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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-10
COSE-OUT RUNMACE
 PRICES

A small loe o0 SWV-yox0, sA.1ssr pattern table sloths, blsached and anb''.eh'd' U $2.98 and $3.98 A small lot of ls-inch heavy Pullman hemmsd napkins and unhsmmed mer. ssrixed napkins; worth $l.60 and $1.9s . dozen. To close Sl.Z5 out, do5en ...............
 One lot of eexso plain gray and tan cotton blankets; soilsd @ QQ en edges. Pair ,...........~S''oo One lot of two-yard turksy-red haH- iinsn a table cloths; worth $1,98 4 s'IUu. small i' lot of :1tr. s,.. fin. eolor.d jacquard bath towels, pink and blue; soiled on edges: worth $1.25 7S& and $1.50. Rummage price,. '~f One table of 76c bath towels, in white and colors; also 20x40-inch satin . damask hemstitched soiled S0& towels. Rummage ..........
 One lot of union linen and all-linen soiled guest towels; values 1Q% up to 39c. Rummage, each.... A~f One lot of fine 5A-inch imported Jap s,nts. sn:;. eolG1sd oI;,.% table |. A OFF About 50 Christmas bath sets, pot up in boxes-large eolored towel, guest towel and wash cloth to match; sold for $1.50 and $1.90. &1 m To close out, set .........
 A small lot of embroidered pillow cases in boxesj worth $2.60 and $500 . pair. Rummage e1 0Q VIlCS sssssss
 One lot of hemstitched and lace edge pillow cases; one pair to %1 G0 One lot of $7.B0 soileA Madeira scarfs; A and 72-inch; %S n1 embroidered and scsilepsd. wow
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-20
WATER
BY DR.. Frank Crane
T~ HE gospel of the twentieth century is

t. "xa tSTpSl o. 'nS 'NSn'lS'D century .
You have read many learned trea-
tise, doubtless, including Edmund Demolin's
"Anglo-Saxon Supremacy, to What Is 1t
Due?'1 in which is sought the cause Of the
English race oyerrunning the earth. The
real cause is that the Englishnan has not
been afraid of water. He sails on it, tubs
in it, drinks it, even mixes it literally with
his Scotch whisky.
From the hygienic point of view, there is
no medicine like water. About nine-tenths
of the ills of the flesh can be washed out
People go to Hot Springs in Arkansas, to
Manitou Springs in Colorado, to Carlsbad
and to Vichy and are cured. They praise
the salts in the waters. The truth is the
greatest curative property is in the plain wa
ter that holds the salts They might be
healed at home if they would drink there
| as cOpiously as they do at the spa
The human body is mostly water. When
we die the liquids dried up.
Drink a large glass of water as soon as
you arise in the morning; headache, consti-
patton and physical meanness in general will
disappear.
Get the drink habit Keep a bottle Of
water by your office desk and go to it often
See how much water you can hold. This is
natures remedy for doldrums nerves, pre-
monitions and general depression.
Most of the morbdites anarchists and
crimes come from the unwashed in body or
soul.
The root difference between Russia and
the United States consists not in the con-
trast between their respective forms Of gov
eminent, but in the contract in habits Of
bathing.
You do not need water that costs money,
charged and bottled waters. The liquor that
runs from the tap in your kitchen, that
flows in the mountain brook, that lies in
infinite plenty in the lake, that. comes from
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-20
WHY FASHIONS CHANGE
BY Il. AddingtOn Bruce

y 7 is customary to attribute to commercial
I greed the rapidity with which fashions
in clothing change. For centuries it has
been customary thus to account for it.
AS long ago as Queen Elizabeth's. time we
find this note in the Holinshed Chronicles
''No form of apparel liketh us longer than
the first garment is in the wearing, if it con-
tinues so long and be not laid aside to secure
some new trinket newly devised by the tickle
headed tailOrs."
Yet it should be obvious that no arbiter
of fashion, unless it be a monarch endowed
with power Of life and death, could influence
people to pass from one fashion to another
in the absence of their willingness to adopt
new fashions. The true explanation of the
,changeability of fashions, that is to say,
must be sought in some peculiarly inherent
in human nature itself.
That popularity, modern psychologists are
agreed, is an instructive craving for admira-
ton plus an instructive initiating Of those the
person himself admires. The social psychol-
ogist Charles Plat we'll sums up the matter
when, in his 1.-The Psychology of Social Life, -
he observes:
1.-THE aim of fashion is to dfferentiate the
individual from the masses-from the masses
only, however, for within each small group
custom and convention still hold.
zone wishes to BE distinguished, but one
must still keep within ones group. One
wishes to be as far as possible from the
masses-we want from them only admiration
but within our own group we will do as
the group does.
Limitation, then, operates within certain
limits, but the true psychological basis of
fashion is always the desire to secure ad-
miraton. The spirit of fashion is not inita-
ton, but competition"
Mark, though:
The moment a new fashion appears, that
moment there, sets in among the masses a
tendency to adopt it. Once it secures any
thing like general adoption, it forthwith
loses standing as a distinguishing sign. And
so a new fashion has to be taken UP by those
who would maintain their place as leaders
OF society"
1t so happens, it is worth adding, that of
recent years, as a result of changes in the
distribution of wealth, and still more as a
result of cheapening in the machine produc-
ton Of articles of attire, the masses" have
found it increasingly easy to keep pace with
changes in fashion
As n not surprising consequence fashions
now change more rapidly than ever before.
To have every one dress as they do. is not to
be endured with equanimity by the admira-
tion-devOtees. The mode must at once be
altered.
None can foreteIl what will be the even
tual outcome of this curious contest to COM
mand distinction. 1t is in truth a costly
contest-sc costly as in all likelihood to
compel its gradual slowing down.
Vet it would be foolish to expect that the
time Will come when the leaders" will sur
render and permit a general standardizing OF
clothing. n some degree we shall probably
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-20

Y N a government of the people, by the
people and for the people-the choice
Of our government agents is obliged
to be made by ballot. This ballot privilege
must be hedged around by safeguards
that no fraud or cheating may be allowed
or endured Any manager of cleo
ton who is base enough to miscount or
destroy ballots, or throw out ballot boxes,
should be heavily penalzed, for it is a
crime against the government to thus be-
tray a trust or violate their Oaths to do the
fair and square thing at the polls by mana
gers 1t is the most despicable form of
perjury; nothing will ever excuse such vio-
1atiOn Of law.
1t is we'll understood" in the Southern
States, that many things were condoned
after the Civil War-When ignorant and
easily inflamed negroes were given the bal
lot-while thousands of Confederate Off
Gals were DISTINGUISHED because they had
been sworn officials under Federal laws and
had plunged into secession and what Sc
cession stood for, despite their former allie
glance to the United States government. Aft
er nearly sixty years of experience and COM
mon understanding of the situation follow
ing the Civil War, l feel convinced that
President Lincoln would have been saga
cious and patriotic in dealing with the
franchise Of the negroes in the Southern
States. But the assassin not only killed the
most dependable official in the Federal gov
eminent and this bloody deed not only infu-
rated the people north of Mason and Dix
ons line, but also made the COnfederates
violent in dealing with harmless negroes-in
common with the bad negroes that had been
slaves all their lives, and were filled with
a natural desire for revenge. But for the
preserving mercy" of Almighty God the
Southern States might have been another
San Domingo. Scheming politicians, north
and SOUTH saw their opportunity and seized
it and they ''set the woods afire'--to cap
ture all the offices, state and national, To-
cal and federal.
Ballot boxes in the South were ruthless
1y manhandled-and decent people sub
mitted to this outrageous conduct in and
around the polls because of the cry for
white supremacy.
A secret order-political in the main
was organized in Southern States The
oath was drastic, with a penalty of death
for betrayal at the hands Of the brethren.
tt at it's peak in 1868 and 1872.
It's control of ballot boxes was diabolic,
so far as honest elections were concerned.
A cousin of mine, who was born and raised
in Houston County, Georgia, gave me a
full understanding of the way they did it,
The blacks outnumbered the whites five to
one. In Perry, the county seat, there was
a Republican postmaster He was notified
he would be named as one of the two
election managers. He was so named and
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-20
THE COUNTRY HOME
ny MRS w II Eft TON

two ballot boxes were placed in the court
house-the postmaster to receive the Re-
publican ballots. Before day dawned~ on
election morning a gang of disguised men
called him out of bed and told him he must
resign the managers place or be Ku KluXed
out of Georgia He resigned. Then they
5000, if he would take in the ballots Gas
formerly proposed) - land he must do it,
or be dealt with "by the brethren" )-and
he held the election at this prepared bal
lot box. That night when the vote of the
aged was thrown out because the mana3er
had resigned" This habit strengthened
with it's gth-until in 1878 a Con-
lots in Crawford County, that were counted
as voted in election precincts, where no
such election had been held. Eth!
Ask Colonel Reuben Arnold, still living
in Atlanta, to tell you how it happened!
Thus the secret order dictated the office
holders in Georgia-and as facts go to
show, many primary elections were farcical
and manhandled, where decent people SUB
mitted because it might raise sectional
row in Congress.
To stuff ballot boxes or count off bal
lots taken from ballot boxes before the
county vote is consolidated may be only an
election joke, so-called but wherever it is
performed by white men against equally
white candidates, there is dynamite about
and danger in sight. In the county l live
in the Australian ballot was brazenly
omitted last week-in open disregard of the
law of Georgia.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-20
Why Is 1t Called 'Profiteer;ng9'

NDER the present administration the
Washington government collects from
the people some three billion dollars
a year for legitimate expenses, Including in
terest on the public debt, and more than
six billion year, through the Fordney-
McCumber tariff, for the benefit of special
interests. The American family pays, in
the average, one hundred and fifty dollars
toward support of the government, but this
sum is taken in such a form as to involve
the payment of an additional three hun
dred dollars to the tariff-favored groups.
These facts are brought out by AIveron
Union in a notable pamphlet entitled, 'The
High Republican Tariff" The author has
given years of study to the broader bear
ings of the subject, and has gathered the
data for his present treatment directly from
official sources. Concerning these there will
be no dispute, we take it, since the statistics
are vouched for by the Republican admin
istration itself. However much conclusion
may be debated, there is no disputng facts
The protection" which is afforded one
hundred and two beneficiaries of the tariff
amounts in the course of a. twelve-month to
six billion, two hundred and seventy million
eight hundred and ninety-five thousand dol
lars That is about two billion, three hun
drsd and thirty-four million dollars in ex-
cess Of theswages which these industries pay
their employees Yet, we were solemnly as
sured that the high import duties of the
Observation-Disclosures Act were necessary to
protect Americas workingmen against COM
petition by the pauper labor of Europe. con
finished products covered by all but two of
the fourteen schedules (of that Act)," we
are told, 1.-THE people of the United States
pay annually through the tariff six billion
five hundred and four million, eight hundred
and forty-one thousand dollars, while but
two hundred and thirty-three million, nine
hundred and forty-six thousand of this total
goes into the treasury for the maintenance
of the government. Duties raw ma
terials and partly manufactured articles
more than double the sum stated as reve-
nue."
These figures so far to explain, for any
one who may still be in doubt (if such
there can be-, the meaning of the phrase
"profiteering tariff" And upon this tariff,
be it remembered, the Republican admin
istration asks Endorsement of the people!
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-20
QUIZ

Any Tri-Weel1ly Journal reader can
get the answer to any question pulling
him by writing to The, Atlanta Journal
Information Bureau, Frederic j. Has
kin, director, Washington, d. c., and
incIosing two-cent stamp for return
postage. DO NOT SEND IT TO OUR
ATLANTA OFFICE.
Q. What is dry-cuppng? H. L. w.
A. Dry-cuppng is performed by taking a
tumbler, dropping into it a piece of some
thing that is burning, and c1apping the tum-
bier on to the skin of the affected portion of
the body. Burning the body is avoided by
cIapping the tumbler on upwards instead of
downwards. The air inside the tumber is
largely exhausted by the fire and the air
pressure reduced. The atmospheric pressure
on the body outside the rim of the tumbler
remains constant The result is as if pow
erful suction had been applied to that flesh
covered by the tumbler
Q. Is asbestos mined? S. r. T.
A. The United States geological survey
states that some aspestos is mined and some
is quarried. The asbestos of Canada is near
the surface and is quarried. That of Ari-
IONA is in a pith formation and it is neces-
sary to drive tunnels to mine it. 1t runs in
both veins and blanket formation. When
ASBESTOS is nlnGQ OF QuafrleQ II IS ike rock
and is miIled into loose fbers.
O. What kind of dog is the schipperke?
o. P NJ
A. The schipperke dog got his name from
being SO frequently seen on canal barges of
Belgium where he makes a good ''watch''
and is used oftentimes as an exterminator
of rats. Doubtless this breed is in some
ways related to the ''woIf spitz' of Central
| Europe. He is covered with glossy, straight.
black hair and the whole of his neck and
, breast is covered with an erect friu of
longer hair
O. How long does fly live? A. r. W.
A. The Pasteur Institute has made ex-
periments that reveal the fact that the Ions
est life Of a fly is about So days. 1t takes
three generations to span the winter months,
land some form of meat or animal food is
necessary. since flies feeding on sugar alone
never lay eggs.
Q. What makes some lettuce taste bitter?
/ W. T. c.
A. The Department. of Agriculture says
that the bitter taste in lettuce is found only
in lettuce grown out of season.. 1t is caused
by cheical action resulting from Ions expos
ure to the sun. 1t is not harmful to the
health.
Q. Why are naval stores so called? J. T. \
\. The origin Of the term naval stores
which commercially is applied to the great
turpentine and rosin industry of the south
ern United States is uncertain. but it is
probable that it is derived from the fact that
these and other materials broadly included
in this designation were at one time chiefly
/ used by shining The Forest Service SAYS
that the term naval stores" in oIden times
referred to pitch alone which was carried on
the old shipping vessels for use in calkine
+ the seams Of the boat. This term now in
cludes tar, torpentine ditch, rosin, etc.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-20
How the League HELPS Cotton

HoO the League HELPS Cotton
r. IFTY-THREE per cent of our CONNER
+ cial cotton crop for the last season is
estimated to have gone to foreign spin
dies. This strikes the Memphis Commercial
Appeal as good ground on which to support
the League of Nations. For, as our contem-
porary well reasons, eve can not have salts
factory foreign trade unless we have foreign
peace We thought that through the League
this peace might the better be secured; and
we see proof in recent transactions. When
the United States (unofficiaIly) took part in
the dispute between France and Germany,
the road was opened towards an understand
ing Mainly through Americans differences
were ironed out. If we can secure an I'M
derstanding between France and Germany
and get things in Germany on a sound basis,
the little nations of Europe also will stop
stewing around. There will follow a quick
ening demand for American raw materials
and for some American products. In the re-
Mobilization of Europe, cotton WILDE largely
in demand"
The United States as a government has
been at pains to hold aloof from the organ
lied endeavor for world peace, during the
last three and a half years. To the great
counselings for that high purpose, it has sent
only unofficial observers" and has reiter-
ated through Republican dignitaries that it
will have nothing to do with the League
Thanks, however, to individual Americans
and to enlightened public sentiment, our ma
ton has contributed notably to the advance
ment of the, great cause for which the
League was instituted. That the result
should now be felt throug& many channels
of material betterment is but natural. But
how much larger Will be the benefits when
America takes her rightful place in the plan
for international co-working for the common
good, as undoubtedly she Will
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-20
THE DESTRUCTION BY RATS

VIZ HEN we recollect that rats are
w thckly scattered all over this
country, and always plentiful
where grain is garnered, and that rats
will hide in bed clothing and all sorts
of piled up domestic fabrics in summer, we
can understand what rat can do If 1t is
not disturbed and has the run of the prem
ises The smell of bacon and grain will
induce them to gnaw through wood and find
an entrance. They are brisk also If the
loss by rats could be accurately counted up
in figures, I presume we would say they
are the most pernicious destroyers on farms
and in warehouses that this country knows
-orsever will experience except war. There
are ways to kill them, but you must keep
at it, Eternal vigilance is the price Of
freedom from rats.
And they put a smell on the stuff they
handle or paw over, that never departs.
They are ravenous. They are slick thieves.
I presume there is purpose they are really
made for, but I am too dull to compre-
bend what rats are good for. Won't some
body write the Country Home and tell us
what rats were made for?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-20
MOVIE MAD
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
What has gone befOre.-Gloria King
goes to Hollywood with the idea of
making good in the movies. She be-
comes hardened by the life and marries
Rolf Templeton, the great screen star,
man she despises. but one who can
further her career. Later she leaves h1ns
and it is then that she makes COOS
through talent alone By this time, how
ever, she has become spoiled, and
plunges into a life of false gayety. Just
as she makes plans to free herself from
Rolf he is seized with pneumonia. In
his delirium he raves of his love for her,
and Gloria discovers that she, too,
cares. The crisis passed, however, Rolf
remembers nothing of what he has said,
and Gloria returns to her own bungalow
without letting him know that she has
been with him during his illness. Vera
Vamp, believing that things are break
ing up between Gloria and Rolf, de-
cides to try and get him for herself.
Inadvertently she blurts out the fact
that Gloria left him only after the crisis
was passed.-NOw go on with the story.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-20

oE an alimony suit which was decided against
him forty years ago; a Republican in West
Virginia, brooding over the fact that neigh
Dor had christened his newborn John
Davis" retorted by naming his twins Hell
and Maria" an old woman, once wealthy
but penntless at last died in a Kansas City
basement after nearly thirty years of loyal
effort in behalf of her four sons, "aIl of
whom were criminals and desperadoes;" that
a Minnesota married pair started upon a
motor trip of thirty-fve hundred miles in a
discarded automobile hearse, after changing
it's curtains and fitting it up as living quar-
ters; that General Clusters war horse, Co
manche," which stands stuffed in the mu-
scum of the University of Kansas, "has had
seven taoiIs since its death, because souvenir
hunters have robbed it, HAIR at time, all
thinking that they were getting a strand of
the original tail"
Many sad and humorous word in one
has been spoken of human life, but none
apter than Robin Good Fellows, Lord, what
fools these mortaIs be-"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-20
SEEDS ALIVE AFTER II YEARS
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irving S. Cobb

by IIYulS .. COUU
An Fastener of sporting prOcllyltles was
spending his vacation up in the Northern
Peninsula of Michigan. There he met a
native of the wilds who was neither a guide
nor a woodsman, but who seemed merely
to be an onlooker at what went on about
him. 1t would appear, further, that he had
neither vices nor habits.N So far as might
be judged, he didn't even have any pursuits,
outdoor or indoor, that he followed.
Filled with interest over having encoun-
tered so unusual a human phenomenon, the
Fastener proceeded to ply the resident with
questions.
Don't you ever fish,"
Nope"
''Nor hunt?"
"Nope."
ever run around with the ladies?"
Never have yet"
You don't play poker, either, do you?"
Nope"
Ever go in for golf, by any chance?"
Don't know what it is"
81 suppose not. Well, how about taking
a drink once in a while?"
Not for me-"
Possibly you've heard that there is such
thing as horse racing? Did you ever bet
any money on the ponies?"
"No. sir"
well then" said the baffled stranger,
I'm coming now to the main question: In
the winter-time. when everybody in this part
of the country is frozen in, what the hell do
you lie about?"
Copyright, 1920
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-20
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY

A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
He that pIanteth the ear, shall He not
hear9 He that formed the eye, shall He
not see? He that chasteneth the heather,
shall not He correct9 He that teacheth
knowledge, shall He not know? The Lord
knoweth the thoughts of man that they are
PANTY. Blessed is the man Whom Thou
chasteneSt, O Lord, and teachest him out
of thy lam; that Thou mayest gipe him
rest from the days of adpersity, until the
pit be digged for the wicked. For the
Lord nil not cast off his people, neither
mill He forsake His INTERCHANGEABLE
Ninety-Fourth Psalm 9:f4
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All IN a Day S Net0s
READER with an eye for tho

READER with an eve for those b
~ zarre episodes that haunt our work
Aday world, scanned the news OF the
day closely and found that
A youth slew an aged hermit, thinllinS
mistakenly that the latter had accused him
or stealing chickens; a girl passed hundreds
OF dollars of worthless checks in Los An
gales because she hated the town." a young
couple IN Minneapolis nineteen and seven
teen years, thrust their en-day-old infant
into unknown hands, and forsook it because.
sit .was the baby or the automobile, we
couldn't take care of both" graybeard was
discovered in offices of the Indiana supreme
court poring. <lay after day, over the record