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do many foolish things in a governmental way but when
it comes to fundamentals we have shown a decided aversion
to too radical changes.
We know the old building, it has served our purpose
for nearly a half century, and is by no means too weather
beaten for use, and so in the usual American way we' de
cided to put on some new guttering, a new roof, strengthen
a weak place or two in the foundation, and give the old
ranch house a new coat of paint, all of which can be done
in less time and one-tenth the expense involved in the new
experiments proposed by the new charter people—for we
can repair an old house when the frame is good for a frac-
Juiy, 1922.
tion of the money and time that it will cost to tear down
and build anew.
The matter is now settled. It behooves us, therefore,
to join ourselves together in a common bond of good fel
lowship and good citizenship and prove by our deeds of
civic righteousness and forward looking movement that
what our fathers did so well in their day has inspired us to
an emulation resultful in a high degree and always con
trolled by the spirit of unselfishness without which our la
bors will be vain.
As our fathers struggled to build for us, so it is our
plain and pleasant duty to build even better for our children.
Senator Caraway (Dem. Ark.) Does
Not Fail To Call a Spade a Spade
“Cuckoo” Working Overtime on the Tariff Discussion.
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Washington, July 1.—All of Wash
ington, except in official circles, and
presumably the country at large, is
having a quiet laugh at Senator Mc-
Cumber’s freak tariff exhibit in the
Senate. The chairman of the finance
committee seems to have followed the
old P. T. Barnum axiom that “the
people like to be humbugged,” so he
staged a tariff exhibition with trick
exhibits. Practically none of the ar
ticles exhibited except a tablecloth,
some napkins, a watch and a knife are
in common use among the people. As
freaky as some of the exhibits were,
the most marvelous and startling are
yet to come, according to Senator
Thaddeus H. Caraway (Dem., Ark.),
probably the ranking satirist of the
Senate.
“I have been informed,” said Sen
ator Caraway, “that among the most
interesting things they yet have to
bring on in this circus is a roulette
wheel. They seem to think that is one
of the necessary household utensils.
They also have in the room below a
statue of a lady minus her clothes,
and a bottle of prunes. I do not know
who is to be ring-master when that
particular circus is brought in, but
how appropriate it was that the first
circus opened with a cuckoo.”
The cuckoo referred to was in a
clock, of which Senator McCumber
was the exhibitor, and when Senator
John Sharp Williams tickled the clock
under the chin to make the cuckoo ap
pear, the whole durn thing collapsed.
“The cuckoo,” Senator Caraway ex
plained, “is a bird which lays eggs in
some other bird’s nest, and how appro
priate it is to open a tariff discussion
with a cuckoo. They next opened with
a monkey.”
When Senator Pomerene, with rare
indulgence in facetiousness, inquired,
“Where is the organ grinder?” Sen
ator Caraway replied that the Senator
from Indiana (Mr. Watson) was the
organ grinder. “I am sorry he is not
present,” he added, “but unless there
is some organ for him to grind, he
never is here.”
Senator Caraway summed up the
exhibition as follows:
“It strikes me, if I may interrupt
the Senator from North Carolina (Mr.
Simmons) that it is appropriate for a
party which has become so absolutely
helpless that the papers of its own
faith are denouncing it for its incom
petency to open a show here in the
Senate with a cuckoo and conclude it
with a monkey. They are so typical,
so entirely typical, of the capacity and
the performances of the party, I am
sure that the people who elected them
will appreciate that they have run
true to form.”
The contention of the Republican
Senators who made the freak tariff
exhibit was that these articles were
purchased for a few cents on the
other side, mostly in Germany, and
sold over here for dollars, and that,
therefore, in order to protect the
American manufacturer, a high tariff
duty was necessary. The cuckoo
clock will serve as an illustration for
the “catch” or the “trick” in these
exhibits. The clock is said to have
cost 94 cents in Germany, retailing
here for $22, or a t a profit of 2,240
per cent. Just how such a clock could
continue to compete at these prices
with clocks made in the United States
was not of course made clear. The
trick is in the exchange on Germany.
The cost price, as stated, is at the
present value of the German mark in
American money, while it is practi
cally certain that the clock was bought
for import months ago when the mark
was worth three, four or five times
as much as it is worth now.
Another phase of this trick show
ought to have great interest for the
American people. If it were literally
true that an article costing 94 cents
or an approximate sum, is being sold
at retail for approximately $22; if a
knife said to have cost 7 cents, is
being sold at retail for $5, it is ob
vious that somebody is profiteering,
and that the freak tariff show, staged
by the Republican tariff tinkers and
sleight-of-hand men in the Senate,
should have been staged in the office
of the attroney general and the ex
hibits marked for the grand jury, so
that that terror of profiteers and evil
doers, Attorney General Daugherty,
could he as successful in putting
somebody in jail as he once was in
getting them out.
The so-called third deficiency bill
for 1922, which is in reality a fourth
deficiency bill for the current year,
carrying $40,043,012.31, is under dis
cussion in the House at this writing.
This bill makes the total deficiencies
for the current fiscal year $345,622,-
513.82. There is no serious objection
to the bill, and it is interesting main
ly because of the repeated statements
of the director of the budget, which
find an echo from the White House,
that he is saving money to the peo
ple of the United .States since the
budget went into operation.
If the director of the budget is sav
ing money, “clearly be is not saving
it by reducing the appropriations made
by Congress,” as Representative
Byrnes (Dem., S. C.) pointed out.
“Clearly,” Mr. Byrnes continues, “he
has not cut out any expenditures
which were authorized by Congress
and for which appropriations were
made.”
Mr. Byrnes explained that if the
director of the budget has prevented
some department from making expen
ditures not authorized and not appro
priated for by Congress he might be
correct in some measure, but it would
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