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BIBLE TEG“T’ FOR THE DAY
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OUR LOVE FOR GOD—“And
thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thine heart, and with all thy
soul, and with ail thy might.,” Deut
6:5.
» S i
This Brown-Jackson-Mills controver
sy causes us to wonder—without com
mitting ourselves otherwise—whether
the race for governor will hold out to
the end.
/
Local shippers are now sending
their Hiley Belle peaches to market,
and they are a fine lot. Local peach
shipments will reach a surprisingly
large voluwme this season,
Watermelons are going to market
now from Crisp county, More thun;
a week ago the first car lot went
out. There will be large shipments
of melons from the Cordele territory
this season, many of them later than
usudl. The shipments of the proseut‘
R Ave Bringing good prices. ‘
" They are still coming back to Geor
gla from Florida. That state is all
rig ill come out of the slump-—
hutMll—j:m have to get used to doing
vlthont some Georgians who went
there to get rich and came back
.Q[_o‘ke. We have a guess, a pretty
ggle guess, that Georgia furnished at
least fifty percent of the late boom
in Fibrida.
| Charles Ponzi has more nerve than
qny persecuted rascal we ever read
#bout. He isn’t one shade behind
Ifiussollm in his display of choice of
what he is going to do about it wheni
he discusses whether he will go to
Boston or Florida—or to Italy, hls‘
native land. Tt is more than likely
that somebody violated the immlgrn-\
tion laws of this country when they‘
let this gentleman of the sunny val
leys beyond the Alps into this coun
try.
' 'Down goes legislative farm relief.
You guessed it right, A government
that can live under the Fordney-Mc
éumlmr tariff: doesn’t have to divide
fine spoils with the exploited farmer,
The large fish eat the little fish. It
would be strange indeeq if those who
are enriched at the expense of the
farmer should turn and try to hand
it back in the form of gpecial legisla
tion. Class legislation is what is
wrong with the national government
now—laws that work the advantages
of the commodity corporations and
great public utilities at the expense
6!’ the farming element. There isn't
going to be any special legislation in
the interest of the farmer—not dur
ng Ahis administration.
i HOLDER AND HARDMAN
' Dr. Hardman is a splendid gen-
Wigéman. "He has had experience
Tfasa legislator and while there
_l‘ld'.lplendid work for his state
“fi"nd‘ 'se('t‘ion. He has also been
»very prominent and helpful in ed
ucational work and in our judg
rment is in many respects better
qualified for the position of Gov
ernor than any of those now out.
But he comes from the same sec
tioh, in fact, from the same coun
i'fi’,l fi Which John Holder lives,
and while he has practiced medi
cine, John Holder has been play
ing the game of politics and is
'bd‘tte'rfl known and has a
}\!:;t_ah larger Iollqv:rlng of office
|i B s
seekers over the state than has
the genial Doctor.—Jones County
News,
But there is this ditference—please
do not snatch out your hair about
it—Dr, Hardman has stayed with his
business, farming chiefly, and made
a success of it, Holder may have
many good traits, but he hasn't even
shown a disposition to keep his own
business standing erect—on its own
bottom, |
There are people who prefer the
John Holder type to Dr. Hardman,
but we do not, simply cannot help
it. We have seen people who seek
to travel fifty miles an hour with
that kind of heavy-rish fellows who
care for nothing. We have seen oth
ers who will travel with no other
than the John Holder type. There
isn't anything but politics in Holder's
kind, We do not mean to count him
a criminal hecause he is a politician.
And we have no disposition to sympa
thize with him when he goes around
the state looking for vindication in
hig set-to with Governor Walker. He
!got what he deserved—but if he
ghould be hunting vindication after
he got it in Dick Russell’'s court—
galary and all—it would seem that he
is specially hungry for vindication
and cannot get enough of it.
Dr. 'ngdman came within six coun
ty unit voteg of being governor one
time. He carried sixty counties—and
but for the Holder-Hardwick combina
tion, he would have presided over
the destinies of the state for two
years, at least instead of Hardwick.
MORE FROM BROOKHART
It will not be easy for all of us to
understand what Smith W. Brookhart
means in the matter quoted as coming
from him in this article, but we want
our readers to study it carefully. He
is still ringing the bell—telling the
real facts as they are in his explana
tions of why there has been a thous
and percent increase in farm failures:
The farmer is being hedfed around
by transportation laws, credit laws,
protective tariff laws, patent laws and
public utility laws, all of which set
aside the laws of supply and demand,
enhance the cost of everything.the
farmer must buy and leave him to
ismll his own productsg at prices fixed
by the competitive markets of the
world.
This discrimination against agricul
ture i 8 as permanent as the laws
themselves. It did not blow in with
the wind yesterday and it will not
go out with the breeze tomorrow.
This situation absolutely prevents the
farmer from working out his own sal
vation and prevents him from success
fully organizing as labor and other
businesses are organized, His pros
perity is poisoned by the fangs of the
law itself,
His only escape is in the court of
bankruptcy. The National Industrial
Conference Board of New York issued
a statement in March, 1926, to the ef
fect that farm failures had increased
by more than a thousand per cent
from 1910 to 1924, while commercial
failures remained about the same.
An economist said recently that
general prosperity no longer depends
upon agricultural prosperity, He prov
ed his conclusion by citing the fact
of general prosperity during the past
five years, while at the same time
there has been general agricultural
depression.
R. B. Mellon seemed to approve this
situation as he started to Kurope by
citing higher prices for steel and oth
er commodities and lower prices for
agricultural products, which he said
is as it should be.
If this represents the idea of Wall
Street East, it means they consider
a farmer bankrupt of just as mucb
value to them as a farmer prosperous.
He will have to work just as harg and
produce about as much and they will
have his products for good raw mate
rial and speculative markets and this
is about all the use they have for
the farmer. It is against this doctrine
of feudalism that the farmers, not on
1y of the West, but of the whole Unit
ed States, are in revolt,
What is the cause of this thousand
per cent increase in farm bankrupt
-1(:!93 while other business remuined'
the same? 1 have said it was laws.
and the administration of laws and
I want to point them out specifically.
First, T will state the central econom
ic fact around which these laws must
operate,
It is the wealth increase of the
United States. According to Mr,
Hoover's bulleting from 1912 to 1922,
the wealth of the United States in
creased at the rate of about 5 1.2 per
cent a year. This includes all produc
tion of all capital, of all labor, all
uncarned increment and all deprecia
tion of the dollar, If it, then, be said
that the possibility of this American
proposition is a net earning of in
crease of 5 1-2 per cent a year, it
cannot be said that capital is entitled
to all of it, For the sake of this
argument 1 proceed on the theory
‘that capital will get it all, Therefore,
if one block of capital is given an
earning by law of more than 5 1-2 per
cent. some other capital must take
less to maintain the average,
lowa produces more from Mother
Earth than any other spot of like size
in the United Stateg or in the world.
If her farmers got a fair exchange
in value for transportation service,
credit service and industrial products,
her wealth increase would be greater
than the average of the United States.
But Mr. Hoover's bulletins show
that lowa's wealth increase was only
2 34 per cent at the time the whole
country was increasing at the rate of
b 1-2,
This means that the farmers of
Towa were receiving $300,000,000 per
year lesg for their products than they
were entitled to receive, or that trans
portation, credit anq industrial prod-‘
ucts cost that much more or that part
of the discrimination was due to each
proposition, ‘
I shall briefly make the z:nml;,'s;is.l
The cost of transportation te the
farmer is extortionate compared to
the prices he received. The trans
portation act set up machinery which
gave thera''ilroads a tentative value
of 18 billion 900 million dollars and
required the'commigsion to levy rates
upon the people high enough to yield
a return of 5 34 fier cent upon this
whole value,
At the moment this value was thus
tixetl by law the market value of all
the securities of the railroads repre
senting all their property value was
less than 12 hillion dollars,
These stocks and bonds were sold
through this same market and it is
'a grotesque claim to let the railroads
“deny it represents their value.
The charge in rates fixed by law
upon this excess value amounts to
about 400 million dollars per year.
This return by law amounts to more
than 9 per cent upon the actual value
of the railroads when the whole Amer
ican proposition is only 5 1-2 per cent,
Under this law there are also the
following other items of excess
charge:
Waste of competition, about 400
million dollars per year. Excess prof
its on supplies furnished the railroads
by inside subsidiary companies, more
than 200 million dollars.
Capitalization portion of the capital
is obtained at an average of less than
4 1-2 per cent, but the law gives
them 5 3-4 per cent. This amounts
to a bonus of about 150 million dol
lars per year.
It is said the cause of high rates
on farm products is due to the high
wages of railroad labor, but if the
above items were eliminated as they
should be, the rates on farm products
could be reduced below the pre-war
level as the Canadian roads have al
ready done and still leave a margin
for an increase of some underpaid
labor,
I estimate that Towa’s share of this
excess charge for transportation
amounts to a tax of more than a
dollar an acre per year upon every
acre of land in the state or to a mort
gage of more than 20 dollars an acre.
This excess cost of transportation is
a large contributing cause to the
thousand per cent increase in farm
bankruptcies.
THE PRICE THEY PAID
Here is more interesting news
about how the bloated rich trust
manipulators of this country are stay
ing in control of the government.
The United States senate was told
Saturday that more than three million
dollars had been expended in the Tlli
nois—that Senator William B. McKin
ley spent a million dollars and the
Frank L. Smith organization distribu
ted twice that much., Included in
this was a great flow of money into
the negro wards where the “nigger”
—the same “nigger” politician ' that
republican bosses know how to load
on mean “likker” and one dollar bills
to carry an election, was voted like
S 0 many cattle herdeq into a drive.
Into this corrupt Illinois election al
so went teeming thousands of for
eigners who know no loyalty but to
'Rome-nevor understood one simple
sentence about the meaning of Amer
ican freedom or any of our republican
forms of government,
And on another phase of the cor
rupt inflow of money into this elec
tion, let Senator Carraway do the talk
ing:
“1t is openly charged that, being
chaitman of the utilities commission,
the successful candidate received
enormous contributions from the
heads of the public utilities of the
state; that Samuel Insull, either in
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
dividually or through his utility or
ganization, contributed over $500,000,
‘lt 18 said thaf contemporaneous
with the issuance of orders by the
utilities commission affecting certain
;iubllc utilities, large contributions
flowed into the Smith campaign war
chest; that a utility deal involving
about $20,000,000 of property drew
from the interested bankers, E, H.
Rolling & Sons, more than $lOO,OOO
in the hands of Allen Moore, Smith's
campaign manager.
“l want to know how much money
was given to John Walker and Frank
Farrington, the men who are said to
have handled the labor vote in Illi
nois; I want to know how much they
spent in maintaining the palatial
headquarters in the Congress hotel in
Chicago, with traveling representa
tives going out all over the state and
displaying great quantities of cur
rency freely used to get votes.”
CONCERNING JAZZ MUSIC
Hartford Courant: :
Rev. John Roach Straton, prob
ably the most widely advertised Bap
tist clergyman in New York, once, as
we recall it, had a debate with the)
well-known theatrical producer, Wil
liam A. Brady, before a delighted au
dience, which learned among other
things from Mr. Brady, that there
were more clergymen in the country
than actors, and from Dr. Straton, a
number of equelly charming opin-l
ions or facts cencerning actors and
the stage. Very recently the c]ergy-!
man, according to the San Francis-!
co Chronicle, debated with thc'
Metropolitan Grand Opera singer
Mme, De Alvarez, on the up-to-date‘
subject: “What Shall We Do About
Jazz?” If the Chronicle report isl
correct, Dr. Straton called jazz the!
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leg music and should be outlawed.
He is against any effort to reform
but thinks it sbould be stamped out
and killed. He locks upon it as a rat
tlesnake, Whether he is planning a
campaign to secure another amend
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‘a criminal offense to have more
L than one-half of one percent jazz in
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any music we do not know. But
such would seem the logical thing to
do. Showing a knowledge of divinity
that some of us may not claim, He
said that he music of the church was
as beautiful in the sight of God as
Jazz is hideous, ' :
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The report hes it that the grand
opera ginger was so upset by Dr,
Straton's outburst that she was un-
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able to make the speech she had pre
rarcd. But she did announce that.
when she died, she intended to have
George Gershwin’s jazz symphony
played at her funeral.
The unprejdiced observer might
thoughtlessly suppose that, on the
subject of musie, Mme. De Alvarez
~would be almost as well informed as
iz Dr. Straton, kot of course, that has
‘nothing to do with the matter.