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Long Boy, of Georgia and
LElsewhere, Is Coming Home
ARLY in America’s participation in the
E war, someone who may not have been
a musician, according to the estimates
of opera reviewers, but who felt the pulse of
the publie, wrote a song about ‘‘Long Boy,"”’
the farmer lad who felt the same thrill that
made Cineinnatus and Isreal Putnam histor
ical, who enlisted for the great war and
whose world as he left it was cleverly de
seribed in his farewell :
“Good-bye Ma; good-bye Pa; good-bye
mule with your old hee-haw.”’
These casual soldiers meet you every morn
ing along Whitehal) and Peachtree, are the
“Long Boys’’ from good old Georgia and
around and about, on their way back to Ma,
Pa and the mule; and Ma, Pa and the mule
have changed little in the year that Long Boy
has been away.
But Long Boy’s world is ng longer con
fined to them. He has seen big things; he
has seen men like himself do big deeds in a
big cause. He has done big deeds himself.
He has met and mingled with men from
all ecorners of the earth, black men and white
men, men with strange dress and strange
rites, and he has seen these men fight and
die together to a common end.
He has become acquainted with his Amer
ican brothers of Maine aof Florida, of Cali
fornia, of Oregon, and Washington and all
the States between, and found them as cour
ageous or as afraid, as strong or as weak, as
smart or as dull as himself. e has acquired
in his year in uniform the world knowledge
that would have required a life of globe
trotting in other times, and he has seen
things stripped of the false and gaudy by the
powerful hand of war. He’s still a Georgian,
of course, but he has become a citizen of the
world. He has taken his own measure against
the men of his own and other nations and
knows his own classification.
Some millions of bovs with more or less
An All-American Policy for the
Sure Safeguarding of Our Democracy
The New World is peopled by the descen
dants of white men who came to it to escape
the hatreds, the jealousies, the strife and the
oppressions of the Old World.
The New World, with but slight excep
tions, is free of the political dietation of the
Old World and can easily be made free of its
finaneial and commercial dictation gs well.
The New World, though much of its nat
ural resources remain undeveloped, is self
sustaining. It can produce all that it needs
and by the interchange of its products
among its own people it can establish a high
average of prosperity and keep its wealth
AT HOME.
Geographically the New World is so sit
uated as to make easy its defense against
Old World aggressions.
Equip the United States with the largest
navy in the world, reinforee that navy, whien
need arises, with the growing navies of the
more progressive of our sister American com
monwealths, and this ALL-AMERICAN
League of Nations would be a match for any
ecoalition of Old World powers likely ever to
threaten it with invasion.
In the event of another great war avising
out of Old World greed and jealousies, this
League of American Nations could confine
its activities, political, financial and com
merecial, among its own members and let the
warring Old World nations fight each other
at their own cost,
Not an Ameriean dollar nor an American
life need again be hazarded save in clear
self defense.
We should not have to contribute to the
policing of Europe or Asia or Africa,
We could leave the peoples in those lands
free to work out their own destinies in their
own way.
We could give them the benefit of good
examples without having to try to foree onr
opinions upon them.
In the perfection of our own demoeratic
justitutions. in the successful working ont of
our own political, social and economie prob
lems so as to achieve the highest possible
average of welfare among our own people,
we should have ABUNDANT SCOPE for our
.tat.enmansrqip and onr idealism.
Thus would the New World fulfill the
hopes of its founders,
Thus would it keep tfue to its best tra
ditions,
The adoption of such a poliey would in.
volve no injusti¢e to any part of the Olld
World.
Our doors of welcome could continue to
swing inward to such of the deserving from
the older nations as we might find it desirable
to admit.
The interchanges of trade could go on so
long as our rights were unchallenged.
But, as we should need less from the Old
World than the Old World will always need
from us, the burden of defending those rights
could well be shifted to the chief beneficiaries,
who would, in the long run, have thé greater
stake in re-establishing them
iy the simple process of putting most of
our emphasis into New World developments
TRUTH, JUSTICE
of this world knowledge are going back to
hundreds of thousands of towns, villages and
countrysides, to their old homes and old
jobs, They look eager and happy as if they
are glad they are going back to Ma, Pa and
the mule. Most of them have become disil
lusioned about France and the big world.
The more they saw of Europe, the better they
like America. The returning soldiers call
America ‘‘God’s country,”” and they mean
it-—Georgia and all the rest of it.
They will be heroes for a time; the
smaller the town, the longer the halo will
keep new,
Most of the millions of heroes will have to
go on with the old jobs, because the old
jobs have to be done,
“Long Boy’’ may be a better mule driver
on the quiet farm for his knowledge that he
was the best artillery driver under shell
fire in his outfit, and the express man may
be more satisfied with himself because con
scious that he alone cleaned out a German
machine gun nest,
The consciousness of strength and courage
makes one a betler man though he may not
have a chance to employ those qualities to
the full.
With these millions of men to leaven the
life of rural America; these citizens of the
world settling down in the country and the
villages, American communities will cease
1o be provineial.
The American citizen soldier’s work in
France has seeured for America her place
as a world political and commercial dicta
tor, His work at home must secure for the
peo?le of America their position as the in
telleetual and social leaders of the world.
Knowledge is power, and these men have
knowledge. ‘
When you see ‘““‘Long Boy’’ give him
greeting, because you will be greeting the
future dictator of the world.
and of making certain their protection, we
should put the decision as to future relations
up to the Old World in the happy ecirecum
stance of feeling sure that no adverse decision
by the Old World could imperil our welfare.
In the early period of our nation’s
growth, when muceh of the New World's area
was claimed by Old World colonization, the
poliey of ** America for Americans’ was con
strued to mean an independent United States,
without alliances, entangling or otherwise.
But even then we laid down the Monroe
Doctrine, which forbade further Old World
encroachments on New World soil.
To expand ¢his doetrine of All-American
protection into a working agreement so» All-
American co-operation for mutual prosperity
and defense would be carrying out the logie
of the Monroe Doectrine to fit the enlarged
needs of a new day.
The task of making the whole world safe
for demoeracy might put npon our nation
more strain than it, with all its strength, is
vet ready to assame,
We should do the whole world a very fine
serviee, indeed, if we first made democracy
safe and genuine in the UNITED STATES
‘k“d then joined with our sister republies to
ssist in making it safe and progressive
throughout the Western hemisphere.
It would be a practical and enlightened
use of American power and Ameriean vision
in the seeuring of American welfare and
American safety FIRST.
A CARTOON THAT TELLS
A WHOLESOME STORY
Cartoonist Griffin in today’s" Georgian
tells in a ecleverly contrived drawing a
wholesome story for Southern contemplation.
He indicates the way to unparalleled pros
perity in Dixie, by way of a cartoon-—not in
frequently the most effective method where
by one may point a moral or adorn a tale.
The BIG factor in prosperity this year
will be, so far as the South. is concerned,
STRICT CURTAILMENT OF THE COT
TON ACREAGE.
There are collateral issues, such as hold
ing tight to the yet unmarketed portion of
the 1918 erop and diversification of the 1919
crops—which Mr, Griffin indicates by the
smaller bombs the pleasant-looking gentle
man is dropping from the ballapn that is be
ing held too close to the ground by the
“bears’’ and the gamblers; but the BIG
bomb, of course, is acreage curtailment.
There are indications that the farmers of
the South surely WILL eut down this year's
acreage sharply-—the indications are that it
will be held down to two-thirds of the usual
acreage ; this indicating a crop of not over
9,000,000 bales,
If they will stick tight to that program
and let nothing distract them from that pur
pose, then the story of this year’s prosperity
in the South is told. [t then will ““all be
over but the shouting.” . &
If they do NOT stick to it——and the
““hears’’ and gamblers are betting they
WILL not—then hard times will be their
portion, with themselves mostly to blame.
Blessed Is the Nation Whose God Is the Lord---Psalm 33:12 -
(Text for today was selected for The Georgian by the Rev. James E. Dickey, Pastor First Methodist Church, Atlanta.)
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Reforming a Flirt
By Winifred Black.
HE'S flirting with another man
and her husband knows it
What is he doing about it?
Nothing but breaking his heart.
What's the use,
pß——
poor man! A I ?
woman like that "y o, 4 "7',
isn't worth a 2 R
ute's real ; &
minute’s eal M 5 Y
pain, and, be- ‘ X
sides, T wonder s, g ’i‘i
if it isn't a good § i T |
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deal the man's H ] 4!
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own fault g S \3‘
“I am a de- |SHEES o, <
voted huwsband,” Fi “;;" fpwic
says the man Y, 7k eo% 3
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“I take good #: % “‘% %
i £ ot o SR
care of my wife 2 L:‘:,‘(Mf"
I glve her ev- § i
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erything my “ ‘\'j'--‘
money can buy
She says sne loves me and is al
ways sweet to me, but she won't
Keep away from the other ‘man. |
bought her a handsome fur coat for
Christmas and she couldn't wait to
get out of the house to show it to
the other man, What shall 1 do?"
Do get a little common sense into
your poor head, poor man? et a
little red blood in yvour veins, What
shall you do? Sit still and let a lit
tle feather-head wreck vour ife
wnd her own and make things mis
erible for the two children vou say
she reaily loves!
Come to think of it, I don't blame
the woman so much for Nirting
with the other man, Maybe she
thinks lfi\'u a man--a real man
and that™is what she is looking for
The next time your wife puts on
that fur coat and starts out, you
put on your fur coat and say:
“Going out? Tl'll go with you
and, do you know, I'm in a pecu
llar mood today. If 1 should happen
to meet anyone I don't like 1 really
belleve I'd knock him down.”
The little goose who doesn't know
enough to appreciate real affection
will fall in love with you on the
spot,
She belongs to the type of wom
in who loves 0 have someone
fishting for her. She doesn't live
for love; she lives for vanity
Is the man bigger than you are
and will he do a little knocking
down, too--If he gets a chance?
Don't give it to him. Take another
tack, and say
“Going out, my dear So am |
And see to it that she sees vou l
some time that very dav with the
TIME. FOR ROUGH STUFF
prettiest woman in town looking
right into your eyes. . Your poor
little goose of a wife will be too
busy watching you after that to
see much of the mak you dread so
terribly.
What nonsense all this sort = of
!.hig‘ is—what cruel, empiy-headed
barren nonsense’! .
Stop and think a minute, little
gocse, if you have any of the ap
paratus for thinking in that ljttle
head of yours,
Who is the best friend you have
on earth? Who will stand by you
when everyone else has left you?
Who really cares whether you are
well or ill, happy or miserable?
Who but the plain, every-day man
who pays your bills?
This other fellow? What does
he amount to? Not a thing in the
world. He's all right when vou're in
good spirits, well dressed, happy
and amusing. But get a good sharp
attack of neuralgia some day and
watch his interest fade.
He isn’t in love with you or with
anyone on earth but-—himself, He
loves to stand back and watch
himself work on the vanity of a
silly woman. Do you love to see
vourself fooled by him?
Come to, litle goose, come to!
You are just a harmless goose now:
very soon you will he something
quite different,
It ig-absurd now, this silly affair
of yours, that seems so romantic to
you. Don't you know that the very
grocery boy in the corner store is
laughing at you and at your dunce
of a husbanfi? It won't be so fun
ny when you tvake up some miger
able day and find yourseif desi&b
ed, disgraced. X
You've been to tha many mati
nees, that's all. You are really just
a foolish, vain little thing, with
skim milk for blood and scrambled
egegs for brains. But you like to
imagine that you're a dangerous,
fascinating, <emperamental siren,
luring men to destruction with your
languoroul glances, Fudge! You
couldn’t be really languorous if you
tried for a week. -
You have vour place in the world
~~the best there is, too—ihe posi
tion of an honest wife and good
mother, Keep it, in the name of all
that's honest, and Jet the notorious
Mrs. This and the Second Mrs, That
stay where they bhelong—in the
play,
As for you, you poor, deluded
husband. you ean’t make a woman
ke the wife y‘\; have chosen love
vou by pleading®with her. And, for
that matter, no woman on earth
can love & man§who will let her
make a fool of him. She needs
quite a different gtyle of treatment,
ro . RRTN T T
g oot Ae SOWIEIG ¥
Ti s i
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IT WAS up in the mountains.
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AND THE train stopped.
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AND ALL about us,
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THERE WAS snow, ‘
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AND DARKNESS.
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AND THE Cheerful ldiot.
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IN LOWER Seven.,
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WHO AT home.
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WAS A charter member,
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OF ALL the clubs.
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AND HAD badges to prove it.
WAS QUITE sure.
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SOMETHING HAD happened.
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IN THE way of a slide.
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BECAUSE,‘HE said.
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WHEN THE weather was warm.
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THE SNOW grew soft
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AND VERY heavy.
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AND THE weight of it
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WOULD START a slide
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AND RIGHT there.
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WHERE WE happened to he.
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WAS A favorite place,
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THE IDIOT said.
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AND ACR?SS the aisle
A LITTLE old lady.
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WITH WHITE hair,
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WAS LISTENING to him,,
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WITH !-:ER li.me old eyes.
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STICKING O\.gT of her head.
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AND | could see
THAT HE had her frightened.
MOST HALF to death. e
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AND THE rest of the women.
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WERE I;'ANGING around,
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AND LISTENING to him.
PUBLIC SERVICE
AND HE told the story.
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OF THE railroad train
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THAT A few years ago
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HAD COME to a stop.
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ON A mountain side.
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AND HAD been standing therve.
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FOR THREE or four hours.
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IN THE dark of night.
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AND ALL at once.
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THERE CAME a roar,
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FROM UP above,
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AND A moment later,
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THE ENTIRE train.
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WAS SWEPT away.
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AND INTO the gulch
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AND BURIED deep
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AND WHEN he had finished
HIS TERRIBLE tale.
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THE LITTLE old lady,
w .. §
ACROSS T‘HE way.
WAS WHITE as a sheet
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AND THE other women.
WERE SITTING around.
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AND GASPING for breath
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AND HE arose.
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AND STRETCHED himeslt,
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AND W.EN:I' b'ack to smoke,
AND IF I'a be.on able.
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I'b HAV.E followed him,
AND BEAT him up.
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BUT HE had me so scared.
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| COULDN'T move.
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AND THERE was no slide
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AND TE.N r.nln.utes later.
WESTARTED again.
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- THANK vou
| Ti Topics
lmel{. opics
| of Today
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By Arthur Brisbane. y
HERE seem to be as many
I ways of settling the railroad
problem as there are of kill
ing a cat. Four in number are the
. very latest railway solutions. :
William Jennings Bryan says l
national .and State governments |
should divide railroad ownership.
. The States should own the little
railroads within thomselves. The
nation should own the.big trunk
lines, giving every State an outlet
far'its little railroads for its inter
state railroads. .
. Railroad workers, 2,000,000 of
them. amounting with thefr fami
lies to 8,000,000 of Americans, say,
“Let the Government run the rail
roads in connection with the work
ers on the railroads, instead of
having the railroads run by the
Government in connection with
financiers. The Government can
supply money and management.
We, the workers, in return for fair
pay, will do the work. What ne
cessity is there for a crowd of men
in Wall Street shaving off every
possible dollar by paying the work
ers as Httle as possible on one side
and charging the public as much as
possible on the other?” g
Suggestic;n number three comes
from Paul M. Warburg, fo.rmerly
president of the Federal reserve
board, who would like the Govern
ment and the private owners to
manage railroads, as the Govern
ment, through the Kederal reserve
hanking system, and the private
owners of banks manage the coun
try's finarmces,
Under the banking system the
Government with its Federal re
serve says to the bankers, “Go
ahead and make all the money you
can. The Goverfiment is here td
guarantee you against a panic, will
lend you money at a low rate of
interest whenever you need it, and |
allow you to lend f\to the pablic
at a high rate of interest for your
benefit,”
Under Mr. Warburg's plan the
Government would hold the bag and
the private owners would get any
thing that the bag happened to
contain, -
Mr, Warburg is afraid that if the
Government owned the rallroa(.ls it
would thus control the purchase of
steel and coal, and might be tempt
ed to.enter the steel and coal busi
ness itself. This, he fears, would
make too many workers dependent
on the Government.
Mr. Warburg makes his sugges
tions in good faith, and apparently
unselfishly, although his firm re
cently reorganized apd presumably
owns, large&lk, the Missouri Pacific
Railroad. Mr. Warburg would Tike
to-sec “net earnings beyond 6 per
cent divided among stockholders,
Government and labor, with a fixed
maximum beyond which the earn- ,
ings of the stockho!ders should not
g 0 "
Six per cent on WHAT? Would
it be 6 per cent on @il the watered
stock that financial ingenuity has
been able to issue? What gives the
railtoads their value? Is it not
the patronage of the publie, the
growth of the nation and fl)e serv
ices of the workers on the rdil
roads? Why,after 6 per cent on all
the stock issued, should private in
dividuals continue dividing values
created by the public and the work
ers?
A fourth suggestion is that the
Government honestly confess its in
ability to run the railroads, confess |
also the superiority of the private "
owners and give back to those pri- /
vate owners the system that thel™
Government took over and rebuil
at a cost of many hundreds of mil |
lions, : - Q
The-most interesting tribute to ™
the inefliciency of private manage- |
ment is the statement made by one
of the biggest owners of railroad
stocks in the country, that If the
Government gives back the rail
-loads te private owners now, more
than half of them will be in the
hands of receivers inside of six
months.
Those who suggest that Govern
ment lacks efliciency and honesty to
manage railroads as well as they
have peen managed by private in- l
dividuals have little confidence in |
Government. I
It would be hard to manage any~ |
thing more inefficient or more dis- |
honest than the management of the
New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad, the management of |
the Rock Island or any dne of a |
dozen other rallroads neatly and |
politely gutted under private own
s-r.tlp: the stockholders, investors
in ®ood faith, robbed in a way that '
would have put the robbers in jail
it they had stolen ‘on a smaller
scale, '
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The wheat question, an interest
ing, gigantle Instance of national
subsidy, is settled. The farmer will
geL $2.26 a bushel for his 1919 wheat |
crop, The Government will handle i
it, sell at the market price, what
ever that may be, and stand the l
loss. One billion dollars has been
appropriated to meet the loss, It
must be arranced in this way to
meet the competition of other coun
tries that will have wheat to sell at
a low price, and naturally wouldn't 4
buy of us except at the regular rate.
The wheat farmer was urged ta
plant under a guarantee and i« en- |
titled to what he gets.