The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-10-15
STAND BY THE oFFIcERsl

That citizen serves best his COM
munity, his family and himself who
first serves to the limit of his ability
and understanding his state and coun-
try. And service to country means
vastly more than the payment of taxes
when due and supine acceptance of
edicts, mandates and laws as they
! are placed on record. IT means full
and virile moral support of court and
law and, when occasion demands, the
application of every ounce of physi-
cal power needed to maintain the hon
or and dignity of state and nation.
These are not prudish statements
ground out of what might be termed
by some as quasi sentimentalism but
are founded upon wholesome re-
spect for law an dorder-the two ba-
sic fundamentals upon which the
state and condition of all society
rests. The News has never been ex-
treme in any Of its views; it is not
imbued with the least love for Of APP
probation of what we popularity term
blue laws, and it is out of sympathy
with that type of legal procedure
which springs from the creative brain
of the perennial politician who plays
upon passion and prejudice, often rid
ing into DICE astride fad or fancy as
it suits the nag to be termed. But
The News is democratic and it
staunchly believes in the enforcement
Of law through orderly process.
incidentally, there is no law on the
statute books of this or any other
state which when proven to be UNI
worthy, unwholesome and not wanted
by the masses but what will be re-
peaIed in due time. And, by the same
token, it can be seriously questioned
IL there is single law in either state
which has the approval of all citi-
zens. In this very fact can be found
the reason for, democracy's triumphs
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the people Of the underlying principle
| of majority rule Odious laws are re-
pealed, inoffensive laws remain be
cause they do no real harm while
good laws, those measures which
work the greatest benefit to. the great
est number are retained by the ma
jority. Americas democracy, working
along these lines, has builded the
greatest nation in the world, and we
will continue great as long as we adj
here to this ideal government.
But there is an increasing tendency
on the part of many to be lukewarm
and in some instances openly hostile
in the very grave matter of law en-.
forcement. In these parlous times
such an attitude might bring serious
consequences to society at large, If
It did not actually threaten destruc-
ton to the fabric itself. Every Off.
Ger OF the law OF whatever degree is
entitled to the full moral support and
encouragement Of all citizens. These
guardians of peace represent you in
the preservation of that order which
must obtain at all times II we are TO
maintain the standard OF civilization
we now so proudly claim. Few paid
servants of the people can or will give
their full measure of duty once they
are made 10 feel that their constitu
ents are Indifferent of their success
and wholly unmindful of their fail
ures. Such viewpoint on the part
Of the community as whole Is inim
lcal to that community's highest in.
terest.
Finally. evefg citizen should rel
member that he is a potential presery.
or OF the peace. the right to enjoy eft.
izenship carrying this expressed obli-
CATION. II should be patent to any
one. therefore, that II we rail in our
moral attitude toward that bulwark
known as law and order that we sig
nally fail In one OF the highest duties
20 government, which means Co our
selves since we make and unmake
government. Every peace officer is
entitled to every mans active coop
Grafton. Anything less than this
makes for the unleashing of disorder,
condition no thinking citizen can
approve or desire.
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