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AFTER THE VOTES /:\R}"Z;
COUNTED Fitzgerald :m.»»’
just passed throueh a spirited
political campaign. As the 1. 4:l*‘
C EOCH 1O pless. thisg @ diternoon i
the result is still in doubt but it
is sure that someope has won
and someone has lost. That l?l
the uniortunate thing about a'
contest—someone must lose. '
But losing in a political cam
pargn is nothing of which a good
man need bhe ashamed, nothing
that should give him cause to
hold bitterness m his heart |
against those who have defeated |
him 2or to think that the people
whose syffrage he has asked
think the less of him.
Politics is an uncertain thing;
popular favor is difficult to an
‘ticipate or rightly estimate. De
feat and victory are all mere in
cidents of political life, tempor
ary gain or loss to be maintaimed
or offset in a little while.
In the campaign we have just
concluded, a group of exception
ally good men were pitted
against cach other. In mayoralty
race either Mr. Paulk or Mr.
Griner will make a good captain
for the city's ship of state. The
city will fare well under the ad
ministration of ecither. The re
sult will be determined rather
by the issue of the campaign
than by the candidates.
And the one who loses, as one
/of them must, need have no feel
ing of bitterness against those
who for the time being were
aligned as his opponents. The
real test of a big man is found
in defeat no less than in vigtory. |
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CHEAP LABOR HURTS LA
BORER AND BUSINESS MAN
—The socalled “cheap labor’ of!
the South has been one of the!
South’s greatest curses. Summsc!
I am working with mv hands. |
Cheap labor hurts me by drag-|
ging down the profits or returns.
from my own labor. i 1 am
working for wages, 1 get lower
wages. If I am making crops, they |
bring lower prices. : e
But what about the employer !
and business man? On the whole !
they are hurt also by so-callc al!
“cheap labor.” 1f emplovers make !
cotton by cheap labor, the w'ic('l
1s correspondingly lowered and
their real profit s hardly .'l!'t'x‘ch‘v|.'
And certainly the business man's
profits are halved when the |‘-l‘nfv{
its of the farmer and laborer are
halved.
IFor all these reasons [ beliey e
ve should try to raise the negro’s
living standards. It is a good
sion for the Sotith when the Ne
gro wants a better house, a better
school. a better conveyance. On
the other hand, if we teach the
Negro to work better without at
the same time raising his living
standards, then the South is hurt
Home demonstration work for
the Negro is even more important
than industrial education,
Of course 1 do not need to sav
that we must keep the nevro co
ciflly as separate from the white
man as the Fast is from the West
Ot course, 1t 15 also un to the
white man to meet the Necro's
competition by doine hetter farm
;"‘fi. hetter worl i O\ ey ’-:,'h",
than .the Neero does. Of course:
alone with other négroes, and not
“"I‘."’\ il]l" Wit "L‘:":‘;' yehi oels
A\l these hawever, are ideas |
have no time for talking ahout
now. But 1 hope vou will thiank
verions! abet the need far v 1
backwardness in which he now |
Tiv e even if vou think only of
the need for savine the white man
fron being pulled down by such
comp atition, The Progressive
Farmer.
“THE SWAY OF THE AMA-|
ZONS”—Under that title lll(f’
Rome Tribune-Herald raises a|
cry unto heaven for reiief for
il})c less deadly of the species.
':Hllg;;(-stlll'z,_z t!.;;." our readers !;Ll-.:(-;
into consideration that the fem |
mine gender has really run the|
carth anyway and be, therefore, |
not too much distressed n.l:r%
present conditions as described,
we reproduce the Rome editor’s
phillipic :
Several hundred years ago
when royalties sat on thrones in |
all the' countries of the earth,
and kings with rods of irrm,!
women were not permitted in
most countries to rule and males
in all lines of endeavor were par
amount to females. Women had
no rights to speak of, politically.
In fact, they were looked down
on from_ aill standpoints, except
| domestic|
It was supposed to be the sole
privilege of woman to take care
of the children, clean up the
house, coole, wash and iron, undl
ook sweet when the men came
around. i
In roval families, when a m:xl("
child was born. forty-one guns|
thundered forth a welcome ;|
when a female child was hm‘n,!
not furtvsone cents were spént|
in her honor. In fact, the birth!
of a female child in a royall
houschold was considered SoOme- |
thing of a calamity. The l\'ing!
scowled, the nobles sneered, lhcj
family doctor sneaked out home!
the baek way, !
- This 1s the way it was in the|
olden days, before militant suf-|
fragettes appeared and vh:mg'wl'
the political face of the civilized |
watld: “Now it.is = the e "r'i
that has the upper hand. ¥ ¢n
are given all the privile, jeat
pertain to men and have now|
dumped most of their household
(duties back on their former su
periors. It is the nien who do
the work, these days, while the
Aomen play the mandolin, They !
array themselves in gorgeous at-|
tire, gold and precious stones
adorn their beautiful forms, they
sit high in the councils of the
nation,” control politics, lead thci
dance, and generally speaking,‘
lord it ovtr the men. |
Right at the present time, the‘
average woman has more privil-,
eges than seventeen men—the
only things they don’t attempt
are the hard jobs, and they even
direct the me in those. It's a
bad situation for the men—we
don’t know what is going to hap
pen next.
- The women have even usurped
the time honored privilege that
has alwavs pertained to men, of
taking the initiative in the mat
ing process. When a woman se
lects the man of her choice she
gets him, she takes him, the man
cannot refuse. lle's too ‘m“l(“.
although women have never
been cspecially polite, in refus- |
ng men, _ i
“ It is truly the day of the \m:r;
zon—the whole world is rapidly
getting under her voke. \\'nm—!
&1 conitrol ip nearly «-\r-r_\'!,hin::}
those things in which they do!
not openly control, they n‘,:mn;;(l
underhandedly. e Lord
knows what's going to become
f the men, if they don’t succeed |
in gettme assistance,: divine ur|
otherwise, {
FIVE TRAGEDIES From
Athens Banner-—\ man s'.rwkl
a, match to sce if the gasoline)
tank fo his auto was empty. | It
wasn't,
A man patted a strange bull
dog on the head to see if thel
criter was affectionate. Tt \.\':Hn'l.‘
A man speeded up to see if
e could beat a train to the cross
g, e couldn't, ‘
A\ man touched a trolley wire
to see if it was charged. It'was.
A man cut out his advertising
to see if he could save money.
He didn't.
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TWO BONE-DRY COUNTIES
~—From The Atlanta Constitu
tion—Prohibition is getiing good
results wherever there is a deter
siined effort to enforce the law.
This is evident from the fact
hat patrons of the 51 and
“stump” brands of booze are not
as numeravs as formerly i sec
tions where no “moonshine’’ ever
‘ent begging.
This is brought out in a semi
humotrous elitorial paragranh in
Lhe Cordele IGa) Dispatch—e
- hhs Paends pelate g Story
thotit @ prosperous peanut erow
ot of another county, adjoining
Crisp, who became disgusted
vith the extremely fow market
wid swapped a quantity o 1 pea
nuts for a stock of moonshine li
quor on the belief that be could
sell the studt better than he could
his peanyts. To Kis dismay and
surprise he found no huver in his
tound over two countics and his
last mave awas said to have been
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1921.
an efortito rue hs travc l
The name of the alleged party
to this bad trade is not given, pi!
course; but we should like to
oive the “two counties” referred !
to full credit for 'what they lmvc'
accomplished on the prohibition |
side.
! It is something of a record
Lafter undoubted dilgent search
to have found not one booze huy
er in a two-county canvass! ‘
It certainly means good law
enforcement witiin their bor
|ders, and may entitle them to the
|rank of the banner prohibition
counties of the state.
Editor’s Note:—The Anti-Sa-|
loon League might offer a re
ward for the proof of Charley
Brown’s statements, they sound
;hm good to be true.
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CALLING COTTON FARM
ER’S STRIKE—The l‘()liu'\\‘il‘lg‘
is a copy of a resolution passed
by the Board of Directors of lh(‘l
i‘ederal International Banking
Company, at their meeting in
New Orleans on April 9, 1021,
WHEREAS, the very large
amount ‘of cotton grown last
year and previous years now es
timated at from cight to ten
million bales, to be carried o v':"‘
mto the new cotton year begin
ning August-lst has had/ a de
pressing effect and is still hold
ing down the price of cotton,
and ;
. WHERIFAS, from present 'in
dications it is believed that the
gieatly reduced. buying powers
’(vf the world will not be able to
Iwmumv much, if any more cot
ton the coming year than con-
Lsumed this vear, and:
| WHEREAS, the only apparent
illl\gu' to ll];l:‘-f‘l.:“;l- the i rice for
the present stock, and to secure
. urice for the present stock,
a fair price for the next crop, is
Lo produce a small crop this year;
NOW I HERBEEORE BE I'T
|RESOLVED by the Directors
Lol the Federal International
Banking Company, that we be
lieve the efforts to induce the
cotton planters to reduce the
lacreage in cotton about té be
'pl;mtcd, is now of paramount
importance to the South, and
that we believe the reduction
should not be less than thirty
five per cent, and;
RESOLVED 'EURTHER,
that a copy of this resolution be
mailed to each stockholder of our
company with the request that
(they use their influence at once
{tn secure all the co-operation
necessary, looking to the pro
duction of a new crop of cotton,
which together with the carry
over, will command a reasonable
price.
There scems no better or more
direct way to help the cotton sit
uation than through this organ
zed effort to curail production,
striking for hetter pay for the
‘cotton™tarmer and o fait ceturn |
on his investment, It lies in l'm:l
power of the farmer to, enforce
this curtailment, which was ‘.\'EH{
vou take—-the road to prnsm-rilyi
throvgh a limited crop *or the]
road to bankruptcy by producing |
a bumper crop of cotton? |
Taking Nothing Along.
The womanly woman’s idea of trav.
oling light, as we have learned from
aetunl ohservation, is ro erowd weppy.
hine otse inte steamer sennk i
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The Story of
Our States
. By JONATHAN BRACE
Vl.—-MASSACHUSETTS
o MASSAULIU
{&W& SETTS
/:f'"", TrETe \f\?;‘ was an Indian
o W 7\ word, massa
& MM 5 5 wachuset,
& s ? ~// which means
& %:'{»f»‘é “at the great
hill,” It was
used by the Algonquins to desig
nuate the tribe living near Blue
Hiil in Milton, now a state reser
vation near Boston and the high
est hill in the eastern part of the
state. This name was later ap
plied to the great bay which
Blue hill overlooks. It was from
this bay that the state was
named. In fact, until 1692 the
colony was called the Massachu
setts Bay colony, and after that
the Province of Massachusetts
Bay until the Revolution made
it a commonuwealth. Even today
it is often cailed the Bay state.
It was Capt. John Smith who
first made a wap of the New
England coast and named the
Charles river in honor of *Baby
Charles,” who afterward became
King Charles 1. Other captains
visited the coast from time to
timwe, but it was not until the
fall of 1620 that the Maytlower
brought the first permanent set
tlers to the Massachusetts shore.
The landing of the Pilgrims at
Provincetown and Plymouth
three hundred years ago wuas re
cently celebrated. Of the origi
nal one hundred passengers on
the Muayflower more than half
died during the first winter. But
the sturdy survivors, with in
domitable courage, soon became
firmly established and from
their beginning, augmented by
the Puritan setticinents of Salem
and the towns aroungd Boston,
grew the state of Alu&?{\usetls.
which now extends er 8,288
square miles, In proportion to
its area Massachusetts is second
only to Rhode Island in popula
tion and has eighteen presiden
tial electoral votes. This makes
Massachusetis one of the six
most important states from a po
litical point of view. -
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