Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-21

The setting apart of Education
Week is due to the fact that good
end patriotic men and women who
are thinking, and who have the
welfare of our country at heart.
know that knowledge promotes eff
ficiency and is a basis for pros
perity and happiness, while ignor-
snce handicaps efficiency and may
lead to slovenness. crime and mis-
cry.
At this time when open and in
sldlous attacks are being made Nd
on the Constitution of the United
states and our form of government
1t is important for ur people to ac-
quaint themselves with 1.-THE
provisions and guarantees of
the Constitution, so they may un-
derstand how our nation has crown,
TO be so great and prosperous and
the most enlightened civilization
of the world. 1t is well to contrast
our government under the Consti-
tuition OF the United States with
the laws of former civilizations that
tlourished for awhile and per
ished. pei
Most of these civilizations wero
autocracIes where the king or en-
peror reigned under a claim or Di-
vlne right, and this led to TYRANNY
Autocratlc governments often be.
came powerful, but always perish
ed, because individuals intelligence
and individual rights were neglect.
ed: A pure democracy such as
existed In Greece for a time durino
Its greatest splendor was too IN.
stable to protect individual life. iii.
erty or property, and its mono,
crazy lead to anarchy and it's own
destruction. -
The members of the convention
at Philadelphia who formulated the
american Constitution were stu
dents of history and were acauaint-
ed with all of these facts. Tbev
also knew that enc great Greet
philosopher had said that govern.
ment should be neither an anto.
cracy, which leads to TYRANNY. nor
pure democracy, which leads to
anarchy, but that it should be a
golden mean between the two,
composed of an oligarchy. Thev
were also acquainted with the FnG-
nsh Bill of Rights wrestetd from
Their rulers by the Anggo-Saxon
people. However these wise men
Of the constitutional convention al
up a new mile stone in the history
OF the human race and created =
representative democracy, or re-
Puhllc, where the people elect FEN
fesentatlyes to make the laws
choose executives to execute tbs
laws and Judiciary to constrne
the laws. This Constitution is he
greatest charter Of human rights
ever conceived. expressed and
adopted for the government Of
man. VI
We often hear t h tbron
branches of our government the
legislative, the executive and ind
lclary, mentioned as the GREAT mi
"arks of our government. and the
expressed charter Of our liberties
put the Individual rights embodied
IN the first amendments of the
Constitution are the great bulwark
OF American freedom, without
which the legislative, executive and
Judiciary branches of our govern
ment would be unable to preserve
the inalienable rights of the indi-
vidual. '''-
The Constitution with its three
branches of government and this
Bill of Rights stands solidly four.
square against autocracy, mono.
crazy, radical legislators and IN
Just executives, and even against a
corrupt judiciary, for the Consti-
tuition provides ample means of de.
prlving all of these of their of.
fees when occasions may arise.
The American people are proud
of their civilization, boast of THEN
national power, and have just pride
in the fact that they are now the
leaders of the civilized world, but
seems to think this greatness! and
all of the beneficiencies which our
government heStOyyS 11noO thap, hos