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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-18
OUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

The family was seated at dinner, and the
conversation turned to school lessons, much
to the CONSERVATION and disgust Of little
Cynthia.
What period in English history are you
studyjng?" asked her father.
'"The Stuarts," said Cynthia CURLY.
There was long pause as father thought
out question to put to his daughter. He
was a little hazy about facts but at last he
propounded his poser.
What was the first thing James I did
when he came to the throne?" asked father
solemnly.
''sat on it, suppose replied Cynthia,
with calm conviction.
at was his first trip in an airplane. The
pilot asked him whether he was nervous.
mot me, don't know what fear isl
He said this so perkly that the pilot gave
him many new notwithstanding the loop,
spiraling down, and so forth-before they
came to the earth again.
The pilot pointed to the crowd.
Il don't mind telling you," he said to the
passenger, that fifty per cent Of those peo-
low expected us to smash
And the passengers comment was: 81
don't mind telling you that fifty per cent OF
those above did, toQ''
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-18
DOROTHY DIX TALKS

A Chicago man, who sued his wife for
divorce because she kept him awake at
night with her weeping, has just been de-
MED separation from the fearful lady, the
court apparently holding to the theory that
woman has right to cry much as she
wants to, and no husband has a right to
abridge her pleasures.
Ones sympathy goes out to the man who
has had the i'll luck to espouse human
hydrant, for if there is any woman under
the sun who gets upon ones nerves, it is
the lachrymose sister whose tears are al
ways on tap, and who turns on the water
works at the slightest provocation, or no
provocation at ALL No one should be ex-
pected to endure having such damp, moist,
unpleasant body tied around their necks,
and so if excessive weeping is not divorce
able offense, it should be made one. A
wife who is good, cheerful sinner is
simply matrimonial prize compared to the
wife who Is weepy saint
For there Is always the chance of re-
forming the sinner, but there is nothing
you can do with a woman who Is tear
jug, except to walk on tiptoe around her,
and try to keep from jostling her so she
won't slop over. You can't argue with
her because if you differ with her on the
slightest point she floods the place with
her tears. You can't tell her of fault
because to criticise anything she does Is a
signal for Mysteries
What she wants, she gets, because she
sits down and bowls for 1t until it is given
to her to shut her up. She evades all Of
the duties and burdens of life by the
simple process OF doing the cry baby act.
There Is no more contemplate type OF
woman than the weeper because she has
found out that tears are a graft, and she
works them for all they are worth. Elk
perience has taught her that it is easier to
cry than 1t is to toll, and deny herself, and
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-18

WY ASHINGTON, May 13.--Is prohi-
w bition temporary thing, from
which public opinion will swing
strongly in few years or q few decades?
Will public and official support of the
Volstead law in the United States fall away
so that the law becomes dead letter, and
bootlegging be tolerated without much in
reference from the police or from federal
officials.
The state of mind of the American
public will be we'll shown in many of
the congressional elections this autumn.
The wet and dry issue is foremost in
many of the campaigns. Straightout party
issues do not amount to very much. The
same old hue and cry about extravaganza
and taxes voiced by the "outs," and point
ing with pride to accomplishments by the
Gins" doesn't arouse any transcendent en-
thusiasm among the great common people
so frequently referred to by campaign
orators.
But the question of liquor seems to re-
main a very live one with nearly every
body. The interest keeps up, whether a
person be wet or dry in sentiment. In
the elections this fall there will be some
effort to organize on the part Of citizens
who believe prohibition a failure and a
bad thing, just as the Anti-Saloon League
and other similar so-called reform organ
izations have organized their followers and
Inc QTy VOG0TS WIFI COnS1Q6TaDl0 success.
In the coming elections the history Of
the Volstead law will be revived. Anti
prohibitionists will recall the charge that
the Volstead law was passed over Pres
ident Wilson's veto in violation Of an
agreement which had been made with
several opponents of the measure. When
the measure had gone to the White House,
several Pennsylvania, New York and other
congressman who were opposed to the
Volstead measure secured promises, so
they said then, that they could go home
in safety, and that there would not be
vote on passage of the measure again If
it was vetoed by Mr.. Wilson, until they
had chance to be present and cast their
ballots.
Bad Faith Charged
However, according to certain anti
drys, when it was found that there was
a sufficiently large dry vote in the house,
with the "wet" New York and Pennsyl-
vania members absent, the bill was called
up for passage over the veto of the
president. and among those present and
voting the sufficient two-thirds affirmative
vote was secured.
Interest in the matter of prohibition,
however, is spreading throughout the
world, partly due to the efforts Of the
agents of the Anti-Saloon League Eng
land was made the first objective of this
purely American organization. The first
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so she takes the water route to the goal of
her desires.
Observe the woman who is a free and
easy weeper, and you will see that she is
nothing else. She never exercises any
thing but her lachrymose glands.
Is she a miserable housekeeper, one of
the women whose beds are never swept
under whose bread is always heavy, whose
meat is always overdone or underdone, and
whose families are poisoned with mean
food? She doesn't 90 to work and wrestle
with the broom, and the cook book, AMI
make decent home. Oh, no. II any
body dares to say word about how unt1dy
things are, or to criticise an UNBEATABLE
dinner, she just boo-hoos and boo-hoos until
someone is fool enough to try to comfort
her.
Are the fearful mothers children little
hoodlums that are the scandal of the
neighborhood? Does she stay at home,
and look after them, and try to control
them, and teach them elementary morals
and manners? Far from 1t. she just
weeps, and weeps, and weeps over how IN
ruly Mamie and Johnnie are, and soDs out
that it lust breaks her heart to see the
Tind of men and women they are growing
I'M to be. But that's all she does about It
just cries.
Does the fearful woman desire some
thing beyond her means? When her hus-
band explains to her that he can't AFFORD
II, that times are hard, that they must look
out for the future, does she recognize the
wisdom Of his refusal to go into debt TOT
luxury, and cheerfuly give 1t up! Never.
She becomes perfect geyser OF tears, ana
spouts and spouts until the poor drowned
man gives in to her selfishness to save his
| life.
Copyright, 1922, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Inc.)
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REFLECTIONS OF A
BACHELOR GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND

My Daughter, why is there weeping and
wailing amongst Golf Widows?
Why is there sorrow where all should be
joy and thanksgiving?
For, verify, verify, among women, the
Golf Widow and the Sod Widow are the
ONLY ones who know always where their
husbands ARE-and what they are doing.
Go to! Who is so blessed as a Golf Wild
ow?
For 10, hers are all the comforts and bene-
fits and joys Of matrimony with none of it's
sorrows and Affections
AS the Pet Wife in an harem, she hath
but one-tenth of an husband to amuse and
to jolly and to wait upon; for upon her. her
Beloved bestoweth all his kisses and all his
worldly goods, but only a small portion Of
his society.
Then, let her be glad and rejoice.
All her Saturday afternoons are matinees
and frances, and all her Sunday mornings
are dreams and beauty sleep.
All her evenings are deadliness and quiet
and all her holidays are rest.
For, when her Beloved is not playing
golf he is sleeping off his WEAKNESS there
from. And her heart is not troubled con-
For, the Golf Husband hath no time and
no money, and no enthusiasm left FOR
women.
Blessed is the Golf Widow, for she know
eth not the burden Of inventing things for
an husbands hands to do, that he may be
kept busy and out Of mischief.
10, she is spared the torment of watch
ing him tinker about the house. and disport
himself with a bucket Of paint and ham
mer and nails.
He stayeth not to snoop in the refrigerator,
he hangeth not about the cook, he search
eth not the cupboards, nor seeketh for flaws
in the housekeeping.
He seeketh not to keep her at hard labor,
finding his clothes and his books and his
pipes and his fishing tackle.
copyright, 1922, by Helen Rowland)
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The SIMPLE and the Sage

! TT is highly refreshing to hear so disting-
uished a scientist as Director George Otis
Smith, of the United States Geolog, ,al
survey, making a plea for plain words-for
"sand" inste ad of "arenaceous deposit" for
clay instead Of "argillaceous stratum" for
"river banks instead Of riparian borders"
In precise scientific statement, it is granted,
special terms are needful-"words that est
keep their razor edge when used only for
hair-splitting distinctions" But if a spe-
cialist on rocks is writing for the 1ayman or
talking to a landowner about the mineral
makeup of soil, there is no excuse for say
< ing 1.-THE superintendent material consists
OF q stratum of ca ;areous composition
rather than "The everything bed is limestone. :"
Well does DR.. Smith advise that "the eco
nomic geologist tell his story in plain Eng
lish so that his clients and the public can see
things as they are and thus learn to refuse
the highly colored substitute offered by
quack imitators."
A true scientist, of course, takes no de-
nomenclature as a peacock it's plumes, but
prefers the simplest terms that will SUFFICE
Anyone can read without stumbling such a
treatise as Professo McCallie's "Sand and
Gravel deposits of Georgia." or his valuable
account of the States mineral springs. And
where is more lucid or more engaging Eng
lish to be found than in the gre~t Faraday' s
History of Candle" or in Lord Kelvin on
the tides, or in William James psychology?
The suns Of the intellectual world shine
clear; it is the little oil lamps that smoke
and sputter.
In his story of Alexandria, that once sp1en-
did capital Of pr csophy and science, Mr..
Wells speaks of time when wisdom had
passed away and Gle; peda try behind"
when "for the use books was substituted
the worship of books" when the learned
grew to be "a specialized, queer class with
unpleasant characteristics Of it's own" And
then he sketches this portrait of a person
Anty with which we are still, regrett25.y
enough, not unacquainted: 1.-THE Museum
had not existed for half dozen generations
before Ar andria was familiar with new
type Of human beings; shy, eccentric, unprac-
tfcal, incapable Of essentials, strang ly fierce
upon trivia1ities Of literary detail, as bitterly
jealous of the colleague within as Of the I'M
learned without, the bent Scholarly Man.
For him no method Of copying was suffi-
GENTLY tedious and no rare book sufficient
inaccessible. He was sort Of by-product of
the intellectual processes of mankind" It is
against that mood and spirit that true
science like true literature and true eGuca-
ton ever revolts, with half flash of anger
bu. more IN pity and in laughter.
What better example for teachers of
truth than lie liberal kindly heavens, whose
lights and dewE are shed upon the mightiest
and the lowliest, the simple and the sage?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-18
Aviators May Become AID Writers If
Sky
(By Science Seryice)


LONDON.-Ad men here see possibilities
Of using a new medium for pushing their
goods. Smoke writings in the sky have been
developed through experiments made during
the last three years by the Air Ministry dur
ing the perfection of methods Of military sig
mailing. While the military men have confined
most Of their writing to the vari-colored dots
and dashes of the Morse code, simple words
may be written so as to remain in the sky
for from three to ten minutes and even
longer.
A pillar of cloud by day and column Of
fire by night may soon be leading custom
ers through a wilderness Of competitors to
the promised land where they may obtain
"Somebodys Soap" or "Anothers Beans"
Couples cooling in the moonlight may look
into the dreamy depths of the sky and read
there, Gown Your Own Home"
A great deal of chemical research was
necessary to discover the best materials and
mechanism to be provided. The inventor also
devised method of sending small jets Of
smoke from various parts of the aeroplane
wing, so affording means of studying air.
flow from photographs.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-18
ART AND DRUGS
Bv DR., Frank Crane

man may be very eminent in his own pro-
fesson and vastly ignorant outside of it.
Mr.. Joseph Pennell is eminent American
etcher and illustrator. He made a speech the
other day, however, in New York, in which, &C
cording to the press reports he stated that enc
nation ever produced and maintained art with
out freedom of thought such as drink implies"
He also attacked those fanatics whom he pic
tured to be gradually reducing the United States
to the point of becoming an artistic and intel
lectual desert.
"When group of fanatics takes away such a
privilege as wine" continued the distinguished
artist, "1ot only freedom takes its wings but
+he Graces are not long in following. You
cannot have good art or good literature with
out drink. 1t is absolutely impossible. Unless
something is done toward ameliorating the
prohibition laws, art will go 20 the devil IN
the United States"
Reduced to its lowest terms and put in SIM
pie understandable English Mr.. Pencils propo-
sition is tina! the best work of the human is
produced by drugs.
Alcohol is drug just opium, cocaine,
heroin, and the like drugs. This is nothing
against it, as drugs have their human uses
But it is drug just the same, for the simple
reason that it is not necessary food. The nor
NAL healthy human being can get along without
it, The only person who absolutely needs it
is one whose system has been perverted by its
continued USE The man who simply must have
alcohol is precisely the same sort OF type as
the man who simply must have his happy dust.
The main difference between alcoholic and
other drugs is that the use of alcohol has been
almost universal for countless generations. 1t
has behind it the tremendous momentum Of
tradition.
1t is also entrenched in thai institution known
as society, which gives it an enormous power
over vast portion of the human race.
But for all that, alcohol is vastly more dan
gerous than any other habit-forming drug, for
the reason that its effects are so closely par
alle to those produced by perfect state OF
youth, health and fitness. These effects are
temporary and are invariably followed by re-
action, which is dangerous and often destructive.
But there are a large number of souls who
are willing to throw away life, health, and pros
poets for high moment. This number in
cudes not only genuses but all children, and
fools.
Mr. Pennell is not the first who has twanged
his Tyre and raised his voice in praise of wine.
The cult of BacchuS is as old as deluson, which
in turn is as old as the human race.
Mr. Stephen Crane once said that American
literature might be divided into two classes,
whisky and opium.
Mr.. Pennell seems inclined to restrict all
American genius to class, as he said moth
ing in praise of hasheesh, loco weed, or the
hypodermic syringe.
Copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-18
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irwin Cobb

A young Arkansas lawyer commanded a
company Of colored draft troops in France.
He heard members of the outfit calling one
of their companions Deacon" and in view
of the general character of the individual
thus designated, his curiosity was aroused.
Look here, George" he said, "do these
other men call you Deacon for fun or in
sarcasm?"
"They calls me Deacon cause I is a
deacon" said George.
"a deacon in a church,"
"Yassuh, regular deacon in reg'lar
church"
"But you're the toughest niger in this
whole battalion. You shoot craps, you get
drunk, you get in the guard-house, you re
always fighting and every time you open
your mouth you spill cuss words. How did
you ever happen to be elected a deacon?"
"Cap'n, twas lax dis" said George. Dey
was holdin' an lection in my church down
In Alabama and de rough elemint in de
congregation wanted a member on de Bo'de.
So dey 'lected me unanimous"
Copyright, 1922, by The Mcknight Syndi-
cate, Inc.)
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SMILE A WHILE

Brown had attended an auction sale of
furniture and antiques, and had bought
grandfather clock.
After the sale he looked round for some
one to carry his purchase to his house, but,
alas! he could find nobody.
So at last, in despair, he decided to be
his own beast of burden. After some difficulty
he managed to strap the clock on to his
back and trudged off toward home.
A burly laborer happened to come round
a corner rather abruptly, and a collision re-
suited.
I'm sorry" gasped Brown
$50 am l." said the big workman, rising
from the gutter. IF you can't blow your
horn, why don't you buy wrist-watch?"
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Wing Is There Less Smok;nq9
q IDEWALK savants are bordering the re-
port of tobacco producers that American

port Of tobacco producers that American
use of Sir Walters soothing weed is on
decline. The output Of cigarettes, It seems,
is sixteen per cent less than in 1920, and
eighteen per cent less than year ago. For
cigars the decrease, while not so marked, is
considerable Disciples of the pipe are, of
course, steadfast and tranquil company, but
they are not multiplying as of yore. AS for
the comforting quid, we can only infer from
the silence of the statisticians that it holds
it's own-and certainly it's own hold it.
Why this falling off? Hardly because there
are fewer smokers. An old dog sometimes
may learn a new trick, veteran Of many
wars may quaver in battle, venerable saint
may veer from grace; circle, says Einstein,
may not be round; but how rarely do her true
loves jilt Lady Nicotine A number of steady
smokers pass on each year--some to Para
disc, some perchance to Pluto. The former,
according to Sir Oliver Lodges advices, go on
smoking if they SO prefer; and the latter says
all tradition, assuredly do, though not from
preference. But this normal thinning of the
ranks of mundane smokers cannot of itself
account for decrease in tobacco consump-
ton sufficient to bring about an eighteen per
cent decrease in the manufacture of one Of
its most popular forms. What then, Is the
explanation?
There is less smoking answers student
Of the figures, because there Is less excite
ment." During the war years when nerves
were under excessive tension tobacco was
craved to an extraordinary degree; as times
Gained, the need for its sedative was felt less
insistently, less acutey; where ten smokes
were once required, four or five now suffice.
If this indeed be the case, perfect poise of
being should dispense with the desire alto
gether. That, mayhap, Is why the seraphim
are not supposed to smoke.
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Woman Candidate

Miss Mayhayley Lancaster is a candidate
in Heard county for member of the state
senate from the Thirty-seventh district, COM
posed Of the counties of Heard, Troup and
Carroll. Commenting on the race the La
Grange Reporter says:
eve observe, by the way, that the Carroll
County Times is opposing the candidacy of
some man for that office because he has de-
clared himself in favor of relieving women
from the payment of poll tax in order to
vote We want Miss Lancaster to let us know
when she gets ready to debate the issue with
that man!
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a Plan for Reforestat;;on
A PARTICULARLY interesting plan of
"A financing the reforestation of denuded

A PARTICULARLY interesting plan of
n financing the reforestation of denuded
areas, as reported by the American
Lumberman, is that large tracts of cut-over
timber lands unsuited for farming shall be
sold to the State at their present taxable val
ues, the owners accepting in payment forty
year State bonds
OF this plan, which in at least one Southern
commonwealth has ben definitely proposed
by the landowners, the American Lumber
man says: cit would enable the State at
small expenditure Of money to acquire great
tracts of land and put into effect program
Of reforestation that would build up ire
mendously valuable resource. By the time
the bonds had begun to mature the timber
regrown on the lands thus purchased would
be ready for cutting, and lumber manufac-
turers would be. in the market to buy the
timber from which to produce lumber for the
country's needs" Thus, too, would be made
possible the development of wood pulp in
dustries, for which in recent years there has
been keenly felt and waxing need.
That the timber output of the lands would
provide ample funds for retiring the bonds
and also for growing the trees is considered
certain by those who have studied the propo-
sition as is also the possibility Of thus solv-
ing the more and more troublous problem of
depleted timber resources. Perhaps the
very simplicity Of the PLAN" comments the
American Lumberman, explains why it has
received such scant attention. It would ap-
pear to be practical in every sense. It is
hoped that the suggestion may be followed in
other States, and that as the people become
familiar with the advantages of such a plan,
pressure may be brought to bear sufficient to
secure it's adoption throughout the country"
Certainly, any proposal or any discussion
that will bring nearer to accomplishment the
vast and imperative task of reforestation
merits earnest attention. Economists are now
estimating that the forests of Russia could be
made to liquidate the whole worlds war debt
within less than hundred years. The cut
over lands of the South could be made to play
as great part, proportionateIy in prospecting
this region.
I'm Yes, Certainly
Bill Biffem remarks in the Savannah
Press that sit is poor rule that won't work
In reverse gear,
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Lauqh With Us

In Texas the short cotton crop forced a
large number of negroes to the cities. One
Of these applied for job at one of the large
employment agencies.
There's job open at the Eagle laundry
said the man behind the desk. Want it?"
The applicant shifted uneasily from one
foot to the other.
TELL you how it is, boss" he said, final
1y. II sure does want job mighty bad, but
I amt never washed a eagle"
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The prisoner had been given a sentence
Of seven days without the option of paying
fine