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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09
OUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

An invalid who had spent long time over
his convaleScence in hospital where he was ex-
tremely comfortable, was warned that soon he
would have to be removed. So he conceived a
plan by which his retention in such pleasant
surroundings could be secured.
While his temperature was being taken and
the nurses attention was conferred on the next
patient, he removed the thermometer from his
mouth and rubbed It hard on his sleeve.
The nurse, returning to him, looked at the
thermometer murmured: "PoOr fellow, and
went to report Later she returned and an
nounced that the patient would have to leave
that day.
"But, nurse" protested the man, Tiny tenn
perature was up again this morning"
In sweet voice, nurse answered: Eyes, that's
right; up to 40. That's why they're moving
you; you're dead"
scenario writer experienced great difficulty
in getting his plots accepted. AS a rule they
were so unintereSting that complete hearing
was seldom granted At last he managed to
persuade weary producer to listen to the
synopsis of his latest play.
Imagine" he began, "nlidnight, all silent as
the grave.
1.-TWO burglars force open the library win
dowS and eventually commence operations on
the safe The clock struck II
(Which one yawned the producer.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09
As Unsafe as-G;bra7tar9"

- OR how many years-how many gener-
ations-have we referred to substan-
~ tial things as being ''as safe as Gibral
tar?" Now are we to have to unsay the
old comparison? The Saturday Review sug
gests it.
The late war, it is said, has taught us,
among other things, that the great fortress
perched on the vast rock overlooking and
supposedly commanding the Strait of Gibral-
tar is not impregnable.
If Spain were hostile, it now is pointed
out long range guns could dominate the stu
alton so far as the dockyard is concerned,
and blow it off the map at leisure.
And then the air attack.
The only effective defense against bomb
ing by aircraft is to set up an aircraft de-
tense. Without an efficient aircraft base
and Gibraltar has none and can arrange none
an enemy with base within hundred
miles could bomb the fine old fortress nightly
to an inevitable doom; and even the enemy
who could slip an aircraft carrier, possibly
submersible-within that radius could do the
same thing.
In the late war the Straits were used freely
by enemy submarines, mainly because defen-
sive aircraft were lacking.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09
VOICE CULTURE
''Bv H. Addington Bruce


w/OU appreciate that good voice Is a per-
Y sonal asset of no small value. You
r. are regretfully aware that your own
voice is not so good as it might be. And you
wish that you could improve It,
Well, you can do much to improve it, even
though you perhaps lack the means or the
opportunity to place yourself under the direc-
ton of a competent voice teacher. There are
certain principles which, if you but faithfully
apply them, should work wonders in the bet
tering of your voice.
Underlying all these principles is a law
formulated years ago by the best voice teach
err have ever known, the late DR.. S. S. Curry,
of Boston:
"The voice is dependent upon the body,
and both voice and body upon the mind"
If your voice is a weak voice, it may be
weak chiefly because you are deficient both
in physical energy and in mental energy. Per-
haps YOU have let yourself become indolent,
perhaps through faulty living habits you have
become more or less run down."
You know, as I do not, the late Of your
health and your energy rate as regards think
ing and doing Take steps to improve your
health if it is in need o. Improvement, train
yourself to be more energetic mentally and
physically. All the while you will find your
voice gaining in strength.
Or it may be that instead Of being too in
ert physically and mentally you are overac-
tive, keeping both mind and body in con-
slant state of tension. In that case your
voice is likely to be, unpleasantly harsh or
shrill.
Learn to relax. Cultivate poise. When
ever you catch yourself hurrying, slow down
Try earnestly to conquer the worrying ten
dency that in all prof ability afflicts you.
In proportion as you do conquer it, in pro-
portion as you free yourself from undue ten
sion and acquire poise, the quality OF your
voice is sure to improve. The improvement
may be so great as to astonish you.
Harshness of voice, again, may result from
athletic mental attitude, from undue absorb
realities.
Even to think habitually in too impersonal
and abstract way may harden the voice Ii
you do think this way-and especially II you
have to admit that you perhaps are deficient
in human sympathy-you need no longer won
der that your voice repels rather than at
tracts people.
And you have the remedy within yourself
| It is wholly matter of becoming more kind
} ly, of broadening out, of cultivating the pre-
cious quality of imagination, and-througn
study, meditation, the reading of good l1tera-
ture. association with people who themselves
see life clearly-of gaining clearer insight into
the meaning and purposes of life.
| Always, remember, the law holds true. 1.-The
voice is dependent upon the body, and both
voice and body upon the mind The finer
the thinking becomes, the better the voice
will become likewise
| Copyright, 1922, by The Associated News
| papers)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09

WELFARE worker was asked the ques-
~ ton whether he thought the state
should assume the parental relation
ship to children. Or, if it should assume that
relation at all, to what extent should it go?
He promptly replied that welfare agencies
for the conservation of child life are cheaper
than jails, reformatories, chaingangs and
prisons Not to mention insane asylums,
schools for the feeble-minded and other re-
lated institutions tracing more or less direct
Iy back to juvenile delinquency.
Recently there was given in the city of
Chicago an interesting demonstration of the
dividends arising from welfare work among
juveniles having little, if any, parental care
On the southwest side of the city was no.
torious resort of the old era known as Pistol
Inn. In the heyday of it's glory it was the &C
knowledged center of ''the valley" where po-
licemen travel in pairs by day and platoons
by night.
year ago Judge Lands closed the place
by injunction for violation of the prohibition
law The Union League bought the old,
liquor-stained and bullet-scarred inn and
transformed it into the headquarters of a
boys club. The organization started with a
substantial enrolment representing eleven
nationalities.
Soon the tough young gutter snipes con-
ceived the idea of presenting a play. They
got an abbreviated edition of Shakespeare
GAS You Like IT, cast the parts, rehearsed
indefatigably for several weeks under anna
teur direction, and gave play whose excel
lence astonished qualified experts who saw it..
In fact, famous actor told the boy who
played Rosalind that his Interpretation was
the most beautiful he had ever seen, and
promptly engaged him. He is now preparing
for a dramatic career.
That single experiment in welfare work
within few weeks revealed genius.
Full many gem Of purest ray serene,
'The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean
bear"
This welfare institution, it is true, was not
| financed or operated by the state, but is a
private institution.
Nevertheless it supports the proposition
! that welfare agencies for the conservation of
| child life are cheaper than jails, reformato-
! ries, chaingangs and prisons.
! If the state can justify the policy of con-
serving plant life, forest life, and animal life,
| both wild and domesticated, certainly it can
afford to invest an equal amount in the con-
| servation of child life
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09

WASHINGTON, D. G. May 5.-Differ-
wv ence of opinion regarding the ad-
visibility of consolidating the rail-
way systems of the United States in &C
cordance with the provisions of the Trans
portation Act is making itself felt. This plan
was devised by Congress, with the aid of ex-
perts, as one of the most feasible solutions
to the American railroad tangle. Senator
Cummins, of Iowa, is one OF the CHIEF cham
pions of the plan and expresses the opinion
that unless the railroad systems are con-
solidated, the nation cannot escape Govern
ment ownership and operation.
The general plan is to consolidate into 20
or 80 main systems the hundreds of rail-
road companies now operating in the United
States. The American railroad system de-
veloped as the result of independent projects
of individuals or small companies. In fact,
the railroad systems that now exist, such as
the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore and Ohio
and the Southern, are nothing more than
consultations of number of smaller lines.
These consultations have been the result of
acquisition of additional mileage by lines
which desired to extend their scope 1t was
a natural development with no statutory die
tation behind it.
The Transportation Act plan would merge
about 500 lines into 20 or 80 general sys-
TENS and the consolidation would not be as
the companies want it particularly, but as
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
charged with enforcing the laws governing
railroad transportation, wants it.
The consolidation theory and plan have
had careful study by many experts. The lat
est study to be made is that of DR.. Jean Paul
Muller an attorney and economist Of Wash
ington, who specialzes in railroad and in
dustrial investigation. DR.. Muller's study has
caused him to oppose the consolidation plan
because of the method adopted for putting
it into effect.
He declares that the plan will not reduce
rates but is more likely to increase them to
even more burdensome levels. He does not
oppose the general principle of consolidation
but contends that it should be a natural de-
velopment on the initiative of the owners.
Muller Combats Cummins.
One of the chief arguments advanced by
Senator Cummins and his adherents in faV-
or of the Government consolidation plan is
that it will unity railroad rates and place
the whole country on the same operating
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09

A BIGAMIST who has just been thrown
u into prison for having thirty-fiye
n wives scattered about in various and
sundry parts of the country, explains his
mania for marrying by saying that he loved
to be petted, and just had to have some
woman to baby him.
It seems to me that this muchly married
man has turned a bright light on one phase
Of the masculine psychology that has always
been dark mystery to women He has ex-
planned why men seek wives, and why they
leave wives. He has solved the riddle or why
so many brilliant, beautiful, attractive wom-
en- have grouchy and disgruntled husbands,
while so often ordinary, commonplace, IN
interesting women have husbands who purr
like tomcats under their hands.
Men want to be petted and babied, and
some women have intelligence enough to
sense tlis, and feed their husbands on sugar
plums while other women live and die under
the deIusion that no man is born with a
sweet tooth, or ever yearns to hear word
of affection, or tenderness. And that's that.
The truth is that men are just as heart
hungry as any old maid and as gullible and
ready to swallow down without Investigation
any sentimental dope that is handed them.
More than that that, inside of every man
soul there lives, as long as he lives, little
boy who wants the woman he loves to treat
him like mama's little blue-eyed, golden
haired pet.
NO mdCL6r now dig anu SLrOuS d Hall
nor how great and famous, nor how many
other men he bosses, he wants his wife to
treat him like a baby who is petted, and cos
seted, and chucked under the chin. He
may keep up the bluff of being self-suffi-
cent abroad but at home he wants to be
babied.
There isn't man living whose secret
ideal of the perfect wife is not the woman
who puts the buttons in his shirt and lays
out his collar and tie in the morning, and
has his slippers toasting by the fire of an
evening, and who makes with her own
hands, the particular pie he likes best
And it isn't because the man really wants
his wife to wait on him, either. That does
not enter into it at all. He Is just like the
three-year-old who bowls for mama to put
on his shoes, or butter his bread when there
are seven nurses standing around to do it.
Men are babyish in wanting their wives to
show them off. Common decency forbids that
a man should trumpet aloud his own ex-
ploits, and call attention to how great and
wonderful he is, but there is nothing to
hinder his wife from acting as his press
agent, and if she knows the wife business
she does. The expression on the face of lit
tie Tommy while his proud mother is telling
the smart things he did and said, is exact
ly the same expression that is on Tommy's
fathers face while his wife is Dragging about
how he cornered the cotton market, or or
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09
MY" FAVORITE STORIES
BY Irwin Cobb
A DETAIL OF FIGURES

Grand Central Pete was a noted bunco-
steerer Of the old days, but could neither read
nor write. Once he fell upon hard times, and
he and a younger but equally luckless conf
dence man undertook to beat their way on a
freight train to Washington. A brakeman
kicked them off at Trenton, N. J.
1t was getting. late and neither of them had
cent Across the tracks from where they
had landed was a hotel and right next door
was an express office. Grand Central Pete
had an idea. He went into the express office,
borrowed one of those large manila envelopes
such as are used for transporting currency,
filled the envelope with pieces of newspaper
cut to the size of banknotes and sealed it
carefully.
Nov, then" he said to his partner, "you
take your fountain pen and write on the back
of that envelope $4,000 Then we'll go
over to that hotel and explain that we've lost
our baggage, and I'll hand this envelope to
the clerk and ask him to lock it in the safe.
He'll look at the figures on the back-and
he'll take us for moneyed guys and give us
rooms and grub until we can raise a stake"
The scheme sounded good to the younger
man. He got out his pen and obeyed orders.
Grand Central Pete took the envelope back in
his hands and examined it, carefully.
'Does that say nine thousand dollars?" he
demanded.
"Yep," said his partner.
"Well, it don't look big enough to me-"
said Pete. you'd better add on some more
of them naughts."
The younger con man protested but Pete
would have his way and kept after him until
the educated one had tackled on three more
naughts, making the grand total $9,000,0 900.
Then Pete marched grandly oyer to the
hotel, registered for himself and his friend,
passed the stuffed envelope across the desk
to the clerk and called for the bridal suite.
The clerk took one look at the envelope,
another at the soiled faces and shabby ap-
parel of the newcomers-and rang the bell
for the bouncer. A minute later the discom-
fitted pair were sitting on the sidewalk.
Grand Central Pete raised himself painfully
and eyed his companion with a scornful, an
cry glance.
'"There, now--dad gum you'll" he shouted;
ct told you you hadn't wrote in enough of
them naughts'
Copyright, 1922, by the Mcknight Syndi-
cate, Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09
THE CASE OF HAWKINS
By DR.. Frank Crane

Middlesworth, the President of the Bank,
sat in his private office across the desk from
Eastman, who was his righthand man.
They were discussing the case of Hawkins.
Eastman's face was pale and his hands
trembled as he fumbled his papers.
ST wouldn't have believed it," he said to
his chief "Why, Hawkins has been with
us over twenty years. He is a model bank
clerk in every respect. His life is an open
book and above reproach.
"He has no bad habits. He does not drink.
He does not even smoke. He never goes TO
the theater. About I'll the amusements he
gets is to slip over to free lecture at the
school house once in while He is wearing
the same clothes he has had for four years
"And there is no use looking for woman.
He is an old bachelor and never speaks to a
woman if he can help it. He has no relatives
that know of except perfectly respectable
brother who is in the lumber business in Chi
cago.
"And yet he has been swindling us for
years. By one of the cleverest systems L ever
saw he has MIXED this bank of almost $780,
900.
'"There is no doubt about it. I have gone
through the books. I have been down here
every night for two weeks and the proof that
I have is overwhelming.
President Middlesworth opened a drawer,
took out cigar, clipped off the end, and lit 1t.
"Hm!" he observed
Just then the telephone rang. Mindless
worth took up the instrument and held it to
his ear. "Hello!" he said. eyes, this is Mid
dlesworth-What?-Oh all right, all right.
No, but you may bet $4,000 on Checker
board.'-You are mistaken. Checkerboard
a sure winner.-Oh, all right, let it go!'
He hung up the telephone.
Eastman said: 81 suppose there's only one
thing to do and that is to call in the police.
It's a pity though; feel Internally sorry for
old Hawkins"
''No,' said Middlesworth well not call
in the police. And we'll not arrest Hawkins
Well let him alone"
''Let him alone!' exclaimed Eastman. "Let
him go on stealing?"
"sure!'' calmly replied the President
GIVE known for a long while what he is
doing. The trouble is, Hawkins is an old
miser. He is saving up every cent he steals
And my trouble is that I'm gambler.
can't help gambling any more than he can
help saving Some day I will probably lose
my pile I know where Hawkins has his
money and I've fixed it so I can lay my hand
on it any time You see, Hawkins is looking
out for my old age. He doesn't knows it, but
he is"
And that was the case Of Hawkins.
Copyright 1922, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09
Boy Radio Inventor
~ ARTS announces with evident pride thu
invention of a radio receiving set o

~ ARTS announces with evident pride the
invention of a radio receiving set of
such small size that it can be mounted
in an umbrella, and so light in weight that a
lady can carry it, lifting her dainty parasol
to produce an aerial" and listening in on
the Eiffel Tower music or the latest French
gossip sizzling through the ether.
But the Literary Digest remarks, in it's
radio department, that the Paris umbrella re-
cetving set is made to appear enormous and
cumbersome when compared with an outfit
invented by Kenneth r. Human, thirteen
year-old boy of Plainfield, New Jersey, whose
is the size of safety match box and yet who
is able to hear Morse code, music news an
snouncements and all other kinds of radio
or more.
f "The youthful inventor" says an interest
ing description of the boys outfit contained
: in the Literary Digest, "has reduced his min
siature set to the simplest possible form. All
the apparatus except for the head phones is
confined within the dimensions of a regular
safety match box.
with it he is able to receive not only tele-
graph signals, but music, stories, sermons,
sand news items given out by the broadcasting
stations twenty and thirty miles distant.
Wrapped around the outer she'll of the match
box is coil of wire, which serves as a tuning
coil. In the drawer of the box is a crystal
detector of the cat-whsker variety; the draw
fer is provided with a spring finger which
bears against the coil of wire; the insulation
lis scraped off along the path of the spring
slider, which is moved in or out of the shell
more or less. Inductance is thus introduced
inCo the circuit, thus tuning the instrument
for different 'wave-lengths No battery is
necessary. The instrument is provided with
spring clips which may be connected by
lengths of wire to brass bed or fence
wire"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09
The Babe in Eskimo Land

Says Lieutenant Commander Fttzhugh
Green, in ''People of the Elder Ice," in the
current Century
e, 'There are three kinds of love in the world.
For the want of better adjectives let us call
them free love, platonic love and affection.
Refrigerated environment has made the
Eskimo physically incapable Of the first, at
least to any degree of enthusiasm. Naturally,
he lacks the culture for the second. The
third, affection, the man learns after he has
become father or the woman mother.
''It is the arrival of a baby that seals the
vowless Eskimo marriage.
1T is the choking, helpless plant in the
igloos shadows that first gives the hunter
his sense of home. 1t is his amazement at
his womans unsupported depths of tender
ness that arouses him at last to realize her
WORTH
Good for the Eskimo triangle-the Hus-
band, the Wife and the Babe!
And may its missionaries follow the flag
our flag. u
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09
BY E. w. OSBORN

BY E. w. OSBORN
lhtt1e painted, wooden gate,
Swinging in and out,
Crickets chipping in the gra:s,
Honey bees about;
Hollyhocks and marigolds
Laughing in the sun,
Where quiet pools of shadows
Ripple, one by one;
Friendly glow Of lamplight
Across the window sill,
From the dark plaintive voice
Calling, "Wh pIGor-wi1.'
Moonlight trailing up the path
Draperies of foam.
Spell for me contaatment,
And the peace of home.
Might be own-ycur own-home propa ganda.
Really is bit of Song from "A Silver Poo
Morfst-Yard), book of verse by Beulah
FietG.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09
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Around the World
Tn-Week1y News Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Carnegie Medals

Eight of the twenty-three heroes officially
recognized this week by the Carnegie Hero
Fund commission lost their lives while en-
deavoring to save some unfortunate. PEN
sion of $3.50 year was granted to the de-
pendents of one hero and $4,000 will be APP
piled by the commission for the dependents
of five others.
For those who survived their heroic eff
forts the commission awarded $1,000 for
educational purposes, and in six cases awards
aggregating $500 were made for other
worthy purposes. Six silver medals and sew
enteen of bronze, were given.
Among those recognized are Charles H.
Bennett, deceased, No. SO Swezey street,
Patchogue, L. l., who tried to save Mrs.
Louis W. Heath off Fire Island, July 8, 1921,
and Frederick W. Ronbeck, No. 1857 Dean
street, Brooklyn, N. Y, who saved an I'M
identified man from drowning at Oak Beach,
NJ Y, July 4, 1919.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09
DO YOU KNOW THAT?

If commercially PRACTICABLE methods can be
devised for extraction great quantities Of
starch can be obtained from the rootstocks
of the common swamp cat-tail
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-09
Nitrates Plentiful

Recent efforts by the war department to
dispose of a quantity Of surplus nitrates in
dictate to officials that there is no particular
shortage of this fertilizer ingredient.
Secretary of War Weeks, through the
director of sales, offered 10000 tons Of
nitrates at public auction. Thirty-one fer
ti1izer companies took total of 1900 tons
at an average price of about $40 ton.
Another company offered $26 ton for the
remaining 20 900 tons, but this bid was re-
jected on the ground that it was wholly un-
reasonable. The largest quantity taken. by
any bidder was 500 tons 4
The surplus sold from the Morgan general
ordnance depot, South Amboy N. j., brought
$50 per ton.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Mr..
Weeks likewise are convinced that no real
shortage in nitrates exists, despite recent
reports to the contrary.