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Less Labor, More Profit
For Georgia Farming
THERE is nothing Utopian in the Moul
trie Observer's prediction that the
future of Georgia farming will be
much less laborious and much more Profit
able than the past. “Men will quit follow
ing the big plow and the two mules, says
our contemporary, “just as they already have
quit following the small turn plow and the
one small mule. There has been too much
man-work on the farm in the bouth and too
little machinery work. This has been due
in large measure to the fact that farm labor
has been cheap and plentiful. A change is
in process; there will be less farm labor in
the future, and what there is will be higher.
This problem was thrust upon England
and France in away so critical that it either
had to be solved or suffered to lead on to
national starvation. The exigencies of the
battlefront had drained the farms of man
power in spite of selective service laws. In
their emergency both countries, England par
ticularly, turned to mechanical substitutes
for field labor. Thousands of tractors were
imported from the United States. In some
instances they were equipped with giant head
lights so that they could operate by dark
as well as by day. Thus in a short while
and with surprising minimum of manual
labor, great areas ot land were made ready
for planting. So, too, the needs of cultiva
tion and harvesting were met to a large ex
tent by machines in place of men. The re
sult was that in the last two summers of
the war, especially in 1918, when, accord
ing to German plans, England should have
been reduced to famine, she raised one of
the most bountiful harvests in ner history.
In the light of such experience and also
from the assuring results of tests in the
home field, we may look certainly to the
time when Georgia farms will produce twice
the crops with half the hands now employed.
Recent demonstrations in land-clearing by
means of dynamite serve to show what econ
omies of labor and increases of wealth can
be accomplished when science and invention
turn their nimble wits to a task. Os course,
mechanical appliances can never be a substi
tute for intelligence and character; a farmer
who thinks and aspires will produce more
with the crudest equipment than all the ma
chines ever contrived can accomplish in rhe
hands of slip-shod self-satlstaction., Un
doubtedly, however, the course of agri
cultural progress is toward the use of more
and more labor-saving machinery, not only
in the heavier tasks of the field, but in the
household as well, in divers ways that lighten
drudgery and make rural life more widely
appealing. The tendency is a cheering one
and of ever-growing strength in Georgia and
the. South.
The Illiteracy Commission.
WITH the expectation of receiving the
full sympathy and co-operation of ev
ery person in the state who is inter
ested in Georgia’s welfare and progress, the
Georgia Illiteracy Commission, authorized
by the last session of the General Assembly
and recently appointed by the governor, has
mapped out plans for an intensive drive
against illiteracy in Georgia during the next
six months in order that in the federal cen
sus of 1920 Georgia may take proper rank
with other states as far as its literacy statis
tics are concerned.
The matter is one of vital importance, and
the commission will undoubtedly receive the
support to which it is entitled. In this con
nection, Hon. M. L. Brittain, superintend
ent of schools for Georgia, pointed out i
his address to the commission Wednesday
at its first meeting that Georgia is by no
means not the most illiterate state in the
union or in the South, and that in recent
years it has cut down the number of its il
literates more than any of the other states.
But there is no evading the truth that the
1910 census shows that there were at that
time in the state 308,639 negro illiterates and
81,078 white illiterates. Os these, there
were 111,037 negroes of voting age and 30,-
504 white illiterate adults. Comparison of
statistics shows that, according to the 1910
census, only three other states, Alabama,
, Louisiana and South Carolina, had more ne
gro illiterates, though seven southern states
had more white illiterates than Georgia. This
condition was brought about because there
were no school facilities during the time of
. financial distress and reconstruction between
1860 and 1865 and by the further fact that
until 1865 nearly all the negroes were illiter
ate.
Since 1870, the public schools of Georgia
have cut down the percentage of illiteracy as
rapidly as any other state, but swift and sys
tematic action is needed now to reduce il
literacy among men and women who have
not had the opportunity to secure even the
rudiments of education.
The State Department of Education in
Georgia, and in other states, has conclusive
ly proved that the training of grown up men
and women late in life is practicable, though
somewhat difficult; and the newly created
.commission on illiteracy proposes during
the next six months to utilize every available
agency In reaching the illiterate population
of the state in order both to protect the good
name of Georgia in the next census and to
help thousands of deserving men and women
who were unable to secure educational
training earlier in life.
It has been shown by experience that les
sons for two hours a day will enable the
adult pupil to read, write and perform sim
ple business operations in from four to six
weeKS, even with men and women as old as
sixty and seventy years; and, encouraged by
its success in several counties in which the
work is now being carried on, the commis
sion hopes to make material progress with
in the short time intervening before the
census is taken.
the immediate need is for trained workers
and for funds to supplement the amount -
which has been turned over by the Legisla
ture to the commission. The residue of the
money appropriated for use of the Stat
Council of Defense, by act of the General
Assembly, is now available for the use
of the commission, but it is only the nu
cleus of a much larger fund which the com
mittee expects to raise through community
donations, through individual subscriptions,
through various boards of education, coun
ty commissioners and church organizations
who are interested in removing illiteracy.
In view of the importance of the move
ment, and with the evidences of interest and
co-operation already shown, the commission
believes that it will be able to secure not
only the amount needed for the intensive
drive of the next six months but also for the
necessary extension of the work after the
federal census is taken.
At any rate the commission has taken the
first active step forward; and it is counting
on ultimate success through its own unre
mitting efforts backed by the intelligent co
operation of Georgians who are willing to
prove their loyalty and pride by rallying to
the standard of education in one of the most
important undertakings sponsored by the
state in recent years.
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Chicago corn continues to tumble, but
north Georgia corn, from unofficial quota
tions, seems to stay up.
Production and Thrift
In the Southeast \
GEORGIA and her sister States of the
Sixth Federal Reserve District may
well be proud of their recent record
in the purchase of Thrift stamps and Treas
ury savings certificates. While the country
as a whole shows marked improvement on
that score, this region has the largest num
ber of States making substantial gains. The
foresight and moral energy thus betokened
augur a happy passage for the Southeast
through the trials of readjustment and the
winning of a soundly prosperous future.
If diligence be the mother of good hap, as
the Spanish proverb has it, thrift is assured
ly the father of what we caM good times. But
thrift means much more than saving. It
means in the first instance producing. It ab
hors idleness even more than it abhors ex
travagance. It honors not only the conserv
ing “stitch in time,’’ but every industrious
stroke that brings forth something useful and
swells the store of human good. This sort
of thrift it is that will tide us over a situa
tion which President Wilson described as
being “more likely to affect the happiness
and even the life of our people than the war
itself.’’ For five years the world has been
spending its wealth and strength in the busi
ness of destruction. Millions of men were
taken from farm and factory to the battle
front, and millions never returned. Billions
of money were drained from constructive en
terprise and blown into the red mists of bat
tle. Stocks of all necessaries were depleted
as they rarely or never had been in modern
times, so that a considerable part of mankind
is now straitened for common raiment and
daily bread. The condition is-one for which
there can be no sure remedy save watchful
spending and increased production.
By watchful spending we mean primarily
avoidance of waste and the exercise of busi
ness judgment. When these ends are looked
to there need be no fear of extravagance;
for true thrift, be it remembered, consists
not in spending little so much as in spending
wisely. But we must do more than conserve
if we are to restore the violently shaken bal
ance of supply and demand and thus speed
the return of normal times. We must pro
duce. We must produce goods. We must
produce services. We must keep all proc
esses of production swift and smooth, and
resent as an injury to the common interests
whatsoever would disturb them in these criti
cal days. This idea has been effectively
stressed in the Government’s thrift campaign
in the Southeast. As Mr. Silas W. Davis,
director of the movement, sums it up: “We
have sought to check waste—waste of ma
terial and money—and to Impress upon the
wage-earner and housekeeper the wisdom of
systematic saving. We are hoping for a steady
decrease in waste and an Increase in agri
cultural and industrial production.”
This is a gospel of patriotism as well as of
success. Its faithful practice will carry the na
tion securely through the troublous transition
from war to peace, and will safeguard the es
sential interests of citizen and family. It is
highly assuring that the people of Georgia
and her neighbor States, as evidenced in the
District’s notable Thrift stamp record, have
turned so heartily to this practical wisdom.
Neither to themselves nor'to their country
can they render sounder service than by con
tinuing to produce and to save.
The ex-Kaiser should be doubly punished
for bringing on the war and for the painful
process of reconstruction.
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A Merited Rebuke.
PRESIDENT WILSON uttered a senti
ment in which thoughtful Americans
all earnestly concur when he declar
ed, apropos of the unfortunate situation in
Boston:
“A strike of the policemen of a great
city is a crime against civilization. In
my judgment the obligation of police
men is as sacred and direct as the obliga
tion of a soldier. He is a public servant,
not a private employe, and the whole
honor and safety of the community is
•in his hands. He has no right to prefer
any private advantage to the public safe
ty. I hope that this lesson will be burn
ed in so that it will never again be for
gotten, because the pride of America is
that it can exercise self-cont-x 1.”
Surely it was in a moment of hysterical
self-forgetfulness that the police of New
England’s metropolis deserted duty to press
what they mistakenly conceived to be a per
sonal interest. One cannot imagine a group
of Americans, charged with so grave a re
sponsibility as the guarding of public prop
erty and life, forsaking their posts and be
coming in effect allies of lawlessness, unless
under the spell of some influence al
together unlike their normal selves and
contrary to their country’s common faith.
America has been a democracy, a true
and stable democracy, because it has
believed in and has practiced organized
self-control. When : t forgets that principle
and loses that faculty, its vigor as a republic
will be dead and its liberty swallowed up in
brutal license. Truly, as the President says,
men who want to cure the wrongs of gov
ernment by destroying government, are going
to be destroyed themselves—destroyed, I
mean, by the chaos they create ”
It speaks well for the country s character
and augurs well for its future that the Bos
ton Incident has been unqualifiedly con
demned in every State and rigorously dealt
with by the officials of that city and Common
wealth. There is no sympathy among u rue
Americans for anything that reeks of Bol
shevism, and no tolerance for .desertion of
sacred duty. Now of all times do we need
cool heads and loyal spirits to keep our be
loved nation playing a worthy part on the
world’s troubled stage. And all Americans
deserving the name may be counted upon to
keep unswervingly to this course.
Now that winter is approaching, the ex-
Kaiser will probably forego wood chopping
in favor of firing the furnace.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1919.
PERSHING, POLITICAL ENIGMA —By Frederic J. Haskin.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 10.—There has
just landed on our shores a man named
Pershing, sometimes styled “Black Jack”
Pershing, more formally known as General
John Joseph Pershing, during the war com
mander in chief of the American Expedition
ary Force in France. That man brought back
to America all wrapped up in his system the,
elements that are to be the makings of a
political prairie fire, or of the greatest polit
ical flivver in history.
Just now the men who guide the destinies
of the political parties of the nation, who sit
in the inner councils where possible candi
dates are weighed, who influence that choos
ing which may mean four years on the com
fortable inside looking out, or four years of
slim picking, are sleeping fitfully at night, and
now and again starting into wakefulness, at the
vision of Pershing as Moses, and again of
Pershing as a lure to destruction.
There are those who maintain that Per
shing is presidentially inevitable. The chief
basis for this contention rests in history. The
mii;.ar> figure in every war that the United
States has ever fought has thereafter become
president. There was the beginning with Wash
ington, who might have held the position in
definitely had he chosen. The War of 1812
bequeathed to the political situation Andy
Jackson, who fought at New Orleans after
the peace was signed because he had not heard
the news. The first Harrison licked Tecumseh,
the greatest of Indian leaders, at Tippecanoe,
and an adoring public elevated him to the first
place in its regard. Zachary Taylor led a col
umn of fighting men romantically to Mexicb
city, and returned to be proffered the presi
dential nomination by both parties. General
Grant emerged from the Civil War as a po
litical figure. The Spanish-American war gave
birth to the Roosevelt boom.
There is the record. The man on horse
back has never failed to be the political idol.
He has never failed of the highest gift. Will
history repeat itself? Will Pershing follow
in the wake of the others?
There are many who scoff the idea. They
say that there is something in the public
consciousness that has not heretofore existed,
that the military man is no longer the idol,
that the very fact of his being a military man
spells his doom. The world, they say, has made
up its mind to have no more of armies and in
that determination America leads. The public
would not vote for Pershing because it is
just now intent on wiping out the military
idea. His nomination would be a disaster.
These people argue that a military man has
not the qualifications for political leadership.
They say that his training has been narrow
and that statesmanship is out of his line. They
scoff the idea of his having the necessary grasp
of such problems as the tariff, finance, labor.
His life has been spent entirely removed from
such things. They tell you that the military
presidents of the past, in most cases, have been
failures. They say that the experience of his
tory should be a warning against such a choice.
And the opposition steps up and says: The
presidency is an administrative job of consid
erable magnitude. He handled the job of di
recting two million fighting men overseas, of
supplying them, of keeping the .infinite ma
chinery going that supplied their infinite needs.
He made a stupendous success of the job.
He called forth the admiration of all our as
sociates in the war. He was so successful that
hardly a carping voice has been raised in criti
cism. Has he not demonstrated his capacity as
an administrative? Did he not take hold of
a strange and unknown task and successfully
accomplish it? Has he not proven that he
has capacities of the first quality?
Then there steps forth some man who has
served in Pershing’s army overseas and this
man says: “It might be all right to run Per
shing for president but you must admit that
he would start with a handicap of two mil
lion votes against him. No man in the over
seas army would vote for him. He is arbi
trary, cold, unemotional. He rubbed this dem
ocratic army the wrong way.”
And the next overseas man you meet makes
exactly the opposite statement. He says that
WORK AND WAGES
—o_
By H. Addington Bruce
WHICH do you think most about, the
work you do or the wages you get
for it? And are you the more in
tent on doing good work or on getting high
wages?
I ask these questions because it seems to
me evident that many people—very many
people—are nowadays so obsessed with the
pursuit of wages that they give next to no
thought to the work they are expected to
do for the wages they receive.
And this unfortunate condition obtains
among workers of every degree. True of
workers really hard pressed by the high cost
of living, it is no less true of many workers
whose pay amounts to thousands of dollars,
perhaps hundreds of thousands, every year.
While the small wage earner goes to the
desperate extreme of .efusing to work at
all unless his persistent demands for in
creases are met, the big wage earner strives
equality vigorously to get his own wages
raised by cunning manipula.ion of the ma
terials and products he happens to control.
It is, indeed, an arduous contest, this pay
pyramiding struggle. And the pathos of it
is that the more a man succeeds in it the less
contented he becomes.
As, indeed, is inevitable in view of the
nature of man and the purposes of life.
For no man can be contented unless he is
conscious of contributing to the best of
his ability to the common good. Man is es
sentially a gregarious being, and the gre
garious instinct requires for its satisfaction
a zealous devoting of the individual to ac
tivities that will serve to strengthen and
perpetuate the race.
Let this instinct be denied adequate ex
pression, and unhappiness and dissatisfac
tion are sure to come. Every man who for
gets hbs work in his wages is in some de
gree thwarting the basic gregarious instinct,
and discontent is the penalty he needs must
pay.
Nor is it the only penalty.
Restlessness, nervousness, irritability grow
apace with the blocking of the gregarious
instinct. We are, in fact, witnessing today
restlessness, nervousness and irritability on
a colossal scale.
Crime is rampant, our hospitals tor the
insane are becoming ever more crowded, the
services of specialists in nervous diseases are
increasingly in demand. It is an age of
stress and conflict.
Many remedies are i<roposed. Actually
here can be only one effective remedy. Men
must be brought to see that self-forgetful
ness in service is essential to true prosperity
and peace of mind.
So long as they do not see this, so long
as they fix their gaze on the reward and
not on the deed, social dissension and in
dividual misery will prevail. The wage-rais
ing process may be continue.l to the end of
time without mending matters one whit.
“There is too much quarrelling about ways
and means and too little recognition of the
goal. Too much self and too little sym
pathy. This is equally‘true of all classes of
society. Materialism has been rank in the
tenement and in the cottage, as in palace and
counting room.”
The road to nappiness is not paved with
dollars. Contentment can come only with
abundant, fervent effort for the race. That
is a truth which needs indeed to be im
pressed upon the mind of this, our gen
eration.
(Copyright, 1919, by the Associated News
papers. ) 3
of course the boys are sore from having had
to cool their heels for six months after the
fighting was over, they curse everything in
sight, and particularly everything that has to do
with the army. But by a year from No
vember their whole experience will have mel
lowed and will have assumed the halo of the
crowning event of a series of generations. Their
hearts will be full of its memories and to a
man they will vote for him who was their
chief.
Then there also appears the ultra modernist
to issue an alarm. He warns against failure
to consider that new factor, the woman vote.
He says that all the women will vote for
Pershing and that his election will thus be
assured. He assigns as a reason for this be
lief the fact that Pershing was admittedly the
most imposing military figure of the war.
He stood head and shoulders above them all.
All his points as to appearance were just what
one would have liked them to have been.
And the women looked on and admired. They
saw him in the movies—everybody saw him
there. The appearance of the General on the
screen, and the sympathy he awakens as a
man of sorrow, will get an undivided woman
vote.
Bah! Says the opposition. Do you think
the women want a militarist who will send
their boys to war again? That is the one
thing they may be depended upon to avoid.
These contradictory views have puzzled the
politicians. Thy have not known whether Per
shing as a standard bearA meant sure victory
or sure defeat They have been inclined to
think that he absolutely would either make or
break the party which nominated him, but
that he did not seem a sure bet either way.
The politicians have not even known whether
Pershing is a Republican or a Democrat. He
seems not to have committed himself. He
comes from Missouri which is middle ground
where a man is as likely to lean one way as
another. To be sure, army men generally have
in the past leaned toward the Republican party
as that party has been considered the army’s
best friend. To be sure, also, he is a son-in
law of Senator Warren, of Wyoming, a wheel
horse in the Republican party. Pershing, how
ever, is not a man to be guided in his choice
of party by mere incidents of consanguinity.
Politicians generally have considered it pret
ty certain that Pershing would turn out to be
a Republican. The Republicans have main
tained pleasant relations with the General, have
flirted adroitly with him, have intimated ihat
he might reasonably hope to be their candi
date. But they have not gone all the way
and said to him: “Here is a neat little nomina
tion. It is yours if you want it.”
So Pershing ’s not sure of his ability to get
the nomination from the Republicans. This
leaves him entirely open to the display of the
charms of Miss Democracy. Possibly the Gen
eral is somewhat indifferent to both parties,
believes in half the policies of one and half
those of the other. Possibly, while the Re
publicans are holding out a mere hope of a
nomination, the actual goods, all properly
wrapped up and sealed, coming from the Dem
ocratic side might look better.
There is yet another possibility the cons d
eration of which is giving Republicans the
creeps these nights. Suppose that Woodrow
should see in Pershing the one great hope for
success in the next election. Suppose he should
take John J. to the top of the mountain and
tempt him, suppose he should give him the
assurance of the Democratic nomination, sup
pose he should remind the General of all the
honors that have come to him because he,
Wilson, made him the big chief overseas—-the
greatest military opportunity ever given any
man since America came to be. Suppose Wood
row Wilson should bring all his powers of per
suasion to bear on his protege. Then for a
moment suppose that human nature is the
same as it used to be, and the first love of
the people proves to be the love of the fight
ing man. Suppose history repeats itself.
Weill John Pershing would be the next
president, and the Democrats >vould ontrol the
destiny of the nation during the years of world
reconstruction just as they have through the
great war.
UNITY AS ESSENTIAL IN PEACE
AS IN WAR
By Dr. Frank Crane
Andre Tardieu, high commissioner for
Franco-American war matters, in a speec'j
recently delivered in Paris, uttered one sen
timent that ought to be placarded in seven
foot letters—
1. In the congress and senate chambers of
the United States.
2. Upon the walls of every factory, busi
ness house, shipping office and newspaper’
sanctum, and
3. In a conspicuous place wherever a
labor union meets.
This is his utterance; he speaks of France,
Great Britain and America:
“We achieved cur victory by the constant
effort of the whole nation reaching for an
object, and we shall earn our peace by the
lame effort. The invasion of our territory
brought about the unity of all without dis
cussion, and the unanimous feeling of the
nation is necessary to win peace.”
There it is in a nutshell.
War, with all the hell and waste and
madness it brought, brought also one thing
that was an inestimable blessing to wit:
NATIONAL UNITY.
We suffered, we feared, we sacrificed, but
at least we Got Together, as never before
in our communal ilfe.
And so in spite of war’s terrific drain, we
prospered.
Now, peace having come, we fall to quar
reling like Kilkenny cats.
Angry, narrow, selfish senators play pot
house politics while a hundred million peo
ple await their action.
Every group of workers, from scrub
woman to actors, stop production and go
to altercation.
During the war everybody applauded when
the flag was shown in the movie or Uncle
Sam’s name was mentioned on the platform.
Now it would seem the old gentlman and
his bunting have hardly a friend left.
Will Peace do what War could not, achieve
our ruin?
While War united all in brotherly love,
and millionaire and pauper, capitalist and
laborer, high and low. kept step to the beat
of the drum, and marched on to miracles
of achivements are we going to break up
into a tangled mob and fall to scratching
out each other’s eyes when Peace attunes
her pipes?
What fools we are! How stupid and still
medieval-minded!
For Patriotism is not a thing for War
alone; it is twice needed m Peace.
Patriotism simply means the abating of
selfishness for the Common Good.
We have before us such an opportunity
as no people ever haa in the annals of
time. Prosperity, nenes, the leadership of
the world is in our grasp.
But do we think we can gain the prize
if we all give way to a debauch of selfish
ness and contention?
The Unity, the Idealism, the sense of the
Common Good, we had during the war is
ten times more needed now.
We must Get Together or perish.
(Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane.)
“My grandfather could have had all this
land around here for a song.”
“I don’t blame him,” replied the indignant
vocalist. “He showed wisdom in going with
out land rather than take a chance on the
musical critics.”
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
President Bertrand, of Honduras, has re
signed and is en route to the United States
after having deposited the executive power
in the hands of a council of ministers. His
resignation followed the arrival of the revo
lutionists at the gates of the capital and the
receipt of a message by President Bertrand
from the United States government demand
ing that all the constitutional guarantees of
the government should be respected. Presi
dent Bertrand protested to the state depart
ment against the action of this government,
but his position was such that there was no
other course for him but to resign.
Ten persons were killed and eleven wound
ed during food riots in Glogau, Silesia, last
week. Troops used machine guns and hand
grenades against the rioters. The trouble
started when thereatening crowds gathered
before the shops and protested against the
dearness of food. The situation became
critical and troops were called out. The
crowd attacked the soldiers and one soldier
was shot. Thereupon the order to fire was
given and the streets were cleared by the use
of machine guns and grenades. The town is
now quiet. The Prussian government in
tends to propose home rule for Upper Si
lesia, according to the Lokal Anzelger.
Several political leaders, including Luis
Pardo, brother of former President Pardo;
Juan- Durand, a brother of Dr. August Du
rand, proprietor of La Prensa, and Ramon
Aspillaga, brother of Antero Aspillaga, at one
time a presidential candidate, were placed
under arrest in Lima, Peru, last week.
In political circles the belief prevailed
that a conspiracy to overthrow President
Augusto E. Leguia and restore the Pardo re
gime had been frustrated by the arrests. The
movement in favor of Pardo was generally
condemned, while several popular demonstra
tions in favor of Senor Leguia were held. The
United States on August 29 recognized Presi
dent Leguia as head of the de-facto govern
ment from Pardo in a bloodless revolution
on July 4 and, later, elections placed Le
guia in complete control.
In the course of his address at Helena,
Mont., President Wilson referred to the Bos
ton police strike, declaring that the strike
of the policemen of a great city, “leaving
that city at the mercy of thugs is a crime
against civilization.” The federal govern
ment will comply with any request made by
Governor Coolidge, of Massachusetts, for
army or navy assistance in maintaining order
in the city, and Secretary of War Baker has
so informed the governor.
One of the first visits paid by General Per
shing on his return to this country was to
the grave of Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster
Bay. He called first on Mrs. Roosevelt at
Sagamore Hill, going later to the cemetery.
It was Theodore Roosevelt who first sei the
feet of the commander of the American ex
peditionary forces on the pathway that led
to his present triumph. From an ibscure
captain, President Roosevelt “jumped” Per
shing to the rank of brigadier general, de
spite the protest that arose from beaureau
crats.
The state executive committee of the Geor
gia chapter of the American Legion, in session
last week in Macon, selected Atlanta as the
meeting place of the state convention of the
legion, which will be held on October 15-16.
John H. Bankhead, Jr., of Jasper, son of
Senator Bankhead, and Hugh Morrow, of Bir
mingham, have resigned as trustees of the
University of Alabama; and It is belieVed that
other resignations will follow both from the
university board and from that of the Ala
bama Polytechnic institute at Auburn. It is
said that the resignations followed a clash
between eduactional factions in’ Alabama.
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Luis Cabrera, secretary of the treasury in
the Mexican cabinet, has definitely announced
in Mexico City that President Carranza, “un
der no circumstances, will seek re-election as
president of Mexico, and without fail will
turn the presidency over to his successor with
out completing his present term.”
Colonel Luke Lea, former United States
senator from Tennessee, was chosen to wel
come General Pershing home in behalf of the
American Legion at the mass meeting and re
ception given m New York last .week in honor
of the returned leader of the A. E. F.
John Mitchell, former president of the
United Mine Workers of America and one of
the most widely known labor leaders in the
United States, died last week in New York.
Declaring that pro-Germanism again had
lifted its head in this country, President Wil
son declared in his address at Sioux Falls,
S. Dak., that “every element of chaos” was
hoping there would be “no steadying hand”
placed on the world’s affairs.
This element saw a chance, he said, by
keeping their nation out of the League of
Nations to make possible again what Germany
had tried to do in the great war. It was a
clean-cut issue, Mr. Wilson declared, between
this new order or the old German order.
Martin Lovassey, Hungarian foreign min
ister, has been forced out of the cabinet, ac
cording to advices received in Vienna from
Budapest. He had heretofore refused to
meet the demands for his resignation, but
his colleagues charge that he sent notes to
the peace conference without making known
his action to the government, and also that
he failed to transmit to Vienna the govern
ment’s demand for the extradition of Bela
Kun, Hungarian dictator, during the com
munist regime. These charges, it is said,
brought about Lovassy’s retirement.
The Hungarian cabinet is reported to have
signed a unanimous demand for the extra
dition of Bela Kun. Two thousand five hun
dred persons are awaiting trial in Hungary
on the charge of being sympathizers with the
soviet movement.
An arrangement for a French military
mission for Brazil has been signed in Paris
by Premier Clemenceau, for France, and
Senor Regis y Olivera, for Brazil.
Twenty-seven members of the crew of the
Ward Line steamer Corydon lost their lives
when the vessel foundered in the Bahama
Channel in the hurricane which passed over
Florida last week. Nine survivors, clinging
to a lifeboat, last week drifted to shore at
Cape Florida who reported that all but one
of the lifeboats was pulled under by the suc
tion of the sinking vessel.
If congress permits the police force of
Washington, D. C., to unionize, police forces
in every other city and town of 5,000 pop
ulation or more will follow suit within six
ty days, Senator Myers, of Montana, told
the senate last wek. He predicted that a
result of such action would be the union
ization of soldiers and sailors.
“And then you will have a Soviet gov
ernment,” declared the senator. “We will
have a Soviet government within two years
unless some branch of the government steps
in and stops this tendency. There will be
no need of holding an election in 1920
to select a Republican or a Democratic
president; a Soviet government will have
been organized by that time.”
The Boston policemen’s strike was taken
up by Senator Myers as an illustration of
what may be expected.
The end of the war finds the Japanese
striving with traditional unity to expand the
nation’s interests in Asia; and, judging by
statements made by Japanese leaders, Japan s
present favorable position among the nations
seems to have inspired her with aspirations
toward world leadership. A wave of elation
and confidence in Jauan’s future greatness
seems to be sweeping over the empire. Pre
mier Hara, speaking at a uncheon in honor
of former Premier Saionji, head of the Jap
anese peace delegation at Paris, said:
“Japan’s prestige has been greatly en
hanced by the peace conference. The nation
should realize and be thankful for the fact
that all Japan’s proposals were favorably re
ceived, with the exception of the one relating
to racial equality.” T
In a ’recent address, Ikuso Ooka, president
of the house of representatives, said: “World
leadership is now in America, but it is bound
later to be transferred to Japan.”
Replying to M. Ooka’s speech, Takeshi Inu
kai, leader of the Kokuminto party, address
ing his followers, demanded a slowing up of
Japan’s advance on the ground that she is
"not strong enough at present successfully to
combat western powers.”
Permanent rank of admiral in the United
States navy, previously given only to three
men, Farragut, Porter and Dewey, has been
conferred upon Admirals Williams S. Sims
and William S. Benson by a bill which passed
the house by a vote of 244 to 7. The sen
ate Is expected to accept the bill, as no op
position exists there «ninst hotooring ‘the
two men who displayed conspicuous service ,
in the great war.
Four hundred thousand German workers’’
have volunteered for the work of restoration
in northern France, according to Vorwaerts.
a Berlin newspaper.
Colonel E. M. House, having completed
his work in England in connection with the
League of Nations, returned Monday to
Paris, where he will resume his place as a
member of the American peace commission.
A plan for the settlement of the question
of the Teschen mining district, in dispute be
tween Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, has been
adopted by the supreme council in Paris.
It was agreed that a plebiscite be taken in
the district, as jointly proposed by the Polish
and Czecho-Slovak delegates. The decision is
generally interpreted in peace conference cir
cles as meaning that Teschen will revert to
Poland, inasmuch as the Poles are in the
majority in the Teschen district. In this
event provision will be made to protect the
economic interests of Czecho-Slovakia.. This
agreement solves one of the most difficult
problems which the supreme council has
faced. At one time there was danger of
serious trouble between the Poles and the
Czechs. The delegates of Czecho-Slovakia
apparently are satisfied with the settlement.
Developments in relation to the Shantung
question form the supreme subject of dis
cussion in Tokio, Japan. The genera atti
tude of the Japanese is calmly to await final
action by the United States senate. Some
members of the Japanese diet are reportedl to
be questioning the government. They ask
whether the United States is likely to eaforee
by arms a possible new treaty with Germany
returning Shantung directly to China.
who have addressed these inquiries to the
government are said to be P r °J°. u h nd l?
nresssed by the assignment of half the United
States navy to the Pacific and to be inclined
to establish a connection between the com.ng
of the fleet and the Shantung agitation.
Atlanta Lodge 78, of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, has ,n * lted
eral John J. Pershing to visit “ th t
guest on September 25, at which time, t j
Elks will initiate the largest single class in
all the history ot Elkdom.
Official announcement is expected soon
from Tokio of the appointment of Foreign
Minister Shidehara as Japan’s new ambassa
dor to the United States; and it is believed
in Tokio that Masaro Hanihara, Japanese con
gul general at San Francisco, will succeed
Shidehara as foreign minister.
President Wilson’s launch and another
boat collided Saturday in Seattle harbor, but
the president was uninjured. Later in the
day he reviewed the Pacific fleet from the
battleship Oregon.
More than 1,800 delegates to the conven
tion of the United Mine Workers of America
in Cleveland, 0., voted last week to endorse,,
the Plumb plan for the nationalization of the
railroads. Only four dissenting votes were
cast.
General Alvaro Obregon, former minister
of war in Carranza’s cabinet, and a candi
date for the Mexican presidency, has an
nounced that he woud take the field against
the United States in the event of armed in
tervention by this country.
With British government raids continuing
in Ireland, the situation there is regarded
as more pregnant with dangerous possibili
ties than at any time since the “Easter revo
ution.” Sinn Fein officials were openly de
iant while government authorities made no
ffort to disguise their apprehension. The
ne factor which encouraged belief that no
aneral uprising might result was that the
lids so far have tended to show the Sinn
ainers have only negligible supplies of arms
nd ammunition and no artillery or air
lanes whatever. In view of this, the belief
as held that, the Sinn Feiners would at
mnt no determined resistance at this time. *
It was realized, however, there was danger 1
of extreme radicals acting blindly with the
esult that they would become martyrs, in
flame their own communities and bring on ,
nore deaths.
Herbert Hoover, who returned from Eu
rope Saturday declared in a statement is
sued shortly after his arrival that he was
not in politics and had no intention of seek
ing political office. When told that his
name had been frequently mentioned as a
possible candidate for president, Mr. Hoover
said:
“I am positively not a candidate and
would decline to become one under any cir
cumstances. lam not in politics.” In re
gard to the League of Nations, Mr. Hoover
declared he stood by it “in its present form
or as near to it as can be obtained.” He as
serted that there was no hope of a return to '
normal conditions in Europe until the pres
ent uncertainty in respect to the treaty wai
ended.
Enactment of the Cummins’ railroad blh
will “spell the birth of revolution in Ameri
ca,” Warren S. Stone, chief of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers said Satur
day in a formal statement issued in Wash
ngton.
President W. G. Lee, of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen and presidents of 12
other railway unions joined with Mr. Stone
.in signing the statemeu wh’jh was Issued
through the Plumb plan league.
A reign of terror has been started in the
city and government of Ufa, Russia, accord
ing to the intelligence office of the general
staff of the Siberian army at Omsk. Many
priests have been executed, some of them
being slain in the churches during serviced
The Bolshevik! are also persecuting the Mus
sulman priests. *