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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-24
DOROTHY DIX TALKS

" HIS Is the riddle OF the ages 1t is
the question that every man and wom-
an ask, both before and after taking,
and to which they return different answers
at different times of their lives
In reality, whether marriage is a failure
or not, depends upon what you expect of
it.
Imperfect a tie as 1t makes between a
man and woman, it still constitutes the
best safeguard that civilization has yet de-
vised for the propagation and rearing of
the human species. No one will deny that
the children raised in home which has
properly signed marriage certificate hang
ing on the wall, are better brought up, and
have better background than are the off
spring Of those couples who sustain what
we call the unconventional attitude to-
wards the holy estate.
Whatever regrets matrimony may have
brought to its parents no child was ever
sorry that 1t was born in wedIock instead
Of out of it.
Marriage is failure to those who ex
pect 1t to be sentimental journey throu gt
world that Is nothing but moonlight
nights, and long flowery pathway. In.
tlmacy Is death on romance, and every dav
life tears illusions to tatters No woman
can ever again be a dream-maiden to the
man who has seen her with curl papers
on, and her complexion off, frying griddle
N"A0o LII VI OohAdot' NUT can any man
ever again seem the hero Of her girlish
dreams to the woman who has beheld him
unshaven, and unshorn, snoring with his
mouth open.
Each may come to esteem the other foI
the sterling qualities that are worth all thu
silver plated romance in the world, bu
there is no gainsaying that marriage put.
an end to romance. You do not palpitate
and thrill at the sound of footstep that
you hear every day of your life, nor is
there any flavor in the kisses that one
must give and receive because it is ones
duty to.
Marriage is failure so far as securins
the individual happiness of the majorit!
Of people who enter it in the fatuous be
In this country one out of every twelv;
marriages is confessed failure that ter
inmates in divorce. With how many Other
people marriage is simply misery endur
ance test cannot even surmise.
That an enormous percentage of mar
riages bring only wretchedness, we know
from our own observation. We could
count on our fingers, and still have digits
to spare, the married couples we know who
have really found their mates, and tc
whom marriage has brought the deep and
abiding happiness that we all hope for
when we embark on the great adventure
There are no scales delicate enough tc
weigh human joy and sorrow, but if one
may judge by the fact that the unmarried
are nearly always jollier and more cheer.
full than the married that they look
younger for their age and show less oil
the wear and tear of life. then one may
hazard the conclusion that old maids anG
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The First Flying Machine
~ HE oldest model of flying machines is
still the staunchest and most efficient


we mean the bird. In altitude rec
ords man has surpassed his feathered archie
type. While eagleand condor struggle up, at
their strongest, to four miles-and, maybe,
bit beyond-a United States army aviator
has flown to height of more than seven
miles But for distance and for. endurance
under all manner of tests, the bird has yet
to be surpassed.
The great seaplane which is reported as
Rio de Janeiro, has a sturdy rival in a small
wild duck, the blue-wing teal. recent bull
letin of the United States biological survey
tells of q teal which was captured and band
ed in Canada near Lake Ontario and which
was found nine weeks later in Trinidad, three
thousand miles from its starting point. It's
route was not dissimilar to that of the SC.
Though for many years the migration of
birds has been subject of keen observation
it was not until rather recently, as writer
for Science Service points out, that far flights
of individual birds have been extensively
studied by means of banding. Chief among
long-distance migrants, it appears, is the
Arctic tern. Its winter and summer resi-
dences are mere eleven thousand miles
apart. 1t breeds on the south coast of Green
land and on northern borders of North Amer
lea as far north as it can find land on which
way across the two Americas to far beyond
Cape Horn as far south as there is open
water to furnish it's food" This round trip
of twenty-five thousand miles a year is not
soon to be outstripped by men-birds.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-24
THE ATLANTA TRI-wEEKLY JOURNAL

Jeter, of the Soil Improvement Committee,
an authority in his field, who before casting
his lot with Georgia had spent more than six
years N agricultural work in the Old North
State, to explo', if he could, why a less IA
wore, ,gicn gathers richer profits than the
homeland Of milk and honey.
It appears at the outset Of his keenly In
teresting a. L.. -,orth Carolina With
6.33o 511 crop acres las $480,5S9,623 OF
crop values; while Georgia with 11,196,S56
crop acres has $514,721,S87 Of crop values.
The figures, in both instar~es are exclusive
of fruits and nuts and are from the federal
census Of 1920. e.ance into the proper
tic and divers acation Of the crops Of the
two States will help to explain their relative
status. In the North Carolina acreage, crops
are apportioned as follows: Cotton, 21.6 per
cent; corn, 36.2; while the remainder, or
about forty-two per cent, is divided among
other crops, including ha. and forage, oats'
tobacco, and sweet potatoes. In the ueor-
gia acreage the apportionment is as foll""s'
Cotton, 422; corn, 3S.2 other crops, 1nclud-
ing hay and forage. oats, peanuts and sweet
potatoes, little less than twenty per cent.
Thus it co mes about that WIFI Georgia oe-
ponds upon cotton and cotton SEED LOT more
than sixty-eight per cent OF her aggregate
of crop values and upon corn for more tnan
seventeen per cent, leaving less than ntteen
per cent for the value of other crops, North
Carolina derives only about ffty-three per
cent of her crop values from cotton and corn,
forty-seven per cent being distributed among
a diversity of other harvests.
The diversity of natural resources 49, op-
portunities in our good neighbor to the north
is hardly to be compared with that of Geor-
gia's. 1t is not buried talents, however, that
count in the final reckoning. We can not be
u.-lindful that whereas the North Carolina
Legislature recently approved great bond
issue both for highways and for e''tcat:on,
the Georgia Legislature refused even to SUBJ
nit bond proposal for better roads to the
electorate. Nor shoulH we forget that while
North Carolina institutions are literally sup
ported out of well regulated tax rever les,
those of Georgia are still ted almc TO star
vation--and the General Assembly just ad-
journed would not reriously consider the
Governors appeal for fiscal refor- looking
to the relief of these in 2erative needs.
1t is for the people of Georgia to say
whether these conditions shall continue or
be set right.
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Win Institutions Die
MID the laundering and quaki

MID the laundering and quaklng or
N European politics little has been
heard, through news dispatches at
least, of Italy. Yet, nowhere has the stir OF
unrest and change been more marked Since
the fall of the Orlando government in May OF
1919 when the pressure Of wartime danger
and patriotism relaxed, no fewer than four
ministries have succeeded one another, with
in less than three years; and none, save
Giolitti's survived the test of a tWelyemonth.
Imagine Americas having had four different
federal administrations since the spring after
the armistice: imagine the effect upon our
business and our nerves. 1t speaks much for
the stamina of Italian character that in the
midst of these repeated upheavals any sort
of stability has been maintained.
Thoughtful watchers of their country are
apprehensive, however, and rightly so, lest
continual agitation without constructive re-
suits may wear away the inherent vigor.
1.-The great danger nowadays, throughout the
world but particularly in Italy," writes a
keen observer at Turin, lis that while the
outside of the edifice of our institutions still
exists the inside has entirely crumbled to
pieces, without anything being built up in
its stead. The only weapon against
Bolshevism is in the suppression of the
causes which created it and keep it alive.
The only remedy against revolution of the
lower classes is the revolution of the higher
classes. The urgent problem is to adjust
the state of law to a state of fact. The in
stitutions which no longer correspond to the
exigences of reality must be modified if they
are not to crumble to pieces leaving behind
them emptiness and anarchy"
An excellent diagnosis and prescription,
not for Italy alone but for Europe also, and
for the world. To a larger or less degree
and in one or another form every nation
upon this planet is in revolution. We of this
age, as were they of every great epoch gone,
are called upon to fight the good fight anew
and to keep the faith which never lives ex-
cept it be born afresh for each generation.
This is the price of liberty and of progress;
they who will not pay it must sink to bond
age and death. That which keeps human in
situations vital is the strength throbbed into
them from human hearts and minds. When
people complain of their government wheth-
er in smallest matters or greatest, they are
complaining in truth of themselves. Only
through their devotion to justice and free
dom, only through their own vision and vir-
tue, not through any political system, will
reform be brought to pass and the perpetuity
of institutions be vouchsafed.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-24
MEDITATIONS OF A MARRIED
WOMAN
BY HELEN ROWLAND


Alas, would that were motion picture
heroine!
For, whatever she does, 1t is never count
ing the linen for the Monday laundry, nor
making UP the grocery list for dinner.
It is ALWAYS something interesting or
exciting-even if it's only dying, or killing
somebody!
And, whatever she wears, 1t is never
dust-cap and rubber gloves-but always
creation or "confection"-even If it's
only string of pearls and a few yards OF
tulle.
And, whatever her lover mbay be-a
housebreaker, murderer, or even dane
ing mamie is never hungry!
Whatever he may do, he never forgets
where he put his collar button nor leaves
the soap on the bathroom floor, nor reads
the funny sheet aloud to her at break
fast.
And he is always freshly shaver, even
though he may have been wrecked on a
desert island, without safety razor, for
a week.
And his front hair is always curly, and
his nose never peels in the sun, and his top
hair is always plentiful, and he hasn't any
bald spot on which he rubs tonic.
And he is always tender and fascinating,
and takes at least five minutes to tell her
as he closes the front door.
And after a separation, he always says
Darling! 1t seems like million years."
instead of "Gee-it's-good-to-get
whatve-we-got-for -dinner?"
And he never looks as though he thought
she had PRAYED for rain on Sunday, just
in order to spoil his golf; nor accuses
her of purposely putting the furniture
where he would fall over it in the dark
And his stenographer is never prettier
than SHE is.
And money is his middle name, and he
never growls at the expense of taking a
taxicab or the price of restaurant dinner
And he always kisses her without prompt
Ing; and never acts shy or embarrassed
about 1t-even when she happens to be his
OWN wife
oh, yes, the life of motion picture
heroine is all romance and sentiment and
murder, and Paris clothes, and variety and
excitement.
Whereas, almost any normal married
woman would welcome fire or a robbery.
or case of ptomaine poisoning-iust for
a CHANGE from the eternal monotony!
And a call from good-looking bank
burglar or an entertaining bootlegger or a
jolly second-story man would brighten the
existence OF woman in whose life the only
masculine distractions are the iceman. the
postman and the laundrymani
Yea, verify, the only PERFECTLY haupv
woman in all the world is the motion pic
ture heroine.
For no matter how she suffers. she does
IL IN beautiful clothes; and no matter how
she Dies she never dies of BOREDOM
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-24
ANDREW AND IMOGENE
BY ROE FuLKERSON.

"You are going 20 the lodge, aren't your"
asked Imogene, as they rose from the taple'
Sure" said Andrew. "It's the fourth We'd
nesday, you know"
down to get Violet and her baby and take
them out f,r little spin in the car tonight.
The baby is teething and this hot weather IS
hard on it, and I thought might take you
down first"
"Tickled to DEATH" said Andrew, enthusi-
asticaly 81 will give you tlp for' an ice
cream soda at the,."
"All right" smiled Imogene. What time
will you be out?"
Don't know" said Andrew, briefly.
"Can't you give me some idea?" asked
Imogene. 81 might come for you too.
replied Andrew.
81 do not see why you say that" said limo"
gene puzzled. ''What is your reason?"
"The same reason that the boy who an
swers - phone at the club will never tell
you whether a member is in until after he
goes to that member and asks him II he Is
in?"
"What?" said Imogene, puzzled.
ST mean that mems wives Fave called them
up at their clubs and told them to come on
khome so often that now all clubs make, 1t
rule to never tell whether man is there
until after they ask him.
ST mean that men nave their personal
pride the same as women.
"I mean that if were to call you up at a
| tea party and ask you If it were not high time
| you were at home you would be sore.
"I mean that no man living likes to nave
| his wife call for him in car or over the
phone or any other way when he is out with
other men, for he knows the minute he leaves
| they will smile pitingly and say, Poor Bill
'No man likes TO feel that he is not at
absolute liberty to go and come as ne pleases.
"You know and know that regulate my
| Iowa Jxy To cIIif
make connections with your arrangements
| but it is a matter that want absolutely be"
| tween ourselves.
whenever you begin coming out in front
O. one of my clubs and send the door man In
| to tell me that my wife is waiting for me out
side then will be the first time I will begin
to regret having bought you car you could
run yourself.
when a woman takes man to the place
where he is going to join some friends ana
| leaves him, the other fellows there ~hlnk she
| is good sport nd wish they had wife like
| that.
''When woman tegins to come and take
a man away from some place where he fore
gathers with his friends exactly the opposite
view is held and the man Is p1tied and no.
body enves him the possession OF the
woman.
'I am not telling you these things are
right, I am only telling you that they are SO,
| and even the men who are bungaloafers ana
live 1T in the outskirts of town, would
rather pay four car fares and get in on the
milk mans special than have their wives cali
f.. 'em to take 'em home.
''I don't y it is right. I don't defend u
at ALL But there are styles and costumes in
| the realm of hus andry that are as old as the
institr+'on of mctrimony and this is one OF
| tn n"
''Then I will not call for you," said Imo-
gene, a little doubtfully.
IN &,c uyIo
ssYou will not call for me, at least not more
! than once"
/ Copyright, 1922, by 21st Century Press,
II Incl
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QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

A victim of chronic bronchitis called on a
well-known physician to be examined. The
doctor, after careful questioning assured the
patient that the ailment would respond read
lily to treatment.
81 suppose you must have had a great
deal of experience with this disease" said
the sufferer.
The physician sni-4.l wisely and replied:
"Why, my dear sir, I've had bronchitis
myself for more than IS years.
He was the most down and-out-looking
specimen of a tramp that had ever applied
at the back door of the little country farm
house.
The farmers wife viewed him with dis
gust.
my goodness!" she cried. II don't believe
you have washed yourself for year..
Just about that" agreed the tramp, not
in the least a ashed. you see, oily washes
afore l eats
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a Combar;son for Georgia

WV lille comparisons are times "odor-
M ous," as Dogberry remarked, they
nevertheless have their uses. Ger
tainly they have, and in trimming measure,
when presented as thoughtfully as in the cur
rent number of the City Builder, the official
magazine Of the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce, in answer to the query: why is it
that North Carolina, smaller state than
Georgia with little more than half the acre
age to crops, ranks so high in value of crops
produced?"
Highly refreshing it is to find one to the
manner born breaking away from compla-
cent twaddle about the Empire State of the
South, to ask pertinent questions which,
though they wound false PRIDE, bring whole
some truth to light and point the way to
richer progress. If Tar Heel planters are
out-farming those OF Georgia almost two dol
Ia, to one, it assuredly is to our behoof to
discover how they do Thereto it was
that the City Build called upon Mr.. ]. F.
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WIN Borah Threatens to Quit
~ ENAToR BoRAH who alone of his
Republican colleagues voted No on the


Republican colleagues voted No on the
pernicious Fordney-McCumber. tariff
bill, again outrages Old Guard sentiment
by threatening to quit the Craftsmanship OF
the committee on education and labor I'M
less it be freed from its present reactionary
control.
Repeatedly Of late the Senator has found
liberal measures in which he was especially
interested and of some Of which he was the
author, hopelssly blocked Some weeks
ago, with view to protectino the public
against eXtoritionate prices and related
wrongs, he moved for thoroughgoing in
vestigation of the coal industry and for
Federal supervision of mines in case that
should become needful for the common
good But his four Republican associates
on the committee, which the matter was
referred, promptly gave his proposal Its
duetus by the bare bodkin of their veto. So,
too, with most other bills at all forward
minded that encounter this boz rbonic quar-
to- It is not surprising that so free-minded
a man as Senator Borah is kicking against
the stocks, though it is absurd that he should
expect any considerable change of attitude or
policy in the present Republican regime.
This committee, like others of Importance,
was designedly made up to thwart progress
i've legislation, the chairmanshlp being given
to the Idaho Liberal for the same purpose
that the wolf put on the clothing of the
sheep.
The ruling spirit of the party that came to
power two years ago, on the wave of the
greatest apostasy in American annals, is now,
as it was then, altogether counter to the for
ward trend and deeper urge Of the nation 8
thought. It's conception Of party responsible
ity rises no higher than the rim of the politi-
cal fIeshpot; it's idea of legislation, as in
stanced in the tariff bill, is an opportunity
to favor special interests; its sense Of duty
to the years ahead and to the rank and file
of today is after the manner Of those who
having eyes see not and having ears do not
hear No wonder that such elements of lib
eral impulse as survive in the Republican
Senate are revolving.
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4 Bio Man u, a Bad Case
~ ERSONS who already believed that Sen
- ator Newberry was as spotless as q

~ ERSONS VINO ALREADY DelleVeo tndC Dell
- ator Newberry was as spotless as
paschal lamb will be impressed by Sec
rotary Hughes letter in his defense. But to
the majority who recall the tactics by which
the Michigan magnate was elected, the out
slushing of money in the interest Of his cam
paign and the sheerly technical grounds upon
which he was finally acquitted, it will appear
highly incongruous that the Secretary OF
State should come forward as an apologist
for such methods.
Mr.. Hughes, it is true, was Senator New
berry's chief counsel when the latter's seat
was being contested and his candidacy's in
fractions of the law were being prosecuted.
But that circumstance, although 1t served,
and naturally so, to convince Mr.. Hughes OF
his clients innocence, makes it the more i'm
proper that Secretary of State he should
re-enter the arena to fight the case anew.
1t is being pointed out, as David Lawrence
reports from Washington, that Mr.. Hughes,
doubtless, received fee, and lucrative one,
for his legal services in Senator Newberry's
behalf. Is it, then, altogether ethical for him
now to inject the prestige of the cabinets
premiership into an issue with which his pro-
fessional connection rightly should have
ceased when he entered so high a realm of
public responsibility?
That Secretary Hughes thus has dwarfed
himself in the country's estimation is quite
| reasonable to infer but it can hardly be that
he has convinced many of the business of his
| former clients cause. For if there were
no other chapter to the long record save the
investigation and findings of the Senate ma
! jority that alone would suffice to refute him.
The verdict of Senator Newberry's own Re-
publican colleagues was that the methods en-
ployed in his election were inimical to free
and upright government. They left him his
seat, but they condemned the means by which
he acquired it. In the hour of that white
wash exoneration it was Republican Sena-
! tor, now Judge Kenyon, who declared: "The
dignity of the Senate can never be lowered
after today.
| If Secretary Hughes feels impelled to take
to the trenches for his party in this critical
election year-and it is but natural that he
should-surely he can find, amid all the Sec
| tors that cry out for defense, more befitting
post and more honorable adventure than
that of fortifying Newberryism
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Honoring Sidney Lanier

monument to the memory Of Georgia IS
beloved poet, Sidney Lanier, is proposed. At
just what spot the monument should be
erected is not yet determined although men
ton has been made of the place where he
wrote "The Marshes Of Glynn,' which is un-
der large oak at uanier's swimming pool,
or creek, at Enthusiastically County
News.
How about the spc. where he wrote "The
Song of the Chattahoochee?" Lanier was
also at one time a resident of Sunny Side,
Spa1ding county, Georgia.
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PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY JACK l.. PATTERSON.

A wonderful spirit that is found in South
west Georgia is-''We lost last last year and
that is gone, there is no need of crying over
spilled milk We must put our shoulders
to the wheel and work to r cuperate-not
only old losses, but to make money" A
fighting spirit like that will never say die
and the boil weevil can come twice and wet
weather practically make crops failure, but
the spirit will win in the en1.-Buford Ad-
Vertiser.
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DID YOU KNOW THAT

U. ). alrplanes equipped with radio are
making photo reconnaissance of sections Of
the philippines where head hunting was form
erly practiced by the natives.
The common house centipede DESTROYS
house flies in considerable numbers,
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Galalith, a product resembling celluloid
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carved, and polished made into innumer-
able small articles like buttons, buckles and
ornaments of all kinds.