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WHY IT HAPPENED
Money.
Big business influence.
G. O. P. paid advertising.
The yearning of capital for
flesh-pots.
The reaction from idealism to
ialism; from humanitarianism
selfishness.
Resentment against aggression
the rights of the States and
individual— the Eighteenth
Nineteenth Amendments.
Influence of the foreign element.
The pure cussedness of human
ture, and so on, ad infinitum.
But it happened, and after
happened previously in
it’s no great shock, though
faith in the progress of
may be sadly shaken. However,
i can begin again, and some day
pendulum will swing back in
right direction.
Our only hope is that in the
gress of the race the oscillations
the pendulum of human thought
action may gradually become It"
pronounced in comparison with
forward movement of the whole
tem.
The duty of the individual is
contribute his utmost in his
sphere of action to the progress
the race toward the light, ever
ing faith with and in the Creator
the system.
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PEOPLE OF GEORGIA
“When you go to the polls
ber 2 nd, won’t you ask yourself
question: Hasn’t Georgia
counties already?
New counties tend to
the old counties from which they
formed. New counties increase
taxpayers’ burdens, every new
ty calling for a court house, a
S county officials, etc.
Isn’t it time to call a halt on
new county business—a thing
has become a menace to sane
sound legislation on account
methods ijy which these new
are secured?
R. W. MIDDLEBROOKS,
Barnesvillc, Ga.
The above appeared as an adver¬
tisement in some of the daily papers
Sunday. It shows to us only one
thing. The writer is either dense
ly ignorant or wilfully perverts the
facts. The truth is, the new counties
that have been created in Georgia
during the past ten or twelve years
have been real assets to the State.
They have increased the tax values
of the state millions of dollars. Take
Berrien county, for instance. When
Tift county was made Berrien had
not over eight million dollars in tax
values. A good bit of it was taken for
the creation of Tift county and it
soon had in tax values just as much
as it had before Tift was cut off. Two
years ago Cook county was formed
entirely out of the western portion of
Berrien. The new county has four
million or more in tax values and
Berrien has a good deal more, proba¬
bly six or seven million. The new
county has over eleven thousand peo¬
ple and the old county more than
fifteen thousand. The three new
counties have grown in populationand
wealth much more than seemed pos¬
sible in an incredibly short time. The
same is true wherever the new coun¬
ties have been created.
The constitutional amendment cre¬
ating several new counties will be
submitted to the people of the State
for ratification next month. One has
never yet failed to get the endorse¬
ment of the voters and not one will
fail this time. Very little atten¬
tion will be paid to this very weak
twaddle of one Middlebrooks, of
Barnesville, who, it is altogether
probable, has a grievance against
some one who was instrumental in
having a new county with Barnesville
as the county seat created. Certain it
is, there is no truth in his so-called
argument that the new counties tend
to pauperize the old ones.
Not one new county that has been
created has any desire to go back in -1
to the old counties. The
which they have brought to the peo¬
ple are manifold.—Adel (Cook Co.)
'News. ■
THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT'
(From The LaGrange Reporter.)
Is it possible that there are
two or three newspapers in
which do not favor the adoption of
more orderly system of balloting
statewide elections?
We cannot believe it.
To believe it would be to
der an almost holy ideal in the
journalism of Georgia, an ideal
we have cherished as the
for the high honor which wh think
for a man to be recognized
Georgia newpaper men.
Our eyes must deceive us, or
must be unable properly to
pret a few editorials in which
teemed newspapers discuss the
ent system of politics and
with what seems to us to he near
difference.
Two or three newspaper
whom we have embraced in our ideal
actually appear to confess that
politics is very corrupt, and our bal¬
loting system is impure to the core,
but that such is a natural state of af¬
fair: which cannot he partly feme
died.
One or two others seem to indicate
that, because the ballot cannot be
purified wholly, there is no good in
making it less impure by adopting
the Australian system. ,
i U is gratifying, however, to note
that a far larger number of news
papers are thoroughly awake to the
evil present loose methods of
balloting and are eager for the adop
tion of the Australian ballot through
out the state.
Wo shall not permit ourselves to
think for a moment that any news
I eaper wouhf object to the Australian
j ballot merely because the Governor
elect, whom they opposed, lixeil it as
main plank in his platform in
nm-over primary.
Neither shall we believe even
: vaguely that any of the worthy peo
( id*' who opposed tht Governor-elect indif¬
s 1 are capable of even feigning
ference to any measure or movement
; lint is good, merely because the
Governor-elect may favor it.
That cannot be true. We know
Georgia newspaper editors too well.
I I’hey at all
are not what some v >°
lent politicians have called then in
recent cmpaigiis narrow, preju
diced, vindictive. Georgia ' newspaper
editors, almost as a 100 per cent bo¬
dy, are men of broad vision, liberal
policies and noble principles.
What shall it profit either a wor
thy newspaper editor, or the State at
I whose shrine he worships and serves,
i if hi' shall give of the best that is in
him to help in the shaping of public
sentiment as to elections and policies
of government, and then shall lose
the high object towards which lie
i strives, through confusion at Iho polls
and perversion of the ballot? !
We have said over and over again
that politics certainly cannot be made
as pure as the portals paradise.
But we believe that POLITICS CAN
BE PURIFIED TO A GREAT EX
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TENT and our state government can
be placed upon a cleaner footing and
a more substantial foundatiion by the |
adoption of the Australian ballot in j
every voting precinct in the state, j
And the fact that some counties al¬
ready have the Australian system,
while other counties are not in dye
need of it, merely should cause such
superior counties, if for nothing oth¬
er than self-protection in state gov¬
ernment, to insist that the Australian
ballot be adopted in those counties
which undoubtedly do need it.
If the impurity of our politics is a
matter to be recognized only with in¬
difference or hopelessness, then we
who champion the election of men to
public office on the principle of right
and honest merit cannot lay much
claim to consideration, neither can
we justify our own complaints
against the victory of any man whom
vve may brand as bad.
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BRITAIN’S “SIX VOTES”
A news item published in a re
cent issue of The Atlanta Constitu¬
tion under a Cincinnati date line at¬
tributes to Hon. Franklin D. Roose¬
velt, Democratic candidate for vice
president, the following explanation
of the six votes the British Empire is
to have to the one the
States would have in the
of Nations. Says Mr. Roose¬
:
“In particular relation to the
made about the six votes of
British empire to our one, the
is clear;
“The intent of the covenant of
league of nations is to create a
body, called the council,
council to be composed of nine j
five great powers,
France, Italy, Japan, Great
ami the United States, and four,
powers, the smaller powers
at the present time, Spain,
Greece and Belgium. Each of
nine nations has one vote in
council, in other words, the
empire has but one vote and C.
have but one vote, i
"At the same time the covenant
it clear that the important
of the council shall be
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THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FOR I VALLEY, GEORGIA
made by a unanimous vote, in
words, the representative of
United States woud have to
with the other eight nations in
ing the decision.
“in view of the fact,
that in the governing body of
i league, that is, the council,
I United States has just as big a
as any other nation, just as big a
as Great Britain and all of her
pendencies put together, it
clear that these
by the republican party are
rate and wilful misrepresentations.
a The average voter nas come
realize the unfairness of the
being conducted by the
lican managers.”
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MENTAL DULLNESS
IN CHILDREN
>
(By T. G. Lang, In Talbotton
Era.)
I have just read a suggestive
ticle treating of mental dullness
children. It warns us against
liance on psychological tests for
diagnosis of feeblemindedness.
seems that all that is called for in
large number of such cases is
feeding. In a large per cent of
group examined “no definite
disease was found, but a condition
undernourishment so extreme as
have caused mental
through inferior quality of
j supplied to the brain. }»
Major Coart told the Farmer’s
reau last Saturday that lie heard
official of one agricultural
speak and saw him weep as he
of the 300,000 underfed children
Georgia.
1 am so dazed and saddened
j lamentable ] ntakt no comment situation. now Nor on such
comment be necessary to awaken
■
: people of Talbot to the call of
hour. In an incredibly short time
can do our part to remedy this
plorable situation. Let 0111 ’ slogan
coming year be “A
Food Crop.” Raise more
peanuts, more potatoes.
more wheat, more oats, more
more corn, and other cereals. Make
richer milk and better butter. Set
out more fruit trees. Let Talbot be a
land that flows with milk and honey,
“And your sons shall grow 119 as
olive plants about your table and
your daughter^ shall be as stones
polished after the similitude of a pal
ace.” Also you shall largely solve the
problem of unrest and the song of
die reapers shall be heard in the lane
Diplomacy.
Willis You don’t mean to say
you’ve kept a servant girl ten years!
How do you do it?”
Gillis—“Diplomacy. The first gir
we had we called a ‘kitchen meehan
it*.' She stayed a day. The next one
we called a ‘hired girl.’ She stayed a
week. The next one we called a
‘maid* and she stayed a month. Then
in 1910 we got this one and called her
a Domestic Secretary’ and she’s
^ )een w’ith us ever since. Judge.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS
TO MEET AT ELKO NOV. 21.
The Houston County Sunday
Association will hold its an
.convention at Elko Baptist
on Sunday, November 21, and
Sunday Schools of all denomina¬
in our county are invited to
delegates.
A strong program dealing with all
of modern Sunday
work has been prepared. R.
Webb, General Superintendent, of
Georgia Sunday School Associa¬
is expected to attend this Con¬
With Mr. Webb will be Miss
Magee, Superintendent of the
Division of the Georgia
School Association.
In order that no Sunday School
may be deprived of the privi¬
of attending this Convention, no
will be set on the number of
who may attend from any
School. All will be welcome.
Information regarding the Conven¬
may be secured from the County
Mr. H. P. Dobbins, of
or from the General Superin¬
of the Georgia Sunday
Association, 917 Hurt Build¬
Atlanta, Georgia.
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CLUB ENJOYS
INTERESTING PROGRAM
The History Club held an interest
meeting Tuesday afternoon with
*W. J. Braswell. The subject for
was ‘‘Some Short Story Writ
and those on the program dealt
present day writers. The pro¬
was in charge of Mrs. J. M.
and was full of interest. Mrs.
Floyd sang two solos. one an
song, the other a Scotch song,
were especially appreciated,
Murphey played a Serenade by
Chaemiade, a famous woman eom
After the program the hosfbss
a pretty salad course and a
hour was enjoyed.
‘‘SOUTHERN FIELD” RESUMED,
TO WORK FOR GREATER
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; Publication of the
Field,” the magazine devoted to
upbuilding of the South, which
discontinued when the railways
taken under federal control, has
resumed by the Development
of the Southern Railway System
the Mobile & Ohio Railroad.
The first issue of the
f ield, which has just come from
press, deals with industrial
ment and will be given u wide
bution among business people. It
handsomely gotten up and
illustrated.
Future issues will deal with
phases u of , development, , , . , but . it ..
stated that the two main purposes
the magazine will be to encourage
in the South the manufacture
finished products and a larger
ticipation in trade with
countries. At the same time
Southern Field will continue to
courage aggressively the
and live stock development of
South, and to aid in the attraction
the best class to farm setllers.
General Leman, Belgian
whose fight at Liege held up the
nan advance lonj? enough to give
Allies a chance to prepare for
Battle of the Marne, is dead. He
the only Allied officer whose
inspired the Germans to return
surrendered sword.
------Q.
POPULAR VISITOR HERE IS
RECENT GAINESVILLE
Cards were received by
in Fort Valley announcing the
riage of Miss Helen Law Dean
Mr. Frank Cornelius Wright,
2 < th, at “Hill Crest” the home
Col. and Mrs. H. H. Dean of
ville. The bride will make her
home at Durant Place,
Miss Dean visited here during "
Spring holidays as the guest of
and Mrs. J. F. Troutman.
l/MMIC WEDDING FEATURES
PLAY AT BAPTIST CHURCH
On Friday evening at 7:30 at
Baptist church the Junior and
B. Y. P. Unions will give an
tainment which promises to be highly
entertaining. Aoout forty four chil¬
dren will take part. A feature of the
entertainment will be the wedding at
winch Miss Elizabeth Rundell will be
the bride, Marvis Baldwin, the groom,
and coy Bird, best man. Alias Eliza¬
beth Pugh will act as maid of honor,
while Wyman Braddock is to be the
preacher. There will be ribbon bear¬
ers, attendants and all it takes to
make a large and important church
wedding.
The Senior B. Y. P. U. will furnish
the music and altogether it is ex¬
pected to be the most important event
0 / the week. The entertainment is in
charge of, and under the direction of,
Miss lone DuPree.
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