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FAGE TWO
THE DALTON CITIZEN. THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1921.
The Dalton Citizen
More Foolishness,
true, anti we also understand wnat it is an auoutj
tliey should forget it. because it is too trivial to
enter into the serious work the agent is required to do
do. Grown-ups ought not to be childish.
If the present agent is not the right man for the
place the right one should be found. Other counties
have been after Mr. Smith and still want him. and
in very truth we believe the ^reat majority of the
farmers of this county want him, too. It is not the
farmers he has offended to any noticeable extent.
Here and there may be found one who has some
grievance, and we suspect it is more imaginary than
real.
As has been pointed out before in these columns,
an agent is now more necessary than ever before. It
is a crucial time for the farmer, and this being true
he is entitled to expert assistance and advice as a
means to reach the proper solution of the serious
problems now confronting him.
We believe the great majority of the county board
want to do. and are going to do, what the majority
of the farmers and business men want done with
reference to this question. This will mean, of course,
the continuation of the county demonstration work.
CHEERY LAYS
for DREARY DAYS
From one end of the country to the other lawless
ness is running rampant.
That much of it is due to a multiplicity of foolish
laws is doubtless true.
One unpopular law has a tendency to lessen respect
for all law.
Thomas Jefferson, great statesman and author
of the Declaration of Independence, was right
when he announced that “the country governed least
is governed best.”
We have so many irksome, meddlesome laws in
this state and nation that most everybody is trying
to attend to most everybody else’s business, and ad
minister their religion, virtue and morals.
And one of the greatest evils connected with the
sumptuary legislation now largely responsible for, so
much lawlessness in this country, is the fact that it is
the work of paid propagandists, lobbyists and intimi-
dators, who for years have hung around the various
state capitols and Washington, threatening and brow
beating weak-kneed legislators, whose highest concep
tion of duty, frequently, seems to be that of being
re-elected. These lobbyists have been wonderfully
successful—but have they done the country at large
any good?
There has been prepared a bill to be introduced in
the legislature next summer, which has for its pur
pose the' prevention of high heels on ladies shoes. If
this bill should pass it would, be a misdemeanor for a
woman to have shoes with heels more than one and
one-lialf inches high.
High-heeled shoes are no doubt harmful and have
caused many ills to beset the gentler sex. but will
a law to prevent them wearing such shoes be obeyed?
In our humble opinion it will not. The women who
want to wear shoes with high heels would wear
them, and mighty little effort would be put forth by
the law enforcers to prevent them doing so. The law
would simply add another large contingent to the
law breaking crew.
According to the Albany Herald “the bill has been
drafted for the Osteopathic Association, and the
campaign will be conducted by osteopathic physicians,
surgeons, and specialists.’*
Continuing the Herald says:
We profess that we are perfectly willing to see
They are not pretty, for one
BY JAMES WELLS — _
Writer of Newspaper Verse, Hymn-Poems
and Popular Song Lyrics : : ; .
Kilter
Associate Editor
OAeial Organ el the United States Circuit and District
l**t, Northwestern division, Northern District of Georgia.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WHITFIELD COUNTY
Some Representative Specimens.
5 said that people represent different
Is. both in physical resemblance and
Tama ad Subscription
When you see a fellow trailing
Some fair dame along the street,
While his cash he's idly blowing
As he worships at her feet,
She has caught him for a sucker-
For a “good thing,” if you wish-
And you may bet a dollar
That the gentleman’s a “fish.”
Payable in Advance
Editor John Herring wishes to know why it is
hogs sell at S cents and breakfast bacon at 75
cents a pound, and corn at 75 cents and meal at
$2 a bushel. The editor of tlie Pittsburg Gazette
is equally curious to know bow it comes about
that “Europe is able -to ship potatoes here and
sell them at a less price than it costs to grow
them here.”—Griffin News and Sun.
And we have a curiosity to know how it is that
there are more murders and homicides in the State
of Georgia in one year than in England and Wales.
We have over here prohibition and over there they
haven’t any. And again why is starving Europe ship
ping her potatoes here to sell at any price?
Advertising Rstes on Application.
Entered at the Dolton, G»., postofice for transmission
ktetgk the aails as second-class matter.
He’s a fish, he’s a 'fish.
He’s a juicy little fish,
And she’s got him served up nicely
On a little silver dish.
Oh, the beautiful snow!—not original.
Real sensitive people get mighty little out of
If you hear a fellow boasting
Of the mighty deeds he’s done—
How, with one good trusty rifle,
He had made an army run.
While with patience you may listen,
And his line of talk endure,
You may take it, ho, for granted.
That the guy’s a donkey, sure.
This country has enough coal to last a thousand
years, according to the director of the geological sur
vey. As people now living are mostly profiteers, we
rise to ask. who a thousand years from now, will
need any coal?
Things are getting better in this town.
can buy a shave for twenty cents.
■ ■
Nobody except a profiteer is liable to kick when
one is denounced. Sam Jones was right.
EXCHANGE OPINION
He’s an ass, he’s an ass,
An unmitigated ass,
So, with these slight and few remarks,
We’ll let the party pass.
Certainly there should be some means provided by
the county commissioners for keeping the roads in
repair after they are once built. Once the pride roads
of this county are now about the worst. Look at the
Spring Place road, the Dixie Highway, both north
and south of Dalton—and the Cleveland road for
lack of repair is fast going to the bad.
The Road to Success,
Some men are successful in spite of their wives.
To some married women “help-mate”is a misnomer.
But these cases are mighty few.
At least ninety per cent of truly successful men
have been able to master their trades, to rise in
their professions, and to maintain their places near
the top after gaining them, because of the helpful
encouragement of their wives. And a percentage of
the failures can be attributed to the indifference,
idothfulness and lack of .dependable qualities in a
man’s help-mate.
The big man of the business world is not harass
ed by the ^etty details of house-keeping, and is
free to devote his business hours to the science of
being efficient. It takes a super-man to be an
active leader during the eight hours of the business
day, for a period of years, unless he has sufficient
sleep, is properly fed and is surrounded with a hap
py, wholesome atmosphere at home. And the world
hasn’t many super-men.
Man’s part of the program is to provide for his
family. Not merely necessities or luxuries, if you
please, but companionship, protection, devotion, and
an every-day life that his boys may be taught to
emulate. The woman’s part is making the things
provided render the greatest service to all the mem
bers of the household, mothering and nursing the
children, and making of home the best-loved spot on
earth, and of herself “the sweetest mother in the
world.”
Marriage is, in fact, a fifty-fifty proposition, and
the woman who craves wealth, position or success for
her husband must do her part in order that he may
gain it. The man who has only success in view should
have rare foresight in judging the qualities of the
woman be makes his wife. ’Tis a splendid thing for
a couple to work together for success, but they can
only be really successful when they have more devo
tion than ambition.
Liberty Bond Prices.
As a matter of fact Liberty and Victory Bonds,
and all other obligations of the United States Govern
ment, are worth 100 cents on the dollar. When the
war securities issued in 1917 and 1918 mature, they
will be redeemed at face value. There are in all
the world today no gilt edge securities comparable
with the lK>nds and treasury certificates of the United
States.
But a United States bond is, after all. only a
promissory note. It is the Government’s pledge that
on a certain date the face value of the bond will be
paid to the holder, or, if the bond be registered, the-in-
dividual, firm or corporation in whose name it is of
record. The note bears interest, and the interest is
paid at stated intervals, usually semiannually.
Nobody questions the ability and intention of the
T'nited States to redeem its bonds when they become
due, or doubts that the interest will be fully and
promptly paid. It therefore follows inevitably that
the bonds are worth their face value.
The bank notes and gold and silver certificates of
the United States are also promises to pay, but they
are payable “on demand,” and do not draw interest.
They represent, in the case of hank notes, securities
deposited with the Treasury Department by the issu
ing banks, and, in the case of gold and silver certifi
cates • silver or gold coin held in the Treasury. To
make Liberty Bonds legal tender would be to make
money of promissory nqtes, which is no more reason
able than it would be for a bank to attempt to pay
the checks of its customers with notes due at some
future time.
Liberty Bonds are quoted below par on the stock
exchanges for only one reason. They bear interest
at a rate below the rate which money is commanding
everywhere. A 4% per cent Liberty Bond is quoted
at, say, 87.50. That is not because the bond is worth
less than 100 per Cent, but because the man with
money to invest can get 5, 5% or 6 per cent for it,
with gilt-edge security, instead of the 4% per cent the
government pays. The man who buys a 4% per cent
Liberty Bond at S7.50 thereby gets nearly 5 per cent
for his money, whereas he would only get 4% per cent
for it if he paid par. y
As a matter of fact, money now is worth consid
erably more than 5 per cent. The investor gets 6
and 7 per cent for it, and often more. But other than
Government securities are subject to taxation,' so that
the net return to one investing in them is apt tp be
more than 5 per cent, even when he receives 7 per
cent interest.
Should mony become plentiful again—so plentiful
that it can be borrowed in large amounts at rates of
interest below 5 per cent—the price of Liberty and
Victory Bonds will advance for investors both large
and small will prefer the United States Government’s
promises to pay above the promises of any others, in
terest. etc., being equal.
It is the question of interest, not that of value,
which causes Liberty and Victory Bonds to be quoted
below par. The only way the Government could
cause them immediately to be quoted at par would be
to make them immediately redeemable. And it hasn't
the ready cash which such a proceeding would re
quire.—Albany Herald.
When you see a- merchant selling
Wares at twice their real worth,
While he says, ‘There are no cheap
To be found upon this earth;”
When his eloquence has driven
You into a mental fog,
You buy, but still you realize
That you have met a hog.
He's a hog, he’s a hog,
He's a profiteering hog,
And you hope to hear him squealin'
Hired la low price’s bog.
“Dead men and men who have moved away” seem
to be the retarders of progress. Under the present
Georgia law, before an election is attempted voting
registration lists should be purged. Savannah last
week had her advancement impeded by defeat of a
bond issue for schools when apparently the great
majority of Savannahians endorsed bonds. Our neigh
boring county, Murray, recently suffered a similar
experience, because dead men did not rise from their
graves and vote in the election, and those who had
many years ago moved away did not return to ex
ercise their “right” to vote.
Hey, Mr. Groun’hog.
(Ere another issue of The Citizen reaches its read
ers, Candlemas Day, February 2, upon which date
according to old English tradition, the groundhog
comes out of his hole to forecast the weather for the
remainder of the winter, will have passed aud the
little animal will hav’e made its decision as to wheth
er winter is over or only just due.)
Hey, Mistah Groun’hog,
What you gwine to say?
If you sees yo’ shadow
Will you run away?
Go back in’ an’ leab us
Shiverin’ in de cold
Till de new year leabs us
- Nudder six weeks’ old?
the high heels go.
thing, and that is the least of the objections urged
against them. The doctors say they are respon
sible for many of the ills that afflict women, and
we do not doubt it. Balancing herself on ultra
fashionable French heels is an achievemeflt which
calls for rare agility on the part of the wear
er and constant watchfulness is the price of
safety. There is no more ludicrous spectacle
under the sun than of a woman in high-heeled
shoes trying to run. She is altogether as grace
ful as a cow on stilts.
But this thing of regulating the universe by
statute is getting to be monotonous. It is all
right for the doctors, no matter what school they
represent, to make war on the high heels and
warn women of the danger of wearing them. We
wish the crusaders well. But passing a law mak
ing it unlawful to wear shoes with heels above
a certain height would be going a little too far.
Walking on city pavements is bad for us, too,
according to expert testimony, so wby not enact
a law abolishing pavements while we are at it?
And why would it not be a good idea to abolish
automobiles, airships, trolley cars, railroads, fire,
electricity and some of the other things that kill
and injure so many people? And what could be
more reasonable than a law making it a mis
demeanor for a man to wear a red necktie with
a yellow shirt, or for a woman to dye her hair
more than one color in a calendar year?
The reformers who would save the world by
statute are getting tiresome, and not a little of
the lawlessness which is causing concern is in
protest against trying to make people what they
are not simply by passing laws.
♦ CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS
We have said before and we don’t mind repeat
ing. the more we see of some cities, the better, we
like Griffin.—Griffin News and Sun.
Now we know Brother Duke has never been to
Dalton.
Hey, Mistah Groun’hog,
Doan’ you run away,
If you see yo’ shadow
Be a sport one day.
Longin’ for de mocker
Singin’ in de wood—
Please sah, Mistah Groun’ho:
Please stay out fer good!
“Don’t Leave Cotton Exposed,” reads an edi
torial in The Dalton Citizen. Say, Shopo, is that
why the girls are wearing woolen hose?—Greens
boro HeAld-Journal.
G’wan. “Uncle Jim.” You’re going to keep fool in;
with us until we up and tell something, on you.
Gems from Georgia.
A real flip grocery clerk is Mesh,
I see him every day;
And while I know he is too fresh,
His eggs are not that way.
—Luke McLnke.
Iwn’t judge the railway company by the cigars
sold on its trains.—Atlanta Journal.
All right, if that’s the way you feel about it
Nevertheless when a man purchases one of ’em
he just naturally feels like he’s got to cuss somebody
or something.
If more were known about home economy there
would be fewer people marching over the hill to the
psorhouse.
A tender hearted man is Jones,
Although his ways are rough;
His heart is tender as can be,
-Although his steak is tough!
—Monroe (Ga.) Tribune.
A sympathetic chap is Boyle,
x So everybody hears.
A horney-handed son of toil,
He lays his brick in tiers.
—Cedartown (Ga.) Standard.
A kindly man he is at heart—
I mean coal dealer Blate;
Yet though he is not short in. speech,
Still he is short in weight.
The South Georgia farmer who, when asked
what crops he intended to plant this year, replied
that he proposed “to put in a general mixture,”
will probably make no serious mistake.—Savan
nah Press.
The farmer who “puts in a general mixture” will
be in the best fix next fall.
Wonder when our people will get to the point
where they will demand that roads once built be
kept in repair?
“Pussyfoot” Johnson says prohibition is coming.
We thought it was already here, “Pussy.”
Air-plane companies have made fares based oh
passengers’ weights. ' Our sympathy is extended to
Jack Patterson and the “fat girl friend” of the
Columbus Inquirer-Sun.
. A five cent cigar costs a dime and a penny,
cents worth of Coca-Cola still sells for a dime.
Service comes high.
complaint. Remember also that the buyer feels per
fectly free, to express his misgivings to the seller. -It
is a safe way. the buyer thinks, to give vent to his
and may have the additional ad-
With Tom Watson after the Catholics, Henry
Ford after the Jews and the devil and Billy
Sunday after the rest of ns, the average American
citizen gets little time these days for the undis
turbed pursuit of happiness.—Dublin Courier-
Herald.
That bunch is harmless and aside from being bores
is of no importance.
surface troubles,
vantage of worrying the seller into concessions.
And like the old lady who wanted her money
back because the drama didn’t make her cry enough,
a goodly portion of the public can assimilate a pro-
Hence murders and di-
“Normalcy” is,on the way. We bought a pair of
shoe strings the other day for a nickel, and didn’t
have" to throw a penny in with it.
The Up* and Downs of It.
I don’t quite get the meaning of
My friend Josephus Huff;
He says a burglar held him down
The while he held him up.
The Citizen has no desire whatever to appear as
a captious critic in any discussion it indulges in, but
■on the other hand, it will not seek to dodge any re
sponsibility that properly attaches to it for any state
ment it may make. The Citizen has been rather
outspoken in its condemnation of profiteering, and it
is not likely to change its attitude, because it is the
result of conviction.
There are some newspapers in the state that took
advantage of war conditions and put their rates for
both advertising and subscription entirely too high.
And in the long run they are bound to suffer for it.
When a newspaper, with a circulation of, say,
from 1,590 to 2,000, levies a rate of thirty and forty
cents an inch for advertising and $2.50 to $3.00 for
subscription, it is doing exactly the same thing that
any other profiteer is doing.
The Citizen did nothing of this kind, and It is
by no means bankrupt It made a legitimate profit
on a subscription price of $1.50 per year and twenty
to twenty-five cents an inch for advertising. In other
words, its rates are based oh common sense and what
its'management conceives to be right and Just. There
fore it has no rates to cut because they were not
advanced to a point beyond what was legitimate in
normal times. It is true we paid abnormally high
prices for a £ew tons of newsprint, but we took this
as part of the game, and worked harder for volume
in business, and got it, and made money—and de
nounced profiteers—and every time we hit one “it”
yelped.
We make no pretensions to any superiority either
in virtue or morals, neither do we claim to be better
than other folks, (possibly worse) but the business
of running a newspaper must be conducted along cer
tain well-defined lines of justice and truth, if the
newspaper is to last and bear that independent atti
tude so essential to public service. It must be honest
as a matter of policy, even if it were inclined to be
otherwise as a means of temporary gain.
digious amount of bad news,
vorces on the front pages of our newspapers. Sp you
will find minor executives who delight in holding
their audiences spellbound over the recital of vast
troubles and dire prognostications.
In other words, before we become active members
of the Going-to-the Dogs Club, let us make sure, if
we must howl, we know what we are howling about.
We said in the last issue of the Monthly that the
business outlook of 1921 was bright, and we stand
by that statement one hundred per cent.
We are not going to have a panic. We are going
through a period of depression which will continue
until the retailers in this country have completed
the process of liquidation. This process may force
a few of them out of business, and a few of the
weaker manufacturers may be hard hit.
Thomas Carlyle didn’t miss it very far when he
put it this way: “Make yourself an honest man,
and then you may be sure that there is one less rascal'
in the world.”
And another thing we can’t get through onr
shapely koko is how it comes about that all those
of our home-town lady acquaintances who were
born along, about the same time we were are now
. all the way from nine to twelve years younger
than we ate.—J. D. Spencer, Macon Telegraph.
Maybe they were born in a leap year. And then,
again, a woman is no older than she looks.
No Tale Telling.
‘I like a dog more than a man,”
Remarked old Cephus Bellett,
‘For though he always has a tail,
He never tries to tell it.”
Now the scientists declare there are a million
germs in every kiss. Well, what of it? Isn’t it worth
while for a couple to know they are of enough im
portance to involve even a million germs in one small
transaction? >
Smile It Away.
When wee clouds of wprry come over your life
Smile it away.
All of the flurry and worry and strife—
Smile it away.
What tho’ the tempest sweeps over your head,
Crushing your castle and leaves your hopes
No use of crying when everything’s said—
Smile it away.
When Mr. Watson hits the U. S. Senate,
watch it tremble!—Rome Tribune-Herald.
We believe the esteemed Tribune-Herald has its
wires crossed. The senate is not likely to tremble, but
Watson is. A man with his disposition in all prob
ability possesses that quality of conscience which
makes him a coward, and all cowards tremble when
they are ushered into the presence of their superiors.
But, we have got to go through this adjustment.
It has been discounted and losses already taken by
the larger interests. The tide will turn just as
quickly as the smaller interests can turn taemselves
about and face in the right direction.
- But, while the economists and an overwhelming
number of the men whose opinions are worth having
all express this belief, they unite in saying that
even when the flood of business comes it will still
be a buyers’ market.
Which means just this: there will be plenty of
selling, but the consumer, the retailer and jobber
will all look around for the most attractive proposi
tion. They will all expect to be “sold.”
Now this idea of hustling out and selling the
goods isn’t going to set well at first with some of
the folks who for the last five years have laid back
and told buyers what they could have and when they
would get it. These folks may tell you things are
in a terrible state.
And if the tide of business does not turn quite
as soon as they. would like to haVe it turn, you
will find impatient men. all out of faith in them
selves, their business, and the country at large.
Don’t spend your good time spreading this use
less grumbling and whining. Your job and our job
is to get out and work this year. And if all of us
There are too many unpopular laws in this
country, and that is one explanation of so much law
lessness. It doesn’t make any difference how good
a law is, if it is not respected by a good majority
of the people it will never be enforced.
Trouble’s a bubble that flees at a smile—
Smile it away.
Cease your repining and try for awhile—
Smile it away.
Crying and sighing but doubles its weight:
Why are you lying bemoaning your fate?
Trouble will crush you if you wait too late—
Smile it away.
Many of the papers of the state are beginning
to speak out against the Kuklux. Well it is time.
As the Columbus Enquirer-Sun so fearlessly says, it
is now time to step on the snake. The Citizen has
already condemned this lawless organization.
Col. Henry Watterson says the dry law is mak
ing hypocrites of men. “But, colonel.” points out
■the Florida Tim’es-Union. “very few persons other
than the enforcement officers seem to be paying
any heed to the dry law.”—Augusta Chronicle.
And again, not all the enforcement officers are in
terested in suppressing the traffic. They must have
liquor to drink, and it is cheaper to seize it than
it is to buy it.
Keep the Good Work Going.
erybody will pay his debts as money to everp"
else. With twenty-five billion or so of debt-nw^.
circulation, prices will spring up like Jonahs sv
The national effect of this Brobdingnagian » Da ,
‘would he like an electric current.’ No ^on® |
certainly would put the business of the cou^
the death-chair.” , ^
All of this, as the Valdosta Times sees it is®^
the old populist idea of making money by
ing” it. -J
Which little word reminds Editor Pleasant
—who was Robert Toombs’ biographer, by the ^
of the old farmer who went to General Toombs,^
the latter was a member of the Georgia Ie Sf!Ls
in 1837. His constituent complained of, the
of the times and asked why the state S° y
did not emit more money.
“How can we get more money?” said Mr.
“Stamp it,” replied the Georgian. ...
“How about redeeming It?” persisted Too®
“Oh, well, we are ag’in’ redemption down ®.
—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
If we are to judge by what the farming element
of the county thinks of a demonstration agents a more
unpopular move was never before made by the county
board than the one dropping the agent. The petition
that will be presented to the board will in all prob
ability have the effect of convincing its membership
that the majority of the farmers of the county are
in favor of continuing the county demonstration work.
.
As The Citizen has before stated, the personality
of the agent is not the question at all. The question
is the work.
If some few have had their feelings hurt by some
action of the agent (and we understand this to be
“Normalcy is a popular word even if it is one
recently coined,” says the Jacksonville Times-
Union. We have an old hook in this office in
which the word “normalcy” appears, and this in
dicates that it is not of such recent “coinage” as
one might be led to infer from reading the Times-
Union. But Floridians are so busy keeping np
with rich tourists now in that state they haven’t
time to give much attention to words.—Columbus
Enquirer-Sun.
And we have an old book in this office that shows
the word so old that it is set down as obsolete.
Making Debts Money.
That is the way the New York Times sees the Wat-
sonian idea of “reforming the currency” by making
legal tender of government bonds, saving stamps, etc.;
which, of course, is just what it is. '
Of course, as the Times says:
“Of course, the thought of a metal reserve to re
deem these greenbacks doesn’t occur to the illustrious
Georgia populist. Currency without reserves and
practically without limit Is his saving remedy. Ev-