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TRUTH, JUSTICE
Your Chance to Prove That
Republics Are NOT Ungrateful
N SLOW but steady response to the grow
[ ing pressure of public opinion for fair
play for our returning soldiers and sailors
the Congress is making progress.
The War Department reeommended one
month’s bonus pay, representing for the en
listed man the exceedingly modest sum of
S3O, about equal to one week’s wage of the
average unskilled laberer in our munitions
plants—clearly not enongh to meet the prob
lem of finding eivil employment during the
slack of the transition pariod.
In the Army Appropriations bill the Con
gress raised this fignre to S6O, which of
course, is better, .
But S6O bonus is not a sufficient tideover
for men who, after having risked their lives
at their country’s call, must come back into
the region of high, prices to make the diffi
enlt search for the means of self-support.
That the fair-minded eitizens of the nation
realize it is not enough is proved by the fact
that seventeen U'nited States Senators, twen
ty-five Governors, ten State Legislatures and
many scores of representative civie organiza
tions have joined this newspaper in pressing
for a six months’ bonus.
In addition, mere than 2,000,000 signatures
have been attached to the gigantic petition
which the Hearst newspapers will present to
the Congress praying that body to grant an
adequate allowance in cash, so that these men
who have so well served us in the great war
may not be turned back to peace without a
solid foundation upon whieh they ean re
build. ‘
Moreover, sigmmxre.s at the rate of more
than 100,000 daily continue to flow into the
office of the various Hearst papers, assuring
that the petition, when presented, will be
the most numerously signed memorial ever
laid before the Congress of the United States.
'l'he‘lig'neu of this unprecedented petition
are producers and taxpayers. /
They realize what they owe to the men who
have with such high eredit worn the Ameri
ean uniform in the world’s most trying erisis,
and they are willing to pay their shar® of
the debt L
They are of the rank and file of our citi
zenship upon whom the costs of war must
ultimately rest, but they are not pleading for
Hold What Liberty Bonds You Have
Purchased; Prepare Now to Buy More
Executive adepts are now perfecting their
organizations for the ‘‘drive’ ‘which is to
come a few-weeks hence for the Fifth Lib
erty Loan. Five billions will be asked for,
with the hope that this amount may be over
subseribed, as were all of the four previous
loans.
In the first loan, when but two billions
were sought, over three billions were sub
seribed by four million bond buyers.
The second loan netted over four and a
half billions, from nine million subscribers,
The third loan floated over four billions
among seventeen million subseribers,
The 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
ereased, doubling and redoubling until prac
tically one in every five of the population of
these United States has become a bond
buyer!
Inealeulable 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
which are infinitely l:xpcrior to the prettily
printed STOCK ecertificates which MIGHT
bring dividends, but far more 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 flfth‘jall of
Uncle Sam as they did heretofore,
While the war was on the masses were
eager to do everything to bring swift sue
cess to our arms. Now that the war is off,
the thoughtless may not be swayed by sen
an exemption at the cost of national ingrat
itude.
No American worthy of the name will put
in such a plea, no American fit to benefit
from American institutions will begrudge
what i 8 necessary to re-establish our veteran
defenders.
Nor will the Cm;gress hold back when its
members are assured as to the wishes of the
country.
The tax-voting body faces weighty Qnd
intricate problems which require of it a care
ful husbanding of the national funds, npon
unexampled drafts.
Its 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 accounting 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 ALI, 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, whieh you will find on another page of
The Georgian, you can speed action by sign
ing it at once; and if you have signed it you
can help by getting others to sign it.
The cause of justice for our returning
heroes is gairiing 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 ean not
wait long. Many are already irf want. You
see them everywhere, Jooking for work and
many, alas, seeking it in vain. The spec
tacle is humiliating—not to them, but to US,
Liet us move faster to end it.
Let us lift 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 \his great Repub
lie is NOT ungrateful. ’
timental impulses of patriotism and pride.
These people have been too careless to clip
their coupons 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 security on the globe than Unele
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 Loan is fully sub
scribed, probably the Treasury Deparfment
will not need to float another bond issue, If
it is OVER-subseribed, it will lessen our tax
ation just that much. 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
prepardtions now. Be ready when the time
comes. ~
Every dollar which is saved and invested
in bonds and thrift stamps helps to lift
weary feet from the slough of poverty to the
high road of prosperity.
Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged.—Matt. 7:1
(Text for today was selected by Rev, ¥. C. MeConnell, Pafifor Druid Hills Baptist Chureh, Atlanta)
ATLANTA @@ GEOCRGIAN
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 Siate 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 revision of the tax
laws so as to bring to light the
wealth of the State. Second, the
adoption of the proposed constitu
tional ameéendments providing for
adequate support of the schools of
the State. Third, legislatlon makipg
possible a system of permanent
State Nighways.
The administration that can bring
these three things to pass will de
serve from the people the vote
“They Aeserve well of the State.”
QUITE AN ACCIDENT.
(Macon Telegraph.)
Ome of the best of the many
Roosévelt stories coming to TMght
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 jail
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, erstwhile
Cabinet officer, declares that no
precedent exists for punishing the
Kaiser. Wickersham is also the
mm? who sald 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 Assoclation of South Caro
lina and Georgla meet at Tybee
next June?
YOU CAN SEARCH JOHN, ANY.
. WAY.
(Alpharetta Free Press.)
Come to think of it, where is there
in all Georgia a more suitable pjece
of gubernatorial timber than John
Holder?
LADYLIKE SUGGESTION.
(Savannah News.)
«The daily ngw name for (he
“league of nations:” “The brother
hood of nations.” Why not a soro
ry?
Saturday, February 15, 1919
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FOR A pet parrot.
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! The Pearls of the |
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S stttk |
ALLED by Orientals “The
C Pearl of the Bast,” Damas
-7 cus, General Allenby’s cap
ture, is the oldest city in the world
still inhablted.
It is mentioned repeatedly in the
Old Testamert, and documentary
evidence shows_that the ancient
city dates back so 1400 B. C,
Travelers refer to it as *dear,
dirty Damascus,” for its odors are
many am}\ 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 been 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 captured as
well as the oldest city in the world.
Its bazaars and riches are world
famous. Damascus steel, armor,
sibk, scents and jewelry are the
jmost exquisite and costly in the
arkets. The name of its “damas
cene,” work in steel, which con
sists in inlaying fine steel with gold
or silver in wavy lines, has passed
bn to damaslcdinen with similar de
sign,
The main beauty of Damascus
lHes in its orchards, gardens and
vineyards, which cover an area of
60 square miles, They are watered
by the rivers of the eity, 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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| Science Notes |
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Because insects collect at the up
per end of screen doors an inventor
has brought eut 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 dar axies in ra;l
road shops, with gafety to em
ployees, |
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Timely Topi ”
H of Today ¢ |
By Arthur Brisbane.
6 E United States and Japan
I agree on management of
the Siberlan raflways.”
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 very much
all over 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 be busy
raising billions for many a genera
tion to come, if Uncle Sam con
tinues his role of international San
ta Claus,
A bill to spend seven hundred and
twenty-one millions on rew fighting
ships goes through smoothly. We
need the ships. ¢
ce that sum of money would
hao\x 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 801~
~ 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
$250,009 a year, one million marks,
more than three times the salary of
Woodrow Wilson, about doubje the
safa.ry 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 “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
iently 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 proletarian getting a million
marks a year salary Qnd the
Kaiser exilgd in Holland wondering
whether his cousin on the English
throne will save him from being
hanged.
Here iln America we have an as
sortment of hereditary financial
aristocrats, very recent mush
rooms, it is true, but very proud of
themselves. Many of them will he
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 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
i Kaiser feels as he reads the . test
| 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 4
i 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 East Side of New York.”
Says he: “I have a firm convic
’ tion that this agitation is Yida'sh
(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 KEast 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 impérial treasuries and
from bank vaults. It is enllgh&en
ing to learn what an important part
New York's Bast Side has played
in this world 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 re
ligious hatred, it would be well for
‘reverend gentlemen to make ac
cusations against any race or re
ligion only upon absolute ;roof.
What PROOF does the Reverend
Methodist Simons offer i
of his charge uguln& r&[:wsu?::kt
Je:u".; what would~h
AN v ou e sa;
conspicuous Jew, wlthgzt";::z
accuse the Methodists as Mr,
Simons accuses Jews?