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TRUTH, JUSTICE
It 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 ecampaign against anarchy
throughout the country.
Governor Frazer aceepted the invitation
in a letter which every man in Ameriea
ought to read. Espeeially 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 wealth
have come to oppose every decent reform of
our present economic, political and social
system, and so by opposing all proper and le
gitimate progressivism are making them
selves the chief instigators and encouragers
of vieious and violent radicalisin
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 natlon-wide campaign to 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 Daketa, which be
lieves in uphoiding 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 is sim
ply amazing.
The State Government of North Dakota
1 about to use Its own grain elevators, to run
i own street ralways, gas and eleetrie light
companies, to furnish its people with bank
ing facilitios, State insurance against acel
lent, and old age and sickness pensions, and
hese advantages which the people, in their
arganized capacity as a government, can do
8o much better than individuals who work
for private profit,
We call especial attention, however, to the
diserimnatng judgment which the people of
North Dakota have shown in the direction in
wllich they have extended the functions of
the State, {
They have not undertaken to socialize any
business that is not a natural monopoly or
which would not be any better handled by
the State, for the reason that it is, under
private control, a monopoly anyway and is
subjeet to the oppression and abises natural
to private monopolies,
The extreme conservative and the priv
ileged 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 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
canuot control without ABUSE 1s not a step
toward socialism or toward Bolshevism, but
is really a step toward the conservation of
our present 'vmlitmi(m of private property,
beeause it helps to.remove the abuses in the
institution —abuses which arve its real danger,
The institution of private property can
never anywhere die exeept hy suicide, -
The possessing classes can never he dis
possessed exeept 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 sores in our political system.
Why, then, is there any opposition to the
requirements which are caleulated to correct
the abuses in the institution of private prop
erty, such as the Government ownership and
operation of the railroads and street rail
rouds, and the gas and electrie 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
sverybody beligves that the danger will not
#rise in his time.
We are all like the dissipated : Bourbon
He Knoweth W hat Is in the Darkness, and the Light Duwelleth W ith Him.—Daniel 2:22
(Text for today was selected by Rev. W, O. Young, Pastor Oakland City Bap tisté}hurch, Atlanta)
« ATEANTA-GECRGIAN
king who, when warned that his misgovern
ment would lead to revolution, said:
““Oh, this will last as long as we do—after
us, the deluge.”’ _
i The banking gentlemen who wreek rail
roads and ruin men who put their hard
carned savings into railroad stocks and
bonds, the gentlemen who foree down the
price of food to the producers on the lands
and raise it to the consumers in the cities,
the manufacturers who get too many privl
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 come
’ in their day.
|ATLANTA NEEDS MORE
| 3
'HOUSES -MORE HOMES
{ “The man who owns his home has a better
| 2 5
| standimg with his family, his employer, his
‘ associates and his bank than has the man who
| does not own his home,’’ said the lat 2J. P.
! Morgan.
The problems of housing the people who in
the near future will come to Atlanta and of
| taking better 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 houses—to make competition. You
1 can build with YOR OWN rent money."’
‘ The United States Department of Labor is
i deeply interested in home building and
| through its information and education de
[ partment is rendering a serviee that is both
| helpful and beneficial, Seeretary Wilson
says: 1 want to see every wageworker own
his home. "’
; Throughout the country there is evidence
| that owners, architects and contractors are
{ ready—"‘Full steam ahead!"’ in their shib
l boleth. 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 you will appreciate the
| benefits to be derived from a revival of build
| ing.
I 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
1 need of work is searcely less urgent than the
need of homes and faetories.
F. T. Miller, director of the Division of
Public - Works and Construetion Develop
ment, United Staces Department of Labor,
SAYN
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 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 society. The in
creased cost of building materials is only about
half that of other commodities. The increased
cost g' building materials is offset in some
localities by decreased cost of land,
Investment in building has always been
congidered the safest investment for the indi
vidual and his dependents. The country is
probably a full year behind in its civil con
struction program, amounting to at least three
‘ billion dollars. This amount must be caught up
and normal building continued; a condition of
| permanently arrun{l development of the
| country is inconceivable, 2 i
i Now it is up to the individual to do his
! share.
{ What are you doing?
| “OWN YOUR OWN HOME!"
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‘A PAPER WITH A REAL
l PERSONALITY
{ The Alpharetta Free Press undoubtedly is
i ond of the very brightest of the Georgia
| weeklies. It is thoroughly independent ;it is
| fair and says what it thinks, reeardless,
l 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
respeet it, and for the foregoing and other
‘ good and suflicient reasons,
In its recent report to the Government con
| cerning the ownership, management and so
l forth of The Free Press, these statements
| oecum
i 1. That the names and addresses of the pub
{ lisher, editor. managing editor, and busiress
| manager are:
| Publisher, Geo D. Rucker, Alpharetta, Ga.
| 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
Cf War
(Yale Review.)
Fine minds have been finely
touched by the war, and base
minds basely. By fine 1 do not
mean tefined, or fine with an
esthetic or spiritual reference mere
ly, I mean fine in the good col
loquial sense of “he i{s a fine fel
low,” whether a dockman or waiter
or clergyman or college president is
intended.
The finest fellow T met in 1918
was an American-[talian orderly at
the front, whose heart was absorbed
in the care of a reckless young
army doctor to whom he was ta
tached.
And | think often of the half wild
Corsican and whelly 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 heen
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 Renaissance,
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 souls less certain
still; and unfortunately it is the
hearts of gold and not 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 Eng
land is dead. not many in propor
tion, but too many of the best boys
of America have been left on the
western front,
And, therefore, upon those of us,
whether young or old, who feel the
world is wonh\ remaking and are
left for the task, a tremendous 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 I 8 really saved,
No plans of federation or defense,
however wise, can secure the fu
ture, unless those whom this war
has made strong ean lift to safety
those whom it has’made weak.
ANOTHER DECORATION
What the Mandolin Said
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 jasmine vine
Like lamps swing 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,
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 lilacs scent the air
Onece more, as when she blessed them there;
Ah! mandolin and golden hair.
—H. E. HARMAN
' 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 less about it; consequently you slighted it—made a clumsy
botch 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.
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 farm to
work and who do not look upon such work in a serious, business
like manner. !
They 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
without regard to which are ripest and play havoc generally,
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 character,
Once-Overs —+
PUBLIC SERYIGE
' Some Neighborhood
i Cemment
POINTER FOR GIRLS.
(Hartwell Sun.)
The girls who dance best get the
most invitations, but the ones that
can make those ecrisp breakfast
muffins are more likely to put in
the order for the white satin dress
with point applique lace and cut
en train.
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DOUBTLESS 'I;gRKEY KNOWS
(Nashville Herald.)
We don't know what vou think
about it, but for our part we be
lHeve Turkey would have been bet
ter off if she had stuck to the rug
business,
QUITE TRUE.
(Barrow Times.)
The statesman who desires to do
the most good for all the people
is the one most generaly eriticized
bv politicians and favored inter
ests,
FILED FOR REFERENCE.
(Wrightsville Headlight.)
When we go up to Monroe this
summer to see Ernest Camp we are
j going to take along a bottle of
- Jéhnson County spring water. None
~ of the brand left up there,
~ FIT PLACE FOR A JAZZ BAND.
| (Wayeross 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 Bolsheviem
in America.
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| Stars and Stripes
11-t.‘?:‘__—"*":_:“_—*‘w___.“?‘_—‘{
Somebody has written a book of
“Avowals.” Unless it is keeuer
than some “Confessions” and most
“Memoirs” we've waded through we
wouldn't care for it.
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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 dead easy to
flatinum.
9.5 .
Making love is like fishing--all
the fun is in having ‘em fight to
get away,
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Looks from here as if Mr. Wilson
would be the Ban Johnson of the
league of nations.
Timely Topics |
of Today E‘
By Arthur Brisbane.
HARLES E. CHADSEY, new
superintendent of the schoals
of the city of Chicago, will
be paid SIB,OOO a year, raised from
$12,000, and this is 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 no 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
SIOO,OOO and more in a year, prides
itself on payving SIB,OOO to the man
responsible for the country’s intel
lectnal future,
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 millions
a year for the man able to exploit
the public. We need more educa
tion,
Have we hefore 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 15,000,
That recalls some of the Roose
veltisms.
To whom ecould General Wood
have referred? Not to President
Wilson, of course, for General Wood
is an active officer 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 to the White
House. ‘“Verbal massage” did any
one understand it better than Gen
eral Wood's friend, Colonel Roose
velt
In Omaha you can buy “buffalo
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 ghat built
the railroads to the Pacific.
Since the war began men have
eaten whales, mules, hoises, dogs
and cats. They pack in_tins the
long arms of the deviliish, which
turn red after they are bhoiled, 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 bhig heads, no teeth
or hair and rudimentary feet say
when they go through the museum
in that future day, see the stuffed
whales, bison, horses, devilfish, and
hear that men once ate those thln’
and called themselves civilized?
Many citizens want a monument
to Theodore Roosevelt. 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
gantic gun to be named “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 Hand Socialist
School, and of much clerical noto
riety, sent to Europe by President
Wilson, reports as follows to Mr.
Victor Lawson, of Chicago:
First. “The United States must
take up the burdens of the world.
Germany will take the leadership 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 rense of sin in Germany and
no sign of repentance,” That sis
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 are busy days ahead of Uncle
Sam. For we have got to save
Armenia, and some African eoun
tries and some ten or twelve new
little countries would like to be
adopted, protected, directed, financed
by a prosperous Unecle,
Not so long ago, before the days
of democracies and revolutions, old
fasnioned Englishmen used to say:
“l shall feel better when we are
safely back at war again,”
The United States may foel that