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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, POUOLASVILlJi GEORGIA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 8&. 1818,
II /
Douglasville School Will
Open Monday, Sept 1st
All pupils are urged to be present on opening
day. This is essential that organization may be ?
perfected at once. £
An incidental fee of $1.00 will be charged for ■
each pupil in the school district—to be paid on ■
entrance. ?
1
Owing to increased expenses, a slightly in- |
creased fee will be charged those living outside the +
district, and will be as follows: ■
1st to 4th Grade
5th to 7th “
8th to 11th “
|>5.00 per Term
7.50 “ “
10.00 “ “
We invite the patronage of outside pupils.
The school will be under the supervision of
Prof. Ed. D. Gunby, who managed the spring term
so succesffully. An able faculty will assist him.
Atlanta Ga,— Georgia’s new Fecl-
trnl Judge. Samuel H. Sibley, of
Union Point, may be forced to live
in Union Point, and make the Geor
gia railroad his “flivver on ac-
! count of the high rents in Atlanta.
Tlie Judge himself laughingly sug
gested that it might have had some
thing to do with the making of his
plans not to move to Atlanta im-
mediatly. His first case immed
iacy after being sworn in Saturday
| was to allow a Columbus merchant,
C. L. Quartemus, to put up a bond
I and to despose of about, 6,000 lbs.
| of sugar at eleven cents a pound,
j the price fixed by the department
j of justice. His next was to admit
| to practice in the Federal Courts
O. D. 'McOutcheon of Dalton, an
old college mnte of his.
The Railroad Commisiop lias an
nounced a flat rate of one cent
a mile to tile Confederate Vetranse
reunion in Atlanta on October 7,
the cheapest rate which lias been
granted since the United States
Government took over the roads
J j when America entered the war.
jjj i Vtlanta hotels have announced
•jj! that they will not raise their rates
"jFlag day “tagging” here Satur-
* | day raised the remainder of the
■ | necessary $60,000 for the reunion
■ | fund and the success of the great
21 gathering is practically assured.
2 ; The committee estimates that there
41 will he 160,000 visitors in the city
during the week.
■ I Nine more ear loads of sugar
21 has been allocate i (i* Atlanta for
+1 distribution among. Georgia cities
RAILWAY LABOR
New York World, Strong Wilson
Supporter, Denounces “Revolu
tion by Ultimatum.”
PARALLEL TO RUSSIAN IDEA.
Calls Railroad Brotherhoods’ Plan for
Government Ownership “Soviet
Economics Venture.”
New York.—The New York World.
In a leading editorial, characterizes
the railroad lul)or plan for Government
ownership of railroads as “a straight-
out adventure into Soviet economics.”
The editorial puge of the World has
long had a national reputation for ua-
deviating support of Democratic prin
ciples, hostility to WalL street, and the
most loyal and vigorous assistance to
President Wilson. The World says:
“Revolution by Ultimatum.”
The plun of the railroad brother
hoods for taking over the railroad
properties of the country is a straight-
out adventure Vito Soviet economics.
It contemplates collective ownership,
hut class operation and control, which
is at tlio foundation of the Soviet sys
tem.
The American people, through their
Government, are to buy the railroads
from the private owners and turn these
properties over to the railroad em
ployees to manage and operate.
F. M. STEWART, Cha rman jj
J. T. DUNCAN, Secy. 5
M. E. GEER ■
P. D. SELMAN * l
W. M. MORRIS ~ ■
Board’of Trustees. j
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G. W. RUSSELL & SON
{Successors to C. W. Russell)
.19 Peters St., Atlanta
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Sheet Metal Workers, Roofing, Guttering, Repairjand Job
Work.
Out of town business given special attention.
j whose supply is running low and; consideration of an Investment of ap-
they probably will roach their ries- :
ttnation the latter part of the week
The towns of Southwest Georgia
are said to be fearing a shortage
especially 'Columbus. The board
which has charge of the fHstribut-
ion of suerar announces that the
j relief which is certain is bound to
be slow, hut that once readjusted
there is no reason for the recur-
rene of a shortage in America.
The report of the Agriculture
'department of the Unite dStates
that. Georgia has increased her to
bacco accragc more than ono thous
and' per cent or to he specific from
2,900 acres to 02,000 acres has
created no small amount of com
ment throughout the south . Geor
gijfiB soil, especially. Jhat of South
Georgia, has been found to hp’yfeti
adapted to the cultivation of ,to-
dacco, and the crop, while one of
the hardest to raise successfully,,
is saidto be far more profitable
than cotton. Furthermore, the
growing of tobacco is held by some
experts to be - fatal to the boll
weevil.
proximateiy $20,000,000,000 the Gov
ernment is to appoint oue-tliird of the
directors, and the public is to share
In such savings in the cost of opera
tion as may remain after the em
ployees have paid themselves what
they think their services ought to be
worth.
The spirit in,which the program is
put forth may be inferred from a state
ment made by .IB. M. Jewell, .acting
president of tho railroad employees'
department of the American Federa
tion of Labor, in which he said that if
President Wilson’s suggestion to Con :
gress was carried out “we will tie up
tho rpllroads so tight that they will
never run again If that legislation is
passed.” It might have been Trotsky
himself speaking to a bourgeoise that
had offered mild, and academic objec
tions to being despoiled.
Who la the Government?
Before any railroad plan • can be
worked out one highly essential fact
must be established—namely, whether
the sovereign power of the United
States is vested in Government and In
the American people or whether It la
vested in tho railroad brotherhoods.
For three years now the brother
hoods bave assumed that the sovereign
power was vested In them, and Con
gress has provided them with excel
lent reasons for that assumption.
When the railroad employees in the
critical period of the summer of 1910
demanded an eight-hour day and
threatened a genera^ strike, President
Wilson'sent a'message to Congress In
wkhft he urged that the eight-hour
day be made the basis of work and
wages, but he made four other pro
posals, one of which called for—
“An amendment to the existing Fed
eral statute which provides for the
mediation, conciliation and arbitration
of such controversies as the present
by adding to it a provision that in
case the methods' of accommodation
now provided for should fall, a full
public investigation of the merits of
every such dispute should be Institut
ed and completed before a strike or
lockout may bo lawfully attempted.”
Try to Intimidate Congress.
Congress refused to enact this legis
lation because tho labor leaders ob
jected to It, and now we have a situa
tion In which a labor leader can threat
en to,“tie up the railroads so tight that
they. #111 never run again” if Congresq
presumes to pass ail act to which the
brotherhood autocracy objects as un
equal to Its imperative demands.
The railroad brotherhoods have em
barked upon a policy that even the
most conservative of them must admit
Is economically revolutionary. If 'heir
scheme of nationalization under class
control is to be carried out in respect
to railroads, nobody can draw tho line
where it shall stop until all Industry
is under Soviet direction. Yet they
are not patting thoir program out as a
matter to be discussed and deliberate
ly considered by the American people.
They are trying to force the Issue and
bring about a revolution by ultima
tum.
The Public Pays.
— tn~thVlast three years the railroad
employees have received hundreds, of
millions of dollars in wage increases
for which the general public Is paying.
As a reward for its generosity the
country is to be taken by the throat
and choked Into submission If the most
complicated economic issues that have
ever confronted it are not settled forth
with. If there Is any difference be
tween that kind of arrogance and the
arrogance of the German general staff
lo July, 1014, we should like to know
what it la.
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