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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12
MORAL MICROBES
By H. Addington Bruce

Tn one of H G. Wells fanciful tales he
brings the strange men from the planet Mars
to this earth; they ravage and deyour human
beings: all our cannon are impotent to harm
them. who have their terrific "heat-ray'
which can send a whole city UP in smoke; but
at last thew are commercially the mtcrobe;
they die of fever.
tt is not the single great crises that make
mr. mar life: it is the swarm of petty thoughts
and feelings that we breed in our suocon-
sciousness
There seem to be spiritual bacilli. Most
moral diseases come from minute ana secret
forces. Religious fanaticism, where people
believe the most idiotic things with frenzy
of self-giving, exactly resemble those catch
ing" diseases that infect bodies. Those strlK-
ing collapses of character, where perfectly re-
spectacle people go off into the widest per
versions, are like as if they had been bitten
by some septic mosquito. Most criminal CON-
ditions of the soul seem malarlal.
In our studies of ethics we have devoted
too much space to theological telescopy and
not enough to psychological microscopy.
Man" says Henri Fabre, the great French
naturalist, "cuts through the neck of con-
tinents to Join two seas; he pierces the Alps;
he weighs the sun; and he cannot prevent a
wretched maggot from enjoying his cherries
before he does, nor an oidious louise from de-
stroying his vines. The Titan is yanqulshed
by the pigmy."
Some time ago I attended dinner where
some two hundred elderly gentlemen of sup
posed importance were discussing the League
of Nations. There a good deal said about
war one way or other. There was something
l wanted to say but didn't say 1t. 1t was
about on this wise.
Here you are discussing the question OF
War. Yet not one of you is ever liable to
be killed by war or impoverished by war.
There is not much likelihood of any great war
for the next few years and most of you will
be dead within a generation.
''Yet there is one enemy that is threaten
ing you all, it is the microbe. You are all
going to die sometime of hardening of the ar
teries, kidney trouble or ptOmaine poisoning
or something of the kind. The soldiers of
the microbe army will not probably get you,
they will get you with absolute certainty.
BESIDE this the moral microbes will az
tack you, they will eat into your reputation
and destroy your happiness.
wouldn't it be a deal more simple to be
taking measures to combine together to COM
bat the army of the microbe than to discuss
how you shall best shoot and poison and MAIN
your fellow man.
"Why go discussing how to quarrel with
your allies when you are all facing q com
mon enemy?"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12
THE COUNTRY HON
BY MRS. w. II. FELTON,


am a very poor speller!" No such guilty
pleading would have won any sympathy in
those early days where good spelling meant
good education for the rank and file of the
pupils.
If you spelt WE'LL you could write 1t down
correctly. Otherwise a cog had been slipped
and you had not improved your opportu-
mites.
Also, we had to 'read out loud" as an
educational exercise-frOm some standard
book-like "Pollok's Course of Time and
the reader was obliged to notice commas and
periods and be careful in pronunciation, etc.
Also proper expression.
Our grammar exercises included parsng.
which meant giving a rule for the proper
wording of the paragraphs, thus noticed, and
my great old teacher, Rev. DR.. John 5. VIII
son-whose school 1 attended during five
years, in Decatur, Ga. was so careful in his
methods that I was able at last to give him
every rule in Smiths grammar, also every
exception to a. rule-without hunting for
either in the textbook-when we had diff
icult parsing lesson before the class In his
presence. If we were in any wise dull or
stupid, the blackboard was handy and we
then were called upon to see how i'll or we'll
we could write it down, ofhand-and ex-
plain it,
We had to do lot of thinking on our
feet" and it is great exercise for the hui
man brain. The great orators of our nation
are the men who can think on their feet.
While there have been some who memorized
their written speeches and spoke them we'll
the ever-ready speaker is the one who can
face audience and keep his or her mind
working like a well-oiled machine-and that
ran smoothly.
l am not acquainted we'll enough to sit
in Judgment on the methods used in 1928,
to teach children to read or write or spell,
but l am told they do not first learn to spell.
They only guess at the word by looking at
picture until the picture becomes the word
itself. They figure cipher differently and
variously to work a sum in arithmetic, and
as a rule spelling is only used as a means
to the end of knowing how to read word
by getting we'll acquainted with a picture
in babyhood, and not by spelling-the A, B,
of it,
And the writing is so generally peculiar
that It is hard to say whether 1t was in
tended to go straight forward or to like on
its way going backward. Doubtless the
critics will say: Mrs FELTON, doubtless means
we'll, but she is Simple Simon as to edu-
cationaI methods modernized in our regular
summer schools, etc.
Maybe so, but I have the liberty to say,
the old-time thoroughness in the funda-
mentals of an English education is hard to
beat
If I had the direction of a young child's
school education, | should insist that they
begin with spelling, then with writing, then
with plain arithmetic, and constant reading
so as to be listened to with satisfaction; or
I should remain afraid that the boys would
only be qualified to be bundle-5oys, or news
boys and the girls to get married to some
little two by four partner who had no better
preparation Tor life than herself
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irwin Cobb

The reader with a good memory may re-
call that some months ago | offered in this
symposium a little anecdote of the young lady
at the summer resort whO on glorious
summer evening after giving the beauties OF
the armament her cordial indOrsement-is how
ed to her male companion and said:
"Science is so wonderful don't you think?
[ Just dote on science; l. never get tired of
hearing about it. Just think how much time
and how many brains it took for the astron-
omers to figure out exactly how far it IS from
here to Mars, and how many miles the sun
is, and what the size of the moon is and all
that. But to me the most wonderful thing
the thing l never could understands how
they ever found out the right name of all
the other planets"
The same young lady has been talking
again. Just here the other day, l heard Of
a remark delivered by her across the lunch
table.
"Oh, I'm so glad that I don't like beets."
she exclaimed. you don't know, really you
don't, how glad l am that l don't like EN-.
Because if l liked beets I'd eat 'em-and
hate em!"
Copyright, 1929 ~ zssgEf4S,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

The patient, feeling worse, went again to
see the family physician. Aeter thorough
examination the doctor said lie was only suf-
fering from bad cold and warned him to fol-
low directions carefully. The patient was
then given some capsules
DR.. Boom-aBe sure and take these capsules
in alienation.
PATIENT surely will, doctor
Three weeks slipped by and nothing was
heard of the patient. Then one day he was
confronted on the street and Dr. Boom asked
him how he felt
Patient-Very we'll, doctor, those capsules
were a little large, but, doctor [ couldn t
find any alienation at home and so l used
water.
The mendicant fell into step and asked for
word, just one word After half a block of
this he was told to shoot. He did so:
Unless l get some food to carve,
I'll surely s+arve."
"Alas!" responded the pedestrian address
ed, that is the common fate of a poet 1
Isympathize with you, my friend, I sympathize
with you. But I cannot consent to do any
thing which might interfere with the natural
course of events"
The tale is told of Scotchman who ordered
suit from his tailor and contrived to get Snin
to reduce the price from 5 guineas to
pounds.
When they had left the shop the friend who
had accompanied him protested:
cts no fair, Peter. Ye ken we've nae
money an that yell never pay him onyhow
That's just it, Tam" replied Peter; "oot
O. the sheer kindness o. ma hert dinna want
! him to lose sac muckle."
Lieutenant, how goes your campaign
against the fair Miss Billions hearth" asked
a civilian
IT'S over" replied the officer; "she has
surrendered. 1 went there last evening in
tending merely to make a demonstration
FINDING less resistance than [ expected,
moved forward and I soon had her surround
ed. Owing to the superiority of my arms, she
captulated at once"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12
What President Harding Has
Learned IN Tvo Years

T WO years at the helm have convinced
Mr. Harding that nc man could
confront the responsibility of Presi-
dent of the United States and yet adhere
to the idea that it is possible for our coun-
try to maintain an attitude of isolation and
aloofness in the world"
Regrettable as it is that the President
did not arrive earlier at this conclusion, his
sdeliberateness in reaching it is large with
meaning Slowly, gradually, reluctantly, but
irreslstibly he was drawn to and acknowl-
edge the truth which some of his party col
leagues still deny. Mr.. Harding is not the
man to seek stressfuI issues, though when
they are clearly drawn and forced forward
he will not evade them. He had good rea-
matter Is concerned, to let alone the ques-
ton Of American cooperation in world af-
fairs. He knew well of the hostility of
senators like Hiram Johnson and La
Toilette, and of the lukewarmness Of those
like Lodge He was not unaware that in both
those groups were politicians, ambitious and
distempered, who would be swift to make
the most of chance to swell their own
interests at his expense. The easy way,
he must have realized, would have been to
leave the controversy which cost his pre-
decessor so dearly, unrevived. But neither
his Judgment, nor his conscience, nor the
course of events would suffer him so to do.
Despite all his predispositions, he at last
is constrained by what he sees to be true
and what he knows to be right to declare
that 1t is impossible "for our country to
maintain an attitude of isolation and aloof-
ness in the world"
That he goes far enough in his present
proposal to redeem the errors and Ills of
isolation may well be questioned; but that
be does not go too far should be apparent
to the most conservative mind unless it be
blind with prejudice. He proposes Ameri-
can participation in the International Court
OF Justice, within certain safeguarding re-
strictions, as the way by which our favored
country can make cts most feasible con-
tribution' to the forces of stability, recon
struction, concord, equity and progress in 6
war-hroken, war-dazed world. Much more
than World Court membership may be need
full; but this at least is essential and i'm
perative. For its own good and honor the
country should support the President against
the extreme Isolationists.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

If mans head is filled with wisdom he
doesn't have to use his mouth as a safety
valve
And lots of people who think 2that. they
have nothing but trouble don't know what
trouble really is.
How we dislike the thoughtless person who
changes the topic of conversation when it is
in our favor.
Many an innocent youth has taken a young
Widows hand and rrattled of love, in spirit
of fun, only to find himself facing the par
son with her later.
A stunning looking girl isn't necessarily
shocking,
Truth and honesty have but little in com
mon with diplomacy.
Poetry may bring returns-if stamp is
inclosed with it.
1t Is an easy matter to get into the habit
Of meeting trouble half way.
We feel sorry for the man who thinks that
everybody else is dishonest.
Few men look gift horse in the mouth
because they never have a chance.
Pride makes some people ridiculous and
prevents others from becoming so.
1t is said that no two men ever think alike
yet great many widows remarry.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12

was, in fact one of the most notable dresses
l ever had, and it fit like a glove. 1t was OF
heavy brown silk with a silk velvet polo
naise." Then, at your puzzle look, she
plains, ga polonaise, dear child, is a very
long basque, drawn in at the back
ooh, yes, there were dances in Washing
ton-hops, we called them We lived at the
old National Hotel, which was also home OK
number of Senators and Congressman at
the time, and many of the hops were given
there. 1 joined the Method church at the
age of sixteen, so I didn't dance, but 1 was
in great demand to play for the others. I
had piles and piles Of music, some of it my
own composition.
II knew many famous people in Washing
ton. Mrs. Hayes, the wife of President
Hayes, was one of my best friends. l had a
very sick child while in Washington, and
my hotel almost every day and inquire about
him. Mrs. Garfield, the wife of President
Garfield, was also a very gracious lady. l
knew her we'll and also Old Grandmother
Garfield. Another one of our friends was
Belva Lockwood, one of the most brilliant
lawyers of her tix:e, and twice a presidential
candidate.
Guipure Lace Dress
but my lace dress child, have you ever
seen it?' asked Mrs. FELTON,. "Guipure lace
it is. and [ wore it when 1 was elected tenn
porary chairman of the board of lady man.
Palmer was president Of the board. She was
one of the most charming women I've ever
known. You could not decide which was
most exquisite, her beauty, her manners or
her clothes.
perhaps I'll wear my lace dress If there's
a party or anything for my birthday. Yes,
I've had it long time but then I've had my
Canton crepe shawl more than seventy years,
and my Chantilly lace shawl nearly fifty
Mrs. FELTON, has written and published two
books, and has practically finished third.
in the style of reminisccncc. Aside from
her political work, she has welded tren-
chant pen in behalf of better conditions for
women and better industrial and reform
schools Her articles have appeared for
many years in The Weekly@Journal.
Mrs FELTON, still looks upon her senatorial
appointment as a beautiful compliment paid
in the true style of q southern gentleman,
and views her reception in Washington in the
same light. "Of course, my day is really over,
she said "but for women in general 1T was
a real triumph. A lot Of folks seemed to
think it funny that 1 didn't get excited in
Washington when I was sworn in and made
my little talk as the Lady rom Georgia, but
why should 1 have been excited or scared?'
And looking backward with Mrs FELTON,
along the vista of years and their many high
lights, you echo the question.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

Because the daughters of Zion are
naughty, and walk with stretchedforth
necks and >deceiping eyes, making and
mincing as they go, and making tinkling
NTH their feet in that day the Lord
Mill take away the bravery of their tin
king ornaments about their feet, and their
cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
the chains, and the bracelets, and the rHf-
flers, the bonnetS, and the ornaments of
the legs, and the headbands, and the tab
let's, and the earrings, the rings, and the
Jewels, the chdngeabIe suits of apparel,
and the nantes, and the Wimples, and the
crisping pins, the glasses, the fine linen,
and the hoods, and the pals. And it shall
come to pass that there shall be in
stead of girdIe, a rent; and instead of
nell set hair, badness; and instead of a
stoplacher, a girding of sdckcloth; and
burning instead of bedHty.-lsaiah $1,000.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12

r ONG hopeful of propagating its doctrine
among the masses of China, the Russian
~ Soviet regime recently sent adroit
emissary, one Joffe, to that country with
view to establishing centers of influence. He
returned completely disappointed.
AS land whose interests are chiefly agri-
cultural China appeared to the Russian theo-
rists to afford fertile opportunities for prop
uganda among the millions Of peasants. But
Joffe found that while some Of the farm la
borers were dissatisfied with the govern
ment because of their small earnings, all
agreed that more radical regime would
bring them still less satisfaction" The rural
workers being thus counted out of the
scheme, there remained for the emissarys
project the industrials and the fntelectuals.
But his success among these was little If any
more appreciable than among the country
folk. They could see in Bolshevism no class
advantage and no individual profit, much less
national good.
The Chinese are said by those who know
most OF their personality ana thelr hlsColS "
be peculiarly gifted people, strong alike In
moral and in mental fibre. Certainly If time
be a test of racial and national hardihood,
the Chinese have stood it exceedingly we'll
Thousands of years before the civilization OF
Europe began to emerge from barbarism, they
were perfecting wonderful arts, evolving high
ethics governing well, living well, and writing
graceful little poems about a cup Of tea. This
rare peopIe, with the wisdom of well-nigh
unmeasured ages in their habit of though
has accepted democracy, thereby proving a
present capacity for progress; and has re-
iected Sovietism, proving again a capacity
for sound decisions.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12
RAYS OF HOPE
nv RERTON RRALEY


VTTHEN you have bunions on your feet
w Bear them with resignation sweet,
For you are fortunate indeed;
Suppose you were a centtpede!
Be patient when your throat is sore,
You haven't any cause to roar;
At ills like these you well may laugh;
Be thankful you are no gtraffe!
RI rheumatism in your limbs
Your happiness at times bedtms,
You haven't any right to cuss,
Suppose you were an octopus!
And If the toothache bothers you,
Consider that your teeth are few
Compared to those which you remark
Upon the jawbone of a shark.
And If this blithe philosophy,
For which do not charge fee,
Does not appear to do you good
All, well, didn't think 1t would.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12
DESTINY'S CHILD
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

Vile, even though she has promised to
marry Tom Ransome, is conscious of
strange power that Courtney Harrington
seems to exert over her. On her wedding
eve, Lorry is visited by a strange girl
who tells her things about Tom that
make it necessary to stop the Wedding
Now go on with the story. r..
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12
MUSINGS OF ABE MARTIN

We used t. feel sorry fer tn word ruth
less" when it wuz so overworked, but how in
TIL world tn word service" manages L hold
up under TIL strain gifts us. Speakin' o. ben'
dynamic Tell Binkley shook hands with Will
H Hays last week an it cured his neuritis.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12
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1t is said that no two men ever think alike
yet a great many widows remarry.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12

Few men look gift horse in. the mouth,
because they never have a chance.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12

Thursday, THE Fly and the Spider" Read
the synopsis and begin this story. You will
find it very entertaining.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30
HEART BEATS ARE REGULATED
How Electrical Machine Slows Down
or Increases the Movements
of That Organ.

One of the most remarkable Of re-
cent medical inventions is the static
wave device.
Its purpose Is to regulate the beating
Of the heart, should 1t be too fast or
too slow. The patient sits In an In
sulated chair connected with a ma
chine which passes an electrical cur
rent through the body.
Outside the machine is a revolving
ball, fixed to the end OF a metal rod.
Every time this ball passes another
stationary ball electricity is discharged
from the body, causing the muscles to
relax.
If the heart should be beating IS
times a minute, but Is six beats fast.
the revolving ball is timed to go round
at IA revolutions minute, and the
heart is thus slowed down to Its cor
rect time. In the same way the heart
can be Quickened.
This wonderful machine was exhib-
tied at a recent medical exhibition in
London. The force of the current Is
such that person putting his hand
within six inches of the chair receives
quite q powerful shock.