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TRUTH, JUSTICE
The South’s Golden Opportunity
Is Knocking at the Door
HE pronounced ‘‘come back’’ of the
T cotton market of late has given OLD
MR. GENERAL PESSIMIST a vigor
ous blow and CONFIDENCE and a more
CHEERFUL sentument plainly is evident in
practically all quarters again
The npward reaction of more than three
cents a pound in the staple in the last month
has brought a feeling of cheer to the heart
of every business man in this section, wheth
er he be a banker, mercantile retailer, jeweler,
automobile dealer, wholesaler or what not
Whyt
Beonuse eotton - —or rather the price of
ocotdon —is the real, genuine business barome
ter of every community in the South, and
The Atlanta Georgian rejoices to the depths
of #s heart with other business enterprises
that Old King Cotton has been taken off the
downward path and started on its belated
npwhirl, where it RIGHTFULLY BELONG
ED IN THE FIRST PLACE,
‘While there have been a number of stimu
lsting events helping to put cotton out of
the rwt, the most important, in the opinion
The Georgian, is the present VIGOROUS
ACREAGE REDUCTION CAMPAIGN.
Practically every connty in the cotton helt
has signed ironclad pledges to eut this year's
aereage 33 1.3 per cent and to use less fer
tilizer.
The campaign has become so general and
deep-seated that ecotton future gamblers and
spinners are really worried, and as The Geor
gian said on February 3, WHEN IT BE.
COMES AN ESTABLISHED FACT THAT
THE ACREAGE WILL BE CUT DRASTI
CALLY, there will be a general rush to buy.
The begimning of this buying has begun.
Ag a running mate to the acreage reduction
movement, holders of spot cotton are MAIN.
TAINING AN AIR OF INDEPENDENCE
and selling comparatively little.
The Lever amendment to the billion-dollar
wheat bill, pmssed in the closing hour of Con
gress recently, and which became effective
immediately, has been construed by conserv.
ative eotton men as one of the finest pieces
of legislation ever enacted in the interest of
eotton,
The new contracts, now heing traded in on
the exchanges, furnish mills with something
better than they ever had before, dealing in
the future market. There are ten low grades
that cannot now be dumped on them at de
livery day, as formerly they could. And since
the new measure became effective, eotton has
traveled upward.
The outlook for materiaily higer prices for
cotton is growing much brighter, in that all
indications point to the signing of the peace
treaty considerably earlier than was antici
pated.
And the moment the peace treaty is signed
~IF NOT BEFORE-—the embargo and other
war-made restrictions on cotton will be lifted,
thus allowing free international competition
for cotton -the most economical goods made,
and the most expensive to grow,
The world needs cotton— millions of bales,
There is a tremendous world-wide shortage
of cotton goods -a vast number of people
thronghout the world are almost naked, espe.
cially those of the warring countries, and
more particularly those of the Central Pow.
ers.
With cotton the cheapest fabrie, the people
of the world will buy eotton goods. Ex
ports already have passed those of the same
period last year, and domestic spinners soon
will be FORCED into the market to replen.
ish depleted stocks, cut down chiefly as the
result of a HAND-TO-MOUTH policy of buy
ing—all in an UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT
TO WEAR DOWN SPOT HOLDERS, so that
the spinners might secure the staple at DIRT.
CHEAP PRICES.
While The Georgian believes that after an.
other month shall have elapsed, cotton will
be at a decidedly higher price, I'T CAN NOT
TOO EMPHATICALLY IMPRESS UPON
THE FARMERS OF GEORGIA AND THE
ENTIRE SOUTH THE ABSOLUTE NECES.
SITY OF CARRYING OUT THE ACRE
AGE REDUCTION CAMPAIGN IN TOTO,
AND STANDING AS SOLID AS STONE
MOUNTAIN ON THE COTTON THEY
HAVE ON HAND, UNTIL THE PRICE
GOES MATERIALLY HIGHER
This present rise to some extent is heing
:e&d along by the “‘bear’’ clique and the
in order to stimulate the South un.
fairly into overplanting cottdn.
If these agencies ean work that bluff on
And They That Be Wise Shall Shine as th: Brizhtnzss of the Firmament.—Daniel '12:3
Text for today was seleeted by 8. R, Be'k. D. D.. pastor First Methodist Chureh. Athens.
] the South this year, it will he a death-blow
| and forever shatter the fondest hope of
the South, by way OF HAVING A VOICE
IN THE PRICE OF ITBS CHIEF COM
MODITY.
| It has been proven that 9,000,000 bales of
cotton, grown on 25,000,000 acres, will bring
| the South ENORMOUSLY MORE IN ¥I
; NANCIAL RETURN THAN A 16,000,000
| bale erop, from 37.000.000 acres
' THE SOUTH MUST NOT LISTEN TO
| THE BEARISH PROPAGANDA NOW
; BEING CIRCULATED, that ‘“‘the world
| needs a bumper cotton erep this year.”
‘ Why, only recently the ‘‘bears’’ were
| BRAGGING about “the big carry-over we
| will have at the end of the season’’—more
than 4,000,000 bales—some said 5,000.000,
Now, just let the South plant 37,000,000
| acres and raise 16,000,000 bales of cotton, and
| the bears will hammer the price of cotton
; down to a level that will send everything in
| the South to the wall.
| Here's an indisputable truth: 1F THE
| GOVERNMENT’S COTTON ACREAGE ES.
TIMATE THIS SPRING SHOWS THAT
THE ACRKAGE HAS BEEN CUT TO 25,
000,000, COTTON WILL: BRING A PRICE
ALL YEAR HIGHER THAN SINCE THE
CIVIL, WAR, AND PROSPERITY WILL
RULE FROM THE REMOTEST SPOT IN
VIRGINIA TO THE FARTHEST CORNER
IN TEXAS.
Farmers of the South, now is your oppor
tunity to veward yourselves liberally for hard
labor and at the same time bring a volume
of UNPRECEDENTED BUSINESS to all
buginess enterprises.
THE MERCHANTS AND BANKERS
HAVE STUCK TO YOU in this battle to save
your precions commodity from ruinous prices,
and now you should stick to them and cut
this year’s acreage 33 1.3 per eent.
LET THE SOUTH THIS YEAR (AND
FOR ALL TIME) GET AWAY FROM THE
ONE-CCROP IDEA.
Food is needed the world over, and the
producer can get his own price for all com
modities. Millions of tons of “‘something to
eat'’ are needed this year to be sent to
Europe besides the enormous supply needed
at home.
Briefly summed up, THE SOUTH IS ON
THE THRESHOLD OF AN ERA OF UN.
PARALLELED PROSPERITY, unless the
tillers of the soil kill the goose that is about
to lay the golden eggs.
MR. SOUTHERN PLANTER, SHOW
YOUR INTELLIGENCE AND BUSINESS
SAGACITY TO THE WORLD AND LET
THIS GREAT SOUTHLAND EMBARK
UPON A SEA OF PROSPERITY HERETO
FORE UNDREAMED OF.
IT'S UP TO YOU, AND YOU ALONE!
IS ATLANTA REMEMBERING
THE HEROIC SOLDIER BOYS?
General Leonard Wood's admonition that
the way to keep the soldiers believing that
this is indeed the land of the free and the
home of the brave is to see to it that they are
well treated as they return from the war
from ‘‘over there,”’ where to be a soldier has
for the last few years been about the most
glorious thing to be, no less than the most
dangerous.
Contented and appreciated soldiers do not
listen to agitators; they present about as un
fertile a field for Bolshevik endeavor as might
be imagined, as General Wood points out.
Wherefore, it will pay us to_treat them well,
and in a substantially kindly spirit, no less
than that being the RIGHT thing to do, any
way.
Wellsome of us treat them that way in
Atlanta—and some of us do not.
A story came to The Georgian yesterday
of a erippled soldier threatened with ejection
from a street car headed toward Fort Me-
Pherson because he did not have his fare
Finally, a young girl —evidently a working
girl—paid his fare for him and saved him
the humiliation of ejection. There were
twenty or more persons on the ecar, too, but
she was the only one apparently willing to
come to the rescue,
Stories of similar import float into the
newspaper offices every day. They are sad
dening and more or less disheartening, They
do us no eredit,
Keep the fact in mind that these soldier
boys are deserving of the BEST we have; they
are entitled to every favor we can extend.
They do NOT want charity-—they DO. want
appregiation, a chance to get a good job and
an opportunity to get back into the walks of
everyday life, and feel that they have not sae
rificed in vain. -
Do not forget them, and do not let pass
an opportunity to show one a courtesy or a
kindness.
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AWAY OUT in California,
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AND MILES from home.
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AND | get a telegram,
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AND THE editor says.
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WON'T YOU please write some
thing.
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TO GET us some canes,
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FOR WOUNDED soldicrs,
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AND ALL the time,
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WHEN I'M reading his telegram,
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MY OWN cane.
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IS HANGING on my arm.
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AND I'M perfectly healthy,
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WITH TWO good legs,
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AND NO bullets or anything,
AND I'M ashamed of myself,
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AND TRY to hide my cane.
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AND | can't
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AND IT stares up at me.
AND THE little knob,
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AT THE end of the handle,
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TURNS INTOQ u face,
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AND IT has a mouth
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AND | listen to it
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AND | hear it saying
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“YOU POOR fish
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“AND YOU'RE perfectly healthy.
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“AND I'M 2 good cane,
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“AND I'M strong,
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“AND I'M just thesthing.
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“FOR A wounded soldier®
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AND | try to shut it up.
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AND | can't. .
Friday, March 14, 1919
HELP HIM OVER
AND RIGHT away.
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WHEN I'VE written this,
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I'M GOING to get the porter,
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TO WRAP it up.
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AND 'IM gzoing to express it
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STRAIGHT BACK to New York.
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AND YOU can have it.
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AND GIVE it to a soldier,
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BECAUSE THE way I feel,
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| DON'T want it any more.
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AND WHEN 1 get home.
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THERE'S ANOTHER cane.
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PUT AWAY in a closet.
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'ANDI IT'S & weak cane.
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AND | won it somewhere,
THROWING RINGS,
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AND P'LL carry that.
IT WOULDN'T he any good,
FOR A wounded soldier.
IT WOULD double up,
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IT'S JUST a mind cane,
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FOR A weak mind,
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AND IF the telegraph opérator,
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DOESN'T MIX this up,
BETWEEN HERE and home. _
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AND YOU can understand it
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| WISH you'd say.
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TO ALL of my friends,
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THAT MY cane.
WOULD LIKE to see their cane,
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AT THE office.
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THEY'LL KNOW my cane,
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FROM THE silver band.
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THAT HAS my name on it
—i THANK you.
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague |
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Doughboy Ditties
Thoughts on Pie
AT night, when we camped by the old chatean,
An’ the yellow moon looked down,
I used to dream of a girl I know—
A girl in the old home town.
I dreamed o’ the words she said to me
The day that we said goodby,
When I left her to cross the rollin’ sea—
But mostly I dreamed o’ pie! :
FOR there’s girls in England and girls in France
An’ girls on the windin’ Rhine;
You are always meetin’ a lovin’ glance
Anywheres up the line.
You can always sit in a game o’ hearts
Where the ante’s a gentle sigh,
but the scarcest thing in these foreign parts
Is a hunk o’ reg'lar pie.
AN’ now that the packet is headed home
An’ the lights fade on the shore,
As | watoh the gloaming begin to gloam,
I am dreamin’ my dreams once more,
Again I dream o’ that last goodby
Ere I sailed oe’r the rollin’ brine,
But mostly I dream of the big mince pie
That soon will be mine—all mine.
THERE'LL be always girls, if you look around,
Wherever your feet may stray;
Whether you’re outward or homeward bound,
They'll mever be far away.
But when you're guardin’ a dreary post
Or watchin’ the shrapnel fly,
The thing that you sure will miss the most
Is that good old home-made pie!
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PUBLIC SERVICE
Timely Topics
of Today
By Arthur Brisbane.
E learn about business day by
W day from Hentfy Ford. -
He had a prosperons lit
tle enterprise that brought in forty
or fifty millions a year. A little
less than 60 per cent went to Mr,
Ford and the balance to minority
stockholders. The latter brought
suit to compel Mr. Ford to run the
company their a'a_v.
Now Ford is starting a new com=
pany, and a new car. He will sell
the car at a lower price~than that
~ of the original Ford car. To start
a price-cutting war against yoursalf
is a development in political econ
omy that was left to Mr. Ford.
However, he ecan afford it, and
probably enjoys it.
The small pieces of news might
interest a native of the Star Alde
baran, if a visitor could come so far.
The Mayor of New York forbids
singing in the German language.
Beethoven, Wagner, Schumann and
Bach, who, according to Beethoven,
should have been named “Ocean,”
all please take notice.
Hoover says wheat will go to
$3.50 a bushel. And little Korea,
taking eternal peace seriously and
thinking that nobody will dare hit a
little nation, announces that she is
now independent of Japan. She
should read what happened to the
canary that came out and talked
plainly to the ecat.
The city of Cleveland has added
25 cents to the charge for burial
permits. Life is expensive, coming
and going.
Four more grand dukes have been
killed in Russia.
A gentleman kills a lady with a
razor because he is jealous. That
happens all the time. But in this
case the police found $l5O in the
lady's stocking—and you read it
over again.
News interest is a queer thing.
You read “Rockefeller makes a mil
lion,” and are not interested. You
read “Rockefeiler loses a nickel” and
read carefully. It takes a specialist
to understand the news value.
There (a a disagreement as to
food conditions in Germany. Many
American newspapers declare that
there is no lack of food in Germany,
that stories of starvation are “sim
ply more German cunning.”
On the other hand, Lloyd Geoyge,
supported by Colonel House, de
nounces with savage energy the
failure to feed starving German
women and children, Lloyd George's
convineing message was from the
British General Plumer, second in
command to Haig. Plumer warned
that British soldiers in Germany
would rebel if compelled to see
women and children starving in the
streets.
Lloyd George points out 7quite
reasonably that the British General
Plumer “could hardly be accused of
pro-Germanism.” Needless to say,
however, he will be accused,
The Prince of Monaco, who holds
the Kaiser responsiblt for the war,
declares that the Kaiser, “with
fury in his face,” said to him in
1914: “If they oblige me to make
war, the world will see what it
never dreamed of."
Certainly the world has seen and
is seeing “what it never dreamed
&
In Berlin, according to the latest
dispatches, two hundred Spartacides
were lined up against a wall and
shot dead by soldiers representing
the German Republic. Now a dis
patch from Amsterdam says that
in Berlin suburbs, sixty-two Ger
man soldiers were shot dead in re
venge for the shooting of the Spar
tacides, No wonder Lloyd George
says that the world is standing “on
the edge of an abyss.”
Lucky for the world that it has
men as wise and determined as Wik
son, Lloyd George and Clemenceau
for advisers.
We are a patriotic neople, Yove
our soldiers, and yat—what is the
character of a book about an
American soldier now selling one
hundred and fifty thousand coples?
It is a book about a soldier and
about war. Does it show the gran
deur of the American soldfer, his
courage, his self-sacrifice? Not at
all. The hook that sells one hun
dred and fifty thousand coples is
badly spelled, represents the sol.
dier humorously, it is true, but con
vineingly as a mean-spirited, selfigh,
grafting ignoramus,
The book is typical knock-down
and drag-out American humor and
can do no harm. But it is enlight
ening,
If & man of gentus had written a
book expressing eloquently the
courage and self-sacrifice of millions
of young men that went Into the
army, how many thousands do you
think that book would sell? Net
many.