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EDITORIAL PAGE Published by THE GEOKGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga Enteret as sscond-class matter st postoffice a! AUants under aot of Muwrch 3, 1873 In the Sky a Rainbow of Peace All the More Need of a Tariff Wall to Keep Work and Good Wages in This Country. g GRS LR R T /, /L e :‘."&._ i 22l l\\\ AR iW\ | / { 5 '-“3_ :‘R r# A \\‘\\\ A “.:,,_ y A L A I ~'\\\\‘ R ,\“ll\.;\} o\ S S o =4t T NA\\\X\ i \‘X\\w\\"\f'.‘.:,A;-;.,}.;;f;;_‘_f._.';:‘._ R T W N IO e i V»”}\ N N o N T SR\ o SVR s A =ee o, € SN SN Wi il \} e T SO ¢ s ‘\:\\\\‘r B &\\\‘ ¥ N \L\\-\:\‘ 5 5 §~' R e TR e PR i i T Wl T . TW e O vLh o of T g o « 1 Sty oy 7 /4",'/%'l, Ok o ’52-,;."_’.'" 5 :m’/,’fij WY /g//m'],# /11%/!‘( /fi’/ ( ¥ n o Ime B 'f*f/,;;‘/f'f"’?/%f" Ty L - ‘,’],fi;wl ) ,IOI'/,." Wi (/f, / 70‘% ‘ ‘.( Wg‘, / z,_’ " AL R ‘l/«5/ ~p W = ,() W im I\\_ RV NS Ry A D AT IRAE NN o DY P e o SR R o VT MOl TR 5 Wbkl 1 W W W T ket 5157 { _—-‘ - ! ' e ' % 4 ! £ W | & # Sy 24 ; i | F 18 Pr il 5 g llf‘ il I e g B dh -z -y ' & 1 o« 7 g R £ o //? " - ":’:/", 7 ’f/ r e ~Ga, WITHOUT THIS WALL—TROUBLE AHEAD. The peace rainbow is in the sky. Let us hope that as the first rainbow meant no more flood covering the earth, so this peace rainbow will mean no more horrible war devastating the world. The United States welcomes peace, and should think earnest ly of what is going to happen AFTER PEACE. The most important thing of all is shown in this picture—a tariff wall to protect the United States from the flood of competi tion that will come in as soon as the war ends. Millions of men will be released from the armies, compelled to work for what they can get—AND AT ONCE. We must take care that millions of men are not RELEASED FROM THEIR JOBS HERE IN AMERICA by the competition that will come from Europe after this war. The Secretary of the Navy makes an announcement interest ing to employers and workmen and to every citizen, an announce men' most amazing, and this is it: At this moment, with the war going on, but with peace in sight, the ammunition factories of England are bidding for the business of the United States Government and actually UNDER EID ALL OF OUR FACTORIES IN AMERICA. Here is the disptach that tells the story: Washington.—The opening of bids for armor-pierc ing shells by the Navy Department brought out the sur prising fact that British ordnance companies, despite the war, can provide the projectiles 35 to 40 per cent cheaper than any of the American steel companies. Hadfields, Ltd., of England, agreed to supply 3,000 16- inch projectiles in sixteen months at $513 each, duty paid. The Bethlehem Steel Company wants $775 each to provide 4,000 in thirty-six months, while the price from the Midvale Steel Company was S9OO each for 1,000 in twenty-four months. For 14-nich shells Hadfields, Ltd., offer a price of $356 each for 4,500, which they agree to deliver in eleven months. The Midvale Steel Company wants $550 each for 5,600 shells, to be delivered in thirty months, while the Crucible Steel Company asks $543.50 each for 2,000 deliverable in thirty-four months. Secretary Daniels was so struck with the differ ence in price that he emphasized it in the press notice given out by the Navy Department. He is at a loss to understand why the American prices are so much in excess. Mr. Daniels said the Hadfields company's offer would be considered in awarding contracts. “ecretary Daniels may well be ‘‘struck with the difference ' trice.”” Workmen getting high wages in this country, em. ¥ rs who know what free trade competition means, may also e ruck’’ by the facts. ! 're is an English concern offering to supply the United £lO & with shells for its cannon, and, in spite of war abroad, of. {B7 ng prices with which Americans can not compete. England would deliver the goods in sixteen months for five hundred and thirteen dollars each. The great American Bethlehem Steel Company asks seven £ . (Continued in Last Columns.) 4 Tive THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN How Are the Resolut: : e the Resolutions Getting Along? /,/;///;//// /7/ WP i I ik ) d4die 747/ 7/ % gl i //// /7 ///// ///,//,/ e /////// 0 ) / & 7 a o B - / @////1,, % £ / i Gt DA RIS R e (i i / ) G W (& it 38 - e 7 I\::‘ll' ,/' : :\/ ") ’ ‘lfi‘.‘ % l \ l"".’:"_’ g=, /;f@/ % ,%‘!, 4 rl\‘ ; 1 Vi M~ WA NNI o S g% e . & o R ; L 2% = @ s ~ i‘§i§\-’ ’ 7z N s ] /' ¢ > ”3\5/ e g \%\ )> 9 ] i’ 20 3 ; Slame=— i -‘"‘élflfl = - = T 8 The Joys and Glooms of Life ~- By T. E. 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' Ja h T =4N . . et . ,“.“‘;, T‘ s"= Y 7 e e A% g q{/ -.Mw ... ’z“" ) \ o/:"'.:':::.‘u CAFE THE COuNT 5 Y 63 LETS Go 09 5 Dol SWMMING (Ce PBO S~ ) ‘\' \ A l; ”/‘l A N B A (A N [iz s\ ’m )2/ ’ e g g© g 1 THE HOME PAPER (To President Woodrow Wilson: E We love peace and are content to dwell in fellowship with all nations. So we are peculiar ly chosen, as it were by a Providence, to speak, in our great seat of righteousness, power and dominion, the counsel of peace and good will to our distressed brothers in Europe. Mr. President, let us speak along with you 1 that counsel. And may God speed the message of com passion and friendliness and mercy and peace ‘ straight to the hearts of the rulers in whose hands lie trembling the lives of millions, the destinies of nations and the fate of the white man, and all the achievements and monuments g of His splendid and wonderful civilization! I SIGNED: : { NAME: ADDRESS: § e e it it ie, S b L T ; When these spaces are filled with signatures, mail or send to PETITION EDITOR, : THE GEORGIAN AND SUNDAY AMERI. CAN, ATLANTA, GA. g (The Georgian and Sunday American have received many thousands of signatures to the foregoing, which have been forwarded for presentation to the Presldent.) ¢ B A AR A AR e e sl . I In the Sky a Rainbow of Peace (Continued From First Two Columns.) hundred and seventy-five dollars each and requires thirty-six months’ time. And the big Midvale Steel Company asks NINE HUNDRED DOLLARS EACH and requires twenty-four months’ time. What does this mean? It means, of course, that the work ers in America are getting very much higher wages than the workers in England, and also that those whose capital is invested in manufacturing here are getting much bigger returns than cap italists investing in England. At a dinner given recently in his honor, Mr. Schwab, of the Bethlehem Steel Company, announced that he paid every one of his employees, men and women, an average of almost a hundred dollars a month. This is more than DOUBLE what the same em ployees would get in Europe. No wonder Europe can undersell us, even now in war time. Who could have believed a few weeks ago that today the Secretary of the Navy would be announcing that ammunition makers in England were competing for the business of the Unit. ed States and cutting almost one-half below the price of the American manufacturer, which means the AMERICAN WORK MAN? This is a serious matter for every man interested in the pros. perity of this country. Peace must come. It will mean a blessing for Europe, it must not be allowed to mean hard times and impossible competi tion for the United States. We rejoice to see the English ammunition factories produc ing more than they can use—FOß THAT MEANS THAT THOSE FACTORIES AND THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLLING THEM REALIZE THAT PEACE IS HERE. But from the point of view of the American workman, of American prosperity, this announcement of Secretary Daniels is the most striking and alarming thing in all the news of many months. If the steel business of Bngland can underbid us forty per cent now, with war on, what will the underbidding be WHEN ALL THE GREAT IRON INDUSTRIES OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND AND GERMANY BEGIN COMPETING FOR THE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES? We need a tariff, adequate Protection for workers and busi ness men, and we should have it, e T o ?0S . . - Une Small Nation Hitherto | Overlooked et ——— g We quote from the reply of the Allies to the Central Po b ;‘1‘;:;“; :fl:‘,?',:h}:“:\_“::w":‘.‘.fl,‘”n that no Pr-n.«-e 18 pos . v TAYE NOt secured the recognition of ¢ prm.‘lp'l.o- of nationalities and of the free existence of s States mmwmle carrying out this unselfish and admirable program. ' no undue bashfulness will cauge any of the Allies to oo tinue to overlook Ireland.