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- Por the grace of God that bringeth salvation to all
_ men hath appeared, teaching us that denying ungodl
. ness and world lusts we shall live gober and righte
ously.—Titus ll:lo.—Text today by the Rev., Fletcher
‘Walton, Pastor Park Street Methodist Church.
ALL GEORGIA IS ‘PULLING
FOR’ ATLANTA IN THIS
NTERESTING census figures are heing given out,
l those of this section showing so far gratifying
increases in population In the cities concerned.
Chattanooga and Macon, two of the more progres
sive cities of the South, plainly have been running
neck and neck during the past few years, and both,
while showing splendid increases, seem to have landed
in about the same relative positions, as indicated in
the last census,
Chattanooga has a present population of 57805,
and Macon 52,5205, the one increasing in the ratio of
. 2908 per cent as against 20.2 per cent in the other.
. This is most Interesting; both are fine examples of
the Southern city progressive and forward-looking.
Dixie is prond of Chattanooga and Macon; in many
ways they are much alike.
An analysis of the figures for the two cities for the
past two decades will show that Macon has made rela
tively a somewhat better showing than her Tennessee
rival--more rapid growth—and if the ratio of expan
xion holds good the Georgia city should, and doubtless
will, puli steadily ahead of Chattanooga. But fhat's a
tale time will tell, of course.
_' Atlanta is looking forward to announcements with
respect to her own population with expectant eyes, not
altogether unmixed with anxiety. Naturally, Atlanta
* wishes to retain her supremacy in standpoint of pop
" ulation in the Southeast; she is proud of this leader
ship. And, in this connection, the following fine edi
' torial from the Valdosta Times, one of South Geor-’
gia's leading newspapers, is interesting:
Birmingham is hoping to gain first place in popu
lation among cities of the Southeast in this year's |
census, 2
Atlanta has held the record fer the last ten years,
The decade before that, Memphis led.
It is estimated that Atlanta and Birmingham have
about 200,000 population each. |
Georgians are hoping Atlanta will continue to hold
first place for the coming decade and for all time.
: Atlanta is a great and prosperous city. |
She has her knockers, but jealousy is the tribute
which mankind pays to conspicuous success, just as
it is the compliment which women pay to all attractive
members of their sex.
One explanation of Atlanta’'s wonderful growth is
found in the development and prosperity of the State.
A rich State makes prosperous cities. Prosperous
cities make great markets for farm products.
Georgia has been growing in wealth more rapidly
~ the past ten years than during any other decade in
her history. And this was in spite of two or three
years of marked depression—the latter half of 1914,
all of 1916 and a part of 1916—the first part of the
world war. One factor in making the State richer has
been the improvement of our public roads.
} The first impetus to the good roads movement in
Georgia occurred about ten years ago.
There is no question that the Atlanta-New York
and the Round-the-State tours of 1909 and 1910, with
the wide publicity given to them, aroused the State.
As the highways were improved land values en
hanced, and in the decade from 1909 to 1919 the total
increase in the value of improved farm lands was 66.6
per cent, .ecordinfi to the returns in the comptroller
general's office.
That is the advance in valuation which the farm
owners admitted when they made their returns to the
tax receivers.
The actual increase in values was certainly 200 per
~ cent and possibly more.
Almost anybody can quote you farms which sold in
1809 for S2O an acre and resold in 1919 for SIOO to $l5O
© per acre. \
i While our farms are valued at $286,000,000, or S2O
* an acre, for taxation, they are really worth at least
twice that and many of them five times as much.
Top-soiled and sand-clay roads have doubled the
wealth of our farm owners,
" Now the people are taking a deep interest in a
State-wide system of concrete highways. Smooth and
hard-surfaced roads will again double the value of
Georgia's farms.
Therefore we should build them.
' All Georgia should get behind this movement,
The large cities must co-operate with the country
counties, for the cities will reap large benefits, too.
The highway plans should have the right-of-way in
the Legisiature next summer, because they are con
structive.
Give Georgia the best roads and the best schools
' and the State will continue to lead all her neighbors in
prosperity.
If every voter will ask his representative and his
senator to help keep the road clear for these big and
tremendously important constructive measures we will
get them passed.
We want union of forces, not division, this year.
Aside from the Kind things said of Atlanta——which
all Atlantans naturally will appreciate and cherish -
the editorial quoted from the Valdosta Times is other
wise inspring and splendid
It is of a character to make the great heart of
Geéorgia swell with pride, This is a greal State we
live in-—-a wonderfnl State,
We all love it—impartially, from the mountain to
the seashore!
As for Atlanta, she appreciates and understands
that her sister cities in Georgia are “pulling for her”
in this census matter; that they hope she will “come
under the string well ghead” of Birmingham and
Richmond and her more immediate rivals
And Atlanta expects to do that very thing, too
But, even at that, Atlanta is not unmindfu! of the
fact that Birmingham is a great and progressive city;
Atlanta is proud of Birmingham, but Atlanta doesn’l
propose to yield population supremacy, if she can help
it, even to so fine and dandy a city as this Alabama
marvel,
53 We do not. however, wish snything that isx neot
plainly “coming to us” in Atlanta-—and neither does
the Alabama city
I'bat’'s what makes the rivalry so healthy and so
patriotically appealing .
e Well, here’'s hoping Georgia and Atlanta win
this friendly contest between Alabama and Rirming
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sATURDAY—-Editorial Page of The Atlanta Georgian—MAßCHl 1920
THE HEART OF A CHILD.
Did you ever look into the heart of a child?
Did you ever look into the heart of your own child?
Particularly, did you ever look into the heart of a
girl?
These are not questions of anatomy-—they are
questions of emotion.
One of the gréat failures of parents is that they
are 80 much older than their children. Not older in
years——that does not matter., But older in thoughts,
| | older In conversation, older in their outlook.
l SBuppose you were condemned to spend the next
ten years of your life with people who never
thought your thoughts nor talked your language?
They might speak your words, but the way they
put them together would be largely meaningless.
Suppose they never came down to your level,
sympathized with your troubles, helped solve your
problems or smoothed your path? Would you look
’ with much anti¢ipation toward the passage of those
years?
That is the kind of a sentence that is put upon
many a child—ten years of solitude—mental lone
someness And. at the end of that the parents won
| der why the child is not more communicative of
| her plans and more confidential regarding her hopes
| ana desires. .
| A parent who can not be with his child or her
child, a companion and a confidant, who can not
| share thoughts and diyide up Jjoys and sorrows.
ought not to bring little ones into the world.
NAVAL PRECAUTIONS THAT
SHOULD BE TAKEN NOW
ECRETARY DANIHLS is doubly right in urging
| for the United States incomparably the best
| navy in the world.” .
fl We should have the best navy if we stay out of a
League of Nations. We should certainly need a tre
mendous navy If we entered the present League of
~ Nations, beause that “league” is now busy sowing the
seeds of future wars,
| The same wise founders of our republic who coun
seled us go earnestly against entangling in the in
trigues of the Old World were at equal pains to lm
press upon us the need of preparedness for defense.
The conditions of preparedness have changed since
their day. We need to be strong on the sea—strong
with ships of war; strong with merchant ships. We
also need to be strong with ships that ply in the air,
for the next war their power may be oommnndlfg.
But, although the father, did not foresee all these
new conditions, their advice remains incontestably
sound in prineiple. :
We are in debt. Our taxes are heavy. Wise men
cry justly for economy. lls It proper, then, to incur at
once the high cost of great naval enlargement? May
it not safely be deferred until some of our present war
burden shall have been lightened?
0 do so would e to take chances. The house
usually catches fire right after the insurance has
~ lapsed.
~
} Taking chances is not unusual in this country.
Providence seems inclined to be generous to us. w,
There are, however, some chances we ought not to
hazard. | b :
We ought not to let other nations, which may be
come hostile, seize all the strategic naval bases in the
seven seas, nll the distant sources of fuel supply, all
the great initial advantages in a naval war.
We ought not to delay the organization of a trained:
naval reserve. American ingenuity under high pres
sure can do much with machinery, but it takes train
ing to fit men for efficiency aboard ships.
Above all, we ought not to repeat the stupendous
fiasco of our wartime experience with air craft. The
cost of keeping a trained air force continually equip
ped with the best vehicles would be repaid in the gains
from cominercial flying, leaving the insurance as a
bonus, I
These things would involve no impossible burden
at once, heavy though our other burdens are.
Lack of them might, in the world's present dis
turbed state, prove unbearably costly.
JOHN BURKE AND THE MORAL
OHN BURKE, a deputy sheriff out West, took up
the trail after a murder and followed it for
days, weeks and months, He was convinced that
the man he pursued was gulity.
As a hunter of men it was his business to believe
this—just as it was the buslness of the soldiers to hate
their enemies. It gave a certain exaltation of right
eousness to the chase.
The man was a “flend,” guilty of a foul murder,
and the highest duty of John Burke, hunter of men,
was to find and deliver him to the gallows.
But when he found him, he found his own son, not
a flend.
N Here was a boy made in the same mold—the same
long nose, the same eyes, the same high forehead, and
behind that forehead, he believed, the same instincts
and desires. And suddenly, because he loved his boy,
John Burke no longer believed him gulilty. He ceased
to be the hunter of men and became the father of one.
The boy iold a story which convinced-—which would
convinee any one but a hunter of men, well hardened
to “plauible” stories. And the father believes and
fights for his son. The same story told by another
man whom he has arrestgd might not move him so
strongly. His habit of thought as a pursuer would
make him resist its truth, He would not like to see
the “fiend” he has run to earth escape because of the
smoothness of his tongue, and when the boy went to
prison for life, he might feel éven a little self-right
eous for his part in protecting society.
It is always like this. One rarely believes that a
brother or a father or a friend is guilty until the
proof is absolute, and even then one understands and
forgives, One knows there were overpowering circum
stances, But the courts and the trained hunters and
the rest of us in our daily lives are not like this.
John Burke's state of mind while he bunted his son
wias the typical ordinary one of a soclety which has no
time to understand, His state of mind now is better,
wiser, Kindlier. Perhaps he will never again be able
to pursue men with that old confidence of their guilt
But even Joun Burke may learn litude from this
experience. The mind of a man Is a curicus thing,
aud he may not be able to generalize. He may say to
himsef that his experience was exceptional. His own
son was ionocent. Other men's sons are guilty, do
commit brutal, unreasonable murders, and really are
“fiends in human form." If he believes this, it is a
tragedy more poignant than the coanviction of an in
nocent son. Circumstances have preached a sermon to
him, and he has not listened. If he listened, and if
our whole society listened, to stories like these, our
courts would be Kindlier and men would regard their
| fellows more as natural human beings and less as
t stupid enemies
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i Cheer up, folks; this Hoover-Reed-Palmer Edwards
| thing is not yet nearly so bad as it might be. Nobody
| has undertaken so far to inaugurate a steaw ballot
contest
“Mi. Wilon proposes to take position against Tur
key." reads a headline Here's where Mr. Wilson
makes a hit with everyhody outside of Turkey, any
way
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ARE EDITORS LIARS? {
(Walton Tribune.)
In no other class of vriting do
éditors, particularly cou .try editors,
show so much diplomacy, Kindness
and good will as in the publication
of the marriage of young people. A
peach blossom of a maiden may
hitch the car of her destiny to the
most useless dude in _the neighbor
hood, yet the local editor will come
across with & nuptial essay that will
gladden the heart of the most
doubting and tearful mamma.—
Dawson News.
And a snaggl d tooth. spinster
may harness up with a brow-beat
en bum, the words of the editor
will be to'the same star-spangled
effect.
Kvery bride is talented and
charming, and all grooms are
prominent and respected citizens of
the community.
Every sermon is a strong and |
soul-stirring discourse; every
speech is an oratorica! gem.
A miserly old geeser may pass in
his checks and start on hig perilous
Journey to unknown parts, but in
the kindness of his heart the editor
grabs him up and shoots him
straight through the gates of para
dise.
The editor is an awfyl liar—but
he has to be.
THE ELDER STATESMEN.
(Savannah News.)
The older men have comfort in
the thought that there are probably
just now in the world more men
of unusually advanced age who are
standing out as pre-eminent suc
cesses than in any -other period
| of the history of the country. Edi
son is 70; Watterson is 80; Howells
fs 83: Root is 75, and Uncle Joe
Cannon ig still raising merry cain-—-
and he is the only man living whose
name appeared on the same politi
cal ballet with that of Lincoln.
SAME HERE.
(Macon Telegraph.)
While we think betting is sinful
and never overlook an opportunity
to frown upon it (especially when
we gel stung), if properly ap
+ proached and there's nobody look
ing, we will lay five to three that
if we were to take out all the junk
and stuff we've craimmed into our
desk in the past half decade nosg
l three men anywhere, barring magl
| elans, could put it back again.
| YE EDITOR'S ULTIMATUM.
(Hartwell Sun.}
1# the party who lost that set of
| teeth recently will call at the Sun
| office we'll be mighty glad to- pet
rid of them, 'This is our second and
tast notice to the toothles party.
: WHO SAID FISHIN'?
! (Talbotton New Fra.
Oh boy! won't vou be glad when
{ the air gets balmy, the trees begin
1o put out their leaves and good
I old spring time sets in?
l Ye TowneßGosSip l
I'M IN bad,
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WITH OUR nkphew's mother,
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WHO IS our niece.
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BECAUSE HOW did I know.
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THAT A little ranch kid.
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WAS ANY different.
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FROM CITY kids.
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AND IT all came about.
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BECAUSE THEY have a Ford.
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AND IT’S just four miles,
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TO THE nearest town.
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AND 1| took the Ford.
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AND TOOK tje kid.
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AND A list of things.
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THAT | had to get.
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AND WE drove to tosvn,
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AND WENT to the grocery.
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AND THE butcher shop.
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AND GOT the mail
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AND THEN we stopped.
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AT A candy store,
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TO GET some candy
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AND TAKE it home.
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AND IT seemed to me.
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THAT WHILE we were there,
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IN THE candy place.
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WOULD BE a good time.
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TO HAVE a party.
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AND | asked the bhoy.
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IF HE liked ice cream.
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AND HE seemed quite pleased.
AND WHATEVER it is
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THAT LITTLE boys say.
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WHEN THEY ought to say ‘“ves.
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AND ARE:" learning to talk.
I'M SURE he said it
AND., ANYWAY,
THE NICE young lady
WHO WAITED on us.
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BROUGHT TWO ice creams.
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AND 1 ate mine.
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AND LITTLE Leeds.
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WHICH IS his name.
* * 4%
ATE MOST of his.
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AND MESSED the rest.
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ALL OVER his coat.
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AND AFTER that.
* & 3
WE HAD root beer.
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AND AFTER that,
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| LET him have.
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JUST A couple of chocolates.
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FOR | had an idea.
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THAT LITTLE boys.
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OF TWO years old.
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SHQULDN'T EAT as much.
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AS .GROWN folks.
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AND WE started home,
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AND IT may have been.
- v .
THAT THE many bumps.
. . -
ON THE country road.
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STIRRED HIS tummy up.
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BUT WHATEVER it was,
. . .
WHEN WE got to the ranch,
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IT WAS plain to me :
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THAT A lot of the pep.
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THAT HE had had.
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WHEN WE started out.
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HAD DISAPPEARED.
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AND HE was pale.
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AND | told his mother,
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WHAT WE had done.
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AND SHE'S given him something
AND PUT him to bed
AND HE’'S had no lunch.
I THANK you,
Stands by His
C ’yo
] onvictions
e i e e et e
(Zanesville (Ohio) Times-Special.)
ANY of us may nct agree with
M Wiliiam Randolph Hearst in
many matters, but practically
all of us must admire the manner
in which he acts upon his convic
tions.
And this is particularly true of
his action in securing an injunction
in preventing the sale, pending an
investigation, of the thirty great
German liners which are America’s
only prizes in the werld war for
approximately $28,000,000,
The fact that these ships would
almost to a certainty have fallen
into British hands had they been
soll further aggravates the sit
uation. '
Following the securing of the in-
Junction, Hearst's publications car
ried an editorial, and a Win
sor McCay cartoon showing Uncle
Sam spiking down the Capitol
Building at Washington. “Colum
bin” is asking “What in the world
are you doing, Uncle Sam?”’ and
he replies: “I'm nailing down the
capitol, for fear this administration
will give it to England.”
I Stars and Stripes I
Whatever hecame of the old
fashioned fellow who signed his let
ters “Yr. Obedient Servant’?
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It's a poor hen these days that
can't lay a golden egg!
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Opportunity knocks once at every
man’'s door, but usually there is
nobody home,
& - -
Once there was a man who could
have bought real estate for a song,
if only he could have got his notes
accepted for the song.
. - -
Men are but children of a larger
grouch.
. . -
Eat plenty of raisins and yeast
is one way to keep a stomach still.
L - -
History records its Waterloos
and waterwins. g
e -
Unnatura)l history—Female owl
worries if her mate is out late of
days.
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Lenin claims a bolsheviktory.
. - -
“My hubby went down in the
cellar, the state of the furnace to
soe; oh, bring. back — bring
ba-a-a-c-k-bring back my hubby
to me."—From Ballads of a Dry
Town
PUBLIC SERVICE
Otherbliess|
A )
Flowers
JomesßNevin
oo TRO have, Drodgty pothing of mp
own but the thread that ties them to
gether.”
MAN'S ability to write poetry,
A real poetry, is often a
. question presenting innumerable
difficulties, the trouble being to say
where the writing of real poetry
begins and the writing of merely
engaging verse leaves off. Opinions
differ as to that; the dividing line
‘ between the two things is Vls\le.\
Jand dwells so surely within the
twilight of things literary that
sharp indeed must be the eyes per
ceiving it precisely,
A man's pronounced ability to
write really good verse finds fewer
carping critics to reckon with,
. Frank L. Stanton undoubtedly
wtites appealing verse; nobody dis
putes that. Not a few of Mr. Stan«
ton’s admirers—and I certainly
count myself one--consider him a
poet, surely upon oocaQonl. Isn’t
his “Weary the Waiting” poetry? \
Isn’'t “Mighty Lak a Rose” poetr?? )
I think so, but perhaps I could net
sustain myself any too well in un
dertaking to prove it; I might find
myself in highbrow society, beyond
my poor ability to confound. o
Of course, many writers, per«
fectly capable of producing what
most of us would call real poetry,
frankly Mcline to light verse, as a
rule; for the very human reason
that tkey find there a much wider
field and there are so much larger
and more appreciative audiences.
Among such writers I class
James Wells, for these many years
the “printer-poet” of the Dalten
Citizen, a writer of real and abso- \
lute ability and surely a producer
of the most charming of light verse,
Into thisl same class, too, I un
hesitatingly place young W. Ernest
Rogers of the Dublin Tribune.
Consider this from a recent issue
of the Tribune, under the title,
“Revelation”:
Your eyes aren’t stars to me, Dear
Heart; :
(Stars grow dim as day drews
. mear.)
Your cheeks from roses seem
apart—
(Roses shatter in the year.)
Your lips are not of coral, Sweet—
(Coral's cold as winter's sea.)
And though you're nature’s all,
complete ;
Youre simply you to me.
And this: !
Chaste as waters flowing o’er
The sand-washed stones near by:
Perfumed as the rosy dreams,
Perfumed as the rainwashed
Sky—
Night brings calm and thoughi
gleams, .
Starlit skies and moonbeams, ;
Matchless joy and love dreama—
As Clio smiles on me,
Isn’'t “Revelation” genuinely
sweet and worth while? And isn’t
the other excerpt, from a bit of
verse "To Clio,” pretty? :
I'll say both are indisputable evi
dence of real ability and poetical
trend of thought.
T HE rather remarkable resource- ]
fulness and alertness of Jame ,
Wells of the Dalton Citizen at
framing really clever verse is clear
ly exemplified in a scrap of a taing,
an airy and facetiows nothing, as it
were, which reads as follows:
I like to write of Eloise
Because it rhymes with trees and
bhees,
And sweethearts eye like asure
seas,
And lovers on their bended kmees,
And cheese and fleas and big fat
sets—
I like to write of Eloise,
Perhaps 4 clear idea of his ability
as a writer along more robust and _\
red blooded lines may be gathered %
from the following. which is an old
story, common enough in rural
Georgia communities, excellently
framed in light verse by the Dal
ton man:
Tohe Johnson had a waller hound;
Bill Jackson had a cat,
And every time the dog came round
T'here was an awful spat.
The dog would bite, the cat would
scratch,
The fighting none could stay ;
| They'd have a fearful chewing
| match,
And you could hear them say:
Meme, meow, bow wow, wow, wow,
A spit, a snap, a yowl;
Bow wow, wow, Iwow, meorr, meow,
A whine, a cry, a snarl;
A tangled ball, they'd bark and
| “wowl,”
'Twas certainly a sight—
Meow, meow! Bow wow, wow,
wow;
’l'hvy.'d fight and fight and fight.
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Bill Johnsom swore his cat could
whip
Tobe Johnson's measley hound.
Old Johnson quickly took a grip,
Bill Jackson soon was downed.
They rolled about all o’er the floor,
| It was a fearful fray—
A very cat-and-dog affair,
For you could hear them say:
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| And so on to the inevitable Kil
kenny end of the story, of course!
The exhibit is cited more to dis
} play Mr. Wells’ aptness at writing
light verse than as a more con-
L spicuous example of his better
’ work,
; The Georgia press is rich in such
| tn‘!ent as that written of here.
Wells and Rogers have no monopoly
of brains in this regard, of course.
‘ I long have said. often repeated
that the Georgia weekly press, in
- sheer ability and versatility of tal
ent and excellence of output, is sur
passed by no weekly press in the
| nation, and cqualed by none in the
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