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TAKEN Ups year old Holstein
heifer. l.. l.. Hurd Ranch, miles
south of Seeley. 10t6
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-09
THE COUNTRY~HOME
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON,

if not meekness." Such mOdesty is very be-
coming and wears we'll. Perhaps tempera-
ment has good deal to do with the outward
manners of our people, and there may be
genuine good foIAs who are naturally in
, clined to be vori'O:ous and boastful of their
achievements, bit they are the exception and
not the rule. Men are sometimes accused
of pride merely because their accusers would
be proud themselves if they were in their
places"
1t is said to be with nations as with indi
viduals, those who know the least of others
think most highly of themselves. Voltaire
said The infinitely little have a pride that
is infinitely great" This is not a proper
sort of pride.
Sduthey tells the following of John
Bunyan: After Bunyan had preached a
great sermon and his friends crowded around
him to shake his hand, while they expressed
admiration for his eloquence, etc, John in
terrupted them to say "Ay, you needn't re-
mind me Of that. The Devil told me the
same thing before got out of the pulpit"
Once upon a time certain United States
senator made a great hit by what was sup
posed to be an impromptu reply to an attack
made by a northern senator the sOuth's
politics after the Civil War. The impromptu
feature was vociferously applauded and the
reporters made frequent mention of the great
orator who could "think on his feet" l
CHANGED to hear the matter discussed some
time afterward, and one of the senator's in
Inmates who had the run" of his rooms in
the hotel here the senator lodged spoke up,
"ImpromptU? Betcha your life he had not
only written it out, but committed it to
memory" In spite of my admiration for the
''impromptu" orator, he had cheapened
himself in my humble estimation because he
permitted himself to be thus falsely adver-
tised, and, while my politics were on his
side of the fence, I never could relieve my
self of the impression that he would have
been a cheap faker If he had belonged to
common circus.
There is a certain noble pride which al
ways shines brighter through the veil of
modesty and truth
Thackeray thus discoursed on the subject
Of pride, and he a master in the craft of
drawing fine distinctions: "You who are
ashamed of your poverty and blush for your
calling a snob, as are you who boast of
your pedigree or are proud of your wealth."
And Shakespeare said: HE that is proud
eats up himself Pride is his own glass, his
own trumpet, his own chronicle, and what
ever praises itself in the deed devours the
deed in the praise
Coming back to proper pride, l think we
can safely say 1t is a copartner with honest
self-respect. and without respect for your
self you are poverty-stricken, although your
bank deposits up into millions.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-09
THE SETTING
BY DR.. Frank Crane

Everything depends upon the setting.
Nine-tenths of the charm of anything Is
its background.
Not long ago I saw an ancient Shinto Tenn
pie. 1t nothing like as huge and cost
nothing near as much as Saint Paul's Cathe-
dral but, although l am a Christian, it was
more impressive to me because it was set
on the side of high green mountain and
surrounded by grove of gigantic cryp-
tomerias.
The value of picture depends very much
upon where it is hung.
Even a chair or a table, though most
artistic and expensive, gives poor satisfaction
If it is set in the wrong place.
A great tree standing alone in meadow
is vastly more impressive than If it were
crowded with it's fellows in the forest.
SO it is with what you say; its value is
determined very largely by who you are and
when, where and how you say it, quite as
much as by the contents of the sentence it.
self
In a heated discussion the man who will
keep still until everybody gets through and
then expresses his opinion quietly, puts tre-
mendous force behind what he says.
A word set in pose shines like a jewel.
Mark Twain could not open his mouth and
say word but we thought it extremely fun
ny; there was the setting of years of repu-
tation. You, being a mere bookkeeper in
y,
icy" and no one would pay any attention
to you; but let the king arise from his
throne or the president appear upon the
White House steps, or the prime minister
take his stand upon the floor of parliament,
and amid the breathless hush of the auditors
declare that "honesty is the best policy" and
the same would be telegraphed, cabled,
radioed, printed and repeated at the ends Of
the earth.
How much twaddle is perpetrated and lis
tened to simply because Of its setting.
have heard bishops babble While the great
congregation looked up with worshipful eyes.
[ have heard presidents pull platitudes so
dreadful that L did not know whether to
laugh or cry and have been astounded to
see his hearers clap their hands and turn
around and smile al nod their heads at
each other. I have read the most monstrous
drivel perpetrated by Judges; their lives were
saved only by the bench on which they sat-
if they had been school-boys they would have
been spanked and sent home.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-09
4 S1auer That Must Be Curbed

W. That will be the thought Of readers a
W thousand years hence when in turn
ing over the records of our year of
Grace they find that every day two hun
dred and six Americans were killed by ac-
cidents, and that of this astounding total of
fatalities thirty-eight were incident to au-
tomobiles? "A dark age, dark age!"
they we'll may say. And so, indeed, it is,
ID careless destruction of human life, what
ever be it's other claims to enlightenment
and progress.
seventy-ffve thousand, three hundred per-
sons were killed in this country during
1922 in accidents, an increase of approx
mately two thousand over the year preced-
ing. So reports the national safety con-
gress now in session at Buffalo, New York
and adds that automobile deaths alone
numbered fourteen thousand 1t appears
further that to automobile casualties are
chargeable as many as thirty-eight deaths
a day. These figures are reinforced by the
latest report of the Metropolitan Life In
surance company, whose statistics on mil
lions of industrial poicyhoders are gener-
ally accepted as representative of condi-
lions at large. For August of this year it's
death rate as a whole was, with a single
exception, the lowest in It's records being
seven and seven-tenths a thousand. But
its death rate in the realm of automobile
accidents was eighteen and four-tenths, as
against fifteen and four-tenths in August,
1922.
Facts that speak with a plainness so
much thinking. The vast majority of the more
than seventy-five thousand Americans who
thus perish in the course of a twelvemonth
are victims Of accidents easily avoidable
It is carelessness that kills, carelessness in
every walk and at every turn of life,i but
especially on streets and highways. For
every motorist and every pedestrian who
suffers an accident, tens Of thousands go
unscathed, a fact which shows what cir
cumspectness will do even in the midst of
thickening hazards. Not always by any
means, but certainly a rule, the com
petent, watchful, cautious, considerate au-
tomobile driver escapes trouble; and his
kind is in the majority. But the speed
fiend, the breaker of traffic laws, the in
different, the careless-he it is who Stays
as he goes, and who must be curbed or
extirpated. if human fife is to have a
chance.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-09
Teren1;;ads Unfu7E11ed

MESS you are sure Of your mantle
beware of prophesying. When France
entered the Ruhr last January to col
lect overdue reparations, there began tc
pour from fearful pens on both sides Of the
Atlantic a flood of jeremiads that continued
up to the moment of Germanys' recent sur
render. Had 1.-THE of the woeful predictions
come to pass, Europe now would be bleed
ing to death, or buried in the ashes of her
ruin Foolhardy, disastrous, suicidal, they
called the French policy, adding that it was
certain to end in failure if not in anarchy
Well, the book is not yet closed, and be it
far from us to venture to say what the
seeds of time may yet bring forth. One
thing however is plain-the German indus
sistanc. broken down unde. Lille pres
lending itself to their dilatory tactics have
been brought to capitulation. Passive re-
sistance has broken down under Calls pres
sure. Complete and unconditional surrender
has been obtained by the resolute French,
whose position for enforcing claims for repa-
rations is thus materially strengthened. And
so far the sun continues to rise and the
rains to fall, despite the swivel-chair proph-
cts of calamity.
That the adventure of France was haz-
ardous, there is no gainsaying; nor are it's
consequences all yet measured. But It's first
great objective has been attained and the
possibilities for stab, peace appear larger,
! rather than less, than when the year began.
The weeping seers of yesterday should be
comforted; but inst ad, they are likely to go
scanning the stars for new signs OF dole.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-09
w e-Uns and You-Uns

INV yE-UNS" and "you-uns," wontedly
wv assumed to belong to mountain
dialect peculiar to the South, is
traced by a writer in the Kansas City Star
to so ancient and honorable an ancestry as
Tyndale's translation of the New Testament,
where in the third chapter and ninth verse
Of the Gospel of St. Matthew may be read:
And see that ye-ons thinke notAto sage in
yourselves, We have Abraham to our father"
Tyndale's version was printed in 1926, a
generation before Shakespeare. From that
same picturesque period Of English speech
comes many supposed provincialism of the
South and Of New England. AK, for ask;
mought, for might; holp, for help; afeard,
for afraid-these and scores Of other quaint
forms, once common to this region but now
rarely heard save in mountain or rural
hooks, bear witness to a pure and persistent
Anglo-Saxon lineage.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-09
WHAT ABOUT COTTON?

TT HEN the government report came out
Wv on October and declared the 1923
crop would be considerably over
100000 bales, nvoluntarily I spoke out,
Where is it coming from?" This must
sound huge to these Georgia farmers who
will not make enough cotton to pay taxes
and fertilizer bills.
Doubtless this is believed to be a correct
report by those who publish it abroad, but
do not forget what happened some years ago
when the people who had to make out the
reports were bribed in the interest of certain
cotton spectators in New York and Liver
pool and were caught In the act" so to
speak. There were two men and one woman
in Washington City who made the lying
statement.
In this era Of lawlessness and dollar a
year" philanthropists we may expect to be
fooled occasionally. Just one misleading re-
port will make the fur fly and it is well
understood that the United States is domi-
mated by the Liverpool cotton market. The
present price of cotton is not a high price,
if the cotton crop Is short. The producer
should get a reasonable share Of the profit,
certainly. The middle man and the specu-
lator get more out of the profit than is
equitable all the time, every year.
But it should be rated as a crime to send
out deceptive reports, under government au-
thority, when a cent a pound or single
figure in the number Of bales will rob the
people who produced it of a decent price in
Liverpool. OF one thing we may be sure,
the Georgia crop is lamentably short; and it
will be picked and mostly sold by the pro-
Queer inside of month The season for
gathering the staple has been splendid.
Without rain and without cold weather to
hinder, the season has been almost without
a parallel for saving the cotton in frst-class
order.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-09
INFLUENZA PREVENTION
BY H. Addington Bruce
tn HE idea that chlorine and possibly
gases, may be a potent ally in

II HE lQ6a JnaL CnlOrln6 ana POSSIBLY Otn6r
Il gases, may be a potent ally in man S
struggle against Influenza finds strong
corroboration in a. report recently made to
the American Chemical Society by DR.. Harrt-
son Hale
In his report DR.. Hale details results Of
experiments tried at the University of Ar
kansas, where many instructors, students and
others breathed, for five minutes daily, air
containing small amount OF chlorine. In
fluenza was at the time raging il the uni
versity and its neighborhood. Th11 contrast
was seen:
The number of cases of influen in the
college dormitories was at the rate of 1 33 for
1000. Among all those taking the chlorine
treatment, some of whom came only once,
the rate was A per 1000.
This figure included those who stated that
they were sick at the time treatment was
taken. as we'll as those who took only one or
two treatments and developed influenza some
days later. Omitting such cases, the rate
among those taking the treatment was Is per
1000, Or about one-tenth OF the average
rate"
along similar lies and of reports made by
Gudeman and Baskerville, all suggesting the
possibility OF using, not chlorine only, but
other gases in combating influenza. Still, as
DR.. Hale emphasizes much research work
will have TO be done to transform this pos
sibiIity into an actuality, and to determine
such matters as the minimum amount of
chlorine needed for protection, the best
method of treatment etc.
SO that stress must continue to be laid
chiefly ordi- ry hygfoi-.- methods of pre-
ventiOn Among these none is Of more i'm
portance than the maintaining Of general
fitness"
1t is no mere coincidence that the summer
months are commonly the months of greatest
freedom from influenza as from all other
respiratory diseases. In the summer the
mode of living-frequent bathing, ample ex-
ercise in the open, fresh fruit and vegetable
diet and so forth-makes disti-ctly for
physical Yigor.
All too frequently as winter approaches
the mode of living changes for the worse,
vigor wanes in some degree, and suscepti
bility to infection is corresponding increas-
ed. The health HABITS OF the summer should
be retained-and must be retained if the
ideal Of infI --za prevention is to be REALIZED.
OF scarcely seCcAdar.' impOr ce is re-
membrance Of the fact Eat influenza, while
usually styled an ar-L ne infection, is as
often as not, perhaps rather oftener hand
borne.
To touch mes fingers to ones lip, to
handle food with hands that have not been
well washed, is to run the risk of getting into
ones system, not the inf enza germ alone
but the germ Of many another rious dis
ease.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-09
PROPER PRIDE

T AM proposing to write about the sort
of pride which helps young man to
keep away from bad company, and to
seek his intimates among people who are Of
like mind as himself
1t is the province OF proper pride to cul-
tivate self-respect for without such respect
for ones self there is scant difference be-
tween a stately high-stepper in modern So
ciety and the bum who beats his way along
the line of least resistance. There is also a
pompous pride, and it is plentiful in guam
tity, and often disgusting in quality. This
sort of pride is the twin to vainglory and
vainglorious people, whose naughty pride
always goes before fall, is numerous in
this land Of ours. We are afflicted with
pomposity.
The sort Of pride which can be truthfully
called proper is accompanied with modesty,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-09
STARRING the Boil Weevi1

. NEW and highly interesting honor roll
| N proposed by the Albany Herald, Is
to carry the names of Dougherty coun-
| ty farmers who plow up and turn under thei1
cotton stalks by October the fifteenth. AS a
service to their neighbors as well pro
lection to themselves, this act certainly will
entitle those performing it to public recog-
milton and praise, and probably will increase
many fold the county's yield for 1924,
The why's and wherefores are tersely set
forth by the Herald when it explains that
according to the best counsel destruction Of
cotton stalks at the end Of the season IS a
most effectual means Of boil weevil control.
Thus: where cotton has been successfully
raised in South Georgia since the advent Of
the boil weevil, farmers have co-operated in
their communities in stalk-destroying cam
paigns They have utterly destroyed all the
cotton foliage in their districts, leaving moth
ing for the pest to feed on. And when the
boil weevil finds nothing to feed on, 1t either
rises and flies in search of growing cotton,
Or goes hungry until cold weather drives 1t
into Information. If an adult weevil is weak
ened by hunger, the chances that it will
not survive the successive freezes Of winter.
But no matter whether the boil weeyil
starves, or leaves in quest of food weeks be-
fore the beginning of the Information period,
there will be very few Of the pests In that
particular neighborhood the following spring.
The cotton crop, therefore,, will get a good
start, and If poison is judiciously used and
other precautions taken excellent yields will
result"
This procedure, to which our South Geor-
gia contemporary so opportunity draws at
tention, is recommended by federal and state
AGRICULTURAL authorities and is approved by
the experience Of thousands of growers. 1t
should be observed, however, that the prac-
tice, If 1t Is to be effective, must be general
One negligent farmer, leaving his cotton
stalks standing for weevn food, will impair
or bring to naught the good work Of scores
Of his neighbors, for the boil weevil has no
superior in multiplying and replenishing the
earth about him.
Hence the urgent need Of thoroughgoing
cooperation among farmers to the end that
they may make a clean sweep of the cotton
destroyer in their county and district. A
Georgia-wde campaign based upon the Al
bany Herald's plan will mean millions Of
dollars saved for the value of next years
crop. Let leaders in every county organize,
without delay, this simple yet exceedingly
important process OF conservation.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-09
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

The good that wouId do not; but the
epil which / wouId not, that | do. Now
if I do that / 1vouId not, it is no more |
that do it, but sin that dWelIeth in me. l
find then a lam, that when | wouh do
good, epil is present with me. For de-
light in the LAM of God after the inlpdrd
man; but see another lam in my men,
bers, warring against the LAM Of the mind,
and bringing me into captivity to the lam
of sin (Which is in my members. 0
wretched man that / am, who shall deliver
me from the body of this death9 / thank
God through Jesus Christ our Lord!-
Romans 7:19-24.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-09
QUIPS AND QUIDD1TIES

Mr. Wombat is always looking for the
perfect office boy-like the one in the third
reader who picked up the pin. He had never
yet found him, but the other day thought he
had him The boy didn't seem so promising,
but was told to look in again the next morn
ing AS the kid went out he stopped over
and salvaged something.
"Call him back" directed the boss.
The bookkeeper called him back.
What did you pick up just then, my fine
little fellow" asked the boss.
The kid extended a grimy palm.
In it reposed cigar butt
She was very beautiful and had called in
answer to an advertisement for a typist.
"Where were you employed last?" asked
the head of the firm.
"In a doll factory" replied the applicant.
"And what were your duties there?" was
the next question.
Making eyes" she replied, with a smile,
every well. You are engaged" she was
informed, "but pelase don't demonstrate
your capabilities when my wife is around"
They were giving a dinner party and the
coachman had come in to help wait at table.
Several guests had suffered from his lack Of
experience and in serving peas he approach
ed very deaf old lady and inquired:
"Peas, num-"
No answer
"Peas, num-" Nouder.)
The old lady saw that someone was speak
ing to her, and lifted her ear trumpet to the
questioner. The coachman, seeing the large
end of the trumpet directed toward him,
thought:
ct must be new way OF takin' em, but
s'pose she lihes EN- that way"
And down the trumpet went the peas
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-09

@. What does Chee-chaco meaus? J. D. P
A. 1t is a slang term used in the far
northwest for a tenderfoQt
@. Are there Indian tribes where most of
the people still live in wigwams? A. J. b.
A The Indian office says that of the
81 Indian tribes still remaining in the
United States there are only twenty tribes
where the majority of Indians and their
families dwell in teepees, wikiups or hogans.
Q. How do the profits of the Panama
canal compare with the cost Of building it?
r. A. G.
A. The Panama canal commission says
that the profits from the canal to date have
been approximately $16,OO0OOO, while
the cost of building the canal was approx
mateIy 1915, 100000.
@. How many people in the United States
work and what is the per capita wealth?
J. G. B.
A The census gives the number Of per-
sons ten years and over engaged in gainful
occupations at 41,14248. The population
of the United States, latest census. is 1867
10000. The total wealth of the United
States is estimated at $1S7,S39, 900 900, or
1866 per capita.
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MUSINGS OF ABE MARTIN

We like quiet people, but President Cool
idge ought t. say somethn' purity soon jest
as guarantee that tn COVER ment at Wash
in'ton still lives. We hain't read nothing
more incredulous than Ford won't run"
Copyright 1929
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HER MONEY
BY CAROLYN BEECHER

What has gone before-Althea Cros-
by dying, leaves her home and $4,000
in bonds to her niece and namesake,
whom she has never seen. Her lawyer
sets out for New York to find the young
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superior officer. Ha! Lucky the war is
over Now, then, your promise"
Henry Nelson stood motionless as he
watched his two callers leave the bank to-
gether, then slowly he clenched lis muscular
hands, and from his lips there issued an oath
better left unwritten.
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