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THF LAGRANGE REPORTER. FRIDAY MORNING DEC. 18, 1914, 'madonna DEUATEHDA — RaphAe^ 3 DOINGS AROUND § g STATE CAPITAL jl GEORGIA PAPER ON .THE COTTON QUESTION Atlanta, Dec. 17.—'“Why are we groaning under the low price of cot ton?” asks one Southern paper this week, and it answers its own question with the following paragraph from another Dixie paper: “Another car load of potatoes onions and apples will arrive here from Michigan this week,-and still wo worry about seven-cent cotton.” “What is true of this town is true of all others in the South,” says the editor. “Not until the farmers raise enough vegetables, grain and meat to live upon will the South cease to I groan and starve when the bottom t4y guns and soldiers ARE POPULAR THIS YEAR Atlanta, Dec. 17.—A journey down Whitehall street this week would make one think he was in the midst of a Lilliputian battlefield, so thick are the toy soldiers and tiny cannons and guns. The war spirit has captured toydom and Old Santa will carry this year j drops out of cotton. In diversification - . . of crops lies the economic salvation a rather unfitting line of goods toj^ of ^ South . celebrate the birth of the Prince ofi OTTLEY NOW HEADS THE ATLANTA CLEARING HOUSE Atlanta, Dec. 17.—Georgia finan ciers will be interested in learning of the election of John K. Ottley of At lanta to the presidency of the Atlanta clearing house association, succeed ing Colonel Robert J. Lowry, the dean of Atlanta bankers, who retired after six years of service. THE RAILROADS APPEALING FOR PAY FOR PARCEL POST Atlanta, Dec. 17.—The growth of the parcel post system and the failure of the government to adjust its rates of payment to the railroads for trans porting the additional weight have worked a heavy hardship on South ern railroads, according - to officials. When the parcel post was estah- Mr. Ottley, though a comparatively lished no provision was made to pny young man, is one of the best known | f 0 r transportation and all the roads financial experts in the South. For several years he has been head of the clearing house section of the Ameri can bankers’ association, and enjoys a wide acquaintance among bankers of the nntion. He iB vice president of the Fourth National bank. "SPUGS" ARE HARD AT WORK IN ATLANTA THIS XMAS Atlanta, • Dec. 17.—The Spugs are working hard in Atlanta this Christ mas to break up the foolish custom of giving something that is no good to a person you don’t care a hang for just because that person is likely to give you something you don’t want and make you feel sorry Christmas was invented. The Spugs are really the society for the prevention of useless giving, and they are pretty well organized. It is believed that their work will mean fewer carpet slippers for father and fewer pin cushions for mother, and a lot less of these mysterious articles on sale at Christmas time and for which nobody can discover a use. But the Spugs are not against real Christmas gifts. They urge that everybody cut out the merely per functory giving and give where it will do some real good. Peace. The toy makers are turning j ||gyy out siege guns which shoot rubber balls, fortresses of tin and wood, armored automobiles which run by a spring, and regiments and regiments 1 tiny soldiers which may be maneu- ed upon a board. of tir v^ed ADVISES FARMERS NOT TO RAISE TOO MANY MELONS Atlanta, Dec. 17.—One Georgia farm expert in a card this week ad visee Georgia farmers not to plant too many watermelons and canta loupes ‘for a selling crop. “In reducing their cotton acreage let the farmer beware of banking too heavily on these melons," he says. “The watermelon and canteloupe business has been overdone in the past several times and few planters made anything out at them. They are of precarious growth and matur ity. A hot, dry spell or a little too much rain at the wrong time will blast their prospects. There is al ways a great deal of trouble in mar keting them, too. The markets easily become glutted and there is a heavy loss to the grower. fifiB POWER COMPANY MAKES AN INTERESTING EXHIBIT Atlanta, Dec. 17.—An exhibit which is attracting an unusual amount of attention in Atlanta is that of the Georgia Railway and Power Com pany, in the new Healy building, where members of the Rotary, club are making a business exhibit. There is a crowd in front of the electric window all day. The new insulating devices used on the great power line between Tallulah Falls and Atlanta, each one several feet long and with plate after plate of porcelain, show what a terrific current is carried on the power lines especially when by the aids of an unused insulator. is a fragment left of one which had been struck iby lightning. Photographs of the great power plant at the Falls and of the other plants of the big company are alpo of interest. The people who ride in the cars and use the lights had but a faint conception of the magnitude of the planto necessary to handle the traffic until this exhibit was made. METHODIST COLLEGE WILL BE IN DRUID HILLS Atlanta, Dec. 17.—Methodists all ov er the state and the south are gratified to leant that the great new Metho dist University to be established in Atlanta will be located at the border of Druid Hills, the most beautiful residence mburb of the city. The north and south Georgia con ferences have agreed on this location after several sites were offered and a charter will be applied for in a few days. Druid Hills, just at the edge of Atlanta in DeKalb county, is consider ed by experts the handsomest home park in the 8outh, and is the site of many of the city’s most beautiful homes. "Hie new university will be easy of access, close be the city yet removed from its disadvantages. A tract of 100 acres will be laid out for build ings and campus. GOV. SLATON WILL NOT GRANT ^“WHOLESALE XMAS PARDONS” Atlanta, Dec. 17;—Governor John M. Slaton, though feeling the Christ mas spirit ns much as any man, can not reconcile with his duty the prac tice of granting indiscriminate “Christmas pardons" to state con victs. “The pardoning power is an of ficial duty and not a private matter,” he says. “I have no more right to free a prisoner because it is Christ mas than I have to spend the state’s money on Christinas charities. “I should like to see every man happy on Christmas day, not only be cause It is Christmas but it is my birthday as well. But I have no right to open the doors of the prisons." The governor is being besieged with demands for Christmas pardons. His desk is stacked high with letters and he has hosts of callers. But he merely refers them to the fact that the fourth Thursday and Friday in each motith are set apart'for the hearing of par don applications. carried the traffic for nothing for the first six months. In 1913 the mails in the middle Atlantic states were weighed, and the mail pay on those roads was increased. Last spring the mails were weighed in the far west, and then they got an increased payment. But the mails have not been weighed in the south yet, while weights elsewhere show that a prop er increased in pay would be twenty to twenty-five per cent. The ronds are appealing to congress that mails be weighed everywhere once a year and the roads paid for the annual increase in volume of traffic carried. THE HOME INDUSTRY MOVEMENT IS SPREADING Atlanta, Dec. 17.—The Home In dustry movement is spreading rapidly among the smaller cities and towns of Georgia, urged on by the live newspapers, and it is producing re sults. There is hardly a town in the state which does not manufacture; something, which has not a factory of some typo. When the home people give first choice to home articles they aid directly in employing the factory workers and the money stays at home. / Many, large factories In the bigger cities have complained that they found a market more readily far away from home than close by, and are uniting in a “Homo Products” campaign. There is no town in the state where a similar movement would not be an aid. But one reason why home pro ducts frequently are not purchased is because they are unknown. Systema tic advertising at home is a remedy for this. XMAS OFFERINGS FOR THE WESLEY MEMORIAL FUND Atlanta, Dec. 17.—The annual Christmas offering for the charity work fund of Wesley Memorial Hos pital will be taken next Sunday, Dec. 20, in all churches of the North and South Georgia Methodist conference as the work has been approved by those bodies and it was directed that the collection be taken. The fund is for the purpose of helping to famish treatment for the poor who are sent to the hospital. It is not for the hos pital itself, for every bed could be fill ed with pay patients and the hospital could make a profit, but in so doing would not fulfill its purpose, Every care is taken to see that the fund is properly used. No patient has ever been denied entrance when there was an unoc cupied bed in the wards unless he had some disease that was infectious, contagious or incurable. Of the 1128 patients treated in the past year, 110 were charity patients unable • to pay foe treatment and 409 were part-pay patients. More than 76 per, cent of the counties of Georgia were repre sented by patients. The cost to the hospital above what was paid was over ten thousand dollars. Last year 345 pastoral charges In Georgia gave $5,006.73 for free work at Wesley Memorial. SHOULD PAY DEBTS AND END THE 0EADL0CK Atlanta, Dec. 17.—That farmers who have cotton on hand which they do not wish to Bell should borrow on it and pay their debts is being urged strongly by Robert F, Maddox, of Atlanta, who is Georgia chairman of the national cotton loan committee and vice president of the American National bank. “There are considerably more than a million bales of cotton in Georgia unsold and ready for market,” de clared Mr. Maddox. “If the owners do not care to sell at the prevailing prices they should borrow a con siderable amount on it, which if put into circulation by payments of debts, will be of much relief throughout the state.” A TELEPHONE IN EVERY RURAL' HOME IN THE COUNTRY Atlanta, Dec. 17.—A telephone In every rural home in the county is a movement now being taken up by many county seat towns in the South, and the residents are finding the tele phone companies heartily ready to co-operate with them in every way possible. The country customer gets a telephone at what a city dweller would consider a ridiculously low price, and it is noticed! that these counties which have the most far mers’ phones are the most thriving and prosperous. At Anderson, S. C., the chamber of commerce and the Southern Boll Tele phone Company are working togeth er to put a phone into every farm house in the county, and the cost per year to many of the subscribers is only eight dollars—a little more than an Atlanta man pays for a month’s service. The Cpmpany is aiding in the movement in other towns, and the spread of the rural phone, which puts the farmer in close touch with the markets and reduces hia feeling of isolation is becoming remarkable. Christ the Csrrtor. It is not a mere figure of speech that Christ, the anniversary of whose birth We celebrate, is lo «ur mom! and spirit nal wbat the sup Is to oor. planetary system. The dependence In both cases (s alike. If the body has appetite* die aoul has ambition, and both inusl be satisfied or human equilibrium Is lost We must possess the two. linked together In Some mysterious way. or we shall fly to social and moral chaos Good government, good morals and ev ary orderly, well directed progression rests on that concession. To bo b-.fldel to It Is to destroy the ideal, to shrivel the heart of the race, to make might right, to enthrone selfish ness and greed and to displace and do violence to the public conscience. The Man of Nazareth and what he represents are the embodiment of the law of moral gravitation which bolds the world In Its orbit He gave us the ideas on which orderly communities base their legislation. He furnished ua with the spiritual Ideal, created new motives, made quiet, humble endurance a cardinal virtue and placed on the brow of bereavement the radiant coro net of hope. Others have sought the same end, the same crowning achievement Corfu dua, Zoroaster. Mohammed aud Bud dba were of the royal family of souls, but at most they were mere princes in the presence of the King. They gave much: he gave all. WOMAN IS RESTORED TO LIFE AFTER BEING DEAD 10 MIN. Atlanta, Dec. 17.—Atlanta physici ans are discussing with interest the case of Dr. C. 8. Hutchison, of Los Angeles, Cal., who restored a woman to life after she had been actually dead for ten minutes. They look upon It as the moat marvelous bit of modern surgery. Mrs. Walker W. Akers, having un dergone an operation, was really dtad, say the physicians. Her heart had stopped; there was no pulse, there was no response to any test. But Dr. Hutchinson put his hand through the incision made by the operation, grasp ed her heart at the top and bottom and began to compress it gently. Under this artificial pumping the blood began to course through the veins once more. The patient rallied, and is on the road to recovery. A Christmas Vision. At Christmas, when the pealing balls Ring back our hearts to Bethlehem. Whence the fair flower of Mass's at< Eternally our loye compels; Borne on the peal my fancy goes, Far from the Thames and noisy Strand. To Christmas In that distant land Where a more ancient river flows And there the desert’s changeless e la troubled. Gods and goddesses, All Egypt's monstrous deities. Gather In fear by well and palm. The cry Is heard: "O Egypt, hark! We gods must die. Another comas." Again the unrelenting drums Bho***r the horror of the dark. Afar, where sotne oasis, spiced With palm and lotus, charms the NHw The sphinx, with her mysterious I Seas Mary kiss the sleeping Christ. —r. rails “ In Our New Patent EasyQpihing-Box', 10 Cents best noli tho handiest box. Black, Tan and White The f. f. daluey Co. ltd. Buffalo, N.Y. HemUtoSaOnt. Machine Shop* andJFoundry Work GENERAL REPAIR SHOP FOR ALL CLASSES OP MACHINERY WE BUY SCRAP IRON AND BRASS. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. LaGrange Foundry and Machine Co. Morgn Street 6 Farm Loans Lands. P 0 A ? ply Frank Harwell SSST FARM LOANS LIFE INSURANCE MONEY TO LEND ON IMPROVED FARMS REASONABLE INTEREST BATE. FOR TERMS APPLY TO A. H. THOMPSON, LAGRANGE, GEORGIA. ONE DOLLAR WILL START AN ACCOUNT WITH THE LAGRANGE SAVINGS BANK 4° Interest Paid on Savings q Accounts, Compoun u 1 Semi-Annually vmgi ded FULLER E. CALLAWAY, Pres. L. H. ADAMS, Cashier L DIRECTORS: F. E. Callaway F. M. Longley C. V. Truitt J. G. Truitt S. H. Truitt Tax Notice I will be at the following places on the dates and hours named below, for the purpose flf collecting state and county taxes fsr the year 1914. Pyde, Wednesday, Dec. 2nd, 12 m. to 2 p. m. Abbottsford, Thursday, Dec. 3rd, 12 m. to 1:30 p. m. Gabbettville, Friday, Dec. 4th, 12 m. to 3 p. m. Mountville, Friday, Dec. 11th 7:30 a. m. to 11:00 a. m. Big Springs, Friday, Dec. 11 12 m. to 2:30 p. m. Stovall, Friday, Dec. 11th, 2:30 p. m. to 5 p. m. Chipley, Wednesday, Dec. 1.6th, 10:00 a. m. to 3:00 p. m. Hogansville, two days, Mondays, Dee. 7-14, 7 a. m. to 3:00 p. m. West Point, two days, Thursdays, Dec. 10-17, 9:00 a. m. to 3 p. m. Will have some one in LaGrange every day. To the voters: Examine your tax receipts and see if your poll tax is paid. Books close December 21st. C. E. Poythress, Tax Collector, Troup County, Ge. Atlanta & West Point Railroad Company ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAINS AT GRANGE, GA. EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 29, 1914. SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND TY POGRAPHICAL ERRORS. LA- Eastfcound. Leave. No. 42 For Atlanta 5:35 A. M. No. 88 For Atlanta 9:45 A. M. No. 40 For Atlanta ....11:50 A. M. No. 34 For Atlanta ....4:25 P. M. Ne. 30 For Atlanta ......9:24 P. M. Westbound. Leave. No. 36 For Montgomery . .8:30 A. BL No. 33 For Montgomery 11:50 A. ML No. 39 For Montgomery . .4:25 F. M. No. 37 For Montgomery 7:18 P. M. No. 41 For West Point . .8:28 P. M. All trains daily. Trains Nos. 35 and 36 have through coaches be tween Washington and New Orleans*nd sleepers between New York arid New Orleans. Parlor cars, dining car between Atlanta and Montgo mery and Montgomery and New Orleans. Trains Nos. 37 and 38 (New York and New Orleans Limited) Solid Pullman train Detween New York and New Orleans. Trains Nos. 89 and 40 carry Washington Sunset Route Tourist cam be tween Washington and San Fraadno Dally. \i