Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-17
Titanic Bull. Would You Call 1t2


DUBLIN COURIER HERALD. -
When the Atlanta Constitution head
ed it's editorial THE Beefer," did it
have reference to this sentence: The
Lusitania was sunk and more than
1,40O lives went to the bottom of the
ocean while this great ocean levia-
than was on its way to the United
States, with no war cargo, and en-
gagged in the peaceful task of bring
ing Americans home?
Our Esteemed contortionists
DUBLIN COURIER HERALD. -
Heigho! No doubt you are, still
laughing at it, as is probable the
balance of the state and adjoining
territory. But then. it is not every
day that. as they'say in the vernac-
magnitude of the Atlanta Constftu-
tons the other day. Of course, mis-
takes will happen and it frequently
does happen that an either misln-
formed Or otherwise ratified neWspa-
per writer will record something that
toric facts. Yet, when the Constitu-
ton declared Saturday, verbatim and
emphatically, that the Lusitania was
sunk when on Its way to the United
gagged in the peaceful task of bring
ing Americans home" stating this,
by the way, in bold type and en-
phasized in capitals, then it was
when it overshot the mark and mis-
fortune became gross ignorance. In
Smith, corrects and notifies him that
he overlooked this fact when he said
the restrictions applied only to those
carrying munitions of war.
Turning back the leaves Of history
a few pages, we find that the Lusi-
t9nia q british shin SINK while
on the way to Europe, and admittedly
carrying a cargo of arms and ammu-
nitions, or, if you would have 1t,
munitions of war. 1t also carried
American passengers of course. It is
probably only the enormity of this
historical error" as we shall chari-
tably term it, on the part Of the
Constitution, which will prevent the
small fry of cowtowers of the lat
ter to swallow it whole, half digest
of them may do it anyway; there's
no telling how far they will go in
this campaign of rabid mudslinging.
The thing concerning US at pres
ent is, that it is just such methods
as these palpable shortcomings. be
they big as the one cited, or smaller
and less noticeable, on the part of
pigmy minds that are used to dis
credit the honest efforts of man
who in mind and achievement is SO
plainly their superior, that they cam
not touch him with the facts but
must needs stoop to artful tricks of
impugning the sincere motives of a
senator who refused to be .overwhelm-
ed by either floWery language or crit
icism on the part of a hostile press.
Yet the -enormity of this error"
may not be sufficient to become rec
ognized as such by a good many less
well-informed readers of the daily
papers and so serve it's nefarious
purpose to say nothing of the lesser
"errors," that almost daily invade
rabid press. We shall gravely miss
our guess if we do not find this
same editorial, or this same argument
reprinted and reused in this or that
mouthpiece of our Atlanta contempt
rary. They have done so before, for
getfu1 of the fact that they would
be much safer and run less danger
of ridicule if they used the facts
their own memory supplied Or fur
nished by their own knowledge of af-
fairs.
Senator Smiths Position
AUGUSTA H E R A l. Ex-senator
Smiths position that the League of
tions that will Americanize the docu-
ment before it is ratified by this
country, is one that we believe is
shared in by a large majority of the
voters of this community. He is pre-
pared to stand OR fall on that posi-
ton. Georgians must adopt one Of
three views as to the League of Ma
lions. a. To reject the idea en-
tirely, which seems to be the plat
form of Mr.. Watson. CD To adopt
the League of Nations just as it came
back from Paris or with such mild
reservations as would simply clarity
it, which seems to be the platform
Of Mr.. Palmer. (3.) Or to insist
upon such reservations as would
strongly "Americanize'' the document
country in it's dealings with interna-
tional affairs, which is the position
of Senator Smith. This is the burn
ing issue that the country as whole,
as we'll as the people of Georgia, are
called upon to decide with their votes
in the approaching primaries.
Let the Discussion BE Dignified
COLUMBUS ENQUIRER-SUN IN. -
That the race for the presidency
should be taken seriously no one will
deny, but it seems that in some quar-
tiers there is too much of a DISPOSE
ton on the part of men and newspa-
pers discussing it to say things they
situation there is no reason why any
one should say hard and harsh things
about either of the candidates in the
race.
When a man or a newspaper gets
discuss this question without dealing