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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
ANDREW AND IMOGENE
BY ROE FULKERSON.
\ NDREW, may I have California top
y for my little carr" asked Imogene,
in a persuasive tone.

in persuasive tone.
"You may if you can buy it on the INSTALL
ment PLAN, said Andrew. The way business
is I cannot pay cash fo- anything in the world,
"You see, honey, never explained to you
before, but that copy of the Encyclopedia
Britannica we have with the thin pages and
the limp leather binding was bought on the
installment plan and the man comes to my Of
flee for SO cents every Monday morning and
have to have the moEey for him
'"Then there is the foot-power piano. I al
ways made you think I paid cash for that,
too, but that $500 we paid we split up in
weekly installments of S. each and that man
comes on Tuesday anG I have to have the
money for him.
''Then on Wednesday the man comes for
the two-dollar weekly instailment on the
talking machine we bought couple of Win
ters ago, when we had falling Of the brains
to the feet and went jazz mad.
Thursday I have to pay nine dollars on
the little car / gave you for a wedding an
niversary present, and that too keeps me
busy, but believe ne in the present condition
of business it is some job to have nine .ure-
enough dollars every Thursday
"Then there is Friday I always save all
the money / make on Friday and put it in
an empty tomato can on my desk and then
on the first of the month pay your gasoline
bill with that.
$50 you see, there is nothing left but Sat-
urday, and if you set anything else on the in
stallment plan we will simply have to stop
eating for there will be no money left for
the market
"Why, Andrew, you told me dozen times
that you never bought anything on the par
tial payment plan," said Imogene, in amaze
ment.
''I never have" said Andrew, solemnly;
"but don't you see If had not always been
careful in my purchases would have cen
in just the condition I have described to you
and then what would you do for this money
for new clothes?"
"New clothes" repeated Imogene. did
say 1 wanted money for clothes?"
''You certainly did, assured Andrew. "You
said you wanted $40 for a new dress and
was explaining the condition of the money
market
"Why, II that is DID," concluded
Imogene, weakly. 81 thought that asked
you for-oh, we'll, never mind / did not
understand that you were so poor just now"
That's all right" said Andrew, kindly.
'I forgive you and we will simply drop the
matter, for have no reason to speak heart
lessly to you about these things.
"Let us forget all about it and go around
to the picture show for a few minutes"
every well said I-4ogene, rising. Speak
ing of moving pictures, I see that Olive
Thomas, the moving picture actress, has join
ed Barnum G Bailey"
"Huh," said Andrew, ''Why Olive Thomas
is dead
$50 are Barnum and Bailey" said Imo-
gene, seriously.
"Look here, woman" said Andrew, TAX
ing her by the shoulders and looking into her
eyes, "are you trying to kid me?"
"Why, no." smiled Imogene, "you do all
the kidding in this family"
Copyright, 1922, by 21st Century Press,
Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
The Outline of History-By H.. @. Wells
|. The Romance of Mother Earth

such as crystals, grow, but they have no set
limits of growth or size, they do not move
of their own accord and there is no stir with
in them. Crystals once formed may last I'M
changed for millions of years. There is no
reproduction for any non-living thing.
This growth and dying and reproduction
of living things leads to some very wonder
full consequences. The young which a liy-
ing thing produces are either directly, or
after some intermediate stages and changes
(such as the changes of a caterpillar and
butterfly, like the parent living thing. But
they are never exactly like it or like each
other. There is always slight difference,
which we speak of as individuality.
A thousand butterflies this year may pro-
duce two or three thousand next year; these
latter will look to us almost exactly like
their predecessors but each one will have
just that slight difference. 1t is hard for us
to see individuality in butterflies because we
do not observe them very closely, but it is
easy for us to see it in men. All the men
and women in the world now are descended
from the men and women of A. d. 1900, but
not one of us now is exactly the same as
one sof that vanished generation.
And what is true Of men and butterflies
is true of every sort of living thing, of
plants as Of animals. Every species changes
all it's Municipalities in each generation.
That is true of all the minute creatures that
swarmed and reproduced and died in the
archaeozoic and proterozoic seas, as it is OF
men Of today.
Every species of living things is contin-
ually dying and being born again, as null
titude of fresh individuals.
Consider, then, what must happen to a
newborn generation Of living things of any
species. Some of the individuals will be
stronger or sturdier or better suited to sue
coed in life in some way than the rest, many
individuals will be weaker or less suited. In
particular single cases any sort Of luck OF
accident hUt the whole the
better equipped individual will live and
grow up and reproduce themselves, and the
weaker will as rule go under.
How Nature Picks Us Over
The latter will be less able to get food, to
fight their enemies and pull through. So
that in each generation there is as it were
picking over of a species, picking out Of most
of the weak or unsuitable and preference
for the strong and suitable. This process is
called natural selection or the survival Of
the, fittest.
Copyright, 1929
CTO RF CONTTNTTET0
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Marker was a proud father.
MY FAVORITE STORIES
BY IRWIN COBB

There is judge in a Massachusetts town
who, behind a benignant exterior hides an
occasional surprise for persistent evildoers.
Once there came up before 1im for sentnce
two youths who had been guilty of a long
sequence of misdeeds. Both were under
age, each having just passed his nine
teenth birthday. Having been caught with
the goods on them they had pleaded guilty,
in the hope of getting off with light pun
ishment.
The judge adjusted his glasses and
through them beamed softly at the young
lawbreakers.
"Now then, boys" he said softly, 'T'm
going to send you two to the state reforma-
tory until you come Of age''-his voice sud-
denly changed-"and while you're there you
can both be studying Cor the state peniten-
tiary.
copyright 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
THE FEMININE CREDA
BY HELEN ROWLAND

Every woman believes, in her secret
heart
That she is prettier than her mirror tells
her.
That there is something different" some-
thing je ne sails quoi-about her.
That she was born for the stage.
That she has 'good eyes"-and person
atty
That men get more out of life than a
woman does vs. +
That if she chose to sacrifice her idealsp
she could set Broadway on fire and make
hit at the Winter Garden.
That bobbed hair and short skirts make
her look like flapper.
That when a man doesn't propose mar
rage it's because he hasn't the courage.
That when a doesn't try to kiss her
it is either because he is "aboge that sort OF
th1ng''-Or because he thinks SHE is.
That mems club is a wild, fascinating
place where chorus girls are served in. huge
pies, and coryphees dance on tables.
That no mater how many married men
have tried to flirt with her. she will lead to
the altar the One Perfect Masculine Treas
ure, who will never look at another woman.
That her love will be different, her mar
riago will be different, her husband will be
different, her children will be different from
those of any other married woman she
knows.
That no matter how man may have
treated dozen other women, THIS time, he
is serious.
That when man isn't with her, he Is
thinking about her-or is with some other
woman.
That all dark-eyed men are intense"
That nobody would suspect her of pluck
ing her eyebrows.
That man who wears a ribbon on his
eyeglasses is always intellectual
That her husband would be more interest
ing if he were caveman, or Don Juan or
a poet-or something.
That she. married for love-NOT just to be
settled"
That no man understands her.
That nobody appreciates her at her full
worth.
That some day she will write book-all
about her life!
That life will not be complete until she
has either driven some man to Hades-or
led him to Heaven.
That she has suffered.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21

V. THE PECULIAR THING CALLED LIFE
n TOW here it will be well to put plainly
N certain general facts about this new
thing, life, that was creeping in the
shallow waters and intertidal muds of the
early palaeozoic period, and which is per-
haps confined to our planet alone in all the
immensely of space
Life differs from all things whatever that
are without life in certain general aspects.
There are the most wonderful differences
among living things today, but all living
things past and present agree in possessing
certain power of growth, all living things
take nourishment, all living things move
about as they feed and grow, though the
movement be no more than the spread of
roots through the SOIL or of branches in the
air. Moreover, living things reproduce; they
give rise to other living things, either by
growing and then dividing or by means of
seeds or spores or eggs or other ways of
producing young. Reproduction is a charac-
teristic of life.
No living thing goes on living forever.
There seems to be limit Of growth for oev-
cry kind of living thing.
A Limit of Growth
Among very small and simple things, such
as that microscopic blob of living matter the
amoeba, an individual may grow and then
divide completely into two new individuals,
which again may divide in their turn.
Many other miscropscopic creatures, live
actively for time, grow, and then become
quiet and inactive, enclose themselves in an
outer covering and break up wholly into a.
number of still smaller things, spores, which
are released and scattered and again grow
into the likeness Of their parent
Among more complete creatures the re-
production is not usually such simple diVi-
sion, though division does occur even in the
case of many creatures big enough to be Wis
ible to the unassisted eye. But the rule with
almost all larger beings is that the individ-
ual grows up to a certain limit of size. Then,
before it becomes unwieldy, it's growth de-
clines and stops.
The Necessity of Death
AS it reaches it's full size it natures, it be-
gins to produce young, which are either
born alive or Matched from eggs. But all of
it's body does not produce young. Only a
special part does that. After the individ-
ual has lived and produced offspring for
some time, it ages and dies. 1t does so by a
sort of necessity There is practical limit
to it's life as we'll as to it's growth.
These things are as true of plants as they
are of animals. And they are not true of
things that do not live. Non-living things,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
The Atlanta Products Show
m M ANY a time has Atlanta been i'm
MI agined as walled in from the outer
world and yet subsisting in conf

world and yet subssting in comfort
upon her own manifold industries; but never
was the fancy so convincingly bodied forth as
in the manufacturers exposition now in
progress at the Auditorium. To read that the
city maintains more than five hundred indus
trial plants turning out upwards OF thou
sand different articles is itself thought
arousing. But to look upon the very prod
ucts and processes, to see the life-throb of the
machinery, and watch the skill of human
hands and brains co-working is to realize as
never before the range and wonder and pow
er of Atlanta manufacturing. a
These exhibits reveal a world Of which
many citizens are but dimly II az all aware,
yet from which is derived the major portion
OF their common prosperity They think of
industry as smokestacks dark against the
shutdown, or as bewildering mechanisms
where smudgy, overalled creatures glide in
and out with oilcans, or as whirring caVerns
into which armies Of toilers vanish each
morning and emerge at twilight in order that
5 the ogre of some faroff castle may grow
fabulously rich. Such illusions will find
short shrift with people who witness the
Made in Atlanta exposition. For there the
import of industrial enterprise to the COM
munitys life and development is set forth so
concretely, so graphically that none can fail
to be interested or to read the lesson Alright.
Seeing the wondrous diversity Of products
and reflecting upon the .ariety of human
needs which they serve, as well as upon
the energy that brings them forth and the
thought that guides the thousandfold forces
behind them, one can but feel quickened
pride in the city and renewed faith in her
future.
The manufacturers and the cooperating
merchants are warmly to be congratulated
upon staging an exposition at once SO educa-
tional and SO pleasing. In the course of the
week it should be seen by every Albanian, as
well as by multitudes of visitors from the
South at large, and especially should it be
witnessed by school children, who will be
welcome at any time but for whom Saturday
has been ct apart. 's
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Walton County Progress Day

Plans are being perfected for the celebra-
tio~ of walton County Progress Day. We'd
nesday, September 20, by the citizens o. the
prosperous county of which Monroe is the
progressive capital. Concerning this event
the Walton News says:
"With what we shall have to stimulate US
within the next few Gays, in the nature of a
Walton County Progress Day, and the
eighth assembly Of the Walton County fair,
we should take new courage and press for
ward. There is no finer couItry, no better
people and no greater resources from which
to draw crditable exhibits than those we
have in Walton county"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
SMILE A WHILE

Scientists are hunting an extra wild mos
quito in Alaska. If he is there, he went
last night.
Maker of a famous rum is dead in Cuba.
We do not mention the name because it
would be advertising.
Doctors agree big breakfast is good for
you. Just try to make the cook believe it.
st. Louis laundryman shot himself. He
may have forgotten to tear all the buttons
off of a shirt.
Autoist slapped a bee and hit ditch.
Now reformers will be wanting bees to
wear muzzles.
In Germany, an American cleaned his
shoes with a 1,000-mark note. Shines cost
% @ina0 here, also.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Bo1shev;k Vers;f;ers

T7HE "new poetry" is nothing if not sui
generis. In fact, it is too, to origi-
nal. The sole consolation is that there
is nothing else like it-not in the heavens
above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the
waters that are under the earth Here for
specimen, is the opening stanza of Mr..
James Days poem, on Armistice day, "No-
Vember- leventh," rs he entities it, which
saw light in a recent issue of what it's pub
fishers proclaim can International maya
zine of art" called BROOM:
Light, light
Airy and dubious,
FringeS
buttermilk -.
st. Gothard tunnel.
How impressionistic! How free from re-
straints of tradition! How inimitably itself
Truly has 1t been said that there are things
about Armistice day of which Foch and
Pershing never dreamed. For example, once
more:
Come here, Fido, let
me Tickle your ear.
No your nose.
Ia rhyme is such abominable
taste. But you do like
me to finger the place
l first mentioned
dom you, Fido?)
and your nose is so cold.
Why are the followers of the "Fido''
school so Bolshevik toward verse measures
and verse patterns, which the long line OF
English-writing poets, following their inner
light and the peculiar genius of the language,
have developed? TIE metrical forms, we'll
nigh numberless, which verse writer's have
wrought out through centuries of craftsman
ship are sprung from an emotional energy
that pulses through nature and through life
In only a special and a surface sense are
they artificial. They are not so much re-
straints upon freedom as aids and guides to-
ward perfection. Little poets of the day =
spise them; but great poets of the ages have
USED them.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
Waking to Old Ace
you would come to old age gracefully,

walk yak ''' 80 z:'''''-''
Edward Payson Weston is celebrating
his eighty-fourth birthday with little jaunt
from Buffalo to New York City, some four
hundred and forty miles. He is not the king
of pedestrians he used to be, when he could
go hundred miles in two and twenty hours
STILL he joys off twenty-four miles a day
without suffering fatigue; and that is not
poor for an octegenarian. How many, indeed,
east CT fifty or of forty can do as we'll? Mr..
Weston strides blithely under his more than
four score winters because he began walking
betimes and kept it up joyously. The open
road, the hill-washed winds, the stars and
all they have to tell, these are companions
that hearten and fortify against life's de-
cline
Walking is the best way II old age, and
the best way through it.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
The Sn,a11box Increase

A STARTLING and worldwide increase
~ in smallpox is noted by the United
States Public Health Service from
official reports covering this country and
foreign lands. Within the last five years
epidemfcs Of the disease, in severer form
than America lately has known, occurred
in Scotland, Germany, France, Spain, Aus
tralia, Burma, the Philippines, Brazil,
Argentina, Chile, Costa RIGA, and Santo
Domingo.
From the record of the epidemic of
1920 in Glasgow, Scotland, it appears that
adults were attacked far more generously
than were children. This is significant be-
cause prior to general vaccination the
malady preyed for the most part upon
childhood. In the Glasgow experience mo
vaccinated person under fifteen years of
age died"
AS for the United States, last year, as
compared with those Immediately preceding,
showed a smallpox increase of one hundred
and thirty-eight per cent; but in the first
six months of the current year there was a
decrease of seventy-one and nine-tenths
per cent"
Need the argument for vaccination be
further stressed?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
THE OLD GARDENER SAYS
The Old Gardener Saws

1t is poor plan to store your potatoes
in large bins because the potatoes at the
center of the pile are very likely to heat
and decay. Shallow bins give much better
results. They can be made directly upon
the floor unless the floor is covered with
cement, in which event it is better to ele-
vate them a few inches, having the bottom
covered with boards. If these boards are
half an inch apart SO that the air will cir
culate through them, so much the better.
A little air-slaked lime scattered over the
potatoes in the bin aids in preventing decay.
By all means keep bright light out of the
cellar where the potatoes are stored, for
otherwise they will take on a green tinge
and lose, much of their food value.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21

"Once again my orders have been dis
obeyed,' said the public master sternly.
who is the miscreant?" Not a boy an
swered, and tragic silence prevailed. 'This
matter shall be settled once and for ALL
continued the master in the same icy manner,
land if none will tell, every boy in the class
shall be thrashed."
Every boy, therefore, was duly thrashed
but not one would breathe the culprit's name,
until suddenly as the last boy was about
to receive his share of punishment the cane
was withheld
Fixing a keen look on the lad the master
said, Now, if you will tell me who committed
this indiscretion 1 will not punish you
Cali right, sir; 1 did it," came the hssitat-
ing reply.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY JACK l.. PATTERSON.
Editor to Meet Mt. Vernon

The Twelfth District Press Association
will hold its next semi-annual convention in
Mt. Vernon September 20. The regular meet
ing scheduled for the third Friday in August
was deferred on account of the absence of
Representative H. B. Folsom, owner of the
Montgomery Monitor, which on this occasion
will be host Of the convenion.--Vidalia Ad-
Vanca
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS
The school of critics is crowded.

The school Of critics IS crowded.
A dead lion is harmless, little dog might
bite.
Lots Of bright hope is exchanged for
gloomy experience.
Men with wheels in their heads are Of a
mechanical turn of mind
The man who hesitates is lost, but the
woman who hesitates is won.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-21
OUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

He had gone to London to enjoy himself,
and he found plenty of amusement every
where.
A penny-in-the-slot machine pleased him
immensely. He invested penny and received
bar of chocolate. Another penny brought
a box of matches
Passing on, he came to a machine with a
wide slot in which he put twopence to no
effect. He waited patiently until postman
came along to clear the machine, which was
pillar-box. Then, when that worthy removed
the letters he cried: "Hold on minute,
mate. Two of them lucky bags is mine.'
Marker was proud father.
"Yes, SIR" he boosted, that lad of mine
certainly can play the piano wonderfully.
Why, he can play with both hands"
Barker was also proud father, and he
only managed to raise mild enthusiasm over
the astonishing news.
Chow old is your boy?" he asked, as If the
question were forced out of him by mere po-
likeness.
Eight" said Marker.
eight" scoffed Barker. "Why, my little
boy can play with his toes-and he's only
one syear old"
New-York tribune., 1922-08-18
Radio Corp. of America

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