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TRUTH, JUSTICE
Co-operation Between Business
Men and Farmers FEssential
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
ont repeatedly the necessity of co-operation
between the agrieultural ipterests and the
business intercsts, as they are commonly dis
ferentiated in the publie mind
WE HAVE INSISTED THAT IT IS AS
MUCH THE VITAL CONCERN OF THE
BANKER, THE MERCHANT, THE BUT¢CH
FR, THE BAKER AND THES 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 -
terwoven that a weakening anywhere along
the line may mark the point whereat the en
tire admirable scheme of things will eollapse.
In this econneetion, there recently appeared
in The Chieago Herald-Examiner an exeel
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 South does In this matter vitally
concerns the North. It behooves us not to per
mit our political views, or our opinions 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 ralde 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 seeing the
South raise corn to keep dowm the price of
meat.
But we are Interested also in seeing the
South get a good price for its cotton, for if the
Bouth goes to smash next fall its losses will be
shared by Northern manufacturers and loo§
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 I 8 market basket and check
book.
' The statesmanship which fatled to fix a cot
ton price may have been shortsighted and it
may have been culpable. But there is a wide
difference of opinlon in the South, 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 conslderation for his welfare that pre
vented a Government guarantee such as the
wheat grower received. He s 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, especially the Mississippi valley cot
ton country, ls In partnership and close busi
ness association with the Middle West. In the
past the cotton planter has bothered little with
any other activity. Tt‘ entire soclal and com.
mercial scheme of the country is based
upon cotton, -
Colonel Frank O, Lowden, Governor of Il
There Is Plenty ot Work to Do,
And Many Workmen Needed
Unemployment is the result of the belief
of the employers who econtrol industry that
there will not be a sale at a profitable price
for more than a ecertain 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
duction 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
-0 will ba prodneed than there are pur
ghasers withumoney to buy.
Business begins to slow down not when
such is the ease, but when manufacturers
begin to fear that such will be the ease, As
business is' conducted largely on eredit a
manufacturer fears to accumulate a large
stock of unsalable material and so diminish
the fluld capital with which he has to moeet
his bills,
Usually the steol industry slows down first
and other industries follow. Weo then have
the edifying, tacla of millions of people
suffering for mnmmiflm, not to mention
the luxuries of life, while the men and ma.
ehinery that might be producing these need
ed goods are foreed to {:e idle, |
Common sense says that such a situation
is as absurd as it is tragic. If o nation’s in
dustries can be kept running at top speed, ro-.
gardless of ordinary market conditions. to
meet the neads of war, they can he kept run
ming to meet the needs of peace.
B s extravagantly ineonsistent to tell (e
‘workman that weges can not be ralsed, that
o Our Soul Waiteth for the Lord, tor He Is Our Helper and Protector.—Psalms 33:20
(Text for today was selected by Rev. O, N. Jadkson, St. Anthony’s Rectory, A tlanta) 3
nois, is a cotton planter-—one of the most sue
cessful in the South.
Also, Colonel Lowden operates one of the
most extensive farms in Illinois. .
Were he to exchange the operating organi
zation of Florenden Plantation, on the Arkan
sas River, for the operating organization of
Sinnissippl Farm, on the Rock River, he would
bankrupt both enterprises in six months. 4
There is no comfort for the NoOrth in the
prospect of a collapse in the cotton country,
unless 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
disputed. '
To a eertain extent, ALL 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 failure anywhere, hecanse
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 minuté that the other banks would be
asking that the news be spread broadeast?
Not in the least! They would be imploring
every newspaper office in Atlanta to ‘‘soft
pedal that stuff.”’
If one of the merchants of Atlanta were
hovering on the brink of ruin tomorrow, do
yon 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 structure.
WHY?
BECATSE EVERY BANK AND EVERY
MERCHANT REALIZES THAT A FAIL
URE ANYWHERE ALONG THE LINE
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 vitally interested in the sueccess
of the farming interests; unless the farmers
are sueeessful, he will not be—and the same
may be. said of the biggest hotel, bank, law
firm or corporation in Atlanta or the South.
And so, just as local suceesses are essen
tial to community 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, bhig and little,
to lend a hand in helping the farmers solve
THETR big problem of a fair price for eot
ton this vear.
Everybody’s prosperity is invelved, NO
one can eseape HIS responsibility !
The farmers MUST curtail 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 prodnetion. Common sense
suys that we ought to find a way to keep the
wheels turning 80 long as a human need re
mains.
But scommon sense does not help the man
ufacturer, Ie is eaught in his own machin
ery. If he ean not sell finished goods he can
not buy raw materials. Though there is a
erying demand for his produet he can not
make it -wnless the demand is backed by
money or eredit,
Now, eredit is merely the helief of a ered
itor that his dehtor will pay. The nation has
unlimited credit beeause it is certain that in
the long run it ean pay. The ipdustry of the
nation, as a whole, has unlimited eredit be
eanso it is certain to be richly produetive in
the long run,
These facts may point a way to avoid in
dustrial depressions,
When private industry stops national in.
dustry should begin, It may take the form
of publie improvements, If the Government
owned the railroads it could take the form
of improvements to transportation Yacilities,
Or the Government might temporarily take
control of eertain industries in times of de
pression as it takes control in time of war,
Thoe emergency may easily be almost as great.
But whether this plan or another suceceds
one thing is evident: There is always more
work to do than there are people and ma
chines to do it, and until eevery one is com.
fortably well off there always will be,
Unemployment is a defeet of organization,
not of natural conditions, .
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YE EDITOR'S BUSY WEEK.
(Carnesville Herald.)
The Herald reaches its readers
this week .under rather adverse
circumstances, To start with, aft
er due notifications 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 tha proofs, correct same, feed
the press, distribute the type, print
gome jobs, fold papers and write
them, besides writing all the copy.
Then of course as help was scarce,
the gasoline was taken with influ
enza. After doctoring the engine
up so it could breathe normal
agaln, the preas began to give
trouble.
Mot
CURTAIL THE ACREAGE.
4 (Americus Times-Recorder.)
A thing that is worth* deing 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 Bouth must pre
sent a SOLID FRONT,
The start has been made. THE
SOUTHERN FARMER I 8 FIGHT
ING FOR HIS VERY BCONOMIC
WXISTENCE. He must choose his
course now, There ean be no turn
ing back. He must win or go down,
AND THERE CAN BE NO DOURT
WHERE THR VICTORY WILL
LIE 1P THE FARMER WILL USE
THE WEAPONS GOD HAS
PLACED IN HIS HANDS
PAINTING THE LILY.
(Dfllto‘: Citlzen.)
Tobe Jenkin& can whistle the
“Missouri Waltz'" In three keys and
all the varfations 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 original melody,
as it falls more pleasant like on the
ear. N
NOT TO MBNTION THE SCOTCH.
(Dawson News.)
A dozen or more Legislatures
have voted since the beginning of
the year to destroy the American
spirit.
MUTUAL ADMIRATION.
(Dublin Courier-Journal.)
Floyd County is going to have a
new jail—in the sweet bye' and bye,
~-tome Tribune-Herald. Shake!
Pardner, 8o 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 sofhewhere
at an Atlantic -
port? % ? i
He was pole | SRS
and thin and in |§B g x|
his haggard eve |G M{h ]
, 2 i, |
was written the 7 |
.4e e |
story of hideous y e {
pain and haunt- { R |
" - e
ing, dreadful A TT N
memories, B o &R l
* Hpe limped a |'i% ’-_”:&v. oA
little and pinned | “Gieas s |
to his soldier's | g {
tunic was an .*-,,, 2 |
empty sleeve— [© 7 8 'l‘ i
but he held his (ke i |
& A g ~
head up and his g 'ls'@:’.""
mouth was firm.
In the crowd waiting on the dock
were people who knew him some [
kissed him, some cried and some !
said in cheerful, matter-of-fact ;
volces:
“Hello, old man, you made n"
after all, didn't you?™ ;
And these the soldier answered in
the American fashion
“Rure!"” i
A woman standing in a group of ‘
strangers stepped forward umi,;
spoke to the soldier. 4 i
Her eyes were blazing with ex- |
cltement and her volce n'v-mhlmii
emotionally,
‘Pardon me,” she said, “but would |
you inind telling me how vyou lost J
your arm?" )
he soldier drew himsell up, and
answered hoer, courtenusly, but in a
velee of mingled stec] and flame:
"Madam, 1 didn’t lose my arm-—I
gave it!"”
And the woman hung her head
and couldn’t think what to answer,
“1 did not lose my arm-—II gave l
i -
What would you give to be the
mother of a man like that?
How many years of your life?
How many drops of blood straight
from your pulsing yeins o
And he's only one of thousands |
and -hundreds of thousands, yes,
millions, of just exactly such men
as that,
Americans-—Yankees from Neow
Fngland, Calfornians and Oregon
ians from the coast, Southerners
from Virginia and "South Careolina
and Georgia, Middle | Westerners,
from the great grain States by the
Great Lakes,
Tall lumbermen from - Maine,
planters from up the Bayou in
Louigiana, Mississippi cotiom grow
ers, Towa farmers Chicage bank
clerks, Ban Francisco day laborers
Rich men's sons born to luxiury
and ease, # -
Poor boyvs who have had to struf-
Giving, Not Losing
gle and fight for every mouthful
they have ever had to eat.
Brilliant young feéllows 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,
How strange it is 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. o
Some-of them we knew or thought
we knew-—well and yet we knew
nothing about them, except the
g
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 crea
tures we have been, every one of
us!
Even the very mothers of these
very hoys—ourselves, .
What are we going to dq to live
up to such siandards as these?
How are they poinz to find us
when they come hame—our boys
who are living on the heights to
day?
Oh, yes. they're joking and laugh
ing, and smoking and 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 jey 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? 5 ¥
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 music singing in our hearts,
Antd whatever else we do, let's
smile, and smile not only with our
lips—but with our hearts,
What does it all matter—this t
tle span we call life? Y
What do they amount to-sthe
things we worried over a vear ago
today? e \
Human nature has been tried in
the balance—American human na
ture-“hind it has stood the test!
Our boys are men—every inch of
them!
Lot us try in every little detall of
our little petty lives to live up to
them--so that they will nes :fi
arhamed of us—when they have
come back. L
PUBLIC SERVICE
Art and the
War
(From 'The Buffalo Express.)
Future generations will be able to,
form a better picture of the war of
1914-18 than of any other war ever
fought. They will be abie 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
fieldls and the solders of 1861 'The
photographic record eof the recent
ws%s nearly perfect. Pictures were
takén in the training camps, the
rest villages, the trenches and from
the air. Such exhibitions as the
war show just heid 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 wun
other tlass of the war material that
will be preserved. This Harvard
collection will be housed in the
Widener Library. At present it
contains 500 posters, but the giver
hopes to enlarge it to 1,000, There
are other collections of thix kind in
America, notably one in the Grosve.
nor Library in Bnffalo. The great
awkwardness of this class of mate
rial lies tn its bulk. "It would bhe
difficult to keep such a collection
excent in a lbrary. Moreover, many
of the posters are printed on cheap
and perishable paper, But: such
collections are well worth keeping.
The history of the war wouid not
be compléte without them. It was
largely by these posters that the
fighting peoples of the world were
encouraged to erlist, to save, to lend
their money, to be economieal in
their eating,
A study of the American posters
proves that the posters did a good
work in edueat'sn in art during the
war. There was a steady improve
ment in the character of the pos
ters, and a gralual training of the
Yublic In the capacity to Judfe ot
poster art. Contrast the dull, in
sipid posters of the first year with
the striking posters at the end; The
wir wis fought by men and women
%n earnest, and the posters showed
a gradual recognition of this faet,
The maguzine cover girl lost her
sway after a while, "The French
led in the poster art at the begin
ning. The women on their posters
were not always beautiful, but they
looked to be in dead earnest, us if
they were crying or screaming “To
arms! To arms!" Some of the
American posters of the latest Lib
erty Loan had that same expres.
sion of intensity and determination.
It is 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 irec
ords of it will be vast. But these
records are worth the space they
will require, e
e 1
| Timely Topics |
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L Yooy M
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By Arthur Brisbane. i
OU are living in a mixed-up |
world. Look where you i
please, black spots dance :
before your eves—plenty of them. ||
Every newspaper and public man |
has a woeful tale. J il
All these wails are in two or i‘
! three pages of one newspaper, 1}
| Court-martial punishments in the !:
| United States army have been !;
l viciously severe, autocratic and un- ll
reasonable, more so than in any |
i country except Prussia and Spain. ’g
Forty years in prison for refusing
to drill when ill! There's “disci- |
pline.” b ,[
| China is in a desperate state,\tf
‘ "rich, overripe plum of vast’ wealth V
' and territory, ready to drop into [‘
i the lap of Japan, unless nations I
| Interfere. Her Government | col- i
| lapses, Fer banks can not pay gold. ||
| 80 says professor Willoughby, ad- i
| Viser to the Chinese. |
I Governor Burnquist, of Minne- 1
i sota, -says the Bolsheviki, 1. W, /|
W.. radical Socialists and tarmers" )
i Nonpartisan League are all one.
| And_ Bolshevlsm is “America’s |
| Bréitest menace.” 1
I * The tm:gwrs thought their Non- |
{ partisan League was intended to |
- #et ‘a gaod price for wheat ‘and |
| other farm products. and kéep the it
| trusts from charging toosmueh for ||
. agricultural implements, fertilizer |
| and freight. But Governor Burn- |
. quist says the Nonpartisan League i
. farmers are in with other vigious
. 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 stateménts concerning |
. Russia made by a British trade un
iomist in The London Daily News. |
He says anarchy and starvation
| have weduced the population -of
e Petregrad from 2,000,000 to 600,000,
~ distribution of food has practically
. ceased, and he saw people dying of i
starvation in the streets, {
* You must take many a grain of |
_salt with the stories you hear from
. Russia, however. ‘
z You must also accept cautiously
| statements that such and such |
groups here are ‘‘Bolsheviks” be- [
E 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 4
; strikers were “red ttag Bolsheviks” ’
and should be suppressoq for that |
| reason. They were only workers il
| demanding better pay, and they !
| got it. . !
E Chinese, at home, are slow to ‘
i 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 those words would mean |
. “my blood.” ‘
| It seems that they mean Bolshe- ||
. vism in €hinese. ~ Waiters and ||
1 laundrymen of the “Mon Sang” or- |
| ganization have been writing to ||
wealthy Chinese asking for jobs at It
.~ good salaries, or even for a divi- |
sion of profits. » |
i “What IS a Boishevik?"
| The answer of Chinese merchants ||
~ and some. others in this country
would be “A Bolshevik is somebody
" ‘wWhowasks bigger pay or a division of li
- profits.” i
} T 1
j Would you explore further the ||
~ ten thousand woes of the world? i
| Twenty thousand clerks are strik- fi
l ing in Berlin. And Spartacans, ap- |
. parently hard to discourage, are %
- shootin@ 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 80l- ||
shevik because he wants more pay. n
| W |
| The most interesting “Bolshevik” g’
- demonstration of all, as Mr, Tuohy, |
of The New York World, points out, |
is supplied by gentlemen whom Sir ||
Edward Carson, encmy of home rule,
describes as “loyal and patriotie
Orangemen.” |
Those loyal, patriotic gentlemen i
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 1
own, the first of its kind ih Great “
. Britain, 3!
| oy i
‘ There ARE many gloomy spots |
on llhe pages of newspapers, But it ||
- iso't ALL gloom, |
| President Wilgon tells the i
~ French that he will return to cele- i
brate a first-class settlement of all |
-the difficulties, He says it in his ||
| gll)\;or(te talking-to-Congress tone, It
| it or I will know the reason i
why"” Those that know him are i
inclined to think that he win hold |
~ the celebration as scheduled. 1!
That's one bright spot. i
And Monday in New York 2,000 “
‘eolored fighters, just back from
P“mnce. paraded and them a “
dinner eonalstlni of 3,000 ‘&na. ‘
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commanded by Lieutenant James |
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