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THE DALTON CITIZEN, TH URSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1912^
The Dalton Citizen
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY
T. S. SIIOPE.
T S. VIoCAMT.
Editor
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Official organ of the United States
Circuit auil District Courts. North
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DALTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24
If you pay your subscription you
•will enjoy reading The Citizen more
The State Fair at Macon is simply
great, and all Georgia is proud of it.
Tom Watson has declared against
Woodrow Wilson. It seems too good
to be true.
A Chattanooga minister says
wealth is a man’s worst enemy. The
poor man’s we suppose he meant.
“The Gods are Thirsty” is the title
of a new French novel. Well, then
they must be a long way from Paris
A man related to both Taft and Wil
son has just died in Michigan. Well
that was a good way out of it, we
suppose.
A Texas man was shot because he
wouldn’t pay for a beefsteak. In other
words, he was shot because he wasn’
a millionaire.
Nat Goodwin is now being sued for
alienating the affections of a man’s
wife. Ain’t Nat the natty thing when
it comes to women?
Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, is dead.
He was known as a South-hater. His
death is no loss to the country, and
we believe he is the last of his kind,
Giteau, Czolgosz, Schrank—“the
names tell the story, also that our
immigration laws are not fully ac
complishing the object desired,” com
ments the Savannah News.
Norman Hapgood has left Collier’s
Weekly because, as he says, “of the
encroachment of the business office on
the editorial page.” This very thing
has ruined many excellent publica
tions.
Our good friend Lapse Walker, of
the Chattanooga Times, advises us to
“read II Corinthians, 4th chapter,
17th verse,” for consolation regard
ing Judge Fite’s troubles. We have,
thank you.
There is little danger of the court I
of appeals being abolished. The peo
ple of the state will not now vote to
abolish it, and the man who intro
duces such a bill in the legislature
will be the laughing stock of the
state.
The Citizen is not in accord with
the recommendations of the grand
jury which would abolish the court of
appeals, and its position is not a result
of this court fining Judge Fite $500.00.
The court of appeals, or some other
similar court, is absolutely necessary
so long as the supreme court is so
overcrowded with work. As it is now
the supreme court is from eighteen
months to two years behind with its
work, and we insist that litigants are
entitled to better service. This is not
meant as a criticism of the supreme
court. There is too much work for
it, and to throw all the court of ap
peals work on it would simply mean
delays unjust and intolerable.
And another point we will here
stress is that if the court of appeals
is to be abolished, the action of the
grand jury is along a line that will
have a tendency in the opposite direc
tion, because of the circumstances
surrounding the recommendation
We have already noticed that be
cause of Judge Fite’s attack on the
court of appeals the court is in many
places growing more in favor. This
is perfectly natural, because there is
that in the human heart that resents
the aspersions cast on those by one
who has personal reasons only for
doing so.
As to the imputation that the court
of appeals has no regard for the
virtue of the white women of the
state, it is too absurd to merit serious
consideration. Every member of the
court is a true southern gentleman,
who has as much regard for the
women of our land as he who has in
timated otherwise.
The gentlemen composing the grand
jury are men of honor and integrity,
and in recommending the abolition of
the court of appeals we believe they
have unwittingly done the gentlemen
composing it an injustice while grati
fying the personal dislike of Judge
fying Judge Fite’s personal dislike
of the court.
AS WE SEE IT.
In another place in this issue we
reproduce an editorial from the Macon
Telegraph anent the “Men and Re
ligion Forward Movement” in At
lanta, and its relation to the election
of Jim Woodward as mayor. It is
full of thought and covers the ground
thoroughly.
The Citizen regrets to see any or
ganization working to the end that
the churches become involved in any
political scramble. It will not do,
and it tends to weaken, and disgusts
thousands of people with, the churches
The result in Atlanta was just ex
actly what we expected it to be.
We have never witnessed a more
uncharitable and unchristian cam
paign than the one the “Men and
Religion Forward Movement” waged
against Jim Woodward. And the
shame of it was, that it was done in
the name of Christ, God and the
churches.
It was so un-Christlike that surely
the consciences of the guilty must
have smitten them when they realized
the wrong they have done a fellow-
man and his family—if they ever
have.
We hold no brief for Jim Wood
ward. His weaknesses are the weak
nesses of millions, and we dare not
sit in judgment, lest we be judged,
for we make no pretensions to perfec
tion, and are suspicious of those who
do.
We sympathize with the weak and
the helpless. We condemn wrong as
we see it, but God forbid that we
should ever so far forget as to abuse
the weak brother who has stumbled
and fell. Rather we prefer to help
him up.
THE UNVEILING.
AN EXHIBITION OF NERVE.
A SIMPLE PREACHMENT.
When we read of the crippled news
boy of Gary, Ind., giving his life for
another, we thought of one of Hugo’s
great characters, the “Hunchback of
Notre Dame.” Oh, the goodness and
the bigness of heart so frequently
found in those we pass on the street
with a sneer.
Now that it has developed that
Woodrow Wilson has not joined the
Knights of Columbus, wonder what
the crazy loon of Thomson will next
jump at Even a fool ought to know
that Wilson couldn’t join the Knights
of Columbus, as he is a Presbyterian.
Only Catholics can belong to the or
ganization.
There is no use talking about it.
The press boys are going to have to
buy Jim Nevin a new hat in order to
preserve the dignity of the order. We
subscribe 25 cents, and will receive
and acknowledge like amounts from
the boys until enough has been re
ceived to buy the hat.
A south Missouri editor calls for a
new supply of phrases for recording
social gatherings. He says: “We
want substitutes for the following:
‘dainty luncheon,’ ‘royal entertainers,'
‘enjoyable time,’ ‘masterful address,’
‘charming hostess,’ ‘conventional
black,’ ‘a few appropriate and well-
chosen remarks,’ ‘to mourn his un
timely departure,’ ‘presided with dig
nity and grace,’ ‘covers are laid.’
There are others probably that we
cannot recall”
Secretary Wilson’s advice to
the American people to turn from
the eating of beef, because of its
high price, to mutton, recalls to
the Philadelphia Record Marie
Antoinette’s famous question why
the people of France, who were
said to be starving for lack of
bread, did not eat cake. Spring
lamb is such a cheap meat that
one can well imagine a rush of
housekeepers to secure bargains
in it. The secretary seems to
ignore the fact that the number
of sheep in the United States, ac
cording to the census bureau, is
constantly decreasing, and that
the same factors which are re
stricting the cattle ranges in the
West are also cutting down the
amount of land available for
sheep grazing.—Albany Herald.
Perhaps Secretary Wilson was only
joking, or maybe he was doing what
he could to boost the failing political
fortunes of President Taft
The truth of the business is, the
high cost of living is attributable to
the republican party—the party that
fosters monopoly, and has forced on
the American people a protective
policy that is not very far removed
from robbery.
So long as the present national
policy is followed the cost of living
will be high. The beef trust, the
sugar trust, the coffee trust, the egg
trust, the butter trust, and all the
rest of them, are the children of the
republican protective system. They
have grown great and strong and rich
at the expense of the people, and
their increasing wealth has made them
so bold that they defy the govern
ment, and they do it both successfully
and profitably and will continue to do
so as long a3 they elect men to repre
sent them in Washington, as they have
been doing.
Roosevelt was elected with trust
money, and so was Taft, and trust
money is now being used by both of
them to secure their election in No
vember.
But the people are wise, and are
going to vote for a democrat next
month, who is committed to a policy
that is bound to reduce the high cost
of living, and make it far happier and
more contented people.
It is time the affairs of the gov
ernment were administered for the
whole people instead of a selected
few.
And that is one great reason why
the American people are going to vote
for Woodrow Wilson.
A great many people seem to take
those of us engaged in running week
ly newspapers for imbeciles.
The latest exhibition of supernal
nerve coming under our notice, was
hatched out in Gainesville, Ga., by
Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet, of Tallu
lah Falls fame.
For the munificent sum of $30.00
a year, she wants four pages of mat
ter—the Lord only knows what the
matter is—and we don’t care, for we
would not think of signing her
“agreement.” But we fear some of
the editors will unthinkingly do so.
Read this:
1912.
Mrs. Hfelen D. Longstreet,
Gainesville, Ga.
The undersigned publisher of
in considera
tion of your services contracts
to fold in with each regular and
special edition of said publication
for a period of ten years one sheet
of four pages to consist of read
ing and advertising matter, and
to be of the regulation size of our
publication. Said sheet to be fur
nished by you free of charge.
And for said service we are to
receive $30 per year for the
period specified.
We further agree to furnish
free, during the period, two
copies of our paper for each ad
vertiser who purchases space in
said sheet.
Under oath we declare our
bona fide circulation to be
D: S.
Sworn to and subscribed before,
Now think for a moment what this
means. For ten years these four
pages are going to be supplied free,
and all us poor devils would have to
do would be to fold them in, pay the
postage on them, boast about our
“new department” of “superior liter
ary merit,” and collect $30.00 a year.
In the case of The Citizen, the
space of four pages amounts to about
600 inches. For this we would re
ceive the magnificent sum of $2.50.
Simply wonderful, isn’t it?
In the course of a year 31,200 inches
would be used, and in ten years
312,000 inches—all for $300.00.
The yawning waste basket at this
office swallowed up immediately Mrs.
Longstreet’s magnanimous proposi
tion.
And now we shall try to forget it.
The unveiling of the Joseph E,
Johnston monument this afternoon
marks an epoch in the onward march
of the city of Dalton.
A country is great in proportion as
it revers its great men. Joseph
Johnston was one of the South i
great men, and as a soldier and gen
eral he was without a peer.
It is stated on the best of authority
that he was the most successful
strategic general of the Civil war, on
either side. If General Sherman were
alive no doubt he would bear witness
to this fact, for it was Johnston who
gave him the most trouble in his
march to the sea, and did more per
haps to justify him in his famous
remark, “War is hell,” than anything
else that happened during the strug
gle of the early sixties.
With a little handful of men, com
paratively speaking, he menaced and
harassed General Sherman, who had
a vast army, until it must have seemed
to him impossible to ever make the
distance from Dalton to Atlanta, tak
ing him something like a hundred
days to go a hundred miles.
The war with its blighting deso
lation is gone. We are one people,
and with Grady we can say, “there is
no north, south, east or west,” but it
is fitting that those who made history
and fought for what they thought
was right, be remembered, and those
good women making up the Bryan M,
Thomas Chapter of the Daughters of
the Confederacy deserve great credit
for their work in erecting to Joseph
E. Johnston a memorial in imperish
able bronze that will be an inspira
tion to generations yet unborn.
The “Georgia Compendium” issue
of the Atlanta Constitution, issued
Wednesday, is one of the completest
issues of a newspaper we have ever
seen. It deals in a comprehensive
way with everything that goes to
make Georgia the greatest state of
the South. Subjects treated are Pub
lic Utilities, Cotton, Trust Companies,
Finance, Insurance, Construction,
Marble, Lumber, Iron and Steel, Food
Products, and various other items.
It will prove a fine advertisement for
the South, and will do much good.
We desire to congratulate the Con
stitution on its splendid enterprise
drunkenness and deadly shooting af
frays of the cowboys, he writes:
“But they are much better fel
lows and pleasanter companions
than the small farmers or agri
cultural laborers: or are the me
chanics of a great city to be men
tioned in the same class with
them.”
12. President Taft, who knows him
best, says of him: “He is a dema
gogue, a neurotic, a flatterer, an
egotist.”
“A woman is always trying to im
press upon her husband that she isn’t
feeling as good as she ought to,
says the Atlanta Journal. It is a bad
habit too, as well as tiresome.
The Citizen has collected and for
warded to democartic headquarters
$54.50 for the Wilson-Marshall fund.
Come on down with that dollar.
No Good on the Fence.
One dollar’s worth of advertis
ing in the newspaper of your
town reaches more people than
ten dollars worth tacked up on
trees at X roads. And then it’s
live matter in the newspaper; the
reader knows its date.—Marietta
News.
The majority of good business peo
pie know this, and refuse to spend
money whitewashing fences.
Baking Powder
ABSOLUTELYPURE
Cooking under modem methods and con
veniences is made so attractive the whole
family is becoming interested.
“ These biscuits are delicious; this cake is
excellent,” says the father. “ I made them,”
says the daughter, and both father and
daughter beam with pleasure.
Royal Baking Powder has made home
baking a success, a pleasure and a profit, and
the best cooking today the world over is
done with its aid.
Life and Laugbten
By Hames UJells
As to Mules.
Two horses and a mule broke
into the main building at the
county fair in Dalton and ate up
most of the prize products. We
are glad to state that Editor
Shope escaped by the skin of his
teeth.—Rome Tribune.
Whose teeth was it—Bro.
Shope’s or the mule’s?—Cedar-
town Standard.
We rather like mules, since the
donkey is the democratic symbol.
A DOZEN REASONS WHY YOU
SHOULD VOTE AGAINST EX
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
The list of those contributing to
the republican campaign fund in 1904
is a complete roster of the trusts and
their promoters. Oh, you Teddy!
The grand jury of Wilkinson county
finds that crime is alarmingly on the
increase and lays the blame on the
blind tigers and concealed weapons,
which it calls upon the citizens to aid
in suppressing.
1. He has broken his solemn prom
ise not to be a candidate for a third
term, therefore his other promises are
not to be relied upon.
2. For seven years he was presi
dent, and during those seven years the
very conditions he now pretends to
combat viciously were more thorough
ly developed than during all the other
periods in the country’s history.
3. The day he became president
there were 149 trusts or combinations,
capitalized at $3,000,000,000, and the
day he retired from office there were
1,020 such combinations, capitalized at
$31,000,000,000.
4. He permitted the Steel Trust to
acquire the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company, its principal rival, in viola
tion of the anti-trust law, and forbade
the prosecution of the Harvester Trust
at the request of George W. Perkins,
his present national chairman.
5. The man, next to Roosevelt, re
sponsible for the third term movement
is Geo. W. Perkins; Perkins is the
promoter and defender of the most
pernicious trusts in the United States,
which are the most vicious imposers
on the men, women and children wage
earners of the country.
6. He urges the legalization of
trust watered stock and monopoly, as
first advocated by Perkins, his prin
cipal supporter and financial backer.
7. He accepted campaign contribu
tions from trusts, insurance companies
and “crooked business,” and denied
that he had done os—“My Dear Har-
riman.” He stands for “Boss” Flinn,
“Boss” Woodruff and other “Bosses”
who serve him.
8. During the seven years he was
president, he failed, even refused, to
lift a finger against high tariff. Who
believes, if elected, he would try to
reduce excessive tariff taxes? Why
is he surrounded now by high tariff
men, who are contributing freely to
his campaign fund?
9. He loves war better than peace.
10. Out of office he promises too
much, and in office performs too lit
tle.
11. He says that the small farmer
and the laborer of the city are not to
be mentioned in thfe same breath with
cowboys, etc. After describing the
Contemptible.
The'most contemptible thing in
connection with the shooting of
Colonel Roosevelt is the effort on
the part of some of his followers
to make political capital out of
the fact as if anybody were re
sponsible for the act of a mad
man—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Yes, and the Colonel gave it all the
dramatic setting it needed, but the
American people as a whole are
sane, and are not going to vote for
Roosevelt because a crazy man shot
him.
There’s Always a Man in the Way.
There’s many a thing I’d be able to do,
In fact, everything that I try,
I’d be bound to succeed in putting it
through
Instead of its going awry.
But everything that I try to take up
Goes wrong, I am sorry to say.
And here is the reason ’twill always
break up:
There’s always a man in the way.
One night when I went to a big fancy
ball,
My sweetheart was waiting for me.
And as I attempted to enter the hall
My “make-up” she greeted with
glee.
Dressed as a tramp, as I entered the
door,
The “bouncer” with me got most
gay,
And now certain spots about me are
still sore—
There’s always a man in the way.
Loving Kindness.
Our opinion is that Editor
Shope, the brilliant young man of
the North Georgia Citizen, being
full of loving kindness, acted
very discreetly and nicely in the
whole affair.—Darien Gazette.
Thank you, Brother Grubb, we
have had no desire to rub it in on
the judge. And while we are on this
subject, we want to extend our
thanks to the newspapers of the state
for their kindly references to us.
They have been generous and sympa
thetic, with but one or two exceptions.
The Perkins Plan.
George W. Perkins’ desire to
“make this country fit for his
children to live in” is on a par
with the prayer of the old man
who put up the petition: “God
bless me and my wife, my son
John and his wife, us four and
no more.”—Macon News.
If this country is to be made fit
on the Perkins plan indeed only the
children of millionaires can afford to
live in it. The great masses would
starve to death, because of the high
cost of living.
Suspicious.
President Taft has ordered 35,-
000 fourth class postmatsers put
under civil service. Somehow or
other, all this devotion to the
postmasters bears the mark of
suspicion, occurring as it does just
prior to the presidential election.
—Rome Tribune-Herald.
To be sure it does, but this pre
election interest will never put the
genial president back in the white
house.
Heroes Not in the High Places.
The world listens at the bed
side of a man shot by a would-
be assassin, while a lad in Chica
go dies from submitting to an
operation to save a child he had
never seen. The heroes are not
While walking down town on a dark,
dreary night,
I passed a big jewelry store.
There wasn’t a “cop” or a soul there
in sight,
And wide open stood the big door.
I entered the place to make a big haul
But someone played me for a jay.
A bold, busy burglar had “cabbaged”
it all—
There’s always a man in the way.
One night I went out with a new lady
friend,
On me she had made a great
“crush.”
I told her I loved her, yes, “world
without end,”
And all of the rest of such slush.
I spent sixteen dollars upon her that
night,
Then asked her to please name the
day.
She said that her husband and I’d
have a fight—
There’s always a man in the way.
And so I am blocked at each stage
of the game,
No matter what I try to do
The “rotten” results will be always
the same,
It certainly makes me feel blue.
And when in due time, I arrive at the
gate
Where heavenly guardians stay,
I’m confident there it will be just my
fate—
To find there’s a man in the way.
Keep On.
Whene’er you take a tumble,
Don’t sit around and grumble;
Just because you stumble—
That’s no sign you’re down and out.
But just be up and doing.
Dame Fortune still pursuing,
She’ll list to your wooing,
If you put your foes to rout.
More Georgraphy.
The Little Rock that Arkan -saw,
Oh, never more will Tenne-see,
Nor will that Philadelphia, Pa.
Again e’er see that Port-land, Me.
It isn’t necessary to discuss our
own personal failings. Other people
will see to that—good and plenty.
Kick the Man That’s Down.
That’s right! kick the man that’s
down!
Yes, he’s just a common sot.
Yet perhaps a sneer, a frown,
Helped to keep him down a lot
And perhaps a kindly word,
Some appeal to manly pride,
Might be listened to and heard;
You don’t know—you’ve never tried.
It’s a Good Old World.
It’s the best old world to live in
That I have ever seen,
With its meadows and its mountains,
j With its woods and fields so green.
It’s the best old world to live in
That I have been in yet
And its perils and its pleasures,
Well, I will not soon forget.
It’s the best old world to live in
That ever you or I
Will have the chance to cover,
Before we have to die.
So let us not abuse it please,
For when we hear the call
Of death, it’s then we’ll realize
It’s a good world, after all.
The Blasted Romance.
Mary had a little hat,
It was in the latest style;
And when her father got the bill,
You could hear him half a mile.
—Dalton Citizen.
Mary caught a little beau,
The hat was such a wile,
And when Dad paid the wedding bill,
You should have seen him smile
—Rome Daily Press.
But oh, alas, for poor old dad!
He smiled but once or twice,
For he had to support the lad—
And that was not so nice.
—Dalton Citizen.
Ill indeed must blow the wind
That bodes nobody good;
And what was bad for dad, you see.
Was O. K. for the dude.
—Rome Daily Press.
And ill indeed, the wind that blew
Against our hero bold!
For a divorce, first thing he knew,
Put him out in the cold.
all in the high places in this world.
Savannah Press.
No, indeed! They are not in the
limelight, either. They are about us
all the time, and when the opportuni
ty comes—the psychological moment
—they exhibit those grand qualities
that go to make up the true American
citizen.
Taking Notes.
In the case of Judge Fite of the
Cherokee circuit, it looks like
retributive justice. Anyhow, Ed
itor Shope of Dalton will proba
bly see it that way.—Albany
Herald.
So far the comments of the
Dalton editor have been very con
servative and noncommittal.—Sa
vannah Press.
But did the esteemed Press notice
that Judge Fite referred to Savan
nah as the Sodom and Gomorrah of
Georgia ?
A Real Hero.
We join with the rest of the
world in admiration of the heroic
act of William Rugh, the Gary,
Ind., newsboy, who sacrificed a
crippled leg and his life. to save
the life of Ethel Smith, a young
girl who had been seriously
burned in a motorcycle accident.
It was a noble deed, and the peo
ple of Gary manifested their ap
preciation for it and will erect a
monument over his grave.—Chat
tanooga Times.
The Times has spoken well. Fre
quently the crippled and deformed
have hearts of pure gold, and are
braver by far than many who pose as
martyrs without ever having suffer
ed martyrdom, or anything like it-
Those who do things that contribute
to the welfare of humanity are the
real benefactors of the race.
honor to the newsboy who died that
another might live.