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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1914.
Mary and Her Little Skirt.
Mary had a little skirt,
'Twas of the latest hobble
And every time she tried to walk
She only just could “wobble.”
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How About a “Yellow Journal?”
They say a paper’s black and white,
But after all is said—
You can’t deny this statement, quite:
It’s almost always read.
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Sing a Song ob Dixie., '
Sing a song ob Dixie,
’Possum time am here.
’Possum fat, an’ taters
An’ dat ’simmon beer.
No campaign can travel very far or fast on a
platform of misrepresentation. We have seen nothing
yet from the Roosevelt republican candidates in this
state except falsehoods, more commonly known as lies.
And they are regular Tom Watson lies at that.
1 more justice and less
:PRECEDENT.”
Tbc Dalton Citizen
President Wilson in his address before the Ameri
can Bar Association appealed to its members for more
justice and less precedent.
There is so much law now in the books, and so
many precedents that justice is too often lost sight
of while the lawyers are looking for something with
. . . Editor
Associate Editor
Did you ever notice that the fellow who knocks and
whines the most is generally the fellow who enjoys
plenty of this world’s goods? He kicks just as hard
when business is good as when bad. It is a habit with
him. This kind of a fellow is a disgrace to his Maker
and a bore to those about him.
Ofiici.nl organ of the United. States Circuit and District
Courts, Northwestern division, Northern District of Georgia.
OmCIAL ORGAN WHITFIELD COUNTY
Terms of Subscription;
Savannah Press well says, “the ingenuity of unscrupul
ous lawyers "in setting up subtle fallacies traps many a
weak judge into abject adherence to the letter of form
er decisions. Every judicial decision which fails to
carry the spirit of justice makes another snare and pit
fall for.the integrity of the law.” There isfa greal deal
of truth in what the Press says. Not all lawyers are
unscrupulous, but many are, and they are the ones
who bring reproach upon 'the entire profession. Not
long since a lawyer who belieyes in 'justice in the'
court houses as elsewhere, who believe in clean meth
ods in both lawyer and judge, remarked to the writer
that the legal profession must sooner or later clear
itself of much against- it or else lose the respect of the
public. This may be rather extreme, but we all know
there is much truth in the statement.
Standing at the other extreme is the lawyer who
goes into the court house to win his cases regardless
of justice or right. He boasts that he must win his
cases, and cares little how he does it. This class does
the profession much harm) and no doubt was in the
president’s mind when he was addressing the Ameri
can Bar Association, and appealing for justice instead
of precedent.
Another thing that has brought -a great deal of
adverse criticism down upon the heads of members
is their devotion to technicalities.
One Year ...
Six months .
Three months
1 We have our own. opinion of the fellow who is
such a good friend that he must tell everybody about
the supposed faults of So and So instead of telling Mr.
So and So. The man who does this kind of work is an
unfriendly coward, given over to backyard gossip and
street corner persiflage.
Advertising Rates Furnished on Application.
postoffice for transmission
Entered at the Dalton, (Ja;
through the mails as second-class matter.
Rock an'’ Lead an’ ’possum treed
Beats ’em out er- sight.
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A Good Old World.
It’s, a good old world to live in,
With its pleasures and its pain,
With its frosts and with its flowers,
• With its sunshine and its rain.
DALTON, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 29, 1914.
wen, i reckon there are no murder cases in Whit
field now. Some of them are set free and some hung.
My advice is if you kill a man or woman is to have
an eye witness if you wish to come dear. All of them
had witnesses except Umphrey. He had none and was
hanged taken from him the dearest thing that ever
God gave to man—life. Did Umphrey kill Pritchett?
Yes! Do you know it to be the truth? No! There
is where it ends.
Mr. Editor, just let the news keep coming, good
or bad, and the readers of the Citizen win appreciate
it. Thanks to the editor for it.
I was sorry, indeed to hear of-Judge Fite’s fight,
but I reckon he just joined with the poet in saying,
“Sure I must fight if I would reign.”
J. H. BLACK.
Judge Fite has telegraphed a Colorado Dry Com
mittee that prohibition is a great success in Georgia.
It is, to be sure, a great success in the promotion of
blind tigerism, and other forms of lawlessness. What
Judge Fite telegraphed to the Colorado organization
is merely his opinion, but it is a long ways frpm the
truth.
The anti-Hoke gabbyjaeks are very busy handing
order to help out. McClure and
but bullmoose piffle, in
deserter Hutchens.
It’s a good old world to live in,
With its sky so brightly blue.
I’ve never seen a better,
Now, honestly, have you?
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Some Day Perhaps.
Some day, perhaps, you’ll come again to me,
Once more I’ll gaze with joy upon your, face;
While you with humble air and downcast mien
Seek once again to win forgiveness’ grace.
Some day, perhaps, repentant and in tears,
You’ll come to me with faltering step and slow;
With humbled pride and shame upon your brow—
And pay to me that dollar bill you owe.
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Keep A-Peckin’ Away.
When you have a task before you,,
And it seems beyond your strength;
While discouragement comes o’er you
And you fear you’ll fail at length.
Oh, do not grow a-weary
And long to quit the fray—
, Keep a-peckin’ an’ a-peckin’,
Honestly these anti-Hoke gabbyjack newspapers are
tiresome. Wonder if they think the people never
weary of their lies?
Clippings and Comments.
Congress' adjourned Saturday after being in ses
sion continuously for nineteen months. It will go down
in history as a congress of. accomplishment.
‘The.worst has been passed. From now on.there
^will be improvement. Days of great prosperity
and rushing business are ahead.—Augusta Chron
icle. •
That is exactly our opinion. What is needed is a
law, or rope, to suppress the calamity howlers.
jesse Mercer Has a Say.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
In your issue of the 22nd inst., I find the following
pointed paragraph on a very live subject:
Those partisan papers and prejudiced politi
cians who think they ^ill gain anything by abus
ing Hoke Smith about the cotton situation, will
have to guess again. He did everything h^ could
to have so-called remedial legislation passed, but
the powers at Washington were against him, and
in our opinion correctly so.
An exchange says that “to satisfy us of his abid
ing wisdom and culture, a-man must do something
more than quote Shakespeare incorrectly.”
of the legal profession
Sometimes it occurs to us that it amounts to almost
a fetich. It is deplorable, and more often than other
wise completely defeats the ends of justice and makes
of many courts a shallow pretense toward the endB
aimed at.
There is room for much improvement in coupt pro
cedure, and we are proud to see those in high places
taking notice of it.
Eighty-five per cent of the business failures in this
country are of those who do not advertise. Does ad
vertising pay? Only the fool says it does not.
We read that the styles for 1915 provide that
skirts shall be four more inches shorter. What in
the world are we coming to?—Macon News.
This being true it will not be necessary to hold
them up while crossing streets:
Sumptuary legislation
of any kind is reprehensible to a free people.
You hit it right when you say “He did everything
he could,” etc.
The senior senator from Georgia is a hard worker
finder ordinary circumstances, and when he gets a
job on his hands that is too bjg for his average efforts
he puts on increased pressure, and around the national
capital- he is known as one senator who gets whatever
he goes after. There are plenty of posted people abont
Washington who yet expect Hoke Smith and his strong
allies in house and senate to get about what they
want on the .cotton question.
I havff had only one short interview with him
since the great Southern emergency arose, and do not
know personally of his plans, but he will not give up
the fight. It is not the Hoke Smith way. When he
was astonished, and all Georgia amazed, at his first and
very unexpected defeat it simply put him in a humor
to fight, and my guess is he is now laying plans for
the real battle, when congress again convenes, for
national recognition of the rights of American cotton
planters and protection for. the crop that puts six
hundred millions of foreign gold" in the vaults of the
national treasury every year, and runs to ten hundred
millions into the strong boxes^of small southern banks
every winter. -
The senate and the house are both strongly against
federal aid to the cotton farmers, and to secure the
passage of a really helpful measure will be in the
nature of a,-miracle. A large number of thoughtful
people agree with the idea expressed in the last sen
tence quoted above.
Certainly the assistance of the national treasury
will prove but a snare and lead to the bankruptcy of
the cotton belt unless the plan provides for the cer
tain and. heroic curtailment of cotton production for
next year and longer.
I am enclosing clippings from yesterday’s (Sun
day) Washington Post (which possibly yon do not
get). The Post is strong for federal assistance for
the cotton belt and considers it strictly a national
question -with nation-wide effect.
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I see they are after Chief leavers in Atlanta. With
Broyles out of the recorder’s court and Beavers out
of police headquarters Atlanta win soon become the
Sodom arnd Gomorrah of the South. It’s a fast town,
but has been kept cleaner than the average city of
its size by a police chief of courage and manhood, and
a police court judge who delighted in doing his duty.
Tile wide openers are in the ascendancy once more in
Georgia’s fine capital and a sinful old town she is
sure to be.
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The Bull Moosers have abont petered out every
where except in dear old Georgia and what they will
get next week will put them on the blink in that
blessed commonwealth. J. E. MERCER.
Washington, D. C.
THE KNOCKER AGAIN.
hence the Christmas
shoppers can carry home more merchandise from the
markets.
We have frequently paid our • respects to the
knocker and the whiner—the fellows Who only see the
hole in the, doughnut. We have before printed part
of what is to follow, but it is worth reprinting, re
peating and rereading. We quote from the Salt Lake
City Times: ,
After God had finished the rattlesnake, the
toad and the vampire, He had some awful “sub
stance” left with which he made a “knocker.”
A knocker is a two-legged animal with a cork
screw soul, a water-srfgged brain, and a combina
tion backbone made of jelly and glue. Where
other people have their hearts, he carries a tumor
of rotten principles. When the knocker comes
down the street honest men turn their backs, the
angels weep tears in heaven, and the devil shuts
the gates of hell to keep him out. No man has
the right to knock as long as there is a pool of
water deep enough to drown his body in, or a
rope to hang hft carcass with., Judas Iscariot was
a gentleman compared to a knocker, for after be
traying his Master he had enough character to
hang himself and a knocker has not.-
Hoke Smith no more promised the farmers 12 cents
for their cotton than we did.
It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
What he did say was
that they should get 12 cents for it. And they could
if they could only hold it long enough.
A New' York woman writes to the Herald sug
gesting that all Northern women help the South
by using cotton handkerchiefs. Just like those
yankees; never help the South without wanting
to blow about it.—Savannah Press.
And then again, the prodigality of this^New York
woman is something fierce. A bale of cotton would
make* enough -handkerchiefs to supply the whole city
of New York for thirty days.
When your friends have all forsaken
And yonr cause is all forlorn;
And the sorrow of the morrow
Shades the gold of yestermo'rn,
Then do not quit the battle;
Bid all your courage stay—
Keep a-peckin’ an’ a-peckin’
Though the whole wide world opposes
If you know that you are right
Take the thorns and take the roses,
But do not give up the fight.
Take the good and bad together,
Swear you’re bound to win some way-
Keep a-peckin’ an’ a-peckin’
Mrs. C. E. Broyles is now editor and proprietor of
the Catoosa Record. She is a talented woman and
the Record is being improved with each issue. We
welcome her to the ranks of those who do much for
little, pay.
Life and
Laughter
The Savannah Press-says that in London they are
suffering from “Zeppelin neck.” Well, if it is no
worse than “rubber neck” very little harm will re
sult.
The Chatsworth Times has been sued for $10,000
libel. No doubt the paper feels that it is of consider
able importance. The. Citizen will be one of 10,000
to pay the fine.
BY JAMES WELLS
“The Printer-Poet ”
Rockefeller’s pastor says he (not Rockefeller) does
not drink. We believe it is generally understood that
drinking and pastoring are two.separate and distinct
occupations.
“I Should Worry
A Louisville paper refers to “Mr. Hearst’s, Atlanta
Journal. ” We’ll bet Dick Gray thinks the Louisville
paper is awfully careless as regards the famous and
the near-famous.
A College Graduate.
He could make a calculation,
He could spout a Greek oration,
Tell about each ancient nation:
Speak in almost every tongue.
He could push a fancy Faber,
Telling man to love his neighbor:
But he’d never, never labor—
' Not if he were to be hung.
, Worse Yet to Com,e.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
I have read and reread the article by my esteemed
fifiend, H. J. Wood, in a recent issue of The Citizen,
His declaration that the world is not to be conquered
by “might but by right,” deserves more than a pass-
We don’t know how McClure looks, but if the pic
tures of him are fair to his face we unhesitatingly de-
dare that he will never have to disguise it in order
to frighten children.
ing notice, and leads to the inquiry, “What is right,
and who shall determine?”
Bismarck is quoted as saying, ‘‘Not by speechify
ing and majority votes can the great questions of the
day be settled . . . but v by iron and blood.”
Julian, the emperor, asks, “Shall we write of things
not to be told; publish things not to be divulged; and
secrets not to be spoken aloud?”
, Redbeard says that “might is right,” while this
scribe is rather with the poet who says that “What
soever is is right.”
Then comes Mr. Haeckal and declares reason to be
nature’s best gift to man. Then let us reason just a
little: There are many things which appear unseem
ly though in the end they prove to be the means to
an end. When America was first discovered it was
peopled by what appeared to be a happy and con
tented people, and from every human viewpoint it
would appear had a title' to their possessions superior
to those who by force dispossessed them. Were they
conquered by right or by might? The sp'eedy develop
ment and the splendor of the civilization built up is
used as a paliative—a salve for a conscious wrong—
or if ^prsooth there was no wrong then “might is-
right.” This seems to have had a healthy precedent,
for very far back it is recorded Jhat the command
divine was to “go in and possess the land,” drive out
the Ammonites and the Hittites, “smite them hip and
thigh, spare neither infants nor sucklings.” Were
these conquered by “right,” or by “might?”
I might go bn and fill the page with things equally
is election day, and there
Tuesday, November 3rd
are so many people to b,e voted for, as well as amend
ments, that'a big vote should be polled. Those people
who voted in the primary should support the nominees
in every instance. A bolter is not held in very high
esteem, and a man who is not willing to abide by the
results of a primary should not vote in a primary.
There is only one county nominee who has opposi-
tion x and that is Connally for sheriff. Those who voted
in the primary voluntarily pledged themselves to sup
port" the nominee. They are upright citizens whose
pledges were not lightly considered, and we are sure
they will be found voting right.
Two United States senators are to be elected, name
ly, Hon. Hoke Smith and Hon. Thos. W. Hardwick, and
they should receive a record vote. They are both ca
pable officials, and hard workers. We doubt if any
man has ever represented this state in the senate who
devoted as much time and effort to his duties as has
Senator Smith.
The Citizen is interested especially in one amend
ment and that is the one relating to the election of
county officials. We believe these officials should be
elected for four years instead of two. Anything that
tends to lessen the activity of politicians is bound to
be good for the commonwealth. We hope the people
will ratify this amendment as well as the one abolish
ing the office of county treasurer.
He knew all’about religions,
He could spout on “pouter” pigeons,
He could tellyou of the “Fijians”
On ,the South Sea’s swelt’ring shore.
Tell of things most prehistoric,
Knew the value of* “ caloric, ”
But'a pocket-book, plethoric
Never did he have in store.
American Sugar Refinery Company has closed its
New Orleans plant. It will no doubt open up very
soon after November 3rd. This reminds ns of the
Mark Hanna brand of politics.
The sale of vodka has been stopped in Russia.
Yodka, as we understand it, is a beverage made out of
Irish potato peelings, and must be equally as bad as
-the blind tiger whisky sold in Dalton.
(H6’d a college education,
Learned a huge conglomeration,
Had a trained imagination—
All the college had to give.
Taught him how to be respected, I
All his other faults corrected,
But alas! they quite, neglected
Teaching him a way to live.)
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Do It.
If you’ve got a thing to do,
Do it.
Don’t wait till some other chap
Beats you to it— .
Buckle down and get to work
Where the sweat and blisters lurk;
Ain’t a bit o’ use to shirk—
Do it.
A blind tiger is an institution that everybody in
Dalton knows about except the policemen. Also an
institution that sells 24-cent whisky for 75 cents, and
then exacts perjury from its customers in case they
are summoned before the grand jury.
(The Atlanta Journal.)
Five hundred and sixty-eight mosquitoes, one hun
dred and nine potato beetles, two thousand, three hun
dred and twenty-six lice, one hundred cinch bugs,
thirty-nine grasshoppers, twelve army worms and eight
white grubs—all these, says the state game warden of
Tennessee, have been found in the stomach of a com
mon quail. “What would that bird and its mate have
been,worth to you,” he asks, “if they had reared
their little brood on your farm?”
The interesting and truly appalling menu shows
that birds protect not only crops and orchards, but
also the health of men and animals. Many of the
insects they destroy are carriers * of disease. A bull
bat, we are* told, will devour a thousand mosquitoes
in one twilight; given due safety and encouragement,
a family of bull bats should suffice to free any neigh
borhood of mosquitoes and prevent many cases of ill
ness as well as incalculable discomfort.
Commenting upon the Tennessee game wawden’s
statement, the Courier-Journal well observes that too
many farmers look upon birds “either with mdiffer
ence or enmity^” .A bird which now ^nd then grabs
a grain of corn or wheat, a berry or a cherry, is re
garded as a chronic marauder, whereas, he pays in
service, many times over, for all that he gets. la
fact, he is a reliable everyday farm hand, working
seven days in the week, rain or shine, and taking na
half holidays. The birds are busy with the break of
dawn, and sometimes they work far into the night.
They deserve protection for the good they do. Thers
are thousands of farmers who need to look at the
bird question from a new viewpoint.
In Georgia, as in most southern states, the last few
years haye witnessed a popular awakening to the
value of insect-destroying birds and the importance of
protecting them. The means to this end that are al
ready in force should be upheld and encouraged by
everyone, particularly by the farmers, who are so
closely indebted to birds.
TOO MUCH CODDLING.
The Citizen -can’t see any sense or reason in the
demand for an extra session of the legislature to deal
with the cotton situation. What .good would it do
for Georgia to pass legislation cutting down the cotton
crop if the other southern states fail to fall into line?
Texas and South Carolina have had their extra sessions.
Nothing was done except to pile up an expense ac
count for the taxpayers to settle up.
The Rome Tribune-Herald thinks an extra session
necessary, but it doesn’t give us any idea of what
it t.TiinVg an extya session could do.
The majority of the farmers in Georgia do not want
any laws enacted that will make them criminals if
they grow oyer and above a certain stipulated number
of bales of cotton to the plow. Any such law as this
ia absurd, undemocratic and un-American. It is worse:
it is a reflection on the intelligence of the farmer. If
tile farmer hasn’t any better sense than to wreck his
own interests, let him do it. Of course he has more
sense (or will have), but the experience he is now
having will be worth something to him.
Surely the farmer must be tired of sp many people
coddling him around as if he were an infant.
In no other section of the. United States is the
farmer subjected to so much free advice as right here
in. the South. If he doesn’t rise up and resent it very
soon we will be very much surprised.
unseemly, but will content myself with the thought
that “whatsoever is is right.” If it be otherwise
If you have a.task on hand,
Do it.
Butt right in to beat the band,
Ere you rue it—
Only makes it worse to dread,
Jump right in and go ahead;
Soon you’ll find your dread has fled-
Do it.. |
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A Common-Sense Patriot.
What’s the use o’ dyin’
For a country’s sake—
Leave the folhs a-cryin’;
Leavin’ hearts that break?
Ain’t a man that’s livin’
Worth more than one dead?
How’s he keep on givin’
Loved ones meat an’ bread?
I I will confess that I seem slow to \concur "with the
declaration of my friend that the world is to be con-
1/ quered by right. *’
My friend has not overdrawn the picture of the
present struggle. Such a cataclysm has no parallel
in the history of. earth.' ’Tis, however,'but the mut-
terings of the thunder in the distance that precedes
the storm universal. The history of both ancient and
modern times has been written in blood and this must
continue until other time's—until other men with other
minds shaU remold the sentiments of the race—shaU
The people of Georgia send out of the state every
year for foodstuffs that should be grown here $175,-
000,000. They do this in order to worship at the shrine
of King Citton. If the present low price of cotton wfll
only teach the farmer his lesson the sacrifice win be
worth an it costs.
The Citizen has no space for knocking and sneering
purposes. This is a time when our people need to
stand together and aU puU together for better condi
tions. Things are looking brighter every day, and
when we see people trying to make poUtical capital out
of a crisis,' or use it to knock certain office holders,
why we are simply disgusted, that’s alL The farmer
doesn’t need so much advice, but it is necessary in
the future that he plant more grain crops. The one-
crop idea is ruinous. Too much cotton can only mean
low prices, regardless of foreign wars. Just remember
there was a surplus of 600,000 bales last year. This
added to the present large crop is doing its part in
keeping down the price.
Some Interesting Facts.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
I see a great deal is being said about that old
engine, the General. After being requested.so often
J thought I would tell what I know about it. I was
drilling some men in Ringgold the day it passed
through. "When thp news reached us that the yankees
J»ad.passed through with the engine abont a dozen or
more of the men decided to capture them. At the
speed the engine was making, being about twelve or
fifteen miles an hour, I thought we could do so. I
What’s the use o’dyin’
Killin’ of a man?
There is no denyin’
It’s a foolish plan;
You are dead an’ he’s dead—
If yon think it’s fine,
For your country fill with
I’ll just live for mine.