Georgia’s Gold Battleship Service
By Editor
The people of Georgia, it is said, will express their appreciation of a large cotton crop this year by an offering to the god of war. In other words, the new battleship to be named after that state is to have a golden service presented to it, instead of the silver set usually presented by states so honored. This will be the first gold service put onto the table of any battleship in this country, or any other that we know of; and it will probably set the pace for future offerings of this kind, as no state will want to come behind in its offering to its naval representative. That portion of the people who go barefoot and eat off tin plates may now feel rich until the next state naming a battleship shall present a service studded with diamonds. Notwithstanding the oft-repeated cry of "Peace, peace," in these times, the god of war is really the most popular deity in the world. His only real rivals are wealth and pleasure.