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THE NEWS & FARMER Entered as second class mail matter at the post office, Louisville, Ga. f 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 One Year, in Advance $1.50 Six Months in Advance -75 NOTICE. The News & Farmer will take pleasure in publishing cards of thanks, in memoriams, obituaries, resolutions, etc., free of charge, provided the pertics interested pay for the cost of setting the type. This cost is only fifty cents and whenever notices of this kind are to be inserted this fee must be sent in advance. LOUISVILLE. GA., APRIL 17, 1919 Detroit is speeding up the production of automobiles to one a minute. It looks like tin* demand increases instead of decreasing, and the supply of new cars is never sufficient to meet the requirements of the people. Although they lost in the great game of war the Germans are doing their best to cause dissensions among the repre sentatives at the peace table, with tin* hope that the aims and objects of the allies will be defeated. Kugene V. Debs, convicted for violation of the espionage act, now finds that lie must serve a term in prison. A man who sets up his own opinion against the constituted authori ties of government generally comes to grief. The newspapers arc beginning to look some whiter since the war is practically over, as the chemicals used for this purpose are now available, which is quite a contrast to the yellow looking sheets that became a necessity on account of the war. The Milhdgvilie News very correctly says: It is high iim* that another < nmpaign be waged against pistol to ters in Georgia, as wo hardly ever pick up a paper without seeing a now> item giving account of the reckless use of these damnable weapons. As spring advances cyclones in tin* west increase, a very destructive one having be**n reported in IVxas the past week. While Gcorgin is not immune from these disturb ances of the elements, they do not occur her-* with as much fn-qiiencv as in the west, which is another good reason for remaining in Georgia. Th< who;;■ -<•]• s reported t** be the biggest in the his tory of tin ['!!:' States, but t!ii> docs not mean that people will g'-t cheaper Hour, according to the reports of the wind- sale a- alers who are now warning their customers that then* will probably lie a sharp advance quite soon. There does not seem to be any inclination by those who arc - itting at the j■< a- table to demand the execution of the former German emperor, but they should demand that the man who was responsible for the murder of Kdith C’avell should be shot. Old Tirpitz would also be a good mark for a squad with ritles. Gov. Allen of Kansas wants a restraining order to pre vent tie- • •it ton planters of the southern states from re din ing their cotton acreage, as he believes that people everywhere should be able to buy their cotton goods at the low. st prices while the farmers of Kansas are getting three prices for their wheat. Laurens county is preparing to have an election for the is suanse of a hall’ million dollars worth of bonds for the con struct ion of concrete bridges. The price of lumber has ad vanced t<> such an extent that it will be economy to erect bridgt •> of concrete, v. hich will last ind'-finitely if properly built. Other counties in this section of the state will do well to follow tie example of Laurens. Germany is still pointing to President Wilson's fourteen points that were made in one of his famous speeches during the progr. -s of tin* war, and insists that the other nations agree to tin* principles therein set forth, but as Germany will not hav** much of a siy so in the peace negotiations the stab men of that one** powerful empire should keep quiet until the paper is prepared for their signatures. The fifty fourth annual convention of the Georgia Educa tional A -oriati o ll will be held in Macon April 30th and May Ist and L’nd. J‘rof. Walter P. Thomas of West Point is the pr.-siihmt. Prof. Ji. of Sander,sville is vie- pr.'-ddi-nt for tL - * bath district. These annual meetings have I>eeii productive of much good in the advancement of the .-aus-- of education. An instructive program has been arranged f-.r this occasion. /Vo t I x i>\ Y hi ' (i The Call of the Road ” When you take the highway this spring you want a car that permits you to enjoy your outing. It must take the roads efficiently and with comfort, operate at low cost and inspire pride in its appearance. Model 90 is just such a car. The ap preciation of 600,000 Overland owners has built up manufac turing methods that make possible the unusual value of Model 90 at its economical cost. Get your Model 90 now. LOUISVILLE BONDED WAREHOUSE COMPANY Louisville, Cleorjfia Overland Model 90 Fire Passenger Touring Car $985; I. o. b. Toledo Come to our store TOO AUTOCRATIC War conditions seemed to necessitate and to justify the action of Congress in conferring upon the President dic tatorial powers which are foreign to the spirit of our nat ional institutions. But the President would have done well to be extremely conservative in the exercise of these pow ers, and more especially so after the great emergency pass ed away with the signing of the armistice. He should now hold a tight rein on the men who are acting under his au thority, who, by arbitrary acts, are making enemies for him and for his party. The New York World says: Postmaster General Burleson may be able to order an immediate increase of 20 per cent, in domestic telegraphic rates, but he will find it less easy to explain to the satisfaction of the public the circum stances leading up the rate increase. The postal lines, whose officials Mr. Burleson summarily removed a week ago, declare that there is “no real need of increasing the telegraph rates. 99 They should know. They speak from long business experience, a qualification that does not enter into the equipment of the Postmaster General as the supreme controller of tlie wire systems of the United States. From the start Mr. Burleson has seemed determined to demonstrate that the Postal people had no rights that he should respect. lie has shut them out from among his ad visers. He has arbitrarily overruled them in matters of business policy where they were vitally concerened and misted the Postal officials from the operation of their lines. Furiously enough, there has never been the slightest suspicion of discrimination against the rival company. As the result of the Burleson methods, whether his own I or borrowed, the general wire service of the country has | gone from bad to worse, and tlie public, beginning this week, is to be required to pay adliional 20 per cent. : charges because of Federal mismanagement, although the pretext of Government wire control as a war measure no !longer holds good. One of the first duties of Congress, in order to prevent further scar dal and afford users of the wires reli f, should be to restore to their rightful owners the properties and their operation and to restrict the Postmaster General to his normal functions. The experiment with which he was in trusted has lasted far too long. THE HIP-POCKET KILLER. From the Macon Telegraph. Killings are shocking the State almost every morning. In each case it has been gunfire—men shooting on excuses and provocation that read about in cold type afterward are wholly shocking in their flimsiness. Where a blow with a fist provoked in more or less natural if not entire ly righteous anger might have been forgiveable, men have drawn their weapons and sped the messenger of death. A fight begins to mean a killing. Which lays it on honest men, in a sense, to kill bad men on slight provocation so as in beat the bad men to it. It comes of carrying deadly weapons in concealed places about tin* person, of thinking about guns and handling them, ami having them within easy finger reach. The man who habitually carries the gun is in imminent dan ger at all times of using it to kill some other human being. Ami the law, rightly, doesn’t forgive the slaying of mu* man by another except in the most desperate. Tin* mre lies in the hands of the grand juries and court judges, (’hronie pistol-toters, known to pack them around without need, brought before the courts and given jail sen tellies without fines would stop the practice. A few sen tonces would make the practice itself so thoroughly dis reputable that none but men of the highest integrity and trustworthiness specially licensed to carry them and the ibsjierado would ever have them. In which event when one man shot another it would mean hanging, nine times out of ten. Which would in turn mean a good deal less of murder and manslaughter and cheaply taking human life. It is serious enough in Georgia; we may as well take '.Kiiiest cognizance of the situation and set wheels in motion to put ;i stop to it. We’ll soon be as bad as New York, Fhicago, Philadelphia, or .San Urancisco and the other large cities. The death of Frank L. Wool worth the past week ended the career of a man who had achieved success through a vision of the power of accumulated niekles and dimes. Forty years ago he was a clerk in one of tin* cities of New York State, and when lie saw how the bargain counters in that store attracted throngs of people, announced his in tention of opening a ten cent store. lie was advised by Ids employers to continue business in the old style manner, but In* decided to make the venture in accordance with his vision, and success crowned his efforts. He had stores in nearly every business centre of the United States, erected the famous Woolwnrth building in New York, the highest in the world, and left a fortune estimated at sixty-five mil lion dollars. 11 is success shows what can be accomplished when there is a determination to succeed. New York is making a tight against what is called im moral moving picture shows. When New York starts to lighting vice it is time for the other cities of our country to begin to gut active. THE NEWS & FARMER, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1919 AIRBOAT PILOTS BATTLE SHARKS Navy Flyers Flail at Jaws Until Vessel Rescues Them at Sea. CRAFT IS HELPLESS Engine Goes Dead and Seaplane Is at Mercy of Waves —School of Sharks Hungry for Their Prey. New York.—The crew and passen gers of a steamship which arrived re cently saw two seapfanes in the sky 200 miles from port. Everybody was on deck to watch their maneuvers. Suddenly one of the planes dipped out of the sky, and, landing on the crest of a wave, was tossed from me billow to another. The vessel captain ordered all speed ahead In their direction. Meanwhile the pilot and observer hnd donned their life preservers. The engine had gone dead on them and they were helpless. Shark’s Snout Appears. Then from ’it of the choppy water appeared the snout of a shark. An other and another followed and the sea seemed full of fins. The sea wolves hungered for their prey, for they turned on their backs and bit at the pon toons as if they knew the weak spots which separated them from their meal. The men were horror stricken, real izing that the wreck of the pontoons would throw them into the water, where their life preservers would form little protection from the ravenous jaws. Strike at Man Eaters. They succeeded in wrenching loose two uprights from their airboat and with them walloped every snout that protruded from the water, keeping the sharks away from the pontoons. They beat the waves lustily and yelled at the attacking man eaters. Thus they saved the pontoons until the The Sea Seemed Full of Fins. steamship hove to near by and steered their drifting craft to the companion ladder. A boat was lowered from the steam ship and the sailors beat the sharks and water with their oars, the school hanging on to the hydroplane. Finally both pilot and observer were hauled up the companionway out of the rough sea, and with the aid of those in the boat the machine, too, was lifted to the deck. It was in a badly damaged condition, but not beyond repair. MAN IS “LOST IN WOODS” Could Hear Street Cars and Sound of Water, but Couldn't Get Out. St. Paul. Minn.—With water only a few feet away, so close he could hear Its trickle, and with leaves he raked up around him for his only covering, A. L. Smith, aged forty-three, was “lost in the woods” for three days and nights and lay In a clump of bushes suffering with paralysis and without food or water until found by a patrol man. Smith’s story combined the hard ships of the man lost In the woods and the aimless wanderer In the desert, and all the time within a few blocks street cars were passing and hundreds of persons were coming and going, un conscious that almost in hailing dis tance a man was struggling desper ately for his life. Smith wandered away from a grad ing camp where he was employed and lost his way in the woods. He said he thought it a joke at first, until he passed nearly all one day trying to find a small creek he knew ran through the woods toward the grnding camp. He believes he walked in circles until dark, finding neither the creek nor an opening from the woods. Dreams of Fire; Jumps. Redding, Cal. —Dreaming that the hotel was burning, Thomas Quinlan jumped out of his third-story window and landed on a brick pile. He suf fered three broken ribs and internal Injuries. Power Wasted on Roads. The difference in power required be tween good roads and poor Is power wasted. The loss is borne not alone by the farmer but by all of us who consume farm products and who pay to have them hauled to us. Work Drag After Each Rain. It pays to work the road drag on the road a little while after every rain. Compare right now state roads which have been dragged regularly and some of the country roads which have been allowed to cut Into ruts. COMING! 3 BIG DAYS 3 At Davisboro, Georgia April 25, 26, 28 Under Big Tent Three Great Days Friday, Saturday and Monday Plenty of Choice Seats for Everybody. _No Hot, Stuffy Auditorium, but a nice tent with Billy Sunday Style of floor. DOORS OPEN AT 4:30 AFTERNOON. NIGHT 9.00. TICKETS GOOD FOR ALL THREE PERFORMANCES Six Performances, or 14 Attractions. Adults $2.00 Children SI.OO Single Admission _25 and 50c