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IHB DALTON CITIZBir, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1915.
Tbe Dalton Citizen
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
T. S. SHOPS
T. S. McOAJIY
Editor
Associate Editor
Official organ of the United States Circuit and District
Courts, Northwestern division, Northern District of Georgia.
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DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1915.
The State of Georgia may add laurels to its fame
by legally mobbing a man, but we don’t believe it.
Headline says “King’s Condition Becomes Alarm
ing.” Due no doubt to some fellow holding an ace.
Indigestion may cause a grouch, but what we are
most sure of is, that a grouch will cause indigestion.
Elbert Hubbard says, “Maybe, somewhere, God has
synchronized brain and beauty in one woman.” If
He has she is invisible to the naked eye.
Macon Telegraph laments that right on top of
everything else, the legislature is going to meet. Why
don’t you send a man up and get the whole bunch to
join the Gooks at one lick?
What right in law has a judge to suspend a sentence f
Doesn’t he exceed his authority every time he does
it? And also isn’t the act as lawless as the act for
■ which the suspended sentence was granted?
Is Now a Doctor of Divinity.
It is now Rev. Dr. Sims, or Rev. F. K. Sims, D. D.
The degree of doctor of divinity has been conferred
on the popular Presbyterian pastor by his alma mater
in South Carolina, and he is very proud of his new
honors, because they were bestowed by those who
know him best. The degree was conferred - by the
South Carolina Presbyterian College.
Dr. Sims has been pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, Dalton, for several years. He is popular with
all classes, regardless of denomination, and he num
bers his friends by the limit of his acquaintance.
He has done much good work in Dalton. He is
democratic in both manner and spirit, always seeking
to minister to those needy and deserving.
The Citizen in common with the people of Dalton,
congratulates Dr. Sims on his new entitlements, and
wishes for him that measure of success in his chosen
work he so richly deserves.
Burwell will be the next speaker of the house, and"
should be, and when the votes are counted he should
send Speigleburger, or whatever his name is, a vote of
thanks for valuable services rendered.
Dr. Eichelberger, anti-saloon lobbyist, is doing his
best to earn his salary, but we are sure he will find
out.that the Georgia people as a whole will not en
dorse slander as a means to defeating Burwell.
People who hold office and don’t know'how they are
on any question until they are told by their little
boss—well, they just simply haven’t got any business
holding office. But they do need a guardian.
Run Your Race, But Don’t Hurt the
Cause.
The work on the Dixie Highway, in the lower end
of the county, is progressing nicely, and long before
the snow flies the road will be ready for dedication.
Tt is unfortunate for the good roads movement in
:this county that so many wild tales should be told
about the Dixie Highway by the partizans of those
who are running for the office of commissioner. If
the tales are not told somebody is being awfully mis
represented. We have heard that it is being told
that the road will have to be either brick or cement,-
and that it will bankrupt the county to build it. There
is absolutely no truth in the statement, and if such is
being told it must be meant as a joke.
The Dixie Highway through this county will be
such road as is already built, and which is. being built.
It will be nothing more or less than a graded and
chert surfaced road, which' is good enough for any and
everybody. The Dixie Highway will be the same kind
of a road that the other roads in the county are, and
will be when finished. The convict gang will not
stay on the Dixie Highway any longer than is neces
sary to finish it, and this will not be very long. Then
the camp will be moved back to the northern part of
the county to finish up the splendid work which is
already under way. All of the talk so freely indulged
in by candidates and their friends hasn’t anything to
do with the merits of the case. Only one commis
sioner is to be elected, and he is not going to be
the whole board, neither is he going to control it, and
we don’t suppose either of the candidates feels this
way about it. If they -will hear a little friendly ad
vice from us, they will not promise very much, be
cause pre-election promises are easy to make but
awfully hard to fulfill. And if we' were an office
holder we would hate awfully to have an admiring con
stituency continually referring to broken promises.
The. less a man promises before his election the better
he can serve when in office, because he can work at
his job instead of spending his time trying to placate
those loaded down with his promises.
' Go to it, boys, but just tell the people you want to
be commissioner because you want the job, but for
the love of Mike cut out the “forty-acres-and-a-mule”
stunt. If you don’t the people will give you the horse
laugh.
Making For Temperance.
Every well informed person, everywhere knows .that
prohibition laws have done nothing toward abating
the evils growing out of the liquor traffic. These
laws, half baked and for the most part the result of
prejudice and fanaticism, by a coalition with politics
and dirty politicians, have served to aggravate the
evils rather than to mitigate them. It has driven
the traffic under cover, made numerous blind tigers,
and fixed it so the young boys growing up have no
trouble securing all the bad whiskey they want. No
law that can be put on the statute books will stop the
traffic in liquors so long as there is a demand for
them. And the demand for them cannot be killed by
a multiplicity of laws, either state or federal. When
whiskey is no longer shipped it will be made wherever
there is a demand for it.
Temperance and sobriety are matters of education,
not of legislation; and this education may take sev
eral different forms." The public is now being taught
that the drunkard has no standing in the community;
he has no credit and few friends. He cannot hold
a responsible position, because the employers of men
will not have booze fighters on their pay rolls', and
where they have they are fast getting rid of them.
And the employe is being taught that this is so. A
merchant or a banker wants no employe waiting on
customers with a whiskey breath, and what’s more,
they will not have him. He is being taught this, and
it is also being impressed upon his mind by seeing his
friends frequently lose their jobs on account of drink.
The manufacturer is weeding out the boozers, and the
drunken printer is a pathetic relic of a bygone day.
But so-called prohibition laws are not responsible for
the tendency toward temperance, It is business de
manding sobriety, and self-preservation being the first
law of nature, the employe who hasn’t lost- all self-
respect, and who is loyal to his home and loved ones,
ceases the indulgence that threatens his job. -
It is also true that the man of respectability is
being educated up to the fact that over-indulgence
brutalizes and makes for poverty, as well as neglect of
the higher aspects of life.
The boozeless banquet is coming more to be em
ployed, and it is being found out that the liquid that
was once considered indispensable at such functions is
not necessary in order to promote good fellowship,
brilliant conversation and post-prandial eloquence.
At the last meeting of the Georgia Bankers ’ asso
ciation it was decided to serve no more wine or liquors
at the annual dinners. The Macon Telegraph thus
comments on the action of .the Georgia bankers:
To this we respectfully refer our friends who
would choke the stopper of prohibition down peo
ple’s throats instead of letting them gurgle rye or
bourbon at will.
The truth about this booze business is that the
greatest factor of all has set its face against it,
and that is the growing respect for personal effi
ciency in body and mind on the part of the Amer
ican man, young and middle aged.
The Georgia bankers know that a man who
drinks wines and liquors to the slightest excess,
even at the dinner table where it is least harmful,
cannot be one hundred per cent efficient the next
morning until after - luncheon at least. The slight
lassitude, the mild headache which- comes from
the least excess takes a good two hours to wear
off. Those two hours are not producers to the full.
The bankers know that if their employes toss
off a half dozen before going to bed they, won’t
- be average efficiency the next day, that their
“peak load” won’t be reached until too late in
the day to get the best results; the bankers know
the same thing applies to themselves as executives,
and so they’ve officially cut it out. Fine.
What a pity that the tremendous energy, the
skillful and enthusiastic propaganda that has
backed the legislative efforts of the foes of alco
hol had not- long years agone been applied solely
to the practical and utilitarian end of the question.
In this they would have received the enthusiastic
support of every employer of labor, of every edu
cator, and, what is greatest of all, the co-operation
of the personal pride in well-being and efficiency
of the young man himself.
Appeals to a young man on the line that booze
will send him to sleeping on the flagstones of
Hades are merely a challenge to his faith in his
own seif-control, a defiance to him to * ‘ drink like
a gentleman. ’ ’ He proceeds to show his contempt
for such over-rated dangers, and like all under
rated dangers, they get him eventually.
Laws won’t do it, moralizing won’t' do it, even
the religious urge is limited in its application,
but dollars and cents, personal pride in self, and
the cold, hard efficiency which challenges all com
petition from the man on the right has done more
to make men temperate than any other force. If
this one line had been hammered on as hard and
as consistently as the more ineffectual others this
would be the most temperate and least consuming
of alcohol of all nations on the globe today, and
the “liquor question” would be no question at all.
Macon Telegraph can go as far as it likes about
its “Gook” and “Gump” organizations, but it had
better not fool with our “Boob” club. If it threatens
such a course take it from us, we’ll have our little
“boobs” copyrighted.
In another place on this page we reproduce an
editorial from the Augusta Chronicle anent the mob
that assembled in Atlanta Saturday night, demanding
the life of Frank. It was led by a “Baptist preach
er, ’ ’ while another something took subscriptions to
Watson’s publication. HTTs awful!
Jack McCartney now tells it on us that we got home
from Chattanooga with that $10.00 bill—that we spent
no money in Chattanooga, Bert Tyler and Paul Fite
paying our way. All we gotta say is they are not
kicking about what they spent on us.
Tifton Gazette has added insult to injury. It how
refers to us as “Tobias,” and says it will stand pat
until we'tell it how to get $10.00. With apologies to
Jack McCartney, we suggest that it open up a money
distillery in the woods back of its office.
If the building part of the commission race keeps
up at the present pace until the twentieth, there
ought to be at least two bridges for every one needed
in the county, while the excess of pike roads ought
to easily supply Murray county all she needs.
Bryan Quits.
People who have kept up with the trend of affairs
at Washington were not surprised when they read
in the newspapers that Secretary Bryan had resigned
as head of the state department.
Someone has said that God Almighty hates a quitter,
and ,it may be that this is true. Bryan has been an
advocate of peace-at-any-price for years, and the trou
ble with Germany and Mexico at the same tune was
too much for him.
It is but fair to give Bryan credit for the courage
of his convictions, but we can’t help but think what
might have happened if he, instead of Wilson, were
president. Overseas commerce would be paralyzed,
nothing that floats would dare face the German sub
marines, while the government of the Prussians
would be supreme on the high seas, regardless of inter
national law or right. Might would be supreme.
We share the opinion with many that President
Wilson will be better off. with Bryan out of the cabi
net. He has failed in his work, and has been found
wanting in the face of a crisis. He,was not cut out
for a secretary of state.
There are many who believe his resignation will
have a bad effect in Germany—that the government
of the Kaiser will be led to believe that this country
is torn with factionalism, and .nothing we say will
mean anything. However, there is another way to
view it, and to our mind a more reasonable one. It is
likely 'to impress the German government with the
fact that President Wilson means exactly what he
says; that-the people are with him, and if they were
not Bryan would never have resigned.
At any rate we do not believe there will be war
with either Germany or Mexico. The latter is too
weak to fight, and the former has all the fight she
wants nearer her own borders. There may be
severing of diplomatic relations, and there may be a
declaration of war by Germany; but Germany is not
coming over here to fight us, and we are not going
over to fight Germany. There is considerable differ
ence between a declaration of war and the real thing.
If Germany has lost all sense of reasonableness, and
continues to act like a mad mullah, she will be the
one to suffer^ most for her folly. She needs the pro
ducts she is now getting from this country, and while
they may not be much in comparison with what the
allies are getting, that is not our fault. They are
here for her. If diplomatic relations are severed there
is nothing in this country she can get, and this loss,
together with the moral loss, is something Germany
can ill afford at the present time. Our harbors are
holding something like $100,000,000 worth of German
ships interned, and these will be considered none too
lightly by the Kaiser’s government.
Bryan has added nothing to his fame in resigning
from the cabinet. The public will hardly measure his
acts by his ideals, but will think of him as a secretary
of state who deserted his chief, at a critical moment.
They will tMnk of him as trying to make his well
intentioned theories of peace balance the actualities
of a war which this country deplores and for which
it is in no wise responsible.
Dalton has one ice factory, of which most every
body in the city is proud. It has no trouble disposing
of its product. It is taxed to its utmost capacity to
supply the demand. The downtown public wanted
ice at a central point, where it could get ice easier
and at its will.- The factory was willing to grant the
request, but the city council, wise and just beyond
measure, said the down town people must not have
ice convenient unless the factory would pay another
license equal to the one they are now paying. On the
face of it the proposition is absurd. There is no
competition in the ice business in Dalton and none
likely. A license of $25.00 for the privilege of ac
commodating the downtown people is all out of pro
portion, for not much more than that amount would
be realized as profit on the amount that would be
distributed from a downtown ice depot during the
hot months.
The petition which was presented to the council
contained the names of nearly all the business men
and firms on Hamilton street, but so bull-headed was
a majority of the -council they refused to give even
courteous treatment to the gentleman who presented
the petition.
Cuppings and Comments.
Who was it wrote that poem about “Bills, bills,
bills?”—Macon News.
Don’t know. Whoever he was he ought to. be bar
becued.
‘Men and Religion” crowds in Atlanta are awfully,
worked up about a beer sign at Five Points. Visitors
who go to Atlanta and stop at certain hotels, are not
annoyed half as much by the beer signs as they are
by the “girls in the house,” as the elevator boy calls
them.
Chances for Changes.
If the route is changed so as to run through Kings
ton, it opens up hopes for any section of the country
not now on the Dixie Highway to get on, and makes
the routes, as adopted by the commissioners in Chat
tanooga, subject to change at any. time. In other
words, it makes of the Dixie Highway a veritable
chameleon.
Should the people of Dawnville, or of Mill Creek
valley, decide they wanted the highway, Dalton’s
position might not be secure; or, should Whitfield
county decide that there is not enough of the Dixie
Highway within its bounds, a plan might be mapped
out whereby the road could come to Dalton, and then
double back, taking in Cohutta, Varnells, etc., pursu
ing the even tenor of its way until several hundred
miles of the highway would be located in Whitfield
county.
We agree with the Augusta Chronicle that the mob
at the capital Saturday night, led -by a “Baptist
preacher,” was enough to convince those who had
doubt, that the mob spirit was present in Atlanta as
regards Leo Frank. It was present Saturday night,
and it was present when Frank was tried.
There are just about eight too many wards in Dal
ton. We have a town of about 8,00Q, with eight wards,
and since we have had the wards we have done noth
ing as a result of having them that we could not have
done without them. However, there are a great many
of our people who think we ought to have at least
four wards, and if the majority think- so then the
people ought to have this number. The present ward
system makes for little ward politics, and of course
has created a few very objectionable features, none
of which is good for a town, and the way to get rid
of them is to get rid of the system that makes them.
Dalton needs a little local legislation which will enable
us to get rid of the eight ward incubus. The truth
of the business is, we should have commission gov-
ernment throughout.
The Darien Gazette has scored a scoop on the
_ state. It announces the_iqauguration of Governor
Harris last Friday.—Savannah Press.
• Don’t rub it in. Brother Grubb does not often make
mistakes.
A steam roller is reported stolen in Chicago.
Wonder if it is the one used in the Republican
convention of 1912?—Macon News.
"Too far off to interest us. We hope it is the one
used at Macon in 1914.
“Why Shouldn’t Men Do Housework?” is the
suggestive caption of a magazine article. Well,
many of them are doing it, and it is obvious that
more of them will have to get down to it, for the
trend of the modern woman is more and more away
from it.—Albany Herald.
Too true. The one hope is in our industrial schools.
The young girls are now being taught that it is not
disgraceful to do something useful, and that idleness
is the real devil to be feared.
The only trouble about those Macon Telegraph
paragraphs is that such things sometimes become
contagious. And not all -writers can put them
across like that guy does.—Tifton Gazette.
Which is very true. We sometimes feel like trying
to ■write like the Telegraph guy, but when we remem
ber we can’t, we feel we are safe.
There is one thing that we have discovered, and
that is that the Dalton Citizen isn’t afraid to say
what it thinks and usually says it.—Rome Tribune-
Herald.
There are times when plain talk is' necessary, and
especially is this true when dealing with hypocrisy and
fraud.
There are two reasons why some people do not
mind their own business. One is they haven’t any
business and the other is they haven’t any mind.
—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
Just about the truth. People who are always med
dling with other people’s business resent madly any
attempt on the part of others to say anything about
them.
Senator William Alden Smith says “one of the *
most formidable movements in American political
history” is booming him for the presidency. Well,
now!—Dawson News.
Bless the senator’s soul. We hadn’t heard a word
about it. And to think we might have been deluged
by said f. m. without a moment’s notice!
The people of Dalton were very much carried
away with Senator LaFollette’s lecture on “Rep
resentative Government.”—Chatgworth Times.
Yes, very much. If^it hadn’t been for a kindly
disposed wind-storm which came up about two hours
after the speaker began the audience might yet be
listening to the speech on “Representative Govern
ment. ’ ’
Editor Shops evidently believes that the winnef
is the man who “gits there first with the mostest
road.”—-Rome Tribune-Herald.
That’s the way we feel about it. While it doesn't
take the “most” road to build the shortest route we
-.will have more to spend in order to make it the best
and widest road in North Georgia.
More or Less Disgusting.
The science of government may be a mooted ques
tion at Washington, and in the capitals of Europe, but
it is not so in Dalton, where Sn all powerful city
council sits sceptered and ermined with all wisdom
and just judgments. . The way to please people is to
deny them their rights, ignore their petitions, and act
in any other “just” way that is calculated to dem
onstrate' superior knowledge and ability, no matter
how ridiculous said council may appear to just ordi
nary mortals like most of us.
While Mr. C. E. James, of Chattanooga, was
paying $5,000 out of his own pocket to launeh the
Dixie Highway movement he was a mighty fine
man. He continued to grow in grace until he was
worthy to be president of the Dixie Highway As
sociation at the close of the Chattanooga meeting.
Now that he has expressed his disgust at the bi
furcated project in unmistakable terms, Mr. James
is promptly relegated to the class of the sore
heads, the malcontents and the undesirables. Such
is the life of a highway promoter—when the doc
tors get hold of the proposition.—Tifton Gazette.
Charlie James is all right. He does things, and
while those who are disposed to can criticize him all
they like, it will not hurt him, and in the meantime
it is a hundred to one he will be building actual roads.
Lying?
I wish no lion for a pet;
Nor have one on my ground,
I simply do not care just yet
To have him “lion” round.
♦ ♦ ♦
Such As ?
' Oftentimes an obligation
Which should be “paid in full”—
.You’ll find on observation
Is only paid in “bull.”
—James Wells.
Smiles^ and Sunshj ne
JAMES WELLS - The Printer Poet'
tem per
Remember, It Isn’t Your Fight
If perchance, you run up on a couple of men
Who are having a fight in the street,
And one of them stands just about six’ feet
And a little chap starts in to beat ^
Though your red blood may “bile” and
may “rile” ' r
As indignant you gaze on the sight,
If you’re undersized, too, take a faraway vi
And remember, it isn’t your fight. ew ’
If a man and his wife, in a marital strife
In a little knockdown should engage, ’
And murder and arson and riot run rife
Don’t work yourself into a rage.
It’s the “innocent bystander” always gets hurt
Say nothing with all of your might.
IT you jumped in the “scrap,” they would brifc
you “rap,” u wth M
So remember, it isn’t your fight.
The European war in its death-dealing wav
Now occupies most of the stage,
And cruel atrocities most every dav
The public attention engage,
Sometimes, apt as not, it makes you feel hot
And you’d just like to make them do rriht
But sit still in the boat, and just let it float
And remember, it isn’t your fight.
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Tell of the Good He Has Done.
If you feel you must tell of a fellow who fell
And lowered his high estate,
And dipped right down to the depths of hell
And is knocking upon its gate,
Don’t come to me with your filthy tale
Of the reckless race he’s run.
.Put your tongue so vile to a use worth while.
And tell of'the good he’s done.
If you know of a tale on a woman, frail,
Who’s on the downward path,
And the world has turned her beyond its pale
With a saintly “righteous” wrath.
Don’t come to me with a sneering tone.
As her very path you shun.
But help her stray from the wayward way
And tell of some good she’s done.
If in my grace you would take the place
Of another you may know.
And win the friendship and esteem
On others which I bestow,
Don’t come to me with some evil thing
Which another has begun,
But sing your praise of the other’s ways
And tell of the good he’s done.
♦ ♦ ♦
Most Any Boy.
He’s not a naturalist, quite.
But yet, and not half try
Each time the kiddie takes a bite.
You see the butter fly.
♦ ♦ ♦
Circumstantial Evidence.
Confectioneries may not be
A gold mine, but I’ll hint
Where’er a candy store von see
They always have a mint.
♦ ♦ ♦
There. Are Others.
I have a dog I will not trust.
My faith in him will fail,
For everywhere that doggie goes
He always bears a tail.
A Hideous Performance.
That was a hideous performance in Atlanta Satur
day night; a mob of two thousand people—led by a
“Baptist preacher”—gathered on the statehouse
grounds, to demand the execution of a young white
man whose case had just been under review by the
Prison Commission.
We say it was “hideous” and we call it a “mob,”
because there was the bloodthirsty spirit of the nob
i n it—no -matter what high-sounding resolutions were
passed in the name of “law-enforcement.”
We have no doubt, that but for the danger involved,
or the impossibility of summarily accomplishing their
pnrpose, this same crowd of people might have been
led a block further to the Fulton county jail—to take
the law into their own hands. But mobs are seldom
courageous. Frenzied speeches and the exeitement of
the occasion will lead a mob into lynching some de
fenseless, creature, here and there, where there is no
opposition; but a dozen determined men, armed with
shotguns and with the law on their side, ean hold »
thousand members of a mob at bay.
The worst of the Atlanta performance is, that it
simply served to emphasize and advertise the very
charge that has been brought against Georgia in con
nection with the Leo Frank case—that the “mob
spirit” has controlled in it throughout.
But, instead of accomplishing its purpose, it seems
to us, that Atlanta meeting would have exactly the
opposite effect; for if - the Prison Commission were
ever heretofore in doubt as to their duty in the prem
ises, it must now be entirely plain to them that the
state of Georgia can not afford to hang any man at the
behest of a mob.
Certainly, not a mob that is led by a “preacher ”
and inflamed by rabid articles from the pen of Tom
Watson—with a man on the scene to take subscriptions
for the latter’s weekly Jeffersonian, while blood was
in their eye.
And this “preacher”; what a Christ-like shepherd,
indeed, to lead such a flock; what a Bible is The Jef
fersonian from which to take his text. May the Lori
forgive them—and save Georgia from such “law
enforcement” as this.
As for “demanding” this man’s life, or any mans
life, we can’t understand it at all. We can under
stand how men may consent to the execution of *
guilty murderer if he must; but we can not compre
hend any man wanting to hang another—more partie-
ularly if he be an avowed diseiple of the mere if id
Jesus.
We do not know for certain that Leo Frank i 3
guilty of the awful crime for which he was convicted
—nobody knows—though we have always believed
him guilty; but we now realize, even more than ever,
what an awful thing it is to try a man for his lif®
while the mob spirit is “in the air.” It is not sneb
an administration of the law as is expressly contem
plated under the constitution of our state; and we had
rather, much rather,. that a guilty man escape f®“
punishment, here and there, than that we convict one
in passion or without all doubt removed.
If the Georgia Prison Commission still has a doubt
as to Leo Frank’s guilt—as most Georgians have
they will go right ahead and commute his sentence to
life imprisonment; Tom Watson and his “Baptist
preacher” and an Atlanta mob to the contrary not
withstanding. Otherwise they would not be worthy 0
the tremendously important trust imposed upon them
by the people.—Augusta Chronicle.