Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25
THE PRICE OF PEACE
BV DR.. Frank Crane
" III dTlN
You cannot eat your cake and have it tt

You cannot eat your cake and have it too
And if you want anything you must be will
ing to pay for it. ....
These are axioms good many people are
losing sight of. They want something, yet
they balk at the price.
What we want is peace. We want war
with its waste, destruction and murder to
stop. We want to get back to business, to
sit in quiet with our family and to enjoy life
We want peace. But the pric, of peace is
sacrifice. We must give up privilege of
declaring war whenever we feel like it, and
we must give up our right to go about with
an army and navy so big as to be a menace
to other nations!
You cannot get law and order in your CITY,
with policemen and courts and a peaceful
populace, unless you give up your gun, give
up your right to settle your own disputes
with club, and give up your right to take
the law into your own hands and punish those
who offend you. 4
So in the highways of the world there can
be no peace until individual nations sacrifice
their right each to be it's own judge jury and
sheriff in any dispute with another nation.
National sovereignty is good thing. It
is so good that some of us throw fit when
ever we are asked to abate one jot or little of
it. !..-
But there is something better. 1t is the
welfare of the world of all humanity.
Those who refus to let go of any of our
national sovereignty are precisely like the
cowboy who says: "By lingo! I'll not
give up my gun. l won't leave it to any court
Or law officer to say when, where whom
shall shoot. No, sir; I'm he man. I'll
do as please
That kind of talk may do in mining
camp, in conditions of primitive civilization
but it would plunge New York or Chicago into
anarchy as bad as now exists in Moscow.
That kind of idea is what was the matter
with Germany. Deutschland Uber Alles,"
national vanity and cowboy Boosting led
straight to ruin.
Those who repel the idea of Americas CIV
ing up the least bit of her sovereignty are
simply American junkers.
If we are going to get rid of the horror of
war in the world, every nation must give up
little. That alone is the path of civiliza-
ton.
We never got United States until each
separate state gave up some of it's rights for
the sake of thu union.
And we will never get peace, prosperity
and the reign o. law earth until each ma
ton gives up a bit for the sake of the COM
mon good.
Those who claim they want peace and
league of nations yet are unwilling for their
own country to let go any of it's privileges
and powers, simply have taken leave of COM
mon sense.
You cannot eat your cake and have it too,
Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane)
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Even well grown crop of sweet potatoes
may lose much market value by lack of
proper care in digging, handling and prepare
ton for market. Precaution must be OBJ
served when digging and handing to prevent
a well-grown product from becoming I'M
slightly through the presence of cuts, bruises,
and other defects.
Eighty cents all hour for working in his
garden-that is what Raph Baerman, of Fill
more county, Minnesota, earned in his one
tenth-acre foot plat. He was awarded the
state championship in garden work in Min