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A HINT TO STUDENTS
BY II. AddlngtOn Bruce

\ SHORT time ago there was graduated
~ from the Municipal University of Ak
ron Ohio, student named Naugle
His instructors are not likely soon to- forget
young Mr.. Naugle, and it may pretty safely
be predicted that he will accomplish much in
years to come.
Naugle, like many another before him.
had to earn livelihood while he studied for
his university degree. The usual procedure
in this circumstance is to find some work
THAT will make a comparatively light demand
on ones time
But Naugle elected to do fuli-time work,
obtained eight-hour-day job in rubber
factory. And he proved himself so efficient
worker as to win place in the factory S
flying squadron composed Of employees
showing all-around ability for the various
factory tasks.
Nor did his university work suffer while
he thus forged ahead in the rubber plant.
Graduation day found Naugle one OF four
honor students among the sixty-four mem
bers of the graduation class
Which can only mean, it may be thought
that he possessed in exceptional measure
both mental capacity and physical robust
ness Naugle himself proffers somewhat
different explanation. He is quoted as say
ing:
ing labor with study l attributed to regular
habits of living.
ITO begin with, 1 saw to it that my sleep
came in regular amounts and at rn"">ar IN
tervals. During the first three years | slept
six hours each night. In my senior year |
was able to get seven hours of sleep
Il won the extra hour by learning to cut
down, through greater concentration, the
amount of time required for studying. | re-
served Saturday afternoons and SUNDAYS for
my recreation. Nothing was allowed to in
terfere with these periods of relaxation.
"Successful study have found to be a
matter of intensive concentration and rigid
schedule. Too many students dawdle away
the greater part of their time"
Too many, for that matter. dawd1n away
time even when they think they are study
ing more jealousy than the average of their
classmates. To pore over ones books a GER
tain length OF time daily is not necessarily
10 study effectively.
Everything depends on the de9raA Of con
centration. If concentration is weak extra
neouS ideas of all sorts will come fitting into
the mind to constitute dawdling truly as
though one sat idly dreaming without book
before one.
And how to increase concentration power?
By cultivating greater interest in whatever
one has to do.
Young Mr.. Naugle could never have
achieved his dual success as student and rub
Der worker, had he not been intensely inter
ested in both his studies and his work No
matter how able and robust he may have
been by nature, boredom and WEAKNESS
would have overwhelmed him had interest
been lacking
That may unhesitatingly be affirmed in
the light of present-day psychological knowl-
edge of the part interest plays as a developer
of power and a preventive Of fatigue.
Copyright, 1920 =
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-09
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY

The righteousness of the righteous shall
not deliper him in the day of his trans
erosion; as for the wickednesS Of the
Wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day
that he turneth from his wickednesS;
neither shall the righteous be able to live
for his righteousness in the day that he
sinneth. When the righteous turn2h from
his righteousness and Committeth iniquity,
he shall even die thereby. But i the
wicked turn from his wickedneSs and dc
that which is LAWFUL and right, he shall
Hpe thereby Yet, ye say the nay Of the
Lord is not equal-Ezekiel 1912, 1920.
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DEATH
BY DR.. Frank Crane

1NHERE is something fascinating. blind
ing in the thought of death.
We call the monks of old morbid
VINO We're obsessed by it, wrote "Remember
Death! upon their cell walls, and had skulls
among their daily furniture and. perhaps,
tney were morbid and, perhaps the idea of
oeath IS too strong a liquor for use in the
morning; but, for all that, there is something
III death that makes men great. unseals the
wells OF poetry, and smells Of eternal youth.
HOW was 1t that Wagner could find no fit
climax for the mighty loves of Tristan and
Isolde except in death? Why do the MUIR
ders OF Socrates. Joan of Are and Lincoln
place these personalities among the constel-
latons of our esteem? Why is there nothing
SO apotheoslzing a man can do as to die d?
and why does the death of Iesns lift His
NE ana teachings into such thunderous
power and authority?
Every least act of living We perform oets
It's pathos and beauty from the sea of death
mat flows around it. The kiss is sweetest
that may be the last The parting is made
tender by the ever-lurking possibility that it
may be forever!
unexpectedly writes Alexander Smith,
'thlS idea of death turks in the sweetest
music it has something to do with the pleas.
ures with which We behold the vapors OF
morning; it comes between the passionate
lips of lovers: it lives in the thrill of kisses !"
ray Of death makes the most common
pace tHIng shlhe. A photograph of the liv-
ing is nothing but Of the dead how strangely
interesting. An old shoe glove. hat i,
1t belong to one of the silent forever. takes
on new significance
An ordinary merrymaking may be vulgar,
even offensive. but becomes at once tragic
and sublime when
As If beckoned by an unseen hand
The man whose laugh is loudest in his Guns
Rises with a wild face. and goes away
From mirth into a shroud, without a word
All about life play the electric beams Of
death. All around the actual is the halo of
the infinite mystery.
1t is folly TO laugh at death or to DEFY 1t.
It is coWardly to evade it. II is sickly and
mistaken 10 be depressed by it. But to be
ever subtly conscious Of it. and TO draw from
that consciousness a feeling of awe. of dig.
nifty, and Of infinite beauty that is wisdom.
tCopyrisht, 1920
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-09

Q. Is the key to the Bastile really in the
United States? L. S.
A. The key to the Castle OF Bastile in
Paris is at Mount Vernon. 1t was presented
to George Washington by Lafayette.
O. How does the number of miles Of rail
road compare with the number of people in
the United States? D. C..
A. In 1880 there were 10 miles Of railroad
with a ratio to the population of / mile of
railway to 321,317 people. The ratio for
1922 was 1 mile to 400 people. At present
there are approximately 265,000 miles Of
railroad in the United States, or two-fifths
Of the total of the railroads of the entire
world.
@. OF all the American soldiers who went
overseas, how many were actually engaged in
battle? w. A. D.
a. Two Oat of every three American SOL
diers who reached France went to the battle
sectors. Those who saw foreign service were
2,084, 1000. and Of these 1 100000 saw active
service a the front
Q. When were nails first used? NJ NJ. l..
A. There is date in history fixing the
first use OF nails. Up to a century ago they
were still exclusively handmade, and even
as late as 1850 it was a general custom in
this country for the nail maker with his forge
and anvil to come with the carpenter to make
the nails needed in the erection of building.
The first Matchmaking machinery originated
in Massachusetts in 1910 TO make cut nails
from steel or iron plates. The of cut
nails is now greatly reduced bv the introduce
ton Of machinery and wire nails. which came
into the United States from Germany in
1875. It was discovered shortly after their
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MY FAVORITE STORIES
BY Irwin Cobb

ny IFlH OODU
A spry looking coored youth entered a
drug store at Forty-fourth street and Sixth
avenue the other day. and, dropping a coin
into the slot of the pay telephone. asked
Central for certain number. When con-
nections had been made, persons near the
booth heard him saying this:
rs dat Mizz Hepery Pearce speakin'?
Well, Mizz Pearce, did you want to hire a
smart coIored boy fur a handy man around
yore flat? Nam? You say you already is
got a boy wu'kkin' fur you? Is dat so?
Wellum, is YOU satisfied wild him? Den you
amt thinkin' bout mekkin' change? OATS
ALL ma'am."
He put the receiver on the hooks and
emerged from the booth. The head clerk.
who had been one of the ear-witnesses to his
remarks. hailed him:
IF you're looking for place you needn't
go any further. Don't you see that sign
there in the window saying, 'Colored Help
Wanted?'
Il amt lookin' fur no place" said the
youth. 4 already is got good job-been
wukkin' at it goin on two weeks now"
Il don't understand" said the puzzled
clerk. why were you calling up that
lady?"
"Oh, dat's de lady wu'ks fur, was jest
checkin' UP on myself
copyright, 1920
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-09

last Christmas this old lady came to town
and got her gun and some shells SO II
there any disturbance around their
home this time We have not heard of it,
Some parties were telling us the other
day about man in this county who used
to carry his liquor in a big walking stick
made from a cane prepared for the purpose,
which held something like a pint or more,
which was filled and carried when he wen,
from home, even to church, and when they
got ready to sing he would go out in the
woods or some other private place and tune
up his voice by taking few swallows. This
he did for years, until his trick was caught
on to. This could not be done now be-
cause the liquor is so strong and mean tina,
it would soon have his stick full of holes
causing the owner to be arrested and pun
1shed for violating the so-called dry law.
The people are growing worse instead of
better, Notwithstanding large sums are spen.
IN scattering the gospel by the most learned
preachers that can be procured. The great
increased expense in law and gospel does
not check crime now. Think of the recenl
murder and burning OF the wo1nan and her
seven-year-Old child in Jackson county You
didn't used to hear of any such crimes be-
ing committed in any civilized country The
trouble is nowadays, when a crime is COM
mltted and the perpetrator is caught and
jailed the preachers go and pray and tain
and try to make it appear that in case they
go the hemp route Abraham is ready with
open arms to receive them While the law
yers employed are spending time both day
and night in trying to find technical points
IN law to prolong justice, at the expense of
taxpayers. And if they see that they are
about to fail in this way will make an effort
to get their client in the state asylum and
cared for at the expense of the state. 1t is
such as this that causes more crime and
higher taxes. While the negro who steals a
chlcken gets no sympathy, prayers, pro-
longed trials or pardons he must suffer
the penalty in the gang by doing hard work
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-09
THE LOVE TRAP
HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

What has gone before.-After two
years engagement, Gail Martin is Tilted
by her fiance, George Hartley. Shortly
about her has become unbearable, Calls
Aunt Debbie dies and leaves her niece
$4,000. Gail decides to take the money
and leave town. She goes to New York,
determined to broaden her life by
meeting city people. But at her first
dinner party she is disillusioned be-
cause she does not come up to the
standards of the younger set.-Now go
on with the story.
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THE. ArL,NTA TRI-wEEKLY JOURNAL

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oil. Later, when the Senate Public Lands
committee undertook the examination of
this tract, 1.-TWO expert biologists" declared
that the oil was already flowing away from
it to other holdings, and that the amount
remaining might be conservatively estimated
at from 100000 to 100000 barrels.
Previous to this, Secretary Franklin D.
Lane had gone on record in the case of
the other two naval reserve oil tracts Gin
California; in a public statement, that
within twenty years no oil would be found
in them, and that it would have passed out
to the market through privately owned
wells. In all three cases there seems to
have been ample expert testimony to
justify the sale of the reserves. Such
was the situation when, in 1922, all three
of the naval reserve tracts were leased to
Sinclair and the Pan-American Petroleum
OF the Interior Department, and Secretary
DENLY, of the Navy.
II there has been fraud in this transac-
ton, and the public will always incline to
the opinion that there has, it may have
been accomplished through an extensive
campaign with procured expert testimony.
Expert testimony is just as much a COM
modify in the market oil. That the cam
paign was made with the active cooperation
of Secretary Fall seems ALMOST proved. Men
are not paid enormous sums Of money with
no expectation of service in return, espe-
cial1y where they are in responsible posi-
tions, and the service desired relates to
matters in their control. Secretary DENLY
stands on other footing. His defense, if
he should be called on to make one, will
relate to the various reports preceding the
leases, and to the attitude of the Harding
cabinet, which, it appears favored the
leases, but he would, of course, invoke the
terms of the leases as evidence that honest
efforts were made to protect the govern
ment and serve the needs of the navy. With
choice of payment in cash or in kind, he
chose TO take royalty III feLlned OH, 10
be stored in reservoirs that were to become
the property of the government. In brief,
the plan chosen was one that carried out,
as far as possible, the intention Of the gov
eminent when the lands went into the re-
serve; it provided a reserve of oil for the
American fighting ships and provided
against a repetition of errors during the
war which forced us into Mexico for fuel
If this is fair view of the oil scandal
it will be seen that the Of the prosecu-
ton would have been stronger had the at
tack been limited to Secretary Fall. DENLY
is a very different type Of man, but, driven
to defend himself, he must in a measure
justify Fall, and certainly must he defend
the reasonableness Of the lease itself. If
the government is to be paid fair price
for it's oil in royalties, estimates as to the
quantity left in the reserve tracts will have
no bearing on the case. The greater the
underestimate the better for the govern
ment. And then, too, there is still lot of
expert testimony to be invoked.
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THE COUNTRY HOME
Ply MpC Ell ION

TN the Wilkes County Farm there is a
very Illuminating statement, furnished by
~ the editor, who is also member of the
Georgia Legislature, concerning the work of
lobbyists before the Georgia Legislature
This editorial was printed on January 20,
1924:
"These lobbyists not only throng the cor
ridors, but push into the halls of the Gen
eral Assembly,"
Lobbying is pronounced a crime by the
| code of Georgia. criminal statute of the
State.
1t was passed at time when the legis-
lature was, in a manner, overrun by these
lobbyists-hired with money to influence
legislation. Like the Eighteenth Amend
ment, it is apparently disre9arded by the au-
thorities who are expected to enforce these
statutes, and which are too ignorant, or
too inefficient, or too venal 10 execute the
provisions of the law
Editor ficklin is aware that candidates
for high office i'll the legislature must make
deals with other candidates who are conf
dent of election-befOre the primaries have
acted-and before the voters cast their bal
lots in the November election. Early pri-
maries are getting to be very dstasteful to
people who are thus deprived of their choice
i'll representatives and senators. "Parlia-
mentary courtesy" has the middle of the
road. The conduct of the legislature in the
two sessions of 1928 will long be remem-
bered as the limit-and it also should be
the limit for the patience and forbearance
of the taxpayers. Except. the authorization
of two big, new offices-there was nothing
doing. 1t was so full of politics, to eventu-
ate in the elections of 1924, that the Senate
would not allow a bin passed twice by the
House to be discussed in the Senate
According to Editor Ficklins illumi-
mating editorial, two men, one Il senator the
other a representative, both elected to fur
Their the repeal, We're instrumental in keep
ing Senate from dlspOSlng of it, and it is
manifest that they were aiding the eXecu-
tive to do the same thing, namely, keep
down the House bill, until tn session ad-
journed
These statements plain unvarnished
and without any ooncealment.
1t now appears that the Senate Is the
body which controls the final action of all
members of the general assembly.
If such methods are to be submitted to-
why not have only a Senate to rule the
State? Or to be more emphatic, why not
abolish the Senate?
During the session of the Constitutional
convention in 1877 such a plea was urged
by some OF the most prominent people in
Georgia The bare-faced action of the Sem
ate in blocking the repeal of the Tax Equal
llZatlon bill was more than preposterous
GREAT WEALTH-THE MANIFEST
CURSE TO IT'S OWNERS
a FULLY reported court trial-before
~ the Federal judge in the city of At
lanta-is giving the painful story of
woman who desired to marry rich man,
and who could only marry him in legal
manner, by divorcing her husband with a
residence in Reno and plenty of cash to pa,
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The Battle of TEAPOT Dome

"HERE are two phases of the sudden
furry over the Teapot Dome leases,
one of them having for it's basis the
weakness of trusted high official whose
reputation has been destroyed beyond
chance of redemption; the other po-
litical This is the part which in
wolves Secretary of the Navy DENLY. The
attack on DENLY comes chiefly from Hiram
Johnson headquarters, and doubtless the
opportunity was eagerly welcomed, for
Hirams campaign had suffered greatly for
want Of issue. DENLY was shining
mark and already he has been tried, con-
But DENLY is not dead, nor has he re-
signed He is not built that way. If he
were he would not be fit to serve as the
head of the navy, on general principles.
DENLY is fighter, and the people like him.
The worst that has been charged against
him is that he did not properly safeguard
is going to be the issue.
The fact that Fall took money from the
people who leased the Teapot Dome reser-
walton from the government through the
agency of the navy, has no bearing on the
action of the Secretary of the navy in sign
ing over the leases; no one as yet pretends
show that there were good reasons for SELL
ing the reservation and that he secured
fair price for it. Its effect is matter of
surmise only at this time.
Teapot Dome gets its name from the
shape of the oil reservoir deep down below
the surface Of the EARTH and has nothing
to do with the exposed contour of the earth
outside. The oil is in porus rock and held
there by an 1mpervious formation, or one
that was supposed to be so when the gov
srnment withdrew this tract from the mar
ket. biologists say that the enormous pres
sure on such a deposit of oil will eventually
drive 1t through any fault in its environ
ment' however small, and If an opening
occurs anywhere in its neighborhood, the
movement to that opening is immediate
Thus it is that a whole oil district NAV no
robbed of its oil by wells just outside if
and In perfectly legal way, for, in the
nature of the case there cannot be set IN
any contra proof that would be admitted in
court.
But while a Judge ana Jury may not be
convinced in possible damage suit, experts
may convince the government officials, even
those honestly seeking to discharge their
duty to the people, that, where the govern
ment owns an oil tract and wells are being
multiplied just outside of it, the sane thing
i to do is to realize on it as quickly as pos
sibe. The rest is question of getting
the best terms
= Three tracts OF oil lands were withdrawn
from public use by Presidents Taft and
Wilson in 1912 and 1915. The Teapot
Dome district of about 5000 acres was the
last, AT that time the Bureau of Mines esti-
mated that in this tract were available from
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The man who was smoking

The man who was smoking a bad cigar
ignored the protests of the other passengers.
At the next stop one of the fainting pas
sengers called the guard and informed him
that the cigar smoker travelling first
class with a thirdclass ticket.
The guard having turned out the offender,
the other passengers asked the strategist
how he knew that the cigar smoker was a
third-class ticket holder.
His ticket was the same color as my
own was tn reply.
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Before Christmas thirteen young men anc
married men of Benton, Tenn, were arrest
ed gambling in a country church, yet we
are told that we must contribute money to
learn heathens the road to heaven.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-09

We see where the price of bird dogs ha
advanced in places to $35. We do not hun
and this won't affect us.
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We have worked in the office every holi
day; and found 1T both profitable anc
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We know Of one girl who plowed all las
summer and helped to make crop.
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Fixit, who will quick
ly and cheerfully see
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A gentleman told the other day that
he was little superstitious and paid no
bills on the first day of the year Some peo~
pie are superstitious the whole year and
never pay.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-09

Mr.. M. G. Chester, of this county, is a
large, fleshy man, and to look at him you
wouldn't think he could do much on a farm
Dut ne is hustler. This year he made five
hundred bushels of corn, sixty bushels each
Of Irish and sweet potatoes and sold $137
worth of cabbage.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-09

The days are growing longer, but there
is no change in life. 1t gets shorter
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-09

A very good mule was sold here the other
day by the Sheriff for fifteen dollars Mules
do not sell as cheap no where in this county
except in front of the courthouse door.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-09

When persons are losing time and spend
ing money very often the railroads are the
only beneficiares, and the parties die with
old age about like they come into the world.
with nothing.
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TIME new year opened up and we die
not owe a single cent to no one and
have ten fifteen cents left.
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