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BIBLE THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY
THE WAY OF LlFE—‘“Hearken, O
Igrael, unto the statutes and unto
the judgments, which I teach you
for to do them, that ye may live.”
Deut. 4:1.
Weather favors good crops in this
section. Pests are after the cotton,
no less than five or six differont
types of sucking insects, but the cot
ton s growing and the cultivation is
in fine shape. We are on the way
with a fine crop. Promises now urf-l
fine.
Agitation can have its ill effects
among the bhest of people. It does
not look reasonable, though. for Brit
ish labor to have been influenced by
anything from Russia—except money.
The Britich government is concerned
today with the problem of soviet mon
ey in the recent strike which gave
the country so much trouble and
which is yet not settled.
Jim Reed’s hatreq for anything that
looks like a nooze for “likker” is
leading him afield in the probe of
‘fl‘l.e‘ Pennsylvania primary. To watch
him is to be sure that he wants a
fisticuff battle with Wayne Wheeler
~or nothing. What the anti-saloon
league expended is, of course, a mat
ter of interest, but it isn’t all that
much larger than what the magnates
and election bosses spent for control
of the situation. Reed has a big
chMp on his shoulder for the prohibi
tion forces and it is hothering him.,
We take it that John Holder is an
announcedq candidate for governor.
His friends put him in the race, if
we must judge from news accounts,
Now, will he and his friends tell us
that they are not going to let the
highway paving suffer in the race
which he expects to make! John
Holder has a large job. It is too
big for an honest head executive to
care for in honest manner and then
honestly yield to honest friends to
miake an honest race for governor at
the same time. But then this is
honest John MHolder. May be he is a
different sort of man,
PAY PROFESSORS MORE
American colleges put too much
money into buildings and not enough t
into brains, in the opinion of lh'.|
Ernest Cohen, eminent Dutch chemist )
who is lecturing at Cornell prior to i
visiting other American universities.
Dr. Cohen, who is professor of phy
sical chemistry at the University of
Utrecht and president of the Inter
national Congress of Pure and A]rl
plied Chemistry, Dbelieves that al- |
though higher education in America
is rapidly approaching FEuropcan l
standards, the importance of physical
equipment is over-emphasized here, ‘
“If a private individual gives to
one of your universities,” he said, |
“a large proportion of the gift goes |
into buildings. In fact, it would seem |
that there is too much competition in |
this respect, with the result that your
young people are tempted to chose
their colleges on the basis of physi
cal rather than scholastic advantages,
“Of course your educational plants
offer extraordinary facilities, particu
larly for professional training, and !
think it will not be leng before yvou
can match Europe in scholarship. But
“the development of your universities
" depends upon the maintanance of the
;;‘iiicillfles on the highest standacds.
. You should pay your professors moic
~—at least as much, surely, as you pay
your artisans and mechanics. The
average university salary in Europe,
I bhelieve, is well above the average
henorarium roceived by the profess
os in this country,”
‘ THEY REVISE SPEECHES
The folks back home may think
{that when they read the Congression
il Record they are getting the real
facts about what happens in Congress,
but hoth the Senate and the House
recontly have been reminded that any
such supposition is a fallacy,
Most of those who scan the official
ieport of the Congressional debates
long since have recognized the signi
ficance of that constantly-recurring
item: “Mr. Whozis addressed the
Senate, His remarks will appear
horeafter in the Appendix.” It usually
inecany that some Senator has decid
ol to sleep on what he has said, after
e has said it, and perhaps blue-pen
~il some of it before it goes out to
the country,
But only within the last few weeks
nag it become the fashion to speak
frankly about another practice—that
of revicing the stenographer’s notes
on the same day, so that the reader
{ the next morning’s Congressional
Record finds nothing to arouse his
suspicion,
Senator Reed broached the subject
after a tilt with Senator Borah during
Ichate on the Italian debt settle
ment., The Pennsylvanian had chal
)h-nm d the truth of a statement mndel
by his colleague from Idaho. In the‘
§nnxt day's Record Senator Reed
j!nnnd that the form of the statement
to which he took exception had been
changed. e thereupon told the sen
ate in open session that Senator
porah had “revised” his speech after
‘elivery, and reaq to Senators what
the Idahoan actually had said, and
what he was represented as saying
in the Congressional Record,
In the heat of the farm relief fight
in the House, Rep. Aswell of Louisi
sna called attention from the floor
to a revision made by Rep. Brand of
‘Ohio, in a speech delivered by the
Jatter the day before. Aswell imme
diately was taken to task by other
members who hinted broadly that the |
Louisianian should not be telling'
tales out of school.
“Kverybody revises tieir remarks,”
said Aep. Carter of Oklahoma, “The
sentléman from Louisiana does, and
I do. We go to our offices late in
the afternoon, anxious to finish up
our work, and revise the record; and
ometimes we recognize things in the
record next day that we wish we had
not said. 1 have no doubt the gen-
Jdeman from Louisiana has had that
xperience.”
That virtually ended the argument.
CEORGIA SENT POWDER
Although the battle of Bunker Hill,
the 151st anniversary of which was
June 17, was fought in Massachuselts
and by New England folk, CGeorgia
in the far south played an impurmm‘
part in it by furnishing the major
portion of the all too scant supply of
sunpowder, :
On May 10, 1775, a special courier
arrived in Savannah, Dbringing the
first news of the battle of Lexington
on April 19, Some of the bolder
men of the colony of Georgia took
immediate steps to “do thoir bit,"}
oven if the scene of action was a
thousand or so miles away. In the
magazine, built of brick and buried
fwelva foet underground, was stored
i u)!llfi::::::i\'vl_\' large amount of am
munition which Governor \\'right‘
i«!uomml unnecessary to protect, |
~ The colonists felt there were Ilrlt-‘
'ish to be Kkilled and they argued they
might as well be killed with their
lown gunpowder. A party composed
!nf Noble Wymberly Jones, Joseph
:!l:lh\‘l'flllilm. Edward Telfair, William
"\}ihhuns, Joseph Clay, John Milledge
and others whose names are indeli-
I bly written in Georgia's history, was
{ organized. They broke into the maga
!zim' and took 600 pounds of gunpow
‘(lor.
| Governor Wright offered a reward
‘m‘ 150 pounds for the arrest of the
|nl‘fvuders. but found no takers., The
‘gunpu\\‘dvr was sent to Beaufort, 8.
\ tor safe-keeping and was then sent
ion the next boat to Boston, where,
!in the Battle of Bunker Hill, it illumi
in:nml the opening drama of hostili
ties. : e bgt
AND THEN MAKE A JOKE
l The democrats did not “make
the issue” of the use of the slush
fund in the Pennsylvania pri
mary. The amount was so cnor- |
mous that it made an issue itself,
This Is not a political issue, but
a challenge to the 'puhlic safoety.
Every good citizen will rzad the
sign over the Pennsylvania car
manguale “Stop, look and listen,”
~~Savannah Press,
And then may we ask, will they
make a joke of it and pass on? We
gaw a late picture of George Whar
ton Pepper with a grin on hiz face
which indicated that the experier cos
he had in the Pennsylvania primary
were not all pleasing, We veature
}lhn agsertion that it will b anade
known before Jim Reed and his cou }
mittee are through with the probe
that Pepper will have been shown up
as the man who spent more money
for an office than any other Amer
fecan has—and then missed it,
And besides, we do not see that
the democrats will ever have to apolo
zize for having made an election is
sue of this monstrous cffort to pur
chase a seat in the United States
genate; ;T_be Newberry case is the
play of a child in comparison,
IS THIS 80, SAVANNAH? B
We do not like the source from
which it came—not a word of it, but
we ara told through the Atlanta Con
stitution this morning that ocean
freight rates from South Atlantic
ports for traffic originating in Ceon
tral Freight Association territory for
certain foreign destinations will bc'
the same as from Northern ports.
This is the result of a twenty-year
fight to end the preferential rates
which the Northern ports have en
joyed.
It is said that this will remove
a gross inequality which has existed
for nearly half a century in favor of
northern ports. This is hard to be
lieve. Many a perzon in the south
never new that a shipping concern
up east and around the ports of Bos
ton, New Yorg, Baltimore and Phila
i.lrlphiu cotld put on an ocean rate
s 0 much cheapar than those that
‘could be offered at ports in the south
’lhat it would pay a shipper far in the
south to ship his goods by rail to
Boston or New York to be sent to
foreign countries.
~ We do not know what has been the
cause of these discriminatory rates,
but they have been there so long till
Charleston and Savannah and Jack
sonville and Tampa have done only a
village business in foreign shipping
as compared with Boston and the
other eastern and northern ports.
These southern cities have hag time
to develop into large shipping centers,
but they have remained small through
rank dizerimination, working handi
caps they could not overcome,
These are handicaps over which The
Dispateh elaimed Savannah could not
come when it went after its port ter
‘minals through use of the credit of
the state of Georgia. We hope that
wo wore mistaken and that Savannah
{nnw has the same foreign trade foot
ing that eastern and northern ports
Rave. The large rail trunk lines, tlm‘
large shipping lines, the international
bankers up cast, the jobbers and their
armies of sales people, have all map
ped their business through Boston,
New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore
and it would take milliong to put a
southern port on an even footing.
We think what went to the Consti
tution was, mayhap, a “tip"” intended
for advertising purposes—to tell more
lsoutlwrn people the rates out of New
work to foreign ports were lower than
out of a southern port. DBut if it is
true—if that long fight is over, and
we are on an equal footing—there
will be some reason in Savannah and
Brunswick to throw up a few of the
old hats and rejoice.
Northern and eastern big business
has dominated in these rate inequali
ties much in the same manner as they
have in imposing the tariff laws up
'.m consumers of American mmmndi-!
ties, They have done it by main force
‘ —using politics and national elections
‘m got the advantages. International
pankers in New York are powerful
l;ls ¢czars. Where they say businoss
|nnml go, it goes. It may be true,
Ilmt we do not understand all of it.
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
STRIKING FACTS ABOUT i
: COTTON ‘
Clarence Poe in Review of Rcvicw.%':
Some further facts about the prin.
cipal Southern farm crops may be of
interest, The truth is that the Soutk
can grow cuceessfully any of the im:
portant crops the North and West
can grow, while of eotton, rice, sugan
cane, tohaceo, peanuts, soybcans
cowpeas sweet potatoes. and early
vegetables and fruit, the Southern
states have almozt & monopoly,
Cotton ig, of course, a'mosgt synony
mous with Dixie. And last year the
Souch planted in cofton 48,000,000
acres—an arca so great that you
could lese in it the total combined
‘ land surface of ail six New England
| states and have plenty of room for
l garnishing the dish on the sides with
more than half a dozen states the
size of Delaware! And yet so vast
is the South’s area that we also had
acreage enough in other crops te
swallow again all six New England
states with another half dozen Dela
wares thrown in for cide-seasoning
Georgia’s corn acreaze was greater
than Ohio’s, North Carolina’s greater
than Wisconsin’s, and Tennessce and
Kentueky cach planted practically
half as much corn as Kansas.
As for cotton, in the past it has
been to easy to grow. “Cotton, a ne.
gro, and a mule will stand more
negleet or hard luck and not show it
than any thing else,” has beén a com
mon saving in the South, Other faii
urce, if cericusly neglected, might
be practically total failures, but be.
fore the boll weevil began its ail-- ‘
conquering twenty-five years march
across the entire belt, cotton, if given |
half-way treatment, would give at ‘
least a half-way sort of crop. Conse
quently, large plantation owners
could rent out their land to negre
tenants, live in town, collect the
rents and once a; year pay a little
attention to the cultivation of their
plantations.
But the boil weevil has given a zo.
vere jolt to this system. In order te
get any sure return now from shift
less tenants, they must be carefully
supervised lence absentee landlord--
ism becomes less profitable. Careless
nicthods of farming have become
Ricre risky. In the long yun, more in
tclligent laber, o larger degrce of
heme ownerahip, and a wiger :livcr-l
eification of erops should bo insured
by thé ecming of the boll weevil
“More than one im: oitant source of
cash income” i veceiming one of the .
accepted rules of #5700 farming,
Another fact that should be men.
tioned in connection with (o cottor
crop is the most often unappreciatod
importance of the cotton seed indus.
try. For decades cotton seed was ,
purely a waste product, My grand
father so regarded the seed at higs
cotton gin, while an associate in my
office says: “My grandfather buill
his cotton gin on a creek bank in or.
der to get rid of ‘the seed easily
consiructing a chute so as to carry
them to the stroam.” Today cottor’
seed is one of the country’s fore
most food and feed products, fur-
and
offered in choice se
leetion of staple and
faney groceries.
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riching vast quantities of oil for hu
man eorcumption and vast quantities
of menl for animals, with the result
that cotton seed alone, apart from
the cott n lint, iz exceeded in value
by only seven American Ta.in crops
~=gern, cotlon lint, hay, wheat
white potatoes, ocats, and totacco
Cotton :cced has greater value than
the combined barley, rye, and buck
wheat crops of America, and a value
twice that of Amciica’s commercia’
apple crop, while the value of cot-.
ton seed products has pagsed the half
Lillion mark in a single year, Edward
Atkinson used to say that so valua
ple is the cotton seed, if thrifty New
England could grow a cotton that
weuid make seed alone, without any
lint at all, it would bé one of the
outstanding agricultural products
from New Brunswick to New Havon'
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