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Getting Back
To First Principles
€J That what the South must do now if it expects to share in
the prosperity that is coming.
CJ What we mostly need is a revival of the old-time pioneer
spirit which provided FIRST sufficient food, feed and live
stock for the family and then the raising of cotton as the money
crop when the family needs were amply provided for.
CJ A home garden on the farm; a small plot carefully tended
will insure the raising of sufficient vegetables for the family
table:
Cj A few chickens and a cow or two will provide the necessary
eggs, butter and milk, the surplus, if any, to be marketed:
CJ The raising of enough feed to take care of the live stock on
the farm:
CJ And lastly, when these other things have been attended to,
cotton—better cotton—for the money crop.
CJ Such a program of safe farming is all that will save the South
the disaster which an over-production of cotton in 1921 will
bring.
CJ Give this matter of INTELLIGENT DIVERSIFICA
TION your careful study.
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Sunday school at Hopewell is
progressing nicely, with a large at
tendance and good music.
Miss L. D. and**Edith Hunsucker
visited near Apison Sunday.
Miss Gertrude Jordan spent last
week with her cousin, Miss Mattie
Jordan, of Cohatta.
The young folks gave Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Martin a surprise sing
ing Saturday night.
Mr. Lon Bagby and Mr. George
Woodard motored to Cleveland
Sunday afternoon.
There will be preaching at this
place Sunday night, March 20th, by
Rev. T. J. Huskison. Everybody
come.
GIRLS! SAVE AND
BEAUTIFY HAIR
A 35-cent bottle of “Danderine” will
not only rid your scalp of destructive
dandruff and stop falling hair, but
immediately your hair seems twice
as abundant and so wondrous glossy
Let “Danderine” save your hair. Have
lots of long, heavy hair, radiant with
life and beauty.—Adv.
Dodson’s Liver Tone
Instead of Calomel
Calomel is quicksilver. It attacks
the bones and paralyzes the liver. Your
dealer sells each bottle of pleasant,
harmless “Dodson's Liver Tone*’ under
an ironclad, money-back guarantee that
it will regulate the liver, stomach and
bowels better than calomel, without
sickening or salivating you—15 million
bottles sold.
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Preaching at this place was well
attended Sunday. Rev. C. H. Wil
liams delievered an interesting ser
mon.
Mr. and Mrs. George Summey, of
Dug Gap, were visiting relatives
here Sunday.
Mr. and Airs. Jess Edwards, of
Spring Place, visited the former’s
sister, Mrs. Ida Greason, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Westmoreland
and family attended services here
Sunday.
Messrs. Joe Willis, of Ellijay, and
Dewey Henson, of Calhoun, spent
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Mixed and unmixed
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one night last week at the home of
W. P. Edwards.
Mrs. Parks Martin and Miss Rose
McCurdy, of Maddox Chapel, at
tended services here Sunday.
Mrs. C. M. Kister has returned
home after a pleasant week’s visit
with friends in Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Edwards, of
Dalton, visited the latter’s mother,
Mrs. John McCurdy, Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Westmore
land, of Maddox Chapel, attended
services here Sunday.
Mr. and Airs. R. A. Williams, of
Dalton, called on Mr. and Airs. C. M.
Kister Sunday afternoon.
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Rev. Jones filled his regular ap
pointment Sunday and Sunday
night.
The party given by Airs. Lillie
Patterson Saturday night was en
joyed by a large crowd.
The singing given by Aliss Earlie
Crawford Alonday night was jen-
joyed by a large crowd.
Our school is progressing nicely.
Air. Sam Prothro, of Atlanta,
spent the week-end with homefolks.
Air. Will Head, of Chattanooga,
spent Saturday and Sunday with
homefolks.
Aliss Cecil Clark, of Chattanooga,
spent Sunday with her parents, Mr.
and Airs. R. R. Clark.
The guests of Air. H. B. Crawford
and family Sunday were Miss Louise
Hunt, Aliss Polly Head, Air. John
Alorgan, Aliss Lillie Black, Airs. Dr.
Brewer and daughter, Mary Belle,
Air. Frank Crawford, of Camp Jack-
son, S. C., Air. Pierce Giddens and
Air. Trox Alorgan, of Camp Jackson,
S. C.
Air. H. C. Ault, of Chattanooga, is
visiting relatives and friends here.
Air. Lee Lankford, of Dalton, was
in the city Sunday.
Air. Arthur Bevil and Air. Willie
Reed, of New Hope, were in the
city Saturday night.
Notice
I am no longer con
nected with Carter. I
have a complete line of
coffins and caskets,
robes, dresses and shoes.
For undertaker, call J.
L. Buchanan, phones,
day, 33; night, 202; or
J. F. Buchanan, 401-J.
Calls answered day or
night, in the country or
in town. We deliver our
goods anywhere without
extra charge.
J. L. Buchanan,
J. N. Caylor,
J. S. Treadwell.
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Ex*President Wilson Appraised
as Most Powerful Living Man
By New York Newspaper
Sunday school was largely at
tended here Sunday.
Air. Spurgeon Thomas was here
visiting his mother, Mrs. N. A.
Thomas, Saturday night and Sun
day.
Several from here attended the
singing at Carbondale last Sunday.
Air. and Alras. F. W. Hix went to
the singing at Calhoun last Sunday.
Aliss Rae Hyer, of Grove Level,
was the guest of Mrs. Ed King Sat
urday and Sunday.
A crowd-from Phelps enoyed the
strawride to Dug Gap singing Fri
day night.
Our club will meet next Friday
evening, the 18th.
The following editorial, entitled
Woodrow Wilson—An Interpretation,”
is reproduced from the New York World
of March 4:
Hundreds of years hence Wil_
son’s name will be one of the great-
. est in history.—Jan Christian
Smuts, Premier of the Union of
South Africa.
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Bayer” on package or on tablets you
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tin boxes of twelve Bayer Tablets of
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Seeing an advertisement in a daily
paper for a clerk, a girl applied as
many others. She was neatly at
tired, her nails clean, her hair neat
ly dressed.
She went to the merchant’s desk.
He asked her no questions but
told her to write a letter.
She did her best, read and wrote
it the second time. She was sure
she had done her best; she was
careful in spelling, capitals, punctu
ation. When she had finished she
put the ink, pen and paper in their
places.
The merchant was so well pleased
with the care she took she was em
ployed without any recommenda
tion.
“CASCARETS” IF
SICK 0 RBUJOUS
' Tonight sure! Let a pleasant, harm
less Cascaret work while you sleep
and have your liver active, head clear,
stomach sweet and bowels moving reg
ular by morning. No griping or In
convenience. 10, 25 or 50 cent boxes.
Children love this candy cathartic too.
Those who spent the day with
Air. and Airs. Charles Bartow Sun
day were Air. and Airs. Ed Smith, of
near Rocky Face; Airs. Charlie Alit-
chell, of Phelps; Air. and Airs. Henry
Prichard, of Route 1; Air. Emery
Clements, of Harmony; Alisses Ala-
mie and Rosetta Bailey, of Dalton;
Exie and Alae Prichard and Air.
Stark, of Phelps.
Mr. Sam Bennett is very sick at
this writing. We wish him a speedy
recovery.
We are sorry to say Airs. Pearl
Clemons is no better.
Airs. H. C. Smith and Mrs. B. L.
Reavis spent the day Thursday at
Air. Joe Gilbert’s, of Dug Gap.
Airs. H. Prichard, Airs. Ida Bar
tow and Aliss Exie Prichard spent
one day recently with Airs. Z. V.
Bailey, of near Dalton.
Aliss Ida Hardin spent Saturday
and Sunday with her brother, Air.
James Hardin, of the Crown mill.
Airs. Blanche Bailey, of near Dal
ton, spent the day Saturday with
her sister, Airs. Pearl Clemons.
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"I was weak and run-down,”
relates Airs. Eula Barnett, of
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"After my first bottle, I slept
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my skin Is clear and I have
gained and sore feel that
Cardui Is the best tonic ever
made.”
Thousands of other women
have found Cardui Just as
Mrs. Burnett did. It should
help you.
At all druggists.
No other American has made so much
world history as Woodrow Wilson, who
retires at noon today from the office of
President of the United States. No
other American has ever bulked so
large in the affairs of civilization or
wielded so commanding an influence in
shaping their ends.
The great outstanding figure of the
war, Mr. Wilson remains the great out
standing figure of the peace. Broken
in health and shattered in body, Air.
Wilson is leaving the White House, but
his spirit still dominates the scene. It
pervades every chancellery in Europe.
It hovers over every capital. Because
Woodrow Wilson was President of the
United States during the most critical
period of modem history international
relations have undergone their first
far-reaching revolution.
Mr. Harding is assuming the duties
of the Presidency, but the main inter
est in Mr. Harding is still a reflected
interest, which is concerned chiefly
with the efforts that his administration
may make to adjust itself to the forces
that Air. Wilson has set in motion.
Stripped of all the paraphernalia of
his office, Air. Wilson, by virtue of his
achfevements, remains the most potent
single influence in the modern world;
yet after his eight years in the White
House is may be doubted if even the
American people themselves know him
•better or understand him better than
they did the day he was first inaugu
rated.
Neither Air. Wilson’s friends nor his
enemies have ever succeeded in inter
preting him or in explaining him, nor
can any interpretation or explanation
be satisfactory which fails at the out
set to recognize in him the simplest
and at the same time the most complex
character in the greatest drama ever
played on the stage of human history.
Even his closest associates have never
found it easy to reconcile a fervent
political democracy with an unbendinj
intellectual aristocracy, or to determine
which of these characteristics was dom
inant in his day-to-day decisions.
No man ever sat in the President’s
chair who was more genuinely a dem
ocrat or held more tenaciously to his
faith in democracy than Woodrow Wil
son but no other man ever sat in the
President’s chair who was so contempt
uous of an intellect that was inferior
to his own or so impatient with its
laggard processes.
A President Who Dealt in Ideas.
Air. Wilson was a President who
dealt almost exclusively in ideas. He
cared little or nothing about political
organization and rarely consulted the
managing politicians of his party.
When they conferred with him it was
usually at their request and not at his
request. Patronage hardly entered into
his calculations as an agency of gov
ernment. He disliked to be troubled
about appointments, and when he had
filled an office he was likely to be in
different as to the manner in which
that office was subsequently administer
ed. unless his own measures were an
tagonized or his iwlicies obstructed.
No man was ever more impersonal in
his attitude toward government, and
that very impersonality was the char
acteristic which most baffled the Amer
ican people. Air. Wilson had a genius
for the advocacy of great principles,
but be bad no talent whatever for ad
vocating himself, and to a country that
is accustomed to think in headlines
about political questions his subtlety of
mind and his careful, precise style of
expression were quite as likely to be an
obstacle to the communication of
thought as a medium for the communi
cation of thought. That is how such
phrases as “too proud to fight” and
“peace without victory” were success
fully wrested from their context by his
critics, and twisted into a fantastic dis
tortion of their time meaning.
Air. Wilson was likewise totally defi
cient in the art of advertising, and ad
vertising is the very breath of Amer_
ican politics. He held himself aloof
from all these points of public contact.
The World’s relations with him have
certainly been as close and intimate
as those of any other newspaper; yet
during the eight years in the White
House he never sought a favor from
The World, he never asked for support
either for himself or any of his poli
cies, he never complained when he was
criticized, he never offered to explain
himself or his attitude on any issue of
government. In the troublesome days
of his administration he often express
ed his gratitude for services that The
World had rendered in the Interpreta
tion of his policies, but he never so
licited such interpretation or took meas
ures to facilitate it. He was an elo
quent pleader for the principles in
which he believed, but he had no facul
ty whatever for projecting himself.
The Experience of History.
Mr. Wilson’s enemies are fond of call
ing him a theorist, but there is little of
the theorist about him. otherwise he
could never have made more construc
tive history than any other man of his
generation. What are commonly called
theories in his case were the practical
application of the experience of history
to the immediate problems of govern
ment and in the experience of history
Air. Wilson is an expert. With the
exception of James Aladison, who was
called “the Father of the constitution.”
Air. Wilson is the most profound stu
dent of government among all the Pres
idents, and he had what Madison con_
srpieuonsly lacked, which was the fac
ulty to translate the knowledge of gov
ernment into the administration of gov
ernment.
When Afr. Wilson was elected Presi
dent he had reached the conclusion
which most unprejudiced students of
American government eventually arrive
at—that the system of checks and bal
ances is unworkable in practice and
that the legislative and executive
branches canot be in fact co-ordinate,
independent departments. Other Pres
idents have acted on that hypothesis
without daring to admit it. and en
deavored to control congress by patron
age and by threats. Afr. Wilson with
out any formality established himself
as the leader of his party In congress,
premier as well as President, and the
originator of the party’s program of
legislation.
Senators and representatives de
nounced him as an autocrat and a die-
President’s rubber stamp, but Air. Wil_ and he never fully i os t h onft
tViat niAJ*o , . T U'-
day m January, 1917, when
son established something that more
nearly resembled responsible govern
ment than anything that had gone be
fore, and congress under his direct lead
ership made a record for constructive
legislation for which there is no par
allel. It was due to this kind of lead
ership that such measures as the feder
al reserve banking law was enacted,
which later proved to be the one bul
wark between the American people and
a financial panic of tragic proportions.
But Air. Wilson’s domestic policies,
in spite of their magnitude, have been
obscured by his foreign policies. Had
there been no war, these policies in
themselves would have given to the
Wilson administration a place in Amer
ican history higher than that of any
other since the Civil war. What some
of his predecessors talked about doing
he did, and he accomplished it by the
process of making himself the respon
sible leader of bis party in congress—
a process that is simple in itself, but
capable of fulfilment only in the hands
of a man with an extraordinary capac
ity for imposing his will on his asso
ciates. Mr. Wilson’s control over con
gress for six years was once described
as the most impressive triumph of mind
over matter known to American poli,
tics.
Mr. Wilson’s Foreign Policies.
When we begin the consideration of
Air. Wilson’s foreign policies we are
entering one of the most remarkable
chapters in all history, and one which
will require the perspective of history
for a true judgment.
The first step in the development of
these foreign policies came in Air. Wil
son’s refusal to recognize Huerta, who
had participated in the plot to murder
President Madero and made himself the
dictator of Alexieo by reason of this
assassination. The crime was commit
ted during Taft’s administration. When
Air. Wilson came into office he served
notice that there would be no recogni
tion of any Alexican government which
was not established by due process of
law.
What was plainly in Air. Wilson's
mind was a determination to end polit
ical assassination in Latin-America as
a profitable industry, and compel rec
ognition. to some extent at least, of
democratic principles and constitutional
forms. On tbis issue he had to face
intense opposition of all the financial
interests in the United States which
had Alexican holdings and a consolidat
ed European opposition as well. Every
dollar of European money invested in
Alexieo was confident that what Afex-
ico needed- most was such a dictator
ship as that of Huerta without involv
ing the United States in war, and then
by steady pressure bring about the es
tablishment of a responsible govern
ment that rested on something at least
resembling the consent of the governed.
Only a statesman of high ideals would
ever have attempted it. and only a
statesman of almost infinite patience
would have been able to adhere to the
task that Air. Wilson set for himself.
Alexieo is not yet a closed incident,
but Air. Wilson’s policy has been vindi_
cated in principle. For the first time
since Air. Roosevelt shocked the moral
sense and aroused the political resent
ment of all the Latin-American states
by the rape of Panama faith in the in
tegrity and friendship of the United
States has been restored among the
other nations of the western hemis
phere.
Of equal or even greater ethical im
portance was >AIr. Wilson’s insistence
on the repeal of the Panama canal
tolls act. which discriminated in favor
of American ships in spite of the plain
provisions of the Hay-Pauncefote trea
ty. This was the more creditable on
Air. Wilson’s part because he himself
had been tricked during the campaign
into giving his support to this measure.
When he began to perceive the diplo
matic consequences of this treaty vio
lation. Air. Wilson reversed himself and
had he done otherwise the American
people would have had scant opportun
ity to protest against the German per_
fidy which turned a treaty into a “scrap
of paper.”
When Germany, at the beginning of
August. 1914. declared war successively
on Russia, France and Belgium, there
by bringing Great Britain into the most
stupendous conflict of all the centuries,
Ur. Wilson did what every President
has done when other nations have gone
to war. He issued a proclamation of
neutrality. He then went further, how
ever, than any of his predecessors had
lone and urged the American people to
be not only neutral in deed but “im
partial in thought.” Air. Wilson has
been severely criticized for this appeal.
The more violent pro-Germans and the
more violent pro-French and pro-Brit
ish regarded it as a personal insult and
an attempt on the part of the President
to stifle what they were pleased to re
gard as their conscience.
Air. Wilson asked the American peo
ple to be impartial in thought because
he knew as a historian the danger that
threatened if the country were to be
divided into two hostile camps, the one
blindly and nnreasoningly applauding
every act of the Germans and the oth_
er blindly and nnreasoningly applaud
ing every act of the allies, in the ear
ly years of its life the republic was all
but. wrecked by the emotional and po
litical excesses of the pro-French Amer
icans and the pro-British Americans
in the war that followed the French
revolution. The warning against a pas
sionate attachment to the interests of
other nations which is embodied in
Washington’s farewell address was the
first President’s solemn admonition
against the evils of a divided allegi
ance. Air. Wilson had no desire to
see the country drift into a similar sit
uation in which American rights. Amer
ican interests and American prestige
would all be sacrificed to gratify the
American adherents of the various Eu
ropean belligerents. Aloreover. he un
derstood far better than his critics that
issues would soon arise between the
belligerents and the United States
which would require on the part of the
American people that impartiality of
thought that is demanded of the just
and upright judge. He knew that the
American people might ultimately be
come the final arbiters of the issues of
the conflict.
The United States was the only great
nation that had no secret diplomatic
understandings with either set of bel
ligerents. It was the only great nation
that was in a position to uphold the
processes of international law and to
use Its good offices as a mediator when
the opportunity arose.
For two years Mr. Wilson genuinely
believed that it would 'be possible for
tator. Congress was described as the the United States to fulfill this mission,
u «tii that
government wantonly ^ , G ®
the informal peace negotiation* *
were then in progress un <i
stake the fate of the empire 0 n, •
throw of the U-boat dice. 6Ulgls
A United Country Pi rst
Mr. Wilson perceived as auk*!,
quite as early as anybody tL U”
ity that the United States
drawn into the war. but he J!!5 **
also what most of liis critics fX Val
perceive that the immediate dan 10
the country was not war bur a ? er , o!
people. While he was engaged in d ‘ vidt «
ing the first Lusitania note he dt a °‘
ed the situation with one of hfcwH
at the White House in words than?®
since proved prophetic: laare
I do not know whether the ft*
man government intends to £
faith with the United States^
not. It is my personal onini.m
that Germany lias no such 5?
tion, but I am less concerned abonr
the ultimate intentions of GermT
ny than about the attitude of tb
American people, who are ahead,
divided into three groups: those
who are pro-German, those who
are strongly pro-Ally and the
vast majority who expect m e to
find a way to keep the United
States out of war. I do not want
war, yet I do not know that I can
keep the ^country out of the war
That depends upon Germany, and
I have no control over Germany
But I intend to handle this situation
in such a manner that ever;/ Amer-
ican citizen will know that the Unit
ed States government ha* done
even/thing it could to prevent war
Then if tear comm we shall hare
a united countrg. and with a unit
ed country there need l>c no fea'r
about the result.
Air. Wilson’s policy from that day to
April 2, 1917, must he read in the light
of those words. He plunged forthwith
into that extraordinary debate with the
German government over the .submarine
issue. —the most momentous debate
ever held—but he was only incidentally
addressing himself to the rulers of
Germany. He was talking to the
science of the civilized world, but pri
marily to the conscience of the United
.States, explaining, clarifying, elucidat
ing: the issue. His reluctance to coun
tenance any extensive measures of pre
paredness was the product of a defi
nite resolution not to give Germany
and her American supporters an oppor
tunity to declare that the United States,
while these issues were pending, was
arming for war against the imperial
overnment.
When Air. Wilson -began this debate
he knew something which his critics
did not know, and which for reasons of
state he did not choose to tell them.
Weeks before the destruction of the
Lusitania two-thirds of the German
general staff were in favor of war with
the United States as a military meas
ure in the interest of Germany. They
were under the spell of Tirpitz. They
believed that the submarine could do
all that the grand admiral said it could
do. They argued that inasmuch as the
Allies were borrowing from the United
States, obtaining food from the United
States, and purchasing great quantities
of munitions in the United States, te
rn any. by restricting submarine warfare
in answer to American protests, was
paying an excessive price for what was
in effect a fictitious neutrality. In their
opinion the United States as a nentral
was already doing more for the Allies
than it could do as an active belliger
ent if free scope were given to the U-
boats. The American navy, they said
could be safely disregarded, because
with Germany already blockaded by the
the British navy, and the German
grand fleet penned in. the addition of
the American navy, or a dozen navis,
for that matter, would make little dif.
ference in respect to the actual facts
of sea power. On the other hand there
was not enough shipping available to
feed the Allies and enable the T nited
States to send an army to F.urope. ”
the United States could not send troops
Germany would be quite as well off
with the United States in the war as
out of the war. and would have the
priceless additional advantage of beinz
able to employ her submarines as she
saw fit regardless of the technicalities
of international law.
In the fall of 1916 Mr. Wilson decid
ed definitely that the relations between
the United States and Germany were
approaching a climax. Tf the wareon-
tinned much longer the United Sw te5
would inevitably be drawn in. There
was no prospect of a decision. Tm
laelligerent armies were deadlocked.
Unwilling to wait longer for events.
Air. Wilson made up his mind that be
would demand from each side a state
ment of its aims and objects and com
pel each side to plead its own can>
before the court of public opinion o.
the world. This was done on Pece®-
her IS, 1916. in a joint note which ws=
so cold and dispassionate in its ten»
that its import was hardly undersw
With Clean Hands.
The President said that the aim!
objects of the war on both sides '
stated in general terms to their °
people and the world" seemed to
“virtually the same.” and asked for
bill of particulars. Instantly there ’
? and
wild turmoil and recrimination «n
part of the allies and their friends
the United States. The President
declared, they said, that the
and the allies were fighting for ■
same thing. Air. Wilson had esP rei \
no opinion of his own one way
or the
other and the obvious discovery
soon made in London and Paris
was
s that
the President had given to the a" 1 ji
the opportunity which they needlei
officially differentiating their war
from those of the Germans. The '
man government missed its oppon® ^
completely, and by tlieir own ans« ,
the President’s note the allies sue .
M<1
tions. which was something the.' ^
never previously been able to a
spite of all their propaganda. ^
Informal peace negotiations wer ^
in progress, although conducted n ^
cret and carefully screened n -0 ®
knowledge of all people involved «
conflict. On January 22.1917. air.
son made his last attempt at met ■ ^
in the “peace without victory
to the senate in which he defined *
he regarded as the fundamental w ^
tions of a permanent peace
the basic principles of this addre^
afterward incorporated into t0P ,, l5fl j
teen points. Here again Mr. te
was the victim of his own P r 0 f
language and of the settled pm
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