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Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired.—Platus.
GERMANY PAYS
Vengeance on the perpetrators of the great war has been inflicted
at Spa. Germany writhes and shakes her fist in instinctive defiance,
but she is impotent. No nation has ever been more, completely at the
mercy of its foes. But, no mercy has come out of Spa. Instead stern
justice and a lesson to the world of the dire fate of militarism.
Germany appeals for pity. What pity would Germany have
shown had her armies won the victory? Germany asks for compas
sionate judgment because her people are prostrate. Who made them
prostrate but the horrible military machine fashioned by the German
people themselves? Germany asks for aid in her recovery. That she
shall have, because only by increased production can the German
people be forced to right in some measure the wrong they inflicted
upon civilization.
But, in making Germany realize the enormity of her guilt, the
allies are storing up deep hatred against themselves. Revenge has
been burned deep into every German’s soul. Therefore, the allies
must protect themselves. This they can do by holding together and by
preventing every effort by Germany to create a fresh army. These
two primary conditions of world peace have been made even more
essential by the decisions announced at Spa. Germany is watching
her chance with cruel calculating eyes. The allies can prevent that
chance of ever being realized. But only if they are constantly on the
alert and live in a close friendship among themselves.
NOT FORGETTING SUGAR
We don’t hear much these days about sugar. The public, finally
becoming accustomed to the exorbitant prices, goes along paying
them and saying little any more. That is one of the traits of the Amer
ican; he kicks and then forgets.
However, some interesting and amazing inside facts regarding
the alleged shortage of sugar, and how it came about has just come
to the attention of the Times-Recorder through the columns of “The
Financial Review,’’ a Wall street financial periodical, issue of July
17, which we are passing along. Says the Financial Review:
That no actual shortage of sugar supplies now exists or has lately
existed has been definitely established by official investigations. This
completely vindicates the findings published in The Financial Review
last April, which were branded as false at that time in certain interested
quarters.
The blame for this deplorable condition lies with certain American
banking interests. A group of New York bankers loaned Cuban plant
ers large sums on warehouse receipts, thereby enabling the greater part
of the production to be held off the market. Having no incentive to sell,
the sugar producers demanded exorbitant prices for their product—
and got it. This was nothing less than a hold-up, possible only through
the connivance of the New York financiers.
A group of Cuban growers which had been holding its sugar off
the market has within the past few days grown alarmed and is making
frantic efforts to dispose of its supply. These “independents” control
about 700,000,000 pounds of the 1,250,000,000 pounds which it is ad
mitted is held in Cuban warehouses. This does not include the much
greater amount held by the “Trust” in this country. At first the “inde
pendents” offered their sugar to the U. S. government at 24 cents a
pound, but this figure was soon lowered to 18 1-4 cents. The offer,
while not accepted nor even encouraged, has resulted in a marked
slump in the sugar market.
The Department of Agriculture makes the prediction that sugar
will be much more easily obtained next winter. It is stated: “There has
been used or hoarded 15 per cent more sugar than in former years. It is
obvious therefore that there has been no actual sugar shortage here
this year. The difficulties encountered have arisen from the inability of
the consumer to secure his share of the supply. Unless enormously
increased amounts have been consumed, the trouble must be laid to
loaning and it is very obvious that large quantities are being held
for future use by h >usewives and commercial concern.'.” As the con
sumer has been unable to purchase even enough for his needs, it is
evident that the surplus is carried by “commercial concerns.”
The Lusk Committee reports that $400,000,00 in unearned money
has been taken out of the pockets of the poor by speculators in sugar.
These speculations were fostered by the banks which made enormous
loans to sugar gamblers. Representatives of the sugar trade admitted
to the Committee that $250,000,000 was loaned by American banks
through Cuban financial institutions to hold sugar. Some loans were
made as high as 15 cents a pound on raw sugar. All loans were at us
urious rates of interest, as high as 15 per cent. Finally the investigators
agreed that there was no actual shortage of supply. Speculation alone
was responsible for the “artificial shortage” which was forced on the
country.
The outlook, therefore, is for lowered sugar prices even before
the next winter. Uneasiness is developing amongst the sugar specula- '
t©rs, and they are beginning to doubt that they will be able to succeed .
in gouging the public much longer. All that would be required to precip
itate a smash in the sugar market would be a general calling of loans by
the banks. That this action is not at all impossible is indicated by the
necessity of Armour & Co. to make new arrangements for carrying i
its swollen inventory, on account of the banks refusing to supply funds. i
ALONE IN HIS JOB 1
The United States is the only country in the world with a week- 1
ly newspaper devoted exclusively to the job of hating the chief exec- '
utive of the nation. Colonel Harvey, of Harvey’s Weekly, please '
copy. ,
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Some men will pay a bootlegger S2O for a quart of poison with
out a murmur, but use unprintable language when charged S2O for
shoes.
The scarcity of farm labor should be helped as soon as some
of these candidates are broken loose from their miscalling
I
Men who try laying down the law to their wives probably won
der how Solomon lived so long.
WORLD’S FUTURE IN HANDS
OF NEWSPAPER MEN
ASHVILLE, N. C., July 21—The
making of international relations of
the future is largely in the hands of
the newspapermen of America and
the British Empire, Sir Auckland
Geddes, British Ambassador to the
United States, declared last night in
an address at the annual meeting of
the Southern Newspaper Publisher?
Association.
The hope of mankind that the last
great war has been fought, Sir Auck
land said, could be turned by the
newspaper writers of the English
speaking world either to cruel mock
ery or advance toward realization.
Mutual understandir-’ between the
British commonwealth of nations
and the United States matters more
to the English speaking people and
to the world than anything else at
the present time, Sir Auckland de
clared, because without understand
ing there can be no friendship and
without friendship there can be no
cooperation.
“Would it be in your interest,
would it be less costly for you to
effect the expansion of your for
eign trade, in the teeth of British
opposition?” asked the Ambassador.
"Would it pay you less if you effect
ed it in reasonable cooperation with
us? Would it cost you less to build
a navy commensurate to your needs
in opposition to us or more in agree
ment with us? Would it help you to
1 find difficulties largely of your own
creation of reactions to, your ac
' tions in Canada, Australia, New Zea
: land, South Africa, in India and in
every land in which the British flag
flies as well as in every land in which
the British trader does business and
; the British banks have branches?
. Would it harm you to find friends
there and have to meet only the sort
1 of competition that exists between
i rival concerns of the same nation
. alitv? On the lowest basis, would it
1 pay you if Britain were to develop
, cotton growing on a great scale in
1 ojir African territories because of
a sense of instability created by a
. feeling of American lack of friend
, liness? Would it help you toward a
solution of your problems in the Pa
-1 cific if Australia were to become hos
■ tile to your interests?
“On the other hand would it help
us to be unfriendly to you? Again
on the lowest basis would it pay us?
' The answer in every case is ‘no’.
“Then we have the great political
and socio-economic problems which
require solution—problems as wide
as the world and as deep as the hu
man heart. Will they be helped if
you and we are unfriendly and bick
ering with one another? Will it help
you or us if large areas of the world
lapse from civilazation to semi-civ
ilization because you and we fail to
cooperate with one another and with
the nations whose social existence
is threatened with economic chaos in
which they find themselves? I know
of no good which can flow from lack
BY O. B. JOYFUL.
IT used to be, long ago, that Squire
Aimer Harpington was possessed
of very radical tendencies.
Ab w’as Red. Not pits, but a
ueep-dyed red. He was for taking
everybody’s property (A'b had none)
away and dividing it. He was for
outlawing work and insisted it
should be a prison offense for a
banker to refuse anybody a loan.
Ab was no parlor Bolshevist. He
trained with the proletariat that
cluttered up Hank Blifflin’s General
Store and Dry-Goods Emporium.
That bunch of Bolshevil i were ag’in
everything that was and for every
thing that hadn’t been tried.
But all this happened before a
flock of capitalistic slaves struck oil
on Abners’ farm.
Then Abner ran for office and
served brilliantly jiiid well as justice
of the peace. He cleaned out Hank
Blifflin’s store and made the motley
crowd of agitators go to work. He
was director of the Lank and joined
the Board of Trade.
Ab now is one of the most re
spected men of his community. Last
week he was elected president of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Sparrows, and headed the com
mittee of mill owners who appeared
before the Legislature protesting
against the dmial of the right to J
work under the age of 14.
♦ ♦ ♦
In 1930, or thereabouts, there’ll
be a meeting of male citizens over
the age of 21 to inaugurate the
movement for Equal Rights.
There’ll be a few brave leaders
who’ll point to. the enslavement of
manhood, and demand a fifty-fifty
deal, equal wages with women work
ers, and the right to drive the fam
ily flivver one afternoon a week. j
There’ll even be some talk about
why in the world can’t a man get
elected to a few of the minor offices.
Just thirty years ago a distin
guished American remarked: i
“The sun may freeze up into a
solid ball of ice; the moon may sky
rocket into a million pieces, and the
oceans may run dry, but the day will
never come when our mothers, wives
and sisters will forsak'e the womanly
sphere of home for the noisy, un
pleasant arena of public affairs.”
There’s no surer way of getting
the future generations to think you
were a wise guy than by not predict
ing what is going to happen to
morrow.
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of friendship between our nations.
I know of no human good which
might not be gained for ourselves
and for the world by your and our
cordial cooperation with one an
other.
“Here is the problem:—Coopera-;
tion which is urgently needed be-1
tween us is only possible on a basis
of friendship and a basis of mutual
respect and understanding.
“You gentlemen and all of your
profession have it in your power, as
have no others, to foster that respect.
and understanding between nations.
Practically everybody reads some dai-’
,ly or weekly paper. A few read I
i bound books. A were handful studies |
history. On you and on your fellows;
throughout the English sneaking
world the burden is laid. By force
. of circumstances, by the nature of
your calling, you cannot escape. In
i your hands largely is the making of
the international relations of the fu
ture. The hope of mankind that the
, last great war has been fought could
be turned by you either to cruel
i mockery or advance toward realiza
. tion.
“With all the earnestness at my
i command I beg of you in the name
of all who like myself are devoting
; their lives to the futherance of the
cause of international peace to en
i roll voluntarily in army of the inter
i national peace makers. Try with all
• your skill and arts to make the na
■ tions realize their common essential
humanity. Let them see each other
• as they are, grouplings of plain,
simple people who love and hate and
fear and live and die very much in
the same way in all the countries
whose civilization is based on Europe.
“Get them to see that that civili
zation is indissolubly linked at its
foundation with the Christain ethic
. —other civilizations were not, and
are not, but ours is and assumes in
all its customs and conventions a
fair distribution of effective Chris
tianity among the people. Get your
readers to realize how civilization
has been advanced by the genius of
the few whose life works have bene
fited the many without regard to
national frontiers.
“Rich and precious is our heritige,
but we hold only a life rent in our
possesison. It belongs to our children
and to theirs and to the un-number
ed generations of the future.
. “If you and we stand firm together
the heritage will be safe, even though
the world we have known should
crumble around us, but if the un
speakable horror of conflict should
arise between us the heritage will
be destroyed. You who would the
public thought are the most influen
tial of the world trustees. I beg you
more consciously and more accurate
ly day by day and year by year to
serve the trust and preserve the heri
tage of ordered freedom and human
liberty.”
AT THE FEET
OF GAMALIEL
(Warren Gamaliel Harding 11
Conducting a Front Porch
Campaign
BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE
WE used to go torching,
But now we go porching,
(There’s a rhyme for a reader’s re
garding!)
For wisdom is sounded
And critics confounded.
“At the feet of Gamaliel”—
Harding.
Make any suggestion,
Or ask any question,
(Though you’re serving his cause,
or retarding)
And straight, man-to-man, sir,
You’ll get an answ’er,
“At the feet of Gamaliel”—
Harding.
Thus: “Do you endorse it?
“And will you enforce it?"
Or “What do you think of discard
ing
Our whole constitution?”
Hark! hear the solution
“At the feet of Gamaliel”—
Harding.
“A damp or dry nation?”
“The tax situation?”
Or “Our Mexican watching and
warding?” i
Then let Solomon hush
And let Socrates blush
“At the feet of Gamaliel”—
Harding.
“Who pays for y|ur losses?”
“What men are your bosses?”
Hey! that’s personal, begging your
parding!
Such impudent boldness
Discovers a coldness 1 ,
In “the feet of Gamaliel”—
Harding,
(Copyright, 1920, N. E. A.) 1 (
DATE OF CHARTER, Oct. 13, 1891.
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Points to Consider Before Purchasing Tractor
OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF GEORGIA EXPERIMENT STATION
117ITH the extreme shortage of la
" bor effecting the farmers of the
South as elsewhere, our attention
must be directed more and more to
the use of improved farm machinery
and implements, which will allow one
man to cultivate a greater number
of acres. No doubt many farmers are
seriously considering purchasing a
tractor as a means of relieving this
situation, and to these the following
suggestions based on experiences
with an 8-16 1. H. C. tractor on the
Georgia Experiment Station farm
may be of interest.
The value of a tractor lies in the
fact that with it one man can do
more work in a day than with a pair
of horses or mules. This allows more
land to be prepared within a given
time than would otherwise be possi
| ble. The past season this would have
' been of great value to many farmers
for we remember that but little was
' prepared until late in the spring.
The tractor is not as well adapted
to conditions in the cotton belt as it
is to those of other sections of the
country where the land is extremely
level and uniform. To do its best
work the field must be as large as
possible, fairly level, and not cut up
with numberous roads, ditches, fen
ces, hedges, or other obstructions.
For this reason tractors cannot be
profitably used on many farms of
this state. Owing to the fact that
most of the crops grown in the cot
ton belt require intensive cultiva
tion, the greatest use to be made of
the tractor is in the preparation of
land. It is quite likely, however, that
the small types could well be used
in drawing cultivating machinery
through many small crops.
DR. F. L. CATO
Phones: 531 Office; 55 Residence
DR. WILBUR C.SMITH
Phones: 531 Office; 657 Residence
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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 21, 1920
The value of the belt power to be
derived from a tractor should not
be overlooked, and especially is this
of importance if there is no gas en
gine on the farm. However, if con
siderable belt power is required it
will probably be best to purchase a
small engine rather than to have this
work conflict with field operations.
There are numbers of other small
jobs such as pulling small stumps,
drawing wagons from the fields,
moving heavy objects, etc., that will
suggest themselves to the resource
ful farmer who owns a tractor.
Inasmuch as the initial’ cost of a
good tractor is considerable it is well
for one who is contemplating pur
chasing to give careful attention to
the conditions on his farm. In order
to give a fair return on the money
invested it must be used for a num
ber of days in the year, and also re
place some mules at present required
for if the tractor will not replace at
least one or two of the mules at pres
ent required it is very doubtful if it
will be an economic expenditure of
mony for the average farmer to pur
chase one.
After it has been definitely decid
ed to purchase, the size and make
must be considered. This will depend
of course upon the size and condi
tion of the farm, as well as the na
ture of the work required For in
stance, if the tractor is to be used
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10:38 pm Albany-Montgy 5:18 am
7:35 pm Macon-Atlanta 6:37 am
•7:15 pm Columbus *7:10 am
2:07 pm Albany-Montgy 2:07 p»
2:07 pm Macon-Atlanta 2:07 pm
*11:45 am Columbus *2:30 pm
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8:40 am Albany-Jaxville 11:50 ptr
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10:00 am Cordele-Helena 5:15 pnl