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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAI ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri- Weekly 'SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight monthssl.oo Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday2oc 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. 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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. % J 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- Side dress your Cotton with GERMAN POTASH KAINIT 20 per cent MANURE SALT and NITRATE OF SODA 100 pounds of Manure Salt go as far as 160 pounds of Kainit and have the same effect as a plant food and plant disease preventive— Neither one will injure your crop. 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Now both employer and em ploye meet in the office of the agency and fight the battle of prospective employment in one cor ner, while the agent retires to read a novel, play solitaire, or other wise occupy his abundant leisure. In the case of a delicatessen store, he sells groceries, returning only at the hour of victory or defeat as the case may be. After making a tour of several agencies, one begins to wonder if the difficulties in obtaining and keeping domestic servants are not in part due to the attitude of the agents, which in many cases, is one of studied insolence. Thej’ never lose an opportunity to tell their customers in the presence of a row of waiting domestics that the ser vant scarcity is so acute that the servants have the upper hand now; that people must resign themselves to paying any price for domestic help, and that the help Itself must be elaborately accommodated if it is to remain where it is put. After such a harangue, one wom an who wanted a butler and cook for a country house the other day, was informed by two applicants, presented by the agent, that if they came they would have to have two hours off each day to play golf, and that a car would have to be at their disposal whenever they 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. Dont Send a Penny We only wish that we had a bi{r enon 8 h Btock of wonderful shoes to prove to every man in the country that they are the most sensational shoe bargain ever offered. B ut supply is limited, and we can promise to fill orders only as long as they last—"first come, first served.” You must hurry to avoid disappoint ment. Listen: TheseLen-Mort Hard Knox. Black Solid Leather Work and OutDoorShoesare"wizards”forwear. % W IbMj the absolute limit in sturdy strength combined with comfort and drossy 1 appearance. Built on stylish lace HESSajiSSaSjyi Blucher last;drill lined;!eather insoles; guaranteed counters; two full solid leather soles—clinch nailed and sewed —running clear through to the solid. ... Strong heels that won’t come off. Wonderful shoe value. he illustration tells the etory. You see almost at Sal a glance why we are safe iDeaying“DON ’T SEND f A PENNY.” Note the rugged con gtruction the Wear-defying quality builtright ■-> - . iin, giving protection at every A z. v .point. So durable—so strong Hggsvriay. —yet so flexible, soft and Tj. 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I y v/O- *. f By buying Shield Brand Shoes, you I LOHUCSI will not have to make as many shoe I > J purchases, thus reducing your shoe costs. Ask your dealer for Shield Brand |1 I Shoes. | M. C. KISER CO. **Shield Brand Shoemakers ” /.TLANTA.GA. [ll 4 . SHIELD /M\ BRAND SHOES 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. A woman who clings to a man, after love is dead, has that same creepy effect on him as a hair that clings to wet fingers, and can’t be < shaken off. ' The true “artistic spirit” is that 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? . Hail America—the only country the world where, when a man mar ries a girl, he says “What’s mine is yours—and what’s yours is your own!”