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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. ’Tag: 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 ■ He nsec to mooe amnnii ~he “-4 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. §S5S535S555SS55Si5555SS| ♦ EXCHANGE OPINION 5 3 5SSSSSSSSS5SSSSSSSSSSS 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. ♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS ♦ 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." .. : : 11 'life-- to’ j