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PAGE FOUR THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1921. The Dalton Citizen The Railroad Commission. PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY. T. S. SHOPE Editor T S. McCAHY . . . . . . Associate Editor Official Organ of the United States Circuit and District Oourts. Northwestern division. Northern District of Georgia. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WHITFIELD COUNTY. Terms of Subscription One Year ?1.50 Six. Months -75 Three Months *0 Payable in Advance Advertising Rates on Application. Entered at the Dalton, Ga., postoffice for transmission through the mails as second-class matter. DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1921. Admiral Sims seems to be trying to wiggle out of it. You can get $10 for writing an acceptable slogan for Dalton. Get busy and try your hand. Daniel Webster said that if you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves. “Our Tom” in a Mild Mood. In this tremendous machinery of govern ment, growing more collossal every year, one man cannot hope to do very much; the ma chine has a motor power of its own and the generators are stationed far away; all that one man can do is, to stay on his job and work as well as he knows how.—Tom Watson. We clipped the above from the Atlanta Consti tution, Holomon’s column, of Monday. He took it from the Columbia Sentinel, the personal organ of Watson. ’ The truth is stated in the above paragraph, but heretofore Mr. Watson has been relentless in his attacks on public officials when they failed to do the impossible. Therefore we are constrained to accept the Wat son statement as an apology—a confession to his followers that he is just a mere man, and that they must not expect him to kick the dome off the capitol or the President out of the white house. On the other hand, when we consider the un reasonable, unrestrained, vituperative and vindic tive abuse he has heaped upon all officials who refused to do his bidding—when we consider his slackerism during the war and his open enmity against his country engaged in the supreme strug gle for its existence—when we think of the money he has taken from his blinded followers without giving anything in return—when we think of the class hatred he has engendered—and then reflect that he has neither apologized nor sought to make restitution, we cannot help but feel that he is the same old Watson, engaged in trying to apologize for his impotence in the senate, and making con fession of a weakness common to all human beings possessing his characteristics. No, Tom is not repentant. He is simply in a hole. June brides are not so plentiful in Dalton, but we don’t mind telling the world there are plenty of June babies. About the most pathetic figure one can find in a day’s travgl is a broken down politician, soured and snapping like a turtle. The newspapers are now referring to Admiral Sims and Ambassador Harvey as the gold dust twins- Not bad, but we prefer to think of them as the jackass twins. “Mam’ Linda” Dramatized. Will N. Harben’s “Mam’ Linda” has been drama tized by James Faller as “The Hotheads,” and the play has been well received although widely di verging opinions followed the premier showing. Most of the criticisms of the drama were favor able, but a paragraph from the Washington (D. C.l Herald made us first resent the critic’s comments and then indulge in a laugh at his lack of accurate knowledge of the home-scenes of the play. When the critic wrote: “It is not difficult to understand how a play like ‘The Hotheads’ might tour the more benighted portions of Dixie and work vast good in the cause of law and order, but it is neither kindly nor just to inflict it upon an otherwise bur dened north as drama,” he was evidently steeped in northern newspaper propaganda which inti mates that every horrible instance of lawlessness occurs in the south; that this is a land of ignorance, and cultural, law-abiding, God-worshiping people are the exception and not the rule. Crimes happen in the south, it is true, entirely too many of them, and sometimes lawlessness does get the upper hand for a little while, but the north in all its self-claimed pulchritude and purity is not devoid of man’s inhumanity to man. Disorder and disgraceful tragedies that occur in the south are deplored, and the stand that Governor Dorsey re cently took for justice to all, irrespective of color, shows that the men in power are striving to better conditions, and are not crying to others that we are thankful we are not as other men. Folks are pretty much the same, regardless of the section they live in. The evils we have in the south are counterbalanced by those (perhaps of a little different type because of circumstances) found in other parts Of America, because mankind is not one hundred per cent perfect and his im perfections are more or less the same whether his home is on the lakes or the gulf. The consolatior we find is that for every reprobate, whether in Dixie or elsewhere, there are dozens who respect the law and have an altruistic interest in their fellowman. The mob spirit is not the ruling spirit of the south, just as the red socialistic murmurings do not come from the representative classes of northern people. Harben’s books have become nationally known, and are literary achievements, and the only regret we have in connection with his works is that those readers who have spent none of their lives in the south almost invariably draw wrong conclusions about the educational, moral and social advantages enjoyed by the great majority of southern people Harben was a splendid delineator of mountain characters, and it is true people back in the moun tain fastnesses still live the primitive life he de scribed, but as a whole southern people rank with their brothers of the west and north in broad vision, inventive skill, academic education and innate culture and refinement, and this impres sion is not always left with the reader after fin ishing a Harben novel. Maybe “The Hotheads” is an “infliction” on "the otherwise burdened north,” but, if so, let them con sider Rogers’ remark, “Severest inflictions are in themselves acts of justice,” and perhaps, after ali, the lesson of the drama can be adapted to the no th’s needs. There seems to be a few people in Georgia who think the state railroad commission was created for no other purpose than to reduce rates, regard less of whether or not such a proceeding is just and right. In very truth the commission in this state has done very much in the way of reducing railroad and other public utility rates, and very little in advancing them. When everything was turned upside down as a result of the war the cost of all commodities went soaring up, and why there should be objection to public utilities getting a square deal is largely at tributable to propaganda of a vicious sort on the one hand and blind prejudice on the other. The state railroad commission has been singled out and subjected to a lot of inexcusable abuse by a, bunch of nobodys and busybodys—mostly the former—here of late, because the commission re fused to lend aid and encouragement to those who would gladly throw public utility corporations into bankruptcy rather than see them given a right to charge what is essentially necessary in order to “get by,” if we may be pardoned for . using a fa miliar street phrase. The state railroad commission deserves the thanks 'of the public for keeping out of bankruptcy those corporations that would have inevitably landed there if they had been forced to charge only pre-war prices for the service they rendered. And if these public service corportions had gone into bankruptcy there is no telling how many failures and how much ruin would have followed fast in their wake. For the most part the railroad commission sat silent while the storm was raging. It knew the facts before it. Those doing the howling either did not or did not care to know them. Perhaps the facts and the truth were the very things they did not want to know. Hon. Murphey Candler, chairman of the commis sion, before. the meeting of the Georgia Bar Asso ciation, in Savannah recently, defending the rul ings and findings of the commission, seems to have silenced the howlers. No one of them has chirped since—not even the holy Hearst sheet of Atlanta. The Tifton Gazette, comments as follows on Chairman Candler’s address: Chairman Murphey Candler’s defense of the Georgia railroad commission, in his address to the Georgia bar association, in session at Ty- bee, was able as well and timely. It was the word needed at this time, and it was spoken by the man best qualified to speak. There has been a great deal of thoughtless ness and a great deal of hysteria in the criti cism of the State railroad commission. This commission was created two decades since, when railroad-baiting was at its height. It was the outgrowth of a need for regulation of public utilities, for something to check an ap parent disposition on the part of some corpo rate interests to control both public service and the government. But at the same time there was much of the same kind of hysteria in the demand for the creation of this com mission that is now loudest in demand for its abolishment. The commission was created ostensibly for the purpose of regulation, but really for the purpose of reducing rates. So long as it could go on trimming down' the earnings of public service corporations, it was vociferously ap proved. But rate reduction can only go so far. It is now apparent that it went past the dan ger point. Then came the war and soaring prices, and the railroad commission was con fronted with the alternative of allowing public service corporations to increase their rates or seeing practically all of them go into bank ruptcy. Everything else was higher, and it was only in keeping with the universal trend upward that people should pay more for public service. But when the railorad commission began to revise rates upward, the same people who had been loudest in their acclaim were most em phatic in their denunciation. It was all right while rates were being cut, but it was all wrong when they were being raised. Yet there was not a man among those denouncing the commission who is not paying more for every thing he bought than he paid five years ago. To read some of the articles criticizing the commission, you would think it was some body put upon the state by the corporations for the purpose of robbing the people. As a matter of fact, the Georgia railroad commission is the people of Gerogia. It was elected by them as their representative. Many of its members were elected -without opposition; nearly all of them have been elected for second terms, and some of them have been re-elected more thai} twice. The commission is the people’s representa tive, duly elected by them. If the people are not pleased with it, they are not pleased with themselves, and have no one but themselves to blame. The state highway department seems to be func tioning very satisfactorily over the state. It means that many miles of good roads will be built this summer. And it is well. The League of Nations may be scrapped as Jose phus Daniels says, but the principle is not, and never will be, if civilization is to move forward in peace and harmony. Tom Watson says the daily pap'ers in Georgia are giving him a square deal. Outside of the Con stitution we seldom see his name in any of them, so we must conclude that what he means by a square deal is silent treatment. Atlanta, Macon and Savannah ought to bunch their mayors together, put ’em in a cage, travel over the country with ’em and charge admission. It wouldn’t be long until they would be out of debt if they applied the gate receipts properly. Playing the Game. America’s national game, baseball, spelled with a capital B and played with vim, seems to be the all-absorbing sport here this year, and the sun beating down on the bleachers only kindles added enthusiasm. Ball teams, like the much advertised mushroom, spring up overnight, and the ball game habitue seems to Count that day lost whose low-descending sun Sees no amateur ball game played and won. The folks about town seem to have the sphere- bug, for they amble over the hill in a steady stream, and after paying the price, cheer the play ers on to their best efforts. While teams are sometimes rustled up on short notice Dalton has several crackin’ good teams that play ball as it is writ, and more than one embry onic “Babe” Ruth believes his practice is slating him for a big league. The fun and spirit of give and take that char acterize this American game are what we all need. “To play the game” is the main thing in life, and a game of baseball with recognition of an umpire’s rulings is grounded on principles that will make a man a success. In any business, any game, or any endeavor there must be system and a recog nized head, or failure will be camping on our trail. It is good to see the interest local people are taking in wholesomfe recreation in this game that to Americans is the'best of sports. A good day’s work topped off with wholesome fun will build a better man than a day with only street-corner gossip for after-work recreation. And now Admiral Sims has made a fool of him self and a monkey of America by a speech in Lon don. He is the same admiral who slandered the American navy and Secretary Daniels soon after the war. Both he and Harvey should be bundled up and brought home. Editor John H. Jones, of the LaGrange Reporter, is to be commended for pulling the mask off of the LaGrange Graphic, and revealing to the gaze of the people a hypocritical skunk. The Graphic is not read in this office, because some time ago we made up our mind that there was nothing good about it. It’s none of our fight, Johnny, but here’s to you! In another place on this page we are printing a communication we requested from former County Clerk W. M. Sapp, relative to the fee system. Mr. Sapp, having served: as county clerk for twenty years, is well qualified to speak on the subject of the fee system, and as this question will in all probability be prominently before the legislature this summer, Mr. Sapp’s views are timely. The Citizen believes the fee system should be abolished and a just and adequate salary system substituted for it. It is not the fee system, per se, that is per nicious, but the abuse of it is. As Mr. Sapp points out, it is antiquated, out of date, and inequitable. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS ♦ ♦ ♦ Columbus people should take advantage of the opportunity they have for putting the busi ness of thg city on a business basis, and think ing citizens will do so.—Columbus Enquirer- Sun. And what is true of Columbus is likewise true of Dalton. The taxpayers of a city—the stockhold ers—are entitled to as good and efficient manage ment as are the stockholders of any other corpo ration. The Brooklyn Eagle says that nearly all amusements have been denounced except cro quet, and yet it’s a wicked pastime.—Augusta Chronicle. Well, we have not yet seen where anybody has denounced tiddledywinks, so here is where we are going to do a little denouncing on our own hook, to the effect that the game is harder to spell than it is to play. Not ours to comment on the fact that the members of a Kansas church are voting on whether or not there is a hell, but there’s no law to keep us from taking sides and hoping the side we’ve picked will win.—Macon Tele graph. The funny part of the proposition is that it is Kansas church members who are voting on the question. Our idea of that hot place is—oh, well, we don’t want to get licked by a Kansan who is not responsible for being one. Congressmen and senators write their own biographies for the Congressional Directory, or furnish the data for them. The new direc tory for the Sixty-seventh congress shows that of the biographies of the Georgia delegation that of Senator Thomas E. Watson is the long est and that of Representative Frank Park, of the Second district, is the shortest. Senator Watson’s biography enumerates the books which he has written and covers in brief, the principal events in his public life, while Con gressman Park’s is the briefest in the whole book—“Frank Park, Democrat, Sylvester-”— Albany Herald. The assumption is that the more a man talks the less he does, and vice versa, Watson has done the people he so professes to love out of thousands of dollars, and that is about all, yet he employs about 400 words in the Congressional Directory to tell of his “accomplishments,” and with it all he never said a word about what he “accom plished” over at Buford. ♦ ♦ ♦ LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE ♦ • • He Men to the Front. To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen: In taking a look at some existing conditions in Georgia, and casting about for some plan of relief, I am reminded of Gideon and his little band of heroes. Gideon had to attack the great Midianite army with a nondescript army composed mostly of slackers, camp followers and some cowards, so he chose a unique method to separate the he men from the nondescripts. The story is familiar to readers of the Bible. The point is that he got the men that he wanted and being relieved of the rabble he succeeded in winning a victory. The State of Georgia today, like Gideon, is facing a Herculean task, and before it can be accom plished she is going to have to sort out the slackers from the true men and leave them in the camp. The crowd that Gideon discarded would have made an ideal mob to lynch and burn a helpless negro, but that sort of' stuff cannot be depended upon for the real work of the day. Georgia today is standing in the most critical position in her history.* No one can deny the fact that the mob spirit hangs like an ominous storm cloud over pur entire state. Our own county jail is sheltering two men who had to be rushed from an adjoining county to avoid a double lynching. It is not overstating the case to say that every county in our state has within its borders a poten tial mob of murderers that can be aroused to action on the slightest provocation. The recent action of Gov. Hugh Dorsey in pub lishing his tract showing up the history of the mob element in its true light was the work of a red-blooded he man, and a man who would rather be right than governor. Hurrah for Hugh Dor sey! And what a storm it raised! Governors- elect, legislators and pot-bellied politicians reared up on their hind feet all over the state and howled like hit dogs. They said Hugh had to take it back or there would be a funeral. Did he do it? Not so much as you could tell. He simply reiterated all and then told them that he was not through yet. Three cheers for Hugh Dorsey! The man who will not stand by such a man and hold up his hands deserves to be placed in a class with John Williams and Clyde Manning and forced to appear in his true colors. The men who participated in that Macon protest are Georgia’s worst enemies. People all over the Union are looking at our state and asking if we are savages. The Williams murder farm gave Geor gia a black eye, but the Macon protest was worse. Let us be thankful for such men as Hugh Dorsey, John M. Slaton and the other good and true men who are standing behind our red-blooded governor in this disgraceful affair. I am proud I had the opportunity to vote for two true men for governor. John Slaton had the courage to commute the death sentence for an innocent man, though he knew he would face a Georgia mob for his act. Time and public sentiment have vindicated his act and he stands today as one of Georgia’s really great men. All honor to the newspapers of the state that have stood up and championed the truth and have said let justice be done though the heavens fall. The credit of our state is being ruined. Ask any man who is alert and has his fingers on the na tion’s pulse if there is any encouragement to Geor-. gians in our position at the head of the crime list. The fact is we did not need Governor Dorsey or anyone else to tell us these things. Anyone wno has kept up with current news by reading the papers knew all this before Dorsey ever mentioned it, but quail like, we stuck our heads under the bushes and thought we would not be seen. A short time ago a human being was burned at the stake in our city of Athens, and five thousand people stood by and looked on and then wei)t awa> and forgot it and no one has ever been threatened with punishment. This is the history Georgia is making, and by it we must stand or fall. Are there not a few thousand he men m Georgia who will take their stand beside our noble gov- ernor and say, “By the eternal God, this thing must stop!” We believe there are enough good men to redeem our fair state from her disgrace, but it is going to take concerted action. Are we Fe \Ve may yet redeem our good name by rallying together in a united band and inscribing on our banner this slogan: . “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are non- est, whatsoever things 'are just, whatsoever things are .pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things- —“t. Paul. Respectfully, and with no apologies, JUNIUS. A Material City. To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen: According to the popular idea, heaven is a mag nificent city somewhere far away in space—a lit eral city with streets of gold and gates of pearl, and surrounded by a solid wall of precious stones. But many people don’t like city life. They much prefer flowery fields and green meadows, shadowy forests and laughing streams and purple moun tains. They had much rather walk on green grass and velvety moss and among wild flowers than to tread shining blocks of gold. Material pomp and splendor do not appeal to them. They love se clusion—quietude—a hidden nook or corner where they can sit down alone and think things out. They are in the habit of living close to nature; of hold ing communion with the trees and flowers and birds. To them nothing is inanimate, but life and intelligence throbs through all things. They love freedom—room—mighty spaces- Shut up in a city, however magnificent, they would be miserable. They would not notice the splendor of the streets, for always they would be longing for woodland paths, and the grass and flowers of meadow-land. They would be mere scions of the grandeur of the mansions; so homesick would they be for the fields and forests and the silent, shadowy hills. They would be longing always to get away from the throng of strangers and sit down in some quiet place with an old friend and have an old-time, open-heart discussion of things both were interest ed in. Most of all heaven is bookless. This it seems would drive the intelligent and knowledge-loving mad. In this heaven there is no place for the thinker, the dreamer, the man of brains and aspira tions. It was built for the lovers of material pomp and show and splendor. The philosopher, the poet and the sage have no place in it. JESSIE BAXTER SMITH. In God’s Own Time Peace Will Come, Thinks This Writer. To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen: I noticed a short piece in last week’s issue of The Citizen where Jessie Baxter Smith says that in God’s own time peace would come to our nation. Yes, I agree with her. When people can come to the conclusion that the God who made the heav ens and the earth and all that i§, therein, and created man in His own image, He is able to take care and look after all, and not until then will men feel that peace and comfort that He only can give. If man cannot even make one hair black or white, how can he change those greater things? Oh, ye of little faith! If we will only let God hold the steering wheel the ship will run smoothly to harbor, and not until then will this be done. . Mav God help us to come to this conclusion. C. A. WEST. Former Clerk Writes About Fee System. To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen: The fee system, along with some other matters, will be considered by the solons of Georgia at their annual reunion this year, and it should be at least revised, modernized and brought up to date. An old prairie schooner on the streets of a mod ern city would be a curiosity; a yoke of oxen pull ing a wagon excites attention, and the old railway coaches and brass-mounted engines of a decade ago would be a laughing stock of railroad men today—not alone on account of their old-tihie ap pearance, but for their inefficiency and inability to fill present-day needs. Yet, the fee system by which the county officers receive compensation for their work is just as antiquated and out of date as the things mentioned, and many others long since relegated to the junk heap of customs ancient. The fee system has serv ed its day and generation. The fee system, within itself, is not pernicious, and was originally designed to stimulate officers in the diligent performance of their duties, and ‘ make each office self-supporting. As applied to the small or average county, possibly nothing more feasible presents itself, for the reason that the offices of said counties do not pay more than would justify the time and care of a properly qualified person in an efficient discharge of the duties per taining thereto. However, as relates to the counties of more than 25,000 inhabitants, the antiquity of the system is decidedly more noticeable, and the pay received by some of the officers of these counties, although the work is very little more arduous than in the small er counties, is munificent and, in some instances, practically equals the salary of the president of the United States. It is destructive to tear down without building, and before the fee system is abolished, something better should be offered, and should be general, and applicable, alike, to every county in Georgia. A system patterned after that of the United States postoffice department might be considered. That is to say, adopt a graduated scale, providing that the incumbent receive all of the fees up to a certain liberal sum, and a certain per cent of the additional fees, up to a certain amount, after which all to be paid into county treasury. This will give the pub lic servant an incentive to endeavor, if one should be necessary. This arrangement would not molest the present emoluments of the officers of the av erage county, and would allow them each a reason able compensation, and, in the aggregate, would turn many thousands of dollars into the coffers of the counties higher up, and would be a decided step in the’right direction. The argument sometimes advanced that officers would not do their duty jf placed on a salary is not sound—it would be just as true of any other salaried position. If the officers should fail to do their duty, they would likely be called upon for ex planation at the first meeting of the stockholders. Sooner or . later all of this will be done—just as soon as the public makes demand. The officers of the smaller counties are indifferent, and in many I instances would welcome a living salary, but it may be safely stated that the reform will never come through the efforts of the officers of the counties higher up. They usually lead the opposition to any change. But, really, they are not to blame: they are creatures of a system—the system should go and they should be placed upon a most liberal salary, which should not be objectionable to them. However, the fee system is just one of many— it is merely incidental. The real work of reforma tion should include a commission form of govern ment. applicable to all minor positions of state, county and city, properly reviewed and ratified by the people, with a real live recall provision, and a merit system similar to that of the United States, with civil service requirements. Civilization and civic progress, seemingly, can be accelerated or retarded very little, but moves forward in the even.tenor of its way, despite the fact that the Georgia legislature meets, mingles and adjourns with equal regularity. The United States, manv other states of the Union and practi- callv all of the large private corporations have adopted and inaugurated these reforms. Whv not Georgia? W. M SAPP. CHEERY LAYS for DREAR y D^vo! ' BY JAMES WELLS ° Writer of Newspaper Ve.se, Hymn-P tom and Popular Song Lyrics . em * A Hot Weather Song. The sultry sun is shining, And one s collar undermining While the rain crow is repinin’-' Out in the pasture lot; ° Old Lead is softly lolling, In the woods the robin calling While Old Sol’s rays are' falling And It’s Hot, Hot, Hot! The lazy lizard’s sunning Near the little brooklet running And the mocking bird is funning In his favorite spot; The south wind’s gently sighin'* Where a wilted rose lies dying And the raucous rain crow’s crying Is Hot, Hot, Hot! The ox-eyed daisy’s nodding To the zephyr’s gentle prodding, While the sweet pea blooms are’nocMina Just beside the cot; ° The wild bee’s gently humming By the floweret he’s bumming. While he says that summer’s comma For It’s Hot, Hot, Hot!. Steel to Flint. As steel to flint doth strike a spark, Illuminating all the dark, So obstacles to men worth name But strike the spark of Genius’ flame. The Golden Calf. Bow down, ye people, to the golden calf, Kneel ye, and worship as a base slave should- Make vour devotions to his sacred shrine, ’ Kneel ye, and worship as but low-born could. Bow down, ye people, io the golden calf, Make him your offerings of honor, trust, Burn at his altar all that men hold dear; Sacrifice ye all to his greed and lust. Bow down, ye people, to the golden calf, Forget the lowly Christ who died in shame, That man might be' more than a chattel slave; O, worship Mammon and forget His name. The Divine Spark. Though crushed beneath misfortune’s frown, I swear she cannot keep me down; Tho’ man in me with weakness cries, The God in me still bids me rise. As Usual! Of all sad words— The fishers say— The biggest one— It got away. True. The man who rakes And digs and hoes Till his muscle aches Will pick the rose. —Detroit Freee Press. Well, mebbe so, But it seems to me I’d rather pick A shady tree. —J. D. S., Macon Telegraph. But shady trees, I greatly fear. Will never beat The profiteer. Danger! There’s danger in the storm king’s wrath And. in the mighty main; There’s danger in the cyclone’s path And in a red-haired jane. Dalton. The Dalton Improvement League is offering a prize for a slogan which inspires the following: D welling in homes of sweet content A fter a day of toil well spent; L eisure and peace and love await T he dweller within our city gate. O stranger tarry at our door. N e’er will you wish to wander more. ***** Popular. I like to visit Colonel Drew; He has a good Brand of home brew. Busy Doing Nothing- To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen: In The Citizen of June 9, we read: Harding has been President three months and we are still at war with Germany. Thought he was going to wind this thing up in such a heluvahurry.—Bill Biffem, in Sa vannah Press. He was a candidate when he was going to wind things Up. He is President now. Senator Borah, great republican leader, on h floor of the senate, June 6, said: I venture to say that there is not a man in this chamber in the house who went before the people for election who did not give them to understand that one of the first and speed iest acts of the republican party would be to establish a state of peace. We have an overwhelming majority in the house and an overwhelming majority in the senate, and the executive department is repub lican from turret to foundation stone; and yet we stand before the country, we stand before the world, as unable to pass a single resolution establishing a state of peace. Georgia’s mis-representative in the senate, ( o' tick Tom of Thomson, on the floor of the senat June 7, said: The soldiers are still on the Rhine—to be come naturalized? Because they love it? Are they going to stav over there indefinitely ■ Why are they on the Rhine? , .... All of which admits- of the same explanau one man on the stump is after votes, in office finds inescapable duty holding him inexorably a line of conduct, often very much the same as i pursued by his discredited predecessor. . The American soldiers are properly on the fin an important part of our very plain duty to allies with whom we stood and sacrificed tor freedom of the world. If we were not S * * , L WAR WITH GERMANY that land of unspeakab war lords would ignore the terms of the treat} signed with France. Not until after the secret of state directed participation of American rep sentatives on the Reparations Commission, on Supreme Council and in the Conference of Am - sadors, did Germany pay the first dollar on agreed indemnity. * u. Obviously it is easier to tell the dear voter j one will have done when one gets in than n 'Put it over” after one, damdemagogue. gets. • The executive department, “republican >:om ret to foundation stone,” understand now. a > parently, they did not in the course of tne campaign, the wisdom of the Wilson policy they are adhering to it with a fidelity that ” perplexing to the irreconcilables as it is grat to those who understand that it was the sonality of Wilsort that turned back, at a c moment, the tide that menaced the civilizati the world. Biff ’em ag’in, Bill. JESSE MERCEK- Atlanta. Ga.