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TRUTH, JUSTICE
Co-operation Between Business
Men and Farmers Essential
The Georgian in endeavoring to do its part
by way of helping the farming interests of
the South to achieve a maximum degree of
prosperity this year has not failed to, point
out repeatedly the necessity of eo-operation
between the agricultural interests and the
business interests, as they are commonly dif
ferentiated in the publie mind
WE HAVE INSISTED THAT IT IS AS
MUCH THE VITAL CONCERN OF THE
BANKER, THE MERCHANT, THE BUTCH
ER, THE BAKER AND THE CANDLE
STICK MAKER THAT THIS YEAR’S COT
TON ACREAGE BE SHARPLY REDUCED
AS IT IS THE FARMERS’,
The prosperity of all of us is so closely in
terwoven that a weakening anywhere along
the line may mark the point whereat the en
tire admirable scheme of things will eollapse.
In this conmection, there recently appeared
in The Chieago Herald Examiner an excel
lent editorial, part of whieh reads as follows:
With the bottom dropping out of the cotton
market, the South sees safety In a 10,000,000
bale 1919 crop; disaster In 15,000,000 bales,
What the Scuth does In this matter vitally
concerns the North. It behooves us not to per
mit our political views, or our opintons of the
South’s motives, to blind us to the economic
possibilities that the problem offers for the
North,
Admitting that selfishness prompts the South
to raise less cotton and more corn, we must re
member that a scarcity of corn impends in the
North and that a scarcity of corn means a
scarcity of meat and high prices at the
butcher's.
Because the Government has guaranteed a
continuance of war prices for wheat, Northern
farmers will plant every available acre to that
grain.
We are first interested, then, In seelng the
South raise corn to keep down the price of
meat.
But we are Interested also in seeing the
South get a good price for its cotton, for if the
South goes to smash next fall its losses will be
shared by Northern manufacturers and food
purveyors, and consequently by the Northern
working men, the demand for whose services
will be lessened by inability of the South to
come North with its market basket and check
book.
The statesmanship which failed to fix a cot
ton price may have been shortsighted and it
may have been culpable. But there is a wide
difference of opinion in the S.outh. among the
actual growers of cotton, on the advisability
of a price guarantee. The South was by no
means unanimous on the sub ject.
Nor Is the planter satisfled now that It was
entirely consideration for his welfare that pre
vented a Government guarantee such as the
wheat grower recelved. He Is somewhat per
plexed by a market drop of 30 to 40 per cent
on the speculative exchanges, while the mills
that spin the cotton are not giving the house
wife, North or South, the benefit of any reduc
tion In manufactured goods.
New England ralses little wheat or meat.
The Bouth, especlally the Mississippi valley cot
ton country, ls In partnership and close busi
ness assoclation with the Middle West. In the
past the cotton planter has bothered little with
any other activity. The entire social and com.
mercial scheme of the cotton country is based
upon ocotton,
Colonel Frank O. Lowden, Governor of Il
There Is Plenty ot Work to Do,
And Many Workmen Needed
Unemployment s the result of the belief
of the employers who econtrol industry that
there will not be a sale at a profitablé price
for more than a eertain amount of goods. As
their orders, or prospeetive orders, fall off
they discharge men or stop taking on new
men,
This phenomenon is sometimes spoken of
as over-production.
It really is not over.production of the
things people want and need, but over-pro
duetion of the things they have money to
buy. There ean not be over-production of
automobiles until every family has at least
ne, but it may easily be that more automo
'ex will ha produeed than there are pur
chasers with money to buy,
Business begins to slow down not when
such is the case, but when manufacturers
begin to fear that such will be the ense, As
business is eondueted largely on eredit a
manufacturer soars to accumulate a large
stock of unsalable material and so diminish
the fluid eapital with whish he has to meot
his bills, -
Usually the steel industry lows down first
and other industries follow, We then have
the edifying spectacle of millions of people
suffering for the necessities, not to mmnrnn
the luxuries of life, while the men and ma
chinery that might be producing these need
.dm are foreed to {n- idlo,
i on sense says that such a situation
sas absurd as it is tragic. 1 o nation's in.
dustries ean be kept running at top spead, re.
gerdless of ordinary market conditions, to
meet the needs of war, they can be kept run
-1 to meet the noeds of poace.
s extravagantly meonsistent to tell the
workman that wages onn not be ralsed, that
Our Soul W aiteth for the Lord, tor He Is Our Helper and Protector.—~Psalms 33:20
(Text for today was seleeted by Rev. O. N. Jackson, St. Anthony’s Rectory, A tlanta)
nois, is a cotton planter—one of the most suc
cessful in the South,
Aiso, Colonel Lowden operates one of the
most extensive farms in lllinois.
Were he to exchange the operating organi
zation of Florenden Plantation, on the Arkan
sas River, for the operating organization of
Sinnissippi Farm, on the Rock River, he would
bankrupt both enterprises in six months,
There is no comfort for the North in the
prospect of a collapse in the cotton country,
uniess it be for some politicians. We are en
titled to chuckle, of course, because the joke
seems to be on Southern politicians who failed
to fix a cotton price. But the South eats
Northern hams and rides in Northern automo
biles. And it needs money to buy them,
The views set forth by The Herald-Exam
iner are sound and can not successfully be
digputed.
To a eertain extent, ALIL prosperity is
based upon a degree of selfishness. There
eould be no prosperity, indeed, utterly de
void of self-interest.
The legitimate business world long ago
eeased to rejoice in failnre anywhere, becaunse
failure benefits nobody ; it is, therefore, sel
fish to OPPOSE failure.
If one of the banks of Atlanta should fail
tomorrow-—which it will not—do you think
for a minute that the other banks would be
asking that the news be spread broadecast?
Not in the least! They would be imploring
every newspaper office in Atlanta té ““soft
pedal that stuff.”
If one of the merchants of Atlanta were
hovering on the brink of ruin tomorrow, do
you imagine the other merchants would be
wishing an opportunity, to push that firm
over? Not in the least—the chances are they
would be eombining to tide their brother
merchant over and to save him for future
usefulness to the entire business strueture.
WHY?
BECAUSE EVERY BANK AND EVERY
MERCHANT REALIZES THAT A FAIL
URE ANYWHERE ALONG THE LWE
WEAKENS THE ENTIRE LINE TO JUST
THAT EXTENT-—and so they ‘‘selfishly’’
oppose failure ANYWHERE!
The man who runs the humblest restanrant
in Atlanta is vitaliy interested in the snecess
of the farming interests; unless the farmers
are successful, he will not be—and the same
may be said of the biggest hotel, bank, law
firmn or eorporation in Atlanta or the South.
And so, just as local suecesses are essen
tial to ecommunity prosperity, so is all see
tional prosperity essential to national pros
perity. No one section ean profit substan
tially and permanently in the failure of any
one or more of the remaining sections.
The Georgian again insists, therefore, that
it is the duty-—no less than the selfish inter
est—of EVERY business man, big and little,
to lend a hand in helping the farmers solve
THEIR big problem of a fair price for cot
ton this year.
“ Everybody's prosperity is involved. NO
one ean escape HIS responsibility !
The farmers MUST eurtail their acreage
sharply if they wish to be as prosperons as
they deserve this year—AND EVERY BUSI
NESS INTEREST MUST HELP.
hours ean not be shortened, and that speed
ing-up systems must be installed, in order to
inerease production, and the next month tell
him that the factories must be shut down in
order to diminish produetion. Common sense
says that we ought to find a way to keep the
wheels turning so long as a human need re
mains.
But common sense does not help the man
ufacturer. He is eaught in his own machin
ery. If he ean not sell finished goods he can
not buy raw materials. Though there is a
orying demand for his product he ean not
make it unless the demand is becked by
money or eredit,
Now, eredit is merely the helief of a ered
itor that his debtor will pay. The nation has
unlimitod eredit beeause it is certain that in
the long run it ean pay. The industry of the
nation, as a whole, has unlimited eredit be
eause it in certain to be riehly produective in
the long run,
These facts may point & way to avoid in
dustrial depressions,
When private industry stops national in
dustry should begin, It may take the form
of public improvements, If the Government
owned the railronds it conld take the form
of improvements to transportation facilities.
Or the Government might temporarily take
eontrol of certain industries in times of de
yreskion as it takes control in time of war,
ll‘h« emergeney may easily be almost as great,
But whether this plan or another succeeds
one thing is evident: There is always more
work to do than there are people and ma
chines to do it, and until every one is com
fortably well off there always will be,
Unemployment is o defect of organization,
not of natural sonditions,
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YE EDITOR'S BUSY WEEK.
(Carnegville Herald.)
The Herald reaches its readers
this week under rather adverse
circumstances, To start with, aft
er due notiffcations our printers
quit us and we were unable to
locate one in the meantime, so had
to get out this week's issue all by
our lonesome, and it is some job
for one man to make the fire,
sweep the floor, set reading mat
ter, set ads, make-up eight pages,
read the proofs, correct same, feed
the press, distribute the type, print
some jobs, fold papers and write
them, besides writing all the copy.
Then f course as help was scarce,
the Xmline was taken with influ
enza. After doctoring the engine
up so it could breathe normal
again, the press began to give
trouble,
CURTAIL THE ACREAGE.
(Americus Times-Recorder.)
A thing that is worth doing at
all is worth doing well, The cot
ton problem is a matter of FREE
DOM or SLAVERY for the entire
South. It is a fight to the finish,
RIGHT NOW, We must win it—
and to win it the South must pre
sent a SOLID FRONT,
The start has been made. THE
SOUTHERN FARMER I 8 FIGHT
ING FOR HIS VERY ECONOMIC
EXISTENCE. He must choose his
course now. There ean be no turn
ing back. He must win or go down,
AND THRRE CAN BE NO DOUBT
WHERE THE VICTORY WILL
LIE IF THE FARMER WILL USE
THE WEAPONS GOD HAS
PLACED IN HIS HANDS,
PAINTING THE LILY,
(Dalton Citizen.)
Tobe Jenkins ecan whistle the
“Missourt Waltz” in three keys and
all the variations and never strike
the right note at any place. Sol
Weinhauser, the village bandmas
ter, says Tobe's version is an im.
provement on the orlginal melody,
as it falls more pleasant like on the
ear,
NOT TO MENTION THE SCOTCH.
(Dawson News.)
A dozen or more Legislatures
have voted since the beginning of
the year te destroy the American
spirit, v
MUTUAL ADMIRATION.
(Dublin Courier-Journal.)
Floyd County is going to have a
new jail-—in the sweet bye and bye.
~~Rome Tribune-Herald. Shake!
Pardner, so are we.
Tuesday, February 18, 1919
CATCHING HIS STRIDE
By Winifred Black.
AVE you heard the story
about the young man
who came ashore from a
transport the other day somewhere
at an Atlantic -
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He was pale y “"*;.,“ ‘p{f
and thin and in i . !
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is haggard eye | w%lw |
was written the ' g |
story of hideous || Y g ‘
pain and haunt- Ji e |
5 TRy |
ing, dreadful JXENEE ‘% T wl
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memorie N o)
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He limped a [7@AL S <« |
little and pinned | e o il
s, £ o
to his soldier's |& &% Bk
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tunic was an jaf 1*,,.,:' 8l
empty sleeve ATy
but he held his \§ B A
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head up and his ""\fl"i“
mouth was firm -
In the crowd waiting on the dock
were people who knew him some
kissed him, some cried and some I
sald in cheerful, matter-of-fact |
voices
“Hello, old man, you made it,
after all, didn't you”™ ;
And these the soldier answered in |
the American fashion:
“Sure!”
A woman standing in a group of
strangers stepped forward and
spoke to the soldier,
Her eyes were blazing with ex
citement and her voice trembled |
emotionally 1
‘Pardon me,” she said, "but would
you inind telling me how vou lost
your arm?”” |
The soldier drew himself up, and |
answered her, courtenusly, but in a |
volee of mingled steel and flame ’
“Madam, 1 didn't lose my arm--1 |
gave it!" '
And the woman hung her head |
and couldn’t think what to answer, !
“1 did not lose my arm-—l gave l
nt™
What wonld vou give to be the
mother of a man like that?
How many vears of your life?
How many drops of hlood straight
frqm your pulsing veins
And he's only one of thousands
and hundreds of thousands, yes,
millions, of just exactly such men
w 8 that,
Americans—Yankees from New
England, Cwifornians and Oregone
ians from the coast, Southerners
from Virginia and South Carolina
and QGeorgia, Middle Westerners,
from the great grain States by the
QGreat Lakes,
Tall lumbermen from Maine,
planters from up the Bayou in
Louisiana, Mississipgl cotton grow
ers, Jlowa farmers, Chicago bank
clerks, San Francisco day laborers
Rich men's sons born to luxiry
and ease
Poor boys who have had to strug-
Giving, Not Losing
gle and fight for every mouthful
they have ever had to eat.
Brilliant young fellows with clear
heads and quick brains.
Commonplace boys with nothing
especially clever about them-sol
diers every one of them, every inch
a soldier, and every drop of blood
in their veins and a drop of courage
and of loyalty!
How strange it is that we never
realized before what stuff they were
made of. 4
How strange it 1s that we forgot
all about it, the noblest qualities of
their souls and thought of them
only as we saw them) on the sur
face,
Some of them we knew or thought
we knew-—well and yet we Kknew
nothing about them, except the
vain, shallowest outside,
Thoughtless, heedless, careless,
even selfish, we believed many of
them to be-and perhaps many of
them were these things—until the
great magician touched them with
his wand and bade them live up to
their better selves, and here they
are show!ng us all what blind erea
tures we have been, every one of
us!
Even the very mothers of these
very boys-—ourselves,
What are we going to do to live
up to such standards as these?
How are they poing to find us
when they come home-—our boys
who are living on the heights to
day?
Oh, yes, they're J?ing and laugh
ing, and smoking dnd telling stor
les—they're no saints and we
wouldn’t love them half as much as
we do if they were—but, oh, they
are baring their breasts to steel and
laughing with joy to do it-—because
of an ideal.
How are they going to measure
us who are left behind—when they
come back?
What shall we do to be worthy of
them?
Oh, let's work, and work and
work!
Let's give, and give, and give—
and all the time let’s hold up our
heads, throw back our shoulders
and walk as if we stepped to the
tune of musie singing in our hearts,
And whatever else we do, let's
smile, and smile not only with our
lips—but with our hearts, :
What does it all matter—this lit.
tle span we call life?
What do they amount to—the
things we worried over a year ago
today?
Human nature has been tried in
the balance-—~American human na
ture—and it has stood the tess!
Our boys are men-—every inch of
them!
Let us try in every little detail of
our little petty lives to live up to
them-—so that thty will not be
ashamed of us—when they have all
come back. 5
PUBLIC SERYICE
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(From The Buffalo Express.) |
Future generations will be able to :
form a better picture of the war of i
1914-18 than of any other war ever |
fought. They will be able to know ‘
what tools the soldiers of this war
carried, how they fought and how
the people at home cheered them on
and sustained them. The amount
of relics and illustrative material
that will be preserved will be im- |
mense, Everyone knows how poor |
were the photographs of the battle
fiells and the solders of 1861 The
photographie record of the recent
war Is nearly perfect., Pictures were
taken in the training camps, the
rest villages, the trenches and from
the air. Such exhibitions as the |
war show just held in Buffalo in- |
dicate how vast a collection of the
tools of war can be made for the
museums,
A big collection of war posters
has just been presented to Harvard |
University by Guy Emerson, of the |
class of 1918, It illustrates an- !
other class of the war material that
will be preserved. This Harvard
collection will he housed in the
Widener Library. At vresent it
contains 500 posters, but the giver
hopes to enlarge it to 1,000, There
are other collections of this kind in
America, notably one in the Grosve
nor Library in Buffalo. The great
awkweardness of this class of mate
rial lies i its bulk. It would be
difficult to keep such a collection
excent in a library, Moreover, many
of the posters are printed on chaap
and perishable paper. But such
collections are well worth keeping.
The history of the war would not
be complete without them. It was
largely by these posters that the
fighting peoples of the world were
encouraged to erlist, to save, tolend
their money, to be economical in
their eating.
A study of the American posters
proves that the posters did a good
work in education in art during the
war, There was a steady improve
ment in the character of the pos
ters, and a gralual training of the
publie in the capacity to judge of
poster art. Contrast the dull, in- |
sipid posters of the first year with
the striking posters at the end; The
waur was fought by men and women
in earnest, and the posters showed
a gradual recognition of this fact.
The magazine cover girl lost her
sway after a while. The French
led in the poster art at the beégin
ning. The women on their posters
were not always beautiful, but they
looked to be in dead earnest, us if
they were erying or screaming “To
arms! To arms!” Some of the
American postars of the latest Lib
erty Loan had that same expres.
sion of intensity and determination.
It i= not to be believed that the
gain in vigor in this department of
art in America will be lost. The
day of the merely pretty in poster
art is probably past,
It was a great war, and the rec
ords of it will be vast. But these
records are worth the space they
will require. .
. .
Timely Topics
of Today
By Arthur Brisbane.
OU are living in a mixed-up
Y world. Look where you
please, black spots dance
before your eyes-—plenty of them.
Every newspaper and public man
has a woeful tale.
All these wails are in two or
three pages of one newspaper.
Court-martial punishments in the
United States army have been
viciously severe, autocratic and un
reasonable, more so than in any
country except Prussia and Spain,
Forty years in prison for refusing
to drill when ill! There's “disci~
pline.” .
China is in a desperate state,
rich, overripe plum of vast wealth
and territory, ready to drop into
the lap of Japan, unless nations
interfere. Her (}overnm;nt col
lapses, her banks can not pay gold,
s 0 says professor Willoughby, ‘ad
viser to the Chinese,
Governor Burnquist, of Minne
sota, says the Bolsheviki, I, W,
W., radical Socialists and farmers’
Nonpartisan League are all one.
And Bolshevism is “America’s
greatest menace.”
The farmers thought their Non
partisan League was intended to
get a good price for wheat and
other farm products, and keep the
trusts from charging too much for
agricultural implements, fertiliger
and freight. . But Governor Burn
quist says the Nonpartisan League
farmers are in with other vicious
radicals in the effort to set up a
Bolshevik government similar to
that in Russia.
They would have a nice time do
ing it, if there be even 5 per cent
of truth in statements concerning
Russia made by a British trade un
ionist in The London Daily News.
-
He says anarchy and starvation
have reduced the population of
Petrograd from 2,000,000 to 600,000,
distribution of food has practically
ceased, and he saw people dying of
starvation in the streets.
You must take many a grain of
salt with the stories you hear from
Russia, however.
You must also accept cautiousiy
statements that such and. such
groups here are “Bolsheviks” be
cause they happen to want more
pay or protest against the high cost
of living. In New York, when cloak
and suit makers demanded higher
wages, a representative of employ
ers wrote to the Mayor that the
strikers were “red flag Bolsheviks”
and should be suppressed for that
reason. They were only workers
demanding better pay, and they
got it.
Chinese, at home, are slow to
adopt new ideas. Here they are
quick.
The Chinese merchants of Chi
cago, for instance, request the au
thorities to deport (as “Bolshe
viks,” of course) the members of
an organization called “Mon Sang.”
In French thoseswords would mean
“my blood.” s
It seems that they mean Bolshe
vism in Chinese. Waiters and
laundrymen of the “Mon Sang” or
ganization have been writing to
wealthy Chinese asking for jobs at
good salaries, or even for a divi
sion of profits.
“What IS a Bolshevik?"
The answer of Chinese merchants
and some others in this country
would be “A Bolshevik is somebody
who asks bigger pay or a division of
profits.”
Would you explore further the
ten thousand woes of the world?
Twenty thousand clerks are strik-’
ing in Berlin. And Spartacans, ap
parently hard to discourage, are
shooting off guns in the newspa
per quarter. In Germany, when
the workers strike, doctors and
other professionals also strike and
refuse to look after the workers,
That is considerably more inge
nious than calling a man a Bol
shevik because he wants more pay.
The most interesting “Bolshevik"
demonstration of all, as Mr. Tuohy,
of The New York World, points out,
is supplied by gentlemen whom Sie
Fdward Carson, encmy of home rule,
describes as “loyal and patriotic
Orangemen.”
Those loyal, patriotic gentlemen
in Belfast have been ACTING,
while Irishmen farther south have
been talking and protesting,
“Loyal” Orangemen of Belfast
have started a little “soviet” of their
own, the first of its kind in Great
Britain.
There ARE many- gloomy spots
on the pages of newspapers., But it
isn't ALL gloom,
President Wilson tells the
French that he will return to cele
brate a first-class settlement of all
the difficulties. He says it in bis
favorite talking-to-Congress tone,
“Do it or I will know the reason
why! Those that know hlmfl
inclined to think that he win
the celebration as scheduded,
That's one bright spot.
And Monday in New York 3000
eolored fighters, just back from
France, paraded and then ate a
dinner consisting of 3,000 chickens,
They were led by a band of 100,
commanded by Lieutenant James
Burope. That name itself jo avbright
spot.