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THURSDAY, MAY, 2, 1918
Britain’s
Lost.
Munition
* * This paper has enlisted
with the government in the
cause of America for the
period of the war
War Means
Sacrifice.
Very few of us know it is to
sacrifice for a cause. The way
some folks talk about their sub
scriptions to the Liberty Loan
would lead others to think that
lending money at a good rate of
per cent and on the best security i
in the world is sacrifice. That is ;
one fallacious notion now current. [ p ended weekly
Making a statement as to the
loss of munitions and supplies in
the recent offensive Winston
Spencer Churchill, British head of
the munitions ministry announc
ed:
“We lost, nearly a thousand
guns by shell fire or capture; be
tween 4.000 and 5,000 machine
guns have been lost or destroy
ed and the quanity of ammunition,
apart from that which has been
fired and that which has been lost
in the dumps, amounts to some
thing between one and three
weeks’ total of manufacture.
“Other war materials have been
used or lost in a great variety of
classes and on a similar scale,
but by the end of last week all the
losses had been made good.
“Vast quantities of small anus
ammunition have been lost or left
behind, but great as the demand
has been, the expenditure in the
last month did not exceed the
maximum potential capacity of the
British factories, without touch
ing enormorous reserves which
had accumulated against such a
contingency. The wastage of ri
fles was very great.
“Our preparations had contem
plated supreme battle intensity
from the third week of* March, so
j we are at present from one to
! three weeks to the good. Those
- calculations allowed the artillery
I to fire during the whole fighting
! season a considerable heavier
volume of shells than was ex-
during the of-
You hear the housewife talk j fensive batt ies of last year and
about her wheatless meals, and j more t ban bouble the volume of
her meatless menu. According to, shells fired during the terrific
her opinien she is shoving her
self and the family into the front
line of battle for her country .That
may be sacrifice, but you haven’t
noticed less new clothes, have
you; do you see anybody going
around with hats not up to the
minute?
The young men who are in the
trenches take their chance with
death. They sacrifice in an evi
dent way. They give their time,
and some of them have few prec
ious seasons yet to live. Their
time is therefore very valuable. |
More so than ours; yet we at home |
think we have sacrificed when wej
Jend our money.
If a man cannot fight, if he can
not give himself, there is only
one tiling that he can give, his
money. If a man at home gives
so much of his money that he
can fed it in his daily living, if he
willingly does without things j
which he is accustomed to, and :
stands ready to go out at the call 1
of his country into her armies]
we think he has sacrificed. If
your part hasn’t amounted to!
more than the mere lending of
money to your government, and
the boosting of the boys across
the seas with your lips, you have
done very little to help the gov
ernment and you should do more.
Suppose that the government
should ask you tomorrow to give
her some of your money. How
bombardment which character
ized the Somme offensive of 1916.
They also provided for the car
rying forward into 1919 of suffi
cient reserves to allow the British
i total to amount one step higher
! then in power and intensity.
“In fact, barring unforseen cir
cumstances, our supply of muni
tions would enable us to carry on
a battle at a supreme pitch of in
tensity until winter without com
promising our requirements for
1919.
WHAT WOULD
GERMANY TAX US?
The news that the Germans
have imposed a war tax of two
billion dollars on Rumania may
well prompt us to ask what in
demnity they would exact of the
United States if they should win
the war. Rumania lacks about
nine thousand square miles of be
ing as large as Georgia, and its
population is some two and a half
million less than that of New
York state. Its annual revenue
amounts to hundred and ten mill
ion dollars and its total foreign
trade to two hundred and fifty
millions as against a billion one
hundred and twenty two millions
in revenue and almost nine billions
in foreign trade for the United
States. The New York World ap
propriately says: “If Germany de
mands two billion dollars from
this small European state, how
much, if Prussianism prvails, will
she demand of our country with
its population fourteen times as
great and infinitely richer in ag
riculture, manufactures and re
sources?”
The three billion dollars we are
now called upon to raise as a loan
to the Government for war ne
cessities is a mole hill compared
with the mountainous tax which
the Germans would heap upon us
if ever they should have the op
portunity. Every business, little
or large, every factory and farm,
every home and every citizen
would feel the crushing burden.
For a generation to come Ameri
cans would have lost their pros
perity along with their freedom.
Which shall we do, lend money to
our own Government at four
and a quarter per cent in
terest, for the defense of our lib
erty, or pay it over as tribute to
Prussian tax gathers for the en
richment of the murderous Hoh-
enzollerns?
CRISP MAY SECURE
HOWARD'S POSITION
WASHINGTON—In connection
with the retirement of Congress
man William Schley Howard from j
the house in the near future to i
make the race for the senate, 1
there has been much gossip cen-1
tering around Representatives!
Crisp, Wise, Larsen and Park re-,
garding the filling of the place'
now held by Mr Howard on the
appropriations committee.
Mr. Crisp is already a member
of the important ways and means
committee, and his name has
figured more extensively in con
gressional matters when it was
believed that there might be a
new speaker of the house. Char
lie Crisp, it was said by many,
| would fill the bill, and something
would be done which has never
been done before by this govern-1
ment — to have a father as
speaker of the house and after
ward have his son fill the same
place. Now that speaker Clark
will remain where he is, there will
be no chance for Mr Crisp at this
time, but he is certain to become
speaker at some time in the future
as night follows day.
Mr. Crisp has probably been
called upon to act as speaker
pro tern, of the house more times
since he has been in congress
than any other member past or j
present. This is due to his gen
eral popularity, his fairness, and !
his wonderful knowledge of i
parliamentary law. Before he
became a member of the house,
Mr Crisp was parlimentary clerk,
and thus paved the way to big
ger things hereafter.
Words and Deeds Are
Different Things
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 and a terrible head
ache. Take Chamberlain’s Tablets.
They will tone up your liver, clean
out vour stomach and you will soon
be as well as ever. They only cost
a quarter.
A Brave Naval
Attack.
The British navy seems to be
more aggressive than formerly.
After sinking the German trawl
ers in the Cattegat, and crushing
east of Heligoland without finding
an enemy ready to engage in bat
tle a well planned attack has been
made upon the u-boat bases on
the coast of Belgium.
A casual glance at the map
shows the importance of Ostend
BUSHELS AND BALES.
We think we have done won
derful things this year in the
agricultural line. . We talk boast-
ingly of the fabulous wealth which
has come to the farmers by a
production of a wonderful corn
crop and a cotton yield that has
netted to the producers more
money than they ever received
for a single crop before. But,
after all. we are being deluded by
the way we look at these things.
There was actually less corn pro
duced this year than there was in
1915, less in bushels and the cen
sus bureau shows that the cotton
crop was approximately 4,000,000
or 5,000,000 bales less than have
been made a single season. We
have been bragging because the
returns from these crops were so
large, not because the crops them
selves were enormous. What we
need to do is to go out and pro
duce more of these bushels of
corn and more of these bales of
cotton. Production is the war-
cry, not the returns from produc
tion. Prices and dollars do not
spell the sort of prosperity the
war enforces. They fool us. They
would-you meet that request.: dtld Zeebrucme to the
Suppose tomorrow your country
should become bankrupt, that you
knew there would never be a
chance to regain your money,
how much would you subscribe to
the third Liberty Loan? How
much of your money are you will
ing to give? Upon your answer
to that question depends the ex
tent of your; patriotism.
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Uncle Eben.
“Some men tries to make deirse’f3
Sisagreeable,” said Uncle Eben; “an’
same don’t have to try.”
in their submarine warfare. That
an attack should be made by the
British who willingly sacrificed
five concrete filled cruisers and
two old submarines filled - with ex
plosives. The cruisers were sunk
to block the channel, and the u-
boats were exploded against the
pile work connecting the masonry
with the shore, in order to break
the mole.
Whatever the results will be
raid was carried out with great
bravery. A sixth cruiser enter
ed the harbor .of Zeebrugge with
ferry boats loaded with troops,
who landed and fought bravely
for more than an hour ashore,
material damage was certainly
done.
This attack shows how easily
minefields can be overcome. No
British ships'are reported de
stroyed from mines although both
harbors were adequately mined
and protected by guns. Perhaps
the Baitish fleet has decided to
take matters in its own hands,
and is stretching its limbs a bit
before beginning real work.
'By Walt Mason, our old Kansas friend, ;
who made verse pay.)
I may use language until I make
Demosthenes look like a fake. I
may rear up some nine feet high,
and tell how I would bleed and
die, if I were not so old and gray
and crippled up and full of hay. ;
I may denounce the foreign foe j
and tell how gladly I would go to
wield a shotgun in the scrap and j
shoo the kaiser off the map; but if j
I think more of my wad than of
my country and my God, the j
things I say won’t cut much grass;
my words are merely sounding
brass. Our Uncle Sam is needing
men; he’s needing rhino by the
ton; he can’t conduct a high-class .
scrap without a lot of dough on
tap. To raise the dust he asks all
lads to lend him all their surplus I
scads, to buy his bonds—security,
the safest ever man will see. And
if I do not gambol up, as gay and
frisky as a pup, and buy the bonds
till I go broke, my loyal spiels arej
merely smoke. Oh, boys, most
any tin-horn skate can work its j
jawbones and orate; most any hick
can chew the rag an-d say nice
things about the flag; but when!
we come right down to tacks, the
as wax is he
who comes, an ardent soul, for
A SONG OF THE TIMES.
(By A. Edwards.)
Germans make us think we are hitting a . ,
' fast gait, whereas we are slipping! P alnot "' ho 5 sm00tl '
backward. And as it is in agrieul-j “” es ', a " “ rd .. „
, T Liberty Bonds to blow his roll,
ture, so it is with industry. In-: J
dustrial leaders need to concern i
themselves about saving and pro
duction rather than about the
paltry matter of profits and divi
dends. There is no other way
for America to get ahead. There
is no other way to defeat the
Kaiser. The center of our con
suming population has shifted.
We have got to raise enough for
the army in France which is a
non-productive contingent. In-
The Germans may be hard to whip
At home, in their dominion;
But if they bring war home to us
We’ll change their hard opinion.
Blood-thirsty men, in submarines,
Will lurk upon the ocean
Th murder brave and honest men
According to their notion;
“No civil war,” you advocate,
Bui dodge and pull the trigger,
stead of these men representing a And when they rise to aim at you
vast host that must be fed, they
represent also a vast host that has
been removed from the produc
tion areas and are suddenly turn
ed from producers into consum
ers. To take their places, extra
effort must be put forth by the
others who remain at home and
upon whose shoulders not only
rests the tasks of feeding the
American people, but feeding, too,
these former producers now in the
American army.—Textile Manufac
turer.
You hide your heinous figure;
You study schemes to murder men,
Without a warning squarely
You rush upon them unaware,
And will not fight them fairly;
Don’t you know this cruel war
Will forfeit civilization
(To vast extent) in many lands—
In every leading nation?
We did not wish to cross the sea
To fight the German nation,
But they had blocked our trading tree
By many a violation.
SOMEWHERE IN SUNNY FRANCE
By Frank Harwell, Judge of Georgia Court
of Appeals.
(From Atlanta Constitution.)
On March 1, near Toul, in France, an attack
was made by the Germans on the trenches held by
the American troops. From the reports the
preparations made by the Germans were complete
in every detail. The numbers engaged were com
paratively small, but it was the first test of the
fighting qualities of the American boys in these
trenches. The Germans succeeded in reaching
the trenches, but were quickly driven out. The
attack was delivered in the early morning, and a
light show was falling at the time. The following
lines were suggested by the incident:
The eastern sky shows streakes of gray
An orient pearl foretells the day,
On hill and dale to light the way,
Somewhere in sunny France.
The snowflake falls with soft caress
On “No Man’s Land,” as if to bless
The stricken vale with gentleness.
Somewhere in sunny France.
The beauteous tints of rosy morn.
The gentle touch of heaven forlorn,
No more moves man of woman born.
Somewhere in sunny France.
Sudden and swift the barrage breaks.,
The awful roar high heaven shakes,
The deepest hell its den awakes,
Somewhere in sunny France.
The hurtling shells above are driven,
Screaming their dreadful shrieks to heaven,
With thunderous peals the air is riven,
Somewhere in sunny France.
The poison gas with dreaded fate—
The hellish brew with Hunnish hate—
On trenches fall with deadly weight
Somewhere in ravaged France.
Now louder strikes the battle knell,
Now faster falls the bursting shell.
Open the very mouths of hell,
Somewhere in ravaged France.
Over the top comes Hate of Hun,
Panoplied Hate with bomb and gun,
Terror of Hate, and sparing none,
/ Somewhere in sunny France.
Tigers of lust in.dread array,
Stealthily steal upon their prey,
Lusting for blood and trained to slay,
Somewhere in sunny France.
lerrible beasts, begrimed and grim,
Out of the trench, over the rim,
Blood and Hate for their battle hymn,
Somewhere in sunny France.
God of the Nation! guard, we pray,
America’s sons this fateful day,
Standing unmoved in staunch array,
Somewhere in sunny France.
Intrepid boys from o’er the main,
Heroic sons of gallant strain,
Fearless amid the iron rain,
Somewhere in sunny France.
From north and south, from east and west,
The Nation’s brave, the Nation’s best,
Are waiting for the final test,
Somewhere in sunny France.
The foe! They come! Now hand to hand’
Now strike, Ye sons of freedom’s land!
Now strike, Spare not the brutish band’
Raping heroic France.
Now strike! And let the cowards feel
The deadly thrust of shining steel!
Sens, that never to foemen kneel.
Strike for heroic France.
The shock has passed, the foe has fied
The bolt is shot, the arrow’s sped,
Clutter the ground the Hunnish dead,
Somewhere in sunny France.
Ye Prussian slaves! now haste and
And lei your tyrant master know
At last is roused a giant foe,
Somewhere in sunny France.
But softly now, and gently tread
And tenderly lay in lowly bed
The sleeping forms—ourdauntless dead
Somewhere in gallant France.
Cover them with the flag they bore
Its starry folds forevermore,
Far famed upon an alien shore,
Somewhere in gallant France.
O Stars and Stripes our love to thee
Blest emblem of the brave and free ’
Sure harbinger of victory,
Unfurled in glorious France.
Atlanta, Ga., March 8, 1918.
Be sure to hear Capp’s Orches
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Daily Thought.
Creation is great and cannot be un
derstood.—Carlyle.
Sister Classified.
Little As illie’s father was teaching
him about plants and said. “A weed
is a thing that grows in a place where
It is not wanted.” “Well,” replied lit
tle Willie, “then sister Is a weed,
cause she’s growing here and I don’t
want her, for she takes all my pen-
aies.”