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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-18

America by challenging her Monroe Doctrine.
Ordinary intuition should teach the skittish
scribes and solons that this would be so,
even though they should never turn to the
Covenant itself for reinsurance.
AS far as Americas particular interests are
concerned, the League embodies to a lumi-
nous degree the very principle which Presi-
dent Wilson enunciated when he declared: Il
am proposing, as it were, that the nations
should with one accord accept the doc
trine of President Monroe as the doc
trine of the world: That no nation should
seek to extend it's policy over any other
nation or people, but that every peo-
pie should be left free to determine
it's own policy, it's own way of development
unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the lit
tie along with the great and powerful l am
proposing that all nations henceforth avoid
entangling alliances which would draw them
into competitions Of power, catch them in
net of selfish intrigue and rivalry, and dis
turb their own affairs with influences In
truded from without. There is no entanglins
alliance in a concert of power. When all
unite to act in the same sense and with the
same purpose, all act in the common inter
est and are free to live their own lives under
a common protection" If these be not
American principles, then we have none
worth preserving; If these be not American
interests and ideals, we have no traditions
and no aims.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-18
BISHOP GAMBLERS MESSAGE

! Jesus teach that man must become good.
himself before he do good successfully;
he must by sincere repentance get the notes
out of his own eyes before he can hope for
clearness of vision enough to correct the VS.
ion of others
In truth it is of the essence of Pharisaism
to start with the assumption that mans own
soul needs nothing of attention from him,
but that he should give himself wholly to
doing something for his neighbors. Canon
j. B. Motley, of Oxford university, England.
in his famous sermon on the Reversal OF
Human Judgment utters strong para
graph which is pertinent in this connection
Dr. Motley says 1.-THE view of life as a mis-
sion tends to supersede the view OF 1t as
trial and probation. The mission becomes
the final cause of life. The generality may
be born to do their duty in that station In
life in which it has pleased God to call them;
but in their own the mission overtops
and puts into the shade the general purpose
Of life as probation; the generality are sent
into the world for their own moral beneht,
but they Chat is, the persons with missions
to nurse) rather sent into the world for
the benefit of that world itself The out
ward object with it's display and mahchinery
is apt to reduce to a kind of insignifcance
the individual end of life. 1t appears
small and commonplace. The success OF
their own individual probation is assumed in
embarking upon the larger work, as the less
is included in the greater; it figures as
preliminary in their eyes, which may be taken
for granted; it appears easy thing to them
to save their own souls, thing, so to
speak, for anybody to do"
So thought the Pharisees, and therefore,
they thanked God that they were not as other
men. So think some modern Pharisees who
are filled with a sense of the great value of
their efforts on behalf of others, and they
thank God that they are not as the common
run of preachers and the se1f-centered
churches.
A moderately extensive acquaintance with
human nature, with religious history,
would show that the men who are most con-
cerned to save thei, souls they who
have the deepest and most wholesome in
terest in work for others.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-18
CURRENT EVENTS

railways of the country at the present time
as demoralized, Philip H. Gadsden, of
Charleston, S. c., speaking at the midyear
meeting of the American Electric Railway as
ISOLATION in New York, declared that 'cost
of service" system of regulating fares, or, as
an alternative, municipal ownership must be
adopted to rehabilitate the industry. Mr..
Gadsden is chairman of the associations COM
mittee of readjustment which has been study
ing the electric railway problem. With more
than fifty electric lines in the hands of re-
ceivers, 81 of them in cities Of more than 25,-
600 population, with revenues decreased and
market prices of securities lowered, the time
has come, he said when some radical change
must be made in order to continue adequate
service.
A program for cooperation between capital
and labor designed to bring about "a just
settlement of industrial strife" was outlined
by Charles w. Eliot, president emeritus Of
Harvard university, at a legislative hearing
on bill for the appointment of a special
commission to study the hours of labor in
Massachusetts industries. He favored the
bill, chiefly he said, because I believe it to
be inexpedient, not to say absurd to attempt
to fix by law the same number OF hours for
all industries without regard to their infinite
diversities, or for all establishments in the
same industry
Martin Lopez and Ramon Vega, two Villa
commanders appeared at the Ojitos cattle
ranch, 80 miles south of Hachita, N M, one
day last week "Rube'' Spencer, American
negro ranch foreman, and Mexican ranch
employee A demand was made upon the
ranch managers for $4,000 ransom for the
release of Spencer. This is the third time
Spencer has been held for ransom by Villa
followers. United States troops have been
sent from Hachita to the Corner Ranch, on
the border, to protect American property
there.
Emile Coffin, the anarchist who recently
made an attempt upon the life of Premier
Georges Clemenceau, Was sentenced to death
by the court-martial which was trying him in
Paris last week. The verdict of the court
martial was unanimous Emile Coffin first
conceived the idea of shooting the premier in
May, 1918, according to an official record read
at court-martial. In May, 1918, the en-
ployes of aviation factories were on strike.
Coffin practiced shooting after that, it was
said.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-18
MRS. CATT'S COMPILATIONS
(The Florida Times Union)

Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait, president of
the National Woman's Suffrage association,
estimates that more than twelve million
women will be eligible to vote in the next
presidential election. We do not know
whether she has made a careful calculation
or has merely taken the number of women
over 81 years old in the states in which they
they are permitted TO vote. The two are by
no means the same.
In 1910 100000 men were within the
voting age in the United States, but scarcely
more than half that number have ever voted
in any presidential election. In fact when we
consider the fact that several million of the
voters heretoafOre have been women we see
that nothing like half of the men who were
FL years old over have voted The largest
vote ever cast was the in 1916 when it reach
ed total of about 100000 If only four
million of these were women remainder of
only fourteen million would be left for the
men and there were fully thirty million
males of voting age in the United States at
the time.
1t is safe to say that next yeay there will
be at least thirty-two million -lales of voting
age in the United States and if Mrs. Gait is
right and her figures include all women who
are old enough to vote the total population of
voting age and not deLarred by sex will be
fully forty-four million. We have no idea
that number of votes will be cast.
Some who are of voting age are ineligible
because of residence toe short I time in the
place where they reside, others because of
failure to register and still others because Of
failure to pay taxes where such payment is
prerequisite. But rejecting all these it is not
probable that much more than half the quail
fed voter will go to the polls. The others
will remain away and complain of the result
The people of this country have never been
as enthusiastic about voting as they were sup
posed to be- Not more than ten per cent of
the population voted ir any lection prior to
1910. About IA per cent voted that year.
The vote held around this proportion until
after the civil war when it increased by the
of the negroes to about TWEEN
ty per cent and it has been running a little
less than twenty per cent since, though the
population of voting ( ge is much nearer forty
per cent.
When We think of how short time the
woman's suffrage movement has been in
istence we are impressed by the fact that it
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-18
Seeing the l. ight.

"Your IT," said Touchstone, sis mighty
peacemaker 1 knew when seven justices
could not make up q quarrel, but when the
parties were met themselves, one of them
thought of an If as, if you said so, then
I said so; and they shook hands and swore
brothers."
Something like this it seems, is coming to
be the attitude of those at first lncomprising
opponents Ct a League of Nations-the politi-
cal and journalistic scorners who stiffened
their necks in an unbending dogma that
nothing good could come out of an idea
which President Wilson sponsored. Colonel
Harvey himself, the CHEF scribe of the OPP
position, now comedies that though the
League covenant as drawn sis doomed to
failure" "the substance of the plan will not
be abandoned" Likewise the nine-and-
thirty Republican Senators who joined in
condemning the proposed covenant declare
individually that they must not be misunder-
stood as being against the principle of a
League of Nations" To what extent this
softening of the claws originally thrust forth
to tear the Presidents peace plan to scraps
has been brought about by recent disclosures
of public sentiment, need no. pause to in
quire The significant and gratifying fact is
that the irrecor cilables have bethought them
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-18

President Wilson, returning to the peace
conference after his trip to the United States,
arrived in Paris on Friday. Although the
time of the presidents arrival had not been
made public great crowd had gathered at
the Invalides station. The station was dec
GRATED with flowers and flags and the TWEEN
ty-first French regiment was on hand to do
military honors to the American president
The demonstration attending the presl-
dents arrival in Paris for his second visit
lacked the magnitude of that upon the occa-
sion of his initial appearance last December.
Nevertheless, it was spontaneous ana cor
dial news dispatch reported.
Action by the peace conference to elimi-
nate race prejudice, which he termed "a
fruitful source of discomfort and uneas1ness
among nations in the past" was urged by
ViScount Ishii, Japanese am baSsadOr to the
United States, speaking before the Japan So
cety in New York last week. Nothing would
contribute more effectively to the foundation
of permanent peace, he declared, than appli-
cation of a proper remedy Eat this opportune
moment to this cause of international dis
cord" The constitution of a league of ma
tions, he added, would not be worthy of the
conference if it omitted provision to right
the conspicuous injustice" arising out OF
prejudice between the races.
Colonel C. w Peck, of the Canadian army,
member of parliament for Skeena, B. c.,
charged in the house of commons in Ottowa
last week that throughout the war the
Canadians had found British authorities,
"unsympathetic," and declared that he would
make the name of Sir Charles Ferguson,
military governor of Cologne, "stink in the
nostrils of all patriotic and honest men" He
specifically charged Sir Charles with having
issued an order ''insulting'' to the Canadian
forces, quoting from the alleged order that
lowing to continued misbehavior of Canadian
troops, Cologne would have to be put out
of bounds
Governor Louis F. Hart, of Washington
state has signed a bill passed by the legisla-
ture intended to restore the death penalty in
Washington for first degree murder. The
bill is subject to referendum for ninety days.
Government compensation of the Central
of Georgia railroad, under contract signed
last week by Director General Hines, will be
$3,444 900 annually
Describing the condition of the electric
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-18
BIeckIey L ooks F0rqUard.

Bleckley county is warmly to be congratu-
lated upon it's steps toward securing a county
wide local tax for the support of rural schools
In announcing a meeting which is to be held
for this purpose at the courthouse on Satur-
day, March the twenty-ninth, the Cochran
Journal, an earnest and able advocate of the
cause, observes:
"Our rural schools are now being
maintained entirely from the educational
fund derived from the State, and this
fund is very much less than is necessary
to maintain anything like an efficient
system of good schools in our county.
This fact has come to the attention of our
people more forcibly in the past year
or two when all that goes into the max
ing of good school has, like everything
else, increased in price. The people of
Bleckley county can no longer expect to
have comfortable school houses and COM
petent teachers unless money is provided
to meet the expenses. 1t is simply
business proposition. We cannot afford
to close up our rural schools, and 1t will
certainly come to that unless the present
school fund is supplemented. The best
and most equitable way to supplement
this fund is to have local taxation
The Cochran Journals contentious are
borne out by the experience of the entire
State and of the entire Nation. Those Geor-
gia counties, or whom there are now upwards
of fifty that supplement the educational
funds they receive from the State by county
wide local tax have excellent schools in the
rural districts as we'll as in the towns and
cities, and accordingly are advancing in all
that makes for the permanent prosperity and
broad well-being of their people. Counties,
on the other hand, that depend wholly upon
the State making no effort to help them
selves in this most vital sphere of their pub
lie interests, have poor schools, and are suf-
fering the consequences of this grave de-
Georgia is one of, the very States, if not,
indeed, the only one, that has not made the
levy of local school tax mandatory in all
1t is deeply to be hoped that a
measure looking to this end will pass at the
next session of the General Assembly Mean
while progressive counties like Bleckley are
not waiting upon State action, but on their
own initiative are adopting the local school
tax plan.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-18

of an off," so that happy ending becomes
possible. If, they say, the plan be pruned
here and plastered there we are for it.
That diver, amendments will be made be-
fore the League covenant is in final form
goes without saying. The first draft was un-
derstood from the outset to be tentative
1t essayed to set forth substantive principles
rather than modes of specific procedure
The staunchest friends of a Peace League
idea-friends as true as Mr.. Taft himself
perceived that notifications were needful,
and candidly said so. Moreover, as Mr.
David Lawrence points out in his cor
respondence to The Journal, diplomats and
international lawyers, "who are not con-
cerned with the political aspects of the con-
troversy'' find that i'll it's present draft the
covenant has loosenesses and antiquities
which, in the interest of the great purposes
to be served, must be strengthened and
clarified But there is a world of difference
between the criticism that aims to stabilize
and perfect, and that which aims to under
mine and destroy. The former will make
for a workable League of Nations and there
fore for enduring peace; the latter is as evil
a thing as the constituencies ambition and
intrigue which precipitated the most terrible
of wars.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-18
THE DEMAND OF MANKIND
(The Americas Times-Recorder)

1t becomes more a. parent each day that
Woodrow Wilson must be conscripted by the
American people and required to serve third
term as president of the United States.
Recognized in every cline as the world S
leader, the champion of humanity, it is i'm
perative that his services be retained during
the trying period of the next years. The peo-
pie of the United States will not permit
President Wilson to say when there is
such genuine demand for his continued
service He will be made to see and realize
that there is real need for his leadership. He
must make the sacrifice in the name of man
kind No man has served his country or the
world as has Woodrow Wilson. But his work
for the peoples of the world cannot be fin
ished during his present term of office.
There must be third term. 1t is not the
call of political party. 1t is the voice of a
hopeful people; yes a demand that Woodrow
Wilson be made president of United States
for a third term.
The American people will conscript you,
Mr. Wilson, so that the wonderful work you
are doing will be finished and live.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-18
HOME CURE FOR CONGRESS
(The Waycross Journal-HeraId)

(The Waycross Journal-Herald)
1t is a good thing for everybody that con-
gress is going home for while. 1t is a good
thing for the nation, despite the pile of un-
done work that ought to have been done.
gress
Our federal legislature has been on the
job long time. 1t has been sitting almost
continuously for two years, during one of the
most strenuous periods of American history.
The atmosphere of'Washington has become
steadily more tense. Personal and partisan
bitterness has grown. The legislative and
executive branches rasped each other. The
congressmens jobs have got on their own
nerves. 1t finally came to a pass where
hardly anybody in that super-heated and
super-charged atmosphere could think clear
ly and see straight.
This was true with regard to nearly all
our foreign and domestic peace problems
The forces that held together for the war
went to pieces when the war was won, though
peace demanded their cooperation nearly as
much. There was particular lack of sanity
and calmneso with respect to the one matter
that most needed 1.-THE League of Nations
plan.
Most of that confusion and hysteria at the
capital was due to lack of close touch with
the public. The American people are not
confused and historical. They know what
they want. 1t will work wonders in the way
of Strengthening out those senators and rep
resentatives, just to go back home and
mingle for a couple of months with their own
folks. If the do that honestly, with open
minds, there will be question about what
will happen when the new congress assemblies.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-18
THE TEETH AND CLAWS OF
BROTHERHOOD
RV DIR. Frank Crane
,V DR.. Frank Crane

1t took a long while for theologians to see
that the salvation of mankind could never be
accomplished by ''plucking brands from the
burning" we must put out the fire.
Not by segregation, withdrawal and isola-
ton can we cure the world. We must go
into it and clean it up.
You cannot lead a satisfactory life as an
individual unless you help your neighbors
into like life. You cannot make Spring
field a good city without making Sangamon
county good, and you cannot make Sanga-
mon model county until you have made IL
linois a model state, and Illinois cannot be
set right unless the whole United States is
set right, and you cannot make the United
States prosperous and enlightened territory
except you do as much for the whole world.
Nature does not propose that any man live
unto himself. You cannot be healthy by
yourself; your neighbors disease will infect
you. You cannot live sanitarily Fifth
avenue unless you make the slums sanitary,
for typhoid germs and smallpox do not re-
spect social barriers.
You can carry this law as far as you please.
You cannot "protect'' American industries
and cut off immigration, and thus hope to
keep the American people up to a high
grade of living conditions, while living con-
ditions are horrible in Mexico and China.
You are "rothers. Maybe you don't want
to be brothers, but nature does not care what
you fancy you've got to be brothers whether
you want to be or not, and if you refuse, and
build walls around yoG to keep the wretched
out, along will come war pestilence or
some other human leveller and teach you
lesson
We did not want to get tangled up in Eu-
ropean politics, and we ina gined we could
keep out, thanks to 5000 miles of water. By
twist of the wrist destiny plunged us in,
and we can never extricate ourselves
We must save Armenia if we would save
Kansas. There can be no permanent peace
and justice in Pennsylvania until they have
peace and justice in Russia, Poland and
Turkey
The labor leaders are beginning to see that
American labor cannot have it's rights until
labor everywhere has it's rights
And a Chinese coolie, a Mexican peon. or
Liberian Kroo has just as much right to live
decently and have the advantages of eauca-
ton as the steelzmill hand has in Gary, In
diana.
Microbes know no distinction. They pass
calmly from beggar to prince. And ideas
know no fences.
Justice, truth and righteousness are going
to cover the whole earth, or they will not
cover any piece of it
This Universal Brothe. hood business is not
a Sunday school sissy idealsm. It's Bolshe-
vik. 1t has teeth and claws
If you think you can keep your little fam
ily or nation, or race, in fairness and health,
ton cursed by ignorance or devoured by
fever, you are living in a FOOLS paradise, and
you shall be destroyed.
Nature, destiny, is like the French revolu-
zionist, who, it was said, presented a pistol
to your head and exclaimed, ''Sois mon frere
on je vous tue!''-"Be my brother or I'll
kill you"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-18
IN HE strain of the great war, or some
thing else, seems to have disturbed
u the equilibrium of a certain type of


thing else, seems to have disturbed
the equilibrium of certain type OF
mind during the last few years.
The men of this type see little things as
great things and great things as little things,
and lose all mental perspective.
A case in point is a certain man, who prior
to the war seemed to be man Of some sense;
but who, after engaging in more or less
useful line of effort on behalf Of the Ameri-
can soldiers seems now to have lost all sense
of moral proportion and to be giving himself
to extreme and groundless criticism OF the
churches.
In the January number of the Atlantic
Monthly this excited reformer assa1ls the
churches most bitterly. He charges that the
churches in calling upon men to save their
own souls have been making selfish ap-
peal and have been preaching IAN ind1vid-
ualistic and self-centered gospel" wholly un-
worthy of the name of Christianity. He ex-
horts the churches to proclaim social aims
worth fighting for, not a mere selfish gospel
of safety"
Now all this sounds very fine, but it is in
truth quite shallow and utterly at variance
with the teachings of Jesus Christ. More
over, it is contrary to the facts of history
and the principles of Christian experience
If this writing reformer had been present
when Jesus asked, "What shall it profit a
man if he gain the whole world and lose his
own soul?" he would probably have rebuked
the Master for raising such an "individualis-
tic and self-centered' issue! But he would
have been as mistaken in correcting Jesus as
he is now at fault in criticizing the churches
of Christ for calling men to repentance and
faith to save their souls At bottom his con-
tention is a quarrel with Christ quite as
much as it is a censure of the churches.
Christ used other language with an in
tensely individualistic application that this
cersorious brother would do we'll to consider
The Master said, "Why beholdest thou the
mote that is in thy brothers eye, but con-
siderest not the beam that is in thine own
eye and thou shalt see clearly to cast out the
mote out of thy brothers eye."-(Matthew
vii:3-5.) Most obviously these words or