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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-22
Billions Lost IN Crobs

= PWARDS of four and a quarter billion
dollars a year is cut from the value of
American crops in consequence of
plant diseases, defective seed and insect in
cursions. Such is the estimate of the nation
al department of agriculture, based upon a
heaviest loss, it appears, is in corn, the "pre-
vented production" of which amounts to more
than one and half billion bushels annually.
Next comes cotton, on which the average
yearly toll is reckoned at eight million four
hundred thousand bales Wheat follows, sus-
tanning damage to the extent of nearly four
hundred and forty-nine million bushels.
Two of these crops are of major concern
to Southern agriculture, and the third is of
prime Importance to the entire country. 9th
ers which suffer large reductions through dis
eases, poor seed and insect ravages are: Oats,
596,493, 900 bushels, and value $2S0,277,O0O;
barley, los, O63,OOO bushels, valued at $751;
$4,000; fax seed, 11,777,O0O bushels, valued
at $26,494 900; rice, II, 267 900 bushels, val
ued at $14,919,OOO; potatoes, 21O,921, 900
bushels, valued at $2O1,S49, 900; apples, 1884,
$4,000 bushels, valued at $186,946,0 900; hay,
S4,025,OO0 tons, valued at $576,4O1, 900, and
tobacco ASS, 10000 pounds, valued at $780,
$4,000. The department survey calculates
that, "the greatest reduction of acreage now
devoted to those crops would be one-half for
cotton, apples and flax seed, taking the aver
age of the last two years for cotton, if farm
ers could harvest potential production. The
reduction would be one-third for corn, wheat
oats, barley, potatoes and tobacco and for
two crops-rice and hay-the reduction in
acreage would be one-quarter."
Science is doing much year by year to
counteract and eventually to eliminate the
more wasteful of plant diseases. Marked
progress is being made, too, in the matter of
seed selection. But the control of insect IN
vasions, though they may be vigorously COM
bated by man, will probably never become
duly effective until the birds, natures chief
preventive of such ills, are given fair chance
to thrive and serve.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-22
MY FAVORITE STORY
BY IRWIN S. COBB

THE BENEFITS OF STRONG DRINK
tobacco planter in Christian county, Ken
t,Icky, had a darky manseryant named Nose.
Nose was driving his boss into town one
day when he suddenly remarked:
"Cap'n Garry dey had me up befoah my
church las night fur dancin'."
q don't suppose you were guilty-were
you, Mose?" asked the captain.
"Yas sub; vas sun said Nose. I wuS
guilty of dancin', an dey proved hit on me,
100; but come clear My friends stuck to
me close; an after them other niggers had
done testified agn me, my friends all got
up an testified dat whilst 'twuz true 1 danced
l wuz so drunk at de time I didn't know whut
I uuz dom So I come c1ear-an' the
preacher 'scused me-"
Copyright, 1920 -.-.----------
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Men are born but husbands are made.
Ask for bread and you may be given the
stony stare.
An obedient wife is the real power behind
the domestic throne.
Probably the best illustrated paper is the
bank note
A woman can't help admiring man if he
tells her she is good looking. .
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, 1923-02-14
False Economy.

1HE National Archives building is dead, so far
l. as the present congress is concerned. For ali
this congress will do about it, the most precious
possessions of the government, its historic docu'
ments, its records, its priceless papers, its patents,
its great files, may rot or burn.
Scattered throughout the earth, in our consu.
lates and embassies, exists a vast amount of SUI.
premely important Americana which is now, at
this moment, in the process of rotting, of being
burned, when consulates are moved. No other gov
eminent in the world, of any size or Importance,
but has an archives building, no other government
of any size or importance but conserves its historic
papers, its correspondence between its great men
and the rules of other countries, its records.
1t remains for us, youngest of the great coun-
tries, richest of all countries, to house our priceless
records all over the world, instead of in Washing.
ton, and to keep what we do keep in Washington,
largely in rented buildings, fire-traps, Easements,
wooden structures, anywhere, everywhere, rather
than spend a couple Of million dollars, needed to
house them properly, safely, wisely, permanently.
This is not only false economy, it is crime.
We are all directly concerned. This is our coun.
try. If our concern with our country is merely to
see that we support the least possible expensive
government, that we may pay the least possible
taxes, then this failure to provide ourselves with a
safe and ~fireproof depository for that which is ours
is understandable. But if we glory in our coun.
try's history, if we believe that her records are a
priceless heritage to those Americans who will
once build on the foundation We lay. then we can
not rest contented with this supine yielding to n
call for ECONOMY which risks by fire and water
and Hermin and CaTclessneSS. letters, documents,
books and records of such vital Importance that
not all our wealth can replace them if they are lost,
, 1923-02-14
The Cost of IL.

RACK i'll the simpler days, before the curse of
- high cost, and the European disturbance, hu-
man unrest and the struggle for the unattainahlc
all came as disturbing factors to the peace and
well-bcing of the world, it was said that two could
live us cheaply as one. This was applied as an
urge or inducement to the backward gentleman
contemplating matrimony. In nine cases out of
every ten the argument was effective, particular
ly where the affections were firmly fixed and the
desire and nerve were not lacking.
That many a good man and true lived to discover
the fallacy of any such statement, is neither here
nor there, it is purely incidental. The dispelling of
just one more illusion, along with others, when it
comes to facing the stern realities and responsible
tiles in lifes experience.
The fact that two cannot exist as cheaply as one
has nothing whatever to do with or has no bearing
on the other situation, that it costs more than
double to live the double life.
Yes, much more than double. The financial item
is enthusiastically smaller than tho moral one,
whatever it may mount to, before the end comes.
leaving not alone unmasked faithlessness but, dis.
grace, humiliation and sorrow in its wake, visited
upon the innocent and defenseless.
With the rising and setting of every sun come
the disclosures of the high cost of double life. 1t
is written in the public prints for all to read. For
all to take warning from the sordid and tawdry
details.
Returning to the old illusion, which at worst
is only a harmless pleasantly, an enthusiastic en-.
enlargement to go forward to the highest duty of
life; whatever the cost of keeping two, but keeping
them in harmony, from the beginning to the end,
is inconsequential when compared with the cost
of keeping two separately and attempting to pay
the guilty score.
, 1923-02-14
WIN Soak Emp

IUST WHY? No one knows; and not even the
. ponderous mind of the Justly famous Philadel.
phia lawyer can so much as evolve n theory.
Yet the fact stands out In bold relief every
where in the public view, that what we call poll
ticians, wellmeaning, may be, and semi-intelligent,
possibly, are always ready to soak n corporation,
whether it needs it or not.
1t matters little whether it is a bank, a mine, a
Emelter, n refinery, an oil we'll, a railroad or a
utility. The rule, is, dropping into the expressive
Latin-soc ct tuum.
For there is no other understandable reason. For
May be they do it to spite the nose on their face.
If they know anything, if they know the way in
out of the rain, they must know that next to labor,
taxes are the largest fixed charge in the basis of
rate making.
We have one. western railroad in mind and it
makes a good illustration of the point. Taxes
on the operating property of this railroad in 1916
were $5S7173aSi taxes in 1921 were 81 ,1S7, %.
Who does our friend Soc Eft Tuum suppose pays
this tax?
If he possessed n thinking apparatus in his
head or elsewhere in his system he would know
mighty well and mighty clearly.
Is it not the producer in the first place, and then
tho consumer?
Certainly, all the school boys in the fifth and
sixth grades know that.
So, when the legislatures set about soaking cor.
porations they are soaking the farmer, the merch.
ant, and the ultimate consumer in whatever way
he may come in contact, with high freights, high
utility rates, and the high cost of everything
soaked.
Tax corporations? Why certainly. Tax them
justly and c%quitably. But don't soak them just be.
cause they are corporations. The individuals who
form them are men and women like you and me
and all the rest of us. They are just as honest and
why punish the whole people of n county or n
state because their fool representative in a legis.
lature or on some taxing board or other knows no
better than to soak somebody or something?
, 1923-02-14

Use Tribune Want Ads ans get result,
, 1923-02-14
BY Fontaine Fox

some price BOSS all right. Good fel.
low. old boss ia. Told mo I'd be office
manager inside of two months"
Then you didn't make any mis-.
takes! You didn't do anything the
wrong wayr' she gasped with relief.
IT don't know whether I did or
not" he Erinned cheerfully. "If /
did. tho Boss didn't realize 1t. I
remember about the asparague, but
1t looked too limp to flip t. my mouth
without losing some on the way. so I
Just ate 1t with my fork. AnG, I no.
ticed the boss ate his the came way"
did you George?" came a delight
ed exclamation. 'I am SO glad. Be.
cause that is the correct way now. It
used to be proper to eat It with ones
fingers but that has been changed"
"Oh. 1t doesn't make much differ
ence what the old book says" the
contented George detained. IT no,
ticed that the boss not only unfolded
his napkin all the way, but he tucked
It in his shirt front and he ate his
ice with a spoon instead Of fork"
, 1923-02-14

he wasn't going to get time enough
to say them in.
By and by he gets up. He begins
TO walk. He walks exceedingly care
fully. He is bent away over,
scrootched all up. and he walks stiff
leggedly, with little mincing steps, SO
that he is going about n mile and n
half an hour and doesn't look as
though he were going to get home
for a week.
He Is scared now-scared half tn
death. He has left his pride back
there in the lent in the sidewalk.
Now he is humble. More han hum
bic; he is cringing. He steps as If he
were afraid the walk wouldn't hold
him and he waves his arms back and
forth at his sides like paddles, and
his hat is pushed pack on his head
and his forehead is all wrlnkled and
worried looking.
Then the md. He does a buck and
wing slap SO fast that you car hardly
see him dc it. whackl His leg has
gone up and down and you saw
1t go. He looks down at 1t with
prodigious surprise. Was that his
leg that just went by his ear?
But there is more. Other things TO
think about. His other leg, which
caught on the dead center while the
first one was off there on that trip.
has got loose. It seems to be going
off to the eastward. But 1t should
not be going of to the eastward.
This is not his east leg; it is his
west leg.
He perceives hat something must
be done in a considerable hurry, and
he decides upon a reorganization of
forces. He takes his east leg and
crosses It over In front of himself and
let's it go westward. He now looks
like the letter x with an o on top
of it and w capital is slashInG
around in the air irving to grab hold
, 1923-02-14
Harmful or Beneficial, Which,

THE QUESTION has arisen as to whether agita.
l. ton and propaganda against an evil is harm
full or beneficial? You have the effect in the stu
alton of two of the most distressing evils Of the
p~resent-bootleg liquor and dope-to call them by
their very proper names. Heaven knows there has
been a wealth of agitation and propaganda with
reference to each, and both.
The evidence is before you every day of the week
and we could only wish that accomplishment was
more encouraging.
As a result of the agitation of some ten years
ago came the drastic Harrison narcotic law, but 1t
did not stop the use of drugs as hoped and prom.
Used.
Those who have taken the pains to check up on
the matter assert that the number of addicts has
greatly increased with all tho a~nti-drug agitation
and publication. They say it is because of human
curiosity to learn first hand if the stuff is as harm
full as represented.
Everybody has read the dope exposures touch.
ing Hollywood, and on top of the murders and
other tragedies in that particular locality most, If
not all attributable to dope, came the death Of
Wallace Reid, acknowledged to be the direct re.
suit Of the use of drugs.
The whole question becomes pertinent at the
time by reason Of the fact that Dorothy Daven.
port the widow of the late screen star, contem.
plates becoming the leading figure in a great
cope picture TO carry a message to the world and
arouse tne pubic to the perils of the drug terror.
ASSOC from drawing big audiences, which it Ger.
, 1923-02-14
Etiquette and Business
Success

Now. It appears, an aspiring
man who wishes to succeed In bust.
ness must take a course In e~tiouette.
After he has finished his daily dozen
exercises. his study of correspodldence
courses on how to cultivate the mem
Dry ana how to attain a magnetic
personality he must spend what re.
MAINS OF his evening porting over
tones on social usage.
He must master tho correct way to
think, act, converse, write and eat.
Otherwise, he may make a great blum.
Ger such as spearinE his olive with a
FORK or eating his biscuit Tortoni with
the wrong implement and thereby
spoil forever his chances in the bust.
ness world.
Or he may even go so far as to
murmur, Pleased to meetcha' upon
being introduced, which alone, 1t
seems, is enough to consisn a man
to n life OF ignominious failure and
an old s of shame and penury.
Nowadays when whole sets and ser.
les and editions are devoted TO laying
down in precise and memorable terms
Just what one should do under ali
circumstances. the ambitious young
man has years Of study ahead Of him.
Some Of the moro tImid. after debat-
ing whether black or white tie was
preferable with evening dress have
decided to abandon the field Of bust
ness all together and take up farming
or missionary work.
At least. tho young wife of the
credit manager Of a corporation
had become alarmed. For days
she had been worrying for fear
her George might make some So
c!al error that would mar his whole
, 1923-02-14

life. When he came home the ether
day with the news that his boss was
going to Europe and had asked him
up to his house to discuss some ur.
gent affairs. her eleation immediate.
ly gave way to grave concern.
"oh. George. you must be 30 care
full" she almost wept. "I was reading
only yesterday that a young man was
discovered by his employer wearing
a Tuxedo when he should have been
in full evening dress and was forced
TO resign on the spot.
During the night the anxious wife
invoke her George from a sound Stun.
Der from time to lime to caution
him.
Dearest, remember not to u up
your salad with your knife. Use only
your fork" Or. George. you mustn't
forget to start using your siIverware
from the side nearest our plate and
not from the far side" And, BE care
rful, honey, when you pick up your
napkin; there may be a hot roll
wrapped Up in It. And don't unfold
1t all the way" To all of which tho
unresponsive George grunted. "Uh.
huh"
AS he was leaving home the v e
ming, faultlessly attired in evening
dress. she called out:
when in doubt, dearest. remember
Ward McAllister's dying words
Everything hat can be eaten with
a fork should be- And then hurry
ing out after him. she amended:
Except asparague. George, that I
believe should be eaten with he fin.
gers"
After uneasy hours spent in contec.
turing all h possible faux pas her
George might make she greeted him
on his return with an anxious, well
how did everything come out?"
Fine, fine" he assured her with
, 1923-02-14

tainly will do, it may and may not be a good
thing to bring to the further notice of the public.
1t may be recalled, and those who speak advised.
ly on the subject do recall, a series of "dope pic
lures" produced some years back during the pre-
large audiences. And then it is said hundreds
went out and hunted up some underworld vendor to
secure a test of the stuff that created the havoc in
the pictures.
Possibly the agitation and the publicity in these
two evils have worked in the wrong way, to in.
crease their use rather than to suppress it. We
don't know, but we do know that there is far too
much of both bootleg liquor and dope used for the
good of humanity.
, 1923-02-14
You Can't Crush II.

"A LIE is the most despicable offense against the
u moral code, and a confirmed liar the most re.
prehensible of the lesser criminals. You may find
excuse and even charity in your heart for those
who commit wrong when circumstance seem to be
moro to blame than the person, but who can have
compassion for, or even patience with the dellb'
crate liar?
He not only destroys himself, but he disturbs
the faith we would otherwise have in others; and
causes suspicion of those who do not deserve to be,
come objects of it.
Anannias little dreamed Of the misery, suspicion,
fraud and delusion he was introducing into the
world when he listened to the DEVILS urging on
the possibilities of the expansion and refinements
of the invention which the Devil wished on him.
Still less, that in spite of the alleged veneer, gid.
ing and polish that subsequent civilization would
add to the odious damned lie the crudeness and
falseness of it would still remain its most conspic-
uous characteristic.
1t speaks little for the Advancement we are sup
posed to have made on the road to higher and
nobler achievement when we look over the liars
and near liars of today. 1t is untrue that all men
are liars, as some bookwriter or other maintains.
For in spite of the number that lie when the truth
would serve all concerned much better, the great
majority are sticklers for truth and fact. If it
were not so, this old world would be entangled in
a hopeless mass of prevarication or lost in a chaos
of misrepresentation.
Along with the infLiction Of the accomplish
ments of Anannias came the assurance that though
crushed to earth, beaten, maltreated and even as
sassinated, truth would rise again. 1t has been
rising consistently ever since. And in this beau.
tiful promise lives the hope of the world. Liars
may obtain a temporary advantage, but they can
never gain the popularity or the standing in any
community, not even in their future environment
when they arrive, that is now and always will be
accorded the teller of plain unvarnished truth.
, 1923-02-14

of any other letter in the alphabe,
and lean on It.
That is about all. No man ca,
stand on a piece of ice with his les
crossed and nothing to hang to. with.
out rueing it. And no man who
standing hat way can uncrcss eItber
of his legs. with the idea of gettlar
back to normally, without rueing 4
more than he would have rued ,e.
naming as he was in the first place
He stands for n while, until he {
so ashamed that he cannot do It any
longer; then he takes away one &,
his legs md tries to put the other in
the place where the first had been
But it is a mistake. He recognizes +,
is a mistake almost Immediately. He
tries, then, to put the first leg back
where he had taken II from. Bit
when his first leg gets to that place,
it finds the second leg there already.
Whereupon each of those legs zoe,
away and leaves the place to the
other one. and the man is thus left
without any legs at all. and his head
has to come down and support hin,
instead, and does, and gets consider.
ably knicked in doing 1t.
Then that man gets up so mad that
he can't see his hand in front Of his
nose, and goes hippering of down
the street, lickety-toot. and never
slips an inch, as long as he is in
sight.
The lesson ia this: When you start
to walk across a strip of Ice, bear
two things in mind: First. to lean
forward and not backward. and
second. to walk with a natural stride
and not with a shortened, mincing
one. Follow these two rules ana,
there is some slight chance that you
will get across that Ice without
coming a dent in your brain.
Use TrIhune Want Ads nnS get rasn..a
, 1923-02-14
Dignity and Icy Pavement

1t has been showing a little and
the ice on the sidewalk is hidden. 50
that you cannot tell where 1t is safe
to walk and where It is not. Here
comes a very important man, walking
rapidly, very erect, very proud of
himself, shoulders far back. head
farther back. He steps on the hid
den ice. all unaware of what he IL
doing.
Up go his heels and down comes
his cerebellum, and there he Is. fiat
as a turtle, lying there looking up at
the stars in the wlntry sky and talk.
ing and talking as If he had a good
many things to say and was afraid
, 1923-02-14
The Casper Tnbune's Program

Irrigation project west Of Casper to be author
lied and completed at once.
A complete and scientific coming system for ths
city OF Casper.
A comprehensive municipal and school recreation
park system. including swimming pools for the
children OF Casper.
Completion of the established Scenic Route bou!s-
ward as planned by the county commissioners to
Garden Creek Falls and return.
Better roads for Natrona county and moro high
ways for Wyoming.
More equitable freight raise for shippers of tn"
Rocky Mountain region, and moro frequent train
service for Casper.
The Delta independent., 1923-11-09
WOMANS CLUB TO HAVE
LUNCHEON NOVEMBER II

The Thanksgiving luncheon sched-
uled for the Delta Woman's club No
vember 14th has been postponed to
Saturday, November 18th on account
Of the school teachers who are mem
bers of the club.
The luncheon will be given at the
Community rooms at one O'Clock, and
the stipend of sixty cents will be paid
by the members personally. Mrs. A.
]. Obert will be toast master, and the
following is the program:
Feasting: "Sin is a Virtue Carried
to Excess, Miss Clara Ferguson;
Play: "All Work and No Play Makes
Jack Dull Boy" Mrs. o. B. Whipple;
Thinking: ITO Celebrate the Joy God
Has Given U.s." Mrs. Harry A Smith;
Music.
This meeting is in charge of the
entertainment committee, and hostess
es will be Mrs. T. G.. Edwards and
Miss Charlene Hunt.
Members will please notify some
member af the Telephone Committee
of your intention Of attending.