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Evening star., 1923-11-01

Fair. and continued cold tonight.
Temperature near freexinE; tomorrow
increasing cloudiness and somewhat
warmer, Becoming unsettled by night.
Temperature for "a hours ended at
pm: today: Highest, so a pm. yes
terday; lowest. "a, at z. am, today.
Full report on page 2.
Evening star., 1923-11-01

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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05
SENTIMENTAL ARITHMETIC
By DR.. Frank Crane

One ingrained notion of which few people
ever get rid is that right and wrong somehow
balance each other.
This idea is found in every heather re-
ligion. 1t might be called the bookkeeping
theory The good deeds a man does are set
down to his credit in the heavenly ledger and
his bad deeds are charged against him.
There is quite Buddhist sect which car
ries this account balancing theory to great re-
finements. The same point CT view is found
among the African tribes, the American In
dians and other primitive peoples and also
permeates Mohammedanism and the various
other faiths of the world
And Christianity is pretty well tarred with
the same stick Thousands Of souls are try
ing to pay for their evil doings by doing good
or to get out of that payment by having some
one pay it for them.
The same idea enters into our secular
courts and laWmaking. There the whole bust
ness is arranged upon the principle, crudely
speaking, that if man knocks out your eye
justice is obtained by knocking out his eye,
and if he dislodges one of your teeth one
of his teeth should be removed.
The equity of this seems apparent, but it is
only apparent 1t is one of those errors of
common sense and common sense is full of
errors.
1t is entirely deluson that if you hurt
me 1 can obtain justice by hurting you.
All obtain is vengeance. And vengeance
is the satisfaction OF DruJlSn 1nSClnC[ LnaC
we have inherited from our long animal ances-
try When the dos snaps at the wolf the wolf
snaps at the dog.
1t is just the same sort Of reasoning that
leads us to conclude that we have evened UP
matters when we take a murderer and hang
him. In reality we have not wiped out the
crime but have doubled it.
This is the profound meanin,, that under
lies the precept of Jesus, eff a man strike
thee on one cheek turn to him the other also. "
Likewise we are enjoined not to render EVIL
for evil but to return evil with good.
This is not at all intended to make us
weaklngs, and molly-coddles, or tamely sub
nit to injustice, violence and tyranny. The
point lies deeper.
For the truth is that if injury has been
done by a man it has been caused by fgno-
rance or evil and the only way to come to real
The world for many years has been tryt g
to stop individual crime by legal and state
crime
When a man has done wrong he should e
restrained if necessary, but above all things
he should be taken in charge by the state and
set right if possible.
How many people eXclam that they do
not deserve the trouble that comes to them
Here lis the arithmetic idea again. How does
anyone know what he deserves?
An intelligent view of ourselves and the
universe should lead us to endeavor to ad-
Just ourselves as much as possible to VIII It
happens to avoid and eliminate all evil. And
above all things, remember that there are
just two contending forces in the world, the
bad and the good, that the bad is never cured
by the bad or the worse but can only be cured
by the good.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05

just as necessary as that change for the germ
of wheat by which it is alternately in the
ground and in the air. The malaria parasite
cannot live, Indefinitely in the .4osquito; it
cannot live Indefinitely, although much !c-,g
err in man. Without this continued change
between the two hosts the parasite dies.
This, then, gives us our clues for malaria
control: CD Keep infected mosquitoes away
from man; or CD keep mosquitoes away from
infected men. The control of either host
the mosquito or the man-wilI eliminate
malaria. Briefly, our methods of malaria
control aim So: l. Get rid of Anopheles mos
Quitoes-n6 other kinds make any difference
in malaria. 2. Prevent the access of
Anopheles mosquitoes to man. 3. Free all
persons in the community from malaria para
sites. 4. Protect persons against infection by
means of quinine. So far as the first and sec
ond points are concerned no further explana-
ton is necessary. So far as the third point
free from malaria parasites there would be ,
way of injecting mosquitoes, and unless in
fected they cannot transmit malaria. Final
ly, If men are put in such state that they
cannot develop maria even if bitten by mos
qutoes, naturally malaria will be controlled.
This it is attempted to do by means of protect
ing or immunizing doses of quinine. The first
two methods aim at control of the mosquito;
the last two, control of he human host. The
first and third are community methods; the
second and fourth indYidualistc, but they
overlap in this respect"
Application of these principles and meth
DDS has saved millions of dollars. legions of
lives, and untold waste and pain. Georgia
has profted by them immensely. If there are
still burdened with malaria, they
can receive expert counsel and aid by calling
upon the state board of health. No village
or countryside need longer suffer. The chief
lies in drainage, which not only
protects health but also brings within the
realm of agricultural production fertile land
now useless. If drainage, however, is not at
once feasible or is beyond the financial re
can be employed with valuable effect Ger
tainly, no county should neglect so grave a
trolled.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05
QUIZ

Q. Is there way of measuring the fatigue
caused by study? j. l.. P.
A. The ergograph is machine for testing
a child's capacity for study and which shows
the degree of fatigue that Is experienced by
pupils. 1t is also a machine for registering
the exact effort made in any feat of strength,
testing the comparative and relative strength
of various sets of muscles.
@. How did the term "Dago" originate
and to whom was it first applied? NJ. b. F.
A. The term "Dago'' is corruption of the
Spanish Diego" equivalent to the English
name James" or Jack The term was
formerly applied by sailors to Spaniards,
Portuguese and Italians in general. Other
authorities believe that the word is merely
corruption of the nickname derived frim
"Hidalgo," formerly used of any foreigner
from Latin Europe.
O. How did the habit originate of lifting
the hat in salutaton? H. L.
A. Denudation is a movement symbolic of
resignation of ones goods to the king, and
this Is probably the origin of the custom of
lifting the hat removing a glove.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irwin S. Cobb

In order that the point of this story may
be made clear, a word two of preliminary
explanation is required. Arthur Hopkins,
one Of the most successful Of the younger
group of theatrical producers, is a squareIy
built little man. not more than five feet six
inches in height, and with rather an en-
phatic way of speaking. 1t is characteristic
Of him that once he has made I'D his mind
10 thing, he acts upon his decision with
dispatch; nor, when he expresses himself is
there ever any doubt as to his exact meaning
season or so back, he put on rather an
expensive play for tryout before brin gin &
1t into New York. The production did not
seem to go very well on the road Neverthe-
less, the members of the cast, with the pro-
VerDlal optimism of actor-folk, were hopeful
mat business might pick up and that. once
they reached the big town the piece might
have successful run -
But back in the home office Hopkins took
a dlHerent view of the prospects. He ran
through the figures of the box office reports
as sent In by the road manager and imme-
dlately wired the latter to cancel all further
bookings, pay the members of the comnany.
the required two weeks salary. and ship the
scenery and the properties back to the store
mousse. considerably disappointed at this
outcome, the troupers returned to the CITY to
LOOK Tor new engagements. Naturally Hop
Alhs actlon In so abruptly withdrawing the
production became the subject of common
gossip in the theatrical district
!, lew days later Wilton Lackaye was in
preached him. az
Say, Lackaye," he began, maybe yous can
help me out. MY latest comedy has lust
gone into rehearsals. 1t looks pretty good
roGo-eVerybody seems to like it; but we're
Sny good tag line for the last act. You
ny MnoM no" II helps, sometimes, if you bring
the hnaI curtain down with WALTON. I've
facked my brain, but can't think of any,
III Ialhg. hoping may be you can help me
IL you've got time, I'll tell you briefly what
t the concluding scene is like and perhaps
mat IL give you an inspiration"
Il don't think you need to do all that /"
sald Lackaye, softly. eff I get you. what
you want is something short and snannv to
close new show with?" ~
'Thats it,
All right" said Lackaye, ''here it is in
two words; Arthur Hopkins!'"
Copyright 1923)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05

In the top story of the skyscraper there is
probably a restaurant. to take advantage of
the lofty view, and there too, the chemist
plays an essential part. Cooking is a chemi-
cal process and so also is cooling, which is
almost as important to the modern chef The
foreign fruits and perishable meats have been
preserved by artificial refrigeration by means
of ammonia made from the nitrogen OF tie
air. The china, the glass, the cutlery and the
kitchen utensils are all chemical manufac-
lures. The vegetables are grown by the aid of
chemical fertilizers, containing potassium,
phosphorus, nitrogen and lime. The foods
and drinks analysed in the market so as
to see that they contain no dangerous impuri-
ties or adulterants. The water supply of
great city has to be watched from day to day
lest it should be visited by some deadly epi-
demic. If the old saying is right that "Clean-
illness is next to godliness, then the chemist
stands next to the preacher, for he invented
soap many centuries ago and has now added
more powerful agents of publication, such IS
chlorine. 81
The automobiles which wait in front of the
building are propelled by gasoline and oiled
by lubricants manufactured from crude pc
troleum, and their wheels are tired with rub
Der vulcanized by the chemist
In some large hall of the building you may
very likely motion pictures of events that
happened far away and long ago, caught, pre-
served, and displayed on celluloid film, made
from gun-cotton and camphor, and developed
by coal-tar chemicals. You may also hear
music from unseen singers and players, per-
manently recorded for the pleasure of pos
terity on disks of synthetic resin. The radio
apparatus on the roof, almost entirely COM
posed of chemical products, receives messages
and music from a thousand miles away
through trackless space.
So science Short-circuits both time and
space, bringing the past into the present and
enabling us to chat with distant people
though they were in the room. And the chem
list has hand in all the achievements of
science because he possesses the peculiar pow
er of transforming matter into strange and
useful form. From colorless, odorless air
and water he can make substances harder
than marble, colors more brilliant than nat
ural dyes, fiavors rivaling the fruit and per-
fumes as sweet as the flowers. For the chemist
deals with the mnutest things in nature. He
can control the atoms, and even the electrical
particles of which the atoms are made, and
by combining these in various ways he can
construct new things, unknown in nature, and
contributing to the comfort and convenience
of modern life in innumerable and unrecog-
nized ways.-Science Service.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05

TIME first thing that attracts the attention
of the newcomer as he sails up New
York Bay is the imposing group of tall
buildings, unequalled elsewhere in the world
AS he looks up at one of these strange struc
lures he thinks of the architect who planned
it and of the builder who constructed it.
But he does not think of the chemist who
is behind them all and without whom it would
be impossible to erect and equip skyscraper
He made the ink and paper with which the
architect drew his plans and he made most of
the materials that the builderG use. For even
what seems to be natural material will be
found on closer examination to have passed
through the hands of the chemist. The doors
and easements may be grained to look like
wood, but tap them and you find them steel
There may be a coating of natural stone ON
the side facing the street, but this is mere
concession to conventionality, for the building
is mostly composed of cement, concrete, brick,
mortar, plaster, terra Gotta, tiles and glass,
all of which are manufactured by chemical
processes. The skeleton of the skyscraper is
of steel, something not found in nature. The
furnishings and electrical equipment are
made largely Of brass, bronze, tin, aluminium,
rubber, cellulo1d and the like all chemical
products. So are all the paints and enamels
that adorn and preserve the walls and metal
work.
In the skyscraper work goes on by night as
well as by day for rooms are lighted by cleo
trio currents flowing through wires of a new
metal, tungsten, enclosed in glass bulbs from
which the air has been exhausted and per-
haps replaced by some inert gas. The chemist
not only provides for fire in the form of
matches, but he also furnishes the means of
putting out fire If it gets out of bounds. in
the halls you will see a fire eXtinguisher
ready, at the turning of tap, to throw out
stream of water and quenching gases.
II you look into shop window on the low
er floor you will see gay garments, colored
with dyes prepared from coal-tar and in many
cases made from artificial -1beT that rivals silk
in sheen and beauty. In the corner drug
store many of the medicines also prepared
from this same lcoal-tar which once was
thrown away or burned up good for moth
ing. The chemist provides the weapons with
which the doctor wards off the attack of mi
croscopc enemies of mankind, the microbes.
The roots of the skyscraper go down deep
in the ground and are embedded in the solid
rock. But it would not have been possible for
the building to have been dug so deep if the
chemist had not provided explosives. The
nitrogen gas which he extracted from the air
and fixed in the form of dynamite or gun
powder returns to freedom with such violence
to rend the rocks.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05
SHAKESPEARE SAYS:

This is the excellent foppery Of the
.WorId, that when ne are sick in fortune,
Gotten the Surfeit of our oWH behapiour)
ne make guilty of our disasters the sun,
the moon, and stars: as if ne we're pill
lains on necessity; fools, by heavenly
compuIsion; knapeS, thieves, and PREACHERS
by spherical predominance; drunkards,
liars and aduHererS, by an enforced obe3
dience of planetary influence; and all that
ne are. epH in by a divine thrasting Oh
Lear liz. s.-., .......
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

He that paSseth by and meddIeth with
strife belonging not to him, is like one
that taketh dog by the ears. It is an
honour for man to cease from strife, but
every fool WiH be meddling. He that goeth
about as a taIebearer TepeaIeth secrets;
therefore meddle not Nth him that fLatter-
eth NTH his lips. A fools lips enter into
contention, and his mouth calieth for
strokes. He that dnsWereth matter be-
fore he heareth it, it is folly and shame
unto him.-Pr0perbS.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05
The Conquest of Malaria

MOST gratifying decrease in malaria is
N reported for the entire United States
and especially for the netherlands of
the South, where it once IS painfully mark
ed. According to the federal Public Health
service the malady now is rare save in ,er-
tain regions of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal
plains and along the lower Mississippi valley.
There also it can be eradicated, as many al
eXperiemnt attests.
The Panama canal would not stanu as
tribute to American enterprise and as boon
to all the world, if first the peril of malaria
in that zone had not been grappled and mas
tered. The failure of the French project long
years before was c-:-:-ed in large measure, by
the inroads of this ldisease urn De Lesseps'
hosts of laborers, whom it destroyed faster
than they could be recruited. Of group of
mill villages in North Carolina we are told
that prior to a campaign for malaria preven-
ton and control the population was in con-
tinual f1ux, and the efficiency of the employees
In the more unhealthfuI months from forty
to sixty per cent below normal. During those
seasons many machines were idle, and large
losses were sustained by workers and en-
poyers alike. After a year of cooperation
with the public health authorities to check
the disease at its sources one of the mill own
ers wrote: 1.-The money spent in your cam
paign gave the quickest and biggest returns
I have ever known from any investment" The
records show that within the twelvemonth it
paid from one hundred to four hundred per
cent. These are but two instances among
multitudes of the kind. Wherever malaria
prevails, with it's ever-devitalizing and some
times fatal effects 1t can be overcome by we'll
tried means.
Fundamental among those means is drain
age of swamp and wet lands, breeding places
Of the mosquitoes by which the disease is
transmitted. Important, also, as measures of
relief and prevention, are house screening
and medical treatment. DR.. H. R. Carter
who as assistant surgeon general of the
United States Public Tr~-th Service made an
these interesting facts: "Malaria is caused
by parasites in the blood of the person suf-
fering from it. Persons with such parasites
in their blood are suffering from malaria
Those parasites were injected into the person
by the bite of mosquito infected with the
parasite. Man receives infection in no other
way. The mosquito herself received this IL
lection by having previously fed on person
whose blood contained such parasite. The
mosquito acquires infection in no other way
The only mosquitoes which are infected with
malaria are those of the genus Anopheles,
and not all species of Anopheles are efficient
carriers of malaria. The change from man
to the mosquito and back again is necessary
for the continuous existence Of the parasites,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05
The Greatness and Un;queness
OF the Berr1 Schools

~ EORGIANS who like to know of things
truly great in their commonwealth and
country should have zen relish for
news from the Berry Schools. Among all edu-
cational endeavors these stand forth as clear,
lined as the peaks of the mountains to whose
Floyd county roadside, in a cabin of logs
hewn from the woods hard by, these schools
had their genesis, twenty-one years ago--a
dawning of new freedom for enfettered lives.
Today they are talked of in the universities
of Europe, are visited by leaders in education
from all regions of America, are remem-
sand young Southern highlanders whom they
have taught and served.
Of those thousands, as the records show,
twenty per cent, when they entered the Berry
Schools, were orphans with no support what
soever;, forty per cent were from homes
whose total income for a year was less than
were from homes whose income was between
five hundred and thousand dollars while
numbers could make 20 reckoning of their
hand{o-mouth means of subsistence. Thus
they came How did they leave? Sixty-two
per cent are now trained farmers; ten per
cent are school teachers and principals; one
per cent are nurses and doctors; one per cent
are ministers and social workers; ten per cent
are machinists, chemists, lawyers; and seven
per cent are housewives. (The girls school
was established years after the boys') Each
is earning a great deal moi than his father
did, is producing more, building more vision
ing more.
Particularly significant is the large number
of farmers among Berry graduates. How ad-
mirable is that education which, instead of
discontenting lads with labor of the soil,
teaches them it's high worth, its absorbing in
terests, it's rich and manifold opportunities;
and which, instead of turning their heads to
far-off cities and to over-crowded, under-pro-
workman!y patriotism for their own country
side and with sense of manhood's eternal
values!
Georgia's debt to Miss Martha Berry and to
the wonderful schools to which she has given
her life and genius wholly as a labor of love
how can it ever be repaid? Only by sustain
ing and speeding forward the work itself.
These schools are for youths who cannot af-
ford to go elsewhere; for boys and girls If
mountain or rural solitudes, whose blood is
Of the purest of Americas valiant pioneers,
whose capacities are of sturdest in all the
South's human resou IS, but to tens of thou
sands to whom education is still denied. To
aid in opening for these the way of light and
of life more abundant is the heart of the
Berry Schools appeal.
'The man who WINS she said, "is the man
who is always ready to embrace an opportu-
nifty"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05
DESTINY'S CHILD
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

What has gone befOre.-Courtney Her
ring+on has queer influence
over rLorry Granville, and when
Tom Ransome, the man she
has promised to marry, proves I'M
worthy. Lorry yields to Herringtons
demand that she marry him. On the
day before her marriage, Tom comes to
her and pleads that she take him back.
But in spite of her love for him, and her
dread for Courtney, she sends Tom away,
and tAe next day becomes Herringtons
wife.-NOw go on with the story.
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QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

The tramp was in the last stages Of
dllaE1datlon, and he wore open-worl1 shoes
But his face radiant, and he whistled
merr1ly as he slouched along the street. A
man called from his door
Here, [ have job for you, if you want
TO earn quarter"
The tattered man grnned happily as he
shook his head.
No, boss, thanks all the same I've got
quarter"
Governor McKelvie, of Nebraska, said at a
Lincoln luncheon Farm life is very hard
young coal miner thought that during the
coal strike he'd take a kind of rest cure bv
working on a farm Being a husky Young
coal miner he found job, and the
farmer called him to go to work the first
morning at o'clock. He wasn't used to
such hours, and turned over and took another
snooze. So 1t happened that it was quite
halfpast when he descended into the dark
farmyard, where all hands were busy milking
He perceived the boss by the light of one of
the lanterns, and strolled over to him. Good
morning, boss. Fine morning. he said heart
lily 'Humph,' grunted the boss. 1t was"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

when lazy man eats three times dav
at the expense of others he calls it a davis
work. U"'
Don't judge by outward appearances. The
coat OF an honest man and that of g.
CRATER may be cut from the same pattern
Some men boast that they can't be fooled
twice in the same way-but there are lots
of other ways.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05
MUSINGS OF ABE MARTIN

Mrs LATE Buds maid has only been with
her three years an already she knows
enough not t. fill tn water glasses too full.
No wonder tn Teller that starts tn day with
a smile is an optimist.
Copyright, 1929 &a .=<s1~-.