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ftiE BRUNSWICK NEWS
published every morning except Mon
day by
NEWS PUBLISHING CO.
Brunswick, Ga.
phe News Bldg., .1604 Newcastle St.
CLARENCE H. LEAVY
President and Editor.
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Vt the City oE Brunswick.
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ALL DEPARTMENTS PHONE IS6
’ What the G. O. P. party mechanics
need as badly as anything is some
sort of demountable platform plank.
Germany has taken effective steps
to prevent bank robbieries. The mon
ey is not worth stealing.
In bootlegging Mascow is reported to
surpass New York, a situation which
will make citizens of the latter city
highly envious.
A physician says it is possible to
become intoxicated on water, but
hootch hounds hav e tp draw the line j
somewhere.
The weakness of the “Stop, Look
and Listen’’ signs at railroad cross
ings is that they presuppose the abili
ty to think.
Lloyd Gecrge has thrown down the
gauntlet to bite enemies and before
this thing is over with, they are all
going to realize it good and strong.
Returns being in from all parts of
the country, it appears the president
was hardly justified in thinking the
record of congress was anything to
speak of.
Amerisans are said to have dropped
nearly a billion in Germon marks. It
makes no particular difference where
a sucker puts his money, as long as it
is that kind of a proposition.
Lord Curzon, the lEliglish Secretary
of Foreign affairs, is the only member
of the cabinet retained in the Bcnar
law government! All the rest of the
official family went out with “the
chief.”
As much as it may wound many
Democrats and Republicans all over
the country, David Lawrence says
that Senator Reed is a sure winner
in Missouri. The truth of the matter
is that it’s hard to heat a man like
Reed.
The laudation of congress by the
white house was all right, of course,
and possibly just had to ■ jc done to
help bolster up a tottering adminis
tration, but it interrupted some G. O.
P. members who arc up for reduction
when they were right in th iniddl of
their alibis.
The Board of Trade membership
drive, delayed for a few days, is now
well under way. Give it your cor
dial' and active support. The Bruns
wick Board of Trade is one of Bruns
wick's best assets and with a larger
membership, there will be necessari
ilv larger development and larger
dividends for Brunswick.
Th e religious meetings which have
been in progress in the city for the
past ten days will come to a close
Sunday. They have afforded a whole- \
some pleasure to the people of Bruns
wick and we are merely suggesting
that the remaining days be distinc
tively successful in every fashion. If
you have not heard Dr. Lane and Dr. i
Roberts, you should do so and if you
have heard them, you will naturally
wanto to do so again.
Elsewhere in the eNews this morn-}
ing is a very interesting ( as well as i
instructive communication from the;
always facile pen vf Mr. N. D. Russell, j
which is most apropos at the mom- j
•Mt'jsimcjei the U. S. S. Toucie is n. port
; %re afraid that Mr. RitsseH isj
'im' the. conelusl n ttyat wc ar<?ij
ali too slow, ip the : present, to give
- fi.MfPiqnl thought And study to the
- history! of.our own great country. At
all feints, we are 'quite tliat
Mr. Russell’s contribution will be ap
preciated.
THE TARIFF AND A WORK SHIRT
It is estimated by these who have
made a careful study of the subject
that the new tariff taxes levied upon
wool and woolen goods by the EDrd-
law adds $300,009,000
annually to the clothing bill of the
American people.
The most of our domestic wo. lea
cloth is made in New England, and
the great hulk of domestic wool is
grown on the semi-arid Kjnds
few far western states. The statis
tics indicate that 7 per cent of the
farmers of the United States raise
any wool, and that 3 per cent or 4
per cent of them have large flocks.
By a trading arrangement the mem
bers of congress from New England
voted for a high tax on wool and the
members from, the wool growing states
voted for exorbitant taxes on woolen
goods. Both of them got what they
wanted in the new tariff law, and
the consumer will get hi& when he
buys the goods with the taxes added.
The hypocrisy and injustice of the
wool and woolen goods tariff is well
illustrated by taking an ordinary
wool shirt worn by a Workingman.
It bears a tax under the Fordney-Mc-
Cumber law of about 100 per cent. It
is made of 85 per cent shoddy and
15 per gent cotton. There is no vir
gin wool in it, yet the workingman
is taxed 100 per ceift under the pre
tense of protecting th e wool grow
er.
It is a bautiful combination. New
England votes for a high tax on wool
that increased Vne price of wool en
tering info the manufacture of cloth,
and the western wool growers states
vote to compensate the New England
manufacturer with a high tariff on his
finished product. And th e working
man gets a shirt made of shoddy
and cotton at an increased price! This
sort of manipulation may help re
actionary senators arid representatives
in a few states, but it does not help
to clothe the American people. For
$300,000,000 in additional taxes it
quite a i.iuy sum. It would build 60,
000 homes for American workingmen.
OPTIMISM
There is an old stoic proverb which
says that it is not things that tor
ment men, but the opinion men have
of them. Th e fact is that there is
an infinite variety of things in every
Pierson’s life, far too many to be
grasped at once, and he must choose
what he will see. In the same situ
ation or surroundings one man will
be wholly cast down because of the
black outlook, while another will be
cheered greatly by its brightness.
Obiviously the difference lies not in
the situation hut the point of view.
Foilyannaisrn has had its day, but
now has fallen into ill repute, arid
rigfc’iv so. It is foolish to close one’s
eyes to the unpleasant side of things.
It is another thing, however, to real
ize that there are both bad and good
in the world, and that men are al
liberty to choose either. When one
is accosted by a pessimistic individu
al who is sure that everything is ap
proaching a canine destination, it is
well to remember that he is blind
to what good may exist.
Even were one so omniscient that
he might court every bad and every
good circumstance, he could not thus
every determine whether the hesults
were good or bad, James Bryce has
said that in an election opinions are
counted not weighed, and that while
an expert’s opinion may ho worth
those of a thousand ordinary men. it
is counted only as ori'e. In counting
good and bad circumstances, one must
remember that they must be weighed
not counted. One good circumstance
may ovrbalance a thousand bad.
DISTORTING THE FACTS
In another of those feverish at
tacks on lh c League of Nations
which usually reveals their ignorance
of the covenant’s provisions, a Re
publican newspaper says that “if we
had gone into the League of Nations
w e could now be furnishing the men,
money and supplies to control the
terrible Turk.”
Well, let’s see. Brazil, and Japan
are members of the League. They
are not furnishing ‘‘the men, money
j and supplies to control the terrible
Turk,” nor if th e Near East problems
were exclusively in control of the
League of Nations it is probable that
these nations would be furnishing
j men if there were need of them.
! Th e first distortion of the League’s
| purpose is the cliam that soldiers
i would at once be used in th e suppeer
! sion of a recalcitrant nation. Under
| lhc scope of the League it is scarcely
I conceived that need for men would
] would ever arise, for not any nation
| probably could servive the League’s
! preliminary weapons of diplomatic
! and economic isolation. Cut the
i trade routes and all means of com
i -.Ptttucßttyni and. Th• mutots --would sue-'
i ciimb to the Leagues with
out the use qf force. ;' . i;
But should force be necessary, who
can believe that nations of th e West
- I'm Hemisphere would send troops
to put down disorder in th R Eastern
V Hemisphere, or vice versa? Should
military force be needed it Would be
supplied by the League members
close at hand. If these nations could
not control the trouble, if would be
the World was over again and the
most remote nations would have to
get into it just as the United States
got into it.
i The idea that American member
ship in the League carries with it
the necessity to send its armies into
every country of the orld wis the idea
of a mind poisioned with padfisanship
The principles of the League cannot
lei overthrown by such distortion.
The question ns being asked of Presi
dent Harding “what has become of
your association of nations? And of
ficial statement from the Federal
Council of Qhurches of Christ says
the world cannot be saved without
the helpful hand of the United States.
Tlie logic of events is unc-hangable.
Tile right thing remains the right
thing to do until it is done. Ameri
ca’s responsibility has not been dis
charged to the world. Political patter
cannot guide the hand of fate.
FARMERS TURN TO FIORD
Mark Sullivan, tile political writer
in hiJs column of the independent
New Yord Eeveuing Post, says that
“discontent among the famer” is
‘the most conspicuous condition that
stands out in a survey of the politi
cal feeling in the country.’’ Mr. Sul
iivan sayc:
‘‘The farmers are sullen, and grow
more every day. If you shquld
usk of a hundred farmers the reason
or their discontent, they would all
answer in practically th e same words:
Low prices for wliat we have to sell;
high prices for what we have to buy.”
The prices of what the farmer has
to sell ar e unquestionably low. The
statistics show it. Even more vividly
is it shown by the concrete experi
ence of the farmer, who takes his
goods to the warehouse and gets hir
money for thpii#, Whatever facts
rile statistics may show and they varv
only slightly from the actual expert
nee of the individual farmer the
prices received by farmers living in
some of the four or five richest agri
cultural counties of the United States
ai e 8 cents a bushel for their wheat
and 50 cents a bushel for their pota
toes.
Suiely this is passing strange!
What has become of the 30 cents
oushel tariff duty the congress, with
the co-cperation of the farmers bloc,
.aid for the protection of the wheat
farmers? And what of the protec
tive tax on potatoes? There was a
duty laid on potatoes we belfeirfe,
though what we do not now recall.
These prices mean a severe strain
Sullivan says, referring to 85 cents
wheat and 50 cents potatoes which
j have not advanced in response to the
! tariff law now some weeks in opear
| ficM - “ Th ey are low jn relation to
| what were the prices of farm pro
! ducts even before th 0 war. These
| !>i*ices mean a severe strain bn the
j fanner. With such prices he cannot
I aftord to hire the held he needs, and
j must got along without many
j things in the way of farm machinery
j 'jfid other su; plies that he would like
| to- buy. Th j consuming power of the
j farmer, 1 a capacity to buy products
nade in the eity j is at low ebb.”
Mr. Sullivan finds that farmers have
; iost faith in the government, in the
I old parties and in politics as now bo
Img run, and they are turning t<
j Henry Ford and his promises of
cheap money and plenty of work and
i/pen markets.
The farmers have had a hard lot
'■ot because prices are so low, but be
cause be has been loaded dowc by
expenses. While th automobile man
| ufacturers, the makers of gasolin
and oil, the manufacturers of fan
machinery and other things used ,
tile farm, have been holding up the*
profits they have had to bear down
on the farmer pretty hard, and the
keep him dreaned dry. Along wit
higher prices for his products, tile
farmer needs lower pri'ers for wh
ile buys, it i s costing him too much
to produce.
A FLYING FIRE DEPARTMENT
Tlie waste due to forest fires
amonuts to millions of dollars an
nually. Tlie destruction' from fires
alone cannot be estimated. Not
withstanding the fact that a lire can
be just as : easily started in "the
country as iff the city, no adequate
Precautions have yet been devised to
cambat this menac'fe. The coinmei
rial development of tl'/e airplanes
suggests that this might furnish the
desired instrument. Air patrols aro
used at present to locate incident
forest fires and to give the dange
signal. There their service ends.
They have not been developed to the
extent of being an active fire-figln
■np Instrument.
fc.vtftfos of
chemical fire.'exl.hig'HlifW'K;. would
seem that, an:i& r pWi&’ Jrvift ri,igh|
he so quipped, that it could render
first-aid in fire-fighting. ’as well as
mere .scout duty.,To isolate districts!
Gas bombs were proved easily por
table in the late'war. Why cannot
GOOD MORNING
‘'Don’t laugh at me, boy!” saidj
stie sensitive golfer ■”ho had;
ooozled. *
i *‘l wasn’t, sir,” replied his cad-*
die. “I was laug'uim at another,
man ?” j
“And what’s funny about him?”-
“He plays golf very much like
you, sir.”—Kansas City otar. |
A New York writer who comes
from Mississippi went back to his
old home this summer for a visit.
He was particularly anxiov - to see
a darky named Prince, who had
formerly worked for the family.:
He was informed that Prince was
running a barber shop for the
negro trade. ,
The writer called at the barber
shop and Prince met him at the
door with a big welcome, saying
that his business was cLing won
derful.
“But, Mr. Al, you bein’ a writin’
man, I wants to ast you sump’n E
want you to tell me what’s the
matter wid ’at sign bangin’ on de
wall—how come all de white gem
mun laughs when dey sea it?” !
The writer looked. On the wall
hung a sign in a pretty gold framv
lettered by the hand cf the pro
prietor, reading: ;
Roses is Red, and Violets is Blue, ,
But don’t, ask me for no credit, j
For I’ll have to say NO.
—Saturday Evening Post.
some of the brains used in perfect
ing a deadly war gas be used to ex
tinguish fires efficiently? A well de
veloped flying department could per
form an inestimable service to the
country.
One Washington report has it that
Secretary Weeks lias been discovered
Walking back and forth in his office
with his head down and his hands in
his pockets, suggestive for all the
world of a man trying to commit
something or other to memory.
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REMEDY
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WHOOPING COUGH, HOARSENESS
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phone is 1054. Calls an
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Pancake Flour
Maple Syrup
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Strained Honey
Comb Honey
Japanese Squash
Yellow Squash
Green Cucumbers
Snap Beans
Iceberg Lettuce
Larg e White Celery
Indan River Oranges
Indian River Grapefruit
Apples
Grapes.
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BRUNSWICK SEA FOOD
MARKET
THIS IS FRIDAY—FISH DAY •
Corner Monk and Grant Streets -
O. W. BRADY, Proprietor
We have today:
Red Snapper, Bass Sheepshead, -
Altamaha river fresh water Oat- -
fish, Trout, Crab Meat, Cedar -
Key Mullet.
Bear the fact in mind that we -
dress all fish and make PROMPT ■
DELIVERY.
OYSTERS DELIVERED 40c
PER QUART
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her, It’s S3.
‘if you sidetrack savings at the
j station of Wild Cat stocks, the de
murrage charges will be heavy.
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we have in stock the proper
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Friday, oct. 27 1922