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THE NEWS & FARMER
Entered as second class mail matter at the post 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., APRIL 3, 1919
The former Czar of Russia is still dead according to the
latest newspaper reports. There have been several contra
dictions about his existence, but the latest news seems to
settle the matter definitely.
The Georgia peach crop had a clo*e call from Jack Frost
last Friday morning, but it has probably survived like so
many of its predecessors. Very fortunately we have not
missed having a peach crop in several years.
The peace program can not be perfected so as to bring
satisfaction to all of the interests involved, and therefore
some compromises will become necessary, but the ideals of
the leading dolegates have the endorsement of all fair min
ded men.
Farmers are complaining because they are not receiving
what they consider a fair price for their hogs and cattle
as compared with the retail prices being charged for meat,
and when the difference is considered they have just cause
for their protests.
The Augusta Chronicle has been giving us some fine edi
torials on taxes, a feature of government which is some
times abused in order to provide salaries for those who
hold the offices, but often some of the positions that are
held could be dispensed with altogether without any incon
venience to the tax payers.
The Bureau of Public Roads has issued an estimate that
the people of the United States will spend $500,000,000, this
year for work on the public roads, which is nearly two
million dollars a day. If permanent work could be accomp
lished with this vast sum it would be well invested, as we
must always have roads.
The Georgia papers report that hogs are dying from at
tacks of cholera almost everywhere. The buzzards scatter
the germs to all sections of the state. For this reason the
carcass of every animal that dies of disease should be burn
ed or deeply buried. If everybody will do this the disease j
will be more quickly checked and it may be prevented from
returning to its starting point in after years.
The liquor bill of the people of the United States has
heretofore been enormous, the sum expressed in figures be
ing almost unbelievable, but when the nation goes dry we
wonder what is going to become of all of that money. Some
of it will still be used in the purchase of stump rum, moon
shine and other concoctions containing sour mash and pot
ash, hut the bulk of it can be used for better purposes.
Since the docks have been pushed forward one hour the
people can now grab time by the forelock and get up be
fore day in order to keep up with the program of the day hi
work. The time is now two hours faster than this section
was accustomed to observe before the changes were made
in the reckoning one year ago.
There is one point made by an exchange which should
receive the attention of the producing classes. If produc
tion in any line of industry is cut down there is suie to be
a scarcity, and therefore it is inevitable that prices will go
up. The more we labor the more plentiful goods will be
come. Abundance of goods is the one and sole secret of
prosperity. v : >•
Judging from the reports that are coming across the ocean
from the European countries the people i,\ t r there are not
yet satisfied with the destruction that has been brought
about the war and are still wearing their war paint. The
Bolshevists do not believe that anybody should own any
property and are trying to kill out all who do not subscribe
♦o their doctrine.
Oil wells are being developed in England and it is claim
ed that the supply will exceed that of Pennsylvania which
has been the centre of the oil industry in this country for
the past half a century. Engineers are constantly making
investigations with the hope of developing new sources of
supply for this product which nature has hidden in the
earth for the? use of man. The question naturally arises
what shall we do when these sources of supply are exhaus
ted and no others can be found?
Dr. Williams who manipulates the Greensboro Herald-
Journal has been giving his readers some fine editorials on
civic improvements that are practical and to the point. Tin*
last edition contains an illuminating article on the lighting
system, as he wants a day current for the small enterprises,
such ns other places of the same size enjoy. The day current
is a great thing, ns industries requiring power prefer elec
tricity to the noisy bumps of an automatic engine.
Judge A. J. Cobb of Athens is being mentioned as a suita
Me man to succeed Judge Newman on the I'nited State*
district court. He possesses every qualification that would
commend him for the appointment and is one of the most
eminent Georgians whose loyalty to our government created
a wave of patriotism that swept through the state when war
was declared against German imperialism. He will grace
the position and no mistake would be made in his election
for the important position.
The wiregrass region of Georgia affords an abundance of
grass for grazing cattle and in the early spring of each
year the owners of the land burn off the old grass in orde.-
for the young grass to spring up. This practice has been
going on for many years, and while it affords fresh pastu
rage for cattle at the same time it destroys the young growth
th of the forest. More clear money could be made by rais
ing feed crops for the cattle and allowing the forest growth
to develop into timber, because timber is becoming scar
cer every year.
Johnson County is figuring on having n fence election
to determine whether the fences shall he kept up around
the farms or only around pastures to prohibit stock from
running at large on the public highways. Washington
county settled this question several years ago by voting
in favor of no fence and the people would not return to
the old method for any consideration. It takes lots of
money to build fences around plantations, but it does not
require much for fencing pastures, and therefore the no
fence law is the most economical for the people.
People who are looking for some form of government
that will bring the greatest good to the largest numbei
should take lessons from the bees. The first thing they do
is to muster out the Bolshevistic members of their hives
and then every insect gets busy storing tip honey for fu
ture use. If every human being would display as much
energy and industry as these little insects tho problems of
government would solve themselves to a considerable ex
tent. The idlers are invariablyy the ones that cause the
most trouble. It is a pity that with all of our boasted in
telligence we can not contrive a form of government that
will match the instinct which nature bestows upon the
bees.
Governor Allen of Kansas makes the allegation that sou
them farmers who would limit their cotton acreage an
“trading upon the misery of the world.* ’ He wants a
big cotton crop produced so that clothing will be cheap
as his state does not produce much cotton. But when it is re
membered that the government, in its eagerness to stimu
late the production of food crops that were so necessary
for the winning of the war, fixed a guaranteed price foi
wheat, which is one of the big crops of his state, he think?
that is all right. People all over the United States art
now paying three times as much for their bread as they
did before the war started, and while this is true they
should also be willing to pay the southern farmer what lu
considers an equitable price for hi 9 cotton.
Since the advent of the motor vehicle there has been a
general awakening on the road question, as the people rea
lize as never before how important it is to have roads that
can be traveled at all seasons of the year. Richmond county
blazed the way for better roads in Georgia by properly
working and draining them and using gravel freely wher
ever it was necessary. The sand bods were eliminated
which was a revelation to other sections of the state where
the people had driven through them for many years, con
siilering them a necessary evil which must be endured, av.d
when it was seen how easily they could be removed other
counties began to have the roads worked in a similar man
ner. Richmond is again blazing the way for permanent
roads, having recently awarded a contract for two miles
of sample road, just to see what can be done along this
line. As soon as the two miles is finished and ready for in
spection thousands of people from all over Georgia will
(lock to Augusta in order to see the two miles of sample
road, and this may lead to permanent construction in all
progressive counties.
A PICTURE OF MISERY
It is quite impossible for tnose of us who have had no
experience of similar conditions, even in a very modified
degree, to form any adequate conception of the misery
which large numbers of the soldiers had to endure in the
trenches, but. it is well to get as near to an understanding
of it as possible by reading the reports of eye-witnesses.
The Kansas City “Star** publishes one very graphic de
scription. It says:
The was already is beginning to seem a dim and far off
thing. Its horrors are fading from memory. It is fortu
nate that human nature is made this way. And yet it
would be a tragedy if the lessons of the war were not suf
ficiently brought home to us to make us determine to take
the practical measures of preparedness which alone can
safeguard us so far as is humanly possible from a repeti
tion of what our men went through in France. A private
letter to the “Star” from its correspondent., O. P. 11..
brings home the situation so vividly that a passage may be
quoted:
“I never passed such horrible days in my life as I did
during the entire Argonne and Meuse drive. Nothing to
eat, cold, hungry, wet, sleepless, tired and sometimes under
fire. I’ve paid a dollar many a time for a cup of coffee.
Provisions was scarce, and the cooks always wanted to keep
the stuff for their own men because there were so many,
many men who were hungry and cold in the same fix we
were. It was just like a lot of men running wild in the
marshes along the Missouri River, only it was from seven
ty-five to one hundred miles deep and some forty or fifty
wide.
It was dog eat dog and devil take the hindmost. M.
died as a result of it. Another man went home with eon
sumption; the doctors sent N. home from Luxemburg be
cause they thought he was developing it; P. never reached
the Rhine, but had to be sent back; K. developed a cough
and is now’ in Algiers trying to get rid of it.
“The soldiers died like flies in a trap from September
2fi to November 11, and it is a wonder to me that they
all didn’t die. You can’t imagine what a human being
can endure when ho is put to it. But you can’t keep it up
for long. The boche and the French said w'e couldn’t break
the Hindenburg nr.d the Kremhilde line in a winter cam
paign, but we did. But, , the suffering! I saw more
war in the four weeks I was in the Argonne-Mouse drive
than I did in the whole nine months I have been over here,
and the 35th saw more in five days than they did in the en
tire time they were in the line. It surely was Hell with a
capital H, and if the people at home don’t build some kind
if a monument and secure employment for every one of the
men who w’ent through with it, they will certainly be very
ungrateful. ’ ’
That is the experience of a noncombatant. Add to it
the strain of the man who was taking part in the drives
and you get a picture of those last days of the war.
No one can appreciate the agony of war without having
impressed upon him the necessity of making certain that
impractical remedies are not adopted in the peace confer
ence and that the highest practical wisdom be invoked in
the interest of a lasting peace.
And no one can learn what the boys from this part of
the country went through in France without feeling the
responsibility to do all that can be done to make certain
that they have their chance w’hen they get home.
A NEW ERA IN HISTORY
The Brooklyn “Eagle” shows the necessity for a league
to preserve peace in a very forcible way and defends Mr.
Wilson against the charge that he tried to force the accep
tance of the tentative draft agreed to by the conference
in Paris without amendment.
While nationalism may be benefieient, it is in many in
stances a disruptive force. Conditions in Europe are caleu
iated to lead to indefinite warfare in the attempt to realize
national aspirations. Such warfare can be avoided onlv
by the co-operative action of the great nations.
Of the two great dynamic forces now conflicting one
makes for national self-consciousness; the other for a wi
der organization of humanity. The federative principle
has made this country what it is and only its application
can save France.
There cannot he a lotus-eating American, careless of man
kind.
The formation of the League will mark a capital event in
history and will furnish a basis for the marshalling of m.i
terial and moral force behind law.
Nothing can prevent these truisms—that is what they
are—from coming into their own. Organized brutality is
on the scrap heap and the proposition is that it shall stay
there. The undertaking is passing from the abstract to the
concrete after many vicissitudes, and after having been re
garded as something in the nature of the unsubstantial
fabric of a vision. It is now being interpreted as giving
expression to what has been called the passionate longing
of the world, which longing makes no fetish of precedent
nr prerogative.
This is a matter in which the President has shown no
pride of phraseology. Nor in the matter of provisions,
specific or general, has he been enamored of the means, pre
suming the end to bo attained. There was reason in his
request that discussion by the Henate be deferred until he
could meet and talk with the Committee on Foreign Re
lations. It was unreasonable to expect that he should make
disclosures during the progress of the discussion in the
Paris Conference on the occasion of his first visit.
Candor compels the admission that the President might
have facilitated his own purpose from the beginning had he
ought co-operation from the sources “consulted” in and
by the Constitution. It is perhaps to be regretted that he
lid not do so, or that he did not avail himself of other op
nortunitics, but failures of that sort do not go to the vitals
The damage they do is not irreparable, that they should
stand in the way or persist as obstacles to what has been
undertaken in the name of humanity.
More than two years ago the President became prophetic:
“I feel that the world is even now upon the eve of a great
■onsummation, when some common force will be broughi
into existence which aball safeguard right as the first and
foremost fundamental interest of all peoples and all govern
ments, when coercion shall he summoned, not to the service
of political ambition or selfish hostility, but to the service
of a common order, a common justice and a common peace.”
He spoke better than he knew. His prediction is in pro
cess of fulfillment.
THE NEWS AND FARMER, THURSDAY APRIL 3, 1919
PEACE AND THE LEAGUE
From the Youths Companion.
The tentative covenant for a Leagui
if Nations that President Wilso
brought back with him from Europe
sharp criticism in the Uni
ted States Senate. That is as it should
■e the project is too momentous for us
*■■o neglect or consider every weakness
in the covenant that aeiPe and hnstil
minds can find in it. The Senate of
’nurse cannot ofveiallv consider it un
til it receives the treaty that will em
body it, but in talking about it in ad
vance it can bring before the country
before the President and before the
Peace Conference valuable criticism by
the aid of which the provisional draft
may be strengthened and the final form
■f it become much clearer in meaning,
much safer in its provisions, much more
workable, much more an instrument to
awaken trust and confidence.
It must be said of those who have
taken ground against the league that
they are quite as earnestly in favor of
tho aims of the league —peace, security,
freedom —as the most eager advocates
of it are; but they believe that that
plan has some provisions that cannot
be made to work, and that it makes
what they regard as harmful conces
sions. They believe that America will
lose its sovereignty, and that tho Mon
roo Doctrine will virtually bo abroga
ted. They object to placing our govern
ment under obligation to interfere with
military force in disputes that occur
on other continents and on demand of
an Executive Council controlled by for
eign powers. They also object to hav
ing any restraint put on our own inde
pendent action in dealing single-handed
with troubles that concern us and our
neighbors, but that do not concern
European nations. They fear that it is
nut a voluntary association from which
the United States may withdraw with
out fighting anew war of secession.
That much can be said in support of
all those points may be frankly admit
ted. On the other hand, we must bear
in mind that the plan undertakes to
create a society of nations on the anal
ogy of our civil constitution, in which
every citizen submits for the good of
all. to certain restraints upon his abso
lute personal liberty. In forming sneii
a society every nation must surrender
something. Just as in civil communities
restraints are for those who are inclined
to break laws, so in this matter, if the
international laws be just and we do
not break them, we have no reason
to dread the future. We may confi
dently expect the* the associated na
tions will show as much reasonableness
and consideration 'or others is our
representatives wi 1 ’ r.iiovv in dealing
with international questions that come
hefoi" theoi. Moreover, we must re
member tha'. we yield 11.1 principle and
no right of sovereignty that is not al
so conceded by every other country
that joins the league.
What will be done about it? In de
scribing the draft as tentative, the
Peace Conference tacitly invites eriti-
cism and tacitly promise to do more
work on it to perfect it. The present
criticism will undoubtedly be consider
ed; some may be met, others may be
doomed invalid. But when the work
is done, it will be accepted by all na
tions concernedunless wo much mis
take the opinion not only of the Uni
ted States but of the w'orld. The
war-wearied people are determined on
tho experiment, and they will have
their way.
G E ORGI A ,j eT(e rsoit -Gount v .
11. C. Brown having made application
to me in due form to lie appointed ad
ministrator upon the estate of T. L.
Brown, late of said county, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that said ap
plication will be heard at the next reg
ular term of the court of ordinary for
said county to be held on the First
Monday in April, 1919.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture this March 3rd, 1919.
.IAS. F. BROWN, Ordinary.
GEORGIA Jefferson County.
To all whom it may concern: The
apraisers appointed to set apart and
assign a year’s support to Eloise and
Madge Brown, children of T. L. Brown,
having made and filed their return at
my office as required by law. These
are therefore to notify all persons con
corned that I will pass upon said ap
plication at my office on the first Mon
day in April, 1919.
March 3, 1919.
•I AH. E. BROWN, Ordinary.
Matters Not to Be Discussed.
Of this fact we may all rest as
sured: The quieter we keep about
ourselves, our affairs, pleasant or oth
erwise, the better it will be for us.
Time is at a premium these days, and
If we hope to surmount our difficulties,
no matter how trying they may be, we
must wisely learn to keep each and
every one of those problems in the
background.
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U. 8. Invents Anti-Rust “Dope."
Incident to the war, the government
has faced the problem that has so long
proved baffling to commercial con
cerns of protecting Iron and steel from
rust In an attempt to solve this fed
eral specialists have perfected various
forms of protective coatings. In this
connection It may be pertinent to ask
whether commercial uses will not be
found also for the so-called “dopes"
which the government has Invented to
be applied to airplane wings and which
are possessed of valuable weather-r
-slstlng and fireproof qualities.
EFFECT OF COLOR UPON THE
DURABILITY OF PAINT.
Property owners who may have un
der consideration the painting of
dwellings and other structures should
remember that more durable results
are obtained when tinted paints are
used. Permanent coloring materials
which have been ground by machine
Into a high grade white paint base
have the effect of preventing "chalk
ing” and "checking,” two defect*
which are often observed when white
paints are used.
PRETTY COLOR COMBINATIONS.
Ground Stipple Stencil
Coat Coat Color
White Light Rose Medium,
Light Gray
White Light Gray Dull Blue,
Gray-Green
White Light Warm Light Cobalt
Yellow Blue, Neutral
Light Drab
Light Gray Same Gray, Gray, Gray
a little dark- Green or
er Light Cobalt
Blue
Light Gray Light Blue Gray, Blue or
Light Orange
Yellow
Light Gray Green Light Gray,
Neutral Drab
Ivory Olive Green Ivory or
Grayish
Light Green
Light Colo- Light Blue Neutral
nial Yellow Gray, Ivory
Gold Bronze Dark Green Light Warm
Drab, Me
dium Olive,
Warm Gray,
Cream.
Aluminum Blue Delft Blue,
Bronze Light Ivory.
Light Neu
tral Gray
Ivory Taa Brown,
Burnt Um
ber, Cream
Ivory Dark Brown Light Tan,
Cream, Light
Gray Drab
Citation For Divorce.
GEORGlA—Jefferson County.
Lewis Hinkins vs. Lizzie Hinkins,
Superior Court, May Term, 1919.
To Lizzie Hinkins, greeting: By or-
Jer of court you are notified that on the
18th day of November, 1918, Lewis Hin
kins filed suit against you for divorce,
returnable to the May term, 1919, of
said court.
You are hereby required to be and
appear at the May term, 1919 of said
court, to be held on the second Mon
day in May, 1919, then and there to an
swer the plaintiff’s complaint.
Witness the Honorable R. N. Harde
man, judge of said court, this the 27th
day of February, 1918.
W. S. MURPHY, Clerk.
J R Phillips, Atty for Petitioner,
thru May 8
This sleeping sickness isn’t anything
new. We have a touch of it every year
at about this season.
LADIES' and MISSES’
HATS FOR EASTER
We have just received our last shipment of EASTER HATS for
LADIES, MISSES and CHILDREN, embracing the last word in
style. Really this showing is truly wonderful. We invite the
fair sex to see these new and novel designs in spring and sum
mer’s niftiest designs and colors. Miss McMichael, who has
charge of this department will be delighted to show you the new
arrivals.
B. P. RAMSEY
s
Millinery Department.
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Application For Administration.
GEORGlA—Jefferson county.
J. Ij. Upton having in proper form
applied to me for Permanent Letters of
Administration on the estate of J. F.
Upton, late of said county, this is to
cite all and singular the creditors and
next of kin of J. F. Upton to be and
appear at my office within the time
allowed by law, and show cause, if any
they can, why permanent administra
tion should riot be granted to J. L. Up
ton on J. F. Upton’s estate.
JAS. F. BROWN, Ordinary.
Russian prisoners in Germany, now
fed by America, are clamoring for their
inalienable right to go home and starve.
Debtors and Creditors Notice.
All persons indebted to the estate of
A. B. L. Flemming will please make
payment to the undersigned, and all
persons holding claims against the es
tate of A. B. L. Flemming will please
present them to the undersigned.
J. S. FLEMMING,
J. TANARUS: FLEMMING.
Louisville, Ga., Feb. 15, 1919 2-20-6 t
Interest is divided betuyeen the worn
en who demand the rigtft to work and
men who demand the right to loaf.
The bewhiskered gentleman in the
fourth row will please tell us the dif
ference between Bolshevism and the
methods of Jesse James.