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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
Texas Inspiring Example
In State Road BuiZdino

Warrantably proud as we are of the gener-
Gus scale upon which Georgia counties have
been voting highway bonds and of the pros
pect for the continuing of this constructive
tendency, it is we'll to take note that other
States OF the South making magnificent
records In the same field of progress
Of Texas, for example, we read in an Aus
tin dispatch that according to figures lust
given out by the State Highway Engineer,
there have been voted by the taxpayers of
the different counties since January 1 1919
bonds to the amount of fifty million to be
used in the construction of good roads"
Furthermore, bond issues now pending for
the same purpose amount to twenty-five mil
lion dollars, while on November the fourth
next proposed State bond issue of seventy
five million dollars will be voted upon all
OmenS pointing to its Endorsement. To this
towering total of one hundred and FORTY
seven million dollars, will be added hand
some sums from the Federal treasury and
from a special State fund
AS the largest of the States in area and the
fifth largest in population Texas is rightly ex-
pected to spend tens and scores of millions
for road Development Her record is none
the less admirable, however, and should be
none the less inspiring to her Southern Sis
ters. If Georgia does as we'll in proportion to
area we shall have something like thirty
seven million dollars for highway improve
ments this year, exclusive of Federal aid !;
and ii she does as we'll in proportion to popu-
latlOn, we shall have upwards of ninety-eight
millions We must hurry if we are to approx
innate or approach those figures But they
are in no wise beyond our resources, and GER
tainly not beyond our needs
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
The Significant Retreat
Of the Foes of the League

The Republican Senators who so doughtily
set forth to defeat the Presidents efforts Tor
the establishment of League of Nations dis
covered just in time that the better part OF
valor is discretion. They had counted upon
severing the League covenant from the peace
treaty so that in killing the one they might
not incur responsibility for the death of the
other. This was the purpose of the Knox
resolution which was introduced with so
mighty and robustious an air that one might
have expected its champions to stand by it
even to the crack of doom. Senator BOrah
avowed indeed that if his clan did not fight
the League of Nations uncOmprOmisingly and
+ REGARDLESS of all else to the bitter end, he
would shake Republican dust from his feet
and found new political party.
But the world continued to move despite
the threat of the obstructionists. American
Jublic thought was not impressed by the
proposal to tear apart covenant and treaty
which by their very nature were united and
interknit. Allied thought as represented IN
the Paris conference was not impressed. Not
even sullen Germany was impressed, though
she of all concerned would solely have benefit
ed had the scheme of the KnoXes and the b.
rahs succeeded Slowly it dawned upon the
Presidents partisan enemies that what they
had considered shrewd politics was in fact
exceedingly stupid and if persisted in would
prove ruinous to their hopes for 1920.
Thus it was that the Knox resolution was
hurriedly rolled from the held at the very
iuncture when it's thunders were expected fair
ly to begin. Senator Lodge, Republican lead
er, became suddenly and curiously interested
in the appropriation bills. National inter-
ests demanded that these be given precedence,
he explained; though lust day or so before
nothing had been so important, nothing so i'm
perative as the defeat of the League of Ma
tions. In Withdrawing the Knox resolution,
the obstructionists were just in time, we say,
to escape sore predicament; for on Saturday
last Germany signed the treaty, the covenant
of the League of Nations being included.
It is in this form, then, that the peace pact
will come before the Senate for ratification or
rejection. There are foes of the President
and of his policies who are so implacable that
they would toss peace itself back to the tenn
pests of war if thereby they might Illustrate
the plan for the International League. But
the majority of the Senate Republicans and
of the party at large must be credited with
more discretion. Former Senator Root saw
the deadly drift and warned his vehement
brethren in plainest terms how perilous to the
partys hopes their extreme tactics on his
issue would be; and amongst those to whom
he appealed there were enough cool heads to
take his advice and make it effectnaI 1t
seems, therefore, that Senator Borah will have
to found his new party if he is still irrecon-
cilable and resolved to Lay Ajax to the light
ming.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
DENYING the Citi&en's
Right to Buy Medicine

The eccentric surgeon who used pair
of coal tongs to extract a cinder from a
patients eye might we'll have fathered a
plan which has been suggested in some
quarters as a Legislative remedy against
impostures among proprietary and patent
medicines. The rough and ready doctor
was quite successful in getting the cinder,
but he got the eyeball as we'll. In like
manner the contemplated legislation would
prescribe genuine medicines in order to
reach certain counterfeits and frauds.
If correctly reported, it would require
every manufacturer Of a proprietary med
icine to print the formula on the label, or
else have his product made unpurchasable
except upon a physicians prescription. OBJ
viously if the manufacturer is compelled to
publish his formula broadcast he is virtually
stripped Of his business, no matter how
legitimate it may be nor what wholesome
ends it may serve. This would be as I'M
just, applied to meritorious concerns, as it
would be to require the discoverer of a GER
tain process of dye-making to blazon forth
his valuable secret, or to require merchant
to keep his competitors constantly informed
regarding his sales, purchases and plans.
But it is not business interests alone that
would feel the clutch of this inequity. The
public would feel it. There are household
medicines classed as proprietary or patent
which are undeniably efficacious and which
are within reach of the humblest purse
why outlaw these products! Or why say
that only those persons who can afford a
physicians prescription shall be permitted
to purchase them? The proposal smacks
too wurh of paternalism, too much indeed
of kafserlsm, to commend itself to the Leg
islature of a democratic Commonwealth.
surely it is not necessary to destroy ap-
proximately twenty-five per cent of the re-
tail drug business of the State, besides
forcing numbers of manufacturers out of
existence, in order to reach isolated cases
of charlatanism. The Government does not
prescribe all canned foods simply because
some have been found to be impure. Yet
the proposed law would, in effect, forbid the
sale of all proprietary medicines simply be-
cause some are disapproved. Such a method
would be as foolish as unfair; it would in
jure the small pharmacists, of whom there
are thousands rendering the public good
service, as well as the large. dealers and
producers. Most obnoxious of all, it would
deny hundreds of thousands of persons of
modest lewly means the right to buy
medicine-and Oftentimes the simplest sort
of medicine-unless they went to the ex-
pense of securing a physicians prescription
We cannot imagine the Representatives of
the people of Georgia giving a moments
countenance to so high-handed and so un-
just proposal.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

Judge John c. Rose, of the United
States district court July 1 sustained
the demurrer of the Standard Brewing COM
pany, of Baltimore, Md, to the Indictment
by the United States government for the
manufacture of 2.75 per cent beer. The
decision may mean continuation of the sale
of 2.75 per cent beer, Attorney General
Palmer stated he would be guided by the
Baltimore case. This decision technically
on behalf of one per cent beer, but it
virtually means, 2.75 per cent beer as Judge
Rose has left it to the government to say
what is intoxicating and what is not.
Explosion of the big navy dirigible C8,
at Camp Halobird, near Baltimore, Nd on
July /, shook the countryside and eastern
Baltimore like earthquake, and jeopar-
died the lives of 200 persons, who had
gathered to see the monster flyer. The
dirigble, bound from Camp May, N. j., to
Washington, and commanded by Lieutenant
N J. Learned, with of six men and
two passengers, landed the camp field to
repair the rudder The explosion followed
and blazing fragments scattered over the
heads of the crowds burning and injurng
seventy-fve persons.
The communistic leaven has again ar
rived at the fermenting stage in greater
Berlin and there are indications that the
strike movement may develop into a political
Instruction. The candor and boldness with
which the independent Socialists and their
communist henchmen are playing their cards
show they feel more sure of their footing
than during the March revolt. In the mean
time, Gustav Noske, minister of defense, is
increasing his troop patrols in the inner
city, planting reels of barbed wire at stra-
tegfc points and generally tightening martial
law regulations.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
THE OLD MINISTER
BY DR.. Frank Crane

No, said Virgins when the Official Board
met to take action on the resignation of their
Old Minister and to select some Young Pas
tor. No, he said, I'm against it,
Old Brother Thompson has been with us
twenty-five years come September. He's
grown up with u.s. He's part of us. Same
as kinfolks I'd just as soon think of accept
ing my fathers resignation, because he has
notion he's been in the fathering business
too long, and the children need a younger
man.
Brother Thompson has married us md
buried us, that is, some of us-there's a lot
more need burying, take it from me- But
he's been part and parcel of our weddings
and sociables and parties and fairs and town
meetings and everything for a lifetime and
this here proposition to kick him out-for
| that's what it amounts to-leaves the under
| signed plum cold
You say he's over sixty and is feeble Well,
let's hire him an assistant to do the chasing
around nights. But, for me, 1 want q see
old J. M. Thompson marching into that pulpit
every Sunday morning, until he cant leave
his bed
1t may be, as has been stated here, that a
Younger Man would attract larger congrega-
lions and build up the Church. Maybe he
would. But this is no Department Store nor
Theater. We're not in this organization to
make money nor to pack the house. We're
here to be a center of good, wholesome de-
cent living and belief There's not a man.
woman, or child in this town that does not
feel the influence of Mr.. Thompson, and
they're better for it.
He helps this town. When he walks down
the street, twenty-five years of integrity,
honor, and trust walk along behind him.
When he said the prayer the other day for
the boys that were leaving for the war; there
wasn't dry eye among em; it wasn't as elo-
quent an address to the throne as some COL
lege guy could have made, perhaps but those
boys knew who it was praying, and I'm think
ing the Almighty knew who it was, too, and
listened
Brother Thompson has his limitations
Everybody has, except me and you. But we
know EN-. And love 'em. And we know thai
beneath them there's a heart as sturdy as
oak, and soul clean as sunshine, and
that, to say nothing of ourselves, who are so
darn good we ache, there's not a drunkard or
woman that has gone wrong, or a sick man.
or sorry boy, that wouldn't turn to our
Minister as to friend, in trouble
No, Stree You can't turn an old pastor
out like horse.
This all may be sentiment. But l take it,
this Church business is about ten-tenths SEN
timent Anyway, it's sentiment to me.
So long as 1 attend this meeting house and
j.. M. Thompson is able to stand up and talk,
he's going to be my pastor. And when his
designations accepted it carries mine along
with it.
Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04

The Krupp gun works at Munich have been
sold to Americans, according to dispatches from
Munich quoting newspapers there 1t is added
several industrial concerns in the bavaflan cap
ital also have passed into American hands.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04


the young husband. "Why do you ask?''
. why was reading today in the paper
tnat II SAID that in 1910 one person in every
SUI IN the country was in prison."
some men are born great" quoted the
parIor philosopher eyes, poor devils," com
mlserated the mere man. Gust think what
pf ,s they miss They can't tell the rest
OF us how they did lt-"-Judge
The most conspicuous part of the horse
was his prominent ribs. 1t was certainIv W. a 90
Qua looking animal. Judging by the usua1
standard of horses, 1t was not the nrfde of
any ones stables. But the gypsy who led If
eVldently had hopes of it's doing something,
'ot me ne appeared anxious to make it move.
Say, guv'nor" 1houted an intarostoo
spectator you're taking the horse the wrono
ton" o'n0l uIrec-
-, Il know my business best" was the retort
80 so don't you talk to me. I'm right for the
steam laundry, aren't -"
Yes, guv-nor."
Well I'm taking i'm there, where he'll
prove useful as scrubbing board"
ne was dreadfuly rrsistent. He simn
|ould not take mo" for an answer At last
She was thoroughly exasperated.
.e NO. she snapped. Il wouldn't marry Won
- YOU was the last man on earth! 7 don't
want nothin' to do with you. Is that Main
English?" 10 'n'' pain
us pam enough, said the sutton, verv
cAeeFIuily' but it isnt glish, you know"
"A fascally French innkeeper had. given g.
oal 5 pad piece of money. He went back
ana demanded good money, and after some
arS1ment the innkeeper made good. Just as
t 1he ooughboy was about to leave the inn
keeper called him back.
Pardon, monsieur, but will you kindly
give me back the bad coin?'
Cant be done, Frenchy." chuckIed tho
sammy 1T took me three hours to pass it
myself"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
AS THE SPARKS FLY

no I IIL OF AINC II
The Anvil Chorus in the Senate is getting
to be very Ob-Knox-ous
Watermelons still grow in Georgia, aItho'
it is a dry State.
If the Bolsheviki get to be popular in the
United States the laundry men and the bar
bers will have to retire from business
man named Cumming was arrested yes
terday for being drunk. He must have been
Cumming thro' the Rye
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04
QUIPS AND OIJujIJTIFG

FRED, do you remember where you were
n t910? asked the bride of a few months.
-. NO, dear don't remember exactly" replied
the young husband. why do you ask?''
Why, was reading today in the naner
e oa 1T said that in 1910 one person in every
0VO IN the country was in PRISON"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-07-21
CRAWFORD NEARING 5000
MARK IN BASE HITS

Sam Crawford, former great slug
ger of the Cincinnati Nationals and
the Detroit Americans, who is now
pounding the apple for the Los An
geles Club and helping to keep the
Seraphs up in the race, did not have
his life's ambition satisfied.
Some few years ago. Sam set OUT
to make 5000 hits before his big
career was over He went out of
the majors lacking but 81 hits Of
his mark, having amassed a grand
total of 1919. He'd have made it,
in the opinion of everybody in base
ball. but for the fact that Hughey
Jennings, manager Of the Detroit
Club, benched him in 1917. Although
he was not usedall the time in 1916,
he lacked but 80 hits to finish OUT. mis-
1000. Nobody doubted his ability.
But ,he could not make hits sitting
on the bench. When used as a pinch
hitter he delivered with the old-time
form. but made only IS hits, which
left him q short Of establishing his
intended record.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-07-21
EDWARDS WIN
FROM WATERv|lLE
INDEPS, SATURDAY

The Edwards baseball nine hung
another scalp on its belt when it de-
feated the Waterville Independents
by the score Of to 2 on Saturday
afternoon on the Reuel Williams
field. 1t was surely good baseball
and was witnessed by an enthusiasts
tic crowd of fans. Meader pitched
a splendid game for the local team
and was given strong support.
The Edwards men started out aft
err the runs in the second inning.
Thyng hit and went second IN a Gin
gle by Greeley. Giroux hit. With
three men on bases Letendre go: a
base on balls. scoring Thyng. And
on a wild pitch.
Figue scored for the Watervil;e
team in the third inning on a hit, a
single by Fred King and two
Dagger by Marcoux.
In the fifth inning Brown crossed
the plate for the Edwards. The
eighth inning was the big one fol-
the local team, four runs being made,
Brown. Masciadri. Letendre and
-hCcluCI SiC teiLiSS.
The Waterville nine made its sec
ond and last score of the game in the
ninth inning, Mathew making the
circuit of bases on a hit, a passed
ball, a stolen base. and an error by
Brown, Edwards shortstop, on
which Spinney went to first. Spin
ney stole second and went third on
a sacrifice fly by Joseph. But the
next man at bat was out at first and
the game closed.
Nichols at shoftstop and c. King
at right field and first base starred
for the visitors. Frank King led tie
stick work with two singles.
For the Edwards nine, Brown at
shortstop. Douin at third base.
Thyng on the first sack, GirpuS in
the middle field and Greeley behind
the bat were especially strong men
Meader's pitching was a feature "
the game, he striking out 10 men and
allowing but seven hits. Thyng vas
high batsr1an with three singles out
of five times at bat.
The summary:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-07-21
LAWMAKERS LOSE
TO THE CROSSETTS
IN TWILIGHT LEAGUE

The crossett and State House mines
played a well-contested game i'll the
Twilight League Saturday evening
on the Reuel Williams field, the fer
mer team winning by the score Of I
. 5, in seven innings.
Beaudoin, catcher for the Shoe
makers, scored in the first inning on
a hit, a stolen base, and an error by
Paul McGouldrick. State House
pitcher, on which Pelletier got to
the first sack.
The Lawmakers made three tales
in the third inning. Paul McGould-
rick hit and scored on a two-bagge-
by Taber. who went to third on an
error by Pelletier. Pierce took first
on an error by Dostie in left field and
he and Taber crossed the plate on I
pretty two-bagger by Phil Nc
Gouldrick.
For the Shoemakers, Giroux ri. in
the third inning and made the round
of bases on an error by Merrill in
left field, on which Beaudoin reached
the second sack And sacrifices by
Ailiff and Dunnack scored Beauoioin
On three errors in the fourth ,nn-
ing Laliberte and Giroux scored Coy
the Shoemakers. Pierce made L tally
for the State House in the fifth. on
two-hase hit and sacrifices by Phil
McGouldrick and Pease
In the sixth. Laliberte made tally
for the Crossetts on hit, a stolen
base. and hit by GirouX.
In the seventh and last inning,
Paul McGouldrick and Taber scored
for the Lawmakers. tying the score.
The game was won for tie Shoe
makers when T. Lausier made the
circuit of bases on a base on balls,
a passed ball. a stolen base, and a
single by Laliberte.
The summary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-07-21
SPORTING NOTES

Rovdoin and Colby have settled
their differences in football and VIII
clash on the gr>liron next fall. Inc
Colby Rowdoin game is always one
Of the football classics of the state
and it would not seem right to omit
the game.
Colleges around New England TINS
wear appear TO be sparing no EFFORTS
to- corral all the leading schoolboy
athletes. They appear to be gong AZ
ter them stronger than ever before
in some instances.
THE White SoX will win the pen
nant in the American League, Con-
ME Mack, manager of the Aethleucs
declares. The Chicago players, col
lectively, are a smart crew, and WITT
Cicotte pitching championship bal
since the season started, and WIN
some of the other twirlers worhnS
in championship form, 1 do not see
, where New York or Cleveland VIII
be able to beat Kid Gleason 20 the
flag" Mack said he looked forward
to seeing the New York Giants bat
tie the White Sox for the worlds
championship this fall
Syracuse and Rutgers will clash in
football game at the Polo grounds,
New York City, Election day. Nov.
4. Penn and Dartmouth are to play
or the same field Nov. S,-The Army
and Navy teams will also play there
Saturday, Nov. 20.
Johnny Kierans says that moro
than AZ per cent Of the WORLDS boots
l. 10 &c
ter watching the Phillies and Ath-
letics. we don't believe it.-Philade!-
phia Ledger.
Manager Miller Higgins of the
Yanks used to say that Roger Horns
by was a better third baseman than
a .shortstop. Hornsby's work at 1nfrd
shows that Hug" knew what he was
talking about.
In the Pinehurst IN. c. trapshoot-
ing tournament, Frank s. Wright OF
Buffalo. n. Y, champion trapshooter
Of New York state, shooting in bet
ter form than any of the hundred or
more trap shooters in attendance.
won eight trophies over a period of
five days shooting in many events
and competitions.
John M. Browning, investor of the
browning gum" and a few other
death dealing instruments, is an en-
thusiastic trapshooter. and has new
er missed a championship tournament
Of the Utah State Sportsman's Asso-
citation. In the recent titular event
Mr.. Browning broke 300 out of $50
targets. Thirty-fve years ago he vas
one of the men who formed the Og-
den (Utah) Gun Club, and he is still!
one Of its most active members.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-07-21

The st. Louis Browns have branch.
ed out as a practical demonstration
OF the word thrift. Following a con.
ference with Jim Burke. the Browns
manager. the team decided to form
an organization known as the War
Savings Stamp Society. The object
is to stimulate the purchase Of the
governments saving stamps. Pledge
cards have been signed and officers
elected to direct the work Of the SO.
ciety. George Sisler. the Browns
first baseman, was elected president,
and Jimmy Austin secretary-treas.
urer. The team to organize a society
for the promotion of the sale Of War
Savings Stamps.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-07-21
Forbid Sunday Ball
and Golf in HolyOke, Mass.

Holyoke, Mass, July 20.-U pom Or
ders from Chief Piunkett OF Boston,
state police officers this afternoon
prevented the playing of amateur
baseball games of the Holyoke City
League, and SO advised the Holyoke
Country Club and the Mount Tom
Golf Club, where members were tod
that Sunday golf playing must stop
or action would follow. The order
was made following a complaint OF
Rev. Martin d. Kneeland of Win
chester. president of the Lords Day
League of Massachusetts.
Today was the first Sunday in ten
wears that amateur baseball has not
been played on the ay-grounds
here. The city League has always
had the official backing Of the city
government. money being hpproprl-
ated from the city funds, to add Ill
paying expenses. No trouble resulted
from the visit of the police, President
Thomas F. Mccullough Of the League,
a former state representative. visit
ing each playground with the Off
GERS after he had received the Off
cial notice.