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ALL DEPARTMENTS PHONE 188
Is there not some sort of a drive
on this week? Brunswick has grown
used to it now and it will seem odd
without one. How about it?
Guyt McLendon tried very hard to
muddy the waters in that simple mat
ter of giving Senator George his com
mission. But he failed, due to com
mon s e n se of Governor Hardwick.
Chairman Davenportt and his as
sociates on that Board of Trade drive
have done some very fine work and
Brunswick appreciates it to th e very
limit.
Already the newspapers have for-!
gotten a H about the wedding of Wil
helm and already he has gone back I
to that wood pile. How r different from ;
th e last wedding in which he played ,
a stellar role.
With the preachers, the doc f o-s and
'he dentists all within her confines
hit wuk. our neighboring city of
tVayeross ought to be well fortified
against all the ill s to which the flesh
is heir.
Senator Capper, of Kansas, puts
the President on notice that he is go
ing to wage wa r on his pet ship sub
sidy bill. I n fact the Kansas Sena
tor says he is opposed to many of the
laws written into the record by the
last congress. So the music starts
andj starts i n th e house of th e Pres
ident.
Say what you please about Henry
Ford, but he is a wonder. He is now
asking th e Interstate Commerce Com
mission for permission to make all
employees of his railroad sharehold
ers in the earnings. He found this
plan worked all right in hi s big auto
mobile plants and he wants tp give
it a try-out on his railroad line.
Ahead we ca n see that th e toma
hawk is out for th e Attorney General
m the extra session of congress.
Congressman Kepper, Republican, of
Minnesota, who introduced impeach- !
nient Proceedings in th e la s t congress,
annouces that he proposes to presa
the matter immediately. Daugherty
might do well to follow Lie example
set by Newberry.
Brunswick i s holding a city wide
primary today for the nomination of
a candidate for city commissioner.
However, our people have long ago
grown weary of the game of parti
san and factional politics and they
simply refus e to play it. Two gentle
men ar e candidates today and one of
them will be chose n without any fric
tion, any feeling or any heated cam
paign!
Senator Newberry has finally sur
rendered to the inevitable and has re
mgned his seatt in th e Senate, which
has bee„ such a bitter bone of conten
tion for many months. Of course, the
Senator has waited too long to win
very much admiration by his act for
*t i s a certainty that the next Sen
ate would have expelled ,hi m any
way. It is to be hoped that the New
berry case will have a wholesome
result, in the future and the United
States senate may soon cease to be
the home of American millionaires!
We note with extreme regret that
our old friend Tlvoma s W. Loyless,
Jfa.s severed his connection as editor
of tb e Columns Enquirer-Sun. due it
seem s to some disagreement on edi
torial policy between Mr. Loyless and
Mr. Julian Harris, th e owner of the
paper. Of coursf we are not advised
;is Cos the nature of these difference.-,
&'ut i'e do know that any ‘ newspa
per is the sufferer when it loses such
a Pen as Tom Loyless wields. He
i.- able, gifted and courageous and we
hope hi f; matchless ability will soon
find a larger and broader field.
IN BRITAIN AND HERE.
Th c speed and facility with which
the British government has just pass
ed from the control of one school of
political thought to that of another
serves again fco call attention to the
unresponsiveness of our ow n elec
toral system.
Approximately one month ago the
Lloyd George cabinet, finding itself
hopelessly at loggerheads with the
majority i n commons over fundamen
tal questions of Policy, resigned and
anew cabinet was immediately form
ed temporarily to tak e its place.
A parliamentary election was call
ed. and the People given an opportun
ity to express their preference as be
tween the two contending parties.
That election was held last Wed
nesday, and on Monday the new par
liament will assemble, ready to car
ry out. tlv® popular will, say s The At
lanta Constitution.
On November 7 the Ameriea n peo
ple elected anew congress, the re
sult of which election attested marked
ed disapproval -of the Policies of the
present congres g and of the incum
bent administration.
But the congress which the poeple
elected on November 7 will not con
vene until thirteen months from this
time unless it is called together 1 in
ertraerdinary session.
Congress assembled on yesterday,*
i but it will not be the congress which
the People have just elected.
It will be tjje congress which has
justb een repudiated by the people.
It will b e composed in large part
of members, who were candidates for
re-election, but who were defeated by
the people.
And yet, under our system of dem
ocratic government, those members
who were repudiated are still to go on
exercising a voice and a vote in the
shaping of laws for th e people who
have repudiated them.
All of the members of congres s who
wef'e defeated cm November 7 are
going back to their seats to pass ap
propriation bills and tax laws, if they
s ee fit to do so, and to formulate gov
ernment policies regardless f the
fact that the people have expressed
disapproval of their past records.
Commenting upon the contrast be
tween the British and the American
system in thi s respect, The Kansas
City Star said in a; recent editorial:
“The British system contemplates
no! such inconsistency as allowing a
defeated parliament to reassemble
and legislate for an electorate that
has repudiated it. The existing par
liament is always dissolved before
the election is ordered. The n im
mediately after the election the new
parliament meets, the government ir
formed and the will of th e voter s is
acted upon. Parliament acts while
its mandate is fresh, but i n the case
of congress there is no way of tell
ing the mandate of the voter:
is thirteen months after they have
j given it. Maybe they would like tr
give a different one by that time
but they hav e no chance. Congress,
elected for two years, must go on
with the best guess it can make at
to what the country wants; the iron
ical thing is that when the country
does say it. doesn’t want a congress
that congress comes back and legis
lates for four months.”
In many respectg our system- of
! government unquestionably is super
| ior' to that of Great Britain,
j But in point of quick responsive
j ness to the expressed will and man
I -lat c of the electorate the British
( system unquestionably is vastly su
perior to ours.
AN INVASION OF MEXICO.
Within a few days a party of one
hundred and twenty-five businesi
men, members of the Southern Com
mercial Congress, will leave Chicagf
for a trip to the City of Mexico. Th<
congress is to meet in Chicago No
vember 20 for a three-day sessior
and at the close the party will star!
for Mexico. According to Presided
Clarence J- Owens, who will preshh
at the fifteenth annual session, “the
projected trip to Mexico, which will
be the eighth foreign mission con
ducted by the congress is expected
to b e the largest unit of a business
character that ha s ever toured a for
eign country.” President Obregon
has
gress and expressed pleasure regard
ing the proposed visit.
The Wahsingto n Star, commenting
upon the facts mentioned, remark:
that “Mexico deserves this compli
ment and we serve ourselves in pay
ing it;” continuing:
She neighbor,
and -slo'vsgfei&covering from a full
decade JKjjjlif internal turbulence.
But, tmt/fi slowly, she is recov
ering. flgplc strongest and most
capahtri-'-fen of all 'who'have at
tempted direction of her affairs
since the days of Diaz is now at
thc helm, and, upon the whole
’ doing well. Good luck to him!
The Mexican field is on e to ithich
our leading business men should
give close and special attention.
It is in every way a rich field,
and properly cultivated by Amer
icans of means and enterprise
would yield gratifying results.
Hence the advisability of busi
ness men taking precedence in
th e overtures for a better un
derstanding and nearer relations
between Mexico and America.
Her resources can be turned to
good account by us, and ours by
her. But not, busines s men alone
in either country are interested.
All men In both countries have
a stake in the gatne, and each in
Ids own way and to the extent
of his influence should assist in
all efforts to makewthe Mexican
a better friend of America, and
the Americans a better friend of
Mexico.
It has been the delight of trouble
makerg to continually stir and mnd
dy the situation between Mexico and
the United States; every unfortunate
incident being magnified and every
opportunity seized to discredit the
Obregon administration. Through it
all the conservative have watched
and found much to reassure them in
Mexico under the present govern
ment and it would please many to
hav e tlie two countries enjoying all
the advantages of- excellent neigh
bors .
It is too much to expect that Mex
ico can reduce her entire population
to a state of civilization tha t would
pass muster in New Expend, let’s
say, and it may be impossible for us
to promise the same thing; but we
can do our best and it would seem j
that President Obregon means to do I
his best and is anxious to be neigh- I
borly in all that th e word idplies.
A LADY jyiTH A GROUCH.
Miss Alice Robertson was swept
into congress two years ago- o n thc
Republican tidal wave that nearly ob
literated the Democratic party. She
was not in favor of woman’s suffrage
but sa ><i that since the men had vot
ed it she wanted to see whether they
wer e in earnest and she made her
race for congress to find out. She
was very popular and she found they
were in earnest so far as she was
concerned.
She has been a very picturesque
figure in congress abd has done a
good deal of talking through the pub
lic prints though very little o n the
floor of the house. What she has
’aid has added to her reputation for
sound sense for she has show n little
interest in the ism s that women are
supposed to take to so- readily." She
has beccms a national figur e and is
nationally admired but she made a
mistake in going to congress for it
gave her two years of gratification
to be followed by an indefinite num
ber of years of grouch. Sh e is so
peeved by her defeat that she accuses
her Muscogee friends of ingratitude
md she proposes to sell her proper
ty there and move away, says the
Florida Times-Union.
Political life i s not wisely chose"
by me n who have not pretty thick
skins. Certainly the ma n who is not
a “dead game sport” should keep out
of politics. We imagined that Miss
Robertson was a “dead game sport”
but the indignation she shows at
her defeat contradicts that idea.
A congressman j s employed by the
leople for a period of two years if
he is a representative and for six
/ears if he is a senator. The same
is true if she is a representative or
i senator. Sex does not prolong an
ifficial term. The position is a very
high on e but those who succeed in
getting it should remember the lim
tation as to time of employment and
feel disgruntled if the term is not
renewed.
And Mis s Robertson is especially
unreasonable in thinking that the
Republicans can continue to win in
i district normally Democratic. She
va s elected in a Republican year but
her term ended i n a Demoratic year.
We hav e not doubt that she polled as_
many votes as any Republican could
Lave polled and she should be satis
fled with having polled th e full Par
ty strength and not treat her defeat
i- s if it had been a personal matter.
Few men have attracted as much at
ention and as favorable attention in
>ne year’s term a s has bee n accord
ed to Representative Robertson and
■he should take her defeat philosoph
cally and try again next time ip the
hope that the swing would be again
'o her party. Certainly sh e should
not expect Democrats to vote f r 8
Republican because she happened to
boa woman.
FORMER AMBASSADOR
GERRARD WRITES A LETTER
Whe n Former Ambassador Gerrard
gav e to the public big/famous) book;-
"My Four Years in Gernmny,,” jhe
demonstrated to the world that no
•quid write with emphasis and that,
'us was not the kid glove method
when sledge-hammer blows werj
needed.
Mr. Gerrard has been writing
GOORMBRMNG
One of the most amusing of Mr. I
George Robey’s stories concerns a ,
gilded youth of somowh; t offend
"ate tendencies, who found himself
"atony h|"n’'lEeaU.iiig that hig
s’nly chance lay in a now country,
fie decided to go tp America, and a;
se could not ray his passage
money, tried to get a job on one of
the boats crossing the Atlantic.
Ship after ship he tried in vain,
arid at last began to despair of ever
getting out of England— shippin ;
people did not seem to like him.
At last he tried a big liner on the
verge of sailing, and found that a
stoker had failed totem up. With
great joy he signed on, went
aboard, was directed below by the
captain, and disappeared.
Nothing was .Ten or heard of
him for three days, but on the
fourth day the skipper (suddenly
came upon a resplendent figure in
full yachting kit, with glasses
slung over one shoulder, prome
nading tbe deck. “What the ]
are you doing here?' hp demanded. I
“I thought 1 told you to go be-J
low?” The youth gazed rapturous-!
ly at the irate offie .i, sre r/ed back,
tapped him lightly on the shouldrr,
r.nd said. “Oh, haven't 1 tl heard?
t’vg left.”—Taller (jLo-.dsal... -.J
again and this time he has made
Public a letter h e ha s addressed to
President Harding on the subject of
tie present attitude of (he United
States government toward Armen
ians. Mr. Gerard in this letter con
trasts the position of Senator Hard
ing with that of President Harding
and reminds the President that as
Senator, he was i n favor of the Unit
ed States coming to the aid of Ar
menia even if it be with forde of
arms. Then the Former Ambassa
dor asks the President why it is that
as soon as he became a candidate in
1920 and s in ce him elevation to the
chief executiveship of the nation, he
has reversed his position on the
whole subject. The letter jof Mr.
Gerrard i 3 interesting and in Part it
is as follows:
“During tbe summer of 1919, Great
Britain announced her intention of
withdrawing flier troops from the
trans-Caucasus and Armenia,” says
the former Ambassador in his let
ter. “At that time the Armenians
lacked any adequate means of de
fense. Therefore in August 1919,
several members of our committee,
including Messrs. Hughes Root,
Lodge, Eliot and others, authorized
me to ask th e President to send Amer
menia n troops H A rmeiiia to replace
the British and to furnish equipment
for an Armenian army.
“Then, on September 5, the Secre
<ary of State informed me that 'with
, the cordial approval of this Govern
| ment France has agreed to send im
; mediately ten or twelve thousand
troops into the Caucasus to replace
the British troops.
“On September 8, 1918, Senator
; Williams offered a resolution in the
j Senate authorizing the President to
send troops to Armenia; to furnish
| equipment for an Armenia n army,
i etc. This resolution way consolidat
ed with the Lodge resolution of De
cember, 1918, and hearings were held
by a subcommittee of the Senate un
der your chairmanship.
■ “In view of thi. ; action of the Sen
; at, France held back the proposed
dispatch of troops to Armenia and
( Great Britain refrained, for a similar
j reason, from furnishing arms and
ammunition.
“With the conclusion of the hear
- ings on October 10, 1919, you, Mr.
President, as chairman of the sub
committee of the Senate,, informed me
that, realizing as you did the des
perate character of the situation in
' Armenia you would report at once
and further specified the recommen
dations which you were disposed to
make. Then months elapsed, but no
action was taken.
“Consequently by numerous letters
and telegrams, I conveyed to you
i the information showing that the
| conditions in Armenia were growing
: worse from day to day; thaj. the
Turks wefe deriving comfort and en
; ccoragement from our delay; that
| the Armenians were defenseles s and
; could not get help elsewhere pending
| til., disposition cf your committee’s
! resolution and that we would be re
sponsible for the consequences of our
-dilatory policy
j “You acknowledged the justice and
| force of these arguments, but owing
! to the Presidential primaries in which
! you wer e engaged in, you did not
!mak e your report for “seven months,
or until May 13 1920, and your re
port did nc| contain , the recommen
dations' which, you said you >u r <Juld
make. A"
J. “The delay of one and one-half
years which %er c flmfiosed upon the
Allies deprived /be Armenians of
the opportunity (f looking for help
elsewhere; offered some of the Allies
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the opportunity to intrigue among
themselves and made it Possible for
the Turks to organize themselves
"With the active aid of two of the Al
lies.
“The destruction of the indepen
dence °f Armenia; the slaughter, at
the hands of the Turks, of 300,000
additional Armenians since the con
clusion of the i Armistice and the
present terrible 'flight of the Armen
ian people ar e the natural conse
quences of the Policy of procrastina
tion which we pursued.
“On December 17, 1920 after your'
election when Mr. Jessup and I had
the honor of conferring with you on
this matter you expressed yourself
as -being in favor of the Department
cf State addressing identic notes to
tire Allies, insisting tlj£t. they carry
out the Armenian provisions of the
Sevres treaty. Thus you recognized
then your duly and right to speak
for Armenia to tli epOwers.
“In the light of our responsibility
for the plight of Armenia, and of,
your own pledges to Armenia ,some
of whieh I have mentioned, I new ex
press the most earnest hope that you
may direct the Department of State
to lake the .step which you favored
on December 17, 1920.”
Senator Newcfry took the plunge.
However.'few nten will stand on a
railroad track when they observe the
engine coming in his direction.
The Frenchppress s is not a unit on
the wisdom of the Clemenceau visit
to the United States and i n Paris.
It is about an eve n break with the
newspapers in opinion expressed- on
the subject. It must be confessed
that the success or failur e of his mis- ;
sio n depends entirely on what Clem- j
enceau lias in his mind and how lie |
lets it out. The situation in France
is delicate and sensitive and step
i*i ike wrong direction by th e Tiger
Would cause an explosion in Fiance.
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