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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA. GA.. 5 NOBTH FOBSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Poetoffice aa Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMES B. GBAY, President ana Editor. subscbxptzon raxes Twelv* months Tie Six months ......... 4<Vc Three months The Semi-Weekly Journal Is published on Tuesday and Friday, and Is mailed by the shortest routes for earl delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires Into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Arents wanted at every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write to R. R. FRAD LKY, Circulation Dept. The only travelinr representatives we have are J. A. Bryan. R. F Bolton. C. C. Coyle. I* H. Kim brough and C T. Tates. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named travelinc repror sentatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCBXBEBB. The label used for addressinc your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renew,nr at least two weeks before the date on this label, you Insure regular servlcs. In orderlag paper chanced, be sure to mention your old. as well as your new address. If on a route please rive the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mall. • Address all orders and notices for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. . Atlanta. Ga. HOW YOU CAN HELP ELECT A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT The Democrats of Columbus and Muscogee county are turnin* their party faith into works. They have contributed to the Wilson-Marshall fund an amount that is not only substantial, but particu larly gratifying because of the large number of sub scriptions it represents. It is this breadth of interest that will count for most in the national campaign. A hundred donations of one dollar each are more significant and more helpful than one of a hundred dollars. Every Georgia Democrat should have a share in this patriotic investment. The State is expected to raise thirty thousand dollars, a very modest sum when it is reflected that the party's presidential nominee Is himself virtually a Georgian and is bound to our commonwealth by the closest of human ties. Many citizens have already given generously to the campaign fund, but the essential thing is that every true Democrat should do his individual part; and. if this is done, the thirty-thousand-dollar mark will be reached and passed within less than a fort night. It is Important to bear in mind that the needs of the national campaign are imperative. The election is a little more than a month futureward. It is the prompt subscription that will help most. Your dollar is needed today. The work of the Columbus Democrats should bestir every part of the State to immediate and vigorous action. The towns and cities are expected to raise ten thousand dollars; and this can easily be done if in each community some representative citi sen or organization will at once undertake a canvass of the party’s membership. The counties have been requested to contribute another ten thousand dollars; and through similar means this, too, can be accom plished without burdening any one. Atlanta and Fulton county are depended upon for the third ten thousand-dollar share of the total State fund. This is a comparatively nominal amount, when this com munity’s population and wealth and the importance of electing a Democratic president are considered. The receipt of the Columbus contributions brings The Journal’s readers’ part of the Wilson-Marshall fund up to two thousand one hundred dollars. The Journal will continue to acknowledge subscriptions and forward them to national headquarters. Let the Democracy of the State realise that it has a vital and urgent duty to perform In this presi dential campaign; that its aid is needed in order to sustain and press forward the splendid victory that is in sight; let every citisen who wishes to see a Georgia family in the White House and a construc tive statesman at the head of the Government con tribute his share, however small, to the national cam paign fund. Self-control is the one thing a man always has until he needs it. No matter how fast a young man may be, he can be overtaken by trouble. Yesterday’s temperature really suggested the opening of the football season. A woman has more confidence in a minister than a man has in a physician. THE GEORGIA CORN SHOW. The Georgia Corn Show to be held next month in Atlanta promises to surpass any kindred enterprise the State has known Its date, November 26-29, will fail most oppor tunely, coming as it will on the heels of various county and district fairs. Into this one big exposi tion, will be gathered the exhibits that show the methods and the progress of corn growers in every part of the State. Thus, too, the interest c. the entire commonwealth will find a central rallying point and the movement toward a more rberal agriculture will press forward with that energy which comes from uinted sentiment and purpose. Particular stress will be laid upon tbe work of the Boys* Corn Clnbe. Last year some four hundred of these youthful fanners were the city’s guests. It is expected that this season they will come a thou sand-strong and it need scarcely be said that every . one of them will find a welcome that will be truly homelike. There Is no enterprise in Georgia today which is more fertile or far-reaching in its benefits than tljat of the Boys’Corn Clubs. There associations have been organized in practically every county and through their efforts the State’s average acre yield of corn has been advanced and its aggregate output greatly increased. They merit the hearty public’s encour agement and this, they will receive In royal measure at the State show In November. The Atlanta Clumber of Commerce inaugurated this exposition last year in the interest of tbe State at large and for the benefits it would bring to every field of Georgia’s economic life. It Is an undertak ing that deserves the earnest support of business men and especially those of the Capital city. WILSON IN NEW ENGLAND. On none of his campaign trips has Woodrow Wil son met a heartier welcome or bestirred keener in terest than in sobersided old New England. In that fastness of conservatism, where the chieftains of high tariff so long held sway and where the ancient and honorable Standpatters are still supposed to find harbor, the Democratic leader vigorously championed a program of political progress. Significantly enough, he found his hearers as responsive as were those of the West, a fact which would indicate that the popular thought of New England, tar from being turned backward, is like that of the whole nation facing the light and answering the call of a new day. Nor is it difficult to understand why those tem perate-minded people respond so earnestly to the doctrines of political progress as set forth by Wood row Wilson. They recognize in him and in his pol icies an influence which is above all constructive and which will accomplish needed changes, not through violent disturbances, but through a thoughtful and workmanly process of readjustment. It is this char acteristic of Governor Wilson himself and of the pur poses tor which he stands that appeals with equal force to all open-minded citizens, whether they be of a conservative or an aggressive temper. He is dis tinguished from the Republican candidate, on the one hand, by the fact that he recognizes and is pre pared to effect certain sorely needed changes in the Government; and from the candidate of the Third- Term party, on the other hand, by the fact that he proposes to accomplish those changes through or derly and constitutional means. Especially Interesting and effective was Governor Wilson’s discussion of the tariff before his Connecti cut audiences. He completely routed the old bug aboo, conceived and fostered by reactionary Repub licans, that the Democratic party stands for abso lutely free trade. Whenever a change in the existing tariff schedules is suggested, the Standpatters inva riably cry’ that the Democrats are trying to ruin in dustrial interests and meam to wipe out the federal government’s main source of revenue. Neither Governor Wilson nor his party has ever advocated any such silly proposition. What he said in this connection to his audience at Hartford he has said in effect time and time again. In addressing the National Democratic Club at New York on last Jan uary the third, Governor Wilson declared; “What are we going to dos Are we going to turn revolutionistsf Are we going to act as free traders? I wish 1 might hope that our grand children could indulge tn free trade, but I am afraid they cannot, because they have to pay the bills of the federal government. We have a fed eral system of government but it is wise, it is good housekeeping, it is good management to leave direct taxes, for the most part, to the State government, because they have current bills to pay. It is likely that for am indefinite period we shall have to pay our national bills by duties collected at the ports. Therefore what we have to ask ourselves is not the principle upon which we are to act, for that is plain. We are to act upon the fundamental principle of the Democratic party, not free trade, but tariff for revenue; and we must approach that by such avenues, by such stages and at such a pace as will be con sistent with the stability and the safety of the business of the country." Such an attitude as this can give no reasonable apprehension to any legitimate industry to any sec tion of the country, whether it be the West, the South or New' England with its teeming manufac tories. It matters little where they live or what their inherited opinions may be, the rank and file of the people of this country have at last awakened to the monstrous stupidity of the claim that In order for them to prosper a particular group of interests must have the Government’s nursing and patronage. New Englanders are realizing this fact no less keenly than Americans at large; and in their State and Con gressional elections within the past two years they have given ample proof of their conviction. The sort of tariff that has grown up under Repub lican administrations Is not ’’protection” but patron age. It is not levied for the support of the Govern ment, but for the aid of giant monopolies; not for the benefit of the workingman, but for the profit of a narrow group of financiers. Far from safeguarding or extending prosperity, it pinches and starves the people as a whole by placing an extortionate tax upon the necessaries of life. Far from strengthening American Industries, it weakens them by barring the wholesome stimulus of competition. It is this sort of tariff —the sort which both Presi dent Taft and Mr. Roosevelt and their respective parties would perpetuate—that the Democratic party under Woodrow Wilson’s leadership purposes to re form. The workingmen, the farmers and the general public of New England are today bearing the burden of such a tariff in common with the American people as a whole. It is to the Democratic party alone that they may look for any measure of intelligent or effec tive relief on this great issue; and not until this issue is settled as it should be is there any hope of trust reform or of economic and social justice. The Third-Termer has talked one plan of tariff in the East and an entirely different plan in the West. To him, the cloud is first like a camel and then like a weasel and then, Indeed, very like a whale; in truth, he has proved himself the prating Polonlus of American politics. Dr. Eliot aptly described Mr. Roosevelt when he said: “He has never shown any acquaintance with the tariff questions, any interest in them, or any comprehension of the disastrous effects of the tariff on the prices of the necessa ries of life to consumers. His present utterances on this subject are contradictory and vague." In sharp contrast to the Third-Termer’s dilatory and really demagogic treatment of this vital iesue stands the clear-cut, thoughtful utterances of Wood row Wilson who says to the people of the West and of New England just what he means and means just what he says. That is the kind of statesman ship for which this country is eager and the kind to which it will rally at the polls in November. This is fine weather for hot Scotch; but, ah, where is the Scotch? Governor Wilson says the people are tired of pol itics. They are, generally speaking, but not of the kind the governor preaches. The mother-in-law usually has a good deal to say, but about all the poor old father-in-law has to do is tQ pay the freight and say nothing. To save trouble and unnecessary expense, Roose velt and Taft ought to retire just now and make it unanimous. tjIE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1912. Some New Vegetable Foods Bp Frederic J, Haskin For a number of years the department of agricul ture has been trying to find a vegetable that would be as staple in the southern states as the potato is in the north. The potato crop in the southern states comes early and is practically over by July or August,'and the climate is tio warm that it cannot be kept throughout the year. Conse quently, the southern menu is apt to depend too much upon corn pone and bacon. It is now thought, however, that the culti vation of the dasheen will solve the difficulty and already it has become known favorably In a number of the larger hotels to which it has been sent from the government experiment stations wher e for, several years it has been cultivated assiduously. * * • The dasheen is a vegetable brought from the tropics, being native especially to Central ft " A America, and it can be used in so many ways, and can be raised with so little difficulty that it prom ises within a few years to become one of the staple food articles of the country. At a recent banquet of the National Geographical society, held in Wash ington, the dasheen was given a prominent place upon the menu and was highly commended by those in at tendance. It is now being raised in considerable quantities as far north as the Carolinas, although it is in Florida that it has achieved its highest success, since a half acre connected with the Brookville exper iment station in that state last year yielded 225 bushels of dasheens. It is believed that there r.re thousands of acres of wet land in the southern states which can be utilized in dasheen cultivation, thus adding materially to the food supply of the nation. The tuber matures in August or September, or even later in some of th e states, and in the localities un affected by frost may be left in the ground without injury during the winter months. In appearance the dasheen plant is similar to the elephant ear or caladium which is so widely culti vated as an ornamental plant. Its tubers are also similar to that of the caladium and they grow in large clusters beneath the ground. Some of these tubers are as much as six inches in diameter, al though they will doubtless vary as much in size as the ordinary Irish potato. The flesh of the tuber is similar to that of the potato when cooked, al though it is apt to be somewhat gray or violet in color. The department of agriculture has already formulated recipes for cooking the dasheen, and these directions are practically the same as for cooking potatoes, since they are boiled, baked, stuffed, fried or creamed. The taste of the cooked dasheen is sim ilar to that of boiled chestnuts. While the aubcr i B the most important part of the dasheen food supply it is not the only one utilized. The entire plant is edible and highly palatable. The leaves are succulent, and when cooked as spinach, form excellent greens, and the flower, which is yel low in color in most varieties, is used as salad, while the leaf, stalks and shoots, which are grown by plac ing the tubers in a dark place and allowing them to sprout, are said by epicures to be vastly superior to asparagus in flavor and are totally lacking in the fibrous quality which is often objectionable in aspar agus. The efforts of the department of agriculture to broaden the list of plant foods require the services of plant experts who are sent to all parts of ’he • world in quest of new dainties to add to the menus for the American palate. From Japan and China, as well as from Turkey, Africa a; d South America, new plants are constantly coming which the American experiment stations are testing with a view to plac ing them upon the food markets of the country. A new salad plant which has lately been tried sat isfactorily in the New York market and is already becoming well known in California is the Japanese "udo" which is grown in a manner similar to aspara gus and can be easily forced for the winter market. As a salad udo has been commended by the chefs of some of the leading hotels in New York. It has also received great favor as a vegetable. So far it is not produced in commercial quantities, as It takes years of education to popularize a new food, but one truck farmer in California has this year planted for ty acres of udo with the intention of growing it for the eastern market. It is quite within the memory of most people when bananas began to be popular fruit. To many people the taste for them had to be cultivated, al though their introduction has now become so com plete that they threaten in popularity the peaches, pears and apples which are native to the country. In the same way the department of agriculture ex pects to popularize the avocado, or alligator pear, which within the last five years has made its ap pearance upon the market of every city of any size. The annexation of tropical territory to this country has added to the variety of our food supply, and the economic advantage of utilizing these new foods is apparent to any one. In Hawaii the cultivation of the avocado has been undertaken in a scientific manner by the experiment station so that its advantages were established to those familiar with it even before the attachment of Porto Rico and even of the Panama canal zone. Now it is becoming quite extensively cultivated, both in Florida and southern California, so that the supply is each year becoming greater, although it is not yet sufficient to make the price low enough for popular demand. There are stories told of fabulous prices still being paid for the fruit of a single avocado tree. It has one disadvantage, however, which the experiments of the department of agriculture are working to overcome. The fruit does not ship well, chiefly because the seed is large and hard and rather 16oSe inside. In the shipment this seed fre quently becomes entirely free from the fibers i-e --straining it and rolls around, bruising the inside flesh of the fruit so that it becomes rancid and turns dark. To make a satisfactory commercial product, the fruit should have a smaller seed more tightly at tached, and it is believed that this will soon be achieved by those engaged in its cultivation. Saving and Investing Talks WOMEN AND THE “REAL ESTATE GAME" BY JOHN M. OSXIBON. It may be news that women are getting into the real estate business, and making money out of it. It was to me. I had no idea that they were active in it until I saw the picture of one of k -Sb® the markedly successful ones in a recent Cleveland newspaper. There was an interview with her. too, which contained some hints worth passing on to ambitious women. This Cleveland woman has a specialty—'building houses on vacant lots with money which she borrows for 6 per cent, and selling the houses for a neat profit. Getting the right sort of a house on a lot, at the right price, is her problem. When she solves it successfully she makes money, and she loses when she fails to solve it. "Women.” she said, "are better qualified than men to build houses. They are the ones who live most in them, and know what is needed. They know, -from long experience, just where the closets and sinks ought to be, what arrangement of rooms will be most convenient and save steps, what sort of wood is hard and what sort is easy to keep clean, and a lot of details which men builders either don’t know about or wilfully neglect. "T think the time will come when practically all homes will be built by women.” I do not know of a better investment for the mod ern architect-builder than to add to his staff a wom an of taste and experience a s a home maker. I di not know of a better way for the young woman to invest her talent than by getting into the business of designing houses for people to live in—really to "live" in. It is an axiom of the investment business that money is safest which is put into the things in every day use by a large gumber of peopl w ,/^^^\^ C (pUAITRY topics rr.rn&WHJrELTO* COURTESIES AMONG ORGANIZATIONS. Rudeness always discounts, itself. When people enter convention halls as invited guests it behooves those who accept the invitation to behave themselves while the are occupying the seats allotted to them for their comfort. I am saying his because I was one of the invited guests to hear ex-President Roose velt's address to the voters of his Progressive party last Saturday night, and I saw more rudeness and indecent behaviour than I ever expected to see in a Georgia audience. J was afterwards told that just such behaviour occurred in the same auditorium last year when Hon. Thomas Watson hired the hall, padi his money for it, and was effectually howled down by Atlanta toughs sent there to deprive him of his op portunity. On Saturday night a person who went there to hear Mr. Roosevelt’s address was effectually depriedv of the hearing by a gang of Atlanta young men whose names are known and will be given upon prop er demand who took seats near this quiet listener and in the icinvlty were perhaps a half hundred or more creatures who were yelling for Wilson. Whenever the distinguished speaker uttered a sentence that was not pleasing to these sap-headed young politicians these creatures were called on to yell for Wilson. They were heard to say: “Giev it to him boys! Yell for Wilson!” The fathers of some of these young men made all they had in name or fortune by follow ing dirty Republican politics in Georgia soon after the war and if it had not been for their gains under Bullock their sons would now be filling a brakeman’s place or pulling at a rope over the back of a festive mule. Whether their creatures were hired for the eenving or otherwise by these "saps,” or discourteous peopl* in breeches, it is a fact that they effectually drowned out the speaker's oicve to those in the vi cinity. It was a shame, and when I was given the names of the instigators I said; “How low has Geor gia politics fallen when no police officers were seen to quell these conspirators’!” It was particularly shameful in Atlanta, where Mr. Roosevelt last year paid his ©wn expenses to get to Atlanta to raise a fund to commemorate “Uncle Remus” and honor the city in the purchase of "Snap Bean Farm” for that purpose. It is miserable politics when men forget what was due to the people who paid their money to give an intelllectual treat to the in vited guests and used their invitation to Insult ‘he owners of the auditorium for that night and to fling upon the speaker the rabid froth of their dirty souls and dirty politics. Just such conduct deseres vto be remembered at the polls in Noembevr, where men of teir caliber should be effectually rebuked. Courtesy in women's organizations should be es pecially conseredv. The presiding officer should see to it that no discourtesy should be shown to Invited guests in their conventions by ‘ sap heads” and inter ested people. A few days ago in a convention of women one of the delegates was grossly Insulted by a man who appeared as a speaker for his party before the assemblage of ladies. Pointing his finger at one of the delegates he made a gross attack and was not called down by the presidnlg officer. The presiding officer was either ignorant of her duty or conspiring with the man speaker to humiliate the delegate, and no public explanation was ever given by the presid ing officer. It transpires that this discourteous man who insulted the ministers of Atlanta a few days previously. As I said before, rudeness discounts it self. It will (time being given) react. Like the fa mous Australian boomerang which, when flung in front, curves itself and flings itself back upon the unsuspectnig victim, and rudeness tn essemblies will fling back odium upon the doers thereof. Courtesy is the standard coin of cultivated social life. Rudeness to invited guests is a sure token of low breeding, no matter If the person wears %ilk dresses or silk pajamas. Those Atlanta toughs and the rude Atlanta politi cians who backed them up should have been led out of the auditorium with a policeman s authority, and the discourtesy to the delegate of the woman s con vention should have been handled by the presiding officer as if the man had been a sprading adder or a convicted blind tiger. It speaks poorly for the intelligent of the com munity when such efficient handling is omitted by ignorant or rabid politics. • • • urffAT WILL YOU DO WITH THE WOMEN? I had conversation with two Atlanta gentlemen on yesterday and they mentioned the raid made by Chief Beavers on the houses of ill fame in Atlanta last week. One of them remarked: "Four days of- this topic in th e newspapers has done more to familiarize the peo ple of Atlanta with the subject of lewd women than forty years of you temperance women can undo.” The other gentleman said: “The young school children in Atlanta are actually discussing it on ‘he streets as they go to school.” So here you are. What are you going to do about it? If you chase those unfortunates out into tne fields and by-ways of your capitol city you will maybe starve them and destroy human life and no body is going to take them into decent homes to as sociate with children, young boys and young women. Now. listen, friends! The men who have robbed these women of virtue and decent homes should bs run out, too! It is one of the enormities of this condition of a.- fairs that the men go scot free while the victim gets all the suffering and disgrace. Does it not make /ou sick at heart to know that womankind must bear a 1 the' reverse and shame, although lewd men are the prime factors in this ruin? The police in New York are branded with vicious graft by levying tribute from the demi-monde, and it is the men whb frequent the brothels who pay thia shame money to the police. Why in the name of all that is just or honest, why do you not compel your policemen to handcuff the lewd women and men to gether and thus send them out into the publicity of exposure? , , The truth is, the fast men of the city are in league with your corrupt policemen and they are protected because they will vote in these double dealing blue coats at the next election. Why not arrest the of fenders of both sexes, carry them into court and try to get an honest judge to fine them or sentence thorn to prison? I’ll tell you why! These base men who betray women and who consort with lewd women are cruel in their tyranny over their victims. God help these poor women lying under the damnation of lust and liquor! • • ♦ AN INQUIRY. Collins. Ga.. Sept. 28, 1912. Mr* W H. Felton, Cartersville. Ga,: Dear Mrs. Felton—l have read with interest your writings on many different subjects, and you have such a clear insight of any subject of which I have known you to take up until I am constrained to ss.c vou to write in The Semi-Weekly Journal on the sub ject of “Catholicism in America." I think the time is at hand when all liberty loving American people should take a firm stand against this high-handed tyranny these self-styled religious hierarchies are en deavoring to perpetrate on the American people. I am sending you under separate cover a copy of “The Menace," which is an anti-Catholic paper printed at Aurora, Mo„ and every paragraph is an eye ° Pe " e have several of these papers which contain the Catholic oath, and I will send one to any person r.- questing same as long as the y last. You may use your pleasure about publishing this. But I do want to see a long piece of your writing on this all-im portant question. Yours jqrdan • • • CATHOLICISM IN AMERICA I am continually appealed to to write something for The Semi-Weekly Journal. As I would have to deal with the subject in a political way and take sid<Z against the encroachment of the Catholic church. • think it will be well to postpone tne discussion until after November. I think it was unwise in Mr. Taft to place a Cath olic (Jesuit) over the supreme bench as chief jus- ■ ■ ■■ ■■■ Georgia and the South Indorse The Journal’s Editorial on Roosevelt j Suits South Carolina Greenwood, S. C., Sept. 30, 1911- Editor The Journal: ' ' Your editorial, “Go Home, Colonel,” in yesterday's Journal, i s a gem, and suits us better than anything we have read during the present national campaign. Yours truly, A. F. M KISSICK. 'Sledge-Hammer Blows' Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 30. 19U. Editor The Journal: Dear Sir—The editorial in your paper of Sunday, Sept 29. entitled “Go Home, Colonel,” is indeed a masterpiece. The truths and sentiments In this ar ticle should certainly appeal to every true southern er and every thinking Democrat in the entire south. There are some deluded Democrats who have been attracted by the political vagaries of the third termer, but such sledge-hammer blows as this edi torial gives should certainly assist in bringing them' around to a correct way of thinking. I sincerely trust that every newspaper in the en-> , tire south will republish your editorial in order that the people may see the subject in its true light • Yours very truly, O. PALMOUR. "Burnt to Cinders" LaGrange, Ga., Sept. 29, 1912. Editor The Journal: Your parting shot at Colonel Roasevelt in Sunday s Journal was so well directed I cannot allow it to l pass without a hearty indorsement. EJvery sentence pulsated—was Instinct with life and breathed and burned to cinders the recent hypocritical utterances of the most consummate demagogue that ever shad owed. this country. I well remember reading from the press dispatches a few years ago in a speech mad e by him at Arlington in which he branded the Confederate soldier as an anarchist. You might have also referred to his putting in nomination for tempo rary chairman of the national Republican convention a few years since a negro as against a white man. All these matters ar e public history, and should dis perse the wind tooter ß from his Georgia band wagon. It was all right and proper to treat him courteously while in our midst, but with the record he has toward the south, his appeal to the people of this stat* to vote their convictions is a gratuitous presumption. He has never intimated a regret for his conduct to ward the south while president or his stinging epi thets about our people. Cordially, F. M. LONGLEY- "A Great Hit" Quitman. Ga., Sept. 30, 1912- The Atlanta Journal. Atlanta: The editorial “Go Home, Colonel," made a great hit in Quitman. Congratulations on same. 8. S. GALDKN. J. A. BRYAN. Voices His Sentiments Editor The Journal: I want to congratulate you and The Journal on the editorial in Sunday's paper under the caption "Go Home, Colonel.” It voices my sentiments exactly, and I am glad your memory is still good. Very truly yours, W. T. MARTIN "Lucid Array of Facts'' Editor The Journal: For more than twenty years I have been a close reader of The Journal, not only for the current news, but more especially the editorials, which I have al ways regarded the equal of any paper. Your editorials during the present campaign have been unusually strong and timely, but the one in Sun day’s issue, “Go Home, Colonel.” reached the climax.' It is by all odds the most lucid array of facta ll have read. The Wilson campaign committtea, I be lieve, would do well to have this editorial put ♦»' pamphlet form and send it broadcast over the coun try, in as much as they want to make Mr. Wilson’s vote as near unanimous as possible in the solid south. d. a. s. "The South's Sentiment" Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 30, 19J2. Editor The Journal: I desire |o express my hearty appreciation of< your editorial, “Go Home, Colonel,” in yesterdays issue of The Journal. Am sure it is the sentiment' of all true southerners. It shows the areh demagogue up in his true colors, and should be reproduced by the press throughout the state. Very truly, P. B. HOLTZENDORFF. Temple, Ga., Sept. 29, 1913. Editor The Journal: This letter is intended as an expression of appre ciation of your editorial appearing in today's Jour nal entitled “Go Home, Colonel.” We this under signed citizens feel that we would like for you to know that we as Georgions and southern men appre ciate your efforts to unmask this arch political trick ster, who, for the sake of his vulgar ambition, would attempt to filch from southern men the heritage of their political solidity, in order that he may have a third term, to be followed, no doubt, with a request for » life tenure. Go on. Mr. Gray, with your efforts and with the same ringing patriotism which inspired today's ar ticle, proclaim your sentiments until every Georgia home —from drawing room to vine-sheltered cotttage —may remember with its ballot that we are a solid south where meh do REMEMBER and where actions speak louder than the harangues of demagoguas. We hope that you will consider this letter as a voice from the rank and file of Georgians who love their state and would not see her repudiate the her itage of her Democracy. Yours respectfully, H. F. HOGG, Supt. Temple School. W. J. M’ BRAY ER, Banker. J. A. GRIFFIN. - G. T. WILLIAMS. T. F. WOODRUFF. T. M. SPRUELL, M. D. W. L. ROWE. tice, and poor Archie Butt was a secret envoy to Rome and was returning on the Titanic when he lost his life. The United States has won its triumphs as a pure ly Protestant nation, and it would not be wise to change to a doubtful progress in other religious chan nels. There are many and valuable citizens who are Catholics, but the policy of Catholicism tends to papal supremacy in state as well as church. • - • SCHOOL MATES USING PISTOLS. 'Montbrook, Fla., Sept. 19, 1912. Esther Wilson, aged thirteen years, shot Gladys Randall, of even age, through the shoulder in Es ther’s father's home with a .38 pistol. Gladys ia painfully hurt because she did not know the pistol was loaded. The girls are beg of friends and school mates. Has The Journal quit publishing the whole sale grocery market of Atlanta? We patrons in Mont brook want it published every week. Sincerely. E. C. P. • • * BABE COINS. Mrs. M. A. Bulce. of Eldridge, Ala., has a 59-cvnl piece coined in 1891 and cents of 1876. I H. H. Gully, oT Eastman. Ga., has a half-dime coined in 1854. D. G. Durden has half-dime of 1835, dime of 18M, six-pence of 1*39, a Spanish coin of 1805, and the smallest coin he ever saw, called the widow's mite.
