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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1921.
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The Dalton Citizen
PUBLISHED BVRRY THURSDAY.
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Y. 8. McOAMY
. . Editor
Associate Editor
Official Orpin of the United State* Circuit and District
MOa, Northwestern division, Northern District of Georgia.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WHITFIELD COUNTY
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DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1921.
Pay as many of your debts as you cau, but don’t
try to can any of them.
The city manager plan is being talked for Dalton.
Griffin saved the taxpayers of that town $43,000 the
first year under it.
Aid for Stricken Children.
“Who gives but what he’ll never miss will never
know what giving is.”
Funds for the relief of the starving children of Eu
rope are being solicited locally this week, and re
sponses to the appeal should be liberal, for no cause
deserves alleviating sympathy more than the distress
of little children.
All racial distinction should be forgotten, all boun
dary lines obliterated, all prejudices wiped away, and
the pitiful cries from emaciated bodies of the sufferers
answered with our money. The workers in America
are perhaps not earning the exaggerated wages of a
previous period, but as compared with many coun
tries, we are in the lap of prosperity, and can give
tc the stricken of Europe food which is nothing less
than life itself.
What shall we have gained in the end, if, nationally,
we have amassed enormous wealth, and have lost both
our self-respect and charity? And how can we keep
our self-respect as a nation, if, individually, we with
hold food from thousands literally starving to buy
baubles for ourselves? What to many of us is but
a dole, to one of these dying children is an oppor
tunity to live. Think well of your responsibility be
fore you determine what your donation shall be.
The committee has been named and the canvas is
on, but should you not be called upon for your con
tribution. do not let this deprive you of the happiness
that will be yours in the realization that a life has
been saved because of your liberality. Rev. F. K. Sims
is local chairman, and will receive money for this
cause. It is hoped that Dalton will subscribe $1500
to help reclaim the young lives of Europe.
“There are a thousand ways to spend money and
only one way to make it,” says the Type Metal Mag
azine. The only way is to work and let the other
fellow work.
Atlanta Cheap Skates.
Why should the people of Atlanta be entitled to
cheaper gas than people who live in other towns of
the state?
Dalton owns her own gas plant, and with a $1.50
rate lost thousands of dollars last year. In fact the
coal alone used cost almost as much as the total re
ceipts for gas. The rate is now $1.75, and with the
coal prices lower than they were last year the com
mission hopes to break even this year. But it is doubt
ful if any profit will be made.
Certain interests in Atlanta are making an awful
lot of noise because the railroad commission granted
the Georgia Railway and Power Company an increase
in gas rates. Clearly it was shown that the company
was losing money on the old rates.
No sooner was this done than the anvil chorus
opened up. led l>y that, great organ of uplift, the At
lanta Georgian, although it commended the commis
sion for permitting the Bell Telephone Company to
raise rates.
It seems to be popular in Atlanta to jump on the
power company, as all the chronic grumblers down
that way are always making faces at it.
But the present outburst is both loud and insistent.
The anvil chorus wants to abolish the railroad com
mission and take the gas company away from its
owners.
The whole proceeding is childish and shows a lack
of sportsmanship on the part of the howlers.
Why in the name of common sense should Atlanta
people enjoy special privileges as to gas rates? The
rest of us who are so fortunate, or so unfortunate,
as to live outside of Atlanta, are paying high prices
for gas, but we have sense enough to know why the
rates are high, and are not yelling like Commanche
Indians about it.
Tlie truth of the business is it is the same old crowd
and the same old fight, and is the result of prejudice
against the Georgia Bailway and Power Company.
This company is unfortunately a large concern. It
has spent millions and millions of dollars in develop
ing hydro-eleetric power plants, which are indeed great
blessings to the people who are supplied lights and
power at rates far below what they themselves could
produce them for.
And for this it has been for years the target of the
socialist and the narrow minded, who seem to go on
the idea that successful accomplishment is a disgrace.
Such a course is hurting the state. Who is going to
put any money into enterprises of any bind in a state
where a pack of selfish calamity howlers are always
belaboring those already here?
We are surprised that the city of Atlanta coun
tenances such a program.
The railroad commission is composed of honorable
men, each one of whom did not want to be forced to
vote for a rate increase, bnt the commission had to
be just, and justice demanded that a just decision be
rendered.
The present Atlanta situation would he laughable
if it were not so childishly disgusting.
The Need of Farm Agents.
Economy is not always wise. The Marietta
Journal in discussing this proposition says: “Some
of the counties in Georgia, in a fit of attempted
economy, are going to do without'a farm agent
this year, but they will find in the end that it
will prove the poorest piece of economy they ever
tried to practice. A good farm agent is a more
than profitable investment for any farming com
munity.” The Journal strikes the keynote. A
farm demonstration agent is worth more than the
cost of operation to any county in Georgia. This
is the day of intensified farming’and progressive
methods.—Atlanta Journal.
Doing without a farm agent is a very expensive
“economy” and a board "that sanctions a proceed
ing so contrary to public opinion is “penny wise
and pound foolish.”—Dalton Citizen.
A county that has heretofore enjoyed the ser
vices of a farm agent and now dispenses with his
services is going backwards instead of forwards.
As a prominent Walton county farmer stated a
few days ago, “if there ever was a time when the
services of such a man were needed it is now.”
Temporarily Walton county is without the help
of a farm agent but the position will be filled as
soon as a thoroughly satisfactory man can be sup
plied.—Walton Tribune.
The county board robbed Whitfield of her farm
agent, bnt this county refused to go backward. In
dividuals, by private subscription, have retained the
capable agent formerly paid by the county, and Whit
field is going to continue moving forward in spite of
the “political economists” on the county board.
Nearly every county in the state has a farm ageni
being paid out of the county funds as he should be
By having a farm agent in this county the farmers are
going to save money on their fertilizers, and big money
at that. The present price of commercial fertilizers
is prohibitive, when the price of farm products is con
sidered.
Speaking of the county agent service, the Atlanta
Journal says:
Touching the question of the salaries of county
farm demonstration agents, the Savannah Morn
ing News rightly says that if the payment of these
available public servants out of county funds
should encounter legal difficulties, the knot should
be promptly cut by legislative enactment. It is
to be hoped that no technicalities will prove
troublesome; but in the event they do, the law
should be speedily purged of them.
It was obviously the intent of the farmers of
Georgia’s constructive agricultural legislation that
county government should be authorized to apply
a portion of their funds to the employment of
demonstration agents. In some communities, no
doubt, private interests would subscribe to agents’
salaries if the public appropriation were cut off.
But it is far better, as the Morning News argues,
that “the county treasury bear the expense, be
cause the whole county enjoys the benefits. There
is no doubt that millions of dollars’ worth of crops
have been added to the total in Georgia in recent
years by county agents; and the state is far bet
ter off today than it would have been because of
their painstaking efforts in behalf of better and
more varied farming.”
The business of towns and cities is no less ma
terially concerned than are rural districts. The
development of these basic resources from which
commerce is nourished and quickened is largely
involved in the maintenance of the county-agent
system of farm education. Indeed, there is not a
property owner, not a taxpayer, not an investor
but whose interests are promoted by the county
agent service. Let this excellent work be given
every possible encouragement in Georgia.
And this from the Atlanta Constitution:
Speaking impersonally and ''without intending
to direct criticism at any particular county,” tlie
Alba nay (Ga.) Herald expresses tlie opinion that
too many Georgia counties “make the mistake of
electing tightwads for county commissioners” in
stead of selecting “their most progressive citizens
for these important positions.”
The Herald’s point is well taken; for. as our
south Georgia contemporary goes on to say, the
state “is just now entering up the most progres
sive era in its history.” and “it is a time when
public-spirited men should be placed in charge of
our roads ard revenues,”
“We are led into saying this.” the Herald ex
plains—
“by observing that some of the counties are hav
ing trouble with the county commissioners with
reference to county demonstration agents, tick
eradication and some other things of vital impor
tance. A Georgia county, especially one in the
southern part.of the state, that doesn’t keep a
county demonstration agent and also provide dip
ping vats for tick eradication isn’t keeping up
with till* procession.”
In this day and time there is no place, in the
modern scheme of things, for the citizen v ho is
too conservative or too timid or loo parsimonious
to face the sunlight and go ahead “with the pro
cession and especially does this apply to the pub
lic official who is responsible for tlie progress and
development of liis immediate community.
The county commissioner who is not willing to
authorize the expenditure of public funds for sucli
necessary improvements as, for instance, good
roads, better schools, etc., and for the mainten
ance of county demonstration agents and the pros
ecution of the work of tick eradication (in tick
infested counties) is ready for the discard.
He is out of place, and wholly out of step with
the times, iu any Georgia county.
The Type Metal Magazine hits it off like this: “Give
a mean man a little authority and his meanness will
rise to the surface like scum on a frog-pond.”
Did you ever, notice that when one is extremely crit
ical of the acts of other people that same one is aw
fully sensitive about being handed the same kind of a
package?
' France wants to know what America is going to do
relative to the peace treaty, say newspaper dispatches
from Paris; but, at that France hasn’t anything on
America.
The nearest south President-elect Harding, got in
picking his cabinet was Indiana and Ohio. And with
this pick he paid two political debts by making Will
Hays postmaster-general and Harry Daugherty at
torney general.
President-elect Harding’s troubles can be seen in
the offing. Wonder if he will ever think when they
come trooping in upon him, of his uncharitableness
toward President Wilson when he was a member of
the senate poison squad?
Those people in Atlanta who affect to believe the
railroad commission is an Atlanta tribunal may yet
find out that it is a state-wide affair.
It has been discovered that cork trees will grow in
this country^ Wouder if we were to start us a cork
tree plantation we could float alone?
President Harding won’t have any southerners in
his cabinet. When anything goes wrong, how in
thunder, will the Chicago Tribune be able to place
the blame?
If those folks who insinuate that President Wilson
squandered something over a million dollars of govern
ment funds “on a junketing trip to Europe,’,’ are not
traducing him, what the samhill are they doing?
Those people Tommyrot Watson leads around by
the nose are in a deplorable fix. Their cotton has
been down below cost since his election, and they are
scared half to death for fear the Catholics are going
to big stick them.
The Citizen notes with pleasure that city council
Monday night got away with one meeting without
bloodshed. The members put through the work like
business men, and there was no “nagging” or “slap
stick” work across the table. It was truly a refresh
ing change; may there be more of ’em.
There’s a whole lot of loose talk and a lot of looser
thinking being indulged in by those people who are
denouncing the railroad commission for its decision in
the Atlanta gas rate question. If a judicial decision
is not liked by certain people it is not proper for them
to shoot up the court. Such a course is decidedly
bolshevistic.
J. D. McCartney, for several years managing editor
of the Rome Tribune-Herald, has resigned his posi
tion effective March 1. 1-Ie will move to Savannah
where he will be associated with the Central of Geor
gia railway, as director of publicity. Jack McCartney
is a capable newspaper man and will make good in
bis new position. North Georgia loses a live wire
when he goes to South Georgia.
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CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS ♦
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When a humorist begins to take himself serious
ly he ceases to be one.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Yea. verily—and then at times 'he is funny when
he is serious, but he doesn’t know it.
Judge Landis intimates that before he's through
he will fix Mr. Dial’s clock.—Macon Telegraph.
And for that you, John Spencer, ought to have your
face pushed in.
The only difference between a dead man and a
lazy one is that the latter takes up more room.
—Lyons Progress.
And hence is always in somebody’s way.
Eminent authorities agree that this world will
probably last a million years longer. Oh, well,
then—Columbus may get a new depot yet.—Co
lumbus Euquirer-Sun.
And if it can make it for another million Dalton
may get one, and also a new hotel.
Say, Shope, call a meeting of the “Smelling Com
mittee.” We have found some two-cent stamps
that are not red enough.—Royston Record.
We had some of the pale ones here awhile back,
but said nothing about it, for fear that it might reach
the ears of an anti-administration “smelling commit
tee.” These investigations you know come high.
Five thousand men in North Georgia are listed
by the war department as draft dodgers. We
can understand a part of the vote in the recent
primaries in the state.—Savannah Press.
That helps to explain the vote in the primaries to
a certain extent. Now for their names. The people
want to look ’em over.
“Don't cultivate the habit of complaining about
your ailments,” says The Dalton Citizen. With
quite a number of people we know, this habit is
about all there is to their ailments.—Rome Tril>-
une-Ilerald.
Sometimes we feel as if some ailments are the re
sult of selfishness—continuous thinking of self, and
brooding over what might happen.
When an editor begins to soft-soap the public,
and is so afraid that he will offend someone when
he tells the truth, then he is not fit for bear meat,
and should be run out of town.—Talbotton New
Era.
Well, if he isn’t run out of town it is because of the
charity of a tolerant public. A newspaper that hits
straight and hard with its facts on straight, is always
respected by right-thinking people.
The Georgia judge who fined himself for viola
tion of the traffic laws gave an example of Roman
justice.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. And of the
ease with which one may break into page one,
next to reading matter.—Macon Telegraph.
That’s old stuff. We have known of judges doing
if before, bnt it is a fairly good way to get publicity.
It is so easy you know to be a little late.
Today we are singing the praises of Lincoln,
and YET at one time he was more bitterly re
viled and misunderstood than Woodrow Wilson
is today. Little men never have sense enough to
appreciate greatness until it is too late. Thirty
years from now, Wilson will wear a similar halo
to the one Lincoln wears now. Mark it, brother,
if you live that long.—Bainbridge Post-Search
light.
A lot of the abuse of President Wilson is the result
of pure, unadulterated cussedness, some of it prejudice,
a lot of it pro-German propaganda, still more of it
partizanship—and then all the slackers and chronic
bellyachers always join in when the anvil chorus
opens up. We love the President for the enemies he
has made.
When a man deserves a bouquet he should have
it. When he deserves a brick he should be ac
commodated—and generally is.—Dalton Citizen.
General Dawes seemed to have held about the
same opinion as you, Shope. He was generous in
his praises and very proficient in handling the
bricks.—Richland News.
Well, at any rate, he told several things that ought
to have been told earlier in the game.
Our feelings are terribly hurt, but we guess we
will get over it all right enough—we didn’t get
a single comic valentine this year and we wonder
what is the matter with our simple minded un
friendly reminders of our faults and failures?
Could it be possible we are no longer regarded
as suitable subjects for 'the funny colored sheet?
—Quitman Free Press.
The day of the comic valentine is in the musty
past. They were never funny, anyway—just silly,
that’s all.
Montine Stover, a material witness in the Leo
Frank case, is again figuring in the public prints.
She and old Jim Conley are making the public
believe that Jack Slaton is not the corrupt man
that his political enemies made him appear a few
years ago. The Free Press is living and hoping
that the truth about that famous case will yet
come to light.—Alpharetta Free Press.
The truth will finally come to light. It is still in
the dark, but intelligent people know that no man in
Georgia was ever before treated so shamefully as
was Governor Slaton in connection with the case.
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♦ LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
Much Is Yet to Be Learned.
To the.Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
Moses put it down as a literal fact that man was
taken out of the ground, and returns unto the ground,
lion ever Moses came to know this, preseni-day science
fully verifies the absolute truth of the statement.
We are told that Moses was learned in all the wis
dom of the Egyptians. Just what was covered by
all the wisdom of the Egyptians,” we can not deter
mine. That they were a highly evolved people we
know from the records they left. The existence of the
great pyramids practically unaltered after four thou
sand years, proves a mechanical knowledge far in ad
vance of our own; and suggests an industrial devel
opment never since equaled. Again, the high develop
ment reached in ancient Egypt is proved bv the pro
found moral and spiritual philosophy that has come
down to us. It is true Polytheism ran riot; that the
uneducated masses worshipped a multitude of deities,
ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime; hut it is
also true that there was a higher class, broadly
learned, holding lofty conceptions of moral responsi
bility. and that from these conceptions they evolved a
system of theology, the vital doctrines of which are
embodied in onr own.
What secrets were wrung from nature, and what
conclusions were reached in the laboratories of ancient
Egypt, there is no way of knowing in full. Egyptian
chemistry doubtless reached a high degree of develop
ment: and doubtless Moses knew by analysis every
mineral, and its exact properties in the makenp of
man.
Now. if it takes so many minerals in a certain pro
portion to make a normal man. we can easily under
stand that if any of these minerals are excessive or
deficient, the man is nor normal. If the functioning
of tlie liver, kidneys or lungs is interfered with, we say
the man is sick. If the functioning of the brain is
interfered with, we say he is insane. But when we
come to deal with the words of the man. we forget
he came out of the ground, and soar awav into the
realms of mysticism. Sometime we may learn that
morality and immorality have their source in the ex
cessiveness or the deficiency of certain minerals in the
Mood. When we have learned this the laborntorv
will be an important part of the courthouse: and the
expert chemist will be the supreme judge of criminal
ity. Then punishment will be curative and in the
hands of skilled physicians.
We are the product of that which makes us. The
measure of tlie iron in onr blood is the measure of
our energy. When there is a deficiency of iron, our
cheeks are pale, onr eyes dull, and we are easily ex
hausted. Thus we see how the wrong properties of
one’s mineral affects our physical well being. More
iron than we need results in more energy than we
need, and this overplus energy must find some escape.
I repeat that sometimes we may learn that mortality
and immorality have their source in the blood
Jessie banter smith.
Mrs. W. H. Felton Has a Few Words.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
Some unknown person has kindly sent me a copy
oi joui paper of February 17, and i am writing you a
lew lines in reply to the grave charges that I find in
an editorial presumably written by yourself in that
issue.
I have had copies of your paper with other dates
in which you discuss ''Old Lady Felton” in vour own
peculiar style. It seems to me as if I have in some
NNcU unknown to myself ollended you. and vou are eu-
listed in the work of belaboring an old lady who has
attended you often in years past and gone, and who
b*s no knowledge of ever doing you an uukiuduess. bv
word, thought or deed.
In the issue of the 17th you charge me with tra
ducing President Wilson, and traducing an innocent
pet.son means a crime, which the courts can handle
In fairness to me, will you kindly set it down and
print it m your paper, the time, the place and the
Mr U Wilson? S thilt 1 USed iu thus ilie = al! - v attacking
I will remind you, Mr. Editor, that I am nearly
eighty-six years of age. I have lived in Georgia all
my life, i have lived in the Seventh congressional
district nearly sixty-eight years—have been a citizen
of Bartow county since October, 1S53—and I claim
a hearing on this charge of traducing Mr. Wilson.
My good name is involved. If I have maligned tlie
President, lied upon him, defamed his reputation, you
owe it to your readers to state my falsehoods in due
form and order. I hereby demand a hearing in this
matter. You are too old and experienced in news
paper ethics to deny me what you manifestly owe
to me.
President Wilson has not complained of me—and
you will do him a service to thus properly arraign his
traducers, and protect his good name.
Mr. Wilson and yourself have been active in support
of the League of Nations. Without a vote I had only
, the opportunity to express my opposition against the
Versailles treaty embodying the League of Nations;
namely, through friendly newspapers. The mother
hood of America was enlisted in protecting their boys
from engaging in foreign wars—and you may take it
from an old Georgia grandmother they have had
enough of it. By an overwhelming majority the vot
ers of the United States voted against President Wil
son. and the editor of The Dalton Citizen—in opposi
tion thereto.
You have said in your newspaper that I was much
disliked in my town and vicinity; that people who
visited Cartersville were advised as to my undesira
bleness as a woman and a citizen. This is a grave
charge, if it should prove to be true. I challenge you
to a “show-down” in this matter. Will you publish
one reliable name to substantiate this indictment?
It is now up to you to clear yourself of the charge
of “traducing” my good name and reputation. If my
husband were living he would deal with this matter
in his own peculiar style of attack or defense. Bnt
he is at rest, and you have allowed yourself to malign
his aged widow in your newspaper without a single
proof of your rabid denunciation of me. Bring these
things out in the open, and oblige your one-time ad
vocate and defender.
MRS. W. H. FELTON.
CHEERY LAYS
for DREARY DAYS
- BY JAMES WELLS °
Writer of Newspaper Veise, Hymn-P 0 ,„
and Popular Song Lyrics . en
The Mean Man.
Bill Bolton was the meanest man
You nearly ever saw,
Because it saved a little wood,
He ate his victuals raw;
To keep from wearing out his hoe,
He wouldn’t hoe his rows;
To keep from wearing out his teeth
He whistled through his nose.
One day his horse was taken sick.
And straightway Billy went
For medicine for his poor beast
And half a dollar spent;
When he returned his horse was dead
Said Bill, “B’gosh, it’s tough;
Before I’ll lose this medicine,
I’ll drink the doggone stuff.”
Bill’s baby boy once sat up late.
And to him Bolton said:
“Ill give to you a penny, son,
If you will go to bed.”
The little child was soon asleep,
A-weary with his play,
Bill Bolton stole up to the kid
And took the coin away.
Bill Bolton’s wife took washing in.
To help the family purse,
While Bill would sit around the house
Spit “backer” juice and curse.
A birthday present Bill’s wife wished,
Bill ’lowed it was a sin,
Then bought his wife another tub
To take more washing in.
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The Time Has Come.
The time has come, the sheriff says, to buy an auto
tag,
Or else, when next we flivver forth we'll strike a
legal snag.
We would not try to dodge the law; of honor we’re
too high sense.
Perhaps he’d trade a tag for one much-damaged poet’s
license.
—Dudley Glass, in Georgian.
The time has come, collectors say. to pay our income
tax,
But how our income taxes pay when we an income
lack?
I’d like to see one figure out with low and smothered
curses,
The income I am drawing down by writing these deni
verses.
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A Spring Poem That Will Not Be Written.
A Georgia poet laments as follows:
While I would sing of sunny spring.
Of laden bees with honey;
My mind is full of profiteers,
And people wanting money.
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Righto!
Bill Wright’s ag’in
This country strong;
If right is right,
Then Wright is wrong.
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O, Tipperary, O, Mavourneen.
These be the times
That try one’s soul—
Ten dollars for
A ton of coal.
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Might Be, at That.
When someone’s on the warpath, son.
This often may he true:
You think that he is raising cane,
When it's just raisin brew.
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Of Course.
It is a fact, it seems to me,
That if we lived on rice.
In just a few weeks rice would be
Prohibition in price.
—Luke McLuke.
It is a fact if beans were used
For making luscious pie.
Within a week the price of beans
< Would' surely be sky-high.
—Hastings (Neb.) Tribune.
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And if the girls used onion oil
To scent their lingerie.
The price of onions and onion oil
Would reach the Milky Way.
—Warren (Ohio) Tribune.
It is a fact, without a doubt.
That if we lived on “weinie,”
The price of dogs would then ascend
More than a weeny teeny.
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Kate.
’Tis fun to write of bonnie Kate.
For late and fate and garden gate
And lovers left all desolate
All rhyme so well with bonnie Kate.
There Is Still Hope.
O, wearied men,
Do not despair;
One shoe now costs
Price of a pair.
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Keep Right on.
Though you take a little tumble,
Though you get a nasty fall,
. Not a bit of use to grumble—
Whining never helps at all.
Just get right up a-grinning.
Though your breath is nearly gone.
The battle you’ll be winning
If
Yon
Keep
Right
On.
Timid heart ne’er made a winning.
And mistakes are not a crime,
Though yon failed in the beginning.
Yon may put it through next time.
The hour that’s ever darkest
Comes just before the dawn,
Forget your little failures
And
Just
Keep
Right
On.