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Evening star., 1922-04-11
NATURE GUIDES PROVIDED.
National Park Service Finds That
They Are Popular.

Free nature guides. who will point
out. the riany attractive natural fea-
lures 'fn- the national parks, are now
furnished for visitors to the parks.
according to the national park. serv-
ice.
The nature guide service. which is
free, was begun first in Yosemite Ma
tional Park in 1920, and proved very
popular. This year the guide service
will be available in Yosemite and
Yellowstone national parks. and will
be installed for the first time in
Glacier National Park.
+ The nature guides give lectures and
campfire talks and conduct visitors
on nature study field excursions.
Evening star., 1922-04-11
MAIL ORDER HOUSE SOLD,

CHICAGO. April 1.-Purchase of the
Leonard Morton mail order house Of
Chicago by the Cooperative Society of
America was announced yesterday. APP
proximately s75O,00O was paid for the
business and plant. The operation Of
retail stores in Chicago and elsewhere
will be discontinued and the entire busi-
ness Of the society handled through the
mail order system it was announced.
Evening star., 1922-04-11
Often the Case.

From the Boston Transcript.
"On first sight Jack thought Edith
a vision"
"And on second sight?"
His thought underwent revision y
Evening star., 1922-04-11
TRANSFER CAPT. LOUGHLIN.

Capt Charles c. Loughlin. infantry, at
Camp Meade, Md. has been assigned to
the Sd Tank Company. at Camp Lewis.
Wash.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-14
Screen Miracles

~ VERY now and then we say, right
out, that we wish we knew HOW
they did THAT-when some movie
actor goes up a tremendous height Of fac
tory chimney; or jumps his horse over a
fence that palpably is eight feet high;
when a battleship is blown up, or a snow
scene sandwiched in a drama "shot" in
the summer time.
Well, it's not so hard-if you get the
cameras viewpoint. That is what most
of it is, after all-the cameras viewpoint.
That's what YOU see, you see.
Here's a leading man that evidently (if
you know anything about it) is no great
shakes of a horseman, yet he takes" a
tall fence that you would swear was eight
feet high. AS a matter of fact, the fence
is two feet high, and the camera is shooting
up from hole in the ground, deep enough
to get the effect.
Here's a long-range shot Of a man jump
ing overheard from a ship, and an instant
later a closeup of him in the water. Watch
closely-was the water rough or smooth,
and did it correspond in both cases? For
the first picture was the sea, and the
second probably was in a tank in the
studio.
Here we see the Grand Canyon in all
it's grandeur with flashes of horsemen
galloping along it's precipitous defiles and
slopes-but the Grand Canyon in the first
shot was model less than two feet square!
Do you by any chance remember that
remarkable scene of the ancient and glori-
Gus city of Babylon in the moonlight, over
which Tully Marshall as the High Priest
looked out gloatingly through a window
in the temple?
That was one of the big scenes in elm
tolerance" and people wondered where
that wonderful city was found, or how it
could have been erected for that film, even
with all the money said to have been spent
on it.
The Babylon" over which Tully Marshall
gloated was about six feet square, a dainty
model of city in white plaster.
Salt makes good snow scenes, and salt
is cheap. Glycerine tears photograph bet
ter than real ones, which run too rapidly
battleship of cardboard can be blown
up inexpensively with fire-cracker, and
il the camera is close enough and the
focus arranged properly it looks shockingly
real.
And the actor climbing swiftly up tall
chimney?
That really is too easy-for the chimney
is lying flat on the ground, and the camera
is shot from either end, according to the
view desired.
There is much talk about the Iimita-
lions OF the camera. The limitations are
few.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-14
The Averaqe Man
IVES of great men all remind us (says
the Rochester Demncrat and Chrnn

IVES of great men all remind us (says
the Rochester Democrat and Chron-
icle) that when they die they have
biographies and eulogies and editorials
written about them. And other things, and
epitaphs
Thus we learn that George Washington
chopped down cherry tree in his fathers
backyard and admitted the same; and from
that possibly fictitious date onward we have
the Father of our Country chronicled to the
last act and speech of his public career.
So also with Lincoln and Roosevelt and
Caesar and Socrates and Alexander and Ma
poleon. And John l.. Sullivan. And others.
They all have their Boswells-the great
men.
When the average man dies, now, he gets
notice in the obituary column and a
small tombstone with an inconspicuous leg
end to the effect that this man was born
and died-not much else. A dubious tribute,
seeing that the most inconsiderable of. ami
malculae go through much the same process
Yet it is just as we'll to remember that it
IS the average man who makes the world
go round, despite the small quantity of
printers ink and the inconsiderable acreage
OF paper used on his recapitulation He is
an humble figure, yet not without dignity
like the unknown soldier, the average man
has done his bit for the cause Of civilization
He>is not without his titles, at that-the
average man.
He has been called mute, inglorious Mil
ton; colorless, unknown Rembrandt; an
unmilitant, untried Caesar; speechless. in
eloquent Patrick Henry; practical, unphilo-
sophie Plato.
He also has been called many other things,
not at all complimentary.
And there he is, the average man. Who
is he? difficult question. He is subject
to classif1cation-of a kind He is not so
much this or that as he is neither this nor
that. He is neither very great nor very low;
neither fabulously rich nor shockingly poor;
neither supernaturally good nor so bad as to
get his name on the front page of the papers
He IS neither wise nor wholly stupid; he is
neither beautiful nor so homely that the dogs
bark as he halts by them.
He is, in fine, the average man. He does
not close his eyes in death upon vast and
canopied bed of state, mourned by kneeing
throngs, with press services dsputing the
exact instant of his passing. nor does he pro-
coed to his ultimate reward from the close
and treacherous embraces of the electric
chair.
And at the worst, the average man is en-
titled to this mild but sincere encomium: He
is no space-grabber in the newspapers.
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airy some day. and that's about all. You'd
make fortune if you were stuck down on
barren rock with nobody but the fish to
trade with. Jimmie might stump his toe
against gold mine, and he would never see
it until the other fellow got it. l didn't fall
in love with him because of his financial
acumens I love him for his sweetness. his
tenderness, and just because he's Jimmie
Besides, l am not mother l am no more
in her class than Jimmie is in yours.
Mother was poor girl, who hadthad to work
hard AM scrimp and save all of her life. she
had been brought up to cook, and sew, and
squeeze every nickel. She had never had
anything. 1t was no hardship for her to do
without the things that l would be perfectly
miserable without. 1t was no labor to her
to do the work that would wear me to skin
and bone.
"You have made me what am, Dad. The
responsibility is yours. The fault is yours.
You have made me soft. You have cult1vaf-
ed champagne tastes in me, and it is up to
you to crafty them.
"You haven't fitted me to be poor man S
wife, You have made me so dependent on
luxury that would be utterly wretched II
had to do without all the comforts that mon
ey buys, and having made automobiles, and
servants to wait upon me, and fine clothes
necessities to me, you haven't got right to
expect the man l marry to provide me with
them.
"You are asking him to foot the bill for
your mistake. because it is mistake to bring
up girl to be idle, and pleasure loving, and
self-indulgent. It isn't my fault that [ was
reared that way. The pleasure you got out
Of your money was in buying things for me,
and in indulgent me. You loved my en-
thusiasm over travel. You loved my excite
ment over new car. You INDUCED yourself
in INDUCING me, and now you want to stop
it all suddenly, and say that 1 must choose
between the kind of life to which 1 am &C
customed and the man I love.
Glow can I choose? And why should
choose between them? I say that it isn't
fair. 1t isn't fair to me, and it isn't fair to
Jimmie. 1t isn't fair to me, because you had
no right to cultivate luxurious tastes and
habits in me unless you are going to give
me the means to crafty them And 1t isn't
right to Jimmie because it is a crime for
parents to dump a worthless, extravagant
girl on any poor young man"
"But every man ought to support his own
wife, says the father, land I won't take
care of son-in-law."
"Do you want me to be a broken-hearted
old maid?'' demands the girl.
mo" says the father.
"Well then" says the girl "come
across!"
But the father won't What do you think
he should do?
Copyright, 1922, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Inc)
Dorothy Dix's articles appear in this pa
per every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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quittals, the first probable cause of 1t is a
public dislike of the penalty.
"The spectacle of man fighting for his
life appeals strongly to the sentimental
character of our people, and at every MUIR
der trial the newspapers and the pubic
abound in such statements as He is making
"a fine fight for his life!'
Crime is also undoubtedly greatly encour-
aged in this country by the practice of bond
ing criminals and by the long waits that oc-
cur before cases ale brought to trial Ac-
cording to Commissioner Enright of the New
York police department. the ease with which
criminals obtain bail is one of the greatest
evils the police must contend with. He
cites the case of a man who was arrested
three times during the past year and every
time had his bail ready.
"All three cases. he said, "were awaiting
trial against him. A few weeks ago we
again caught him red-handed at hold-up
trick. Somewhat surprised. l asked him
what he was up to, trying another trick
while out on bail in three cases. His answer
was that he needed the money to pay his
bail bonds and his lawyer"
Hoard Gains for Bail
1t is this experienced type of criminal
who "knows the ropes. who is playing the
most conspicuous role in the crime wave.
The first offender, who has yet to learn the
power of what the crooks call "fall money"
is unable to obtain bond and has to re-
main in Jail. AS the law provides that those
held in Jail must be tried first, his case soon
comes up for trial, and it is well known in
the criminal world that speedy trial means
a harsh sentence.
When the first offender comes out of pris-
on after having served his term he knows
this. Hence, his first act is "to pull another
job that will bring in enough money for
bail in case he is again arrested.
Every clever crook always has this fall
money slowed away to provide his bail bond
whenever he needs it," Commissioner En-
right says. ''The old-timer would no more
think of touching that money than of flying,
even if he were starving. That money, or
possibly the amount may be in Jewels Is
often deposited long before "a trick is pull
ed Then if the crook falls as they call
it, he has his bail instantly at hand"
Commissioner Enright does not believe
prohibition has had any effect upon the in
crease in crime. Neither does he believe
that it can be cut down by arming the police
with gas bombs and airplanes. The New
York police have never been more efficiently
armed than at present, and there has never
been higher mortality rate in the service.
The great remedy lies in speeding up the
procedure by which the crook is removed
from private life irto prison.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-14

| A RICH man has an only child. A daugh-
| N ter. She has been petted and pam
| pered. In all of her life she has never
had single desire ungratiied until now
Now she has fallen in love with poor
young man. He is fine upright chap, but
his salary wouldnt keep the girl in shoes of
| the kind she has danced about in ever since
she was born. The young chap is energetic,
and industrious, and is as capable as the
| general run Of youngsters, but he shows
none of the ear marks Of those impecunious
heroes in novels who jimmy the door of OPP
portunity, and break into fortunes, that
! they may marry Miss Million Bucks in the
last chapter, and give her fortune larger
| than the one she was ready to cast aside
| for his sake.
| Now this particular GIRL being as practical
and hard boiled as the modern young girl is,
| wants to have her cake and eat it too. The
love in a cottage and ride on the street car
| thing, doesn't make the slightest appeal to
| her. She loves her poor sweetheart, and
| she doesn't propose to give him up, but she
| likewise has deep and abiding affection for
a luxurious home, and imported frocks, and
a limousine, and she doesn't mean to give
| them up either.
She wants to marry and have her father
support her and her husband in the style in
which she has been accustomed to live. Her
| father says that he is perfectly willing to
support her, but he'll be blessed if he sup
ports any able-bodied son-in-law. To this the
girl retoftS, What are you going to do with
your money except to give it to me-? I am
everything you've got in the world. What
are a few dollars compared with making me
happy?
cam to give up the men I love, and break
my heart because he is poor? When you
have dozen servants would you be willing
to see mo shaving over a cooking stove and
wash tubs? All of my life I have had the
most beautiful clothes. Could you bear to
see me shabby, with wornout shoes and
mended gloves? I have never had to count
what I spent. Could you be happy knowing
that I was haggling with butchers over a
leg of mutton, and dreading the coming
around of rent day?
That's what would happen if I married
Jimmie now. If wait until Jimmie is able
to support me even in fair comfort, 1t will
be years, and years, and years before we can
marry. All of my youth will be gone. All
of my romance will be dimmed. I will have
eaten my heart out a thousand times in
longing, and will have missed the greatest
thing that life can give anybody. And that
is the glory, and the rapture, the thrill and
the romance Of young love-"
Your mother and I married on less than
Jimmie makes" says the father.
True" responds the girl. "But Jimmie
isn't you, for one thing, The talent for MAX
ing money is just as much special gift as
tenor voice, or the genius for painting or
writing. Jimmie is industrious and he works
faithfully and he'll make moderate sal
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-14
The Gentle Anesthet;c

~-yHAT is said to be an alarming per-
M centage' of patients needing oper-
atoms are deferred by fear OF an
esthesia, and doubtless many such patients
never overcome that dread sufficiently to
undergo the operation indicated, and have
to struggle along without it, in wretched
health, if not in positive danger.
Considering hospital anesthesia, admins
tered by an expert, the percentage Of ia
tally from the anesthetic has faded out to
where it is practically negligible-a percent
age of one in so many thousands that the ele-
ment of chance really should not be discuss
ed in that connection.
The trained anesthetist, in fact, leaves
nothing to chance. This branch of medicine,
which had its inception with our own famous
Georgian, DR.. Crawford w. Long, is COM
paratively young, and it is no wonder that
people still regard it, crudely, as taking
chloroform."
AS matter of fact, chloroform today is
about the last anesthetic chosen. Now there
are other agents, perfectly effective, and in
fnitely safer than chloroform, which is it.
self safe enough, when properly admins
tered
In the old "chloroform' days there was
little bodily preparation of a patient for the
administration of an anesthetic, and no men,
tai preparation. Nowadays, the type of anes-
thetic and it's method OF administration IS
carefully CHOSEN WIFI T0l0f0uC0 W IAS pa
tient, his condition, and the type of opera
ton His bodily welfare is protected by diet,
to put him in condition, and his mental at
titude is guarded by advice, and if necessary
by certain medication.
Many man or woman approaches an
operation, or shirks one, with fear that the
heart is weak"-a notion entertained by a
surprising number Of people who have suf-
fered from indigestion in such forms as
apparently affect that organ. 49,.
One well-known doctors advice is:
eff you are in good hands, do not worry
about your heart The heart that lets you
lead your ordinary life is one that will car
ry you safely through any properly managed
anesthesia."
Other people dread losing consciousness.
ST am afraid to lose myself, they protest
But let them reflect that they close them
selves every night of their lives if they go
to sleep. The Inconsistencies of sound,
healthful slumber, is not far removed from
the sleep of anesthesia.
Not so long ago patients were taken into
the operating room and there anesthetized
mot before they had seen the cases of in
struments, and many Of the preparations for
the ordeal. Now it is customary to trundle
the recumbent patient into a pleasant little
antheroom within thing in the least sugges-
tive of surgery about it, and there weight
down the eyelids with the gentle anesthetic
best suited to the case and the work in
hand-the greatest the most beneficent
boon that all the art of healing yet has
brought to humankind.
And when he wakes up, he is back in his
own little bed-and it's all over.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-14
JOANNA'S BOX
By DR.. Frank Crane

Joanna Southcott was born in 1850. She
went about Scotland as sort of evangelist
She was venerated as a prophecies.
When she died in December, 1914, she
took with her in the tomb little box con-
tanning, according to her last will and tesla
ment, a prediction.
This prediction, she declared, was of such
a nature as would save, not only England
but also the whole world from a terrible
disaster
Her will provided that the box should not
be opened until after a hundred years
In December, 1914, the box ought to have
been opened. But the war came along and
people had something else to think of.
Now, however, her memory is being re-
vived in a curious manner.
A wave Of mysticism is spreading over the
little Scotch fishing village of Cairnburg
which is now being called the Village of the
Saints
From this hamlet number of people are
going out through the country demanding
the opening of Joanna's Box, exhorting the
people to penitence and announcing the
coming of the end Of the world. They are
making new converts with rapidity.
If there was anything in Joanna's Box that
could have prevented the people of the earth
from making monumental asses of them
selves it ought to have been opened before
the Kaiser began his fatal activities.
It is greatly to be feared, however, that
all the power Of the Box abides in its mys-
terry. Once we find out what is in it, 1t will
probably turn out as commonplace as any
prediction of Mother Shipman.
For it is the unknown which exercises the
greatest power over the human mind No
great disclosure was ever as interesting as
great secret.
No yelled prophecy of the past was ever
so important as the things that have taken
place unprophesied. Such, for instance, as
the invention of the steam engine, the tele-
phone, and the airplane.
These discoveries, however, we trample
under foot as soon as they become actual
For things lose their power of amazement
when they become known.
If you tell person that you have some
bad news for him, it gives him more of a
sinking feeling Of dismay than if you would
plump out your information.
1t is the unknown at which we tremble.
The witches and wizards the soothsayers
and dealers in dark predictions, have a hold
on the human mind that no scientist or in
ventor can ever hope to possess.
Most Of our worries and troubles are en-
tirely due to the hynotic terrors of the un-
known.
One wise old man said on his death bed
81 have seen many troubles in my lifetime
but most Of them never happened
When we are children we are afraid OF
the dark And when we grow up we are not
much better. For most of the fear Of the
world is nothing but fear of the dark.
"Men fear DEATH" said Francie Bacon, Gas
children fear to go in the dark; and as that
natural fear in children is increased with
tales so is the other
Copyright, 1922. by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-14
SMILE A WHILE

stefansson says it is never colder than six
ty below in the Arctic. Janitors must suffer
from the heat.
The female with the specie is more deadly
than the male.
''Who wants this bonus?" crates senator.
Their name is Legion.
The first sign Of spring is seed catalogs.
Eggs are feeling so cheap they hate to go
with their old friend ham.
There is a scarcity of ex-boot-leggers.
Lots Of men wish they had good home
so they could mortgage it and buy car.
Chicago ships hams and grand opera sing
ers to all parts of the world.
An Indiana woman was fined 5000 for
shooting at her husband. And, no doubt, her
husband paid it.
Some birds in the big league are not
worth two in the bush.
Summer is coming and we'll see what the
girls have up their sleeves
Health hint: These days you had better not
invite anybody to dinner unless you want
him.
politician who keeps his ear to the
ground gets it full of dirt.
Our latest fake yellow peril is synthetic
gold. .--.-.4.
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w rrsss Of ssn Francisco. so' Mr. c.
Hutchinson raises the interesting
question whether pomposity In business is
profitable or Improbable.
The hectic activities of American business
during the war undoubtedly gave rise to a
good many forms of pomposty with which
business men surrounded themselves 1t be-
came quite the fashion for business man,
having any )rt of dealings with the govern
ment in relation to the war, to inform his
callers through the medium of an office boy
or stenographer that he was Gin conference -
Many amusing anecdotes have been told of
merchants, manufacturers and others who lost
desirable ORDERS after the war, y failing to
receive customers who were waiting in their
ante-rooms!
Cor .enting on the article by Mr.. Hutchin-
SON, the Literary Digest remarks that the
head of small corporation often puts on
more airs than the really big executive, an
observation that will be confirmed by any
one who has had experience in calling on bus
mess executives.
Newspaper men lay it down as a rule that
the bigger the men they deal with, the simpler
they find them in manner and the easier of
approach. The rule holds good with regard
to men in public position, as we'll as In DUST
ness. 1t is almost invariably true that the
higher a mans place in government, in
finance, in law some other calling, the more
direct and simple and satisfactory his method
of treating those who call upon him.
Bank officials long since emerged from iso-
lation and placed themselves in direct access
to the public, that usually the easiest man
to reach in a bank is the president, seated at
desk behind a low railing.
Some of the most successful business execu-
tives in all lines have done away with the for
mality of inner offices, bumper secretaries
pompous office boys, and similar irritations;
and have placed themselves on the very outer
I,o;,, HI ich,, aoo6
caller personally, letting the waiting line
operate itself automatically, as one after
another is disposed of.
Americans are peculiarly a democratic peo
pie. There is nothing a real American sc
much admires as plain, straightforward meth
DDS. A business man who puts on the few
est airs is usually the best liked by those hay
ing dealings with him.