Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-05
Will Europe Pay Nothing on It's
Debt?

ed for president of the United States,
declares that the billions loaned to
Europe-or rather the allies-Eng-
land France, Belgium and Italy
are uncomfortable and, therefore, we
the United States) should wipe off
the slate" and tell those countries
we will forgive them, their debts,
and say, "Bless you, my children
That money-those billions-were
taken from the people of this coun-
tryand in a way that can be called
forcible. We were compelled to buy
Liberty bonds by the government,
and the interest on those bonds will
have to be paid by the producers
of this country. 1t will take years
and years to do it, and the people
who have been forced to sell their
Liber ~ds-by dire necessity
will be heavily taxed to pay the full
value of those bonds at maturity.
If the bonus bill becomes a law it
will take q good deal more than the
amount Europe owes this country
to settle off that claim. Has Mr..
Bryan started a campaign to affiX
this fearful debt on the United States
after this country saved Ito the al
lies) their own property-and also
forced the sacrifice of thousands of
our soldiers to death-to preserve
their governments to themselves?
Such propaganda as this should
be met with stern refusal on the
threshold-and it would seem to my
mind, as if the scheme was gotten
up across the Water-and may be
paid for in something substantial
if successful.
The wasted money in caring for
and waiting on the legislature is
monumental. Look on the record:
The present legislature began its
functions in 1921 when Governor
Dorsey retired and Governor Hard
wick took the executive. chair. This
legislature performed il 1922 and
the sums of money they expended on
themselves and their attaches has
not yet been printed, but we have the
facts, concerning the money wasted
in the session of 1921. There are
fifty-one senators and their individ-
ual bill was $20,229.13 per diem ard
mileage.
There were two messengers, $578,~
in service only so days.
There were twenty door-keepers
land two doors to look after). Their
pay amounted to $1,401, for fifty
days, $40 per diem to manage the
main door and gallery door.
There were Fl pages to run err
rands for 81 senators. Their pay as
pages amounted to 1923. Portcrs,
13, pay $1,2S5. Eight in secretary's
office, pay $5,212.
Give this sum to your children
studying arithmetic. I took it from
Comptroller Wrights published re
port. There were 206 representa-
tives, their pay amounted to S76,-
S33.38. They had forty-one door
keepers. They had 62 pages and
their porters were thirteen. Their
whole expense for clerks, messen-
gers, dcorkeepers, pages and por-
tiers, $11, 346.
For fifty days of bluff, buster
and gas blowing the poor old state
has had to pay to these men a total
of 117,174.56.
It has been freely talked that once
in two years the state might endure
this burden, while some insist that
once in four years would be a plenty,
if not too much then,
Every time 1 think of the lands
being sold by the sheriff in the state
of Georgia and the owners of the
land disfranchised because they
could not produce the taxes to pay
oh, God, how long!
NAY, f-
I read a good story today that
made me laugh out loud, which L do
rather seldom these days. A doctor
who taught a class of small boys in
Sunday school asked a little fellow
the following question: "What must
you do to go to Heaven?" The kid
replied without a smile, 1--WE must
die"
Pursued the teacher, "But what
must you do before you die?"
The youngster said promptly:
"Just get sick and send for you"
The story stops just there no fur
Their questions noted.
II we have to die to go to Heaven
and obliged, as we are to die, when
the time comes, the question of
tWhat you must do to live" is of
very serious Importance. First and
foremost, you must get enough
vitality at birth to start off and keep
goingl The tabulation of death
statistics tell us that a large per
cent of those who are born do not
live a year. Perhaps the world
could not hold all the people that
are born if this large percentage did
not disappear so early.
The infant mortality in heather
nations is reported to be extremely
large. Perhaps it is a kind provi-
dence which disposes of the
offspring of those who are not
equipped with sufficient intelligence
or industry to care for the helpless
ones who come into life without
their own consent and must take
risky chances on becoming fit to
live under existing conditions. I
often think of the words of poor
King David when his rebellious son
died after a short life of vanity and
disObedience.
would to God I had died for thee.
oh, Absolem, my son!" There are
many of such people in this world
VIM nave SIIeNCuSly dSOnlZeu over
the downfall of their offspring, of
both sexes. When the infants go.
SO soon, we can comfort our hearts
with the recollection that they had
to suffer but a few short months,
and are among the saved, if any
are pledged to heaven by reason Of
innocence.
1t is constant struggle to keep
well and avoid serious accidents A
little silver CT wood that a barefoot
boy found in the sole of his foot,
killed one of the stoutest lads I
knew in in childhood His foot had
to be amputated, then his leg was
taken off, and lastly the knee joint,
because it panied him so much. A
neighbor of mine, in tying on his
shoe scratched his hand with the