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Your Chance to Prove That
Republics Are NOT Ungrateful
N SLOW but steady response to the grow-
I ing pressure of public opinion for fair
play for our returnming soldiers and sailors
the Congress is making progress.
The War Department reecommended one
month’s bonus pay, representing for the en
listed man the execeedingly modest sum of
S3O, about equal to one week’s wage of the
average wunskilled laborer in onr munitions
plants—elearly not enongh to meet the prob
lem of finding civil employment dnring the
slack of the transition period.
In the Army Appropriations bill the Con
gress raiwed this figure to S6O, which of
eourss, Is better.
But S6O bonus is not a sufficient tideover
for men who, after having risked their lives
ot thefr country’s call, must come back into
the region of high prices to make the diffi
oult search for the means of self-support.
That the fair-minded citizens of the nation
realize ft is not enough is proved by the fact
that seventeen United States Senators, twen
ty-five Gowernors, ten State Legislatures and
many seores of representative civie organiza
tions have joined this newspaper in pressing
for a gix months’ bonus.
In addition, more than 2,000,000 signatures
have been attached to the gigantie ‘petition
witich the Hearst newspapers will present to
the Congress praying that body to grant an
adequate allowanee 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
solid foundation upon which they ean re
build.
Moreover, signatures at the rate of more
than 100,000 daily eontinue to flow into the
office of the varions Hearst papers, assuring
that the petition, when presented, will be
the most numerously signed memorial ever
laid before the Congress of the United States.
The signers 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 wniform in the world’s most trying erisis,
and they are willing to pay their share of
the debt
They are of the rank and file of our citi
zenship upon whom the eosts of war must
ultimately rest, but they are not pleading for
Hold What Liberty Bonds You Have
Purchased; Prepare Now to Buy More
Exeeutive adepts are now perfeeting their
~ organizations for the ‘‘drive’’ which is to
come a few wecks hence for the Fifth Lib
erty Loan. Five billions will be asked for,
with the hope that this amount may be over
subscribed, 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 subseribers.
' 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.
| Scerutiny of these figures- shows how
. amazingly the number of hond buyers in
ereased, doubling and redoubling until prae
* tieally one in every five of the population of
these United States has become a bond
l buyer! :
| Incaleulable has been the value of this
~ education of the people in the advaniages of
- holding investments which yield a good rate
~ of imterefit” with unfailing regularity, and
- whieh are infinitely superior to the prettily
~ printed STOCK certificates which MIGHT
ig 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
a do everything to bring swift sue
cops | i arms. Now that the war is off,
thtless may not be swayed by sen
TRUTH, JUSTICE
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 is necessary to re-establish our veteran
defenders,
Nor will the Congress hold back when its
members are assured as to the wishes of the
country. A
The tax-voting body faces weighty and
intricate problems which require of it a care
ful husbanding of the national funds, upon
unexampled drafts.
Tts membership is eager to escape the ae
cusation of extravagance and solicitous to
know that what it does will be approved, for
all these Senaiors 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 nuntil it is so assured. , 2
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 8 not time or opportunity for that,
but if yon have not already signed the peti
tion, which you will find on another page of
The Georgian, you ean speed action by sign=
ing it at onee; and if you have signed it you
can help by getting others to sign it.
The cause of justice for our v urning
heroes is gaining momentum. Daily 1¢ 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 in vain. The spee
tacle is humiliating—not to them, but to US.
Let 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 this great Repub
lie is NOT ungrateful.
timental impulses of patriotism and pride,
These people have been too careless to elip
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 seeurity 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 ecuntry 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. If
it is OVER-subseribed, it'will lessen our tax
ation just that much. If it is UNDER-sub
scribed, the defieit will have to be made up
in some way.
Therefore we urge the people of this city
and vieinity 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 lift
weary feet from the slough of poverty to the
high road of prosperity. ,
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Judg> Not, That Ye Be Not Judsed.—Mat!. 7:/1‘
(Text for today was selected by Rev., F. (. McConnell, Pastor Druid Hils 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,
Threas things stand out promi
nently, which If well done, will
make hundreds of other matters
possible, First a revision of the tax
laws s 0 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, legislatlon 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
“They deserve well of the State.”
QUITE AN ACCIDENT.
(Macon Telegraph.)
One of the best of tho many
Roosevelt stories coming 0 light
#ince 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: Tam in
trouble. 1 shot a lady In the eye,
but T did 4 not intend to hit the lady.
1 waa 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 feace
conferenece 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 Caro
lina and Georgia 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 piece
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 sorp
| rity?
Saturday, February 15, 1919
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ONCE UPON a time.
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I WAS 3 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.
AND WHILE I was there.
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1 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 1 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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AND IT had died.
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AND HE told me about it.
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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 said.
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AND HE showed me the plach.
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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 THE big cage.
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THAT I‘T \'xsesl to be in.
WAS STILL there.
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AND T":E Jall.er said.
THAT E.VERY day.
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WHEN THE police officers,
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WOULD. C?M.E to their work.
THEY'D HANG around.
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 AFTER a while.
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IT BEGAN to decline.
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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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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 TI:EN died.
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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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ON EACH of the shifts.
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AND THE way I figure.
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IS THAT the men,
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JUST WORKED one shift.
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AND THE way it happened.
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THEY CAME in relays.
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AND MéDE t}.m parrot.
WORK ALL three shifts.
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AND IT couldn’t stand it.
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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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-l THANK yon.
PUBLIC SERVICE
I 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.
It ts mentioned repeatedly in the
Old Testament, 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 4 sent an
expedition against it and took it
with a slaughter of 22,000 men.
prfiam, Crusaders and Turks
ought so repeatedly for it that it
has become the most captured as
well as the oldest city in the world.
Its bazaars 2.nd riches are world
famous. Damascus steel, armor,
silk, scents and jewelry are the
most exquisite and costly in the
warkets. 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.
The main beamty of Damascus
Hes in its orchavds, 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 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,
66 E United States and Japasi
I agree on management of
the Siberian railways®
That is one cable announcememt,
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 Washe
ington, D, C. American responsi
bility seems to spread very much
all over the globe.
British statesmen assure our deh
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 cone
tinues his role of international Sam
ta Claus. » \
A bill to spend seven hundred and
twenty-one millions on new fighting,
ships goes through smoothly, W(
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
Republie, 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 “aristocrats,” so-called,
will resenf 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 #f
Karl Marx could come back and see
a proletarian getting a million
marks a year salary and the
Kalser exiled in Holland wondering
whether his cousin' on the English
throne will save him from being
hanged,
Here In America we have an ase
sortment of 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 Soctalist getting $250,000
a year, with the power of Germany
back of him. These same Ameri
cans leave incomes ten times bigw
ger to their accidentally worthy or
unworthy sons to be spent as they |
choose In wusing up the labor of
other. men, and they think that 8
“good American democracy.” ‘
How do you suppose the former i
Kaiser feels as he reads the latest
news? He said that the, Ebert So
clalist 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 RH
PUBLIC OF GERMANY. i
The Rev. Dr. Simons, recenfly
head of the Methodist Church in
Russia, tells the Senate that Bok
shevik success is due to financial
and other assistance “from the lows
er Bast Side of New York.”
Says he: “T have a firm convie~
tion that this agitation is Yidaish
(he means Jewish). 1 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 to learn that there
is so much money among them.
Their way of Iving 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 Fast 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 ao-/;
cusations against any race or re- ‘
ligion only upon absolute ;roof. |
What PROOF does the Reverend
Methodist Simons offer in suppont ‘
of his charge against New York
Jews? ‘
And what would he say ¢
conspicuous Jew, without
accuse the Methodists -a ‘
Simons accuses Jews? S