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BIBLE THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY
' KEEP IN REMEMBRANCE—*Re
member the laye of old, consider the
years of many gencrations: ask thy
father, and He -/ill shew thee; thy
.elders, and they wili tell tee.” Deut.
82:217.
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Our s?zm of yesterday at
noon fori#ybee for a'tv&.y‘b'"\ra.
cation to'be speat in thw kind
of army traidir ¢amp. Cordele
hag a compmMfihlch the whole
community may well be proud.
It now lookq!,llkg it will be Dan
Moody in Texas. Ma Ferguson will
bhave to surrender the office she has
held to the bitterest political enemy
she has had throughout her stormy
cureer, Such is the political fortune
of those who play politics,
BORAH WAS RIGHT
Benator Borah told at least
part of the truth in his Augusta
speech when he said that Bolshe
vists, Fascists, and Anti-Prohibi.
tionists are all whelps from the
same kennels, barking at the
same thing—constitytional gov
ernment. He made a strong plea
for enforcement of the prohibition
law and all other laws in order
to protect our government against
the lawless.—Tifton Gazette.
Borah is a hot-blooded senator, but
a man of wider perspective than most
prople understand. He is one of the
test known Americans in public life
today and but for his fight on the
league and the world court, would be
the strongest possibility for the next
lepublican nomination for the presi.
cdeney. That thing alone — right or
wrong—will keep him from the nomi
nation. The republicans may stay
cutside of the league. They have al.
ready offered a world court adherence
that will keep the world from accept.
ing American association because of
the reservations, but after all, the
républicans understand that this coun
tly is too, largely bent on world co
operation for peace and international
readjustment through peaceful meth
cds to let Borah's progpam stand for
the party. | v
we CHARGE IT TO HOLDER
[ We ran t:pon this little paragraph
lwhlch is credited to the editor of the
Moultrie Observer:
i “They are charging John Holder
- with granting paving work to coun
it.’el where he can make votes. This
'ls equal to charging that the two
very excellent men on the board with
ihlm are willing to traffic with state
}roud funds to advance the political
| joterests of the chairman of the
board. This is another one of those
volitical charges that prove a boom
erang.”
- And following a few days later we
ran upon this one credited to the
- game writer, the editor of the Moul
trie Observer:
“We are with the Cordele Dispatch.
We :’e against spending the state's
good money for overhead and for
mtchfng roads. The money should go
-’(or paving, Too much money is be
!lug spent on upkeep that isn’t up.
keep.”
l We are not trying to tell anybody
'whnt candidate he should support for
_governor. 1t John Holder is elected
mEovernor of Georgia, we shall do what
we can in a fair way to make his ad.
pinistration a good one. We are not
yorried about that. But so long as
ve have a chance to make a choice
which means the best to us, we deem
it our duty to stress that choice.
We have done our level best to
make it plain—John Holder is the
hoad of the Georgia highway depart
ment and whether we get paving or
waste 18 a thing we have a right to
iny upon John Holder, Surely, there
sl¢ two other members of the board,
but John Holder’'s full time is put
into the highway department and the
tax payers are paying him full time in
the form of a handsome salary and
certain pretty stiff expenses in con
noction with his duties. We have a
right to expéect something from John
Holder. The others doubtless give
good time—far more of their time
than their pay justifies.
Too much money that comes into
the state highway department goes to
overhead and soft-surface upkeep.
There isn’t any amount of explaining
that can get around that. It is noth
ing less than a sheer crime to spend
over half the money we are getting
for soft surface upkeep — over five
willions of it. That's the greatest
waste this state has today—by far
tie greatest. John Holder knows
tiat., What leads him to keep it up?
_ Are we unfair when we say that
1e keeps a large army of ten o’clock
to four o’clock employees on the sottj
surface up-keep with an enormousl
amount of money. gloi,ng epch yfi?r to“
the machinery people solely for the
purpose of strengthening his fight for‘
governor? Js there any other reasonl
m the wide world to which we can
essign this huge waste? If it is that,l
isn't Georgia wasting more money on
John Holder's campaign for governor
than has ever gone into such a thing
cut of the tax payer’s pocket in all
Listory?
We cannot help rising In protest,
It isn't right for John Holder to divert
the whole highway department to his
campaign for governor. It fsn't even
sensihle for the head of the highway
department to be in politics at all—
for any other office under the sun.
When we have a man in that job
who wants to run for something else,
he ought to step out®of that and
permit another good man to take
Lold and go on with the highway
work. We are thinking now of the
Fighways —the money coming into
that department ought to be going
into the paving and permanent build
ing. Soft surface upkeep and the
waste going into the hands of the ma
cninery people is enormous — over
five millions a year. Are we going
on with that eternally?
It does not worry us that John
Holder has friends who want him to
be governor. There is nothing in the
goevernor’s “hand-outs” that we care
for—should care for, when so much
is being wasted on up-keep and road
machinery. If you want to know
something about that, next time you
are driving on a state project, check
up on the wrecks of road machines
rotting and rusting out by the side
of the highway as you pass. Think
then of the six thousand miles like
that with the highway money being
roured out to waste in such invested
wiecks for capital. No wonder it
smounts to five millions a year.
We may go on dabbling i npolitics
—running John Holder for governor
while he is head of the highways and
the waste will go on. If that suits
the majority of Georgians, then we
will have to submit. We are for
majority rule. We can only feel the
iaperative duty now of protesting be.
cause this is the hour for that., It
will be too late after the state pri
mary is over and the results counted
ot the ballot box,
- John Holder doesn't study paving.
He studies political control—has done
so since the day Cliff Walker wonl
the governor's office. Not a line of
legislation saving this waste in tho‘
highways was permitted at the extra
session of the legislature last spring.
John Holder and his political ring
sters sat over that body and put their
approval or disapproval on every
rove. It couldn’t pass if they didn't
want it. The sensible effort by per
fectly sensible men was made to do
away entirely with this highway
waste about which we are protesting
-~and John Holder and his supporters
would not permit it to pass—didn't
want it to pass. We have only to pre.
sume that John Holder didn't want
this highway soft.surface upkeep to
he checked. He didn’'t want his ma
chinery buddies cut off. He didn't
want the counties to take care of the
Lighway upkeep and eave that enor.
mous waste,
Here in Crisp county ang in every
other county in the atate the county
forces can keep up the soft surface
highway mileage at hardly a tenth of
the cost now going into that—and
yet—and yet—good business men who
cered could not budge it an inch,
IHolder’s political following prevented
it because it might interfere with
Holder's chances to become governor.
It isn’t right—not one ounce of it.
We have to protest because we hon.
estly believe that we will never have
paved highways with that waste going
on. The pay-as.you-go plan is all
right so long as we have the present
tighway income-—and so long as that
I’goeu to the paving. But it isn't go
ing to the paving, It is being wast
ed, boldly, recklessly, wildly. Mil
lions of the money of the taxpayers
of thls' state is going into the waste
tLat is following in the wake of John
Holder’'s campaign for governor.
f We must remember that it was the
protest -of .another member of the
Tboard that started the row which put
John Holder out—out till his political
friends, all of them together, could
put their arms around him and rein.
state Him again/ Ty 'it reasonable
row to suppose that the other mem
ters of the board are going to say
snother word? What good would it
d 0? Does anybody suppose they want
to be made the criminals?
Dr. L. G. Hardman believes in the
pay-as-you-go plan, but he also be
lieveg in a highway department out
of the hands of the politicians. He
bas always followed strict business in
tcth his public and private life. He
hasbeen ,enough in public life to know
what is i)eing wasted in the highways,
He tells his friends and the public
mn ggferal that the highway depart
tient would be reorganized and a
hisiness administration put in charge
a 2 soon as he could have the authori.
ty as governor—and yet Dr. Hard:
nian is not going about the state
blowing about what he would do to a
neighbor, John Holder, if he ‘were
governor. We need Dr. Hardman in
the office of governor now more than
we have. needed such a man in a
s.ore of years. The voters of Geor
}gia can do no better in the Septem.
Ler primary than to send him to the
cffice with the full faith in his abil
ity to set things heads up—free from
reanut politics. We believe in him—
we shall support him, no matter what
the result—and we do not believe we
ghall ever have cause to regret the
Gecision,
Some British coal mines extenc
more than four miles fron: shore at .
depth of 150 feet below the sca.
JULIAN HARRIS
Wayeross Journai Herald:
The Macon Telegraph, the Cordele
Dispatch and otker papers have re
cently excoriated in frank criticism
the story in the Forum by Thomas
Boyd. which is ceeking to pay tribute
to Julian Harris, editor of the En
quirer-Sun, was decidedly unfair to
the c¢ity of Cclumbus and the state
of Georgia.
With the criticism of the article
we are wholly in accord, and doubt
if any Georgian can read the ar
ticle without a feeling of sincere re
sentment.
We differ from the Macon Tele
graoh and th 2 Cordele Dispatch
however in atributing the sentiments
expressed in the article to Mr. Har
ris rather than te Mr, Boyd.
We have read much that Mr, [ar
ris hay written and while we do not
think he is sufficiently aware in his
editorials that the first and foremost
obligation of a newspaner is to its
own community vet ti:e only criti--
cism of Mr. Harrig tnat we {hink
Jjustified is that &* apparently has
fallen into tha fallacy that education
constitutes an aristoeracy,
Mr. Harris urdoubtedly has high
ambilions for his own state and for
his own city. IHe has worked hard
to make those dreams come true.
Unfortunate fo: himzelf his mauner
I CHDNIIELE e
of working i 3 not suc'. as to gather
around him tsese wy:ing for the
same purpose, But Mr, Boyd and
the Macon Te'egr.iph and the Cor
dele Dispatch w 2 think err in con
struing the hope of Mr. Harris as
a caustic comment upon the present
It i 3 dangerous to dwell in the fu
ture, to think and work for what may
be to an oblivien of the good that
is. Mr, Harris has been so concern
ed about his idcals for Columbus
and Georgia that he has overlooked
the many goood qualities of te city
and state abundantly evident today.
Y 24 we cannct accept the thedry
that Mr. Havris inspired the story
as written by Mr. Boyd. We do not
belizve that Mr. Harri: would claim
himself to be thie mentor and guide
for certain fellow papers, as the ar
ticle claimed. We do not belicve
that Mr. Harris would, for one mo
ment, claim Columbus to be such a
city o 1 Georgia such & state as Mr.
Boyd described.
deliberately to shut one’s self apart
Deliberately to be intellectual is
for the everyday affairs hat mean
so much to thz individual, to the
community and to the :itate. Inel
lectualism if not watched can cre
ate a well of ideas isolating thej
| thinker from practical and effcctivei
1 participation ‘r his own environment
It is unfortunate tiat the Forum
has scen fot t 5 publish te article by
Mr. Boyd and a fairnces to Georgia
is synonoMous wit); a statement from
the editorial staff of the Forum to
that effect. Yet, we arc constrained
to believe, that Mr. Beyd has mis
interpreted hig conversations with
Mr. Harris, and likewise his impres
sions gained in Columbus and 'in
Georgia, We believe that Mr. Harris
has been too much concerned with his
idea's for Colviabus and Georgia.
We believe that Mr, Harris has been
too much concerned with his ideals
for Cclumbus and Gecergia and too
little occupied with practical ap
proaches to these idgals.
Rostand dramarizéd the Chanti
cleer which thought the sunrise due
to its own crowing and Mr. Harris
has assumed IA% Wmuch' eredit in the
undonbted progress of Georgia for
the intellectuz . He should re-read
the fly in Easop’s fables that set
on ihe spoke of a wheel and com
mented on how much dust he was
kicking up.
ROEBLING IS DEAD
Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge
which, when completed in 1883, was
the longest suspension bridge in the
world, brought international fame to
Washington Augustus Roebling, who
died yesterday in Trenton, as an en
gineor. The ’ structure, unique in
Ihrldgc building, was regarded as a
‘romarkable feat in engineering skill,
Colonel Roebling was beset with many
serious obstacles and disadvantages
from the beginning of the work, belngl
l=ft by the untimely death of his fath
er, John A. Roebling, to undertake
slone the difficult task for which his
father haq contracted. The latter
was injured while making a survey at
the Brooklyn side of the river and
died 16 days later of lockjaw.
At the time of the death of John
A. Roebling not a stroke of actual
construction work had been done on
the proposéd bridge and the plans
which he left his son were general
in character, not a single detail of
vhich had been considered. Betore}
undertaking the sinking of the toun.:
dations for the bridge, Washington‘
A. Roebling went to Europe where he
made a special study of pneumatic
foundations, When work was com.
menced he took up his residence in
Prooklyn and during the- sinking of
the caissons never left Brooklyn for
ar hour. He personally supervised
ali the important preliminary work,
spending the larger part of each 24
kours on the job, frequently making
visits to the scene of operations at
night after being there through the
cay. (0
I The devotion of Colonel Roebling to
his work resulted in impaired health
and in December, 1872, he was obliged
tc cease his visits, Fearing that he
raight not live to see the 'work com
rleted and knowing how incomplete
were the plans and instructions, he
spent the winter drawing and writ-
llng. and the papers written while he
‘Wwas too gick te leave his room con
-Iluined the most minute and exact di
rections for making the cables and
the erection of all the complicated
parts which compose the superstruc.
ture. In the spring of 1873, upon the‘
insistence of his physicians, he com
pletely suspended his work and went
to Germany, where he remaijned six
months, Upon his return he resumed
cupervision of the work and when the
Lridge was completed it was said that
10 great project had bheen ever con
ducted by a man under so many dis
acvantages,
| Colonel Roebling wae born at Sax
!onlmrg, Pa., May 26, 18927, the son
of John A. and Johanna Herting
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Roebling. His father, a native of
Prussia, was a civil engineer, having
received his degrce from the Royal
Tolytechnic School of Berlin, The
son was graduated as a civil engineer
fiom the Rensselaer Polytechnic In
stitute at Troy, N. Y., in 1857. He im
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LESHDAY, Jewy 23, 136
ing done on the Allegheny suspen
gion bridge. He was a man of ver
catile attainments, being a classical
scholar, a linguist and an excellent
musician. As a mineralogist it was
¢aid that he hardly had a superior in
this country. He had a valuable col
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