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BIBLE THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY
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THE VALUE OF KNOWLEDGE
~—“lsracl served the Lord all the
days of Joahua, and all the days of
the eldotf:v't" that overlived Joshua,
‘and \\'hi%’!’fhad known all the works
of the , that He had done for
llucl."lfi 24:31,
John fl&“der was given a cordial
recepglon"llgero early today by his
friends M';.'g(‘ordclo. He shook hands
with numibers of the voters.
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Now, “v‘.hut in the world will the
Knights of Columbug do about it—
Coolidge ,fl’?’u decfded that no inter.
vention I!:‘necossnry at this stage of
the rcllg‘hs war in Mexico?
nuykni.vl-aam he would have the
slayer ofié'}ert Donaldson behind lhe}
bars in gwenty.four hours—said that
in h«-av.yp«hsldllnes across the front
pages of Atlanta newspapers. [t is
a mighty !9{‘! twenty-four hours,
There lls.\ ;vrnw among democrats
over in California. One faction thinks
the othér is trying to deliver the
California democracy over to Al
Smith, dnd the other is seeking to
prevent it. There we go. How can
we have a national democracy at
that? That thing is happening in
several states—-the latest being in the
Alabama primary where the voters
exprexaed themselves as wanting to
get as f@ir away from Underwood as
they possibly could because he might
celiver them in the end to Al Smith
in the next national democratic con
vention. - The democrats are running
a religious war in this country—and
eastern FéclllO(‘l‘:lls are not satisfied
with that. They want to go down
into Me;ico and take a hand there.
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NO, BIR, MISTER TINKHAM
(‘ungré&sman George Holden Tink
ham of ;flusmvhussvtts has furnished
the prv@f with a copy of the hear
ings hotfire the committee on foreign
affairg (g the lower house of congress
at the lét session on the said Mister
Tinkhull‘"‘;fl proposal that the presi
dent cuh a third Hague conference
for the ;pmdit‘ic:nion of international
law. The said Mister Tinkham writes
us that ';ifhvrn will be a strong effort
to get ictinn in congress on this
thing ul'ého fall session. We are aw
fully mpch obliged to Mister Tink.
Lam, hu{ we are engaged in an effort
to hringj'almut world cooperation in
the l‘slgblishm(‘ll! of international
('usmms;h'lhrough the rulings of the
world v&m'l. already established and
roing, isjilh a very fine American
lawyer gbd jurist serving on that high
tribunali: We believe we will continue
in s_\'nli{étll,\'. at least, till we find
whethersthe international court of
justice §& going 1o be able to meet
the wordd's needs in laying down in
ternuliofiul principles of law for the
nations ;.(o abide in peaceful pursuit
of just'réé and happiness,
A polley of partisan hatred and
jflalousiés on the part of a little tin.
headed, lead-headed Massachusetts
congressman that smacks of Lodge's
hatred for the great founder of the
world court, Woodrow Wilson, doesn't
interest us as a thing to support. We
would step on it and choke it to
death. But then we do not think it‘
(s‘goim:sutrer for somebody loi
when congress meets,
~ We do not know how strong our
national support of the world court,
already established, is going to be, We
have every reason to believe that it
has been hedged around by politics
g 0 that we will not be worth much
as a member of that great court of
Justice, but one thing is pretty well
settled—we are not going over to
The Hague and get any other nations,
except possibly Russia and Germany
and a few like that to join us in any
move to codify the international lews.
That work is already being done by
all the other civilized nations in the
world court except the Uniteq States,
We might stay here at home and
gave expenses—and codify the inter.
pational laws to suit ourselves — or
rather the Lodge republicans, That
would save time and expense. There
isn't anybody else much concerned
about it except the enemies of the
late President Wilson—and we were
brought up for several generations
back to believe like Mr. Wilson be
lieved when he sought to set up the
world court where the opinions ren
dered might in time become the code
of law that the world meanwhile
might learn to respect.. Most of our
worth while basic law under which
we live today came down through
time in the same manner. Mr. Wil.
son knew—and most wise men today
know how those things came to a
people,
George Holden Tinkham's Hague
conference will never be called out.‘\
side the coterie of Wilson haters in
the republican ranks up around where
the late Senator Lodge exh}ted. |
“LICKER DICK” RUSSELL
We are regretful that some of
“Licker Dick” Russell’'s friends up in
north Georgia don’t like us. But they
ought to he “more considerate and
careful of an individual's reputation or
character or something of the kind.
They've shaped up a big newspaper
advertisement and written in it in
big type that “when it comes to mak
ing dirty, unfounded charges against
a candidate whom they are opposing
Editor Brown of the Cordele Dispatch
and W. T. Anderson of the Macon
Telegraph are about on a par.” Well,
that hurts to thHe quick — and we
know it hurts Mister Anderson to be
thrown out into a “dirty” class with
us. We haven't decided what we will
do about ft,
But “Licker Dick” Russell knows
he ran once for governor of Georgia
as a wet candidate—not merely as a
fellow who likes his toddy, as many
men do, but as a man who would
bring back the saloon and put the
traffic on its olq footing. These were
“Licked Dick” Russell’'s sentiments,
his political aims, and, bless you, he
thought Georgia was politically as
wet as he had believed it to be per
sonally, 1t was a big mistake. Li
quor is still an issue in Georgia as
well as up in New York because
Georgia still belongs to the United
States of America.
We know his friends are mighty
angry about it, but it is still a fact—
“ Licker Dick” Russell ran once for
governor, not s 0 many years ago, as
a wet candidate, He got left and his
friends are afraid of that record.
They think it will hurt him again.
Sure, it will hurt him, but what's
wrong in telling the public what a
man is who asks for the highest of.
fice within their gift? They ought
not to try to hide anything from the
public in matters of this kind.
He got to be chief justice of the
state supreme court over one of
Georgia's purest, noblest, fairest jur.
ists—-JudgeW. H. Fish. He didn't get
there on any of his own merits, for
he has none save his power to cut
a tobacco quid double quick, to mll‘
a cheap cheroot between a lovely sot‘
of masculine lips and mingle the to-‘w
bacco flavor with wonderful poise
!nud balance on a breath made strong
in the early hours of the day with
that form of toddy at his disposal.
“Licker Dick” Russell as chief justice
of the Georgia supreme court is a
Tom Hardwick “flareback.” Hardwick
went all over Georgia under the wing
of the late lamented Tom Watson
and raised all the hell he could with
the slackers and the draft dodgers
after the war. We do not forget the
minded, loyal old Georgia, We pledg.
ed then to raise our voice and hand
in condemnation wherever we could,
‘Today we still raise that hand and
that voice, “Licker Dick” Ruuell‘
went into the office he now holds on
a campaign of the lawless, for the
lawless. His friends were the llquor.:
toaked hell-ralsers who went all over
this state preaching and teaching dis
loyalty and rebellion against law,
His like were responsible for one of
the darkest season’s of crime in um‘
state, He sat there in the cloak of
our greatest tribunal for years a pro.
duct of that upheaval and rebellion,
Today he is a candidate for the
United tSates senate from Georgia as
the result of a refusal of Senator
Walter George to truckle to an At.
lanta bunch of politiclans who threat.
iened him when he told them he
wasn't going to support Joe Tilson
for the judgship of the middle Georgia
district. Senator George handled the
whole' bunch like a man with great
courage. That's all as true ag day
light. We are regretful that “Licker
Dick” Russell's friends don't want us
telling the voters of Georgia about
it, but we mean to tell them just the
same. Men who care about who rep
resentg this state in the senate ought
to know who “Licker Dick” Russell
is—why he came to be where he is,
They have a Georgian in this place
we do not think they will want to
turn out for “Licker Dick” Russell—
not yet. ' " i "
HERE’S A GREAT °‘ISSUE,” AND
IT'S DEVOID OF POLITICS
Atlanta Georgian: :
Nothing is of more importance to
the state of Georgia than that we
get upon our statute books just as
soon as we may a comprehensive,
workable vital statistics bill, and to
that end Georgians should bear in
mind a constitutional amendment
proposed by the Georgia Legislature,
to be voted upon for ratification or
reejection in the regular state elec
tion in November.
As we are undertaking to adver
tise Georgia abroad, to proclaim it
as a land of opportunity and advan
tage, nothing is of more importanca
than that we are able to recite
truthfully the circumstances of Geor
gia's health condition—AND THAT
THE RECITAL BE ACCURATE
AND AUTHORATIVE!
We cannot do that now as con
vincingly as we might if we had a
vitial statistics law of the right sort.
We have been working on this
thing in Georgia for a good many
years; but, strange as it may sgem,
| we have not yet achieved the en
actment of a law that fills fully the
purposes desired.
The present Georgia vital statistics
bill became a law on August 18,
I’l4, under the administration of
Governor Dorsey. but an appropria
tion for its enforcement was not
available until January 1, 1919,
when the Bureau of Vital Statistics
was organized. While the local regis
trar is an elected official in the
county and the fees are paid by the
county to such officials for the regis
tration of births and deaths, certain
counties began to complain that
there were no funds from which to
fees could be paid. In 1921 Houston
county refused to pay such fees
onthegroundp that there were no
provision in the constitution provid
ing for such taxation. Other coun
ties fell in line with Houston county
and this claim.
A case was instituted in order to
test the constitutionality of the law.
The suit did not come up until Sep
tember 1924, It was tried in cham-%
bers in November of that year, with
the result that the circuit judge do-{
cided that such payment was con--'
stitutional. Houston county appealed
the case to the Supreme Court in
December, and on June 22, 1925 the
supreme court reversed the opinion
of the circuit judge and declared
that the payment of such fees was
unconstitutional.
In 1926 at the call session of the
state general assembly a bill was
passed, almost unanimously, provid
ing for an amendment to the Consti
tution legalizing the payment of lo
cal registrars by the severral coun
ties. This hill must be ratified by a
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in November before it can bccomc‘
a law, |
In 1922 Georgia was admitted to
the Death Registration Area of the‘
Census Bureau, Dato relating to]
deaths are not included in this arca
until city or state proves through a
test conducted by the Bureau of the
Census that at least 90 percent of
the deaths occurring in city or state
are registered,
In 1925, after the supreme court
decision, Georgia as a whole was
dropped from the Death Registration
Area by the Census Bureau, but the
cities of Albany, Athens, Atlanta,
Augusta, Brunswick, Columbus, La
Grange, Macon, Savannah and Way
eross will be retained as they secure
the necessary percent registration of
deaths ’
The constitutional amendment
proposed is to paragraph 2, section
6, of artcile VII, so as to authorize‘
the “collection and preservation of
records of birth, death, disease and‘
health,” - C R 't e el
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