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/ Hl OUT WITH THE TRUTH
Our old friend, Hi Johnson, who got the short end of it in
Chicago recently, after he thought he had the Old Guard whipped
to a standstill, comes to bat, following Nicholas Murray Butler and
other Republicans, with a bit of comment for the editorial columns
of the Democratic newspapers of the country. In fact, the Republi
cans, because some of them just can’t help telling some of the
truth, are producing the best editorials being written for the Demo
cratic party. Here is Brother Hi’s contribution, delivered upon his
arrival in Sacramento, Calif., yesterday, on his way to his home in
San Francisco:
“Don’t imagine I’m cast down by the result of the convention.
I’m happier than ever before. 1 started the campaign on a«shoestring
and when I got through I had the people of the United States with
me, even though I could not win the majority of the delegates.
“1 went into the fight in one fashion and came out in the same
fashion. I made no compromises, but fought to the last ditch.
"It doesn’t make any difference if a few politicians sitting in the
Blackstone hotel in Chicago said ‘The people be damned,’ for the
time is coming when the people will come into their own.
"The future will find me as good natured and as full of fight
as ever, and determined that in time to come the people shall rule in
stead of a few men and international bankers sitting in New York.
JIM, NOT JIMMIE
"Jim” Cox, Ohio's Democratic governor and presidential aspir
ant, is an instantaneous sort of a person, they tell us.
He can't be "handled with the gloves.’
He doesn't wear ’em himself.
“What do you want to know?” he demands—not "tough like’
just business-like.
His answers come with quick, sharp brusqueness. His decisions
are sudden and accurately cast; he minces no words and wastes none. 1
"This and this are so,” he declares, "That 1 don’t know and for
the rest 1 don’t give a whoop." he says.
You know he is sure of what he knows and what he doesn't
know and that he doesn’t care for the rest, by the snapping glint of
his eye-glasses.
Those who know him intimately say it is pretty hard to imagine
Jim Cox transacting the business of his state without his eye-glasses or
mighty easy to imagine him on the golf links or playing handball
with a neighbor kid with the glasses trailing on the end of their gold
chain.
He isn't so very big and he's a bit round and that probably has a
lot to do with his mannei. He doesn't mind being called "Jim. ’ but
he’d hate to have them call him "Jimmie" all the time.
THEIR FATHER
Those of you who imagined the production of laughs, the manu
facture of queer quips and quaint sayings, were the chief end in life of
Will Rogers, lovable cowboy humorist, are mistaken.
Will Rogers, first of all. is father to his children. That is a side of
him unseen in public, unmentioned on the stage, unpictured on the
screen. But it is there, foremost, and nearest his heart.
When the grim reaper with his scythe bearing the word diph
theria,” came upon the Rogers home, the smile faded from Rogers
face, the laughter-invoking word broke up sharply, and he was noth
ing but the father, whose greatest and only duty was to stand guard
at the bedside of his little children.
The plaudits of the public were forgotten. Nothing mattered but
the life of a child. The word from the stricken home came in the
midst of Rogers’ convention work for this newspaper. The sentence
as only Will Rogers can write them—remains unwritten. That is
why the celebrated cowboy humorist will not report the Democratic
convention.
This newspaper and all of its readers, extend heart-deep sym
pa thy to Will Rogers and hopes, with prayer on their lips, that death
may not invade still further into his heart and home.
HOUSING HOPES
Just when the housing problem appeared well on the road to so
lution it ran into some rather rough bumps and progress slowed
down considerably.
Contracts for home-building during the first four months of
1920 totaled $1,114,415,000 in the territory east of .he Missouri
and north of the Ohio. The same months of 1919 showed but $464.-
407,000 awarded contracts.
Another pleasing fact is to be noted. Residential building
(homes) was 31 per cent of the total building contracts in April,
which is the year s greatest building contract awarding month. This is
to be compared with 19 per cent of April, 1919.
That's how it stood May I.
Along came the "outlaw railroad strike and the general rail
way paralysis, the car shortage, terminal congestion, freight embar
goes, and—
The building of homes halted.
A recent issue of the American Contractor, New York, contains
figures from 192 cities, showing great recessions of activity in May
Big cities show losses more plainly than smaller ones; chaos in
transportation overshadows all other deterrent factors.
This, of course, means fewer houses this winter than would have
been ready for occupancy through the building months.
Mexican version: Uneasy lies the head that opposes the oil
crowd.
The scholar in politics isn’t as conspicuous as the holler in poli
tic*.
Over in this country most of them are Bullsheviki.
Penrose to the occasion.
AIR MAIL HAS MADE GOOD
Postage Reduced to Railroad Rate —- Time Is Cut More Than Half
N. E. A. Staff Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, June 24.—How
soon will the railway mail coach be
come a thing of the past and a first
class mail be carried ifi swift air
planes?
Air mail, few people realize, has
ceased to be an experimental lux-'
ury or a high priced necessity for
the few and now is a quick, reliable
and economical means of mail trans
portation, according to postoffice
reports.
Twenty-two million letters were
carried via air in the first 19 1-2
months of air mail operation. The
cost was 84 cents a mile, and at
this rate, if all mail was carried by
airplane, the postoffice would save
SIOO,OOO a year on New York-Chi- 1
cago mail and $42,500 a year on 1
New York-Washington mail, it is*
said. Air mail postage has been re- I
duced from the original 6 cents to
the ordinary mail rate.
The economy and the reliability of
the service was the surprise of even
those who had faith in the experi
ment. Between Cleveland and Chi
cago for example, air mail pilots
made 205 consecutive flights of 325 *
miles, no-stop, without a single forc
ed landing. They drove their planes
through sleet and into the teeth of
blizzard gales. They plowed through
white fog and gray mist over Lake
Erie with their loads of mail pack
ed in sacks along the fusilages of
their husky little planes.
So successful was the service be
tween New York and Chicago, with
delivery completed in 9' hours and
30 minutes aginst 24 hours and 20
minutes required by the fastest
trains, that the postoffice depart
ment proceeded with the mapping of
other lines and now is calling for;
WASHINGTON, June 24.—Hav
ing won the Republican nomination
for the pesidency, Senator Warren
G. Harding, of Ohio, will be sub
jected to personal and political dis
section and analysis during the com
ing months.
The Democrats are already whett
ing up their scapels, honing their raz- i
ors and rolling up their sleeves pre- |
paratory to carving the candidate.
Radical and liberal publications, I
who see in Harding only the choice
of the reactionary old-guard group
of the party, are dusting off their
microscopes and polishing up their
critical vocabulary, getting set to
“take the hide off” Harding and ex
amine what lies underneath.
It is unnecessary, however, for
these gentlemen to go to a lot of
trouble to lay bare the real Hard
ing. Harding never has posed under
false colors, whatever else may be
said of him. He has been frankly
conservative; frankly a follower of
party doctrine. He has never pre
sumed to chart new roads, to pro
pose new ideas, to set his own beliefs
or views above those of the directing
forces in the G. O. P.
If you want to know what Hard
ing stands for, read the Chicago plat
form. Whatever that means, Hard
ing means. His whole political code
is laid down in the following state
ment by himself.
“Beljeving, as I do, in political
parties and government through po
litical parties I had much rather that
the party to which I belong should
in its conference, make a declaration,
than to asstime a leadership or take
an individual leadership on the ques
tion.”
No threat of political dictatorship
there, is there? As the party de
cides, so Harding, will perform! No
more of that.“cza'rism” in the White
House, to which Lodge, Watson, Pen-
rose and Smoot have so plaintively '
protested, and against which the Re
publican platform declares. No more
taking of individual positions by the
president if Harding is elected. The
party, through the president, not the
president, will rule.
DR. F. L. CATO
Phones: 531 Office; 55 Residence !
DR. WILBUR C.SMITH
Phones: 531 Office; 657 Residence
Physician and Surgeon
Office Hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 4
LOOK’
1200 Acres, on good road and
railroad station on property; 600
acres open land, running water.
I 00 acres nice, level pebbly land,
balance slightly rolling, to hilly;
one 6-room residence, one 4-room
house, several tenant houses, fine
peach land, and suited to stock
raising and general farming. Only |
S2O per acre, one-third cash, bal-’
ance easy terma. 200,000 feet !
pine timber.
P. B. WILLIFORD
Americus, Ga.
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This is whatt hreatens to put the railway mail coach out of business
bids for the carrying of mail by air.
It proposes to establish lines be
tween Boston and Detroit, Chicago
and New York; between New York
and Omaha, Minneapolis, St. Louis,
Jacksonville, Seattle, Portland and
San Francisco; between Washington
and Jacksonville, New Orleans, Chi
cago, St. Louis and Minneapolis; be
tween Chicago and Minneapolis and
Omaha; between St. Louis and Kan
sas City and Omaha.
It is conceded by almost every
air technical expert that aviation is
far from their goal of absolute re
liability and efficiency, “yet in the op-
Rhymed Review of Recent News
RHYMES BY HOWARD MANN.
PICTURES BY F. W. PARKS.
From every campus in the land
There came an educated hand,
All set, with goggles on their eyes,
To make the world a paradise.
Although they don’t accomplish it
Let’s hope they help a little bit.
The G. O. P. a whole week spent
To pick a man for president.
Party chiefs, with careful glance,
Sized up the hopeful aspirants,
And Harding’s contour, they declare,
Will snugly fit the White House
chair.
New York began to slaughter cats
Found starving in deserted flats,
And doomed all rodents’ lives to
cease,
Which carry plague germs overseas.
But why not set the cats to kill
The rats and save a funeral bill?
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eration of several scores of planes
with as many pilots the air mail serv
ice had but three accidents resulting
from mishaps in flight, and in these
accidents one man was hurt and two
killed. One of the accidents occur
red to an applicant for place as pilot
and thus was not strictly chargeable
to the air and mail service.
This record encourages the pre
‘ diction of many experts that the day
of the expensive and clumsy rail
way distribution of mail is near at
hand and that the mail service of
. the future will be almost entirely
. an air service.
A
. —\—
Nick Butler made a woeful wail
About the presidency sale;
He said some guys equipped with
dross
Tried hard to put Len Wood across.
But since the plot did not succeed,
Nick Butler’s sobs we do not need.
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i—— ——
In cables from across the sea,
We’re told the ladies of Paree,
Raise chickens in their kitchenets,
And take them for a stroll, like pets.
What? Poultry in a Paris flat?
There surely is a wheeze in that.
1,..
When burglars robbed Caruso’s
place,
The papers gave it lots of space;
They told about the Cuban bomb,
And how some miscreants stole his
rum.
The tenor’s press men, we will say,
Keep fairly busy, day to day.
A GENUINE JOB
I_JAVE you a job, a genuine job,
A job that is worth your while?
Which brings you bread and a little ahead
i And sends you home with a smile?
Then, if some one comes when the weather’s fine
And the suckers are biting on every line
And he wants you to sell stock in his mine—
Whoa!
Go slow, my boy, go slow!
It is £rue that gold has a grateful glow.
But why not consider the job you know?
, (Per contra, I might write a cftuple of odes
,*•* v To make you think you’re a Cecil Rhodes.)
•
£* Have you a job, a geuine job,
> A job that you know clean through.
Which serves some need of the human breed
t '■*€ A s well as a job may do?
Then, if some one comes, rubbing hand on hand,
And says he admires your sense and sand
And he’d like to engage you to lead his band—
' Whoa!
Go slow, my boy, go slow!
A shako and baton make some show,
But why not stick to the job you know?
*
«s' (I could write a poem, on the other hand,
"7' To prove your job is to lead the band.)
„ Z ' Have you a job, a genuine job,
; Into which you have built your years,
y" Till its blood and bone are your very own,
Foundationed on hopes and feaft?
Then, if some one comes and proclaims that Fate
Has arranged that a guy of your size and weight
Is to handle the wheel of the Ship of State,
Whoa!
Go slow, my boy, go slow.
The Ship of State may survive the blow
If you stick to your little old craft and row!
(However, of course, it would still be true
That Lincoln had no such start as you.)
(Copyright, 1920, N. E. A.)
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