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Character is the moral mark of worth. It is the foundation
upon which reputation is built, for reputation is simply a public esti
mate of character.
A business has a character just as much as a man. The charac
ter of a business is the composite character of the men who make it.
Character is the first consideration in choosing men for mem
bership in this organization. —JOHN A. BUSH.
LABOR THE CAUSE AND REMEDY.
Everything points to great industiial activity in 1920, is the way
the Wall Street Journal summarizes the outlook. Many branches
us industry, it says, are booked up for the first hall of next year and
have been forced to decline a large amount of business. As a result
of the many uncertainties, notably exchange, labor, future prices lor
raw material, etc., manufacturers are not inclined to sell for delivery
far in the future.
The consensus seems to be that no material reduction in either
wages or prices can be made next year. Not a few producers are
preparing for increased costs, which would mean even higher wages
and commodity prices than now prevail. 1 here is a scarcity of goods
all over the world. In relieving this situation 1919 has been disap
pointing. Ihe shortage at the close of 191 9is more pronounced than
at the close ot 191 8.
Labor has been largely responsible for this situation, as well as
for the advancing tendency of prices. Ihe steel, coal, textile and
various other strikes checked any progress that might have been made
in bringing production up to consumption requirements. In fact, pro
duction has lost ground during the year and is further behind con
sumption than ever. The question is, will the gap between produc
tion and consumption contract or expand in 1920? A great deal de
pends on labor.
It is admitted that there is a great shortage of labor. 1 his
shortage keeps mills and factories working far below capacity. Ihe
head of one large concern remarked that although the company had
more orders than it could handle, it was impossible to exceed an 80
cent average in operations on account of the labor scarcity.
There has been a pi enounced shortage in alien labor, and
thousands of workmen who were satisfied with common labor jobs
before the war are clamoring for skilled positions, with higher pay,
easier work and reduced hours. This has brought about a situation
which cannot be remedied entirely until there is a surplus of labor.
POTTERY AND FEMININE BEAUTY.
East Liverpool, 0., the most famous pottery-manufacturing cen
ter in this country, boasts of the natural beauty of its girls and of their
taste in dress. Traveling men say there seems to be a good deal in
it. The East Liverpool girls are undeniably attractive in face, figure
and costume.
If this is so, how does it come about? Millions of girls so un
fortunate as to live elsewhere would doubtless like to know the secret.
There are two theoroes. Qne is that of the natives, who are in
the habit of saying that the soil and climate here raise high-class
girls, just as other soils and climates are good for potatoes or apples
or corn. A philosophical newspaper man takes a different view.
’ Granting all that is said locally about the beauty of East Liver
pool girls, he says, "it is much more sciwitific to explain the phe
nomenon on the ground that most of the parents are pottery work
ers. and have spent their working lives at the bench, the wheel, the
press, the mold, the jigger or the kiln with images of symmetry and
perfect proportion constantly before their eyes. Here is a thought for
eugenics.
It is. indeed. The theory has received much attention in Eng
land lately, many artistic uplifters insisting that the way to become
beautiful is to surround one-self with beautiful things, because sur
roundings influence thoughts and insensibly influence bodily form
and function. More can be accomplished, of course, in two or three
generations than in one.
A MILLION ILLITERATE’SOLDIERS.
Final figures on army illiteracy only add to the humiliation felt
by intelligent Americans regarding this aspect ot our military ser
vice. The general staff reports that exactly 25 per cent of the emerg
ency army raised for the war, or 1,023.000 men in all, were illiterate.
Some of them could read or write just a little, and were therefore
classed as relatively illiterate" instead of wholly so; but the stigma
of illiteracy rests, nevertheless, on them and on the nation they repre
sented. '
I he per centage of illiteracy among Jeie negro soldiers was about
twice that of the whites, but the total number of negro illiterates was
less than 250,000, to the whites' 775,000. Thus illiterate whites out
numbered illiterate blacks three to one.
That was the army ‘hat fought for human freedom and civiliza
tion. it averaged high in intelligence and patriotism. But how much
more hrtelligen‘lv and zealously those men would have fought for
American ideals if all of them, instead of only three-fourths of them
had had enough education to understand those ideals! The wonder
is that the army as a whole did so well.
It should be unanimously resolved that never again will a great I
war or any other great emergency catch the American people so un
prepared educationally.
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SHANTUNG AS THE JAPS SEE IT AND
THROUGH THE EYES OF THE CHINESE
AS JAPAN SEES IT.
Japan did her work with energy and
thoroughness.
Would that she were blessed by
bounteous Providence so that she
could follow the example of America
and forego any material compensa
tion for her war efforts?
The position of Japan is different.
Circumscribed within a narrowly lim
ited area, with scanty resources and
crowded with two-thirds of the en
tire population of America, Japan’s 1 ,
problem of existence is not an easy
one. Only by energy, perseverance 1 ,
and patriotic sacrifices of the people ,
has the Japanese nation succeeded in ,
entering the ranks of the Five Pow- ,
•rs. ' ,
Every experience which Japan has
gained is a priceless lesson to her. In
1895 she tasted the bitter cup of be
ing deprived of the best fruits of vic- ’ 1
tory in the costly war with China,*
and nbt long after of witnessing those j
fruits slip from China's grasp and ;
fall into European hands. In order :
to forestall a repetition of this ex-.
perfence this peace conference
which was to settle the world war, ;
Japan felt it necessary to assure her- ■.
self of the support of her claims by'
her Allies at the peace table. This),
will explain the agreements entered
into in 1917 between Japan on the
one hand and Great Britain, France,
Italy and Russia on the other, as well
as the China-Japan Agreements of ‘
1915 and 1918. Can we justly blame
Japan for concluding these conven-1
tions? »
The one and sole weakness in the
Shantung decision, I will admit, is
the outward appearance it unavoida
bly partakes, that the Allies have
given the award to Japan at the ex-'
pense of a friendly nation, and that
Japan has become heir to the lease- )
hold and rights which Germany ex
torted from China on the barest of
pretenses.
1 am supremely confident of the
continuance of amicable relations be
tween America and Japan. Speeches '
might be made denouncing Jahan
worse than the Satan of Milton’s crea- !
tio”; intrigues might be ittempted to
embroil the United States in trouble
with Japan; but I am sure tnat these
labors will come to naught. For the
interests and forces, inherent and dy-)
' namic, which bind the two great na
tions on the opposite shores of the
1 Pacific are so manifest that no amount )
lof scheming could alienate their;
friendship. These interests and forces I
i cannot, of course, be estimated in 1
‘ terms of dollars and cents. But to
; give one illustration: America's
trade with Japan amounts to $400,-
00,000 annually, while her trade
with China, which has a population I
five times larger than that of Japan,’
valued at $200,000,000 —Toyaki-
, hi lyenga in November World Out- ,
look.
THROUGH CHINESE EYES.
The Shantung decision made by the,
"ouncil of Three at the Peace Con-'
f ?rence is more than an injustice done ‘
* > China; it is a challenge of the old ’
Mnmacy to the new international)
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order.
No one has ever attempted to con-,
done the German mailed fist which i
forced China to assent to the leasing
of Kiaochau. The provisions of ar- i
rangement between the Chinese Em- I
pire and Germany are explicit and inj
direct contradiction to the terms of ■
the peace settlement.
The lease of Kiaochau to Germany i
was non-transferrable. It was stated
in the Chino-German Treaty of 1898
that, except China, Kiaochau could be
under no condition transferred to an
other power. The capture of Kiao
chau by Japan could not legally abro-'
gate the lease, as Japan was not a par
ty to it. It was only when China de
clared war on Germany that the lease
was obragated and thereby Kiaochau
legally reverted to China.
The world agrees that the decision .
cannot be squared with international
justice, and that it is against all those
principles upon which the world strug
gle was waged. Even President Wil
son admitted that he accepted it re
luctantly and did so only to save the
League of Nations. Great Britain
and France made the decision because
they were bound bj’ the secret agree
ments with Japan in 1917, supporting
Japan's claim of Shantung.
These agreements, it must be em-1
phasized, were made at the very time ;
when China was induced to enter the f
war on their side. China, like the)
United States, was ignorant of them I
until the Shantung matter was taken i
up at Versailles. What surprises Chi-)
na is that she must be bound by)
agreements of which she had no)
knowledge, and must suffer a contin-)
ued mutilation of territory and prop- ■
erty in order to settle the debts of the '
great powers.—J. S. Tow, in No-'
vember World Outlook.
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hurts or Bladder bothers —Meat
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If you must have your meat every day,
eat it, but flush your kidneys with salts
occasionally, says a noted authority who
tells us that meat forms uric acid which
almost paralyzes the kidneys in their es
forts to expel it from the blood. They
become sluggish and weaken, then you
suffer with a dull misery in the kidney
( region, sharp pains in the back or sici.
headache, dizziness, your stomach sours,
tongue is coated and when the weather
is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The
urine gets cloudy, full of sediment, the '
i channels often get sore and irritated,
obliging you to seek relief two or three
| time during the night.
Io neutralize these irritating acids, tc
cleanse the kidneys and flush off the
body’s urinous waste get four ounces o’
Jad Salts from any' pharmacy here;
take a tablespoonful in a glass of
water before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys will then act fine. This
famous salts is made from the acid oi
grapes and lemon juice, combined with
lithia, and has been used for generations
to flush and stimulate sluggish kidneys,
also to neutralize the acids in urine
so it no longer irritates, thus ending
bladder weakness.
.Tad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
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OLD-TIME COLD CURE
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ime during the day' or before retiring. I
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i cold and cure grip, as it opens the ;
rores of the skin, relieving congestion.
Also loosens the bowels, thus breaking '
ip a cold.
Try it the next time you suffer from
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ind harmless.
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THRIFTLESS
'J’HERE S an ancient weary fellow working for me, doing chores;
and his life is sad and yellow, and his days and nights are bores.
He is crippled and rheumatic, and he plies a feeble hoof, and his
home is in an attic where the rain falls through the roof. I could
weep when I behold him; he'll be hopeless in his woes, till the
boneyard sods enfold him, and he has his long repose. And his
youth was gay and gilded, and he xyildly spent his wage, while the
wise youth wrought and builded for the years of wintry age. Once
this old man was a master in the trade that he had learned, but
he blew his money faster than the ding-donged stuff was earned;
and he made no wise provision for the days of want and dread;
life was sunny and elysian—why should people look ahead? Why
put down the shining shilling in a quantity of brine, when a sport
could make a killing in the haunts of cards and wine? Why con
sider a tomorrow when today is good enough? Going broke, a
sport could borrow on his watch and kindred stuff. Now around
my house he tinkers, and no hope is in his soul, and he carries
out the clinkers,. and he carries in the coal. Nothing human can
enchant him, he is dead to every thrill; and some day the town will
plant him in the boneyard on the hill.
L. G. COUNCIL, President T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier
C M. COUNCIL, (Incorporated) JOE M. BRYAN,
Vice Pres’t. & Cashier Asst. Cashisr.
THE Planters Bank of Americus
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In addition to the convenience afforded to the depositors
of a MODERN BANK in making possible the transfer of mon- j
by the use of checks, the WEALTH entrusted to the BANK does
not remain idle, but is constantly employed in commerce and in
dustry for the good and up-building of the community.
THE COMMERCIAL CITY BANK has done much for tl.e
development of Americus in the past, and expects to do a great
deal more during 1920.
Open a checking account with us and watch your town
grow.
CRAWFORD WHEATLEY SAMUEL HARRISON
President. Cashier.
I he policy of this bank is moulded to provide liberally for
the individual requirements of each depositor without jeopard
izing the interests of the many. Safety always and assistance
whenever good business judgment permits it.
Deposits here are safeguarded by a strong directorate, con
servative but progressive management, banking experience
and ample resources.
Bank of Commerce
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:
J W . Sheffield Lee Hudson, John Sheffield
Frank Sheffield Cashier C. R. Crisp
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Day Phone 253 Night Phones 381 or 106
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Funeral Directors and Embalmers
Nat LeMaster, Manager
Day Phones 88 and 231 Night 661 and 167
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1920.