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ollSr. THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY
éPECULMR PEOPLE—‘Tho"
art @ holy people unto the Lord Th;
God;: and the Lord hath chosen the®
to be a pecullar people unto Him
self” Deut, la‘z. ‘
Hén John M. n sends greet
ings_to The Dispatch from Europe,
He #nd Mrs. Slaton are spending the
sumgier ofinno"dn the ol world,
He Wites: “The splendor of Windsor
only pmakey Wikotefi | dearer.”
W.AR. Frier, editor of the Douglas
Ente@me is out jn earnest after the
place-on the Georgia Public Service
Commission formerly held by the late
Paul Trammell. He is a good south
Georgian and deserving of the friend_
ship and support of Georgians for the
place. He is getting encouraging sup
port [n south Georgia and pretty well
all o;er the state, if reports in the
yress are correct,
Hefe we present an expression from
the e;torlal page of one of the Jack
sonville papers which has a reference
to Cerdele’s “cop courtesy” so well
worth: the place that we are glad to
use it;
“Florida road agents who are tak
ing diéntage of the state laws to
hold I;p motorists for fines when there
is no‘f excuse for them and apparently
for the purpose of filling the coffers
of a pity or county with money to be
paid put in the salaries of more road
cops fare the subject of a righteously
indighant protest by Governor Martin.
'l‘hell ways of enforcing the law has
brouifit down justiffed criticism from
other! quarters, ;
“The. methods used are similar to
those reported by an automobile
tourl* who was arrested following an
accident in a small town. The motor_
st e&plamed that he had the right
of “'l,)' when the other man, a home
towner ran into him. The cop con.
llnue’ to say the tourist was to blame.
“Why?" at'ed the tourist, “Well,”
the cpp re;lied, "pg&use that man's
fatheg is m: or,.\}u}, brother. is chief
of paice, Jafm with his sister.”
“While imfractions of the traffic
laws §n Florida cities should be noted
and ghe law violators told of their
mistakes, m' should not be car.
ried 'ut tofits Ditter extreme in ‘the
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case of &f’a’h’&en traveling through
the c&ies. unless the violation is seen
to be i}quberate:'and involves the safe
ty of Jife and limb of other motorists
or pe@ti’ians.
“Thg_;; writer made a motor trip
from }lm Central West to Florida
some #me ago. In one city the mark_
ings Of the route was not plain and
the difier belieyed himself to be un.
der agfest for some infraction of the
local i{‘% when a cop chased him for
’ blofi after he had made a turn.
Brlngi:?; the car to a stop, the cop
sald:gfi'ou're going to Florida?”’
Gettin;‘"nu affirmative reply the cop
said: “*Well, you should have turned
to théi;efl a block back.”
“That town was (ordele, Ga. It
is the“only town that the writer clear
ly refi)mbers along the entire trip
of mere than 1,200 miles. And it is
about;:‘%ooo population, the county
seat n}' Crisp county. It is in the
center_of a territory that grows sugar
cane richer in saccharine matter than
any kanown plant from which sugar
is exti'acted, has wonderful peaches,
and é_iary tim the writer can do so,
he is. going to say a good word for
Cordeie.
"T? ve arrested the
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WTIVED ol seme pretext Jtaken him b
fcre a magistrate where he would
have had to put up his watch and
chain as security on a check and
made “Cordele” the choice expression
of the driver's swear_word vocabulary.
“Florida towns will profit much
more by treating tourists and motor.
ists with courtesy than they will by
asgessing fines against them, Good
will is more in the end than great
riches now,
“If you are thinking about taking
a motor trip north, try to arrange
your itinerary so that you go through
Cordele—it’'s a good town.”
Poor old siacon must be the center
of the wickedest hootlegging business
in Georgia, Tne arrest of a negro
and his confession that he slew the
young Couplé last Saturday night on
the outskirts of Macon is coupled to
day with news that the sheriff’s depu
tjes have brought in hundreds of gal_
lons of contraband liquor from the
quarter under fire, We can have no
surprise that crime of this kind should
come out of a community so honey
‘combed with bootleggers. Only a
year 'ago this whole state was shock
ed \th crime news from Jones coun
ty, 'd all' that finally wove itself
into 'a network of bootlegging that
hea.dbd into Macon.. Another hoot_
legxi is wajting for the electric
chair® for having slain a deputy in
Macon. Isn't’it time to go into’these
things and have a house.cleaning,
Ours may be in bad order, but we
should want it cleaned if it were
known to be in such a terrible state.
THE CLEAN SKIRTS OF OTHERS
CHICAGO, July 16.— (AP) —
Forty-four election judges and
clerks who svrved.in Cook coun
ty's April primaries, including
five women, today were named
in Indictmen}s returned by a
special grand jury investigating
election frauds. They are charg
ed with conspiracy and with mak
inB false canvass.—News item,
\ Here is a little news item which
holds up to the gaze of the world the
crime in Chicago — in an election
which was shot through ang through
with most corrupt handling. There
isn't anything like it in the history of
the south. There isn't anything any
worse than that anywhere in free
America, T.« *
1t forty-four election judges and
managers in Georgia had been indict
ed for corrupt and fradulent handling
of an election, the Chicago papers
‘would have skinned us. They can
conduct a crime like Bloody Herrin
offers; they can house and harbor
the darkest criminal element in this
country; they can put bombs in ne.
gro houses to drive them from a cer
tain section of Chicago and set a
whole police battalion on a frjeghten
ed, innocent negro and do him to
death & Ihen announce tha.t:.”hé’\\‘nb
a desperado ‘\\‘hvn in fact he ‘was on
ly a peer, z;‘?filxtened’ negro running,
as his n‘\,f\\a austinet directs him, t«k
his life. H
Chicago alone can show a hundred
criminals to one in Georgia. Chica
go and lllinois can show more elec
tion fraud and dishonesty than all the
southern states combined. In this
one instance alone, if news reports
are true, Chicago has set the pace for
the rest of the country in dishonesty
in elecitons, It has done more than
that. People who care about repre
sentative government have to con
clude that it ulections are bought and
stolen in this manner, atleast so far
as Chicago is concerned, there is no
popular free government in this coun
try. We hope this evil does not
aprvah.
SELECTING JUDGES "
Hon, William H, Flemjng of Augus
ta is given to writing sensible things
for the newspapers of Georgia, We
never see anythlfxg in a paper coming
from him that we do not read it al
ready decided beforehand that it has
some good thought in it.
Here s his latest, a very sensible
suggestion about the selection of
judges. He writes:
“One of the most difficult problems ‘
confronting the framers of constitu_
tions for our democratic form of gov
ernment, is the method of selecting
the Judiciary. l
. “Some tinkers favor appointment,
b
.y the executive, subject to approval
Jy the upper house of the legislature,
- “Others favor election by the legjs
lature—usually by senate and house
in joint session. .
“Still others favor election by the
neople at the ballot box,
“Georgia has tried all three of these
nethods, and none has proved satis
actory. Each was subject to abuses.
“Appointment by the executive
opened the way for a governor to
build for himself a political machine,
ind such machines i time inevitably
arouse distrust and rebellion among
the masses,
“Election by the legislature result_
ed in barefaced log-rolling, and waste
of time that should have been devoted
to the consideration of measures for
the public welfare.
“Election by the people too often
gives play for those qualities of mind
and character which befit a ‘‘vote.
getter,” rather than those which be
come a learned and upright judge.
“The conclusion of the whole mat_
ter is, that whichever one of these
‘hree systems was in operation at any
given time, was, at that 'tlme, thought
e the worst..... .....c .. )
‘Ut is scarcely to be expected that
the people 'will ‘surrénder their right
t@, cdhoose their judges atthe ballot
tand bow can we blame them,
men we 'considéf the abuses that at.
t*q the' 'other. two ' systens?
“Manifestly, it hehooves all good
citizens to unite to minimize the ad
mitted disadvantages, while holding
on to the advantages, of popular el
ections, How can this be done?
“The answer i 8 by discontinuing
opposillon to the re_election of a
judge, who has, with ability and
character, done his duty to the people,
in holding in even balance, the scales
of justice,
“Since, then, we have a written law
that our Judges must be elected by
the people, let us, the people, build
up an unwritten law, that a judge,
once on the bench, shall not be dis
placed, except for good cause shown.
“Especially should such a law ap
ply to the Judges of our Supreme
Court and Court 6! Appeals‘who have
so little opportunity for personal' con;
tact with voters. :
“No doubt, there are many men n
Georgia, of character and learning,
who cm‘xm. in time, properly discharge
the duties of these high offices; but
the best judicial work in reviewing
courts can come only with experience,
‘““How is the public to be benefitted
by casting aside the experience that
has already ripened, and taking
chances on the future?
“A judge who has done his duty,
ought not to be faced with the neces
sity of dividing his time between hig
nmcial work and political campaign
ing; nor should he be exposed to
the neeessity of spending his meagre
sul:;"ryézgo lntmfil‘“ yof “acts in
his Yecbid which 4, Illbefil canhot
properly’ deny.
“In the approachiig primaries, why
shouldei;x:;ot we, the people, show our
appéec_.i!"atlon of faithful service?”
A motor fuel vatented in German} ‘
is said to be composed of 50 per
cent benzol, 30 percent alcohol and
20 percent gas oil.
A Swiss scientist claims to have
developed a new steel that is 40
per cent lighter and 60 per cent
cheaper than any now used.
We Carry A
New Line
of Wedding Gifts;
Birthday tokens, and
Jewelry with an
Expression
in it.
Our goods are dependable de
signs in the very Latest Crea
| tions, We will appreciate a
1 call to look them over,
h S. M. Dekle
SR YN P IV AT
‘llhe fact that wore than twenty
thousand dollars in rewards for the
arrest of the assassing of the Canton,
Ohio, editor have been offered is re
assuring in the face of that crime—
a crime which followed war on vice
and gambling. We have fears that it
will be found a cancer in the heart
of the Canton police department when
it is uncovered., Despite the unusu
ally heavy rewards, if that be true,
it is going to be hard to upturn the
criminals and bring them to punish_
ment, But the murder on the night
when the police guarg was not on
duty is going to make it hard for the
police to come through without being
suspected. A corrupt police force was
needed to house and make safe the
vjce and crime which was the object
of the newspaper attack of the young
editor. The state of Ohio cannot well
afford to let this crime go unpunish
ed,
BEARING FRUIT
Birmingham Age-Herald and Mo
bile Register:
- Not many persons at the time rea
lized the significance of the actior
of the United States Shipping
Board, a year.ago, when, at th’e in
stance of the then Gulf mgmfier of
the Boérd, it ordered for South At
lantic |and Gulf ports 3 f)aljity ..o
rates with Noi’th Atlantic ports or
shipments to Europe. Prior to thaf
order, the norta Atlantic ports hac
enjoyed the rate parities with south:
ern ports on all shipments to Cen
tral American and through the Pana
ma canal, while at the same time
benefiting by differentials on con
yignments to Eurq')e. Because of
these defferentials, Southern ports
were handicapped in winning cargc
for European markets and the in
terior producing eenters were de
prived of the rail rate advantage:
that otherwise would flow fron
their proximity to the Southern sea |
board. : ‘
Since the Shipping Board orde::
removed discriminations against
Southern ports, the.ports .on the
Gulf and South Atlantic have rap
idly grown in tonna:ge, until today
they perceive the successful achieve
ment ultimately of their full sharc
of our foreign commerce. ; A recent
dispatch from Waghington ‘tells that
under a new agreement approved by
the board, five s't'e&r\tship lines serv ‘
ing South Atlantic %orts have so re
vised their understanding as tc
ocean rates as to permit central ter.
ritory shippers to get the benefit of
whatever differentials in rail rate
theremay be in favor of Souther
ports. Previously the ship lines hac
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equalized the rates from rail points
of origin to foreign destination
Henceforth, the Southern ship line:
party to the agreement will give
shippers the Benefit of allrate differ.
entials to seaboard.
Thus the wisdom of the Shipping
Board in creating as far as possiblc
an equality of opportunity for Soutt
Atlantic and Gulf ports is daily be
ing demonstrated. The port of Mo
bile, in which the people and indus
tries of Alabama are so deeply in
terested, is secing a remarkable
growth in tonnage that would never
have been possible as long as the
Southern ports were kept in feuda
subservience + othe North Atlantic
seaboard. Now that there is grow
ing fairness to all ports and all in:
terior sections in the establishment
of both rail and ocean rates, the en.
tire territory contributory to any
port is seeing the benefit,
The wise house Keeper will not miss the bargainas we have on un
til next Friday, We have no fear that you will be disappointed.
We remind you that you should not overlook these chances to
make sensible investments in furniture at low cost.
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