Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-10
Just Among Ourselves

WYE have been working like mules IL
\A/ blowing time, we women and me1
who are responsible for making The
Tri-Weekly Journal We have been having
a sort of spring housekeeping for a month.
And we have had about as much trouble as
we could swallow and digest.
We have set UP aim for 100 per cent serv-
ice. By service we mean making~a good pa
per and getting it to you on time
We haven't hit 100 per cent; not by a
long shot. We haven't even reached 81 pAr
cent, but you can give us credit for one THU r..
We are trying and we are going to keep on
trying.
Our troubles have been of two sorts mainly
failure of our machinery to work properly,
and failure of some of our fellow publishers
to measure up in handling our orders for
your clubbing combinations.
Our mechanical trouble is this: Our pa
pers are addressed to you by very remarkable
and costly machines which stamps your ad-
dress in the upper right-hand corner. Taking
it by and large, the two we use for this pur-
pose do their work very we'll. But once in a
while they get as balky as a stubborn horse.
The result is that too many of our readers
miss an issue entirely; and too many get
their papers a day or more late.
AS we say, we are doing our level best to
rectify that condition and we think we see
daylight and sunshine ahead on that score.
In the meanwhile land you may be sure
it is a MEAN whitley we feel cheered up lot
by such sweet and helpful words as these:
"The Tri-Weekly Journal is always on
hand. / have been taking 1t for some eight
cen or twenty years and cannot do without it..
1 get so much help from the Sunday school
lesson, and Mrs. FELTON,; DR.. Crane, Mrs.
Thomas, and, in fact, everything in It," That's
what L. W. Smith, Route E, Box 1873, Vine
land, Ala, wrote us the other day
And then we keep always in our mind the
lovely letter Mrs. S. F. wrote to Mrs Thomas
week before last, In which she said:
"Ivs been taking The Journal for years,
and have cut out and saved most all of yours
and Mrs Felton's letters. Am going to make
a scrapbook Of them some day, and I want
you to know that the good letters you have
written to The Journal have been great help
to me in striving to live Christian life, and
I'm sure there are thousands Of others, who,
like myself have been greatly helped by your
letters May the Lord spare you many, many
years. is my prayer"
We know Mrs. Thomas knelt at her bed the
night she received that letter and prayed fol-
guidance for the future and gave up thanks
that she had been the instrumentality for al
least little good in this life.
It Is things like that give US courage to "a
on against many and great discouragements
T. L. Lutemyer, Bridgewater, N c., writes:
"The apple gratis are planted and doing
fine; growing leaves already"
N H. Benefited, Pisgah, Ala, writes: g.
am pleased with The Tri-Weekly Journal"
j. R. Stephens, Route 8, Dublin, Ga
writes: "I don't know what I'd do without
The Journal I think it is one of the best
papers published"
q. G. Lyttle, Route 2, Raeford, N. C..
writes: II am writing few lines to tell
how much we enjoy The Tri-WeekIy Journal
but we miss so many papers. do not know