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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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The Southeastern Fair Must
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Have Another Building
The tremendous—and really unanticipated—success of the
Southeastern Pair last year, as incomplete as it necessarily was,
unquestionably foreshadows a splendid triumph this year and
in the years to come, during which time the fair will be greatly
amplified, enlarged and more satisfactorily equipped
The Chamber of Commerce will interest itself vigorously
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the Chamber will be backed by the Atlanta mm’cn the civie
bodies and by individuals generally. |
It already is manifest that the 1016 fair can not be accom.
modated as it should be in the buildings already erected. If
another building, in size and keeping with those already up,
might be erected, WE SHOULD HAVE A FAIR NEXT FALL
SURPASSING ANYTHING ATLANTA HAS EVER KNOWN.
It is vitally important that this building be erected if possi |
ble—and in this connection, The Georgian sincerely and earnest.
Iy hopes that the City Council will give to the Southeastern Fair |
management in its application for an additional building that
analytical and careful consideration such a suggestion unques
tionably deserves.
The Georgian realizes that Atlanta must exercise greal pru
dence and careful forethought in her finances, so far as the im
mediate future is concerned. There must be curtailment and
economies practiced, and a businesslike administration of the
city's affairs must be insisted upon.
AT THE SAME TIME, ATLANTA CAN NOT AFFORD l
THAT ANY VITAL ENTERPRISE SHALL BE CRIPPLED |
THROUGH LACK OF SUPPORT--AND IT IS THE DELIB.
ERATE AND MATURED OPINION OF THE GEORGIAN
THAT NO ENTERPRISE 1S MORE VITAL TO ATLANTA
IN THIS PARTICULAR CRISIS OF ITS HISTORY THAN IS
THE SOUTHEASTERN FAIR.
We are facing & year of anticipated prosperity—we are ex.
pecting Georgia and the South to go forward during the next
twelve months as they have not in many years—apd nothing
will be of more help to Atlanta, Georgia and the South in this
progressive era than the Southeastern Fair.
An appropriation of $75,000 will provide the needed further
equipment of the fair, by way of housing it properly—and The
Georgian hopes that Council may find a way to provide the same.
If we could accomplish so much with the small and incom
plete fair of last year, SURELY THERE CAN BE NO QUES.
TION OF WHAT BIG THINGS WE MAY DO-—-AND WILL
DO--WITH A REAL FAIR THIS YEAR.
The Georgian earnestly invites the attention of Council to
this new building proposition, and we bespeak for the fair man
agement that serious attention and consideration the matter is
clearly entitled to. !
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The Game Japan Is Playing
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in China
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From Shanghai comes the statement that four of the south
ern provinces are in open rebellion against Yuan ShiKai and that
’ the revolutionists are well supplied with arms and ammunition
and are being reinforced by mutinous Government troops.
It should be understood that there is always smoldering
enmity between the southern and northern provinces in China,
and open hostilities are easily excited.
In this case, it is easy to see who are at work exciting insur
rection and tumults. The Japanese are merely repeating the tac
tics by which they manufactured the excuse for seizing Korea
and destroying the independent existence of that kingdom.
Dr. Sun is still in Japan, protected from the Chinese Gov
ernment and supplied with funds to create disturbances in South
ern China. .
These are the disturbances which the Japanese Minister
warned Yuan Shi Kai would arise if Yuan did not yield to
Japan’'s demands.
Evidently the Japanese Minister was prophesying with the
correct foreknowledge of a prophet who has fixed things to re
sult in accordance with his prophecies.
We will do a little practicing also—though neither a prophet
nor a seventh son.
We predict that the Japanese Government will shortly di
rect a note to Yuan Shi Kai deploring the anarchy in China and
representing it to be Japan’s duty to maintain order in case the
~ Chinese Government can not.
- We predict that the Japanese Government will shortly
~ thereafter find itself obliged, unwillingly, te land more troops in
. China and to take possession of Peking and other cities as guar
. dians of public order—purely in the interests of China.
E And after that Japan will keep her military grip on China
. and shut the open door and defy the United States and all the
. Powers to open that door and to rescue China.
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. Should Learn to Vote Before
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. Instructing Others
;W Ford is busily engaged in financing a campaign
against preparedness.
~ Incidentally, Mr. Ford has remarked that he has voted only
.""’m in thirty years and then for the reason that his wife
_ made him vote.
. The Georgian certainly has no ill-will toward Mr. Ford. We
_: ink that no newspaper has treated him more fairly or given
" him credit more unreservedly for good motives.
" And in the same candid and fair spirit The Georgian now
8 f'to Mr. Ford that any man who has neglected his duties as a
* citizen thirty years, and who has never voted except as his wife
" 4old him to vote, has NO RIGHT to tell his fellow citizens how
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The wise look toward the light, the unwise toward darkness—take your choice. (See Ella Wheeler
Wilcok's admirable poem in last column.)
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THE HEARST NEWSPAPERS.
(Lawrenceville News.)
All the Hearst papers in the
United States will exclude whis
ky advertisements from now on,
which means a considerable loss
of revenue to the owner, Wililam
Randolph Hearst. Thes» publica
tions include dallies in New
York; Bosten, Chicago, San Fran
clsco, Los Angeles and Atlanta,
The Georgian and Sunday Amer
jcan being two of them.
Hearst is the Napoleon of Amer
ican journalism, and has out
generaled all his rivals in the va
rious territories whereln he has
launched papers.
This is due to his distinguished
liberality to charitable and other
worthy public enterprises, his
splendid administrative ability,
his progressiveness along all lines
but, above all, to the unequaled
news service, foreign and domes
tie, which he has established.
Excluding liguor advertisements
in advance of the requirement of
the law was the wise thing to do,
because it was a bold stroke in
favor of civic righteousness, and
one that the moral element ev
erywhere will cordially indorse.
OTHER PAPERS WILL FOLLOW.
(Hawkinsville Dispatch.)
And now comes William Ran
dolph Hearst with the announce
ment in a letter to The Georgian
and Sunday American that here
after the columns of all his news
papers and publitations through
out the country will be closed not
only to whisky advertisements,
but to all “dope” medicine adver
tisements.
1t is estimated that this will
cause an annual loss of about
$1,000,000 to the Hearst publica
tions, and he is to be commend
ed for making this sacrifice in
the interest of a cause the right
eousness of which no one will
gainsay and the success of which
means so much for the happiness,
prosperity and general welfare of
the people.
It is to be hoped that all the
olaer dailies will soun follow the
example of Mr. Hearst and Editor
Loyless and help put an end to
the liquor traftic.
BARS WHISKY ADS.
(Cartersville News.)
The Hearst system of news Spas
pers have decided that they will *
carry no more whisky advertise
ments in their columns. This is
a most commendable act, and
means much in a number of ways.
The Georglan, at first biush,
might think this amounted to lit
tle, because there were only a few
months before whisky advertising
in newspapers would be legally
prohibited in Georgia, but, while
.The Georgian is in Georgia, the
whole system is not. > 7",
Other big papers are taking the
same course, and it augurs wel
for the temperance cause, show-
Inklings and Thinklings
By Wex Jones.
See that a battle has been fought at Buczacz. Strange how, in the
eastern theater of war, “¢” is always byigaded with “z.”
Famous alibis: “Partly cloudy.”
fn Gallipoli the British appear to have accomplished the feat of
. letting ga the bear’s tail.
February this year is like a little girl masquerading in her mother’s
long-trained skirt.
“French smoke pipes to keep nose warm,” says a headline. Weren't
those little, sawed-off dudeens always known as ‘‘nose-warmessd’?
Life's mysteries: Pacifists. \
Magistrate decides that a man is entitled to SIOO fee for finding
a wife for a bachelor. 1t seems reasonable enough, in view of the fact
that the lawyer will want a bigger fee for getting a divorce.
Sure cures for grip ave—
Don't do a thing; let nature take its course. ;
Stay in bed until cured. ;
Whatever you do, don’t stay in bed.
Plenty of quinine.
Above all, aveid the use of quinine.
. Hot baths. .
Don't weaken yourself with hot baths.
ing these great forces are di
rected to moral advancement.
They lose thousands of dollars
from this business.
IT WAS A VERY LADYLIKE
FIGHT.
= (Savannah News.)
An Atlanta woman present at
a prize fight the other evening
had a fight fan arrested because
he said “Damn!” within her hear
ing. It must have been a mighty
poor fight that would convince the
fair spectator she was attending
an afternoon tea.
HEARST PAPERS.
(Moultrie Obegerver.)
The accession of Willlam Ran
dolph Hearst and his chain of
newspapers to the dry ranks will
deliver the greatest amount of
daily newspaper influence to the
dry forces that has yet been ac
quired.
The Hearst papers, with the
exception of The Atlanta Geor
gian, are published in liquor
strongholds. They are published,
however, in States where the
greatest battles are yet to be
fought, and where influential
newspapers can figure forcefully
in the fight for temperance and
prohibition, :
THE EXCEPTIONS.
(Houston Post.)
The Atlanta Georgian says:
“Rich og poor, women never lose
the mother instinct.” While we
can not refute this theory, we still
cling to the belief that there is
entirely too, muech poll parrotry
and poodleism about some wom
en to give their mother instinct a
chance. 7
THIS STILL DOESN'T EX
PLAIN.
(GrifMin News and Sun.)
Phe Atlanta Georgian doesn’t
understand why the paragrapher
of The News and Sun writes
paragraphs upstairs while a
bunch of good-looking chorus
.girls are performing downstairs,
There is a vaudeville house under
the office.
NOT NECESSARILY.
(Albany Herald.)
All the Hearst papers have
mounted the water wagon. Can
this be accepted as evidence that
the Hearst influence is to be
thrown to the Prohibition ticket
in the national campaign?
- MR. HEARST'S LETTER.
‘ (Byromville Herald.)
Hurrah for William R. Hearst.
He has ordered his great and
mighty chain of newspapers to
cut out.all advertisements of
whisky.
WHAT SOME MIGHT THINK.
(Americus Progress.)
To see the way the newspapers
talic about the Ligh price of gaso
line one would think every editor
_had an automobile. i
THE HOME PAPER
CHOOSE BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS
The cartoon on this page, and the admirable poem by Ella
Wheeler Wilcox printed below, should lead young men and
women. old men and won.en, to look in the right direction.
(The New Year is still **beginning.” It is still time for those
who have resolved and failed to resolve again, and STICK TO
IT.
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ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
HAIL TO YOU, NEW YEAR, HAIL!
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By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. -
A beautiful eherub, with joy in his face,
The New Year has dropped from the heart of space;
With joy in his face and a smile in his eye,
He is pointing the way to the passerby;
Pointing the way to the roads that run
Out of the shadows, and into the sun.
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Hail to you, New Year, New Year, hail!
Take me along on the shining trail. :
The New Year stands with his dear little back
Turned to worry and all her pack;
On all her litter of barking cares,
Gaunt-faced doubtings and dark dispairs.
And he holds out rosy and dimpled hands
Pointing the way to the hopeful lands.
Hail to you, New Year, take me along!
I will pay my keep with the coin of song.
Take me along with you up that slope
| And over the hill to the Haven of Hope.
You shall fashion a flute from a reed, while T
Will fashion you measures to pipe to the sky;
To pipe to the sky, while the free winds o’er us,
Cateh our spirit and join in the chorus.
Hail to you, New Year, New Year, hail!
Let us up and off on the shining trail.
We will bring to the face of gray-beard Time
A smile of vouth as we sing and climb;
From the journey ’s start to the journey’s end,
We will trust veiled Fate as we trust a friend;
As we trust a friend that is kind and dear,
And Fate shall repay us with right good cheer.
Hail to you, New Year, blithe and gay,
’ Let us up and off at the break o’ day.
l Letters From the People ”
_ RESOLUTIONS.
Editor The (}eort‘m.
At a recent meeting of the
Atlanta Frances Willard Union
and the Atlanta Patterson Union,
held in the Sunday school room of
Trinity Church, the instructions
to the editor of The Atlanta
Georgian and Hearst's Sunday
American by the Hon. William
Randolph Hearst, publisher, on
the 9th and 10th of this month,
were read to the gathering of the
White Ribboners, who have been
waging a peaceful war against
King Alcohol for more than
twenty-five years.
They have been pleading all
that time for “newsbapers with
out liquor ads,” and for “streeis
without liquor signs.”
Mr. Hearst's decision that not
one of his many papers and mag
azines, from Massachusetts to
California, publish such adver
tisements, was greeted with joy
and words of approval-—and we
want the world to know how we
feel about it.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
“In view of the fact that the
Honorable William Randolph
Hearst, of his own accord, and
without waiting for the Georgia
law to force him on the Ist of
May, 1916, has set the pace for
other Atlanta papers by doing
the right thing at the right time,
in closing his Atlanta Georgian
and Sunday American, and all
the rest of his many newspapers
and magazines, to all whisky ad
vertisements and advertisements
of any medicinal preparations
containing alcohol or opiates;in
habit-forming quantities, there
fore, be it
Resolved, That as Atlanta now
has two clean mewspapers (The
Georgian and Sunday American),
we advise our members and their
friends to subscribe for said pa
pers, that the children will not
read<iquor ads and liquor medi
cine ads and become familiarized
with such evi] things, and that
bright side and OPTIMISM,
and those who look on the
dark side and PESSIMISM.
You remember the lines
that we have quoted,
“Twe prisoners looked eut from
behind their bars.
One saw the mud, the other saw
the rtars™
We are all prisoners here
on this earth. The question
important to each of us is—
in what direction do we look,
UP or DOWN?
What do we see as we look
out from behind our bars—
the stars of shining Heaven,
or the mud of hopelessness?
The poem by Ella Wheeler
Wilcox should be an inspira-.
tion to our readers.)
the_y may also see that two repu
table Atlanta papers are anxious
and willing to uphold and sustain
our State-wide prohibition law.
Be it still further '
Resolved, That as The Atlanta
Francis Willard Union and the
Atlanta Patterson Union operate
the franchise department, we
hereby thank Mr. Hearst for his
unfailing advocacy of equal rights
for women, and the splendid edi
torials on this subject published
so often in his two Atlanta pa
pers. We women know—as well
as the liquor dealers—that in the
States where women vote the
liquor business is outlawed. When
all the women in the United
States are permitted to vote, we
shall then have national consti
tutional prehibition.
MRS. MARY L. McLENDON,
Atlanta Francis Willard, W. C.
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MRS. J. L. GILLETTE,
Atlanta Patterson, W. C. T U.
Atlanta, January 13, 1916, i
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FROM AN OLD FRIEND. |
Editor The Georgian: ;
As a charter subscriber to your
valuable paper, I wish to ex
press to you my appreciation of ]
the recent stand your paper has
taken in regard to whisky ad
vertisements, and I heartily be
lieve you are building a monu
ment that you will be proud »f
throughout all time to come.
I have taken The Georgian ex
clusively since the first issue—
and have not missed a single
copy, unless from actual necessi
ty, and, knowing you as I do, your 4
act is about what T expected. 3
The great sacrifice you are mak- \
ing from a financial standpoint '\
will be offset by the great good Y.
that is done, and in the “long
run” you will be the winner, )
Wishing you the success yop so
richly deserve,
0. T. HENNESSEE,
Covington, Ga. A