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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-30

NO. S7-THE STORY OF THE SUMERIANS
T%HIS attenuation of settlement conquest,
refinement, fresh conquest, refine
ment, is particularly 10 be noted in
the region of the Euphrates and Tigris
which lay open in every direction to great
areas which are not arid enough to be COM
plete deserts, but which were not fertile
enough to support civilized population.
A People Who Wrote on Clay
Perhaps the earliest people to form real
cities in this part of the world or indeed in
any part of the world, were people Of mys.
ferrous origin called the Sumerians. They
were probably brunets of Iberian or Dravid-
ian affinities They used kind of writing
which they scratched upon clay, and their
language has been deciphered. 1t was Ian
guage more like the unclassified Caucasic
language groups than any others that now
exist. These languages may be connected
with Basque, and may represent what was
once a widespread primitive language group
extending from Spain and western Europe
to eastern Indian, and reaching south ward
to central Africa.
These people shaved their heads and wore
simple tunic-like garments of wool. They
settled first on the lower courses of the gr "a
river and not very far from the Persian Gulf,
which in those days ran up for a hundred
and thirty miles and more beyond it's pres
ent head. The fortified their fields by let
ting water run through irrigation trenches,
and they gradually became very skillful hy-
draulic engineers; they had cattle, asses,
sheep, and goats, but horses their collec-
ton of mud huts grew into towns, and their
religion raised up towerlike temple build
ings.
Clay, dried in the sun, was very great
fact in the lives of these people This lower
country of the Euphrates-Tigris valleys had
little or no stone. They built of brick, they
made pottery and earthenware images, and
they drew and presently wrote upon thin tile
like cakes of clay. They do not seem to have
had paper or to have used parchment. Their
books and memoranda, even their letters,
were potsherds.
PROBLEMS IN HISTORY
DO YOU KNOW,
What the invention Of the horse-drawn
chariot did for the Assyrians?
DO YOU KNOW
Whether there is any relation between
the name of the ancient Assyrians and
that of the modern Syrians?
DO YOU KNOW
The story of the Lost Ten Tribes" of
Israel?
DO YOU KNOW
What place il. history is held by Tig-
lath Pileser l.?
Answers in tomorrow's installment of
H. G. Wells Outline of History
At Nippur they built great tower of brick
to their chief god, El-lil (EnliD, the memory
of which is supposed to be preserved in the
story of the Tower of Babel.
Tower of Babel
They seem to have been divided up into
city states, which warred among themselves
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-30
Ten Thousand Miles For1Uard!

-HE construction of ten thousand miles
of Federal-aid highways during the
last fiscal wear is one among number
of notable items in the report of the United
States Bureau of public Roads. In no other
tweIvemonth of the American history has
there been anything of the kind comparable
to this record both for what it represents in
substantial achievement and for what it fore
casts of further progress.
Ten thousand miles of new highways mean
tens of millions of new wealth for the states
and counties wherein they are built. For
farmers they mean not only reduced cost and
also enhancement of land values, betterment
of living conditions, widened opportunities of
education and of neighborliness, and general
advancement of rural interests. For mer
chants they mean enrichment of the streams
of trade and quickening Of the very springs
of business. For the commonwealth and the
country as whole they mean more of pros
perity more of progress, more of civic and
social wellbeing.
These ten thousand miles of Federal-aid
highways do not represent, however, the
years total mileage of road building; for in
addition to the main projects thus complet-
ed, and largely as a result of the stimulus
thus supplied, many hundreds of miles Of
local roads were constructed or greatly i'm
proved. 1t is the nature of good highways
to reproduce themselves by the persuasive
example and influence of their service. The
record of the last fiscal year brings the ag
gregate of Federal-aid road mileage up to
nineteen thousand three hundred and eight
What a power for continued progress!
There will be spent on highway construc-
ton this year, &C ,ording to the Washington
bureaus estimates total of seven hundred
and forty-two million dollars including out
Hberally in Federal aid and has applied her
resources we'll, thanks to the efficiency Of her
highway department and the cooperation it
has received from the counties But because
of tho last General Assembly's inexcusable
failure to enact urgently needed highway leg
islation, the outlook for 1923 is not as assur-
ing as it should be. The next General AS
sembly should make good as speedily as pos
sible it's predecessors costly error.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-30

ores. Soddy named these different forms
lsotopes. What are listed in chemical
text books as atomic weights and were sup
posed to be unvsrying turn out to be in
many cases averages of several isotopes
Mercury, for instance, which is listed as hay
ing an atomic weight of zoos consists of six
lsotopes with weights varying from 1877 to
204.
Aston devised an ingenious way of MAX
ing the atoms record their own atomic
weights. He drives a stream of positively
charged particles between the poles of
powerful magnet which defects them in the
degree OF their relative weights. When the
dividing streams strike Photographic plate
they leave their tracks and from these the
mass of the various isotopes can be deter
mined Chlorine has always been a puzzle to
chemists because it's atomic weight figured
35.46 instead Of a whole number But sub
jected to the scrutiny of Aston's apparatus
it is found to be mixture of two kinds of
chlorine atoms, one weighing exactly 35
and the other exactly 81.
The Scandinavian scientist, Bohr, was the
first to venture on picture of the new fash
Toned atom. We had been accustomed to
think of atoms as round hard balls but ac-
cOrding to Bohr they are more like minia-
ture solar systems with a positive electrical
nucleus in the center and one or more mega
tive electrical particles, called "electrons,"
revolving around it at tremendous speed
Here is where Einsten comes in, for while
the planets moving majestically in their
orbits obey Newton's law of gravitation, the
elctrons, which travel almost as fast as light,
deviate from Newtons law in proportion to
their speed and follow the formula of Elm
stein instead. According to Newton the
mass increases with its velocity The diff
ference between them is inconsiderable for
any ordinary speed but when we are deal
ing with elections moving at the rate of
100000 miles a second it becomes impor-
tant. The public has associated Einstein ex-
clusiyely with astronomy because his theory
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-30
THE STUFF OF DREAMS
By DR.. Frank Crane

copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane.)
When 1 hear one of those Hard Practical
Business Men railing at the world of thought,
and contrasting its unrealty with the Sub
Btantial Universe wherein he moves and has
his being-I am compelled to smile.
I think of a certain bank know.
It is great institution When the eX-
aminer calls for statement Of its resources
they are found to total hundreds of millions.
It has a vast, gray granite front, steel vaults
deep into the earth, and when you pass
through the tremendous doorway you stand
awed, in a Temple of Mammon so magnificent
that it bushes your voice and sets a little
trembling in your knees, and raises ever-so-
slightly the hair on your spine.
The Hard Practical Business Man would
agree that it is the realest thing in his
splendidly Substantial Universe. 1t stands
soIGly, immovably there. Nothing can alter
it. Nothing can vary the temper of rever-
ence in which it's steady stream of devotees
come and go through those stupendous
portals.
I think of all this, and then I remember
what happened just a short while ago.
rumor started somehow. Just breath
of wind Nothing substantial. Scarcely so
real as an idea. Just a suggestion that per-
maps, the mysterious, elusive thing, Pros
peritv, had been absent from that abode of
granite and steel.
The whispered word rustled through the
crowded streets. 1t was here and there and
everywhere. No one knew whence it came,
nor what authenticity it had, but the little
breath sWelled into squally gale of Unfaith
In that great Institution.
The rigid granite and the unyielding steel
were of no avail.
little insubstantial whisper was rocking
them to and fro in the wind
Men, little men, big men, employees stock
holders depositors ran hither and thither.
propping those great walls, insisting all was
we'll, furlously denouncng the unknown
Whisper.
Worse and worse the bank rocked on it's
foundations, until all the world could see it
swaying drunkenIy in the breeze, the wee
zephyr of Thought.
A vast crash became imminent crash
that would carry down neighboring buildings
into ruin and leave hundreds of people des-
titute
Laws were invoked to silence unbelief.
New York States statute books carry law
which penalties very severely the utterance
| OF raise Words about any bank.
But laws were poweress to find the
| criminal
| And then, at last came a wise man and
| started another whisper another little
meaningless, unreal formula of Words. If
| blew up the streets like cool insidious little
| breeze.
1t said that the strongest financial ipstitu-
! tlon or the Western Hemisphere had taken
! over the problems of that great tottering
| bank. "
On swift feet it travelled. silently in
| tangibly from place to place creating faith
| restoring confidence, relieving the tension.
| AND presently the Bank stood firm once
! more.
1t had nearly been wrecked by a breath.
| 1t had nearly been wrecked by breath.
| 1t had been saved by breath.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-30

1.-TWO Englishmen, one Dane and one
German, are the winners of Nobel
prizes in physics and chemistry for
I92l and 1922. The names Just announced
from Stockholm ate Albert Einstein of Ber-
lin, Neils Bohr of Copenhagen. Frederick
Soddy, Of Oxford, and Francis William AS
ton, of Cambridge
This is striking Illustration of the unity
of science il spite of national divisions, for
these four SCIENTISTS lave been in unconsider-
ed cooperation trying to solve the same
question, the most fundamental problem of
the universe, what is the atom made Of
The atom was originally supposed to be the
smallest thing possible, the ultimate unit of
the universe. The ancient Greeks, who were
the first to think IL out the question: con-
cluded that if yot kept on cutting up mat
ter into smaller and smaller pieces you must
come at length to something too small to be
further subdivided, SO they called this small
est of all possible particles the atom
which means the "uncutable." The modern
chemist took over this old Greek idea to
serve for the combining weights of the ele-
ments and likewise assumed that the atom
was the limit.
But early in the present century, Profess
sor J. j. Thomson, of Cambridge, found
radioactive matter giving off particles more
than thousand times smaller than the
smallest atom, and for this discovery he re-
ceved the Nobel prize of 1905.
This opened up a new field Of research
that has been diligently prosecuted ever
since, especially by British scientists.
Professor Soddy has not only done a large
part Of this work but he has given a good
popular account Of what it means in his
book, Science and Life"
Chemists used to suppose thai all the
atoms Of the same element were exactly alike
in weight and every other way, wherever it
came from but this fixed idea has been up
set. Soddy found, for instance, that lead
from thorium ores is eleven per cent heavier
in it's atomic weight than lead from uranium
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-30
GEORGIA and South America

TT was Georgias happy distinction to
furnish one of the two em;ssaries Of the
United States at the recent Pan-Ameri-
can conference on economic expansion and
commercial education held at Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. DR.. Andrew M. Soule, president
together with DR.. Emory Johnson, Of the
University of Pennsylvania, were this nations
official representatives.
In his interesting interview in The Jour
mai touching the discussions and conclusions
o. the conference DR.. Soule emphasized how
important it is that Georgia and the South
in general develop their opportunities for
trade with Latin American countries "They
believe us to be a great and progressive ma
tion," he said, largely altruistic, and the one
with which naturally to have their most ex-
tensive commercial relationships" But there
Is no drst-class passenger service between
Savannah or any other South Atlantic gate
way and the ports of South America. Nor are
the agricultural and Industrial producers of
this region, except in cases Of rare enterprise
here and there, yet alert to the rich rewards
that await those who cultivate South Ameri-
can markets.
This points anew the need of adequate
steamship service and also the advantages to
be derived from the construction of State-own-
ed port terminals. Possessing these Georgia
wi mil1i0no millions Of n tr
commerce in years not far ahead; lacking
these, she will lose priceless opportunities and
be outstripped by forward-minded neighbors.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-30
HALF STARVED STEERS

NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-Steers fed for over
three winter months on only one-half normal
ratIons will suffer no permanent damage and
can all subsequently be fattened for the mar
ket, DR.. Francis G. Benedict and Ernest G.
Ritzman Of the Nutrition Laboratory of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington at Bos-
ton, told the National Academy of Sciences
at its meeting here this afternoon.
Eleven steers w. studied intensively bv
these nutrition specialists, who placed the
cattle in a specially constructed respiration
chamber and measured and analysed the air.
food and other material they consumed and
gave Off
Human beings who voluntarily cut down
their food consumption and submitted to
similar tests furnished the data on which the
steer tests were planned. Drs. benedict and
Rttzman also obserl ed that wild animals
which must necessarily submit to the in
equalities of ration suffer little or no harm.
"Curtailed rations resulted in a distinct
loss of nitrogen and fat from the body" said
DR.. Benedict, 'but the steers recovered their
initial state by subsequent feeding with hay,
concentrates or pasture"
The experiments are expected to prove OF
value to cattlemen who are forced to winter
stock on very short rations such as has been
the case in various parts Of the west for the
last few years.-Science Service.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-30
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MY FAVORITE STORIES
BY Irwin Cobb

rms one is dedicated to pessfmists and ia
included in this symposium especially for
their consideration N0-
Inc setting is country store The pro-
pretor is reading a newspaper which has
just arrived from the city.
Uncle Henry, the official crouch Of tbe
nelghoorhood, bites off chew of tobacco
a aI.iu mastlcates it with morose intensity.
This done, he is moved to ask nnestion
Ezra" he says, addressing the storekeep-
81, , 1 persoom that burned paper is jest as
dull tonight as tits every other night in the
Week tI No news with telln', reckin?'
"eIl' says the proprietor, there's one
item on the front page that's sort Of infer
estln'. 1t says here that lot of these sci
entlsts all over the world are gettin' to-
gether in scheme to change the calendar
and have 13 months to the year instead Of
Uncle Henry gives low despairing moan.
It'll be jest my luck for it to be winter
month an me plum out O. fodder!"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Only those who travel in the straight and
narrow path can be depended upon to give
us straight goods.
When a small boy refuses second piece
Of pie there is something wrong either with
the boy or the pie.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-30

mas been tested at a time of eclipse but the
theory of RELATIVELY has applications quite as
revolutionary and much more practical in
earthly chemistry and physics
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-06-28

we will offer you a big group
OF Special Merchandise that
will prove to you how anxi-
Gus we are to get rid of the
big part of this stock.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-02-07
LADIES LOOK YOUNG,
DARkEN GRAY HAIR
Use crandrna'a Sage Tea and Sulphur
recipe and nobody can tell.
Brush it through hair.

Gray hair, however handsome, de-
notes advancing age. We ali know
the advantages of youthful appear
ance. Your hair : is your charm. It
makes or mars the face. When it
fades, turns gray and looks streaked,
just 8 few applications of Sage Tea
and sulphur enhances its appearance
11undred-fold.
Don't stay gray = Look young (!
Either prepare the recipe at home or
get from and drug store a bottle Of
''Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound which Is merely the oid-time
recipe improved by the addition of
other ingredients. Thousands Of folks
recommend this ready-to- use prepara-
ton, because it darkens the hair beau
tifully, besides, no one can possibly
tell, as it darkens SO naturally. and
evenly. You moisten a sponge or soft
brush With 1t, drawing this through
the hair, taking one small strand at
a time. By morning the gray hair
disappears; after another application
or two, its natural color is restored
and 1t becomes thick, glossy and lus-
trous, and you appear years younger.
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound is a delightful toilet requisite.
1t is not. intended for the cure, miti-
cation or prevention Of disease.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-02-07

k&ur4es q. Hindus. at the Methodist
ohurca this (Tuesday) evening Will lec-
SuYe on Americanization. He has won
6alne as a. speaker. Born in Russia, he
is now an American citizen.
Delegates to the national and state
conventions have been chosen by Pheoe
Ward Chapter, D. A. r. The state con-
<9snfior viii be held IN Providence March
3 and the national convention at Wash
,saR<on, DC, during the week OF April
17tt- The delegates and alternates are
- follows: to the national convention,
the regent, Mrs. F. I. Payne, Mrs Frank
Like and Mrs. George Barbour; alter
nstes, Mss Fannie Holmes. Miss Arlet-
"a Reynolds. Mrs. A. L. Chester. MIS-.
Charles Stanton, Mrs. Elizabeth Clark,
Nrs. wMiam Livingston, Mrs. Charles
-SeEzS, Mrs. A. B. Briggs. Mrs. Elisha
Burdica, Mrs. william Segar.
Delegates 70 the state convention are ::
The regent, Mrs. F. 1. Payne, Mrs. Frank
lake, Mrs. Edwin A. Hall, Mrs. George
Barber, Miss Jennie Miner and Miss Fan
Me Holmes; alternates. Mrs. Everett
Barnes, Mrs Charles Stanton, Mrs. Ell
.slas Brrdick, Mrs. c. Grant Savage, Mr9.
4. Congdon. Mrs. H. T. Kenyon. Mrs.
Samuel H. Davis OF Westerly Will be a
6eiegate to the national convention and
xii! preside at the state session In Prov
{eeuce.-
The yelice 81 Pawcatuck turned over
leisthe East Hampton police, Ernest
Beauchemin. wanted here last week for
ssoa support. He had been a weaver at
lhe Lorraine mill here, but disappeared.
However, he returned Friday and pre-
vented himself to the department. He
vas taken to the town where ne was
wanted By an East Hampton officer.
Al the Paweasuek Congregational
.4uTcn Monday evening the Christian
Endesvor society program was most
interesting one.. A piano duet was play
ed by Misses Minnie Frances and Agnes
Roar and the solo by Miss Alice Fiddler,
he Scotch reading by Jock Thompson,
Norwich bulletin., 1922-02-07

was the topic OF the Sunday evening
prayer meeting. which was well attended.
Rev. J. F. Cobb was the leader.
The mission society held a sewing
nesting Friday afternoon at Mrs. George
Backus'.
Mrs. N. ". Golden has invited the
Good Will Circle. end all who are inter
ested II tee welfare bureau OF Whitman
tic 70 meet al her home Wednesday at
ternoon Deb. s. TO sew for needy W.ll:-
mantic children.
At a recent meeting Of the Good VIII
Circle the members voted SO for ma
| terial to make clothing for the welfare
bureau. The treasurer reported that th4
circle has contributed $40 toward the
| missionary apportionmert Of the churcn
Norwich bulletin., 1922-02-07
SToNINGToN

.s-st is understood that Stonington will
nave a village blacksmith who will open
the old Landmark the Hyde Shop. Mr..
Su1Ren OF Mystic will be IN charge and
repairs have been made TO the building.
rnis ueed to be 3 rendezvous for the old
e. men who would gather and tell stories
oy. the flaming forge" but it has been
e,ossd foy q long time. Mystic being the
aeareet place OF late for people to have
aoTses sired
Ranpei Rodericiz. Jr..- had. one finger
cut at the tip. while at work at the, At
sood plant Saturday.
Mrs.. Ohio Sullivan, of Willimantic,
sent the Weekend az the guest OF Nj.
a. 1 MIS-, Peter Flynn and family.
EEr. and Mrs. William Scrtbner, Jr., OF
New York are guests Of M. scribner'a
parents heTe. ft
CHARLES H. Cowaz Of the Atwood Man
cfacturing Co, is Ill at his homo on Wa
ee-. street.
Kenneth Barber 0, stoaington; spent
irs Weekend with his parents at Hope
Valley. :
Attorney and Mrs. Irving Kernpner o:
View York, have purchased land al
Lo-d's Point where they viii erect an
S@aer cottage.
The High School Teachers Sewing
ciIi5 met Monday evening with Miss
Margaret Clarity. Refreshments were
served.
George Gilmore will start work wed.
1eSday with Swift & Co., at their Provi
Geuce branch.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-02-07
NIANTE

Seve-a. members OF Bay View lodge,
= F. and A-.M., 1notoTed to Hartford
AID attended sessions OK the grand
.odge
Miss Gertrude Stuart Is employed IN
New London.
2Er. and Mrs. Ernest Brewer and chill
osea. Vivian and Shirley, have returned
.roTr visit to their former home In
South Manchester.
Mrs. George Goss has returned to her
como n New London after visiting Misc
EYs Potter ~.
M. and AIRS. Charles r. Tuoos were
listing II Hartford recently.
4dorris Howard has left the employ
q George Sheflot and Is working for
= brush company OF Hartford.
J. Hull Manwaring has returned from
atrip TO Sidney, n. S.
James A. Stevens has gone to his
ASESe IT. Brooklyn. ~ T., after visit
. his cottage at Saunders Grove.
IL II. BasSett OF Hartford is at his
cottage at the Point
There Is considerable interest in the
sowing at the alleys. The checker
tournament Is causing interest at the
c.lo.
". e WOODSTOCK Of Clinton was 81,
tfse village recently on business.
Homer W DorMan OF Hartford was
y recent guest OF his parents, Mr.. and
1-rs. w. H. DorInan OF Pine Grove.
Mrs. Louise Fortier OF Pine Grove has
Ysrchased q shop IN New London.