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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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At 20 East Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga
Entered as second-class matter at posioffice at Atlanta under act of Mareh 3, 1872
S i B DR S A
BTTv e s e
' Don’t Curse the Price of
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- (Gasoline--CONTROL It
i Don’t Sigh for Cheaper Gasoline. GET IT by Government
l‘ Ownership.
If you are a farmer, and keep hens, you get all you can for
your eggs.
If the price goes up in cold weather, you accept the increase.
If the city man who does not know much is willing to pay
twice the local price, you let him pay it—unless you happen to be
a saint.
Coal companies taks all they can get for their coal, steel com
panies take all that they can get for steel, newspapers take all
that they can get for advertising, the individual hired for a sal.
ary takes all he can get for services, and the Standard Oil and
the so-called ‘‘lndependents,’”’ which have their price list made
in the Standard Oil office, take all that they can get for their gas
oline.
There is no sense or use in moralizing about it.
You think that Mr. Rockefeller is rich enough because he has
a thousand million dollars. Your employee thinks you are a
great deal too rich because you have one million dollars. You
want more money perhaps. Perhaps Mr. Rockefeller does also.
He uses his money wisely and in a public spirited way after
he gets it, and like you he is within his legal rights in getting
more if he gets it iegally. Argument is foolish.
At the same time, while the public has no right to blame any
man for getting what he can where no criminal conspiracy is in
volved, the public has a perfect right to combine UNDER GOV.
ERNMENT OWNERSHIP and get things cheaper for itself if it
is able to do so.
The solution of the gasoline problem, which is a great and
national problem, will be found only in Government ownership—
true also of railroads, telegraphs and telephones.
There were bitter complaints about extortionate express
rates.
~ The great manufacturer who wished to give citizens the ben.
efit of cheap prices could not deal with them—he could not reach
them.
The prosperous man who wanted to send a pair of old shoes
to his poor relation in the country had to pay more for the ex
press than the shoes were worth.
Talking and groaning did no good. PARCEL POST SET.
TLED THE MATTER. Parcel post is GOVERNMENT OWNER
SHIP of the express business.
Parcel post enables the man to send that pair of shoes for
nine or ten cents.
Parcel post enables the enterprising merchants to deal direct.
ly with every citizen in the United States.
And parcel post very suddenly revealed to the express com.
panies THE FACT THAT THEY COULD CUT THEIR PRICES
IN TWO AND STILL MAKE MONEY.
What parcel post did in the express business, Government
ownership can do in the gasoline business.
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one individual or to one trust, “Won't you please be less unkind
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BRANDEIS SHOULD BE CON
FIRMED.
(Rome Tribune-Herald.)
The fight in the United States
Senate over the confirmation of
Louis D. Brandels as one of the
Justices of the United States Su
preme Court has been long drawn
out. The Senate Judiclary Com
mittee has spent several months
having hearings and taking evi
dence. It is generally under
stood that the fight on Mr. Bran
dels has been engineered by cer
tain financial interests in the
East whose Interests have suf
fered, though Mr. Brandels s
known as the friend of the com
mon people. Many times he has
given his services in behalf of the
common people freely and with
out compensation. He is admit
ted to be one of the ablest law
yers in the land, and in that re
gard 1t Is not denfed that he Is
eminently qualified to sit on the
bench of the highest court in the
land. He is of Jewish origin, but
this should not militate against
him,
The present Lord Chlef Justics
of England Is a jew, as was also
one of the ablest and most bril-
Hant Premiers in the history of
that nation. Natlonality cuts no
figure among qualifications for
office in this country. It is abil.
ity and honesty that are required.
8o far as the facts speak, Mr
Brandels possesses both of these
Gualifications to an eminent de
gree. Mo was selected by Pres.
fdent Wilson as the most avalla.
ble man for this high position
No reasonable man belleves that
Mr. Wilson would have nominated
& man for such a position with.
out due investigation of his mer.
its and gqualifications. And it goes
without saying. If the evidence as
to Mr. Brandeis’ lnck of charac
-1o was convincing, Mr. Wilson
wonld have withdrawn his name
long ago
The Tribune-Mamid thinks
that, under the eclroumstances,
Mr Brandeis should be confirmed
without further delay, and 1
hopes that such will be the case
15 THE MOONSHINER HAPPY ¢
(Ravannah News)
Bome interesting stories were
seni oul of Georgia about prep.
arations fur (he new season of
frouth. The New York Bune
Atanta forrespondent related « gt
here was “general rejolcing n
the moonshine sections and (hat
SOERA 6F the “dew Beve” had even
invesiod 0 aulumobios 1o ald
hein i handing e predust
Can it be that, not in the cities,
but in the most sparsely settied
sections of the State, will be
found the greatest dificulty in en
forcing the new laws?
Now, 1t is very unlikely that
any moonshiner has bought an
automobile in which to peddie
“mountain dew” or to deliver it to
regular customers. A number of
Sheriffs have announced their in
tention to do their level best to
prevent moonshining and boot
legging, and it is hardly bellevable
that & whisky automobile line
could be operated steadily with.
out attracting the notice of the
Sheriff. But, after all, it is not
going to be easy to put a sudden
stop to moonshining. The United
States Government falled to stop
it, and the Sheriffs, with less
money at their disposal, are going
to have their hands full of troubls
when they try to carry out the
Istter of the law against it
DRY GEORGIA TO STAY PUT,
(Augusta Chronicle.)
Yes, we are pretty certain the
new prohibition law is going to be
rigidly enforeed throughout Geor.
gia—including Augusta, Savannah
and a few other, heretofore, ir.
reconcilables. Evidently the lq
vor dealers think so, 00, for they
are sither goirg into other lines of
business-—or moving 1o Chatta
nooga. where they hope to remain
E Inklings and Thinklings u
By Wex Jones.
Yale will number her football players. We might try this with our
army. :
Lite's mystories: Arguments. .
“Too much brain work.™ says a physiclan, “enuses the insteps to fall
" And oo much footwork, we presume, causes the brain to collapee.
Speaking of a “Pundtive” expedition, the greatest borror we have heard
of Is the following from The Florida Metropolis:
“Our soldiers seem 1o be almost Pershing 1n Mexico.” remarked the
Irish-American. “Dodd's ride.” ajaculated the Cerman American
Why speak of boxing as the “macly” art when a boy of thirteen can
ke part 1o & prisefight Might call it the ebildish art 1o futare.
When it comes 1o tamous bows, give a look
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Howhen “Yea, <« OV Oliver Oshorse
frving Berlin has bought & set of Shakespeare for $2.600 Probably
wants 1o bring the songs up 1o date i
And the prose might be gives & lot more pep h:um.fi}‘o
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By Jimmy Swinnerton
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only a few months, or a few years,
at best.
The only trouble from now on,
therefore, will be with “bootleg
gers.” or a class of dealers who
are willing to run the risk of one
or two arrests—and for whom a
chaingang sentence, at the very
outset, will be a proper answer
and a sufficient remedy.
Let there be no mistake, Geor
gia has “gone dry“—except for
such limited shipments as are
permitted under the law. And,
what's more—Geprgia is going to
stay dry. Public sentiment has,
at last, come to a full approval of
such a program-—and that setties
It, In Georgia as elsewhere.
THUSE FROLICKSOME FLIV
VERS.
(Tifton Gazette)
A Moultrie man's jitney flew the
track, erashed through the plate
giass window of a drug store,
knocked a hole in the marble
foundation of the soda fount and
scared the clerk inte the woods,
Heard they were substituting al
coho! for gasoline, but It this is
the way #t makes the things aect,
£ive us back the Rockefeller prod
wet,
NEW INDOOR SPORT,
(Conyers Times)
An afternoon tea fight must be
Yery entertaining.
Py the Dixie Press
NO TROUBLE ABOUT THE
SQUANDERING.
(Lawrenceville News-Herald.)
The esteemed Augusta Chron
icle, after demonstrating to Its
own satisfaction that the State
road should be sold, makes a sug-
Kestion that would relleve the
treasury from a part of the bur
den of keeping the $8,000,000 sur
plus. It wants the pay of mem
bers of the Legislature increased
from $4 to 3§ or $lO per day.
There'll be no trouble about
squandering the money If the
road is sold.
THERE ARE CHICKENS AND
CHICKENS.
(Waycross Herald-Journal)
Newspapers are poking a lot of
fun at Wayecross for talking of
baving an ordinance against
chickens running at large, but we
venture the prediction every place
in Georgia wishes chickens were
shut up.
COLUMBUS GALLANTRY.
(Columbus Enquirer-Sun.)
This is the time of year when
you feel that it would be a good
thing if your wife would chop the
weeds In the yard before they
Erow too large for her to do the
work,
A VOICE FROM THE TRENCHES,
(Athens Ranner )
Couln't have picked a better
time «f the year for the cutting
out of strong drink; or a worse
one for the culting off of the
“foam-gussler's™ supply.
MAYBE YOU NEVER THOUGHT
OF THAT.
(Augusta Herald)
Temperance argument: The
Hght of the sun is 600,000 times
greater than that of the moon
whea it is full
LONG ON PREPOSITIONS AND
SENSE.
(Albany Heruld )
The hog i one of the very best
weapons under the sun for fight
ing the boll weevil with,
HELL DO THE REST,
(Bouth Geargia Progress )
One Campaign manager says he
dosen® know how 16 treat the
Southern delegaten. The way to
treat any Bouthern delegats is 1o
ask him what be will have
A VOICE FROM LEEWARD,
(Macon Telsgraph
The grand ol moih ball seems
o be getling its secend wing
THE HOWVE PAPER
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The Sunday American— ‘The
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South’s Greatest Newspaper
The Magazine Section of The Sunday American for Mavy 7
is one of the best The American ever has assembled. Not only
is every article in this section the work of a writer of intelligence
and authoritative information, but from the standpoint of
variety it is unexcelled. ‘
Particular attention is invited to some of the following
articles, which will appear in this issue:
THE LATEST BAREFOOT BEAUTY—SBome striking por
traits of Mile. Asafieve, the Russian beauty, whose perfection of
feet has made her famous.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR VACATION A GOOD INVEST.
MENT—Big dividends that CAN be earned for you by the right
sort of summer outing—that conforms to a few simple rules of
hygiene and physiology. >
IMPOSSIBLE AMERICAN CHILDREN—A sound spanking
the Duke of Manchester recommends as the one thing needful for
young America, ‘‘the wonder, despair and pest’’ of all Euro
pean observers.
NEW DISCOVERIES ABOUT BABIES’ BRAINS—Dr.
Woods Hutchinson, the world’s foremost physician-author, ex
plains how we know that they do not hear till they are ten days
old, do not see for three weeks and can not tell colors till they
are 3 years old.
A MODERN WlTCH—Hereward Carrington, the authority
on psychic phenomena, explains how the claims of Mrs. Darling,
recently charged with witchery in New Jersey, resemble the
ancient beliefs in magic and black art.
DON'T LET YOUR HANDS SHOW HOW OLD YOU
ARE—Easy wayes of preventing the tell-tale signs of age from
telling in your hands.
CAN SCIENCE DEVELOP MONKEYS INTO USEFUL
MEN?—World-wide experiments and studies of apes, with the
hope of breeding servants for mankind who shall perform our
drudgery and distasteful tasks.
TOURING AUTOMOBILES WITH ALL THE COMFORTS
OF HOME—Some of the newest designs of ‘‘Land-Going
Yachts,”’ with bedrooms, kitchens and even bath tubs.
SCIENCE AND YOUR HAIR—No. 2 of an instructive
series of articles for men and women on why the hair gets sick
and what can be done to bring it back to health again.
WHERE THE SOUL GOES AFTER DEATH—UNTIL IT
IS PURIFIED AND READY FOR HEAVEN—The Rev. Arthur
Chambers explains the popular misunderstanding of the words
‘‘hades’’ and ‘‘hell’’ as used in the New Testament.
WHO (THE STARS SAY) WILL BE OUR NEXT PRES.
IDENT—lnteresting presidential horoscopes of Wilson, Hughes,
Roosevelt and Bryan, cast by Stella Ryce, the well- known Amer
ican astrologist.
NEW THINGS EVERY WOMAN OUGHT TO KNOW-—
Mme. Lina Cavalieri’s advice to the woman of 35.
WHY YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR BABY IN A PEN.
ECONOMICAL MENUS FOR A WHOLE WEEK'S MEALS.
""SMART'' DRESSESLady Duff-Gordon, the famous
“Lucile’’ of London and foremost creator of fashion in the
world, creates some very new and modish costumes.
More Truth Than Poetry
CENSORSHIP.
I'd like to see lago !n the mov.
lon;
I'd like to watch him plot all
‘round the stage,
And to see stern vengeance hook
- him when at last it over
took him,
And he perished with a howl of
baffled rage.
Put the censors won't permit it In
the pictures,
For lago, they declare, was low
and mean,
And the baseness of the scampll
sot & very bad example
For the boys and girls who see
him on the screen,
T'd like to see J. Cacsar on the
flllum; .
I'd like to see him realize his
hunch
That, in keeping with the wam.
ing, on & certain bright
March morning,
He would get a fatal dose of
Roman purch,
But the censors, who pass judg
ment on such matters,
Are opposed to scenes of vige
lence and erime.
They declare that they're unwill.
ing to permit such elaret
spilling,
So they've barred the Cassar
drama for all Ume.
I'd like to see a screen of Rip Van
Winkle
When he found bls face was
whiskered o the ears,
That his clothes were cobwed
erustad, that his fowling
plece was rusted,
And that be was out of date by
twenty years
Put the censors in thelr wisdom
have decided
That to film & thing like that
is very wrong
They assert its quite Rctitious
and extremely meretricioue
Por it might encourage kide o
sloep too long
SAME OLD PEERLESS ONE.
s Bryan anncunces he's geing to
the 81 Louis convention fae Wil
oo “Tie expecind he'll come back
for Bryan, o weual
A FABLE,
(With a present-day moral.)
A likely lad was Rufus Right;
When he felt Salled upon to
fight
He trained and trained until he'a
gained
Some fAirst-class Aighting muscie.
He also found out how to box.
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and knocks,
For good, slear grit, all men ad
mit,
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Tin Rutmml-lh‘p.g.m,
ho never gagged the other
chap.
“In this bere fight” satd Rofue
Right,
“I will not be the vietim”
He worked untit he'd got pre
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was deciared “
He deait his oo & good clonn
blow,
Which generally Neked him,
Bob Wiunder, on the other hand,
Could never seem to under
stand »
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Is lacking in discretion,
Especially if you should chooss &
man who holds pugnacious
views,
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Is & pronounced obsesston.
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And ax words sped he saw bright
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And hept on getting madder,
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16 state. Bob saw the painfie
ruth toe late
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He's wiser now, and sadder.
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Now, perhage, we wint or
Carrania © acooust for the
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