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8 THE ATLANTIAN His friends throughout the state earn estly solicit your vote and support for Judge Richard B. Russell for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, in the Primary of Sept. 13 Through wide legal experience and service on the bench of the Superior court and State Court of Appeals, Judge Russell is unquestionably qualified for this office. He does not believe in life tenure in any public office. He does believe in election of public officials by the whole people.. He is himself, one of the people, well known from one end of the state to the other, as “Plain Dick Russell.” Your Vote for Judge Russell will be Appreciated Harding, Roosevelt, Wilson and the Coal Strike. The most surprising feature of the coal situation, without entering upon any discussion of the merits of the controversy, is this: With the average householder not knowing where or how he is going to obtain his winter supply, with various industries not knowing how they will obtain fuel to keep their plants in op eration during the winter, with the situation deadlocked between opera tors and miners, with a conference in session to try to arrive at a solution, President Harding delivers a charac teristic milk and water speech to the conference and resumes his vacational diversions. No one would deny President Hard ing the boyish delight he apparently experiences in freeing himself from the arduous cares of his high office when opportunity offers. But there is a time for work and a time for play. When the general interests of the public are threatened it is time to suppress the playboy instinct and to deal promptly with the matter at first hand. The surprise comes, therefore, when President Harding’s method of dealing with the acute coal situation is con trasted with those of former Presi dents Roosevelt and Wilson. The ques tion naturally arises would either of them in such a critical situation have delayed so long and then dealt with the matter in a temporizing manner and have left Washington at such a time? Would they virtually have said, “Let Herbert and Jim do it,” or would they have taken command of the sit uation themselves and pressed it to a solution? We know what they did under similar circumstances. President Harding owes a duty to the public in effecting a just settle ment of this coal controversy—in any event to protect the public interest. The coal situation is another test of his administration. As the Boston Herald (Rep.), says: “The coal operators are not on trial; the United Mine Workers are not on trial; Warren G. Harding, President of the United States, is on trial in this conference.” LET “PAT DO IT” 510 Courtland St. The Profiteers’ Tariff Bill Was Promulgated by Mr. Harding in 1920. The leading Republican newspapers of the United States have joined with the Democratic press and spokesmen in denouncing the pending Profiteers’ Tariff bill as a prohibitive tariff, pointing out that it would not raise the expected revenue needed by the Government, because it would shut out imports, and by shutting out im ports it would enable the American profiteers to raise their prices al most to the limit of the increased tariff rates. It is interesting to note that this is exactly the kind of a tariff that Mr. Harding advocated in his election campaign in 1920. In one memorable speech he advocated closing the doors to foreign made products. At Lima, Ohio, on October 6, 1920, he said to a crowd of workmen: “I want to bring to you the read justment after the World War which will maintain for the millions of American wage-earner the high stand- dard of pay which is theirs now. I caution you men that that can never happen under the policy of a party (the Democratic party) which believes in opening the doors of America to foreign-made products.” In other words, President Harding would maintain th e wages of Ameri can workmen of all classes at the 1920 standard by practically putting an embargo upon all foreign-made goods. The • American wage-earners know what has happened to the high stan dard of their 1920 pay. In fact of the present liquidation of labor, the prom ise held out by President Harding in his 1920 campaign seems like a mockery. The Four Horsemen of the Harding Administration. No more apt phrase was ever ap plied to the Harding administration than that by Senator Key Pittman (Dem., Nev.), in an interview in the Santa Fe New Mexican, when he said: “The Four Horsemen of the Hard- September, 1922 ing administration: Poverty, Distress, Disorder, Violence.” The achievements of the Harding administration as seen by Senator Pittman were epitomized as follows: “Foreign relations left in chaotic condition. “Our foreign commerce — there is none. “Millionaires’ taxes reduced; poor people pay. “The H. C. L. still is a terror. “Transportation charges increased. “Outrageous discriminations. “Perpetuation of long and short haul outrage. “Destruction of all State control over interstate commerce. “Producer and consumer are starv ing together. “Harding, Mellon, and Wall Street keep the soldier from bonus. “The Four Horsemen of the Hard ing administration are: “Poverty, “Distress, “Disorder, “Violence.” Senator Robinson (Dem., Ark.), who, like the Nevada Senator, always talks straight to the point, thought so well of Senator Pittman’s interview that he had it placed in the Congres sional Record. “Don’t forget, Mrs. Brownleigh is dining with us tonight.” “Yes. I must cut the leaves of her latest book.” Our Quick Deliveries Makes OURS the NEAREST STORE PROVANO’S West End Pharmacy LEE AND GORDON STREETS FIVE TELEPHONES