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"THE LAGRANGE REPORTER...
FRIDAY MORNING SEPT. 18, 1914.
LaGiange, Ga.
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WAR ECHOES
GEORGIA AT
SAN FRANCISCO
“ON TO PARIS;”
“ON TO RICHMOND”
But Germans Cannot Hope to Sacrifice
Half an Army as Did Grant in Vir
ginia—For the Russians Are Com
ing Like an Avalanche on the Other
Frontier.
Wc must put Georgia on the screen
at the San Francisco exposition next
year.
Show our cities, towns and farms,
our schools and churches, orchards and
fields, mines and quarries, forests
and mills and all our industries with
their great variety of products.
It will be a rare place to advertise
■our resources and the opportunities
offered by Georgia.
With the invader’s army nt the
gates of Paris, the French govern
ment is going ahead erecting its
building and preparing to install the
country’s exhibit.
War or peace, France is going to
make her display.
Groat Britain and Germany have
their exhibits in the United States and
they will be displayed at the exposi
tion, just as elaborately as if the
countries were at peace.
China has asked for more space,
Argentina has increased her appro
priation for the building and exhibit
to $1,600,000
Australia and New Zealand are ar
ranging their exhibit.
If these countries can come one-
fourth to one-half way round the
globe, there is nothing in the argu
ment that California is too remote for
Georgia to be benefitted.
We have a thousand things to ad
vertisc and we must go after the
world markets. Don’t be content
trading with each other here at home.
We can produce ten times more than
we consume and we can produce it
at a profit. Let us go after the buy
ers. They will be at San Francisco
from every part of the earth. Such
an opportunity may never come to us
a gap
Atlanta and Fulton county must be
in the pictures of Georgia, which are
to be shown at the exposition. We
should illustrate our handsome public
buildings, our schools, streets, indus
tries, parks, playgrounds and people. ,
Show the pictures to the millions: allies fell back, just as Lee did in the
who will be at the exposition, and the Wilderness, and stood again, the Eng
(From The (N. Y.) Evening Sun.)
For Americans to whom the recent
days of desperate fighting in northern
France must seem confusing and in-
cxplicant there is an admirable par
allel to be found in a civil war cam
paign. The “on to Paris” movement
in 1914 is being executed with almost
precisely the same strategy, spirit and
determination which characterized the
advance on Richmond of Grant in
1864.
When on May 4 in the earlier year
General Grant stepped over the Rupi-
dan into the Wilderness, with approxi
mately twice the force of /Lee, his con
trolling purpose was to use his su
periority in number in such a manner
as to defeat the enemy by frontal at
tack and at the same time by mov
ing his own left flank get round Lee’s
right, cut him off from Richmond and
if possible envelop him.
Repulsed in his frontal attack at the
Wilderness he moved by the left flank
do Spottsylvania, only to find Lee
there in new entrenchment, from
which after desperate fighting he was
driven back. A second drive to the
left brought him to the South Anna,
only to find new intrenchment. Final
ly, at Cold Harbor on June fid, his
last attempt at the left flank failed.
Now consider the German advance,
At Charleroi and Mons on August
23d it delivered a savage frontal’ at
tack, which was repulsed, but the im
mense superiority of the Germans in
numbers enabled them to strike for
the left flank; that is, to endeavor to
get round the end of the Anglo-
French force and down between it
and Paris. To avoid the danger the
desire will be awakened in thousands
of them to visit our city. Then put
the negatives away and, in years
to come they will be priceless.—Atlan
ta Constitution.
THE PESSIMISTIC LIMIT
The editor of the Bentonville Sun
should attend an industrial revival
meeting and respond to the ,invita
tion: "Come while we sing,” for in
a recent issue of his paper he says,
mournfully:
“War to the right of us, war to the
left of us, war behind us, war in
front of us and hell behind us.”
NOT WAR-WORRIED
“We have no war correspondent at
the front,” says the Adams Eagle.
“We can’t afford the expense. It’s
harvesc time in Georgia, and we’re
just about as happy as the good
Lord would have us be. Amen!”
THE ETERNAL RECOMPENSE.
Still in my breast, despite its load of
sorrow,
Despite the pressure of o’erwhelm-
ing care,
I sense the thrilling joy of a tomor
row
Whose dawn shall lighten up the
darkness there.
I sense a monent nigh when, woe
abating,
I’ll tread the path that leads on to
release,
And find a cure for trouble dire
awaiting,
Safe in the everlasting arms of
peace.
For life and love so close are in
terweaving
That none can live and yet be por
tionless;
And days must come with hours all
retrieving
The dreary years of unfound hap
piness;
And he whose share of love is not yet
ready,
Whose measure of its joy is yet
unknown,
Need only keep his faith both sure
and steady
To come some time, somewhere, in
to his own!
—British Weekly.
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lish, who held the left of the army,
was itself the left wing of the whole
French army, halting at Cambral-Le
Cateau-Landrecis, ,the French at
Avesnes-Chimay.
Against the English in their new
position was hurled another terrific
frontal attack, the severity of which
is described in the British official re
port. The attack failed, but again a
move to the left flank compelled re
tirement, this time on the Peronne-
St. Quentin front, while the French
came back to the Guise-Vervins front,
which was an extension of the English
line.
British Overridden by Numbers.
At this point our information is less
exact, but it is certain that once more
there was a terrific frontal attack up
on the intrenched British, whose left
flank was now partially covered by
fresh French troops brought up from
Alsace by General Pau. At the same
time a frontal attack was made on the
French to the west. Again, after ter
rific fighting, German numbers pre
vailed; repulsed in front they again
got round the left. On the French
front, on the other hand, after a day
of fighting the french took the offen
sive successfully, but had to come
1 back as the English were retiring.
Last of all, by the morning’s news,
we find the Anglo-French left estab
lished south of Montdidler, extending
to Noyon on the Oise, just north of
Compiegne. Here again they are in
trenched, having been making a
steady stand, have repulsed frontal
attacks with the same great losses to
the Germans but are certain to have
to fall back again, and the next posi
tion will bring them not more than
twenty miles from the forts of Paris.
In other words, with the Grant cam
paign in mind, it is very easy to un
ravel the tangle. By the front and
around the left the Germans have
been coming on for nearly two weeks.
As Grant sought to get betweeen
Richmond and Lee, General von Klug
has striven to cut Pau and Sir John
French off from Paris. So far as
one can now see he has failed as did
Grant, after the same terrific strug
gle, repeatedly repulsed in front but
able to get around the left because he
had tye numbers.
A great deal has been said about
the losses. At Cold Harbor Grant
lost 15,090 men, Lee 1,700. On that
basis tiie British loss at Mons and
Landrecies of 5,000 men would mean a
casualty list of the Germans of 46,-
000. But machine guns, improved
rifles and the German fondness for the
massed attack may have resulted in
an event more disproportionate loss to
them.
One more detail it is well to remem
ber. After Cold Harbor Grant’s army
was temporarily demoralized. In four
-voeks he had lost 60,000 men, half
his army. If the German force was
600,000 at the start, as has been said
by some observers, this ratio would
mean a loss of 300,000. Those who
remember Civil War days will recall
the wild outburst of denunciation in
the country after Cold Harbor, when
Grant was called a “butcher.”
In 1864 Grant could afford to lose
half his army and still be sure of a
numberical superiority over Lee suffi
cient to prevent any counter strike.
In men, in money, in resources he was
surely better off than his opponent.
But his army was shaken and he had
to take it south of the James and it
was many months before a siege re
duced Richmond.
The Russian Menace.
Today Germany has no such advan
tage over France and England. More
soldiers she has than France and Eng
land combined, but she now has to
send against Russia nearly all the
number she has in excess of France
and England- Again, as Russian
mobilization becomes more and more
effective she will have to turn all her
reserves, possibly even some of her
army in France, toward the east. For ducts 'of "Georgia
Franco and for England, on the con
trary, the whole reserve and second
line can be used against the armies
before Paris.
Indeed, there is now in many quar
ters to be detected the belief that
when the German advance has worn
itself out by its great exertion and
its first line troops have been greatly
reduced by the casualties,, the allies,
even now equul in numbers, will take
the field and deliver a fatal counter
■strike.
Some notion of the Russian tactics
against Napoleon ip the Moscow cam
paign is clearly in the minds of many
military observers, for reasons that
are obvious, yet such conjectures are
always dangerous. Unlucky General
Trochu, defender of Paris is 1871, al
ways had “a plan," but Paris fell none
the less.
But whether a brilliant counter
stroke is to be expected shortly, whe
ther still) further retirement, con
tinued resistance behind intrench-
ments and slaughter of Germans ad
vancing in mass formation are to
come, the purpose of the allies in the
east is not mistakable or difficult to
fathom. Consciously or unconscious
ly they have modelled their campaign
on that of Lee fifty years ago; un
mistakably they expect the same re
sult when the last German regiments
arrive before Fort Dumont, northern
most of the forts of Paris.
It is still possible that in the final
desperate attempt the Germans may
penetrate the left wing and stand be
tween Paris and the French armies
and on the line of communication go
ing north to Reims and east to Nancy
But the chance is far slighter than it
was a week ago.
The time to review the campaign
will be when the French have got
home safely to Paris and their sorely
battered left rests on the forts of
Paris, with the centre and right in
tact. But if they do, and it now ap
pears as if they would, it is plain
that they have escaped a deadly peril,!
thwarted the most desperate and |
splended offensive in the history of I
GEORGIA MINERAL
OUTPUT 6-500.000
Georgia ranked second among all
the states in 1913 in the production of
barytes, bauxite, fuller’s earth, natu
ral mineral paints, and paper cluy,
and was the only state reporting a
production of asbestos, according to
figures of the United States Geologi
cal Survey, compiled in co-operation
with the State Survey. The total
value of the mineral products of vteor-
gia in 1913 was a little over $6,500,-
000, nearly 80 per cent of which was
'derived from its clay pits and quar-1
ries. It ranks third among the South-!
ern states and twelfth among all the
states in the value of its clay products
which consist chiefly of common brick,
front brick, and sewer pipe. The
manufactured clay products were
valued at $2,692,619 in 1913 and $2,-
806,641 in 1912. The deposits of clay
suitable for brick manufacture are
found in nearly every county of tne
state. Paper clay is dug in five coun
ties, and deposits of pottery clay have
been developed in various parts of the
state.
The quarry products, consisting
principally of granite and marble,
were valued at $2,106,366 in 1913
and $1,983,016 in 1912. Georgia gran
ites nave a high reputation for build
ing purposes, and its marbles are
greatly prized for their structural
and decorative qualities.
Small portions of the Walden coal
basin of Tennessee and of the Look
out coal basin of Alabama are in the
.northwest corner of- Georgia, and the
coal production of the state increased
from 227,503 short tons, valued at
$388,426, in 1912, to 255,626 tons
valued at $361,319, in 1913. Portland
cement showed a substantial increase
over the output in 1912. Georgia is one
of the chief sources of the supply of
ocher, included in the production of
mineral paints, the output of which in
1913 was 11,869 short tons, valued at
$123,616, against 10,112 tons in 1912,
valued at $101,819. Other commercial
mineral products are iron ore, sand,
gravel, asbestos, barytes, bauxite, ful
ler’s earth, gems, gold, graphitic shale
'(used for a color maker in fertilizers):
lime, mineral water, pyrite, sand-lime
brick, silver, slate, talc, and tripoli.
The total value of the mineral pro
in 1913 was $6,-
525,792, against, $6,306,140 in 1912.
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fering of millions of people, the tem
porary loss of half a dozen provinces
will not count. Thereafter not the
An gib-French but the German army
may he in danger, for Germuny can
afford to lbse lives but not time now
with Russia coming up.
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