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JTRUTH, 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 Bouth 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
farentiated in the public mind.
WE HAVE INBISTED THAT IT IS AS
MUCH THE VITAL CONCERN OF THE
BANKER, THE MERCHANT, THE BUTCH
ER, THE BAKER AND THE CANDLE
SBTICK MAKER THAT THIS YEAR'S COT
TON ACREAGE BE SHARPLY REDUCED
AS IT IS THE FARMERS®.
The prosperity of all of us i= so elossly in
terwoven that & weakening anywhare elong
the line may mark the pdint whereat the en
tire admirable seheme of things will collapse.
In this eommection, there recantly appeared
ta The Chieago Herald-Hxaminer an exeel
lent editorial, part of which reads as follows:
With the bottom dropping oyt of the cotton
market, the South sees safety In a 10,000,000
bale 1919 crop; dleaster in 15,000,000 balea.
What the South does In this matter vitally
conoarns the North. It behooves us not to per
mit our politioal views, or our opinlons of the
BSouth's motives, to blind us to the economio
possibilitios that the problem offers for the
North. 2
Admitting that selfishness prompts the South
to ralse less cotton and more corn, we must re
member that a scarcity of corn Imponds In the
North and that a soarcity of corn means a
scarcity of meat and high prices at the
butoher's.
Because the Govermment has guaranteed a
continuance of war prices for wheat, Northern
farmers wiil plant every avallable acre to that
grain,
We are first interested, then, In seecing the
South ralss 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
South goes to smash next fall its losses will be
shared by Northern manufacturers and food
purveyors, and oonuquqnfly by the Northern
working men, the demand for whose services
will be lessened by Inability of the South to
come North with Ite market basket and check
book.
The statesmanship which falled to fix a cot- '
ton price may have been shortsighted and It
may have been ocuipable. But there Is a wide
difference of opinion In the South, among the
actual growers of cotton, on the advisabllity
of a price guarantes. The South was by no
means unanimous on the sub ject.
Nor s the planter satisfled now that It was
entirely consideration for his welfare that pre
vented a Government guarantee such as the
wheat T-ow.r recelved. 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 Bouth, the benefit of any reduc
tion In manufactured goods.
New England ralees little wheat or meat.
The Bouth, urellny the Mississippi valley cot
fton country, I® partnership and close busi
nese association with the Middlie West. In the
past the cotton planter has bothered little with
any other activity, The entire soclal and com
mercial scheme of the cotton country is based
upon cotton.
Colonel Frank O. Lowden, Governor of (il
There Is Plenty ot Work to Do,
' And Many Workmen Needed
Dnvnplu{mt is the result of the belief
of the employers who control industry that
there will not be a sale at a profitable price
for more than a eertain amount of goods. As
their ordars, or prospective orders, fall off
they diseharge men or stop taking on new
men,
This phenomenon {8 sometimes spoken of
as over-production,
It nnfLy is not overproduction of the
things people’want and need, but ever-pro
duction of the things they have money to
buy. There can not be ever-production of
antomobiles until every family has at least
one, but it may emnilyrie that more automo
filpe will he nradueed than there are pur
ehasers with money to buy.
Buginess begins to slow down not when
such is the case, but when manufacturers
begin to fear that such will be the case. As
business is eondueted largely on eredit a
manufgoturer fears to accumulate a large
stock of unsalable material and so diminish
the fluid rpiull with which he has to meet
his bills.
Usually the steel industry slows down first
and other industries follow. We then have
the edifying spectacle of millions of people
suffering for the necessities, not to mention
the luxuries of life, while the men and ma
ehinery that might be producing these need
ed goods are foreed to be idle,
(&mtm sense says that such a situation
Bas absurd as it is tragie. If a nation’s in
dustries ean be kept running at tof™speed. re
gardless of ordinary market conditions, to
meet the needs of war, they can be kept run
1 to meet the needs of peace.
is extravagantly ineonsistent to tell the
workman that wages can not be raised, that
Our Soul W aiteth for the Lord, tor He Is Our Helper and Protector.—~Psalms 33:20
, (Text for today was selected by Rev. O. N. Jackson, Bt. Anthony’s Rectory, Atlanta)
nois, I 8 a cotton planter—one of the most suc
cessful In the South,
* Also, 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
Sinnissippl 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 countriy
unless It be for some politiclans. 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
bHes. And 4t needs money to buy them.
The views get forth by The Herald-Exam
iner are sound and can not suceessfully be
disputed.
To a certain 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 Qg:joim in failure anywhere, because
failure efite nobody; it is, therefore, sel
fish to OPPOSE failure. .
If ome of the banks of Atlanta should fail
tomorrow-—which it will not—do you think
for a mimute 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 om 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 combining to tide their brother
merchant over and to save him for future
usefulness to the entire business structure.
WHY? £
BECAUSE 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 failuire ANYWHERE !
" The man who runs the humblest restaurant
in Atlanta is vitally interested in the smceess
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
firm or corporation in Atlanta or the South.
And go, just as local successes are essen
tial to community prosperity, so is all see
tional prosperity essnntfa.l to nfl'onal pros
perity. No one section ean profit substan
tially and permanently in the failure of any
one or more of the remaining seetions.
The Georgian again insists, therefore, that
it is the duty——no less than the selfish inter
est—of KVERY 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 ptosperity is involved. NO
one can escape HIS responsibility!
The farmers MUST eurtail their aercage
sharply if they wish to be as prosperous 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
increase production, and the next month tell
him that the factories must be shut down in
order to diminish produetion. (;nnmon sense
says that we ought to find a way to keep the
wheels turning so long as a human need re
mains.
But ecommon sense does not help the man
ufacturer. He is gaught in his own machin
ery. If he can not sell finished goods he ean
not buy raw materials. Though there is a
erying demand for his produet he ean nat
make it unless the demand is backed by
money or eredit. /
Now, eredit is merely the belief of a cred
itor that his debtor will pay. .The nation has
unlimited eredit becanse it is certain that in
the long run it can pay. The industry of the
nation, as a whole, has unlimited credit be
eause it is eertain to be richly productive 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 public improvements. If the Government
owned the railroads it could take the form
of improvements to transportation facilities.
Or the Government might temporarily take
control of certain industries in times of de
pression as it takes voqtrq} in time of war.
The emergency may easily be almost as great.
But whether this plan or another suceeeds
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 cotp
fortably weld off there always will be
Unemployment is a defeet of“organization,
aot of natoral eonditions
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Comment
YE EDITOR'S BUSY WEEK.
(Carnesville Herald.)
The Herald reaches its readers
this week under rather adverse
clmm-hneel.‘?‘o start with, aft
er due notifications our printers
quit ue and we were unable teo
locate one in the meantime, so had
to get out this week's issue all by
‘our lonesome, and it {3 some job
for one man to make the fire,
sweep the floor, set reading mat
ter, set ads, make-up elght pages,
read the proofs, correct same, feed
the press, distribute-the type, print
some jobs, fold papers and write
them, besides writing ail the copy.
Then of course as help was scarce,
the gasoline was taken with influ
enza. After doctoring the engine
up soit ' could breathe normal
again, the press began to glve
trouble.
CURTAIL THE ACREAGE.
(Americus Times-Recorder,)
A thing that Is worth doing at
all {8 worth doing well. The cot
ton problem is a matter of FREE
DOM or SLLAVERY 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 SOLAD FRONT.
The start ha® been made. THR
SOUTHERN FARMER IS FIGHT
ING FOR HIS VERY BECONOMIC
EXISTENCH., He must choose his
course now. There ean be no turn
ing back. He must win or go down.,
AND THERE CAN'BE JO DOUBT
WHERE THE VICTORY WILL
LIE IF THE FARMER WILL USE
TIE WEAPONS GoOD HAS
PLACED IN HIS HANDS,
PAINTING THE LILY,
(Dalton Citlzen,)
" Tobe Jenkins can whistle the
“Missouri Waltz” In three keys and
all the variations and never strike
the right note at any pilace. Sol
Welnhauser, 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, .
NOT TO MENTION THE SCOTCH
JDawson News.)
A dozén or more _lLegislatures
have voted since the kmxlnnlnx of
the year to destroy the American
spirit,
MUTUAL ADMIRATION.
(Dublin Courser-Journal.)
Floyd County {s going to have a
new jail-—in the sweet bve and hye.
-Rome Tribune-Herald. Shake!
Pardner. so are we
¢+ Tuesday, February 18, 1919
CATCHING HIS STRIDE
. Giving, Not Losing
By Winifred Black.
AVE you heard the story
H about the young man
whe came ashore froth a
transport the other day somewhere
At an AUIANTC | ———
port? 8 ,/]
He was pale A ‘-‘\V,M ),'}"
and thin and in A by |
e o e
his haggard eve | 5 "%”Q 44
was written the ; X ]|
story of hideous § 2,.. Bil
pain and haunt- } iX !
ing, dreadful LI "% S «[
ey, o,
memories, o b \\.fi i
He limped a |57 % g dms | i
little and pinned | & Mir . - |
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te his sold ¥’ aug.p. 31 {
tunic was an 'g!,, ;“QJA
empty sleeve— |2Bio HERAT S
but he held his (SR
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head up and his .-'.\.:'y-‘.;
mowth was firm. >
In the crowd waiting on the dock
were penple_ who Kknew him some
kissed him, some cried and some
sald In cheerful, matter-of-fact
volces:
“Hello, old man, you made lit,
after all, didn't you?
And these the soldier answered in }
the American fashion |
“Surel” N\
A woman standing in a Brofip of
strangers stepped forward~ and
spoke to the soldier.
Her, 'eyes were blazing with ex
citem®nt and her volea trembled b
emotionally
‘Pardon me,” she said, “but wonld
you inind telling me how you lost
your arm?"
'he soldidr drew himeself up, and
answered her, courtenusly, but in a
voice of mingled steel and flame:
“Madam, 1 didn't lose my arm-—1
gave (t!'
And the woman hung hor head
and couldn’t think what to answer.
“I did not lose my arm--1 gave
81"
What would you glve to be the
mother of a man like that?
How many years of your life?
How many drops 6f blood straight
from your pulsing veins?
And he's only one of thousands
and hundreds of thousands, ves,
millions, of just exactly such men
as that,
Americans—Yankees from New
England, Caifornians and Oregon
fans from the coast, Southerners
from Virginia and South Carolina
and Georgia, Middle Westerners,
from the great grain States by the
Great Lakes
Tall lumbermen from Maine,
planters from up the Bayou in
Lounisiana, Mississippi cotton grow
ers, lowa farmers Chlcage bank
clerks, San Francisco day laboregs
Rich men's sons born to luxury
ana eare
Poor boys who hava had to strug-
gle and fight for every mouthful
they have ever had to eat.
Briliiant young fellows with clear
heads and quick brains.
Commonplaee boys with nothing
especially clever about them-—sel
diers every one of them, eVery inch
a soldier, and every drop of blood
in their veins and a drop of courage
and of loyaityl \
How strange it is that we never
realized before what stuff they were
made of.
How strange it s 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, vet we knew
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 al! what blind crea
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 going to find us
when they come home—our boys
who are living on the heights to
day? X
Obh, yes, they're joking and laugh
ing, and smoking and telling stor
fes-—~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
laughin® with joy to do It—because
of an ideal.
How are they going to measure
us who are left hehind—when they
come back?
What shall we do to be worthy of
them? \
Oh, let's work, and work and
work!
Let's glve, and give, and give—
and all the time let's hold up our
heads. throw back our shoulders
and walk as {f we stepped to the
tune of music singing in our hearts,
And whatever else we do, let's
smile, and smile not only with our
Hit—but with eur hearts, \
Vhat does it all matter—this lit
tle span we call life?
What do they amount to—the
things we worried over a year ago
todav? .
Himan nature has been tried in
the balanee -American human na
ture-—-and it has stood the test!
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 they will not be
ashamed of us—when they have al
come back.
PUBLIC SERVICE
Art and the
War
(From The Buffale 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 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
thdt will be preserved will be im
mense. BEveryone knews how poor
were the photographs of the battle
fields and the sovlders 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 wilt be houséld in the
Widener Library. At Yresent it
contains 500 posters, but the giver
hopes to enlarge it to 1,000, There
are other collections ®f this kind\in
America, notably one in the Grosve
nor Library in Buffalo. The great
awkwardness of this class of mate
rial lieg in its bulk. It would be
difficult to keep such g collection
except in a library, Mordover, many
of the posters are printed on cheap
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
encournged to erlist, to save, to lend
their money, to be economical in
their eating.
A study of the American posters
proves that the posters did a good
work Ip education in art during the
war. There was a steady improve
ment in the character of the pos
ters, and a gradual training of the
public In the capacity to j‘:zdfe of
poster art. Contrast the dull, in
sipid posters of the first year with
the striking posters at the end; The
war 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 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 postars of the latest Lib
erty Loan had that same expres
sion of intensity and determination
It i& not to ne believed that the
galn 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. .
y 2 . .
~ Timely Topics
of Today .
—w
By Arthur Brisbane.
OU are living in a mixed-up
| world. Look where you
please, black spots dance
before your eyes—plenty of them.
Bvegy newspaper and publle man
has a woeful tale,
All these walls are in twe er
three pages of one newspaper.
Court-martiah punishments in the
United States army have been
vielously severe, autocratic and un
reasonable, more so than in any
eountry except Prussia and Spain.
Forty years in prison for refusing
to drill when ill! There's “disci
pline.”
China 1s In a desperate state,
rich, overripe plum of vast wealth
and territory, ready to drop inte,
the lap of Japan, unless nations
interfere. Her Government cel
lapses, her banks can net pay gold,
s 0 says professor Willoughby, ad
viser to the Chinese.
Governor Burnquist, of Minne
sota, says the Bolsheviki, 1. W,
W., radical Socialists and farmers’
Nonpartisan League are all one.
And Bolshevism is ‘“America’s
greatest menace.”
The farmers thought thelr 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, fertilizer
and freight. But Govérnor Burn
quist says the Nonpartisan League
farmers are in with other vicious
radicals in the effort to set up a
Bolshevik government similar teo
that in Russia.
They would have a nice time do
ing It, If there be even & 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
eceased, 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, hqwever.
You nn:\ also accept cautiously
statements that such and such
groups\ here are “Bolsheviks” be
cause they happen te want more
pay or protest against the high cost
8f living. In New York, when cloak
ana 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. 3
Chinese, at home, are slow to
adopt new ideas. Here they are
quick.
The Chipese merchants of Chi
cago, for instance, request the au
thorities to deport (as_“Bolshe
viks,” of course) the members as
an organization called “Mon Sang.”
In French those words would mgan
“my blood.”
l\sepms that they mean Bolshe
vism in Qhinese. Waliters 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 pmfessio;‘ah also strike and
refvse 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 Intercrting “Bolshevik”
demonstration of all, as Mr. Tuohy,
of The New York World, points out,
is supplied by gentlemen whom Str
Edward Carson, enemy of home rule,
describes as “loyal and patriotic
Orangemen®” °
Those loyal, patriotic gentlemen
in Belfast have been' ACTING,
while Irishmen fasther south have
been talking and protesting.
“Loyal” Orangemen of Belfast
have started a luftle “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 his
favorite talking-to-Congress tone,
“Do it or I will know the reason
why.” Those that know him are
inclined to think that he will hold
the celebration as scheduled.
That's one bright spot.
And Monday in New York :.ooé
colored fighters, just back from
France, paraded and then ate a
dinner gonsisting of 3,000 chickens.
They were led by a band of 100,
commanded by Ijeutenam James
Europe. That name'itself is a bright