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BIBLE THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY
BREAD OF HEAVEN—“He ! ed
thee with manna . . . that he might
make thee know that man doth not
live by bread only, but by every
word that proceedeth out of the
mouith of the Lerd.) Deut. 8:3.
We gee now and then where some
editorial writer has gone to great
paing to argue about gticking to facts
in the editorial page of the newspa
per. The editorial page is for com
ment and observation on facts as
they appear in the news columns
where facts are supposed to be pre
sented in uncolored manner. Where
argument is to be backed up by the
facts, only facts are admissible, but
comment, observation, opinion—these
are the weapons of the editorial
writer, and they take him a long wu_\"
when he runs the whole scale—low
to high, and high to low—within his
honest and fair rights. He can abuse
and misuse the freedom of the press,
bui he cannot stand with lifted torch
and lead where he i unfair, where he
is unbalanced as a ‘writer,
RUSSELL AND THE COURT
Judge Dick Russell is chief justice
of the supreme court of Georgia. As
we understand it he is going out on
a platform against the world court to
beat Senator George in the coming
primary,
Strange, strange, this man, head of
the state's greatest eourt, doesn't
even belfeve in an international court
of justice for the adjustment of in
ternational grievances. Great issues
are settled on opinions rendered in
his court. Why not internationa
claims in the same manner? We not
only wonder that the chief justice of
Ceorgia’s greatest court should go out
as an opponent of a court of justice
to hear and pass upon grievances
among nations, but we sincerely wnn-'
der how it is that civilization has
gone #o long without a court of just
ice at which the nations are first
required to ‘try their claims and ad-
Just their differences.
We: have a world court. Can Judge
Vick Russell assure us that an ag
grieved nation can go there and lose,
its case and then ever wage war with
the support and sympathy of the civ
ilized world? We offer this one pre
diction that neither Judge Russell nor
any contemporary jurist in this or any
Other civilized country, as long as the
ever see a nation whose case has been
adjudged in this court contrary to its
wishes, go out and summon enough
help to wage successful warfare
against the power who won in the
court in an equitable adjustment,
The world needs the court of equity
like individuals need it. We Kkeep
down strife by enforced decisions.
The civilized world behind a court of
justice can enforee its decisions as
between nations by simply pointing to
the awards. A ruling against a pow
er will be its warning not to pursue
its contentions further, A world
court decision when rendered will al
ways be a closed gate to a contend
ing power for world sympathy and
support in conflicting arms.
Judge Russell ought to be the last
man in Georgia to fling a political
gesture of disrespect for the great and
worthy effort to bring all nations to
honor and respect an international
court where justice can be had among
contending powers without resort to
arms. .
AFTER MACHINE POLITICS
An “Anti;J, J. Brown Club” has been
o zanized in Berrien ‘couny, wih A,
D. Tucker, vepresenaive to the legis
lature, as president, More than 200
members have joined, and others will
shortly enlist, Mr, Tucker said,
Patitions being circulated assert
that “we are tired of the Brown Po
litical Machine, We recommend that
(Gcorgia be ridded of all such political
parasites.”
More than 200 persons joined the
club the first day the petition was
cireulated, Mr, Tucker said. “The
leading citizens ars interested in this
movement,” he pointed out, “It is
Lot a personal fight, but we are tired
of too much oil inspectors, family jobs
and the like, There will be 500 mem
hers in the next few days.”
Thig ig information which comes to
the people of Georgia as a protest
of at least one member of the gen
aral assembly who doubtless has
nough of being told what he must
do when he goes fo Atlanta to repre
gent his county in the state's Mw
making body,
None but the members of the gen
ral” assembly know how solidiy ma
chine politics are banked at a ses
sjon of the assembly, We are going
to find more and more of this ‘eom
slaint again<t the methods nsed in’
the assembly to (-nntml.-' It In wlong
nd this Berrien county protest is hut
4 most natural revolt.
We may not have protests against
Ilmllvhhmls that show a partisan and
unfair attitude, but we can object to
a condition around the sessions of the
agseembly which make it impossible
for a legislator to attend a session and
vote his honest convictions upon any
jssue there. It has come to a point
where unless one supports the ma
chine, he can do nothing and get
nothing.
That same machine is now trying
‘o eclect a governor and a man in
cvery important office—and it ulwn,vsl
concerns itself about enough memhersl
of the legislature in the county prl-I
maries {o contiol the sessions of the
assembly. The voters of Georgia will
put down machine politics if they
are given to understand what are the
real conditions. ‘
A PURE FOOD WARNING
Legislation that makes labels c¢n
suger worthless as these on whiskey
have been rushed through congress,
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, pioneer pure
food law advocate, asserted the uthorl
day when he was colebrating his
cighty-second birthday.
Dr. Wiley's warning was given in
an address to Consumers and Pro
ducers, Associated. Facing more than
4 hundred food experts, the “father of
ederal pure food laws” declared that
bills have passed the house and sen
ate that will legalize “the misbrand
ing and adulteration of the nation's
sugar supply.” (SRR
“The house bill,” Dr, Wiley sald,
‘provides that “starch suger can he
qsed as sugar, without informing tho
onsumer of that fact. I have no quar
‘o] with the use of starch sugar, pro
dded no fraud is committed therein.
My objection to the legislation, is
that it legalizes fraud.
“This is the twentieth annivoersary
f the pure food law. On its twen
{ieth anniversary it is likely to be re
sealed in one of its most important
arovisions. )
“1t ig a curious study of the uttl-l
tude of the legislators tofind that a
majority vote in the house and uI
ananimeus vote in the senate has dis-‘
egarded the pure food law, violated |
the code of ethics and made it pos
ible to deceive the whole body of
‘he American public legally and under
wpress warrant of congress.”
Thus again we see what a power
ul trust can do with the congress of
I he United States when it so desives,
'l)r. Wiley knows what he is talking
bout. When. he says such a law
‘egalizes fraud, it means just that—
md fraud in the labels on what the
people have to accept as l'n(‘)d is a
neans of protecting the public from
fraud in its food supplies. If we have
coming to us in sugar what the public
sets in fraudulent labelling in
whiskey, we may look for a lot of
’sweentcne(l death, for liquor under
lmnst of the perfectly harmless labels
now used is rank poison. i
A GOOD LAW, BUT~—
Sale of political patronage in the
distribution of public offices, which
has been charged frequently of late,
particularly in the south, will he pro
hibited under a Housc bhill pagsed by
the senate,
| At the request of Senator Shephens,
democrat, Mississippi, the bill passed
by the house, which would make it
unlawful to pay for or offer or prom
‘lm' to pay any sum of money or any
thing of value to any person, firm,
or corporation in consideration of the
use or promise to use any influence,
whatever to procure any appointive
office under the government, or any
person whatever, was passed without
objection,
This is a good law, but there are
others just as good which are not -
forced, We doubt if there are not
ways of punishing those who sell
patronage already. Surely, there is
no more contemptible thing than for
those higher up in party councils to
participate in the criminally low busi
ness of peddling the offices over
which they have appointive control.
It is bag enough to have a negro to
consult, as is the case in Georgia to
day. The general public doesn’t
know it, but those who get public
office in Georgia now have to con
sult DBen Davis, a negro in Atlanta.
To get a showing in the department
of justice and before the president in
Washington, those who have sought
the federal judgship and the mar
shall’'s and the district attorney’s
place in the new middle district have
been required to have the endorse
ment of Ben Davis. That is bad
enough—worse than a self-respecting
white man will do to get public of
fice. Dut the postmasters and those
who serve in the prohibition enforce
ment and other departments are said
tobe required to put up money first
in various sums, depending upon the
importance of the office.
That’s one reason why Georgia is
going to remain democratic—and a
chief reason for the solid south.
HOW BAD OFF IS GEORGIA?
Macon Telegraph
In the common run of affairs, it
would be improper to write dis
paringly of the chief justice” of the
Supreme Zourt of Georgia. But when
a man of the attainments of “Plain”
Dick Ruseell oceupies the post, it iz
of the man we are speaking rather
than the office he holds.
The aforesaid ‘“Plain” Dick is a
candidate for the United States
scnate against Walter George. Com
pare the clown with the scholar he
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defeated, Judge I'ish, and see te
what depthe Georgia has dcscendedl
politically. Compare the clown to thej
man he now opposges in the senatorial
race, and take stock of Georgia ac
cordingly. Can it be possible that we
have gotten as bad as that, that thirl
man believes he can accomplish the|
defeat of Walter George-—~that he
thinks Georgia is so bad off, so far
down the scae of the amenitics, the
fitness of things, that she sghould
swap the hyperion for the satyr?
It i 3 suggestad that “Plain” Dick
may beat Walter Georze, the reason
being given that the lawyers are sc
ashamed of their chief justice, be.
fore whom they have to practice, and
whose decisions go into the legal
records of their state to their shame|
and humiliation abroad, that thcse!
lawyers in order to get rid of him,
as chief justice may persuade them-'
eelves to work and vote for Russel]
ffor senator. That would get him off
the supreme bench, and send him
away to Washington, where he would
at least be delocalized. Of course
Georgia has had her troubles before
the nation, there being many things
we are sorry for, but imagine our
having to apologize for or be held
reepeons’le for Dick Russell az
United States senator! Imagine Geor
gia advertising to the world that she
had swapped George for Russell!
The state of Toombs, and Hiil, and
Stephens, and her high place in the
councils of the Nation with Bacon
as senator in our latter Years—and
oyr prospect of high honor and great
place by the fine mind, the high in
tegrity, the scholarly equipment of
Walter George; the reputation he
has already made, the rapid strides
toward recognition of his qualifica
tions for any post or assignment
And it is not cnly our pride and
glory that we think of here. It is
a joy that Georgia should feel in
being able to cortribute to the wel
fare of the world by putting and
keeping such a man as Walter
George in the office of Senator—
the spirit of service to mankind.
“Plain” Dick, is, of course, run
ning without any idea of turning
loose his job as chie{ justice. It is
not done any more these days, that
a man stands on ethical grounds. He
will solicit in all probability, cam
paign funds. Will he ask lawyers?
Will he be carciul not to ask low
yers who may have cases before his
court? Will his campaign for the
senatorship embarrass the legal fra
ternity by tying its hands for fear
a future case in the Supreme Court
may be affected by activity in this
" election?
John Holder is running {or Gov
ernor while chaingan of the High-.
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than that—he is running—he is run.
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pecple’s heads as a sop for their
"votes, trading the people’s roads for
the people’s votes.
Just how bad off“is Georgia, any
way? Wi shall see what we shall see
HE PAID THE BILL
~ Doctor Brown sent a bill for ter
dollars to the terrikle tempered Mr
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I Bangs lost his temper, He rushed
(o the doctor’s office. “You're a rob-
Ser!” he ghouted. “Think of it five
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’ Doctor Brown then rewrote the
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