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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-20
When the Sleeper Wakes
By DR.. Frank Crane

N lost Of our life we are asleep, not only
M when are unconscious in our beds,
but also when we are walking about.
Plato's idea was that the best of what we
think in this life consists in few things
remember from previous existence; and
Wordsworth said that "our birth is but
sleep and forgetting"
Sometimes there comes to us a sharp con-
seriousness of the unrealty of our existence.
The sense of it's dream stuff invades us. We
and all men and women seem somnambuistss
Only in our dreams we have the feeling
of being awake. AS DeMusset:
"Ah! if the revery were possible forever,
And if the sleep-walker cropping with he'll
out hands
Did not find Nature hard, always infexible,
Striking his forehead, cruel as pillar Of
BRASS"
The daily round captures us. We become
benumbed by the humdrum. We can do
nothing without system, and system dulls
us. SO sink into kind Of dim dream
life, in which we rise, eat, go to business, to
amusement, to bed.
This outward routine stains inward
thought. We feel as if we were a little
spiritual tooth in the immense cog-wheel OF
the universe. Life loses its wonder. We are
surprised at nothing, as in dreams
Then comes those things destiny has set
for our Weakening; sharp spines of pain,
thunder crashes of tragedy, lie htning darts
Of disaster; or perhaps the comic, for some-
times smile gibe ''stab us VIE
awake" better than the surgical blade of sor-
row.
Sometimes the alarm clock of the soul is
but mood a moment Of mental splendor,"
a natural cloud-lftng Of the spirit This
spirit illumination we can once and again
trace to a physical cause, to the stomach or
liver or the sex feeling by that strange wir-
ing together Of body and soul. Another time
it will be due apparently to a friend, an
event or some other eXteriorty. Or it may
occur for no dscernibe cause.
But, however the waking may take place,
it is an hour when to use the language OF
John Masefield, eve have suggestions Of
something bigger than ourselves, suggestions
Of reality, beauty, and order, apprehensions
Of something stable, behind the flowing and.
ebbng of life, and apprehensions Of some
thing divine, some quality of mind or soul
outside us, more real than We"
The woman in society has one Of these
moments, shattering vision of what her life
might mean if it were real The woman
over her washtub stops, looks up-a thought
has whipped her tired mind awake; it Is
but a passing glimpse, and life descends
again into the suds. The business man
leaves the papers on his desk and looks far
away; his soul rises a moment into what life
might be, as flying fish leaps cleaning
flash into the air. .,rt
Death is the supreme awakener. Then
the usual and crowding affairs Of existence,
that seemed weighty, dissolve into their
true nothingness and the great realities rise
like moons upon the soul.
The dream it over When the body goes
to its last bed the soul gets up.
Copyright 1924) ~
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WHAT THE FORTY EIGHT STATES
SHOULD DEMAND FROM CONGRESS-

r HAVE been in receipt of the Congression-
| al Record since December /, and | am
hoping there will be due record to the
necessities of the States and less attention to
the likes and dislikes of the men who are
sent to Washington to act as the mouth
pieces of their respective states and not to
display their ability swordsmen (and |
might say gunmen, and not miss IT'D.
Federal legislation has been trespassing
on the rights of the States for more than
one decade, and there is always confusion
and extra expense whenever it is permitted
to trespass
After the Eighteenth amendment was rat
flied by three-fourths of the forty eight
States, the enforcement of that law should
have been left to the State courts, wherever
citizens of those States were accused, in
dicted and punished Every State is equip
ped with its Constabulary force-every coun-
ty has it's appointed place in judicial courts
of justice, and when the punishment is
dered, the State prison is the place to put
them, and there should be enough patriot
ism to support the authorities in contending
for law enforcement. The miXtry of Federal
and State prosecution for bootleggers and
liquor distillers has made both the Nation
and the State in a manner helpless, and the
little fines that were imposed on the manu-
facturers and vendors of intOXicants amounts
to next to nothing as a preventive. A little
fine is the easiest way out The bootlcgger
would have to buy a license to make or to
sell, ana these little lines are mainly cheap
licenses to conduct the devils own particu-
lar busness-in the wholesale destruction of
women's children
We elect judges and solicitors, it is true,
oftentimes by the assiduous efforts of law
breakers, to get those who will put on
small fines and short terms for misdemeanor
cases. Add on the "RevenOO" cohorts and
we get confusion worse COMPOUNDED. until
illicit liquor has exactly the middle of the
road.
The trouble may have increased with the
growing extent of the bootleg liquor, but
we obliged to admit that we have been
going on from bad to worse until are
next to helpless to the future of our
country. Those who are getting big prices
per gallon, per quart and per pint are de-
termned to procure it, and from what is
published obliged to conclude that
the liquor traffic never more remuner-
ative, if the police will wink at the prevail
ing methods Rich peoples homes have the
privilege of genuine imported intoxican =
and negro dance halls have stuff strong
enough to kill inside of half hour. and yet
there is madness in the pursuit of the stuff
No matter where discovered. it is violative
of the sovereign law of the United States
We have national bankrupt laws that are
a manifest help to the man who started o. t
to beat his creditors and when the scoun-
drel is caught with the goods a weak-man-
nered Judge direct small fine, only o
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-20
Great Britain Paus

IN HIS opinion, expressed on the floor Of
| the House, that the plan by which Great
Britain is paying her war debt to the
United States is altogether just and is work
Ing out most happily, Representative Crisp is
well sustained by the facts Within few
hours of the Georgian's utterance came news
from the Treasury that it had just then re-
cefved from foreign governments, on ac-
counts of their funded indie btedness to the
United States, total of ninety-one million.
nine hundred and forty-nine thousand dol
lars. OF this sum ninety-one million six
hundred and ffty-fve thousand was from
Britain, the rest being modicums from Fin
land, Hungary and Lithuania.
Without humming or having. the British
their fourth semi-annual discharge of inter
est and their second annual instalment of
principal-sixty-eigh million, six hundred
and ffty-fve thousand dollars for the one.
and twenty-three million for the other In
these two years they have paid a total of
three hundred and twenty three million two
hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars of
which two hundred and seventy million rep
resents interest and fifty Million one hundred
and twenty-eight thousand amortization. So
are they reducing the vast debt of four bill
lion, six hundred million dollars, incurred in
the war against Prussianism
This, as Representative Crisp declares, is
just; and it is worthy of the goodliest tradi-
lions OF the English speaking people When
Senator Reed, of Missouri, recently went out
OF his way for petty fling at the British
debt policy he but confirmed that opinion
which lost Americans, we believe. long have
held of his distorted ideas and his non-exist-
ent ideals.
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THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w, H. FELTON,

cover the court charges, and the bankrupt
gets out easy that he is ready to play his
game every fun and change of the moon.
There should be national bankrupt laws, but
thief should be punished by the State
courts like any other criminal
Our National Government is being so
crowded with multitudinous officials that
are become like locusts eating up every
green thing in sight, to speak. 1t is
gravey asserted that the National gang
winks at the State gang already crowded
with useless salaried people, until it's "you
tickle me and III tickle you"
Congress has plenty to work on in Fed
era crimes and misdemeanOrs, and the
States should demand their attention to their
legitimate business.
Our State legislatures are, | know, only
farcical gatherings, Judging from the three
we had in one twelvemonth, but the people
of Georgia are becoming very weary of the
legislators who control our business and
handle the tax money, and who pile up debt
and add new officials, and spend the
entire session with tt cir dirty politics. Since
Georgia assumed statehood we have never
had such reckless disregard of the rights of
the States, Bullock's time not excepted, as
witnessed with the three legislatures,
all crowded into less than a twelvemonth,
that absolutely made the sensible people
ashamed and Inundated into compelling the
biennial sessions as the least of two evils
fest disregard of their duty as lawmakers
has been object lesson that will be in
evidence for some years yet to come.
THE BEAUTIFUL AUTUMN WEATHER
"ODAY, December s, | sitting in my
room, outside doors all open, no fire
needed and the air as balmy as in
May.
Week after week we have been expecting
winter to come in us, and the weather
prophets have all made false forecasts, and
the Northern and Western tourists are going
to Florida in hurry to get settled for the
winter, and yet we are hardly needing fires
get blizzard spells before Christmas, and
need all the winter clothing we can get for
young and old. | remember one season
which resembled the present one, in the
fall of 1S56-siXty-eigh years ago-when
the dry weather lasted week after week
until the creeks and branches and many
wells went dry. We CON our plantation
had to drive the stock a half mile to reach
drinking water every day. and we had tC
haul water for washing and other domestic
uses and at Christmas time we had still q
continuance of long, long drouth. We
may however understand that cold weather
will be plentiful after the New Year, and
although I am very advanced in years and
very sensitive to cold. I hope we will get
enough ice and hard weather to destroy the
boil weevil and freeze out the bugs and in
sects that prev on farm lands. Only seven
teen days until Christmas and sitting with
out fire is going some,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-20

Any Tri-Weekly journal reader can
get the answer to any question puzzling
him by writing to The Atlanta Journal
Information Bureau, Frederic j. Has
kin. director, Washington, d. c., and
inclosing a two-cent stamp for return
hostage. DO NOT SEND 1T TO OUR
ATLANTA OFFICE.
O. What is the average distance that
homng pigeons fly in a day? 7. S. d.
A. The Department Of Agriculture says
that the distance that pigeons will fly III
one day depends on the weather as we'll as
their breeding Young birds in good weather
will fly about 500 miles in from seven to
nine hours, and flights OF 500 miles IN one
day have been made by old birds.
O. Isn't there a saying about d shoemaker
or his wife always going barefoot? Q. I. Z,
A. Burton, in his Anatomy of Melan-
choy," says, Him that makes shoes SO
barefoot himself" and one of Haywood
Proverbs reads, who is worse shod than
the shoemaker'S Wife,"
Q. What is a silver fox? X. c. d.
A. The name silver fox, commonly used
by furriers includes the dark phases Of the
ordinary red fox. variously called silver
Silver-gray, silver-black or black. The col
ors of the red fox Of the northeastern States
and OF its allies of the colder parts of North
America varies from red to black. and these
extremes. with the ordinations between
them. form four more or less distinct phases
known, respectively as red, cross or patch,
silver and black.
Q, Please give names OF some scented
teas? II. VI. s.
A. The Tea Investigation Section of the
Department of Agriculture says that two
popular scented teas are China jasmine and
scented orange Pe)loe.
Q. Where is the largest Moslem Univer
sity? How long is the course? G. A. D.
A. In 9SS the Mosque of Al Azhar was
changed 10 a university. There are now
about 10000 students in attendance. MAX
ing it the largest Noslem University in the
world. The course is from three TO 81,
years.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-20
To Prevent Dust Exb1os;ons

n HIGH moment to hundreds of indus
Y J tries, including cotton gins and cotton
oil mills, are experiments conducted
by the federal bureau of chemistry to reduce
IL not eliminate the hazards of dust explo-
sion. More than twenty-one thousand mann
featuring plants with an aggregate output
valued at six billion dollars a wear are sub
ject to such casualties. One hundred and
ffty-four persons were killed and two hun.
dred injured in thirteen dust explosions of
comparatively recent occurrence while the
property losses exceeded sixteen million dol
lars. Add that any industry in which
explosive dust accumulates is in peril. and
the wide Importance of the bureaus work on
this problem is obvious
Its Investigations lie mainly along these
three lines: explosions during the handling
and milling of grain in elevators and indus
trial plants; fires and explosions in grain
threshng machines; fires in cotton gins and
cotton oil mills In the matter of thrssher
explosions the discoveries have been partic.
ularly useful. Fans have been designed
which not only are effective in averting ex-
plosion, but also have indicated their value
In cleaning the grain and preventing the
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-20
LITTLE MISS FIXIT, :.
Care Tri-Weekly Journal,
Atlanta, Georgia.
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY

bIbLE IHOUOTII TON IODNI
The ground of certain rich man
brought forth plentifully. And he thought
within himself, saying, what shall / do,
because l have no room where to beSt0W
my fruits" And he said, "This WiH do.
piU pull DOM my barns and build
greater; and there will | bestow all my
fruits and my goods. And | will say to
my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid
up for many years; take thine ease; eat,
drink and be merry" But God said unto
him, "Thou fool, this night thy soul shall
be required of thee. Then whose shall
hese things be which thou hast propided9"
Luke 12:16-2O.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-20
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS

Some mems idea Of economy is to preach
it to their wives.-Illinois State Journal. -.
Many seaskn coats being sold this winter
were worn by rabbits last winter.-ColumbIa-
Record.
Woman seldom gets a thrill except the
first time she is married and the first trfe:s
she enters a barber shop.-Jersey City On.
j. Journal. -
If everybody works in heaven as DOYLE
says, we shall insist upon being an eff
cheney expert.-Memphis News Scimitar.
Rufe Hoskins says a man usually can GET
2 good bargain in electric fans when he
needs an observation-disclosures City Timls.
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N OST Of our life asleep, not only
M when we are unconscious in our beds,
- v n but also when we are walking about.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-20
THE SEA HAWK AGSf
BY RAFAEL SABATINI
published by Arrangement With First National Pictures
Inc. Copyrighted by Hough Mtffln Company
CHAPTER XNIII-Continued

a T LENGTH Ibrahim reused himse
n from his momentary stupor. Fl
stepped deliberately across the bod,
Evening star., 1924-02-11
ASK HEAD OF UNION
TO NEGOTIATE SCALE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, February 1i.-News-
paper compostoTS Of New York city.
members of big Six yesterday
called upon President Charles T.
Howard of the International Typo
graphical Union to come here imme-
diately and negotiate with the con-
ference committee of the publishers
in regard to a new wage scale
The decision was reached by a
unanimous vote at a conference of
1000 members attending a special
meeting. Recommendation that ne
gotiationS be turned over to Inter
national President Howard was made
by the local conference committee, of
which Leon ]. Rouse, president of the
local typographical union, is chair
man.
A recommendation to send another
committee to the New York pub
fishers for conference on the pro-
posed wage scale was tabled by d
unanimous vote.
Fred A. Walker, publisher of the
New York Telegram and Evening
Mail. as chairman of the publishers
conference committee, in statement,
declared:
The publishers would welcome the
coming of President Howard, with the
expectation that his coming will lead
to a prompt and satisfactory settle
ment OF all pending questions +.
Evening star., 1924-02-11
FOUR UNDER ARREST
IN BIG BOND THEFT
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 1.-Two
men and two boys are being held for
the theft of sL06. 900 worth of negoti-
able bonds from the brokerage firm
of Herzfeld & Stern last Monday.
One of the prisoners, Romeo For
lini. aged forty years. was said by
the police to have directed the bond
theft and to have negotiated the en-
tire transaction. The others arrested
were Max Kaplan. tyventy-three; Max
Bauman. nineteen. and a boy of
seventeen, who, under the name of
Jack Lombardo, obtained a job as
messenger for the bond house two
weeks ago and made of with the
bonds
Lombardo. who said his real name
was Salvatore de w. Page, told the
police Forlini had been instrumental
in obtaining the bond messenger posi-
tion for him. It also was Forlini. he
told the police who had directed him
to make off with the bonds when he
was handed them for delivery to a.
number of brok erage offices. :,
day in connection with the case.
when, the police said. they were
found to be attempting to sell the
stolen bonds. Bonds worth s30,A00
were obtained from them The re-
naming $4,000 worth of bonds have
not been recovered.
Evening star., 1924-02-11
,e no whitewashfng, no vicarious atone.

be no whitewashfng, no vicarious atone
ments.
only must the individual, whether
in Office or out of Office, be made
answerable for his acts, but the
political party. The managers of
which connive at the looting of the
public and seek to excuse the mis-
conduct Of the members of itS party
in high official position must also
be held to strict accountability.
II say it with shame and mortif1-
cation. but 1t is unfortunately true,
that the political party of which / am
a member, as represened by those in
control Of the machinery of the par
ty, has played as sorry a part in this
investigation as 1t did in the Ballin-
ger investigation.
"The action of the leaders of the
republican party in the Ballenger
case as much as any other one thing
discredited the Taft administration
and drove the republican party from
power.
$50 in the present investigation it
has been reserved for one of the OPP
posing party to take the lead in the
investigation, and without his per
sistence and inststence upon getting
after the facts, the investigation
would have resulted in whitewash-
ing public ofnciais 0uf1ty Of the
GrayeSt vronSdoinG"
Evening star., 1924-02-11
MKE[LAR PROBES
TRACTION OUTLAY
Utilities Commission Secre-
tary Questioned Particu-
IarIy on Depreciation.

Disbursements of the Capital Trac-
tion Company, particularly with re-
gard to depreciation and expenditures
for capital charges, were inquired
into today by Senator Mckellar of
Tennessee. author of the five-cent
street car fare bill. at the hearing be
fore the Senate District committee.
on his bill
Secretary Allen of the Public Utili-
ties Commission. was the witness be-
fore the committee and was closely
questioned by Senator McKeIlar, who
had before him the last annual re-
port of the Capital Traction Company
Senator Mcke1lar's questions related
to the basis upon which depreciation
charges are allowed for ways and
structures, equipment, power and
other items
AT the conclusion of the question
ing Of Mr.. Allen by Senator Nickel
lar. Vice President Hanna of the
Capital Traction Company. by perrnis-
SION OF the committee. asked Mr.. Allen
with the Public Utilities Commission
his attention had ever heen called by
the Commissions auditor or engineer
70 any desire on the part OF the com
pany to show charges for depreciation
or maintenance expenditures in place OF
capital charges.
Gives Negative Answer.
Mr.. Allen replied that no such de-
sire or attempt had ever been called
to his attention, and that he had no
reason to believe that any such at
tempt had ever been made by the
company. He said there were a few
minor matters which had been
checked up by. the commissions audi
tor and engineer and changed.
Mr.. Allen was unable 10 give from
! his own knowledge information de-
sired BY Senator Mckellar regarding
these accounts. and it was determined,
engineer of the Public Utilities Com
mission to furnish this detailed in
| formation at a meeting of the COM
mittee Friday at 1920 o'clock.
| During the hearing today Senator
, Mckellar brought out from testimony
given by Vice President Hanna that
the Capital Traction Company on De-
cember 81. 1914, had 27s active pas
Senger cars; that on December 81,
1913. it had 317 such passenger cars
! and on December 81, 1923, 317 pas
senger cars. The number Of cars has
not increased since 1918.