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Your Chance to Prove That
Republics Are NOT Ungrateful
N SLOW but steady response to the grow
l ing pressure of public opinion for fair
play for our returning soldiers and sailors
the Clongress is making progress.
The War Department reeommendtd one
monuth’s bonus pay, representing for the en
limd‘mzm the execedingly modest sum of
S3O, about equal to one week’s wage of the
awerage unskilled laborer in onr munitions
plants—elearly not enough to meet the prob-
Jem of finding civil employment during the
étack of the transition period.
In the Army Appropriations bill the Con
gress vaised this fignre to S6O, which of
eourse, s better,
Buot S6O bonus s not a sufficient tideover
forwnen who, aftar having risked their lives
at thefr soumtry’s eall, must eome back into
the region of high prices to make the diffi
cult gearch for the means of self-gnpport.
That the fafr-minded eitizens of the nation
realize it is not enough s prowved by the fact
that seventeen United States Senators, twen
ty-five Governors, ten Btate Legislatures and
maxry scoves of representative eivie organiza
tions have joined this newspaper in pressing
for a stx months’ bonus.
In addition, more 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
adequate allowanes in eash, so that these men
'M‘hmnveflmadminthe great war
may not be turned back to peace without a
sofid foundation upon which they can re
build.
Moreover, sigmatures at the rate of more
than 100,000 daily continue to flow into the
office of the varions Tlearst papers, assuring
that the petition, when presented, will be
the most numerousty signed memorial ever
laid before the Congress of the United States.
The signers of this unpreeedented petition
are produeers and taxpayers.
They realize what they owe to the men who
have with suech high eredit worn the Ameri
ean uniform in the world’s most trying crisis,
and they are willing to pay their share of
the deht
They are of the rank and file of our citi
zenship wpon whom the eosts of war must
ultimately vest, but they are not pleading for
Hold What Liberty Bonds You Have
Purchased; Prepare Now to Buy More
, Exveufive adepts are now perfecting their
organizations for the *drive’’ which is to
come a sow woeks henoe for the Fifth Lib.
erty Toan. Five hillions will be asked for,
with the hape that this amount may be over
subscribed, as were all of the four previous
loans,
In the first Joart, when but two -pillions
were sought, over three hillions were sub
seribed by four million bond buyers,
The second loan netted over four and a
half billions, from nine million subseribers.
The third loan floated owver four bilhons
among seventeen million subseribers,
The fourth loan brought in apprexi
mately seven billion dollars, to which twenty
one million Amerieans subseribed.
Serutiny of these figures shows how
amazingly the number of bond buyers in
ereased, doubling and redoubling until prac
tically one in every five of the population of
these United States has become a bond
buyer!
Inealculable has been the value of this
education 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 more likely WOULD
BRING ASSESSMENTS.
-~ Now let us see if the twenty-odd milhon
Americans who have subscribed to the pre
_wious loans will respond to the fifth call of
Uneche Sam as they did heretofore
" While the war was on the masscs were
eager to do everything to bring swift sue
cess' Lo our arms. Now that the war is off,
' the thoughtless may not be swayed by sen.
TRUTH, JUSTICE
an exemption at the eest of national ingrat
r itnde.
i No American worthy of the name will put
in such a plea, no American fit to benefit
from Ameriean institutions will begrudge
what i 8 necessary to re-establish our veteran
defenders.
Nor will the Congress hold back when its
members are assured as to the wishes of the
eountry.
The tax-voting body faces weighty and
intricate problems which require of it a care
ful husbanding of the national fnnds, upon
unexampled drafts. #
Tts membership is cager 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 act when it feels assured of public
support, and it ean not be justly eriticized for
not acting until it is so assured. |
~ The way to assure it is to SIGN the pe
tition.
The 2,000,000 names already recorded by
no means measure ALL the willingness of
this great, rich nation to do justice to its re
turning soldiers and sailors. .
If the nation could be polled, the majority
would be overwhelming.
There is not time or opportunity for that,
but if you have not already signed the peti
tion, which you will ind on another page of
The Georgian, you ean speed action by sign
ing it at onee; and I yon have signed it you
ean help by getting others to sign it.
Phe canse of justice for our returning
heroes is gaining momentum. Daily it gath
ers force. But our boys from home eamps
and overseas are coming back by the hundred
thousands and the millions, and they can not
wait long. Many are already in want. You
see them everywhere, looking for work and
many, alas, seeking it m vain. The spec
taele is humiliating—not to them, but te US,
Let ns move faster to end it.
Let us lift from their young shoulders this
i bnrde:.n of doubt and angiety and actual de
- privation which so il] requites them for what
- they have done, and let us instead show them,
- not by words merely, but by DEEDS, by
l money and by work, that this great Repub
lie is NOT uggrateful.
timental impulses of patriotism and pride.
These people have been too careless to clip
their eoupons and cash them. Or, cashing
them, they have failed to apply the proceeds
to war stamps and thus compound their
profits. Among these are to be found those
who have relinquished their bonds, trading
a sure-thing income-bearing 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 instruction. 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 country 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 Toan is fully sub
scribed, probably the Twpasury Department
will not need to float another bond igsue. 1f
it is OVER-subseribed, it will lessen our tax
ation, just that much. If it is UNDER-sub
scribed, the deficit will bave to be made up
in some way. 4
v Therefore we urge the people of this ecity
and vieinity who already hold Government
bonds to subscribe. for more. Make your
preparations now. Be ready when the time
COlmMes,
Every dollar which is saved and invested
in bonds and thrift stamps helps. to lift
weary feet from the slough of poverty to thé
high road of prosperity,
Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged—Matt. 7:1.
(Text for today was selected by Rev. F. C. McConnell, Pastor Druid Hills Baptist Church, Atlanta)
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BIG JOB FOR THE ASSEMBLY.,
(Americus Times-Recorder.)
The General Assembly of Geor
gia 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 shu\d out promi
nently, which if well done, will
make hundreds of other matters
possible. First a revision of the tax
laws so ag to bring to light the
wealth of the State. Second, the
adoption of the proposed constitu
tional amendments providing for
adequate support of the schoolg of
the State. Third, legislatton making
possible a system of permanent
State highways.
The administration that can bring
these three fhings to pass will de
serve from 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 Colenel's death has to do
with a letter writtem, by a comrade
of his cowboy days In the West. It
was written from an Arizona jail
and ran: ‘Dear Colonel: lam in
trout,lo. 1 shot a lady in the eye,
but I did not intend to hit the lady.
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‘ 1 was shooting at my wife,
‘ VERSATILE WICKERSHAM,
(Albany Herald.)
George W, Wickersham, erstwhile
Cabinet officer, declares that no
precedent exists for punishing the
Kaiser. Wickersham is also the
man who said there was no prece
dent for Wilson going to the peace
“conference in Paris.
THERE MAY BE.
(Elberton Star.)
Do you supposce there is any dan.
ger of the harbor bar moaning when
the Bar Association of South (‘aro
lina and Georgia meet at Tybee
next June?
YOU CAN SEARCH JOMN, ANY.
WY, o
(Alpharetta Free Press.)
C'ome to think of it, where is there
in all Georgia a more suitable piece
of gubernatorial timber than John
Holder?
LADYLIKE SUGGESTION.
(Savannah Ngws.)
The daily new name for the
“league of nations:" “The brother
honq’ of nations.” Why not a soro
rity?
Saturday, February 15, 1919
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ONCE UPON a time.
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| WAS a police reporter.
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IN A Western town.
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AND I'VE just been there.
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ON MY way to California.
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AND WHILE I was there.
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I PAID a visit.
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TO THE police station.
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AND THE old jailer.
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WAS STILL on the job.
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AND WHEN | saw him.
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MHE 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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AND IT had died.
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AND HOW it talked.
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AND FOR an hour.
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HE KEPT telling me.
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THE THINGS it sald.
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AND HE showed me the place.
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WHERE IT used to hang.
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IN THE assembly room.
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WHERE ALL the policemen,
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AND PLAY cards
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AND THE big cage.
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THAT IT used to be in.
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WAS STILL there.
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AND T":l .Jafl.er said.
THAT EVERY day.
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WHEN .TH! eollco officers,
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AND TALK to the parrot.
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AND FOR a few weeks,
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IT BEGAN to decline,
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INSIDE ITS cage.
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AND THERE came a day.
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WHEN IT huddled up.
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LIKE IT had the pip.
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AND TF!EN d.led.
AND NOBODY knew,
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WHAT THE ailment was.
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AND | asked the jailer.
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HOW MANY shifts,
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THERE WERE in a day.
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AND HE told me three.
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WITH NINETY men.
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AND IT got no rest.
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AND IT died.\
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JUST FOR'lack of sleep.
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‘! THANK you.
PUBLI G SERVICE
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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 Testamerit, and documentary
l evidence shows that the ancient
~ city dates back to 1400 B. C.
i Travelers refer to it as “dear,
~ 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 ig ecalled
Straight,” which runs from east to
west, -
Damascus has been the scene of
many conflicts since Dav 4 sent an
expedition againgt 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 captured 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
roarkets. The name of its “damas
cene,” work in steel, which econ
sists in inlaying fine steel with gold
or silver in wavy lines, has passed
on to damask linen with similar de
sign. 1
The main beauty of Damascus
lies in its orchards, gardens and
vineyards, which cover an area of
60 square miles. They arc 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
wish away his leprosy. ‘
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"Because insects collect at the up
per end of screen doors an inventof
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 Enxbgnd 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 plling car axles in rajl
road shops, with safety to em
ployees.
,[i Timely Topics
” of '{-oday =
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By Arthur Brisbane. |
“rl-ifl: United States and Japan
agree on management of
the Siberfan railways”
That is one cable 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 seems to spread wery much
all gver the globe.
British statesmen assure our del
egates that Europe looks 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 b? busy
raising billions for many a genera
tion to come, if Uncle Sam con
tinues his role of international San
ta Claus. | r
A bill to spend seven hundred and
twenty-one millions on new fighting
ships goes through smoothly. We
need the ships. 3 .
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 of
$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 burdens on the German
people, nor each one be supplied
with a separate salary, or a regi
ment of men to play with,
German "arlstmau,” 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 ds usurious money lend
ers and land sharks.
It would be a startled ghost if
Karl Marx could come back and see
& proletarian 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 es hereditary financial
aristocrats, very recent 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 8250.00 Q
a year, with the power of Germany
back of him. These same Ameri
cans leave incomes 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.”
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 Ger
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 financial
and other assistance “from the low
er BEast Side of New York.”
Says he: “T have a firm convic
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 East Side New York Jews
will be surprised $o learn that there
is 80 much money among them.
Thelr 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 Bast Side has played
in this world afrair, ~
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 ac
cusations against any race or re
ligion only upon absolute Iroof,
What PROOF does the Reverend
Methodist Simons offer in SUDPpont
of his charge against New York
Jews?
And what would he say
conspicuous Jew, without
accuse the i{uhod{n fi
Simons accuses Jews?