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TRUTH, JUSTICE %
“The moral character of the United States is of more impor
tance than any alliance.” ;
—sOHN ADAMS.
The South Is Moving Steadily
Along the Road to Prosperity
HE New York American, which is ever
I alert to note and prompt to comment
approvingly upon the progress and
prosperity of the South, carried a splendid
editorial in its issue of Monday, December 1,
in which the disposition of the South to di
versify its erops and ineline agriculturally
toward something else besides cotton i 3 made
note of,
The American says:
Although the world, in normal® times, relies
upon our Southern States for two-thirds of its sup
ply of cotton, it is encouraging to reflect that in
the year 1918 not only did these States produce
cotton to the wvalue of $1,972,000,000, abundantly
suplying existing needs, but also grew other crops
which had in the aggregate a value of $400,000,000
in excess of the value of the cotton crop.
The day of the SoutY as a one-crop section
has happily passed forever. /
" Thanks in part to cotton’s high price level,
but even more to this new diversification of its ag
riculturs, the South, once so .poor, is now expe
riencing marked prosperity. This is'shown by the
fact that its banks, at the end of 1918, held in
capital, surplus ,undivided profits and deposits a
total of $2.700,000,000. There is reason to believe
that the showing at the conclusion of the present
calendar year will be even better.
Quoting Senator Ransdell of Louisiana,
The American acquiesces in these words:
Better homes for the ayriculturist; more con
veniences for the housewife; better roads in every
agricultural community. We should persuade the
toilers in the country that they must have automo
biles and auto trucks; that they must depend ro
longer solely upon the mule and the horse. They
must have rapid means of transportation over
good roads. They must have community centers
and first-rate schools; in short, they must have
just as many of the conveniences, the comforts,
and luxuries of life as any other class of our citi
zans,
Place the agricutturist in that positjon, and
we will no lonrer be. confronted by one of the
greatest present menaces of civmnglon—namely,
the fact that only about 47 per cent of the people
of America live in the country, 53 per cent of
them living in the cities or in centers of more
than 2,500 people.
The proportion of rural 1o urban popula
tion in Ceorgia is nothing like the figure
stated by Senator Ransdell, of course, that
Red Cross Christmas Seals Serve a
‘ Noble Purpose; Buy Them Freely
N the Red Cross Christmas seal for *
l 1919, shown in Atlanta, Santa Claus
appears wearing the emblem of the
great American Order of Mercy, Charity and‘
Service, and wishing one and all: *‘Health
and a Happy New Year!!
The soa{)h\.lls its own story of what the Red
C'ross is trying to do for suffering humanity,
in just one of the many departments of its
multiform ministry. [t has well near cont
pleted its war and after-war pestilence mis
sions, but still it has its burdens of rehabilita
tion, epidemies and publie disasters to handle
and be prepared for. ;
In addition to such things there are wide
spread menaces in the nature of preventable
or reducible diseases which it is the fittest
and only' national organization able and
equipped to fight. Among these, and per
haps the most important to national health,
may be named Tuberculosis, the fearsome
Great White Plague,
Since post-war conditions have permitted,
the American Red Cross, and all of its active
‘branchegs and auxiliaries throughout the
United States, have been concentrating their
energies on this vital service. For example,
our Atlanta Chapter all along has been con
dueting an active campaign for the relief of
the community from the dangers, afllictions
and fears incident to the existence and per
petuation of the dread diseasa, Already, re
markable progress has been made in the
identification, segregation and quarantine of
tuberculosis cases among 'divisions of our
population least able to meet such family
emergencies, In particular, ocases among
ehildren whose natural proteetors are least
able to properly care for them have been
numerously rescued and treated in publie or
semi-public institutions, and work in the
poorer negro sections has been extensive.
As far as The Georgian can learn, the
work has been thoronghgoing, surely allevia
tive and often completely curative. It de
gorves the hearty and enthusiastic support of
the public.
One of the chief reasons why we all should
uphold the hands of the Red Cross in this
particular direction is, because it has helped
the blessed purpose of educating the Ameri
can masses in the true nature, the real danger
and the possibility of eradicating tuberculo
sis as & quasi-epidemic or even a common dis
ease, \
More intelligent and wider counsel has
spread the convietion that tuberculosis is
not, distinctively, either incurable or hered
tary. Weak lungs and low resistance may
e hereditary or aequired. They only con
(¢ orenter necessity Mor prevenative meas
« vwhish especially among the children of
Come unto me, all ye the’ 'abor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.—St. Matthew X 1 :28-30.— TEXT TODAY BY BISHOP W. A. CANDLER
I‘HURSD..\Y»—-AI lifAN? A= 1T ==y == g 183 lAN_DEC"4’ 1919
figure being the proportion throughout the
I'nion as a whole; and to that extent Geor
gia, being naturally an agricultural State, is
greatly blessed, as are the Southern States
generally. A
The backbone of Southern prdsperity is
the farmer, just as he is the backbone of the
Nation’s prosperity; wherefore Georgia, be
ing in standpoint of population less than 20
per cent urban, is singularlye blessed—far
more so, perhaps, than thousands of Geor
gian realize.
This fact argues for prosperity here dur
ing the years to come more potently than any
other one thing that might be cited. And
Gieorgia will remain overwhelmingly rural iu
population for a long time to come, more
over, in the very nature of things.
The New York American is right in its
view that Georgia and the South, while
holding fast to the responsibility attaching
to the section in the matter of producing the
bulk of the world’s cotton—the South
lknows that nowhere else in the world is it
physically possible to produce the quality
of cotton the South raises—will diversify
more and more itg crops as the years go by,
until eventually the healthy balance be
tween cotton and the other erops will be
approximated even more happily than at
present,
The South ecan produce everything it
requires for its own use; but it is doubtful
whether the ®South wishes or needs to do
that. It ean, with profit to itself and the
nation, however, greatly expand many lines
of agricultural endeavor—and that is what
the South is doing, and is proposing to
keep on doing.
And in addition to that, too, the South is
reaching far out into the manufacturing
fields; but that is another story. .
The South stands today upon the threshold
of ity greatest industrial and agrieultural
era.
Wise eyes are lodking toward the South
as never before, and wise heads are direet
ing their thoughts and energies in this di
reetion.
close communities, always are necessary. But,
in its earlier stages, scienee now considers tu
berculosis curable. If negleeted, it may and
does become ineurable, infeetious and jeop
ardizes the lives of all who come in contact
with it.
In that thought there is reason enough,
God wot, for the whole eity of Atlanta to pull
together with the efficient American Red
Cross, to root it out from our midst. It can
.be rooted out!
Naw then, good readers and friends! Look
upon the cheery Christmas seals, which all of
you are going to buy from the Red Cross to
stick on your holiday letters, parcels and
packages, as signs of your good faith and
good red-blooded American ecitizenship, as
little acorns which, under divine blessing,
will grow into great, spreading oaks of fu
ture civie health and happiness.
Jack Dempsey is going to buy perhaps a
bushel of them, and, no matter how big they
may be, he is confident that he can lick every
one!
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ALABAMA'S FAIR AND
EVER MOST LOYAL CITY
=~ AYS the esteemed and always greatly
b beloved Montgomery Advertiser:’
Ceneral Pershing will visit the aviation repair
depot at Montgomery in December. He wili see
the town that did more than it was asked to do
at every turn of the war, and was ready to do
more.
Quite so!
Montgomery is a charming city, a loyal
and progressive city. General Pershing is
truly happy in being vouchsafed an oppor
tunity to visit there; for a chance to visit
Montgomery is a gift from the very gods
themselves,
Montgomery did everything that was re.
quired of her during the war; everything by
way of patriotic inclination and duty. And
then she did some more, just to make for
good measure and because it is Montgom
ery's way.
Montgomery people are delightful; Mont
gomery'’s ways are the ways of progress and
rational eivie endeavor. Her people love one
ancther; they stand shoulder to shoulder in
erterprise and in the forward march of
things.
Montgomery is destined to “rite brilliant
ly her name athwart the heavens of success
and among the brightest stars of fame.
We love that town, Montgomery-—whichy
General Pershing is to see.
It reminds us in so many ways of Atlanta
where the general also 1s to visit soon!
M3ULANCE! ’
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More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
WHAT'S THE USE?
It was-the driver of a van
Who to his offspring said:
“I'm just a rough-necked workingman
That labors for his bread. i
But you shall learn to read and write
g And multiply and sieh,
To wear eleamshirts and talk polite
And some day you'll be rich.”’
And so the lad to school was sent,
: Where, as the years rolled by,
He learned what conie seetions meant
And how to extraet Pi.
And presently he could discuss
Such esoterie thenmes
As differential calculus
And Freud on Foolish Dreams, i
Meanwhile the rough-necked workingm
With fond paternal joy
Continued driving of his van
* Te educate his boy. :
And often would he mop his brow
And joyfully declare:
“That kid o’ mine ten years from now
Will be a millionaire!”’
Today the kid is keeping books
At ten a week for pay,
And from the way the outlook looks
That’s where he's going to stay.
4 And every morning he complains
In peevish tons and sad:
“If T had brawn instead of braius,
I'd be as rich as dad!”’
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The Female of the Species.
Vi ait till the strike begins to affeet the production of corset
steels and see what happens.
Better Than Shingles.
In Germany they are not selling nnused army rations to
the people. They are roofing publie buildings with them.
: Cheer Up.
Passing a fruiter’s the othm_- day we were delighted to oh
serve that hothouse grapes ean still be had for $5 a buneh.
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{ DEAR K. C. B.—Many oé the boys caged here read your column with
|’ interest. We all like it.. Please write something te cheer the fellows who
{ are longing to be home—the first offende.s+-most of whom will not offend
again, ; Yours _truly,
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P. S.—4A former newspaper men, who is here with us, gave me your
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MY DEAR John.
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1
F you are getting the “feel” of ||
I Christmas into your system, |
good for you. i
1f you are wise, you will enco |
age it to grow and expand and fee ‘:
generously and gladly upon itself. i
¥or the Christmas spirit is the
spirit of giving. And you may feel
pretty- well assured that it will pay ||
you bigger and better dividepds of *;
happiness than any other invest- |
ment you can make just now. Those |
who are cynical may not think so, ||
but if ever the philosophy of the ||
cynic were utterly and wholly out |
of place, it is .in our Christmas |!
scheme of things. i
.The matter of giving at Christ- |
mas is not necessarily confined to
material things. If we tender “gifts”
to the children and the old folks—
the kiddies and the ' lace-capped |
grandmas—we shall satisfy, in large |
measure, the spirit of Christmas,
sp far as the giving of material
things is concerned; son, - sister,
brother and a best girl-and a best |
beau here and there will about com-%{
plete that program.
Suppose the rest of the program
were confined to the giving of
friendships .and good will and un
derstanding and the saying of words |
sincerely meant. ‘Wouldn't that |
make for a fine Christmas might- |
ily? The kin@ word already |
too long unspoken; the ‘gracious \!
courtesy already too long delayed.
Wouldn't they be in order at Christ
mas?
Do you know what makes more
for unhappiness than everything
else combined? Well, I'll tell you.
Vain regrets.
It r[nely is the thing we do that .
makes us unhappy: almost without
exception it is the thing we leave
undcne.
Read this from the pen of some
writer whose name, unhappily, I
can not recall:
If I had known what trouble you
were bearing,
What griefs were in the silence of*
your face,
I would have beemn more gentle and
more caring,
And tried to give you gladness for
a Bpace,
I would have brought more warmth
into the place—
If 1 had known. :
If T had known what thoughts de
spairing drew you—
Why do we never try to wundcr
stand? |
I would have lent o little friend- |
ship to you, : {
And slipped my hand within your |
lonely hand, |
And made your stay more pleasa»&{;
in the land— t
If I had Eknown. - i
Now, this is the Christmas seh- !
son we are entering. Think it over |
and see if there is a human being |
yet alive, some old friend neglected
or half forgotten, to whom in the ir
revocable afterwhile such words
m'ght apply.
And if ‘here be such a fellow
being, .why not seize upon the
Christmas time as a fit occasion to
beat old afterwhile to it? Believe '
‘me, it s worth the effort—it will |
make you very happy in the days |
to come.
Of course, there are many passed
on, many you never will see again—
mother, father, old pal and comrade, |
too carelessly valued while yet the |
sun shone bright and was warm-— ‘
there always arc. They can not be |
reached now with words or deeds. |
How about the ones—the even '
one—who vet are here? - ;
And why, ask you, are you writ
ing thus? Well, I'll tell you. An
acquaintance asked me to state
what T thought “constituted the true 4
spirit of Christmas,” the right holi
day “idea.” I have tried to answer
him here.
T thinrk Christmas should be a ‘
time of unalloyed sincerity, a time |
for giving of really precious gifts
—and friendship is the most pre
cious e'ft in all the world. Never
doubt jt!
I note, rot without some mis- ||
givings, that Abraham Effendi |
Shiek-ul-Tslam, head of the Turk- 1
ish church, has apvoroved our na- 1
tio~al nrohibition amendment. |
Prohibition, it gererally is agr »d, |
is a vretty good thing: anyway, ||
this ration has finally determined |
upon it,-and so fa results have ||
been sat'sfactory—albeit improve- |
me=ts are anticipated, as the yc ‘ |
go by. ‘
Somet‘mes, however, it is nos= [
sible to prove—or seems possible ||
to prove—that a certain thing s |
right for a wrong reason, If pro- |
hibition leads us into the same ||
pathways it has led Turkey—if |
that's what the Shiek means—then |
we likely shall look back upon it
as a sorry. day when we adopted it. /
We should have to progress in de- ¢/
cency and gove to higher ideals .‘
if it should so fall t, in spite of ||
that and not because of jt. l
Georgia people will continue t& ||
think well of “bone dry” prohibition ||
and hope for the best of it, but not |
because the Moslem religion for ||
thousands of years has strictly |
prescribed it. '
Hhppily, few people believe pro- |
hibition will lead us into the un
happy and unholy ways Turkey has ||
moved—downward mostly, There l
s a saving grace of character and
natural, inborn self respect and |
trend to lofty ideals that marks
and stamps the Anglo-Saxon. i
So the Shiek-ul-Islam may B 0 ||
hang, his pious prohibition protes- |
tations notwithstanding! %
Whatever you do, do not forget |
the Actors’ Fund benefit matinee ||
rerformance of “Pollyanna,” at the |
Atlanta Theater Friday afternoon |
and the One-Minute- After-Midnight ||
big show at the Auditorium the
same evening, |
You can not go wrong in lending ||
a helping hand here, - Thé actors |,
always ‘have helped—and besides, |
“Pollyanna” i, a mighty sweot and |
worth while show—-and that mid- ||
night frolic thing will be the best |
vaudeville show ever put on in |
Atlanta, bar none.
Pay regular prices, if you like-— ||
but if vou are a good - spcrt, you |
will multiply the regular price by
three—maybe five! ,