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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-02
Shall Women Wear Trous ers?-By Freder cJ. Haskin

and in general for informal wear. Their pop
ularity as a permanent feature OF womens
dress depends on their possibilities for va
riety. So long as they have some touch OF
novelty the chances are good that women
will continue to be interested in them. one
enthusiastic Wearer OF the tWeeds lnslsts
that knockers in soft silks of delicate shades
would be as decorative costume for eve
ming wear as skirt. She admits, however
that unless Knockers become firmly en-
trenched as an accepted article OF feminine
apparel this sort Of evening dress will re-
main vague dream.
The fact which makes it seem likely that
Knockers will remain popular is that they
have been introduced naturally, without any
suggestion Of dress reform attached to them.
The vogue Of sports brought about sport
clothes, and these became popular because
women were not frightened away by the
words sensible or reform" Instead, they
were attracted by the newest styles which
happened to combine comfort with novelty.
So long as knickerbockers continue to be as
ISOLATED with the latest fashion by reason or
new trimmings, cut or material, they may be
expected to rise in favor. At any rate, they
are here to stay for actual sport wear.
Mr.. Thompson's Prophecy
Several years ago Vance Thompson, in his
book on woman" predicted that women
would approach the question OF trousers by
wearing the sort of clothes that men wear
for hunting, riding, and other sports. Wom-
en- were already wearing leather breeches,, he
pointed out, for airplane travel. They wore
suitable riding clothes, and were beginning
to wear knickerbockers and breeches on the
golf course. These he mentioned as signs OF
women's awakening interest in trousers, and
he approved of the start.
Mr.. Thompson's views on sport clothes
are unusual and interesting. He says, in part:
II do not say that the dress men wear for
sports is the ideal dress for human beings;
but it's the best we have in our civilization.
10 fh0 7 ocf inc un on Onf
am perfectly certain that once they have
adopted this kind of dress they will make
many improvements on it. And the men will
be quick enough to take on these improve
ments. So in the end you will have toler-
able dress in which human beings, men and
women alike, go about when they are
concerned in human business.
"You see What I am driving at?
"The human dress is for humans occupied
in human affairs; it belongs to men and
women alike.
IT do not care tuppence how a woman
dresses when she is bent on sex-capture. Then
she may put on silks and spangles and all
the fal-lals that she has found by experience,
help to blow man down. When she goes out
dressed like that men will know what she is
about-and can take to cover
when, however, a woman is leading the
normal life of human being, she should (if
she has any self-respect) dress like a normal
human being.
"And her skirt, just because it is a badge
and advertisement of her sex, belongs on
the dust heap-with the dead bird on her
hat
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-02
THOSE BREAKDOWNS
Bv H. Addinpton Bruce

TIE WAS less than thirty. but pretty much
II of nervous wreck. He slept badly, he
could not concentrate his attention, for
some weeks he had been troubled every morn
ing with unaccountable attacks of nausea.
They were, at any rate unaccou1table to him
and the doctor whom he consulted could not
find in the condition of his stomach anything
20 account for them. But neither could he find
in his patients general organic condition any
thing to account for the symptoms that trou-
bled him.
care you worried about something's" the doc
tor then demanded.
"Not at ALL
"Do you like the work at which you are en-
ployed?"
EYES," somewhat heSitatingly.
"What is the matter with it,"
dence--M don't feel that am doing i as we'll
as should. And, besides, don't feel that it
offers me any real chance for advancement"
$50 that, after all, you are worried? My ad-
vice to you is to 60 to some superior official
in your place of business and tell him frankly
what is on your mind. If you find tina: there
is reason for your worry, come back to me-
The patient did come back, but only to re-
port that he had been worrying needlessly. He
had learned that he had real opportunity for
promotion. No fault was being found with his
work. And already he had begun 70 feel in
fintely better.
Exactly" qouth the doctor. "The trouble
was that, being dissatisfied, and lacking courage
to verify or disprove your feeting of personal
inefficiency, you Involuntary took refuge in a
nervous breakdown that would enable you 20
evade blame for the expected failure"
Which, in fact, is the way not few nervous
breakdownS in young men develop The break.
downs are, so to speak, means of escape from
business situation that has become intolerable,
either because the worker is engaged il uncon-
genial work, or because. rightly or wrongly,
he believes himself to be untitled for the work
he has chosen.
AS remarked not long ago by New York
physician, DR.. Louis CaSamaor, who has had
much experience with the nervouSly collapsed,
there are three principal types of victims of
what may be called business neurosiS.' These
types are the Inadequate the dissatisfied, the
generally maladuSted.
When business workers belonging in any one
of these types go to pieces nervouSly they
usually do so because they lack one thing
ability to face reality manfully. Failing to
progress in business as they had hoped to
progress, they do not calmly sit down and ask
themselves, "Why?" They seek, rather, to hide
from themselves, or excuse to themselves, the
fact of failure.
This, though they know it not, is the provok-
ing cause of their breakdown. Nor can they
hope to recover from it until they find work
thai is more congenial to them, adopt a new
attitude to the work they are already doing,
or are trained, or train themselves to meet with
greater frmnesS the perplexties and stresses OF
business life.
Then, no longer feeling any need for a
"flight from reality" they regain nerve control
and remain nervouSly we'll balanced.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-02

the hands Of another benevolent despot. MY
husband was devoted to me, as my mother
had been, but he was a masterful man, anu
soon found that the only way to live In peace
with him was to give in to him.
"He was the kind of man who likes to
play with doll baby wife that he can dress
up, and show off, and make say Mama ana
Papa and move its arms, and turn its head,
when he pulls the strings, and it never enter
ed his mind that no human woman really is
doll, or enjoys being treated like doll.
''He gave me the things that other women
envied. We travelled wild 3ly but he made
out the itinerary, and we went to the places
he chose. We had beautiful homes, but ne
picked out the places we lived. L mad me
clothes, and accounts at the best shops, Dut
never had any money in my pocketbook
and when he died he left my inheritance IN
trust for me. =
even as an elderly widow I am not free
am still the victim of benevolent despotlsm
because my children have taken up the Jop
of bossing me where my husband left 1t on.
Everybody tells me how fortunate l am TO
have such loving children to take such good
care of me, and perhaps l am.
"Perhaps it is good of Mary to pick out
my clothes for me, and kind of Jane to make
me live with her instead of permitting me to
live in my own home, and dutlful OF James
I won't be worried about investments, or even
know what I have got, but I would like to
break my shackles for once, and have just
a little freedom before die.
81 don't like Mary's taste in hats, and L
would like to buy one that represented my
own desires in millinery. l want my own
home, in which can do exactly as I please,
instead of having to adapt myself to James
housekeeping. 1 want my own money, ana
to throw it away, or spend it foolshly If l
choose. 1 would like to do dozen things
Of which my children do not approve, but
shall never do any Of them because can
not make up my mind to worry or hurt those
that love me. I shall be the slave to the end
at is a dreadful thing to think or the
wrong that these benevolent despots do, isn't
it? 1t is a cruel thing to realize that the
people who love you can do you more dead
Iy wrong than your most malignant enemy
could That is why we all should pray COD
to protect us from our friends. We can de-
fend ourselves from those who hate us.
'The one thing that we all desire more
than anything else in the world is to have
our own way. The one thing that Is abso-
lutely essential to our happiness is personal
liberty, and yet hat is the very thing that
we find it hardest to give to those nearest to
us. and that is why family life is so often I'M
happy, and why divorce is so common"
Copyright, 1922, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Inc)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-02
Is Geora;a Vel Kno1Os

Tv HE increase of about three dollars per
hundred weight in the price of live
hogs at Chicago during the month now
ending has called forth much comment and
qualification. Particlarly pleasing is the fact
that the better valuation represents at least
eighty cents bushel for the corn that went
to the porkers fattening-a marked improve
ment over the beggary figures prevailing
some months ago.
BY way of accounting for these unexpected
advances a financial observer points out that
the Chicago shipping demand for outside
packers has been strong, while receipts have
been comparatively small. Thus receipts at
all the prcnpial packing centers for the sea-
son from November 1 to February were
eight million four hundred and twenty-five
thousand, against nine million, five hundred
and ninety-six thousand for the corresponding
period Of the year before, weights averaging
about the same" This decline is attributed
to 1.-THE hasty action of farmers in disposing of
brood sows because they lost money feeding
high-priced corn to hogs in 1921 policy
of the spasmodic kind which cit has been
proved over and over again does not pay on
agriculture or in any business"
These views are naturally interesting to
Georgia, where developments of the last five
or ten years have built up one Of the largest
swine producing industries in America. Mil
lions of d~'lars which formerly streamed from
this state to the West for imports OF ham and
bacon now remain at home, a reward for ma
tive husbandry and stimulus to native en-
terprise. Moreover, immense quantities of
corn, which, if sold as such, would yield little
profit or none, are many times multiplied in
value when converted into the squealing treas
uries of backbone and delectable sausage. BY
this process hundreds of Georgia farmers
who found weevil-beseiged cotton too hazard
GUS or costly a crop, have made their way to
independence and prosperity. Hog raising,
like all branches of farming and Of business,
has it's periods of depression; but here, as
everywhere, steady purpose and diligence
win.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-02
Tho Mcnonouph Advertiser

The first issue of the McDonough Weekly
ly Advertiser made its appearance on Feb
ruary 16, carrying ten six-column pages OF
timely news matter, interesting editorials
and attractive business announcements. Rev.
J. D. Winchester, pastor of the First Baptist
church, of Monticello, is editor, and Wiley
A. Clements is business manager. Editor
Winchester is an experienced newspaper man.
having published the Social Circle Press for
a number of years. Mr.. Clements is an expert
linotype operator and compositor and is thor
oughly familiar with the newspaper field in
Henry county, which, in addition to pro-
life farming territory, includes the progress
sive towns of Hampton, Locust Grove, Stock
bridge and Flippen. The establishment of the
Advertiser gives Henry county two newspa-
pers, the other being the Henry County
Weekly, of which B. S. Elliott is editor and
publisher. The new paper begins publication
with the best wishes of the numerous friends
of the management.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-02

KIT HAVE had a curious, and pathetic
lfe," said an old woman the other
day, because on the outside 1t has
been all happiness and prosperity, and on the
cry.
"I have been most fortunate in this, that
| have always been surrounded by devoted
family, and most unfortunate in this, that
my loving family has exercised a grinding
tyranny over me. I have also been lucky in
always having had the things that money
buys, but have never had the actual han
ding of any money.
"In all my long life I have never had one
hours real freedom. have never had sim
gle day that I could call my own. I have
never been free to follow my inclinations, or
exercise my own judgment, or do one single
solitary thing, just because l wanted to DO
it. and for no other reason. have never had
fifty dollars, no, nor ten dollars, that could
spend without giving any account Of what
did with it to anybody, and so, although
have been so beloved, and rich, there has
been many a time when I have envied the
loneliest woman who had her own latchkey,
and the poorest woman who earned her own
living, and got her own pay envelope on Sat-
urday night.
Cali my life have spent in Jail, and that
I have been the prisoner of love has not
gilded the bars. 1t has made them only the
more unbreakable, because you cannot fight
against love- and tenderness, as you can
against hate and malice. You are helpless be-
fore those who enslave you for what they
think is your own good.
81 was born into slavery Ny mother was
one of those women with whom mother love
is an obsessing passion. She literally lived
for her children, and she permitted us no in
dividual lives of our own whatever. She
would have breathed for us had that been
possible.
'As she couldn't do this, she regulated
every act of our lives. We had to eat what she
liked, no matter whether we relished it or
not. We had to wear blue frocks, no matter
how much we preferred pink. We had to go
to parties because she liked to dance, even
if we loathed dancing ourselves. We had to
adopt her religion, her opinions, read the
books she was interested in, echo her in ev-
cry possible way.
"It never occurred to her that we had any
individuality of our own, or that we had any
personal preferences, or tastes or inclinations
that we had right to express and crafty.
If you had told her that she was as ruthless
a tyrant as any that history could show, she
would have been Mortified. Yet she was, and
because she took away our liberty In the
name of love did not make our slavery any
easier to bear.
Because I writhed under my mothers
tyranny married very young, thinking that
way to achieve my freedom. Alas, 1 fell into
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-02
It Is the Habit
W HAT is the secret of French thrift and
NJ productiveness? Not the whole an

w 7 HAT is the secret or french thrHt ana
M productiveness? Not the whole an
swer, but certainly vital and in
teresting part of it may be gathered from the
observations # an American deliver into hu-
man affairs, Mr.. Whiting Williams, whose
way it is to go and fraternize with all manner
of industrial workers to learn their ideas and
ideals. He thus has spent season with coal
miners in northern France, at the bottom OF
shaft some two thousand feet below the
earths surface, near Lens.
Writing of his experience, in SCRIBNER'S S,
he says: "My French miner buddy had been
swinging his pick back and forth at amazing
speed for nearly an hour. The coal had been
coming down so rapidly that it kept the rest
of us busy shovelling it into the cars, which
boy of fifteen with equally amazing speed
kept bringing up to the face of the seam. All
of us were stripped to the waist. Not one
back amongst us but glistened in the light
of the safety-lamps with the mixture of coal
dust and sweat. Except for the half-hour' s
pause for breakfast, every one kept going at
the same pace hour after hour Also day
after day. Yet never did I find one of them
willing to confess the job fatiguing. From
the lips of all came the same words, accom-
panied by the same smile and the same shrug;
'C'est Phabitude.'
Habit! The man or the nation habituated
to thrift and industry finds nothing difficult
in the practice of those virtues; rather he
would find it painfully hard to be idle or
prodigal. If character be, as some one has
called it, completely fashioned will, then
habit is the highway system, over which that
kingly will sends it's orders speeding so fast
and SO effective that nothing is sooner said
than done. Year after year, generation after
generation the habit of hard work and re-
,sourceful management has grooved itself into
the brain-stuff and spirit-fibre of the French
people, whether they labor in mine or field or
rt, with hand or with head. And in that
process they prepared themselves against
shocks and buffetings which would have
broken a softer nation to powder. Without
this, Verdon would have been a different
story "They shall not pass!' is but height
ened and immortalized version of ''It is the
habit"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-02
Reducing Armies, Too
THE success of the Warrington confer
ence in the matter of naval limitation

has encouraged in some quarters
hope of similar restriction in land ornaments.
The two cases are, of course, different ana
the latter much more complex. while eV-
erybody knows what a capital ship IS or a
submarine, writes a practical student of
the problem" no one can define munitions,
and no one can define an army; almost every
thing from cotton to cannon is munitions,
and every able-bodied man is soldier"
Hence arise technical differences and confu-
sions to becloud the subject, even amongst
those who are agreed in principle that re-
duction of land ornaments is to be desired
But these barriers are not insuperable. If
the Allies could determine what constituted
a reasonable force of defense and police pow
er for Germany, why can they not do like
wise for themselves? Such terms, it is true,
are not reducible to arithmetical exactness,
nor to common denominator. What would
be a large army for one nation would be
small for another; and while one frontier
requires no garrison whatever, another must
be watched. Nevertheless, where there is a
will to disarmament and peace way can
be found.
It has already been found in some coun-
tries America, it may be objected, is hardly
fair example, inasmuch as all her c1rcum-
stances as we'll as all her traditions were fav-
orable to reducing the great world-War army.
But Italy, likewise, has mustered out vast
contingent of soldiery, as has also England.
France, alone, insists on retaining tremen-
dous fighting force. And France does so,
largely out of apprehensions which can be al
| layed
| 1t is, then, with an altogether reasonable
| hope that commission Of the League of Ma
| ton is preparing, for discussion at the next
session of the assembly, a tentative plan of
international reduction of armies. The fact
that start toward end so devoutly to be
wished has been made, is in itself heartening.
There undoubtedly will be an earnest response
| from the masses of overburdened taxpayers
in Europe and MISUNDERSTANDING statesmen
will find it increasingly difficult to with
] stand the trend of public thought.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-02
BORROWED PLUMAGE.

About once in so often I hear one which
has the double merit of being good and be-
ing true. personally vouch for the anthem
ITCHY of the offering which follows:
know a Kentucky lawyer, a brilliant
man, who outgrew the small town where he
was reared and where he began the practice
of his profession. An offer came to him to
go to Chicago and become the attorney for
big lumber concern. He went, taking his
family with him.
Always he had lived comfortably, but in
simple fashion as was BETTING his original
environment. But he felt the position he
now occupied called for more display than
formerly. So he rented a large house and
installed a staff Of servants, including col
ored butler. On his first day of service the
butler came to his new master for instruc-
tions.
"Mister Blank he asked in his most but
lerfied manner, "does you desire me to wear
my full dress suit ever night at dinner?"
"Well, no." said the Kentuckian, ION
nights when we have company I'd like for
you to lend it to me-"
Copyright 1922, by the Central Press Asso-
ciation.l l---
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-02
SUBSTITUTES FOR COMMON
SENSE
By DR.. Frank Crane

There is, always has been, and always will be
great famine of the essentials and necessities
There is, always has been, and always will
be, glut of the superfluous
Nothing is more needed in this wretched
world than good cooks, good housekeepers,
and good mothers. And il is difficult to get
good servant for love or money. as every
woman knows. Of all the young ladies of my
acquaintance, including college graduates, young
ladies at home, and plain flapperS l do not
know of one who aspres to cook. For some
reason, the Almighty in His Infinite wisdom
knows Why this most important and delightful
profession is looked upon with scorn.
| know what am talking about, for l myself
like to cook and serve you up mess of
hot biscuit and fried chicken as we'll as any
Gordon bleu l know of.
1t may be, and often is at times, difficult to
get pound of decent butter at the grocery
store, and if you inquire at the butcher shop
for real pork sausage like as not you will be
told that they have none today; but there is
no day in the year that you cannot buy pearl
necklace, if you have the money, and beauty
parlors, where they take beautiful, straight
Anglo-Saxon hair and make it look like the
wool that should have been on the top of the
head of old Uncle Ned, are always open.
People are always Fostering me to buy things
| do not want, including encyclopedias, and
stocks and bonds that the certain to rise in
price, and all manner of labor-saving devices
Tor offlce use. lhere is profit enough II these
things to keep an army of men employed ped
ding them from door to door, Yet when
start out to get something l do want, and want
bad cannot find it.
If ask at the grocery for oatmeal that has
been cut and not smashed if inquire for the
old-fashoned window-shadeS that stay put and
do not have to be jerked, if l inquire at the
tobacco store for pipe tobacco that will not
remove all the hide from the inside of my
mouth, if l ask at the restaurant for some
nourishing soup with vegetables in it and not
all thickened up with flour that tastes like
printers paste, l am told that there is not any.
1t sometimes seems that The whole business
and social world is organized to give you what
you do not want
In fact, one of the simplest rules for success
in the world is simply to find out what people
want and sell it to them.
No official in human society is so important
as the school teacher. In any just scale of hui
man value this profession ranks above all 9TH
ers. And he gets about money enough to keep
alive and maintain himself in mediocre condi-
ton of shabby responsibility, while Douglas
Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Charley Chaplin
whose sole occupation it is to divert our idle
moments, shake their legs and comfort their
faces to the tune of millions of dollars year.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-02
Wild Turkeys on the Mountains

party was telling us this week that one
Union county citizen killed thirteen wild tur-
keys last year, and had already gotten four
this year. This man, whenever he feels like
eating mess Of turkey, just picks up his
gun, goes out and brings one in. This noun
tain country is a great place to live on &C
count of its many advantages over other
sections.-Dahloneg Nugget.
We'd enjoy going on a hunting trip with
this hunter some day when the sign was
right. zs