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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-22
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irwin Cobb


Years ago knew a man who had right,
if ever a man had to be called character
He loved baseball with a love which passed
understanding. Any time there was game
between scrub teams anywhere in our county
you could count upon Uncle Giles being
among those prominently present. close
play left him practically incoherent with JOY
and excitement.
Late in life he l4ade his first trip outside
the boundaries of the state. He took advant-
age Of a popular excursion rate to go over TO
ST. Louis where he remained for two crowd
ed and thrilling days.
Upon his return 1 met him at the depot. !
was a cub reporter then on local daiiy'l
and for purposes of publishing his Impress
IONS which I knew would be picturesque,
proceeded to interview him.
Uncle Giles" I said, what was it you
saw on your trip that struck you most forc-
IDLY -
''Well. son." he said, elf seen one in-
terestin' sight l must a-seen thousand.
When I seen 'em sellin' watermelon by the
slice. and hit the middle of August, says
to myself that wonders will never cease
"But SON. and here his old eyes brlgnt-
ened with a reminiscent gleam-'I reckon tne
greatest thing I seen was a baseball game day
before yesterday. Twas a game between these
we're St. Louies and them Detroits. Son,
them boys played leven endin's and they
wasn't airy one made airy one. .
Copyright, 1922, by The McNaught Synol-
F. cate Inc.) b
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mis- is the month of weddings

SNHIS is the month of weddings.
In churches all over this brave land
Of ours thousands Of young intrepid
young couples may be seen marching up the
altar, while their respective families occupy
the pews above the white ribbon, and exhibit
the curious psychic phenomenon that is al
ways to be observed on such occasions.
And that is, that the brides family at a
wedding invariably wears festive air, and
look pleased, and proud, and joyful as those
who have just pulled off good thing, while
the bridegrooms family are invariably sad
and mournful, aid weep through the cere-
mony, and register the aspect of those at
tending a funeral.
Now, It is the general If unexpressed be-
lief, of every young married couple that their
in-laws and particularly their mother-in-
laws, are their hereditary foes, bent upon
making them all thu trouble they can. I
believe this to be mistake, and while it
is true, as divorce st" +istics show, that moth
er-in-laws are the t,ceatest home wreckers
in the world, do not think many women de-
liberately and maliciously sow discord be-
tween their children, and their husbands
and wives.
Mother-in-law is fret aid to divorce, but
she gets in her deadly work through blunder
ing ignorance of hat she is doing. Not by
design. So after the wedding breakfast is
over, and the last guest gone, and the last
rice has been swept up, should like to back
the two mother-in-laws into a corner, and
say to them:
''You want your childrn to be happy. You
want them to be faithful to each other, and
live decent, clean lives. You " ant them to
establish home that will radate peace and
love, and not strife and dscord Well, then,
it is up to you to help along, and you can do
this most effectually by:
''KEEPING YOUR FINGERS OUT OF
THEIR PIE. Don't either one of you go to
live with them. If you have home of your
own, stay in it, if you haven't board with
somebody you know. If you can't afford that,
go to some old lady's home to live, but as
you value your childrens happiness don't go
and live with them.
"There isn't any middle-aged woman on
earth, who has run house of her own, and
raised family, who can keep from trying to
manage everybody about her, and there isn't
young person on earth who doesn't resent
it. Every bride wants to keep house accord
ing to her own ideas. Every young husband
wants to be the head of his house, and Meth
er one can do it, if mother is on the premises.
'No man wants his wife's mother living
with them. No woman wants her husbands
mother living with them, and when a woman
has to be on the perpetual defensive, justi-
flying and excusing ler mother to her hus-
band, and man has to side with his mother
in the fight against lis wife, it is the begin
ming of the end of love, and the commence.
ment of misery. Besides, when there are
strangers present, we have to sve our faces
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-22
The Worth of Our Villa Life

n LEST though they with wild-life re-
X sources which, if duly conserved, would
be a perpetual source of enrichment,
Americans are nevertheless "the most extrav-
agant and most wasteful people in all the
world"
This is the judgment of DR.. Barton War
rem Everman, president of the Pacific dl-
vision of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. The annual quarry
of deer is worth according to his estimate,
three million dollars; that of rabbits, three
million; of fur-bearing animals, ten millions
of game birds, fifty million. To these add
the value of misunderstanding. birds and OF
fisheries on the coasts and in interior waters.
and the total will run far into the hundreds
of millions. Yet we have been as careless
but falling leaves of the forest or sand by
the sea.
Of recent years, happily enough the forces
Of conservation have made Roadway. Most
of the States have adopted game protective
laws, and these, supplemented by Federal
legislation, are proving to be highly bene-
ficial But much remains to be done in per
fecting and employing present statutes and
also by way of more rigid enforcement. The
plainest, the most practical OF economic rea-
sons demand that the country's wild-life re.
sources be safeguarded against depletion.
AS an agricultural commonwealth, to whom
protection against crop-destroying insects is
worth millions of dollars, Georgia should see
to it especially that game birds are not only
shielded against wanton slaughter, but also
are assured ample cover.
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VIZ ASHINGTON, D. c., June 17.-Or-
wv ganized labor has met with serious
reverses during the past year. This
has been shown by the record of events,
which include wage reductions all along the
line and adverse court actions and decisions
This has been admitted during the delibera-
tions of the labor leaders during the annual
meeting of the American Federation of
Labor at Cincinnati
AS one observer has put it, labor is now
fighting rear-guard action. That is to say,
it is retreating, but contesting every foot
Of ground it yields and endeavoring to pre-
vent the retreats becoming panic and a
rout Thus far it may be said to have
marshalled its forces in good order, but it
is automatic that a retreating army does not
grow in numbers or in strength and it is
apparent that the leaders, from Gompers
on down the line, are gravely concerned
over the outlook. This is not to be taken
as meaning that there is any likelihood of
a general breaking up of labor organiza-
tions, or that what is known as the labor
movement may be permanently checked.
But it does indicate that labor has had to
give up advantages once gained and that it
must now prepare to resist attacks against
which heretofore it has felt itself to be i'm
mune.
Labor emerged from the war in highly
satisfactory position, from its own view
point. Distinct advances had been achieved.
Wage levels were higher than they had ever
been before. Hours of labor, had been re-
duced generally, with the eight-hour day
and the 44-hour week established in many
trades and industries. Punitive overtime
pay at the rate of one and a half times
or even twice the regular scale for. every
hour worked, in addition to the fixed work
day-had come to be accepted as labor s
due. Collective bargaining was no longer
an empty phrase. Membership in the unions
had grown by leaps and bounds, and their
treasures were full to overflowing. One in
ternational was said to have over $780,
900 in it's reserve fund.
Sought to Hold Gains
Naturally the men in the forefront Of the
labor movement were keen to hold these
gains and their postwar plans were all to
that end. They did not expect to maintain
war wages, but they did believe that the
principle of the living wage was minimum
for all workers, with differentials for skill,
experience and hazards of employment had
been so securely established that there
would never be return to old wage levels.
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ANDREW AND IMOGENE-ByR Roe Fu1kerson

''I see by the paper that Nellie Madert is
to be married." remarked Andrew. THE an
nouncement is here"
"Ysobel Harris, ALSO" replied Imogene;
cher announcement was in the morning
paper"
whats happened that these chickens
have all decided to go to roost?" asked
Andrew.
sit is the time of year." said Imogene.
"You mean there is a long cold winter
coming or that the goose bone is unusually
big or something like that?" smiled Andrew.
Certainly not" said Imogene, indignant
1y; women do not marry through superStl-
ton. A woman may be as silly as you sug-
gest, but when it comes to matr1mony she
uses her head, for it is the one big ad-
venture of a woman's life. Men may think
she takes to matrimony lightly or that he
has over-persuaded her to marry him, but
every time the preacher says DO you take
this woman the man standing in front OF
him tells a lie, for it was the woman who
took him.
"The reason I said it was the time of
year which made these two girls get mar
ried is because there are two times in the
life of every thinking girl when she realizes
that it is time she was selecting her coop.
''The first time is in June when the school
and college commencements are on and she
attends the hops, graduating exercises and
class days of the school from which she
graduated.
"She looks over the pretty bunch of girls
that graduate, and thinks of the hundreds
and hundreds of girls that are being turned
out by all the other schools and colleges
and suddenly realizes that all the girls are
younger than she is, likely enough better
looking because of that fact and that they
are her competitors in the real business of
life, which is getting married
1.-The natural result of this is that when
she goes home she closes any negotiations
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she may have pending with man who has
been held up temporarily.
"This makes the season just after the
graduating exercises one of the very busiest
ENGAGEMENTS seasons of the year. If were
a man trying to marry a girl l would do all in
my power to get her to go back to her col
lege to the graduating exercises.
But they are over some time ago." grin
ned Andrew.
1'I said there were two seasons" replied
Imogene. "The other season is when they
are just getting back from their vacations
at the seashore and mountains, springs and
country boarding houses.
"After a vacation at these resorts and as
sociating with the men women meet there
woman is willing to marry any man not
actually deformed.
cat the seaside it is the sand lizard, the
orangeade drinker, the flannel-trousered
boardwalk flirt who ought to be taken out
to the end of the pier and dropped over
board.
cat the farm it is the bespectacled spindle
shanked man with big net chasing grass
hoppers around field and then putting in
the nights impaling him on pin and card
indexing him.
cat the springs it is the man with symp-
toms who takes nine different ,-rinks of water
at certain times day. He talks about his
insides like a mechanic talking about the in
side of your automobile engine.
"In the mountains it is the man descended
from a goat who wants to see how high he
can climb each day so he can brag about il
each night.
ga month or so of these and again a
woman rushes home to close with real
man with a real joy who smells of tobacco
and is a little careless about whose toes
he steps on when he does the fox trot
"These are the reasons for so many en-
gagements in the early summer and again
in the autumn"
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V'gor IN Basic Business

N RADSTREET'S report on current bust
ness conditions is particularly cheering
in that it shows activity to be most
marked in constructive lines. Demand for
steel is "in excess of the supply" automo-
tive production is Eat the peak" building
goes forward apace; industrial expansion
Is practically general, This vigor in fun
ntmentals encourages the belief that al
theugh midsummer brings its seasonal quiet,
the broad trend will continue prosperous and
lead to happy autumn. Most basic of all
factors is agriculture whose status has great
" improved in the last six months, and
whose prospect in the main is assuring.
With such springs to feed it, the flow of
business is naturally strong. Money is
easier; failures are fewer" and bank clear
ings while smaller, "are still ahead of last
year." Retail and mail order trade reflects
this activity at the source of things and bids
fair to exceed by far the summer of 1921.
Indeed, trade and industrial conditions gen.
orally, in the view of this practiced and de-
pendable observer are better than at any
time IN nearly two years." These are words
from which the most cautious may gather
courage, and the most enterprising find con-
firmation.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-22
Mr.. McCun,ber's Moderation
-HE independent press, with no sucn
partisan bias as might be laid to DEM

-HE independent press, with no such
partisan bias as might be laid to Dem
ocratic papers, is making merry over
Senator McCumbers defense o. his tariff
bill. His latest speech on the subject, al
though meant as an apologize, turns out
to be an attack HE climbed out on the
tariff limb which he had been carefully
tending says the New York Evening Post,
land, calling upon everybody to look, pro-
ceeded to saw it off. His intention was to
get rid of some growths that have been
obstructing his pet branch, but in the ex-
element of the moment he sawed not
wisely but too WE'LL
The Senator informed his colleagues,
along with that robust if infintesimal
portion of the American public who braved
the heat of June to listen, that cuckoo
clock which costs ninety-two cents in
Europe is sold in this land Of the free
for twenty-five dollars. Why this profit
Of more than two thousand per cent? Be-
cause, according to the McCumber theory,
the American manufacturer cannot produce
cuckoo clocks to sell at less than twenty
two dollars. Well, then, one would natural
ly say, "You propose an import duty of
two thousand per cent on cuckoo clocks to
protect the American manufacturer and
the American werkingman?" All, no! The
Senator proposes a duty of only fifty per
cent, notwithstanding his own declaration
that at least two thousand per cent is
requisite. That is as one ironic observer
tersely puts it, he would take only one
fortieth of the importers huge profit and
leave the Americans to get along as best
they can in the struggle with the famous
pauper labor Of Europe!" Really, this is
too moderate in tariff maker who be-
lieves in protection.
Curiousiy enough, he did not allude to
the fact that whereas we are importing
hardly half million dollars worth of
clocks we are exporting some five million
dollars worth to countries in which they
are somehow meeting foreign competition,
albeit they need high protective duty
when sold at home. But the strangest
thing is that when this duty ought to ex-
coed two thousand per cent Mr.. McCum-
Der would make it only fifty!
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OUIPs AND QUIDDITIES

"Mary." the husband called upstairs, "why
don't you come down? Have you finished
your letter YETI"
ST finished the letter long ago..
what keeps you, then?"
'I am writing the postscript"
"Gracious Have got to mind the baby
two hours longer?"
1t was after an exceptionally good lunch that
he boarded the bus, but he was sufficiently
alive to rise and offer his seat to the woman
who got on shortly afterward. When she got
out he resumed his seat and said complacently
to the conductor, 'D'ye know why gave up
my seat? 1t was to show that chivalry still
exists" 81 wondered why you did it, sir said
the conductor, because you and the lady were
the only two in the bus"
"Here's book" said the agent, which you
can't afford to be without"
81 never read,' answered the victim.
'eWell, buy it for your children"
"I'm SINGLE have no family. All have is
dog"
throw at the dog now and them"
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by being consistent which we wouldn't do ii
there was nobody around to see us grovel.
every young couple is bound to nave
spats. They ould end in tears, and kisses,
and reconciliation, if here was no one present
to sic 'em on in the fight. But these newt
able disagreements make breach that never
heals if mother Is there to urge John not
to let himself be hen2ecked, or to tell Mary
what brute John H."
Then would urge mother to PLAY III.
Don't have one standard OF conduct lot
the wife or husband you want your daughter
or son to be- and another standard for the
kind of husband or wife you want your son
and daughter to oet
"There plenty Of women who th1nv
that it is perfectly right for t, cir own daugh-
ters to be lazy, and shiftless and idle and
extravagant, and spend their time between
shopping and bridge, but who believe that
their daughter-in-laws should co all Of their
own housework, and sewing, and pinch every
penny, and never have hat oftener than
once year.
"And they think it outrageous if their sons
wives object to their husbands having all
the freedom of bachelors, but they are the
first to call time if their son-in-laws are not
as domesticated as the house cat.
Then I would implore mothers not to
KNOCK THEIR IN-LAWs. know this will
deprive most women with married children
of their favorite indoor sport, but it is the
most dangerous amusement in which any wo-
man ever INDUCED.
Everybody knows that the great secret OF
happiness in life, and more particularly the
secret of happiness in marriage, is content
ment and this being the case, it passes COM
prehension why any mother should set to
work to make her children dissatisfied with
their husbands and wives. But they do They
pick continually on the in-laws. They point
out every flaw and defect until they make
John and Mary wonder how they ever could
have been foolish enough to have chosen the
poor dub they did for wife, or husband
John never would have found out thar
Sally wasn't good manager, and economical
if mother hadn't called his attention to it
Mary would have gone along believing Ton
was a prince among men, if mother hadn't
criticised the way he ate, and walked, and
talked, until Mary recognized what com
monplace fellow he was.
"It is mother who oftenest wakes the sleep
er from the love dream, when what she should
do is to try to lull the slumberers back to
sleep again when th,y threaten to rouse
themselves"
So l would say to every woman who wants
her children to be happy though married, to
| leave them alone Don't live with them,
don't visit them too much, don't interfere,
don't advise, don't criticise Just stand by,
and wait for them to send up the S. o. S..
call for you.
Copyright, 1922, The Wheeler Syndicate
Inc.)
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however, they reckoned without the DuS1-
ness depression. that came and persisted,
and when they lost the steel strike that
was called in September, 1919, and en-
countered vigorous governmental interven-
ton in the coal strike of November follow
ing, their cause and their plans may be said
to have received setback.
In the transportation industry they lost
the national agreement as to rules and
working conditions, which had been nego-
tiated with the railroad administration dur
ing federal control, and certain groups OF
railway workers lost the extra pay for
overtime over eight hours day.
But it has been in the courts that labor has
met with what may prove to be it's most
serious reverses. Within the last year the
injunction has been used against the unions
as never before, particularly in West Vir-
ginia. where restraining orders of the most
sweeping character have been issued against
the United Mine Workers on the plea of
the anti-union operators. The union has
been restrained from sending organizers
into the Independent fields and from max
ing any effort to organize the miners there.
Under the court orders union meetings can
not be held and union members cannot even
discuss the union with miners who are not
identified with the organization. Also, suits
for damages have been brought by operators
against union officials and members.
In only one instance has labor sought to
use the injunction against employers. That
came as an unexpected development Of a
controversy in the garment making indus
try in New York, when the union secured a
court order restraining the employers from
breaking contract which had been entered
into with the union, and was so singularly
successful that it was thought labor might
undertake to make frequent use of the
weapon so often used against it. However,
union leaders are so vehemently opposed to
the injunction in industrial disputes that it
seems they will not seek to use it even
when it might be to their advantage.
JOlts From the Supreme Court
First of a series of jolts which labor re-
ceived in the supreme court of the United
States was the decision holding the second
airy boycott to be illegal. That was not re-
garded as vital to the cause of the workers
but nevertheless it was defeat. Then came
the decision declaring the new child labor
law to be unconstitutional. The unions had
fought long to get some kind of law reg
ulating or abolishing child labor, and their
hopes in that direction have now been twice
blasted by the highest court in the land.
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A Modern Plague of Locusts
~ ROM the land of the illustrious Don
Quixote and from the very province

~ ROM the land of the iIlustrious Don
Quixote and from the very province
or his knighthood's Towering, comes
news or swarm of locusts stopping a rail-
way train. Windmills that behaved like
giants and barber pasins that turned into
helmets OF Mambrino were wont in DAYS of
OLD to challenge the mettle of the doughty
adVenturer OF La Mancha. But what would
express his towering emotions, or Sancho
Fanzas honest creeps, upo. beholding an
army OF insects override so mighty a magi-
clan as steam engine?
large part OF Spain," runs the dis
patch from Madrid, "has been invaded bv
locusts. Great hordes descend upon the
helds and devour the grass and leaves, with
IN Few hours Transforming the smiling
country into desert. Near Lacarolina a
train was stopped by them. Swarms cover
cd the rails, and on their crushed masses the
Wneels OF the locomotive revolvei aimlesslv -
80 grave has the situation become that the
government has organized a campaign of
defense, using paraffin, on which the i'm
port duty has been reduced fifty per cent
rms, of course, is Immediately remindful
OF the events which, it recorded, followed
the east wind that blew aforetime upon the
coasts of Egypt all Gay and all night: "And
wnen IL was morning the east wind brought
the locusts. Very grievous were they.
FOR they covered the face of the whole earth
SO that the land was darkened: and thew did
eat every herb Of the land, and all the fruit
OF the trees which the hail had left: and
tnere remained not any green thing in the
rr--, Or In the herbs of the field through
all the land of Egypt"
Evidently, there have ,teen and still are
vlsltatlons worse than the boil weevil.