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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-10
VACATION DAYS
By H. Addington Bruce

~ NOE more the time draws near for your
I summer vacation. Eagerly you are
looking forward to it's arrival as prof
fering your opportunity for a restful break
in the routine of your workaday life.
See to it that you do make your vacation
really synonymous with rest. Many work
ers, far too many workers, do not.
Because their vacation period is neces-
sarily brief they seem to think that they
must make it, period of super-activity
Never do they work so hard as during the
fortnight of their freedom from work
On their return they may say--and they
may sincerely believe-that they have had
a wonderful vacation. But soon they are
forced to ask themselves why it is that
this exceptionally fine vacation has had any
thing but invigorating effects so far as the
performance of their business duties is con-
cerned.
And the tragedy of it is that those most
in need of rest-the nervously tense, hence
the nervously exhausted-are precisely the
ones most likely to give themselves over
strenuous vacations. Instead of slipping
away to recuperate in quiet rural retreats,
they rush to crowded resorts for the excess
sive gayety which is the last thing they
should seek.
They are sure that they would be "bored
to extinction" if obliged to content them
selves with the simple pleasures of orchard
and meadow, of field and forest, of dell and
brook and tree-encircled pond. How can
they be sure of this if they have never made
the experiment?
You perhaps are one Of those unfortunate
folk obsessed with desire to be perpetually
in motion amid vacation crowds, likewise
obsessed with passion for motion. If SO,
tell me, are you not sometimes, possibly
often, troubled with a vague discomfort you
cannot explain, consciousness that you are
being cheated out of something worth
while?
Try a new vacation plan this year.
Don't go back to 'Turmoil-by-the-Sea" or
s'Jazz Haven" Select instead some well
recommended farmhouse that takes few
exceedingly few-boarders. Persuade con-
genial friend-not too "chatty'' a one-to
accompany you there.
Take along sensible clothes for tramping
through rough country. Take along some
good fiction. And most certainly take along
few simple books on birds and trees and
wild flowers that will help you really to
get acquainted with nature.
If you have never had any real acquaint-
ance with nature before, rare treat is in
store for you. Bored you will not be
after you once taste the delights that the
open country, with it's mysteries and it's
charms, holds for the weary and over
wrought.
And when you return to the city it will
be not merely with improved health, but
with clearer understanding of the posi-
bilities of life sanely lived. You may, to
be sure, drift once more into your former
feverish ways that make for a mounting
restlessness. But do not believe you will
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TOO PROUD TO WORK

with the same loathingf they feel for the
masculine loafer. The world is just as full
of opportunities for women as it is for men,
and we are filled it'll disgust when we see a
woman who would rather accept charity and
be beggar, than roll up her sleeves and go
to work, and make decent living for herself.
Indeed, this general feeling that there is
such dignity, and self respect in making ones
own way, and that there is such joy in feel
ing ones own strength, and that one can
stand on ones own feet. has made many
women foresake homes of ease and luxury,
and go into business. They don't want to
waste their lives on nothing bun foolish
frivolous seeking after amusement. They
want to do something constructive and
worthwhile, something that will justify their
having lived.
Undoubtedly, the reason that many
women fail in business is because they are
like Jane. They are ashamed of what they
are doing. Therefore, they never do it we'll.
All Of us can recall having boarded with
women who were ashamed Of taking board
ers, and who camouflaged it under the pre-
text of loneliness, and taking in few pay
ing guests, Because the woman was asham-
ed Of being an honest boarding house keeper,
she spent her time reading novels, or play
ing bridge, and never saw that the maid
swept under the beds or the cook prepared
decent meals, and eventually that boarding
house went into bankruptcy.
And we all know women who are ashamed
Of being dress makers, and who never take
the trouble to learn even the rudiments of
their trade and they fail; and we know other
women who proud of their calling and
who turn dressmaking into an art, and we
pay them whatever they want for their con-
fections.
We know women who sell things in shops,
and who have to be called "salesladies' in
stead of salesgirls, and they are so ashamed
of selling things that they never take the
trouble to try to please you, or try to find
out what you want, but brighten and cover
you so with the grand duchess airs that you
stink out of the store, and go to some place
where there is a little Mamie or Sadie who
thinks that being salesgirl is the grandest
job on earth, and who will rummage over
the whole place to find you what you desire.
There Is something wrong mentally and
morally with the woman in these days who
is ashamed of being a working woman, for
to be working woman is her badge of honor.
1t is the reward that generations of slave
women, Of dependent women, have won for
her. 1t frees her. The ability to earn their
own living sets the woman of this genera
ton apart from all other women in history,
as the first women who did not have to sell
themselves in marriage, or out. of it, for their
bread and butter.
The only work that women should be
ashamed of doing is bad work.
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The Duty Of Serv;ng at Home

4 HS DNLH VI oCS Cf|GS ~ - O"SS
r TNDER the terms of a unique and liberal
provision in the will of the late Mrs
Lydia C. Chamberlain, of Des Moines
thirty-eight selected students from the col
leges of Iowa will be sent to Columbia Uni
versity next autumn, each having, in addi-
ton to a fellowship, seven hundred and fiji
ty dollars in cash. railway fare to New
York, and return ticket. In this last bit
of thoughtfulness Mrs. Chamberlain showed
her purpose that the commonwealth OF
Iowa, as well as the students themselves,
should profit by their postgraduate train
ing. Indeed, the will stipulates that for q
period of at least two years after complet-
ing their work at Columbia they shall reside
in Iowa.
This is no ungenerous requirement. AS
New York observer aptly comments, 1T is
likely to benefit the students, the State OF
Iowa, and perhaps, in the long run, I'ew
York as we'll The young man or woman
finishing a university course is likely to be
strongly under the influence Of his environ
ment and of the faculty. II that influence
is exerted a Thousand miles away, Iowa
doesn't have a chance to present its claims
to consideration as the place for career.
But two years in Iowa will give the student
background and judgment OF the COMPARE
tive opportunities there and here. Those
who are most resolute to come back to New
York will do so after two years, and they
Will NC ZIG o1Oo Auoo' Ain0AJ W octoN" "NA
Those best fitted for Iowa opportunities will
have found them and will know why they
stay"
Education should dispose one, not to for1
sake his homeland, but to serve it, This is a
peculiarly admirable aim and achievement OF
the Martha Berry schools They not only
train the minds, and hands of mountain
youths to do the best Of work. but they also
inspire them to do it in their own environ.
ment and for their own people. Is not that
the first and, as rule, the highest duty Of
all to whom educational opportunities have
come? Why leave Georgi. or the South fol
far fields when the greatest of all oppor
tunities, the opportunity Of good service
abounds here and cries out for loyal spirits!
An excellent thing it is for youth and age
alike to have wide horizons and gather
knowledge from divers regions. But the
truly wise come home when duty calls them
thither,
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1.-THE United Mine Workers of America is
an unlawful organization because it aims, as
shown by its constitution, to appropriate the
properties Of-the operators.
THERE'S conspiracy between the union
and the mine owners and operators of the
Central Competitive field to unionize the non
union fields of West Virginia in order to
handicap or to destroy the non-union opera
tors as competitors in the markets which
they now reach, and where by reason of their
lower production costs and greater efficiency
they now have an advantage over the union
lied Central Competitive field."~
Turning from these contentious of the op-
orators we have the claims of the miners as
epftomized by Vice President Murray, of the
union, as follows: "The miners have the
assemblage in which they should be protect
ed. They have also the right of collective
bargaining, the right to join the union and
the right to engage in legitimate trade union
activities. Their rights, if not specifically
guaranteed by the organized law of the ma
ton, are contemplated by the fundamental
guarantees of the Constitution, and have the
highest sanction of all law, organic or statu-
tory, namely, the approval of enlightened
public opinion and common practice in all in
dustries in all civilized countries.
The problem in West Virginia is not a
question of unionism versus non-unionism,
but is a question of the establishment, &C
ceptance and observance Of fundamental prin-
ciples and practices which are essential to
peace and orderly progress in all industry.
THE trouble is due solely to the denial by
the operators of the right of their employees
to join the union, and to the methods adopted
by the operators to enforce that denial -
methods that were coercive and intimidating
and resulted in the invasion of the constitu-
t1onal and economic rights of the workers.
Menace to Public Welfare
conditions of the West Virginia nom
union fields and the controversy there are a
menace to the public welfare, prevent the
sterilization and orderly development of the
entire bituminous coal industry, and tend to
foment discord and unrest in all other indus
tries,
Recognition of the rights of the workers
to join the union will not result necessarily
in the unionization of the non-union fields
'The> United Mine Workers Of America is
lawful organization, it does not seek the
appropriation of private property, and it is
not in conspiracy with the operators of the
Central Competitive Field against the nom
union operators in West Virginia.
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PRAYER OF A LOST SOLDIER

May He who is the source of all good gifts
bless the men assembled here and be with
all the members of their families and their
households; may He prosper and help them
in their needs and guide them in their diff
culties. May He hear the prayers of all who
worship Him in truth, comfort the sorrowing.
and cheer the silent sufferers. May He re-
ward with the joy Of goodness the charitable
and the merciful who succor the poor, care
for the sick, teach the ignorant, and stretch
forth their helping hand to those who have
lost their way in this world.
Fervently we invoke Thy benediction for
this our country and our. nation. Guard
them, o God, from calamity and injury; may
their adversaries not triumph over them,
but the glories of just, righteous. and God
fearing people increase from age to age En-
tighten and sustain with Thy power those
whom the people havt set in authority; the
President and his counsellors and advisers,
the judges, law-givers, and executives, and
all those who are entrusted with our safety
and with the guardianship of our rights and
liberties. May peace and good will obtain
amongst all the citizens of our land; may re-
ligion spread its blessings among US, and
exalt our nation in righteousness. Amen.
Printed at the request of Private E. W.
Morgan, u S. A., veteran of the Spanish
American and the World War.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-10
DOROTHY DIX TALKS

r ANE is strong and husky. She is I'M
usually intelligent and we'll educated.
~ She is full Of pep and energy. She
is an expert stenographer, and has good
job with big firm.
By all the rules that apply to such a sit
uation Jane ought to be on her way, and
going to private secretaryship and fat
pay envelope, but she isn't. She is stuck,
and she doesn't get ahead any, and she is
grouchy and discontented and is fretting
herself into case of nerves.
Now the thing that is the matter with
Jane is pride Silly, false pride. She is
ashamed Of working. It mortifies her to
death to be classed as working woman,
and she considers being called stenographer
the greatest insult that could be offered her.
She isn't lazy. She really doesn't dislike
the effort it requires to do the labor she
does. She likes the atmosphere of the office
with its orderly hustle and hustle, and the
sense it gives one of being part of big
powerful machine that is crashing its way
along to great achievements. She is interest
ed in the work itself, and she would enjoy
doing it, and be happy and successful if only
she could get over her idiotic idea that there
is some stigma attached to a girls earning
her own living.
That's why she fails. Nobody can put any
enthusiasm, any heart, any punch, into doing
the thing they are chained Of doing We
have got to believe that our work is the
greatest thing in the world, the most i'm
portant, the most interesting, and that just
to be dong it clothes us with glory and dis
tinction in order to accomplish anything
worth while.
It's the stenographer who is ashamed of
being "a stenographer who never learns to
spell or punctuate, or gets any more speed,
and who never rises to the position of a
private secretary. It's the boy who is asham-
ed OF being a carpenter, who is sLch a poor
carpenter, that he never gets to be a con-
tractor, and so on, through the whole list
Of human occupations. We have got to
have pride in our work to make it good
work.
Jane. considers herself a highly modern,
up-to-date young woman. She would be
amazed and indignant if anyone called her
mid-Victor1an, but surely her idea that peo-
pie look down on girl for earning her own
living belongs to vanished day.
She's wrong there. The girl that people
look upon with contempt in these times is
the husky, able bodied, youn. woman who
sits around and twiddles her thumbs and
lets her poor old father work himself to
death to support her, or the girl who gratis
her living off her relatives, or the public, in
stead of going out, and earning it herself
Nobody admires the parasitic woman now.
On the contrary, everyone looks upon her
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-10
Harmless Hollywood

r r OLLYWOOD, according to Karl K.
II Kitchen, an alliterative author who
recently has investigated that place
is not a sink-hole of iniquity, but most dull,
tiresome place; ''forlorn suburb" where
there is nothing doing" no might life" to
speak Of and nothing to do but go to bed
after the sun retires.
Mr.. Kitchen explains the wave of unsayory
press -agentry concerning Hollywood as being
based on only two things-the Arbuckle in
cident and the murder of William Desmond,
and. as for the latter he suggests his own
theory that Desmond was not murdered but
committed suicide rather than remain in
Hollywood
The off-screen life of the actors, says Mr..
Kitchen in The New Y DIRK World, is as stupid
as possible, and as uneventful. The liveliest
efening he spent there was at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, who spend
all their evenings at home and have a mo-
ton picture program every evening after
dinner in little :aovie theater-probably
like that of Phil L'Engle in Atlanta-in their
house. Charlie Chaplin came in and cracked
few jokes, and he and Mr. Fairbanks and
Mr.. Kitchen all snoozed internationally dur
ing the movie show.
suburb are too absurd for words,'' asserts
Mr.. Kitchen. 'The film colony hasn't any
money to spend in !otous li-ing, even if
there were any place to spend -
81 played game of dominoes one night, -
Charlie Chaplin is quoted as confessing,
"and I felt terribly guilty afterwards"
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That "Tuck-a-Dunt' Again,

" HANKS to the researches Of one DR..
Syntax" and to the thoughtfulness of
a gracious reader who directs our at
tention to his recently published letter on
the subject, the mystery of Lady Astor's 81
don't give tuck-a-dunt", is on the way to
being disclouded.
1t was in Chicago that Lacy Aston let fall
the battling phrase when, by way of box
on the ears of lazy-mindedness, she declared,
ST don't give tuck-a-dunt for the unintelli-
gent woman!" So, at least, Chicago under
stood and reported her as saying; and forth
with there was cudgelling Of brains the
country over to find out what in the name of
the inscrutable sphinxes all "tuck-a-dunt,"
which is not in the dictionaries, could be-.
An American Indian word, some guessed; a
rural variant of tinker's dam, others main
tanned. But now comes scholar, a keen
Scot we fancy, doubling that Lady Aston
ever said "tuck-a-dunt." Her audience in
Chicago city whose free-verse bard, Carl
Sandburg describes as
Hog butcher for the World
Stormy, husky, brawling-
surely did not hear Alright, or did not under
stand if CDR. Syntax'' reads the riddle true.
For, argues he, what Lady Aston must
really have said was this II don't give a
TucK-OI-Qrum IOr the unlnCellSenC woman
The noun "tuck," (akin to touch) is put
down by Webster as (a) "a blow or stroke;
(b) the beat of drum being in the latter
sense obsolete or Scotch. The Standard,
which is quoted by "Dr. Syntax'' in his in
teresting letter to the New York Times,
states that the word is used commonly in
the phrase tuck of drum" and as an illus
tration of the usage quotes from Whittier's
Panorama" written in 1885, ~
"Give me the heroes who, at tuck of,
drum E
Salute thy staff, immortal Quattlebum!
But this is not enough for our learned doc
tor. He goes on to show that the idiom dates
as far back at least as the year 1900 A. D.
In collection of old Scottish ballads, pub
lished in 1890, he finds:
with trumpets and with tuieke of
Battle of Harlaw.'
It appears that aforetime it was custom in
Scotland to publish proclamations by tuck
O rtouck of drum" and "Scott in the Heart
of Midlothian refers to the practice of open
ing a convocation by this means (see chapter
12.)" Further, From Spaldings History
of Scotland (1792) one learns that many
of drums through the town, charging all men
to be in readiness with their best arms I"
Well, this assuredly brings us nearer to
light than did the darkling speculations on
"tuck-a-dunt' That tuck of drum has
fallen into general disuse is not to the dis
credit of it's phraseship, nor proof that it may
not be mustered back to lusty service, thanks
to ready minds appreciation of its vigor.
Fashions and PHILOSOPHERS, after resting long
ages forgotten, will sometimes come bloom
ing back to life. So of words. AS DIR.
Syntax' felicitously quotes:
Many shall rise that now forgotten lie.
Others, in present credit, soon shall die.
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Is Romance Du;no9
TROUBLED scribe and landlub1

A TROUBLED SCTlD0 ana a
"A we dare say bewails the invention
of a stabilizer that will keep ships
from rolling except in the heaviest storms
"Alas and well-a-day,' he cries, ''for the van
ishing romance of the seal"
There doubtless were worried souls in the
Stone Age who looked askance at the dis
covery of metals. If new-fangled axes of
bronze were to supplant time-honored flint
where would he the glory of battle? Surely,
romance was on the wRne! When gunpow
der shook the feudal world and "hoary sum-
mits old in story" the lament broke out
afresh. Romance with graceless firearms in
place of plume and lance and archery? I'm
possible! That anciently human and won
drously adaptable spirit managed, however,
to survive these changes of scene and I'M
failingly to weave it's enchantment about a
more and more modern world. But when
steam ousted stagecoach and sail, then as
suredly life was losing it's adventure and
tang! Yet. somehow, the colors of dawn
and sunset broke as magically upon that new
life, and the heart Of humankind throbbed
as high a music as ever in days of old
So with telegraph, telephone, automobile
airplane, radio and all else with which in
vention and science equip tie spirit of man
on his never ending adventure. Romance is
not place, not time, not thing. 1t is a
soul and the further it fares, the keener it's
vision, the more glorious its prospect.
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THE RIGHT WORD
FOR THE OFFICE
(Find the error in tbis .rtic,eJ

- Grind the error in this article.)
Careless folding OF letters is slovenly bust.
ness practice.
Good business form is not a thing Of
convenience, but detail OF prime ;npor.
lance.
race the sheet, face up, before you, and
fold the lower half up to within one-eighth
to one-quarter Of an inch from the ton.
Keeping the edges at the sides even. Crease
firmly.
Next, fold the right side toward the left
ABOUT one-th1rd Of the width of the sheet.
this time keeping the upper and lower
edges even. Press this crease firmly.
Finally fold the left third over, keeping
the edges even and guarding against fold.>
ing over too far and creasing the outer.
edge of the side already folded in,
Slip the letter into the envelope, the last
folded edge first and to the bottom
IL short letterhead need folding, turn
up only sufficient amount to make the
sheet fit the envelope.
In the case OF note paper, fold the lower
part up about one-third and the upper mart
down to within one-quarter or one-third Of
an inch from the lower folded edge.
Stick the stamp right side up in the up
per right hand corner Of the envelope, max
ing the edges of the stamp parallel to and
at slight distance from the edges of the
envelope
Yesterdays Error
To-day my guide, Standard suggests
continuing the study of words WHICH are
closely related to import"
The pronoun, THAT, is more .appropriate:
as the study of words THAT are closely re-
lated to import. This problem will be dis
cussed in forthcoming article.
Vocabulary
lizard coils of cordage, SWARTHY fish
ing nets."-Tennyson.
SWARTHY: ga corrupt and now more
common form Of SWARTY.) Dark; tawny;
swart."-Century.
Pronunciation: SWORTH, I 90 as in OR;
as in HABIT) STANDARD, Oxford, Gen.
fury, and Webster.
For observation: SWAR' TY (obsolete);
SMART (adjective); SWAR' THILY (ad-
VERDI; SWAR' THINESS); (noun):
SWARTH NESS (nouR, same as SWARTHI-
NEss); SWAR' TINESS (noun, same as
SWARTHINESS) SWART' NESS (noun,
same as SWARTHINESS).
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Editor Paul r. Harder

Paul +. HARDER, of Commerce, founder, edi-
tor and publisher of the Commerce Observer,
one of Georgia's most popular and interest
ing weekly newspapers, has formed connec-
ton with the Rome Tribune-Herald as gen.
eral manager and treasurer, the duties OF
which he win assume about JUL II. A grad
uate of the University of Georgia and pub
Usher of extensive experience, Editor HARDER
is abundantly qualified to assume control OF
North Georgia's oldest daily newspaper, whose
influence and prestige have long been gen
orally recognized. While president of the
Georgia Press association in 1917-18, the
youngest man ever honored with that respon-
sible office, Editor Harder established the
organization on sound business principles
that have been of material benefit to the press
of the state. He is member of the execu-
tive commltte of the National Editorial, and