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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12

<kT LII tell you why some girls never have
any attention from men," said a
l. young man. sit Is because they are
so beastly ungrateful. They take everything
man can do for them without so much as
a Thank you
II have taken girls to the theater who
would sit up and . avn through the perform
ance and show that they were bored to
death. I've taken them out automobilng
and had them spend the entire time telling
me about the car of some millionaire, and
drawing invidious comparisons between a
twenty-thousand dollar speedster and my
cheap old bus. I have taken girls candy,
and seen them look over my modest box with
a contemptuous eye, while they casually re-
marked that costly caramels were the only
kind they really cared for. I have sent them
roses, and had them even forge to mention
my humble offering to me.
"Now, girls know well enough all about
the high cos. of living and loving. They are
also perfectly we'll aware that there are
mighty few Of us young chaps who are the
industrious sons of the rich. We are poor
lads, and we don't require any hell in car
rying home our salaries of Saturday night.
We can stick it in our waistcoat pockets and
never know it is there.
"All of which means that ever5 time we
spend money on a girl, we nave to deny
ourselves something in order to do it. A
couple Of tickets to the theater and bite
afterwards generally means the cheap lunch
Of violets will set him back the price Of
some really good neckties and so on.
This being the case, it makes a fellow
feel that he has been all of the fifty-seven
different varieties of asses if he has made
his sacrifices for a girl who doesn't appre-
ciate them. Imagine swilling along on bread
and crackers for lunch to take a girl to see
a play in which she doesn't even pretend to
be Interested Fancy weaving your old shoes
to buy flowers for young woman who tram
V11nc fhnr1 undo To ~ Mol ao
you feel as if some kind friend should lead
you by the hand to the door of the Home
for the Incurably Feeble-Minded, and chuck
you in. Alst makes you feel like saying,
Never again so far as the girl is concerned.
"Now, decent chap doesn't feel as if he
were putting woman under everlasting OBJ
legations to him every time he takes her
anywhere, or lays any little offering before
her shrine. Not at all. The pleasure is his.
Neither does he want her to gush and gurgle,
and throw fits OF gratitude at his feet. Far
from it. But he would like to have her give
some sign and token that he is not wasting
} sweetness on the desert air, and that she
appreciates his efforts to please her, and give
her a good time.
"All the return a woman can make to a
man for the money and effort he expends
on her is to appear to enjoy things, and to
make him feel that she is having the time
of her life with him, and if were girl 1
would register JOY and rapture, and delight
over everything man did for me, no mat
ter whether I had to camoufage it or not.
And I wouldn't draw comparisons between
the sandwiches and near-beer that one man
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
YOUR COMMUNITY
Bv H. Addington Bruce

RE the PEOPLE in your community. as
~ general thing, genuinely interested In
public affairs? Or are they so absorb
in their own COZ Germs that they give little
ought to vic problems and issues?
Is their prevailing spirit one of hearty
,leighborliness? Do they cooperate to main
tain pleasant community life?
Are they free from the snobbishness of
wealth? Are they tolerant in regarL to re-
ligious questions? Do they frown upon pet
ty gossip and all mountaineering?
Have they prol'' pride in the appearance
Of their homes and streets, so that the neigh
Oorhood maintains an attractive appearance?
Or is their attitude in regard to this-as in
regard to compliance with public health reg
ulations-one of Indifference?
These are questions of more than academ-
ic interest to you They bear directly on
your welfare in especial on the future
well-being of your children
It goes without saying that you wish to see
those children grow to be efficient and
worthy men and wCmen. Do not forget that
the kind of conn unity in which they are
reared is bound to play a part in determin-
ing the kind of mel. and women they shall be.
According to some good authorities the
conjoint influence of the family, the school,
and the community actually outweighs by
far any other factor in the development of
human beings, not excluding the factor OF
personal incredibly. Or, as it has been put
by that famous savant, Sir Edwin Ray Lark
ester:
1.-THE heredity with which civilization 1s
most supremacy concerned is not that which
is Unborn IN the individual. 1t is the social
inheritance which constitutes the dominant
factor in human progress"
By social Inheritance is meant the social
setting-the teachings and traditions, the
manners and customs, the prejudices and pre-
possessions of the family and the commu-
nifty From his social setting, in the plastic
years of youth, the individual derives ideas
which, because of the tendency of all ideas
to pass over action, shape his behavior, first
as youth, later as man.
Do not think that If the life of your COM
munity is an inferior life your children will
be unaffected by it. They are certain to abb
sorb something of its spirit, 20 their lasting
hurt. Whereas, If it is a superior life the
benefit to them will be equally lasting.
And now ask yourself whether, as men,
Der of the community, you are helping to
raise or to lower community standards. Put
to yourself regarding yourself the same
questio- s I have rut to you regarding the
community as a whole.
AS part of the community you necessa-
ri-y exercise part of the community influence
on your neighbors' children as we'll your
own. Necessarily you help to give those chill
dren beneficial or hurtful ideas. Thus you
unconsciously heir to mould their charac-
tiers, to determine the quality of heir citt-
Fenship.
Have you fully appreciated your respon-
sibility in this respect?
Copyright, 1922, by the Associated News
papers)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
HoaO Helen Keller Heard

YASCHA dEIFETZ playing his violin for
Helen Keller in Denver hotel has at
- tracted attention in newspapers through
out the country, but the young violinist was
not the first to transmit music D the soul OF
this wonderful woman through the medium
of her finger tips.
On a warm. sunshiny day in the spring
Of 1916, on the open veranda of the Geor-
gian Terrace hotel in Atlanta, the immortal
Caruso sang for Miss Keller with her hands
upon his throat to hear" his wondrous
voice.
He was here for grand opera; Miss KEEL
Ter happened to be stopping at the Ter
race: she expressed desire to meet the
great tenor, and he to meet her; they con-
ceved the idea of transmitting the music
sitiye finger tips.
A member of the staff of The Journal.
accompanied by staff photo rainier. found
them in the midst of the unusual perform
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
Planning for PROSPERITY

l making well-defined program of OPP
erations for the current year is typical
of the foresight with which agricultural lead
ers throughout Georgia are preparing for the
busy and momentous months that lie ahead
At an all-day oleerence at Rome last Satur-
day they agreed upo1 p an of diversified
crops, including corn, sweet and Irish pota-
toes, velvet beans and peas, and also upon
extensive raising of dairy cattle. Only as
much cotton will be planted as can BE- bull
warked against weevil attacks and at the same
time be conveniently adapted to this larger
design. Business men and bankers attended
the meeting to pledge their cooperation in
the matter of m.rkets and financial aids
Farmers who adhere to the well-balanced and
prudent system, which was adopted are as
sured of all needfu1 credit accommodations,
as we'll as facilities TO disposng of their sur
plus food products to the best advantage.
It is by such planning and by such cooper
alton that Georgia will be vouchsafed, so far
as human agencies Ca. go, veal of prosper
ity and, better still, of progress. The major
problems of the oncoming months are already
known in outline and essence; moreover. the
means of solving them are fairly apparent.
That there must be curtailment of the cotton
acreage to meet the boil weevil invasion. that
there must be liberal production Of food
tufts to make up the resultant deficiency, and
that there must he markets ample in scope
and apt in equipment for this new order OF
things, will be readily granted. There is no
reason, then why plans to these ends should
not be perfected without further delay; in
deed, they must be perfected before the year
is much further advanced, or the season OF
actual need will find both farming and bust
ness interests fatally unprepared
1t is greatly 20 be hoped, therefore, that
counties which nave not yet taken some such
provident measures as those of Floyd county
will bestir themselves Whether Georgia
shall prosper or shall suffer. shall forge ahead
or fall back, in this year of rigorous test and
fertile opportunity. depends upon how we'll or
i'll her plans are made and carried out. Neg
ligence in this vital matter will invite sore
penalties. as surely as foresight and initiative
will avert them.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
The Muscle Shoals Project

! r press forecasts are borne out. this week
| will witness the governments acctpt-
ance of Mr.. Ford's notable offer touch
| ing the development of a giant nitrate and
| hydro-electric plant at Muscle Shoals-ar
! event Of utmost Importance to the common
country, and particularly to the South.
| At the close of the World War there had
been spent upon this project, and spent out
of the national treasury, the sum Of eighty
million dollars But with the coming OF
peace interest in the primary purpose of the
! undertaking, which was the manufacture OF
nitrates for ammunition, died away; where
! upon the work. half completed, was aban-
doned, so that an immense outlay Of capital,
toll and skill was left lying fruitless.
This would have been less regrettable II
the only use Of nitrates were in making high
explosives for war. But equally potent is that
chemical to noIrish and quicken growing
crops, to befriend the farmer and the mani
fold interests that lean upor the prosperity
of, his labors. In war and peace alike agrl-
culture is the staff of life; and the fertilizers
of which nitrates are major ingredient are
essential to agricultural success. 1t was upon
this score that Germany found herself, in
the earlier stages of the war, threatened with
disaster, her importation of nitrates having
been cut off by the Allied blockade. Had
she not solved the problem by producing
great quantities of the substance from the at
mosphere, her harvests and munitions alike
would have failed and have left her help
less against defeat long efore the second
battl of the Marine.
The United States now depends largely, II
not entirely, upon foreign sources for its sup
ply of nitrates both for fertilizers and for
explosives 1t pays the government of Chile,
which holds monopoly Lpon that country g
nitrate production, an export duty that
amounts in the aggregate to hundreds OF
thousands of dollars year and that is paid,
! principally, of course, b. the farmers, who
; are the chief consumers. This condition of
affairs is as needless as it is. hazardous. What
Germany and other nations of Europe have
done, we can do. The advantages which
their agricultural interests enjoy by virtue
Of the home production of nitrates, ours as
suredly are entitled, and assuredly will re-
ceive if the Muscle Shoals plant is completed
and put into operation fol the service of the
rank and file.
It is that very end which Mr.. Fo~d's offer
contemp1ates Government scientists and en-
gineers consider the terms of his proposition
at once sound and liberal If it is accepted,
IS every report now indicates, and carried
out, the nation will be incomparably securer
than now, and the South incomparably better
circumstanced for farm production.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
4 Harb;nger of Progress

A CHEERING omen of the South's new
~ year is the readiness with which mu-
nicipal, county and state bond for
public improvements are being advantageous
" sold After an extensive study of the mar
ket for sound securities of this kind, the
Manufacturers Record reports that they are
being purchased almost as soon as they are
voted. MANY issues" it adds, that were
offered two months ago and withdrawn be-
cause of low bids and unsatisfactory con-
dtions are now being successfully sold in
many cases at a premium above par and &C
C. ued interest to date. Plans for issuing
bonds for various improvements are announc-
ed, and many issues, no doubt, will be voted
in the near future to cover work to be start
ed in the early spring months" OF the scores
of millions of public improvement bonds now
being issued. those for highways, streets and
paving appear to lead in point of volume, but
those for schools bulk significantly large
while those for sanitation and waterworks
figure high.
These are sure evidences Of a forward
trending spirit and sure harbingels Of prog
ress and prosperity. Southern communities
show a true sense for economy in undertake
ing such improvements at time when the
costs both of materials and of labor are lower
than they have been and lower than they are
likely to be. But more gratifying is the
publics willingness to go ahead with enter
prises for the common good, not waiting for
complete recovery from the wars reaction.
Any time is a good time to b'-ild schools,
to construct highways, to fortify human
health and life. Atlanta we'll may rejoice
that work under her own liberal bond issue
soon will be freely aswing; and Georgia, it Is
to be hoped, will not deav a state bond issue
adequate for greater highway system.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12

ance He requested them to give it on the
veranda, where picture could be taken.
they readily consented.
= And there in the sunshine, with no roof
above him, no walls around him. Caruso
sang for the woman who cannot see or hear
or speak. except in hating. unnatural words.
He sang as probably he had sung few
times for any audience. while Miss Keller
listened" with such an indescribable ex-
preston of 10y and understanding of his
voice that those who saw her could not mis-
take the. reality of her experience.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
Birmingham Women

In Birmingham, Ala, there appears to be
no form of labor from which women are ex-
Guided. The city has, five women chauf.
feurs, four women employed as draymens
twenty-eight engaged as semi-skilled opera
tives in steel mills or blast furnaces, ten
women listed as coal miners and one woman
who earns her livelihood as railroad
switchman.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
Irish Disorders

Five hundred and ninety-five breaches OF
the truce in Ireland have occurred since the
unsigned terms were agreed upon, Thomas
Waters Grown, Attorney General for Ire-
land, told the House Of Commons The in
cidents include 206 kidnapings, in 144 OF
which the person. kidnapped are known to
have been released, while $50 of the other
breaches relate to drilling, ETC., not involv-
ing interference with individuals.
HAS anybody been punished for these
serious offenses of kidnaping?" the ques-
toner insisted.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
whats wrong?" asked Parker.

whats wrong?" asked Parker. "You
look worried
81 am" asserted his friend 1T wrote two
notes-one to my broker asking him if he
took me for a fool, and the other to Miss
Golding asking her if she would marry me.
While l was out somebody telephoned Yes,
and I don't know which of them it was!"
An Irishman was involved in an argument
with Scotsman, and repeatedly called upon
good old st. Patrick to witness the fact
that he was telling the truth.
Much annoyed, the Scotsman said 'To
the blazes with st. Patrick!'
But the son of 4rin promptly countered
with "To the blazes with Harry Lauder,
them"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
Women Voters
African Suffrage

Women now possess full suffrage rights
in twenty-one countries.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12

Preliminary to grant1no self-goverLment
to Tripolitania, northern Africa, the Cover
nor of TripoH has promulgated several de-
crees concerning the new judicial and par
liamentary procedure and regarding the
electoral system, under which all persons OF
twenty years of age will receive the franz
cIlise.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
Dry River

Dfy 1GIVOF
Word has come to Washington that the
dry forces in their anxiety to combat John
t3arleycorn whenever and aler-ver founo1
are seeking to change the name OF the rum
river, in Minnesota, to volstead river KEEP
resentative Andrew j. Nolstead, author OF
the prohibition law, is from the Seventh MIN"
nesota district, near which flows the Rum.
Not only do the drys dislike the name
Rum" as applied to the river, but they ar
que that the river has peculiar chara erls~
tics which are in consonance with its name.
The Rum has it's source in Mile Laos and
rom there wanders and .ambles about for
$50 miles until it joins the Mississippi at
Anoka, only sixty miles as the crow files
from. the point of it's origin. The vagrant
and curiously meandering stream, IN other
words, as seen through the spectacles OF
Wayne B. Wheeler and other leading drys'
sets bad example to the new and rising
generation.
Minnesota state authorities are expected
to settle the controversy. otherwise it may
come to Washington, to congress and the
federal authorities for solution
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
Around the World
ifl-WeekLy Mems FLASHES from AH Over
the Earth
French Budget

Unofficial reports place the total OF the
1922 FrencA budget at 24,60O, 286,OOO
francs, which is 326,0U0,O0O under the
amount demanded by the gov rnment.
Included in the budget is one item OF l2,-
o06 900, 900 francs for meeting the interest
on the public debt.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
Safe Bathing

The death of Sir Arthur Pearson through
slipping in his bath, has directed attention
to the danger of too highly polished BATH
tubs, according to "The Daily Mail"
In the opinion of Sir Nilsson Rees, the
Wimpole Street throat specialist, it is high
time that means were devised of employing
some material to prevent slipping in the
bath. "Manv friends of mine have told
me-" he said, that they have often damag
ed themselves by slipping in their bath and
at least half dozen of my patients have had
broken ribs or bruised heads through the
same cause. The floor o. the bath should
be rid of all polish and given a rough and,
preferably a corrugated surface.
''Those people who cannot obtain bath
of this description should themselves do
something to make slipping impossible. They
should, again, see that the rim of the bath
is unpublished, for many ~ccidents happen
through people sitting carelessly on the
rim"
AS a temporary preca' ton for nervous
people, Sir Nilsson suggested that they
should cover the bottom of their bath with
rubber mating
Pointing out the danger of marble baths,
Sir Nilsson mentioned the case Of a we'll
known woman who some years ago slipped
in her marble bath and ,rok@ several ribs.
Sir Nilsson added that atr salts add to
the risk Of slipping. "Most salts of this
kind he said, contain an or base to hold
their perfume and this settles on the bottom
of the bath. The safest form of bath salt is
the solution"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
Another War?

Premier Massey, of New Zealand, in his
New Years message, in emphasizing the i'm"
portance of peace for assisting the process
of reconstruction, declares that results OK
the greatest Importance from the Washing
ton conference are probable, and that ii an
amicable quadruple arrangement can be.
maintained it will be the best guaranty or
the peace of the world ever known, says
dispatch to "The London Tines from Well.
ngton.
'"No nations have more to gain by peace
than the young British nations of the Pa
cific," the premier's message continues. but
whatever agreement is reached between the
present great powers none of their repre-
sentatives think the world has seen the last
war" He warns against the empire lapsing
into absolute unpreparedness
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
Clean Money

There seems to be little basis for the be-
lief that coins bear any close relation to the
spread Of disease, according to an announces
ment at the University Of Illinois by Drs.
Charlotte B. Ward and Fred w. Tanner, or
the university, following a series of tests
made by the two.
''Coins of the lower denominations were
examined for the types of bacteria which ex-
lists on Them" says their report. ut has
often been stated that money is very dam
handled by all sorts of persons and because
son to another. 1t has also been stated that
cashiers and others whose vacations require
them to handle money in larger quantities
than the average person might be more sus-
ceptible to disease, but this does not seem
to be the case.
SIT seems that the very metals from which
the coins are made act to destroy the bac-
terra which reach the coins. In the study
only the more resistant of bacteria, tie
spore-forming bacteria, were found. This
indicates that m )ney need not be feared, for
bacteria cannot live long on it.
'These findings however, do not justify
holding coins In the mouth while the hands
are serving other purposes.
"Coins DIS they are passed from person to
person come in contact with acids and aka
lis which form soluble salts on their sur
faces
'This is indicated by the green color
often noticed on pennies and the furnished
appearances on niLkels These coins, which
have an old appearance, are the ones which
have few bacterial
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-12-13
NOW HAVE GOATS AS PETS
Greenwich Village Girls Claim They
Find the Humble "Bi!iies" USE
full Companions.

The real thing in the Greenwich VII
tage studio now is the billy goat. Those
who profess to know go so far as to
state that the village girls, when they
60 out to show their smocks and
bobbed hair, won't carry Peke or a
Pom, but will lead a goat. Those who
have them say they are easier to care
for than n dog, the upkeep not being
so heavy, due to goats digestion. and
that they are kind and companionable.
There are other advantages, that of
garbage disposal, even to cans, being
one. Then again. the owner of a goat,
particularly il the studio is small, will
never be lonesome. A little observation
from the Sixth or the Ninth avenue
elevated from Fourteenth street on
down will show that the goat is becom-
ing more and more prevalent.-New
York Correspondence In the Detroit
News.