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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-28
MY FAVORITE STORIES
BY Irwin Cobb

Mr.. Pincus, the delicatessen dealer, was
visiting Mr.. Rabinowitz, the retailer IN
secondhand garments at the latters flat in
Allen Street the East Side. To the host
came his little son. Isadore, aged six.
Pepper" he asked would you gif me
quarter"
"Shure," said the parent. He hauled
coin from his pocket, dropped it, with "a
generous gesture, into the outstretched hand
of his offspring and, as the child trotted
away, made If to resume his interrupted
conversation with the caller. But Mr. Pincus,
who had been observing the byplay with
distended eyes, was the first to speak:
"RabinowitZ, hat you gone crazy of some
dings? Your boy asks you for whole quar-
ter und right away you gif it to him! Yot
an Extravaganza
That's right" said Mr.. Rabnowitz, with
proud smile. Every night comes my lit
tie Isadore und asks me for a quarter, and
always l gif it to him.
But amt it teachin him bad habits. hav
ing all that money to spend on himsef?'"
insisted Mr.. Pincus.
"Pincus," said his friend, Il tell you
secret: He amt spendin' it on himself; al
ways he goes and puts it in his savings
bank, only it amt savings bsnk-thats
only Vot he thinks it is. It's the gas meter"
Copyright, 1920
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-28
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. II. FELTON,

In the palmy days of General Robert
Toombs he wrote the following: "Legiti-
mate government ought to be and in truth
is nothing but an organization of the public
force for the benefit of all, that rights may
be respected and justice may be done To
protect society from foreign invasion and in
ternal violence, to administer justice between
man and man, to protect one citizen from be-
ing injured by another in any manner what
ever and then to protect each other and all
in the full and complete enjoyment Of all
their natural rights are the legitimate objects
of good government. Anything beyond that
is disputed ground, doubtful, dangerous
where fools rush in, but where wise men
fear to tread"
Therefore, political judges are intruding
into forbidden territory when they seek the
office of Judge, and the executive who would
use political influence to promote any person
to iudgeship, except upon the known merit
and honest character of the applicant, is
unworthy of the high position which was
given him by the people.
The people of Georgia became disguised
with the selection of judges by executives
many years ago. In Bullocks time We mad
a surfet of political judges, and even later.
Then a change was made to the legislature
for choosing them. That was worse than
before The shameless combines that weNA
in evidence forced a change. Lastly, they
came to selection of the judges at the ballot
box which has had many and gross EXHIBITS
of inefficiency and general unsultableness,
but Georgiats executives still were allowed to
fill vacancies and appoint for unexpired
terms. There has been unexpressed con-
fidence which has led the people to allow
executives to do this interim appointing, to
save frequent elections, and believing these
governors would have the courage to decide
on personal character and efficiency because
the term would only continue until the next
general election.
Strange to say, the appeal of dirty politics
has been sufficiently potent to make improper
selections, and in some cases there has heen
open confession that political debts had to
be paid with udgeships-alOng with other
brazen use Of the executive authority in
divers places.
To hawk about judgeships in an intellt-
gent community would indicate a very low
grade OF public morals in high places, and
demands public reproof Ind condemnation.
The danger to general society is manltestly
menacing Amy man who is willing to trade
judgeships will not hesitate at smaller trans
actions where political debts can be cashed
by the wholesale.
A Judges ermine should be decently clean
in appearance When a judgeship is traded
and a money consideration is in evidence,
there should be a public referendum and re-
call instituted, to put even a decent face ON
such questionable appointment.
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And This Is "Protect1on

w the fact that exports of food products
| fell off more than one hundred and
fourteen million dollars during the
twelve-month ended June the thirtieth :,
lies a. considerable cause of the lament now
heard from American countrysdes. Had
oversee sales of wheat and other staples
been unimpeded, agricultural prices prob
ably would be much better. The chief i'm
pediment was the tariff wall, ostenc 5ly
raised to protect the farmer but in reality
depriving him of markets abroad for his
surplus and SO depressing his scale of values
at home.
The figures in the case, as marshaled by
Senator Fletcher, of Florida, are most strik-
ing. Dairy exports for the fiscal year 1928
amount to s23,S26,9O3 as against $685.
O97 for 1922, before the present tariff act went
into effect. Grain export aggregated $451,-
341,734 for 1923 as against $591,299,0 59
for 1922. Exports of wheat for the twelve
month ended June last, totaled 154, 000, 900
bushels as against 2OS 900 900 in the cor
responding period Immediately prior to the
new tariff "'The duty imposed on Canadian
wheat says Senator Fletcher, "simply shut
it out Of the United States and turned 1t
to other foreign markets where it compel d
with American wheat much as if it had
been imported into this country. 1t did
more Since the Canadian tariff is lower
than that Of the United States, the foreigner
was able to buy from Canada with com
| modities, while he had to buy from the
United States with cash, if he bought al
all. High duties undoubtedly put the farm
ers of this country at disadvantage in sell
ing as we'll as in buying"
AS a two-edged sword, the Fordney-Mc
Cumber act cuts into the interests Of agri-
culture, not only by lowering the prices OF
much that the farmer has to sell but also
by raising the prices Of much that he has
TO buy. And this is "Proection!"
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POLITICAL JUDGES
BY MRS. II



n ORE than forty years ago, in converse
MI ton with Hon. Alex H. Stephens, he
made very emphatic statement con-
corning the danger with partisan political
judges, which have never forgotten. | shall
not attempt to quote his exact language, but
[ am certain as to their import and meaning.
He said our legislatures, state and national,
had always been controlled by politics in
greater less degree. Our chief executives,
state and national, were Influenced by friends
and partisans. THE last and basic hope of
free government lies in an incoTuptible judi
GARY The conversation occurred about the
time the Pacific railroads were largely in
control of congress, and General Garfield
promised before his election to place a GER
tain man on the supreme bench, if elected.
The promise made by the candidate evoked
bitter criticism, and it reached a point
where 1t was intmated that the selection of
supreme justice in this way extremely
indiscreet, to say the least about it.
That Mr.. Blaine was the power behind
the throne" was unhesitatingly mentioned,
and when President Garfield appointed the
justice to the supreme bench and Mr.. Blaine
to the Hottest place in his cabinet the
tire affair was denounced as "cut and dried
political corruption. Congressman Stephens
said, in substance, that this republic would
go down inevitably when the bench could be
subsidized by money or politics. When the
people or the United States lose faith in the
judges of our courts the ruin will be COM
plete. He explained that the government
had three fundamentals the legislative, the
executive and the judiciary, and the cOnstitu-
ton demanded that each should be distinct
and separate from the other two-in all their
plans and purposes. All the powers of gov
eminent belong to the three, but they must
not interfere at any time with either of the
others. with safe dividing lines between
individual rights and public authority gov
eminent can safely travel. Beyond these
restricted lines there is danger, risk and I'M
certainty"
To elect legislator We taught by ex-
perience that disappointment is more or less
frequent. AS rule they promise a great
deal and perform very little. We have had
all sorts OF governors and many sorts of
presidents. They simply human beings
but they are confined to the execution of the
laws passed by congress and the states, and
the courts are relied upon to decide whether
the laws are constitutional--in keeping with
our constituton--before the executives feel
at liberty to force obedience to their dictum
A corrupt judge was a Kissing and by
word in the early days Of the republic, and
corrupt judge in this good year 1928 should
not be allowed to preside over the lives and
destnies of MISUNDERSTANDING the latter
are either saints or sinners.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-28
THE CENSUS OF SNOW FLAT
BV John Brock

Snow Flat is a great stone dishpanful of
trouble set among the peaks of the Sierras.
Exposed to storms from every quarter of
the compass and all points between, filled
with drifts for eight months of the year, it
knows only two seasons, long winter and
brief spring For when it's first flower begins
to set its seeds frost is not far behind. Who
under the shining sun would want to live
here? Who could?
1t certainly isn't pOpulous even in mid
July. It's close, fine sward wouldn't give
cover to a mouse. The very reeds in its
grasses knows better than to lift their point
ed spears to where the wind can break
them. Little cream-colored buttercups and
lilac Shooting Stars which prick forth as
fast as the ground is barred above them,
blooming on the very edges of the snow,
tower high above the rest of its greenery.
1t is patterned with twisting streams on
whose banks grow wee willows, sometimes
hardly more than ankle-high. Some haven't
yet managed to unfold their "puS C.,
though whose just around the bend of the
road not a mile away, are already furnish
ing the warblers with nest Innings and an
odd little manZanita which has suffered the
same alpr 9 change has opened microscopic
pink urns. Occasionally one gets its toes
warm and OutdOes the rest For though
stream with current is ice-cold from melt
ing snow, one which idly meanders into
still pocket grows milk-mild by noon.
Not only the willows love these indolent
pools; their banks are tunnelled by the
water-shrew and little trout bask lere
darling under the overhanging sod to hide
when shadow moves near, or nosing into
a tunnel, whence you can drag them forth
by their indignant tails. These seem the
meadows sole inhabitants. Deer track it,,
even paw the earth bare in spots either for
some satiness in it to steal a snack,
roots and all, to tide them through to some
more sheltered pasture, but they do not
linger Ground squirrels stay in the rocks
about its rim, making timid forays into the
open. SO does the hoary marmot, yellower
and fatter and lazier than the woodchuck
we know, as BELTS fellow who sleeps
three-quarters Of the year. He's sleeping
now, sprawled on snowbank near his boil
der cavern, and a chickadee, skipping be-
side him if she had to cool her feet to
keep her flighty wits a-working, hops righr
on him without waking him.
Quaint, unfamiliar fellows. Ah but wait;
there's company fer the chickadee. Over on
Snow Flats eastern end is a grand big mud
puddle with rich muck bottom SUI
you'll find in March woods in any proper
corner of the world It's bottom fairly
crawls with caddis worms in their little log
houses built of pine needles while tbs water
ouzel chants the joys Of full crop and
mild breeze above them. And here sits Jug-o-
rUm big as life and twice as natural.
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DESTINY'S CHILD
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

What has gone befOre.-Courtney
Herrin gtOn induces Lorry Granville to
marry him just after she has discovered
that Tom RansOme, the man she really
loves, is unworthy. Lorry does not love
her husband, and his love for her is so
intense that it frightens her. After her
marriage she still yearns over Tom and
the knowledge that she is to become a
mother fills her with rebellion. AS the
time passes Courtney's vitality seems to
sap her strength, and his strange infu
ence over her fills her with such dread
that she becomes weak and listless. One
night Courtney sends for the doctor,
who asks point blank if Lorry has any
thing preying on her mind.-NOw go on
with the story.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-28
TRAIN ALL TO WORK
BY H. Addington Bruce

BY h, AQQnStOn BRUCE
TT is a truism generally ignored that II all
| young children, boys and girls. were
H. trained to apply themselves diligently and
enthusiastically to mental or manual-2ref-
erably mental and manual-work, life wound
be for everybody more comfortable and salts.
isfying than it now is for multitudes.
AS things stand, most people have frank
distaste for work. Proof of this is seen in
the popular enthusiasm with which every
proposal to add to the already long list of
public holidays is greeted, the prevalent
eagerness to cut down working hours, the
celebrity with which many working as
soon as they have acquired a competence.
Yet human beings are so constituted that
to work Is a real necessity to them. When
they underworld when they entirely abb
stain from work, they become disconnected
and unhappy, and, into the bargain, may soon
be out of health.
Again and again experts in the treatment
Of the nervous disorders so prevalent
find it desirable to advise PATIENTS:
THE best remedy you can have is a reg
ular occupation. Nature is furnishing You
for failing to live the life of constructive,
productive activity for which you were born.
1T may be merely from ignorance that you
have disobeyed Natures dictate to work. But
Nature accepts excuse, not even the excuse
of ignorance. Find something useful to do,
thon w IL Win all your nodfC ana DeIOr9
long you will be well again"
The difficulty is that, because distaste for
work is so widespread, it tends of itself to
be perpetual from generation to generation.
Parents, by the example they set of unwilling
labor1ousness and eager pleasure-hunting, in
feet their children with their work-hatred
only occasionally do we find them earnest
ly endeaVOring to rear their little ones ac-
cord1ng to the principles so well expressed
by the educator McKeever
Teach your child to work as faithfully al
you would teach him to say his prayers or
his reading lesson
Show your boy that the man who retires
during middle life-no matter how wealthy
-therepy enters upon a period Of decay.
Explain to your boy girl how work.
happily DONE acts like a medicine clears the
eye, hardens the muscle, aids digestion.
explain to your children how work which
Ilts their age or grade is a wonderful slim
uiant, enabling one to think clearer, faster. .
and with a sense Of 1oy."
Most parents do not trouble TO enlighten
tnelr Doys and girls with regard to this aspect
OF work. Comparatively few so train their
children, by both precept and examrle. that
lhey turn to work, not simply as a matter of
course but with appreciative understandings
Oh us beneficence for them
Hence in large part, the continuing restless.
ness and wretchedness of large numbers NJ
men ana women-a restless and wretchedness
certain TO continue until training for eager
froent work becomes the rule
Copyright 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-28
Mellon and the War Debts..

THERE appears to be general satisfac-
ton over the announcement that Sec
rotary Mellon, OF the treasury depart
ment, will remain in the cabinet. His abili-
ties and his close touch with the administra-
tons chief economic problems, foreign as
we'll as domestic, should be OF exceeding
value to the new President and to the coun-
try. The Secretary's fiscal policies have
BEEN in the Lain, sound-those' of a far
seeing, straightforward man of business,
rather than of ferreting politician. Par
ticularly important has been his work as
head of the debt-funding commission, and
particularly useful in the months ahead
should be his knowledge of that field.
The war debt of Great Britain to the
United States has been placed upon a defined
and altogether satisfactory basis of settle
ment; true to traditions Of which all men,
bers of the ngish-speaking family are
rightly proud It's payment is guaranteed and
even now is in process. But that is the only
war debt OF which this can be said. The
other allies to whom large American govern
ment credits WEI extended are yet to come
to terms That they will do so in time is not
questioned. But when and how, only the
keenest, most favored observer can so much
as conjecture. Nor is it any part of Ameri-
can purpose, as represented by Secretary
Mellon and Secretary Hughes, to be unduly
insstent Said the secretary Of state In a
debtors have unsettled credit balances, and
their condition and capacity to pay cannot be
can be realized on these credits for repara-
tons has been determined" The secretary
Of the treasury, just returned from a sojourn
in Europe, maintains that 1t would be ILL
advised to press for settlement when affairs
on the continent are as unstable and I'M
practicable as they now are. What France
and ItalyA-in particular FRANCISCAN do and
will do in this matter needs must wait upon
a definite turn in the reparations issue.
It is his familiarity with these many-sided
and interlocking problems that makes Sec
rotary Melons counsel markedly valuable at
this iuncture. If he can bring the admins
tration to a policy that will be not only
watchful, but also helpful in unknotting the
vexed riddle of reparations and thereby open
ing the way to a general debt adjustment, ne
will have rendered historic service to his
own country and to the world.
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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY.

A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
Thou therefore endure hardness as
good soldier of Jesus Christ. Wherefore
take unto You the whole armour of God,
that ye may be able to withstand in the
epiL day, and having done all, to stand.
Stand therefore, having your loinS grit
about Nth truth, and having on the breast
plate of righteousness; and your feet shod
with the preparation of the gospel Of
peace; abope all taking the shield Of
faith, wherewith We shall be able to
quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
And take the helmet of salvation, and
the SWORD of the Spirit, which is the word
of God.-Second Timothy 2:3; EpheSidns
1917,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-28
Ne10 Light on CROP Insurance

F ships are insured against sinking, houses
against burning, powder mills against
posion, and circuses against rain, why
not crops against the thousand and one
hazards to which they are exposed?
The question has been answered by
periments which, though frequently disap
pointing in themselves, are packed with
promise. There is the oft'-noted case Of the
tensively in the Dakotas and Montana in
1917, and that sustained grave losses In The
wake of a widespread drought. There is
also the company that undertook virtually to
guarantee the planter an income from each
acre under cultivation. owing to price
cessions that year." the record runs, "it lost
money on nearly every policy, and paid
claims on many perfect crops" Mistakes,
however, are rich in suggestion, to apt OBJ
servers. Persistent tnkeripg machines
that would not fly produced, at last, the aero
plane.
If the principle of crop insurance is eco
nomically southland there are cogent rea-
sons to believe shat it is-errors and diff
culties of detail will be overcome. So think
specialists of the federal department of agri-
culture, who are giving the subject much at
tention. With adequate data to work upon,
and with the plan limited to reasonable and
conservative protection such insurance, they
are convinced, will prove altogether feasible.
Their views interestingly summarized
by the Literary Digest, are: Success will
come in crop insurance when it is applied on
broad scale giving an adequate distribution
OF risk, and is based on proper crop yield
data. 1t is thought the right basis for pre-
miums would be the actual crop yield on
given farms over a long series Of years.
While such plan might necessitate build
ing up much additional yield data, depart
ment officials do not believe the magnitude
of the task would be a serious obstacle. AS
to the form of organization through which
the desired insurance should be furnished,
definite conclusions have not been reached.
1t has been said that the scope OF the under
taking and it's novel character make it almost
necessarily a government enterprise. But
there are considerations which would work
against the success of a government agency
Among the difficulties would be that of fix
ing equitable rates which would be acceptable
as such as between different localities and
different farms. Great diversity in rates is
unavoidable, on account OF differences in the
hazards from climate, plant diseases, insect
pests, etc The Government would almost
certainly meet with bitter criticism to the
fairness Of the rates charged"
As q great agricultural state, whose pros
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-28
OUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Miss Ann Teak was far past the first bloom
of her maiden youth and she was singularly
touchy about her age on this account.
One night she heard a noise downstairs
and Selling a revolver which she always
kept on hand beneath her pillow, she hastily
threw on her dressing gown and descended
the stairs.
Entering the dining room. she saw man
in the act of putting all her silver into a
large sack.
"Hands up" she cried she braveiy
faced him. Don't move inch or two or
I will blow your head off"
With this remark she dug him in the ribs
with the nozzle of the shooting iron.
Let me go" whined the burglar, I've a
wife and six Riddles at home starving.
Let them go to the worknouse then,
replied Miss Teak. I'm going to ring for
the police"
stop" said the desperate man; "if you
appear against me in court you will have to
disclose your real age"
She fell back.
hind you. Begone!"
"A Scotsman very much addicted to smok-
ing was persuaded by the minister of the
kirk to give it up.
The minister surprised when he met
Sandy short time afterward by Sandy ask
ing him for pipe of tobacco,
but, Sandy, you promised to give 1t up
"Eh, mon, | am breaking myself in grad
ualy; [ have not bought any since"
Molly sat down to write letter to her
father who had been absent three months
This is what she finally sent:
Dear Father: I'VE are all we'll and hap
py. The baby has grown much and has
great deal more sense than he used TO
have. Hoping the same of you, | remain
your daughter, Molly"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-28

Mr. Ralph Neville. the English writer who
collects and publishes amusing adventures,
was passport officer during the war The
following fancy is offered by him as fact in
his latest volume, Unconventional Mem
Dries"
"A certain regulation stringently forbade
n "Sha1-d and wife crossing over to France
together, rne idea being that one of tina
two was quite enough to transact any neces-
sary business. Among my clients appeared
man and woman who told me they were
very anxious to get to Paris In reply IN
the question of business or pleasure thew
said Business and then proceeded 10 ex-
PLAIN to me what that business was Before
handing me their passports l observed that :
the couple appeared very agitated At
length the man said: 4 have a serious oon-
fesslon to make to you, sir; 1 must tell you
we are not married. Well said I. under
the present peculiar circumstances it's jolly
lucky Tor you both you're not AS it f., if
your passports are in order you can go; vera
you married you couldn't"