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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-08
Quest for Typical Americ AMY Frederic j. Haskn

'tThe old Americans are to an important
degree still the English, Scotch or Dutch of
their ancestry" said the doctor, "but in part
they are already something new, common,
acquired in this land-they are American.
Were it possible for this stock to breed ex-
clusively among themselves for several more
centuries, they, according to all indications,
would produce as distinct national type as
have the various older European nations.
But intermarriage with more recent ele-
ments of the population is so common that
no hope can be entertained for any rapid
progress in this direction. Form of head,
that was supposed once to show rapid
changes, was found under the new environ
ment to be one Of the most persistent of
characteristics.
Another prevalent notion that finds no
support in the results Of these investigations
is that of any physical difference between
the old Americans of the northeast, the
Yankees, and those of the south. There is
no difference Of any Importance. The peo-
pie Of the south are not darker, the Yankees
are not taller. The only regional difference
in the old American stock are such as are
due to different ancestry, English, Scotch,
Huguenot, etc. But the whole strain shows
plain tendency towards darkening of hair
and diminution Of blondness."
The long governmental investigation to
determine whether there is such a being as
the typical American did not take nito con-
sideration those people who are to be re-
garded as the only true Americans-the In
dams, or Amerinds, as they are sometimes
designated. Here type may be found, for
the essential characteristics of the Indian
are uniform. Above the average height,
with a tendency to overweight after middle
age, the Indians are almost invariably of red
or copper-colored complexion, with straight
black hair, brown eyes, high cheekbones and
rather broad faces No one would ever look
upon a pure-blood Indian and have any
doubts as to what he was.
AS the melting pot of the white races.
however, 1t is not to be expected that Amer
lea will develop decided type of men and
women who may be readily identified as
Americans from their physical characters.
tics. It is not surprising that it required
eight years Of research to find LOO individu-
ais whose parents, grandparents and great
grandparents had been born in this country
But there is one characteristic other than
physical which many Europeans insist is
distinctively Observation-Disclosures They
say that we use superlatives only in every
thing we say about ourselves and our coun-
try and our individual and national accomp-
lishments. They even intimate that we have
not been at all modest in discussions as to
who won the World war. Il
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-08
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Talking about dinners said the trayeline
salesman, slowly, 81 remember one l had wher
was on the road l went into the Swaggerest
restaurant in town with some fellow travellers
eve ordered the finest thing in dinners
have ever eaten. Then the bill came round. and
we couldn't decide who was to pay. Everybody
offered, and so did l."
eyes, continued the salesman, "and as we
couldn't settle the matter proposed we should
blindfold the waiter, and the one he caught
must pay"
"Good idea said another listener. who
did he catch?"
81 don't know replied the commercial
traveller briefly. "But he hasn't caught me yet /"
The senator took taxcab to his home in
the outskirts of Washington. 1t was rainy
day. He protested when the driver demanded
an extra fare
"Why," said the senator, "you are CHARGING
me for four miles, while the distance is but two
and half miles"
at is as rule, SIR admitted the taxi driver.
"but you see, we skidded quite Bit
A lady who is a district visitor became
much interested in very poor but apparently
respectable family named Currun, who lived
in slum district Of her parish.
Every time she visited the Cu-rans she was
annoyed by the staring and the whisperings
OF the neighbors.
One day she said to Mrs. Curran: "Your
nelghDors seem very curious to know who and
what am, and the nature Of my business
with YOU"
''They do" acqriesced Mrs. Curran.
'Do they ask you about it?"
"Indade they do, ma'am."
Sand do you tell them?"
Faith, thin, an y do not!"
What do you tell them?"
"Oi just tell thim," was the calm reply
that you are me dressmaker, an let it go at
that"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-08
ANDREW AND IMOGENE
BY ROE FULKERSoN,

"Andrew," said Imogene, ~ wish you would
tell me something to get for breakfast. 1t wor-
ries me to see you take glass of orange juice,
bit of toast and cup of coffee. Don't you
think of something you would like. hominy.
for inStancel"
"Homny," said Andrew, rolling his eyes
heavenward "Oh, If could only have some
hominy once more"
"They have it at the grocer store and -
began Imogene, but he laid his hand over her
mouth
"Cease the profanity, woman" he said, seri-
ouSly. "That cracked corn they have in the
grocery store is no more like honiny than
those wads of hair on the sides of your head
are like the hair you used to wear in two pig
tails when you were school girl. @
"That cracked corn is guinea feed; Hominy is
food for gods and nabobs, for men with money
like taxi drivers and dancing teachers and FOR
chorus girls and people who live in real homes
all on one floor.
"Any man who thinks he can take corn into
mill and make it into hominy would think
you could do Mllet on color press. a Hun-
garian rhapsody on a phonograph or write
book by buying new typewriter.
'sThe making Of hon1iny is function. Like
planting turnips in the dark of the moon the
signs must be right.
"First thing needful in making hominy is
hickory woods lot. You go there in the Fall
and cut your hickory trees and let them lie
until they are thoroughly seasoned and become
back logs to be burned in an open fire before
which corn must be popped and apples roasted
"After this fire has burned low, you take up
the ashes as the ashes of the illustrious dead
are preserved in alabaster urns and preserve
them in an ash hopper.
"You very likely never saw an ash hopper.
It is made like the inverted roof of henhouse
and at its apex is trough which leads into an
iron kettle.
"Hominy is bproduct of hog killing time.
for what is left of the hog killing is thrown
into soap fat pot and thoroughly boiled
"After this the water, which runs through the
hickory ashes and comes out I've is used to
precipitate the soap into that kind of soft SOAP
which must be kept in gourd.
"From this time forth the gentle rains coma
down from Heaven into that ash hopper and
there come drop by drop from the trough at
the bottom sort of weakened, Softened ethe-
realized I've which is poured over the sweetest
of sweet corn and not only takes the skin off.
but leaves it Succulent, Steaning mess that
melts in your mouth as easily as the butter
from Sookey the Jersey cow When YOU inix
the two and eat them for breakfast the cobwebs
in the corners of the dining room ceiling turn
ITO silver stairways down which come angels
singing together.
Breakfast instead of meal becomes a sort
OF service to the gods and each niouthfu of
hominy a sacrifice offering which is accom-
panied with groans and grunts of thanksgiving
and ;"
NO" interrupted Imogene. "No, one cannot
buy that kind of hominy in grocery store.
That sort of hominy can only be had in a drug
store and must be injected into the arm with
hypodermic."
Copyright, 1922, by aist. Century Press, Incl
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-08
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irwin Cobb


lady who lives on plantation I'M the
southern part Of Alabama went UP to Bir-
mlngham on visit. Upon her return an old
negro man, living on an adjoining place,
who occasionally did odd jobs for her,
cropped by to welcome her home and to tell
her the news of the neighborhood
whilst you was gone, Aunt Mallie died, :"
ne said. Aunt Mallie was a poor old black
woman who lived in tumbledown cabin
half mile away on back road
oh, that's too bad" said the white lady
sympethetically. "How long was she sick?'.
"Jes' three or TO- days. he said.
What allied herr"
"They didn' nobody know One mawnins
she up and fell sick and she kept ON gittins
wuss and wuss, 'twel de fo'th day come and
den, all OF suddenlak, she hauled of an,
died."
''Who was the doctor?" inquired his
patron.
she didn' have no doctor-she died q
natchel DEATH"
Copyright, 1922, by The McNaukht Syndi-
cate, Inc
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-08
THE FIRST THING IN
EDUCATION
BY DR.. Frank Crane

Ten first thing in education is IN Iaarr
no" TO earn money.
me most important thing for a how mr. g
81 ~ learh is TO do some kind of work that
people are willing to pay money for
That is because the most important thin o
1or human being to learn is to get off
other peoples backs
1ou are not going to have virtue that
amounts to anything without the first viz.
Tue OF all, which Is self-reliance.
You are not going to have any really beau
tilul sentiment without the most beautifu]
sentiment IN the world, which is self-respect
After Abraham had won his battle against
the kings and as he was returning home the
hlng or Sodom offered to pay him some.
tnlng, whereupon Abraham replied:
:, nave lifted up mine hand unto the Lord
sna1 4 VIII not take thread, nor shoe
latcnet, nor aught that is thine, lest thou
shouidst say: 1 have made Abraham rich ;,
Abraham was real person
making money is not sordid. It is nro-
toundly moral. The only way you can tell
tnat the work you do is of any value to the
world is that the world is willing to nav Won
money for it,
Ihere is good deal of buncombe about
Delng superior to money considerations
Money means the worlds Judgment and the
world is older and wiser than you are. AS
a RUE the man who supplies people with
what they want is doing more good than
the man who is supplying people with what
he thinks they ought to want
mere is such a thing as moral snobberv
and it is very deadly.
:, VI course the world wants many things
that are naughty and harmful; but most OF
the things 1t wants are sound and good.
TOO many people believe the old lie, "The
world owes me a living
Inc world owes you nothing but to bury
you when you have ceased to function
You are not going to get out Of this world
anything but the equivalent of what you put
into it.
rms IS a more important thing for the
child to learn than arithmetic. geogranhv
manicuring. French or physical culture.
Whoever intelligertly loves his offspring
Will first OF all see that this element of his
education is not neglected.
Copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane;
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-08
Fair Play to Mexico

ITO those who for one selfish reason or
another hope that Mexico's efforts at
stable self-government may never sue
coed, the latest tales of banditry across the
border will be devoured with keen relish.
When that countrys peace and good order
are being maintained, >our commercially-in-
terested critics have no comment: but at the
slightest cloud they grow voluble for inter-
vention.
That American in Mexico should have all
due protection goes without saying, and for
all wrongs suffered there should be requital.
But up-spurts OF lawlessness are no warrant
for excitement here. 1t is of record that
many more Americans are slain within the
United States in single twelvemonth than
have been killed during all the years of
Mexico's recent revolutions, wars and other
disturbances.
Nor should we forget at this time that
while President Obregon has been doing his
utmost to stabilize conditions and has sue
ceeded in splendid measure, our Government
Withheld, for reasons not given, the
lomatic recognition which would nightly
buttress him and do more than any other
external factor to strengthen Mexican forces
of law and order. Had the United States
vouchsafed that encouragement, other ma
lions, no doubt, would have followed, SO that
by now the Obregon administration would
be stronger for all such tasks as the latest
outbreaks of banditry impose.
It is Americas wish and fixed policy to live
as true neighbor to Mexico, not as an imi-
tator of the Hohenzollerns, standing covet-
Gus and eager to take advantage of her dis
tresses and rob her Of her lands Some there
apparently are who would commit our coun-
try to that sinister course if they could, but
the vast majority are for fair play and good
will. Would not recognition of the now
Well-established Obregon government con-
duce to those ends?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-08

For that kind of man makes the sort of
husband who snoops around the kitchen, and
peers into the ice box and the garbage can,
and goes to the dressmaker with his wife, and
runs her show as well as his own, and drives
her rad by his ceaseless suggestions. The
wife OF such a man has just as much liberty
OF action as a canary in cage.
Next, should aoto how man spends his
money. should note whether he was waster
who threw 1t away on foolishness, and who
bought things he could not afford, or tight
wad who never spent it at all, for equally to
be avoided are the spendthrift and the miser.
The poor man who buys an automobile on
the 1nstallment plan; who sends girl orchids,
and who orders twenty dollars dinners at a
restaurant Is not proving his love for her. He
is warning her that If she marries him she
will be STAYING off bill collectors all the bal
ance Of her life. But the man who takes her
to the poorest seat in the theater, and who
wrangles over the I'LL with waiter for fifty
cent lunch, is also WI rning her. He is telling
her that If she marries him she will have to
get every penny out - him with corkscrew,
and that she will dread the first of every
month as she would the judgment day.
Then I would try to find out if man
really had the ability to interest me, and
hand out line Of conversation that I'd
care to listen to through thirty or forty
years. Every man is spell-binder as long
as he is telling a woman what wonderful
eyes she has, and how he adores her, but
you can't keep up the paeon Of praise after
the wedding day, any more than you can
live on steady diet Of chocolate creams.
The time comes when you crave strong
meat to eat, and somebody with whom you
can exchange intelligent ideas about books,
and politics, and what's going on in the
world. Love dies Of boredom oftener than
OF any other complaint, and the thing that
is chiefly the matter with domestic life is
dizziness. Therefore, one Of the chief things
that woman needs to look for in hus-
band Is his ability to keep her entertained.
Then I should look at mans general
attitude towards life, whether it was peev-
ish, and disgruntled, and fault-finding, or
philosophical and good-natured, for no
woman can be happy whose husband is not
the big sunshine around the house.
You never can tell, Of course, what sort
Of husband a man will make, but I think a
composite portrait Of him would show a
good-natured chap, who can tell good
story, who carries his small change loose
in his pocket, and who believes implicitly
in the myth that woman is mystery that
man should worship without trying to
guess.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-08
Schools That St;f1e Thought

sT HAT was startling but pertinent
question propounded at yesterdays
- session of the National Education AS
tsociation at Boston by DR.. j. Mace Address.
s-:Is the school Of today" he asked, "uncon-
sciously an agency in promoting mental dis
ability? In its mad rush for mastery of
facts is it neglecting the development of
wholesome attitudes toward school work and
I life?"
It was not as the prejudiced or the unin-
formed or the casually critical that DR.. An
sdrqis spoke, but as a scientific observer with
mind and heart intent upon his field of in
quiry; he is head of the department Of psy-
GEOLOGY and child study at the Boston Nor
NAL School. From such source the ques-
tion merits the earnest thought of teachers
( everywhere.
The mere mass of knowledge has waxed
SO immense, so like an Amazonian forest
both in range and in diversity, that one
might wander in 1t for lifetimes, if that were
possible, and still have explored but few of
its paths and streams. The man as well
as the child of today finds it ever more per-
picking to take intelligent notice of even a
1.-THE Of the subjects that appeal to normal
Interest; and who longer can hope to fulfill
! the injunction OF our grandsires, Know
something about everything and everything
about something's"
Yet, whatever else needs must be omitted
from an education, two things unquestion-
ably are essental-power to think and love
of truth. If these be neglected or stifled
the rest will be but rubbish. To arouse and
foster these has ever been the aim of good
teaching, from the happiest schools of today
back to the golden times of Hellas when
master and pupil talked together in the mar
ket place or sauntered through tempted
groves. When these two are left out or are
crowded out of school, "only the native
vigor of students mind will repair the de-
ficiency and counterfeit the harm of his Gin
struction." But let the love of knowing and
discovering truth be once enkindled in hui
man spirit, and no bounds can be set to
it's education
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-08
Georgia Incomes

| georgia incomes
~ F an eminent citizen in his immor-
Ia tally charming village Oliver Gold
smith has sung:
A man he was to all the country dear
And passing rich with forty pounds a
| year.
| Thus measured, the wealth of Georgia
towns and countrysides would be prodigious;
| for, according to the latest official report on
federal tax returns, there are in this State
| upwards Of seventy thousand persons with
| annual incomes far in excess of the poets
| passing rich At least one there is be-
| tween five hundred thousand and seven hun
| dred and fifty thousand dollars There are
fourteen well above the one hundred thou
sand mark. In the two thousand to three
| thousand-dollar group there are thirty thou
sand, seven hundred and sixty individuals;
| and in the one thousand to two thousand
dollar group there are twenty-three thou
sand, three hundred and sixty-one. The ag-
gregate net income Of Georgians who made
returns under the federal law, which does
not apply below thousand dollars, is $685.
619,716, while the taxes thereon amounted
to $7,697,693 The average Of all these Is
$3,11780, the figures being for the year
1920.
But If present-day America rather than
Goldsmith's eighteenth-century Auburn be
taken as standard, Georgia incomes will
not measure so large. The average given a
line or SO above is about one hundred and
fifty-one dollars less than that for the coun-
try as a whole. AS compared with the richer
regions Of the East and the Middle West, this
State has few notable incomes, and none of
what Colonel Roosevelt used TO call "malefac-
tors of great wealth" The rank and file,
however, present quite comfortable appear
ance, and it is their condition, not that of
the few, that is important. Particularly
cheering, moreover, is the increase of four
teen thousand, three hundred and ninety
five in the number of income taxpayers for
1920 over the year preceding, and of more
than nine million dollars in their returns.
This signifies growth - and it is growth
rather than possessions that counts.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-08

A girl desires to know by what earmarks
you can distinguish the man who has good
husband timber in him, from the man who
will make rotten husband.
There's no infallible sign. You can't Judge
what sort OF husband a man will make by his
general character because some Of the best
and most upright Of men are the meanest of
husbands, and, conversely, there are men who
are thieves, and robbers, and tyrants outside
Of the home who arc gentleness and tender
ness in it, Nor can you tell what sort Of
husband man will make by his premateri-
mon1al conduct, for many man who is I'll
devotion, and delicate attentions, and gener-
osity, before marriage, after marriage neg
lects his wife, and haggles with her over
carfare.
Nevertheless, straws do show which way
the wind blows, and If were girl who was
beginning seriously to consider entering into
a life partnership with an agreeable youth, I
would observe these points:
First, / would take into consideration his
ability to make a living. would not marry
any man who had not demonstrated his abil-
ity to stand alone on his own feet, and hold his
own among other men. would not require
him to make much money, or to be able to
give me limousines Ind pearls, but he would
have to be on his way towards making some
thing Of himself.
would want to be reasonably sure of my
bread and butter. and that I had husband
OF whom would be proud instead of having
one for whom would have to apologize. I
would want some assurance that wasn't In
vesting my all in firm that would always
be bankrupt.
Next, would try to get line upon his ego
t1sm. would count how many times he said
II" in the course Of an evenings converse
ton and if every time the talk drifted away
from the fascinatini subject of himself he
yanked 1t back to his own exploits, and told
just how he would settle the Russian prob
lem, and handle the prohibition situation, and
regulate the length Of wonens skirts, and
gave other evidence of considering himself a
second Solomon, should say, "Nay, nay"
For there be many things that are hard to
endure in those with whom We daily live, but
none is SO wearing on the nerves as self-coH-
ceit. Moreover, the egotist always follows
the voice of the flatterer, and that soon
leads him away from his own fireside.
Next, should note if he was afflicted with
the interfering mania. If he said to me con-
tinually, "Why don't you wear brown instead
Of blue? Why don't you wear e big hat in
stead Of little one? Why dent you read
history instead of novels? Why don't you eat
roast beef and potatoes instead of chicken a
la king?" I should have none of him.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-08
The Army He1;cobter

n JEWS that the United States Army is
M vigorously in the field to produce a
practical helicopter is a thousand
times welcome. America has Jagged of late
in realm OF enterprise where by all tradi-
tion she ought to lead. Had Congress been
reasonably liberal instead Of blindly grudg-
ing in support Of aeronautic endeavor, the
recent record might well have been rich in
achievement. But now the Army's re-
sourcefulness may compensate.
Few if any details touching the new prof.
ect can ascertained. Il is known, however,
that work on a machine designed for verti-
cal flight" is going forward in the shops at
McCook Field, near Dayton, Ohio. This
much Major General Patrick, chief Of avia-
ton admits, but he will talk no further on
the subject. 1t is understood that "only
about twenty high War Department officials
have seen the craft" Evidently. great i'm
portance is attached to the enterprise.