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THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
A IP am ing to Raise Food
THE recent report of ihe National De
partment of Agriculture showing an
indicated decrease of some two hun
dred and forty-eight million bushels, or thir
ty-three and a third per cent, in,the winter
•wheat yield, emphasizes anew the need of
producing food to the limit of resources,
both on farms and in family gardens. So
marked a decline in the output of this “chief
nourisher at life’s feast’’ must be compen
sated as far as possible in other directions,
if a serious and perhaps unprecedented ad
vance in food prices is to be averted. It is
considered unlikely, if not out of the ques
tion, that the spring-planted wheat crop will
make food the winter deficiency and at the
same time leave a substantial surplus for
exportation. Thus it seems virtually certain
that soon or late a shortage will be felt
throughout the country and reflected in the
market for other grains and for food com
modities in general.
Thence the urgent advice for extraordinary
efforts in the production of conservable veg
etables this spring and summer. Potatoes,
peas, beans, corn and similar staples will
be more than ever valuable. . They can be
raised in brimming abundance during the
next four or five months, not only on farms
but in thousands of town and city gardens.
It is specially important, of course, that
where larger acreages are available food
stores for livestock as well as for man be
produced as bountifully as possible, for there
is no more certain lactor in increased liv
ing costs than high prices for the upkeep of
cattle and hogs.
To no region of the United States is the
appeal for large f'>od harvests more pertinent
than to the south. The broad-based pros
perity which Georgia and her neighboring
Commonwealths have enjoyed in the last
few years is attributable in large measure
to the fact that they have kept at home the
profits of their money crops instead of spend
ing them all for food purchases from the
distant West. This would never have been
possible under the old tyranny of cotton
Now that a pronounced shortage of wheat
and a consequent increase in the demand
for other staples looms warningly ahead it
is imperative that the South utilize to the
utmost her long seasons and rich soils for
food production.
♦-
IT aking Up to the South.
LONG recognized as America’s “greatest
undeveloped asset,” the Southern
. c° un try is fast on the way to becom
ing her greatest developed asset.” So argues
that accurate assessor of conditions and ten
dencies, the Manufacturers’ Record, and by
way of evidence points out that from this re
gion comes ninety-nine per cent of the nation’s
sulphur, without which we could not have
made war, two-thirds of the world’s cotton,
on which mankind largely depends for
raiment, vast quantities of oil and minerals,
and agricultural supplies of incalculable im
portance. Wherefore: “All Americans may
well look to this marvelous store of
latent and now rapidly developing
wealth as the greatest power in car
rying forward our country’s mighty march
of progress. Every business man should
study the South from the viewpoint of his in
dividual interest in the nation’s progress, for
upon the South’s resources must be built the
nation’s business structure.’’
This is not the counsel of an enthusiastic
publicity agent, be it noted, but of a conserva
tive and highly distinguished student of eco
nominc facts and forces. Truly, the unfolding
resources of Georgia and her Dixie neighbors
are of national import, touching the vitals of
the common country’s well-being. It is appa
rent, moreover,, that far-visioned investors
and home-seekers in other regions are realiz
ing this condition. The marked demand for
Southern farm lands, the trend of capital to
Southern industries, the swift and substantial
growth of Southern towns, all bear witness
to the nation’s awakening to the importance of
Southern opportunities.
Os greater moment just now, however, is
the question of whether the South herself i$
duly appreciative of her potentialities for
production and progress? Let her own peo
ple catch the meaning of their marvelous
birthright, and there will be no doubt of the
rest of America’s doing so. Let Georgians hold
a true estimate of their Commonwealth’s
resources and work accordingly, and farsight
ed developers from the four corners of the
Union will turn thither.
Common Sense.
With his characteristic common sense,
Governor Bickett, of North Carolina, declines
an invitation to join a faddish “Overalls
Club,” because, he explains, the effect of try
ing to make these garments every man’s attire
would be to advance their price beyond the
purse of those who really need them. It is
a matter of record that in the few communi
ties where the movement has gained popular
impetus, the cost of overalls has doubled or
trebled, while that of other clothing has re
mained substantially the same. It might be
an excellent thing on certain occasions for
water to run up hill, or for oaks to spring
from mushrobms or for the law of supply and
demand to lose its immemorial effect. But
as far as can be observed, no such miracles
are being performed.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Motor Truck Transportation
IT is reliably reckoned that there were
upwards of nine hundred and fifty thou
sand motor trucks in use in this ’ountry
at the end of the last calendar year, against
some seven hundred thousand in 1918. As
evidence of a widening trend in the matter
of solving transportation problems, this fact
is of capital interest.
War conditions woke the American public
to a state of affairs which special st i.ients
long had recognized but had not succeeded
in impressing upon the rank and file, the
condition, namely, that our railway facilities
were becoming altogether inadequate for the
needs of a never expanding industry and
commerce. When the exigencies of troop
and military supply movements were add
ed, the most apathetic could but realize that
the railroads were sorely in want of addi
tional equipment if not additional lines. Far
sighted observers saw, moreover, that if the
country continued to grow as it had during
the past decade, there would be imperative
need, not only of building up and building
out the railroads, but also of developing
other means of transportation, notably the
waterways and the highways. In the last
two years that need has grown continually
more urgent, and today it is commonly real
ized that all three of these lines of service
must be utilized with keen vigor if future de
mands are to be met.
As the readiest aid to congested shipping,
the motor truck has grown remarkably in fa
vor and in usefulness. It is said that the
entire increase in the transportation facili
ties of that great industrial center, Fall
River, Mass., for the year 1919 was byway
of the motor truck, rail and water ship
ments remaining virtually as they had been.
In divers parts o tfhe country permanent in
terurban lines of this character have been es
tablished, while rural interests also are avail
ing themselves more and more extensively
of motor service.
All this requires, of course, the mainte
nance of good roads, and it is noteworthy
that since the farreaching possibilities of the
motor truck came fairly to be appreciated,
we have witnessed the inauguration of the
most promising era of highway improve
ment America ever has known. In no State,
perhaps, is this more strikingly manifest
than in Georgia, whose great agricultural as
well as industrial resources will be hastened
in development by amplified transportation.
Disposing o] the Ships
SOMETHING of the immensity of the
task of disposing of our war-acquired
merchant marine is indicated in the
announcement that while the Government
thus far has sold some nine hundred and
forty-nine thousand tons of ships at an aver
age of one hundred and forty-four dollars a
ton, it still has in charge approximately elev
en million, three hundred and eighty-four
thousand tons, representing a value of no less
than one billion, three hundred million dol
lars. To this should be added ships not yet
completed and about three hundred million
dollars’ worth of construction materials.
Admiral Benson, now chairman of the
Shipping Board, spoke the country’s busi
ness judgment and prevailing sentiment
when he said -that “to make the American
merchant marine permanent, the ships now
owned and controlled by the Shipping Board
must be ultimately absorbed by private cap
ital, owned and controlled by Americans, and
operated in competition with the merchant
fleets of the world.” At the same time it is
evident (and no one better appreciates the
fact than Admiral Benson himself) that the
transfer of the vessels to private ownership
should be made in such away as not to in
jure or prejudice the interests of any sec
tion of our common country.
THE GREATEST DISCOVERY
By Dr. Frank Crane
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
The greatest discovery in the nineteenth
century, that era of great discoveries, was
not the locomotive or the electric telegraph,
nor any kind of explosive or labor saving
device, but it was—THE PEOPLE.
The most striking thing one finds about
the people in previous -history is—that they
did not exist.
There were kings and queens, there were
nobles and scholars and artists, there were
warriors and doges and geniuses and gen
tlemen, and for these all laws were formed,
all books written, all pictures painted.
What forces itself upon you as you go
through the galleries of Europe and see the
works of the old masters is that it never
occurred to them to depict any one but a
saint, or a king, or a warrior.
All literature of the past is similarly ig
norant of humanity. Homer and Virgil aud
ariste write only about the distinguished.
There is nothing like Jean Valjean and
David Copperfield and Tom Sawyer previous
to the modern age.
We are just waking up to the fact that
the people are capable of all that is fine and
noble.
The painters of Holland, who first began
to show plain men and women in their
homes, instead of ruffled dukes and haloed
saints, such writers as Tolstoy and Sien
kiewicz and Dostoievsky among the Slavs,
Carducci and Fogazzaro, Maupassant and
Anatole France among the Latins, and
George Eliot and Hawthorne among the
English, together with the popular govern
ments of Canada and Australia, and the vast j
dominent, equalizing loom of commerce that
is weaving the nations and the classes into
unity—all these are indications that the peo
ple are unfolding as a world-rose and that
the husks and bracts of privileged classes,
of whatever description, are falling away.
Democracy is a shattering thing. It does
not mean merely the ballot box. It means
that there is no learning, no taste, no art, no
morality, no religion, except that which is
of the people.
It means the spreme significance of me,
the individual, above all classes. It means
that such terms as nation, church, class, and
the like are more or less artificial; it is the
man that counts. As Chesterton says, a na
tion is composed of its people; because oneu
man has two legs it does not follow that
fifty men are a centipede.
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
Old Farmer Turmut went to London for a
visit, and, on a friend’s advice, stayed at a
quiet hotel in Bloomsbury. On his return to
the village his friend asked how he had got on
“Rotten!” retorted the old chap shortly.
“Why, weren’t they nice to you at the ho
tel?” asked his friend in surprise.
“Nice!” Old Turmut’s tones were wither
ing. “Well, if you call it being nice to fool
a man because he comes from the country,
they were. Why the very first night that I
stayed there they gave me a big bottle to take
to bed, and when I unscrewed the stopper there
weren’t nothing in it but hot water.”
vr -st- ■9T
“Just bought a fine motor car,” said Jones,
“for immediate delivery.”
“What style car?” inquired Smith.
j “A ‘Dashing Demon Six.’ Now, if I could
j only get a half pound of sugar somewhere the
I whole family would be happy.”
(Copyright,
CURRENT EVENTS OF
INTEREST
The employes on the king’s estates in
Scotland, including Balmoral castle, are de
manding an eight-hour day and an advance
in wages to three pounds weekly. James D.
Ramsay, king’s commissioner on the Balmo
ral estates, has given the men the option
of working ten hours a day or quitting their
jobs. As far as is known he has said noth
ing to them concerning wages.
The question is to be discussed in Aber
deen at a meeting of the Scottish Federation
of Discharged Soldiers, many of the men be
ing former soldiers. It is recalled that King
George, in writing to the local tradesmen
at Balmoral some time ago, said he wished
all his employes to be comfortable and sat
isfied.
A final agreement on the $462,000,000
postoffice appropriations bill was reached by
the house and senate conferees at Wash
ington. The senate managers receded
from the senate amendment authorizing
the retention until June 0, 1921, of postal
tube equipment in the postoffices at 'New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis and
Boston. Use of the tubes was discontinued
some years ago, but the equipment was
never removed'.
Senate amendments providing for the ap
pointment of a joint congressional commis
sion to inquire into the present mail trans
portation system with a view to making
recommendations for its improvement were
approved. The conferees previously had
accepted senate provisions for a trans-con
tinental experimental airplane mail service
between New York and San Francisco via
Chicago.
Dr. John A. Lee, President of the Kings
County Medical Society, who became known
throughout the country because of his early
experiments with the X-ray, died in his
home, No. 23 Revere Place, Brooklyn. Death
was the direct result of burns suffered in ex
periments with the X-ray, when there was lit
tle known about it, and- so slightly under
stood. Dr. Lee was born in New Britain,
Conn. He was a graduate of Yale. He be
came an interne at St. Mary’s Hospital in
Brooklyn. He was quickly advanced to as
sistant surgeon in 1901. He was attending
surgeon there from 1908 until his death. It
was at St. Mary’s that he equipped the first
X-ray hospital department in- the United
States. He received many burns in 1905
and was forced to give up the use of the ray.
He had several tumors cut from his chest
and one of the fingers of his right hand re
moved. Finally his lungs became affected,
which resulted in his death.
Paraguay is a land of wonderful oppor
tunity for North Americans, says W. L.
Schurz, United States trade commissioner,who
has just completed a seven months’ investi
gation of its resources. Ten millions in
American money has thus far been invested
in the little republic, but in the opinion of
Mr. Schurz, millions more of American cap
ital would find a profitable return there.
Nearly the size of the state of Missouri
and with less than 1,000,000 inhabitants,
Paraguay has untouched resources of amaz
ing variety and possibilities.
‘‘O ver ha!f the country is forested with
the finest hard woods in the world,” he said
Its soil and climate are capable of raising
U “p er the SUn ’ includi ng wheat and
bananas. Experiments have proved that
more cotton to the acre can be raised on
Paraguayan soil than on any other soil where
cotton is cultivated at present. It is good
thing° baCCO and SUgar, ‘ jt is good for any
of iwl™ aie deposits of manganese and iron
of unknown extent that have not been work
ed since the Paraguayan war ended in Is7o
It is waiting for a railroad to be bu It to it
There is also copper. 1L
nt T nerican invest ments in Paraguay
at present are in cattle, meat packing pfants
a lol'
can L Ar? alThe Tmeri-
coHettion ? Cl n f the Charles Bellow «
I. O. Fuller gave $6,250 for a
Staffordshire copper bowl.
LIFE and effort
By H. Addington Bruce
V L sh a °n S h lor the * day t 0 come when you
1 rpfirl h f lVe P ! Ut aslde money en ough to
letire from business. You long for a
life of reposeful, do-nothing ease.
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can entertSn° Ut m ° St f °° lish longing you
. Foi >, 9 10 Ugh yon evidently do not suspect
this, it is practically a longing for a life of
groans and aches and discontent, and perhaps
an untimely demise. p
The wise among men never really retire
from business. That is to say, they neve?
cease from active effort of some sort until old
age is so far advanced or illness has so in
sibleCltated tPeni is no longer pos-
it is true they may drop out of the trade
or business or profession in which they have
been gainfully engaged. But in one way or
another they still keep at work, instinctively
appreciating life itself.
In one way or another'they emulate a cer
tain exceedingly wise man, Dr. Charles W.
Eliot, on whom I had the pleasure of calling
recently. b
Di. Eliot, as you know, definitely retired
some years ago from the business of being
president of'Harvard university. Forty years’
arduous service in this responsible post would
certainly seem to have entitled him to a twi
light of “repose, do-nothing ease.”
et when 1 entered his home, on the eve
of his eighty-sixth birthday, I heard in his
upstairs study the tinkle of a typewriter. And
found him busy with his secretary, hard at
work on an article dealing with a thorny
political problem of today.
“He is lucky,” you would suggest, “to be
so well at eighty-six that he can continue to
apply himself to work.”
But I would counter:
“If he is so well at eighty-six it is, in part
at least, because he has had the wisdom to
continue to apply himself to work.”
Recall any friends or acquaintances of your
own who, retiring from business, have not
done as President Eliot has, but have given
themselves unreservedly to taking their ease.
Are they happy men? Are they well men?
Are they really live men, mentally and physic
ally?
They cannot be if their days are given
wholly to inert idleness. For life and effort
are synonymous. That is a truth which the
history of mankind abundantly proves.
And it is a truth I urge you to remember.
Rest must follow labor. Ease is a neces
sary incidental to endeavor. But to allow
rest and ease to make up the whole of exist
ence is little short of suicidal.
Certainly, at. all events, it is a pressing in
i vitation to ill health.
j (Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
-1 papers.)
DEALERS IN DOMESTICS
By Frederic J. Haskin
NEW YORK, April 18.—One of
the most popular and suc
cessful get-rich-quick enter
prises in New York today is
the domestic service agency. Agen
cies are everywhere, in spite of the
much-lamented scarcity of servants
■ —agencies for every nationality and
color, supplying everything from a
Japanese butler to a Swedish nurs
ery maid.
Gradually, the entire population
appears to be going into the domes
tic service business. Every day, one
hears of someone who has thrown
up a perfectly good job to take up
the more remunerative occupation
of servant-scouting, of someone who
has added a domestic service de
partment to his delicatessen store
or tailor shop, while the occupants
of nearly every apartment house
must put up with the erratic serv
ices of a janitor who spends most
of his time in rounding up
acquaintances who are willing to es
pouse domestic service long enough
for hint to collect his commission.
It is a matter of doing a small
business at a large profit, so that
it is not remarkable that so many
people find it attractive. House
holders have become reconciled to
the fact that they must pay what
ever is required of them, and us
ually offer slight . resistance. In
deed, many householders have be
come so utterly cowed by the diffi
culties of obtaining anything in
New York that they are prepared
to offer large bonuses to persons
who will help them to obtain a
really efficient servant. These bon
uses, of course, are in addition to
the usual commission charge of ten
dollars per servant. The agencies
also collect a registration fee from
the servant, so you can about figure
what the profit for one day of fair
ly good scouting would be.
PROPRIETOR FIGURES PROFITS
In many agencies, indeed, there
appears to be little work for the
proprietor to do but to figure up
and collect his fees. He canvasses
various districts for domestic help,
it is true, but aftfr he is fairly
well-known the domestics come to
him for registration. The employers
of servants are required to do the
same. The day when cooks and wait
resses came to you to apply for a
job in your household is gone for-
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wished to go back and forth from
town. When the woman demurred
against the golf, the butlei- said:
Golf for the Butler
“Well, you said there was a golf
links, and so far as I can see that is
the only means of recreation you
have to offer us in the country. Ot
course we are servants (this in the
same tone as if he had said ‘famous
generals’) but servants are in need
of recreation the same as anybody
else.’’
Some of ths agencies look more
like salons and tea rooms than like
business offices, and there is one on
Fifth avenue which looks like, and
has the same air of exclusiveness, as
a private art gallery. If you visit
this agency and apply for a job you
are interviewed in a small, square
little room, with a large desk and a
typewriter in it. If your need is one
servant, you are also apt to be in
terviewed in this room. But if you
want two or more servants, then you
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1920.
are led into another room, crowded
with paintings and statuary and
bowls of artificial flowers. Behind
an ancient mahogany drawing-room
desk, an elderly woman is seated
grandly on an antique, throne-like
chair. She is the agent, but she does
not look up from her book. Your
name, address, telephone number,
likes and dislikes, family history and
other details are taken down by an
other woman, who does the inter
viewing.
“Hmm,” says this woman, whom
you also gather by her own testi
mony, to be a distinguished person
age, “if you will come back tomor
row morning we will have one or two
people for you to see. It you do not
like them you might come back the
next morning. lam sure that event
ually we will be able to find what
you want. Os course, you understand
that you will have to pay whatever
they ask. The least you can obtain
a good cook nowadays is SIOO a
month and board. The butler will
also receive SIOO. I think I may pos
sibly be able to get you a nurse-maid
who will come for $75 a month. Gen
eral houseworkers? Oh, there are
practically no such persons as gen
eral houseworkers any more; at least
we have none on our list.”
THE CONDECENDING HELP
Interviewing the domestics them
selves is not much more encourag
ing. It is really they who do the in
terviewing. It is you who must ex
plain how magnificent are your sur
roundings, how sterling is your char
acter, and how gentle and obliging is
your disposition. It is they who sit
comfortably back in their chairs, eye
you appraisingly, and finally tell you
that the will consider you, mention
ing several other elegant opportuni
ties. The first one graciously intro
duced to us by the agent the other
day was Carmen.
Carmen wore an imitation seal
skin coat, topped with cheap fur, into
which sank her two or three massive
chins. Her hat clung waveringly to
the side of a scanty coiffure, and she
constantly pushed it back to what
was evidently its proper angle
throughout the interview.
“How much do you pay?” was
Carmen’s first question.
“Eighty dollars,” we declared
promptly, thinking that such a one
as Carmen could not possibly demand
a hundred.
“That’s not very much,” Carmen
corrected us. “I don’t do any dishes
for that. What is the kitchen like?
I won’t work in any kitchen that’s on
a dark court. My room can’t be on
a court either. It-s got to get sun.
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How many are in your family?
How old are the children? My, that’s,
a bad age. It must be understood!
that they can’t come into the kitchen, w
Do you have plenty to eat —meat,
three times a day? People as stands,
on their feet all day long has got
to have plenty or meat. Well, I
don’t think I'd suit.
CARMEN WAS COY
By this, of course, Carmen meant
that we did not suit. So ran most oC
the other interviews held throughout
this busy morning. After visiting
six different agencies and meeting a
dozen or so royal nursemaids or
cooks, we were accepted only twice.
And we were not really on the hiring
line: we were merely investigating
conditions. How much more terrible
it must be for those who go the
rounds, armed not with imaginary?
facts and figures, but with grim,
realities.
Furthermore, most terrifying of
all is the fact that conditions are
not growing better but worse. Cooks ■
are more expensive this month than
they were last, and waitresses aro
willing to go to the seashore this
summer for twice as much as they
r-ceived last season. No relief is' '
in sight, either. A couple of months
ago, New Yorkers breathed a sigh
of this order when they read a dis
patch from the United States labor
department, saying that domestic
servants would now be given free en
trance to this country, but the sigh
proved to be premature.
Man’s life is full of struggles’
First, he struggles against soap,
then against discipline, then against
an education, then against matri
mony, then against baldness, and fi
nally against death—but they all get
him, soon or later!
Things no woman can forgive a
man for forgetting: A kiss, th*
point of a story, her birthday, the
color of her eyes, and the frock she
had on the first time they met.
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after love is dead, has that same
creepy effect on him as a hair that
clings to wet fingers, and can’t be <
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of the man who won’t turn from his
contemplation of a beautiful sunset
in order to stare after a red-headed
girl—but have you ever met him? .
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yours—and what’s yours is your
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