Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-17
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON,

who seems to have been entirely overlooked
in the stone Mountain memorial exposition.
It will, perhaps, be necessary to erect a
shaft of remembrance on the capitol grounds
in Atlanta for Lee and Longstre6t, if Long"
streets soldiers and friends have-to do it.
FROM NINETY SEVEN TO FORTY-SEVEN
a MORNING paper tells Of drop in
~ temperature last Wednesday from 81
n degrees to AZ degrees within six hours
ont in Oklahoma.
1t grew 50 cold in my section that kept
small fire going all day Friday in my sick
room, and | am constrained to believe that
there might have been slight frost IN Carriers
vile that night if the days had not been so
long with sunshine and the night so chilly
and so short. l recall Fourth of July, about
the year 1883 or 1884, when we had blazing
wood fires all day long. We had some visit
ing children in the home and they had coma
with only summer clothes, and it was neces'
sary to keep them indoors all day because
the temperature was so low and they looked
blue and cheerless-on the nations birthday,
Again have seen such torrid Fourths
that it was dangerous to get around IN ths
sunshine
Up north there are frequent cases OF sum
stroke. where people are so overcome by the
heat that the heart ceases to beat.
The midsummer of 1876 held longtime
record heat
It was the gala time also of the Philade'
rhia Centennial Exposition, and the newspa'
pers jolingIy said the tourists from the
south wore only linen buster, and carried
nothing more useful than fan, as baggage
Nevertheless, it was a welcome change
from Wednesdays torrd heat to a cool time,
to sleep and to want "bedkiver.'
We must take what comes and make the
best of it, because we know next to nothing
chfU
next day.
SHIPPING BOARD EXTRAVAGANZA
~ NE of the most unacCountable wastages
| of the peoples tax money-several
~ billions-occurred after the war was
over. and for months after the armlst1ce had
been signed. Two years after the signing or
the armistice. wooden ships by the hundred
were begun, and it is reliably stated that
these wooden ships cost more than the build
ing or construction of the Lusitania or the
Mauretania-in pre-war times. This glut OK
useless ships never ceased.
1t is now impossible to give them away.
We had feet of nearly two thousand OF
these inconvenient wooden ships-as late as
August 81, 1921. They are so much in the
way that the upkeep of them is enormously
expensive They are and will finally become
junk, but it is preposterous that they are
going to bankrupt the treasury by their
drains on it. 1t is apparently Impossible to
stop the leakage, and they are eating their
heads off, as farmers were wont to say OF
idle mules. And our commerce is being car
ried on in foreign vessels. We are absolutely
short on a merchant marine, and certain par
tisan politicians are fighting a merchant
marine.
The country is disguised with the lack of
business sense in the methods of the shipping
board. 1t was an orgy of waste and extrav-
agance that is monumental. And yet we are
told that ex-Treasurer McAdoo is grooming
for the presidency because the multitude are
craving another orgy of sinful extravaganza
and greed.