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Official Organ of the United State* Circuit and District
Courts, Northwestern division, Northern District of Georgia.
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DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1921.
When, oh, when are freight rates coming down?
Prospects for a bumper corn crop in this sec
tion were never better.
The Omaha Bee says that when you feel all
shaken up it may be flivver complaint.
Tommyrot Watson says he is on the water wag
on for good. All we got to say is that we never
heard of water making people do like he does.
If President Harding insists on “buddying” too
much with Henry Ford Senator Newberry, of
Michigan, is likely tb cut his acquaintance.
• 1 After the Weevil.
Good work is being done by a number of farm
ers in the fight on the boll weevil, in Whitfield
county, and the work is costing them nothing ex
cept the time and energy expended.
Several report to The Citizen that they have
found fewer squares that have been attacked by
the cotton pest each time they have gone over their
fields.
The calcium arsenate treatment of cotton has
been found fine for getting rid of the old weevils;
but the picking up and burning of the square in
which the old weevils have laid their eggs is
accomplishing much in preventing the weevils
from multiplying. This destroys the eggs.
By intensive cultivation and the picking up and
burning of squares that have fallen off, farmers in
the weevil infested sections have found they can
make a good crop of cotton and -many Whitfield
county people have dptCCjfliitfed. to'fSlJow n this plan.
If all would for
where a field of cotton is left to the weevil, his
tribe multiples rapidly and spreads to other fields,
making the elfForts of those who are trying to
fight the pest successfully doubly strenuous.
Hard and systematic work can accomplish won
ders, and all who have planted cotton should make
it a point to line up with one another, and not let
up a day in the war on the weevil; in that way
only can the country make a good cotton crop this
The wilderness where used to stand the Hotel
Dalton ought to be fenced in or otherwise ob
scured from view. The way it is the uninitiated
are likely to get lost in its wild fastnesses.
According to the Cincinnati Times-Star, prohibi
tion is a little too successful in congress and too
little successful outside of it. This is the result,
of course, of congress being bossed by the anti
saloon league lobbyists.
The New York World says “Mr. Harding is ad
mittedly the best golf player who was .ever in the
white house, but his gifts of leadership are re
stricted wholly to matters of party expediency.”.
We have never before seen a better pen picture
of the President.
“Harding ‘Camps Out’ with Ford, Edison, Fire
stone and Anderson; Swaps Yarns, Slaps Mosqui
toes,” reads a headline. We take it that he also
disrobed before going to bed, slept with his eyes
shut, lay either on his back, left or right side, or
stomach, and breathed through the night quite
like any other man.
In order to more thoroughly understand the
Illinois scandal 'it is necessary to remember that
Governor Small, who is charged with embezzle
ment of state funds, is a member of the notorious
Thompson gang. Thompson is mayor of Chicago,
a pro-German during the war, and a political crook
of the Hinky Dink type. Small was his man for
governor.
Vacation Time.
There is frequentlyl real joy to be found in a
vacation, and it is not to be questioned that a
change of air, water, scenery and companions
helps put the body and mind in good working
condition for another year. It is not to be doubt
ed that a vacation spent traveling is a quick way
to gain a great deal of information and to. broaden
one’s education, nor that a couple of weeks spent
back in the fastnesses of the mountains teaches a
man with soul and mind awake much about life
and God. But when vacations are not practical,
it is well enough not to fret about not having them.
The Albany Herald says:
If vou can’t take a vacation this year, don’t
fret about it. Taking a common-sense view
of the matter will help wonderfully m ena-/-
bling you to enjoy staying at home,
After all, it is the common-sense view we take®
of life that helps us through what we are prone 1 -
to call “difficulties.” Instead of worrying our
selves into the positive need of rest over the fact
that it is not convenient to have an outing at a
particular time, it is better to .put on a little more
speed during busy hours and then use the little
bits of spare time in pleasant ways. A summer
filled with little excursions to the country, say
of half a day, or little picnics near a spring, and
little week-end trips to the mountains, will make
the loss of a vacation look ^mailer. It is much
better to grasp the opportunities we have than to
mope over the ones other fellows SEEM to have.
And in this section of country where springs are
on every country drive, mountains are very nearly
within a stone’s throw and motor or horse-drawn
conveyances are in every neighborhood and in
nearly every family, there is little excuse for wail
ing over not getting away for the summer.
' The man with a long vacation and no employ
ment to look forward to has more to worry over
than the man whose business holds him to his
work in hot weather. If one is content, home is
a good place to be and without some degree of
[contentment it would be hard to find real happi
ness anywhere. '■>i 1
One of the most important questions before the
Georgia legislature is that relative to biennial ses
sions of the legislature, that is, so far as the great
majority of the .people are concerned. For years
this question has been agitated by the press, but.
for some reason or other, the people’s wishes havi
not been regarded seriously. Perhaps this is due
to the fact that the majority of the members enjoy
the annual outing in Atlanta, and since the per
diem has been increased the annual outing is
even more inviting and interesting than ever be
fore.
Governor Hardwick is right in insisting that
the biennial sessions bill should be passed. One
session of the legislature every two years is suffi
cient to transact all the legislative business that
is necessary in this, commonwealth. There are
so many “isms” introduced into each session that
business is upset and is continuously harried and
worried over the prospect of adverse legislation.
Nearly all the states-in Jhe union have passed
the biennial sessions bill, and Georgia certainly
ought not to lag longer. The great majority of
the people are in sympathy with the movement,
and members of the legislature should heed their
wishes and put the put the biennial session^ bill
through.
Will they do it?
The Augusta Chronicle urges biennial sessions
of the legislature, saying:
Ever since Governor Hardwick recommend
ed that the Georgia legislature meet biennially
instead of annually there has been a great
deal of discussion in the press of the state. As
was to have been expected the newspapers are
all practically a unit in favor of the once every
two years session of the general assembly, for
such a^ program tends to less expense and
greater* efficiency. The amount estimated to
save the state is about $50,000 and it is money
well worth saving, especially right now.when
Georgia’s affairs financially are in such a tan
gle.
We understand there are now only six states
in the union that cling to the annual session,
while there is only one state which goes to the.
other extreme and has only quadrennial ses
sions. Alabama’s legislature meets only once
in four years, which is certainly ‘‘a long time
between drinks,” as the governor of North
Carolina is reputed to have s^id to the gov
ernor of his sister state.
From the Macon News we quote as follows:
The Georgia legislature may not be the great
est deliberative body on earth, but it looks as
if it might be the most deliberate great body
under the sun. if we may take as a fair ex
ample the action of the senate on Tuesday
when a motion to 'extend the day’s session
thirty minutes was debated for twenty-six
minutes before it was adopted, thus netting
exactly four minutes of additional public ser
vice.
Governor Hardwick has suggested that the
general assembly should hold only biennial
sessions, and this suggeslion is entirely wor- ,
thy of support. There are only six states iir
the United States that cling to the costly and
vexatious custom of holding annual sessions
of the general assembly. In addition to Geor
gia these are Massachusetts, New Jersey, New
York, Rhode Island and South Carolina. All
the other state legislatures meet in biennial
session, with the exception of the general as
sembly of Alabama, which meets only once in
four years.
Regardles of whether annual, biennial or
quadrennial sessions are held, in a majority
of the cases there is a limit on the number of
days in which the legislature shall remain in
regular session.
But, naturally, a special session can be called
at any time, and this' is one of the remaining
abuses that should be wiped out.
Some of the wisest students of statecraft
have thought that the best solution of all
would be for the. legislator to be paid a spe
cific amount, say $500, for each sessio nof the
legislature. These sessions would be held only
once in two years, but when the legislature
did assemble there would be no limit on the
number of days that it would remain in ses
sion.
Of course there are other expenses to long-
drawn sessions of the general assembly, but
the salary of the members is the most impor
tant single item and it is safe to assume that
when they are paid as much for doing their
work • in fiftv days as if thev spent several •
months at it they would find a way to get
through with what they have to do and go
back home.
We would have no such spectacle as that of
last Tuesday when the senate spent twenty-
six minutes debating a resolution to lengthen
the sitting thirty minutes.
Two-thirds of the present session of the
general assembly has now expired, and with
the exception of the Highway bill, not a sin
gle measure of first importance is even.well on
the wav to final disnosal. The state is in an
lacute financial situation, and yet the delibera
tions on that and other subjects are so pro- f »
longed thait in all probability an extra session
will have.tOiibe called, which means that the
members of the general assembly will draw
their per diem for that much longer and other
costs'.which the tax-payer will have to meet
will be accumulated. •
T.et ns have biennial sessions in conformity,
with the tendencyifof the times, and pay the
members so rrfiScn per session.
Maybe it is the heat that is causing ’em to fight,
“After all,” says the Tifton Gazette, “it is just
as xyeli not to require women to do military duty
and work the roads. They might stop and talk
too much.”
An Interesting Book.
Among books received this week, one worthy
of note is “The Jew and American Ideals,^ by
John Spargo. Mr. Spargo is author of six-gthar
books on questions of political and sociolQgifcal
affairs, and is a profound and lucid thinker.. .^This
book clearly shows that all anti-Semite stuff vom
ited upon a bored world by the rabid of--all-races
is'-vaporfftgVviejdus ; 'and false. -3^.
Mft^pargd^als-with the question in a-large
-.goija^intQ -the “great Jewish conspiracy”
ugbtyand^ showing the absurdity of cause
,-for anti-SemitisrU^Ihe false logic and insane rea-
* sowings and ravings of the ilk of Ford.
mysterious paper found in Europe, got up by
one Sergi Nilus, tells of the “vast conspiracy” and
is the flimsy platform of these antis. Mr. Fargo’s
book clearly refutes all the slanders that the
filthy Ford is sending forth from his Dearborn sty.
We advise our readers who have been sated
with venomed stuff from Watson, Ford, and other
agitators, to secure this well-written and illum
inating volume. It is interesting and well worth
reading. Harper Bros,, New York City, 75 cents
net.
Now Is Not the Time.
As The Citizen has previously pointed out, now
is not the time to saddle on the taxpayers ot Geor
gia an income tax law. The federal government
is levying a heavy toll on the people with its in
come tax law, and there is no relief in sight, al
though. it was promised by the republicans when
they were shelling the woods for votes.
And the more the state income tax law is studied
the worse it seems. If passed it would not, as it
system. Incomes are dwindling as a result
deflation and business depression, and unless the
income tax law contemplates confiscation, enough
revenue could not be raised to meet the demands
of the state by the new process. We would still
have to resort to the ad valorem system, or be in
a worse fix than at present.
Senator John H. Jones, of LaGrange, is fighting
the bill, and in so doing is rendering the state
distinct, valuable service. He is showing up the
weaknesses of the proposed law and the probable
ineffectiveness of it. He has stressed the point
that in times of depression the state would be ob
liged to raise the rate, whereas the reverse, if
possible, should prevail. The bill as it is to be
passed has no (limits as to the amount of taxes to
sfie assessed. Governor Hardwick insists that there
be no limitation. This, in our opinion, is perni
cious, and should spell defeat for the-bill. Confis
cation is an ugly word, and confiscation of prop
erty and incomes has been practiced in "no civil
ized country, except bolshevist Russia, where peo
pie are now starving to death by the thousands.
Under the appropriate heading of the “One
Great Defect,” the Macon Telegraph of Wednes
day discusses the proposed income tax law very
forcefully as follows:
State Senator John H. Jones, of LaGrange,
who manifests a close insight into the Geor
gia tax situation as it at present confronts the
people of the state, points out that if the in
come tax plan were adopted, the state would
be compelled to raise the tax rate in times of
depression, whereas it would be able to lower
it in fat years. The reverse of this, of course,
should maintain—when business is experienc
ing lean years, certainly the rate should not
be increased.
That what Senator, Jones says is true is ob
vious. In times of depression, the incomes of
individuals and corporations are less than in
prosperous days. :A uniform or invariable tax
rate for every year, on incomes would be un
satisfactory and unsuccessful as a revenue
producer since incomes vary with the times,
according to whether they are times T>f pros
perity or of depression.
The expenditures of the state treasury must
be about the same every year, since it requires
about as much ope year as another to keep
going the state sanitarium, the penal institu
tions, and the other state departments. If
anything, the appropriations to these ends
must increase each year, rather than suffer
reduction at any time.
Since the state’s expenditures from year to
year are practically uniform, the revenues
must also be more or less uniform from year
to year. On the other hand, incomes of indi
viduals and corporations are not uniform over
a long period of time; in fact, the income of
private business varies continually. If, there
fore, the state, whose expenditures are uni
form, is forced to depend upon revenues that
are not uniform, there is but one way out,
namely, the state must levy a higher rate of
taxation against incomes when' they are low,
and the lower the incomes go the higher must
be the rate. In a year of real panic, the in
come tax system would prove itself an abso
lute failure, both from the standpoint of the
rate it levied against incomes and the amount
of revenue derived as a result.
The United States government is now dis
covering the truth of this. Incomes will not
this year supply nearly so lqrgea tax revenue
for the treasury at Washington as they did
last year.
Even if the income tax plan were adopted,
therefore, the ad valorem would -have to re
main. The wisest thing to do is to whip the
ad valorem system into better shape, and per-
' ■ feet what we have got rather than adopt a
new method of taxation that on the very face
of it reveals that the rate would be at its high
est in times of depression.
Sam Hill Says
Men' and women advance arguments that are
sound—and only that.
If it was as easy to borrow money as it is to bor
row trouble some of us would be worse in debt
than the government is.
Is it any consolation to know that many of the
people who are everlastingly handing you bricks
while you are alive will send flowers when you
die? Same here.
Contentment must be a wonderful thing. But
has anybody ever experienced it?
We have more patience with the end seat hog
on a street car than we have with the boob who
takes your shoulder for an upper berth on a hot
day.
Home life and motoring are very much alike,
So long as the rpads are good and the tires hold
up and the engine behaves everything is lovely
and you enjoy the trip. But—oh, well, you know
how it is when things begin to go wrong.
Some of our modern young ladies would even
object to being covered with a mantle of charity.
Many of the families who have never been able
to afford a bear skin for their homes now have
bare skins to display to the callers.
Eternal youth evidently is only a dream, but we
have seen many infernal youths who were regular
nightmares.
The only watering place some people can afford
to go to in the summer are the public drinking
fountains.
The old-fashioned twenty-five cent cotton stock
ings could be darned and darned, but when the
modern silk hose starts to go it becomes a total
wreck p. d. q. Maybe that’s why so few girls these
days ever have learned to darn—except in slang.
They may have reduced the kick in our bever
ages to half of 1 per cent, but they’ll never be able
to reduce the kick in people to anything near zero.
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CLIPPINGS Ain) COMMENTS
The cost of ice has been reduced in Albany.
Why should it not be reduced in Rome?—
Rome Tribune-Herald.
And why not in Dalton?
So far no effort has been made to interfere
by law with the Sunday afternoon nap.—Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun.
Don’t be too impatient. Soon the wily reformer
will get around to it.
Marion Jackson has learned that vitupera
tion, insinuation and abuse is not argument
and the people no longer fall for such stuff.—
Bainbridge Post-Searchlight.
The people of Atlanta, that is a goodly number
of them, fall for the maudlin rot of Jackson, but
no great number of the people of Georgia will
stand for it. It doesn’t mean anything.
\ next time, what’s the matter with Hon Gordon
Lee for that position?—Rome Tribune-Herald.
Now, you’re talking horse sense.
“Rogers lives in a small country, town.”
“How small?”
“Well, it’s so small that he regards every
competitor in business as a personal enemy.”
—Wroe’s Writings .
You’ve been in ’em. Yes. Well, with apologies
to Johnny Spencer, let’s go.
And what do you suppose the governor of
Illinois said to the lieutenant-governor of Illi
nois when the black maria stopped out front
and honked for them both to come out and
' get in?—Macon Telegraphy.
Well, we don’t know, but judging from the way
they are acting we feel that the governor must
have told the Black Maria and all its attaches to
go to h—1.
Mr. Volstead, it is disclosed, is very fond of
chewing tobacco and much is being made of
the discovery. Perhaps some enemies of his
prohibition legislation would like to get re
formers after him and make him relinquish
his plug just as he took the stein from them;
but Mr. Volstead’s tobacco is safe. Too many
members of congress like the weed in its va
rious forms of mischief or' comfort for any
such conception or reform to be s effective.
Chew on, Mr. Volstead, chew on.—Dawson
News.
“Too many members of congress” liked their
stein of beer, too, but they took orders from the
anti-saloon league, and you see what happened,
don’t you?
That municipal league progaganda did not
have much effect upon the Georgia legislature;
as our solons know full well that it will not*
do to attempt to obligate the state to assume
any more indebtedness. The water powers of
Georgia will be harnessed for the generating
of hydro-electric current in the course of time,
but it is not the proper thing for the state to
go into the business. Private capital will
eventually seek such investments without in
volving the credit of the state.—Sandersville
Progress.
Individual initiative is the thing that will de
velop hydro-electric energy in this state. The so-
called municipal league was handed the lemon it
deserved.
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
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What’s the Use to Worry?
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
Yesterday a good man was complaining to me
about the ways of his church people. They were
not doing to suit him, and he seemed to think it
his imperative duty to set about compelling them
to do differently. I replied, “My brother, why
should you worry about the people? The good
Lord still allows them to exist, and if He can stand
them, surely you ought to be able to. As you go
througp this old world you will have to deal with
people as tney are, not as they ought to be. The
sooner you realize this the better it will be for
you. People are just people wherever they are.
There is not a whit more religion in the church
house than in the neighborhood. A man is no bet
ter in the Amen corner Than in his own home, be
hind the counter, in the shop, the field or the mid
dle of the big road. You can’t change them, and
if you will take my advice you won’t waste your
time and energy trying to.” He was silent a little
while, then he said, “I guess you are right; and I
shall take your advice.” ~
Still ignorance curses the world—ignorance of
the fact that the universe is emersed in a system
of laws that enforce themselves. Forever, good
men are wasting their time and energy trying to
remodel the world, when it can’t be done.
At long intervals a mighty change sweeps over
the nations; but these changes come when they are
due, and can neither be hurried nor hindered.
Everything obeys the law of its nature.
Growth is the law of life. Men and women reach
higher planes of thought, feeling, life only by ex
pansion. A little faith strives and struggles. 'A
great faith rests in God.
No man can live a truth he does not compre
hend; and no man can comprehend a truth he has
not developed into.
To worry about the fate of humanity is to
question the wisdom and goodness of God.
Let us expend our energies upon the duties each
day brings, and not waste tnem trying to drag
the world by the hair of its head up the heights,
for it can’t be done. JESSIE BAXTER SMITH.
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EXCHANGE OPINION
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The Valdosta Times thinks more of reading
the Bible at home than it does in the schools.
If the Bible was properly read and studied at
home the school end would take care of itself.
—Madison Madisonian.
Verily that is true. Bible reading in the schools
will accomplish little, if any, good. But on the
other hand, it will likely do no harm.
There never has been yet a proposition so
well put and so well suited to the needs of the
people that someone would not oppose it.
Generally this is done for effect—more for
notoriety that anything else.—Swainsboro For
est-Blade.
There is so much truth in the above that it is
very impressive. * Always there are those who op
pose everything that is.suggested, no matter how
good or worthy it may be.
“Completely Exonerated.”
A fiasco in Atlanta Wednesday afternoon affect
ing the office of state commissionaer of agricul
ture reveals to what extent this great common
wealth is bound hand and foot to petty politics.
J. J. Brown defended himself against charges of
having bought an automobile for his own person
al use with the state funds and against having
bought a car of corn for his own use at a low
price after he had his inspectors condemn it. He
made his defense before a senate committee after
Senator L. C. Brown had lodged complaint against
his department. And we wonder if this is the
extent of investigation to which this most impor
tant department of state affairs is going at the
present time?
We have no grudge of any kind against Com
missioner Brown. He is 'a dead one in office so
far as net results in progressive farming go in
Georgia. He has been dedd since the day he won
the office. If he were to remain office a thousand
years with every financial advantage at his dis-
posaj-it would then be impossible to note a single
step^fi agricultural progress in Georgia so far as
the state department of agriculture is concerned.
Georgia will remain agriculturally slothful and
groggy so long as J. J. Brown is the man to set
the pace in the state.
Politically we shall have to make other con
fessions. This commissioner has bent all his en
ergies first to entrenching himself in office, then
to the Watson and Hardwick forces. He has al
ways, from the day he was first named to office
sought to bring these two belated statesmen into
the lead in this state and since these efforts have
befcn crowned with success, should any man dare
to have Brown investigated?
The thought of accusing him of condemning a
car of corn and then buying ir himself should
make one laugh. But the though of his running
a political ring with the state’s funds should make
thousands of men shudder. We- are confronting
that kind of situation at present and Brown reigns
supreme. He is too strong for the word of an
honest man in protest to weigh more than the
quacking of a duck. He is so well surrounded
with sworn agents of his • political bidding that
every honest man looks like a brigand or highway
robber—out of place when he dares to stand up
and call for real service to the people and the
public with the funds which belong to the public.
His masters in charge of the state capital com
pletely exonerate him while those who make
charges, slink away and do not even show up
when it comes time for a hearing. Senator L. C.
Brown is not a criminal, nor a dishonest political
grafter. He knows, as most Georgians well know,
what is the trouble with the Georgia department
of agriculture—but he knows also what will be the
verdict with these masters in charge.
Georgia is one of the greatest of all the farming
states. It has tried to maintain a state department
of agriculture for years. While in other states
men have caused the investment of millions in
agricultural advancement through state support
and backing, have secured great farming improve-
CHEERY LAYS
for DREARY DAYS
By JA'MES WELLS, The Prmter-P 0et
He Took a Chance.
In the road a Georgia mule
Standing half asleep;
Enter little Willie Poole—
By him tried to creep;
Mule threw out his left hind heel
As one sometimes will. ’
WiUie didn’t even squeal
And he’s sleeping still.
He took a chance,
He took a chance,
As fellows sometimes will-
He didn’t think the mule would kick
He’s sleeping on the hill.
Fellow found some dynamite
Lying in the road,
To the fuse he struck a light
See if ’twould explode;
Dynamite of course went off
As ’twas apt to do,
Blew things into smithereens—
Fellow went off, too.
He took a chance,
He took a chance,
The foolish way of some-
He struck a light to dynamite—
He’s gone, to kingdom come.
Fellow In an auto came
To a crossing grade,
He would play no cautious game—
He was not afraid;
Drove nis car across the track—
Like some fellows would;
Engine hit his car ker whack'
Gone to kindling wood.
He took a chance,
He took a chance,
Of wrecks his was the worst;
He had six months in hospital
To think of “safety first.”
Fellow met and fell in love
With a maiden fair,
Called the girl his turtle dove,
Praised her auburn hair;
Now they’re married, what a change
O, you auburn hair!
He would call her many things
If he only dare.
He took a chance,
He took a chance,
Around the house she makes him prance
Oh man, beware of auburn hair— ’
You never GET a chance.
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Hold Your Own.
In the little game of life
Hold your own.
Through the storm and stress and strife
Hold your .own.
Though the Cattle fierce may rage
As the foe you may engage
On life’s hard-contested stage,
Hold your own.
Do not sit and idly whine,
Hold your own.
Do not stop, inert, supine,
Hold your own.
Boldly, bravely do and dare,
In this life’s work do your share,
Do not give up in despair,
Hold your own.
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, Some Guys Get That Way.
A guy we like
Is Jim McFain;
Keeps a-smilin’
Through the rain. ’
—Bill Biffem, in Savannah Press.
A guy we like
Is Colonel Knott;
He doesn’t fight
When it gets hot.
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Shocking!
The corn, was shocked beyond belief,
The beets turned very red
And all because the onion found
A turnip in her bed!
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Dog Days.
Why it is dog days I don’t know
Unless it be perchance
That in this sultry summertime
The dogs put on their “pants.”
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Words of Wisdom.
A word of wisdom, O, my friend,
I would impart to you;
Boast of the things of which you’ve done,
Not what you aim to do.
—The Dalton Citizen.
And emulate the fine old owl
Such a wise and noble bird;
Tell only the things you know-
And not what you have heard.
, —Greensboro Herald-Journal.
Do not be like the rooster proud,
Who goes '’round crowing, braying;
He tells the world about the fact—
But the hen does all the laying.
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Don’t Rock the Boat. .
(Respectfully dedicated to Labor and Capital.)
The bark of business sailing
Along .uncharted seas,
The offshore wind is failing,
The captains on their knees.
Adrift the bark is floating,
Nor one know where they float,
No chart there is^denoting—
So, please don’t rock the boat.
The bark of business sailing
Into a harbor bright,
Prosperity unfailing
Almost within our sight.
Oh. be not panic-stricken,
Nor mount make of a mote.
Oh, spare the strifes which sicken—
And do not rock the boat.
ment through state development, Georgia has P *
mitted her state department of agriculture to
come an agency for developing political e *P •_
—men who know how to get hold of ana re
the confidence of the wool hat man and tne
billie. And these experts hold their jobs n
accordingly as they succeed in the busmes
keeping the political fences strong for Brown
hi s imistcrs f
That’s the truth about our state department o
agriculture. You who have pride in f a £ nu ( r 1 'L se if
vancement and progress in Georgia—ask. you
if you have ever found J. J. Brown actively
gaged in any serious effort to encourage o
large agricultural growth. We know wna be
will have to say. We know what will alwaj
the answer. The day must come when «
get service out of this department. It is as v ^
tant as vocational training, wise investm _
money, to encouragement of sound farming m
prise in Georgia as is our common school s .
Men who are accustomed to seeing tne ^
money spent in political fence building m<. {
smile when they see J. J. Browns depa “hat
given complete exoneration, but they kn?
corruption, what dishonesty, what aPP^^epait-
Georgians are suffering because her stateMag
ment of agriculture is something else—eve .
other than an agency worthy of the name. ^
Some day not far in the future J. J- o0 blic.
have to answer to an awakened, arous.ea p . .
We do not know when, but that day is ^
It has never failed that such a machine as s
built will ride to its fall. When that ,^ or( jele
such a house cleaning as we will have.
Dispatch. *
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