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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-22
The Tale of Tiny Tombstores

" VIDENTLY the day is coming when a
r. community that does not look well to
the conservation of it's health, partic
ularly the health of its children, will
be regarded with much the same feeling
with which we now read of those of early
Medieval towns where every street Tas an
open sewer and where a plague would bury
nine inhabitants in every ten. In this coun-
try today there are two hundred and thirty
one counties, in thirty-three states, which
have health Offices giving their entire time
to public welfare. While little more than
eleven per cent of the rural population is
yet vouchsafed this benefit, the rapid growth
of the service appears in the fact that as
recently as three years ago only one hundred
and nine counties employed such officials. A
decade hence, If not much earlier, the coun-
ty which neglects this interest will be looked
upon as lingerer in the Dark Ages and be
Stunned by prudent homeseekers and in
vestors.
'.In some districts5'' says the American
Child Health Association, of which Herbert
Hoover is president, "the little red school
house with its one ROOM is being used for
conferences to give instruction to parents.
One notable instance of this is in Ottawa
county, Kansas, where the county health
department, at some seventeen such meet
ings had mothers who had travelled miles
to get help and knowledge as to how their
little ones might have a better chance" A
single suggestion received on such an occa-
sion, or given by a visiting nurse, may mean
the saving of bapy's life, or the proven
ton of an epidemic of disease; may turn
back the shadow of death and spell joy in
stead of bitterness in the annals of the
home.
Writing of the sorrows of the pioneer
women of the West and Il waste of human
material, an American historian says: "In
those days of hardship and ignorance of the
mes: rudimentary rules of sanitation, few
knew how to save their children from death
due to the simplest diseases; and the stu
dent of today reads the sad story in the
many tiny tomostones OF the old family
cemeteries, knowing we'll that the great ma
jority rest in unmarked graves. Many were
born and many died without fair chance
E.. existence" This was written of the from
tier of a century gone. or more. But does
& not still hold good of many hamlet
and countryside? Does it not tell the ~~'0v-
Gus truth of certain farmsteads and regions
in Georgia?
To relieve and to prevent such conditions
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-22
The Automobile as a Builder

IV1HILE there may be sundry meanings
M to the fact that more automobile
license tags have been issued in
Georgia thus far in 1928 than for any entire
without arguing: the number of motor We
hicles owned and operated in the State has
markedly increased. Proceeds from the sale
of license tags through September the thir-
teenth are reported at two million eighty
eight thousand and four dollars as COM
pared with one million eight hundred and
thirty thousand and forty-seven dollars for
the whole twelve-month of 1922. The high
est record, prior to this year, was one mil
lion nine hundred and eighteen thousand five
hundred and twelve dollars for 1920, which
already has been overtopped.
This looks as if the new gasoline tax will
build considerable mileage of good roads.
The automobile has been at once the prophet
and the fnancier of modern highways. Be
fore its advent in Georgia the majority of
counties were content to worry along with
passabIe thoroughfares between the more
important centers of production and trade;
but such thing as a Statewide system of
excellent roads by which every farmstead
would be linked to the county seat and each
county seat to every other in the common
wealth. was rarely discussed and but dimly
imagined. We are still a weary distance
from that ideal, but the automobile is car
rying us surely, If not speedily, in that di-
rection.
Moreover, as we travel thither, farm lands
gain in value and farm products in market
worth, school attendance grows, rural neigh
borliness increases, economic and social in
terests alike feel a fresh quickening. What
ever ills may have come in the wake of motor
vehicles-and there is perhaps no invention
not turned to some abuse-the good that it
does vastly overbalances them. Take the
automobile out of current history and the
effect would be as startling as If the horse
should be lifted out of the story of mans
past.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-22
SOURCES OF POWER
By H. Addington Bruce


4 is suprcmely important to remember
that there are psychical as well as phys
zeal sources of human power-that in
fact, the psychical sources are so helpful that
unless they are drawn upon effort is sure to
be needlessly firing and mediocre in result.
Contrast, for example, the experience of
two men of similar age and physique and
/training and engaged in similar work.
Both are prudent as regards observance of
the laws of hygienic living. Both eat good
food in nOurishing amount and secure an
abundance of fresh air-thus availing them
selves of the two prime physical sources of
power.
But one nightly goes home feeling ex-
hausted. The other is almost as~fresh at the
end of his days work as at the beginning
And during the day he has done more work
and better work than his companion.
The difference is due to one thing, the fail
ure of the first worker to draw upon any
psychical sources Of power, and the insistence
of the second in drawing upon many such
sources.
The first works simply because he has to
work. He has no real desire to excel in his
work, or even to do it more than passably
Well. He has no interest in it apart from the
money it will bring him.
Frankly, he regards it as a disagreeable
necessity. There are many other things he
would rather be doing. He pites himself as
forever reiterates to himself consciously or
subconsciously, the thought of how firing
his work is.
The second worker is ambitious to pro-
gress. He views his work not as an evil,
but as an opportunity. He is as keenIy in
terested in it as his companion is uninter-
ested. Hence he works eagerly, purpose
fully, and without mental stress and conflict.
All of which means a continual drawing
upon psychical sources of power, with re-
sultant increased reststiyity to fatigue, and
also increased ability to achieve. Hadfield
states the situation both CORE thy and force
fully when, in his "The Psychology of Pow
err" he remarked:
Mature is economic in her gifts; she will
not give strength to those who will not ex-
pend it. They remain uninsptring and unin-
sDired.
Life demands expression. If the life
stream that flows through US finds the chan
mel blocked by a life of inactivity, we in
evitably suffer from staIeness and boredom,
or a sense of physical debility. A purposelesg
life is a life of fatigue"
All the world through are workers who
are prospecting because they work as this
passage suggests every lone should work. All
the world through, too are workers weary
and miserable because they do not thus
because of their failure to draw upon the
sources of power that are certainly within
them as within the workers victorious.
And WEAKNESS and misery will be their
portion unless and until they recognize their
fundamental error. To shift from work
hate to work-zest is their great need.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-22

about 5215 years and at present fifty-six
years. In India where public health en-
cheering is at the lowest ebb the average
today is but twenty-four years.
O. Who was the first woman missionary
from the United States. A. n. R.
A. The first woman missionary officially
sent out from the United States in modern
times was the wife Of Adoniram Judson, who,
in 1872 accompanied her husband and four
other missionaries sent out By the American
Board of Missionaries for Foreign Missions
TO India and Burma
Q. Was Mayor Gaynor, Of New York, as
sassinated? J. R. NJ.
A. Mayor Gaynor was shot on August 9,
1910, by a discharged city employee, just as
was going aboard a steamer for Europe. He
never fully recovered from the effects Of the
wound, although he resumed his official duties.
@. Does a Chinaman have to have his
queue cut off to get into the United States?
w. I. c.
\. Careful examination of the Chinese ex-
clusion acts do not show that any statute
required a Chinese person to cut off his
queue in order to enter this country.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-22
We Can't Be Hern1;ts

A TARIFF wall is no more proof against
n the economic forces of the world to-
day than Medieval castle would be
against modern artillery. This is strikingly
| illustrated by the present failure of thirty
cent import duty on wheat to shield our
a great Canadian harvest.
Of the Dominion's crop of four hundred
and seventy million bushels, half of which
will be available for expectation, none or
little will come into the United States, direct
Nevertheless, American wheat prices are fall
ing before the impact of the heavy Canadian
output If we could live wholly to ourselves
unaffected by what befalls in the world at
large we could afford to be Indifferent to
international conditions, economic and
other kinds. But when those conditions de-
termine the prices of our own products. the
prosperity or depression of our own farmers,
the good or i'll fortune of our own people, is
it not foolish to ignore them or to fancy that
they can be turned back from the channels
of our common life by an act of Congress?
A Canadian farmer selling bushel of
wheat to a buyer on the@ other side of the
Atlantic has nothing to do, apparently, with
the interests of this country, whose markets
J he is kept from entering by a prohibtiYe
tariff. SO at least reasoned the makers of
the FOrdney McCumber law But as mat
ters have turned out, he has SO much to do
with it that Western growers are about to
lose faith in the golden calf of "Protection."
That the high Republican tariff is effective
in certain ways is not to be denied. 1t has
succeeded, for instance, in reducing Canadian
purchases in the United States by the sum
! of four hundred million dollars in the course
of single year. Highly effective it is in
repelling customers whose business good will
we were wont to enjoy, but who are not
minded to beat their heads against tower
ing wall in order to trade where their own
products are shut out For nation of her
mits the Fordney-McCu tariff and iso-
Iationist policies in general would be appro-
pirate enough; but they are a costly misft
! for Americans.
Ignorance is always ready to pat itself on
the back.
1t is alomst as bad to say mean things as
! to do them.
The less brains a man has, the easier it is
| for him to lose his head.
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THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. ". II. FEL

in June. 1928, the governor had been really
elected nearly a year, but he had no plan
to offer, and was evidently entirely at sea
on this tax question. He apparently lodged
the issue.
This failure is inexplicable-past finding
out! After spending $25, 900 in regular
session, the governor has cal:ed an extra
session for November, 1923. This will Soak
up another $4,000, and the commission
appointed by the governor will present
some theories and plans, no doubt, and the
legislature will have a good time in Atlanta,
and unless all signs and symptoms fail, the
legislature will divide as before and the
same thing is already scheduled to happen.
Again a farCe-and the voters will vote it
down in 1924-and we will have another
try-maybe in 1925-to the disgust of the
state.
Here we go, up-up--uppy;
Here we go, wn-dOwn-downdy,
What dirty political tricks are these
AS we are dragged round-round-round
The people of Georgia are determined to
get rid of this assessor business, sooner or
later. The grand jury is the proper au-
thOrity to deal with any abuse which calls
for punishment by fine or Imprisonment.
The grand jury must be composed of
persons who are intelligent and of good
character If any other sort of people get
to the membership of grand jurymen it is
owing to ignorant and inefficient officers
Of the court.
The grand jury is the only authority in
the state which can indict for crtme-and
call suspected people to the book-within
it's own authOrity-when such matters are
laid before them. Three individuals-hand-
picked by political infuence-not amenabe
to any court of justice-have been given
undue authority to pet or pick at the tax
payers, according to their own yoliton. I
took the trouble during three succeeding
years to examine a good many of their de-
cisions in the county live in, and to be
thus convinced that it has more unbrided
tyranny in use than any continuance to
thWart justice and protect their bosses ever
known to my acquaintance or knowledge or
reading in books
I can furnish the proof that property is
sometimes assessed, and signed up on the
tax digests, at stated values, when the
property paid less than One-tenth of the
assessment to tax collector when taxes were
paid late in December.
Widows were not favored unless there
were some men folks of voting age in the
family. I know Of one lot of land assessed
to an old widow at $40 per acre and the
identical lot assessed as wild land to an
other party at $3.50 per acre. Candidate
Walker was correct in his opinion, but Gov
ernor Walkers opinion is apparently not SO
reliable.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-22

The less brains man has the easier it is
for him to lose his head
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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-07-12
News Of Somerset's Busy Towns

iage helped Mrs. Claude Goodrich pa
per one day last week.
George Coolong, Jr., has been en-
ployed at f. S. Hunnewells farm or
helping him during the past week,
Miss Christie Halves is helping MIS-
Alfred Curtis with her Homework.
Little Arthur Gerald Goodrich cele-
brated his End birthday last Friday
evening. Mrs. Arabel and Miss lda
Lister were at supper.
Mrs. Claude Goodrich Is expecting
her aunt, Mrs. Harriet Chaplin OF y.
Arlington, Mass. next week Tor a
short visit.
Verne ODonnel of Bingham village
Is working for Alfred Curtis.
Claude Goodrich recently sold
Thomas Cahill of Bingham village a
cedar pole for a flag pole It was
thirty-three feet in length, and meas
ured 3 1-2 inches at the top and y
inches at butt end. Farmers can
raise most anything even to flag poles.
will be at Bingham Hotel, Mon
day, July IS, to fit glasses. X. {.
Brown. lW2o
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
Services on Sunday, the 18th. as
usual 1890 preaching by the pas
tor; Has Sunday School; els Ep-
worth League. A 3 o'clock Sunday
afternoon there will be services held
at the Lincoln Schoolhouse on the
Stream road. The attendance last
Sunday In that place was encouraging.
We have sent for Sunday School quar-
terlies and papers, which we hope will
dome so that we may distribute them
next Sunday. Come and listen to the
illustrated talk on 1.-THE Grapevine"
"rhe Grapes" and the Little Foxes
which will be given at 3 o'clock sharp.
The preaching service will follow.
The entire neighborhood is most cor
daily invited. Both services will
only last one hour and fifteen minutes.
On Tuesday, the 18th, our district
superintendent, Rev. d. B. Holt, d. d..
will preach at 7.30 p. m, after which
the first quarterly conference will be
held. All are cordially invited to
come. A full attendance of the Off
cial board Is requested.
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RIyERSIDE-KINGFIELn

A surprise party was given Ralph
Nicholas, Friday evening ON his birth
day. About fifty were present. Games
were played and treat OF popcorn
and candy was enjoyed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Jackson of N.
N. Portland were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Blaine Atwood, Maple street,
Sunday.
Bertha Lane Of Emhden returned
home Sunday evening after spending
week with C. G. Atweods family.
Albert MeMullen has got his grass
cut and in on his land on Riverside.
DR.. Garland and family are plan
ming on pleasure trip starting
Tuesday and returning Thursday.
Nadine. little daughter of Blaine
Atwood has been quite Ill for several
days. She seems to be some better
today.
J. 8. Moulten of North Arson was
visiting his sister Mrs. Manley At
wood, Riverside, Sunday, who is laid
up with bad knee.
The Country Road so called is in
a dreadful condition to pass over.
u.
family took in the sale at Skowhegan
Saturday evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Written took
their son Charles thru to Augusta the
first of the week He goes thru to
Perry to commence work as Civil
Engineer.
Mrs. Conrad Agren will have COM
pany in few days, some of her
friends from away.
Herman Lane of Emblem was a
caller at @. G. Atwood's. Sunday.
Three teams that have been work
ing on the state road for C. @. At
wood, left Saturday to do their hay
ing.
Erlon Davidson got his shoulder
burned quite badly Fourth of July
evening by a roman candle dropping
on him. 1t Is causing him quite a
lot of trouble, the Doctor dressing 1t
for him to prevent blood poisoning.
Fri Moulton Is making some re-
pairs on his house which makes it
look fine. C. G.. Atwood is also re-
pairing his buildings to paint later.
Leonard Riggs is picking his
strawberries.
Ralph Simmons and wife were
guests at Earl Wings Sunday.
O. b. Hutchins and son Melvin
were callers at Manley Atwood's
Monday morning.
w. II. Farnham and wife of West
New Portland were callers at NJ: G..
Atwood's, Tuesday.
Corn is looking rather poor, it be-
ing so cold. Potato bugs are trim
ming some tomato plants.
The infant daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Warren Dunton, who lives just
above Kingfeld, passed away July 4.
She had been sick since birth and was
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SOUTH CANAAN

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gerald, Mr.. and
Mrs. Guy Kennedy and Mr.. Kennedy
mother of Clinton were callers Sun
day at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
old Gerald
Mrs. Estell Goodrich and son, Guy
were Sunday callers at the home OF
Mrs. Goodrich's brother In Clinton.
Mr. and Mrs. George Andrews and
family of Connecticut and Joseph Nor
rison of Hartland were In town this
week calling on old friends and neigh
bors.
Elmer Gerald of Skowhegan is help
ing his brother Alton Gerald do his
haying.
DR.. A. C. Williams wishes to an
nounce that he is located at the resi-
denee of Mrs. Nettie Williams for the
practice of dentistry. N. Z. Phone
1921; Farmers $40. Twas
Mrs. Florence Goodspeed and party
from Bangor spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Alton Gerald.
Leslie Buzzell and Lester Eldrige
have been peeling hemlock for Lou
Vile Written.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Gerald, Mrs.
Martha Smith and Louyiile Written
were in Waterville Sunday evening
to call on Mr.. Whitten's daughter.
Miss Cassie Written who Is patient
at the Sisters Hospital. Her many
friends here will be pleased to hear
she is recovering nicely from her
operation.
Several around here will start hay
ing this week with large crop. La
Dor Is scarce and very high.
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MALB0N'S MILLS

Verne Wiley, rural mail carrier on
route l Is having his annual vacation
of two weeks, and Is helping the Brad
bury Bros. with their haying.
Robert Furber from town Is help
ing his grandfather, Isaiah Crowell
In haying.
Mrs. Bert Russell of Lakewood and
daughter and husband, Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Gilley and little daughter,
Margaret of Bucksport were callers
at Isaiah CrowelPs on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Alfred Smith and
daughters, Mildred and Marion, re-
turned to Augusta on Saturday after
spending two weeks at the futile
farm on the Notch road. The young
ladies will spend part Of their sum
mer vacation at Old Orchard and plan
to enter Pennington Normal school
In the fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Holden and
niece, Miss Ethel O'Brien and Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Painter of NorrldgewOck
motored to Moxie Pond on Sunday,
where they met Mrs. Holden's sisters,
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Kew and Mr.. and
Mrs. William Sands of Jackman and
enjoyed picnic dinner. Arile Kew
returned with Mr.. and Mrs. Holden &c
help in haying.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. l.. Watson OF st
Petersburg, Fla, formerly of Portland
and who have been visiting relatives
in town and Canaan, were calling
with Mrs. +. o. Furber from town al
the home of Mrs. Furber's parents
Mr. md Nra Isaiah CrOwpll'g on
Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Corson and
Mr.. and Mrs. III. II. Salisbury left
Saturday afternoon in the Corson car
for trip to the sea shore spending
the night at Lamoine, Mr.. Salisbury's
old home town. Sunday they visit
ed Bar Harbor and called on friends
in Ellsworth returning home Sunday
evening after having enjoyed most
delightful outing.
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service in charge and has been work
ing hard with the little ones. All
are cordially invited to both morn
ing and evening service. Sunday
school will be as usual.
Last Wednesday noon the Ladies'
Aid Society served a cold meat and
salad dinner to an appreciative crowd
with good net results. The commit
tee in charge was Mrs. Lottie Young,
Mrs. Elsie Walker and Mrs. Bessie
Rand.
The young people of Rev. John
Cooper's Sunday school class held an
enjoyable SOCIAL on July Bird, on the
church lawn. After social hour
and delicious refreshments, a bust
ness meeting was held and the young
people voted unanimously to form an
Epworth League and and Immediately
proceeded to elect officers. The fol-
lowing were elected TO serve on the
Epworth League Cabinet: President,
w. Garland Bailey; first vice presid-
ent, Virginia Smith; second vice pres
ident, Verne L. Bailey; third vice
president. Fannie Dunphy: fourth vice
president, Clarence Ellis; secretary,
Auule WdthcfI 1eabpithe AMhhaa lSi-
lis; organist, Louise Shaw. The
pastor gave to each one present a
copy OF the Epworth League Consti-
tuition and carefully explained the
works of each department In the
League. This was the 4th of July
ushered in by an organized young
peoples society in the M. E. Church
of North Arson.
Band Concert at Skowhegan by
Citizens Band, Tuesday night.
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s.
guest Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
Mont Sinclair.
Mrs. Hilda Smith is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Boston
for a few days.
Mrs. Esma williams and daughter
Mona of Cornville visited Mrs. Will
liams' mother, Mrs. Lydia Small, Sun
day.
Mr.. Savage of skowhegan was In
in town Saturday repairing the Farm
ers' telephone.
Bert Corson of Brighton was in
town one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Thompson, Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Sinclair and baby Vern-
al were visitors at the home of Eph-
Ram Sinclair of Harmony, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Fish were in
Skowhegan Tuesday.