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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26
Mother As a Handicap
DOROTHY DIX TALK S-Mot]

She makes fun of their clothes, she ridicules
the size of their hands and feet, she derides
their singing, and she makes witty stories
out of the snatches of youthful conversation
that she overhears.
Knowing that her friends are going to be
turned into figures of fun makes the girl self
conscious, and the young people themselves
sense the air of hostility in the house, so
that they. seldom come. They go to some
place where the girls mother holds out the
glad hand, and where the old people and
young laugh together, instead or the OLD
laughing at the young.
Many mother who wonders why her
daughter, who is pretty and attractive, does
not receive attention that some homely girl
does, could find the answer in herself. You
still have to bait your trap with sugar to
catch flies.
Then there is the mother who Is the demon
chaperon. She labors under the conviction
that her precious Maud would be kidnapped
If she got two yards from her, and that ev-
cry man has some nefarious designs upon
her. Therefore, when Maud is asked to go
to place mother has to be dragged along
too, and whenever Maud has man caller
mother sits within earshot so she can hear
every word.
The result is that Maud stays at home,
| alone. Not many youths in these days have
money enough to buy three theater tickets
anu SLC6C0TdS. MOT ~ IL SL1Mu " COu-
versation to know that one is being caves
| dropped. 1t isn't because young people want
| to say anything that is improper that they
| don't relish having 1t overheard. It's just
that silly thing sounds too silly to the cold
and critical listener.
| Naturally good mother keeps wary eye
on her daughter, and knows where she goes
| and the character Of those with whom she
| plays about. Also she sees that she Is al
home at proper hour, but beyond that g
nice American girl needs no watch dog on
| the Job. Nothing is easier than to chaperon
girl into the old maids home. If a girl
| has been brought up to the age OF 20 with
the right sort Of principles instilled in hel
she needs no chaperon, and If she hasnf
had modesty and honor and self-respec'
bred into her, then all the chaperoning in the
world won't save her.
| Finally, there is the obsessing mother
| You know what mean-the sort of woman
whose own personality fills her house so full
! that her husband and children are just
/ shadows in it. She mo. opolizes the CONVEX
sation, she bosses the job. She's the whole
works.
| The girl with that sort of mother is al
ways a silent, quiet little thing, with nc
chance to show off what she is, or develop
any personality, and she is generally shelved
unless she takes her courage Il both hands
and flees from home and the smothering
shelter of mothers wings.
What sort of mother are you? Are you
a help or hindrance to your children?
| Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26
Teaching Italy to Ra;,,
F we are prone to see Italy more from
the angle of ancient and medieval his

F we are prone to see Italy more from
the angle of ancient and medieval his
tory than from that of modern progress,
let us take note that Charles P. Hatfield,
American adventurer, is now in Naples
teaching the Italians ''to make rain"
We have been smiling tolerantly at Hat
field, more than skeptical concerning his
claim to having broken droughts by secret
chemical processes We learned that he
erected his mysterious tower in parts OF the
West and that showers followed in several
instances; yet, somehow, we continued to
doubt But the Italians, in their suffering
for lack Of rain, called him over.
Whether this young man can make rain
or not, his summons to Italy gives an in
teresting sdelight upon the present-day
thought of the country which produced Co.
lumbus, Calico and that artist-scentist,
Leonardo da Vinci. The invitation to Hat
field shows at least that the Italy of today
is willing to take chance. The spirit of
Columbus is still there in spite of wars and
famines. The screws of the Inquisition
which threatened Calico have forever rust
ed away.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26
If Russia Should Probe Us
TITO the proposal that there shall be an
American Investigation of Russia, the

TITO the proposal that there shall be an
American investigation of Russia, the
Moscow government makes the rather
d.sconcerting reply that this Is altogether
agreeable, provided that there shall be at
the samJ time a Russian Investigation, of
America.
Our OK, of course, has not done any gor-
ing; and our national pride, which now and
then verges dangerously upon self-right-
eousness, Is supposed to be proof against
criticism. Still, should We feel quite serene
II commission, not Of wild-whiskered Boil
shevists but of gentle yet keen-eyed Rus
SLAMS, should come inquirino into our af-
fairs? Should we have no closet doors to
keep shut, no backyard corners to avoid?
Could we show ourselves at every point an
enlightened, humane, forward-minded ma
ton?
There would be some squirming, we fancy,
when the visitors asked about the Herrin
atrocities, and wondered why it was that in
a country reputed to be economically sound
and progressive the coal mines had b IN
closed for well-nigh half year. There
would be bit of e Embarrassment, depend
upon it, if the subject Of lynching should be
Lroached. There would be difficulty in &C
counting for a homicide record that exceeds
in twelvemonth the lists of many red
revolution. There would be awkward
moments in discussing the morals and the
manners of a people whose forbears were the
austere Pilgrims and the gallant Cavaliers.
Nor are we sure that Georgia could en-
terrain these Russian observers without dis
quietude. Suppose, for instance, they should
ask why we persist in running the States
business by fiscal plan, or rather fiscal
disorder, that would discredit Trotzky him.
self? )r why we stint and starye education
al institutions? Or why we look on while
millions of acres of valuable forests are de-
stroyed by fire? Or why a Legislature
charged with acting for the common veal
suffered these ills to continue?
Verify we shall do we'll to cast the beam
from our own eye before investigating the
Russian mote.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26
He'll Fire
= TICKLERS for hell fire, as well as the
= scientists whom they would roast

~ TICKLERS for hell fire, as well as the
scientists whom they would roast
therein, will be interested in reports
brought back by Canadian government
agent from Fort Norman, in the far-north
reaches Of the Mackenzie River. Going
thither to investigate reputed oil discoveries,
he found in divers laces vast quantities of
flaming coal. "The air is filled with the
smell of sulphur runs summary by
Science Service, "and at night along the
river may be seen giant cliffs Of sizzling
molten clay" How did the strange fires
originator? "It may have been from light
ming, or from spontaneous combustion ,,
Howbeit, "This hell on earth has probably
been burning for countless thousands of
years, and will continue until burned out, or
until air no longer can reach the flaming
material to supply oxygen for combustion"
How the old Inquisitors would have
chortled at such tidings! But woe and we'll
a-day to the wight who would have dared
intimate that where those and adjacent
coal beds lay, tropical forests had flour
ished millions Of years before! 1t was
no safer in the thirteenth and sixteenth CEN
turtles than it is the twentieth to run athwart
beaten paths of complacent opinion we
are glad the Inquisitorial WORTHLESS are gone,
picturesque and 4ious though they were.
But let no young jackanapes now imagine
that he can go playing hell and escape its
fire. Scienc, has overleaped Dante's geology
and astronomy, and has revised his psychol-
ogy; but it has left mistaken his vision of
things more abiding.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26
THE STUMP SPEAKER PAS sEs-By Frederic ]. Haskin

ing causes to the change in oratory. At the
headquarters Of the League of Women Voters
they tell you that the questionnaires which
have been sent out to candidates have at
fected political speechmaking Indirectly at
least. These questionnaires inquired the
candidates. definite stand on important is
sues. Refusal - fill out an answer to any
question was taken by the women question
er, practically as an omission that the can
didate held views Of which he was ashamed,
or that he was not sufficiently acquainted
with the subject to express himself. A few
candidates baked at the idea Of such an
inquisition, but only at first. The necessity
of pleasing the suddenly powerful woman
voter soon turned the most evasive candidate
into supporter of the QUESTIONABLE system.
Then, too, candidates have been asked fire.
quently to speak at women's clubs and wom-
ems meetings. We zen as a class have not
hal the background Of polit knowledge
that men have. They wanted to remove that
handicap, SO they sent for political speakers
to explain important situations. AT first
blarney and hokum were sprinkled plenti-
fully through the speeches made at these
meetings But the alert politician soon found
that the women were not used to the glitter
ing generalities and that they waited politely
but .gerly for the point Of the speech. The
speaker who seemed anxious to explain his
viewpoint in plain English was the candidate
who scored.
Altogether, the orator Of the old school,
who banked on his dignity and his sonorous
voice to impress his public, is nearly extinct.
Conditions are not favorable for his develop
ment any more. Even the recent war did not
produce any startling examples of national
orators to join Webster and Henry as silver
tongued persuaders. With all the stirring
and emotional themes that the war provided
the typical Grafton that swayed the country
was the brief four minute talk, generally
crammed with facts.
Congressman and other men in the public
eye still like to make long speeches Some
even go quietly to schools of expression to
learn how to hold an audience. But the en-
bryo orator is no longer taught to stick one
hand in his vest, put his right foot forward
six inches, AMI let his voice the entire
scale every few minutes. The modern spec
Is less flam' yant. The speaker gets closer
to his audience and talks to the minstead of
declaiming over their heads.
The silver-tongued orator has been great
tradition in this country. The eloquence of
our great s. akers is responsible for many
of the thrills in our historJ. They used the
technique of their time, and they used it with
discrimination. Impassioned oratory fitted
into the atm sphere Of their time. Now it
has about Joined the bat-wing collar and the
broad-brim statesman's hat
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26
THE CUSSER
BY Dr.. Frank Crane

There is guy by the name of Hopkins who
has discovered the only solution of our eco
nomic and financial problems. q
Just what the solution is does not matter.
Suffice it to say it is one of those cock-sure
ideas with which we are all familiar.
Every once in while he writes me a letter
which does me good
He gives me hail Mary with high hand and
a Stretched-out arm.
In my preaching days / discovered that the
people who came up and spoke to me after I
had preached sermon were the ones who said
nice things, while those who thought that my
discourse was punk went away and said ndtfS
ing. am glad that l discovered this in time
to save myself from being self-satiSfied COOP.
People write me letters of appreciation and I
like them. No human being is averse to being
told how clever he is. And if he makes that
claim, don't believe him. We all like flattery
as monkey likes sugar.
But it is not good for us. 1t is likely to give
us fatty degeneration of the cerebrum.
Hence Hopkins is valued tonic. ! know sew
eral people l wish would get acquainted with
him. He would do them good.
Here is chunk from his last letter:
"How ready are.you bought and paid for edi-
tors to admit your ignorancel You bask in an
absurd pose of modesty and try to achieve the
utternost glory of saying absolutely nothing
with a few flourishes and embellishments that
smack of originality.
"How careful you are not to step on the toes
of your clientele That wouldn't be business,
although suspect that it would be MANHOOD.
"You are as slippery as an eel, as cold-blood-
ed as lizard, as unoriginal as busybody ant
All you newspaper men are as much alike in
your thorough devotion to everything con-
noted by gold idolatry as peas in a pod.
"Here is some real wisdom for you to digest:
"Idolaters OF gold have faces of lead.
THE only devil is the perSonified greed idol
in the hearts of the people.
"The real religion of tn world is nvr pro-
famed. No one was ever heard to remark,
BY gold, how hot it is todayl'"
Every once in while, when get a new
suit of clothes and look at myself in the glass
and begin to smirk and think am some
pumpkins, catch myself in time and go and
read one of Hopkins letters.
Hopkins should say, would be very valuable
as a wife.
Copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26

The travelling salesman in the check suit
turned to his fellow passenger who wore a
flaming fancy vest and remarked:
pardon my curiosity, but I'd like to know
what that label was that you gummed on your
trunk just now?'
THAT'S all right" said the other HHere's
similar one. | had lot printed before left
home. Read it."
The queStioner took the slip of paper and
read aloud:
awhile trunk was being handled careless
ly at railway station recently, it exploded
with great violence, seriously injuring a porter
and demoliShing one end of the station"
The man with the fancy vest put his hand In
his pocket. Have few!' he said; you'll find
them useful"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26

The motor car turned corner, and the dos
rushed out and entered into contact with it.
The driver did his best to dodge, but was I'M
successful, and being decent sort, got out OF
the car and carried the remains of the unfor-
tune beast into the owners garden. The latter
fiery woman, ragged at him as if he had COM
mittde deliberate murder.
When he could manage to get word in he
tried to pacify her.
" am very sorry, madam, assure you," he
said, "and / shall be happy to replace your
dog"
The woman glared at him.
''You flatter yourself" she said
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY JACK L. PATTERsol

Tobacco market in South Georgia grows
stronger-tobacco And the prices grow
stronger as the season advances. Evidently
the aging of the season makes for better
weed-or else the growers are holding the
best for the last" says Mr.. Bickers, in The
Savannah Morning News. Yet. 1t is not
the strongest tobacco that brings the best
price. 1t Is the cigar wrapper, like they
grow in Decatur, and the cigarette leaf like
they grow in Tiff. It is in these tobaccos
which we grow in Georgia without supe-
rior, that the money lies. And always the
first offerings on the market are first cut
tings, and of cheaper grading.-Tifton Ca
Zette.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Why is 1t that free lunch is never trees
Feet of the somnambuist seldom sleep.
A lie often cripples where cannon would be
ineffective.
Happiness often depends on what we do with
our spare time.
The man who knows how to make good
doesn't trouble about being so.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26
Editorial Echoes

There must be general sympathy for Miss
Muriel, the elder daughter of the Mccormick
family.
Recent marriages and projected marriages
have given her bad quarter of an hour. She
is said to agree with her grandfather, John
D. Rockefeller that Americans should mar
ry Americans"
However, her father has just married Miss
Gamma Walska, who has taken him as her
third h..sband Miss Muriel does not rejoice
in the acquisition Of stepmother. She is
also opposed to Mathildes union 18th Max
Oser, the Swiss riding master. And now she
is almost Frustrated by the rumor that her
mother is going to marry the young archi-
tect whom she brought over to superintend
the enlarging of the house.
Here Is where Mrs Muriel weeps: Her IA
they is married to a Pole, her sister is en-
gagged to /, Swiss, anG rumor has it that her
mother will soon become the wife Of an Aus
trian.-Savannah Press
A New York actress complains in her suit
for divorce that her husband made her ner-
vous' by waiting for her every night at the
stage door.
How can poor girl properly play her role
when she knows that her husband is waiting
to take her home? Shouldn't he permit her
to fight her way through the jewellers of the
night and to her home alone instead of COM
ing there to protect her? Shouldn't he know
better than to shower so much attention on
telligent enough to let her drift about by
herself at midnight?
OF course, there are still many women who
like little attentions from husbands. They
appreciate the thoughtfulness Of men who
are on hand to escort them hone after dark.
They think it the pr per thing hat husbands
should look to the happiness Of wives by see
ing that they are no compelled to face the
risque remarks Of hangers-on at midnight.
And in this latter group we have the hands
hat Oly hn roHi Qnd dn oh fn oryn
the world.-Portland Oregon Journal.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26

asked Mrs. Giles.
"Shes doin' grand" replied Mrs. Hobson.
"She's got the purtiest iii cottage with a
garden an that, some real mahogany furni-
ture, two pigs, an some parsons washing
to do once a week regular Only thing is,
she can't abide her man. But there! There's
allus summat."
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26

The man who thinks he was fool when he
married has wife who knows he hasn't
changed.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26

Old-fashioned evangelists who always held
their revivals in summer were versed pro-
foundry in psycholcgy.-San Antonio Ex-
press.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

When Mary was four she was given q
puppy which she insisted on taking to bed
with her. Next morning she was cross and
tired. Her mother anxiously inquired If she
had not slept well. "No, mother" said Mary
"Brindle was crying all night for his mum
my. So 1 stayed wake and made awful
faces to make him think was his bulldog
muver.'
A rather befuddled guest appeared, sway
ing slightly, before the clerks desk in a
hotel and demanded firmly, though in thick
voice, that his room be changed.
''I'm SORRY" said the clerk, "but all the
rooms are occupied"
"Mush have nuther room," insisted the
guest.
"Why sir? Have you any complaints
about the one you are in now?"
"Well, If you must know" said the dis
satisfied tenant, "itsh on fire.
Little Teddie was full Of questions APP
preaching the aged man on the pier again,
he said
"What time does the tide come in. Mr.
Fisherman"
The aged man looked at him YEARLY "Ive
told you several times already, you young
rascal" he said. eat 5:55."
Then little Teddie explained:
eyes, 1 heard you the first time, but like
to see your whiskers wobble when you say
$685."
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-07-15
YERKE'S ORCHESTRA
WILL PLAY AT PARK.

The week Of July 24 Will tie the
biggest week Of the dancing season
at Ravine Park this year. 1t was
announced last night by the mau-
agement that the week will begin
with on old fashioned square dance
on Monday night.
Yerke's Happy Six Orchestra
from New York will furnish the
music for dancing on Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday nights.
This orchestra is without a doubt
the best that has ever been heard
in this city and has made more
dance records than any other or
chestra in the United States play
ing for the Columbia Graphophone
Co.
Yerke's orchestra played here
early this year for the American
Legion dance ats tho Masonic
Temple, and the Fairmont people
ere we'll pleased with tn emusic
furnished by the celebrated orchs-
ira. @
Thy will give concerts in the
evenings from $3.50 until o'clock
and the dancing will start at and
continue until i a. m.
On Wednesday night of the same
week, the pavilion will He engaged
for the colored people Of the city
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-07-15
Bibliolo al

~ NfASSk
4. Did Samuel know OF Saul's
coming previous to his arrival?
# q How long before Christ,s birth
was John the Baptist born?
3. How many years did Moan Moan
5live2
called Exodus?
ss8 S. What is the meaning OF the
name Saul?
N! {. What did Naomi tell her
1daught to do?
Answers to Yesterdays Questions
s3 $S1 They materially anointed IN
the Bible by pouring oil upon the
head. 5;5
s@5 3. EAnointment consecrated or Sc,
apart the individual Il for religious
service.
4.7After her husband and sons
died, Naomi returned oSthe land
God told Noah e build tbs
iigS e.s Christ was ptized at Betha
bara. n
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-07-15
POLICE BELIEVE e
MURDERED GIRL
BELLA LEMONS
.(Continued from page one)

eral photographs OF the dead wom-
man The body was badly mutilat-
ed but all OF the officers who look
ed at the pictures were Of the opin-
ion that the photograph was that OF
Bella Lemons. gsi
An Investigation this afternoon
by The West Virginian revealed
that Bella Lemons, reported Baltt-
more murder victim, did not have
false teeth. A description OF Bellea
Lemons furnished Baltimore police
was exactly the same as that of the
dead woman, except that the dead
woman does not have false teeth, ,
as reported in the des cription from
Fairmont.
The manager of the Peoples
Store in Madison street was at the
police station this m orning and
stated that he believed the Milan
hat, decorated with artificial roses
found near the dead body was pur-
chased at his store.
The city officers and Baltimore
police authorities are looking for
Charles Milan. who is said to have
lived with the Lemons girl in Fair
mont Milan was arrested on a
white slavery charge in Baltimore
short time ago. and the Lemons
girl was a material witness against
him.