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The Butler Herald
Volume XXXXII.
BUTLER. TAYLOR COUNTY. GEORGFA, THURSDAY. MARCH 21, 1918.
Number 19
fled Cross To Enter
New Field Of Service In
Army Cam ps Of America
At the suggestion of Secretary of
War Baker, the American Red Cross
is about to enter a new field
of service in the army camps
of the United States, a field in
which they are already working in
Prance, the Bureau of Communication
between the men in the hospital and
their families at home. This will ne
cessitate building a Red Cross house
in every army camp in the country
and securing for each house a man
Iwho will keep in personal touch with
every man who is admitted to the camp
hospital, as well as a sufficient steno
graphic force to handle the letters dic
tated by these men and to keep their
families constantly informed as to
the'.r condition and progress.
Col. William Lawson Peel, General
manager of the Southern division, has
just received letters from W. R. Cas
tle, Jr., director of the Bureau of Com
munications, and from Harry B. Wal
lace, assistant director-general of mili
tary relief, explaining Secretary Ba
ker’s plan and asking for suggestions
as to men in this division who are
qualified for the positions of respon
sibility at the camps. Colonel Peel
announced Thursday at a meeting of
bis bureau directors that the Southern
division would co-operate in every way
with the national organization and
that work would be begun at once to
assist in carrying out Secretary Bak
er’s plans.
The directors of the work in the Red
Cross houses will be under the au
thority of the Red Cross Field Direc
tors in the various camps, who in
turn are under the supervision of Z.
Bennett Phelps, director of military
relief for the Southern division.
Secretary Baker says in h’is letter:
"Since the American Red Cross
has already established in Prance, in
accordance with an army order, a ser
vice to keep families in America in
personal touch with their boys, ill
or wounded in the field, it is suggest
ed that this service be extended to
the camps in the United States. Ameri
can Red Cross representatives at the
camps, here, as in Prance, would have
access to daily lists of admissions and
evacuations from the hospitals, and,
so far as it is in accord with neces
sary medical rules, would be allowed
to talk with sick men. They would
be expected to keep families constant
ly informed as to the condition and
progress of the men in the hospitals,
to write letters for men unable to
write themselves, and in general to
fulfill that clause of the Red Cross
charter which designated the society
as "a medium of communication be
tween troops In the field and their
families at home.”
SPRING OATS USED TO
FURNISH EARLY FEED
Should Be Sown on Good Land
And Fertilized
Many inquiries have reached the
College of Agriculture in regard to the
advisability of sowing spring oats due
to the severe damage done the winter
oat crop by the very cold weather of
the last few months.
Occasionally good yields are obtained
from spring oats, but, as a rule, they
do not pay. If BO per cent of a stand
is left of the winter oats they will
probably make more than oats seeded
in the spring. Prom the reports sent
in, there is a fair crop still left in the
southern part of the state, but
throughout the northern part of the
state the stands are very poor or en
tirely killed. This is especially true
with late planted oats.
The use to which the oats are to
be put should determine whether or
not spring oats should be sown. For
example if an early feed is needed the
oats will make a good crop for this
purpose. This year there is a very
serious shortage of seed due to the
short crop last year. With this year's
crop severely damaged there will be a
very serious shortage of seed next
fall unless some oats are sown this
spring.
Spring oats should be put on good
land and the fertilizer applied at time
cf planting if any is to be used. Oats'
seeded with a grain drill will do much
better than when sowed broadcast.
The Fulghum and Burt are probably
the two best varieties for spring seed
ing.—R. R. Childs, Slate College of
Agriculture.
ASKS FOR PHOTOGRAPHS
The State College of Agriculture is
anxious to obtain a photograph in
military uniform of every young man
who has attended the College and is
now in the army. This request from
President Soule is meeting with hear
ty response on the part of parents of
the young men. It is also requested
that the addresses of the young men
be given, ip order that the College
may keep in t.oueb with them.
First Gas Masks
Made by Women of
England and France.
The use of gas in warfare dates
back about 400 B. C. The Spar
tans saturated wood with pitch
and sulpher and burned it under
the walls of cities which they
were attacking. For several cen
turies gas has not been used in
warfare, and the Hague conven
tion definite ruled against it.
However, on April 22, 1915, the
Germans liberated great clouds
of gas against Canadian troops
nearYpres. Terrible destruction
and demoralization-resulted from
this first gas attack, and with
in a week England was making
plans for gas warfare against the
Germans.
Soon after the first German gas
English and French women seqt
to the front hundreds of thou
sands of home made gas masks.
For the most part they were
merely bandages impregnated
chemicals to wrap around the
mouth and nose. These emer
gency masks saved many lives,
but afforded only limited protec
tion.
Price Prospects For 1918.
What will next year’s crop pri
ces be? Perhaps the January re
port of the Secretary of agricul
ture may give us a clew. On Jan
uary 1st, 1918, the index of pri
ces of farm crops for the entire
United States was 43.8 per cent
higher than a year ago, and 102.1
per cent higher than the average
of the last ten years on the cor
responding dates. The tendency
is upward and must continue so
long as the war lasts. The world’s
production is already below the
normal consumption. Everywhere
heroic efforts are being made to
save food. As long as we con
tinue to draw men from produc
tion and turn them to consump
tion, food will become scarcer
and its price will continue to
rise.
Suppose the war is ended sud
denly. How about prices then?
For materials which go into mu
nitions and war supplies, the pri
ces will probably decline rapidly.
For farm crops—hardly. It will
take a year, perhaps two, for the
world, Europe in particular, to
start rehabilitation, and get back
into production channels. The
danger to trans-Atlantic shipping,
will have been removed, and food
crops will move to Europe much
more rapidly and in greater quan
tities than at present. This will
mean a ready demand for every
thing America can produce for
some time to come. Heavy in
vestments in the tools and means
of production can be made with
safety.—Home and Farm.
A Badge of Honor.
A Liberty Loan button is a
badge of honor. Rightfully ob
tained it marks the wearer as one
who has performed a distinct,
definite service to the country.
Not all can fight, not all can
work directly for the government,
but in buying a Liberty loan bond,
or war avings stamps, every
Americ: ders some service to
the Nation. ' has been put with
in the reach ana power of every
citizen to aid the United States
financially, it is a poor American
who withholds support from the
government, from our soldiers
and sailors fronting death on
battlefields and oceans.
Iron crosses to German soldiers
and diamond orders exchanged
between Turkish and German
sovereigns may Tbe but the honors
of atrocity. But a Liberty loan
button, simple as it is, signifies a
patriotic duty done and is an in
signia of honor.
Procedure Under
Dent Bill Asked.
Commissioner J. J. Brown
Wires to War Department
for Information How to Get
Furloughs.
Upon receipt of telegraphic in
formation from Washington that
President Wilson had signed the
Dent bill, providing that men al
ready introduced into military ser
vice, and at the training camps,
may be granted voluntary fur
loughs to engage in private occu
pation for such length of time
as they can be allowed away
from the camps, Commissioner of
Agriculture J. J. Brown today
sent the following telegram to the
secretary of war:
“Following the authority vest
ed in you under the furlough bill
signed by the President Saturday,
will you please wire me the cor
rect procedure necessary for our
soldier boys to pursue that
they may obtain furloughs for
the purpose of returning to their
farm to produce a crop.
“Every day is precious as the
planting season is on, hence the
importance of this infomation at
the earliest possible moment.
The assistance of these young
farmers will mean additional tons
of food productions for the na
tions.”
Designed to Aid Farmers.
The bill was designed at the in
stance of farming interests with
a view to permitting these young
men at camps who desire to do
so to return to their farms and
put through the crops of this year,
in view of the fact that many of
them can not be transported for
some months and the scarcity of
farm labor has developed a se
rious problem.
Some question has been raised
to whether the furlough authori
ty will be exercised for the men
individually or in groups and it is
with a view to clearing up that
point Commissioner Brown has
wired the secretary of war.
Information is that there are in
the neighborhood of 2,000 far
mer boys at Camp Gordon and a
large number at Camp Wheeler
for whom furloughs will be asked
if the authority is to be exercised
individually.
War Pictures May Be
Securedlor Private Collections
An illustrated catalogue of of
ficial war photographs and
stereopticon slides has been issued
by the division of pictures of the
Committee on Public Information.
In it are listed about 1,000 pictures
available to the public, including
photographs taken by the Signal
Corps, Navy, Marine Corps and
French and Belgian official
photographs.
Each picture listed may be had
either as a photographic print or
as a stereopticon slide at a small
price. The catalogue may be se
cured by sending 5 cents to the
division of pictures, Committee on
Public Information, Washington,
D. C.
Thomaston Man Dies in France.
Thomaston, March, 16.—Joe
Pete Thurston, who enlisted in
the navy last April, is reported to
have died March 5th. He was
among the first to volunteer from
Upson. Young Thurston was
only 21 years age, the third son
of John A. Thurston, county
school superintendent of public
schools of this county. His body
will be sent to Thomaston for in
terment.
READY TO LAUNCH
THIRD LOAN DRIVE
County Chairman and Committee
Have Been Named. Big Parade
April 5th.
The third liberty loan campaign
will be launched on Monday
April 6th.
It will step before the national
footlights on the first anniversa
ry of America’s entry in the war,
and never in history will a gov
ernment loan have entered with
such elaboarte preparations to
give it a whirlwind send-off and
keep it moving. Millions of
peragraphic posters, thousands of
speakers and the personal efforts
of millions of workers will carry
the liberty gospel into the coun
try’s every corner.
Everything is in readiness for
the campaign in Taylor county.
Mr F A Ricks, of Reynolds, is
chairman for the county and will
have charge of the campaign. He
has appointed a strong commit
tee of business men, representing
every section of the county to
assist him.
Convention State S. S.
Workers at Aupsta May 29
For several years the annual
convention of the Georgia Sunday
School Association has been the
largest religious gathering in the
state, the attendance varying from
one to two thousand people. The
1918 convention meets in Augusta
on May 7, 8 and 9. Information
from that city indicates that the
church and Sunday School peo
ple are already making big prepar
ations for the convention. Mr.
A. H. Merry, one of Augusta’s
prominent Christian business men
and superintendent of St. John
Methodist Sunday school, is gen
eral chairman of the committee
on arrangements. He has asso
ciated with him on the committee
a number of other prominent
business men.
Some of the foremost Sunday
school leaders in America have
been secured as speakers for the
convention.
Washington, March 16.—Day
light saving now waits only Presi
dent Wilson’s approval. House
amendments to the daylight sav
ing bill, requiring all time pieces
advanced one hour, beginning the
last Sunday in March, were ac
cepted today by the Senate.
The change in time will remain
in effect until the last Sunday in
October, when clocks will be turn
ed back.
Millions of dollars annually will
be saved to the country by put
ting the plan into effect, accord
ing to its supporters. Approx
imately $40,000,000 alone will be
saved in the nation’s lighting bills,
it is declared.
In urging acceptance of the
House amendments in the Senate
today Senator Caldor^ the bill’s
author, declared the only change
the bill would make in economic
conditions would be to give every
one an extra hour of daylight each
day. The bill, he said will prove
to be one of the most important
conservation measures ever en
acted by Congress.
A Bilious Attack.
When you have a bilious attack
your liver fails to perform its func
tions. You become constipated. The
food you eat ferments in your
stomach instead of digesting. This
inflames the stomach and causes
nausea, vomiting gnd a terrible head
ache. Take Chamberlain’s Tablets.
They will tone up your liver, clean
out your stomach and you will soon
be as wen as ever. They only cost
a quarter.
The South
In The War.
In Georgia the women are sell
ing on the street, for the benefit
of the Red Cross, a little flag, with
a pin, to be worn on the coat,
which has only a curious and
puzzling appearance to the North
ern visitor of this generation. It
is a flag of which the field is
white, with a vertical red bar
across the end,, and with a red
union or canton with a St. An
drew’s blue cross bordered with
white, on whose arms and center
are displayed thirteen stars. It is
a fantastic and a pretty little flag,
but it is more than fantastic, and
better than pretty to the old
Southerner, for it is the Confed
erate flag, as finally adopted by
the Confederate Congress in 1863.
It is the symbol of the Lost
Cause, but it is sold on the streets
to aid the great cause winch is by
no means lost, and to win which
every loyal American, North and
South, is bending every energy of
his being. And many a Northern
visitor to the Georgia cities, se&-
ing the zeal and patriotism with
which the Southern women are
working to succor the sick and
wounded in this war and to help
on the national endeavor, has
been proud to wear the little Con
federate flag on his coat in token
of a union of sentiment which is
now complete.
The South has put its whole
heart into the winning of this war.
There is no sentiment for peace in
that section, and no weakening
spirit. Nowhere else is the man
in khaki so much in evidence now,
for camps and cantonrijents are
everywhere, and everywhere the
soldier is well received and most
cordially treated. Possibly the
South is prospered by the army
camps, but if this is true, it is
largely because of the fitness of
the section for the purpose; and
the business zeal with which the
people are meeting the demand is
worthy of all praise. Nowhere
are the personal sacrifices which
the prosecution of the war in
volves more cheerfully borne
than in the South; nowhere is the
war more distinctly felt to be
everybody’s war. The women
join in every sort of saving activ
ity, tirelessly performing the Red
Cross’s auxiliaries and stimulating
contributions to its treasury. As a
token of the universality and the
compelling power the prevailing
sentiment, it may be noted that
in no section of the union are the
naturalized citizens so zealous or
so loyal. In many Southern cities
there are large German colonies,
but no disaffection, no hyphenated
spirit, is discoverable among them.
This war has welded North and
South as they were never welded
before. The sentiment of reunion
was, indeed, evident in the
Spanish-American war, when
Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee were
at the front, but that small war
led to no such searching of hearts,
no such popular emotion, as that
which now prevails. It is possible
that, with its national guard
division now actually in the field,
New England is at a keener stress
of emotion,regarding the battles
which are in progress or immi
nent, but nowhere is the will to
victory and the will to work firm
er or more active .than in the
South. We are witnessing a
“union of hearts none can sever.”
Whatever the sacrifice may be
that both North and South may
undergo, the strong pull together
will bear an eternal fruit of sym
pathy.—Boston Transcript.
Optimistic Thought
A prince of tateBt ■will recognize the
talent of otter*.
ATLANTA SPECIALIST COM
ING AGAIN MARCH 28TH
To Butler and Will <Jive Consulta
tion Free this Day Only From
8 a. M. to 2 p. m.,
Sealy Hotel.
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Eyes, Headaches, Nervousness Re
lieved. and Cross Eyes Straighten
ed Without Drugs Knife or Pain.
Dr. Kennon Mott, the Non-Med
ical and Optometry, Eye spec
ialist of 428 Austell Bldg., Atlan
ta, is representing his “Diamond
Disc” lenses and “Idokure” Reme
dies. Great success is being ob
tained by special methods and
remedies. Their glasses relieve
nervousness, headaches and give
good sight, ease and comfort.
Straightening Cross Eyes, and all
ailments of the eyes relieved
without drugs knife or pain.
Some eyes can be relieved so that
glasses are not needed. Women
and children given special care.
Glass eyes ordered and adjusted.
No matter what others have
said or done, consult this special
ist and you may get relief.
Don’t forget the date and hours
above and call early, rain or shine
as he can only stay one day as
above on this trip March 28th.
Injuries Prove Serious.
Talbotton, March 16.—The con
dition of Sheriff H. P. McDaniel,
who is still at Buena Vista, re
mains serious. Pneumonia is
feared by his doctors and it will
be several days before he can be
removed to his home at Talbotton.
The steering wheel of the car
in wjiicb he was riding fell upon
his chest and pinned him beneath
it. While there are no broken
bones, it is believed there are
serious internal injuries.
Silver OGilars To Be
Melted As War Measure
Washington, D. C.—Treasury
officials and congressional leaders
have reached an agreement'on
the principal features of a pro
gram for extensive government
dealings in silver as a war meas
ure, and a bill to authorize the
melting and saie of more than
$200,000,000 in the treasury will
be introduced in about a week.
The melting of silver dollars and
export of bullion to pay trade
balances would require withdraw
al from circulation of an equal
amount of silver certificates.
Those of $5 and larger denom
inations would be recalled and
their places supplied by federal
reserve notes, whose smallest de
nomination is $5. Originally it
had been planned to substitute the
^federal reserve banknote and to
authorize by legislation dollar bills
of this class, but this idea has
been abandoned.
Had See!/ the Statues.
"Mother,” said little Bobby, "do you
know what they do with presidents
when they get through with them?”
“No 1 don’t,” replied Ills mother. "They
freeze them stiff and pot them up in
parks,” replied he.
Despondency Due to Constipation.
Women often become nervous and
despondent. When this is due to
constipation it is easily corrected by
taking an occasional dose of Cham
berlain's Tablets. These tablets are
easy to ttake and pleasant is effect.
Daylight Saving Passed By Senate