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1\ 18 1T THE COURTS?
Theé worst indictment of our
courts is the fact that for 65 -
. murders 'in this country only
_ one conviction isg obtained, while
*"in' Great Britain and Canada
for every two murderers one
conviction is obtained. Is it any
wonder tiNt thugs, thieves and
. erooks of ‘every description
" flock to the’ paradise of legal
laxity?—Dawson News.
¢ "How about the juries—are they
not to be charged with some of the
spinelessness that helps secure ace
quittals for criminals? Our men take
a lot of sob stuff to the jury box—
the Lord knows what's coming when
the sentimental women take up jury
service—if there arc any of them
sentimental on the question of
n@fingihg the criminal and making
him pay with his life for his murder
‘a‘nd robbery.
We are not out to hang and shoot
everybody who goes wrong, but we
wish Americans had to stop and
lc,rn what it is that makes such a
wide difference between them and
their Anglo-Saxon brethren of the
same blood and intellect in the mat
ter of convicting criminals. What is
(7 el
~ln Canada and Great Britian where
one goes free, another pays. In the
United States sixty-five escape with
werdicts of not guilty where one i
cugndcmrjed ard made to pay
penalty. In Canada and Great Briffar
those who maintain the (-%{ £ are
our blood kin—very close Khv. They
live under much the same systems and
institutions as Amcricans. What
makes éuch a wide difference?
Some of the fault may be laid ot
the door of the courts—meaning the
judicial branch of the law, but we
think the juries are troubling us.
That may be traced back to the in
dividual conscience. Whe is worthy of
a place in the jury box is the ques-
Mon—the vital problem?
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' .DON'T BELIEVE PART OF IT
\ The Georgia Editors say they
want no politicians—at least no
politics—at their state meeting.
But Mr. Hardwick is to move
; his opening gun to Quitman
i from Macon and it is under
stood Senator Harris has an “in
t vite” to the convention city.—
o Augusta Chronicle.
It isn’t true that Bill Harris is
"' going to Quitman to hob nob politi
cally with the press gang. We do
not believe Governor Hardwick will
want to do it. Tight-Breeches Charal
lie Barrett will if he can—and so
will Valentino, the state iabor man!
V}!}'gm . Savannal. It ilooks 'like. the}
press gang is in for a spell of it
at Quitman. But it isn’t worrying us.
8! ' n.ag,,ff oLy
- Govgr}igr;la dwick is one \:v'ho is"ref
puted to do his own thinking—his
own ‘talking. We judge by his si-
Jence now and the noise of others
that he is losing his reputation. Is
there anything wrong about our
re_ach?ng {that conclusion.
v A TARIFF LESSON, -
' While the leading Republicén ' pa
porn of the country have reflected
the Democratic opposition to the
Profitecrs’ tarlff bill, a small section
of the Republican press—the morons
of Republican journalism—have de
fended the infamous schedules of this
bill by the counter-chatges of free
trade and freestraders brought against
the Demoeratic tariff policy and the
Democratie gpokesmen, . respectively,
No more convineing answer could be
madé’ to:"tl‘,ls than the fact that the
tariff rovo"un wider the pr“cscnt
Simmons-Undeiwood act ig greater for
the fiscal year just passed than was
the revenue unsler the Payne-Aldrich
act, heretofore the highest in the his
tory of the country. |
These paperg defend the exhorbi
tant rates of the Fordney-McCumbeN
bill on the theory that the people wllll
be willing to pay still higher prices
for the thlnga'tlmy buy, providing‘:
the mills and factories are opened up‘
and labor is employed, ignoring the
overshadowing fact that the mills
and the factories as well as all nat.
ura! mmdustries would be working full
time under the present Democratic
competitive tariff if the producers
had a foreign market for their pro
ducts and if the American market
had not been impaired by the econom
ic collapse of KEurope following the
defeat of the peace treaty and the
reconstruction program of he Demo
cratic administration after the Ar
mistice, !
The essential difference between
the Democratic and Republican tariff
policies are, that the Democratic tar
iff policy is a competitive tariff, with
duties so levied as to insure revenue
for the government without doing in
jury to or discriminating against any
legitimate business; the tariff policy
of the Republican party as expressed
in the TFordney-McCumber tariff,‘
amounting to an embargo. With the
h"umused cost put up()n' the necessi
ties fo life; coincident with the liqui
dation of lhbor. it makes it impossi
ble for the‘luborlng man to exist; for
the farmer to market his surplus pro
duots or tg find an adequate market
at home for his normal domestic pro
duction. It means further depreéssion
of industry -further lack of employ
ment, further decrease of govern
ment revenues from all sources and
a continuation of fhe commercial iso
latiou:‘ }v}llcln is largely rcspdnsihlo‘
fop/‘fififi'}fiot the country'‘s prgscnt}
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'{GEORGIA'WATER POWER BILL.
"The Senate Committee on (,Yonstit,u-j
tional Amehdments will consider the‘
Water Power Bills, advocated by the‘
Municipal League of Georgia, Thurs
day afternoon, July 20th, at 3 o’clock.
In urgingethat the bills be passed,
the League is pointing out that the
bills create no new offices or come
missions, ahd impose no debt or tax
upon the state, or upon any of her
towns or counties. The bills, if pass
ed, would only permit the people of
Georgia to go to the polls in Novem
ber and vote for or against amend
ments to the Constitution, which
would make possible enactment of
laws and ordinances in Georgia like
those in force in other states, where
they have produced such wonderful
power development,
United States Census Bureau re
ports show that only New Mexico and
Mississippi are as poorly served as
Georgia in the distribution of elec
tricity, more than 2,000,000 Georginns‘
living where it is impossible to get|
electricity, 1
The League's membership is (‘onH
posed of 110 leading towns and cities
of the State with a population of
687,718, It has hundreds of associate
members, who live in various sections
of the Staate. The president of the
League is Gordon Saussy of Savan
nah. Its vice presidents are Archir
bal Blackshear, City Attorney of Au-
Wta,&anl¥s L}f {(e}m:'r i} Af
Janta; 'R, .W. Parker, ) of* Madi
' son, J. E. Sheppard, Mayor of Amer
icus, J. M. Smith, Mayor of Augusta,
'and Luther Williams, Mayor of Ma
- con. These officers were elected at
‘ the last annual meeting, which “:»‘,”
ilield recently in Atlanta. $ /
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cm s KEEP OUT THE EMPEROR ff -
"‘ 1t we had our WAY about the dis:
‘posal of the German reparations,
‘those who are trying to uphold a re
publican form of government might
have two years' time--but they should
‘agree to put in that two years to the
best advantage in dealing with the
royalties,
" It will Ye worth a great deal to
France in future if a republican form
of government can be maintained in
Germany. We fear that the pressing
of the reparations demands will help
to destroy popular faith in the new
form of government. If that should
occur and the emperor is returned
to power, France will lose many times
more than is represented in the re
parations claims,
. All the allies should he deeply con
cerned about a government through
which the Germans might rule them
gelves and thus be permitted 19 settl:
fssues for themselves which might
icsult in war or peace,
There would be less danger of ag
gression against France—and conse
‘quently less necessity for expunélve
military programs. It would be 2
‘wise thing for all Kurope to help
Germany may deserve, It is truc tha'
We are saying noihiug about what
Germany mad deserve. It is true that
we are only a day removed from a
world conflagation which Germany
gought to maintain with frightful hu
man butchery, but the thought now
is largely a preventative measure
against future outbreaks and an in
ternational “lift” at this critical pe
riod might prove a good investment.
MEETING MELON DEMANDS
" The season just closing is the rst
'undertaken by farmers of Crisp coun
ty as members of the Southwest
Georgia Melon Growers Association.
Cordele territory is gettiing out with
"three hundred cars raised and sold
by members of the association. This
is business we are doing as a result
of diversification from other less pay
"ing lines. In some cases no gain has
been made, for some have heen los
ers, butyin others there has been
‘quite an_improvement in income.
Those members of the association
who offered only choice melons, heavy
weights or excellent grade, sold them
easily and got good prices for them.
There has been a demand for that
class of melons all the way through
the season.
We have scores of farmers who
have raised smaller melons and jam-'
med them into the market only to
find disaster awaiting them. Some
have persisted in doing this against
the advise of those who knew better,
And wherever a car of small melonsi
went to ‘market from this or any}
other Georgia community, it hurt (he‘
reputation and selling qualities of]
Georgia melons,
Some local growers have refused to
prune the vines to two melons.' Tiey
have refused to use the seed specified
by the melon growers and as a con
sequence, they have an “unknown
quantity to offer. The business worll
has no time to lose with such people.
Hard sledding has followed and the
man who has tried to exist as a mel
on grower under such a schedule has
lost money. i
It would have been just as easy to
follow sp('(;lflcations. Mc.ions caul(‘.‘
be raised just as easily that would|
be in demand and would bring good
prices. But the growers must first%
read and . find out for themselvcs.}
They can go on years and years in
their old hard headed way and lose
all the time, Our growers who
tried in the right way, won out and
we are sure they are pleased.
TO KEEP IN TOUCH
From the ‘Atlanta Constitution: 'l‘h(“
standard wogkly home paper is so
much of a necessity to the ecitizens of
town and county that no cummnuit,\*‘
can afford to. be without it. |
As pointed: out by the Cordele (Ga
Dispatch, the smallest home papel
wisely condueted is something fof a
;lvvor with. ' iwhich the progressive
citizens ofa community make things
- move.
T}mjo is the home news and adver
Aigmg columns, one finds community
A terest working for the publie good
Fpl no agoney for the gemeral wel
fare works harder, at all times thanp
the often underpaid home newspaper
THE CORDRLE DISPATOR
- Speaking of ‘fhe infNiencé on the
‘home and fireside aud the Lusiness of
a town and county, our Cordele con
temporarry well says—
It means progrossive growtle
gteady and substantial . Life is toc
short to try to live on the farm
“eight, ten and twelve miles away
from the trading centers-——business
and marketing conters, court centers
school and ehurch eenters, without
baving the paper from that point
which undertakes to keep people ad
vised. It is not only a means of keep
ing up with what the bhest of the
farmers arc doing, but it is a means
of saving time and expense in rum
| ning back and forth to occasions
| where —the farmers presence s
neeessary as a voter, o jnror in eourt
a tax payer. The home paper would
kecp in touch with the high spots in
school and church
~ And it may be added, with every:
‘thing ¢lse that is worth while in the
advancement of the interests of the
prople,
The represpntative weekly news
- paper is a towns hest assct,
‘ It sometimes has a hard row to hoe
to keep up the high standard mark
and it takes a steady, apprieiative
patronags to cnable it to do so.
1f the peoplc would keep in touch
with the times, they mut stand oy
their home newspapers .
WHAT!S AT THE BOTOM OF IT.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun., i
; The Dothan, Ala., Kagle states two
truths, (1) when it says Tom Watcen
is to be rightly charged with respon
sibility of the dynamiting of cattle
'f]ipping vats in Georgi‘g. yacause, he
has openly advocated it; and (2 that
‘such things cannot occur when the
county officers do their full duty and
stand behind the law: The Eagle
says: ;
“In charging up things to Tom Wat
son in Georgia lhéy shouldn’t over
look the dynamiting of dipping vats,
for it is of record that the junior sen
ator sided with the moss-backd” and
Free-Tickers when this work was
first proposed .‘.in Georgia, and the
fellowers of Watson nafumlly thecught
,he was right. Georgia, however, is
not the only state Mat _is afflicted
with people who don’t believe in
dipping cows to free them of ticks.
Here in Alabama, the same trouble
.wus met, and in Geneva county, they
went so far as to guard the vats, and
shot a man to death who attempted
0 blow one up. and that put a qui
~etus on that sort of working that coun
\tv. The judge of probate of that
county .stood by the law, and thus
made it effective. Wherever the
county efficials stand behind the law
but littie tgbuble is 6xperienced.“
True, every word of it. And there
is, also, truth in what both the Dal
ton Citizen and Cordele Digpatch
have to say comcerning this same
gpecies of mob violence. About two
wecks ago—The Enquirer-Sun laugh
ingly commented, at the time on the
Cordele papers optimism—the Dis
patch said it believed all such trou
bles were over in South Georgia; that
the anti-dipers were going to be good,
but in less than 48 hours after the
statement was made a regular gun
battle was in progress between the
anti-dipers and the officers, with
the result that some of the outkiws
were wounded, possibly killad, and
two vats were blown up. |
Whereupon the Cordele editor
promptly and frankly delivered nim
gelf of the folowing:
“We've been thinking ahout it all
right—have been for the past aight
or ten years, —And we are quite
agreed that it all comes of preaching
lawlessness to ignorant people. %
“Phat was a bad blow out in Ech
ols county—one of which we are
ashamed—especially so since we had
just made the claim that South Geer
gia is trying to get through cattle dip
ping in an orderly manner. Olld
moonshine liquor got into that affair
We Will Save Money
FOR YOU ON YOUR
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AND
p— TYBES
We Handle a Line Which s Highty Guranteed
HEARD GROCERY CO.
“and made andredists out of thé ‘Wat
sonites. e gy
' “But we still want to claim that
we have seen our worst days with th®
dipping yvat dynamiters, We do not
believe Georgians are going to per
'mit Watson to come aut into the open
with such amarchy again.”
" The Dalton Citizen, evidently noi
§0 certain that Watsonism is as deai
in South Georgia as the Cordele pa
per thinks, merely contents itself‘
with exclaiming, somewhat sarcast® ‘
cally—"Great is Watsonism " . ‘
All of which aagin réminds us thag
it is this‘'damnable an( deadlythh}!
that must be put down in Georgi '
forthwith and from now on, it Geor
gia is to be a place fit to live in. And
we can't ever put it down, or hreak
Watson's strange-hold on our stata,
by continuing to elect “his man"” to
high places; or to any place at all.
‘Yes, the paramount issue in Geor
gla is Watsonism, Beside it, all else
‘is of little moment. For as long as
Watson’s incendiary influence exists
threughout Georgia, all efforts for the
gtate’s upbuilding, both materiallv
and morally, are, to a frightful ex
tent, nullified and rendered abortive.
CALIFORNIA AVIATORS
MUST HAVE LICENSES
~ Sacramento, California, July 13,—
Supecintendent Charles J. Chenu, of
the State Motor Vehicle Department
has issued a warning to all aviators
in California to apply to his office
for licenses or ecase flying. Pilots op
crating without licenses will be aa
rested and prosecuted by agents of
“the motor vehicle department. Chenu
declared that has inaugurated a elean
up campaign to round up all violators
of the law rcquiring pilots to be li
censed. This law was passed by the
last State egislature. The first arrcs!
under its provisiems was made in
San Francisco recently ala’f‘hanu
states that additjgn:fis.arr(‘st. may be
expeeted unless #he®law is compliec
witilh,
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