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TRUTH, JUSTICE
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 returming soldiers and sailors
the Congress is making progress.
The War Department recommended 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
awerage unskilled laborer in our munitions
plants—<learly not enough to meet the prob-
Jem of finding eivil employment during the
slack of the transition period.
In the érnv Appropriations bill the Con
gress raised this fignre to S6O, whieh of
eourse, is better.
But S6O bonus is not a sufficient tideover
for mmen wha, after having risked their lives
at thefr eountry’s eall, must eome back into
the region of high prices to make the diffi
eult search for the means of self-support.
That the fair.minded eitizens of the nation
realize #t is not enough is proved by the fact
ty-five Governors, TalF Legislatures and
mmary scoves of representative civie organiza
tions have joined this newspaper in pressing
for a #fx months” bonus.
In addition, more than 2,000,000 signatures
have been attached to the gigantie petition
which the Hearst newspapers will present to
'thl Congress praying that body to grant an
adequate allownnes in eash, so that these men
who have so well served us in the great war
may not be turned back to peace without a
gofid foundation wpon which they ean re
build. »
Moreover, sligmatures at the rate of more
than 100,000 dd?y continue 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 United States.
The signers of this unprecedented petition
are produneers and taxpayers
They realize what they owe to the men who
have with such high eredit worn the Ameri
can uniform in the world’s most trying crisis,
and they are willing to pay their share of
the debt
They are of the rank andl flle of our eiti
zenship upon whom the costs of war must
ultimately vest, but they are not pleading for
Hold What Liberty Bonds You Have
Purchased; Prepare Now to Buy More
orgamizations 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 Jomat, when but two billions
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 ower four billions
among seventeen million subseribers,
The fourth loan brought in approxi
mately seven billion dollars, to which twenty
one million Amerieans subscribed.
Serutiny of these figures shows how
amazingly the number of bond buyers in
ereased, doubling and redoubling until prae-
Ytically 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
which are infinitely superior to the prettily
printed STOCK eertificates 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 fifth call of
Unele 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 he swayed by sen
an exemption at the cost of national ingrat
it,ude‘a
No American worthy of the name will put
in such 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
country.
The tax-voting body faces weighty and
imtricate problems which require of it a care
ful hushanding of the mational funds, npon
unexampled drafts.
Its membership «is eager to escape the ac
cusation of extravaganee 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 whew it feels assured of publie
support, and it ezn not be justly eriticized for
not acting nntil it is so assnred. |
The way to assure it is to SIGN the pe
tition.
The 2,000,000, names already recordod 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,
butifmhan?otdnady signed the peti
tion, which you will find on another page of
The(horghn,mmuperdm?onbydgn—
ing it at onoe; and if you have signed it you
ean help by getting others to sign it.
The eause of justiee for our returning
heroes is gaining momentam. Daily it gath
ers force. But our boys from home eamps
and overseas are eoming back by the hunéred
thousands and the millions, and they ean not
wait long. Many are already in want. Yon
see them everywhere, looking for work and
many, alas, seeking it m vain. The speec
taele is humiliating—not to them, but to US.
Let ns 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 shéw 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 eareless 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 secéurity 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 Uncle
Sam's promise to pay—backed, as it is, by
every bit of the resourees 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
baeck 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 Department
will not need to float another bond issue. llf
it is OVER-subseribed, it will lessen our tax
ation just that much. 1f it is UNDER-sub
seribed, the deficit will have to be made up
in some way.
Therefore we urge the people of this eity
and vicinity who already hold Government
bonds to subseribe for more. Make your
preparations now. Be ready when the time
COmes,
Every dollar which is saved and invested
in bonds and thrift stamps helps to lisp
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. 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
gin which meets in June has an op
portunity to do the greatest service
to the Stats of any legislative body
that has met in Atlanta for twenty
yenrs.
Three things stand out promi
nently, which if well done, wil
make hundreds of other mat' _
possible. First a revision of the L&'
lawe 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, legislation making |
possible a system of permanent |
State highways. !
The administration that can bring |
these three things to pass will de- |
serve from the people the vote ‘
Z'They deserve well of the State.” ‘
QUITE AN ACCIDENT.
(Macon Telegraph.) ‘
One of the best of the many
Roosevelt storiegs coming to light |
since the Colonel's death has te do !
with a letter written by a eomrade ‘
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 iln the eye,
but I did not intend to hit the lady. |
1 was shooting at my wife.” 1‘
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
gor of the harbor bar moaning when
the Bar Association of South Caro
ma and Georgia meet at Tybee
next June?
YOU CAN SEARCH JOMN, ANY.
WAY.
(Alpharetta Free Press.)
Come to think of i, where is thers
in all Georgia a more suitable plece
of gubernatorial timber than John
Holder?
LADYLIKE SUGGESTION.
(Savannah News.)
The daily new name for the
“league of nations:"” “The brother
hood of nations.” Why not a soro
rity? : |
Saturday, February 15, 1919
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I WAS a police repornter,
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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 T was there.
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| 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 I saw him. ’
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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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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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WHEN THEY weren't working.
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WOULD SIT around,
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AND PLAY cards
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AND TD:CE‘ME cage,
THAT I'T t.me:i to be in.
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THAT E.VE.RY. day.
WHEN ]’N‘E police officers,
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AND TALK to the parrot.
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AND THEY’D do the same.
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WHEN THEY came off shift.
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AND FOR a few weeks.
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THE PARROT was lively.
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AND TALKED a lot.
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AND WOULD mumble its words.
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AND WOULD wabble around.
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INSIDE ITS cage.
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WHEN IT huddled up.
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AND THEN died.
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WHAT THE ailment was.
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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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ON EACH of the shifts,
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WORK ALL three shifts.
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AND IT couldn't stand it.
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AND LT got no rest
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AND IT died.
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JUST FOR lack of sleep.
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~l THANK you
PUBLIC SERYICE
The Pearls of the
East
LLED by Orientals “The
‘ Pearl of the East,” Damas
cus, General Allenby's cap
ture, is the oldest city in the world
£till inhabited. X
It is mentioned repeatedly in the
Old Testamert, and documentary
evidence shows that the ancient
city dates back to 1400 B, C.
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 is ealled
Straight,” which runs from east to
west,
Damascus has been the scene of
many conflicts since Dav d sent an
expedition against it and took it
with a slaughter &f 22,000 men,
Fgyptians, Crusaders and Turks
fought so repeatedly for it that it
has become the rhost 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 con
sists in inlaying fine steel with gold
or silver in wavy lines, has passed
on to damask Yinen with similar de
sign.
The main beauty of Damascus
lies in its orchards, gardens and
vineyards, which cawer an area of
60 square miles, They are watered
by the rivers of the city, which Bib
lical students will reeall, the Syrian
general, as recorded in the Second
Book of Kings, suggested might
wash away his leprosy,
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Science Notes
Becaunse insects collect at the up
per end of sereen 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 de
termine the most suitable compo
sition for fireproof writing paper
developed the fact that éhe addi«
tion of no other ingredient in
creases the resistance of asbestos
to fire.
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Long-handled hooks have been
invented for plllng car axles in rajl
road shops, wit safety to em
ployees. 1 \
’” Timely Topics
of Today
By Arthur Brisbhane.
“T{E*Umu States and Japan
agree on management of
the Stherfan railways.”
That is one cable announcement.
TFwo 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 over the globe,
British statesmen assure our del
egates that Europe looks to us to
manage many of the little, gut-of
the-way, troublesome places and
see to it that they behave. There
is plenty of work cut ou‘t-—lt 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 oton
tinues his role of international San
ta Claus.
A bill 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 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 wi‘h.
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- 3
selves up a# 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 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 recent mush
rooms, it is true, but very proud of
themselves. Many of them will be
horrified &t 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
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 Bast Side of New York.”
Says he: “I have a firm convie
tion that this agitation is Yiddish
(he means Jewish). I’ don’t think
the Bolshevik movenmient in Russia
would have been a success except
for the support it got in New York
on the Bast Side.”
Many BEast Side New York. Jews
will be surprised to learn that there
is 80 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 hage been
taken from imperial treasurfes and
from bank vaults, It ig enlighten
ing to learn what &n Important part
New York's Bast Side has played
in this world affalr,
Just at this time, however, when
The London Times and others tes
‘tity 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 e«
ligion only upon absolute proof,
What PROOF does the Reverend
Methodist Simo: Pport
of his charge n::.l:ger &:'mm
Jews?
And what would he say
conspicuous Jew, withomt
accuse the Methodists 5 |
Simons accuses Jows?