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THE NEWS & FARMER
Entered as second class mail matter at the i>ost office,
Louisville, Ga„ under the Act of Congress, March 8, 1879
Published Every Thursday In the Year By J. W. White
J. W. WHITE Editor
G. S. CHAPMAN Business Manager
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LOUISVILLE, GA., MARCH 27, 1919
The influenza epidemic lias apparently come to an ab
mpt end and it is hoped that it will never again make its
appearance.
The dense ignorance of the masses of the Russian people
makes it difficult to form a government which will hold
them in check and make them obedient to law and order.
The Elberton Star wants to know if the new and cheap
er car which Henry Ford promisees to his customers will be
named ‘ ‘ Afford. ’ ’
Georgia’s republican leader lias been compelled to pay a
tine of four hundred dollars because of a violation of the
United States laws.
American heiresses will not be so much concerned about
marrying titles hem after, ns most of them have been knock
ed off their perches by the world war.
Speculators are advertising for the purchase of liberty
bonds as they realize that it is a good investment. For the
same reason the people who have them should hold to them.
The biggest task that has ever been undertaken by a
body of men is the fixing of the peace terms so tha* all
countries concerned will view the verdict with a complais
ant smile.
R<> eager for <L*stnietion have boon tlio Germans that
tliev li;ive been destroying on-' another, thus ridding the
earth of some of the meanest human’beings that ever dis
graced civilization.
'p)ie new stamps issued by the government present alto
gether a different appearance than those that have been
used heretofore, but they will carry a letter just as far. The
figure of the Goddess of Liberty adorns the centre.
When peas retail at twenty live cents a quart, which is
at the rate of eight dollars per bushel, it is time that more
attention should be given to this crop which can be made
very profitable throughout this section of Georgia.
The Germans are now asking for close relations with
Amer-ca, which brings forth tin* following comment from
the Savannah News: “('los.' Relations with America.**
That’s a civ from Germany. But Americans may put a long
sound on the ‘‘o’* and also a“z sound to the 44 s.
This is the season for cyclones, hurricanes and tornadoes
and some very disastrous disturbances of the elements have
been reported from the western states already. Georgia
some times suffers from such visitations, but they are not
as frequent as in the middle western states.
Since the war is practically over baseball will once move
come to the front. To the credit of some of the members
of the leagues tliev did excellent work on the Krencli battle
front last year. They knew the art of throwing to perfec
tion and got in some good licks at tin* Huns with hand gren
ades,
The bachelors feel like they are being discriminated
a"aiiist bv the terms of the income tax which requires all
whose incoim - exceed a thousand dollars a year to make
return-* and pay in accordance with the size of the excess,
while the married men with ineorne> less than two thousand
dollars escape altogether.
The LaGrange Reporter makes a strong appeal for the
people t" put -! op to tli' sale of what it terms “bust
bead 1 *o-• /;•. a product made by mixing syrup with meal
which is allowed to ferment. In this section of the state
it is known as “stump rum.” I Jew any man can train his
stomach to take in such <! ses it is hard to understand, as
it has an odor ve; \ much like that w del? coim-s from a foul
Some of our farmers have proved to their own satisfac
tion that the judi-ions u of fertilizers for their crops b
on.* of the b -• :-:iyi.- investments that they can m.;k
While the a\ ei ;e.;e production of lint cotton j or aci ■
compa rat i v (, h i.*w it has been demonstrated that by a,
plying the best grad* -of fertilizers a much greater proti
<an be made 1 miiii when scantily list'd over a large area. Flo
id a is to reduce the acreage but increase the quantity o
fertilizers for the production of the crops.
THE SWING OF THE PENDULUM IN
GERMANY
Human nature is like the pendulum. It swings from one
extreme t" another. The Germans, who have submitted
longer than any other European race to imperial d**Hpolisin
an* apparently about to try democratic despotism in an rxag
•.'<*ratid form. They have taught the rest of the wo Id to
hate autocracy, and now will doubtless g’vc th.' ‘ t ’ , ‘ -
world ale-son on tin* impracticability of the plan rn.uying
on business without control by those who have developed
the ability io manage and have the requisite knowledge
and experience.
Via l \Yw York Herald says: The German government,
awed 1 ■ tlie recent strikes, has surrendered to the social
ists, and the world is about to witness an experiment in
socialism on a larger scale than ever before attempted.
Workmen’s councils are to be created and the whole ma
chinery of industry placed in their hands. It is announced
that they are to control the regulation of production and
distribution of production and distribution “in all bram he
of industry and trade.”
This approaches very closely to Karl Marx’s ideal of
government ownership of all means of production and di
t rilnit ion, which obtained first official sanction at the s<
eialist congress in Gotha in 1875. Regulation and distribu
tion will ill effect be ownership. The members of the work
ingmen’s associations will be factory lenders, workers and
employees “co-operating with employers.” It is very evi
dent that the latter will have the poorest end of the bai
gain.
This is not Bolshevism by any means, nor is it anarchy oi
communism. But it is the beginning of an attempt to cast
in one mould all German citizens somewhat after tin* man
ner of Moore’s 44 Ftopia.” It is directly contrary to Ameri
can ideals of democracy and the liberty of each individual
so long as ho does not interfere with the liberty of lii.
neighbor.
Nowhere could the experiment be more appropriate than
in Germany, for the genius of the German people from feu
dal tiins down has been subserviency to regulation, to mili
tary rule, to rigid discipline. The Kaiser would have had
all his subjects walk the goose step and the present Ger
man leaders seem to be willing to follow his example. But
there has been a terrible reaction against state socialism
under imperialistic forms, as there undoubtedly will be un
der republican forms —a fact which the leaders should heed
before it is too late. Human nature won’t stand for it.
A LESSON FROM EXPERIENCE
Every person who takes the trouble to think about it
should be able to see that government ownership of the
railways would necessarily result in the control of the
government by its employees, who would fix their own
wages and conditions of employment and would naturally
demand more and more simply because they would have the
power to compel compliance with their demands. The ex
perience of the past year has illustrated this truth.
The New York Sun says: It might be that the failure
of Congress to provide the funds needed by the Director
General of Railways will result in landing the roads sooner
<>r later than was expected back in the hands of their own
ers. The banks and investors are bound to help the roads
out. The roads are bound to go on giving service. The
public is bound to sit up and take notice.
When the Government was obligated to provide the funds
and didn’t, when the loads, in spite of all the burdens piled
upon them by the Government, were compelled to finance
themselves, everybody would be impressed with the fact
that there was mighty little use of a Government financic
that didn’s finance, while, on the other hand, the Govern
ment operator run up the expenses of the roads a billion
dollars a year and correspondingly, swelled the freight bills
which the public must pay.
Hut if the natural development of the situation should
st ud the roads back to their owners within several months
instead of years, that outcome might be regretable from
at least one point of view. In the last year and two months
the American people have learned out of bitter experience
more and solider truths about Government ownership than
they ever could have learned out of theories. But maybe
for their own good, maybe for the fixing of those truths
on a lasting foundation, they haven’t learned enough. They
know how bad the service is. They know how much more
it costs. They know what little interest the rank and fib*
of railway employees now take in the public, the public h
business, or tin* railway’s welfare. They know that the
touch of the Government on this great business enterprise—
the greatest business enterprise in the country—is the touch
of death. But we all easily forget our troubles when they
are over. Perhaps the best thing that could happen would
Ik* for us to have a full dose of this Government operation
until the country just couldn’t stand any more.
Government management of our railways, in truth, dis
astrous as it has been to the roads, costly as it has been
to the roads, costly as it has been to the public and dam
ning as it has been to Government operation, lias been
not an unmixed evil, because of all we have learned in that
year and two months. How much more could we not learn
in twice or thrice that time. How lightly the memory of
it might stick to us when there were new calls for Gov
eminent operation from the dreamers that are always with
us, peace or war, success or failure.
TO INCREASE SCHOOL FUND
Representative Anderson of Jenkins county has launch
'd a campaign for an increase of the state appropriation for
the support of the common schools of the state. The ap
propriation at present is approximately $3,200,000. He
wants this increased to $5,000,000. When we compare this
with the amounts appropriated by some of tlie northern
and western states it looks insignificant. Georgia can well
• pend five million dollars a year on the common schools
as the education of the children of the state is the most
important thing that can be done in their behalf. Thorough
education means efficiency in the affairs of life and a
higher conception of the duties of citizenship, and every
child in the state should have the opportunity of obtain
ing' such an education. The Atlanta correspondent of the
Macon Telegraph thus comments upon Mr. Anderson’s
plans which \. 1 11 be brought before the next session of the
legislature, and shows that lie is determined to da all in
his power for the advancement of the school interests of
the state: The common “school crowd” in the next House
of Representatives is preparing to make a big stab for
funds this summer, and organization of tlie“common school
• rowd ” is now in process. The figure to be fought for this
vefir has been set at $5,00(1,000, which will be a jump up I
from $3,000,000.
In the pad two appropriations “Anderson of Jenkins” —
A. S. Anderson, attorney, of Milieu—-has been one of the
workers in the ranks. This year “Anderson of Jenkins”
is leadhig the fight and in a bit of fresh correspondence, he
says “our forces” are now being organized and they are
going into the next session with the determination that
“there shall be no compromise.”
To further their plans, Mr. Anderson’s followers are
''■nding broadcast over the State just now “The Dixie
land Magazine,” a little publication gotten out by Mr,
\nderson in Milieu, devoted entirely and exclusively to a
$5,000,000 common school appropriation.
Outlining the fight to be made in the* Legislature, Mr.
\iiderson says:
There is but one source of income for our common schools,
iud that is from taxation by the State. We do not intend
my academic discussion of these matters. The great theory |
"ii which : ' is taxation is based we will leave for future
issues.
Just now we desire to call the attention of our people
•_.*!!■•!'::ily the annual ligl t made in the Legislature for
much largf appropriations For common schools. We desire
to pi::-- ■, a Far as we can, the history of these contests be
foie tin* p' pie. and ask for their counsel and aid.
i-ib'Fly, {ln* issue may be summed up as Follows:
L Our F, '(■ schools should be Free means of getting every
hi Id to a -I—-free teachers. Free books, free from school.
T 1 "-; must lie everything the name implies.
Our 'million school teachers must lx* paid higher sain
i ies and a- fompt ly as earned.
3. A sc! ud term of nine months.
it these ;reat ends with others, cannot be obtained un
der our pr *at system of laws, then let us adopt an entirely
i;e\ •ystei i and at once.
The ad\ -ates of the common schools in the Legislatin'
and tin* ■■ucourngement and help of every true friend of
sue!, schools. They ought to have such an endorsement for
ti ir efforts in this behalf until it would sweep aside all
opposition. So great a matter ought to be supported with
,li lin* st length and loyalty it deserves and demands.
PUBLICITY OF INCOME TAX
REPORTS
The danse in the revenue law requiring publicity of the
reports made t<> tax collectors mav bo necessary as a mean
of insuring honest returns in some eases, but it will cor
tninlv be a cause* of much annoyance to many because there I
a ■ h oph who can find plenty of time to inquire into tln ir j
: dghbor's affairs and who will take pleasure in publishing
ta ir neighbors’ losses and misfortunes. It may indeed be
tli ' means of causing the bankruptcy of concerns that
Aiding a hard battle with good prospects of winning out,
but whos" credit may be destroyed l>v the talk of busy
bodies. n9
Fader Section 357 of the latest revenue law, the com
missi 'in r of internal revenue, as soon as practicable each
year, must prepare for public inspection in the office of the
collector in each revenue district and in such other places
as he may determine, lists containing the names and ad
drrs'er, oi' all persons making income tax returns in the re
spective districts, the amounts of income tax paid not being
published.
The prevision is said to have been introduced into the
bill as an aid to the collection of the tax, the theory be
ing that if Jones pays his tax he will look to see if Smith
has paid his, and if lie fails to find the latter’s name on the
list, will report the delinquency to the proper authorities,
determined that his neighbor shall “have nothing on him.”
Fossib! • it will work that way, and there will lie few
communities lacking in that type of busvbodies who will
regard such a list as the chance of a lifetime. The only
thing lacking to make their cup of happiness full will lie
information as to the amount of the tax, provision for
which may be included in the next revenue bill.
But what a convenience it wall be for the compilers of the
“suckers” lists, who have been known to pay thousands
for authenticated lists of investors, of corporation stock
holders, or of accredited customers in merchandising en
terprises.
THE NEWS & FARMER, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1919
TRIBUTE WHERE TRIBUTE IS DUE
From the Athens Banneh:
The Atlanta Constitution of March
fith carried a card from the Rev. M.
Ashby Jones, of Atlanta, suggesting to
the people *of Georgia that they unite
in a petition to President Wilson to
appoint Judge Andrew J. Cobb, of
Athens, to assist Judge William T.
Newman, who will shortly request an
Associate Judge of the Northern Dis
trict of Georgia. Dr. Jones’ card to
Hie Constitution follows:
Wants Judge Cobb As Successor to
Newman
Editor Constitution: The approach
ing retirement of that great jurist and
noble Christian gentleman, Judge Wm.
T. Newman, does more than leave va
cant a judicial office of supreme im
portance. It challenges the ability of
this commonwealth to furnish a man
tall enough and broad enough to fill
the vacancy. Democracy meets its su
preme test in the personnel of its
judges. Our liberty which is our su
premely sacred possession can only find
a full and fair expression under the
guarantee and guidance of an honest
and intelligent interpretation of law.
Back of the popular assembly, the press,
the ballot box, and the legislature
stands the court, the last bulwark of the
rights of the people. Here, weakiuv
or lack of wisdom is fatal.
Therefore, Mr. Editor, as a private
citizen of this old commonwealth, with
out any political alliances, or any par
tisan association, I propose to the peo-1
pie of Georgia that we ask the presi
dent of the . United States to appoint
Judge Andrew J. Cobb, of Athens,
succeed our beloved Judge Newman.
Judge Cobb’s matchless record as a
lawyer and as a judge both upon the
supreme bench and in the trial court,
more than fulfills the ideal suggested.
His life v in public and private has
■wrought out such a definition of grace,
integrity, and wisdom that we might
well seize this opportunity to say to
the world. “Here is our definition of
an ideal Georgian,’* and it is most fit
ting that, at this hour, when we are re- j
joicing over our splendid victory for i
democracy that we should honor the j
man whose clarion tones during the j
past year challenged the heroism of j
our people to follow, in loyalty, the |
leadership of our great president, j
Could we do a more wonderfully in- j
telligent or beautifully gracious thing !
than unanimously ask Mr. Wilson to I
appoint Andrew J. Cobb to be judge of j
the Northern United States district ■
of Georgia?
(Rev.) M. ASHBY JONES.
Atlanta, March 4.
During the past few weeks there has
probably been no single Georgian who
has spoken the mind of his people so
fearlessly and so clearly as did Judge
Andrew J. Cobb in his Eourth of July
speech in Athens in 1017 and in his
subsequent utterances during the fol
lowing eighteen months .fudge Cobb’s
call to Georgians to stand by Woodrow
Wilson in days of stress flashed over
Georgia and stirred the people of this
state as nothing else has done in years.
< h-cupying as he does a post of respon
sibility and trust and having back of
him a spotless record as jurist and
Christian gentleman. Judge Cobb’s de
nunciation of certain Georgians for
their tactics of obstruction at once
struck a responsive chord in the heart
of every red-blooded man in the Cat
Georgians know Andiew J. Cobb and
they recognized in his call an appeal
to the best impulses of our people. For
this fearless hewing to the line, regard
less of where the chips fell, Georgians
owe Judge Cobb a debt of gratitude.
To him, more than to any other man
in the state is due the relegation of
the obstructionist to the political scrap
heap.
Is it not time that Georgians ex
pressed to Judge Cobb their apprecia
tion of what he did? Can we do this in
any finer or more appropriate way than
by calling on our splendid President to
honor him with the judicial ermine?
Is he qualified? There are none his
superior and few his equal. Is his
health and strength sufficient for the
task? He is in the fullness of his intel
le tual and ■ hysical vigor with many
years of efii'-ient service before him.
Is there any one valid reason why this
splendid Georgian cannot till Judge
Newman’s pbee with the same marked j
ability? Not one. Other aspirants? i
Of course. But what Georgian, now i
an aspirant, would n>t gracefully step';
aside* and j• i ll with tens of thousands:
of other Georgians in a petition to j
Woodrow Wilson to name Andrew J.
Cobb for this position? Surely thes • j
lawyers, whose names are now being!
mentioned (all of them able men) would
not deny Georgia this opportunity to
honor the mail who woke the sleeping
manhood of the state and by hi.- ringing
appeals to the best that was in her
caused Georgia to forver silence the
scornful criticisms that had been heaped
on her head.
Judge Cobb, we call on you in the
name of all Georgians to allow your
name to be presented to President Wil
son by the people of Georgia. We do
not believe lliat President Wilson will
refuse to acquiesce in this desire on
our part to pay tribute where tribute
is due.
MADE HELPLESS
BY RHEUMATISM
ZIRON Did This Kentucky Gentleman Mora
6ood Than Any Other Medicine.
“Eight years ago I was down with
rheumatism,” writes M. J. Hutcherson,
of Tomkinsville Ky. “I was helpless
for three months, unable to even feed
myself. Doctors doctored me and I got
up, but have had bad health ever since,
with soreness and weakness across my
back and in my arms and legs. I final
ly took Ziron, and It has done me
more good than any medicine I have
ever taken, and I intend to take more
of It, for It is the best medicine I ever
used. I have found It just what it is
recommended to be, and I am ready to
tell other suffering people that Ziron
helped me, and anxious to speak a
word of praise for It.”
Ziron acts on the blood and has been
found of great value in Rheumatism,
Indigestion, Anemia and General
Weakness. Ziron puts iron into the
blood, and Iron Is needed by your sys
tem to make you strong and healthy.
Ask your druggist about the guaran
tee on the first bottle.
ZN 7
\our Blood Needs
At twenty, our photographs never
“do us justice.” At forty, wc’rc mighty
glad if they don’t.
NOW!
*
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THE VICTORY LOAN
From the Youths Companion:
The fifth loan, which the United
States is to raise next month, differs
in several important respects from the
four loans that have preceded it. In
stead of issuing bonds to run for a
period of some twenty veart, tin* Treas
ury will offer to the subscription of
'•itizens seven billion dollars in Federal
notes redeemable in a much storter
time—probably live years. That is be
cause the market is already so well sup
plied with bonds—so choked with them,
we might say —that it seemed a hazar
dous step to add to the load so enormous
a quantity as seven billions. No one
has any question of the solvency of the
chantry, but the amount of capital that
is ready to tie itself up in twenty year
investments is, after all, limited. It
might have been difficult to find billinos
of it without seriously imparing the
stock of wealth we are going to need
for the essential economic reconstruc
tions of tlu* coming years. In that case
the inevitable result would be the dimi-
nished value of the bonds on the open
market, tin* loss of prestige to the
government, and the loss of a not negli
gible part of the investment to those
citizens who for one reason or another
were forced to sell their bonds before
maturity.
Five-year notes are much more attra
tive to the investor, for they are more
! likely to remain at par or near it, and
they are better for the country, since
(they will return the borrowed capital
\ into theordinary channels of business
' much more quickly than long-term
j bonds.
The Secretary of the Treasury is an
I thorized to issue notes of four different
I rates of interest according as it is ex
| empt or 11011-exempt from taxation. On
one series only estate and inheritance
taxes can be collected; on another tin
surtaxes of the income tax and excess
profit taxes can lie laid; a third is ex- j
empt from all taxation up to a holding ]
of $30,000, but beyond that is liable to i
income and excess-profit taxes; a fourth
is fully taxable under the Federal laws.
The notes are convertible at par; that
is, they may at pleasure be exchanged
for notes of a different scries bearing
the same date of issue.
The bill creates a sinking fund for
the retirement of all bonds and notes,
and it is calculated at the Treasury
that an annual charge of $1,250,000,000
will wipe out the great war debt of
the country in twenty-five years.
Tlie bill contains two other important
provisions One extends credits to the
ji ins for i iahteen months after :!ie
war is officially ended, in ehse they
wish to buy wheat at the government
price or property and military supplies
owned by tlie United States in Europe.
The other permits the War Finance
Corporation to make advances up to
$1,000,000,000 to America exporters who
scannot get credit from the banks at
reasonable rates. That is intended to
make the resumption of foreign com
merce on a large scale easier ami more
rapid.
There is some danger to fear that peo
ple will be slow to take up this great
issue, for the end of the fighting lias
pi ado it difficult to maintain the pitch
of patriotic feeling that we all reached
when our soldiers were actually offer
ing their lives daily on the altar, and
the prepetuntiou of liberty throughout
the world was still in doubt. But the
money must be raised; the notes repre
sent government obligations that must
be met. this year, and we are confident
that our people, who have already cheer
fully and, it is fair to say, easily shoul
dered burdens that anly a few years
ago seemed unthinkable, will not prove
wanting before this last and severest
test. The Victory Loan, like all its fel
’ows, must go “over the top.”
DO YOU KNOW
In Russia school pupils are allowed to
choose between learning Trench and
German, and 70 per cent choose Ger
man.
The two sides of the human face are
never alike. In two out of five the
eyes are out of line; one eye is stronger
than the other in seven cases out of ten
and the right ear is generally higher
than the left.
The great wall of China, built 200
B, G,. is one thousand two hundred and
fifty miles long, twenty-five feet high
ami twenty-five feet thick at the base.
The ostrich claims the distinction of
laying the largest egg. The egg, which
weighs about three pounds, is consider
ed equal in contents to twenty-four hen
wrapped package, air- jp
• WRBGLEYS V
is hygienic and whoie
somel The goody 1
that’s good for young
and oid,
A The Flavor Lasts ZSSS
jfWw. Look for the
eggs.
The average age of members of the
Japanese Cabinet is- fifty-seven, the old
est being Count Okuma, seventy-seven,
am) the youngest Doctor I child, forty’
Color of Pure Copper.
The work of a Swiss investigator
suggests that absolutely pure copper
may have a light gray color like that ol
most other metals, since it is fount 1
that copper which has been ten times
distilled in vik'uo has only a pale rose
color, while the yellow dolor of gold
becomes much lighter under similar
treatments.