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MTVKIUI JANUARY O, 191X A.uUSTA SEMI-WEEKLY TIMES i . V. BRANTLEY, Editor TURNER. BhsIupn Htatpr <l HS. KIUTION PRICE •> A YEAR >tm u Oeroad CUM Moil T-'Wf. Governor Judson Harmon will rtait th* Pacific coast tbla month. Bible rlear of the balance of the world. He cannot ana tory far from himself, and ho la not able to to- member the jolts which hie ranlty has recolrod. The Colonel waa evi dently Impressed by the blow which he loeolTSd la the Now York cam paign lone than two years ago, bnt ho seems to be gradually getting over the effects. Nothing recore re from a biff so quickly as the “ego." The man who la wrapped up In him self Is tbo last to feel the Jolt which is aimed at him, and If he feeit It he is quickest to forget. So, It Is The Atlanta Judge who ruled that not surprising that the Colonel "I 8 !!!* 1“ !»>rt»ild show symptoms of having nearly recovered from the effects of ROOSEVELTS EGOTISM. has been looked upon as a sort of with him. They do not feel aura's full pardon, by Dot. Brown Col. Theodore Roosevelt la one model town on handling questions that he knows them or understands I eighteen months later. The Timas Is glad to bars the facts In this case and It Is Just as glad to give them to Its readers, having printed the article, from Watson's paper sometime ago. Arisons having had a democratic landslide la hereby annexed to the aura column for 1(11. The statesman who keeps hla ear to the ground hears the dope usual ly handed out to eyedroppers. of those people whose egotism pre- j 01 thl * The recent dispatches their problems. He talks to them vent, them from taking a really aen- j -1 ***, U * t th# U , the a « • >»«*« ‘® * > UT T- Hte 1 sue In the municipal campaign at seems impersonal, remote, formal; both Boston and Tbomasvllle. not the spontaneous utterance of While the Tbomasvllle cow Is tak- ‘one of ns.' Even those of his poll ing a unique place la the discus- clea which the people approve seem slons of the day In all of the towns to lack I directness and effectiveness, about, the Thomas county hog Doss he want tariff reform? It must promises to loom up on an even come only In hla own way; through greater phenomenon than the cow, hla own tariff board. The method According to a report sent out from Is more* Important to him than the tbla state seems to be tnlllned to make every man own hla own Jug. Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker who wears coats and pants, says the collar button Is driving men lnsanae; but can she Invent a square one that won’t roll under the bureau. The Republican State committee of Virginia will meet at Roanoke on January ( to call the State con vention to select delegatee to the national convention to be held In Chicago. That New York motorman who asked Col. Roosevelt If he didn't "know anything” must have felt awfully mortified when he found out that be was talking to the only living man that knows everything. A report from Athena says that a cow In that city crawled up three lights of satrs this week to a room -here a butcher was sleeping. A Wsycroas cow will ollmb up six flights to get a look at a Waycrosa councilman. The Moultrie Observer quit com Ing to The Times office several days ago, but we are unable to tell why It was, It la a rather dKficult mat- tor to get ont a paper this close to Moultrie without getting the Obser ver every day. ^ John Templo Graves areloVod fn ols speech .at the peace banquet that "there was never a banquot anaddlod In stomlor goulp than tbo ponce banquet of l(U." Col. Graves should have used tbo word “Swatted” It aeems to us. Champ Clark has been.making speeohes In the West during, tho holidays. Champ Is aiiother statesman who la not running for the presi dency, but he la determined that the offlo* shall be able to find him It It wants him. We think more of President Taft every time we think of how much La Follette and other Westerners who havw the taint of socialism all over them, dealtke him and would Ilka to aee him defeated for the Republican nomination. It Is gratifying to .Col. W. 8. West's friends to note that the prospects of hla getting Into tho gubernatorial race la receiving en couragement In all parts of Georgia. Col. West la recognised as one of tbo aafeat men In public life In Geor gia. Hie record In the house and senate shows that The Houston Post thinks that the negroes ef the Booth are abusing tbs monopoly they have In the met ier of domestic service. The time ts not very far distant when the Southern people will be forced to ^ bring In thrifty white people to -Taft for the Republican nomination, hie last fight—the fight wherein he tried so bard to “come back.” That Roosevelt expects to try to come again la apparent to every body. Though regarded as a good politician, his egotism has stupefied him and he la doing things every day that will operate against blm. evidently trying to defeat TkomaaviUe to tbs daily papers of tke state, the TkomaaviUe porker differs from other bogs la that his bide Is like that of a squirrel, a rabbit or fox, whereas, the ordi nary wlregrass rooter Is more like a 'possum. The dispatches state that the Thomas county hog is skin ned after he la killed and hla hide; sincere, but he and they Bpeak Is bung up to dry like the hide of .different language, and they arc the cow, which Is Skittl'd after {not flivite sure that he meana what substance. ‘‘Again, bia enforcement of the Sherman law displeases the world of ‘big business,* without satisfying the ’’ogorM of 'little business.' In Me iWt emphatic and vigorous declarations Mr. Taft does not con vince t^e pebple. They believe him Ing butchered. Moat people who have had exper ience In killing hogs and scraping rormal way the hair from them will be aur- concIu,lon ” prised to learn of this new breed which la being raised in our adjoin ing county. It la stated In the dis patches from Tbomasvllle that thieves stole two bogs from Mr. Ed Tomllson, a prosperous farmer, no IB evidently trying to unrest I.., .t. n» w HI me "t.fBNW «*—» — President Taft for the presidential left hide, hanging to a tree i an ' ort " M * # *** “ ' 1 —*——■ **■*. —— —“ *— unfortunate effect, tho secretary of agriculture, like tbo former acc- retary of the Interior, does not aee tho logic of evente, end the Preei- they would mean If they used the same words. His thought mover In formal ways. TbeirB runs straight to "In' the Ballinger case, the President's postponement of decis ive action could not change the In evitable course of events, but It made a bad situation worse until It ended ae everybody know It would end. So In the Dr. Wiley ease; an nomination this year and get It for himself, when he ought to know, If h* know, anything, that If ho .hould,^ t „. t m succeed In defeating Taft he would' .... weaken hla party so that no nominee could bo elected. If he should bo nominated It would ho to load a d! vtded party to Inglorious defeat. has been a party custom for many years to nominate a president for a second term. It la a sort of unwritten law with th« parties. Is usually understood. To refuse to do no Is to discredit the party's ad ministration and to make anemias of the administration’s friends. Roosevelt should auoceod In winning the nomination bo would do It by embittering a largo faction of .the Republican party, by discrediting the Republican administration and by confoaaing weakness to tho vot ers of tbo country. All of th things would operate against the nominee and would mean defeat for him nt tbs poll* Almost anybody, except one who la thoroughly en grossed In the Idea of his own Im portance, could eat this, but It doae not. seenj- to. .bo realised ^y Mr. Roosevelt President Taft baa lost out with tho Republicans, chiefly because be haa been President of the whole country and has tried to please all parties. Ho baa refused to play pol ities, of, perhaps, bo does not know how to play tho tamo. Ha haa been too Intent upon doing things that he thought would bring permanent good, rather than setting hla sails the passing wind. Ho meant good to both countries In hla efforts In bebnlf of reciprocity with Cana, da. Ho meant good to all sections In trying to break tba solid South and In showing the Southern people that ha regarded their wishes In matters where they were Involved. He meane world-wide good In hjs efforts for universal peace, hut those things have not boon vote catchers. Taft’o party up North dose not care for reciprocity with Canada and they do not cars for healing wounds'' In the South, and there la n large element In khaki and gold laco that earas nothing for universal peace. Tbay want war. They believe there la virtue In blood and that It ought to bo shod—onoo In awhile, anyhow. Taft lacks alt of the artlflcea of tho astute polltlelan and It la In that he may lose out. But Talt haa strong friends In the Republican party and they can be depended upon to make It llraly for the man who takes the nomination from him. Roooovelt'a enemies could not wish him any worse fate than to detent do much of tho work that tho ne-' tor w j, tt lb# Democrats would do to nogrooo could not do If they would, him would be all that hla bitterest enemy could desire. It would liter ally wipe up the earth with him— provided It should nominate a good man. Of course, It la possible that the Democrats might out the tool themselves, but It does not look that way now. It looks now like Roose velt's egotism la going to bo hte un doing and that hla morbid desire to bully hla party Into giving him the reins again will be the rook upon which hla political craft la to founder. Tho Romo Tribune thinks that l« In about time to pardon Banker Mono. It says that ha ought to have boon punished, but that the Ume has coma now when It would bo really an act of humanity to pardon him. Tho fact probably la that Mona la only one ot thous ands who are equally guilty, but who have never been punlebed for their crime. Three more arrests have been made In regard to dynamiting In Lon Angelos. They are Olat Tvelt- mot, secretary ot tho State building tradae council, Anton Johansen, or ganiser ot the state building trades council, and J. *. Munsey. leader ot tbo Strnetual Iron 'Workers. It will bo observed' that those names are WHERE noon ARE SKINNED. Thomas county la going to gtvo her nelghlboro n reputation which win bo the envy of all of tho coun ties In Georgia. Tbo Thomagvtllo row baa taken her place In tong and story. She haa been written about and discussed In Wayeroet, Boston, not new American names, bnt they! Quitman, and Moultrie, whom ON rather sound like names that coma j forts are being made to solve the from European hot beds. I row problem and whore Thomaarllle find near-by. The dlsptach says that the hides wore left as a remembrance find them there and to find that hla hoga wore gone. Wa are going to admit that the average farmer ought to be "dis mayed” at a thing of that aorL Wa believe that a Lowndes county farm er would be awfully surprised to wake up lu tha morning and find that ona of hla hoga had bean kill ed and tba hid# left hanging on tho back tones to dry. In fact the hoga In Lowndes county are not skinned after being butchered and a Lown des county thalf would never take tho time to go through with such an operation, oven If he could, so tho Tbomasvllle story Indies tee that not only tho hogs, bnt tbo bog thloraa of that section are ot a kind unknown In any of tho adjoin ing eountlas. In tho meantime, the Tbomasvllle oow and.tho hideless hog ought to hoop the Tbomasvllle correspondent 1 on to the Job, for thoro are none othere like unto hem. ‘a wrong ticket. Mr. A, 8, Pendloton, of Valdosta, who la a,good Democrat, and Mr. Frank Roberta, of tbls city, who Is n good Republican In national poll tics, agreed this morning on i ticket for President and Vloe Pres ident and their choice la such good one that almost every good Democrat dan afford to adopt It. Judson Harmon, governor of Ohio, la given the first place on tho ticket. Congressman Underwood, of Ala bama, the leader ot tho Democrats, and a typical Southern statesman, la put down tor ncond place. Look at this ticket from any an gle and yon will reach tho conclus ion that It la a atrong ona. Har man la unquestionably tha ablest and moat vigorous, ot tbo avallablo candidate* for tho Brat placet Con gressman Underwood would not only strengthen Jho ticket In the South, bnt would give eonlffntee to the conservative element In’ the North. And It la the conservative ele ment tha Democrats want to reach. The party baa always been—until It was engulfed In the waters of free- allverlam—the party of conserva tism, of safety and sanity. It will bo a gnat day for tbe Democracy whan Its factions can aim upon a ticket like thto one and when Alt- torent elements avoid tbo brain storms, snares and pitfalls that confront parties aa they do Indtrid- uala at oertaln Intervals In their ox- talenoe. TAFTS TEMPERAMENT. That President Taft 1a not tem peramentally In harmony with tbe great mass ot tho people ot the ountry la the argument In an edi torial In tho January World's Work Magaalno, This editorial la baaed on an Incident ot President Toft’s trip through tbo West It follows At one ot tbo towns In Kansas where Proetdent Taft stopped dur ing hla long Journey a great crowd ot country people came to aee him. As the crowd dispersed after Ma speech ona farmer waa heard to re mark to anothor: 'No, ho ain't one ot ua.' "Then la much testimony to show that tbla feeling prevails In many parts of tbo country which tho President visited. At a club, sur rounded by lawyers, where hla good nature baa free play, ho captivates hla company, bnt whan he meets tba a of tbo people they do not thatnaalveg in direct contact dent mistakes personal loyalty for s public service. Yet the Inevitable can not bo prevented by any snrh mistake. The President does not face difficulties decisively. “Yet no man has mere patriotic Intention*. Tba explanation seems to be'temperamental—that ‘be ain't one of as.’ “Mr. Taft's Interview, In which bo undertook to explain bit work and purposes as President, had tho tone of an apology. Hla amiable personality showed In It, as It doss In everything he does or says. Bnt there’’eras the tone, not only of apology, bnt of a sort of bolpleav- neaa. The very Illusion of leader ship was stripped away In a per-, feetty commonplace explanation that somehow aeema to bave.done offense to tho great ofilce h< holds. Nothing to stir tho Imagina tion.. Nothing to rally men — one elp wishing that he bad the explanation.” -!o FAfTHBOUT a pardon. iomo tlniT ago. The Tlmee made some comment upon pardons that bad been Issued In Georgia and It inferred to a charge which tom Watson haa repeatedly made against Gor. Smith In regard to tbe alleged pardon ot a negro who, It waa said, bad shot a white man putting hla eyes out while tho man waa sitting on hla porch st night getting ready to retire for tho night. The Times reprinted what Tom Watson had repeatedly charged In bta paper and we slated at tha time that we doubted that the story was true, though wa could not under stand bow It had been allowed re pealed so often without a denial from Gov. Smith’s friends. Wo alto stated that we expected to torostl- gate the report tor our own satis faction and aee It thoro were any truth In It. Tho Times baa received a letter from a gentleman In Atlanta, who took tbo trouble to look over th# records In the governors office and to see Just what there waa In re gard to tha case. The negro who waa mentioned In Watooa'a paper waa named Ron Wads and Watson claimed that he attempted to sense, etna to. s white man and succeeded In shooting out tbo white mnn't eyes. Tha records st tbs governor’s ofilce show that tbla negro, Dan Wads, was convicted In the superior court of MUlor county In lttfi of mayhdm, of biting off a man's ear In a fight. Tha records do not show who the man . wan, bnt tho negro waa sentenced for life Imprison ment Tha prison commission rec ommended that he be paroled. The negro was about sixty years of ago, had- boon a trusty for several year* and waa given employment by a prominent physician at Pittsburg, Ga„ who vouched for him. Gov. Smith granted the parole tho day ha wont out of office. TM records In tho case show that there was nothtug ta Tom Wat son’s charge against Gov. Smith un ices Watson got hla casts mixed, which we seriously doubt Wo really believe that Watsoh haa boon Imposed upon by somebody who did not know tho facto In tho cane or who did not can what the facts ware. « would bo fair to a*y that tbla negro, after showing himself worthy of confidence for the time allowed under th# law, waa granted TO PUSH GOOD ROADS WORK. For the pnrpooe of organlt'ag practical road clubs In the eonntlev traversed by tha Atlantic Coast Lino railway. In tha states South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama, Cbarlae P. Light, field secretary of the American Associa tion for Highway Improvement, will accompany tbo Good Roads Train, now being operated by the Coast I.lno In co-operation with the Uni ted States Ofilce of Public Roads. Mr. Light will Join the good roads psrtv at Cameron, S. C., on Jana cry S, and will continue with It for shout two weeks, during which he -will deliver a series of addresses and organize county associations for furthering the Improvement of local roads. Mr. Light was form erly state commissioner of public reads of West Virginia, and la an authority on road management. He Is widely known for hla entertain ing and Instructive lectures on this subject , Tho American Association foi Highway Improvement lays paitlc- ular stress upon tho necessity for definite purposes, practical meth ods and continuous work by local associations. They should see t< It that full Information ta assem bled concerning the road material of the county, tho mileage, condi tion and traffic requirements of all roads, the methods of construction heat salted to the county; necessa ry road legislation, financing and safegnardlng road revenues, and the management and maintenance of the roada. Scarcely a county has yet perfected Its ayatam of road management and In all there there la room for Improvement along some of tho foregoing Un- Mr. H. S. Fairbanks, assistant field secretary, will succeed Mr. Light on the Good Roada Train about January 12, and will continue the organisation work until tho con clusion of tha tour. HURRAH FOR THE BOY SCOUTS One of tho good things that has struck Macon la tho “Boy Scouts” movpjpent. Parents should encour age* their youngsters to'get 10 the' bond. It la good for their health and morals and mental training Outdoor frontier life has been 'he making of a very large number cf America's great men whose names are written In the Imperishable his tory of the country. Scoutcraft,” writs Baden-Pow- ell, the original promoter of this splendid training for boy*, 'in cludes the attributes of oar beat col onial frontiersmen, aouch as re sourcefulneas, discipline, self-reli ance. unselfishness, physical actlvt- and development, chivalry, loy alty and patrtottom. These and kin dred qualities are tanght entirely by means ot practices and games such as realy attract and hold the hoys; that la, they are tanght throngh the mediant of camp Ufa with Its details of pioneering, Out building, tolling {rocs, flre-llghtlnit and cooking and no on by campaign ing, or life In th* open, finding the way tn strange countries, boat cruising, map reading. Judging height* and distances; conveying in formation by signals and signaling; observation of animals and all de tails of every kind, of tracking and stalking, knowledge ot plants and trees and astronomy; health and endurance, Including sobrlatv, non smoking and general praiervatton ot health and development cf body.” The country around Macon af ford* • splondld field tor this work. Our river and creeks, onv swamps, forests, fields, plaint, hills and In dian monnds turntsn th* needful and tha natural background; and tha hoys are plentiful. youngster hiking across th* country wltn hla knapsack on hack la a (ar more plaaaicg prospect a profitable recreation than speeding along a smooth road In an- automobile or on a motorcycle — Macon Telegraph. NOT AMERICAN LABORERS. It la a little refreshing to observe that nearly all of tho men who are under Indictment In connection wltn the dynamiting outrage* In Los Angeles and other Western cities are not genuine American workmen, but are foreigners, who have won places of honor In the labor organ isations on their wltn. Take those names Ortto MeManlgal, , the Me- Namarraa, Tveltmee, Johannaen. Mnnsey—an foreign and moot of them hav* the aonnd of name* from the Commons or the Mafia. It waa to* same thing with moat Are You A Woman ? * s The Woman’s Tonic I a********* of those who wore accused of mur dering the governor of Idaho sev eral years ago. The names betrayed them as being from the hot-bed* of European anarchy, and not native Americana And who ls this man Anton Jo- nannsen? la this tho man who spent several weeks In Valdosta several years ago trying to locate a Pollan colony? Tbe name* ar* tho same, if wo remember correctly. That An ton Johannaen (or Johnson) was a great labor organiser—on* ot th* leaders—and claimed that he repre- sented the Polam^ H who are being mistreated by the Russians. The Russians finally made some conces sions to the Pole* and It was later reported that th* colony ocheme had been abandoned. Nothing more was beard from Anton Johannaen. But what we started ont to noth:* was merely the names of tha men who have 'caused the stigma to ba placed on organised labor. . It Is this class of men who have been guilty of other excesses and who have brought reproach upon the or ganization which they should have Jealously guarded from the suspicion of violent methods. America 1s big enough, broad enough and prosperous enough to assimilate almost everything that comes to her shores hot anarchy. That 1* a poison which defies assim ilation and which onght to be treat ed as a cancerous growth. And It 1s because Ot It that we ought to be more careful In regard to tba class of .people that we allow to dock into tbla country every day, erery week and every year. •THE ALASKAN PROBLEM.” The United States 1s tha owner of a vast area of practically undevel oped Alaskan land with great fu ture possibilities, Ibut st present bald In check because ot tbo lack of means ot access and transportation. If It were an Individual, Instead of our Government, that owned each valuable property, be would either provide tba transportation himself or make It possible for some on* eta* to do so with an arrange ment profitable to both, I fall to te* wherein tba Interests ot tho people ot tha United States differ materially from thoa* ot an Indi vidual In this respect Tbe fact that tba United States Government' haa brought to n standstill the af ter of a private concern to provldt the needed transportation Indicate* cither that tbe nation ta to under take the work Itself or that It Js not to bo don* at all, Tbe reasons favoring Gorerament construction of Alaskan railways are an follows: (1) Tbe land be longs to the United State*, and th* nation baa the greatest Interest In rendering It valuable and profitable to Individuals and to the people s* a whole. (2) Tbe region ta on* that can never be densely settled and that for a long time to coma these ar* In sight only In returns from mines owned or controlled by the railways, against which the gov ernment ta now opposed. Tba United States, on tbe other band, can look at the problem from an entirely dlf- feret point of view, for tn it n tew years, or even a generation, la an Insignificant period Of tlm*. Being tbe owner of tbe land, It could be content to wait for direct profits from the Investment It by It th* value or tbe land ls Increased and If the rccutslte settlement and do. velo""e. t nr* made possible.— Ralph S. Tarr, in the January num ber of the North American Review. The v ow , York get-rich-quick proir.e'erv, who got away with (5,- 000,ona. 1 ave been given n year In Jail. They should congratulat- tbomse'ves they didn't steal a loaf' ot bread, which means oftj yearn President Taft broke tbe record for handshaking nt bis New Year’s reception. He sbook hands wltn eight tbouaand officials and other to'ks during the time. Last year he gretted only fire thousand. President Taft has bad to forego th* trip to Savannah on St. Patrick's day, aa he had promised to spend that day In Boston and th* paopl* of the hub city would not zoleas* him from tbe engagement. Gov. Slaton Is right rbout many things, but ha 1s eminently right In taking tbo posltloj that tbs peo ple ot Georgia need a rest In poli tics and an opportunity to forget factional difference*. Judge Bell, of Atlanta, blame* / • tha blind tigers for th* carnWala of crime in that city, and b* took ssue with Dick Russell on th* statement that to* prohibition taw could not b* enforced. China merely asks for a repub lic. It has not gotten so far along as th* dleenaaloa of soeh details as th* Initiative and referendum and recall. A "Progressive” Republican ta n rather undesirable citizen, bnt no ls n good man compared with an Insurgent Democrat In times Ilk* thin. Russia has barred the Salvation army from that country. Moat ot the Rnaslans have also put up th* ban against barbers. Col. Roosevelt Insists that ha not tn politics, but tha casual server can sec that polities la la the colonel up to hte eyes. If Roosevelt shouldn't he nomina ted, and President Taft detente 1, . , , . Rooaevelt would loao tho honor of may bo expected to be occupied In ^ ^ Uvlnf n . prHllMt . spots, and primarily by a mining population. Railroad-building can- j A g, r , m>rrttd „ not, therefore, bo undertaken ty|b„eball plays, because ha made a private capital In anticipation of th# hom# nl . bnt ^ rte kMp hlm rapid extension of n permanent pop ulation, aa has -been dona to parts of the United States. (2) Private capital Invested to railway pro Per th* habit? If all th* trees war* Christmas trees, tba consarvattontets\ would ties her* must .look for quick and depend on th* rising generation for abundant profits, and at present)unanimous support