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TRUTH--JUSTICE
ATLANTARIEGEORGIAN
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He that walketh uprightly walketh surely—Proverbs
Y :9—Text today by the Rev. H. A. Porter, Pastor
second Baptist Church.
"HE CITY PLANNING COMMITTEE;
UCCESS TO IT
“=g~vH 12 naming of the City Planning Committee Mon
r day 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
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. i
The committee was not named at haphazard; the
various officials concerned, representing every possible
trend of thought in the city and county, made their
nominations only after the most searching considera
tion of the fitness and availability of the membership.
The work before this committee is stupendous; it will
succeed or fail in exact proportion to the manner in
which it is supported and upheld by the citizenship of
Atlanta.
1f there is ope thing that stands out more promi
nently than any other one thing in Atlanta’s history,
itds the fact that she has performed her greatest deeds
when she has.-stood united in her citizenship; that she
never fails, 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 vears
to do many things that 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 so forth and so on; but
so 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 tail—whoever or whatever the tail
may be—ever be permitted to wag the dog in Atlanta;
aud 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~ affected, that must be brought frankly into the
o light.
The Georgian has an abiding belief in the ultimate
| eventual fairness of the people of Atlanta. The
orginn always has contended that the people of this
v will willingly pay whatever is necessary to “carry
a." provided they are dealt with in that degree of
candor that will enable them to act with sure and
coriain understanding and to precise and definite ends.
The Georgian believes it is necessary and essential
that these fundamental things be realized and kept
honestly in mind, if Atalnta is to plan and proceed
wisely in the future.
The City Planning 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.
Whatever the final recommendation of this commit
tee in any circumstances, it hardly will be promulgated
until all sides are heard.
Viewing the personnel of the committee carefully,
The Georgian is constrained to believe that any rec-:
emmendation it may make eventually will be based
upon fairness and common sense.
We think the organization of this committes ex
actly and precisely the step prerequisite to our expan
. slon 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 achieved in
thewpast: seem small indeed.
The Georgian believes Atlanta may double her
population and treble her wealth in the next ten
years. These words are said with due reflection and
deliberation. .
It is entirely within the bounds of reason to say
that the Atlanta of 1930 will number 500,000 people !
And whether this comes to pass may depend in
large measure upon the work of this City Planning
Committee and the support it receives from the citi
genship -of this magnificent and progressive com
munity.
The Georgian 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 $150,000,000 for the relief of starving Aus
trians and Poles needs elucidation. lls this
money to be used solely in the purchase of food, cloth
ing and other essentinl supplies for civilians, or is it
to go toward equipping the Polish army of 500,000
men, which has already maurched beyond the borders
of the new State of Poland as constituted by the grand
council of Paris, in an invasion of Russia?
There should be an explicit understanding, it seems
o The Georgian, that American money Is not to be
used for prolonging public or private wars, but ap
pled only to the healing processes of péace,
tien. Tasker H. Bliss, our military representative at
Versailies, told a committee of our Congress the other
Jduy that the Polish army could not hold a defensive
against the forces of Lenin and Trotzky, unless sup
plied with arms and equipment. Secretary Baker, be
fore the same comnrittee, said he favored granting
American relief if conditioned upon “defensive tactics.”
All this is very vague.
The inference left hy 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 defensive, this
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 Russia, or a Russian war
on Poland.
The American people have no desire to equip for
eign troops for another war, from which they could
neither derive nor wish to derive any gain.
Amegricans sympathize unanimously with the aspi
zations of the Polish people for a reconstitution of
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' A Lay Sermon
IN THE MATTER OF CONSCIENCE.
Conscience is something to be used in the voting
booth and in the shop; not to be put away for occa
sion of state.
It 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.
Conscience is the most uncomfortable of friends,
nearer than one's blunt neighbor, nearer than the
plain-spoken wife, nearer than the child with un
bridled tongue.
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. ‘
their ancient State, on a modern basis of self-deter
mination and orderly freedom.
"I’hey 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
frelight on 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.
It will be to the adwantage of every State in the
war zone if Congress shall serve plain notice that the
period of our profligacy in the financing of foreign
conquest has ended.
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.
i We believe people generally will agree with The
Georglan that further intervention by the United
States in the affairs of Russia or middle Europe should
be purely benevolent intervention.
AN IMPORTANT MATTER ALREADY
TOO LONG DELAYED
R. MeGLENNON of New Jersey has introduced
M a bill in the National House of Representa
tives to provide for equitable cfimpénsa(lon to
honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, marines and
nurses who served this country in the World War.
His plan is to pay to each an amount of money
equal to the difference between the amount received
for service and the amount which would normally have
been received 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 previeus to service would not complicate and
delay matters is a question, but any attempt to pay the
fighting men what we honestly owe tl{em 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 om earth. Six
million one hundred theusand citizens of this country
asked in that petition that each one of the fighting men
be given six 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, including those of North Caro
~ lina, Alabama and our own Georgia.
* 1t is fortynate for the world that t:he boys were
more prompt in responding to the call 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
poned.
King Constantine, that was, is very much put out
because 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
wise.
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| ~ Letters From the People I
SIDESTEPPING THE “FLU.”
Editor The Georgian:
1 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.satistied that I 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 some 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. 1 would
like to see restaurants and hotels place signs in con
spicuous places warning people when sneezing and
coughing to do it in their handkerchiefs 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 qualified than The Atlanta
Georgian in putting these things into effect.
Yours truly, C. C. SWILLING.
Sumter, S. C.
BRITISH PROPAGANDA.
Editor The Georgian:
Would you please tell your readers why German,
Irish, Russian and other Kkinds of foreign propaganda
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 is worse than that spread
by more open and clumsy tactics of other nations. It
deceives more people.
It seems that the terms “Americanism” and “Brit
ishism"” have been made synonymous.
Atlanta. AMERICAN.
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DR. CRAWFORD W. LONG.
: (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 splendid tribute \o the distin
guished Georgian.
Dr. Jacobs takes opportunity, in
connection with the publication of
the booklet, 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
who were to be honored in the Na
tional Hall of Fame at Washing
ton. Eighteen years 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 tha Legislature to attend
to this important matter, and it
will be stressed to the attention of
the General Assembly this year.
The State must 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 the com
ing of the boll weevil. This county
is to be congratulated on the splen
did way in which she handled this
matter. The t’ingm‘ial condition of
the county has sßown 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 to make buckle
and tongue meet it is impossible
for him to devote very much time
to delving for editorial matetials.
And unless he delves he can't
shine.
MAY BE SO.
(Savannah News.)
The paper shortage is partiallty
explained by the fact that the vol
ume of paper currency has been
increased six hundred per cent
since 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?
IN STAGE MONEY.
(Clayton News.)
Some oné has asked: ‘““What has
become of all our statesmen of the
olden days?’ They are probably
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 and landed
right in the middle of a mudhole
—too much mouth,
Have the Planets Been Tipped Off?
| CALLED up the phone.
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OF MR. W. R. Hearst.
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AND SAID to the man. j
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- WHO ANSWERED it. -
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“118 MR. Hearst in?"
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AND HE said he was.
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AND THEN 1 said,
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THIS I 8 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 THE man went away.
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AND | held the phone.
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AND THEN he came back.
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AND SAID Mr. Hearst said.
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TO COME right up.
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AND | went rignt up.
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AND IN a big room.
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WHERE ONE 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 WE b.nth sat down.
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AND 1 looked at the river.
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AND SAID to Mr. Hearst.
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“IT'S SNOWING out there.”
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AND HE said: “Yes,”
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AND THEN T said.
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“AND IT sure looks cold.”
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AND HE agreed.
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AND THEN I said.
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“AND IN California.
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“THE SUN is shining.
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“AND THE rivers out there.
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“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 ponies at Tia Juana. No
open gambling openly arrived at
Galloping golf must suffice.
Ex-king of Greece offers old
erown for sale. He's hard up. Good
business chance for him over here,
Ye Towne Gossip
By K. 0.8,
Shafts of Sunshine
“WITH THE shimmering gold.
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“THAT‘Ti;IE sun sends down.”
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AND H.E z}grsed.
BECAIJ’SE. T:'IAT is the place.
WHERE HE‘was born,
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AND THEN I said.
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“AND THE fields 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 IN one spot.
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“TI-}ERE IS a ranch.
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THAT ‘WANDERS around.
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“WHERE THE &Lills begin.
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“AND CLIMB their way.
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“TO MOUNTAIN tops.
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“AND | haven’'t been there.
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“IN MOST a year.”
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AND MR, Hearst said.
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“AND YOU want to go?”
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AND | said 1 did.
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AND HE said T might.
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AND OUR tlcl{ets are brought.
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AND OUR‘tmmks are checked.
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AND WHEN you read this.
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WE'LL BE on our way.
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AND IF any one cares.
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IF | ever return.
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I WANT them to know.
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THAT I'LL wgrk all the time.
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AND BE here every day.
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AND WILL sr:on be back.
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FOR HE w‘nn'.t let me stay.
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BUT A little while.
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w| THANK you.
starting with a shoestring, a brush
and box of polish. g
What is home without a smart
little boy who can imitate Charlie
Chaplin?
Finely chopped cabbage is rec
ommended as medicine. Coarsely
chopped it's slaw.
Fate strikes the shift key ich
determines whether we proguce
capital or write small e
‘Brother of Earth’
" Their Quest
By GARRETT P. SERV!ISS.
OR many years—indeed, as
F long as I can remember
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 this 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 sup 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, consequ?'my.
must be nearer the earth thadn it
can be at any other season.
The way this campaign is being
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 situated, photographs are made
of that spot, the pictures being
taken at measured intervals, say a
night or two apart. Each photo
graphic plate contains the images
of the stars in its field of view.
I then two successive plates,
after being exposed and developed,
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
has 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
tiong of the kind, to decide what
the nature of the strange object Is.
It is in this way ?at Professor
Pickering hopes to be able to de
tect the “trans-Neptunian planet,”
which his ecaleulations 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 (so faint
that only a powerful telescone
could make it visible to tHe eye),
no attempt to identify it by direct
seeing could succeed, its motion
alone being able to betray it.
PUBLIC SERVICE
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Georgia -
Politics
By James B. N
HETHER politics is an
W or a science, is sl
enough for academic discus—
sion, perhaps; for the answer is,
it's a game.
And those interested in definite
results play it with care and cire
cumspection. :
Some people, you know, pho".
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” 'ls a
wary gent; he never makes a move
at haphazard—not that he will net
“take a chance now and then,” of
course; but that he moves wflr‘h
deadly purpose even then. &1
‘Well, thanking you one and
for your kind attention, what I have
in mind is this: -
The meeting of 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 a_li
probability. Nobody “sitting in th
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 tha}
primary, and suppose he sheul
win; then the delegates named to
the convention would be of one sort,
i. e, of a sort named by Mr. Under=
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 insure the,
naming of somebody or other as
Georgia’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.
Not that 1 am trying to “start
something,” for I am not—and
probably could not, if I would—but
that I seek 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 ocards. ;
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
think ?
And whoever wins, in any event,
it is not likely Georgia will send to
San Francisco a delegation tied for
ever hand and foot as to its dis
cretion, as was the Baltimore dele
gation. Remember that, also—it is
important, believe me!”
There were some other things in
conneckion 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
presidential primary; it is a great
idea.
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 Commis-
I sion has been given express
authority of eontrol over the
public 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: I made four
attempts to buy a book of tickets
on Tuesday, before I 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 public, second,
they save the purchaser a little;
but, first, they cost the company a
little, and, second, they discount
every dollar thus taken in two
cents; third, it apparently isn't any
of the company’s concern whether
the would-be purchaser is pleased
with the way things are run or no,
I have never run a public serv
ice corporation; I probably never
shall. And if+l 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 be kept in a good frame
of mind at least about the small
things; for in that way, I believe, 1
could more easily keep said public
in a pleasant frame of mind about
the big things.
The Railroad Commission orders
these books kept on sale; the street .
car company obeys that order in
letter and spirit—except when it
doesn’t do anything of the kind!
That's all L
1 than\ you!