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WHAT COURTS ARE FOR
'l"he World Court would no
more involve the United States
in trouble with Europe than the
“-uperlor court of Lowndes county
would bring about disturbances
between’ (:"il('llf'l of the court, A
world court is just a little higger
,court than the court of a single
nation ang its purpose is to pre.
vent trouble, If citizens were left
to settle their differences p«-rmiu
ally there would be no end to the
fisticuffs and fights—and it is go
with nations. Courts are to set
tle differences without violence.
~Valdosta Times.
And the world court is for that busi
ness, We have our consent in the
last congress on the Coolidge-Harding
proposal to go into the world court
and there undertake to settle world
issues, provided the world will allow
the court to go along and not under
take to pass on anything in which this
country is at variance with any other
nation. Thig proviso is so large that
this country isn't in the world court.
Other nations would not accept the
reservations. :
We cannot blame them. But we can
stand up and deliver blow upon blow
in protest against those American
demagogues who will go out to seek
office on cheap appeal to the ignor
ant voter who can be caused to be
lieve anything because he cannot de
termine for himself what is the real
truth about such issues. That's the
Dick Russell program in Georgia to
day. He ran not so long ago for
governor of Georgia on the liquor
ticket—and was beaten, of course,
but today he is running against Sen
ator George on the world court when
ha,is himself at the head of the high
est court of appeal in Georgia and
ought to understang the meaning of
legal and equitable disposal of dif
ferences as set over against shot
guns and pistols as a means of get
ting justice.
So it is with nations., The world
court has been made necessary in the
progress of civilization. We have
every reason to believe that it will
stay. American adherence ought to
be given in that spirit—a belief that
it is here to stay,
A REAL FARM HELP i
From the Greensboro IHerald Journ
al we gather the following lnterosh‘
ing and sensible suggestion: |
©"lf the farmers of Georgia want
to get some real service out of the
Department of Agriculture, they ought
to see that it is combined with the
agricultural service of the state schooli
at Athens, under Dr. Soule, and curr_\';
out a program of substantial benefit
to the farmers. This is the plan in‘
other states. North Carolina is mrg-‘
ing ahead because her educational
leaders have the backbone to speak
out to the people and tight the politi
cians attempting to interfere with
education,
“It is only necessary to reming the
public that Dick Russell is clmirmzm}
of the board of trustees of the Uni
versity of Georgia to prove that high-‘
er education in Georgia is in a de-j
plorable condition.”
Georgia is nutd-l?nd state— not
wholly bad. But we have a great way
of injecting politics into our public
service to such an extent that tliey
lose a business aspect entirely, The
department of agriculture should be
wholly given to farming advancement
in Georgia——and yet it is wholly giv.
en to the advancement of the politi
cal interests of one man, May be
not whnlly. but to such an extent that
it cannot render its best service to
the agricultural interests,
What is suggesteq here would be
tine—very fine if it did not drag the
whole state agricultural college into
politics, Both these interests might
prove of wonderful importance to the
farmers of Georgia if they could oper.
ate together and save duplication
costs, Agricultural development of
the near future is going to call for
intelligent planning in the college and
the state agricultural department, If
these two forces for the good of
Georgia farming were thrown togeth.
er and the undesirable political activ
ities forgotten, we should find Geor
gia farming taking a wonderful stride
forward, There is much room for it,
despite our pride in our present farm.
ing status,
HOPEFUL SIGNS IN THIS
The Interstate Commerce Commis
gion Friday denied the application of
the railroads in the western districts
for a five percent increase in freight
rates, We fine a ray of hope in this
because it would seem to indlcqte
that the upward trend of freight rates
!i:x finding such hard sledding as to
promise \the country—espeacially the
agricultural country—that these rates
will not ;reach a much higher peak.
Freight rates, mo matter what the
carriers say about it, are one of the
mill stones about the neck of the
farmer. They are too high—so high
that he cannot meet the cost of pro
duction, sell at a fair price in the
(men market anywhere and then
have anything like the cost of pro
duction left for himself. This looks
hard, too, in the face of the fact
that business is moving the counrty
cver at such a pace as to cause a‘
reasonably fair demand for the prn-i
ducts from the farm.
~ Here in this section freight rates
an truck and produce, on melons and
peaches, are so high that the grower
ils poor indeed when he comes out of
marketing his crop. Cantaloupes,
lmeh)ns, peacheés, tomatoes moving out
‘nf this community have been hard
hit by the freights. The other day a
hopeful melon grower took in a car
of fine melons. He found a market
for them in West Virginia. The car
brought two hundred and seventy-six
dollars. But wheirf he paid his freight
costs he had an even hundred left
for his choice melons, e looked at
the situation frankly and declared
that the railroads who are guaranteed
their money with no sort of risk in
geason or out, should not get what
they took to carry that car to its
destination. ft would take a long
story to show that the hundred for
he carrier and the hundred and
ieventy-six for the grower would
‘have been a more just distribution.
lood seasong ‘¢annot always be in
sured. Good melons for market are
aot a farming accident. They are
he result of sensible, dilMgent effort
n the face of all the elements. The
armer didn't get his just reward in
that deal. Call us radical, if you de:
Jdre, the costs of freights are too high
Jor the farmer to break even in his
calling.
In declining the " application fm"
reight increases in the western di
vision the commerce commission said
‘No financial emergency exists,”
“In this portion,” it said, “the car
siers appear to be both financially and
physically sound. In the northwest
ern region and in western trunk line
territory, the revenues of certain of
he important carriers have not yield
«d 5,76 per cent upon any rate bases
chat can reasonably be adopted in
advance of a final determination of
present values for rate-making pur
poSes,
“Thae least favorable conditions in
the district, so far as carrier revenue
wre concerned, appear to exist in west
orn trunk line territory., It is, how
aver, to be noted that both in the
northwestern region and in western
runk line territory as”well as in the
western district as a whole conditions
have recently shown an improving
tendency.”
Western carriers had requested a
5 per cent horizontal increase in rates
-,ixbject to certain exceptions,
The applications were bmugl;t into
the proceeding resulting from the
‘udoptlon of the Hoch-Smith resolu
tion by congress, calling for a general‘
inquiry into the freight structure.
with perticular reference to agricul
ture,
While it had the power to prescribe
the changes, the commission said it
could properly prescribe them only
upon clear evidence of urgent necessi
ty. Therefore bhoth the petitions of
the carriers in the western district
and of the security holders with refer
ence to western trunk line territory
.were denied,
Notwithstanding numerous hearings
throughout the west, it was said, very
little evidence was presented with ra.
igspect to the rate structure affecting
agriculture; full information as to
what the rates now are and wha!
would constitute reasonable ratcs was
necessary before action could be taken
in accordance with the Hoch-Smith
resolution.
SAICRIFICING THE STATE
Elberton Star: :
Julian Harris, editor of the Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun, is the subject
of severe criticism from every sec
tion of Georgia, because of an ar
ticle which apeared in the July is
sue of the Forum, a magazine o
‘wide circiulation published in New
York. The article was ‘signed by
Thomas Boyd, but those familiar
with Mr, Haris’ style of writing, hisj
detail and extravagant description
of the things odorous, avow that no
one but Julian Harris furnished the
material for the vile attack on Geor
gia,
It will be remembered thai the
Enquirer-Sun a few months ago was
awarded the Pulitzer prize for ihe
most outstanding and most disinter
ested newspaper service in the Unit
ed States during the past year. Tt is
was the basis for the article which
appeared in the July number of 'l'.icl
Forum. Mr. Harris was pictured as!
the Moses leading a blind, ignorant,
lawless, savage people out of the
wilderness into God’s glorious sun:
shine.
The article is a gross misrepresen
tation of Georgia from start te fin
ish, The pretended main object ot
the story—that of making a herc of
Mr. Haric—passes into the back
ground of a darz and slanderous pie.
ture of the State and her people.
So far as we have beén able to
learn, Mr. Haris has not denied the
charge that he furnished the “facts’
piven by the Forum corespondent
nor has he denied actually writing
the story. Somebody should be ask
ed to correct this outrageous at-
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tack. Even if there was any truth
in it, and there is not, such an at
tack would be unworthy of coming
from a Georgian with a spark of
Southern chivalry in his breast,
Mr. Harris may bhe able to receive‘
the plaudics of those prejudiced
against Georgia and the South, thc‘
Catholics, and Norterners who in
sist on social equality of negroes and{
whites, but he is going to find thatl
this won’t keep hiz newspaper going
in Georgia. Aud, if he is responsi
ble, for the article appearing under
Mr. Boyd’s siznature in The Fo
rum, he is not worthy of a sufficient{
local support to keep his paper off
Lhe rocks. |
The citizens of Columbus, Geor
eia, should demand an answer 0.
him, and Mr. Harris, fearless, cour
ageous editor so forceful and gifted
as to command an award from the
great Pulitzer {foundation, should
have the backbone to tell the truth,
regardless of consequences.
“TIMES HAVE NOT CHANGED”
Tke Candidate Before Election
MAN at
FRONT gate; :
NICE man- '
CANDIDATE.
SMILES sweet,
BOWS low,
TAKES seat,
WON'T go.
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If - thirty-five, or forty = well
paid secretaries in’ your county
should write you one by one
and they all told you the same
thing, would you believe it?
Ii they all told you they had
risen to their present position
by means of a :
GEORGIA-ALABAMA
BUSINESS COLLEGE
TRAINING
and that it was all that was
claimed for it, you would cer
tainly bclieve it.
Send for a copy of Busniess
Builderls—They all say “It’s the
best,”
GEORGIA-ATABAMA
BUSINESS COLLEGE
MACON, GA.
EATS pies, |
EATS meat, : ’ |
TELLS lies. ‘
KISSES taby, bl |
PRAISES sis ‘
CALLS granny,
“YOUNG migs,” 4
PATS Towser, . i
FONDLES cat, : i
TELLS dad ' |
“STAND pat.” |
I'M runnin’ f
‘WAY ‘head
ALL others,
I'M dead
SURE ‘lected i
THIS pop
‘WAY yonder,
ON top,
MY name?
JOHN Ray,
HELP me,
‘LECTION day.
PRETTY baby!
WIHOOP hi!
REMEMBER me,
GOOD-BYE.
After Election
FLEW by, :
FROM gate,
NICE. 08 ...« . 114 |
CANDIDATE, | . .
DONIT siile,. i .o
DON'T speak-
FLIES by- -
BLUE streak. ot/
POLITICS, 4
ALL briars,
SAYS men,
ALL liars.
- GOES home,
SHEDS tear.
FIXES for
NEXT year.—
(Houston Post, July 31, 1393.)
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English exporimenters have de
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that has apout, the ssame .matching
quality as brass. .
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MONDAY, JULY 19, 1926