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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1921.
Tbe Dalton Citizen
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
T. S. SHOPS
T S. McCAMY
. . . Editor
Asaociat* Editor
Official Organ of the United States Circuit, and District
Courts, Northwestern division. Northern District of Georgia.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WHITFIELD COUNTY.
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DALTON, GA.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1921.
It is better to pay as you go.
The Citizen, is seventy-four years old today.
The weather is right zippy these days—and cot
ton is going up.
Lloyd George is one George who doesn’t ask the
other one to do it —
Don’t fail to take advantage of The Citizen’s
October bargain sale.
Credit System Wrong.
The Fort Valley Leader-Tribune, under the
head: "The Bane of Our Business System,” proves,
with points well taken, that it would be the par.
of wisdom for the South to put its business on a
cash basis. The Leader-Tribune’s editorial stress
es the futility of the credit system, and proves
that instead of its being a favor to the customer
to permit his account to run interminably, the
customer is really paying dearly for the privilege.
Slow accounts naturally make the business man’s
overhead needlessly high, and this overhead must
be taken care of. It finally is absorbed in the
price to the consumer. Usually the same price
applies for credit transactions as for cash sales,
and this of course encourages laxity in payment.
Oftentimes a customer has an article charged when
he has more than the amount needed to pay for it
lying idle in his checking account. The money
in the bank is bringing him no interest, but it is
were used to pay the merchant it could in turn
earn a cash discount, and, in continuance of its
cycle, warrant a lower retail price being placed
on goods for this same customer and his neigh-
bars.
There should y be a difference in cash and credit
prices, and it has been shown by the “cash and
carry stores” that large numbers are in position to
pay cash when it is to their advantage to do so.
The credit system is wrong. It not only in
creases the trouble and expense of those who con
duct their afFairs on the credit basis, but, to a
degree, it raises the cost of living for every in
dividual who endeavors to pay his way in the
worl<£ Only the dead-beat profits by long-car
ried accounts.
When a woman begins to wear the “britches”
she ought to begin to pay the bills.
The Dixie Highway between Dalton and Chat
tanooga is beginning to look like a road.
Tommyrot Watson says he is as guilty as Debs.
Granted, but he is also a darned sight crazier.
It doesn’t make any difference what one does,
>ne must think if the thing is to be correctly done.
“The mails must be protected,” says the post-
naster-general. They ought also to be delivered.
Columbus Ga., has voted overwhelmingly for
ommission government. Dalton will eventually
la the same thing.
If the fair officials can’t do any better they
ight employ the city council as an amusement
ature for fair week.
Speaking of departed odors and glories met a
ellow the other day loaded ,up on Sen-Sen—that
nd nothing more.
Work for the Man.
If you work for a man, in heaven’s name '
work for him. If he pays wages that supply
you bread and butter, work for him, speak
well of him, stand by him, and stand by the in
stitution he represents. I think if I worked
for a man I would work for him. I would not
work for him a part of his time, but *11 of his
time. I would give an undivided service or
none. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty
is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must
villify, condemn and eternajjy disparage, why,
resign your position, and when you are out
side damn to your heart’s content. But I pray
vou, so long as you are a part of an institu
tion, do not condemn it. Not that you will
iniure the institution—not that—-but when you
disparage the concern, of which you are a
part, you disparage yourself.—Elbert Hubbard.
P These words of the late Elbert Hubbard
ought to be read to every union laborer in
the land till he could himself repeat them. It
might help change the present attitude of un-
Do vou hear of the union in this age that
studies and discusses among the members how
it may increase output and reduce cosst? Does
any of these think of a way to strengthen the
concern for. which they are working. Is it
not alwavs more wages and shorter hours t—
As^The Citizen. C has before stated, labor unions
e their own worst enemies. They have become
structive powers instead of constructive. They
ot and plan against the institutions they are
orally bound to serve as employes. This is
here their high-powered and high-salaried offi-
irs have led them. It is not yet possible to be-
;ve that the rank and file of union labor is one-
nth as rank and radical as the ^cts of its leaders
ould seem to indicate, yet the atrocities com-
itted by strikers along the line of the A., B. & A.
ailway stand as a terrible indictment against
ie railroad unions.
People in this country have a right to work,
hether they belong to unions or not, and no or-
inization of union men has a right to intimidate,
ackmail and murder them for exercising this
ght. Such acts as these are the outstanding feat-
*es damning unionism. And did you ever hear
! union leaders or officials denouncing the lawless
:ts of union men ?
Elbert Hubbard was right If a man works for
aother man he ought to work for him, and he
agM to be paid a fair wage for his work, and
» also ought to be treated as a gentleman. And
. turn he should treat others as gentlemen.
All Should Observe Simple Health Rules.
One of the biggest things in the world is health,.
and sometimes we feel that least is done to con
serve it Without health a man is not fitted for
the duties and responsibilities of life in any form.
He ma ydrag through the ’world some way, and
achieve something worth while, but he will have
done it against great odds.
People are largely responsible for. the condi
tion of their health, yet not altogether blamable,
because of their ignorance of the simplest rules
pertaining to dietetics.. Knowing what to feat and
when to eat it is a prime essential to good health
and contentment, and these mean success in what
ever line of endeavor one may engage.
A slave to one kind of food is to be pitied the
same as one who is a slave to a dangerous drug.
If persisted in both will eventually prove fatal.
Health rules are. simple and easily followed,
yet how few of us follow them. The average
person overeats, is underexercised, breathes scan
tily and swallows too many pills.
Dr. Royal S. Copeland, commissioner of health,
New York City, is a most interesting writer on
health subjects. In an article in The Macon Tele
graph under the head, “What Every Schoolchild
Really Ought to Know and Do,” he says:
Vacation is over and you .boys and girls are
back in school. Plans for the year have been
made. “Conditions” have been removed and
you have begun the term with “clean slates.”
Have you outlined your health plan? Have
you resolved to make this year mean more in
the development of your body than any other
year has meant?
Education will fail if your body fails. To
succeed you must have a sound mind in a
sound body.
There is a good institution known as the,
Child Health Organization of America. This
differs from most corporations. It was not
founded to make money, in order that it may
declare cash dividends. It sells no stock. It
does not ask you to subscribe for anything.
Yet this corporation has undertaken to endow
you with greater wealth than any financier
couId\possibly give. It seeks to improve your
health, to build up your body, and to give you
such a physical foundation as will guarantee
for you the possibility of useful service
through a long lifetime.
This organization has presented certain
rules for health. The first of these is insist
ence on a full bath more than once a week.
Unless your skin is active your kidneys are
called upon to do more than they are equipped
to do. Their function is so delicate and so
vitally necessary that any long-continued and
undue demands upon them will do harm. Per
manent damage to the kidneys may result
from habitual uncleanliness of the skin.
Your teeth must be brushed at least once
every day. Good digestion depends on the
thorough chewing of your food. Such action
is impossible if your teeth are full of cavities
and painfully tender, as they may be if -not
given attention every few months.
More than this, the teeth may become the
direct means of giving you disease. When
your teeth decay the pus germs may work
-iheir way through the root of the tooth into
your jaw. A “blind” abscess forms, and very
soon you will be absorbing this vile and poi
sonous material. % It should be your pride to
save^gvery tooth and to keep them all white
and glistening.
You should sleep many hours and always
with the windows open. Rest and fresh air
are Nature’s ways of restoring your energy j
and building up your body. If you want a
strong body and a glowing skin you must ob
serve this rule.
Milk is the universal and perfect food. It
is a pity that some boys and girls think it is
‘‘babyish” to drink milk. I am sorry, because
if I had my way every child and every young
man and woman would drink a quart of milk
every day. No resolution can be better than
the resolution to drink milk at each meal.
Milk should be taken to the exclusion of tea
and coffee. Growing boys and girls are better
off without them:
I know no serious objection to a reason
able use of meat, but I think you children
should eat friut and vegetables in larger
amounts. They contain the vitamines, the
growing elements of food. You will learn to
like salads, and will gladly eat these good
things now that you know why they are need
ed by your body.
Water is the universal solvent. It is needed
in large quantities to dilute the wastes, to
carry to all the tissues the soluble minerals
and to replenish the blood. You need at least
four glasses of water every day.
Out-of-door life is essential to good health.
It is a temptation in stormy weather and cold
days to stay indoors. City children, especially,
do too much of their playing inside the house.
You ought to go outdoors every day the,weath
er isn’t bad. Not a day should pass without
several hours in the open air.
These seven suggestions cover the essential
things which will promote health and nrovide
strong bodies. I hope every boy and girl
reading this article will follow this advice.
There is no real cure for stealing except the
chaingang, and it generally lasts only so long as
the thief stays there.
The Koo-klucks are having rather hard sledding
according to the Commerce Observer. But wasn’t
it easy when suckers were biting off §10.00 worth
at a time?
Death of Mr. Hardwick.
The death of Mr. Frank T. Hardwick removes
from the business interests of Dalton one of its
most conspicuous figures. He was Connected with
nearly every manufacturing industry in Dalton,
either as a stockholder or an active official.
He was a man of action, who devoted his entire
time and talents to business. He was a worker
who abhored the loafer and looked, upon wilful
idleness as a menace to society and business.
He was a man of abstemious habits and clean
in his moral relationships. There was nothing
hypocritical about him. He was always in the
open—loyal to his friends while he gave no quar
ter to his enemies.
Aside from his manifold interests in Dalton he
was connected with several successful enterprises
in Chattanooga.
As a business adviser and counsellor he was a
success, as is evidenced by the thrift of the bus
iness enterprises to which he was joined.
Any man who gave evidence that he was willing
to work, honest, and who possessed the element^
of success, could count on encouragement and
help from Mr. Hardwick.
Hp will be greatly missed in Dalton, where for
nearly fifty years he was prominently identified
with its business and social interests.
History That Should Be Remembered.
The Citizen presents below two editorials one
from the Columbus Enquirer-Sun, and the other
from the Cordele Dispatch, dealing with the law
less situation in this state.
That the cunning organizers of the Ku-Klux
Elan took advantage of the situation is not to be
doubted by those in this state who are familiar
with recent history.
Tom Watson, the most infamous scoundrel who
ever appealed to religious and race prejudices, has
been fanning the flames of intolerance and big
otry in this state for several years,, and the people
are now gathering in the* dragons’ teeth distrib
uted by him.
Under the heading, “As We Have Sown, So Are
We Reaping,” the Enquirer-Sun writes some worth
while history as follows:
At last, Atlanta’s three daily newspapers are
waking up to the grave danger that threatens
their city from a set of cheap politicians and
secret order grafters, overplaying the religious
bigotry racket. They seem to have come to a
sudden realization of the facts that the whole
miserable bsuiness—which they have winked-
at and acquiesced, in for years—is about to
blow up and do their town, as well as them
selves a lot of injury; possibly someting akin
to the race war that broke-out there some
years ago, or the anti-Jewish agitation that
swept the town, as well as the state of Geor
gia, some six years ago, except that, this time,
the victims would be the Catholics.
Naturally enough it hasn’t helped Atlanta
very much to be advertised throughout the
country as the very hot-bed of religious and
racial prejudice—though a lot of cheap-skate
politicians and people who have never been
able to make much of 9 living at anything else
have unquestionably made it so—so that it
was about time for Atlanta’s newspapers to
begin to throw a little water on the fire, if
they were ever going to do so.
Hence it was that they all spoke at once,
. and all to the same purpose that this reli
gious persecution must atop “because it is ad
vertising Atlanta tp the world in an unfavor
able light;” that, in fact, Atlanta was about to
lose some big business enterprises, because
they would not force their organizations to
live in such a hot-bed -of religious hatred.
Not a word—until the woods were on fire,
Not a word against it because it was wrong
and cowardly and.contemptible in itself. Not
a word—until now—in defense of the few
thousand Catholic-and Jewish citizens of At
lanta who had the right to live there unmo
lested. so long as thev obeyed the laws, and
to worship God according tb the dictates of
their own conscience; not a word until some
of these good citizens, unable to stand so much
abuse and injustice any. longer, were about to
pack up and leave Atlanta for good.
The thing had simply reached a point where
it was “hurting Atlanta,” where the top was
about to blow-off, and so the three Atlanta
newspapers acted in concert in calling a halt;
albeit some were much milder and more dis
creet than others in voicing their protest
against the infamous practices of their noto
riously cheap politicians and secret order
grafters.
We could almost see the heads of Atlanta’s
three dailies getting together on such a pro
gram—for where all act in concert none is
so apt to get hurt. At least they can afford to
take their chances.
However, it is only fair in this connection to
r say that the Georgian and American has, as
usual, acted with the greatest boldness and
aggressiveness; for it has not only denounced
and exposed some of the professional trouble-
b-eeders bv name, as well as the whole anti-
Catholic crusade in general, but has joined
with The Enqinrer-S'in in presenting to the
people of Georgia the New York World’s amaz
ing exnose of the infamous and cowardly Ku-
Klux Klan. one of the greatest frauds ever
perpetrated upon the American public.
With the Enquire~-Sun’s very much smaller
circulation, the best it could hope to do was
to expose this miserable fraud in Columbus
and the territory in Georgia and Alabama, for
the most part, immediately contiguous to Co
lumbus; so that it is with the greatest satis
faction and encouragement that we we'cnme
the Georgian and American into the field, which
can but mean that the unvarnished truth about
this potentiallv criminal organization will he
made known throughout four or five South
ern states to all who wish to know the truth.
And we are bound to say that it was a big
thing in the Georgian and American to do this;
a very big thing, in fact, for the Hearst papers
to take up the fight of a competitor, the New
York World, and recognize in its expose of
the Ku-Klux Klan a work in which all right-
minded newspapers should join. When all
newsnar>ers in America shall attain to this
standard, then, indeed, will the press of the
country be an influence for good and a power
agaiiist evil.
It is just here that Georgia suffers, as do
most states, for that matter; and the truth
may as well be told, no matter whom it hits.
Take for instance the very thing against
which our three Atlanta contemporaries cry
out in alarm today—religious intolerance run
mad. It is not the growth of a day or a.year.
It has been fed and fostered these many years
in Georgia, and we all know whv and by
whom; we know who has been its chief apos
tle and how much he has profited by it, both
- financially and politically.
We have known that negro-baiting, Jew-
baiting and Catholic-baiting have constituted
his chief stock in trade, and that he has alter
nately cashed-in on all of it.
And we have all known, too, that he wasn’t
sincere in any of it; that he was simply play
ing a game, and playing it for all it was worth
—until his Coffers were well-filled and he, fi
nally, through a political “flare-back,” attained
iy seat in the United States senate.
But how many newspapers in Georgia
raised a voice against him? How many tried
to offset his devilish work when, some, six
years ago, he left-off abusing Catholics long
enough to set the mob on the Jews of Georgia
and openly advocated that the mob “get” Gov
ernor Slaton, as well?
When the state was being set on fire by this
red-headed and red-handed fire-brand how
many Georgia newspapers even came forward
with so much as a sprinkling pot to try, to
put-out the fire?
We refer to these matters at this time for
this reason:
It was right then and there that the so-called
“modern” Ku-Klux Klan was born—chartered
and instituted in the state of Georgia.
And why not? Hadn’t Tom-Watson dem
onstrated what could be done with the “mob
spirit” in this one state alone, when properly
and persistently exploited?
Why shouldn’t one William Joseph Simmons,
a trained secret-order organizer and something
of an exhorter as well, cash-in on it by giving
it a name and a ritual?
And he did this very thing—in the year
1915-16, when the State of Georgia was aflame
with the anti-Frank fever.
Of course, he couldn’t do a great deal all by
himself, so he employed others of the same ilk
to join with him in “selling” religious preju
dice to all who would buy it at §10 a head;
or racial prejudice to others at the same price
—with a mask and hood and shroud, atid
“imperial” permission to wear them and ma
raud in them all thrown in for $6.50 extra.
How many Georgia newspapers hit that in
famous fraud in the eyes as soon as it raised
its hooded head in this state? We-can recall
but a few besides The Enquirer-Sun—and they
the smaller ones—such clean and independent
sheet as The Dalton Citizen, the Cordele Dis
patch, the Albany Herald, the Savannah Press,
the Madisonian, the LaGrange Reporter, and,
perhaps, a few others. The larger dailies kept
discreetly silent—until they could keep silent
no longer, because hell was about to break
loose in their own town. And they hadn’t
said one word to stop it. What a record that
would be to confront them!
That’s the plain story of what has been go
ing on in Georgia all these years; not the
whole story—for the details of all the political
perfidy and journalistic cowardice, or commer
cialism, as you prefer, that have played a part
in »t would fill a book—but enough of it to
show how it. all happened.
First, with Tom Watson—for personal profit
and political power—making religious bigot
ry popular in Georgia. For years he has kept
it up, and cheap politicians fell in line with
it for whatever they could-get out of it. while
weak-kneed npwspaners were afraid to buck it
through fear they might lose subscribers.
Day in and day out, week after week, and
month after month, from year to year, the
seeds of religious intolerance of racial hatred
and of class prejudice have been sown here
there and everywhere throughout Georgia.
We have seen these sowers go forth to sow,
and we have known what they were sowing
and why they sowed—all for the miserable lit
tle political places and power that they got out
of it—but few have had the manhood and
courage to try to stay their devilish work.
Well, we. are reaping today the things that
these conscienceless creatures have sown; ra
cial hatred, religious persecution,, a state fairly
seething with bigotry and prejudice, Georgia’s
very name a by-word throughout the nation
—until even Atlanta’s three newspape.s at last
speak out in protest against the folly and in
famy and danger of it all,because it has reach
ed the point of “hurting their town.” '
And what is it all about? Why, simply that
there are about 22,000 Catholics, men, women
and children, trying to live in Georgia among
a total population of nearly 3,000 000.
It migh seem that this very ^numerical dif
ference would prompt brave anl honest men
to demand fairplay for people so greatly out
numbered; but it has. of course, the very op
posite effect on people who wear masks and
hoods to conceal their identity from decent
men and women—their greatest act of brav
ery being to do in concert and under conceal
ment what they would not dare do individual
ly or in the open.
Under the head, “We Are Reaping Now” the
Cordele Dispatch adds another chapter which is
Loth interesting and true:
Georgia doubled on her after-the-war inher
itances from crime and crime waves by turn
ing many of the ills into political capital. So
Georgia today is hearing from such other
crops of sins as the Ku-Klux Klan the Veazy
law enforcement—and the dynamiters of
trains. These are doing their worst in shock
ing crime and lawlessness of various forms.
Tffis state is reaping what has been sown.
It will continue to do so as long as The state
is in the power of unsafe leaders,Vmen who
believe in the quart of moonshine liquor, the
bull dog pistol and the poker game: So far
as the general public is being led to under
stand from, various movements of public offi
cials, not one thing is being done or has been
done to bring us out of it.
Watson disclaims connection with the Ku-
Klux after he sees what is going to become of
this* preposterous monstrosity for a civilized
community. Hardwick disclaims connection
with or responsibility for such an organiza
tion. and yet came into his office through the
very atmosphere of this thing. It was so strong
with the stench that only yesterday the gov
ernor of this proud state had to write some
body away up in the moonshine country that
the Veazy law was being enforced in Savan
nah. The Veazv law. be it known is Watson’s
♦idea of humiliating Georgia’s Catholic denom
inations, a measure which he daddied and had
passed upon the prejudices he had stirred
against the Catholic church. It is still one of
the rotten agencies through which he secures
votes from the rural sections of Georgia where
many people read nothing but what he writes.
Here is the governo- having to advise those
who pinned their faith to this preposterous
and woefullv unfair religious persecution with
their votes for Watson—having to advise them
that the Veazy law is being enforced in Sa
vannah. And it isn’t if there is a citizen who
resnects himself who could prevent it.
And in Atlanta out went a-woman teacher
who had served her cominunitv twenty years
as faithfully as she could until Watson and
Hardwick’s friends came along building
strength on anti-Catholic sentiment. The gut
ter snipes, who took advantaee of the situa
tion to have this veteran ousted from her place
are not worthy to SDeak her name, so foul
and utterly black is their aim and ambition.
The Atlanta fight on the Catholics today is a
Watson outcroDDing pure and simple. It is
the state’s erving shame. One day decent
Georgians will rise up and resent this tvpe of
politics. We are reaping now as Watson has
sown and the state is suffering revolting crime
and utter wantonness as a result.
The crime that has been committed against
the pronerty and the lives of the employees of
the A. B. & A. Railroad could not have been
committed under anv other regime. Advantage
of the political situation is being taken over
and over again. Criminals do not heh’eve
crime will he mm.ished in Georgia. W» are
rearing. We will continue rearing till re-
snertful order-loving Georgians form new res
olutions and march out firmly for the relief we
so much need. ,
The railroad emploves threatening to strike no
doubt could get some valuable information bv con
ferring with the printers who struck May 1st. and
are still out of work while the shops have all the
help they need.
The Steady Subscriber.
Here is Another tribute to the “Steady subscrib
er, who pays in advance ” which—was handed to
us by a friend and well-wisher.
In this connection we wish to state that The Cit
izen has a large number of “steady subscribers,
who pay in advance,” and the number is grow
ing a most satisfactory manner.
The verses follow:
How dear to our heart is the steady subscriber,
Who pays in advance of the birth of each year,
Who lays down the money and does it quite gladly,
And casts round the office a halo of cheer.
He never says, “Stop it; I canot afford it,
I’m getting more magazines now than I read;
But always says, “Send it; our people all like it—
In fact we all think it a help and a need.”
How welcome his check when it reaches our sanc
tum;
How it makes our pulse throb; how it makes our
heart dance!
We outwardly thank him; we.inwardly bless him—
The steady subscriber who pays in advance.
♦
CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS ♦
♦
Why do some of the country editors con
tinue to spell NICKEL wrong?—Alpharetta
Free Press.
Unfamiliarity with it is our first guess.
It was promised by President Harding that
me office of vice-president should be magni-’
fled. We have a faint recollection of a man
named Coolidge being elected to that office.—
Augusta Chronicle.
And he has been on the cooler ever since he
was elected.
The papers of Northeast Georgia are well
nigh unanimous for Hon. Gordon Lee for gov
ernor.—Alpharetta Free Press.
And it is, the same way over here in Northwest
Georgia and it would not surprise us to see it get
that way all over Georgia.
Converting our corn into pork will be far
more profitable to us as a people and as a coun
try than converting it Into liquor.—Columbus
Enquirer-Sun.
True, but the trouble is more people seem to
like corn liquor better than they do pork. How
ever prices on both ‘’commodities” are way down
now.
CHEERY LAYS
for DREARY Days
By JAMES WELLS, The Printer-Pp^
The Whitfield Countv Fa;
(The Whitfield County fairwhich£ •
postponed one week, bids fair to be
cessful and interesting fair (or af-f a ;?? m <»t si-
in Dalton.) l£Ur ' ever h {
mere are all the people goins,-)
Where are the amusements^h™ '•
* Where ar< ? fan and frolic flowing" 8 ’
Where is pleasure in the a f
Where is pleasure never-emlinrio
Where is fun all else transcenlL
Pleasure and instruction hwi- g *
At the WhitfieldCounty fair/ 18 ’
At the fair, at the fair
At the Whitfield Countv fair
Wish y 9 u pleasure beyond measur*
At the fair, oh, meet me there
See the cotton white and fleecv
See the porkers sleek and gSasv
See the hors es hying easy, Sy ’
(ror they need not work wh;i, ...
At the track, oh, see the races there) '
; See the school-girls’ smiling fa ces
You will find no other place s ’
Like the Whitleld County fair.
the fafe.ft’s the fair,
«’U he Whitfield County’fair,
Where there’s pleasure for the
Will you go and get your share ? Dg '
Then be sure and save your quarter
Take your son and take vour daughter
(If you dont you’d surely orter) * ’
t*l Y ° U >ii P lea . sant to share
There 11 be joy and there’ll be pleasnr*
Running over for good measure *
b TKWe yo °’ 11 treasure
The Whitfield County fair.
Jt’ s £ a j r - H the fair,
Its the Whitfield Countv fair
U, meet me. will you meet’me
At the Whitfield County fair?
******
, Fall Viands.
Oh. let me eat
Before I die
One morsel, sweet
Of pumpkin pie.
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Heigh Ho!
Now here’s another
Complication, darn it'
Suppose
National Conference
On Unemployment
Finds places for
All the 3,500,000 jobless
In the U. S. A.
And all the idle go to work,
Who 11 be left to
Watch new buildings go up?
And to watch the sign painters?
-And to form the crowd
Of bystanders and advisors
When a tire has to be changed
On the main highway?
—J. D. Spencer, in Macon Telegraph.
Why, Friend Spencer,
The same bunch
Of knockers
Who run the country
From the benches
Of the cornerstore groceries
And street corners ,
Of course.
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Hard Luck.
A fellow had one little minute
To catch the noon train and get inute;
He ran like the deuce,
But ,alas! ’twas no use.
For he saw that he never could winute.
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Signs of the Times.
Soon the goldenrod and sumach
To the chill north wind will bow;
Soon we’ll see the old, old slogan:
“Do your Christmas shopping now.”
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A Guy \Ye Like.
A guy we like
Is Wilkie Few,
Knows when to start
'' And when he’s through.
—Bill Biffem, in Savannah Press.
A guy we like
Is Parson Drew.
He cuts his ser-
Mons half in two.
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Cheer Up!
Pretty good advice to give:
Cheer up.
That’s the only way to live—
Cheer up.
What’s the use to sit and whine.
Sulkin’, poutin’ friend of mine?
Tell the world you’re feelin’ fine.
An’ cheer up. •
All your efforts gone for naught ?
Cheer up.
Biggest fish have ne’er been caught,
Cheer up.
Bait your hook an’ try again.
Grab your line ap’ drop it in,
If you’d win. why, fight like sin—
An’ cheer up.
Editor Shope, of the Dalton Citizen, is pour
ing it into the Ku-Klux Klan good and hard.
We also notice in the papers that Senator Tom
Watson denies that he belongs to the order.—
Alpharetta Free Press.
Tom endorsed the Koo-Klucks all right, but
maybe they wouldn’t let him jine. If this is true
it scores one for the Klucks.
Laying aside the question of in-laws, if you
were called upon to select a passenger for the
rocket Professor Goddard hopes to shoot to
the moon, whom would you select? Br’er Vo-
livia would suit us aU right.—Macon Tele
graph.
We’ll agree to that provided you make it two.
Wm. J. Bryan ough to go along to tell the folks
on the way how effective prohibition is in the
grand old U. S. A.'
As much as we detest a fly we are ob
liged to state he is a gentleman compared
to a mosquito.—Dalton Citizen.
The mosquito has a hateful whine that
sounds like p’ison, and he carries a long dig
ger that is very painful to those he gouges.
He puts the fever germ into your blood and
frequently sends his victims to their graves.
The mosquito is indeed a bad citizen.
But as the mosquito is not as nasty as the
common house fly, which is born in filth anu
lives on it till his ephemeral existence comes
to an inglorious end. The house fly lights on
the sputa from the tubercular lung or the dead
cat.-or the offal in the sewer, and then lights
—if you don’t keep him from it—right slap-
dab on your butter and bread and pie. Oo-an-
What are you gonna do ’bout it? Destroy
their breeding places and put up screens. do
it now; do it everywhere!—Alpharetta rree
Press.
The mosquito and the fly are both bad citizens,
and should be put out of commission, and this
can be done by destroying their breeding places.