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Love ye your enemics, and do good.—~Luke VI 35—
Text today by the Rev. W. C. Schaefer Jr., Pastor’
Church of the Redeemer. 7 ;
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE UNITED
NATION’S REVERED DEAD
BRAHAM 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 hloody and terrible war.
The South understands him better now than once
she did.
Time has revealed those qualities of manhood and '
eourage that, in the nature of things, could but have
been obscured to our vision immédiately following
the war. i
And in the clearer vision of this day and hour,
with the republic lately emerged from another Wwar,
in which, thank God, American brother stood sheulder
to shoulder with American brother from one end of
the nation to the other, Lincoin 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 l
would have been visgited 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 sublimést
of motives. |
Peace to Lincoln's asbes and green Le his memory
forevermore. . ]
He is as much the South's revered dead today as e |
is the North's. ‘
In the sbining perspective of today he,stands forth
@ man and a statesman, close to the hearts of all the
people, regardless of gection or prévious bitterness of
thought and melancholy of misanderstanding. ] \
THE TREND TOWARD CHURCH ?
UNITY IN AMERICA ; i
—~\ ECENTLY assembied statistics of a reliable and
R authoritative character show that the South,
where pure-blooded Americans most abound, is,
of all kections, the most religious, |
And this, coupled with the fact that there is now
as never before a trend of thought and action toward 1
chureh unity and interdenominationgl co-operation, |
makes the movement of religious bodies generally and
peculiarly interesting to the people of, Ditle.
There are said to be 186 divisions of the American
Protestant Church. The waste and, uselessness in
volyed in thig situation have aroused thoughtful lead- 1
ers among both laity and clergy all over the nation.
It is not expected that organic union can come at |
ouce; but those religious bodies of closest kin and {
large influence are getting together and in some cases |
¢ven organic union seems to be possible, ‘
The Council on Organic Unlon of the Evangelical
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
jts first meeting in December, 1918, The plan pro
% the creation of a body to be known as the
“United Churches of Christ in Awmerica."” All denomi
nations will be representéd on a just basis of member
#hip.
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
pationalism. . 1
~ Great as the influence of the church is today, it
geems shorn of much of its vitality by reason of un
bmflaary division.
The spirit of the age is toward co-operation, as
truly in religion as in economics.
A basix for unmcalkm‘n the essentials of Chris
tianity is something to pray for.
THE FARMER TRULY IS THE
‘BACKBONE OF THE NATION'
FEORGIA is an agricultural State. In point of
G population it is four-fifths rural and one-fifth
e urban. In point of wealth it is heavily rural,
as weulth{ as some of the cities and big towns are.
Georgians, therefore, should be interested in the
'wuu- of agriculture in this nation; Georgla has played
a big fmrt in establishing the facts and figures that
follow :
The total value of the farm products of the United
States for 1910 is almost §25,000,000,000, or about as
much as the war with Germany cost our government;
or $2,000,000,000 more than the combined national
debts of the United States, Great Britain, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy, Japan, Russia,
Belgium and Greece before the war; or $3,000,000,000
more than the total national wealth of Italy before the
war; or $2,000000000 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
wealth of Bulguria or Turkey before the war; or
pearly three times the total note circulation of all
the belligerent powers at the outbreak of the war; or
pearly five thues the total amount of money in eireu-
Jation in the United States last July. :
In other words, it is a great deal of money and a
geat deal of value, It is more than S2OO per capita.
This is what the farmers did--the rustic popula
tion which lives out in the country, where “nothing
happens.”
Not by the hurrying, strutting, pretending, money
grasping great men of the cities: not by the humdn
ants that beat up and down the pavement hour after
hour; not by the men at Washington, nor the self
jmportant creatures who spend theirs 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 afd tools they worked with and some
of whom did not, but all of whom grappled directly ‘
with pature and won.
All of this wealth came from the earth. It was not
earned by gambling, it was mot carned by pleasing
addredd, or good clothes, or a lucky marriage, or rich |
solativks, or office polities, or auy kind of luck or |
THURSDAY—Editorial Page of The Atlanta Georgian—rEs 12 192
THE MATTER OF LIBERTY.
Institute the law of perfect liberty in God and
you will elimihate the seifish bigotry that claimg
moré for one than another.
You will make all our citizens willing law abiders
and all equal béfore the law. Broaden the sphere
of inflyence from the community to thé nation and
you will have an ideal nation.
Lét this sph:‘;e 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
sweetness of the music of the Celc&gual_ City will
fill the earth as though it was the voice of one great
artist speaking for the world of mankind. .
It is the perfect law of liberty where the rich
and poor alike, one in purpose and one ih sympa
they, laboring together with God.
[ 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 as much of it a 8 they should,
But they did produce it. They created it,
And they are the people!
SUPPOSE SOME OF THESE
THINGS HAD HAPPENED!
CABLEGRAM froh Warsaw announces that
A when Paderewski heard of Lloyd George's re
fusal to help Poland he seized a hatchet,
smashed his own plano 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 exclaind,
“What a pity!”
It would he a great misfortune if the virtuoso's
petulant example were to become popular ameng the
great of the earth,
Suppuse 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 subsctiption to the Ladies Home
Journal.
Or that the Mikado of Japan, when it came rmov
ing day- in Shantung, were to kick a hole in his
favorite drum and invést all his money in Russian
rubles !
_Or that the President of Nwitzerland, just because
the league of Nations didn’t aliow him a navy, were
to cut out his yodel and stop up all the holes In his
cheére !
The possibilities which Paderewski's rash, spectac
ular act evokes are truly terrifying.
‘Not is/fhere any reason to feel secure that the in
fection of his examwple will be confined to the great of
the earth. It may spread, even like the “flu,” among
the veéry commonest people,
Some street cleaner, dismayed by the loss of Wil
gon's fourteen points, may, in his rage, destroy his
phonograph and beat hig wife. Or some organ grinder,
after reading his congressman’s speech, may throw a
brick at Caruso and join the American Security
League.
The ripple of a stone cast into the sea travels
farther than the eye can see. The human mind can
not possibly grasp the consequences of such a startling
act as that of Paderewski, -
Incidentally one can not help wondering what
concern offered him $200,000, It certainly was neither
the Squeedunk Lyceum Bureau nor the American
Safety Razor Company.
“Britons to allow Awmerican people to take own
path,” reads a headlive 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. 5 o
The lunatics in a Hawalidn asylum have gone on a
strike. The old idea used to be that the lunatics were
the first to strike.
It is beld that & man who dies of alcohol poisoning
“need not be embalmed.” Further embalmed, we sup
pose It means.
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l Letters From the People l
WOULD COMPEL EVERY ONE TO VOTE.
Editor The Georglan:
The claim of radicals that voting is too slow must
be qualified to réad that American voting is too slow.
The average American does not vote.
The only way to make all men free and equal is in
the few minutes spent in the precinct booth.
If men and womeh knew that failure to vote carried
with it fine and Ilmprisonment, logically they would
vote. = Is O
| Acworth, Ga
| FROM A DISABLED BOLPIER.
Editor The Georgian:
Knowing the interest your paper takes in disabled
service men, I wish to ask a favor of you.
Am lying 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., 28th Div, 116th Inf.)
Qreenville, 8, C. |
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| ONE CAUSE OF HIGH WAGES AND PRICES.
i Editor The Georgian:
| The present epidemic of high prices is largely due
\ to the government's policy of allowing contractors to
| pay from $8 to sls p—er day for labor in shipyards,
construction of army camps, ete.
Such procedure resulted in immediate demand for
increased wages in all essential industries.
. Atlanta. E NG
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 (imes, would be for & loan of about
$099,000,000.
Venus p\vas 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
hums waere contentment dwells;
where honor and good will ablde—
the home where each inmate has
pictured on his or her face the
greatest joy and where even the
walls and doorposts reflect the
light and strength of happiness
and character. The home of my
dream 18 the home of broad, well
arranged apartments, the painted
home—-the home where flower
vards grow rich in profusion and
where the gardens, orchards and
fieids yield forth abundant increase
for the support 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 barnvard, 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 imachinery—
where the farmer lives who\ be
longs to the community organizas
tions, attends and -takes part in
them: where 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 coms=
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 dn east
ward ride and grabbed the gaule
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 I 8 VERY SAD,
(Montgomery Advertiser.)
Ex-King Constantine of Greece
is 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, e says. And he refuses
to “recognize” the marriage.
ASK “BILL,” HE KNOWS,
(Augusta Chronicle.)
Rear A¢miral Sims charges the
navy was not prepared to enter
war in 1817, We refer the admi
ral to the kaiser for information
on the subject.
A WHEREFORELESS WHY,
(Mdeon Telegraph.)
We all know the American troops
are coming back from Siberia, byt
nobody ‘seems to lznow why they
went. el J
More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
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HOW THE CROW LOST HIS VOICE.
I've found out why the old black erow
That caws the whole day long,
As he sweeps swinging to and fro
Can never sing a song.
I heard it from a tiny lad, -
Yet every word is true; ;
I eard it from a tiny lad,
And here it is for you:—
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
Abové their best soprano notes
‘ His voice rang clear and strong.
But he was greedy, was the crow,
And when came autumn time
And all the birds 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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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. )
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The Thirty-Fifth
New Star
By GARRETT P. SERIVISS.
HE thirty-fifth new star seen
since astrénomical observa
. tions began to be authenti
cally recorded has just been dis
covered' 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 eof astro
nomical K}}acoveries at present are
made in that manner,
A photographic plate is a chem
ical eye that dies the fivet time its
liMds are lifted. But though it dies,
it does not perish, and on its un
fading retina remains, clear and
distinct, the image of thé only ob
,’ect it was destined ever to behold
Moreover, that image is often the
pictare of an object which the
buman eye, however aided tele
scopically, could rever have dis
cerned.
Not only do many celestial ob
fects emit rays whieh fall outside
the range of light waves that im
press uvir 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
thuugh 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 twe ways photography
adds to the power of observation
of the astronomer.
Now, this new star above spoKen
of was found by Miss Mackie by
examining with a gicroscope 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, so thaa they make a
continuous graphie story of the
spot of sky within their bounda
ries. Anything that happens with
in that space will be recorded,
though on the eve as beheld it, as a
dictagraph catehes secret conver
sations. The successive plates
are filed aw®Sy and the inspectors
subsequently go over them with
*exceeding care, noting any changes
that may appear. Such changes
are the syllables of tle language
of the stars, understood by the
astronomer.
There is a2lmost 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 photograph
showed the same image greatly di
lated. Amnother twenty-four hours
and a third photograph, taken on
December 8, revealed a tremendous
outburst. tkwe star having actoally
inéreased ten magnitudes—that is,
10,000 times in hrightness—in thé
space 8f about forty-eizht hours,
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Jamesß Nevin
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, who for
a good many years now, has loved
this town and cherished it with 4
an ardor beautiful to see,
Nobody ever had a truer friend
than “Sam” Wilkes—Atlanta never
possessed a snore persistent or
more sincere booster, in season and.
out, day and night, over time and
all the rest of it, world without
end, amen! I
¢ AM"” has elected himself a
S member of the I Remember
When Society, and comes
forward with this:
“Your reference to the Kimbali
House in your column, ‘I remembey
When,” February 5, reminds matm
‘l. Remember’ it when in the full
glory of its splendid hospitality.
“I remember when the beauty
and chivalry of the town assembiled
there twice a week to listen to the
concert given by Wurm's Band on
the balcony which yeou mentioned.
(It was the best band that ever
played in the Kimball.) I remem
ber when the German Club usea~
to dance in the ballroom, oftén lfl{!
by Tom Payne and Dr. Frank Hol
land (deceased),
© "I remember the joyousnesg of
these occasions ‘when eyes of love
fooked eyes that _spake again.’
Fans and hearts flattered, ampd
smiles and soft words of chivalry
and admiration fell from lips made
eloquent by the inspiration of the
scene, and other things—there was
sonmie 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 évening of
real high life, or genuine sport.
Here one met the prominence oOf ¢
the State in all circles, law, judi
ciary, 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 d:!a.
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.
“I remember what a feast of
crystal beauty the large mirrar,
glasses and decanters, thick and
thin, tall and low on the back coun
tér 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 lifé ¢
when prohibition was b‘orp. 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.
“Afterthe dance we repaired to
Folsom's Where ‘Knight,’ known to
all, served a savory and satisfac
tory supper. Sofhe of those boys
may still be with us and reecall the
incident. General Gordon and Gen
eral Téombs had both been in the
lobby during the evening.
“Great times, those!
“Great evening that!
“T.evi Scoville, great landlord!
“T saw recently where a fellow
was arrested for having a quart
of whisky in his automobile for
family use—just think of that!”™
HY not permit me to forget it,
WSam, 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, “Rd,
room me up, old sport, I'm here for
a few days!”
And “Mike,” the house de-tec-i
--tiff? Remember him?
Sh-h-h!
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 gwhy the physicians of the
White House¢ should have sur
rounded the pregidential 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
fra,nkl)fnd openly the truth of the
matier-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 dappréciate, 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 Sens
ator Moses said, in a private lét
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
legion and a slight paralysis as a
result. Happily, he is doing ex
ceedlngly well and bids fair to make
a complete recovery. Thank God *
for that!
But, why not have been honest
enough to say what was wrong, in
the beginning?