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TRUTH, JUSTICE
The American Navy Must
| Be the World’s Greatest
X 7 JHAT'S this we hear about the Navy!
\ / Congress has agreed that the Pa
cific and Atlantic fleets shall be of
equal strength,
And how' is Congress going to give us the
two fleets?
Why, by dividing the navy we now have
into equal parts and keeping half in ome
ocean and half in the other,
Peanut polities again!
Not even the terrible and costly lesson we
have just had-—and still have to pay for—
has been able to teach the incoming Congress
that the safety and the prestige of the Urtited
States require two fleets, EACH AS BIG
AND STRONG AS THE NAVAL FORCE
NOW IN THE ATLANTIC.
Evidently the administration and the Con
gress propose to go back to the old, niggard
ly, preposterous poliey of half-preparedness,
which is just as provocative of war as no pre
paredness,
And this preposterous policy is to he fol
lowed now -now, of all times—when the
need of a powerful navy as protection
against war is more obvions than ever be
fore in the life of the republie.
We assume that no thinking man believes
that this league of nations is going to end
all wars. President Wilson, chief sponsor
of the league, has said that it will not.
Why, even in formulating the league’s
covenant, it has heen found neeessary to
strip the conneil of any real power to work
whenever it suits one of the econtracting
powers to objeet to its working.
As things now stand with this instrument
it is about as effective as would be a common
agreement between nations that neither will
begin war without three preliminary toots
of a loud whistle.
Aud in the meantime we have abandoned
our long-practiced policy of non-intervention
in European disputes and wars; have in
curred the jealousy and perhaps the ill
will—of nations with which we have never
before had the shadow of misunderstanding,
and are just as sure to have to fight some al-
Hance of these jealous powers in the future
as the &un is to rise tomorrow morning, un
less—
We proceed with all speed and resolution to
build a navy so much more powerful than any
other navy that no combination of foreign pow
ers will dare to attack us on the seas.
Leagues of nations and things of that sort
may postpone wars, but while haman nature
remains what it is the safety of a rich and
tempting land lies in the power and the con
stant preparation of its people to defend
their land victoriousty with the weapons of
war.
Why, look you, there is a league of all the
governments in our country—HFederal, State
and Municipal—to prohibit and to punish m
dividual warfare and spoliation, is there
not? ;
And yet some men commit murder gnd rob
bery every day in the week, do they not!
And if the authority and the power of gov
ernment and the multiplied police agencies
and the weight of public condemnation can
not prevent individuals from constantly at
tempting murder and robbery, do you sup
pose that a paper agreement to be good and
virtuous will long bind ALL the signatory
governments-—some of them notoriously
greedy, aggressive and treacherous, and all
of them nursed for hundreds of years in the
tradition of war for gain?
~ 1f we have any sense at all we will never
eonsent to risk our future safety upon such
a support as that,
You do not see any indication that Great
Britain means to put much trust in the aeca
demic protection of a league of nations,
do you!
Beause she does NOT,
She means so rely, as she has relied for
more than three hundred years, upon her
own strength——the guns of her navy and the
diplomacy with which she has always been
able to form coalitions against any nation
that threatened her trade or her naval su
premacy.
. Why not be frank about these things, since
théy concern so profoundly the safety of our
own land and involve no apimosity to any
other?
With all her old-time skill England has sue
e¢eeded in wrecking the only naval and trade
competition she feared in Europe, and noth
ing is more certain than that her future diplo
macy will be devoted to keeping down the
naval and trade aseendancy of every com
petitor.
She will do that peacefully and subtly as
long as peaceable and subtle measures will
answer her purpose; and whenever these
fail she will, as she always has, protect her
self by a new coalition against any nation
that threatens to take anv consideranie share
of her ocean trade. She so protected herself
against, first, Spain, then Holland, then
France, and finally Germany, as each in turn
| became dominant in Europe. FEach in turn
| was beaten to pieces by coalitions that ex
hausted themselves in the struggle, leaving
England to Bick up fresh ndditionis to her
wondrons Empire and trade supremacy from
the flotsam and jetsam of the common wreck.
Will history cease to repeat itself, think
you, after this year 191917
What has heeome of our native common
sense that we ghould delude ourselves with a
chimera ; that we should be so easy vietims
of propaganda; that we should be angry with
the voices of experience, reason and pru
dence?
The very self-same men who now advo
cate depending upon England for our sea
protection ; who now talk of maintaining a
navy second to that of England; who now
proclaim the saving efficacy of a league con
stitution, and who now deery the building of
an American navy able to proteet by its own
~ strength our national honor and safety—
these very self-same men, no longer than
three years ago, while half the world was on
fire with war and our own policies were
steadily heading us toward the conflagration,
[ were deerying preparedness, either by sea or
| land.
Even then they were opposed to the build
ing of an American, navy that would right
fully represent the wealth, power and im
portance of this republic.
~ And now, with the grass not yet green
‘ upon the graves of our dead, who need not
~have died had we possessed the naval and
militaryspreparation we should have pos
sessed in 1916 to frighten Germany from any
thought of submarine war upon our citizens
and ships—mnow, already, in so brief an in
terval, these propagandists of defenseless
ness are at work again. .
They must not suceceed.
We must beat them and their propaganda
once for all. )
It will be no child’s play to whip this out
fit.
They will be backed by domestic a.nd for
cign influences, which will bhe persistent;
which will resort to any methods, and which
will spare no cost. .
But we must beat them and their game,
just the same.
They will control a large number of news
papers, which ean not be helped.
Very well. That is a shame to these news
papers.
But they can not subsidize, they can not
control, they can not intimidate the Hearst
papers. And the Hearst papers are published
~all over America.
They will bring every species of persua
sion and coercion to bear upon the members
of Congress.
Very well. Let them, and in the meantime
do you be busy.
~ Spot every Congressman who shows a
sign of being a little American navy man,
i Show him the error of his way and urge
~ him to mend his way,
‘ If he won’t, beat him in the next primary.
Rid the Congress of him! '
No more half-hearted, hyphenated Ameri
cans in the Congress or in any office after
1920!
A big, big American Navy; a Navy thnt
can defend Ameriea against all the world, if
need be; a Navy that can maintain the rule
that Queen Elizabeth proclaimed against
Spain three hundred and thirty years ageo
that “‘the oceans should always be as free
as the air we breathe;"" a Navy that can and
will guard all our coasts, east and south ppd
west, with a ring of steel through which no
enemy and no combination of enemies can
break their hostile way into our land-—that
is what every true-hearted American wants
and what we mean to have, no matter who
f seeks to hinder and no matter what the cost.
| The biggest navy in the world must be the
| American navy!
~ Nail that to the mass and keep it there,
- Americans!
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Cemment :
PERSIMMON BEER.
(Bridges Smith, in The Macon Tel
egraph.)
An ad in John Herring's Tifton
Gazette shocked us the other day,
and we were a little surprised that
John would aid and abet any plan
by which our forests be denuded
of certain trees that should never
be disturbed by the woodman's ax.
This called for dogwood-and per
simmon logs and sl4 a cord was
offered for them.
If there is anvbody in this coun
tr:/who should know that without
dogwood blossoms hesprinkling the
woods in April the woods would
be a dreary waste, and without the
persimmon tree we whose tastes are
simple but appreciative would be
deprived of a beverage in the fall
that ranks well with the nectar of
the gods—persimmon beer—it is
John. ¢
To make this beer—see if I'm
right, John-—get you a clean keg.
Stick a (nucot in it about six inches
from the bottom. Now put in some
oat or wheat straw below the fau
cet. On this straw put in a full
bushel of ripe persimmons after the
frost has fallen on them, two or
three good-sized yaller yams well
baked and skunt, and a few locusts
~=not the 17-year kind, but the big
black fat bean that grows on trees.
Then fill up the keg with water
and let her stand. When it ripens,
drink heartily. Nothing better, is
there, John? Now, would you want
to destroy the trees from which
this delicious drink gets its chief
ingredient? Of course, the best
bobbins and spools and gear wheels
are made from these two woods,
but think of the blossoms and the
beer, man! *
And you know we are a bever
age-deinking people, John. Even
in the old days, when Coot Holder
and George Wells bottled soda wa
ter, and further back than that
when sarsaparilla and ginger pop,
and California root beer and moss
beer were the reigning beverages
in the eity, and persimmon and corn
beer and spring water served 'the
country, the people drank and drank
heavily, And in later vears, with
the introduction of the “olas" and
“near” stuff, we still drink.
OUR HONORED DEAD.
(Augusta Chronicle.)
Stars and Stripes, published by
our fighting men in France, ex
presses the opinion that every sol
dier who died for humanity on the
flelds of France, had he a chance to
express his wish, would ask to le
in the soil over which he fought.
“But,” adds this soldier's paper, “if
there ig any American mother who
would be happier with the remains
of her soldier boy buried at home,
she ought to have her wish.,” That
is a suggestion offered to Amervican
mothers, and the American Govern
ment, that should not be without
weight.
Wednesday, April 23, 1919
THE GARDEN OF LOVE
More Truth Than Poetry
L By James J. Montague -
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: ALLEGORY.
lN a sunny South Sea island, where the tropic breeze ran riot
Through the rare exotic plants along the shore, ¢
The populace decided that a missionary diet
Wasn’t needful at their tables any more.
For, despite the hectic climate, they would often shake and
shiver
With a fary that no doctor could abate; -
Chere was quite an epidemic of cirrhosis of the liver,
And they blamed it on the people that they ate.
BUT a fd old shell-back natives swore they’d have their
missionaries,
Though the statutes had prehibited their sale;
They would brook nointerference with their chosen dietaries
If their obstinacy landed them in jail.
So they drove the white-faced strangers into bungalows and
stored ’em, :
Though they knew their act was very, very wrong.
(For the law expressly stated that the people must not hoard
‘em),
And they ate forbidden viands right along.
NOW and then, of course, the sheriff apprehended these
offenders,
And conveyed 'em to the Justice of the Peace,
Who would fine them most severely, irrespective of their
genders;
But their law-defying banquets did not cease.
Years rolled by, and they insisted with unholy exultation
That no mandatory government decree,
Based on sumptuary statutes or hot-headed legislation,
Would be heeded in a country of the free.
FOR a while they breathed defiance, ate their missionary
dinners,
And replied to reprobation with a scoff;
But consensus of opinion withers even hardened sinners,
And as time wore on their violence wore off.
Now the missionaries wander unmolested through the
tropics,
Plucking fruit from rare exoties on the shore,
And they talk with ease and freedom on all dietary topics,
For the natives do not eat them any more.
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PUBLIC SERVICE
| . .
Little Stories of thel
| .
| Nations |
i L’T::T:._.L:‘_:’?—.Tl_,’__.:“—*—.'“_
1 By ALBERT BARRETT SAYRES.
|AS we have seen, the King of the
! Germans managed to make
| himself algo Emperor of the west
‘ ern Roman Empire in 962, He was
| a Saxon, not a Prussian—for Prus
! sia was little in those days—but
| he straightway contrived to ally
’ his house by marriage with many
! of the other families reigning “in
| Europe. Thus we see at work a
I‘ thousand yvears ago the same Sys
tem that obtained when the Kaiser
| entered the great war allied by
marriage to almost every royal
house in Europe.
But there now entered into the
| western world a new force which
‘ had never before been a grvflé pow
er. True, the Norsemen had been
gporadically prominent both in
England and in France, but they
never secured the ruling power.
Now, however, a King of all Den
mark came against England to
make himself King of all England
also.
' In the year 1017 Cnut,-or Ca
! nute, the son of the Danish King
| who had won the throne of all
. Kngland, quelled all opposition, and
l then through inheritance gained
the throne of Denmark. He then
1 wdn all of Norway and part of
| Sweden. Thus Capute became lord
| of all northern Europe, and the
| most powerful prince of his time.
{ 'This marked the height of the pow
l er of the Norsemen.
{ But there now came into opera
i tion,the characteristic of which
| any home-keeping Danes, Norwe
gians and Swedes complain today—
the adaptability of their rate. For
the Norsemen who settled in Eng
i land speedily became Englishmen,
~ those who lived in France took on
(\many French characteristics, and
those who maintained their lands
in Russia swiftly became Slavonic.
This is one of the great reasons—
i berhaps the greatest reason—why
the Norsemen became of less na
tional account than they otherwise
might have been. For they lost
the best life of Scandinavia to give
new life to other lands.
At this time we should also con
sider the reasons<er the two great
different phases of religion in Eu
rope. By the end of the tenth cen
tury or the beginning of the elev
enth century all the northern na
tions of Fuarope—except the Prus
sians and the Lithuanians—had
gradually become Christians. The
Scandinavians, like the other na
tions we have consigered, gained
their Christianity from the west,
This is why they are all either Ro
man Catholics or Protestants,
But the Russians, like the Bul
garians, got their Christianity from
Constantinople, and so they be
came part of the eastern, or what
i= now called the Greek Church,
To this day the Russians are the
only great people of Europe that re
main In “the communion of the
east,” having nothing to db with
the Christianity of Rome or with
‘ the reformed or ' Protestant
Churches.
We have now considered the rise
of every great nation of Europe
from its earliest beginning. In our
, next little story we must see how
the Papal power rose.
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| The Beggars’ Feet
Eagles and Rabbits,
A Toy for Your Cat.
. Have You a World Toy?
|===<By Arthur Brisbane. -
NY man, in water, out of
A sight of land, would swim
toward a life preserver, F'i
nancially, the Victory Bonds to be
sold next week are the life preserv
ers. Boersianer, the financial au
thority, who knows, says “Every
dollar that 1 have or can get will
be put into those bonds. For never
was such a bond offered, an abso
lute certainty of making a profit
with no possibility of loss. Observe
how eagerly Europeans will “strive
to get them. THOSE BONDS WILL
BE THE SHEET ANCHOR OF
~THE INVESTORS OoF. THE
WORLD.”
Thursday, “Maundy Thursday”
(as Victor Lawson relnarked) was
the day on which the Emperor of
Austria used, in public, to wash
the feet of ten beggars picked up
in the streets. After that, some
one washed the Emperor, disinfect«
‘ ed him and helped him to forget
I it for another yenr.
| Now the beggars of Austria have
dec ded. to wash their own feet, put
in bathtubs and generally improve
conditions by saving what they
spent on the Emperor and his
‘l court.
' Will they be better off than with
! Francis Joseph as spasmodic foot
| washer? That depends on their
heads, not theit feet, and the world
will soon know. It took France 100
‘ years to make freedom rcal.
' You will see many happenings
before the beggars of Maunay
Thursday learn how to run a coun
try. But they have GOT to learn
some time,
In the downtown store yvou read
“Catnip mice to amuse your pet
cat. Ten cents.” And there they
- are, little imitation gray mice stuff
| ed with catnip, to please the cat
- and stimulate her imagination,
| something like music with your
| dinner,
| What statesman will find for the
dissatisfied world peoples a work
ing equivalent ‘of the mouse stuf
fed with catnip? They need it.
Richard Crane, son of an able
‘ manufacturer, is appointed Ameri
can Minister to the new Repub
lic of Czecho-Slovakia. It sounds
like Anthony Hope. May he arrive
in time to qualify. The war, start
ed tp supply ‘“newly carpeted”
thronks to five Hohenzollern sons,
now supplies official dignity to the
son of Charles Crane. Which
~ proves that you never can tell
| Columbus started for India and
| landed in America. Wilhelm start
od for Paris and landed in Holland.
- Russia started for Utopia and land
! ed in Bolshevism. The world, from
- Paris, is starting for perpetual
1 peace. Where will it iand; in the
happy Valley of Concord, or in a
- series of wars that will end blood
| letting«for all time and make men
[ TAKE time from lessm‘. pursuits
to solve their real problems—which
' is tc see that all have enough on
this earth, that has plenty for
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| Lucky the nation that knows how
to deal with different probiems in
| different ways. g
| When India first mutinied, Eng
land selected rmzlvmk;r-' and blew
them to pieces at the mouths of
guns. They, thus blown to bits,
believed that soul and bedy both
- were destroyed. The mutiny died.
Now, in India, England fires on
the mutinous mobs with machine
- guns from flying machines. Thirty
- million English, thousands of miles
| away, can rule three hundred mil
lions in India, while the English
~ only have guns that shoot from the
- air. It is like a few eazles ruling
‘ many white rabbits. The rabbits,
if wise, will give up the fight until
. they learn how to fly.
For certain periods—some long,
some short—the mass of people
whose lives mean worry and hard
work go along in the rut, like the
horses in a street car barn, taking
' it for granted that everything must
stay as it is, i
Once in a while the human
horses, in a dull sort of way, begin
thinking that things might be bet
ter, could not be worse anyhow;
that they are not using the power
they have. They break.out, and
unpleasant consequences follow.
This seems to be one of the
brcaking out times in history,
Of the countries that call them
selves civilized, at least half are
in a state of ferment. It may be
truly said that the United States
is the only great country remain
ing without serious disturbance,
Even in sleepy Asia, the disease
of discontent is spreading, The
Japanese have their serious labor
problems. The English, able teo
rule hundreds of Tlmou in India
through good times and bad, fam
ine and war, are compelled row to
declare martial law,
France, England and Tltaly are
discontented. The Governments of
those countries, unusually wise, pa
‘ tient and truly representative of
~ the people, may carry through safe
~ly. But it is not a cheerful time
} in the world’'s history for regulari,
i organized government,
. How will it all*end? That de
pends on the KIND of men tI '
break out. If horses did it, they
would soon miss their oats and
- warm straw. Kicking things to
~ pieces would soon pall, :