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TRUTH, JUSTICE
If There Is No Bourbonism
There Will Be No Bolshevism
OVERNOR FRAZER, of North Dakota,
G has been asked to join a so-called
Board of Governors which proposes to
organize a campaign against anarchy
throughout the country.
Governor Frazer accepted the invitation
in a letter which every man in America
ought to read. Espeeally ought it to be
read by men of*great wealth, who have the
most to lose by .the extreme radicalism of
violence and disorder which we term Bol
shevism
Some of these possessors of great wwa‘th
have come to oppose every decent reform of
our present economic, political and soecial
system, and so by opposing all proper and le
gitimate progressivism are making them
selves the chief instigators and encouragers
of viewus and violent radicalism.
'\ Governor Frazer has some splendid ad
vice to give thege gent®emen. We quote him:
| have your telegram notifying me that |
have been appointed on the board of governors
for a nation-wide campaign to be launched
againet every manifestatign of anarchy and to
safeguard American liberties, American labor,
American homes and American schools, and
wish to assure you that | am in hearty sympa
thy with the announced atms of your organiza
tion. Here in North Dakota we belleve the
best protection against revolution is to assist
rather than retard evolution, and in this State
it is the intention of the administration to
remove discontent and prevent disorder by rem
edying the legitimate economic complaints of
the people Instead of trying to stamp out just
griveances. As a consequence we have a con
tented citizenry in North Dakota, which be
lieves in upholding our Government and achiev
ing political progress by orderly and constitu
tional methods. * * * Personally, | feel
that Bolshevism is not the only peril to this
country. In my opinion, the spirit of Bourbon
ism is even more threatening to the security
of our institutions, for, scanning back through
' history, it seems to me that Bourbonism always
precedes and is the cause of Bolshevism.”
The people of North Dakota, under the
dominance of the Non-Partisan League,
have achieved an evolution in political and
economie progress which in America 18 sim
ply amazing.
The State Government of North Dakota
is about to use its qwn grain elevators, to run
its own street railways, gas and eleetrie light
companies, to furnish its people with bank
ing facilities, State insurance against acci
dent, and old age and sickness pensions, and
those advantages which the people, in their
organized capaeity as a government, can do
s 0 mueh better than individuals who work
for private profit,
We call especial attention, however, to the
discrimnatng judgment which the people of
M?fi& have shown in the direction in
which “they have extended the functions of
the State.
They have not undertaken to socialize any
business that is not a natural monopoly or
whieh womlbd not be any better handled by
the State, for the reason that it is, under
private control, a monopoly anyway and is
subjoet to the oppmuiopn}nd abuses natural
to prrvate monopolies.
The extreme conservative and the priv.
fleged interests will denounce the action of
the people of North Dakota as socialistic.
Very likely THEY will call it Bolshevism, if
we mean by that term aetion which brings us
nearer to the control of government by the
people and in the interest of the people.
But action which takes away from private
interests functions which private interests
eannot control without ABUSE is not a step
toward socialism or toward Bolshevism, but
is really a step toward the conservation of
our present institution of private property,
beeause it helps to remove the abuses in the
institution-—abuses which are its real danger.
The institution of private property can
never anywhere die except by suicide. .
The possessing eclasses ean never be dis.
possessed except through that reckless short
sightedness which induces them to refuse to
correct the abuses of private property and to
abandon those individualistic efforts which
are bound to be abused and to become dan.
gerous seres in our political system.
Why, then, is there any opposition to the
"requirements which are ealeulated to correct
the abuses in the institution of private prop.
erty, such as the Government ownership and
operation of the railroads and street rail
roads, and the gas and eleetrie light compa
nies, and the telephone companies, and the
extension of natural operation in other di
rections whenever and wherever it is found
that conditions under private control inevi
tably lead to abuses!
The reason is not far to find. It is that
«verybody believes that the danger will not
arise in his time.
We are all like the dissipated Bourbon
He Knoweth W hat Is in the Darkness, and the Light Dwelleth W ith Him:—Daniel 2:22
(Text for today was seleeted by Rey. W. O. Young, Pastor Oakland City Baptist Church, Atlanta)
« ATEANTA® - GEORGIAN
king who, when warned that his mir;g?vcm
ment would lead to revolution, said :
““Oh, this will last as long as we do—after
us, the deluge.”’ i
The banking gentlemen who wreck rail
roads and ruin men who put their hard
tarned savings into railroad stocks and
bonds, the gentlemen who foree down the
price of food to the producers on the lands
atd raise it to the consumers in the cities,
the manufacturers who get too many privi
leges and too much profit and give too little
¢ofit to their workmen -these men know the
inevitable tendency of their conduet, but
they do not think that the deluge will come
in their day.
.
IATLANTA NEEDS MORE
HOUSES-—-MORE HOMES
“The man who owns his home has a better
standing with his family, his employer, his
associates and his bank than has the man who
does not own his home,”’ said the lat> J. P.
Morgan.
The problems of housing the people who in
the near future will come to Atlanta and of
taking better care of those nlrm&y here or
elsewhere, are of paramount importance.
Those who plag NOW and build NOW are
serving, themselves and their community.
There are many reasons why they
SHOULD build now,
One of the slogans that meet one of the
sourees of the high cost of living is: “‘The
best way to bring down rents is to build
MORE houses—to make competition. You
can build with YOR OWN rent money."’
The United States Department of Labor is
deeply interested in home building and
through its information and education de
partment is rc-‘r;dering a service that is bath
helpful and ‘beneficial. Seeretary Wilson
says: ‘1 want to see every wageworker own
his home.”’
Throughout the country there is evidence
that owners, architecty and contractors are
ready—""Full steam ahead!” in _their shib
boleth, Steam heating materisls have drop
ped un_d plgxmhmg and gas fixtures are down.
Ke't-p'm mind that labor is 60 per cent of a
building’'s cost and you will appreciate the
benefits to be derived from a revival of build.
ing. .
During the war there was a labor shortage,
as a result there was practically no building.
With labor back in the garb of peace the
need of work is scarcely less urgent than the
need of homes and factories.
E. T. Miller, director of the Division of
Publie Works and Construetion Develop
ment, United Staes Department of Labor,
Says:
Deferred building construction is one of
the portions of our war debt which must be
met, for it provides facilities for paying the
remaining portion of the war debt and also’
decreases the cost of living,
It is an economic waste to allow labor and
materials to remain even temporarily in idle
ness, when they may in the meantime be put
into wealth and tax-producing structures.
Money is not consumed in building opera
tions, but passes from one hand to another,
and still remaing in the national banking sys
tem, yet leaves on its way a permanent evi:
dence of wealth—such as a water-power, a
highway, a railroad, a sewer or other neces
sity to the earning power of society., The in
creased cost of building materials Is only about
half that of other commodities. The increased
cost of building materials is offset in some
localities by decreased cost of land.
Investment in building has always been
considered the safest investment for the indi.
vidual and his dependents. The country Is
pan{ly a full year behind in its civil con
struction program, amounting to at least three
billion dellars.. This amount must be caught up
and normal building continued; a condition of
permanently arrested development of the
country is inconceivable, ol
Now it is up to the individual to do his
share, ‘
What are yon doing?
“OWN YOUR OWN HOME!
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A PAPER WITH A REAL
PERSONALITY
The Alpharetta Free Press undoubtedly is
one of the \‘r_\- brightest of the Georgia
weeklies. 1t i§ thoroughly independent ;it is
fair and says what it thinks, reeardless.
It does not indulge in *‘rough stuff,” to
be sure; but it is positive in Its stands and
uncompromising in its matured opinions.
People like to read The Free Press, and
respect it, and for the foregoing and other
good and sufficient reasons.
In its recent report to the Government con
cerning the ownership, management and so
forth of The Free Press, these statements
oeeur: 3
1. That the names and addresses of the pub
lisher, editor, managing editor, and business
manager are: ’
] Publisher, Geo D. Rucker, Alpharetta, Gas
Editor—Geo. D. Rucker, Alpharetta, Ga. Man.
aging Editor—Geo. D. Rucker, Alpharetta, Ga,
Business Manager—Geo. D. Rucker, Alpharetta,
Ga.
2. That the owner is: Geo D. Rucker, Al
pharetta, Ga. :
All right ; have it your way, George!
Monday, March 17, 1919
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Some Refinements
Of War
(Yale Review.)
Fine minds have been fimly
touched by the war, and base
minds basely, By fine I do not
mean refilied, or fine with an
“ésthetic or spiritual reference mere
ly. I mean fine in the good col
loquial sense of “he is a fine fel
low,” whether a dockman or waiter
or clergyman or college president is
intended.
The finest fellow I met in 1918
was an American-ltalian orderly at
the front, whose heart was absorbed
in the care of a reckless young
army doctdr to whom* he was ta
tached.
And | think often of the half wild
Corsican and wholly wild Apache of
Paris who protected my friend, a
young French lieutenant, one on
either side in charge or retreat, and
“mothered” him when he was ill in
the trenches,
Such men as these have been
made into raw material for recon
struction by the war: finer minds
in the intellectual sense of the word
have been roused to a pitch of lead
ership and creative energy not
equaled since the early Renalissance.
And, furthermore, there are the
millions of women who have flung
themselves into the conflict without
Incurring the passionate reactions
of bloodshed, and are transformed
into a power for good we can not
yet measure.
But base minds have become
baser, uncertain gouls less certain
still; and unfortunately it is the
hearts of gold and not of lead who
ave gone most eagerly to death,
l"n,mo has lost the flower of the
next generation; one in five per
haps of the university men of Kng
land is dead; not many in propor
tion, but too many of the best boy
of America have been left on xn}
western front, .
And, therefore, upon those of us,
whether young or old, who feel the
world is worth nmnrslnn and are
left for the task, a trémendous re
sponsibility descends,
The dead have died for no lust of
‘" conquest or personal reward, but to
save, as they hoped, their country.
It is for the living to see to it that
the world is really saved,
No plans of federation or defengse,
however wise, can secure the fu
ture, unless those whom this war
l has made mmw\ lift to safety
those whom (it made weak,
ANOTHER DECORATION
What the Mandolin Said
7 .
Out of a Past where Mem’ry keeps :
Her cherished things an® weeps,
I list and hear, when the grate is red,
And phantom folk in the gloaming tread :
To the words her mandolin said. /
A pine tpee lifts its branches high 5
In pleading to the sky;
The yellow blooms of the jasmine vine
Like lamps swing low and somehow twine
About her words and heggt of mine.
Her dainty fingers touched the strings;
Then melody of things, 5
Lute-like and musical and sweet
Beneath the pime tree seemed to meet,
Where Love’s own harvest was complete,
In very note the moonlight swayed, -
At touch her fingers made; >
“ Upon the strings old loves seemed wed,
As when one through a dream is led,
At the words her mandolin said.
The lute-like notes brought back again
White spray of Aprl rain:
And dew-wet lilaes scent the air
Once more, as when she blessed them there ;
Ah! mandolin and golden hair.
—H. E. HARMAN.
- Once-Overs —
Mad, clear through, aren’t you®
Somebody called you a “clodhopper,”
You had a job to do which you did not understand any too well and
you cared jess about it; consequently you slighted it—made a clumsy
boteh of it
You. would not call your work on that job the work of “skilled
labor,” would you? -
But that does not trouble you so much as the insinuation that you
are § worker of the soil. :
Shame on you! All workers of the soil are not “elodhoppers.”
The real “clodhoppers™ are the fellows who have been brought up
in town, but who think it would be a lark to get out on the farm to
work and who do not look npon such work in a serious, business
like manner, i
They don’t understand the job—haven't studied enough to realize
that there is anything to understand about the tarming job, an® ruin the
fruit trees by careless picking, shorten the tomato crop by picking
without regard to which are ripest and play havoc generally. y
There are more real “clodhoppers” in the city than among Uncle
Sam'’s farmers. To be a successful farmer requires not only head and
brain work, but strength of chwgacter,
Written for The Georgian,
PUBLIC SERVICE
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' Some Neighborhood
‘ il
| Cemment |
POINTER FOR GIRLS.
/ (Hartwgll Sun.)
The girls who dance best get the
most invitations, but the ones that
can make those crisp breéakfast
muffins are more likely to put in
the order for the white satin dress
with point applique lace and cut
en train,
DOUBTLESS ’I'#RKEY KNOWS
(Nashville Herald.)
We don’t know what you think
about it, but for our part we be
lieve Turkey would have been bet
ter off if she had stuck to the rug
business. 4
QUITE TRUE.
(Barrow Times.)
The statesman Who desires to do
the most good for all the people
is the one most generaly criticized
bv politicians and fgvor:erl inter
.elu.
FILED FOR REFERENCE.
(Wrightsville Headmrhv
When we go up to Monroe this
summer to se¢ Ernest Camp we are
going to take along a bottle of
Johnson County spring water. None
of the brand left up there,
FIT PLACE FOR A JAZZ BAND,
(Waycross Herald-Journal.)
If things get too bad in Ger
many, we might have a heart and
send them a Jazz band.
AND WE WON'T BE CROWDED.
(Walton Tribune.)
There is no room for Bolshevism
in America.
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! Stars and Stripes L
Somebody has written a book of
“Avowals." Unless it is keener
than some “Confessions” and most
“Memoirs” we've waded through we
wouldn't care for it,
. . .
A genius makes pants out of plat
inum; he has walked, he has run,
he has satinum; they're neat and
they're pleasing, every pair keeps
increasing, because it's deud easy to
flatinum. . ’
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‘ Making love is like fishing—all
the fun is in having '‘em fight to
get away
.8 .
Looks from here as if Mr. Wilson
- would be the Ban Johnson of the
league of nations,
z Timely Topics
; of Today
By Arthur Brisbane.
CHARLm E. CHADSEY, new
superintendent of the gchools
. \of the city of Chicago, will
be paid SIB,OOO a year, raised from
$12,000, and this.s the highest sal
ary paid to such an official any
where in the United States.
What do you call this, an honor
to the country? By ne means. It
is a disgrace. The great Republic
of the world, with a population of
a hundred millions, with jockeys
and prize fighters that can earn
SIOOOOO and more in a year, prides
#tself on paying SIB,OOO to the man
responsible for the eountry's intel
lectnal future, :
Our school teachers !fl:‘oow
about as doctors and surgeons used
to rank when the surgeon was also
the barber, and put in front of his
shop the striped pole of red and
white—white for the soap lather
and red for the blood of smrgery.
Eighteen thousand dollars a year
for the most highly paid man in the
business of education. And millions
a year for the man able to exploit
the public. We need more educa
tion, "
m_—
Have we before us a successor to
Theodore Roosevelt as a maker of
phrases, and possibly as a Republi
can candidate? General Wood says
that the nation “is tired of verbal
massages.” He said it Wednesday in
Chicago before a crowd of 15000
That recalls some of the Roose
veltisms. ~ '
To whom couM General Wood
have referred? Not to Bresident
Wilson, of course, for General Wood
is an active officer in the army of
the United States, gnd President
Wilson is his commander-im-chief.
“Verbal massage” is new. It will
be repeated. But it will have to
have many little brother and sister
phrases to carry General Wood very
far along the road 'to the White
House. “Verbal massage” did any
one understand it better than Gen
eral Wood's friend, Colonel Reose
veit .
In Omaha you can byy “bufalo
steak,” which is bison meat, for $1
a pound. . !
A while since you could buy an
entire bison out West for a_dollar.
Buffalo Bill shot many a hundred
in one day.for workman that buflt
the railroads to the Pacific.
Since the war began men have
eaten whales, mules, horsés, dogs
and cats. They pack in tins the
long arms of the deviltish,” which
turn red after they are boiled, and
sell them for lobsters. You can‘not
tell the difference.
What will‘ men be eating 500,000
yvears from now? And what will the
little boys with big heads, no teeth
or hair and rudimentary feet say
when tfey go through the museum
in that future day, see the stuffed
whales, bizon, horses, devilfish, and
hear that men once ate those things
and called themselves civilized?
Many citizens want a monument
to Theodore Rooseveit. One group
suggests a, fund of $10,000,000 “to
Americanize the foreign born.” An
interesting suggestion. What TYPE
of American are you going to select
for the Americanization? Are you
going to Americanize the foreign
born woman into a good customer
of the delicatessen shops and the
ice cream soda fountain? If so,
that would not please Mr. Roose
velt, *
Are you going to Americanize the
foreign-born man into the type of
American who thinks it “more re
spectable” to borrow for a living
than to dig in a ditch? That
wouldn't please Roosevelt.
Would not the best monument for
Roosevelt be first-class additional
fortifications, with perhaps one gi
giantic gun to be hamed “The Ted
dy,” located near the Panama Ca
nal” The world will remember
that the canal was built when
Roosevelt was President, long after
it forgets that he advised women to
have twelve or fifteen children.
Building a canal takes energy. Ad
vising women to have fifteen chil.
dren doesn't,
Dr. Herron, of the Rand Socialist
School, and of much clerical noto
riety, sent to Ewrope by President
Wilson, reports as follows to Mr,
Victor Lawson, of Chicago:
First, “The United States mnst
take up the burdens of the world.
Germany will take the leadership in
Europe if the United States
doesn't” Mr. Herron doesn't y
HOW Germany will take lodonmfip.
with no cannon mere than 3 inches
in diameter,
Second, Dr. Herron says: “There
is no sense of sin in Germany and
no sign of repentance.” That Is
how it was in the Garflen of Eden
once, but yhat a fall!
Dr, Herron says: “We must save
Germany as well as punish her”
There are busy days ahead of Uncle
Sam. For we huve got to save
Armenia, and somd African coun.
tries and some ten or twelve new
lNttle countries would like to be
adopted, protected, directed, inanced
by a prosperous Uncle
«: Not so long ago, before the days
of demoeracies and revolutions, old
fagnioned Englishmen used to say:
“I shall feel better when we are
safely back at war again*
The United States may feel that
way.