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In honor of the sixty-nine Atlanta Journal men
who have entered the service of their country. The
two white stars are in memory of Captain Meredith
Gray and Captain James S. Moore, Jr., Journal men.
who gave their lives for our country in France.
Are You Doing Your Part?
The Griffin News and Sun hits a home run of
patriotism in each of these seasonable questions:
“Are you going whcatless until after the
harvest? Are you Raising and planting to can
enough vegetables and fruits for your own
needs this summer and next winter? Are you
reducing your consumption of sugar to a mini
mum by using honey and syrups whenever
possible? Are you making the smallest
amounts of meat and fats go the longest way?
Are you preaching and practicing food con
servation whenever possible?”
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Householders who can answer yes to these perti
nent queries are doing their part to win the war.
Those who cannot answer yes should bethink them
selves of what it means to fail of due service and
sacrifice for the soldier boys who are offering their
all in defense of freedom and home. Not to econo
mise wheat flour, meat, sugar and other food essen
tials is to be unfaithful to our defenders “over
there.” to make their task longer and more ardu
ous. to hinder the Allies and help the Huns.
The English, the French and the Italians have
been on frugal rations from the earliest months of
their entrance into the. war. and within the last
.year have been reduced to meager allowances.
They look to us for sustenance through the coming
winter which will be the most critical of the entire
war. and sustain them we must for the sake of our
common cause. But we shall not be able to help
them then or in the months immediately ahead
unless the rank and file of American consumers
practice loyal economy of food necessaries.
Every household has its opportunity to sene,
and its solemn obligation. Let there be no slackers
amongst them.
'Napoleon and Wilhelm.
Nobody has ever accused the Kaiser of possess
ing a giant mentality, so it comes a$ no surprise to
learn that in claiming to pattern himself after one
of the great characters of history, Wilhelm has
misunderstood and wrongly estimated that char
acter just as he misunderstood the temper of the
American people and underestimated the strengtn
of Uncle Sam’s war arm.
Long ago this empty-headed hypocrite of Potts
dam told us that Napoleon Bonaparte was one of
the four men whom he had always striven to em
ulate. Many times and often he has arrogated to
himself deeds and traits which he no doubt be
lieved were Napoleonic. Fortunately, Napoleon
himself left a record of speech as well as action
which separates him as completely from Wil
helm's conception of Bonaparte as the French peo
ple are distinguished from the Prussian. One can
not help but wonder what on earth is Wilhelm's
Idea of his “model” after reading this conversation
of Napoleon’s in Jules Bertaunt’s book on the exile
at St. Helena:
"There are only two systems, the past and
the future. The present is only painful
transition. Which must triumph? The future,
will it not? Yes, indeed; the future! That
is. intelligence, industry and peace. The past
was brute force, privilege and ignorance.”
How does Wilhelm coincide this talk of "in
telligence. industry and peace” from his “model”
with his own doctrine of kultur, militarism and
war? How does he reconcile his dream of pan-
Germanism with these words of the Great Corsi
can? —
"One of my cherished thoughts was to
reunite and re-establish geographically the
peoples which revolutions and politics have
broken up and parceled out. There are in
Europe 30,000.000 French. 15.000,000 Span
iards. 15.000.000 Italians, 30.000.000 Ger
mans and 30.000.000 Poles. I would make
each of them one nation.”
It would seem that Wilhelm, with characterft
tic Teutonic insight, understood Napoleon as in
telligently as he understands “Gott.” What a
pity he did not learn a little more about both of
them! The world might have been spared much.
JOURNAL, A ILaN-1 a, UA. IHE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY TUESDAY, JULY 10, 191 b.
The Self-Sustaining South.
The Tifton Gazette points to the thousands of
acres of green and luxuriant corn, peas and kin
dred crops in its county as typical of a new era in
Georgia and throughout the South, an era of di
versified and bountiful food production contrasting
happily with the all-cotton regime that prevailed a
decade ago and betokening unexampled prosperity
for the years ahead. The Gazette truly declares
that the South is now not only beginning to teed
itself but is also helping to feed other regions, for
by filling its own barns and larders it is de
freasing the drain on the agricultural West, and
thereby is releasing the products of that section
for the less productive parts of America and for ex
portation to the war zone. The extent to which
food crops are being raised in the South as com
pared with eight or nine years ago is evidenced in
the following figures;
In 1909 only 12,560 acres of velvet beans
were planted in the South; in 1917 the velvet
bean crop in this section covered 4.600,000.
In 1909 only 1,629 acres wqre planted in soy
beans; in 1917 the acreage was estimated at
half a million. The acreage in cow peas is
said to have been trebled since 1909. The
acreage' in peanuts since 1909 has been mul
tiplied by six in Georgia. Florida and Ala
bama, and by eight in Texas and adjoining
States. The acreage last year was three and
one-fourth millions compared with less than
half a million nine years ago. The acreage
in all three crops, velvet and soy beans and
peanuts, increased from 884,000 in 1909 to
8,350,000 in 1917, nearly all this acreage in
the South.
The progress thus revealed brings with it, as
the Tifton Gazette remarks, “improvement of the
soil, the production of home fertilizers, while with
the increase in animal feeds and forage come meat
and milk to a section that was formerly
a consumer of the surplus meat and dairy
products of the North and West.” These
conditions make for the strengthening of the na
tion as well as for the prosperity of the people who
have brought them to pass. Let Georgia continue
producing food crops and food animals in ever in
creasing abundance, for thereby she is making sure
her future good fortune and is helping to win the
war.
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We suspect Germany will give up Belgium faster
than she expects.
The Work or Fight Bill.
In passing by a virtually unanimous vote the
bill requiring all ablebodied persons between the
ages of eighteen and fifty years to engage in some
useful occupation at least five days of the week,
the Georgia Senate has responded commendably to
the State’s war needs and to its patriotic senti
ment. The public has grown Intensely impatient
of idlers in this time of the nation’s supremo need
of service. The physically fit man who does not
fight or work is a slacker and, in effect, a friend to
the Huns. Loyal people have no tolerance for
him, and the law should leave him no ground to
skulk on.
Simply as an aid to essential war industries,
the pending bill deserves enactment. Our farms
are in critical need of labor and will suffer greatly
unless they are helped. The State and the nation
will suffer with them, for of all the sinews of pros
perity and of war none is so fundamental as food.
Georgia farmers responded wholeheartedly to the
needs of the time. They planted an unusually
large acreage of foodstuffs and have tailed faith
fully in its cultivation. But they cannot make or
harvest their crops without more labor for emer
gency seasons. Similar conditions obtain in many
fields of manufacturing and production. In these
circumstances it is not only unpatriotic but really
criminal for ablebodied men to loaf away their
time; and it is the duty of the Legislature to lay
the whip of justice hard upon the back of all such
offenders.
Measures similar to that now proposed for
Georgia have been adopted by a number of other
States and have proved highly effective in driving
the drones to service. It is to be hoped that the
House will lose no time in following the Senate’s
example and giving this Commonwealth the bene
fit of so useful and so patriotic a law.
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Where is the old-fashioned German official who
demanded the earth?
Austria-Hungry's Ration.
The weekly food ration of the average civilian
in Austria-Hungary, as printed in the Arbeiter-
Zeitung, of Vienna, and reported by The Hague
correspondent of the London Daily Mail, is as fol
lows:
Twenty-one ounces of bread; one pound
of potatoes, of which half cannot be eaten;
one ounce of black bran mash; one ounce of
another mill product; an ounce and a half of
fat; six and one-half ounces of sugar; one
egg; seven ounces of meat, and a little jam
and coffee substitutes.
This weekly total of three and a half pounds of
food is about one-fourth of what the German
civilian gets and hardly one-ninth of the American
soldier’s fare. It is not to be wondered that
Emperor Karl’s subjects are restless. The majority
of them are not German, but are ruled with the
Mailed Fist. They are overtaxed and underfed,
worked like pack horses and treated like slaves,
all for the glory of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzol
lerns.
An effective or far-reaching revolt in the Dual
Monarchy is not to be counted upon in making our
war plans; indeed, prudence bids us discount
entirely the internal troubles of the Central Pow
ers and proceed as if the enemy had no problems
at home. But it can hardly be doubted that soon
or late Austria-Hungary will split to pieces. It is
too unwieldly and ill-sorted an empire, too diverse
in the character and ideals of its peoples, too
oppressive in its government, to survive the shock
of the present war.
Germany, of course, expects to absorb Austria-
Hungary along with the richer portions of Russia
and of the Balkans; the treaty recently signed by
the Austrian Emperor at German military head
quarters points unmistakably to that end. But the
Allies will see to it that no such menace to the
world's future peace and no such crime against
the oppressed peoples concerned is permitted. The
Slavs of Austria-Hungary, like those of Poland,
will be vouchsafed full freedom when peace is
made.
YOUR POCKET BANK
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By 11. Addington Bruce
DON'T forget your pocket bank when you go
on your vacation this summer —the bank
that Uncle Sam has devised for the nation’s
good, and that is offically known at a Thrift Card.
It is the most convenient portable bank for
small savings that ever was invented. A slender
slip of folded cardboard, it fits the inside pocket
of your coat without weighting it or bulging it.
And it is so contrived that money you deposit
in it adds nothing to its weight or bulk.
For, instead of directly putting into it your
small change, as you would have to do w'ere it an
ordinary metal savings bank, you have the privi
lege of first converting your money into stamps is
sued by the United States government in denomi
nations of twenty-five cents.
These stamps—Thrift Stamps—you affix to
your Thrift card. You can obtain them at any
postoffice, national bank, or trust company, and
at many stores. Your pocket bank, to be sure, will
not hold many of them—only sixteen in all.
But when you have filled the bank, you can
obtain another one for the asking. Nor need you
trouble any longer to carry the filled bank with
you, or to store it in a safe place at home.
On payment of a few additional cents, the gov
ernment will take care of it for you. And the
government will give a receipt for it in the form
of a War Savings Stamp. WHICH IMMEDIATE
LY BEGINS TO DRAW INTEREST FOR YOU.
Today a War Stavings Stamp will cost you
only eighteen cents, over and above the sixteen
Thrift Stamps, or $4.18 in all. If you hold it until
the expiration date—l923—the government will
pay.you for it $5,000 in cask.
This is another feature of Uncle Sam’s pockat
bank that should appeal to you strongly.
W’hen you put money into the ordinary device
for home savings, that money has no interest
drawing power. But as soon as fill your Thrift
Card and convert it into a War Savings Stamp,
the money thus saved begins to accumulate in
terest.
Nor it this all.
Every quarter of a dollar you thus sav? is at
once started working for you by the government
It is put to a special use of great significance to
you.
Four years ago another government—the gov
ernment of Germany—began a wicked attack on
the liberties of the world.
It ruined and enslaved on., free people after
another. Steadily it made clearer its fell pur
pose of attaining the world dominion, and extin
guishing throughout world government of the peo
ple by the people for the people.
To defeat this terrible scheme of conquest ev
ery penny that you save in Uncle Sam’s pocket
bank will be used. Could it be put to better
use?
You appreciate the blessings of freedom. You
thank God that you are a free citizen of a free
country.
Understand plainly that neither your
country nor you will longer be free if Germany
wins the war. Understand plainly that to pre
vent Germany from winning, money is needed,
vast sums of money.
You want to help defeat Germany. Os course
you do. One way you can help is by putting mon
ey steadily into Uncle Sam’s pocket bank.
Carry that bank with you during your vaca
tion. Carry it daily when you return home. And
keep filling it with the little green Thrift Stamps
—tokens alike of your wisdom and your love of
country.
(Copyright, 1918, by the Associated Newspapers)
NOT FIT TO READ
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By Dr. Frank Crane
Here is something not fit to read.
Still, it is fact, horrible, undeniable fact. And
it is well for us to lift the lid of “Hell, which
is called Turkey,” as the Russians say, and get
some idea of what is going on, no matter how
it sickens us.
Mrs. Esther Mugerditchian, the wife of an Ar
menian pastor, is the trustworthy relator of wnat
follows. I quote from “The New Armenia” mag
azine.
“Later on came the days of terror; Professor
Tenekedjian, Professor Bujikanlan, and Der Var
tan, the pastor, were tortured and maltreated. They
hung the victims head downward, and under the
pretense of endeavoring to make them disclose se
crets,* pludked the hair of their heads and mous
taches, and pinched their bodies with pincers. The
prisoners cried in van for help.
“There was no limit to the flogging Professor
Tenekedjian endured. They crushed his hands
and feet in the press, and pulled out his nails with
pincers; they pierced his face with needles, and
put salt on the wounds; they forced him to take
eggs out of boiling water and put them under his
armpits until they cooled. They hung him head
downward from the roof, beating him all day long;
they forced him tQ stand up for eight days in a
drain, and they hung him head downward for three
hours a Then an attempt was
made to induce Professor Tenekedjian to sign a
document which read* as follows: ‘The whole Ar
menian Nation, from the children of five years to
the aged of seventy-five, consists of revolutionists,
and the Armenians plotted secretly to massacre the
Turkish males by rifles and the females by means
cf razors.’ All threats were in vain, so they sent
for some scavengers and ordered him to ... .
then they put a red-hot copper vase on his head,
burning his scalp and hair. Finally they flayed
him!
“Professor Bujikanian was exposed to the same
tortures. After the usual torments they pulled out
his nails and seared the wounds with hot irons un
til he went mad. But when they asked him:
‘Where are the rifles?’ and in reply he said. 'The
rifles are in my head,” they cruelly crushed his
head under the press. Mrs. Bujikanian took the
blood-stained shirt of Professor Bujikanian to the
German missionary, Mr. Ehemann, who only re
plied. ‘I can do nothing.’
“Mardiros Muradian was exposed to the same
tortur.es by the Turks. First of all he was given
1,600 lashes; then they put out his eyes, and in this
miserable conditon led him round the city, and
took him again to the prison, where Riza, the po
lice commissary, kicked him to death. The follow
ing day they sent to his wife the blood-stained car
pet on which he had been killed. Orders were given
to bury him at 3 o’clock in the morning, without a
coffin and face downward, to prevent the pastor
seeing his disfigured features. But the pastor man
aged to see that the face of the deceased had been
burned by sulphuric acid.”
This is in Turkey, friend and companion in
arms with Germany. K
This is why the Democracies of earth are going
forth to war.
And whether or not we declare formal war on
Turkey, the Yanks now fighting across the sea are
not going to come back till this sort of thing is
“over over there.”
(Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane)
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
A wounded American soldier was telling his
battles o’er again.
“Yes,” said he, “a Boche shell hit me right
in the neck.”
“And you are alive now,” gasped his lis
tener.
“Yes. You see, stranger, the shell was made
in Germany, but my collar stud was made in the
U. S. A., and I guess the squib sort of subsided.
It was some stud!”
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Old Farmer Hayrick’s son had gone to Lon
don and a friendly neighbor was interested to
know if he was making good.
“Oh, yes; purty good, I reckon. He writes
me as he’s carryin’ everything afore him,” an
swered Hayrick.
“Ha! Glad to hear that. Is he in business
for himself?” •
“Naw. He’s actin’ as waiter in a restaurant”
:j A GERMAN “BUSINESS” IN AMERICA—By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18. —A startling
proof of how Germany planned to obtain
control of certain American ports with a
view to hampering their development and further
ing German intrigue in this country was revealed
when Saint Andrew’s Bay on the Gulf of Mexico re
cently fell into the hands of A. Mitchell Palmer,
the custodian of alien property. For this harbor and
the land surrounding it were owned by the prince
of a small German state; its affairs were managed
by a German syndicate, and German ships entered
and left the harbor nightly.
It is significant to note that Saint Andrew's
Bay possesses all the potentialities for a thriving
metropolis cf the southeast. It lies on the north
west coast of Florida a hundred and fifty miles
from Pensacola and forty-two miles from
Apalachicola. It s said to possess a better har
bor than either of these, and it is in direct line
with Havana and almost in direct line w’ith Colon.
Only a few rods of track are necessary to give it
railroad connection, byway of Atlanta, with the
Atlantic seaboard, the west and middle west. Witn 1
some essential improvements it might outstrip any
other port of Florida when the expansion of South
American trade begins after the war.
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Yet until less than a year ago this potential
city was controlled by Germany almost as com
pletely as a colony of that empire. The syndicate
ostensibly operated a small lumber mill close to
the water’s edge. It possessed a considerable
number of boats, ostensibly for the purpose of
transporting timber to Atlantic ports; but depart
ment of justice officials who are now completing
a very thorough of w’hat the syndi
cate did and did not do say that the “lumber
business” was used as a cloak for a much more
sinister one.
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The land measures some 200,000 acres, most
of it valuable timber property. Nearly all of the
employes of the syndicate were Germans or natu
ralized Americans born in Germany. The em
ployes had little to do with the dwellers in the
surrounding country and spurned whatever ad
vances the natives made. The Atlanta and Saint
Andrew’s Bay railrod had a terminus at Panama
City, less than three-quarters of a mile from the
harbor and the offices of the syndicate. It is said
that the officials Os the railroad offered to build
an extension to the mills, thus opening another
avenue for the transportation of the timber. The
syndicate rejected this offer bluntly and. in so
many words, informed the railroad, that it could
do very well without its help. ,
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At the time of the first raid by the depart
ment of justice the syndicate had been in exist
ence some fifteen years. According to neighbor
ing residents whose curiosity had been set at high
pitch from time to time, by the wall of exclusive
ness with which the Germans surrounded them
selves, not enough lumber was cut in a year to
pay the expenses of a single month. Yet, at regu
lar intervals, boats gilded in .and out of the har
bor, depositing mysterous cargoes, and carrying
off large stores of no one knew what. These visi
tors always came and went at night. For a long
time they came perhaps two or three times a week,
but after the war between Germany and the en
tente, the visits increased, until at the last they
occurred nightly.
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When the raid took place large stores of print
ed propaganda w:ere found in the offices of the
syndicate. It is believed that part of the work pf
these German agents—for such they undoubtedly
were—was to prepare propaganda for distribution
throughout the United States. The president,
vice and a number of directors of the
syndicate were interned at Fort Oglethorpe.
THE DEGRADATION OF CHILDHOOD AND WOMANHOOD BY GERMANY !
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(From an Address by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw)
HE moral condition of a nation can be
but the result of the morality pre
-*■ vailing among the individuals who
compose it and the method of the express
ions of this morality is a matter of environ
ment. Since moral codes are not inherited through
organic, but rather through social heredity, to
which all the people composing the group con
sciously or unconsciously contribute, it is therefore
impossible to discuss, much less to measure, the
moral ‘and degrading influences of militarism and
after all that militarism stand§ for upon the char
acter of women and children without including in
the indictment its degenerating effects upon men.
Nor is it possible to listen to the authenticated re
citals of the indecencies and atrocities perpetrated
upon the women and children of the territories
overrun by the armies dominated by Prussian mili
tary legions without realizing that those unthink
able offenses and crimes against all the ideals of *
decency and humanity did not have their rise in a
moment of war-maddening fury, but they are the
results of the degrading ideals which underlie and
give birth to the spirit of militarism wherever it
controls the life of a people.
“It is unnecessary to repeat the shocking de
tails of the atroctities inflicted upon women and
children of Belgium, Flanders, Poland, .Armenia, to
realize the debasing effect of militarism from men
in times of hatred and war. But we must admit
that such violation of right, such cruel barbarism,
could be impossible only as the result of moral de
linquencies in times of peace. The whole trend of
militarism, as exemplified in the Prussianism of to
day, is to silence all moral and spiritual aspira
tions in national life. The emphasis placed upon a
large birth rate for the purpose of increasing the
military power and material strength of the empire
without regard to ethical laws of social life, as
shown by the vast army of illegitimate parents and
of children bereft of home influences and moral
ideals —children who are taught from their earliest
infancy in institutions which are their only home
the lessons of national pride and national glory
and strict obedience.to autocratic rulers and in ad
dition to |hat hatred and contempt for the people
of all other lands. This is all the evidence needed
to prove the moral and spiritual degeneracy of a
people controlled by a system which finds its ex
pression in the frightfulness whiefi has made of a
vast part 1 of Europe a barren waste and of indus
trious and peace-loving people slaves or refugees
from their land and their homes.
“We might exclude the mass of German peo
ple from the indictment were it not that the most
atrocious crimes of the war have been, by vast
multitudes of people, acclaimed with wild shouts
of victory and rejoicing, and that even in the sink
ing of the Lusitania, with its women and its chil
dren and its men, they could strike a medal in hon
or of a crime so base. That the educated and in
fluential classes are apparently indifferent to these
acts of cruelty, accepting them without repugnance
or protest, proves that the poison of military neces
sity and military arrogance has permeated all Prus
sian life. There is no escaping the fact that the
whole nation, with its false ideals of what consti
tutes culture, must bear the stigma of its shame
and moral degeneration.
“Germany has outraged all that civilization has
done for the world for thousands of years; in fact,
it is beyond question that the conduct of the Ger
man nation during this war proves that the kind of
culture which expresses itself in the violation of
national treaties, ignores every rule of war, glories
in the mutilation of innocent children, in the as
sassination and worse than slavery of women and
violates every principle of honor, such a course of
education is malicious and degrading.
"It is not enough that Germany shall be defeat
ed in battle or conquered by hunger. She must be
shown the truth, that the world will no longer per
mit any people to hold over-rated power which
threatens Its peace or paralyzes the processes of
civilization.
“But, whatever mistakes we have made in the
past, however we may have underestimated Ger
many’s desire to crush the democratic Ideals of the
world, now that that purpose is known it must be
Whether or not it was a part of their pur
pose, the Germans certainly prevented Saint An
drew’s from making its deserved develop
ment as a port. The shipping board has tempor
arily taken it over, to use the timber in the con
struction of the new merchant fleet. When the
timber has been exhausted Saint Andrew's will
be offered for sale at a public auction.
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Saint Andrew’s Bay is surrounded by a wealth
of tradition, and romance some of it historically
authentic, and some of it doubtful. It was slight
ly out of the track of Ponce de Leon and Tristan ,
de Luna, the early Spanish explorers, and no j
permanent settlements were made on its shores
until after Florida became a member of the Union.
But, little more than a stone’s throw from the
Caribbean, in the diy when rich galleons sailed the
Spanish main. Saint Andrew’s Bay was a rendez
vous for at least a half dozen pirate crews. The
notorious buccaneer, Teach, or “Bluebeard,” used
to seek its snug obscurity when the fleets of
France and England became too nimble. The less
celebrated but equally picturesque Captain Jabel
is supposed to have hidden his loot hard by one
of the banks during a fierce thunderstorm, and
after killing the seamen who helped to bury it,
was killed himself by a bolt of lightning.
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Saint Andrew’s Bay is but an item, however, in
the list of unusual property to be disposed of by
Mr. Palmer. Though some of it is sure to find a I
ready market, the custodian is puzzled as to how
to reach buyers for a great part of it. For ex- <
ample: A large quantity of pig intestines ship
ped from Shanghai was seized in San Francisco
under the provisions of the trading with the en<-
my bill. Four hundred dollars worth of proprie
tary medicines made in Leipsig were seized in
Philadelphia, and in New Y'ork the department
took over 200 pounds of shooting gallery powder.
The intestines, which were imperfectly packed, are
unfit for any use the custodian is aware of, and
as for th£ medicines it is hardly to be believed that
there is an American who is fool hardy enough to
take them with the knowledge that they had been
manufactured in Germany.
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However, such cases are not frequent enough
to be the rule. Four boxes of astronomical in
struments of a very rare quality, were purchased
by the United States geodetic survey and a num
ber of horses and mules have been requisitioned
by the shipping board, w’as purchased by a manu
facturer who was not so exacting.
• • •
A quantity of rare and valuable art treasures
are offered for sale by the custodian. Among these
are eight oil pantings from the collection of a
wealthy German. They include a “Portrait of a
Lady” by Paul Terburg, valued bj- the appraisers u
at SIB,OOO. A price of $3,000 has been set on a
tapestry depicting the capture of Alexandria. There
are also two antique medallions of the sixteenth
century.
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Under the indext “books and papers” is a col
lection of old manuscripts in Byzantne. Latin.
Greek and German, and a modern German text
book valued at forty cents.
In additon there is a miscellany including 6,000
empty beer barrels from Munich, valued at $1 per
barrel and four moving picture films of three reels
each, photogaphed for consumption in Germany.
These arc entitled “A Message from the Grave,”
"Almost Too Late,” “Her Sacrifice” and “Myster
ious Wireless.” There is a packing box full of.
bear ha’r, an overcoat weighing forty pounds,
taken from an Austrian prisoner in Russia who
escaped to this country, a four cylinder automobile,
a cable'apparatus, a consignment of tortoise shells
and horse hoofs, two poplo ponies, 745 mahogany
logs and a circus.
, overcome if womanhood and childhood are toj be
saved anywhere.
“There can be reparation for these deeds no
where, either in this world or in the w’orld to come
The only hope lies in such-a conquest over the spirit
of Germany that it may learn the truth; that it
may understand that today, as in time past, the
only foundation for permanent security and stabil
ity for any people. Germany included, is in right
eousness; that above the roar of battle, the shriek
ing shells, the groans of the dying and cries
of little children the prophets of old are calling
in tones that the whole world and Germany must
heeil. ‘What does it profit a man? What does the
law require of them but to do justly, to love mercy
and to walk humoly with God?’
“We must not deceive ourselves in this hour of
our extreme peril. We are either to become a
wcrld military camp or a world without a military
camp. The former is the ideal of Prussian milita
rism; the latter that of our own and our allied na
tions. There is no neutral ground between these
two opposing deals. only a battleground,
and whoever seeks to make an inconclusive peace /
occupy that battleground will fix it so that there
will be safety in it for no one anywhere.”
SEND LABOR TO THE .FARMS
Georgia farmers have planted large acreages
this year and every farmer practically in this state
is working full capacity and at the present the
crops are well worked and in good growing condi
tion. We have, i.ad the most favorable saaeons
for farm work that have ever been known in Geor
gia. Even though we get fa/orable weather
through the remainder of cultivating season, the
harvest is coming and labor conditions may be even
worse in the fall than they are at present.
As a precaution against the failure to gather
the crops, we urge business men and others inter
ested in the different phases of w’ar to consider
organization for the purpose of mobilizing and
directing distribution of all labor that may be
available for farm work in cases of emergency. *
Especially in small towns and country places could
this matter be Handled ‘‘with success. A commit
tee of business men and farmers could get together
•and devise plans for putting into effect this idea.
Through co-operation along this line, activities in
the business life of most towns could be so directed
as to make such a scheme of co-operation very
helpful, and possibly in some cases that might arise
save many acres of crops that otherwise would
have to be abandoned. In the harvest season val
uable food and feed stuffs, as well as cotton, might
be saved that otherwise would go to waste.
This proposition could be handled and plans
worked out for such co-operation between towns
and surrounding farms as to give farmers in emer
gencies the greatest amount of help from every
available source of labor that could spend a day '
or two of each week, or even more, in farm work.
An organization of this kind in the towns could
prepare lists of available help, fix working condi- z
tions, hours, wages, etc., and could render a most
patriotic service in emergencies.
It should be borne in mind that’ should there
be a waste of crops on account of the shortage of
labor on the farm during the harvest season, that
the towns and cities will suffer more than will
the farmer.
A HERO EVERY DAY
Marines are supposed to keep on fighting no
matter what happens, and Private Ross J. Turner,
in the front line with the Unted States marines
in France, has measured up to this spirit. In
action against the Huns, he was shot in the arm
and otherwise wounded, but he remained at his
post until a superior attacking force of the enemy
had been driven away. Turner was one of those
mentioned in general orders for conduct “well
worthy of emulation and praise.” He enlisted in
the marine corps at Rochester, N. Y., on August
2, 1915. His next of kin is given as James Turner,
father, Cloverdale, New York.
