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The courts should mak'e an example
of the Memphis men who bought the
stolen Liberty bonds. This might
help to stop the sale of others stolen
all over the country and make them
of so little value to the thieves that
they would cease traffic in them.
Judging from the row which has
Laen raised all over Georgia, the state
ra’lroad commission must have been
nastreating cther communities like
'¢y have this one. Nobed* here
will ery when they get tucazd down
John Spencer in his funnyfolks col
umn in the Macon Telegraph is in
clined to laugh at the army aviator
who started across this country in an
airplane at an altitude of about three
miles and came back astride a bron
co. Hg forgets that one has to try
befor he can accomplish some things,
We ¢ay it again. You have theard it
often that yvour farm must raise the
food and feed stuff which it needs this
year. You must have ycur money for
other things. You should never stop
till you have made plans which will
instire feed and food for every person
and every living thing on your place.
i
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This countryshould do honor to
the army limlLeimpL whom the re
cords of the Red. Cross reveal as a
real hero. The Germans shot him ag
a spy, thoigh le wore a full American
uniform and then tried to bury all
trnn('t;s of the crime, They knew
the';f were outraging civilized melh
ods 'cf warfare,
There is an army captain in Atlan
ta who seemg to have been as care
lesg with the number of wives as was
the motherly woman who sought to
food her husband with triplets on her
fifty' fourth birthday. Three women
to whom thig gay army man is said
to have been married have shown up
in Atlanta—ang two of them sympa
thize.
An American, Miss Virginia Mackay
Smith, has just'xn:n‘ric(l (‘aptain Boy-
Ed., the l‘:nm;'ufi enemy of the United
States who lived so long in American
good graces in this country just priov
to the war with Germany. The only
extenuating cipcumstances in her case
is the fact 'll-,\‘ut both she and her
mother went to Germany for the mar
riage. We hope they remain there.
A Wyoming sheep raiser is coming
to scuth Georgia with a flock of sheep
to try sheep raising in this section.
He wont be {.‘cru long hefore he will
find this mn'ht':_\' too valuable to turn
to grazing likp |that in Wyoming.
Small flocks of sheep on many farms
in t!zis gtate. much like they are hand
1('(1( in Towasrand some of the other
richer \\'«"stoi;fii states, will be our best
course. ’
In one province in China reports
say all the ;éh'l- between the ages of
nine and fofrteen woro sold to stave
oft lnlnger."’:fihif’.'m:: thous And per™
sons died of starvation every twenty
four hours in tpe great famine which
{s still perilous. We fail to untet
stand why some form of assistance
has not been rondered in this country
to this cause.,
SHE'S THE LONE WOMAN.
We've got our opinion of Sister
Felton’s political activities, but
we'll not mention it, since Edi- j
tors Woodall and McGinty have
written suep awful things about
Shope, Charline Brown and others
who dared to criticise “Tive Grand
¢ld Woman.”—-Madisonizn.
It is not at all out of pkace to call
attention to the fact that she's the
lone woman lrelonging ito the hell rais
in’ bunch. It is indeed unfortunaie for
Georgia that this woman will take
Tom Watson to hold up to th: wo
men of thig state as an example to
follow in the very Meginning of their
political activitics, Tom Wation is
Georgia’s greatest woman fraducer
because he proceeds to that kind of
statesmanship in the open and then
says it isn't so in the face of a whole
town full of decent men and women
—and Old Lady Felton helps him to
convince the rest of the state that he
[i,a; a great martyr to principle. The‘
little town of Buford knows his kind
—and Old Lady Felton kaows, and
both of them may well know that the
people of Georgia will find out somsa
day not far in the future.
The woman who ties nerself to the
Watson-Hardwick Hearst, Barrett-
Brown gang ig going to find herself
in small ccmpany before long. But
why worry about Old Lady Felton?
She doesn’t believe in taxes for the
maintenance of state public institu
tions. She is raising the roof be
cause of tax burdens when she knows
her kind is responsible. This sgiate
is well nigh bankrupt because the
funds have been ddished out to the
counties for school purposes the hsti
two or three years in larger sums than
the counties paid. Many a county
bas drawn more money from the state
treasury in recent yearé for its‘
schools than its total tax remittance
to the state amounted to. |
" This ig a habit of the Watson strip»
'of statesmen in the legislature, They
| believe in getting more from the state
!trn:nsury than they put into it—some
;lhlng for nothing. _'l‘hls state shomld
lstop its foolish, suicidal method of
fathering th'e school gystems for the
i(‘uuntins. Tiey should be made to
i pay their own way—ang mad: to nay
,(mt of the peckets of their own citi
| Z€ns. We have a plan of that kind
!gning into effect this year—and g'ad
| of jt, we should gay so!
% The moonshiners and midnight rid
‘“-r.u. the Ku Klux bands, if you please,
do not want any scheols. They do
not want any churches, need no taxa
tion to run the government, for they
want no government. Old Lady Fel
ton knowg this and for popularity
she advocates upturning the tax sys
ltom in Georgia. She knows her sup
porters, but she is old enought that
she should bend her gray hairs in
shame—honest, repentant shume." |
This same gang is doing its vor,v%
best to raid the treasury o° the stato |
and squander the reoad funds whick
have been gathored from automobiie
taxes during the past year. Under
the roaq laws we have made a tremen
dously important gtart on paved
roads—and thig gang is going to des
troy every vestige of it if possible—
and Old Lady Felton is assisting these '
plunderers in their efforts. She i\l
not responsible for all the ills, but asj
long as she travels in this company
~and capitalizeg from such an inglm‘n-l
‘ ous, rotten condition of affairs in the
“stutv-— she is wrong and any sincere
l citizen loyal to nis state’s best inter-
Cests need not apoligize when he says
it
’ Respect her gray hairs! Wh_v.l
! bless you, we do, but we charge that
!shc is old enough to know and does
| know the folly of her ways. It isn't
!u sincere effort at reform. Her very
lugo speaks out against her conduct
';uml makes it all a lie,
| e
That Greenville postmaster who
l wanted to play golf with Harding for
irv;umnimnwnt to office understands
| like most other democrats that it will
[ 1 an off qay with all but the true and
".t.r.u;{! G, O. P, If he is the sportsman
| his banter would indicate, he expects
| L ereased pair of skids®: somgwhere
‘.-'h»s‘x to March Fourth, ! B
A . Our present production of hvdro
lv‘mer power is ronghly equivalent
10,000,008 tons of coal.
CHILDREN AND HABITS,
' Mothers are often hreard to say,
“My children have such untidy habits,
':md I don't seem to be able to break
them. T talk all day long, but it
doesn't do any good.”
No mother needs to endure her
children's untidy habits, or any other
undesirable pabits, if she goes about
training in the right way, and is wil
ling to take a little trouble to carry it‘
out, Four gimple rules bagled on psy-i
chology, may serve to give such{
mothers an insight into the meang of;
forming right habits. If carried out
faithfully, these rules cannot fail to
produce results.
First, decide for yourgelf what hab
it you wish to form, Then start en
thusiastically and determinedly to
break the old and launch the new one.
Say to your children, “Beginning to
day, we are all going to hang up our
wrans, and put our beooks and rublfers
in the proper places when we come
hoine from school. Let’s see who re
méemberg every time, and dcesn’t have
to have Mother tell her once ahout
4t.” Arcuse as much enthusiasm as
you can about the matter. Be careful
that you do not start to break and
form anew many habits at one time.
Select one or two habits to work on
and keep at th'em until you are rea
sonably sure that they are well fixed‘
Then start on another. |
Second, permit no exceptions to ‘oc-‘
cur after you have once started. No‘
matter how good the intentiong of the |
children are, they will lapse into th'e]
old ways after a few days. That is
when you will have to work. You
will find that eternal vigilance on
your part will be the price of your
children’s good habits. When Mary
conmes home in a hurry to go out to
iplay, she will throw her books on the
nearest chair. Don’t say, “Oh, well
she is little ,anq it is hard to remem- |
ber all the time. I'll let her go this l
fime.” That iy whare you will fail.
Even though Mary has already gone
away to play, she should be called
back immediately and told in a kind
manner, “You forgot your books to
day. Put them away, and then you
may go to play.” One or two exper
iences of that kind will soon mnkel
Mary more careful.
Third, repeat the desirable action
'as often as possible, We all know
that the habit is most firmly fixed
which we have belen practicing long
est. Seize every occasion to perform
the act which you wish to become a
habit and its acquisition will come all
the sooner,
Last of all, act, don’t talk. As Pro
fessor James says, in his Talks to
Teachers, “Don’t preach toc much ovr
abound in good talk in the abstract.”
When Mary throws her coat on flhe
floor and her rubbers in the middle
of the hall, don't tell her that nice lit
tlo girls don’t de those things, m 3 that
she is a careless girl and should know
better, and a great deal more to'that
effect. Simply call her as sooh as
you discover what she hag done, and
tell per quietly and good-naturedly to
put her things away immediately, and
then see that she does it. Such treat
ment ag this is far more effective than
mere talking,
THEY CAN'T GET HIM.
Those democratic congressmen
and senators who can't find any
thing better to do than “jump on”
Judge Kennesaw Mountain Lan
dig might as well be making an
assault upon the old mountains,
here in Cobb County, from which
Jmlg}\ Landis got his unusnal
name.—Marietta Journal.
Jude Landis is gBtting a much bet
ter baseball salary than a United
States qistrict judge ought to be draw
ing from a side line. We doubt wheth
er the dignity of the department of
justice in the United States will not
be impaired, but impdachment for
high crime and misdemeanor by a
bunch of political enemies is not the
way to settle it. It .only goes to
show the inside make-up. We doubt
the wisdom of his trying to hold to
both jobs, but we also doubt the wis
dom of the :notl{ods employed to stop
A e
It costs more io send a h:\l;o» of
goods by, ;_‘[ruck» across Manhattan
than to ship the same bale from
New York to Buenos Aires.
THE CORDELF: DISPATCH
LIES ABOUT PUBLIC
OWNERSHIP BRANDED
- The National Association of Ral
way and Utilities Commissioners has
met and spoken. It has considercd
the matter of public ownership and
pronounced it 100 per cent bad.
More than 3,500 cities, including
every great city in America, cwn
and operate public water works and
most of them have done so for half
a century.
These cities have reduced the cost
of water to an average of 43 per cent,
less than that charged hy private
companies, have paid or are paying
for the plants ont of the earnings
and making a profit besides.
Chicago has made as much s
$3,000,000 on its plant in a single
year with a rate considerably lower
than those charged by private compa
nies and the highest wages and best
labor conditions of any similar plant
in the country,
- Omaha, which took over its plant
jonly a few years ago, has made cix
different and successive reductions
in the rates charged for water.
There were 2,318 cities owning and
eperating municipal light and power
plants in the United States in 1917.
:Di(l our Railway and Utility Commis
‘sicners never hear of any of these?
- Did they never hear of the Cleve
and Municipal Electric Light plant
that sells and has for years been sel
ling electric current at 3 cents a
kilowatt hour, maximum rate—ahout
one-third the average charge of pri
vate companies? And making a prof
it of $194,000 a yeap besides?
These gentlemen say that public
ownership has failed everywhere
What idiots the people of these 2,3118
cities must he to keep up a system
that is a failure!
Have ocur 'Honorable Commission:
ers never heard of the Hydro Electric
Pecwer Commission of Ontario, a
state owned system mnow supplying
nearly 200 cities with electric service
at about one-third the cost they
paid before and making money at
that? If not, we will gladly furnish
them with reports showing the splen
did success of this: great plant.
Public ownership a failure! There
are 54 nations that < now own and
cperate all or a considerable propor
tion of their railway systems; near
iy all own their telegraph and tele
phenes; while cities and states own
and successfuly operate-many differ
ent kinds of public utilities. o
New Orleans and Seattle own and
suceessfully operate great port and
terminal facilities; Chicago a $4.000 .
TO A!D NEGRO FARMERS
Savannah Morning News The con
ference of negro farmers of Georgia
at the agricultural and industrial ia
stitution for near youth neay Thun
derbolt is an event of more than pas
sing importance. These conferences
are intensely practical and are plan
ned to meet just the situation ameng
the negro farmers in this state at
this time. The earnest colored farmer
hac nothing of which to compiain in
the matter of expe{t assistance in
easy acessibility—if he will avail him
self of the aid offered. To teach him
the better methods of land prepara
ticn, cuitivation, seed selarction,
sieck raising, improving home sur
roundings and living ceoaditisns—
these are some of the objectives in
the conferences held annually in the
school, whith is a part of the uni
versity sysitem of the state. The De
nartment of Agriculture during the
last yecar has employed in sections
where the population is largely coi
ored and agricultural, 158 negro dem
onsgtration agents, 74 negro women
agénts. and two negro field agents.
In addition the extension department
of the government and of the State
College of Agriculture have in every
counity sought earnestly to be of ser
vice td the negro farmer in ev
ery wayv, holding special institutes
and offering short courses on in
struction in man: subjects for these
colored tillers of tb oil, Negro fairs
1Y et
Batteries
At reduced 1)1'i:c:o§.l“‘ T\':
pert repairs made. on ~:mg'l3
make of battery.: To.st«i
Eing‘ and water free. i
CORDELE BATTERY €O,
000 erectrc light and power plant
and a LWB,OUO,COO water work system;
San Frdancisco’s municipal street
car lines s\'\h,kceps the 5 cent fare
“whence all bul them have fled.”
~And .in Europe)jliterally thousands
of citice own and successfully oper
ate street car lines (‘,‘}ectric light and
Zas plants, water works, slaughter
heuses and many other utilities.
The Public Owrership: fLeague of
America has collected yiand has on
file the reports of innamerable in:
stances of most striking end gratify
ing success of public ownapship of
all kinds from all sections of the
world. Our information is at:the ser
vice of the honorable commissioners
or anybody else for that mgtter,
who realiy wants the truth. Address
us at 1439—127 North Dearbomn
Street Chicago. b
The report of the Railway and
Utility Commissioners says that no
Letter illustration of the results of
public ownership is needed than the
recent operation of the railroads by
the United States government,
As ‘a matter of'fact, there was no
public ownership about it.
"The United States Government did
not own a spike or a tie. The rail
roads hbelonged to the private own
ership all the time.
And, what is more, the same mana
ger managed them that are manag
ing them now. It was no test of pub
lic ownership in any sense of the
word.
The people of the United States
are spending something like $6,000,:
000 a year on its Interstate. Com
merce Commission; I§l‘aciica]l}' every
State has a commission that costs
the- people from one to. two hundred:
thousand dollars more .And they have
been at it-now for ten, twenty and
thirty years. Have rates been re:
duced? Have freight . rates or pas
senger rates been reduced? Has the
cost of living been reduced? Has the
service been improved? Has the
watering of stock been stopped? i
Nothing of the . kind. The people
have spent enough on these utility.
commissions and. their futile if not
fraudulent efforts to have bought out
most of the utility concerns and it
is certainly quite as easy to own and
operate them as it is to get any et
fective -regulation. . |
And.as. for . their pppu]alj_ity——thei
commissioners are probably ‘whist-‘
ling to keep up their courage at this
point.
have uniformly exhibited splendid
specimens of the results which intel
ligence combined with industry can
achieve for the megro farmer. The
crops of hundreds of negro farmers
demonstrate the progress they are
making. And the responsible megro
leadership of the South ds co-operat)
ing with this extension work more ef:
fectively than ever bhefore.
CHOOSING OF JURY, PASTORS -
_ TRIAL PROVES DIFFICULT
Soperton, Ga. Fiy 22 —From sev:
enty-five jurymen challeuged at the
all of Ross Hooks, Treutlen county
minister charge with 1 vrder, begun
in superior court this morning only
three weore selected. Judge Graham
drew sevenly more men for jury du
tyand the drawing was resumed in
the afternoon. Record crowds are in
afteridaiice at the —minister’s trial,
an(ltthv excitement locally is intensc
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