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DaI-TON. GEGBGIA. THO-rSDAY, TUNE 23, 13&t, Lante Ccnstitirtiun;
Hottest ami guhixe-spftfeei hnsiiess men
Some pe^-pie seem to want a job in order to ;
get a ? seat: on.
Don' ‘ try to imitate somehorfy else, fee some-
holy yoorseif.
So man ever made a success of his business
f»y sCsvftuf away from it.
Nrtwyl ■; ever made a success without attending
strictly to business.
Leers Farm Leas
Conar -7.-;man ftowion tee has introduced a hi2
m congress. to authorize the secretary of the tress-
or - / to ioar. to the farm. Loan hoard. 820fb8Wr»**)b as
a relief fund for the farmers. The rate of interest s
is not to -xceed a5£ per cent.
The Seventh district, which Jfr. Lee so sbiy
represent > in confess, is largely agricultural, ar.u
he is ai-vavs working for the interests of those
he serves.
ft is to be hoped that congress will do -what is
right and necessary bo relieve the distress of the
farmers, who are being soresv tried just now.
Too mar. , farmers do not Look far enough
ahead. They frequently fa-.: to provide for the j
rain dam. and too many of them Listen to the
f lr*n o-.r.g of the politician- How many farmers
are mere ir. theW county today who has* |
cotton stored away for which they were offered
ir. the da- of high prices forty cents a pound*
There are some of them we know. Forty, cents
m as a big prate, but the politicians were advising ;
the farmers to hold for fifty cents a pound, and j
to declare a moratorium,
Congressman tee. realizing the pinch in which
man y of oar farmers find themselves, wants to do :
something to enable them, to help themselves— ;
that is borrow money for a ior.g term at a Low-
rate of interest.
Whether or not the repubiicar. administration
wifi look with favor or. Jfr, Leer's fend 1 remains to ;
and patriotic citizen* generally wifi ecmmemi
the treasury department hi fa announced at
tention soon So launch an aggressive erasade
against internal revenue tan evaders, who. it
is officially estimated- are withholding hl the
neighborhood: of naif a mfflfon of .ioiiars that
rightfully belongs at the federal tSi-
The tax-dodger is entitled to no sympathy
from any naarter.
He is a man who enjoys, and wants to con
tinue to enjoy* protection^ of the government
without paying for ft. He wants something
for nothing.
His position in. society is analogous to> that
of the theater patr on who slips unnoticed past
the doorkeeper and gets the benefit of toe per
formance without having bought a ticket.
In the last analysis he Is a thief—a thief
who steals from Ms honest feUow-citEzens
the benefits mat accrue from American, eft-
hrasfrfp ami the protection- of the American.
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The .;')*! that, according to the com
missioner of nrtemai revenue, tax-dodging
citizens and firms have failed to pay fa legit
imate taxes due represents fast that much
men*-- that ether citizens and business firms
have had to pay to enable tins country to
meet its obligations.
Therefore, the fact that a comparatively
few have been selfish and unpatriotic and dis
honest enough to dodge the tax-gatherer or to
make false returns on their incomes, taxable
sales of merchandise. etc_ simply makes the
burden of supporting the government pro
portionately more heavy on the many who are
honest and square in their dealings with
Uncle Sam.
In announcing the government's purpose.
Internal Fe venue Commissioner David H_
Flair made a public statement to the effect
that—
"'Where evidence h discovered tending to
show wiiifaJ evasion or refusal to collect and
pay the tax. the policy will be to enter pros
ecutions and urge the imposition of extreme
penalties.’*
It is onjmt for any citizen to have to bear
another citizen's share of the expenses of gov
ernment: and the country at large will heart
ily co-operate with: the government in Its ef-
to bring aft such citizens and tax-dodg
ing corporations to a strict accounting.
The hardest job in the world, almost, ss the
job of trying to kfsrn people who think they
know everything. The next harries£ fe the com
batting of jH-efudiee among those who have pre
conceived notions—not ideas—of how things
ought to be done. Then, there is the eternal
struggle with ignorance.
AH of these levy a tolL and altogether too
! heavy, on eMM fife.
ft is the aonormal child feat makes the ernn-
maf and fdcnzshes the material for insane asy
lums. Jtl nearly all cases—ftt fact aS—where
there s no inherited weakness, abnormal children
can be cured by very sample raeffeads—proper
nourishment, sleep urg and exercise.
I Fresh air. day and night, proper food, water
and sunshine are the great panaceas for the His
; of humanity.
c£ soldiers were carried oversea&r
used by Preshieni Wilson far his
mips across, is having hard hick- For the sec
ond within: two weeks a mysterious lire
bneke out in the sbip while at 3s New York
pier. The two fires fed tfamttge estimated at
atS ihit* The is fee largest gviag fee
irrrgnV m feig nml the most iwuitioas uffcat.
CMr ft be feat a pnn is pursuing: ftjararet^e
wtt - unreeo nciied Germans *&> envy Uncle
tmr its pcssesaeat—Tiftoa Gazette.
u we don’t tafce much stock in the jins, theory,
we must eonchuie there are yet in New York, some
unreconciled BergiicIIs.
Everyfafty Sees a On.-—
i Everybody sees a rti= n
metfieftie HetfriTiru*
Father used to suffer
Until he took to takime l
P2toc
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He nsec to mooe amnnii ~he
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Evetong dav.
But since he's taken ram., T
JnrigTng from a few remarks we read ir the Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun. we are led to believe that
paper is not miicfi impressed wife the idea of
making dark Grier prohibition enforcement cc-
cer for the states We have been, thinking all the
while feat the suggestion was meant as a foke.
The Colquitt Lynchmz.
Somebody is trying to spread the impression
that the state highway department is buried in
-ovmiaead cost that the state- has gotten too
Kftte- out of fees, agency to be worth the money
Nothing good ever got very far with
out starting some kicker. The state high
way department is one of the vary effective
agencies for good in Georgia. We sincerely
hope ft can be mafntaineii octsde of politics
for the good ft can do in establishing ami
rngretafnlyg better roads ever fee state-—
Confide Dispatch.
The state highway department ought to be as
far removed from politics as possible. If it ever :
becomes a political machine, such, as fee agri- •
cultural department, then good-bye good roads.
Everybody sees fee namn-
Arcunti fee nouse ne
But when mother-; cteamn.
Leg.
Now father never crimes
Father used to be so wess he
T*i split a little kf-nd‘ ; - -? -
would tax:
But now he has
less Pills.
Though he cannot heat
beat Ms hills.
That was a .ghastly crime for which John
Henry Williams was burned to death bytoa mob in
[ Cohjaitt county. A Ifttie grri twelve years old was '
; violated by the brute and then murdered and f
: thrown into a lake.
The law acted quickly in the case, and the
negro was tried, convicted and sentenced to file
gallows in less than a week's time. Yet the mob
'■ wooid not wait for an orderly. legal execution,
j The members cf fee mob added another hideous
crime to the one already committed. They lynch
ed the law when they burned the negro.
Heretofore we have heard much talk about the
law's delay being fee cause of mob violence. This
latest octhreak proves the falsity of the charge.
It is simply an excuse.
There can be no sympathy for the brute who
was lynched. No punishment could be severe
enough to St the crime. But the harm is to the
state, fee people and the law.
Every Law breaker feels encouraged when the
j law Is lynched and the courts flouted. Lawfess-
I ness begets lawlessness, and mob lawlessness Is
: the worst sort of lawlessness. It is not a crime
So far as we are convened, we hopeCaapeo- ; deterrent, but is fa most efficient side partner,
tier punches the hocn out of Dempsey. Vie can-
S .gar was retailing in Chattanooga Monday
for 6 to cents a pound.
not get oor consent to say a word in favor of a
si :cscer.
“Who Fay the Taxes?” reads a headhne-
isr. ‘ half a. important as who dodges 'em.
That
The Syracuse Post-Standard is of the opinion
that when the president wants a public declara
tion of foreign policy he had best let Charles, not
George, do it.
If there is anything in this world Lar-'Ler to do
than resting we have not yet discovered it.
Negro Population Decreasing.
The less important a man is the more seriously
The population of the state of Georgia, as re-
he takes himself, and alway s is hi evidence, wheth- } centiy anr.ounced by the Bureau of the Census,
er needed or not.
is .v:,T per cent white and 4J.7 per cent negro. In
LMft the percentage of the negro was 45.1.
The negro population, which was l,176d#%7 in
1!W<>, increase' - ! to in 1&26, an increase oh
2-o p#r cent- The white population f n the same
ft is easv enough, according to the Type .Metal
Magazine, to keep srwav from the grafters, but it is
impossible to escape the grafted.
1 period increased from 1.42! -#>2 to 1^&,114 or 1%
ff the tax dodgers were made to come across pen cent,
as tliey should taxes would not Lie so high and . The white population of the state consists ai-
there would l<e more money for schools and roads, j most entirely of native Americans bom of native
: American parents, the total native white of native
Does Whitfield Enjoy Rest Room? f P^r'-ntage i>eing l/AUK while fee foreign element
The brute who rapes is a fiendish criminal, but
it doesn't cure his crime to add another one to ft.
The Cokpritt lynching was a most unfortunate
affair, in that the negro had already been tried
and convicted, and would have been hanged on
on July Sth. It was a direct challenge to the
courts. There was no danger of the negro es
caping or securing a new trial. The gallows
awaited him. and he was ordered to be hung wife
all the swiftness that the law allows.
This section, has a big percentage ff these
sane people xao. hi the days cf reckless ex
travagance. did not spend their nest egg,—
Dalton Citizen.
Not big percentage. Shope. ^e have a few
soeft sane people. Perhaps not ten per cent
ef the citizens of Whitfield county are out oc
debt. Nearly all cf them coetd have been out
of debt it they would. They wait along with
the crowd, fhfatting feat prosperity would
continue forever. It didn't.—Alpharetta Free
Press.
The people of WhitSeld county are. as a rule.
m good shape. There have been no failures in
Dalton, and we have read of none in Atpfaaratta.
We tike a whole let cf being down-hearted in this
section.
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We can remember when women used to wear
high collars, with bones in them, about their
necks. They were both ugly and uncomfortable,
bat women had sense enough to throw them into
the discard. Man still wears the bloomin T things,
and continue to make fan of women's clothes- It
is the men who are ridiculous and not the women.
h represented by 16.!£G foreign born whites, 16,-
To progress derisions must be made. The j 37* native whites who had foreign bom parents,
habit of just letting things drift finally l/rings about ; anr * 'who had one parent foreign bom, the
stagnation. Whitfield county’s rest room has re- other being native. The total population includes
‘'Big ideas.” says the Type Metal Magazine,
“can be expressed in few words: The Ten Com
mandments contain 297 words? Lincoln’s speech
at Gettysburg. 266 words; St. Mathew's description
of the Crucifixion. 12»>) words: the Declaration of
Independence, 1321 words; the Sermon on the
Mount 2435 words: the Constitution of the United
States, 2294 words.”
centiy teen allowed to run along, aided only by
those whose interest was so deeply rooted they
would no* let the spending of money by individ
uals deprive the county people of this rest room
until the plan had teen given a thorough try-out.
The rest room is a good piece of property in a
splendid location, and was purchased by the
friends of the Jate Bev. Charles C. Maples as a
memorial to the unselfish life and many helpfal
arts of the man whose name it bears. In the short
time it has teen open to the public it has proven
the need for such a haven of rest for the women
and children who come to Dalton- The hundreds
who have registered show, too, the opportunity to
spend a part of the busy shopping days in a quiet
place has teen embraced by Dalton’s visitors.
The women of the country are not the only
ones who derive benefit from this rest room and
should hate to see it closed, for among the business
women of Dalton there are quite a number who
live too far from the down-town district to per
mit them to go home for their mid-day meal. To
these women and girls the Maples rest room offers
a place to freshen up and enjoy a short period of
relaxation. To dispose of this central rest room
would deprive the business women of a comfort
station they appreciate, and would have an ulti
mate effect on the efficiency of many office assist
ants.
To have, or not to have, this rest room is a
question that must he decided. It is needed badly,
but to serve fully the interests of the country peo
ple, tor whom it was primarily opened, the coun
ty will have to take tangible interest in it and
realize the big place it fills in the life of her
people.
The Citizen at this time is not prepared to
state the exact ownership of this property. It is
in the hands of, or under the control of, a com
mittee, and it is the opinion of this committee that
the county and city jointly contribute something
to the support of this institution that is worth so
much as a rest room for women and children.
(Take for instance our neighboring city of Cal
houn, The rest room is near the center of the
city and is taken care of by the club women.)
The Maples Memorial Best Room should be
more apreciatcd, and we believe the people who
are disposed to think it is unpopular with those
who are and can be benefited by it are mistaken.
We fear that in some instances the wish is father
to the thought.
The business men of Hamilton street should
also take an interest in this rest room, because it
is their customers from the country who are the
beneficiaries of its comforts.
also 125 Indians, 211 Chinese, 9 Japanese, and 8
“all others.”
fn most counties of the state the percentage of
negroes has decreased ami 82 of the 155 counties
there was also a decrease in the number of negroes.
In 1910 the percentage of negroes in Whitfield
was 10.8; in 1920 the percentage was 8.0, showing
a decrease of 2Ji.
The same showing occurs in nearly every North
Georgia county. .Paulding showed a percentage
in 1910 of 11.2; In 1921), 11-5, showing a gain of
0-3. Murray’s percentage in 1910 was 4.1, while
in 1920 it was 4.6, showing a gain of 0-5.
The death rate as a rule is bigher among the
blacks than the whites. The same is also true of
the birth rate. Therefore the only explanation of
the decreasing percentages among the blacks is
their movement to the not hem industrial centers
during the war. In ten years fee figures will in
all probability be reversed.
People who are afraid of fresh air, sunshine
and perspiration may live a long time, but they
will spend most of their lives complaining about
not feeling well.
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♦ CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS
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The Medical Summary prints a number of
suggestions for curing fee hiccoughs. But
what’s puzzling the Gent in the Street at pres
ent is how to get ’em.—Macon Telegraph.
Why, man, haven’t you got any faith in prayer
or home brew? —
The United States is said to be short 25,-
000 physicians. This should have the ef
fect of lowering the death rate, anyway.—
Rome Tribune-Herald.
The paragrapher of the esteemed Tribune must
owe a doctor’s bill of sizable proportion.
One thing at a time, please. Let’s get feat
hotel first. Bill Martin, Horace Smith and Shep
Hall can build a first-class hotel in every partic
ular and never miss the money, and we move they
do it.
The Poor Little Rich Child.
A child-welfare survey in Chicago, reported
in yesterday’s news, revealed weight defic
iency in 50 per cent of the pupils of an ex
clusive North Side school. Back of the stock-
yards only 18 per cent of children were un
derweight. In tenements of the Lower North
Side one child in six was found to be sub
normal. In these findings is further strength
ening of the case lately presented to the
American Medical Association by specialists in
children’s diseases.
According to their testimony, it is mainly
the little children of the rich who suffer from
malnutrition. A St Louis physician said that
he found the condition more common among
the children of the wealthy than in the homes
of the poor, and other members of the con
vention agreed with his conclusioas. The
practice of a Grand Rapids physician disclosed
40 per cent of cases of undernourishment
among well-to-do children as against 20 per
cent among poor children.
In Chicago an expert of the survey attri
butes the weakening of the children of wealth
to bottle-feeding in infancy and too much
rich food later on. Before the association,
blame was cast upon what was termed the
complexity of modern life. Too much excite-
It is announced that Mr. Bryan says he isn’t
going to run for senator in Florida." It is in
teresting to note that there is something for
which he isn’t going to run.—Columbus En
quirer-Sun.
The trouble about Bryan’s running is, that he
can never overtake anything
The political talk in Atlanta is that Hard
wick and Watson have fallen out and that
Clark Howell and Watson have made up.
Both of these rumors lack confirmation, and
the latter is especially improbable.—Savannah
Press.
“Starnge things are happening in the land,"
mates, but we don’t yet see just what it means.
Why wouldn’t it be a good idea for some
one to take the restaurant keepers aside and
tell them eggs have gone down? Funny they
should be the only ones not on the inside^L
Macon Telegraph.
Why should the poor restaurant keeper be
forced to keep up with the declining market?
Isn’t it enough for him to do to keep up with the
ascending scale?
Georgia’s^ highways are being steadily im-
a -fej *— *' —
proved, and paving operations on a large
scale will be resumed just as soon as financial
conditions improve and the bond market gets
out of the slough of despond.—Albany Herald.
Georgia really seems to be going somewhere
on the good roads proposition. And by the way,
fee highway department is entitled to every en
couragement in the performance of its duty.
Increasing Population.
June brides are not so plentiful in Dalton,
but we don’t mind telling the world there
are plenty of June babies.—Dalton Citizen.
Fiat the Fashion of Women’s Short Dresses Will
Bring.
The «-fr«nging fasMcos of woman s dress is
steadily carrying ns forward to better things in
way of physical strength of the man-power of
America. In the past fifty years many of the
women in the United States have been reared in
the cities, and for lack of physical training have
drifted into slender weaklings.
To build up the physical man-power of the
country we most begin with the girls a few gen
erations before the men are to be born. Last
year. I had occasion to observe many young
women reared in the South, and from my observa
tion I think that oat of one hundred women in
Georgia between twenty and twenty-five years
old. only sixteen will bear children that will be
of large size, robust and make strong, tall, hand
some soldiers. Thirty-two will bear just ordinary
looking men of average size and physical strength.
Sixteen will bear short. faL ill-shaped men and
the remaining thirty-six will bear under-sized
men that w31 not be physically fit for the struggle
for their existence: the country wooid go back
wards depending upon them as soldiers or any
thing else.
The fashion of short dresses will eventually
build up fee physical strength of men. because
the men that marry will have an opportunity to
select the strongest of the women. To put ft
in few words, they can see more of what they
are getting. The physically strong will be taken
and fee little, scrawny, under-sized type will be
left. _ And. too. as soon as the women learn this
they will begin at a very early age to develop
themselves into greater physical perfectness.
The English Government sent one of their best
physicians to this country two years ago to look
over the man-power and learn the effects of pro
hibition. He traveled over the country wife Wm.
J. Bryan- In one of the doctor's speeches I heard
him say that the world is dependent upon Amer
ica for man-power. He said that the physical
man-power in Europe was almost gone. That the
people in the past hundred years had drifted away
down in physical strength; and that the world !
was dependent upon America for the next hundred j
y-ears. He said that America owed her physical
strength largely to Scotland: that the Scotch peo
ple were the strongest in the world at the time so
many immigrated to this country, many years ago.
He said the Scotch were the strongest in Europe
today, although they had fallen off considerably
from what they were fifty years, ago. Th^ doctor
was the best Great Britain bad on the subject.
He was reared in Palestine. All the Scotch women
used to wear their dresses to their knees. They
worked in the fields beside the men, and many
do yeti The Scotchmen picked the strongest for
their wives.
When our government called the men of the
country to war a few years ago. the Mormons
were the strongest men, physically, in all the Unit
ed States. The Mormon men reared most of their
children with the strongest of their wives.
Greece once had the strongest men in the world,
which was the direct result of the ♦eaching* of
Lycurgus, who lived nine hundred years B. C.
Lycurgus had all the babies inspected; the weak
fell by the wayside and the strong were reared
for great physical strength and perfectness. The
women studied the art of rearing their young
to be very' strong- In order to toughen the chil
dren they were not allowed to wear more than
one garment after they were twelve years old.
Daily outdoor exercise was required. At the
parties, neither boys nor girls wore any clothes
at alL Adultery was unknown. If a young man
did not marry in a reasonable time after maturitv,
he was disfranchised, taxed heavily and kept
away from women. The women of Sparta, Greece,
acquired a great reputation for rearing strong
children and were in demand the world over as
nurses. The women grew to such physical
strength that they ruled the men, and when they
were told that they were the only women in the
world ruling over men they replied that, “We
are the only women in the world that can bring
forth real men.” It was from such women that
the world’s greatest philosophers came, namelv,
Plato and Socrates. I don’t believe we should
practice now all that Lycurgus did, although we
have to admit that we are profiting vet from his
works three thousand years ago. Lvcurgus found
ed his laws upon the teachings of Homer.
The Egyptian soldiers of old showed such en
durance on the battlefield that it caused their
enemies to investigate and they found that theft-
heads were harder from not wearing hats and
their bodies tougher from wearing few clothes.
Julias Caesar and Hannibal marched in front of
their armies, bareheaded.
The wisest people that ever studied the laws
of inheritance have said that the first thing needed
to rear strong men is strong women. The short
dresses will teach the women that the ones of
greatest physical strength and perfectness and the
nearest to correct form will be taken and soon
all will be striving for greater perfection, which
will be delivered to their offspring and th^s the
world will be benefited from the thing many old
men are now trying to condemn.
The European philosopher who came to New
York recently said the world was suffering from
narrowness. It could be put in another way by
Everybody sees a znanxn-
He is picking ap -ic izr--
Waen metier brings i rag ;
Why father always heats.
Father was a weakling—--
a cat:
The little strength, feat
hurt a rat;
But since he feck fee ? i:
has come hack rtfe-
Yocl really oogfcr to wit
throw the huIL
Everybody sees a rhaagt. fe
He used to be too ;
But since he took fee piiOs tha
You really ought to see Ft? -
Father, when fee cure
got a job.
And the money be is
a gob;
But mother needs seme
pay the rent.
Anil when, he buys dear
left a cenh
Everybody sees fee ;
Everybody sees the none -
But when he pays the bills ;
Pills
Poor father reaQv hasn't z
Macvas.
Some write for
Some for fame
While some ?n
The wrinra sa
Pride.
Oh. why should the spirit :c
He has seven sure winners be
He goes to the track wife .
Then borrows a dune for bis
Oh. why should the spirt: o£ —
However with talents he me :
Though he shine in this world
His wife makes hrm totte out fee
Oh. why should the spirit
He bets on a team which t
His favorite pitcher he see
And watches his team lose
A Hard Task
Tis hard when sn
Her breezes r:b
To think about
Next winter's e:
Mary Jane.
I'd like to write of Mary
Of russet fields and cocnm
But. oh. my pen attemr:-
There’s no romance in “31
Cheer Ud.
Been a-feelin* mighty bice
Cheer up.
Things a-Iookin’ bad for y: _
Cheer up.
All the world is in a mess-
In a tangle more or less—
But well all pull through. I
So cheer up.
Golden day must follow nig
Cheer up.
Some sweet day ’twill all eo~
Cheer up.
What's the use o’ feelin' Lb:
Don’t let trouble trouble ye
Fight your fight with cour- r
And cheer up.
Jubilee Song.
OP Mr. Hopper-grass, hop? to
An’ he don’t look whar he's
Jumped right inter de ol* hen .
By de side o’ er tater vine.
Den look out, sinner, what >
An’ watch out whar yo’s g" -
For Satan’s gwine ter ketch
Lak de hen by de tater vir
De bluebottle fly he firin' eri
An’ he hummin’ a little s n-
An’ he fly right inter a toad i
What happened ter come .:
Den look out, sinner, watch
O’ watch out, bye an’ bye
01’ Satan gwine ter ketch yc
Lak de toad frog did de fl>
Foolish young catfish runnir.’
An’ he seed a worm so nice
But he swallered a hook an'd.
He was landed in a trice.
Den look out, sinner what yc
•An* watch out what yo’ do:
Old Satan got bait fo’ ebery r:
An he got a hook fo’ riu.
saying that the world is sufferir
without thought. I believe the -
worst of the two. I see that some r
fee Georgia legislature propose
bill requiring longer skirts. Very Ib-
Iegislature meets, we will see. as
action without anv thought at all.—
in Tifton Gazette."
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