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The Lord is my light and my selvationg whom shall 1
feay?—Psalm XXVII:I.—Text today by the Rev. Jas.
I, Dickey, Pastor First Methodist Church.
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THE INSISTENT DEMAND FOR
FAIR RENTING REGULATIONS
HE GEORGIAN calls attention to the letter pub
" T lished herewith, because it is one of scores—of
hundreds—of similar import that have come to
. The Georgian office of late.
~ .1t isn't a plensant letter; but it undobtedly sets
forth an opinion—a state of mind—that not only ex
jsts in Atlanta but is growing daily. It ean not, in
common sense be ignored. Unless it is reckoned with,
it means extremely uncomfortable and perhaps de
cidedly troublesome times ahead for landiords of va
rious sorts—good, bad and indifferent. Here Is the
lotter: '
Editor The Georgian:
Rampant, ruthless rent raising is one of the chief
*¢auses of prevailing unrest,
Numerous people who have established decent
homes and places of business in Atlanta, small rent
ers in particular, after years of conscientious effort are
suddenly cenfronted by the demand fer more and
more rents. This in many instancay spelis ruin for
them.
Landlords and dealers are entitled to a fair return,
but those who take advantage of economic disturb
ances unquestionably undermine the welfare of our
country and should be dealt with as “enemies within
our gate.”
Public policy demands that the city, State and
federal governments should control merciless profit
esrs, whe exact enormous profits from their helpless
fellow citizens. Respectfully, ATLANTAN.
The Georgian withholds this citizen's name, upon
his request. He states that he doesn't wish to “make
bad matters worse” by letting his landlord know of
his perscnal protest to this newspaper—that is, “not
at this time.”
A number of correspondents, plainly outraged and
perplexed beyond measure to make their incomes cover
their outgoes, nevertheless seem to stand in abject
terror of their landlords—a bad thing for landlords,
for tenants and for Atlanta,
The Georgian has received, as before stated, hun
dreds of shmilar letters. Many of them—a genuinely
disheartening many-—complain that the writers there
of, renters of small homes and apartments in the main,
not only “were forced to stand heavy advances during
the fall and winter,” but have already been notified of
“further fmpending advances” ranging from 25 to 100
' per cent, this spring, and in the summer or fall, as the
¢ase may be, and rent contracts and leases expire,
The Georglan has stated before that it dogs not
believe rent “profiteering,” purely as such, is extensive
in Atlaita. We may be wreng about it; certainly a
distressing lot of letters state otherwise. But whether
we are right or wrong, there is grave danger that hon
e¢st and fair-minded landlordd are going to suffer much
of the wrath of public opinion when it does crystallize
fully and explode, unless they can and will find some
sure and definite method of curblhg their rapaclous
and greedy contemporaries in the renting business.
The Georglan is very sincere im its opimion that
gomething like a erigis is approaching in this matter,
pud that those who are truly wise will take heed of
~ the impending storm and govern themselves accord-
Ingly.
Citizens, apparently, arve getting tired of the old
excuse—~lit is no longer a good and suficient reason—
fhat rents must be advanced “on account of the war"
or “the extraordinary after-the-war conditions.” They
were boosted during the war and right after the war
" so the limit on that.
Rents that were readjusted last summer and fall
_ upon existing conditions and enhancements in value
mdy have been acceptod, but these old reasons can not
Pe set up again this spring and summer and fall for
further tremendous boosts. Twat 18, they can not be
set up honestly and fairly; and the general public
Kuows it.
- And that's why hundreds of people are kicking—
Bundreds that likely will grow quickly into ‘thbusands,
nuless a halt is called.
Plainly and bluntly enough, the public decidedly
thinks there Is no excuse but greed for further big in
ereases in rent in Atlanta. The landlords can not
plead anew increased operating expenses, riso in the
yalne of the property, depreciation of the wvalue of
money, and finally, “everybody's doing it.” Not one
yeuson is sufficlent ; the onuse ts greed, and the remedy
I lawthat's what the public is beginning to say, and
@s if it means it, too!
Dealing in apartment houses, 80 many of the Geor
glan’s correspondents holl, has become something
of a game ~in which enty the tenant loses, A man
Bbuys an apartment house, paying 85,000 extra for
“good will” That geod will does not exist. It is merely
& license fee pald by the buyer for his opportunity to
exploit. He knows that the enly way he can secure
the return of that $5,000 is by raising the rent. The
property is no more valuable, the operating expense is
no greater than it was, but he hus put an additional
86,000 into the property and he must get it back. He
does so, gets his money back in a few months and
? keeps the rent rate at the level where he boosted it.
. It he sells again he exacts 80 much from the new buyer
~ for “good will,” and that next buyer boosts the rent a
littie more. The tenant pays, or moves, and in mov
ing he falls into the same diticulty again.
There are even lease brokers, so these Georgian
correspoudents say, who make a point of going
-0 a prospective buyer and telling him of an
gpartment bouse, the income from which is now §I,OOO,
but can easily be lncreased to §1,200. The real estate
man does this for his commission; he is not concerned
with the tenants who must pay that increase, which
he has engineered for his own pocketbook. The de
tplh of this piracy are known to every mau who pays
rent. The remedy is not obwious, but it exists in that
_¢anon of the law which is known as “public poliey.”
Prohibition of alcohol is derived from that law.
~ Prohibition of oplum smoking, carrying of a concealed
weapon, the red light abatement—all these exist, be
eause of the belief that some acts which can not be
¢ondemmned by the actual existing law can still be de
gled because they couflict with public pelicy. There
were many instances of that in the late war,
It is possible and just to pass a law restricting
: in rent and compelling a landlord to make
“‘;flm to a commission for permission—just as
: seations are compeiled to apply to the Railroad
Commission for the right to issue stock,
: A landlord can be—and in Atlanta aud elsewhere
;et may be—compelled to opeu his books
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THURSDAY—Editorial Page of The Atlanta Georgian—MAßCHlS 1920
v
ALay Sermomn
MAKING THE FACTORY BETTER.
Mr. Bmployer, are you dissatigfied with the pro
duction®of the machines in your plant? Wheo is 1o
blame~-the operators? Or is it that the machinery
is not working right
If you were reared on a farm you know that a
worried cow never gave her usual supply of milk.
The production of an operator on a machina
will never be up to the operator's limit while the
machine worries him.
Worry about mechanical difficulties does not
give a mind free to get large produation.
Put your machines in first-class conditien, all
of them, and sec how much better work and how
much larger your production. A]l machinery tends
to depreciate,, but will not deteriorate so much
from use as disuse. An old plece of machinery well
repaired, oiled and kept in running order is often
more dependable than new machinery.
If you can not believe it, investigate, aided by
some one in whom you have confidence, and you
will be surprised at the interest which your invest
ment In parts and a good general overhauling will
bring. '
and show his actual expenses before the increase is
allowed. s
A fair and honest and not too greedy landlord ean
not object to this. .
“All that the tenant will stand” is just as viclous
a maxim as “all the traffic will bear.” The law re
‘ gtricts the one; it ean now restrict the other, and
public policy demands this relief.
All of which The Geeorgian very respectfully, dis
passionately and most sincerely submits for the ealm,
careful, thoughtful consideration of laundlords of all
gorts in Atlanta.
‘UNCLE SAM, THE WELL-KNOWN
WORLD BANKER
INCE the war began, over five years ago, this
S country has lent abroad a net sum of SIO,OOO,
000,000. This country has bought back from
forelgners American securities to an amount estimated
all the way up to another $10,000,000,000. This coun
try, furthermore, is increasing the world's debt to us
every hour, with a foreign trade balance now running
in our favor at the astounding rate of very nearly
£4,000,000,000 a year.
Yet—and the news startles Americans—we are
shipping out gold.
What does it mean, they ask, that if everybody owes
us we are sending $18,000,000 in gold to South Amer
iea and may ship to Japan twice, perhaps four times,
as much? .
Well, for one thing, everybody doesn’t owe ud. The
world as a whole does; the world as a whole s up to
its neck in debt to us; but here and there, like a speck
in the wide sky, is a part of the world we owe. In
South American countries we have been making more
trade purchases than sales. Examples are Argentina,
Chile and Brazil. The same thing is true in the Far
Kast, where the conspicuous example is Japan.
Besides this trade seore, we have been lnvesting
in foreign countries. We have been buying their secur
itles. Within their boundaries we have been building
American rallroads, developing mines and setting up
mills and factories, So we pay. For another thing, a
nation ean not be creditor of the world without being
banker to the world, : ;
A banker to the world, llke a banker to a com
munity, stands prepared to receive or to pay, to col
lect or-to lend. A bapker to the world, like a banker
to a community, must be ready to honor good drafts in
favor of anybody anywhere. So we bank with gold
and we trade with gold. We buy gold, we lend gold, we
sell gold.
As for our gold supply-—-if we are to be banker to
the world—it is for just such use as we are now mak
ing of it and we shall make of it more and more. We
have it in prodiglous store. We have the bulk of the
wl-orld's banking supply. We shall have it for a long
time,
Our stock of gold, as money, is over $8.000,000,000,
In the chief countries of the world there isn't a great
deal more,
Five years ago France and England were the
bankers for Europe, Asia, Australia, South Africa
and South America, They were the bankers, pretty
much, for even our own United States. All that to
day is changed. These countries and continents alike
look to us,
Qur shingle is out—bankers to the werld.
BUY LAND, THE BASIS OF
GEORGIA’S WEALTH
0 MATTER how much money you are making, or
N how much you may have made and salted away,
you will, if you are wise, own a piece of farm
land somewhere in Georgia, even If you are farm-rich
in other States, or have just got rid of some old farm
with u gesture of rellef,
And if you ure a city man and are buying and pay
ing for a heme near your work, still it is prudent to |
acquire a little patch of country land, which will in- |
crease in value and productivity as age comes on. |
When the city man comes to retire or is ¢ompelled
to quit, it is with great satisfaction that he will look 1
upon his little acrenge on which he may pass the re
mainder of his days in independence, with a garden,
a chicken yard and a small orchard to yield their
fruits for his sustenance.
Farming is the basisa of prosperity in Georgia. Not
that every farmer makes a success of it, but when one
fails here it is pever an argument agaivst the farm,
but a confession of fault by the man. Xarmers have
been making woney here for years, They will lnake
more money in years to come,
Georgla land values will advanee-~the value of furm
products will increase for the producer-—let us hope
they will not increase for the consumer, that more
economical means of distribution will be found,
There can never be any more acres devoted to grow
ing cotton or peanuts or grain or garden truck than
are adapted to these various uses, But the number
of mouths to be fed will keep on Inereasing.
Lately there was a perceptible movement back to
the soll, but something—perhaps the war—interrupted
it. It will begin again and next time will continue
until there is no more land to be taken up.
80, when you obey the eall of spring and take your
vernal trips into the country, as you must do If you
would enjoy life to the full, think of the future and
look on land as a utility as well as on the beauties
of the landscape,
Letters From the People ‘
THIS YANK LIKED TOMMY,
Editor The Ceorgian:
Life is mestly a mirror; ybu see your own spirit
reflected in others,
The Duddies who found such bad tredatment in
Tingiand had chips on their shoulders. They went
expecting to hate the British,
1 served over there. I was quartered with Tommy
and I liked hm. To prove it: T married Tommy's
sister, whom I met when on leave of absence in
London. I wasg entertained in one of the thousands of
homes opened to the Yanks, w. D
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Comment
DISCREDITED INSTITUTION.
(Dalton Citizen.)
We strain every muscle and
brain cell to meet the ever in
creasing costs of living, intermit
tently complaining against out
rageous prices, and yet encourage
non-producerg in thelr shirkings,
and it says that non-producers
form the largest contributing fac
tor to unreachable prices of every
day necessities. It then says: Car
nivals that have degenerated until
they are now but a conglomeration
of gambling devices should be
eliminated in the new scheme of
things.
As long as towns open their
doors to them, non-producers will
feed on the products the labor of |
others has made, and by their
failure to add to the world’s store
room of necessities, will make /
prices go even. higher.
Many Georgia towns have pro- ‘
hibited carmivals by refusing to
issue licenses, and the State press
shows pubitc opinion to favor their
elimination., Were this plan uni
versally adopted, hundreds of men
and women who are altéernately
smiled and frowned upon by the
:mls of chance, would perhaps seek |
orms of employment that would
insgure regulur incomes and remove
them fram the parasitie class.
'TEN POINTERS.
(Rome News.)
1t is 4 hard job to behave well
these days with politics, strikes and
what-not Kkeeping every one on
edge. But back in the second cen
tury one Marcus Aurelius Antonius
in browsing around Rome jotted
down pointers for his personal
guidance. For instance,
1. Simplicity in my way of liv
ing far removed {rom habits of the
rich.
2. To be neither of the green nor
blue party at the fights or games.
3. To endure labor, want little,
work with my own hands and not
nmeddle,
4. Not to he led astray to sophis
tic emulation, nor to writing on
speculative matters, nor to hastily
give my assent to those who talk
overmuch.
6. To love my kin, truth and
justice.
7. To learn self-government and
cheerfulness In all ecircumstances
as well as in slckness.
8. Love of lahor and persever
ance: firmness in giving to every
man aceording to his deserts.
9. To see things a long way off,
and to he a good manager of the
expenditure.
10. To do what is set before me
without complaining.
Old stuff? Sure. But Marcus
became boss of the Romans,
FINE FIELD OF ENDEAVOR.
(Macon Telegraph.)
It may be, however, if fond pa
rents would make use of the wee- l
jee board to pieture the futurd@of
their progeny there'd be fewer 210,-
pound lassies named Vielet and
sower sissy boys named Bil,
HONK! HONK!
(Claytonr News.)
Wouldn't the country get “rat
tied” if Henry lMprd were nomi
nated? f 1
Military Training Did It
Ye Towne Gossip
By K. C. B,
| USED to know him,
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YEARS AGO.
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AND W’l:lEN I met him.
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ON A railroad train,
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BETWE.EN TWO towns.
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I RECO?NIZED him.
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THOUG!.-I HE looked to me.
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LIKE A very sick man.
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AND | shook hands with him.
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HE WAS very ne!’voul. y
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AND THEN I zaw,
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AND IT wasn't my business.
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AND | didn't ask him.
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BUT LATER on.
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IN THE smoking car.
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HE CONFIDED to me.
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THAT HE had been chairman.
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OF A local committee.
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IN HIS little home town.
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TO ARRANGE a banquet,
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AND HE fixad for the banquet.
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AND GOT a bright idea,
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ABOUT EXPL‘ODING some bombs
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IN A vacant block.
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JUST BEFQRE the banquet.
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IT WOULD be all right.
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AND ON that night.
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HE HAD the bombs,
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AND ALONG about seven.
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HE EXPLODED one.
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AND A butcher’s horse.
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ATTACHED I.'o a wagon. {
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AND THAT hadn't been told.
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ABOUT THE Pombs.
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DIDN'T KNOW what it was,
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AND RAN away.
Science Notes
A toaster that toasts all sides of
two pieces of bread over a' gas
burner at once has been invented.
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A British metallurgist believes he
has rediscovered the secret of the
ancient Spamsh armorers in pro
ducing a tarnish-proof steel that .
i even resisls acids. !
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! In producing print naper from |
j native grasses an Australian ex- ‘1
perimenter discovered some new
vegetable dyes,
AND AN automobile.
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IN A frantic effort.
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NOT TO hit the horse.
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RAN INTO a post.
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AND BROKE it off.
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AND IT tumbied over.
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AGAINST THE window.
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OF A druggists’ shop.
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AND BROKE the window.
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AND THE runaway horse.
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AND SWUNG* its wagon.
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WHAT WAS going on.
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AND BOTH runaway horses,
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RAN ALL over town.
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FOR HALF an hour.
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AND THE bright red stuff,
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IN THE drug store jar,
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RAN OHT to the street.
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AND WAS tra"nked All over,
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IT WAS the busiest time. .
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AND THE bloodiest time.
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THAT THE town ever saw,
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AND HE was going away.
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-] THANK you.
Leather covers to protect the
front fenders of an automobife
wtile repairs are Leing made un
der the hood have been invented
for use in garages.
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With a new kitchen machine it is
possible to cut any vegetables into
severnl different forms by adjust
ing the knives. ;
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Driven by a 300-hoersepower elec
triec motor, a stone crusher 1 a
Michigan limestone plant can crush
1,300 tens of rock an hour (
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li Pains and Aches
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; I'hat Persist
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By DR. LEONARD HIRSHBERG.
U have a severe pain in your
arm or shoulder uand you say
you have neuritis. Several days
pass and the pain gets worse.
Finally you go to a doctor who looks
under the skin, inty the heart and
I refuses to be dominated by such
useless names as “neuritis,” rhea
matism,” “cold” ani the rest of
this mptherless brood. He analyzes
| the pain, tmas its origin, ete, Then
i he excludes any possible deep
seated cause.
- Drs. D.. Lewis and W, Gatewood
- of Towa City, studied ¢Re victims
of such pains in United Btates Gen
eral Hospital ‘No, 28, Private E.
G, wounded at Chateau-Thierry,
received a machine gun bullet in
left arm and the shoulder, which
split the nerves and bones. The
patient suffered such excruciating
paing that the nerves of the armg@
which had become jmbedded and
pinchell hy secar tissue, ware ‘in.
jected with 60 per cent grain alcohol
solution. Until then the *“algia”
or pain was so terrible that he was
on the verge of self destruction sev
eral times. Almost immediate re
lief was experienced when the al
coholic injections were carried out.
Bimilar relief from miscalled’
“neuralgias,” “neuritis,” myralgia
and muscular “rheumatism” was
quickly brought aboul when 60 per
cent alcohol was injected into the
affected nerves of victims of lo
comotor ataxia, pruritig, tie dou
loreux, facial neuralgia and other
chironic aches and paips distributed
along the course of nerves.
Sometimes the alconol causes a
eslight weakness or paralysis of a
few muscles. This, however, wears
off in sixty to ninety days and the
pain does not return,
Absolute aleohol, which is 30 and
40 per cent stronger, oftén causes
more paralysis. Sixty per cent, al
cohol appears to check the gense
of pain at once, yet not to interfere
with motion and the nerves, which
control the muscles.
It is sometimes advisable to have
a surgeon, expose the affected
nerves so there may be no danger
of mistaking them or of injecting
the alcohol into a wrong place.
When you have these chronic
pains and aches, which persist or
return again and agaln consult your
physician,
False economy on your part in the
matter of X-ray examinations, blood
tests, stomach analyzis and other
means to find the facts, may cost
yvou dearly in torment and suffer
ing, CRA ShE LA
PUBLIC SERVICE
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i ¢ B ITIE P Nevm_J
ELL R. WILKINSON has a
M marvelous faculty for get
ting himself elected presi
dent of things—organizations of all
sorte and varieties, big and little,
local and state-wide.
To be sure, ¢he makes a good
president of whatever it is he is
president of for the moment—he's
president of the Atlanta Presidents’
Club for life, for that matter—and
I doubt whether he could escape
the presidential lightning even if he
80 inclined, which he doesn’'t al
ways, ag I happen to know,
It may not be known generally,
but Mr. Wilkinson is a domino
fiend. He is quite a sharp at that
ancient and honorable pastime, and
g 0 are his friends, “HEd” Mcßurney
and *Chess” Howard. They play
together a great deal, these three;
and so, one night not long ago Mr,
Wilkinson decided they should or
ganlze themselves into a domino
club, and he proceeded to business
briskly, after the approved Wilkin
son style,
“Now, to get this thing under
way right,” sald Mr. Wilkinson, “I
will sort of call the meeting to or
der as temporary chairman. I will
now appoint Mr. Mcßurney and
Mr. Howard a committee of two
upon permanent organization, and
ask them, kindly to retire and
bring in a nomination for president,
and I suggest that the president
be empowered to name all the rest
of the officers of the Domino Club.”
Whereupon Messrs. Mcßurney
and Howard retired solemnly and
brought in the name of Mr. Wile
son asg president.
And that's how it happens that
Mell Wilkinson is still one more va
riety of president than you thought,
gentle reader. 2
And I do not see how any op
posing candidate is to beat his sys
tem, moreover.
HE TEN,” which is one of
I the oldest of Atlanta's se
lect organizations—having
been actively in existence for more
than twenty consecutive years—
had as its guest of honor at dinner
Tuesday evening Mr. Harry Stii
well HEdwards of Macon, one of the
seally great short story writers of
America—a writer who, from sheer
standpoint of literary ability and
worthiness of production, is equaled
by few I know.
To my way of thinking, he is far
and away a greater writer of short
stories—or a writer of greater short
&tories, rather—than O, Henry ever
was; and that's citing something
of a %}assic example in process of
discuskion, moreover,
Certainly O. Henry was a popular
writer, if never really a writer of
ereat stories. He was a remarka
ble narrator of anecdotes, most of
which he dressed up to seeming
short gtory proportions, and to be.
sure there are two of three of hig
stories that might stand the highes
test.
But there are scores of Harry
Stillwell Edwards’ stories that
&tand the acid test amply. The
pages of Scribners, Harpers and
other sgtandard —‘magazines will
show them if one cares to look
them up, provided he has not al
ready read them.
Mr. Edwards combines robust
substance with charming and con
vincing literary form, which lis
something rare among writers.
Mr. Edwards' fame grew some
what after the fashion of Jo:l
Chandler Harris’ repute as a writer
of really great stories; it came
from the circumference in; it start
ed far away fpom home and worked
backward. That frequently is the
fate of writers. England discovered
Joel Chandler Harris long before
Georgla ,did; New England discov
ered Harry Stillwell Edwards long
before CGeorgia did. However, the
~ fame of both is well established
- now.
: “The Ten,” by the way, is an un~
usual organization. It was found
- ed originally by a little band of
Baptist ministers, who gathered
together now and then for better
acquaintance and Dbetter under
understanding. It is not now so
strictly Baptist as it once was, al
though it still is predominately that
in its makeup of membership. Its
president—whom it ealls “Czar’-—
i{s Marion L. Brittain, and its
scribe is Fred Paxon.
Just how Mell Wilkinson managed
to let the headship of the organi
zation escape his clutchds lam
sure 1 do not know; but he made
up for it in a way, for he's the ex
ecutive committees, all by himself,
and also the entire committee on
devilment.
Asa . Candler, who is somewhat
notoriously a Methodist, is a mem
ber; but the excuse inside the club
for that is ng' Candler is such a
good Methodist, he's almost a Bap
et s ;
Here's the full membership roll
of “The Ten”: Marcus W, Beck,
Marion I. Brittain, Asa G. Cand
ler, Walter G, Cooper, John C. Hart,
Samuel D, Jones, William W, Orr,
Frederic J. Paxon, Henry Alford
Porter, Arthur G. Powell, John F.
Purser, Hugh M. Willett, Mell R.
Wilkinson, Honorary: Beaumont
Davigon, Beverly D. Evans, William
Warren Landrum, John E. White,
Can you beat that for a splen
did organization?
UDGE ARTHUR G. POWELL,
] who was about to collaborate
with me in promulgating in
the preferential primary a rampant
‘Govemor Edwards boom, when
‘the governor ruthlessly shattered
our young dream by withdrawing
his name from consideration, does
rot think the various street car
conductors of Atlanta should be
permitted to use misleading dia
lects in announcln& prospective
stops, ' .
“Now,” said Judge Powell yes
terday, “I was going home quietiy
vesterday afternoon, when, as we
approached the intersection of
Peachtree and Marietta, the eon
ductor yelled loudly and persua
sively, right there in my ear, which
wasn't attuned to anything in par
ticular, ‘Five Pints!’
“Naturally, it startled me; not
unnaturally it sent my mind gal
loming off inte strange—or, at
least, half forgotten by-ways. And
it suggested cruelly at least SSO, at
present day prices.
“The street car managers in At
lanta ceriainly should make tueix
- Lelp behave,” i