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TRUTH, JUSTICE
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Our hearts go out to all those good people who want to do the right
thing but do not know what is the right thing to do; who are so loyal that
they ache to be helpful in winning the war, but who in the midst of Red Cross
and Y. M. C. A. and K. of C. drives, and amid the confusion of clamors to buy
smileage books, thrift stamps and liberty bonds are perplexed what to do
next and worried about what they did last.
To this day many people do not know that they may get Liberty bonds
of the banker, war-savings stamps at any postoffice or corner drug store, and
have only to call up the Red Cross by telephone, although the newspapers
continually print these addresses and other facts.
Comes an inquiry from one who is perplexed because another call is
made for Liberty Loans, and just now he is buying war stamps to fill his sav
ings certificates. He wants to know if the Government has sold war stamps
enough and whether it is a higher duty to invest in bonds than in savings
certificates.
WAR STAMPS ARE FOR EVERYBODY TO BUY NOW AND AT ALL
TIMES.
BONDS ARE FOR THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD TO INVEST FIFTY
DOLLARS OR MULTIPLES OF FIFTY IN LOANS TO THE GOVERN
MENTS. ‘
Thrift stamps cost only twenty-five cents each. Every child can buy
them and it was intended that every child should. Every adult can buy
them with the loose change that otherwise might be frivolously spent. This
campaign goes on daily and will continue until TWO BILLIONS have been
raised by this expedient. (About $100,000,000 has been raised—or $1 per
capita of population.)
That means that every inhabitant of these United States should buy
twenty dollars’ worth of war-savings certificates, i. e., FOUR.
That means FOUR for yourself and FOUR for every member of your
family. When you have done that much you will have done ONLY YOUR
AVERAGE. You will have to do still more to make up for those slackers
who do not contribute their quota.
No sacrifice is involved in buying thrift stamps. That is a daily habit.
Once in a while you will be called upon to subscribe for bonds IN AS
LARGE AN AMOUNT AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY AFFORD, and that may
require some sacrifice.
So here is your motto. BUY THRIFT STAMPS AS A DAILY HABIT;
BUY BONDS AT EVERY CALL TILL THE SACRIFICE HURTS.
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Dependentsof Service Men Merit
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First and Caretul Consideration
In comparison with the huge financial operations being handled by the
United States Treasury iu its Liberty Loan bonds, its Thrift stamps, its new
currency and taxes, and other financial affairs running into almost fabulous
figures, the *‘small stuff*’ of allotment checks to the dependents of soldiers
and saflors in the service may seem very trivial.
But in actual fact these should claim the very first consideration of those
officials in the department whose work it is to see to their distribution.
Promptness should be the watchword in this work, because upon prompt
ness In many cases depends the very living of soldiers’ wives and mothers.
The Georgian during the past weeks has been in receipt of letters from
mothers, frcem wives and from other dependents of soldiers and sailors at
this very moment on the firing line,
In many cases they are the dependents of drafted men, indicating that
mumbers of registrants waived their possible rights to exemption to follow
the flag.
And in all these complaining letters, the dependents—wives with chil
@ren, mothers too aged to work—tell of having received their allotment from
the first month’s pay of their husbands or sons, but of having failed to get
their checks during the past two or three months.
Tt is to be appreciated that the Treasury Department is busy. Never be-
Yore in its history has it been deluged with such a tremendous amount of
work as it now is compelled to handle. And word comes that several shifts
of clerks are engaged on the detail of tabulations, check-writing, bond dis.
tribution and other work.
If it be that the combined work thrown upon the shoulders of the de
partment through the manifold activities of the department is so great that
something must wait, then it might be suggested with complete propriety
that those things should be delayed which do not affect the supply of money
for bare necessities, which is the case with these dependents of service men.
The attitude of some of these women, who are dependent upon a por- ‘
tion of their soldier-relatives’ pay for their bare living, is truly noble. One
of them, the wife of a soldier now in France, who has been left with three
children, writes:
“I have three children and we are very much in need of money. |
don’t like to apply to any charity, the Red Cross, or any other organ
ization. I would sooner give them something if I had it. And I don't
want to embarrass my husband, because he feels that his duty is to be
with the colors. But we do need the money.”
That is the real patriotism which recognizes real sacrifice as a part of
patriotic duty in war time.
These women are doing their bit—to the very hilt, To see that they
are not made unduly to suffer, through their willingness to give to their
country, is the duty of the Treasury Department.
It is to be hoped there will be a prompt improvement in this feature of
the department’s work. l
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DOING IT A BIT BETTER.
It is not unlikely that trying to do the thing for which you are not fitted and for
which you have little natural ability may be the reason you have not advanced
further.
There are illustrations of persons trying to do things for which they are not
fitted in many organizations.
To be really helpful do your bit along the line in whick you are most proficient.
It is important also among young people who are choosing a lifework.
Not because it seems to be a more genteel sort of work, but because vou can
do it better than any other is the foundation for success.
If you are far above the average along a certain line, that is the thing to pur
sue if you wish to rise above the common plodder.
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By JAMES J. MpNTAGUE.
The Liberty Loan
THREE cheers for the army of dollars,
That pours from the tills and the banks,
And falls into line to help your cause and mine,
In glimmering, chimmering ranks.
An army that numbers three billions,
Enlisted to fight for the right;
A force that will show to an obstinate foe
The weight of America’s might!
IT comes from the mill and the market;
It comes from the rich and the poor;
From city and town it is hurrying down,
That the land that we love may endure.
And while our young legions are fighting
With Yankee-like courage and nerve,
Behind their brave line, as it moves toward the Rhine,
Is massing the Dollar Reserve.
TURN out and recruit for the army!
No good honest dollar must shirk;
Pass forward the call! there is need for them all!
Your job is to get them to work,
For never since dollars were minted ‘
Have they had such a glorious chance
To be of real worth to the peoples of earth
As they have with our army in France!
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YOU NEVER CAN PLEASE SOME
PEOPLE.
The Siamese are importing motor
cycles by thousands. And they can
have all the elephants to ride on they
want, too!
HE NEEDS CORROBORATION.
We are glad to hear Mr. Garfield
say that the price of coal has been
reduced, but we shall not be quite
sure of it till the statement is con
firmed by our local coal dealer.
THIS SETTLES HIM.
T. R. has weathered a good many
blows, but we doubt ilf he will ever
recover from The New York Tri
bune's sudden and violent support for
President.
AND SO IT GOES.
‘“The German sword has won the
war!”
The Kaiser shouts, and then
The Allies fight a little more
And win it back again!
BE CALM.
We hope the nation will not get
overexcited about the change in the
footbali rrles this fall.
Saturday, April 13, 1918
WHICH?
ALWAYS A PIONEER.
Old Ben Franklia drew the first
daylight-saving law. It read:
EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO
RISE
MAKES A MAN HEALTHY,
WEALTHY AND WISE.
BETTER CHANCE FOR GETTING
THERE.
We may not know yet how the drive
is going to end, of course, but it oc
curs to us that the Kaiser would
have used better strategy if he'd
started for Petrograd instead of Paris.
NO EXTRAVAGANCE.
There'll be plenty of daylight after
Sunday, so the Senate is justified in
letting a little of it into the workings
of the War Department.
APOLOGIZING TO RUDYARD.
For to booze and soak and spree
As I go round the world so wide,
It never done no good to me,
But I can't quit it if I tried.
ANSWER; NONE!
What good is the daylight-saving
law going to do the men who only use
the extra hour to goif in?
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| Comment
UPS AND DOWNS OF COTTON.
(Tifton Gazette.)
In his interesting reminiscences,
Bridges Smith tells how at one time
cotton men in Macon thought, that
the presence of a man with a hand
organ and monkey on the streets of
that city had a direct bearing on the
cotton market, causing a decline in
price. At one time the organ man
was prohibited by municipal law, but
later was admitted on payment of a
substantial license. We have seen
smaller things than that depress the
cotton market,
FINE FOR WORTH!
(Albany Herald.)
Worth County raised her quota of
Liberty bonds in a few hours, and
threw in an extra $25,000 for good
measure. Worth is not only one of
the very best counties in Southwest
Georgia, but her people have proved
to be among the most patriotic. They
have responded splendidly to every
call their country has made for the
support of war causes.
THE WRONG WAY.
(Cedartown Standard.)
A mob lynched a blatant pro-Ger
man last week up in Illinois. This
- was the wrong way to 80 at it, of
course, for the effect is permanently
bad on any community where a
Iynching occurs, however much its
victim deserves death.
HOPE HE GETS THEM SOON.
(Columbus Enquirer-Sun.)
“Now, why should there be a lemon
famine just because there is war?”
asks The Augusta Chronicle. Maybe
everybody is saving up one to hand to
the Kaiser.
HE'S ALWAYS ON THE JOB.
(Girflin News.)
You may have set the clock ahead,
according to orders, but did you think
to tell old Chanticleer to get on the
Job an hour earlier In the morning ?
THE ACID TEST
(Augusta Chronicle.
Savannah has admitted women to
its Board of Trade. But the real test
will come when they are admitted to
her Hibernian Society banquets.
THE ROMAN WAY.
(Rome Tribune-Herald.)
Atlanta man is trying to have his
wife enjoined from slapping him. The
best injunction we know of is the
smooth side of a skillet.
“SPANG” IS SO GENEROUS.
(Macon Telegraph.)
“Spang,” of The Atlanta Georgian,
who came over with the Yaarab
band, is a liberal guy. He offered
vesterday to let us tote his bass drum
all we wanted to.
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SATURDAY EVENING
A Week-End Clearing House for Notes of Men and Affairs. !E
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By JAMES B. NEVIN.
OUR GIRLS “OVER THERE.”
Here is a most interesting letter
that came to me one day this week.
The writer asks that I do not use
her name, and I am giving it that
direction, although I think she has a
right to be proud of the letter:
“I am the mother of a Red Cross
nurse registered for foreign service,
and I am constantly hurt to hear
public addresses, public prayers, ser
mons from the pulpits and to read
editorials regarding the solicitude we
must have for our soldiers, and re
questing people to pray for them, and
no mention (scarcely ever) of the
nurses.
“We speak of our boys—why not
mention our giris? We love them as
well, but do not tell it. They are
giving up home and all, as well as
the boys, to win the war.
“We read and hear ‘Pray for the
soldiers.’ It should be ‘Pray for the
soldiers and nurses.’
“I believe you write the fairest,
squarest editorials I have read, and
even you have overlooked a fitting
recognition of the nurses; now I beg
of you to make a plea to the people
through your columns to remember
and connect the two classes of pa
triots wkin praying for and helping
the enes away from home.
“It hurts our girls as well as boys
to miss the home ties, and they will
suffer the same, boys and girls alike.”
There is much food for thought in
the foregoing letter. It is from a
woman who evidently feels very
deeply and sincerely the weight of
the war, and is anxious that those
who are trying to win it be given full
and complete credit for everything
they are doing.
It is possible that her point of view
is not exactly right, and that she ex
aggerates the matter which has
weighed so heavily on her mind. Tt
IS true, however, that we do speak
of “our boys” who are going “over
there” more frequently than we do
of “our girls'—but when we speak of
“our boys” who are gofng “over
there” we mean really ALLgpersons
who are going.
Surely, there is not a ¢itizen any
where so unmindful of the great pur
poses and objects of the war as not
to realize fully and feel deeply
the magnificent service the women
are rendering—not only in the Red
Cross service, but in all the various
lines of service to which the women
of the nation have been called.
No soldier will play a nobler part
than the Red Cross nurses will play.
Indeed, if it were not for the Red
Cross nurses and the inspiring labor
they perform day after day the Al
‘lies could not possibly hope to win
this war.
And when it has been won, full,
complete and ungrudging credit will
come to the Red Cross nurses. Hun
dreds of thousands of soldiers will
return from the war with the tender
est and sweetest recollections of the
Red Cross nurses. Thousands and
thousands of them will know that
they owe their very lives to these
splendid women—and so, if there be
any doubt whatever that the Red
Cross nurses are receiving full
and complete credit for what .they
are doing NOW, they still could af
ford to wait a while in patience, as
sured that after the war is over they
will have performed a service to hu
manity that can not and will not be
forgotten.
I have often thought of late of
those beautiful words from Lucile,
wherein the mission of woman is pic
tured:
The mission of women, permitted to
bruise
The head of the serpent and sweetly
enfuse )
Through the sorrow and sin of earth’s
registered curse
The blessings which mitigate all.
Born to nurse,
And to soothe and to solace, to help
and to heal
The sick world that leans on her.
This was Lucile.
Never before did a sick and war
weary world lean so heaviiy upon
woman as it does today. Hers will
be the task of helping and healing
after the war is over; hers is the
task of helping and healing while the
war goes on. Truly, she WAS born
to nurse and to soothe and to solace
—and that is the mission of the Red
Cross nurse, the finest and the most
glorious figure on all the battlefields
of Europe.
The most dastardly and aamnable
thing the German military powers
have done was to bombard hospitals
wherein the sick and wounded were
being brought back to some measure
of physical repair by t/ese Red
Cross nurses. Never will the day
come wherein Germany will be able
to feel that the world has forgotten
or forgiven that. ’
I wish it were possible for me to
pay in words the full and complete
tribute that is in my heart to the
splendid nobility of the Red Cross
. nurses, but I am not equal to that—l
doubt if any living man is fully equal
to it. But Ido not want this Atlanta
mother—and® every other mother,
anywhere, father or sister, or brother
or relative or friend, for that matter
—to think for a minute that, how
ever much we may speak of “our
boys” and however much we may in
cline to express ourselves in loving
and tender terms as concern them,
there is not a moment of the day or
night that we do not fully appreciate
and leva the Red Cross pagses.
PUBLIC SERVICE
GENEROUS AMERICA.
Thomasvilie, Ga., with an allot
ment of $30,000 in the Third Liberty
Loan, oversubscribed it by SII,OOO
within thirty seconds after the drive
started.
That is what I eall a record to be
sincerely proud of, and I think
Thomasville—that splendid, thriving
South Georgia city—has every rea
son to plume itself upon its glorious
and patriotic achievement.
It is a fine tribute to the character
of the American people that they
have responded so readily and so
generously to calls for financial help
during this war. For a people accus
tomed for years to live in ease and
luxury, carefree, seeing no enemies
anywhere, unprepared and unsuspect
ing of trouble, they have met the
sudden emergencies -of this war in a
way that is little short of amazing.
In one year we have changed from
a peaceful, calm and careless people
into a powerful and militant nation,
ready for war, and willing to wage it
to the uttermost!
With all of the resources of the
nation behind the President of the
United States, America is marching
forth to war and to victory—and the
more we are asked to give the more
willing we ARE to give, and we
are not overlooking any of our rela
tively smaller matters as we go
along, moreover.
Next Wednesday we are going to
have our annual “Tag Day” in At
lanta for the Sheltering Arms. This
is the only “Tag Day” that is recog
nized in Atlanta as an official occa
sion. Tt is set aside and reserved for
the Sheltering Arms—and it is jeal
ously reserved to this cause.
I think the greatest amount ever
raised on one of these tag days was
something like $5,500, but I told one
of the splendid women promoting
“Tag Day” for 1918 that I really be
lieved this year’s collection would be
a record-breaker—and I hope it will.
Nothing would please me more
than to see the fund go “over the
top,” to six or seven thousand dol
lars.
I think the Sheltering Arms is in
many ways the noblest charity in At
lanta. The work it does is so fine
and worth while that we ought to be
willing at all times to “go the limit”
in helping those who look after it
three hundred and sixty-five days in
the year. Its work is among the lit
tle children of the poor. Its object
is to give them and their mothers a
chance—just something like an even
chance for the kiddies to weather the
perils of poverty and want, that they
may grow to youth and manhood and
womanhood, healthy of body and
healthy of mind.
The Sheltering Armg is a modest
charity. It asks very little. It at no
time shouts its virtues from the
housetops—but quietly, day after
day, it speeds on its mission of hope.
We hear very little of it except on
“Tag Day”’—and as that is the ONE
day in the year that it asks of our
bounty we ought to loosen up and
help!
Whatever you gave to the Shelter
ing Arms last year, suppose you give
TWICE that amount this yeayp. If
you gave a dollar last year, make it
two; if you gave five, make it ten;
if you gave ten, make it twenty.
Let's get together in the real At
lanta way next Wednesday, and give
these noble women of the Sheltering
Arms the greatest and grandest “Tag
Day” they have ever known.
A FINAL APPEAL.
These be melancholy days for old
John Barleycorn. Nobody loves him;
everybody swats him. There are
none so poor to do him revevence,
His humble bids for favor are many,
but responses are few and far be
tween.
The latest appeal for a friendly
word from that quarter comes from
the saloon keepers of New York,
who have banned from their pres
ence the once highly favored pretzel,
because of its pro-German inclina
tions and Teutonic origin. It is to
laugh!
Down in this country we had al
most forgotten that such a thing as
a pretzel ever existed. Its only pos
sible excuse for existence anywhere
seems to have been a notion in the
minds of some people that it goes
pretty well with beer. The real ob
ject of the pretzel was to make you
want more beer. That is why so
many of the old bars furnished them
free.
I think that is a good and sufficient
excuse for casting the pretzel into
darkness, regardless of its German
taint. It is bad enough, with the
Bock beer season in full bloom and
barbecue days on the horizon, to
want any beer—it* certainly would be
a sad and melancholy thing to have
to eat something that would make a
man want more beer!
I do not believe the banning of the
pretzel is going to save the saloon
keepers of New York. The saloon is
doomed. In a few years there will
not be one in existence in this coun
try. If we do not have iron-clad pro
hibition throughout the nation, we
are going to have scmething very
much like it.
But, in any event, the saloon has
had its day—and that day has been
sinned away. Being extremely sick,
the saloon, like the devil, a saint
would be—but it isn't going to have
another chance.
It may banish the German pretzel;
it may frown upon sauerkraut and
all of such pro-German things, but
none of that will help—John Barley
ccl)lrni is on his last legs, and about
a n.