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PAGE FOUR ■ The Dalton Citizen PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. T. a. SHOPE T S. MeOAMY .- . . Editor Aaaoeuto Editor Official Organ of the United States Circuit and District Courts, Northwestern division, Northern District of Georgia. , OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WHITFIELD COUNTY. Terms of Subscription One Year Six Months Three Months Payable in Advance Advertising Rates on Application. Entered at tha Dalton, G*., postoffice for transmission through the mails as second-class matter. DALTON, GEORGA, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1921 The Georgia editors are having a big time in Washington, Ga., this week. Dempsey says he will not fight Jack Johnson. Well, that’s that much in'his favor. If it were not for the demagogues and politicians, conditions would be better in this country. Georgia and Mississippi in the Lead. There were thirty-six lynchings in the United States in the first six months of this year, nine of them in Georgia and ten in Mississippi, these being the two highest states. The record this year is a bad one. Only eleven of those lynched were charged with the crime of rape. Of those lynched, two were whites and thirty- four were negroes, two of the latter being women. The states in which lynchings occurred and the number in each state are as follows: Alabama, one; Arkansas, four; Florida, four; Georgia, nine; Kentucky, one; Louisiana, two; Mississippi, ten; Missouri, one; North Carolina, two; South Caro lina, one; Tennessee, one. “The republicans are getting nowhere,” says Senator McKellar. Oh, yes they are. They are getting in a hole. Johnny Spencer says he despises hammocks. Well, we just haven’t the heart to blame it on them. We have always found that the trouble was either with us or the other party—generally the latter. Learn to Swim. While the reformers are about it, why have none of them tried to have a lav? passed re quiring all persons eight years old and over to learn to swim? There’s a great deal more to justify such a law than there is to justify some others on the statute books.—Albany , Herald. It would indeed be wiser to have laws forcing all persons to learn to swim than the foolish regu lations regarding women’s clothes. While we do not advocate burdening the statute books with swimming laws, we do bellieve the art of swim ming is an essential part of education, and every child should be taught tot swim. Nearly every day the papers bring before us instances of lives lost because persons could not swim. No one knows when an accident wil hap pen that will cause his safety to hinge on his knowing how to keep his head above water. Some towns haven’t places where beginners can learn to swim without danger, but those towns that have safe pools are adding a splendid oppor tunity to their children’s other advantages. Freight and passenger rates ought to come down at once. Wages have been reduced and the gov ernment has agreed to pass another $500,000,000 to the railroads. Those people who used to confidentially tell their friends the republicans could beat the dem ocrats running the government, are unusually quiet just now. Our government may think Americans are pa triotic, but it evidently doesn’t think they are hon est, the way it haggles and insinuates in regard to income tax returns. For the first six months of this year Mississippi beat Georgia’s lynching-record by one. When it is considered that Georgia is the home state of the ku klux this is not so bad. State Income Tax. The proposition sponsored by Governor Hard wick to pass an income tax law in Georgia will not meet with any great degree of popular favor among business, people. About all the income tax the business people can stand is now levied by the federal government. And added to the tax, which is exactly the same as it was when the ar mistice was signed in November, 1918, the bureau crats in Washington harass and nag business by their interminable lists of questions and foolish demands. These bureaucrats seem to assume that anybody who has anything to do with making out income tax blanks is a thief and a perjurer. When a man or a firm has employed a certified public accountant to make a truthful and fair re turn on a blank form as puzzling as it is unnec essary, the affair is not ended. The main trouble is only beginning. The questionnaires from four to forty-eight pages, begin to come piling in, and valuable' time is wasted, and money is spent in doing obviously useless, as well as foolish things. The expense of-all these elaborate questionnaires comes out of the taxpayers, and it is an amount of no small proportions. We have cited the above facts as a means of showing just why the income tax proposition is not going to meet with favor in Georgia. The people despise the very thought of it, and they have a right to. We are willing to agree with the governor that the ad valorem tax system is antiquated and worn out, but at the same time we believe it will be bet ter to get away from it gradually. A sudden change might prove too severe a shock. The state of course must raise enough money to meet the ever increasing obligations to its various institutions and enterprises, but it will have no trouble doing this if it will bring the tax dodgers to taw, and go after the invisible property that always has escaped the tax collector. A just taxing system has never yet been devised, and one may never be, but a better one than Georgia now has ough to be, and if the legislature now in session fails to measure up to the duties plainly before it the state and its institutions will suffer. Refuses to Capitalize Patriotism. The world honors the man who stands by his convictions, even if it sometimes doubts the wis dom of them. Alvin C. York, the American hero who distin guished himself in the world war, is all but ■'broke, and stands to lose his farm, because of a crop failure and a mortgage—the latter being the real causes He could easily lift the mortgage and put money in the bank if he would go on the lecture plat form or enter the movie world. He will do neither. He refuses to capitalize his patriotism, and this is puzzling to the materialists who put the dollar ahead of everything else in this world. Call him a fool if you will, but is he? A man of the Bill Bryan type would in all prob ability answer in the affirmative, and if he didn’t he would act the part more convincingly than if he spoke. Think of the wide gulf separating Clara Smith Hamon, who murdered her paramour, and Alvin C. York. The former is entering the movies, and in so doing is preparing’to capitalize not only -her shame, but will flaunt her prostitution in the faces of the American people. There are many who cannot understand Alvin C. York, but there are none who cannot under stand Clara Smith Hamon. The Citizen prints herewith the full press dis patch from Pall Mall, Tenn., the home of Lieu tenant York, in which is stated the present status of the hero of the world war: If you were living on one of the finest farms in Tennessee— If you had a wife and three-months-old baby dependent upon you— If you faced losing your farm through fore closure of a $12,500 mortgage— AND— You were the greatest hero of the world war— AND— ~ v You could make possibly enough to pay off the mortgage merely by showing yourself in public— That is the question that Sergeant Alvin C. York has to face. His answer is “No.” He will not commercialize his patriotism. His sense of obligation to his country and his re ligious scruples prevent. “I would rather lose my farm, and go back to work upon it as a day laborer, than to com mercialize the fame which was only incidental to an act of Providence,” he says. That act of Providence made the red-headed sergeant famous as the war’s greatest hero, not only throughout America, but in every allied country.- On October 18, 1918, in the Argonne Forest, York single-handed killed 25 Germans, put out of commission 35 machine guns and marched into camp 132 German cap tives, including a major and three lieutenants. For his feat, he woyi the congressional medal of honor and the Croix de Guerre, pinned on by Marshall Foch himself.' * Spurning movie and vaudeville offers that would have made him rich, he came back to his mother’s hillside farm and took up the hoe. A short time later he married a girl of the neighborhood. Friends and admirers picked out a farm for him almost directly across the road from the farm of his mother, and paid $11,235 on it through popular subscription. For a time things moved serenely. York, whose sole ambition has been to own a home in his Tennessee mountains, farm his own land, hunt the foxes that roamed the hills and show true hospitality to the strangers who passed his door, was wholly content. A little later Alvin C., Jr., came and life seemed even more worth living. But such good fortune was not to last. Crops were a big disappointment. Farm products brought exceptionally low prices. Taxes reached an unprecedented high figure. With the $12,500 mortgage for the balance on his farm due this fall, things went from had to worse. A $250 grocery bill accumulated and the grocer feels unable to extend much more credit. ' , York is toiling from “kin to kant”-—from earliest break of day to the last lingering of light—to prevent his life’s dream from being shattered. But it looks like a vain task. “Religious faith sustained me in my danger and removed my fear,” he says. “I was only a pawn in the hands of Providence. Any credit that is due for my achievements should go to the Lord. For me to attempt to take any credit personally would be a great wrong. “But He will see me through.” When preachers and judges go to fighting it is about time for us laymen to take to the woods. Ernest Camp is proving more and more versatile. His Negro Narratives are well written and inter esting. It seems Camp is-a combination editor, poet and short-story writer, and we admire his ability and enjoy his flights of fancy. Speaking of Browbeating. While Brother Bill BifFem, of the Savannah Press, is never supposed to be serious, he tells a lot of serious truth in the following lines: In New York and South Carolina very bad men are electrocuted for their crimes. They take a seat in the electric chair. In the courts of other states they have the witness chair, where men who do wrong are given a thor ough roasting by lawyers who want to im press jurors with the fact that all men are liars and most men have something hidden in the records of their lives that will not bear the scrutiny of their fellow men. The witness gets the idea that he is the culprit and gets on the defensive right away. It is an awful thing to be a witness. That is why so many folks refuse to give their names when they see an accident or hurry away before the cops arrive when there is a shooting scrape. We think there should be organized an order for the protection of men who are compelled to sit in the witness chair. The lawyers have their organizations, so why shouldn’t the witnesses be allowed to form a union? They could de clare against less brow-beating, fewer insinua tions, more gentlemanly conduct on the part of the legal profession and the breaking up of the idea that every man who goes upon the witness stand does so, not with the idea of telling the truth, but with a view of lying, unless the truth is literally yanked out of him by a member of the legal profession. Gasoline will be like the frog that jumped two feet and fell back one, if right after a two-cent reduction in price the state taxes gasoline one cent a gallon. Because 'automobile users ride, the state thinks it is proper for them to be ridden. Dr. Charles Russ claims a new discovery, viz., a ray of force from the human eye that sets things in motion. Suppose Charles discovered this when at the jam-stealing age he saw coming from his mommer’s eye a ray of force that made him move. Here Is the Ideal Location. The Baptists of Georgia, in extending their edu cational facilities, will in all probability establish a secondary school in the northwestern part of the state, in order to serve the ever-growing need of boys and girls of this section who seek to be well educated. Dalton wants this school. We want it, not for the selfish reason that it will bring more business and more money to the town, but because we feel that it would be advantageous to the greatest num ber of the school’s prospective students for the school to be located in such a town as we have. . Dalton is located on two trunk railroads, and this would prove a great convenience and point of economy for the pupils the school will draw from surrounding towns. Dalton has ideal cli mate, situated as it is among the mountains that prove a protector from winter winds and summer cyclones. Dalton has splendid churches whose influence permeates every part of the town. It has a cultured citizenry with whom it will prove a pleasure for the bom-ding students to mingle. The town has a splendid automobile fire engine and a waterworks that supplies constant pressure, which would make the property investment of the Baptist school safe, and enable it to be covered with insurance at low rates. It has a low death rate, and the records show that it .is practically free from epidemics. All in all, Dalton can offer many good resons why a people looking for the best place to establish a preparatory school should select this as an ideal location. It is hoped to build this school alon^the same general lines as the Locust Grove school that has proved so successful, making its curriculum high so that its graduates will have sufficient points to enable them to enter Sophomore classes at col lege. There are twelve Baptist secondary schools in the state, but the needs are growing and more are going to be built. We urge the Baptist people to consider Dalton’s advantages, as we feel sure here is the ideal loca tion for this school. Dr. Josiah Crudup, pastor of the First Baptist church of this city, is a member of the committee which will decide the question, and it will be well for Dalton’s enterprising citizens to confer and cooperate with Dr. Crudup in his efforts to locate this splendid institution in Dalton, the centrally located city of northwest Georgia. Walker county, our neighbor to the west, has voted a $400,000 bond issue for good roads. Whit field county is entirely surrounded by counties determined to build good roads. There is nothing to be gained by our playing Rip Van Winkle any longer. If “Madame Monte Cristo,” who is reputed to have an annual income of only $80,000,000, con tinues to spend as she did' in Paris $5,000,000 every three week’s what’s.she going to do the last four weeks of each year? Rim on a deficit like town ships, telephone .companies, etc.? When the X-ray which enables shoe-salesmen to determine whether or not shoes are too short or too narrow for their customers is in general use, the millennium will be about ten leagues near er, because there have been more dispositions ruined and pleasant days spoiled by shoes that pinch than by any other of the “minor evils.” ♦ ♦ ♦ CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ News dispatches state that pirates are again operating on the seas. Yep, and they are still busy on dry land, too.—Walton Tribune. You said a mouth full, Brother Camp. “Some folks,” says the Rittle Rock Gazette, “are shocked at the sight of legs.”- Lessee you name one of ’em.—Macon Telegraph. And those who appear to be most shocked are generally the biggest hypocrites. The pulse of Napoleon the Great beat only fifty times a minute.—Rome Tribune-Herald. That’s what we have heard, and it may be the reason he came so near beating the fire out of all Europe. Well, the republicans are making a misera ble failure of running the government. But what else did you expect?—Greensboro Her ald-Journal. Why, a lot of boobs expected to be floating around in milk and honey, and not a few expected to be getting fifty cents a pound for their cotton. Some citizens say they can tell how their garden is progressing by watching their neigh bor’s chickens fattening up.—Manchester Mer cury. Come to think of it, that is a fairly good barom eter. v Lenine, according to a news dispatch, has arrested Trotzky. Now if Trotzky will return the compliment by arresting Lenine, and then both be sent to Liberia, maybe Russia will be able to get along as well as she has been do ing.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun. In this case each should prove a Frankenstein to the other. “Within the past few years,” says the New York Evening Post, “there has been a striking increase in the number of nut stores in New York and, presumably, elsewhere. What does it mean?” We’ll bite. What does it mean?— Macon Telegraph. Maybe, Johnny, it means there are more squir rels in Central Park, Dalton apparently enjoyed a Gee-lorious Fourth. Right around that city is plenty of the thing that makes everything look glorious. —Rome Tribune-Herald. Oh, no. Dalton is not in the moonshine belt, but even that is preferable to being in the synthetic belt where they make it out of red devil lye and stable refuse. It is very evident that the so-called emer gency tariff bill will not open any markets to American products, but will in reality close them up. Congress has preferred to tinker with the tariff rather than to consider the act of reducing taxation.—Savannah Press. In other words, instead of a stimulant to bus iness the emergency tariff is heading in the other way. Commenting on .the fact that there are no newspaper men in the Georgia penitentiary, Editor Pat Griffin, of Bainbridge, delivers him self of the following emphatic and startling effect: “No, buddy, tlje dear public had rather keep the poor boob out and ride him to death. No use to send him to the gang, as his punish ment on the outside is sufficient to satisfy society.” Well, Pat, we hadn’t thought of that. —Walton Tribune. Neither had we, but there is both humor and truth in the statement The Rome News is of the opinion that a man of the Brandeis type for the United States su preme bench would have been more to the taste of such radicals as Johnson, Borah. La- Follette and Watson. No doubt about it; Chief Justice Taft is altogether too sane and decent- minded for them to like. But isn’t it a good thing that there are only four or five such po tatoes in the United States senate?—Columbus Enquirer-Sun. Chief Justice Taft is all right, and the fact that the small potatoes are after him, should be reason for jubilation. Governor doesn’t think the present taxing system of Georgia , can. be altered and made to fit our needs. He is of the opinion that a new system will have to be created outright. We have been of the same opinion for some time- ^ —Albany Herald. So have we. The present taxing system is out of date, and places the greatest burden on those least able to pay. Practically all invisible prop erty* escapes taxes, and this being true, makes the tax rate too high on property reached by the tax collector. If all paid their just proportion of taxfcs nobody would have to pay too much. ♦ ♦ LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Knowing One Another. To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen: Some people think we will not know anybody in heaven, and some think we will know every body. Neither thought is sensible. Not to know anybody would be to have far less intelligence in heaven than we have on earth. To know every body we would have to be suddenly endowed with a knowledge that would cover the sweep of the ages, and of the universe. The apostle declares, “We shall know as we are known.” This is sen sible. This is satisfying. This has the full sup port of reason. This is how we know in this world. All up and down the street are men and women; but I don’t know them. I have never seen their souls. There are a few people I khow. I have seen their soiiU many times; and I would know them anywhere in the universe/. It is the soul that is gojng to heaven; so it must be the soul that is known. It is’ the eyes of the soul that must see and the ears of the soul that must hear. Socrates drank, the hemlock hundreds upon hun dreds of years ago, but he threw the likeness of his soul across the unborn ages, and to the Soc rates of today he is more real than the man in the next house, and better known that the brother after the flesh. We know our own, and our own "know us. So, we know and shall know as we are known. It is a law of life that what is our own comes to us. It is the spiritual ties that are imperishable. It is the soul-relationship that binds forever. The ties that have their origin in the blood were made for this world. The ties that have their origin in the depths of the soul were made for eternity. It seems one mishtv joy of heaven would be find ing our own of the ages and of the world. JESSIE BAXTER SMITH. S SR ♦ EXCHANGE OPINION ♦ W S Women Men Like. The women whom men like are just average women—just like the normal, every-day, honest- to-God women. This may be contrary to general belief, but if is just what you -would expect if you stopped to think for a moment. Most men run pretty close to the average. There are very few things which sharply differentiate men from each other. Their points of likeness are more numerous than the things in which they differ. We do not like to think that we are all pretty much the same- Each one of us In his or her heart of hearts thinks that he or she is different from other people, for in the minds of most of us being different is synonymous with being distin guished, and all we want is being distinguished in some way. From the very beginning of time men have sought after things which would serve to make them appear to be different from other men, and this search has had as its incentive their appre ciation of the fact of their likeness. All sorts of things have been made by man in his attempt to create the illusion of difference. He has. organized societies into the membership of which but few people are admitted; he has devised uniforms which but few may wear; he has given bits of different colored ribbon, and rnen h^ve been willing to risk death for the privileffp of putting a bit of such ribbon in the buttonhole of their coat; he has had medals and badges of all kinds made and has taken delight in wearing them. All of these things have had one purpose in com mon, and that is to give objective manifestation to man’s desire to appear different from other men —which desire really emphasizes his recognition of his similarity to other men. To the extent that this desire governs the actions of men. you might expect to find him admiring and seeking to make his own the woman who was different from other women, and right here he is confronted by an insuperable obstacle—there are very few such women, for women are just about as much alike as are men. There are, of course, many minor differences, but there are very few major ones. Since this fact of similarity holds good among women as well as among men, and since, further, man has this desire to appear distinguished by seeming to be different from other men, he has forever fooled himself into the belief that the woman upon whom he has deigned to confer his affection is different from and more distinguished than other women, for if she is not both of these then he has failed in his search for distinction, because in admiring and marrying an ordinary woman he has proclaimed to the world his own mediocrity. On the other hand, it is equally true that in his search for differences among women man draws a very sharp distinction between differences which are desirable and those which are not de sirable, looked at from the viewpoint of his pos sible future possession of the woman who is in some way different from the average of her sex. The limits between which differences add to the desirability of the one possessing them are very restricted. This fact is particularly- mani fest when the differences are objective—when they are physical rather than mental and when they are open for everyone to see. Even such common differences as height and weight, if they exceed certain restricted limits, cease to be con sidered differences which merely distinguish and become those which disfigure and consequently detract from the desirability of the person marked by them. Even mental differences between normal people are comapartively small. Most of us think pretty much the same about most things. We do not believe that this is so, but experience has dem onstrated that even in their thinking men differ mainly in just little things. The result of all of which is that the woman whom men like is not very much different from other women. She does not possess exceptional beauty, marked intelligence, scintillant wit nor rare graces of character. She is just a woman— a woman like our mothers, sisters, sweethearts and wives, for these are women whom men have liked.—Hammond, in Cincinnati Enquirer. • Topics in Brief. Somehow we wish Harvey had been an admiral, too.—Dallas News. The present liquor situation is high but not dry.—Columbia (S. C.) Record. “Jazz is dying.” It always did sound that way. —Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. If Lenine has gone crazy, the mystery is how they found it out.—Louisville Post. Evidently John Bull aspires to be monarch of oil he surveys.—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. Peace is in danger of becoming a mere skeleton in armor.—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. Apparently disarmament is one of those dreams that go by contraries.—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. To avoid collision, nations should keep to the right.—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. Judging from the naval appropriations, Congress is certainly for peace at any cost.—Dallas News. Admiral Sims may have consumed something that made him imagine himself the American eagle. —Toledo Blade. CHEERY LAYS^ for DREARY DAYi BY JAMES WELLS 0 Writer of Newipaper Ver«e Z " and Popular Song Lyrics ’ : ymo ' P °«mi Calomel. A country doctor was Doc. j 0nes One of the olden school ’ And calomel from cold to’bones Was his one golden rule For fever, bunions, cough or Or just a “sinking spell” Cold - This doughty country doc of ni,i Would feed them calomel. d Old Hiram Brown once fell fw„ . And broke a brace of bones stiUr And so to whom should fall his „ But good old Doctor Jones? 6 Th TMi d ? C i t i° r cameand set his limb_ I’ll tell you what befell- No plaster cast or splints for him He gave him calomel. . n ~~ Republicans have been in power For many a weary day And lagging business waits the h™,. When it can “fire away” ° 0Ur But tariff’s all they give to us To make the country well- nl , S th ? y feed a s pills Of tariff calomel. * . The Vnotyper’g Song A lmotyper loved a maid And thought the time was rine To tell of his undying love— P Upon the linotype. “Fair maid,” he wrote, “I ] 0 v e V0U well From you I ne’er would part ’ O, maid divine, for you I pine O, give to me your etaoni. ’ “O. fly with me to tropic isles O, maid I love so well, And 'in etaoin shrdlu cmfwvD Shrdlu we will dwell. And there we’d stroll on coral knoll In love’s enraptured bliss, And hand in hand we’d walk the ctronA And steal a HBle shrfflu Just a Coughin’ and a Coffin He just kept on a coughin’— Did Mr. Peter Goff; He just kept on a-coughin’ Till a coffin bore him off. Hit Him! O, hit him gently with a brick If he should come to you— I mean the guy who up and says “Is’t hot enough for you?” ‘ ' “Do It and Then Talk About It” A word of wisdom, O, mv friend, I would iippart to you: Boast of the things which you have done Not what you aim to do. Curious Things^ Did you ever notice This, by Ned: A river’s mouth’s Not in its head? —The Dalton Citizen. This is curious, too, When you hear it sung: That a wagon’s body Is pulled by its tongue. —Jim Jams, in Greensboro Herald-Journal. And this, bo, too, Is a curious case: That a watch’s hands Are right on its face. The Proud Bird. All hail to the American Agle! Proud bird of freedom all hail! The fowl which none can inveigle Nur sprid salt on its bootyfull tail! —Irishman in Manchester Mercury- Here’s to dot American eagle! ’Twas he made de kaiser take pause; He’s not such a muchness to look at, But he bites so tamm hard mit his claws. Those Women. Mary had a little skirt. The latest style, no doubt: But every time she got inside She was more than half way out. —John R. Stratton. Mary had a little waist. She’d button it and pin it; And every* time she put it on She was more out than in it. To the Proofreader. When the proofreader leaves this vale here below, And all of her labors are o’er; When she lays down her pencil to mark ns more proof, Where, wmong fonts will trouble no more; When St. Peter comes to give her a crown, With jewels as bright as the dawn, ,. She’ll say to the saint, “lay the bloomm tmnj down, And go put the job number on.” The Good Times Looming Ahead. Oh, you’ll have to out and hustle. Get a busy little bustle, . , j. For you‘11 never win the battle, bo, in be i Oh, you must be up and doing, Be the fickle dame pursuing, . Or you’ll miss the good times loomin s a There are good times looming just Good times looming just ahead, But you’ll have to be a worker. For they’ll not come to the shirker- The good times looming just ahead. Oh, you must not be repining— Must not spend your time in whinm*,* Just get out and get a hustle on inste If you spend your time in sighing,. And hard times you’re always crying. You will miss the good times loo ° ahead. There are good times looming just < Good times looming just ahead; But they are not for the laggard, For the whiner and the bragga — The good times looming just nhcan. Oh, you must not be down-hearted At a stumble ere you started, n e( j; A fight was never won by those w Oh, you must keep on a-sticking. Though sometimes you get a licking- . * just If you’d share the good times ahead. [head. There are good times, looming > us Good times looming just ahead: But they are not for the quitt 1 > Though the fight may be most The good times looming just ane for Before repealing too many personal r' 3 privileges, why not re-peal the Lin Norfolk Virginian-Pilot- n r oute _ American, after-dinner speakers _ ^^0111°‘ London are advised to stop over at >> rehearsal.—Dallas News. , _ ver wh® The world has ceased to quarrel. - s j e ft- right and gone to scrapping over v Columbia (S. C.) Record. . thp Irish "There are evidently two sides to t e ^tb tion, but the same individual never them.—Columbia (S. C.) Record.