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r> - ■ ;-' t:v Y" >'' - •'"*ys***H 'Sr? _ i PAGE FOUR THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1921. - ' Tbe Dalton Citizen PUBLISHED EYBBY THURSDAY. b: S. SHOPS & McOAMY . . . Editor Associate Editor ORaUl Organ of the United States Circuit and District Court*, Northwestern division, Northern District of Georgia. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WHITFIELD COUNTY. One Year . Six Months Chree Months Terms of Subscription Payable in Advance Advertising Bates on Application. Entered at the Dalton, Ga., postoffice for through tbe mails as seeond-olsss matter. transmission DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1921. Limitation of arms should limit pistol-toting. Mussel Shoals is right, brethren. Quit spelling it Muscle . The women should register- at once, because they will certainly want to vote for school bonds. If there is anything uglier than a pretty woman smoking a cigarette we have not yet come across it The Tax Dodger Is the Great Offender. ■is-' Dalton doesn’t need a “stingy” administration of her affairs. She needs a busines sadministra- ■ tion. Loafing never got anybody anywhere except to the poorhouse. The vagrancy laws should be en forced. People who are eccentric are at least tolerable, while those who affect eccentricity are simply a National Park in North Georgia. * The bill introduced in congress by Hon. Gordon Lee, which has for its purpose the making of a national park of the timbered section of Northeast Georgia is a wise and generous move. It will take such legislation as the Lee bill to protect the timber and streams of this section, and when they are protected so will fish and game receive the protection they are entitled to, if they are to be preserved. Congressman Lee evidently has in'mind a great national park of the Yellowstone type, to be stocked with fish and game and protected by the government. The Lee bill will in all probability go through, and if it does, it will be a great boon to this sec tion of the state. Included in the reservation will be part of the Cohutta mountains where there is yet some wild life and mountain fish. With the streams and forests under the protect ing care of the federal government there will soon be an abundance of game and fish in North east Georgia, and a beautiful camping domain for the thousands of people who find health, comfort and happiness in the great outdoors. Congressman Lee is to be commended for his foresight in this matter, and should receive the hearty support and cooperation of the people gen erally. It is a master stroke that means much not only to the northern section of Georgia, but to all parts of the state. In fact it will prove a great benefit to the entire south. Some people can’t stand prosperity, and there are others who can’t get in hailing distance of the fickle dame. £ .-i.. I These here wool socks the ladies are wearing may be all right, but hanged if they are worth looking ’at. , A new high school building, a new hotel and a fiew depot are the three things Dalton has her heart set on. The Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont observes that “the man who does nothing does somebody.” He generally does everybody. Editor Rucker, of the Alpharetta Free Press, wants to know if it is ever right to do wrong? Well, if it is, all we got to say is that there is a lot of right being donfe by doing wrong. Are you interested in the men and women who will be running and regulating Dalton in your de dining years? If so, vote for bonds for a new high school building that the boys and girls may be properly educated to handle your affairs when they are in the saddle. Thanksgiving. V The Cordele Dispatch agrees with The Citizen, The Tifton Gazette and many other Georgia news papers, _that the tax dodger is the real cause of Georgia’s financial difficulties. There is no doubt about it. Anyone who has intelligence and will go to the tax books can see just exactly why the ad valorem system of taxes is a failure. The prin ciple is right and just, but its abuse by pious tax dodgers has caused it to be denounced as a failure. The same sort of tax dodgers will nullify any other taxing system that can be devised. The way to cure Georgia’s financial ills is to enforce right- ebusly and justly the present taxing laws of this state. And it must always be remembered that those most able to pay taxes have within their ranks the biggest tax dodgers. Here is the way the Cordele editor sizes up the situation: The greatest tax troubles are-with the tax dodger. We are just as certain that our pres ent ad-valorem system is right in principle as we can be. We only want a thorough-going, serious conference with the property owner - who is unwilling to turn in his property at a fair valuation. That would put Georgia out of bankruptcy. That would save all embar rassment in debt paying. It is possible to reach a point where all property can be sub jected to taxation at a fair valuation. There is only one way for property to be turned in for taxes—the law says it shall go in at a fair . valuation. Whoever fails that, violates the law and swears to a lie every time he turns in his property at anything less. We.afe not looking for trouble with those who fail to return their property according to law. We only want to remind each tax payer that it is not an excuse for him to violate the law if another person does. One might just as logically conclude that since somebody rise breaks into his neigh bor’s house and steals, he may also do like wise. One man does not need to become a burglar because another does. The habit of turning in ane’s property at less than fair valuation because another man does, is sim ply following just such a course. Everybody who does that violates the law. You do not want to perjure yourself in your property returns. Think over it. Now, we have other trouble with state fi nances. -We are sending men to the state leg- isture who do not stop to ascertain whether they are spending more money than the state has to spend each year. The state has no more right to live beyond its means than individual, and not as much, because public institutions should never dare set such an example for the individual citizen. There are many, many good causes for which public funds might be spent, but it is unworthy of any public representative or group of representatives to spend more than the state gathers for its use. We had quite a big row last summer over this—and we heard campaign pledges that those who were elected would not spend more than they have coming, in. We are in the same bad way. The legislature did not end any of this spend ing. It appropriated much more money than it will have to spend—something like two millions more. This is another trouble which much be checked and remedied. But let the individual tax payer keep in mind that neither what the legislature does with the money, nor what his neighbor turns in for taxation has a solitary tiling to do with his honesty with himself and his con science as to how he turns in his property for taxes. It is far better to have a clear conscience. All the taxes we pay, or will ever have to pay are small indeed compared with the duty one owes himself in keeping his conscience clear with regard to having paid his full and fair portion of taxes. . We do not want to stop with the idea that we have kept within the law. We want more than that. We want to say in the end that we have done our full duty. That’s the ker nel of all the consolation in a man’s last days in the world. Thanksgiving. Again we turn from the regular routine of daily work and play for a day of devotion and thanks giving, and from every village and city litanies of thanksgiving will rise. The world in its rush and its race will pause to voice its appreciation for the cessation of war, will send up prayers for the success of the great conference for the limitation of armaments, will thank Jehovah for man’s many obvious blessings In spirit we will of course join the hosts of grate ful people, but this Thanksgiving day we ask that .as a people we more fully appreciate the smaller, but no les swell-designed, blessing we enjoy from day to day which oftentimes we fail to recognize as gifts from the divine. May it be our good grace to render thanks for The love that passeth understanding. For health, without which man’s capatity for enjoyment and power for good is lessened. For the flowers which share with us their fra grance. For the laugh of little children as they play, and for their good-night kiss. For the sunshine, and for the dark days which come to accentuate its wholesome cheer. For the disappointments which make us strong to enjoy, more deeply hard-won successes. For a good dog whose loyalty inspires a strong er devotion and a more intense fealty to our fel- lowman. For home ties that bind folk of many tempera ments into one happy whole. For the happiness that persistently creeps into every crevice unless deliberately shut out Yes, today we give thanks for what we are prone to call the “little blesings,” and when all creatures come to fully appreciate their means of happiness and welfare, “joy and gladness shall he found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of elody.” For the past ten years Georgia has been su Ber ing from a severe malady, brought about by a low, vicious order of politics. Lawlessness has Been encouraged, the uob at intervals has been in ihe saddle and lyndiings and tick-vac dynamit ing have seemed to furnish ‘amusement a weird sort of amusement—to the people who cared for it, and it appears too many of them have been “entertained” by the program prepared by outlaws of the Watson type. Good citizens should stand for law and enforce ment, and the vital statistics law is just as im portant as other laws. It is enforced in other states, and the state board of health is calling on the people to use their influence in order to secure enforcement of this law, so that the state may not longer bear the stigma that now rests upon it. The public is well aware, or at least it should be, of the importance of complete birth and death records. It is necessary in order that vital sta^, tistics of the state may be recognized by the fed eral census bureau. The people should take an interest in this mat ter, and insist that the law be enforced. Liberty bonds continue to go up. Soon they will reach par, and maybe will'go above. Per haps it is just as well that Tommyrot Watson did not have them monetized. “Our Tom” is jumping on Henry Ford and de fending Newberry of Michigan. It wouldn’t be Tom if he couldn’t make an ass of himself at least three or four times a week. Governor Hardwick is planning to pay the old veterans at an early date. Here’s hoping, but if the Continued looting bf state funds doesn’t soon cease there will be nothing to pay with. All that will be left will be office furniture and officials. The Albany Herald, reproducing from The Cit izen a short editorial with reference to the failure to fly the flag from the Dalton postoffice flag pole, very truthfully remarks that “the same thing is to be observed in many towns—flag poles built originally to hold Old Glory, but not used in many years. We see them on public buildings and else where, and every one is a reminder that we have grown a little thoughtless and careless in these matters. The flag ought to be prominently dis played in every community, from the big city to the little town. It has a meaning to every citizen, and every boy and girl in the-Jand ought to be taught to revere the flag because of all it stands for. And these lessons cannot be very strongly impressed upon young people when they note the fact that their elders do not care enough for the flag to fling it to the breeze.” ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS The authorities of Clarke county say that crime is more rampant in that county than it has been in twenty-five years.. The same is true all over the state.—Winder News. And of all other states in -this grand and glori ous union. and world conquest have inspired the loves of some of the heroic men and women of the past, but for one that became famous there must Dave ] been millions that lived and loved joyously that are utterly forgotten now. , So let me here pay tribute to the inspirational power of the smiling love-lit face. No matter when you meet it its magic influence will fill your soul with gladness, a gladness as sweet and precious as life itself. . . The dimpled baby face that you loved and lost —and that other face hallowed by precious mem ories of motherhood—and that image of father, that vision of mother; all thetfe love images pass before your soul in silent procession, yet are never lost, but become imperishable visions in the realm of blessed memory. So we see that it is love., and love memories that are best. Most pleasures pall on us. in a little while. But here is one joy of life that is eternal, one source of supreme pleasure that is open to the most obscure, the most humble soul. So let us go back to simplicity, and peace, and quiet and love. Striving after money and place and power cannot justify the hungry heart. It is love we need, a love that is so pure, so unsel fish that it will take away the sting of poverty and transform the hardest labor into a joyous service. Such labor sweetens and beautifies all life and makes the earth the abiding place of peace. ~ HIRAM SMITH. ' When Universay Peace Will Come. To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen: Sitting in conference cad not bring peace to the world. Peace can come only when the race has reached that state of mental and spiritual development that will wipe out national lines, broaden love of tribe into love of humanity, and unfurl the banner of Brotherhood over all men. Every student of history knows that evolution is the law of being. From the family the tribe was evolved, and from the tribe the nation. The tribal spirit must be eradicated and men must come to think of themselves, not as citizens of some one spot of the world, hut as human beings —world citizens—with a common good, a com mon cause and a common interest, before they can dwell together in unbroken peace. It seems that a child might realize the truth of this, but the rulers and the great men have not yet realized it. All through the ages the education of the race has made war inevitable. Men thought of them selves, not as children of the earth, through whose veins rolled one tide, but as Egyptians or Syrians or Chaldeans; as Romans or Greeks or Franks or Gauls. That national pride and - prejudice should not bring the conflict of arms was impossi ble. The race still thinks of itself, not as a race dwelling in one world and having one interest, but as Englishmen or Frenchmen or German or American; and still education is such as to cause men to think themselves superior simply because they dwell in a certain part of the earth. The whole earht must become native land and all hu man beings fellow citizens before everlasting peace is possible. The supreme folly is- the thought that humanity in one part of -the world can prosper through the oppression of humanity in another part of the world. Men will lose this thought when in creased mental and spiritual development brings realization of the fact that the unchangeable laws of being take no cognizance of national lives, but operate alike on both sides of those lines. I am a Georgian and I am an American and I love "both as I love the blood in my.own veins; but to be a human is infinitely greater than to be either. A few miles away is.the state line. What lies beyond that line? Native soil. Who dwell beyond that line? Fellow citizens. When nation al lines become to all humanity what state lines are to Americans, Peace Will Be “Here. JESSIE BAXTER SMITH. Atlanta’s $8,000,000 bond issue has been proper ly validated, and now she will begin to punch new holes in her belt buckle. Acceptance of Ford’s Mussel Shoals offer should materially decrease the south’s ranks of unem ployed, and loosen tight money. Women, have you registered? The city election will affect your well-being. It is your duty to help elect the right office-holders. Dalton’s Imperative Needs. Most of us are given a degree of foresight, but only the favored few are sufficiently endowed with this, future-revealing faculty to realize the great benefits a town will derive from a splendid institution. To the average mind the. realization comes gradually, but after a few years of satisfy ing service we wonder how we managed with make-shifts. To cite a local example: The Hamilton Memo rial Hospital. For a decade or longer fdrward- thinking Daltonians have been awake to the need of a central refuge for the sick, and had visioned a modern hospital with its attending benefits. But in candor, the layman had small conception of the many people grateful for an opportunity to receive scientific care near home, and few anticipated the many times this institution would prove the house of open doors in emergency. As it was hard to accurately foresee the great need the hospital would fill, so it i£ difficult to fully appreciate how badly the town needs a new station to handle passenger traffic, a new hotel for transients and tourists, an adequate high school building to make more effective our splendid fac ulty’s work, the Baptist Junior school to give op portunity to rural boys and girls seeking higher education. These specific things are what we are working for, and^we hope we’ll have much cooperation in gaining these objectives. With these, and other improvements, Dalton will move onward to the goal she has determined to reach. People can’t do their work well unless they are interested in it, and they can’t be very much in terested in it if they are interested more in some thing else. Link Johnson has been tinned down by the sen ate and it is up to Tom Watson to give the job to some of his faithful followers, as he claims to have “killed the b’ar.” Enforce This Law. All the states east of the Mississippi river have the same law requiring the registration of births aqd deaths, and only three of those states fail to secure complete birth and death records, and Georgia is one of them, the other two being Ala bama and West Virginia. In the early days of her history Georgia stood near the top in matters of public education and health, but now she stands almost at the other ex treme. Her educational institutions, from the pub lic schools on up, are suffering for lack of funds, ■ and yet Georgia is the richest state in the lower South Atlantic group. The democrats won out in the elections held last week. This causes us to think the people are regarding their lost senses.— Greensboro Herald-Journal. They are at |east beginning to think, and this is a pretty good- sign that their senses will soon be restored. The first week of the arms conference was apparently a great success. What most peo ple will want to know, however, is how the thing is going to end.—Rome Tribune-Herald. If some envious d—n fool like Senator Lodge doesn’t throw a monkey wrench in the machinery, much good work is going to be accomplished by the conference. Probably the best explanation yet advanced of the fact that President Harding’s own home town went democratic is that of the Cleve land Plain Dealer, which inclines to opine that alT the Republicans living there have been called to Washington.—Macon Tele graph. Well, it does sound reasonable. Those he didif£ give a job are plainly showing their re sentment. Way down southe in the land of cotton, the price is good but the freight rates rotten.— Tom Sims. Way dofan south we sit-and wait, because darned few of us can pay N the freight.—Dal ton Citizen. Way down south we fuss and fret, because d—n few of us are out of debt.—Madison Madisonian. Way down south things are brightening up, soon we’ll be out of the goldarned rut. The Philadelphia Public Ledger says there are too many holidays, and we are wondering if one of the reporters who has to work hard er on holidays reporting the festivities or whatever may be going on, didn’t slip that into the paper while the editor wasn’t look ing.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun. Too many holidays ^already, and more in the offing. What is needed to bring this country back to its senses is more work days and fewer loafing days. Two things we have felt were true have been substantiated by W. T. Homady and Dr. Copeland. That Muscle Shoals is really Mus sel Shoals and that cucumbers are not good food. Question three is now in order.—Dal ton Citizen. But Editor Ernest Camp of the Walton Tribune, supported by other medical experts, raises the point that Doc Copeland doesn’t know anything about cucumbers. Question three is not yet up for consideration.—Jack Patterson, in Atlanta Journal. Since when did Ernest Camp get to be a med ical expert? Know he is a poet, an editor and an all-’round good sport, but we like him so well we can’t accuse him of being an expert. The New Hotel, Then the New Depot. To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen: I notice a good deal of talk about the new hotel for Dalton, and other improvements that the Civ- itan Club has in hand just now. Being an old Dalton boy I have always felt an interest in its. future. As I understand it, the Business Men’s club serves the same purpose as our Chamber of Com merce. We have here the best organized Cham ber of Commerce in the south, which is doing great work for the upbuilding of the town. Jack Seay, an old Dalton boy, has charge of the traffic department, and he is making good on that job. If the hotel is built, which I feel sure it will be, and the old hotel site and little park leading down to the station graded and beautified, then would be the time to press the new station for Dalton. My experience in railroad service has been that the railroads always stand ready to improve with the community, and I believe you can get the new station as soon as the hotel is completed. After you get the hotel and new station, you can then invite people with pride, from the south to spend the summer, and those from the north to spend the winters there, the climate being ideal as a summer or winter resort. If these improvements are made, I shall be glad to have our line, the Southern System, place Dal ton in the summer and winter resort folders. I am, Yours truly, J. W. McCARSON, City Passenger Agent. Tuscaloosa, Ala., Nov. 18th, 1921. CHEERY LAYS for DREARY DAYS By JAMES WELLS, The Printer-Poet For It’s Thanksgiving. Father in his study looking o’er his last month’s bills, And the means with which to pay them his mind and body fills; He says he’s glad'he need not buy more fall clothes right away, And that is why he’s tlfankful on this glad Thanks giving Day. Mother in the kitchen just as busy as a Turk, For pies and cakes and turkey make an awful lot of work; She says she will be awful glad when pies are laid away, And that is why she’s thankful on this glad Thanks, giving Day. Sister's in the parlor where she’s spooning with her beau, She’s something over thirty—old-maidish-like, you know; At last she’s got a, sweetheart, and he seems to want to stay, And that is why she’s thankful on this glad Thanksgiving Day: Little Willie’s watching all the windows and the toys, And wondering what Old Santa Claus has thought up new for boys; For Christmas time is only now but just a month away, And that is why he’s thankful on this glad Thanks giving Day. Some Dogs. The bulldog is a funny beast, He never takes a trip, And yet, wherever he may go, He’s always got a grip. —Dalton Citizen. The hound is also a funny beast, As around the house it creeps, With its midnight howling— When a fellow wants to sleep. t —Manchester Mercury. ‘ And any dog’s a funny cuss, When simmer heat-waves dance, You see his pants in summer, But winter time—no pants. ****** Reason to Be Thankful. There’s one thing for which I am thankful, by cripe: I need not eat chit’lings, Nor drumsticks, nor tripe. *****.* And Again. The man who’s always talking, Has little “beans to spill;” The brook does lots of babbling, But it doesn’t run the mill. ******* Thanksgiving Song. 01’ tu’key gobbler am a gobblin’ ’long, An’ he think he king ob de stable, Long kim a boy wid a great big ax— An’ he gobblin’ on de table. Den eberybody cum right erlong, An’ set down to de table; We’ll eat dat turk as sho’s yo’ born, An’ gib thanks—if we’re able. Unc. Billy Possum in a ’simmon tree, Say he jes’ don’ gib a d—m; ’Long ernns er man wid a speckled pup, An’ dey serve Unc. BiHy with yam. Den eberybody cum right erlong, An’ set down to de table; Eat ’possum fat an‘ sich as that, An’ gib thanks—if we’re able. 01’ dominecker he a-crowin’ ’roun, 01’ man he up an’ kill it, Nex’ time ol’ dominecker crow, He a-crowin’ in de skillet. Den eberybody cum right erlong, An’ set down to de table; Wid chicken fried on ebery side, An’ gib thanks—if we’re able. ♦ * ♦ LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ hHHhH if, ~~ Life’s Supreme Joy. To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen: The greatest source of joy in this world is the realization that some one loves you. The warm hand clasp, the smiling face, the kindly glance are more precious to me than riches, or fame, or other earthly possessions. Give me the realiza tion that you love me in spite of my weaknesses and shortcomings and I will be happy though a 'legion of -devils encompass my soul. And simple loves are best The brave knight and his lady are all right in the story book, but it seems to me they lived terribly topsy-turvy lives. And they must have been heart hungry for the peace and quiet of simple life. Brave deeds I EXCHANGE OPINION X X asRSfiKKififfiaai«««««« aaasxaaaa The Picture Proves Nothing.. Printing the picture of th egallows on which it is claimed that American soldiers were executed in France we regard as harmful, because it is calculated to mislead the thoughtless. This class, seeing the picture and learning* the source from whence it came, wtil. regard it as proving the absurd and malicious charge that American soldiers were executed in France with out trial, As a matter of fact, the picture proves nothing, except that there were executions in France, and that no one denies. It is stated by the War Department, that nine American soldiers were executed in France, seven of them for rape, but the executions came only after due trial and | conviction of heinous crimes; that none were exe cuted for violations of the military laws. This picture is of a .gallows said to have been used at Is-sur-Tille, France. The surroundings shown bear all the evidence of a legal execution. The soldiers are at attention, and the condemned is ascending to the scaffold. Senator Edge is author ity for the statement that two negro soldiers were hanged at this point, after a fair trial, and that the crime for which they were hung w.as assault on a seven-year-old French girl, who died within less than a week. Affairs in this country have reached a lamentable condition when men posing as our statesmen'become the champions of negro rapists. Printing the picture could serve no good cause; at best it but panders to a morbid appetite for the gruesome and sordid. It has possibilities for harm, because those who intend to mislead in the matter of the executions will point to it as evidence, and the thoughtless, or those who want to believe the falsehood, will accept it as evidence. It was a picture that would have been much better left out of the newspapers.—Tifton Ga zette. Serving as Watson’s Substitute. Slowly, but surely, the positipn taken, months ago, by The Enquirer-Sun—that Thomas E. Wat son, now serving a term in the United States senate, ought to secure the release of David T. Blodgett, now serving a term in the United States penitentiary, or else “get in with him”—Is being established; in fact, it has come to be asserted by none other than Blodgett himself. As has already been explained in these columns, Blodgett was convicted in Iowa, under the espion age act for reprinting and circulating speeches made by Thomas E. Watson during the war; when the latter was so viciously assailing the govern ment the draft act and the nation’s war activities generally—for which his own publication, the Jeffersonian, was denied the use of the mails; though Watson, himself, escaped prosecution and punishment. At the Thanksgiving Banquet. He ate some turkey, lots of cake, Mince pies and apple-butter, And when they asked him for a toast, He was “too full to utter.” ****** Be Thankful Anyhow. “There’s nothing to be thankful for,” You say this glad Thanksgiving; / Why, man alive, if nothing else, Be thankful you are living. ****** A Naughty State! Some states, I know, are staid and old And straight as any pin; But I am sure ’twbuld knock you cold, Could you see Wiscon-sin. ****** All It Lacks. Said the watch: “I wish I had a bed, I would be fixed, b’jing; Because already I’ve a “tick,” ■■ Besides, I have a spring. ****** A Thanksgiving Hymn. We thank Thee, Lord, for blessings sent Adown the bygone year, For many happy hours we’ve spent With those we hold most dear. We thank Thee for the common things, The sunshine and the rain; We thank Thee .Lord, for life itself— Its pleasures, and its pain. But Blodgett thinks it hard, not to say down right unjust, that he should be serving a term in a United States penitentiary for circulating Watson’s seditious speeches, while Watson, him self, is serving a term—or part of a term, as the case may be—in the United States senate; and Blodgett says so in a letter which he has sent to President Harding, of which the following is a part: “I have been unlawfully imprisoned almost four years for reprinting a speech sent un sealed through the mails by Thomas E. Wat- . son after the espionage act became a law. If his speech constituted ~the crime alleged against me (for which I am imprisoned as Senator Watson’s substitute) congress would not be so tyrannical as to fail to proceed against him after having ousted Victor L. Berger from congress for a similar alleged offense.” Blodgett goes on to say that he is, in reality, merely serving a term in the penitentiary “as Senator Watson’s substitute,” if one looks at it the right -*yay. And, for the life of us, we don’t see how anyone can*look, at it any other way. So ,we say again, “Watson ought to get Blodgett out, or else get in with him.”—Columbus Enquir er-Sun. In the beginning the earth was made round, and it’s never been square since.—Columbia Rec ord. - The present situation affords considerable food for thought, if hash can be called food.—San Diego Tribune.