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Class-
Agricultural outlook in the United
States continues gradually to im
prove.
Because some people are devoid of
gratitude is no excuse for cne tally
ing a chip on his shoulder.
Tiie Tifton Gazette remarks: “Lets
hope there is something better brew
ing for Georgia than beer.”
There is more credit in doing a
small job well than simply occupying
space in the queen’s court.
Some fellow objects to the wages
in the unemployment camps. Wonder
if he expects the men to work for
nothing?
The cultural factor uniting the
German people today is their tradi
tion in music rather than their his
tory or politics.
Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd has escaped
the gallows, which perhaps was just,
but for less henious crime many have
paid the death penalty.
Postmaster General Farley wants
2c postage for local delivery letters,
•says Bill BifTem. In other words Far
ley postage won’t carry far.
Milton Hi West has been elected
to the congressional seat vacated in
the 15th Texas district when John N,
Gamer became vice president.
What we can’t understand is why
*0 many motorists drive to distant
places to be killed when they have all
the modern conveniences at home.
The individual that thinks only of
himself or herself and is forgetful of
obligations to others does not count
for much either in this world or the
next.
Franklin D. Roosevelt already has
Initiated more important policies dur
ing his first seven weeks in office
than the average President has in a
four-year term.
A Salvation Army officer says re
ligion is making more progress now
than ever before. Something of the
sort ws to be expected—with a sto-dc
market like that.
The surest way to win a race is to
put l'-.e spurs to your horse and hold
tightly to the horn of your saddle.
Trailing behind and cussing the rider
in front of you will never do it.
Why does not the fellow who be
lie' "s t v at you can make people good
by legislation, suggest to Congress
that they pass a law requiring every
man to love his neighbor as himself.
A virtual agreement between Pres
ident Roosevelt and senators drafting
permanent banking legislation appar
ently prepared the way Monday fori
enactment of a bill at this session
providing for insurance of deposits.|
The $2,000,000,000 administrate
farm mortgage refinancing plan wa
formally approved Saturday by thi
Senate as part of the general farm
relief bill and the administration's
inflation amendment was made the
pending business.
If you sit around and wait for thi
government to help you, it’ll be quit,
some time before your depression i
over. President Roosevelt promise'
you a plenty, but all tfie same he ex
pects you to keep trying to do some
thing for yourself.
One of the loveliest bits of growing 1
and greenness in the entire south is
the beautiful and historic old Gov
ernment Square Park at Milledgeville
which is now used as a recreation
center for the students at the Geor
gia State College for Women at
Milledgeville.
The South yesterday paid reverent
tribute to her Confederate dead.
Memorial Day is an observance that
should be more generally participated
in by the public than has been the
case recently.The memory of the great
valor of those heroes should never be
permitted to die.
The Georgia Bi-Centennial edition
of the Atlanta Constitution, issued
Monday is one of the most creditable
and noteworthy contributions to the
state ever attempted in the history
of the state. No home is complete
without a copy. If you haven’t one,
order it now, is our suggestion.
The trouble with the world today
is that every nation and every in
dividual is trying to survive regard
less of the fate of others. Benjamin
Franklin said a mighty true thing
when he stated just after the declara
tion of independence had been s'.gnou:
“We must all hang together, or we
will hang separately.”—Winder News.
Newspaper editors have just this
difference from a lot of folks in a
community: They publish to the world
all the good things to be said about
their community and leave the harm
ful reports about people and con
ditions to the undesirable citizen who
is here today and yonder tomorrow
wherever the pastures seems the
greenest.
Editor of the Eudora Times-Herald
rising in his wrath, has decided the
way to get a thing done right is to
do it yourself. Says he: “We apolo
gize for the nublious errs appealing
in this column last week due to
thpogaah,cl mistakes. Therr will be
no more as we have fired the limoly-
pest and leamed to run tliemchine
ourself.
The rumor that ex-Se,cretary of the
Treasury Mills is lobbying in Wash
ington against the measures of Dres
den! Roosevelt has stirred up some of
the Democrats. Republican opposition
at this time would really help the
Democrats’ measures, hut the pres
ence of a former official who had put
on hts war paint will not be well re
ceived.—Savannah Press.
Bill Biffem shouldn’t be such a
close observer. In his column in the
Savannah Press Monday this para
graph appeared: “C. M. Methvin, Jr.,
the new owner and editor of the Vi
enna News, must have liked some of
e stories he printed on his editorial
iage of the first issue published un-
er his direction. He had four ar-
icles on this page duplicated.”
OKGIA, APRIL 27, 1933.
WORDS WITH ACTION
The depression has revealed that
many of the wise ones did not know
any more about what was going to
happen to this country than the com
mon dubs. Even the experts were all
fooled. . | i,i'
Compromise was reached last week
on the silver features of the adminis
tration inflation bill which threatened
for the time to split the Democratic
party in the senate and lead to pro
longed and bitter bispute.
The Cuthbert Leader reminds its
readers of this important interesting
fact: “Exchanges in less favored
spots in Georgia are noting the open
ing of the flower season in their
midst. In Cuthbert we have them the
year round. We see them every day;
they are no rarity. Wouldn’t stay in
a place that wasn't so favored.”
One of he best inheritances a man
'can receive from his ancestors is a
good stomach. Assuming that he
cares well for his inheritance a good
stomach and a good disposition will
insure a man being cheerful and even
tempered and good natured. If a man
ms a good stomach he has no right
0 be a grouch and a icrabber. If he is,
e should be taken out behind the
arage shortly before sunup and put
n the spot.
Perhaps the chief reason why some
(owns forge ahead and accomplish
things while others do not, may be
found in the fact that in former towns
are to be found men who are willing
to go ahead and try something. The
man who hangs back, who fears this
and who fears that, who doubts this
or that thing can be donenever sets
much of a record for accomplishment.
On the other hand the man who
sweeps aside and minimizes all ob
jections and difficulties and goes
ahead arid fries, as a rule, gets things
done. The towns that have really ac
complished things have done them
while other towns were sitting back
anq wondering if they could be done.
“Thinking” is the motive power of
progress. Without it we would have
stagnation. Man would have remained
primitive. Its the restless, provocative
instinct in us that creates a dissatis
faction. No man, rich or poor, is sat
isfied. He no sooner scores a victory
over one problem than he seeks an
other. Its our thinking that improves
conditions, overcomes impediments,
tests our mentality, defeats resis
tance, and contributes to the welfare
of mankind.
The public service commission of
Georgia did very little for the con
sumers of electricity by taking off
the service charge, for an increase
was made in the cost of the first few
kilowatts amounting to practically
the same money, but they started out
right. It sounds much better to bill a
customer $1 for five kilowatts of
current than it does to bill him $1
for being ready and will to serve his
needs.—Moultrie Observer.
Did you know that one-half pint of
Faith, half-pint of Virtue, half-pint
of Knowledge, half-pint of Patience,
half-pint of Goodness, half-pint of
Brotherly Kindliness, half-pint Chari
ty and one good resolution well shak
en three times a day with prayer
would cure Rheumatism, Evil Eye,
Blasphemy, Grumbling, Back Biting
and Deceit? This remedy kills the
nerves of prejudice and purifies the
blood and if you ,cai. get the worst
man there is to use this prescription
it will restore him back to manhood
and respectability with God and man.
It will make him love his own wife
and children better; he will want to
put them under the same treatment.
Did you ever stop to .catch a vision
of the greatest standing army in the
world ? The school children of the
United States outnumber the entire
population of many countries and far
surpass the war-footing armies of
many others. The destiny of the na
tion throbs in every pulse-beat of
these oncoming hosts. America’s fu
ture rests with these teeming thous
ands for a nation can never be great
er than her sons. Herein is our amaz
ing responsibility. It stands before us
with solemn lips of question. As we
lead these throngs into the larger life
we proportionately swing this great
land °f ours far ou t > s the orbit of her
appointed destiny. This world of
young blood is the unerring prophecy
of all the coming years.
Business may not be as good as we
might hope, and our creditors may
be pinching down on us, but the frag
rance of the newly born apple blos
soms and the beautiful scenery of the
dogwood still hits that hidden spot in
us that brings to us a feeling of
gentleness and satisfaction at this
season of the year. During the march
of the sun across the roof of the
world we may have to work and fret
to keep bread in our pantries, but on
a night like this we can forget all
man-made trouble and just float with
the moon in careless random and
really enjoy life for the sake of liv
ing. We are truly happy to be alive
at this season of the year, and feel
that the world was made just for us.
—Commerce News.
Theodore Roosevelt once said: “It
is not the critic who .counts; not the
man who points out how the strong
man stumbled, or where the doer of
the deed could have done better. The
credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena; whose fa,ce is
marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs and
comes short again and again because
there is no effort without error and
shortcoming; who does actually strive
to do the deeds; who knows the great
enthusiasm, the great devotion, spends
himself in a worthy cause; who at the
best knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement; and who at the
worst, if he fails, at least fails while
greatly, so that his place shall never
be with those cold and timid souls
who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
OFF THE GOLD STANDARD
It is natural for the nation to feel
amazement and gratitude and admira
tion, all at the same time, for the
dynamic new deal that is being issued
from the white house. But the most
surprising, and to a certain degree
amusing, aspect of the situation is
the mingled bewilderment and awe
with which editors of some of New
York’s great dailies, with Republican
leanings, treat the masterful ma-
[nuevers with which President Roose-
velt executes his plans for national
rejuvenation. First skeptically, and
pow with frank praise, some of these
ditorial commentators have watched
,he marvelous precision with which
ction follows words, and they still
onfess astonishment at the achieve
ment. They have seen the White
ouse sealed with silence during one
dministration, ary they have seen
inother issue statements which a di
vided following promptly overthrew.
Now, confronted with a president
who speaks and acts in an almost
continuous qeft operation, they are
amazed. As the New York Evening
Post good-humoredly observes, “We
have asked the president to define
his program to the country at large.
The Sun has asked him to break his
strange silence on repeal. The Her
ald Tribune this morning asks him
to come out against inflation. As
from time immemorial, demands like
these are made daily, sometimes sin
cerely, sometimes in the hope of em
barrassing the President, and now and
then for no especial reason except
that to pretend that things are not
going satisfactorily and that silence
hides deception is an easy way to
adopt a pose of wisdom. In the cases
cited, the questions propounded to
the president were undoubtedly can
did and serious. There has been al
most no editorial heckling of the
White House since inauguration day,
for many obvious reasons.
But the Evening Post, more or less
as spokesman, it may be, for the
cross-questioners, surrenders with as
graceful a tribute to a Chief Execu
tive as we have ever heard voiced.
Says this independent Republican pa
per: “But are we not, in expecting
from him definite statements, in ad
vance of action, rather forgetting our
experience with him here in New
York? He never made a statement
that called for the Seabury investi
gation, but when it came he supported
the appropriation and proved a mar.
velous cross-examiner of Mayor
Walker. And so about the veterans;
for the longest while in the campaign
he .couldn’t be budged from his de
termination to say nothing against
the pension situation; yet, once elect
ed President, he cut from their rolls
hundreds of millions more than they
had ever dreamed.
“It looks to us as if Mr. Franklin
Roosevelt can speak out clearly on
the right side at what he considers
the right moment (his cogent bank
message proved that), but that to him
the right aoment usually means the
last second precedent to action-”
As a summary of the cardinal char
acteristic of the man who has within
a few weeks lifted the nation from
despair and set it humming upon a
clear course, we doubt whether that
final statement can be improved upon.
Since the Evening Post made that
comment, President Roosevelt has
once again suited action to words on
the financial situation and has opened
bright channels of international trade.
Empty talk he has scorned, and be
cause of this, the nation knows that
when he does speak, the time for
prompt and progressive action has
come.—Atlanta Journal.
The magnanimous spirit of some
country editors is wonderful. Few ap
preciate it to its full worth. These
editors spend hours of their time and
a large portion of their newspaper
space week after week and year after
year in a zealous campaign against
patronizing mail order houses and
chain stores and in favor of the local
merchant, who like the editor, is a
tax payer of the town and interested
in everything that is for its advance
ment and upbuilding. Yet, these same
menchants, whose purpose it is to help
patronize out-of-town shops with
their printing orders. Although such
pills are bitter to have to swallow
we commend those who do so and
hope they will continue their efforts
towards patronizing home menchants
because such efforts are truly com
mendable whether they are rewarded
now or hereafter.
The Sparks Eagle editor knows his
powder and how to keep it dry: “No
editor is a real newspaper man who
colors his news or has an ulterior
motive in everything he writes. A
real newspaper man gives facts in his
news reports, and leaves out assump
tions, many of which would be bound
to be false. A newspaper’s duty is
service to its readers and the public,
not the exploitation of the public for
the benefit of the editor or his per
sonal friends.”
When the Savannah Evening Press
announced yesterday in its tele
graphic column that the president
had forbidden the export abroad °f
gold, it followed that America was
off the gold standard. During the
bank holiday an embargo was placed
on the exportation of gold, but this
was only temporary. There is no
telling, however, how long it will
last, probably until all the countries
adopt a new standard.
Heretofore anybody could take an
American dollar to the treasury and
get a gold dollar for it. For that
reason foreigners bought American
dollars and Sent them to America to
be exchanged; or more often they
sent their products to America where
they reveived a gold dollar, and
bought their raw materials in an
other country with a debased curren
cy, because they wouldn’t have to
pay so much for it. So American
trade went down, her exports di
minished; her industries were sup
planted by foreign goods, and unem
ployment was increased in this coun
try. Wo have a high tariff, yes; but
in spite of this, foreign countries
could overcome this barrage and still
realize a profit.
When England in September, 1931,
went off the gold standard, there was
a shock all over the world. An Eng
lishman felt debased when he real
ized that the British pound was not
what it had always been. In America
yesterday, there was no such feeling.
Prominent financiers here saw that it
was inevitable. It is an effort to stop
the disastrous liquidation in prices,
commodities and capital values. Garet
Garrett in the Evening Post showed
that we had really become isolated in
the economic world, open to universal
attack. Ours was a country where it
was profitable for all depreciated
currency countries to sell and where
none of them would buy if they could
help it. We have been slow to per
ceive the fact. The British treasury
with a fund of more than three quar
ters of a billion dollars has been
manipulating international exchange.
All the countries of the British Em
pire whose currency is linked to the
pound sterling have followed suit.
Great Britain has been selling the
British pound sterling to cheapen it,
and at the same time buying Ameri
can dollars to make them dear. “It is
not the Bank of England which did
this, it was the British government.”
It was done for the benefit of the
English trade at the expense of
American trade.
Everyone knows that when a coun
try cheapens its money, its exports
are stimulated, and its imports are
checked. The instance of a manufac
turer of shoes was cited. If shoes
were sold in New York, the Britisher
brings back the $4.86 he received,
which he can exchange for one pound
and Id shillings at home. If this
same man needs leather, he will not
buy in the United States,but he will
naturally seek his material in some
depreciated currency country. Th:s is
true of all the countries whose cur
rencies are linked with the pound
sterling. The result has been that
American exports have been going
down, and foreigners, especially the
British, have been able with profit to
pay our high tariff duties, “to leap
over the tariff wall.” Evidently -the
United 'states was forced to leave the
gold, and lower the America^ dollar
to the level of foreign countries. This
was easily done because when tne
President forbid the exportation of
gold it was technically off the gold
standard. Nobody can now buy
American dollars in Europe and send
them to America to get gold.
President Roosevelt has blocked
this game, if it were a game. The
effort before was to dump foreign
goods upon the United States. Sar
dines from Norway at prices ruinous
to the sardine industry on the Maine
coast; toys from Germany; raw cot
ton from Egypt; pig iron from Hol
land; butter from New Zealand;
pork frim . Canada; transportation
froth America over Canadian rail
ways. All these things account for the
falling off of American exports, and
the increase in foreign imports. Bear
in mind the foreigner could ship to
America because he invariably gbt
gold for his products, and he realized
a profit in the exchange.
WHY
build a ladder i-
GRASP A PRIZE NO^Sn*
IN YOUR REACH?
(By Robert Quillen)
The greatest prize life can offe?
contentment. It is the goal 5
man’s striving-the measure of J*
cess or failure. 1 SUc '
Wealth and fame and power bri„ t
no balm or benison to the man 2
longs in vain for something mo „°
poverty and obscurity cannot brW
unhappiness to the man who is Z?
tent with what he has. a ‘
n/wSn’ then - that th * peaten
of life’s prizes is a state of m J
often denied to those who seem mol
fortunate and as often awarded to
those who seem most destitute. 0 W
The common goal of mankind j s
happiness. And the pursuit of happi
ness consists in the effort to satisfy
desire. Give, me the things I desire
says man, and I shall be content. ’
It is obvious, then, that all 0 f the
material things for which men strive
are but a means to an end. Fame and
fortune, place and power are coveted
and sought in the hope that they win
afford contentment.
If this is true, all of us have wast-
ed our energies in pursuit of the
wrong thing.
If contentment is the greatest pri Z( '
and the thing we most desire, why
not strike for contentment itself
Btead of struggling to win certaia
materials that may or may not afford
contentment.
If the fruit you desire may be
for the taking, why spend your life
assembling chemicals to rproduce a
artificial fruit of the same flavor?
The state of mind called content
ment can be developed when you will.
The moment you desire it and de
termine to achieve it, Lo! it is yours,
Contentment is merely the absent!
of envy, anxiety, remorse, avarice,
fear, resentment, self-pity, covetous
ness shame.
And to rid yourself or these men
tal handicaps, you need only determ
ine in your heart to be satisfied with
things as they are.
You need not plan a new life. G«
about your affairs as usual, doing th
thing that seems reasonable aii
right. But live only in the present
moment, without regard for the past
or future, and say in your heart:
"Life is short. Nothing matters very
much, I am satisfied. Come what will,
I shall not care.”
It is the mental attitude of simple
savages, of great philosophers, and of
those who love and trust the Lord.
To achieve it is to gain at once the
whole sum of good for which earth?
millions strive in vain.
There’s more to the day than the toil
you do,
There’s more to the night than the
hours you sleep
There’s more to the sky than the
empty blue,
There’s more to success than the dol
lars you reap.
Johnnie Spencer scores again: “Mr
Hoover said what this country needed
was a good joke. Well, how about
Ogden Mills the greatest Secretary of
the Treasury Since the Very greatest
Secretary of the Treasury, sticking
his nose into the affairs of the Roose
velt Administration and humping into
a proposition to have himself investi
gated for lobbying?”
As a result of the depression and
bad Sundays in December the Geor
gia Baptist Orphan’s Home at Hape-
ville, is in a financial jam. Its bant
credit for 1933 is nearly exhausted.
It has past due bills that cannot h £
paid. It has reduced its expenses by
another decrease in helpers an
salaries. Its finance committee, H.
Glover, chairman, without expense to
the Home, is endeavoring to secure
some emergency money to prevent
children from being turned out o'
doors with nowhere to go. Individu
Baptists and Baptist churches are
urged to raise some emergency mon
ey and send to H. C. Glover, Dra»ef
E., Hapeville, Ga., making checks an
money orders payable to Georg' 3
Baptist Orphan’s Home. Immediate
action is earnestly urged.
The danger is that with this spe
cies of inflation, things may go too
high. The president wants to control
them. He wants price-fixing power so
he can prevent a ruinous rise of
prices. Stocks have soared; all com
modities have gone up, cotton has
risen, wheat has advanced, and a
lumber merchant in Savannah testi
fies that for the last three days he
had received more orders than he has
had f° r three years,
land says it' is a mistake, of course,
but we are not just now taking 8
vice from the countries which "e
working against us. The effect °
America’s action may be that a e
while all the countries will return
the gold standard, since they no ° ^
er find it profitable to P re >
America. Garet Garrett favo f ( '
tariff surtax but the president
chosen wisely.
The leading financiers in America
have endorsed this action in putting
the dollar off the gold standard. Eng-
So, all things considered, the
advices are that the United
has done well, and has blocked o'
sible “conspircy” in time. -
are that the British government
lost a large amount of money,
bought a quantity
lars, and now finds itself 1 ^eif
sion of a currency as debased - -
own.—Savannah Press.