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TRUTH, JUSTICIS
Let Us Show the Whole World
What America Can Do When
Fully and Earnestly Aroused
The present peace move of Germany and
Austria should have the undoubted effect of
SPEEDING UP the Fourth Liberty Loan.
If the movement is insincere, the loan be
comes MORE NECESSARY THAN EVER;
if it IS sinecere, this likely will be the last of
the big Liberty Lioans and, therefore, YOUR
FINAL CHANCE to “‘kick in"’ on the Roll of
Honor.
The war 18 NOT yet nearly over; there is
a great deal to do, even though peace should
be found to be unquestionably on the way.
The wise and PATRIOTIC thing to do, in
the present eircumstaneces, is to go in for the
Fourth Loan even HEAVIER than you in
tended to or thought you could.
YOUR SUBSCRIPTION WAS NEVER SO
NECESSARY AS TODAY.
The American people have been doing one
big thing after another ever sinee the United
States entered the war. We have done big
ger things in less time than any nation ever
did.
Now let’s do THE VERY BIGGEST
THING that ever was done in the history of
the world.
Let us not only break every record that
any people ever made, but let us make a
record that no people will ever approach.
The Government asks us to loan it six
thousand millions of dollars.
Let’s double it.
Let’s show the world what the people of
the U'nited States can do when they are thor
oughly aroused.
Six billions is the greatest single loan that
has ever been asked for by any Government
in the history of the world. Tt is more than
the total stock of money in actual cireulation
in the United States, but no American, nor
anyone else familiar with the country and the
patriotism of our people, doubts that this
huge sum ean be raised in a single loan to
the Government, sinee loans are always a
matter of eredit, and the wealth of the eoun
try is at least EIGHTY TIMES SIX BIL
LIONS.
We have the greatest country in the world;
we have the most patriotic people in the
world: we have the greatest and richest re
sonrees in the world, and we are the most
willing of any people in the world to expend
our resources to the utmost for an ideal.
Our Government expects us to subseribe
to six billions of Liberty Bonds. Let us sur
prise our Government and surprise our Allies,
and, above all, SURPRISE OUR ENEMIES
Give the President of the United States
the Support of a Democratic Congress
In most States the primaries are over. The
candidates of the rival parties for both local
and national offces are duly nominated. Both
the Republican and the Democratic Congres
sional committees are in the field each with
an appeal to voters to support the candi
dates of its particular complexion.
It is a most significant sign of the times
that both of these committees base their
appeal mainly on the ground of the loyalty of
members of their party now in the House of
Representatives to the President in his war
time policies.
The Republicans are inclined to arrogate
to themselves a degree of loyalty which they
deny to the Democrats. They declare that
whatever opposition the President has en
countered has been in his own party and
that in all matters pertaining to the conduet
of the war the Republicans have given him
a cordial and hearty support.
The Democrats naturally take sharp issue
with this assertion and urge the voters to
return a majority of Representatives and
Senators of the President’s own party.
* Mr. Ferris, of Oklahoma, touching wpon
this question in a speech in the House, urged
that the voters give to the President so large
a majority of Democrats behind him that it
will be unnecessary for him ‘‘to conduet a
debating society’’ in the House every time
he has a war measure for enactment.
It is evident enough that the Congressional
campaign will find the champions of each
party loud in their assertion of peculiar
loyalty to the administration so far as war
legislation is eoncerned.
How the voters may regard a campaign
of this character is yet to be determined.
Common sense, however, eclearly indicates
that if the administration is to be supported
it ean best be done by members of its own
party in both houses of Congress.
We do not seek to decry or to under
estimate in any way the spirit of loyalty
which has led the Republicans to give in their
votes a very general support to Mr. Wilson's
administration on distinctly war issnes. But
we do not think the country has been deaf to
the speeches of attack upon and criticism of
the administration that within the last two
months have been delivered by the Repub
licans for the express purpose of furnishing
munitions for the coming campaign.
Nor do we think that any one possessing
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. . . . —ST.MATTHEW, VIL. 12
“Subscribe for Liberty Bonds”
by making the sbseription twelve billions in
stead of six billions.
Our brave boys abroad did much more than
our enemies expected them to do, much more
than our Allies expected them to do, and
much more than even we at home, who know
best their courage and devotion, expected
them to do.
Shall we at home do less than our boys
abroad? Shall we not do our easy part as
well as they have done their desperately dif
fienlt part?
Let us surprise the world as they surprised
it. Let us surpass all previous efforts of civil
ians in our war as our boys abroad have sur
passed all previous records in their heroie
duty of making war,
Let us do this much partly for sentiment
and partly for the very practical advantage
that will come to our country and our cause
as a result of it.
Vietory is now in the air. The enemy is
everywhere on the run. Not only disaster
but discouragement is overpowering him.
Let us add to the disaster and increase the
discouragement of the foe in every possible
way.
Caesar said Pompey knew not how to con
quer because Pompey had failed to follow up
and make overwhelming a victory which he
had begun to achieve. Our boys abroad
know how to conquer. They have started the
enemy retreating and they are keeping him
retreating. Let us do our share to keep him
on the run. Let us show that we will not only
speedily and cheerfully raise the six billions
required by our Government but that we
! will gladly offer twice that stupendous
amount to the service of our country if it
needs it.
Let us ecarry this heartening news to our
Allies and this discouraging and damning
fact to our foes.
Let us make an end of the war quickly by
the united exertion of our utmost endeavors,
for the sooner the war is over the less it will
cost in precious lives and the less even in the
minor matter of money.
Complete demoralization on the part of the
Teutonie allies may end the war in a month.
A thorough realization of the hopelessness of
their canse may result in revolution in Ger
many and the cessation of a useless and pur-
I poseless resistance.
! How glad we will be if we have done our
| share toward bringing about this speedy ter
| mination of the war through a glorious and
| overwhelming vietory.
even rudimentary political sense can be ig
norant of the fact that there are many legis
tative questions vital to the administration’s
program which are not absolutely and un
qualifiedly matters of war legislation.
Upon such the Republicans have not in
frequently set themselves in antagonism to
the administration’s desires in the past, and
if in the majority, would do so more effect
ively in the futupe.
We think that common sense and a true
regard for the vigorous prosecution of the
war will lead the country to elect a Demo
cratic Congress, because that is the natural if
not the only way in which Americans can
this year express the confidence they feel in
President Wilson’s brilliant and highly sue
cessful conduct of the war so far.
WHY NOT BETTER SPEED IN
REPAVING PEACHTREE?
Isn't it possible for the powers-that-be to
speed up the repaving of Peachtree street a
bit?
Winter is coming on, and the pressure of
time is urgent. Ivy street, from where it
enters Peachtree south to Edgewood and De
catur, is congested daily to a point where it
is all but unendurable. When the winter
weather sets in, it will be WORSE,
The traffic on Atlanta's streets is heavy,
and because of their general narrowness is in
convenient and slow in the best of circum
stances, Therefore, rational speed in street
construction here is more necessary than may
be the case usually in cities of relative size,
The Georgian believes this construction
can be hurried along, and we hope it WILL
be.
Why not ‘‘get a move on'’ from today on,
and get the matter over with, BEFORE the
cold weather is upon us?
‘“General Closing to Check Flu,'’ says a
Constitution headline. Since it isn’t a Gen
eral Von Closing, maybe he really has a
chance to put it across.
‘“Great activity in the nut industry’’ is
noted in Georgia. This doesn’t seem to be
exactly the silly season politically, at that.
Looks as if the German All Highest also
is the World's Champion All-Innest.
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Two Fifteen Year Olds
By Winifred Black.
{ERE is a little maid I know
—a maid of 15, and she lives
in a great Eastern city. She
fs ambitious, anxfous to do her
e part of the work
¢ R ;3 the world |ls
il ;?"\u "f*"'-{' bending under,
O Rl anxious to help
8. ‘fib“qq our country win
e .l the war, and
e anxious to get
W »{ well upon her
SR M| own small feet.
-&: Sl Anda what do
WS b | you suppose our
. | young heroine
"3‘.;-;',:.;- T wants to do?
ey To write or
L G . 4 paint pictures,
P | ’)’G Y or be a stenog
-0 't"\:/ I rapher, a clerk
or a worker in
store or factory? Nothing of the
sort. What this one craves is to
E 0 to work on a cattle ranch!
I don't suppose she ever saw a
cattle ranch in her life, certainly
there are none near the city in
which she lives. It is the great,
free, boundiess West that she is
looking for, the West of “The Vir
ginian” or “The Little Knight of
X-B"” And no wonder she longs
for a cow pony and long rides un
der the blue sky, on the plains be
tween the Missouri and the setting
‘ sun,
| I am afraid my dainty little maid
would not like the real cattle
ranch, if she ever got far enough
West to seo one,
| It is a dusty, fusty affair and—
whisper--all the young cowboys,
-the broncho busters and the gallant
horsemen of the movies have gone
to France or Italy to fight in the
great war. And the only people left
on the ranches are old people
brought up to the rough ways of
ranch life
S 0 I am gAing to tell this girl,
who so longs to do nomothlnfi
worth while, to look for thetas
nearest to her, and the one she is
most suited for,
“A BIG COWARD.”
There {s no scarcity of work now,
and {f our little 15-year-old can
not find just what she wants at
first, why there is & chance for her
still at school,
No one should fail to be as well
prepared for life as she-—-or he—
can be
The coming years will bring plen
ty of chances. Opportunity does
not ecme once only-—why, it comes
every day, to all the young and
healthful and keen-eved.
And gpeaking of—we will call her
Arline, but that is not her name—l
Tuesday, October 8, 1918
am reminded of a boy. He says
proudly that he is 15 years and
7 months of age. He also lives In
the great city, and he, too, has a
deep, consuming ambition.
No cattle ranch for him—nothing
as strenuous as that—for he told
me himself that, although he is
fairly well grown, he is “as weak
as a new-born babe” and “a big
coward.”
He llkes to read romances and
tales of adventure, but—though he
does not say it to me—l strongly
suspect that he hates work as
much as he says he hates fighting.
And he writes verses, too!
He is kind hearted, for he loves
animals and hates those who are
cruel to them, but his heart does
not lead him to anything very ac
tive. No cattle ranch for him. He
is employed in a bankers office,
where he has a chance to get on in
the world, but that doesn't suit him.
The one thing that this boy longs
for {s to become an actor. He can
not tell how he yvearns for a chance
upon the stage. It is not money he
wants, he says, nor fame; it is just
thel love of acting, from his very
soul,
FIRST BE A MAN.
Now there are two young things
of 16 years. 1 see a good chance
for the girl of a hapyy, useful life,
She need not go to a cattle ranch
to find a place where she will do
well, But as to the boy--shall we
call him Leo?-I feel rather down
hearted. For he tells me himself
that he 1= a coward.
Now that settles it. Leo will have
to correct his whole being and be
cured of cowardice, No good things
can be expected of a coward. But
the case {8 not hopeless, for many a
youth has set himself to learn brav
ery and self-control, and so downed
the sneaking spirit of cowardice.
The annals of war are full of
storles of men who, cursed with
cownrdice, have braced themselves
to be men, met all shapes of horror
and fear, but who, by mastering
themselves, came out with all the
honors of brave men.
I do not despalr, of Leo In the
long run. Cowardice in a boy of 16
is curable. If he takes himself in
hand, he may be on the n{hunu
line a few {nn from now, In the
meantime, I shall tell him to learn
to dox, swim and be a star on the
mnlu track. Develop his body
by outdoor exeroises and his mind
by mdln‘ real books about real
people in the real world, and get as
quickly as possible to the point
where he realizes that cowardice is
a mortal reproach to any man. For,
first, he must be a man, Then it
dcesn’'t matter what occupation he
follows, 8o long as it is honest,
| More Truth Than Poetry |
By James J. Montague ,|
;: eel e T‘:T'TT‘_T_TE
The War Lord
IT looks as If we had 'em licked from Belgium to the sea, l
Each passing day our troops advance a mile or two or three.
old Foch keeps hammering away, and when he’s worn "em thin |
He picks another place to slam and keeps on smashing in. 1
And while we read good cheerful news from all along the line |
There falls like music on our ears, the German Kaiser’s whine. |
|
HE isn’t spouting boasts about the mighty German sword; ‘
He isn’t pausing in his tracks to thank the German Lord; |
He isn’t hymning forth his hate and talking of the way (
When his victorious armies win, he’ll make the Allies pay. I
He’s running round the Fatherland (behind the danger zone), !
And begging people not to quit and leave him all alone. f
TWO million of his subjects dead, and many millions more i
Put where they never can take part in this or any war, |
His people rioting for bread, he still runs up and down '
And begs them to keep in the fight to save his blood-stained |
crown. |
No Royal Personage is this who rules by right divine, ;,
But just a badly scared old man—a coward with a whine. \
IT may take longer than we think to land the final blow; l
He may have still a little while his whimpering way to go, |
But whether it be weeks or years, those lips will boast no more |
Of German Lords or German swords, or German Might in war.
His days of brag and blustering are vanished with the past;
He'll slink to what his fate may be—and whining to the last!
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1000 Per Cent Loyal.
Lieutenant-Governor Bchoeneck leaves a fat office and the prospect of !
another tarm to become a leutenant of artillery. And this is the man who
was charged with a lack of patriotism because he had a German name!
It May Melp,
That message of Pershing’s about keeping America white hot ought to
be “duped” to the Fuel Administration.
Not Much,
The kind of & peace we shall get will not have a "made in Germany”
label on {t. ]
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PUBLIC SERVICE
- .
, Timely Topics 1
of Today
L::_—,—m_._.. J l
By Arthur Brisbane, |
N O not imagine, when you have
D a slight cold, that the Span
ish Influenza has got you. It 4
is easy to frighten yourself into
real iliness. .
As a practical joke a man was
once strapped into a chair and told
that he was to be bled to death. |
His feet were put in a pail of red- <
dened warm water, the back of a |
razor was drawn across the soles |
of his feet without cutting them, |
The man saw the red water, |
thought he was bleeding to death
and dled of fear, although he had |
not lost a drop of blood. i
20 5 i
There will be millions of ordi- ||
nary colds as usual this autumn, |
and comparatively few cases of real 1
Spanish influenza.
Take unusual care of every oold, *
but let no cold frighten you. Al |
the European countries have had :
this influenza. They have not let
it interfere with their activities.
It hasn't been so very serlous, and
it won't be worse here than it has |
been there, 1
. . -
You read about the war om-the
western front.,
To SER that great chain of war |
you would have to stand at the cen
ter of a battle line 100 miles long. ‘
Fifty miles to the left and 50 |
miles to the right you would see a
continuous battle front, millions of
men fighting and killing in the |
front line, millions in reserve in §
the rear. |
.9 - |
You would see nine Allled armies
attacking the Kalser all at once, "
all directed and controlled by the
brain and will of the magnificent
Frenchman, Foch.
There is the secret of the good
news that you are reading.
Nine armies are flghting under
one brain, and defeat of Germany
is as certain as that justice rules
this world.
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How near are the Americans to
the Germans?
Near enough for American sol
diers to make the enemy hear this
piece of news shouted over thev
trench tops: “Your friend Bulgaria
has surrendered and we will get
you soon.”
How far forward do American
fighters go?
Three hundred of them, far in ad
vance of the main line, surrounded
on all sides by Germans, using
only weapons and ammunition that
they carried with them, held thelr
ground for days, and, minus the
killed, are again with their own
army, °
T » »
Your children missed the fire
works last July 4, and perhaps you
did, too. Explain to them that the
bond you are buying for them is
used for fireworks where flreworks
will do the most good.
One hundred dollars that you pay
for one bond will buy one very big
“T. N. T.” shell. And that shell,
we!l aimed, will send 100 Prussians
to a land hotter than the western
front.
A hundred doNar shell ean make
Prussians cease from troubMng at
one dollar a head—a bargain, cer- ‘
tainly. Begin celebrating next
Fourth of July now, with fireworks
pald for by you and exploded tn
Germany. Buy bonds!
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It 1s suggested that Foch, as a
graceful tribute, be made a citizen
of the United States. A polite
Frenchman, he will accept grace
fully any tribute well meant. And
& proud Frenchman, he will tell
you that to be a citizen of France
and do your duty toward humanity
supplies all necessary glory in this
world.
Every Httle French boy sings:
Moutir pour la patrie, c'est le sort
le plue beau, le plus d‘gm d'envie.
Every boy in France sings it
every Frenchman means It: “To die
for Fragce is the most noble fate,
the most to be envied.”
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The Danish newspapers say that
Germany is crushed, and the Amer
lcan dollar in Denmark is worth
$2.20,
Denmark apparently has not read
Colonel Roosevelt's latest Liberty
bond speech In which he said: “This
country is paying the price of un
preparedness.” -
Denmark apparently thinks, as
do many Americans, that THR
KAISER is the one just now pay
ing the price of Mr. Roosevelt's
“American unpreparedness,” which
seems to be a very special kind of
unpreparedness,
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Wall Street is willing to bet real
substantial money that the war will
end by January 1. Wall Street is
showing better judgment now than
when it bet three to one that Pres|-
dent Wilson was defeated, two days
after he had actually been elected.
Wall Street's judgment, like other
Jjudgment, 18 sound where its own
interest is not .corzce:m-d.
There comes the statement thata
German Soclalist s to be made
Secretary for Foreign Affalrs, That
was little Areamed of four years
ago by the Kalser, when fear of the
Scceialists’ growing power was one
of the things that decidnd him te
indulge his stupid vanity and start ‘
the war, !