The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-04-19
T O d AY
Editorial Notes By
ARTHUR BRISBANE

This seems to be a bad year for
men whose profession is fighting.
Died within few weeks of each 9TH
'er, John L. Sullivan, Robert Fitzsim-
mons, Terry McGovern, Mike Don
ovan and the latest, Charley Mitchell.
William Hohenzollern, please take
warning. a.
William F. Portlock, No. 1901 New
port avenue, Norfolk, Va, says: 81
have selected The Freedom of the
Press for the subject of my gradu-
alton essay. Have you any subject
matter on the affirmative side of this
subject"
Yes, we have. The thoughtful
young person will find it in an amend
ment to the United States Constitu-
ton reading as follows:
Congress shall make no law
abridging the freedom Of speech OR
OF THE PRESS"
1t is fair to warn the young gen
tleman, however, that in times like
these it is not safe to take the Con-
stitution Of the United States too Sc
riously The old gentlemen who
write the Constitution thought that
they knew what they meant. But
you can find some modern judges and
other officials who will tell you that
those old men did NOT KNOW
WHAT THEY MEANT-or, if they
did know, much water has gone over
the wheel since they were safely bur-
led and part OF the Constitution has
been worn away.
Often enough the Kaiser has said,
God is fighting on my side, at my
side The latest evidence of this
partnership appears under the news
paper heading "Seventy-live Killed
and Ninety Wounded in Paris church
by a Shell Fired from German long
range Gun"
The Kaiser's boast Of divine part
Inership and that dynamite Shell tray
cling seventy miles TO explode in a
church on Good Friday constitute a
valuable addition to religious history.
The church was filled with a crowd,
chiefly OF women and children, pray
ing for their fathers. husbands and
brothers on the fighting line, and all
uniting in a prayer for permanent
peace.
Permanent peace came to MANY
when the dynamite she'll, directed, &C
cording to the Kaiser, by the Divine
Will, exploded in the church, killed
seventy-fve and wounded ninety.
The Kaiser would have felt prouder
than ever of his dynasty and of his
divine partnership if he could have
seen the inside of that church after
the she'll exploded.
Old women who had come to pray
for their sons lay bleeding Children
that had listened to the story of
Christ's sacrifice for peace and good
will were transported suddenly into
the presence that they had come to
worship.
1t says in the tenth verse of the
eighteenth chapter of ST. Matthews:
Take heed that we despise nol
one of these little ones; for l say I'M
to you, that in heaven their angels
do always behold the face of my Fa-
Their which is in heaven"
What would be the Kaiser's an
swer to this question:
Is that Father whose face the child
rem always behold the same partner
that helps you in your war, and di-
reefs so well the aim of your long
| range guns?
Mr.. Mum in his admirable Scien-
tihc American compliments the cleo
trio railroads ION their efforts to save
coal by burning fewer lights"
Says he: In the vicinity of New
York city most electric railroads save
on the average FIVE lights to a car,
which in the aggregate makes for a
tremendous saving of fuel"
Very gratifying as regards fuel and
especially electric railroad dividends.
But what about human eyesight?
Is not that worth conserving? Peo-