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The Dalton Citizen
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T. g. SHOPE ........
T S. SCcCAMY . . . . . . .
. . . Editor
Associate Editor
Official Organ of the United States Circuit and District
Courts, North-western division, Northern District of Georgia.
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DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 19.21.
The meddler’s itch is as bad as any other kind.
According to the Athens News the hyphen slo
gan is: “See Ainerica Curst.”
The man who figures he can beat the train across
generally gets beat into a pulp.
A New Yorker is recommending dynamite for
food. Must have in mind a “swell blow-out.”
Excessive freight rates are one of the greatest
causes of continuing business depression in this
country. '
The Tifton Gazette says “the horrible possibility
is dawning that George Harvey will develop into
the Watson of the Harding administration.”
Senator Pat Harrison says he sees victory for
the democrats in 1924. It may be the senator has
been using his beer and wine prescription too
freely. -
It is bad enough to be a Tom Watson man, but
think of being both a koo-kluck and a Watson man
—a sucker and a boob combined into one polluted
whole.
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November Eleventh.
' The President’s proclamation has asked cessation
of endeavors for a period ,of fifteen minutes on
Friday, November 11th, the third anniversary of
the signing of the armistice. In every city and town
impressive Armistice Day exetcises will be held,
and through the hearts o fmen will surge a feel
ing of joy as deep and profound as was expressed
in the loud acclamation of the people on the mem
orable, November 11,1918, when the news of dawn
ing peace was heralded.
1918 brought the end of a warfare that had run
the gamut of human atrocities, and three years
hence finds a body of men, representative of all
nations, convening to perpetuate the peace so
dearly bought. We pray the memory of . these
men is good, for in contrast with the impressions
made by war’s ravages of men and of country the
vision of world peace for all time will be more
beautiful. The memory may be a tool in the hand
of God to bring about everlasting peace.
Friday the nation will in unity raise her
voice in thanksgiving for the years of peace w.e
have been permitted, and will ask for the world
a future unmarred by war. It is the time most
opportune to honor those who made the sacrifice
of life, and their buddies who gave equally of
courage, loyalty, and service until the crisis was
passed. Their deeds are enshrined in the hearts
of their fellow’s, and November 11th is a day that
will live in history.
The Rome Tribune-Herald likes the way the Cor-
dele Dispatch handles public questions. So do
we. Editor Charles Brown is a frank and fearless
writer.
Jesse Mercer’s statement that Fulton county was
the wettest spot in Georgia seemed to have caused
a flood qf press comments. Suppose they are try
ing to drown Mercer out?
George Harvey has busted loose again, and of
course said the wrong thing at the wrong time
and in the wrong place. He is the most undiplo
matic diplomat running around loose.
The Augusta Chronicle pertinently remarks that
“the decline of the ku-klux klan will cause quite a
slump in the night shirt market.” Its decline will
also cause quite a slump in night-riding outrages.
The supercilious antics of Tom Watson in the
United State ssenate are not surprising to the
people of Georgia. To the great majority'of them
they are simply disgusting.
During the war he was the slacker’s friend and
idol. He took their money by the thousands to
keep them out of the w r ar. He did all he could
in his crazy way to help them evade as just a mil
itary law as was ever passed. He fought the Red
Cross, the sale of government securities, and did
all that lay within his power to defeat the aims
of the government.
He proved himself a traitor to his country in one
of its most distressful periods. His seditious pub
lication was barred from the mails, and by law
was forced to suspend publication. Men today are
serving terms in the federal penitentiary for using
Watson’s writings and speeches against the gov
ernment, and yet this miserable wretch is occupy
ing a seat in the United States senate, while his
victims are in the penitentiary.
He is now engaged in repeating in the senate his
insane writings of a year or two ago. He says
that soldiers in France were hung without trial.
Down here in Georgia he has been the lynchers’
friend and the mob’s defender. He has all but
confessed that he took part in the cowardly mur
der of Leo Frank. Yet he is now appearing in
the role of defender of negro rapists in France,
who, he Claims, were hung without trial.
And on what does he base his infamous charges
against army officers?
Nothing except the gossip of a few soldiers who
went over to fight against their will, doubtless at
heart being slackers of the Watson type. This
class will furnish any kind of information that is
wanted by its hero. He is its spokesman in the
senate even as he was its spokesman before a
trick of fate and an aggravated drunk'landed him
where he is unfit to serve.
He attempts to clinch his arguments by" exhibit
ing some little kodak pictures of a gallows in
France. Here is where the faithful boot-lickers
of “Our Tom” doubtless threw up their wool hats
and yelled, and some of them are still yelling, be
cause there is a certain type of Watsonite that
yells as long as Tom'lalks, and as he is unusually
garrulous at this particular time there is, as a
matter of course, a lot of yelling going on.
There were two million'soldiers in France. They
were made up of all classes of people—white, black
and tan. There were included in this great num
ber many undesirables, just as there are undesir
ables in society—in the churches, in the schools,
in the newspaper offices, even in the United States
senate—in fact they are in all walks of life. There
are criminals in all the professions and avocations.
There were of course criminals in the army. Some
unspeakable crimes were committed, and some le
gal hangings occurred, and’ doubtless more ought
to have. So a photograph of a gallows doesn’t
prove anything or mean anything.
Not satisfied with attacking the army officers,
the senatorial muckraker must necessarily go fur
ther and cast aspersions on the characters of the
nurses, engaged in the most humanitarian work
ever enlisting the sympathy of womankind. In
this, too, he will find aid and comfort and help
from the morally perverse of the profession, for
in this noble profession, too, will occasionally be
found the unclean and the unfit and the immoral.
The senator (God save the mark!) trips to make
it appear that army officers forced the nurses to
become their courtesans! This is a seriouS charge,
a criminal charge, if yoil please, and if may be yet
that some manly brother of some good woman
engaged in nursing back to life the stricken of
this world will .make the contemptible cur swal
low his words as well as his teeth.
Watson is really unfit to have a seat in the sen
ate, and should be forthwith expelled.
He is not only a disgrace to Georgia, but he is a
disgrace to the nation.
Wonder why it is that the state of matri- i
mony is always governed by a woman?— j
Rome Tribune-Herald.
Because that’s one state that she has had suffrage
in si net: the year One. Probably women‘will-be
governing in all states before long.
Way down south in the land of cotton, the
price is good but freight rates rotten.—Tom
Sims.
Way down south we sit and wait, because darned
few of i us can pay the freight.
Nations might bear one another’s burdens,
but they prefer to bare one another’s sins.—
Athens News.
Isn’t it a fact that they much prefer to share
one another’s sins?
It is announced from Washington that the
first beer permits are out, and rumor says the
thirst is more than eqrial to the occasion.—
Atlanta Constitution.
Thirst will soon be known as the one outstand
ing American disease. We shudder when we con
template the fate of the overworked doctors.
The fellow who pays less taxes, in propor
tion to what he really owns, is the one who is
always raising the most hell about taxes being
high.—Greensboro- Herald-Journal.
To. state it another way, is to say that it is the
tax dodger who howls the longest and loudest
about paying taxes.
’Tt takes all sorts of folks to make up the so-
called human ruce, including the gent who
really and truly believes that an army officer,
even General Pershing himself, could hang or
shoot ah American soldier without a court-
martial and get away with it.—Macon Tele
graph. «
The Skunk who made ( the charges in the senate
has a following who doesn’t do much of anything
except to follow one stink after another without
question or quibble. *
A sick tree is as pitiful an object as a sick
human. Dawson ha» many trees made ill by
an insect scourge. Their appearance is tragic.
If the ravages of the pest are not stayed by
some .means the city seems doomed to lose a
large proportion of its trees. It is a prob
lem meriting individual and collective effort
toward solution.—Dawson News.
A sick tree is pitiful, and one which needs only
attention to make it blossom again is doubly pitiful
when neglected. Joyce Kilmer wrote:
“Poems are writ by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.”
And this truth should be so impressed upon the
public that there shall be no lack of appreciation
of the service and beauty of trees.
The prophecy that Liberty bonds would increase
in value as the years passed is proving true. But
Automobiles and questionable stocks, for which
“Liberties” are sometimes swapped, .seldom fail
to depreciate.
Two things we have felt were true have been
substantiated by W. T. Hornady and Dr. Copeland.
That Muscle Shoals is really Mussel Shoals and
that cucumbers are not good food. Question three
is now jn order.
Robert Loveman is an omniverous newspaper
reader, and one of his favorite columns is Johnny
Spencer’s in the Macon Telegraph. Tuesday’s Tel
egraph carried the Chicago Tribune’s column “A
Line O’ Type or Two,” in place of Spencer’s “More
Otherwise Than Wise.” Loveman read the col
umn over carefully, laid the paper aside with a
sort of-offish remark to the effect that “Spencer
is weak today.”
Dalton and Whitfield Are All Right.
The new hotel is practically assured, and before
long Dalton will have a hotel to which she can
point with pride. Horace J. Smith is moving stead
ily onward to the goal, and soon he will be able
to announce that success has crowned his efforts.
Dalton is by no means standing still. The new
cheese factory is completed, and the creamery is
in course of construction. The farmers of Whit
field county are not going to starve themselves
to death feeding boll weevils. They will- have
markets for all milk and butter fats they care to
produce. They will grow and market all kinds
foodstuffs. Potato curing and storage houses have
already been built
Daltons next move must be for a passenger de
pot, one in keepihg with the importance and
growth of the town. The one we now have not
only discredits Dalton in the eyes of the stranger,
but it is a serious reflection on the railroads. It
is a mere dingy little coop, inadequate and alto
gether disproportionate to the growth and bus
iness of the town.
When the work on the new hotel gets under
way, the proper presentation of Dalton’s claims
should be pressed before the railroad commission.
The results will be all that we need expect, be
cause when the members of the commission see
how Dalton is being imposed upon by the railroads
they will not be long in granting relief.
The Merchants Association, the Civitans, the
Improvement League and all the other local civic
bodies can be depended upon to do their full
duty, and now is a good time to start the move
ment for a new passenger depot.
We must have it.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun thinks the senate
ought to expel Tom Watson and be done with it.
We are willing to admit he is unfit to be in the
senate, but then the further away a polecat is
the better for all concerned.
A postmistress, instead of a postmaster, has been
appointed at Rome. This is the first woman in
Georgia to be in charge of a firstclass postoffice,
and Romans are predicting excellent service under
her guidance. The appointment of Daltpn’s post
master seems to be a dark secret.
Jack Patterson is expected next week to cov
er the Morgan caunty fair for the Journal.
Jack’s a cheerful cuss and gets the glad mitt
on all sides in Madison.—Madison Madisonian.
Jack’s all right, but he seems never to have
thought about covering the Whitfield county
fair, held last week. We are not going to get
mad about it, but blamed if we don’t think
Jack is awfully careless, or indifferent or
something.—Dalton Citizen.
The truth is, Shope, that we have too many
invitations to butt in where we have not been
invited. You should remember that we jour
neyed dll the way to Dalton last fall to write
up y the fair which had heen postponed with
out anybody serving us notice. We really *
wanted to visit the Whitfield county fair.—
Jack L. Patterson, in Atlanta Journal.
Jack, old fellow, you have us this time. You are
not to blame, but we are going to see to it that
you ‘are invited next year, and further that
you are kept posted as to postponement, if there
should be one. v
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
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Our friend Jesse Mercer is stirring up the ani
mals in Atlanta. He says Atlanta is the wettest
town per capita in the state. They must all be
drinking hootch down Atlanta way, because we
happen to know, by hearsay, of some other very
moist places within the confines of the grand' old
commonwealth.
Tom Watson, in the United States senate, is be
coming a national nuisance, and it is our predic
tion that if he doesn’t learn tojjehave himself bet
ter he will never serve his term out. Taking the
lies Of some Soldiers in France, belonging to the
slacker contingent, but drafted into service, that (
soldiers were hanged in France without trial, he
has made the charges in the senate. Now he is
called on to prove them, the very thing he didn’t
expect to have to do. And he can’t, but that will
make no difference to the Watsonites. The fact
that Tom repeats a lie makes it truth with them.
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There is not a man in Georgia who can beat
Murphey Candler for chairman of the railroad
commission.-—Commerce Observer.
We don’t suppose there is one in Georgia with
little enough sense to try it.
No one can deny that Mr. Hardwick has
made a Fair governor of late.—Augusta Chron
icle. . i. -
Mediocre statesmen can always cover a lot of
ground, talk more than is necessary and b^ost
expense accounts. However, it takes more than
state tours to constitute a constructive adminis
tration. (
The Disarmament Conference.
By Gus Hall.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
In a few days a conference composed of rep
resentatives from the principal nations of the
world will meet in Washington. This conference
was called by President Harding with the hope
that an agreement could be reached by the vari
ous governments which would result, at least, in
the partial disarmament of the nations of the earth.
I think this conference is foredoomed to failure.
We have sot yet learned to think in terms of
world democracy: Nationalism, race pride and
distrust, are disintegrating forces that make im
possible unity of action, even though such unity
would give strong assurance of world peace.
Beginning with the individual and working up
ward through the various combinations of human
society, in family, community, state and nation,
there rises a spirit of tolerance, concession and
compromise. We must have this to relieve the
stress growing out of conflicting ideas and inter
ests. Disruption would come in the family, the
state, and the nation if this was not so.
^ And so it is with the nations. “America first, :
“America for the Americans,” “America’s splendid
isolation.” These expressions reveal the selfish
ness of our people.; As long as we cling to such
ideas we cannot hope for the confidence and co-
dperation of other nations in any work we under
take. Nationalism in America, in Japan, in France,
in any other country, is an impossible barrier to
any movement for world unity- of action for the
limitation of governmental expense for war pur
poses. •
The nations of the earth can never come together
in one great family until we change our way of
thinking. As nations we must understand, trust,
and love one another. No world agreement will
endure unless it is solidly built on this founda
tion.
This conference will fail because we have not
yet caught a vision of what the future holds for
us. The coming power in the life of humanity
will be a federation of the nations of the world,
the power of one and all used at all times for the
good of all.
The idea of world democracy and cooperation
is growing. It is spreading outward’ from the
hearts of thinking men and women of the world.
Some day it will obliterate all national barriers,
dissolve all hatreds, and cover with a mantle of
charity the war weary heart of humanity and we
shall find peace at last. »
No amount of criticism or misunderstanding
will check this movement toward world coopera
tion. It is a universal movement that had its be
ginning in the agony of the great war. Men, great
men, because of lack of vision will fight this new
order of things and for their pains will be ground
into powder. Systems, beliefs, customs, hoary
with age are passing away never to return. And
in spite of suspicion, misunderstanding and hatred
the people of the earth will learn wisdom at last
and stand shoulder to shoulder, and heart to heart
in the world’s greatest spiritual battle for right
eousness which will end in victory and universal
and lasting peace.
that it affects only spirits, vodka, brandy, etc., and
not wine and beer. Russia is one of three nationsr
now or formerly of first class, which tried absolute
prohibition—of the less than one-half of 1 per cent
character. The United States is another and> Tur
key is- the third.
Russia got its prohibition from one style of auto
crat and continued it under ailother. Of the t<vo,
the autocrat Nicholas was less bloody than the
autocrat Lenine, He was feebler and murderous
probably only because the czaristic system was
murderous in repression. Lenin is strong but as
emotionless as a machine gun.
Turkey under Abdul the Damned was dry, as
Turkey has been always since its conquering rise,
and Russia under Lenin the Terrible has been dry,
and pnder them both humanity as organized in
nations has reached its coarsest, most ferocious,
brutalized and hopeless form. Bone dry Turkey
has the lowest code of morals ever known in any
thing called a civilization. It has debased its
women, permitted them only bodies and no souls,
and has slaughtered helpless subjects with an al
most holy zeal.
All the time this degradation of the human emo
tions and instincts has proceeded without any in
centive from the maddening effects of spirits and
without any mellowing from the effects of wine
or beer. A bone dry nation has been the least
useful, the least productive, the most cruel and
the most useless which ever disgraced the earth
under the name of a civilization.
The Turks have been in what has been esteemed
the garden spot of the world, the source of civili
zation, of its arts and sciences, its religions ? arid
wealth. They have not tilled the soil nor had an
art. They have no literature and they have fash
ioned no metals into woyks great or small. Their
only instinct was to degrade and butcher, and
their idea of immortality was a disorderly house.
We may not agree as to why the Turks have
been hirinan tarantulas, but we’ll agree on one
thing. Drink did not do it. In that respect they
are and have been as moral as Wayne Wheeler
or W. J. Bryan. We’ll leave Russia to another para
graph and consider the hardest drinking Asiatic
race, while we are considering Asia. That is
Japan.
Japan has drink. It has saki and other rice and
fruit distillations. It has beer. Many Japanese*
mav be too poor to drink, but alcohol is a part of
Japanese life. The Japanese are the greatest of
Asiatics. They Lave aft, literature, ideals, which
"do not conform to ours but which are ideals, in
dustry which is not surpassed anywhere, devotion
to duty and several religions which are tender,
sympathetic and idyllic, and they have, what the
Turks have not, character.
The facts, we believe, must be conceded. The
reader may write his own ticket and come to his
own conclusions. Drink might have made the
Turks worse. Prohibition might have made the
Japanese better. We call the next case.
Russia, considered besotted under the rule of
the czar and vodka, was released from the latter
by the former. Ivan did not then make his soul
sodden in the vodka huts. His befogged brain,
which never had anything in it but a fog, per
ceived as clearly as it was possible for such a
brain to perceive.
What he perceived in life was nothing. He had
a dream or two occasionally under vodka. Out
from under vodka he had nothing. Nicholas, going
to war, took 19,000,000 or 20,000,000 Ivans and put
them in concentration camps, having arms for
about 1,900,000 or 2,000,000. The great masses of
Ivans, useless in war, milled around in their own
inaction, no work, no vodka, no beer, nothing but
the nothing which they were.
Eventually they butchered Nicholas, accepted
Lenin and with .him went headlong down into the
pit, rolling over themselves in a senseles ferocity,
killing the art and literature Russia had, destroy
ing their productivity, making deserts out of their
arable lands, piling up their filth and disease,
bringing famine and pestilence upon themselves,
losing territory and ports which they had gained
as a spreading nation. Great Russia is a withered
hag.
At this point the wiseacres began to say: There
goes the rotten wet Tribune again, playing the
game of the liquor interests and trying to put this
over in the guise of fact and speculation. The
saloonkeepers, distillers and brewers think The
Tribune is as dry as the Anti-Saloon league and
the Anti-Saloon league thinks that The Tribune
is another nanje for John Barleycorn. We think
that if the saloonkeepers wait until the Tribune
says they can reopen their places they’ll have to
get the rent money out of something else than the
sale of liquor for eternity.
We do not intimate' that the United States, con
stitutionally-dry, is headed towards either Abdul
the Damned or Lenin the Terrible or that Amer
icans are falling into the pit because they are not
inflaming themselves with liquor, such of them as
are not. But it is fair to speculate why two of
the three nations which have denied the legality
of nature’s long rule of fermentation are degraded
and vile, worsted and outlawed and beaten down
bv evils within and enemie swithout.
The greatest intellectuals of the world, the
French, are wine drinkers, the greatest Asiatics are
wine and spirit drinkers, the greatest empire
makers are spirit and ale drinkers, the nation of
greatest artists, centuries considered, raises wine
grapes on every other patch of ground and pushes
its vines to the edge of the hot lava of Vesuvius,
and the greatest concentrators of industry, com
merce and national power, the Germans, are wine
and beer drinkers. Verbum sap, or in vino veritas,
or lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.—
Chicago Tribune.
It is Mussel, Not Muscle.
“We don’t care much who buys Muscle Shoals,
but we would like t6 know if the party who named
it didn’t have mussel in mind and didn’t know how
to- spell it,” says Mr. Spencer. ,
“We opine, and also suspect that mussel is right,
hut time and usage have got in their work. Broth
er Herring, of the Tifton Gazette, knows that mus
sel is correct,” comments Editor Shope, of The
Dalton Citizen.
“The Musselites have it,” Mr. Spencer concludes.
In this connection, the following from a corres
pondent of the New York Tribune, may be of inter
est as well as information:
To the Editor of the Tribune:
Sir: our editorial in today’s issue on the suc
culent bivalve known as the mussel prompts me
to call your attention to the fact that the name of
the famous shoals jon the Tennessee river, known
for more than a century as the Mussel Shoals, is
being mistakenly remembered by’ many American
newspapers, and I have a horrible fear that it is
being miscalled by the United States government.
In evfery reference that I have seen during the last
six months to. the government’s nitrate plant its
habitat has been given as M-ms-c-l-e Shoals. Geo
graphical accuracy calls for the correction of
this curious and also iriischievous little error.
_ T W. T. HORNADY.
New tork, Oct. 21, 1921.
A look at the dictionary should settle the qries-
tion.
The error is one that could have been nipped
at the start by a little attention. But it h&s now
gone so far that the probability is, future genera
tions -will never know that the shoals were named
for a bivalve and not for a portion of the animal
body. In perpetuating the misnomer, the usually
reliable Associated Press is among the guilty. They
even get the thing by our news editor and proof
reader sometimes.—Tifton Gazette.
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Something to Think About.
This is bound to be an unpopulor editorial any
way we put it, but a reader who does not mind
temporarily substituting speculation for dogmatiz
ing can friame his own opinion or conclusion
whether or not he thinks we have one, which we
have not
Russia is reported to be relaxing prohibition so
One Way to Finance the Bonus.
Representative Brennan’s plan to finance a sol
diers’ bonus by means of a percentage tax on beer
and light winfes has the advantage of being the
only imaginable method whereby the bonus might
be carried without disastrous consequences to the
treasury. It lies within the power of congress to
exclude beer and wines of a limited alcoholic con
tent from the category of intoxicating liquors pro
hibited under the Eighteenth Amendment and to
impose on the manufacture and sale whatever
tax is necessary to iriake up for bonus appropria
tions. Neither beer nor wine can properly be
termed intoxicating. Even the original sponsors
of the prohibition movement had no grudge
against mild beverages. Prohibition was carried
because of a very general grudge against hard
liquor and the saloon; its net effect under present
enforcement laws has been the elimination of
practically everything to drink except hard liquor
and the substitution of the bootlegger for the li
censed bar: If beer and light wine were legalized,
CHEERY LAYS
for DREARY DAYS
By JAMES WELLS, The Printer-Poet
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Come Back to the Cumberland Mountains
Night! and the night birds are calling 8 ‘
Night! and the soft winds blow,
Bringing back goledn memories,
Memories 'of long ago;
Dreams of a kiss at twilight,
Just at the sun’s last ray,
Borne on the Southern breezes,
I hear a sweet voice say:
Come back to the Cumberland mountains
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Come back to the ones that you love
Back to the fair fertile valleys
And to the green mountains above;
Come back to the Cumberland mountains
Back to the hearts that are true,
Come back to wander, no never,
Where someone is waiting for you.”
Night! and the soft winds blowing,
Night! and there comes to me
Memories of love and twilight
Down in old Tennessee;
Dreams of a maid awaiting,
While I am far away,
And in my dreams I fancy
I hear her dear voice say:
Come back to the Cumberland mountains
Come back to the ones that you love ’
Back to the fertile valleys ’
And the green mountains above;
Come back to the Cumberland mountains
Back to the hearts that are true,
Conje back to the Cumberland mountains
Where loved ones are waiting for you.”’
Hoggish.
I’d rather he
A poodle dog,
Than be a man—
And yet a hog.
Sluggish River.
A lazy life
The river led;
In fact, it rare-
Ly left its bed.
What She Does.
Although her beds
Neglected lay,
Her face is made up
Twice each day.
—Canton Daily News.
Although the pans
Neglected are,
She scours the country
In her car.
—Akron Times.
Although the kids
Are left to roam.
She only spends
Her nights at home.
—Walton Tribunf
She scalds less often
Than she oughter,
But keeps her husband
In hot water.
Scat!
What would you do
At “killing time”
If you were served
Some chit’lings prime?
—Cedartown Standard.
I’d hold my nose
And take a leap
A mile away
To rest and weep.
—Walton Tribune.
Before by me
It would be prized,
’Twould have to be
De-o-dor-ized.
Yes, But—
He' hasn’t time to help his kid
With his school work, oh, no;
But yet you’ll find he has the time
To see the picture show.
Painful. ,
They ask what makes Chicago, Ill.
But yet they ask in vain;
I think, perhaps, the reason is
It has a window pane.
Verily So.
" ™ an "B1 wear a collar high
That chokes him half to death,
I hen ndiculc the women’s style
Till he is out of breath.
Funny Thing.
A funny thing you’ll often find
Is frequently the case:
A w oman can’t make up her mind,
But can make up her face.
Stung!
He bought him some oil stock
(The fee it was fat);
But the oil well went flooey!
So the poor boob lost that.
Pluck.
You will never make much headway
In the little game of life,
With its trials and its burdens,
And its worries and its strife;
You will never make much progress,
If you just depend on “luck,”
* , ° T r guy that dges the winning
Is the guy that’s got the pluck.
^ou may.lick him, you max kick him.
You may Yrowd him to the wall,
But the man who makes the winning
Doesn’t simply stand and squall;
Fighting hard for all there’s in it,
Old Dame Fortune he will buck,
Driving on a mile a minute
Is the fellow who has pluck.
Then whatever you’re pursuing,
Do not sit around and whine,
But be ever up and doing,
Though the going’s not so fine;
For life s journey is not easy,
And the road is filled with muck,
And to make the journey, safely
It will take a man with pluck.
hard liquor and the bootlegger would disap]
together.
The main objection to a bonus for ex-solc
has been financial. As Secretary Mellon has
peatedly demonstrated, congress is already ta:
every asset it can lay hands on, without b
fBle.to keep up with the budget demands. Ui
the Volstead act wine and beer are outlawed
the country pays its tax on alcoholic bever
direct to the bootlegging rings, at the same
supporting an expensive and futile enforcer
service. Surely the money might better go to
veterans.
But the greatest gain that might be real
through Mr. Brennan’s bill is a restoration of
,9 r that has been crumbling bee
of the disrespect in which Mr. Volstead’s 1<
lauon is held. The corruption of the Vols
law is rapidly spreading. The sooner the con
is rid of it the better.—New York World.
The low estate of the German mark d<
strates that “a scrap of paper” also comes
to roost.—Columbia Record.
The politicians always manage to defeat *
'will of the people by sneaking in some sort
codicil.—Columbia Record.
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