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And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all they soul, and with all thy mind,
and with all thy strength; this is the first command
meni. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt
love thy neighdor as thyself. And there is none other
sommandment greater than these~St. Mark, X11:30-
81.—Text today by the Rev. J. H. Coin, Pastor Gordon
Street Baptist Church.
THE TIME TO REMEMBER
WASHINGTON IS ALL THE TIME
HE birthday of George Washington has been duly
I celebrated in Georgia. Here in Atlanta it was
obgerved by various organizations with appro
priate and reverential ceremony. ‘
The greatness of the man, his wise and far-eeeing
gtatesmanship, his nnswerving patriotism—and, above
all, perhaps, his great common sense, all were recalled
to mind.
But we ghould not econtent ourselves with devoting
one day merely each year to econtemplating the great
ness of Washington, our first President.
¥or, after all, the one true test of greatness is the
test of Time.
That material thing which has withstood the rav
ages of years and the temper of the elements we
rightly place above the multitude of other lesser things
that disintegrate and fall away.
That character which challenges time to lessen its
reputation or the gossip of evil tongues to mar its
purity, holds properly and justly the higher place in
the world's estimates.
Tt is a hundred and twenty-one years since Wash
tngton died at his Mount Vernon home. But that
mansion looking out on the broad reaches of the Poto
mae is still the Mecca of thousands, the shrine of a
never-lessening reverence.
Kings have laid their opulent wreaths at the door
of his tomb, and the common people of all the nations
have bowed before his silent resting place.
He has been acclaimed by all the world, but what
has better pleased him, if he knows, Is that he has
been held a worthy and great example by his own
people.
Every American, whether he may have been born
under the flag of this country or chose by adoption to
make it his banner, should read the life of the man
who, childless, made a whole nation look to him as
its father and protector.
& More books have been written of Washington than
of any other American. An excellent resume of his
career, which has the advantages and disadvantages
of being written by a man who lived in his time, is by
John Marshall, chief justice of the United States
Supreme Court. Two comprehensive and reliable lives
are those written by Washington Irving and Senator
Lodge.
Of his speeches, letters and official communications,
there are numerous collections, easily obtainable at
any library.
In a few words, and those his own, one would gain
an idea of what made Washington the greatest Amer
fcan, the wisest of Presidents, the most far-seeing of
those who laid the foundations of this country; it is
to be found in a letter which he wrote to Lafayette:
“My politics,” he said, “are plain and simple. I think
every nation has a right to establish that form of gov
ernment under which it conceives it may live most
happy ; provided, it infringes no right or is not danger
ous to others; and that no governments ought to inter
fere with the internal concerns of another, except for
the security of what is due to themselves.”
That, The Georglan firmly belleves, is the basis
upon which real Americans still believe this govern
ment should be comducted; the basis upon which it
can be assured that continuance of prosperity, respect
and stability, which its founder with his great vision
hoped and planned, should be its uninterrupted history.
And just now, when we are considering the nomi
pating and electing of a President to succeed the
present chief magistrate of the nation—with Georgia
already in something of a fret and ferment, as parti
sans and small fry politicians squabble for petty con
trol—is a good time to think of measures and princi
ples, rather than men and party machlnery.
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THE MORE STUPID ONES
WHO GET CAUGHT
RIMINALS, an English prison doctor has con-
C cluded after a series of exhaustive lwvestiga
tions extending over a period of eighteen years,
“possess, as individuals, no characteristics, mental or
physical, which are not shared by all people.”
There is no criminal class. “Criminality,” he says,
“is not a morbid state akin to physical disease which
can be diagnosed and established by pure observation.”
Lombroso, who thought that lawbreakers could be
picked out by the shape of their heads or the angle
at which their ears stood out, was wrong. But Dr,
Goring did establish the fact that as a group men who
wind up in prison are physically and mentally defec
tive. “The tendency to be convicted and imprisoned
for crime is inherited at much the same rate as are
'other physical and mental qualities and pathological
conditions,” observed this writer,
Yet even this form of statement would have to be
corrected if one thought about the matter a little,
The tendency to be convicted and imprisoned for
erime is, after all, not the same thing as the tendency
to commit crime, The Georgian thinks, Getting caught
enters into the case. The very smartest lawbreakers
do not get caught as often as the stupid ones; there
fore the prisons are full of stupid and iguorant men.
Moreover, the disregard of the rights or feelings of
others which makes up part of the nature of a typical
criminal may, in a very intelligent person, lead to acts
which hurt other people, but which are not fllegal
As much real viciousness is required to cheat the gov
ernment in building the first trans-continental railways
as to hold up the stages which preceded the raillways,
If the rallway plunderers, bank wreckers and mounop
olists of this or any other generation were sent to jail
along with the ordivary thieves and sluggers the level
of intelligence within prison walls would rise.
In fact, it is almost safe to comnclude that the
eriminal type, In all its ramifications, is very meagerly
represented in the prisons. Rather is It the fallure
type, the men who couldn't leave women, booze or dope
alone. who get into prison.
In humdrum law-abiding jobs such men get through
lite almost unnoticed, but when they fall into nefurious
ways of getting & living they get eanght and studied
by sclentists. But they are all of a type, nevertheless,
And the unserupnlous and uuimaginative, out of jail,
are also of & Ype
THURsDAY—E ditorial Page of The Atlanta Georgian—FEß 2, 1920
A Lay Sermon
’ TACKLE THE TOUGH JOB FIRST.
One of the greatest gifts a man can have is the
| ability to select the most important thiug, and do
| that first.
The power of solection, do you have it, or are
you constantly running ardund in circles doing a
little here and a bit there, and finully overlooking
the really important matter? Y
Try writing down the things you feel you must
do tomorrow, and then put them each in the order
of importance,
You may find it a really difficult thing to do.
Also you may want to escape the most important
duty and so you may want to put it last,
But if you want to grow and eventually reach
the place where hard things seem easy, turn it the
other way round, and range your duties in order of
importance—and then keep to schedule.
It is a great deal harder to get down to simple,
foundational rules and facts than it is to dash in
and out, doing only such things as appeal to you
at the moment, and trusting to luck that there won't
be time for that hard thing, anyway.
Form the habit of doing things in the order of
their importance . ‘
SOME ASTONISHING THINGS
ENGLAND STILL CAN DO
NGLAND should pay the interest on her four-
E billion-dollar indebtedness, and if the United
States does not know what else to do with that
interest, it ean use it in providing properly for Ameri
ean soldiers who fought in the great war.
It is an astonishing thing that England has the
money to build the greatest battleships in the world
and America has not the money to put through a mod
erate naval program.
It iz an astonishing thing that England can spend
$2300,000,000 on her aerial navigation, while America
can only afford to spend one-tenth that amount.
It is an astonishing thing that England and Aus
tralia and the British colonies can afford to give
bonuses to their soldiers, while the United States
apparently can not afford to give bonuses or in any
way to take care of its soldiers or reward them for
their efforts, when it was their eflortf that won the
war.
And the most astonishing thing of all is that the
United States can not afford to do any of these very
necessary things, but can afford to lend money to
England. !
Unless, indeed, the most astonishing thing is that
Fngland can afford to do all of these things but can
not afford to pay even the interest on her debt to the
United States. .
No British colony would consent to be as sub
servient to English interests as the United States has
become.
No Dritish colony would tolerate a premier who
would put the country into the subject position toward
England that the United States has been put in,
No English colony would make such sacrifices of
its own independence, such surrender of its own re
sources, such abandonment of its own Interests, such
neglect of its own people as has been made of the
interests of America and Americans to promote the in
terests of England.
Our country has never before been put in such a
humiliating position, and it is an insult to the English
colonies to say that this is the position occupied by
them in their attitude toward England. '
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As we understand it, Mr. Hoover declines either to
point with pride or view with alarm, so far as the
Democratic nomination is concerned. Which imme
dlateiy will' strike the old-timers as an utterly impos
sible attitude, right off the bat!
U BRI U ROSE
Anyway, the new secretary of state has only about
a year to go; and surely he can keep in mind that
long who's boss. .
“Herbert Hoover is a Democrat,” says Senator
Boise Penrose of Pennsylvania. What the ————sl!
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| Letters From the People I
THANKING THE GEORGIAN.
Editor the Georgian:
The Northwest District of Georgia Christian En
deavor Union has requested me to write you in thelr
behalf a letter of thanks for your splendid co-opera
tion during our convention in this city, December 9-10.
The inclement weather and delay of trains did much
to make our convention a failure, but the newspapers
were right on hand.
We do appreciate the nice “write-ups” you gave us,
and want you to know that we do.
With best wishes for your success, I am
Yours in His Service,
: ELIZABETH L. STROUSS, Secretary.
Atlanta.
~ "WHY YANKS DO NOT CARE FOR ENGLAND”
1 Editor The Georglan:
| “An Argonne Yank,” writing in The Georgian, asks
some “pals” to tell “Why the Yanks do not care for
England.”
Well, in my nine years in the navy I never was in
port where there was an English ship but what the
“limiea” made insulting remarks and there were sev
eral battles. The gobs were not the ones carried back
to their ship. §
You can bet your newspaper that if Pngland asked
for that $13,000,000,000 from the doughboys or gobs
she would be out of luck, H G 1L
Charleston, 8. C.
DENIES SHIPS NEED LIQUOR.
Editor The Georgian:
The opinions of shipping experts that the sale of
liquor is necessary on passenger ships {s on a par with
the theory, now conclusively proved false, that liquor
| was necossary for the successful operation of factories,
' hotels, restaurants, amusement parks and other enters
prises
Under prohibition the general public patronizes
places that formerly supplied liquor, as generously
now as they did before prohibition became effective.
\ Atlanta, &00
LANSING FOR PRESIDENT,
’ Editor The Georgian:
Why not Robert Lansing for President? A statess
man, fine, strong and experienced, and standing for
the League of Natlons with reservatlions, CM W
Atlanta.
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: POLITICS AS IS,
(Albany Herald.)
We have politics in Georgia of
the variety out of which there
seems to spring, inevitably, a de
gree of bitterness out of all propor
tion to the importance of that
which is involved.
There ought to be interest in
politics, of course. It is only when
candidates have to fight for the of
fices they hold that they fully ap
preciate them, and when parties
are unopposed they are apt to grow
careless of their trusts. Still,
there is no reason in the world
why men in one party should re
gard with distrust or suspicion
everyvthing which men in other
parties do or attempt to do. It has
come to pass in the experience of
.the United States, however, that
political tolerance is almost un
known.
One looks to Congress, for in
stance, in a vain effort to find
something of a spirit of compro
mise as efforts are made to reach
agreement on pending legislation,
The fact that one party advocates
a certain thing is usually suffi
cient justification for the other
party to oppose that thing and
advocate another. Neither seems
to be able to see virtue in the
other.
It is a great pity that such is
the condition prevailing, for the
country is the victim of it all, and,
saddest of all, a helpless victim.,
SPRING IS AT HAND,
(Americus Times-Recorder.)
1f any planet is calling the earth
with wireless messages, says Dr,
Abbott of the Smithsonian Observa
tory, it's not Mars, but Venus. That
sounds mor? reasonable. Mars nas
finished his job., After war, love!
Many have noticed*the call.
A SAVANNAH VIEW,
(Savannah News,)
Mince pie and pudding with sauce
are sa'd to have risen in popularity
gince the decigion wus announced
that the former may legally con
tain a trace of brandy and the late
ter a Jigger or two of wine,
SHOULD SAY NOT.
(Birmingham Age-Herald.)
Simply because ltaly permitted a
fool poet to “capture” Flume and
declines (o dislodge him is no rea
gon why the Adriatic question
should be settled exactly the way
Italy wants it settled,
HOW ABOUT VOTES?
(Montgomery Advertiser.)
Mr. Marshall has a Democratio
platform in mind. Mr, Bryan has
one. Presumably Mr. Wilson will
have one. We shall not want for
issues.
OLD REMEDY REVIVED.
(Rome Tribune-Herald.)
The gold cure for the whisky habe
it has ecome back, for the meanest
variety is now worth its weight in
that substance.
'WABBLY FINISH ANTICIPATED,
(Cornelia Enterprise,)
Nineteen twenty starts out brave
ly, but only the Lord knows how
she will stagger in at the home
stretch.
Is It More Than a Mirage?
‘ By JAMES J. MONTAGUE. l
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London.—Explanations of Joe Beckett’s defeat by Georges
Carpentier on the ground that the latter exerted somé occult
force has many warm adherents among those who did not see
the battle.—Cable Dispatch,
When a pug who views the madly howling fight fans®
Through a devastated, macerated lamp
Of a sudden realizes, as he painfully arises,
That he’s lost the proud entitlement of champ,
For some soothing and consoling explanation
Of his soul-appalling loss he casts about,
And decides that though the punches of his rival came in bunches
It is really occult foree that knocked him out.
Here's an alibi the kaiser should have thought of
When he bumped against the bristling allied line,
And his badly frightened legions hurried rearward toward the
regions
That were safe behind the yellow, sheltering Rhine.
He could elaim that every time his men were routed
By the Yankees, French or English, foot and horse,
That they never were defeated, but most prudently retreated
When their armies felt the grip of occult force.
Now we understand the reason prohibition
Swept the country from New Mexico to Maine,
While the liquor-loving masses that compose the drinking classes
Found their wild appedls and protests were in vain,
The majority were backers of the Demon;
But along about the first of last July,
While a wholly helpless nation poured its lingering last libation,
There appeared an occult foree, and made us dry.
You and I, beloved reader, may discover,
When we try to be the country’s richest man,
That John D. and sundry others of our predatory brothers
Still retain the front positions in the van.
But we needn’t fret our souls with useless worry,
Or become unhappy vietims of remorse;
We'd have easily succeeded if we handn't been impeded
On the road to boundless wealth by occult force,
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Facts Concerning
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Washington
By S. A. AID.
OR a good many years George
F Washington practised his pro
fession, did much wilderness
surveying, hardened his muscles,
learned to live on gun and haver
sack, and gained in experience as
hunter, frontiersman and seout. In
1749 his brother, Lawrence, secured
his appointment as major and ad
jutant in the Virginia forces. Law
rence, by this time, had become
manager of the English Ohio Land
Company, which was opening great
tracts of land in the Ohio country.
The French, too, from Canada,
were claiming and occupying the
same territory and making alllances
with the Indian tribes. Here and
there they were building block
houses and forts. Governor Din
widdle of Virginia had sent a com
missioner to remonstrate against
this invasion, but, the envoy euf
fered an attack of cold feet and did
not reach the objective. Thereupon,
the governor gave the task to
George Washington, not yet 22. The
boy major promptly started out
with a few companions, encountered
many dangers, and obstructions
from hostile Indians in French pay,
visited the French posts and com
manders, learned all about their
forces and war resources, sketched
their defenses, and, after an ar
duous and perilous journey, found
himself at home, the provincial
hero of the day. This was in 1753.
He bad been successful in mis
&ion, had learned much of miiltary
and political value to his superiors,
and effected important agreements
with friendly Indian chieftaine, and
his work loudly was praised
throughout the province, The cool
Judgment and high courage, tact
and diplomacy he had displayed
made him a young hero in the eves
of all Virginians,
Washington's services and report
brought him a lleutenant colonel's
commission in Colonel Fry's Vir
ginia regiment. The report made
it plain that war eduld not be
avoided. Now began his life's bat
tle, not alone against enemles in
the field, but also against the spirit
of inertia, niggardliness, confusion.
clash of authority, graft and unpre
paredness, which have been the
bane and shame of America to the
present time, It was the same in
Virginia, Pennsylvania and Mary
land. All wanted to shoot and some
wanted to loot. There was a gen
eral rehearsal of the organization,
equipment and supply farces played
in 1776, 1812, 1846, 1861, 1898 and
1014,
/Thus ended Washington's first
eanipaign, and with disappoinment
and disaster; but it made him a
more mature and skillful soldier,
and rendered his young mind con
scious of what an American fleld
commander hae to expect from peo
ple at places where they give out
army contraets, Of course, his mod
ern succeseors have enjoyed the op
portunity to aee the same thing on
a more magnificant scale, For
example, Washington, all through
his career, never heard of any air
planes, except the one Elijah went
up in without a return tick~,
PUBLIC SERVICE
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IN THE .t
— Jamesß Nevi
.
HE visit of Miss Anne Morgan
I has been something of a rev
elation to Atlantans
Her principal embarrassment
seems to be that she can not pos
gibly tell all she has in mind-not
even a considerable fraction of Ap—¢
to any one audience that may ®e
assembled to hear her.
Miss Morgan is a remarkable
woman; a most unusual woman.
And she certainly is very earnest
in her work. There is no mistak
ing her splendid sincerity of pure
pose and her fi¥m-—even grim-—de
termination to carry it through.
Her organization is the only
American organization, with the
honorable exception of the organi,
zation on the Fatherless (hfld.i
of France, now working in do%
vastated France; her pride in
its achievements is Jjustly great;
her honest and plucky resolve to
see it through should challenge the
admiration and co-operation of all
~or, at least, of those people who
admire and applaud courage and
realize the importance to humanity
of “carrying on.” ”
France, since the war, seems lli(‘
too remote; her problems do not
interest us to the extent they once
did. “We have troubles of our
own.” That is our attitude; but
it isn't the worthy attitude. Nor
is it like us.
We are not a flippant people, and
we do not take the misfortune of
others lightly, however much we
may affect an all too airy pose at
times.
But we Southerners are slow to
awaken, nevertheless, to stories ,of
woe and sorrow unspeakable, such
as Miss Morgan recites in respect
of poor, crushed and devastated
France.
The pathos of it all so nearly 0%
erwhelms Miss Morgan as she un-<
dertakes to speak of it, that her
volce, earnest and serious with em
phasis, almost fails her at times,
and she apparently finds the great
est difficulty now and then In de
ciding just what part of the great
story she shall lay before her im
mediate hearers.
So frequently she says, “Oh,
please ask me questions; I want to
tell you of the things you are in
terested in and to discuss with you
the phases of this tremendous
problem that appeat the most to
you. I can not tell you very muegJ
in the short time I have with y
in any event!”
Miss Morgan’s address before the
Kiwanis Club on Tuesday was most
impressive. Certainly, she got her
message home to one fine body of
men in Atlanta, anyway.
She doesn’t undertake to say how
she may be helped financially; she
does undertake to say her organi
zation greatly needs money, She
knows of plans that have been suc
cessfully carried out in respect of
this in other cities, and she will
tell of them: but she does not rec
ommend any particular plan to any
particular city.
She leaves the question of ways
‘and means to the conscience and
sense of responsibility of the eit
fes she visits.
The Kiwanis Club has deter
mined to assume leadership in this
matter of getting Atlanta in line
to do her part in this work. That's
fine, too; for I know of no organi
zation better equipped for such
service,
The Kiwanis Club, through a se
lect committee, already has con
ferred with Miss Morgan in that
matter, and plans are under way.
The club has been assured of the
hearty and active co-operation, too,
of the committee of citizens spon
soring Miss Morgan's visit to At
lanta—and that will help might
ily.
Certainly, the work this woman
is doing is noble and fine—and it
should, and will, appeal to the mind,
heart and conscience of our people.
Miss Morgan, by the way, is a
daughter of the late J. Pierpont
Morgan, but she still would be a
remarkable and magnificently help
ful woman, if that were not true.
What shé is, she—juet is. That's
all!
SUPPOSE it is all right and
I proper to agitate continually
against the bootleggers and
blind tigers hereabout; they are a
pest'ferous lot and ths polson they
peddle certainly is vile® that is—
ahem!--80 they tell me., But there
are other law hwanlrarg,
1 do think that a most serious
and sustained atte: )t should be
made to break up the wholesale
stealing of automobiles that nightly
goes on in Atlanta, seemingly with
out particular interference.
We hear a good deal about what
Is going to be done, and what it
!s pronposed to do, and the dire and
dreadful fate in store for all future
anutomobile thieves. But the thieves
themselves appear to take little
heed of the brav: words thus
spoken,
Maybe it is because they have
been hearing these same sort of
words for a mighty long time now,
and are of the matured opinion
that, while they are frighttul
sounding words, thev don’t mean
anything,
Automobiles are stolen in whole
gale quantities every night. Nobody
seemg Immune; ng parking place
apparently {s too public for these
gents to operate | Indeed, the
birrer and brightc the light, where
the car is left, the more likely it
seems it will not be there when
its owner returns.
What I think is, the people of
Atlanta are getting tired of having
it explained to them merely that
this sort of thing gues on, for this
or that reason. There {8 nothing
much left to be said on that side of
the question. Everybody admits it
goes on. What folks would like to
see I 8 some definite, effactive and
sustalned action, looking to the
ending, for now and all time, of
these depredatio: s,
There should be a sufficlent chal
lenge to the police foree in this
#ituation, #0 many people think, to
bring from them their very best
efforts: and that they will permit
their best efforts (. f"1 short of
success s not In keeping with the
traditions and history of the @e
partment,
And, anyway, it is a sorry adver
tisement for Atlanta that automo
bile stealing i= about the casiest
thing the Atlanta erooks kmow!