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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-14
QUIZ

Is Sam Gompers a machinist? F. D.
A. Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation Of Labor, Is cigar
maker by trade.
2. Should pen name be copyrighted!
H. P. S.
A. A pen name cannot be copyrighted.
3. Please state some Of the superstit1ons
connected with toads. M. B.
A. The toad is not an attractive animal
and it has always been the object of GU
rous beliefs superstitions. Small boys
believe that if one is killed and turned on
it's back there will be rain before night.
For ages hte general public has held to the
belief that warts were produced by ham
ding toads Other traditions credit the
toad with the power of poisoning infants
with it's breath; of bringing good fortune
to the house in the new-made cellar OF
which one is found; of curing children Of
stammering if rubbed on the back of the
neck; and of causing a cow to go dry or
give bloody milk, if she accidentally kills
a toad while being driven home from the
pasture. The works of the early writer's
on natural history TEEN with vague unsub-
Stimulated accounts of the venomous quail
ties of the breath and sputum of the toad,
the medicinal value of toad skins for treat
ing certain ailments and the valuable toad
stone or jewel to be found in it's head.
4. Does the amount collected in fines
and penalties for violation of the prohibit
ton amendment equal the expense of its
enforcement? E. H.
A The expenditures for 1921 totalled
$6,274, 523.47, while the collections were
approximately 100000.
5. Who originated the term dark
horse?" G. D. E.
A. This has been attributed to Sam
Flynn a horse trader of Tennessee. His
horse "Dusky Pete was quietly entered in
the purse.
6. What is a xybele? F. W. "a
A This is the name of an ancient ma
chine of war, in the form of a catapult
Z. How much air do we breath in
day? NJ. R.
A. The average person inhaIes about
$500 gallons of air every "a hours.
S. What is the oldest piece of literature
in existence? F. A.
A. Probably the oldest known piece of
literature in existence is the Babylon Tab
let produced by the people of Babylonia
9. How many farmers are there in the
United States? L. F. S.
3. According to the 1920 census report
there were 6,44S,343.
10. Describe Japanese meals E. M.
A. Japanese meals are served on indi-
vidual trays. If the family is we'll to do
the trays beautifully lacquered. Chop
sticks of wood or ivory are used instead
Of knife and fork. Tea is drunk from
small vessels without handles No sugar or
cream is served with it. The cup is grasped
between the fingers which encircle the
lower part of the cup. Cocoanut milk
with flower petals floating in it is a favor
lite beverage also. Iced raw fish is often
eaten. sauce not unlike our tomato sauce
is served with it, but in a separate broad
shallow dish. Boiled rice is staple ar
ticle.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-14
SCIENCE GIVES BEFORE
SHE is ASKED
BY DIR. EDWIN SLOSSON

What Is commonly called applied sci
ence" is often nothing of the sort 1t may
| be uncomprehended discovery of some unset
| entific inventor, unknown workman or un'
| tutored savage. Years after it has been IN
use comes the scientist who discloses the rea-
son Of it and claims it as an application OF
his new principle. But times are changing
and now the scientist leads the technologist
in the lead in many lines.
The compass has been known for some
$500 years before Faraday showed the rela-
tion between electricity and magnetism N
1921. This not merely explained the mys-
terry Of the magnetic needl, but it led to the
dynamo and all its innumerable applications.
The chemist cannot claim vegetable indigo
since it use dates from undated times. But
he can claim synthetic indigo and all the
host of dye that came from aniline. The
wild wheat of Palestine was the gift of ma
ture. The rustless' wheat of Manitoba is
the creation of the plant breeder.
I am dwelling upon these familiar facts
because it does not seem to me to be suffi-
GENTLY realized that we are entering upon a
new era WIN scince shall devise and direct
and not merely interpret. This is the era
which Francis Bacon foretold 800 years ago
when he said in De Dignitate ct Arguments
Scientiarum:
GAS a man, may proceed on. his path in
three ways; he may grope his way for him
self in the dark; he may be led by the hand
of another, without himself seeing anything;
or lastly, he may get light and so direct
his steps; in like manner when a man tries
all kinds of experiments without order or
method, this is but cropping in the dark, but
when he gets some direction and order in
experimenting, it is as if he were led by the
hand an dths is what I mean by learned
experience. For the light itself, which was
the third way, is to be sought from the in
depreciation of nature, or the Organon."
We have now passed, in several of the sci
ences, from cropping in the dark or being led
step by step, to the era of enlightenment
where we can survey the whole field in front
of US and choose the straightest path to our
goal.
Nowadays discoveries do not always "fill
a long felt want" to use the familiar phi
The want has often to be created after the
discovery is made, usually with the aid of
the advertiser. The unmaginative masses do
not ask for comforts and conveniences that
they have never known or dreamed Of. 1t
was no great popular demand that created
the phonograph and the motion picture, yet
nothing is more popular.
Formerly manufacturer who felt the
need OF some new material, say dyestuff
or dielectric, was forced to survey the
world from China to Peru in search of it.
Now he sits in his office and has offered to
him all sorts of new substances in the hope
that he will grant them the favor of a tryout.
A physician may have more new remedies
sent to him as samples than he has patients
to use them on. This is the way it should
be, for with science in the lead mankind will
make more rapid progress.
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SPEAKING OF WOMEN
BV Helen Rowland

1t may be possible for the modern man to
believe that his forbears pursued woman
with club, but it's awfully hard for him to
believe that she actually ran away!
After marriage, the average couple lay
their romance away in the lavendar of mem
ory with their wedding clothes, and hang a
nice crayon protrait of it on the wall, for
the benefit of the public.
Trying to serve her husband a hot break
fast at a fluctuating and uncertain moment
every morning, has cooled many a wifes ar
dent love-
Every girl wants a man to tell her the
honest truth, and at the same time to assure
her that she is the only woman he ever en-
joyed kissing.
In the movies, the Adonis with the patent
leather hair and the soulful eyes may make
a perfect lover; but, in real life, the first
essential of a lover is that he shall think
more of a woman's charms than he does of
his own-and cheerfully accord her the lime
light.
Sometimes, it's hard to believe that a
woman was such a heart-collector, in her
girlhood, as she claims, when you see what
she chose out of the whole collection
No woman who owns marriage certif-
cate, needs college degree; she just natur-
ally becomes a Master of ARTS and a Doctor
OF Philosophy, after studying an average
mans moods for a few years.
Life begins, for woman, on the day when
she detects the first divine spark in the first
lovers eyes-and ends on the day when she
sees the mist die out of the last lovers eyes
Perhaps, the reason why a man is so skep-
tical with regard to woman's headaches is
because he can't credit her with having any
thing inside it to hold a pain.
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(TO BE CONTINUED

expensive house o.: fashionable street that
lie would say "no," and stick to it. There
fore, she begins finding fault with the house
and complaining about it's being dark, and
the lack of bathrooms, and the defective
lighting, and she discovers :ha the plumb
ing is bad, and she harps upon how many re-
pairs the place needs, until finally she makes
her husband diss ltisfied with it, and then
she springs the new house on him, and gets
it.
Or, if he is an egotistic man, she prods
his vanity and his self-love, and throws in
his teeth the way some other people live I'M
til he buys new house to show that he can
keep up with the Jones.
No sensible woman wants her husband
to know by what rts and wiles she induces
him to do the things he said he never would
do, nor why she is so sweet and amiable, and
the dinner so good, on the day when the bills
come in for her new fall wardrobe Still
less does she desire him to know just how
to play upon her own foibles.
Therefore, the women who are married to
men who do not understand them should
cease OF worry over it. Lady Luck is with
them.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-14
FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS PLANS
BY DR.. Frank Crane

To All My Friends:
This letter is an attempt to lay upon your
heart case which ought to make the strong
est appeal to your sympathy and intelligent
terest.
You are planning for your own children
and for the children about you something
that shall make this Christmas brighter. But
nevolence the great swarm of motherless,
fatherless, and homeless children of Xe
Near East?
There are no. 900 orphans. Their wistful
and despairing eyes have nowhere to look
but to America The Near East Relief is
national organization in this country that
furnishes a dependable means for reaching
this great multitude.
It is not a dis0rdered and merely senti-
mental movement The Near East Commit
tee is incorporated D., act of congress, and
the annua, reports of its work and finances
are made to congress. It's field of operation
is Constantinople and the largo territory that
lies roundabout that center Of human misery.
1t has been Endorsed by President Har-
ding, by congress, by representatives of all
religions and by numerical, educational,
and social organizations.
1t has already wed at least one million
women and children from starvation. 1t
maintains thirty-eight hospitals where 49,
401 patients wer listed in the last month
ly report 1t supports 124 orphanges.
1t brings to the business of human health
the best expert intelligence and care.
May not at this Christmas season be
justified in asking a portion of your means
fo~ this vital cause? 1t is by such helpful
movements as this that America best estab-
world.
Write to NEAR East Relief, ISL Fifth
avenue, New York.
Copyright, 1929
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Th;rtu Dollars a Bale More

IN the heartening articles in he Tri-Weekly
Journal on the operations of the Geor-
- gia Cotton Growers Cooperative Mar
keting Association, three facts were develop
ed which deserve special emphasis
First, it was shown that the members of
the association are getting twenty-six cents a
pound for their cotton while ninety per cent
of the non-member cotton producers in the
state have sold ninety per cent of their cot
ton for prices around twenty cents. In short,
the members of the association, on the basis
of current quotations, are receiving about
thirty dollars bale more than was paid for
the cotton of the so-called independent pro-
ducers.
Second, it was shown that the very with
holding from the market of the million bales
OF cotton being handled this year by the
eight state cooperative associations during
the annual dumping process must have had
an important influence in not driving the
price down lower than it did go during the
two periods of temporary surfeit in the mar
ket So, while the association members were
benefiting themselves by the delay necessary
for the forming of pools, at the same time
they were also greatly helping non-members
by keeping about one-ninth of the years pro
duction off the market at two critical
periods.
Third, it was shown that the organized
farmers of Georgia and the other seven states
which have cooperative marketing associa-
tions ate selling direct from farmer to spin
ner in the South, in New England, and in
Britain, France and Germany. Direct SELL
ing in the case of cotton means the elimina-
ton of middlemen profits amounting, it is
said, to more than twenty dollars a bale
These profits now go into the pockets CT the
producers
The results, remarkable as they are, that
have been obtained in this year of the infancy
Of the cotton co-operatives are merely hint
Of what may be accomplished when they
handle larger percentage of the American
crop.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

A pawned opportunity is seldom redeemed.
Do your duty and let the other fellow do
the explaining
Don't be in hurry to see life If you would
live long.
No mans secret is safe after a woman
knows he has it.
1t would be strange If the company man
keeps didn't know him.
for money.
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TN his notable address Friday evening on
"The Church's Answer to the Challenge
of the New Day." Rev. Ed. F. Cook
secretary Of the General board Of education
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
speaking to the North Georgia conference
now in session here, portrayed an awaken
ing and an endeavor that are of utmost sig
nificance to the times. The stress of world
war forged into organized and effective pur-
pose an impulse which long hat been grow.
ing in the religious consciousness of this
generation and which was ever implied in
Christian truth. 1t was, and is, a purpose
to serve human needs in their widest social
reaches, as well as in single lives; a will to
to take command, in no temporal sense but
with potent and friendly wisdom, of a world
which we'll has been likened to "a darkling
plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle
and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night
For such task is needed the highest, the
soundest sort of preparation, and it is to
sources and her faith. Since 1918, DR.. Cook
reported, there has been sub scribed for the
cause Of Christian education and leadership
the sum of twenty-four million five hundred
thou"and dollars ,nder the program Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, while in
this same connection there has been paid in
three million three hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars, by virtue of which ninety
schools, colleges and universities will be
sponsiblities.
This gives but a glimpse of the work of
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THE WIFE CHEATER /,
A New Romance :;
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

Joan Stockbridge marries Norman
Wayne in spite of many warnings from
her friends. Norman is the kind of man
who has never been known to care for
one woman more than a few weeks at a
time. while Joan is inclined to be too
progressive in her attitude toward mar
riage. After four weeks Of married life
Joan finds herself jealous of Norman and
her old friend Alice Wilson. She asks
Norman if there has ever been anything
between himself and Alice in the past and
. tells her no, but on top of that he
stays in town one night to have dinner
with Alice,
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one church communion. Add that Of the
Baptists the Presbyterians, the Episc- pa
Iians, all inspirited with a common ideal, and
it cannot be doubled that the challenge Of
the new day. is being answered with splen-
did sincerity. OF vast and cheering signifi-
canoe it is that the church is not content
with devotion to something afar from this
sphere of our SORROW" but buckles her
armor for heroic leadership in fields where
all else has tragically failed.
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Out of the Mouths of Babes

Billie, aged four, had been given a piece
o. shad at dinner, but after while his
mother noticed it still on his plate
''Why Billie" she said, 81 thought you
were fond of fish,
Il am" replied the little chap, "but this
one is full of splinters
"Now, Albert" said the Sunday school
teacher, "what does it mean in the prayer
where it says, Lad us not into tempta-
tion'?"
II guess it MEANS" answered Albert, "that
the Lord needn't bother about us, because we
can get in ourselves without being led!'
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MY FAVORITE STORIES
BV Irwin s. Cobb

Late in life, Messrs. Abrams and Shapin-
sky took up golf. Both were retired cloak
and suit merchants of the type made famous
in Montague Glass immortal stories
On glorious September afternoon they
were going over the links of their country
club. They were playing for a stake of a
dollar hole, and the competition was
spirited.
Mr.. Abrams drove into a bunker. With
his iron he made four Intellectual swipes,
raising the sand in clouds. Then he stopped
down, picked up the half buried ball and
tossed it out on the farway.
Mr. Shapinsky stiffened with indignation.
''Look a. here!" he whooped. "You
couldn't do that. It's against the rules"
81 already have done it, said Mr.
Abrams, calmly.
But again 1 tell you it's against the
rules" declared Mr.. Shapinsky. 81 have
been playing this game longer as you have
and l tell you it says in the book where
you should not touch the ball with your
hands at all. What am I going to do if
by such tricks as that you should win the
match?"
Sue me-" said Mr.. Abrams.
In the spring Of 1914 few months after
the eighteenth amendment went into effect
Texan passed from this life.
While the funeral services were IN prog
ress at the late home of the deceased two of
the men mourners stood on the front porch
of the house lamenting the passing OF their
friend and praising his virtues.
Said one Of them:
'There wasn't no finer Teller anywhere
than what Bill was, but the main trouble with
him was he wasn't fJrehanded. He had
wife and whole passed. of children and he
should a-been more saving than what he
was He might a-knowed he couldn't live
on fore er. But no, he lived up to everything
he made. And here now, right in the very
prime of life, with iamily on his hands, he
hauls off and dies without leaving no estate
as I knows Of
''The hell he didn't leave no estate!"
claimed the other. "He left mighty nigh
gallonl"
Copyright, 1929
SMILE A WHILE
Prunes are expected to go up. Heaven
helped the boarders.
One way to relieve traffic congestion is
sell autos for cash only.
Two's company, three's an argument.
Americas early settlers are those who pay
up promptly at the first of the month.
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QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

1t had taken a lot of limiting, but even
tually Johnny had succeeded in getting his
mother to give him dime. But he had
failed to thank her for it.
Johnny, what should you say when YOU
get something's" she demonstrated.
81 don't know, ma
''You don't know? Why, what does
mother say when father gives her money!
''You say, is that all?'' don't you, mar
Miss Smithson was conscious of her power
of attracting men,
"And did Mr.. Brown say" she simpered
to her friend, "as 1 entered the room last
night, Clara, is that the beautiful Miss Smith
SOM"
Eyes, dear" answered Clara, with the &C
cent on the that "a"
James was considered quite Don Juan
and was quite accustomed to being ques-
toned about affairs of the heart.
John was in trouble. He had fallen in
love, but with his clumsy tongue he feared
to risk compliment to the lady of his
choice.
"Ah," said James, "you want to be sub
tie. 1t won't be any good to say, What
pretty legs you have She'll only be Of
Tended"
ooh, couldn't think of saying that!"
said John.
mo" replied the sage, 'but you might
say, Your new hat is simply lovely, but
no one will ever notice it until you lengthen
your skirts.'"
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~ NE of the surest signs of nervousness in
I an individual is a growing irritable
~ ity.
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Copyright, 1929
SMILE A WHILE

Prunes are expected to go up. Heave
helped the boarders.
One way to relieve traffic congestion
sell autos for cash only.
Evening star., 1922-01-20
PENN ASKS FOREIGN
ATHLETES TO GAMES

Invitations have been sent out by the
University of Pennsylvania to more
than $50 American universities and
colleges for the annual relay carnival
to be held on Franklin Field April 26
and 29
A number of institutions, mostly in
the south, were added to this years
list Invitations also went to Oxford
and Cambridge Ongland; McGill,
Queens and British Columbia uni
yersities (Canada), and the University
of Havana (Cuba). Among the south
ern colleges invited to send athletes
to the meet were Georgia Tech and
Texas A. and M College.
Several new events have been added
to the program, DR.. George w. Orton,
manager of the games. announced.
They include relay races at 440 and
$50 yards and relay the distance Of
which has not been decided, open only
to technical colleges.
Dr. Orton also announced that the
hammer-throw would be restored to
the program, and the contestants
would throw from a cage. and a large
paddock made around that part Of the
field in which it is held. The event
was discontinued five years ago, be-
cause it was considered dangerous to
the spectators.