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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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in the news or editorial columns or any inaccuracy will be
rectified gladly, and anyone calling our attention to un
just, injurious or inaccurate statements in this newspa
per will have our sincere thanks.
LETT IM. GERMANY KNOW.
The Allied note replying to Count von Brockdorff-
Rantxau’s wail, seems to state the case fully and clear
ly, and there should be no longer any doubt in the
minds of the German officials or people, after reading it,’
what the Allied position toward Germany is, or what
Germany is to expect.
In his note to the Allies the count, who speaks for ’
Germany, seeks to slip in as an equal at the peace table,
forgetting, or seeking to have the world forget, that he
represents the criminal at the bar, brought up for sen
tence, and not for negotiation, consulting equally with
the Allies and advising as to what shall be the terms
for the Allied nations, as well as his own. The note in
reply to his recalls sharply and truly that Germany, the j
author of all this world misery and deprivation, can-!
not hope to escape lighter than the nations she ground
under her ruthless heel.
But severe as the terms are. in reality sh«e is
escaping more iigh.ly than Belgium and France. And j
as has been said before in these columns it is impossi- ’
ble for justice to be done to Germany, for a strict appli-'
cation of justice in her case would take away from
Germany more than lies in her power to give.
The final paragraphs of the Allied reply to Brock-'
corff-Rantzau are unmistakable in clearness, free from
hatred, and uttered with convincing truth and sincerity, j
They are worth re-reading, and should be burned into
every German brain. Here they are:
"But the first condition of any such recuperation
would appea; to be that Germany should recognize the
facts of the present state of the world, which she has
been mainly instrumental in creating, and realize that
she cannot escape unscathed The share which she is
being called upon o bear in the enormous calamity
that has befallen the world has been apportioned by the
victorions powers iwc to her desens, but solely to her i
ability to bear it.
‘All the ct Europe are suffering from losses
and are bearisg art wi..l continue to bear burdens which '
are aiwzr sore ••,«. they can carry. These burdens 1
and. ios.sei have been forced upon them by the aggress
ir.t of Orasaxy It it right that Germany, which is re
tjonst-.e for tie origin of these calamities, should make
ties good U. the utmost of her capacity. Her hard
er. P* will arise, tz from the conditions of peace, but
from tie at r .f those who provoked and prolonged the
war. Tnosc- who were responsible for the war cannot
ev.ape itc consequences.*’
H AWkEK END GRIEVE
No • .r< nas tome from Harry G. Hawker and Lieut.
Ccnarzfender Mackenzie Grieve, who started oft last Sun
d.y rthe:r desperate dash for Ireland.
In tew of th*. time that has elapsed it is questionable
whether the real fate of these two men will ever, be
known.
It is recalled that Gustav Hamel, who attempted to
fly the English Channel in 1913, never finished his flight
and has never been heard from since; and when we con
sider the desperate odds against Grieve and Hawker,
with their flimsy little life-boat, containing only a few
flares, a tiny sea-anchor, and but scant supplies of food
and water, it is apparent that even if they ar e Jiow alive,
their chances of surviving until rescued are very slight.
'1 he real harm was done when the English Government
failed to make any sort of provision for their safety.
The gallant effort of Hawker and Grieve will not
have been in vain. Their brave attempt adds two more
names to the list of those who have defied danger and
death in order to accomplish a worthy purpose.
GOVERN M ENT OW N E RSH IP
The experiment of government ownership has been
tried and found wanting. The necessities of the war af
forded an opportunity for the trial of government owner
ship of our railroads and telegraph lines such as might
not have been furnished by a hundred years of propagan
da by those who believe in the federal operation of public
utilities. In a speech delivered in New York last week.
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A VERSE A DAY. !
YOUR BOY.
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HE'LL never be a boy again—
That child of your loving heart,
So hold him close to you mother dear,
'• And whisper to him apart.
He’ll never be a boy again.
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With clear, bright, sparkling eye;
His face as soft as a velvet sheen,
And manner clever and shy.
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He'll never be a boy again
Do you love him as you should?
1 Do you hold his hand and press his cheek?
* Do you talk to him as you could?
I He’ll never be a boy again.
He'll soon be grown up and gone, .
I Then you'll be left a childless home;
i Your heart all sad and forlorn
1
The cradle’s placed in the corner there —
.' His toys are growing old
! j The boy is losing his boyish ways—
. I Se e the man in the boy unfold.
So hold him close to you, mother dear
.And love him with all your heart
He's with you now—make good your time
Before the tear-drops start
Not yet. but soon, he'll go away; '
j Think now what it may cost.
The wail of your heart as you may say—
’ "Mv bov—my dear bov’s lost!”
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—Mrs. Rachel McC. Cater.
Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield expressed
himself as follows on this subject;
"It is germane to suggest that out of the helpful ex
perience the nation has had during the war and the re- I
adjustment period with Government operation of ourj
great system of intercommunication, whether on sea,
' land, or by wire, a fact has clearly emerged which has
peculiar interest for this assembly and which points a
! finger of warning whole country. I do not recall
i that this special phase of Government control of com
munication of aii kinds was seriously discussed prior to |
I the war. yet to my mind it is of basic importance.
"It has by itself settled my own judgment adversely
Jtc Government operation, in a country as large as this. 1
!of the great enterprises involved in our railways, our
merchant marine, and our telegraph and telephone sys- ■
i
■terns. I have called our experience helpful because,l
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through the work of the able and conscientious men who
have handled all these activities, more has been learned
of the essential factors of th e problems than was possi
ble by pure theorizing Nor is there in the background |
of my thought the slightest element of controversy.
During the course of his speech the teerttary said ■
that the chief fault to be found with government owner
ship is "the necessary combination of so large a part—a
controlling part—of the purchasing power of the country
into a few hands, o r regarding the government as a unit,
into one compact control. The various transportation ele
i rnents named include as I have said a controlling pur
, ha ing power over our industries and through them over
jour labor and producers of raw material.”
By refusing to buy, or delaying to buy at a critical
period, the Secretary pointed out, it would lie in the
power of this single unit to crush or cripple industry.
Should the Govertiment become a vast socialistic ma
chine. controlling the great transportation systems, the
telephones, the telegraphs, the merchant marine, etc.,
with the enormous purchasing power involved by this
centra), the fate of the country would rest in the hands of
a few men exercising this power, and it might conceiva
bly provide a short cut to imperialism.
There are many other objections tp government own
ership, including the political manipulation that would
inevitably creep in. the impairment of standards of effi
ciency, and the almost limitless opportunities for ‘'graft.”'
It may perhaps, be claimed that the trial was not a
fair one because precipitated by war on an unprepared
governmental organization; and the claim might seem
( reasonable were it not for th e fact that we have long had
t many other glaring examples of governmental inefficien
. cy in business management, such as the failur e to install
any budget system these many years; the senseless mul
, tiplicity in the different government departments, of ’ u
j reans and divisions engaged on siim’.-.r activities; the
great variance of the business methods or lack of methods
of the various departments; the placing and continuing
t of inefficient people in responsible position for purely
political reasons; and a thousand other evidences of bus
t iuess inefficiency which show conclusively that the best
; interests of the country demand that the government shall
[ reduce rather than increase the scope of its actual man
agement of purely business enterprises.
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j THE STATE PRESS. L
l'p ’<> Worth County!
While Tift county was voting road bonds our neighbor,!
Dougherty, was doing the same. Out of a registration!
of 980, bridge bonds received 801 votes with none against
and road bonds 797 votes, with four against. Come along
now, Worth, and conect us up with a paved road.—Tifton I
Gazette. i' i I I |
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