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TRUTH, JUSTICE W
“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 crops and incline agriculturally
| toward something else besides cotton is made
| note of.
| The American says:
| Althoughéthe 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 value of $1,972,000000, abundantly
suplying existing needs, but also grew other crops
which had in the aggregate a value of $400,000,000
in excese 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 now expe
| riencing marked prosperity. This is shown by the
| fact that its banks, at the end of 1918, heid in
| capital, surplus ,undivided profits and deposits a
total of $2,700,000,000. There is reason to beileve
| 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 agriculturist; more con
| veniences for the housewife; better roads in every
| agricultural community. We should persuade the
| tollers 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 ot the conveniences, the comforts,
| and luxuries of life as any other class of our citi
| zens.
{ Place the agriculturist in that position, and
| we wiil no longer be confronted by one of the
i 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
| them living in the cities or in centers of more
‘ than 2,500 people.
t : e
| 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
[ 1919, shown in Atlanta, Santa Claus
appears wearing the emblem of the
great American Order of Mercy, Charity and
Servies, 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 diseases which it is the fittest
and only national organization able and
equipped to fight. Among, these, and per
haps the most important to natioral health,
may be named Tuberculosis, the fearsome
Great White Plague.
Sinee 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
dueting 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 neged Sections has been extensive.
As far as(gg (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 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
siß as a quasi-epidemic or even a common dis
ease.
More intelligent and wider counsel has
_spread the conviction that tuberculosis is
"_not, distinctively, either incurable or hered
itary. Weak lungs and low resistance may
be hereditary or acquired. They only con
note greater necessity for preventive meas
ures whieh especially among the children of
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.—St. Matthew X 1 :28-30.— TEXT TODAY BY BISHOP W. A. CANDLER
mowson— AT LEANTATB-GEORGI AN «
figure being the proportion throughout the
[Unjon 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 (Georgia, be
ing in standpoint of population less than 20
per cént 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
Gieorgia will remain overwheltmingly 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 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
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 years 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 produee 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 become 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
vou 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 can lick every
one! ‘
ALABAMA’S FAIR AND
EVER MOST LOYAL CITY
O 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 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 everyvthing 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 civie endeavor. ler people love one
another; they stand shoulder to shoulder in
enterprise and in the f{orward march of
things.
Montgemery is destined to write brilliant
ly her name athwart the heavens of success
and among the brightest stars of fame.
We love that town, Montgomcry—which
General Pershing is to see.
It reminds us in so many ways of Atlanta
—where the general also 1s to visit soon!
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More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMES ]. 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 extraet Pi. .
And presently he could discuss
Such esoteric themes
As differential calculus
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,
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:
““‘lf 1T had brawn instead of braius,
['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.
[ln Germany they are not selling unused army rations to
the people. They are roofing publie buildings with them.
Cheer Up.
Passing a 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,
Seria' No. Blank.
P. S.—A former newspaper man, who is here with us, gave me your
address and,real name. »
MY DEAR John.
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I HAVEN'T any idea.
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WHO YOU are.
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OR IF your're a big felloy
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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 if.
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I WANT to cheer you.
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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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OUTSIDE OF the prisons.
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YOU SHOULDN'T worry.
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BECAUSE WHERE you are.
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ALL YOU have to do.
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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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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.
’$ 8 8
A MEAL'S a meal.
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IF YOU get enough.
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AND A bed's a bed.
% PUBLIC SERVICE
. IF IT’S long enough. .
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AND IF you can get them.
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WITHOUT ANY worry.
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ABOUT PAYING for them,
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I ASK you, John.
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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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WHERR IS thy sitng.
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AND UP here, 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 curh.
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AND PAY fifty cents.
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FOR AN order of spinach.
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WHEN 1| can remember.
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WHEN TEN cents' worth,
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WOULD FEED a cow.
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IAND BEING worried.
: \':‘ $ L
ABOUT THE price, of clothes.
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'AND ‘MORE :trouhls. ;
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IN THE murder belt.
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WHERE IS thy sting.
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I 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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THAT YOU have up there,
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WAS LET in by friends.
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OR DID he get himself arrested.
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—| THANK vou.
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IN THE
LBy James B. Nevin
F you are getting the “feel” of
I Christmag into your sy,vem,
good for you.
If you are wise, you will encour
age it to grow and expand and feed
generously and gladly upon itself.
For the Christmas spirit is the
spirit of giving. And you may feel
pretty well assured that it will pay
vou bigger and better dividends of
happiness than any other invest
ment you can make just now. Those
who are cynicgl 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.
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 Christmpas,
so far as the giving of mategial
things is concerned; son, sis k
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 migfi
ily? The kind@ 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 is the thing we do that
makes us unhappy; almost without
exception it is the thing we leave
undocne.
Read this from the pen of some
writer whose name, unhappily, I
can not recall:
If I had known what troublglou
were bearing, =
What griefs were in the silence of
your face,
I 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—
Ilf I had knowon.
If T had kmown what thoughts de
spairing drew Yyou—
Why do we never try to under
stand?
I would have lent a little friend
ship to you,
And slipped my hand within Ll‘Qur
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
might apply. -
And if there be such a fellow
being, why not seize upon the
Christmas time as a fit occasion to
beat ol¢ 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 are. They can not be
reached now with words or deeds.
How about the ones—the even
one—who yet are here? \
And why, ask you, are you writ- 1
ing thus? Well, I'll tell you. &h
acquaintance asked me. to state
what I thought “constituted the true
spirit of Christmas,” the right holi
day “idea.” I have tried to answer
him here.
I think Christmas should be a
time of unalloyed sincerity, a time
for giving of really precious gifts
——and friendship is the most pre
cious gift in all the world. Never
doubt it!
T note, not without some mis
givings, that Abraham Effendi
Shiek-ul-Islam, head of the Turk
ish church, has approved our na
tional prohibition amendment.
Prohibition, it generally is agreed, |
is a pretty good thing: anyway,
this nation has finally determined
upon {it, and so fa- rnsu.‘xw?ave
been satisfactory—albeit impfove
ments are anticipated, as the'years
g 0 by,
Sometimes, "however, it is pos
sible to prove—or seems possible
to prove—-that a certain thing is
right for a wpong reason. If pro
hibition leads us into the same
pathways it haß led Turkeyif
that's what the Shiek means—then
we dikely shall lgok back upon it
as'a sorry day when we adopted it.
We should have t’gfi'ozrens in de
cency un% move higher ideals
if it should so fall - *t, in spite of
that and net 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
preseribed it.
Happily, few people believe pro- [
hibition will lead us into the un
happy and unhMy ways Turkey has ‘
moved—~downwayd mostly., There
is & saving gr:u‘ of character and
natural, inbérn wgelf respect and
trend to lofty 'i§eals that marks
and stamps the ARglo-Saxon,
So the Shmk-q Islam may so
hang, his pious prdbibition protés=
tations notwithstamding!
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. The actors |
always have helped—and besides,
“Pollyanna” is a mighty sweet and
worth while shßw-—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 you are a good sport, you
will multiply the regular price by
three—maybe five!