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AN ACT OF CONGRESS PASSED AUG. 24, 181*
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Democracy Returning
That we are to have another Democratic au-
ministration follow the next naaonal election is ve
evident by the manner in winch people in vaiio,
states of the union expressed ilieinselves Tuesuaj,
this week.
The Harding administrain,.) has been do-not.
one from start to finish an uncording to p.s
prospects we have nothing n .ore with the po..
that be that will alGrd us :. .elief.liom the
press ion we have experienced . er since the presc
Republican administration took charge of our national
; (fairs. So far as enacting legislation intended to help
fhecounti} out at a ume win... need help mod i.
most is concerned it would app ar that Congress v.
overlooker ihe iac: that Am i recently was ti
fronted with one of the grea.est expenditures e\
heaped upon a nation. Noth absolutely noth
is being done to hi ; about an> measure that mi
be calculated to brin.- (businc • conditions back
normalcy and our ho t of Re| iican rc-prcsentai
seem to h. . i fie.I io occup unfortable seats
look upon thin ■ a ihrv come go without tak
action themselves one way or a. other.
Many limes have we he; the assertion ma
that a Republican national ministration men 1
nothing less than a piosperou state of affairs. We
have never given any credence to such a contention
as has so long been hel 1 out i. halt of the Rept
can party, for the simple re; , we knew that
arguments that have been u have been witho
reasonable foundation. We are very much of i
opinion that all the |>cople o i- country are now
convinced that a change from a rnocrat administra
tion to that of Republican power does not mean muc!
to the country other than v cessation of general j
activities of Congress.
A casual comparison of th Wilson admini
tion to that of the Harding ; ministration l
ali lard is necessary to convince the’people of this
count! v that we might well cl lo gain a;
something by having returned to us a Democrati
administration.
The Prevalence of Mob Spirit
izen of Macon from
lit and beaten up by
ability to perform uUties in a sat. tuc.i.
.11 that should be exp-c.eu oi out cit.i
.lie state and no officeholder should have .
authority to discharge sueh emplo, ee.» o. ..
political differences.
The following straight to the point i ...
pearing in the Columbus Enquirer-bun nt.,
very llforoughly into the mattei *ud. .....
ments’ employees being discharged ,u .
reasons:
I he charge is made that the State Highway
Department or someone prominently connected
vviih it, took an active part in the recent guber
natorial campaign; to the extent, indeed, of
causing the demotion and discharge of employes
who did not vote to suit their bosses.
Several affidavits have been furnished by
these discharged employes, fully setting forth tin
alleged facts and giving dates and name <.
which the following is a sample;
"Another affidavit, signed by C. W. Siv..ec,
of Mitchell county, under date of October 18,
says he was employed (by the Highway Depart
ment as a machine operator and had never heard
any complaints as to his services, but one day, to
his surprise, Mr. O’Shields, who is assistant to
E. Jack Smith, appeared on the scene and in- ,
formed deponent that his services were not need
ed any longer and gave no reason for his actioti,
and in deponent’s opinion he was discharged be
cause of his alignment with the supporters of
Hon. Thomas W. Hardwick, knowing that the
eft icers above were against the governor.
"An affidavit signed by J. A. Davis, sets out
that he was employed as a machine operator;
that, when the candidacy of Hon. Clifford Walker
was being discussed ‘the deponent freelv and
openly expressed himself as being for Governor
Hardwick. That shortly thereafter Mr. O’Shields,
assistant to Mr. E. Jack Smith, division engineer,
pui the deponent to plowing up about ten miles
of road. Deponent inquired as to why it was that
lie was employed as a machine operator and had
given entire satisfaction as such, that he had been
put to work doing work done by negro laborers.
V hereupon the said O.’Shields replied that it was
the orders of Mr. Smith that he be given.this
kind of work to do. the said Smith stating that a
supporter of Hardwick’s was no better than the
average negro. That deponent stayed on the job
an,; two or three days thereafter was discharged
wI.hout any reason whatever.’"
There are several other affidavits, much to
the same effect.
I he Enquirer-Sun does not pretend to he
m 1 iar with the facts in these cases, other than
a> above-set forth, but the charges are sufficiently
a,: lite and serious enough to call for an investi-
gai’on. In saving this, we are not moved bv the
lac. that these discharged employes voted for
Hardwick for governor and senator—for those
races are closed incidents for us—because we
would say the same thing had they been voting
for Walker. The point is, they should mot have
been discharged for voting as they pleased no
mn':er for whom; lor that is one of the sacred
ti.' is of citizenship, and to attempt to interfere
vv it -particularly, by coercion on the part of
state officials or employes -is a very serious
matter, and something not to be condoned.
Tf anyone, whether a member of the State
Highway Commission, or one of its agents, has
bee’: guilty of such misconduct, the facts should
come out, and if his guilt is established, he should
be impeached or discharged.
It is our opinion that any officeholder who un-
BUS I UN NO HOB.
U. S. DECURES
T^ical Survey Places Center
oi Country in Smith County,
Kansas.
;'.'/ISKiNGTON OUT OF PLUG!
Capital of Country Should Be Lo
cated Thousand Miles Inland From
Present Site—Locate Center
•f Alaska.
Washington.—Boston Muss., Is a
rery lmportunt place to a (treat manj
people but, so fgr as the Unites
States geological survey is concerned
Boston as a "Hub," as It claims to be
doesn't amount to n row of pins.
Boston, too, prides itself on being
the “Hub of the Universe," but the
•urvey ranks It at the bottom of the
I Hat of hubs, or centers.
- For the geological survey thinks
j that a city is a hub only when It la
| the center of the land, geographically
I apeaklng, and points the Unger of
acorn at the Massnchusetta city for
not even being the center of the state
, of which It happens to be the capital
—much less of any universe.
Honor for the Smiths.
The survey has received a lot of
letters of Inquiry from persons want
big to know "where they're at,” where
the geographical center of the United
States Is, or the center of their own
| state. The survey hns taken great
pains at locating the various geograph
ical centers around the continent.
The center of the United States, ac
cording to the epast nnd geodetic sur
rey, is at exactly 39 degrees 50 min
utes north latitude, and 98 degrees 35
minutes west longitude. It may be
•aid that point Is in northern Kansas,
in Smith county. In fact. Trust the
Smiths to be there.
The Ideal “hub” of population, gov
ernment and industry, should also h**
(he geographical center, the survey
believes, but that Is true in few, If
any cases. “I,liihs" just grow up re
gardless, amt the center of population
In tills country Is yearly moving west
ward.
Washington Out of Place.
Even Washington, the nation's capi
tal, is wrongly situated, from the
gi‘< gr.-iphi r’s point of view, and should
tie at least a thousand miles inland
from its present Site to better ap
proach the geographical center of the
country. St. I.oiils, Denver and other
cities have been mentioned at various
times as more tilting sites for the
center of government.
The goeloirir-' <’•“ in<-»r1<o-
A
department liSe ; me cr“"'- .hnate
locations of the geographical centers
of ench state.
The geographical center of Alaska Is
difficult to- determine, for the outline
of the territory Is very irregulnr, but
if theTmtlylng Islands are Included In
the determination It Is not far from a
point 95 miles south of Fort
Gibbons, In latitude G3 degrees 46
minutes, longitude 152 degrees 26
minutes.
GOLD PLATE REPLACES RIBS
3«rman With Expensive Metal in H-'»
Interior le Cloeely Protected
Agalnet Criminate.
Berlin.—A young man with ribs M
gold and plntlnum Is worklug In a
cigarette factory at Breslau. >
When he was a locksmith's apprent
ice several years ago he fell from.the
roof of a house and waa badly In
jured. He was tnken to a hospital
where the doctors found that his akull
jraa fractured and all hla riba but one
were broken. The youth waa In the
hospital for no less than four and a
half years, and flnnlly the surgeons
undertook to repair or replace his
shattered ribs.
A metnl plnte was Inserted in hie
skull nnd the fractured hones were
replaced by ribs of gold and platinum
Two nnd n hnlf yenrs later the mari
wus able to leave the hospital, and
since then he hns been working in
cigarette factory. In view of ti >(1
present value of gold and platinum it
is evident that he Is carrying about In
hla body quite a considerable amount
of wealth, and It Is stated that special
measures are being taken to protect
him against criminals.
•actat Justlea hr Earliar Ages.
The disturbing thing la the constant
discovery that earlier ages were equal
to us In what we may broadly call
moral progress. The minimum wage
In ancient Babylon, the emphasis on
Justice In the Egyptian code, the same
standard of personal conduct every
where, the cencern of the gods for
righteousness, the full democracy ef
Athena and Rome, the beginning of
the enfranchisement ot women, the
privileges of the Roman workers, the
complete scheme of free education, the
trude combinations. • • • It cer
tainly looks hs If we onght to be much
more advanced than we are In 1921.—
I. Mct'nhe In "The Evolution of Civ-
llr.utlon."
!;i tlv taldng away of a c
his home and family Saturday t m <uiu ucaicu uv u* . , ■ . . . >
;. lawless crowd o: men the gov -rnment of this state I«* ertakes *? USUI ? the ,. ngh . ts ° f individual citizens on
, as trampled upon and ignored in no less ‘‘•A'ount of certain political alignments should be con-
trampled upon and ignored
lenient of Mexicans or outlaws of anv
hat are now up in arms endeavoring P e “ chmen ‘ P roceedings if such he P°? sibk ‘ under the
At any rate, it might as well be understood for
once and for all time that the people of Georgia are
not going to stand for cheap and purely rotten politics
much longer and that those who see fit to employ
rotten political methods will have (but little time for
the carrying on of their work, so long as we maintain
a republican form of government.
and nation w
degree than bv
other country
to restore peaceful and safe conditions.
This nor .o other country can afford to see come
into existence two separate forms of government for
the reason one would undoubtedly come in conflict
with the other. A government created by the people
and for tlie people is the only form we should recognize
and should the existing laws of this land be trespass-
id upon by an individual or particular element such
i uividuals or element members should be dealt with
and given such punishments as the laws of our states
and nation so prescribes.
The cowardly and lawless mob that went to the
home of that Macon citizen Saturday night for the
purpose of inflicting punishment upon the man should
be brought out into the light and convinced of the
fact that principles of the government of this state are
held open to the world and that the great majority
of the people of Georgia do not propose to see our
courts trampled upon and carried away into the dark
lor operation. W e have but one order for the people
of this countn to he governed by and this order is
that of our courts created and set into action bv the
government. Any attempt to lay aside the work that
should be carried on hy our courts is nothing less than
a straightout v iolation of the law and individuals or
members of an organization making such attempt
should he taken into custody and brought before the'
open bar of justice and have heaped upon them such
punishment as our laws prescribe.
Unquestionably the city of Macon is allowing it?
name to be blackened in the eyes of the people of this
country by tolerating such outlaw methods as were
carried out there Saturday night.
demned in the sfrongest terms and caused to face im-
An Investigation is in Order
The abov e is the caption of an editorial appearing
in a recent issue of the Columbus Enquirer-Sun rela
tive to the charge that certain employees of the Geor
gia state highway department have been discharged
on account of ihe fact the emplovees in question failed
t > last their ballots in the recent state election ir
accordance to the wish.es of those who hold the rein
of power in hand.
Ii is an old contention that to a political victor
belongs the siaiils. though unquestionable the time is
•il hand lor the casting aside of anv such idea The
itlairs of our government should be placed into the
I ands of those most capable and trustwnrthv and Ihe
discharge of such persons by request of anv office-
colder on account differences in political opinion
liould !• p!.' d . " y before the people for the pur-
Roads and Buying at Home
(Erom The Savannah Morning News)
If the merchants of all sorts in all the towns big
and little are not good road enthusiasts, they ought to
be. The farmer needs many things and there are two
ways for him to get them: He can go to the store in
)erson and buy them, or else he can order them from
a gaudy catalog. The Georgia farmer who buvs from
x catalog sent to him from hundreds of miles away is
•ending money so far off it never will get back to
dm; if he buys at home from the merchants of
Teorgia he stands a good chance of getting part of his
noney back again. The merchants should always
ie good road enthusiasts because good roads enable
he farmer to go to the store in his own state, rather
han send his orders into another state. The presi-
lent of the Woolworth company said the other day
hat the sales of his stores for October were likelv to be
Peater than those of October-of 1921, which, w ith one
xceplion, was his best month in that vear; he said
the automobile the farmer uses is undoubtedly an aid
to gooii sales in Ids stores because “so long as the
■oa-Is are good the farmer will prefer to go to town
uid buy over the counter instead of ordering bv mail
)l course, everybody likes to see in advance what he
s going to buy. Good roads permit the farmer to
visit nearby towns and cities and do his buying there,
ather l han from hundreds of miles away bv mai 1
So the merchant everywhere, as well as the
farmer, should believe in good roads.
Dobbs Grocery Co.
V\. H. Montgomery
D F. Montgomery
L. D. Smitn
E. L. Barnes
G A. Watkins
COAL!
_ Crying hard times will get us nowhere, though
living study to industries that have been ami are
being carried on successfully in other sections of the
ountry will insure us of an early return of real pros
perity.
Since we come to think about it. we wonder how 1
long a lime it will take for ns to realize that some'
hap was right when he said: "Hard times are not;
hunting us we are merely agonizing over the fact
that soft limes are going awav.”
. We will be ready next Monday, to fill all
orders for coal. Several cars in transit. The
best. Just as good as any dealer can buy. In
fact, there is no better Coal than our Blue Dia-
mond Jelico. This is what we will deliver to
you next Monday at $12.50 per ton. Now just
watch the other fellows price tumble. We
charge only reasonable prices to our custo
mers. No profiteering with us. We are in
business to live and let live.
The Ennis Ice & Fuel Works