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THE NEWS & FARMER
Entered as second class nail matter at the v*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
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LOUISVILLE, GA., APRIL ~ 1919
The icy weather that prevailed several mornings last
week was an April fool to the fellow who had shaken off
winter and plunged into summer.
The greatest trouble that the pence congress is encounter
ing is because each nation that is represented at the table
wants the biggest piece of pie.
Hides are said to be plentiful, but at the same time the
leather dealers are predicting a shortage in this commodity
and assert that higher-priced shoes will follow.
This section of Georgia may yet become the oil centre of
Georgia, as those who have discovered traces of oil are
making diligent investigations to see whether the deposits
are sufficient to bo commercialized.
The Sudan of Turkey wants justice for his people, so he
says. But if they should get justice there wiuld ne not one
of them left ou the top side of the earth, according to the
American interpretation of the word.
If many more of the members of the cabinet take trips
to Kurope our seat of government might as well be tempo
rarily located in Paris. The precedents established since
tile United States began to take a part in the great world
war would have seemed entirely out of place a generation
ago.
Our country is now Loginning to food the Germans, as
food hv the ship load is being forwarded to that country.
There are some people who think they should be made to
go hungry a long time before being given any assistance,
because they caused so much destruction in their ambition
to dominate the affairs of all other nations.
The Bolshevists believe that when a man earns twenty
five dollars a week he should divide with tin* man who has
made no effort and has nothing to show for the week’s
time. There are some people in this country who are act
ing on this principle whether they subscribe to the doctrine
or not.
The American humorous writers are soon to hold a con
vention in Philadelphia. The humorous writer attracts
more renders than the one who gives us broadsides on what
the delegates t< the peace conference should do to save the
world from mother cataclysm of war, just as the burnt
cork artists always draw a bigger crowd at the theatre
than the most talented tragedian.
John Barleycorn is making a desperate fight through the
medium of the courts for a chance to continue in business,
but the verdict >f the states that have acted through their
legislative powers is against a continuance and this great
est enemy of mankind must never again be tolerated. A
hundred years, lienee the civilized people of the earth will
wonder why such an evil should have been permitted so
long.
Helgoland, the little island that was once possessed I>v
the British, and later reded to Germany, will t*lit an im
portant caper in the jn-are negotations. The fortifications
are considered impregnable, or as nearly so as German in
dustry could make them after the expenditure of enormous
sums of money, and it is now the purpose of the peace mak
ers to completely destroy this modern Gibraltar which was
constructed for war purposes only.
Savannah lias been having a row with her pawn brokers
whose tricks of trade have never boon much admired. The
three ball artists wanted to have the age limit lowered so
that it would be permissible for children to secure loans,
but there has been such a kick against the proposition that
the concession was not granted. The Savannah News took
a firm stand against the proposition, and in so doing voiced
the sentiments of the best peojde of our chief seaport city.
F en before the spring is under full headway the. people
are being urged to buy their supplies of coal for next win
ter, for two reasons, the first of which is* to create an imme
diate demand for the output <f the mines, and the second
is because later in the year enormous quantities of coal
will be exported, at which time nearly all coal cars will
be moving to the coast cities to till the contracts, and it will
the:i be practically impossible to supply the demands in this
country.
When the constitution of the United States was adop
ted its reading could be interpreted two different ways in
order to compromise the differences of opinion, and this
eventually opened the way for the war between the north
ern and southern states, as one interpretation was that a
state had a right to secede and the other was that it could
not do so. It is hoped that the world peace congress now
in session will avoid ambiguity in language, and that there
will be no more wars in the future.
Higher prices :ir- being predicted for shoes on .'recount of
the shortage of raw material and the unusual demand from
foreign countries that have been shut off from commerce
on account of the world war. There is a scarcity of leather
in all of the European countries as the war prevented the
natural increase in animals because so many had to bo used
tor food, and it may l>e several years before the normal sup
ply increases sufficiently to meet the demands. This may
compel some of our people to wear bare skin shoes.
The greatest handicap to the raising of hogs in Georgia
is the occasional outbreak of cholera which takes heavy toll
of the swine, sometimes completely wiping out an entire
herd, bike all other diseases this can be prevented or con
trolled by taking the proper precautions. Government
representatives, who have made a study of tin- disease and
know what should be doHe to prevent its spread have been
actively at work in various parts of the state, and they
should have the hearty co operation of the people. They
advise either the burning or the deep burial of every hog
that dies of disease so as to prevent the spread of the germs
by buzzards and dogs. The buzzards fly long distances and
can spread the germs over several counties. Therefore it
will be seen that the advice to destroy tin* carcasses is very
important.
Home of the tough citizens of Virginia made it a rule to
enter the south bound trains for the purposes of grabbing
valises and appropriating the contents, espeecini'y those
eei it-ining basks of Ii jut r that had been bought in New
York, Baltimore or other northern cities. When a passen
ger would be ask"d if the valise by his side was his proper
ty, fearing that he would be arrested and detained by offic
ials, he would deny ownership, whereupon the supposed offi
cer would grab it and get off of the train. One man was
asked if a certain valise was his property and his reply was
that it was not but that it belonged to his wife, and he
would kill any man who picked it up. The tough thought
he was putting up a bluff and started out with it, but a
bullet ended his life. The courts acquitted the man who
did the killing, as it was decided that he had a right to
protect hi, wife’s property. I
A GAIN AT THE WORST
Mr. Elihu Root, one of the best known lawyers in the
country, has advised the brewers to go on making beer, but
to take care that there is not more than two and three quar
ters per cent, of alcohol in it. The law’ prohibiting the
manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors does not say
what liquors are intoxicating and the brewers will claim
that two and three quarters per cent, beer is not.
Well, it would take a good deal of such beer to produce
any visible effect on a man who is accustomed to the use
of liquor, and it will not satisfy the cravings of the whis
key drinkers. One of them remarked to the writer, 1 ‘That
is no good, it is just like water.”
Therefore, even if the brewers should be ablfe to estab
lish their claim that they have still a right to make two
and three quarters per cent, beer, the law forbidding the
manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors would not be a
dead letter, but would be productive of very great good
in prohibiting the sale of stronger liquors.
And when Congress meets again it can define the mean
ing of intoxicating liquors in an authoritative way. We
have always regarded the law prohibiting the sale of liquor
after duly 1 as a mere makeshift, but on the 16th of Janu
ary next the prohibition amendment to the Constitution
comes into force and that is not a temporary or arbitrary
enactment. It will be the duty or Congress to pass a very
clear enactment giving effect to hie enactment and impos
ing severe* penalties for its violation.
THE ONLY HOPE OF A BANKRUPT
WORLD
The scheme for a League of Nations drafted at Paris
is not perfect. Of course, it is not. And if the men who
are opposing it so bitcrly be allowed to rewrite the whole
document to suit themselves, their scheme would not be per
fect. Nothing that ever emanated from the mind of man
w r as perfect. Only God can do work that cannot be found
fault with. And there .are a good many people who even
think they could improve on ITis work. It is very important
that the agreement for a league of nations should be made
as perfect as possible, but it is necessary that some such
scheme should be adopted at the earliest possible moment,
and if its adoption should be delayed until it exactly meets
the approval of everybody, eternity w r ould not be long
enough to bring the league into being.
The conservative enemies of the League of Nations are
not the only ones who find fault with it. Some even are
disposed to fear that it may lack almost as many of the
essential qualities of a truly effective society of nations
for the prevention of war as did the old American articles
of confederation for the effective union of the thirteen colo
nies. Of the Continental Congress, under those articles, it
was said by a distinguished American statesman: * ‘They
may make and conclude treaties, but can only recommend
the observance of them. They may appoint ambassadors,
but they cannot defray the expenses of their tables. They
may borrow money in their own name or the faith of the
Union, but they cannot pay a dollar. They may coin money,
but they cannot import an ounce of bullion. They may
make war and determine what number of troops are neces
sary, but they cannot raise a single soldier. In short, they
may declare everything, but they can do nothing.”
Yet the articles of confederation, crudely defective as
they were, served a good and useful purpose, leading to
better things as the country developed. Civilization now
calls for a new’ world order; it must have it or perish. The
League of Nations may be everything that its critics both
hostile and friendly say it is, and still it must be tried.
Nothing else in sight offers hope. For the past, with a world
war to its credit costing 10,000,000 lives and $197,000,000,-
000, is bankrupt.
ONE LAW DEFEATS THE PURPOSE
OF ANOTHER
In its anxiety to promote agriculture in order to increase
the production of food the late Congress did not stop to con
sider the injustice to other taxpayers involved in some of
the provisions made for the benfit of agriculturists. The
Boston ‘ ‘ Transcript ’ ’ shows that the tax-free five per cent,
bonds of the Federal Land Bank system will naturally be
bought up bv persons who have very large incomes who
will thus escape the payment of the high taxes properly
imposed on big incomes and thereby the burden of taxation
will be caused to fall heavily on persons with moderate
incomes.
Although the latest reports show that loans made by the
Federal land banks averaged $3,51(5 in the month of Febru
ary, the records of all the business done by the banks since
the system was first established how an average loan of
only $2,428. Thi tends to refute the charge lately mad'
by the Farm Mortage Bankers’ Association that the Federal
Farm Loan Hoard unduly favors the making of large loans.
The figures which the association quoted were taken chief
ly from the State of lowa. There it does appear that the
loans granted by the Federal system have been quite high.
Brior to Oct. 1. 1918, the Federal land bank in lowa had
lent $5,412,350 on mortgages averaging $0,731. A figure so
high as this association regards as evidence that the Fed
eral system is lending its money to landholders so well en
dowed with real estate that there is small reason why the
general public of the United State's should bear the burden
of making it easy for them to secure borrowed money on
very lenient conditions. And in this declaration, with re
gard at least to the State of lowa, the Hankers’ Associa
tion appears certainly to be right; but the figure struck for
all the Farm Loan Hoard’s business, showing an average
loan of only $2,428, rather militates against this contention,
as we have said, in the nation at large.
Where the Farm Mortgage Hankers’ Association of Amer
ica. has performed its most useful service, in recent criti
cism of the Federal Land Bank system, is in the exposition
it has made of the tremendous burden thrown back on the
general public by the fact that the bonds of the land banks
are totally exempt from taxation. The association’s criti
cism on this score is the more valid in view of the fact
when f’ongress made these bonds tax exempt it had no reali
zation whatever of the immense importance which this pro
vision would come to bear in the future. The day of vast
war expense .and of sharply retrogressive income taxes had
not yet dawned. It was never so much as imagined that a
tax-exempt five per cent bond would produce, for investors
whose incomes lie in the high brackets of the present rev
enue law, a return equal to the yield of a taxable security
paving from 12 to 15 per cent. Yet this has become true
today and, as tin* Farm Mortgage Hankers’ Association tells
the story, it creates a situation worthy the attention of
thoughtful financial interests the country over. The asso
ciation says that ‘‘if as much as one-half of the outstand
ing farm mortgage indebtedness of the country were in the
form of Federal farm loan bonds, the Federal Government
alone would conceivably lose $66,000,000 a year in exemp
tions. ’ ’
it may seem cold and uncharitable, in these days of over
whelming taxation, to find fault with anything under the
sun that has the good fortune to tie exempt! But when the
immense size to which the total of the Federal farm loan
bonds may run is taken into account, the situation is seen to
threaten a danger which would operate to the disadvantage
of a great many more thousands of people, including thous
ands of investors, than it could possibly benefit.
The whole tendency of this tax-exempt issue is one of
gravitates there, and as the amount of the bonds increases
of the* country's most wealthy people. And if enough of it
gravities there, and as the amount of the bonds increaases—
it is estimated that there is a total of four biliion dollars
outstanding on farm mortgages—the result must inevitably
be a heavy and disproportionate increase in the taxes levied
upon ail ccthcr citizens of the United States and upon all
other existing securities in order to mako up the deficiency
ecu sed bv the tax exemption. The principle of tax exemp
t. ,:i lias been abandoned, except for suitable allowances, on
all issues of Liberty Bonds subsequent to the first. The tax
exempt feature of the five per cent bonds of the land gives
them an undue advantage over the Liberty issus, and for
this reason alone it should he soon discontinued. No one
proposes, of course, that the terms of the outstanding bonds
be in any way changed. That would be a plain breach of
faith. But as for the future, anew at and more economical
policy should be quickly sdopted.
THE NEWS & FARMER, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1919
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Plans have been completed for a huge
officer’s training school at Camp Ben
ning, Columbus, Ga., which will bn
what th3 war department, character
izes as the “West Point of the South.’’
Mere than $7,000,00 will be spent in
tke erection of concrete barracks and
houses for the student officers, about
4,000 rf whom can be ac.’onuuai.d nt
the establishment wher. fully completed.
More than 100,000 areas of land will
be required for the camp and accord
ing to an announcement made in At
lanta this week, surveys and title in
vestigations are .now being made with
a view to purchase of the entire tract
by the government. It is planned to
train young officers in every branch
of military science except artillery and
aviation.
Much interest is being manifested by
the numerous friends in Georgia of
Colonel William J. Oliver over his elec
tion as president of the Knoxville board
of commerce. Colonel Oliver is well
known in Georgia and was one of the
prominent visitors at the recent tract
show in Macon, where the Oliver trac
tor carried off high honors and was re
warded with many orders. The career
of Colonel Oliver has been one of the
inspiration. From a modest beginning
in the chalk industry 25 years ago he
has become head of the Oliver Tractor
Company, of Knoxville, Tenn., manu
facturers of the only tractor made in
the South.
For the first time in history women
are to be admitted to Emory Universi
ty, announcement having just been
made that the summer school to be con
ducted on the campus in Druid Hills
park will be co-educational, one of the
new dormotories to be given over to
women.
There will be two sessions of the sum
mer school, one to extend from June
25 to August and the other from
August 2 to Sejjt. 2. The first session
will include professional courses for
teachers as well as college credit co
ses and the second will lie devoted to
college and university credit courses.
Travelers arriving in Atlanta with
flasks of the beverages which both
cheers and inebriates, are finding rather
hard sledding, owing to the unwelcome
activities of the military police. Pas
sengers on incoming trains are being
held up and their baggage searched
with increasing regularity, although
there are protests galore and frequent
threats of physi a! < iicounters between
tia-elcr** and the soldier ;. icci.- 111. Cut
day tliis week a whr :<■ trainload of pas
scnpvrs w/%* held up whih the officers
went through their luggage and tr nk.
A word to the wise is sufficient.
Baptists of Georgia are being urged
to give $200,000 of the $1,000,000 to be
raised in a campaign which was launch
ed tins week by tlu* Home Mission
Board and which will continue through
April 30.
Reports are to the effect that the
campaign already is meeting with suc
cess. The money will be devoted to the
maintainence and extension of home
missions in the south as well as in Cu
ba and Panama. It is altogether a
southern campaign since the money is
to be used in the south. Educational
and camp service work will come in for
a large share of the fund.
The budget commission, appointed,
under authority of the last general as
sembly, is gradually getting its report
session of the legislature. With tin*
exception of the state university, the
state normal school at Athens and tin
state college of agriculture, the variou
state institutions have been visited and
inspected by the commission. Tin* trip
to Athens is to be made this week and
then the commission will get down to
its final work of compiling its detail
ed report. The commission has f
its object the formulation of a defi
nite, systematic plan of operation for
a : the state institution*' and lepart
ments.
After two years in which the peo
ple og Georgia were unable to avail
themselves of the privilege of hearing
the world’s greatest singers, the return
of the Metropolitan Opera Company
to Atlanta for a w r eek’s engagement is
opening the way to the people of the
State and South to hear the golden
voice of Caruso and many other noted
singers.
The sale of season tickets is just
closed has been a phenomenal one, and
those in charge of the sales are expect
ing that the sale of seats for single per
formances will exceed those of any pre
vious year. The seat sale for single
performances opened this week with a
record crowd of purchasers, but there
are still many good seats to be had, ow
COULD HARDLY
STAND ALONE
Terrible Suffering From Headache,
Sideache, Backache, and Weak
ness, Relieved by Cardui,
Says This Texas Lady.
Gonzales, Tex.— Mrs. Minnie Phil
pot, of this place, writes: “Five years
ago I was taken with a pain In my
left side. It was right under my
left rib. It would commence with an
aching and extend up into my left
shoulder and on down Into my back.
By that time the pain would he bo
severe I would have to take to bed,
and suffered usually about three days
... I suffered this way for three years,
and got to be a mere skeleton and was
so weak I could hardly stand alone.
Was not able to go anywhere and had
to let my house work g0...1 suffered
awful with a pain in my back and I
had the headache all the time. I just
was unable to do a thing. My life
was a misery, my stomach got In an
awful condition, caused from taking
so much medicine. 1 suffered so much
pain. I had just about given up all
hopes of our getting anything to help
me.
One day a Birthday Almanac was
thrown in my yard. After reading
Its testimonials I decided to try Car
dui, and am so thankful that I did,
for I began to improve when on the
second bottle...l am now a well
woman and feeling fine and the cure
has been permanent for it has been
two years since my awful bad health.
I will always praise and recommend
(tordui." Try Cardui today. B 78
ing to the huge seating capacity of
the Auditorium.
Was Savings Stamps were sold dur
ing the past month in larger quanti
ties than before in this year, owing to
the systematic plan that is being put
into effect by the Georgia War Savings
organization.
The schools of the state, including
higher institutions as well as the pub
lic schools, are being used as a mediiim
for reaching the public with the idea
of thrift as a patriotic dnty to the na
tion as well as a personal, civic and
state asset in character. A specially
appointed committee has drawn up a
plan for the teachers to use in their
classes, and beginning this month, in
struction in thrift becomes a regular
and permanent part of the routine of
the class room.
Periodical reports will be made to the
centra) offices of the War Savings or
ganization in Georgia, and the govern
ment will furnish franked post cards
to the teachers for their use in mak
ing this report. In this way, every
teacher really becomes at recognized
agent of the government.
BARRETT PLEADS FOR COTTON
Charles S. Barrett, of Union City,
president of the National Farmers’
Union, has returned from London and
Paris where he went to present the
claims of American farmers to the
peace delegates. Mr. Barrett urged
the delegaates to adopt, so far as pos
sible, a uniform system of crop estimat
ing and reporting. He made a special
plea for lifting the embargo on cotton.
He asked that eonvenant be arranged
to provide for special body to have
direct charge of the interests of inter
national agriculture.
GEORGIA’S CROP ACREAGE
According to the United States de
partment of Agriculture the crop acre
age in Georgia is now 12,624,000 acres
against 9,652,383 in 1909 and the slate
now has 330,000 farms. More than
56,000,000 acres have boon added to the
country’s crop acreage in the last ten
years. Texas leads with 25,328,000
or slightly more than one sixth of her
total land area.
WIND SAVES FRUIT
According to fruit and weather ex
perts the wind which ushered in the
month of April saved the fruit crop of
Georgia from serious damage by pre
venting a heavy frost.
The bond of $3,000 for “Handsome
Bill” Cock, convicted of attempting
with Mrs. Margaret Hirsc-h to black
mail Asa G. Candler, lias been declar
ed forfeited. He was sentenced to
SI,OOO or one year. His mother put up
his bond of $3,000 and officers for some
time past have been unable to locate
“ Handsome Bill.”
Mr. Gladstone’s second Home Rule
lull (1893) passed the Commons by a
majority of 34, but was rejected by the
House of Lords.
Vegetable Diet.
A well-balanced diet does not neces
sitate much meat. The leaf vegetables,
like cabbage, spinach, celery, onions,
etc., are now in their prime, and should
be used as the basis of a number of
appetizing dishes. Supplemented as
they can be by a liberal allowance of
milk, cereals and a limited number of
eggs, the proper food values are fully
maintained.
Notice To The
Public
We have just let the contract for the building of our new
Banking Home. We expect to have the most complete and up-to
date banking quarters for our customers of any country Bank
in this section of the state. i
In our temporary quarters we are as fully prepared, finan
cially, to take care of your wants as we have always been.
We want to assure our old friends of our appreciation of
their business and to invite correspondence from new ones de
siring the services of an institution able at all times to take care
of any legitimate banking proposition.
Statement of Condition at Close of Business March 31st, 1919:
RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts $221,079.60
U. S. Bonds 44,142.00
Stock in Federal Reserve
Bank 2,800.00
Redemption Fund 850.00
(’ash in vault and on deposit
with banks 104,962.67
TOTAL .$373,834.27
First National Bank
W. W. ABBOT, President. C. W. POWERS, Cashier.
M. G. GAMBLE, Vice President W. R. SINQTJEFIELD, Vice President.
LOUISVILLE, GA.
STYLISH HATS FOR EASTER
We invite the ladies and misses to visit our
store and see the classy display of new and au
thoritative styles of TRIMMED HATS. This ex
hibition exceeds all other displays by a mile.
WAISTS: —They are here in all the glory of
spring. See the spring shades and white in Crejie
de Chine and Georgette Crepe.
SILK STOCKINGS. —The good heavy, soft
glossy kind with seams in the back—in all colors.
SEE LOVELY SHOWING of SILK DRESSES
R. LICHTENSTEIN
Ladies’ Millinery and Ready-to-Wear
LOUISVILLE, GA.
BUGGIES, WAGONS, HARNESS
High class vehicles. Reasonable
prices. My best recommendations
are numberless satisfied custo
mers.
W. P. Lowry
LOUISVILLE, GA.
It begins to look as if a good many
Georgia people soo may be getting
their mail by airship. Asa G. Candler
has donated a landing place in Atlanta
and the Atlanta Journal is strong for
the establishment of an aerial mail
route between Atlanta and eastern and
southern points. Reports from Wash
ington indicate that the establishment
of such a mail service at a comparative
ly early date is not at all unlikely.
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The term “Home Rule” was invented
by the late Prof. Galbraith, a senior
fellow- of Trinity College, Dublin.
Don’t Do It.
It is bad manners and bad business
etiquette for two employees of the
same office to discuss the personal af
fairs of fellow workers or of their em
ployer. Almost every worker is in pos
session of some private information as
a result of his work, but that should
be regarded as a trust not to be be
trayed. It Is also bad manners to in
quire as to the wages or the particu
lar duties of fellow- workmen.—Biddy
Bye.
LIABILITIES:
Capital stock paid in $ 42,500.00
Surplus & Undivided Profits 05,275.13
Circulation 11,000.00
Deposits 250,845.51
Unpaid dividends 0.00
Re-Discounts 4,207.63
TOTAL $373,834.27