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- PAGE TWO THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1920. The Dalton Citizen PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. 8 8HOPE 8 Mi>C,\MY . Editor AuocUto Editor Official Organ of the United States Circuit and District OMrta Northwestern division. Northern District of Georgia OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WHITFIELD COUNTY Terms of Snhscilptlon One Year Hz Months Months 11.50 .75 •AO Payable in Advance Advertising Rates on Application. Entered at the Dalton. Ga., postoflice for transmission tbrongh the mails m second-class matter. DALTON, GA., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 23, 1920. We ought to have that new.hotel next year. Times are not one-half politicians. as bad off as are the Christmas spirit is in the air, while Christmas spirits are in the mountains. Pessimism never accomplished anything worth while. Cheerfulness and enthusiasm are the dis tinguishing marks of success. Shut Out the Undesirables. Senator Overman has a resolution whiijh pro vides for closing our doors against foreign im migration for a period of five years. If this coun try cares anything about employment for its own first, it will be well to stop the influx somewhere some time. But when the doors are closed, the desirable foreigner, if there be such, would re main at llome and the undesirable, the outlaw and the lomb thrower, would continue to come the stowaway route as he comes now. Those who dodge regulations laid down under the law al ready far outnumber that class which seeks to come fully, in accord with restrictions.—Cordele Dispatch. Which goes to show that laws do not always re strain those who are meant to be restrained. A criminal cares nothing for law. He prefers to break it. and then boast of it. There ought to be found a way to keep foreign scum out of this country, while at the same time no desirable foreigner should be denied the privilege of entering. And, too, there should be found a way to more quickly get rid of undesirable aliens already in this country, who. like Ludwig Martens/seek to over throw or sovetize this nation. There are entirely too many foreign radicals al ready over here. They toil not. neither do they spin. They agitate and encourage all forms of lawlessness. Idleness produces the criminals who are now in the midst of a regular carnival of crime the country over, and wherever the larger number of these low-browed aliens is found there is where crime is most prev alent and most vicious and most difficult to restrain. If the immigration laws which now exist were pfoperly enforced the gates at Ellis Island would not stand wide open all the time. And if they can not be enforced and officials lax''.in their work will not do their duty, then it will be well enough for congress to shut and bar the gates, and keep them that way until the hinges have had opportunity to rust for several years. Maybe the reason Lenine and Trotzsky want to abolish money in Russia is because they have it ah. and are ag'in anybody else having'any. Philosophizing. - Editor John H. Jones, of the LaGrauge Reporter. \ is a versatile man. His main business is running a newspaper, which has for its purpose the boosting of La Grange and Troup county. * But when he becomes reflective he also becomes a philosopher, and his philosophy carries him into the contemplative fields of psychic phenomena. He has come to the conclusion that the soul of man, or whatever else it may be called, that directs his thoughts and inclinations, skips occasionally. Hear him: When we come face to face with the realiza tion that we can sit for an hour in a hotel lobby, lost in a view of passing people whom we don t know from Adam’s house cat. and yet grow nerv ous after sitting for only a few minutes in the privacy of our home with no company but our own mental reflections, then we know that some thing has been overlooked in the cultivation of our mental process. A man ought to know enough to make his mental reflections sufficiently inter esting to keep him at home sometimes. Measure yourself as you please, gentle reader. Which of course is interesting. “A man ought to know enough *to make his mental reflections sufficiently interesting to keep him at home sometimes,” says the LaGrange editor. And may we not right here suggest that it is man’s mental reflections that carry him away from home to where he can forget himself? The average man cannot endure a very long siege of introspection. He needs action and likes to see action. Silent brood ing will bring him misery, or make of him a hope less ascetic, and if the latter, those about him will be made miserable. The day of stern austerity has gone; it passed away with the puritanism that foster ed the ducking stool, the whipping post and witch craft. » But man should think, not about himself, but seri ously about the problems that encompass him. And then he should play and work. The well-rounded char acter cannot be developed in a groove. A man with only one idea is not far removed from a lunatic, and yet he may do something,, or produce something, that will revolutionize the world, either for good or bad. But nothing yet worth while has ever been ac complished by silent brooding or prolonged introspec tion. It takes wholesome thinking to do that Taking Bread from the Starving- Who would believe that a government professing the high ideals that this one'does would permit its postoflice department to take bread from the mouths of the starving children of Europe? But if the statements set forth by Editor W. T. Anderson, of the Macon Telegraph, are true (and we have every reason to believe they are) then that is exactly what this government is doing. Postmaster-general Burleson, a man universally hated in this country, is authority for the statement that his department has made five millions of dollars in foreign exchange, and it develops that this consists of money orders sold for .the purpose of transmitting money to foreign countries for which exorbitant rates have been charged. It is well enough for the post- office department to issue these money orders and to charge enough for doing so to clear Itself, but to levy a tribute is simply indefensible. The Citizen takes pleasure in reproducing a front page editorial by Mr. Anderson, which appeared in Tlhe Macon Telegraph of Tuesday, December 21st. This editorial is most informative and puts before the public information it should have, whether it enjoys it or not. By reading it carefully you will see that the banks of this country are making remittances to Europe at par in order to help feed the starving millions in those unfortunate countries, whereas our own “benevolent" government, through its postoffice department, levies a pirate’s charge for doing the same thing. Subjoined is the Telegraph’s editorial: As taxpayers, every citizen of the United ' States naturally likes (o see the Federal Govern ment, especially at this time, make all the profit it can out of the various enterprises in which it is interested or is operating. Logically, the more revenue the government earns, the less taxes it will have to collect—perhaps. But at this Christmas season, there has come ' to our attention a situation that the public should know About, despite any effect the exposure of it may have upon the revenues of, in the in stance. our penurious and reprehensible Uncle Sam. People in the United States have been remitting large and small sums to the starving people of Europe—the poorest, most distressed, hungriest creatures the World has ever known. As a mat ter of course, the postoffice in each city was the natural place to^jrhich to apply for money orders by which to transmit these funds to Europe. Many Macon people have been sending money especially to French orphans, the poor little tots whose fathers lost their lives in defense of the freedom of the world. I must relate a personal experience in order to make the statements’stick and stand out as incontrovertible facts. I have been foolish enough to buy money orders at the Macon postoffice for a French orphan. I couldn’t understand the way my government had figured the number of francs sold to me for five or ten dollars which I have remitted peri odically. I read a few days ago - where Mr. Burleson, our unesteemed Postmaster-General, had reported to the government that his department had made five millions of dollars in “foreign exchange.” In vestigation developed that this meant money orders. And as I had been buying money orders, yesterday I made a test. With five dollars I went to the postoffice and bought a money order for 65 francs. With another five dollars I went to the Citizens and Southern Bank and bought a check on the Guaranty Trust Company’s Par(s bank for 83.3 francs. The postoffice charged a 10-cent fee for its 65 francs, and the hank charged no fee, taking it. as a part of its work toward helping the helpless by making remittances at par. Other -hanks do the same thing. The difference between the two transactions was 1 Si/„ francs, which are now worth 6 cents each, or -$1.10. of which my government, under Mr. Burleson’s management, big and generous that I have always believed it to be, has been robbing my French ward on each remittance. Tli£re are approximately five millions of such dollars in the United States Treasury—filthy, dirty, ill-gotten gains. And yet they put Ponzi in the penitentiary. Mr. Itnrleson justifies his operations because in 1879 there was held an international money- order convention at which a schedule of differ ences in money was made up for all the countries. But all of the other countries have abandoned the schedule, revising their exchange on a basis of. market values of the respective monies. The • United States has not, because it is profitable not to do so—that’s the only reason. If the scale had been against ns. as it has been in the other coun tries. we would have revised the schedule in a minute. That five millions of dollars should be taken out of the United States Treasury and sent to the starving and suffering people of Europe, from whom it was withheld. And postoffice foreign money orders should be avoided as a plague. The policy of our govern ment is not only villainous—it is damnable. It is now reported that Dempsey’s hearing is af fected. Suppose that’s the reason he could not hear lj’ncle Sam calling him for service. The fact that Burleson won’t be postmaster-gen eral after March 4th takes a great deal of the sting out of the defeat that recently overtook us demo crats. If old Santa Claus will carry away the Dalton depot the people of the city as a whole will rise up and call him blessed. And, by the way it wouldn’t increase his load very much. Those editors who, a re concerning themselves about whether the old Lardy Felton is a Watson democrat or a Harding republican are giving too much atten tion to a very unimportant personage. Biffem-Herring Chit’lin Controversy. It must be that eating chit’lins is a matter of education and not a question of taste. John L. Herring, of The Tifton Gazette, thinks the prejudice (if that’s what it is) against chit’lins has been created by its enemies. In other words, these internal delicacies have nearly always been strung out in the presence of an unfriendly and irrev erent gentry, who have sought to make it appear that because a grain of com now and then is found im bedded in them, they are not viewed from a sanitary standpoint, entirely above suspicion. But. nevertheless, they have defenders everywhere, and when you find a chit’lin defender you have dis covered a game fighter, with a strong appetite and a stronger stomach. They will affirm, and fight you if you,take issue with them, that the elongated and lowly chit’lin, properly prepared, is a feast within itself fit for a Lucullus. Editor Herring made out a gtrong (smelling) case for the defense, and did it well. It was serious— almost scientific—thoroughly hygenic, and classic in construction. It was also convincing, until the irrev erent BUI Biffem, of the Savannah Press, took out after him. Like a keen-scented hound on a traU, Biffem, scenting the aroma from Herring’s chit’lin pot pursued the contents relentlessly as well as remorse lessly. Hear him: John Herring, brilliant editor of The Tifton Gazette, comes to the defense of the offensive chit’lin in his excellent newspaper. It would be a defense if it were possible to defend the thiugs at all. He puts up about the best plea for the chit’lin we have ever read. He almost makes one want to see somebody (preferably an enemy) eat ’em. But he tells us that the only way they can be'eaten is to douse them thor oughly with pepper sauce—the more pep the bet ter. No doubt, John is right, as far as he goes. But he left out other ingredients for chit’lin dressing. He didn’t mention unslacked lime, nor bevo or a dash of creosote and a sprinkling of commercial guano, as being some of t.he disiu fectants needed to make a palatable sauce to make these representatives of the department of the interior of a departed Georgia swine ready for human consumption. John is also consider ate of the rest of the household. He is ag’in fryin’ these “innards.” He says they should be cooked in an open pot over a simmering fire in the backyard, when all the neighbors have gone to church and the men of the family are off in the back lot cutting wood. No doubt a chit’lin string cooked far from the habitat of man and buried uneaten under four or five feet of mother earth might serve its true purpose. It ought to make good fertilizer. And did this put Herring out of business? It did not. He came back and charged that Bill Biffem is a regular chit’lin hound, and that for some purpose or reason he is playing like he doesn’t eat ’em. Her ring almost intimates that Biffem eats ’em raw, or alive, as the case may be. Texas marketed the biggest cotton crop in her his tory, and realized on an average thirty cents a pound for it The crop was in early and marketed early. And the calamity howler was told to go to b 1. Of all the fool things now being agitated by the fool agitators is the forty-four hour week for the printing industry. The rank and file of workers are not in sympathy with the movement because the great majority of them are not grafters. Christmas! As the 25th of December approaches the desire to give surges through the heart of man, and it should, for nearly two thousand years ago the world received its greatest love present, the infant Jesus. The wise men of ancient time followed the star in the East and came unto the Holy Child bringing gold, frankincense and myrrh. The wise men of modern* time do likewise, opening their hearts and purses to share with the unfortunate their love and their means, for only in this way can the Christmas season have its fullest meaning and the Christ-spirit abound. Christmas can never be a matter of snowdrifts and sleighbells; of Yule-logs and turkey dinners, of bayberry candles, holly and mistletoe. It is some thing more enduring than these things. It is not merely home-comings and heart-happiness, but some thing even dearer. Christmas to us seems to mean giving, not only on the 25th of December, but all the year all those gifts that will tend to bring “Peace on earth, good will to men.” Everybody can now wear overalls. They are going down every day.—Greensboro Herald- Journal. At that rate they ought to soon be off. We care not> what course others may pursue, but as for us, sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, we are not going to eat any chitlins if we know it.—Macon Telegraph. . How about a perfectly delicious mess of angle worms? It is difficult to say, when a young hopeful spends three months’ meager salary on a Christ mas gift for a blushing damsel, whether he is in love or merely a lunatic. We might say damfool, but dignity forbids.—LaGrange Reporter. And the “blushing damsel” who will accept such a gift belongs in the same class. At any rate, King Constantine bears the proud distinction of being the only kicked out king, who has succeeded in coming back.—Rome Tribune- Herald. Which must 'be most cheering Christmas news to his brother-in-law, Bill Hohenzollern, who is now saw ing wood in Holland. Congressman Billy Mason ups and cables the League of Nations to go ahead and recognize Ireland. But, maybe, Billy couldn’t figure just how else he could get that much advertising for that amount of money.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun. He might write another testimonial for use as a patent medicine advertisement. CHEERY LAYS « for DREARY DAYS BY JAMES WELLS: ° Writer of Newipaper Ve.se, Hvmn o and Popular Song Lyric. . , “A Night Before Christmas” The night before Christmas, while eveX A merr >- old elf down the chimney tops C rat With bundles of toys for girts and for boys ’ And candies and goodies and such Christmas ’ To the top of each root would his l jlldw , prance, 1 In Santa Claus’ absence, each reindeer w. While Santa below, with great bundles Joys, tea® "ulddancj would go. And gifts on each girl and each boy would best,. As Santa down each ruddy chimney would cr*>, In each kiddie’s face he would solemnly peer. R And laugh with delight at the wonderful sight night. The kiddies would find at the end of the Each stocking he found at the chimney sid» h With toys were soon filled from the pack he' U L?* i A dolly, a wagon, or cars that would run 1 And candies and fruits to aid in the fun. When yon meet the editor on the street give him all the information you can in the way of news. People die, get married, elope and do many other things and never a word of the hap pening is given the editor. He isn’t a mind read er. and will appreciate all the news given him or sent in by friends.—Greensboro Herald-Journal. That’s good advice. Many complain at their guests not being mentioned as visitors. The paper cannot always know about who is going and coming. It won’t take but a moment of your time to tell ns. “At the present price of cowhides there isn’t a man in Chicago of sufficient strength to carry enough of them across Michigan boulevard to buy himself a good pair of shoes.” C. H. Hyde (get that na me I) to Id members of the Farmer’s Mar ket Committee of Illinois at their meeting in the Windy City Friday. Do you know the answer? 'Neither do we.—Macon Telegraph. We are no Hawkshaw, but maybe he means that no man can carry enough hides to pay for a $6.00 pair of shoes marked $23.00, with no market at all for hides. strong i siaaii Without doubt. Gordon Lee is the strongest member of the Georgia delegation in Congress.— Dalton Citizen. Them’s our sentiments. It has also been often demonstrated that he’s an awfully strong candidate before the people.—Rome Tri bune-Herald. He is strong with the people because they like a working congressman. He is now a member of the two most important committees in the house, namely, appropriations and agriculture. It would take a new man ten years to catch up with Gordon Lee. The people are wise in keeping him on the job. Johnny Spencer, of The Macon Telegraph, has about decided to take that dad-blamed telephone out of his green and gold sanctum. That’s good news. We may now look to see those excellent paragraphs thoroughly finished. A telephone that always rings at the wrong time is no gentleman. The fellow who is running around talking hard times is doing his full part in making them worse. And by the way, what’s the matter with the times, any way? They are a little disquieting by compari son only with the joy-riding days that have happily passed. Think of the' dark days of 1914-1915. and then smile, d n yon! With war debts to pay and interest on Liberty bonds and the redemption of Thrift stamps, it will be interesting to watch the republicans meet the situation; Will they repeal any of the present tax laws? If so some other kind will have to take their places. In our opinion it will be some years yet before -business is relieved of the present tax system to any very noticeable extent ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ H CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦♦♦ “Held Up at Gasoline Station.”—Headline, that news?—Macon Telegraph. Nope. It is an every minute occurrence. Is If our neighbor, Robert Loveman, of Dalton, had been in Rome last night and thought it was raining daffodils, we wonld give him the medal for poetic imagination.--Rome News. We have already had it awarded to him up here, but he states he can use two medals just as well as one. So send it along. The Dalton Citizen laments the fact that by failing to get The Chattanooga Times since the war it hasn’t been getting as much about “Bill Bryan” as it did. Our neighbor will admit that, although we may have bad a monopoly of “Bryan” we did occasionally butt in on its preserves with a paragraph al>out the late Judge Fite.—Chatta nooga Times. The above paragraph leads us to believe the Times puts a construction on our remarks we did not mean. What we were trying to say was that The Commoner, which used to come to this office reg ularly. was full of Bill Bryan—that and nothing more. The truth of the business is The -Citizen and The Times are in thorough accord as to W. J. B. So. this merry old elf worked all the night With the aid of his reindeers so swift and » “ That each girl and each boy might not mi,- s toy, * Or all of the goodies which bring Christum* j oy ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Tbe Star of Bethlehem. Lo, in the east a star appears Of wondrous beauty, saining bright And wise men, three, essayed to search And found the meaning of its light. They followed 1 in its beacon light Lntii they to a manger came Where lay the Prince of Peace, but come To save the world from sin and shame. Ah, wise men, three, how could’st thou know On that great pilgrimage of thiue That millions in the years to come Would prostrate worship at that shrine'/ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ An Early Shopper. He bought his gifts at l A. M. On Christmas eve, did Burley; And so, I think he took the prize For Christmas shopping early. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Christmas Spirits. The Christmas spirit's iu the air, We feel and see and hear it; But lacking is the olden “tang” Of ljquid Christmas* spirit. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ *.♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦,! EXCHANGE OPINION ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ tide A Christinas Prayer. Through your soul may the Christmas A vast sweetness of good will flow.' Flooding with peace and glad content The deeps that bitterness have held; Its waves of fragrance washing o’er The grey, cold stones of loneliness. And rough places where thorns have grown. The Christmas tide into yonr soul A lifting flood of brothership, For all God’s children may it flow ’Till senseless pride and selfishness y Beneath its bright waves lie forgot; And sweet wisdom of love rules all The thoughts and intents of vour life. JESSE BAXTER SMITH. Still a Democrat. They carried California, they slaughtered us in Maine The echoes shout their victory from Halifax to Spain. They made a hole in Louisian’, they dented Tennessee, They knocked ’em cold in old Mizzoo: but thev never routed me; They smashed our dreams to smithereens, our- hopes to a cocked hat, But here is one they couldn’t turn. I’M STILL A DEMOCRAT. Twas ten thousand votes for Harding, and two hun dred votes for Cox, I bet*’em all my ready cash, likewise mv shoes and SOCKS, And as returns kept piling in. I knew I’se out o’ luck. But'stilH 1 claimed I’ll ol’ New York, and yelled for old Kaintuck. Tt’s now the morning after, my claimer’s busted flat. -But cashless, shoeless, sockless, folks, I’M STILL A DEMOCRAT. - White county went republican, and Joe and Otis fell T Ante Ulrn 4-li n . , ’ > where it’s gone to, but here’s something for mates, Looks like the whole darn conntrv had comnletelv starts - The Allied soldiers ended upon tb gone to—well! * of Germany, the militarist. Ordinarily, the final ties of the war would have been fought on ® 01 1- In the next war there may not lie a Mr. , ^ victorious armies as they cry. “On lin!—and the new Berlin would be Washington-^ The world is offering the- United States goven a chance to save 93 cents on the dollar in the i of all its expenses. Wonld it not be good for us to accept? If not then we. the world/ Prussia, should secure a kaiser and do the J 00 pletely.—Macon Telegraph. gone to—well! dun yoi W *gate^ y time comes to shuffle off. and try the pearly An is °that?” Pe * er hears my knock, and hollers “Who ri1 boy- throw wide the gates, HERE COMES A DEMOCRAT.” —Contributed by W. A. R. The New Prussia. The people all over the country are demanding 11 5k X re J? uc ^ on - Senator Walsh, democrat, has shorn | way k° obtain it. His method is notsj difficult one; instead, it is being made easy just i oj the fact that all the other large nations are eantl estly working to adopt it. If the people of this com-I try, or let us rather say if the people's congress it-l j«:ts it, then there is no sympathy to l-e extendesl those who plead for a substantial tax decrease. I Senator Walsh has introduced a resolution for the! appointment of an American representative on disarmament committee of the League of Nations. H-J does not think It necessary for any country to belonl to the League to send a representative- to the dsl armament discussions, if it should be extended cl invitation as has the United States. The simple facj that the nations of the earth are engaged in appears to be a united effort to reduce armameml no matter under what auspices that, effort is rate?! place, is enough reason for every important uarial of the globe to encourage the attempt by a sul-stai| tial show of participation. . The American army and navy are calling for i| billion dollars of the taxpayers' money. If our imaafil are in Rockefeller shape, then let us go ahead all tease the world for a few centuries longer, while children and grandchildren are being educated B| higher ideals and a fuller measure of that so wr termed commqn sense- Incidentally, however. i*J national wallet is as flat as a pancake just now#! the rest of the world is sitting up in the iworhouse f An opportunity is staring us in the face to 3*1 not only one billion dollars but manv billions. other nations are anxious to readjust their affairs «| a sensible basis and destroy the possibility ofi great conflict like that through which they havejfll passed. It Is exceedingly hard for them to undersell the attitude of - America in the matter, and our rscsig refusal to send a representative to the disarmafflSl discussions doubtless bred no little suspicion on of other countries, espeeiallv Japan, from the remark has been elicited that she will consul battleships and keep on increasing the Mikado's mg forces until the United States reaches a turn 3| the lane. Are we to toe the most backward of nations most militaristic and aggressive? We are rap®| becoming the new Prussia of the world. To as *T do not seein so, nor did the Germans perhaps r PI they were doing anything but proper and right > building up a huge military machine that the states came to.fear and therefore abhor. If our n™| and navy fought to make democracy safe in the we are not acting very consistently in forcing all 'I tions to become militaristic by setting such an eJ "j pie ourselves. We are causing new munitions fact#*! to rise, new war chemical laboratories to he eaq lished. new war inventions to be invented. gn*J armies to' be raised, larger navies to be built all e-l the whole world, and new militaristic schemes t-' born in Germany and here Central European Jn faet. we are paving the wav for widespread ^ Itarism so rapidly that a fear has crept into p hearts of other peoples and a suspicion created I is bringing the folks beyond the seas—the plain 1 of whom Mr. Wilson once spoke—to hate us. We have sympathized deeplv with the Be^ and the inhabitants of northern France where Prussian heel of war sank so deeply into the a'/J breast. It has been said -that bread cast the water -will return again. Perhaps so. The world war will be fought on American soil—a®* || is our principal concern why there should B 1 ’. another world conflict. The last war was hut a% to the one of the future—if it comes—as it fought from -the air with chemicals that will en and poison the inhabitants of entire cities. But why is America to be the next battle# Because the militaristic nation is the target after.