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April, 1922.
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TffE ATLANTIAN
' As a banker he is one of the most prudent and sa
gacious in the state. He has served the state ably and well
in both houses of the General Assembly. For eight years
as state head of the Federal Internal' Revenue Department
he was easily one of the most capable in that service, in any
part of the Union. A genuine democrat (with a little d)
he counts his friends almost by his acquaintances. His ten
der of service comes at an opportune time. In his capable
hands the Department of Agriculture would render price
less service to the farmers of Georgia, and, therefore, to
all the people, for farming is our big industry. His record
is so well known, so filled with accomplishment, that no
other guarantee is needed as to the quality of service. His
only motive is to do something for the people of his native
state, and if the people should elect him, as we believe they
will, we can look forward to a period of constructive work
for the farmers which will put Georgia at the top of the
list of agricultural states, and incidentally will enormous
ly increase farm land values, a consideration not to be
overlooked. It would be refreshing to see the people use
good judgment by putting this capable man in the Com
missioner’s chair.
HENRY FORD AND MUSCLE SHOALS
Big money and its political allies are squirming and
twisting and intriguing to keep Ford from getting con
trol of the great waterpower at Muscle Shoals.
Unless the American people are very alert this oppor
tunity to harness that great power for public use as against
the present policy of grabbing for private profit, will be
lost for all time.
Ford is undoubtedly the greatest industrial genius of
our day. His policy of moderate profits, good wages and
honest goods has built up the most wonderful organiza
tion of this generation. He does not need any more money.
He does not need any more business. He is not a young
man, and yet when the matter was brought to his atten
tion, he acted promptly, as he always does, and made an
offer, the acceptance of which would mean infinite labor
for him, and infinite benefit to the American people.
The parasites who had been sitting quietly by waiting
for the plum to drop into their mouths, woke up to instant
activity like a nest of angry hornets and have been bring
ing every ounce of power at their command to bear to de
feat this great American in his most commendable pur
pose. •
Mr. Ford always lives up to his platform promises. He
says that if Muscle Shoals is put at his disposal, he will de
velop there 800,000 horsepower and give work to 800,000
men. Can you imagine what that would mean? None of
us can fully grasp the magniture of his statementj|ijjj^
much we do know; that in one year
be the scene of the greatest activity on
two years we would see taking shape
trial development of the world, and in
see three millions of industrious and thr»>%£$
Tennessee Valley, sending their products all over the world,
and turning out a huge tonnage of the fertilizing elements
which would enable the farmers of several big states to
greatly increase their crops in order that the Muscle Shoali
workers might be fed.
The American man with a grain of intelligence and r
drop of patriotic blood who at this juncture does not raise
his voice in insistent demand that Ford’s offer be accept
ed is either too sodden in selfishness to care, or else is in
sympathy with the parasites who have so long bamboozled
and bled us.
Stop just one minute and think what it would mean to
Georgia to have three million more people with mouths to
be filled and bodies to be clad in easy reach of us and the
products of our fields.
After thinking that minute—GET BUSY.
A WONDERFUL GEORGIA STATESMAN
Georgia can sure cut a swath when she tries. Some years
ago the people riz up and elected that horny-handed and
loyal son of toil, the Hon. John Jonah Brown, to be Com
missioner of Agriculture. The Hon. John Jonah had some
excellent qualifications, he had a lusty pair of lungs and
an iron jaw, which never wearied nor stopped for a day in
his asseverations of loyalty to the other sons of toil and
what he intended to do for them. He has lived up to his
declarations, barring one little discrepancy. That little
difference was kind o’ serious. He had promised to do
things for the folks, and he got things mixed up and did
things to ’em-—in fact, he did ’em a plenty. Speaking in
the vernacular, it must be admitted that “he did ’em up
Brown.” To^he tune of several hundred thousand dollars
of the tax money the Hon. Jonah did up the folks, in return
for which they had the profound satisfaction of knowing
that they had gained the most verbose and vociferous Agri
cultural Commissioner in the country, to say nothing of
his marvelous ingenuity in creating or finding jobs for his
friends at the state’s expense.
A little while back, everyone concluded that the Hon.
John Jonah had exhausted the possibilities of the case, but
they had underestimated the industrious farmer who pre
sides over the destinies of our great agricultural interests.
They forgot that he rises at daylight and is thinking hard
when most of us are drawing up the bed covers for another
little nap, and thus his latest and most remarkable discov
ery developed. It dawtoed upon him that the state had no
Bee Inspector, and simultaneously there came the thought
that in all Georgia there was no man more thoroughly
qualified for this vitally important job than Brown, Jr.
The Hon. J ohn Jonah is no sluggard when it comes to action
of the kind which constitutes his chief and favorite pur
suit, to wit: fortifying himself in the job—so promptly
Rrbwn, Jr., became Bee Inspector.
■Had he not in the days of his youth robbed the humble
Hfd rather dull Bumble Bee of the few drops of honey
Rich that not too industrious creature had laid away for