FROM DAYS GONE BY May 23, 1919.

May 23, 1919.

The following are two editorials from the 1919 newspapers. Many parts of these two editorials are somewhat relevant today.
BE A COMMUNITY LEADER.
You can, and you don't have to be a real genius to lead, and you don't have to go ahead and lead in everything to be the real thing, either, or to be a real leader. That thing you can do, do it, helping the community to advance along right paths, paths which your best taste and abilities may mark out for you.
One man may lead in community organization. Another may lead in raising corn and oats and cotton. Another may lead in raising cattle and hogs or in breeding hogs or feeding them. Still another may lead in various things. All of these men may be leaders.
And it is not spectacular leadership that is demanded, not the leadership of exceptional men, as the Southern Agriculturalist puts it, but the desire on the part of ordinary men to do what they can to help build and progress. The desire to help and the will to progress makes a fellow a community leader.
IT IS REGRETTED.
The carelessness or the unconcerned or the cussedness of the immigration laws of this country have brought to it a set of people who it looks like are designed to cause no little confusion if not harm, to say the least about it, and it is sorely regretted that they are not today so forceful as to absolutely relegate to the place they belong all of the un-Americans who are destined to kick up a lot of trouble if not kill a lot of people by bombs, etc.
The malicious attempt to slay Senator Thomas W. Hardwick was a dastardly deed and the entire state of Georgia regrets the occurrence. The state feels outraged at the wanton attempt to take his life by a cowardly assassin, and the actual injury inflicted upon his household is deeply deplored.
The most vigorous efforts should be made by the Federal authorities to bring to justice the infernal set who sent that bomb as well as all the other bombs recently. And further, like the Mayor of Seattle says, "Run down every Anarchist and Bolshevist in the country if the authorities have to have more hangings and new cemeteries. Let this thing go no further. It is an outrage on our civilization."
Coincidentally this sounds a lot of what we are fighting today through non-enforcement of immigration laws. Maybe the bombs and killings won't happen. But that is wishful thinking for unfortunately sooner or later it will.