-or any
thing but the sheerest cobweb silk on your
goose-feshed ankles-in the dead Of winter
You are antique, positively Notifying, il
you wear long-sleeved undergarments, or
anything on your shivering arms heavier
than flake of georgette crepe.
man is senile, if he has reached that
softened stage, where a glance from a pretty
woman can cause him a thrill
girl is tottering toward the grave, if
she still believes in the glory of marriage
and the myth of eternal love-
You are effete, decrepit, superannuated-
II you feel that kiss is something sort Of
sacred, and shouldn't be given away with
every cup of tea.
If you still wear steel and whalebone
stays
If you speak English instead of the New
Slang JargOn.
If you quote Kipling or the Rubaiyat-
or anything except the Freudian philoso-
piers and the free verse "poets"
If you like pictures that you can under
stand and statues that are beautiful and
look human.
Illusions about love-
If you are jealous of the t1appers who
flap around your husband.
If you weigh over 12O pounds, don't know
what "hip-juice" is hate jazz, and are
afraid of sunburn.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-13
Hamstr;nq;,,q Civilization

A N American traveller lately home from
"A Russia reports the peculiarly ill-bod-
ing fact that the peasant Of that
country now raises only so much as his own
wants require and takes no thought either
Of possible market earnings or of the neces-
stiles Of others. While this prevails there
can be little advance in economic recovery
and none in the development of national
character
The peasants indifference is hardly to be
wondered at in light of his past oppression
and the present lack of inducement to sur
plus production. Under Czarism he was in
fact if not in name, a serf, to whom the
years brought at best a dole for harshest
toll, and sometimes bitter suffering. Under
Bolshevism, although for the most part
spared the persecution which befell the mid
die classes, he possesses little if any more
than under the old regime, nor has he tho
opportunities in trade which a responsible
government and a workable economic order
would vouchsafe. If the fruits of his toll
were not confiscated to feed Lenines Red
army still they would bring scant reward or
none in a land where money is indeed but
scraps Of paper and where the breakdown
and decay of long-distance transportation
has made marketing exceedingly circum-
scribed and difficult.
But while these conditions explain the
PEASANTS attitude they do not mitigate it's
effects either upon the country or upon him
self. When men cease to work beyond sup
plying their own immediate creature needs,
they begin to render civilization and even
human society impossible. The wheels of
commerce turn, the life of community pros
pers, the soul of culture survives, all upon
the fact that men work for their common
and their future needs. What befalls when
they do not thus labor is seen in the star
walton and general Indebtedness of Boil
shevist Russia. A system that leads to such
results, call it Communism or whatnot is
rather costly, is it not?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-13
Search for Volcanoes Deep Under Seas


ROME, May 12.-Scientists do not know
how many large volcanoes lie under the sur
face of the oceans. Every now and then a
ship at sea will be shaken by submarine
eruption but the captain will enter the occur
renee in his log-book and nothing more will
be done about it.
A systematic search of past and future log
books Of ocean vessels has been proposed at
the meeting of the International Geodetic and
Geophysical union here which is attended by
a number Of American geophysicists The
photographic office Of each country will be
asked to undertake an investigation of the
logs, and ocean steamship lines will be asked
to cooperate.
This information will aid in the compiling
Of catalog of volcanoes. Scientists expect
to find that there are many more volcanoes
hidden in the seas than are visible rising out
Of the land or sea, as the earths surface is
about one-fourth land and three-fourths sea.
Rows of volcanoes are found along great
cracks in the earth's crust. One such sup
posed volcanic zone runs from the West In
dies to the Azores and many of the Pacific
islands are WIDELY of volcanic origin, one ex-
ample being the Hawaiian Islands.
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becomes at once ineligible for further mem
bership en- the board, but none of the mem
bers will be required to relinquish honorary
membership in or his rights to any insurance
or pension or other benefit fund maintained
by any organization of employees or by any
operator.
Ten Thousand Dollar Men
The members of the board will draw salar-
les Of $1,000 a year, which is the same as
the pay of the nine members of the Railroad
Labor Board The term of office will be five
years after the first appointment have been
made.
Coal miners and operators are expected to
do their utmost to settle their quarrels with
cut appealing to the proposed labor board.
Section of the Kenyon bill declares that it
shall be the duty Of 10Th operators and their
employees to exert every reasonable effort and
adopt every availa lie means to avoid any in
terruption to the operation of any coal mine
which might result as the elimination of a
labor dispute. All such disputes shall be con-
sidered and if possible decided in conferences
between the representatives designated and
authorized so to confer by the employers and
employees directly interested.
The proposed law thus coltemplates the
application of the principle of collective bar
gaining in the creation of unofficial machin-
cry which shall adjust minor differences and
controversies, but when this machinery can
not accomplish the desired end, then appeal
must be taken to the labor board which
represents not only the miners and operators,
but the public as well.
Three ways proposed by which a dis
pute may be brought before the board. First
the board shall take jurisdiction in a case
upon the application Of any operator or or
ganiZation of employees whose members are
directly interested in the dispute; second,
the board may proceed upon the written
petition of not less than 100 unorganized
or non-union employees who are directly in
terested in the dispute in question; or third
the board may act it's own initiative if
it is of the opinion that the dispute sis like
ly substantially to interrupt commerce."
The board may thus act in any dispute with
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-13

Federal Judges Rogers, Hough and Nam
ton have filed dissolution order against
the American Sugar Refining company and
othr corporate and individual defendants in
the governments Sherman law suit begun
twelve years ago.
In the 12-year wait, caused in large part
by decision to await rulings of the United
States supreme court, in the steel and har-
vester trust cases, the defendant corpora
tions in the sugar trust case have "abandon-
ed their combination and conspiracy to re-
strain trade and commerce, and to monop-
Ollie the business of manufacturing and deal
ing in refined sugar." said the decree
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respect to wages, hours Of labor and other
working conditions
The board, once it has taken Jurisdiction
in case, must render it's decision within
so days, unless this period is extended by
agreement of the parties, and there can be
no decision by the board except by the con-
currence of at least five of the nine mem
bers, and at least one member of the pub
lie group must join in the decision. =,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-13

An expedition for salvaging the Lusitania
and other ships that have sunk in the last
few years will start from New York May rs.
The steamship Blakeley has been chartered
by the Lusitania Salvaging company
Estimates of gold that lies at the bottom
of the sea run into the millions. A single
passenger alone deposited $4,000 with the
purser Of the Lusitana, while Nine An
tome de Page, wife Of the medical director
of the Belgian Red Cross, carried more than
100000.