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» -'’fv PAGE TWO -ft-' ' - %* . m THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1921. r?*S IP'J The Dalton Citizen PUBLISHED BVRRY THURSDAY. t. 8. SHOPS 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 Ha Month* Mom Months Terms of Subscription Parable in Ad-ranee Advertising Rates on Application. Entered at tha Dalton, Ga„ postoffice for transmission Otroagh the mails as second-olass matter. 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. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 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. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ 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. + ♦ + + + 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. + * + ♦ ♦ 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. + ♦ + + ♦ Righto! Bill Wright’s ag’in This country strong; If right is right, Then Wright is wrong. + + + + ♦ O, Tipperary, O, Mavourneen. These be the times That try one’s soul— Ten dollars for A ton of coal. + + + + + 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. + + + + + 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. i 1 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. + ♦ + + ♦ 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. + + + + + 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.