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Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09
The Point of Business Regeneration
3v DR.. Frank Crane
IN HAT point where man first reali7
that it is in and through his wo

~HAT point where a man first realizes
that it is in and through his work
that he is to heR redeem the world,
and not by the charity of his idle days or
of his surplus gains, that point | call the
point of regeneration Then he is born again
and fitted to be a bringer-in Of the millen-
MUM.
Most so-called charity rs evil. 1t is bad
both ways. 1t deceives the giver by false
salve to his conscience. By endowing col,
lege or a church he feels his sense of re-
sponsibility is satisfied and the wrong ways
he made his money are condoned.
To make the moral works of the world de-
pend on gifts of rich men is to commit
again the sin Of Tetzel and his marketing Of
indulgences.
The gift is also curse to the recipient.
1t destroys self-~-@@ipTGr. Both takers and
givers of charity are debased.
The great mass of men do not want gifts
and favors; they want a chance to earn
what they need They want a square deal,
and that's ALL Whoever wants more is
degenerate Whoever seeks privilege, advan-
tage and pull is degenerate. Whoever by his
wealth gives men unearned privileges pro-
notes degeneracy.
[ have lived many years intimately ac-
quainted with church life l never knew a
healthy church where the financial support
of it did not come from all, or approximately
all, of the members. l never knew wealthy
man to patronze a church by large gifts
where the result was not fatal
Why build colleges for people? Why eng
dow libraries? The people are entitled to-
these things and secure them by their
own efforts. The only schools on an ethical-
ly sound basis the public schools and the
state universities. These are supported by
taxation.
What is a man to do, then, who has an
extra million or and wants to crafty his
generous impulse? Answer Walk into the
city or state treasurer's office and give it
back to the people who gave it to him. They
may spend it foolishly? They would do
nothing so foolish to endow something
the people do not want.
But is not charity "the greatest of these?"
Surely But charity in democracy can
only be exercised in its purity by establish
ing just and kindly laws, conditions, and so-
cial organization. Give us business men who
do business in such way as to make sound,
healthy, and prosperous laborers create and
sell goods that are honestly worth the mon
ey, and turn back their enormous profits, il
chance brings them, to that community that
made them possible, and we shall have real
altruism that shall enrich and ennobe the
toilers of the world, and not stultify them
with feudal gifts and aims.
Charity in feudalism means the rich living
in luxury and using a small fraction of their
means to destroy the self-respect of the poor,
to perpetuate the evil conditions that make
them poor.
Charity in democracy means justice; it
means love not hypodermically injected in
toxic doses into the body polite, but flowing
normally along the veins
Copyright, 1924
Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09
MY FAVORITE STORIES
BY Irwin S. Cobb

Nobody knows the exact age Of the one
about the one-armed man who, being be-
sought by the inquistive person to tell how
he had suffered his loss agreed to tell him
provided the latter would then rest content
and ask no more questions whatsoever; and
on receiving the busybodys pledge. said: "It
was bitten off, and walked away leaving the
curious one seething with conflicting emo
tiOns
Certainly it has antiquity behind it, that
story. 1t probably told in the shadow of
the Pyramids when they were new And it
is stlll going strong. AS | have several times
before pointed out, age is no handicap to
really good yarn. If it were, this department
on many a day would have been but blank
space in the column of this paper.
In my own personal experience thing
which may have had it's roots buried in the
soil Of this same little story once occurred.
was travelling across Oklahoma a way
train. In this connection, the word way"
am satisfied, was meant for an abbreviation
of "wayward." We dawdled across the mo-
notonous landscape and fingered long at un-
interesting g-looking towns.
| fell into conversation with a fellow
traveller. This tall, sunburnt man with
keen blue eyes, and. as | speedily found out,
noble sense OF humOr. His left hand was
gone at the wrist He made no mention of
his affliction, and naturally, 1 made none.
At a dismal junction point we climbed off
the car for lunch. In the station we mounted
two stools and ordered food | made so bold
as to offer TO cut his meat for him, but he
said he needed no help, and by dexterous
alternate handling OF his knife and fork pro-
ceeded to prove it.
A person with the rowing eye and eager
manner Of born gossip entered and took
the place next to my new acquaintance. At
glance we knew what his vocation must be.
1t the business of looking after other
peoples business.
At once he saw that the man alongside
him had been manned. He touched the 9th.
on the shoulder.
Excuse me. mister" he said, "but no.
tice you We lost hand"
Good Heavens" exclaimed my travelling
companion. You don't tell me?"
He lifted his crippled arm and gazed
Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09
LITTLE MISS FIXIT,
Care Tri-W eekly Journal,
Atlanta, Georgia.

A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Then there arose a reasoning among
them, which of them should be greatest
And Jesus perceiping the thought in their
heart took a child and set him by him,
and said unto them, "WhoSoeper shall re-
ceipe this child in my name recsipeth inc,
and whosoeper receipeth me, receipeth him
that sent me; for he that is least among
you all, the same shall be gredt-From
the Gospel of St. Luke 9:46-48.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09
Values. Real and Artificial

A DIVERSITY was never more useful
~ than when it served to sober the ex-
travagant mood into which America
fell during the years of wartime initiation
Serious as were hardshps incident to the
reaction, the net result has been most salu-
frequently grievous, the country's basic rich
es and productive strength remained unim-
thirty times what it was century ago. our
bank deposits amount to forty billions of
dollars; our aggregate of life insurance ex-
ceeds seventy billions. Most important of
all, our soil is as fertile and nature as boun-
teous as before the shock of deflation fell
If with all this we read Alright the lesson of
those trying years, we shall be more than
ever fortunate.
And what is the lesson? 1t has not been
stated more truly or more tellingly, We be-
lieve, than by the president of the American
Bankers Association, Mr.. Walter w. Head
III a recent duuIeSS Oh Ioo MUCH Joy -
Riding" In course of an appeal for recog-
milton Of real as distinguished from artif-
cial values, he said, 1--WE have tried to
make progress too hastily, by attempting to
increase values WITHOUT increasing intrinsic
worth We have failed, as men have always
failed, when following that way. We must
again acknowledge that progress comes only
through toll, economy, and thrift. That, and
that alone, is the enduring structure, the re-
suit of painstaking building, Systematically
placing one stone upon another. We
have sufficient for all our needs. We must
forget some of our desires desires for
things which we do not need, desires born
of that period of "easy money" when wish
became a reality overnight. Mans mind
and mans spirit are more potent than dol
lars made by man; if we revive the one, we
shall restore the other"
There speaks practical wisdom. If the
period of unearned money, unsound values
and unchecked desires had continued, woe it
would have been to America We shall go
forward the more surely for having been
temperately set back-that is, if the lesson
be not lost.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09
THE ATLANTA rRI-wnEKLy JOURNAL

blaming the tariff the President ordered
an investigation to determine whether or not
the import duty which had been fixed for
the benefit Of special interests was in any
wise responsible. That inquiry was pur-
suant to the so-called flexible" provisions
Of the Fordney- -McCumber act, which begin
thus: when the President after careful in
vestigation finds that the rates of duty in
cost of production of any article or articles
between the United States and the principal
mine the rates that will so equalize such
difference, and thirty days after the procla-
nation is made the rates Of duty proposed by
him shall be in effect on the articles named
in the proclamation in lieu of the rates of
duty specified in the tariff Of 1922. These
rates of duty are to be based upon foreign
valuation. He not increase or decrease
any rate Of duty more than fifty per centum
of the amount thereof provided in the
tariff of 1922" The task of ascertaning
whether, under these terms, the duty
sugar could be decreased fell of course to
the tariff commission; and the expectation
was that upon the report of that body the
President would take action.
But behold confusion worse confounded!
The tariff commission, after all its probing
and pondering, is unable to agree to what
the facts really are. The members have
reached sharply and, rumor has it, bit
terly opposed conclusions. Whatever the
Presidents decison-and he it is who at
last must decide-one faction or another will
be offended one or another powerful inter
est alenated. And this in the summer be-
fore a national election With justice that
is pointed if not poetic, the FordneyMc-
Cumber preparation is stealing home to
plague its party.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09
Inf1es,b1e F1ex,b;1itu

HEN partisan apologists for the Ford
M gey-McCumber tariff are driven from
axe untenable defense to another,
they win seek last ditch in, "Ah, but think
ible provisions" Well, now that we have
\ instance OF those provisions at work in
lie hands of their admirers, just how useful
md scientific are they proving?
Readers may recall that some eighteen
months ago, when prices OF sussr went
preposterously high and the yexed consumer
Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09
Biennial Sessions Abbroped

" HE passage of the biennial sessions bill
than the two-thirds majority required
for constitutional amendments is significant
and gratifying. A measure which commands
the support of hundred and fifty Rep
resentatives, as against the opposition of
only forty-five, and which has been approved
with equal decisiveness by the Senate, is
virtually certain to receive the sanction of
the people when submitted at the polls.
In opening the way to that event the Cen
eral Assembly of Georgia has followed a trail
blazed broad by great majority of the
States. At least thirty-five have adopted the
biennial or the quadrennial system of legis-
latiye sessions, and most of the others are
moving in that direction. Such steady and
increasing favor would not have been won
by q mere fad. Deliberate judgment in
dorses and long experience confirms the su-
periority of biennial over annual sessions, on
sundry grounds of the public interest
For one thing, there is a valuable saving
of time and of money. In the case of Geor-
gia more will be done, no doubt, during the
sixty days of the proposed biennial session
than is now accomplished in the one hun
dred days OF two annual sessions. There
will be less delay in getting down to busi-
ness, less lingering over non essentials, more
care in the making of schedules, more dis
patch in carrying them out Such at least
is the testimony from States which have
taken the step now contemplated by Georgia
Further, biennial meetings of the Legisla-
ture serve to reduce the number of new and
needless laws. Members will think longer
before introducing bills, and also before
passing them, so that what is lost in guam
tity will be gained many times over in quail
ity. There will be less disturbance of legit-
innate business, less anxiety on the part of
investors and savers, more incentive to thrift
and enterprise. At the same time, common
rights as opposed to special privilege will be
more effectualy safeguarded, because the
defense of them will be concentrated instead
of scattered.
The Journal is deeply gratified that the
biennial sessions bill, to the principles of
which we have long been committed has
passed by large majority. That it will
be signed by the Governor and duly sub
mitted to the electorate, goes without say
ing, while the general prediction is that it
will be ratified overwhelmingly at the ballot
of annual visits from the members of the
Gene2el Assembly, but the gains to the COM
onwealth will be far-reaching.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09
MOVIE MAD
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHFI OR

What has gone beforc.-Gloria King
comes to Hollywood with the idea of
making good in the movies. She be
comes hardened by the life and is fool
ish enough to marry Rolf Templeton,
the great screen star, because she thinks
he can further her career. He makes
her his leading woman, and when the
picture stranger Souls is released.
Gloria has stolen the honors from the
star. She resolves to leave Templeton,
:ieo story.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09

A moment later he was driving off bare
headed through the sweet-scented night. He
jammed his foot down hard on the accelera-
tor and the car fairly leaped ahead. The
wind roared in his ears; he was possessed
with a fever for speed. but no matter how
fast he drove, dark thoughts pursued him,
thoughts from which he could not escape
Gloria free from him; Gloria no longer a
part of his life! Gloria and other men who
would make love to her. who would want
to marry her. Strangely enough, he did
not once think of the scandal attached to a
divorce For the first time in his life he
had forgotten himself.
TueSday-"A Change in Gloria" and
children of the Desert" Renew your sub
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Every second Thursday was Mrs Jones
'at home day 1t her habit these
occasions to start receiving her friends at
3 o'clock and give them tea at s.
On this particular Thursday her little
son, Tommy had a half holiday and so his
mather told him that if he was very good
he might come in and have tea with the
visitors.
Mother" he said, as the cake being
handed round can L have some tongue,
pease?"
There isn't any tongue, dear" answered
Mrs. Jones, with fond smile at her Off
spring. Didn't he look nice in his new suit?
That's funny commented Tommy
father said there would be plenty OF it,"
well-known actor used to tell an
amusing story concerning a Turkish bath
he once had in small town "out west"
MY attendant very strong man."
he said. He laid me on the slab and
prodded and kneaded and punched and
hammered me in a most emphatic way.
At the end, after l had got up, he came
behind me and gave me four terrific re-
sounding smacks on the bare back with the
palm of his enormous hand.
What on earth did you do that for?'
[ painted. oh, no offense, sir, replied the
man; it was only to let the office know
was ready for the next conner, You see
the bells out of order in this room.'"
''Too many delegations are bothering the
president"
absolutely We agree to stop all that
We must not break down the health of our
presidents"
MY friend, I glad to see you realize
the matter is serious"
"Oh, | do. Well form an organization
at once and you and l will call on the presi-
dent as notification committee"
Clara Endicott Sears, who has recently
written Days of DeIusion," =" records the re-
lgious crisis of 1843 in which the Prophet
Miller prophesied that the world was to end
A man quite excited, who accepted the be-
lief that the world was to end on that par
ucular. day, met in the roads of Concord
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Park er
They seemed calm. The Millerite thought it
was his duty to inform them of the mo-
mentous fact of which they appeared to be
so unconscious. So he walked up to them
with an excited manner and said:
Gentlemen, do you know, do you realize
that the world is coming to an end today?"
Mr.. Parker said: 1T does not concern me-
for | live in Boston" And Mr. Emerson
said: The end Of the world does not affect
me- can get along without it"
Listen, Smith" said the producer to the
elderly actor who resting" I'm will
ling to give you part-that is. if you think
you can do the landlord in The Lady of
Lyons "
"Bess me-" said the old stager, I'm the
very man for the part. I've done landlords
all over the country"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Too many "bracers" will not brace a
man up.
Never judge a woman's smile by her
teeth; they may be false.
Silent watches of the night may be those
we forget to wind up.
A good son maketh good husband-but
he is worthy of a better fate.
John r. Fell. the Philadelphia capit2':st,
said at a dinner in Narrag gansett:
Every story has two sides. I took a
friend OF mine TO task the other day. Your
wife, | said reproachfuly, says you can't
keep her in clothes
Well, growled my friend. I've bought
her house out al issahckon Heights and
| cant keep her in that either.
The man in the dock was regular Gus
toner at the local police court and he had
spent quite as much time inside jail as out.
His particular line breaking into shops
of the smaller tradespeople in the early
hours of the morning. ON this occasion he
was charged with breaking into jeweler S
constable on either side the magistrate
asked:
ANY witnesses?'
Course not" replied the accused with a
sneer. why, YOU silly old fool do YOU
think that when l goes out to crack a crib
| | takes witnesses with me-"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09
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A good son maketh good husband-but
he is worthy of a better fate.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09

Silent watches Of the night may be those
we forget to wind up.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09

DIVERSITY was never more useful
a than when it served to sober the ss-
travagapt mood into which America
Atlanta tri-weekly journal., 1924-08-09

Tuesday-"Found Out" Renew your
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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-10-02
REsUELTo Ell ASUNTO DE LA
PERTUMERIA

Las autoridades de la Aduana per
mitieron aver que fueran 1evantadas
de sus almacenes varias cajas de per-
fumeria de la marca t'Pivcr, de Paris,
las cuales estabsn detenidas causa
de que la casa interesada, teniendo
su marca de fabriea registrada en-
Washington, no habia dado autoriza-
c.6n para que dicha mercancia pu-
diera ser vendida en- Puerto Rico.
Como la casa "Piver" va di6 La
autorizac.on aver por la mafana Sc
levant6 Ia mercancia, la cual vale al
rededor de $1,000.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-10-02

"8.-Cubrir las vacantes que ocu-
rran, asi entire sus miembros como en-
ell concejo de administration; "Dispo-
niendose'', que este cubrira las vacan
tes que ocurran en- su seno cuando la
Asamblea no estuviere en- session los
efecto hasta que l" asamblea munici-
pal los confrmare hiciere nuevO,
ronbramientos.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20
Third Article.

comrade Lore and the October Events
in GermanY.-comrade Lore and
acknowledgements Lore and the
Communist International.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-01
Indiana and the Presdency-A Washington Correspondents Views

for Taggart and when finally
elected five years ago, made
good Taggart's judgment by
proving an excellent executive.
A year ago he was promoted
to the United States Senate.
Taggart undoubtedly will go
to great lengths to make Raj
ston the presidential nominee.
1t is a question, - however,
whether he has bound himself
to the plans of Boss Murphy
and Boss Brennan, as popular
ly alleged, to play the game
any way necessary to beat Nc
Adoo.
People close to Taggart as
sert he is against McAdoo only
because he is for Ralston. If
Ralston's chances so glimmer-
ing in the convention, they
say, Indiana delegates will not
be committed to some other
candidate as the result of any
trade.
Taggart' IS loyalty to the
party is cited in support of
this and his natural penchant
for picking winners. They
point proudly to the names of
the men he has "sent" to
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Shive-
ly, John w. Kern, Thomas R.
Marshall and Ralston. He will
not aid a weak presidential
candidate, they are sure, lust
to beat McAdoo.
As in other States, the only
outsider name heard in con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-01

out to you by the hour that
he is the illogical selection"
"the man who meets all the
conditions" In this, however,
it is reasonably clear that they
are only following their native
instinct for practical politics,
not conviction that the Ma
ton really needs Ralston.
They talk about his geo
graphical availability, rather
than his craftsmanship; about
his acceptability to all fac
tions, rather than his program
for curing national and inter
national ills. They particu-
larly urge, with a hopeful eye,
the prospect of a deadlock be-
tween the McAdoo and the
anti McAdoo forces.
Ralston, of course, is Tom
Taggart s candidate. He used
to run regularly for Governor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-01

The crimes named are very
much in the HooSier mind be-
cause of twelve indictments
pending in the Marion Coun-
ty Criminal Court against
Governor Warren T. McCray.
McCray, bankrupted in a
stock farming enterprise, with
liabilities of two millions and
assets of about one-tenth that
amount, now has to defend
himself against the criminal
charges listed.
For weeks, long before the
Teapot really exploded, while
it was only simmering, so to
speak, the Republican regu-
lars were fairly respondent.
They admitted they saw no
chance of victory for the State
ticket next fall, but had some
hope for the presidential can
didate. Now many of them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-01

frankly declare Indiana S thlr-
ty electoral votes are gone, I'M
less
Well, unless President Cool
idge>fnds some dramatic way
Of removing the suspicion OF
fraud from the public mind
and the talk of fraud from the
public tongue. They don t see
how he can do it, but if he
does they'll be for him for
ever.
In the optimistic Democratic
camp, the Hoosiers seem set
upon electing Samuel M. Raj
ston President. The former
Governor and present United
States Senator is the only can
didate the political leaders will
talk about. They acclaim him
as another Grover Cleveland,
whom he so much resembles
in appearance, and will point