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For everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that sceketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opencd.—Matthew VII:8.— —TEXT TODAY BY THE RIGHT REV. H. & R BRI, o
Give Our Brave, Crippled Soldiers
What We Have Promised Them
I{E GEORGIAN has been printing the
T facts concerning 50,000 soldiers who
have been unable to get from the
War Risk Burean at Washirgton any official
ratine of their disabilities, nor any action as
to compensation for injuries received while
serving their eountry,
There are thousands of these injured
men—many of them here in Atlanta, Georgia,
and the South—who either volunteered or
were drafted for service abroad. What they
did over there is a matter of national pride.
They were led to believe when they went
away that their dependents would not suffer
in their absenece ; that the Government would
see that they were provided for.
They were also told that if they were in
jured in serviee by wounds or by aequiring
disease they would be property and promptly
recompensed.
They had faith in those promises, and this
faith added to their effectiveness as soldiers.
But they have come back to find that what
was promised them is very slow in forth
coming.
A®n who have lost hands or arms or legs
or eyes are made to wait the unraveling of
red tape and the settlement of personal quar
rels in whiech they have mneither part nor
interest.
According to the announced program, a
man who was wonnded or iucapacitated in
any way by service abroad was on his return
to make application to the War Risk Bureau,
and upon the determination of the character
and extent of his injurics he was to be award
ed a corresponding compensation,
This was a part of the insurance that he
paid for.
The actual working out of the plan has
been that thousands of men have filed their
claims and heard nothing from them.
Delay has sueeeeded delay, the men mean
while suffering not only physically but men
tally as they awaited decision that never
came.
They could not even prepare themselves
to: take up eivilian life again because the
The Great and Important Work of
The Atlanta Convention Bureau
TLANTA is far and away the greatest
A convention city in the South.
We have learned how to handle
these gatherings here, and more and more
the city is coming into natiomal favor as the
ideal point of assembly in the Southeast for
organizations, large and small, in their col
lective capacities.
Atlanta is due primary thanks for this
splendid state of affairs to the Atlanta Con
vention Bureau, of which ‘‘Cousin Fred”’
Houser is the efficient and thoroughly cap
able head. The work of his bureau has been
untiring—sometimes thankless, in a measure.
But nothing has ever served to discourage
“Fred”’ Houser or to diminish his wonderfnl
enthusiasm and appetite for hard work. He
has bronght scores of conventions to Atlanta
that undoubtedly would have gone elsewhere
but for his eeaseless —and always eheerful—
efforts.
The past few weeks serve splendidly to
ilustrate Atlanta’s capaerty for handling
conventions, large and small.
We have had recently the big Baptist con
vention, attended by perhaps an average of
seven thousand-—reaching some days as high
as ten thousand; we have had the Knights
Templar and the Knights of Pythias, rela
tively small affairs, so far as the sum total
of delegates were concerned, but of vast im
portance to thousands of fine citizens, never
theless.
Atlanta handled all of these three gather
ings with the same degree of efficiency and
cordiality.
It was quite an ambitious undertaking to
take care of thre Baptists, as those things go,
but Atlanta was splendidly and heartily
equal to it. Only praise and kind words
were to be heard of Atlanta and the quality
of her welcome to the delegates, after the
great gathering had adjourned. Every one
was properly housed and made comfortable.
There was no confusion or unecertainty. At
lanta absorbed the delegates into temporary
citizenship, easily and happily, and let it
o at that.
The same thing was true of the two small
er conventions noted.
The Convention Bureau is due much credit
for the ease and dispatch with which these
t-ngs were done ‘
The burean does a great deal more than
merely bring the conventions here. That, in
deed, has come 10 he about the easiest part
of the matter. Once here, the bureau, under
the splendid leadership of *‘Cousin Fred.”’
sticks along with the job. until the last vis
itor is on his way home, pleased and inclined
to be most friendiy i his comments upon the
Gate City.
g\'”“'- vou can't beat THAT for construe
tive work !
lis value to Atlanta is inestimable: it is
TRUTH, JUSTICIE
provisions for vocational education for those
men who could not resume former work is in
extricably tied up with the activities of the
War Risk Bureau.
The proposed plan of the Government was
that as soon as the War Risk Bureau had
passed on the compensation rights of the sol
dier the IFederal Board for Vocational Edu
cation shouid add $45 per month to the com
pensation granted, and continue this allow
ance while the soldier was being refitted for
some useful occupation. 4
The failure of the War Risk Burean to
function prevents the Vocational Board from
taking any action,
Up to the present time the Vocational
Board has registered 81,740 erippled men.
It has had contact with 63,533 disabled sol
diers and listed the injuries of 52,367.
This means that practically 82000 men,
unfitted for former occupations, have applied
to be titted for some new work. Out of that
number only 6,614 have been able to get from
the War Risk Bureau the papers that are
neeessary before the Federal Board can be
gin its service,
That means that 75,000 men who did their
duty, sacrificed their bodies and imperiled
their lives have been waiting for weeks or
months the pleasure or convenience of what
appears to be either grossly incompetent or
eriminally negligent officials,
The soldiers of the Allies are suffering no
such delays.
(Canada, Australia, New Zealand, to say
nothing of the great Governments of France,
England and Italy, are settling the problems
of returning soldiers with promptness and
generosity.
Some provision should be made now to
clear away whatever is delaying justice and
withholding the services which were prom
ised to the Americans who went abroad
whole and came buck shattered.
The eripples of the war should not be
made to await the results of investigations
or the settlement of personal disagreements.
Their interests should be served at once
and their futures made as secure and as com
fortable as is possible.
abiding; it reaches far beyond the mere pres
ent.,
The Convention Bureau has been of val
nable assistance to the hotel men, in making
their lot easier and happier. Thanks to the
bureau’s untiring and intelligent work, the
hotels are able to handle conventions, as they
come—wisely and nicely distributed-—with a
maximum of convenience and a minimum of
added expense. This makes it possible to
handle visitors without advancing rates—a
thing the hotel men very greatly desire to
avoid. The bureau, by cutting out much ‘‘lost
motion’’ between visitor and hotel keeper,
has rendered magnifieent and substantial
service to ALL parties concerned. .
We have a number of big 1919 conventions
yet to come. Atlanta will be “‘on the job,”
welcoming, entertaining and making happy
ALL of them. They will eome, enjoy them
selves, and go away Atlanta’s friends and
boosters.
That's why The Georgian thinks Atlantans
should support the Convention Bureau, with
out stint or quibble.
It’s one of the biggest factors in Atlanta's
present-day progress and prosperity.
A Loaf of Bread, a Jug
of Grape Juice—
The question the President raises as to the
repeal of so-called war-time prohibitiom is
something interesting to Georgia merely in
an academic sense—nothing to lose sleep
~ over, at that.
We have prohibition here, have had it for
a good long time, have grown accustomed to
it. like it from fair to middling well.
| Wherefore, we should worry!
Whether New Orleans, say, shall have a
consolation prize by way of wine and beer for
a few short months before the real prohibi
tion act goes into effect is mildly exeiting in
Georgia, but no more. Those Georgiuns—a
i a portion of them, anyway-—who flit between
'~ this grand old Commonwealth and New Or
leans (and such oases) may deem this a mat
: ter of importance, but they compose a frag
. ment of the entire population; they hardly
~ count as a factor in public opinion.
We have accustomed ourselves to beerless
barbecues in Georgia, for instance—and,
while the result may have been the all but
total elimination of the barbecue as an insti
tution, we have ceased to weep over the situ
ation.
Grapeiuice as a substitute for wine has few
rampant champions, but one still may use
it thus and not be arrested for lunaey—or
let it be.
Georgia is dry aud satisfied
ATLEAN TAm-GECRGIAN
The citizen who owns his home is a better and more independent citizen than he could have been before. He
takes a deeper and more discriminating interest in his city and its affairs. He gets more out of life; the word “home™
takes on a finer meaning. Now that Atlanta is experiencing something of a building “boom,"” let citizens bear these
wholesome truths in mind. And now is the best time to buy=on a rising market, with wonderfully prosperous times
ahead. That’s what the wise men of wealth are doing; and there's no use letting them corner the common sense
market. This is a good year to build your own home.
By Winifred Black.
AR me, how crushed he
D looked, the poor little boy.
I saw him a few minutes
ago when I went through the train
to dinner.. Such
a fine, fresh
faced, handsome
little Tfellow,
Manly and up
standing, he's a
boy any mother
could be proud
of - thir VOX §
core of the heart
of any decent
father.
Carefully
dressed he was
and well groom
ed. Every hair
in place, little
shoes blacked
till they shone again. He ought to
have been laughing or singing or
playing, but he wasn't.
He was sitting by the window
with his head down, and 1 think he
was tryving very hard not to cry.
Poor little fellow! The minute I
looked at him I knew he was af
flicted with a terrible curse—a
mother who nags.
JOYS OF LIFE.
“Don’'t do this! Stop doing that!
Sit still. What on earth are you
doing? 1 am ashamed of you.
Aren’t vyou ashamed of yourself?”
Yes, that gwas her querulous
voice. You could hear it way down
to the end of the car.
It was all I could do to keep from
going back and asking the little
boy to go into the dining car and
Monday, May 26, 1919
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THE KNOCKOUT!
have dinner with me and we would
talk about the puppy at home or the
little flying machine he tried to
make, only it would not quite bal
ance,
And I would let him put his el
bows on the table and drink all the
water he wanted to, and take hold
of his fork the wrong way and put
his feet on the rungs of the chair—
just to make him feel that he was
perfectly safe and that no one was
watching him and criticizing him
and making fun of him. There are
other ways to teach good manners
than by nagging.
LONELY HOURS AHEAD.
If I couldn’t manage a little bit
of a boy without making a pestif
erous nuisance of myself I would
give up the effort and confess my
self an abject failure.
Poor woman! What a lot she is
losing in life—the mother who
nags! Her children never trust
her. They never pay any attention
to her, really.
Either that little boy will be a
poor, crushed, unhappy, nervous
felloww with no spirit of his own and
no courage and no manliness left,
or he will be a sneaky little- hypo
crite who fools his mother when he
is with her and does as he pleases
when he's away from her.
They are so helpless in our hands,
the children—so utterly helpless,
We can make of them just what we
choose. How can we have the heart
to meet that look of surprise and
hurt in a pair of clear, childish eyes
that look to us for love and guid
ance and comfort?
I'd hate to be the woman Wwho
nags when that little boy is grown
up and gone. I'm afraid she will
have a good many sad and lonely
~ hours.
Patter and Chatter
By William F. Kirk.
) SWEET MEMORIES
WE'V E heard of many memories as down the trail we roam,
From “memories that bless and burn” to memories of
home. ;
Some little girl we used to love, some beautiful refrain—
Like subway guards they crowd and shove through many a
mortal’s brain. ‘
But mostly now we recollect that long forgotten time
When father bought a pound of steak and bought it
FOR A DIME!
NOW, while the lights are soft and low in New York-by
the-Sea,
Those memories of the long ago keep coming back to me.
One hard, thin dime procured that steak with extra weight
to spare. .
The steak that father bought was round, although this yarn
is square.
No wonder recollections break the thread of this brief rhyme-e
When father bought a pound of steak and bought it
FOR A DIME!
WE’RE dwelling in Manhattan now. Our purse is never full,
For when we order sirloin cow, or maybe sirloin bull,
And when we ask the butcher, “How much dough, cash on
the spot?” ,
He strokes his chin and with a grin says, “All the dough
vou've got.”
Ah! ves, it makes our heart strings ache to think of that far
time
When father bought a pound of steak and bought it
FOR A DIME!
PUBLIC SBRVICE
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. The Moderate Profiteer. '
The Lame Dog—Turkey.
Some One Else’s Blood. |
- Lending to Customers,
s=———By Arthur Brisbane,———
HE Manufagcturers' Association
T says the income tax is “not
only unfair, but unsound
puktlic policy.” The gentlemen com
plain that many Americans not
earning a taxable income” pay no
income tax. The reply would be,
“Give us a chance to earn a tax
able income and we'll pay the tax
with pleasure.”
Manufacturers think that a “sales
tax” would be better, for then every
American would pay, and paying, in
some way, would make him love his
country.
With such a tax on all sales, the
man with a family of ten children
and an income of s§s a day might
pay a bigger tax than John D,
Rockefeller,
However, the matter isn't worth
discussing; the income tax is here,
and to stay. Those that dislike it
most are at present in control of
Congress; let them help their pros
perous friends by running the Gov
ernment economically, and curbing
the profiteers a little.
It seems actually possible that the
United States will find itself “man
datory” for Turkey. The Sultan, if
you please, is to be kept as the
head of the Mohammedan religion,
the Turks to remain in Europe. The
United States with men, ships and
money, is to supervise and perpet
uate the situation.
You might as well hand this
country a dog with one leg cut off,
blind in one eye, afflicted with the
mange, and say, “Take care of this
dog, don’'t let it die, keep it alive
j#st as it is.” Commen sense would
say, “I'll do nothing of the kind. I
skall shoot the dog and put it out
of ité misery.” That's what ought
to be done with Turkey. r
It is not surprising to hear that
Ergiand urges the United States to
become mandatory for Turkey.
There are two gates to the Medi
tertanean—one, Gibraltar, is in the
hands of England.
To have the other gate, Constan
tincple, in the hands of the feeble
Turk, with this country responsible
for maintaining order, keeping back
Bolshevism on the north and Asia
on the‘east, would be pleasant for
the owners of Gibraltar.
NOT so pleasant for mothers of
American men who would have to
fight abroad, to keep the Sultan in
physicai possession of his crowd of
harem ladigs, and Mohammed in
spiritual ]’)LSBSSiCn of the minds of
some millions of Turks.
It, isn’t our country, it isn't our
funeral. The American who sug
gests undertaking such a responsi=
bility is something more dangerous
than an idiot.
Feur thousand Chinese students,
protesting against the giving of
Chinese territory to Japan, have
cigned a protest, each writing his"
name with his blood. That is not
the modern way of doing it, as Ja
pan will teil those earnest but mis
guided Chinese.
If you really mean to PROTEST,
write your protest in the blood of
others, as Japan has done in Korea,
and elsewhere. Then it counts.
The Government asks for bids to
build two new battleships. It got
bids, prices doubled. One concern
offers to construct a.~, superdread
naught “with a guarantee of h
fixeC profit of $1,800,000 under cer
tain conditions.”
A well-known Englishman, justly
accused of robbing his Government,
said that on thinking things over he
was amazed at his own moderation.
Tne cheapest bid that the Gov
ernment can get for a big fighting
ship is something over $21,000,000.
How many such ships would the
people have to pay for to Kkeep the
Sultan of Turkey safe in his harem
at Constantinople?
President Wilson suggests that
Congress exiend credit to Furo
pean buyers to let them buy things
here. It is a good ‘idea, probably.
It ought to please the Europeans.
Almost anybody would pbe glad to
buy, if you would lend hin; the
money. “Let him lend m¢ the
money, and have at him,” sa/d Fal
staff.
There are a lot of people in the
United States who would like to
nave “credit extended” t¢ enable
them to buy.
Some Americans weguld like to
buy houses for their famlies, ma
chinery for their busines, farms
for cultivation. /
The country is setting aside onc
theusand million dollars/o help de
veiop business oTitside the Unit
ed States, to promote panufactur
ing INSIDE. ' That is/probably a
good idea if not too /lany of the
_millions are stolen injthe proce.s.
If another thousaxd millions -
could ,be appropriated or a half
dozen thousand to Hevelop i
building of homes anj the drainin.
of swamps and irrigajon of doesors
digging canals, ecnsfucting, o
etec., in THIS coungy, it woii.
be a bad idea. ; j