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TRUTEH, JUSTICS
It There Is No Dou bonism
There Will Be Vo Bolshevism
Y OVERNOR FRAZER, of North Dukota,
G has been asked to join'a so-cualled
Board of Governors which proposes to
organize s camnaign against anarchy
throughout the country, .
Governor Frazer accepted the ipvitation
in a letter which gvery man in America
cught to read. Espgeially ought it to be
read by men of great wealth, who have the
most to lose by the extreme radicalism of
violenee and disorder which we term 80l
shevism.
Some of these possessors of great wealth
have come to oppose every decent reform of
our present economic, political and social
system, and 8o by opposing all proper and le
gitimate progressivism are making them.
selves the chief instigators and encouragers
of vicions and violent radicalism.
Governor Frazer has some splendid ad
vice to give these gentlemen. We quote him:
| have your telegram notifying me that |
~ have been appointed on the board of governors
for a nation-wide campaign ta be launched
against every manifestation 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 aims of your organiza
tion., Here in North Dakota we believe 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
co.ntry. In my opinion, the spirit of Bourbon
ism is even more threatening to the security
lof our institutions. for, scanning back through
history, it seems to me that Bourbonism always
precedes and is the cause of Bolsheviem ™
The people of North Dakota, under the
dotginance “of the Non-Partisan League,
auce schioved an evolution in politieal and
eeonomie progress which in. America is sim
ply amazing. i
The State GovErnment of North Dakota
is a'iout so use its own grain eloyators, to run
its own street railways, gas and eleetrie light
companies, to furnish its people with bank
ing faeilities, State insurance against acci
dent, and old age and sickness pvnni(m, and
those advantages which the people, in their
organized capacity as a govepnment, can do
so much better than individuals whoe work
for private profit,
We call especial attention, however, to the
digserimnatng judgment which the people of
North Dakota have shown in the direction in
which they have extended the funetions of
the State,
They have not undertaken to socialize any
business that is not a natural tonopoly or
which would not be any better handled by
~the State, for the reason that 1t is, under
private control, a monopoly anyway and is
subject to the oppression and abuses natural
to private monopolies, -
- The extreme congervative and the prive
ifi‘?d interests will denounce the action of
“the people of North Dakota as socialistie.
Very likely THEY will call it Bolshevism, if
we mean by that term action whidh brings us
nearer to the control of government by the
people and in the interest of the prople.
But setion which takes away from private
terests functions whieh private inferests
eannot control without ABUSE is not a step
toward socialism or toward Bolshevism, but
w wpeally a step toward the conservation of
Jur prosent anstitution of private property,
beeause it Nelps to remove the abuses in the
st tation abuses which are its real danger.
The institution of private property ean
Saewer anyw here die except by suicide,
The possassing classes eun never be dis-
Jogsessod execpt-through that reckless short
sighteaness which induces them to refuse to
gorrect the abuses ol private properiy and to
wbavdon those individualistie efWorts which
are Mound to be abused and to become dan
_gerous.sores in our political systen,
f Wily, then, is there any opposition to the
pequirements which are calevlated to correet
the abuses in the institution of private prap.
erty, such as the Goverument ownership and
operation of the railroads and smreet rail
roads, and the vas and electrie light compa
nies, and the t-lenhone companies. and the
extension of uu(m.fil operation in other di
reetions when» ¢ and wherever it is found
that concitions under priva‘e control inevi
“tably lead to alnses!
The reason = not Far th Sad. 1t is that
everyvhody helie cex catt tie dans v w il ne!
avise in his time X
- We are all like the diss’pated Bourbon
D e TYTTy st o
He Krow-th W hat Is in the Darkness, ard the Lish* Dwelleth V 7 ith H:m.—Daniel 2:22
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king who, when“warned that his misgovern
ment would lead to revolution, suid
“ O, this wiil last as Jong as we do-—after
us. the (I"ltly" : :
e banking gentlemen who wreck rail
roads and ruin men who put their hard
ecarned savings into radlroad stocks and
bouds, the gentlemen who foree dbwn the
price of food to the prmlnvw‘s“ou the lands
and raise it to the consumers 'kn the cities,
theinanufacturers who get too many privi
leges and too much profit and give too little
of it to their workmen-—these men know the
inevitable tendeney of their conduet, but
they do not think that the deluge will eome
in their day. .
ATLANTA NEEDS MORE
5
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 hig home,’’ said the lats J. P.
Morgan, ;
The problems of housing the people who in
the near future will come to Atlanta and of
taking hetter care of those already here or
elsewhere, are of paramount importance.
Those who plan 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 .
sources of the high cost of living is: *‘The
best way to bring down rents is to build
MORE howses—to make edmpetition. You
can build with YOR OWN rent money.”’
The United States Department of Labor is
deeply inferested in home building and’
through its iufumuktion and education de
partment is rendering a service that is both
helpful and beneficial. Seeretary Wilson
says: I want to see every wageworker own\
his home,” ¥
Throughout the country there is evidenee
that owners, architeets and contractors are
ready-——"“Full steam ahead !’ in their shib
holeth. Steam heating materials have drop
ped and plumbing and gas fixtures are down.
Keep in mind that labor is 60 per cent of a
building’s cost and vou will appreciate the
banefits to be derived from a vevival of build™
ing.
During the war there was a labor shortage.
as a result there was praetically no building.
Withe labor back in the garb of peace the
need of work is scarcely less urgent than the
need of hemes and factories.
F. T. Miller, dircctor of the Division of
Publie Works and Construction Develop
ment, UUnited Staces I)Ppnrtmmp of Labor,
SAYS: ’
Deferred building construction is one of
the portions of our war debt whigch must be
met, for it* provides facitities 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
Imaterials to remain even temporarily imidie
ness, when they may in the meantime be put
into wealth and tax-producing structures. «
Money is not consumed in building opera
tiohs, but passes from one hand to another,
and still remains 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 ufioty. The in
creased cost of building materials is only about
half that of other commedities. 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 lf\: his dependents. The country Is
probably full year behind .in jts civil con- »
struction program, amounting n/n least three
" billion dollars. This amount must be caught up
and normal building continued; a condition of
permanently arrested developmest of the
country is inconceivable, :
Now it is up to the individual to"do his
share,
‘ What are vou doing? .
SOWN YOUR i)w.\' HOME!"
‘A PAPER WITH A REAL
PERSONALITY
i The Alpharetta Free Press undonbtedly is
-~ one of the very bhrightest of the. Georgia
~ weeklies, 1t is thoroughly independent ;it is
- fair and says what it thinks, regardloss. #
" 1t does not indulgd in “‘rough stuff,”’ to
- be sure; but it is positive in its stands and
i uneampromising in its matured opinions,
1 People like to read The Free Press, and
. respect it, and for the foregoing and other
good and suficient reasons S f
| L its recent veport to the Government con
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lisher, editor, managing editor, and business
marager are:
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Editor-~Ceo. D Rucker. Alpharetta, Ca. Man
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Some Refinements
Cf War
(Yale Review.)
Fine minds have been finely
touched by the war, and base
minds basely. By fine I do not
mean refined, or fine with an
esthetie or spiritual reference mere
ly. 1 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
wis an American-Italian orderly at
the front, whose heart was absorbed
in the care of a reckless youpg
army doctor to whom he was ta
tached.
And 1 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
striction 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 sinee the early Renalssance,
And, furthermore, there are the
millions of women who have flung
themselves Into the conilict without )
incurring the passionate reactions
of bloedshed, and are transformed |
into a power for good we can not
yet measure.
But base minds ‘have become
baser, uncertain souls less certain
still: and_unfortunately it is the
hearts of gold and %ot of lead who
have gone most eagerly to death,
France 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 hoys
of America have been left on the
western from. .
And, therefore, upon those of\ys,
whather young or old, who feelghe
world s worth remaking and are
1t for the task® a tremendons re
sponsibility descends, \
The dead have dled (0r no lust of
conquest or personal reward, but to
save, s they hoped, their country,
1t is for the living to sce to it that
the world s really saved,
No ‘nnl of federfition or defense,
howevér wist, can secure the fu
tnre, un'ess those whom this war
bhaus made sirong can Mt to safoty
tHhose whont It has made weak.
y Monday, March 17, 1919
ANOTHER DECORATION
What the Mandolin Said
Mad, clear through, aren't you?
Somebody called you a “elodhopper.” &
You had a job to do which you did not—undentmd any too well and
you cared less 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 a worker of the soil. i
Shame on you! All workers of the soil are not “clodhoppers.™
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 farf to
work and who do not look upon such work in a serious, business
like manner, :
Tla3 don’t understand the job-—haven't studied enough to realize
that there is anything to understand about the farming job, and ruin the
» fruit trees by careless picking, shorten the tomato crop by picking
~ withomt regard to which Are ripest and play havoc generally.
There are more real “rlodhoppen" in the cl't,v than among Uncle
Sam’'s farmers. To be a successful farmer requires got only head and
brain work, but strength of character. R
Out of a Past where Mem'ry keeps
Her cherished things and 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 tree lifts its branches high »
In pleading to the sky;
The yellow blooms of-the jasminé vine
Like lampu;wing low and somehow twine
About her words and heart of mine. .
Her dainty fingers touched the strings:
Then melody of things,
Lute-like and musical and sweet :
Beneath the pine tree seemed to meet,
Where Love's own harvest was complete,
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In very note the moonlight swayed,
At touch her fingers made ;
Upon the:;rinus old loves seemed wed, :
As when one through a dream is led,
At the words her mandolin said.~ _
_The lute-like notes brought back aguin
White spray of Aprl rain:
And dew-wet lilacs scent the air :
Onee more, as when she blessed them there
Ah! mandolin and golden hair,
\ -~H. E. HARMAN
Once-Overs
RUBLIC SERVICE
Some Neighborhood
Cemment
POINTER FOR GIRLS.
(Hartwell Sun.)
The girls who dance best get the
most invitations, but the ones that
can make those crisp breakfast
muffins are more likely to put in
the order for the white satin dress
with point applique ,lace and cut
en train, .
DOUTL.ESS I;¥RKEY KNOWS
(Nashville , Herald.)
We don't know what you think
about it, but for our part we be
lieve Turkey would have heen bet
ter off if she had stuck to the rug
business. .
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QUITE TRUE,
(Barrow Times.)
The statesman who desires te do
the most good for all the people
is the one most generaly criticized
b politicians and favored inter
ests,
FILED FOR REFERENCE. J
(Wrightsville Headlight) 7
When we go up to Momroe this
suimmer to see Ernest Camp we are
going to take along a Dbottle es
Johnson County spring water, None
of the brand left up therey
FIT PLACE FOR A JAZZ BAND,
. (Wayeross Herald-Journal.)
ilf 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 Belshevism
in America, ¢
(e =S
| Stars and Stripes l
be———
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
fnum; ‘he has walked, he has run,
he has satinum; they're neat and
they're pleasing; every pair keeps
increasing, because it's dead edsy to
flatdnum - /
- - -
; Making love is like fishing-—-all
‘he fun is in having ‘em fight to
get away.
TRE \
Looks from here as if Mr, Wilson
would be the Ban Johnson of the
league of nations, 2
' Timely Topics |
| of Today |
By Arthur Brisbane. =
HARLES E. CHADSEY, new
, superintendent of the schools
of the city of Chicago, will
be paid SIB,OOO a year, raised from
$12,000, and this is the highest sal
ary paid ta such an official any
where in the United States.
What do you call this, an honor
to the country? By no means. It
is a Aisgrace. The great Repablic
of the world, with a popwition of
a hundred millions, with jockeys
and prize fighters that can earn
SIOO,OOO and more in a year, prides
itself on paying SIB,OOO to the man
responsible for the country’s intel
lectual future, . l
Our school teachers rank *now
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 surgery.
Eighteen thousand dollars a year
for the most highly paid man in the
business of education. And miilions
a year for the man able to exploit
the public. We need more educa
tion. .
G i o L
Have we before us a successor. to
_Theodore Roosevelt as a maker of
phrases, and possibly as a Repub‘ll
can candidate? General Wood says
that the nation “is tired of verbal
massages.” He said it Wednesday in
Chicago before a crowd of 15,000,
Th 9 recalls some of the Roose
veltisms. X
To whom could General .Wood
have referred? Not to President
Wilson, of course, for General Weod
is 4n active officey in the army of
the United States, and President
Wilson is his' commander-in-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 te the White
House. “Verbal massage” did %iny
one understand it better lhm(}en’
eral Wood's friend, Colonel Roose
velt
ll‘(Omahd‘ you can buy “bhuffalo
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™or workman that built
the ‘railroads to the Pacific,
Since the war began-men have
eaten whales, mules, horses, dogs
and cats. - They pack in tins the
long arms of the deviliish, which
turn red after they are hoiled, and
sell them for lobsters, You can not
tell the difference,
What will men be eating 500,000
years from now? And what will the
little boys with big heads, no teeth
or hair and rudimentary feet say
when they go through the museum
in that future day, see the stuffed
whales, bison, horgea, devilfish, and
hear that men once ate those things
anq called themselves civilized?
Many citizeas want a monument
‘to Theodore Roosevelt. One group
suggests a fund of $10,000,080 “to
Americanize the foreign borm.” An
interesting suggestion. What TYPE
of American are you going th select
for the Americanization? Are you
going to Americanize the foreign
born woman into a good customer
of the delicatessen shops amd the
ice cream soda fountain? If so,
that would not please Mr, *Roose
velt. ;
Are you going to Amemneanize the
foreign-born man into the type of
American who thinks it “more re
spectable” to bggrow for a living
t!m.n to dig in a ditch? That
wouldn't pleaye Roosevett.
Would not the best monument for
- Roosevelt be first-class additional
fortifications, with perhaps one gi
gintic gun to be named “The Ted
dy,” located “near the Panama Ca
nal? The world wiill 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, «e% to KEurope by President
Wilson, ports as follows to Mr.
Vietor Lawson, of Chicage:
First. “The United Stutes must
take up the burdens of the world.
Germany will take the lsadership in
Europe If the United States
doesn't” Mr, Herron doesn't say
HOW Germany will take ledearship,
with no cannon more than 3 inches
in diameter.
Second. Dr. Herron says: “There
is no sense of sin in G«-rnkarny and
“no sign of repentance.” hat Is
how it was in the Garden of Eden
once, but what a fall!
Dr, Herron says: “We must Save
Germany as well .as punish her”
There aure busy days ahead of Uncle
Sam. For we have got to save
Armenia, and some African coun
tries and some ten or twelve new
little countries wonld like to be
adopted, protected, Rirecled, inanced
by a prosperous Unele,
Not. so long ago, before the days
of democracies and revolutions, eld
fagnioned Englishmen used to say:
“l 1 shall feel better *when we are
safely back at war again,”
The United Hta‘tu may feel that
way. &