Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-18
The Country Home
BY MRS. w. III. FELTON,
The Bloody Disorder in Foreign
Countries

If the news from European coun-
tries is reliable we certainly have
nothing very hopeful to expect for
long time to come as to peace and
good order.
Poland and Russia are engaged in
pitched battles, and the issue is
doubtful. Poland began the fight
says Premier Lloyd George, of Eng
land, and has lost sympathy by
such aggression.
Russia is very much like France
was at the time of what is known
as the French revolution"
The extravaganza of royalty and
the pi1ching taxes that were placed
on the small farmers and shop
keepers to continue such extrav-
to frantic conditions, King Louis
XVI was knowa and recognized
to be one of the fairest men that
had occupied the French throne
for more than half century. But
he was the victim of the preced-
Ing despotisms. which had made serfs
OF the common people, and the sins
of the father were visited on his
unfortunate head.
He and his queen were beheadsd
family were wiped out. There were
thousands of worthy people whose
only crime consisted in being born
rich that persisted in the same way.
This. French revolution followed di-
rectly after the American Revolu-
often been said that the French were
first led by Marquis Lafayette, who
had great fondness for, General
Washington, and who had said so
on his return to France after the
Revolutionary war had ended that
the common people had caught the
idea and attempted to set UP a
French republic.
After the king and the. MOBILES
assumed control. They imprisoned
Lafayette. flung him into Olmutz
prison. His wife narrowly escaped
the guillotine, but her. mother and
grandmother did not fare so well
Both were guillotined.
1t was called the. reign of terror
and the longing for blood made
France far worse than a common,
bloody battlefield.
United States allied itself to Eng
land, France and italy they also
Joined with Car Nicholas in Rus
STA. The assassination of all the
cars family and their faithful at
Russia seems to be in the same sort
Of reign Of terror as prevailed in
France in 1898.
How is it going to end? What
will will come OF of it no man or
woman knows today.
While Russia was ruled by the
car this country-United States
loaned vast sums of our tax money
to Russia to fight against Germany
Unless the, present government Is
overthrown that loaned money will
be totally lost, lost irrevocably. 1t
was a risky proposition at the start.
and the chances for repayment are
now fading out. Perhaps the forces
in Europe will be fighting worse
than ever inside of a year.
ireland is in throes OF revolution.
What will finally prevail in the
Green Isle of Erin? What can tell9
The world seems to he determined
to kill and the sacrifice Of human
life will cNntinue to hn enormous.
Suffrage for Women
AS there are thirty-flve states in
the Union where women can vote in
,everv election and will vote in No
vember. 1920. Just as men vote, the
women of the remaining thirteen
states which denv the ballot to the
women of their sections.
Their inability to participate will
give a very SUPERIOR advantage to
those who can vote. giving an addi-
tional electorate. and representation
resentation is based uDon popula-
tion, it is true, but when few are
onlv allowed to vote In comnarison
with those who have liberty to dou-
hle their vote. the Discrepancy and
the injustice will be obvious.
There Is another obvious fact that
our Anglo-Saxon men appear TO have
overlooked, namely, the additional
congressmen that will represent the
states where women vote. The state
Of Delaware has only ore congress-
man. while the state Of Pennsylvan-
ia has UPWARDS of thirty and the
state of Delaware can only retain
one until the ponrlation gets very
much larger. The increase goes
along with extra power in govern
mental affairs.
1t looks to me, that our male
voters are like the dog in the man
ger They can't eat the hay, but
thew are. so opposed to the cows
that the hay does nothing good for
the stock or the dog either.