Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-10
I'VE AGREE TO DISAGREE.

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agree with senator Hardwick so often,
but it seems that he just won't agree
with Us.
Now here he is, in the language Of
the Associated Press,
"assailing the senate resolution to
have the trade commission take
charge Of the news print paper
industry, with declaration that
regulation of news print paper is
no more necessary to winning the
war than control of the cotton or
potato fields. Surely we are not
going to send oyer-zealous news
paper men to fight the Germans,
he said, although | would like to
take few and stick EN- in the
front firing ranks of the men
they've drafted. If we could win
the war with newspapers, we'd
have won it long ago. The trou-
BILE is that some OF our most val
liant newspaper lighters, and some
newspaper victories. don't CON
tribute much to results"
This TRADE is, of course, only an
other indication by Mr.. Hardwick OF
the course he intends to adopt for his
for re election. He has al
ready thrown the gauntlet Of defiance
at the feet Of the President, who, how
ever. treats Georgias junior Senator
with the "contemptuous disregard
Mr. Hardwick charges him with using
toward the Senate Now MIR. Hard
wick goes one step more along his
chosen path, and hurls a def at the
He knows that the news
papers are really in critical straits as
regards their newspaper supply, and
it will be their salvation for the gov
eminent to regulate the paper indus
try.
Hardwick's sneer at the newspaper
men is thoroughly contemplate 1t
doesn't betray his ignorance, for he
must know better; it simply reveals
his meanness of spirit.
In every phase of the war the news
paper man is to be found Few OF
them subject to service have waited
to be drafted. Hundreds of them are
officers. Many are today in the
trenches in France, some from right
here in Georgia. The press of this
state contributed liberal quota tc
the call for soldiers, and is still send
ing them
as for the newspaper, to whom
Senator Hardwick refers so slurring-
ly we would like to have him tell what
would have become OF the food con-
servation campaign, but for the news
papers? What would have happened
to the Liberty Bond campaigns, if the
had not contributed their
space and their editorial efforts with
out charge? What would have hap
pened to the Red Cross campaign
What would have happened to the
Army Y, NJ C. A. campaign? What
would have happened to the execution
Df the selective draft act? In other
movements, intimately related
IL the success of certain departments
OF war activity, the newspapers, in
fact, have carried, at their own ex-
pense, unstintedly, unhesitatingly, and
without hope of reward, burdens i'm
Iossible for any others to carry. only
the newspapers have made it feasible
for the war plans to be as successfully
put into operation as they are today
Senator Hardwick is simply laying
a foundation for his campaign He
intends to make a bold appeal to the
anti-administration element and to
tight the newspapers by declaring that
they are in league against him. They
are against him, all right, but there is
ho league. 1t was not necessary for
the patriotic newspapers of Georgia
to organize and combine to show their
for a public officer who has
betrayed his constituents as Senator
Hardwick has done
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