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TRUTH, JUSTICE . %
“The moral character of the United States is of more impor
tance than any alliance.”
—JOHN ADAMS.
The South Is Moving Steadily
Along the Road to Prosperity
HE New York American, which is ever
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 incline agriculturally
toward something else besides cotton is made
note of.
The American says:
Although the world, in norma' 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 value 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 South 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
riculture, the South, once so poor, is new 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 belleve
that the showing at the conclusion of the present
calendar year will be even better.
Quoting Senafor Ransdell of Louisiana,
The American acquiesces in these words:
Better homes for the agriculturist; 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 no
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
zens.
Place the agriculturist in that position, and
we will no longer be confronted by one of the
greatest present menaces of civilization—namely,
the fact that only about 47 per cent of the people
of America live in the country, 53 per cent of
tnem living in the cities or in centers of more
than 2,500 people.
The proportion of rural to urban popula
tion in Georgia 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
I 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 seal tells its own story of what the Red
Cross is trying to do for suffering humanity,
in just one of the many departments of its
multiform ministry. It has well near com
pleted its war and after-war pestilence mis
sions, but still it has its burdens of rehabilita
tion, epidemics and public disasters to handle
and be prepared for.
In addition to such things there are wide
spread menaces in the nature of preventable
or reducible discases 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
branches 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
ducting an active campaign for the relief of
the community from the dangers, afflictions
and fears incident to the existence and per
petuation of the dread disease. 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, cases among
children whose natural protectors are least
able to properly care for them have been
numerously rescued and treated in public 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 thoroughgoing, surely allevia
tive and often completely curative. It de
serves the hearty and enthusiastic support of
the publie.
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 a quasi-epidemic or even a common dis
ease.
More intelligent and wider counsel has
spread the conviction that tuberculosis 1s
not. distinctively, either incurable or hered.
itarv. Weak lungs and low resistance may
be hereditary or acquired. They only con
mote greater necessity for preventive meas
sn‘-s whieh especially among the children of
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figure being the proportion throughout the
Union as a whole; and to that extent Geor
gia, being naturally an agricultural State, is
greatly blessed, as are the Southern States
generally.
The backbone of Southern prosperity is
the farmer, just as he is the backbone of the
Nation's prosperity; wherefore Gieorgia, be
ing in standpoint of population less than 20
per cent urban, is singularly 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
Georgia will remain overwhelmingly rural in
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 Gedrgia 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
knows that nowhere else in the world is it
physically possible to produce the quality
of cotton the South raises—will diversify
more and more its crops as the yecars go by,
until eventually the healthy balance be
tween cotton and the other crops will be
approximated even more happily than at
present.
The South can produce everything it
requires for its own use; but it is doubtful
whether the South wishes or needs to do
that. It can, 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 its greatest industrial and agricultural
era. .
Wise eyes are looking toward the South
as never before, and wise heads are direct
ing their thoughts and energies in this di
rection.
~close communities, always are necessary. But,
in its earlier stages, science now considers tu
berculosis curable. If neglected, it may and
does beeome incurable, infectious 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 city of Atlanta to pull
together with the efficient American Red
Cross, to root it out from our midst. It can
be rooted out!
Now 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 citizenship, 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 ean lick every
one!
ALABAMA'S FAIR AND
EVER MOST LOYAL CITY
N AYS the esteemed and always greatly
b beloved Montgomery Advertiser:
General Pershing will visit the aviation repair
depot at Montgomery in December. He will 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 ecity. General Pershing is
truly happy in being vouchsafed an oppor
tunity to visif 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 civic endeavor. Her people love one
another; they stand shoulder to shoulder in
enterprise and in the forward march of
things.
Montgomery is destined to write brilliant
lv her name athwart the heavens of success
and among the brightest stars of fame.
We love that town, Montgomery—which
General Pershing ils to see.
It reminds us in so many ways of Atlanta
—where the general also is to visit soan!
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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.
: But you shall learn to read and write
And multiply and sich, .
To wear clean shirts 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 conic sections meant
And how to extract Pi.
And presently he could discuss
Such esoteric themes
As differential ealculus
And Freud on Foolish Dreams
Meanwhile the rough-necked workingma
With fond paternal joy ¢
Continued driving of his van ;
To 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, v
And from the way the outlook looks
That's where he’s, going to stay.
And every morning he complains
In peevish tons and sad:
“If T had brawn instead of brains,
I'd be as rich as dad!"’
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The Female of the Species.
Wait till the strike begins to affect the production of corset
steels and see what happens.
Better Than Shingles. :
In Germany they ave not selling unused army rations to
the people. They are roofing public buildings with them.
Cheer Up.
Passing @ fruiter’s the other day we were delighted to ob
serve that hothouse grapes can still be had for $5 a bunch.
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DEAR K. C. B.—Many of the boys caged here read your column with
interest. We all like it. Please write something to cheer the fellows who
are longing to be home—the first offenders—most of whom will not offend
again. Yours truly, .
Serial No. Blank.
‘ P. S=—A former newspaper man, who is here with us, gave me your
'| address and real name.
MY DEAR Jjohn.
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| HAVEN'T any idea.
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WHO YOU are.
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OR IF your're a big fello
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OR WHAT you ever did.
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| TO GET in prison.
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OR ANYTHING.
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BUT BECAUSE you ask it.
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AS MUCH as I can.
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AND | want to tell you.
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THAT THE way things are.
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l OUTngE OF the prisons.
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YOU SHOULDN'T worry.
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BECAUSE WHERE you are
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IS GET up in the morning.
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AND SOMEBODY feeds you.
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AND YOU work a little.
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OR LOAF a little.
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AND YOU'RE fed again.
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AND I[N the afternoon,
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YOU WORK some more.
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OR LOAF some more.
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AND YOU'RE fed again.
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AND AFTER a while.
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YOU GO to bed.
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AND AFTER all, John.
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A MEAL'S a meal.
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IF YOU get enough.
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AND A bed's a bed.
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IF IT'S long enough.
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AND IF you can get them.
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WITHOUT ANY wotry.
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ABOUT PAYING for them.
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OH, PRISON chow.
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WHERE IS thy sting.
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OH. PRISON cell.
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WHERE IS thy sitng. s
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AND UP h/ere. John.
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WHERE | am permitted.
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TO RUN around.
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AND BE chased by taxis.
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FROM CURB to curb,
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AND PAY fifty cents.
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FOR AN order of spinach.
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WOULD FEED a cow.
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AND BEING worried.
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ABOUT THE price of clothes.
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AND MORE trouble,
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IN THE murder belt.
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WHERE I 8 thy sting.
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| ASK you, John.
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IF YOU'LL please write and tell
me.
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IF THE newspaper man. *
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{ By James B. Nevin
F you are getting the "teel"\fit
l(,‘hristmus into your system,
good for you.
If you are wise, you will encour
age it to grow and expand and feed
"genm‘nu%ly and ‘gladly upon itself.
| lor the.Christmas spirit is the
spirit of giving.. And you may feel
pretty well assured that it will pay
vou bhigger and better dividends of
happiness than any other invest
ment you ¢an make just now. Those
who are cynical may not think 50,..
but if ever the philosophy of the
cvnic were utterly and wholly out
of place, it is in our Christmas
scheme of things.
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-cappes
grandmas—we shall satisfy, in larg
measure, the spirit of Christmas,
so 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 une
derstanding and the saying of wordsr
sincerely meant. Wouldn't that”
make for a fine Christmas might
fly? 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 rarely ig 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.# 1
- can not recall: '
If | had known what trouble you
were bearing,
What griefs were in the silence of
| your face,
1 would have been more gentle and
more caring,
And tried to give you gladness for
a space,
I would have brought more warmth
| into the place—
If I had known.
If I had Enown what thoughts de
spairing drew you—
Why do we never try to under
stand?
I would have lent a little friendl
ship to you,
And slipped my hand within your
| lonely hand,
. And made your stay more pleasant
‘ in the land—
| If I had known.
| Now, this is the Christmas sea
- son we are entering. Think it over
and see if there is a human being
vet alive, some old friend neglected §
or half forgotten, to whom in the ir
revocable afterwhile such words
i might apply. -
| And if there 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 is 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 yet are here? X
And why, ask you, are'you writ
ing thus? Well, I'll tell you. An
acquaintance asked me to state
- what I thought “constituted the true
! spirit of Christmas,” the right holi
‘l day “idea.” I have tried to answer
him here.
k I think Christmas should be a
time of unalloyed sinoerity, a time
for giving of really precious gifts
| —and friendship is the most pre
| cious gift in all the world. Never
- doubt it!
l T note, not without some mis
- givings, that Abraham Effendi |
Shiek-ul-Tlslam, head of the Turk- |
ish church, has approved our na- |
tional prohibition amendment. | ‘
} Prohibition, it generally is agrog®d, |
' is a pretty good thing; nnyw%
' this nation has finally determiry
| upon it, and so fa- results have
been satisfactory--albeit improve
ments are anticipated, as the years
go by. i
Sometimes, however, it is pos- |
sible to prove—or 'seems possible |
to prove—that a certain thing isy|
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 upen it |
as a sorry day when we adopted it. [
We should have to progress in de
cency and move to higher ideals l
if it should so fall t, in spite of |
that and not because of it. |
Georgia people will continue, to
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.
Happily, few people believe pro
hibition will lead us into the un
happy and unholy ways Turkey haa
moved—downward mostly, There
is a saving grace of character and
natural, inborn self respect and
trend to lofty ideals that marks
and stamps the Anglo-Saxon.
So the Shiek-ul-Islam may go i
hang, his pious prohibition protes- |
tations notwithstanding! |
Whatever you do, do not forget |I
the Actors’ Fund benefit matinee l
rerformance of “Pollyanna,” at the |
Atlanta Theater Friday afternoon |
and the One-Minute-After-Midnight |
big show at the Auditorium the I;
same evening
You can not go wrong in lending H
a helping hand here. The actora ||
always have helped—and besides, |
“Pollyanna” is a mighty sweet and |
worth while show—-and that mid- :
night frolic thing will be the best ||
vaudeville show ever put on in |
Atianta, bar none. f
Pay regular prices, if you like-- :
but if you are a good sport, you
will multiply the regular price by x
three—mavbe five! / '