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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1921.
The Dalton Citizen
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DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUG. 2a, 1921
A snobb can neither be cured nor endured.
According to Forbes Magazine “golf is an ideal
diversion," but a ruinous disease.”
Service is a much abused word, but neverthe
less it is a good word and means much.
Wage slave, according to the Kokomo (Ind.)
Tribune, is “any lucky chap who has a job.” That’s
not bad.
Good Roads and Hotels.
It is a notable fact that many of the progressive
hotel managements are not only encouraging the
building of good roads, but are actually spending
their money in order to carry the gospel of good
roads to the people.
Frank T. Reynolds, the executive assistant
manager of the Ansley Hotel in Atlanta, is encour
aged and paid by the proprietors of the hotel to
tour the state and preach to the people the salva
tion that lies in good roads.
And right here we will state that no man in
Georgia today has done as much for the cause of
good roads as has Frank Reynolds. He has been
on the job for a quarter of a century, arid in this
section of the state he is known as “Good Roads
Reynolds-” When he was editor of The Citizen
the refrain of his song was good roads and more
good roads; he never failed to repeat, and he is
still at it.
An Atlanta- correspondent, writing to the Na
tional Hotel Reporter, Chicago, has this say about
Mr. Reynolds:
It is quite commendable, as you say in a re
cent issue of the National Hotel Reporter, for
J. Stacy Hill, of the Gibson, Cincinnati, to
take so much interest in the matter of high
way building. .
Would it seem to smack of too riiuch vanity
if the Hotel Ansley of Atlanta, would tell you
that Frank T. Reynolds, its executive assistant
manager, is somewhat of a “good roads” man?
Anyhow, in thfe last three years Mr. Rey
nolds traveled 13,000 miles in Georgia speak
ing on its proposed fifty million dollar state
bond issue for road building and incidently he
' was instrumental in helping fifty-seven Geor
gia counties to vote favorably approximately
nineteen million, five hundred thousand dol
lars worth of local bonds for road building.
The Dinklers, operators of the Ansley and
the Kimball, in Atlanta, and the Phoenix, at
Waycross, encourage Mr. Reynolds in this
work, regarding it as a most favorable asset
to their hotel operations.
Today Georgia is actually spending more
money for roads than any other state of its
population in the union, and has completed
more miles of travelable roads.
Certain people seem never so happy as when
handing out information., Perhaps that is the rea
son there is so much misinformation lying around
loose.
Someone has said that men exist for one an
other. Translated into the language of the day it
would more appropriately read: Men exist to do
one another.
Wrigley, the chewing gum man, spends more
than $3,500,000 a year for advertising. Frequent
ly, you find a little merchant (he couldn’t be any
other kind) with either a quid of gum or tobacco
in his mouth arguing that advertising doesn’t pay.
A Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
Now that the ku klux klan has bought the
Lanier high school in Atlanta, and imperial “Wiz
ard,” (or “Wazard,” or whatever else you may
please to call him^ William Joseph Simmons has
elected himself president of it, maybe some of us
newspaper men will be able to collect for adver
tising carried for said institution a while back.
The Citizen’s bill is still unpaid, but it hopes not
uncollectible.
The Baptist Junior College.
At a meeting of joint committees one day last
v eek at the office of Col. W. C. Martin, a special
committee was appointed to select a site to be off
ered for the location of the Baptist Junior College
that is to be built somewhere in Northwest Geor
gia. There are many fine sites around Dalton, and
tine committee will probably be able to offer the
school committee a choice of several places. It
might be well to do this, as some other towns will
probably be making strong bids for the school.
The logical location for this school would
seem to be in Dalton. Here is the center of a
great section that is in need of just such a school
sis the Baptists propose to build.
Here we have a healthful locality, with beauti
ful surroundings and a big territory from which
to draw support. Thq natural barriers against
storms have always protected* Dalton, and our im
munity from floods is a consideration of no small
moment. *
Whatever is necessary to do in order to secure
this great educational enterprise for Dalton should
be done in such an open-hearted way as to leave
no doubt of our sincere desire- to locate it here.
■ As we have before stated in these columns, Dr.
Crudup, pastor of the First Baptist church, this
city, is a member of the committee which will de
cide the location of the school. He is going to do
his best for Dalton and in doing this he will be
doing the best thing for the great denomination he
represents.
It is very gratifying to see the interest our peo
ple are taking in this matter. The Business Men s
League, the Merchants’ Association and the Civ-
itans are all interested and doing their part. Now
let’s all back up these civic organizations, and not
let up until we have secured the Baptist college.
And let’s not forget to help Dr. Crudup and en
courage Trim in his efforts to locate the institution
in the best town in Northwest Georgia!
The lovers of peace and human freedom in this
country are going to establish a Woodrow Wilson
Foundation, the purpose of which is to suitably
reward the person or persons “doing the most to
promote the ideals of human liberty and interna
tional relationships.”
Woodrow Wilson, as president of the United
States, did more to further the interests of uni
versal peace than any other man living toddy. He
sowed the seed that will bear the fruit of peace.
Even his enemies admit it.
In Georgia Hon. Pleasant A. Stovall, editor of
the Savannah Press, and Minister to Switzerland
under Presiderit Wilson, is to be chairman of the
state committee. There is to be no “drive” for
funds in the sense that the public is now acquaint
ed with drives. As Editor Stovall says, “there are
millions of admirers of Woodrow Wilson and of
his ideals in all classes and sections of the coun
try. The campaign, therefore, will be conducted
in such a way that all of these, regardless of po
litical affiliation, will feel themselves invited to
take a part in it.”
The editor of The Citizen has been invited to
be a member of tiie state committee, and if he can
render any worthy service as such he will be glad
to serve and furnish such aid" as his ability and
time will permit.
The editorial from the Savannah Press, below
quoted, gives a short, comprehensive outline of
the purposes of the movement:
A movement is developing in New York
which is likely to prove a worthy tribute to
Woodrow Wilson, and the people who are
back of it are likely to render a distinct , pub
lic service to this and future generations.
It is proposed to establish The Woodrow
Wilson Foundation, from the income of which
an annual award will be made to the person
or persons doing the most to promote the
ideals of human liberty and international re
lationships which Woodrow Wilson so forc
ibly brought before the American people and
the world. A fund to establish this Founda
tion is to be raised in the autumn.
The campaign will have none of the ele
ments of the usual “drive” for funds. It wil
afford rather an opportunity, for such as de
sire, to contribute voluntarily to a cause in
which-they believe.
No definite amount has been set to be raised,
but it is confidently believed they will get
more than $1,000,000 "to establish the Founda
tion.
There are millions of admirers of Woodrow
Wilson and of his ideals and in all classes and
sections of the country. The campaign, there
fore, will be conducted in such a way that
all of these, regardless of political affiliation,
will feel themselves invited to have a part in
it. *
It is desired that this work shall be taken up
in Georgia, and that a group of strong Wilson
men shall be gotten together as a State com
mittee. The work is to be organized in all
counties and the local t chairman will be re
sponsible for collecting • and the local can
vassers. ,
The widespread interest already awakened
by the early announcement of the plan' and
the large numbers of offers of assistance that
have already come to headquarters from all
over the country convince the projectors that
the time is ripe for this tribute to Mr. Wilson.
Republics are said to be ungrateful. But here
is an opportunity to prove that the heroic
services of our war-time leader have been
appreciated by his fellow-countrymen during
his lifetime.
Franklin D. Roospveff, of New York, is
chairman of the National committee. The
executive committee is headed by Cleveland
H. Dodge and associated with him are Mrs. J.
Borden Harriman, Col. Edward M. House, Ed
win Morgenthau, ex-Ambassador to Turkey;
Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of The New York
Times; Frank L. Polk, former councilor of
the State Department in Washington.
In another place on this page will be found an
editorial from the Cordele Dispatch touching upon
a subject we have frequently discussed in these
columns. It refers to the Department of Agricul
ture, and is plain enough to be understood. If
there is a department in the state that needs over
hauling it is the agricultural department.
The Albany Herald, always fair and temperate
in its discussions of public men and measures,
seems to be under the impression that The Citizen
has lined up with the State College of Agriculture
as opposed to the State Department of Agriculture.
In the coritroversy we have taken no sides, though
we may have seemed to. In discussing agricult
ural matters, we have tried to show that the De
partment of Agriculture, as now administered in
this state, is simply a political machine, < freshly
oiled by the recently adjourned legislature.
Against the faithful agents and employes of the
department The Citizen has no word of censure.
In another place on this page will be found the
Albany Herald’s fair and impartial comment.
♦ ♦
♦ CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS ♦
♦ ♦
The ku klux klan is getting a lots of public
ity, both pro and con, mostly con.—Madison
Madisonian.
That’s very true. The whole thing ought to be
canned;
For sale: Nice lady’s coat, latest style, 2101
Oak St.—Ad in Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times.
If the lady was as nice as she claims to be
she’d give the coat away. Anybody’d SELL a coat.
There are LaGrange and Waycross both
larger than Rome according to the census.
Yet everybody knows that Rome is more of a
city thrin both of them put together. What
Rome needs is ANNEXATION and she will get
it next year.—Rome Tribune-Herald.
Annexation to what? Dalton or Atlanta?
At any rate, there’s some of the loveliest
scenery in this county anywhere, in which to
go fishing.—Rome Tribune-Herald.
Sounds like the paragrapher who, paragraphed
the above had been fishing with the “usual bait.”
Folks in a bone-dry state generally fish in some
thing a little deeper than scenery.
The fact that Woodrow Wilson, of the law
firm of Wilson. & Colby, has recently visited
his law offices has been variously commented
on. The comments so far are favorable. The
large majority of intelligent and patriotic peo
ple of this country will be glad that Mr. Wil
son has so far recovered his health as to be
able to attend to the business of his chosen
profession. Mr. Wilson ruined his health in
the interest of humanity and for the* good of
his country, and it will be a source of satis
faction to most people that he is rapidly re
covering.—Rome Tribune-Herald.
The Citizen joins the Rome paper in good
wishes to Mr. Wilson, a virtual martyr to the cause
of universal peace and human liberty.
Why should Representative Cochran trouble
to censure Mr. Harding for “violating the Con
stitution”? In these piping days of Volstead-
ism one is hardly in. style—and certainly not
popular—unless one is taking a fall out of the
Constitution.—Macon Telegraph.
And speaking about this sort of thing, where
are the empty jails and chaingangs the esteemed
eighteenth amendment was going to fetch us?
When the state of Georgia has a man like
'Tom Watson as one of its United-States sena
tors, and Georgia’s chief city and capital has
a man like Jim Key as its mayor—well, it is
mighty hard to explain away, isn’t it?—Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun.
It can’t be done. Sometimes we feel we are
getting by fairly well when we refer to these
happenings as cruel tricks of fate.
Nobody knows for a certainty what the
price of cotton will be thirty, sixty and nine
ty days from now, but the average well in
formed man in the cotton business believes
the price tendency will be steadily upward.—
Albany Herald.
That’s the way it looks, but nobody knows just
what cotton will do. But all indications point to
better prices.
Says the Dalton Citizen, “President Hard
ing’s father, at the age of 76 has just married.
He is certainly old enough to know what he is
about.” Don’t know about that, the older men
get, the bigger fools they are about women,
sometimes.—Rome Tribune-Herald.
Brother Rowell, we believb, wrote the above
paragraph. He has* never been married, and the
Lord only knows how old he is.
Governor Hardwick,,who is now fishing for
trout in Gilmore county, Georgia, is going to
visit Asheville before he returns to ^Atlanta.
Unlike the Governor of North Carolina, how
ever, he doesn’t propose to transfer the sum
mer capital to the “Land of the Sky.”—Savan
nah Press. ■* %
Bill Sutlive is a good editor if not a correct
historian. He refers to our old county of Gilmer
as Gilmore in the above paragraph.
Editor George Rucker, of The Alpharetta
Free Press, says “Let’s come square with
Georgia’s educational institutions.” You are
dead right, George. A lot of cheap and small
bore politicians are appealing to the ignorant
and uninformed in their tirades against higher
education, but, sooner or later, they will get
it where the chicken got the axe!—Greensboro
Herald-Journal.
We have had so much appealing to prejudice
and ignorance in Georgia that it seems we should
now be at the point where it would give us little,
if any, concern.
The talk about Hon. Gordon Lee of Walker
county for governor of Georgia is rapidly gain
ing momentum. Mr. Lee has been in Congress
for eight terms and is now beginning his ninth
term. His experience in the national law
making body would be of immense advantage
as chief executive of this state and the people
of Georgia should take this into consideration.
—Rome Tribune-Herald.
Of course it is too early to begin serious con
sideration of the next race for governor, but the
fact there is so much talk about Gordon Lee is
evidence the people want a man of his type in
the governor’s office.' No better selection than
Gordon Lee can be made.
Shope has said so many mean things about
so many of us country editors that he’s afraid
to attend the meeting of the Georgia Press As
sociation. Come on, boy, we ain’t agonna pes
ter you.—Alpharetta Free Press. How about
thisL Mr. Citizen man? We’d hate to hurt you
without a hearing.—Madison Madisonian.
You can’t keep a mean fling down. We failed
to receive the issue of the Free Press containing
the above paragraph, and we are obliged to the
Madisonian for passing it on to us. George Rusker
is a mighty fine fellow, and if we ever said any
thing about him that was intended to give offense
we don’t recall it. True, we have poked a little
fun at him when we beheld him wasting ammuni
tion shooting at sparrows while the hawks were
making way with the chickens.
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♦ EXCHANGE OPINION ♦
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Still, It Is a Crime.
In the Saturday issue of the Albany Herald is
devoted an editorial to the state department of
agriculture and the state bureau of markets in
which, by indirection, it puts the Cordele Dispatch
among those taking sides in the fight between the
state college of agriculture and the state depart
ment of agriculture and finished with a defense of
Mr. W. W. Webb who is in charge of the work of
the state bureau of markets.
This paper has openly opposed the methods of
the state commissioner of agriculture—not the
present incumbent alone, but all those ahead who
built political machines with the office. J. J.
Brown is not the only man who made a political
prostitute of this office, but unless we are badly in
error regarding what others did with it, he has
made the most exclusive political machine out of
it this state has ever seen.
Georgia is ninety per cent devoted to agricultural
pursuits, we are told by the statisticians. The
state department of agriculture which should be
devoted a hundred per cent to agricultural inter
ests of the state, is instead ninety per cent politics
and the other ten per cent invisible farm assis
tance—invisible because so scattered and rambling,
only the work here and there of a conscientious
employe is felt. #
Ordinarily the state college of agriculture is not
a political agency of any kind. The fight just
prior to the opening of the last session of the legis
lature was an unfortunate effort to put away the
state market bureau and strengthen the state col
lege in this direction. In that fight we took no
part because we considered it lost motion and a
movement only capable of doing harm.
We have never said a word of the work of Mr.
W. W. Webb except that which was commenda
tory—that is all the kind of comment that we have
ever thought ought to be made. He is a good man
rendering the farmers a splendid service in teach
ing them how to pool their products and realize
more from them. He has been felt in South Geor
gia in such a manner as to bring us to t£e point
where we have said it is indeed a pity that he is
not state commissioner of agriculture. He is not
•a politician. For that reason it will be an accident
if we ever see him as high in the public confidence
as he deserves to be.
As to investigations, if Commissioner Brown? has
the right stuff in him, next time somebody comes
along wanting to investigate his office, he will
throw open the doors and tell the gentlemen to
walk in and go to ‘ it He holds a public .office,
one which belongs to the people and one whiefi^
therefore, ought not to be immune to public in
vestigation. We are not great on official invest
igations, hunting for public scandal. But we are
strong on public service, the kind that Commis
sioner Brown’s office ought to be rendering all over
this state. If he should attend to politics along
the way, why care? It is the most natural thing
in the world. We do not demand that the state
commissioner of agriculture wear his angel wings
when others do not keep quite so well fitted for
transformation. But it is not unfair or unreason
able to expect an agricultural service from this
office somewhere in keeping with the pursuits of
the people. This is a vastly important office from
the fact that it is supposed to develop and assist
in establishing improvements touching agricultural
pursuits in all directions.
We do not want to be unfair, but let us figure
little on that hundred thousand dollars for the
state market bureau. What do you suppose is
going to be done with it? Try to find out this
time next year and see what you get for your
trouble. Oh, no; we never said it was going to be
stolen and diverted to private uses. Mr. Webb’s
salary is not going to be raised with, it-—not much.
1 His traveling expenses are being paid now, we
presume. So his salary and expenses will go on
in the same way. Now mark this down in your
ribte book and turn to it again next year. If you
get a creditable showing for that hundred thous
and dollars, we will help you make a public note
of it.
Mr. Webb is thfe state market bureau at pres
ent. There is a rather expensive bulletin being
run—an experiment, that may or may not prove
a success. We have heard some kicks and no kind
words for it. But next year this time Mr. Webb
will still be the state market bureau—and that
hundred thousand dollars will have been put to
use somewhere. It will not likely be in the state
treasury.
We claim that the thing uppermost in the mind
of the state commissioner of agriculture is politics
—and that’s an open crime in a state like, this—so
far behind with its agricultural improvements and
industrial progress. This office ought ^to be run on
at strict business basis. It ought to be directed by
somebody in love with farming advancement, not
devoted to cheap cheroots, wool hat politics and
moonshine liquor. Those' who are responsible are
stepping on our pride and it hurts.—Cordele Dis
patch.
The State Agricultural Department and the Bureau
of Markets.
When the legislature met in June it was con
fronted with, or had handed to it, a row between
the State College of Agriculture, of which Pro
fessor Andrew M. Soule is president, and the State
Agricultural Department, of which Commissioner
J. J. Brown is the official head.
There had been evidence of more or less jeal
ousy and friction between the two state institu
tions for some time, and the open'rupture was
precipitated by the action of the governing board
of the State College of Agriculture at a 'meeting
held in Atlanta some time in May, if we mistake
not, when resolutions were adopted requesting the
legislature to abolish the State Bureau of Markets,
which is operated under the supervision of the
State Department of Agriculture. These resolu
tions" were sent out to the press with a letter which
represented that the State College of Agriculture
was giving to ; the farmers all the information and
assistance they needed for marketing their crops,
and that the State Bureau of Markets .was, there
fore, useless and imposing an unnecessary expense.
In the same letter charges against the State Bureau
of Markets and direct reference was made to the
Market Bulletin published by it.
The fight between the State College of Agricul
ture and the State Department of Agriculture open
ed up in the legislature pretty soon after that > body
convened in June, and just what happened and
didn’t happen in that connection are now matters
of recent history. Charges were preferred against
Commissioner Brown, and repeated efforts were
made to subject his department to a rigid legisla
tive investigation, but every such move or effort
was defeated. Commissioner Brown proved to
have more influence with the legislature than his
rival, the State College of Agriculture, and all
other forces that were marshalled against him, and
when the fight was over and the legislature ad
journed it was found that, instead of abolishing
the State Bureau of Markets, the appropriation
for. its maintenance had been increased to $100,-
000, and, as if to add insult to injury, the salary
of the President of the State College of Agriculture
had been reduced from $8,000 to $5,00(1.
Some of the newspapers of the State, notably the
Cordele Dispatch ^nd the Dalton Citizen, are still
lambasting commissioner Brown, but he is now
safe until the legislature meets again, and has
more money at his disposal for the maintenance of
his State Bureau of Markets than ever before.
The Herald has not gligned itself with either
faction in this fight between the State College of
Agriculture and the Department of Agriculture, but
it has at various times during the past two years
taken occasion to give erfedit to Mr. W. W. Webb,
the bureau’s representative in this territory, for
his general efficiency and the very good work he
has done. He is still doing good work and is help
ful to the farmers of South Georgia in marketing
their products. His services have been especially
valuable to the farmers in marketing hogs and
peanuts.
In another column on this page we are repro
ducing from the Dalton Citizen an editorial under
the caption, “Feeding a Political Machine,” in
which it is charged that Commissioner Brown is
running his department as a political machine.
That editorial and the text of it from the Cordele
Dispatch speak for themselves, and we have no
quarrel with these contemporaries, but we must
say in justice to Field /.gent Webb that the charge
of “politician” cannot be justly applied to him and
his work in South Georgia.—Albany Herald.
Enter, Sister—-At So Much Per!^
It has come at last—the thing we had been ex
pecting for some time. The Grand Go-Getter of
the Invisible Empire has vouchsafed to admit
women to his sacred order. At so much per sister,
of course.
We had suspected, all along, that just as soon
as William Joseph and his thrifty disciples got
through fishing one side of the creek, they would,
forthwith, fish back down the other bank.
And 'even so they are about to do. For it has
come to pass as written that William Joseph has
had another “vision;” and, this time, the Lord told
him that there were some- more ten dollar-bills
that he and his whippersin had not rounded-up,
and that these _ were in the hands (let us say
hands”) of divers, and sundry good women
throughout the length and breadth of the land.
Women, (God bless ’em!) who are yearning, even
as men yearn to “save the country” and keep the
American flag flying and the “American spirit”
flaunting where “no foreign power or potentate”
can tech ’em. Yea, verily, women who are fairly
burning-up with patriotism—and all of them who
have ten dollars apiece that they can spare for a
cause so holy and a bunch of spielers so persistent
as the social Ku Klux Klan and its horde of past-
grand producers.”
So, it came about, in the fullness of time and
m the mercy of the Lord, that the Grand Wiz,
seeking to recognize this spirit of patriotism, as
well as desirous of placing women on a par with
mere men—where it comes to ponying-up a ten-
spot—held a secret conclave with himself and
Grand Press Agent Clark, following the “vision”
aforesaid and solemnly decreed as follow's?
“First, the influence of women over the
youth of the land shapes the destiny of the
nation and it is in the cradles of the American
homes where the principles and ideals of
Americanism should be instilled into the
minds of the young. To the .preservation of
Uiese principles, ideals and institutions the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is dedicated
“Second, the loyalty of the women to the
original Ku Klux Klan of the reconstruction
period convinces us that, as members of the
klan of today, there will be equal loyaltv and
devotion to the fundamental principles under
lying the order.
“Third, we know women can keep a secret,
because they made "with their ‘fingers 160000
robes for members of the old klan and not one
of them eVer disclosed the identity of any man
who wore one of those robes.
"It is through the influence of women that
today we have some of the strongest men in
the order. And the time has come to give the
women recognition and to allow them to par
take of the honor and glory of membership in
» e j °, r S anization , the imperial "wizard con
cluded.”
Which is to say—if only Brother William Joseph
w ? u ! d . sa y what he is thinking, and not merely
what he is tnlkinff—“flipro’c /vno *. - J
CHEERY LAYS
for DREARY Day?
By JAMES WELLS. The P* to .p w **
The Trails of Yesterday.
t (Song rights reserved )
In ™ e - m i. OI 7’ there lives a spot
Which time has touched in
’Tis of a vine-enclustered cct ** n>
A-down a shady lane-
The honeysuckle’s fragrant scent
A mother in the door, nt ’
And O, I’d like to be a child
As in the days of yore.
I seem to see a barefoot lad
Come whistling dpwn the l an »
While bobwhites piped their ” ’ .
Amid the rustling grain. rrj la >'
I seem to hear his merrv iauah
No thought of care nor 2
And O, I’d give the world tonicht
To be that boy again. 8 1
I’d like to wander back again
O’er the trails of yesterday
And through the land of childhood
If I could find the way d roam -
I’d like to feel the soft caress
Of my mother, old and gra\
And once more wander bach asain
O’er the trails of yesterday" 0
I’d like to wander back again
O’er the trails of yesterday
And through the land of childhood
If I could find the way; d roam -
I’d like to feel the soft cares*
Of my mother, old and gray
I’d like to wander back again’
O’er the trails of yesterday.
A Song of Fall.
Muscadine a-ripenin’ fast-
Sugar-cane am fine;
Yaller yam a-bustin’ through-
Pumpkin on de vine. '
Den it’s fall time in Dixie-
Fall time, I sav.
Yaller yam and juicy ham—
Oh, man, go away!
Simmon growin’ on de tree;
Possum watchin’ roun’;
Nigger watchin’ Old Man Poss
Wid his speckled houn’.
Den it’s fall time in Dixie;
Huntin’ time to come;
Possum meat* oh, can’t be beat—
Sambo, gib me some.
******
Facts.
This is a fact
We cannot shirk:
Some guys had rath-
Er eat than work.
—Dalton Citizen.
This is a fact,
As sure as fate:
We’d rather fish
I Than to dig bait.
, —Cedartown Standard.
• We noticed this,
Quite on the sly;
Some folks had rath-
Er drink than buy.
Hymns of Love.
A girl I love
Is Polly Pate;
She never says:
“Goshai ntitgreat!”
/ —Springfield Union.
A girl I love
Is Phyllis Glidden;
She never says:
"Ahquityerkidden.”
—Plymouth (N. H.) Herald.
For Jane my love
Is all unfurled;
She never says:
“I’lltelltheworld.”
—Youngstown Telegram.
My heart belongs
To gentle Chloe;
She never says:
“Youtellembo.” ,
—Macon Telegraph.
A girl I love
Is Katie Wyizz;
' She never says:
“I’llsayitis.”
Do Your Best.
In the little game of life
Do your best.
In the storm and in the strife
Do your best.
Though you often take a fall,
Never mind the hurt at all—
Listen to the future’s call,
And do your best.
In the sunshine or the rain
Do your best.
Brightest joy or deepest pain,
Do your best.
That’s the only way to win—
Sorter wear a cheerful grin;
Go ahead and fight like sin.
And do your best.
what he is talking—“there’s one born every min
ute, and they are not all of one sex, at that; there
fore, why discriminate between them when both
have the price.”
So, there we have it—enter, sister, and give the
countersign. The same being not the “sign of the
cross”—far from it—but, listen sister, a little sign
like unto this, to-wit: $.
And, may Providence protect our great country,
and our Grand Wizard and all the other sub-wiz-
ards, who can go forth and get ’em in at so muen
per head—hard times, or no hard times.
Yea, verily, may Providence smile upon them
perhaps, even laugh outright, as the saying is- ' a
they open the sacred portals of the Klan to tn
“loyal women” of the land who have ten bucks o
so to spare for the sacred cause. . ,
For, doth it not occur* even to the unitiateU
yea, more than to the initiated—that by so doino-
by “working both sides of the shell,” as it veje,
by the making of the sacred klan a sort ot co
educational graft, so to speak, the Grand Wiz
may yet be able to indulge in another Eft .
home, or, perchance buy another “university
make himself “president” of it, or something-",
All for the greater honor and glory of Goa,
our common country; not forgetting, th e , , r
great symbol of power—the almighty (foliar,
lumbus Enquirer-Sun.
The Bureau of Markets. f
Perhaps the most useless board or oureau
to function in Georgia is the State Bureau °j *
kets of the Department of Agriculture. * ,
never yet, and never will, fill any real nee j
is about as useful as ear muffs in Gehenn 3 -
J. J. Brown and his outfit managed to lobby , j. e
crease of appropriation for this appendage _
the common school funds, the higher instl . t :tn-
the state sanitarium and other necessary i
tions of the state are cut to a pittance, fne
fordville Advocate-Democrat says. ,
Now that J. J. Brown, commissioner °‘ a <v_
culture, has succeeded in lobbying
lature into giving him an increase oi >• ,
per year for his market bureau of the u p
ment of agriculture, we presume he ,
gin at .once appointing more oil inspector
other useless office holders in order t0 , n ,- m .
his fences for next year’s race to succee
self. Every member of the senate an jme
house who voted for that appropriation a
voting to cut the common schools or u ?j s
a quarter of a million dollars should b,
head in shame. His action is simply m
able. ,, ,, a can
Which perhaps tells the story as ^eU son)e
be told. Political expediency often ‘ -r; nies .
queer actions on the people.—Conyers