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The American’s Creed
( BELIEVE in the UnitedStates
of America as a government
of the people, for the people,
whose just powers are derived
from the consent of the govern
ment; a democracy in a republic;
a sovereign- nation of many
sovereign states; a perfect union,
one and inseparable; established
upon those principles of freedom,
equalinty, justice and humanity
for which American patriots
sacrificed their lives and for
tunes.
L, therefore, believe f ,it'is my
duty to my country to loye it; to
support its constitution; to obey
its laws;/ to respect its flag; to
defend it against all enemies.
; i*'
The Herald adopts the above as
its creed, wont you?
Elberta is a peppin, Elberta is a
peach.
I know it sounds just awful, but then
forgive the breach.
Eiberta is no lady and should by none
be banned
For if reports I think are true Elber
ta oft gets canned.
Modern poetry.
(Apologies to Tangorc)
J. D. S.
Automobile
zbjxhqg ; Bingo
Don’t you think it will Harris us if
Hardwick runs.
Even Naoli was laughed at, but.
some preparedness he furbished (in
fact without Noah we’d never’d had
twin beds.
Howard you do it to get pay from
one government job while you hunt
for another? Won't you put us Wise?
Its a case of Hoe. Oh! O! if a fel
low wants to produce the necessary
results these days.
You have to be either drunk or a
fool to listen to a political speech
these strenuous days. If you’r worth
while yourself, its who are you
against
When a kid get old enought to buy
all the cream his girl can eat, he
hasn’t the price.
If you have no produce to ship
freight rates don’t worry you, eh?
To the ladies, God bless them,
To Dame Fashion, for heaven’s
sake dress ’em.
Did you write that letter to the
boy you promised you would?
When called upon to help along,
did you do all you could?
Did you mix tears and pathos with
the news you had to tell?
Or did you mix a little heaven to
out his bunch of hell ?
Oh, I know it sounds real pretty to
tell him how you felt
But have you yet considered how
be feels beneath his belt?
Have you Hooverized sufficiently
or is it all a bluff?
Are you using just all you want,
or using just enough?
Its great to-be a patriot, yell and sa
lute the flag
Its great to own a little bond of
fifty, then to brag,
But, “Lozy massy chilun, as mammy
.used to say
If it wasn’t for that boy of our’s
where would be today?
SPIDER.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a Fav
orite! or Colds.
J. U. Easley, Macon, 111., in speak
ing of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
says, “During the past fifteen years
xt feas been my sister’s favorite medi-
cineiCo r colds on the lungs. I myself
b&ve taken it a number of times when
suffering with a cold and it always
relieved me promptly.”
GERMANY ON THE
BIG FIGHT
The Berliner Tageblat quotes
General Ardenne as saying that
“the necessity for. fighting it out
was obsolute. Peace is only at
tainable if England is made to
feel the superiority of German
arms. The unbroken battle will
of England and America’s help
compelled us, to enter a decisive
bout against the prolongers of the
w£r. Moreover we were urged
to this by the impatience of our
own army, which rightly felt that
we can see the road to peace only
in decision by arms.”
The general apparently believes
that America will be able to help,
that England is unhroken, and ad
mits that the time runs against
Germany, or else there could be
no compulsion to proceed against
the prolongers of the war.
The Frankfurter Seitung frank
ly admits that “the decision is to
be sought in open fight by the
forces released from trench op
erations and says it is not the at
tainment of this or that sensation
al objective that decides success
or failure, or the capture of sime
booty, but only the destruction of
the enemy’s will to fight.
To all of which we have only
to remark that they are a long
way from Tipperary!
Theo H Price calls attention to
the fact that Carl Bleistrue, a Ger
man military auttor.ty writing for
a German newspaper, the Neu
Europa, estimates the German
losses on the west front between
August 1914 and August 1917 at
2,604,961 men killed and prison
ers. He puts the killed and pris
oners on the east front during the
same period at 1’484,550.
Other German writers estimate
the grand total of German killed
nd prisoners in eluding those
dying of illness and wounds and
the casualties in colonial and na
val fighting at over 5,000,000 men,
and the civilian population of
Germany is described as increas
ingly despondent over the mag
nitude of the losses.
Bleistrue places the German
losses in the fighting since the end
of January at about 600,000 men-
As February and the first three
weeks in March were quiescent
on all fronts, at least half a mill
ion men must have been lost
since March 21, when the present
drive was started. By the high
est estimate the German troops
employed in the great offensive
etiduded 1,500,000 men or 125
divisions, sc that the loss has been
one out of every three.
This depletion in the man-pow
er of the enemy is evidently mak
ing him cautious, and the strategy
of General Foch, whose main pur
pose seems to have been le
massacre des Boches is to this ex
tent successful.
A telegram from Reuter’s cor
respondent at Amsterday dated
April 28, says:
That extraordinary nervousness
and depression prevail in Ger
many owing to the losses in the
western offensive, is revealed
with remarkable frankness in an
article by Captain von Salzmann
in the Vossiche Zeitung.
“Our losses have been enor
mous. The offensive in the west
has arrived at a deadlock. The
enemy is much stronger than the
Supreme Command assumed. We
are unable to continue the of
fensive owing to the lack of hors
es. The region before Ypres is a
great lake, and therefore impas
sable. The whole country be
tween our Amiens front and
Paris is mined and will be wlown
up.” The people, continues Salz-
man, have begun to lose their
nerve.
Twenty-One Nations
At War With Germany
Washington, May 10.—There are
now twenty-one nations at war
with the central powers. They
are: Belgium, Japan, Montenegro,
Russia, Serbia, China, Cuba,
France, Portugal, Rumania, Great
Brittain, Greece, Italy, Liberia,
Panama, San Marino, Siam, Unit
ed States, Brazil, Guatemala, Nica
ragua.
BENEFITS
FORGOT.
The Comptroller of the Curren
cy recently revoked the authority
he had previously given for the
organization of a national ban k on
the ground that the applicants for
the character fora bank, although
men of means, had subscribed
practically nothing to the Liber
ty Loans.
The application for a charter
was in proper form, and those
applicants were men of wealth; so
far as legal and material qualifi
cations were concerned the grant
ing of the charter was justified.
But when it was ascertained
that these wealthy applicants for
a charter to do a banking busi
ness under the protection and
cooperation of the United Slates
Government had out of their
great wealth purchased $200
worth of Liberty Bonds among
them, Comptroller Williams
promptly revoked his approval
of the application. They will
have no national bank.
A bulletin the Treasury Depart
ment rightly says “the Jight and
justice of the Comptrdoler’s ac
tion will be heartily endorsed by
every true American citizen.These
men present a typical case of get
ting all possible from the govern
ment and rendering as little re
turn as possible.
“Yet the individual American
citizen, whether native or foreign
born, who from the soil of this
country has offered him has am-
bassed money and property, and
who in his time of war and ne
cessity refuses to do his part in
financing his country, is not one
whit better than these applicants
for a national bank charter. He
is acting on the same principle,
and if he differs from these
would-be national banks, he dif
fers only in one degree, not in
kind.”
THE RAILROAD
WAGE INCREASE
The present trend to higher
wage increase in the history of the
world. The railway workers of
the United States who have been
making under $250 a month are
to secure raises which will date
back to last January. The largest
increase scheduled is$34 a month,
which applies to workers who re
ceived under $85 a month, and
the rate of increase varies from
$20 to $34 a man.
Briefly stated, the commission’s
study shows that the cost of liv
ing has increased 43 per cent, and
it added sums to the monthly pay
of workers to make up for this
increased expenditure for neces-1
sities. That this move will have!
a great effect upon the country!
everywhere is apparent. Other
workers will demand and receive
wage increases and prices for
many things will have to bear
the cost.
Despite this, however, we look
upon the decision of the railway
wage commission as one of the
best happenings of recent months.
The workers everywhere have a
right ito get reasonable wages,
and to increases in times of high j
prices." Nothing is better for a
people that a body well paid, sat
isfied laborers, and the nation will
be better off if wages are gen
erally increased everywhere. Of
course some workers have al
ready had substantial increases,
but if there is a class of workmen
anywhere who do not secure bet
ter pay they should get busy and
get it.
It has been commonly remark
ed that a day laborer in the, re
cent past could get more money
than a trained man, that a clerk
who to learn his business for
years drew less than a rough la
borer whose only tools • were his
hands. That has been right, but
was due in large measure to the
surprising requirements of the
war for laborers, and will be
equalized in time.
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 in effect.
American Red Cross.
President Wilson has appealed to
the American people on behalf of thhe
Red Cross whose second War Fund
Campaign to raise a hundred million
dollars begginning on May 20th and
continues through May 27th. His
proclamation establishing Red Cross
week follows.
“Inasmuch as the war fnd of 1917
so generonsly contributed to the Red
Cross for the administration of re
lief at home and abroad has been
practically exausted by appropria
tions for the welfare of our military
and naval force and theose dependent
on them, and for the yet more urgent
necessities of ouallies, both military
and civilian, who have long borne the
brunt oft he war; and inasmuch as
the year of our own participation in
the war has brought an unprecedented
demand upon the patrtiotism and lib
erality of our people and has made
evident the necessity of concentrating
the work of relief in one main organ
ization which can respond effective
ly and universally to the needs of hu
manity under stress of war; and in-
amuch as during this war the closer
and closer co-operation of eht Red
Cross with our own Army and Navy,
with the governments of our allies
and with foreign relief organizations
has resulted in the discovery of new
opportunities for helpfulnens uader
conditions which translate opportuni
ty into duty; and inasmuch as thhe
Red Cross War Council and the Red
Cross Commissioners in Europe have
faithfully and economically adminis
tered the people’s trust; now. there
fore, by virtue of my authority as
President of the United States and
President of the Red Cross, I, Wood-
row Wilson, do hereby proclaim the
week beginning May 20th, 1918,
“Red Cross Week, dhring which the
people of thhe United Stotes will be
called upon to give generously to the
continuation of the important work of
relieving distress, restoring waste of
war and assisting in maintaining the
morals of our own troops and the
troops and people of our allies by this
manifestation of effort and sacrifice
on the part of those who, though not
privileged to bear arms, are of one
spirit, purpose and determination with
our warriors; in witness whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and caus
ed the seal of the United States to be
affixed. Done in the District of Co
lumbia on the seventh day of May,
Anno Domini One Thousand Nine
Hundrad and Eighteen, and of the In
dependence of the United States of
Arerisa One Hundred and Forty Ser-
ond.
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON,
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State.
EVERY PERSON
CAN HELP
It is a little thing for you to do
when you buy a twenty-five cents
thrift stamp, it is an inconsequen
tial item when you do without
your sugar or go through your
wheatless day, but when millions
of other Americans do the same
it is a matter of national imort.
If every citizen in this great
country would follow your lead
every time you bought your stamp
the purchase of your stamp would
mean more than $25,000,000 for
the government. If all of your
fellow-citizens would abstain from
wheat one day it would mean
millions and millions of loaves,
and the careful saving of sugar
would mount into thousands of
barrels a day.
Think these facts over when
you begin to wonder whether
your little saving will matter.
Certainly it matters, just as much
as it would matter if one soldier
in the trenches would say: “I
can do so little that I may as well
sleep; there are so many others
in the army that my one rifle will
not be missed.” You know what
would happen to him; the same
thing should happen to slackers
of all description in the affairs that
folks at home are asked to help
with.
KFEP ON BUYING
THRIFT STAMPS.
The Waycross Journal-Herald
relates the pleasing incident of a
young man who was cashing the
interest coupons of his first Liber
ty Bonds. When the teller hand
ed him his silver, he shook his
head. “Give it to me in Thrift
Stamps,” he said. The majority
of persons owning one or two
Liberty Bonds can well afford to
follow his example of patriotism
and foresight. As the Journal-
Herald observes, “The interest
will not go far in the way of buy
ing luxuries, but it will help fill
the Thrift card; and if there are
enough Thrift cards in the strong
box when 1923 comes around, a
good many comforts and luxuries
can be purchased with what the
Government pays to redeem
them.”
It should not be forgotten, that
the sale of Thrift Stamps goes
steadily on. While Liberty Loan
campaigns come only two or three
times a year, the War Savings
movement is constantly before the
people with its rich opportunities
for wise and patriotic investment.
While there are some persons
whose earnings and responsibili
ties will not allow them to buy
Liberty Bonds, there are few if
any who cannot buy twenty-five
cents Thrift Stamps one at a time
and thus in the course of weeks
or months come to own one or
more War Savings Certificates.
These Stamps and Certificates are
just as safe an investment as are
Liberty Bonds, just as profitable
and can easily be converted into
cash.
It is to be hoped that the school
children of Georgia will continue
the excellent work they have done
in the patriotic savings campaign
and that their elders will join
them in turning loose the pennies
and nickels and dimes into an in
vestment for liberty and justice
and lasting peace.—Atlanta Jour
nal.