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TRUTH, JUSTIC]
Long Boy, of Georgia and
Elsewhere, 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 hisfor
ical, who enlisted for the great war and
whose world as he left it was cleverly de
rribed 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 Whitehall 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 no longer con
fined to fhem. He has seen big things; he
has seen men like himself do big deeds in a
big causg He has done big deeds himself,
He ha‘ met and mingled with men from
all corners 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 aequainted with his Amer
ican brothers of Maine, of 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. He 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. le'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 boys 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 eame to it to escapg
the hatreds, the jealousies the strife and the
op.Freuions of the Old World.
he New World, with but slight excep
tions, is free of the political dictation of the
01d World and can easily be made free of its
finanecial and commereial dietation as 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
01d World aggressions.
Equip the United States with the largest
navy in the world, reinforce that navy, when
need arises, with the growing navies of the
more progressive of our sister American com
monwealths, and this ALL-AMERICAN
TLeague of Nations would be a mateh for any
eoalition of Old World powers likely ever to
threaten it with invasion.
In the event of another great war arising
eut of Old World greed and jealousies, this
League of Ameriecan Nations could confine
its activities, political, financial and com
mercial, among its own members and let the
warring Old World nations fight each other
at their own cost,
Not an_American 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 vould leave the peoples in those lands
free to work out their own destinies in their
own way,
We conld give them the benefit of good
examples withdut having to try to foree our
opinions upon them.
In the perfection of our own demoecratie
institutions. in the suceessful working out 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
statesmanship and our idealism,
Thus would the Ne\ World fulfill the
hopes of its founders.
Thus would it keep true to its best tra
ditions. ’
The adoption of such a poliey would in
\‘lve no injustice to any part of the Old
orld,
Our doors of welecome conld 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 eould 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 the greater
stake in re-establishing them,
By the oi.mgle process of putting most of
our emphasis into New World developments
of this world knowledge are going back te
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 conntry,”’ and they mean
it—Georgia and all the rest of if.
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.
“Tong 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 ont a German
machine gun nest.
The consciousness of strength and courage
makes one a better 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
to be provineial.
The American citizen soldier’'s work in
France has secured for America her place
as a world political and commercial dicta
tor. Tis work at home must secure for the
people of America their position as the in
telleetnal and social leaders of the world.
Knowledge is power, and these men have
knowledge.
When you see ‘““Long Doy’ give him
greeting, because you will be greeting the
future dictator of the world.
and of making ecertain their protection, we
should put the decision as to future relations
up to the Old World in (the happy circum
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 muech of the New World’s area
was claimed by Old World colonization, the
poliey of ‘‘ Ameriea 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 this doctrine of All-American
protection into a working agreement for All-
American co-operation for mutual prosperity
and defense wonld be earrying out the logie
of the Monroe Doetrine to fit the enlarged
needs of a new day.
The task of making the whole world safe
for demoeracy might put upon our nation
more strain than it, with all its strength, is
yet ready to assume,
We should do the whole world a very fine
serviee, indeed, if we first made democracy
safe and genuine in the UNITED STATES
and then joined with our sister republies to
assist in making it safe and progressive
throughout the Western hemisphere,
Tt would be a practical and~enlightened
use of American power and Ameriean vision
in the securing of American welfare and
Awerican safety FIRST,
A CARTOON THAT TELLS
A WHOLESOME STORY
Cartoonist Griffin in today’'s Georgian
tells in a cleverly 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 crop and diversification of the 1919
crops—which Mr, Griffin indicates by the
smaller bombs the pleasant-looking gentle
man is dropping from the balloon 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 in({icntiom that the farmers of
the South surely WILL cut 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 Sonth is told. It-then will “‘all be
over but the shouting.’
If they do NOT stick to it——and the
‘‘bears’’ and gamblers are betting they
WILL not—then hard times will be their
portion, with themselves mostly to blame,
Blessed Is the Nation Whese God Is the Lord---Psalm 33:12
(Text for today was selected for The Georgian by the Rev. Jame# E. Dickey, Pastor First Methodist Chureh, Atlanta.)
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Reforming a Flirt
By Winifred Black.
HE'S flirting with another man
S and her husband knows it.
What is he doing about it?
Nothing but breaking his heart,
What's the use,
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poor man! AH }
woman like that ~ “\:‘m .::!
isn't worth a % _&‘&;
minute's real | %55 &_ 3 %
pain, and, be- ! * 3
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if it fsn't a good J { ¥ A
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own fault, ! 5 G
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voted husband,” | “HSSgases L
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says the man. b *:“!
“1 take good | i EEEREIERLE
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care of my wite. [ diterit 8
loglve her ev- |t i
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erything my % "/l'.“’
money can buy.
She says she loves me and is al
ways sweet to me, but she won't
Keep away from the other man, I
bought her a handsome fur coat for
Christmas and shg couldn’t wait to
get out of the house to show it to
the other man, What shall I do?”
Do get a little common sense into
your poor head, poor man? QGet a
little red blood In your veins, What
shall you do? Sit still and let a lit
tle feather-head wreck your life
and her own and make things mis
erable for the two children you say
she really loves!
Come to think of it, I don't blame
the woman so much for firting
with the other man, Maybe she
thinks he's 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? I'll go with you,
and, do you know, I'm in a pecu
liar mood today, Ilfllshould happen
to meet unyovke I don't like I really
belleve I'd knßek 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
an who loves to have someone
fighting for her. She doesn't live
for love; she lives for vanity,
Is the man bigger than you, are
and will he (’l’.’\ little knocking
down, too—lif hß® gets a chance?
Don't give it to him. Take another
tack, and say:
“Going out, my dear? o am 1"
And see to it that she sees you
some time that very day with the
TIME FOR ROUGH STUFF
prettiest woman in town looking ‘
right into your eves. Your poor
little goose of a wife will be too
busy watching you after that to
see much of the man you dread so
terribly,
‘What nonsense all this sort of ¥
thing is—what cruel, empiy-headed
barren nonsense!
Stop and think a minute, little
goose, if you have any of the ap
paratus for thinking in that little
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 you're in
good spirits, well dressed, happy
and emusing. But get a good sharp
attack of neuralgia some day and
watch his interest fade,
He isn’t in love with vou or with
anyvone 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
yourself fooled by him?
Come to, little goose, come to!
You are just a harmless goose now:
very soon you will be something
quite different.
It is absurd now, this silly affair
of yours, that seems so romantic to
ou. Don't you know that the very
‘ruoery boy in the corner store is
laughing at yon and at your dunce
of a husband? It won't be so fun
ny when you wak& up some miser
able day and find yourself desert
ed, disgraced.
You've been to too many mati
nees, that's all, You are really just
a foolish, vain little thing, with
skim milk for blood and scrambled
eggs for brains. But you like to
imagine that vou're a dangerous,
fascinating, temperamental siren,
luring men to destruction with your
languorous glances, Fudge! You
couldn’t be really languorous if you
tried for a week.
You have your place in the world
~~the best there is, too—the posi
tion of an honest wife and good
mother, Keep it, in the name of all
that's honest, and let the notorious
Mrs, This and the Second Mrs. That
stay where they belong--in the
play. e
As for you, you poor, deluded™
husband, you can't make & woman
like the wife ;&1 have chosen love
you by pleading with her. And, for
that matter, no woman on earth
can love a man who will let her
make a fool of him., She needs
quite a different style of treatment, !
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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 Idiot.
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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.
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WAS QUITE sure.
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SOMETHING HAD happened.
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IN THE way of a slide.
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BECAUS!..HE said.
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WHEN :I’H‘E weather was warm.
THE SI!OW grew soft.
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AND VERY heavy.
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AND THE we.ltht of it.
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WOULD START a slide,
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AND RIGHT there.
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WH!RE‘ \h:! .happened to be.
WAS A fa\'orl‘v.e place.
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THE IDIOT said.
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AND ACROSS. the aisle.
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A LITTLE old lady.
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WITH WHITE hair.
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WAS LIST.EN.ING to him,
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WITH D-!El} little old eyes.
STICKIP.iG.OU.T of her head.
AND 1| could see.
THAT HE hac} her frightened,
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MOST HALF .to death.
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AND THE ns.t of the women,
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WERE D.'!ANG.ING around,
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AND LISTENING to him.
PUBLIC SERYICE
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 there.
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FOR TF!REE ‘or four hours.
IN THE dark of night.
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AND ALL at once.
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TH ERE.CA.ME a roar.
FROM UP above,
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AND A moment later,
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THE ENTIRE train.
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WAS SV!E?T.any.
AND IN.TO. th.o gulch.
AND BURIED deep. ‘
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AND W.HE.N Pe had finished.
HIS TE.RR.I!I:E tale.
THE Ll'.l"l'l.E old lady,
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ACROSS THE way,
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WAS W.HI:TE. as a sheet.
AND 'flz! other women,
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WERE NT:T"!G around.
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AND GA.SP.IN.G for breath.
AND HE arose.
AND ST..RE_TC.HED himeslf
AND W.EN‘T b.ack to smoke,
ANU‘!F.I'd. befn able.
I'D HAV.E followed him.
AND BEAT him up.
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BUT HE hfd me 8o scared.
I COULDN'T move,
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AND T":E?E.W:\fl no slide,
AND T!.N l.nln.utes later.
WE STARTED again.
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J =| THANK you
Timely Topics
of Today
By Arthur Brisbane.
HERE seem t.o be as many
T 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
pational and State governments
should divide railroad ownership.
The States should own the little
railroads *within themselves. The
nation should own the big trunk
lines, giving every State an outlet
for its little railroads for its inter
state railroads,
Railroad workers, 2,000,000 of
them, amounting with their 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
Governm%nt in connection with
financiers. The Government can
supply money and management.
We, the workers, in return for f;\?
pay, will do the work. What ne
cessity 1s there for a crowd of men
in Wall Street shaving off every
possible dollar by paying the work
ers as little as possible on one side
and charging the public as much as -
possible on the other?”
Suggestion number three comes
from Paul M. Warburg, formerlp
president of the Federal reserve
board, who would like the Govern
ment and the private owners to
manage railroads, as the Govérn
ment, through the Federal reserve
banking system, and the private
owners of banks manage the coun
try’s finances,
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 Government is here to
guarantee you against a panie, will
lend you money at a low rate of
interest whenever you need it, and\
allow, you to lend it to the public
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 rallroads 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 Gevernment,
Mr. Warburg makes his sugges
tions in good faith, and-apparently |
unselfishly, although his firm re- |
cently reorganized and presumably
owns, largely, the Missouri Pacific 3
Railroad. Mr. Warburg would like |
to see “net earnings beyond 6 per !
cent divided among stockholders, |
Government and labor, with a fixed |
maximum beyond which the earn
ings of the stockholders should not |
go " j»
Six per cent on WHAT? Would |
it be 6 per cent on all the watered '
stock that financial ingenuity has |
been able to issue? What gives the
railroads their value? lls it not
the patronage of the public, the
growth of the nation and the serv
ices of the workers on the rail
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 rallroads, confess
also the superiority of the private
owners and give back to those pri- |
vte owners the system that the «
Government took over and rebuilt
at a cost of many hundreds of mil
lions, 1
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- |
roads to 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 efficiency and honesty to
manage railroads as well as they
have heen managed by private in
dividuals have little confidence in
Government. |
It would be hard to manage any
thln& more inefficient or more dis
hon@st than the management of the l
New York, New Haven and Hart- |
ford Rallroad the management of
the Rock Island or any one of a f
dozen other railroads neatly andl
politely gutted under private own.
ership; the stockholders, investors
in good faith, robbed in a way that
would have put the robbers in Jall
it they had stolen on a smaller
seale, |
The wheat a‘uesuon. an Interest
ing, ‘b’-ntlc nstance of national
subsidy, {s settlad, The farmer will
geL $2.26 a bushel for his 1919 wheat
crop. The Government will handle
it, sell at the market price, what- ;
ever that may be, and stand the
loss, One billion dollars has been
appropriated to meet t’e loss, It |
must be arranged 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 '
buy of us except at the regular rate,
The wheat farmer was urged to .
plant nm?nr a guardntee and 1s en
titled to*what he gets, T }