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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
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Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.—Ruskin.
CALVIN IS WRONG
"1 would almost say,” Calvin Coolidge governor of Massachu
setts and vice presidential nominee, told Holy Cross college gradu
ates. “the right of the church would perish if it were not for property
holders.”
The church would live if all wealth were destroyed. It would
live as long as human intellect exists, as long as mortal man believes
in the immortality of his soul.
The church can, and has. lived without money, without prop
erty, without wealth. In the days of its infancy it did not perish, al
though the property holders of that time were opposed, well near
unanimously, to the church of Jesus Christ. The church thrived on
poverty. It was most Christ-like when its temples of worship were the
Sea of Galilee, the banks of the River Jordan, the Garden of Geth
semane, ansl the Hill of Calvary. It has become weaker in vitality,
less Christ-like as gold has poured into the collection box. as marble
has replaced the rough wooden structures, as benches gave way to
soft, comfortable pews.
No, Calvin Coolidge, the early Christian martyrs were not prop
erty holders, nor were they supported by property holders, but many
of them perished because they preached the doctrine k that it is easier
for a camel to pass through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to en
ter the gates of heaven.
It would benefit Calvin Coolidge much to study the history of
the church from the stable of Bethlehem through all the generations
when Christianity bled and starved in the hovels of the poor while
license and paganism thrived in the palaces of the powerful. Coolidge
might do well to read again Christ’s command to the nfch young man:
“Go and seel that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou
shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
“But when the young man heard that saying he went away sor
rowful: for he had great possessions.’’
RESTING OR RUSTING
Your boy is having a vacation from school. But are you certain
he is not in a vacuum rather than on a vacation.
A boy who spends his vacation entirely in idleness is worse off
than if he had no vacation at all. His mind is in a vacuum that makes
fertile soil for noxious weeds of thought and character.
The empty mind is not really on a vacation. It is rusting, not
resting, for the mind rests not by idleness, but by change of routine
and occupation.
So it is well that the parent should give thought to what the boy
is doing with his three months of spare time called vacation.
As a corrective of the aimless vacation an educator has prepared
a “vacation time-table for boys and girls.
He would have them out of bed at 7 a. m. and let them play
hard until 11. After that he would insist on two hours of helpfulness
about the house—light chores, work in the garden and easy errands.
The hours between one and four he sets aside for the reading of
good story books and from four to eight he would allow more play
with time out, of course, for supper and the evening family reunion.
And that is a good schedule. But its principal value lies in the
fact that it is a schedule, a program, a method of mental discipline.
It does away with the aimlessness that destroys the value of school
vacations. It gives the parent a regulating check oh the activities of
his child who otherwise has only his sweet will to follow during the
three months of his release from the discipline of the class room.
THE FOOD YOU EAT
Prices for farm products, on the farms, are today practically
stationary, compared with prices one year ago.
But—
Wholesale prices for food, in the cities, have increased 34 per
cent and retail prices for 12 leading food groups have increased 50
per cent in the same period.
You are paying more for the food you eat, but the farmer who
grows that food isn’t getting one cent of that increase.
Who is getting it? The speculator, the storage plant, the holder
of foods, the jobber, the commissionman, the retailer, all the long line
of middlemen. They are pocketing the proceeds. That is why—
1— There is a shortage of farm labor, which in turn makes less
food in the near future, and— (
2 Your cost of living has risen so abnormally high.
Cooperation—a direct transportation from a producing group to
a consuming group—appears the best, quickest and most easily ar
rived-at solution.
COAL SHOULD TUMBLE
Washington promises quick action to clear up the soft coal situ
ation exposed by Times-Recorder investigators.
This action is double-barreled I
1. Orders from the Interstate Commerce Commission already
issued, to clear the tracks for coal and give mines all cars needed:
2. Threats of the Department of Justice to prosecute all prof
iteers “from now F on.”
If the railroads obey the I. C. C., there will be cars and coal to
prevent threatened fuel famine.
If there is no famine, there can be no excuse for profiteering by
the operators.
If prices come down, and stay down, Washington gets the credit.
If prices stay up or go higher it will prove the government has
failed the people.
Washington has the power.
Watch Washington—and coal.
Albany appears to be catching up with Americus. It was some
yean ago that Americus junked her street car line because she had so
many autos there was small need for it. Apparently at last Albany is
coming into Americus’ class as an auto owning community.
Those who urge Johnson to run on a third ticket may be pro
gressives. And then again they may be Democrats.
HELP THE MAN!
By Edmund Vance Cooke
J.JEAVEN help the man with tongue of brass
Which clatters and clangors to all who pass,
Proclaiming to all by his constant din
He is holloa without and hollow within,
Who has endless words in an endless store,
Who needs no comment and no encore.
And who never has learned that human speech
* Is not alone his, but bestowed on each.
JJEAVEN help the man with the brow of bone
Who can stand all society save his own.
Who has no love for a lonely stroll,
Where the trees come close or the wide waves roll
Who never shuts tight his favorite book
To commune with himself in his ingle nook,
And who never ransacks himself to find
The worth-while corners of heart and mind.
JJEAVEN help the man with the heart of lead
Who is everything else but officially dead.
Who runs in his rut and has no mind
For the stress and the struggle of human kind.
Who never suspects that he holds a trust
To keep men kind and the nations just.
And who never thrills to the uttermost nerve
With the pain and the passion to sweat—and serve!
(Copyright. 1920, N. E. A.)
TRYING TO LOSE GOD. ;
BY JAMES I. VANCE
Founder of Inter-Church World Movement and Chairman
Federal Council of Churches of America.
IT was in a restaurant in New York,
• City. We were saated across the 1
table from each other. We had nev
er seen each other before, and shall
probably never see each other again.
The other people at the table star
ed in silence and listened to our con
versation. He was a college man.
and he seemed to be a gentleman.
He was the son of a minister, but
he had drifted far. It was my
clerical dress that had given him his
cue.
He did not want anything from
me, but he left something with me
that I have thought about a let since.
His last word as I rose from the ta
ble was: “Dominie, no man can ever
get away from God.”
The more I think over it, the more
convinced I am that he was right.
Men try to lose God. They run
away from Him. They hide out and
deny Him. They feign skepticism
They affect atheism. They become
bad. They go all the gaits. They
throw conscience on the scrap heap
and make a joke of religion. And
they flatter themselves that they
fuch is life
WHAT with 1 picking presidential
candidates, and not' picking
others who want to be presidential
candidacies—
What with writing platforms that
will catch the largest number of
voting suckers—
What '»i h solving the high cost
of living so profits won’t come down
and the Ultimate Consumer will give
you full credit for having done some
thing he wants done—
What with a railroad tangle, a
coal shortage, and the Supreme
Court snoozing happily in its vaca
tion retreat—
What with the Le< gue of Nations
left up in the air, while everybody’s
starting a Leeg of Notions—
What with Congress off the job
and all the wheat harvesting hands •
working in the city making lollypops
and automobiles
What with politics ticking faster
than ever—
Does the nation’s capital realize
the potency of the hour, the need of
an eagle eye on the main track and
the right hand upon the throttle?
No, the nation’s capital does net.
Washington, D. C., is all rent and
torn about the adornment of femi
nine limbs.
Wash., D. C., has embarked upon
a wild, wild wave of the alluring
half hose. The seductive sox has—•
or have —enthralled the nations capi-
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THE AMERICUS
have repealed God.
‘ Then they open their eyes and He
;is standing there quietly -by their
I j side. He has never left them, He
has been looking on at their folly ail
I the time, sometimes half amused, but
i never meaning for one instant to go
. away.
Strange things open the eyes of
blind men to see God, and simple
things, too. A turn of fortune, a
stroke of luck, a sickness, a death
' next door a battle, a song, the laugh
ter of a child, a flower in the spring
it does not take much. But
when the right touch is on your eye
lid and we see Him, how foolish
all our skepticism seems!
1 es, it was a wise thing one sea
soned New Yorker said. "No man
can ever get away from God. It
is hard to 1-se Him. It is impos
sible. God is inescapable. "If I as
cend up into heaven, thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning,
and dwell in the uttermost parts of
the sea, even there shall thy hand
lead me, and thy right hand shall
hold me.”
tat, and the mere men don’t seem l
to give a whoop whether any more
taws are passed or not.
Petite feminine aborers in Uncle
Sam’s service are the ones flaunting
the abbreviated hosiery to the eye
of even the casual observers, and
perfectly innocent bystandeis are
unable to keep up with their work,
they say, although they refuse to
wear blinders as .’.as beer, suggested.
The War Risk Bureau girls took
the lead in the matter, but all of
’em took the risk of fi cd for
thus obstructing the ’’•regress of a
government for, by, and of, ect.
Then the War Department was
ruffled by the fad. and Secretary
Baker said he'd hand down an offic-’
ial opinion when he got back from
• the Democratic Convention.
Secretary Colby said State Depart
ment girls could half-hose if they
wished, for he was going to be out of
' town most of the time, anyhow.
But other secretaries are d:s-i
posed to frown upon the fad. Th AI
is, they didn’t frersrr. upon any cr.e'
pair of half-hose fillers, but upon
ithem all, collectively speaking. They
voiced the hunch that stockings as
they are are plenty thin enougr. to •
admit of easy transportation of at-i
mosphere, so why halve the boae?
“Why?” exclaimed a bunch of sozj
a Imirers, “because we wanted to."
Reason enough.
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ands of girls—war workers—are go
ir - home. Washington will miss them
and they will miss Washington.
They have had a wonderful vacation
! here. They have had a humane boss,
, Uncle Sam, the last two or three
years. The work hasn’t been hard,
i U hile the pay hasn’t been ver-- large,
and the living has been high, most
of them are well groomed, and have
enough money stored away to pay
their fare home.
Most of the girls are glad they are
going to see mother and father and
little brothers and sisters and
friends.
• • •
To read the Republican platform,
one would think the 8,000,000 Re
publicans who voted for Hughes at
■'.e last election were made up of
zood Americans and the 8,000,000
and some Democrats whq voted for
Wilson were made up of bad Ameri
> cans.
When Americans meet in church
they ask nc questions about parties;
‘when they make love, they get their
party affixations all mixed n • - hen
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At all Times
Ice and Coal, Fresh water ground
Meal, Cold Drinks. Sprays—
Throw water 60 feet—Wash off
Automobiles, Buggies, Wagons,
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Also put out fires; start in time.
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Americus Times-Recorder for
DeSoto and Cobb, Ga.
Daily and Weekly. Don't Forget
the Place.
J. W. BARWICK
Leslie, Georgia
they become friends, they forget to
esk about Democracy or Republi-!
eanism. Anybody who knows any
thing knows that there’s almighty |
little difference between a Democrat I
and a Republican and that’s only
a mental viewpoint. So whv should,
the Republicans traduce the Demo-i
crats or the Democrats the Repub-j
licans? In days gone by if the plat
forms had got mixed and switched,
the average voter wouldn’t have dis
covered it.
Senator Warren (G. Hardiing is,
getting a touch of “presidential safe
ty.” Since he was nominated, a po
. liceman guards his house at night
and a secret service man looks after
him in the day time. The night
watchman is just an ordinary copper
in uniform and he sits on the cement
wall in front of the nominee’s house.
Although th: senator lives in the
“silk stocking” section of Washing
'ton, his home is near the end of the
| street where wilderness starts and
on dark nights the wooded section;
is rather uninviting.
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THINGS~WOMEN
! WANT TO KNOW
When wa» the Socialist party
started in the United States?
After supporting several commu
nist and labor organizations the
Socialists formed a Social Democrat
ic Workingmen’s party at a conven
tion in New Jersey, adopted the
name Socialist Labor party, which
the organization still carries.
How long did the Populist party
endure? Did it ever put anyone in
office?
The party lasted approximately 10
years.' In 1892 the Populist ticket
carried several state legislatures and
sent five senators to Washington.
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