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I fot. 42 The Secret Is Out ~ Lloyd Georqe Tells It. The Great American Public still likes to be fooled, as it did in the days of the late P. Iff cm his recent MMt hot u Hi was winul a o-mnl. ,. and flat.ered to his lioa t s content, i t,." Bailors ot the V orld ® ’ in ms effort ^’ ® 8 ke the^L C agae oS Nations ajipeai what threat Biitain, h ranee, Italy all w.nnt it 1° appear to this so-nch and ^-gener (HIS Lmted Mates §f America. public that Aost j mil ri l° fJ 1 ’ eat Ameilean lible ... , propaganda, of all , publics, is leading ^ caretufiy all ot 1 his ol European statesmanship, twidijpng yjndering its 1 immbs, feeling its pocket book, sometluiiL and this if, atter all. there may not be *6r| in I' 1 "" ..f ■■ t hp c!v,ltat, M ., of the tod- 1 "~ •rf'vYV i The Munioe „ rihpfrbio'? Doctnne? nit Oh well, iTr.li Lnntr many nf ot - the they old hove beliefs na«l and to the change; o^kl orders and ha^ve|hanged this fe where Ihc wily little TV elshman was able to jfov put over so many of his specious saying arguments than: the League, wliiclt is really Great Britain will keep on claiming rriore of tfie map; Italy will keep on doing, the same thfiig; and France will hold to what she has. refuse to pay hack that which she has borrowed, but the sp-good Uncle Samuel will be tightly sewed up id. an agreement which will make him for ever tbc banker and the endorser of the grabbers of Europe. In one of his last addresses delivered in Ke'w York, just before lie went home to giv CD an accounting of bis tour, Lloyd George nsk yi the United States to “share in saving Europe.” Before what was said to be one of the most brilliant audiences ever gathered in New York, . the little Welshman,, eager to report success to Tils Most (jraeious Majesty, King George IV of Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland, etc., rang the changes on all he lias said in his trip through this country—and “cetoentmg the the chances are he w.ll succeed m ties of this great; end glorious country, to her sisters •x¥'7\vxi cffi ghln,Vhen Will 1 'pK‘f^at -great and and vr t nited States - such a bargain has been sealed? This; She will he dragged into every war that will eome-and they will come as surely as the next days sun. when Great Britain, France, Italy and their allies decide to make war on those other nations not represented. Men, arms, ships, money—all of these will _ be poured into Europe, when Downing Street says the word And what does the United States get? The shackles of the International Bankers so firmly fixed that nothing will ever loosen them. ‘ Taxation to the utmost limit, on every thing that an American uses, eats, wears and makes. The New York Herald had one of the most comprehensive reports of the speech of Lloyd George, and extracts are given here: “Why did you enter the war?” he asked this American audience, and answered his question with the sort of passage that has swept many a staid English audience off its feet under liis spell. f “Why did the unanimous impulse come to you? You cannot tell, you cannot tell—mystic— \the »know wind whence bloweth it cometh where it li.steth, and wo not or whither it goeth. It was one of those great impulses which come when a nation’s .sense-of justice is outraged. r T^at is why I say that nations that are moved by %ueh fWmdom incentives are the only sure guarantors of and civilization in the world.” Then he swung into one of those fine pero¬ rations of his, as follows: “Thc .commission of trusteeship for civil!- '/a tionldoes not e<rfne irom- Kings; it does not come irom frulers or Princes; it does not come t'rem Senates and Parliaments nor Coun cils. Incomes from on High. When it comes if does no j,, come from the choice of the people, It comes from t]ie will of God. ' r U-“Thai commission—thfct commission is y urns and Iou:-responded o>ir today. The soene invisible is a divine to the message 1917 and we had already done so: but the ijEjinssion it is is fulfilled. discharged The work is half Plot fully—fully— pHI Ipk yzatioii oatariropirr' is doomed such tfithin the world this generation has as never (blrokiqgJps hrensl). But if you here, (CjQaiia i Wtim S * ttst % u ♦ ♦ lif. i j J A j • e - Price $1.80 Per Year A Biography of Thomas E. Watson By Grover C. Edmondson and Alice Louise Lytic. -:-if------- Thomson, Georgia, October 1923. (Copyright.) :tzsztsa ldeas of lcyaty he staid with that side' which had sent him to Congress—and there dug his political grave for many long, weary, heart breaking years. Th e u tter desolation of that period of his life when he was prevented from taking his seat to which he had been honestly re-elected, is one of the most tragic periods in the life of any pub he man for many decades.Returning to his home »t the close of the Fifty-second Congress, the demonstration made by his “own people” repaid him for much of what he had been made suffer j n former years. A carriage festooned with Sowers awaited hta, and t, this » of his * rlends bore u R° n theii shoulders. Driven to a grove on the out skirts _ of town, he made an address of more than two hours, giving an ac count of his service m the House of tives, and laying before the people the derelid (ions of the Democratic party-its violations of its pledges and Jeffersonian principles. Having refused to neglect his duties in Con gress to conduct his campaign for re-election, and having no publication of his own through which to answer the charge of having bolted from the Democratic party, there was injected into the very beginning of the campaign an ani mus and a bitterness which Mr .Watson never forgot, and never recovered from. When he had finished the last part of his term and came back to Georgia for good, it was too late to overcome even in part, the undermining of his candidacy for re-election, and some of the tactics employed by his opponent, were unpar alelled in the political history of Georgia, for dishonesty and cruelty. In Richmond County—the home County m big opponent, frauds were committed which vverpj only paraded in later years when the were burned by George Carswell, to defeat Mr, Watson again, for Congress but the tjrtioni..<voters fp>m South Carolina: 0 A E * V ° n ’ mVer Obliterated. '. Hid defeat could not be accomplished by any other means; and when the governor himself said “Watson ought to be killed,” it was not W to see the end. Outlawed, vilhfied, hounded, howled at, pillor led . and lampooned—was it any wonder that he withdrew from the world, and leaned again on the patient arms of that brave, loving little soul ™ 601 ^ ,a ’ w 50 !tad * one hte P b Y ste P Wltb hl “- ai ' d clo f ed tbe doors of their , against the world T ?, h ®f If of th w p f noc ........... oJ: JJ ei 5 w U thif . indigaation; . hor- 1 . . ror f or * hat tbe tnmds of menxould conceive, even ® the heat of political passion, the schemes and P lan f that wei ^ Put m operation; indigna tion that , he seemed to be so utterly alone and defenseless in this-the darkest hour of h.s life. Chapter IV. After IT ail—what 11 makes a marhgreat. Is it that ,, he stands apait tiom the ordinary ot run man because of his bram power, or because of t e gift he has oi doing I lie ordinary dung in an extraordinary way. ® r « a P® 111 q} 8 ov ' n nilIld l bos. E. \V a,son felt . ,, that day would above lus some ie rise tellows, as he did; but bad ne known the price ne was to pay , had he known thiougn what avenues of sorrow, humiliation and agony he was-to tread the way to greatness, is it. possi ble lie might have chosen to ho less famous and iappier? In the days of his ^ young manhood, cursed as he was with a disposition that was at times at war with itself, no less than with its sur roundings, he has said frequently that much of his later unhappiness dated from it. lie was, essentially 7 , a lonely man; he had few in timates even at the time when all young men are supposed to have them. His ambition had so little to feed on other than his brain capaci ty. Knowing no influential people, having no money and no wealthy relatives, his short college term at Mercer—that college which never honored him nor noticed him in way, and whose ignoring of him lie frequently referred to—were not the carefree days of the average student. He knew that the poverty of his father would not permit him to look for ward to another term, and he also knew that he wottld Jiave to enter on the profession of teaching as soon as he could secure a school. In those days he learned, through that bitter school of experience whose lessons we IqjcjoiU the $klkur of iius Jam Miuu Thomson, Georgia, Monday, November 12, 1923. r w pt* 0 p] 0 and their descendents who formed that J, ^rmidable politician'in army of “Watson tried men” placate, whom er y the State to & the years Watson was a power. j| « xt X is never the members "dual of one’s own fam fiends y know the as well as the one makes, in the world of work and feting. To the family, Tlios. E. Watson was, % i,; s vounaer those'who davs not the man of vision he'was to met him on the liust r+ : a Wfl ii +j ia t fi ds : s so f or no man ^ keen 1ID jj ie strain at home that he E es under “f .Swlrld w j,en lie is making wSiehbs his so''1A tight for a to g the victor, and again so eager to turn f nimbs <i own + n the vanouished Mr.‘ l n a letter written hv Watson while United st»tn« V Senate Mnv o 1090 to S pp. f rSn r ; 01H i t n tvs dire F Loimlev " of Ln Grume 0 bo ’*' ’ * '' *' A “vr v d'-ir [iidm. •' '* '* I You • should have followed your first ■ impulse, and addressed me as those who ; love me usually do. yt I never stand on ceremony, and I am just the plain, simple Democrat that I al , ways have been since I hit the grit at sixteen years of age, without house or home, without a dollar in my 7 poeliet, and worked my way up in the world. The reason why the common man under stands me is because I understand him. In the old davs, when I was teaching . school for a living, and reading law at nigl^ ‘In the blaze of the pine knots of Southeast Georgia, where the wire grass grew, and J ,, , , ,, ,, ,, • l-v^mdI / f’ knew vvhatlt the'be w->s to md th-V at <])e « al)|e * 0 ] the l poor, ; share U- H 0 f | for School aIlf) housed tea h t dm~hter< ir hs which w walkcii \ a a;;;- ■■ ^ It was in this hard but beneficial school of experience P that 1 I Far e^tU nod the lessons of tUm 1 *f ve r ' 1 a “ now toa aId to c/iange, 1- and A what , , , L , , ‘ ‘\ T ery - truly tuuj and*respectfully ai a lespcauuD yours >ours, {k ® lu } ‘ % E< ^ atson ’ This att itude was not a poseSwith him— it was the real man. lie hated ceremony red tap6t and 0 f a n the public has had. he was the easiest to get at, personally.. u was this which held his followers to him; there was no disrespect meant when lie was ad dresged as ««T om »> on ai iy and every occa s j on by those men who were actually the tillers ‘ of the 8bil< and Avhose friendship and affection ^ valued to the day of hs dea th. And this is thc answer to the query at the beginning of this chapter: it was part of what made him great. His brain power was a thing apart; it was his doing the ordinary things an extraordinary way that le brought to him f hat army wh ich would followed through left any path he laid ou^prhich would have to him the planning, the answer to all nr g lim ent, and rested securely 7 in the feeling that <.x 0 m knew how, and all would be well.” Fanaticism? Perhaps. every great movement, in every 7 phase 0 f civilized history has been started on such f ana tieism, and every great leader—who was ^j r8 f a student of conditions—came from just such environment, up from just such sur roundings, waded through just such difficulties, as did Thos. E. Watson. There w-as sorrow in plenty at this period of his life, and some of his best work was done under the shadow of it. The little fami ly had grown to three children two daugh ters ana the only son. The home in which they lived is very much as it was left when affluence took them to the more pretentious “Hickory Hill,” but it was the “Old Place” which held more of the dreams, more 0 f the sorrows and tragedies than did the home, which hp had dreamed of—and whose dreams lie fulfilled. Louise, Ihe younger of the children seemed to be closer to him. in her baby days than either of the others. much Disappointment had em bittered him; of what he had fought for lacked leadership- and af-tet the death of Louise in 1889 he again entered politics, com.-, ing out as a Farmers’ Alliance candidate for Congress. JCte'-Xi Issued Weekly Why Sch00 ‘ For many years the lute Tlios. E. Watson agitated the question of free school books for Southern.School hook Deposit on. A gentle n !:m 111 Atiums ' ,lcs ini V r tw knmv f‘ nu, ( 1,n ' s this , concern as a t Imsim-ss investment, n rote his bank connect ion in Ajlnnta—the Atlanta ^rust ( ompany, and here is the lettci no 10 - reived in reply Dear Sir.— In re Southern School Book Depository ultimo 7 . Answering your letter of the 21st with regard to the above company, we wish to advise that this is one of the oldest in¬ stitutions in the city of Atlanta, having op¬ erated over a period of a great many years profitably and satisfactorily to its officers and stockholders. The management are men of integrity, and of the highest ability and character, are well thought of iu Atlanta, They opened a new department of thei; business at the beginning- of their fiscal year, and this has grown to such ehormout proportions that they are seelur ; to in crease their capital investment. busi \Ve believe that the future of this • • ness is propitious and will be an indication of splendid results to the stockholders. Very truly vours, S. McGAUGIIY, Vice-President. No stronger idea for the abolishment of this gigantic trust’s control ot the State ot Georgia can be given, than an exact repre¬ duction ot the leaflet sent out by the concern j itself. On the first page ls givcn. under the titio of “At Five otrategic Points, ’ an outline map I of Texas- Tennessee, Mississippi, (icorgia and Florida, The cities in which the Book | Trust Dallas. is Texas; located Memphis, in the respective Tennessee; States Jackson, are: Mississippi;* Atlanta, Georgia, and .Jaoksou fattening on thlpeople of the Stare of conductive Georgia is- an unpopular thing to do—one to J filthy abuse, curtailment of one’s business, and , ,i„ <1 r - led!lorf ^ money mnnpv X wavs resent the ’status of her rank in the illit ‘ w e have educational laws, and we should devise some'means of making ertu cation less costly than : t is. But we will never do that Until wo kill the‘Southern School Book Octm Sead ms. for yourselves, and then see that your extra legislative session dor - something in the matter AT FIVE STRATEGIC POINTS. Capitalisation L-97-1922 Surplus $725,000.00 $311 -172.47 THE SOUTHERN SCHOOL-BOOK DEPOS¬ ITOSY, INC. (Georgia Corporation.) Offers direct, for a limited period, a portion ot original capital stock. Fifteen Hundred Shares (Treasury- Stock) paid up and non-as sessible at Par $100 a Share. Now’ yielding 8 per cent and above. Tax free in Georgia and not, subject to Normal Federal Income Tax. Summarizing from the more detailed de¬ scriptiou within, your attention is directed to the following facts: BUSINESS AND DIVIDEND STATEMENT After three years of successful operation as a corporation this state-safeguarded, suhstau-. supor vised business has never failed to pay tial dividends, averaging 8 per cent. Still larger yields are indicated iu (he immediate future, The corporation now has 1,500 shares of capital stock recently acquired from the foun¬ ders of the business. The stock is being of ferred direct by our own salesmen, to our cus tomers and their friends, This business accurately forecasts its de mand for five years ahead at fixed prices—a "ahiahlc and unusual safeguard for investors vade poss ’ le by State lows fixing school-book pri es on a tine-year contract basis. Rrgulari *'< o e earnings assur'd and certainty of profits are in h ' > for this corporation and its 'Ooicholders during dull as well as good times. Every form of government under which you live fosters this business by enormous ap propriations Each for use in purchasing school books. year marks an increase in chib drew and, nat.irally. an increase in the business * iOffltijtaue ]d v.n I 'W .j. No. 4