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TRUTH--JUSTICE
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If @ man say, I love God, and hatoh his brother, he ia
a liar; for he that logetß not his brother, whom Re
hath seen, how can ke love God, whom he hath not
seen =ll John, IV 20—Text today by the Rev,
George Plumer Merrill, Pastor Central Congregational
Church.
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LABOR CAN ILL AFFORD TO
COUNTENANCE REPUDIATION
HE striking street car employees of Atlanta will
T find it diffeult in the extreme;to jutify their
\ attitude before the gemernl public—those citi
zens of Atlanta who gre. dependent upon the car serv
{ce in their dally affairs, now being seriously incon
venienced and damaged by the present situation.
1t is hard to see how the present status of affalrs
is to be untungled and reasonably adjusted, however,
unless the men retrace, as a condition precedent to
. further effort, the unfortunate and misguided step they
took when they violated their solemn agreement to
abide by the award of the arbitration board—a board
in which the umpire finally agréed upon was a man of
their own suggestion. :
Unfon labor can hardly countenance an attitude of
deliberate violation of arbitration awards, if unlon
labor expects to stand hereafter upon the strongest
and most appealing plank it ever has offered the public
as & bid for its favor. ® g
No one disputes the right of labor to refuse to
function, in the face of adverse conditions and unfaft
stipulations. The right to strike is fuherently
upon the right of an individual g 0 work or nm
interests and consclence direct. Collective bargaining
{s an admitted safeguard that labor i{s entitled to in
voke. i
But the first avenue of adjustment of digputes be
tween honest labor and honest ecapital is by way of
arbitration, falthfully and sincerely entered into and
accepted by bhoth parties. It is the big and mighty
bulwark of labor against oppression, and it is the
mighty and effective bulwark of capital against ex
treme demands.
Arbitration means an honest policy 'of “give and
take ;” it means justice and right, equitably arrived at.
, If it does not mean that, then arbitration is a fail
ure, and union labor has lost the mightiest appeal it
ever advanced for public favor,
There is little or no efmpathy in Atlanta for the
strikers in thelr present attitude of repudiation of a
«olemn arbitration agréement, however much there may
he for them in thelr effort to secure living wages and
tolerable condltions, >
Every good citizen wishes to gee labor honestly,
fuirly and satigfactorily rewarded for its work. No
man with.a desire to gee this dear country of ours
prrogress along liges of happiness and content can wish
less than that for labor. . :
Hut labor will not have the sympathy of the pablic
#0 long as it violates solémn agreements, entered into
at its own invitation and with its own consent. He
who seeks justice must do justice. There is no other
platform labor can afford to stand upon.
The striking street car men of Atlanta should re
turn to their job,.accept the arbitration award in
good faith, as they promised.
If they do that, the sympathy of the public will
remain with them in their efforts to better their con
dition. 1f they persist in their present stubborn and
wholly wrong attitude, théy will not recetve that pub
lic sympathy so vital to their cause.
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WHAT HAVE WE DONE FOR
OUR SOLDIER BOYS?
X NYONE who read the papers in the summer of
: A 1917 would have thought that vothing was or
ever could be too good for the soldiers and
~ sallors. And unt!ll the war was over nothing was.
Then there were parades, and then the public pro
ceeded to forget about the men who had gone about
the fighting.
This was all very well for those who had ecome
back healthy and whole and who were just as anxious
~ as anyone to .put behind them the days when they
worked for IPershing. But it has been hard on those
who came back disabled or sick. The negleet which
these men have suffered {s evident everywhere. No
where have they received more than limited attention,
They have had food, shelter and medicine, but almost
nothing has been done to restore them to usefulness in
eivil life. The federal board for vocational education
has been, as newspaper investigations have recently
shown, & dismal failure,
The stories of men of all ranks who gave every
thing to their country and got nothing back are pitiful
in the extreme. Many of them have not even re
ceived the small return that comes in some progres
sive States to workmen injured in the battle lines of
* industry. All have been promised more than they
bave received.
It is these wounded and crippled men who are in
desperate need of a war bonus, and of more than a
bonus. They ought to be generously provided for,
not as charity, but as a right.
» It is intolerable that windy orators should spout
over their memories in days to come, that monu
ments should be erected in their honor, that their
battles should be glorified in the school histories, and
that they themselves, living and in need, should be
neglected.
Better forego the oratory and do the neighborly
thing new--then the oratory and monuments will be
much in order. 5
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CONCERNING SMALL AND SO
CALLED UNIMPORTANT THINGS
SYCHOLOGY 1s a busy word. It pops out of
P mafly mouths a thousand times a day. And
though we talk much of psychology, we do not
know a great deal of any other human being' desire,
Germany went to smash because of a whole nation's
ignorance of the psychology of other races.
We are told thizs constantly-—it will probably be
given in the histories as the cause of the world war—
and the implication is strong that the other nations
do understand. But is it really true?
Herbert Adams Gibbons says in “Asfa:” “Do not
all nations fail in their appreciation of the mass
psychology of other nations?” Where another people
differs do we not think it is inferior? »
The chief Anglo-Saxon doctrine concerns itself with
soap. Cleanliness i 4 a fetich, and any nation which
hoen not consume four pounds of soap per capita each
FRIDAY-Editorial Page of The Atlanta Georgian—MAßCHlZll92o
CHRISTIANITY'S HOUR.
We have learned the unspeakable waste, the
criminal folly, of a divided command.
We have learned it on a thousand fields of
red disaster. So the church must not be divided.
Now is Christianity’s hour. Christianity must
message every cry of the world's heart, for it alone
has a ministry for every meed of man's soul. And
the church—the church of Christ——the church mil
itant and united, ig¢ Ged's only hope, His final plan.
Then what perils of the pessimist shall intimi
date us?
1f only we are true, we can not fail.
Let us go forward as those who possess the end
from the beginning. Burning behind us the bridges
of denominational selfishness and : sectarian sus
picion, let us adventure our faith,
_ We muet dare much, or lose all. And faith “is
the vietory that overcometh the world.”
year is degenerate. The deadliest fling against the
bolshevists is the imputation that they hate soap, and
the most cheerful news from Spain in many years is
the recent mm:umament “that the wider use of soap
among the Spanish masses is a large factor in the
industrial revival and political liberalization.” This
thrills every snob of the bathtub, and there is no snob
quite so insistent as the knight of the early morning
bath. o
The American soldier in France failed to under
stand the French officer who trimmed his mustache and
ghaved before going into battle, or the poilu who car
ried a little bottle of perfume in his knapsack.
Only long residents of Mexico ever understand
Mexican business methods. One tourist télls how he
tried to buy the entire stock of an old fruit seller.
Oranges were 1 cent apiece, and he wanted to buy all
four dozen—for 48 cents. The old man refused to
gell except for 80 cents, explaining that if he sold all
at one time he would lose the pleasure of a day’s
transactions.
Travelers in Turkey meet merchants who refuse to
sell to Christians, who do not care to be disturbed,
who care only to sit before their ghops smoking their
narghilahs in peace. And French brides in America
ean not understand the terrible extravagance of or
dering the day’s marketing sent home in an automo
bile instead of carrying it in a basket.
These may be small points of psychology, but the
fates of nations and the peace of the world may de
pénd on their understanding. The question of soap
and its general use may divide a world and send a
million men to death. We hunt trouble when we try
to reform before we undertand.
F'“ield Marshal Foch credits his good health to
“rope-jumping,” according to a cable. Knowing the
ropeg, and how and when to jump them, long has been
considered conducive to good health among politicians.
Let's see; the income tax decision will cest “Uncle
Sam” about $300,000,000 per annum and prohibition will
cost him about an additional $500,000,000. The more
we chew our taxation problems, the bigger they get.
“The dollar haircut is in sight,” says an official of
the barbers’ union. . A little more of that sert of thing,
however, and customers probably won't be.
I Letters From the People l
COLLEGE GRADUATES.
Editor The Georgian:
Why does Mr. Ogden Armour praise college educa
tion? We venture a guess. Because he is a practical
man; and, above all things, college education is prac.
tk‘al.
Practical how? Not because it gives a man voca
tional training. A man may go through college--most
of them do—and come out not knowing any more cer
tainly how he means to earn his living than when he
went in. He may have studied Latin, Greek and
higher mathematics almost exclusively., He may have
taken a dozen courses in angient history and English
literature. If he goes into the business of making
cheese, or selling bonds, he will find very little call for
Greek or Keats. But-—he will make better cheese and
sell more bonds.
Why? Because he will have learned how to go at
things. He will have learned how to collect informa
tion, how to organize it, how to reason from it. And
the only really practical education for the average
man 18 just that. .
He (‘arLlenrn the same things in business. Only it
takes himh longer. He wastes more time in the
process, That is the only difference, so far as the
practical side is concerned.
Plenty of people compare the failures among col
lege men with the successes among noncollege men.
Thm gets nowhere. Compare the average among col
lege men with the average among noncollege men.
That tells the story.
Ahy intelligent man sometimes learns to think.
The college man, if intelligent, learns quicker. It's
all in that. VARSITY ‘O2.
Atlanta.
ARE TURKS STILL TO RULE CHR!STIANS?
Editor The Georgilan: <
My sister, Mairanie Yardumian, wife of the Rev.
Krikor Yardumian, D. D, who was one of thoge mur
dered by Turks during the Armenian massacre and
depor®ations, with her four children, was among the
survivors in Aintab. f
Last December 1 received a letter from her and
from one of her daughters, Mlle. Puzantouhi, my niece,
for the first time during five years, I sent them a
check, registered, care of the Rev. Merrrill, In Aintab,
two months ago. 1 received no answer. | was ex
pecting letters from her son, Herant, and daughter,
Kransuch, who were working and teaching in Aleppo.
I had written them that as soon as I received their
next letter | would help them again.
They have not answered. I am afraid they have
become victims of another slaughter, as I hear that
Turks started to massacre surviving Armenians at
Marash and Aintab-—these poor remnants of the for
mer massacres, mostly women and children.” 1 have
&ince lost sleep, rest and comfort. !
I am making this public to ask The Georgian and
other great American newspapers to raise their voices
in protest against the proposal to allow the Turks to
remain a nation and to continue to rule the Christian
. Chicago, . . .
peoples of Asia Minor. 7 J. J. 8
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Comment
“NEW POOR.”
(Savannah News.)
That expression, the “new rich,”
has been in evidence for years.
America had many ‘“‘new rich"—in
dividuale and firms and families
whe suddenly acquired millions and
had their heads turned so that they
could pat themselves on the back
while the rest of the folks laughed
at the stunt.
Even now there are many breeds
of the “new rich”—profiteers from
war activities, lucky strikers in the
oil business and others.
Somebody has suggested, how
ever, that these unusual times have
produced another class—the “néw
poor” persons and families who
have ben bearing the burden of
the extraordinary seasonsg without
reaping any of the extraordinary
harvest of coin, who have for the
first time in their lives found that
though they have as much income
as ever it outgoes so much faster
that there ls a pinch here and a
strajn there and a need for frugal
ity and economy that they never
had to practise in the former years.
The poor we have with us always,
the “new rich” we see occasion
ally: and now we have the “new
poor.” \
FAIR WARNING.
(Boston Bostonian.)
If vou want somebody bawled
out about something don't ask the
editor of this paper to do it—do
it yourself. The editor has hils
hands full in trying to make this
gheet 'a friendly community news
paper rather than a public spy
glass, with which to seek out the
shortcomings of our neighbors and
friends. And, besides, we have
neither time nor space to devote
to factional bickerings. Our policy
is one of construction rather than
one of obstruction. So if your old
time enemy needs a walloping, just
roll up vour sleeves and go to it,
but don't look to us for any help.
ANOTHER VIEWPOINT.
(Montgomery Advertiser.)
The superintendént of Louisville's
eity “schools declares that matri
mony, not low saalries, is she thing
that is most responsible for the
teacher shortage. You see it is this
way: The little scholoma'am is em
inently eligible to matrimony, and
among her charms is that she has
prattised personu! economies so
long that she understands how to
stretch a husband's income further
than many who haye had less prac
tical experience.
SOMEWHMHAT ENCOURAGING.
(Waycross Herald-Journal)
Little is known of Bainbridge
Colby, the newly appointed secre
tary of state, except that he is a
responsible business man, and that
{s quite a relief. Most of our pol
iticians are sadly wanting when it
comes to business bratn.
OR FALL FOR?
(Rome Tribune-Herald.)
Rays the Savannah News: “Tt is
intimated that it is not so much
what Hoover stands for as it is
what he will stand for, that's
bothering the polllh-imu.“ That de
pends . -largely jon where -he
stands at. 3
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DISTRESSING NEWS.
A movie actor has been arrested for complicity in a New York
robbery.
When the burglar only knew his crooked trade
And plied it in his bungling, burgling style,
We could view his operations undismayed
And defy him with a sneering, jeering style.
For a burglar’s but a burglar after all—
Just a dabbler in the simplest sorts of crime—
The dimensions of his intellect are small,
And detectives could out-think him every time.
But when movie actors fall on evil days,
Prowling roand with guns and jimmies every night,
Stealing through deserted streets and darkened ways,
It is time to view the future with affright.
I confess thta I'd awaken with a start
And prepare, as best 1 could, to meet my doom
Any time that Mr. William Sureshot Hart
Loomed, at midnight, in the doorway of my room.
If Doug Fairbanks sought to burglarize my flat,
I should wait him with a foolish, frightened grin,
While my palpitating heart went pit-a-pat,
For there’d never be a doubt but he’d get in.
=~ Should I cateh Houdini going through my pants,
All in vain for help to hold him I might shout,
For there wouldn’t be a shadow of a chance;
When he once got good and ready, he’d get out. .
_ Burglars haven’t made much trouble through the years =
They are just a notch above the missing link;
They are never very high above the ears,
And a good, sueccessful eriminal must think.
But if movie actors turn to lives of crime
When they find the bank roll’s gone a little shy,
And go out for loot and plunder, it is time *
That we kissed our cash a long and last good-bye.
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Even Financiers Nod.
* The bankers that have bonded warehouse certificates in their
vaults now wish they had put the booze there instead.
: And Welcome.
If Great Britain really“insists on that $13,000,000,000 loan
let's give it to her—in bonds of the Irish Republiec.
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American Dead
In France
By THE SPECTATOR.
T is a delicate task to éndeavor
l to argue with any one about
what should be done in respect
to the dead. It is almost wholly a
matter of sentiment, and of senti
ment the most sensitive. Some
prefer the graveyard, with the
peaceful grasses growing where
the beloved sleep, a mute promise
of the resurrection. To sorme the
idea of a tomb or mausoleum ap
peals, where the dead may sleep in
marble and art can adorn their last
house. Others favor crémation,
with its significance of purifica
tion by fire, and the mortal body
passing quickly back to its original
elements. Discussion of the merits
of these, respective methods has
néver peen Of much advantage.
But in the matter of the dead
soldiers, whose bodies now lie in
France, the weight of normal senti
ment seems strongly to lie upon the
side of leaving them in that land
where they fell.
It would, in the first place, be
very difficult ‘to identify and re
cover the bodies. Many of them
were mangled beyond recognition,
and the names on the crosses above
them are none too dependable, as
they were buried and their graves
marked in the confusion following
battle,
But the strongest consideration
is that these heroes most fittingly
lie where they can continue that
work for which they spent their
Nving energies. ‘They fought for
liberty and to save France, and
resting in the soil, of France they
are a continual inspiration to the
world. They still serve thelr
country, .
Where they are they supply the
best of all links between France
and the United States. Little chil
dren will visit their graves, and
drink in with their earliest impres
sions gn affection for this great
heighbg\- over the sea that came to
the rescue of their country. With
these dead in her care it would be
difficult to conceive of France ever
entertaining a feeling of hostility
toward América.
While some parents are anxious
to have the remains of their sons
brought hame, it is safe to say that
the majority are more content
that they should lie where they fell,
for ‘“the noblest place for man to
die i 8 where he dles for man.”
Their passing thus retains its ideal
beauty, all the more a spiritual
benediction becauseé no material
thing remains save in a far-off
field.
A major general of the American
forces recently received a letter
from the mayor of Bony, France,
describing a pilgrimage made by
the inhabitants of that town to the
cemetery where lie the American
dead. There repose 1,680 American
boys who sacrificed their lives in
an assault upon the Hindenburg
line nearby, September 23 to 30,
1918,
The letter reveals forcibly the
deep reverence in which the French
people hold the memory of those
lads of another tongue and coun
try who lent them such gallant ald
in their desperate struggle for ex
{stence. It demonstrates conclu
sively the effect upon the people of
France of the presence of those
white crosses which mark dpon the
breast of the Old World where the
life blood of the New was spent,
Shall we remove that mark?
PUBLIC SERVICE
Qeorgia
Politics
By James B. Nevin
T is difficult to gragp the melan-
I choly fact that George zonz of
the Macon Telegraph. isß no
more.
Only a few days since he was
here in Atlanta, in The Georgian
office, full of life and virile energy;
thoughts of death were far re
_anoved from his mind, I think. If
ever a man seemed filled with the
unyielding zest to live and the am
bition to achieve, it surely was,
George Long.
And yet—today. It seems very
strange, somehow- ¥
Of all who might bave been
summoased in haste to the other
shore, George!
George Long was an exceptional
' hewspaper man. And I do not mean
80 much in his ability to write well,
in graceful and convincing Eng
lish. That was an impressive part
of his mental equipment; but there
was something far more than that
to be considered in respect of this
rather remarkable man.
He had, more than most of the
newspaper men I know, that which,
to my mind, is the greatest thing of
all--and perhaps the very rarest.
He had the impersonal determinae
tion to achieve. ‘
He drove straight toward resultsy
he kneéw invariably what he was
after, very definitely, and he
scorned to employ any save the
most honorable means to reach his
goal; but reach it he would, or
know the reason why.
And—O, precious and God-given
attribute of character—he pos
sessed the parfectly poised power
to repress himself, to subordinate
his own personality and to forget
wherein he figured at all, in his
great and mighty ambition to suc=
ceed.
" It never was George Long w:on
fortunes were at stake and: in
whose behalf victorious battlé must
be waged, it was the Telegraph—
his belovz{l newspaper.
Inevitably, he was vitally a F"
of every big achievement the Tel
egraph essayed; indisputably and
insistently was hig own personality
interwoven in the warp and woof
of the newspaper fabric of which
he was so proud-—but that was in
cidental, and not direét, to the ise
sue with George.
I think I can pay him no greater
tribute than to say that, with him,
it always was the Telegraph—
never its managing editor—that
mattered, first of, all.
And I can pay him that high
tribute, and do; for I knew him very
intimately, and 1 knew how very
surely the heart and soul of the
Macon Telegraph was the heart
and soul of George Long. °* -
If George were standing be_alde
me as I write this—maybe hé is, I
am not sure—he likely would smile.
He might invite me to “cut out that
stuff about me, personally.” He
cared little or nothing for it; he
was a newspaper man away above
that. And I would not say a word,
even in seeking to pay tender trib
ute to his memory here today, that
1 did not mean. Somehow, I knew
George far too well to do that.
I think the State of Georgia—l
knpw the press thereof—has lost a
firm friend and a mighty power for
good in the death of George Long.
Maybe this does not belong in
“Georgia Politics”; and yet there
have been few men impressed him
self upon Georgia politics more pro
foundly of late years than he.
They—the politicians—knew him,
and respected him, even though qll
of them may not have admitted it
GEORGIA man, exceptionally
A well known throughout the
State as a keen observer and
analyst of political trerd of thought,
brings tales from Washington City,
where for the past ten days he has
been on business.
I am not at liberty to state his
name—he never has held office, I
will say that—because he is not
inviting or seeking argument. But
I am setting forth here what he
said to me last night, because it is
interesting, and in many ways il
:umina.ting" and significant. Here
t is:
“I want to say to you that, above
all things, nothing is worrying your
congressman so much nowadays as
prohibition, I de not mean Atlanta's
congressman; whatever one may
say of him, Upshaw's an uncomg
promising prohibitionist and is yot
likely to seek anything by way of
weakening on that. 1 mean tha
average congressman, from all
over the nation, a heavy majority of
whom voted for the present prohi=
bition laws, and especially the Vol« -
stead act.
“Take it from me, they're as
. scared of it as if it were a rattle
snake.
“It is the plague of their lives
just now. They are far, far from
sure the thing is going to stay put
in its present utterly cone dry as
pect; they are mortally afraid it
will arise to affright their souls and
cost them tons of votes in the fall
elections.
“They had no idea so many men
were mad as hops about the thing;
they have been sitting there, con
tinuously in session in Washington,
with nobody ding-donging in their
ears anything contrariwse to the
pleadings of the ever alert and
heavily financed Anti-Saloon
League; and they feel that they
have been over pursuaded in some
SpOts.
“Rank rebellion is everywhere
cropping out against the Volstead
act. 'Towns that never before
thought of doing such a thing-—
scores of them-—are voting “wet,”
for no earthly reason but to show
what they think and what they
;nea.n to do to somebody respofisible
or it.
“I am not anti-prohibitionist; in
fact, I always have voted the pro
hibiton ticket; but that isn't what
I am talking about,
“It seems that nobody wants the
saloon wack; nobody protested its
going much, save those interested
in it materially. But the humble
citizen, who used to buy his 10 ceat
can of beer, after working hours—
well, say, he was ovéricoked a little
too unanimously to suit him it
seems, and he is in rebellion and
80 are his associates!
“Why, the thing already has
reached the point where a beer
and light wine plank is being ad
vised for the national Democratic
platform.
‘Some erstwhile exceedingly
melancholy Democratic leaders are
| saying that, if the Democratic
| party has sense enouzh to adopt
~ such a plank, why it might win.
| “And the suggestion is growing
| in popularity, tod. Believe it or
no, it is.
