The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-02-07

! myself have served the nation in
bomb proof places, have made real
+ and genuine sacrifice if in doing so
! they have been denied the privilege OF
: associating with the people OF Column
+ bia every day and sleeping during the
/ night upon the soil of Maury county.
But happily the war is over, it will
probably be generation or more be-
r fore another emergency like it, will
| call people from their homes and ac-
: customed walks in life, and now for a
solution of the problems that have
come as result Of the debacle
through which the world has just gone.
1t is good to be in Maury county
and have the privilege of speaking
to it's people through the medium of
an independent and fearless journal
: like The Herald. This paper Is OF
and for the people of the county. It's
happiest ambition and chief aim is
to chronicle the happenings Of Maury
county faithfully and truthfully, to in
that go to make up the life and civil
Iization of its people. The Herald's
editor has no delusions about the field
for the paper. He has always realized
that it was very largely restricted to
the boundaries of this county. 1t
makes no pretense of being a great
metropolitan journal, but it does claim
to cover its own peculiar field with fl
deity, with devotion to the best inter
ests of the people and with an eye
single to their welfare and happiness.
More than that it does not claim.
| have always recognized the fact
that Maury county was essentially an
agricultural county, that the whole
future of its people was wrapt up in |
the welfare and interests of the farm
ers of the county. For those reasons
| The Herald has given especial atten-
ton to the problems peculiar to a ru-
raj community 1t will in the future
devote even more attention and
thought to this industry. 1t will con- |
tinue to preach the gospel of better |
farming, Of proper rotation Of crops,
of soil building. And the latter can
come only as the result of well de-
veloped and consistently maintained
policy of live stock farming. 1t is
good once more, the great emergency
through which we have just passed
being over, to stress permanent agri-
cultural rather than to urge Temporal
| ry expedients that can only be sue
cessful at the cost of soil improve
| ment. This paper returns to it's much |
loved and long advocated gospel OF
grass. 1t takes up anew the fight to
put blue grass, at once the glory and |
salvation Of Maury county's agricul-
ture, upon every hillside in the coun-
| ty. During the war when the cry that
came day. and night from across the
| seas was a plea for food to save the
estarving, necessarily proper crop ro-
tation,' soil maintenance and grass ex-
tension were largely abandoned in our
agricultural policy. We had to sac
rifice the future to save the present. |
But this paper will not only give its
| attention more and more to agricul-
ture but it will maintain an interest |
in everything that interests Maury
countians. Despite all the talk about
internationalism the league of nations
and the elimination of barriers of race
and color Maury countians are still
much more interested in the things
that directly concern their fellowcit-
liens than they are in the things that
are of prime interest only to those
of other states and lands. We have
not yet reached the millennium, al
though some of our brotherly-love-in-
ternationalists appear to think so.
During the war this paper had, in
common with other patriots, to aban-
don for time the ancient moorings Of
its political faith. 1t recognized from
the first that democracies, instituted
to promote the arts OF peace and not
for the bloody uses of Mars, would be
unable to cope with autocracy unless
they too became autocratic and pater-
nalistic. Now that the great contest
fer freedom has been won and the ma
tons honor, stained from the time
the Luaitania was sent to the bottom,
is once more above par, The Herald
will advocate the government fashion
ed by the fathers. 1t expects to COM
bat with all the vigor and ability that
1t possesses the insidious efforts of
the new school of thought that would
substitute for our representative de-
mocracy socialism and paternalism,
little more desirable than the Prus-
sian autocracy. One must not be blind