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THIS EDITORIAL IS TAKEN FROM THE
JANUARY 26TH ISSUE OF ENGINEERING
AND CONTRACTING, A MAGAZINE PUB
LISHED IN CHICAGO.
"A charge persisted in without knowledge of facts is
nothing short of slander. We may safely broaden this gen
eralization to read : Persistent statements not based on in
vestigation of facts are tantamount to deliberate falsifica
tion.
"We concede that the average man is as yet very care
less in his assertions, and that he sees nothing reprehensible
hi bring wrong. But when being wrong in an assertion
works injury to someone, the asserter is morally but little
above a common liar.
"During the past few years when public utility owners
and managers have hern hepjjing the public for relief from
excessively low rates for services rendered, there have been
numberless printed assertions by public officials to the
effect that existing rates were high enough to yield a fair
return upon actual investments. F.von where appraisals by
rcputahle engineers and audits by accountants have belied
such assertious. rarely have the asserters had the honesty
to iqvestigatr the facts. Instead, their unusual practice has
been to ignore all evidence and persist in their improvable
statements.
‘‘To such a pass has this form of immorality brought
•things that several state legislatures are to be asked to
rescind laws relating to state regulation of public utility
rates. When mayors and other public officials persist in
telling the public that street railways can profitably carry
passengers at 5 and f> cents, is it any wonder that many
people have come to regard state utility commissions as
being the tools of utility companies?
“In one state the governor lias ousted all the utility com
missioners, because they incurred the ill will of certain
people on account of rate increases granted to public utili
ties. In another state one of the most fearless and capable
utility commissioners has resigned, apparent!' disgusted
with the charges made not merely hv some mayors but by
some newspapers that the commission lias done nothing
but raise Utility rates unnecessarily. Ii the engineering
societies in such states were a few years in advance o.' their
present development, probably the r uhlic would receive au
thoritative expressions of engineering opinion that would
contra ,.c: and p rhajfs siicnce the 'alsc statements of«tenia-
gogic mayors? The time is certainly overripe for protests
from associations of professional and business men against
the baseless assertions and the selfish acts of polite ians whr '
.arc |iamicring to the worst side of human nature. The
public would like to ride on street cars for a nickel. They
•would like better to ride for nothing. Hence the public is
not only willing to be convinced, but is half convinced be
fore .-,.ny one lias spoken that the ‘predatory railway kings'
arc robbing them. The silence of men who know better—
engineers, business men and editors—is taken as evidence
that the statements of the pandering politicians arc true.
"It will not do to excuse ourselves from the duty of
speaking and acting now. We have ‘passed the buck’ times
without number, until a few more passings will find us all
riding in the street cars as slowly and expensively operated
as tlic elevators ui the typical city ball. America is face to
face with municipal ownership of street.car systems, of gas
and electric plants. Steadily anil witii unrelenting pressure,
the economic life of public utility companies is being
* squeezed out. Slate commissions and courts are trying to
• 1>c just, but an ignorant public is constantly threatening
them and doing all that it can to block their efforts. The
ignorance of the public is mainly ascribablo to the silence
of the men who arc most competent to speak not only with
.authority but with freedom from selfish motives—the pro
fessional engineers.
“Whether there is to be municipal ownership of all utili
ties or not, professional engineers will he employed. Many
engineers think that their chances of securing adequate
compensation are bettor under public-than-under private
administration. At all events there is so little to choose in
that respect, that engineers as a body cannot be charged
with selfish motives in advocating fair rates for public
utility corporation services and fair treatment of public util
ity commissions.
"Apropos of the unsound attitude of most municipal offi
cials relative to public utility rates, we quote from a recent
address before the League of California Municipalities by
\V. E. Creed, president of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co.:
" ‘On the habit of jumping at conclusions without knowl
edge of the facts. I cite the official procedure when an
application for increased rates is filed.
‘“The city council meets. It forthwith passes a resolu--
tion and instructs the city attorney to oppose the applica
tion. The city attorney issues Ins public pronouncement,
duly accotn|ianied, hv photographs, saving: “1 will tight to
the last ditch." as he raises his eyes to heaven and prays to
God to give him strength that justice may triumph and right
prevail.
“ ‘Never in all my experience, and I have been in the
public utility business a good many years as a lawyer and
as an executive, never in all my experience have l ever
heard of. read, or seen a resolution by a city council direct
ing a city attorney to investigate the facts and to reason
from those facts to a sound conclusion in the public inter
est. Apparently some public officials'arc not concerned
about the facts, but are stalwart nevertheless in their con
clusions.
“ *A rate inquiry ought not to be an adversary proceed
ing. but should be a mutual and co-operative investigation
of the facts, proceeding upon the theory that either too
high or too low a rate is an injury both to the utility and
to the public’."
SIGNS OF SPRING.
Exchange. . * ,
Just what U it that heralds the ap
proach of spring in the nrtnd of a
youngster? Is’it the same instinct that
tells the bird when to migrate, or is
it just the intuition of the immstaro
intellect f During the past week we have
seen more fights among the boys on their
way to and from school than we have
_ ra all winter. \Vhnt is it that stirs
I the young innle to belligerency about the
same time the buds begin to show upon
the trees? Ever stop to think about it?
Wntrh them the next time you see them
pouring out of the school-house door.
As soon ns they have passed beyond the
watchful eye of the teacher they are at
it. An old school janitor onre said,
("Boys 1 n’t wren the ages of six and ten
are more like rubs than they are like
human beings." Anri our old friend
was right. es|>eeially at the first signs
of the return of spring. Here they come
pcllmel! through the school-house |>ortals.
Scarcely nre they out before they are
at eneli other. It starts in fun. ami ends
in bloody noses and semtehed fares.
Jimmy Jones, the dirty little ragamuffin
from the edge of town, jumps on the
bnck of Percy Smythe, the handsome la-1
who live* in the big house near the
center of town and wears pretty white-
collars that mother pins so carefully each
morning. Jimmy can’t help it. It is
tbe call of the wild that comes with
the first breath of spring ami makes
him see red and want to rub Percy’s
clean face an-1 immaculate collar iu the
dirt. Down they go in a heap and a
ring of dancing young snrnges forms
about them. Generally Percy begins to
blubber and Jimmy gets off of him and
lets him go. walking away in disgust.
But it sometimes happens, as it did the
other morning, that Percy, in spite of
the clean face and the imnmculate col
lar, is a bit of n pug himself and sails
in and gives Jimmy the whaling he de
serves. We were about to stop the mix-
up when it started, for we recognised
in tin- Perry of this incident the small
son of a very good friend, ami realized
how much his refined aild loving mother
would lie grieved to have.her boy coming
home with eyes red, lib face stained with
tears and his pretty collar all torn. Jim
my was a dirty, freckle-faced little bully
that a few days ago we pulled off of a
much smaller boy nud lectured severely.
This time Jimmy got the surprise of
his life. He slipped up behind Percy,
and, giving a lunge, landed on his bark,
carrying them both to the sidewalk. We
saw the sneaking attack and ^hastened
to lay hands on the little coward’s col
lar, but before we could reach them
Percy hail managed to wriggle out from
under his tormentor, and they got to
their feet, glaring at each other like
real pugilists. Percy didn’t cry. Not
on vour life. He may be mamma’s pet
in the home, but he’s dad’s little man
when some sneaking bully gets him from
behind. Before we could reach them
Percy had mnde a few passes with his
little clenched fists, and then he landed
a sturdy punch right on the end of Jim
my's nose. We know Jimmy saw stars
as the bright, healthy, red blood gushed
forth. We don't like to sec boys fight,
but we couldn’t drag our weary feet
forwerd to stop Percy from giving that
little bully, Jimmy, the punishment he
deserved. Percy did it so effectively that
we just wanted to gather him up in our
arms, and if we were the father of that
9-ycar-old boy we would be so proud of
him that we reckon lie would be spoiled.
Yes. they are little-cubs all right, and
the spring gets into tlieir blood. If. you
don't believe it, just wateli them, the
next time you get caught in thnt freshet
of young life that pours out of the
school-house door.
WORSE AND WORSE.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
“Green Stockings" sounded badly
enough. Then “Up In Maliel's Room’’
came along, nud now we told that n new
piny entitled - ‘Getting Gertie’s Garter’’
is to lx- put on the stage, so that the
question arises iu the minds of the more
observant and those who would "resist
the tendency of from “bail to worse’’—
“Whither are we drifting?"
Just what this play is we do not know,
nor do we pretend to say—but its name
ought to be enough, to kill it. There
isn’t any reason in the world why it
should lx> necessary to give a play such
a name. Ansi the only excuse that pre
sents itself to us is that it will get the
money. Probably the author of “Get
ting Gertie's Garter" hud this iu mind
when he east atxmt for n title for his
play. The Charleston News anil Courier
says:
‘The philosophers anil the psyeholo
gists nn,I the moralists amt* the ministers
and the newspapers afford no satisfac
tory explanation of the condition of af
fairs which renders n play-title like
‘Getting Gertrude’s Garter' not only
permissible but exceedingly profitable.
Any number of explanations are pro
vided from these various sources, it is
true, hut the explanations nre as wide
apart as the poles. The most popular of
them holds that the present moral slump,
the most notable feature of which is a
sharp decline in sex morality, is a direct
result of the war. ”
We do not know whether the war is
responsible for this moral decline or not,
but that tlie condition exists—that is to
hay, such theatrical productions are be
coming more and more popular—is a
fact that will not admit of dispute.
We do not menu by this to say that
those who love decency and cleanness in
side the theatre, as well as outside of it.
are endorsing such plays, but that there
is an increasing patronage of them from
some sourv4 there isn’t the sll|htest
doubt. This is evidenced by the fact
that today they “go big" whereas
only a few years ago they would not
have been aide to live long enough to
pay the expense of rehearsals. And this
patronage i s not routine-! t:> one class
of |ample, for. as much as anyone may
regret. to say it. the fact remains that
often in audiences where' such plays are
presented one is surprised to see people
whom he least expects would be there.
\Ve know of no more plausible expiana
tion than that familiar quotation from
Alexander Uo[k-—
“Vice i s a monster of so frightful mien
As to ix* hated needs but to tx* seen;
V et seen too oft. familiar with her face
We first endure, then pitv. then cm
brace.''
LEM.
We print below an extract from an
editorial which appeared in a recent is :
sue of “Wallace's Farmer,’’ a farm pa
per publiched at Des Moines, Iowa, by
Henry C. Wallace, who has been name-1
by ('resident Harding to be Secretary
of Agriculture—
“The railroad executives are making
earnest efforts to reduce their operating
charges. They have been trying to get
rid of the 250,000 surplus men the Gov
ernment took on when the Government
was running the roads.
•' They are trying to readjust the basis
of pay so that it will be more nearly
in corres|Hindc-nce with the value of the
work done.
“They say they have made some prog
ress. hut they have run up against a
real obstacle in the great increase in
wages granted -luring Government opera
tion.
“It is sai-l that the average wage of
the railroad workman today is $1,300
a year, it was but $800 1-e.lore the war.
When everything was high workmen were
entitled to higher wages, hut the rail
road workmen must get back to normal,
along witii other people.
“In 1917 the yearly payroll of the
railroads was $1,700,000,000. At the
present time the payroll is $:!,700,000,-
000. We cannot stand this, when prices
of farm products have dropped so se
verely.
“The farmers and other shipping in
terests of the nation should go before
the Railroad Labor Board and present
their side of the case. They nre really
the people who pay the wages.
“If the railroads must pay higher
wages, they get the money from the peo
ple who pay the freight.
“If these high wages are sustained,
we cannot hope for much reduction in
freight rates; and freight rates must
be reduced.
‘ ‘ Farmers want the railroad workmen
to have fair treatment ami fair wages.
Iiecause they can then buy the things
the farmer has to sell.
“But the farmer cannot stand for
making railroad workmen a preferred
class and paying them wages altogether
out of line with the wages the farmer
gets. For the prices the farmer gets
for his crops are in effect his wages. The
farmer wants to do the right thing by
everybody, but there is a limit to all
things. ’'
o-
MONEY IS NOT EVERYTHING.
An energetic, ambitious and success
ful man, who is not at all ignorant of
the value of money, was lately offered
a job which carried twice the salary he
is now receiving.
Without even taking it under consid
eration he refused it.
“Money," he said, “is worth having,
but it is riot everything by a long shot.
“I am working for one thing, which
is happiness. I have my own definition
of happiness, which is doing what I like
to do and getting well paid for it.
I like money to spend. I like to save
it. I enjoy ■ the things it will buy for
me. I enjoy the feeling of security that
comes from having enough of it stored
nway to tide me over a sick spell or
provide for my old age.
'But all the money in tbe world
wouldn’t do me any good if . it took
nway my happiness. And if I couldn’t
run my job in my own way, if I had to
give up the independence I have -gained
by ten or fifteen years of hard work,
money would mean nothing whatever to
me.
“The rewards I uni getting now for
these years of work is both in salary
and in satisfaction. The satisfaction
arises, from seeing the business that I
have built up expand as I wanted it to
expand—to know that this expansion is
the work of ray hands.
‘It is not my business, it belongs
to a corporation. They get far more out
of it in money than I do. But I doubt
if they get half the satisfaction. (
‘As far as I am concerned I am paid
well enough. I might accept this
new job, have a few more thousands laid
away at the end of the year, but I would
have no peace of mind, for I know that
l would not be allowed to do tilings iu
my own way. ’ ’
violate law the penalty falls heaviest up
on those who love us.
Pull for Newnan.
OBITUARY.
Mrs. Jimmie Page Shell, daughter of
the lute Dr. and Mrs. Page, was bom
Sept 28, 1854; was married to Mr. J.
B. Shell, sr., Dee. 19. 1878; died Nor.
. 1920.
Mrs. Shell was a worthy companion of
her husband. The confiding love which
she felt as a bride seemed to mellow
and deepen with the passing years. I
knew her before she married, having
visited in her father's home, and had
been associated with her married life
for 35 years. She was blessed with n
cheerful disposition; indeed, hers was n
real home, where cheer and happiness
reigned. She spent a busy, though not
a strenuous life. She was a faithful
member of the Methodist church. Rear*
ed by Christian parents, she joined the
church in early life. Relatives and
friends speak of her as a good woman,
a true wife and splendid mother. Her
sister said she was never known to com*
plain at parental restraint: disobedience
she never knew.
Through an illness lasting several
weeks she suffered greatly. All that lov
ing hands could do for her relief was j
done, as well gs by skilled physicians.
One in speaking of her said, ‘‘She was
a good neighbor, alwcfVs ready to lend
a helping hand to those in need. ’ ’ Many
of her friends and associates will long
remember the delightful hospitality she
dispensed in her home. Her loved ones
now have no one to go to with their
troubles, as they did to mother and
grandmother. No one knows how much
they will miss *her. She did not give
way to troubles and trials, as most of
us do.
Though missed in the home, church
ami community, she is not forgotten,
nor is her influence gone. She was a
woman of well-balanced temperament,
bearing her trials and disappointments
with beautiful resignation. She lived
and died within a mile of the place
where she was born, reared and married.
A voice in that home is now stilled;
there is a vacant seat that can never
bo filled; the counsel of a loving mother
has ceased. While she was especially
devoted to her family, she was an un
failing friend ami neighbor.
The funeral service was conducted in
her church by Dr. Rembert G. Smith,
Rev. E. A. Ware and Rev. H. S. Reese,
Mrs. E. L. Merrill presiding at the or
gan. Don’t think I ever saw meye peo
ple in the church than were assembled
that day. She was laid to rest in Tran
quil cemetery, within sight of her home,
and the lovely flowers banking the beau
tiful casket were mostly home-raised by
relatives and friends.
May our Heavenly Father, who “tem
pers the wind to the shorn lamb/’ bind
up the broken-hearted. We tender our
deepest sympathy to her bereaved hus
band, children and other relatives.
Turin, Ga. A , A. V. C.
THom Who Ar, Gon».
Those who are gone you h*,»
Those who departed loving you to,,
you still; and you love them tlw,,.
They are not really gone—those dm
hearts and true—they are only loa ,
Into the next room; and you will prM .
ently get up and follow them, , D( j
yonder door will be closed upon
and yon will be no more seen.—\y. ^
Thackeray.
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BELT BRAKES.
Mr. J. B. Brooks ami son. J. A., spent
Snmlnv afternoon with the former’s
brother. Mr. W. E. Brooks, near Haral
son.
Prof. W. M. Speer spent the week-end
with liomefolks at Grantville. He was
accompanied by John Hamilton Brooks.
Mrs. Alton Wood and children went
angling for the finny tribe last. Satur
day.
A Sunday-school has been organised
here, with Mr. H. N. Helms as superin
tendent. We would be pleased to have
all interested in Suuday-school work to
meet with us at 3.30 p. m. every Snudav.
Prof. W. M. Speer will give his pu
pils an Easter egg hunt next Friday af
ternoon.
Miss Loney Massengale, from near
Haralson, spent the week-end with Miss
Bessie Brooks.
Mrs. Alina Bilkenton, of Haralson,
spent the week-end with Mrs. J. A.
Brooks.
Miss Uuoile Williams, of Griffin, spent
Saturday ami Sunday with her mother,
Mrs. V. V. Sales.
Mrs. B. M. Hayues is visitiug relatives
uear McCollum.
Messrs. Carl Morgan and V. V Y. Sales
made a business trip to Griffin last Tri
day.
March 22d.
Out of the Rut.
The fiddlers three had Just respond
ed to old King Cole’s hurry call. “Too
many strings In the band, boys,” said
his majesty, “and you’ve got exactly
one week from now to show me some
real jazxbo stuff as torn off by a muted
cornet, a saxophone and a set o’
drums with all the trimmings. And If
you don’t make good, gadzooks and
odsbodikins, you’d do well to settle
your worldly affairs. Get me?”—Buf
falo Express.
A Record Holder.
A small boy. born in a Turkish
harem, is said to have 4S stepmothers
living. Our office boy. however, is still
undefeated in the matter of recent
ly defunct grandmothers. — London
Punch.
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