Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-20

trayed and public trust has been
bartered.
"As a nation processing integrity
end high ideals in public affairs, we
have been scandalized before the
world. We call upon the president,
upon the congress, upon the courts
of justice and upon the people, to
see to it that every unworthy pub
lie official is put out and that every
position of public trust is filled by
an honest and capable citizen.
Thieves and criminals mus not dwell
in the house Of state. We are not
to lose confidence in all public men
and officials because of the treach-
cry of the few. A great majority
of our public servants are good and
honest men; a great majority of our
people are honest. For this we may
thank God and take courage and
we must see to it that in every
case, as far as it is humanity posi-
BILE, that the bad are put out and
punished and that the good and
true are put in positions of power.
Law INTERCHANGEABLE fight fo%
law enforcement goes forward. A
battle is lost here and there, but we
are glad to believe that taking into
account the whole battle front there
is gain. LaW-defying, man-hating,
God-dishonoring crime is abroad in
every part of the land. Automobile
thefts, thousands in single year, in
a single city; arson, murder, viola
ton Of prohibition laws, these and
countless other crimes drag their sim
uous and Shiny lengths across the
face of our fair land. The laws must
be enforced; criminals must be pun
ished; the criminally inclined must
be deferred from crime. In the last
analysis, in America, enforcement of
law must result from the assertion
of the will of the people that it shall
be so. This will must assert itself in
an orderly way but it must assert
itself.
at rests with us whether our laws
shall be enforced and our homes, our
lives and our property protected.
Let the officers do their duty and
let them have the united and hearty
support Of all citizens.
eff officers fail, let citizens see to
their removal from office and replac-
ing of these with good and response
BILE men in office.
"An Absurd COntentiOn-With all
law violation and crime cited above,
and with much more that might be
cited, only in one instance do we
hear men contending that the crime
rests with the law and not with the
law breaker.
1T is an old trick Of Satan to
contend that the law is unwise and
unjust so as to incite men to Its
violation and to excuse the Violator.
The eighteenth amendment to tie
Constitution of the United States and
laws enacted for its enforcement has
proved to be the greatest blessing
that this country has ever derived
or ever could derive from statutes.
Despite this well-known fact. there
are men, some of them occupying
responsible positions. who charge
that the whole thing has been an
utter failure; that the law has made
the criminal and that the law should
be repealed. or so modified as to null
lily the Constitution.
1--WE recently have had the sorry
spectacle of the pres dent of a great
universitys going afield and running
amuck with that sort of talk. How
are the mighty fallen! We give it
as our sober judgment that such a
man is an unsafe and unworthy ex
emplar and leader of the youth of
America, both in the universities and
colleges and out.
MANY bills have been introduced
in the house of representatives pro-
Viding for the authorization OF the
manufacture and sale of beer con-
tanning 2,75 per cent of alcohol. This
is the strategy of the vets who
hope by the number Of bills to i'm
press the public and to make the
impression that there is a great It'd
al wave Of sentiment sweeping over
the country for the repeal of the ma
tional enforcement code. popularity
| known as the Volstead law. These
bills are before the committee on the
judiciary. We hope and believe that
not one of them will ever get out of