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COOPERATE OR PERISH
By H. Addington Bruce


TT UMAN life is social life. The funda-
mental fact for US to recognize is the
extent to which as human beings our
| life is an effect and cause of the life of our
associates
"We live a truly human life and find our
happiness and worth only when we guided
| by The habtual realization that we are partci-
pants in a common and cooperative enterprise
of creating and maintaining an evolving social
situation which affords to all mankind the op-
portu1tieS and the very content of truly human
existence.
an our personal contacts of the household
and The neighborhood, and in our wider and
more impersonal relations of business and pol
itics, in all activities, are essentially par
Elephants in this cooperative enterprise"
This passage from Dr. Edward Cary Hayes
sociology and Ethics" l have quoted because
it impreSSvely calls attention to truth dis
regard Of which inevitably entails heavy penal
ties.
Were this truth-the great purpose of life as
social evolution through The enlightened CO.
operation of all individual human bei1gS-ap-
preciated and acted upon as it should be, the
sum total of human suffering would be in
Stantly and greatly reduced.
We should no longer have wars between ma
tons, and warS-clasS confcts-with nations. A
worldwide struggle such as that lately precipi-
tated by the Germans, with its terrible toll of
death and property destruction, would not be
even a remote possibility.
And proper appreciation of the law of CO.
operation would put an end forthwith to the
havoc wrought in the world by profteerng, by
lockout and strikes, and by all other baneful
phases of human effort traceable to an over
development of the self-regradng instinct.
Proper appreciation of the necessity for
earnest, honest cooperation would, in the eco
nonic realm, impel all men to give value for
money received. Employers would deal fairly
by employed, and the employed would not Shirk
work, but put their hearts really in whatever
they undertake.
The life of the home would yield happiness
unknown today in too many homes where the
self-regarding instinct is dominant. There would
be far fewer marriage failures, far fewer failures
to rear children to worthy, efficient, happy
citizenship.
Study the records of divorce cases. analyze
suicides and homicides, ScrutinZe the personal
histories of those who break down mentally or
nervously, Of the incompetent and the unenl-
ployable-again and again you will find con-
elusive evidence that the basic cause of the
misery involved has been DISREGARD of the CO.
operative principle.
Cooperate or periSh
Such is the warning implied in the truth so
eloquently phraSed by DR.. Hayes. And, as
knowledge and insight become more general
surely we may look forward to day when it
will be warning well-nigh universally needed.
copyright, 1922, by The Associated News
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They were enroute to the country club
for dinner Imogene sat alone in the front
seat of the car driving. Andrew and Billy
Sands we're in the back, but both leaning
forward so that Imogene was included in
the conversation and she was tossing re-
marks over her shoulder to them.
Suddenly there was the sput, sput, sput Of
a motorcycle alongside and the driver raised
his hand for Imogene to stop and caught
the side of the car. She noted the police
badge on his breast and pulled in to the
curb.
"You are violating the speed regulations,
lady" said the officer.
ooh, I am so sorry" exclaimed 1mogene
with her readiest smile. II will go slower
from now on"
Eyes, ma'am," replied the officer with
sarcasm. after the judge gets through with
you in the morning, 1 think you will stop
driving through the streets at % miles an
hour
"The iudge?" said Imogene with trem-
bling chin.
Eyes ma'am," replied the officer, you
are under arrest you know. If you will
give me your card, I will not take you to
the station house and lock you up"
ANDREW, why don't you do something's"
said Imogene, pathetically.
What shall do?" asked Andrew; shall
kill him?' he laughed into the face Of the
policeman.
Your wife?" asked the officer, jerking
his thumb at Imogene as Andrew handed
him his card.
yep" said Andrew, 1--WE were kidding
with her over the back of the seat and she
did not notice how fast she was going"
For the Lords sake, hold her down."
said the officer seriously.
THE captain is on our backs about you
country club people, and I am liable to lose
some buttons for this,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-16
The Miserable Rub1e

7 HOWEVER else may go the news from
Russia these uays, the wretched ruble
continues on it's downward trend to-
ward the value of wallpaper and stage
money.
In order to save the paper on which the
ruble-notes are printed the Soviet govern
ment now is planning to print banknotes in
the denomination of one hundred million
rubles-for each banknote.
This is to enable the more opulent finan-
ciers of the Soviet regime to carry as much
as S25 in one banknote-that is approximate
ly what 100, 100000 rubles were worth at
the last quotation. At the original or par
value in foreign exchange, one of the notes
would be worth about $51 100000.
In Brazil they have a fair idea Of the
plight of the ruble. The unit of money there
is the "rei' and when exchange is normal
one thousand refs are worth about twenty
five cents in United States money. In Brazil,
it takes hundreds of refs to pay car fare or
purchase glass of beer-real beer, however
And this is not from any depreciation in the
Brazilian money; it is the usual thing.
At that, the humble rel need not be too
apologize.
One rel is worth about five hundred rubles.
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-POOR LITTLE NO. Q

clinging little thing who adored him, and
whom he loved dearly.
But the mans idea of loyalty to his first
wife is to keep her presence alive in the
house. Her portrait hangs over his desk.
Her photographs are scattered about in al
most every room. The furniture represents
the first wife's taste. They sit in her chairs,
eat off her china. She is lowering ghost or
an evening as they read by her lamp.
Worse still, the husband talks of her con-
tinually He is full of "reminiscences of their
life together, and when he finds fault with
the way No. does anything, he tells her
that No 1 always iid-thus-and-so until poor
little No. 2 has come to believe that the
only perfect woman who ever lived was he1
husbands first wife.
And this man who was a good husband TIC
one woman, and is trying to be good nus
band to another, hasn't sense enough to per-
ceive that he is actually torturing his pres
emit wife to death, and that every time ne
mentions his first wife to her he inflicts just
as much pain on her as if he had thrust a
knife into her heart.
For the very quntessence of distilled jeal
ousy, the bitterest drop in the cup of gall
is the futile, helpless jealousy second wife
feels for first whose virtues and excellences
are thrown in her teeth. With living rival
she can battle She can match charm with
charm art with art, allure with allure She
can find defects in a living womans amor
she can strip from her her cloak OF superb
GRITTY, but she cannot attack the uedu' Oue
is powerless before one whose every good
quality is magnified by the grave.
When a woman sings the saga, Of her first
husbands virtues to her second she does II
through sheer devilishness, and with malice
aforethought but men actually are idiotic
enough to think they are making hit with
their No. 2 wives by showing them how
tenderly they remember their No. rs
This is proven by the fact that when a
widower goes a-wooing he almost invariably
commences his courtship by telling the woman
how much she reminds him of his DEAR de-
parted Maria Ann, and he doesn't have
gumption enough to perceive that there
isn't woman alive or dead that she wouldn't
rather be like than the lady into whose shoes
she is preparing to step.
It does look as if long and intensive
course of matrimony should teach even the
dullest man that every woman's hearts de,
sire is to be the first and only love of the
man she loves, and that it is bad enough fol
her to have to sit at the second table in a
husbands heart, and feed upon rehashed al
lection and warmed over romance, without
having the bitter knowledge continually
thrown in her face.
But it doesn't. Husband blithely babbles
on to No. 2 about No. 1, and wonders whence
comes that sound as Of grinding teeth.
For even the cleverest men are stupid In
love.
copyright, 1922, by the wheeler Syndi-
cate, 1nc.)
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'She need not show up in the morning
them" asked Andrew.
NAV! OF course mott" replied the officer.
'Tell me your name" said Andrew. II
want to send you box Of cigars, brother"
mix on that" laughed the policeman, II
will see you Wednesday night. You know me
when I am not in uniform. Careful now
you!" he said, shaking his finger at Imo-
gene; "I'll send you up for life If 1 : ever
catch you speedin' again.
"Why did he turn me loose, Andrew"
asked Imogene when they mad gone a few
blocks further.
"He's a lodge brother" laughed Andrew.
"How did you know" she demanded hap
PLY.
"He wriggled his left ear, which is the
sign of recognition, then I scratched the left
corner of my right eye which is the sign of
his motorcycle which means I've got you
Steve.''
Andrew, are you telling me the truth?"
she demanded.
"Ain't I, Billy?" asked Andrew.
Gospel TRUTH affirmed Billy.
They rode on in silence for several miles
and at last Imogene called over her Shout
der, "Andrew!'
eyes," he replied, leaning forward.
''Will you tell me the truth if I ask you
something?"
"Sure!" replied Andrew.
"Well, suppose that policeman had been
on foot or on horseback and you had seen
your left eye, how would he have made
that I got you, Stephen sign? He would
have had no front wheel to kick
Andrew choked and the wind made tears
come in his eyes then, so Billy Sands an
swered, 81 will explain when we are eating
dinner"
Copyright, 1922, by 21st Century Press,
Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-16
The George Washington Memora-By Frederic j. Haskin

wv ASHINGTON, D. c., May 12.-George
wv Washington and the 1890. 900 men
who represented America in the re-
cent war are to be honored together in a
great memorial auditorium in this city.
The project is called the George Washing
ton Memorial because it was started "a years
ago for the purpose Of carrying out one of
the unfulfilled provisions of Washington's
will. The war broke into the slowly develop
ing plans, and afterward the idea of the
double memorial took shape.
Now, plans are going rapidly forward. Con-
gress has approved the project and donated
a site in central location where some Of the
temporary government offices stood during
the war. The corner stone was laid by Presi-
dent Harding last November, a few days aft
er the Unknown Soldier was honored in the
capital. Mrs. Harding has been made honor
airy president of the George Washington
Memorial Association, and the $1,000 600
necessary to erect the building is being rails
ed among states and organizations. Cover
nors of all the states have Endorsed the plan,
and Tennessee has authorized bond issue
of 100000 as it's share in the fund. Con-
struction work will begir next year, it is
hoped.
Plans for the memorial have been approx
ed by the National Commission on Fine Arts.
model stands in the headquarters Of the
memorial association. 1t shows a four
story, square building, so broad as to appear
very low set. The material, like most pub
stone, and the usual Greek effect of a colon
made of pillars is used at the front and back
The central feature Of the building is tie
large auditorium seating 1000 with suitable
accommodations for national and interna-
tional gatherings.
The lofty dome of this auditorium is to be
the specific memorial to the soldiers, sailors
and marines of the World War. Each man
who fell in the war is to be represented by a
gold star in the dome, and all others by blue
stars. These 100000 stars are to be per-
sonal memorials because the initials Of the
men they represent are to be on them, and
it is planned that by use of diagram and
field glass visitors to the hall will be able
to locate the names Of their own war heroes
The dome of stars is expected to prove Of
increasing interest with the passing Of time.
In speech at the cornerstone ceremony, Ad-
miral Coontz chief of naval operations, re-
ferred to the dome Of stars as the part Of
the project that appealed to him most.
"Can you not imagine" said the admiral,
''the children the grandchildren and the
great-grandchildren of the Great War max
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-16
Amer;can-Made Styles

N m ADAME JOFFRE, the wife Of the
MI Field Marshal gave the Partisan
fashion arbiters and dressmakers
quite severe shock on her recent visit to
America when she declared that American
dresses are far superior to those of the
French capital.
Il adore American Clothes" declared
Madame Joffre. "You have beautiful dresses
made here at your very doors, and yet you
think it necessary to choose those that came
from Paris. l have been buying American
clothes because I prefer them"
Madame Joffre then went on to say that
not only are American women wearing Ameri-
can clothes far better dressed than Euro
compare with the men Of this country when
it comes to clothes.
In the latter opinion we confess whole
hearted agreement. We could never under
stand how an English tailor in sober
moment in full possession of his faculties
could cut such atrocious clothes.
Lady Astor corroborates the opinion of
Madame Joffre by expressing decided pref
erence for the clothes in this country. She
considers them more becoming, more femi-
nine, more "snappy and full of pep" Ger
tatnly the feminine styles have had plenty of
the latter quality of recent months-whether
they came from Paris or somewhere else.
PatnOnizing home industry is a good civic
doctrine, whether applied to the industries of
ones city, ones state or ones country.
The only rational argument we can see
in favor of patronizing French dressmakers
in preference to those of our own country
is that such patronage will contribute some
thing to the rehabilitation of French pros
perity and the value Of the French franc.
The more valuable their francs the more
of our goods they can buy.
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ing Washington mecca to visit, to look TOT
their ancestors star. 1 am a great believer
in tradition, for it is only in the contempla-
ton of great and noble deeds in the past that
we are led to the same in the present and
the future"
Around the auditorium are to be a great
many rooms, all dedicated to patriotic and
national uses. On the first floor there will
be smaller meeting halls and two museums
which will contain collections of war trophies
and relics documents, uniforms, guns and
souvenirs of famous men.
The second floor is to have a large ban
quet hall where state banquets can be held
and DISTINGUISHED statesmen entertained
There will also be reception rooms and q
long row of rooms where patriotic societies
will establish permanent headq darters. Such
organizations as the Colonial Danes, Sons OF
Veterans and Daughters of 1872 are to make
use of these rooms, and some societies have
already set aside funds to furnish and main
tain rooms here.
Above, on the third floor, rooms are to
be reserved for each of the states and terri
tories, to be furnished by them and used
for state societies and other state purposes.
The fourth floor is arranged in more offices
for patriotic and national societies.
Long Felt Need
The need for this type of public buildings
has long been apparent. Members OF the
patriotic societies come to Washington at
times for conventions, to promote special
and to use the fine genealogical collection
at the library of congress. But most Of the
societies have no headquarters, no special
place where members can get information,
or hold meetings. Worst of all, Washington
lacks suitable auditorium for meetings of
large, important bodies.
It was because patriotic building" was
needed and because it seemed to fulfill, in
spirit at least the almost forgotten desire
expressed in Washington's will, that the
George Washington Memorial took this form.
The first president had long cherished
dream of national university to stimulate
high ideals in the youth of the land In
his last message to congress he urged that
body to promote institutions for the dissent
nation of learning. In his will he said he
regretted that American students should go
to other countries to receive higher learning
and foreign ideas at an impressionable age
when they should be imbibing the principles
of patriotism. He expressed an ardent wish
that there should be founded a national
university free, as far as reasonable from
local attachments and state prejudices, and
he left $4,000 to establish that university.
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one another's quality, according to
announcement by authorities of the expert
ment station of the state of Washington
which is a leading apple producer in great
apple-growing section.
THE cause for the low yield of inferior
fruit" according to these authorities, sis the
same as inbreeding with animals or humans
In such cases we know the offspring to be
inferior physically and often mentally, while
with apples there is often total failure of
the blossom to set fruit.
investigations carried on in many or
chards under varying climatic conditions
show that sterility is more common among
varieties of apples than fertility. In this con-
nection it is interesting and of commercial
Importance to note that the size, shape, quail
the blossoms being fertilized with blossoms
of other varieties. In addition, most of the
common commercial varieties in the Pacific
Northwest have been found to overlap in
their time of blossoming, so that almost any
combination of varieties may be planted in
the same orchard with satisfactory results -
Georgia apple growers in the Habersham
county section already are turning to variety
orchards instead of relying on single varie-
ties. Numerous growers have cut down we'll
grown and productive trees in portion of
their orchards to mix one or more varieties
Their object primarily was to have for the
market at varying times an apple ready for
shipment when the demand came on, but the
Washington experiments show that the mix
ing of varieties will produce good profits in
this other direction.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-16
Pride Before Destruction
~ RDINARILY one would regard wild
J duck as one Of the most peaceful and
even timorous creatures in the world

duck as Of the most peaceful and
even timorous creatures in the world
and ordinarily the wild duck is peaceful.
But don't pick on him, until after he is on
the table in roasted condition. He may sur
prise you.
Now comes the news by way of the New
York Herald of combat between Rhode
Island Red rooster and a wild mallard
drake, which with three ducks, had passed
the winter in the same house as the rooster,
in all friendliness.
With the advent of spring, it appears, the
rooster decided to show his assembled wives
what a gallant chap he was. The inoffensive
drake was the handiest victim and the big
red rooster suddenly emitted clarion bat
Ne-cry and fell upon him.
The drake appeared bit confused as
the rooster pecked furiously at the back of
his head. At first he seemed to regard it as
new kind of play. Then, stung by the pun
, ishment, he suddenly whirled, sprang
: straight for the ROSTERS head, and attached
himself to the ROSTERS pendant wattles.
Mr.. Rooster never had been handled, or
rather waited, in this way before. In ten
!, seconds he was squawking about the yard,
trying to shake off his strange foe, which
chung like bulldog. Finally the rooster
broke away from the clinch, only to be seized
by the tail. Then were the startled female
occupants of the yard astounded by the sight
of their bold and beautiful champion in full
flight uttering piteous cries that might be
interpreted as "Lemme go!" or "Pullim
off"
Only by wriggling through a small door
and thus scraping his enemy off did the
rooster get free, leaving fair proportion of
his once-pompous tail in the jaws of the
drake, if his maxillary equipment may be so
termed.
The drake now is boss of the yard.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-16
ARMSTRONG
BY DR.. Frank Crane

On Thursday, the 18th Of April last, Her.
bert Rowse Armstrong was found guilty and
sentenced to death in British court on the
charge of numbering his wife by poisoning
her with arsenic. This was the most cele-
brated murder case in Great Britain within
living memory The newspapers published
full page daily reports Of the progress of the
trial, and the affair was studiously followed
and exhaustively discussed by millions of
people.
1t compared in widespread interest with
the French case of Landru, who was guillo-
tined not long ago for numbering dozen or
so of his wives and burning their remains
in the kitchen stove.
A lawyer in ,mall town. and a clerk to
the local justices there; an officer in the
Great War who had cone good SERVICE which
he might have avoided on the score of his
age; a devoted husband and father-this
was the record Of the man who on the last
day of the year 1921 was suddenly arrested
on the charge Of attempting of life of a fell
low attorney Mr.. Oswald Martin, by putting
arsenic in the food offered to him at the
tea table.
His trial for this alleged crime had not
progressed very far when suspicious were
raised in regard to the death of Mrs. Arm
strong, who had died nearly a year before.
Her body was exhumed and examined and
the expert analyst declared that he had never
discovered so large a quantity of arsenic in
any body before. Had it not been for the
ed that Mrs. Armstrong had died from other
than natural causes, as she had been a
chronic invalid.
Armstrong freely admitted that he had
bought arsenic for the purpose of killing
weeds in his garden. He had never made
the slightest attempt at secrecy in these pur-
chases, and his conduct during his wife's ILL
ness had been open and natural. His wife
had been unhappy and nervous invalid who
had at times given the impression that she
might try to make away with herself. che
line of defense was that the woman had
committed suicide.
Viewed from the angle Of motives, the
acts Of Armstrong might have been those of
mailman, as he had had no difficulty with
Mr.. Martin except eight disagreement about
some legal business, and he had not been on
bad terms with his wife. To be sure he in
herited about $4,000 from her, but this
motive would seem insufficient.
The judge, however, in summing up the
case, made rather significant statement:
"You will never find in crime such as this
a motive which you or I, hope, would think
an adequate one.
Armstrong was convicted entirely on cir
cumstantial evidence, but, as the judge stat
ed, circumstantial evidence is as good as any
other evidence if there is enough of it and
| it is relevant.
He had a fair trial and both judge and
jury we're convinced of his guilt. The case
passes into history a one of those amazing
cases of alteration or moral deficiency for
which perhaps the War, by it's lapse into ut
ter barbarism, may be to blame.
Copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane)
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