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The ler Herald Volume XXXXII. BUTLER. TAYI OR COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JUNE 13 1918. Number Germany Seeking To Terrorize U. S. Senator . James Hamilton Lewis, Addressing Georgia Bar Association, Tells Huns’ Motives. By EMMETT HOUSER. Savannah. June 8.—The final and commanding feature of the 35th annual meeting of the Geor gia Bar Association was the mas terful address of Senator J. Ham Lewis, of Illinois. For more than an hour he held the rapt attention of the audience in his vivid recital of the deep laid and long-worked intrigue of the Prussians in their antagonistic attitude towards this country. Senator Lewis spoke on the subject of “America’s Cause in the Law of the Nations.” After a presentation of the law phases of the subject, he said, among other things: Real Purpose of Germany. “The lawyer of America must educate America as to its dangers and teach the land its duty, and above all, let us inculcate in the hearts of our countrymen that the real purpose of Germany is to overthrow the institutions which the fathers of the Republic of America have built up. That the object is to prevent the world from following the examples es tablished by the United States, of freedom and liberty to man, and to defeat nations of the earth from applying to themselves self- government freed from the domi nation of kings or the direction of dictators enjoyed by the United States. "If Germany should succeed in defeating America in her efforts to give liberty and justice to the oppressed nations of the earth— America would herself be defeat ed and all that for which she has lived would end; and the freedom assured to her own people and the liberty pledged to her own nation would be destroyed. Govern ment would become one of op pressor as rulers and oppressed as subjects, or tyrant and slave. However much of this relation would be masked under the guise of names, and assume the canoply of military gloom and glitter, the effect would remain—that the things for which America was es tablished had been slain and the form of government which was the object of our fathers to endow to the children, would have ended. Hope of Present Drive. “The drive that Germany is now making with the sacrifice of her millions, in subjugating Central Europe, is for the purpose of terrorizing France into the fear that Paris will be captured and then France overcome—and to incite into Britain the fear that London will be reached and Eng land captured. It is the hope of Germany that if this terror can be shot into the souls of the French and British, the people of these nations will force their rulers, military and civil, to accept any peace to avoid the feared capture of their capitals and the subju gation of their country. Germany at such moment will tender as promise of peace the acceptance of any proposition as to Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine and the coast territories of France and England. Attack on U. S. Shipping. "It is to terrorize the people of Atlantic coast with the danger of destruction of property, that the submarines are crashing our ships in our coast trade. The scheme Prepared by Federal Food Adra MEN WHO CAN HELP FARMERS Each town, under the leader ship of its most active spirits, such as its chamber of com merce or county council of de fense. itself should immediately make a survey of all able-bodied men who have had farm experi ence and obtain pledges to spend a day or two out of each week, or a week if need be out of the month, at the periods of great est demand, in order to help the farmers. There are many men working in the towns whose places can be taken by the wom en. I have in mind particularly men waiters, elevator boys and clerks whose work can be well substituted, if the business sen timent of the town will act res olutely and persuade employers to use women temporarily in or der that the men may be re leased for farm labor as the oc casion may require.—Clarence Ouslev, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. Fortify With Silage Against Winter And High Priced Feed "Don’t forget your silo,” is advice to the beef-cattle farmer by special ists of the United States Department of Agriculture. In every case, the specialists say, a sufficient acreage to provide crops to fill the silo should he provided by beef- cattle farmers. This will assure that the silo investment will yield its .prop- «r annual return and prevent losses coming from giving the cattle more ex pensive feeds. The cheapness with which cattle can be fitted for market or carried through the winter with silage insures that well-filled silos will be a paying investment. It is a good farm practice, the spe cialists say, to put more acreage to si lage crops than it is estimated under ordinary conditions will be necessary to fill the silo. Dry weather or a hail storm at the crucial stage of growth may cause a marked decrease in the tonnage yield. For the South a ffew ex tra acres should be planted to sorghum to meet this probable shortage. Why Rye Flour Was Removed From Substitute List Numerous inquiries have come to the Food Administration asking why rye flour was removed from the list of substitutes for wheat flour. On May 1 it was estimated that there remained but 16,000,00m bushels of rye in the United States. Against this amount our normal consumption of rye from May 1 to August 1 amounts to 31.000,- 000 bushels. If rye flour had been con tinued on the substitute list our avail able supply would not have lasted one month. In order that there might be even a limited supply for the normal UEes of rye flour, this cereal was taken off the substitute list. Checking All Sugar The Wholesale and Retail Division of the Food Administration advises that arrangements have been made with the larger mail order bouses so that they will send to the Federal Food Administrator of the State in which they have made sales of sugar for can ning purposes the actual certificates which the consumers have signed. Specific Substitutes Feterita flours and meals are listed as wheat flour substitutes in Wheat Conservation Rules 26. 29 and 31, which govern sales of wheat flour to retailers and consumers, but kaffir and rnilo flours and meals are not expressly included in the list. Nevertheless they are considered substitutes, being in cluded by interpretation in “feterita flours and meals.’’ Kaffir and milo flours and meals are expressly included in the list of sub stitutes for bakers, which is contained in Wheat Conservation Ruie 26. New Augusta Administrator W. Inman Curry, solicitor of the city court of Augusta, ha* been ap pointed Food Administrator for Rich mond County to Bucceed N. L. WilleL Mr. Curry is the first court solicitor to be comminiosed an administrator. now is to <#t off bottom ship ments from*he South—commerce and money® going out of New York—andjjestroy the grain ship ments of t terrorize t ed States mercial d] panic. T] Germany cept of t principles war—free' liberty of si for these will deman Europe an withdraw many keeping tries of So Russia, Polan and the lesse of the German West—and by such citizens of the Unit- Bth the fear of com- sters and financial in such an hour 11 make offer to ac- United States the which she went to of commerce and 11 nations. In turn cessions, Germany that the Allies of the United States opposition to Ger- the central coun- ern and Western Serbia, Rumania ; Finland as a part Impire. Germany will insist that af these lands were not a part of the tissue which took the Allies and theUnited States to war, both can consent that these lands be taken by German con quest under German influence. This result would give to Ger many a new area of country which—added to her control of Austria and Turkey—would equal the size of the United States of America, and a population of 250,- 000,000 people — a power and value, a citizenship and area ex ceeding that of all Great Britain and all France and all Italy—in deed, all the Allied countries of Europe combined. Would Turn on Weak. "Germany would then bide her time, and with the renewed power from this reinforced strength, turn upon the weaker countries of Europe which had been fight ing for liberty and completely sub jugate them, and then turn her forces to the Atlantic, driving against the South Atlantic sea board from Key West to New’ Orleans—from New Orleans to New York — and bombard the coast of our land, overcome the cotton country, as her first vengeance, and then paralyze the commerce of America, and through bombardment and mili tary invasion enforce terms from the United States of indemnities to the amount of billions and the surrender of privileges belonging to our citizenship and our people that would convert millions of our independent men and women into servants and subjects of the Imperial Military Kaiser of Ger many. “Let the informed lawyers of our land become crusaders and trumpeters, go out to our nation and warn them against being beguiled or deceived. Hold them steadfast to America’s purposes. Let them not be seized with fright or through the influence of fair representation with false purpose be persuaded 10 yield to terms that in their promise seem advant ageous, but in their realization would mean the destruction of all that America stands for. Must Not Fall. "Trumpeters of your nation, advance, blow forth the truth and spread the gospel of the revealed purpose of German invasion, Ger man advancement and German purposes—that the public opinion of our land may be one unit of opposition, of antagonism, and above and beyond all, a union of resolve to give everything of life and property than to endure the dishonor of surrender of principle, the disgrace of defeat of our arms, or the death of liberty and justice to our nation. Our one oath shall be that the land concentrated in the blood of our fathers shall not fall—but live as the home of the brave and the land of the free to the salvation of man the world over.” Hardwick’s Home Paper Says Quit SandersvilJe Progress Edi torially Calls Upon Junior Senator to Withdraw— Doesn’t Represent Backers. Sandersville, June 5.—The San- dersville Progress, always a sup porter of Thomas W. Hardwick in his political campaigns, his “home town paper” in a peculiarly re lation, calls on him editorially to day to withdraw from the race for the United Sttes Senate. The editorial, which leads the Progress’ columns, is as follows: By his course in the United States Senate many of Senator T. W. Hardwick’s closest per sonal and political friends have been alienated, and they openly announce that they de sire to see him defeated in the present campaign. He is out of harmony with the senti ments of the people who have honored him by electing him to this honorable position. They recognize the fact that he is endowed with a brilliant intellect and is the peer of any man who has been men tioned as his opponent in the race. They also believe that he is conscientious in his acts and is standing firmly by what he believes is the fundamen tal principle upon which our government has been built. But it requires something more substantial than funda mental principle to meet the onslaught of the German machine made army and navy. In his stand for his personal convictions he loses sight of tire peril that is casting its shadow across the ocean and menaces our very existence as a government. The situation today looks perilous. The combined efforts of England, France and Italy have been inadequate to meet the onrush of the German hordes. Our Government needs the com bined efforts of every citizen in the endeavor to thwart the Huns and save our country from the fate that has over taken Belgium and portions of France and Italy. The navies of our allies have thus far kept the Germans from our shores. If they should be overpowered there would be nothing that could keep them from swarming through the United States and committing the same depredations that have marked their paths in the European countries. We have no harsh criticism to make upon Senator Hard wick. We believe that he does not fully apprehend the seriousness of the situation. He certainly does not repre sent the views of those who have been his most ardent political supporters in the past. He should withdraw from the race. This is generally construed to mean here the giving up by Sen ator Hardwick’s “home crowd,” the men who have been so con spicuously at his side in all his district—and state-wide fight, of any hope they may have had that he has any chance to win this time, if not the actual relinquish ment of the effort to carry Wash ington county. There has been doubt for some time of Hardwick carrying the county. 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 your stomach and you will soon he as well aB ever. They only cost a quarter. Many a man who objects to car- 3 a bundle home from a dry ! store goes home loaded.— Exchange. GERMAN PAPERS ON U. S. FIGHTERS. By Frederick William Wile, in the London Daily Mail. A perceptible change can now be observed in German discussion of the United States as a bellig erent factor. "French prisoners” have brought convincing news of American preparations—as if Hindenburg’s spies had failed to make dutiful reports of them pre viously! A fortnight ago German war correspondents on the wes tern front were allowed to quote these prisoners—or to make be lieve they were quoting them. In this roudabout way the Ger man public was initated into what the “idiotic Yankees” are doing. It was told that American pre paratory operations in France, such as railway, dock and bar rack construction, were undoubt edly of “quite extraordinary di mensions.” They must be recog nized as likely “to play an impor tant role in the decisions now im pending.” Then the correspon dents alluded to the significance of American intervention on the threshold of the spring campaign” The German high command (they, of course, explained) was in no wise disturbed. It had a pretty fair idea both of the numbers and effectiveness of the American troops, They could not “revolu tionize” the military situation or disturb German’s plans for final and decisive victory. Pershing’s troops were fine "sportsmen,” but in the game of war, as the German troops played it, they would find thensnUms hopelessly outclassed. That and columns more like it, is what the Germans are being told, s They were told the same things about the British army in 1914 and 1915. The mountains of Ger man corpses piled up on the bat tle field of the Somme are ghastly evidence that the Germans were lied to about the stuff of which the British army is made. Their experiences with the stuff of which the American army is made will be no different. ~ More Select Men Called. Instructions have been receiv ed by the local board to prepare and entrain twenty-nine colored selectmen for Camp Gordon on June 19th. The board is now en gaged in notifying a sufficient number of colored registrants to appear on the date named ready for movement to the Atlanta camp. The next call for whites will be set for June 24th it is believed, when about 28 Taylor county young men will be inducted into military service. Lightning Causes $20,000 Fire Loss BYRON, June 8.—During a heavy rain and electric storm here yesterday afternoon at 1 o’clock a storage barn of the Byron Fruit Farm was struck by lightning. This barn and three others near by were burned. The water tank and engine room also were de stroyed. The storage rooms con tained several hundred bushels of corn and several tons of hay. In the barn struck were stored eighteen carloads of crate mate rials and all the spray tanks and other machinery used on the farm. The mules and cows belonging on the place were all saved. A conservative estimate places the loss at about $20,000, partially covered by insurance. The By ron Fruit Farm is owned by A. J. Evans, of Fort Valley, who came over as soon as possible, bringing the fire fighting apparatus from Fort Valley. ATLANTA EYE SPECIALIST COM ING AGAIN TUESDAY JUNE 1 To Butler And Will Give* Consultation Free This Day Only at the Sealy Hotel From 8 a. m. to 2 p. m. Only so Call Early. Eyes, Headache and Nervous ness Corrected and Cross- Eyes Straightened With out Drugs Pain or Knife. Dr. Kennon Mott, the success ful non-medical optometry speci alist, of 428 Austell Building, At lanta, is representing the "Dia- mon Disc” Lenses and “Idokure” Remedies. Dr Mott is an optometry speci alist of long standing and has been very successful in difficult cases. He is relieving many eyes by new methods after others have failed. The glasses relieve head aches and give good sight, ease and comfort. Absorbing of cer tain kinds of cataracts, removing growths from the eyes, straight ening cross eyes and all ailments of the ►? ,/ injurious poisonous drugs, knife or pain. Some eyes can be so cured that glasses will not be needed. Glass eyes ordered and adjusted. Wom en and children given special care No matter how bad vour eyes are, nor what others have said on done consult this specialist and you may get relief. Don’t forget the date place and hours, June 18. Pleasant Family Re-Union. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Jarrell, of Butler, were among those in at tendance at a most delightful fam ily re-union Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Jarrell, at Five Points, and which was at tended by many relative and a few special friends, there also being present among this number twenty-seven children and grand children of Mr. and Mrs. Jarrell. It was one of the most pleasant occasions of the year in that sec tion of the county, which includ ed, of course, a sumptuous noon day meal with spring chickens a principal diet served many styles, important among which was the old-fashion home fry, as well as grand-pa’s favorite—cbicken-pie, several stories high, bushel meas ure size, et caetra, other delicacies cooked to the queen’s taste, with frozen peaches and real pound cake as finishing touches. All that poor, paper-sack fed Ernest has been able to say since is "yum, yum.” Cemetery Notice. All persons having loyed ones buried at Bethlehem cemetery, or otherwise interested in having lots and premises cleaned off and kept in proper condition for another year, are requested to meet me there Saturday afternoon, June 22nd, at 3 o’clock for the purpose of employing some one to do the necessary work regularly for the next twelve months. Come pre pared to employ said person. G. W. N. WATKINS.