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Evening star., 1923-12-14
FREE DANCERS HUSBAND.
Russian Literati Acquit Mate of
Isadora Duncan.

MOSCOW, December IA court
composed of Moscows literati has tried
Sergei Yessinin. husband Of lsadora
Duncan, and three companion poets, on
charges growing out of alleged anti
semitic utterances. The court censured
the writer's but decided to permit them
to continue work in Moscow. The trial
was attended by scores of long-haired
male poets and short-haired female
poets, .....
Evening star., 1923-12-14
MANY CLAIM BONDS.
Soldiers Are Awarded Securities
Bought During World War.

Following publication in newspa
pers early in November that the Army
finance officer in this city had a large
number OF unclaimed liberty bonds
purchased by members Of the Army
during the world war, more than 239
claims for the bonds have been re-
ceived since from ex-service men,
Investigation of these claims has
resulted in the delivery to the own
ers of more than twenty $50 bonds
each carrying SO in coupons. Action
will be taken on the remaining claims
as rapidly as possible.
Evening star., 1923-12-14
MISS ABBOTT TALKS
TO ZONTA MEMBERS
ChildIen's Bureau Head Tells of
Work Done on Ma
tional Scale.

Miss Grace Abbott of the children's
bureau, Department of Labor, was the
speaker at the weAy luncheon of the
Zonta Club of business and professional
women at the Raleigh Hotel yesterday.
Miss Abbott was introduced by Miss
Margaret Sawyer, who gave a concise
and interesting sketch of the work of
the bureau. as preliminary to Miss Alb
bott's talk
"The justification for the children's
Evening star., 1923-12-14
Art, With a Moral.

From the London Passing Show.
Picture Dealer-A picture for a
wedding present? Yes. sir Here s
the very thing, most charming. The
Coming Storm
Evening star., 1923-12-14

If yrI don't believe heat expands.
just t.y experimenting with a hot
temper
Evening star., 1923-12-14

The people who sneer at success are
apt to measure it by the standard of
their own littleness.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-10

TEN, it thus appears, involves no confisca,
ton, or tax scheme designed to force relin-
quishment of large estates. Instead, it goes
directly to the heart of the problem, compen-
sating the great land holders but insisting
that the small and hitherto helpless farmer
shall have opportunity to become an owner.
In the case Of the Pardubice estate there
were two thousand eight hundred applicants
for land, who asked for an aggregate of more
than sixteen thousand acres. AS the entire
agricultural area to be disposed of was only
seven thousand six hundred and twelve acres,
not all the petitioners could be accommodated.
In every such division, 1t is said, the rights
Of the original owner within the law and,
as far as feasible, his sentiments as well,
are scrupulously respected.
How successfully the new system viii work
is a debated question. Some argue that it
will tend to lessen the country's total of
agricultural efficiency and production by
preventing employment of machinery and
large-scale operations. Others maintain that
the small farmer will work his land inten-
sively, will enrich it, knowing it is his own,
will give his crops greater care than is posi-
BILE on large areas" AS a disinterested
American student of the issue, Miss Textor
thinks that time only can determine. She
adds, however, "If it should indeed prove
true that small farms, even under the
best of circumstances, must yield less than
the same extent of soil worked as a unit
this drawback would be outweghed by the
consideration that class of society, whose
meager existence in the past had prevented
its full development, had now achieved the
freedom that comes from an assured liveli-
hood and the incentive which arises from a
consciousness of being justly dealt with. Aft
er all, the people are the bulwark of the
state"
This last sentence, it seems to us, carries
the gist of all true patriotism and all sound
economics. 1t is we'll worth Georgia's pom
dering.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-10
HE DIDN'T JUST SAY
By DR.. Frank Crane

One of the best stories Senator Billy Mason
ever told, and he told some good ones, was of
his going to a town in southern Illinois to
speak at a political rally. Arriving about
noon, he went to barber shop, to be shaved.
AS the negro barber was Iathering him he de-
scribed enthusiastically to the senator the ad-
dress he had heard that morning, delivered by
well-known politician of the bloody-shirt
type. The barber declared it to be the most
eloquent discourse he had ever heard. The
orator talked two hours, but the audience
would willingly have listened another hour.
1t was wonderful, mastery effort
'What did he talk about?' asked the SEN
ator. "What was the subject of his address -
"The subject?" replied the negro. 1Well,
now. er-he didn't just say
Since I heard the story, a good many years
ago, it has come to my mind many times, as
the most fitting commentary on many things
How many novels l have read how many
poems and learned treatises, how many
speeches, political, religious and banQuetting,
have listened to, how many conversations
have heard, in a word, how many a long and
tedious fabric of words l have noted, excellent
perhaps in style, but as to the gist and point
of matter, as to what it was all about, the
word smith ''didnt just say"
remember reading somewhere his account
on China. Il was at a meeting in some public
hall in London, where there was an immense
crowd. The speaker began by telling where
China is. He bounded it, described it's people
and their occupations, the resources Of the
country, and so on. The narrator said that
he was much disappointed because for fifteen
minutes the speaker seemed to be doing little
more than giving a lesson in geography, and
some such account of China could east
ly find in the school books. But, he said that
after all this foundation had been laid, Bright
proceeded to make the most remarkable and
| inspiring address he ever heard. He had his
audience with him and carried conviction be-
cause first of all he laid in their minds the
| foundation of his subject
What relief it would be if newspaper and
magazine writers and authors Of books first
of all told us what the whole thing is about,
and then proceeded with their explanations
and propaganda.
young man who looked like an agent who
was selling something came to my office the
other day, and asked me if he could have five
minutes of my time The answer l made him
l can commend to others:
Copyright 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-10
MY FAVORITE STORIES


An English writer who served London
daily as correspondent during the great war
told me he was present when this happened:
One of the big trans-continental liners,
which had been converted into a transport,
was passing through the Suez canal, bearing a
contingent of British volunteers for service in
the eastern campaign against the Turks. The
big ship was moving very slowly The SOL
diers aboard none OF whom had seen any
actual fighting as yet and very little military
life except in the training camps at home,
lined the guards, gazing upon the Unaccustom-
ed sights about them.
On the nearermost bank of the canal, with
in easy hailing distance of the passing ship,
an Australian veteran stretched flat upon
the sand. He was burnt black by the suns
his uniform was in tatters, and he had about
him the unmistakable look of one who had
seen hard campaigning and plenty of it, He
neither moved nor spoke until the creeping
transport fairly was abreast of him. Then
he lifted his head% and across the intervening
strip of water sent the rallying cry of the
British Tommy:
Are we down 'earted?"
Back from the crowded decks of the liner
came the customary answer, Numbered forth
in chorus by hundreds of voices:
"No!"
"Well." said the Australian cheerfuIIy,
you jolly soon will be-"
(Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-10
FINDS ANCIENT TRAIL

NeolIthic man used the natural highway of
the Columbia river gap in spreading fan-1il,a
over the North American continent from the
North Pacific slopes, in the opinion of Dr. Ed
win L. Hodge, professor of geology at the Uni
Verslty OF Oregon. DR.. Hodges theory was
expressed following an investigation of the
Albany, Ore, mounds and the human remains
discovered there.
After crossing the Boring straits from Asia,
the first races in North America moved south
ward from Alaska, explained DR.. Hodge.
These tribes of hunters followed the fertile
coastal regions as far so"th as the Klamath
mountains in Oregon. The high Siskiyous
prevented further movement southwark.
Following the tasteful salmon, and pressed
onward by growing numbers and the EAST
ward urge" the ancestors of the Indians
found in America by the explorers entered the
plateaus of Oregon and Washington, said the
geOlOgist. Then enticed by the rowing herds
of bison which dwelt on the pIateaus, the
NeOlithic man gradually moved eastward
along the Snake River country of Idaho,
thence through the open ranges of Wyoming
to the Great Plains. From here they deployed
eastward to all parts of the American con-
tinent.
Dr. Hodge pictures the paIeontologicaI
events which led up to the meeting of the
white man and Indian in Oregon. 'The white
men who began to arrive from Europe on the
Pacific coast in 1741 had the same origin as
the Oregon Indian, but along a different line
of descent" he said "They are brothers, and
like brothers they have so treated each other
one with hospitality and the other with a
sense of superiority and greed" Writing
about the Albany mounds, DR.. Hodge made
this statement: "There, inferred, lies the
mute evidence of the story of kindred broth
ers, separated by 100000 years who finally
in their last sleep laid down-in peace-to-
gether."
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-10
EAR TRAINING
BY H. Addington Bruce


~ T special interest to many middle-aged
I J and elderly persons and to the many
- persons of all ages whose hearing has
been somewhat impaired as sequel to inf1u-
enza or other infection, is the fact that much
may at times be done to improve the hearing
through methods of ear training.
Of course, this does not mean that recourse
to medical advice and aid should be neglected.
Not infrequently hearing impairment is the
result of unsupported and trivial conditions
such a plug of in the ear-which need
only be removed in order for hearing to be
completely restored.
And still more frequently, particularly fol-
| lowing throat infections, expert treatment OF
the ears is imperatively needed to avert a
progressive deafness. In such cases. even
though the hearings be saved, it may happen
that some weakness of hearing remains de-
| spite the specialists best efforts.
1t is for such cases, as for cases of hearing
impairment due not to any specific disease but
merely to advancing age, that ear training is
recommended by, for example, DR.. j. Madison
Taylor, who stresses the Importance of eXer-
cising the eXtrinsic muscles of the ear and or
endeaYOring to restore elasticity to the tissues
of the neck, the jaws and the ear structure.
He would have the semi-deaf, for few
minutes daily, practice such exercises as:
Making active movements of the jaws,
opening them widely, and moving them from
side to side, forward and back
Making active movements Of the neck, to
the right and left. Also, thrusting the chin
forward each time then "chinning up" for
ward and back
Selling the back of the head with hands
clasped, bending forward and downward, then
resisting to push the hands back with the
head (neck muscles), repeating this five or six
times, with slightly increasing force each
time.
In addition to these exercises DR.. Taylor
advocates cultivation to the habit of OCCASION
ally listening with uncommon intentness to
slight sounds. He remarks:
1.-THE eXtrinsic muscles of the ear, accord
ing to Duchenne, are capable Of reflex contrac~
tion under ordinary conditions, and the ac-
ton can be reinforced by voluntary effort.
The act of listening intently stimulates the ac-
tiyity of these muscles"
Hence:
| "Refex movements are to be encouraged by
such means listening to the ticking of a
watch and very gradually increasing the dis
lance. The sustained effort of listening seems
to eXalt the auditory sensibilty, whether from
a succession of sound waves-which might
not happen in the case of single eXcitatiOn-
or because the eXtrinsic muscles Of the ear
assist.
"a defective ear must be encouraged and
| the tendency to listen always with the better
ear avoided"
If such exercises as the above are helpful in
remedying a condition of impaired hearing it
would seem to follow that they ought to be
condition of a weakening in auditory power as
life progresses toward old age. 1t may be
stated more than a suspicion thatnot few
people permit their hearing power to diminish
by sheer neglect of really affective listening.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-10
Tenant Farmers Are Aided
BIZ a Ne1O Eurobeau Republic

low the old landed estates of Bohemia
Ii are being broken up to provide Hllas'
for small tenant farmers is the sub
ject of a most interesting article in the cur
rent American Review of Reviews by Lucy
Elizabeth Textor, associate professor of his
tory at Vassar College.
No problem of the young republic of
Czechoslovakfa, which emerged in 1918 from
the dissolution Of the Austro-Hungarian
monarchy, was more perElexing or more i'm
portant than that of the great land holdings
owned by families whose affiliations in the
and whose policies were adverse to the best
interests of the peasant rank and file The
latter, though actually producing the country S
agricultural riches, had scant opportunity or
none to acquire land of their own; they were
virtually enserfed. This state of affairs,
wherever prevailing, makes for inefficiency,
for poverty for the holding back and break
ing down of the best interests of the COM
monweal.
Czechoslovakia, thanks to the war which
made many things new, was able to do what
most other nations could not except by rev.
olution; she was able to wipe out the old
system and begin afresh Her national as
sembly was careful, however, not to attempt
too much at once. 1t passed laws preventing
the owners of the great estates from disposing
of their lands without the governments ap-
proval and which prepared the way for ten
ant ownership. The process is well exampled
in it's application to the famed Pardubice
estate in northeast Bohemia, which was an
Austrian crown possession for more than two
and a half centuries, and for the last thirty
eight years the property Of the German
Baron Drasche
There does not appear to be any partic-
ular reason" writes Miss Textor, "why it
should have been chosen as the first estate
to be dealt with according to the law. 1t is
perhaps, sufficient to know that the Baron
Drasche willing to sell at the govern
ment price and that his land being level of
fered no difficulties to the surveyor. 1t
may be said that the Baron already had sold
his castle to a private company who have
turned 1t into museum which boasts many
rich treasures The estate contained 1872
acres Of pillow and meadow land and 1918
acres Of wooded land The owner received
12,5OO,OO0 Czech crowns and, in accordance
with the law, was allowed to retain 375 acres
of arabic soil and 25O acres of forest. The
law provided that at the end Of two years
he might sell this remnant of his former
possession to any purchaser" The new sys.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

A little learning makes a bore doubly
tiresome.
When a woman loses her temper she
shows her age.
No artist has ever been inspired to paint
a baId-headed angel.
The average man is charitable toward
all women except his wife
Some friends are ungrateful and nearly
all are more or less unremunerative
A pessimist has use for a person who
is afflicted with chronic mirthfulness.
Solicitors for a charitable enterprise are
offered more excuses than money,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-10
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY

A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
This is my commandment, that ye lore
one another as / have loved you. Greater
lore hath no man than this, that man lay
DOM his life for his friends. .Ye are my
friends, if ye do whatsoever / command
you. Henceforth l call You not servants;
for the servant kHOWeth not What his lord
doeth; but hare called You friends; for
all things that | hare heard Of my Father
| hare made kHOWH unto You. These
things / command yOu, that ye lore one
another-The Gospel of St, John 15:12-16.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-10
The Truth Drug

NEW combination of a drug long
~ known to the pharmacopoeia, scope
lamin has made it's appearance as
"the truth drug" and startling results are
confidently predicted from its use.
Out at San Quentin, California (where
there is that prison Of which men at large
learned something from the late Jack Lon
dons "The Star Rover"), three men were
placed under the influence of this drug which
arrests active thinking. Then they were
questioned regarding the crimes of which
they had been convicted, and 10! only two of
the three confirmed the verdict The third
man told story which proved him innocent,
and some scientists have said that the drug is
infalible.
This result overthrows an ancient SANDER.
From the beginning of recorded time it
generally has been assumed that the worst
that could happen to anyone would be dis
closure of the truth concerning him. Ones
reputation, according to this theory, was
safe solely because one soon learned to use
language to conceal ones thoughts Catch
a person off his guard and he would be GER
tain to reveal something damaging if not
damning.
Well, this method is at last applied in a
scientific manner, and the first result is to
clear a convicted prisoner
| RI1t in he
incident, we are far from advocating In
discriminate application Of the treatment.
Caution is proverbially wise in almost every
thing, and 1t would be most optimistic
optimist who did not fear that some of the
instances like the one at San Quentin would
be balanced by instances of the opposite
kind.
At the same time, there are few appIf-
cations which might be made to immense ad-
vantage. One could, for example, drug the
members of the existing World Court and
League Of Nations and then have Hiram
Johnson ask them what designs they are
meditating against this country. The result
would be interesting, and worth the trouble
but hardly for the obstructionists
Then, there is the American farmer. If
he could give the drug to some OF his pro-
fessed political friends and ask them how
much they expect from the remedies they
urge so strongly for his economic Illness and
if then he could give the drug to some of
those he calls his enemies and ask them what
they are trying to do to him, he would learn
enough in a few minutes to keep him busy
thinking for the rest of his life
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-10
DESTINY'S CHILD
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

What has gone before.-Courtney Her
rington has a queer influence over Lorry
Grenville, and when Tom Ransome, the
man she has promised to marry, proves
unworthy, Lorry yields to Herrington's
demand that she marry him, although
she still loves Tom. Lorry does this
partley to assuage her pride, and partly
because she cannot escape Harrington,
but marriage only increases her dread of
him.-NOw go on with the story.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-10
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Senator Porter McCumber said at a dinner
in Washington: THE international spirit
the feeling between nations, that isis pretty
rancorous today. The nations pretend to be
friends, but it's q transparent pretense. 1t
reminds me Of the Gettysburg battlefield A
tourist said: so this is where the great bat
tie was fought Yes, sir this is the place
Have you any relics; Have we? You bet
we have Here, George, mold the gent cou-
pie of dozen bullets, and tell Bill to hammer
out a bayonet.' "
Teacher was trying to give a nature les
son. She told the children about how the
little flowers went to sleep at the approach
of winter and slept snugly all these months
under a snow blanket
And then what comes out in the spring
time"
But nobody seemed to think of daffodils.
What beautiful yellow objects appear with
the first warm days of springtime?'
To this she got an answer.
"Ice wagons"
You can't beat the flapper for coming
new words and expressions. Two young
girls were aboard a street car. One had
on a new dress, the design of which might
or might not have been semi-Egyptlan. She
was explaining to her friend that it was
the latest style.
quite tootankish, I'll say" her friend re-
marked.
school teacher was annoyed by the
continued mischievousness of one of her
boys.
At last she exclaimed, in evaporation
81 wish 1 could be your mother for one
week"
Every well, I will speak to father about
it," replied the youngster, coolly.
"PIease. Mr.. Grafto." said the caretaker of
the flats, "the gentleman on the ncXt floor
presents his compliments and says, seeing as
how you can foretell the future, would you
be so good as to let him know how long it
will be before your bath stops Overlooking
through his ceiling!'
The maiden was with possible sutton and
her little sister was also with them.
They were crossing a river in a ramshackle
ferryboat, when the little sister exhibited
some signs Of fear.
"Why, Dolly" said the big sister, eff you
are so nervous now, what will you be at my
age?"
"Thirty-nine!" replied the little sister,
promptly.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-10
MEDITATIONS OF ABE MARTIN

TIL newest thing in sta1ers IS tn Teller
that wouldn't have closed car if you'd give
it to him. Company is civlizin' an helpful
t. home even if tn dishes do pile up.
Copyright, 1929 .
Good humor is the blue sky in which the
stars Of talent brightly shine.
Probably there is nothing more touching
than the youth who is struggling with mus
tach.
Being out of debt is the best thing out. :
The obese man has no friends in a crowded
street car.
Of course, it isn't to a mans credit if his
credit isn't good.
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When a man climbs up in his family tree
and looks down upon the passing throng he
has outIiyed his usefulness.
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= low the old landed estates of Bohemia
Ii are being broken up to provide 'llas'
for small tenant farmers is the sub
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CHAPTER XVII
Doo- Gnnpt

u OURTNEY'S reception of Lorry's lmpas
I stoned words was characteristic OF him
~ He heard her to the end, his dark fac
impassve his eyes inscrutable, and then h