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The Convention City.
The Heart of the South,
Grand Opera City of Dixie.
Georgia’'s Educational Center.
The “Pinnacle City” in Climate.
Federal Reserve Bank Headquarters.
Distributing Center of the Southeast.
DNDER CITY
OF THE
SOuUTH
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VOL XVIII
MRS. G. T. RIDGWAY, OF ROYSTION, GA., WINS FIRST LIMERICK
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The Mark of Cain.
Selfishness and Progress.
Alcohol and Flying.
Labor and Politics.
—_ By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Weakness, vanity, self indulzence
a)& selfizhness in men often cavse
pfogTess.
ITre Roman empercc had his mar
ble baths for his own dJdelight, har.ce
the enamei bath in evecry litile flat.
The emperor wanted “6r that bath
pure water from the*nvland, That
started the aqueduct systems that
@ow sviply the top floors of tene
+ mer.t Fouses.
Young men with nothing to do but
spend money were in a terrific hurry
to go somewhere, although, it didn’t
in the least matter 'whether they
went or not. Money they otherwise
would have wasted was used to build
the first expensive automobiles.
Hence, the farmers and business
man’s cheap car.
Foolish experiments in transmuta
tion of metals, trying to manufac
.Fure gold, resulted in most valuable
chemical discoveries.
Now man’s self indulgent thirst,
demanding something more exciting
than plain water, will contribute to
the development of the powerful fly
ing machine.
America is the land of prohibition
and virtue. Cuba is the nearby, sun
ny, alcoholic oasis. Already they
have a regular flying machine route
from Key West to Havana. Fast
trains from San Francisco, Chicago,
New York to Key West, then a short
flight—and no prohibition.
A $20,000,000 hotel is being built
near Havana to take care of the
+ crowd. Soon fast passenger ships,
such as were formerly used in the
Mediterranean trade, will run from
New York to Havana in the win
ter.
A little later the big flying ma
chine, making the round trip in a
few hours, will travel between the
island of Cuba and Long Island in
absolute safety. Thirst will hurry on
the day of passenger flying.
Cuba before long will be the land
flowing with alcohol and money.
Scores of millions of gallons of whis
ky already have gone there,
Thousands of American travelers
and millions of American money are
pouring in. With its sugar crop worth
more than $500,000,000 a year going
out and American cash coming in
Cuba, the “Pearl of the Antilles,”
will soon be the gold nugget among
nations,
Organized labor, entering politics,
“will elect true and tried friends of
' the trade union movement.”
Interesting announcement. In Eng
land organized labor is a gigantic
force in politics; in America it is
not. On election day the crowds
divide, following party lines. Each
party prepares a platform, sayng it
is the only real friend labor ever
had. Half the labor men go one
way, half the other. The politicians
laugh—well they may.
The statement of union men that
they will elect “true and tried friends
of union labor” should cause them to
ask themselves some questions.
How does a man get true and tried
friends? He gets them and keeps
them by showing that he appreciates
friendship, by proving that he does
not forget tomorrow the kindness of
today.
To what men can labor unions
point—powerful in public affairs—
for whom union labor has ever really
done anything?
The strongest, hardest fighting
friends of the unions in this country,
as everybody knows, is Samuel Gom
pers. And a large section of union
labor is viciously fighting Gompers
{today. \
To have true and tried friends you
must do something to deserve them. |
Union men know, perhaps, and if
they don't know this writer can tell
them, that in every election the poli
ticians say to the newspapermen:
“Don’t pay any attention to union‘
labor. It doesn’t count in polities. It
is with you one day and knifes you
the next. We hand them a little Jollyi
in the platform and let it go ati
that.” ‘
New York and other cities, a.nd‘
hundreds of towns, are buried in
snow, transportation stopped, work
men idle, Every year snow surprisesi
and paralyzes the intelligent Ameri-‘
can public as though it never hap-|
pered before. This would be excusa- '
ble on the equator, not in the lati
tude of New York or Chicago.
The hundreds of “tanks” owned by
the govern.nent and lying idle would
clear away the snow in New York‘
City in a dey. But this would mean
co-operation between natifonal and
local governments, which does noli
exist., The snow would melt twice
while the necessary red tape was
being urwound. |
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The Augusta Chronicle points out‘
that in the Georgia State Peniten
tiary nearly half of all the prisoners‘
are men convicted of Killing or trying
to kill somebody else. In the prison
are 1,004 men serving life sentences
Nine hundred and ninety-four were
convicted of murder, 426 of man
siaughter, 12 as accessories in mur
,der and ?15 for attempts to commit
murder, T
The “Mark of Cain” shows no &en-‘
dency to disappear.
Such statistics should be carefully
preserved. They will be valuable to
historians in the future trying to
form an estimate of our actual |
civilization,
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So She Powdered Her Nose—
and Phoned Harry’ Is Judged
Best Last Line to Limerick No. 1
Mrs. G.T. Ridgway of Royston, Ga.,
is the winner of Limerick No. 1, the
first ¢f the series in The Georgian,
and gets the first daily award of SSO
in gold for the “best last line.” |
And here’s the winning last line:
“So she powdered her nose—and
phoned Harry.”
The whole limerick follows:
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There was a school teacher named
‘carrie, .+
Who had said that she never
would marry,;
But her pay was so small
She was forced to the wall,
She she powdered her nose—and
phoned Harry.”
" “It's the first time I've been paid
‘lor writing,” said Mrs. Ridgway over
long distance telephone to the Lim
erick Editor.
“I've written a great deal of poetry,
but I've never had any published. I'm
mighty glad to know I won, of course.
It’s surely big pay, and it didn’t take
me over five minutes.”
Mrs. Ridgway is the wife of a phy
sician. Everybody around the county
knows them, and they have three fine
boys, the eldest 19.
DID IT IN FIVE MINUTES.
It didn’t take Mrs. Rigway more
than five minutes to figure out that
“best last line.”
Kight words in it! Just $6.25 a
word is her pay.
Or $lO a minute!
That’s mighty good pay, folks. If
Mrs. Ridgway could get that salary
and work eight hours a day, she'd
make oil well booms look like pikers.
It would be $4,800 a day, or, 365 days
'a year, a total of $1,752,000.
But unfortunately for Mrs. Ridg
way she can not earn at that rate
from The Georgiah and American,
because under the rules of the con
test each person winning one prize
becomes ineligible to compete for
subsequent prizes. Somebody else
will win the next prize, and the next,
and so on. As long as the contest
continues one new name each day
will be awarded the prize.
A different incomplete limerick ap
pears each day in The Georgian, and
it's “open season” for everybody.
MORE TO COME.
Already five of the limericks have
appeared and more will follow. Just
keep everlastingly at it.
It was a hard job, judging that first
limerick contest. There were more
than 1,500 replies. They came from
all over Georgia, and a few were too
late to get in the judging. Some con
testants hadn’t read the rules care
fully about the time they were to get
them to The Georgian and Sunday
American office. ' |
A crew of clerks was busy, first,
opening the envelopes, ‘
Then they were passed on to the
Limerick Editor and several of the
fellows in the editorial depar{ment,‘
who formed what you can call the
“Limerick Committee.”
Bach m~mber of the committee was
given a batch of limericks from which
to pick out the best five.
Then the committee took the twen
ty-five “best last lines” and got
together.
It was an elimination contest ATI
the “best last lines” were read, and
the committee unanimously agreed
on Mrs. Ridgway’s. ]
And a still bigger job awaits the
committee on the other limericks.
Fifty dollars a day in gold for one
line isn’t small pay, you know, and a
lot of folk would like to have that
kind of pay for such effort.
Get The Georgian today and try
your pen, or pencil, or put your type~-
writer “in lap.”
Thursday the winner of Limerick
No. 2 will be announced, Friday No.
3, Saturday No. 4, and so on.
Get your limerick in early!
Do it now!
Chatham County Asks
Bids on Tybee Road
SAVANNAH, Feb. 10.—The Board
of Chatham County Commissioners is
advertising for bids for a contract
to build the Tybee road, which, when
finished, will enable Gporg’.‘ans to get
into their automobiles at Rabun Gap
and drive, without getting out of thelr
cars, straight to the Atlantic through
Savannah.
Cixteen miles of highway will be
built over land and sea to the beach
Plans and specifications may be
pad upon application to the Board of
Commissioners. It is to be a $1,000,000
project.
Roper Rules on Losses
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Deductible in Taxes
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Losses
by taxpavers through fires, storms
ship wrecks or other casualty or theft
today were held by Commissioner of
Internal Revenue Roper to be fully
deductible, if sustained during the
taxable year.
WALKER VISITS DAVISBORO.
DAVISBORO, Feb. 10.--Clifford
Walker made a short visit here Mon
day, renewing acquaintances,
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Rules:
1. In the event of more than one person sending in the same
“best last line,” similar prizes will be awarded.
2. No one is barred from participating except employees of The
Atlanta Georgian and their families, who are absolutely barred.
No one may send in more than one ‘“best last line” to each
Limerick.
3. The blank printed herewith is for the convenience of the
readers and the Editors. z
4. Each Limerick appearing in The Atlanta Georgian will have
a number, and the “best last line” must be sent in a sealed
envelope, by mail, addressed to ‘“Atlanta Georgian Limerick
Department,” On the outside of each envelope containing the
“hest last line” must be written or printed “Limerick No, ——"
This is most important.
5. All “best last lines” must be received by the Limerick De
partment by 12 o’clock noon, four days after publication. An
nouncement of each award will be made in The Atlanta Georgian
one week after publication of each Limerick.
6. Any one once winning an award for the “best last line” is
eliminated from further competition.
Atlanta Georgian Limerick Editor,
LIMERICK NO. 6.
Hark! Hark, but don't keep it dark,
A market is coming to town, ‘
And every housekeeper,
Will buy her food cheaper,
You may write your “hest last line” of Limerick above this.
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All “best last lines” to Limerick No. 6 must be received
by 12 noon, Monday, February 16. Award will be an
nounced Tuesday, February 17.
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- Mrs. Spiker Is Not
‘L
W orst, Says Woman
Virginia Terhune Van de Water, celebrated novelist and short story
writer, recently gave this epinion to The New York American on the war
romance which resulted in Mrs. Perley Spiker of Baltimore bringing o
America the English girl who 18 mother of Mrs. Spiker's hushand's baby:
By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER.
¥ o 5 28 & N - Sl TR AL TR Sl S e =il
It seems that women always have
to put up the red danger signal at
the one special sin, and find it near
impossible to forgive when their own
husbands are sinners.
Only the woman with broad in
telligence, little vanity and deep in
sight into human nature could be
as forgiving of a’ husband’s sin of
infidelity as she could be of any
other possible sin. This Mrs. Spiker
has been.
1 do not mean for a moment to
condone the evil this woman has
forgiven. But 1 do say that there
are other evils which show a pov
erty of soul and meanness of na
ture which should be quite as hard
to pardon.
A fair minded wife should find it
even harder, for instance, to for
give a husband who cheats his em
ployees; who grinds the noses of
the poor; who takes advantage of
the ignorance of his fellow men or
the trust of his friends than to
pardon the yielding to fleshly temp
tation. !
It has been said that Mrs. Spiker
has made things too easy for her
husband, has made it possible for
him to think lightly of his wrong
doing.
Instead of this, I think rather she
is pursuing a course that will make
it all but impossible for him ever
to be careless of an action of his
own that has made necessary such
suffering and such a sacrifice on the
part of the woman who loves him,
BEARING THE BURDEN.
It is as if the wife were putting
her own shoulder under the burden
of sin which he must carry. In
other words, she, though innocent,
is helping him to expiate the sin he
has committed.
The wife who is capable thus of
pardoning the man she loves must,
in simple justice, pardon his partner
in transgression. This would be in
thorough accordance with a charac
ter such as Mrs. Spiker has proved
is hers by her stand in this strange
case,
Mrs. Spiker is a very wise woman
though. 2
Psychologists tell us we always do
the things we most want to do. That
may be true. Certainly this wife
has left nothing with which to re
proach herself in later life as a de
velopment of this unhappy affair.
For she has not only befriended
the crd-like mother, She has at
tainedsan even greater piane of jus
tice in insisting upon giving to this
child born of an illegal union, the legal
name of its own father. In this she
is but treading tHe same path of
foir dealing which she has trod since
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1920.
,the first learned of the woman in
aer husband's war life.
Mrs. Spiker will not allow this
child, this innocent victim of her
husband’s sin, to suffer the disgrace
that would come to it were it to go
through life without bearing the
father’'s name. By this very action,
in years to come, the whole tragic
affair will have lost its bitterness
and will have been forgotten.
All I have said thus far has only
to do with the wife's action. As to
the plan for marriage with the hus
band’s brother, I feel of a very dif
ferent mind. 2
Matters have not been righted
simply by the girl's marriage to a
mdn whom she can not love because
she has not vet had an opportunity
even to know him.
I am old fashioned enough to be
lieve that a marriage without love
is a sin, and no less a sin because
legalized by the State or sanctified
by the church. One sin can not
wi&e out the stain of the other.
rs. Spiker, 1 Teel, is perha{ps
right in saying that the young wife,
in the first flush of married life,
might not be capable of the thing
which she has done. But if a wife
really loves her husband, her love
deepens and grows with each pass
ing year, so she becomes capable of
even tMs forgiveness, such forgive
ness as could not possibly come with
the early days of married iife.
I don't think people need be
alarmed, about the precedent. There
are but few wives who will follow
the course toward erring husbands
set by Mrs. Spiker.
Before 1 am through, I must add
this that has been in my mind
since the beginning of this case, It
ill behooves those who condone the
lapses from virtue of ‘members of
certain rich and influential classes
to cast stones at this little English
girl, who is lacking in education,
maturity and worldly experience,
In weighing this decision we
must not forget that the “woman
in the case” is hardly more than a
child, a little girl of limited expe
rience in human nature. Certainly,
one can say that she has been a
vietim of social conditions.
Can you imagine condemning and
punishing a single transgression of
law, when the person who codemns
is himself guilty or a much greater
violation of that same law?
Yet is it not this that society does
daily in passing judgment on such
cases as Emily Knowles’'?
Have we not, in our judgments
strayed far from the standards of
Him who said: “He that is without
sin among you, let him cast the first
stone.” - i g
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| try Distorted, Says English
- Correspondent, Urging Cure.
l By WILLIAM T. GOODE,
Special Correspondent of the Man
| chegter (England) Gardian in Rus
: sia, Who Was Held Captive on a
' British Wurship on His Re
| turn from Petrograd.
: LONDON, Feb 16.—Why not peace
with Russia? Not merely Russia,
but the world at large for it,
We have had a solem ratification
of what is really no peace, but no
Inumber of ratifications will alter the
]fact that so long as this question
of peace with Russia is unsettled
|(he world peace remains an empty
illusion.
. The position of Russia as one of
the world’s granaries, as one of the
world’s sources of raw materials,
calls for some settlement—the con
clusion of the present state of war.
} The fact that Russia is at this
‘moment the laboratory in which the
greatest political experiment in the
history of the world is being tried
‘ca.lls for the same settlement with
'equal urgency,
'CHURCHILL’S POLICY,
- In his now noorious speech at
Sunderland, Mr. Churchill gave an
indictment of the present government
in Russia, which may be taken to
represent the ostensible reasons of
the British government against mak
ing peace.
In reading this onslaught one is
forced between the horns of a di
lemma—either the speaker knew the
facts and was sinning against knowl-'
edge; or, he did not know the facts
and yet—the reader can supply the
conclusion,
| There is hardly a statement in
the speech which can not be directly
traversed, but there are two which
really contain all the rest, they are
H_b« ccmprehensive and violent,
‘ “They are that “the present Rus
sian government is the avowed enemy
‘of the existing civilization of the
‘world.”. And that Russia, “one of
the greatest granaries of the world,
was reduced to famine and had come
upon a condition of barbarism worse
‘than that of-the Stone Age.”
THEY'RE HUMAN BEINGS.
- Let there be no mistake. Russians
‘Btill live in houses and sleep in beds.
They still cook their food, and cul
tivate their fields. They still dress
in the usual garb of civilization and
do not wear a lion cloth and feath
ers,
Order s maintained in then
streets, which are still swept ana
tended, as are also their gardens,
both public and private,
The amusements with which we
are familiar in London obtain also
in Russia. Books are still printed,
newspapers also, and both are read.
In fact, all the evidences of what
we call civilized living are present
in Russia as in England.
Then ‘“the granary of the world” is
in a state of famine, we are told.
A THEORY ASSAILED.
How does that square with the
last pronouncement of a lifting of
the blockade in order that Russia may
feed Western Europe? Some one
has blundered here, who is it?
It is the bolsheviki who have
starved her. And what of the “bar
lba.rlfim worse than that of the Stone
Age?”
This “barbarism’ has, to my cer
tain knowledge, done what was never
done in Russia before. It has tackled
the question of the illiteracy and
ignorance of the masses with a cer
tain measure of suoccess in the pres
ent and the promise of more in the
future, It has preserved and ex
‘tended the art galleries and brought
them to the comprehension and en
joyment of the workers,
It maintains theaters, opera, bal
let in full work as before,
It has provided for the first time
in Russia universal tolerance for re
ligions. It has put the worker on a
decent economic footing, man or
woman.
It has kept the great towns free
from epidemics. 5
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Regiment for Each
-
State in New Army
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb, 10.—~Regi
ments of the United States army will
be allocated to every State in the
Urion for “recrniting purposes” and
to create “a bond of sympathetic in
terest between the people and the
“new army.,” according to a state
ment received from Secretary of War
Baker today by members of Con
gress.
COURT OF APPEALS OF GEORGIA.
" Judgments,
Seaboard Alr Line Railway Company vs
Pruitt; from Americus City Court-—Judge
Harper. Affirmed. W. W, Dykes, R. T,
Hawkins, for plaintiff in error. Shipp and
Sheppard, contra.
Thomas N, Baker Lumber Company vs.
Atlantic Mill and Lumber Company; from
Albany City Court—Judge Clayton Jones.
Reversed. Guy O. Buckner, Peacock and
Gardner, for plaintiff in error. Milner and
Farkas contra,
Williams et a 1.,, administrators, vs. West
ern and Atlantic Rallroad Company, and
vice versa; from Atlanta OCity Court—
Judge Reld, Reversed on the main bill of
exceptions, and affirmed on the cross-bill,
Westmoreland, Anderson and Smith, for
plaintiff in error § ain bill, Tye, Pee
vles and Tye, cont@@.
Paulk et al. vs. rrien County et al.:
from . Bertien Sudperior Courte—Judge
Thomas, Reversed, %ulneey and Rice, for
plaintiffs In error. . B, Hay; wsolicitor
general; J. D. Lovett, W. D, Buie, contra,
Cheer Up!
By John Kendrick Bangs.
A PREFERENCE.
Let those who will devote their
days
To effort on life’s Money-side.
For me I much prefer the bays
Of him who sings in terms of
praise
The kindness and cheery ways
That grow along the Sunny
_ side. ’
(Copyright, 1920, Atlanta Georgian.)
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, FeHd. 10.—The liberal
reactionary forces of the country are
to be split into two camps by a third
party,
Plans for the formation of the new
party were announced here today by
J. A. Hopkins, chairman of the na
tional executive committee of forty
eight. Hopkins, who is to have active
charge of the creation of sentiment
for the new party, is to be joined here
tomorrow by George L. Record and
Amos Pinchot, other leaders of the
movement. \
Before the end of the week, Hop
kins announcd, they expect to enlist
the support of a score or more “lib |
eral” or ‘“radical” bodies which. will
hold conferences in the Middle West.
‘The Non-Partisan League, Farmer
Association, various brotherhoods, the
‘new labor party, the single taxers and
many others, according to Hopklns,.
are to be gathered into the ranks of
the new party.
“We will be a second party, not a
third party,” said Hopkins. The Re
publicans and Democrats are the
same thing. It will be a party based
purely on an economic platform.”
PALMER DEFENDS SOCIALISTS.
CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—~Attorney Gen
eral A. Mitchell Palmer, speaking be
fore the Chicago Association of Com
merce at a luncheon, decried efforts
of members of the New York Legis
lature to expel from that body mem
bers of the Socialist party elecetd
to it.
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- LEXINGTON, Ky. Feb. 10 —Lex
‘ington breathed easier with the dawn
today. Despite reassuring state
‘ments issued late last night by Gen
-leral Marshall in command of the
First Division regulars, there was
general fear that another effort
would be made under cover of dark
ness to take Will Lockett, negro mur
derer, from the county jail and pre
cipitate a repetition of yesterday's
clash which cost five lives and sev
enteen wounded.
All night the regulars, reinforced
by State guardsmen and policemen,
Mvere on the alert for any indication
of trouble. Prompt steps by (eneral
Marshal; in meeting a train bearing
a large number of mountainecrs from
Breathitt County some distance from
‘he city is believed to have broken
up any plans that may have been
underway for an assault on the jail.
Outposts were established on all|
the twelve pikes leading into ch-‘
ington and all persons turned back.
A guard line extended about the]
courthouse at a distance of three‘
bioccks. All entering within this line
were first searched.
In his cell in the county jail Loeck
ett, under sentence to die in the
electric chair March 11, remained all
through the night in a kneeling post
ure, his head in his hands. A report
that Lockett had been spirited away
in a motor truck, his face whitened
to disguise him, was denied by army
officers although generally credited]
here by civilians. As soon as oppor
tunity offers Lockett is to be taken
to the Eddyville penitentiary.
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New Developments, Instead of
Clearing Them, Only Make it
More Obscure.
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Febh 9.—lnstead of
clarifying as a result of prominent
persons coming out into the open
with expressions of their political
views and beliefs, the presidential
political situation has become more
obscure and muddled than ever as a
result of the over-the-week-end ac
tivities, according to the privately
expressed opinion of party 'leaders on
both sides.
The principal developments which
have caused this are:
1. Herbért Hoover issued a state
ment declaring that he is not a can
didate, but which did not state that
he would not accept the nomination
on either ticket. His Republican or
Democratic leanings were left as
much in the dark as ever.
2. Frank Hitcheock, the former
chairman of the Republican Nation=
al Committee, returned from a tour
of the West and reported that, he
found the stock of Senator Hiram
Johnson increasing in favor and the
lessening of enthusiasm for General
Wood.
3. A split is threatened in the
ranks of New York State Republi
cans by William M. Bennett's decla
ration that he will make a fight to
go to the Chicago convention as a
delegate at large, and that he will
support Senator Johnson's candi
dacy.
4. A statement from the campaign
manager of Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler that Dr. Butler . “is almost
alone in doing the thinking fqr the
Republican party” caused considera
ble comment.
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