Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27
LOVE ME NOW


From which real affections flow.
Love me now, while I am living;
Do not wait till am gone,
And then chisel it on marble
Warm loye.words on ice-cold stone.
If you have dear thoughts about me,
Why not whisper them to me!
Surely they will make me happy,
And as glad, as glad can be.
If you wait till I am sleeping,
Nevermore to wake again,
There" be walls of earth between
US,
And I can not hear you then.
IF Won knew some one was thristing
For a drink of water sweet,
Would you then be slow to bring 1t!
Would you step with laggard feet?
There's a tender heart rlght near
you,
That is thirsting for your love,
Why should you refuse to give him
That which God sent from above?
I won't nede your fond caresses
When the grass grows Ger my
face;
I won't want your love ana Kisses
In my last long resting place.
So if you are going to love me
If it's but little bit
Won't you love me while I'm living
So that, I can treasure it?
Selected.
What About Cotton.
AS YOUR humble scribe sees the
situation, we will have some higher
prices for little while. The necessi
ties of the producer have compelled
the cotton grower to sell his cotton
to nav, his debts and start another
crop. AS rule, the Spectator Is
the man who gets all that the cotton
crop brings. His gain is about ali
net profit. The speculator Is now
raising the price, and the cotton
manufacturers will have to bring ur
the money this time. 1t is useless
to get ones self irritated. 1t only
makes us angry and more disap
pointed, and the speculator looks
down with contempt on us-runnlne
around in our cage, like trapped
rat, according to his successful view
point. He has trapped us.
The railroads put on terrific rates
extra. The fertilizer men raise the
price of guano and the speculator
hides smile behind his hand and
when we get out Of sight he puts
his thumb on his nose, and says
""Shoo, fly, don't bodder me!'
There is one thing we could do Il
the farmer had backbone, even like
cotton string; namely, elect men
and women to the legislature, anc
stop the enormous taxation on farm
lands!
Cut Off Some of the Needless Ones
Friends of the county home:
We have a lot of expensive things
in Georgia, that are needless. TIC
use a negroism, they cost more
than they come to-"
We are taxed to the limit with
district agricultural schools. After
the expense of erecting them is
counted off, they cost the taxpayer
OF Georgia nearly 100000 per an
mum to maintain. Everything they
, teach should be taught in the towr
I and country schools. Also, on the
pay roll, the district live in has it.
district school at the extreme south
west end of the seventh district
The 13 counties all lie north of it
and it is simply one of Cobb county's
high schools. I have the utmost re
spect for the teachers of that
| school. They are simply good teach
efs in an extraordinarily expensive
school-near akin to high schools
Every pupil there could as easily gc
to Atlanta to be taught, as Just
across the river called Chattahoo
chez there are IL of them. If they
were even used for vocational train
ing schools and supported by the
federal government they might serve
a good purpose, but they are only
high schools, like the Marietta high
school-and there you are!
the upkeep is startling. It costs
the people of Georgia over $40 ,OOC
to keep up the official Headquarters
OF what we call commerce and
labor. Pick out something it has
ever done to help the merchant and
the farmer-and then report it and
III take back that much criticism
with an apology. 1t is only a good
rat office for ambitious politicians.
We have an expensive railroad
commission. The federal, or inter.
state commerce commission, has
swallowed the state commission
like the whale swallowed Jonah.
There is only mouse squeak aft
er the big rat has played it's game
in Washington. Nothing bigger
than a "me, tool" It's salaries
amount to more than $4,000. We
have added multitudes to tax col
Letting. 1t is a farce as the matter
| now stands. If the legislature can.
not set up a better plan, let US go
back to the beginning of 1887 and
make our tax collector the respon.
sible man, with years salary and
fair-sized mans job.
We have a new" scheme called
| public welfare. Our sheriffs are
small folk-the judges are played