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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1921.
The Dalton Citizen
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY.
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T. S. SHOPE Editor
T S. McOAMT Associate Editor
Official Organ of the United States Circuit and District
Courts, Northwestern division. Northern District of Georgia.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WHITFIELD COUNTY.
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DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1921.
What’s your slogan for Dalton?
Well, at any rate, Harding doesn’t talk like he
endorses Harvey.
We are in favor of doing something awful to
the crop killjoys.
Prohibition seems to have made the United
States safe for the bootleggers.
Don’t butt in. You will get along better at
tending to your own business.'
This is the season when cocoons change into
butterflies and butterflies change to wives.
The people are very anxious to see work be
gin on the Dixie Highway north of Dalton.
Oh, But It’s Hot.
It’s time for hot weather, and, if there isn’t a
breeze “zooning” about, it’s hot. But every sea
son has its delights, and summer opens the sea
son for swimming, one of the most healthful, as
well as most enjoyable, sports.
Around Dalton there are a number of lakes
and ponds where swimmers can hxercise to their
heart’s content, and the size and depth of the pools
are such that fancy diving can be indulged in by
the more experienced.
“The ole swimmin’ hole” has its place in song
and story, but for real use it is about to be sup-
panted by the more accessible, convenient pools
in town. The local swimming pool is a popular
place during the summer months, and, because
hundreds of children have learned to swim there,
is one of our biggest assets. It was in this pool
young Walter Jones mastered the art of swimming
which he put into valuable emergency use last
summer when he heroically saved two persons
from drowning in the surf at Tybee.
Swimming is like any other outdoor exercise,
in that one must try it out before he can realize
the real pleasure and benefits to be derived from
it. The hot days are here, so take a plunge and
know that no season is without its compensation.
According to the Type Metal Magazine it is ap
parently impossible to make good gravy in a hotel.
The Rome Tribune-Herald says all twenty
dollar bills look alike to it. Maybe so; we don’t
know.
If business could be underwritten like chau-
tauquas, executives would have a care-free ex
istence indeed.
Wm. J. Bryan has traveled 600,000 miles, and
''Johnny Spencer thinks this is a long ways to go
without getting anywhere.
Evidently “Colonel” Harvey labors under the
assumption that England will take him more
seriously than America does. /
If you believe in killing two birds with one
stone send in a winner slogan for Dalton, and you
will gain a prize and fame over night.
The dragon's teeth Tom Watson has been
sowing in Georgia for the past quarter of a cen
tury are bearing an abundance of fruit. An out
law himself he has preached lawlessness until
his followers seem to think it a virtue to rebel
against any law that does not suit them.
Dynamiters Ought to Be Indicted.
There is a type of man whose love of quietude
and clean sports sends him fishing; and there is
another type whose selfishness goes with him even
into the great outdoors and causes him to be de
structive of the things man can not replace.
Rumors and vague reports keep coming in of
laws in regard to closed season for seining being
broken and of explosives being used in streams
of this county. There is nothing more detrimental
to the propagation of fish than dynamiting, for
not only are the sizable fish killed but all small
fish and spawn are destroyed, and it requires
years for the streams to again become stocked.
Some of the streams of our mountains have been
stocked with fish by the government, and laws
have been created for the mutual interest of the
finney tribe and man, but it seems there are some
with no foresight who feel that hundreds of
pounds of fish thrown up at once, even if great
piles of them are left to decay, are better than
a regular supply, caught in a legitimate, lawful
manner. Such men need education to teach them
thrift and they need stricter surveilance to teach
them obedience. It would doubtless cause more
respect for the laws governing fishing if the next
grand jury would investigate the reports coining
in from the outlying sections of the county and
see what measure of truth there is in them.
For general information we print below the
Georgia law on fishing:
The use of seines, traps, gigs, or any other
device for taking fish EXCEPT WITH HOOK
AND LINE is unlawful between February 1
and July 1.
The use of dynamite, firearms, explosive
and poison is a crime, and applies to all the
waters of this state.
Nets and traps shall not obstruct the entire
run of streams.
Nets and seines are forbidden in all streams
that have been stocked with mountain trout.
Poisoning fish with walnut hulls or leaves,
devil’s shoe string, or any other poisonous
substance whatever is a crime.
If the dynamiters can be kept out of the
streams with their explosives soon there will be
an abundance of fine fish in all of them. It is the
duty of all true sportsmen to report to the game
warden infractions of the law, so that steps can
be taken to handle those who have no regard for
the fish and game laws.
Lawlessness Rampant.
The Citizen is published close to the scene of
the crime in Walker county last Saturday, where
SherilF Catron was lured to his death by whiskey
runners, so-called. Those guilty of the crime
have not yet been caught.
' The prohibition law is not what it is cracked
lip to be. Too much of the enforcement, if any
there be, is farcical and hypocritical, and much of
it is carried on by drunken or drinking officials.
We must not be understood here as reflecting on
Sheriff Catron, of Walker county. Our informa
tion is that he was a conscientious, sober officer,
the kind too'rarely found in these days of boot
legging supremacy and debauchery.
The outbreak in Walker county is another
manifestation of the lawlessness that is bringing
shame and humiliation to the lawabiding people
of Georgia—those who are backing up Governor
Dorsey in his efforts to bring to the people of
the state the realization of the fact that a gen
uine house cleaning is in order. It doesn’t get
us anywhere to try to cover up the crimes that
are all too numerous. The more we try to cover
them up the more outsiders will suspect and sus
picion us, and the more unsavory will be the
advertising we get.
A painted sepulcher may be beautiful to be
hold from without, while within it is full of cor
ruption. Georgians should not want to be en
cased after such a fashion.
The Rome Tribune-Herald, under the head,
“Murders in Georgia,” passes out some very plain
talk in the following, which we are pleased to
endorse:
Those deprecating the pamphlet issued by
Governor Dorsey offer as one of the chief
grounds of objection that it advertises crime
conditions in Georgia. They seem to think
that it is of more importance to suppress the
news than to suppress conditions. That is
about the gist of the argument as we gather
it.
As we have heretofore observed, it is our
opinion that the gbvernor was correct in mak
ing plain to the people of Georgia the crime,
murder and peonage situation in Georgia.
The trouble is perhaps that the governor did
not go far enough. Instead of confining his
investigations to crime against the negro
race he should have added the terrible crime
conditions that exist against those of the
white race also.
Speaking of advertising Georgia, the Gov
ernor’s pamphlet added nothing particularly
to the advertising Georgia has already re
ceived, for God knows there was enough pub
lic information in that regard already abroad
in the land. People need not try to deceive
themselves into believing that the outside
world is not familiar with the ghastly crime
record in the state during the past few years.
There is no use trying to blind ourselves
to a situation that already exists, no matter
how much we may try to conceal it. The
Tribune-Herald has argued, warned and ex
horted against this situation for the past seven
or eight years, but to no avail. The courts
continue to turn criminals charged with grave
crimes loose and it IS THIS that encourages
them to ply more freely their nefarious occu
pation.
An example of lawlessness in Georgia has
just been shown in this immediate section,
■when the sheriff of Walker countv was de
liberately led into a trap and brutally slain
by auto bandits last week. Surrounding cir
cumstances show this to have been as delib
erate and cold-blooded a murder as the annals
of Georgia have recorded. The miscreants
fled to the mountains and two of them' are
still at large. The point in this case though
is that if these bootlegging bandits had not
been aware of the laxness of administfation
in the criminal laws of Georgia and the splen
did chance they stood of finally escaping they
would not have dared to plan and execute so
heinous a crime.
We gather from the annual report of the
State Prison Commission that more than one-
half of the convicts now in the Georgia pen
itentiary are serving sentences either for mur
der or those crimes closely connected with
that crime. The number of convicts of this
class is 1,647 out of a total of 3,076 convicts
in the state penitentiary.
A cold, calm dissection of these facts shows
a most astounding condition of affairs. No
■wonder a band of professional lawbreakers
will deliberately inveigle an officer of the
law into a trap and then cruelly murder him.
No wonder they feel safe in so doing. No
wonder they flee into the mountains and
calmly await the outcome. ,
Yet along come a number of Georgia’s pub
lic men and whisper “Don’t say anything
about it; you will advertise Georgia.” Then
advertise Georgia, if that is necessary to
awaken the people, and arouse them to the
necessities of the case. For crime must be
put down and murder must be stopped, even
though we should be forced to commandeer
ropes from other sections in order to find
enough to go around.
It is asserted in some quarters that capital
punishment will not put an end to such crimes.
Certainly penitentiary sentences .don’t stop
them, for that has been tried and found want
ing. Every criminal who gets into the pen
itentiary in this state knows that in the
course of time he stands a good chance of
getting out, and we regret to say they usual
ly do get out.
A situation exists in Georgia that compels
the attention of all patriotic, law-abiding cit
izens. Unless we want to advertise ourselves
to the world as a set of bloody barbarians,
some means had better be found to put an end
to this orgy of crime and untrammeled license.
We hope that recent occurrences will
arouse the conscience of the entire people of
Georgia to the necessity of instituting effec
tive and drastic methods of curbing crime in
the state.
In other towns definite plans for celebrating
the Fourth of July are being made. To celebrate
or not to celebrate, that is the local question.
The State Railroad Commission has one strong
point at least in its favor, and that is that
Hearst’s dirty Georgian is attacking it. The com
mission is to be congratulated.
Think about being a member of the United
States senate and having to associate with such
folks as Lodge, Newberry, LaFollette, and last
and worst, Tom Watson. The weather is too hot,
and we are not going to think.
Dragon’s Teeth Bringing Forth Fruit.
The Citizen has on its exchange list approxi
mately 100 Georgia newspapers. Included in this
list are newspapers from every section of the
state. The great majority of them are standing
four square for law enforcement. They are op
posed to mob law, night riding, tick vat dyna
miting and all other forms of lawlessness spon
sored by the outlaw who now occupies a seat
in the United States senate as a representative of
the people of'Georgia.
It is our opinion that much of the lawlessness
now going on in this state is the direct result of
the incendiary writings and mouthings of Tom
Watson. He has appealed to the prejudices of the
people in such a way as to inflame the minds of
*the ignorant against nearly every thing that is
right. He preaches class hatred and endorses
kukluxism. He has notoriously and openly vio
lated the prohibition law, and at’the same time in
sulted decent womanhood. He has urged the dy
namiting of dipping vats, and viciously attacked
every public man who has held office in Georgia
during the last twenty-five years who refused to
do the goose-step at his bidding.
No wonder the lawless are encouraged. Look
at their heroes! One in the United States senate
and the other soon to ocfcupy the gubernatorial
chair of the state wherein 435 negroes have been
lynched in the last thirty-five years, and not a
single conviction for the crimes!
And now, because Governor Dorsey has turned
the light on this lawlessness, impeachment pro
ceedings are being urged against him by the class
of politicians who are going to need votes and
have no scruples about how they get them.
No wonder the Tifton Gazette grows sarcastic
on the subject of impeachment: Hear it.
Impeach Dorsey? Why, certainly.
Did he not commit the unpardonable sin of
telling the truth? And then did he not pile
Helicon upon Pelias by proving it?
In these days when the slacker is in the
saddle and the lyncher, dynamiter, negro-
baiter, and bootlegger run rampant, un
ashamed and unafraid, Dorsey’s offense
amounts to lese majeste, and that crime in
older days was punished by beheading, draw
ing and quartering, or burning at the stake.
Let Dorsey consider himself fortunate if he
escapes with impeachment. Next thing we
hear they may talk of tarring and feathering
him in defense of law and order and the
good name of Georgia! We may even fear
the day to come when it will be necessary
to surround him with a guard of troops and
a battery of machine guns, even as was the
case with Jack Slaton a few short years ago.
There are some people who are so jealous of
the fair fame of the state that they will com
mit any crime in its name.
And after Dorsey has been properly pun
ished and put back in his place, then per
haps these eleventh-hour crusaders will bring
out that white-plumed knight, Sir John Wil
liams, of the Province of Jasper, and see that
tardy recognition is done their hero- of the
hour. For did not Sir John, with his strong
right arm and his trusty henchman, do his
best in defense of Georgia’s fair name and
honor Tiy putting as many helpless victims as
lay in his power where the worms of the
earth and the waters of the river would re
move them from the sight of man? And after
Sir John has been seated upon a throne of
honor and a robe of royal saffron has been
placed around his shoulders, and a crown of
laurel upon his head, and his scepter, a
trusty axe, has been placed in his hand, and
the people have been called upon to do him
honor, then call around him, as a court and
guard of honor, the bunco-steerers from Ful
ton, the convicted expressmen from Bibb, the
convicted bribe-takers from Chatham, the dip
ping-vat dynamiters, the lynchers, the negro-
baiters, the auto-murderers, the moonshiners,
the slackers, and draft evaders, and the boot
leggers from all parts and corners of the
state, and let them gather in one vast throng
around Williams, that the people may see
and pay reverence - to the men who have done
so much to establish Georgia's? name and
fame, and whose work Dorsey has attempted
to undo.
Then, with this object lesson, followed by
the impeachment of the governor for his ef
forts to uphold the law and maintain order,
mayhap the people of Georgia will be en
abled to see not whither they-are drifting, but
where they have arrived.
Prof. Einstein, according to the Columbia (S.
C.) Record, may be able to tell us what we made
the world safe for- It seems that this part of it
has been made safe for politicians since there
are so many of them in useless offices.
“You would think that New York State would
be ruined by this time.” comments the Moultrie
Observer. “Just look at the way the newspapers
talk about crime in that state. The New York
World disgraced New York City some time ago
by carrying on a campaign against building trusts,
profiteering and combines. All of the outside
world heard of the crookedness of New York and
it was the talk of the country. Suppose the Gov
ernor and Legislature shared in the ignominy, for
special legislation was passed, a special investiga
tion committee appointed, special attorneys em
ployed and a general rough house raised. Still
•we see folks going to New York and spending
money. The banks continue to draw the cash
from the country, and there has been no slump
in real estate. It’s funny.
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♦ CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS ♦
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Some of the papers think Ambassador Har
vey said the right thing and some of them
take a different view. He spoke very plainly
at all events.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Very plain indeed—as plain as the bray of a
jackass.
And now former Governor Catts, of Florida,
has been indicted for peonage. Catts was the
“famous” reform executive, you will remem
ber.—Walton Tribune.
Scratch the skin of a professional reformer and
you will generally find a hypocrite or grafter—
most generally both.*
Two fellows were heard discussing an auto
mobile deal. “Bill has sold his car, I hear.
What did he get for it?” asked one. “Peace
of mind mostly,” was the reply.—Columbus
Enquirer-Sun.
“Peace of mind,” is good. Relief of pocket-
book is not to be snickered at.
Grape juice manufacturers state that the
manufacture of home-brew in thousands of
American kitchens is cutting into the sales of
grape juice- The things home brew is cut
ting into seem to be beyond computation as
to number.—Albany Herald.
We wonder if Wm. J. B. has a home-brew
outfit?
Judge Landis says that nine out of ten per
sons ocming before him for violation of the
Volstead law are foreigners. Does that mean
the home-grown lads are better than the for
eign brother, or just slicker?—Macon Tele
graph. \
The latter, we guess.
It is the opinion of this paper that the rav
ings and teachings of demagogic politicians,
for a good many years, has finally gotten the
State pf Georgia in bad repute before the
world.—Greensbord Herald-Journal.
Demagogues had easy running for four
years. They had the war to kick up some
thing to demagog about. If you want to
please over thirty per cent of the voters talk
prejudice, rot, class hatred, and swear that
Washington and Wall street have their hard
heels on the necks of the people.—Commerce
Observer.
There is much truth in what is set down in the
above paragraphs. All the class hatred and race
prejudice we have in Georgia is due to the Tom
Watson type of demagog and hypocrite.
Taxes get a fellow going and coming. The
Madisonian just a few days since was di
vorced from ten hard-earned bucks just for
the privilege of boosting the town.—Madison
Madisonian.
It costs us more than $10.00 for the privilege
of boosting Dalton. But then we reckon it is
worth it.
The Dalton Citizen fails to reach this office.
About six numbers have been received this
year. It is such a good paper that some ras
cal steals it on the way. What do you think
about it, Whit?—LaGrange Reporter, May 28,
1869.
The Citizen was going to the LaGrange Report
er fifty-two years ago, and is still going. At the
time the above paragraph was written the late
Colonel J. T. Whitman was the editor, and a bet
ter one The Citizen has never had.
A New York paper refers to him as “Ex-
Governor Catts of Georgia.” Just got the hab
it of laying everything bn Georgia.—Rome
Tribune-Herald.
And those who .do so much laying on ought
to first sweep the rubbish away from their own
front steps. A little while back murderers and
dynamiters exploded their wagon load of stuff in
Wall street and killed thirty some odd people,
and, so far a£ we have seen, only one arrest of
a suspect has been made.
In a column editorial under the caption,
“Georgia’s Disgrace,” the Cordele Dispatch
demands a reorganization of the state agricul
tural department, dedaring that it is now more
of a political machine than an institution for
the benefit of the agricultural interests of the
State. It declares that while it spends large
sums of money and all sorts of taxes are
levied for its support, “there is not a man in
middle life today who can remember any of
the good work this department has done the
State.”—Albany Herald.
The opinion is growing that the state agricul
tural department is a political machine. It needs
to have more than one monkey-wrench thrown
into it. Editor Brown is not afraid to do it. We
are with him.
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♦ LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
Peace is on the Way.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
Yes, in God’s own time peace will come to this
distracted old world, and in God’s pwn way.
But when is God’s time and what is God’s way?
Common sense seems to answer that God’s way
is when the world has fully learned the utter
wickedness and folly of war, and the heart of
humanity has turned finally and forever from the
barbarism of pillage and wholesale murder.
God provides the means but man must work
out his own salvation. The law of life is growth.
Under the operation of this law the world will
grow out of the wilderness, but the growth of
the world cannot be forced any more than any
natural growth can be accelerated. Peace be
longs to the spirit. Not until the world reaches
the plane of spiritual development, to wEch peace
belongs, can the world know peace.
Peace will come to humanity not through the
ambition of men, but through the development of
the world-spirit.
The East of the future is growing pink with the
dawn of the approaching day when men shall
hail one another as brother, and there shall be no
more wars. Call it what you may, but in His
own good time and way the world ■will learn to
know and do His will.
The fact that the thought of world peace is in
the world now is the prophecy and the proof of
the dawning day, when the veil shall be lifted
from the face of the nations—when the spirit of
the eternal God shall be poured out upon all flesn,
and they shall know r Him from the least until
the greatest.
JESSIE BAXTER SMITH.
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♦ EXCHANGE OPINION ♦
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The Potato Bug.
Thrifty persons who have industriously tried
to raise potatoes only to find that they must wage
war for their possession with the hateful little
black and yellow pests will be glad to know that
this bug has found an enemy which literally eats
him alive. Man’s new ally in this war upon the
potato bug, says the Potato Magazine, is a tiny
parasitic fly that lays its eggs upon the black and
yellow pest, on whose mandolin back the grubs
are hatched and left to their devices for suste
nance. The grubs breakfast, lunch, dine and
snack between meals off the succulent portions
of the potato bug’s interior anatomy. * *
The potato bug fias survived his name, “lep-
tinotarsa decemlineata,” but he cannot recover
from being eaten alive, and thus suCcumbs. In
cidentally he quits eating potato vines and drink
ing paris green and other concoctions that have
been his special beverages for several generations
of himself. On the upper peninsula of Michigan,
the Potato Magazine reports, the potato bug has
been eliminated from nearly all potato patches
and fields by this little fly that has come to man’s
rescue. The Michigan region has been practically
freed, and experts now will colonize the friendly
little fly in other parts of the country and show
him the potato patches. It is the hope of those
interested in the fly’s activities heretofore that it
will be the direct means of wiping out the potato
bug entirely or at least of curbing his destructive
ravages.
Colorado is blamed for having been the original
home of the pest. It was a native of the moun
tain districts in that state and fed on a wild va
riety of potato plant known as “sand bur.” Cat
tle are supposed to have carried the bug into Mis
souri. It crossed the Mississippi river in 1864
and in 1873 it got to the Atlantic coast, and since
fhat time it has been eating up potato patches far
and wide throughout the country. Nature has
been kind, however, and set the little fly to work
to get rid of the pest. All will be well if the fly
eliminates him unless the fly, through necessity
cultivates a taste for the vines it has saved. Daw
son* News.
Preacher Prevents Lynching.
In the Methodist hospital at Hattiesburg, Miss,
the other day lay a wounded patient, and on the
outside of the hospital was a mob clamoring for
his life. But between that wounded patient and
the clamoring mob stood Rev. G. S. Harrison a
Methodist preacher, with a pistol in his hand’ a
look of determination in his eye, and firmness in
his voice and he told the mob that he would shoot
the first man who crossed the first step of the
flight of stairs where the minister stood guard.
Not a man in the mob crossed the step; not a
man in the mob attempted to cross it. And that
tells the story. It means that mobs can be pre
vented from committing the crime of lynching by
men with backbone and determination. Even
one man of the night sort can prevent it. The
Birmingham Age-Herald correctly says that
Most lynchings could be prevented if one
man of courage opposed the mob. The most
violent blood lust cools considerably when
would-be lynchers stand face to face with a
determined individual who shows fight. It is
one thing to “overpower” an official who off
ers resistance and -wreak vengeance on a
wretch who cannot defend himself and quite
another to run the risk of being killed. There
is not a particle of risk to the members of a
mob in the average lynching. That is why it
CHEERY LAYS
for DREARY DAYS
. BY JAMES WELLS i . __
Writer of New*paper Verse, Hymn-Poenn
and Popular Song Lyrics 1 :
The Movies in the School.
(Edison says moving pictures should be tko,i •
place of books in the school.) ln
I would I were a little lad
And went to school once more,
I never would be truant, bad,
As in the days of yore;
To be, I’d try, “as good as pie,”
And mind each little rule,
I wouldn’t study old dry books.
But movies in the school.
They’d show me how in ancient times
Marched armies of the great,
I’d learn the weapons that they used
And not a musty date;
And history would have to me
A living, pulsing look,
And not a lot of useless things
Just made up in a book.
' Geography, so hard of old,
Would easy be to learn,
I’d see Gibraltar’s rock so bold
And for the tropics yearn;
I’d see the yields of fertile fields.
Remember what they grew,
I’d see the mountains, learn their names
And every ocean, blue.
Oh, stuffy books with knowledge filled
I fear your day is o’er.
And every pupil will be thrilled
With scenes of out of door;
We’ll see the bird so oft we’ve heard,
The fishes in the pool,
They’ll put the “edge” in knowledge
With movies in the school.
A Marked Man.
A mark-ed man is William Rose,
He is, upon my life;
He got some face paint on his nose
Belonging to his wife.
Draw-Poker.
A Black Hand victim is poor Hutt,
Deep gloom his soul invades
His pat straight was a pippin, but
The winner had five spades.
—Luke McLuke.
I know he is “Red Handed Mike,”
(He says his name is Blush);
I held a full house, but he had
A royal diamond flush.
—Hastings (Neb ) Tribune.
He said he held a winning hand,
Did Dickerson, poor dub;
But when five aces he displayed,
I quickly drew a club.
Love Song.
Sweet is the scent of the roses,
Sweet is the morning hour,
Sweet is the southern zephyr,
Sweet is the half-blown flower.
Sweet are the summer perfumes,
Sweet is the morning dew,
But never a flower in sweet summer bower
Is sweet as the smile of you.
“Oft in the Stilly Night.”
Oft in the stilly night
Sweet songs I seem to hear,
Love serenades, subdued, now loud,
Soft, pleasing to the ear.
Oft in the stilly night,
Love songs I seem to hear—
Tis Thomas Catt’s sweet serenade
To his Maria, dear.
******
Fight It Out.
Has misfortune got you down?
Fight it out.
Just hang on and stick aroun’—
Fight it out.
Swear you’re in the game to "win,
And you will come out “king pin,”
Grit your teeth and dig right in—
Fight it out.
Slander left its blighting mark?
Fight it out.
Show your record is not dark,
Fight it out.
Just go on your own sweet way.
Show the folks you’re here to stay,
And do not from virtue stray—
Fight it out.
That’s the only way to win—
Fight it out
Ever wear a cheerful grin,
And fight it out.
Be it foul or be it fair,
Never give in to despair, „
Show r the peoDle you’re “right there
And fight it out.
V ******
Say Good-bye.
If old trouble comes around,
Say “Good-bve.”
Do not let him hold his ground—
Say “Good-bye.”
Tf you let old trouble in.
He will bother you like sin,
Just turn from him with a grin
And say “Good-bye.”
If a knocker comes to you.
Say, “Good-b'-e
I don’t like your point of view—
Good-bve.”
If you can’t say something good
Like a Christian mortal should
I’d keep still and just “saw wood —
Good-bye.
If collectors come around,
Say, “Good-bye.”
If no ready cash you’ve found,
Say, “Good-bye.”
Tell them you’ve not long to stay,
You must be upon your way,
You’ll see them some other day—
Say, “Good-bye.”
is a popular pastime in some parts of t
country.
This courageous Mississippi preacher P r J
ed himself a better man than many a sue
and jailer -who have permitted their pnso
ers to be lynched because they thought rn
of their own skins than they did ot m
In about 999 cases out of every 1,60® ^
mobs gather for the purpose of lynching some
it is doubtful if one of the thousand svoui
willing to take the responsibility of comm
the crime of lynching. In numbers the m T\ oon
courage, but if the responsibility be centerea v
one, that one will flinch. Why? Because tha
knows that the chances of his escaping { ac v ^
ishment he will deserve are very remo.e. .
knows that he will, in all. probability, he c0 " er
ed of murder. But where a body of men ^
with the mob spirit uppermost they all tee' 0 j
nothing will be done about it, and, the rec .
the past shows that nothing has been done
But lynching is murder, no matter if it
ticipated in by one or by a dozen or a ni ^
or a thousand men. The whole number m ^
gages in it is equally guilty, as much so a
one man would be. . can
But men with backbone and deternnnat: ceS
prevent lynchings. The trouble in most ins ;s
of lynching is that the men who should na
backbone and this determination—the ° ni P _ fT11 ir-
the law—are lacking in both.—Columbus
er-Sun.