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May, 1918
THE ATLANTIAN
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The Atlantian
Box 118, Atlanta, Georgia
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Organizations.
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makes a statement «-Mch we believe to be true, and such statement goes
uncontroverted, we shall Insist that It is true.
Published Monthly bv The Atlantian Publishing Co.
Vol. X. MAY 109
Our Motto: “Pull for Atlanta, or Pull Out ”
Editorial Etchings ||l
WE MUST STAND TO THE
ADMINISTRATION
It does not matter what party we adhere to or our per
sonal feeling’s towards the Administration, or individual
members thereof, it is clear as crystal that every loyal
American man and woman must give whole-hearted sup
port to our Government in its prosecution of this most
righteous and necessary war.
For something bigger than mere Democratic forms of
government is at stake.
Fidelity to contracts, obedience to law and international
justice upon which our present day civilization is based
hang in the balance.
It is, therefore, neither extravagant, nor a figure of
speech to say that the civilization which we have strug
gled through centuries to develop will be stricken down
if Germany wins. #
In its place we will have a brutal governing power
which recognizes no moral law, which claims that “might
is right,” which in cold blood is ready to destroy or en
slave weaker nations if they stand across the line of Ger
man’s material power, which will substitute for the occa
sional “robber baron” of the middle ages the “robber na
tion” of the twentieth century and which stands ready at
all times to exercise a “frightfulness” which will make
Attila and his Huns look like amateurs in cruelty.
The historians of the 25th century, should there be such,
will write with awe of the dreadful calamities brought
upon the world by a nation of scientific savages, and a new
standard of barbarism will be established where “Wil
helm and his Germans” will be the synoym for the most
awful scourge the world has ever endured.
That this scourge may be shortly ended, that the world
may be spared a long and dreary lapse into ultra barbar
ism, we must stand to the men we have placed in authorr
ity, through evil and good report, through mistakes and
blundering, through failure and success, until the “Mad
Mullah and his Legions” are beaten into the dust and a
saved world can sit down.in quietness to bind up its
wounds and to lay strong and secure the foundation of a
system which will make impossible such another disaster.
The Duty of Georgians to Plant
the Largest Possible Area In
Food Crops
England which is about the size of Georgia fed its pop
ulation from its own acres until the population exceeded
twelve millions.
Georgia can do the same thing. But due to a vicious
system which we allowed to grow up; with less than three
million people we have been buying our food from out
side our own borders at an expense of many millions ev
ery year.
Now we must face a condition. We can take our choice
between feeding ourselves and going hungry next win
ter.
The demands from Europe will increase rather than
diminish. We must meet that demand, even if we have
to go on short rations, unless we want Germany to win.
On the other hand if we of Georgia and the other South
ern states grow our own food crops and raise our own
hogs and cattle, our northern states can of their surplus
feed our European allies, we will win the war and can
start anew in the ways of peace with the comforting,
knowledge that we are at last self-supporting.
While wae are about it no harm will be done if we study
as to why the food producing states are so much better
off as to property, schools, and a few other things, than
the cotton growing states. We might get a profitable
idea into our heads, if they are not solid ivory.
Repave Whitehall Street
The citizen of Atlanta who travels and visits American
cities of our class is often pained by evidences of progress
in certain directions which are lacking in the home town
of which he is so proud.
He tries to comfort himself by thinking of the many
big things Atlanta has done but down in his heart he feels
that this, too, we ought to have done.
The loyal citizen of Atlanta has many heart burnings
because of the condition of many of the principal streets,
which condition of disrepair seems to be chronic.
At the present moment our great retail thoroughfare,
Whitehall street, is a crying shame as to much of its
length.
One is constrained to wonder as to what is the particu
lar kind of municipal hook-worn which so emasculates
our civic activities as to bring reproach upon us year after
year.
Does it never occur to our city fathers that these things
advertise us to others who see us as a slovenly municipal
ity lacking in civic pride? Does it never occur to them
that these things advertise us as lacking in business abil
ity and financial management?
Well, they do not advertise us just that way. Here is
a city which claims the greatest clearings in the South,
which has a vast manufacturing interest, which is one of