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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-09
QUIZ

O. How does an aeronaut measure his
speed? j. B. G.
A. The speed of an aeroplane is measured
by the rate of speed it makes in regard to the
air. 1t is possible for an airplane to be max
ing ninety miles an hour against forty-mils
hour gale, and yet cover only fifty miles an
hour of actual distance. The speed is meas
ured by speed meter. There is a dial sit
uated on the dash of the airplane, in front OF
the aviator. This dial is connected with
speed meter and the meter is connected by
means of tubing with Vitot tube placed on
the outer strut.
O. When were bells first placed in church
towers? j. B.
A. The practice of placing bells in church
spires towers for the purpose of calling to
worship, tolling for the dead, etc, is generally
ascribed to Paulinous, Bishop of Nola, in
Campania, about 353-431 A. D. From this
town came the word "Campanile" bell
tower
@. Can bowlegs be Strengthened? A. B.
A. Bowlegs may be remedied in many cases
by appropriate orthopedic appliances or by
means If a surgical operation. In the latter
case tbs >uter condyle of the femur is cut off
in a sIanting line, and the limb aligned, after
which the condyle is allowed to knit to the
femur in its position; or the shaft OF the
bone may be broken, the leg Strengthened and
bandaged in proper position until healing Is
complete:
O. What is the origin Of the expression.
drinking a tost?" l. NJ C.
A. The English expression coast" which
is equivalent to the continental "health,"
had its origin in the old custom of putting a
piece of toast in the wine cup before drink
ing, from notion that it gave the wine a
better flavor.
Q. Why are the Staked Plains SO called7
J. s..
A. Various reasons are given for the name.
One is that the name Is derived from lines Of
stakes set UP to guide travellers. Another is
that the stalks of the yucca plant found there
resemble stakes. .s.. %%...a .s.Z,,..s.u..,
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Your genuine lie implies a deliberate de-
ception with some sort of immoral or unjust
motive.
When you tell Mr.. Bonebrck that you
have seen his wife running about a good
deal recently with Mr.. Updike, and when you
intend to imply by it that she and Mr. Up
dixie are little too thick, and when, as a
matter of fact, you have never seen them
together but once twice, you lying.
You are bearing false witness against your
neighbor, all the more false because there is
about per cent of truth in it. Very few
100 per cent falsehoods get across.
But when you tell your June-Spice that
her eyes are like deep pools, her brow is
like the snow-drift and her neck is like the
swan, and when, matter of fact she is
just an ordinary f1apper, you are not lying.
You are drawing the long bow, perhaps, but
the arrow you shot is not going to hurt
anybody and may cause your June-Spice to
be very fsvorably inclined to allow you to
hold her hand.
Copyright, 1929
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THE WISH TO SURPRISE
BY DR.. Frank Crane


Did you ever run across one of those peo-
pie to whom everything in the almanac and
encyclopedia has happened?
The itch for causing surprise grows on
one. When one has once tasted of the fatal
applause that comes when he relates some
marvellous lie, it is easy to taste the cup
again and again.
[ knew a preacher once who told of many
wonderful adventures that had befallen him
in various times and countries. A mean
deacon who heard him regularly made a
note of all the auto biographical instances
his pastor gave. One day he added Up and
found that the parson who seemed young
ish man, under forty, must be It's years old,
must have been seven times around the
world, and must often have been in two or
three places at the same time.
The good man did not mean to lie. He
simply had an assimilative personality; all
the vivid anecdotes he heard he annexed.
This made him nightly interesting. He was
even born, by his own collocated accounts,
in two or three places, for he liked to be
born in the same town as his auditor.
He is now bishop or something of the
sort. His miraculous experiences were really
an asset
There is in all of us an Unborn desire to
cause sensation. Few of us tell thing
exactly as it happened-no more, no less. We
instinctively add dramatic touch.
/ do not know that this is exactly lying.
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r T is to be hoped that part of the half
| million dollars that congress has recently
appropriated for developing a domestic
rubber supply will be devoted to investigating
the possibilities of homemade, as well as
homegrown, rubber. 1t is all right to start
rubber plantations in the Philippines. II we
had done that ten years ago we Should not
now be at the mercy of the British rubber
growers. Let us also milk the milkweed if it
can be induced TO give down. But let us
further give the chemist chance to see what
he can do in the way of competing with the
agriculturist. He has beat him on madden
and indigo Perhaps he can do it on caout-
chouc.
We know that rubber can be made in the
laboratory. At the International Congress OF
Applied Chemistry held in New York before
the war the German chemist, Duisberg, proud
ly exhibited in the great hall of the College of
the City of New York pair of tires that had
been made from synthetic rubber and had run
an automobile thousand miles or more. The
British chemist, Sir William Perkln, prompt
ly countered with different process for maxi
ing artificial rubber. Neither process has so
far proved a. commercial success, but the
chemists have not given up the problem.
Last year Plothikoff announced in a Ger
man periodical. that caout-chouc- chloride
could be readily made by the action of ultra
violet rays on yinyl chloride. Now the caout-
chouc chloride can be easily converted into
ordinary rubber and vinyl chloride can be
made from acetylene which, every auto
mobilist knows or used to know, can be made
by dropping calcium carbide into water, and
calcium carbide can be made from coal and
lime by the electrical furnace and the electri-
cal power can be got from waterfalls.
But where can we get the ultraviolet rays?
There are plenty in the sunshine but they are
pretty well filtered out by the atmosphere be-
fore it gets to us, luckily, for otherwise we
would get worse sunburned than we do. The
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corn and fifteen in small grain. He has the
largest watermelon crop we have ever seen
in Banks He will market most of his mel
ons in Cornelia and get more cash out OF
the crop than any other three acres he has
planted"
Be it observed that John "is a worker"
that he went to battle against the weevil
foe not merely once, but five times CIR more
in the course of the season; that he kept
his cotton acreage within boun17 that per
matted intensive cultivation; and that he
diversified. OF such is farm prosperity in
Georgia made.
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MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irwin S. Cobb

BY way of a beginning, it is incumbent
to me to explain that the negroes of the
coast of South Carolina and Georgia have a
distinctive patois which differs radically
from the speech of members of their own
race up country. "Gullah talk" as it is
called, has but one gender-the masculine.
Everything-a man, a woman, bull, COW
lis he" Where" is "w'ar,' though"
is do" etc, etc.
With this bit of explanation, we may pro-
coed. An Englishman, DESTROYS of killing
some big game during his visit to America,
accepted an invitation to visit a plantation
owner on one of the sea islands lying below
Charleston. In honor of the visitor deer
drive was arranged. The Britisher, chaper-
oned by an old negro man, was assigned to
a "stand" on one of the best runs" Be-
forehand he had been told to shoot only at
bucks, as the does and the fawns enjoyed
protection.
Presently, to the ears of the nervous Eng
lishman where he crouched with his black
companion in a thicket, came the sound of
the hounds baying The dogs had found a
fresh scent. They were drawing nearer and
nearer.
Fifty yards away, across an open glade, a
darling patch of tawny brown showed in the
underground. The Englishman fired, and a
convulsive humping in the underbrush told
him he had not missed.
The old negro left his covert and ran for
ward to see what it was that had been shot
did I kill him." called the excited anna
teur.
yeah, boss You kill i'm" answered the
darby, as he bent over the stricken game
Then, as seeing, that the fallen animal had
no horns, he added: g E a doe do"
At this moment the host hurried up the
trail having heard the shot from his place
of ambush hundred yards or so away
amy luck?" he called out as he ap-
preached
ooh, yes" answered the Britisher eXultant-
ly. II thought I saw a deer and dropped it,
but your black fellow yonder has just told
me that it is dodo-a creature which [
thought was entirely extinct. Lucky, Ell,
what?"
Copyright, 1929
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" John Is a Worker"

TOR hesrt-lifting picture of Georgia
r prosperity commend us to this, from
the Banks County Journal: 1--WE visit
ed Mr. John shubert yesterday morning, who
lives on the old George Johnson place near
town. John is a worker and one of the
best farmers in the county. He showed us
offered us 10 cents apiece for every boil
weevil or punctured square we could find
in It, He had poisoned some of this cotton
five times and a part of it eight times. He
planted about ten acres in cotton, fifteen in
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Copyright, 1929

The biggest liar in the country was stroll
ing through an orchard with his friend.
Pointing to tree covered with hundreds of
red apples, the friend remarked: 9TH bet
you box of cigars you can't tell me lie
for every apple on that tree"
Gust moment" broke in the fabricator
de luxe. Before we go any farther, wish
to inform you that those are not apples.
They are bananas"
He won the cigars then and there. q 5&
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Copyright, 1929

A fire occurred in a dwelling house. and
as the staircase was in flames before the
blaze was discovered, the. occupants had to
seek some other means of escape.
Next day the companion to an elderly lady
was reading the newspaper report of the fire,
which stated that one man escaped down a
water pipe at the back of the house.
Whereupon the old lady astounded at this
statement, exclaimed But how thin the
poor fellow must have been!"
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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

For if there come into your assembly a
man with gold ring, in goodly apparel
and there come in also poor man in pile
ydiment; and ye hare respect to him that
weareth the gay clothing, and say unto
him, 'Sit thou here in good place.; and
saw to the poor, "Stand thou there" or
"Sit here under my footstooI," ye not
then partial in yourselves, and are become
Judges of epH thoughts9 Hedrken, my
beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the
poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs
of the kingdom Which he hath promised
to them that lore him. James Epistle
2I-5.
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DESTINY'S CHILD
nv HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
What has gone befOre-Courtney
Harrington induces Lorry GrenVille 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 have
child fills her with rebellion. When
Courtney realizes he has failed to win
his wife's love, he plans to go away
for time, and Lorry is Unfeignedly
glad.-NOw go OH with the story,
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MUSINGS OF ABE MARTIN

One idee O. takin' advantage Of a accident
insurance company is tryin' t. pick cherries
while standin' a rockin' chair. Theirs
great rejoicin' In tn Ike Lark home tday,
when Imogene, fifteen. painted up an went
after sack O corn meal an' returned,
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Continued Saturday. Renew your sl!bscrip-
ton row so not to miss chapter.
The mirror., 1923-08-02

man had, in years gone by, been referred
to by the officers as terror to snakes!"
But few moments elapsed when Finch
returned escorting a stalwart arm of the
law, and he chuckled inwardly as he
unused otis something new for me to be
escorting a policeman. 1t used to be a
policeman escorting me, by jing!"
Justice started up the stairway and
beckoned Finch and the officers to follow,
while crowd of Jews and curiosity seek
ers started to enter the doorway also, but
the latter quickly retreated to a safe dis
tance when the cop roared "Git out O. here,
ye blasted coyotes!" The party then as
cended and entered Mrs. Walkers rooms
where they heard the story repeated, and
the officer scowled in wrath as he said,
"Blast his picked old hide, let's go up
and see the varmint!"
The officer, accompanied by Finch,
climbed the stairs to the third floor; JUS
tice and Mrs. Walker remaining in the
latters rooms. Soon a loud rapping was
heard upstairs; a door was heard to open,
and angry words ensued, followed by a
thump upon the floor. Wold was lying
across his bed in half-drunken stupor
when the policeman raped. The old sot
swore thickly, and the officer, throwing his
weight against the feeble bolt, forced open
the door,. and quickly rushed across the
room. Collaring the 'blear-eyed wretch,
he jerked him out upon the floor.
"Git up here, ye blithering varmit!"
snarled the cop, jerking Wold to his feet.
"How come all this water here and down.
stairs" he demanded.
ITO be continued)
The mirror., 1923-08-02

the goods when it gets regular practice.
No semi-pro team can come here and take
their measure when they are in fighting
form. In all fairness to the players as
we'll as the loyal base ball "bugs" who
support them, the team should be given
daily practice. Its a well known fact
that it takes practice, good hard practice,
to whip ball team into proper condition.
With daily practice our ball team is cap
able of putting up brand of base ball
that is pleasing to the eye, as well as dis
couraging to any team that crossed bats
with them. Our blond haired pitcher is
the equal of any slab artist who has dec
Grated the hill in our back lot for many
moon. He has everything pitcher
needs and with any kind of support he
would win nine out of every ten starts.
When our "Speed King" is going right
for he always goes right when his team
mates are behind him-he puts the fear of
the undertaken in the hearts of the oppos-
ing batters to such an extent that they fan
the breeze with surprising regularity.
Practice, practice and still more practice!
That's all the boys need and the way they
will clout 'em on the nose, dig 'em out of
the ground and pluck 'em out of the air
would be worth going many miles to see.
The mirror., 1923-08-02

Games played, 13. Won,S. Lost,5. Pct, .616
Summary-Three base hits-Myr, Shu,
Fos. Two base hits-Fro. Stolen bases
Bur. First on errors-Visitors, 6; MS.
p, 1. Left on bases-Visitors, TO-; MS.
p, 8. learned runs-Visitors, o; MS.
p, 2. Hits-of Kaufman, &; off Ny, 8.
Strkeouts Kaufman, 6; by Ny, 4.
Wild pitches-by Ny, 8. Batsman hit
by Kaufman (Fos); by Ny Lind, John
son, St. Germain).
Umpires, Mr.. VIM. Peterson, Mr.. w.
M. Martensen, both from Minneapolis
and Mr.. Lr.
Scorer. r. S.
The mirror., 1923-08-02
BASEBALL

Little" Auggie Kaufman won the de-
cision over "Speed King" Ny here Satur-
day in one of the most listess and poorest
contested games of the season by the locals.
TheTenth Wards from North Minneapo-
lis winning by a count of to 4, in six
inning game.
The locals outhit their opponents two
to one. But in considering the total num-
ber of runners to reach first in safety, the
visitors outclassed the locals in this de-
partment better than two to one. Only
three Tenth Wardites reached first base
on hits, seven more by the free ticket
route, plus six more by errors of omission
and many of these runners were advanced
along the. runways by wild pitches and
passed balls. All told the locals greatest
opposition was Old Lady Hard Luck who
interviewed at the opening of the game and
continued to linger in their midst through
out the contest.
The locals scored in the first, fourth
and sixth rounds. One run was manu-
factuted in the first by double and a
triple, another in the fourth by base on
an infeld error and triple, two more in
the sixth from a free ticket a battery
error and a couple of singles, making four
in all and coming within one point of
showing Old Lady Hard Luck the gate.
The visitors had only one big inning in
the scoring column and that was quite suf-
ficient to win the victory. A couple of
free tickets, base on an in6eld error, a
couple of miscued felders choice plays,
plus three singles and three battery errors,
permitted five unearned runs to be re-
corded.
Right now at this time of the season.
Caps Speed King should be pitching his
best brand of ball. In the last two tries
he has shown decided faltering in wild
ness and besides in the same two encounters
he has not had the cooperation from his
teammates that he should have had.
There is but one alibi to cover the situa-
tion-no practice. Saturdays fasco surely
demonstrated that fact. 1t seems almost
shame when we have the makings of an
unbeatable team that they, for lack of
practice, put up such miserable showing
against teams that are not in their class
at all. The team as a whole is there with
The mirror., 1923-08-02
LEAGUE CLUB STANDINGS
Corrected July 81, 1928

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-08-13
HERE'S MORE ABOUT
PLUMBERS
STARTS ON PAGE L

year, due 10 the excessive prices.
Acting Prosecuting Attorney Ew.
ing d. Colvin said Monday that so far
his office has received no formal
complaint OF law violations and has
taken no steps towards an investiga.
ton. The regular county grand Jury
convcnes in November. and should
developments warrant 1t. this may
be called TO sit earlier in the year to
probe the building situation in Seat.
tie, Colvin minated.
THE matter is at present involved
in n civil suit and we do not care to
rush in with prosecution until the
merits OF this case have been settled
In court" Colvin said.
II was learned. Monday that the
bids on the new Olympic hotel
plumbing. which were upwards OF
$3.50, 900. were also considered by the
price.fixing committee, but apparent.
" no action was taken. as the rec.
ords OF the association merely men.
ton the names of the contractors.
w. j. Ashwell. president of the asso.
citation. finally was awarded that
plumbing contract. Review of plans
and specifications by a committee
from the hotel have reduced his bid
1921. 900. the hotel corporation an.
nounced
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-08-13
SOCIETY WOMAN KDzE is HEARD
.ROUTS BURCL AIRS ALONG ATLANTIC
Listeners In Advised to Re-
duce Voltage

Managers Of radio .KDZE advise
listcnersIn within radius OF rs
miles OF Seattle 20 reduce the volt.
age on the detcetor tube OF their re.
celving rets 10 prevent distortion.
Tho power Of the new 50o. watt sta
ton u 80 great that In many eases
distortion In reception Is caused. This
is due 10 blocking Of the detcc,or
tubs grid. II reducing tho dcteetoE
tube voltage does not reduce dlstor,
ton slight dotuning is advised.
Reports from states east Of the
Mississippi river. as well all Pa
clfio coast and Western states indi
cate that tho meditation OF the new
bruadoaster is AZ perfect as any
heard and tho volume is even greater
than some Of tho Same power.
Mondays program is:
No. i-OrchcsiFA. dance selections
Psp's Sin syueopAtsrs
No. s--Coniraito solo, 70 IL selected.
Miss BETTY Harding
40 a--Piana solo and monoloEus. Mar
Marguerite brown
40. ,-Tenot solo. 10 bs selected. MIL
ferd Kinruhury.
No. 5--Yioiin roln--''Bsrenade, BY
pfdla: Arthur nauInEHrtnsr.
No. s-Thrsr Maids trio, original ar.
Management Of popular songs Miss Della
Marhurgcr and thr Misses nssty and
t.agfrt,A Harding
No. i-violin solo-''ro a Wild Rose. "
| bY MacDowell. Arthur BaumEarinFr.
No. s--rsnor solo. to be selected Fred,
criek wisdsrick
No. s.-orchestra. 20 be selected. psp's
SIX Eyucppatsrp.
Mise i.Aurette Harding. seeompanist,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-08-13
FOUR DEAD IN
PATH OF STORM
Ohio and West Virginia Hit
by High Winds

COLUMBUS. Ohio. Aug. - -Four
persons are known TO have persisted
IN a severe wind and rain Storm
which swep, Ohio and West yir.
ginia from The northwes, during the
night.
At least a dozen persons were In.
jured and thousands OF dollars dam
age done TO buildings and crops.
Tho temperatureN dropped 20 de.
grees in five minutes when the storm
broke. Rains gwelicd streams in tho
vicinity OF Beckicy. W. Va. where
three persons we're drowned and
property damage is estimated at
$500. GOO.
The victims ware Mason Harris,
George Hanson and an unidentified
negro. Waiter Karzansh was killed
by a broken electric light wire at To
leda, o.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-08-13
Mrs. John Won Herberg Opens
Fire on Two Thugs

Mrs John Won Herberg. 2slo Gas.
cadia blvd. wife OF John Won Her.
berg. wealthy Seattle motion picture
operator. OF tho Greater Thcatera
corporation. riSkcd her life early
Monday morning. when she battled
two burglars who had attempted 10
enter her home. firing three shot
at them.
The thugs escaped By icnpinE n
fence and running into tho heavy
undcrbrush across the road. Mrs
Won Hcrborg was awakened al $50
a. m, when she heard the men Try.
Ing 10 open window facing on the
porch. As her husband was not nj
home. Aho hastily called the police
and then seized pistol.
She went downstairs and saw the
men. She opened a door and fired.
Tho men hastily jumped from tho
porch. and. as she continued TO fire.
ran across the road. jumped fence
and lied into tho woods
Several motorcycle police arrived
within few minutes and searched
the neighborhood. but failed 10 find
any trace OF the men.
MIR won Herbcrg n associated
with large motion picture interests
thruout the Northwest, operating.
under the firm name OF Jcnscn.von
Hcrbcrg. the Coliseum. Liberty,
Strand and Neptune theaters in Sc.
attic. as well ns chain OF similar
theaters In Bellineham. Tacoma.
Portland and other Coast citics.