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10 THE ATLANTIAN September, 1922 VOTE FOR C. S. Robert FOR Chief of Construction For forty-one years a resident of this county. For 18 consecutive years County Surveyor of Fulton County. For past 6 years engaged in City Construction Department. Have never been charged with incompetence or with lack of fidelity to the work entrusted to me. My platform: A dollar’s worth of good work for each dollar the city spends in the Construc tion Department. Your Vote and Influence Will Be Appreciated sonally endorsed candidate for govern or, Carmi Thompson, received 172,500 votes. From the same precincts Mr. Thompson’s opponents received 243,- 153, divided between eight candidates. In other words, by a combined ma jority of 70,653 the Republican voters of Ohio expressed a preference for a candidate other than President Hard ing’s personally endorsed candidate for governor. There was only one way in which Ohio Republicans could have effec tively endorsed the Harding adminis tration and that was by giving Mr. Harding’s candidate for governor a clear majority over all of his competi tors. This they not only failed to do, but they gave a substantial combined majority against him. If this be endorsement, President Harding may make the most of it. LET “PAT DO IT” 510 Courtland St. Coming Events. (Extract from editorial in Boston Transcript, Aug. 12, 1922.) Nothing is to be gained by ignoring the fact that the failure of the Ad ministration in the current crisis is bound to have a bad effect upon the Republican campaign in the State which holds the right of the line in this election year—the State of the Vice President and the Secretary of War, the State also of the leader of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. . . . Those who believe, however, that the party in power of which he (President Hard ing) is the titular leader deserves an immediate rebuke by reason of its failure either to keep its campaign pledges or to meet the challenge of the hour, must either possess their souls in patience for another two years or make the Republican candidates in the battle ground States like Massa chusetts and Ohio the unwilling and to a large extent the undeserved ve hicles of the expression of the pre vailing popular disgust. . . . Presumably Vice President Coolidge, .Secretary Weeks, Senator Lodge and Speaker Gillett have failed to defend the Administration for the very good reason that they can find no defense for its failure. And when they attempt on the stump in the com ing campaign to deal with the dawd ling at Washington days and weeks and months, what is there for them to say? Four Republican Isms. Newberryism. Daughertyism. Nat Goldsteinism. Reactionism. Mr. Pomp (to applicant for butler’s vacancy): Have you had any expe rience ? Applicant: I have, sir. For three years I was butler to the Great Fea ture Film Company.—London Mail. Industrial Prosperity Prom ised; Industrial Idle ness Given. Some million and a half American workers are at present on strike. They are losing $50,000,000 a week in wages and the country is deprived of the fruits of their labor, the value of which is beyond the possibility of ex pression in terms of dollars and cents. The textile workers, who produce clothing, the coal miners who supply fuel, the railway shop men, who main tain the instrumentalities of transpor tation, and the trolley men who are necessary to quick and convenient transit in two cities—these are the larger groups of operatives who have quit their part in the nation’s industry as a protest against the reduction of their wages. Without attempting to assess or place the responsibility for the seri ous interruptions to production and transportation, it is nevertheless fair to point out that two years ago the Republican candidates and their sup porters promised the American work ers a golden age of prosperity and a practical insurance against unemploy ment and lower wages if they would only vote the Republican ticket. There were to be reforms in the government, an expert management of public affairs, a tariff that would uphold wages for those in industry and guarantee higher prices for those in agriculture. In this buzz and hum of industry every one was to be as busy and blithe as a bee gathering honey against the coming of winter. And, of course, this prosperity was to be of the famous Republican brand, warranted to last a lifetime. If any of the 3,000,000 unemployed through inability to find work and the 1,500,000 on strike against lower pay were lured by these Republican pic tures of dawning prosperity into vot ing for Mr. Harding and his Repub lican Congress they must be sadly un deceived by this time. If the farmer was misled by these promises of bet ter prices for his products, which since 1920 declines billions in value, he must share the worker’s disappoint ment and dissatisfaction. Not only has the Republican admin istration failed to bring a new and greater prosperity; not only has it failed to continue the prosperous con ditions which prevailed when it came into power, but has actually turned the. country’s previous prosperity into an industrial panic. Harding’s Double-Back-Ac- tion “Endorsement” in Ohio. President Harding’s official mouth piece in Washington, the Washington Post, publishes the ncttrly complete returns from Ohio under the following headline: "Landslide in Ohio Endorses Harding.” Let us see what kind of an endorse ment Ohio gives Mr. Harding. From 7,180 precincts, the President’s per- A. L. CURTIS DRUGS 35 W. MITCHELL STREET Atlanta, Georgia 37 Years in Business 27 Years at My Present Stand He Serves Best Who Serves Most My Motto Has Always Been “THE BEST” A. L. CURTIS DRUGS 35 W. Mitchell Street Atlanta, Georgia