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; MARIETTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1920.
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Why Insurance?
HERE is a saying current among life insurance
Tagents that ‘“nothing is certain except death and
taxes,”” and men have been known to escape even the
taxes, so that narrows down the sure things on earth
to the one thing, ‘““death.” When we think it over we
must admit that the insurance agents have a good
argument.
Paul in his letters to the Corinthians speaks of “Faith,
Hope and Charity, these three, but the greatest of these
i 3 charity.” The life insurance men have paraphased
Paul's remark by saying that “the coldest of these is.
charity.” And who shall say they are wrong about that?
Certainly as charity is practiced in the present day it
is a pretty cold proposition, and few men have so much
admiration of charity, combined with enough faith in the
ability of willingness of his neighbors to practice it, that
they would be willing to have their families at its mercy.
Well, life insurance is the only escape a poor man has
from this danger. It has been said that life insurance is
the rich man’s priviledge, and the poor man’s opportunity.
It is certainly most true. We have been aroused to
write these reflections upon the most generous offer of
the government to restore the insurance of ex-army men,
in the hope that it may meet the eye of some on who is
in doubt as to what to do about the matter.
| Time For A Change
EVERAL times during the past dozen years the me-
Sthods adopted at Georgia State Conventions have
been little short of disgraceful.
When the will of the voters has been overriden and
trampled upon without compunction or scruple, when can
didates, confessedly not the choice of the voters were
given the nomination regardless of the popular vote.
Such methods will continue to obtain as long as un
scrupulous men are selected as leaders.
The very hitter controversy now being carried on
throughout the state over the action of the state commit
tee, bodes no good to the party nor to the state, and but
too clearly indicates the methods that will be resorted to
when the convention assembles by dfferent factons to se
cure control,
As we have on several different occasions pointed out,
we need new laws governing our primary elections. There
is no reason, nor justice in permitting unscrupulos poli
ticians to thwart the expressed will of the people. When
men have submitted their candidacies to the arbitrament
of the ballot, they should not be required to go into a
conventiofi oftimes packed to compass their defeat. |
The legislature should enact a law guaranteeing to
the people the results of their ballot.
Ordinarily delegates to a state convention from the
various counties are nameq by the condidate for gover
nor, who secured the highest vote in that county, and
yet mayhap there will be no contest in the convention for
governor, while there mabe, indeed usually is some very
sharp contests for other offices sometimes U. S. Senators
or other important officers,
Now it is manifestly unjust that these gubernatorially
selecfzed delegates should settle contests between other
candidates. Therein lies the injustice. Oft times such
delegates are inimical to the condidate who carried the
county for the contested office. ‘
-When the people express their preference for a can
dxda'te, that expression should be final, and the condidate
polling the greatest vote should be declared the nominee,
Le.t the people rule is democracy and nothing else is.
: Wlth.the co‘ntrow.versy now being waged as to presiden
tial candidates in t!ns state we take no stock, further than
Fo warn the committee that it is no part of ther duty to
lr);siruc‘tt'd:?ocmts for whorr}”the)f shall vote, and further
that ifl_leb ::e etaoi etaoniiisnlsiciatsn ietaoinununun
m:rv tl}?anet eritf),ha\;,e them cordally co-operate in a pri-
Nov.e;nber (.)\,‘, r:,\ni them mtg the ra.nks of the enemy in
: i rammeled: ballot in the hands of free
men 1s the only safeguard to republican instiutions and
freedom.
- We have before plead with our lawmakers, and we
now reiterate the appeal, give us a free ballot, the Aus
tralian ballot, and a fair count and all will be well.
We are unalterably opposed to mobs and mob violence
whether it be a mob to strangle a negro from a lamp
post or to murder our liberties under the guise of a law
ful assemblage.—Carroll County Times. |
| L g(gY~ e o ————— ‘
" A Brooklyn woman who bought a bale of cotton in
1914 for $47.50 has just said it for $192.00 a fairly good
profit on the deal, but just enough to make her wish she
had bought a hundred bales.
The Wood campaign may not be spending a big pile
of money, but we believe the postage and cost of the pro
paganda that comes to this office in behalf of the general’s
candidacy, must have cost somebody a pretty penny,
We do not believe that the Jast session of the senate
will go down in history as a wise or a patriotic one, and
we do not believe the way certain senators voted will ever
prove the basis of a successful presidential campaign,
Either Delaware or North Carolina may take the ac
tion necessary to qualify women for the voting this fall,
but in event niether should do sO, it will be impossible for
the politicians to stave off suffrage for another year, only
one more state being needed now.
The agricultural bulletin sets out the fact that stocks
of hides and skins are much greater than a yvear ogo, the
stock of cattle hides being over ten per cent larger. With
this in mind it is hard for the ordinary mathematician to
fizure out just why prices of shoes should have risen about
fifty per cent in that time.
If any congress ever does less for the people than
the present one, or if any senate ever so little appreciates
its true responsibilty to the people of this country, we
should be in favor of a session about once in a hundred
vears, and that session limited to even less time than is
given annually to the Georgia legislature, yet many good
men are members fo the present congress.
Preventable Fire Losses
HE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES of America
‘Tthrough their own associations are trying to reduce
the fire losses of the country by educating the people in
precautionary measures. Penjedically they issue bulle
tins which may appear as dry reading after certain most
interesting information, and if these could have some way
!of reaching every property owner we believe they would
}do much more good. They are sent to the papers and
through some of these some of the vital points get
Ethrough to the public.
The chief trouble with all this propaganda is the
length of the articles. If they were cut up into a series
of short items of news interest more of them would be
published, particularly if these items were localized. We
believe the insurance companies are missing a “good bet”
when they do not go into a eampaign of popular instruc
tion of the people through the advertising columns of
local papers of the country.
By a chart and report which has just come to hand
we see that the per capita fire losses reported in Georgia
in 1916-17-18, three years, were reduced each year bheing
onTy $1.35 in 1918. In the same report the average for
the whole country in 1918 is shown to be $2.68.
In some states the 1918 average was as high as $7.95
per capita, that being the figure in New Jersey. The pro
portion of fire losses in Georgia which were classed as
“preventable” was only 24 cents per capita. In the south
generally the losses have declined, while in the east they
have advanced so we must conclude that the campaign
has been more successful in the south.
However in spite of all efforts of the insurance people
the losses by fire each year are enormous—so great as
to stagger the comprehension when viewed as a whole,
and of this sum a large part is classed as preventable,
Newberry And His Uses
ENATOR NEWBERRY, of Michigan, and his law-
S vers pretend to be confident that, inspite of his con
viction of violating the Corrupt-Practices Act, he never
will serve a day in prison or pay a dollar fine—which
many be set down as a gesture of defiance and a prophecy
that is not a boast. For the moment the outstanding fact
is that an honest jury has found a Senator of the United
States guilty and a fearless Judge has sentenced him to
two years in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $lO,OOO.
Sixteen of the culprit’s associates share in his punishment.
We have laws which operate chiefly to restrain the
predatory poor. There are laws that penalize words
spoken or written that may be constred as a menace to
the Government. In some cases these laws have Izeen
used to stifle opinion. Designed to safeguard Govern
ment from assaults more deadly because they are secret,
the Corrupt-Practices Act applies principally to the pre
datory rich. It forbids the purchase of offices. It makes
debauchery of the ballot-box a crime. The verdict
against Newberry and his crowd, therefore, is a vindi
cation of the basic principle of democracy, that the law
is no respecter of persons and that it is aimed at despe
rate wealth no less than desperate poverty.
All the evidence in this case showed an almost in
credible disregard by the defendants not only of national
and State law but of common honesty and decency. Sums
of mony largely in excess of the total amount lawfully
to be used in the State were spent in single counties and
cities. The outlay brazenly admitted was $178,000,
whereas good judges estimate it at four or five times
that figure. No other Senatorial election, even in the old
wide-open days, ever developed a scandal of such magni
tude. - ;
Personal ambition and vanity had much to do with
this bacchanal of boodle, but party necessity was up
permost. The control of the Senate was at stake. All
the funds so lavishly used did not come from one man
or one family. It turned out, exactly as was forseen,
that the election of Newberry was necessary to give
the Republicans a majority in the Senate. If Henry
Ford had been chosen, that body would have been tied
politically and its then existing Democratic organiza
tion would have been continued to this day.
Thus it was the bought election of Newberry that
enabled the Republicans to pack the Committee on
Foreign Relations with last-ditchers and bitter-enders
opposed to the peace; that brought Henry Cabot Lodge
into the ill-starred leadership which has humiliated the
United States with petty revenges and standpat ob
struction, and that accounts for the fact that we alone
among the belligerents responsible for the overthrow
of autocracy are still in a state of war. On the one
vote of Newberry, purchased at a great price of cash
and conscience, the whole miserably partisan conspi
racy has depended. Without that veote we should have
been at peace long ago.
Newberry’s guilt is personal, but morally the judge
ment passed upon him must fasten itself upon the
spurious majority of the United States Senate whose
misused power was gained by the very practices that
consign him deservedly to prison.—New York World.
It seems that we had the right dope on one matter,
anyway, Hoke Smith, of Georgia, is the candidate of
Senator Hoke Smith. Next!
Good manners are not copyrighted and there is no
patent on clean living,
Don't think the world owes you a living until you have
done something to incur the obligation.
Although a man may be captain of his own soul that is
no reason why he should sail it into the wrong port.
An exchange says that a lot of folks who are running
for office will at least get a bit of healty exercise. And
after the race some of them are due for a long rest,
No line of industry is small enough to be overlooked
by the profiteer. The market inspectors in New York have
discovered a ring of butchers who were stuffing the crops
of chickens with sand and gravel thereby materially ad
ding to the weight.
Five cars stolen in Atlanta on Wednesday was all
that were reported to the police. If any others were lost
that day the owners gave up hope of recovery or looked
for help in some other quarter.
The district meetings of the Republicans in this state
are marked with the usual splits or other disorders over
control of the party affairs, and wind up with the nom
inating two sets of delegates to the convention this sum
mer.
While Hoover is net running in either party, the
leaders in the race in both parties are much afraid of
him, and are doing all the can to “wish’” him on the other
party.
'THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
NOTICE TO VOTERS f
AND CANDIDATES
- Registration for the Democratic
Primary to be held on April 20, 1920
‘must be made on or before April 1,
1920. The books will clise on the lat
ter date. |
~ All eandidates must file their de
claration of intention to run in said
Primary with the Secretary on or be
fore March 31, 1920. Entrance lists
will be closed on said date.
Entrance fees will be fixed imme
diately thereafter, with last day of
payment, which will be duly advertis
ed.
SUB-COMMITTE, DEMOCRATIC
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. |
J. G. Roberts, Secty. 1
This March 17, 1920.
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