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TRUTH--JUSTICE
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It 1 forget thee, O Jerusalom, let my right hand forget
her cunning —Psalm CXXXVII 5.~ Text today by the
Rev. W. 0. Young, Pastor Oakland City Baptist Church.
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AN INTERESTING VISITOR AND
SOME THINGS HE SAID
HI visit of that distinguished Finglishman of
I letters and student of affairs, Hugh Walpole,
- ® urranged a few week age by the Drama League
of Atlanta, was genuinely emlightening to Atlantans
and Georgiaus generally. ”
Rarely has a man impressed himself more pro
foundly upon his audiences than did Mr. Walpole, and
one of the heartening and illuminating things he
pointed out was the extreme uniikelihood of the Amer
fean government ever coming to a soviet form, And
this conclusion was set forth, too, without in any de
gree belittling the incidental usefulness of that form
to Russia.
There is a good deal of useless warrying, as Ms.
Walpole pointed ont in Aflanta, ever the supposed
danger that semehow or other semebody or other
will ingugurate a beginning of soviet govermment in
this country.
There isn’'t the slightest danger, and when you
know how soviet rule works in the only country where
it iz being tried you will see why.
Ruseia adepted a constitntion, tranmslated coples of
which have recently reached thls country. It prevides
.'lo'r a soviet government, snd this is the way it op
erates, We will take a farmer as an example:
He, if he is allowed to vote—and that privilege is
very much restricted—votes for a member of the loeal
soviet. - .
. The members of the local soviet vote for members
of the volost soviet, which is something like a county
organization.
The members of the vologt soviet elect members of
a third seviet, which is somthing like & State gov--
ernment.
The members of the state soviet elect membors of 4
provinciol soviet, which is something like a eollection
of State governments, as if the New Ingland States
bad a combination administration.
And the members of the state soviet eleot members
of the all-Russian congress, which is the governing
body of the country.
Can you imagine 4n American farmer consenting to
B five times removed from participation in legisla
tion at Wasington?
A few years ago it was the custom for State Leg
iglatures to elect senators. That was only one re
moval from direct election, but the people saw the dan
ger of that and insisted that senators be chosen by
direct ballot.
That custom which was disearded was soviet gove
renment in miniature, but the people did not approve
even of the little ovietism they had, and abolished it.
There isn't the slightest chance in the world they
would adopt something at leat flve times as indirect.
When omebody tells you there.is danger of
sovietism getting a foothold in this country, ask them
1f they ever read the soviet constitution of Russia, and
if they know what govietism is and how it works,
The people who are mogt active in spreading the
false alarm are, most of them, talking about some
thing of which they have not the least understanding
or, having the understanding, they are breeding fear
for thefr own selfish purposes,
If the danger of sovietism was the worst thing we
bad to werry about, there would be no truoble in
everybody's getting eight hours of sound sleep every
night, !
MR. LLOYD GEORGE COMES
TO HIS SENSES AGAIN
D A\"lD‘ LLOYD GEORGY, British Premier, re
cently delivered himelf before the House of
' Commons of the following opinion:
“In every country the problem of production is not
enly national but international, and both as regards
the distribution and transport of raw materials, it
must be admitted each State must seek not only its
own interests, but must accept sacrifices in the in
terest of the general welfare.
#The necessity for greatest economy in the man
wfacture of war material is apparent, in connection
with which a solemn warning will be addressed to
small Central European states which show signs of
asking support by arms of their particular claims,
If necessary certain steps will be taken against them,
“Europe must form a genuine economic unity, and
to return ta healthy conditions all parts of it must
be reconstructed. Measures, then, must be taken to
enable Germany and Russia to contribut’ to the eco
nemic life of the European entity.”
This is real statesmanship, and it is the first manly
and statesmanlike utterapce that has fallen from the
Jips of David Lloyd George since be sacrificed honesty
and British liberalism to his lust for office during the
last wretched general election,
This statement becomes the old Lloyd George whom
the Hearst newspapers delighted to praise and hold
up to honor when he was fighting the British Tories
and proposing to compel them to pay their landtaxes.
Ever since the close of the war thé Hearst news
papers have advocated (he course which Lloyd George
pow admits must be adopted by the associated nations,
This proposal by the British Premier recognizes
the cardinal distinetion which we made In our de
clared war objects, We said, through President Wil
gon as our mouthpiece, that we did not hold the Ger
man people responsible for the war; that German peo
ple did not make the war; that their autocratic form
of government gave them no contrel over war or
peace,
But when the war was over we held the German
people responsible and prooceded to impoe them them a
peace which has won the name of Carthaginian peace,
because it was the deadliest that was ever imposed
upon a people since Rome detroyed Carthage, plowed
up it ('“iw‘-\ and sowed it with salt, lest even a blade
of grass should grow there again.
In the meantime hunger is stalking abroad in Eu
pope. The little nations of Central Europe, first in
@ited to imperialistic ambitions by thelr big asseclat s
~F¥rance, England and the United States—for the
purpose of setting them on Russia, are now, especially
Poland, trying to steal land and economie a{]v S
sages from thelir neighbors by foree of arms, Wh'*)
their people are starving and are crying aloud for
, in every land, they are maintaining standing ar
speclally Peoland, whose troops, so much needed
TUESDAY-Editorial Page of The Atlanta Georgian—MAßCHl6 1920
OPTIMISM AND COMMON SENSE.
It is great to be an optimist, if yeu have some
good, hurd, practical commeon sense back -of it.
But simple optimism without constructive work
is day dreaming.
The idea that yoy will come out all right in the
end iz a hopeful view, but it eauses you te relax
effort and choose the cushioned chair while you
have such beautiful faith in the ultimate good,
you are due for a rude awakening.
Unless you get in line to make the most of your
life and your talents, all the optimism in the world
won't save you from the results of your ignorance
and general shiftlessness.
What are you actually doing te merit the opti
mistic view you express?
You may have an idea that you can cross the
stream of success on a smile, but unless you do
something to get over there you can git on the bank.
and smile all day, but it won't land you anywhere.
The more cheerful you are as you study your
work, the greatet your chance of success, but mere
optimism won't do anything for you.
in Polish factories and on Polish farms, are now
standing idly on a frontier one hundred miles farther
east imto Russian territory than the most generous
award of the Paris conference gave them.
Now, says Lloyd George, we must have an end of
all this. We must not destroy Germany, because wWe
need Germany to aid in supporting the white world.
We must not coutinye our wars against Russia, be
cause we need this territory of Russia and her huge
population to heip redeem Kurope from starvation.
We must have peace in Europe, and If there is any
nation, especially Poland, which will not understand
that we must have peace, it will be given a lesson in
the dangers of disturbing It.
THE SALVATION ARMY CAN BE
EASILY HELPED HERE
UR Salvation Army friends are nothing if not
O practical,
They are expert economists of that sehool
of the science which has learned how to make a cop
per cent do the ardinary duty of a dime, and they have
peen trained to doing it suceuessfully through the hard
education of poverty and necessity.
Beeause The Georgian often has seen this truth
exemplified, it always is willing to give respectful at
teation to any suggestion emanating from the Salvation
Army in the line of its experience and the methods it
hag applied to its work.
All of our readers are Z\mmn with the fact that
the entire press of the cotntry is guffering from an
acube shortage of blank printing paper, and that that
famine can not be fully relieved for a very long time
te come,
Now 8 Salvation Army letter to The Georgian sug
gests the most immediate and serious phase of this
paper shortage situation to a great extent might be
avercome if people generally would save their old pa
pers and contribute them to the Salvation Army,
whose agents would ocellect them without trouble or
expense to the donors,
. This is a practical and a worthy proposition. Tt is
like saving waste tinfoil for the Red Cross Salvage
Service in the war.
People will not allow a litter of old paper to ac
cumulate about their homes for the sake of a few
cents @& quantity of it will bring as junk. But the mul
tiplication on a large scale of those same few cents
wounld help the Salvation Army in its mission of car
ing for the poor and needy, and the gift indirectly
would help supply the print paper mills with raw
material. .
We trust that our citizens, and all of them, will
charge their niinds with a sense of this economic duty
and opportunity.
l Letters From the People l
AGAINST DAYLIGHT SAVING.
Editor The Georgian: -
The reason for the “daylight saving law” was.te
lessen the use of light and power in store, factory
or shop, and thus save coal.
It was never intended solely to give some people
an hdditional recreation hour in the afternoon, yet
every petition to the City Council asks for this law
so that “they will have more time for golf playing,
movies, auto riding or other recreation.”
We have had the law in past years and it did save
light and power in the factory, store and shop, but the
saving in shops, etc, was wasted on the homes of the
individuals in the extra light they used to get to work
| by daylight, Ten ilndividuals will use more lights in
their homes in an hour than is needed for ten men to
work by in a shop.
The law did afford many people an extra hour
for pursuits of pleasure and games. But the law
added one hour more work on every woman, house
wife, cook and mother. They rose one hour sooner
and gave their husbands breakfast one hour soonerm
But these =ame husbands did not come home one
hour sooner to supper, hence man's work is from §
to 4, but women must work from 4 te 8 if you enaet
this law.
Some mothers had to first get the father's breaks
fast, then cook amnother breakfast for the children to
go to school. In the eyvening they gave the children
a ‘Wdaylight saving supper” and then Kept the hus
band’s supper hot until hes finished his “daylight save
ing recreation,” The children didn't get to bed an
houyr earlier, but were waked up an hour soonep,
hence theélr rest lost one hour when they needed it
most.
On Sunday the miother is tired and can’t get up in
time to send the children to a Sunday school that
opens pone hour sooner, and in the evening a late sup
per is ready just at the time Sunday evening serv
ices begin, so they can't go to church.
This law will add one hour a day to the labor of
the milkman and his wife and his help, hence we may
have to pay him more than 26 cents a quart. He
must change his time of milking his cows, and when
you are not “regular” in milking your cows you are
sure not to get the regular quantity. Hence the sup
ply of milk is Hkely to be reduced.
. All laws should tend toward order. The working of
this daylight saving law produces disorder in the
homes, disorder in school, disorder in the church, dis
order in our time, as the postoffice and railroads won't
change their time or order of our City Council.
The petitions for the law comes mostly from of.
fice people and retail merchants. For years these
same people have on their own motion been closing
thelr offices and stores an hour or two earlier in the
summer time, Rich & Bros. recently advertised that
they would in future open at 10 and close at §, and
| they are‘doing this without any law. Why can't all
the others open and close at any hour they please,
without forecing a hardship through a law on thous
sands of women and our milk man.
Don't pass any such lawh
Atlanta. MARTIN AMOROUS,
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Comment
TIME TO BUILD ROADS.
(Dalton Qitizen.)
More than $1,000,000 has alreagy
been paid into the State treasury
this year for automobile license,
and the yellow stream is still pour
ing in. :
The automobilist is not yet com
plaining. He expects L 0 get same
thing for his money. He wants
good roads, and is willing to stand
and deliver in order to get them.
The proposed $40,000,000 or $50,-
000,000 bond issue, to be paid
wholly by the automobilists, is a
great undertaking, but it will work
if it is honestly handled, and it can
be so woirked out that within a
few years Geoeorgia will have one
of the best systems of highways of
any State in the South.
But roads can't be built by bu
reaus of engineers sitting in finely
appointed offices drawing voad
maps and fat galaries. Something
else must be done. Real road
building is what \the people want
to see.
The Citizen is not pessimisti¢
about this question. It is hopeful,
as it always has been, but it cone
fesses that it wants to see some
thing doing. ‘
The time to do some real build
fng is here, We know of not a
mile of roatl actually built by the
State, and precious few miles have
been built with government aid.
We are surfeited with talk and
road maps and charts.
This good county has been ‘fed
up” on government aid talk, but
that's all. We still have no roads,
and automohilists, paying now
about six times as much in lcense
fees as they used to, arve still be
ing pulled out of mudholes, at from
$1 to 35 a pull
It's now time to build roads. The
talkfest should cease, except that
part of it which has for its pur
pose the necessary explanation as
to the proposed State bond issue.
Which reminds us that this coun
ty should issye some road, bonds at
once. o
THIS MAD, MAD WORLD,
(Montgomery Advertiser.) s
Snow in Egypt, snow in Mobile,
New Orleans and on the Florida
Kast Coast—German waiters re
fusing to serve a Hohenzollern
prince, while Hindenburg is run
ning for president; husbands and
wives opposing each other for of
fice out West; millionaires talk
ing parlor seeclalism and poor men
cursing the proletariat; Massachu
getts towns voting wet after prohi
bition is put in the constitution;
NeWSpa ars publicly requesting
advertisers to reduce their space;
gome people supporting Hooaver
for President when he won't say
which party he likes hest, seientists
o\;s:ulng the bast practical method
of signaling Mars and manufac
turers debating the Dbhest flying
machine to gend round the world—
a long sentence thad, but think of
the turn-over it describes!
VERY LIKELY.
(Birmingham Age-Herald))
A dispatch from New York says
the tramp is as extinct as the dodo,
which is of eourse not true. The
dodo is gone er to return, but
we'll have the :x'np with us again.
“Avoid One and Shun the Other
l‘ Ye Towne Gossip ‘
' By K. C.B.
MAYBE YOU remember.
$ ¢ 8
ABOUT THE dog.
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WHOSE NAME was Jeff.
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AND LIVED on the ranch.
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AND | wrote of him.
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WHEN/ THE rancherman.
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SOUGHT TO give him away.
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TO ANOTHER ranch.
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MANY MILES removed.
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AND THEY took him there.
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AND TWO days later.
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HE WAS back again.
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ALL TIRED aut.
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AND COVERED with mud.
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BUT NOT too tired.
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TO WAG his tail.
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AND BARK his joy.
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THAT HE was back.
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AND THEY sent him away.
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FOR THE second time.
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AND TWO d;.l_vs passed.
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AND Fl:Ohf out of a field.
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THAT HAD been plowed.
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AND W‘AS‘(:IOS”O the heuse.
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WE HEARD Jeff’s whine.
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AND HE was there. :
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AND AROUND his peck, .
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THEYeHAD yed & rope.
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ANP ONE end dragged.
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AND HE'D ecome back home.
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AND LAY out there.
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IN THE plawed field.
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AND WHIN!‘D his plea.
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THAT \A'lE‘!et.him stay. .
AND HLS Ere:.t hrown eyel:
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AND THE nraver they said. :
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WENT STRAIGHT to the heaven.
Shafts of Sunshine
Bad teeth may ecause insanity.
And so may dentists’ bills. Men
might he better off with a beak,
now that there are no beakers.
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The children who\are gr&ving up
will just as like as not spell it
“brury.”
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How is it that a frail litle
woman can put a lid on a jar so
-~ OF ALL good dogs.
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WHOSE HEAVEN lies.
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IN THE master's heart.
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AND THEY let Jeff stay.
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AND HE'S still out here.
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AND JUST today.
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THE THREE of us.
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THE NEPHEW boy.
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AND Tl'J,E.gogd dog Jeff.
AN.D THE ‘master's friend.
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AS JEFF sees me.
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HAVE EEEN away.
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ACROS THE creek.
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AND UP the hill
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WHERE_ BROAD fields lie.
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AND M99T of the time.
| CARR!EE the boy.
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AND AT other times.
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| LAID me down.
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IN leE bright sunlight.
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AND FELT its warmth.
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WHILE THE good dog Jeff.
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AND THE nephew boy.,
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JUST ROLLED around.
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AND THE nephew boy.
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MAULED 'I'HE good dog Jeff.
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AND PULLED his tail.
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AND POKED his fingers.
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IN JEFF'S brown eyes.
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AND POOR old Jeff.
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NEVER W:H'\!PE_RED once.
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THAT A selfish dosg. .
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IF THERE he one.
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WOULD HAVE lain in the sun,
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ALONG WITH me.
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AND ENJOYED himself.
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—! THANK vou
tight that a giant with hands like
knotted steel can't unscrew it?
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“You'll have to cut that out"”
growled the park polleeman to the
spooning couple; “this is Hlisian
Park.”
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Two misers met the other day in
a conflict at czou‘e Quarters.
Unnatural hlltory——wkap&,
Palembang for
The Kaiser
By THE SPECTATOR.
ALEMRBANG. That is the
P name of one of the places
where it is now propased to
send the kaiger. It is a rewerbe
rating name; sounds something
like the report-of a Big Bertha or
like the crown prince falling down
stairs.
It is in Sumatra, an island in
the Dutch East Indies. It is a nice,
warm spot, as it is only two de
grees south of the equator.
Palembang is not dry, the word
“dry” being here used in a literal
sense, and not from the point of
view of Pussyfoot Johnson and the
‘Anti-Saloon League. There seems
40 be plenty of wetness, above and
below and all around. The ency
clopedia informs us that “thunder
storms and waterspouts occur fre
quently,” and the flooded lowlands
that surround the place will re
mind the All Highest of the mud
and flood of Flanders, where the
torch of his ambition was extin
guished.
Besides, the towh itself is built |
not only on'the banks of the Musi™
River. but out into the river. many
of the hOuses being on stilis or
floating on rafts. By setting up
his royal court on a raft his im
perial highness could easly get a
change of scenery by chartering a
tug to take-him upstream, or could
find royval adventure by cutting |
the ropes and floating out to sea. ‘
Further moisture, in case any is
needed by the imperial world-mas- .
ter, would be by his own pores,
as the Royal Packet Line's guide
to the island advises the.gentleman {
who proposes to visit there to take
along “at least twenty-four shirts
of ‘very thin flannel material.” ‘
Nothing is said of trousers, hut |
then, perhaps the least said the
better.
To those who do not think they |
have a correct impression of a
place unless they see some sStatis
tics, it may be said that Palem
bang is on the south coast of the
island and has 60,985 inhabitants,
of which about 500 are white. |
If William plays his cards right,
or takes along some one from Wil- |
Relmstrasse to play them for him,
he may get himself elected sultan
or something. He is knownp .0 he
catholic and accommodating, as
he was the hope of Islam in Con
stantinople, the defender of the
faith in Jerusalem, restorer of its
ancient glories to Rome, and had
a front pew in the Lutheran
Church in Berlin. He should have |
no trouble in adapting himself to i
the tastes and aspirations of the
Chinese, Arabs, Malays and Hin
dus he would find in his new home,
He might get hold of the oil
business thgre, as the oil conces
sions yield about 75,000,000 gal- 1
lons annually. He might become
the John D. of the Orient. It's
better to be an oil king than no
king at all, and probably he could
get a good deal of fun out of it,
more than the original John D,
and his Sunday school class, for
g;.lemhanx is . described as “an
st Indian Venice—gay, dirty,
s\mu-mingl with life and luminous
with sunlight.,” .
PUBLIC SERVICE
Georgia
Politics
‘«v yHATEVER one may think of
W the Mitchell Palmer cans
didacy in Georgia, one can not
complain that he has ne opportu
nity ta get a fairly accuraie idea of
what is back of it, as an initial
factor. And voters are entitled to
all the light possible on the can
didacy of any person for the presi
dency, whether they get it or not,
Whether they act intelligently and
wisely In the light of that infor.
mation is their own lookout and res
sponsibility,
That's what we call demecracy,
with a small “d,” anyway; which
is what we fought to make the
world “safe” for, so we have bheen
informed. : N
Mr, Palmer ig the attorney gen
eral of the United Stales—an im
portant and powerful member of the
cabinet of the President. He has at
his disposal most elaborate and
far reaching machinery for the ad
ministration of affairs; a machinery
that extends through its ramifica~
tions into every nook and corner
of the nation, and that might be
employed to very definite politieal
ends. ,
Apparently, the machinery of his
great office has been put into ep
eratiop in favor of Mr. Palmer's
eandidacy for the presidency; a
candidacy Mr. Palmer is frank
enough not to disavow er seek to
evade with fine and meaningless
words.
Now, it is a perfectly legitimate
question whether the people es this
nation viant a Presidant created for
them in that way. If they de, ‘all
well and good—ithat's their busi
ness. But they surelv are entitled
to all the exhibits in the case, that
they may reach a verdict intelli
gently.
Mr. Palmer’s candidacy in Geor
gia is attracting nation wide at
tention. A great deal centers in it;
upon its success or failure depends,
in large measure, the entire Palmer
campaign, from new to the eanven
tion in San Fraseisco. A meeting
was held in Atlanta on Saturday,
candidly designed to consider and
forward Mr. Palmer's candidacy.
Among the moving spirits therein
were Alex C, King, solicitor gen
eral of the United States and as
sociate of Mr. Palmer; John W,
Beninett of Wayecross, United States
district attorney for South Geor
gia, under Mr. Pammer; Joe Davis
of Albany, United States marshal
for Seuth Georgia under Mr. Pale
mer; Claude Bond of Toccoa, Unit
ed States marshal for North Geors
gia under Mr, Palmer; C. E. Dun
bar of Augusta and Washington,
attache of the alien property cus
todian, under Mr. Palmer; David
Barrow of Bavannah, cellecfer of
the port under Jesse E. Menrcer,
prohibition law enforcement officer
Without saying anything what
ever about these gentleman that is
not entirely kind and appreeiative
of their many excellent qualities
as citizens, it is quite apparent that
‘they all are members of the attor
ney general's pfficia. family, Hence
the conclusien is wafranted that the
attorney general has deliberately
and designedly set in motion the
powerful machinery of his great of
fice to make himself President—
presumably with the endorsement
and acquiescence of the President,
to stay put only in the event Mr,
Palmer shews he can get away
with {t. .
Whether he gets iway with it
is entirely for the voters te say.
If they want a candidate ready
made and hand baked for them by
the department of justice, with full
knowledge of the iepartment's ree
ord and sense of duty as exempli=-
fied of late years, then they cer
tainly are entitled to have it; but
they likely will consider the mat
ter somewhat at length, and with
some discriminating thought, be
~ fore they give it complete approval
ORMER Governor Joseph Al,
F Brown gave out rather a re
markable card to the newspas
pers of Sunday. y
Among other things, he sald:
“As Attorney General Palmer is
basing hiv candidacy upon an en=
dorsement of all the official acts
of President Wilson, I hald that the
Democratic party of Georgla can
not afford to make him its choice
in the presidential primary * * ¢t
As for Mr, Hoover, I can not see
my way clear to deny to any Dem
ocrat who wishes te vote for the
man who fed the starving people of
Burope, the right to Jdo so. 1t can
at least be said for Mr, Hoover that
his work was for one of the noblest
objects which can inspire the pracs
tical man, viz: the feeding of the
famishing whose miseries were due
not to their improvidence, but to
the erimes of the wicked * & # ¢
have no idea voting myself for Mr.
Hoover. On the contrary shall re
serve my vote for a Democrat who
stands for established Democratie
principles.”
The courageous little governor of
the not so very long ago seems
to have said, what “Tad” would call
“an earful.”
He will none of either Palmer
or Hoover!
v And after all, isn'?! the sum
ming up of principles as exemplified
in men, what pe* ers finally? 4
Is a merr” st of partisan and
machi™ " ,Lyalty to determine what
Geo' a will do in the preferential
pr ary, or are the vital exhibits
4 1 records of performance and
# .Lion to contrgl our minds?
