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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-12
THE BREAKING POINT
BY MARY ROBERTS RINEHART

his love of clandestine adventure was not as
strong as his caution. He had had shock
True, his affair with Beverly had been form
less thing, matter of imagination and de-
sire to assure himself that romance, for him,
was not yet dead. True, too, that he had
nothing to fear from Dick Livingstone But
the encounter had brought home to him the
danger of this old-new game he was playing
He was running like frightened child.
He thought of various plans. One of them
was to tell Nina the truth take his medicine
of tears and GOODNESS, and then go to Mr.
Wheeler, without Nina, and make his humil-
iating admission. But Walter Wheeler had
his own rigid ideas, was Hncompromisingl in
rectitude and would understand as only a
man could that while so far as he had been
only mentally unfaithful the hope and desire
had been there.
His own consciousness of that fact made
him more cautious than he need have been,
perhaps more self-conscious. And he genu-
inely cared for Elizabeth. 1t was, on the
whole a generous and kindly impulse that
lay behind his ultimate resolution to tell
her that her desertion was both wilful and
cruel.
Yet when the time came, he found it hard
to tell her. He took her for drive one
evening soon after his return, forcibly driv-
ing off Walter Sayre to do so, and cycling
surreptitiously now and then her pale, rather
set face. He found quiet lane and stopped
the car there.
Then he turned and faced her.
"How've you been, little sister, while I've
been wandering the gay white way?" he
asked.
eve been all right, Leslie"
mot quite all right, I think. Have you
ever thought, Elizabeth, that no man on
earth is worth what you've been going
through"
I'm all right, tell you," she said, impa-
tiently I'm not grieving any more. That's
he Los T 9
intend to come back, and I don't care. 1
never even think about him, now"
81 see," he said. "Wel, that's best"
But he had not counted her intuition
and was startled to hear her say:
well? Go on"
/"What do you mean, go on?'.
"You brought me out here to tell me
something
mot at ALL simply"
Where is he? You've seen him.
He tried to meet her eyes, failed, cursed
himself for fool
Hes alive and we'll, Elizabeth. I saw
him in New York"
1t was a full minute before she spoke
again, and then her lips were stiff and her
voice strained
HAS he gone back to her? To the actress
he used to care for?'
He hesitated but he knew he would have
to go on.
I'm going to tell you something, Eliza
beth. It's not very creditable to me, but
I'll have to trust you. l don't want to see
you wasting your life. You've got plenty of
courage and lot of spirit. And you've got
to forget him"
He told her, and then he took her home
He was a little frightened, for there was
something not like her in the way she had
taken it, sort of immobility that might, he
thought, cover heartbreak. But she smiled
when she thanked him, and went very calm
ly into the house
That night she accepted Wallie Sayre
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-12
THE THINGS WE SEE
By H. Addington Bruce

~ ECENTLY, according to a news dispatch,
x an important letter was lo~t in bank.
1t remained lost until one of the bank
clerks was hypnotized, whereupon he prompt
ly led the hypnotist to a spot where the letter
had accidentally fallen between two book
cases.
This has been broadcast triumph of
clairvoyance. Actually there would seem to
be no need to resort to clairvoyance to ex-
plain the letters recovery.
Presumably the clerk selected to be hypno-
tiled was selected because there was special
reason to believe he might have knowledge
of the letters hiding place, perhaps as hav-
ing been the last man to handle the letter.
In that case he might we'll have seen the
letter fall between the bookcases, might have
himself dropped it there without being aware
of the fact
He would then have possessed, in the sub
conscious Depths of his mind, a memory
image of where the letter was. In the hyp-
motto state this memory-image would have OPP
portunity to rise into remembrance, it being
we'll established that hypnotism favors the
recall of forgotten memories"
So, for that matter, does the state of sleep
favor their recall. Left to himself the bank
clerk, soon or late, might have had dream
similar to one reported by Andrew Lang, a
dream which in this instance led to the re-
covery of missing check.
The dreamer was a lawyer, who had sat
up late to write letters. About midnight he
went out to post them. On his return he
looked vainly for che k for a large amount,
received by him during the day.
That night he dreamed he saw the check
in an area near his home. Waking, he was
so impressed by the dream. that he dressed
and went to the spot Indicated where he
found the check as dreamed-and where,
quite evidently, he had, without knowing it,
seen it fall from his pocket or perhaps from
among the letters he had taken to the mail
box.
Compare also the case of a Californian
who one day lost gold ring given him by
his sister.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-12
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

The heart of her husband doth safely
trust in her, so that he shall have no
need of spoil. She will do him good and
not epu all the days of her life. She
seeketh wool and flax and worketh viii
irgIy Nth her hands. She Stretcheth
out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth
folth her hands to the needy She IS nor
afraid of the Snow for her household; for
all her household are clothed Nth scar
let. She maketh herself coverings of
tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
She openeth her mouth Nth wisdom; and
in her tongue is the lam of Kindness. Her
children rise up and call her blessed: her
husband also, and he braiSeth her. Gtpe
her of the fruit of her hands; and let her
owH Torks praise her in the gateS.-
Proverbs 3l:II.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-12
SHAKESPEARE SAYS

Portia Speaks:
You see me, lord BaSSanio, where stand,
Such as / am: though, for myself alone,
wouId not be ambitious in my wiSh,
To ViSh myself much better; yet, for you,
would be trebled twenty times myself;
A thousand times more fair, ten thousand
times
More rich;
That only to stand high in your account,
might in pirtues, beauties, LvingS, friends,
Exceed account: but the full sum of me
Is sum of nothing; which, to term in gross,
Is an unIeSSon'd girl, unschooPd, unprac-
tiS'd:
Happy in this, she is not yet so old
But she may learn; happier than this,
She is not bred so dull but she can learn:
Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit
Commits itself to yours to be directed,
As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Merchant of Venice so.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-12
L;teracy Tests for Suffrage,
4 Bu7,Oark of Democracy

r ITERACY as a requirement for suffrage
seems to have been regarded in some
quarters as a distinctly Southern de-
vice; but now comes the New York LegiaIsA
ture making 1t a law Of that commonwealth.
The recently enacted bill provides that ex-
amfnations, uniform throughout the state,
shall be conducted by the school authorities,
and that certificates Of lteracy shall be is
sued to those satisfactorily meeting the tests.
What is liekly to come about under such
system" comments the New York Times, els
that most of the men and women of foreign
birth looking forward to the franchise will
take advantage of courses in English and
civics in order to win these certificates of lit
eracy The school will thus become for alien
adults as well as for native-born children the
only door of approach to the full enjoyment
of citizenship" This will necessitate, Of
course, liberal provision in the way of eve
ming schools for workers seeking such in
struction. Whatever the needful expendi-
lures, the state will be well repaid by the
social security.
The once rather prevalent idea that illit-
eracy was problem peculiar to the South is
being dispelled. According to the federal cen
sus of 1920, there were in the entire United
States four million, nine hundred and thirty
one thousand persons, ten years of age and
over, who could not read or write OF these
as many as four hundred and twenty-five
thousand were in New York, as compared
with three hundred and twenty-eight thou
sand In Georgia; many as three hundred
and twelve thousand in Pennsylvania as com
pared with two hundred and seventy-eight
thousand in Alabama; and as many as one
hundred and forty-six thousand in Massachu-
sets, as compared with seventy-one thou
-.=E IN Florida. 1t is but fair that the record
be known and faced.
Let not us of the South, however, lay to
our souls any such flattering JUNCTION as that
the existence of il1iteracy elsewhere relieves
us of one jot of responsibility for that which
is around our own doors. Georgia, to come
directly home, should front and grapple the
fact that out of her more than three hundred
and twenty-eight thousand illiterates, nearly
sixty-seven thousand are whites, Much has
been done in the last two years to reduce
these figures, so that the situation today is
doubtless better than the census report In
dicates. But We have warrant for relax
ing efforts to make the state one hundred
per cent literate; and, beyond that, to brins
1t abreast of the country's highest attain
ments in educational service
Modern democracy cannot function ant
cannot survive with iliteracy at its elbow
Only an educated electorate can be efficien
In It's duties only an educated electorate cal
be free. Schooling alone will not make I
good citizen; but want of schooling will make
poor one The United States as whole
has been all too quiescent over the fact tha
the illiterate and non-English- speaking per
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MEDITATIONs OF ABE MARTIN

It hurts some folks worse when an idea
strikes 'em than it does when truck hits
em. TIL Teller that used t. like harmless
glass o. beer now an then hain't t. be pitied
any more'n tn Teller that used t. enjoy a
nickel cigar occasionally.
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-12

Too many men are unable to recognize their
obligations when they meet them.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-12

At the age of sixty man may not look to
be more than forty-but what's the use?
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Prosperity ruins more men than poverty,
but the process is more interesting.
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An examining optician is an eyewitness.

Many a mans greatness is due to the fact
that he has a boss wife.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14
Fl 3 Zl5l u lkS{ ls{ Z!:( l( Ze13S57
Full Turn At All Shops And Mills With Orders
 CoUering First Quarter
Makers of Heating Apparatus Continue the Hundred Per Cent List--Sanitary and Pressure Pipe Active.
 Shipping Paint by the Carload

branch office in Birmingham. He will also open offices at Dallas and New Orleans. Birmingham was selected for a branch on account of it's inn portance as an industrial center and Its central position in the southeast.
 Heating Apparatus
 All the plants making heating ap- paratus report being on a full turn of six days a week with some over time. This is the report from the Unit Stove and Furnace company, the Birmingham Stove and Range com pany and the American Radiator company. The Birmingham Stove and Range company is about to oc- cupy it's new foundry, which will increase capacity by one-third. This concern is making progress on its factory for the manufacture of gas ranges and expects to be producing them in the spring. Patterns are now being made. This will be the first manufacture of gas ranges in Birmingham.
 Structural Steel
 Structural steel is active and Bir- mingham shops get their full quota of the going business. Johnson & Thompson will furnish 1,400 tons of fabricated steel for the nine steel barges to be built for the Tennes- see company by the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding company. Work on this big order has already begun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14
"WO0DCRAFT HONEST IN GREAT DEMAND

The Wood Homes corporation is behind in it's completion of plans and specifications for homes on account of the brisk demands made on the company by home builders in Bir- mingham. This company employs it's own architects and furnishes com plete plans for the houses which 1t builds. taking lock and key jobs. The ''Woodcraft Homes' are well known in Birmingham, where they are be- coming more and more numerous. The-company is in position to under take the whole job from beginning to end and that relieves the home builder of all worry One contract with the Wood Homes corporation covers the entire proposition. The company is very busy at this time and inquiries for homes are coming in at rate that keeps the entire force from architect down busy on estimates. plans and final construc- ton. The prospect for spring build ing is particularly bright, this con cern reports.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14
HIGH-voLTAGE LoUD sPEAKEn

That it reproduces songs. instru- mental music, speeches. etc. with just the right volume to be clearly audible in natural tones, is claimed for a new loud speaker, shown in the Popular Mechanics Magazine, which has an odd appearing horn of new design. The appliance has been constructed to operate at a voltage of 100 or more. thus elim- mating the use of batteries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14
BAXTER COAL COMPANY HANDLES GOOD GOALS

The Baxter Coal company. retail coal dealers at Pearl street and the Alabama Great Southern railroad, West End. are busy folks these days delivering coal to satisfied custo- mers. This concern handles four of the best domestic coals on the mar ket, namely the Sipsey. the Piper, the Corona and the Cahaba. They have the fancy coals and the me dium grades that are good for all purposes. The Baxter Coal company delivers by team and finds that this is more economic method in reaching the coal bins of customers. Their trade extends all up and down the western portion of the city and the firm has been busy for a month and a half supplying the demand. The company has increased it's busi- ness each year since starting and makes a speciality of so pleasing a customer that once using their coals theV come again.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-18
Initiate Fourteen
to Kappa Phi Kappa

especial to kcnnebcc Journan
orono, May 17-Fourteen students
were initiated into Kappa Phi Kan
pa, the national honorary educational
society. at a meeting Tuesday aft
ernoon IN the Phi Eta Kappa House
which was followed by a banquet in
Haientinc hall. Edwin kneeland, of
Princeton, president of the society
was the toastmater at the banquet
ana the speakers were Merle G.. Niles
or liumford, one of the initiates. and
Dean James S. Stevens of the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences, who gave
an excellent talk on leadership in
education and the place of honorary
ffaternities in college activities.
The initiates We're: Leonard Lord
of Saco; Theodore S. Currier of
AmeSbury, Mass; Afrian l.. Ackley
Of Peaks Island; George Y. Blanch-
ara Of Pennington; Merle G. Niles
Of Rumford; Leland S. March Of Old
town; Kenneth +. Woodbury. Of New
Gloucester; William S. Murray Of
Hampden Highlands: William f..
Harmon of Caribou: Bentley S.
llutchns of Bangor. E.rsley l.. Gold
smith of Gardiner; William w. Pat
terson Of Corinna: Cecil D. Masters
Of Worcester, Mass; and Hazen II.
Aver OF Union.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-18

came forward as salutatorian and
cordially welcomed the audience of
relatives and friends. She WONe IL
clever little story of her childhood
and her grandfather's droll advice,
1t is all right to hitch your wagon
to star. so long as YOU keep your
feet on the ground" She told how
she tried as a small child to under
stand what he meant and how many
years it took to work it out. finally
realizing that he meant, ambition is
great and good thing. il one does
not lose the human touch.
A more ingenious class history
was never given by a student in
the Belfast High School than that
which Miss Gretchen Fletcher gave
on Wednesday night. Her wit and
humor were enjoyed as much by the
audience as by the class and her
droll descriptions of some of the
students as we'll as the experiences
of the past four years caused many
a ripple of laughter to pass over
the audience. The Graduates Fare
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-18

largest ever to receive diplomas
from the local school According
to the figures SO pleasingly present
ed by the class historian, Miss
Gretchen Fletcher. the class entered
the school four years ago % strong,
coming from many of the country
towns and the remote wards of the
city as we'll as a large number from
the city proper. After four years
AZ OF this number received their
diplomas on Wednesday night and a
finer looking band of young stu
dents. pretty girls and tall boys, it
would be hard to find.
In addition to the splendid num-
Der, the class has distinguished it
self in its prize winning ability - or
more prizes, medals and certificates
being presented at the close of the
program.
The house was we'll filed. Prayer
was offered by Rev. w. +. Skerrye
of the First Federated Church. fol-
lowing which Miss Louise Newell,
second in rank in the large class,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-18
MADISON
Rebekah Roll Call Meeting
Locals-Community Enter
tainers Give Fine Program

An event of much interest to the
members Of Sterling Kebekah Lodge
was a roll call meeting held We'd
nesday evening in their hall in the
|. 0. O.. Il. Block. Following the
regular business session came the
roll call and a delightful program,
a feature of which was Il mock we'd
ding. A supper was served in the
|. o. O. II. banquet hall and music
was furnished by a local orchestra.
Plans have been practically per-
fected for an entertainment to be
given on the evening of May Both
for the benefit of the Madison-Anso
Chapter Of Red Cross. The use of
Union Hall for the evening has been
donated by Charles Clark.
l.. T.. l'elker of Augusta was in
Madison over Wednesday night, be-
ing called here by the illness Of his
mother.
The subject of the sermon by Rev.
John II. Browne at the Methodist
morning will be When Methodists
stop to Listen" and the theme of
the evening sermon will be Truth
and How to Tell It,"
Moses Fl. Knox and Alfred ingalls,
are attending the state meeting of
the knights OF Pythias in Lewiston
this week
The community entertainers gave
fine program at the Old Dinsmore
meeting house in Arson. Wednes-
day evening and there was a very
appreciatiNe audience present, and
the proceeds will go towards repair
ing the church.
The order Of exercises was:
Music, Mr. Bulmer and Le.h
Parker: sketch, The TwO-Two Train
Cast of characteristic Brette, an
actress in hard luck, Mrs. Parker;
William Walker, a stranded troop
CT, Leon Hewcy. Music, Mr.. Hewey
ana Mrs. Parker: reading, Total
Annihilation, Janet Fowke; reel
tation. 'Ferguson's Cat" Blendon
Brown; reading, "A Poor Rule"
Marjorie Allen; recitation, THE
New Car" Periey Brown; reading,
Iarce-"The Quiet Hotel" Cast of
characters-M Miss Calcium, an act
rcSS looking for rest Mrs. Parker:
Susan, who runs the Quiet Hotel.
llllda Sylvester; Rubber neck. col
ored porter and general assistant.
Ned Sylvester. Reading, Pig Latin"
Wilma Perkins; recitation, when
Folks Look at You So" Bernard
Smith: reading, THE Rival" Min
orYa Caldwell; recitation, Amt He
cute" linwOod Buzzell; reading. Il
Hace a Little Piece to Speak" Irma
caldwell. FarCe--A Knot OF White
Ilbhons. cast of characters-M
t1rlln&, Mrs. Parker; Marjorie
Hrant, her niece Mable Fowke;
IIhhie. an old servant. Hilda Syl-
ENStCr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-18

well. rendered by Miss Dorothy
Spear and Miss Alice Wadlin was Il
very pretty and appropriate sclcc-
ton. Mother MaChree, rendered
by Wesley Patterson, was also an
enjoyable number. Miss Alice Rob-
bins presided at the piano for both
selections.
The GRAFTON, Uncrowncd Kings,
by Marion Rhoades. was one Of Inc
finest things on the program ana
Will long be remembered 10y all WHO
had the pleasure of hearing it. III
his uncroWned kings he cited Lin
coin, Livingstone and other great
men and lauded the laboring man
as the great example OF today.
In. her essay on The Commercial
Course, Miss Fcrne Orchard gave
some sound advice to the boys and
girls who enter high school without
any definite aim. She reviewed the
benefits of the Classical, General
and Scientific courses offered ana
compared them with the CONNER
Cial. She gave to the parents ANA
friends present n clear INSIGHT into
the work in this department which
Belfast has offered for several Years
and her businesslike arguments, ~
clearly and briefly stated won for
her a high regard
1t is not an easy matter to forcscc
the future for a class OF such mag
nitude as that of 1923 but Miss
Helen Johnson, who came here \
lew years ago from the Bangor
High, was able to do this with APP
parent ease. In her dreams the
future was spread before her and
1t would seem that Dan Cupid is to
be pretty busy during the next few
years. He certainly will have his
hands full if he carries out the
prophecy of Miss Johnson, which
was told in delightfully."- clever
manner.
Taking the class motto, "Out or
School Life into LIES School,"
David Moody, valodictorian. gave
some very sound advice to his class
mates and lower classmen. which
the men and women in the audi
ence also absorbed He also oX-
pressed the thanks and appreciation
of himself and the class to teachers.
parents, school board and citizens
for the many favors of the past four
Years. At the close he presented to