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Your Chance to Prove That
Republics Are NOT Ungrateful
N SLLOW but steady response to the grow
l ing pressure of public opinion for fair
play for our returming soldiers and sailors
the Congress is makmg progress.
The War Department recommended ome
month’s bonus pay, representing for the en
listed man the exeeedingly modest sum of
S3O, about equal to one week’s wage of the
awerage unskilled laborer in owr munitions
plants—olearly not enough to meet the prob
dm of finding eivil employment during the
dhack of the transition period.
In the Army Apprdpriations bill the Con.
gress vaisod this figmre to S6O, whieh of
eourse, s better,
But S6O bonus s not a sufficient tideover
forsem who, after having risked their lives
ot ther eoumtry's eall, must come back into
the region of high prices to make the diffi
eult seavch for the means of setfsupport.
That the fair-minded eitizens of the nation
reafize # 8 not enough i proved by the faot
that seventeen United States Senators, twen
tyfive Governors, ten State Legislatures and
many scoves of representative civie organiza
tions hawe joined this newspaper in prossing
for a dix monthy’ bonus.
In addition, mowe than 2,000,000 signatures
have been attached to the gigantie petition
which the Hearst newspapers will present to
the Congress praying that body to grant an
adequnte allowanee in cash, so that these men
who hawe so well served us in the great war
may not be turned back to peace without a
sofid foundation upon which they ean re
build.
Moreower, fligmatures at the rate of more
than 100,000 daily continme to flow into the
office of the various Hearst papers, assuring
that the petition, when presented, will be
the most numerousty signed memorial ever
laid before the Congress of the Dnited States.
The signers of this unprecedented petition
are produeers and taxpeyers.
They realize what they owe to the men who
have with such high eredit worn the Ameri
ean nniform in the wortd's most trying erisis,
and they are willing to pay their share of
the debt
They are of the rank and MR of our cift
zenship wupont whom the eosts of war must
ultimatoly west, bot ¢hey are nat pleading for
Hold What Liberty Bonds You Have
Purchased; Prepare Now to Buy More
Fxoeutive adepts are now perfecting their
orgavdsations for the *drive’” which is to
come & sow woeks henee for the Fifth Lib
ey Joan. Fide billions will be asked for,
with the hape that this amount may be over
subecribed, as were all of the four previous
Joans,
. In the first Yoan, when but two hillions
were sought, ower three hillions were sub
seribed by four million bond buyers.
The second loan netted over four and a
half billiens, from nine million subseribers.
The third loan floated ower four billions
among sevenieen million subseribers
'flp fourth loan brought in approxi
mately seven billion dollars, to which twenty
one million Americans subseribed.
Serutiny of these figures shows how
amazingly the number of bond buyers in
creased, doubling and redoubling until prae
tically one in every five of the population of
these United States has become a bond
buyer!
Inealeulable has been the value of this
edueation of the people in the advantages of
holding investments which yield a good rate
of interest with unfailing regularity, and
whieh are infinitely® superior to the prettily
‘printed STOCK certificates which MIGHT
bring dividends, but far mere likely WOULD
BRING ASSESSMENTS.
Now let us see if the twenty-odd million
Americans who have subscribed to the pre
vious loans will respond to the fifth call of
Unebe Sam as they did heretofore.
While the war was on the masses were
eagar to do everything to bring swift sue
cens to our arms. Now that the war is off,
the thoughtless may not be swayed by sen
TRUTH, JUSTICE
an exemption at the ecost of national ingrat
itude.
No American worthy of the name will put
in sunch a plea, no American fit to benefit
from American institutions will begrudge
what s necessary to re-establish eur veteran
defenders.
Nor will the Congress hold back when its
members are assured as to the wishes of the
ecountry. -
The tax-voting body faces weighty and
intricate problems which require of it a care
ful husbanding of the national funds, upon
unexampled drafts.
Its membership is eager to escape the ac
cusation of extravagance and solicitous to
know that what it does will be approved, for
all these Senators and Representatives must
give an aecounting to the people.
It will aet when it feels assured of public
support, and it ean not be justly eriticized for
not acting nntil it is so assured. |
The way to assure it is to SIGN the pe”
tition. _
The 2,000,000 names already recorded by
no mwans measure ALL the willingness of
this great, rieh nation to do justice to its re
turning soldrers ‘and sailors.
If she nation could be polled, the majority
would be overwhelmmg.
There s not time or opportunity for that,
but if you have not already signed the peti
tion, which you will find on another page of
The Georgian, yon ean speed aetion by sign
ng it at onee; and I you have signed it you
ean help by getting others to sign it.
The eanse of justice for our returning
heroes is gaining momentum. Daily it gath
ers force. But our boys from home camps
and overseas are eoming back by the hundred
thousands and the millions, and they ean not
wait long. Many are already im want. You
see them everywhere, looking for work and
many, alas, seeking it in vain. The speec
taele s humiliating—not to them, but te US.
Let us move faster to end it.
Let us Kift from their young shoulders this
burden of doubt and anxiety and actual de
privation which so ill requites them for what
they have done, and let us instead show them,
not by words merely, but by DEEDS, by
money and by work, that this great Repub
lie is NOT ungrateful.
timental impulses of patriotism and pride.
These people have been too careless to clip
their ecoupons and cash them. Or, cashing
them, they have failed to apply the proceeds
to war stamps and thus ecompound their
profits. Among these are to be found those
who have relinquished their bonds, trading
a sure-thing income-beaving security for
some speculative paper of doubtful value, at
the solicitation of smooth-tongued tempters.
But the great majority of bond buyers
possess common sense and have minds recep
tive to instruetion. They know that there is
no better seeurity on the globe than Uncle
Sam’s promise to pay—backed, as it is, by
every bit of the resources of this nation.
They know, moreover, that, though the
war is won, the war bills are not yet paid.
They understand that it will be weeks and
months before our armies can be brought
back to this coyntry and demobilized, and
that meanwhile we must sustain them, and
that the cost of transport is as great to bring
them home as it was to take them overseas.
If this Fifth Liberty Loan is fully sub
seribed, probably the Treasury Department
will not need to float another bond issne. If
it is OVER-subseribed, it will lessen our tax
ation just that mueh. If it is UNDER-sub
scribed, the deficit will have to be made up
in some way.
Therefore we urge the people of this city,
and vicinity who already hold Government
bonds to subseribe for more. Make your
preparations now. Be ready when the time
eomes.
Every dollar which is saved and invested
in bonds and thrift stamps helps to lift
weary feet from the slough of poverty ta. the
high road of prosperity.
Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged.—Matt. 7:1
(Text for today was selected by Rev. F. C. MeConnell, Pastor Druid Hills Baptist Church, Atlanta)
ATEANTA @@ GEOCORGIAN
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BIG JOB FOR THE ASSEMBLY.
(Americus Times-Recorder.)
The General Assembly of Geor
gla which meets in June has an op
portunity to do the greatest service
to the Stata of any legislative body
that has met in Atlanta for twenty
years.
Three things stand out promi
nently, which if well done, will
make hundreds of other matters
possible, First a \revlalon of the tax
laws so as to bring to light the
wealth of the State. Second, the
adoption of the proposed constitu
tional amendments providing for
adequate support of the schools of
the State. Third, legislatfon making
possible a system of permanent
State highways.
\ The administration that can bring
these three things to pass will de
serve. fromi the people the vote
“They deserve well of the State.”
QUITE AN ACCIDENT.
(Macon Telegraph.)
One of the best of the many
Roosevelt stories coming to light
since the Colonel's death has to do
with a letter written by a comrade
of his cowboy days in the West., It
was written from an Arizona Jjail
and ran: “Dear Colonel: lam in
trouble. I shot a lady in the eye,
but 1 did not intend to hit the lady.
I was shooting at my wife.”
VERSATILE WICKERSHAM,
(Albany Herald.)
George W. Wickersham, erstwhlile
Cabinet officer, declares that no
precedent exists for punishing the
Kaiser, Wickersham is also the
man w‘to said there was no prece
dent for Wilson going to the peace
conference in Paris. i
THERE MAY BE.
(Elberton Star.)
Do you supposce there is any dan.
ger of the harbor bar moaning when
the Bar Association of South Caro
lina and Georgia meet at Tybhee
next June? ‘
YOU CAN SEARCH JOMN, ANY.
WAY.
(Alpharetta Free Press) .
Come to think of it, where is there
in all Geérgia a more suitable piece
of .übornnfoml timber than John
Holder?
LADYLIKE SUGGESTION.
(Savanmah News.) ¢
The daily new name for (he
“league of nations:” “The brother
homl of nations.” Why not a soro
rity ®
Saturday, February 15, 1919
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IN A Western town.
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ON MY way to California.
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TO THE police station.
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HE WAS in mourning.
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FOR A pet parrot.
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THEY'D HAD at the station.
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FOR THREE months.
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THE THINGS it said.
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HOW MANY shifts.
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PUBLIC SERVICE
}i The Pearls of the
4 FEast
LLED by Orientals “The
‘ Pearl of the East,” Damas
cus, General Allenby’s cap
ture, is the oldest city in the world
#till inhabited.
It is mentioned repeatedly in the
Old Testamert, and documentary
evidence shows that the ancient
city dates back to 1400 B. .
Travelers refer to it as "Qur,
dirty Damascus,” for its odors are
many and strong, and its street
cleaners have long ceased work.
One of the city's main features is
“the street which is called
Straight,” which runs from east to
west, €
Damascus has heen the scene of
many conflicts since Dav 4 sent an
expedition against it and took .it
with a_slaughter of 22,000 men.
Egyptians, Crusaders and Turks
fought so repeatedly for it that it
has become the most eaptured as
well as the oldest city in the world.
Its bazaars and riches are world
famous. Damascus steel, armor,
silk, scents and jewelry are the
most exquisite and costly in the
markets. The name of ‘ts “damas
cene,” work in steel, which con
sists in inlaying fine steel with gold
or silver in wavy lines, has passed
on to damask linen with similar de
sign,
The main beauty of Damascus
Ites in its orchards, gardens and
vineyards, which cover an area of
60 square miles, They are watered
by the rivers of the city, which Bib
lical students will recall, the Syrian
general, as recorded in the Second
Book of Kings, suggested might
wash away his leprosy.
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l Science Notes n
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Becaunse insects eollect at the up
per end of screen doors an inventor
has brought out one in two sections, |
permitting children to enter through |
the lower section without admitting |
insects to a house, |
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Tests made in England to dee ‘
termine the most suitable compo
sition for fireproof writing paper
developed the fact that the addie
tion of no other ingredient in
creases the resistance of asbestos
to fire,
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Long-handled hooks have been
invented for piling car axles in rail
road shops, with safety to em
ployees.
Timely Topics
of Today
By Arthur Brisbane.
6 ‘Tm United States and Japan
agree on management of
the xhn railwaya”
That is one announcement,
Two officers and 60 “men” were
killed fighting recently in Russia.
A few hundred others are wounded
or missing. Missing, probably,
means dead and not found.
Siberian railways and Northern
Russia are a long way from Wash
ington, D. C. American responsi
bility seemts to spread very much
all over the globe.
British statesmen assure our del
egates that Europe logks to us to
manage many of the little, out-of
the-way, troublesome places and
see to it that they behave. There
is plenty of work cut out—if we
choose to accept it—and our secre
taries of the Treasury will be busy
raising billions for many a genera
tion to come, if Uncle Sam con
tinues his role of international San
ta Claus.
A\bm to spend seven hundred and
twenty-one millions on new fighting
ships goes through smoothly. We
need the ships.
Once that sum of money would
have aroused interest: But not
now, for it is not even one billion,
and the billion is the national unit,
“A billion a day to keep the Bol
sheviki away” would be a good new
American maxim.
Ebert, the harness maker, is elect
ed. first President of the German
Republic, with an annual salary“6f
$250,000 a year, one million marks,
more than three times the salary of
Woodrow Wilson, about double the
salary of the French President.
It is a big salary, but Ebert is a
bargain compared with the Kaiser,
for the little Eberts will not put
perpetual burdéns on the German
people, nor each one ‘be supplied
with & separate salary, or a regi
ment of men to play with,
German *“aristocrats,” so-called,
will resent the choice of a harness
maker, son of peasants, as head of
the German people, and they will
not be comforted by the conven
fently forgotten fact that their an
cestors started as brigands, while
the Kaiser's people built them
selves up as usurious money lend
ers and land sharks.
It would be a startled ghost if
Karl Marx could come back and see
a proletariam getting a million
marks a year salary and the
Kaiser exiled in Holland wondering
whether his cousin on the English
throne will save him from being
hanged.
Here in America we have an as
sortment of hereditary financial
aristocrats, very recgat mush
rooms, it is true, but very proud of
themselves. Many of them will be
horrified at the idea of a harness
making Socialist getting $250,000
a year, with the power of Germany
back of him. These same Ameri
cans leave incoq:es ten times big
ger to their accidentally worthy or
unworthy sons to be spent as they
choose in using up the labor of
other men, and they think that is
“good American democracy.”
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How do you suppose the former
Kaiser feels as he reads the latest
news? He said that the Ebert So
cialist party was made up of men
“unworthy to bear the name of %er
mans.” Now one of them, and a
very simple one, bears the name
FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE RE
PUBLIC OF GERMANY.
The Rev. Dr. Simons, recently
head of the Methodist Church in
Russia, tells the Senate that Bol
shevik success is due to finanecial
and other assistance “from the low
er Bast Side of New York.”
Says he: “I ‘have'a firm convie-,
tion that this agitation is Yidaish
(he means Jewish). I don’t think
the Bolshevik movement in Russia
would have been a success except
for the support it got in New York
on the East Side.”
Many Fast Side New York Jews
will be surprised to learn that there
is so much money among them.
Their way of living does not show
it. The Bolshevik army and Gov
ernment are spending hundreds of
millions supposed to have been
taken from imperial treasuries and
from bank vaults, It is enlighten
ing to learn what an important part
New York's East Side has played
in this wdrld affair,
Just at this time, however, when
The London Times and others tes
tify to Jewish massacres on the
Continent, more bloody than ever
and based on the same old vile pe
ligious hatred, it would be well for
reverend gentlemen to make aec
cusations against any Fnce or re
ligion only upon absolute Iroof,
What PROOF does the Reverend
Methodist Si;
of his chnrsom:::l ::{“ P‘l:vmu
Jews?
And what would he say
congpicuous Jew, wlthm.a
accuse the Methodists
Simons accuses Jews?