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TRUTIH, JUSTICIS
The Outrageous Price of Milk
~ In Atlanta and Its Danger
HE following highly interesting and
significant item of information is
clipped from The Americus Times
Recorder, one of Georgia's most intelligently
edited dailies
The announcement of an Americus dairynan
that, effective April 1, he would reduce the
price of milk from 18 cents to 15 cents per
quart, is interesting in connection with the
monthly reports issued by the Bureau of Mar
kets showing wholesale and retail prices of
milk in over 100 cities in 43 States. The re
port for February shows retall prices for stan
dard bottle milk delivered ranging between
11 and 20 cents a quart, with the most usual
prices, 14 and 15 cents a quart, Prices paid
producers per quart f. o. b, city varied from
6.4 to 12.7 cents per quart, with the bulk of
milk ranging Intv:cen 7 and 8 cents a quart.
Americus i 8 a progressive eity in Middle
South Georgia—in Sumter County.
It is wide awake to its opportunities; it is
assuming and holding a place of pre-eminence
among the smaller cities of the South that is
enviable.
. It is making itself highly attractive as a
eity IN WHICH OUTSIDERS MAY SET.
TLE AND FEEL THAT THEY ARE IN A
COMMUNITY THAT BELIEVES IN FOR
WARD-LOOKING THINGS,
When it says to a stranger, ““Come and
live with us,”” it is prepared to back the in
vitation with SUBSTANTIAL things!'
If the General Couneil of Atlanta some
times inclines to eriticize Atlantans as hes
itating and uncertain in moving toward pro
gressive and bigger things, THE COUNCIIL
SHOULD BE VERY CAREFUL THAT IT
GIVES NO ATLANTAN THE RIGHT TO
SAY SUCH THINGS OF THE COUNCII
A clean-cut, workable and legal propo
sition has been submitted to Council, look
ing to the relief, in part, anyway, of the pres
ent intolerable milk situation. 1t has been
approved by the Mayor and the City At
torney. .
The proposition is striking snags: it is
being picked to pieces; it is heing delayed;
it i 8 being “*viewed with alarm’—and it will
be DEFEATED, if Couneil ean be brought to
forget its primary duty to the people of this
eity.
The thing amounts to this:
Every eity of importance within five hun
dred miles of Atlanta s selling milk at re
tail away under the Atlanta market
These neighboring towns and eities are
operating their dairies under the same con
ditions and items of expense. relatively, as
Atlanta.
IF THEY ARE NOT, THERE IS SOME.
A AIMPALLY ROTTEN IN ATLAN:
TA AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF
EVERY-DAY BUSINESS LIFE HERE
THAT WELL MAY GIVE THE CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE AND THE PRESIDENTS®
CLUB AND ALL THE OTHER ORGANIZA
The Peace Conference Will Rigidly
Revise the Rules of Modern Wartar e
This war will have been fought in vain
and the suceess of the Amerieans and their
allies will he only a hollow mockery unless
the rules of the game of war are revised to
coincide with modern ideas of deceney and
honor,
The Huns' idea of making war was a dem
onstration of wght ~trampling smaller na
tions under foot-—a demonstration of fright
fulness—bombarding mnocent and noncom
batant peoples from the skies above, or tor
wedoing passenger vessels from the waters
:mmuh a demonstration of hatred by atro
eious aets of murder, pillage, rapine, arson,
defilement and destruction,
The Huns' idea of making war was to re
vert to the diabolical practices of poisoning
wells and spouting Liquid fire, and to at
tempt the wse of devilish inventions of
seience, poisonous gases and the implanting
of germs of disease,
Onee the Kaiser had set his mind on win
ning the war, he stopped at no act of des
peration, however harbarous, which might
have the effeet of intimidating the Allies and
lowering their morale to a terrified survender,
.The Huns treated their prisoners of war
as eruelly as they dared, but they desisted in
part, not so much heeause of protests and
publieity as beeause they feared reprisals in
Kind against their own men taken captive,
The Huns did everything that they dared
to do without fear of retaliation. They sought
to infliet upon their adversaries the atroei
ties which would seem most horrible to them.
selves Yet they quite missed the psyehology
of the Frenck and English, particularly the
Seots and Canadians; the more savagely they
were attacked, the harder they fought back.
When the peace articles come to be drawn
up to eonclude this war, the Hun will find
Athat his frightful barbarities are read out of
existence. He will' find his recent employ.
ment of them extremely costly, for h\will
tbo assessed for reparation, restoration: and
And There They Crucified | lim and the Malefactors That W ere W ith Him, One on the Right Hand, the Other on the Left.—Luke 23:33
(Text for today was selected by Rev. B. F. Fraser, Pastor Wesley Memorial Church, Atlanta)
TIONS OF CIVIC PROGRESS GRAVE
CONCERN !
To say 1o a resident of Atlanta that HE
must pay from twenty to fifty per cent MORE
for retail milk than a resident of Macon,
Augusta, Americus, Valdosta and scores of
other cities pay--and this for the privilege
of living in Atlanta and drinking Atlanta
milk s absurd. Not only that, it is DAN
GEROUS
Atlanta will do well to take coumsel of her
self about this, and other matters
ALREADY MANUFACTURERS WHO
PROPOSE COMING INTO ATLANTA
WITH THIS, THAT OR THE OTHER NEW
ENTERPRISE ARE TOLD THAT THEY
CAN NOT GET ELECTRICAL SUPPLY
HERE. THEY ARE BEING TOLD THAT
THEIR EMPLOYEES CAN NOT GET MILK
FOR THEIR CHILDREN HERE AT AS
LOW A PRICE AS THEY MAY IN MACON,
IN BIRMINGHAM AND AUGUSTA. -
How much additional - population and
wealth will be built up in Atlanta if we per
mint these disquieting and disheartening
things to go unchallenged?
Are prospective new enterprises in Bir
mingham being told that THEY ecan not wet
eleotrical supply there?
They are NOT--you can bet they are not,
and never will be!
Are prospective citizens of Birmingham
being told that they and their employees must
pay more for milk in that city—far move—
than in Atlanta, and all other Sonthern
eities? o
They are NOT-—you can bet they are not,
and they never will be!
Must Atlanta ALONE undertake to go for
ward under such conditions as these?
Must Atlanta ALONE be foreed to admit
that these conditions exist— and that the
powers that be refuse to remedy them, even
admit they ean NOT be helped?
Well, it will not be like Atlanta to submit
tamely to any such humiliating things,
She MUST throw them off. or see Birming
ham and other ambitious ecities beat her in
her fight for continued supremacy in the
South !
And if Macon comes tap, tapping at
our doors for the removal of the Capitol, and
citizens and real estate owners are Y’)n‘sii'flillu
the civie bodies and the newspapers to save
them from this impertinent suggestion
SHALL THESE BODIES AND THESRE
NEWSPAPERS BE DENIED THE PR!V.
ILEGE OF REPUDIATING THE CHARGES
THAT ATLANTA IS SO POOR SHE 'AN
NOT FURNISH PROSPECTIVE CITIZENS
WITH ELECTRICAL SUPPLY AND S 0
MEAN THAT SHE WILL NOT SUPPLY
HER POPULATION WITH SWEET MILK
AT LIVE-AND-LET-LIVE PRICES?
It will be embarrassing, to say the least,
il we ean not sufficiently and adequately de
fend ourselves against such charges as
THESE.
THERE IS A STRICTLY BUSINESS
SIDE TO THESE QUESTIONS, NO LESS
THAN A HUMANE SIDE.
dnmaves besides. The lid will be clamped
upon him so that, for a generation at least,
he will be unable to make war again:
These new and revised rules of war, which
will be adopted by the organized eciviliza
tion of the world, will be enforced by the
Big Five, for the peace conferees contemplate
not only the ulral"in;{ of laws and rules for
international conduet, but it is proposed to
have an administrative ‘arm of international
police to keep the peace,
And when this is done women and ¢hildren
may lic down in their beds at night serene
and unafraid that they will be attacked and
slain before morning.
THE SALVATION ARMY AND
ITS SPLENDID WORK
~ One of the wonders of the war is the re
marked and wholly deserved transforma
tion of publbie opinion relative to the Nal
vation Army. )
Before the war some were inclined 1o
eriticise their tambourine and band playing
on publie street corners.
But all that is changed since we have
heard from thousands of soldiers in battle
fronts how the Salvation Army followed
them fearlessly, serving hot coffee and dough
nuts to spent and exhausted men, It was a
serviee of love and loyalty that can never be
forgotten,
They had no highly financed organiza
tion : they made no drives for funds, but they
rot thape just the same,
Today, the great American public takes
off its hat to the Salvation Army, und big
business men have pledged themselves to
help raise an adequate fund with which to
carry on the wark of the army.
Atlanta will do her part, for Atlanta un
derstands and appreciates the Army now as
never hefore,
All those who have misjudged the work
of this organization may offer atonement in
the form of subseriptions to the fund.
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By Winifred Black. 'i
AST night the wind was out ;
L a-singing. 1t was cloudy in |
the evening, and dull, and
every few minutes it looked ag if
it were going to ‘
rain, but the ?
wind made up - N‘:v»,_ ‘.i.‘A
his mind o R
stop all that 2 ”’E::Q a
and out he cam i
blowing away M e # ""}
4t a great rate i 4 i
and made short ‘_:_ :.l‘, “' ¥
work of the |QNE o, ORI
clouds. And out |7B .{;_;%, |
came the moon | ‘_. e 1
Lo keep the 5 .-‘l
b
wild wind com e 5
pany ind to- ; "’J.)":‘ ] ,
ther for a few ~ - )
lp‘wu\‘ they ruled \.{,' f’/l": =
B S
tne world s
What a free creature he is, the
wind, and how 1 envy him! No
railroad stations for him, no time
table, either, no steamers to eatch,
no ecars to” meet, just puff away,
across, the wild sea, over the des
olate moors, through the deep for
ests, along the lonely road by the
quiet lake Hurrah, the wind is
a free fellow and a great traveler! I
What strange songs it has been
singing this last year _or so over
here in Earope -d i.. songs and
songs of misery and despair, vic
tory songs, songs of joy and love
and faith triumphant over death
How many languages he has learn
od to speak and understand, Sir
Wind, the boldest traveler of them
all
Last might he shook the trees in
the ancient forest of Fontainbleau,
and, oh, my heart ached for the I
forests of my dear native land so
far, so far away It roared round
the old cathedral and nearly set
the bells ringing, and I thought |
of little quiet churches far away |
at home in our own land which |
wasn't even discovered when they I
began to builld the old churches |
here |
How the red Indians have al- |
ways loved the wild wind, and lis- ‘
tened to his singing centuries ago |
when Louis and Mary Antoinette |
held court at Old Versailles. The {
French King has turned to ashes, |
the great old red chief has slept for I
centuries in his low grave, but the l
wind sings on as always
Last night Ihn'le WwWas a strange
Thursday, March 13, 1919
WHAT ‘HOME AGAIN’ LOOKS LIKE
Songs of the Wind
music in hig songs to me, for he
sang of Peace, of Love and of
brotherhood of man, and all the
world seemed to be going in a great
hosanna_of rejoicing.
What was that strange humming
chord so delicate yet so uncertain,
too, so vibrant, as if some one
touched with light and loving fin
gers the silver strings of the harp?
I listened and listened—why, it was
plain enough! The telegraph wire
opposite the window made a kind
of harp and upon that the ancient
traveler of the world played and
made sweet humming musie,
Like the bells it was and like a
sob, and like full-throated laugh
ter and like the voice of a mother
who speaks the name of one whose
face she will never see again in
this world, and like a tremor that
throbs In the accent of a sweet bride
welcoming her dearly beloved hus
band heme from danger and from
desperate risks,
Wild music and sweet the wind
played on the harp and the wires
last night, and how many hearts
in desolate and mourning France
beat In time to that weird music.
At home across the sea even the
wind is like an old friend,
By the songs he sings | know if
it's going to rain or whrether we
may begin to look for green in the
tulip beds, and for the blessed fra
grance from the purple censors of
the lilac plumes.
KEvery tone 3% his songs 1 know
and love, for they all speak to me
of happy hours by the bright and
dancing fire, and of long walks by
the restless sea., And, oh, they
speak of my own heart in the
tongue my mother taught me, at
home with my own people,
! shall never listen to the wind
again when I am safe and of good
cheer with those I love about me
without trying to remember some
stranger who findg the language of
my country hard and the people
difficult to understand,
And when 1 have found him 1
shall geek him out and meke him
feel that he has friends around him,
and that he is not, after all, so very
far from home, .
Thank you, Sir Wind, and the
gong you sang for my homesick
heart last night--for teaching me
‘this lesson of sympathy and cen.
sideration, *
TR RN s "“"‘]
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ON THE railroad.
. . -
THAT TOOK me to the ranch.
¥
THERE'S A long tunnel.
- - -
AND ONE of the passengers
- - -
WAS A large man.
b.b e
WITH A red face. :
e e
AND HE talked loudly.
. . -
SO EVERYONE could hear,
- - -
ABOUT WHATEVER it was
& w N
HE TALKED about.
. - -
AND IT was a coid morning,
. . -
AND HE stood up.
. - -
IN THE observation car.
. . -
AND SWELLED out his chest.
SN
AND BEGAN to brag.
- . .
ABOUT THE fresh air
€%
AND HOW he liked it
. . -
AND GOT his coat,
g oW F
WITH A seal collar,
. . -
AND PUT it on
- . -
AND WENT outside.
..
ON THE back platform. _
. . -
AND STOOD up
. - »
AND STRETCHED out his arms
. . .
AND BREATHED deeply.
- - .
AND WE hit the tunnei,
. - -
AND IN the dim light.
. - .
THAT SHONE from the car.
$ a'e
TO THE back platform.
. - -
WE COULD see him,
- . .
GROPING AROUND.
. . -
TO FIND a chair
- -
AND HE found one.
. - - .
AND SAT down. o
PUBLIC SERYICE
AND IN a minute or two.
" ¢ 3
HE DISAPPEARED. |
. - -
IN A great cloud.
. . - ‘
OF SMOKE and steam.
- - .
THAT FILLED the tunnel, |
w 8 |
AND ENGULFED the platform,
- - -
AND WE all expected. ! “
- - .
HE'D COME in. .
. - -
BUT HE aidn't do it. |
BCCAUSE HE'D bragged so much
. - . ]
HE DIDN'T dare. '
-- - '
AND AFTER a while, |
e ;
THE TRAIN emerged. |
80y |
FROM OUT of the tunnel. |
- . .
AND HE was sitting there, |
’9 b |
ALL COVERED with soot.
- . -
AND HE looked inside. '
¥ .
AND TRIED to smile, 1
.. - ‘
AND HAD a coughing spell,
. » o
AND CAME out of it.
- - .
AND CAME. iuside,
.9 .-
AND WENT right through
- . .
INTO HIS Pullman.
g ¢ 8"
AND A little later.
- . -
| SAW him there,
- . .
AND THE rest of the day.
"e » 3
HE STAYED right there.
8 NN -
IN HIS Pullman seat.
. . .
AND WHEN somebody asked him
£
IF HE didn't want a walk,
. . -
WHILE WE changed engines,
.9 -
HE JUST coughed a little, l
- . -
AND NEVER =aid a word, l
.. . .
~l THANK you. l
Timely Topics
of Today
By Arthur Brisbane.
NTELLIGENT Americans, no
l matter how violently they may
“hate Germand and Yove the
Allies,” will read slowly and care
fully these extracts from The Daily
News of London taken from an ed
itorial headed “Plain Speech for Our
¥riends!"”
To kill the goose that laid golden
eggs would be no more foolish than
to discourage the goose that is ex
pected to lay golden indemnities.
A G. Gardiner, editor of The Daily
News in London, writes:
“We have before us in the ap
proving columns of The Morning
Post a forecast of the new Foch
terms. There are to be no German
guns made of over 3-inch caMber,
no airships or aeroplanes, no Ger
man garrison within 30 miles of the
Rhine, and and an indemnity of
30,000,000,000 pounds, pavable at the
rate of 600,000,000 pounds a year,
for more than 50 years,
“We do not care how severe the
disarmament terms are, if it means
the disarmament of all the world,
but what does France propose? We
know what we propose. We have
set the pace with army estimates
of 440,000,000 pounds for the first
year.
“We know what France has suf
fered, and we mean to securs her
against a repetition of that suffer
ing: but her claims are getting out
of all whooping. From Syria they
pass to Morocco, to the Saar Val
ley. Their Chauvinists claim Ger
man ships. Viviani announces that,
since Paris ean not be removed, the
frontier must be shifted regardless
of trumpetry things like the wishes
of the population; and now, if The
Morning Post is right, the Allies are
to oceupy Germany with conscript
armies for 50 vears while they col
lect the whole possible earnings of
the nation at the point of the sword.
“What is the use of asking the
industrial commission to save civ
flization? Why pursue the inde
cent sham of the league of nations
covenant? Is there anyone in his
serses who does not know that this
grotesque talk, if carried into ef
fect, would plunge the world into
universal Bolshevism within two
yvears? Can -anyone conceive the
Allies, armed to the teeth, sitting on
the head of Germany, Anstria and
the rest for 50 years without blow
ing out each other's bhrains in the
first five? Why should the world.
while three-quarters of Kurope are
being starved by our blockade, be
expected to discuss this gibberish
of mingled revenge and lust?”
Mr. Gardiner may be a little ex
cited. FEngland and France may
not actually intend to demand terms
that would bring further war in a
short time. “But it was time for
somebody to issye a warning
against foolishness and The London
Daily News has done it.
All the figures quoted above must
be multiplied by five to change the
pounds into dollars. You find that
the plan is to have Germany pay
the Allies $3,000,000,000 a year for
more than 50 years. This might
prove hopelessly discouraging. The
wise creditor is content to take
what his debtor CAN PAY.
The statement that England pro
poses to spend $2,200,000,000 on her
army for the first year is interest
ing, in view of that “universal
peace’ 'that the league is to bring,
The late Mr. Ruskin in his ciap
ter “Of Kings' Treasuries” deploves
the fact that England and France
spent “for 10,000,000 pounds’ worth
of terror a year.” Horrified that each
nation should spend 10,000,000
pounds in one year on an army, he
asks:
“Now, suppose instead of buying
these ten millions’ worth of panic
annually they made up their minds
to be at peaoe with each other and
buy ten millions’ worth of knowl
edge annually: and that each nation
spent its 10,000000 pounds a vear
in founding royal libraries, royal
art galleries, roval museums, roval
gardens and places of rest. Might
it not be hetter somewhat for both
French and English?"
Horrified by the spending of 10,-
000,000 pounds a year each en her
army by France and ¥ngland, what
would Ruskin say if he could come
back and find FEngland planning
beautiful eternal peace and simul
tuneously appropriating FOUR
HUNDRED AND FORTY MIL
LION POUNDS to be spent on her
army in the first year of the peace
league?
What would he sav if he looked
across the ocean to peaceful repub
lican America and found us.dealing
with military and naval BILTAONS,
all the world talking “peace f:%ye.'
and billions for war now.” N
Perhans the world's trouble resides
in the fact that you can not change
the characters of individuals of
nations by resolutions,
The nation's are not merely think.
ing about what Germany might do,
stripped of warships, money, guns,
submarines, railroad equipment and
the Hohenzollern family. The na
tions can not lose in ten minutes or
ten years the suspicions, animosi
ties and ignorant class hatred bred
through centurfes. They will sus
peet and fear each other.
"hat agltates the Rritish editor
of The London Daily News most
earnestly is the claims of France,
which, he save, “are getting out of
all whooping” He sees nothing
Aangerous or excessive, anparvently,
about the claims of England, plek-
Ine un odds and ends of eolonies,
submarines, battleships, ete. Na
tions that have won the fieht al
ready hegin. as usual, to dislike and
susnect each other,
Amearica is present at the Pure
pean party like some innocent little
child saying: “My mamma tald me
not to ask for anyvthing” Tet y
hope we shall not he suspected
anvthing excent delightful willin
ness to get into tronble and under
take almost any load,