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I a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he iz
@ liar; for he that loveth not his brother, whom he
hath scen, how can de love God, whom he hath not
. seen?—ll John, IV :20—Text today by the Rev.
“ George Plumer Merriil, Pastor Central Congregational
~ Ghurch.
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LABOR CAN ILL AFFORD TO
E COUNTENANCE REPUDIATION
’ BE striking street car employees of Atlanta will
: I find it difficult in the extreme to jutify thelr
£y attitude before the general pablic—those citi
; W( Atlanta who are dependent upon the car serv
? hin their daily affairs, now being seriously incon
? venienced and damaged by the present sitnation.
“ It is hard to see how the present status of affairs
#< to be untangled and reasonably adjusted, however,
unless the men retrace, as a condition precedent to
}!_urther éffort, the unfortunate and misguided step they
gook when they violated their solemn agreement to
dbidg by the award of the arbitration board-—a board
in which the umpire finally agreed upon was & man of
{heir own suggestion. !
. Not only would the local union be morally right in
gotracing this step, but thelr own international organi
gation—their own court of appeal—has actually or
dered the membership to do this—as a matter of fun
damental fair play and equitable procedure. There
fore, the Atlanta union might retrace its original false
step, if it desired, with entire dignity and with ample
t'ut.hurity. It surely will make its already wretched
position worse Ly resisting its own superior officials.
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¢ 'The Atlanta chapter may find itself an outlaw if it
#ticks to its present attitude; and if that comes to
g‘ass. it will deserve and receive the respect of nobody
guwde its own ranks.
* TUnlon labor can hardly countenance an attitude of
deliberate vlolatl(lp of arbltration awards, if union
;nbor expects to stand hereafter upon the strongest
gnd most appealing plank it ever bas offered the public
@s a bid for its favor.
f No oue disputes the right of labor to refuse to
*lmctlon, in the face of advgrse conditions and unfair
gtipulations. The right to strike is inherently founded
‘pon the right of an individual to work or not, as his
‘nteresu and conscience direct, Collectlve bargaining
$& an admitted safeguard that labor is entitled to in
voke,
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* But the first avenue of adjustment of disputes be
éween honest labor and honest capital is by way of
arbitration, faithfully and sincerely entered into and
gccepted by both parties. It is the big and mighty
bulwark of labor against oppression, and it is the
fnighty and effective bulwark of capital against ex
“me 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 fall
wre, and union labor has lost the mightlest appeal it
‘ver advanced for public favor.
* . 'There is little or no sympathy in Atlanta for the
Qtrlkers in their present attitude of repudiation of a
solemin arbitration agreement, however much there may
be for them in their effort to secure living wages and
tolerable conditions.
ot Every good citizen wishes to see labor honestly,
fairly and satisfactorily rewarded for its work. No
inln with a desire to see this dear country of ours
progress along lines of happiness and content can wish
- Jess than that for labor.
: But labor will not have the sympathy of the public
#0 long as it violates solemn agreements, entered Into
#t its own invitation and with its own consent, He
?ho secks justice must do justice, There is no other
platform labor cau afford to stand upon.
© . 'The striking street car men of Atlanta should re
furn to their jobs, ‘accept the arbitration award in
’Ud faith, as they promised.
- If they do that, the sympathy of the public will
remain with them in their efforts to better their con-
Qflon. If they persist in thelr present stubborn and
wholly wrong attitude, they will not receive that pub-
I'c sympathy so vital to their cause,
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WHAT HAVE WE DONE FOR
@R SOLDIER BOYS?
3 NYONE who read the papers in the summer of
1917 would have thought that nothing was or
3 ever could he too good for the soldlers and
finors. And until the war was over nothing was,
Pea there were parades, and then the public pro
geeded to forget about the men who had gone about
fie fighting.
! This was all very well for those who had como
healthy and whole and who were just as anxious
h anyone to put behind them the days when they
*orked for Pershing. But it has been hard on those
ho came back disabled or sick, The neglect which
men have suffered is evident everywhere. No
fhere have they received more than Ymited attention,
?hey have had food, shelter and medicine, but almost
. mothing has been done to restore themp to usefulness in
‘lvll Nfe. The federal board for vocational education
‘ls been, as-newspaper investigations have recently
’hown. a dismal failure,
¢+ The stories of men of all ranks who gave every-
Chlng to their country and got nothing back are pitiful
p the exireme. Many of them have not even re
' ved the small return that comes in some progres
ve States to workmen injured in the battle lines of
bdustry. All have been promised more than they
pve received.
| 813 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 gshonld be erected inm their honor, that their
battles should be glorified in the school histories, and
that they themselves, living and in need, should be
neglected.
i Better forego the oratory and de the neighborly
thing new - then the oratory and mopuments will be
FRDAY—Kditorial Page of T'he Atlanta Georgian—MARCHIZIN
CHRISTIANITY’S HOUR.
We have learned the unspeakable waste, the
eriminal folly, of a divided command.
We have learned it on a thousand fields of
red disaster. So the chureh 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 need of man's soul. And
the church—the church of Christ—the church mil
itant and united, is God’'s only hope, His final plan,
Then what perils of the pessimist shall intimi
date us?
If 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 must dare much, or lose all. And faith “is
the victory that overcometh the world.”
CONCERNING SMALL AND SO
CALLED UNIMPORTANT THINGS
SYCHOLOGY is a busy word. It pops out of
P many 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 this 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 “Asia:” “Do not
all nations fail in their appreciation of the mass
pfiy('hnlm!_:' of other nations?” Where another people
differs do we not think it is inferior?
The chief Anglo-Saxon doctrine concerns itgelf with
goap. Cleanlipess is a fetich, and any nation which
does not consume four pounds of soap per capita each
year is degenerate. The deadliest fling against the
bolshevigts Is the imputation that they hate soap, and
the most cheerful news from Spain in many years is
the recent announcement “that the wider use of soap
among the Spanish masses Is a large factor in the
industrial revival and political liberalization.” This
thrills every gnob of the bathtub, and there is no snob
quite so Ingistent as the kuight of the early morning
bath.
The American soldler in France failed to under
stand the French officer who trimmed his mustache and
shaved before going into battle, or the poilu who car
rled a little bottle of perfume in his knapsack.
Ouly long residents of Mexico ever understand
Mexican business methods. One tourist tells 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
sell except for 60 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 Christinns, who do not care to be disturbed,
who care only to sit before their shops smoking their
narghilahs in peace. And French brides in America
can 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
pend 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.
Field Marshal Foch credits his good health to
“rope-jumping,” according to a cable. Knowing the
ropes, and how and when to jump them, long has been
considered conduelve to good health among politicians,
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Let's see; the income tax decision will cost “Uncle
Sam’ about $500,000,000 per annum and prohibition will
cost him about an additional §500,000,000. The more
we chew our taxation problems, the bigger the§ get.
“The dollar_haircut is in slght,” says an official of
the barbers’ union. A lttle more of that sort of thing,
however, and customers probably won't be.
| Letters From the People |
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COLLEGE GRADUATES.
Editor The Georgian:
Why does Mr. Ogden Armour praise college educa
tion? 1 venture a guess: Because he is a practical
man; and, above all things, college education is prac
tical,
Practical how? Not because it gives a man voca
tional training. A man may go through college--most
of them do—and come out no(‘,knnwlng any more cer
tain!ly 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 ancient 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, haw to reason from it. And
the only really practical education for the average
man is just that,
He can learn the same things in business. Only it
takes himh longer. He wastes more time in the
process; That is the only difference, §o far asE¥ho
practical side is concerned.
Plenty of people compare the failures among col
lege men with the successes among noncollege men,
That gets nowhere. Compare the average among col
lege men with the average among noncollege men,
Thag tells the story.
Any 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 CHRISTIANS?
Editor The Georgian:
My sister, Mairanie Yardumian, wife of the Rev,
Krikor Yardumian, D. D, who was one of those mur
dered by Turks during the Armenian massacre and
deportations, with her four children, was among the
survivors in Aintab.
Last December I received a letter from her and
from one of her daughters, Mile. 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. I received no answer. I was ex
pecting letters from her son, Herant, and daughter,
Kransuch, whe were working and teaching in Aleppo.
1 had written them that as soon as [ received their
next letter I would help them again.
They have not amswered. I am afraid they have
becoma 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
since 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 & nation and to continue to rude the Christiun
peoples of Asia’ Minor, L Ji 8,
Chicago
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“NEW POOR.” |
(Savannah News.)
That expression, the “new rich,”
has been in evidence for years.
America had many “new rich”—in
dividuals and firms and families
who 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 “new
poor” persons and families who
have ben bearing the burden of
the extraordinary seasons without
reaping any of the extraordinary
harvest of coin, who have for the
first time in their lives found that
though they have as mich income
as ever it outgoes so much faster
that thers is a pinch here and a
strain 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 his
hands full in trying: to make thls
sheet a friendly community news
paper rather than a public spy
glass, with which to seek out the
gshortcomings of ¢ r 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 your sleeves and go to it,
but don't look to us for any help.
ANOTHE’R VIEWPOINT.
(Montgomery Advertiser.)
The superintendent of Loulisviile's
city schools declares that matri
mony, not low saalries, is the thing
that is most responsible for the
teacher shortage. You see it is this
way: The little scholoma'am is em
fnently eligible to matrimony, and
among her charms is that she has
practised personal economies SO
long that she understands how to
stretch a husbhand’'s income further
than manyv who haye had less prac
tical experience.
SOMEWHAT ENCOURAGING.
(Waycross Herald-Journal)
Little is known of Bainbridge
Colby, the newly appointed secre
tary of state, except that he is &
responsible husiness man, and that
{¢ quite a relief. Most of our pol
iticians are sadly wanting when it
comes to business brain.
OR FALLS FOR?
(Rome Tribune-Herald.)
Says the Savannah News: “It is
intimated that it is mnot so much
what Hoover stands for as it is
what he will stand for, that's
bothering the politicians.” That de
pends largely on where he
stands at “
More Truth Than Poetry
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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 round 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 I 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 thered 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 chanece;
When he once got good and ready, he’d get out.
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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, successful eriminal must think.
But if movie actors turn to lives of erime
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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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 Republic. :
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Ametican Dead
* In France
By THE SPECTATOR.
T is a delicate task to endeavor
I 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 some 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 cremation,
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
never peen of muecn advantage,
- But in the matter of the dead
soldiers, whose bodies now lie in
France, the weight of normal santi
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
living 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 their
country.
Where they are they supplv 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 an affeetion for this great
neighbor 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 America,
While some parents are anxiouns
to have the remains of their sons
brought home, 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 is where he dies for man.”
Their passing thus retains its ideal
beauty, all the more a spiritual
benediction because 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 renose 1,880 American
boys who sacrificed their Wves in
an assault upon the Hindenburg
line nearby, September 23 to 30,
1918,
The letter reveals forecibly 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 aid
in“their desperate struggle for ex
istence. It demonstrates conclu
sively the effect upon the people of
France of the presence of those
white crosses which mark upon the
hreast of the old World where the
life hlood of the New was spent.
Shall we remove that mark?
PUBLIC SERVICE
Politics
By James B. Nevin
T is difficult to grasp the melan
l choly fact that George Long, of
the Macon Telegraph. is 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
moved from his mind, I think. If
ever a man seemed filled with the
unyielding zest to live and the am
biticn to achieve, it surely was
George Long.
And yet—today., It seems very
strange, somehow.
Of all wha might have been
summonsed in haste to the other
shore, George!
George lL.ong was an exceptional
newspaper man. And I do not mean
so 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 determina
tion to achieve. t
He drove straight toward results;
he knew 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 perfectly 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 whose
fortunes were at stake and in
whose behalf victorious battle must
be waged, it was the Telegraph—
his beloved newspaper.
Inevitaply, he was vitally a part
of every big achievement the Tel
egraph essayed; indisputably and
insistently was his 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 direct, to the is
~ sue with George.
| I think I can pay him no greater
~ tribute than to say that, with him,
it always was the Telegraph—
npever 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 I knew how very
surely the heart and soul of the
' Macon Telegraph was the heart
~and soul of George Long.
If George were standing beside
me as | write this—maybe he is, 1
am not sure—he likely would smile.
He might invite me to “cut out that
;tuff about me, personally.’.' He
scared 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
I did not mean. Somehow, I knew
George far too well to do that.
: I think the State of Georgia—l
know the press thereof-—has lost a
firm friend and a mighty power for
good in the death of George L.ong.
Mayhe this does not sbelong in
“Georgia Politics™; and yet no man
impressed himself upon Georgia
politics more profoundly of late
yvedrs than he. They—the politi
cians—knew him, and respected
him, even though all of them may
not have admitted it.
GEORGIA man, exceptionally
A well known tbroughout the
1 State as a keen observer and
analyst of political trend of thought,
| brings strange tales from Washing
ton City, where for the past ten
days be has” been on business.
* lam 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 lhere what he
said to me last night, because it is
interesting, and in many ways il
iuminating and significant. Here
t is:
“I want to say to yon that, above
all things, nothing is worrying your
congressman so much nowadays as
prohibition. I do not mean Atlanta's
congressman, whatever one may
say of him, Upshaw's an uncong
promising prohibitionist and is yot
likely to seek anything by way of
weakening on that. I mean tha
average congressman, from all
over the nation, a heavy majority of
whom voted for the oresent 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. b
“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 Lone dry as
pect; they are mortaily afraid it
will arise to affright tneir 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 e¢ver alert and
heavily {inanced 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
mean to do to somebody responsible
for it.
“l am not anti-prohibitionist; in
fact, I always have voted the pro
hibiton ticket; but that isn't what
1 am talking about,
“It seems that nobody wants the
saloon back; nobody protested its
going muc?. save those interested
in it mateMally. But the humble
citizen, who used to buy his 10 cent
can of beer, after working hours-—
well, say, he was overicoked a littie
too unanimously to suit him 1%
seems, and he is in rcbellion and
80 are his associates!
“Why, the tHing salready has
reached the point where a beer
and light wine plank is being ad
vised for the national Democratic
platform.
“Some erstwhile exceeding!y
melancholy Democratic leaders are
saying that, if the Democratic
party has sense cnouzh to adopt
such a plank, why it might win.
“And the suggestion is growing
in popularity, too Believe it or
no. it i
