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MY FAVORITE STORY
BY IRWIN S. COBB

In the middle of the season the street
carnival came to grief and the performers
found themselves stranded far from home in
a middle-western town, The strong man of
the main sideshow set out to find for him
self local job
His first opening came from a man who.
IN the absence of the owner. was running a
riVer-tront saloon-this was in the pre-Vol-
sted days-and who did not feel equal to the
task of maintaining etiquette when the roust-
about trade was brisk. He offered the Hercu-
les temporary position as official chuckar-
outs
The proprietor returned in due time and
unannounced His substitute was not on
watch when he returned but the strong man
was, and MIN the owner addressed for infor,
nation. What was his mission in life. with
particular regard to being in a saloon bare
headed?
IN show YOU" returned the mighty one.
DO you see that big guy asleep yonder be-
hind the stove? Just watch me-"
He walked over and plucked the sleeper
from his chair as he might pick violet in
the dell. With one hand he held his captive
in front and with the other hand he opened
the front door for exit that opened out
in the middle of the street
The strong man turned to the landlord
How do YOU like my work." he asked
with professional pride. He wasn't even
breathing hard.
Great" said the owner Your form and
technique are both perfect What do you set
a week?'
Twenty dollars week, which I don't think
is enough"
Neither do l." agreed the proprietor. Still
in the present state of business in this cs-
adjustment | don't need a bouucer 10 Throw
EN- out. But | tell you what III do-I'U
give YOU twenty five wee! TO stand outside
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THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. II. FELTON,

officeholder, it puzzles me- but the time is
coming when a choice will be made---openly
or secretly-and while La Toilette expects
to carry twenty-five of the forty-eigbt states.
who will be able to locate those states until
the ides of November and the count com
pleted?
Hon. John w. Davis, a splendid gentle
man, was not nominated until Hon. Mr. La
Toilette had accepted the nomination of the
Independents. The prolonged struggle in the
New York convention may have had much
to do with the selection of Davis. who is
manifestly strong in the East, while La
Toilette is weak, ETC., and vice versa.
1t was definitely stated that Hon. c. B.
Bryan, the Democratic Vice Presidential nom
inee, would be acceptable also to La Toilette
as his Vice President selection, but this did
not materialize. Senator Wheeler Demo-
crat, OF Montana, who active in the
aforesaid La Toilette bloc, has abandoned
the Democratic party and joined forces with
La Follette's party.
Such an alliance will bear fruit in the
West, but will it bear fruit in the Southern
states, particularly in South Carolina Ala
bama, Louisiana and Arkansas?
This triangular campaign will doubtless
draw from the states west of the Mississippi
river, from both Republican and Democratic
parties, but do we realize that the Senatorial
farm bloc has four Southern Democratic Sen
ators, who were equally active?
AS unmarked in the beginning the real
campaign will center around the personnel
of the candidates. If the labor people fol-
low La Toilette in the West, it is reasonable
to consider what the Labor Unions all over
the South will do. To one as old as myself
and familiar as I have been with Presi-
Dental candidates since the Harrison-Tyler
campaign in 1910 Gas much as child of 5
years can remember -eighty-four years ago.
[ can only ask Gods protecting merces for
the plain people of this Republic which is
yet youthful nation compared to the Old
World system. Perhaps it would be we'll to
take this matter to the Lord in prayer and
ask His guidance,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-24
CHARACTER IN POLITICS

No matter how parties divide on national
issues, differ at pressing necessities that
government may demand, there must be con-
fidence in candidates, or there will be de-
feats and disappointments as a result.
Party platforms endorsed by national con-
ventOns are printed and acclaimed by po-
litical candidates; nevertheless they are
studied by very few of the common people.
But the reputation and general report con-
corning the candidates, as to intelligence and
patriotism, are always listened to and re-
membered. Party resolutions are soon for
gotten. Popular leaders fill the imagination
and impress the voters, who are deciding as
to their own ballots on election day.
There are three candidates in the field
for the White House-one to be elected in
November, 1924, President Coolidge the
first to be nominated, is recognized as a
good citizen, a good father and husband,
and nominated by the almost unanimous
vote of the Republican convention as a safe
conservative leader for his party.
Senator La Toilette, former Republican,
was next nominated, and he is recognized as
good family man and of good moral char
acter. His alliance with four other promi-
nent Republicans in Washington City-all
Senators-and with four Southern men,
elected as DemOcrats-one from South Car
DINA, one in Alabama, another in Louisiana
and another in Arkansas--comprsed the
"bloc" (Which made a steady drive for the
'balance of power'D must necessarily ap-
pear in the llmel1ght IL Senator La Toilette
makes any great Roadway in his Independent
campaign.
The Bible tells us no man can serve two
masters. He will serve and forget the
ether, or he will love one and hate the
other. AS the Southern contingent of the
bloc were all elected as Democrats, it is a
question as to what these Southern men are
going to do for the La Toilette group in
the approaching election. If La Toilette was
good enough Gin the green tree" what will
he be in the dry, at their homes in their
own states? Being only woman and no
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and a proportional number of churches the
State is assuredly entitled to be called ode
veloped" But when we note further that
only about ten million of her thirty four
million acres of arabic soil are yet under
cultivation, that the development of her
great water power and mineral resources has
barely begun, and that with an area about
equal to that of England and Wales, she has
hardly one-twelfth of their population, it is
evident that Georgia's greatest growth lies
futureward and that notwithstanding her
nearly two hundred years of history she still
teens with the opportunities of the frontier
Commissioner Brown is right: Coming
generations will never witness a duplication
of the prices at which good farming lands
now can be purchased in Georgia" Many
rich estates have been upbuilt in the last
forty or fifty years by men who were far
sighted enough to buy liberal acreages be-
tween our mountains and tides; but the
goodliest fortunes yet to be made. Those
who put faith in Georgia today will be WON
derfully justified tomorrow, for she offers
them the rewards of trail-blazers amid the
advantages of civilization.
To all having eyes for such opportunities
the new publication of the State Department
of Agriculture will prove keenly interesting.
We commend it to the attention of home
seekers and investors throughout America,
particularly to those who wish part and lot
with progressive and hospitable people.
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BALANCE
BY DR.. Frank Crane

TN HE ancient teachers and cosmogra pliers
of the East taught that the earth rest
ed upon the back of huge elephant
and the elephant stood upon a tortoise; what
the tortoise was supported by they didn't
say"
But we have discovered that whoever ere
ated this world proceeded upon an entirely
different principle. Our planet rests on moth
ms at all. Its stability by virtue of which
we build houses that are not always tum-
bling down, depends not upon any rock
foundation nor flying buttress, but wholly
upon balance.
Our earth is spinning like a top and
whirling like sling, and is nicely balanced
between the two opposing forces, centripeta
and centrifugal
The principal of safety is balance, and
that not only of the planet but of everything
on the planet, both material and spiritual.
or food we must take neither too much
nor too little. Over-eXercise will kill as GER
taInly as not enough. Too much or too little
light will ruin the eyes, and ears go deaf
from too little as we'll as too loud sounds
Our whole life is a passage over narrow
bridge; to so to either side too far is to fall
and perish.
1t is the same in the realm of morals. All
essential goodness and worthiness is not
liked, but consists in a certain equilibrium
The supreme command to man is ''to love
his neighbor as himself" The last part is
very safely added, for it is the gst of the
matter.
Self-sacrfce is not necessarily noble; it is
only so when it is balanced by a noble ego
tism. Otherwise it may be simply weakness.
Selt-sacritice is worth while only in pro-
portion to the strength of the self which
is sacrificed.
The centripetal force is right self love
to respect ones self, to honor ones own con-
victions, to stand by ones rights, to care
properly for ones decency, forces and
affections give to self-sacrifice its sacrament
tai power
The centrifugal force is self-sacriice. With
out that all our love of self becomes spoiled,
vicious. contemplate, and poison.
The grandeur of the self-sacrifce of Jesus
is borne in upon US by our conviction Of
what must have been His consciousness of
His own worth and greatness
Copyright. 1924
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Are There Criminals"


the morning that the two young mil
I lionaire murderers in Chicago, after
pleading guilty to a peculiarly nenious
crime, threw themselves upon the mercy of
the court, there was sent out from Wash
ington, D. c., as a news dispatch, article
beginning in this WISE ''The tendency to
regard criminals irresponsible persons,
more to be pitied than punished, grows with
every discovery of science"
Pitied? Yes. But unpublished? Well
that depends on what one thinks of right
and wrong. The article in question quotes
a champion of the GLAND" theory as hold
ing, Character, mood and conduct are large
ly determined by the performance of the en-
doctrine glands The thyroid gland, espe-
cially, is held responsible for the sort of
emotional instability which finds outlet in
romantic homicide. The pituitary is another
gland of the endocrine system which plays
an important part in the conduct of man.
Let it get out of order and a criminal i'm
pulse is apt to be the result. The man
who puts arsenic in his wife's tea, or the
woman who shoots a recacitrant mate can
not be regarded as normal individual Ac-
cording to the new dictates of science
neither could help committing murder any
more than he could help breaking out into a
rash if he had chicken pox''
If this be true, most of human history will
have to be rewritten, beginning at least as
far back as Cain, who was not the first
murderer, but only the first victim of an
endocrine disturbance, and, hence, to be
pitied, not blamed. Nor should David have
been condemned or punished for his murder
Gus stratagem against Uriah. O, no; the
king was suffering from emotional instabil-
ity; censure the thyroid if you will, but
never the man. Likewise when Herodias
won her bloody wish of having the prophets
head brought into court on a charger, she
and her accomplices were but obeying the
irresistible dictates of their pituitary glands
Shakespeare, too, was wrong in representing
Iago as villain; for that glib young adven-
turer II we are to accept the "9landol-
ogy, was morally no more responsible for
the traglcal consequences of his plots than
he would have been for the breaking out of
rash. Nor was Macbeth at all scientific
his deeds. Instead of trying to fight it out
with his conscience and his countrymen, he
should have employed a legion of learned
alienists and have thrown himself on the
mercy of the court.
Murderers are certainly peculiar" as the
innocent-hearted Charles Lamb was wont to
say. But to maintain that they or other
criminals are, save in instances exceedingly
rare, without power to resist a crime i'm
pulse, is to gainsay the moral constitution of
things and dehumanize mankind
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Address,
LITTLE MISS FIXIT,
Care Tri-Weekly Journal,
Atlanta, Georgia.
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

If thy brother shall heSpaSS against
thee, go and tell him his fault between
thee and him alone; and if he shall hear
thee, thou hast gained thy brother. Mat
thew 1875. Warn them that are unruIy,
comfort the feeble-minded, support the
weak, be patient TOWARD all men, See that
none render epH for epH unto any man,
but ever follow that (Which is good, both
among yourselves and to all men.-2nd
1heSSabOnianS As. Let all bitterness, and
wrdth, and anger, and Glamour, and epil
speaking be put away from You, Nth all
malice. And be kind one to another, ten
der-hearted, forgiping one another, even
as God for Christ's sake hath forgipen
you.-Ephesians 4:31, 81.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

However, the less man takes the more
often he doesn't have to apologize.
Silence is probably considered golden be-
cause gold is so scarce.
A stylish coat on mans back enables
him to put bold front.
A lot Of people who grace the show win
dow really belong on the bargain counter.
1t takes a strong minded spinster to be-
lieve that the reason men don't propose to
her is because she never gives them a chance
lazy man always believes that a thing
Of duty is a bore forever.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-24

HE story of our commonwealth re-
sources of soil and sun is told with
charm, as well as with accuracy
and wide-sweeping view, in Georgia Agri-
culture a book of some two hundred pages
just issued by the State Agricultural De-
partment. Part One of the volume treats the
subject in its broadcast range by terse word
sketches and a profusion of Photographic
illustrations. Part Two is devoted to "Agri-
cultural Aids and Facts" under which head
ing are presented formulas OF the fertilizer
suited to the States divers types of soil; the
Georgia quarantine laws relative to plants,
live stock and bees, the standard weights
and@measures and a highly interesting ac-
count of cooperative farm marketing. Part
Three gives wealth Of valuable agricultural
statistics for 1923, not only for the State as
a whole, but for the individual counties
This book has many message both for
Georgians to the manner born and for Amer
opportunities that combine the best of
profits with the best of homes. In the course
OF his apt "Foreword" Commissioner j. ].
Brown declares "Our wonderful soil,
lying as it does in a delightful climate, free
alike from the rigors of the northern winter
and extremes of the tropical summer, pre-
sents to every citizen of this State as well
as to those who contemplate casting their lot
among us, most attractive offer in the way
of land values. Doubtless, this and coming
generations will never witness a duplication
of the present attractive prices at which
good farming lands now can be purchased in
Georgia. Only about one-third of our till
able land is under cultivation. Taking into
consideration the crops grown in the United
States, Georgia is one of the two or three
States which lead in number She ranges all
the way from apples of finest quality in her
northern counties to Satsuma oranges and
sugar cane in the coastal plain. /. Above
all desire to see Georgias land owned and
operated by those who live on the soil. Then
her fertile fields, her beautiful valleys, and
ner DrOau plains VIII always be the home of
prosperous and contented people"
The opportunities for such home-owners
home-seekers are as rich in this broad
commonwealth today as they were in the
adyentureful West seventy-five years ago.
AS one of the thirteen colonies Il whom our
republic had its beginning, Georgia is looked
upon as place of traditions and of adj
yanced deveopment-and rightly So With
population little less than three million
which gives her twelfth rank among the
States: with more than seven thousand,
three hundred miles Of steam railroads. four
hundred and seventy-eight miles of electric
railroads; six thousand miles of State-aid
highways and two thousand, three hundred
miles of Federal-aid highways; with manu-
features having an output of approximately
seven hundred million dollars year: with
more than eight thousand free public schools
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QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

During the hearing of a certain criminal
case a voluble landIady declared in the wit
ness box that she had been prepared for
trouble from the moment she had let her
room to the accused, who was on trial for
his life; whereupon the judge remarked that
she must be pesslmist.
Begging your pardon, my lord" she ex-
claimed, bridling, but | have always been
a member of the Church of England"
bibulous citizen was steered home by his
brOther-in-law, but fatty refused to enter
until a reconnaissance had been made.
m gonna get terrible talking to-" he
walled. Whats Tessie up to-"
"Tessie came to the window just now and
she had her mouth full Of hairpns."
Good. Now's my time to go in"
when I read about some OF these won
derful inventions in electricity it makes me
think a little remarked Mr.. Thickedd,
soIemnly.
Yes, isn't it remarkable what electricity
can do?" returned Miss Smart.
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a weary Willy called a an office the other
day. Cant give YOU job said the mer-
chant; two other men here are on the same
Grand"
just then another man came in and said
to the merchant:
4 can find WORK for one of these men. -
Then, pointing to the last conner. he said:
You come along with me and III find you
something TO do"
In panied and surprised tones, Weary
Willy inquired: why NEE
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MOVIE MAD
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

What has gone befOre-Gloria King
comes to Hollywood with the idea of
making good in the movies but finds that
she can not make Roadway without
pull. She grows bitter and disillusion-
ed, and when, after a series Of incidents
that brings her to his attention, Rolf
Templeton, the great screen star asks
her to marry him, she consents. although
she despises him and regrets her foolish
step the moment she is married.-NoW
go on with the story.
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ly and cheerfully see
that things are made
right
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Evening star., 1924-03-04
EvENTya wAsHnyaToN Q, TUESDAY q

week." beginning April z. DR.. H. H.
Kerr of this city will be chairman for
the District.
In announcing this today the
American Society for the Control of
Cancer, with headquarters In New
campaign is to give to the public
generally facts concerning cancer,
which will make 1t possible for indi-
vidua1s to detect the initial symp-
toms. or danger signals as they are
called, that they may seek and re-
ceive treatment at time when the
disease is usually in a durable stage.
'As there is no known specific for
cancer" continued the announcement.
1.-THE. best chance q person afflicted
has lies in the early destruction of the
tumor. To wait means certain death.
The symptoms are plainly described
Evening star., 1924-03-04

lean Red Cross. and the director Of
the Veterans Bureau met In WASH
ington, and after q long conference
ali agreed that q unified liaisOn serv-
ice should be established and go into
effect on March .15, 1924.
Decision Made KNOWN.
"The decision reached by the meet
ing was conveyed to Gen. Lloyd NJ.
Brett, commander-in-chie of the
Veterans Of oreign Wars. by Robert
E. Bondy- director. war service,
American lied Cross, who said: Tt
was agreed by those present that the
present plan Of separate and distinct
liaison service by the four national
organizations mentioned was result
ing in duplication. unwarranted ex-
penditure iof money and failure to
provide adequate service to ex-serv-
ice men.
THE plan as submitted at that
time by the American Red Cross and
agreed to iby the head of the organi-
cations in nvolved in the scheme would
have a representative of each mill
tary organization at each of the dis
trict officps. headed by one person,
who would be responsible to the Red
Cross. t1l bills would be paid by
the A. II c. Commander John X.
Quinn of Nhe American Legion in this
connectiOn said: I agree to this
Evening star., 1924-03-04

and can be readily detected by any
one of average intelligence. The
campaign also will give the public
much Information concerning the
malady not usually available to lay
men,"
Lecture for Public.
During the campaign lectures are
open to the public and are planned for
Rotary and other clubs, women's or
ganizations. social workers associa-
tions, labor councils. fraternal organ
izations and the like. At these meet
ings, Informative literature will be
distributed.
A letter will be read in churches
of all denominations; slides will be
shown in the great majority of NOV
ing picture theaters, and placards
Evening star., 1924-03-04
VETERANS UNABLE
TO UNITY LAB0RS..
Charge Made That Effort for Spe-
cial Benefit of Disabled
Men Failed. ;. ~.

The first real effort OF veterans or
ganizations to consolidate their re-
sources in such a manner that the
disabled veterans would be best served
has ended in failure. the American
Legion refusing to cooperate with
the other major military societies,
said an announcement today from
the Veterans Of Foreign Wars head
quarters, Kansas City, Mo. The state
ment follows:
'On December 8, 1928. representa-
tives of the American Legion, Dis
abled Veterans of the World War,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Amer