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Text today by the Rev. W. . Schaefer Jr., Pastor
Chureh of the Redeemer.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE UNITED
NATION'S REVERED DEAD
IRAIAM LINCOLN, whose birthday this is, was
A a great and good man—a martyred President
of a mighty republic, torn and shattered by
four years of bloody and terrible war.
2 The South understands him better now than once
she id
Time has revealed those qualities of manhood and
courage that, in the nature of things, could but have
been obscured to our vision immediately following
the war.
And in the clearer vision of this day and hour,
with the republie lately emerged from another war,
in which, thank God, American brother stood shoulder
to shoulder with American brother from one end of
the mation to the other, Lincoln stands forth as he
was—a gentle, brave, sincere patriot, moving as wisely
as he might along the pathway that God gave him the
light to see.
The South reveres his memory: the South joins
with the whole nation today in rendering tributes of
respect and affection to the same.
The South has come to feel that the hand
that struck Lincoln down also struck down the South,
We believe he was our friend; that had he lived,
the great wrongs and crimes of Reconstruction never
would have been visited upon a crushed and helpless
group of States, not one of which was moved to the
war of the 60's by any save the noblest and sublimest
of motives.
Peace to Lincoln’s ashes and green be his memory
forevermore.
He is as much the South’s revered dead today as he
is the North’s.
In the shining perspective of today he stands forth
a man and a statesman, close to the hearts of all the
people, regardless of section or previous bitterness of
thought and'melancholy of misunderstanding.
THE TREND TOWARD CHURCH
UNITY IN AMERICA
ECENTLY assembled statistics of a reliable and
R authoritative character show that the South,
where pure-blooded Americans most abound, is,
of all segtions, the most religious.
l And this, coupled with the fact that there is now
as never before a trend of thought and action toward
church unity and interdenominational eo-operation,
makes the movement of religious bodies generally and
peculiarly interesting to the people of Dixie,
There are said to be 186 divisions of the Ameriéan’
Protestant Church. The waste and uselessness in
volved in this situation have aroused thoughtful lead
ers among bhoth laity and clergy all over the nation.
It is not expected that organic union can come at
once; but those religious bodies of closest kin and
large influence are getting together and in some cases
even organic union seems to be possible.
" The Council on Organic Union of the KEvangelical
Churches of America, last week in session at Phila
delphia, assembled to discuss a plan prepared with
great care by an international conference which had
its first meeting in December, 1918, The plan pro
poses the creation of a body to be known as the
“United Churches of Christ in America.” All denomi
nations will be represented on & just basis of member
ship.
The hope is that the plan, if adopted, will result
in the final unification of many religious bodies and
the consolidation of national bodies for religious ac
tivities and will do away with many of the differences
that now exist among the lesser branches of denomi
nationalism.
Great as the influence of the church is today, it
seems shorn of much of its vitality by reason of un
necessary division. ;
The spirit of the age is toward co-operation, as
truly in religion as in economics.
A basis for unification on the essentials of Chris
tianity is something to pray for.
THE FARMER TRULY IS THE
‘BACKBONE OF THE NATION’
EORGIA is an agricultural State. In point of
G population it is four-fifths rural and one-fifth
! urban. In point of wealth it is heavily rural,
. as wealthy as some of the cities and big towns are.
Georglans, therefore, should be interested in the
status of agriculture in this nation; Georgia has played
a big part in establishing the facts and figures that
follow :
The total value of the farm products of the United
States for 1919 is almost $25,000000,000, or about as
much as the war with Germany cost our government;
or $2,000000,000 more than the combined national
debts of the United States, Great Brllnh{. Canada,
. Australia, New Zealand, France, Ttaly, Japan, Russia,
"RBelgium and Greece before the war; or §3,000,000,000
more than the total national wealth of Italy before the
war: or $£2.000,000,000 more than the total national
wealth of Austria: or £0,000,000,000 more than the
total wealth of Hungary; or nearly six times the total
.‘euhh of Bulgaria or Turkey before the war; or
. nearly three times the total note circulation of all
the belligerent powers at the outhbreak of the war: or
pearly five times the total amount of money in circu
lation in the United States last July,
In other words, it is a great deal of money and a
geat deal of value. 1t is more than S2OO per capita.
This i what the farmers/ did—the rustic popula
tion which lives out in the country, where “nothing
happens.”
Not by lh‘ hurrying, strutting, pretending, money
grasping great men of the ecities: not by the human
ants that beat up and down the pavement hour after
hour; not by the men at Washington, nor the self
important creatures who spend their days in Wall
Street and its foster streets the country over, was this
achieved. It was all done by farmers, some of whom
owned the land and tools they worked with and some
of whom did not, but all of whom grappled directly
with nature and won. .
All of this wealth came from the earth. It was not
earned by gambling, it was not earned by pleasing
addrds, or good clothes, or a lucky marriage, or rich
» ralatyeu, or office politics, or any kind of luck or
THURSDAY—E ditorial Page of The Atlanta Georgian—FEß 12 192
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Ay Sermon
THE MATTER OF LIBERTY. :
‘ Institute the law of perfect liberty in God and .
you will eliminate the selfish bigotry that claims
| more for one than another.
You will make all our c¢itizens willing law abiders
’ and all equal before the law. Broaden the sphere
| of influence from the community to the nation and
| you will have an ideal nation,
| Let this sphere reach from pole to pole and
| girdle the earth as with a blanket, and the dis
| cordant notes that are now striking terror to the
; hearts of men will gradually pass into the burial
place of the dead and a harmony partaking of the
gweetness of the music of the Celestial City will
fill the earth as though it was the voice of one great
! ,urtml speaking for the world of mankind. ,
It is the perfect law of liberty where the rich
and poor alike, one in purpose and one in sympa
| they, laboring together with God.
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favor: it all came in the first instance by hard work,
After that, luck and favor may have had a good
deal to do with the way in which it was distributed,
and perhaps the men who produced the wealth did
not get a 8 much of it as they should.
But they did produce it. They created it.
And they are the people!
SUPPOSE SOME OF THESE
THINGS HAD HAPPENED!
CABLEGRAM from Warsaw announces that
A when Paderewski heard of Lloyd George's re
fusal to hvlp‘ Poland he seized a hatchet,
smashed his own piano and cabled a flat refusal of
an offer of $200,000 which he had received from six
New York concerns.
The Georgian feels sure that we echo the senti
ments of the whole United States when we exclaim,
“What a pity!”
It would be a great misfortune if the virtuoso's
petulant example were to become pnpular’ among the
great of the earth.
; Suppose that the King of England, upon learning
that we refused to take up the part allotted to us in
the League of Nations, were to bite his harmonica in
two and cancel his subscription to the Ladies Home
Journal.
Or the the Mikado of Japan, when it came mov
ing day in Shantwng, were to kick a hole in his
favorite drum and ipvest all his money in Russian
rubles !
Or that the President of Switzerland, just because
the TLeague of Nations didn’t allo whim a navy, were
to cut out his yodel and stop up' all the holes in his
cheese !
The. possibilities which Paderewski's rash, spectac
ular act evokes are truly terrifying.
Nor is there any reason to feel secure that the in
fection of his example will be confined to the great of
the earth. It may spread, even like the “flu,” among
“the very commonest people, :
Some street cleaner, dismayed by the loss of Wil
son’s fourteen points, may, in his rage, destroy his
phonograph and beat his wife. Or some organ grinder,
after reading his mngresqman's speech, may throw a
brick at Caruso and join the American Security
League.
The ripple of a stoné cast into the sea travels
farther than the eye can see. The human mind can
not possibly grasp, she consequences of swch a-startling
act as that of Paderewski.
Inqdontully one can nn‘t help wondering what
concerns offered him $200,000. It certainly was neither
the Squeedunk Lyceum Bureau nor the American
Safety Razor Company.
“Britons to allow American people tc take own
“path,” reads a headline in our morning contemporary.
Bally kind of them, bah jove!
Col. 8. Guyt McLendon holds that, while Lincoln is
the most quoted man in American history, nobody ever
quotes him correctly.
el
The lunatics in a Hawalian asylum have gone on a
~ strike. The old idea used to be that the lunatics were
the first to strike. : ‘
It is held that a man who dies of alcohol poisoning
‘need not be embalmed.” Further embalmed, we sup
pose it means,
I Letters From the People |
WOULD COMPEL EVERY ONE TO VOTE.
Editor The Georgian:
The claim of radicals that voting is too slow must
be qualified to read that American voting is too siow.
The average American does not vote.
The only way to make all men free and equal is in
the few minutes spent in (hebproclm't booth.
If men and women knew that failure to vote carried
with it fine and imprisonment, logically they would
vote. H L C.
Acworth, Ga ’
FROM A DISABLED SOLDIER.
Editor The Georgian:
Knowing the interest your paper takes in disabled
service men, 1 wish to ask a favor of you. r
Am lyving here in hospital sick, and wish to hear
from any one who would care to write.
Please publish this in your paper. Yours sincerely,
OTIS WOODS, Base Hospital, Camp Sevier,
(Formerly in Machine Gun Co,, 29th Div., 116th Inf)
Qureenville, S, C.
ONE CAUSE OF HIGH WAGES AND PRICES,
Editor The Georgian:
The present ,epidemic of high prloßs is largely due
to the government's policy of allowing contractors to
pay from $6 to sls per day for labor in shipyards,
construction of army camps, ete.
Such procedure resulted in immediate demand for
increased wages in all essential industries,
Atlanta. B H C
VENUS, THE VAMP,
Editor The Georgian: ¥
We should not monkey with that wireless from
Venus, for it's ten to one the first call, according to
the spirit of the times, would be for a loan of about
$999,000,000,
Venus was one of that bunch who December 17
made the concentrated pull on the sun,
Atlanta. JOSEPH WHITE.
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_THE EDITOR'S DREAM.,
(Walton Tribune.)
The home of my dream is that
hom= waere gontentment dwells;
where honor and good will abide—
the home where each inmate has
pictured on his or her face the
greatest joy and where even the
walls and doorpests reflect the
light and strength of happiness
and character. The home of my
dream is the home of%road. well
arranged apartments, the painted
home—tihe home where flower
yards grow rich in profusion and
where the gardens, orchards and
fieids yield forth abundant increase
for the sup&mrt of man and beast;
where the yards, the wood lot and
the barnyard are dotted with all
kinds of “blue ribbon” fowls and
where the barnyvard, made attrac
tive with comfortable buildings
and sheds for the housing of the
stcek, is kept in the highest pos
sible state of sanitation and where
the finest breed of cattle, hogs,
sheep, goats, mules and horses may
be exhibited so as to elicit the ad
miration of the populace,
The home of my dream is the
home supplied with all modern
conveniences, electric lights, run
ning water, fans churns, washing
machines for clothes and dishes,
any many other labor-saving de
vices, and where the farmer, for
merly handicapped by the shortage
of farm “hands,” cultivates his
fields with modern machinery—
where the farmer lives who be
longs to the community organiza
tions, attends and takes part in
them: whevre papers are read and
new methods for- greater agricul
tural achievements are adopted.
The home of my dream is that
one located in a progressive com
munity, in easy reach of a graded
school house, a pretty, comfortable
church and among people who are
law-abiding, who decry evil of all
sorts and who believe in the golden
rule, “Do unto others as ye would
have others do unto you."”
J. CAESAR, WISE GUY.,
(Troy Messenger.)
When old Caesar took an east
ward ride and’ grabbed the gauls
of Rome, what was the first thing
he did to make them feel at home?
Did he increase the people’s load
and liberty forbid? No, he dug
in and built good roads—that's
what old Caesar did.
THIS IS VERY SAD.
(Montgomery Advertiser.)
Ex-King Constantine of Greece
fs raising a rough house because
his brother married Mrs. W. B.
Leeds, the American heiress. He
wasn't invited to the wedding, but
wouldn't have gone if he had been
invited, he says. And he refuses
to “recognize” the marriage.
ASK “BILL,” HE KNOWS.
(Augusta Chronicle.)
Rear Admiral Sims charges the
navy was not prepared to enter
war in 1917, We refer the admi
ral to the kaiser for informagion
on the subject.
A WHEREFORELESS WHY.
(Macon Telegraph.)
We all know the American troops
are coming back from Siberia, but
nobody seems to khow why they
went, i .
Supreme Test of the Spint Is Faith
More Truth Than Poetry ° \
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
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HOW THE CROW LOST HIS VOICE.
[’'ve found out why the old black crow (
That caws the whole day long, r
“As he sweeps swinging to and fro
(Can never sing a song.
I heard it from a tiny lad, i
Yet every word is true;
I eard it from a tiny lad,
: And here it is for youn :—
Long, long ago, when in the trees
The songsters gave a ball,
And chanted choruses and glees,
The crow outsang them all.
Although they trained their little throats
In bursts of glorious song
Above their best soprano notes ‘
His voice rang clear and strong.
But he was greedy, was the crow,
And when came autunin time
And all th ebirds prepared to go
To seek a sunnier clime,
He said, *‘l think I'll stay right here
For when they're gone, you see
(And here he leered a knowing leer)
There’ll be more worms for me.”’
He stayed, and caught a cold, of course,
And when again came spring
He found that he had grown so hoarse
He simply couldn’t sing.
And now when winds blow cold and raw
And he goes lumbering by
With nothing but a husky caw,
You'll know the reason why,
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g' U -%-?\ P o\
e e A e e e O =
Fifty Millions of Them.
Only Americans who were not born in the United States
know how to keep from looking self-conscious when you begin to
talk of presidential possibilities, |
He'd Have No Inspiration Now.
The poet who sang of sweetness and light wrote before there
was any sugar and coal famine,
Foolish Mr. Garfield.
If we had the control of the coal in the country you bet we
we wouldu't quit. . : ¢
T'he Thirty-Fifth
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New Star ,
By GARRETT P. SERIVISS.
~HE thirty-fifth new star seen
I since astronomical observa
tions began to be authenti
cally recorded has just been dis
covergd by Miss Mackie of the
Harvard Observatory staff. -“She
Ciscovered it in the up-to-date way
of such things—that is, on a pho
tograph. The majority of astro
nomical discoveries al present are
made in that manner.
A photographic plate is a chem-=-
ical eye that dies the first-time its
lids are lifted. But though it dies,
it does not perish, and on its un
y
fading retina remains, clear and
distinet, the image of the only ob
ject it was destined ever to behold
Moreover, that image is often the
picture of an ‘object which the
human eye, however aided tele
scopically, could rever have dis
cerned.
Not only do many celestial ob
jects emit rays which fall outside
the range of light waves that im
press our eyes, but are, neverthe
less, effective in printing an image
on a chemically prepared plate, but
there are also stars so faint that
their feeble light awakens no re
sponse in the nerves of vision, al
though when falling steadily and
for a long time upon a sensitized
plate they gradually build up an
image by a process of accumula
tion. So in two ways photography
adds to the power of observation
of the astronomer.
Now, this new star.above spoke’n
of was found by Miss Mackie by
examining with a gnicroscope a
series of photographic plates show
ing a particular part of the Milky
Way in the constellation Lyra.
The photographs are taken night
after night, 8o thaa they mlake a
continuous graphic story of the
spot of sky within their hounda
ries. Anything that happens with
in that space will be recorded,
though on the eye as beheld it, as a
dictagraph catches secret conver
sations. The successive plates
are filed away and the inspectors
subsequently go over them with
exceeding care, noting any changes
that may appear. Such changes
are the syllables of the language
of the stars, understood by the
astronomer.
There is almost as much thrill
for the discoverer in finding out a
new star in this way and watching
its growth as there would be if
the object were actually seen in
the sky. Indeed, the apparition
must appear even more mysterious.
It seems that Miss Mackie noticed
on a plate taken December 4 the
image of a very faint star, of only
the sixteenth magnitude, a tiny ce
lestial ghost which had something
about it that arrested her attention.
The next night's photogravh
shewed the same image greatly di
lated. Another twenty-four hours
and a third photograph, taken on
December 6, revealed a tremendous
outburst, the star having actually
increased ten magnitudes-—that is,
10,000 times in brightness-—in the
space of about forty-eizht hours,
PUBLIC SERVICE
Caught "
IN TRE ‘Tb
Jamesß Nevir
OR savior faire and general all
F round gallantry and uncompro
mising loyalty to Atlanta, its
most cherished institutions and es
tablishments, commend me to such
as Col. Samuel W. Wilkes, w!'!o for
a good many yeirs now, has lov:
this town and cherished it witl
an ardor beautiful to see. ¥
Nobody ever had a truer friend
than “Sam” Wilkes—Atlanta never
possessed a more persistent )
more sincere booster, in season a
out, day and night, over time an
all the rest of it, world with |
end, amen! 3
66 AM” has elected himself a
S member of the I Remember
When Society, and comes
forward with this:
“Your reference to the Kimbajl
House in your column, ‘I remem
When,” February 5, reminds me that
‘I Remember’ it when in the full
glory of its splendid hospitality.
‘“I remember ,when the beauty
and chivalry of the town assembled
there twice a week to listen to the
concert given by Wurm’s Band on
the balcony which you mentioned.
(It was the best band that ever
played in the Kimball.) I remem-s
ber when the German Club usea
to dance in the ballroom, often lead
by Tom Payne and Dr. Frank Hol
land (deceased),
“l remember the joyousness of
these occasions ‘when eyes of love
looked eyes that spake again.
Fans .and hearts fluttered, and
smiles and soft words of chivalry
and admiration fell from lips made
eloquent by the inspiration of the
scene, and other things—there was
some punch to those evenings—and
those were boys and girls in that
happy era—but, the lobby of the
Kimball was charming resort of all
who wished an hour or evening of
real high life, or genuine sport.g
Here one met the prominence of
the State in all circles, law, judi
clary, commercial, agricultural and -
sporting. Thoroughbreds of that
time liked the old Kimball.
“Now, just back of the ‘lobby’ on
the north side is the rosewood
room, charming place in those days.
There the fellows, with one elbow
on the mahogany rail of the coun
ter and one foot on the brass rod
below, settled many of the most
important questions of the country,
after full and friendly discussion.
“l remember what a feast of
crystal beauty the large mirror,
glasses and decanters, thick and
thin, tall and low on the back coun- .
ter presented to the eye, and how
much more beautiful they became
the longer one remained. In those
days fellows loved each other, and
would loan each other money with
out collateral, but the real time in
the old Kimball was when there
was a political gathering in town,
then it was in the rose room there
was a ‘feast of reason and flow
of soul” which departed this life
when prohibition was born. It was
in this room, when General Gor-~
don was ‘elected governor, that
about twenty of the best men in
the State (I mean real men, good
fellows) danced a cotillion and the
Virginia reel, as the figures were
called by one of Georgia’s fore
most leaders. -
“After the dance we repaired to
Folsom’s where ‘Knight,’ known to
all, served a savory and satisfac
tory supper. Some of those boys
may still be with us and recall the
incident. - General Gordon and Gen
eral Toombs had both been in the
lobby during the evening, :
“Great times, those!
“Great evening that!
“Levi Scoville, great landlord!
“] saw recently where a fellow
was arrested for having a quart
of whisky in his automobile for
family use—just think or that!™
HY not permit me to forget it,
\X/ Sam, and let the process of
reconciliation that lately has
been going on in my mind pro
ceed and progress, in order?
By the way, do you remember
“Ed” Callaway, the head clerk of ~
the Kimball House for many joy
ous years?
Surely, there is not an old time
Georgian with soul so dead who
never to himself hath said, “Ed,
room me up, old sport, I'm here for
a few days!”
And “Mike,” the house de~tec-b=
tiff? Remember him? .
Sh-h-h! f
Order in the lodge room, please?
“Sam” is some little rememberer,
eh? I'll say he is!
OW that we know what the
N nature of the President’s sick~
ness was, the amazing thing
about it is that we were not told
sooner,
Just why the physicians of the
‘White House should have sur
rounded the presidential sickroom
with such a mass of mystery and
doubt is beyond the comprehension
of the like of me. The truth would
not have hurt anybody or anything;
it might—doubtless would—-have
headed off a lot of silly specula
tion, pro and con, and certainly
there is no citizen of the country
who would not have felt the keen
est regret and deepest sympathy, for
the patient; indeed, to have stated
frankly and openly the truth of the
matter—as Senator Moses unwit
tingly did, so far as the public is
concerned—in the beginning would
have inclined the nation most prob
ably to a kindly and considerate '
view of the President’s incapacity.
Instead of telling the American
people the exact and precise truth
—which is something the Ameri
can people like and appreciate, far,
far more than some people seem
to think—the physicians, headed
by Admiral Grayson, with the as
sistance of the mysterious and
sometimes irritating Mr. Tumulty,
evaded, sidestepped, even lied,
about the President’s ailment; and
it now transpires that what Sen
‘ator bfiu said, in a private let
ter, made public through no fault
of his, was merely the palin truth,
despite the White House physicians’
efforts to discredit it.
The President suffered a cerebral
lesion and a slight paralysis as a
result. Happily, he is doing ex?
ceedingly well and bids fair to make 4
a complete recovery. Thank God
for that!
But, why not have been honest
enough to say what was wrong, in
the beginning?