Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-10
The Country Home
SOCIALISM IN THE FAR WEST
BY MRS. w. Ell. FELTON,

1t is well known that states like
| North Dakota and Wisconsin are
largely populated with foreigners
from the eastern continent. There
are so many foreigners in Wisconsin
that the school books used in pub
lie schools and the tax notices must
| be printed in foreign tongues to
give these foreigners an insight on
American public business. These
foreigners have united in what is
known as the ''Nonpartisan League"
also independent Voters Assocla-
ton" There are thousands of Scan
dinavians, Germans and Canadians,
! that heed nothing and listen to moth
ing except what comes from these
organizations.
cations to control the state govern
ment. Their Legislative requirements
as to publication of all public legal
notices are equal to the state papers
issued in Russia by Lenine and Trotz-
ky.
system is demoralized and they have
a league majority on the supreme
court bench as has been fully ex-
planned by Ex-President w. II. TAFT
in the public press.
He declares that capital is fleec-
ing the state, the credit OF the STATE
and municipal governments as at
a low ebb. The taxes are soaring
high. They have doubled and trebled
land assessments to force them by
sale to the state government. TX
President Taft also declares that
Dor unions, which are in control OF
radical men.
The business men and the con-
servatiyes are awake to these dam
gers. he says, and he assalls them
in the following terms: IT As 80
ir&in n IA n.
despotic, dishonest, and lives on IFS
nroiudices and the ignorance OF its
supporters.T .+ 90
the controlling majority IN the state
Of North Dakota, o+
tamnts in old Georgia. We have had
exnerience with strikes and the de-
mans of labor unions. There are
organizations among us that seek
control of the government by pollIl-
cal methods. Our state IS oHea-
whelmed with debt: rlsIt NV,
cause of appropriations by ignorant
There is an object lesson here that
should be learned.
FLOODS In Midsummer
Nineteen and twenty. up 10 oale'
has been a year OF CONTINUOUS comm ir an16,s.
sibIe to pillow the ground or work
the crops. But there came tlme'
hetween rainy spells, when the per-
nIexed farmers had a good work
smell and were getting in good heart
over crop conditions, But last Fiji
day night the people in our section
had a sort of cloudburst, Whlch
raised the creeks and branches u
second heights and beyond.
Around Adairsville the damage IS
set down at $500 900 to crops ana
farmIands. The trains had to malt
and wait for the waters. about
bridges and culVerts to abate, anu
automobiles were tied up by high
waters-all over our county.
The rain fell in constant roar Tor
hours, to be followed by an eleo-
trical storm after m1dnlgnt. .aoo
Rig leaks were seen where no leaks
had ever shown themselves peIors-
Bridges, among the best we mad
have passed away. and the cultl-
waited land was gullS-washed or COW
cred with flood water.
There is an old adage, 1T neSSS[
rains but it pours." That does not
hold true in average years, put
cloudburst never comes but 1t plays
havoc, is more than true. When tne
water that is now pended up on bot.
tom lands will allow the planting or
late corn is at present a perplex-
ing question to owners Of creek ana
river. bottoms. And corn is very
essential crop to Georgians. You get
but a big handful of meal now when
you call for a quarters worth at the
grocery stores.
We may be glad to get cornbread
to eat this time next year and pay
famine prices for all that we can