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X :0-Texi today by the Rev. H. A. Porter, Pastor
Second Baptist Chureh, ;
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THE CITY PLANNING COMMITTEE; ]
SUCCESS TO IT |
HE naming of the City Planning Committee Mon- |
T d#y by the president of the Chamber of Com
merce. the mayor and the chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners—eight members each,
making a committee of twenty-four in all-—marks the
beginning, The Georgian firmly believes, of an era of }
constructive and intelligent upbuilding such as this J
wonderful city of ours never has known heretofore. ‘;
This comprehensive committee has been named with |
the very definite and sincere purpose of uniting Atlanta
in effort and recommending ways and means to a very
definite and honorable end.
The commiitee was not named at baphazard; the ‘
various officials concerned, representing every possible
trend of thought in the city and county, made their
.yominations only after the most searching considera
tlon of the fitness and availability of the membership,
she work before this committee is stupendous; it will
gueceed or fail in exact propgrtion to the manner in
which it is supported and upheld by the citizenship of ‘
Atlanta.
1f there is one thing that stands out more promi- ‘
nently than any other one thing in Atlanta’s history, |
it is the fact that she has performed her greatest deeds
when she has stood united in her citizenship; that she }
‘never fglls, when her people dissolve their doubts,
reconcile their differences, and proceed with united
front. |
£ That is the very essence and strength of the famous
“Atlanta Spirit.”
The reason why we have not been able of late years
to do many things (hat generally are agreed to be nec
essary and desirable Is because we have not been
entirely frank with one another. We talk in large ‘
terms of “charter revision,” of “bond issues,” of “better
_salaries for the teachers,” and go forth and 8o on; but
g 0 far we have failed somewhat to get down to a basis ‘
of perfect candor with one another in these things, In
no sense will the tall--whoever or whatever the tail
may be—ever be permitted to wag the dog in Atlan‘n;
~and it should not be permitted to, . .
- What is done in the future in Atlanta should be
done wholly in the open; whatever interest or citizen ‘
i 8 affected, that must be brought frankly inte the |
sunlight, ¢ v §
The Georgian has an abiding belief in the ultimate
and eventunl fairpess of the people of Atlanta. The
Georgian always has contended that the people of this
city will willingly pay whatever is necessary to “carry
on,” provided they are dealt with in that degree of
candor that will epable them to act with sure and
~ecertain understanding and to precise and definite ends,
The Georgian believes it is necessary and essential
that these fundamental things be realized and Kkept
honestly in mind, if Atalnta is to plan and proceed
wisely in the future,
The CGify Planiing Committee is evenly balanced;
all shades of intelligent opinion are represented there
on; there is no reason why any group or individual
may not be heard fully, freely and frankly at all times.
¥y Whatever the final recommendation of this commit
? ‘N in any circumstances, it hardly will be promulgated
antil all sides are heard. & !
Viewing the personmel of the committee carefully,
The Georgian is constrained to believe that any rec
ommendation it may make eventually will be based
upon fairbss and common sense, -
We think the organization of this committee ex
actly and precisely the step prerequisite to our expan
sien and upbuilding. -
- If the committee takes hold with that degree of
- enthusiasm and effectiveness one may reasonably ex
pect of such a committee, then Atlanta has founda
tioned a future that will make all she has aehieved in
the past geem small indeed.
_ The Georgian believes Atlanth may double her
population and treble her wealth in the next ten
years. These words are said with due reflection and
deliberation. o
It is entirely within the bounds of. reason to say
that the Atlanta of 1030 will number 500,000 people!
And whether this comes to pass may depend in
large measure upon the work of n‘ls City Planning
Committee and the support it recelves from the citi
genship of this magnificent and progressive com
munity.
The Georglan pledges the committee -its sincerest
“and most discriminating and persistent support.
NO MORE GOOD AMERICAN
MONEY FOR FOREIGN WARS
HE appeal to the Congress for an appropriation
T of $150,000000 for the relief of starving Aus
| trians and Poles néeds elucidation. Is this
money to be used solely in the purchase offfood, cloth
ing and other eskential supplies for civilians, or is it
to go toward equipping the Polish army of 500,000
wen. which has already marched beyond the borders
of the new State of Poland as constituted by the grand
_souncil of Paris, in an lnvasion of Russta?
There shomld be an explicit understanding, it seems
to The Georgian, that American money Is not to be
used for prolonging publie or private wars, but ap
plied only to the healing processes of peace.
Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, our militury representative at
Yersailles, told a committee of our Congress the other
day that the DPolish army could not hold a defensive
against the forces of Lenin and Troteky, unless sup
plied with arms and equipment. Secretary Baker, be
fore the same committee, said he favored granting
+American relief if conditioned upon “defensive tacties,”
"All this is very vague.
The inference Jest by their testimony is that a chief
purpose of the proposed £150,000,000 grant of Ameri
can money was to put the Polish army on a war basis,
To make sure that it will soon be on the defensivesthis
army has, by its invasion of Russia, invited attack.
The American people have no money that they wish
to invest in a Polish war on Russla, or a Russian war
on Poland, .
The American people have no desire to equip for
elgn troops for another war, from which they could
neither derive nor wish to derive any gain.
Americans sympathize unanimously with the aspi
‘\l‘-‘l# of the Polish people for a rewm@(udon of
wepnespaY—E ditorial Page of The Atlanta Georgian_fes 11,1920
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A Lay Sermon |
IN THE MATTER OF CONSCIENCE. i
Conscience is something to be used in the voting
booth and in the shop; not to be put away for occa- |
sion. of state.
1t is just as important in politics as in scenes of
deathbed repentance,
Conscience is heaven's sounding board in the
soul, the hidden power by which the soul judges
itself, 1
Conscience 18 the most uncomfortable of friends, ‘
nearer than one’s blunt neighbor, nearer than the |
plain-spoken wife, neares than the child with un- |
bridled tongue. . 1
Don’t silence conscience; don’t benumb it; don’t
repudiate it. ‘
The greatest treasure is a true conscience, ‘
trained to obedience, educated to fidelity and hero
ism in everyday life, l
their ancient State, on a modern basis of self-deter
mination and ordérly freedom.
They *have given their official countenance to this
in the peace conference, and it is one of the decisions
there reached which have not evoked dissent in this
country. But when it comes to asking them to pay the
freight en an unprovoked attack upon a powerful
neighbor® by this fledgling commonwealth whose pin
feathers are hardly dry, ‘that is another matter,
An ambition so foolish and ill-timed would be ex
actly the kind of thing which would chill the Ameri
can people’'s natural sympathy for a revived Poland
and throw doubt upon the readiness of the Poles for
self-control,
1t will be to the advantage of every State in the’
war zone if Congress shall serve plain notice that the
period of our profligacy irf! the financing of foreign
conquest has ended. A
Then there need be no further upbuilding of un
realizable hopes among those foreign leaders, who yet
imagine they can tap our treasury by presenting selfish
designs in disguise, .
We believe people generally will agree with The
Georgian that further intérvention by the United
States in the affairs of Russia or middle Europe should
be purely benevolent intervention. .
AN IMPORTANT MATTER ALREADY
TOO LONG DELAYED i
R. McGLENNON of New Jersey has introduced
M a 4 bill in the National Howse of Representa
‘ tives to proyide for equitable compensation to
honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, marines and
nurses who served this country in the World War.
His plan ig to pay tg'each an amount of money
equal to the difference eetween the amount received
for service and the amount which would normally have
been recelved if there had been no interruption of
peace duties, ’
Mr. McGlennon’s move is in the right direction.
Whether a plan entailing the determination of earning
powers previous to service would not complicate and
delay matters is a question, but any attempt to pay the
fighting men what we honestly owe them ought to have
every support it merits.
Seven months ago the Hearst newspapers presented
to Congress the most imposing petition ever addressed
to the lawmaking body of any land on earth, Six
million one hundred thousand citizens of this country
~axked in that petition that each one of the fighting men
be given sixe months’ pay as an evidence that his coun
try recognized what he had done and appreciated it.
This petition has been endorsed by the legislatures
of twenty-seven States, igcluding those of North Caro
!lna. Alabama and our own Georgia.
Ite+is fortnnate for the world that the hoys were
more prompt in responding to the eall of duty when it
came to them than is their government in answering
the wide demand for an expression of gratitude now
that their services are finished,
" Whatever form compensation is to take, it has
already been too long delayed and the nation suffers
! in reputation and dignity every day it is further post-
E poned.
ng, Constantine, that was, is very much put out
beeause one of his kinsmen married an American
woman. And yet, had the has-been king not mentioned
it, the most of us likely would not have noticed it.
All hands, pros and cons alike, are agreed upon one
thing in the matter of prohibition: it has run up the
price In precise inverse ratio to the running down of
the quality of the stuff available.
Senator King wishes to revive, legally, the old 16 to
1 ratio between gold and silver. Before blowing his
horn, will Gabriel please page Mr. Bryan and put him
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| Letters From the People |
l SIDESTEPPING THE “FLU.”
BEditor The Georgian:
I was very much concerned and interested in your
editorial (February 4), namely, “Common Sense,”
which was a great lesson to the people toward safe
guarding themselves against the “flu”
1 am satisfled that 1 speak the voice of multitudes
(far and wide) who read The Georgian and Sunday
American in expressing®their gratitude to these papers
for the many important editorials, frequently pub
lished for the sake of humanity.
There are somé things that I am (as well as many
other people) interested to see put into effect in At
lanta and all other places, for that matter. I would
like to see restaurants and hotels place signs in con
spiouous places warning people when sneezing and
I coughing to do it in their hand Kerchiefs to protect
others. 1 would also like to see some health bureau
or soclety run advertisements in the street cars warn
ing people of the danger of sneezing and coughing in
the open., Everybody should either sneeze in their
handkerchief or hand at least.
1 know of no one better gualified than The Atlanta
Georgian in putting these things into effect,
Yours truly, C. C. SWILLING.
Sumter, 8. C.
‘ BRITISH PROPAGANDA,
Editor The Georgian: :
i \\'uuffl you please tell your readers why German,
Irish, Russian and other kinds of fereign propaganda
I are outlawed in our country and British propaganda
is allowed a free hand without any protest on the
! part of our government?
! True, British propaganda has been cleverly covered
~up with the cloak of “loyalty” and “Americanism.”
' But for that very reason it i worse than that spread
' by more open and clumsy tacties of other nations. It
| decelves more people,
it seems that the terms “Americanism” and “Brit
) ishism” have been made synonymous. s
|+ Atlanta. . AMERICAN. "
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Comment
DR. CRAWFORD W. LONG.
2 (Augusta Chronicle.)
Dr. *Joseph Jacobs, well ‘known
throughout the State, has recently
published a booklet giving inter
esting personal recollections of Dr.
Crawford W. Long, the discoverer
of anaesthesia. The pamphlet is
a sp’endid trlb‘xzte \o the distin
guished Georgiam, S
Dr. Jacobs takes om’mrtunit\'. in
connection with the publication of
the hooklet, to draw the attention
of Georgians to an omission which
should be promptly rectified,
When Allen D. Candler was gov~-
ernor, the Legislature created a
commission to select two Georgians
wiho were to be honored in the Na»
tional Hall of Fame at Washing
ton. Eightgen yeurs ago this com
mission named Crawford W. Long
and Alexander H, Stephens. Since
then nothing has been done about
the matter, and the statues of
Long and Stephens have not been
placed in the national gallery,
The newspapers and public men
throughout Georgia have begun to
call on the Legislature to attend
to this important matter, and it
will be stressed to the attention of
the CGeneral Assembly this year.
The State mast no longer be a
laggard on this. .
THE WISDOM OF GRADY,
(Grady Progress.) .
Many Georgia counties are all
upset as to what to plant this year
to help them take care of {hu com
ing of the boll weevil. This county
is to be congratulated on the splen
did way in which she handled this
matter. The financial condition of
the county has shown a steady im
provement right on through the
boll weevil years. Grady began to
diversify a number of years ago
and that proved to be her salvation.
All the eggs in one basket does
not apply to this county.
EDITORIAL WOES.
(Alpharetta Free Press.)
When a newspaper man has to
work like a dog '{o make buckle
and tongue meet it is impossible
for him to devote very much time
to delving for editorial materials.
And unless he delves he can't
shine.
MAY BE' SO.
i (Savannah Rews.)
The paper nhor}axv is partially
explained by the fact that the vol
ume of paper currency has, been
increased six hundred per cent
gince the war began,
NO MATTER WHY,
(Macon Telegraph.)
“What do we get out of the
war?™ is a question asked by a
correspondent of the New Orleans
States, What we'd rather know
is, when? p
IN STAGE MONEY.
(Clayton News.)
Some one has asked: “What has
become of all our statesmen pf the
olden dayvs?™ They are prbbably
in the movies, Kzra; dragging
down SIO,OOO per week.
THE SUBMERGING OF SIMS,
(Rome Tribune-Herald.)
Admiral Sims seems to have
dropped from the top an@d landed
right in the middle of a mudhole
100 much mouths
Have the Planets Been Tipped Off?
I CALLED up the phone.
y 9 ¢ "
OF MR. W. R, Hearst.
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AND SAID to the man.
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WHO ANSWERED it.
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“IS$ MR. Hearst in?”
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AND HE said he was.
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AND THEN I said.
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“THIS IS K C. B.
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“AND | wish you'd tell him,
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“I'D LIKE to come up.
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“AND TALK with him.”
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AND TI-:E ‘ma.n went away.
AND | rleld th‘o phone.
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AND THEN he came back.
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AND S.Allg Mr. Hearst said.
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TO COME right up.
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AND | wer‘xt right up.
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AND IN a big room.
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WHERE. OI:IE may stand.
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BEFORE THE windows.
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AND WATCH.the Hudson,
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GO SLIPPING past.
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AND THE putterirg tugs.
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AND THE. bigger ships.
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I MET Mr. Hearst.
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AND W'E b‘oth. sat down.
AND 1| x'ooked at the river.
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AND S.AII.J n: Mr. Hearst.
“T'S S.NOWING out there”
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AND i;l! said: “Yes.”
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AND THEN 1 said.
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“AND I.T sure looks cold.”
AND HE E[er.
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AND THEN I said.
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“AND IN California.
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“THE SUN js shining.
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“AND THE rivers out there,
“ARE BURNISHED bright.
An old maid up in Boston re<
fuses to sell her house or rent any
part of it, furnished or unfurnished.
Must be she is holding out for
marriage.
Uncle Josephus forbids the gobs
to play the ponlies at Tia Juana. No
open gambling openly arrived at
Galloping golf must suffice.
Ex-king of Greece offers old
crown for sale. He's hard up. Good
business chance for him over hers,
Ye Towne Gossip
o R,
Shafts of Sunshine
“WITH THE shimmering gold.
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“THAT.THE sun sends down.”
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AND HE agreed.
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BECAU.SE. TrIAT is‘the place.
WHERE HE.was born,
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AND THEN 1 said.
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“AND THE. fi.e]de out there,
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“AREN'T FROZEN fields.
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“AND THE grass is green.
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“AND THERE is no snow.
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“AND IT isn’t cold.
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“AND ORANGE blossoms.
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“PERFUME THE air.
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“AND ll’ ope spot.
“THERE IS a ranch.
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“THAT .\NANDERS around.
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"WHER.E THE hills begin.
“AND C.L"flß’their way.
1o MO.UN.TA‘IN tops.
“AND | haven't been thera.
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“IN MOST a year.”
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AND MR, Hearst sald.
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“AND YOU want to go?”
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AND | fa.id I did.’ ’
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AND HE. said.l might.
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AND OUR‘tickets are brought.
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AND OUR_tnmks are checked.
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AND WHEN you read this.
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WE'LL .BE‘On'Our WAY.
AND IF.arly one cares.
IF | ever return.
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I WANT them to know.
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THAT I'LL work all the time.
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AND IE. hgre'every day.
AND WIiLL s(:on be back.
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FOR HE won’'t let me stay.
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BUT A little while.
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- THANK yon.
. starting with a shoestring, a brush
and box of polish.
What is home without a smart
little boy who can imitate Cfi‘lru.
Chaplin?
Finely chapped cabbage is rec
ommended #s medicine. Coarsely
chopped it's slaw.
Fate strikes the shift key which
determines whether we produce
capital or write small ‘
‘Brother of Earth’
Their Quest
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
OR many years—indeed, as
long as I can remémber
having taken an interest in
the subject — astronomers have
been more than suspicious that
there is an undiscovered planet be:
longing to our solar system and
circulating around the sun in an
orbit situated outside the orbit of
Neptune, which up to the present
time remains the most distant
rlanet known to belong to the
sun's family.
Now at last a systematic search
for thig far-off brother or sister of
the earth is being conducted by
Prof. William C. Pickering, with the
aid of modern photographic meth
ods. It is something like shooting
at an invisible mark by means of
mere calculations of direction and
distance, only that in this case even
the existence of the target Itself is
problematical. ]
The search is taken up at this
particular moment because, accord
ing to Professor Pickering’s calcu
lations, the undiscovered planet
ought now to be in that part of the
sky opposite to the position occu
pied by the sun, and, consequently,
must be nearer the earth than it
can be at any other season.
The way this campaign is selng
conducted 18 a novelty for all who
are not familiar_with modern as
tronomical methods. Having se
lected, as closely as possible, by
means which I will presently ex
plain, the probable place in the sky
where the suppositious planet 1s
now sitmated, photographs are made
of that spot, the pictures heing
taken at measured intervals, say a
nigpt or two apart. Bach photo
graphic plate contains the images
of the stars in its field of view.
If then two successive plates,
after being exposed and de:~ioped,
are carefully superposed and ex
amined with a microscope, all the
star images on one should coincide
in position with those on the other,
unless one or more of the objects
photographed changed its position
in the sky during the interval be
tween the two exposures, The
changes of place of the real stars
are too slow and too slight to pro
duce any perceptible effect in so
brief an interval as is here con
cerned, so that if the examination
of the plates shows an image that
hasg shifted in position, the astrono
mer concludes that he is dealing
with either a comet, an asteroid or
a new planet, ‘
The circumstances of the case
enable him, after repeated observa
tions of the kind, to decide what
the nature of the strange object Is.
It is in this way that Professor
Pickering hopes to be able to de;
tect the “trans-Neptunian planet,
which his ca.lculntimx! seem to
have tracked down to a' definite
location in the sky. As it is not
expected to .show a magnitude
greater than the fifteenth (=0 faint
that onlv a powerful telescope
could make it vigible to thorye).
no attempt to identify it by direct
seeing could succeed, its _motion
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PUBLIC SERVICE
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- Politics
——By James B. Nevin
HETHER politics is an art
W or a science, is all well
enough for academic discus
sion, perhaps; for the answer is,
it's a game.
And those interested in definite
resfilts play it with care and cir
cumspection.
Some people, you know, play
poker “merely for the fun of the {
thing and the recreation it affords,”
or is supposed to afford. But they
are the ones who do not really play
poker; or, to state it better, they
are the ones who do not play real
poker.
The politician “sitting in the
game strictly for the stakes” 1s a
wary gent; he never makes a move
at haphazard—not that he will not
“take a chance now.and then,” of
course; but' that he moves with
deadly purpose even then. g
+ Well, thanking you one and l.fi
for your kind attention, what I have
in mind is this:
The meeting §f the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee on Sat
urday last and the ordering of a
preferential primary for President
isn’t what you think it is, in all
probability. Nobody “sitting in tbG{
game for the stakes” strictly cares
two whoops in Pensacola, person
ally, who is named as Georgia's
preference fOr President; what said
sitter-in does care about is who
shall control the convention of
delegates named as a result of the
primary, and what variety of ma
chine will he set up? Do you get
me, Aristophanes?
If not, hark to the near-oracle:
Suppose Mr, Underwood should
be named as a candidate in.that -
primary, and suppose he should ™
win; then the delegates named to
the convention would be of one sort,
i. e., of a sort named by Mr. Unders
wood's “known friends” and sup
porters. That would insure, say—
just for the sake of the argument—
the renaming of Mr. Clark Howell
as national committeeman for
Georgia, and a party machine with
in the State sympathetic.
But, suppose, again, Senator Hoke
Smith should be entered as a “fa
vorite son” in that primary, and
should win, That would insire the
naming of somebody or other as
Gefrgia’s national committeeman,
and it likely would not be Mr.
Howell. Wherefore, the party ma
chine set up again would “be sym
pathetic,” but of another persua
sion. 4 :
..Not,that I am trying to. ‘“start.
~ something,” for I am not—and
i probably could not, if I would—but
| that I see}( to be a faithful and
- fairly frank scribe, and undertake
now and then to indicate my idea
of the location from which the wind
is blowing, whether it really comes
true or no.
There is something of an “Under~
wood boom” on—started rather pre
cipitately, some may think; and
‘ undoubtedly, there is a Hoke Smith
‘ boom tentatively on the cards. ¢
Now then, in a show down be
tween these two “favorite sons” of
Dixie, in a Georgia preferential pri
mary, which would win, do you
i think?
And whoever wins, in any event,
it is not likely Georgia will send te
’ San Francisco a delegation tied for
' ever hand and foot as to its dis
~ ¢retion, as was the Baltimore dele
~ gation, Remember that, also—it is
~important, believe me!
| There were some other things in
~ connection with the meeting of the
State committee that do not appear
of the writen record. Hisory may,
turn upon them. ’
In the meantime, on with the
Fgesidential primary; it is a great
ea,
Right by its lonesome, it doesn’'t
mean anything whatever—but it
does mean a very great deal, never
theless!
Such is the gentle game of poli
tics. :
HE Georgia Railroad'Coml?is- &
I gion has been given express
authority of control over the
publi¢ service corporations of the
State; the Legislatures have ex
tended and clarified this authority
from time to time, until the spirit
and intent of the legislation should
be plain. The Georgia Railway and
Power Company, in Atlanta, ob
serves the rules and regulations set
down” by the Commission, in both
the letter and the spirit of the
same—except when it doesn’t!
To get to the point: 1 made four
attempts to buy a book of tickets
on Tuesday, before 1 found a con
ductor with a book to sell. It*has
been my experience so far that,
when one seeks to buy a book, one
gets it about half of the time—cer
tainly no more. The rest of the
time the conductor is “sorry,” but
he has “just sold out.”
Now, these books are, first, a
convenience to the publie, second,
they save the purchaser a little;
but, first, they cost the company a
little, and, second, they diseount
every dollar thus taken in two
cents; third, it apparently isn't any
of the company's cancern whether
the would-be purchaser is pleased
with the way things are run or no.
“ 1 have never run a public serv.
jce corporation; 1 probably never
shall. And if I did, I doubtless
would short-circuit the whole
works overnight. But if I ever do
run one, I think I shall insist that
the public i kept in a good frame
of mind at least about the small
things; for in"that way, I belleve, I
could more easily keep said public
in a pleasant frame of mind about
tfi:\blg things.
e Railroad Commission orders
these hooks kept on sale; the street
car company obeys that order i 1 f‘l,
letter and spirit—except when it
doesn't do anything of the kind!
That's all. 4
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