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BIBLE THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY
CIINCERN FOR OTHERS—*]
pray@dy £ . . and said, O Lord God
destiby not Thy beople and Thine in
heritance, which Thou has redcemed
thmu!hfl‘hy greatness." Deut, 9:2¢€
il s commiireg sA s e
Mordé legal constructions give us to
understand that radio in this country
goes 'lr(-gululed. It seems just that
way {hei p»qci‘;‘l,gnce,fi in” on the
static of a modern summer night. -
"Now it is said there will be no
twelve mile limit for American ves
gels in the,rum runnjng business, We
confess We',neyer had thought there
was any at the ocutset. An American
vessel ought to be subject to the laws
of this country anywhere on the high
seas. That would seem logical and
reasonable, whether there be ruth or
rat traps.
Little Cuba is a country that has
itnaveled too far under the spell of
_ civilization ever to continue legal ex
ecutions with the garrote, a Spanish
d¥¥ide for breaking the victim's neck
withf a thumb screw after he has heen
bound to a metal collar for the pur
pose. But one execution in twenty
years is something to the credit of
Cuba, We wonder if this awful mode
of execution hag stalled criminals.
A Mississippi @heriff cßblly walßed
into a mob forming to lynch a negro
yesterday and rescued the prisoner
and took him to a place of safety.
That saved Mississippi one more blot
in l‘*gflsfio&s and revealed to a sur
prised public how easy it is for an
officer to carry his point when firm
resolve to do hig duty once prompts
wetion. Not many lynchings would
occur, not much mob violence could
exist, where officers like this onc dis
p‘b‘x t/ix‘(::(—)u_l_.utc—l—n uphold the law.
The men who did the excellent
work may never know of it, but we I
offer congratwlations to the courage
ol 'heroos of the nevy who dragged
the U. 8. submarine, S5l, from the
bottom sf the gea and towed it 135
mIl(w-'é‘fln- Bm«‘fl(lyn navy yard to
o’_(*3 "" 'nd. the PHodies of those
Mkwho &wr:S;:??l \Vllsl‘l‘ill when the under
- :é(;-;'\;ruft wus‘_.\-.unk last September,
In the ungsually difficult task the
me (RS""Gfi‘menl saved to the navy
lij'.\"f 'f‘\*t'hm_two mil)Jion dollars, for at
7 1l cost the vessel can be put
back inte vommission. It is said that
- thfw=eraft would cost three million
dellars now to build. It is a practi
cally new u-boat. The mystery at
?m“posflibly never to be ex
i plained,, will be the loss of so many
: of the Ebdios supposed still to be
| \\'l&h‘gn. t‘ho wrecked submarine,
' Cord\cle Kiwanis was host yesterday
' afternoon and evening to visitors
. from five neighboring towns, all geod
I citizens ropresenting progressive in
terests. ‘Among them were many
—well -known Georgians. This was an
wgef. \\"Mch. besides being
mm%fih ‘plqe'h_to Kiwanis as it Is.rupro
sented in this attending, was indeod
?o nt -hecause of the fact that
fin&w “eee fine fellows an oppor
tunity to compare wholesome com
”m?flw“‘tw“ with the‘ Progress.
ve movements of others. They came
from communities in the heart of cen
tral south Georgia, all progressive
and promoters of sound business de
velopmert! It was an hohor for Cor
dele to have them, and the attention
.ngs‘&d""fi this function undoubtedly
made friends for Cordele ameng the
visitors. :
AND THEN SUPPOSE FURTHER
The Tifton Gazette says it is not
supporting John Holder for governor
and then goes into the following se
ves of questions—just supposing:
"Th‘g Telegrapn intimates that the
roads granted or promised may have
been granted or promised for political
I purposes and not to the best interest
’of the state, Who is to say that they
are not? We would want a less in
terested opinion than that of The
Telegraph before rendering a verdiet,
Suppose Tifton, Moultrie, Thomas
ville, and Ocilla want a state road
connecting them, ang Mr. Holder
promigds such a road. Wlho is to
gay that it is not to the best interest
of the state? Suppose Ashburn, Syl-
Iv«mler. Moultrie and I.)umnuu want a
state road, and Mr, Holder gives it
to them, Who is to say that this
is not to the best interest of the
state? Also, if people in the coun
ties traversed feel that they have
been well served by Mr, Holder and
wish to vote for him in return to
show their appreciation, who ig there
to say that they have sold their vote
for a road?”
And we might go further and sup
pose that John Ilolder while he is
an ambitious candidate for governor,
=hould go all over the state hol(lingI
hearings on all sorts of highway pro
posals—like he is doing now—doing
for a purpose—to start all the intefs
est he can in highway mileage that
cannot be granted. We might sup
pose that he should keep on till he
makes that thing general, creating a
demang for far more mileage than the
state now has—more than it could
ever handle in the state system.
We might suppose that John Holder
shoulqd keep that up till he has the
vote of every aspiring applicant for
more mileage already wrapped up
and labelled “For Holder” long before
the primary is held in September.
Then we might agk is that the part
of a man worthy of the office of gov
crnor? Wonder if the Tifton Gazette
cares to answer that for us. We do
not care whether he takes himself
seriously in discussing a man to be
chief executive in Georgia, That's
his pPerogative. but it ig ours 'to :.uyl
that it is the most dishonest mv:m:;‘
of campaigning we have ever known.
It is not worthy of any man who
‘wants to be governor of Georgia, Our,
state highway mileage and our :Ilallg;
paving funds ar: ours. They belong
‘o the publiec and for John Holder to
use them in this manner ig but to
make tl\o cheapest sort of political
capital out of them. It is to throw
ictual paving to the winds and play
solitics when he is getting paid and
using the mileage and the paving
‘unds wherever he can make them
ount for votes for governor,
We do not care whether the Tif
ton Gazette counts us large or small,
we are going to say it is a matter
serious enough for .a seriousg argu
ment about it., This is xlunlteasunc'
in office—win or lose. It isn't am%
:hln‘:.: else, and politics never can
'.umup low enough to justify it. 'l‘h?\
people of Georgia have a right ‘to vomj
plaln about John Holder's unending
new mileage proposals and the hear
ings he is holding, not to complete
1 praiseworthy state system, but to
nake John IHolder governor,
We have a right to tell him he has
a 0 business while he is state high
vay chairman meddling in aspirations
or any other ofiice, especiaily since
1o is using the highway department
o lift him over the other aspirants
m the way to the governor's office,
ile should either stick to the highway
business or resign it and go on with
| politics. So far as we are concerned,
we have no choice as to which he
‘hooses, but he ought to choose one
imd stick to it. We have a right to
xpect highways of him, The state
tax payers are putting enough money
nto hig hands to assure the highways.
We get no highways while he uses
the dcpurtmon{ to make himself gov-
Tnor. :
SPENDING DANGER SIGNALS
The more we see of our state audi
tor's work, the more we like it, Re
ports made from this office to the
‘governor reveal that several depart
ments have gone beyond their law
ful appropriations for the first half
of the year. We have no argument
‘ubout the merits of appropriations
’aud the need of public funde hlre and
’!hl'ru. ¢ ;
~ On the face of every public appro-
Iprluuml we affix the assumption that
it goes to a worthy public cause, olse
it would not be made, It i not a
question of merit. It is one of spend.
ing mere than is set aside under the
law, The legislature makes all the
appropriations and during the past
regular session some specific legal
provisions were made to keep out de
ficiencies, Such spending is unlaw
ful.
When we have the services of an
auditor’s department to te'l we wihon
a department has gone horovd lip
npproprlutlon. and done so ur'soof
ly, we have the danger gsigacl: o
in such manner ag to make oxciisive
spending more a premeditated matter
than in former years. The spenders
are warned, They ought to be,
A state budget isn’t worth much un
less the various departments are kept
within their appropriations. In rare
caseg there will arise exigencies in
the affaire of a state as large as
Georgia. We know that, but we also
know that deficiencies are bad policy,
besides being unlawful. When it
comes down to brass tacks, some
body is going to lose a lot of money
some of these days at such business,
Advancing, funds for a' state depart
loenf to over spend is unlawful. When
we have that public pride that halts
such fipenriixlg, we will have much of
it done away.
NOT SO HOPELESS
Savannah Morning News:
In a recent issue of the Literary
Digest there is a most interesting|
symposium of expressed opinions of
college heads from all parts of the
country upon the matter of drinking
and drunkenness among students
The survey of the situation came out
of a gencrally circulated impression
that there is far more indulgence in
aleoholics now among college stu
detits. than there was in times when
liquor was legally sold in this coun
try. The overwhelming decision from
a consolidation of the reports, is that
there is not only more drinking but
that there is far less drinking now
than in the years before the nation
al prohibition law tabag-ed liquor..
There arc some frankly disappoint
ing phrg sce—that there is some
drinking by girl students, unknown
vears ago: that the “drunks” among
vfitudcxlte now are far more sncctacu-‘
lar and wild -and injurious than
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among the students of the past gen
crations; that the young people are
influcnced largely by the scorn for
the law held by their seniors in some
goctions, particularly the cast, and as
they are further .influenced by the
gociety leaders, who flout the law
and serve liquors at cocial {unctionz,
But on the other hand, the figures
and calm conclusions reached by
eollege heads is all to the ;wml.‘
There are more than three times the
nuinber of college students in Ameri
can institutions, they cite, now lh:mI
before the Volstead law became ef
feetive; and despite this fact, there
arc fewer easos of drinking and
diunkenness now than then; so that
three times a¢ many students could
now drink and ctill there would he
no real inerease in gencral indul
genee, And this i¢ the almost uni
versal result of the survey—that
theer, is less vice and immortlity and
lawlessness, the incrcased numbers
considered, than a generation ago
when the present college heads were
themselves studente.
One cigniffant thing iz noted—
that in the South and West, what is
alluded to.as “Bible belt of the
United States, “drinking among col
lepe students has been reduced to so
nearly none at ail, that the rare
cases are so vivid and unusual that
they create abnormal comment. And
the moralizing of the symposium i:
that what drinking there is chouid
pe largely cbargeable, too, to the
olders of these students—who in the
east are openly and sometimes de
fiantly opposed to the law, and set
the boys and girls a bad example.
It is noted that the opvosition to the
present prohibition regime, as far as
student expression goes, iz heavily
against the methods of enforcement
rather than the law itself. Altogeth
er the finds of the survey arc en
couraging‘to'those who still have
faith in “the new generation.”
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