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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-24

TIME president Of a big commercial col
lege recently made the statement that
every girl should have had five years
experience in business life before she gets
married.
So l have said, many a time and oft
Pessmists are always wailing out that the
home is a vanishing institution because girls
are going into offices instead of the kitchen,
but in reality there is no other preparation
for marriage that so fits girl for it as hav-
ing held down a good job for e few years.
In the first place it gives a girl discipline
that she get in no other way Very few
mothers have the brains and the backbone
to cope with their daughters little peculiari-
ties of disposition. They let Mamie grow
up morbid, and so representative that her
feelings are scattered all over the place, and
you have to walk as if on eggs to keep from
treading on them. They let Sally develop
into weeper who dissolves in tears at
every criticism. They permit Fannie to give
uncontrolled rein to her temper like a fish
wife. Maud is actually encouraged in being
one of the temperamental creatures who
must be handled with gloves, while laziness
and never being on time and sloppiness are
condoned in Hilda because they are Hilda S
ways.
Now, when Mamie, and Sally, and Fannie,
and Maude, and Hilda get married and in
ject into the home circle the faults and
weaknesses of which nobody has tried to
cure them, it makes for storm and strife
instead of peace and happiness. Further
more, if the men to whom they are married
are rash enough to attempt to give them the
discipline their mother should have given
them it leads to the divorce court, for there
is one thing that no self-respecting wife will
stand, and that is to have husband cor
rect her.
But in the business world she must either
submit to discipline, or get out Her faults
are corrected by a ruthless hand that takes
no account of her feelings. Her sensitive
ness is cured by finding. out that she is so
insignificant that no one notices her. She
learns to keep back her tears, and control
her temper by losing a few jobs. She &C
quires order and promptness and system be-
cause her pay envelope depends on her pos
sessing these merits.
y The woman who has been in business
makes a better wife than a purely domestic
woman, because she has had to submit to
discipline and to learn how not to take a
personal view Of everything. Also, because
having worked side by side with men, she
understands them better and is better fitted
to sympathiZe with them. .'
She knows from experience how hard
every dollar is earned, and she does not
waste her husbands money She knows
that the possession of even a little money
opens the door of opportunity to man, and
so she sympathizes with her husbands am
bition to save. She knows the awful nerve.
wearing strain of business that leaves a
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-24
ANDREW AND IMOGENE-By Roe Fu1kerson

happy results without delving into the
causes from which they arise.
eff nature did not make you as sweet and
pretty as you. look tonight and you got busy
and did it yourself, then you deserve all the
more credit and l am all the more proud or
you You look good to me.
II am satisfied with you so you should be
satisfied with yourself. If 1 have croquette
with a scattering Of green peas around 1t
and a sprig Of parsley on the side 1T adds
nothing to it to know that, save for its
conical shape and French name, it is hash
pure and simple.
''If the food is little scarce on the table,
and you can fill it up with silver, glass and
china and make me think l am at banquet.
am just as well satisfied.
''They say because woman is weak physt-
cally, nature made her deceiver, so she
could obtain by deception what she could
never take by force.
''If this be true, go to IT, Charm the coin
out of my pocket charm the compliments out
of my mouth. charm this stomach of mine
into thinking 1t is full when it Is on half
rations. but for the love of your sex. for the
sake of your husbands happiness, don't pull
the things to pieces and show me how the
wheels go round. had intended to kiss you
you look so pretty, but now that you protest
that your complexion Is hand made | am
afraid" ..- &c..
ut won't rub off," said Imogene happily
standing up tip-toe in front of him, expectant
ly.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-24
THE BOORlSH
By H. Addington Bruce

TT is great personal handicap to be bore.
It is equally a personal handicap to be a
- boor. Both boreS and Doors repel other people
from them. More than this, people make it
point to avoid boreS and Doors.
They flee the former to protect their minds
from needless fatigue. They give the latter
wide berth to avoid needless injury to their
feelings.
That is the great defect of the boorish.
No matter how well-intentioned they may be,
they are forever saying or doing something to
wound the susceptibilities of others. They
annoy and they aggrieve. Thus they create
against themselves prejudces which, after all,
are never without foundation.
For it is a saying, which none OF us can
keep too firmly in remembrance, that manners
constitute printed page on which peopis read
what the person is inside.
Of course, manners, like many printed
page, may be used to conceal the truth But
when. as in the case of the boorish, the man
ners are distinctly unpleasant there can be no
question as to the inside having some dis
agreeable characteristics.
At the very best the booriSh are so Seit-cen-
tered as to be deplorably lacking in social con-
sciousness Had they a proper sense OF what
thew owe to their fellow men they could not
possibly go round treading on the psychic cornS
of everybody they meet.
By their boorishneSs they proclaim, as surely
as though they shouted it from the housetops:
''You are nothing to me. Nobody except my
self is much Of anything to me-"
Can people possibly sympathize with any one
so self-ce1tered at this? Can they possibly en-
ioy entering into social or business relation
ships with such one? Mo- without reason is
it remarked by a shrewd student of the pSycho-
ogy of success:
"Owing to that spirit of self-reliance and self
assertion and that contempt for the forms and
conventionalitieS of life, which our young men
are trained to cherish they are too apt to de-
! Spise these delicate attentions, those exquisite
i tendernesSes of thought and manner, that mark
the true gentleman.
| "Yet history is crowded with examples show
| ing that it is the bearing of man toward his
fellow which oftentimes, more than any other
| circumstances, promotes or obstructS his ad-
Vancement in life.
"We may complain, If we will, that our fell
| low men care more for form than substance,
for the superfices than the solid contents of a
man. But the fact remains, and 1t is the clue
to many of the seeming anomalies and freaks
of fortune which surprise us in the matter of
worldly prosperity"
Such complaint, moreover, as stated above,
could not justly be made by the boorish them
selves. For\ their boorishnesS is essentially a
self-reveation.
And not until the man who is booriSh-rude,
overbearing, uncouth-awakens TO an apprecia-
ton of the inner defects his booriShneSS be-
trays can he undertake the work of Self-im-
provement which he must undertake if he
would make real Roadway in his chosen calling.
| Copyright, 1922, by The Associated Newspa-
perS)
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Toe Replaces Thumb

-HE tremendous impetus given plastic
surgery by the wounds of soldiers in
- the World wa. has not abated since
the war, points out the Literary Digest.
Recently two Frtnch surgeons, Dr. Payer
and DR.. Lambert, have successfully removed
the big toe of boy fourteen years old ana
ltransplanted it in place|of his right thumb
which was cut off in a gearing.
Most remarkable operations were per-
formed during the war to erstore lost mem
bers and facial features. Surgeons succeed
ed in replacing ears, noses, lips ana some
times even chins, with such purprlslng pre-
cision that the soldiers ruined face was re-
stored.
Replacing the thumb has always been
far more difficult than replacing finger,
because of the thumbs special position en-
abling it to oppose" any finger, forming
the grip of the hand.
The two french surgeons seem to have
successfully performed the operation. After
a lapse Of seven months the boys right hand
is entirely curtd and almost completely nor
NAL in it's function, as well as satisfactory
from the standpoint of appearance.
'The chief difficulty in performing the
operation" quotes the Digest from French
medical journal, was the TACT that the
wounded boy was obliged to maintain very
awkward position for two weeks, during
which time his hand was necessarily bound
in position against the great toe. Such a
position involved, of course, good deal of
strain even upon a slim and supply youth.
1t would be almost insupportable to an old
person. But in the present case the results
are more than worth I'll the pain and tedium
suffered by the patient for the wounded boy
is now capable of using his new tot-thumb
to hold pen to write legibly. Likewise, he
is able to grasp anu hold, palm downward,
a weight or more than two pounds This
reconstructed member is not only hus capa-
BILE, so far as muscular power is concerned,
but it is quite normal so far as pain and to
cold. 1t is VT, however, non-sensitive to
heat. On the whole, the operation must be
considered as one of the most brilliant recent
triumphs of practical surgery"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-24

WY ASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 20.-That
wv the airplane, together with some Of
the instruments for the use of poison
gas and liquid fame, may be successfully
used against insects, which are mans worst
enemies, next to himself, seems to be indi-
Gated by experiments which have been con-
Quoted here and there.
The most successful experiment, and
that upon which most Of the high hopes
seem to be based, was the spraying of a
grove of ornamental trees in Ohio from an
airplane, which completely destroyed the
caterpillars infesting the trees at a single
flight. The, material used was calcium
arsenate, carried in a hopper below the
plane. AS the machine passed over the trees
it heavily busted with the poisonous mate
rial belt of land 900 feet wide. It is re-
ported that SO per cent Of the caterpillars
were killed and that the ground, after the
attack, was literally covered with the dead.
Now the Department Of Agriculture is at
work on a plan for the use of the airplane
in fighting it's ancient enemy, the boil
weevil. Millions have already been spent
by the government in its fight on the weevil,
and millions have been lost by reason of
the fact that the boil weevil has not been
destroyed. The boil weevil has for genera
tions literally been eating the shirts off our
backs and tires off our cars-for cotton as
much as rubber is the basis of tire con-
struction.
The Weevil Army ....
The problem of fighting the boil weevil
would seem to be in some respects much
like that of checking an army. The boil
weevil advances slowly along an immense
front. The difficulty is to cover that whole
front at one time, SO as to check the ad-
vance effectively. Presumably, IL the ad-
vance could be checked, the enemy could be
destroyed, but graduating the weevik here
and there does no permanent good, If he is
k spreading in other places. Thus the gov
army in the field to check the weevil all
spraying. The individual planter does what
and the fuctuating price Of cotton, he often
lacks the funds to do the work. One planter
may spend SIS an acre in intensive spray
ing, and clean the boil weevil out of his
farm. But his neighbor may be a poor
tenant farmer who cannot afford to spend
even the S6 an acre which is necessary if
any crop is to be made at all. So the
weevil, checked at one place, advances at
another.
The plan sketched out by the government
calls for series of airplane stations reach
ing clear across the cotton belt on the boil
weevil front. When you realize that sim
gle plane flying across this front might
destroy the weevtl completely over swath
900 feet wide, and when you reflect how
much time and how many men 1t would
take to do the same work by hand, you get
some idea of the possibilities Of the new
method. But it has it's difficulties, too. The
spraying, to be effective must be done at
night when the dew Is on the plant 1t
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-24
THE CRUELTY OF THE PAST
By DR.. Frank Crane

Copyright 1922, by Frank Crane)
There is no doubt but that there is a great
deal Of cruelty in the world.
Behind all the clamorous charges that
make up the literature of protest, there is
some truth. We would not deny for a mo-
ment that there are intolerant majorities,
tyrannical rulers heartless employers, and
other oppressors, individual, and official.
Heaven knows the world is bad enough.
But we can get one little crumb of COM
fort from rejecting that it has been a good
deal worse.
These thoughts are started up by the re-
cent remarkable archaeological discoveries
that have been made in Asia Minor and the
Sudan.
These show that a high state of ciyliza-
ton existed several thousand years ago. The
Babylonians anticipated many of our in
ventions. !
Most of this old world life has been reveal
ed to us during the last eighty years. Re-
Gently The Daily Mail, of London, called at
tention to the fact that it was only some sew
enty years ago that great English scholar,
Grote, insisted that before 700 B. c. the art
of writing was unknown. Modern arch
aeology, however, has demonstrated that we
have written inscriptions in the stones of
the Cretan palaces which must have been
built at least thousand years before the
date given by Grote, although as yet many
of them cannot be read.
Zone fact" says The Daily Mall, Stands
out from the monuments and records of this
ancient culture. 1t was extraordinarily
cruel, with savagery not surpassed until
the days Of the Bolshevist torture chambers
in Russia 1t killed human beings as merci-
Iessly as if they had been flies The burial
of hundreds of miserable servants alive to
accompany Egyptian dignitaries into the
next world is now proved to have been a
custom at one period Yet the Egyptians were
among the most humane of the ancients."
This is but in line with what any school
boy knows about that section of ancient his
tory which lies more open to the light Of
literature
We know that the republic of the ancient
Greeks composed Of freemen only to a
limited degree, as probably the majority Of
the human beings there were helots or
slaves.
We know of the cruelty of Rome in the
days of it's highest culture; we know of its
gladiatorial games and the merciless hands
of it's rulers.
We know of the horror of the middle ages,
it's prosecutions for heresy, its judicial
torture, and it's many fantastic and revolt
ing forms of the death penalty.
And we also know that Greece, Rome, and
the Medieval church, bad as they were,
were better than the dark world that sur
rounded them.
And, knowing all this we have a pretty
fair reason for believing that the world is
getting better.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-24
OUIPS AND QUlDDITIES

The morning faded into afternoon which
in turn. was Swallowed by the coming of the
moved not, save to readjust his bait He had
been there for weary hours. when a friend
CHANGED to stroll along the river bank.
"Halloa, George!" he cried. "How many
have you got?"
George looked up rather vacantly ana re-
piled: when 1 get the one I'm after and
four more I shall have five"
I "Have you heard sptnem's latest fishing
yarn?"
don't want to hear it,
why not?"
because Spinem hasn't even spea king
acquaintance with the truth. He couldn't de-
scribe smallpox epidemic without making
you think it was something you'd hate to
missi"
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-24
Jail De Luxe

Charles N. Cummings, wealthy Federal
prisoner serving sentence at the county jail
of Middletown, Conn, in lieu OF the Federal
penitentiary at Atlanta. Ga. is being fed on
roast duck, oyster cocktails and all the deli
cacies of the season at the expense OF biz
relatives
GH.vr prisoners the Jdf4 prunL by the
arrangement to the extent that they are per-
mtted to smell the food. Cummings FREE
quently passes cigars to them.
Cummings was proprietor of the Rustic
Inn at Guilford, which was a sumptuousy
furnished tea room. much patronized by au-
tomobfle parties en- route from New York
over the Old Boston Road to the Hub. He was
convicted of liquor violations.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-24

''Why have women no mustaches?" lee
lures a Detroit woman. Nobody ever saw
grass grow on a race track" retorts the
Americas Times decentralization Gazette.
The explanation is accepted without COM
ment.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-24

| An irascibie bridegroom Of seventy-three,
marrying his third wife, went into the YES
try to sign the register. -
After several fruitless attempts to make
a mark on the paper, he turned to the clerk
and said: This is the second or third time
you've played me this trick! Next time
shall bring my own pen"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-24
Fat Hosbita1;ty-or Fatuous9

THE nearly traditional receptivity accord
ed foreign celebrities and commenta-
tors, especially the men Of letters, is
made the topic of a somewhat embttered let
ter by &c F. B." to The New York Tribune,
He evidently feels that our hospitality is
more than whit too eager and too elastic.
He writes Humility is hardly too strong
term wherewith 70 define our attitude A
Chesterton comes over to explode his para
applaud and strive to initiate. Mr.. Wells en-
raptures us with his patronizing tolerance
and admiration. The Walpoles and the Ben
netts examine us gingerly. and Drinkwater,
in a drama, plays pseudo-pranks upon our
mighty dead. Mr.. George eXpounds his views
upon women-illustrated with more orna-
mental quality THAI good taste by the pres
ence of his wife upon the stage-and we first
endure, then welcome then embrace his fog
|gy feministicism. If the conditions were re-
versed, and some much-daring American
should venture a similar brassiness in Eng
land, what, I wonder, would be the effect on
the London public and critics."
"Foggy feministicism" is good. 81. F.
B." does seem lit harsh, however. Still
his hypotheticism-snce he likes that sort
of thing-regarding the foreign attitude to-
ward Similar brassiness" by American
writer's is worth bordering.
Since Mark Twains connecticut Yankee
at King Arthur's Court" the American hasn't
been found with sufficient hardihood to go
over the pond and tell them about them
selves right in their own front yard
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-24
Also Lou Heels

wv 9TH the exotic display of feminine foot
4 w wear the decollete or openwork
Il order may also be seen low, solid
Hooking heels-not always the be-strap-
ped styles.
The walking shoe is with us once more,
!, recognized institution; smart and sensible
and actually designed somewhat on the lines
i,of the human foot. American women no
itlonger are compelled to choose between stills
and the so-called comfort shoe, soft, shape
less and sloppy.
Another benefit is the altered attitude Of
the lordly shoe clerk. He no longer looks
with disdainful pity on the woman who asks
for shoe for walking purposes.
The stills may be had for the asking, how
ever, merely strapped on the foot these days.
China in being allowed to operate her own
poStofficeS faces a new era. When she gets
the stamps. she will at last have something she
can lick-Washington Post.
- 7-<
a. Difference between president" and "Vice
President" is we have 10 babies named Calvin
Coolidge Smith.-Augusta (Ga.) Herald.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-24
Walking Telephone

Every policeman travelling beat in Chi.
cago is to be equipped with a miniature wire
less telephone, a small device to be carried
in the pocket, but by means of which he can
be in communication with headquarters at
any moment.
The patrolman will be able to receive q
message, but he cannot send one. The in
strument which readily can be held in the
hand has receiver. and when properly
tuned in" with headquarters permits the
holder to hear his message distinctly as
from a call box: The receiving antennae will
be placed in the lining Of the policeman's
coat.
The signal that headquarters is calling is
given by buzzing sound, and then the pa
trolman places the receiver to his ear and
gets the message. This gives Headquarters
instant supervision over the entire city Po-
licemen may be dispatched to any spot at
any time without waiting until they report
in" at their patrol boxes
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-24
Airnen Sail

The first detachment of American naval
aviation experts selected to supervise the
construction in Germany Of the rigid airship
authorized by the allied council for the
United States will sail January z6 probably
from New York.
Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lans-
downe. who has been detailed as assistant
naval attache to Berlin will have charge Of
the American force. Commander Lansdowne
accompanied the British airship R-34 on her
transatlantic voyage.
Lieutenant Commander George Fulton,
who has been designated by the navy depart
ment to organize bureau of aeronautic in
5pection in Germany, probably will accom-
pany Commander Lansdowne and Lieutenant
R. G. Pennoyer. a survivor of the zR-2 dis
aster is understood to have. been selected as
a member of the party.
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Crime and Public Opinion

THE least romantic, the most repellen'
ching upon our planet is crime Yet,
:,a - +h. u,ah re human life
The National leader., 1922-03-06
NEWBERRY

Editor National Leader: Below is
copy of a letter that sent to Senator
Frank B. Kellogg:
"Dear Sir: Do you think it right
for Truman H. Newberry to hold
seat in the United States senate after
it was proved that he broke the laws
of the United States? Is it just that
he should continue to make laws that
he refused to obey? For me, wish to
say that would rather be in jail with
A. c. Townley than to sit in the senate
with Newberry and his friends, and in
November you will hear from me
again." E. S. HALL.
Randall, MINI. ~
The National leader., 1922-03-06
Answering a Board
Of I rade Apologist
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we live. By a law of nature it shall be
dark when the sun goes down, but we
snap our fingers at this claw" and
have electric lights. -.
All history is the story of mars
successful fight to mitigate and les
sen the harsh effects of natural law.
We defy gravity not only with para
chutes, which Mr.. Boyle didn't think
of, but with airplanes. Nature de-
creed that only birds should fly. But
man is now bird as well as a man.
We have minimum wage laws and
labor unions to protect workmen
against the evil working out of the
law Of competition. ~>
Yet we mustn't monkey with the
law of supply and demand" when we
find it is vicious law for farmers
and does more harm than good The
real reason why we must NOT is not
given by Mr.. Boyle in his pamphlet.
It is not because the law is "sacred,"
as he infers. Not at all. 1t is be-
cause certain men and interests find
it PROFITABLE to them to have the
law of supply and demand in effect.
It gives them profit and us woe. That
is the real reason for pamphlets like
Mr.. Boyle's. . 49,. - .-- .